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> But it is clearly not avoidable. If one of the largest tech companies in the world (with enormous profits and cash reserves) cannot afford to deploy fiber in major cities, it is clear that the private sector cannot reliably and affordably provide this service on the scale required.

First of all, the fact that one company tries something and fails doesn't mean that the entire problem is intractable. It means that that particular attempt didn't work. Other variants might. Pretty much every single successful startup you read about is doing something that was previously attempted unsuccessfully or with less success.

And to that point, Google's model wasn't fundamentally different from the model used by existing ISPs[0] - they were doing almost the exact same thing (deploying {fiber, cable} from Tier 1 networks to the last mile) and structured their pricing in the same way. Their main goal was to force competition, not to dramatically change the fundamental business model of ISPs.

For example, one proposal that has been thrown around is the unbundling of the last mile, in which the lines are deployed and maintained by one entity but leased out to multiple private ISPs who actually service the customers[1]. There are other possibilities as well that haven't been tested yet either. Google failed at being a "better traditional ISP", but that doesn't mean that:

1) anyone who tries to be a "better traditional ISP" is doomed to fail, or
2) Google (or someone else) can't be successful as an ISP by using a different, non-traditional model altogether

[0] with one exception: they sought (and received) carve-out agreements

[1] Incidentally, this is what's already done with wireless networks (MVNOs) and in some places (like NYC) for electricity supply (supply only, not the wires).
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‘Thought Leader’ gives talk that will inspire your thoughts (2016)
'cleverness for its own sake' often makes it into standard practice later.

And I seriously fail to see the 'for its own sake' here. This cleverness reduces the number of moving parts, does the 'dont repeat yourself' and thus reduces ways modifications of the code could break it due to overseeing a case.

I just shuddered to think how this would be done in java - with a LinkUpdater interface, and a RootLinkUpdater and ElementLinkUpdater, and one instantiation per iteration, and suddenly we have a lot of code around to keep the active code's function simple - to a point where it is completely pointless because of adding a lot of machinery. (And java does collections differently anyway.)
You can get insanely rich by betting on a trend and executing competently. Not "Forbes profile piece" rich, but definitely "never worry about money and pass that down a generation or two" rich.

I think the question you're asking is "how does a millionaire/billionaire multiply their net worth in a decade or two", while that question I'm answering is "how do I go from salary slave to capitalist class in a decade or two"
I've read a few comments elsewhere that the attack on 21st may have been an element of a state actor MITM attack. What's the expert opinion?

[p.s.] The question is precisely this: is it possible that a DDoS attack on DNS can be used to affect/mask a MITM attack.
They have captured an important segment of the market (12-2x years olds). I also think that people In this age group find it a ton more engaging than the alternatives.
Not for the first time. The title of the announcement killing Reader was "an update on Reader".
Not that I subscribe to 'elegance' but...this example was in a recent article on core.match, and it's really terse:

(with-out-str (doseq [n (range 1 11)]
(println
(match [(mod n 3) (mod n 5)]
[0 0] "FizzBuzz"
[0 _] "Fizz"
[_ 0] "Buzz"
:else n))))
Unless that's changed very recently, they seem to be convinced that the perceived prestige of working for Google is worth a lot and thus they can get away with paying average or below average. At least that's been my experience.
User engagement doesn't pay the bills.
I am getting JSON as a URL param?
Photos on canvas, sure. But to actually transform a photo into a picture that looks like an oil or watercolor or comic strip or what have you requires some manual use of software like Photoshop.

I'll just address the real reason- printing a high-quality print (like what you'd see on sale at an art fair) is far more expensive than exploiting cheap overseas labor. If you could produce a high quality digital print for less than $160, there would be a larger market.
Have you tried coffitivity.com? Lol every time I tell people I use this, they look at me sideways. I discovered it a few years ago, and still use it just about everyday.

It's basically just ambient noises from a coffee shop, and you can choose a couple of different "environments". I pop that on in my headphones, and layer on some instrumental music. I love it.
Agriculture also comes with structure. Once you get past subsistence farming, you need markets, credit and social order. Once you have those you get specialization. A purely aggressive group eventually loses and vanishes.

Remember the story of the Danes was told by the recipients of their raids, who had an interest from a religious standpoint to portray them as awful pagans.
So I may be flat out wrong about this, but I believe the clients, once infected phone home, thus (mostly) removing the need for worrying about NAT, as they router will forward the Server's connections to the correct machine once it sees that a prior outgoing connection has been made.
Google really underestimated how hard it was going to be to run cable underground in Austin, with it's limestone ("Austin Chalk") often just inches below the grass & shrubbery.
If you're going to design though, you should design with your own distinctive style. Google has attempted to suggest that Material should be a universal design pattern, but that's silly: It's pretty much Google's brand at this point, given their tendency to slap it on everything, including iOS, where it makes no sense.

