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Here in the UK, we have a peculiar paradox regarding the rollout of fibre. We have what amounts to a telecoms duopoly, split between the old telephone monopoly (BT) and the sole national cable company (Virgin Media). BT cover every home, but Virgin Media serve only the most populous areas. BT are progressively upgrading their POTS network, while Virgin's network was FTTC from the start.

BT only bother upgrading areas to fibre where they've got competition from Virgin Media, so people tend to either have the choice between two 100mbps fibre providers or none at all. The disparity in broadband speeds is growing rapidly, because the areas not served by Virgin Media tend to be those furthest from BT's exchanges and hence having the slowest ADSL speeds.

I'm not normally one to advocate government intervention, but the situation seems absolutely absurd.
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5.6. I've been working for 3 years now. To be fair, I was initially employed in a shitty web agency who liked to overwork and underpay their employees.
I think your numbers are off. One you seem to be speaking only of developers in the San Francisco and valley area. $100K for 2 years of experience is by no means a norm for 99% of the country.

Also, you seem to be saying that after some high school courses you're going to be dropped into a job immediately. I don't think so. One, it's a huge hurdle to bypass college. You're going to have to spend a lot of time refining your skills and then more time building some portfolio if you don't go to college.

Also, it's not normal to get 60% raises your first and second year in the workforce. You have to be exceptional and changing jobs. More likely the student will be earning $42.5K the third year if they stay at the same job. Even transitioning jobs, it's going to be hard (outside of the valley microcosm) for any hiring manager to give you a 60% pay raise for an entry-level position.

I think a better sales pitch and more realistic one is that after your courses and with several hard years of refining your programming skills, you can expect to make the median US household income your first year ($50K). And that with changing jobs, you can expect to be in the top 35% of income in a few years ($70K). (edited: percentiles and clarified I mean household... and doing some pot odds of failures rates of 66% never grasping advanced programming, their expectation is $16K/yr, or, right where they were headed anyway)
Seems like a great addon. what about other OS? Ubuntu/Win?
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Sonic.net proposed gigabit in SF with 170 above ground repeaters compared to AT&Ts 800+. That also was voted down.

It's not a sick joke, it's San Franciscan :/. I sometimes feel like we work in a city that's all things at once: tech bastion, hipster haven, and a home to a generation of hippies. There's a lot of culture and there's a part of it that hates ugly things and a part of it that hates technology and every time someone wants to build some cool tech like city wide wifi, this is the inevitable result.
try this url: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss it works. same feed url pattern will work for google blog too http://googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Optimus support for linux - nvidia releases beta driver
So they call this Resource Oriented Programming. This approach to making software seems ideal for start-ups. It's software as a miniature word wide web. Takes a while getting used to this concept, but once you do, it's pretty amazing.

You can get up and running fast, and what's more, once you build out your application you can re-use a lot of the infrastructure you put in place in the beginning.

You may even be faster in putting together a MVP (minimum viable product) than using traditional tools of the trade like Ruby on Rails.

Once you grow your company and have to think about stuff like architecture, services, layers and endpoints this system will do most of the work for you.

Remember Paul Graham wrote a post about how LISP gave him an edge in his first start-up company. He was able to develop features faster than the competition.

To me ROC is a hidden gem, a really useful tool for a start-up.
This is quite usual in (Eastern?) Europe for DSL networks (on landlines). And surprisingly very similary for railways. What used to be state-owned companies split into two - infrastructure owner and service provider. Anti-monopoly restrictions grand access to infrastructure to other companies as well and they compete for customers.
I was told they have a lot of business people working to close deals with the apps developers.
Also, doesn't he mention they have a 10 people engineering team? And if you had to that all the people who are in different country to meet with developers all around the world, I think that it can add up to 45…
Absent would be better than lying. http://things-linux.blogspot.ru/2013/04/the-fine-art-of-corp...
This seems to be the press release: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/hekaton-1...
The four engines of an Airbus A380 provide 311 kN of thrust each, so roughly 1.2 MN or 100 tons of thrust, where the aircraft itself weighs ~500 tons (MTOW-payload).

