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Those numbers are for the "ad free" accounts, which are really lightweight anyway. For instance, the ad free accounts only get 100MB of storage for their email anyway, so a 60MB hourly cap is not entirely unreasonable: that's more than half your mailbox. Of course, for 40 cents a month, I think those numbers are pretty reasonable.

More appropriate would be the "full" accounts, which have a much more reasonable 300MB/600MB hourly/daily data quota. Of course, again, mailbox storage is limited to 1GB there... and so on.

I don't think the quotas are unnatural given the relative mailbox sizes. But, for full disclosure, I am a (happy) Fastmail user.
Working from home for the past 3y here.

I need some structure on my day otherwise I procrastinate too much.

That means, waking up early, working from x till y, stopping in the middle for a quick lunch – so basically, just like working on an office.

Different people, different tastes.
So, Thoonk could have been the bottleneck and it had nothing to do with Go?

Just kidding.
All the laptops, tablets, TV screens I have seen are measured diagonally. That's how it's always been done. Maybe that's not how it should be done. But it IS how it's generally done.
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Same here, I pretty much open every link in a tab, but then when I'm ready to leave I want the last link in the same tab. So I prefer they all open in the same tab and I decide when clicking.
I think what they say is shady, but as the parent of this thread states, it is technically accurate to say that their screen is larger by industry standard measurements (i.e. corner to corner).
jQuery is very large if all you are using is the selector engine and some DOM manipulation.
I'm curious, is it a popular service because of a dearth of other options like public transit (buses), or because people prefer cab-style transportation despite the higher cost?
> We rewrote some internal Python software in Go

...and dropped a link (Thoonk) in the processing chain...
"Oh, it is unlimited? Put that on the contract then."
I agree. There is a lot of flawed logic in this article. People like to defend Apple's declining market share because of their absurd profits on devices (which is, in and of itself, an unfair comparison, since Apple owns the hardware AND the software).

Android is clearly winning in the mobile space, especially outside the US. Finagle the statistics any way you want, but it doesn't change the truth.

The profit-to-market share argument has some value, and is certainly a factor to be considered, but the huge discrepancy in overall market share still, quite clearly, shows Android being ahead.
And I've got no problem with them saying their diagonal is bigger. But, to me at least, they can't say the screen is bigger and be on the "OK" side of even technical truthfulness.
> Although, I still stand by my statement that Steam is still DRM in that an account is required to use it.

Okay, I'll answer for two cases as I'm not sure I understood you correctly. You probably mean b) but still:

a) That would mean E-Mail is DRM as an account is needed.

b) So whenever an Account is required to download something it's DRM? I can understand that view though I do not share it.
The first measurement is in no way causal. It's just that the whole point of the experiment was to show that entanglement occurs even when the photons don't coexist. If you didn't make the first measurement, then there wouldn't be anything different from the original experiment.
AT&T wouldn't allow me to enable tethering from my iphone because i had an "unlimited" data plan. fancy that.

i switched to T-Mobile after that conversation. although my unlimited plan is still "unlimited", it's at least a higher cap, with tethering, $30/mo less.
They had a head start, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
The bug is developers not realizing that a capital "i" is not universally constant. That is, there is no bug in either unicode nor implementation. Just something highly non-obvious to the rest of the world.
The point is that I don't want to think about the practical limit of my bandwidth and considering the guy is clearly an outlier, I don't blame Verizon for pitching it as 'unlimited' when for nearly all intents and purposes... it IS unlimited. I give credit to Verizon for being fair in this case. Especially since the guy basically admitted he is pirating like crazy and letting his friends/family serve it up. This guy gives responsible consumers a bad name.
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I've been using Lyft/Sidecar (mostly Sidecar) and I've noticed the same exact thing.

It's common for any pricing model (slow rise, without passing the customer's "worth" threshold).

The cab drivers' disdain for taking credit still annoys me enough to use Lyft/Sidecar, but regular cabs are cheaper most of the time now in the City.

All that said, this is a GREAT raise - and those numbers wouldn't be possible without letting their pricing model rise.
Screens are traditionally measured diagonally. This worked fine when everything was a 4:3 ratio. Now that ratios are more variable, but we still use that measurement. Microsoft's claim about the diagonal measurement is absolutely true; they never mentioned screen area. Apple was certainly happy to make the iPhone 5 screen taller and call it a brilliant, beautiful, amazing, really great, 4" screen.
A person can't claim a world record on height by being morbidly obese.

