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That's an uncharitable reading of the article you posted. Netflix pushes so much traffic that any company they buy transit from ends up using up all the good will of the people they have peering agreements with.

> Netflix attempted to address congested routes into Comcast by purchasing all available transit capacity from transit providers that did not pay access fees to Comcast.

And Netflix apparently knew they couldn't afford the traffic if they actually had to pay for it so they tried to route around it. And when they saturated those connections they had the audacity to tell Comcast it was their fault and they should foot the bill for infrastructure upgrades.

Netflix went to an all-you-can-eat restaurant, ordered two of everything on the menu, complained that the food didn't come out fast enough, tried to pay everyone else in restaurant for their seats, and then demanded the restaurant hire more chefs.

> “it is simply not possible for competing external providers to deliver gaming, or streaming video services to Comcast’s broadband subscribers” without directly or indirectly paying Comcast"

Well no shit since any company providing those services is going to push so much asymmetric traffic that either they or the companies they buy transit from are not going to be able to negotiate settlement-free peering agreements.

This isn't a "I send you some traffic, you send me some, no biggie" kind of agreement, this is a "I'm going to use 70-90% of your bandwidth at peak".

This article is trying really hard to paint Comcast as the bad guys but I actually don't think that's the case here. Netflix/Cogent had a similar spat with Verizon.

> What are you talking about?

I'm saying that allowing companies to price by volume and on/off-peak is really just a surcharge for streaming video which could be used to hurt competitors. It's not really a solution. So I think we're in agreement.

> You said it was NOT POSSIBLE...

I think we need to agree on what 'dumb' means. Connections between networks are inherently political no matter what entity presides over the negotiations. And since network access is a shared resource there will always be a need for network management policies to maintain service, respond to incidents, prevent spam, stop attacks, etc.. Both of these things make networks 'smart'.
DataGrip from Jetbrains is good for SQL stuff.
I will note that I've had some trouble with Uberconference when calling US to India, although that may have been the phones/conference rooms that the teams in India were calling from. That said, I used to use it while traveling in Italy to run meetings in the US and the call quality was great.
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> self-DDoS'ing themselves.

Should have let the Department of Redundancy Department do their capacity planning.
> Basic tasks, like file parsing, job scheduling, and text search are more involved than running a command-line utility

This seems backwards. Going to the command line for these things is a horrible workflow. It’s not necessary in Linuxes either ...
Snapchat.

But than again if we look at their finances (and stock), they have always been in the red and are resorting to selling glasses and hotdog costumes now (huge losses).

So maybe they aren't that successful after all.
I assume they are amortizing costs since a quick google search says new price semi's cost 80,000-150,000
How do they handle safety? The reason American passenger trains are so huge is that they have to be mass competetive with freight trains who they share tracks with (all the time, it isn’t even time multiplexed).
Tesla is not a car company.

No, you do not need it for a press conference. But you earn credit points from me when I see you trying. Google is evil, remember?
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The live stream is moving on to the roadster now.

Says 1/4 mile is 8.9 seconds, which is just nuts for a car you can buy off the lot.

I'm guessing insurance might be high on that car.
> It also rules out consecutive/night shifts with a second driver.

One of the things we're learning about electrical vehicles is that they do lead to a culture change in the way people operate them.

Trucker culture currently... blows. They often eat bad food, subsist on caffeine and often other stimulants, work excruciatingly long hours, and often have or cause accidents due to those long hours. They're away from home and their families for weeks of a month. They sit in unergonomic conditions and often sleep in cramped quarters aboard their trucks. Truck drivers in India are often seen as very low class people because of this kind of living situation.

One of the biggest cultural changes happening in truck driving in India are companies switching to relaying cargo - a driver may only go 100-300 miles from home, dropping off or switching their trailer for one heading back the opposite direction, and hauling back home for the night, where the next person goes the next distance, and so on. That allows the driver to have a somewhat normal home life outside of trucking. And as it happens, relay trucking is perfect for an electrically powered system, as it forces truckers to adopt the saner living situation by having to recharge after a run. So, not only healthier, it's safer for everyone on the road and better for the environment.
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Well shoot, if they can deliver full self driving capabilities, can I just buy one of these to live in instead of a house, cruising the freeways endlessly?
Kinect - such a human interface that doesn't require direct integration with hardware or technical knowledge or buttons, and a lot of fun in the games I played. But it failed.
People are down voting you, and yes people hate Pete Thiel. At the same time I see this current thread (the one we're reading, abut TechShop running out of money) full of people saying they would have joined but it was too expensive.

What you are saying at least partially makes some sense and it makes me sad people are downvoting you in a clearly reactionary way.
What does PCH mean?
https://www.tesla.com/roadster/
Or maybe it masks the misery of going to work? ;)
> They're claiming cost per mile is less than rail for shipping goods.

