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Well, sort of. Depends on what country you are in, too.

In AU/NZ at least (and I am simplifying) you have the last mile, the trunks between exchanges, the handover points between big exchanges and ISP POPs, and finally you have the ISP upstreams - any of which might be a bottleneck if sufficient traffic is generated.

In AU/NZ (and much of the rest of the world) you have local peering exchanges etc, but ISPs also have this cost for "upstream", which is money they have to pay to their friendly international cable monopoly to get bits from faraway places.

These backhaul links are not normally configured to handle all users running at full rate. That would be expensive, and silly.

In the fixed line world, you might observe "congestion", but it the root cause is usually "oversubscription".

Everyone oversubscribes backhaul and upstream, the question is how much you can get away with. The reward for guessing lower than your competitors is lower costs (or being able to defer an upgrade cycle). The penalty for guessing way too low is churn.

I say "guess" because even though telcos tend to have good models of user behaviour, user behaviour can change very quickly (from a telco's POV) when new services come on line.

Such as online video...
I regret to admit to knowing this, but that's not correct. The subscription tiers were more like;

- iPhone + Android phone sub

- iPad AND iPhone + Android phone sub

Android phone is equivalent to Kindle Fire. I have no idea why the Kindle was promoted over the Android phone, but it wasn't originally conceived as an exclusive.

Even to this day, I have no idea how the Android tablet subscriptions were handled. It was a Verizon exclusive, it was preloaded for exactly one tablet and it couldn't be uninstalled. I don't even know how many tablets were sold like this, but I don't believe it was many.

The Daily for Android tablet did an impressive job of replicating some parts of UIKit for Android. Shame nobody saw it.
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I don't see why USPS should pay out for what is clearly fraud by the buyer.
wow! Keen IO here. Now I see where the traffic spike is coming from. Looks like idan decided to Show HN for us :)
We actually do this: https://mixpanel.com/docs/api-documentation/displaying-mixpa... - though, not widely known.

In fact, Olark.com's analytics graphs are powered by us right now for their customers.
Bitinstant.com is the easiest. Just create a pending transaction on theie site (give them one of your bitcoin addresses, and tell them how much you want to buy) They give you a bank account #, and you just walk into that nearby bank with cash, fill out the deposit slip, and wait about 30 mins.
This is super impressive. Congrats!
> Only a severely paranoid person would take the time to write a year's worth of blog entries on the off chance he became a fugitive. Even then, what advantage does it give him? Some misdirection, certainly, but simply disappearing would be just as effective.

McAffee stated this in one of his earlier blog posts [1]. The blog is administered by a third party, and although a lot of the content is written by McAffee, most of it appears to be pre-prepared.

[1] http://www.whoismcafee.com/if-i-am-captured/
Please check out my response to Brian Chu here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4870090
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"So far, I don't see any happy ending to this impasse for the government that doesn't involve an unprecedented and IMHO implausible level of international cooperation."

Such is my cynical nature, I interpreted the 'initiative' as an attempt to distract attention from other areas of Mr Osborne’s policies. Rather like a stage magician.
I don't understand why you would assert that he is in a democratic country with an independent judiciary when Belize's corruption index is extremely high. See for yourself (it's near the bottom of the list):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

The real question is why you would make unfounded claims like that.
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Please do submit it; this is a great write-up. :)
I lived in California for 10 years, then Seattle for 10 and now I'm back in Cali. You are totally spot on. The OP reads like a typical Seattleite rationalization of the crappy weather situation there.

The biggest problem with the rain isn't getting wet; its the lack of sunlight, slippery driving conditions and constant threat of rain.

Even the described 20% chance of rain in any given hour is surprisingly inconvenient. Riding a bike to work/school or jogging are things that I think are best if turned into habits -- done at specific times on specific days -- not on the spur of the moment after looking at a weather report. And executing a picnic or hike with any decently sized group of friends is barely possible on a moments notice.

Seattlites need to call a spade a spade. If you like doing things outside (and judging by how full the city parks get on any remotely sunny day I think a lot of Seattlites do), the weather there is consistently inconvenient for about 10 months out of the year.
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Yes. We must hide it away and never speak of it again.
Nitpicking, but The Daily uses JSON describing page layouts which map pretty closely to UIKit objects and properties.

No Postscript, no PDF.

