skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As soon as it was deregulated, Verizon and AT&T began upgrades. But before then, they weren't going to build upgrades to networks that any competitor could borrow at wholesale value.

Given the great intentions that such bastions of corporate ethics like AT&T and Verizon have, is it possible that they simple held out until the got what they wanted?
"I just went through your recent comment history and it's pretty clear you're interested in no such thing. You've been blindly repeating Fox News style prepared talking points without regards to actual information presented to you. As an example this was explained to you in another subthread below:"

I don't watch Fox news, sorry (I cut cable years ago). I know it may come as a shock to you that people actually think critically about a situation, but this is what I am doing. I have brought up many good points and concerns, and they seem to be getting side-tracked and you are (attempting) to discredit me.

"Seeing your ad-nauseam repetition of the same talking points while utterly disregarding cogent responses to them"

Look at my response. He said there is a 300+ page plan and now we know there are 700 regulatory rules that still have not seen. Can you show them to me? This would stop me from asking.

"As just one more examples out of dozens more, here's what tzs explained to you in another thread yesterday:"

So, I ask for more transparency and your response is another poster that basically said that it's not done this way. Can you tell me why it isn't done this way and why, going forward, it shouldn't?

Now, instead of trying to delve into my past and attack me personally (which is usually a red flag for me, but I will ignore it), tell me:

1) What are the 700 regulations and why should I not be able to see them? My business and my life runs through the Internet and I pretty much use it every day. I should have some say in rules that will now be imposed on me.

2) Even if we get to see proposals before regulations and laws are in place, it's still not a vote.

In the very beginning, we will probably see no change with the new regulations. It's 5 or 10 years down the line that's still unknown. By this time, people will not associate the higher bills and other effects with this new regulation and politicians will push the blame on something else.

I'm actually shocked that intelligent people have no problem just giving their rights away in the blink of an eye.
I do work with web projects, but I hardly live in github, sure it's an important tool and I tend to visit the site quite often especially if I'm working, but I see no need to keep it open all the time, but maybe I'm not solving hard enough problems for that to matter.
Fascinating.
Does this mean your 1400 calories of protein came from 7-8 protein drinks a day ?
Where could I get more information on this that isn't "bro science" ?
Ok, so their observed effect ("significantly increased overall symptoms") is almost certainly due to gluten. Those are indeed good probabilities.

I'm interested in how large an effect "significantly increased" means. I suspect that this is defined a little more rigorously in the actual text, but it doesn't seem to be in the abstract.
Regarding the flatulence, Soylent just came out with version 1.4 which is supposed to largely address that issue. Less oat flour, more digestive enzymes, etc.
I detect a note of condescension in your comment, but I actually agree unironically: It is interesting to see people's reactions to copyright with different approaches and different situations. I think copyright is a useful tool, but I'm unhappy with the current infrastructure we have around it, so unusual cases like this help offer some perspective.
Zookeeper isn't complicated. Maybe you picked the wrong profession?
Nah. I like it in general, I just want to see all of the regulations/impacts before making a final judgement.
Periodically there are HN threads about open source projects.
Other things I've seen are to ask local tech meetups if anyone is interested in working together.
I'd also add the fork on github ribbon to your site: https://github.com/blog/273-github-ribbons
I wouldn't be too worried - but the stuff is a godsend if you are running your tail off every now and then and need something cheap and easy to keep your energy up.

I think that's Soylent's niche. Imagine those days when you're too (busy/lazy/unskilled/low on cash) to cook or get takeout, so now you've got this alternative that's probably better for you than the stuff you would have gotten anyways.
On the other hand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taung_Child
Protocol Buffers didn't really have an RPC engine - the services feature was limited to generating some interfaces. gRPC provides an actual RPC engine with required network functionality.
For the lazy, the new UA string is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

Glad I don't deal in server-side analytics!
But it will still be non-free, and probably won't sync history/bookmarks/open tabs with mobile, except perhaps windows phone. And it only works on windows.

I don't see what would entice users to switch from Firefox or chromium or opera (or midori, konqueror, etc) to a new Microsoft browser.

Its probably still worth telling users not to use internet explorer, just in case they ever end up buying a Mac or Linux PC, and out of principle to support free software.

Its good to see competition, but I theorize that this will hurt Mozilla and benefit Google and Microsoft. The quality of chrome has been stagnating recently due to its large market share, while Firefox has been steadily advancing (because Mozilla's primary agenda is to move the web forward). Users have started a slow migration back to Firefox, which I love. A good internet explorer, paired with effective marketing, could threaten chrome and force google to get their act together, ending the Firefox rennaissance.

But realistically I don't see Microsoft marketing this effectively, and internet explorers reputation as a piece of crap will haunt it for years to come.
> Also, now as a utility, internet can be regulated for content, be it decency standards or political speech.

