skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make me wrong about science, it's just that by then it will be will not have the data to figure out what happened. You can't see the other galaxies anymore. That's not a problem with science, that's a problem of insufficient data. It may be the case an intelligent could figure things out by looking at the evidence available to them within their finite, expanded universe. Space will still be expanding, there will still be red shift, there will still be gravity. And science will be the tool to use to figure this stuff out.
Typically a cable company provided cable modem is a NAT box rather rather than having a dedicated IP. It's IP within the cable company's backbone gets encoded/decoded to an IP:port where it exits their network so that all their customers can be serviced by a static block of IP addresses (of which there are essentially no more IPv4.

To share the cable modem device, the device just needs to switch packets internally.
But 50 years is nothing at all. Consider Egyptian mythology, which evolved to reflect changing political realities across hundreds and hundreds of years. Consider the relatively minor knight of King Arthur, Sir Kay. Why did Arthur have a knight by that name? Because originally Cai was a great Welsh hero. That kind of thing is absolutely the norm for any mythology -- Marvel is a fairly piddling effort by comparison. Or if you want to go by number of official published works... consider any modern fanfiction website.
That is the part I like the least of the job, or rather actually having to deal with the outcome of the bad news. But the good news are also a constant stream, which makes up for it all.
> This is quite common in Europe.

The fuck it is.
IANAL either, but easements[1] may apply here, depending on how broadband cable is classified.

And I'm not remembering the terms for this, but I've heard there are situations where your neighbor building his fence on your land and you not taking action within a certain amount of time would cede that part of your land to your neighbor.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement
At the end of the day, society-at-large has a choice about what kind of value judgments it applies to whom in our society. Around the time of Eichgate, one of the most popular sentiments was that a commitment to a political freedom of speech did not guarantee freedom from the social fallout of said speech. The detractors were absolutely right -- you can say what you like, but the social consequences of your speech are yours to reap.

That said, I wonder if the mass-mob of people calling for Eich's head really understood the full reprecussions of what their witchhunt meant for how leaders are selected in the tech world, if you're thinking about the general question of "which individuals should be qualified as leaders in major tech companies?" I personally suspect society is much worse off by applying social justice criteria to unrelated leadership positions that are attempting to improve a completely separate area of society (technical transmission of data across a standard-driven medium).

Given our current fetishization of "majority-is-right" morality in the US, however, I suspect this subtelty is lost on most of the mob.
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You can just install your own router too. You can get a Motorola cable modem that works just as fine as whatever they put in there I imagine. I have my own modem.

The only time having my own modem has ever been an issue is when I called customer service about network issues. They wanted to blame my modem, but that's never been the actual problem (last time it was a bad cable outside the house).

You could also shield that thing so it can't effectively broadcast wifi and connect your own wifi router with a cable.
The following two sets of slides describe the format and in what ways it shall be better than deflate:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2013O...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2013O...

EDIT: They are from October 2013, so they may be inaccurate.
"If you're an engineer, then your job is to code... Leave the strategy to the generals..."

That sounds like advice from a relatively inexperienced developer. As a senior developer, product managers and my own management come to me to ask for my advice, not just to tell me what code to write. Having worked on the product for a number of years, I remember why we designed things a particular way, how previous attempts to do something failed, etc. If I see us headed down a path that seems to lead to a bad outcome for the company or its customers, it's my duty to the company to raise my concerns and try to improve the strategy.

The original article that's being responded to[1] says:

"Your job is to solve problems (and sometimes that involves coding)."

That seems to be a reasonable statement. If I can make a problem disappear by discovering a solution that doesn't require coding, why should I write code? If I can make a convincing case that the solution to a particular problem is better to implement in a different part of the product that somebody else is responsible for, it's my responsibility to do so.

The original article goes on to say:

"Knowing your way around technology, fixing organizations' problems using those skills, and being able to explain the benefits is a rare combination that makes you much more valuable than being just a technical expert. You can establish a bond with bosses and clients that few other specialists can..."

This is also true in my experience. Part of the job of a developer is dealing with non-technical people (managers, customers, etc.), and there are skills required for this that go beyond just being good at writing code.

