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It's actually surprising the Excel team isn't considering TypeScript. TS is a modern language that they control, gives them an out for eventual browser compatibility, and they've already built great tooling (better than the visual studio tooling for python)
> These ideas can and should be debated. Literally ostracizing people and thinking they are evil for having different opinions on them, is absurd.

Agreed. But wait, is anyone actually getting ostracized now for having different opinions? Has Sam Altman been refused service somewhere, or denied employment, or suffered any consequence for holding the opinions he does, besides maybe being called a dick on Twitter?

Because this all seems to me like rich people getting their panties in a bunch because they don’t like being called dicks on Twitter.
I'm not quite a millennial and I have plenty to complain about regarding younger people but your comment ignores (or attempts to cover up) the fact that they are facing much more dire circumstances than previous generations. If you can't see how bad the hand they've been dealt by the baby boomers really is, I can't help you.
Certainly. I wanted to provide some insight to the dynamics of the iPod/iTunes situation.

Interestingly as you noted
>A couple of flatrate services popped up before/around the same time, but these mostly turned out to be illegal offerings, so it was mostly iTunes which stuck around in the beginning and formed the market.

I think Apples success at creating this market was a byproduct of it being fundemental pairing for the iPod's sucesss. Without the iPod, iTunes would likely have gone the same way as the rest of the early legal digital music sellers.

Without the existence of a large collection of mostly 'pirated' mp3's sitting on home desktops and office networks across the globe, the iPod probably would not have taken off.

Apple provided great utility for those collections by selling the iPod. Apple only briefly had any barriers to allowing the seamless transfer/sharing of entire iPod collections of copyrighted music, before concluding it would be much more lucritive to embrace the prevelance of 'pirated' music collections by investing in software to clean & organize it, and simple to use hardware that makes it portable.
Google fiber failed

http://fortune.com/2017/03/27/google-fiber-expanding-slowly/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/google-curbs-e...
>I'm not trying to be partisan, but the Republican party in the US are the voice of a oligarchy. This FCC decision is the perfect example of it -- something they are profoundly incapable of building the slightest justification for, and that can only possibly benefit already overwhelming providers.

Net neutrality is 100%, unequivocally favorable for every tech company (Google, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Microsoft, etc.). Are you sure the Democratic party is not the "voice of the oligarchy" here? You say that Republicans are incapable of building justification for this decision, but it fits exactly to the pillars of the Republican party -- deregulation, a free market economy, and a small government. Their argument is that NN is unnecessary regulation that limits the free market and oversteps the boundaries of a reasonable government. You may disagree with this, but that argument is a subjective one and not an objective one. It may benefit the providers but it also hurts the tech monopolies (which is why they oppose it so adamantly... unless you really think that Alphabet, inc. is on the side that opposes big businesses).
I submitted the article because I thought they executed some really stunning design [1], but gotten through most of it yet. But it would be more constructive for a discussion if you cited something specific that you felt was inaccurate or hyperbolic.

[1] I helped launch Highline when I worked for HuffPost. I'm certainly proud of that fact, but I don't go out of my way to share its content.
Removing money from politics will take a constitutional amendment. And it will take a different breed of politician to make that happen at either the Federal (Congress initiated amendment process) or state (convention initiated process) level. It will be difficult and there will be many other distractions that the moneyed class will put up, and has always put up to prevent the country from becoming more of a democracy.

This country and its constitution only prescribe a polyarchy instead of a monarchy. And from the outset participation and benefit was primarily meant for white, male, land owners. The discrimination is stacked into the system still, despite multiple amendments to make it incrementally more of a democracy.
should probably be prolog or apl instead
It's surreal to read comments like this, because it makes one realize how much of what people see in each other is pure imagination.

