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This is one case where net neutrality is not anti-consumer or anti-competitive and it is hurting the net neutrality case to make such a big deal about it.

Early in the morning, this sentence seems off.
> This is the complaint I've heard. Of the few people I know with Windows phones, they loved the phone ... but lamented the utter lack of apps.

I have a Nokia Icon, and that is indeed my only complaint. The rest of the phone is great.

It's hit or miss. There's a ton of apps out there, even apps you wouldn't think would be out there. I was surprised that Plex and Teamviewer had Windows Phone apps.

Where it falls apart is apps you would think would have a Windows Phone app, but don't. For example, Snapchat or Yik-Yak. Or any Google-made Google apps. In the former cases, the story is even worse than it has to be: for example, there were third-party Snapchat apps, but Snapchat demanded they be removed from the store and still has never made a Windows Phone app. That kind of behavior almost makes me think there's a conspiracy among major app developers to kill Windows Phone. :)

Another area of weakness, of course, is the really small/local apps. My credit union has an Android and an iPhone app, but no Windows Phone app. Same deal with my vet.

I haven't upgraded to Windows 10, because I understand some of the great things about WP 8.1 are now gone. But I think it's really sad WP hasn't done better than it has: it's a fantastic platform devoid of apps. MS really fell down on the job doing whatever they had to do to get major developers on board, which, I think, has mostly been a social issue. From what I've looked at it seems like a great platform to develop for, though I've never made anything but toy apps.
Nigerians and American blacks are worlds apart in terms of emphasis on education and work ethic. I say this as someone who has lived in Nigeria as well as in predominantly black neighborhoods in the US.
I'd love to see this on Windows and and least some kind of viewer for iPhone as well.
My point is that not only do roughly all the users use it that way, but the make agrees with that usage.

At some point you just have to say, this hammer, while apparently designed as a screwdriver, is clearly labeled, sold, purchased, and used as a hammer and is not very good at it.
No it doesn't. It shows that supporters of net neutrality understand the issue is deeper than just "someone is slowing down access to specific content on the net and thats bad". This is anti-competitive, t-mobile is the gate keeper for what services can stream for 'free' on their service.
The entities in power want a cheap obedient labour force. They don't want expensive stellar performers as much as they want low salary employees with a sword of Damocles hanging over their head. H-1B coupled with employment at-will is a powerful combination to keep the H-1B employee in control.
I'm picturing myself in a developing country with a phone in hand, thinking about how to go about getting a "computer". Let's see, with this phone, I can go and buy a compatible keyboard and dock, then find a screen that is advanced enough to be compatible with the dock's interface. Or for almost certainly less, I can buy some no-name tablet or basic chromebook or laptop. I would probably go with the tablet/laptop.
> Android and iOS are attention seekers, they ring and ding just so that you don't forget that you need them.

Er, what? If my iPhone makes a noise, it's only due to:

a) a reminder that I've explicitly set, or

b) a phone call or text message from someone

I'm not aware of any attention-grabbers that aren't from third party apps and can't be disabled. Could you elaborate?
From experience, trends change very quickly. Sun went from one of the 4 Horsemen of the Internet to dead in 10 years.
> Shifting IT/development staff to contractors is going to decrease the sense of ownership in the project which means the level of care and concern about the success of the project are going to decline

I could not agree more. I have worked with so many big companies that have outsourced their IT and tech (part of the reason I was doing work there in the first place) and the lack of empathy and general apathy by these providers has always been a huge reason for overruns and delays.

There's no accountability, so a mess up doesn't get anyone scared for their job. If the worker is offsite it means the work goes through their ticket system and you just wait for it to get some- but it's probably going to get bounced back three or four times because the person didn't read the ticket. A perfect example is "we need a new database schema deployed to a dev database instance- here's the instance name we need it deployed to, here's the SQL script to be run, and here are the user permissions we need."

Ticket gets bounced back: "What instance is this supposed to be deployed to?" facepalm

On top of that, most the companies that come in, provide the bare minimum of resources, so that guy that's not getting paid enough to give a shit has too much work on his plate to keep up with it anyways.
There's a ton of ways to discuss The Witness without spoiling the game. The entire point of the game is to solve the puzzles, spoiling the puzzles is incredibly counterproductive. What's more, if you're actually genuinely stuck and want someone to give you hints, Hacker News is not the appropriate venue for that.
Who uses a laptop that far up their gut?
This is how net neutrality dies, if we're not careful. As a T-Mobile customer I browse /r/tmobile every now and then. It's an odd place, full of "fans" of T-Mobile (a concept I can't wrap my head around - users literally have flairs of "bleeding magenta"!), and the net neutrality debate there is fascinating. In short, many think this is not a net neutrality violation because any service can be accepted as part of "Binge On" if they apply to it. It is not anti-competitive, thus, not a net neutrality violation.

