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> In general, I think if it's the case that you can't reasonably defend a view you don't agree with then there's a very good chance you don't understand it.

While I appreciate this sentiment, it really only applies to arguments that are being made in good faith.

Pai may be saying "rules should be written as necessary instead of creating an enormous rule book based entirely on today's tech.", which is a supportable position that I can reasonably defend despite not agreeing with.

However, the action they are taking includeds removing any legal ability for the FCC to write and enforce these rules. Now congress can create these types rules without the FCC having title II authority, but relying on congress to write the rules as needed in response in innovation is going to be MUCH SLOWER to respond to innovation and bad behavior than giving the FCC the authority to adjust and enforce rules as necessary.

> What he actually says, and the implications of the headlines and comments snipped by third party organizations tend to be quite different indeed!

This is because what they say they are doing (and why) is quite different from the actual actions and motivations.

Pai keeps saying "we've got to remove title II to help small ISPs", yet the is the big ISPs that are constantly pushing for it's removal, Title II was put in place to regulate large monopolies just like them (Ma Bell), and many small ISPs actually favor maintaining Title II status. It is hard to take someone's arguments in good faith when they consistently misrepresent the issues.

> If the throughput for these systems starts to become an issue would it be so unreasonable for them to throttle or block sites consuming disproportionate resources?

Yes it is unnecessary. If they can't scale those systems to match supply to demand, they can increase the amount charged to limit that demand to match supply. Giving them

> Maybe the most basic argument is that it should be clear that net neutrality has not really achieved anything. Many people seem to think we always had net neutrality and stripping it away is some radical shift.

We have had network neutrality (mostly anyways) for a long time and proponents argue that net neutrality (and it's resulting competition) is what has caused the internet to innovate as such an amazingly rapid pace. That neutrality was not enshrined by law in the US until 2015 but that doesn't mean that the principle itself wasn't being followed by convention.

I hope your misleading arguments were made in good faith rather that being a deliberate attempt to mislead people like so much of the anti net neutrality rhetoric. (There is misleading pro net neutrality rhetoric too but I see more proponents making good faith arguments)
Exactly. In the announcement (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puffslang/2z61mNTAMn...), I said "Rust can check for arithmetic overflow (at run time), but after some debate, the Rust team decided to disable such checks when building in release mode, for performance reasons. Obviously, though, we don't ship our users debug builds."

Puffs enforces arithmetic overflow checks (it's not optional, and you don't have to specify that you intend to check overflow). It differs from Rust in that it's done entirely at compile time instead of at run time.
I don't like any of these ideas but dismissing only the most pressing problems is a silly way to judge ideas.

It is easy to pick apart ideas, look:

- cost of housing in cities: Convince home owners to vote against their own self interest. Not a great business idea
- urban transport: Everyone else is trying to do this. Self driving cars might solve this
- Infrastucture in the developing world: Hard for outsiders to actually know where the infrastucture should be. Also, who pays?
- fixing 'fake news': The issue isn't fake news, it is filter bubbles. Just fix human nature.
- new (non-ads) business models for the web: There are other business models but ads are a pretty great option for the rest of the planet. This a non problem that only for hacker news posters care about. This is one of the most pressing issues on the planet?
> Why aren't there sprinkler/fire retardant systems for the perimeter/external part of a house?

There are. Google "external bushfire sprinkler systems" and look at anything from a .com.au domain. These systems are as much a startup as HVAC (i.e. not really), but they still rely on software control, because owners need reassurance that the sprinklers will activate automatically even if they have already evacuated.

Detecting the appropriate activation circumstances is a high-stakes decision to hand off to a machine, and thus a potential goldmine for anybody who gets it right.
Not necessarily, using k samples you can estimate the mean of i.i.d. samples with a variance of 1/k the sample variance. Note that this is independent of the sample distribution, in particular it's also true if you're drawing from some fixed collection, regardless of its size.

I find it harder to say something about the median, but I imagine some similar theorems hold.

Unless you have some definition of quality for which you can show that you do need more samples with a bigger collection?
But that could technically be encrypted and still provide the same set of features.
You have the risk that such revenue is divided unevenly based on other criteria. Taxes should be ideally local: being global makes it easier for low tax revenue places get money from high tax revenue areas.

Not to mention that competition lowers taxes for sure.
I'd agree that Python and OCaml are analytic. But personally I find Java much more "continental" than C++, in that it combines aesthetics and function in a way that is both time-tested/consistent and expressive. C++ has always felt like a programming language designed with the same philosophy in mind that Frankenstein had when creating his monster.
By contrast Australia has GST (goods and services tax - 10% universal sales tax on almost everything except a few “essentials” exceptions like fresh food, some basic utilities? But is generally only paid by consumers - businesses claim back the GST that they pay ) which is collected federally. And all our tax is handled by one federal agency.