And the weakness of Material as a design pattern or common language is that Google's own apps and websites don't bother to consistently apply it.
"last nail in their coffin"

What will failure look like? From your perspective, how would you measure the success or failure of your statement? I'm not necessarily disagreeing, just want to know what you mean by this.
Reading the link you provided (and admittedly not doing any other research on the subject while on the company's time), this struck me as relevant:

> Controlling for other factors, they can only confidently show strong negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity among American Protestants.

So... American Protestants. Okay. In the scope of living people, that's... quite specific.

>> I already discussed the problems with arguing single data points for statistical correlations.

My use of these examples was not to counteract a statistical argument, but the opening sentence:

>>> I always hear about the mythical intelligent religious person but somehow, they remain elusive.

The rest of your rebuttal also appears to misunderstand my use of the specific examples. It was a simple exercise in showing that religious intellectuals are not a mythical creature.
The code crashes if head is NULL, regardless of entry.
Uber does not need the amount of money it raises because of vehicle automation. That's a relatively tiny portion of their spend.
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I believe UPNP is used commonly by many of the IoT devices that end up in botnets.
With enough ads, it does.

(And you can also try and leverage it to get VCs to pay your bills.)
A good chunk of the infected devices are shitty NAT routers that had a backdoor...
Snap is working on Spectacles and other "real life" projects.
Whiley: A Programming Language with Extended Static Checking
DNS is a rather simple service that was always meant to be run internally.

The question you should ask is why did these companies used an external DNS in the first place?
> I would love to hear arguments

I wouldn't. Face it, this class of SV "startups" are the new pump-and-dump investment vehicles. They burned $3B in funding to build a chat app, and Prince Bin Talal needs to cash out with 10X return at some point.
Does it fork off any background processes? If so that would be the first place to look, the code executing in parallel with the main program.
Sure, but what precisely are they planning to spend $4B on?
How to choose the right influencer
The attacker is still spending resources giving out instructions to the bot army.

Unless they are using a setup like @tomschlick mentioned or some P2P thing.
Well sure but it says "I don't care if you invested time and energy thinking this product would be around. Even though we make billions when it doesn't suit our business purpose we will make a decision that isn't in your interest but ours". And it's not like companies don't do this but they generally don't do it in the way that I have seen google do it with such callousness.
From what I've heard, if you are 13-25 with a smartphone, there's a good chance your primary source of communication is snapchat. And unlike other platforms (WeChat, WhatsApp), snapchat has a content delivery mechanism. So not only do friends connect with friends, but they also connect with businesses, celebrities etc.

Twitter was never about fast communication between two people, no one every said "Let's see if Mike wants to join us for dinner, I'll just Twitter DM him". Whereas WeChat, Viber, Whatsapp allows you to communicate quickly, there's no connection to advertisers (from what I know). Therefore snapchat is valued so highly because it does what twitter and Whatsapp et al couldn't do.
So it goes with civilizations. Any given civilization will eventually break up and disintegrate, but the idea of civilization itself continues to progress.

Which doesn't preclude a circumstance where almost no civilization anywhere keeps its sh!t together long enough to send itself to the next star.
I've interviewed there a couple of times over the years and I was less than impressed by the process.

Doesn't stop people from applying and they seem to end up with the candidates they want, so it's probably working for them. They have to standardize on some process, this one seems to produce the desired results and with the number of candidates they get, I assume that they're not worried about false negatives, but are worried about false positives...
Not sure if you've heard of this nifty-as-hell device, but a company called Doppler Labs made Here and is now taking preorders for Here One.

Essentially little wireless earbuds that take this whole noise-cancelling thing to a whole new level. I have the first ones and they're pretty remarkable, already preordered the new ones which extend well beyond simple novelty.

You can turn down engine hum, but keep voices/stop announcements at full volume. The new ones apparently also let you layer in music from your phone, which was the obvious feature ommission from the first version. Allegedly the new one they're also playing with directional filtering, live language translation (?!), ML-based baby/siren/annoying coworker cancelling, and tons of other stuff. I haven't been this excited about a technology for years, as you might be able to tell :)

https://hereplus.me
Wonderful! That brought back memories. I had an IFS example in my first Springer-Verlag Common Lisp book.
Doesn't Java lack a JSON parser in the standard library?
What is the motivation and benefit for running containers without docker?

Docker is by far the more mature and adopted development tool. It also runs great on windows, macos and linux.

While k8s can run containers via the rkt runtime, it's still pretty new and will probably introduce unnecessary headache and edge cases.

Docker also has a head start on a vibrant ecosystem for base images.

