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> Seriously, it seems like the FCC just can't be clear about what it is they actually plan to implement

Briefly, they HAD regulations that were working. These regulations were based on FCC authority under a particular section of law, which I'll call Law X. Verizon and Comcast separately challenged different parts of the regulations and won in court. The court said Law X did not authorize the FCC to do all that had been doing. In particular, the banning of what people are now calling "fast lanes" was not allowed.

There is another law, law Y, that the FCC currently uses to regulate telephone service. This law is strong enough to ban fast lanes, but the consequences of using this more powerful weapon are unknown--for 30+ years data networks have been regulated under law X, not law Y. It is informally called "the nuclear option" because of this.

What Wheeler would like to do is restore the regulations that the court struck down, and would like to avoid having to use the nuclear option for this. For the "fast lanes", he cannot outright ban them without going nuclear, so instead he's proposing regulating them. For example, if an ISP gives a video service it or some related corporate entity owns a "fast lane", it would have to offer similar service on "commercially reasonable terms" to outside video services. Also, demand for "fast lanes" could not be boosted by slowing people down--if your ISP sells you a service they claim is 20 mbit/second, for instance, they will be required to deliver that. They will not be allowed to slow you down to 10 mbit/second to make you complain to, say, Netflix, to encourage Netflix to pay for a "fast lane" on your ISP.

The tech press has done a terrible reporting job on this for the most part (Ars Technica seems to be the most accurate, and has published some accurate stories). They like to report it as Wheeler proposing to allow "fast lanes", in a way that implies "fast lanes" are new. In fact, under the regulations in effect now that the court struck down the earlier regulations, "fast lanes" are allowed, with no restrictions at all. Wheeler's "commercially reasonable terms" proposal is an attempt to put some limits on the "fast lanes".

Wheeler has always said that other options are on the table. That's why the proposal came with a bunch of questions about whether this was the right approach, and whether the nuclear option should be pursued. It is very common for proposed regulations to change significantly as a result of the feedback during the comment period. There is no reason to think that will not happen here.
This post is certainly bizarre in many ways; I would agree with the 'wince', to be sure. The litany of mechanical errors throughout the post substantially detract from it.

The thing that boggles me the most, though, is when the author goes out to say: "What about something you believe in [...? ...] surely few things could motivate you quite like teaching code to disadvantaged kids or working for a non-commercial organisation to transform something for the greater good using technology." This makes sense: his point is that people want to work on things that matter, and that's why people will choose interesting, fulfilling, and validating projects over employers that pay a huge amount (i.e., quants), or over employers that have colossal benefits (i.e., Google).

This actually makes lots of sense, and resonates with me. The thing that boggles, though, is that he proceeds to drop that line of reasoning on the floor completely; he talks briefly about "contributing to our company", but says absolutely nothing about why the work that he has to offer is at all fulfilling...
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"It'll save time in the long run!" http://xkcd.com/974/
Empowering those at the bottom won't necessarily fix the inequality "problem". If Modi fixes the economy he'll empower those at the bottom. Right now everyone in India is equally poor. Fixing the economy might make this place unequally rich like the US.

I imagine Piketty would consider that a problem if he knew India existed.

If you want solutions for empowering those at the bottom, look to Bryan Caplan rather than Piketty.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/05/meant_for_each.h...
No, people do not like to share their life with everyone. You might like to do that, but please do not generalize.
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This could be really helpful (I'm sitting at work right now as an information security employee, so I don't want to browse the site too much). I was recently looking for a new job in information security as an experienced candidate and many of the existing job search sites really let me down. I know this is one of the fastest growing segments of the industry, there's next to no unemployment, and salaries have potential to be incredible. But when I was looking, there was nothing. Nothing on Monster, nothing on CareerBuilder, and hardly even anything on Dice. I found more positions by going to a company's website and looking through their individual openings.

I don't know if it's that companies don't want to post their security positions or if the existing sites are poorly equipped to meet that specific need, but it was just terrible. Did I end up at the place I wanted for the salary I wanted? Sure. Did I end up at the best place I was capable of working at the highest salary I am capable of earning? I doubt it, because, according to Monster, CareerBuilder, and Dice.com, there are no information security positions within 50 miles of Pittsburgh and there haven't been for at least the past six months.
> And both would still refuse to pay for the upgrades that only benefit Netflix.

Those upgrades benefit the consumer, not netflix. The consumers that are paying the ISP for alleged internet service. Then they're paying netflix for the right to access netflix's content using their existing internet provider. The means of moving the bytes is a cost on netflix's end of the network, just like on the ISP's end.
I find it so ridiculous that an internet company has to "expand" to another country.

