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Not surprising to see a shift to wireless, but it is interesting to see them 'pause' fiber before getting a wireless tech in place. It would have to be a heck of a difference to justify a full stop.

Getting cables run in the real world must have been far more difficult for them than they ever imagined. Which is, I suppose, why the division CEO is leaving.
I'm sure 100 mbps (or whatever) fiber has cheaper equipment on both sides, so if you ran that instead of 1g, you'd be spend the same money and build out to more customers, but I would be shocked if that was five times the customers. Most of the time, expense and headache is spent in getting sites for your equipment, surveying and planning the runs, and getting access to run the fiber near the homes (poles or underground). Running the drops to the homes is also time consuming.

You might as well spend a bit more on equipment and run 1G, so you you're competitive with what the incumbents will upgrade to next.

Edit to add: The bandwidth out to the internet from the wherever the access goes to really isn't a major cost factor. Access from a decent exchange point isn't that expensive, and you can oversubscribe by a significant factor.
It's only a disadvantage if you work with people that try to use every feature for every job. Admittedly some people do this, but you'll get the same problem in many languages like c++, ruby and c# as well.

The features are great for people writing libraries, but general purpose code should usually only need a subset.
This is not just about applying universal basic income, negative tax etc. The algorithm fine tunes the whole economy using a single parameter. People can vote on the inequality level they think is healthy for economy, and the solver guarantees that this happens near perfectly.
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This is why I read the comments first, just avoided another painful article.

Do people who communicate in spin-speak start to think that way on the inside too?
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Here in Provo, Comcast was astonishingly effective at preserving market share. As soon as Google Fiber was announced (and long before the first hookups took place), Comcast started dropping all kinds of deals in our laps -- things like 250 Mbps download speeds for the price you were currently paying for 20 Mbps. But they were all contingent upon your signing a new 3-year service agreement.

Most people don't appreciate how long a Google Fiber roll-out takes. I waited nine months to be connected and I was lucky. My parents had to wait two years. Google offered very little visibility into when the install would take place. (We've been waiting two years now for a hookup at my small business, with no end in sight and no way to get an estimate from Google.)

These realities gave Comcast a giant head start to perform customer retention jujitsu. It basically took a steely determination (or an implacable hatred of Comcast) to resist the deals being offered in all the calls, letters, and emails. You could accept their deal -- and be enjoying 12x faster internet within a week -- or hold out for Google Fiber at some undetermined future point.

So many folks were taking the bait that Comcast brought a great many contractors in from out of state to handle the volume of upgrade service calls. For months, nearly every room at a Residence Inn near my home was occupied by out-of-town Comcast crews. Every space in the parking lot was filled with a Comcast van at night (hilariously, each van had its orange cone deployed in front as per company requirements).

When I finally was able to contact Comcast to cancel after our Google installation, the rep had a special script for Provo customers. It centered around questions of whether we were actually achieving gigabit speeds in real-world situations. Though I still proceeded to cancel their service, it was a pretty devastating critique as no one connecting over wifi (which was almost everyone) could even achieve the 250 Mbps speeds Comcast was offering, to say nothing of the gigabit speeds Google had sold you.

I'm happy with Google Fiber overall and I certainly don't miss Comcast, but they wound up being a more capable competitor than I'd ever have suspected possible.
Two anecdotes; not sure if they help at all, but they're related and I like sharing :)

1. I work in a loud, open plan office where I wind up taking many phone discussions with 5+ participants. Since our teleconferencing software doesn't have a global push to talk, we all have to manually toggle our mic mutes, which has become an ad-hoc indicator of a desire to speak (along with the background noise that is a cue that 'someone' is thinking).

2. There's this let's play series (whose name eludes me at the moment) that doesn't have a face cam. The actors, then, are forced to constantly narrate their actions: they hmm and haw more often than normal, fill empty airspace with idle, easily uninterruptible chatter, etc. In other words, it seems like their discourse adjusts to the limitations of the medium.

Anyhow, I hope you can solve that problem before AR/VR takes over the entire space! :D
You could charge your watch at that same time. It doesn't take long.
Interestingly, my Mi4C never received OTA updates because there was a typo in "update.xiaomi.com" in the stock firmware.
"Most" vim users do not do this. Control, perhaps.
But on a digital board you have unlimited pages/space.
Here are the topics I'd be happy to hear blog posts about

a) the mechanics of the proof generation, including outlining the time for proof generation.

b) How the trusted setup works; for extra credit describe in detail how zcash plans to do it.

c) an ELI5 explanation of zkSNARKS

d) a comparison of the Ben-sasson and Parno implementations.
In California, at least, you do need to know your address... at least, the address they registered with, because there is no database of people's actual addresses. Which comes back to a chicken-and-egg problem - when someone registers, how do you verify that their information is correct?

