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No, it's not "driven by greed", it's "driven by basic math". There's nothing abusive about asking people using your service to pay more than the people who use it the least. And it has nothing to do with "monopoly abuse", we have four (five-ish) national carriers as well as plenty of regional offerings. Mobile providers are the least monopolistic telecoms in the industry right now.

The idea of paying for network speed is a poor one: It means the network is intentionally crippling their product when they can provide better, and they're under no obligation to even guarantee the speed you pay for. Paying for network speed is not good for the consumer.

Paying for usage is the ideal situation, because the provider and the customer have aligned interests. It's in the best interest of the provider to provide the fastest, highest quality service, so that users can consume the most data. And consumers get the best possible product, without being intentionally gimped or throttled.
Awesome for sharing your thoughts. Don't mind the children here. You could give them gold and they would moan about the purity.
Middle of still. Oracle filed for appeal of their most recent loss[0].

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/its-official-orac...
I'm 29 and I pay the extra couple hundred each month. I don't need or want a large home. Living closer to everything and cutting commute time is worth waaaaaaay more to me than having a ton of space to store my junk.
A discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682386
So true, which is why I find it kind of awkward when I say to young developers/business owners they should pay for a professional PostgreSQL hosting and they argue it's open source and they can host their DBs on a $25 (or less) Digital Ocean instance.

Until it's too late, I guess.
Previously I was cleaning cookies / local storage (to have more free sessions). Then I downloaded MP3 and created playlists. At $29 I have no other option but to buy it... HURRAY!
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brain.fm is like matrix, I admit!
Most people don't work at large companies though.
I live in NYC and commute via subway everyday, and I can assure you there are plenty of elderly people and parents with small children using it.
Great idea. The API itself does have legitimate use, and removing the fine level of detail would hopefully assuage privacy concerns.
Guns are often political focus because they are high profile in the media, but there are lots of "silent killers" that are responsible for orders of magnitude more deaths per year that don't get high profile press coverage (medical malpractice, alcohol-related deaths, etc.).

Politicians aren't looking out for us, they are just trying to prop themselves up.
I used to commute about 80-90 minutes each way by train (Baltimore to Union Station, Union Station to Foggy Bottom). It was okay--you can get a lot of work done on the train. The worst part was how much it cut into your sleep. Basically have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
All that outsourcing business is working very well for the senators and congressmen who receive campaign funds and other perks from Lockheed :)

http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/?q=lockheed
I'd be curious to know if distance is a factor they accounted for. Traffic in LA is straight-up gridlock (or at least it was when I lived there). You could spend an hour going 10 miles, and that's not even during commute hours.

If you spend 90 minutes driving from SF to Mountain View, traffic definitely makes it slower/worse than it would otherwise be, but it'd still be a 45 minute drive without traffic.

People may spend more time driving in SF/SV, but that's largely a factor of how far apart desirable housing and jobs are for many people. I wouldn't be surprised if traffic on the Peninsula made commutes 2-3x longer than they'd be without it, but in LA the factor's more like 6x.
SystemVerilog does seem to be used more and more. It is just verilog from the designer's perspective, but you have less chance to make mistakes, easier to write and the synthesis tool has more control over how to optimize the design.
Maybe they are inadvertently out to get them? Other than anecdotal stories telling otherwise the numbers show that there is something about the culture that women find openly hostile. We can either tell them to 'get over it' ('thats just the way it is') or change the culture. I don't think the former will work.
The purity law from Bavaria is not the first one. They found another one, dated 82 years earlier, from a very different Region of Germany.
Bavarians were reportedly not amused ...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
>2 hours each way

Jesus, man. That's time you don't get back. I'd factor that into your salary, take the difference off, and move somewhere sane.
Or Slack may just die?
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I opened the "web" link under the story headline in an incognito/private window and clicked the nytimes link. No account, registration, etc.
finally might be able to handle SSL requests on memory-constrained Arduino / ESP-8266 projects?! Yes please!
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Which is why it is blocked to people in the UK as they already pay the licence fee and therefore aren't allowed to be shown ads by the BBC. It's a bit of a weird situation.
The release of Ubuntu Core 16, a new version of Ubuntu for IoT and embedded
ever been to europe? we've solved this in most big places, public transport is faster way to travel in any city centre, cheaper too (for daily commuters). sure, by principle it can't solve issue for people like you describe, but for 80-90% it does.

this would make roads much less clogged so those who really need (and pay for it) should go on their own. it's very real added value that helps environment, increases happiness, cuts times and so on. what (local) government should do is to motivate people/orgs with some monetary subsidies.
It's certainly not the average commute but there's a fair amount of people who do it. Don't have any statistics by there are several people in my office who do it. If you live close to a train station it's not much of an issue (as long as the trains not on strike). You can easily make it to the office in ~1 hour as most offices in the city are close to one of the train stations. Annual tickets are very expensive but so is living in the city.

