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They certainly took/take it out on filesharing/p2p also though. I think they generally take it out on anything that eats bandwidth for them.

It's sort of ironic, since they have specifically sold the benefits of broadband ADSL as being able to watch movies, etc and now they complain people are actually doing that ;)
I think "unlimited" is just a word that gets people to buy something. It's not economical to actually offer something with unlimited anything.
Even if you buy a dedicated server with "unlimited" transfer, it'll be limited by the connection speed - eg 10mbps uplink "unlimited bandwidth" works out at less than 5TB total transfer per month.

Same with the magic word "free". You'll often see that used such as "free mobile phone (small print: when you sign up to a contract at £19/month)" etc.

Are there true unlimited plans in Germany that aren't subject to any limits then?
in a thick fog, did not reach the runway but instead hit the treetops and fell apart

Bad avionics. A Boeing would've been alright.
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LLVM began purely as a research project, unlike many other compilers, so I think it's a bit harsh to blame its `appetite for "elegance"`.

Free software had GCC, and in my opinion LLVM has the success it has because it is composable. Even with the 4.x branch of GCC with GIMPLE, GCC was not made so pluggable (due to political reasons if I understand well), so they do not compete exactly on the same ground, and that's why they both exist.
You should get your facts checked. How much did Performa help? If that was part of the strategy and you claim it was working, how come, that Jobs returns, does exactly the opposite—gets rid of the clones and drastically trims product line–and Apple starts climbing up again.
These companies have never been nor tried to be emotionally appreciated. Their success had nothing to do with appreciation.

IBM has been swept because, as a big hardware vending corporation, they refused to see that hardware was doomed to commoditization(1), and that software was what would matter in the future. They never enjoyed goodwill, and never needed to.

Microsoft took off because they've been the first and most ruthless hardware commoditizers. Then they maintained their position thanks to the interlocked Office / Windows monopolies. They didn't need any goodwill to get there, only IBM shortsightedness. And apart from XBox, which is far from being a monopoly, they consistently failed to sweep any market that wasn't closely tied to Windows/Office, maybe in part because they don't know how to build sympathy (who in his right mind would want to be labelled a Zune fan?)

(1) Interestingly, Xerox failed the same way to become Microsoft: although they invented the modern GUI and workstation decades in advance, they never truly tried to turn it into a cash-cow, because they kept seeing themselves as photocopier makers.
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"Some European telecoms groups fear Google will reduce them to “dumb pipes”" : yes Google, PLEASE do us that favor. Telecom's business should be to transport bits from point A to point B, nothing more, nothing less.
That's an interesting quote: "Some European telecoms groups fear Google will reduce them to “dumb pipes”". I wonder what description would they prefer now - especially what do they want to offer above the "dumb pipe" standard?
Don't be daft. What makes you think Businesses have to treat everyone fairly? If business A wants to do some special deal with business B that gives B special access or the ability to do things that no one else is allowed to, that's just life. It's by no means evil.
For internet at home, I think so. Just checked the legalese for the #1 provider (Deutsche Telekom) here, found no wording relating to "fair use". Internet at home is extremely competitive here, though. Lots of different delivery methods (tv cable, telephone cable etc), unlimited internet + landline calls for ~30 EUR/month or less.

For mobile internet, it's a whole different story, obviously. There are all kinds of caps.

I think 'unlimited' should mean unlimited. But I agree, introducing caps sadly makes business sense for some companies.
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There's a few things you can do in Obj-C that would be pretty hard to do in Java, but...

It's not the language, it's the framework. UIKit and friends really are very good; they're the secret sauce of the iPhone OS and I'm not sure Android has anything comparable.
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I wonder what the author thinks of the new developer restrictions? You sign a contract to do something with a company a suddenly you aren't allowed to do it. How much of what Twitter bought was a development process? A set of tools that help build the apps? Tools which may now be banned?
Once it's developed and working, PhoneGap can turn it into a native app that can be sold on the App Store.

