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This is really sad. If not even, google can do it, then who can? I guess consumers will continue to be abused by ISPs for quite some time. I don't blame At&t, they're just a vicious business taking advantage of a monopoly given by politicians and law makers. Politicians should be blamed - elected officials are supposed to have some kind of loyalty to their voter base.
How do you hook those 5 customers up? Are you doing fiber to the curb. If so then you might as well give them each 1gbps as fiber is cheap.

Now if you do what webpass did in sf, you'd avoid the cost of laying fiber to those 5 customers, but still provide them internet connections albeit at a lower speed.

I think google found out, why would you lay fiber to the home. And is re-thinking their plans.
This seems like a non-starter. A quick conservation of energy check:

Human beings put out around 75W of energy when they're not excercising. Most of that is body heat. They also take around 10,000 steps a day, which translates to around 85 mins walking per day. Even in the scenario where you could capture 10% of that 75 human watts for those 85 minutes, that's only enough energy to run a 15W LED bulb for 42 minutes.

Harvesting energy from cars is also a non-starter. Any energy you harvest there is added as a load on the engine of the cars, which are all powered by fossil fuels. It's a really inefficient way to turn a car engine into an electric generator.
Can you point me towards info about OSM serving via IPFS? Very interested in helping with that if at all possible.
Is there a way to associate metadata for an object in IPFS? Or must that be out of band?
Ask HN: Is this world missing this?
Spotify - Music (Spotify owns no music)

Uber - Transportation (Uber owns no cars)

Facebook - Friends/Content/Social (Facebook doesn’t “produce” its content)

Instagram - Photos

You get the point. What specifically is there for clothing?
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Germany, socialist, free university, free healthcare, no oil. The us could easily afford such things, it is just a matter of priorities. This article is short sighted and uninformed.
I find it really odd that this article dodges the advent of the Democrat Superdelegate system after the Hunt Commission.
Paywalled so I can't read it.
Cmd-Shift-r for me.
Again Google is shooting themselves in the foot.

Google Fiber, like Android, is a moonshot to keep their line of business alive. Failure doesn't mean that Google doesn't profit off a new line of business. Failure means that Google can be shut down.

Google lives off open internet. Their profit is primarily off:

1. Android
2. Search
3. AdSense, AdWords.

A closed internet means that 2 out of 3 is dead. All they have in Android.

If AT&T and Cable monopolize the internet (which they are close to doing) without strong net-neutrality laws, they can (and will) slowly migrate to the internet being limited to the top 100 sites (curated by them).

In such an internet, search and AdWords/AdSense is useless.
A professor of mine in my first year of college gave a lecture on Determinism and Free Will. His thesis was basically what you described above: subtle yet gradual determination of how we think, believe what is important to us, what we buy etc through your environment and circumstances. Seriously, social media is a numbing poison to the mind....
Have used this to automate a publishing workflow that starts with content in Google Docs. Works well.
> ZCash is a US-based LLC, and given what is publicly known about the capabilities and past behavior of its intelligence apparatus [...]

why does it matter where zcash is incorporated when the apparatus you're describing operates without regard for borders?

zcash is the first effort at a cryptocurrency where I have immense respect and trust for its team right out of the gate. not sure where the FUD is coming from (although I'd hypothesize that you are long monero?).

>Anonymous transactions are optional and require tremendous resources to generate

this is indeed a problem. hopefully temporary.
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You have to trust them, because if they cheat, they can print infinite zcash.

I do not trust Israeli SIGINT people with my secrets.
I was a big supporter, however now I wonder whether the cities that they've started rolling out to will get half-assed because their budgets are cut or morale has dropped. It's freaking Google- I don't understand how they didn't do the due diligence ahead of time to prepare budget for costs adequately.

But, if they ever come, I'll probably buy in, because I can't believe that AT&T is saying things like this- do they actually understand that PR 101 is you don't gloat?:
http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/fcc/broadband-investmentnot-f...
Exactly one of the nordic countries has relevant amounts of oil money. What works there can't be 1:1 transferred to a random other country, but "OMG they have free money" is not the reason. All countries pay for "free stuff" in some way or the other. Extremely low effort article.
Ha! I was so used to the... one I'm used to, that I forgot this obvious one. Seems like my analogy to "bad" was appropriate.

"dank" as in "dank memes" as in "a word stoners use to describe good weed" is how I'm taking it to be used here.
Not only did they miss the mobile phone opportunity, they aimed away from it. Windows phones are objectively bad.

Further: "company won't make the same mistake with augmented reality and virtual reality." What, they're not going to port Word, Excel and PowerPoint (ugh!) to AR and/or VR?
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A cross-compiler can generate the exact same code a native compiler can. If you have a powerful development box, it will compile much faster than if you compiled on the native architecture. So there's that too.