Please point to the provision of Title II that allows content regulation, whether it be for "decency standard or political speech" or anything else?
Surprised to see the amount of hate in the reddit comments. A lot of "this charity deserves it more than this charity" going on.
> "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection."

First time I've heard that quote, but I love it. Reminds me of this one:

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
If you used your iPhone at full power all day, it would be dead in three hours. If you left it in standby, it would last for days. Most people do a combination of these things, leading to the battery life averaging out to be around one day of normal use.

Is that essentially saying people bought an expensive phone that does all this fancy stuff but don't bother with it because they don't want to fiddle with something in their hand for any length of time?

Try flooring the accelerator on your car and see how long the tank of gas lasts. Compare it to idling away a full tank. Do people shy away from hot-rodding their engines just because they don't want to fiddle with the throttle, or because doing the speed limit and accelerating slowly tends to suit their needs just fine?
Time to Add Color to These Pebbles
The parent commenter's post was definitely intended as satire.
And more details http://corner.squareup.com/2015/02/grpc.html
>> because they want to be able to charge a premium for some sites
>Elaborate on this plan.

OK. Comcast offers their "On Demand" service over their IP network. I can consume it with their set-top box, or with an XFinity app on my XBox. The bandwidth that I use for this app does not count against any data cap that Comcast may impose, and they're also doing traffic shaping to give this on-demand content preference over what I would get with Amazon or Netflix apps sitting next to the Comcast app in my home menu. That is using their position as the last-mile provider to give their content preferential treatment.

>> and give preferential routing to some kinds of traffic.
>This is generally how the internet works. When you say "kinds" you mean surgery in action data vs. netflix data. Or when you say "kinds" do you mean netflix data vs. ISP movie provider data. That is the same kind of data.
You need to be a little more clear.
The internet gives preferential routing to certain kinds of data by design.

See above. Comcast and others are already giving preferential treatment to their own video streaming services vs. other services that are streaming the same kind of content.
The health fad is super unfortunate, mostly because the "gluten free" foods I see are still just as shitty nutritionally as their gluten equivalents.

I'd love for this to be performed on a larger scale, we'll prove that either gluten sensitivity exists or psychics do if the results hold.
> It's not the job of the government to make companies less shitty, it's their job to protect the free market so OTHER companies can reduce the shittiness of e.g. comcast.

While you're correct you also need to remember that it was the government who helped create many of these monopolies in the first place. Trying to force the market to become more open for smaller companies arguably could have been the best move to make. But that doesn't really matter now.
So this doesn't scare you at all?

The plan gives a Washington bureaucracy a blank check to decide how
Internet service providers deploy and manage their networks, from the last mile all the way through the
Internet backbone. Take interconnection as just one example. The plan states that the FCC can determine
when a broadband provider must establish physical interconnection points, where they must locate those
points, how much they can charge for the provision of that infrastructure, and how they will route traffic
over those connections. That is anything but light touch regulation. And the plan extends the FCC’s
interventionist gaze well beyond this part of the network. Small wonder that some pro-regulation activists
are already deeming the FCC the “Department of the Internet.

http://www.fcc.gov/document/comm-pai-press-stmt-president-ob...
Because recent government conduct has been stellar, I really want more government regulation, government always knows best, government does an amazing job, is very fair, is very open and transparent, government is democratic and responsive to citizen concerns.

What typical myopic bullshit.
So the better question is how did we get to this duopoly?
Not if the ISP is a roll up of municipal and state created monopolies.

Which incidentally is a general argument for laissez faire capitalism. And in the particular, here, is an argument for regulation.
GRPC – cross-platform open source RPC over HTTP/2
" Participants were randomly assigned to groups given either 4.375 g/day gluten or rice starch (placebo) for 1 week, each via gastro-soluble capsules.""

One thing that's not clear is what was communicated to the patients: "You'll be given gluten", "You'll be given something unspecified" or "You'll be given a gluten-free food" (and then groups split in gluten/placebo given)
If you do a search for the net neutrality position of companies like AT&T, Verizon, Centurylink- you'll find plenty of material on their policy blogs on why this is a bad thing.

http://community.centurylink.com/regulatoryblog/
http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/broadband-classification/thou...
http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/fccs-throwback-th...

