skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As your quote implies, just because no justification exists now doesn't mean none will exist in the future. And when that happens, you will often wish you had historical data rather than having to start recording going forward. For example, if someone stole your car from the airport parking lot while you were away on a trip, and you returned 4 days later, it would be too late to help you if you start watching for your car on local cameras immediately. If you can go back in time and look at what happened, not just in your town, but when your car turned up in the big city 50 miles away, your chances of recovering your property are much better.
They are the same thing: in order to protect net neutrality (the free and open internet), you need strong regulation, it doesn't happen by itself.
Really? I wish he'd keep his mouth shut. The moment he makes his position known on anything, the Republican controlled congress makes it their holy crusade to block. Those guys are now in complete control of the legislative body that makes these rules.

If he REALLY wanted to help, he'd start supporting the opposite of everything he wants to do. He should be good at that, re: NSA, Drones, Gitmo, etc. "I will close down Gitmo! ... lol"
The B+ still remains a better "buy" for most people/projects. The A+ is a great board if you want to run something using the GPIO or single USB, but most people who buy a Pi are running small Linux servers or even emulator stations which the B+ is substantially better suited for.

Can you daisy chain a bunch of USB peripherals off of the A+'s single USB port? Yes. But after you buy the hub, buy the USB ethernet "card," and so on you would have spent much more than $15. Plus you've now lost the size advantage anyway.

I see the B+ as being the "development board" and A+ as being the "production board."
The way I hear this is: you have two options.

- Either use interval arithmetic which is tricky and may give you useless large bounds, but those bounds are guaranteed to hold.

- Or just try all the rounding modes which is less likely to give you large bounds, but now you have no guarantee that those bounds say something meaningful about your computation.

Or does the second case give meaningful guarantees?
I am glad Obama is finally speaking up on this, but man. He sits on the sidelines for years without strong support for net neutrality (other than his original campaign promises), while the EFF takes up the charge fighting for net neutrality, and now it's "his plan"? Huh?
I am an American and I agree with your bad joke assessment. It's rather depressing to see my fellow citizens fall for these jokes over and over again, all the while losing their rights, even their right to privacy.
Well, the enforcement structure is already in place, AFAIK. This is just putting his finger on the scale as the FCC ponders the issues (and implying that if the FCC doesn't make the right choice by itself, it could be compelled by law).
His administration literally started the process that will ultimately be the end of the open internet in the next few years.

Now everybody is working on a national/regional "Internet", even the EU is going the first steps into this direction.

Him calling for open and free Internet is absolutely bizarre. Who knows, maybe he'll call tomorrow for the end of torture and drone executions without trial.
> Please don't complain about downvotes, it just makes people downvote you more.

No, of course it doesn't.

And, no, there's nothing wrong with complaining about the downvotes as there' heck of a lot of knee-jerk downvoting happening on HN. Almost as much as righteous preaching about proper HN "etiquette", but not as damaging in the long run.
It is. It's just a concern I have since similar language seems to be everywhere, which makes me think including it is intentional.
Personal anecdote. Out of the blue, my wife suggested that we play some Age of Empires III. I don't have a Windows computer anymore so I decided to give it a go in Linux Mint.

I used Crossover Linux (already had a license for MS Office) and it "just worked". Everything from sound to full screen high quality graphics was perfect. No input lag or anything else.

I understand that this is a game that's nearly a decade old but I am deeply impressed by the quality here considering it wasn't even built for that platform. It makes me wonder, how easily could developers support Linux if they just decided to? It seems like it might not be the burden or overhead that it once was.
There is also a very clear difference with the way the British feel about CCTV and the way Americans feel about it. This is largely down to the perception of what goes on behind the cameras.

In the States it seems that far fewer people trust their government than those in the UK. I know there are areas of serious distrust with the police in the UK, but I feel that the majority of the population still have the perception that the police are to be trusted. I honestly don't have that same feeling about Americans...

Of course, that opinion is largely biased by the media. As are most of my perceptions about America/Americans - but then, perhaps Fox News/CNN and other partisan media (which appears to engulf more and more American media by the day) aren't the best choices to form clear objective opinions about the environment and the world around me. It becomes harder and harder to watch American TV and remain objective about life. It's no wonder the NRA are so fearful about their guns being taken away. Perhaps if media sensationalism (driving almost constant fear uncertainty and doubt) weren't so pervasive, people would spend less time living in fear and be more trusting of the government oversight... like the British.