The NES probably couldn't run an assembler that could assemble a large program at all. NES games were developed and assembled on Unix workstations and wired to the console via an in-circuit emulator that simulated a NES cart.
Just because transistor production has been exponential over some number of years in no way means it will be exponential forever.
You might be onto something. Phase 2 of the Delhi Metro (77 miles of track, 85 stations in 3 years) cost roughly the same as Hudson Yards (1 mile of track, 1 station in 9 years).

Delhi is hardly known for it's lack of corruption.
> That all the procedural barriers the US sets up in an effort to prevent corruption tend to run up the costs.

Similarly, one of the leaders in the U.S. defense industry, former Lockheed CEO Norm Augustine, recently had this to say:

Q. I often hear people blame procurement regulations for preventing communication between government and industry, but then I’m told there’s actually less communication happening than is even permitted by law. Do you find that to be the case? Is the problem the regulation or people’s understanding of the regulation?

A. ... Clearly the regulations are very controlling, ... everybody wants to be very, very careful on both sides. So you sort of build walls that weren't intended. It’s unfortunate, and I think [it] handicaps our system. At the same, time you don't want to have conflicts of interest. Having seen the Defense Department from both sides, and [while] I have my own complaints about the acquisition process, it’s 99.9 percent honest. I can't say that about everything I've seen in federal, state and local levels but the Defense Department by and large is honest. We don't want to lose that. So maybe part of the price to pay is to have this barrier that we live with.
Congratz mate! Get ready for the interview, I hear you only have a few days!
I was under the impression IIS was leaps and bounds better than Linux based .net web servers. Thoughts on this having experienced the alternatives?
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10^20 billionths of $1 is a hundred billion dollars.

So transistors cost 100 billion each in 1955?
97th to 104th between 2nd & 3rd is basically all public housing, and there's public housing along the east river that will also have closer, less crowded stations.

A lot of the tunnels for Phase 2 (extending the Q to 125th) were built or partially built in the 1970s, and this phase already has funding commitments.
In Houston, TX we actually had a mayor run and win on an anti-rail platform! As with any construction project delaying it just made it cost more later. And yet when it was finally built the Red Line was a stunning success.

Among other things it linked most of the city's major stadiums, creating a relief valve for major event traffic, it linked parking and medical center sites, cutting traffic to and from our congested Medical Center and almost since inception it has carried more people on a daily basis than the combined ridership of our spoke and hub "Park and Ride" system which brings commuters in from the suburbs to downtown.

Development along the Red Line has ramped up and the gentrification that comes from it is obvious along its recent Northern expansion. So just like in Boston bringing rail has a net-postive effect on property values once construction is done.

Considering those ridership numbers are based on paid rides and ours is an honor system with loose enforcement Metro is putting up some decent ridership numbers!

Unfortunately due to Bob Lanier's intentionally blocking such expansion we don't have the desperately needed heavy rail system to cut freeway traffic between Houston's higher density bedroom communities.

And more frustratingly we still have only part of the rail plan implemented due to ongoing efforts to block rail funding. The rail line proposed to link our downtown and Galleria commercial district has been blocked for 10+ years by a single Congressman and some vocal business owners in a 1.5 mile stretch of road. If they had just sucked it up the construction would be done and those same businesses would be benefiting from their increased accessibility.
It's a nonprofit startup. It doesn't really count.

And yes.
I invite you to spend nontrivial time on a Mac doing significant development tasks and then tell me it is the same experience as Windows.
Earlier discussion on Microsoft's blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12736409
Having seen this type of Dilbertian situation occur before more than once, it's really not as pleasant as it sounds. You're not being given free time to do as you please. You're being ordered to "do something productive" with no definition as to what "being productive" actually looks like and with the threat hanging overhead that someone will eventually notice your predicament and ask "Well, what the deuce have you been doing all this time?". (The answer had better not amount to "Nothing." unless being terminated on the spot sounds like your idea of a good time.)
That was my thought as well -- there are some (thankfully few) weeks where I would end up adding five to ten hours of airport wait time if I checked my bags on every flight (considering that the times I do check bags I end up waiting 30-45 minutes to get them). Checked bags to me are just a way of extending the aggravation that is modern air travel. Though I'm more than happy to hand them over in the jetway and not have to deal with overhead bins at all....
I can't believe no one else has commented on the absurdity of starting off an article that way. They were flagging those comments as garbage not because of bad language but because it went against their narrative. In fact, the second comment is a 100% valid comment:

“She is a treacherous, lying, murderous woman that could care less of our rights and our constitution."

It's no pulitzer-prize winner but it's also not "[Your candidate] = Hitler."
Dang. Good to know :)
I don't think there's anything special about my account. It was a "personal" account when I created it, probably almost 15 years or so ago, then upgraded to a business account maybe 8-10 years ago.