Note: This only applies to "Convoy mode" where 3 or more vehicles draft off each other.
I loved cold showers since beeing teenager. Always liked cold. Not used hot water sometimes for weeks in winter. In December me and friends regularly swim in Baltic Sea when it’s 0C outside (hot sauna and generous servings of vodka surely help).

But I have read that hot shower in morning significantly lowers cortisol levels so I start the day with hot shower now, when available.

Also since a few years I am living in SE Asia and hot showers taken few times a day open pores in skin and allow it breath better in this climate.
Amazon Key flaw makes entering your home undetected a possibility
Memristor. I thought that will reshape the entire industry.
X3D - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D

Rationale: It was the 1990s, VRML flew but didn't quite make it. 3D hardware acceleration had arrived, gaming was exploding, Descent and Quake had proven complex worlds and freedom of movement were possible on commodity hardware, and talk of buffering 3D content in video streams seemed to make perfect sense for next generation passive entertainment. Product placements, architectural documentation, mechanical design courses, etc.

What killed it (IMHO): Took too long to standardize, too much formalism, no consumer electronics manufacturers on board sending actual products to market. If they had done an IETF approach ("rough consensus and running code") they may not have missed the window of opportunity.
In the '90s I was convinced that basically everything with a name attached to it was going to be built around PowerPC and MIPS processors. When StrongARM went to Intel, I figured ARM was basically dead outside of controller/coprocessor/offload applications and expected Pentium II/III to suffer a similar fate to Pentium Pro.
What a shame. There was one right next to the San Jose State University campus. They were forced to move when construction on new private student housing began where their building had been located. After a lot of hardship and pleas for donations they had just finished moving into a new location right on 2nd street in the middle of downtown.

video featuring many of the regulars at the SJ location https://youtu.be/vYBivF3YNlg
Why is it "shocking"? That is never explained in the article.

From the looks of it their two revenue models were advertising and flat user fees.

So the fees would have been super low to get as many customers on the platform and the ad dollars were not exactly rolling in.
The blockchain. A strange thing to say when Bitcoin is nearing $8k each, but I'm not interested in cryptocurrencies as an abstract store of value based on the fever of the market.

By now, however, I really thought someone would have found a use for the blockchain as the underpinning of some kind of new app or tech that would be able to create real value for bitcoin or whichever crypto they built it on.

However, we just haven't seen that. We have a lot of gambling, a lot of whales moving the waters, and a lot of irrational exuberance.

But no solid tech. It's still early, but I haven't even heard of anything in the works that really knocks my boots off. All in all, I'm glad people are getting rich (although my hunch is that most getting rich were so to begin with), but so far the tech part of it all has been a big disappointment.

I guess other than finding a way to make space heaters that generate money. That's pretty cool.
They have always known that the first few months of production were going to be "production hell" for the model 3. While the model 3 production has been worse than they hoped for (elon musk always underestimates timelines so if you know how his companies normally operate, it's normal) but a 3 month delay for a massive hardware engineering project is not end of the world.
Maybe the product failed, but the technology I'll argue it did not
That was incredible. Excited to see TSLA early tomorrow morning.
Also, the 500 mile range is with a full 80,000 pound load.
I'm not sure I expected it to take the world "by storm", but I expected more from Google Wave. It was a great concept, by a major company, but it was too slow on release and the rollout killed it. In retrospect, it probably wouldn't have lasted anyways. Google was in the process of minimizing their federated communication services by that point, and that was another major selling point of Google Wave's initial proposal.

But the rollout, that was just the worst way to ever get a product into the hands of users. If you got in they gave you some number of invites. You'd set them up to be sent out to your friends or coworkers or whatever. Turned out, it just put them in a queue to eventually get an invite. Wave was fundamentally a collaboration platform, without anyone to collaborate with it had zero value. Fantastic way to fail.
Outrageous yes, but hardly unexpected - given the Trumps have done big game hunting in past
FYI the 500 mile range figure is fully loaded (cargo is at maximum load for U.S. roads). They claim "80% of routes are less than 250 miles", so they say that the truck can take most routes back and forth without needing to charge.

The million miles is on the drive train. I don't remember if they mentioned the battery warranty?

IIRC the cost per mile in a convoy that they quoted was $0.83/mile.

Same enhanced auto driving features of current Teslas. Automatic breaking, etc.

EDIT1: The dash is the wheel and two screens (left and right). Supposedly their software has all the integrations drivers need, so they don't need to slap other 3rd party devices into their vehicle (which they describe as a problem for existing trucks. I have no clue one way or the other).

