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>In fact Rogers put out a statistic that something like only 3 people went over 6GB in the first month they offerred it.

Rogers has a long history of blatantly lying about stuff like this, to skew the narrative in their favor.

>Youtube data rate is 300kbps

high definition video is far in excess of 300kbs

>You're trying to tell me that that isn't "basically unlimited"?

I think we use the internet in very different ways, if you consider 6GB "basicly unlimited" including tethering.

>basic wired internet in Canada starts with a 25GB cap

another sad result of the ISP oligopoly
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I think the fear/hatred he describes among techies for non-technical managers is overall pretty reasonable.

A lot of managers believe their job is to make decisions, and a lot of employees even encourage that. But technology decisions often have subtle, far-reaching implications. So when managers make decisions they shouldn't (e.g., picking a toolset, or outsourcing a project, or simultaneously fixing resources, scope and schedule), they end up thoroughly screwing the developers involved. But if none of the other managers understand the tech either, then managers can happily blame the devs. Hands up everybody who has seen that?

Software is almost unique, in that it's a collective intellectual work that is expected to function and grow and change over many years. The only close equivalent I can think of is legal code, but I think software is worse in that legal code is made to be interpreted by humans.

The only non-technical managers I've had that I didn't at least briefly consider murdering were the ones who, like Rand Fishkin, were comfortable admitting ignorance. That let them leave technical decisions to the techies.
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I think this might actually favor consolidation. With physical classrooms, you need hundreds of universities, but once a few universities are teaching an online Algorithms course in which thousands of people can enroll, it may be hard for additional universities, especially those with less exalted brand names than Stanford, to attract interest/students.
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>check out Etsy’s gift recommendation page. It’s driven by Facebook. It’s magical. It recommends gifts based on my friends and family’s Facebook behaviors.

Where is the inventiveness and joy of surprise, if you are relying on recommendations made by an algorithm about a gift to buy for friends/family? That just doesn't even sound fun.
This article discusses how SpaceX seems to be able to get things done faster, for less expense, and with better performance, than any of its competitors -- partly because they care more about the end result of being able to send stuff and people into space and to Mars instead of just selling launches.
Sounds brilliant.

I'm a student, so I don't have enough time (and probably don't know enough) to maintain my own blog, but I would love to write an article or two once in a while.

Also, discussing articles with other contributors before publication sounds like a great way for me to improve my own writing quality--it's like free editing.

What do you (and other interested people) think the minimum number of contributors is? How many people would make something like this both interesting and lasting (e.g. people continue publishing posts in the far future)?
Not quite sure how "keeping it lean" equates to not being sure about a business idea. If you're not entirely sure about it, chances are you're not going to ever be entirely sure about it.
Not that I think you're wrong, but do you have a citation for your second paragraph?
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They don't touch the Japan issue because there are traditions, viewpoints and religious believes connecting the need to commit suicide in case of failure to restore family honor especially in old established families. On the other hand suicide rates are almost close to zero in societies that are very religious and their religion forbids suicide by banning them from a proper burial.

A) I have lived in Sweden for some months, and I have some conclusions (just my personal opinion). People while caring for community are more independent than most other nations at a truly admirable level. They close in to themselves and deal with their own problems, they won't easily bother you with them. If they feel lonely for example they won't pester other people until they become accepted, they are proud and conscious (except when they are drunk). They are like fully autonomous units functioning in a coordinated society. Furthermore they usually don't blame their mistakes on others and because their society functions relatively well they cannot blame the system.

So maybe it is a mixture of self-awareness, pride and loneliness.

B) If you are fighting for survival, you don't have time to reflect on your problems. Everyday issues occupy your thinking time. Imho it is dangerous to prescribe inequality as a remedy for suicides, the goal (from a social standpoint) is to reduce despair not suicides. A U.S. citizen cannot afford to suicide and leave the rest of his family to a living hell, a Swede can.

C) The green box at the end gives another excellent point there are no miserable beings to look down to and feel better.

D) Something that is wrong in the article is about the research on the baboons. If I remember correctly (i have affiliation to the field) the alpha male has very high levels of stress hormones as do the low tier counterparts - because he needs to be on the lookout for possible usurpers, the best place to be is 2nd or 3rd, not first if you are a baboon concerning about your health.
This is a great idea, but a lot of thought needs to be put into how it could be abused. Some potential problems that come to mind immediately are: self-promotion, low quality posts, SEO shenanigans, and wikipedia style edit wars.

What keeps HN relevant and high-quality is the flagging and voting system, and I don't know how that translates to a git-based architecture.

EDIT: I misunderstood how github's pull requests work. Sounds like a perfect tool to maintain community standards.
Love the idea. In my case I can't really host meals because my place is so small, but I'd love to attend & participate in others.
There is another side to the story - the worst managers I have had throughout my career have all been former programmers. Leadership and managerial skills plus an analytical orientation trump a coding background or specific technology skills to me.
Heh, imagine what this headline sounds like to somebody who isn't a programmer.

