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Yes and no.

I guess you're a long-time T-mobile customer because you like being with them, and find them better than the alternatives. So what you're getting is, hopefully, already the best they can offer in terms of service, contract terms, etc.

Telcos are a game of scale. In order for T-mobile to be able to give you even better terms, or an even better infrastructure with even better services, they need to grab a larger slice of the market. So really, what they're doing does help you in the end, just indirectly and more slowly. As their market share grows, it justifies even greater investments in infrastructure and services, and so you benefit.
> Lawyers refer to a case by the book and page number, and refer to parts of a case by the page numbers. It's probably not a great system [...]

It's a fantastic system (and a wonderful demonstration of the advantages of immutable graph data structures). You can read cases from a century ago and still find every cited reference. Hyperlinking pales in comparison.
It's not tomato tomato. "Lead Link" is a specificly defined term from a management process theory called holacracy (as mentioned in the original article).

You can read the details of holacracy here: http://holacracy.org/constitution

There are signifigant differences between what a lead link does and a traditional manager. They act more as a spokesperson for the accountabilities and priorities delegated to them by a larger democratic process.

This is yet another example of a flippant and largely content free criticism on hackernews made from a position of ignorance on the topic. I'm ambivalent on whether holacracy is a good system as I have no personal experience with it, but lets at least talk about what the article is actually about rather than just pattern matching whatever random crap is in people's heads.
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ClearView allows the user to extract and view data at any level of the organization such as at a regional, team and agent level along with the ability to view the data by particular accounts, campaigns, skills and point of contact.
Reddit gets over 100 million uniques a month. The NYT gets about 12 million.

I know that the two organisations work very differently behind the scenes but as some one else here mentioned, they're both content aggregators at their core. And let's be honest, if a story is on one news website, it's on all of them so it's not like the NYT is a special place that has all the news no one else has.

There's a lot of reasons why reddit gets much more traffic, but I genuinely believe the way they present their content is more accessible to more people, and that's why they can so successfully grow and retain their user base, and I think that's why simple list presentations consistently win out over complicated presentations. Flip book might be a more sensible comparison, that's an aggregator and it's a bore to use after a while.
The answer is going to be colonizing other planets/moons. As more manual and semi-skilled labor is outsourced to AI and robots in "modern society", the outskirts of humanity will degenerate into a frontier state because human labor will be cheaper than building and maintaining this automated future.

And I just summarized Firefly. Start learning Chinese.
Actually gas is a bit uncommon here. We get cheap electricity from water running down the mountains.
This isn't relevant / applicable / the same because dreamless sleep would not involve consciousness (in most any sense/definition of the word), whereas meditation would. So your example doesn't really say anything, in my opinion. Unless you had something else in mind?
> start with one line at $50 per month for unlimited talk, text, and Web with up to 500MB of 4G LTE data

Thank god I live in Europe (in the UK, the equivalent costs about 20GBP per month).
The "mid-brow dismissal"
I'd leave T-Mobile in a heartbeat if I had, like, poor coverage.
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If you can afford it, I doubt it.

I'm sure it can be proven that kids are expensive, though.
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I can't reply to justinhj's comment for some reason, but here's the link to EA's LGPL contributions, including the Webkit port.

http://gpl.ea.com/
I imagine in another few years the Intel Core Duo will make the list, because of its status as the first major multicore CPU on the consumer market.

Realize that's still x86. I'm not sure we'll see that change, though. Another hugely influential Intel chip is behind that story: Itanium marks the point at which it became clear that the market's no longer receptive to completely new ISAs in general-purpose CPUs.
That's exactly it. There's a bit of a gulf in people's minds between "The government spies on people" and "The government spies on me".
Well, the talk is nice, but with AT&T's $15 off per phone if you own it, T-Mobile isn't really cheaper anymore, especially with family plans. And with AT&T you can get coverage between cities, not just in them. I'm thankful to T-Mobile for forcing AT&T to keep up, but since they have, I'm going with the better network.

EDIT: My cost comparison for two people who own their phones:

4 Gigs shared on AT&T: $120

2.5 gigs each on T-Mobile: $100

So I guess T-Mobile is still cheaper. But, for me, T-Mobile data does not work at all outside of my home city. Data coverage everywhere is worth 20 bucks to me.
Are you saying that if a manager withholds crucial information once, that they must be a bad manager? Or if a developer ships a broken build build once that they are therefore "bad"? Or that if a salesperson sells a product that doesn't exist they are bad?

