skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, let me say that my local ISPs have left a lot to be desired. Comcast and Verizon have driven me crazy in the past. But making them a utility scares me. As bad as my ISPs have been, looking back 15 years, I was on a 56k modem. Now I have 50 mbps broadband. When I look at other utilities like power and water, I've seen zero innovation and my bill continues to rise.

Something should be done, but I'd rather the focus be on removing barriers to more local competition by getting rid of ordinances that create a defacto monopoly by constricting access to utility poles and right-of-ways. When Verizon offered fios to my area, overnight comcast dropped their prices and then raised their speeds significantly. I want more of that.
Look, I normally agree with almost everything you say, but this is just not true. Wheeler was at the NCTA until divestiture, then he saw the writing on the wall and went to CTIA and CWA. After CWA he worked for Core which is a very industry heavy VC.

Wheeler was a huge lobbyist for over 20 years, talks to Meredith at CTIA on a first-name basis and knows all of the people who run the telcos and their lobbying organizations. In some narrative, he's the perfect person to lead the FCC and in another, he's not.

My opinion is that, YES, he was a lobbyist and YES he is anti-neutrality because that was the position that made the most sense at the beginning of his tenure. I'm bullish that he'll come over to the Network Neutrality side (and gave indications in that direction at CTIA Super Mobility week this year) but I think there's a chance he'll do title 2 with lots of caveats that will make this, let's say, complicated.

You are right that memes aren't helpful, but Wheeler was actually the biggest lobbyist in the history of telecom, IMHO, so that much is quite true. Whether he is anti-neutrality now is up for debate, but when he took the office, well, I think there's little evidence to show he was in favor of neutrality then.
I get that this isn't a code change and so this probably isn't critical, but, still, isn't that exactly backwards?
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I'm also dubious that Germany was "sympathetic" prior to WWII. Prussia and Imperial Germany were aggressive, conquering states for decades.
Sadly, in the "right" hands (or after the "right" catastrophy), nothing is too small for the title. Or it can be just made up, like "they're throwing babies out of incubators". And just as sadly, this goes both ways, "the west" also served as an excuse for decades of atrocities in China and Russia.
But if the FCC refuses to act on its own, even with encouragement from the President, a new law is the only way to force the issue.

Hopefully it won't come to that, because I predict the odds of success being very low. Even if a law passes, it won't be before the lobbyists get their fingers all over it.
Even paying for software doesn't guarantee they are going to keep the product the way you like it (OSX, Windows).

This attitude seems to think that open source is some magic wand and that it will be around forever just because it is open source. Open sourced code falls by the wayside all of the time, so I don't think this really matters in the scheme of things.
Effective regulation requires trust. And the federal government has destroyed that trust with regards to the internet. Completely and irreversibly. My point stands.

Not to mention that given a little time these problems will work themselves out anyway (eg google fiber, municipal broadband, etc). The only reason you have to put your faith in ham-handed federal involvement is an irrational fear of corporations and a lack of patience.
With flat design, sometimes it's really hard to know what you are suppose to click on. I enjoy its simplicity, but it does have some usability problems that come with it.

I think we went way overboard with it and the pendulum swung to far to the side of flat design. Hopefully we start moving away from super trendy flat design, much like we moved away from those crazy web 2.0 design styles.
So, the Higgs boson might not have been discovered after all
"Please don't take his dumb remarks as representative of anyone else."

The GOP is masterfully adept at deciding on a set of talking points, getting them into the hands of key people in politics and the media, and then beating voters over the head repeatedly with it until the voters start repeating it back.

The Republicans just won the Senate back on the idea that Obamacare is the root of all evil. Watch them leverage that idea into every. single. thing. from now until 2016 (and beyond).
What you actually enjoy are the aftereffects of sleeping. By definition, nobody enjoys being unconscioue. Otherwise you'd really be looking forward to death. Imagine the peace!
"History seems to indicate"... Citation please.

Look very closely at the graph. Income inequality was falling before the income tax was instituted in 1917. And not a few years later it went haywire and income inequality basically maxed out in the runup to the great depression.
There is a hell of a lot more to the OpenPandora than emulation. It may be correct that they're not marketing it properly, but then again its also true that the users know whats up:

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=all&cat=Game&s=top
Chrome canary bug causing valid TLS certificates to be blocked
Maybe you're confusing reference collapsing with universal references?

In your example, replace bar<int&&>(6) to bar<int&&>(i).

It won't compile because i is not an r value. bar(i) will compile, because the template parameter is a universal reverence that will become an lvalue (not an rvalue) through reference collapsing.
Nice, but is useless to me, it doesn't work on IE11.
It would have been funner if it had been more truthy.