Generally speaking all prices listed are GST inclusive at least for consumers and store fronts. You pay what the price sticker says.

Where it breaks down for us is that GST revenue is split on a determined percentage per state that is unrelated to where it’s collected. There is some sense to that but it also causes problems as there is a strong imbalance which is argued about.

On a related note we do have a 5% payroll tax on all salaries in businesses paying over some figure I think $2m/year. This apparently goes to the relevant state and is one of our little inconsistencies left compared to what is on the whole quite a good federally administered system by one agency. One tax return. One tax rate.
Oh JavaScript. Will a Boolean always on all browsers coerce itself into a 0 or 1 if treated like a number?
Until you do more than just CRUD. And your ORM's performance drop to zero. And you try to improve performance by circumvent your ORM and get bugs you need a week to debug. Because your ORM has a cache and by cirumventing it you introduced a discrepance between code and database.
Wow, this is absolutely amazing. I'm just starting out and this is actually pretty inspirational, especially as I have a few Pi's already.

I hear stories about the 'good old days' when everyone was hacking on some amazing open hardware and earning their chops knee deep in assembler etc etc.

This kind of feels like I might get a little taste of that by following this book.

Awesome!

PS - Is there a hardcopy or pdf available too?
This list is so Silicon Valley cliche. I wish they started addressing the real problems of this planet, like overpopulation, climate change, droughts, you name it. But hey, why not help dogs talk
Alright, then let it be so.
It really is subjective depending on your organization’s industry and contractual obligations, but from experience, testing artifacts are used for a number of business functions. If you’re working on something important, something that could be audited OR if you’re trying to prove basic compliancy (e.g., PCI compliance) or an ISO certification, then its required to provide static testing documentation.

Off the top of my head, I know that I can change a git note using add —force to change a note without caring about the commit. That’s why it’s mutable in a bad way.
It's six o' one, half-dozen t'other for me.

My most formative years as a programmer mostly involved 68040 assembly on the pre-PowerPC Macs. Back then, I used CodeWarrior a lot, and if there was a head-scratching bug in my software (as there often was), I could launch it from a fully-featured debugger, set breakpoints, skip ahead to a block of code, step through it line by line, see every single value that existed in raw hex on the heap, see exactly what was on the stack. If I was wanting to flip bits in someone else's software, I had MacsBug, which was a stop-the-world OS-level debugger that did all the same, but even better. [1] Back then, there was a very definite sense that I owned the computer, that it was my tool, that it would do precisely and exactly what I wanted it to. In a way, whether something was open source or not didn't matter; I could modify it anyway, and often for less effort than it takes to crawl through a modern over-architected codebase.

However, now I can glue some really impressive libraries together, written by other people and available on massive centralized code repositories, and deliver an application to as many people as I want, all running different hardware or operating systems (within reason) but still all getting the same software experience (...mostly...), and even charge some money for it without having to worry about somebody cracking the license check on my shareware.

The effort required to make complicated new software has gone way down. The effort required to troubleshoot and fix complicated software has gone way up. Nowadays, when I'm doing the former, I'm happy, and when I'm doing the latter, I'm not.

I think that might be part of why there's so much churn in the software industry today.

[1]: MacsBug did this in real-time. Start up an application, drop into MacsBug, set a breakpoint on a function call, switch back to the OS and application, trigger the function call, then step through the code in MacsBug. If you were careful, you could even "rewind" code under certain conditions, so you could, say, change a branching opcode, back up, go back to the OS and see if the change did what you want.
>But as far as I can tell, there is nothing about newspapers that makes them a natural monopoly. Why should anyone regulate combinations in that area?

Not yet, but as local newspapers continue to lose readership to the internet, the will start consolidating and/or failing. After say 20 years of this, there will be only the big online national papers, NYT, WaPo and some others that serve a large niche. There will always be room for the smaller niche papers though.
How long before we see Atlas jumping from roof tops in Hong Kong?
Pai was nominated by Obama, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate.
Why Prod Is Down
In the last animation the robot extends its legs after being already on the ground.

Failing to see a physic justification for it, I wonder how much of these movements is the result of a predefined "script".
But, thought experiment: Suppose that 5 to 10 black families decided to relocate to Gedanken, Kan. (pop. 2000) in 1920?

I think the threat of race-based violence would have made this very difficult. One family, perhaps, but a little neighborhood? Not OK -- I'm thinking specifically about the Tulsa riots of 1921 and other racial violence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...).

