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We have google fiber at home - Stanford faculty homes have had it the past year, like Kansas City.

It's pretty cool. My record so far is to consume 400Mbps, using 4 computers downloading from about 10 places, all wired through gigabit switches.

In practice, though, it doesn't make much difference compared to a 30Mbps cable modem for most consumers:

most streaming video is < 10 Mbps;

large file downloads are generally limited by a server (or somewhere else in the network?), so it's hard to exceed 30-40Mbps download speed;

web browsing feels about the same, because it's limited by round trips of DNS and http requests, not by bandwidth (spdy will help here?);

many consumer-grade NAT boxes (linksys and friends) are capable of only 100-200 Mbps

The one place it's made a big difference so far is uploads. For example, backup to a cloud backup service (backblaze) often goes 50Mbps or higher. But I did have to try several backup services because some were limited on the server side to a few Mbps.

Running services from home could be a use case too, but then you get into reliability of power/etc, and the fact that so far you can't get a static IP address through google fiber.

So for now google fiber is mostly a fast cable modem from a "don't be evil" provider. I think the real disruption will come with new services that don't really exist yet. What kind of new things can be built if there's enough audience?
A series paper size inspired aspect ratios would be amazing.

For those of you who don't know, the ratio of sides on A-series paper (A4, etc) is 1:sqrt(2), which means that if you put together 2 sheets of A4 with the long edges touching, you get the next size up, which would be A3.
Do engineers in SV actually spend time doing things they don't want to do?

You don't need a lifetime supply of cash to have "fuck you money", you only need enough to be reasonably certain that you can find some other way to get more money. In Silicon Valley, that's about 2 days for a skilled engineer. None of my software-engineer friends are doing things they don't want to do.
Snooping through the css I found this cute hyper-rabbit http://fiber.google.com/static/img/cities/rabbit.png

Edit:

Other interesting sprites:

* http://fiber.google.com/static/img/sprite-devices.png

* http://fiber.google.com/static/img/sprite-networks.png

also, tooltip:

http://fiber.google.com/static/img/cities/business_address_e...

Last edit : curl > grep > sed > jsfiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/LyHbH/embedded/result/
Why doesn't Apple allow free trials of apps?
Offline mode tends to activate automatically if your internet dies.
i think this is an amazing buy. what do you guys think?
Why so angry? I totally agree with you. In all cases where Apple ported an already existing fullscreen mode to their new solution they fall flat on their face. It’s an awful experience if you have more than one screen. So that’s QuickTime and the DVD Player. Not a big deal.

Third party developers should just not use Apple’s stupid mode. Problem solved. (Though I don’t understand everyone’s sudden fullscreen love. It’s just goofy on a big screen expect for a select few use cases. Don’t use it. That has always been the Mac OS philosophy.)

Overall I don’t think it’s a big issue. A small minority of Mac users is affected by this problem in a tiny number of use cases. It sucks for them – but no need to whine for hours on end. That’s just annoying for the rest of us :-)

It seems like every single discussion about OS X is dominated by this stupid topic. It’s boring. Yeah, it sucks. Everyone knows it. Apple made a stupid decision. Can we talk about something more interesting now?
Be careful about how you phrase that, "government is largely funding our new network".

The government is LOANING the money and are expecting to make a profit out of the effort.
Free to customize your notification shade on Android
Widgets can make toggling Wi-Fi, GPS, or ringtone volume quick and easy. But what if you want more options to help you skip through app menus or even the Settings area?

1Tap Quick Bar is an app that will let you customize shortcuts to be added to your notification shade. You can also personalize the look and feel of the panel that gets added -- meaning you get to pick all the shortcuts from a huge selection.
For some reason I love reading about the development of those old game classics, be it Warcraft, Prince of Persia, or Paradroid...
Two rotated 19" 1600x900s flanking a 2560x1600 30" monitor looks like your diagram.
Definitely good manners to keep the jealousy to oneself, but more important to get rid of the jealousy altogether. Resenting others for their success/progress is a huge energy waste (been there, done that).
Hi james, we just installed Mountain Lion and can confirm that this issue does indeed exist. We're working on getting it fixed and will get back to you.
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Iron Sky hits the U.S.
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Nonless you are still wrong to say that "Apple created WebKit" as the WebKit source code was a fork from the KTHML source code.
Along with this, the ability to set start and end dates for recurring tips would be great. Build in notifications if a recurring tip is set to stop soon so I can reconsider my donations.
Unfortunately, while the heroes may have inspired WoW, they also ruined the series. With the 3rd installment, Warcraft ceased to be a real-time strategy game and became an action-rpg. The heroes were so overpowered that you could win by focusing entirely on power-leveling your hero instead of building a city and managing units.
It was playing warcraft & starcraft that got me into warhammer and warhammer 40k when I was in high school, rather than the other way around. Funny that.
I suspect that if there is anyone in a position to research the problem and actually execute a solution, it is him. It's not like he's some kid who thinks tuxracer is the bee's knees.
I don't resent anybody for their success or progress. That's not what I said, and I'd hate for anybody to misinterpret me that way.
water buffalo are difficult animals for noobs to deal with.
Same here. Dune 2 is the game that made me a gamer. It's also the game I beat the most times consecutively (iirc twice per side, so 6 times), with the next closes being Westwood's Nox (which coincidentally was the game that showed me how awesome multiplayer could be).

