skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It points to the same fundamental misunderstanding of law. Law depends on overwhelming non-lethal force on the side of law. Where that is not available, it cannot be used.

So complaining about US legal guarantees (that have exceptions, like DEA, SWAT and frankly IRA teams) not being available outside of the region where the law's overwhelming advantage exists is no more valid than complaining the sky doesn't turn red to make sure your sunset picture looks cool or complaining cars don't fly.
This is not the new uk gov porn filter. It is an optional fter, like any other net nanny filter or any enterprise style filter. It's restrictive because that's what those kinds of filters do. It is purely optional, and supposedly granular so the user could just block search engines but nothing else.

This is different to the proposed uk gov porn filter.
Combine them both and you have a fantastic resource. They complement each other very well.
The toothpaste is out of the tube already, people know what freedom online tastes like.

Bad news for old money - the Internet has an appetite for rentier blood. This will not be tolerated long term.
Would these be the same telcos that operate as regional public utility monopolies, subsidized by your taxes and mine?
Most rights are a balancing act. In this case, the freedom of the ISP is contrary to the freedom of the subscriber, so whose freedom is supreme?

I could understand opposition to net neutrality if there were competition in the ISP market. However, I have no choice but to use Comcast, so the idea that they can decide what sites I visit and how fast they are is very scary.
I don't actually know much of anything about how flash memory works. I just read the bit about data sticking around in the article, and assumed there would need to be some special action to make it actually delete stuff. However it works, it seems like this would be useful to know about your flash storage...since nobody documents the behavior of their flash drives, having one with your own (or Open Source) firmware would allow you to know what it does in a given circumstance, which is the only way to securely use any tech.
I generally add custom application shortcuts to XFCE's keyboard preferences instead of i3's config and change i3's $mod to the Alt key. Haven't had any problems of conflicting shortcuts.
Men score better than women on standardized tests in math in some countries, while in other countries women score better (http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~kelly/gap_sept09.pdf).

It's almost as if the culture you are surrounded by somehow affects you. In fact the countries with more gender equality that encourage women in the sciences have higher test scores for women!
Ugh no thanks. Lightning is orders of magnitude superior to other current solutions (except cost). If it came to the point where this was actually enforced, I bet Apple would just pay the fines it receives and just continues to use Lightning.
I don't understand this. Are they going to force Apple to use the same charger as everyone else? Is that even possible? The article is unclear.
This article is over a month old. I'm interested in the current status of NN. Could someone informed fill us in on the latest?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-10/nsa-spying-seen-ris...

Clearly your unfamiliar with the rest of the world. They have all pretty much said your screwing up our business.
No, the gatekeepers and rent-seekers will not fade quietly away.

Just as they fought tooth and nail against digital networks and strong cryptography, they will try to smother crypto-currencies in their crib.

But decentralization, pseudo-anonymity, and free software are powerful forces, maybe even more powerful than men with guns.
A while back I quit my 9-5 and started working on a number of consulting/projects on a rotating basis.

One of the things I did in addition to having dedicated work space and clear boundaries was to assign projects on a per-day basis. Most of my contracts are longer-term grant projects where I'm committed to 10 hr/week or so.

Monday = local hardware project
Tues = DirectTrust
Wens = Dignity Health
etc...

I make sure the companies I'm working with understand what their dedicated day is, and have a clear time line of deliverables. This gives me enough urgency on a day to day basis to prevent falling into the trap of "taking care of it later."

I also have a set time for general email first thing in the morning, in addition to break times where I can cook, clean and work on dinner. I know some would say that's a horrible break, but I'd rather do it mid day that at 9pm (as I would when I commuted).

The other thing was removing the tv in the office. I was surprised and how distracting it was, considering I never paid attention to it. I now use use music as background/white noise.

And I can't recommend a pet partner enough, just lock them out during concalls least you earn a reputation of being "that cat lady in policy."
> Give no space for terrorists to operate in.

You do understand that many people in here argue that drones are a pretty good instrument to create terrorist..?
Not "Ipsum about nothing?"
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The telcos make extensive use of common property like licensed portions of the RF spectrum and a great deal of land in order to do their business. The people have every right to enforce regulations on the use of their property.
They may have been monopolies once, but they're not anymore. At least in the US. Most people already have two broadband subscriptions: home cable broadband and HSPA+ or LTE. The home cable broadband is in competition with ADSL throughout much of the nation, and the HSPA+/LTE providers are in fierce competition everywhere.

Furthermore, what makes you say this:

>In a free market, net neutrality wouldn't need to be regulated because companies who attempted to enact business plans like the AT&T plan described in the article would rapidly find themselves losing marketshare to competitors.