(Grew up in suburban Kansas and spent plenty of time hanging around towns like the fictional Gedanken.)
and Pipfile - which is what i've switched to in recent projects, example[0]

Altho you can write to one of the other formats or read from it - you'd have to tell the scanner what the true build source is

[0] https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv/blob/master/Pipfile
See my other comment (written after your comment). Search this page for "That announcement has more to say about the comparison to Rust, which is probably the most frequently asked question."

I should also add that Rust is great tech, written by great engineers. Puffs is still different (with different trade-offs), as per the links in my other comment.
You can try https://gemnasium.com, it has Python support.
No Support for SQLite?
It seems like you're saying they're removing merger barriers so TV stations can compete more effectively against internet companies by becoming larger traffickers of information? And that Google or similar lobbying interests have been trying to keep local broadcasting fragmented?

Your premises seem weirdly flawed. Maybe I've misinterpreted you or overlooked some trend but I think you need to establish your underlying claims a lot better before drawing such a conclusion.
how does this compare with datagrip?

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
> only some fraction of buildings can be saved this way

In Australia, ember attack is responsible for 90% of the houses lost to bushfires. If you can prevent flying embers from igniting a house, you eliminate most of the risk to the building.
Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942).
If all of your alternative media sources are available via the Internet, there is one decent internet service provider in your area, and network neutrality rules are suspended, then we're back to just a couple companies (or one) that control what media is available in an area.
>That's not an assumption we can make about Belgian ownership.

Nor should you, AB has all but moved their brass to New York City because the Belgians didn't feel like flying to St. Louis anymore.
Traditional local media (broadcast radio, newspaper, broadcast TV) are oversupplied and under severe economic/competitive pressure; there needs to be less of them which means consolidation and winding down marginal operations.

It's kind of unreasonable for regulators to be too harsh on consolidation in a shrinking market, what else are they going to do to survive?
The "Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising" is a good idea. I once looked into how much it would cost to buy some billboard space, and it looked like it would be a pain in the ass (talking to sales people and whatnot).
There is a great collection on the internet archive where someone has gone through and unprotected tons of apple][ disks and documented the copy protection. It's pretty good reading, but a little repetitive after a while.
https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am&tab=about
I don't think there is one.

As someone who works on docx documents all the time, even the method to merge them together is often problematic.

If you have the original data, you should probably try to regenerate them all again since the build chain is clean.

Of course, if you did manage this process, let me know. It would save me time as well.
I will believe it when I see it.

Assuming that some day I have a pressing need to travel from Bakersfield to Fresno, that is, because as I understand it there's still no commitment to construct the other parts. Train advocates assume that once the middle part is built the rest will inevitably follow, while train skeptics are looking forward to mocking the puny ridership numbers on the nowhere-to-nowhere line and saying "I told you so".
Lightning cables that aren't MFi certified are still widely used. See their presence is gas stations and other stores nationwide. Lots of "MFi certified" cables online are likely fake. Who knows?

USB Type-C can deliver enough power to seriously damage your $1000 MacBook if the cable/adapter is designed poorly. There is a certification process, but most products on the market are still below-par. Below I will link a list. Guess what, those "bad" products are still bought en masse.

This week, I discovered that pretty much all the water filters that are popular for the type I'm looking for aren't even certified to filter out harmful materials. NSF 53 certification exists, but it looks like the market didn't do any research into it and trusted NSF 42, which was touted but is a much less strict standard, filtering out odor and taste (important in its own way). Theoretically, these filters could be passing on lead and asbestos.

Your solution _might_ work for a _part_ of the market, but it is almost guaranteed that there will still exist a significant (if not majority) part of the market, that doesn't care about certification/prefers the cheaper product.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9...
Yeah, I did he JR Pass a year ago, and it was $249 for 7 days. I did some math after the trip, and if I had't had the pass, my Shinkansen bill would have been nearly 2x that. Plus I saved a bit here and there (on the order of $30) since I could use the local JR rail for free. The only transit expenses while there were when JR didn't have a convenient line and I had to use Tokyo Metro or the local trains in Kyoto and Osaka.
Of all of the Asian subway systems I've used, Tokyo was the most expensive and most complicated. The fact that there are 3 different rail systems that are not seamlessly integrated is a pain. Not necessarily their problem, but I also found some stations that were very hard to use for non-Japanese speakers. Still, this is almost certainly better than every subway network in the US.
I'm not entirely sure what you had in mind, but you can express certain inequalities. For example, https://github.com/google/puffs/blob/master/std/gif/decode_l... has this line:

assert n_bits < (width + 8) via etc

The 'via' syntax is discussed at https://github.com/google/puffs/blob/master/doc/puffs-the-la...
> I'm more of the mindset "this is inevitable so i hope someone takes the moral/responsible route with it"

I might have misunderstood but you’re suggesting an actually safe, well-designed social network for kids right?

