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There is no reason to discriminate as the TB's are basically free. The only problem is the shared medium on cable (Docsis)/GPON internet. And the evil ISPs who want to make more money because nobody wants their uncompetitive TV products anymore.
The feedback is a worthwhile read: http://arachnoid.com/psychology/feedback1.html
My favorite sci-fi work on this topic (and I dare say my favorite sci-fi work ever) is a series of posts on kuro5hin by localroger, together titled "Passages in the void." You can find them on http://localroger.com/ . The speed of light issue is solved without inventing new physics, which is extremely satisfying, but there is still enough of a leap of faith to make it satisfying sci-fi. Brilliant work.
Should be considered with moxie's piece: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/
> Reading, writing and maintaining hand-written SQL is hard and error prone.

I see this attitude a lot on HN, often whenever any ORM comes up, and it's often taken as axiomatic.

I'm honestly curious to hear people's opinions about what makes SQL so much more difficult to use correctly than other programming languages or environments. I come from a background in BI and data warehousing, so I'm pretty comfortable with SQL as a second language, as I like to call it.

Here are a few things I understand as unique in SQL, some of which clearly do add unique difficulties:

* Everything not a SELECT is stateful - unit testing becomes difficult

* Syntax/semantics are far from most "normal" languages (not C-like, not similar to shell scripting, not OO, not functional, verbose in a style similar to COBOL, the hated)

I, personally, do not find large SQL codebases particularly difficult to work with correctly or understand. Perhaps this is a combination of ignorance and Stockholm Syndrome since most of my experience is in databases and heavy SQL work. I'd like to understand better why the attitude in the excerpt I quoted seems so common.

Ninja edit: Additionally, I find a lot of power and expressiveness in the relational model. Again, perhaps because of the focus of work I do I find SQL indispensable and very easy to use for both exploratory programming and data analysis, as well as robust programming e.g. for ETL processing. Note: I still use ETL tools and frameworks, but this is not to remove SQL from the equation, but for the better dependency tracking and process monitoring.
VAT MOSS is annoying, but to say it's a show stopper is quite excessive. Yes, I too would prefer not to have to deal with all the admin stuff, but technically, US companies are also required to register for VAT in the EU (if they're selling to EU customers and/or businesses). Most just don't.
Yeah well, all the previous dummy data was wiped out for some reason. This is why I asked .. What kind of data should be published.
I guess that people won't use on raspberry pie big data queries
The need to exempt various types of traffic for business reasons is ultimately why I think monthly data caps will fade away for cable/telco-provided Internet service.

An example would be some provider like Disney saying that in order for Comcast (or some smaller operator) to be able to carry their TV channels they must also zero-rate streaming from their sites. Or Hulu and Verizon do a deal in which Hulu content doesn't count toward a cap on Verizon phones. These things are becoming more common, and I think the difficulty of figuring out which bits count and which ones don't (especially when they all come from the same CDNs) will prove to be more trouble than it's worth.
The thrust/weight ratios of engines are stuck somewhere below 10/1 with afterburners. Military power is significantly less than that. Engine is single most heavy component, and structures have to be calculated to carry that two tonne lump of metals though 9G turn. So engine thrust/weight is pretty much the defining factor. I don't think F110 could have lent it self to significantly more.

BVR missiles might become the thing or not. If stealth goes far enough, close encounters with airplanes might become unavoidable. This would be incredibly expensive with modern off bore IR missiles. You would essentially always have 1/1 kill ratios, no matter what side you are on. The golden age of BVR missile might have been the 90's. A decade with very little air combat.

On the other hand if BVR is the thing (maybe with sophisticated IR tracking, I don't know.) Then fighter plane is just overly expensive launch platform. Drones and long range SAMs should take over. You might even reach a point where stealth stops mattering, because you just try to saturate airspace with hordes of very cheap drones carrying relatively expensive missiles.

Then there is missile killing lasers. But you could end up with similar results with turreted "metal storm" auto cannon. Lots of the lasers apparent superiority comes from sophisticated kill chain. Detect, recognize, track, aim an boom. Only certain type of "boom" is result of using a laser. Kinetic shell adds only one step of calculating ballistics, which these days is easiest one in the bunch. If this happens, air combat would turn into a contest of long range gunnery.
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Looking at dietary benefits is very complex. For example, there is one study that suggests there are no known benefits to yogurt.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/292809.php

The point is that when I see numbers of test subjects, duration, measures of benefit, etc I feel more confident that some thought has gone into understanding benefits. However, Unless a test subjects only ate that one product or all test subject diets were controlled, it's difficult to measure benefits.

