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Netflix has been pushing NN.

They've had trouble getting cooperation from ISPs even when they've gone as far as offering free caching devices to ISPs to minimize their interconnect traffic. This should be a pretty big win for them.
> The key difference is that
the teacher knows theta-star upfront and doesn’t need to explore.

Based on this quote from page 1 and Wikipedia for "active learning" [1], I see the distinction in my examples as this:

1. In machine teaching, the teacher chooses the new observations to be presented. In active learning, the learner chooses new observations to be labeled.
2. In machine teaching, the availability of observations in general is controlled. In active learning, observations may be available but unlabeled, as in a cross-validation set. E.g., voting on which observation to have labeled.

What is your understanding on these topics?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_learning_%28machine_lea...
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You need a landing page, not a signup form. I'm not going to blindly input my name and email address in a form without any sort of context about the service.
what would be so bad about that? doesn't that mean that we would have to "regulate" every successful business, because they could use their additional profit to gain "unfair market advantages"?
This is already being discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112145
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Last mile deregulation was the only thing that was needed. 10s of last mile providers would have battled for that $50/month. Comcast would be irrelevant in 10 years.
Tom Wheeler knew this and this was what he fought to keep. In the mounting public pressure, this was the compromise.
SSL is needed, too. Transmitting passwords via plaintext is a gaping security problem.
on second glance, I tend to agree, but I would never disclose my current salary anyway. I have lied in the past, although the 'lie' was... more combining external benefits for a slight inflation of base pay.

But... just never bother telling your current salary. It doesn't help you in dealing with recruiters at all.

"$x is what will make me consider a new position" is all you need to say.
Massive Roundup of Reactions to FCC Open Internet Vote
Great developments, since, imho, we really need multi-threading to make decent user-interfaces (ones without hick-ups due to blocking of the cpu-resource).

I think what we need is immutable data-structures to be shareable between threads. This approach should also allow structural sharing between threads, allowing for efficient and safe data structures.

Also, I could see a use for a mechanism where a thread creates a data-structure, then marks it as read-only, such that it can become shared.
1. This is the news release from today:
http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-ru...
on the last page, you can see the docket number, which is 14-28.
2. This is the docket page for 14-28.
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=14-28
3. In the FCC filings section, you can see that the NPRM was filed May 2014. This sets the comment period to July 2014, and the comment reply period to September 2014.
4. There is an order issued in July 2014 that denies extension of the comment period.
5. I conclude that we are in fact, on step #7, and are just waiting on the Report and Order to be filed, at which time the regulations are enacted.
6. Furthermore, Wheeler's statement talks about an 'Order'.
http://www.fcc.gov/article/doc-332260a2

Am I wrong in my reasoning?
Aren't these rules, whatever they are, about to become active?
I like the fact that you guys are sampling more and more of the web rather than sticking to the top 9K sites. This will make fixing issues in one browser less of an issue (hopefully I'm crossing my fingers).
You might not believe it, but it's true. Just yesterday at lunch I overheard a bunch of old (retired?) guys at the next table repeating that tired line "Obamacare of the Internet".
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It doesn't matter whether a contributor intends his argument to be "legitimate" or not. The validity of an argument is completely independent of the presenter of that argument.
That's awesome, I've got a few things in my dropbox like that... makes it a lot easier even for those bits that I add to my windows path.

For Linux and OSX, it would be cool to see similar things.. though I've seen some interesting things using Dropbox that may yeild a portable *nix app solution one day.
Ma Bell's children went on to do the exact same thing with cable and broadband.
Clojure's core.async library works wonders in ClojureScript giving you channel primitives and coroutines.

I've never tried using them across web workers however.
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The split up of Ma Bell was a huge part of the story of the history of computer communications. Remember, AT&T owned the whole system, including the wires in you home or office and the actual phones. Prior to the breakup, you had to be granted permission to connect any equipment to the phone system. One of the primary reasons people used Acoustic Coupled modems was so that Ma Bell did not have to get involved in the approval and installation of your equipment.

