skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't understand.

This is the creation of an economic moat (a term coined by Warren Buffet.)

The gatekeeper creates a toll and the tradesman agrees to pay the toll. This is an entry cost to new market players and therefore reduces competition. This toll may be increased as the biggest player (Netflix) grows in size and this benefits them, as eventually new startups have $1+ million startup costs and nobody is willing to invest in that cost-payoff scenario.

This is a win-win negotiation for both Comcast and Netflix but a loss for consumers. Unfortunately it's just how the game is played.
I have been waiting 4 years to switch to Sonic Fusion, but I am too far from the CO. I wish there was some way to take local action to help them expand to my area. I know many people would be interested.
Here's a direct link using Google as the referrer: http://www.google.com/#q=Netflix+Agrees+to+Pay+Comcast+to+En...
It's bordering on unreadable at the moment. Turns out you can't just slam a bunch of advertising markup on top of a web page and assume it all works fine. Who knew.
Not when their competitors will do the same. Heck, what competitors? Many areas only have Comcast service!
Ironic that Google+ marketing emails don't have a prominent unsubscribe button or even a one click unsubscribe option.
One key here - eCPC dramatically ramps as a campaign goes on, given the same target demographic.

If he was targeting a demographic like women in SE Asia, 18-35, then his test campaign would have first seen cheap clicks. Facebook's algorithms would find the cheapest users within that demographic, who are the least in demand by other advertisers, for whatever reason. CPC's would be low right off the bat, with a $200-300/day campaign.

Then, when he just suddenly increased to $100,000/day, he would have absolutely tore through the cheap available impressions within a matter of minutes, leaving only the more expensive users, with much higher CPC's.

As soon as the CPC skyrocketed, he should have pulled the plug on the campaign. But, it sounds like, there was a bad mix of both him being inexperienced with online advertising (needing training in their office) and FB sales reps encouraging him to let it ride.

If he had slowly increased budgets, from $300/day to $500/day to $1,000/day, he probably would have started to see a spike in CPC as soon as he moved it up to $1,000/day, and a vertical "holy crap KILL THIS CAMPAIGN" spike in CPC when he hit $1,500/day - $2,000/day.

It's really hard to manage campaigns at that volume - and there's entire teams of people needed to manage a campaign at the level of $100,000/day.

This reminds me of those Groupon horror stories. The small businesses were wrong to not running the numbers on deals that would clearly absolutely destroy them. But, the sales people at Groupon were even more in the wrong by taking advantage of those small businesses to turn a quick profit.
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Not working. Does this only work on non-mobile devices?
Not too bad, actually. For a moment I was thinking about how it might be useful to embed large datasets directly in the page, but it wouldn't be even remotely worth the sacrifice in usability. Just make one extra HTTP request and give the user a nice spinny icon.
Netflix does not use AWS to move video bits, but yes it will save them money on CDN costs.
It's not really a free market to end consumers. To change cable companies, I have to go for some WiMax/Wifi type ISP (lower quality in most cases), DSL (also lower quality in most cases), or move my residence to somewhere in the service area for another cable company.
Why not? Isn't this exactly how they sell premium channels, like HBO?
It is too much to compare them to what terrorists do, but let's face it - this could lead to more damage to the internet than terrorists could ever do.
>In general all advertising over email is just noise.

care to back up your opinion with some facts? Because in my opinion majority of b2b advertising is driven by email.
Telegram (messaging service) got 4 million signups in 18 hours
Because their business cannot wait...

It's like a hostage situation; you say "yeah I don't negotiate with terrorists" but when you see your wife/kid/so threatened and the money is just there in the bank it's hard to hold on to that posture...
>> "Many areas only have Comcast service!"

Do a lot of people in the US only have access to one or two ISP's?? If so why? I'm in a not particularly urban part of Ireland and I can choose between at least 5 ISP's, decent speeds, and a good variety of prices.
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The problem is that in many Comcast markets there are no viable competitors.