Biggest weight point is the fuel with 320 tons... I wonder how much fuel is needed for the same energy output as the A380 engines.
Pretty much. More mass to lift = more fuel = more mass = more fuel etc., plus burning fuel isn't the most efficient way of getting kinetic energy into the thing you are lifting.

I would say it is unsuitable for atmospheric engines because of the way it runs. Earth to Mars in 30 days will need you to be travelling at almost 90 km/second. The engine has to fire for 3 days straight because the delta v you need is retardedly high, so it pulses the engine once a minute so that the passengers don't die and the ship doesn't break up due to huge g-forces.

Lifting something into orbit needs to be done fast, because most of your energy is spent counteracting gravity, not air resistance. A slow pulsing engine would not be enough to get you up.
Some, but not enough to refactor an entire site/app
On this reddit thread some solutions like using SIP gateway with echo cancellation were discussed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/15ip1v/is_voip_just_...
Considering their first review, it seems it's closer to getting an indigestion than not fully enjoying the meal.
The old L5520 processors they are using have 4 cores with hyperthreading, so it appears as 8 to the OS - so they don't have to have changed the host machines to present 8 cores to the VMs.
Yahoo will buy something that USES this tech, and outsources the actual building as well...
Are you referring to reviews on Amazon? Are those really that big of a part of their business? I rarely read them, personally. I just assume they are gamed.
Your UI is better.
How online learning with LurnQ is more social and clutter-free
Pleasantly misleading title, as the author had a nice experience with Linux, but he is obviously not very technically savvy (calls himself a geek, but clearly is not), but in the sum total of things, having a nice Linux experience is something you want to hear from a non-geek.
They mostly fixed the channel problems with CHANFIX.

This isn't really about that though.
If Google slyly becomes America's fibre wholesaler like that, I will tip my hat to them.
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/636883main_FDR_talk_NIAC_2012_final...., slide 15 says 0.38 kg/kW for a 30 day trip (some hand waiving included)

That sounds powerful to me. However, they also talk of pulse rates of 14s to 3m (slide 19). I guess you will have to divide that power output by some duty cycle (corrections welcome; I only browsed the PowerPoint, and wouldn't understand it, anyways)
Found the answer: "The problem for McKelzey now is that he's picked up a strike in YouTube's two-strike system. According to the site's Terms of Service, YouTube can terminate an account if its found to be in violation of site rules more than once.

"Now I'm on their radar even though I don't believe I did anything wrong," McKelzey said."
Fibre in the UK is rolled out by two providers: Virgin, which owns "all" of the cable network in the UK (there are one or two tiny little pockets left, I believe, but no other country wide providers), and BT OpenReach which is in a similar position: They're a subsidiary of the ex-monopolist that is required to offer access to anyone that wants to, and with caps on what they can charge. Currently they're mainly deploying fibre to the cabinet.

But the thing is, as much as I'm absolutely for a similar model to this, the technology is not mature enough that we know how to make it work best. BT OpenReach is struggling to provide the same speeds as Virgin. They claim to be able to offer up to 100Mbps, or 150Mbps in some regions, but my provider which packages BT OpenReach fibre access does not advertise more than 80Mbps and often advises to expect less (I was told to expect no more than 66Mbps based on distance from the cabinet because despite BT OpenReach's claims, they very rarely manage to meet it. Meanwhile Virgin reportedly have no problems reaching 100Mbps.

Without competition, there'd be little incentive for BT OpenReach to try to resolve the issues limiting their bandwidth. As it is, it matters so much that they keep misleadingly claiming they can deliver more (and many ISPs echo their claims).

