skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a choice, known but flawed vs potentially better or worse. It's already there in many places, the world is complex and everything moves from imperfect state to another imperfect state. To me the value is that it's obviously the right direction. Mechanical learning in mathematics is very very damaging for kids that can't click right away, and even those who get the picture may fail later on by abstracting at the syntactical level instead of the conceptual one.
Printing 3-D guns is pretty useless unless one can also print 3-D bullets.

(for the record I would be a bit leery of operating a device used to explode gunpowder in a chamber and force a projectile down a tube at high velocity that had been printed from plastic on a hobbyists printer...)
which contest?
Unless you want to host a site for peanuts on S3...
> Why in the earth there is a need for slow/fast lanes

Because once the middleman has established himself as a monopoly and everybody has to go through him with no alternative, he can make bank by having everybody pay more.

> and data caps?

Lets the ISP oversubscribe even more and extract even more money out of the system without providing any additional value whatsoever.
> Why in the earth there is a need for slow/fast lanes and data caps?

It's just an alternate way of pricing the service. You could ask similar questions about a lot of industries:

- Why does Github charge the way it does and not just price the service per megabyte of data stored or per commit, etc?

- Why do fast food restaurants offer free soft drink refills for $0.99 but not offer a single fill for $0.50?

- Why do residential bandwidth providers not offer a service with guaranteed gamer-quality low latency?

- Why do restaurants not offer a discount for customers who decline the free bread and water?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_market
Just change the refresh to 24Hz. Many modern video players will do this for you when you initiate full-screen mode.
By the way, the core and base modules (and in theory, all community modules, since they're derived works) of Odoo are Free Software (APGL) and available on Github: https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Disclaimer: I work for a company that implements solutions based on Odoo for small and large companies. So yeah, it's possible to make a living working on FOSS, if anyone still doubted it :)
Don't allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request.

It's (relatively) cheap for Netflix or their CDN partners to connect their content-serving systems to a few dozen "meet me" rooms where it's "easy" for Comcast to hook as many wires up as necessary to receive the requested data into their network at an acceptable rate. That's all Netflix or their CDNs need to worry about. And so it's (relatively) cheap for them to scale the amount of data they serve as their customer base, average viewing time and stream quality grow.

But Comcast has to deliver all this data to tens of millions of customers spread out around the nation. While it would be nice if their networks were sufficiently provisioned to serve, say, half their customers 20Mbit/sec continuously during primetime, that is just not the network they have today. It will always be cheaper for Netflix to turn up the spigot than for Comcast to build out its infrastructure. Should "network neutrality" force Comcast to spend billions every time Netflix doubles its streaming rate?
No argument there. My post said "Typically how this is supposed to work". It doesn't mean TVTropes works like that.

Their current terms of use also have no bearing on their legal right to change the licensing from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC-SA. That depends upon what terms of use they had in place before the conversion.

Their current terms are: if you contribute, we own (the copyright to) all your contributions. That's not only unfair to users, it may even be illegal because in a contract you have to provide some compensation in exchange for the release of copyright.
Academic preparation Caltech says you should have [1]:

4 years of math (including calculus)
1 year of physics
1 year of chemistry
3 years of English (4 years recommended)
1 year of U.S. history/government (waived for international students)

They really want you to have calculus. From the admissions FAQ [3]:

What if my high school does not offer Advanced
Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB)
courses?

Many schools don't offer the AP or IB curricula.
Regardless of the curriculum your school offers, we
expect that you will have challenged yourself with
demanding courses. The Caltech curriculum will require
that you have completed rigorous courses in calculus and
in physics. If these courses are not available in your
high school, we strongly encourage you to take them at a
local college or online.

Here is Caltech's required first year math course [2]:

--------- BEGIN QUOTE -----------

Ma 1 abc. Calculus of One and Several Variables and Linear Algebra. 9 units (4-0-5); first, second, third terms. Prerequisites: high-school algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Special section of Ma 1 a, 12 units (5-0-7). Review of calculus. Complex numbers, Taylor polynomials, infinite series. Comprehensive presentation of linear algebra. Derivatives of vector functions, multiple integrals, line and path integrals, theorems of Green and Stokes. Ma 1 b, c is divided into two tracks: analytic and practical. Students will be given information helping them to choose a track at the end of the fall term. There will be a special section or sections of Ma 1 a for those students who, because of their background, require more calculus than is provided in the regular Ma 1 a sequence. These students will not learn series in Ma 1 a and will be required to take Ma 1 d. Instructors: Marx, Katz, Mantovan, Aschbacher, Ni, Kechris.

Ma 1 d. Series. 5 units (2-0-3); second term only. Prerequisite: special section of Ma 1 a. This is a course intended for those students in the special calculus-intensive sections of Ma 1 a who did not have complex numbers, Taylor polynomials, and infinite series during Ma 1 a. It may not be taken by students who have passed the regular Ma 1 a. Instructor: Staff.