With Comcast I get ~3MB/s internet. DSL and Wireless broadband aren't even close to those speeds (in my area). So if I'm forced to pay a premium or switch, I have to "give up" significant performance.

PLEASE GOD GIVE ME GOOGLE FIBER.
I don't know how this garbage gets onto HN.

The only unique aspect of this piece is it strikes a nerve with you. I know how it gets here, because HN is jam packed with "analysis" that doesn't make any stronger of a case for itself. Vague wishy-washy "Maybe the jobs are gone forever" level points are taken at face value when the rhetoric is headed to more agreeable conclusions.
C'mon Apple.. This is (as far as i understand) a one-liner fix! In opensource land this would be fixed and packag-manager-updatable in less then 24hrs. Probably less then 6.

That was my first thought as well, but on reflection this sort of logic has a certain "quality." (Yes, that's a reference.)
I use ad-blocker+ on chrome. Probably it helped me to overcome these issues.
Not much a problem of `goto` per se. Rather a problem with if conditions used without code blocks.

Others might say it's a problem of whitespace insensitive languages ;)
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It's not the headline but the blogger. Anil Dash was in Six Apart back when the only real blogging platform around was their Movable Type, about 2001.
Isn't that's already the case by default? My read of this is that they're paying Comcast directly because it's cheaper than the conventional route of paying for commodity transit via a regular ISP (though more expensive than their preferred solution, a no-fee peering arrangement). As a new entrant I don't have much choice but to pay for commodity transit: Comcast is not going to peer directly with me anyway (or let me park my CDN boxes on their network, for that matter), so I need to pay the transit ISP. If I do so, am I at any disadvantage? Afaict, if I'm a new entrant who sets up colocation at he.net, say, and pay he.net for transit, I won't have any trouble getting my data to Comcast users.
didn't they open the SWF format a few years back? I remember google & co starting to index flash files in the last decade (still too little to late, arguably).
The article doesn't mention voice-recognition software. I wonder if the author has tried using it.
There are many websites that depend on flash for non-mobile browsers.
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Why would Verizon want to spend 10 million wiring up your neighborhood and potentially not get you as a customer in an area where Comcast has already spent 10 million to do so? Also why should Comcast be forced to let competitors use their infrastructure they've spent massive amounts of money on building and maintaining?
Have a look at Vultr's homepage next to DigitalOcean's: http://i.imgur.com/WyEggC9.png

The pricing page is similarly copied; "clone" seems appropriate.
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The idea of a basic income is still sci-fi. There just isn't that much money.

I don't think you understand how money works. If there are available resources then there can be available money.
I think this is a myth. The unsubscribe link, from everything I've seen since CAN-SPAM a decade ago, almost always works.
The brain, more than any other part of the body, exists within a complex web of feedback systems that can't be separated into a simple cause and effect So if the problem is environment->thought->neurochemistry->action->environment (picture this as a cyclic directed graph), it might not matter which element of the loop is altered as long as something is done at some point on the cycle.
There are normally only one or two low cost options. There are often some higher cost options. For example, in the Bay Area there is high speed microwave internet available, but it comes out to more like 150/mo.
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Not really the same.

HBO charges Comcast a flat rate to carry their content, because HBO has great content.

Comcast then bundles HBO in various packages designed to bring a profit, knowing that people just want HBO, and are willing to pay extra for a bundle in order to include it.

In this case, Netflix is paying Comcast for the rights to use their End of Mile network.
Glad I don't have to deal with Comcast but I'm canceling Netflix if this is true.
What competitors? In many areas, they are the only broadband provider. The next-closest providers are typically DSL.

Consumers are going to get screwed on the front & back end of this.
I've added you to Skype. We can discuss ideas, etc.
Moving from XAP to APPX will be the most important part of this update.
Given Netflix and Youtube account for rougly 50% of peak time traffic, I wonder if Google will also follow suit.