I can easily see a good manager withholding crucial information because they didn't realize it was crucial (or think that the development team would have time to take it into account), a developer accidentally shipping a broken build late at night one time, or a salesperson selling something that doesn't exist (but getting a better understanding of what customers would pay for as a result).

One mistake does not mean that you are overall bad at your job.
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> I ask because, to lawyers, pagination matters -- a LOT. Lawyers refer to a case by the book and page number, and refer to parts of a case by the page numbers. It's probably not a great system, but the courts don't have anchors in text for better or worse.

In effect, the volumes and page numbers from the official reporter are anchors in the text -- and are stored that way in other databases (and sometimes included as textual anchors in secondary printed references.)
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Useful flexibility from protocol buffers there.

To me it seems like having to change all references for a breaking API change could be a debilitating amount of work in some cases. Do you then make your breaking change to a branch and lobby for other teams to catch up before merging to the main branch? What about situations where you have a legion of stable legacy applications that may not be worth updating for any reason other than critical bugs?
I bought the iPhone 5 outright, unlocked and switch to T-Mobile after doing so. In the city (Chicago) the service can't be better. Really like that tethering is just included. LTE tethering has come in handy at a few coffee shops that don't have WiFi.

I also recently went to Europe and took advantage of the free worldwide data; was fantastic. Phone calls while roaming in Europe were reasonable, too. Something like 10 cents a minute back to the States.

All for ~$70/month. Beats the pants off AT&T.
Great point. Lyft may still be the surprise in this. Affluent Mongolians are unlikely to be traveling and looking for a way to share rides with strangers, no? Possible perhaps but sounds much less likely.
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That dimon is still being targeted astounds me. This is an example of why even those in power should not be the nail that sticks out. In case you're wondering why dimon, why JP Morgan it all traces back to this [1] event.

1. in 2008/2009, can't find it on Google bc why have a date search anymore. Jamie Dimon was called before the finance committee to explain the financial meltdown. He allegedly stormed out after representatives asked him truly epically stupid questions, and told one of his aides, "Don't ever put me in front of those fucking morons again". There is no reason other than visibility and a personal grudge that this is targeted at JPMorgan v. the other banks.
Which of the four "requirements" are precise enough to realistically be laws? They appear to boil down to opinions of some random people on a committee, that's why they contain language like "Google did not do enough" - well, what would be enough? Every single Google account holder was emailed in the runup to the change and there were banners on all the websites for weeks or longer, if I remember correctly. The notification effort was huge.
Yes, they would. This is an easier problem to solve than spam.
where in the world can you find a hotel where you are not charged for what you take from the minibar?
720p -> 720 vertical pixels
1080i/1080p -> 1080 vertical pixels
4k -> 2160p -> 2160 vertical pixels

The 4k confusion comes from the decision to simply double 1080p for consumer equipment instead of going the route cinema is going with true 4k horizontal resolution and still co-opt the easy 4k name.

And really, who wants to walk around saying 2160p? Makes me want to follow up with "1.21 gigawatts!"

I do agree with a statement in an article posted here about 4k a few days back. At this point the cinema guys should toss in the towel and just use the term 4K PRO and let consumer equipment use 4k.
I've never been on the other side of a conspiracy theory. This is interesting.
Using university resources for personal gains doesn't border on stealing. It is stealing. All the universities I had attended made me sign agreements which said so.

I am really curious to know how Bitcoin mining may work in India where you can simply throw a cable on the pole and steal electricity.
"Ben is using his power and time (and trust me he is the only one doing this) to build and advocating and acting on the design and construction of an authentic network that facilitates participation and adoption of the culture." - I would suggest others are doing this; however, I think none are doing it AS WELL as Ben is these days.

It's funny because people think Ben's cultural/rap thing is a shtick. I've worked around Ben a long time. It most definitely is not a shtick. It's like his love of bbq and the raiders....just part of who he is.
I thought about this over and over. As it is usually the case with these articles (same with Google cars etc.) there's a group of supporters, usually with the 'It will be safer for the whole mankind' argument, sometimes with more mundane 'I would like to work in my car and let the thing drive itself' car-as-single-person-bus thrown in. And a group of people that firmly believe that this development takes away their freedom to (drive|steer|joyride).