The point I really want to address is that having good voter authentication is more or less equivalent to the project of having a national or state ID card. Which no one in the US seems to be willing to undertake. I am not okay with the lack of authentication, but I'm more okay with that than with disenfranchising people who happen not to be integrated into our ramshackle systems of identification. Ideally, I'd like to have a state or national ID card possessed by at least, say, 98% of the population, and use that to authenticate - but we're not there, and empirically disenfranchisement is a bigger problem in the United States than voter fraud.

(Also, WRT it being too late to take back ballots - this is the point of provisional ballots. If you show up for your first vote and can't fulfill the (laughable) HAVA ID requirements or are for some reason not on the rolls, you cast a provisional ballot in a sealed envelope, and over the next month the registrar of voters tries to decide whether it's actually you and whether to count your vote.)
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Yeah, in my limited experience, MRAs generally suck at distinguishing between feminism the ideology and feminism the concept, so they end up tripping over themselves trying to explain how they are for women's rights but also against feminism.
> Apple would never produce something like that

Famous last words. The titanium powerbook had very small bezels for its time (2001), and I remember Steve Jobs when introducing it claiming that at the edge the cursor was almost gonna fall off. Of course this doesn't mean they'll do it again, but they certainly experimented with the idea before.
Thanks, really.
While Comcast does offer higher speeds, it's prohibitively expensive. In a typical market where Comcast has an effective monopoly the 2Gb service is $300/month and even just 250Mb is $150. Their upload speeds are also pathetic, the 250Mb service is only 30Mb up.
Hong Kong Airport made me realize how idiotic it is that we don't have these rail links:

- PATH to EWR

- 7 to LGA

Not only does Hong Kong have a subway terminating inside the main terminal, it runs separate from their MTR line, takes 30 mins to get into Central and makes a handful of stops at major MTR junctions along the way. It felt like public transit working exactly as it should.
Counter-counter nit pick: it's still not accurate because a piece that stays in C Major all the way through can still use notes outside of the C Major scale (eg passing notes)

Also I would say "X is simply Y" means "all X does is Y", but I guess this isn't universal
That's really neat! The facial cues can be done today in real-time to a surprisingly high-quality degree (I do virtual filmmaking as a hobby), and with cheap mocap hardware, you could get the full upper body and what not. I'd expect when combined with the HTC Vive that you'd get a pretty decent VR experience.
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I can only hope the Magic Toolbar allows me to span 'Esc' across the whole thing.

A meter alternating between battery capacity and wifi strength would be a nice touch.

Testing the keyboard on the Macbook, I found the action too stiff for my taste. Not jazzed about the short travel, either.

Here's hoping.
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You are off by a factor of 1000. Top end CPUs and GPUs are in the billions of transistors. I believe 8Gb DRAMs are shipping commercially now (so 8G transistors and then some)
Note: I am not an aerospace engineer.

Not quite. Outside of ground effect, a downward force is applied to the air mass around the aircraft, resulting in lift on the aircraft. IIUC, this results in compressed, high pressure air below the plane and low pressure air above it. The result of that is a pair of vortices roughly centered on the plane's wingtips. These vortices themselves are Somehow Important to the whole thing. Anyway, you can see the deal when a plane flies close to a cloud top.[1]

In ground effect (i.e. the aircraft is flying within roughly one wingspan of the ground), the proximity of the ground blocks the formation of the wingtip vortices (?) and greatly enhances the efficiency of lift production (by some form of magic, AFAIK).

[1] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/1c/33/e2/1c33e2f2f...
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It's not optimized for mobile but I went through it on an iPhone 6s and thought the experience was pretty dang good.
Pinterest and "crate" companies probably fill this niche. Though I suppose you could do rental clothes? A bit weird though.
I sometimes wonder about that too.
I've quite literally never seen someone stoop so low as to use someone's dead relative to prop up an argument that can't stand on its own. My condolences.
The iPad Pro is a different beast entirely than the iPhone or the iPad or iPad Mini. I think the use cases are fairly significantly different and so it can make more sense to change bezel sizes and other things about it. That being said I don't find the iPad Pro, in my admittedly somewhat limited use, to be particularly good at detecting accidental presses and so the majority of my use has been with it on a surface.
This is what happens when people given little or no incentive to actively create something that another would buy. When someone is trying to make ends meet AND create a product they prioritize necessities and hammer out something usable, when given free reign most just become a drain (some create amazing things given this chance though). Optimally you could hire someone who has learned this lesson.
Well, the little town in Germany I went to school in used to have four awesome family run cafes with great service and even better products. I believe there is now one left. Instead there are now self service bakeries and fake Starbucks.

