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> Why do you dismiss the anti-NN concerns as FUD?

He said anti-NN were spreading a lot of FUD. I didn't see him say all anti-NN concerns were FUD.

And he's right about a lot of FUD from anti-NN people. Some claims I saw, largely from Republican official, Republican writers and radio/TV hosts, and random people whose affiliation was not stated but from their remarks about Obama being a communist, dirty liberal, or Muslim I think it is a safe bet that they are not moderates or liberals:

• You will have to apply for an expensive license from the FCC if you want to put up a website.

• The FCC will be regulating Google search results, Facebook's news feed, and the like.

• This helps the governments of North Korea, Syria, Iran, and China to oppress their people with their internet censorship, because now the US cannot pressure them for a free internet without appearing hypocritical because now we are imposing the same kind of controls on the internet in the US.

> What incentive will telecom companies have to build the wireline networks that enable next-generation of web services if they can't make enough money to justify the investment?

What money making opportunity, besides paid prioritization, does this remove?

> The fact that these points are also raised by the telecom companies [...]

By some telecom companies. T-Mobile and Sprint aren't having much of a problem with it. The rural broadband provider's trade group outright supports it and has long asked for Title II.

> I'm not an ideologue. I'd be fine with, for example, the U.K. approach. But what that would mean, which most people on HN don't know, would be putting AT&T back together and letting them enjoy monopoly profits.

What do you mean by the U.K. approach? The main aspect of their broadband approach that I'm aware of us the forced line sharing, but I don't see how that would require putting AT&T back together.

Question: wireless voice has been regulated under similar (but more extensive) Title II regulations for around 20 years. Why have the doom and gloom scenarios forecast for internet not already come to pass there? The carriers there have invested massively in their infrastructure under those rules.
That's a good lesson, but putting it into practice requires a job where you are not pressured to work 10-12 hour days and weekends.
JSX intimidated you?... I find that difficult to believe.
I respect Elizabeth May's perspectives on many matters. She may be the hardest working MP.

http://www.straight.com/news/818486/elizabeth-may-condemns-b...
Note that a “regular PHP theme” could be built on the WP-API instead of the current horrible mess of functions and loops. I’m tempted to port a version of html5-blank-wordpress over to it…
If he's caricaturizing himself on his own web site like this, then it's absolutely disturbing.

It's disturbing to me that, in abandoning his current reality to embrace a new one, he idealizes his next step in a way that repeats a pattern of psychosis. It's not at all clear he is actually in reality in moving to his next decision.

It'd be far less disturbing if he were listing his reasons as "I've been looking forward to doing this for a long time, and this is fulfilling a lifelong dream" or "I've been talking with my wife and kids, and we can't wait..." or "This is going to be hard, but we're giving it a go...", i.e. reasons that connect with his current reality instead of running away from it.

Instead, he demonizes his current life and, to reconcile "a new fire inside of me that I can’t hold back", he characterizes his decision as "A journey with a larger purpose. A journey that will feed me in ways money cannot. A journey that will breed true Life." These are ego-driven, black-and-white, rhetorical reasons. Nothing about his next move guaranteeing any of what he's hoping for. And this time, he's bringing his children along with him.
If you are sufficiently old, you remember from "Mission: Impossible" also.
And on the other hand, even when I move the slider over to "Blue/Black" all I see is white and gold. Even knowing that the dress is really blue, I can't help but interpret the adjusted version as having its colors tweaked from white/gold.
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It is obvious, because when you use a component, it's usage is as a single root node.

<component /> should not render multiple root nodes.
I got into growth because my first startup didn't grow. I became obsessed. So there is that.

Overall the core advice is the same. I just listen to it and apply it better. This post gets it right: http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice-briefly

I also find myself giving this advice to others, including YC batchmates. The hard part is being diligent in applying it.

The first TechCrunch launch for Tipjoy was when we turned the product on. And were were traveling, so we were fixing bugs in the airport. Don't couple your press launch with your product launch, kids

So, yeah, not making that mistake this time :)
I recently moved from a rural/small city area to a major urban area.

One of the most striking differences to me has been how many more abstractions there are for people living in a city - and as a result, how much less those people know about their surroundings.
IRC's one of the only things that makes me feel like the early web did. A bunch of mostly-anonymous people collaborating or just hanging out, and it doesn't seem like everyone's trying to make a buck or polish their "personal brand". Little or no official corporate presence. No one's worried anything they write will ruin their lives, justly or unjustly. It's the "no one knows you're a dog" web of yesteryear.