After reading this article, I was unsure of how rigorous this research was. Despite many references, the strength of the data wasn't analysed in a way that was quantifiable.
This article isn't alone. One of the few miracle vitamins (vitamin c) also has its critics when it comes to potential benefits.

In summary, I wasn't convinced one way or another by this research.
Lots of Australian ISPs use this model. For example: TPG Broadband Off-Net 50GB -> 10GB peak / 40GB off peak (2am-8am)
You are not alone. Lots of comments on HMM in the past 4-5 months have been low effort, half hearted cynical reddit fare. The community has done a pretty good job of policing the tone here, but it's certainly becoming noticeable.

This frightens me - I'm sure most people here are familiar with the quality of discussion of any reasonably large subreddit. The idea of that happening here is not enjoyable.
Isn't there a firefox extension that can just do some PGP stuff with some right click in gmail ?
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A Netflix "ultra HD" stream requires 25Mbps. Even if all 100 homes are simultaneously streaming ultra HD, that's 2.5Gbps in total. Coax can handle that easily with modern equipment.

Obviously they could be using very old equipment that can't, but whose fault is that?
I mean using (Keybase) https://keybase.io/ is pretty easy
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To be honest, VAT MOSS was introduced because large (American) companies were gaming the system by routing sales through Luxembourg to avoid significant amounts of VAT.

It is nothing more than a counter tax avoidance measure.
People have been used to peak & off-peak charges from telephones for a long time.
According to Dr. Web, it spreads through USB disks and the internet, and Dr. Web has great solution to that problem:

"Dr.Web Office Control access restriction system:
Restricts or completely prohibits access to Internet resources and removable devices, and therefore, excludes the possibility of a virus invading via those sources."

"Users should only have access to the local resources they require to perform their jobs. It's no use trying to convince staff that flash drives are dangerous. It is much easier to centrally disable access to such devices."
Hi,
Here's my two cents.

TL;DR: I don't feel this is Apple. Though, it might be wrong speculation.

I decided to subscribe to their mailing list, and this was the footer in their confirmation email:

For questions about this list, please contact:
updates@faradayfuture.com

Now, I decided to go ahead and hit them a mail, I was hoping it'd expose some detail of the company. But here's what I got instead:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

updates@faradayfuture.com
The email address you entered couldn't be found. Please check the recipient's email address and try to resend the message. If the problem continues, please contact your henpdesk.

Now, this is understandable, but if it's being run by Apple, I'll be damned if they make such major mistakes, seeing their own line of work. But okay, that isn't concrete evidence of that.

Here's the more interesting part of the email:

Original message headers:

Received: from FF-MAIL1.faradayfuture.com (10.0.0.6) by
FF-MAIL1.faradayfuture.com (10.0.0.6) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id
15.0.847.32; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:11:00 -0800

Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (209.85.214.178) by
FF-MAIL1.faradayfuture.com (10.0.0.6) with Microsoft SMTP Server id
15.0.847.32 via Frontend Transport; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:11:00 -0800

[1]

Did you see it yourself? Well, the company is running on Microsoft SMTP Servers. I mean, Apple seriously would not be doing that. Using Microsoft servers themselves would be too much. It's still possible, they're taking too many measures to hide the fact that it's Apple, and a this a part of those.

Another thing, very startup-sy about the company, is that they have liked something on their Facebook page[2], posted by some fanboy, which is not really possible if unless they have the whole Apple PR department at their back, or they made it themselves and monitor it personally. I mean, it's tough for Apple to monitor it themselves. One more thing I saw their Facebook page is Verified. Many other Facebook pages, with far more likes, and possibly, equally big teams/impact[3], don't have their pages Verified. Might be Apple, this shows.

[1]=https://imgur.com/kam9Yf8

[2]=https://www.facebook.com/faradayfuture/

[3]=https://www.facebook.com/LitMotors/
Also of interest might be John Pultorak's DIY AGC[1]

[1]: http://www.galaxiki.org/web/main/_blog/all/build-your-own-na...
This is so broken.

I'm giving up. The political system is broken beyond repair.
"Yes, I too would prefer not to have to deal with all the admin stuff,.."
You opened a VAT MOSS account in all 28 EU member states? Really?
Commercial electricity is charged a lower rate at off-peak hours in many markets.
Here is a followup update: http://andrewgelman.com/2015/11/06/age-adjustment-mortality-...
If society doesn't need more babies, we should not encourage people to have more babies. Of course, this is not true today. I am talking about a situation where economic activity (and growth) does not depend on ever increasing human consumption. My assumptions are likely flawed (please don't take my words at face value). As your sibling comment suggests, I am about to watch a ted talk https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...