In the UK, CCTV has largely been seen to be a good thing. The corrupt are eventually found and dealt with - well, enough to keep the public placated to allow the remainder of the corrupt to continue unabated; that is, until the next can no longer be swept under the rug and hidden from public purview and they too are dealt with.

So the question really comes down to trust. The British media doesn't tend to sow the seeds of distrust and fear into the British people... and so we don't really tend to fear CCTV like Americans do. 1984 and Animal Farm didn't appear to have the terrifying impact on our psyches that they did with Americans. I am skeptical I would feel the same way if I were brought up in America.
Yeah, you can with other channels but you have to setup a different profile. By default this has a different profile.
Depending upon how much they're spending, I kind of doubt HP would really pay a whole lot for trying to woo that customer. The usual method is to just cut pricing if someone gets antsy in TSG and over on the Procurve / networking side. This is a company that nickel and dimed people on trips to force them to exclude alcohol from reimbursement and had probably the lowest per diem I've ever had while traveling.
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan
Nothing like a major republican victory for the president to come back to life. Thumbs up for the "new" plan!
> I guess that maybe you were meaning C++ favours RC compared to manual memory management,

Yes.

> the others are the main/preferred strategy in those languages/libraries.

While true, manual memory management is still possible, but should be left for the 1% cases that really benefit from it.
Kind of same here. And if you are not in the US or in Europe you can actually not even look at the price and just think "What do I want to do?", "What do I want to eat?", ... it's so reliving
Me too. I figure, if I can get some shit done in my 20s, I can have a pretty sweet time in my 30s, running a small company and spending time with my future family rather than working an unfulfilling 9 to 5 and trying to make up for it by partying hard on the weekends.
Very true, but if you're using EC2 you're still going to need those skills anyways. It's not like those instances manage themselves. If you've ever seriously used EC2 to do anything, you've probably already got those skills anyway.

What IaaS really saves you is the tedium of dealing with the physical aspects of servers. No requisitioning hardware, driving to co-los, dealing with phasing hardware out, etc.
Oops, yeah, I think I was thinking "Malton" when I wrote Downsview there. My bad.
It seems like they are referring to UI tools, not new HTML5 specs. Also, you can still debug with the other versions of FireFox.
I don't see how e10s will fix any of the profile-based performance degradation issues that have existed in FF for years.

It will fix the crashing tab equals crashing browser issue, but that is a very different problem.
Will https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/... switch to this new build or will there be a new PPA for Firefox Developer Edition?
Once you sign in with your twitter account, Delta goes through your home timeline to find the stories that were shared by your friends recently. Then a Reddit/HN like list of stories is created, where each tweet containing the story is considered an upvote.

Will this be helpful for news consumption? Any other suggestions to make it better?
You can't build an agile company with lifetime employment contracts
I do agree with you RE: hobby code. I did a jQuery Facebook app for fun, but the one-off weather app I built for a major utility company was and should have been way more impressive even though I did the hobby project after the weather app with all the lessons I'd learned about Javascript from the one I got paid for.

Ultimately this is why I don't take any of my side projects seriously anymore, and if there's something I want to learn, I'll find a way to get paid for it. That way I can figure out where it fits in the ecosystem of working with other professionals to deliver production code that fits specs and actual business needs. I still have side projects, I just use them to scratch an itch rather than to try to conjure something truly useful to someone out of thin air.
> Am I fucked?

No. Write the reason you left the travelling job - that's legit. It's also not your fault if a company makes you redundant.

People want to hire people who will stick around. Leaving a job because you were made redundant, or because of exceptional circumstances (large amounts of travel) don't make you a flight risk - but again, mention the reason right there on the CV so it's obvious.
I'm not a huge fan of Obama, but do you really think the surveillance state was created during his presidency? This type of thing has been going on... well, probably forever. It's gotten more sophisticated in the Internet age, but that started before Obama too.
Actually not. Money increases happiness logarithmically. Of course, work may decrease happiness and there's an optimal work/money tradeoff involved, but the happiness payoff from money, per se, never stop.
Well, that's the fundamental disagreement, really. Do you have a right to not be seen when out in public? I don't think you do, and continuing to insist on that when technology in general and recording technology in particular are only going to get better over time is a futile effort.
Obama Urges F.C.C. To Adopt Strict Rules on Net Neutrality
A few things:

1) Like all things it's a balance. Developers are valuable resources and I'm not going to dump 100 CVs on them when I can reduce that number. Aside from anything else they'd hate me if I did but also I can reduce that number without significantly reducing the quality.