I miss when more of the web was like that. It's nice.
Yes! Loved his Civ IV voice work!
I volunteer tutoring underprivileged middle/high school kids in math and programming. People might be surprised how little effort it takes to help out with this sort of thing. And it's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done (I don't think I've ever written a more cliche comment, but it's true).

I'm actually working on a game-engine/teaching-aid for the class right no. I could use some help if anyone's interested. https://github.com/Glank/PACGameDev
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In practice whenever I hook up a scanner or a printer those apps typically are bloatware. Hopefully they are installing the minimal functionality to get this stuff working.
What you mention sound like tipical corruption of JPG files with foreign data in the middle. If you have access to the disk image, commercial software like Adroit Photo Recovery could (in theory) help you. They've developed a technique for recovery of photo files that is very robust and can handle fragmentation.

On the more open source front... There's little. Adroits algorithms have been published, be the implementation is proprietary. Poisel, Tjoa and Tavolato implemented the algorithm in Python+C, but its quite difficult to get their carver up and running, mostly due to "library rot" -- last I tried, there was no repo from where to download the particular version of PyQT they used and I didn't have the time to fix and translate all the old calls to new ones.

You could also try PhotoRec, but for fragmented data it isn't the best solution. Finally, you could try custom code to try and find the JPG blocks in the images and then all the combinations until you find something that makes sense.

Welcome to the beautiful and monstrous world of file/data carving!
I think burn out has little to do with programming itself and a lot do to with company culture.
Precisely. If they're really committed to selling people clean computers, they should only include OS and device drivers.
Perhaps a good first step would be altering the saying:
The Internet where the men are men, the women are men, etc. To better suit the rhetorical situation, and get on with bulldozing.
I think that comparing Twitter or Slack to IRC in that manner is a broken comparison. Neither of those services can possibly stand up next to IRC, an open protocol with several dozen client and server implementations and millions of users. IRC thrives because it's so open and easy to use from a programmer's point of view. There's no centralized authority or point of failure with IRC.
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Many of the happiest and hardest working people I know are farmers.

Autonomy, mastery, purpose - family farmers have all three of those.
Time slows down today.
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Leonard Nimoy died today at the age of 83
There is a direct relation between the volume of transactions and the amount of miners needed to process them, and therefore a relation between the transactions and the consumed power (with a few more factors, such as ASIC efficiency).

The current Bitcoin network cannot handle that many (think an order of magnitude) more transactions without having to scale. See also the original link.
"We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted, in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."

-Captain James T. Kirk
Yes to the Dress?
I saw him speak a couple times at DragonCon, and became a fan of Nimoy the person even more than Nimoy the actor. He was a very compassionate and intelligent human being.
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Even if you don't have source to show, if your back-end experience includes Node and you can converse about it freely and intelligently, I think you'll be fine.

Maybe you could write a blog post examining some confusing element of Node architecture? Or walking people though a simple JS MVC PoC? Basically just provide some sort of technical copy (on your resume/linkedIn/wherever)that shows you understand some of the basic features of JS development (closures, callbacks, prototypical inheritance - which sounds like its all old hat for you). With your other projects and experience, I think that would be enough.
This is not specific to Wordpress, you can apply the same to Drupal or any cms/framework able to send data in json
I used znc for a bit, and switched to bip for ... some reason that I can't recall, now. I think the configuration for bip was easier than znc?
I feel like this is appropriate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhcR-w-56tA
Try and ignore all of the flux stuff and any mention of immutable data - focus on React itself.
So they give you bloatware (McAfee) to apologize for giving you bloatware.
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This sounds intriguing. Was he given a special phone that the NSA could not intercept? The size (credit-card sized, thin) also sounds very interesting.. is it possible to build a phone like this?
"I understand perfectly well what you are talking about. I just think your ideas are foolish. "

I suppose you sign contracts before looking at them? If so, let's do business!

This is essentially what has happened with the American people and you have nothing to say about it..except personally attacking me. I find this suspect.

Everything I have said is fact: There are 700 regulations, which will control the state of Internet in the US, which absolutely have not been seen by the American public before being passed into law.

This is scary. I'm still unsure why there are so many people that just don't care. We can have Net Neutrality in less than 700 regulations.

The foolishness of the American people is why I have lots of money saved to get out of the country when it finally implodes due to pure laziness.