I'm all for net neutrality, but I think Netflix should've been paying some usage fee into a communal fund that is off-limit to ISPs, but can be used to improve broadband quality for everyone.
It's a step up from when I interviewed, also about 5-6 years ago. I had to solve some coding puzzles ("uniquify a list in python while maintaining order") over the phone. Not so easy to dictate python code to someone with a strange accent over a crappy phone line. 2/3's of the interview spent on me or him saying "what?" He also was very grumpy. But it was a fun experience.
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For being godlike, mere longevity is not enough. And to commit genocide you need an army. Why the army would do it for you instead of killing you and dividing your enormous wealth between themselves? You'd need something more than longevity to manage that. Also, what would be the profit in committing genocide? You'd position yourself as an individual that is extremely dangerous and posing risk to everybody, so that more people would be willing to go to greater lengths to get the world rid of you. And longer you live, more chances are one of these people will get lucky. So why increase your risk? If I ever became an immortal rich man, first thing I'd do is to institute a huge philanthropic programs and advertise the heck out of them, so hurting me would be like hurting Santa Claus - only a completely depraved man would think of doing this, and if he did others would try to stop him. Why should I assume actual rich men are stupider than me and can't see it? After all they could see enough to actually become rich, unlike me - so I must assume their practical smarts exceed mine, and they won't behave in completely impractical way just to be evil.
So I should just disconnect myself from the internet?

Because it's either Comcast or a DSL provider that won't give me a straight answer as to whether or not they service my address. And this is in Boulder.
Yup, the only reason google is able to offer one click unsubscribe is because the people sending the message have enabled the list-unsubscribe header. They are intentionally making it easy to unsubscribe. No legitimate email marketer wants to send messages to someone who doesn't want them.
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In addition to the absurd, outsized cost, I don't want to pay Comcast et al. -- directly or indirectly -- these extorted prices, because they turn around and spend from these enormous profit margins to further constrain and "prioritize" my use.

The only solution, is to cut off this excess profit that has become the lifeblood of this systematic abuse.

And where these oligopolies have essentially captured the market to the point of excluding any and all competition: End them, legally. Break them up. Specifically legalize and perhaps even foster municipal broadband.

There may be no ultimate, static solution. But there are definitely next steps, and they are overdue.
Netflix is paying Comcast for direct connection to network
Cutting social security benefits that pay the retired 10s of Ks per year in order to give everyone, most of whom are by no means poor, 9.5k/yr absolutely is sci fi level crazy talk.
The same thought came to my mind, a moat around Netflix's current business. However, I don't think that's quite how it will play out.

Comcast won't charge new streaming providers from the get go. That will stunt its own business opportunities. Instead it will prefer to let them grow to the point where they can claim network congestion issues. At that point it has a "justifiable claim" as well as more negotiating leverage.
Depends.

Many people in the US have quite a bit of choices: Cable, DSL, Cell+Internet, Wireless. Usually those that live in large urban areas. But the service and quality of these ISP's varies greatly, which Comcast--in my area, being top.

Those Americans that live in rural areas, may not even have access to high speed internet, or always on internet--see the Xbox 1 fiasco for more details.
This only demonstrates that rollbacking an insertion after creating a table within a transaction now works. That is, it shows DDL does not completely break a transaction it's performed in.

According to the documentation DDL remains non-transactional in MySQL 5.5[0]

> The CREATE TABLE statement in InnoDB is processed as a single transaction. This means that a ROLLBACK from the user does not undo CREATE TABLE statements the user made during that transaction.

[0] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/implicit-commit.html
Jesus, this would be awful. Not every email with an unsubscribe link is spam, not even close. Every time you hit that spam button you put the sender's business in jeopardy. As someone who relies on email to make their business work, I provide multiple unsubscribe links in all my emails, please use them!
Sort of. It doesn't really cover the unification of / and /usr binaries and libraries that's ongoing.
There are many things wrong with this article. You can't hash secrets like this because hash functions are iterative. You should be using HMAC. Here's a good explanation http://benlog.com/2008/06/19/dont-hash-secrets/
Wow. Net neutrality is dead. Here comes Google fiber (with it's own selective routing...)