My unverified, unscientific thoughts: My ideal is we move beyond this ideal of 2.4 children per couple. I want us to go even beyond one child policy. I want it to be socially acceptable for couples to choose to not have children. More than that, I want it to be sustainable for people to have -- on average -- fewer than one child. Now, it seems we are already moving in that direction. It seems as of 2012, we are already at 1.88 in the US, 1.66 in China PR, and 1.41 in Japan. https://www.google.com/search?q=total+fertility+rate+usa I'd say we can do better and drive it further down all over the world but we cannot promote this until we have some kind of assurance that doing so will not cause the global economy to stagnate, or worse, contract. If people live longer and are productive for longer, we can safely transition into a more automated future with fewer humans than we have today.
It is somewhat suspicious that their screenshot of the alleged ransom file appears to be taken from Notepad++, a text editor available only on Windows.
Because, international companies are going to avoid operating in Europe unless the profit outweighs the burden of stupid laws like this. The start up I work for would not consider expansion in Europe before the USA.
Oops, wrong link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10524479
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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/599

similar bug;
https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/298

and when it _does_ get configured (after boot) it has a tendency to drop packets.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/235474/random-packet...
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So nice that they fix this issue for all Linux users in the form of a 370 MB binary. Totally not suspicious.
I am over 32 so it does not seem old, still it's a late start even when everything goes well. Many specialists start closer to 40.

Residency starts out with extreme levels of supervision. The end of fellowship is the point where they are considered competent enough to not need direct supervision. Though doctors still have plenty of people looking over there shoulders.

The point is 32 is when doctors can start paying back significant amounts of there student loans and saving for retirement. Including interest it's not hard to be 32 and have 1/2 million in debt.

PS: Also, specialist's can't afford to make the path cheaper for the next person as they need to constrain supply to keep there wages high. Which not only increases cost of healthcare, but also medical research.
Yep! https://www.mailvelope.com/
I think of it like this: usability can be a security feature.

If you build a "perfectly secure" piece of software, but it takes a very high level of skill to use it, your users will use something else that is easier to use, but less secure. And then how has your ideologically perfect piece of software helped improve their security?

If you make tradeoffs for usability, you will raise the bar because people will actually use what you make.
What I would really like to see is peak and off peak data rates. You pay $X/month for 15Mbps (guaranteed, even during peak hours) and "up to" 1Gbps, then you pay twice that much for 30Mbps peak and 1Gbps off peak etc. No usage fees, but if you expect to consume 50Mbps during peak hours then be ready to open your wallet.
Hey HN, I'm one of the authors on this paper. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
> There is no correct price. There is just consensus.

And yet Warren Buffet is fantastically wealthy. The average investment advisor, this article states, is not.
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There's a lot of "considering" and "seems" in the article, and skimming the leaked document I didn't find anything definite either. So I'm not particulary worried.
Fork Thunderbird or some such client, also make a web client available. Make a new service which offers only encrypted e-mail by default (with a new e-mail address that includes e-mail hosting for your own domain) and provides the key server and everything else. Advertise it as something different from e-mail like encrypted e-mail. Set a new precedent, create a new industry.
this is specifically the problem they are trying to solve, too
> Of course, this theory makes the (incorrect) assumption that poor folks are working.

Most poor are working. Not sure what your point was, but don't try to pull the "their poor because they're lazy" argument.
Greetings from Taiwan. :) It's pretty much a "let's pretend we cannot see you" sort of diplomacy one the side of most countries (including my birth country in Europe) - most just set up a "trade office" and conduct things almost like an embassy.

Living here for ~7 years and thinking quite a bit about it, I believe statehood defined by membership of "club" that is the United Nations is quite laughable. There was no such thing a hundred years ago, and while the UN does bring a lot of good things to the table, this misrepresentation of reality (for obvious powerplay reasons) is just awful...
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That's the exact line of thinking our lab has been on. Security<-->usability is a tradeoff, and PGP seems to sit too far on the secure end of the spectrum to be useful to most users. We're working on a way to deliver progressively enhanced security, while onboarding less technical users with more usable features.
so like hushmail?
No you need to provide a desktop client, open source, by default with everything configured in addition to the service. I guess you should also let users use other IMAP servers but the client should always encrypt all mails it sends out.

Hushmail was always open to court order attack, a desktop client, an open source one, is much less so.

It should always put the name of the client in the subject line or send some unencrypted text along with each message on where they can get a client to view the message. And the client should be able to configure itself with minimal input, sort of like Thunderbird does right now with most e-mail services. And generate, transmit, and store your public key to anyone upon request.
when was internet free? i always have paid to use it. i understand free software but internet is here cause an infrastructure was created and deployed (means paid). my lan is free (cause i paid for that).

i don't get the point. someone wants to control a wan. is that a news?
I filed a bug report for that, too, and it discovered multiple gaping holes in the sandbox, which, luckily, only allowed null pointer dereferencing (so no RCE problems, but still DoS)
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Instead of making blanket statements, please name these Android and OSX applications.

