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Being out of compliance with what you think the internet should look like does not make for a "market failure." There has to be some sort of economic explanation: the existence of a negative externality, free-riding, etc. Even in competitive markets, companies still get together and cut deals and customers face choices like "Sprint with fast Netflix" versus "Comcast with fast Amazon." The mobile OS world is quite competitive, yet I still face choices like "Windows Phone with Office" versus "Android with Youtube." The restaurant industry is highly competitive, yet most places serve Coke or Pepsi but not both.

If you eliminated the last mile monopoly, which is an economically valid reason to regulate, with a targeted regulation, I still think you'd see a lot of the sort of activities that HN-ers dislike. There would still be a huge incentive for ISPs to vertically integrate and buy up content companies and cut special deals. What does Comcast care if they don't own the actual coax into my house, just everything leading up to it? Who can compete with them when they have a "killer app" like Hulu and their competitors don't?
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I'm guessing you're not alone, I would go so far as to say that validation software would offend most authors - the same way code validation tools hurt programmers' feelings.

"But I'm right and the tool is wrong! The tool doesn't understand the complexity/brilliance of my work!" And sometimes you're going to be right with that assertion. Other times, however, it will push you and your reviewers towards better quality.

I find it fascinating that the entire article is in fact about this issue, the copyright thing is purely incidental.
Oh, conspiracies, sure. You'd think that something called "conspiracy theory" would have more to do with them, wouldn't you? But the sort of person who, when presented with a big list of interests, would briefly consider checking the "conspiracy theory" box and then not just refrain from doing so in case the Men in Black might notice, but actually feel himself quite wise and clever for having entertained this train of thought, tends to be the sort of person who finds things which actually ever happen rather dull.
Two ways you can do this:

1. Long polling: It’s definitely possible to have thousands of long-lived requests with something like gunicorn/tornado. Remember to turn-off buffering in your front-end nginx proxy if you want to use long-polling.

2. Async with web hooks. Gather the request payload, push it to a job queue, and return the response. Process the job queue at your leisure and then call the web hook when complete. You can use celery, beanstalk or my personal choice rq (and django-rq.)
It's not about not having those emotions. It's about releasing them rather than dwelling on them. I think what you're describing is avoiding negative emotions, which actually makes things worse. You have to feel through them, if that makes any sense to you at all.
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Words always have a context in culture.
"Positive thinking" in todays culture is synonymous with: new age, guru, self help, "you can do ANYTHING you want"

What you are describing is practical thinking.
Did you actually read the blog post? It seems like you didn't. Did you also read https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/WhatWeRelease? Do you understand what I mean with main focus? It means we try to ensure that it is portable, but we don't go out of our way to make it already works anywhere other than Linux. While at the same time, some people are actually doing that more than ever before.

Your summary of "keep lying" is so far off that I guess you just didn't read the blogpost, nor my comment in any detail.
If WebGL worked in UIKit's WebView, you could just wrap your WebGL game with PhoneGap and use StoreKit for ripping off children... I mean, selling exciting in-app upgrades.

I'm not convinced the App Store is a meaningful marketing channel anyway, except for the 0.001% of game developers that can afford to buy downloads and then happen to get lucky in the App Store curation roulette.
Is an obvious direction to take either option, though. (Phones to x86 or steam to arm.)

I mean, sure, the heavier lifting of the games probably couldn't dream of going arm. Not sure on many of what I would presume are emulated games, though.
> 2. Cell tower antennas are simple dipoles, not directional antennas.

This is where you went wrong. They are in fact directional antennas. From a wikipedia article:

"Due to the sectorized arrangement of antennas on a tower, it is possible to vary the strength and angle of each sector depending on the coverage of other towers in view of the sector."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_site#Channel_reuse

That certainly sounds to me like a cell base station not only already has multiple antennas (which you can see with your own eyes) but that it makes use of said multiple antennas in some kind of semi-intelligent way. Obviously not as smart as the pCell, but sorta.

> For a beam width of 30 degrees, you would need 12 antennas where one exists now, and you would need a way to switch between antennas on each transmitted packet to multiple served devices. That would be a nightmare.

As we've established there are already multiple antennas. Maybe not 12, but several. And this is a trivial problem to solve actually. The same technology that tracks you from mast to mast can be used to track you from antenna to antenna. This is the job of the base station controller. Here's a clip:

"By using directional antennas on a base station, each pointing in different directions, it is possible to sectorise the base station so that several different cells are served from the same location. Typically these directional antennas have a beamwidth of 65 to 85 degrees. This increases the traffic capacity of the base station (each frequency can carry eight voice channels) whilst not greatly increasing the interference caused to neighboring cells (in any given direction, only a small number of frequencies are being broadcast). Typically two antennas are used per sector, at spacing of ten or more wavelengths apart. This allows the operator to overcome the effects of fading due to physical phenomena such as multipath reception. Some amplification of the received signal as it leaves the antenna is often used to preserve the balance between uplink and downlink signal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_station_controller#Sectori...

