skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual statement read fairly explicit and useful to me. I'm no expert though. Basically:

No blocking.
No throttling.
Increased transparency
No paid prioritization
Same rules apply to mobile internet

It's all subject to the caveat that the FCC is independent and they decide how and what exactly is implemented.

Those sound to me like the basic and less controversial components of net neutrality. It prevent disadvantaging specific sites, protocols or users if applied in a reasonable way.

https://medium.com/@PresidentObama/my-plan-for-a-free-and-op...
Certainly they aren't mutual exclusive. You'd get my full agreement there. And touche to 'symbiosis' of regulation and competition. I do hope that this is the route we are heading.
There often are police wandering around at chuck-out time. However, they are spread fairly thin on the ground, simply because there aren't that many of them. Using CCTV in this case allows the police to be directed to where they are needed, increasing their effectiveness and reducing the tax-payers' cost of policing.
Yes, let's give the government control to dictate how we may use the most powerful system for free-speech and keeping governments/corporations in check that has ever existed in all of human history. Despite the US government's insistence and profound ability to commandeer the internet for military/spying uses, I'm sure this time they will act in our best interests...

And I know the control Obama's saying he wants the FCC to exert over the internet does not yet appear directly tied to the NSA, but after the past year of Snowden revelations I just want the government to keep the hell as far away from technology as possible. Because the only way this policy becomes politically feasible is when there's a way net neutrality could somehow be perverted to weaken the internet's ability to shine light on corruption.
>the veneer that it was still all about terrorism could at least be believed. Now, we know it's targeted specifically at us for the purposes of exploitation and domination of us.

The great thing about hyperbole is that it rebuts itself.
The webpage for the paper (!) has more information: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/uswealth/

There's also a slide deck for a talk on the paper: http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/SaezZucman14slides.pdf
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I kept telling myself that I should pay for Evernote since I use it so much, even though I don't really feel the value-add of premium features matches the premium cost. When I ordered the Evernote bag, there were some fulfillment issues, and Evernote gave me some credit that I could use toward a subscription. When I redeemed the credit, it said it would extend my existing subscription, so it turned out that at some point in the past, I actually had decided to pay for it.

I guess I look at it like a Wikipedia donation. Paying doesn't really get me any must-have functionality, but it does feel good helping them keep the lights on, since I have the disposable income to make a payment.
At least constitutionally, the 4th amendment (unlawful search) and "innocent until proven guilty" would mean blocking if _known_ illegal traffic.

Yes, granted, those rights are often infringed upon, especially in tech.
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Why a Silk Road 3.0 might be a good thing
Recently what was called "operation ononymous" shut down many dark web sites. Most prominent victim was probably Silk Road 2.0, a darknet drug market platform. One might consider it the ebay of drugs (and other shady dealings).

Not unlike any other startup or entrepreneurial venture a high degree of risk would be involved in actually running such a platform.

Now, solely as a thought experiment I do consider 2 things in such an operation crucial.

1.	Technical ability
2.	Offshore financing

Technical ability is a biggy. Of course, any dork can buy a Wordpress template and pull up an easy shopping system and upload it onto a darknet webhosting service.
While the Tor network does provide some measure of anonymity by itself, it clearly is not sufficient just to use an .onion site and hope for the best. Some serious server mojo is needed, but that alone will probably not do the trick. Intimate knowledge of the Tor network and its limitations along with a high availability, some serious pen-testing skills and the endurance to closely monitor site activity probably would not hurt either.
According to my estimations this ist he first point where it starts to break down being a one man enterprise.

You might be asking, what offshore finance has to do with it. For any money to actually become useable in any way it will have to be washed and the benefactors will have to develop a way to get this income actually into their pockets. This will not only involve money laundring but also a way to store it and retrieve it without getting connected to the operation.
And after all, one would need funds to actually undertake this venture, i.e. server costs and the like and it would probably be a good idea to not get connected to these money flows either. Therefore offshore finance..

Too bad such a thought experiment cannot be transformed into real life without coming in conflict with the law, even if it was just out of curiousity or with the best of intentions.
There's more to the "education" thing than you are realizing.

Even if kids only use them for XBMC clients -- they have to learn how to write the image to the SD card and then boot it, etc. Might not be much -- but that's time better spent than just killing more bad guys in CoD.

