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To play devil's advocate, Git "reinvented the wheel," but it was a much nicer wheel.

Not saying this is to databases what Git was to versioning, but there's a reason to strive for that.
I think that "dumb pipe" is the right answer, with regional monopolies for certain classes of service or public/private partnerships. We achieve a lot of advancement with the death of AT&T, but the modern regulatory regime allowed for the rebirth of something that looks a lot like the old AT&T.

The issue with this sort of infrastructure is that it is very capital intensive to build and maintain, and require that the companies invest in real estate rights (telephone poles, utility trenches) that are powerful bargaining chips.
I mean, by their definition it is a database, but i can understand your usage. Then again, they both say it is a database, and in your link, they say it "isn't quite there yet", so /shrug heh.
I want to upvote this twice. This is the single biggest dissatisfier I have with Instagram. I've given up on blocking and reporting fake or spammy users.
Peer pressure. If you come upon a nice behaving community you feel like you should behave accordingly.
Interesting! Such an extensional definition of a type could be really flexible, but seems like it would be limited to finite types. Is this the case? Or can you specify types with arbitrary judgments?
... Because those stock options are going to make me rich!
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> Google does not want to get into VZ's business because it is a capital intensive business.

Lolwat? Google builds multiple datacenters full of computers, sells access to them to other people, has bought a lot of dark fiber, and sells internet to home consumers in Kansas City. These are fairly capital intensive operations, but apparently Google execs have deemed them sufficiently valuable. It's kinda interesting how Verizon FiOS and other incumbant telco offerings are incredibly unpopular, while people are lining up for Google's Fiber service.

> The great thing about Google, Facebook and such is that they have tiny workforces and a small amount of hardware --

Verizon reports 177k employees, to Google's 51k. Google is smaller, but not as small as people might imagine, and if they continue rolling out Fiber and Fi, I can only imagine their footprint will grow.

> The mobile phone and internet business is also highly profitable. If you believe the advertising you see you might think it is competitive, but it is not. Just try using satellite internet and paying the high cost per GB.

It must be, because the only place I can think of where Google is buying not building is their cellular network offering, which multiplexes Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular. MNOs have made it so easy to be a Virtual, Google would be foolish to bother rolling out their own infra until their subscriber base grows.
I think that may have been Chris Hardwick's inflection point for going mainstream. At least that's when I first heard about him...
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Here is the video[0] of their St. Louis country road test. You can evaluate the relative dangers to others accordingly.

[0] https://youtu.be/ONDSAMfNGP0
Moving the feed from 'chronological' to 'algorithmic' obfuscates the true quantity of actual content on the your timeline, thereby allowing a higher density of ads and other sponsored content without you necessarily being able to tell or prove.

I hypothesized about other benefits and drawbacks here [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190724
I don't remember ever hearing a 'high-profile tech leader' extoll the virtues of getting high on opiates. Yes, Steve Jobs talked about his experience with LSD in positive terms, but LSD is as similar to fentanyl as Advil is to Viagra or alcohol is to coffee. They really have nothing in common other than being labeled 'drugs', which at this point is a term just as empty of meaning as 'chemicals'.
One of the top posts in here is describing how to start your own opioid business. I'd consider that praise on some level, unfortunately.
There are recreational drugs, and then there are addictions. I don't think I've witnessed the blasé attitude towards highly addictive substances you have witnessed, except possibly with nicotine. Certainly not in person.
There was a nice article about how you survive addiction by growing it out. Addiction has also to do with the circumstance and the personality, not just with the drug itself.

If alcohol was illegal the death toll might be even higher. People might shift to something with more bang for the buck and have an even shittier and shorter life than dying with 64 from liver failure.
people who get addicted should be treated similarly to the mentally impaired/disabled persons. Once addicted, a range of specific brain functions are impaired, and thus it is a medical issue. A lot of other medical issues are result of personal irresponsibility too. That doesn't stop us from treating those issues medically (though it seems it took some time, even as recently as the end of the 20th century, to accept HIV as a medical disease to be treated instead of a "God's punishment for perversion"). Yet when it comes to addiction, the patients are treated as criminals instead.
This works iff you shoot very high/low and if it's a very fungible range of possible outcomes. In something that is fairly well-bounded like job compensation (or most residential real estate transactions, as another example) it's usually better to let the counterparty turn the first card.
Has anyone found an epub/text version of the same content?
> There is a lot of salary data available for people through services offered by the credit bureaus.

This is based on self-reported data to creditors. I've never had a creditor verify my stated income in any way, they always waive in because my score is good enough.
I wonder if they could take action against VirnetX for the costs of switching to a new system.
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> By that definition Chrome is the only browser that sandboxes.