Ah nostalgia hit, thanks OP!
There's a distinction between truly supporting a person, and being part of a long tail of "oh well here's a few cents." I see us trying to feel out how to work with those two cases. My current thinking is that the long tail of support for an individual will come via their association with various projects, groups, companies, brands--whatever we want to call them. Here's the ticket where we're tracking this:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27
I think the only Mac shipped with a 32 bit x86 processor was the original 15-inch MacBook Pro. But I suspect the Intel GMA GPU may also play a part. I read the HCL and couldn't find a machine with anything less than an Nvidia chip.

Anyway, 6 years is a long life for a laptop.
I discovered time travel with warcraft1, 25 min in mind-time, 8 hours in realworld-time.
Zynga has like $1.6B in cash/equivalents. It's gonna take a long long long time to "file for Chapter 11".

(http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/znga/financials/b...)
Isn't this how the term funding is normally used? For me 'funding' implies 'providing starting/ongoing capital'.

The clarification is a useful one though.
Hilarious, sharply satirical movie. Not necessarily HN material, but if you're reading this, go see.
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I'd say it's not sustainable since there is a limited lifetime value of a user in their game space. In order to continue increasing revenue you must grow new users at a rate that exceeds the loss of existing or prior users that have aged out of that phase of "spend money in game."

I suspect that Zynga IPO'd near the top of their possible revenue and without the ability to constantly acquire new users and/or re-engage previous users who have moved past spending money in-game they are going to decline over time. Even if they establish a stasis between loss of user revenue vs new revenue their share price will have to drop since the P/E multiplier would be that of a matured company rather than a growth stock. Share price would be discounted accordingly.
May I ask what MBP you have?
Nothing to do with file systems, got bout half way before I realised this was just some tool talking about how hard it is to keep his shit organised.
The thing stopping that from happening today is not bandwidth.
Maybe something along the lines of 'patron/patronage' would be a better term?

A play on the word for domain names such as patronous.com (full of patrons) or patronian.com .
Initial feeling, if it's music related, orange and bright colors convey fun and lightness. I'd also play with different fonts.
How about making the play button prominent instead of tucked away to the right. Like always on top, header length or bottom hide/show bar.
He also said "I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market."

He's clearly not just talking about the app store cutting into margins. Why else would OEMs exit the market if not because of usability issues/market collapse?
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What would cause OEMs to leave the market, other than mass migration by users because of a bad user experience?
As a Kansas City resident, this is going to be inexplicably interesting. We have a pretty decent tech scene here. I'm just wondering how this will impact it, if it will at all.
Steam's cut is 30%. However, for that 30% you get to update your game whenever you want, and virtually as often as you want. By that I mean they don't impose any direct limits on how often you update, but the general rule is no more than once a week aside from hotfixes and the like. I'm not aware of any digital marketplace that gives you this much control, especially as video game updates will often be hundreds of megabytes in size. Contrast this with Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade, which charges you $40k for each additional update after the first free update. [1]

Edit: It is worth nothing that if a user's game was activated with a retail key, Steam takes no cut. This means that you are effectively getting service for that user for free.

You also get Steam Cloud, which allows you to store your users' configuration and saved game files to be accessed anywhere, their peer-to-peer networking API which provides NAT punching. Then there's matchmaking, stats/achievements, Steam Community (their social network), and several other "Steamworks" features. [2]

Edit: Microtransactions is another big one, also known as in-app purchases. The online brochure for Steamworks is worth a read if you're interested in any of this: http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/index.php

I haven't read a lot about Windows 8's app store, especially concerning Xbox Live, but Steam still has a lot to offer to developers.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/microsoft-comes-under-...

[2] https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/api
Pair programming is definitely a different skill and takes practice. Because of this I doubt management could ever force it. You'd need people on the team that know how to do it and can help others learn. And if you have those people, they're probably already implementing it.