What country are you in?
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> This is really sad. If not even, google can do it, then who can?

Government. They're generally pretty good at building infrastructure.
I read a post about a French family that sailed to the South Pacific, home schooled all the way. It's a great education.
"Regardless, there's a kernel of good advice here: take the opportunity to do something crazy, something outside the norm when laid off."

I was thinking the same thing

I would never go to Bangkok unless I was interested in hookers , which I'm not.

I would take the opportunity to try something different.

Like smoke a weed, workout, work at a burger joint as a burger flipper and date my daughter's best friend.
It's possible that

> As for me personally, it’s been quite a journey over the past few years, taking a broad-based set of projects and initiatives and growing a focused business that is on a strong trajectory. And I’ve decided this is the right juncture to step aside from my CEO role.

could mean "I've been fired because although we're spinning this as a market failure, I didn't have any viable plans to make it successful"

Usually if they are voluntarily stepping aside, they've got the next thing lined up.
I can touch type F1, F2, F11, F12 because they are brightness and volume up down. At F7-F10 there are music controls, I would assume I hit them with 80% accuracy or less if I try to hit them directly.

Really sad to see them go, as well as the esc button.

I'm still on a 2008 macbook, and it was just kicked off from new OS updates (just updated to El Capitan) and the "next" device I look at and like is like 2013 model or something.
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Remap Caps Lock to Esc?
I like the demos. The transition from ratios to equal temperament was kind of jarring. It might help to not jump straight from the pentatonic scale to a chromatic scale and then go back to the major scale later, but to introduce the pentatonic scale, and then describe major and minor chords as 4:5:6 and 10:12:15 ratios, and then show how the major scale can be constructed simply by trying to get as many usable major and minor triads out of the least number of notes (while emphasizing that the major scale isn't the only solution, and that other "modes" exist).

Once you've established that the major scale is useful and in no way mysterious, then you can point out that if you divide the octave up in 12 logarithmically equal parts, you end up with equal tempered notes that almost line up with the ratio-based major scale. (I once threw together a diagram to illustate this that you can find here if you scroll down a bit: http://jsnow.bootlegether.net/cbg/justintonation.html) From then on, you can treat equal temperament as an approximation that implies the ratios you described at the beginning.

(Side note: One idea I try to impress on anyone who demonstrates the slightest inkling to write about music theory is that I really wish there existed something like Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language", but for music. Music is full of lots of little "tricks" that you can find scattered about in books, but I haven't ever seen anyone try to systematically collect as many of those as they can in one place, with a clear dependency graph.)
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> every technically-inclined person in the city quickly discovered that Ethernet controllers in consumer PC's can't come close to pushing gigabit Ethernet, regardless of what's printed on the box

Really? I have a chromebox (CPU is Haswell Celeron 2955U, NIC is Realtek 8168), running Windows and can hit about 950M down/833M up on dslreports speedtest when my ATT fiber is having a good day. I thought Realtek nics were considered poor, but getting to 95% of theoretical over the internet seems pretty ok to me. In a browser and going through my NAT box, plus ATT's mostly useless residential gateway.

What are good examples of junky gigabit nics that don't cut it?
I have one of those keyboards and love it, but it's too noisy when sharing a room. It can also be used as a highly effective weapon if need be.

I currently use the CODE keyboard. It's ok.
I'm wondering how popular media sites could apply to their comments sections some of the things Wikipedia is doing. For example, imagine commenters divided into two opposing camps over a controversial issue discussed in a news report. A separate discussion is organized to create a report on the issue using the Wikipedia process and rules. Any commenter can contribute, and it is guided by (perhaps volunteer) editors. Such reports then get aggregated in a separate section of the site...

Could something like this actually 1) create value for the media by engaging users and generating content 2) elevate the discourse between readers and 3) actually make the media less biased over time as it is repeatedly called out for partisan slant in its editorial and reporting?
Take something pretrained and slap a GUI around it. Get used to the idea of running a model attached to a website.

From there, it's really just normal product knowledge. Eg: what will make money?

Don't "embed machine learning" for fun - pick a simple problem with real value like a normal customer analytics problem to start. Everyone has web traffic - try to see if there's any value you can extract from that. It could be optimizing conversions, churn prediction, or anything similar to that.
Oh yeah. It's an interesting problem for sure. But there are two requirements here:

* That the voter not be able to prove to anyone else who they voted for (your proposal addresses that).

* That the voter be able to prove to their own satisfaction that their ballot was counted correctly (your proposal doesn't really address that - how do they know that their ballot was counted using the right label-to-choice mapping?).

The secret sauce of punchscan is in the second requirement - with the choice of whether to keep the position-to-choice mapping or the actual position voted as a receipt, and making it so that the voter can verify their ballot was received and auditors can check for the correctness of the total count. I'd need more time to understand exactly how that part works, but it's a non-trivial algorithm, and super cool.

