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I completely agree with you - twisted pair has go to go and fiber needs to terminate in the home.

It's actually a embarrassing that this country can neither build a somewhat simple healthcare website and has some of the slowest access speeds in the world.

I remember going to Bulgaria over the years for business and you can get a 100Mbps symmetrical connection for - wait for it - $40 USD.

WISP is an interesting concept and has a better economic model. If you look at proposed 5G wireless speeds, you're looking at 10Gbps+ Even LTE today at 30-50Mbps is better than any non-Gig Fiber to the home (aside from the FIOS service available to maybe 10,000 people in LA)

The biggest problem is and will be AT&T and TWC with their collusion. Government regulation needs to intervene here otherwise private sector simply stands no chance.

Trust me - I want even 100Mbps connection. It's frustrating.

Going back to the concept of a WISP - now that's some innovation if you could make it happen.

There was a company on HN a few months back that made long-range WiFi domed Tx/Rx units that could be mounted on poles, etc.

Anyone have that link?
Gen Y Hobart Australia here. I also think he mostly nailed it, but I trust Australian police officers. The few occasions I've dealt with them they've been level-headed and very friendly.

This last election has been demoralizing as fuck though. I stayed up to date on all the news and policies. I tried to talk around people I knew who were voting Liberal. I had 0 effect. Next time around I may just not bother.

And the mainstream news is a pile of shit but that's a much longer rant.
I hear that comment often when it comes to microsd. I don't think it has anything with google wanting you to use their cloud services. External storage is horrible for the user experience. Where do my photos go when I take them? What about my apps? If you mount external storage to /sdcard, where does internal storage go?

Previously phones would mount the external storage to /sdcard/_external and /sdcard would be the internal storage.
It is really crappy and horrible. What happens to my installed apps on external storage when I suddenly yank out the card? What about if I take the microsd card and then delete a bunch of app data on it and put it back in?

Personally I don't want to have a complicated exposed file system on a phone. I don't want to have the option of moving apps between internal and external storage. This sort of stuff is why Android gets a bad reputation.
From wikipedia: "The goal of this standardization effort was to define a small, core language to help bridge the gap between differing dialects of Lisp. It attempted to accomplish this goal by studying primarily Common Lisp, EuLisp, Le Lisp, and Scheme and standardizing only those features shared between them."

So it sounds like a standardized intersection of the most common LISP dialects?
Check out CrashPlan for backup. You can either pay them to store your data in their cloud, or backup to an alternate computer/location for free using their sync software. It's great, and cost-effective peace of mind. It does nothing to make your photos easily accessible for browsing purposes - but knowing you've got a copy of your photos in an alternate location is probably more-important.
I'm not a lawyer, so take everything I've got to say with a grain of salt, but I can't see why people don't just ignore gag orders as they're a clear and complete violation of your first amendment rights which "...prohibit[s] the making of any law...abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press..."

Thus, near as I can tell, the gag order is categorically illegal - a law which abridges your freedom of speech. Surely that's gotta stand up in court? Or what good is the Constitution? If the Constitution cannot guarantee that which it was written to guarantee, then what's the point in having it?

Lest we forget the part of the Presidential oath "...and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." So the President is bound to protect the Constitution... There's no part of the Presidential oath which binds the President to protect the law. Which tacitly implies that the Constitution is more important than the law. So theoretically (actual consequences not withstanding), if you were to ignore a gag order, the President himself should stand next to you in court to guarantee your first amendment rights to freedom of speech and have the gag order thrown out as a violation of the Constitution.
Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent
How long will it be a major part of your budget? Someone with a typical state university student debt load making a typical SV software engineer salary can be out of debt in 5 years without much discomfort.
Are you listening Brendan Eich?

Not only that, implement it right away in the JS engines..

Javascript must move faster, because even that people are being forced to like it(because they dont have anywhere to hide); everything has limits.. everybody knows that we cant go on with the javascript the way it is right know and pretends everything its just fine and its all roses and unicorns..

