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> Congress isn't sitting idly by either. The bill, H.R.4585 - Save Net Neutrality Act of 2017, has already been proposed, and more will come. After the FCC announced its decision, Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman, a Republican, immediately announced, "This conversation belongs in #Congress."

Watch out for those in the Congress pushing a law that would actually cement in place fake net neutrality, that doens't really prevent any monopolistic abuse.

I suspect it was the plan of monopolists all along. They knew well, that blantant actions of FCC won't fly, but they hoped their corrupt influence on the Congress would allow them to pass a "law" that would let them run amok with anti-competitive and user fleecing behavior.

Example of where it can be heading: https://web.archive.org/web/20171215060507/http://corporate....

Read carefully what Comcast lobbyists are writing. They describe their own plan pretty well.

Why would someone like Comcast who fought tooth and nail against FCC net neutrality rules, suddenly be so interested in passing a law that "solidifies" and "permanently preserves" it? Only because they hope that they'll manage to solidify something that doesn't do anything, while "putting the discussion to rest" (i.e. making fixing it much harder, than simply restoring previous FCC rules again).
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Do fun projects! After my freshman year of college I switched from biology to self-taught programming, and I tried to find projects that were the intersection of those two interests. Genetic algorithms, neural nets, and Boids took me a couple weeks to implement each, but the internet is full of good tutorials and the end results are quite nice to look at. Anyway, yeah after self-teaching for two years, I realized there's a level of competence that I probably wouldn't reach if not for school, so I transferred to UC Berkeley to get a degree.

Best of luck! It will be hard, but if you program every day for a couple months you will absolutely be on your way to becoming an engineer!

Genetic algs:
https://blog.sicara.com/getting-started-genetic-algorithms-p...

Boids:
https://processing.org/examples/flocking.html

Neural nets and deep learning:
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html
Oh, nobody will kill themselves, but my parents had a big 'ol fashioned gun that would give small hands a second degree burn quick if you grabbed it anywhere even near the business end. We used smaller guns that had lower heat output & flow rate.

Nothing wrong with hot tools, but it's nice to limit the severity of the burns while they're learning. A small soldering iron, for example, will hurt but you probably won't do any serious damage. Similar with hammers, a ball peen or mallet will hurt but won't break skin like a claw could.
Bah. This was something that looked spooky but ran exactly zero payload by itself. It implies failed processes inside mozilla, but nothing malicious.

I still want a justification of the cliqz thing, sure, but I don't demand it in relation to this.
I stand corrected. Thanks for reading the TOS in detail.

Indeed, GitHub let's you fork but then you cannot do anything else. My understanding now is that forking makes no sense when there is no license.
It seems DCC isn't using word vectors at all? Using word vectors you can know that viagra and v14gr4 is the same word, because it is used in the same way in messages. That in turn means you don't need word lists, and can instead build from huge knowledge bases like GloVe.
The article doesn't directly address (or takes as read) the ways reading is supposed to make you a better writer. Depth is better than breadth because a deep read is how you internalize how language communicates ideas.

The argument for breadth, especially the kind of breadth that says "read trash as well as classics," assumes at least a deep enough reading to understand how a piece of writing works or doesn't work. Understanding how Dan Brown novels are bad--and how they're good--can be illuminating. The article seems to be arguing that this idea is overrated, and that giving that kind of attention to bad writing (or just many kinds of writing) is counterproductive.

I "read" constantly. I just read this article and many comments here. But I almost never read in a mode that would supposedly improve my writing. The advice to read more in that mode makes sense. Letting all kinds of garbage wash over me uncritically does not.
The thing is that the largest consumers of these devices aren't within the US.

Many of them are from Chinese companies and are being sold throughout Southeast Asia and South America.
I think the analogy is to the entire Internet being a single body, and chemotherapy being a nasty thing done to it that damages it, but destroys even more damaging things in the process.
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Hitlers crimes were his actions, not his words. That the world erred in not taking his words seriously and preparing to stop the actions he said he’d do, doesn’t mean the solution to future hitlers is s thought police.
This post is needlessly demeaning. There's nothing wrong with posting this. Especially if you are looking for both directions and encouragement.

Your link will give the direction but not the encouragement.
> Certainly such things do occur, but we need not assume them, even provisionally, in the absence of any evidence that the error is anything other than an honest mistake.

Personally, I do not see "lying, confused, or bug? this is odd" as an accusation of lying.
https://mobile.twitter.com/thenextweb/status/940613855071391...
I do regular scans myself and the number of these vulnerable DVR devices, printers, and routers you find exposed out there is mind-boggling!

Run just a single instance something like this [1] (which isn't even well optimized) and within minutes you'll find vulnerable devices. It shouldn't be that easy to build a botnet.

