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Indeed, the City is vast, and what people refer to as Greater Los Angeles—which includes most of the grey areas on the first map, like my hometown of Glendale, and a ton more to the east not displayed—is still more vast.

Greater LA aside, there's no chance in hell they lay fiber to every residence in the Valley (the communities that the 134/101 run through and everything else north of that), there's no chance in hell they lay fiber all the way down to San Pedro. Not for five billion dollars, not for five trillion dollars.

Anyone who has so much as casually observed an LA infrastructure/works project in recent history knows that this ends in tears.
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The titles may be used interchangeably in casual speech a lot, but I'm told there was originally meant to be a real difference in scope/capacity/level of operation, so it doesn't surprise me.
From the article:

"But Google Fiber in its current form wouldn't be considered. "They would have to change their business model," Reneker said of Google. "They only run residential. We're requiring a component for the business. That would be a new market for them."
I don't feel like there should be any real concern within the next 5 years, but I do believe that within the next 10+ years, we could see a major shift in salaries.

I don't have any data, but nothing will continue "going up forever"...
Where do rental cars go after they're two or three years old? I've always wondered, but they seem like a stock of well maintained vehicles ready for leasing.
As tools get better, we'll build more complex things. There is still a lot of work to do. But yeah, if you are in the business of putting up WordPress sites, then you'll probably see your salary decrease as more people start doing this without the help of a developer.
This isn't 2013 Silicon Valley Developer Salary Survey.
I think this ignores the fact that used car sales are one of (if not the) largest revenue source for dealerships. With current interest rates a lease would probably end up bringing in less revenue than a sale, new cars move at low prices because dealerships get volume bonuses. Those same bonuses don't apply to used cars so you're eating away at your bonuses if people are now tempted to lease a 2012 for less than a new car. This wouldn't make financial sense for them to do, even with MB-USA while they offer this service it's not exactly what they push hard to get you to do.

Without the infrastructure and support of an auto manufacturer this would be hard to get a profit, and no dealership would find this to be the best business model.
I don't have anything against correct variance, but just to play the devil's advocate, you do know that there are other ways to write correct code than with a "correct" type system, right? AFAIK, none of the safety-critical code running avionics, medical devices, guided missiles and operating systems has been written with a "correct" type system. And people "continue to write broken code" in any language.
Frankenfood is the one I take issue with: there are plenty of things to criticize Monsanto for, but being able to 'grow your own seeds' has little to do with GMO's.

Crops like corn/maize haven't been replantable in the USA since hybridization caught on in the 1940's.
post your contact info :)

I know from posting these ideas that there is a lot of latent interest, but less publicly stated.

I post my email all the time on HN and never get spam. Thanks gmail! See: ivan.kirigin@gmail.com
No one is forcing anyone to use Dart, anymore than people are forced to use CoffeeScript, Haxe or pyjamas. Many engineers at Google want a sane alternative to JavaScript, and we think it'll save thousands of hours of developer time, millions of developer dollars, and also _user_ time and money as they benefit from more stable apps with more features. JavaScript is not going anyway. If developers flock to Dart, presumably we've offered something beneficial to them.

I joined the Dart team because I thought is was a worthy and important project that could beneficially impact a very large number of people. I _do_ think about these things, they're quite important to me. The goals of more sane semantics, more optimizable structure, and better toolability and tools are to me, and a lot of other engineers, incredibly reasonable and beneficial. That's actually the entire point of the project is to be more reasonable and beneficial than the alternatives :)

If fact, I think I'll use that as my informal Dart tagline: "Dart, reasonable and beneficial!"

More seriously, Dart is created by people who think that JS is broken and we need an alternative. I hope you're not claiming that that's really an unreasonable opinion, and that the only reasonable point of view is that JavaScript should always be the only language used to develop web applications. I'm sure reasonable people can disagree about the degree of brokenness of JavaScript, and about different solutions to the problems.
I'd love to start a family, but my partner and I won't be able to afford it any time in the foreseeable future due to student loans.
they seem like a stock of well maintained vehicles ready for leasing

Please excuse my mirth, but fleet vehicles are generally not well-maintained, and the folks renting cars tend to be hard on them.
The pushback from tech community in the form of these reports has been encouraging. That said, a little part of me dies when I realize the USA has become a government that censors something like the reporting of the quantity of requests.