The major difference to the US is that here in London basically no one commutes by car. Train services are nearly always faster. And it has the advantage that you can use your time more productively.
FYI: India doesn't need an "ICBM" to nuke pakistan.
Completely agreed. I wonder why so much of our political discourse is against using proven results?
I don't think that the 472 million Spanish speakers are going to change their cherished language based on your opinions.

Once you're done with them though, you only have the rest of the Romance language derived world. I don't think it's a fight worth having lol.
I'm with you for that reason. It can be a real wakeup call. I thought I had just grown more irritable and less social -- turns out I was just seriously addicted to nicotine.
> I'm sure Slack will continue with much success now that they have their user base

If they don't add something that is innovative I'm not so sure. I see companies and people who raved about it 10 months dropping it just as fast all around me.
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We have one mega commuter at our office who seems perfectly content with the travel and he has been doing it for as long as I have been here (so at least four years). He has a 20 min. drive from his home in WV to the train station and then a 2+ hour train ride in to the city. Yesterday on the way home, there was an accident ahead of his train and it took him _five hours_ to get home.

I really can't comprehend it. I recently went from a 25-30 minute commute to a 45-60 minute one and I'm already regretting it a little because I just feel much more tired when I get home.
Sure, I'm not arguing with you about them seeming biased. My point was rather; does their intent matter if their work is aimed at increasing voter turnout? If the result is the same regardless of bias, I mean.
" Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator’s dilemma)"

What apple is going through right now !!!
Yes, in fact it's even deployed on Wikipedia: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/
Or maybe even include the wasm codec/player along with the video. Then it doesn't matter what the platform supports as long as it can run wasm.
> PC as hub for all your digital assets

Whatever this means. TB of data with the PC at the center is dumb.
With a self driving car, a long commute could become a nice quiet time to read, meditate, sleep, or whatever.

I commuted 90 miles one-way for several years. Most of it was on a turnpike, and I could almost see myself reading a book or something during my drive (I never did though).
Which is why I bet in three years time they will be redoing everything again in Vue.js, or whatever comes after React.
So, they have given you the magazine. You don't distribute it to anyone. You now own the physical medium, but not the rights to reproduce the content, but if you want to cut out the article and stick it on your refrigerator door should they be able to stop you from doing this?
This is the tentative fix, though we'll be looking all-up at ways to reduce the load generated by VS Code from this feature.
Yup, on most points you are indeed correct.

However the 350million is almost certainly not going to happen. Mainly because even if we managed to not pay a single pound more to the EU (thats a big if) that budget would be needed for farming subsidies, science, grants and weird legislature functions currently provided by the EU

I'd also wager that globalisation is not going to be rolled back, especially looking at the three pricks "running" the negotiations
If we had all done that exercise in school, more people would be better at managing their money. This analogy only works if "success" or whatever is a random walk (like I believe picking stocks is).
Very disappointing to see the only bullet points concerning the Mac are Mac App Store, Lion and hardware.

Fast forward to 2016, the Mac App Store is rotting, hardware gets updated maybe in 1-3 years, and the os is lagging.

Makes you wonder what's on their list for the next years, if anything...
Agreed, they may have done it better than most or marketed their product better but nothing compelling here.

> Slack could have done what most companies do when a competitor rips them off, and said nothing.

Someone competing in your space is NOT ripping you off.
A similar idea, HLS.js [0], allows playback of HLS on platforms that do not support it natively. Open-sourced by Dailymotion, it is used by The NYTime [1] amongst others to reduce the number of video renditions they have to produce for each video.