[1] https://github.com/wybiral/dex
In the early 90s in southern OH, me and my brother watched an object exactly like those in the article, while 4 (IIRC) fighter jets attempted to intercept it. Unlike in the article, they did fire on it, and the object moved and accelerated faster than the missiles. They missed several times, until it disappeared and the jets turned back.

I think how close they got in the article is the limits of our tech. We happen upon them randomly, and the crafts are so much more advanced than ours that it's impossible to knock one down to study it further.
The scary thing is that IOTA is considered a top 10 cryptocurrency.

The worst thing is that I can't find a useful alternative crypto currency that can be used stand alone (ie without converting to BTC) for e-commerce.

Only choices are BTC with its high fees and to some extent BCH.

Even Litecoin which is easy to use doesn't have many uses.

Dash, Monero and Zcash make bold claims but aren't particularly useful at the moment.
So Chad and Sudan would be the only countries that are in both lists of countries?
I believe the report might be this one: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/30/science/in-2-years-wolves-...

It is amazing because of the ripple implications: deer are scared of wolves therefore they don't eat on forests where they can be easily ambushed therefore trees have a better chance of growing therefore they make more shade on the river banks therefore trouts have better places to lay eggs.

In the end: wolves bring more trouts. Who would have thought of that.
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> To get the median of an even number of values, you must calculate the mean of the middle two values

This is actually not true!

The correct way to do this would be to take the (right-hand) limit of argminₛ ∑ᵢ |xᵢ - s|ᵈ as d → 1⁺. You get back a unique number and it is not the mean of the middle two values.
The "wolves fix Yellowstone" narrative may be oversimplyfying things. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-...
Do any modern day entities (governments, corporations, other) perform ostensibly mild versions of such psychological experimentation, possibly at scale, or with the intention of scaling?

This occurred decades after an ancestor of mine was PM of Canada, thankfully.
>Its possible to push the majority of people so hard that you reach a social breaking point, suddenly things can go from seeming to be normal to a sudden social collapse.

People learned from that. Unfortunately they learned the wrong thing: a massive militarization of society and a politics of fear date from this period. My gf's kid just had "active shooter prep" at school -- prepping for an almost nonexistent threat, while ignoring things that actually kill kids, like choking or traffic). So now we see things like what happened in Fergeson: massive numbers of police with military gear, simply amping up the experience.

I think what may be different now is that the middle classes are getting fucked as well. You have to belong to rebel. Revolutions (despite the rhetoric) never start from below; they inevitably are either elites against elites, or upper middle classes against elites. The yeoman farmer with a rifle has never been the base of any rebellion.

And the elites have prepared: legitimate protest is to be met with massive show of force.
It's not the same 23 word sentence. It's the same 23 word run-on. The first comma should be either a semi-colon, colon or stop.
I'm fond of that essay too. But if you're going to play the Orwell card it's best to make sure that you're not playing it cheaply, i.e. to justify personal venting or sophistry of your own. Just because someone else is doing those things doesn't mean we aren't also.
Even though this is really off-topic, Kopps is a great movie, as is Jalla Jalla by the same director the latter being even more off-topic as it has nothing to do with crime nor Japan but is instead a romantic comedy set in Sweden.
All due respect for the authors and engineers that worked on this, but this solves a problem that does not exist. In fact, it has produced confusion as my wife and I can't find a title if the artwork has changed or is different on mobile vs web vs FireTV, etc and the sands are shifting on each depending on whose account we are on.

You're gonna get higher click through in the short term but lower satisfaction in the longer term. This "up-and-to-the-right" disease will erode your credibility by not treating artwork as canon in subtle ways and alienate your audience who are disappointed Good Will Hunting, in this example is more drama/romance than comedy, and that Robin Williams, (usually) a comedian, is the most serious character (he graduated from Juliard).

tl;dr Long time personalization product manager here, don't do this: it will hurt you
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First, why do you want to be a Software Engineer? Higher pay? Do you like coding? Interested in puzzles?

Second, I would just start small. Automate the boring stuff will get you in the right mindset for being able to factor out repetitive tasks by thinking about them as algorithms. In my opinion, algorithms are the original essence of what makes computer science a science: it's what Church and Turing (two google-worthy figures in our fields history) first formalized on their pursuit to define what it means for something to be computable.

Once you can break a problem down into an algorithm, you can write a computer program to solve that problem. That is the power of writing code: if you can understand it algorithmically, you can delegate the task to a machine. This takes time and lots of practice!!! I would focus on trying to do this over and over until it's natural. Once you feel comfortable in Python, try learning another language and see how much easier/harder writing programs in that new language becomes.

