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> I never knew they had used the Amiga as their reference platform. I had so much hope in the mid and late 90s that Be might be the logical next platform and OS. So much potential. So of course they made little impact. :(

There were articles and possibly demos of Be stuff in the Amiga magazines my family subscribed to IIRC (I was about 10).

It was discussed as a possible replacement, seeing as Amiga was going nowhere under Commodore/Escom/Gateway/etc. QNX was also discussed in a similar way, and I remember getting a demo of QNX for PC on a bootable floppy.

Linux turned out to be a more popular replacement (for me, and for Future Publishing who seemed to turn Amiga Format into Linux Format; at least many of the staff seemed to be the same)
It's an ugly anti-competitive symptom of the actual disease - data caps. Curing the symptom helps marginally. What needs fixing is the disease.
Adiantum is Google's new fast storage encryption mode for mobile devices
Computers help people step out of poverty for a bit as well, doing the job vcr's and books did before.
What uses of deep packet inspection on the router itself don't fall under filtering / shaping?
On the other hand, it seriously forced other ISPs to step up their game from what I hear. So not all is lost.
Are you certain you remember all of your schooling? Any basic finance class will cover the efficient market hypothesis, but also cover exceptions and temporary violations. This is standard course content and hasn't changed significantly in decades.
What's wrong with the threat of starvation and homelessness as a motivator for innovation? Real innovators don't sleep, never take a day off, and work 26 hours a day. In America we know how to motivate people: threaten their livelihood by having virtually no safety net, no holidays, no health insurance, and no hope to go along with all of that. That's what drives real innovators, unlike these wussy European ones who can't even start a business without assurance that they'll have a job to go back to if it fails. Unnecessary crutches. We don't even have assurance a doctor will save your life if you get hit by a car on your way to work and they want reassurances about their job. Clearly their system is inferior. Our innovators work through pain. Repetitive stress injuries from typing and psychotic episodes from lack of sleep only make them stronger. This is what it takes to be number one in surveillance, ads, killing, and other shit no decent person wants to excel in.
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Just want to chime in that Stoner is indeed a gorgeous work, and thank you for reminding me of it.
How about people stop using unsafe languages such as C and C++?
I can't trust Google. Every time they build something good (Reader, Inbox) eventually they will kill it even despite users clearly opposing the decision. And those are just web pages, here they're denying of ISP whole town which was serviced before.

So for example how can I use their e-sim provider Fi if I know for sure in one of my travels I will get a notification 'we are closing Fi next week. Find new provider.'.

I use their Photos service extensively. But in a couple of years I know it will get closed too, once they fully used it's capacities for training internal ML models.
I know lots of embedded/kernel devs (I am one) and lots of them are at least interested in Rust. It does have mindshare.
It just seems to me quite wasteful that there are so much telco infrastructure is duplicated (redundant): For example digging along the same street more than once to lay fiber. Or have cellular towers from different companies next to each other.

On my last visit to the US, I used both "Straight Talk" and "Trac Phone". These are virtual telcos that use Verizon/AT&T and T Mobile infrastructure. New customers can choose a SIM card before activating the service.

Surely the prices paid by these virtual telcos are set by the regulator.

Here is South Africa, the third and fourth mobile operators roam on the first and second mobile networks. AFAIK, the regulator force these roaming agreements apon the operators. (Here I can get 50 GB of prepaid data for only R500 = $38. Much cheaper than the US!)

So there are ways to set prices.
To be fair, the time difference between a jet airline and blimp would be a lot bigger than 3 times or so. 7 hour in a metal tube vs 5 days in a blimp sounds more realistic.
And why wouldn't they step back their game if the competition does?
It can be. A cursory search showed that the other fiber competitor in the area is AT&T. Google Fiber was $70/mo and AT&T is $80/mo and that was for the highest speed offered. With Google exiting the market, the fiber competition is gone and it allows AT&T to raise prices, if they want as there aren't any other options. It puts AT&T back into the fiber monopoly
I had not known about gumroad and took a look. Would you ever introduce more of a product browsing store front experience?

I see all these great categories in the search drop-down, but no way to just take a peak into what was available.

Great read and glad you are enjoying your journey.
One of the options I've thought of (and I'm sure many others have as well) is to have all zones distributed in a P2P manner via ICANN. To not put too much burden on ICANN and keep things decentralized, have ICANN at the root of the DNS PKI and have all zones signed by the responsible party.

This would solve a few of the big problems we have:

* All sorts of MITM and evil resolver attacks would be prevented.

* Since DNS queries are local, there would no longer be a privacy concern with resolving a name.

* Even if the P2P network mechanism were to be blocked, since every host connected keeps a full record (though not necessarily with history) it can still be distributed via sneakernet.