Yeah, but a person could claim a world record on size by being morbidly obese. If they said "I'm the biggest person in the world", they'd be making a statement that can be reasonably judged technically true, even if the listener might mistake their meaning to be that they're the tallest. Anyway, I know what you mean, I just think this is past the line of being arguably "technically true".
Unlimited should disappear, it's a lie and it prevents honest comparisons of internet providers. If Verizon set a limit of 5 TB per month for residential customers, I think very few people would be complaining. They won't do it, because it would make LTE look like a really bad deal.
To be fair, releasing an open source reference implementation takes a separate engineering effort. You can't just take Google services engineered for Borg/Spanner/et al, and drop them in OSS. It took Google Wave team a lot of resources to open source a non-Google-datacenterized version. Hangouts is also intertwined with lots of other Google services, so it's not a matter of just code dumping.

Imagine that you have a small team trying to hit 3 platforms (Web, Android, iOS), in time for Google I/O launch, packaging up an OSS release along with spec document is probably the least priority.
I took the lowest numbers there as some lower lower limit someone could have hit – only the Premium account seems to be somewhat usable from my perspective.

Do you know if and if yes, by how much, trial accounts are further restricted?
Thanks for the feedback. I guess instead of collection calls, I'd call them payment reminders. This site appears to do just that: http://www.call-center-tech.com/payment-reminder.htm
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Funny you should mention amazon. Do they ever quanify kindle sales numbers or just loads or multiples of how many Jeff B sold x number of months ago.
As an older developer, I'm ok with that :-)
Tragedy of the Commons. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons )

If enough people use the internet like he was, then we have a problem and can't sustain it. For most people at this exact and present time, < 50Tb/m is "functionally unlimited".
Like Kiera Wilmot, like Zach Sobiech [1], like Aaron Swartz, we collectively tend to "wait until it's too late" before recognizing and appreciating special things about people around us.

I think we can do better to recognize, encourage, and support those around us who go beyond what they're told to do or what may seem prudent. I'll be doing my best to combat that urge to scoff at things at first glance -- that bad habit that gets even the best of us at times.

[1] This has been making the rounds on SNS sites but in case you haven't seen it: http://www.upworthy.com/this-kid-just-died-what-he-left-behi...
Has anyone done a security analysis on Weyland/Weston yet?
This really shows how they are playing catch-up to Apple.
Unless your project is huge, I don't see that tripping anything off. If your project, is, say, 1GB, then it'd only take about 45 minutes of HQ Netflix streaming to balance out a complete upload.
That’s true if you think tablets should only be used in landscape orientation. I like using the iPad in portrait mode, but on 16:9 screens portrait mode is very awkward for everything but reading novels.

As for smartphones: the maximum width of those screens is dictated by the average size of a human’s palm. If you make the screens wider than 2.5", for most people it will be uncomfortable to operate the phone with one hand. Look at the Galaxy Note[1] (which is 3.3" wide), it’s practically impossible to use with one hand.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/gallery/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-hands...
If you hate this, be sure to politely register your displeasure with @fxshaw on Twitter. Frank is the head PR guy for Microsoft.

Whether you like Microsoft or not, they have some promising new products, but I feel like they are sabotaging their efforts with lies like this.
Can someone explain why I should use any of the tools listed in The Build? Why do I need to add that layer of complexity?
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I think WordPress just tries to cut complexity by using MySQL only so it doesn't have to deal with support for arbitrary RDBMS's.
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As are most of us lol. I would say if you want to use golang for a serious project and need additional libs you have to ready to write it yourself, which grants the opportunity to give back to the community and contribute to open source etc.
Reminds of the old download page for Internet Explorer 10, which had some nice quotes like: "Chrome users ... try IE10!"

Of course the ... hid something like "Yeah, if you're bored with Chrome, try IE10".

Another nugget from the same page was the qoute "Incredibly fast!" with the source set as " - Tweet".
Second the library. It's a great place to work.
So why did they go with Go, a largely unproven language instead of Erlang? Seems like the right choice given what Disqus does.
I applaud the emphasis that is given to written text, that definitely is something that deserves the attention and has been lacking on many sites.

But I kinda feel that this goes a tad over on the minimalistic side, which isn't too bad, but I wouldn't like if applied in dogmatic way to all sites.

I don't know if the “most popular posts” lists are the most optimal for content discovery, but having none seems a bit harsh. No, I'm probably not looking for blog posts on specific date, but I often look couple previous or next posts and the latest if they happen to relate to same subject, or if there is more interesting content to be had.

Comments, I'm torn over them. I feel like it's an lost battle to have discussions coherently in one place, but still many times I've found comments on top ranking posts about problems I've had to be invaluable, with corrections, alternative suggestions and updates to later versions of software. Also doesn't mesh well with statically generated sites unless something like disqus is used, which I generally don't like that much..

