skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"an effectively free an open internet is going to be accessible by motivated individuals, period."

I believe most citizens (myself included) live and act with the intent to obey the law. So while a free and open internet may be technically feasible for any individual, if the access techniques are actually illegal, citizens who wish to obey the law will lose access. The law still very much matters, even if it is hard to enforce and easy to circumvent.
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> Reclassification is at best a hack that's going to have a lot of unintended consequences.

It's not that Title II is the ideal option. On a practical level, it's the only option left on the table.

The EFF is well aware of the issues with Title II, which is why it held out for so long (until just six months ago!) before advocating reclassification, and which is why even then the EFF was very clear to advocate forbearance[0] alongside reclassification, not just reclassification no-strings-attached.

Given the current political climate, I really don't see any way of implementing net neutrality other than Title II reclassification that has even a remote chance of both coming into effect and standing up to the courts. Title II reclassification may be an uphill battle, but any other proposal that I can think of has less than a snowball's chance in hell of actually coming into effect, let alone achieving the actual goal.

We've already seen that there's no way that the FCC can regulate a neutral net under its current authorization without classification under Title II - that's almost literally what the federal court ruling last year said. And there's no way that Congress will pass a new law that either expands the FCC's authority or somehow provides for a neutral net independently of the FCC. So repurposing an existing piece of legislation is what we're left with.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/forbearance-what-it-wh...
Upon reading the headline, my first thought was, "Good Grief! Are engineers paid so little these days!?"

If I can find my jaw, I might just read the article.
Your story reminds me as a freelancer telling the customer: you are "basically" asking me to hit your finger with a hammer.. that said, it is your finger an your hammer.. say the word and I'll hit !
Noah Cross.
Amazon is the company that cut off WikiLeaks when a senator made a hostile speech. Google and Microsoft have both gone to court to resist government actions.
Oh my, thanks.

On a different monitor now I see the light gray "WRITTEN ON JAN 26 BY" on white background.
IANAL, but these regulations and organization requirements in my experience haven't cared about this. A common requirement is physical location of servers / the data on them which this satisfies.
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People are fine being ignorant bigots under their real names on Facebook.

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/10/whats_up_with_the_rag_head_w...

Facebook introduced a new feature; created an ad with a Sikh man; racists everywhere.
I don't see how that is any different, and in fact, lambdas would be one of the great things to benefit from stack allocation.

You just have to annotate or analyze the functions that don't takeover/leak a reference to something.

For something like List.ConvertAll (aka map), ConvertAll does not leak the lambda, it's pure in both input and output. So a stack allocated lambda works just fine. So the type signature for ConvertAll would indicate that it's Pure for parameters passed in. With that info, the compiler is free to pass lambdas on the stack to it.

So whenever the lambda is going to be created, the C# compiler just needs to look at the usage of it - is it passed only to Pure functions? If so, then no need to allocate a whole new object on the heap.

They could make it even cooler by doing Haskell's "fusion" which also contributes to deforesting. We just need the CLR (or even the C# and F# compilers) to provide real inlining. Then when you pass a lambda to an inlined function, you can avoid creating the closure in the first place! For common patterns like "xs.Select(...).Where(...).Aggregate(...)", if each function was inlined and pure, the resulting code could literally be equivalent to a big loop, as if you had hand-written the thing. No allocation all over the place, and much better resulting JIT'd code. I've wanted this in F# for a while (and F# does have inlining so you do get better code than C#), but Rust actually implements it, so lambdas are cost-free in many cases. That is progress.
These days you get a scary name and a logo, and then you find a bug to go with it...
We're talking about a company that has CIA as its customer and censored Wikileaks with a single phone call from a senator.
The same applies to C# though, correct? Plus, I was thinking more of the lines of something like:

class Foo {
private int x = 0;

public void bar() {
this.x += 1; // Whoops!
}
}

Foo x = new Foo();
x.bar(); // Mutating call.

Which Java does not prevent.
The guy with the laptop in the tub is making me uncomfortable on several levels.
+1 for Ractive.js. The library is small and focused. It is trivial to integrate it to your application.
My answer (for others): If I would just respond "no" it would sounds like I'm being a smart ass. It doesn't take much time to try it and THEN reply.
Am I the only one who doesn't read it as an insult?

I thought it was a funny way of conceding David Miller's points. A sort of not conceding but actually really conceding and putting on an ironic attempt to save face.

A mimicking of a kids retort when he/she knows they've been beaten in a game or argument.