I certainly would not expect them to lose market share.
If these are the core issues for you try working at a coffee shop or university library. Usually these tend to be interruption free zones. You might also try out one of the shared office spaces in your area They most likely understand your "transition" situation very well and can give you a desk for a day just to try it out.
> allows rich people in power to remotely kill people they deem as threats whilst selling a story of reduced casualties on both sides.

Don't expensive manned aircraft with (the same) expensive precision guided munitions allow rich people to do exactly the same thing?

A manned aircraft could perform these missions with the same level of "collateral damage" and minimal risk to the pilot.
Aliens seeded or significantly influenced the development of the human race, a la 'Prometheus'.
Yea man, gentoo has a learning curve, but portage is just a dream. If you don't hack it and properly use the package.files the way they were intended it's amazingly customizable and portable.
That's our world. Everytime we trumpet the fact that they're a power that can stand up to the Apples and NSAs of the world, remember where that power and strength comes from. Not a bad thing, merely a double-edged sword.
The only thing this shows is that the recruiting standards for the US drone program are substandard, as the author was allegedly part.

1) Yes, absolutely UAV based jammers don't block all IEDs. Ground jammers like WARLOCK also don't block all IEDs. One thing they did do was force a lot of command detonated IEDs to go to command wire systems, instead of various wireless systems, which meant we then had a man with a switch in his hand within a few hundred meters (tops), who we then lit the fuck up before or after the attack. Sure beats someone being in another city with a cellphone!

Just because something isn't 100% effective doesn't mean it's worthless.

2) Yes, UAVs are offensive combat weapons, particularly the programs in Horn of Africa and Pakistan. OTOH, I don't see a huge difference in getting killed by a Hellfire from a drone vs. having guys from JSOC show up at your door. There's a legitimate concern that UAVs lower the threshold to engage in ongoing low intensity conflict, but in the cases where they do have the right targets, I see no difference between drone, manned aircraft, or on the ground trigger-pullers.

3) The vast majority of drones are pure Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) missions. DOD didn't even arm their drones for a long long time, it was CIA (who operate in those places) who pioneered armed Predators (then the other armed drones). Part of this is internal politics (pilots = officers), part of it is that when you've got manned aircraft armed with diverse weapons systems orbiting overhead, you can just use a smaller/cheaper/lighter drone for pure ISR, then when you develop a target, send the manned aircraft with a full suite of weapons to choose from to do the actual attack mission.

4) The grainy image of a UAV camera, over a 4h monitoring mission, is probably way beyond the standard of proof of a combat shooting in general. The UAV defaults to "no shoot". A soldier in combat who is threatened defaults to "shoot". You don't need high precision on a single image if you're able to spend a long time watching, gathering supporting information (knowing the area, vehicles that approach, etc.). This isn't law enforcement or civilian self defense; it's war. It's totally legitimate to question whether we should be at war, but the actual conduct of the war is less debatable IMO.
Let me tell you something: I used to work in the defense industry as well (in "the U.S. drone program", no less!), and I disagree. So...yeah. Changed your mind yet? No? It's the truth. That must not be a very effective form of persuasion then.

I'm not sure why anyone, like anyone at all, is getting worked up over what jusben1369 wrote, which wasn't even expressing an opinion on the matter so much as just advocating critical thinking. It's just as important to apply critical thinking to sources of information that provide conclusions that you agree with as it is to those you disagree with. The more significant and emotionally charged a topic is, the more important it becomes to not slip up and abandon basic reasoning.
We should be reminded that neither Kafka nor Orwell should be regarded as designs for law. The more time goes by the more we seem to live in their world.
>In this case, the freedom of the ISP is contrary to the freedom of the subscriber, so whose freedom is supreme?

No, there is no conflict. This is black and white. I know that HN doesn't want to hear it.

The subscribers freedom is to leave for another provider. The provider's freedom is to charge what it wants for whatever service it wants to provide.

Only one's freedom is being infringed upon here.
> Maybe women are smart enough to avoid that particular form of stupidity and thus avoid the field, but men are too dumb, thus maleness ratio increases.