[1] http://www.andresosinski.com/you-job-is-not-to-code.html
Parent comment provided a source.
Why would you be face book friends with some one who would speak that way about your children? If the person is harassing you online that's one thing. But if you're subscribed to them online that's another thing.
Biking even four miles to work isn't feasible in a lot of weather.
You can have an admissions test that is meritocratic or one that fits your preferred racial demographics, but not both. Because no two demographic groups are exactly equal.
Can you tap the wire between that public hotspot and the wall and serve those people upside down cat images (and snoop all their clear text traffic)?
Fascinating to see how originally the project was envisioned with new physical transmission hardware, but at a price that turned out to be impractical. However, software-defined radios enabled the project to be carried out for far less money, with only minor retrofits to Arecibo. I wonder what other applications are hiding out there.
It's silly, or at least naive, to be shocked by an educated person who smokes, or abuses alcohol, or abuses hard drugs, or is overweight, or doesn't get enough sleep, or does any number of other unhealthy practices. Being educated has very little to do with any of those things.
You can treat people equally without treating them well. Yes they may have been harmed by the no poaching agreements but if gay, straight, black, brown and white were otherwise treated well and equally that is something that I could easily imagine someone could feel proud of.

The crimes in the listed article don't seem that terrible, the exceptional thing about them compared to other companies seems to be the direct CEO involvement and brazen lack of subtlety and subterfuge with which they were done. I'm not saying that these actions were right or that they shouldn't be punished but if you feel that way about Apple I wonder what your thoughts are about Samsung.

Out of interest what tech companies do meet your ethical requirements?
> Would you be ok if a car manufacturer put a smaller motor in a car you bought because car reviews said "it had great ability to get up and hold freeway speeds"? Is it ok as long as they didn't sell based on horse power?

If they lie about the engine performance, then its wrong. If they change the components underlying (admittedly weasel-wording-marketing-speak) marketing phrasing, then it's not as clearly wrong.

>Or maybe it's handling: reviewers say it corners great, but then you find the suspension has been massively downgraded. How do you even advertise a spec'ed suspension?
This is why specifications, and often component information, exists.

I'm not saying that these companies are in the right, or that this doesn't happen. It clearly does, in some cases. In other cases, it's probably due to the fact that the manufacturing supply chain is more complex than most people understand.

In all cases, it's not a great idea to paint with a broad brush. Especially when creating somewhat comparable analogies than are also pretty general.
It's racist in the same ways that SAT, IQ, and PISA tests are racist - Asians and whites do better than other groups.
It is more likely that you are down voted as you went on a rant about fat to a parent who was talking about consumer tastes I the 80s and 90s. It would feel that both these replies are likely noted as off topic to the general conversation going on here.
How about fermented grape juice or fermented grain?
Eich was already in a position of technical leadership at Mozilla with minimal controversy. Significant controversy only arose when he transferred to a position with the authority to affect employment policy and the ability to represent the company in public relations.

Mozilla lives and dies on its ability to attract and retain the best talent. Eich as CEO was only useful if he could support that end.
A better question is why has there been so much obsession over female characters in the past 2 years? Not having a female character in your game is not sexist. Its dumb to claim otherwise.
What would you consider a viable alternative to "majority-is-right" morality? I've always personally taken a moral action to mean the one that a majority of people, over and by whom the action is to be judged, consider to be the right one. If there is an absolute set of morals, what principles would they have to be evaluated by?

(Not to say that your argument about democratic morality doesn't have its merits, I'm just curious about your take on it)
I live in France & all the major telcos* do this. It's an advertised part of the services.

* At least: Orange, Bouygues, SFR, Free.
I know for a fact that at least two major ISPs in France already do this (SFR, Free).
This is a bit strange: this seems to come from Google, who already invented another general-purpose compression scheme called Snappy[1], which is also usable in streaming. TFA mentions gzip and deflate but not Snappy. Brotli seems to aim for better compression whereas Snappy aims for more speed, but they're both based on LZ77.

Brotli has something else in common with Snappy: a lack of a specified framing mechanism. When Snappy first came out it did not have one, so if you wanted to write Snappy-compressed data to a file, you might invent your own header to frame the compressed data. They later added this to Snappy, but by then it was too late: implementations had already come up with their own, mutually-incompatible framing. The same mistake seems to be being made again with Brotli.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/snappy/
It sounds like it's going to be fire next time.

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> It's yet another reason to have your own router behind their modem.

You sure? If you are connecting a CAT5 between the modem and a router, you are still using the modem. Are you sure you can stop the modem from acting on its own?