---------- END QUOTE ----------

Note: don't freak out over the unit numbers. Caltech's unit scale is different from that of most other schools. 1 unit corresponds to 1 hour of work per week, so a 9 unit course is one that should take 9 hours a week. The numbers in parentheses, such as (4-0-5) break it down by number of hours of lecture, number of hours of lab, and number of hours of outside preparation and homework.

Ma1 does start with a "review of calculus", so you could probably do it without having had calculus in high school if you were really good, but it would be rough.

[1] http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/applying/freshman

[2] http://catalog.caltech.edu/courses/listing/ma.html

[3] http://admissions.caltech.edu/uploads/File/general/FAQapplyi...
> Then contribute to the development of a cross-platform environment that allows DRM.

That's exactly what they did here.

> Push Microsoft to get Silverlight onto every platform.

Why do that when you can get every company to adopt DRM with the pressure of browser competition?

> This does not need to be under the w3c's bailiwick.

Agreed, just pointing out how this benefits Netflix by offloading a development cost onto browser vendors.
If you intend to use your work commercially, you should be aware of licenses when you select what tools you are building on top of, or you may get bitten later.

You may also wish to license your own work for others to use. If you have an opinion about when others should be allowed to use your work, licensing can be important for you to achieve that.

You may not need to be aware if you have a legal department who do this for you, for example (or if you are willing to take the risk of legal action later).
I think if people would get away from this nebulous message that mostly seems to benefit for-profit companies, and focus on issues like ensuring access for non-profits and educational organizations, that there would be a lot more bi-partisan traction. Right now, the optics, for those not invested in the issue, come across as being mostly about Comcast and Netflix bickering over profits.
Why are you so afraid of getting scooped? You put your data out there on a repository. A third party has managed time stamps on your data. Jerkface 'scoops' you. Then you complain, prove that you didn't steal it from me. They don't have their data in a public repository. They lose.
Being successful in personal life is an achievement in my books.
ISPs would like to charge a fee from services that produce a huge amount of traffic, to carry that traffic to their consumers with a higher priority rather than mixing it in with all the other content. (Some people worry that ISPs would throttle high-bandwidth content lower than other content to force the services to pay to avoid degredation.)

Note that large ISPs have done this for years, via in-ISP CDNs: if you have enough content, it makes sense to have copies of it to serve up directly from the ISP's network.

The primary concern I've seen raised by network neutrality advocates: because many people have very few available high-speed ISP choices (one cable provider and sometimes one fiber provider, since most people can't get competitive DSL), it may not work to just say "pick another ISP if you don't like what yours does". (That assumes enough ISP customers care enough to switch ISPs over this issue.)
The investment in Obama by tech luminaries must be a huge disappointment.
Why is the default QoS of residential broadband suddenly deemed sacred?

FWIW: I'd prefer guaranteed super-fast DNS and guaranteed low latency, but I don't care too much whether content from Disney happens to download 10x faster than content from Youtube.
peak internet:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/12/peak-internet.h...
many people say "people who disagree with me (just) don't understand," but in reality the people who disagree often have just as good an understanding of the basic facts

I have yet to meet anyone who disagrees with the theory of evolution through natural selection who actually understands it well. Security, privacy, and cryptography are complicated subjects where the most potent effects are often epiphenomena. I don't have studies to back me up, but my impression from talking to most non technical people, is that they have only a hazy idea of what is involved.
I fell in love with Doctorow's works through Pirate Cinema and Makers. Please grab one of his books when you have time; its worth the read.
Hopes of a Generation Ride on Indian Vote
Comcast: Video streaming services must pay 40x the base cost, or suffer from a data cap.

Amazon: OK, we'll sign a 4 year contract for 30x the base cost.

Comcast: Great

Year 5 comes around, Amazon wants a discount. Comcast refuses. Comcast then blocks all Amazon IP Address traffic until they reach a deal.

Comcast: Customers, you cannot access Amazon video on our service, but here's a $5 coupon to our own video on demand service
pbpaste and pbcopy can specify multiple clipboards; one very handy thing I do is

"cmd-a" "cmd-c" (copy all)

double click on a word I'm looking for, "cmd-e" to enter it into the find clipboard

'pbpaste | fgrep --color `pbpaste -pboard find`'

I have that aliased as 'pbg'.
Peak Internet
That's a good start, but it's not reason to implicitly trust that it can't break anything.
Someone please fix text-editing software
It's not like they said "proprietary software is evil". They say "[issues] inevitably arise when proprietary software is installed on a user's computer." That's a very mild statement that's hard to argue with.

>not everything has or needs to be open source to treat its users ethically

The FSF's entire raison d'etre is to disagree with that statement, and they do so eloquently. If you have a different view, that's fine, but you need to engage with their arguments a bit more deeply than just contradicting the premise.