* DNS updates are as fast as the network is, no longer depending on turtles caching all the way down.

* DNS amplification? That's gone, as resolvers no longer need to query external sources.

As many will quickly notice, we would likely still need remote resolvers for battery constrained devices as this would keep the network interfaces busy.

The one big political issue that would put a stop to this is that this would cause all zones to be world readable. Many people treat zones as something private and to them exposing the zone file is the same as exposing their network. My view is that if it has a publically routable IP then it is already exposed, but not everyone shares my view.
Seems plausible that the bees were able to associate the colors with "many" or "few" rather than (N+/-1). Seems like if they were able to make that general association they would do better than chance, but still fail often.

Which could explain why the effect is fairly weak.

Would be interesting to see if the bees success rate at addition was proportional to the starting value (ex. 1+1 has higher failure rate that 3+1)
> But if he declares his ship unfit, then he's also declaring himself unfit

It's on the leadership above the captain to back him up if he declares the ship unfit - or unable to get off-ship support to make it fit. Having a culture where you can't "stop the line", to borrow a Toyota process term, for serious problems - will lead to serious problems accumulating.
I'd like to offer "dwarfs" as a spelling of this word.
I had a similar fortune from Dubai to Munich. The shower was really the cherry on top of an incredible experience. My other favorite moment was when I got my starters and got asked "would you like some Vodka with your caviar?". The entire flight was just outrageously entertaining - unlike the following flight on economy class
I've found DJ's Aviation channel on YouTube to be a good source of information on this type of stuff. He has a new video on this subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzvT71flRII&t=0s
This is very impressive and clearly took a lot of work to make. I must admit I know nothing about PDP-10, but it seems interesting and will definitely take a look! Thanks for sharing.
Decompression, the first byte is the number of repeats and the second is the byte to repeat.
He instantly got me as a fan.
any company that price matched Google will shortly begin raising rates.
Hub and spoke model is getting replaced by point to point model.
Both perspectives support each other. Natural monopolies are one thing, but if you want people to have stable and reliable Internet - as most tech companies do - then it's best when Internet access is not something companies are allowed to differentiate on.
(Author here) Absolutely! It's amazing how complex things get on the configuration side as you try to get smarter about autoscaling. The big downside of trying to be too clever here is that you wind up with a wildly brittle autoscaling setup that falls over as soon as the underlying assumptions around the relationship between your metrics and your scaling needs change. As in many things engineering, we've found that it's best to keep the configuration as simple as possible and use a solid foundation of reporting / alerting to give you an early heads up that you need to revisit and update your autoscaling strategy.
Any thoughts on the recent drama on the changes on Patreon and their funding round?
Vertical autoscale is on my wish list. Some way to automatically scale instance size for those things that don't scale well horizontally.
The database doesn't know how to perform a data migration for you, however. Sometimes it's possible to do it in SQL as part of the schema upgrade but that isn't always possible, in which case you need to implement it in the application. But regardless of how you implement it, it's still "data migration" because you're migrating data from one representation to another and your database won't always know how to do that "under the hood" for you.
I'd love to see someone try Excession, just to see what happened.
I agree - choose the best tool for the job. As a counterpoint - Implementing an interpeted macro-less lisp is a few thousands of lines of code in C or C++. So if the goal is just to bootstrap some language, the effort is more about typing than design or innovation (just copy the interpreter in chapter 4.1 of Structure and interpretation of computer programs).

A stack based language like forth would be even less work.
In general you should only use a <= to write a reg once within a clock (remember that the RHS of a <= is evaluated when the code is evaluated, the assignment happens later)

And you are mixing <= and = in the same code (look in execute() ) this should never happen.

In general use <= in places that are gated by an "always @(posedge clk)" and = in things gated by "always @(*)"

(with the exception that it's OK to assign a temp variable in a clocked always with '=' provided its lifetime doesn't extend past the block's execution (your use of SKIP_FLAG is an example of this being done correctly)
It sounds like the vendor is lazy and relatively bad at SEO, but mass-creating blog networks to build backlinks still very much works in 2019 (though its morality is up for debate).

Where it sounds like they might be messing up and potentially setting the company up to get nuked is by directly linking from their spam sites to their main site. That's a big no-no.

If you want more information you should search "tiered link-building".
Moving to Louisville for Google Fiber would be a pretty reckless decision for a business which wasn’t wholly dependent on it (like a reseller or Google Fiber)
Sure, some do, but I'm sure some don't. I'm not saying such a law would make sense, or be even close to 100% enforceable, only that such a law a net negative effect for drivers and consumers.
I am not giving up on the A380 yet! :) While it might be more profitable for the airlines to use the large 2-engined planes on more direct routes, air traffic is still increasing. Yet, most international airports already are operating at their capacity. So I wonder when the point is reached, where it is no longer possible to add more flights to increase the passenger count. Then, larger airplanes would be needed.
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It's possible that as with Keynes' advice about counter-cyclic spending the Chicago school's views on monopoly and antitrust have been distorted by politicians and lobbyists.