What actually happened fits very well with that bit of fun narrative. Using a bunch of incorrect stuff detracts from the funness.

my example: the storm troopers didn't wear black. The SS did. But they didn't just wear black, they had runic emblems and skulls and shit. This minor detail is important because remembering details about genocide is probably a good thing.

See Mitchel and Web for a better example.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY
Screen shot: The Firefox Developer Edition first-run experience
I'm not sure that the Web needs to be in VR.

We've somewhat regressed from even having a set of properly hyperlinked 2D documents; I don't think that adding a third dimensions is going to automatically make things better.

I imagine that the true usefulness will be in having clients with larger working envelopes and virtual spaces to present things. I don't think chat will take off significantly.

It'll be fun as hell watching things evolve, though.
Oh. my. god. Our coupon books have been compromised.
ED is still going. For the record, I am the opposite case: I actually got my two Pandora's from the very first batch, the week they were available. Some of us were very, very lucky .. and they're still on and being used, in my house, for all sorts of great things.

I did get burned with the iCP2, though, alas .. it appears though that I'll get credit towards the Pyra release when it happens. I can hardly wait - the Pyra is going to be an amazing bit of gear .. and by the way the momentum behind the Pandora in the meantime: Wow! Pyra is going to land in a vibrant scene ..
> But if the FCC refuses to act on its own, even with encouragement from the President, a new law is the only way to force the issue

The FCC has been acting in the direction of neutrality for some time, and the House majority has been talking more about preventing them from doing so than encouraging them (much less legislating to mandate something more than the FCC wants.)

With a bigger Republican majority in the House and Republican control of the Senate, there's almost exactly zero chance of pro-neutrality legislation from the Congress. Its more likely that pro-neutrality FCC will be met with anti-neutrality Congressional action (the only upside of which, from the pro-neutrality POV, is that it might raise the profile of the issue for the 2016 election.)
> Four million comments to the FCC is a Big Deal.
Great!

> There's a huge amount of public support for Net Neutrality, plus all the money in Silicon Valley.
There we have it: Interest. This time for NN. Another great thing.

> Whining about how we can't do anything because big cable and their bought legislators is wrong and counterproductive.
For the sake of keeping this discussion sane, let's not use such words as "whining". Now, as a supporter of NN, I've described things one has to be aware of as well. I wish and hope positive attitude of the people like you will prevail and that NN will be protected by law.
The annoying experience of launching this for the first time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585522

Direct link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/2O3M10153r1h3A1P3T3T/...
Conspiracy theorists are the people that come up with the inept cash-in "non-canonical" sequel and dreadful fanfic that make the official story seem quite compelling by comparison.
Front-runners this early in the game have a very reliable tendency to implode before the primaries. Being the dark horse at this point in time is not a problem.

Obama had a 17% nod from Democrats two years before the 2008 election. It was all Gore, Edwards, and Kerry in that year.
I never know what to make of numbers like those, because the articles that present them never offer anything to tell me what a good wealth distribution would be. With nothing to compare to, I have no idea if those numbers are showing something is wrong, or showing that things are fine.

In any group (the whole population, or any subgroup such as the top 1%) where the are wealth differences within the group, then it is mathematically inevitable that the top X% of the group will have more than X% of the group's wealth.

If there is an individual who has more wealth than any other individual, then it is also mathematically necessary that wealth_of_top(X)/X increases as X decreases.
What innovation could be done for basic utilities? I understand your concern and sympathize with it. But it seems like there is a difference. Everyone wants faster more reliable internet (Personally I'm more concerned about reliability at peak times at this point; >10mbps is plenty otherwise). But when is the last time you heard someone complain about the reliability of their power/water/sewage? Maybe I'm spoiled, but I haven't noticed systemic negligence with those utilities.
Well, here is the "new" ecosystem:

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=all&s=new

Its not all emulation. In fact, its a lot more like .. any Linux game that can be ported, will be ported. So there are a lot of Linux games you might be surprised in this list - among other applications too, of course. (You can't run a DAW on your Playstation..)
I imagine aerospace may be an interesting application as well. Pretty darn hard to just "go tighten it" when it is on its way to mars!
I use that addon as well but I don't think that I should need to. It'd be better if sites used feature detection rather than UA sniffing.
I tend to agree. As an ISP owner, the problem is fundamentally the point to point technology involved along with lopsided peering agreements you can't avoid.

Torrents really expose these issues very well and it's the same sort of thing you see going on between Netflix and Comcast.

One solution is for consumers to have more choices. I recently read an article where some town I think in Colorado put in their Internet access by lighting up dark fiber they had. It use to be something the cable companies fought citing that municipalities could have a monopoly.