I believe most Chromium based browsers could also fall under that category although I admit that's just being pedantic.

Furthermore at least Edge and to the lesser extent IE(11) do have some sandboxing which purpose is to enhance security. Their (renderer) processes do run at a low integrity level and are ran within an Appcontainer. On IE11 this is enabled through the use of Enhanced protected mode with 64-bit processes. This allows it to use AppContainers even with the desktop browser. Edge always uses AppContainers AFAIK.

I'm not sure it's sandboxed to the same extent as Chrome but it is a level of defense in depth. Edge also uses some security mitigations that Chrome does not such as CFG (control flow guard) although that's not dependent on a sandbox so CFG, baring performance issues, could be used in any browser sandboxed or not.
Ask HN: What do you use as a shell script replacement?
I'm looking for a scripting language which is very well suited for smaller script on the server side ( linux ).

I know Perl, Ruby, Shell etc.. but I'd like to learn something new, something functional would be great.
Is there something out there ? Maybe a Lisp dialect ? ( bonus points for many good examples on the internet ).

What do you use to manage your servers ?
I don't have a lot of time, but I'll say this.

The future of Telco is not in the ground, but through the air.
This is the entire reason Google Fiber acquired WebPass.

It is relatively simple to transmit extremely high connection speeds through radio waves. I have a receiver on the top of my house that is a point to point signal, pumping 1 gig +, and soon to be much higher, speeds.

Google's strategy to expand GF will not longer include a massive ground infrastructure move, but use point to point to get to the neighborhoods. An entire zip code can be offered GF services at a fraction of the cost and a few months, as opposed to the old way...TOS of capital and years.

It will happen fast, and I imagine the giant Telcoms will have to follow suite to keep up.
Is it possible that their target market is not current users of decentralized DBs?

At first glance, it strikes me as a solution for people storing something like scientific data sets rather than application data. In which case, posting CSV files on a website is pretty much best-case scenario.

EDIT: Although, in the "scientific data set" scenario, I'm not sure how much value there would be in storing version history.
Are you using blockbuster in its' original sense (e.g. home run) or in reference to the video rental store that failed?
The Swiss have had a program legalizing medical heroin, I believe. That's a starting point.
>their real goal is to pressure the existing providers to improve their offerings

They have denied this repeatedly, and seem really insistent that they do want to be an ISP.

ex: https://www.google.ca/search?q=google+fibre+is+a+real+busine...
This was a well-written story but I could've done without:

A. The "MARIJUANA, THAT DEVIL WEED, STARTED HIS DESCENT INTO HELL" routine.

and

B. The "truth" anti-drug ad campaign-style video overlays
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> Doesn't the fact that people are trying to compete with those services suggest that you can?

In 20 years, we will see who is competing and who is was just funded with unicorn dreams. I don't consider a single one of those comparable.
It's an interesting idea.

The HN title suggested it's a database, which made me really curious as I can finally stop using history tables (or wal logging, or the other myriad ways of seeing a point in time). However, that doesn't seem to be the case here?

That said, the idea of "git as a datastore" does seem akin to "blockchain as data verification". Combine those two ideas together, get PWC involved and you have multimillion dollar deals coming in for audit protection.
You might want to start using a proper configuration management tool like Ansibe,Chef,Puppet, or Salt
As an employee, your time and skills are your personal capital (your means of production). The way you invest that capital has risk like any other investment.

Again, this is partially mitigated by salary. But as an employee, you probably don't expect to earn your negotiated starting salary for the next 40 years. You enter the relationship expecting some form of advancement, bonus, or other rewards in relation to your performance over time. Those expected returns don't manifest when the employer turns out to be a bad employer. Employers are not the only ones taking risks.
Regarding playing scenes with friends:

What's the genre of your book? I have a couple lighter-weight RPGs to offer as suggestions.

FATE - you have skills ranked as things like mediocre, expert, poor, etc. (don't recall exact terms). You roll dice to determine how well you do as modifiers (+/-/0) to your skill or attribute when appropriate. Fairly freeform character creation and play. Genreless. You can make it fit almost any genre.