Oh yeah? Yeah? Well *you* smell!
... And universities in the West, it's no big secret.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx
tell me about it.

http://hackersurfing.com/assets/dinner5_s.jpg

if you're trying to make an impression, that's the impression you're going to make. sheesh.
Google is a public company.
No, they are running Exchange 2013.
The Xamarin tooling isn't all free, but Miguel de Icaza [1] is a major figure in open source. I'd be surprised if any Xamarin product necessitates closed source.

Even if it did, helping to put food on his table would benefit the open source community. There aren't many people about whom that can be said with less doubt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza
Erdnase is like the Genesis of the card magic canon. While it has an important & worthwhile place on any cardworker's bookshelf (Dai Vernon basically considered it the bible), there are some newer & more modern treatises a little more accessible in terms of language, descriptions, illustration, and just overall instruction. The multi-volume Card College series by Roberto Giobbi comes to mind.
This article, while interesting, unfortunately describes the Equal Transit-Time Fallacy [1].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#False_explanation_...
Title II is shot through with rate-regulation stuff that I don't think anybody thinks is a good idea to apply to ISPs, but it's expected that the FCC will be using its power of forbearance extensively in this area.

The article is very gloom-and-doom about it, but I'm sympathetic to the view that what's really needed is specific authority for the FCC to regulate that doesn't carry all the POTS baggage from Title II. That outcome seems much less likely than reclassification and trying to "patch" the law with forbearance, though.
P2P doesn't necessarily mean cooperative relaying or swarm distribution like BitTorrent. I agree that those applications are mobile-unfriendly with current batteries and cell networks. It just means you are talking directly to your peers instead of back-hauling to the cloud. You can have P2P where the only traffic you handle is your own. In that scenario total aggregate bandwidth shouldn't be that different from a cloud-backhauled app -- the only difference you'd see is in how many endpoints you're talking to. So instead of seeing 25mb transferred to/from one IP, you'd see it sprayed across a few dozen IPs.

The big hurdles I see are (in no particular order):

- Connection maintenance and keep alive. Basically this is bad, so you want to be more aggressive about shutting down unnecessary P2P links on mobile than you need to on desktop/server. Keep alive requirements generally suck anyway, and are one way NAT murders kittens.

- Restrictions around background tasks on mobile OSes (iOS is particularly onerous).

- Squelching inbound traffic from badly behaved or broken peers to avoid inbound flooding.

- Battery life and related concerns.

I understand it this way: cellular networks currently have their own "netiquette." It includes things like don't be too chatty, try to coalesce instead of spewing packets at excessively random times, etc. These things are less important on wired networks since they don't have the same resource constraints or bandwidth issues.

I guess a related question is why you would do P2P and not backhaul to the cloud? I can think of many:

- Reduced latency for things like AR and VR where latency matters a lot.

- Reduced bandwidth cost due to lack of back-haul, and back-hauling a pic being sent between two people in the same city 2000 miles to a cloud server is just offensively stupid anyway.

- Privacy and security.

- With P2P you could have a more open app model where apps aren't wedded to proprietary cloud infrastructure. They still work even without someone's cloud, etc.
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Did Screenhero ever have Linux support?
do you plan to support founders who come to SF to seek funding?
if my friend sends me that link i'd check it out and reply with what I thought
It's easier to understand airplane flight with Newton's laws, rather than Bernoulli's principle:

http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/airflylvl3.htm

In particular, the normal hand-wavey arguments that say that air particles must "meet up" after they are separated are total bunk, so that it's not clear that the upper edge actually has a faster airflow. In fact I had a class at Cornell with someone who was studying how dragonfly wings fly, and in addition to momentum-transfer due to steady streams (like airplane wings) you can also have momentum transfer into vortices which are created by those wings.

In general I feel like this article has a lot of social detail and not very much physics. So, for example, someone who doesn't really understand what pressure is will probably be totally unenlightened on why a moving fluid will have a lower pressure. In particular there is a huge caveat to saying that "pressure + kinetic energy = constant", which is that this is a statement valid on a streamline of the fluid. (A streamline is a curve traced by a small group of particles in the fluid as they go downstream -- averaging out their individual jiggles so that we just see how the fluid overall is flowing. If you inject a steady stream of dye then it often shows a streamline, for example.)

If you're not on a streamline then it might not hold. So for example, cut two holes in a bag, stick some tubes on either side, and have a fan blow into one of those tubes: now you've got air moving at a certain velocity inside the bag; yet it is inflated (higher pressure than the stationary air outside the bag) even though it is moving (which you would think would lower the pressure). Turn the fan around and the bag will be inclined to deflate. The air outside the bag is not on a streamline with the air inside the bag.