Jokes aside, this is actually a very cool project and a perfect example of how programming knowledge can improve everyday life.
I think smaller classes are trickier to online-ify in a way. With large lectures, they're already somewhat public, so recording them doesn't change things a lot. With a 10-person class, you often have more of a seminar-style discussion, with a lot of back-and-forth between students and professor and less of a pre-planned, one-way lecture. That might be harder to record well, and I think the seminar-style discussion might also suffer if students were "on the record", knowing that they were being broadcast rather than just chatting with the 10 people in the room.
It links to a much more detailed article. Expecting a short radio piece to go into enormous detail is a bit unreasonable, and picking the biggest one - that fire investigators didn't even know how long a normal, non-accelerated fire would take to start - is pretty good at showing just how bad the state of the "art" was/is.
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Oh man the 80's were really something. This is some seriously nerdy (but great) footage. One thing they weren't short on was vision, seems like that was in abundance (along with hair) back then.
Their homepage is perfectly readable without javascript. That puts their web authors well above average, despite the socket problem.
I think this is where using pull requests to submit articles really shines.

The community would vet articles and potentially help with editing and clarity. This would help contributors make sure their articles are well-written and well thought-out, while giving readers consistently high-quality content.

Of course, this requires an at least moderately engaged community of contributors, but I think that's completely reasonable. We would also have to be careful not to scare away insightful people who aren't great writers, but I think it would be manageable.
There is no uniqueness to E-books because it all has the same typography. I think the publishers and providers needs to work on improving typography of E-books and work on providine e-versions of the books not just digitalized version of the printed edition.
If scaling is an important consideration from the start, erlang would be a good choice. I think whatsapp runs on an erlang and c++ backend.
Can you provide some examples of these European state owned monopoly telecommunications companies or does government investment signify something else?
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As the page says,

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So, your iPhone uses your special DNS server, while your computer doesn't.
Our team use Trello too, and it works great. This seems very similar. Why not compare it to Trello?
One could argue that those photons are massive, because they are partly excitations of the water, which increase its mass. Others could argue otherwise. This leads to rather wanky debates over the precise meaning of "mass".
I think a very large portion of ebook users have Kindles or similar e-ink devices. These are great for reading text-heavy novels, things you would normally get as low-quality paperbacks anyhow. They are horrible for picture books and the like--black and white, low resolution and you can only view one page at a time.

Normal screens like tablets and computers are better for picture books but have other issues--they're relatively expensive, run out of battery quickly and strain your eyesight.

Ultimately, it should come as no surprise that picture books do not translate as well to ebooks as novels.
Landing page optimization is an art, and it takes a long time before you get the wording & design just right.

I think its asking a lot for any new product launch to have a perfect landing page out the gate
Indeed, networks are a hostile environment. I think most people who would be on HN understand the basics of programming for the public.
I'm disappointed it pissed you off so much. But I made that call.

Why? Because we were getting people pissed off that they didn't find out until they went to sign up. We flat haven't had time to do a more complex and friendly/informative solution, but we want to. Forgive us.

Here's the backstory on the websockets decision on an app level: http://andyet.net/blog/2011/nov/14/we-shipped-an-app-that-re...
So basically drop everything and start working on cancer research? Or maybe interstellar travel is even more important?

Just saying that even this simple heuristic doesn't seem to help me :-(
When I get this message when viewing with IE 9 you should fail your web developer! (Unless you don't want to market to 60% of the Internet.)

Your browser doesn't (yet!)

Chrome, Firefox, and Safari support websockets right out of the box.
https://andbang.com/you-need-websockets-yo

What are they doing that has to absolutely be done with sockets? I can't comment on the product they're offering but this is annoying to say the least as I can't see the site.

(I'm not saying I like IE, but it's the only browser that works great with higher DPI settings and scales properly for using a browser on a laptop with a 1080 res.)
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I'm not an expert, but I think these work better if you prefix the title with 'Ask HN: '.
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I'm a Forensic Biologist, working mostly on DNA evidence. This article does not surprise me in the least. The National Academy of Science is also not surprised. They issued a report about a year ago examining the forensic sciences in the US and found that many fields do not have enough core research. My favorite example is blood spatter analysis (think Dexter). This field is completely built around crime scene experience. It's only been within the last decade that some serious research has been undertaken to provide a scientific basis for the opinions offered in court.

Now, it's not bad if your particular field has a few areas that are still lacking in basic research. But you have a DUTY to express this in court. For example, in this case, the expert can say that based on his 40 years in the field, this is his opinion, but he should note that there is no scientific support, and he should always declare if there is any disagreement within the community.

Forensic science is an amazing field...unfortunately the practitioners tend to mess it up.
I see a lot more common sense coming from EU lately than from US.
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This isn't directly related to the OP, but there's a bit in E3, near the end, where Obiwan says to Anakin "Only the Sith deal in absolutes". Then later on, he says the absolute statement "The Sith are evil", to which Anakin responds "From my perspective, the Jedi are evil." Not only is this terrible writing, it shows the Jedi philosophy as inconsistent.
the attack was done with slow http traffic. the delay effect on an apache server on the same os(centos) was different than was on nginx(again on centos). also i have been able to control the attack by focusing on the web server - apache or nginx.
There's having a perfect landing page and there's having a decent screenshot that shows what you're promising.