Third, you shouldn't feel like Machine Learing is out of the question. http://course.fast.ai is a MOOC specifically designed to prove that ML is indeed something anyone can play around with. (I'm just beginning the course, and I'd recommend it after a year of coding under your belt and have a good comfort with using a unix-like terminal).

Good luck, and keep practicing!
I don't get why the main thread is an attack to the blogging platform instead of a discussion on the topic.

IMHO REST is not easy to implement, it's easy to say "oh... okay I think I've got it... let me try" but it's very hard to implement RESTful APIs and the author mention a few valid pain points.

Simple use cases like: a user forgot their password, what the proper way of handling this case? A PATCH for a User based on ID? If the ID is a integer ID then you have to query user by email or username before you are able to request a new password, if the PATCH handles this case what other cases does it handle? Can a user request a new password and change their age at the same time, is this a valid case? How you structure your controller to route to these special cases, do you create a custom endpoint thus making your API less restful?

One thing I like about GraphQL is this idea of mutations, in many cases they are analogous to RPC calls, `userForgotPassword(usernameOrEmail) -> forgotPasswordResult`.
I'm not privy to the details, nor have I ever seen Mr Robot. That said, I believe there were hints in the show about using Firefox to solve some mystery. The idea was that users would then go open Firefox (which may have been sitting unused on their machine for years), and then discover that Firefox and Mr Robot were in cahoots. The viewers would presumably find this cool and exciting, but everyone else demonstrably found it creepy.

If I understand correctly, at some point when following the breadcrumbs the user is given the opportunity to opt in to the game. I think everyone now agrees that this opt-in step should have triggered the download and installation of the add-on, rather than the activation of a dormant add-on that was deployed to every single Firefox user.
So what am I suppose to talk about if I went to US or Silicon Valley? Also wondering if this is just silicon valley or US in general?

For those who have never been to US, and just reading news and watching TV on it, it surely is a place full of controversy.

As a matter of fact, I am starting to see this isn't US only at all. It is the same with UK on certain issues ( Mainly Brexit ) but in typical Brit fashion they seems to be much more sensible about it when people disagree.

What happens to the old days where we agree to disagree. Take it on the chin, put a smile on your face and walk away?

This isn't just social media's echo chamber, a lot of people seems to want to blame them. But i think the social media only amplify the problem. Not the course of it.
My experience as an artist AND a writer (I make comics, it involves both) is that cribbing from one person is plagarism, while cribbing from eight people in the course of a single drawing/paragraph is a Bold, Original Style.

Reading widely has exposed me to new ideas, some of which became favorites. It's also exposed me to a lot of bad writing, which is helpful in building that inner sense that says "this sentence is shit" or "this sentence is amazing". And it's given me a good sense of the clichés of how a plot will progress, and how to balance using them because, well, they're clichés because they work, against doing something different to suit the precise needs of the story, or to surprise readers.

And yes, I have also chased obsessions, too. There's time for both. I've got favorite creators who I've devoured everything they made, and will buy a new work from without needing any review.

Hell, the two key insights that helped me approach the very complicated last third of my dense, weird graphic novel came from re-reading an old favorite (Iain M. Banks's "Use of Weapons") and from watching something way out of my comfort zone (J.C. Staff's "Revolutionary Girl Utena"). It would have been a lot less coherent without the lessons in the power of repetition I learnt from Utena.

Ultimately whatever works for you as a creator is good, but I sure do find that a more broadly-cast net has a lot more interesting things to pick and choose from in it.
> part of the police and state prosecution service's job is to ensure that they only bring charges and fight cases they think they can win

That might be the problem then?
I'd love to see the client-side state extended so that this could be a framework for decentralized turn-based games, without using a centralized server.

One concrete cause of
centralization in today's Internet is a
difference in programming costs between
a closed centralized solution and an
open decentralized one. Let's say we're
writing a tic-tac-toe app. In the
centralized design, the game board is one
data structure. Your score and mine are
two variables. You'll be done in a couple
of hours.

As an open decentralized
solution, you're building a federated
system. You need a standard protocol for
communicating tic-tac-toe moves. Maybe
you should work through the IETF to
write an RFC for OTTTP: the Open Tic-Tac-Toe
Protocol. You might be done in 2018. When
solving a problem the wrong way takes
two hours, and solving it the right way
takes two years, it's going to get solved
the wrong way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1qroWiZF90

Note that I don't endorse the particular solution in this video - MirageOS is perhaps a more viable alternative.
Only 17 new languages in last decade? Why such dramatic slowdown in contrast with earlier decades?
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Thank you (and pault) for the kind word and understanding!
And I am waiting for someone to come out and contradict me. Stating either that violent crime in Sweden has not gone up, or that it isn't perpetrated by those I claim are the foremost perpetrators. Or both.