Also has the benefit that it can be potentially made cross-platform, so you're not as tied into just the iPhone.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
NeXT was the best thing to happen to Apple. The NeXT OS was miles ahead of anything else at the time, and it has been probably the thing that helped Apple survive. I'd go so far as to say if Jobs had of returned when he did, but Apple hadn't picked up NeXT OS, it wouldn't matter what Jobs did, Apple would be a shadow of what it is now.
There needs to be a compendium of mathematical and scientific errors which are public record, and this record should be indexed by name.
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I get the impression he's paid to write things Adobe would like to say, but can't
My condolences to the people of Poland.
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the telcos don't want the public to perceive them as "dumb pipes" because fungible commodities are subject to much fiercer competition.
Better, stop buying Apple products and tell everyone around you to stop buying Apple products. And isn't that basically what we are doing here?
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Show HN: Hacker Trends
After seeing a lot of articles about the same subject show up on the front page, I thought I'd whip up a simple script to show you what the most popular thing is on Hacker News at the moment.

The "algorithm" (if it can even be called that) is very basic right now, but I'm improving it. I'll put the source on GitHub later today if anyone wants to try improving it too.

http://hackertrends.heroku.com/
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I guess Apple are now working on a switch that will prevent the running of Cappuccino, GWT and pyjamas web apps - they don't use 'raw' javascript.
You can't tell before an extensive investigation will have been done. Was the ILS active? Were there some navigation instrument failing? Was there a mechanical problem at this time on the aircraft? Was it just some human error (involved in 80% of aircraft accidents)? It's just too early to draw conclusions.
This is what at&t/apple does with their 'unlimited' iphone subscription. It might be unlimited but they try their best to stop you from using any actual bandwidth (tethering etc.)

Google has had to take a lot shit lately from non free speech and non free market ideologies.
Shades of Ron Brown's (Commerce Secretary under Clinton) last plane ride. Certain folks in Russia would have had plenty of reasons to cut off the head of Poland's government.
Please add support for pip - it really makes life easy.
jlongster - your tooling is impressive and inspiring. What a thing to be able to develop like this. I hope you can find another platform that inspires you and that you have success with that.
The attack was very simple, basically scanned all sites hosted there for wp-config.php with the wrong permissions. If it found, got the db information and modified it.
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Thanks. If the wing tip clipped a tree it was because the plane was turning. Assuming it wasn't windy, but foggy as stated, good avionics should've calculated that the tip would hit the ground, and good avionics would've detected trees. As such, a sound would've gone off to warn the pilot not to turn, or stop half way through a turn.

I could be wrong, but the pilot had already tried several times to land, and he was flying manually, and probably a good pilot, and there may have been a freak tree in terms of height, but I reckon he just didn't have modern enough instruments to help him avoid the crash.
This is quite a good argument. If they have entered into a peering agreement then Google is freeloading off their services. However, an agreement is an agreement and the telco can't just pussy out because it's turned sour for them
This is completely irrelevant but I quite enjoy the phrase "bizarre moon logic". Kudos for coining it.
I guess the event discussed here is not quite usual. That's why people want to discuss it anyway.
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This is a better experience if the pages load very fast, and much worse if the pages take a while. If pages take a few seconds to load, then you're checking the browser's spinner instead of the immediate cues which are (designed to be) incorrect.
I think the title is a reference to Alexander Shulgin, the author of Phenethylamines I have Known and Loved (PiHKAL), among other books.

On this basis, there's an errant "that" in the title, if that was the purpose.
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It is an interesting video.

Quick summary: Node.js is a program/api written in C that lets you write asynchronous servers in javascript. All IO is done through event loops and callbacks.

If you are interested in the efficiency/architecture of server programs then this is worth watching.
I know it's not your point, but something you said got me thinking about something else.

"Closed systems canot possibly equal the innovation and development of open!!'"

I always look at the internet as proof that an open system that was successful because it was open. The same with email. Both of these systems was more successful than anything Apple could every do.

In the world of closed v.s. open, closed is generations behind in the innovation and success department.
I think it's doubly ironic.

If the Telcos feel they can charge Google for carrying its bits, then perhaps they should pay all the newspapers, blogs, etc that are providing all their content to those telcos for free.

Over the last 20 years, Telcos have made humongous profits selling internet access to content that they didn't have any hand in producing. Meanwhile, the newspapers are going bust.

People keep talking about saving newspapers by introducing paywalls and such. There's already a paywall: it's the internet access monthly fee. Take the money out of there.
There is an interesting article from Xinhua, China, 2008

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&...
If your end users want a fast site (I would imagine most do), then the faster sites are going to win anyway, with everything else being equal.