There have been plenty of blog posts by the foundation detailing how students are using RPi's in schools. There's been a few times someone has written into one of the Podcasts I listen to and talked about using RPi's in education right here in the US. Playing with GPIO pins is a great way to get kids excited in circuits, computing, tinkering, etc.

There have also been some good examples of taking RPi out to remote areas in Africa and what-not and building a basic computer lounge where people can come and get online, some for the first time in their lives. Now that's inspirational, and educational.

There's a lot of copy-cats of the RPi out now -- most of which are slightly more expensive but offer higher performance. It's important to recall that before the RPi, small form factor SoC boards existed -- but usually were twice, three time, or more the price. The relatively cheap cost of the RPi started all this.
Last time I checked Firefox didn't support showing the websocket frames
Maybe the spooks have tagged a rogue imessage recipient key onto your account, leaving the total remaining count > 0 ;)
EO 12333

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/29/new-documents-...
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Absolutely do this. Having interviewed 50+ candidates for various positions myself, it's amazing how much you can stand out just by upping your online profile a little bit. Some examples:

- one guy I interviewed for a junior position had put his CV and projects online on his own website. It wasn't loads but he was the only one out of that bunch of grad inverviewees to do it. I had a look through it before his interview, and when he came in I said, "that HTML looks remarkably clean! Did you tidy all that up just before you posted for the job?" We both laughed because it was obvious he had. Rest of the interview was nice and easy after establishing the "we are developer friends" bit.

- one guy had no degree, no A levels to speak of, but his contribution to open source was immense. We got him in for interview and he could speak clearly and with authority on each of the huge projects he was involved in. We offered him the job but he refused us to go somewhere bigger.

So go get yourself a GitHub account, buy a domain name for very little/year, point it at a GitHub Page and put anything you can think of on there. Congrats, you are now better than 90% of candidates out there.
If Smalltalk Is So Good Why Does Nobody Use It
I always wonder about the History Channel...the programs are a good piece of entertainment but it's never seemed to be well researched/thought out enough to act as a serious academic resource of any kind.
The strongest argument against a legal framework for net neutrality is that it did not exist while the Internet was being built, and look how awesome the Internet turned out.

The second strongest argument is the comparison to the phone company. When was the last time a landline phone company was considered a fast-moving, cutting edge technology company?? Not for many decades. Every innovation in telephony service over the past 30 years has come from wireless or Internet telephony companies, both of whom are lightly regulated compared to landline phones.

Heavily regulated industries tend to slow down and become conservative; innovation flows around the regulations. You see it in transportation, telecomm, banking, power, etc.

I'm not saying these are winning arguments--the world is obviously different now than it was 10 or 20 years ago--but they are not easily dismissed either.
See also Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
At no point since 2009 did the Democrats control 60 or more seats in the Senate, which would be a requriement to beat a filibuster from the opposing party. So no, the Democratic party did not have a free license for appointee approvals.

EDIT: Came to my attention that Democrats did have a exactly 60 seats in the Senate for a brief period before Ted Kennedy passed away and his seat was won by Scott Brown in 2009. However, the point still stands that there was a very brief period over a span of 5 years where control of Congress was even possible for Democrats.
It's tricky, no doubt about that (I am not worth nearly that much but members of my family and some friends are fairly far north of that).

Family first. No matter what, your lasting real human connections are your family. If you have a clear policy for when and how you will help people out, this can go a lot smoother. My grandparents, for example; They will help with education and medical expenses directly -- which is to say you can ask for help if you need it without looking like an idiot. Otherwise, if they are interested in something you are doing or want to help out in some other way, they will offer. If they don't offer you don't ask. Some families have a more liberal policies that seem to work for them but my family is pretty large and everyone knows what everyone else is doing so this works for us.

Second, hang out with other wealthy people. If everyone has enough and are dealing with the same issues, they are less likely to focus on the money and more likely to focus on the person.

Third, there are people who are not wealthy that just don't care that much about money. If you find them and like them, keep them around (this is where things can get tricky).

I've found that most of these 'hangers on' problems are self made. A lot of wealthy people are busy and will pay to keep people they like in their life -- they are used to using money as a proxy for time and it starts bleeding into parts that maybe it shouldn't. That's when people's feelings get hurt, despite best intentions, and those real human connections evaporate, sometimes very painfully. But as long as people don't tiptoe around issues these things can be handled.
"We got too good at math and engineering without really noticing that we weren’t actually good enough, and we don’t even know if good enough exists."

