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Two words: Data caps.

When Comcast is pushing for-pay IP-based services and then clamps down on all the others by implementing caps on their data, that is anti-competitive.

Comcast's internal, fully-laden cost for a gigabyte of data delivered to your home is on the order of a few pennies. Charging several hundred thousand percent for overage is beyond anti-competitive and well into the extremely damaging.

Time to write the FCC and FTC again.
Looks like Barnes & Noble is gonna be selling a "Da Vinci Jr 1.0 3D printer" for $250 in their stores on Black Friday.

No idea how it compares to the Monoprice printer.
The HTML-CSS-JS pages rendered by QtWebkit differ only slightly from those rendered by Firefox/Chrome. So the GUIs will be as good as the CSS/JS behind it.

I'll upload a few screenshots.
Instead of cycling on and off it completely cycle between 1 cup/day for a while then back up to several a day.
To borrow and misuse a phrase, "guns don't kill people". If you're working in this kind of environment you're on to a loser no matter what.
The streaks are caused by condensation, which forms puddles, allowing the bacteria to diffuse. You should grow your agar plates upside-down to avoid them. Microbiologist here.
Outraged? You are outraged for something that was announced almost 2 months ago? Really? Outraged?
Yikes. Is that an iPad Pro? If you could share more details that would be great. There's also the issue tracker you may be interested in: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues
I ran it for many years (and still do on a couple smaller machines). It has been exceptionally stable and thankfully devoid of "surprises" (using the word in its worst possible connotation). Things stay exactly as you leave them, it's exceptionally rare for any package to have been "customized" and nothing happens in the system unless you explicitly asked for it / made it happen. This used to be true for the initial setup too, which made it a bit scary to newbies - but since quite a few years that's become a painless experience.

Its learning potential is very large.

As someone once wrote:

Study RedHat, you will have learned RedHat

Study SuSE, you will have learned SuSE

Study Slackware, you will have learned Unix.
Its direct manipulation of your behavior through economics. What if your water company started pretending to be out of water then offered free car washes where they had placed ads playing 24/7? Luckily, the engineers in charge of most utilities are concerned with the technical challenges of meeting the market level of demand, not inventing awful business models that no one wants.
Oh, boy.

By this time I've killed gcc, javac, ghc, and the .Net compiler. Worse, the ghc bug was the only one I could track.
It's simple so it's somewhat easy to take apart and re-purpose. I was able to use it to build an internet enabled kiosk for instance without a lot of extra weight. It's super stable also so it make a good server. Lack of package management means you won't find it in the standard VM distro line up though.

As for other uses... using it to reply to this comment right now.
3 out of 5 stars on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V3J8JEG

Looks almost like a toy for kids.
How does the code work?
I think the unix philosophy is the model to follow here. Design an input method just capable of receiving the information and let other applications process your input. Input is also about context, in which case you need to process an input to context prior to an input in a context.

Example: Context = Numeric question about integer numbers and four operators, +, - ,, /

input = r'[0-9,\+,\-,\,\/]'
you can check out the source code here: https://github.com/wong2/first-commit
I'm mostly confused why they said "this isn't working" and decided to just shut it down rather than fix it. Seems a little bizarre for a company that would presumably benefit from having accurate counts.
I suggest the films of Nanni Moretti and Paolo Sorrentino (mentioned in the article).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604335/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815204/

Io Sono Li is also a good, rather recent film. For documentaries, try Videocracy and Women Bodies (aka Il Corpo Delle Donne), the latter of which is on Youtube. BBC did a series called Italy Unpacked where two guys travel around Italy experiencing its cuisine. Italy, Love it or Leave it is on my list of documentaries to see but I have yet to find it available somewhere. As for TV, try Gomorra La Serie and/or Inspector Montalbano.
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An Amazon CloudFront domain is dubious?

Sure, they could have configured their DNS to use their own domain on CloudFront instead of the random CNAME they were assigned but I fail to see how that would change the dubiousness of it.
ah good question. It was very, very difficult to pin down. We knew our compiler was the same on both computers and compiler flags were all the same. The two machines were purchased at the same time and we knew everything about them was the same.

We used something called a Pharlap DOS extender so our software could use beyond the 1MB boundary. It was in fiddling with that memory extender that I began to suspect a memory failure. Changing it's parameters eventually got me to fairly repeatable way to get the issue to show up not only in my app but in 3rd party software began failing too. Also, while we mostly did our work from a DOS prompt and a DOS editor (called qc) we would sometimes run Windows (Windows 3.11) which had it's own way of accessing Expanded vs. Extended memory through a DOS driver. So by swapping between the Pharlap driver and the Microsoft config.sys driver did I begin to suspect memory failure. In other words, the machine became more noticeably more unstable.