To quote Philip Greenspun:

> I've taught a fair number of women students in electrical engineering and computer science classes over the years. I can give you a list of the ones who had the best heads on their shoulders and were the most thoughtful about planning out the rest of their lives. Their names are on files in my "medical school recommendations" directory.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
The sample chapter seems too simplistic so I'm not sure my daughter would find it interesting, but I'm curious - do you know any teenagers who liked it?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6669298
The telcos are competing over very limited resources (easements necessary to build fiber, etc.). In the absence of a regulatory system you'd have cartels instead.
I consider everybody here very smart. In many cases smarter than myself. Therefore, could somebody please explain why we would give the government, which has shown itself to be terribly incompetent with technology issues, the ability to enforce net neutrality? Seriously, I can't get over the dissonance here. If it's such a shitty idea, let consumers decide. Google Fiber et al will just eat the major telecoms' lunch sooner or later anyway. It may just take a little longer, but we'll avoid the possibility of letting the government crush Internet innovation forever.
Agreed, it's smaller, faster and gasp works both ways.
Ask HN: Is Google breaking the Apple TOS by accessing files outside the sandbox?
I've recently upgraded an iPad 2 to iOS 7 from iOS 5. The original Google Maps app did not have a login. It was removed as part of the upgrade, and I the downloaded and installed Google Maps for iPad.<p>Google+ was also previously installed and upgraded after the move to iOS 7 (manually).<p>I then logged into Google+ with, my Google account.<p>I have now just opened the Google Maps app. To my utter surprise I see the following:<p><pre><code> Tired of typing?
Signing to get suggestions from your search
history and Google Contacts.<p><pre><code> Photo, name and profile from Google+<p><pre><code> Continue as <my name></code></pre></code></pre>
</code></pre>
I'm not logged into my Google account in Safari, so it isn't some kind of web cookie, so the only conclusion I have is that Google has somehow bypassed the app sandbox and accessed the Google+ app files. The only alternatives can think of that they have stored the details in the keychain.<p>If they have deliberately broken the sandbox, then I presume they have broken Apple's TOS.<p>However they have done. I find it completely intrusive. Worse, our iPad is a family device. I don't want every search anyone makes on this iPad to be logged to my account.<p>The solutions currently available to me are:<p>1. Allow Google to link my account with map searches on this device - no thank you
2. Delete all Google apps
3. Create a dummy Google account and link everything to that
4. Complain to Apple and have them force Google to pull this intrusive feature<p>Has anyone else seen this? Is there anyway to remove the suggestion of linking my account?<p>One of my kids is going to click on 'continue' sooner or later and I'm going to have a Google following me round and I won't be able to stop it.
Why wouldn't you expect them to lose market share? They're actively hindering customers from their desired actions. Doesn't that typically mean customers will look for alternatives?
I very much agree with this.

I'm a woman and at age 13 I was, if not actually "hacking", at least teaching myself to code simple games/graphics. However, "delivering solid product" is a very big leap from that. I'll never be an elite ninja rock star coder or a big name entrepreneur.

Conversely, there are plenty of posts on HN from people, mostly 20-something and male, saying they just taught themselves to code from scratch within the past year. Some of those people are already doing pretty damn awesome things, and thankfully they usually get encouraging feedback rather than told they'll never make it because they weren't geeky enough in junior high.

(And I was a big nerd all through school, so believe me, I'd love that to be a meaningful qualification!)
Sure, if you don't admit or haven't heard of the concept of positive freedom.
Who would you have enforce net neutrality?
Why, when assessing people's abilities and shortcomings, do you reach for the two categories "men" and "women"? Why not:

Is it really wrong to say that brunettes could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another? Is it haircolourist to even point out that blondes and brunettes are different?

I think my brunette life partner is pretty awesome and capable of things I would not be able to do. Am I haircolourist for talking about it?

If we truly were post-sexism, it would be as weird as that ^ to divide people by gender when talking about things that have absolutely nothing to do with their gender. Like programming.
But what if there isn't another provider in your area?
If your model is managed by a lib that provides callbacks when a piece of your model is updated you can make a mixin like it has been done for Meteor and Backbone integrations:

https://github.com/benjamn/meteor-react#how-it-works
http://eldar.djafarov.com/2013/11/reactjs-mixing-with-backbo...
Bullshit. The "freedom" of the subscriber is not on the line. The subscriber can do as they wish. I can't go into a hotel and claim I have the "freedom" to use my room as a distillery just because I paid for the room.

The ISP can also regulate bandwidth as they wish. They're a company, not a public organization (depending on where you live). If you don't like it, choose another ISP. If you can't choose another ISP, work to change the situation so you can.

I'd rather get people pissed off enough at the current monopolistic ISP situation to change it rather than keep the situation at just the right place that no one is happy.
I think it's also great because it encourages students majoring in other science and engineering fields to learn CS and see how it is applicable to their field of study. I also like how they try to make it fun. My intro CS classes were really dry and boring. I only pushed through them because I was set on being a computer engineering major and knew I would like the more advanced classes.
Just like AirPrint (IPP), AirPlay (DLNA), AirDrop (Bluetooth/OBEX), Facetime etc...

