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Netscape was a buggy piece of software back then, and when IE 4 and IE5 came out they were a breath of fresh air for the general user.

This was mostly back in the 28.8 and 56.6k modem days, and Netscape's caching of content was a joke:

Resize Netscape's window and what does it do? It would block (single thread) and re-download the content (HTML, images) instead of using the stuff in its cache. You could wait 30 secs before you were reading your page again. IE would instantly (well, disk cache and then re-render) redraw the page - on most non-heavy pages, you could interactively resize the window with no issues.

Netscape also inconsistently progressively downloaded content - something IE could do very well, making for a much smoother browsing experience.

From a UI perspective on limited connections, the difference was like night and day.
Cute! It's pretty much the same as the Cassius app from a few years back (https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/cassius-i-3-u-so/id399394777), but syncing to external audio instead. A nontrivial extension, but still very similar from the user's perspective.

Now, if the app was able to lipsync to any tune, that would be more impressive. It's certainly doable, see e.g. Tony Ezzat's "Mary 101" system from 10 years back: http://people.csail.mit.edu/tonebone/research/mary101/
That's a very narrow view of culture, and wrong. Culture in some PC sense might be defined as only those things that are cute. But peoples differ greatly in important ways. There are real differences in family support, work ethic, dedication. Sorry if that seems offensive.
You seem to be conflating the public marketing of a policy with the internal understanding of a policy

Yes. I'm doing that consciously, because I think it's appropriate. The very nature of the question is that when it's presented to the public, only the public marketing is on display. At the time we're debating a policy, we can guess at the internal agenda but we never really know for sure until later (if at all).

So if we're trying to learn from history and apply it to today's policy debate, of what use is a history that separates the hidden agenda - a factor that we are unable to know and make use of at the time the decision is being made?
I agree with everything you just said.

Do you think the existence you described is the norm in the Valley? Or elsewhere? Or nowhere?

I guess I'm cynical, but my sense is that most people bashing the Valley are advocating for making that same VC culture more geographically available. Obviously, there are people like you and me who have more insight into the problem.
This would all be correct, if not for the Netflix Open Connect Appliance. Netflix is moving content closer to the user, so only the last mile feels the affects of the traffic.

See page 10 here: http://ptt.br/pttforum/6/doc/Netflix-Open-Connect-Network-BR...
It also discounts people who currently do not work, because the amount of additional pay (after taxes and reduced benefits due to having a higher income) is so minuscule compared to the amount of time they have to spend. If the minimum wage was raised, it may lead to more people actually seeking work, since they difference between not working and being paid welfare, and working and having reduced welfare (maybe even going off it completely) is higher, and this guy ignores that as well.
Unless they are practicing cargo cult medicine, doctors actually do need statistics regularly in their professional lives -- medicine isn't a static field and you can't keep up with the new results in the field without being able to understand and apply statistics.
That approach seems compatible with the article's main points. For example, if you drain your energy by not taking care of yourself, you'll likely end up sitting around watching TV instead of helping people.
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I'm not. Smoking a little (e.g. 1 cigarette a day) is inexpensive, has very little harmful effects to your health but allows you to enjoy the cultural experience of that particular drug.

For some reason people these days think that it's pretty much okay to drink a lot of alcohol which is very expensive and very unhealthy, but if someone smokes here and there it's "crazy", "stupid" and "very expensive".

Nicotine itself has plenty of beneficial effects: http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
> It’s almost impossible to get rich working for someone else.

A very minor nitpick, but this has been proven false so many times. If "rich" means $1M+ during the mid-life period (I think this qualifies as rich if you are willing to live outside of major cities), plenty of people have accumulated that level of wealth by working for others. Go work for a big tech company, save/invest all your bonuses (of which there will be many), and save/invest a good portion of your salary, and you could potentially be a millionaire in only 10 years (for a programmer with just a bachelor's degree, that could translate to early to mid 30s).

If "rich" means $10M+, then that is indeed quite a bit harder to do (unless we're talking about age 65+, in which case the above person will easily achieve it). It can still be done by joining the right pre-IPO company, working on Wall Street as a trader (admittedly, a very demanding career--but not "impossible"), achieving partnership at a major law firm, or working your way up the corporate ladder (Satya was making $8M/year before being promoted to CEO).
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I always try to interview in Python, because I can bang out complicated ideas quickly with very minimal boilerplate.

Writing in Python can be almost like writing in pseudocode.
This decade? For America?

