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But Rust does solve all memory safety issues, doesn't it? In the same way, say, F# does. Except I can use it without worrying about deployment or runtime costs.

One scenario I am using Rust for is a packet capture parsing and forwarding daemon. With C, my biggest failure mode is "people can run code on your server by sending a packet across your network". With Rust, my biggest failure is "my code might be buggy so results could be useless". In fact, even if I try, I'm having a hard time coming up with code I could write that'd expose a security issue.

That's pretty close to magic pixie dust. Yes, it's a restricted scenario, but I doubt it's an uncommon one. A bunch of vulnerable utilities are basically just reading and writing data from/to files. If they weren't using a memory-unsafe language, they simply wouldn't be in a position to open security holes.

Am I overlooking something here?
I agree that it's a silly comparison; you should take that up with the post I replied to, which explicitly mentioned water and power and seemed to imply that my internet service would degrade to the same quality as those utilities (if only!)

When I had a landline telephone, I was completely happy with it. It was inexpensive and reliable, and if I was unsatisfied with my service I could choose from several other providers. I could use my own equipment with it, all of the consumer electronics were interoperable with any service provider, and I never had an outage (to my knowledge; I didn't get a lot of phone calls). I had a wide variety of options for dialup internet at the time, either through my phone provider or other competing providers. This was in a small town in northern Idaho, too, and it wasn't exactly known as a telecommunications hub or city of industry.

I am unhappy with my cable TV service, which is provided by the same company as my cable internet service. My cable provider is the only one in my area, and has no incentive to do anything other than take slightly more of my money every year in exchange for performing zero upgrades or service improvements.

This is just a single data point, but only one of the two companies I mention above is subject to Title II regulation currently, and it's coincidentally the one that I had a good experience with.
That's exactly right. A utility implies a commodity item. Take the electric business for example, you might compete on price, but quality is never part of the equation. There isn't a "better" electricity. It's all the same. A phone line is a phone line. You can't pay more for a better quality phone line -- it facilitates phone calls. There aren't "faster" phone lines -- a phone call is a phone call. Obviously I am talking land lines here. Same with water. There aren't any water companies competing based on the fact that they provide Evian on tap. Even if you wanted to pay the price to have Evian on tap, it will never happen; water is water in terms of a utility. Making the Internet a utility will destroy competition because it commoditizes it.

I know that some percentage of the HN community seems to love government regulation and feels that capitalism is somehow evil, but te government has a long track record of being highly inefficient and mostly immune to market forces. If you don't like the drivers license office service, too bad, it's the only game in town; there's no incentive to improve it. I find it ironic that despite the Libertarian leanings of many of us here, there's some desire to implement more regulation, more restrictions and less competition. How does less competition improve anything? Without incentives, the market-driven pressure to make it faster and cheaper disappears.

I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of the consequences of regulating the Internet and presumably taxing it like a utility. There are significant unintended consequences.
I just came across this site, anyone used this and have feedback to give on it?
Portuguese has some influence from French in terms of character set as the first King was of French origin.

At the time of the country origin, Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Asturian, Arab were all spoken in the penisula, which might have contributed to such deviation.

At its roots Portuguese came from Galician mixed with some Arab.
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> is anyone 100% happy with their utility (power, water, etc)?

Yes, absolutely. My water is clean, potable and available with at least 99.99% uptime. Same goes for electricity, which is only slightly less reliable (down for a few hours in a major blizzard several years ago)

If my electricity were slightly cheaper, that'd be nice, but it's still less than half my cable/internet bill. Power is already deregulated here, so if I really cared, I could shop around for a cheaper rate, or for electricity generated from renewable sources.
Title II regulation will not necessarily open up the copper wiring to your house to competitors. The FCC is expected to forebear a lot of the Title II rules, and that may well be one of them.
He mentions privately funded scientific ventures being fudged often.

And if what you say is the case, you present a stronger reason for skepticism of scientific claim than mere pattern recognition.

The piece is certainly sensationalist but it presents a valid point and tries to offer a view of understanding of alternative viewpoints. Walking in other people's shoes seems to be something many in the world have trouble doing.

I know I've certainly met some quite militant science folks who think everyone who doesn't vehemently believe in the latest scientific concept is an idiot because p < 0.05. That kind of attitude wins no hearts and changes no minds of the "non believers".
It really is oversimplified.