I don't have a party, and net neutrality is one of the few political issues Hacker News has officially done something for, including quite recently. I don't fault you for not knowing that, because most people see only a tiny slice of what passes through here and no one sees all of it. But the dynamic of jumping to a view of someone as your enemy is a thing we all need to work on.
If you're arguing that elections with less than 100% turnout are flawed as models of public opinion, I agree with you.
Err, no. Winning the most votes is not "one of the ways you can slice it" -- it's the natural criterion that almost universally comes to mind when you ask somebody how democracy should be implemented.
I've built this so you can use your spare mattress as a Bitcoin miner
CA got an exemption for CARB written into the federal emissions law at the time it was drafted. That's not the same as being grandfathered in just by virtue of having been the first to regulate.
Don't worry VPNs will be illegal soon ;)
It's going pretty fast, but it'll slow down a lot as it crawls back out of the Sun's gravity well. It'll only be 100 AU away in 2034 and 1000 AU away in 2196. Which means that human made spacecraft absolutely will visit it in either the 21st or 22nd centuries. We could actually pull off a flyby mission within the next two decades or so if we dedicated enough resources to it. And as our launch technology improves over time, that only gets easier and cheaper.
boo hoo. white boy gets dissed for his broken ideas.
You're going to have to be more specific. What kind of controversial opinion are you worried will get you fired?
Millennials don't have any money to do anything with. The world isn't just unhappy and inequitable, it's specifically unhappy and inequitable for millennials, more so than for previous generations, because of the actions of those previous generations. Blaming millennials for the hand they got dealt is exactly the behavior the article argues against. It feels from this comment like you didn't read it closely.
I wonder if this isn't a systemic problem with democracies and foreign policy. The new government simply doesn't care what commitments the previous one made. (See the Paris Agreement.) They often don't even care to find out what private commitments the previous government made. Of course other forms of government go back on their word, but it may be almost inevitable for democracies to do so, particularly to foreigners. Voters don't have "keeping our word with people who speak with funny accents" at the top of their agenda.
If you use Firefox, try Reader View. I tried it after reading your comment, and it appears to render a stripped down version really nicely. I'm guessing something similar exists in other browsers, if you're not a Firefox user.
What exactly happened in 2008, companies had to be bailed out with taxpayer money. Capitalism with profits, socialism with the losses.

> Republicans just disagree with you.

The problem is they are wrong, the most famous deregulation guy Alan Greenspan had to admit he made a mistake with deregulation.
> Also, California has a huge population with tons of representatives,

Fewer per capita in the Congress than any other state.

> and basically every elected official is democratic.

The 39/53 members of the House and 2/2 in the US Senate; the state legislature is 27/40 (Senate) and 53/78 (Assembly) currently.

It is not the case that “basically every” elected official in California is a Democrat.
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Major CDNs don't use Tier 1 providers to reach major eyeball networks in the United States. There are no ISPs who have sufficient capacity to the other networks. I'll cover why later.

Netflix is what... 37% of Internet traffic? They aren't sending anything to Comcast other than Comcast traffic, guaranteed. Same with Verizon, AT&T, Cox, etc.

Also, Comcast's backbone isn't large enough for someone like Netflix to inefficiently deliver data. Netflix is delivering the data locally, not using Comcast's national backbone.

So sure... Comcast might offer "Tier 1" internet services, but they don't have enough connectivity to other ISPs to matter to major CDNs.

Why?

Because the other major eyeball networks in the US employ the same tactics as Comcast! They all want to force major CDNs to connect directly, for different reasons. Some ISPs do it to avoid paying "tier 1" internet providers, allowing CDNs to peer settlement free. Others do it to extort CDNs.
boo hoo. white boy dissed for his chege ideas.
As a radio-astronomer:
1. Well, few radio-telescopes have instantaneous bandwidth as wide as a factor of 12 -- they are usually optimal on a narrow region, and therefore hoping that another group with instruments optimized for lower/higher frequencies will do the job
2. Lower frequencies require larger antennas to achieve useful gain. It is more likely that they would go higher than 500 MHz vs lower. Also, dispersion (correctable with a position solve) and scattering (not correctable) eventually become problems with low enough frequencies and long enough distances
3. If we observe at the wrong frequencies, it will most likely not show up. RF filtering and antenna response will ensure that.
Again, hyperbolic.

Some action against Comcast throttling/blocking BitTorrent (in 2007-2009) ultimately resulted in action by the FCC in 2010, made rather toothless in 2014 with the provisions against blocking and throttling struck down.

So between 2010-2014 and 2015-2017 we have ~6 years of regulation, with the ISPs fighting it all the way (surprise surprise).

Just to clarify: I'm in agreement that we need net neutrality. I've just been around the block enough times to know that the FCC's latest action just isn't the end of the world.
Accuracy is not pedantic, especially when claiming something which is impossible. If customers don't care about availability than they also don't care about the difference between CP or CA, so why not just stick to CP which is real?

Perhaps disingenuous was too harsh, but my issue is that it took plenty of time for CAP to be well-understood and this marketing material does more harm than good by creating confusion. There are better ways of product marketing that don't try to fudge descriptions with technicalities.
> Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds

And then a paragraph later...

> Generalizations... fall apart under scrutiny.

As a 24 year old millennial - this article painted with a very emotional and us-vs-them brush which detracted from it's core. These sorts of articles love to blame baby boomers for the problems of the world - and while that's not necessarily incorrect, it's a convenient way to avoid blaming human nature - something we all share. It makes me wonder if in 40 years, the "Cyborg Generation" or whatever will be talking about how those crusty old millennial ruined the world by not doing XYZ which we all know now we should've.
I would suggest you could create your own replacement for the sites that offend you.

