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I agree that either Akamai and Level 3 should both pay (for all traffic flowing into Comcast; whether it's "CDN" traffic or "regular" traffic makes no difference) or neither should pay. Since they're both saving Comcast money, I'm leaning towards neither. It's unfortunate for everyone else that Akamai apparently set this precedent.
Why the search of ET Intelligence is of any significance for mankind (or even science for that matter)? Even if we assume that ET life exists, in all likelyhood, after spending billions of trillions of dollars, we may get to know that ET exists (assuming they do), are thousands of light-years away from us.

Apart from the curious "are we alone?", does answering this question, has any positive/productive outcome?
We have a separate product that better serves multi-unit chains and "brands" (http://www.buzzlabs.com), but that is not as self-serve as Find My Buzz.

Thanks for the feedback on the screenshots, definitely a common theme here and we're fixing that now.
Sweep and prune( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweep_and_prune ) is the "minimum sufficient" 2D broadphase algorithm, I'm surprised you didn't mention it. You do want some kind of broadphase because an exhaustive check is O(n^2), which means that around 40-50 objects you start to feel the performance plummet like a stone.
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I've gotta say, whichever PR consultant came up with the idea of spinning net neutrality as "government intervention" really earned his pay.

But you're right. I'll just start my own trillion dollar nation spanning infrastructure project which owes it's existence to leased-from-government-for-nothing rights of way at every single level.
I'm curious how SwipeGood is going to overcome all the real world problems that go with this problem, especially in concern to banking regulations and overseas charities. Also, how they will avoid fraud. I'm also not against a for-profit company doing something such as this, but and am again curious how to will skew incentives.
The service does not access your contacts unless you explicitly execute the import. You may choose not to import any contacts and add them by hand.

Also, I find it strange that people are more willing to trust the phone number than the list of contacts (which you can delete, anyway). Unless you store some credit card info in your contacts list, I guess :)
Interestingly, if Akamai had decided to terminate their peering agreement with Comcast and route their traffic through Level 3 instead, the situation from Comcast's end would be basically the same. Would that still be justification to cry foul? Would Level 3 be abusing their situation as a top-level transit provider by ... providing transit?
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That "We may have stolen your technology" is pushing it.

Google did due diligence before buying On2 with VP8. They did patent search. If anyone appears now with some patent claim against VP8, suing left and right users of VP8, it does not show good faith on their part.
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It is not explicit granted monopolies, but more so de facto monopolies arising because the costs for a competitor to enter the ISP business are prohibitively expensive. With material costs, labor costs, and easement costs, it takes a major investment to run a mile of cable.

My question is this: Why are fiber lines not administered by public utilities? It works for power and roads.
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I think the only way PG would try this is if it's clear that javascript, client side hacks, etc are not required -- and I think that's the case.

Aside from the header, there's only a relatively small number of variations for any given content, right? Showdead, ability to downvote, etc? So, each of these variations gets a distinct ESI URL. Like /item_$showdead_$downvote_$etc right in the internal URL, so any combination of these is a distinct URL. Only the first user to hit any particular combination would result in a request to the backend, and that could remain in cache until its content changed. No wizardry required.
Edit: Nevermind, my sarcasm detection clearly needs some work.
What about personal landing pages, where do they fit in?
It appears to be the specific issue that Netflix is a possible competitor to Comcast's TV business, that somehow causes Comcast to decide that there is a problem.

Actually, I think Comcast's plan is to increase profit margins by squeezing everyone, regardless of what business they're in. Hence the deliberately congested Tata transit links.

removes Comcast's common carrier protections

Sigh. Common carrier never applied to ISPs to begin with.
> think in the last few days the w3c + whatwg have taken really positive steps