It is extremely interesting that Comcast has made no public positions on title II neutrality.
Really cool. Question: Assuming that your algorithms will become known or can be replicated, how do you think about your defensibility? What is proprietary here that improves via network effects? How does the licensing model work and what are some comparable (old school/current) companies?
Apple's March 9th event
I don't think I was as bad as that, but I had a similar issue. I tested negative for celiac twice, although my father is confirmed, but I have to roll my eyes at anyone who claims non-celiac gluten sensitivity doesn't exist because it clearly does for some of us (that said, I have never suffered from bloating or pain which are allegedly the most common symptoms).
There's also the free textbook The Little Book of Semaphores:

http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/
Yes, they rely on other people's wires, namely the ones rented (i.e. paid for) by the consumers of their products. How do you justify double dipping in this case?
Aside from the fact that radio waves have strategic role for every country, it's mostly tragedy-of-commons case. You can't just let anyone start broadcasting anything at any power and frequency, because there's no way they'll themselves coordinate to use the spectrum wisely instead of trying to overpower one another until the whole thing collapses into a total and unusable mess.
Yes, the problem can be solved by using a different language. I'm pretty sure that was the point.
Works great for me. I'm curious as to what your input was?
Staying Motivated Through the Long Slog
The fact that Hibernate Query Language even exists tells you that ORM is a bad idea.
This is exactly what Net Neutrality is trying to prevent, though not in the way you think.

Without net neutrality, we would evolve towards a pay-to-play world in which you could hook up your server to the Internet, but nobody would be able to download your content unless you paid their broadband provider for bandwidth access.

With net neutrality, the government is preserving your right to be heard just as much as the billionaire down the street. That's the entire point.
If you're working with multiple symbols, such as (), {}, and [], you'd want to use a stack. Closing a child ( before its parent { would be an error.
A loophole that allows funding for health care to be cut sounds more like a "feature" to congresspersons.
subjects don't know whether they do or do not have placebo. That's inherent in the definition of placebo.
Webkit != Safari, specially when tracking down rendering issues.
Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
Can you explain why not?
I think this is something that has already started playing out with designer and developer oriented networks like The Deck and Fusion Ads. Better design, standardized rules targeted towards specific groups.
Do NOT lie about your salary.

You do not have to tell your salary, but lying - is bad for carma.

Telling your salary target is a good idea that saves time for everyone involved, but it should be clearly outlined as a target, not as your current salary.
Here's an anecdote:

My mother is so allergic to wheat (not sure if it's the gluten or not) that when she touches dough, she instantly breaks out in hives at the site of contact. It's interesting, because ingestion isn't required to produce a reaction. She can't eat the stuff, either.

She's even more allergic to corn. The only grain she can contact without consequence is rice. She eliminated grains from her diet and, after many years, can now eat small amounts without much of a problem.

Can anyone else here attest to this kind of general grain allergy?
Shumway is a very heavyweight dynamic recompiler and includes a complex canvas/webGL rendering engine. Shipping it just for an ad is a bit much.

Naturally, Swiffy's method is quite limited in what Flash features it can support, but that's OK for its purpose.
"... a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, ..."

The important part of the title is the words Double-Blind. The patients don't know and the people running it don't know.
This is why it is so awesome to encode your conventions into an auto-formatter.
To be fair, it is TOP middle of the screen... Totally normal there
I am python developer, I am looking forward to program in F#. F# just seems right after developing with python unlike languages like c#, java.
now that non-volatile memory technology - flash today, plus RRAM tomorrow - has been widely accepted, it is time to build systems that use flash directly instead of through our antique storage stacks.

Hear hear! The basic storage model that arose in the 50's and 60's being the best fit for recently developed hardware seems as likely as the security models from the 50's and 60's being the best fit for the Internet.

(If the obnoxious popup adverts from ZDNet strike me as archaic, they are not doing well.)
Interview: Sundar Pichai on Google's Vision, Mobile Revenue, Apple and China
LTE direct allows peer to peer routing of traffic over high capacity, licensed spectrum. In rural areas where a device has shoddy coverage, you could conceivably route traffic from devices with poor coverage to devices with strong coverage and then out to the Internet.

You wouldn't want to do this for streaming traffic, as it could negatively impact the experience of the device with the strongest coverage. But you could do this for traffic that has lower performance requirements.

Paid prioritization has existed over the course of the entire Internet. I happens every day- and it is known as peering agreements. Would you characterize the history of the Internet so far as "stifled growth"?
TechMeAbroad – job offers from tech statups sponsoring visas
Podcast Collection for JavaScript and Web Developers
I too thought gluten intolerance was all in people's minds, except for Celiac (which is a very serious affair indeed).

I had pretty bad intestinal problems for a couple of years. I had effectively ruled out gluten as a possible cause because in uni I had pizza boxes stacked to the roof.

Whilst reading a paper on a dietary study I remembered that croissants triggered severe intestinal issues for me. I began to wonder whether I had developed a sensitivity to gluten.

I cut gluten and my pretty bad intestinal issues ceased within days, with a total abatement after 2 weeks. That's been the case for 2 months now.

I also suffer from occasional (controlled) panic attacks. There has been at least a 50-75% reduction in those. (I was aware my panic attacks were exacerbated by the intestinal issues.)