In my opinion it would be better to focus on docker, and when rkt gets there it shouldn't be much of an issue to switch if desired.
At least that has an SSD (and a decent speed one at that). Seriously a 3yo Intel chip makes a much less difference than a good SSD.
Not a very good time to post it if the website isn't functioning properly.
Probably uPnP?
I'd still switch to Google Fiber. As someone who spent over a year dealing with what AT&T calls "support"[0], concerns that Google could be any worse would be minimal for me.

In all likelihood, if they do completely abandon Fiber, rather than finding another way to provide the service that doesn't require digging, they'll sell it off to another ISP (I think TFA mentioned CenturyLink). Their DVR was (is?) based on SageTV's product, which I ran at home and found to be excellent (the extent to which it differs from their original product may change my mind on that assertion, though).

[0] I had a problem with my DSL service at my family's home up north that required sending out a tech on 13 different occasions, which required me to drive two hours up north to meet him. I went through four different DSL modems (none of which were broken, but they were basically throwing darts at a wall with a blindfold on). They'd show up, find nothing wrong (on one occasion they offered to replace my interior wiring and decided against it when they discovered I ripped it all out and replaced it with one proper cable run using better cable than they'd install ... and the readings from their test equipment indicated the wire was very clean). They never actually fixed the problem as a result of a service call, it just went away at some point last year.
A new article got just published to say that it was done by script kiddies from hackforums
Or a nice way to say they're making data-informed decisions when previously they lacked the apparatus from collection to analysis to policy.
Hopefully someone can chime in with actual numbers, but (1) engineers/designers/product, (2) marketing, (3) servers/infrastructure.
With enough ads user engagement also goes down. If Snapchat pushes it too far it will drive users off the platform and onto the next "cool" thing.
> The hardest part was actually conveying that it wasn't just some print or photo filter, and this is something I still have difficulty with today.

I thought the same thing, maybe because it's called "instapainting"
Netty 4.0.42.Final and 4.1.6.Final released
Cashed in a large amount of ZEV credits, for a one-time revenue bump of $140MM. Excluding that, GAAP loss was $117MM. Big increase in accounts payable. But, all things considered, that's not bad.
They got whupped bad in the mobile market, and PC market has been stagnant/in decline for some time now. They have to come up with something.
Thanks for info, we're on it :)
I don't need to demonstrate anything. It is not de facto standard since if it were everybody were using it which is not the case (Google is the best example). Look up what the term means and you will understand.
How do we collect data and use data in Coursera?
The issue of the unfairness of this comment towards an entire country aside:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How often do you read the domains of the people that send you emails? Also how is it surprising that Hillary, who is almost 70, can't use computers. I'm sick of these scandals on both sides with one side assuming Clinton is a Bond villian and the other side perfectly ready the think Trump is literally Hitler
Have you used snapchat? Swipe left from the main screen and I'm shown 4-5 advertisements right away. User engagement + advertisements = bills paid.
The market would seem to be confirmed by the existence of the startup. Also as others may have mentioned the difference between an oil painting and a digital reproduction is quite large.
The page source has a meta tag with the upload date:

<meta content='2016-10-14T21:09:46+00:00' itemprop='uploadDate'>
Whenever I see twitter's share price mentioned, I think of Damodaran's valuation of Twitter stock - $18. His academic approach may be more accurate than hyped up numbers. See
http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2016/02/management-matte... -

> The best that I can say about Twitter, at the moment, is that at $18/share, it is fairly valued, but if the company continues to be run the way it has for the last few years, both price and value could move in tandem to zero.
Kobe Bryant brings his hoops history to the VC court
Google's neural networks invent their own encryption
Analysis of VMware and AWS Deal: Who Really Wins?
Building a war chest to purchase the next company or act quickly. You need to have the cash on hand, and that can't happen overnight. They need not spend the money today.
Still no continuity between video frames? Doesn't seem like it would be very difficult.
For sure. But then again I just got a headphone.
> We have an "open door" policy at work so if I close my door to my own office it looks weird.

At least you have a door.

That said, I solved the problem of talking cow-orkers by ordering a second pair of the same high-quality gaming headphones I use at home. I turn on some music (or pink noise), and I can no longer hear anyone.
Direct link to the letter: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/310041501...

> Total Q3 GAAP revenue was $2.30 billion, up 145% from Q3 2015, while total Q3 gross margin was 27.7%, compared to 21.6% in Q2. Total automotive revenue was $2.15 billion on a GAAP basis, up 152% from Q3 2015. Our final Q3 delivery count was 24,821,over 300 more than the estimated delivery count we shared on October 2nd. Deliveries increased 114% from the third quarter of 2015, and was comprised of 16,047 Model S and 8,774 Model X vehicles. In addition, 5,065 vehicles were in transit to customers at the end of the quarter. These vehicles will be delivered in Q4.
Definitely agreeing :)
No worries, the particular cause-and-effect nuance is subtle enough that a lot of people misunderstand it, which suggests that my phrasing is at fault.