My understanding is that you should instead replace the modem with your own, not just the router.
To use my example of an app with URLs like "/tv_shows/555/seasons/3/episodes/2", if you're in the episodes/index controller (or template or view), how do you reference the particular season and tv_show that episode is part of?
Its all a scam any way. Has any one ever attributed success in their life to their great schooling?
Please make it with JavaScript and open (no flash), so everybody can make an own real game with the base sources.
Gates' point is that concrete usage is accelerating, not that China was funkier than the US. It's hardly 'suspicious', given that context.
But why it is better if the same resource could be used to make something good - e.g. build a hospital for the poor or feed some starving people, etc.?
Apple has a simple and transparent strategy that is good for its customers: pay a premium and get a premium product. They don't violate your privacy, they don't usually show you ads (although they do have an ad network, limited to mobile apps, iTunes and the Mac app store I'd think).

They have a limited number of SKUs. Apple makes a few good products, each one representing the Apple brand in all its glory. The vertical integration from hardware, to software and cloud is something nobody else can do except maybe if Microsoft if it gets serious about the Surface (despite the poor sales).

It might be true that we see less of the innovation that the Steve Jobs era was known for, but they haven't changed at the heart. They're keeping their design quality, their finish, and the vertical integration. Apple isn't making any junk and exploiting its brand and deceiving its customers with shitty products.

Having said that, it doesn't mean that Apple's products are for everyone. I don't like iCloud and I don't particular like iOS, but even so I can see the value in what they're doing.
You're right about the aims of snappy and brotli: snappy has compression ratios worse than deflate, because it's only LZ77: there is no entropy encoding (eg. Huffman) afterwards. Brotli is similar to deflate in that it does LZ77 first and then compresses its output stream by an entropy code.
ISP managed gateways provide visibility to the ARP table via SNMP or TR-69.
Mozilla is a tech company AND a political organisation. Having a leader with controversial views that are outside of the organisations remit is distracting at best.

Any company leader has to consider the things that they say and do and the impact on whether people will want to work for them and buy their products. Mozilla also has to consider volunteers (who they can't just offer more money to unlike a commercial companies employees) and supporters.
> Average gamer is 31 years old

> 48% of gamers are female

> 71% of gamers are 18 or older

> 53% of gamers play games on their smartphones

> While the percentage of female gamers has increased, that has been primarily due to the rise of mobile games, which often do not have characters.

Combining "mobile" gamers with PC/Console gamers is like combining chess players with professional wrestlers.

Just because a lot of women play Candy Crush, doesn't mean that you need all PC and console games to have female protagonists 50% of the time.

I think the real problem here is that there are a few female gamers that go online and just get offended by the same thing male gamers say to each other all the time. Maybe online games should have a 'politically correct' section where easily offended people could go and play.
I'd say there's a specific "populist" train of thought that elevates immediate mob judgment above more nuanced principles of justice developed and agreed upon by philosophers that spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff.

In the US specifically, a huge basis of our political history is based on circumventing this particular view of morality. A lot of this sentiment is captured in the phrase "Tyranny of the majority"[1], and was formally laid out in the Federalist papers, which form a strong underpinning of American political thought

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Please look up Tom Ligon, it's essential to understanding the following quote:

> Tom Ligon:
>
> Todd Rider's objections were not just for the Polywell, but for hot
> fusion generally. The heart of his objections are essentially that
> everything will thermalize and spew bremsstrahlung radiation.
> Dr. Bussard could never get thru to him and quit trying. If Rider
> is right, no fusion project will ever work.
>
> The continued sincere efforts my multiple research efforts suggest
> that a lot of good people in the field disagree.
>
> And Rider is NOT in the field. Nor should he be. He's a clever enough
> person and is making good contributions in his chosen field. Good
> thing his chosen field is NOT fusion, since it would be a real downer
> to spend a career working on something you think is folly.
I had BT broadband a few years ago and we had this then. There were actually thee hotspots: mine, one called "BT Openzone" and one called "BT Fon". When they launched this in 2007 they had 3,000,000 customers [0], which I think they automatically opted in.

It was a good idea, but I never found it useful. It was only on residential broadband, and I never found myself hanging out in residential areas (if I went to a friends house they would just give me their wifi password).

[0] http://www.btfon.com/images/media/common/btfonLaunch041007.p...
"they refused to disable is saying it was a service to the public, bla bla bla."

I know how much your country (rightfully) hates Comcast but this should be a good thing. Take off your blinders for a second and look at the good things an Opt-Out Guest (my assumption) WiFi network could do.

1. Adoption of ubiquitous internet hotspots by customers for public use. It shouldn't affect your personal bandwidth because you'd be getting priority over guests.

2. Accessibility of potential emergency services without cellular networks. Which provides an option not to use a carriers service. More choice and competition could be amazing.