I well remember installing my first modem with an RJ11 jack in the early 1980's. As a 14 year old, I remember feeling quite the rebel for not getting AT&T's approval.
Two companies making a deal between each other: what an unusual concept!
If this device works, it is the first tracking device application that i am quite impressed by. Basically it works like a sleep tracker alarm clock. These wake you up in the morning, when you are in a light phase sleep. But what it does instead is that it prevents your child from entering a deep phase sleep at the beginning of the night by disturbing its sleep.
Adults sometimes experience something similar called the exploding head syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
In 2014, pot companies had the most drastic ups and downs for penny stocks

A missed opportunity to use the phrase "highs and lows"
This really makes sense. Basically, Twitter is for journalists and celebrities, while Facebook is for commoners. No wonder why Twitter's user growth is pretty limited. The question becomes why it is hard for Facebook to adapt this hashtag and trending model? FB does have public profiles for celebrities.
>While it's easy to say "it's more compelling to do stuff on a phone than it is to do it on a watch, so you'll naturally use the phone more", that rather makes me wonder why I would bother buying the watch, especially when you actually need the phone as well.

While this is true, no body is browsing the web or watching a video on their watch. People are doing quick checks of stocks, the weather, firing off a text message on their watches. The use cases overlap significantly but smart watches fill the niche of "I don't want to pull my phone out to check the time/if I have texts."
Will you genuinely claim to not have any beliefs which are unlikely to be changed?
Completely understand your sentiment. I have been releasing software as open source for 10+ years -- all of my 7 years of program synthesis PhD sw is available as open source.

With 20n, we had to tread more carefully. As monocasa implied, open source here means either code, or dna data. While code stays on the computing platform, dna's platform is every living entity.

Lets assume you could predict precisely what a piece of DNA will do -- we are not there yet, but will be at some time in the future. Are you advocating that all of that should be freely available? There are lots of benefits to open source and we understand a lot of it in the context of code, but IMHO, we will need to discuss more before we fully comprehend what it means to open source dna.

There are tons of opportunities, e.g., enabling bioproduction, and hopefully the beneficial nature of that (cheaper/carbon negative/environmentally-friendly) will be the leading argument in the conversation than anything else.
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So it makes more sense for celebrities to directly broadcast to a larger audience on FB than Twitter...
Your hash function is fast! So it's got that going for it.
I know, it just sucks that this is now turning in to a discussion directed by some loud mouth on a reality TV show.

Anyways... I'm not disagreeing with you. I agree that we should follow historical precedent and that ISPs should be regulated as Type II common carriers.

The railways that the ICC were primarily established to regulate were most definitely not a functional market. Railways at the time were also charging different fees for the different things they were transporting. Their customers also didn't have a choice of competitors and suffered under collusion between companies. Network Neutrality is essentially an extension of the same conversation.

The ICC also had statues for regulating communication. The FCC took over for the ICC's role in regulating communication in 1934 and the organizational was modeled on the ICC with 5 member appointed by the president.

We should be talking about what worked with the ICC and what didn't. If people are offering conjectures about what the results of these FCC regulations will have on the Internet they have plenty of historical evidence to use for their arguments. We can point to how the railroads abused and had a negative impact on society. We can show how overregulation harms industry. We can show example of regulatory capture. We can show example of tragedies involving unmanaged shared common resources.

Railways and the ICC are a very similar analogy but we can reason about all sorts of other precedent. We can find examples from the Hanseatic League, the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch East Indies Company, the South Seas Bubble or anything else from our history. It all applies and led to our existing systems of government, business and law.
Back in the 90s, a big controversy on my campus was the Barnes and Noble takeover of the school bookstore, which had previously been run by the university's auxiliary services (3 old ladies + work/study students). Part of the deal was something like $5 million annual pledge to the university's struggling athletic program. (Ie. The kickback)

In other cases, the corruption was more blatant... Like the department where all books were authored by professors in the department.

In my example, I used the accounting textbooks as an egregious example, because accounting 101 is pretty cut and dry, and a professor time traveling from 1980 could teach it today. Engineering is a little different, and the textbooks tend to be more niche and have more lasting value. There's a difference between a technical reference and s $75 "Mercury Reader" that may largely consist of public domain works.
>Users have started a slow migration back to Firefox

Do you have a source for this? I haven't looked at trends in a while.
Sometimes it is, and sometimes they do. It would be unwise to dismiss the possibility out of hand, especially on an issue this contentious that has this many powerful players against it.
> No, because this is the norm

Yes, the norm concerns me.
Wouldn't the worst case space complexity be the same then? for eg: ( { [ ] } ) as you will be keeping index for each the symbols. Technically it can be implemented, but isn't stack a better approach?
This is NOT true. Try log out Facebook, and you will still still be able to read public profiles of celebrities.
I'm not. /u/AcidHappening2 nicely summarised it:

> ITT: Why didn't you give the money to my pet cause?
In this particular case, yes. Another issue that comes up is when you've got fairly type-heavy code. C# having real generics just makes things much simpler than in Java.
I would love to change the rules that all independent regulatory bodies with a voting commission operate under. The SOP is really bad.
Congratulations to all the people who've put so much effort into this. It's a good day for the internet. I hope some day something like this will happen in Germany as well.
It sounds like your primary concern is that it might be good...
I like to imagine that many upper-middle class folks enjoy the fantasy of a "simpler," lower class existence. Likewise, I suspect many who benefit from the system dream of seeing that same system die. Neither will likely ever happen, but it's a pleasant fantasy.
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But I want to start a new project but do not know where to start and what to build which actually worth my time.
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This is wonderful, and as a side effect clearly shows that emacs is much better than vim.
I apologize for any errors made in the copy of the website, please understand that these were made unintentionally and will be corrected promptly. That being said, I do want to clarify that my goal with daybook is not to be a voice in journaling, but to provide consumers with a platform where they can log their lives just as they would with a diary.
My old lab which I left two years ago suddenly sent me some manuscripts to review a few weeks ago so that we can quickly publish a paper that my professor has been sitting on. This era is far different from the 50s and 60s, it is now a publish and perish era. Scooping is a threat to your career.

Also, side note, Sydney Brenner is quite famous also for developing C. elegans as a model animal system. Open worm is a result of the tremendous amount of research done on that animal.
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IE is (originally) based on NCSA Mosaic code, by way of Spyglass. Spyglass had nearly 70 or so vendors using the same code if I'm not mistaken.

The original source code of IE 1 can be seen (an Easter egg) in the video on our blog post (at about 40 seconds): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/26/a-break-from-t....
Can you use the same skillset across projects regardless of the ORM, or do you have to standardize on one? Why not just standardize on one database?
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No; they don't disassociate the time it was recorded, only the phone number.
This is beautifully designed, but otherwise I don't see how it differentiates from other personal journaling apps (e.g. 750words, or even Evernote, or even Notepad), and I'm not about to sign up to find out.

I think you should wait until things are further along and then share this again with HN. I imagine you have a significant vision for this thing, but that's still opaque at this point.

Also:

> Daybook was built with the idea of providing a foundation where people can write about their lives and save it for days to come, for generations to see.

I'd be wary of putting any writing that I wanted to preserve "for generations" on a website that--no offense--might disappear in two months.
The CSP model is very nice, but I don't think that what this proposal is aiming for. CSP is more about concurrency, while the post makes it clear they are looking at parallelism. This is more addressing "things that appear to be single threaded but run faster" like image analysis, for instance.
The new rules are very clear that broadband providers are not subject to rate setting.

>Rate Regulation:
>the Order makes clear that broadband providers shall not be subject to utility-style rate regulation, including rate regulation, tariffs, and last-mile unbundling.

>Universal Service Contributions:
>the Order DOES NOT require broadband providers to contribute to the Universal Service Fund under Section 254. The question of how best to fund the nation’s universal service programs is being considered in a separate, unrelated proceeding that was already underway.

http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-ru...
> If you feel anyone's opinion that isn't your own is somehow FUD, that's a problem.

Where does he make that claim? It sounds like you are trying to discredit him based on conjecture.
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" when action script will easily be converted to html5, then all mobile apps will finally move to the cloud"

that thread is a gold mine.
Cool! I almost went into a lab studying polyketide synthase enzymes. How heavily do they feature in your pathways? Is their modularity overstated/understated?

(I fully intend to stalk you on google scholar after I get back to the things I really ought to be working on right now...)
All you need is a niche market and your first advertiser. Then start contacting the publishers in that space. You'll need somebody to help the publishers embed the ad codes. A decent developer could track everything or you could just use Google Analytics or some other commercial tool. Most publishers are willing to try something new, but consider the ad inventory is worth much more to Google (Adsense) because they have a ton more advertisers bidding on the inventory and they're tracking people's interests and so forth.

On the one hand, Google completely ignores 99% of its publishers. On the other hand, the bigger publishers receive advertising proposals all day long every day. So yes the advertiser can contact the publisher directly, they don't really need you, which (last I checked) is against the Adsense/Adwords TOS.
The problem of government isn't simply that they can be co-opted by special interests. It's that they have a near-monopoly on the ability to implement policies using the threat of violence, and that ability can be co-opted by special interests.