I have no sympathy going forward..and yes, if there are undesirable consequences, it is your fault.
I couldn't see the white/gold until I saw a much smaller and heavily cropped version of the picture. After it enlarged some, it just became the blue/black dress again even in the smaller form.
I copied the wording from the LA Times and it describes the story very well. At the time that tree was cut down it was the oldest known living tree.
This is nice to read. I just started looking into a playing with React... and then got the great idea to start recreating something like http://p2theme.com/ with React and WP-API. Good to see that I am on the right track ;) There is not much to it yet (still in prototype/PoC stage) but for those interested: https://github.com/alexciarlillo/react-wp
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Among the many influences that put me where I am today, the lesson a much younger me, sitting by his father's side, took from Star Trek was that properly-applied logic could solve anything; that the Universe in its vast, seeming randomness, was at its core quite comprehensible. It's not a complete philosophy of life, but it's also not a bad place to start.

Whether or not he did so on purpose, he taught a lot of lessons to a lot of kids who now have their hands on the various controls of the spaceship we share. Thank you Mr. Nimoy.
> Should I just ignore my trepidations and proceed?

Yap give it a try.

From what I understand Core.typed while not as rigorous as static type system in Haskell or OCaml can let you gradually add typing to your application. They more you add the greater the benefit.

But also personally haven't used it.

I used Dialyzer in Erlang, which is a similar concept. You annotate your code with types and the more you do the more type errors it will find for you:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/dialyzer

It is surprisingly good. Here is example of production code in Erlang with some type annotations (it is a websocket handler from Cowboy a webserver):

https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/blob/master/src/cowboy_w...

Notice the type and -callback declarations at the top then the -spec lines before some functions.
Do you guys have a link to the VLC app on the iOS App Store? I ask because there are so many clones it is very hard to find it.

On a related note. Is there anything you can do (trademark, etc.) about getting the scammy clones off of the store?
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It's a well known fact that lots of HN people work in industries that have a wide spectrum of thoughts on NN. Nothing wrong with that.

We all have bias, but I want to hear the other side's argument (even as I strongly disagree) as long as it's not astroturfed or deceptive.

I worked at Verizon long ago, and anyone who's worked in a regulation-driven industry knows the difficulties in getting new tech out the door. I've seen solid technologies that ultimately died due to regulatory requirements.

The real argument here isn't over the network, but the services that sit on that network and who owns them. Network owners have been pushing to own both the network and the services, just like they owned wireline and POTS dialtone.

Networks saw the internet companies rise up on their networks, rival and ultimately dwarf them. That's a lot of crow to swallow.

If the network owners couldn't dominate the network and services, then they wanted to extract revenue from the service providers beyond connection fees. That's egregious behavior, akin to double taxation in my books.

So I think ultimately you will see network owners splitting and merging to compete with the traditional internet services. They will form up with the media companies and lots of shake ups will happen.

That's fine, I don't mind. As long as the playing field is on the level.
Good luck Ivan!

As for others, I built this concept in 2011, unfortunately Facebook shut us down after we hit about 1.5 million queries per month. Never got access to LinkedIn.
Exactly. Some people will experience their work as a career (as their identity), and these people will be HAPPY. Those who experience their work as a job will not be as fulfilled.
Yes... Or at least, they decided to ignore the issue. They don't mention it at all in the article.
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The picture in the "measure" section has a red "x" over 99 characters per line and suggests 45 to 75 characters per line. But the article's paragraphs have about 95 characters per line.

Do as I say, not as I do.
He was and always will be a vestige of my childhood.

Star Trek was one of the reasons why I became passionate about science and tech. Its humanism deeply shaped the beliefs I eventually formed. The notion of kindness and fairness intermingled with the belief that through technology we could achieve a better world for all. But that took a while to percolate. His depiction of Spock was what kept me watching in the first place.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75oun5gvDAU#t=169
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Weird... after I opened a file using the "Media->Open File" menu item, it started appearing. (It now works even in cases where I open a file by double-clicking on it. Strange)

In any case, awesome!
This. I really loved his performance playing that character.
Leonard Nimoy, actor who played Mr Spock on Star Trek, dies aged 83
Amazing man in so many other areas than just his Star Trek stuff.

The one thing I will always miss will be his voice, it was so distinctive. No matter when you heard it, you knew right away it was him.
I second this. Please, the black bar, pg?
> Everything I have said is fact:

Then you should be able to provide the evidence supporting the claims. Lets start with this one:

> There are 700 regulations

Really? Where is the evidence for this "fact".

> which absolutely have not been seen by the American public before being passed into law.

