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As has always been the case for quite some time, the 3 Democratic commissioners are in favor of adopting regulations enforcing net neutrality principles (though they often differ with each other and some members of the pro-neutrality community over details of the best way to do so within the constraints of existing law, which the FCC can't change), and the two Republican commissioners think that the FCC should not regulate at all to enforce those principles.

There's more confusion because much of the media coverage is ignoring the fact that the FCC's old order was struck down by the courts as exceeding the FCC's authority, so that the current status quo is that there is no regulation in this area (except the transparency rule from the old order, which the court let stand), so even if the attempt to work within the court order makes the non-discrimination provision of a new order weaker than the old order, it's not a weakening of existing non-discrimination rules, because there are no existing non-discrimination or non-blocking rules.

> Whose on whose side here?

The pro-neutrality side on the FCC is the side that is proposing rules aimed at acheiving neutrality as far as possible under the court-imposed limits and seeking input from the public about how to make those rules most effective. The anti-neutrality side is the side that is opposed to the idea of any kind of rules on this issue.
Most people just want the damn thing to work. Studios, whether the EFF and others like it or not, are not going to be changing their stance on DRM any time soon. It seems that more and more media is being consumed on a subscription basis than is being downloaded (see Spotify, Pandora, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu)... People are caring less about owning the content than having access to it.

Currently with DRM there are a variety of plugins to support it in the browser. You have to download Widevine's plugin, or PlayReady's plugin, or whatever. It's just a better user experience if we really do need DRM to have some standardized DRM that the browsers can implement to make it seamless for the user.

Note that I don't support DRM, I think it's a total waste of time because the movies aren't released to the wild by your average Joe who is downloading movies from Amazon. It just serves to hurt the average user. However I think that if we must have DRM, it should at least be something that is easier and works better for the average user.

To answer your question: the difference is that Mozilla is not going out and promoting DRM. They are being pragmatic and reasonable in the less than ideal situation.
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Similar experience - I had a terrible professor for my LInear Algebra course back in college and Gilbert Strand's lecture videos on MIT open courseware were the only reason I passed that course (actually got a better grade than other math courses).
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As a technical writer, I completely agree with you.

I also wonder if the author knows that you can modify the way track changes shows different types of changes (it sounds like she has everything in balloons, which could indeed be a nightmare with enough changes).

Something like GitHub for documents could potentially solve the collaboration issues, but I couldn't see myself replacing Word anytime soon. Word's formatting capabilities are unparalleled, track changes works well enough for my purposes (and better than anything else I've tried), and the cost and time spent implementing a new solution and training all of my coworkers would be too great.
>It's hard to trust a study that uses a data like this.

If you're only willing to trust data sets that are 100% clean/accurate, then you aren't going to trust many data sets.

Is there any reason to believe that Trulia has systematically biased or inaccurate data?
> GSIs don't really compare here.

The best teaching I found in my upper division experience was from GSIs. So yes, they do, especially since they're the ones that will become professors some day.

> But going to Berkeley gives you access to classes like "Qubits, Quantum Mechanics, and Computers" [1] that are offered almost nowhere else. Those classes can be extraordinarily hard, but extremely rewarding.

But there's a big problem here as well: such courses, that are only offered every once and a while, fill up extraordinarily quickly, which goes back to the issue of lack of funds and too large class sizes. Getting into any preferred upper division course is difficult now. It especially didn't help that I was always behind fellow students in my grade when it came to class registration times because I did not have very much AP credit coming in (my high school didn't teach to APs at all). This meant even some students a year or two below me got registration before me.

Another thing: if you wish to inspire students to take the difficult but rewarding classes that you're speaking about, having a mostly mediocre undergraduate experience does not help at all. If most of my upper division courses were, in my experience, taught poorly, why would I want to take even more difficult quasi-graduate courses, where poor teaching would be more impactful?

In the end, I did choose Berkeley over Carnegie Mellon and other schools. I feel a tiny bit of regret in having done so, only because I feel like a smaller prestigious private school would have offered a better undergraduate experience than Berkeley without sacrificing the awesome opportunities that you're talking about. Then again, there are many things about my experience here that I don't regret at all.
Purpose. If the police can prove or otherwise convince a judge that the purpose of that metal tube is to serve as a gun barrel, then it's a gun barrel. Circumstances would go a long way in these cases. Say, if the barrel is mounted on a gun. If the owner is known to be making a gun. If the owner has no reason whatsoever to explain why he has a precisely rifled metal tube and a bunch of gun parts on him.
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I believe they are claiming that when minimum wage goes up even people who make above that get a cost of living bump. Therefore the fact that minimum hasn't moved means the whole stack above it hasn't moved. I know this is true for my mother. She has maxed out the pay scale at her current employer\position. The only way she will get a raise is if she changes employers or there is a change in minimum wage in which case her current employer will bump the scale by the same amount as a cost of living adjustment.
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Well, the Republicans voted against it because they believe that ANY regulation of broadband is unnecessary and beyond the FCC's power anyway.