[Side note - you can already prove that you voted - this is public information. When you vote your name is crossed off a list, and that list becomes part of the public record and is fed into e.g. political parties' voter files. The challenge is proving to your own satisfaction that your vote was counted as you intended.]
Probably becuase they're in Detroit.
This isn't a new phenomenon http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/once-lifetime
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Good luck getting anything like that into a cryptosystem.

Do you actually understand the utility of proof-of-work? Whenever someone proposes something silly like "proof of recycling" or "proof of solar power" I can't imagine they do.
How is dual licence ugly? It's not expensive for commercial use.
> as object-oriented code is to procedural code

That is not a universally-accepted statement either.

I'm not interested in taking sides here, only pointing out that there are a wider variety of extant opinions than you seem to realize.
The point of small bezel is that you can fit a bigger screen onto the same form factor, which is a definite win.

I agree that battery life is underappreciated, but not about the replaceable battery - again, nonreplaceable means you can squeeze in a bigger battery in the same FF.

I personally don't play mobile games, and I feel that outside of gaming the demand for faster CPU and more ram has basically plateau'd. My perfect phone would be bezelless, big power efficient screen, huge nonreplaceable battery, midrange power-efficient SOC, and tweaked software to give even more battery life. The camera should be good enough for taking pictures of typed text but is otherwise an afterthought.
Yes, the 2G service is expensive (it's also delivered over 10G fiber, rate limited on the required router), but their 1G service is more reasonable (i saw $140 on http://www.xfinity.com/gig-offer ), not sure what the upload is, and availability is meager, of course.
Sure thing.

https://github.com/ipfs/archives/issues/11

is the root isue on GH that made this project

https://github.com/davidar/ipfs-maps

And here it is in prod: https://maps.ipfs.io/?/ipfs/QmQ2YKnWpfjYQdoDN4KZjxL18K33nz2p...
I would argue that they did not miss mobile phones so much as poorly execute on it. They knew mobile phones were an opportunity from the outset and made multiple attempts at gaining traction. But all the attempts missed. How many versions of Windows did they try out for the phone?

I have a Lumina phone running Windows 10 and it is a great phone. But it is way too late. Just because they know they need to be in AR/VR does mean they will be able to execute on it and win.
I can easily install newer versions of those if I so desire.
It sounds like you're used to manual reference counting in ObjC, which genuinely is a pain. Swift (and modern ObjC) use automatic reference counting, which is much more robust and less dependent on autorelease pools. For one thing, class instances get released when they no longer have a strong reference -- so to answer your specific question, you can totally instantiate a class for just one iteration of a loop. Plus, Swift makes much better use of value types, so you're less reliant on heap allocations in the first place.

I personally cringe whenever I have to go back to a GC and relinquish all control over object lifecycle.
Xiaomi is moving toward an IoT company instead of a mere smart phone company. You can buy cheap but well designed air cleaner, clean robot, water purifier, etc in China and they're building the social buzz around its famous hunger marketing technique.
Have you considered moving it to the end of the day? So rather than signal the start of day, signal the end.

First, that disconnects showing up to work from standups. Second, I think people have a better idea of what they did and what they are bothered about for tomorrow (i.e. the blockers)
Bitcoin is extremely new on the grand scale of things and has already been around for nearly 8 years now. 4 years is nothing.
The government can very easily take money out of your bank account. Happened to me one time when the Texas Comptroller made a paperwork error. Even after they fixed it and refunded my money, Wells Fargo charged me $150 for "legal fees". That was a lot of fun.
Nice, I had looked at this before and it seems they have a 50% discount right now. Time to pick it up I guess.
"Easy" is never having to even think about those issues ever again.
One more resource for theory, ear training and rhythm -- also in its beginning stages -- https://utheory.com, which is a side project of mine.
I'm trying not to sound snarky, but: different strokes for different folks. Who are you to tell someone how to spend their money? Just basic common sense. Ok, that was a little snarky.
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That's exactly what happened in Austin. As soon as Google Fiber was announced Time Warner increased speeds by 5x for the same price and AT&T announced gigabit fiber for the same price as Google (and I think they are installing it much faster). They probably just increased prices in other cities to make up for lower profits from Austin.
On average, airplanes are not used to 100% capacity either. Some flights are oversold, some are half-empty. Sometimes they're almost empty. Cars frequently are occupied by 2 or more people, sometimes they are full too.

I never saw any hard statistics, but it's definitely not cars 90% 1 occupant, planes always near-full. It's anecdotal evidence for sure, but my car is, on average, as full as average plane I took. Especially if we count per-mile rather than per-trip.