In the case of Keynes counter-cyclic spending became "deficits don't matter, always spend more no matter what." In recessions spending goes up and in booms spending goes up. Keynes argued that governments should cut during booms to achieve something at least close to a net balance, but the cutting part is ignored.
This is why DS9 is my favourite Star Trek. They deal with this to a great extent: Replicators are limited both in scope (there are episodes talking about large industrial replicators), and in frequency of use (they use a lot of energy, and requires maintenance, and Voyager had already established rationing).

Being placed in a total backwater, with the time to get Federation assistance frequently being a plot point, they could play with things like money and wealth feeling strange and foreign to the Federation citizens, but have them but up against it.

DS9 actually tries to address it to an extent. And it also gives the Ferengi a lot more depth and shows that they're not all greed all the time.

But I agree part of the appeal of the Culture is that it was taken to the other extreme of what a truly post-scarcity society might look like.

> and they're not entirely sure what's happened to the others...

... and on this point, they look like luddites. The Culture are those who are left, who have refused to go into virtual environments or sublime, and who limit their lifespans, and mostly retain their normal biological functions. It's fascinating to see a civilization that seems so advanced, and is so in terms of capability, but that in many ways have a lot in common with the Amish in having rejected taking the next steps.
Ask HN: Google Voice replacements?
Over the last couple of years, I have successfully de-Googled my life:

Search: duckduckgo

Email: Postfix/Spamassassin/Dovecot/etc

Drive/Photos: Nextcloud

Calendar/Contacts: Nextcloud

Play: FDroid store

Hangouts: Mattermost

The one remaining service I just can't shake is Google Voice. I've seen services like jmp.chat do about 60% of what I'm looking for, but I'd really like the whole enchilada if possible. Happy to pay for a commercial service too, if necessary. Self-hosted/Open Source would be ideal, but I'm not too proud to pay a 3rd party if that's what it takes.

The features I'm looking for are:

portable phone number (can move from cellphone to cellphone, ideally by installing an app)

voicemail-to-email transcription

sms-to-email transcription, with the ability to respond to texts via email

mms-to-email delivery (gotta keep up with those cat pics, yo)

group-sms compatibility (it took GVoice _forever_ to implement this, I'm not super comfortable with giving it up again completely)

So, HN Hivemind, is there anything out there that does all the above that isn't Google Voice?
It’s a bit harder to put the cat back in the bag. I’m assuming (and hoping) it’ll take a few years for that kind of degradation, and some new competition (or municipal service) could make its way in.
Except that the issuer of the security is the lessor in this case, not the airline. The airline can just give the plane back to Doric after the 12-year lease period (which ends in 2020-2021 for the first batch of aircraft), and let Doric deal with the investors.

This is in contrast to, say, recent deals by United Airlines Inc, where the airline (or its related party, such as its parent holding company United Continental Holdings Inc) was the entity issuing the security.
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Does google fiber not work in cold weather? Seems all the cities are warmer than Louisville.
Imagine your google self driving car pulling a Revolv.
Wouldn't that be Islamophobic though ?
My first thought was, "no, ya idjit, there's an app...". Then I clicked the link in the article. Umm, yeah, it looks like you're exactly right. Oh, there might a WebView wrapper or summat that shows up on the app stores, but the whole "we'll text you when your old lady's trying to flee the country" bit operates independently of Apple or Google.
That's a lot of words to not actually tell you why they're pulling out of Louisville.

"not living up to the high standards we set ourselves" is about as helpful as hearing over public transport intercom "there has been an incident".
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This development implies that one should not rely on Google for anything. Even you're paying them for the service. They are so large they don't have to care about their users/customers.
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> IMHO the best way to do this is to force telcos to give each other access to their infrastructure at a reasonable price.

I believe this is what we in America had with dial-up and DSL up until about 2005, when DSL was reclassified as a title I information service. I seem to recall having a hell of a lot more ISP choices/competition in those days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
To be clear, an offer is only an offer if it is a term sheet. Anything short of that is an attempt to get a founder to reveal more information.

Good succinct point that I think gets lost in the shuffle of founder optimism when fundriasing.

That said, my entire mindset around funding a company has shifted after having gone through the spanking machine a few times.

I'm convinced that the entire process of hot intro > send deck > partner pitch > term sheet > shop the term sheet > revise deal > do deal > press release etc... is basically a waste of time if you want to build a massive paradigm shifting company.