Social media buttons I value just about as much as I value any random ads on pages. Even if I share page I do it by copying the address anyway — but I guess it's a bit different on more mainstream oriented sites where the median user might find address bars exotic and intimidating.

Also I would be interest on thoughts on how images relate to this. Should they also be constrained within the text column bounds, should they be lightboxed or link directly to the original picture? I find myself a little conflicted on good use. This author seems to like linking to non-working flickr pages.

Hmm, I sound perhaps a little negative, but my overall impression was still on the positive side.
None. But some time I hear english videos in background to learn english.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jonas_maj

You're like the Microsoft version of Gruber
> So 40% of users assume they're going to get spammed

That is your assumption. Not your customers'. They probably just don't need another push notification if they also got the email confirmation that the item has been shipped. Or they just prefer to not be disturbed unless it's really important matters.

Update: just had a look at your app. I understand why people don't want push notifications from it. It's not the type of app that really needs attentions like chat, phone call, meetings, email, or tasks. I'll probably use it once. or a few more times if I'm happy with the tiles first time around.

> If users feel spammed, deleting the app is a few taps away.

Are you seriously prefer people delete your app after using it once rather than have it around in case they forgot you exist? "Which app you get that pictures from again? PhotoCeramic?"
You are right, we tried to take a jab at Internet Explorer but forgot about Opera along the way. It's our job to make our engine and demos work on all WebGL enabled browsers and respect all browser vendors who help pave the way for great web technologies like WebGL. We failed and make it sound like it the browsers fault. I will discuss the wording with the team. Thanks for the feedback !
This kind of anecdote makes me wish it was feasible to shadow a BigCo in a random industry for a week and just spend the entire time taking notes on choke points and practices.
I dunno. One of the distinctive tacit features of Flickr is that the users have class.
You've heard it before, but for the sake of balancing your comment on NAT... Sincerly and honestly: NAT does not solve anything that a firewall (6 lines of ip6tables rules) - or stopping that unecessary service - doesn't. All it does is create two classes of network devices (and netizens): those that can talk directly and those who depend on a third party. There's no reason not to have a global address anymore, even if you don't expect to use it. Even something as simple as putting a firewall appliance in the middle is the wrong approach. Logic needs to be near the edge, in the host IMHO; by putting any rules in the middle (firewall, NAT, QoS), other than the basic routing, one loses the intended ability to dial direct in unanticipated scenarios tomorrow (for example, to run a new service without touching every hop between A and B because of dozens of attempts to "make it better" at that hop). IMHO NAT really is an example of our eagerness to hang ourselves, given enough rope.
Wow, that's huge! I'm wondering how this has not been noticed before.

I know, X11 is pretty old, but still, with the increasing awareness for security in the past, it's kind of funny nobody has ever checked such a prominent piece of software, not even in a Master's class.

Glad to see they are responding quickly.
If the guy can have tens (or maybe even hundreds) of thousands of dollars worth of servers, networking equipment, etc, I'd say he can pay for a business class line. Heck, I just switching my personal FiOS from residential to business and all I'm running is a low-traffic Mac mini server.
It's not just about inflating away debt, it's also about being more competitive vs. other European nations, like Germany. A reasonable devaluing of the Greek currency would have allowed more jobs and opportunities to shift towards Greece, reducing unemployment and probably growing per capita GDP.

Greece has other structural problems, but the inability to adjust their currency has definitely hurt them.
Ask HN: What's with the Google Play Gift Card policy?
Recently I was given $250 for my birthday in Google Play Gift Cards to put towards the purchase of a Nexus 7 device from the Play store. I of course redeemed the cards then went to purchase the device to find out you cannot use those credits towards the purchase of hardware/accessories. It is apparently the situation that as a recipient of such a card you have no choice but to redeem it to buy goods (books, music etc...) as the stores themselves will not refund the card and Google does not allow you to do what you please with them, nor refund the value of the cards.

It seems strange to me that this policy exists. While it does say deep down in the Terms and Conditions that it does not work for devices, there is no indication that it does not from the gift card itself. I am currently in a situation of having $250 of credits with nothing to buy with them - at least not on a device I want to consume those goods with.

Does anyone have insight as to the logic behind their policy and their unwillingness to budge on it?
I don't know precisely what you're asking because the whole point is that there are three measurements (measure qubit 1, entangling-measure qubits 2 and 3, and measure qubit 3) whose time-order does not matter. There is a nice theorem in quantum computing that you can defer all measurements to the end of a set of operations if you replace all of the classical logic with appropriate quantum gates; conversely, you can measure as soon as you want if those quantum gates can be replaced with classical logic. Here, conveniently, there are no gates; so the theorem says that you get entangled results even though the entangled things don't exist simultaneously, because they could have if you'd pushed the measurement to the end of the experiment.