I don't recall the exact name but I began running something like memcheck on the computers. Basically a memory checker and although it did not reveal the problem in its entirety, the memchecker would crash on my machine and not any of the others. These were computers running just DOS with Novell Netware network drivers for DOS/Netwware only.

I reasoned that memory was failing before the memory walker/checker was getting corrupt. When I swapped main memory with another computer and the problem didn't follow the memory, my only other option was to pull out the L2 cache chips. When I put them in the computer next to mine, and finally saw the problem show up there I knew.

My friend owned the computer company that sold us the computers and he later was able to test and validate my findings.
As someone who should learn more Unix, this is great to know. Thanks.
IMO, Slackware is canon. Other distros do great things, but Slackware is the only distro (again to me), that is pure linux in it's look and feel.

Practically, it's barebones and basic yet functional enough to do whatever is needed. It's extremely easy to make Slackware into whatever kind of system you're looking for from desktop to server.
This library is just a wrapper on a rendering engine. It doesn't replace standard HTML/CSS. You can use it to create UIs for standalone applications using HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery and any other front-end libraries.
Wouldn't need to worry about auto scaling Mongo yourself if you at that stage of the company though? You'd need to have quite a bit of traffic to need it. And if you do, hopefully you have generated $ needed to support it.
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T-mobile is doing exactly the same thing with their own content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567216 (from last week)

Why is anyone surprised that they all came up with the same idea at the same time? Even if we leave out the idea of collusion, why would they all go for "net neutrality" unless they each thought they could spin it their direction?

I'll note the same thing I did on the original thread:

Get users used to "free" for some thing and if the FCC comes back to slap them, [provider] says "well, we want to give you free data but the FCC wants us to charge you for it."

And then people continue using more data and upgrades their plans (or pays for overages) making them more money or people throw a fit at the FCC.

Either way, [provider] wins.
Mine is usually filled with hair and dander... Gross
Yes, this amazes me as well. Shallow bugs are many and are fixed quickly and easily so in the end the ones that remain are nasty and hard to fix.

Every anti-bug measure tends to work like yet another brush aimed at a wall. But most brushes overlap partially or even wholly with areas of the wall already painted with previous brushes. The only strategy that would really work would cover all of the wall in a very systematic fashion.
When my wife was working on her Ph.D, there were only shared computers in her lab. After an upgrade, I re-purposed her old home desktop to be able to take care of the basics and sit at her desk -- it wouldn't handle everything, but would be useful for most of the day-to-day work.

Suddenly she got sick much less often. So, what I'd really love to see would be this project using a shared computer keyboard, and I'm not talking about the same family, for example. Of course, I'm not sure in this era of laptops that shared machines happen all that often anymore.

(Edit to remove extraneous word.)
Thanks spinchange, that means a lot!
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Why not require a comment to have the study source, and pin that to the top of the comment chain?
There is absolutely hyphenation support - you can toggle it on or off in settings, but it is off by default.
> A pot of coffee in the morning and usually 2 - 3 espressos during the day.

Wow, I thought taking a 200mg tablet with a glass of milk every morning was excessive.
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Ai, in that case I have no bag-of-tricks for you, my last windows programming was about a decade ago and I don't miss it in the least. Much good luck, if you ever do figure out what caused it you should definitely do a write-up, there is probably a more general lesson to be learned from nailing that one down.
The thing is, it's _not_ an OTT service and that is why it isn't considered Internet traffic. It is offering a slimmed down cable tv package for a low price, and you use your own devices instead of a cable box.
Pretty sure your caffeine intake is several times that of more moderate coffee drinker. Most people would be completely wired for days.
I'd suggest access in general is a problem. In the past, this can be simply written off as the difficulty in moving and translating the works, but this hasn't been an issue for a very long time.

I'm a bit of a fair-weather fan of Italian cinema insomuch that I usually enjoy what I am able to find online that gets translated. My partner is close to fluency in Italian and loves watching Italian film to test her understanding, but we find ourselves constantly struggling to locate any reliable source for Italian film, legally or otherwise acquired. The most famous pieces of Italian cinema are certainly obtainable, but exploring the rest just seems to be a fools errand.

I'm not sure whether the Italian studios don't want to take the time, if Publishers world-wide don't see the return on investment for spreading Italian film, or what is stopping access, but there can be no interest if there's no chance in getting at the film.
Some people process caffeine better than others maybe you are on the high end of the sensitivity scale.

