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My brother has one and it's more or less impossible to keep it up to date. It's also somewhat less stable than a regular Mac.
Is it really $50 per month for basic internet in New York?

In the UK https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/packages/ shows the cheapest broadband package - which includes telephone line rental - to be £18 per month (average across the contract when delivered router is included). That's around $25 (you can get "free" with a telephone service).

What struck me was the kid in the header image has a swanky new laptop, the story confirms the kids bring their laptops with them. Could they pay their neighbour $10 to leech the neighbours wifi? Do they need swanky laptops or just an internet appliance (my work computer is a 3rd hand toshiba on WinXP! - good enough for net+email)?

Do people in the USA tend to go to libraries for wifi rather than [near] to a cafe or other private business leaking free wifi?
I love the blog, I definitely day dream about doing this once the kids are grown and moved out on their own. I love the idea of a laptop and some LTE connections being all I really need.
Public libraries are amazingly accessible, but university libraries remain complicit in the ongoing racket of pay-to-read academic literature. Although many university libraries allow guest access during the day, you cannot access their academic subscriptions unless you're on the secure wifi.
You don't say what ethnic food but it's easy for me to believe this. I was in Japan recently. Personally I love the food there and am generally a very non-picky eater [1]. But a bunch of us were talking at dinner one night about how difficult Japan (and really Asia generally) would be for someone who wasn't OK with eating a lot of unfamiliar foods, prepared in unfamiliar ways, when they would frequently not even be terribly sure about what they were ordering or eating.

[1] Well, in many respects, but I am fussy about general quality as I perceive it. I just don't generally care what cuisine the quality cuisine is from.
What usage could possibly need 5M log/s on a single system? Are you trying to log every TCP and UDP packet?

To give a rough point of comparison, CloudFlare is taking 4M page views per second and that's 5% of the global internet traffic.
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The O2 is consumed by the plant - root cells are dependent on aerobic respiration for their energy.
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"... a taco bell executive ..."

That's an oddly specific example.
Any other way to have Python application ported/migrated/converted on Android?
> You'll spend so. much. *time. troubleshooting the smallest of details at seemingly random intervals.

> Frankly, if Linux is an option, try that first.

I don't doubt the time sink from hackintosh (I did it some 6-7 years ago and it worked 90% of the way but that was on hardware that I just had and didn't buy the recommendations). That said linux, for me at least, was a huge timesink as a desktop. I love it and will only use it for servers but for a desktop/laptop I'll probably not stray from Mac (or Hackintosh) and MacOS.

Edit: For those downvoting I am only talking about desktops. I work in an environment where nearly all the developers use linux as their desktop OS as it's that or windows (or BYOC) and anytime someone decides to update their distro or switch they will inevitably spend a day messing with graphics card drivers, odd errors/issues, or tweaking an ungodly number of low level configs to get it to work. After all of that they have a semi-stable desktop with a handful of annoyances "Oh it just does that and I haven't have to time to track down the cause". While you might deal with some of that on homebuilt computer with MacOS I'd pick a hackintosh any day of the week due to the higher quality apps.
Interesting. I live in a country with a minimum wage of $58 a month (Ukraine) and yet the internet is one of the few things that pretty much anyone can afford: high speed connections (50-100mbps) cost about $2-4; rarely more.

Are american high prices the result of scummy pricing on the corporations' side or is it an actual infrastructural issue that prevents the ISPs from providing cheap connections to everyone?
Quite possibly better. The primary function of putting hoops in front of candidates off the street is to reduce the proportion of existing engineer time spent giving technical interviews that result in a "no hire." Unless you really like interviewing, you may well have a better time as an employee at a company that makes things harder for applicants.

There is a concern that drudgery weeds out the wrong people. However, "we want to hire people who have a strong desire to work here in particular" is a pretty common belief in SV and if you subscribe to it, then some putting the lowest-success-rate applicant pool (online resume drops) through some clerical annoyance makes perfect sense.
I don't understand why a single wavelength would be considered the "real" stimulus that results in a color perception while other metamers for that perception are somehow less "real".
There exists an opportunity to lose a lot of money serving these markets. All those other categories are very financially risky to serve due to reasons listed out in the nice article, as the acquiring institution will lose money on that.