1. The continuing deliberation about how much privacy is useful, and for what.

2. The continuing erosion of the middle class.

3. Legacy Rails applications.
probably because they are making enough money selling e-cigs to make up for it.
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Phone? You mean your internet connection at home, not mobile data right? 250MB indeed sounds miserable.
I think aside the physical dependence one may have from prolonged smoking, quite a few people see it as a cultural thing that's part of their lifestyle.

Maybe if we could better predict mortality rates due to smoking, and convey this in ads, people would realize how bad it is. Until they are faced with their mortality in a more brutal way, they will not change attitudes towards smoking. Changing bad habits is very hard. See how difficult it is for obese people to lose significant weight, and not relapse into obesity.
yes reeks of a "think tank" massaging the figures to support a hard right political line - it also ignores the effect of in work benefits (ie joe tax payer subsidizing poor employers).

Its telling that George Osbourn the conservative chancellor of the exchequer wants to increase the minimum wage in the UK to reduce the vast amount of tax subsidy he has to pay out.
They got rid of a word, and it proves jaimebuelta's point even more since they ditched the word that actually related to the product they sell.
The problem was people implemented a file system on top of s3. From what I understand, Amazon added the charges, which are pretty nominal, to prevent people from hammering s3 as a block storage system.
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I sometimes wonder if shopping for groceries is as frustrating for most people. I like Nutella, but when I see Palm Oil as the second ingredient I picture dead orangutans. I like beef, but I sympathize for a fellow mammal and think of the enormous amounts of diverted water and fertilizer runoff that goes in to producing feed. I enjoy fish, but thinking of this makes me sick to my stomach. I enjoy many beverages that come in plastic bottles, but that plastic, even if recycled, comes at substantial cost. Even veggies are largely wrapped in plastic anymore. Even though it's a small thing compared to everything else in life Keurig machines fill me with rage. And yet, I am guilty too. I love to travel, and this generally means flying since I live on an island. Therefore I contribute to ocean acidification, climate change, and of course the industrial processes that go into making planes.

When people ask why I prefer not to buy fish and I say it's because of concern over the world's fisheries (I'd rather not dive in a global jellyfish swarm) they look at me like I'm from another planet. Who gives a crap, after all? One person's actions will not stop the destruction of our only planet.

sigh
Here, there are two pain points--one is that this is a "minor" version change of the core library and the second is that there is no electronic version. If there were an electronic version, I would still buy it, but it's not worth it for the shelf space...I would recommend the earlier version to people, it was an excellent resource. Reading their explanation, perhaps if they just provided a pdf?
One interesting thing I picked up from Damian McBride's political memoir was that the most progressive (in the taxation sense) change that they could make to the VAT would be to lower the taxes on cigarettes and alcohol.
CVS has always refused to sell e-cigs, as I understand it. They certainly don't right now.

edit: just found this:

>CVS does not sell electronic cigarettes, the highly popular but debated devices that deliver nicotine without tobacco and emit a rapidly vanishing vapor instead of smoke. It said it was waiting for guidance on the devices from the Food and Drug Administration, which has expressed interest in regulating e-cigarettes.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/business/cvs-plans-to-end-...
I don't get it - how did you 'have fuck you money' while working there? From that acquisition or something else?
Thanks for the reference to this book!
This also reminds me of a good defcon talk by Jayson E.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE
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I haven't had great experiences there personally. The conversations aren't the most enlightening and there's a lot of ripping on new developers asking obvious questions. I'm a decent developer at this point, but early on, asking questions in there wasn't pleasant. I'm a big proponent of encouraging new developers of asking lots of questions and those that discourage it are really not helping the community.

That said, it's not all bad. I still hop in every now and then.
+1 for a "bridge the gap" book.
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>The book is being released in print format only. We've decided on this because:

>The print version of Two Scoops of Django 1.5 has been by far the most popular version of the book with readers, selling several times more than the e-books. In addition, the feedback we've gotten has been that technical books are generally better to have in print than as an ebook.

>Creating and proofing each ebook format is not a trivial effort. It involves reformatting every code sample to work on every ebook reader, accounting for differences in screen contrast, accessibility testing, and proofreading the text and code samples several times on each device. Instead of spending our time struggling with reformatting, we're choosing to focus on improving the technical material.

>Considering that we publicly offered a free electronic copy to those who requested it, seeing piracy of the electronic editions from the first day of sales has been disheartening. As indie authors, it hurts to see this happening.

Now I don't agree with those reasons. I prefer an ebook version as I can bookmark it, make notes, read it on my phone etc. But they have their reasons. It's not going to stop piracy and I might purchase the paper copy and then download one of the pirate versions that will come out. I would prefer they offered a free ebook version that they didn't spend time fixing the code layout issues they mention. The book exists as an electronic version anyhow when it goes to the publisher so it wouldn't be a big deal.
>"Having established that the number of minimum wage workers is small and shrinking, that most minimum wage workers are not poor, and that most of them are young and working their way up the ladder"

Except it doesn't.