I appreciate your enthusiasm for debate but please do some more research into cellular radio before you weigh in further. You've got a lot of the basic concepts right but not the particulars of the implementation. If that comes across harsh; I'm sorry. I don't know how to communicate this more gently.
This is a serious question, though a tad off-topic: what tools do you use in the Java world?

I've tried to get into the Java web world, but it's always felt like the tools weren't what I was looking for. Partly, it always feels like the Java world builds so many ways to do things that it's hard to get a feeling on what is canonical. Even with something like Play, should I use Java or Scala? If I use Java, should I use Ebean or Hibernate? If I use Hibernate, should I use XML or. . .

In some ways, it feels like Java advocacy is focused on non-coding managers. Or maybe I just don't know where to look for developer-focused advocacy.

For example, in the C# world, Microsoft has done a decent job telling developers how to get started and why they should care about .NET MVC. In the Java world, it's hard to know where to get started: Spring, Play, Ninja, Wicket, Dropwizard, Tapestry, Wicket, etc.

I guess I'd love to hear your recommendations and experience in moving to Java.
I have XAMPP for PHP, with starters for Slim Framework and Laravel 4 all set with Twig, Bootstrap and/or the HTML5 boilerplate, also a development install of Wordpress for testing plugins and custom themes. I've also got node.js running now, but I hardly use it yet.
So... don't visit those sites?
Good question! AC voltage is relatively safer because it crosses the zero point 120 times a second. If it passes through your body, your muscles will spasm but you will have an opportunity to pull away. Also, AC voltage will probably not sustain an arc at such a low voltage, again, because it is constantly switching polarity.

On the other hand DC voltage, once a connection has been made, will continue to flow through that path to complete the circuit. You can think of it as the electrons on the hot wire want very badly to get back to the place where they were generated (the source transformer under that covered up manhole). If they find a path through your body, it will continue to flow through your blood vessels until either you or the wire burns up, or the upstream transform faults. You basically become a fuse. If you are part of the circuit, you'd better hope there is somebody nearby to hit you you with a pole, because otherwise you are pretty much stuck that way. Also, DC voltage is much better at sustaining an arc, even below 100 volts, so it can set off an explosion that can ignite whatever dust is lying around the equipment. Google "arc flash" to see what this looks like.
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If LTS isn't LTS, might as well use Arch.
> How many people have no access to Verizon Wireless, AT&T wireless, Tmobile, Sprint, or telephone DSL?

Different product, same problem, possibly even the same company. Switch out "Time Warner" with "Verizon" (a reality for some), and the problem exists anew.

There is not competition in the residential Internet business.
just make sure stuff is vested over time so people aren't sucking up equity that they really didn't earn.
I live in Scottsdale and this is excellent news! Cox is the longstanding primary internet/cable provider here and their speeds are good but service is atrocious.
Good system I've seen for domain buying is this: You set price you'll pay. Broker decides to take job. They negotiate a price that equal to or lower than your cap. They get fixed fee plus X% of difference between price paid and max price you'd be willing to pay.
Also, once a person gives you one bit of information it becomes infinitely easier to find them.

Especially with the facebook graph search you can do something like: "women who live near me named _____ who like _____ and graduated from ____." And then you have their facebook profile...

I am still sort of shocked that facebook just allows anyone to do this.
Yeah, but it's not always easy to see every possible security issue. For instance, your proposed solution of just rounding the distance to the tenth of a mile is scarcely better. The attacker will just need more than 3 points to be able to locate with as much accuracy as they want.

At least I hope that's not how this issue was fixed; article doesn't say.
Nation-wide averages tell a story that no one is interested in. Do you have data on densely populated coastal states? I want to compare speed and speed/Mbps to areas like Warsaw and Stockholm with high density cities in the US.
What's funny is that the rent premium for fiber is higher than the prices people complain about for Cable.
Or just have a cloud-centric workflow and you have billions of devices around you that can quickly access any of your data :)
Just goes to show you, if a cop finds a reason to arrest you, you an be detained for up to 72 hours without charges being laid upon you.

This story is what a typical arrest feels like in 2014. All the stuff you see on movies? forget it. it doesn't apply anymore.
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Where would you suggest a person start if he wanted to gain this "skill with emotions?"