The other game changer is WiMAX and generally speaking, faster mobile data rates. If I no longer need my buried cable to get fast Internet coupled with the fact I can take my device with me, is a huge selling point.

But like cable companies, you can have traffic pile up on a cell tower but it seems easier to add more radios to a cell tower than it is to lay more fiber and/or coax.

Maybe the solution is to get rid of TCP/IP and use something different such that traffic can spray out like a torrent and be recollected from different route paths. For example, if you have Internet from two or more cable companies, there is no way to dynamically balance traffic between those two circuits between two parties. You have a default gateway and there isn't much more you can do with that at the end user level.
That's a pretty serious limitation of their automation if they are unable to just whack the ACLs on the private network to the affected customer nodes.
It's an experiment with WebRTC -- you can start peer-to-peer voice/video calls with it. No accounts or special software needed. Just modern browsers. :)
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Possibly on secondment between GCHQ and SIS, I understand?
So I can't speak to the hardware accelerators or even YC (timing issues have kept us from applying) but we have just spent the last 18 months+ bootstrapping a hardware product to market. I think the two main considerations would be 1) What does your existing team look like and 2) how much cold hard cash is the program you are considering going to give you.

With regard to team make up you need to understand if you have the in house talent to design and build the hardware. Is one of the founders an EE? Do you have an in house mechanical engineer? Low level software skills? How well do you know the product space you are going after? If you are missing any critical skill on the team you are going to have to rely on your network substantially and find and pay for outside help. This pushes up costs and it's already probably going to cost 3x what you think it will cost to get the product to market.

Which brings me to my next point - cold hard cash. How much is each program offering? Is the expertise and contacts they bring enough to offset the possible lack of cash? For instance one popular hardware accelerator in the Bay Area offers 50k while YC is going to get you $120k. If your team is strong and you have existing contacts or manufacturing experience the extra money and VC contacts and name recognition could be more valuable. Feel free to contact me off list (see profile) if you have more questions.
Here's a link to an older thread for the same article, for convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282949
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/oculus-to-competitors-...
If you contact VCs while in talks of acquisition, do you tell them that you have an acquisition offer from xyz corp? This could backfire a few ways. If the acquisition offer from xyz falls through, this signals to the VC very negatively and probably means they won't do a round now or even in the future.
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While I can see how principles 7 and 8 could help most people, they wouldn't work for me.

Every purchase of an item I intended to use long term (2 years or more) was preceded by anywhere from days to weeks of research, reviews, and comparison shopping. It's a huge brain drain, but it was worth it. I now have 98% of all possessions I'd want, with the remaining 2% having not reached the right opportunity yet (I'm also quite frugal). More importantly, I did not follow the herd. I found that an overall rating is a good rough indicator (thus saving many hours of work on my part), but you still need to look into individual reviews, because not everyone has the same tastes or standards or needs or use cases as you.

I now have a comfortable place, possessions that are built to last, and very few wants that would require more money to satisfy.

So has money bought me happiness? I believe a better way to phrase it would be to say that money is no longer a barrier to my happiness.
I would like to be able to copy the JSON received in the network tab. As it is now, I only get to see a tree-view and can't easily copy the full JSON as text.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_C._Vouza Native of Guadalcanal, tied to a tree, tortured, stabbed, and left for dead by the Japanese when he was found with a small American flag in his loincloth. Chewed his way through the ropes and staggered several miles to the Marines to warn them of the Japanese battalion he encountered before being hospitalized. Later served as a scout for Carlson's Raiders.

Speaking of which...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Carlson Marine officer who went to China and lived alongside Mao Zedong and studied guerrilla warfare. Later formed and led a special Marine unit that was organized as a Maoist guerrilla unit.
And the average household size is much smaller than it used to be due to declining birthrates, higher rates of divorce, higher rates of single-parent households, etc.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-ho...

...also a huge number of people live in low cost of living areas. I have friends and family out in rural areas with perfectly comfortable lifestyles who wish they made 52k a year.
That's 100% correct, eight days ago there were zero active cases of Ebola in Dallas. The two active cases since the first one had been shipped out to other cities and they were just on watches for the remaining exposures.
Yup, Enigma was a side-show, the main deal was Colossus and the work to crack Tunny. The fact that Tunny had been cracked was a highly classified secret for decades after the war - I've always felt that the Enigma story was used as a cover to hide what Bletchley Park had really been up to, secrets within secrets.
I don't get why you say that investment bankers are expensive at 1 to 2%. If they can't improve the deal by at least 2%, they can't be worth dealing with at all.
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Even in the eyes of racist Europeans, the Japanese held a privileged place, having defeated the Russians -- a "white" race -- in a war in 1905. (Later, South African apartheid would also make a special exemption for the Japanese.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_whites
We're working on the auto-update model for servers at CoreOS. If interested, you can read more about our update philosophy here: https://coreos.com/using-coreos/updates/. We think that this is one of the best ways to secure the backend internet, similar to how auto-updating browsers moved the front-end of the internet forward.

