skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine a lot of ways the regulations might have been screwed up and subverted. "One size fits all" doesn't apply to any of them. In fact, it sounds to me like a good thing; we don't want to start down the road of carving out exemptions and exceptions for non-neutral behavior that should be treated as completely intolerable.
Integration Testing VS. Unit Testing: A Case Study
Yea it felt like that. We had zero media connections and in fact were largely ignored by the press until we got signed by a big label. Once that happened the press we got was usually all through them.
RedFin is a great step towards making buying less expensive but they haven't innovated on the experience of buying at all. They give you a traditional agent experience for half the price. We let you submit an offer online and we're rifle focused on improving the offer/buy process. On a typical California home you'll save a lot more going with us. We charge a flat-fee rather than a percentage because it's just as much work to put an offer in and close on a $5M home as a $500k home.

And no, we are not aiming to get acquired any time soon! We're building a sustainable business with a very concrete revenue source. Hopefully it'll be the other way around ;).
In many states, power-production has been decoupled from power-delivery. For example, in Illinois[0], customers can choose which company to buy their power from but maintaining the lines and delivering that power is still the responsibility of Commonwealth Edison, the old monopoly utility. This seems like a reasonable compromise to me, and it's not that dissimilar from Comcast delivering my packets, while I choose to buy my content from Netflix or Hulu or Amazon.

[0] http://www.pluginillinois.org/default.aspx
With Soylent, employees will only need 5 minutes for lunch. Once somebody starts bottling this stuff premixed, it's going to be huge with startups.
Just because you don't agree with the content doesn't they don't read it. :-) I'm sure the people that matter do read it, but they aren't concerned with the general public. Their only mission is to keep the populous naive while they do the bidding of their superiors (powerful leaders, lobbyists, corporations, etc...)
> but someone rather late in the process pointed out to me that the FCC loves to censor things like television

I think you mistake "is mandated by Congress" for "loves".
I have found that ORMs get you up and running more quickly, but that time saved is eventually given back working through ORM performance issues. As someone who has written complex SQL for many years, it is simply faster and easier to just write optimized queries up front. Something like jOOq makes this nice with typing and some minimal object mapping.
Currently as a user base we jump back and forth mostly on one criteria, resource usage. If IE can compete there, I think users will come.
Your comment would have been better, in my view, without the ad-hominem attack on older people. Especially if you wish to advocate for a pro-science, reason and evidence approach to argumentation.
Great marketing for a competing product. Has anyone tried ketosoy? I suppose the obvious first question is: How does it taste?
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it's been long-accepted by scientists and yogis that the "big bang" is more of a point of thermo-dynamic equilibrium than an absolute beginning. no beginning!
It is and it isn't. LINQ is actually incredibly smart under the hood, so if I ran:

myList.Where(x => x.name = 'Person');
.Where(x => x.age > 18);
.ToList();

it wouldn't actually run two different array filters - it would combine them. You can imagine the performance gains to be had there.
Maximizing revenue from your online course
Inter-tab communication using local storage
Do birds have a sense of smell?
A New Way for Google to accept your money in an auction for placement slots (that displace actual search positions).

Obviously a winning move for google, but not really a win for anybody else (besides people trying to arbitrage ads for these new, search-result-displacing slots).
Except the ISPs were never actually throttling content (well, other than BitTorrent, which the FCC promptly told them to stop doing), and the title II regulations passed today would have had no impact on the entire Netflix vs. Comcast/Verizon dispute. That boiled down to a dispute over settlement-free peering contracts, which the FCC does now have some oversight, though based on past comments I doubt their decisions would go the way most people would hope.

One positive about this is that it will give the FCC some oversight over the pricing of interconnect deals. But interconnect deals will still happen, and they won't be free - these rule changes effectively codified them into law. So Netflix will still have to pay Comcast/Verizon to send lots of traffic to their users, only the FCC now has the ability to regulate the pricing terms of such deals.
Google introduces gRPC, a new open source HTTP/2 Framework
You weren't around for the first browser war, were you?
Standing desks are for people who want the salary of a developer, but also want the physique of a cashier.
Just wait till we travel to other planets' timezones. That's when programmers will really earn their paychecks.
I learnt by starting to cook Indian food when I moved here. A lot of Indian food has the same set of spices and similar procedures. Soon I realized that I can experiment with the ingredients and vary the spices to change flavor and it did not have an adverse impact on the final outcome. That caused me to loose the trepidation of experimenting in the kitchen and I do it with all cuisines now. And it has worked out well, cause I generally can manage to put a meal together with whatever is left in the fridge.
You don't need to use Java for Android or for the JVM, you can just use Scala. See Scaloid [1] for setting up Scala for Android and Scala Async [2] to get that nice "async" syntax you've mentioned.