That's a serious request. On re-reading, it sounds snarky, but I don't know another way to phrase it.
If the certificate from the SAT solver does not count as a proof, you can't blame the popular accounts. That's the language the paper authors use:

The negative witness, that is, the DRUP unsatisﬁability certiﬁcate, is probably one of longest proofs of a non-trivial mathematical result ever produced. Its gigantic size is comparable, for example, with the size of the whole Wikipedia, so one may have doubts about to which degree this can be accepted as a proof of a mathematical statement.

From http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2184v2.pdf
Game programming, space exploration, acting, music, movies, sports, anything where demand for employment outstrips demand for employees.
Another enormous hole in app privacy is that mobile devices tend to store location and compass bearing in addition to handset model in every photo taken with the camera.

So if you run a web or mobile app, scrub these on receipt by re-rasterizing (load .jpg/png -> copy image data -> save to a new file) using something like ImageMagick.
Joke's on us :(
Why is my vote not appearing?
I appreciate the comment, but since this was in regards to Rails, the two options were basically use prepared statements or don't. You don't get any safety without them and have to rely on Rails, which does an admirable job, but has faltered from time to time.
They were a niche at the time but remember, this was the early 70s, so was Unix.
In the blogpost referenced here as well as another blogpost, OpenBSD and FreeBSD developers appreciate the work that Ryan has been doing. Calling everything "crap" is a bit easy. What I did learn (since today) is that we were waiting for them (*BSD) to contact us (GNOME), while once only 1 person contacted them, we got a lot of cooperation going.
If a web site wants to murder your battery with graphics, it can already do it with an overload of CSS3 animations and reckless JavaScript drawing in Canvas elements...
Lunchtime at home? Better hope you are not on lunch making duty at the office, it's company culture don't you know. You do want to be a team player don't you?

Besides, how reasonable is it to expect to be able to raise a family in downtown SF? Surely if you want space, good schools, and room to grow an extra $500 in downtown rent terms isn't going to make that much of a difference.
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It appears the 2x speedup is from by-passing ActiveRecord::Relation
Was it really optimism or rather the ability to find meaning within the experience? I ask because one of the top 10 books I've ever read is Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning". He survived the death camps and figured out how he and others did so. Compared to it, _The Secret_ is revealed to be a shallow mindless "gimme, I'm entitled" attitude towards life where hard work is deemed unnecessary - i.e. reality is nothing but a psychological construct and you can manipulate it with merely your will. In others words, an excuse for airheads to indulge their inner two year old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

"optimistic outlook" vs "optimistic thinking" is far better, IMO
k ... good to hear.
I use my own Ruby framework: more capable than Sinatra, less complex than Rails. It's basically Rack, DataMapper, Postgres, an admin UI, and a few reusable bits that I've coded for previous projects (principally user auth and caching).
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The problem of reverse image search is also magnified by Tinder only allows users to display images from their Facebook profile on their Tinder account.
My girlfriend is a medical assistant at a new internal medicine clinic. They are trying to do what is called "direct primary care" where you pay a monthly fee to see your doctor rather than getting hit with huge bills when you have something go wrong.

The thing about direct primary care is that there is no easy way for a small health clinic to do the billing. Existing systems like Epic are very much stuck in the old way of doing things.

So a startup approaches my girlfriend and the doctor at a conference with a solution to direct primary care billing. They decided to give it a try. She says it's been fantastic. They've asked for features and had them implemented in days. They can just call up the CEO on the phone and ask for help if they need it (obviously that won't scale well, but for now it's awesome).

Try doing any of that with a solution from an established company.
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On the other hand, a lot of these things only applied in NI, not in the rest of the UK.
There are much better auction systems and property tax systems than this.
I applaud anyone trying to improve performance. It is discouraging, though, that it only helps with some of the fastest and most efficient queries: direct SELECTs by ID without any joins or LIKE statements.

For those interested in good caching without bypassing parts of ActiveRecord, Memcache + Dalli (gem) is a great solution. Caching is not always the right solution, though. Sometimes the best choice is reversing how you get to that data or optimizing your query directly using SQL.
Let's avoid the use of the word "proof", which I address above. Is it possible to do any analysis of the output of the SAT solver, the certificate, to gain any insight into the problem? That's what the poster was asking.
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So, if which ISP I happen to be a customer of completely dictates which streaming service I wind up using, then the actual merits of the product have become divorced from which product I buy. That's textbook market failure, right? Dollars aren't flowing to the best product or the cheapest, they're flowing to the product approved by someone in a completely different industry. The invisible hand isn't doing shit for me in that scenario.

Is the next phase of this discussion "the free market will create incentives to start new telephony companies that don't throttle your favorite website"?

For an analogy, should the electric company have a say in which brand CPU I use? Or should they just sell me watt/hours?
Have to agree, mongo is seriously good for spin up as you put it, pretty much zero configuration, define your "database" schema directly in your app as you make your models (at least thats how it works with mongoose.) Can't get much faster than that. How does the python side of things go?

