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What does Google hopes to accomplish with making fiber available?

They want to enable entirely new applications.

For example, online video was an application enabled by the widespread availability of broadband Internet. Before broadband, downloading videos was possible, but streaming was not. Simply put, the (average) rate at which you download frames of video has to be greater than the rate at which frames are displayed for streaming to work.

The most interesting changes were not quantitative, but qualitative.

Google -- and most HN readers -- probably believe that higher broadband speeds are an inevitability, although the process has been going much slower in the US than most of us would like. And new ways of using the Internet will be enabled as speeds get faster. And, if it offers fiber, Google will be at the forefront of that wave, which will help Google by:

(1) Accelerating the change, pushing those new markets to be created sooner than they would have been created without Google Fiber
(2) Putting it in a good position to capture the new markets -- i.e. if Application X is eating a lot of bandwidth on Google Fiber, that might be an early signal that the Application X space is a growth market and Google should find a way to get involved.
Yes, very pleasant surprise, completely unexpected humorous side of Marco. Wonderfully dry humor.
Google is coming out with a breakfast cereal?
Your phone company is the same. They store trove of data about you, you'd be surprised.
Other things marketed as playful or safe for kids in the US;

- Bicycles (Over 500 deaths a year)

- Battery powered toys (Roughly 2500 battery ingestions a year, Roughly 2% Fatality Rate)

- Bottles, Pacifiers etc. (2200 ER Injuries per year)
The stamp collecting was tongue and cheek.

But the truth is companies make many products to separate "addicts" from their money. Women's clothing, electronics, fancy cars, women's shoes. Or take QVC or HSN. You don't think that the nature of business in general (or food marketing I mean the list is endless) is engineered to separate people from their money? (Food obviously is really addicting no question about that).

All off these things share the same thing in common. They engineered and perfected to get you to spend money or something that gives you enjoyment. (It's not food though it's a certain type of food. Nobody is getting addicted to broccoli or boiled potatoes. Fried chicken or Lay's potato chips or things with MSG? Very possibly.

Obviously not every example I've given has the same degree of addiction.
Custom Website Header/Logo Designer
All website owners want to make their website attractive and beautiful so that visitors can like their website in first impression.In websites,website headers play an important role. Headers give an idea to visitors about the website and it's very important.
say, Google colocates it's services with its fiber infrastructure

This is actually the defense Comcast is using with their IPTV services. They don't have to pay anything to move that data over public lines, so they don't "charge" extra for it (by "charge", I mean putting it against the caps they recently removed). On the other hand, Netflix et al does go across public lines that Comcast does have to pay for, and they do "charge" for that because they themselves are being charged for it.

Local CDNs are troublesome when it comes to the difference between WAN and last-mile prices for content providers/deliverers.
Two creative girls, one fun app. What do you think?
It would be more of a deterrent if they would have only allowed writing the sitecode via the programmer, and only then if it was blank. So basically, the locks ship with blank sitecodes, the programmer can set them once (other code on the lock would handle writing the sitecode to nvram, inaccessible to the programmer's read "command"). After that the only way to change the code is to reset the nvram. This way the sitecode wouldn't be readable from the programmer, and a malicious programmer couldn't set a sitecode that they provided. The requirement of resetting nvram would be enough to mitigate most attacks, especially if you could only make it accessible from the other side of the lock.
Sorry if this is obvious, but to clarify: is that around 8 MB/s? Or did you mean 65 MB/s?
I can't believe they waited this long. I'd be surprised if a lot of adults haven't swallowed these, too. Everybody knows that BBs and pennies pass easily, so why wouldn't you think that about magnets? It isn't like the warnings are printed on every ball, and there's nothing intuitive about their danger.

Tiny, strong BB magnets can have no place in a house that ever has kids in it. It's not safe to have them in or on daddy's desk, or anywhere else. Maybe in the gun safe.

Also, I always assumed that the Fuller estate got a cut of this. Pretty rotten all around.

edit: swallowing small strong magnets is a fairly unique, well known, and long standing danger. When I was a kid, a lot of plastic items were made magnetic by gluing in tiny (maybe 3/4 cm diameter) disks. After a lot of resectioning of the necrotic bowels of a lot of children, and a lot of death amongst both children and animals, this ended. Good riddance. It's safer to let your kid play with a bag of broken glass.
>"Yes, fundraising is definitely a point of success."