It has a frunk.
Wow not just a semi truck but a new super car? I always wondered what they could do if there weren't trying to make the cars affordable to most of the population, I guess this is it.

620 mile range is disgustingly insane, I wonder how they were able to pull it off. I can't imagine cramming more batteries would help weight and speed, maybe it uses some kind of different battery technology to get that kind of power storage.
Turns out there aren't all that many radiologists outside the US the are US qualified. And to release the results in the US, it has to come from a US qualified pathologist.
Tesla unveils the new Roadster
Ahh. $250k, so insurance isn't really an issue if you can buy it in the first place.
Wasn't git created to support the development of the linux kernel? It was a linux thing first.
Also not clear to me if they assumed they could get away with only 1 driver in that mode...
Eh, not sold on native sql in a programming language. It doesn't take into account the different styles of databases, let alone the different sql dialects. I think it presents a similar problem as Scala's xml literals, which are now seen as language bloat especially since JSON has become popular.
I think almost all of these are wrong.

The person you replied to didn't claim Python 2 doesn't support unicode. 'Bytestrings' has what is wrong with Python 2 neatly summarized in a single word (and this, incidentally, is a term the Python documentation avoids these days because it's bad). 3 is true but not really related to the topic at hand. 4 is, I think, outright wrong. As to 5, I'm not sure why you would even want to defend that. It's not what the poster said and even if they had said it, they'd be just wrong - it's not 'FUD'. That is just you being grumpy and rude.
Take the world by storm? Or become a utility?

Looks like neither happened.
I was a member of Austin’s TechShop for two years. It was interesting contrasting it to the ATX Hackerspace. The hackerspace (a few years back, anyway) was much better at building a community. The fee was only $35/mo, and they had a starving student discount, and you were also free to invite your friends to tag along. As a result, there were always people just hanging out at the hackerspace. A lot of near-college-age space cadets and techno-dreamers, and they’d be there all day. You could go there to work on a project, or just to mooch off of the conversation.

TechShop never developed a community. It felt sterile in comparison. The fees were more like $125/mo (at the time, and only went up from there). There was no central area to hang out in and chat. And inviting a friend along cost something like $20. These conditions resulted in the demographic becoming more like a bunch of upper middle class dudes who managed to get a few hours away from the fam to work on their project. There was no social core, it never became a hang-out.

There were also some financial issues which really turned me off. I had spent about $1500 on classes early on (thinking I’d just get signed off on all of the machines asap so that I was free to work on anything), but I later found out that if you didn’t badge into a machine for over 12 months, your credential for that machine expired and you had to pay to take the class again. Boom, easily $1000 down the drain. By the time they started hiking up their membership prices, I was disillusioned and declined to renew.
When you have hundreds of thousands of customers with paid reservations waiting for Model 3s, why on Earth would you spend resources launching another product line? It’s madness.
What did HTTP2 hold you and your family at gunpoint?
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1.9s 0-60. 250mph+ top speed. holy*!
Google Wave. RIP T_T
And if they screw up, they still get bank.

That’s what pisses people off.
Meet the Tesla Semitruck
Some other specs:

Acceleration 0-60 mph with 80k lbs - 20 sec

Speed up a 5% Grade - 65 mph

Powertrain - 4 Independent Motors on Rear Axles

Energy Consumption - Less than 2 kWh / mile
Check the dates. The article discusses an issue from 2005. The ruling the "subsequent actions" sections mentions is from 2015. And is why, in my original comment, I stated that we did indeed have net neutrality from 2015 onward.
Conversely, if the train are late in Japan - even by a minute or two - the conductor will give you a paper note that you can show to your boss to prove that you were late for reasons beyond your control.
I wonder if this has changed in light of the recent LinkedIn decision?
Superb. This is so neatly and thoughtfully organized. Presented in simple terms and covers a lot of ground.
Great stuff to build upon.
Wow. I'm speachless. I remember when Obama visited the TechShop near me in Pittsburgh. This was supposed to be the next big thing! The harbinger into the Uberization of the workforce. What a bummer and major dissapointment. I met with the staff there numerous times; they were fantistic people - well educated and helpful. This is just so dissapointing. There are quite a few makerspaces and hackerspaces in Pittsburgh. I hope this doesn't spell the end of this movement.
Nanotubes. Seemed like it was all upside, the stuff we were going to be making starships out of.
Probably the same technology all the singles in your area are using to target you.
Ask HN: Is there a solution for cheap short video hosting?
I want to allow site users to upload their own video and publish. If using aws s3+cloudfront, Storage is cheap, but bandwidth is $0.09 per GB which is too expensive to me. Anyone has a good solution?
> TechShop was the last gasp of American industry having any sort of future.

I suspect downvotes because of this, as much as the politics. The absurdity of a small, nonprofitable company being "the last gasp of American industry" and the odd lamentations around that.