The Democrats believe that the federal government, acting through the FCC, should regulate broadband.

Both sides seem to accept the idea of an "internet fast-lane," they just disagree about how to get there. None of them are on our side.
To be clear, the Democrat appointees are the ones pushing for a return to net neutrality.
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> campaign vowing to do this

Well, the whole council of Palo Alto did, and the voters went NIMBY on them

http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/palo-alto-one-ups-san-franci...
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Sorry apparently that is not the case, I am an idiot, I was thinking of something else.
Fair enough. If your role is to enforce policy, it makes sense. When I examined this further, I find the reaction of the HN community more interesting than the article itself.

I've been making a dive into Ken Wilber's arguments about modernity, and the differentiation and disassociation of the various value spheres (science, art, and morals). The issues that this news item brings up a lot of interesting and real-world issues to test Wilber's arguments against.

The vast majority of the news items here focuses on the science sphere, or rather, the technology. Science is values-free. Is technology also values-free? I used to think it is values free. If you make a piece of tech, the tech itself is no good or bad, the people who use them are good or bad. But is it really? I remember reading Kevin Kelly's blog post on that, "What technology wants". It disturbed me at that time because it was a change in some deeply-held world view. I also thought about it some more. Unlike scientific discoveries, technology is inherently in the social domain. There are technologies for which we don't have clear scientific theories on, and yet people use them. Technology is tightly coupled to people, and you cannot disassociate the science behind the technology and the uses and moral/ethical implications of that technology.

Ken Wilber's argument is that, while differentiation of the value spheres leads to what he calls the dignity of modernity, the disassociation of the value spheres leads to what he calls the disaster of modernity. And I think technology is a great place to examine how the various value spheres comes together. It would be irresponsible of the HN community not to consider these together.

One of the values at play here in this article is, are these Tesla memorial folks making a fair request from the Elon Musk, or are they opportunists? There are many other articles and stories similar to this, so is this interesting? The issues involved are in the moral sphere. There are no ambiguous uses of technology. Should the community even concern itself with this at all?

If this is uninteresting or irrelevant to the the HN community, is that a form of differentiation or is that a form of disassociation? Further, looking at the people commenting on this, people on HN are inclined to think that the Oatmeal plea is somehow violating dignity, that there is already a proper differentiation without disassociation. On the other hand, my reading of the Oatmeal plea is that, despite explicit statements saying they are not trying to force Elon Musk into doing anything, it's essentially saying that there is a disassociation, and therefore, part of the disaster of modernity.

So while this story may not fit in with HN policy, or with the community values, the story and the reactions to it brings up a lot of interesting things for me.
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There is no logic to it. If you raise the minimum wage (not necessarily a bad thing, but in terms of the effect on housing affordability...), with housing supply remaining fixed, it would either do nothing (people making FAR more than minimum wage already cannot afford a home) or demand would simply increase and prices would go up further.
I can think of times where I can use this to see experiments my competitors are running!
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I applaud the thought, but then they have to have an estimate of how long the estimate will take... which often ends-up wrong.
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Powerpoints or copying equations on the blackboard are the best way to make sure students don't attend lectures/doze off in class.
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>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.

That's not necessarily true. There are a plethora of available mills that require a similar skill-set for producing finished working parts. More importantly, the parts you pull off these machines could be used hundreds or thousands of times. I've listed a couple from quick google searches below.

http://www.taigtools.com/cmill.html
http://www.pocketnc.com/products/

I was born and raised in a country where firearms are completely illegal. Even there, you would be able to build a higher quality zipgun (which is effectively what a Liberator is) from parts available in a hardware store. The ammunition becomes the most regulated portion of the weapon in either case, and 3D printing as a tech does nothing to change that.
Would you mind substantiating why asynchronous code, successful in plenty of places and pretty much every new environment you're likely to run into, is so dogmatically the wrong approach?
>I think this is one example of the free market working well.