[1] https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid

[2] https://github.com/scala/async
Most Flash ads don't really have a great deal of ActionScript in them beyond the odd call to stop and play in the timeline.
But there are also SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) SSDs ... the major point is in the aphorism in his third paragraph:

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection."

Hence this level of indirection, the discrete "drive", is what he thinks should go poof.
Too bad there won't be a OS X Version.
I'm pretty sure a significant majority would agree that generosity is an important trait for a good citizen, however. An unwillingness to share makes someone look more like an asshole.
Morgan Stanley: There is no way lots of people start paying for Tinder
I don't even care about new software/upgrades either. Glad I'm not an iOS developer.
We'll see it all soon (as in the next couple weeks) and if there's something awful in there we can start calling for revision.
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I've never seen a singleton I couldn't refactor away. Removing singletons always makes dependencies between modules more explicit which is a good thing.
Even Eric Schmidt told Obama it was a bad idea. IBM, Intel, and Cisco are against it. My posts were shadow banned on HN for being against these regulations. It's odd that people like you can't fathom that there are two sides to this issue.
I believe you are correct. Instead of using a stack, you can add one for opening, subtract one for closing and as long as your count is non-negative, it will work the same way. Its effectively the same algorithm, except instead of actually keeping the stack, you're keeping track of the number of objects in the stack, and it'll reduce your worst case space requirement from linear in the number of parentheses to logarithmic.
Shmerl, love to learn more about what you mean by this. Do you mean a rule that a network could not sell to consumers both TV and internet access and phone?
GNC used to have (still has?) two entirely different wrappers on their store-brand protein shakes. One bottle proclaimed "lose weight! get lean!" (light colors, blue/white) and the other boasted "build muscle! grow bigger!" (dark colors, red/black). The contents of both bottles was exactly the same. They were exactly the same price. One was just marketed to women and the other to men.
Don't worry about intent, worry about what they actually say. They have smart lawyers, and wouldn't say it if they didn't mean it.

They say you lose the license if you make a claim "...that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable." They also helpfully indicate what a claim means, and making an assertion counts.

Now why would they do this? My guess is that they wanted to have a legal tool that they could use to provide a chilling effect on any third parties who might volunteer information that is useful to someone filing a lawsuit against them. Which, if you are a lawyer, might seem like a good response to the demonstrated ability of groups like groklaw to crowdsource legal research. And if they were in such a lawsuit, that comment is exactly what Facebook would not want to see.

But there is no need to speculate. Their patent grant is quite clear, and the comment I pointed at is in violation.
This. The amount of new Thread(new Runnable(){...}).start() I have in my Android code is awful. And then inside the Thread you have to use runOnUiThread() to change UI stuff. Given how common it is for an app to hit the network, this should be much much easier. Looking at your example it might be slightly easier but it also isn't inlineable. C# solves both of these problems
Anonymous hacker indicted for revenge hacking of Australian intel websites
23k SSH login credentials captured
That is definitely not scary to me. There are a number of things that absolutely shouldn't be directly elected, like the Federal Election Commission, the Federal Reserve, and the Supreme Court.

Politicians spend much of their time getting re-elected, and they have to focus a great deal on whatever the electorate's current opinion is. That is excellent for things that should respond relatively quickly, and terrible for things that should move deliberately or be countercyclical.

It would be way more scary to me to have the FCC commissioners out fundraising from industry all the time like our elected officials do. Right now they're appointed on staggered 5-year terms, which is intentionally longer than the election cycle of the President who appoints them. No more than 3 can be members of the same political party, and none can have a financial interest in any regulated business. It's not perfect, but I think it's a great example of how to minimize the ills of direct election while still having it be (indirectly) accountable to the people.
David Suzuki did an interesting show about crows but of course due to annoying geoIP copyright can't find an American version to link.

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/m/episodes/a-murder-of-crow...

There's signs up at some Indian public markets forbidding vendors taking payment from monkeys as they watched humans exchange cash for fruit and became pickpockets. No gifts though except a huge tip when handing over piles of notes for one bunch of bananas.
Telecom is peculiarly mired in it. By and large, here is the mainstream positions of the two major parties on telecom:

Republicans: Want the government out of it.
Democrats: Only care about it to the extent that it's a nexus of class/race warfare.
Is there any evidence of that actually happening? By that I mean Netflix being specifically throttled. To date, we've yet to see any evidence that Netflix-originated traffic has been targeted. The interlink capacity has been under dispute, but all traffic carried by those interlinks is subject to congestion, not just Netflix.
Crows are incredibly smart.