I'd argue that while it is important to have a "baseline" provider that is required to offer 100% equal access, it is still important to provide wider access. There's really little reason not to require that every time a cable duct is put down to the local cabinet, that extra strands of fibre are laid down, for example, so other operators can rent dark fibre and install their own equipment. Or that cabinets be made big enough to accommodate some extra equipment for a small number of additional providers (and put similar access requirements on these providers, given that space in the cabinets will still be at a premium).

Today in the UK, other providers can put equipment in BT's exchanges, but apart from the densest city cores there's no practical way for them to provide connections to the end-user premises other than for Virgin (which is only in that situation because they merged UK's last two large cable providers who each had spent many years gobbling up smaller operators, often at bargain prices as competition got fierce, and had already written off most of the cost of building out the physical infrastructure).

It isn't necessary to have 10 providers all operating their own equipment and their own fibre, but there's little practical reason not to make space for at least 2-3 providers all the way to the local telco cabinets (even if not immediately), and allow the subscribers connection to be reconnected to the equipment of any of these based on the subscribers wishes.
Here's a cached copy from google:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
As someone who has spent some time tweaking this same setup , with limited success, I'm very interested to hear what you did!
Exactly like nerd sniping. It's a self-selecting filter. If you don't like it or don't get it, but still come back to read more, guess there must be something for you somehow. But the target are the nerds that get sniped, not those who get frustrated because there's a lack of information.

I think. :)
While it does look good, it's not the answer.

Dashboards are exceptionally useful, you just probably haven't come across the need for one. They automate the task of needing to flip through webpages and jump through CLI commands to poll for the system status, whatever that system happens to be. You can argue that there shouldn't be a need to poll in the first place, but that's the nature of things - for one, looking at the raw data is interesting, and for two, the alerting logic may miss exceptions that are otherwise obvious from a quick glance.
TransferWise giving $100M In Free Money Transfers Back To The Community
not sure about no.1, atleast in bangalore I hear not so positive comments about service.
I suggest you watch the documentary Food Inc to see why it isn't as straightforward as that..
Vudu Robbed: Hard drives with user data stollen
Create a pull request to https://bitbucket.org/sjl/stevelosh
This is pretty common. Leading the round can be a pain. It's a lot of work for the investor because they need to get the other investors onboard to syndicate the deal. I've heard this first hand and its annoying as well as confusing. Good luck, keep going.
No, git doesn't track renames — git _guesses_ them
Now to sell it to Yahoo for $30 Million!
I agree. Anyone can make educational materials. Making a relevant curriculum is hard. Making a relevant curriculum for teenagers is very hard. The amount of preparation that goes into just 1 hour of class time is often overlooked by those who haven't spent any time teaching.
I had an infestation of moths which lead to a proliferation of Pholcus spiders and consequently a mass moth extinction.

Sadly the spider population has declined since and I'm down to a mere two adults.

On the plus side, they're a lot cheaper than vacuum bags, take up much less space, and will prey on other critters for you.
I used to hate IAP, especially after my nephew spent hundreds of real money into golds dragons or whatever.

However I changed my point of view as fremium+IAP does solve the problem of being able to try the real app.

From a developer point of view it's only one app to maintain. If further features are added, you have to pay to unlock them.
Also developing a new version of an app always been a headache for a developer : without IAP, the only way is to create a new bundle so you're back to square one when you have to maintain several versions of the same app (which Apple forbid anyways in their TOS).

On any case we never really owned any software anyway. E.g. our copy of Microsoft Office always been a licence from Microsoft allowing us to use their software.

So "App as a service" doesn't seems a bad model and in-app-purchase fit that model nicely.

Now the real problem is the security and as my iPad is used by the whole family, I deactivate the IAP on the settings and only reactivate when I need it.

If somebody want a purchase, s/he need to ask me first. It's not ideal but does one thing I love : it kills the "instant gratification" process. And that only save a lot of money to the whole family!
You have to ask why they required those freestanding boxes, instead of negotiate access to basement utility areas in buildings across the network. Boxes like that may be necessary in less built up areas, but in densely built areas they're a cost-cutting measure.