What's the justification? I'm genuinely curious.
The GA144 gets its efficiency from the fact that everything about the design is simple and it uses very few transistors. How many transistors in an A9? The async nature of the GA144 processors saves power if they are stalled, waiting for something to happen. But if they are in a spin loop doing timing, they are as inefficient as any other MCU. The static power is very low because they aren't using state of the art, low voltage processes with leaky transistors. With Vcc at 1.8 V the transistors can turn on and off hard.

I think it is a mistake to compare the GA144 to an ARM. They are not really designed for the same sorts of tasks. There are big ARMs for large memory apps which the GA144 is entirely unsuited to and there are small ARMs with more limited memory that have no where near the power of the GA144. But then the GA144 with all processors running flat out uses power like the big ARM... so where is the right comparison?

I compare the GA144 to FPGAs. The GA144 has an array of very small processors with very limited memory. But they can be viewed as very beefy logic blocks that execute sequentially rather than parallel logic. To use the GA144 for something useful you need to design your app to suit. Thinking of it as a standard CPU won't get you very far.

You won't be running a useful version of Linux on the GA144 and it is too expensive to suit toaster type apps. But it might be the right device for any number of embedded apps that need raw performance like hearing aids or other signal processing apps.

I'm not sure what the GA144 would be great at. I can find a few apps it would be good for such as a small analog I/O board I currently build and need to respin because the FPGA is EOL. But I'm not sure I would ever use the GA144 for this product because it may go EOL at any time depending on the company. They are very small and I see no sign they are getting bigger. Will they be around in 5 years, 10 years?
really sad. They messed up on a lot of aspects but build a great product.
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https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader - A Javascript plugin for cross-browser ajax file uploading.

A lot of my users are still running IE7/IE8, so I've spent a great deal of time researching and tinkering over the past two years to try to achieve a uniform experience in older browsers, even with modern features like progress bars and multiple uploads.
Interesting you think that. Ever since I read the following http://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesi... I think the opposite.
Issue is lemons and adverse selection. New cars have probabilistic risk of defects. Used cars, not so much. Leasing depends (mathematically) on correct and reliable modeling of residual values. Once you get a starting pool of unknown risk [1], somebody is playing a fools game. Just a couple things to think about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection

Edit: [1] State lemon laws vary by state and may not necessarily cover used or leased cars, and other goods.
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A Simple Statement (pervasive passive monitoring)
Sure, cars weren't status symbols to me or my friends, and I didn't meant to say they were. I said cars were everything my comment's parent listed- notice that comment didn't list "status symbol".
Less and less of a counter example. If you leave out work mailboxes, most people these days don't send their email any more: they ask Google, Microsoft, or their ISP to do it from them, from their web browser.

Federated is not the same as peer-to-peer. While there are big providers, email is still open to anybody with a non-dynamic IP address, and the fact that almost everyone uses third-party servers doesn't change that.
Couldn't the government make an argument that intentional removal of this language would be tantamount to violating the "gag order?" Would Apple be liable for lying about something that no one would ever know is a lie?
> We don't believe in the news.

I'm 30. I still have faith in mainstream journalism, but not that what comes out of the 24-hour news cycle. That's rubbish.

However, there is still a corps of journalists that risk their lives (war-torn area coverage) and their careers (govt threatening arrest) to get the news out. They also happen to belong to some major news outlets.

I have faith in their abilities to sort out what can be printed and what cannot. They are able to find nuance in reporting both major and minor world events that the average citizen of the world cannot. These individuals are consummate professionals whose fidelity to ethical journalism is vibrant and strong. It would be mistake to count them out.

I raise this contention because of the noticeable rise of alternative news sources. Some of us disenchanted with mainstream news flock to these news outlets, that, while being exclusively online, do not have a large editorial presence. It's much easier for self-styled journalists to publish articles that reach into questionable territory, sometimes raising allegations against individuals, corporations or governments that may in the end not be true. Without an editorial board, we all lose.

Anyway. Every news source has a "slant". Some more so than others and I firmly believe that the "others" have it in spades. But that's just me.
Yeah, I think that part was a bit inaccurate. The core problem is more like the fact that higher-kinded code is hard to write. You always end up writing in terms of concrete types--you can talk about A[_], but not about A by itself. This becomes a hassle when working with things like monad transformers.
> Greater LA aside, there's no chance in hell they lay fiber to every residence in the Valley (the communities that the 134/101 run through and everything else north of that), there's no chance in hell they lay fiber all the way down to San Pedro. Not for five billion dollars, not for five trillion dollars.