For me, pairing helps avoid bad decisions before it's too late. There are a lot of choices in programming and when both I and my partner agree on a path it's probably the right one. If we can't agree, usually it's because neither is better than the other.

Also not all tasks are right for pairing. Research for example can be frustrating as a pair activity. This is another reason we like this setup since it gets out of the way for non-pair tasks.
As I wrote before, this is a doomed company. They spend cash like they make a lot of it, but in reality lose hundreds of millions. Mark my words, whatever day-to-day fluctuations occur over the next 6 months to a year, Zynga will be swallowed up by AOL or Yahoo and disappear. Horrible management, talented employees, flawed business model.

TechCrunch articles are cool, but facts are stubborn things. If you spend more than you make, eventually that shit will catch up with you.
HN material comes in all shapes and sizes
>Nothing is forcing you to use Metro. In fact, only apps that have an UI designed specifically for Metro will use the Metro environment.

What happens when the majority of apps you want to use are Metro apps?
Not true, the great apes are all classified as hominidae.
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Since Snow Leopard was the last version of OSX to run PowerPC binaries, this may actually be quite annoying for all the people who have to be able to run their older apps and have not updated to 10.7 because of that.
Games for Windows Live was not warmly received. It’s unlikely that this will be a killer feature.
Very close. That article was the original inspiration and Josh's recent pic (https://twitter.com/joshsusser/status/212928411470012416/pho...) was what helped us realize that the extensions would provide enough space.
Was interested until I got to: "glossy anti-glare coating". I think I'd have just said it was glossy.
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Check this.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/04/a-peer-reviewed-admiss...

"Given the widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008."

This is coming from the GWPF itself : "It is good news that the authors recognise that there has been no global temperature increase since 1998. Even after the standstill appears time and again in peer-reviewed scientific studies, many commentators still deny its reality. We live in the warmest decade since thermometer records began about 150 years ago, but it hasn’t gotten any warmer for at least a decade."

So, temperature increase? Hum ? Global Warming ? Hum ?CO2 levels are exploding but no significant temperature increase from 1998 - 2008.

More about so-called consensus : more than 1000 scientists worldwide dissent to "man-made global warming claims" : http://climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000...

Talk about consensus!

Here's how to "manufacture a consensus":
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870439830457459...
If Google doesn't do it who will? Who else has the vision? As long as they keep not doing evil everything is cool. If they do start doing evil we are screwed but we will have high bandwidth to get on the Internet and read about how messed up we are.
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Fundamentally, the two are very different.

Whilst the information carrier, photons, is identical in both cases, the medium is extremely different.

In the case of fibre we have a highly controlled, flexible medium with extremely good quality of service and very little attenuation. This comes at the price of requiring relatively expensive infrastructure between network nodes.

Wireless technology on the other hand travels through air as a medium. You remove the end-to-end infrastructure requirement, but the trade off is much higher attenuation and lower quality of service. Additionally, you require some amount of 'direct line of sight' depending on frequency. Lower (and hence slower) frequencies are able to refract around mountains and even off the outer atmosphere, providing quite good coverage, but visible light has no such capability. Repeater satellites or LOS base stations would be required to effectively use such a frequency.

This is why HAM radios are great for talking to people kilometres away, but can't be used for effective wireless internet, and why hotspots don't cover more than a few hundred metres at most.
And that part scares me. That is a whole lot of my personal info to provide to a company that is really good at processing it.

Of course, I'm probably being stupid about that. My network data was probably sold a long time ago. And they have also probably already correlated it with my google account.
Are these still available on Taobao? Do you know which brands to look for?
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Thank you very much for your advice. The analog on marriage is precisely how I feel co-founder relationship should be.
For me, the update to the messages beta app alone was worth it: iMessage on the Mac is so useful to keep in touch with friends, and the beta app was buggy as
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Kaesong Industrial Region area is run by Hyundai Asan (Hyundai is a big group of companies and Asan is not really connected to the Motors side). Kaesong mostly produces low-end, low-tech manufactured goods (think toothbrushes and plastic toys). Hyundai Asan is not run by idiots and there is no way they would put anything in North Korea that would allow North Korea to mass produce high-end, techncial goods like IPS displays. Some manufacturing is done by Chinese companies near the northern DPRK border but it is mainly stuff that requires human machines (labour is cheaper in North Korea than China!). Think, textiles and basket weaving. Power is even imported from China there and North Korea provides almost nothing to businesses except access to a limited labour supply.

