skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wait, you're telling me to criticize a "bill" that hasn't been published yet? Are you kidding? You do know that this "bill" with its 70+ regulations was passed in private, right?

Which kind of begs what exactly you think you're criticizing.

All the statements by the FCC leading up to this bill have been ones I would consider positive. So until I actually see the bill, I'm not criticizing it.

Also:

user:	travie7273
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Astroturf potential: high.
Ask HN: What Is Google Drive's Download Limit/Allowed Bandwidth?
Anyone know what Google Drive's download is? It doesn't say anywhere, and I keep hearing that it's "unlimited" bandwidth but I highly doubt it, especially in high usage cases that impact other users on the network.

The only limit chart I found on Google support site is related to Gmail, not Drive.

And the last anecdotal evidence I found was from years ago.

Specifically, what about the public pages?
Konrad Lorez, one of the founders of the field of animal behavior and a Nobel laurete, did a lot of his research on jackdaws, which are a close relative of the crow. His book King Solomon's Ring is a really enjoyable read into his insights about their intelligence and social life.
Where do you guys stand on "open source" synthetic biology (like BioBricks or OpenWetWare)? Will we see any source from you guys, whether it be of the von Neumann or the Crick variety?
I'm not familiar with much Industrial software, but i am continuously amazed with the amount of enterprise software available on Linux.

Support can be a little tricky, but it's absolutely out there.
Finding more mobile-friendly search results
At least someone said it. Yes it does, and multiplied if consumed with carbonated drinks.

Possibly related to a gender gap of continued use?
Life is more than work. Make time for the ideas and people you love.
> This is revisionist history. Up until very recently, everyone considered Title II the "nuclear option."

That is revisionist history. From the outset of the NN debate, a large subset of the pro-NN crowd has pushed for Title II, and this increased after the court made clear that the critical elements of net neutrality could not be enforced by regulation, without substantial gaps, except under Title II.

It is simply not true that, until very recently, everyone considered Title II the "nuclear option".
You're totally right that the commission does come from the seller's proceeds, but since openlistings acts as a buyer's agent, they, traditionally, get half the commission once the deal closes. 500k sale price (yes, they exist outside the coasts!), 5% commission = 25,000. 25,000 split between the seller and buying agent = 12,500 per agent. Openlistings (I think) keeps 5,000 of the 12,500 and kicks the other 7,500 back to the buyer... and if you had to include that additional 7,500 as part of a 30-year mortgage they're saving you much more than 7,500 over the life of a traditionally-financed purchase. That said, you're also right that people need education on these things! The agents win (and consumers lose) if the transaction seems complex. Somehow need to make people realize the process is pretty straightforward.
When did you last use Linux? 2003?

Linux [distributions] (because the Linux Kernel is fairly agnostic about use-cases) are constantly being developed and redeveloped. KDE5, Unity8+Mir, GNOME3, Cinnamon, MATE, etc... They're all aiming to be easy to use and powerful. They all have some distance to go but so do Windows and OSX.

Then there's the actual consumer-device market that Linux all but owns. Things like Tizen and Android and the dozens of frontends that the existing infrastructure makes super-simple to create a custom interface.

There is constant churn, making Linux more and more user-friendly.
"As a relatively old person, at least for HN, I don't believe it's ad hominem to suggest that old people don't understand new things as well as younger people do. "

My issue is that many young people think that new things are completely different..when in reality, it's just better/different packaging and marketing on an old idea.
Excellent points.

For the extra-lazy, I also suggest having a lot of raw ready-to-eat stuff around. For me, it's carrots, apples, almonds, snap peas, and string beans.

It really helped me to see the difference between actual hunger and things like boredom or a desire for distraction from whatever negative emotions I was experiencing. If I got to the fridge but don't want any of those things, it's almost always a sign I'm there for something other than hunger.
it's certainly that simple in my deploy script.
I like how you refuted my points with logic and reason and didn't try to cop out via some lame method like clicking a green link.
What drives academic data sharing?
Rust parser combinator framework
I have looked hard at the issues & I'm not on any campaign.

Paid prioritization is not a bad thing. Blocking websites is.

There is a whole nascent standard called LTE direct that suddenly becomes pointless if you can't distinquish traffic priorities. There are innovations that are being cut out of the picture for entirely new m2x flows & peer to peer flows because of the desire to remove paid prioritization.

It is not productive to assume that the only reason that someone disagrees with you is because of a coordinated campaign to spread FUD.
If content regulations happen, they'll come in with the new flavor of the month, i.e. 'social justice.' There will be vague statutes against 'harassment' I'm guessing, and anyone decrying their vagueness or broadness will be decried a racist, sexist shitlord. You won't get 80's style 'Christian moralism' language in 2020.
Don't feel bad about it. All the small advertisers are glad that you don't view their ads because they know you won't buy from them anyway and would be throwing out money without getting anything for it. Expecting your visitors to look at ads that you get paid for is just another type of fraud by the content-generator against the advertiser. :-)
Maybe he doesn't want to risk his Karma on this one. Are you suggesting it's some kind of conspiracy?
No kidding.