Im trying to create something new here that will need an embedded VM, and deciding between JS, Lua or Dart is just killing me.. if that was an option, and the next javascript was just something like typescript.. this would be a easy decision
> reasoning behind it

In all of your condescending[1] comments, you have forgotten to actually articulate what your reasoning is. These are as close as you got:

Dart doesn't have the open, cheerful intentions

Google's overbearing intention is obvious

flawed language

this one is doomed to fail

forced down our throat

[1] I'll Identify these on request. They're unwarranted, counter-productive and rude.
Ask HN: At what point does AWS not make sense
At what point does AWS not make sense vs. having your own in-house metal?

Is it a simple metric such as 1TB / month of EC2 (without S3, etc.)?

Is it a bandwidth issue?

When does it make more economic sense to purchase metal vs. hosting on AWS? (sysadmin, access and infrastructure included)
To those influencing environmental policy but opposed to nuclear power
I am flocking to Dart. Just because there are handful of "developers" yelling and spitting at everyone here doesn't mean others don't like Dart or are not learning it. They just don't yell and spit in everyone's face about so it makes it seems like "OMG nobody uses Dart, please shut it down".

Dart is a great language, I like it. It has consistent typing rules, very fast, has a good IDE. I for one, would like to thank Google for working on it and open sourcing it.
The burden is indeed on the foreign person to fill out the W8-BEN etc. and pay any taxes due. However, as the withholding agent[1], the US company is liable for any unpaid taxes. So in practice, until the contractor proves to the company that they've sorted the situation, the company will need to withhold that portion of the payment as they may have to pay it to the IRS.

In any case, the whole thing is a pretty arduous procedure in international comparison.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p515/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
Twitter thinks so...
>>“We just think nobody truly understands them yet.”

>I don't think that's true.

What they actually meant to say was:

"We just think nobody has figured out to convince them to buy crap they don't need like they did their parents. We're working on it, hard."
Until a company sets up a separate trust designed specificially for handling ongoing long-term operations it's never going to be reasonable to trust a company will continue to host your content for any reasonable amount of time.

It also strikes me as ... odd? I guess that we have these examples of companies declaiming they will be around "forever", they even put it in their name, and yet only surviving for about 27 months. It reminds me of teenagers in "love".

It'll be nice when, if ever, the industry matures out of this state.
I said in other comments that I certainly can't see this working. If it did work, why not just make a policy that says We'll keep a badge on your profile every day that we don't have an order that affects your records, but should we ever get such an order, of course we would take your badge away? I think Apple is just rightfully pissed, and maybe wants to be pushed into clearly lying to shareholders, or even put themselves in a position to be granted immunity for such an action.
This whole thread makes me sad...
I live in LA, but by the time this is built, land-based internet will be probably be completely outdated.
If someone creates egghead.io for Dart, I will pay for it.
The difference between a rental car and a Jeep is that you can drive a rental car anywhere.
By that metric, GWT blows away CoffeeScript with ~15,000 questions on SO. Are you sure you want to use that metric?
Generally what you pay for when leasing a new car is the depreciation. This is why luxury sedans like a BMW often have better lease deals than cheaper or less desirable cars--you're only paying for the depreciation, not the base cost of the car, and these cars depreciate much slower.

That said, just because that's how it works for new cars doesn't mean there isn't a market for leasing used cars. In fact, I could see myself leasing high mileage luxury cars--cars I wouldn't normally buy due to the mileage but wouldn't mind renting for a few years, so long as the price was notably less than leasing a brand new car of the same kind.
Tencent Goes From Snapchat “Role Model” To Potential Investor
If anyone would be doing this, I figure it'd be CarMax. They have a steady supply of used cars (mostly bought at auction), a staff that is good at appraising used cars, and a well worked-out & automated sales process.
There is also DaVinci's programmable robot from 1495 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17206888
Full stack/front-end dev here.