Why can't it just be a matter of removing the geoip checks from your servers?

(I know, I know, still... the internet was not meant to be this way.)
> The reason they are doing this is that the increased traffic is attacking television distribution.

I disagree. I admit that this is subtle, and I don't fault you for seeing it immediately. If it were only true that Comcast was afraid of Netflix as a media competitor, then Comcast could easily beat Netflix at that game, and likely reap a few cost savings. So it's not this. I suspect that at least some of the executives know that Comcast as a tv distributor is already a lost cause, and that this doesn't bother them too much.

What does bother them is, having run the numbers, they realize that Netflix traffic will only continue growing, on a very steep curve. While some chump change upgrades could fix the immediate problem (probably cheap enough that they'd do it just for PR), it won't fix the bigger problem: what happens in 4 years when the HFC network itself is inadequate?

They can't afford to go to an all-fiber network. That's billions of outlays that they'd have to recoup over decades.

They're afraid of losing their internet business, not their tv business.
I have been using SuperMemo for more than eight years and have more than 70,000 flashcards on a variety of subjects and languages, and once I got the hang of proper flashcard creation I have been able to remember almost anything I want: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm

Look at the above article for rules on how to make proper flashcards. SuperMemo, Anki, etc. are all good at helping you remember information, but if the flashcards are not correctly made, it's like putting water into an engine that requires gasoline. The thought that all explicit memorization is bad is a total myth; if you break any of the 20 above rules, flashcards will suffer (Trying to memorize before you understand, not learning things in list form, etc.).
I read all the comments kindly posted here before mine, and then I read the fine submitted article. Here I will link to the study "Not Just the Problems of Other People's Children: U.S. Student Performance in Global Perspective"[1] that underlies the news report submitted here. The full study report will of course give you details that a brief news report has no space to provide. It's good to read a news report from British journalists about education issues here in the United States, as the British journalists are less likely to hand-wave away concerns about United States educational performance.

As a response to some comments here, I'll note that I have lived in east Asia (I am a proficient speaker and reader of Chinese as a second language, and have lived in Taiwan during two three-year stays since I became an adult) and can verify that the schools there generally do a better job teaching mathematics (and also second languages) than the schools in the United States, at less expense per student. That efficiency in primary and secondary education lets both students who go on to higher education and students enter the workforce after secondary education achieve more in their adult pursuits than many Americans. Children there have childhoods with play and fun, but then they get to grow up to be adults with actual skills for advancing themselves.

For comparative rankings of different countries, showing how many more students in some countries reach high levels of mathematics achievement by eighth grade, see the very well constructed data chart "Distribution of Mathematics Achievement" for eighth graders in Exhibit 1.2 of Chapter 1 of the TIMSS report from the 2011 testing round.[2]

This issue is familiar to Americans like me who have lived overseas and have learned the local language of another country and have read the math textbooks available there. Better instruction can produce better educational results--and for less money besides. The top student issue is illustrated also by results from the International Mathematical Olympiad[3] and other international academic competitions. The United States has a huge population base, and it has many families in which the children are brought up by parents who are first-generation immigrants who received their own primary and secondary educations in other countries. (Such children do conspicuously well in academic competitions in the United States.) And the United States is wealthy, a heritage from the good governance structure set up by the United States federal Constitution. But even at that, the United States national team can be beat at the International Mathematical Olympiad by countries that have many fewer people and much poorer economies. Some countries have a very impressive group of top students.

[1] http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/Papers/PEPG14-01_NotJust...

[2] http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2011/downloads/T11_IR_M_Cha...

[3] http://www.imo-official.org/
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check the security certificate here, I might be wrong about the exact nature, but the last I heard, MD5 and RC4 in certificates were bad.

https://www.unionbankonline.co.in/
I believe that arh68's point was that Lisp doesn't have a syntax that is something different than the syntax of S-expressions. You're actually agreeing, but you're quibbling over the way it was stated.
Are there any simple ways to build a simple landing page for a product idea I'd like to test?
Eh? There's at least two large video-on-demand streaming services by large companies like Vivendi and Amazon in Germany. Maybe you don't like what they offer (I don't), but saying there's no competition is far-fetched.
> (eg choosing javascript/lightbox plugin that doesn't support swiping on mobile even though I pointed to one that worked exceptionally well)

We don’t force it. You can easily get rid of it in your own theme.

[full disclosure: co-developer of Nikola here.]
>If you chose to use that 300gb downloading from my website, would Comcast be obligated to let me put a server in their data center for free?