3. Lowering the legal barriers of opting into being a public hotspot (many ISPs are against it)

4. New potential developer opportunities like updating maps and such for travelers.

5. Herd Immunity when it comes to flimsy IP Address based legal attack vector. Fighting this in court is a huge pain/cost.

6. It could be more economic for customers to distribution their internet for a fee? Which would enable higher quality while the cost is distributed.

7. Provoke more conversation about emphasizing internet privacy/security without using locked routers which doesn't protect users from determined local attackers.

I don't know if this is what they're enabling or not but it's food for thought.
Both the Netherlands and Belgium have ISPs that do this, with the slight difference that they Wifi is only accessible to customers of the same ISP.
Oh, I agree fully. Please don't mistake effect for cause here. Given a mob-minded populace, it's best to select leaders with a more safe, socially-minded approach to leadership.

What I'm saying is that, it's unfortunate we accept and glorify the mob-mindedness in the first place. The specifics of this case should have played out exactly as they should have. All I'm saying is that, if people were more thick-skinned form the get-go, then the hard decisions played out by the Eich incident wouldn't necessarily had to have taken place.
"Don't violate your privacy" --- what?

As compared to...who, exactly? They have an ad network, and they have a cloud product - by definition they're holding onto as much of your data as any other company in those businesses.
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This is not the only compression related piece of software/spec from Google named after a kind of bread: there are also gipfeli[1] and zopfli[2].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/gipfeli/
[2] https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/
Nice, what took them so long ? it's been like that and so useful (for everyone) for years in France. Maybe one days the US will discover the EAP-SIM "revolutionary thing" too
Sure, but it isn't in their interest to share that information, whereas with other companies that is their main business, to use your personal information to make money from you with advertisement. If you care about this sort of thing I'm not sure you have a better option than Apple except maybe to use linux and I don't know what you would do for a smartphone, maybe a Mozilla phone.
CommieCast? Really? These kinds of nicknames are always childish and annoying, and commie doesn't even make sense as an insult. At least think of something clever.
The English economist William Stanley Jevons made the same observation in 1865.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
So... you're saying that the effective reduction in jet-equivalent weight means that you're no longer swayed by the argument?

Given that the maximum, fully loaded take-off weight of a 747 is 400 tonnes and the aluminium makes up 200 tonnes of that, this means that even with the worst revised numbers, you're still 'saving' 1700 jets.

Are you saying that the magical number from which your opinion on the subject changes is somewhere between 1700 and 3400? Because if not, you really haven't got much call to classify it as 'pretty deceptive'.
I feel like every time I comment on this, people hone in on the practical aspects of this case and attempt to justify "what happened" in spite of considering "what should have happened" if we're considering how an ideal society should behave.

I want to clarify. Branden Eich should have absolutely been fired given the circumstances. In fact, the board should have considered the political climate, done their due research, and not have appointed him in the first place. We are entirely in agreeance on this point.

My comment goes a step beyond this situation, and tries to look at society as a whole. You're right in that, given a society full of trigger-happy ideological mobsters, you need to be extra careful in who you choose to represnt your company as leadership. I don't think many people are disagreeing with the logic of the board in removing him as a CEO of a community-driven organization.

I am simply commenting on the fact that we have come to the point that people view a person's social viewpoints as so vital and important to their position as a leader that it interrupts the (IMO more ideal) flow of aligning tech hierarchies in accordance to what I think should be the most important principle -- technical merit in designing technology and orchestrating the business strategy to achieve whatever objectives the organization has in mind.

It is my belief that socieites that prioritize technical leadership above social safeness will flourish over time above those that value social cohesion and not-rocking-the-boat-ness. There's a better phrase for that, but it's 1am.
Their business level support is excellent though - for SMBs without in-house tech I will recommend them every time. On-site, fast and knowledgable hardware swapout is a lifesaver.
That's a really beautiful way to celebrate your Father. Looks like he lived life to its fullest, he's an inspiration.
Did you read the thread? The parents were using terms from abstract algebra, so I replied using the same language.

In another context I would have avoided those terms and perhaps used an explanation like this: http://noelwelsh.com/programming/2013/12/20/crdts-for-fun-an...
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available tidal energy is relatively low, on the order of handful kWh per day per UK citizen. extracting all available tidal energy would require extraordinary investment. in effect, it's unrealistic to expect more than 1-2 kWh per day per person. solar and wind are much better bets, though neither is on par with coal.

I recommend reading this book: www.withouthotair.com/ it contains nice estimates of energy used by UK people on the one hand, and energy available from various sustainable sources.