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Last mile unbundling isn't about neutrality though, it's about getting better service. If one wants to advocate for that, it should be decoupled from net neutrality. Net neutrality is about preventing fast lanes, charging companies for access to the network, and degrading competitors products.
An open letter to Seth Godin: let’s save the world from bad presentations
Why Coca-Cola wants to sell the world expensive “science milk”
Given everyone recommending books for math autodidacts interested in learning the "breadth" of mathematics, I cannot recommend more highly Saunder's MacLane's "Mathematics, Form and Function".

It reads as a high level false-historical account of how math might have been developed, in its entirety, if it unfolded in the most direct and logical way from the human experiences we all share (guided by understanding of where mathematics has ended up in the modern age).

The false-historical expose is fantastic. The goal becomes less to express things as accurately and comprehensively as modernly possible—which you'll experience as you take on graduate level books or modern papers—but instead to demonstrate large-scope intuition for why whole fields evolved as they did and how they are all intermingled.
> These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services.

My concern is, how are they going to define lawful content and services, and more importantly, how are they going to determine it in practice? It can easily translate into some heavy handed surveillance systems which analyze the lawfulness of the whole network.
> The thing I find unsatisfying is...

I suppose my use of the word "regime" is unconventional. What I mean is a "parameter regime", or "for a certain range of a parameter".

For example, for the range in which \hbar is much smaller than one (in some units), this is the "parameter regime" in which QM and Newtonian mechanics agree quite/indistinguishably well. And for the range in which \hbar is close to one, "Newtonian mechanics breaks down", in the sense that QM effects are large -- i.e. where Newtonian mechanics is no longer a good approximation to QM.

> Quantum mechanics is correct. Always, always, always[1] use Quantum mechanics!!! Newtonian mechanics is obsolete!

I would not agree with phrasing it like that, and it is indeed Special relativity (or a part of it).

If quantum mechanics makes Newtonian mechanics (NM) "obsolete", then what does that imply for Special relativity (SR)?

QM makes corrections to NM with the parameter \hbar. SR makes corrections to NM with v/c (velocities you make experiments at over speed of light). So say that we are doing a mechanics experiment on our desk (say dropping something on a spring, or whatever). And we go with your "always use QM", it would take a long time to write down what happens, the same (although a bit faster) if we were to go with "always use SR".

Before you start writing down what is going on for that experiment, you make an assumption/approximation of which range of parameters is relevant for you. An apple dropped on a spring bed would not have relevant corrections from QM nor SR.

> The reason that I am adding it as a comment is not to correct you -- you are already right -- but to maybe help other readers.

Absolutely! Thats is also my goal in discussing these things. I do not always know how to make them "popular"/less technical, so I'm very interested in hearing other ways of explaining it.
Why would I trust a random site to see my emails?
Or it could simply be reduced stress.

After my second orchiectomy related to cancer, I had to wait several weeks before I could see an endocrinologist about testosterone replacement, so in that time my bioavailable testosterone basically declined to nearly nothing. At one point I became so mellow that stuff that would normally bother me just got ignored. In some ways, it was a kind of a bliss-- I even considered not having testosterone replacement therapy.

That was short lived, however. My endocrinologist told me that I needed testosterone to continue being healthy -- to maintain bone strength, etc., so I ended up doing the TRT.
For me it was vector algebra. I was trying to write space games with real motion, and that was the key to efficient code.
...and polynomial hierarchy
And for comparison:

http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...

It's sort of surprising to me how much huger the .NET version is, in terms of code. Virtually all the lines in the Java version are API docs. The .NET version doesn't seem to have them (they must be elsewhere?) but it does have a lot more code and that code is much lower level.

Not sure what that means, if anything, but it's interesting.
If Steve Jobs was handed a pen and asked “Sell me this pen”
I fail to see how this is different from Facebook (and formerly Google+)'s real names policy which will flag unusual names and force you to give a valid Government ID to reactivate your account.

Facebook (along with Twitter) is often the gateway to commenting on a lot of popular sites in the US. Very few people stop and make the alternate account required.

References:

1. https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185

2. http://boingboing.net/2011/08/27/eric-schmidt-if-you-cant-us...
I'm very interested in the first point - I have to wash my hair every day, otherwise it's the same. How did it work out not washing it for 45 days? Is there something to read about it?
The cost of operating those is also questionable, especially in China.