w3c releasing an HTML 5 logo and the whatwg renaming HTML 5 to HTML doesn't sound that great.
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More interesting to me is the chance of intelligent life variable. A couple of months ago on Ars Technica iirc, there was published a writeup on a paper on how macro life (much less intelligent life) requires something analogous to mitochondria for the cell to be large enough to handle that level of complexity (the problem being caused by the geometric relationship between volume and surface area). the paper goes on to say that the chances of one organism entering another and them then entering a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship as being astronomically low (it is, however, a function of time, but Ars implied (iirc) that this doesn't noticably help the Drake equation the chance is that low). Based on this I would adjust Fi by a couple dozen orders of magnitude
Varnish sits in front of the backend, responding to all requests that it has cached content for directly, without bothering the backend at all. It lives higher in the stack than than pagespeed or memcache, and not limited by the backend's speed in any way.
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I agree with your points. Not all businesses even have a physical presence or particular location. I'd like to get a report for my business for example, but I'm selling to a global audience (online) and I'm not even in the US, so I can't use this service.
It's not bad science, though, because it's not science. It's not meant to be science. All Drake set out to do was establish an agenda for an NAS meeting in 1961 regarding extraterrestrial intelligence. It's a list of known unknowns. It was not arrived at via scientific experimentation, and was never claimed to have, so anyone calling it "science", even "bad science", is mislabeling it.
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This list is interesting but really says more about the author than what kids born in 2011 will be exposed to. This reads like a list of things the author doesn't use or thinks are basically already obsolete.
I think mrkurt was employing sarcasm.
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It appears that we can do a better job of messaging that this product is intended for local businesses with a physical address. Yes, the zipcode is for disambiguation and ensuring that we only include mentions relevant to that business in that location.
This quote really struck me:

“Add things until it starts sucking, take away things until it stops getting better.”
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The problem with Network Neutrality is that it's very easy to see the development of a monopoly/oligopoly that will have near complete control of the world's most valuable man-made resource.

When it comes to the corporate behavior, only the most cynical predictions have been at all reliable. Those sanguine about the result of absolute freedom-of-action by internet providers clearly have little sense of history.

God forbid that internet access become a relatively unprofitable commodity rather than an utterly complicated, multi-tiered service in which profit is extracted through the creation of an artificial shortage.
Not a lawyer, nor do I follow this particularly closely, but - I suspect Sony is framing this as an issue of intellectual property and licensing. The DMCA wouldn't be involved otherwise.
This is stupid, they should have just let the guy mod out the game and then buy it out if the guy is making good headway.
The reality is that Comcast never raises the issue over transit to e.g. ICanHasCheezburger.

Do you not see that Netflix competes directly with the Comcast sister offering of cable TV and video on demand?

This is a test case to determine how to "tax" every content provider for access to Comcast customers; who as I mention, are already paying for access to the Internet.
It had to be some dialect of Lisp with continuations, which meant Scheme, and MzScheme seemed the best. Our first version ran on Scheme48, but that was such a pain that we switched.
The performance may or may not be important. In a particle sim, it's very important. In a platforming game, maybe not. I would instead point towards other features of collision, like how deep the physical model goes(e.g. correctly ejecting actors from the environment when they jump against a platform - a guarantee of good results almost requires storing an acceleration and testing into the future, rather than relying on a heuristic to guess the right way out of an extant interpenetration.), or how relative positions(camera, planetary orbits, etc.) are synchronized(I ended up building a tree structure with explicit parents so that these movements are always resolved in the correct order).
Hrm... Upon a second reading I can see it now. I'm just so used to people's knee-jerk reactions that I failed to assume he might actually not be serious.
If I have to invest $500M and three years to test my hypothesised process improvement, which my competitors can implement with much lower sunk costs if it works, I'm not going to get the funding to do it.

I shouldn't need funding to refactor my code.
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You don't need patents to protect a specific implementation - code is copyrightable, and stealing your particular code (or even creating a derivative work like your "semantic-preserving changes" comment suggests) is illegal even without patents.

In order to avoid running afoul of copyright law you'd need to do a vacuum reimplementation based just on the description/specification of the algorithm - all that patents achieve is making such vacuum reimplementation also illegal, and it's up in the air whether that's even a good thing or not.
A great deal, and it does.
NewsCorp?....well it is final....Facebook won
For most HTML5-specific stuff you generally need Firefox 4 (or the latest Chrome). I'm running Beta 9 and this works great there.
Or the oxygen would have just managed to kill everything.
How do you handle the case where file X uses file Y, and you commit file Y? You could run the test for X when Y is committed in case Y broke X.
Wouldn't the long-term be better if the fund went towards lobbying for better laws? Curing the symptoms, not the disease as the saying goes.
The author points out something he may not have even intended: that parenting might not matter at all, despite the raging discussions about which parenting style is better.