Our current society conditions us to believe that there is something or someone who understands the systems we have build. (But as an engineer I might just live in my own little bubble)

The truth is that some systems, such as those based purely on physical principles, we actually understand quite well. This is because the physical systems are based on natural rules that are consistent to a high degree. Anyone who has modeled these knows its not easy, and you need to make assumptions, but at least it is difficult to find contradictions with laws of physics.

In contrast, the systems our society is based on today are largely build on more or less arbitrary rules. Even in theory, when you start adding arbitrary rules to a system it becomes very hard to reason about very fast. You can measure it and try to predict how changing the parameters affects the state of the system (according to the measure). But it is very easy to find contradictions.

By enforcing these arbitrary rules (such as rules controlling the global economy), the consequences of which we are wholly unable to understand, we have managed to build a system where success is measured according to arbitrary measures. Over time we have got used to respect people who are particularly good at playing by the rules and/or randomly manage to optimize the things those measures value. To put it other way, the rules, at least when broadly enforced, induce inequality (if we assume that everyone has different attributes).

The scary thing is that the system is so complex (and nowadays global) that we have totally lost track (and responsibility) of the consequences of our actions. Nowadays, it is in most cases a completely meaningless clause when someone says e.g. "We respect human rights.".
Just a basic request, but maybe in the developer edition you could default the '3d view' button being available in the dev panel. It took me a while to figure out how to get that cool (and distinguishing!) feature of FF. Thanks!

Edit: To enable 3d view you have to check a box in the settings menu in the Dev Panel, which makes a little 3d box icon appear if anyone else is wondering.
Show HN: Madrassa – Code and Design Courses Reduced to 5sec GIFs
Yes, here's what you do:

(this was not my case because my first ever internship was through word of mouth)

- Basic info (of course)

- Courses/Certificates

- Voluntary experience

- Personal projects

- Conferences/seminars attended

- Skills (programming languages, etc)

Don't worry if it's half a page, but you may want to increase spacing/font size
Just launched www.madrassa.co Where I try to tackle the 90% dropout rate that online courses experience, by reducing the 10,15,30+ hours of course material to 1,2,3 minutes total. Using the native language of the web (GIF) to teach Code & Design skills.
What courses would you want to see on madrassa?
Obama supports it? Now this is DEFINITELY not going to happen.
> Are you instead recommending a Scala rewrite for a 100,000-line production system?

Why? Even if a rewrite/translation of such a small system was perfectly possible, it's not necessary because of the excellent Scala -> Java interop.
You set a high bar.
This sounds very George Orwell, like "Freedom is Slavery".

It's going to take a very strong argument to support the idea that freedom is enhanced by limiting freedom. Not that it's impossible; my glib statement plays fast-and-loose with "freedom", using the same word in one sentence to mean both the overall amount of freedom as well as in a microcosm. But even so, the apparent contradiction should make us think before jumping in.
I really don't understand this comment. First, science generally is profitable. Medicine, materials research, etc. And in a perfect world, wouldn't it be great if science was profitable? If people would invest in massive research projects, and scientists could bankroll themselves without begging for grant money?
How do you compare the two? Based on what information?
The full article is here: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21631129...

The 16,000 families comprising the richest 0.01%, or “1% of the 1%,” now control 11.2% of total wealth—that's over half the wealth of the rest of the 1%.
There are "light" and "dark" themes in the Developer Tools options pane. Click the "gear" icon near the top right of the toolbox:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Fj8vbCUAMfjwj.png
Firebug 3 – next generation of Firebug
It has three additional USB ports also.
And police seizures. And airport/border guard.
> That is, Java 8's lambda implementation does not preclude fully-backwards-compatible "real" lambdas in the future.

No, it just made them a lot harder to achieve, because any decent "real" lambda implementation requires now the introduction of another language feature: type aliases.
Thought so too, but found this: http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aur...
I graduated during the peak of the recent recession. I ran into this a lot. What worked best for me was to stop fine tuning my resume and do my best to skip HR. I got a few interviews by calling friends already in the field (some of those parents of friends) and asking to be put it contact directly with a technical hiring manager.

Of course, none of those panned out either. A few took hires with more experience and one offered me a job at an embarrassingly low salary (i.e., less than I made as a summer lifeguard).