It is profitable to have pizza hand-delivered in the US/Europe where labor cost is high. In China, I wonder how that is even possible.
I don't see how. Also, what would "time slowing slightly" even mean? That is, what frame of reference is time slowing against? How would we even measure that effect, given that all of our tools which measure time do so my detecting a fixed interval of it passing? Intervals which would also be "slowed".
The drone in this stunt is operated by YuanTong, a parcel delivery company, not Alibaba. Also Alibaba does not (generally?) maintain distribution centers or hold inventory. So from a strategic perspective drones don't mean to Alibaba what they could to Amazon.
Again Harold, a falsehood. Since you have contributed to two threads with the same misinformation, I'll make this clear, not for you, but for everybody else.

Shen is under BSD and anybody who downloads it can see this. The 1/3 page of comment in the pdf is simply pointing out copyright law, mainly for platform holders (and you're not one having sent no code). Everything was thrashed out in fine detail and agreed on before the change.

For other hackers, none of this will register with Harold who will simply continue to spout as he likes to do and write emails to me, but everybody else can find out for themselves by downloading.

I'm not going to feed your self-importance by entering into public correspondence with you. This is all I'm going to write. If others want to get down with you, they can.
> All you have to do is demonstrate that TMs can be simulated in JavaScript, and that's fairly easy to do since TMs are so bare-bones.

Actually I think this is fairly non-trivial. Sure you could make a "compiler" that compiles a JavaScript interpreter down to a Turing machine, but you would almost certainly not understand the generated states and transitions.

A more elegant model of computation is the lambda calculus. It's also very bare-bones, but it's easy to imagine writing real programs in it. Functional programming languages, at their core, are just lambda calculi with some syntactic sugar.

It's practical, but it's also a good foundational model. It's easy to reason about, due in part to the fact that it models familiar math (partial functions).
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Rent control bears much of the blame for this. Landlords subject to rent control are discouraged from keeping their tenants happy with updated appliances, frequent maintenance, etc., because the only way they can re-price their units at market rent is if the current tenant vacates the unit. Poor upkeep, on the other hand, will encourage tenants to vacate.
>I say everybody who is mentally OK (strong condition here) should try them once.

It's a bit of a problem here that you cannot really know whether people are actually mentally okay, even if they seem so.
Because you don't understand their argument, they must be wrong, right?

And no I can't explain you their argument because whenever I do so I get downvoted.

The government wants their hands on all means of communication. The FCC basically shunned the public from using radio waves and TV waves. Now they're going to shun us away from the internet. The same organization, the FCC, will do this as they previously did with other means of communication, and you cheerleaders are being fooled and don't even know it. Not only that but you criticize those who see this for the fascism it is. It must be great to be ignorant because you can even attack those who read history and think you're coming out on top.
A brief history of iOS beta testing
> does it work well for time series data

It's a key/value store at its heart, with all the ACID magic and memory buffering built in.

Almost any KV store would preform relatively well at time series data by simply by updates to overwrite old data instead of constantly deleting old data (assuming the KV store is efficient in its updates).

Issuing updates instead of deletes is possible because you know the storage duration and interval, and can thus easily identify an index at which to store the data.
Is there OpenGL on their mobile platforms? It can run just fine in theory there, but it's not available. Applications are not limited to Java, and often rely on the graphics system a lot and there can be as well native code.
It's said a lot that infrastructure cost is the barrier to entry but I don't think that's true. Tacking cable to telephone poles is not terribly expensive. There's no good reason a great many households couldn't have two or three different cables running past their homes. As I understand it the issue is the local governments that issue permits for such things are bought off by the providers. It's a problem of corruption, not infrastructure cost.
You can't fool Moter Nature
Alibaba is testing drone delivery in China
The ideal professor is (a) a world-recognized expert in the appropriate field, and (b) a really good teacher. Frequently, you'll find one or the other, but not both. Far too frequently, you find neither.

But the best professors I've had (and I've had a bunch) were the ones that really did combine both. (And frankly, I can forgive a lot of poor teaching in return for a "well, this is technically true, but no one really does it that way; they use this shortcut...."

As for a university education not providing immediately applicable industrial experience, well, that's kinda not the point of it. Sort of the difference between passing the FE exam and being a PE.
Before you start thinking "oh, those crazy Chinese...", remember that many people in the USA (and other western countries) fervently believe that we should do the same thing.
> just everyday people who have decided to do as single term in state government, and have little to no plans to run again.

That the most politically beautiful strategy I've ever seen. I wish politics wasn't a star-fucking showboating circus. I wish it was about helping people, but apparently that's a radical stance.
I wonder what will be the effects of all these tons of testosterone goingh through humans into water, soil and all other organisms.
HCG, Clomid can be taken to counter that.
One is a decision by a private company (which you can get around by using a different service) and one is a mandate from the government.
Perhaps so, but an OS lacking device drivers is not particularly useful.
Congress can not directly force a change, but they are the ones that pass the budget, so they can apply a lot of pressure to a federal agency.
This is an absolutely valid question, but it also has a flip-side: what obligation does law enforcement have to regulate content that you and I, as open-Internet believers, agree is unlawful? Shall we allow illegal content in order to err on the side of caution?
Thank you for the recommendations!