At worst, Google is just reflecting that reality (in ~1% of searches where it changes the results).

Personally, I would prefer to compete in a world where everything relevant is "up for competition". You can compete on content, speed, price, or a myriad of other factors. If your complaint is that you want to compete on all of those things EXCEPT speed because that metric is unfair in your opinion, I don't have sympathy for that point of view.
Not very helpful to post an article in Chinese...
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It is a legislative defensive move by Apple. I hardly doubt they would go after a highly successful and well-written Ruby application. Rather they want a way to pull everything flash at a whims notice with reference to the agreement. In other words, they set up a trap.
News Flash: telecom company whines "Our customers pay us every month to allow them to connect to YouTube, but YouTube is owned by Google, who is rich, and Google isn't paying us anything on top of what our customers pay us. Boo hoo hoo!"
Since Zynga and Facebook are located in the US, I would use a COPPA argument against Zynga/Facebook. They would have to get parental consent before collecting personal information (including billing information) from a child under 13. I think this argument would hold even though the child was in the UK. It's worth a try...

http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm
People weren't born to have a natural understanding of probabilities, we didn't have any need for that expertise on the savannah. This is a huge problem in an increasingly complex world where most decisions involve many factors that must be taken into account, and where most thing aren't black or white.

Our inability to intuitively judge probabilities correctly rears its ugly head in such diverse areas as politics, eating habits, the war on terror, and here the judicial system. We're heavily biased as a species, and we consistently put the probability of terrible things happening much much higher than they really are.

The war on terror is a great example: Because terror is, well terrifying, we have a tendency to think "this is awful - and it could happen to me", even though the chance of dying by the hands of terrorists is smaller than the chance of being struck by lightning. Combined with our desire for everything to have an easy and understandable cause this is the primary problem in this case.

We need to think before we act: Sometimes things aren't as they seem, and sometimes they don't have a cause but are simply flukes of randomness passing though our lives.
"Commenters will likely tear into this review, accusing Wired of being biased toward Apple (we're not) and unfairly bashing a perfectly good product (which this isn't)."

Its funny that the author exactly captures the spirit of his review in one sentence. It really feels like - "the iPad, despite its many flaws, is wonderful. The JooJoo, despite its many strengths, is awful."
I think the self-decapitation of a country's government through poor flight arrangements/policy is an interesting new phenomenon. Do you know of another occasion when a country basically lost most of its senior politicians and army general in the blink of an eye? Even at war this doesn't tend to happen.
If they were complaining about peering relationships, that would be just fine. Renegotiate the peering relationship! Perhaps instead of true (free) peering (what most telecoms have with Google, perhaps they should be paying Google something.
I was with you up to the last crazy socialist sentence.

If the newspapers can't survive, (I for one still like reading my daily non-electronic paper), let them die.

ISPs should simply be a pipe. Nothing more, nothing less.
With the notable difference that, as far as we know, this particular massacre wasn't ordered by a Russian dictator...

As far as we know...
Awesome, this never occurred to me. Even though it was a very simply hack, you've got to applaud the hackers for thinking outside the box in the first place and going "Hrmm... I wonder if anyone has left their wordpress config as 755? And how can I use that to my advantage?"
I wouldn't go too far. Cadence of President Kaczynski ends this year, and he would be probably beaten in the next elections. Moreover too many people died in this accident and any justified suspicions might lead to war. The fact it happened in Russia don't make it's not coincidence. But that's right, Mr. Kaczynski was known for his anti-kreml policy.
The ISP's logic of people paying for getting bits as well as people paying for receiving bits gets you (in America) text messages that are $0.20 to send, and $0.20 to receive.
The funny thing is, music has tools restrictions and a review process.
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Oh, I agree - I don't think that should happen.

I just think that it's an uneasy "let's keep our eyes closed" arrangement to begin with. If the Telcos want to open their eyes instead, they might find they have a lot more to lose than to gain. Ditching Net Neutrality will cost them a whole lot more than it will gain them, as soon as content providers realise that actually, the providers should be paying them, not the other way around.

I mean, if Telefonica wants to block access to youtube, why should Google stop them? Fine. Block it. And lose 80% of your customers overnight. If Google wanted to play this game, they should be asking Telefonica to pay them money.