I didn't see enough and came here hoping someone could point me to a demo (sans signup) or better screenshots.
I'd not noticed this, despite the obscene number of times I've seen the film. Perhaps it IS related to the OP though, I wonder if anyone has done a study on the levels of internal consistency shown by the philosophies of psychopaths and non-psychopaths?
> I have the feeling that, if done well, you could get all sorts of very nice stuff for almost nothing

High quality raw materials have a high cost.
Points taken and rest assured my criticism was only about your landing page, not about the product (I didn't bother to sign up for the above reasons).

Keep up the work, if your product quality can match that of the visuals then you might be onto something. :-)

Edit: Despite the criticism from others in the thread I still like the visual appearance. I just think you overshot a little and forgot that the even the nicest form still needs to follow function.
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The site doesn't seem like bad design to me, just low-key design. It's obviously aimed at a technical audience. It also communicates "low overhead". I found it pretty appealing.

What really makes the site feel credible is the candid mentions of high margins on VPS, higher bang for buck with colocation, and specific facilities in the bay area.
I just cut out the middleman and don't buy ebooks in the first place. Less effort, same result.
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Yes, but I've also had audio, webcam, scanner & IDE drivers BSOD my computers over the years as well. Drivers usually get better with time, but crappy drivers aren't unique to video cards.

Absolutely. But webcam, scanner, and disk drivers are not accepting attacker-chosen data from the internet. The audio driver may occasionally. I would be surprised if there had never been any remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities, particularly involving driver support of complex audio compression formats.

VM software is getting better at passing 3D through to the native hardware, so it may be easier than you think.

Yeah, this will be something to watch.

This is the story of software in general. As long as there will be software, there will be bugs, some of them severe. Doesn't mean you just accept it & not try to prevent them, but you also don't stifle innovation because of the fear of causing them.

The world's botnet and antivirus vendors thank you for your commitment innovation.

Not really, they've supported multiple 3D accessible contexts for years & years now.

Right, but to what extent have they been really tested as a security boundary?

http://www.google.com/search?q=malicious+shader -> 30 results. It is the dawning of a new era.

Also if you're running Vista or Windows 7 you are more than likely already relying on the 3D hardware to render your 2D desktop. Web browsers are already using features of 3D hardware to further accelerate non-WebGL content.

No, web browsers are not accepting shader code from websites and feeding it to the GPU.

>The GPU can access host memory directly with no access permissions.

So can your CPU, what's stopping rogue apps from doing so? Software.

A lot of software built on very carefully designed hardware memory protections that took decades to mature into the brittle systems we have now.

Out of curiosity, do any GPUs have no-execute page permissions?

And what stops a GPU from modifying the execute-disable bits on CPU-managed memory pages?

WebGL mainly involves writing GLSL scripts that act on buffers & arrays of data. You are limited to what data types you can upload into the video card.

GLSL is a Turing-complete language, so no, it is an unlimited data type. It is provably impossible to put limits on its behavior before you run it. The best you can do is run it with limited access to other memory space. But if that were implemented perfectly, video drivers would never crash.

Perhaps there are more vectors for vulnerability, but I'd rather see WebGL take off as a transparent standard, than rely on Adobe.

Well anything looks good if your standard of comparison is low enough. :-)

I admit I'd like to see more granularity as far as control. Last thing I want is WebGL ads eating up my GPU/CPU/Battery rendering stupid ragdolls physics simulations.

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Correct. Or keep them in their way to the chair. Because to admit they were wrong would be embarrassing. This is the banality of evil.
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Well I agree with Hanselmen:

"The 10,000 people on the planet that care about Web Sockets are not your customers, and while using Web Sockets might get you mentioned on TechCrunch, supporting only Web Sockets is a great way to cut your potential audience in half."

But it all depends on who you're looking to as your market. I'd go as far to say that the group of people who DON'T support web sockets is exponentially bigger than the ones who do...
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Thanks for you 'vote' :). I have responded to the issue of nginx vs os
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When people say they think software engineering should be approached more scientifically, usually what they mean is that they want a scientifically-verified process that repeatably produces optimal results. Unfortunately, what science has been done has generally shown that good people produce good software, bad people produce bad software, and that it doesn't seem to much matter what process you lay on top of them. (To the extent that sounds tautological, well, I'm summarizing here.) It is broadly accurate to say that what scientific evidence there is about software engineering leads to the conclusion that science isn't going to give us that science-approved unified single process that people are asking for. So we'll continue to hear this complaint for at least the next several decades.

(Science can nibble around the edges of the problem of software engineering, but even what results we have strike me as likely to suffer from the usual problems of taking small isolated samples from an n-dimensional space and then trying to extrapolate. For one thing, almost every study you've ever heard of that establishes some "fact" about software engineering was done on students. Scientifically speaking, there's no particular reason to expect such results to translate to professionals in any particular manner.)
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