I don't have my password handy right now so I can't login to check, but look for settings related to their "security key". I don't know if they still do or not but at one point they offered a hardware OTP generator (similar to the old RSA SecurID key fob) for a one-time $5 fee. Alternatively, you could use an existing one you already had just by entering its "ID number"; I used the IDs of my Symantec VIP Yubikey and also the app.

Sorry I can't be more specific or give you better guidance. I know that the option does exist, though; perhaps just explore the available options and maybe you'll stumble across it. Good luck!
> If the center of the city isn't healthy the outer boroughs aren't going to be healthy either.

It might be necessary (I'm not sure), but it's not at all sufficient. It's trickle-down economics. Investing in wealthy neighborhoods makes wealthy neighborhoods better.

> where people pay taxes and don't trash the public investments in their neighborhoods

Can you name specifics? It sounds like a stereotype of poor communities.
My least favorite was a guy who worked at CompUSA in the mid 90s who had SBPNP32 (sound blaster 32 pnp)
These are escape sequences for non-printing characters.
Well, the first two are. '\9' would most likely cause a compile error, since that format '\<digit>' is only defined for octal numbers, ie. digits 0-7.

'\0' means the NUL character, the value 0. Most of the time in C, this character is a special terminator value at the end of strings.

'\n' means the newline character, aka the line feed character, ascii value 10, which marks where one line ends and the next begins.
At least in US courts, this line of reasoning does not save the defendant in a hacking case IIRC.
Isn't the black axis the axis for the black line?
I also have an http server setup with swift & docker:

https://github.com/jkingyens/swift-http-server
It only looks easier because all the hard work went into creating a desirable combination of os-hardware that they could control.
I hear you, but there's a insightful saying that explains that:

"Quoting yourself is cool, as long as you're cool" -- nandemo
I'm a very religious guy and consider myself reasonably intelligent. As I get older and learn more, I find my faith in God also increasing.

Godel was much smarter than me and appears to have believed in some divine being. Kant was also smarter than me and was religious. There are a litany of historical religious philosophers (Christian and otherwise) who belie your point as well.

Unless your point is simply that religiousity is currently out of favor with the self-professed intelligentsia. To which I'd respond: so?...
Show me what you got.
This comment seems inappropriate. HN, and any other forum, would be better off without it. Attributing something to another commenter and then criticizing them for it is senseless, meaningless, and inflammatory.
"Facebook also buys data about its users’ mortgages, car ownership and shopping habits from some of the biggest commercial data brokers."

Wow. Makes sense, but I hadn't really considered them doing this in addition to what they get from just observing user behavior and content analysis.

Propublica is also providing a Chrome extension (link on the article) that allows you to see (some of?) the data Facebook has.
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Would you like to refute their statements or provide your own view point? If not then there isn't much of a reason to think that the parent isn't correct in his analysis of the situation.
My destination recommendation would be Taiwan. Not quite as cheap as Thailand or India, but still very inexpensive. Eat some of the most amazing street food for a dollar per item; take super convenient, clean and cheap public transit; and hell, there's even cheap and good quality health care. Spend $20 to get your teeth cleaned and cavities fixed while you're there. You'll also meet some of the nicest people you'll ever know. It's like a cheaper, friendlier Japan.
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Yep. I was sure I must be missing something. Thanks for pointing it out.
Or what if you were replaced with another Romania guy/gal then that would also solve that problem.
Not if you're on Debian or Ubuntu.

Others were never affected.
Or...... Wait until someone is stupid enough to use rust for something important, short them, own them, and ride off into the sunset
> Modern estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey are that some 12 million ounces (370 t) of gold were removed in the first five years of the Gold Rush (worth over US$16 billion at December 2010 prices). [0]

Gee, they must have sold a bootload of boots then!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush
I got laid off recently. I took two weeks vacation; one week to see some friends in a place I love, and one week just to myself, to get all the errands done that I never had time for when working at the demanding startup job. My mind wandered far in vacation land, and it felt great. Yet, I felt my conscience nagging me.

Because of that little mosquito-like feeling, I suspect that if I vacationed any longer, I wouldn't be doing my best in interviews now. To each their own, I suppose. The writer's long term suggestion really surprised me. Maybe I'm missing out on a feeling of true detachment and serenity? Hmmm.
Elm has the best error messages I have seen by far in any language.
I'm suspect of the CapEx arguments. The whole reason for the "fiber rally" procedure, and for offering free 5 MB/s Internet, was to get every house on the block to sign up. The marginal cost of a contractor going next door and wiring their house up is significantly less once they're already out there than if the contractor has to make a trip out to each home; it wouldn't surprise me if Google's CapEx costs were almost an order of magnitude less than Verizon or ComCast. (How much time does the cable guy actually spend installing cable, vs. driving to the place, making sure he got the right house, and context-switching between tasks?)
Just got the email about an hour ago EST, with the invitation.
IIRC octaves are what's referred to as harmonic frequencies in physics/kinematics/etc. "Why is it the same note?" AFAIK it's because the higher ones are multiples of the base freq.