I don't really understand the hate for mongo.. most of the problems people have with it are problems said people would never face with any data store. Its good at what it does. I think it mostly becomes a problem when people try to use it for something they should be using a relational database for.
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Did you read the article?

> Despite its name, UltimEyes has little to do with improving the physical eye or eye muscles. Rather, the app works by exploiting recent insights into when and how the adult brain can be fundamentally rewired—a concept known as neuroplasticity.
I really don't know what it's going to take to get some of these startups to give remote working a try. I currently work remotely for a mid-west startup and it's completely changed the way I work, and for the better.

I feel like a have more control over my schedule which in turn gives me a better sense of ownership over what I create.

If you've ever done freelance work it's very similar in that it gives you freedom to create your own schedule while providing a more stable form of income. That's not to say I wouldn't go back to freelancing I'm just enjoying the current situation I'm in.
or the myopia leads to an intense focus and drive ... which you obsess over and use to solve a deep problem... (spurred on by the negativity).. that other people just ignore and sweep under the rug.
To be fair, that is (was?) the entire point of facebook. Allowing people to connect and answering the question "Remember that girl "Jane Doe" from college, what is she up to?" was basically the killer feature.
I've always wondered why this isn't the way real estate agents work.
A bit of an outsider's perspective, from someone at a company (FullContact) that does some similar things -

1: Free EcoPass and/or free parking - EcoPass is a pretty killer bus pass that lets you take the express routes and you can even do long trips for a severely discounted price. The airport from downtown, for instance, runs $11. With EcoPass it's $2.50. We've found that many people would rather take the bus than drive, even if driving and parking in Denver isn't nearly as much of an inconvenience as it is in SF. It also solves the "car trouble" issue for most people.

2: $7,500 each year for vacation - In a startup, you're going to work harder, probably for a bit less money, than anywhere else. Burnout will happen. This is our way to combat it. We remove the obstacle of "can't afford a vacation" by actually paying you to take one.

3: Powder Day Policy - There's 8 inches at Vail and you can't stand to be inside? Go. Take the day. Just don't screw over your team and make it up in the next two weeks. The same holds true when it's 72 and sunny for the first time in a month and you need to just get away.

What we found - First, the obvious. Recruiting engineering talent isn't easy. The same can be said for just about every position that a company needs to fill, but engineering is especially difficult. By way of comparison, we have 9 positions open right now and almost 3,000 applicants. Of those, only 2 percent have applied for the engineering positions.

79 percent have applied as "I just want to work at FullContact".

While that's a drastic difference, it's also better than what we were seeing prior to adding the "non-traditional" benefits as part of the recruiting/retention plan.

The real questions that will hit ZenPayroll (as they have us) are these - You're going to start getting a LOT more applicants. How much time do you have to put in to filter them? Are you going to start getting a lot more GOOD applicants? How many of them just want to game the system for a year to get a taste of the good life? Are your processes good enough to weed them out?

As an outsider with common ground, it's good to see even more companies taking this approach. But as an insider to the turbulence that they can create, I would urge them to make sure that they're as prepared as they can be for those bumps.
Yes, you can talk them into a slightly less terrible deal than their advertised rates (which is $50 for 5gb, plus your talk/text/network fee costs). That is still absolutely horrible, and essentially useless as an alternative to actual internet access. Normal people hit their 100GB monthly caps on a regular basis just from stuff like game patches, buying new games, watching TV/movies, etc.
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Not an economist but my instinct is that if a housing stipend became widespread practice for startups in SF it would aid in inflating the market by making prices artificially low.

Pretty good perk for now though, I'd take it.
"Wikipedia" is displacing "encyclopedia" and "Library of Congress" as a unit of measure!
Thanks. The WoT depends on not trusting the keyservers, but trusting that humans on the other end know whom to trust and get them to countersign each other's keys.

SSL CAs:GnuPG (GPG/PGP) -> Subversion:Git
This is awesome. The video music was a little awkward. Can you build extensions of this say, for creating Automated tests that go through the funnel paths? Or guided product tours?
Those are functions, not stored procedures. Every time that function is executed, it is re-parsed and re-planned.
I think it's also worth reading "Why you should move that button 3px to the left"[0] article from Medium.

[0] https://medium.com/design-startups/c012e5ad32f7
I wish Google would publish more technical information about their fiber project. I am quite interested in what equipment they have chosen, what types of cabling they are using, etc. (and why) Also, any other information that could be used by community internet providers looking to roll out fiber!
How fortunate that a blog at the Wall Street Journal and service as speechwriter to US presidents does not qualify one to be a member of an elite.