They are adopted as regulation (under the law, not as law) and will be published before they become effective, and may be changed (e.g., by legislative action) if the American people are sufficiently unhappy with them to compel their Congressional representatives to act.
Facebook is certainly concerned about passing around user tokens, so we won't do that.

Facebook doesn't control the email or phone number graphs though. And users don't connect directly to Facebook via a YesGraph Facebook app, so there is nothing to shut down.

There is more to say about platform risk here. I've built apps on every major platform. Email me: ivan@yesgraph.com
Yeah, I'm sitting in my cube at work trying to choke back tears, and the best I'm accomplishing is keeping them silent. This hit me a lot harder than I expected it to.
Yeah, the lace always looks gold to me, but the other part depends on whether you're asking about the image or the dress.

It looks like a blue tinted picture of a white dress. I see the blue, but it looks like a white dress.
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If you ask any purveyor of crapware what they peddle, you'd never get them to admit to it being crapwware. Take YC for instance, with their InstallMonetizer investment that PG tried to defend as not-crapware[1]. This is a way for Lenovo to commit to something without committing to anything. They'll be right back to installing gigabytes of crapware on their laptop lines just as soon as they have some marketing people type up reasons why it's an enhancement.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
On BuzzFeed and the NYT: Say Yes to the Dress
I will be listening to "Amazing Grace" played on the bag pipes today, along with many others I'm sure.
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Thanks for your reply. If this was a permanent position instead of a contract, it will be a lot easier for me as I'll have to go through the interview stage, and I don't think I'll have any issues with that.
However it seems that for a contract position I cannot even get an interview and I think it's understandable: if you have to choose between two developers for a 3 months contract and both have a strong CV but one of the two has some examples of work to prove his skills/experience, I'd personally choose the one with the examples (assuming that they're good) instead of hiring/interviewing the other just basing myself on trust. So unfortunately I need source code to show.
The only thing this scientifically proves is that marketing agencies are getting better and better at viral marketing.

Imagine that, that very same dress is now back in stock. Purchase one today! http://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/
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Great idea, I just downloaded and installed the app. Love the fact that I get to use it without having to sign up.
I think it boils down to whether the overtime your brain is doing is satisfying. If I’m spending my commute and evenings worrying about work or otherwise stressing out negatively, I’d want to end that. But if my job ends up posing interesting problems that I can’t help wanting to solve off-duty, then that sounds like I’ve found the right profession and company.
I proposed two simple ways that HFT could be limited if one were so inclined. I made no argument for or against the merits of HFT itself.
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> VLC 2.2.0 auto-rotate the videos taken from phones, to fight VVS!

What is VVS?
"Live long and prosper."
WordPress is a great product? PHP is the "cockroach of the world wide web"?

Who's next up on the soapbox?
What I want is to be able to easily pay for things, but also without having to trust an intermediary who takes a percentage off the top.

The ultimate reason why I have a bank account is so that my employers can deposit their payroll into it. And since my money is already there, I pay my bills and expenses from it.

I fully expect my bank to narc on me to the feds at every turn, and screw me hard if I ever have a real problem with them. I expect them to nickel-and-dime me with fees. I expect them to introduce seemingly arbitrary delays and paperwork requirements for their own convenience. I expect them to offer rates on deposits that cannot keep up with inflation and charge rates on loans and credit that would make even the serenest of divine avatars flip tables. And if the turds ever hit the turbines, I expect that making a trip to the nearest bank branch office would be the least useful thing I could possibly do.

I don't really have a lot of confidence in Bitcoin, but the bar they need to pass with respect to trust is ridiculously low--set there by the banking system. Where they fail is definitely convenience.

If my employer offered to make payroll in Bitcoin, and if my local utilities, gas stations, and grocery stores accepted payment in Bitcoin, I would be using it already.

But all those places prefer to trust human bankers rather than crypto algorithms running in a distributed computing network. I don't see that changing any time soon. If anything, an alt-currency backed by an alliance of megaretailers like Walmart, Target, and Amazon would have to crack that nut first. To drive adoption, there has to be support at the point-of-sale terminals.
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In my experience unit testing has less value than end-to-end testing. Unit tests rarely break and the reasons it break is not something that you couldn't guess. In contrast end-to-end tests fail with a big surprise! I always enjoy seeing my end-to-end tests catching errors that I would never ever thought of.

The down side of end-to-end tests is that it's slow to develop and slow to run. Because in many cases, end-to-end tests should be sequential and involves network calls and browser rendering. In general it's worth it.
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