I'm thinking of switching to Sonic.net - they seem to respect Net neutrality. Does anyone have Sonic.net experience pro or con ??
I refuse to play this game - I'm back to torrenting.
Really? There are web pages of terrorists that use the ISP infrastructure to send and receive data. Guilt by associations was 3 or 4 hops according to Snowden files? Since the ISPs refuse to be common carriers it is their fault. (Mostly sarcasm)
That's already the case if you want websites like ESPN3 or NBC Sports Live Extra.
Check this one out: http://www.manning.com/williams/
I have worked around monetizing telco customers location in the past, and I don't think it was smart actually. And there is also a big economic issue, if I'm tracked for money as a customer, where is my share of the loot?
Big things start small like a post in a forum.
By the way, another problem they recently discovered is that states are ignoring or not properly doing air quality testing around fracking and some seriously bad chemicals are being released into the air.

It is insane how we are going gung-ho into this with basically the whole USA as a testing ground, so what if it causes cancer clusters a decade later, the wells and the owners will be long gone.
Same here. I'm in Bangalore, India, and I am spoilt for choice! There are about half a dozen ISPs that are recognized nationwide and then there are about a dozen that are specific to Bangalore with comparable QoS. And I also hear that ISP costs in US is really high in comparison. I really wonder why do they not come under anti-trust laws.
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Heavily 'inspired' for sure. I think it's doing them a bit of a disservice having their site be so similar to DO. An original brand focusing on how they are different from everyone else targeting devs may be better for them.
Can't they all meet in the switch room?
run a search at broadbandnow.com, see what you get
My initial thoughts were about combining web browsing history and internet usage with location information, but you're right--a lot of analysis could be done purely with your location history and your personal information that the telco has on file. That analysis is much less preventable, short of not using mobile telcos.

This sort of thing really should be opt-in--otherwise, the by-product (personal data) will become the business, and the mobile service will move towards being merely a means to that end.
So it begins. The end of the neutral internet.

I am already paying Comcast for access to the internet! Why does Netflix have to pay on top it?

That said, I have Netflix and Comcast and I have never experienced any issues.

Edit: Actually I realize, this is an agreement to allow Netflix to colocate some of their servers at Comcast hubs. So it is not actually that bad.
What can 1000 homescreens tell us about the way people use their phones
This article is not about web pages.
Ireland and Britain enjoy better competition since they're a smaller area. Australia and the US OTOH are terrible since the population is so spread out (Australia's slightly better as the population is mainly coastal).
> Sure, but the take away is, a lot of people just don't care, so the cafe is not that different for them.

The same way people don't care about their diets, but it ends up causing them a lot of (actual) pain down the road. If you don't pay attention to ergonomics, you're going to suffer, that's for sure.

> But then you can disable the software itself.

You can also get up and leave the coffee shop.

> Well, doesn't happen that much in those either. You can either go to one that's less populated

...or you could just go home and save yourself the trouble.
The costs always inevitably transfer to the consumer though. It may be opaque how things are truly priced but this is the way it works.
Indeed, I think a basic income should probably fall around $6-$8k/yr. It's not enough to live comfortably (especially on your own), but plenty enough to build on.
I've read C++ Concurrency in Action and found it very helpful in understanding these concepts: http://www.manning.com/williams/
Site seems down. Here's the cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Frz8Fde...
Anyone know if it will make it into Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
World economy as whole. This kinds of stuff just strangle innovation. Currently I am helping (remotely) a friend in US to move his startup (creating value in US) up to speed while bringing hard cash in my country. Both the startup and our workflow rely on the openness of the internet.
Cool! Do they have a more-up-to-date version of C++ FAQ? Lite gets update when needed.
Can anybody give me pointers on setting up this scenario?