Ultimately, what worked for me was getting in with a good company doing low level tech work (help desk) which got my recommendations for an internal position. This was my first lesson in corporate hiring: the most effective way to find a job is knowing someone.
Short Answer: Communications industries are different, and too important. The information they carry is, like journalism, a 4th estate to democracy. An econ101 approach to that industry breeds consolidated information empires that influence policy, society, and public discourse to the point of control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Leonhardt-t.h...
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That's not going to happen. Comcast is one of Obama's - and the Democrats in general - closest corporate sponsors.

And were the Republicans to win the Presidency, I can't see them pushing for a formal classification either. They think Comcast is a private company competing in a market, when it's actually a government protected and sanctioned monopoly just like AT&T and Verizon.
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The issue is how much is ending up in the atmosphere.
Very possible it's pictures the author of this tool took personally, which would explain why tineye doesn't know about them, how the author found them, and how they had the patience to annotate them all. Also, best to just assume copyright is all good, it's not like these photos are of military secrets or anything, no need for us to step in, I'd think.
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1) Him having to interfere against the bs of the ISPs makes me sad, as it's one more sign of the politicisation of the internet.

2) I welcome Obama being well advised, but he remains the spy master of the world.
Probably outdated but still parroted relentlessly in resume advice.
Well, that's a deep philosophical question of whether there's an essence to humanity. But I think that if by some miracle we can turn humans into rational beings, then our entire set of motivations, aspirations and drives will change. Education does not do that. So far, over the course of history, we have not changed any of what people may call "our nature".
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The article contained a story which directly disagrees with your last point.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2849#comic

Surveillance may result in more evidence that could potentially allow for better enforcement. However, people run these systems. Centralised surveillance gives a minority of people more power. As seen in the article, this power is abused, because there is nothing else to balance this power.

All these arguments talk about the benefits of surveillance without looking at the social relationships of how real-world surveillance is implemented. Like privacy tools, surveillance is just a tool. Without looking at the social relationships, one can make any argument in favour of, or against, these tools.

Centralised surveillance run by security forces, by nature will overestimate what crimes are being done, and allow the people in charge the ability and incentive to overinterpret innocent acts inappropriately.

CCTV rescuing you from drunken arguments is only one very small part of what CCTV can and will become.
You would understand them once they are correctly placed visually. Isolated they do look incorrect.
According to who? Common carrier is precisely the kind of regulation that free market grandfather Adam Smith supported in his writings. Land-based broadband ISPs do not currently exist in a competetive market, and likely cannot due to issues of redundancy in physical infrastructures. Common carrier regulation is an attempt to limit the effects of such monopoly power. It may be 'two wrongs making a right', but suggest an alternative.
Sometimes people lie so often that you will never be able to trust them again.

I'd never trust a guy who signs secret kill lists, even targeting US citizens without having a trial. He even publicly joked about this, which is sign of insanity to me.

And then there's the case of a jailed journalist from Jemen (who reported about a drone bombardment in Jemen), where he personally called the president of Jemen to prevent him from releasing the journalist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye
Mozilla doesn't own this PPA, it's third party. Chris Coulson, the maintainer had mentioned he doesn't have the time to maintain this anymore as I recall. Suggest just getting Aurora on aurora.mozilla.org
Considering eighty-something percent of people who responded to the survey despised Australis, I could see a lot of people choosing it for #4 alone.
Its on network/hardware level. The issues with internal DDOS is that they are software related. OVH cannot access your server (or it shouldn't) so the only choice they have is to shut the server and wait till you will fix it.

But if you receive DDOS attack to your server from outside, they can defend you using network resources.
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They had 58 votes in 2009 which was darned close and they only needed one Republican to switch sides to stop a filibuster.

Other than that, I guess you don't follow the news much. Harry Reid changed the Senate Rules in 2013 to disallow filibusters of appointments.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-poised-to-limi...
It was always inevitable that the US Government would crawl all over the Internet when it comes to regulation and controlling free speech. Such a thing cannot be allowed to continue to exist in the era of the rising police state. They'll leave the veneer in place.
In your own way, you're doing the exact same thing that you're accusing your grandparent poster of doing. You're implying/assuming that he has no foundation for his argument.

When you have no trust in an authority, it's perfectly reasonable to question good news and be paranoid about true intentions.

Even this morning, I saw this video referenced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI

It's an Obamacare architect admitting that they lied to obscure the tax/redistribution ramifications of the law. His direct message is that a lack of transparency is a weapon to get legislation passed.

And we should trust these people? Take them at their word? Why?