Anyone?
> cars not being a thing affordable by the working class

Are you shure you're not talking about the 50s but the 80s?
My anecdotal experience has made me think that bullying traits in kids have little correlation with their parents being “criminals”... met plenty of bullies whose parents were “productive citizens”
A more generous interpretation seems easy to find, so I'm not sure that arguing about "what he said" would get to the point. The point seems to me to be at a heart level, i.e. do you really want to be generous or not. If you don't, answering your question will just be another argument that does no good, and if you do, then we should talk about that instead.
Point being that plagiarism/copying might be easier to spot via mistakes. I understand that this is how scholars do it for ancient texts.
Sure, but unless you have tax inspectors following the entire population around and security cameras in their home, you're never going to be able to enforce that, as demonstrated by people already doing this sort of scheme. It's easier to just disincentivize it in the first place.
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Complementary can make many things. You usually need long-distance transmission for wind power - in Texas the good wind is in the panhandle, well away from urban areas. Rooftop solar is usually right where the power is used -- urban areas. So if you have limited and slowly-growing long-distance transmission, rooftop solar is a way to get more renewables into the same grid. That's one kind of complementary.
This is possibly the best bug report of all time.

https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/762
Problem solving within a constrained system. It’s fun stuff and I always find it amazing how adversity and particularly time pressure can bring out the ingenuousness in people.

I guess wartime inventions are possibly an extreme example (google Hobart’s Funnies some time for some good clean ingenuity), but shipping console games to a deadline seems to have a similar effect.
How? I think the value would be in the real-life back-and-forth involved with really trying to understand and answer the questions, and in tailoring the questions to where you know the person answering needs to go next.
"Perhaps the female intern should not have had so much to drink." < This is the exact place where you blamed the victim. Subsequently you also blamed alcohol.
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I agree with you and the article that youth Germany have open upbringings; however, I do think the German reputation is well earned. Admittedly, I've only been here 2.5 years, but the legal requirements for basic life business and for basic startup activities blow my mind. The specificity and lack of flexibility are astonishing.
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Yes, until they switch from proof of work to proof of stake. Which could take another year or two.
Sure, a sufficiently strong state could impose a sane and efficient commuting system in some fashion if it chose to.

That would require some central control for whatever resources the transport system use (road, car position, etc).

Just about all the profit centers for cars and transport today hinge on entities that just control some parts of transport - so prying loose their hold would be quite a challenge. We shall see.
For getting more seated passengers, sure. But you have more standing room, which works better if the train stops more frequently, IMO.
> Most people leaving reviews only leave reviews for things they absolutely love

Hmm, I think it is quite the opposite, I'm more inclined to leave a review (warn people) when I don't like something.

Or maybe it is a cultural thing (I'm from Europe).
Oh thank you!, I'm glad I complained. :-) "I am not always writing from middle America to San Francisco on this website" hehe - though maybe usually, it's understandable.

Yeah, I know that PG essay well - I'm a huge fan of his essays (especially the non-startup/programming ones).

Ohh of course - someone else tried to explain for the (U.S.) users why 1869 was so different from 1859 - I must remember tech people mostly live in the 21st C hehe. I seem to have more favourite writers from the 19th C than any other century, and have spent a lot of time living there and getting to know it (e.g. Hazlitt, Emerson, Ruskin, Nietzsche, Wilde, Stevenson, W James, Kierkegaard, Thoreau)

I'll have to read Stephen's book again, I read it about 25 years ago. Also, Mill worshipped his wife. I mean really worshipped her. Some of the things he said about her were pretty over-the-top, even for someone madly in love. From memory, didn't they co-write On Liberty? Maybe he got all his 'advanced' ideas from her. His Autobiography is fascinating.

Also, speaking of treatment of women, I can't read about 'experiments in living' without recalling the horrific chapter on Shelley in Paul Johnson's Intellectuals.
Honest but cynical answer: deletionist Wikipedia editors rained down the delete hammer on most new languages a while back. They now have very high requirements for notability, so unless a language is old enough to be mentioned in print sources (which are increasingly not relevant to the advancement of human knowledge), then it's unlikely to have its own page on Wikipedia.
Despite what the article says, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) doesn't consider the wolves that inhabit the Eurasian continent to be endangered [1].

[1] http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/3746/1
> a compulsory extension is one thing, but having it be purely for advertising is a massive “No” flag to me.

Remember, the extension was not there to advertise the show!

I don't know if that affects the way you're using the term "for advertising", but it affects how I care a lot.