>some people do need to make a living from their software

People make a living selling all sorts of things. This has no bearing on the ethics of doing so.

>most people are completely fine with having the ability to install what they want

...which is typically the first thing to go in closed ecosystems.

>a single, ironically restricted set of freedoms

Freedom of the sort we're talking about here is zero-sum. Your freedom to swing your fist ends at my face. Would you call that "ironically restricted"? The FSF argues not unreasonably that your freedom to run private software ends at other people's computers.
I work for Mozilla. I suppose you have evidence I do not.
Docker is used by a non-trivial part of the Ruby community? I find that hard to believe.
It doesn't seem efficient, or very useful to aid understanding.

It replaces one operation by many operations. It trades one abstraction by increasing the memory requirements (external memory, in the paper).

At least I had finished the subtraction in my head way before I was reading halfway through the 'new' method, in all examples.

It would be useful if they students could each design their own favourite subtraction algorithm, and compare notes with fellow students, instead of having to memorize 3 or 4 cookie cutter algorithms.
I've considered working with OpenERP and looking at becoming a consultant in it (ERP is $$$ and very useful), but last I checked the OpenERP site (2? years ago?), the demo site was half broken. Glad to see it's gotten a refresh and a genuinely web 2.0 name. ;)

Apparently the devs have churned it into a SaaS offering, which is also very cool.
You need to think like an evil cable monopoly. It's a great thing because then they can charge consumers for their broadband service and charge content companies as well. A whole new source of revenue. And they can keep on jacking up the prices whenever they want, because they've got the customers of the content company hostage and can ransom them for nearly any level that would still let the content company turn a small profit.
MoD’s "quantum compass" offers potential to replace GPS
Failed, it seems, to work on .uqconnect.edu.au addresses. I don't know if you have to use .uq.edu.au or if that wouldn't also work.

Sucks, I was looking forward to this.
Brian Greene and Amir D. Aczel debate parallel universes (2011)
Then ISPs should stop claiming speeds they can't deliver.
I think linking to the Wikipedia page is perfectly reasonable too. I just don't see what's unreasonable about citing the people who wrote the stuff you're using.
The difference is that a 3d printer is almost at the domestic use stage and takes up far less space than a CNC Mill and lathe.

Now combine that with countries such as the UK where gun ownership is highly restricted and you can understand how revolutionary it really is.

The article talks of only needing to make a lower receiver and buying the remaining parts legally. This applies mainly to the USA, you cannot buy those parts in the UK. The ability to print an entire gun is revolutionary it is just that you are viewing it from a US perspective only and this is the sort of technology that crosses international boundaries easily and quickly.
Virtualizing Wide Area Networks – Redefining Enterprise WAN
Sorry, but what kind of fluff question is this? Have you even thought about your own question? Your question implies time travel and it comes with all sorts of paradoxes. It's like asking "Can you rewind the tape?". Yes, you can. But, can you watch the movie again in the exact same manner you did earlier?

Given he gets warped back in time and he looses all awareness of his situation, he will probably do it again (there is no "can" because he didn't do it in the future, yet). If he's warped back in time with his knowledge right now, he cannot possibly relive his same life because his state will not be the same as it was back then.

Which brings me to my question and remark: what exactly is the point of this question other than pg-backpatting?
Could the JOBS Act be in Jeopardy?
You forgot about Comcast. :)
> I have a measure in mind that won't harm consumers. Don't allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request. (Gee that sounds a lot like net neutrality.)

So you'd ban the large number of existing in-ISP CDNs and CDN/ISP partnerships, as well? (e.g. YouTube or Akamai mirroring content to servers directly on an ISP's network, to improve bandwidth and latency for that ISP's customers?)

Or, for that matter, you'd stop an ISP from offering a Debian mirror?
I think it's a reference to the DRM thing from yesterday. Honestly it was more of Mozilla capitulating to the DRM gods, it's not like they're out there pounding the pavement for DRM.
> I'm confused by this headline (and a bit by the proceeding).

That's because the headline is an outright lie.

> After watching the FCC hearing, it seemed like all of the people who were "for" open internet, and spoke of it from the consumer level (including Wheeler) voted for the proposal.

Exactly. After the old Open Internet order was recently struck down as exceeding the FCCs authority, there are no rules limiting paid prioritization (or any of the other anti-neutrality practices the old Open Internet order addressed.) The current NPRM is both a concrete proposal and a call for public comment on alternative approaches to restore limits on anti-neutral activities by broadband providers. It is not a proposal to allow paid prioritization -- no proposal is necessary for that, as it is currently allowed without restriction. To the extent that it addresses paid prioritization, it is a proposal to restrict it.

> The commissioners that said the FCC didn't have jurisdiction to regulate and to leave the market alone, voted against the proposal.