The author for Graph Theory is W. T. Tutte, not Tufte, and much appreciate the link which helped clear up my initial confusion.
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That's what they'll swear to you, but of course the government will use it for censorship just like the FCC nowadays censors the TV and Radio.

Read up the history of the FCC. At the time it was also "necessary" to regulate airwaves because of several noble reasons but of course what ends up happening is that now you have to get a license from the government to say something on radio waves.

You will have to get a license to have a website in the future if the FCC has its way online. Write my words.
You should look at JavaFX. I just finished an app based on it. It's the official replacement for Swing and is quite WPF like in nature (scene graph oriented, etc).

Although there are skins that can make it look native on each platform, I didn't bother with this for my app. Trying to match native on a cross platform app is a fools errand. A few months after you ship your app, the OS developers will decide to reskin everything and anything not using their native toolkit will look out of place. So my app takes its inspiration from Twitter Bootstrap and just doesn't even try to look native. You can skin JavaFX with CSS so it's quite easy to match the look, at least in some ways. Nobody has complained and quite a few people said the app looks great. I would definitely do this again for my future apps. Pick a nice design that isn't native to any platform in particular, and people won't hate you for it.

BTW Java now comes with a packager tool that makes self contained native installers which don't depend on the user having Java installed. Deployment is a lot more practical these days.
> Ok, here it comes: but AT&T and Verizon are going to bring lawsuits immediately in response to this action, and due to years of stonewalling judicial appointments by Republicans, this suit is very likely to land in a court that is corporation-friendly, even if it does not wind up in the (also corporate friendly) Supreme Court.

A lot of the big proponents of net neutrality -- including specifically proponents of the FCC using Title II -- are also big corporations, and will inevitably file briefs supporting the FCC action (which they lobbied for.)

"Corporation-friendly" matters less when there are big corporations on both sides.
Aren't those places already being served by higher latency deliveries at a much cheaper rate?
Same here. Linear Algebra is what got me from "math is boring, and I only learned things to pass a test" to "math is really cool, and can actually solve these problems in real life"
In my experience it certainly does. And it's annoying as hell if you live in a place without a washer & dryer.
If they cash out immediately, we'll know that there will be one large buyer around April 15. Wouldn't that enable collusion in the market?
Does this apply to Chinese commenters on overseas blogs and forums?

If so, they've just solved a huge chunk of the comment spam problem.
You'd prefer to see nothing (or nothing but a spinner) until everything is available to be shown?
In some states, which regulate such things. I don't know about fines, but if a gang from the IEEE or the ASME catch you wandering around wearing their colors without being a member,....

Don't go near any dark alleys.
Very few mobile apps need OpenGL. The larger problem is the lack of Android APIs.
I think reality is already on the heavy surveillance side as known (like this example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ).

So some push should be done in the opposite direction.
In case anyone hasn't previously encountered Poe's law, this post is a great example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law.
Opponents of net neutrality can probably get a majority in the House, but probably not a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and in any case not veto-proof in either House, which, given that the President has made this publicly a priority, limits the prospect for any legislative rollback.
Why only mobile broadband? Why not hardline too? Does anyone know?
Mobile games do. And if you want to translate it into a broader context, what about having OpenGL on Xbox? Didn't MS want to unify their OSes across different devices? So it's really all related.
For what it's worth, it was linked to from Drudge.
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What really bugs me is that this is the same direction a lot of policy makers and even tech companies seem to want to go, all the while decrying the Chinese for the same actions. I hope we don't allow it to progress that far in the US, but we really need to step up to the debate when people start droning on about cybersecurity, trolling, libel, and defamation on the Internet. Perhaps I'm just in the minority that thinks free speech should include the right to offend and we should not allow everyone to get offended at anything they want and get it banned.

Youtube co-founder jawed's first youtube comment: "why the fuck do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?"
Those don't have to be deal-breakers.

- You don't have to use Blade. Use Twig or Smarty or whatever you want

- You don't have to use Eloquent. Use raw queries or Doctrine or whatever you want

- You don't have to use Facades - use the IOC container to get whatever you want

Its so easy to plug-and-play with composer, and there are so many other features to laravel.
It sounds like you are the one spouting quack science.
The Ethics of Algorithms
If you wanna build something similar, you can use clearbit.com for getting lots of data from just an email address.
You can't really win with web apps. A native app that painted either way would be called 'broken' and not pass QA. Yet we swallow things like this without blinking.
I like how if you answer "no", it says "great, you're doing it!"...
I think one can think both that the Chinese government is exceptionally repressive and be scared how many people in the West might be willing to follow their lead.