I guess I should've put a disclaimer that states that I sympathize more with the latter kind of people, but try hard to find out why that is the case. For me, assisted driving is a no-brainer. My wife hasn't ever driven a car where the steering wheel is unsupported. Nor a car without ABS and related/improved technology. In my world that's a good thing. The car already, today, decides that it has to take control in a number of ways.

Further down in this thread I described my company car and its assistance systems. Most of those are nice to have and useful. I configured that car myself and included all those 'Let me help you here..' systems. This is not a matter of pride, no 'People that use assistance systems cannot really drive a car' attitude.

I guess for me the conflict starts when we talk about giving up _all_ control. For me the perfect solution would feel like a car today. It behaves as I expect it to, if I kick down the car responds. BUT I would be totally fine with more and more assistance systems that prevent me from screwing up. Not the 'Let the car drive' future, but rather a 'Let me drive (potentially optional), but step in if necessary'.

The result is more or less the same, but one feels like giving up something (a freedom, a privilege, a thing I enjoy), the other sounds like a reasonable and intriguing improvement.

I don't really want a self-driving car. I want an intelligent car that prevents me from causing trouble.
It's interesting to me because people always say this is a huge issue with T-Mobile. I've been with them for a decade now, and have had very little coverage problems. I've been across a lot of the country and the two places I can actively remember where I got zero coverage was in northern Minnesota and Death Valley.

Their data does get a little flaky the when out of fairly populated areas, but I have seen this improving very quickly and can make many long drives with full data coverage.

I don't know, I think it might just be marketing.
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Currently the cheapest androids are at$55 and have 512mb ram, which is fine for kitkat. How does ffos compete with that?
One of the points of the new Google privacy policy was to be simple and unified, so you actually could read it. Before that there was a different policy for each service, and they were often long, which practically guaranteed nobody could read them all.

CNIL doesn't even deny that the new policy was a good thing but they levied a fine anyway!
> I mean that Firefox phones are generally going to cost less (in terms of money) than Android ones.

I know what you meant, I was pointing out you were wrong. If the device costs more to an OEM to make (which Firefox OS does), then it's going to cost the user more to purchase. This is basic stuff here...

> As a plus, you don't have to tie your phone to any company's services (Google, Apple, etc).

Android isn't tied to any company's services.

> Let's drop the dramatic fanboyism, hmm?

Er, right back at you?
Isn't this the whole point of git?
You have a local repo. So there's no reason to be on hackernews :)
You down vote the trolls. You ignore trolls if you do not have enough karma to down vote.

Meta conversation should make some kind of attempt at politeness and helpfulness. Referencing other communities often attracts down otes.
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Just add it to the read later queue and then go back to work.
nice, well-organized and thought-out post :)
How old were you when you acquired language (the ability to compose complete sentences)?

My first memories date back to that time, when I was 18 months old.

One of the first things I told my parents was that I didn't need diapers anymore. It was on the back seat of their car, on the passenger side (I remember the place, my mother was actually changing me after a long trip).

It was on the road to holidays in Spain, and I have distinct memories of the topography of the apartment, the beach and the bay, and their relative positions. I also remember going out for a walk alone with my dad, between the white villas.

We moved when I was four, and I also have several memories of the old house, including the full topography including furniture, a dark blue beach balloon, a harmless fall from the top of the staircase with a spherical vacuum cleaner, unrolling the toilet paper from the first floor to the ground floor because there wasn't any TP below... having the red toy car I had received as a reward for stopping sucking my thumb confiscated for relapsing.

I also remember the feeling of my long wet hairs on my back when I was lying on the chest in the bathtub, with the head raised. I only had long hairs between 2 and 3.
Hey! I'm glad someone responded! :D

Working inside of a Chrome extension has honestly been the best part. It feels a bit like Christmas every time new APIs are made stable. The playground comes with its own set of caveats, but I think it is definitely worth it.

A lot of the credit for the design has to be given to GitHub. I've been using GitHub for Windows for a while now and, upon taking a closer look, realized that the information it was presenting was, conceptually, very similar to the needs of Streamus. After sending them some e-mails they pointed me towards this blog post of theirs: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows which proved to be extremely helpful. Implementing a 'Metro UI' theme is super fun -- especially since I've never been much of a 'design guy.'

There's a pretty deep-dark secret lurking around the video, but I am working on it. As an extension, Streamus is comprised of a foreground and a background page. The two pages can communicate with each other and with external pages, but only the foreground is visible. Additionally, the foreground is only temporary -- every time focus is lost the entire page is destroyed. As such, if I hosted the YouTube player in the foreground, it would be destroyed when minimized and the music would cease playing.