Free market competition exists for websites and there is probably a market for it if you are upset about it.
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My test for linear algebra books is how they first present matrices and matrix multiplication.

If they define a matrix as an NxM table of numbers with a multiplication operation defined as this complicated formula with a couple of nested sigmas, and then much later a lemma is mentioned that says every linear transformation can be represented as a matrix and then the composition of two transforms is the matrix multiplication of their matrix forms, I throw the book away in disgust. I throw most books away in disgust.

This is the second book I've seen that does it right, but unlike the other one [1] this one wraps the very correct presentation of matrices in so much technical language and such a boring cover story that I almost threw it away in disgust anyway.

My greatest wish in STEM education is that we teach linear algebra better. It's such low hanging fruit and could change so much!

[1] which I saw linked in HN a year ago and don't remember the name of, but it was something like "linear algebra taught the correct way" and was apparently well known in the States so ask your friends
Many interesting points which contradict the behavior of the lawyers of said MPA during the court hearings.

“However, it is not clear to us what constraints Sweden and even U.S. authorities would be under in pursuing a case like this when the site is legally well advised and studiously avoids storing any copyrighted material.”

A focus by the prosecutor was the claim that the founders did not have well legal advice. The idea was to prove to the court that the accused did the infringement knowingly and was aware that what they did was illegal. Here we can read that this supposedly obviousness of wrong doing was not so clear to the very high paid lawyers arguing it.

"Both Bodström and Eliasson denied any direct involvement of the Justice Ministry with the work of the police and prosecutors in the Pirate Bay case."

That they surely did. It is very illegal for them to directly act in any specific legal case. If it ever was proven it would directly end any political carer. When similar document was earthened it was said that just because the US believe they influenced Swedish politicians it still doesn't mean that they did it, so no proof of foul play has been made.
Because under our system municipalities, counties, etc only have as much authority as are delegated by the state.
The case against Net Neutrality? [video]
C# has become way to complicated for this kind of use case. In terms of feature bloat it's looking a lot like c++.
Okay, so it's a stealth ship:

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-hydrogen-steamer-ste...
I think the author explicitly states we need to be okay with name calling later on?

"This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people..."
> That's because most people who take more than a cursory glance sees that there are multiple different ideologies lumped under the same name there, diverse enough that the supporters of some have historically been the most brutal persecutors of supporters of others

This argument would be more credible if the least awful Communist regime wasn’t a toss up between Cuba and Yugoslavia. Every single attempt at actual communism has gone so terribly that any rational person would flee a country that was about to turn communist with the clothes on their back.
Kind of insane to not oversubscribe residential or small/medium business connections, it's extremely rare that 100 houses would saturate a 10Gb line or even half that.

When you pay $50/mo for an internet connection you aren't paying for guaranteed bandwidth, you're just hoping the ISP has enough capacity to meet peak demand - not much different from your local electric provider.

It'd cost me roughly ~$3000/mo for a 10Gb point-to-point link from Boise to Equinix in Seattle from Zayo, and about another $2500/mo for a 10Gb transit connections from Hurricane Electric. You could serve quite a lot of households from that, 50-100:1 oversubscription is pretty common for residential/small business service - so that 10Gb connection could pretty safely serve 500 households reducing your fixed costs to $11/customer/mo.
It could also be just a dead spacecraft, than was once operational but is no longer so. That could also be why it's tumbling now, whereas once it may have flown in a more aerodynamic fashion.
ETH would be my bet. Yes its blown up but lagging behind btc
I wonder how much this has changed recently. We have PS Vue, sling, Youtube XYZ. Could you partner with one them to provide a discount to their services? Do the same with Vonage/etc?
I am off Facebook for a year now.

I think life is a bit better not having facebook -- considered everything is already alright.

I think, however, if someone is depressed, being on Facebook is a huge problem. Which is ironically what I resorted to when I was depressed. It was like living in hell.
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> eventual browser compatibility

You'd be hardpressed to reinvent excel in a browser. Sheets is a big, advanced web app but it doesn't even come close.
Although, not purposefully exfiltrating loads of data after you've found a vulnerability is like, ethical reporting 101.

Otherwise you get situations like Uber paying out an enormous "bug bounty" totally-not-in-exchange for having their stolen data destroyed. If that person had simply pointed out that they had credentials published in a public repository, how much would they have been paid? Probably somewhere within an order of magnitude of the program's stated maximum payout.
I don't know what you're referring to but I think people want the version where Han shoots first and less of the CGI enhancements that Lucas put into the film over the years.
> That’s the warm and fuzzy part?