I live in the Southeast. Drive through nearly any county in GA, NC, and SC (the region I'm presently most familiar with) and you'll find a surprisingly large number of manufacturing centers.

> With Tech Shop, we can also probably say good bye to a good deal of real trade skills people learn at these locations.

And none of the people working in them were trained by Tech Shop. They were trained on the job or in trade and tech schools.
The roadster also has 10,000Nm of torque and a top speed over 400km/h. In the old measure that's 7,375 ft-lbs and 250mph+.

Those numbers are simply insane, for anyone who doesn't know torque figures. A Dodge Challenger Hellcat makes 650 ft-lbs for comparison.
> he could have repented and received grace and he still would have had his daughter.

This is just modern people creating a new interpretation of old writings. Apparently Abraham also didn't know about the "grace", since he was decided to kill his son and didn't even tried to ask God otherwise. God also was not worried at all, since he didn't care to enlighten Jephthah about his "grace" (even for the sake of the child).
Cold showering isn't a health regimen; it's a beauty secret.
> I was suckered into pre-paying for $500 worth of classes that I'll never be reimbursed for.

Did you pay with a CC? I would dispute the charges.
>Diesel mechanics tend to be ridiculously intelligent and very resourceful.

I was just saying about maybe the driver being in the picture isn't something Tesla is going for. A prime argument Tesla has was about eventually eliminating the need for so many drivers. "If not that, then what else?" was what I wanted to say.

EDIT: They seem to have a range of 500 miles. Which is 1/3 the range of normal diesel semi's.
That is absolutely wrong. There is plenty of physical things you can do in the United States right now. Large manufacturing is cheaper to do in North America than to ship halfway around the world. Manufacturing that can be automated can be done here profitably.

I even work for a company that makes nearly all their products in North America.
React.

Who would've known people would come to like JSX? I used to think it was an abomination.. now it's great.
You could swap “conservative” for “liberal” and it would also be true.
Palm/HP/LG WebOS - JavaScript based os a few years ahead of it's time in mobile form.
You gotta elaborate on that one
Name a utility that didn't first take the world by storm.
I absolutely agree with you. Modern software "engineering" is much closer to craftsmanship than true engineering practice.
I'd like to know how on god's green earth they did the 'valuation'. Because there are certainly no generally accepted ways of doing that - hence the volatility.

"Here are a set of numbers that you can own and rigorously control (i.e. establish ownership). You can possibly exchange them as value, like a currency, but not many people will do that. Start the bidding!"

It's the most pure form of speculation imaginable.

Most other forms of speculation are derived, yes, from what we think 'others' will pay, but what 'others' will pay is usually derived from some economic value: i.e. a home is a place to live, a building a place to work, shares are rights to future profits, bonds get 'repaid' and pay 'coupons' ... so you can try to figure out 'what they are worth'.

BTC ... it's literally just worth what some other guy will pay - and that's 100% of the story. That's a difficult thing to predict :)
Fuel Cells.
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>>I was mostly trying to provide a counterbalance to the "older is always better" opinion I've seen as well.

Older isn't always better, simply because older isn't a separate species or class of humans. Put simply young people eventually become old. If you had major human enterprise issues while you were young, chances are those will remain when you get old.

This extends to other things too.

Why do you think retirement is so hard for people who didn't save well enough in 20s and 30s? Nobody can wake up one day, and run a ultra marathon. Processes for making something like this happen start way early in life.
The reason you're seeing such a variation is because the icons are based on per-country map conventions. They have different icons for use in different areas, for example there are some specifically for Japan. Christianity is covered in the generic "Church or temple" icon, but people in other countries with other major religions wouldn't recognize that iconography. The point is probably to be open to other religions in the West, while also considering the breadth in other countries.
The authors ultimate solution is to use the scientific method to compare competing hypothesis...otherwise you'll be blinded by all sorts of biases. If you are running an experiment and using competing hypothesis...in theory, you can identify which metrics are best for that test... but if you had much more data, you'll probably end up using every data point past the first 5 as confirmation bias. (I'm no expert though and haven't read the book in about 3 years.)
I got an email from a recruiter last year asking if I wanted to come build the future of live video at Twitter. I think it's plausible many of them are working on new products that end up abandoned due to constant direction changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
USSR crash survivor here. Believe me, there are things worse than the current form of capitalism.

Besides, the trouble isn't about capitalism per se, our economy is simply in another stagnant stretch, where the corporations with formalized models and piles of cash perform better than lean and smart startups. As soon as another disruptive tech appears on the horizon, the history will repeat itself - the dinosaurs will be too slow to follow and new Microsoft and Apple will arise.
The semantic web, and speech to text.