It says that 2.5% are on or below minimum wage, that's 3.6 million people and doesn't include those on slightly above minimum wage, that would be affected by the changes. That's a significant number of people.

45% of minimum wage workers are over 25 years of age, so not that young.

And I really don't know how Mr Dorfman thinks he has established that they are 'not poor'.
In a way this is good - it means Gates is aware of the problems normal users face, and in his new role he's in a position to do something about them.
Yes. If one were to analyze the effects of a minimum wage, why would one look at the minimum wage itself? The minimum wage is a price floor that can only drive wages up. It would be logical to understand that an hourly wage ( for example, minimum wage + $0.50) is a function of the minimum wage.
Just to add to the HN echo chamber, I bought and love the 1.5 ebook, but the lack of a digital version for this new edition means I won't be updating. When I am building new projects I often find myself using ctrl+F to search for specific mentions of variables or settings. A print book adds "stuff" to my life, gives me another thing to carry between work and home, and makes it harder for me to find the information I need. But I understand that as a member of the minority (i.e. ebook purchasers) I am in a strategically disadvantaged position and accept that. I can live without it.
Here in the UK the only shops that sell cigarettes are supermarkets and independent newsagents, and neither is allowed to have them on display - they're on shelves behind the counter with shutters or curtains in front. Some bars have vending machines for them, but even that's becoming quite uncommon. I imagine within a decade supermarkets will have stopped selling them altogether so the few remaining smokers will have to hunt out little backstreet shops that still stock them.

To learn that cigarettes are sold in pharmacies in the USA is frankly incredible.
Well, unless there are other countries literally wiling to invade yours if you don't let them exploit you, that exploitation is your (colective) fault, and your people are the ones capable of stopping it. If that's the case, just accept that it's up to you to make a better place, and act acordingly.

Now, if there are other countries with guns pointed your way, well, people from India can tell you better about that than I can.
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- Fair natural resource utilization (water, petrol, etc.)

- Increasing political instability in totalitarian regimes

- America will struggle with not having such a high standard of living relative to the rest of the world.
That doesn't really make sense to me - "they can afford to shutter their other products" (or rather, spin them off) because of how good they are?

Or, rather, that there's no significant loss to them due to shuttering, because of the (relative) lack of use.

That said, spinning off would be the -wise- idea. Most likely they'll find a good amount from a buyer based on the name and reputation.
My parents both smoked. I graduated high school in 1975. I never took it up, in part because I was nerdishly unaffected by peer pressure from the cool kids, in part because it just never interested me, in part because I knew that it would kill me.

There were lots of PSAs in that era about the dangers of smoking, so I think it was also partly a rebellion on my part, against "those stupid adults."

I've been very up front and unrelenting with my kid about smoking and other hazards. I think I've been successful so far. It helps that not that many kids smoke, so I think there's less peer pressure.

I think it'll take another generation or two before it's all but unseen.

I too am amazed that anyone takes up smoking. I see younger coworkers in their twenties out taking a smoke break, and I can't believe how such smart and gifted people can be so idiotic.

Not that I have it all together, I just don't smoke. Lots of other things I could improve on.
I was going to say this was just more partisan bickering, but at the end he does offer a credible solution: Raising the Earned Income tax credit. This is actually a good idea.

Unfortunately it won't gain any traction because it's not drama. I wonder how we could make increasing the EIC a more exciting, dramatic and controversial issue so the media will cover it.
Wouldn't the planet's atmosphere and oceans fall into the trench?
The ocean will recover after we're gone.
Or after we've managed to put an end to poverty and educate everyone, though this seems an extremely distant dream.
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(I accidentally downvoted you. Sorry.)

Buying cigarettes means giving money to tobacco companies. I firmly believe these are an example of corporations bein evil - which I understand is a controversial opinion on HN.

The tactics (spread fear and misunderstanding; discredit your oponents) have been taken up by other campaign groups (eg, anti climate change groups) often using the same scientists for hire.

"Vaping" avoids most of the social stigma of smoking and if you buy carefully you avoid giving money to tobacco companies.
You may be on to something. I have turned off Platform (and so no applications work for me), and have set almost all other things to Friends only. All I get is six recent photos.
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It was interesting but the video kept cutting out for me. I figured I'd check out the music anyway and was greeted with a "This content is not available in your country" message. That was a first being in the US.
Has anyone had the luxury of using multiple languages in an interview?