Thing is, they're not wrong, per se. Because there isn't an actual accepted definition for "net neutrality". For me, it's strict - the carrier is carrying bits and bytes, and doesn't know/care what they are. For others, it is an anti-competition stance.

Here's the problem: "Binge On" is great, in theory. Unlimited video! Even as a die-hard net neutrality supporter, next time I'm staying in a hotel with expensive wi-fi, I could load up Netflix on my phone and Chromecast it to the TV. Awesome. What's the net neutrality counter argument that is equally as enticing to customers? It's a tough sell.
Well never mind: github does allow unlimited public repositories. I don't know why I thought otherwise.
Hmm ... are we still on the same page? This is where the discussion started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10995433

You seemed to be claiming that a bank incurs no cost ("no effort") to issue a loan. Are you sticking to that?
What will the pricing be like?
Some interesting ideas; thanks. I don't quite grasp a couple of them:

> For small enough organization that "loyalty uber alles" prevents corruption.

How? There are many, many cases of people covering up for their fellow squad members.

> Or you can assume that corruption does not happen. Sometimes the mere assumption that corruption does not happen stifles it.

Hmmm ... that seems like a well-known recipe for encouraging corruption. How would that approach stifle it?
It shows up in both. EX: Norway could grow bananas using greenhouses at great expense, but Norway is likely better off importing them in exchange for something else.

Free trade only really applies between countries, so that's a macro economic issue.
I wasn't really surprised by this, I've got a Surface Book (ordered after the announcement) and so far have been very pleased with the hardware, and hoping the software can catch up. For me, to replace a paper book and paper notebook you have to have a great reading experience and a great drawing experience. For me, the Surface Pro 4 has both of those.

That said, I'll probably end up getting the tablet version to augment the Surface Book unless they can fix detach. Way too often I try to detach and it won't because something is unable to release, and when I'm in "clipboard" mode there are no ports on the clipboard. I can get around that partially by using the dock which has ports but I'd really like a USB-C port and a micro-SD card slot on the display half.
It does come off as a wasteful arms race but I think it's a bit much to call it totally useless due to theoretical weaknesses and occasional spotting. You clearly are more involved in this area so can probably answer, "Did they track the planes the whole mission or just get a glimpse of them on the way with long-range radar?" If the former, your claim is right and they're blown out of the sky by any non-3rd world country. If the latter, then they lack a full element of surprise but otherwise hit a local target with little opportunity to react.

Anti-stealth tech being sold by Russia, etc might change the situation with wide deployment if they're effective and quick response. Otherwise, it would seem stealth is still useful for hit and run attacks on key targets with less risk than easy to track and lock aircraft.
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If by "small minority" you mean "blue collar working class" then yes. These are the losers of globalization and they are seething with rage and would vote for Hitler if it would bring back jobs.
It looks great - and extremely tempting since I am currently going through QA hell with a project, but I cannot tell from your website whether or not this will stay a free product.

Do you or your partner have a plan to commercialize the software? Add premium features? Or is this a side-project whose future is still being decided?
Does T-Mobile have a monopoly on mobile service in the US? Last time I checked, they were #3 out of 4 carriers. They don't have enough ground for it to be considered anticompetitive.
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There is an iOS beta listed on the site now.
This is one case where net neutrality is not anti-consumer or anti-competitive and it is hurting the net neutrality case to make such a big deal about it.

I disagree. What if I want to use my phone connection to remote desktop into servers a lot? I don't get a BingeOn allowance for that. Why not?
I taught at a bootcamp for a while and always covered big O. It's pretty important for interviewing. Bootcamp kids know more CS than you might think...
even if they'll give Surfaces for free, and pay people to use it, I am afraid, more and more people will use Android and iOS. It is simply too late for MS to "own the desktop". IN december I 've seen first time in my GA account that hits from Android users prevailed over MS OS, iOS being on the 3rd place.

UPD: since its mostly dull corporate websites, I think I am correct.
The main reason why severance is offered is to keep people from portraying the company in a bad light. If anti-disparagement clauses were made illegal, fewer companies would offer severance.
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Thanks for the extra detail.

"and there is no way to configure mirrors."

Its that in Git itself or the project-specific tooling you're mentioning?
Considering how very non-free-market principles led to the regulation and law that made startup speculation such a hot, bubbly market, I am led to strongly question your underlying premise.

You are speaking of a free market that is highly theoretical, because there is no such "free market" in today's economy, no matter where you live. However, free market theory suggests that a situation such as SF is not possible under a free market.