Well Fleming (who discovered antibiotics) was working for the (British) government, so if the above is in any way an indication of "the free market working well", then his extremely more important results were an example of public sponsored research working great.
My MailChimp account actually got banned due to limitations in their AB testing framework.

At the time at least, they had no proper way to segment cohorts, meaning that in order to control for things like length or circumstances of subscription, we had to do multiple smaller sends to lists that were subsets of our subscribers and aggregate the testing data afterwards, rather than being able to do just one send. On top of this creating a lot of extra work setting up the sends, it skews the statistics on things like SPAM complaints.

What caused the account to be banned was that some of the smaller lists would occasionally see spikes in SPAM complaints. These spikes were well within statistical norms. However, because MailChimp will ban an account that breaks a threshold of complaints for a single list in a single sending, we triggered the ban, despite the list and send as a whole, being well within their limits. Had the AB testing framework been built properly, to account for cohorts, we would have had no issues.

I tried to speak with their CS to explain the issue, but it seems either they could not understand or weren't interested. All of this, after multiple communications with their tech team about the limitations of their frameworks and how they could improve their AB testing.

If you are looking to do anything beyond incredibly basic AB Testing, I would look elsewhere. We ended up at SendGrid, though my recent issues with their billing prevent me from recommending them either.
I suspect it would. Something like this in practice would need some kind of deterrent for that and other scamming.
I've worked at places that have acronym monikers and complicated hiring processes to gauge "culture fit." Mostly I find them tedious and time-consuming, so naturally I'm not a good fit.

But hey, whatever works for them...
> > How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript

> I'm pretty sure this is directly opposed to reality.

"Mistakes were made." - Douglas Crockford
It's a lie. It's not end-to-end encryption. But nice try, Google.
We're actually working on static compilation right now, so that you'll be able to compile Julia code to a small binary and distribute it without the runtime. It should be completed over the summer.
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Varmint rifles are not legacy firearms? Or do farmers get a special license for buying varmint rifles?
"If a network operator slowed the speed of service below that which the consumer bought, it would be commercially unreasonable and therefore prohibited," Wheeler said.

I find this quote very interesting. Currently the trend seems to be that the sticker speed on a connection bears little resemblance to the actual speed. I wonder if he has a plan to change that or if this was just an offhand remark.
What on earth are you going on about?

What exactly was I obtuse about? And for that matter, what is ambiguous about calling me an "ass"? Especially in the tone the OP used it, which was as some sort of insult because he disagreed with my opinion.
> Assuming the plan were to be approved, and given that the FCC is an American government organisation, are there any implications for those in other countries?

If its approved, then there would be limits -- which do not currently exist -- on what USP based ISPs could do to discriminate between content sources in providing access to consumers. This includes, among others, content sources in foreign countries. So it certainly has implications for foreign content providers, but probably less for foreign consumers.

> Also, how can an American government organisation consider paid priority on The (global) Internet?

Its not. Its considering limiting what US broadband providers can do.
I've uploaded what I had to https://github.com/no2weblog/no2weblog/ , but it needs a bit of work to return it to a useful state.. at the very least, updating to most recent versions of the cached libraries.

One of the major complaints in the rejection mail (included) was that the add-on bundled copies of all those libraries. So it seems reworking it to have a dynamic list of URLs, and fetching these once on first boot would go some way towards solving that. Unfortunately this further complicates how the redirection works, so I never got around to investigating it
"old Nazi elites?" It's my understanding that the Nazis were "young turks" in their day who usurped power from an older military class elite. Of course, internal politics in the face of being on the losing side of a war and occupation by foreign powers probably resulted in the subsumption/unification of those groups into one after WWII.

I don't feel easy with the vilification of patriotism. Such feelings grow from the natural instincts of people who feel affinity with those from their own culture and who wish to defend their homes. Any harm done happens when sociopaths exploit such feelings for their own cruel ambitions.