I know a few sips of coffee and the caffeine make my heart pound. I only started drinking coffee ten years ago mostly cappuccino but I still am greatly affected by caffeine.
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Kinda sounds like you've got a race. Are you using threads at all?
Yes you're correct. In practice we've seen many codebases that generate UUIDv4 by a poor PRNG or a codebase-seeded PRNG. For example we've seen bash `$RANDOM % 10` instead of /dev/urandom, Java Random instead of SecureRandom, or misinformed home-grown hashing attempts as described in the article, or a constant seed at the top of the code.

The UUID spec allows these; the XID spec prohibits these.

You asked: what would prevent you from doing a broken implementation of an XID? In a case such as that, an advantage of an XID is a correct implementation is easier to see during code review, easier to verify during continuous integration, and easier to discuss with teams that aren't as familiar with PRNGs, seeds, crypto, and UUID v1-v5. These are people-pragmatic benefits not information-theoretic benefits.
Using a server to decide what kind of data has real significance provides a mean to reduce data. For example if you are in a gym doing hard physical work the data must be compared with what happen in that circumstances, you can filter and weigh the data depending of the circumstances. Using AI to classify contexts in which precision must be increased is the best way to reduce the too much data problem.
Hey I thought it was Comic Chat that gave us Comic Sans … now that was fun.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/20/20-years-ago-i-created-the...

> As things transpired, Comic Sans didn’t actually make it into Microsoft Bob — but it did make it into 3D Movie Maker, which was similar to Microsoft Bob insofar as you had cartoon characters you could move around and do things with. The font then made it into Microsoft Comic Chat, which was similar to AOL chat, in that you could type messages to others on the Internet.
There are already several other Lisp projects called CLASP ;-) :
For example...

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/util/lang/lisp/code/math/cla...

'Common Lisp Analytical Statistics Package'

Early 90s...

Or a simulator for electronic circuits in Common Lisp:

https://doaj.org/article/6a656a29acba4a748a65f20bff63721b

Or a production system from 1991:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7...

Or a reasoning engine in Lisp:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/221393440_Towards_th...
It finally went away. I'm hoping the same for all counters because from a reader's perspective they are pointless. so I have only positive feelings about this :).
There are: netflix and googlefiber.

One is hamstrung by datacaps, the other by politicians, many of whom have campaigns funded by comcast.
Kind of weird seeing a Greenspun post where he's not getting all het up about alimony.
Seems to be rejecting this perfectly valid repo url:

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable

It appears to be the hyphen in the org name.
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It looks as if the situation is not one that would benefit from interference by man as it is. The eco-system is rather special and any messing around with it is going to make things worse, not better. Some places on earth are simply not fit for human habitation, this may be one of those.

If you wanted to 'go Dutch' on this then it would mean a total transformation of the environment, basically a ring around all of the Marshall Islands anchored to the sea bed. But that would transform the whole thing into a sweetwater archipelago in no time and would likely kill off everything inside it.

This is more or less what happened to an inland sea that we had here, it's now a lake and sweet (IJsselmeer).
In addition to the procedural issues already addressed, let me point out that airspace systems are extremely complicated from types of users, given the mix of commercial, GA and military traffic, and that adopting a new common standard applicable to all of these users is extremely problematic. As an example, the adoption period for ADS-B in the USA was specified as 10 years (we're about halfway through), and there is still a huge amount of resistance from the GA community due to costs of adoption etc.
It's probably the most UNIX-like major Linux distro
Ask yourself what emotions you are feeling when you think about Twitter shutting down share counts.

Really feel these feelings, don't let them go away, don't try to hide the outrage.

Now clear your mind of the negative feeling. Take several deep breaths and clear your mind.

Now think of something important in your life.

Now think of something important in the lives of another person.

Mediate on what a sense of perspective means.
A bunch of people make different interfaces to HN. A Comic Chat interface would be fun, although not practical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
it works for me: http://first-commit.com/api/darktable-org/darktable
I agree but the Swiss water decaf method is hard to find or that method is not stated (So I assume it's the cheap way). I really don't drink enough to go out of my way finding it.
"Google is replacing PageRank with RankBrain and when this is complete they won’t know why certain pages are offered as the best result"

I'm not sure if this will always be true. I think that if we move toward a sort of neural network programming (1) we won't be able to "know why" in the sense that we can explain the functions, but will instead explain programs based on output from the layers and from the relationships between variables. For instance, deep dream is a way to understand how google's image classifier is "working" (2). It's super interesting that the classifier thinks that a human arm is part of a dumbbell, for instance.

1) Maybe something like this: http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/art.pdf.

2) http://googleresearch.blogspot.ch/2015/06/inceptionism-going...
It seems that what Comcast is saying is that Internet traffic is "expensive" and needs to be metered, supposedly because of the costs incurred to maintain an Internet cross-connect.

However, based on this statement, it seems that Comcast is saying that they have plenty of in-network capacity. They are "encouraging" customers to stream video, as long as that video doesn't need to come via an upstream Internet handoff.