It's just a process for the founders to grow their network and build the signals for major corporate acquirers. You'll get market standard terms and have spent a ton of time away from your product. You'll go back to work, build up the team, get enough traction in a niche need to look good for a acquisition by FANG.

It's basically the process for being in the feeder league for being a rookie in the Big Leagues. If that's what you want, then great.

If you intend to completely upend how business is done, there will be a lot of these preemptive offers, IMO it's the best signal that you're on to something completely massive.

Said another way, if you aren't getting preemptive offers, your best long term outcome is likely a middling acquihire.
If you want to learn more about Rosalind Franklin, I recommend reading three books: Watson's book on the discovery of the structure of DNA (with a heavy prior: he's a colossal asshole who wrote the book to give him the best light), Maddox's biography (The Dark Lady of DNA), and The Eighth Day of Creation by Horace Judson.

The third book is the most important because Franklin gave her scientific notes to her friend Aaron Klug and Judson did some very careful sleuthing to extract what Franklin did and how Watson & Crick got access to, and reduced her role in, the data that led them to deduce the three dimensional structure of DNA. In an extraordinary example of parallel reconstruction, he demonstrated that Franklin actually made all her data and speculations available in a departmental publication and a talk, addressing the controversy about how W&C got access to her data, and when.

the book is amazing all-around. It's a tough read (I make it through maybe a page or two a day before having to put it down) but very well researched via first-person interviews.
If you have scientific studies to show your objective viewpoint on mental illness being merely a product of societal or economic ill, with definition of 'societal ill' and 'economic ill', I would be more than interested in seeing the data you derived these conclusions from.

In the meantime, I would think the field of clinical psychology is a safer bet.
Even if everyone switched to writing Rust/Swift/$SAFE_LANGUAGE today, there are many, many projects that are written in C/C++ that aren't going to disappear overnight.
> other ISPs to step up their game

Eh. Spectrum (formerly TWC, formerly Insight) upped their max speeds. AT&T did a very limited Gigapower rollout to selected areas.

The lasting impact, if anything, will likely be that Google got the metro government to pass a one touch make ready ordinance and defend it in court.
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Exactly - having enough capital to waste in this way IS a morality issue.
This is sad news for me even though I'm not from Louisville. Backing out of existing market shows that it's even less likely now for them to enter new ones.

The main issue is that current companies have extreme control over market thanks to regional monopoly. They can squeeze as much of money from users, because there is no real competition. When a new company enters specific region they can up their speeds, lower price (and even operate at a loss in that specific region), so a competitor will have to leave.

The solution to this requires regulation, and basically a law should mandate to allow leasing infrastructure (the fiber) to others, of course not for free, but for a fee.

Currently if we would have great scenario when we would have 10 ISPs available to choose from, we would need 10 fiber cables to every home. That means if someone chooses one, 9 of them are not used, and all the effort to lay the cable and getting permits was just waste of money. If this is expensive to even company that has "unlimited" amounts of money, like Google it's unrealistic to do for everyone else.

Leasing the physical infrastructure is the key to bring competition back in that market.
reference to what? There is a collect of hair cells that vibrate in response to various pitches. When presented with enough training examples, the brain makes the association between those vibrations, and labels provided by others (that's where the pitch/note mapping comes from). For individual frequencies, I think most people with perfect pitch spend some time with pianos and tuning fork and eventually get a "feel" for what delta 1hz around 440 sounds like.
I was in design until recently, and I too have done my share of "design challenges". They're fine if they're late in the interview process imo. I did interview a couple places that tried to lead with a design challenge (HR screen -> design challenge), even before I spoke with the hiring manager at all. That's just not very respectful of my time, so I didn't pursue those.
You make a good point, but I think it's a corporate problem, not a google problem. Expecting loyalty from businesses is pointless. Look at NFL franchises. They'll move from cleveland to baltimore or Oakland to Las Vegas or from LA to St.Louis and back to LA without a second thought. Look at the rust belt where companies just left for "greener pastures". Or pharma companies merging and moving their headquarters to europe to exploit tax loopholes. Businesses are in it for themselves despite all the ads and PR talking about how they care about the community.
This is why the best approach would be having each state of government own the infrastructure and lease it out.

Repairs can be either spread evenly or by amount of infrastructure owned.
Is it? That sounds more like http://farhorizons.hull.ac.uk/baffin-bay-the-isabella-sir-jo...
I bet dollars to dimes that they will cover it in a podcast and that podcast will be exclusive to Spotify.

I would predict they keep doing 'Startup' as-is with its focus on other companies, and launch 'Acquisition' (or whatever) as an exclusive with excerpts of it in 'Startup'.