Really? When your bank gives you a mortgage, do you deem that a "success"?

The fact that there are people who see raising funds as a sort of "end game" is a problem, at least in my opinion. Pets.com, Kozmo.com and Webvan all raised lots of money. So did Enron and Worldcom, in a different way.

Success occurss when you produce net economic gains to society.
Everything we can see (which is called our "Hubble sphere") started off as a tiny little (and very massive) speck of stuff at the beginning of time. There were infinitely many tiny little specks, and they all became different Hubble spheres. But all the Hubble spheres all overlap each other, forming one continuous space. The same thing was true about the little massive specks at the Big Bang.

As I said above, at the time of the Big Bang, the universe was like a very dense sheet of rubber, and then it started rapidly stretching, getting less and less dense over time, until it is now the density that we see around us.

Infinities can definitely give you a headache, though. For instance, there are just as many odd integers as there are integers.
The people who matter aren't going to comment on this, but I'm out celebrating, so what the hell. I was actively looking for a job until about 6 hours ago. I read lambda calculus papers for fun. Hayzap, and the class of companies hayzap belongs to, is not even on our radar. Hayzap does not have hard problems and does not need a team who can ace this interview, and those of us who can ace this interview are uniterested in you. We don't want to take your worthless equity and we don't want to take a 50% pay cut for the privilege of working for your startup.
You're being deceptive. How many deaths per bicycle, per battery, and per bottle?
Do people still slice web designs in PhotoShop?
And you conveniently omitted the part where it says "[...] marketed the magnets to adults and teenagers" to focus on the word toy. It's as dishonest as calling for a ban on Ben Wa Balls if a child choked on one. Because you know... they're balls, they're "toys" and they're a hazard.
I agree. Although the hero units were a nice spin on the RTS genre, I would have preferred to play without them. I was glad to see that they weren't used in Starcraft 2 multiplayer.
Who owns most of the fiber? Do they already have arrangements with the government? The answer is yes. So why the alarmism specific to Google?
You forgot LinkedIn which is still up 40% over its IPO.
Well, governments fund roads, schools, etc, and they don't expect to make financial returns on those.

However, the national broadband network is funded through government loans, but expects to make a profit on the returns from it.

So there is quite a difference in terms of the Government budget. The former are a cost to the budget, with ongoing expense and no expectation of any monetary returns. The latter is forecast to take nothing out of the government budget.
Hunter-gatherers, Westerners use same amount of energy, contrary to theory
On craftsmanship and turning customers into fans
Path Debuts Version 2.5
Notice how many times he links to instapaper?
I have a set too, and they are cool. I let my six-year-old play with them, because I trust her. She knows not to let her friends play with them. In the light of this suit, I'll have to reconsider that.

They are really easy to lose, and if lost, they can be picked up and swallowed by a kid, and their parent would never know. The particular danger of strong, tiny magnets is quite non-obvious (inspecting the comments here makes that clear), even spooky.

They are commonly sold at science centers, near children's toys, another indication that the marketing was done to kids, and not as just a desk toy.

I've been dreading the day one of the ones I've lost gets sucked into the vacuum...no telling how much damage it could do if it sticks onto a gear.

I'm not surprised about the suit.
Steam isn't the platform that the games run on. Windows is. Steam is a distribution platform. There is no reason you can't use other distribution methods on the same computer and the same OS installation.

Also, in the article I don't think Gabe Newell ever says that the problem with Windows is that it is closed per se. It's not as though he fails to realize that Steam is not open source software.
I think the latter has a lot more visibility, at least.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
So if 12 parents let their children play with knives (and the children were harmed) like the 12 instances for Buckyballs, we should ban all knives?