Maybe it wouldn't be profitable if they had to deal with extortionate landlords, but on the other hand it'd seem likely you'd find a sufficient number of building owners that'd be happy to allow space for cheap or nothing in order to ensure great access.
By toggle do you mean change whether it reloads it?
Time for some more competition in the online video market.

Youtube is heavily promoted through Google search for virtually any query. Any competitor was probably hit by Panda so there's a very uphill battle.
Yes, not to mention some rural areas which have no broadband at all and are still on 56k or satellite. In some cases locals have taken it into their own hands and established coops to build their own broadband systems.

Even if you have no interest in the internet, stuff like that has to hurt your house price.
This is exactly the reason why I strongly oppose GM food.

It's not that I'm scared about the consequences (the jury's still out on that).

But, do you really want to hand the keys for our nutrition to the likes of Monsanto, Syngenta and their ilk?
If you look at it the other way around, early adopters who bought the iPad 1 finally may have a use for it (the app runs on iOS5).
Now about that Kid, D'Alosio ... I don't care he built it or not, he made money like a crazy chicken!! I think that's enough!! :)

Coming back to Yahoo! I believe Marissa Mayer has something in mind. She is a smart lady, smart enough to point out what we are pointing out here.

If not, we'll soon see another JC Penney episode here.
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> I'm all for calling out unethical companies and IP trolls

In terms of unethical Monsanto is in the absolute top league. This is a company, which positively can be described as evil.

I suggest you do some reading up about this company.
That reduced price is for the first month only I'm afraid...

Still a great deal though :)
There is Hetzner.de which I like quite a bit as a company. I have been hosting with them for 3 years. They have a 512box for 6.5 EUR if you are exempt from taxes like a Non-EU citizen .
It is still relevant, but in absolute terms it's a small portion of how pages are ranked.

The PR of the HN homepage is probably pretty irrelevant as I doubt it gets much traffic from organic search for anything other than "hacker news".

The PR of your blog homepage has to be taken in context for the type of search terms it might rank for (and remember that PR is for pages, not domains - the PR of your homepage will be different from the PR of each blog article).

If your blog was about vegan-friendly fondue recipes, a PR of 5 might indicate you had a link profile which meant you ranked highly because there likely isn't a great deal of competition in that particular niche.

If your blog was about dating tips, a PR of 5 wouldn't really indicate anything by itself because it's a really competitive niche.
Looks like we need some open-source seeds.
bold prediction on my part: nexus phones and tablets soon will only be able to access the official play store. and launcher replacements will get kicked out.
I think panic are very famous foir developing on the Apple platform. Them coding for Android would maybe even be a news item in itself.
Something is rotten in Denmark. If this project achieves a sustained fusion reaction as claimed, that represents a huge breakthrough, and not just for space propulsion, but for the general topic of fusion power.

If it succeeds, it would sweep away all present fusion reaction prototype methods, including the well-tested but so far ineffective( * ) tokamak and laser-fusion approaches.

* By "ineffective" I mean none of them has reached the break-even point, that point where more energy is released than is required to initiate the reaction in the first place.

The article doesn't say whether the prototype device has actually succeeded in igniting a sustained fusion reaction. If it does, it would quickly move beyond its present goal of producing a more effective source of space acceleration and would answer some longstanding questions about fusion power itself.

The fact that this isn't being discussed leads to my statement above -- something is rotten in Denmark. Either the project is overselling its possibilities, and/or it can't really achieve fusion break-even.

Speaking hypothetically, if the device could produce a sustained fusion reaction with substantial power, it could be scaled up and used to propel a spacecraft to Mars in much less than 30 days. Assuming a sustained acceleration of 1 g, the hypothetical craft could accelerate for 1/2 the trip, turn around and decelerate for the other 1/2 of the distance, arriving at Mars with zero velocity. Apart from minimizing travel time, this hypothetical profile would prevent the bone loss that accompanies sustained time at zero-g.