So, by an extension of this logic, Comcast customers should be able to stream peer-to-peer traffic within the network without it counting towards monthly caps.

Technically, upstream and downstream data has different "costs" in a cable network, so I could see an argument where Comcast claims that upstream traffic, even in a peer-to-peer setup, has costs associated with it. But, I think that by making statements and policies like this one, Comcast is actually slowly eroding their ability to limit and cap data, they are introducing loopholes and work-arounds that could actually be used against them.
I get and agree with focusing resources where you get the most payoff. But there is also something to be said for product differentiation. These two features definitely differentiate Firefox from Chrome and Safari, and do so in a useful way. There have been times that Tab Groups was the sole reason I stuck with Firefox. There have been times that the sole reason I did not move to Chrome was knowing I could never 100% personalize the GUI. Throw in the how Mozilla handled the DRM issue as well as Pocket and new tab sponsored websites fiasco and you begin to erode the privacy reasons for sticking with Firefox. Yes, Firefox must compete, must stay competitive, but if it becomes just another Chrome, there is no way they can compete with the resources Google can bring to the table. Firefox must compete on product differentiation or it will lose.
Lack of package management

There is no lack of package management. There is a lack of automatic dependency resolution without third-party additions. This is nowhere near as debilitating as often presented by outside observers who have never tried the distribution.

YMMV, but I've ran into circular dependencies and conflicts in addition to configuration updates rendering systems unbootable multiple times on distros like Debian with their non-transactional resolution heuristics that make your life easier, until they don't. Slackware's spartan package management has not failed me once, it's rock solid no matter how much you thrash your file system hierarchy. In addition, when I want to install SlackBuilds, I have never used a more convenient package manager than sbopkg before. Dependencies can be cleanly recorded and built with queuefiles.
How much of this could be avoided if the application didn't use mongo? Needing to run a three-nice cluster out of the gate seems like a big part of the problem. Sure, you want backups and redundancy for any database, but there are situations where a MySQL or pg slave that can be switched on makes more sense financially, especially if load doesn't require a three-node cluster.
The fact you compare votes with instant metrics is what's up!
Output is pretty much same as HTML rendered by chrome. htmlPy just renders it in a standalone application instead of browser window.
I'm sure the code works fine but the interface throws up a "Not a valid Github repo url" window and does nothing.
Brain cells can use ketones instead of glucose. That's what happens on a diet that severely restricts carbohydrates.
it turns out that every system we've ever devised has had a limit on the amount of time the input is allowed to run, so this really seems more like a matter of degrees. this is also only an "attack" if the availability of the system is an invariant that is relevant from a security perspective. usually, we care much more about confidentiality and integrity and absent termination sensitive noninterference (which is a different problem that langsec wholly ignores and has nothing to do with the complexity of the input), i'm not sure how the termination of a program will have any impact on its confidentiality or integrity...
Does kubernetes not have a mechanism for defining host/rack diversity constraints?
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Maybe if they paid reviewers they'd get the job done faster.
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Wow, Go has a really long history! http://first-commit.com/golang/go
Someone outraged by something on twitter? Better call CNN, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, Salon...

Honestly, no. I'm actually really frustrated by the impact twitter has had on news.

How hard is it to find five stupid people on twitter? It isn't. Yet somehow we have to read articles about "people are outraged by Starbucks' red coffee cup" and "Trump weighs in on the coffee cup issue"

No. I'm not outraged that twitter is changing their layout.

I'm frustrated that twitter is somehow the LOIC of stupid outrage that seems entirely out of control.
You can wash a keyboard and mouse in a dishwasher. Lots of site out there describing that. Seen colleagues doing after a coffee spill. You just have to make sure the heat is off, and give them days to dry off.

Laptops are problematic because of batteries inside that are difficult to remove, and that we don't want to be deprived of our laptops for several days.
oh, my fault. it has been fixed, thanks for your report!
KVM for while.
XFS and exts.
and boot time obviously (i'm not talking about systemd here). kernel boot up takes so long on FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD compared against Linux.
Terrible usability, and mainly aiming at the lower levels of the stack, not the level of actually deploying applications. It is far easier to get a container stack running than to bother with Open Stack.
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I hadn't heard about it till now. I'm not affected because I didn't invest in the feature in any way, or know anyone who did. Yet I can appreciate the "outrage" from the perspective of people who invest in features that are later taken away, with apparently no regard or care for the impact to users who put their time and loyalty into the service because of what it offered. It's just a fact in user land, we accept the TOS and throw our time into the furnace.
How does Slackware compare to ArchLinux? They both seem to be very barebones and force you to learn more about Linux, but ArchLinux seems much more popular from what I gather.