No, but they're obligated to get those GB to the consumer in some frickin way, because they have a signed contract with the consumer obligating them to get them their damn bytes. Who cares if it's netflix or 1,000 myriad other sites. The only reason netflix is an issue is because they're a big enough target to extort.
For the last few years, I've read a lot on conversion optimization articles.

Reading this, summarizes 90% of the tips and tricks that I learned. Glad you HNers enjoy it!
There were Japanese computers from the 50s that used phase between waveforms for computation, can't find an immediate reference.

Found it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametron

This also might be of interest http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/dudley-bucks-for... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryotron

For completeness there was a great talk the UW EE department a couple days ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwl6fORHNqs on using electron spin to store information.

https://www.ee.washington.edu/cgi-bin/research/colloquium/di...
That's a load of rubbish submitted completely without any sort of proof. That might have gone on in a back-alley speakeasy in the Prohibition era, but in any sort of reputable casino - not a chance. The casino has no need to cheat at roulette. They have a built in edge.
You can download free landing page templates, or use landing page hosting services like unbounce, instapage, etc...
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-services-similar-to-unbounce
Not quite. If you drop Lisp's variable-arity operators, that enables you to drop the parenthesis. If you drop the parenthesis, that gives you Polish notation.

For example:

Lisp: (* (+ 1 2 3) (- 4 5) )

Polish: * + + 1 2 3 - 4 5
Understandable. It's an experiment, and it may not work. If it does though, it will allow me to make a much better app for our users.

Would you prefer unlimited runs free with ads, or as is and just make it a 1 time paid app? Also, what would seem reasonable for that 1 time number, for you?
Your mileage may vary. My experience with Racket's use of square brackets was different. When I first looked at Racket Code, I assumed square brackets had semantic significance (I'd seen some Lisps and Schemes and glanced at Clojure code snippets in addition to a number of non-lisp languages). I spent mental energy trying to identify why they were used one place and not another. It was only after a significant time that I realized they are merely stylistic flourishes.

As I have written Racket code, I have found that square brackets get in the way. Don't misunderstand me, they look great when the are printed, but changing the internal structure of an expression requires changing concluding logic from '))])))' to ')))]))' that I've decided it's pain than gain. I'd rather just add another close parenthesis and move on to running tests than navigate character by character.

I love Racket, don't misunderstand me. But the square brackets are a faster horse at best, not a bicycle.
> If you chose to use that 300gb downloading from my website, would Comcast be obligated to let me put a server in their data center for free?

That's not what peering is, though, right? Nobody's asking for anything like this. They're asking for building a couple links between a small number of large networks, or have I got this wrong?

Nobody's saying build out huge infrastructure that belongs to a particular website for free.
Any parent can give encouragement and demand their kid work hard, but a parent without knowledge has no way of assessing whether a tutor or other pedagogical assistant is any good. Try thinking about this in the context of something that you're not good at.
I suppose, like the article mentions, it depends on the circumstances.

It does appear that serious poker players do better in the long run as they not only consider pot-odds when playing but also management of their bankroll to ensure long-term survival. Is there an element of chance? Of course, but it's not the only factor - few things are black and white.

But if someone choose to go all-in blind pre-flop then they are choosing to play the game as pure gambling and their version of the game would be pure chance.

But again, it's all about the circumstances. Poker is often compared to day trading in the markets and though it's not a perfect comparison, there are some analogies. For examples, options can and often are used in complex strategies to either reduce risk or enhance returns. But that doesn't mean they can't be used to speculate wildly - in these situations, the potential payoff profile begins to look something like a straight up bet.
Okay, I'll bite. Why is having a naked futures contract in the S&P500 (which costs around $100,000 for the e-mini) any more risky than owning $100,000 of stocks?

[0] http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/e-mini...
Matt, you might want to look at DynamoDB, which would at least let you do a cost comparison to an AWS stack.

This tweet from former AppEngine dev Brett Slatkin caught my eye:
https://twitter.com/haxor/status/411351463806263296

I still think Dynamo has a ways to catch up in terms ease of use to GAE, but it provides the performance, scalability, and replication like datastore.
I'd always wanted to try ExitMonitor (or equivalent services) from a pure optimization standpoint. So far it hasn't proved out to be worth it, and the annoying factor certainly overpowers the lift it provides.
Thanks for your comment.

What I'm suggesting is that for some people being an active part of shaping the strategic direction of a business as well as its products is an attractive thing.

Not sure what the mechanical errors are but grateful if you can help point them out!
Yes this is a stellar idea!
>no one enjoys a stock market crash.

>Oh, and don't get me started on naked futures/forward positions...

Some of the people that purchase these are plenty happy during a crash. What is it about time-based derivatives that you have a problem with in particular?
I agree with Monkeyget - it takes very little effort or time.