You can see this for yourself if you let Charles or any kind of wire sniffer observe the network traffic while The Daily loads a new issue.
Show HN: John McAfee's Last Stand - Joshua Davis [ebook]
I stumbled upon this ebook while randomly browsing Amazon and thought it might be of interest to the HN crowd.
Unfortunately HN immediately auto-flagged the amazon link so allow me to post it in this round-about way instead.

The book is written by WIRED's Joshua Davis who apparently had access to McAfee before he went on the run.

Note: I'll post a clicky link below, since all links in the OP post aren't.
clicky: http://amzn.to/TKjOlb
I used to read it when it started.

They used to only have about 5 articles a day, and then only post the next day.

Once they removed that limit I stopped. I use that filter on most sites except for HN.
Though this is really cool in itself, this has a horribly sensational and misleading title.
They might need rebooting once in a while but the maintenance of an iPad is negligible compared to a proper pc.
It's been raining for the past month solid at least. That combined with the constant stupid cold has basically convinced me to move back to the south. I hate the weather here..
1. It's everywhere. By that I mean my code will work everywhere, without much thinking about it being installed, versions, or packages, or whatnot.

2. Ruby is too 'core' and needs too much additionals gizmos to be efficient

3. Ruby is concise and conventional, while implicitness and terseness are idiomatic of Perl

4. I'm no Perl monk but things in my head translate to code structure more easily in Perl for this use case (unix tools, text/binary/file content stream manipulation)

5. Perl strict mode

6. Occasionally, Perl suid support

7. Bonus: performance under Windows, or rather lack thereof for Ruby

Mind you, Ruby is extremely apt and I enjoy working with it (especially - but not only - with Rails), but this is more a matter of using the right tool for each problem.
One company where I worked decade ago have tables numbered, like tbl01_users or tbl14_places.

Still have no idea why they establish it this way.
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Thanks! Great ideas. We do have funnels via API but not visualizations for them yet. We're going to build them into our javascript SDK so you can easily build them into your apps.
See the comments a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622166
How about "Cancer risk of your children visualized" ???
There is value in a succinct, eloquent expression of what many people are saying. If nothing else this gives me a single page to point to in six months' time that captures the attitude we had now.
also, i feel that to most people the unit of raininess is the day. even if you have a few sunny hours, but it is going to rain at some (often unpredictable) time during the day, you mentally classify that day as rainy.
I don't see why I would dream up awesome motivations where the real ones are actually rather mediocre, if not even pathetic. I kinda prefer having eyes in the head, a working brain etc.
Well that last one is pretty easy: nobody in Seattle carries an umbrella, for any reason, ever.
The stick is regulation, and the carrot is money.

Unfortunately, it's really hard to do once the govt. money is spent. I'm familiar with AU/NZ. Both are pumping significant public money into broadband infrastructure, and they took different approaches to enforcing fair network access.

In AU, they created a new company (NBN co) to run the "utility" part. See: http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/nbn

The government is paying the monopoly incumbent to switch users onto the new network.

In NZ, our privately owned largest telco (Telecom NZ) semi-voluntarily split itself into two parts - a retail and a wholesale branch. The shareholders agreed to do this, because that meant the wholesale part (Chorus) would get a big govt. contract to lay fiber to the door.

In theory, the split is "arms length", so other network providers can access the infrastructure on fair terms.

Reference: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5858284/Telecom-s...

It remains to be seen whether this is the right way to go about things, but both approaches do seem plausible.
I used clonezilla to make a mirror of the entire hard drive including the restore partition on a recycled thinkpad X200s. The mirror was saved on an external USB hard drive, and I tested restoring it. Less time than the DVD back up and didn't need a DVD recorder.
Thanks for the serious response - politics brings out the cynic in me.
http://thegraphicalweb.com/meet-svg

For those that don't remember, Adobe produced an SVG plugin for IE, which they pulled in 2006. Having SVG on all browsers reduced their competitive advantage they had with Flash having a higher penetration then SVG.

Adobe was doing their best to kill off open standards in favour of their proprietary ones 6-7 years ago, a plan that failed due to the poor quality of Flex, IE 9's support for SVG and iOS' dislike of the technology.

It's always amusing to see such folks eat some humble pie, particularly when the technology they were trying to peddle was such a poor piece of engineering.

The new adverts about IE 10 trolls are really an attempt to divert from the real reason people have beef with MS and Adobe. They tried to kill open standards, failed, now want to join the cool gang like nothing happened.