Another interesting discovery in an article I read on HN is that metabolism is more affected by eating than light. So I tried not eating any calories after 10pm.

My normal waking hour is 11 am and has been for 15 years. By the first weekend after I started nil calories after 10 pm, I woke up at 7:30 am! (It's stablised to a more civilised hour now.)
Uhh... he's using Google Calendar in the 2nd picture...
Count of 2014 flaws finds more in Mac OS and iOS than in Windows or Linux
Sure. Let H0 be the null hypothesis and D be the data you observed. The first statement is P(H0|D) = 0.05. The second is P(D|H0) = 0.05.

The two quantities are related to each other via Bayes rule:

P(H0|D)=P(D|H0)P(H0)/P(D)

So indeed, as P(D|H0) goes down, so does P(H0|D). But if P(H0)/P(D) is sufficiently large, you can easily have P(H0|D) high while P(D|H0) is low.

I too have sympathy for everyone confused by frequentist stats - they tend to answer the exact opposite question that one really wants answered. In contrast, Bayesian stats tend to answer the question that most people ask.
Nice documentation on containers
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I am working on this side project to help everyone (startups and engineers). Please let me know what you think. I would love your feedback. Thanks!
Your comment is currently "above the fold" and even though I agree with you, I downvoted because I don't think this discussion should involve what Mark Cuban whatsoever.

Whatever dialog he spurs is going to be an intellectual dead end.

BTW, why isn't anyone talking about the Interstate Commerce Commission, the predecessor to the FCC, and the similarities between common carrier status of railways and Internet service providers?

We have over a hundred years of actual evidence to support the pros and cons of regulating public communications. Why are we choosing to instead resort to blind conjecture based on talking point samples from the last decade?
I don't know if I could be that selfless and humble and just happy for the greater good. I hope I would be, but can't say for certain.
There are two kinds of "allergies", IgE and IgG. IgE is more "anaphylactic", and IgG can be referred to as a "delayed allergy."

When talking about gut sensitivity I think people are usually referring to the IgG sensitivity.
These are way better than that bloody binary joke in every computer department.
How can the Apple push notifications be so reliable even on the worst networks?
So fun thing to do in these kinds of videos is to look for women.

FYI. This video has 1 woman, at the end. She doesn't say anything, she just stands there, and she's only visible for a few seconds.

Summing up. Microsoft's new engine, still fighting to gain traction with 50% of the population ;)
I nearly spit out my coffee after reading this line:
"I was once a standing-desk skeptic, too. But, after I made the switch four days ago, I could immediately sense a difference in how I felt: way more self-righteous."
Let's turn the tables- I'm going to apply a hypothetical:

I find all of your arguments to be talking points. How can we possibly have a reasonable dialog? I have just insulted you by explicitly stating that you are insincere in your position.

This is how you're treating everyone who disagrees with you. It is utterly unproductive. You are executing a Denial of Service attack on any reasonable dialog.
I wonder if this can be extended to train crows to collect trash, such as cigarette butts and plastic bags.
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Howdy folks!

I am the PR guy that Kris mentioned that set up this interview and feature.

I understand that most people think that there's some kind of nepotism going on, and in fact sometimes this really is how an industry (any industry) works. Not in this case, but I understand why you'd jump to that conclusion.

So why this game? Why this guy? Well the answer is in part because it is important to run this kind of article now and then to remind everyone that it ISN'T always about the guy who has all the connections or about the company with the billions of dollars to spend.

Games, especially indie games, are about the PEOPLE behind them. You are all correct that basically this article could have been about practically ANY indie (I work hard for my clients in hopes of making them the target) - but the important thing is the article its self gets published to remind us that for at least one person a game is more than a game, it is a statement, it is a life change, it is a dream come true.

In short, I believe this article is to say that in our days of ever increasing hype and flash that there's a human behind the scenes making what he loves and that GamesBeat is strong enough to talk about it. Plus the game is pretty damn good :D

-Joe Lieberman
Indie Game PR Guy
That's what I'm asking. It's very unclear, even when reading stuff like http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducin...

I remember looking at the corefx github project just after the announcement, and it was very sparse with just a few commits and classes; it looked a lot like a brand new project written from scratch.

This wording also makes it sound like ".net core" is a re-boot, scorched earth reimplementation which will take some time to reach the levels of the original .net:

>.NET Framework 4.6

>The .NET Framework is still the platform of choice for building rich desktop applications and .NET Core doesn’t change that.

>For Visual Studio 2015 our goal is to make sure that .NET Core is a pure subset of the .NET Framework. In other words, there wouldn’t be any feature gaps. After Visual Studio 2015 is released our expectation is that .NET Core will version faster than the .NET Framework. This means that there will be points in time where a feature will only be available on the .NET Core based platforms.