[0] https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js

[1] http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/flash-free-video-in...
Our entire company switched to Slack within basically a day. While that's a big selling point for Slack's ease of use, it also means it'd be easy to switch away to a competitor within a day too.
It's not a conspiracy theory so much as a oddly popular Chompsky-ite view of foreign policy that can be summarized only a little tounge-in-cheek as: America is somehow responsible for every bad thing that has ever happened anywhere in the world. Nothing bad can happen anywhere without it somehow being a result of something that America did.

Which serves to infantilize the entire population of every other country in the world. See the GP's belief that apparently a few words by the US Ambassador is more powerful than thousands of years of history and culture, very difficult conflicts between religious sects, clans, and tribes, etc.
It's doable, not trivial. Tying your shoe laces is trivial.
Well the article is primarily about the technical implementation, not the business rationale. But they still mention the main reasons: engineer productivity, community support, and performance gains. All of those translate to money.

As someone who used to work on large Backbone apps I agree that it's a huge drain on developer productivity -- hard to add features, hard to test, lack of standards, etc. Not to mention the recruiting problem: I would never accept a job offer to work on a Backbone app again.
A train ride is easier on you than a drive in traffic. He probably naps on the ride home.
We have serious security concerns about Slack but insufficient time and motivation to explore alternatives.

We've delayed the inevitable by coming up with a file sharing and secrets policy for what can and cannot go over Slack.
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Microsoft can just copy everything that Slack does right, give it away for a fraction or for free and there's nothing that they can do about it.
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I hope that's not the case here. My reluctance to give my own conclusions about paper is that I don't have the background to interpret the observations properly.

I didn't want my posting of it to be taken as a statement of a poorly informed opinion one way or another, rather than me feeling pressured by society not to discuss it.

I personally don't have anything objective to contribute to discussion that wouldn't be distracting.
Well said re: secrecy. If you aren't testing your ideas in the marketplace, you run a huge risk of keeping your business's best iteration a total secret from yourself.
> Aren't we using Russian RD-180 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180 engines which also seemed to punch above their weight class. Allegedly it was hard it believe it was possible to run engine at that efficiency level.

I don't think professionals were that much surprized. George Sutton (author of an encyclopedia on the subject, https://www.amazon.com/History-Liquid-Propellant-Engines-Lib...) writes: "The history of liquid propellant rocket engines (LPREs) in the former Soviet Union is remarkable because they have developed a larger variety and a larger number of LPREs than any other nation and the number of their LPREs that have flown is considerably higher than that of any other country." http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/2.6943 So having RD-180 performing as they do could be rather expected.
well, I have to admit, most people who tell you online about how to become rich, are, in fact, rich.

But they still fail to find out about what made them rich in the first place.

For example, there is a German real estate millionair, who does online courses to tell people how he got so rich.

He talks hours of hours about how he learned the right trade and how he invested his money in flats he bought and improved etc.

In his first lessen he talks a bit about his past and says "The only thing you got to do is to buy a flat and get someone to rent it! I did it like this, I simply put in 50k€ of insurance money I got from an accident."

The whole thing is done with this. I mean he literally told the audience "You simply need 50k to get rich!"
Depends on a user I guess, I can't fill my 500gb drive even by half
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I vaguely remember on a beer tour of Sam Adams that its lager is one of the few beers in America that is compliant (I guess allowed to be sold in Germany? Not sure).

I really don't mind all the experimenting with American craft beers with the one exception... please stop making ultra IPAs. Ever bar I go to in the Boston area has like four times the number of IPA to other styles (I'm a stout, porter, and sour lover).

It's like a competition between the micros of who can shove the most hops in a beer.
It's not about drive, it's about what can be afforded. In 1972, at the age of 27, my dad bought a house for around ~$20,000 in a nice neighborhood outside of Boston - $115,097.32 today. Try finding a house for less than 120k anywhere that isn't in the middle of the country, miles from anything or in a run-down neighborhood (not that those are necessarily bad things, just inconvenient). I know a fair amount of people whose student loans are more than that. The people I know in my generation who buy houses now (as in, just getting a mortgage) are, in my anecdotal experience,

- Several are just plain rich, one of them was the son of a very wealthy man and then worked for a startup that actually took off

- One went into the armed forces for six years and saved up enough money to buy a house in our hometown (because where he wanted to live was too expensive)

- Couples who have high earning jobs but are drowning in student loan debt (a dentist and a doctor, in my case)

The rest of my friends are renting. I know maybe...seven people under the age of 35 who are paying mortgages.

