skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Net neutrality would give regulators significantly more power over how ISPs operate their networks. Due to regulatory capture[0], we can expect those regulators to advance the interests of entrenched players over potential newcomers.

So the biggest costs are probably Bastiat's "unseen" [1] costs. The things that could have been but never will. We may be helping lock in the ISP industry of 2014 as a permanent status quo.

I would argue that net neutrality is a shortsighted compromise. Instead of trying to make the monopolists be slightly less bad, we should be legalizing real competition for them.

For example, if the goal is really to improve service and reduce costs, we should be campaigning to legalize municipal networks at least as hard as people are campaigning for net neutrality. Why is net neutrality getting attention and these other barriers aren't? Because there are big commercial interests who benefit from net neutrality.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
[1] http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Not sure if this practically possible to read a whole article this way or not but this is an awesome tool.

How come I never stumbled upon this!?

Thank you very much.
Not only is it not proven, it is proven false.

But, I totally agree that this U2 move was absurdly ill considered.
I bet perceived sugar and olfactory responses are measurable by EEG...
It would be helpful to know what KaTeX can and cannot do.
blocked at work Adult Material
Giganews has responded by claiming the ex-employee is delusional. They posted links to a pastebin allegedly written by him, which includes the following:

"Besides spamming, the only other conduct that is unacceptable is uploading or contacting our employees with information about Vehuiah the holy angel, her
invocation Psalm 3:3, Archangels, or the angels of Jehovah's 72 syllable name called the Shemhamforash. These are all unstoppable solutions to the 72 demon intelligences central to mankind, and will drive the dark of all evil away with
an annoyingly bright Holy Light."

https://twitter.com/Giganews/status/511587414683291648

http://pastebin.com/gM9mN7gS
Exactly what I was looking for - thanks slifty!
In addition, Kibbey offered me a new name and identity, with a new drivers license and everything, if I were to go back to work at Giganews.

What? Why? The whole story seems disjointed.
Whatever may be wrong with Comcast (connectivity-wise I'm soooo glad I don't live in the US), this is absolutely exemplary damage control PR.

Clear, accessible, no weasel words, no lawyer-speak, to the point and with a human touch to round it of.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103385-PayPal-Free...

Back in 2010 when Minecraft was very young.
You completely missed his point
Moving the coroutine stack when its too big is also how Lua does it, isn't it?
Yeah it's kind of sad. I really felt that when it went open source we would have seen a huge new explosion in creativity with the game that would have given it legs for years to come.

I really don't mind that Notch sold out. I do mind that he says that this wasn't about money. It sounds more like he is trying to convince himself of that more than anyone else.

If it really wasn't about money why not just open source it and walk away? Or just give it to the employees of Mojang? He already has over 100+ million, so he's certainly not worried about food.

More power to him for making an insane amount of money, because he certainly deserves it, but don't bullshit me about your motivations.
Is this is the same Tramadol that is incredibly addictive and kills people if they taper off too quickly? Why wouldn't you want some hoops for this?

I was prescribed it after I broke a leg in judo. I was shocked when I looked it up and found forums rife with addicts in great distress.
I don't think there would be a similar reaction if a free game turned up in our respective Steam libraries, ready for downloading.
Yeah, that's where my BS detector started beeping. How would a new identity help if he were going to be working with the same people face-to-face?

This line is also phrased very oddly: I've linked pictures of my Giganews badge and the shirts with their red armor logo I was forced to wear when working there.

Forced? So, it was a uniform? I've worked at a department store, and I wouldn't use the phrase "forced" because they required me to wear a name badge.
"Because it's a struggle for me to scrape together 750 bucks" - NOT anymore! So awesome.
To respond to your response, while it may be sensible to offer cleaning as optional, I'm not really sure that's in anybodies interests. It's simply not fair to push this off onto the consumer, they'll have no idea when cleaning would be necessary. The printer is already doing the 'right thing' in that it will clean itself when necessary, and all that really needs to be done is make sure the printer is only using the necessary amount of ink when cleaning itself, and only cleans itself when it actually knows it's necessary.

For example, laundry detergent companies mark their measuring caps to measure out how detergent then you actually need, but companies found that if they didn't put any mark on the caps at all people on average assumed they needed more detergent then even the company said you should use, which was already more then you needed. People just have no reference point to guess when these types of things need to be done.
This is great news for server-side tex rendering. Valiant efforts on behalf of projects like svgtex (https://github.com/agrbin/svgtex) notwithstanding, MathJax is abysmal for pre-rendering content.
Good point, but he always came off as a hard-ass to me who liked to get into arguments and thrive on stress. I kinda see him as his own Jobs-Woz combo. I may be misreading him.
Really, having a free download in the iTunes page would be actually simpler for me. I've read in the news, was curious, tried over iTunes, I can't download. Surfing, seeing "it's complicated," gave up. U2 weren't interesting enough for me to actually make an effort.