Dread - This is horror focused. The mechanic is a Jenga tower. If a player wants to do a non-mundane task, they pull a block, if the tower falls, that character is out of the game (dead, went mad, whatever, you choose). Tension develops as the tower gets harder to pull from. Ebook is $10-20, can't recall, got it for free for buying the print book at a convention. Very lightweight, while horror focused it is otherwise independent from your setting. Create character sheets describing their history, their skills then are "what does it make sense for them to know". Does it make sense for the programmer to be a sharpshooter? Maybe not, maybe a difficult shot requires two pulls for them. OTOH, a soldier character may only need to pull if the shot effects the story more significantly. You can wing it, but be consistent with your players.
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A ridiculous over-reaction to a bit of biographical detail.
How does Noms compare to ipfs?

https://ipfs.io/
I'm going with 'workflaw' for my new build system.
I never hear anyone from the ISP side explain why being a "dumb pipe" would be such a bad thing, other than "they wouldn't be making enough money". For the outside it would seem that the ISP are wasting money coming in from the "pipe" business on the media side of things.

It seems like it would be a simpler business to be in, rather than trying to be a media company.
I wonder what the cost is to acquire a company incorporated in Canada and if the new tax takes those kinds of shenanigans into account. Here in California, buying a company that owns property is much cheaper in Prop 13 terms than buying property.
Use ansible. It's like shell scripts on steroid.

Basically, imagine a list of simple tasks, executing one by one in order.

Instead of having bash commands which have crazy long arguments list and screw the whole script on failure, you get to use ansible commands (aka. modules) which are a lot easier to use and handle failures nicely (by stopping the run).

And you'll never have to worry again about what happens when a command is ran twice. It simply doesn't do anything if there is nothing to change.
> Calling him obsessed is a bit much

Doesn't he also take HGH? Sounds like a rather obsessed person to me...
A content-lite showpiece, but a pretty one.
> You're reading stuff that simply is not there.

Well, so are you? Please read what I wrote. You are missing my point.

> The parent post.... I disagreed with that point.

Exactly. How about the right of OP to say whatever he feels like? Your support for "free speech" (the one in quotes) is selective.

> Nowhere did I say that someone did not have the right to free speech

Except you don't want OP to say what he did.
Yep even just one beer will make it worse for me the next day.

Also running, the harder I run the worse it is.
Fiber will be a dumb pipe company until it serves Alphabet's interests that it not be. Right now market adoption and growth is more important than trying to capitalize on their users in creative ways. Look at Chrome for example, adoption was the name of the game for years and then suddenly your browser now has an, arguably opt-in, superpower where it can send analytics back itself on sites you visit. It's not crazy to think that could happen to fiber sometime down the line.

I feel the municipal internet infrastructure should be publicly owned, like streets, but service on those pipes is carried by competing companies. These turf wars are getting old.
> it is squarely economical (and quite a bit political)
That has to be quite the moment, when you realize that the more than half billion you were about to see a piece of evaporates.
> There has never been a period in history with fewer wars and proportionally lower fatality rates due to violence.

How long is your time frame? Many more people have died after Sep. 2001 than in the decades prior.

> The existence of war at all does not somehow invalidate the value of American hegemony.

What you seem to forget or don't realize is that the wars of the last decade are a direct result of what we're doing to maintain that American hegemony. So while it's been good for you because you're watching the wars on TV and reading it on the Internet, it's been very bad for those on whose land the wars are being fought.
> coping mechanism for, the increasingly digital world

As I and my fellow vi fanatics can attest, this isn't limited to just outdated analog technology.
i imagine upstream bandwidth is the cheapest part of the equation. inside our datacenters, 10 gig links are pennies per megabit.
"I think we have completely opposite understanding of things here."

OK? I'm telling you how it actually is. The system works better at night, because there's better contrast. At night, the lane markers are lit up by your headlights, and the road is very dark. During the day, the difference in color is much less distinct, and as such the system doesn't perform as well. I've seen this in action with my own eyes during thousands of miles of Autopilot driving.

The small number of sensors has nothing to do with using Mobileye technology. Tesla easily could have incorporated multiple cameras or radars, they just didn't. And that's not missing functionality, that's missing hardware. You haven't given me any functionality you expect the system to have that it doesn't.

"they can't improve it"

Of course they can. Did you not read the part in the comment you're replying to where I said, "the system has improved dramatically through software updates"?

I don't mean to offend you with this question, but do you actually know anything about this stuff, or are you just guessing? It's getting tiresome to correct all of your incorrect statements.
Our public infrastructure spending is trillions of dollars behind: https://next.ft.com/content/6aa759f8-16c0-11e6-b197-a4af20d5....

Flint is an extreme example, but almost all municipal water systems are a disaster. In Atlanta, the sewer system dumps raw sewage in the Chattahoochee when it rains. In Chicago, old lead pipes are poisoning kids. It happens because rates are set by elected boards, not by markets, and because municipalities are not forced to bear the external costs of poor infrastructure.
Market players in real commodity markets have a raft of financial instruments that squeeze out the risk. It's probably one of the least risky ways to make money there is.