If you're so concerned, then if it's not on github.com or not advertised via blog.github.com ... ignore it!

I mean, we're not talking about Phishing here. We're talking about a user who is annoyed that he stumbled upon a site and is unsure if he should like it or not. Almost sounds like an odd form of brand loyalty. "I can't decide if i should like this or not"
> I don't believe I have enough information to conclude that classifying broadband as a Title II utility will be a good thing.

It seems like we don't have enough information to say it's a bad thing either, but that's not stopping these < 1 hour old accounts from saying it.
I would respectfully disagree.
I understand there are women in finance industry, but how many women are wall street traders, investors, brokers ?
It seems like not enough
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-sasha-galbraith/to-profit-f... .
Not many women are at the top of the finance sector in the it's specialty, and not many women are at the top of software development which is silicon valley's specialty.
> Is there any evidence of that actually happening?

Yes. People are buying VPN service to get adequate NetFlix performance. SPs are running a protection racket.
That's putting it down easy. I have 4 kids between 2 and 7, when at home I don't have very much free time at all. It seems like the best place to get stuff done is at work. So I always try to get everything done, so I'll have some productive me time in my office. It's sad to say going to work is where I get a break for myself. Don't get me wrong I love my children more than anything, but once you have children in order to get things done you really need to prioritize and compartmentalize things in your life.
Apropos "Soros, Ford Foundation shovel $196 million to 'net neutrality' groups, staff to White House" : http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-ford-shovel-196-mill...
You're right that it takes some education. Perhaps we should phrase it as money back rather than a lower fee.

The messed up thing about the percentage commission is that it provides financial incentive for the broker representing you to convince you to offer a higher price, both so that you close and so that the commission is higher.
The new gTLD process allows "community objections" which mean that "Substantial opposition to the gTLD application exists from a significant portion of the community that the gTLD string targets". In this case I guess that community would be parents. http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/odr

Unfortunately the process is so encrusted in legalese that I can't figure out more than that.
It's weird... the more I think about it, the more I ask myself - "it's just like programming, another cool skill to master - why I'm so afraid of experimenting?"...
Yes, that was the point. Thanks for clarification.
> This thread has turned into an astro-turfing campaign for the anti-NN advocates.

Anybody who disagrees with you must have been bought and paid for by your evil opponents, huh.

> This has long been generally agreed upon by reasonable people as a good thing... and a necessary thing seeing how there's virtually no competition in broadband access for most people in the US.

Honestly, this kind of statement is what sounds like ridiculous astroturfing.
Not really. The program can define the stored procedures on startup.
This is a pretty impressive achievement for a casual programmer. I really didn't expect a working product at the end of it. I enjoyed the article, too.

By focusing just on his own needs, the author created a nice, lightweight implementation of an organizational feature I've seen hinted at in heavyweight clients like Outlook. I can easily see how a team of professional programmers trying to create this for a market would fail, where one motivated amateur* got the job done.

I'd use a thick client version of this, with his keyboard shortcuts, Project view, and easily accessible attachments.

*in its non-pejorative sense.
Ah yes, Atlanta boosterism. I remember that about Atlanta.
Yes, I happen to be anti-NN, no, I do not think that the way things currently are works. No I do not think the cable companies operate fairly in a free market.

Sorry, I'm anti-NN, sorry I joined only 11 days ago. I can assure you. the two are not related. Again, if elsewhere in this thread, I'm making points you disagree with. attack and refute the points themselves. How else can anyone ever think you have the slightest idea you know what you're talking about, if all you can do is spout people's account age and karma ratings? if being anti-NN is so trivially stupid, shouldn't you be able to point this out quite simply?
A TED talk about this project helped popularize this particular example of crow intelligence.
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of...
How did Soylent manage to secure VC funding for a product with absolutely no intellectual property protection?
That's interesting. I've also found it interesting that one of the big selling points of the Mesosphere ecosystem is that it is used at scale by Twitter. But AFAIK twitter developed their own framework for long running tasks (http://aurora.incubator.apache.org/). So they are using Mesos (the open source project), maybe Chronos, and their own version of Marathon. That can be somewhat misleading to newcomers.
> 2) Go buy fresh produce once every 3 or 4 days

I would add:

4) Buy stuff that's in season

This can save a lot of pre-planning on meals, since by just buying one or two measures of several things (focusing on getting a variety of colors) you'll naturally have what you need to make a bunch of traditional recipes, which are almost always based around seasonal fruits/berries and veggies (i.e. you won't find a lot of recipes calling for both something that's ripe in Spring and something that's ripe in late Fall).