The linear description of events describes the time-order that the actual experiment used.
I can't give you a good answer to this because things are so volatile right now. It's always good to play with what's on the landscape, though. However, I do see a ton of node.js and backbone.js when I am out and about.
> People like him are the reason we're seeing unlimited disappear.

Umm, it was never here to begin with.
I love using SQLite for websites. Unlike MySQL, SQL is a well-written and predictable database, there's no daemon, users or permissions to worry about, and the runtime is built into Python!
> we cannot trust the advertiser.

Of course you can't. That's why you don't just take advertising at its word. Anyone who does is a fool. But to say that you shouldn't allow comparative advertising because of the possibility of lying is absurd. There are other laws that cover truth in advertising.
For me, the really interesting point of the article was less "yay, it's faster than Python" (which is generally undisputed), but more that (to paraphrase):

"I didn't know anything about Go other than 'it sounds cool', so I decided to rewrite this very important bit of Disqus' infrastructure. In one week, from start to finish, I had it implemented, tested, and deployed and improved latencies by several orders of magnitude and reduced the capacity requirement from four fully loaded servers to 20% of one!"

To be able to say that is pretty impressive, worth writing about, and definitely interesting to me as someone who wants to see Go used more. Disqus is well known, has lots of traffic, and so a recommendation from them carries a lot more weight than some random benchmarks. (As cool as they are.)
I'm definitely not defending microsoft here, because it's not something I understand the reasoning of. For some reason, we decide to measure monitors/tvs/displays by their diagonal. I don't get it, but that's what happens. When someone says '15 in screen' they mean 'a screen with a 15 in diagonal'.

When microsoft says 'it has a bigger screen' it is a shortcut to saying 'the ipad has a 9.7 in screen, and we have a 10.1 in screen. therefore ours is bigger.' Given the context of talking about screens, this does make sense.

You can point out that 'oh, but the ipad has a bigger screen by area' and you are correct. But that doesn't change the fact that the number associated with screensize for every fricken screen on sale today is bigger on their product than it is for the ipad. That's not a lie.
But what's a "server"? That sounds like a clause that includes everyone, just so they can drop absolutely anyone they want with no repercussions.
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We have many guys working on the demos using MacOS. So I agree that it sounds like a driver thing. What graphics card are you using ?
True, but I still think they should commit to doing it eventually. Even if they just came out today and said "We'll have an OSS reference implementation and detailed spec available within 6 months" I think most people would be OK with that (as long as they followed through).

But just throwing a new protocol over the wall and creating more walled gardens is not cool.
Of course, and I'm not arguing that explosions have no place in science, but I'm not sure if this answers the question I posed.
His hardware costs alone are probably many multiples of his Verizon bill.
At best one could argue, that they identify existing phenomenons that were repackaged into a scalable, investable product.

And how is that an issue? That is being different. Just on a different level than the one you focus on. AirBnB challenges the hotel establishment. Yes, it is illegal in some places, and opens up a lot of issues for its users, but change does not come from settling with the status quo. You have to be challenging in order to achieve something.
Setting up SMTP and IMAP servers isn't that hard[1], and you get a lot of cool features that you don't get anywhere else, like piping email into shell scripts, or the ability to selectively bounce spam (instead of storing it in a spam folder) and reading email via mutt in a pinch (I much prefer that to web frontends). You also get to learn a lot - every hacker should be able to send an email via telnet at least.

[1] It can be hard to get everyone to accept your email, but you can just relay it through an upstream provider like Messagelabs[2] or your ISP to solve that problem.

[2] Not a recommendation, just an example. I'm sure there are better ones out there.
Sure, there was a recession, which I alluded to, and other stuff, well, I was working with a few sentences, not a book.

The CBO graded obamacare as reducing medicare costs (the biggest driver of our budget deficits). Expanding coverage should have a positive impact on costs, too. But I agree that expanding coverage was at least as important the bill's authors.

I wasn't trying to oversimplify the situation more than is necessary for a few sentence summary -- and people could disagree with my characterization. The coverage towards each president from the Economist is enlightening though, especially when you divorce it from policy or compare their coverage of similar policies from both administrations. That's where the hackiness comes in.
I love the context aware escaping in html/template. I haven't seen this in other template engines before.
Great story. I suspect there are about a million single user applications out there running oracle and paying huge license fees for db's under a million rows that would have been orders of magnitude easier to set up and faster using SQLite.
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Dont use requirejs,it solves very little problems. Have a dev distrib where you pile up js files and templates, and a prod distrib where your files are "merged" into one.
Requirejs is a nightmare to use, especially with the angularjs ioc container. Remember you can reopen the same module in different files.