Basically as usual, it's Apple and everyone else.

I'll stick with my USB charger thanks as it is 100% ubiquitous as I will my Internet Printing Protocol, DLNA (which doesn't even require an Apple box to talk to my TV!) and bluetooth that works properly across all devices I've encountered.

Edit to add: I have 3 Lightning iPads in my house (none are mine personally). The male connectors aren't durable - two dead ones so far. I'm not sure about the sockets either which are way more expensive to replace.
AFAIK they're forcing Apple to ship an adaptor so that iPhones can charge from standard power supplies.
Also to add to the Asian part (Chinese in particular in my case), CS is still too new to be a particularly esteemed profession in Chinese culture, and I don't think I'm alone in having parents and a large extended family that pressured me hard to pursue a conservative, high income, esteemed profession instead such as medicine, finance, accounting, or law. Having graduated right after the dotcom bubble crashed certainly didn't help either, and was pretty close to taking a first job in accounting, as my parents convinced me that tech was dead-end. I finally put my foot down after realizing I would have been miserable doing anything other than tech, and it took quite a lot of time and effort before my parents accepted my career choice. However, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that I would have ended up in tech sooner or later no matter what happened.

I'm not saying that having pushy Asian parents is the same as having to face gender discrimination, but simply that CS is not simply handed on a silver platter to all men either.
USB 3.0 is not an order of magnitude inferior to Lightning. As I understand it, the primary reason Lightning was chosen over micro USB was simply that the iPad needs more power than micro USB is specified to provide. That kind of thing can be resolved in the two years we have before this has to go into effect.

I'm always on the side of standard connections. Which is one of several reasons I never choose Apple products. Having it imposed by law feels vaguely wrong, but Apple's behavior (on this front, and several others) also feels vaguely wrong to me.
It is simply not true that you need to study computer programming in high school in order to be an effective professional programmer.
not sure whether this will come out the wrong way, but for some people programming is a career while for others it is and will likely always be a job.

again, don't get me wrong: the ones who do it as a job might well have other things that they love and that for them would be a dream come true type of career. doesn't mean they lack passion or are not really good at something else, but programming might just not be the thing that they are passionate about
The government of the United States has the authority and the responsibility to regulate the commercial use of limited resources held in common. The freedom at stake here is the right of the people to regulate the use of public property.
Anyone who works with demographics in a serious manner is aware that a 99% split is extraordinarily difficult to achieve.

You're actually saying that the regulations on Uber hurt 99% of the people of France. Children? The mentally ill? Prisoners? Soldiers stationed overseas? Farmers? People too poor to afford taxis in the first place?

Hell, people outside the Uber areas of service, which is apparently just Paris?

Each of these demographic segments pretty much wholly have no interest in something like Uber, and slice off percentage point after percentage point. And even when you take your twenty/thirty/fortysomething urban parisian with the money for car hire, plenty have life patterns that don't need a taxi or uber - they walk or cycle or bus or train it about.

'99%' is utter, utter tosh, both in the literal, and more importantly, in the contextual figurative sense it was given.
I'm not really sure that you can call mobile data networks competitors to home broadband, if for no other reason than that their usage is aggressively capped, and is device-specific. I've never heard of someone cancelling their cable broadband because they can just tether their phone for all their household's internet needs instead.

ADSL vs cable is certainly the big battlefield right now, but even then, you're dealing with one telco and one cable provider. Time-Warner and Comcast are so reviled that it's practically a joke now, but people still subscribe to their services by the millions, because they don't have any actual alternative.

> Furthermore, what makes you say this...I certainly would not expect them to lose market share.

If I had my choice of several competing, technologically-equivalent ISPs, and mine decided to start charging extra for full-speed access to Netflix (or Netflix started charging me extra because I was an EvilISP subscriber, meaning that sending me those bytes costs them extra), I'd jump ship to a competitor who didn't in a heartbeat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

Read about natural monopolies.
Not to detract from your point, but we used B-52s frequently for air support missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Units (well, usually AF CCT or TACP on the ground with the unit) could call up fire missions and would get a platform, which could be an A-10, F-16, F-15, F-18, B-1B, B-52, etc. as supplied by the air force based on what was available (usually overhead, or within a short flight). CCT had more flexibility in getting "better" stuff or more specific requests.

So, I'm going to say "2010", but it might actually have been 2011 or 2012 or even 2013 (I haven't kept up).
My point was that your oversimplification was deceptive. You state that the judge only has two choices, and it's a matter of record that the actual judge in question chose neither of them.

>Well, standing is usually a matter of law.

The constitutionality of the concept of standing was not in question.