But don't limit our penetrating stare to just those that have historically done this. Keep an eye on where Google are going with the various Chrome extensions.

So, Adobe and HTML, fine, but they only joined us because they couldn't beat us.
He should do this for the convergence zone east of Arlington (about an hour NE of Seattle). I'm pretty sure it actually is raining all the time there, and hard.
You should have a clear link to pricing in the front page. Now it's hidden behind "learn more".
it is already a complete tool to create websites. what else do we want?
Are you using the /delta API? https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/15
I own a number of electronic devices - Galaxy Nexus, iPad (3rd gen), MacBook Pro, iMac, and a Windows desktop.

Surprisingly, the most unreliable (in terms of application crashes and weird issues that require a reboot of the device) is hands-down the iPad. I guess a few mitigating factors might be - app crashes are usually relatively easy to recover from, reboots fix most other problems, and viruses/malware (which have traditionally been vexing for many casual PC users) aren't an issue.
I agree concerning it just being a tech demo. On the other hand, with the tech I've watched, and that I've been involved with, the market application is fairly close to the academic conception. Figuring out a feasible use case often comes a long time after the commercial introduction, if ever.

I get the feeling in certain cases, it's technology in search of a problem. That's ok (and even necessary) as long as I don't have to put up with it shoehorned in places it doesn't really fit.
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why do people have the need to be coddled. If someone says it sucks and tells you why, its better than saying they love it and are lying about. Stop being so sensitive, and embrace any feedback.
I love it! Works like charm for small projects, for example I've built a simple private app that is both hosted on Dropbox (thru Site44) and uses Dropbox as DB (thru API), so everything is in one "box" which makes working on it really pleasant :)
For a side project I will say I am definitely impressed. The layout is cool, and the design/gui is amazing! I hope this site does well, don't worry about people telling you the music space is too crowded. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Point is you had fun doing it and hopefully learned a few things along the way. Congratulations to you.
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The funny thing about Seattle being known as the rainy city is that there are several large cities in the midwest and east US that have more rain, more rain days, and less sun days, I believe.

So why does Seattle get the rainy city tag? I think it is because here in the Seattle area the rain is usually the worst thing we get. No one is going to talk about rain in Buffalo, for instance, when that rain came with 10 feet of snow.

Question for my fellow Puget Sound area residents--do you use an umbrella? The rain is light enough most of the time that it doesn't soak through my jacket, so I just wear a hat to keep my hair and glasses dry.
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Some more relevant links:

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* Hash randomisation breaks CPAN - https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115908
If the reason is that you might get negative feedback in return, why not make both parties submit feedback blind and only publish the feedback once both parties have submitted it? (and make it not editable)
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It can be, and it is for me. I'm against all of it.
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> not to determine if "people want it" or if there's a market.

According to my world view, this is suicidal. Can you explain it to me from your world view?
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I would probably use this if PHP were enabled.
I'm not a programmer so maybe I'm way off, but I don't really see how -in the context of newspapers- the right to sell a native app on the appstore can be worth 30%, while a HTML5 version would be "free". And I also can't see how only targeting Ipad could be better in this context than targeting all tablets.

Because the population of people buying a yearly subscription to a newspaper is quite special to begin with - if you are counting on the increased publicity by being in the app store to sell subscriptions, I think you are doing something wrong.

Of course The Daily probably made mistakes as well. But I'm very sure that the succesful models of the future will neither be Ipad only nor giving up 30% to Apple without adding much value to the customer in doing so...
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1. Yes, but professional in usability have deemed Apple aesthetics as flat[1] i.e. good for beginners but not for power users/professionals. This might seem strawmany but if you design your UI for flatland, there is a good chance your hardware is designed to be flatland as well.

I assume that GP meant professionals as power users or the top percent of Apple's audience.

2. They have failed to solve a rather serious problem of their long-time customer, I don't know of better way to alienate your other customer than that.

4. And I used BASIC on commodore 64, where you had to plug it into a TV and used a cassette player. That doesn't mean you are lucky you can have a real dedicated 13 inch monitor and should stop complaining about not having a 15 inch monitor or a CD tray. It is a real problem, that would make me reconsider buying a MBP or a monitor for that matter.

[1]http://asktog.com/columns/075AppleFlatlandPart1.html
This is really helpful. Thanks for the advice. It'd be great to keep in touch, and perhaps even meet up at some point. There's no sense in us making mistakes that have already been made!
All it takes to make 100% of the customers happy at low cost is to give the other 5% special consideration when they aren't happy with the quality control that satisfies the other 95%.