San Francisco has a great deal of political might, which explains a lot of the founding contexts allowing it to survive in the way it does. Add the fact that employees cannot be held to an non-compete agreement, and you have a bunch of engineers stepping over one another to chase the next six month gig as the number of ridiculous startup options balloons to a totally unsustainable size.
"Zero-bound" means "at or near zero." Inflation is easy to kill in today's world: just raise interest rates a little tiny bit for a short period of time and the deflationary downdraft will snuff any little inflationary ticks upward. But they'll be forced to drop rates again quickly or we'll fall back into deflation. The instant they raise rates the debt defaults and asset price collapses will start.

Earth is now Japan. Perhaps Mars is the next America.
Isn't Gnome's browser Epiphany ("Web") which uses Webkit?
What an interesting story.

I'm surprised the Bakers did not try to repurchase their technology in the bankruptcy sale. If other firms scooped it up for as little as $7m, surely the Bakers could have raised that much from a few opportunistic venture capitalists who understood the technology was better under the care of the Bakers than any other third party.

Of course this was right when the dotcom bubble popped, so maybe raising $7m from VCs to buy back technology they just lost in a messy bubble popping deal would be incredibly difficult and require more dilution than it was worth.

Also, what if they had just recreated a new company with the same technology? Who would sue them? The acquirer of their IP was bankrupt. Why not rebuild the technology and wait until the secondary acquirer sues? By that time they could have had a fully formed legal argument for their rights to the IP, and probably a better argument than whatever they're using against Goldman.

Ultimately, Dragon hired Goldman as an advisor. Only the Dragon board had the ability to approve or deny a deal. Goldman had no vote. Therefore all responsibility for poor decision making should fall on the board, not Goldman. Did Goldman give shitty advice, or none at all? Yes. But it sounds like Dragon knew the advice was shitty, but chose to proceed anyway. No way this case falls in their favor. I just hope they don't lose even more money in the Goldman counter suit.

There best hope is a sympathetic jury (is it even a jury trial?) that rules emotionally based on the story of a nice couple of people getting screwed by the venerable Goldman Sachs. I hope for the Bakers' sake they win this case. They seem like remarkably caring people who got tangled up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I wonder if even simply the overhead of setting up and encrypting the secure connections even just by itself has a measurable effect on people's buying behavior.
T-mobile won't give you the BingOn allowance for this. If they lose in court, you will still need to pay for this and for videos.
General question about issue trackers in general:

How do people usually integrate these with other project management tools, like Jira or Trello? Some of the issues shown on the site seem like what I would call features as opposed to bugs. Is it a different use case? Does it work to have software "features" in Jira or Trello or similar and then use an issue tracker like Ship for just the bugs?

I used to use a system of filing bugs as GitHub issues and then moving them into Trello when they've been scoped and prioritized and are ready to work on - but lately I've just been putting them straight into Trello. Any insight on workflows for combining software like this with Trello or Jira would be appreciated!
That's not at all how national economies work, especially when debt is denominated in the nation's own currency. You simply can not compare a national economy to a single household's finances. At present, the US is incentivised to borrow, because the cost of borrowing in nearly zero. When you compare paying down debt with an interest rate of nearly 0%, to almost any other investment, paying down debt loses. Or put another way, any expenditure that has a return greater than the cost of borrowing is a better investment than paying down debt.
My first thought on watching the demo was: This seems a lot like Lotus Notes.

The author claims this is a compliment, but generally Notes has a terrible reputation as one of the most over-architected and misused software solutions of the '90s.

You can check it out (in excruciating detail) at this Interface Hall of Shame article from 1999:

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=lotus.htm&mode=or...

It starts off with: "We wish we found IBM's Lotus Notes a long time ago. This single application could have formed the basis for the entire site."

Maybe there was an elegant core to Notes that was hidden under all the insane GUIs built using the tools? Would be interesting to hear more.
Yeah, Net Neutrality was a lot easier to get behind when no service providers were really marketing the alternative. This controversy is similar to the Internet.org debate in India.
It's really hard to tell without working there as employee.
What most people do not realize, is that you need to be in a position to quit a job if you find it doesn't work for you. Too many people live paycheck to paycheck and are not in a position to do this.
Yes, I know. But my point is why should I penalized as a "remote desktop user", when a "video user" is not?
Instagram and Uber are already on Windows and work just fine ...
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Is there a PEP for this, or is it too early, more of a proof of concept?
In principle, I think Binge On is an example of poor net neutrality. It's a service provider engaging in a conflict of interest with content creators. I think those two roles should always be separate.

Similar to Comcast owning NBC and degrading performance of other streaming services: It's immoral. What T-Mo is doing is the same: They are charging you more to access your local music server, or your friend's startup, than they are for the 'big players' in the market. It's harmful in the long term.