Using the memory palace technique I taught myself to be able to recall the order of a deck of cards. Took only 10 min a day for a couple of weeks. Could have done it in less time by devoting more time per day.
Do you have a few min to chat about your needs? Would love to expose the APIs that make sense for you to automate this.
Is it a game of chance? In the words of W.C. Fields, Not the way I play it, no
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I can confirm that. If Netflix is able to offer as big of a selection as in the US then the mentioned services, then Netflix will quickly take over the market. I know of many people that would even prefer watching in English as dubbing is often not very natural.
I wish this was a link to the actual documentation linked in the blog post rather than this incredibly short post which is nothing but a sales pitch. The idea looks nice, but I couldn't help but laugh at the "Use Safari" warning in the documentation log. Why would I need to use Safari to download a simple file from the Developer Center?
There's a pretty fundamental difference between house-banked games where no player has a long term positive expecation and peer to peer skill games where better players will be able to gain an advantage by outplaying their opponents.

Roulette is a particularly bad example as there is no decision (well, there's one decision on American Roulette tables that is worse than every other) that changes your expectation on the amount wagered.
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Really don't agree with this. Sometimes I work 18 hours a day, sometimes just 5 and then I go home and take a nap. Sometimes I'm remote for a week, sometimes remote just one day a week. I really don't need my work hobbled by having to queue up anything noticeable for official office hours just to lie to my coworkers that I'm not actually working when I am. Tell each new hire what they are responsible for and what they aren't, don't tell your current workers to hide what they are doing and get in their way just to tell it in some weird passive indirect way.
From the top of the about page (http://pressurenet.io/about/) -- "Our mission is to dramatically improve weather and climate forecasting."

How does this have to do with climate? It seems like your time scale doesn't overlap with typical climate models. I guess it feels like a speculative claim (better pressure measurements -> fine-grained model improvements at small temporal scales -> better climate model outcomes).

Also, I wonder if you have a link to a paper or presentation that details how these measurements could fit in with the assimilation models that are used in weather forecasting? I see a link to Cliff Mass' blog (as a whole), but I'm more interested in a specific reference. In particular, I wonder if it's possible to quantify how much a perfectly-accurate ground-level pressure field could constrain upper atmosphere dynamics. Has there been a session at AGU (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/), for example, examining how this could work? Or is it too new for this yet?
So we have a language called Clojure which groups by

(... ([x] x) ([x x] x) ...); where there are complex evaluation rules...

and

[x1 x2 x3], where all x are evaluated

and
[v1 e1 v2 e2 ...], where only e is evaluated, in LET

and

[v1 ... vn], where no v is evaluated, in argument lists

etc., etc.

I somehow fail to see the dramatic improvement over just using parentheses. Instead of learning building basic rules of forming and naming expressions with parentheses, I now learn a few inconsistent rules of forming and expressions with a set of delimiters - which is no problem, but it is not the huge progress you claim.
Yes. Anglo-Saxon culture has permeated Scandinavian culture to a degree you don't find in Western Europe (which also means that most of the population is fluent in spoken English, which is definitely not the case in France, Germany or Spain). You don't find dubbed movies here, unless they are targeted at children.
There's been work on 64-bit Android for a while now. https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:merged+64...
If Netflix just started taking money from German customers while providing them with a terrible service, we would be angry at that.

It makes sense that they might have to get local servers, or at least test the waters before opening the floodgates.
Poker tournaments, especially picking a single one, are not a great way to really illustrate that poker is a game of skill.

A book like Kill Everyone [1] puts forth a pretty reasonable tournament strategy where you try and accumulate a lot of chips early on and then start making risky moves in later rounds based your cards, position, and relative chip count.

Tournaments are played this way because the blinds and antes increase faster than the average chip stack increases. Once you get to the point where you have to make risky moves, you open up the luck angle a lot. The skill comes from knowing the probabilities and making plays with positive expected value over the long run, even if it means eliminating yourself from the tournament due to chance. But in the short-run, a relatively unskilled player could make similar decisions, get lucky and win the risky plays, and do very well.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935396307/
It's not a British thing, it's a standard English thing. I understand it's a difficult language but sometimes we contract words rather than lopping parts off.

It's interesting that you guys chose to keep Physics, did Physic sound too weird? :D
Rentier/patrimonialic income is not labor income.
In which U.S. states can Tesla sell its electric cars?
A huge majority isn't comfortable and completely unused to watching movies in English. I continue to be surprised to find people who dislike it even among my highly educated young^Hmiddle-aged peers. On the other hand there's a sizeable minority who is violently opposed to dubs -- I faintly hope Netflix will monetise on them.