Right.

> Isn't it the case that if they had voted against this, that we would have been in the exact same boat we are in now

No, if they voted against it, there wouldn't be an active rulemaking aimed at limiting the practice with a defined timeline, a proposal on the table, and a request for public comments on that proposal and specific alternatives. In either case, there are no actual rules in place, since this isn't actual rules, its a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking", a formal call for public comment centered around concrete proposals and specified alternatives.
This is fine for learning about Bitcoin, but don't use this is in production. No matter how secure you think you are, someone can likely get into your server and serve their own JavaScript (making your clients send all their money and/or keys). Also, this tutorial uses a Bitcoin centralized service to communicate with the network, and you have to trust that they won't feed you false information/withhold transactions/perform malleability attacks.
"I Didn’t Build Relationships With Enough Tech Journalists Before Our Launch"

So true. It's also the reason why it's easier for startups based in San Francisco to get covered.
The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks: Popforms book review
By agreeing to incorporate DRM in the browser Mozilla is, according to that comment, agreeing to let the problem get worse.

One of the characteristics of cable TV is, precisely, that you don't get access to the content if you don't pay. DRM is one way of achieving this, and Mozilla in this case is accepting that without even a struggle.

If I understood the parent comment correctly, that is.
Undecimber
Basically the answer to this is yes. If Comcast spends all of this money to upgrade their network and the cost to the end user goes up for the better service, then there are really no problems here. That's basically how a market should work. That plan would actually encourage them to upgrade their networks over time and install things like fiber to meet the new demands of customers, instead of providing poor service like they do now.
Microsoft is trying to compete in a very crowded space, so if the preview product sucks I doubt developers would be willing to try the production version. They should be making their preview a pain-free process that generates positive PR, rather than cutting off a site when the plan gets overutilized.
The reprap is a 3d printer that can print the parts required to build another reprap. Banning 3d printers would never work.
We truly have the best government money can buy.
More information on jump and mark available at: http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/08/16/quickly-navigate-your-f...

Basically there is a jump oh-my-zsh plugin, but be sure to add the auto-completion mentioned in this article too...
I may be an outlier; it takes me about two weeks of not interacting with another person to feel the least bit lonely.
You could argue that most of the works available on Netflix are pretty superfluous, but this isn't really a reason to dismiss the reasons not to use DRM. For one, the issue extends to much more media than just video. Ebook DRM is way more scary.

In the case of any DRM though, it just so happens that not using their services is probably the only reasonable solution. So you're spot-on in that regard. The very existence of DRM is proof that these companies are on life support anyway.
it's also discrimination against users based on ... socioeconomic status.

That's a pretty shakey one. Are people who can't afford Porsches being discriminated against based on their socioeconomic status?
Here's hoping that a viable non-Mozilla group emerges that will offer a DRM-disabled version of Firefox, one that is addon-compatible and which pulls in all non-DRM-related upstream changes. Mozilla has lost my support over this decision.
EME
Look at the S&P 500. The CEOs education is as follows 97% have a college degree and 67% have a further degree. Most common degrees are engineering. Stanford and Harvard have 4% of the CEO population in the 500. I will also include Zuckerburg/Gates in this stat even if he dropped out he still went!

There's a lot to be said about what the makeup of the S&P 500 CEO pool represents, and what it means to look at their educational background, etc.

BUT... It's also important to remember that setting the bar for "success as an entrepreneur" at anything involving the S&P 500 may be a bit excessive. Oh, don't get me wrong... many entrepreneurs (especially tech entrepreneurs, which probably includes a lot of the population here) may have goals to build a publicly traded company, be a member of the S&P 500, or the DJIA or whatever. But not all entrepreneurs fit that mold.

Depending on where you start out and what your goals are, building a company that brings in just enough income to pay you and your employees, while allowing you to avoid being outdoors doing backbreaking manual labor in 95 degree heat, may qualify as "success". Heck, for a tradesman of some sort (plumber, electrician, etc.) it may be enough to have a business that just keeps the lights on for him and his family, while leaving enough to put some money in a college fund for the kids.

However, please do not be so dismissive of IQ or social environment or education. All of these things play a key role.

They can, but don't overstate their importance either. I've seen with my own eyes the value of sheer perseverance, coupled with great work ethic, and how that allowed a man with almost no formal education, and a poor, rural, "lower class" upbringing to become what I consider a "successful entrepreneur". I don't know my dad's IQ though, so I won't comment on that bit.
> Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.

Imagine you build a road. Who benefits? Drivers, obviously. But also store owners, because customers can now get to their stores. It's equally legitimate to charge the driver, via tolls, or the stores they drive to (via special tax districts). If you charge only the driver, you tap into only part of the net positive value created by the road.

This basic premise applies to cables and other infrastructure as much as it does to roads.