Disclaimer: T-Mobile customer, current EFF contributor
Reactionaries actually have sort of a program. Trump leans more towards hucksterism-for-its-own-sake. He's brilliant
at that but I'm not sure that's right for politics per se. Hucksterism works better when you can fold your tent and move on. Professor Harold Hill hadda leave town for it to truly work.

I don't think he's dishonest about it. There's just in general copious amounts of what they used to call "free-floating anxiety" and somebody's gotta exploit it. I think he's sincerely trying to help. I would hate to be him if
he ever figures out this won't work.

The problem is media in general, and media in general is not incented to report widely on the problems of media in general. I suppose it would be considered too frivolous, but I think teaching some entry-level media criticism skill to, say, junior high kids would go a long way towards making this less of a thing.

I at least tried to make sure my kids knew this and had basic algebra skills with an eye towards being able to enforce some degree of rigor. I'm happy with the results, but it really confused them while I was telling them this.

At one point, I'd have said Canada does not have this problem but since then, it's started.
I'm not sure BingeOn does in fact violate the rules. The Stanford article seems more like advocacy than scholarship, though the author makes reasonable arguments that are worth considering. TMO's strategy, if I can impute such a thing based on public info, is to introduce a service that doesn't technically violate the rules but does get customers used to the idea that mobile carriers can impose their own technically, if not legally discriminatory limits, on third-party services. TMO can be patient to wait for the customer mindset to change, or the rules to change, and then pow start figuring out how to monetize this strategy.

I'm sure your right that the average TMO customer is oblivious to the politics of this, and/or is happy to make the Faustian bargain if it means their Downton Abbey reruns buffer a bit faster.
Net Neutrality was never about just the customers / consumers. The argument has been made fairly frequently saying Net Neutrality is good for consumers (and it is, in the long run), but it is much more than that.

It also allows small companies to compete freely instead of favoring large incumbent companies. Imagine a world in which Hulu came out first and was zero rated but Netflix was just trying to gain customers. Which service do you think the consumers would be using ?

This is exactly what is happening now, except Netflix, spotify and other services are the large incumbents. Anything new is being penalized because they don't have the customers or voice.
It's not anticompetitive with respect to other carriers, it's anticompetitive with respect to non-Binge web services.
TBH, the author sounds like he would end up in a place that sells $15 IPA's. That's says more about the author, than SF.
Another vote for Windows from me.

If you are planning on expanding to other platforms (iOS and Android, especially), maybe considering going with a C#/Xamarin-based project. It'll save you a lot of work by allowing you to re-use the underlying code for your app(s).
College towns don't have pools of investors with tolerance for high risk. They don't have a culture where working 80 hours a week is normalized, what is normal is spending Saturdays in the fall drinking and watching college football.

Anyway, Marc Andreesen left the small town to team up with Jim Clark of Silicon Graphics fame to found Netscape in the valley. That's not to dismiss the long history of computing at UIUC, but the "Mozilla invented here" historical markers erected by the chamber of commerce reflect the belief that marketing is more important than product that runs rampant in small markets. It's not that everyone doesn't believe their own bullshit, but young people tend to arrive in Blacksberg via an application process, not because they want to build the future.
just because they don't have a majority doesn't mean its not anticompetitive.
You're not being penalized. You're simply not being granted an advantage of zero rated traffic because you're using network traffic (an encrypted remote desktop session) that can't be managed in the same way video traffic can be.

Not all bits are created equally.
I would like to know this myself. I've tried Finasteride, and it did work, but it did affect me in other ways (very low energy, low libido). So I stopped using it. I do recall seeing some actual research on the laser combs, and that they did, in fact, have a measurable effect, but it wasn't impressive. If I can find the laser comb stuff, I'll post it. I did buy one (HairMax), but did not see any results.
Vocal minority.

Overall Portland is still relatively cheap. The only thing getting out of control is rent and house purchasing (because of the serious lack of inventory), but the entire nation is seeing this so it's not specific to Portland.
They're technically trivial. But execution ain't.
I think most people are far more concerned about how fast they can download things and how much their data plan costs than 'the principles of net neutrality'.

What people like about net neutrality is that they aren't paying more to watch netflix and/or their netflix streams stream at the rate of connection they paid for. Outside of political activists I don't think anyone really cares about 'net neutrality' even the EFF didn't support it ~5 years ago.

Personally, I'd trade cheap & fast data plans for 'net neutrality' (the government enforced version of it rather than the defacto standard) any day of the week.
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So what would this mean for web development agencies and the likes, who've made hundreds of thousands of websites (most without SSL) and would now be forced to convert them all to use https?

How many clients would be willing to pay to cover some of the time wasted doing that?

And how about the potential SEO impact? I mean, Google says switching to https shouldn't affect things, but I've seen tons of sites lose rankings after a change.

Okay, using https is a good thing and all, but the inconvenience caused by having to make this change could be massive.