E.g., "Oh, you want me to twiddle bits? Let's do this in C.", "Oh, now doing silly text file stuff? Ruby.", "Write a simple properties thingy? Javascript.", "Find all permutations of blah? Lisp or Scala."

I wonder how common that is.
As someone who is in DC doing net neutrality advocacy on a daily basis, I love this question. One of our major challenges is that ISPs have data on their networks and we don't. That leaves us in a position to speculate about what is "really" happening and hoping that someone out there happens to have the technical skills to potentially uncover a problem. The HN community's ability to evaluate claims made by ISPs as legitimate or illegitimate based on technical constraints is incredibly valuable.
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You sound like a 1950's Doctor paid by the tobacco industry.

Are you serious or did I miss a <satire> tag ?
Wow, reading an article saying that MSFT is dead, with this line, "And of course Apple has Microsoft on the run in music too, with TV and phones on the way."

ON THE WAY. This article is before the iPhone came to dominate. Wow, did Microsoft miss that boat.
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Years ago, perhaps. Can't remember a specific instance.
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Ahh cool! I completely agree that using your own products from a customer point of makes a better employee. Thanks for the input =)
And an API!
Same here, I would immediately buy this new version (I bought the first one) if it were available electronically.

I stopped buying paper technical books, they are never around when I need them. I also like to read them on my iPad, phone and laptop at different times.

My money now goes to publishers (like O'Reilly) who support my workflow.
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Tobacco does have some well documented medicinal qualities, believe it or not. There's no shortage of things at CVS that can harm through abuse.
I was recently job hunting and chose to do coding problems in python when possible, even though I have 7+ years C# experience. For the first interview it got me into trouble because I actually didn't know how to read args from the command line and didn't have access to the internet! For all my other interviews (mostly Java jobs), I'm glad I used python for the simple reason that solutions tend to require a lot less boilerplate code than C#. I typically have to erase/change a couple lines as I'm solving a coding problem and using a terse language helps reduce this distraction. I don't think the interviewers minded and in one case I think using python gave me some (undeserved) mystique.
>By that logic you should should really love the hospital you were born in.

No, your family usually cares about and for you, unlike the hospital you were born in, which you cannot rely on for any favor.

About the country issue, it is simply a manner for many people to identify others on many traits using common associations (e.g Indians are poor, Eastern Asians are hard-workers, Swiss are meticulous), that sometimes relate to accurate correlations. And it's one of the few ways, other than age and salary, to do this kind of association in a neutral and non-controversial way.
>"They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing."

This makes me sick. So sad to see such waste and disregard for the ecosystem.
This has been in the boto library for years, across multiple services. I noticed it when first using SimpleDB, switching it on in a production environment was much more expensive than we had originally calculated. I noticed the bizarre "Domain Validate" calls after pouring through logs of all boto activity.

The boto guys have justified it in the past: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/boto-users/1DVfbo4CD...

I still don't agree with their reasoning to leave it default, once you try to do something on a non-existent domain/bucket it will throw an error anyway, and I would argue the "extra work" is much cheaper than leaving these defaults on which I would expect are completely redundant for most users.
Somewhat. Most people in the US only have a choice between the specific type of line they use (Cable, DSL, Satellite). There are typically only one provider for either Cable or DSL in an area, and you're not even guaranteed to have an option between either.
You need to look at the marginal cost on making that next dollar.

It's a big problem for our official poor, where there are wide ranges of income that cost them more in government benefits than they get in highly repressively taxed income.

And look at the results of supply side tax rate cuts, JFK's from 91%, Reagan's from 50% and 75% as I remember ("earned" and "unearned" (passive) income). Those had major effects, and while I'd gone to college a year before the latter's election I noticed how it changed my parent's economic behavior in ways that were good for the economy.
Few or none. The economic effect that the study is showing is not an increase in unemployment.

What they're expecting is that fewer people will be motivated to work (or to work a second job, perhaps). Imagine someone self-employed who also works part time to get medical insurance benefits; with PPACA he wouldn't need to do this any longer. On the other hand, imagine someone who was working just to supplement the spouse's income. With PPACA's subsidies, the extra income (within certain ranges) becomes a liability, and it makes more sense for that person to stay home without the earned income, enjoying the healthcare subsidy instead.

So this doesn't say anything about unemployment (as it's commonly defined).
That is weird, indeed. The thickness of the edges should be related to their "size" value.

After that, check how sigma rescales the nodes and edges in the related wiki page:

https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js/wiki/Settings#wiki-resc...
Apparently, there is nothing to see anways
I think there's still a pretty significant stigma against smoking an e-cig in public, but I guess YMMV.