The transport equation looks like this:

∂c/∂t + (v·∇) c = D ∇² c + Source − Sink

This equation tells a story: "there is a box moving downstream (v·∇) which contains some stuff, with a certain concentration (c). The time-rate-of-change (∂/∂t) of stuff in the box is equal to the stuff moving into the box, minus the stuff moving out of the box. Some stuff is moving into adjacent boxes proportional to the concentration difference, in a process called diffusion (D); everything else is somehow going out of the scope of the fluid flow (Source − Sink)."

The interesting thing about fluid mechanics, that leads to the Navier-Stokes equations, is that in classical mechanics we have conservation of momentum, which means that the fluid's own momentum in each direction is a stuff subject to this same story. This causes the term (v·∇) c, in particular, to have two instances of v in it (it becomes "nonlinear") and so everything becomes difficult to analyze -- which is why there's a million-dollar prize to make some substantial progress in understanding the resulting equation.
Very clever. It may be robust, but is ridiculously verbose and feels sorta obfuscatory. Also pays a runtime penalty unless they've improved the CLR codegen.

It also might not be super amenable to static analysis.
> I've flagged more posts in this thread than I have at any point on HN, by a lot. It's kind of amazing.

There's some inconsistency with flagging. If the comment is flagged it turns to [flagkilled] at which point it can't attract any more downvotes. But some posts are not bad enough to flag, but very unpopular, and people can just keep downvoting those posts - even after the post can't be edited any more.

It'd be nice if the edit period was as long as the downvote period. And it'd be nice if a [flagkilled] post was still able to be downvoted, or it automatically attracted some downvotes when it dies or somesuch.
You might have included http://nodered.org/
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I think that answers my question! Sorry, I only searched on my phone and it didn't show up.
I don't get what's so bad about backdoors. With the exception of end-to-end encryption, your chat/communication provider already has the keys. What's so much more hackable about the government having a copy?
Not that surprising given that for most of the time, back when it was Persia, the culture of the region was considered practically synonymous with hedonistic pleasure and luxury.
ah so your the one fumbling with a credit card and holding every one up at the bar when I want to get a round in.

Personally I like having access to cash reduces the attack surface for me when compared to handing over my card for every transaction and DONT! get me started on NFC credit cards that can be debited with NO interactinon
Misses the fact that SSL/TLS uses HMAC.
This mission is not really about searching life, but that does not make it less exiting!
I'd say no, and let them know when/if I planned to.
Is it something like an alert? "That's what is going to happen if you come to work here"
> When someone mentions Iran, what images leap into your mind? Ayatollahs, religious fanaticism, veiled women?

No, that's Saudi Arabia you're thinking of. You know, the "good" theocracy that's one of our biggest business partners. Despite the foreign politics a few years ago, Iran is reportedly rather moderate in practice.
Looks pretty cool! As someone who already has housing in SF, do you ever open up the Wednesday dinners to non-surfers, or have any other open events?
Any plans on making this international? Otherwise, may I suggest the following as a domain instead: hackersurfing.co.us or something along those lines.
Groupon was started with a one - page wordpress blog. Now they have around a thousand engineers. You don't HAVE to have a tech co - founder to build a startup.
I think the difference the OP mentioned is that Ractive templates are mustache-formatted strings, and can be stored in external files. So you have a JS file and a template file, not the combination of both you find in React.
Actually its the crappy ATM's not in banks that are more likely to get targeted that's why I used the ones inside the banks branch whenever possible
The WeFunder guys are awesome, super nice people!
Iran is only a very "young" country (by which I mean lots of young people) while at the same time the ruling class seem to be mainly the older people. So I wouldn't be surprised if there is a very big disconnect between the rulings of the state and the desires of the general populace.

For Dutch people the VPRO documentary "Onze Man In Teheran"[0] (Our Man In Teheran) might be interesting. It's a documentary about a Dutch reporter that married to an Iranian woman and emigrated to Iran.

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[0] http://www.vpro.nl/programmas/onze-man-in-teheran/onze-man.h...
In the 60s, many Western hippies went through Iran on their Hippie Trail (Silk Road) tours. Many minds were bent. See Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India by Rory MacLean (2008, Penguin).
And how does this relate to US foreign policy? Or any foreign policy? Or how about HackerNews?

I'd like to comment though on the awfulness of the sign up pop up (popsign?) and the clunky website. It's awful.
The next Air Force One will be a Boeing 747-8
Two reasons - first even if you're okay with the government having a copy (many are not), it's impossible to ensure that only authorized parties will have access to that backdoor.

Having it there in the first place is a security hole, in other words.