They are known to memorize curbside garbage pick up routes of city vehicles and the specific days for each neighborhood, within a city. They are also quick to adapt, given a change in schedule and only visit those specific neighborhoods only on those specific days, from miles away.

Here's a video of crow performing a multi-step tool action test - a test of intelligence - for the first time, without guidance and solving it in the first attempt.

[1] Crow Intelligence - Multi-Step Tool Action Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8-gP3Sw_8
We should walk in someone else's shoes first before judging what they could and should do. We have no idea what her personal circumstances were.

But whatever her parents did or could do, she had little choice in it as a minor.
There are a few services now that deliver a box of ingredients and recipes for $60 or so a week for three meals. Plated, HelloFresh, BlueApron. They really helped us actually cook more, instead of talking about it. It still takes time (30-40 min per meal) but you do learn cooking techniques and you do eat much healthier. And while it seems expensive, we probably go out one less night a week because of it, saving $60 and coming out even.
Ars has been playing on the 'Republicans are against it so it must be good' emotion card for awhile now. That's almost all I see on this issue in the tech media. What's been happening is that all objections are being dismissed as "Republicans lol" and "Fox News reporting so must be wrong". Our national discussion is literally at the level of Jon Stewart's mockery of things that warrant serious discussion.
actually, its always been about advertising!
There isn't. Everything gets published. The vote on the rule change came after a public comment period.

This thread is just full of HN's intellectually-challenged users waving their hands and saying "ooooOOOOoooo GOVERNMENT! SCARY GOVERNMENT! BE AFRAID OF SCARY GOVERNMENT! ooooOOOOoooo!"
You're stating that you think the US government can create 700 new Internet regulations and not mess things up?

I'm stating that I think the US government is mainly made up of morons, especially in regards to technical issues.

The cynicism is from the fact that there are 300+ pages to do what would apparently be a fairly simple change, so there's more to it than just the "Net Neutrality for everyone!" bit.
Great point - We deliver each offer personally and gather the exact information that you are talking about before finalizing each offer.

One of our main goals is to reduce the opacity in the process for our buyers. You've provided examples where the buyer benefits, but we also see private agent-to-agent communication used to drive up offer prices.
They forgot to factor in all the industrial espionage the NSA is no doubt doing. Sure, there might be a little fallout here and there, but who's to say the US isn't still miles ahead?
You're referring to HN as though it's one person.

There's wide disagreement over net neutrality.

There's wide disagreement over allowing the FCC to pass a large framework for regulating the Internet without allowing the public to see what's in it.

It's outrageous the FCC did this. Who knows what new powers were just granted to the government. You have no idea, because you were not allowed to see it. Recognizing that fact, is not cynical.
I find that with naming style, it's hard to go the non-idiomatic route and stay consistent, because you are inevitably interacting with the standard libraries, which are in the idiomatic style, so your non-idiomatic code quickly clashes. Then it's not an argument for one or another idiom, but one for consistency, which is easier to make.
> Were you able to read the regulation before it was passed? Not that we could change anything, but weren't you in the least bit interested?

Sure, I'm interested; I'm also aware enough of the regulatory process to not expect to see anything published between a NPRM and the next official regulatory action, even though that next action is likely to be a final rule/order and even though there are likely to be interesting drafts produced in the process (whether or not the process is in a regulatory venue where there is a single decision-maker to approve official action or a vote of a multimember commission.)

Similarly, while I'm interested, I don't expect to see copies of drafts of decisions while a court is considering a case.

> By little fanfare I mean the fact that everyone read his editorial, and cheered and let it be.

Aside from being a misuse of "little fanfare", that's also factually incorrect; lots of people -- both supporters and opponents of net neutrality -- reacted to the editorial with specific concerns that the content of that the outline presented of the direction of the proposal, and by many reports some of those responses had an effect on the final form of the regulations. No doubt both supporters and opponents will continue to have reactions to the details of the adopted regulations.
Or when timezones depend on how fast you are traveling.
Your point is related, though.

Your side projects cannot become your main income if you have no side projects.

To make time for side projects, you need to weigh the importance of having them, to you, and trim out other less important things from your life.

This is a worthy exercise even if you decide to skip doing the side projects entirely.
Yeah, you were right in the above comment that that ability does come from having some experience. But the "let's see what's in the fridge" game is a great way to get that experience! You'll undoubtedly mess a few things up, but that's just the process of learning.
It could also be a double-edged sword. I've seen it happen more times than I can remember.

