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I hate to say it, because I don't consider myself a radical, but the US congress is in the pockets of big business, US law relating to technology is broken, and US intelligence agencies have taken liberties beyond their mandate. The consequences seem fairly straightforward. The Internet will route around the damage to the system. The outcome is predictable and the dysfunction that is leading up to it is regrettable. I don't know what this bodes for US customers. Hopefully a coalition of forward-thinking companies will provide a genuine alternative to the US telcos.
You're seeing the article as being about the US, but if you see the (modern) US as (1914) Britain, then its other countries warmongering that can draw you in (1914 Britain didn't care at all about a war in the Balkans, but once Belgium and France were invaded they (we) pretty much had to be involved (Britain guaranteed Belgian neutrality and German domination of the french channel ports would have been very dangerous to British security no matter how "natural" the alliance).

History never happens the same way twice, the article is more a warning that the wrong spark in the wrong place could lead to chain of events resulting in a war between US and China whatever their intentions, just as the assassination of an Austrian by a Serb in Bosnia led to Britain (and eventually the US) into a war with Germany 100 years ago.
Telecom isn't a natural monopoly, it's a government sponsored cartel.
i current have 2 choices at my place in the US for internet:
comcast cable and comast DSL.

Not sure how i'm getting the choice to use a "net neutrality compliant" ISP if comcast decides i can't reach site Z or Y.
You can create threads with enif_thread_create and build a queue to handle long running tasks (or a pool of threads), and use enif_send to return the result. Not quite as hacky as it sounds, since afaik port drivers rely on message passing to return values to the VM as well. Maybe not ideal, but better than naively bumping reductions. I haven't played with enif_timeslice yet, so I'm not sure how it compares (it's newer than NIF threads).
However, an unusual rare font could easily make someone detectable. It could even be a common font, but a rare variant of it namewise.
IMHO, this isn't about Netflix, YouTube, or even Amazon having to pay for higher tiered access to customers. They have the deep pockets and smart lawyers to construct contracts that work out for them in the end. So I see that as the same grumpy story as California and New York forcing Amazon to collect sales tax.

BUT, because this does force deals to be crafted behind closed doors, they will turn out looking a lot like the deals that HBO/Shotime have with Comcast and TWC. Plus, look at what's going on with Facebook already... phones in some countries have "facebook data" only plans. Sure, this is great for emerging markets to have access to family and friends for free, but at the loss of any other social network upstart that wants in on it.

I don't see indie content ever being cut off, but I do see them becoming "premium" subscription level services that require people to pay more to access them. Want to play COD or GOW online? You will need this level access to play with any reasonable speeds. It will happen slowly too, as people become accustom to the idea that opening a Wikipedia page will take 1000 ms then to 5000 ms to fully finish rendering. Someone at Comcast will nudge slowly testing whether people notice or care.

If we don't fight the good fight and force internet providers to remain dumb pipes, we are asking to have the most expensive internet on the planet. As cable TV dies in favor of watching what you want, when you want, they will naturally move to charge you for things you want to do on the internet instead.

edit: autocorrect fail :-P
Exactly. Competition is the "active ingredient" in the free market, and "freedom" from regulation does not always suffice to guarantee competition. Utilities are the textbook example.
Standardization seems like a good idea but I'm not sure if I'm ok with the government forcing a single standard. Maybe another idea would be to tax non-compliant chargers, so they could still be legal, but have an incentive to comply to the standard. Or remove patents on chargers so there isn't any incentive to force consumers to buy your brand of charger, you might as well just comply with the standard. Or allow permits for non-compliant chargers if they can give a good justification for doing it.
Still, this is all from the implications of messing with the 1996 telecommunications act, allowing duopoly, preventing cities from offering broadband, and crushing the small guys. Too bad so few spoke up then; the balance of power has been against us ever since.
Is your NoScript activated on the eff domain? If it isn't, that statistic is highly possible.
malenursemagazine.com seems to be a spam/product placement blog

menteach.org has a (C) of 2007, and a dead forum.
I don't know .. that's something to be debated, however it does impinge on my individual freedom if my government decides who can wire what to my house. I did not personally agree to grant any corporation such a right.

Until then, arguments that net neutrality violates the freedom of the ISPs don't hold up, as any state-enforced monopolies must be considered at least partially public property.
This> http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/promo_650/public/media...
Customer Reviews: Apple 45W MagSafe Power Adapter
I agree that TDD isn't great if you're just exploring a problem domain. For that, I use spike solutions (throw-away standalone programs).