Or to put it another way:

The cost to Apple's reputation of an angry blog post about ghosting problems on their flagship notebook is considerable.

On the other hand, the cost of simply swapping this fellows machine out would have been negligible.
I've tried to attack this problem several times with various friends, because I am a chronic loser (of things, haha). This is a great idea. I wish I'd thought of it. Good luck to these guys. :D
I'm not sure what's up with all the hate for reverse hungarian notation, but I personally think it is helpful when writing C/C++.
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He's still a small minority shareholder. So is Gates, and have been for many years. Last I checked, unless I'm severely mistaken, I believe Gates held something like 6%-7% of MS, and Ballmer substantially less.

The size of their holdings might make it somewhat harder to mount an "attack", in that there are no small group of large shareholders that would be able to vote a majority on their own and so any attack would require gaining the support of a large number of smaller shareholders, but he's certainly not immune from being ousted if he's actually so disliked by shareholders.
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"Many scientists are content to slowly chisel away at the bounds of our knowledge, but Boyden is building jackhammers for them to wield."

If this article is accurate, this would have to look like a significant disruption of brain research. EI, If biology is slow and messy, build tools to make it faster and cleaner.
it's technology in search of a problem

in academic research that's the rule rather than the exception. The nature of research makes it very hard, even impossible, to predict what is going to have applications in the future and what those will be. To name an example, touch screens were also written off as an (awkward) curiosity for decades.

I agree with the "I hope it isn't forced on me", but that's a wholly different discussion. That's a common theme with technology: in the beginning you can choose and it all seems great, later on you're considered odd if you opt out because "everyone is using it". But that's not the fault of the researchers or of the technology, but of the way society handles it.
He's arguing based on a technicality. When most people complain about the rain, they are really talking about the lack of sunshine. If any given day has a 50-70% chance of rain at some point, imagine the probability of any given day simply being gray.

The fact is, during non-summer, almost every day is without sunshine. So much so that the local news will report the consecutive number of sunny days during the summer. During the winter, getting any kind of sunlight is such a big deal that the local forecasters use the term "filtered sun" to describe cloud coverage that is thin enough to allow light through. Having grown up on the east coast, this was a novel term to me.

I've lived in Seatle a number of years now, and it has a lot going for it, but the weather absolutely sucks. I'm not at Microsoft anymore, but when I started, they asked if I'd be okay with the weather as it is apparently a major problem for them with people not being able to handle it (not sure if this was specific to my recruiter or a company-wide thing).
Will HTML5/JS games ever approach the performance that we have had for years with Flash/Silverlight? I try all these HTML5 demos and have thus far never failed to be sorely disappointed at the complexity that is required to code them and the poor performance they yield.

Shouldn't a new technology only be embraced for a certain use (like creating games) when it is "better" in some way than what we already have? Sorry, I really just don't get it. When will people realize that games will never be viable in HTML5. Embedded audio, videos, vector graphics and minor animations for a web site/app - great. But games??? Please stop. You are not using the best (or even suitable) tool for the job.
I love Portland, but in the time I spent there in various winters it seemed like there was a very fine misting rain pretty much all day every day for a week at a time.

Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong.
The complaints about the cold really reinforce my suspicion that everyone complaining about Seattle weather is used to California weather. Having grown up on the east coast (various places between DC and NYC), two things about Seattle weather stand out to me: it never properly rains (really it just "mists downward". Give me rain drops!), and it never actually gets cold. I really miss good proper cold weather, but it just doesn't happen in Seattle.
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I live in LA and refuse to own an umbrella on principle. Sounds like Seattle is the same but for the exact opposite reason.
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I was talking to someone today, and they commented:

"Good programmers eventually learn to misspell words like void or int so that they can name their variable names what they want to name them."

I of course told him that this was terrible advice, and would mess with the next person who had to maintain the code because you couldn't tell at a glance if a word was a keyword or a keyword mispelled. I asked him what language he was using.

FORTRAN.

Where did he work.

The United States Air Force.

For how long?

Six years.

When?

Before 2000.

Since he had more experience, he claimed I was de facto wrong.

I fought him on it some more.

He told me it was personal preference. I told him you'd have to make me do it.

It was at that moment I figured that someone, somewhere, had probably had to do this as part of a coding guideline.