If any folks are interested in working on this idea, I'd be up for exploring the feasibility of the project & how we could work together. Contact info in my profile.
https://github.com/imvu-open/istatd/wiki is my favouite. C++, compile to a binary and then it can send updates in a tree of agents to a master node, and maintain a replica of the master, and it does graphs too, everything you need in one.
This is the sound of thousands of hipsters realizing they won't be using the latest and greatest toy anymore. There is a shinier newer toy coming around the corner.

That is the only explanation I can come up with. Scouring the comments filled with hate and vitriol I couldn't find much substance as to exactly why the are upset. There is no indication Google is going to sue them for patent infringement for using AngularJS, they are not closing the project. It is open source, if they love and think it is great, they are free to fork it and contribute to it.
So does this mean that all intercompany email is generated and read on one local host that everyone SSHs into?
LeBron closing in on 500th straight double-digit game
PictureLife manages pricing based on storage. One of the things I liked about Everpix was that it was $5/mo no limits (AFAIK). If you can figure out a no limit pricing that would be great, it doesn't have to be $5/mo.

I am also a Flickr Pro member. I always thought Flickr+Everpix was a great combination. You can always create a set of apps (desktop/mobile) and have users connect with Flickr accounts to store the pictures. I won't mind paying one time $50-100 for a good Flickr uploader that works more like Everpix.
Non-Google Places/Venues/Points Of Interest API?
I'm building a service involving live performance venues, and I want to create an autocomplete feature for users choosing a venue.

Starting with no data in the system, Google Places looks to be the best bet, but I don't want to be forced to display venue maps with Google Maps, advertise for Google, or carry Google's advertising.

Are there any good alternatives out there?
>natural human behavior, that the wealthy people have only few children

It's a socioeconomic phenomenon of the Industrial Age's middle class, the upper class continue to multiply like in the good old times, having 3 to 6 kids is not uncommon.
Does Process Trump Product (Nick Saban's "process" for Alabama footbal)
Eventually the kids got a farm out of it.
Why do people get divorced??
He's spot on.
I think the usual argument against your argument is that compelling silence is reasonably common in law, but compelling false testimony (and I'd argue that being forced to leave a false statement in a published document would be tantamount to that, especially if it was part of a corporation's various filings) is an entirely different matter.
Illustreets: Mapping the UK with Meteor
> "can the US government compel a swiss national to make false statements"

I don't think anyone can compel Switzerland to do anything. They've been militarily neutral since as long as I can remember and if Wikipedia be believed, every male in the country has military training. I'd say there's very little the U.S. (or anyone else for that matter) could do to compel them to do anything. Especially being as if the U.S. wanted to do anything more than issue a stiffly worded letter, they'd bring the entire wrath of Europe crashing down on their heads... which may or may not include a number of their greatest allies. That wouldn't be very bright politically.
Because Google is in the business of aggregating, storing and analyzing huge amounts of customer data. Apple is not. Google is a much more attractive target for a spy agency trying to poach data from.

Apple has gone on record saying they encrypt data and they don't store it in any recognizable form. I tend to believe that, as if it wasn't the truth, they wouldn't lie about it - they just wouldn't mention it. The fact that they would say that seems to indicate they're pretty confident it's true - if it turned out they were lying, the public backlash would be ruthless. So yeah, google's data is much more attractive.
Typescript is basicaly EcmaScript4. but Microsoft and Yahoo said NO to it in 2007.

It did not happen BECAUSE of Microsoft (Adobe pushed FOR it, Mozilla got cold feet).
With the interesting revelation of private fiber being tapped, I'd expect more companies to start encrypting if they haven't already. Google was sending information over unsecured circuits without encryption.

I'd expect Microsoft and others will make an announcement. With MS's overly zealous security handling these days, I'd be slightly surprised to find out that they were transmitting in the clear outside their datacenter.