In fact, lots of research on twins and adopted children suggests that parenting matters very little in shaping a child's personality and skills, while biology and peer groups matter a lot. Identical twins turn out quite similar regardless of whether they grow up in the same family, while adopted siblings are as different as any random people. (Check "How the Mind Works" by Pinker for a great overview.) People have a hard time accepting this, since most would like to believe that they have a power to shape their children, but this does not make it any less true.

> the Immigration Act of 1965... didn't just abolish racial quotas, it also created preference categories for science, math and engineering-trained immigrants to come over.

Ah, so Asian immigrants to the US are far from an unbiased sample of their original populations! This explains a lot more than bitter fights over parenting.
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Or just give money to the UCLA or EFF (or whatever charity is appropriate) to help them fight the legal battle in the first place.
Clickable link... http://www.magicbeanapp.com
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What a cool idea. It would be a great community service if clusters of experts on HN occasionally got together at a planned time to collaborate on howto docs for various domains.
If this caching allows a website to switch from using HTTP to HTTPS within its budget, then I think the net effect is very positive. We can't have bad website administrators/developers holding back real security improvements with their incompetence. Really, caching is a very small security impact compared to other problems that such an administrator is likely to cause.
THe article? No. The underlying fact that innocent men are hounded from their jobs by the cops they pay to protect them? Absolutely yes.
I've seen scalable content generation and link building come up a couple of times.

Approaches?

Content:
-Hire content writers

Links:
-Great product
-Blog posts/link bait
-Create a widget
-Ask/Email

Other ideas?
That's a really good question.
From my understanding, solar flares themselves can't be detected optically yet. Note: It may very well be possible that Kepler can do this, but I don't know. I'm just an amateur.
In one instance of extrasolar flare detection, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/monster_flare..., it was found by SWIFT detecting high x-rays coming from II Pegasi.
Basically, this is why detecting multiple transits is necessary. Its entirely possible to see some stellar activity that looks like a transit. However, its very unlikely that multiple observations of transits that match each other can be attributed to solar flares.
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is there any reason the noobs url (29 Apr: Faster, Fewer Flamewars) ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/noobs shows no results?
I wonder what the Fortune 500 would look like if people were to guess at which companies were more valuable than others.
Previously, my somewhat-nebulous thoughts on this were: there's definitely a math/sci stereotype about Asians; don't read too much into stereotypes; but Asians really are disproportionately represented among the math/sci fields; what on earth would explain it if not a genetic and/or cultural bias? >cognitive dissonance<

As I said, nebulous; I hadn't really pursued the line of thought very far, just tangentially as it came up elsewhere. I hadn't known about the 1965 Act, and its existence and the above analysis just instantly explained so much so well and without reference to Asians somehow being magically different; just that the math/sci trait had been selected for within the Asian-American population.

Not that it rules out other explanations. But it's so blindingly obvious (in retrospect :) that the Act would have some effect along these lines, that Occam's Razor raises the bar for other explanations by a lot.
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no, you absolutely make sense. other comments also point out this problem. previously, Find My Buzz was more like an "instant feedback" product, instead of a wait-for-your-emailed-report -- the animation sequence was displayed while they waited. we ditched the "instant" part, but thought the animation was too cute to let go... alas, we must do what's best for the user!
It looks great, looks very simple to use too. Might get work involved on it.
Or I don't know, use continuations in a place that's actually appropriate? John Fremlin showed that even with horrible CPS rewriting and epoll you can get way better throughput in SBCL (TPD2) than nginx. MzScheme comes with native continuations. It's not hard to call out to epoll.

Instead everyone in the Lisp community (pg included) is still enamored with using continuations to produce ugly URLs and unmaintainable web applications.
Yeah I'd trust my life on it. I've had java processes running for several months without issue. The hardware fails before the jvm does.

I wouldn't trust anything from microsoft though.
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>Why would someone choose to use the <video> element because Chrome dropped support for H.264?

Because given a sufficient timescale, WebM support in <video> might become ubiquitous. I've made it very clear I'm talking long-term, not tomorrow.

>What would aid adoption of <video> is if there was a single codec that all browsers supported.

There is a chance for this to eventually happen with WebM. It was never going to happen on any timescale with H.264. My point is simply playing on probabilities.

> (impossible in some cases, since the hardware support isn't there).