Thankfully, I don't think a real names policy has much chance in the US for the time being.
That's a big one. Cheers!
> my proposal includes a general conduct rule that can be used to stop new and novel threats to the internet. This means the action we take will be strong enough and flexible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined.

What does that mean? Sounds like a euphemism for an Internet kill switch?
Unless I am mistaken the legal paradigm you seem to be suggesting is that one country can intervene in another country's domestic armed conflicts/civil wars so long as they are invited. Such a paradigm is exactly what the UN was established to prevent, unilateral military action. There are dozens of case studies from Africa in the past ~30 years alone, a given country breaks out into a civil war and the UN sends peace keepers or other countries send troops (typically always in cooperation with the established government) but they can not lawfully engage unless the UN has authorized the use of force or they act in self-defense.

>Yemen allowed the US strikes. The US thus no more needs UN support to strike AQAP than it does to raid a Montana militia compound.

Not even the US suggests this is the case, as you have expanded the use of force to non-citizens. The US' legal memo is very clear, the US believes they were allowed to Use Force in Yemen without UN authorization because the target was a US citizen making this a domestic issue. The US legal opinion was very narrow regarding use of force against a US citizen, anywhere in the World, but the legal opinion acknowledges if it was not a US citizen that International Law would apply.
I just tried to two days ago and did a complete project with it. Auth, CRUD, file management, etc. It's an instant love for me. Docs is mostly ok, Google provides instant answers. I'm happy to ditch CodeIgniter for this.
Given both Googles and Facebooks origin funding, I think a debate could be had about this point.
So basically, you've got a 10x programmer. Lucky you!

Try not to kill the goose that lays golden eggs.

First, you could talk to this programmer asking whether he/she would wish to integrate more closely with the other programmers' culture (perhaps he/she would like to but there's something preventing it, like shyness or other). But my bet is that he/she doesn't particularly care about it, and it could even be detrimental to the golden eggs production. After all, a day has only 24 hours.

If that poses a problem with respect to the rest of the team, you may try to isolate a 10x golden eggs laying team. Right, for now you only have one in that team, but cross your fingers, you could be very lucky. This isolation could be physical (have a separate branch for this other team (eg. when Steve Jobs built his team to develop the Macintosh, they worked from a separate building from the main Apple Campus)), but foremost it could be more virtual, meaning the two teams can work on different projects (or if the same project, on different modules).

Perhaps you can contract now several projects for several customers at the same time, distributing independent projects to your teams?
This is exactly what he fails to see.
The same (or similar) password as any other online account you have. In theory that should be safe(r) than using the same email (obvious to most people as a key for joining data). As I said, I just saw that mentioned by Snowden in Citizenfour -- and it stuck with me, as yet another thing that could be used to track a user across accounts.
Misleading HN title.

The actual article's title is "How to Hire a Live Chat Team".
Is your programming language unreasonable?
Stumbled upon Flask. Liked it.
There's a pretty good Linear Algebra course currently being offered on edx.org. I just made it past week 1 with relative ease and in the next few weeks we will be using Mathematica. (Every student gets a license for the duration of the class)
The conditions for wildfire do not arise out of neglect and laziness.
Wow.

It is an accurate assessment of how our legislative system works, but it is completely irrelevant to the discussion. The FCC is not putting a bill up for a vote by congress, they are proposing telecommunications rules that an internal commission will vote on.
Sure, but still, having a way within SWIG to generate both standard python binding and more cffi-friendly python could help transitioning.

That way, new projects can still benefit from the strength of SWIG that allows them to propose bindings for multiple languages with a single tool. Because, let's not kid ourselves, using specific binding libs for every single language you want to support has a cost. And in that case backward compatibility does not matter much.

All the while giving a transition path for projects still using what I would call the legacy way. Or those who want/need to poke in the CPython API.
"Messages are heavily encrypted". WTF does that mean? I guess that's Telegram's approach to security. Lightweight, correct, encryption does not work for them. They prefer heavyweight and incorrect.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21154195

The evidence is strongly suggestive that vitamin D supplementation has an effect on testosterone levels in men.

On a purely anecdotal, personal level, I had my free test checked some years back, before I started vitamin D supplementation. After supplementing with 10,000 IUs a day for around a year, I had it checked again and it was significantly higher (I don't have the numbers now, sorry).
It's a statement of where they want to be, rather than where they are.
If the Chinese government wants to help unmask people?
Might as well have an article titled "The Ethics of Dynamite".