If there were actual taps _inside_ the datacenters, like on top of racks and so on, that'd be quite the spectacle.
Next someone complains (again!) about an aquihire on HN, and how it means the company is shutting down I'll just point at this as the alternative.
>The same gap in ability translates to many more points today than 40 years ago

Not really. Ratings inflation means you can't compare the absolute values, but is much less noticeable on ratings differences.

So 2660 + 4.7% = 2785 (125 points) in 1972.

The equivalent today would be something like;

2750 + 4.7% = 2879 (129 points)

The same gap in ability translates to only 4 more points.

Actually even that modest difference should not arise from ratings inflation. That is because the Elo system is based on the idea that a given "gap in ability" is supposed to yield a constant Elo delta. An Elo delta of 100 points is supposed to translate to a 64% score for the stronger player, a delta of 200 points to 76% etc.
I think it's similar to eBay: eBay didn't invent "buying and selling stuff", but it was still disruptive e.g. to classified ads in local newspapers. It's a limited form of disruption, but still disruption.

Airbnb is potentially disruptive in the same way as early eBay, by providing a larger market (more options for buyers, more customers for sellers), and by inserting themselves as a trusted intermediate (potentially increasing convenience and trust in the marketplace, which can lead to a larger total market - more people engaging in short-term rentals when the process becomes more convenient).

One model of technical innovation: Once in a great while there is a major technical innovation, but to become a product in widespread use the 'technical' innovation (inventing a new type of product, say "horseless carriages") needs decades worth of 'process' innovation (making the product simpler and cheaper to produce, e.g. Henry Ford's assembly lines, and making it easier to use, e.g. by standardizing the controls for steering/braking/etc across all cars).

In this model, Airbnb is, or could be, a process innovation that makes short-term rentals a viable option for more people.
If it succeeds - too early to tell, but looking good so far - it would be a disruption in that sense.
Yes, good point.

My thought with a bundle was TV, land-line phone/fax (businesses especially still need this), and possibly even mobile service because I'm assuming AT&T and Verizon are on the short list of vendors anyway.

My short list of vendors who are capable-and-possibly-dumb-enough to consider this are: AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon.

On the other hand, some tech companies with streaming deals/services could maybe do this without any bundle. Could even force some networks to get with the times. So my shot list of vendors who are awesome-enough-but-probably-way-too-smart to consider this are: Amazon, Netflix, Google & Apple.
Don't worry, mine are too ;)
Without addressing the politics of it, it seems a good guess that anyone named MacKenzie is a 13 year old girl.
http://www.behindthename.com/top/search.php?terms=mackenzie&...
We weren't comparing Linux and Windows. I also agree that Linux wins hands-down in that particular matchup (unless you want to game...). The question for me is OSX vs Linux, and for me, OSX is WAY easier, and I get most of the deliciousness of Linux on the command line.
The HN audience values hack values[0]. Often things are done for the sake of novelty. Show HNs that reach the front page often demonstrate hack values or novelty or utility to the audience. You know, the "it's cool!" or "that's a great hack" feeling when you see it.

I've actually seen your app (and your submissions). It feels a bit run-of the mill. It's honestly just...is. There is no further narrative (well, you did mention that you had no decent option so you built your own). There is no further elaboration of the hacker spirit that many on HN seem to cherish.

Hack values can be signaled in the title of your submission. Your titles seem a bit weak, tbh. I can't tell what clever hacks were made (with the one exception where you said you didn't have better options)

If you don't want to signal hack values, signal utility to the HN audience, and people will respond. Of course the proportion of HN audience that uses WP8 as a platform is probably very small. Out of that small group, the utility brought about by your Show HN is not necessarily shared by everyone. It's probably shared by only a tiny proportion of that small group. Combined with the European time zone that you're in, your chances of reaching the front page is quite small

just my 2cents

Footnotes:

[0] Ouch. My head hurts parsing that sentence
Thus, near as I can tell, the gag order is categorically illegal - a law which abridges your freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is not absolute, as demonstrated by any number of SCOTUS rulings, with defamation, obscenity and incitement being the more notable exceptions.
The conversion, either implicit or explicit, is not free, neither in terms of performance, nor in terms of mental effort. This is not the case with Groovy, Kotlin and Clojure (though Java interoperability in Clojure does require more mental effort than in Groovy and Kotlin).
Not everyone learns to program because they want to devote their life to code and worship the bit gods. I am in a similar situation as you and I have noticed quite a few students like you mentioned. My question is, whats so wrong with them getting a degree/job doing something they enjoy even if they aren't a rockstar at it? Is it so wrong for someone to want a 9-5 job doing something they enjoy? Yes they can't compete for "real" developer positions, but maybe they don't want to live in the valley and work 80 hours a week on a Facebook for cats and then hope Google buys their company. The truth of the matter is there is a ton of crappy code all over the world making things run and making people money. You don't need to be a rockstar to be valuable to a company so long as you get things done. I'm not activating mediocrity, I'm simply suggesting that programming isn't some exclusive of club for obsessed geniuses.

In regards to the Midwest, I know. Who would possibly want to live in one of the most beautiful parts of the US, surrounded by lush forests, the Great Lakes, and friendly people who say hi when you walk by?
> You point out that "poverty/hunger/education..." have improved despite Space.

I did no such thing.

I'm saying that you can't wait to solve all problems before you take on space exploration. They are not mutually exclusive. One can do space exploration while simultaneously working to alleviate poverty/hunger/illiteracy/etc. The example of the US in 1961 was meant to illustrate that: the US was fighting a war in Vietnam, a massive Civil Rights movement at home, and still managed to put a man on the moon.
There is no "why," it's just the way it is.
COSMOS remake (2014). Produced by Seth Macfarlane. Hosted by Neil D. Tyson.
Joseph Nacchio was convicted of insider trading.
New ligament found in the human knee
V9FS and FUSE both enable userspace filesystem drivers. They are actually pretty interchangeable for 99% of use cases, and the rest of those cases are where you'd directly interact with both, so it wouldn't be fair to compare a FUSE library abstraction with V9FS.

FUSE is too complicated to directly interact with, so everyone (OP included) is using libraries and abstractions on top of it. So what you'd really be comparing is that abstraction, as well as possibly how it limits actual FUSE interaction. Additionally, the performance of these abstractions is hard to predict, as many do lots of work (threads/IPC/etc) silently in the background, so the apparent workload on your filesystem driver is far from actual workload.

V9FS is simple enough that drivers often just talk it directly. The protocol is a simple RPC mechanism, and parallelism happens naturally.

As far as a direct comparison example, I don't know of one.
This is built as a round-robin DB, yes?
Nope, I get 4G. On the old bands, that would have been true, but not any more.
> the gag order is categorically illegal - a law which abridges your freedom of speech. Surely that's gotta stand up in court? Or what good is the Constitution?

A lot of people have a misconception that the Constitution guarantees total, absolute freedom of speech, when it simply does not. The rather clichéd example would be not getting to shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater.

There are better examples to be found in real life: it would be illegal to say or print something that had the very real possibility of inciting someone to commit violence (as in Planned Parenthood vs ACLA: the ACLA was a pro-life group that encouraged people to take violent action against reproductive health workers).

So I think your mistake is in assuming the first amendment is absolute. It isn't, and for very good reasons upheld by the courts for over a century.

Is a gag order in itself bad? Not always. Sometimes gag orders serve legitimate purposes: for example, to prevent prejudicial information in a trial such as a defendant's previous, unrelated convictions from becoming public.

But regardless, the idea that the first amendment means you get to "say what you like" with no exceptions is a fallacy.
We should take bets on what comes first: this or the high-speed rail.
Presumably they can mete out secret criminal punishments for violating national security, directly to whoever they gave the NSL to?