But TBH I know next to nothing about music so I could be off.
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> inspired by our hysterical attitude about government corruption

It wasn't too long ago that graft was rampant at all levels of government, and it's still a major issue. We've set high standards, but they used to be pretty low.

Honestly, I think bringing more things like construction in house would solve a lot of this. Fly in the Army Engineering Corps? I feel like you could find enough people interested in large works that wouldn't mind being public servants. And since there's no financial incentive, simple budgeting processes could solve most things.
Isn't CGAL a dependency for PostGIS? When would you choose to use CGAL directly rather than something built on top of it (e.g. PostGIS or pgrouting)?

My use case is mostly for routing and I'm currently using a heavily modified version of OSRM. If there's potential for even more speedup I'd appreciate any resources ou can point me towards.
It reminds me of a story my father told me recently about a mining company and a plastic dinghy.

They had a job to complete that required access to a caustic pond, so they organised a small plastic dinghy to get out and take their measurements.

Even though it was just a dinghy, they still required a certified skipper on board, plus a saftey officer and then the technicians to take the measurement.

They had estimated an 8 day job, not realising that the pond had shrunk by half since the original satellite imagery.

So the technicians fly out and get prepared, but the mining company hadn't organised half the things they needed to. So for the next 8 days the technicians are waiting for saftey and job approvals and twiddling their thumbs.

Meanwhile the skipper and saftey officer are back at the port awaiting the technicians go ahead.

Now the dinghy, it was sitting on the grass at the boatyard. These resources are all charged per day, and while they're booked for the job they are on standby.

At this point, the dinghy on the grass and it's hardy crew had cost the mining company $16000 just for standby costs.

Eventually the job goes ahead, it only takes 4 days because the pond had shrunk so much, and the dinghy is only used for 2 days.

Total cost for the little plastic dinghy and crew was $25000. The mining company was fine with this.
Thanks for dumping CloudFlare.
What are the advantages of Biddle over FTP?
Cool :)

As for Ethereum, so far the bugs in the underlying platform have been minor; right now they're dealing with DoS attacks resulting from mispriced opcodes but that's getting fixed. Most issues have been due to poorly-written smart contracts rather than the platform. That's not entirely the fault of the contract authors; it's taking some time to figure out the attacks and best practices.

I'm not planning to launch in the near future anyway, because Ethereum is going through some major changes next year for scalability, and contracts will need to be coded differently to take advantage of that. In the meantime I've gotten a job doing Ethereum app work, so I should be reasonably well-prepared to get the technical side of things right.

I think the bigger challenge is making sure the climate action is actually effective. Something I learned from people at the MIT conference is that while carbon offsets are readily available in the voluntary market, even the certified offsets are often very poor quality, or even outright scams.

Also I'd like to figure out a governance system that doesn't rely on central administration, but that may not be workable; a more democratic system could end up funding charismatic projects that don't actually do much good. I've got some ideas though.
The point of doing it this way is that it puts the CA out of business but doesn't break the Web, which makes it the only really practical way for browsers to exert leverage over too big to fail CA's.
Laughed until I read 'canned lard' then I knew you were serious. I too dropped luxury. highfive
> My point was mainly about your incorrect statement that feminist was to feminism what capitalist is to capitalism. They are not the same thing and thus any extrapolation about negative connotations is unlikely to be correct.

Ahh, apparently the post was less clear than anticipated. Here's a quote from it that evokes what I was trying to say with the link:

"I feel like every single term in social justice terminology has a totally unobjectionable and obviously important meaning – and then is actually used a completely different way."

Which is to say that I disagree with your definition of feminism in this context.

According to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_309... 80% of people should identify as feminists by your definition, yet only 20% do. This means that at least 60% of the respondents to that survey disagree with your definition of feminism. I think that I (and the gentleman who's position in this conversation I took pity on) am using roughly the same definition of feminism as the 60% of the population from that HuffPo survey.

That definition is harder to put into words, but is something along the lines of "someone who primarily sees the world through the lens of gendered power struggles." Kind of like a Marxist, only for gender rather than class.

Using this definition, likening the reputation of Feminists to that of Capitalists is not a false equivalency (Capitalists here are people who primarily see the world through the lens of economic life).

> MRA on the other hand is a new, reactionary & uncommon position. But its proponents routinely try to play this rhetorical trick.

Agreed, I was not trying to imply it was particularly common. My main point was that, in my experience, the more hardcore ends of both groups share a lot of psychological problems and cognitive errors.
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