Making the above assumptions, and assuming that Mars is at a close approach point in its orbit, the travel time could be as little as ... wait for it .. 50 hours.

Derivation:

1. Distance d (meters) for acceleration a (m/s^2) and time t (seconds): d = 1/2 a t^2

2. Time t for distance d and acceleration a, assuming 1/2 acceleration and 1/2 deceleration: t = 2 sqrt(d/a)

3. Result for Mars close approach (7.834e10 meters) and acceleration of 1 g: 49.64 hours.

Again, speaking very hypothetically. I still think something is rotten in Denmark.
> laughable minimum wages (specially for the "mandatory tip" jobs)

I couldn't believe this when I first heard of it: Some (or most?) states have a "different minimum" (? yeah ..) wage for certain types of service jobs (waiters, etc) that exclude some arbitrary amount they are supposed to get as "tips".

If that's not something that's purely beneficial to the business and puts a burden on the individual person, I don't know what. It makes the whole concept of "minimum wage" laughable by setting an impossibly low one for a certain class of jobs ("tip money" isn't guaranteed so you can't count it as part of the minimum wage, the guarantee is the whole point). And then it turns into a situation where the customers (nicely sidestepping the business) are made to be felt responsible for the servants to make "minimum wage", but they aren't responsible at all, it's charity.
LiveCode's first open-source release.
If you are looking for a dashboard just with your own data. Ducksboard has a free option for developers, i'm almost sure.
http://ducksboard.com/pricing/

If you later need integrate data from applications that ducksboard supports, surely it's "cheaper" pay for you ;)
Matthew, thanks for the clarification. I'm sorry, my original comment was a bit too harsh.

I've been speaking to a few companies recently, and apart from tactics like trying to fish out a salary number, I've also been surprised by their unresponsiveness to emails, strong dislike for employee side projects, and unrealistic expectations.

Everyone's crying about how hard hiring is, but if this is how they treat employees, it's not surprising really.

I wish you luck with Pitchbox and hope you can help improve the situation.
I would reserve "very much dislike" only for someone who did something truly horrible to me (e.g. mug me at gunpoint, throw my best friend out of a window, etc.).

Sounds to me like these feelings are motivated by jealousy or envy or one of those other terrible emotions.
Can you please elaborate on this? Do you mean that Apply is paying some kind of affiliate fee? And what happens if the app is free of charge (FOC)?

Edit: sorry, mixed the thread
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Recent published estimates have been that it would about $11 billion to roll out nationwide in the US.

Maybe $110 billion, $11 Billion doesn't go far in US
The FDR is one of only ten projects to get Stage Two funding from the program. This $600,000 award will provide the proof-of-concept FDR system over the next 18 months, and a working spacecraft would be ready as soon as 2020, Pancokti predicted – but if NASA wanted to throw money at the project, this timescale could be cut.

There's a lot of people on HN who could double that budget without blinking, he hinted.
AVAAZ is hosting a petition against Monsanto's attempt to patent food in Europe right now: http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?cwqgMd...

If you care about the health of everybody's food and the environment in general please sign it.
No amount of experience with MediaWiki will stop it from being the massive, bloated beast that it is. Your only hope is reverse proxies.
Symantec published a top 5 mistakes in IT security
We're connected to more people but we're less connected to these people
Re >> Of course App Gratis use iTunes affiliation to get revenues, but they didn't charge us for anything.

Can you please elaborate on this? Do you mean that Apply is paying some kind of affiliate fee? And what happens if the app is free of charge (FOC)?
Sorry, I thought the ":|", and mention of "Windows phone" implied sarcasm. Perhaps that was too subtle.
Babies born near the "RoundUp Ready" Farms have been known to have higher birth defects:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_23430.cfm
Seems like you post a picture to it and it returns the colour palette used. Seems pretty useful if you're into that kind of thing.