You can buy first, plan later. I find it to be nearly as easy as sticking to small set of dishes week after week, except that it gives you much more variety. Since what you bought determines the set of things you can make, it removes most of the time and stress associated creating new meal plans for every week and shopping to match them. A good middle ground between the two, IMO.

As a bonus, your food will taste better. AND it opens up the possibility of shopping almost exclusively at farmers' markets, which will make it taste better still. There's no, "oh, they didn't have any fresh X at the farmers' market, and the dish I'm making tomorrow requires it, so now I have to go to the grocery store too, even though I don't need anything else from there right now". Staples at the grocery store, fresh stuff at the farmer's market, make what you can with what you got.

This may be less practical in the Winter, depending on where you are, when canned and frozen stuff becomes important if you don't want to eat rice & beans and various stews for every single meal, but works well for the most part.
European tech companies are still doing well in the game. For example, Nokia is the 2nd or 3rd biggest manufacturer of telecom equipment (depending on how you slice/group the market).
I don't mind that the blurb isn't grabbing. There are enough grabby titles and blurbs that fail to deliver on the internet/IRL.
Even if such a thing were included, it is utterly unenforceable without breaking encryption and rendering all e-commerce and other secure uses of the Internet compromised.
Oh, the peer pressure of not farting in front of people...
Forgive my ignorance, Why would i need a broadcast license?

Is this to start an ISP? a website? or what?
There are spelling squiggles in the article's first image :]

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-bl...

Apart from that: I'm really curious and sort of excited to see what the next years will bring in terms of development using .Net in general and C#/F# specifically, on multiple platforms.
* The FCC cannot pass bills, they're generally referred to as rules/regulations.
This is America, where infrastructure is communism. I mean if we provide good infrastructure, pretty soon we'll be sending people to gulags or something like they do in Europe and Canada.
At what point does "prioritization" effectively become blocking? People navigate away from websites that take a long time to load or have advertisements.
I stumbled upon it while reading the ZGuide from ZeroMQ and thought it was amazing, thought I should at least share if it hasn't been already
That spin, "Obama's secret plan to control the Internet!" has been bouncing around the right-wing echo chambers in more or less blunt forms since the FCC first proposed the rules.

The spin doctors consistently fail to mention your point: the new rules went through the exact same process as all the previous rule-making.
Didn't Tesla give all of their patents away? And are at ~$200/share?

Knowledge is cheap. Execution is where value is delivered.
So it looks like they are replacing a licensing fee that not everyone has to pay (if you don't have a TV) to a levy, which will be required by all citizens.
My what a wonderful ivory tower you must live in.
I just think it's weak. If being anti-NN is so incredibly stupid, shouldn't refuting the points they make be trivial? why not just do it, and safe yourself the trouble of being accused of sitting one-step up on the debate pyramid from "Name-calling"?
I like that now there is a viable alternative to Java across various platforms. Java the language is alright but the ecosystem is something else entirely.
> My general impression is that more and stricter regulations in an industry is usually (though not always) a bad thing for consumers in that industry, so while I'm not vehemently against this NN bill, I certainly am not excited or optimistic.

I would say that's more strongly the case in competitive industries where there's some consumer choice in play to keep bad companies in check. But there are very few people who choose Comcast from between multiple broadband providers. And then they shot themselves in the foot in the public discourse with their constant stream of customer abuse and terrible support stories.

I'd say I'm cautiously optimistic about this, but I should read up more on what parts of Title II are being applied to what parts of the network here.

In particular, does this have any effect on Comcast saying "Netflix needs to pay us or we won't install sufficient peering to meet our customers' demand for Netflix connections"?

Having a second ISP choice where Netflix works properly would fix that pretty quickly, but I'm not clear on whether Title II does. But the FCC also just overruled state laws blocking municipal broadband networks, so that's going to be another option to keep an eye on.
Three different kinds of polymorphism
I'm upset that the paper didn't include known 'sidedoors' designed in to get Windows Device Encryption (Bitlocker) keys, nor the controversy over remote TPM attestation, nor the 12 bit keyspace that Apple provides the user through its Secure Enclave.
IMO new TLDs are better than tryfoonow.com style domains.
Fair enough, see edit.
So this is the "Video killed the radio star" food
> not being able to get a license in the first place.

Sure! You should totally be allowed to throw up a transmitter and blast white noise through fifty percent of the radio frequencies at 50 kilowatts of power! And so what if the car next to you on the highway has a transmitter that interferes with your radio tuned to the classical station by blasting dubstep. FREEDOM

The problem is, that's all covered under Title III. Title III is very specifically about radio broadcasting.