"Creating dozens of light sources simultaneously on screen at once is basically not doable unless you have Mantle or DirectX 12. Guess how many light sources most engines support right now? 20? 10? Try 4. Four. Which is fine for a relatively static scene. "

For my Masters degree project at uni I had a demo written in OpenGL with over 500 dynamic lights, running at 60fps on a GTX580. Without Mantle, or DX12. How? Deffered rendering, that's how. You could probably add a couple thousand and it would be fine too.

"Every time I hear someone say “but X allows you to get close to the hardware” I want to shake them. None of this has to do with getting close to the hardware. It’s all about the cores"

Also not true. I work with console devkits every single day and the reason why we can squeeze so much performance out of relatively low-end hardware is that we get to make calls which you can't make on PC. A DirectX call to switch a texture takes a few thousand clock cycles. A low-level hardware call available on Playstation Platform will do the same texture switch in few dozen instruction calls. The numbers are against DirectX, and that's why Microsoft is slowly letting devs access the GPU on the Xbox One without the DirectX overhead.
All the devices look the same which would be strange for manual testing. However, agreed that to assume it's app store rating is a logical leap.
I find your comment to be strange; the article is not an argument against learning another language or experiencing another culture. Rather, the article is about the rather simple question: do people who are bilingual enjoy cognitive benefits over those who are not? There is no judgement attached to this question.
Learning a whole new language just to read literature or enjoy another culture is a lot of work. Lets not pretend people are doing that all across the world. If you fall in love with a particular culture go right ahead. But if you don't, what then? Learn a bunch?

I bet nearly all bilingualism is caused by immigration, cultures with historically close contact, and people learning a lingua franca.

Part of the reason the US tends to be monolingual is because we have only one native language. English is the lingua franca of North America and now the globe.

Spanish is growing because the fuzzier and fuzzier border with Mexico.

But it's kind of a waste to learn German just so that when I got a trip there once every 5 years I'll be more able to drink up the culture.
Utilities are the state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial. Utilities in the US are typically public, so the internet is a public useful, profitable and beneficial utility.

A utility is a platform that is standard/common so that more useful platforms can be built on top of it. Utilities become part of the stack of economic production. A utility could be seen as an economic standard.

If wireless and radio are utilities then so is broadband and wired.
A next generation API comparable to Mantle and D3D12 is being developed inside the Khronos Group: https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-group-announces-k...
This looks something quite easy to detect and ignore if apple was serious about ratings
It seems what is missing in nutrition is the ability to _measure the results on your own individual body_ . For example, you can take a blood test, find out you're deficient in vitamin D, supplement for a while, then take another blood test and see results.

But you cannot do that for most things to do with nutrition. You can't check your gut biome, see a problem, take a specific probiotic, then check again and confirm improvement, because we don't understand the gut biome well enough yet.

You can't do it with most supplements. And even when you can, we hardly ever do. Insurance is not going to be a big fan of it.

You also can't do it with switching from margarine to butter, or drinking more water, or whatever it is you think might help. Without some concrete measurable change that you actually measure, you're taking shots in the dark.

I hope wearable devices can make some inroads here, at least for low hanging fruit (easily measured, well-understood things).
Speaking of recommendations that lead to heart disease, three sarcastic cheers for massively understating the risks associated with abstinence from alcohol. Mostly I just hear "moderate consumption is associated with some health benefits", which isn't anywhere close to conveying the findings (questionable, as always!) that not drinking is almost as risky as "heavy" drinking. Especially considering that you practically have to be a raging alcoholic to fall into the "heavy" category.
I think this is great, everyone should learn the Win32 API as an example of how not to design an API for wanting to build applications on top of the OS.
In many parts of America, electricity is partially deregulated and you can switch providers.
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That's nonsensical. It all depends on the utility of the smoker. Cigarette taxes are, in theory at least, Pigouvian taxes in the sense that the goal is to reduce the harm caused by smoking. They accomplish this in two ways, first, by providing funds to deal with the associated medical costs and two, by reducing the number of people who choose to smoke.