(Yes, some xenophobia is also involved, which must be counteracted through education.)
Well, I'm not sure what the rate is. But I know that it supplies a very valuable service, and other things in the space are very lucrative. I imagine that part of the lucrativity is the value that it provides to businesses.
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Wow, yeah, that's way different. I'd be very curious to see how it's performing in comparison. If you're gonna test, you might as well test big I suppose!
our legal system and much of our social culture are based upon the idea that a person is entirely responsible for the contents, structure and acuity of their own mind. this goes back to descartes, and is a prevailing theme throughout western thought. given what we now know about people and the way their minds work, i'm hoping we revisit these false beliefs. criminal recidisivm is a huge problem, and my guess is because the penitentiary model was based upon the idea that isolating someone and giving them time to think would cause them to reflect on the error of their ways. we can see now that it just warps a person's mind.

i went through a long period of social isolation where my friends and even family pulled away from me because i was acting erratically. this erratic, bizzare behavior was _caused_ by feeling lonely and isolated, and further isolation made the problem worse. my guess is this is what happens to most drug addicts. they feel lonely or hurt, and find temporary comfort in drugs. their friends and family worry about them and stay away, for fear of making the problem worse and because being around unhappy people can make you unhappy. they sufferers find the drug using community accepting and welcoming - but only on a superficial level. you can light up a joint outside a bar in SF and instantly find yourself having 'new friends' who will disappear when the joint is gone. the desire for solace from pain and the longing for intimacy worsens the dependence on the drug and pushes loved ones further away.

i understand why people pull away - they are afraid. i get that. but we used to fear anyone who was sick and put them in special colonies becuase we didn't understand sickness and thought it was demonic possession or evil at work. i'd suggest that the modern understanding of "psychosis as illness" is just as misinformed. we're using the best model we have of the day - when people don't work properly, they are ill - but that categorization implies that the problem lies in the person themselves, and not in the environmental conditions they find themselves in. if EVERYONE goes crazy when they're totally alone for too long, then it's not accurate to say that 'crazy' symptoms are signs of 'mental illness.'

it'd be as if we diagnosed people with 'runny nose' syndrome.

see more thoughts here:

http://markpneyer.me/2014/04/02/the-way-we-understand-mental...
IANAL. Depends on what you're going to do with the email address (and the other data you collect about the user). If it's send them commercial email, the critical question is whether or not using the app constitutes an "opt-in" in all jurisdictions. I think you have a good case under US CAN-SPAM Act, as implied consent under the guise of a "business relationship" is in play, but it's much less clear under the Canadian CASL rules, as you have to get explicit consent to receive CEM (implied and transitive consent isn't enough). And EU privacy rules are even more complicated, and cover more than just data collection for sending CEM. We use outside counsels in each jurisdiction when we need to answer questions like this.

P.S. - FWIW, I'm with valarauca1...nothing quite says "do not want" like an app (even worse, a website) that requires me to enter my email before doing anything.
A non-easily-dismissable (only tiny x; clicking outside, hitting escape does not close it) giant fullscreen modal asking for email address ten seconds after I start reading? Fuck right off.

Pops up again scrolling further too. Wtf?
Thanks, I'll check it out.

(15 minutes later)

Okay, this is great. It just works. Thanks for the recommendation.
Mandrill is transactional, so would be a no go for sending a message to 3500 clients. Mailchimp and mandrill don't overlap.
Jersey is very simple to get running, but it has pretty big drawbacks: there's not much you can do with it. Dropwizard and similar ameliorate this a bit, but compared to Play (which does have onboarding challenges) you have a long road to hoe to go from Jersey to a nontrivial app.

And, personally, the problems don't end there--I think I'd quit programming before going back to any Java-based hat-on-top-of-JDBC. Scala's Anorm/Slick have given me enough of the "there's a better way" to make going back really unpalatable.
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Take a look at http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0... and the included video.

The first patient did have a recurrence of a single tumor that was treated locally, with her marrow remaining completely clear. The second patient had his marrow cleared and all but a couple tumors in his legs resolved. And the virus penetrated those tumors and allowed full 3D mapping of them due to tags attached to the virus itself (it sounded like a thyroid produced chemical was attached to the virus as a tag). The implication was that because of the detailed mapping that it would be possible to resolve/remove the remaining tumors in the leg muscles of the second patient.

So, the answer is quite a bit much more complex than 50%. Both patients cleared the myeloma from their marrow. Almost all (numerous!) tumors were removed, from a single treatment in each patient.

Edit: Here's a link to the editorial article that accompanies the paper: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...
If the government blocks fair competition in a market [through controlling who can provide last mile connections by right of way], they need to provide regulation to enforce fairness on the other end [those that provide last mile connections can't pick and choose whose packets they carry and at what QoS].

There used to be counterweights involved [e.g. Comcast had to play ball fairly] which effectively forced neutrality. Netflix, for instance, wasn't a 'problem' back in 2007 for the ISPs. We didn't have the ISPs pulling QoS BS like this in the 90s because people could and would switch providers. They can't now unless they want to go back to using dialup.