If you accept a merchant that has a lot of fraudulent transactions and after some months get a lot of chargebacks, then you're out of that money if you've paid that money to the merchant already and they (usually) go insolvent at that point instead of returning the funds. If a particular market segment has even a small portion (depending on how high your fees are) of merchants doing this, the whole segment will make a loss for you.
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"Step 3: Run Boot Camp." -- Why bother buying a mac, bootcamping it to Windows... just to use a better GPU? Why not just use a Windows machine to start with?
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This is not true. Except in situations where you are going after highly competitive keywords. Basic SEO with a targeted strategy is an easy win with the basic SEO you mentioned. Keyword research is where a lot of time should be spent, to ensure your SEO campaign is effective.
That's an interesting question that I just may do a poor job of answering due to lack of a current strategy, but I will try.

I'm completely unaware to what level there is a strategy to market the kernel itself. What I do know off the top of my head is that it's used by Linux, Android and Chrome OS. The fact I'm aware of this but know very little about the competitive landscape is definitely a positive indicator.

This is truthfully the type of question that would require a lot of time, research and perspectives from both "inside" and "outside".

If I mis-understood your question I do apologize. I will say that there has never been more awareness, use and "awareness of use"in Linux at any time in my life. It seems like in about the last five years, many aspects of technology have clued in on how important and beneficial Linux is to everyone.

I find interesting that when "Linux Adoption" is discussed, it always seems to be in terms of traditional desktop users. This also means that the Linux Adoption figure they are seeking will always be disappointing and demoralizing.

I'm not sure if it would ever be possible for a Linux Desktop Distro to get ahead of OSX or Windows in market share, as the exact thing that makes Linux great is what holds it back from gaining widespread acceptance. I would never use a Linux Distro as my primary OS over OSX. I prefer OSX as I generally am biased toward UNIX based operating system, but the user experience, convenience & compatibility between OSX and Linux is night and day.

What I'm proud to say is that I have two or three Raspberry Pi's around here that run Linux Distributions and I love playing around with them. I hope someday I work on a project that is closely identified with Linux as the learning experience would be intense, but extremely fun and gratifying!
The answer is in the "about" section [1]. The site seems to be run by the folks at YC. They probably have a leg up on making it to the front page at HN.

[1] http://themacro.com/about/
when it's closed: "All summer, kids have been hanging out in front of the Morris Park Library in the Bronx, before opening hours and after closing."
Ah, of course. Should've thought of that.
Depending on what you are interested in swing by http://reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness. Their recommended routine is based around gymnastics so the higher end workouts end up with you being able to do some interesting moves. Equipment to do it at home is pretty cheap. I use a 30 dollar doorway pull up bar and a 30 dollar set of gymnastic rings, but you can get away with less or have a pretty nice setup. As far as the kids go, I get up an hour before they do to workout at home.
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ISPs have been protected from this sort of prosecution for decades. This is a sad day.

This will pass in time. It is literally impossible for an ISP to police their traffic for piracy, especially since the piracy scene is constantly shifting.

Still, you know that ISPs will respond with harsher treatment towards their customers. So be certain to follow the 3 rules:

1. Only access trackers using the TOR network.
2. Force encryption in your BT client.
3. Route all traffic through a secure proxy service.

Keep yourselves safe from those evil bastards until sanity returns.
If a merchant type has 90% good merchants and 10% bad merchants, then that's too many bad merchants - this means that you either have to treat all of them as very risky; or adopt pain-in-the-ass filtering to make it more like 99+% good / <1% bad if it can be done; or charge a totally uncompetitive 10% extra fee from each payment to cover your risks.

It's not enough for you to be good. If an unreasonably large proportion of merchants in your segment are bad, then you can't be trusted to be good unless there are easily distinguishable factors that differentiate you, or the volumes are high enough to warrant the expense of doing a proper audit of your business, as the some examples Stripe describes.
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Replying from the NY Public Library in Nolita. Couldn't agree more, the crowd here is a real melting pot. Students, kids, old folk, rich, poor.

I also like the opportunity to get on with work in a quiet place without feeling obliged to buy a coffee.
rather then placing blame on your partners, find new ones that allow these types of businesses or have appetite to have more in their portfolio and shuffle your clients accounts into these providers networks.

also, visa reg's change by region, are you in multiple regions and following the rules of each? or are you operating entirely under the US region and forcing all of your clients to do so as well?
> When you pay taxes, the bulk of it is just redistributed to people who don't work.

Okay, there's a sense in which that's true, but...