Why wouldn't this happen in the Valley? Genuinely curious as I live there.
Not the way I read it. She said there were a lot of errors, and gave one example.

No one who was there is necessarily reliable. Absent a time machine, no narrative is going to be right on all facts.

Perhaps the critic is is self-serving. But perhaps if the author gave competing versions instead of using the device of an nonexistent omniscient narrator, that would be more defensible.

Maybe, as you say, all narratives are fictional, but some are more fictional than others. Serious historians and journalists don't go out of their way to make the narrative more dramatic at the expense of accuracy.
I have a dull ache in my right side, back under shoulder blade and lower right abdomen. It's not painful just an annoying constant ache. Sometimes pins and needles on my back over my shoulder blade.

From what I understand most people with NAFLD feel nothing, some people who develop scarring (cirrhosis) and even cancer don't feel anything. The liver is weird, at least it can regenerate from a lot of abuse.
> TC39 is nowhere in sight

Uhhhh TC39 meets bi-monthly. If you meant ECMASCRIPT 6, it's targeting finalization next month. Furthermore, future releases are set to be much, much faster than previous ones.
Fair point; I was trying to get github numbers and got sidetracked.
Layout works fine for me in testing, but the custom background image does not. I wonder what causes that. The .DS_Store file is present and clearly has a reference to the file in the unzipped version, but it doesn't show.
"your margin is my opportunity"

It matters a lot more if people are interested in this than if dealerships maximize profit doing it. I think people would move away from ownership if it were easier, and considering all the parts of the process that could be improved, it seems like a good experiment.
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>Similarly, the classical one on one match for the world championship in chess is different from tournament play. In the former, you have to beat the strongest player in the world

The whole point of the article is that the current world champion isn't the strongest player in the world. In fact, there are several players that are stronger than he.
To be honest, I've never heard of traditional sources of capital funding websites but I suppose that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

In any case, I agree that it doesn't match the VC models, but I'm not sure there is another model available to a web business that can probably get enough traction to survive, but not enough to offer massive returns.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say there are probably significant market segments not being served because they offer a modicum of stable profit but have large up front costs without a lot of growth opportunity.
Reply the API:
For javascript anyways, I think a chainable/fluent interface with the method names modeled after Underscore.js would be grand.
'very good reasons' == self interest.
Anybody can make any argument they like. But while IANAL, that sounds like a tough sell to me.
Here's another good and BETTER option -- demand congress to cut 200 Billion dollars/yr from Pentagon spending, re-invest that into nationwide fiber infrastructure(Namely laying the conduit and pipeline for underground wiring) -- then work w/ all telecoms to co-op building out a co-op shared fiber network nationwide...

Personally I don't think any company should eb able to 'own' something that runs along city lines under the street. -- just like they can't own the airwaves..

Imagine just taking 200 billion + some equal investment from Google, ATT, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, etc- - and it'll be owned by the gov't and all 5 major carriers...

Also let users buy in early @ monthly rate they're willing to pay say $5 per month -- which will accrue --so say it takes two years, they'd have $120 in donations to the cause, and a $120 credit for fiber. If they did $100 a month they'd have $2400 in free fiber credit, etc... Let's crowdfund the hell out of this thing and just make it happen... The future is literally waiting on the speed of our broadband pipes.
The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks
CrunchBase, People+, and the EFF
I switched to LXDE instead of XFCE from the impending Unity that Ubuntu was going to give me. XFCE had historically been my go-to lightweight, but when I tried it a couple years ago it "felt" a little heavy and a little slow compared to LXDE. Actually Lubuntu vs Xubuntu.

I may give XFCE a try again when I move upstream to Debian. That'll be sometime this year I think.
I noticed it hijacks the wake up when I put my computer to sleep, which is available with a key command (either command-option-power or command-option-eject depending on your keyboard) and using the energy saver system preference panel you can configure it to automatically lock after x amount of time.
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I agree that it mentions indirection, but I don't agree that it is the purpose of the article at all. The article finishes with this line:

> We are contacting Google about it, but it is always something important to keep in the back of your mind. You can’t just whitelist their IP, and allow through without any type of inspection.