2) In many cases these aren't HR generalists, they're recruitment professionals. They know about whether people are eligible to work, they know about qualifications, they can spot odd patterns and gaps in CVs and they can spot a well written CV.

You mock spotting typos but how interested should I be in someone who sent out a professional document to someone they were trying to impress and didn't proof read it? How serious are they about the job? Are they going to send the same sort of thing out to my customers? Maybe it's just me but while it wouldn't exclude them outright for this, it raises alarm bells.

3) You can define basic rules which allow someone relatively non-technical to filter out complete time wasters. If a candidate hasn't listed JavaScript in any of their roles and I've asked for commercial JavaScript experience then I can reasonably conclude (1) they don't have it, (2) they do but not enough to warrant listing it (which is effectively 1) or (3) either they are an idiot or their communication skills suck because despite knowing it was relevant they didn't mention JavaScript when applying for the job. Whichever it is of those I don't think I need to waste a developer's time having them look at the CV - maybe they do have those skills and a developer could work that out but I could probably find someone who knew JavaScript who didn't also have the questionable decision making skills that led them not to mentioned it.

Let's be clear, this isn't a stage where people making difficult, detailed decisions requiring specialist skills. This clearing what should be a relatively low bar to create a long list where those with real skills will get involved.
They actually tout their anti-hacking and anti-DDOS services when you sign up...
This issue isn't going to be subject to a vote by congress, so this is a place where the president can have some actual clout.

That's never certain: The FCC regulates by way of Congress' authority, and Congress can change that authority any time it likes (and the President concurs) through the normal legislative process. They can also make trouble for future FCC appointments, call FCC members in for hearings, and otherwise make the FCC's life miserable.

It's absolutely one of the things that limits the FCC's freedom of action.

IMHO, this is simultaneously a political move (nobody loves Comcast), an ideological move (President Obama almost certainly believes that additional regulation in this area will be good for consumers) and a negotiation tactic (the more the broadband providers are worried about Title II, the more willing they'll be to support FCC neutrality regulation short of that).
I think the concern is somewhat misplaced, because we've already seen the FCC take multiple stabs at regulations on net neutrality, that have been based on the principle of no or limited interference with lawful content, and they haven't required inspection of traffic.

Its not a requirement that ISPs block unlawful content, its a prohibition on blocking lawful content. A strong enough prohibition on blocking lawful content (e.g., one which provides consequences whenever lawful content is blocked, even if the intent was to block unlawful content and the lawful content just got caught up in the net) actually reduces the incentive for ISPs to attempt to identify and block unlawful content, since attempting to do so but making a misidentification in the process can result in penalties.

In fact, I'd argue that a no-blocking-lawful-content rule combined with a safe harbor provisions preventing ISPs from being liable for transmission of unlawful content by customers so long as the ISP wasn't actively involved in soliciting or promoting the specific illegal content is probably a good protection against ISP-initiated snooping, since it eliminates any liability-based incentive for it.

OTOH, it doesn't stop ISP-snooping-at-behest-of-government, but if you get a mechanism to do that, its going to be outside the context of net neutrality.
I'm 99% sure when I first clicked this link it was the whitehouse.gov one. Why did it get changed to techcrunch?
"So, as I have before, I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect."

Does that work? Is that implementable and/or good? Isn't peering a pretty reasonable thing to do in a lot of cases?
Even if that happens, it will be no worse than the status quo of not having cameras. If anything, it will look more suspicious that the camera suddenly failed before a suspect supposedly fell down 3 flights of stairs, whereas today, you're just SOL.
This just provides more impetus for us to get out ahead of the government and implement the next-generation communication technologies that make it impossible for anyone to spy on us.. of course, if that happens, there'll be further battles upstream .. as well as a few submarine battles we probably don't know we have to fight, already, as advocates of peace and communication - but nevertheless the time has never been as ripe as it is now for the new shit to drop.