> All I'm proposing is that we restructure things so that instead of getting nothing for your money you get something.

The problem with that (aside from any other problems with the whole "basic job" idea) is that the only sense in which it the preceding claim is true is if you count medical and contribution-qualified programs for the aged and disabled (which are the bulk of payments "to people who don't work".)

I mean, this characterization is ludicrous unless your plan is to drag people out of nursing homes to serve in your Basic Job Army.
Windows 7 was already supported till 2020. I am surprised Microsoft hasn't already addressed the issue. I offer how many search pages there are as indication of how pervasive the problem is.

In my own case (I realise this is anecdata) I only found out about the issue by trying to upgrade to Windows 10 and having that install hang. It happened on a workstation, laptop and virtual machine!
My Librarian friend did indeed do a lot of social work while working for Houston area Public Libraries. If you want to engage in outreach in a location like that, then provide internet, clean bathrooms, air conditioning, and entertainment/activities.
Let's be clear, it's not "illegal" so much as it is against the Terms & Conditions of OSX. Apple could sue you, but they can't put you in jail.

Now, there are some questions as it relates to the DMCA, but generally unless you are misusing the software for something illegal (ex hacking) then you're ok.

IANAL.
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I agree as well and to be honest, I think it's no different than any other activity. When people say they eventually give up on exercising, it's always very early on in their exercising "career". It's no different than someone who gives up on learning piano after a month of playing the piano. It's really hard to practice when you suck. This applies to the exercise as well.

When you come home after an hour in the gym, you're exhausted. You wake up the next morning and you can't see a difference. After a month of doing this, you get depressed and give up. It takes the maturity to realize you have to make a habit out of it long enough to the point that you are good, practicing regularly, to reach the point where going to the gym is something you look forward to. Going to the gym X times a week is practice. Practice enough and eventually you will be good with the physical difference to motivate you.
While I agree with you in general on the subject of Polygon's political bent, I don't think the criticism is invalid because of it. The crux of the issue is this:

> There is no way to create on these worlds

You needn't look at anyone's politics, pro or con, to wonder: in a world where the second best selling game of all time is Minecraft, how much sense is there in a galaxy-sized sandbox where you can't build anything?
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My expectation of myself is that I change my beliefs if (new) evidence suggests that I should.

How would that trend (...and I assume you are right...) disprove the hypothesis that the prevalence of guns has something to do with the reported problems (excessive police violence / aggression / for the lack of better terms)?
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I have a mini and after upgrading to an SSD (the HDD was a terrible terrible mistake) I'm happy with it. For just coding, torrenting, and movies, it's great. Picking my own monitor was a huge plus. I went with a 34" ultra wide screen, which is perfect for coding and movies look amazing since they fill the whole screen without any letter boxing. No problems with my current setup.
That's why I put "real" in quotes. There isn't really another single word I can think of that gets the idea across.
SGI was the company that knew we needed machines that could do 16cores & tens of GB of RAM in one desktop/server all the way up to 2,048 threads w/ 3+TB RAM in single image with tools handling workload. Their engineers knew it but we didn't. Their management applied their creations in many of the wrong ways. They missed the key market for that kind of desktop hardware.

Web apps. What SGI was doing every day on "high-end" boxes is pretty-much the minimum specs you need to run these modern web pages and applications with responsiveness that matches my Windows 98 on Pentium 2 experience. We have the IRC app with 100MB of RAM. Apps with 50+ dependencies w/ cut & pasted code + lots of temp files that RAMdrives might speed up. Even more if I get into containers and such where at one point people told me I needed a VM for each version of each app, library, or kernel plus one to debug the hypervisor itself. Plus updates while system was running. All that might eat up 16 cores and 64GB of RAM pretty fast. So, SGI's forward-thinking engineers got busy on the monsters packing 6TB and such. And "visual workstations" + FPGA's to accelerate the JavaScript engines for games, CAD, and Adobe Photoshop.

Such forward-thinking architecture. I mean, they're possibly the only ones that got it right. Only HP's gifted management sees this. They know more browsers, JS engines, clouds, and Nintendo games are coming out. So, they're getting ready by dropping several hundred million on the visionary company that stayed ready for it. Smart move.
Sounds interesting! And kinda exhausting. How old are your kids?
It is 100% a corporate issue.

In the US, many people have only one choice for an Internet/TV/phone provider. Some have two choices. It is exceedingly rare to find a place with three choices.