I would like to run my IRC bouncer inside a container. I want to make sure that this bouncer only makes outbound connections using an OpenVPN instance running outside the container. I think I need to wire up a tun/tap device to the container. The container also needs to somehow accept connections from my IRC client (directly, not through the VPN) while still concealing the connecting IP. Basically, I don't want my ZNC container or the IRC servers that it connects to to have access to sensitive Ip addresses.
Please, stop it with the strawmans. Microsoft can push an update like this in a day, and Windows runs on .. well every hardware ever made to run anything.
Terrorist use terror to further their (often nebulous) ends. Comcast just terrorized me into seeing beloved intarwebs reduced to the absolute shithole that cable television has become. That's terrorism to me.

I suggest we treat them accordingly.
+1 Remember when online video was RealPlayer's website? Imagine if RealNetworks had paid Comcast, and a startup called Netflix wanted to show their product to Comcast's customers. There wouldn't be a Netflix.

Whoever has the market right now has it extended for a long time.
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I still don't see how that's an excuse. Better to break everyone's TLS connections than leave them vulnerable.

The risk isn't that high either, anyway.
I have a choice between Time Warner's Road Runner cable based broadband, or a fairly lousy DSL provider.

I live in a middle/upper-middle class suburban area in upstate New York.
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It's not a win-win, since Comcast itself is a competitor to Netflix. You only have one side paying the tax.
I'm a bit sleepy, but I can't get this to work. For 3 prisoners, what if the sequence is (P1 T P1 T P1 T P1 T P2 P2 P2 P2)? Where T is the tally keeper. They've all gone the same number of times (given enough time), but the tally keeper would declare that they had all flipped a switch before P2 had gone in at all. Thus, alligators.

Did I miss something?
No reverse DNS, it seems.
You misunderstand. You shouldn't have the password in memory. The password should basically never exist beyond the fractional second that you are validating it.
If that's the case we really should reconsider our support for netflix. Cancel your subscription.
You have to remember that, compared to the US, Ireland is tiny. The majority of the US population does not live in large urban areas, who while New York for example might have lots of choices, Spokane probably doesn't.
The overwhelming majority of the US is served by 1-2 ISPs. Generally equally shitty options.
Modern compilers have made external (or "redundant") include guards unnecessary. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RedundantIncludeGuards
The reason Comcast would rather have Netflix pay than pass those costs to consumers is because they don't want to make net neutrality any more salient for consumers. If Netflix pays Comcast then it goes mostly unnoticed by the average person. If people have to start paying then the people screaming for net neutrality will start to scream louder, and Comcast really does not want that. It's not about competition with other ISPs, because as other posters have pointed out, Comcast is usually the only ISP in many markets.

Comcast worries about the FCC and Congress, not its competitors.
You cannot know if you are the first to go into the switch room. Prisoners are taken to the room at arbitrary times.
Yeah, but nobody is going to go into the streaming biz because of this. Netflix is scaring off would be competitors.
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Discussion thread of the post on julia-users: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/PGwWdXcU...
Has it in fact been voted on? Last I had heard it hadn't even been scheduled for a vote, and a search isn't turning up any updates. Give a citation, or stop making shit up.

As it happens, I'm also skeptical of the numbers working out in the Swiss proposal, but they're crazy high.
The net neutrality rules were written to correct/prevent the abuses that were discovered around 2005. Since then ISPs have invented new loopholes (like targeted non-upgrading) that technically aren't covered by the old net neutrality rules.
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The projects I was involved with were more about appraising the value of a shop's position, the value of billboards, and also some time and space related thing (like "where do the people passing in front of my shop sleep?" and "what's the peak in my street?", "how many out-of-area people pass in front of my shop?").

But it's true that I also know of one project that uses phone data to check highway traffic congestion (A6 in Provence, France). It's also ad-related, because the data is sold to media companies whose major income is form advertisement.