I'm sure most millennials would buy a house or own a car if they could. But the reality is that straight up many cannot. It's not necessarily a matter of "drive".
> But won't Google have any objections on the licensing and patents regarding reimplementation of their stuff?

They'll sue you for using Java.
"From scratch" tutorial, that tells you to go learn react elsewhere then come back...
I agree. In my previous startup, we've been jumping from one platform to an other without too much trouble. Because the people using these products are 'teams', it takes only 1 in the group to suggest everyone in the team to try out a new shiny platform and before you know it... you're deep in conversations in this new platform and see no reason to get back to the old one.
But it's historically accurate. You kept your photos, videos, music on your PC and moved them to and from your devices (music/video player, phone, e-reader). 2010 (date written) was only a few years after Dropbox became popular, and before it and similar products were more heavily integrated into apps.
The main trouble is that even if a better alternative is suggested, how convince the RDBMS developers to use it?

Unfortunately, RDBMS are highly coupled. I remember when someday I ask if is possible to remove the SQL part of sqlite and substitute with my own, and get laughed!

RDBMS are "expected" to be a black box enclosed in dark mystery.
> The county plans to spend nearly all of that money on freeways, which history has shown will not relieve traffic.

Additional freeway lanes improve throughput, but don't remove congestion at peak: it will reduce the duration of congestion. If you want to handle peak traffic without congestion, you would have to build a lot more capacity than is reasonable (or significantly reduce demand).

Since demand for transit is increasing continuously (as more people move to the area), and supply of transit increases slowly and only in steps, it's no surprise that the new supply is quickly matched with demand. Lots of people would like to go places during rush hour, but the freeways are full for several hours, and Caltrain is too.
We have IRC at work. Some people suggested switching to an open-source slack clone - with IRC integration! But... why? IRC works fine. It'd just be one more thing to maintain.

(My firm is largely made up of old school unix hackers. I can see the appeal of something with a better UI and better integration than IRC for some, but when half the company are the type to run CLI IRC clients, it seems unnecessary.)
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Consider Nicaragua -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Nicaragua#Pr...
We also use right-justified keywords (and never "select *", though I guess that was just to keep your example brief).
So they instead.. block the page? Couldn't they just hide the ads?
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The article is confusing several data points into one:

* Schneier's article[1] detailing what seem like "test attacks", to discover how to take the internet down,

* The attack against Brian Krebs[2], using the Mirai botnet

* The attack against Dyn[3], also using Mirai

The article implies that all three points are related into a single story. But Schneier himself suggested that his report and the attack on Dyn are not related, and that it was more of a coincidence [4]. Krebs suggested that Mirai may have been released intentionally to hide the creators among a sea of attacks [5].

Whoever is probing the internet is (probably) a state actor, while Mirai is used by "regular" users. These are three separated events, and not a growing campaign against the US elections.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le...

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with...

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/10/ddos_attacks_...

[4] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/10/ddos_attacks_...

[5] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botn...
"Doesn't matter" is perhaps too bold. 'Misprioritized' better describes what I've seen. Sometimes partners have trouble seeing what's more important than something else, either because of communication issues with people below them, or because they get an idea they just can't shake.

The sign that I saw most prominently was operational instability. The application would have performance and sometimes uptime issues; these issues were predictable but time and effort was spent on things other than beefing up infrastructure to make that happen.

When moving off of GMail takes higher precedence than creating an Highly Available web server setup, you know that's a sign that things aren't prioritized well.
Verilog seems "hard" because people often use it in a similar fashion to a programming language, and in most cases that does not make any sense. The proper way to use it is to design the hardware, then code it up using verilog (which is trivial compared to the actual design).
In fact in terms of time spent on design, the actual coding part does not take much time at all.
In fact, this very article uses a motivating example that does not make any sense.
I agree that the Reinheitsgebot would most likely be followed for most beers even after its potential annulment, just because there is too much cultural stigma against "unpure" beer. But still, there is more change in German beers than most Germans like to realize. Kölsch for instance, the beverage that defines much of the culture of major parts of the Rhineland region, has only really become popular in the middle of the twentieth century -- despite all the alleged traditions ascribed to it.
He failed hard with NeXT. 3 out of 4 ain't bad I guess.