(CoreOS employee)
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Are they using the non-free Oculus Rift SDK?

If so this is another example of just how little Mozilla understands its own mission.
The government didn't create the internet. At the most, the government gave money to some projects that developed some technologies that were subsequently used to create the internet. Yes, there were a lot of failed attempts at how to handle the informational world - like AOL (which btw is alive and well as a company with multibillion revenues), Compuserve, etc. - but some of these attempts worked. And that what we call the internet now. Of course, it's not only companies, but NGOs, universities, etc.

>>> The internet works because of the underlying open, bidirectional, equally privileged connections.

This is very simplistic view which does not match what really happens on the net. There are a lot of barriers, firewalls, routing preferences, private bandwidth exchanges, etc. It still works reasonably well so far.

>>> The internet is one of humanities greatest achievements and we can't let greedy monopoly beuraucrats kill it.

You realize that "monopoly bureaucrats" is the very definition of the government? If you were ever scared of huge bureaucratic power that would take away the control from you and use it for its own purposes, the US federal government would fit this role ideally.
You have print preview. No easy way to inspect/debug in it, though.
Net Neutrality isn't, but Title II regulation is definitely the Obamacare of the internet. Title II gives the FCC broad powers over regulating the internet.

You just have to look at the what the BushII-era FCC did about policing broadcast media to see the potential dangers in letting the FCC heavily regulate every ISP in America.

Title II will heavily disincentivize investment into faster networks because of the uncertainty.

I agree that net neutrality should be law but not if we need Title II to get it. I'd only support that if the ISPs started fucking up the internet massively. Sort of a "nuclear option."
Dismissing the discussion out-of-hand because of certain items that one thinks are "luxury goods" is the problem. I have no quarrel with discussions of what weatlth or well being means. I do disagree with the blanket statement of "since a person has X they aren't really poor".
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Speeders love to argue that speeding is not dangerous. Or that THEY are such good drivers that they know how to speed safely. I am not 100 percent convinced of that. The reason being is humans are very, very bad at analyzing risks as well as being very bad at analyzing their own skill. Famously 93% of drivers think they are above average in driving skill.[1] As far as cold hard facts, i don't know if they exist but government organizations claim speeding kills. The reliability of such claims of course can be challenged. Physics also tells us that if number of accidents remain constant than higher speeds during an accident would lead to more damage/death/injury.

In theory we would have safety experts analyze each road and come up with an effective speed that would be safe in optimal conditions. We don't have that unfortunately. Speed limits can tend to be somewhat arbitrary. This is unfortunate.

The other issue is, yes, it is safest when drivers are mostly operating at the same speed. How do cars all communicate with each other to set the speed? That would be issuing a speed limit. Speed limits are unfortunately set at a maximum which means driving below the speed limit is legal and potentially make the roads unsafe when everyone else is driving at or near the maximum.

It is a difficult problem that probably won't be solved until we have self driving cars. But for now i think we are not taking the human element of road safety as serious as i believe we should be. Road accidents are a MAJOR cause of death in people under 25. On the engineering side we have made huge strides in engineering safer cars and roads.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00016918819...
Resort that by most downloaded:

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=all&cat=Game&s=dl&ipp=10

* Nintendo DS emulator
* PSP emulator
* Playstation emulator
* Nintendo 64 emulator
* Amiga 500/1200 emulator
* Super Nintendo emulator
* Sega Genesis emulator
* MS DOS emulator
* Arcade emulator
* Game Boy Advanced emulator

Yeah, I'd say the users know what's up. I also suspect that it's being marketed appropriately.
Then how do you explain how the Stasi kidnapped and killed lots of German citizens, while the NSA has yet to do the like?

I can understand if you're saying you fear the NSA's power grab because of similarities with the Stasi. I have trouble believing that you think there is literally no difference between the Stasi and the current NSA, given their body of work has significant differences.
I use compass to watch the folder where my SCSS files are stored and compile automatically on save. That way I can use mapping to find the relevant SCSS, edit it in the browser, and save it to view the changes. It isn't as convenient as seeing the changes before save, but it's pretty close.
Not sure how common this is, but isn't your logo really similar to http://mymixify.com?