Whether you agree with the assessed level of negative externalities or not (I don't, actually), the tax hasn't "destroyed" anything. Smoking still exists. Fewer people get sufficient utility from smoking to go on doing so, but that's the point of the tax in this case. Too many people were smoking previously due to market inefficiencies. Now the "correct" (again, I believe the externalities were lower than many people believe they were) number of people are smoking.
In fact, it seems that they don't even need to sue you -- they could just "assert" that you violated their patents.
You know, one variation of the Raspberry Pi I'd like to see for the educational market, is a standard graphing calculator based on the Pi's internals. The reason: Even though I'm not convinced that graphical calculators really help students that much, many schools require them anyway. So why not take a (somewhat expensive) necessary device, and make it more functional when you plug in a keyboard/monitor?

I wonder what the price point could be of a device with a decent screen (somewhat better than the TI's), battery/charging, physical buttons, case, plus the Raspberry Pi?
OK, so we have a pretty straightforward rule. Providing no further input to the program once it begins,

1) If execution terminates by some timeout T, where T is at least several seconds, then index that.

2) If execution has not yet terminated by T, whether or not we have any idea whether it will terminate in the future, don't index.

Tune T so that it will get the vast majority of reasonable web pages. (Hypothesize, and test, T = 5 seconds or 30 seconds or something. Have a human look at the highest-PageRanked timeouts to figure out what's going on.)

This applies whether "the program" is server-side or client-side. The halting problem cannot be reduced to the timeout problem (since the halting problem asks if it ever terminates), and the timeout problem is pretty clearly computable.
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Amazing illustration of a Sybil attack
There's no reason to believe they are serious about them. Search and ratings in the App Store are both awful.
You could reproduce this, but it wouldn't be heartbleed if it wasn't pouring out key info.
You might want to include your contact info in your HN profile.
Recent studies also question the link between saturated fat and heart disease.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/study-questions-fat...

There is probably no harm replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat, but that's not what happened based on decades of AHA and govt. recommendations. What happened was that people replaced saturated fat with simple carbohydrates and trans fats, got fat, and had heart attacks. Take a look the heart safe foods the AHA currently approves. Bagels, rice, tortillas, orange juice, potatoes, cheerios. It is a recipe for obesity and illness.

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I worked at a utility, the phone company (GTE), in the mid-90s. Our call centers, while domestic, were certainly not local.

Customers in Muskegon, MI were always shocked that we didn't know what local street they were talking about. How could we? We were in Pennsylvania.

I don't think anyone has run a truly local call support center, for anything, in decades.
They aren't typically public. They are typically private companies that are regulated by a utilities commission at the state level.
Don't exaggerate. Show me how many hours Todd Wilson, the plant manager mentioned in the article, walks or even works a day and how much he earns. Then we can talk cold business.

I'm as liberal as the next guy, but stop pretending that companies are the most efficient, overhead-hating entities around and as such cannot deal with the poor common man, because we all know they're not.
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> science failed my parents generation with cigarettes

My father said that cigarettes were popularly called "coffin nails" when he was a boy in the 1920s, and that doctors routinely advised their patients to quit smoking. I've never heard of science advising people to smoke.

Any scientist who cut open a smoker and saw those black, puss-filled lungs knew it wasn't good for you.
There are certainly detailed technical regulations about what type of electricity and water your utility must provide.
I wonder if autonomous local mesh networks and hyper local mesh networks which is essentially a network of networks would fall under the term "Internet" and under these regulations. That would certainly stop innovation on that front (?)
Except they were given the power of Title II by congress. And there's nobody that can tell you with a straight face that internet access shouldn't be subject to Title II regulations.

This is just a replay of the idiots who decided to deregulate the banking industry. "The regulations are working so well, we don't need them anymore!!11" Cable internet service and "next generation broadband" should've been classified as Title II out of the gate. The exemption was idiotic, and is playing out exactly as everyone said it would when it was first proposed. Consumers get less choice, and poorer service for a higher fee because of it.

BRILLIANT LOGIC!
Just yell HEY SIRI :)
Our Internet traffic is already heavily surveilled without this entirely hypothetical Internet tax you're proposing.

The phone system is a utility, and it's certainly not the fact that it's taxable that makes the TLAs interested in wiretapping it.
Should be table stakes. Rally owns the Agile market and PMs need to collaborate with Engineers (who often use Agile). -Chris
But you still have to render to HTML at some point. Wikipedia spends a huge amount of server resources rendering the last version of every page to HTML and caching it. It throws away older versions and has to render them again when you request them. The NYT ran into performance issues managing millions of articles and switched to client-side rendering even for old static content.