It's not a long step from this to having bloggers, newspapers, etc, organise in collectives that can charge telcos for "access to every newspaper on the web" or "every blog on the web".
Google seems the best fit with people like Vint Cerf there.
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Then they should cancel the peering agreement and pay transit charges to reach Google...and also reduce the quality of service that the customer receives when watching Youtube. Most peering agreements are relatively informal anyway.

For the larger providers reaching Google through transit routes, such transit would jeopardise other peering relationships which rely on traffic being balanced.
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Replaced the link with Google Translate.

I confess I was lazy.
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That's true, but at a $500 price point, you're also reducing your market substantially due to price elasticity. Be sure to lower the price quickly if you feel like you're not getting traction.
Can anyone explain to me how the io monad gives referential
transparency?
So, say I have a function to read a file:

readFile :: String -> IO String

readFile filename = ...

At time t1, if I invoke it it returns say:

IO "Contents at t1"

At time t2, if I invoke it it returns say:

IO "Contents at t2"

Given that we supplied the function with the same
argument (i.e. fname), and it returns two different values,
how can they be said to be equal? I'm probably totally misunderstanding this but anyway....
There's a review on Engadget (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243630) that's mostly the same story.

After all the drama that happened with this tablet, it's really a sad ending to what started out as a potentially great product.
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Mr Alierta said that if no revenue sharing agreement was possible between the internet search engines led by Google and the network operators, regulators should supervise a settlement.

This is what strikes me as disturbing. Peering has been one of the success stories of an unregulated internet infrastructure in contrast to the hugely complicated PSTN system with all manner of complicated charging schemes. In this instance getting regulators involved would almost certainly complicate things. Bureaucrats won't understand the myriad of informal relationships that underpin the peering that runs the internet.
I can't trust a Wired review of an iPad competitor. This whole thing of magazines and newspapers clearly championing what they think is their next meal ticket isn't ethically sound.
This is quite complicated matter here in Poland.

President Kaczyński was one of few our politicians who didn't wanted too many compromises with Russia. There was a tendency of not taking him seriously, as he had a harsh tongue for a politician and was generally considered a bit paranoid. But he actually was one of the few in Europe who actively opposed to Russian involvement in 2008 Georgia/Osetia conflict and was trying to reveal the tracks that the conflict might have been secretly escalated by Russia in the first place.

In our country people tend to know well how Russia government uses the policy of hiding or denying the facts. They used it when tsars ruled, then again during the communism, and again these times. Regardless of what really happened during today's crash, they will make obstacles to investigate it while pretending to be helpful.

Don't get me wrong, I know and like many Russian folks in person, but still their government is one of the crappiest (and most dangerous), by the standards of western democracies.
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I hope for the sake of the people of Iran, Israel and freedom-loving people everywhere, that rigged instrumentation or autopiloting can be placed on board official Iranian air transport.

What does Ahmadinejad fly? Are they fitted with special or standard avionics? Can something be prepared equipment-wise as pulled from the same type of aircraft, modified, and then swapped when he has landed in a foreign country or else on Iranian soil?

In Die Hard II the bad guys re-calibrated sea level -200 feet below the real ground level and one plane crashed straight into it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EfN4W2z0c
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But I'm not taking a file name, I'm taking a stream of data, for which the output should always be the same. This should be good enough for applications that deal with standard in and standard out, yes?

Though that's a good point, when it comes time to be opening files on the disk, it inevitably becomes stateful again.
Glad HN is not slashdot. Please elaborate why selling more SPARC servers would not have been a good thing for the many SUN employees affected by the merger.
The reviewer points out five things which shape her verdict:

- too heavy
- too slow
- short battery life
- limited usefulness beyond browsing the web
- awful UI

Those seem like rather basic requirements to me. Most if not all people simply won’t buy a device with those kinds of drawbacks. Make no mistake, the iPad has very real drawbacks – I don’t see how this review ignores those – they just might not be the same category of drawback. Lacking a USB port is hardly the same as having a awful UI.
Chrome has a nice translate feature, it is very easy to use and doesn't require copy-pasting or navigating away from the original page.

I've recently read (and was able to understand) articles written in German, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. This feature is undervalued but it may save the world one day.
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