I actually got up to "show all purchases" and immediately hated that I have to actually do this as the things I bought and discovered it was not what was advertised were visible again, just reminding me of something I'd rather forget. I wish there were just a simple possibility to "permanently delete the information that I've purchased particular tracks."

Then the special "U2 removal tool" weren't necessary too.
Poor Usenet. It was so beautiful, once.
Awesome I really want to read this book but it is sadly over 30$ up here in Canada.
Yea seriously, If everyone at Giganews is in on it why the hell did he need a new identity?
Apple of all companies supposedly knows the value of appearances (see, for example, their purchase of Beats). I think maybe this was a "too much Kool-aid" kind of moment, where they just forgot that not everyone sees their services like they do.
Would be great to see this added to fibers in Node.js.
Sounds like malarky to me. Sounds like a group to understand something outside their reach; finding subjective data points to further categorize the problems allowing themselves to believe they now have more of a handle on than they did before. I don't believe they know anything that adds more value.
Anecdotally my coworkers and I find it hyper creepy and don't participate. Very few people do. I don't actually know anybody who does, despite extremely heavy promotion such as nearly weekly spam and even physical paper spam sent to our homes. I'm one of the few people I work with who would auto-qualify because I exercise during my lunch hour, sorta reasonably healthy, great diet, but even I won't sign up.

A program like this is almost the definition of a violation of work-life balance. Way too creepy, big brother is monitoring you. The last thing I want is an awkward metric on my annual review to verify my prostate is getting a regular workout and what my employer can do to help out and hows my stamina now and whatever other totally inappropriate freakishness they think up. The whole concept is just offensive. Just too many crossed boundaries. I find the sex analogy to be highly relevant. A happy employee is a productive employee so we should all be required to document and track our sexual activity with our boss and have a performance improvement plan as part of our reviews to make sure we're getting some. Next we can add religion! Ugh.

They offer a wellness clinic in the lunch room about twice a year, free screenings and free vaccinations. Many people participate, including myself, the primary reason this isn't creepy is this doesn't involve my boss or HR or payroll getting involved, no big brother garbage. At least not in public (maybe there is a secret file on me for each flu vaccination I've gotten, donno).
Heavy mathjax user here. Couple of use cases I'd love to know more about:

- does KaTeX work pretty reasonably across the platforms? The simplest way I figured out for rendering math notation in-app on mobile devices was through web views + mathjax. E.g. say I wanted to use it in a web view in iOS or Android, would it work as intended? MathJax comes by default with a giant folder of various fonts / ways of rendering, what's the KaTeX story for this?

- would KaTeX work just fine in a headless environment? e.g. say I'm using http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ to generate PDF from some HTML

- how does KaTeX compare to MathJax from a payload size? Mathjax takes quite a bit to load from basic connections even though you have to cache it only once.
...because then the dose would be equivalent to about a day of natural background radiation.

I think "nobody would notice" is a pretty accurate description of what would happen in that case.
yes, it's pretty ropey all in all - generally speaking people going to live with their families for a while has a higher success rate than anti-psychotic drugs, 60% vs 30%

in the 3rd world people can't afford drugs so tend to go for the family option

doctors in finland have adapted the 3rd world approach successfully and collected a lot of data along the way - incidence of schizophrenia is dropping in their region

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-alternatives/fin...
Very cool. I had this same idea (and of course secretly hoped I was the first to have thought of it, but that's rarely the case) just the other day, as I found myself having to re-encode a bunch of FLAC files purchased at HDtracks.com to M4A, since Spotify for some absurd reason doesn't support FLAC. It's straightforward enough with ffmpeg, but it's yet another annoying step required before you can listen to the music.
Mechanists and humanists: across the hiring divide
I kind of thought people in the tech community were just overreacting, but I've since heard plenty of people who don't follow tech news complain that it was creepy or weird or something similar.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage."

... but it apparently interprets passive, silent auditing as a feature. ;)
Many things (namely google apps, play services, some security patches) have been separated from the core OS, leaving only deep changes to the OS update.
My biggest surprise is that Usenet is apparently still that big of a thing. I guess I've been out of the loop, the last time I heard about Usenet was 10 years ago, with people talking about pirating from Usenet because torrents were being blocked. I don't think I've used Usenet since I had dial-up.
yes, like fire, credit is useful servant but a terrible master. If you relax your attention it's easy to turn the relationship upside down.
thanks, guy.
Brendan Eich: The Origin of JavaScript
Haha, I read that and thought exactly the same!
That would be awesome! But I doubt they would do it, some people might become unhappy and also it means extra costs.
Natural products chemistry is a very old branch of synthetic organic chemistry. See wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_product

If you do a quick search for Natural Products in Google Scholar, and you'll see that this is a widely accepted term in organic chemistry.