Telecoms are typically granted local monopolies. As a result, they can charge pretty much what they want. And they do. Even in markets with a duopoly, companies very rarely attempt to beat each other on price, it's not in their best long-term interest to (but I doubt they are outright colluding).

The only places where it is more expensive than the norm to build out is in more rural areas... but the telecoms sometimes don't build out there at all, so some people are stuck with whatever they can get with a copper phone line, or satellite Internet if they can afford it (that's very expensive as well).

In my area - Optimum wants $50 for 60/25, plus $10 to rent a modem monthly, plus other taxes and fees (most of them made up) that are nigh impossible to find out beforehand. For TV and phone as well, $90 plus rental fees for the router and required boxes for each TV However, Optimum is terrible at my particular house, but we're one of the lucky ones who can choose Verizon as well. Verizon wants $70 for 100/100, reduced TV service, and phone, plus all the fees above. The telecoms push the bundles very hard.

As you can see, this shit's expensive (adds up to $130).
Of the right kind.
> However, are you suggesting clicking a link and waiting for an entirely new page to load is good UX?

Maybe they aren't saying that, but sure I'll bite. Why wouldn't it be good UX? I would challenge anyone to argue that non-JS/static UIs are anything but simple, intuitive and easily teachable. I have had the displeasure of repeatedly having to explain to family/relatives, how to use these "modern" UIs to the point where I'm fairly convinced that none of them have any utility, as far as UX is concerned.
there are many ways of load balancing chargebacks below the allowable threshold. ;)

there is also rolling reserves to help prevent the processor from holding the bag for bad merchants.

but yes, these are risky markets to play in and a few people have been left burned... but those that figured out correctly, are rolling in cash... epoch and ccbill are good examples.
I'm lazy and don't feel motivated to exercise. I wish I could post a longer more meaningful comment but that's all there is.
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We're trying to outline how the restrictions and limitations that exist can affect different businesses. With the right approvals (and often with substantially increased fees), some of these businesses can certainly operate. And we hope to be able to work with as many as possible in the future.

By our nature, we are on the side of people building things. We have been through many of these kinds of struggles ourselves. (Stripe's first application for a corporate bank account was rejected!) So we wanted to make that clear and describe where we're falling short of our aspirations today.
Source? I've googled around but haven't located anything to that effect.
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It is classic regulatory capture. US telecom, historically, basically owns the regulators. Occasionally, like now, the FCC pushes back a bit.

Combine that with large regions of low population density and a lot of land, and we have very little competition in the vast majority of the country.
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Many / most schools have after school programs for this reason.
> If you can't imagine clicking a URL and immediately creating a game that has never been made before then you're on the wrong side of history.

If you can't imagine URLs being obsolete by the time that's a reality, then you're on the wrong side of history.

> I am simply not going to elaborate.

Your choice.

> (The 7 seconds is a bit of an exaggeration, as I noted.)

And I was using it in the metaphorical sense, if that wasn't clear. It's as good a phrase as any to mean "very quickly", in the context of the thread.
I don't think they meant brand risk to Stripe. Credit card companies don't like "immoral" businesses and refuse to do business with them.

There are quite a few stories about porn stars having their credit cards closed just because of how they make a living.

There is a portion in there that mentions Stripe sees this regulation as "overly moralistic" and that credit card companies have "old school morals".
I'm kind of a jack-of-all-trades, so I did all of my own design. I don't know that I could get hired by a big company to do design work, but I'm good enough to make my own UIs.

One thing that has helped a lot is doing a lot of "hallway" tests: you watch someone sign up, then you cringe at how bad your UI is, then you fix it.

(I'm the guy behind https://indiehackers.com/businesses/complice)
It's unfortunate that a common first project idea is "hey, I should build a website", which is HTML and CCS - and isn't programming at all. Then when they go beyond that they'll hit the crazy fragmentation of web development.
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Better training is exactly the answer.

I'd say just the opposite. Normal people don't react to others this way. The violent hair trigger that cops are set on is a result of their training - they're taught to do this.

The solution is not to train them more. The solution is to change the relationship between police and the public, and train them to respect that.
Many countries benefited from having a government owned telecom monopoly.

In the US, we get the downside legacies of a monopoly without the benefit of government control.

The last mile and regional infrastructure (poles, mostly) is owned by private interests, who tend to be dicks about sharing. There's also a regulatory tension between the Federal government and state governments.