The telcos already have the commodity aspect of their business handled. AT&T and Verizon aren't going anywhere. They just want to line their pockets. Demand is fixed in a commodity market. The world only needs so much wheat and there's not much you can do to make it need more. So you sell your wheat in a fancy new package. That's essentially what a cable network is. The label on your can of green beans.
7k is about right. My average savings rate over the past 3 years has been $6k and it's increased as my salary has.

You're forgetting to include investment gains. With them, I can go on regular vacations and still reach $1m within 10 years.

Also, since someone else mentioned it, my model conservatively assumes a 4% inflation rate. Over the 3 years I've been tracking, my model has consistently underestimated the growth in my savings.
The future of Telco is not in the ground, but through the air.
This is the entire reason Google Fiber acquired WebPass.

It is relatively simple to transmit extremely high connection speeds through radio waves. I have a receiver on the top of my house that is a point to point signal, pumping 1 gig +, and soon to be much higher, speeds.

Google's strategy to expand GF will not longer include a massive ground infrastructure move, but use point to point to get to the neighborhoods. An entire zip code can be offered GF services at a fraction of the cost and a few months of labor. Google, along with many other broadband startups will hit the big telco's very hard. I'm not even sure if they see it coming yet. I'd imagine they would, but after dealing with AT&T for the last two months on something, I'm not very confident in there being any single person in the entire organization who has a clue about what they are doing.
Yep, this is true. It's also one of the reasons why the subway in Athens was delayed, as they kept finding ancient artifacts. Thessaloniki has one of the main roads of the city half-closed because they found an ancient street running below it when they tried to dig for the subway.

You can see it under the road, open and everything. I'll try to find a photo.

It sounds terrible that people would mess with artifacts like that (moving them out of their property), but what can you do when your perfectly good plot of land just turned into a decades-long liability because there's some ancient stuff under it? It's not like archeology is the best funded of fields, either, so archeologists don't have the resources to be quick about taking the artifacts.
See https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/spelling.... -

In this case, we need to be able to address either a database and a dataset. The presence of a :: makes it unambiguous.
As road conditions became increasingly uncertain, the vehicle
again alerted you to put your hands on the wheel. No steering
torque was then detected until Autosteer was disabled with an
abrupt steering action. Immediately following detection of the
first impact, adaptive cruise control was also disabled, the
vehicle began to slow, and you applied the brake pedal.

It's actually not clear the order of events from Tesla's letter, but I read this to mean the abrupt steering action came after the first first impact.
I gave Turbo Pascal as an example, because even when compared against it, there are many features that Go lacks and Turbo Pascal had.

Besides I am comparing an 8086 with 640 KB against a i7 with 16 GB and three level caches.

Go being fast isn't that much of an achievement in 2016.

If Go compiles faster than Turbo Pascal with an 8086 CPU and 640 KB RAM, that is an achievement.
I'm not proposing that it's better, but it has a different focus. LYAH is, firstly, very long. Furthermore, it's difficult to get a sense for how real world programming a purely functional programming works from LYAH. You'll learn some of common FP constructs from LYAH, but you'll still be pretty far from being able to write real applications.

The goal of this course is to keep the content pretty restricted to the few, main concepts that are used over and over again and to gain experience with practice and real examples.

Hope that helps.
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It probably will sound cruel, but this is natural selection at work. We can't babysit adults. If someone wants to smoke or drink alcohol, we accept it, but when someone takes drugs, people start losing their minds, even though alcohol/cigarettes are worse than many recreational drugs.

If someone wants to ruin their health, but experience something unusual, let them. The dangers are generally known.
California's Chamber of Commerce should buy billboard space outside of MIT and Harvard highlighting this, it's a huge incentive for new grads to move to California instead of taking jobs in Massachusetts.
Can somebody tell Seagate what SSHD means.
The driver never braked. It's possible that he noticed the trailer and refrained from braking for some reason, but that would be really weird.

I don't see why they have to wait for an investigation to talk about what the car did, nor about what the driver did with the car. They have all that information. The purpose of the investigation is to contextualize that information and incorporate external information like the speed and position of the truck in the time leading up to the crash.
It's not so much that they can't, it's that they don't want to and it would be unwise from a strategic standpoint.

Being an ISP is a commodity business and has really low profit margins. Ironically though, people still have so few choices.
> It's very similar to what you could expect from goroutines in Go.

Or Erlang processes?