Management sets a clear deadline, we rush the code to get it done by its due date. Then the product sits there for months doing nothing while we're in between projects wasting time away. Half a year down the road we get asked for support because some things broke which would've been working fine had we taken the proper time to built them.

From personal experience, most businesses don't think in terms of maintenance and debugging. These are costs which can very quickly add up to way more than the saved development costs.
Regarding “The Unbearable Lightness of Twitter”
Well, let's flip the question around -- why are there three major open-source rendering engines in the world right now already? Why did Google fork Blink from WebKit?

The answer seems to be, major browser vendors have a hard time cooperating at the engine level. Apple and Google had different opinions over WebKit, which eventually led to it being forked. Microsoft has no real reason to think that it could partner with Apple or Google any more successfully than they partnered with each other in developing a rendering engine.
We got the Gecko family of browsers, the Trident family of browsers, and the WebKit family of browsers. Sure, there are varying JS engines, and Blink and Servo are on the way, but WebKit is the 900lbs gorilla. It is a monoculture in a lot of ways. I use and promote Firefox because I want to check the other vendors.

Microsoft makes, hm, how can I be positive here ... patchy software. There are always lots of rough patches reflecting pointy-haired boss decision making process, and there's cruft that builds up. But, very often you'll see these weird, beautiful bits just sticking out all over the place in Microsoft code. The weirdo geniuses at MSFT are allowed to do their thang and leave their mark. And the seminal releases of their software are always the best. Like, there are parts of IE6 that make me go, "how the HELL did Microsoft pull this tech off in 2000?" IE6 was this crumbly tower of awesome. If IE6 were a game, I won that game.

Anyhow, if development on Spartan goes RIGHT, then this browser will be the 2015 version of IE6. It will be the completest vision of kickassitude. There will be weird, crazy bits, and it'll take Microsoft and the rest of us a decade to untangle the proprietary parts. I can feel my blood pressure rising already!! The rage and the triumph and the glory!
The ratio of negative comments vs positive ones is indeed odd.
> What scares me is that there are 700 regulations (that we haven't even seen) that got passed.

This is a huge problem. It is literally impossible for lawmakers and regulators to read everything they put into law, as many bills are hundreds of pages long.

Does anyone have any viable solutions to this problem? The only attempt to solve this problem that I know of was in early 18th Century England, when they set a limit on the word count of laws. But this was widely criticized (including being lampooned in Gulliver's Travels) and didn't last long. It seems like this is a pretty intractible problem.
Yep. In my experience, I've seen that the issue isn't with Mesos the Apache project, but rather with Marathon and Chronos, which are the applications built by Mesosphere.

There's a big naming and marketing confusion at the moment with the open-source project and the VC-funded startup having such a similar name. It's unfortunately giving a bad reputation to the Mesos project.

Curious why there actually isn't a trademark issue here...?
Do checkout the demo [1] I and Luke did earlier, using Powerstrip adapters for Weave and Flocker. It shows how a database container can be moved from one machine to another, keeping it's data and IP address!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vVKtmd0ENw
> This has long been generally agreed upon by reasonable people as a good thing.

This is revisionist history. Up until very recently, Title II was the "nuclear option."[1] There's plenty of people who are pro-net neutrality who were skeptical of Title II. That's why they originally threw their support behind the FCC's last attempt at net neutrality, which tried to impose neutrality without reclassification.

The EFF only came out in favor of reclassification in June of last year, in a very measured and deliberate release: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/fcc-and-net-neutrality....

And some reasonably, technologically savvy people are opposed to net neutrality period: http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/02/mark-cuban-faults-... ("Mark Cuban faults ‘Silicon Valley groupthink,’ says FCC broadband rule a mistake")

[1] Conservatives don't like it because it allows the FCC to do things like rate-setting, even if this administration chooses not to use that power. Liberals don't like the specter of FCC regulation of content.

PS: The accusations of astroturfing on HN are a vile sort of rhetorical tactic.
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.

All people have the right to connect as many devices
as they want to the internet, and connect their own
server(s) on their own network to the public internet,
and allow others to use their servers for any and all
purposes including to connect to the internet.

People have the right to serve and distribute content
on the public internet from their own network or
server and any other network/server giving them
permission to do so.

People have a right to serve and distribute content in
a way that a maximum number of devices can access it
with ease.

I believe the rapid social change we're experiencing regarding progressive thought (marijuana legalization, gay marriage, stem cells, etc) is because people have these rights. The longer we have these rights the more our society will change as a collective and many of the mistakes that the government and other overseers have made will be corrected.