I wouldn't be surprised if the authors knew of the sqli vector, and whitelists appropriate clients. The problem is the sqli, not WHO can hit it (or who was ultimately responsible).

Edit:

I just went and looked at the company behind this article. I was too quick to judge apparently. Their business is protecting developers from stupid mistakes like sqli at the firewall.

Therefore, the article really IS about indirection. Sorry.
Current HEAD of dart: https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/#svn%2Fbranches...

Most of the work is done completely in the open. See some of the language discussion writeups: https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!searchin/mi...

We went public two years ago when the language was still in its infancy so that developers could provide their feedback.

Edit: contrary to your claim we did get feedback and acted on it. Some changes were rejected (like putting the types behind the variables), but it's normal that not every request can be accepted.

If you have suggestions on how we can make Dart even more open-source I would be genuinely interested in hearing them.
So do you think that YC was even worth it?
Modeling failure of a used car doesn't seem that different to me than a new car. There is a distribution, probably more expensive for slightly used cars. It can be modeled and incorporated into price.
I was under the impression that Google Fiber chose Kansas City in part because they had to do little to no underground work. With government red tape cutting being the other part.
Apple sells a decent amount of product such as the iPhone in APAC, but let's recall this facility assembles Mac Pros.
But the rental price includes the price of gas. If gas prices tripled tomorrow, Zipcar would have to raise their rates.

It's a bit more decoupled for the customer, but it has the same impact overall.
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• Expertise in designing and building Java web applications with an
emphasis on the Spring framework.
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how to optimize complex database queries.
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The Sold team has joined Dropbox
"You are guaranteed to avoid noisy neighbors CPU problem by using AWS dedicated instances"
This is incorrect. You simply ensure that the only ec2 instances that can be a noisy neighbor are other instances of yours. Since most users investing in dedicated instances tend to put their instances to work, this sometimes has the net effect of reducing performance.
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Reasons not to use Scala
Silicon Valley isn't a long term investment. I don't see the people living there to settle down in the area.
That seems wildly unlikely to me. Most people have kids. That's it. They sure as hell don't plan them out and make sure they will be able to provide for them. What's next, do you think most people plan out and save for their retirement too? Why do you think we need a social security program instead of just letting people expect to be able to retire? Answer: people don't.
Tempting fate there, don't you mean "after invasion of Iraq"
Would not perusing it be an admission that they did in fact subject Apple to some kind of gag order?
Show HN: HelloSalut: Hello as a Service
Day 8 : Harp -- The Modern Static Web Server
I don't believe smugmug is a freemium service, are they?
I would be HIGHLY cautious of using this data as the basis for any sort of decision making process.. There is a lot of heterogenity in the engineering world, and without any sort of statistical or methodological information it is very hard to know what is real here. For example, the female salary distribution smells fishily of small sample size and I don't believe their results without a standard-deviation-of-the-mean at the very least.

All we can say for sure is that this measures the average salaries of people who respond to drdobbs surveys. They are significantly less than the salaries we are seeing on our platform at Hired. ( see: https://hired.com/blog/late-stage-companies-winning-the-war-... )
I am confused about the $500k loan, surely this would need to be repaid before they can look at customer refunds?
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In my experience, of looking around hotels in Europe and Australia, there have always been better value hotels than airbnb apartments. All the Airbnb places were not cheap at all, and were going for the more expensive crowd. They were mostly out of the way, whereas we got some great hotels in the city.
I wonder if this is an opportunity -- the world is not solely composed of moon-shot local social enterprise websites, and worthy businesses are being shut out of the world of cheap money by the prevailing culture. Hmm.
This seems like exactly what Google Fiber is offering in Kansas City, so much that it looks like an RFP for Google Fiber LA.
I think YC would be great for several reasons.

1. First time entrepreneurs will learn a lot.

2. The network of friends you'll have access to after you graduate is great.

3. It seems to be easier to get meetings with investors when you've already been vetted by YC.
The Washington Post should learn more geography
>I think this ignores the fact that used car sales are one of (if not the) largest revenue source for dealerships.

No, they're not. New car trades are liquidated at auction houses.

Source: I work in the automotive industry.