SO, the player is on the background page. "But then how am I watching the video?" Well, with a couple of canvas elements and some clever permissions, I'm able to implement something similar to what is described here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Manipulating_v.... I establish a port between the YouTube iframe on the background page and my foreground and pipe the image frame-by-frame to the foreground and re-render it. As you can imagine, this is pretty intense, especially because I can't use requestAnimatiomFrame from an invisible page. I'm still playing around with other possible optimizations, but mostly I need canvas.transferControlToProxy() to be implemented in Google Chrome. You can see the code in question here: https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/blob/maste...

I'm not using YouTube mixes for radio mode. It's a bit more clever than that. Each video in your stream keeps track of its top 5 related videos by asking YouTube for related videos. This is just the information shown on the RHS when you're browsing YouTube. If I have 10 items in my stream -- the pool consists of roughly 50, non-distinct, items. Non-distinct is pretty key here because it provides weighting. If a related video appears 5 times in the pool of 50, it's clearly related to a lot of your videos and receives an implicitly greater weight because of it.

I also just apply some filters for time, etc. In the future, radio mode will show faded-out 'future picks' so it's not such a mystery what is coming next. You can see the code for all this here: https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/blob/maste...

Let me know if you have any more questions! Thanks for taking the time to look at it, I appreciate it. :)
"Some people do prefer text messages, but I haven't found that SMS guarantees any particular immediacy."

Forget immediacy, SMS doesn't even have reliable delivery. According to Wikipedia:

"SMS messages are generally treated as lower-priority traffic than voice, and various studies have shown that around 1% to 5% of messages are lost entirely, even during normal operation conditions, and others may not be delivered until long after their relevance has passed. The use of SMS as an emergency notification service in particular has been starkly criticized."[1]

Compare to e-mail, which will make repeated attempts to deliver your message and notify you if your message couldn't be delivered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Unreliability
I don't see your point. News sites want to post a blurb and a picture, but reddits traffic tells me that users don't really care.

And a news site can still have a simple headline page AND consistent when you click through to the articles.

Also, I'm not saying there's no room to add emphasis and prominence to some articles, but I am saying that the way they do it now makes no sense to me, and I'm a designer by trade.
It was inspired largely by http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4061502 so credit where credit is due, Mike Bostock probably deserves most of it.
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I'm not so sure. A few years ago in university I took a stats course (offered by the maths department) that had twice-weekly mandatory labs where we learned and used R. Most people in the course were not programmers at all, and I ended up helping people most of the time during the course.

R is really weird, but non-programmers are typically unaccustomed to precisely typing non-english into a computer. They aren't trained to quickly spot syntax errors or grok error messages.
You can turn off the overlay if you want, it's only there when there's lots of visible light.
Oh definitely. But ssshh
I moved when I was four, and I have a lot of memories of the old house, see my other post in the thread.

How old were you when you acquired language (the ability to compose complete sentences)?
Should have thought of that, I was surrounded by hot and cold props and just let the dude hold it up. Ah well, it turned out all right.
As Dave Thomas (of OTI not pragprog) said once. "Its important to be able to debug at the level of the abstraction". So in theory making up a language is the same as writing an API. In practice when you are in a hurry trying to fix something and your livelihood depends on it you may end up cursing the macro writer. I do think they can work when there's only one person on the team, which sometimes happens, or if the team are mature and disciplined, which rarely happens. They can also work in any team for trivial stuff like logging etc.
Why is this a story every year at every conference on earth? Yes, they're women, and they're placed to attract less-than-intelligent customers, who happen to be the target audience of almost every advertising effort on earth.

Where's the story?
Just posting this to HN for the pure nonsense value of the idea. ( Also some enterprising person may start to sell virtual drones to the DoD.)
I think you might need to add the 'conv=fdatasync' option to your benchmark there in order to get real results - otherwise you could just be looking at results from the hosts cache:

"dd if=/dev/zero of=test.tmp bs=4k count=1000000 conv=fdatasync"

Even then, the host could be lying and telling your VPS that a write was successful when it was not actually written to the host disk. Still in the hosts disk cache, which means great performance but if the host ever crashes, all data on your VPS disk will likely be lost.
I find it interesting that you think a free license necessarily means the preclusion of "open core".

My main interest in AGPLv3 is the release of open core software with paid, proprietary addons.