Now, what you're saying is something that generally irritates me to no end - differentiating between "synthetic" and "natural". An alkene is an alkene, regardless of whether it was synthesized by a natural process or in a reactor.
Are you also using the STIX fonts? If yes: I am working on a web application which downloads those STIX fonts anyway, can I point KaTeX to use my already downloaded fonts instead of downloading its own?
There's a list of functions it supports here: https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/wiki/Function-Support-in-KaTeX

Most inline math is done, but we're missing a bunch of individual symbols (see CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo if you'd like to contribute!) The main things we're missing are environments (i.e. \begin and \end), but we'll be working on those soon!
state laws sometimes pass the debt of a parent along to children who can pay it.
> but besides .net and php we have had no success finding python / django or some of the modern framework guys.

I am fairly active in the local Python community (we probably bumped into each other by now) and I think I can help you find the talent you need. Ping me.
The old internet is still there, you just stopped visiting.

Here, have a random MUD: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/mud_random.cgi
Actually I dont know about a library, I got the idea and the core code for the effect from http://lamberta.github.io/html5-animation/
> The problem is the airlines are using inefficient and illogical pricing - for a whole host of reasons including incompetency and unwillingness to adapt to a changing marketplace.

Please read the presentation I linked to before asserting that the pricing is "illogical" and a result of "incompetency".
Is it bad that I imagined 350 people in a 747-400 all peddling on bikes?
Its not that surprising. If you want full coroutines that can yield from inside function calls then each coroutine is going to need to own a separate stack. Since you only have one C stack the coroutine stacks need to live on the heap.

Some coroutine implementations copy the coroutine stacks back into the main C stack before resuming execution but usually its not worth the trouble to do that and you just run everything on the heap.
Can you elaborate: better/worth? To me it seems impressive, the way remixes remind git forks etc.
Sorry, I thought the context was clear. I was talking about an end user as described in the OP.

Yes, if its an exit node that is the case.
Use the keyboard shortcuts. A attack. M move. (Muscle memory)

Also, use the missile launcher. stay away from missle turret range, and fire one square away from missile tower. Enough missiles miss target, land on turret, that with enough missile launchers you can defeat missile turrets, or bleed enemy spice reserves at least.

Protect your missile launchers with a line of heavy tanks just behind, in case the enemy makes a sortie.

(Ohhh, I have to play it again now... See what you've done!)
Eh with the automated copyright takedowns usenet is useless now anyways, everyone has moved on.
The article has a reply to you built-in :)

"While these scientists still conclude that this is a low dose of radiation, it shows that, if correct, we were lied to, again, and anyone who walked through those scanners was given nearly 50% more radiation than they signed up for."

The point is not that 14µrem is dangerous to an individual on occasion, it's that the government irradiated us at a rate different than what they promised.

It will also have societal effects. I've seen calculations that estimate that something like 6 people will die from cancer as a result of the radiation from 700M TSA screenings given per year. That estimate should now be adjusted, and we should again say, "How many lives does the TSA save that justifies this?"
Thank you for talking to Peter and sharing this.

For those interested in more, Blake (the co-author from the book) took Peter Thiel's CS183 class in Stanford, and has class notes freely available on his blog (the notes generated the idea for the book, from my understanding):

http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup

I highly recommend the book.
So they'd need someone with a scanner in 94 different jurisdictions?
So those odds are not that minuscule and there are going to be victims.
Your attitude stems from the idea that seems to be propagated a lot these days : that science and therefore medicine can fix anything, any disease.

Yes, there will be victims. No, I don't subscribe to "science/medicine can fix anything" - don't put absurd words in my mouth/fingers.

Balancing those problems vs BEING DEAD, I'm irritated that you'd deny me the former option.

I've been dead once already; may the fleas of a thousand camels infest the armpits of he who would give me little choice but do it again.
this is great would like it even more if it remove all images and displayed text in a boring font.
If you're in the UK, there's an informative BBC documentary on Ebola broadcast just last week. The programme talks to survivors of the virus, to the staff of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treating victims, to Peter Piot, the Belgian doctor who discovered the virus (and established that the disease was not airborne) and the medical staff seeking a cure. There are some harrowing scenes.