Yes. In the same way that you purchase something from a charity when you make a donation.
My apologies. Could you be a little clearer about what you were claiming?
Its kind of ironic and interesting to juxtapose this article with the post where Chamath Palihapitiya the former Facebook exec says "I want the fucking money" to increase his influence.

The economic output in sheer profit terms of Silicon Valley companies is probably enough to feed the continent. There are probably scores of individuals living there that could create a food program with 1/4 of their net worth that could prevent all hunger.

This kind of makes the point to me that the skillset to get somebody a lot of money is the exact opposite skillset necessary to care for their neighbors.
Have you ever read The Jungle?

There is a reason we have food regulation. Without regulation, food producers do nasty things. Vomit inducing things.
tldr;
Was smoking weed for over 10 years, later on started clubbing and mixing weed with stimulants like Ecstasy and Amphetamines, got a drug induced psychosis within 5 months. Symptoms: Auditory Hallucinations, Paranoia, Persecutory delusions - was searching for hidden cameras around me every time I had an episode.

My two cents on this study - it works because the voices you hear are what you think others would think of you in this particular situation. Once you start having a conversation with your voice[s], your expectations (your inner modelling of others) change.
I don't think there's any basis to say the majority voted for other things over net-neutrality. The Republicans mostly hold power with minority votes.

In generaly, the things that the majority want don't get enacted under the US system e.g. the tax bill with very low approval, so net neutrality falls into the general bucket of stuff that the majority want but that the Republicans don't want to them have.
Sorry I misread your first comment.

Its still possible for dynamic languages to have auto-completion. There's way more information available at runtime than at compile-time.

Besides, IDEs tend to have the entire world in most autocompletions, which is not useful either.

There would be no IDE here, you'll probably still write code from within Excel and advanced users will use separate source files to leverage their editor of choice.

The novices you mention will not want to leave Excel. A dynamic runtime with reflection is all you need to give a friendly experience. That doesn't prevent type hints, inference or autocompletion.
I don't see why not. Look at the Netflix stuff, which is already owned by Disney/Marvel Studios.
Yes, millennials are screwed. I do also largely agree with all the mentioned stereotypes against millennials, which largely explains just why they are so screwed. After having lived in third-world countries for some time I don't feel sorry for them either. I know that sounds cold and callous, but I don't care. They still have it better than most people in the world. Suck it up.

I see this in my own kids too. I warn them about wasting time on stupid crap, but they largely blow it off. At some point they will be out the door, on their own, and poor. Hopefully they make it on their own, because they aren't moving back in. They have had sufficient warning and preparation which they dutifully ignore.

If rent is half your pay check then either increase your income or move to a different location with a lower cost of living. I have known numerous people who have moved from California to Texas for exactly that reason and I have also met some people who have completely left the US for this reason.

As a software developer I see where entitlement creeps in at various places. Sometimes it is from young people who cry because they suddenly realize they are drowning just need a little life raft, which because a crutch for their next life raft. Sometimes it is from old people who are tired of keeping up and just want to retain their position in life. At the end of the day it all comes down to being competitive with your quality of output.

Here is a simple way to identify the behavior behind the problems many millennials face. Ask a simple question: "Should I feel sorry for you?" Clearly, the answer is yes, but that an affirmative answer challenges the cognitive complexity that allows a person to exist in that state in the first place. Again, don't care.
Definitely a good point, although it might be a reflection of high budget long form content reflecting interests of older people more than younger generations, and as they grow into being more represented at the professional tiers (which takes years of experience) they'll produce new shows that reflect their values and interests.

In terms of younger audiences though there is also huge success with high budget animation. Pixar's success over time still seems more tied to quality of each film rather than declining consistently over time due to loss of interest in the format itself.

For news, 100% agree, ripe for disruption from social media (or at least web over cable news) although that is obviously facing new challenges in terms of reliability (i.e. Facebook/Twitter re election).
Obviously. Radio signals aren't exactly a good way to communicate through a large space. It takes forever!
> Some action against Comcast throttling/blocking BitTorrent (in 2007-2009) ultimately resulted in action by the FCC in 2010

Comcast wasn't the only enforcement action under the 2005-2010 case-by-case approach. (The first was the Madison River VoIP blocking case, in 2005.)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926178 and marked it off-topic.
> It makes me wonder if in 40 years, the "Cyborg Generation" or whatever will be talking about how those crusty old millennial ruined the world by not doing XYZ which we all know now we should've.

They almost certainly will. But thanks to climate change, I doubt they'll be called the cyborg generation.
I wonder if they are going to release a Mac Pro too, or if this is it.
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