But I've also noticed that a lot of people seem to use a very verbose, mock-centric approach to TDD. That approach isn't amenable to refactoring because anything more substantial than "rename" or "extract method" changes details that the tests depends on. If you're finding it difficult to change your code once it has tests, it might have something to do with the way you're writing your tests.
Free has traffic shaping for anything going through their peering, but in particular apple and google.
Good luck using youtube via free's peering. it's nearly impossible. I don't know many people on free.fr that use youtube at all, because it's too terribly slow (1min load for 3s of video?). It's barely acceptable for things like google play downloads.

Their peering isn't net neutral at all.
For those who think that nanotechnology is too mundane, what about machines made from nucleons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtotechnology

Greg Egan speculates on femtotechnology in some of his sci-fi, mostly as insanely fast computers. (I mean, jeez, it takes SO MUCH TIME for an electron to whirl around the nucleus of an atom... it's so much faster when your computer is the nucleus.)

An excerpt from a Egan short story: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/SCHILD/00/SchildExc...

More on femtocomputing: http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/11/01/femtocomputing/
Maybe I'm the one who's missing something here, but why is everyone so obsessed with the Lightning connector Apple uses? As far as I understand it, the proposed legislation is about universal chargers, not universal cables, and isn't intended to promote interoperability between phones from different manufacturers, but to limit the environmental impact of replacing the charger every time you switch phones.

Last time I checked you can plug the USB side of the Lightning connector to any USB charger and vice versa, I'm pretty sure you can use the Apple charger to charge anything that also charges from a USB port. Seems to me that Apple would already be in compliance...
We are getting hustled[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRNGCja9mRo
The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2006)
>Google Fiber, in markets where it's available, has led to competitors reducing prices and offering better service. However, there's no word of change regarding net neutrality.

As a KC resident, TWC has not yet reduced my internet costs or increased speeds.
Its illegal but legal system is so bad that a person who openly swindled 25 billion-dollard in 5 years is going to become a ruler of a province...He will literally buy votes with the money.
Let's look at what you said above.

> But nobody has a problem with "Tulsa Codes!". Threads aren't full of people ranting about "third wave feminism" when they do.

If young Tulsa residents were more already more wealthy and more educated than young Oklahoma City residents, people would certainly complain about "Tulsa activists" if:

1. Companies were demonized by "Tulsa activists" for hiring young people from Oklahoma City for tech jobs, or

2. Mobs of internet "Tulsa activists" bullied people who dared to suggest that we shouldn't be spending extra money trying to further the achievement gap between young people from Tulsa and young people from Oklahoma City, or

3. "Tulsa activists" accused you of hating young people from "Tulsa" if you disagreed with any of their points.
I tend to agree, given my small-l libertarian tendencies and my preference for letting people do whatever they want unless it hurts others. On the other hand, there are already scads of standards (including ones that essentially say you-must-do-it-exactly-like-this) for consumer products. And it's hard to see why it's a very big imposition to standardize the DC power supplies, if the AC power supplies are standardized. The EU has shown that they are not inflexible with these standards, as they let the micro-USB standard expire and let people comply by shipping adapters. The interoperability might be worth it; we don't miss having 10 AC outlet types in our house for different brands of appliances.
How can they distinguish personal vs pro servers? They have to inspect the contents, which to me seems related to net neutrality.

The comparison should rather be "Do you get upset at buffets when they don't let you have the main dish after dessert?" They use content inspection to increase their revenue.
What are the browser makers doing to reduce the number of identifiable bits of data leaked?

Most of the bits of identifiable information listed there has a reason to leak since 99.999% of front-end developers have no reason to need that information to create an acceptable cross-browser experience for all users.
Didn't say it was strictly necessary. But you're less likely to even choose CS as a career path if you had no interest in it earlier.

You can also become a physicist later in life, but it's rare.
If E17 includes this AND maps I might cry (':
Marvel Stops Selling Single Issue Comics in bookstores
All data is emotive. All emotions stem from data.

When you look at the Mona Lisa or hear Sun by Koreless (IMO the most beautiful piece of music from 2013) you're processing data. It's just wave oscillations or light refraction.
I think I dont notice because I use VPN all the time.
thats generally how that stuff starts to be tolerated. "it wont fly so i don't care".
then since there is a HUGE financial interest, they try again, and again and again, and nobody's to block them, it eventually works.
I quite like Spotify + musixmatch: http://i.imgur.com/S4rn5ug.jpg?1
The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics
If the only factor they're ever tracking you with is your fonts, then yes, you're correct.

But what if you have the same IP address, user-agent, and plugins for a week, and midway through the week your font fingerprint changed? Then they just go and tie both fingerprints, or repalce the old one with the new one.

In reality this is not going to be a problem for any web service that seriously attempts to track users, and there are multiple such companies that are doing so and don't let this stop them. Usually only one fingerprint will change at a time, which makes it easy for them to account for it.