People keep harping on this, and while it may be unfortunate that some devices get left behind, as I've posted elsewhere in the thread, mobile currently only represents 3% of web traffic. The mobile web is still very much in its infancy and there's still plenty of time for things to change, even fundamentally in some places.
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I don't see how it's legal for any company to tell me what I do with my hardware once I purchase it.

That's like selling me bread and telling me I can only use it for bologna sandwiches, and that PB & J is against the rules, especially if I tell someone how to make one.
on paper of GS & DST analytics they certainly did
I might question Microsoft's biz decisions, but "But people clearly wanted Courier prior to the announcement of the iPad" was probably not clear to them.

Everything is obvious in hindsight, and given a great chunk of comments prior and analysis sales estimates, not many had faith in the iPhone or iPad (or iPod for that matter).
I hear that "transistor" thing is pretty much a waste of time too. A scientific curiosity at best.

It's not necessarily about the destination, the stuff we find on the journey is valuable in its own right.
Nice proof of concept. I like to see the stretching of node's capabilities.

On a slightly related note, you can play with a similar effect in VLC by setting the output module in the video preferences to "Color ASCII" and restarting it.

See also:
http://earthlingsoft.net/ASCII%20Projektor/
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You could try reading (and working through) "Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems".
> I did find a couple browsers that won't accept a protocol-less URL in the address field

Why would you expect them to accept that? The URIs aren't protocol-less, they have relative protocols, and there's nothing to relate the URI to.
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If I could ask a favor of folks compiling such documents: Please post these to a Wiki. Wiki-like interfaces are far more readable than 'shared' documents. Wikis are also inherently designed for collaboration with complete history (thus automatically working around vandalism).

Edited to complete a sentence.
The document is read-only at the moment so maybe someone can add this later (I will forget) - friend of mine yesterday raved about this PSD to XHTML service:

http://www.codemyconcept.com/

I've tried a few alternatives in the past with mixed results. Used one service that was great and then ramped up their price later, another that took too long, and another that used a layout framework with which we weren't familiar.
I won't buy this until FB goes public and we see how it fares in an open market. Though I won't argue against the current valuation, I'm not sure I believe it yet.
The congested Tata links are a problem.

I am close to dumping Comcast and going with the other monopoly (DSL via telco) but am not sure how switching between two companies in what is essentially a duopoly helps things...

They are not common carriers, but, they are given protection similar to common carrier in both the DMCA and certain other laws/regs that cover similar ground.
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Once an ISP has established connections to several towns in a region, they can make much more compelling offers to nearby towns than an ISP with no presence in a region, because they've already got a backbone to the area. This is on top of the advantage that almost every residential ISP has in that they already have a monopoly on some other service (phone or cable TV).

ISPs probably should have a monopoly within a town, because it's not economical to set up several independent parallel data networks. The problem isn't that local governments grant these monopolies, it's that they don't regulate them. Ideally, local governments should be tightly regulating prices for internet connections and mandating that they are fair/dumb data pipes.

However, most towns don't have much bargaining power compared to the big ISPs who's quarterly revenue exceeds the town's GDP. Since the free market can't ensure fair or cheap internet connections when operating on the scale of the individual consumer or on the scale of whole towns, then we need to use state or federal legislation to keep the monopolies in check.
Smart idea, and it's something that's going to be in demand.

A few issues:

Your images need captions
I don't like having to give an email before I know what you do
I want to see examples

You are going to face competition from all sides, mostly because this is something that's fairly easy to implement. You'll need something more to differentiate yourself.
Thanks. That covers some aspects of what I am asking but not the core.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Restrictive_c... covers restrictive covenants on real estate and covers the case of racial segregation that I knew about. Still not quite what I was looking for.
There are lots of stretches on our path, but we don't know how likely other paths would be.
You're not allowed to restrict the resale of a house based on race because that specifically violates various laws. But it's common to sell a house with restrictions that apply to you and to all future buyers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictive_covenant
Agreed, but there are already funds/organizations that do that. I don't know of any that help the people who put their lives on hold while they go through these massive court cases.
20% of the browser market was never going to adopt H.264. That's a fifth of the market cut out from using <video> entirely.

20% and dropping... Should we also stop the <video> train in its tracks because IE6 does not support it?
I concur. Fortunately, the Drake equation gives us separate variables for "develops life" and "develops intelligent life". The value I used for f_i was somewhat lower than they gave, but I also thought that f_c was higher, so it worked out as a wash.
that would be infinitely improbable