Second, having a backdoor in place allows for extralegal shenanigans (which is what everyone is hacked off at the NSA for).

At least as is, they have to get a court order compelling the communication provider to hand over data.
This has been going on for decades.

Perhaps the difference now, is that networked gangs of self-described 'progressives' have been organizing attack mobs on social media, with the targets not just 'evil right wingers', but liberals like Chait who do not pay sufficient homage to the tenets of political correctness.

And who defines what the tenets are? Let's just say that if you have to ask, it probably isn't you.
That's totally fine. In fact, my GitHub account is in a similar boat: most of my work is in private repos.
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It's a beautiful idea but the problem is implementation.

The government of most countries is already a powerful and corrupting force, giving it even the additional power and discretion to 'hand out' a basic income is terrifying to consider.
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Thats very cool
In general governments aren't exposed to the same criticisms as corporations, or held to the same standards, except when their actions directly impact IT and online rights (DRM, surveillance/security policies, and such.)

I don't think that's an accurate statement to make about HN. There are some high-karma users who seem to be very pro-government, and there's no doubt some astroturfing going on. But there is also a vocal population of people who want to see governments act in their people's interests and be accountable for their actions. It just so happens that, as an IT-focused community, HN talks about the IT aspects of government a lot more often.
The threat was not one of kidnapping but of them defecting and then being "ex-filtrated".

This was not unusual. Doesn't mean there were assassinated. So my point still stands, there has not been any publicly known case of an assassination by Russia on US soil or by US on Russian soil.

If you are a spy in any of those countries and want to defect, go to the to other country. Don't go to South America or Europe.
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I can understand why you would say that after the big fight with Microsoft. What if Amazon makes it so the only employees with keys to be able to decrypt data in that region, live in that region. I think that could be the failsafe right there to where even if the government says "hand over the data", Amazon says "we can't and the only people that can are Citizens of xyz and we can't compel them to break the law of their home country".

I'm not saying that is what they are doing but it would be a very interesting strategy.
From the article...

"In total, the amount of cash in the group is around $178bn. Some $35bn in debt reduces that figure to the $142bn mentioned above."
The free version of the Xamarin tools seem to have limited app size and doesn't include their UI integration (Xamarin.Forms):

https://store.xamarin.com/
Practice parts for the surgeon off the 3-D printer.
"a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-de...
i would be interested as well
The lesson here isn't "Human Judgement > Algorithmic Judgement". It also isn't "Humans are good at some things and computers are good at others". It's that there isn't a good reason to make the investment in solving this particular problem algorithmically (yet).

Algorithms are great when you need scale, especially in situations where a 10% improvement in prediction accuracy can make a big improvement in the bottom line. Netflix and other studios might greenlight several new shows in a year, out of dozens that receive consideration. And the Pareto Distribution is in full effect. Most of the profits and awards come from one or two big hits. Algorithmic decision making just doesn't make a lot of sense in situations with a small sample size and uneven reward structure.

It doesn't mean that it isn't possible, though. If someone were to make the massive investment necessary to do a more thorough analysis of the content creators, the actors, the scripts and potential audiences and all of the other possible inputs then algorithms could probably do as good a job as humans, if not better. Netflix and others have only taken baby steps in this direction, working with data that is readily available and using predictive techniques that are well tested and understood. Given the nature of the problem, it doesn't make sense for them to approach it any other way at this time. But when it comes to making billions of recommendations to millions of people per day, they still rely heavily on data and algorithmic prediction. There's a time and place for everything. The time and place for algorithms in our daily lives is changing and expanding, but very slowly.
Coincidentally, I recently meet a group of 5 Iranian women (all here on student visas) while at happy hour in Miami. When I asked if there was any comparable night life in Iran, I was informed that in Iran nightclubs where men and women to commingle are non-existent and more generally women may not consume alcohol. There is a thriving underground scene of house parties where young men and women interact (and drink socially), but these too are illegal gatherings that are often broken up and lead to multiple arrests.

>Declining birth rates, for example, signal a wider acceptance of contraceptives and other forms of family planning

I would theorize the declining birth rates is not a signal of a wider sexual revolution, including, the adoption of contraceptives, rather a signal that State suppression of socializing of the sexes is succeeding. This would probably also account for the increase in average age of getting married.
#1 Children's Hospital Los Angeles: Non-profit teaching hospital.

#2 Kaiser Foundation Hospitals: Non-profit hospital

#3 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: Non-profit hospital

Are non-profit hospitals property-tax exempt? I know non-profits normally aren't, but there are exceptions (e.g., low-income student housing co-ops in Texas).