Question is, how? What? These are the sorts of answers we have to find. A DHT over a P2P with no central control? It still seems so out of reach ..
I have a model B+ and I find it somewhat slow even when just using it as a media player, the audio out from HDMI is also much worse than the 3.5mm. For $35 it's a great deal but i'd much rather a ~$50 price point with more RAM and a faster CPU, possibly onboard wifi as well.
http://www.pointergate.org/ So much gang activity going on here.
So basically it's a win-win.
Certainly a little. Though most of it was Bush era expansion of Clinton legacy. Obama has actually made some pretty interesting investments in the defensive and technological side of geopolitical cyber struggle.

Here, however, the ISP market is what we're talking about. Certainly the two topics are related. My hope also is that Snowden kickback has informed this Administration, as it finishes its second half of its final term, how the world and how Americans think about the internet.
> Forced compliance, as in "You are a utility and all such utilities must comply with NSA/CIA/FBI/ABC requirements"

We have that now, without net neutrality.
I read somewhere that the Dalvik original team is no longer at Google. Not sure if this is true.
Especially now that C++ gets more platform-hiding features. System calls is the enemy of portability. DirectX is still a pain in the ass, though the attractivity of making OS X ports makes OpenGL more familiar to developers.
The release process might help explain it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease or, if you're familiar with Chrome's stable / beta / dev / canary channels, it's largely the same model.

As far as fundamental web platform features are concerned, the Developer Edition is a normal pre-Beta channel. It's primarily that more willing to promote new tooling up from Nightly into the DevEdition or to set different default preferences, for instance.
Money sure makes me happy.

I hate working for other people and my profiyltable business has allowed me to continue to work for myself.
How do the peering different from how the power grid works? Isn't that system also made from private network owner, all needed to work collaborative in a common network?

Imagine a power grid where different sources paid different amounts for the last mile. Would it be right to deny the last mile to a new actor, say a new solar power plant, on the basis that its competing with existing coal power?
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While I agree that there could be such rules that accompany a reclassification of the internet as a utility, net neutrality is what so many people have been pushing for.

Yes there could be unwanted side-effects of such a classification, we have to cross that bridge when we get to it.
Great slides - thanks. One surprise "leave off education". Would like to hear some more thoughts about that - haven't seen that before. 18 yrs experience so I'm sure its not too important (I did nothing spectacular in college, but did graduate) - still leave it off completely?
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> What tools do you need?

I wonder where do you draw a line for a developer oriented browser. Is a good 'line' be tools for 'whatever loads on page'?

Since we already have color picker etc, I think good candidates are

* Onscreen ruler

* Gradient generator

* Builtin JSfiddle

* CSS sprite generator

* Image to base64

* JS/HTML/CSS formatter

* JSON tools - tree-viewer/formatter/validator

* XML tools - tree-viewer/formatter/validator/xpath
AIUI, it replaces the Aurora channel in the Firefox release schedule (which historically went Nightly -> Aurora -> Beta -> Release). In addition, whereas previously all experimental browser features would be held back in Nightly until fully-baked, this new channel will receive experimental developer tools from Nightly while still holding back all experimental non-developer features, so that the browsing experience itself isn't affected.

(Also, it has a darker and more compact visual theme by default that echoes that of the built-in devtools.)
He calls for "Free and Open Internet"

An internet where all traffic is closely monitored, recorded and data-mined is not free and open in my books.
Broadband ISPs haven't been regulated like common carriers for almost two decades. Meanwhile consumer access to the internet has been oppressed and stagnant? I don't see the evidence for that.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry Truman

I don't care whose plan it is, so long as it gets done.
Huh? Is this the same President Obama that put Tom Wheeler in charge of the FCC? In case it isn't obvious (and since no-one else has mentioned it yet, I guess it's not), Tom Wheeler was a huge lobbyist for the very people who are trying to end net neutrality.

I don't get calling for X then performing actions that negate X.

Edit: there's another front-page story to Bloomberg that actually explicitly mentions the Tom Wheeler connection: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-10/obama-calls-for-reg...
HN FAQ: Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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+1.

I'm a libertarian, and I'm not necessarily pro-NN.
Complaining about downvotes? That's an automatic downvote.
Or you need competition (see how ISPs work in Britain and some places in Europe). Or you need socialization (see how ISPs work in South Korea).

Regulation isn't the only solution.
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