I know from experience that scripts do not work out of the box. Often times their syntax is nontrivial. I also know quite few limitations of xmodmap/xev keymaps and autohotkey. Using a configuration application does work out of the box.
In India, Internet from Asianet and BSNL used to be free between 2am and 8am for some plans
All bad things but also they brought in strong privacy protections, held national governments to account for privacy invasions, have broadly stronger environment and safety legislation that most other regions.

The EU isn't all good or all bad it's just huge.
Should be more like TeX as an HTML replacement.
Yes, we probably would have gotten better usability scores if we developed our own PGP client with a better UX and tutorials. We selected Mailvelope because it was rated highly on the EFF's secure messaging scorecard [1] and we were exploring how the state-of-the-art in PGP software actually performed with end users.

[1] https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
Hyphens and ligatures are not all modern incarnations of TeX can do. pdfTeX for example also supports margin kerning and font expansion.
"I think all kids should learn how to program at some point. I'm not sure what's the right age."
I do not think all kids should learn how to program. I think programming is just one of many skills that one can master, not a must-have skill.
(As I've developed for both platforms, I think I have some standing to say this)

Hold on, it's not that we don't want to build cross-platform apps, at least not universally. In my case, it's because I believe the contortions involved in abstracting out multiple wildly-divergent APIs built for different languages to a common system runtime necessarily lowers fidelity and quality for both.

"Write once run anywhere" ends up being a lot harder than "Learn once write anywhere" - I'm hopeful that React Native will demonstrate the success of this approach on mobile (even though, personally, I wish there were a non-JS option).
What would you estimate is the payoff time in heating/cooling costs?
When I worked in air transport we called passenger planes "pressurised buses"
"the simple act of linking to publicly available content is no copyright infringement, because it does not reach a new public"

That's not really the most straight forward reasoning? I'd say linking is not COPYright infringement because nothing is ever copied.
Any given network can transmit only so many bits per second. That bandwidth is, in fact, a finite resource.
> If you wanted to keep them private, all you had to do was nothing.

You are advocating for the complete repression of any idea that hasn't yet become both known and acceptable to the mainstream.

It's not going to always be pictures of your dick. To name just a few of the most obvious groups with real risks, you're effectively saying that anybody with unpopular political views, anybody LGBT, and anybody with a religious belief that isn't "Christian" shouldn't participate in modern society and the network interactions that participation requires if they want to stay safe?

Blaming the victims for not staying out of sight isn't the solution.
That does not make this stupid law any better.
They could have forced Luxembourg to adapt there laws to a more common standard.
They could have made an exemption for small amounts.
> Tell me, is your keyboard designed for use with a computer?

Of course it is.

> No. It isn't a pain, it called hacking and you only need to do it once and it is free and shareable.

It's not a pain for some who have the skills and are willing to spend enough time. The big difference is that we enable users to make this work in an intiutive, platform-independent way.
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Also take a look at the ergo dox.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ergodox-ez-an-incredible-...
AAISP have operated a time-based bandwidth tariff for many years: http://aa.net.uk/broadband-prices.html

9am-6pm Mon-Friday is charged at 1.25-10x (ratio depending on the technology/broadband type) the price of bandwidth outside of this peak time.

Granted, AAISP customers tend to be more technical and are willing to pay more for an clueful ISP.
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I lived in Taipei for a year.

I loved it, but I could never find a suitable startup to work with. So ended up moving back to HK.

I'll be back some time.
But I fear for Taiwan's future.
The TB's are basically free- until you have to upgrade the equipment.
Is there a non-paywalled version?

'This article is available for GBA PRIME members only'
He is right about a couple of things, though he does not seem to have much of a grasp about buildings in general.

He is right that sills (whatever material they are made of) should always protrude. I agree that the 1970's and 80's will probably be considered the low point in building (and were certainly the low point in automobile quality).

He apparently doesn't understand that the brick header in the older building is actually weight-bearing while the one in the newer building is a veneer covering a poured-concrete structural header.

He misses the main point: the older building is much better quality because it cost much more in relative terms. Buildings, like most of our modern products have declined in quality because we don't spend as much on them. But we have far more stuff - buildings and everything else.
The way it is interpreted is important. I agree that a "health" exemption is used in the US for things like cigarette ads, but as far as "reputation", US courts would laugh at the "right to be forgotten". Basically, in the US, free speech has priority over just about everything else, while most of the EU seems to toss it whenever it comes into conflict with anything else.