The only good solution is to prevent them from capturing that information in the first place, and the only way to prevent it is to block Javascript and Flash, which is most easily done with NoScript.
Cooking and coding
I'll say my only knowledge of this was anecdotal (from others)

I can say first hand, that if you call your ISP and say "I'm switching to X service at $Y for Zmbps" you can get your bill reduced.
Yes, I completely agree with you on the world trade point, which is the most important point with respect to the question of war. That said, the interdependence of the major prospective combatants is perhaps novel.
Wow, really? Ok, I believed up until now that nobody on Hacker News would post a naked invitation to trolling...
> If it's such a shitty idea, let consumers decide.

If you leave it up to the prisoners, they will both rat each other out resulting in the worst possible outcome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma). Assuming that consumers will decide what is best for the whole of society is simply incorrect. "Internet innovation" is very much one of those big picture goals where I think some community planning (e.g. government intervention) would help the outcome.
Rust has the concept of a shared heap meant for sharing memory between tasks. Tasks do have to claim (and then release) ownership of references from this shared heap, so this works like a locking mechanism, preventing 2 tasks from modifying a reference at the same time.

References on the shared heap can't be managed by a garbage collector. But references on local heaps can be managed by a thread-local garbage collector. Which is actually rather cool, as Rust basically sidesteps the need for having a concurrent, compacting, generational GC (in Rust the GC is also entirely optional).
Yeah, so maybe governments should stop setting rules about right- and left-hand traffic? Private sector will be so much better on establishing non government standards... For example Trucks (for British people Lorries) will user right-handed traffic rules, and normal cars will user left-hand traffic rules. Market will decide what is better....

As we can see market standard for charges was "every company has its own standards, and charge customers more", after UE and China decided ruled at created regulations for charges it was short time and every (except one) producers started to support microUSB/minuUSB as standard. Strange, don't you think? ;-)
You can just cherry pick examples unless you can explain how it's analogous. For example, healthcare suffers from natural monopolies to an extent. Hospitals don't really have to compete with each other, and it's really difficult to build a new hospital. The same principle applies to telecommunications.

On the other hand, healthcare is heavily regulated and hardly a free market, so it's pretty terrible comparison in that aspect.
I do get upset if the commercial say "up to 20 different kind of food, and all-you-can-eat", but during lunch rush it is just a couple of carrots that looks half moldy.

One aspect of net neutrality is advertizement laws and clear communication between the commercial entity and the consumer. A restaurant can't just say that "its up to!" and give you a carrot when you paid $50 for a buffet, complaining that their capacity to make food is full.

If the network connection Google want to sell has direct limitation to them, Google should be legally bound to make sure the consumer is aware before a contract is signed. That is normally a basic consumer protection law in most markets, and the ISP market is just lagging behind.
I normally don't bother to comment on these manufactured outrages but I have to make an exception here. Look, PG clearly were referring in the interview to startup _founders_. The magazine twisted his words to make it sounds like he saying that women can't be _coder_, meaning women can never learn to code well enough to get a job, which he never said. If that's indeed what he say then everyone, you and I can decide to be outrage about it. But that's not what he said. We should really be outraged at the magazine for this hit piece.
Test your Chef recipe's code coverage
It's something that has been debated. Do you think telecoms and utilities sprang into existence fully-formed world-wide the day you were born? These issues are not new, they date back centuries.
To suggest that men are some how different to women is incredibly sexist, check your privilege.
I actually agree political posts suck on HN. I would like it more if they weren't (unless related to NSA back dooring tech type stuff). I have flagged this post.

I'll still comment if its here though.

I'm not sure how I advocated being loud and uninformed though.
Rap Genius And The Problem With The Venture Capital Fueled Growth Hack
If I lend you 20 bucks (money), "credit" is the belief I have that I'm going to get it back from you.
I strongly am in favor of freedom, but not a fully free market. And exactly for reasons like this: a fully free market destroys freedom.
The last statistic I saw was that our military budget was 17x larger than the next on the list - China. Agree that's a pretty wasteful spend vs investing those dollars in education, infrastructure etc at home.
> Why is there not a male nurse initiative?

There are male nurse initiatives, e.g., [1].

> Or male elementary teacher initiative?

There are those, too [2].

There's even specifically (ethnic) minority male teacher initiatives. [3]

The fact that you are ignorant of something and haven't even done a simple Google search to look into it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[1] http://www.minoritynurse.com/article/recruiting-men-nursing-...

[2] http://www.menteach.org/

[3] http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/shortage_of_minorit...
I should write an ebook :) Glad it is of help. I thought 17 points were enough to digest.
Python parallelism in one line - A Better Model for Day to Day Threading Tasks
Not at all "natural". The cost is so high partially due to special agreements between these corporations and governments, from local agreements to lay down fiber, to national agreements regarding the use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
so you say people will work to lay fiber everywhere til they can have a neutral internet?