It's available on iPlayer until Friday 19 Sept. 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04hcthj/

Someone's uploaded it to YouTube, although the last 10 minutes are missing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjuQofIleOg
Cultivating the plants in a lab to study would have been a lot more difficult than what was actually done in this attempt to replicate the results, which was to just take samples from more than one region.
I opt out every time, but I'd hate to be one of the TSA employees standing next to these machines day-in and day-out for hours on end.
Apple Created a Webpage Just to Let People Delete That U2 Album from iTunes
By "serve as catalysts" do you mean "make more severe," "make more frequent," "make appear earlier in life," or perhaps all of the above, or perhaps something different?
It's been on HN a while back, but while using it in practical cases like WSJ, it seemed to pick up HTML code, whitespace characters and/or text from a sidebar.

I ditched it at the time, but I may try to start using it again if I can get it work with ebooks.
Still works pretty well for me
Quit giving staff delicious unhealthy food.
It is super easy on the Prius, this post goes through the steps:

http://priuschat.com/threads/geniii-prius-custom-pids-for-to...

But the short is someone else has done the hard work so you don't have to.
Have you considered how you might feel about your children modeling circuits or hardware in minecraft? Disk drives, memory controllers, and calculators have all been implemented in Redstone circuits, which seem to be an even deeper level than most consumer grade circuitry-tinkering lets one do.

Moreover, there's less exposure to solder vapors, no chance of burning, and an ability to undo/redo, not to mention show it off to their friends or to you in a "cool" way.

Imagine how much your son might like it if you were to let him wire up more than LEDs, and instead do things like create a castle or amusement park or train system controlled with in-minecraft circuits.
Usenet was basically the last bastion of relatively open to the public (but hidden by being obscure) piracy, but over the last couple of years even Usenet has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests, at least as it pertains to US-based providers.
You must be one of them as well then. /wink

Overall, this doesn't seem credible. FBI detectives will not be doing run of the mill OS installs and what not. Also there isn't a need for fake identities just to be a system administrator in a usenet company. This sounds like delusions from a paranoid schizophrenic.
Where was it proven false? I saw them say it wasn't them, but that's not really solid proof.
Well, he says the cp groups were restored. That should be verifiable, no?
The FCC's net neutrality deadline has arrived: What now?
The most in-depth behind the scenes insight on the early days of JavaScript I've heard so far. Fascinating.
I don't have this option for the albums I didn't add myself. I think that may be only for albums you have added yourself. See the following link:

http://imgur.com/a/CrsKN

Go to my library->albums open one that you didn't add yourself and you will see that there is no option to remove it.
As for the "gigauth" file - how else are you going to run a subscription Usenet service without logging authenticated users?

Not that I disbelieve the rest of your post, but log minimization is a thing. There is a lot of room for sophistry and misleading statements to be made on the topic of logging. But, I would have assumed that anyone running binary usenet services understands their customers are pirates and would want to hold onto the bare minimum amount of data necessary to allow the service to function.
Brazil needs a change in culture in order for the startup ecosystem to succeed.

Most of the people don't have the "I want to be an entrepreneur" mentality. They are looking for well paid careers when choosing the field they want to graduate in. Creating a startup does not even cross their minds because they are not aware that it is a possibility.

They want stability... like working for the government.
For the ones that want to be entrepreneurs, the mentality is either the mom and pop shop, where they will spend their lives on and never really make real money or the ones that happen to create big companies but stay in there forever as well.

VC's, Angels, investment, exit... a very low % of college students know what these are about.

I dare to say that Brazilians are not used to take risks... even the ones that are creating these copycats. Why do you think they are doing it this way? Less risk.

Disclosure: I am Brazilian and during my college days starting a company was not even talked about.
Yeah, Nokia was sooo thriving.
> Consider an elementary proposition: companies exist to make money, not to lose it.

I'm not sure I agree with that proposition, at least in the general form in which it's stated.

Yes, the objective of any particular company is to make money. But is that why companies exist? We support the concept of a company, build laws and systems that allow one to be created. And clearly the reason we have those laws and system isn't so that the company can make money.

So the instrumental goal of a company is to make money, but the terminal value of companies existing is something different. Perhaps it's that they help us collaborate on issues that outscale any particular mind (though in that we have to be mindful of the Moloch [1] and keep in mind that corporations think in alien ways [2])...

If so, corporations exist to solve human issues primarily; and making money is only a measure of how successful they are at that.

1: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

2: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders...
Yes. "Natural" flavoring often means something manufactured by a genetically engineered bacteria.
I've had that sysadmin problem.

Somewhere in the two six-storey buildings of a tv broadcaster. Additional fun: the system was running spam-filtering software that relayed all incoming mail and was failing. Still ping-able though. And since nobody had any passwords, I needed physical access to get in.

Finally found the likely suspect in a small, locked 19" cabinet. No keys... Only time I needed a hammer and a screwdriver to restart a daemon.
Heh, I'll let you go and check for us.
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