It seems like parents ignoring warning labels on an item not marketed towards children is the main issue (I wouldn't necessarily say the magnets were less dangerous either).
What dialect of Lisp should I use to follow along the book with?
3 Types of Off Price Clothing Good Manufacturers Offer
If the off price clothing website you’re on only has a limited amount of basic items, you’re dealing with the wrong one. Instead, a quality wholesale manufacturer will have a virtual shopping mall sitting out in cyberspace.
Who the hell upvoted this shit.
FundersClub (YC S12) Wants To Bypass VC And Let You Invest In Startups
"Some Democrats, generally less critical of the Fed, say such audits would undermine the Fed's independence and erode market confidence in the central bank.

"That will politicize the making of such policy, and I think it's a bad way to go," said Steny Hoyer, the number-two Democrat in the House."

The Senate, if this fails, should be very ashamed and Obama's Administration should be extremely ashamed; where's the transparency Mr. Obama?
Google vs. Wolfram Alpha is something I'm ok with.
It has to be exposed in the SDK too. You can hack in some iOS support via a category but you'll have to use 4.5 if you want the real deal for iOS.
Do you work for the Bureu of Information?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...
Your last line is an excellent point and really the crux of the issue. These buckyballs are marketed as a toy and widely understood to be a toy. Just glancing at the website there's "NOT A TOY" in large font but a little further down is a quote saying "There's no better desktoy". It's not surprising that there is some confusion. People just don't associate magnets with danger and the toy-ness of this product certainly doesn't help.
Except again: In Google vs AT&T, Comcast et al, I'll take Google any day of the week. Their "evil" is a bunch of shit that nobody really cares about, whereas the others actively screw me, running fiber optic cables straight into my apartment and then making sure that even the priciest data plan I can buy is rate limited to the equivalent of mid-2000s DSL.
the simple answer is don't use services if you don't trust them. If google provides cheaper fiber access in your area, and you'd trust verizon or comcast then use those providers.
According to nasdaq.com there were 5.9MM ZNGA shares traded in the after hours session: http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2012-07/after-hours-most-ac...
why is it a concern. Just don't use their services then.
>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.

Is there any reference for that?
Even if they aren't given to children I don't think they set off the "hey this is really dangerous" alarm for a lot of people. Ideally an adult would play with these then count them all to make sure none are missing and store them out of reach of a child -- every single time with no mistakes or exceptions. Requiring that level of care kind of moves these out of the "toy" category in my mind.
Google Fiber Website Peek - Note Navbar.
One key skill that is needed in a startup is how quickly can you learn and adapt.

We try to figure out how quickly a person can learn and be productive by giving a small problem in an area that the candidate is not strong at. We then give them the complete internet access and a development environment and ask them to write code for the problem. We also pick a problem that is highly relevant to the day to day work, not a theoretical one.
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It's only one magnet though, more could span a pipe and cause a blockage or trap internal linings as described above.
They're also both an educational and creative toy that can introduce kids to the counterintuitive ways that magnets interact, while teaching them to build things within unusual constraints. Yes, they are dangerous if swallowed, just like a lot of other things that we have around our houses all the time. Keep them out of reach of young children, sure, but this is a tiny risk that has been blown out of proportion by the media. Last year, over 1,600 kids under 6 were poisoned by household cleaners... just in Washington DC.

As for "why would you assume that you can't swallow it?", I just don't even what to say. Don't just assume that you can safely swallow shit?
I love the freedom I have with C/C++ and although it's true I used a lot more Java than C at university, when speed is of relevance I usually go with C/C++ (usually a weird mix of both). And if it's not, my first choice is Python.

Though it's generally true that most of my friends prefer Java over C/C++. I might be different because I learned programming in high school and started with C.
Church of Kopimism holds that file sharing is sacred
These speeds are already available. I've had 50Mbps/15Mbps from Comcast for over a year, for about $100/month -- and I actually get those speeds so long as the server with the content is willing. Dual-stack support is soon as well, so I'll have an IPv6 address.

In the next week or so, my downstream will be increasing to 105Mbps at no additional charge[1]. In some markets (mine included) Comcast will be offering 305Mbps downstream service (granted at $300/mo), which is 90% of the bandwidth the DOCSIS 3.0 specification would allow over 8 channels.