Oh yeah, right, that'll happen because it's totally possible!

Freedom of saying this ain't right. Freedom of making laws against it. Freedom to steal. Freedom to pirate servers. Extend the thinking far enough til you get to freedom to kill people. Exactly the same thinking.

This circular argument is useless. Freedom without means to limit and enforce it is no freedom at all.

It's obvious that for the general good, there should be net neutrality. If you make it impossible (laying fiber in all the country from scratch is impossible), this is wrong.

Just like killing people or stealing is wrong.
I assume you're against all forms of lobbying, then?
> we are asking to have the most expensive internet on the planet

Indeed, it will be unfortunate for the United States when internet services are akin to healthcare and prescription drugs.
Consumers don't decide shit. Consumers are people that buy stuff, nothing more. The people that decide are called citizens or "voters".

(Also, Google is probably one of the worst examples imaginable for arguing the market should make such decisions.)
Report: NSA intercepts computer deliveries
afaik the law is already in place (apple pays some fees i suppose) and this is a more general law to generalize more chargers, connectors etc.

That's why everyone else uses usb ports.
Rather than music, I use brown noise. Try the "Getting Wet" preset here:
mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/rainNoiseGenerator.php
My bank requires a 4 character password with no letters or special characters! Oh wait, a PIN doesn't count?
What is behind Alexa giving higher rankings to SaaS web apps in mid 2013?
Then how can you consider these companies to be truly private?
If what you're saying is true, then I'd like to know why Instant Runoff Voting seems so superior to binary voting schemes (like "democratic" or "republican" with the occasional "green" candidate acting usually as "democratic spoiler") and yet hasn't been widely implemented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Infographic: Our Sharing Habits
I'm not sure it's exactly politically incorrect -- lots of people probably believe it -- but I do think it's wrong. Similar to saying girls naturally prefer to play with baby dolls and wear dresses, when in reality every person they meet has been subtly (or not) pushing them that way their whole lives. "Oh, you're so pretty! Want to try this bow on?" Etc.
"Don't be evil." Well, at least until you become a monopolist. Then go right ahead.
The frontend part can still use a secure password mechanism which is then hashed to a password suitable for the underlying backend system.

There's no reason to keep the bad decisions from decades ago as a part of a modern system, even if it relies on the legacy system.
The only other option is U-verse which is more expensive for the same speed or they don't even offer the same speed. Calling the ISP and threatening them only works if you can find someone with the power to do so(and hope they don't note your account for trying it again, later..), and assumes they hold true to their word on your next bill.

I was primarily refuting your "causes isps to lower their prices" because Google fiber has done NOTHING for TWC's marketing. It's still the same terrible prices.
Why would a free market guarantee net neutrality? All the big players could still prefer to offer products that curtail it. There's no logical step ensuring net neutrality.

An example - in Australia, there is an ISP called Internode, which used to be run by a techie called Hackett. They were very much for user's rights and net neutrality, and were always at the forefront of lobbying the government for users. Their support centers are in-country, and the web tools they offer make techies happy.

But they only have a sliver of the ISP pie, despite the very high quality product - because that shit does not come cheap. They're 50-100% more expensive. Instead the public run towards big brands like Optus - who actively engage in tactics like obscuring the structure of your bill to make it harder to understand, or engage in openly deceptive marketing, and see users as cattle to manipulate. Or they'll go to bargain-basement ISPs with woeful service, then complain about that service and give you a hateful stare when you suggest they pay a little more for good service.

I can see zero evidence to suggest that 'net neutrality' is a killer feature that would be automatically enabled by a free market.
I don't understand how using a regex expressed over a string representation of a datetime is an improvement over the crontab format.
No, data is not per-se emotive. You're confusing (amongst other things) the sub-set data that is aesthtetic, with the complet set of Data, and in vaguely more technical terms making an inference that is invalid.
So everyone talks about RG being superior due to its annotation. (true) But doesn't this identify that 80% of it's traffic comes from "m-low dogg gangsta money freaks and junk lyrics" searches? So at maximum, 20% of users use annotation features (surely some still use it for purely lyrics simply due to it being it easy to remember)
Any thought on the effect increased programmability in telecom networks is going to be on Network Neutrality? It seems likely to me that regular IP routing is likely to become the "slow lane" on the Internet?
Is that necessarily a bad thing in all cases? I think it would be great if a company offered, say, really cheap or free access to wikipedia and other basic websites, but charged for actual service. Letting poor people access it or making it available to host cheaper free wifi. I think what people are afraid of is them throttling competitors, or charging more for normal service, but it doesn't have to be that way.