The guy who runs the gas station down the street could also be co-opted by special interests, but I'm not particularly worried about that, because he has very little ability to force people to, for instance, give him a portion of their income.
So if you have some lookup tables you can determine if a given number is prime. Up to some maximum based on the size of the tables. And apparently the time to generate the tables is quadratic in the size of n? Why is this relevant? AKS shows that determining if n is prime can be done in polynomial time - polynomial in log(n), not n. Is there something significant about these 2 sets of primes they talk about?
Liberals don't like the specter of FCC regulation of content."

This is a prime example of FUD. Can you cite any precedent where title II powers have been applied to regulate content (also known as "speech") in any other medium?
Please, let's not pretend remote.modern.ie OR the VM's are ANYTHING close to running the browser locally. They are, at best, a band-aid. Yes, pjmlp, safari is OS X-only now but just because I'm a Mac user does not mean I support that decision, I don't. Also you know how many times in the past 10 years I've heard someone say "Well it works in Chrome/FF/IE but not in Safari?" Never. That's not to say it never happens but I've spent many agonising hours trying to make IE behave when it works PERFECTLY in Chrome/FF/Safari. I've had a handful of "It works in FF but not Chrome" and "It works in Chrome but not FF" but I've got a landfill full of "It doesn't work in IE".

Things I need before I'm going to pretend IE isn't a steaming pile of shit, hell I'd settle for just 1-2:

* Evergreen browser (I'm sick of dealing with 7/8/9, I don't look forward to playing the same song and dance with 10/11/12/etc)

* Cross-platform (Testing on Linux or a Mac is painful)

* Open source (IE is the ONLY major browser that is not OS, and yes I know Chromium != Chrome but I'd be fine with IE doing the same sort of thing)
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This seems like... maybe "crankery" isn't the right word, but certainly something overblown in that ballpark.

The claim is made "We obtain for the first time an explicit relation for generating the full set P of prime numbers smaller than n or equal to n", but the rule ultimately boils down to just "A number is non-prime if it is either divisible by 2, or divisible by 3, or the product of two numbers which are neither divisible by 2 nor divisible by 3", which is completely trivial.

(Also, the author was apparently attempting to patent this insight, as noted at the bottom of the first page. You know what? I've changed my mind. I'm going to happily call this "crankery". Well-LaTeXed crankery, but crankery nonetheless...)
> it depends on a knowledgeable and informed consumer base, which also isn't a thing that exists

There's a comparable argument against democratic government somewhere in there.
Being a meaniehead to Microsoft is something grandpas do. It's just not hip. Look, Microsoft is all about standards (really, not embrace/extend/extinguish!), interoperability, openness, and hugs now, okay grandpa?

Yeah, yeah, this comment contributes nothing, blah blah blah.
by Brian Deignan

ABSTRACT
"This paper examines the economic impact of local public initiatives to build and operate broadband internet infrastructure. I find that local efforts produce small economic benefits, but they cause a notable increase in the size of local government. Using difference-in-differences estimation on panel data consisting of 23 years of observations from core based statistical areas in the contiguous United States, I find that publicly supported broadband networks lead to over 3 percent more business establishments, while reducing worker income by 1.3 percent, all else being equal. The networks have no discernible effect on private sector employment, but they increase local government employment by around 6 percent.

In light of the financial difficulties some public networks experience and the limited economic benefits they offer, public involvement is more wisely directed toward fostering private sector innovation as opposed to maintaining a more active role. Local initiatives that maintain an active role for local government can lead to a misallocation of resources if they ignore market signals and cause taxpayers to bear the uncertainty of the broadband market as opposed to private shareholders."
I've seen this happen so many times. "We can't use X because it doesn't come with library Y!" And then they point to their favorite alternative to X, and note that it does have library Y, and ignore just how utterly terrible that library is.

Sometimes it's better to rewrite a library yourself than use an existing one that gets in the way as often as it helps.
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I guess I'm a little confused. The last mile unbundling would have just been the node-to-home lines, would it not? A new ISP entering the market would be able to lease those, but not necessarily the fiber network? Or would that fiber network have been unbundled too?
Funny how your comment told me more about what that offering is supposed to do than the whole Solution Brief did! All the same, very neat stuff.
There's a lot of truth in this post but this line of thinking also plays into our own prejudices. I do often look at third party code and think it's pretty crappy, but then I need to remind myself that my own code is far from perfect!

More importantly, though, we tend to underestimate both how long it will take to implement something ourselves and especially how much it costs to maintain over time. If you can use third party code from a popular and active project you get a huge amount of testing, bug fixing and other maintenance from the community over time. If you implement in house then you've just given yourself an extra burden for the life of your project.