And has nothing. At all. To do. With Title II.
Question: could these be tailored for end-users? So instead a prescription a patient could be sent home with a jar of pickles that synthesized their medication as they fermented? I could see that disrupting the pharmaceutical industry (if dosage could be controlled).
The FCC"s plan isn't NN. It's a gigantic steaming pile of regulations that's ostensibly designed to implement NN. So far, any attempts at public debate gets reduced to emotional screeches and partisanship without any real meat to anything.

We're doomed. Maybe not today, tomorrow or next year, but censorship as you fear it is coming and you have yourselves to blame.
That doesn't sound like the parent's situation, though.
Researchers Reveal Evidence of Other Superfish-Style Attacks in the Wild
Hi, Vincent here, author of Github Awards. Thanks for pointing this out.

There is already a small note in footer stating that this site is no way affiliated with the Github company, i'll make that a lot more visible.
> What I'm worried about is that the internet could become like radio, requiring anyone who wants to broadcast (hook up a server) to obtain a license to do so.

Both the regulatory rules and the authorizing statute behind that requirement are related to broadcast, and have nothing to do with Tite II classification; and not even all radio requires that (there is unlicensed spectrum.) So, while that's a fine thing to worry about, its not really related to the FCC action classifying retail broadband as a Title II telecommunication service.
This is how 500 Startups makes money
> I wonder, why the gender gap?

- For new foods and drugs that are potentially dangerous, the early adopters are almost universally men. Just look at the demographics of the various online research chemical communities.

- The product almost seems like it's marketed toward people on the autism spectrum.
Driving Wi-Fi Ahead: The Upper 5 GHz Band
This is a big problem. Are there browser extensions that can block crapware?
"Klein did get a professor at Binghamton to help him try [the machine] out twice in Ithaca, with assistance from a Binghamton graduate student, and it was not a success. Corvid experts who have since been interviewed have said that Klein’s machine is unlikely to work as intended."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12letters-t-CORRE...
I'm very curious what your take is on revealing your current salary to recruiters/potential employers early.

Do you tell them early to avoid wasting your time?

For myself I'll just say that I've done well since I realized that I should negotiate for EVERY offer I'm given no matter how high. There are no more exploding offers after you've had a couple jobs - we're not in kindergarten and our parents aren't going to take things away because we're acting selfishly.
The major consumer isps have been crystal clear (unless you don't wish to understand): they look at large consumer-facing internet companies and want a piece of the action. eg the recent action by Verizon to charge Netflix money to deliver Netflix to Verizon's paying customers. So if we don't want pay-to-play internet companies, we need net neutrality. Particularly given the widespread monopoly structure of home internet access.
Quad core i7 on the mini's please. It would be nice to have parity with 2012 in 2015.
I love the design of that site.
> My general impression is that more and stricter regulations in an industry is usually (though not always) a bad thing for consumers in that industry

In cable internet the average consumer has only one or two potential providers. On top of that, companies who try to break into the industry face significant political and regulatory challenges when they lay fiber.

I don't understand how you can think this kind of industry should be unregulated. There are few market forces keeping providers in line, and we see the results of that in the industry's attempts to extort internet companies with throttling.
Radio is a limited resource that needs to be allocated fairly. Bandwidth is a commodity that you get as much as you pay for. Title II classification has nothing to do with radio licensing.

If anything, doesn't this make it easier to set up a home server? Current ISP contracts* include a clause saying that I'm not allowed to use a connected computer as a "server". But didn't the FCC already say that a Title II common carrier can't prevent someone from operating a telephone BBS? So if this goes through you'll be free to host a home server.

[*] I say "contract" except I and perhaps most people don't actually have a contract with your ISP. Even though they'll lie and say you do if you try to cancel service or dispute a charge.
> Up until very recently, Title II was the "nuclear option."

Up until recently (2005), ADSL was classified as Title II. Reclassifying it as an information service made it so much better that VDSL2 (which can provide 100Mbps!), defined in 2005, has .... hardly rolled out anywhere.
Does anyone have metrics on how much of the traffic on the internet is HTTP/S vs everything else?
To be fair, I can identify with the desire to place the burden of proof on the supporters of new regulations.
Rather than being out of the ordinary it needs to pause applause until we know what the rules are. I can't make a solid determination if I agree until I have seen the rules.

From what I know already I'm not in favor. I.e. the trepidation felt vs. those who are pro-titleII.
time will tell
This is pretty typical for HN. You get a lot of techno libertarians who think any form of regulation is the worst thing ever. To say that the new classification is somehow going to be worse I think is a bit of a stretch.
I just feel like if he's so trivially wrong, and you're so obviously right, wouldn't it be better just to explain that? Instead of sinking so low on the debate pyramid as to only be one step above the bottom?
I don't mind C# not using that name because .Where doesn't actually filter the object, it returns an IQueryable, which you can chain further statements onto, then filter.
Testing on Vagrant is quite useful when you are forced to deploy on Linux in the end.
Can you provide a link to the 700 regulations? Can't find one anywhere else.