Agreed, systems aren’t open and closed in a binary sense. But social networks only thrive when the channels for self-expression are flexible, available and lots of people are using them. With kids however, safety is No.1 and as long as the channels are open, it’s impossible to safeguard against dodgy content and (worse) users. Really determined people will always find ways to get around a system, and the more ‘open’ the system is (for example private messages and chat functionalities) the higher the risks. That’s what I meant by “oxymoron.”

Club Penguin is interesting, because imo it’s an example of a fairly closed social network. Kids can only interact via the available set of responses, like emoticons and coins. (At least that’s what it was like more than five years ago when I watched my younger siblings play.) So there’s no way to type in anything, all profiles are avatar-based and they have pretty fierce moderators. It’s very well designed actually. But to use it as a way to educate kids of social media in general, maybe not, just because the major social networks like Facebook etc are designed too differently (i.e. more open.) That’s why I’m an advocate of internet safety education - because you’re right, it’s impossible to shield them!

The only way I can think of implementing a safe social network for kids is within the school itself. Okay you’re with your classmates all the time, but the social network can be more of a democratic educational platform, where kids can access content and discuss topics anytime. In the U.K., there’s a few like that already, though it’s still a bit primitive (Frog I hear is quite buggy.)
The person I was replying to was referring to a study about the U.S.
FCC Approves ATSC 3.0
While true, this is not the full story. As I'm sure you know, the FCC is split between Republican and Democratic nominations by design, and Pai was nominated as the Republican option. It was Trump who appointed him as Chair, thus giving him the authority to carry out his (de)regulatory agenda.
Broadcast for free online to increase their ad buys?
I'm also looking for a tool like this. I think plot.ly's new Falcon tool comes close to barebones sql + plotting. [0]

I love reading blog posts on small projects hooking up sql and simple data analysis - check out this small Flask/sql/d3 app I found earlier [1]. I'm not sure how closer a stripped down product can come to something like this. I guess you could wrap everything into an electron app, but maybe I think it would then be overkill for what I've been looking for.

[0]: https://plot.ly/free-sql-client-download/

[1]: http://www.datasciencebytes.com/bytes/2015/03/07/a-d3js-plot...
Show HN: Banana For Scale app made with ARKit
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
> Of course it's possible. No one said it wasn't. I said it will be gamed. Which it will. Sell the land under your 90-story building to an offshore trust in the Caymans for $1, now you have a firm data point that the land is worth exactly 1 dollar. What's the taxation authority going to do with that?

You can already attempt this with current property tax system. Somehow you never hear about people doing this one weird trick to avoid paying any property taxes. I guess it must be not so easy as you claim.

> Easy way to approach thinking about it: "large commercial buildings should be exempted from property tax, but as the city still needs funding, that lost revenue will be made up by raising everyone else's property taxes". It's a straight subsidy from the edges of the city to the center.

If that large commercial building is in the city center, then the land underneath it is valuable, and therefore owner will pay large tax bill just the same. And if you are concerned that in LVT system, you can build huge building and pay as much taxes as if you built a single family house, well, encouraging efficient use of land is the whole point.

Also, the current system is a subsidy from the dense neighborhoods, where the tax base is at, to edges of the city, where the city spends more of public funds per inhabitant. If people had to pay for their own road, water and power line, there would have been much less sprawl.
i think these relics and the likes can make one see the side of the argument that the Church has a lot of idolatry going while the Church applies a lot of theological argument trying to explain the difference between their practices and the idolatry. Looks like Luther wasn't much impressed by it :)

Reminded about talking to some people in Mexico who explained to me that from some point of view there is not that much difference between the human sacrifice as was practiced by say Aztecs there and the human sacrifice performed upon Jesus.
This guy is one of those insufferably left-wing Jews who are borderline tankies most of the time. Most Jews, both my mom and dad, for example, either are indifferent or outright dislike other groups more than they do modern day white supremacists. My dad, who by the way isn't some country bumpkin, but is a senior VP of engineering at a company HQ'd in Palo Alto which I won't name, has made so many passionate rants about blacks, Hispanics, Asians, communists/socialists (both my parents are from the Soviet Union), etc., that I couldn't even remember the individual instances anymore. Funny enough, Benjamin Netanyahu's son recently said the left is currently a bigger threat to Jews than white supremacists currently are. In my own life, I've heard way more antisemitic remarks from blacks and mestizos, and even Asians, than from whites, even though I've been around many more whites in my life.
That's not what I said. The claim is that it's not a populist position, not that it's not the correct one.