Your post is conspiratorial and wrong. I know people who have worked at Kaesong (note that Kaesong has also been mostly closed for the last 3 years). Wages may be extremely low but anything that gets more food and money into North Korea while remaining outside the control of the government is a good thing. People can't fight tyranny when they are fighting to not starve to death.
This is pretty amazing. It's a transformative move if Google can pull it off. Google might be best served by being the wholesale pipe provider rather than customer facing ISP.
What cloud backup provider did you settle on? Dropbox has very slow uploads for me, so I'm curious what else is out there that works.
Strangely, it shows that way in the Store, but the downloaded app has the new logo icon.
I actually just went back to the post, and they've edited the original article. He initially had a long list of things which included (something like) #2 don't pitch me another group buying site, #4 seriously, don't pitch me another group buying site.

It wasn't the his content was wrong, he should say how he feels. But it had a very negative and condescending tone to it.

The edited article is much... smoother.

Also if you compare the other VCs in the article, much of it is about what they want, rather than what they don't.

I have nothing personally against Vinnie, I've never met him, never heard of him before.
But in the first version of the article he really stood out against the others in what I thought was a negative light.
Are downloads of torrents similarly limited or does the distributed nature allow for much higher speeds?
Almost all SV developers, even those at the "perfect job", still have to do things they don't want to. This is a factor in salaries; the more unpleasant a company is to work at, the more they have to spend to hire skilled developers.

And "fuck you money" isn't only enough money to tide you over to your next job, it's enough money to quit working forever, to live completely as you want for as long as you want.
The New York Times reporting on this issue,

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/07/25/business/25reuters...

kindly shared to HN by iProject,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4293713

includes this amazing statement: "The company blamed the poor performance of its established, money-making games - Facebook-based titles like 'Cityville' - on changes to Facebook's algorithm, which Zynga said spurred users to discover new games rather than repeatedly play existing Zynga offerings." So Zynga is saying it was hosed by the algorithms of the site that made its games famous--the site that derives a lot of its own revenue from a cut of Zynga's revenue. It looks like Facebook has a rather odd idea of how to be a "partner" with another business that uses its platform. No wonder the stock of both companies went down when Zynga's results were announced. This should increase interest in Facebook's results and Facebook's spin on its results, including any response Facebook has to what Zynga's excuse for its performance is.
Backblaze. But it's really cloud backup, not storage/sync like dropbox.
This makes me wonder; would it be possible to get software patents on various game mechanics? What if the first RTS producer had patented a lot of it? Is that so different from smartphone interface patents?
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Causes and Not For Sale are crowdfunding a not-for-profit startup
Backblaze has been a rock star for me over a year. It used to be very, very slow (My first backup took the better part of a week to get the "Initial" image in place) - but it was okay because their constant background backups only needed around 1 mbit to be effective (and, more importantly to me - invisible. Time Machine had a bad habit of ramping up my CPU).

But, recently, they must have made modifications to their system - because I routinely see backup in excess of 15 mbits/second. Highly recommended.
None of my software-engineer friends are doing things they don't want to do.

Your friends sound young.
It'd be amazing to even have affordable 10mbps here in the US. We're pretty 3rd world as far as Internet speeds are concerned.
That's pretty sweet. Its like a daily deals site meets the App Store. Any plans on doing iPad bundles?
The OEMS are in a tough place. They have to compete with actual HW innovation ( apple ) on one side, and with subsidized hardware on the other side ( amazon ). And if they succeed, all the margins go to Microsoft.

At least, in the case of Android, they can add value, or extra revenue streams. In the case of linux, the open nature, would provide a competitive edge.

Why would any OEM be interested in selling win8 devices? If microsoft is going the way of the console ( like apple and amazon are doing ), shouldnt microsoft be paying them instead of the other way around?
Well, if TechCrunch is right, already-public companies missing the mark leads to smaller valuations which leads to cheaper rent in the Valley. I'll take the smaller valuations in exchange for the cheaper rent. </selfishness>
> Those who control or curate content (Google, NBC/Comcast, Facebook) should not control infrastructure.

Why not?

> while a high-speed competitor to local cable monopolies is exciting,

It's not just exciting, it's everything. Comcast, TW et al, can get away with being massively valuable enterprises even though they provide the absolute worst service on earth. Any kind of competition for them, can only be a good thing, even if its from another company that controls both content and infrastructure.
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Given the extreme similarities, wouldn't it have been worthwhile to point out the similarities and differences to the Pivotal setup in the article, rather than adding them retroactively in the HN comments?
Is anyone making a lot shorting these companies?
their way of dealing with command line tools is rather annoying in this release
I honestly hope so. Even though I don't use Linux on the desktop anymore (I'm Mac, mostly) I appreciate the pressure that competition brings.
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This just looks... Wrong :) Doesn't look or feel like iOS at all...