Granted, on the opposite end we have Verizon now trying to slowly kill their DSL service and replace it with LTE. [2]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/comcas...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/op-ed-verizon-wil...
What's wrong with Comcast? Or with me?
I ping 75.75.75.75 (their name server)
13 successful pings
14 request timeouts
12 successful pings
14 request timeouts
and so forth. Makes a great square wave on the terminal. But why? Anybody seem something like that?
As I recall there are several Christian Linux distros (despite the presence of various Christian packages in repos for major distros like Debian and Fedora) so this isn't all that unbelievable.

What I question is why I am looking at a forum post from 2009.
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Je vous écris pour vous informer que notre programme nucléaire a une fois de plus été compromise et attaqué par un nouveau ver avec des exploits qui ont fermé leurs portes de notre réseau d'automatisation à Natanz et une autre installation de Fordo près de Qom.<p>Selon l'e-mail nos experts cyber envoyé à nos équipes, ils croient qu'un outil de hacker Metasploit a été utilisé. Les pirates ont eu accès à notre VPN. Le réseau d'automatisation et de matériel Siemens ont été attaqués et fermés. Je sais seulement très peu de choses sur ces questions cyber que je suis chercheur pas un expert en
Dept. of Agriculture warns food prices will rise past inflation
As google gets larger and larger the slower and less nimble it becomes.

But given the other competitors in this market, I'm glad google is making their move, US is falling behind other countries when it comes to broadband access and this will only open up so many new business opportunities in US.
However, as others said I'll be curious about neutrality of Google when it comes to content. Will they block vimeo in favor of youtube?
Wow, blast from the past. My first serious use of email was Lotus Notes. It had some really cool features but also really strange ones, such as using the escape key to send a message.
Peter Norvig on The History and Future of Technological Change (2007)
As an emergency brake, because some people don't understand that they don't know how to ride a fixie yet, and maybe also because it's illegal in many places (for example, California) to ride a bike without at least a front brake fitted.
An open Twitter-like ecosystem
If by "created" you mean "enhanced and renamed".

By that standard UC Berkeley "created" BSD and Tim Berners-Lee "created" HTML.
Scheme of some sort ideally - either MIT Scheme or Racket will do nicely. I seem to recall that someone was working on a version of SICP with examples in Clojure, but it may be incomplete.

http://racket-lang.org/
No parent can reasonably stop their kid from drinking bleach or Drāno if the kid wants to. Should we ban those too?
It just doesn't exit. I've been shopping to a windows laptop for ages and really nothing is as good as what apple is offering.
I'm surprised they took this long, and at the same time somewhat concerned about whether they'll be a particularly nefarious lobby (hopefully not). Still, this is the natural order of things in the economy.
I think this is a little too heavyweight. Since platform-consistent UX is so important, I'd prefer to stick with Apple's tools--at least for UI development. It's usually easy to tell when an app is faking the native look-and-feel in a webview, for example, and I doubt that this will be much different.
But toys aren't necessarily for kids. There are many toys which are intended for adults. Now, in some cases they may be called things other than toys (fashion accessories, schwag, sports equipment, sex toys), but at their heart, they are toys, just toys targeted to adults, not kids. Should every one of those that's dangerous be banned because it might be mistaken for a toy for a kid? Does the fact that a vibrator or handcuffs are sold as "sex toys" mean that they should meet all of the safety guidelines for children's toys?

Or should we say, maybe, that people should just exercise better judgement themselves; that people should realize that a collection of many small round magnets that are easily lost and difficult to do anything with without some fairly fine manual dexterity probably isn't the best toy for someone who might be tempted to eat them?
You're quite right I am being somewhat deceptive to make a point. However to my knowledge there are no deaths related to Buckyballs, and the rate of ingestion is something like 0.0000048%.
I would love to take the plunge but need photoshop. Gimp is a long way behind.
I got a kick out of this:
"You are probably reading it in an Info hypertext browser, such as the Info mode of Emacs. You might alternatively be reading it TeX-formatted on your screen or printer, though that would be silly."
Agreed. Some other factors...these are a toy, having no other useful function. And, perhaps they could be designed to be more safe. There are lots of other magnet toys that are more safe.
If you aren't really good in the interview and you don't have a lot of experience on paper then it is really immaterial how skilled you are because nobody is going to actually test that.