And while the attractive nuisance of PHP's Turing-completeness that encourages those anti-patterns is annoying, it isn't entirely unique:

The platform I cut my development teeth on in 1998 (Zope[1], written in Python) also had a template language that was Turing-complete called DTML[2]. It was a painful transition for the community to deprecate DTML in favor of the new Zope Page Templates (ZPT)[3] that implemented a deliberately less powerful syntax[4][5].

The advantage of a less powerful template syntax is that it forces all "business" application logic (as opposed to "view" logic) out of the templates and into Python code.

Unfortunately, for deployed applications this was a lot of extra work that could only be justified in terms of increased maintainability, which was an even harder "sell" to managers back then.

[1] https://www.zope.org

[2] https://docs.zope.org/zope2/zope2book/DTML.html

[3] https://docs.zope.org/zope2/zope2book/ZPT.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language
David here from Sentry. Just saw this ended up on HN. Happy to answer any questions about how we approach open source, the business, or anything else about Sentry.
This incarnation of neural networks will never be artists true, but some future iteration of combinations of algorithms (some of which will be informed by current neural networks) likely will produce many great artists per turn.

That said, when people express skepticism about current AI produced art, what they are really trying to express is that current AI lacks a theory of mind in its productions. Artists are not simply sampling from a generative model, they're generating a construction informed by complex inner states while also predicting how arrangements of states will affect a perceiver. Great artists, especially writers and poets, are able to operate at above average levels of intentionality.

Until we have AI with basic commonsense, the good news is—for an undefined period of time—AI will foreseeably be tools which augment artists (humans) and raise the floor for what counts as creative work. Even within a couple years, things by talented teams that would impress today will be run of the mill thanks to intelligent tools but one can hardly imagine what talent of the future enabled by semi-autonomous tools will create. This help could hardly be more timely thanks to rising production costs, falling profits and new content intensive modalities as VR.

If you're interested in theory of mind, this is a good recent read: [The Complexity of Jokes Is Limited by Cognitive Constraints on Mentalizing](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864470/)
Does not load for me. How did a blank page get to the front page on HN?
Don't they have a negative net-worth after you take out the Alibaba stake? And I think they were trying to split off that part of the company.
Adding Custom Syntax to Babel
Someone has to be the next Twitter.
That's very cool. Wasn't aware of this technique.
It's been over 12 years since Scala 1.0. I've been doing Scala full time for 7 years. It's not new and shiny.
No prob, we'll see. I shall put English Grammar to my testament, to enable our grandgrandchildren decide who was right. I doubt, however that this grammatical norm will survive the next global glacial event.
Ask HN: Are there software apprenticeships?
If so, where are they? I've noticed senior dev / junior dev style pairings in the workplace, but they are usually very informal and undefined. Am I alone in thinking that software professionals would benefit from this type of master-apprentice relationship?
Netty in Action
But now that GF is slowing down, incumbents will fall back into their monopolistic slumber. Without threat of competition, they won't be motivated to spread their upgrades wider. So in a sense, yes, spreading more Google Fiber makes monopolists compete, which makes spreading it harder, but that was the whole point for Google, wasn't it? So if they back down now, their goals will be compromised.
The site goes down when it hits HN the first time. That is just the way it works :)
It's better to raise more than you need when you are in a position of strength.
Did you see the numbers I posted? They make 5 billion off of glyphosate.

Also, if the majority of their money comes from glyphosate resistant crops, isn't it obvious that they have a strong vested interest in glyphosate?
I had actually been to your site for the 2x2048 campaign, but never went to the homepage. Seeing this and having just been on vacation with the family made me decide to order a painting for my wife of our children in front of a water fountain that we took last week. Good timing.
Show HN: Stack overflow command line client: updated to sort questions by vote
>that weird puck thing

Belkin makes them. They are continuous and have a pushbutton. They're like $130 or something ridiculous. I've only ever used them for tuning around in a software defined radio, but a lot of music/video editors use them as jog dials.
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> they fiddle with things, drop things, fidget, cough, snort phlegm up their nose, subvocalize, and generally emit an air of restlessness

That list is entirely too familiar. Honestly, do you work in my office? Add to that: dictates constantly to their mobile phone using voice-to-text function (things like "Honey - period - I need you to pick up the kids tonight - period - Did you remember to take out the garbage - question mark - period") and has bouts of fist pounding on the desk when things don't go their way (such as when email takes more than 15 seconds to open) - and I will start looking for you here.
It's less about raising funds and more about liquidity for current shareholders