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> you most certainly do not "cut down on file load time."

Surely you must be joking eekee.

I know SSDs have made us all forget, but Disks (you know, those spinning piles of rust that most of us still have in computers to permanently store our bits on) are incredibly, painfully slow. Average times for any action on a disk are in milliseconds. That's millions of computational cycles.

I'm sure someone could invent a system where the dynamic linking process is slower than loading a static executable from a disk, but I've yet to find it. I'm also certain that our assumption that dynamic linking is always the way to go will be more and more challenged by the speed of SSDs, which are becoming much closer to RAM in speeds every day. But for today... no way.
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AES-NI - http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encr...
Only three parameters for such a simulation? Does this make sense?
Currently 4co.in is showing this:

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Site is down!

Sorry everyone! i really apologize for what happend!!

It all happend because of my silly mistake and misconfiguration and it was affected for at max 10hrs.

Instead of making a scene somebody would have contacted me!

Now i understand the risks of live development. It was not my intension to steal anything.
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> "Otherwise, why would they announce this at this stage?"

Drum up local interest and support to help with any local political roadblocks.
Sure they did. That was my point, in '96 the master customer list was a word processing file. They use a spreadsheet now because mere mortals can't figure out columns in Word.
anything to get away from Comcast or Time Warner helps the greater population!
The model has lots of parameters, but you can only fiddle with three of them. Terrain and vegetation data is provided to the model by a database in a webservice. This is a function of the geographic location.
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to do this government side need to start real shooting. The current government doesn't have enough popular support to do it - the common plague of bad corrupt governments - and may loose what it has or gain much more of it as result of the shooting with predictability of a dice throw.
I know it would be painful, and the local politics certifiably insane, but if Google wanted draw attention to the dysfunctional monopoly of the cable industry, there would be no better place to wire than Philly. Take the competition right into Comcast's back yard. Start with a rollout of the Philly 'burbs where the Comcast execs live and work inward toward the city from there.
The point of the data center is to compute, on the fly, unique phase solutions for moving devices being served by multiple antennas, and to compute new solutions as the devices move. It's a huge workload, perfect for a modern, high-speed multiprocessor system to tell the cell-tower antennas which phase delay to apply to (a) each antenna, (b) each data packet, and (c) each device in a separate, changing location.
Then it's not an issue and Google is not scared of digging the earth. On the other hand they write they want to reuse existing conduits, rather than perform new construction.
I for one don't trust google anymore. They are in bed with the feds.
The SLA seems odd:

- "Downtime" means more than a twenty percent Error Rate. Downtime is measured based on server side Error Rate.
- "Error Rate" means the number of Valid Requests to open a connection that fail to open a connection, divided by the total number of Valid Requests during that period.

So does a network outage not count as downtime?
> Our water pipes are mostly 100+ years old, our electric grid is ancient, most of our power is provided by plants that are decades old, etc. Chicago decommissioned a 110 year old coal plant in 2012. Our utilities are not exactly places bustling with innovation, new ideas, new technologies. Regulation has effectively killed the once promising nuclear industry, for example.

In a privatized scheme, it is unlikely that infrastructure would be upgraded unless those upgrades paid for themselves in some way or were compelled by law. We are already seeing that telcos don't seek to improve the quality of infrastructure in many cases and instead seek a way to increase margins without having to make significantly expenditures on infrastructure.
That sounds like a much better definition of positive thinking.

This article seemed to suggest that positive thinking means: "Plan for the best outcome and assume the worst will not happen." That is wishful thinking ('positive fantasies'). I don't think the two are the same thing at all.
People have been pushing for municipal-owned fiber for a long time in SF: https://www.change.org/petitions/make-fiber-broadband-a-prio...

But the Mayor thinks that WiFi is good enough. :-(

ATT's last-mile copper solution will barely be better than their current "Uverse".

The City (SF) has tons of fiber running all over the City. With some infrastructure investment, it would not be hard to use that as a backbone for municipal fiber. Residents can then sign up with any of the 3rd parties to jump on to the Internet.
The Bay Area tech community has a widely-held dogmatic bias against remote teams due to a widespread belief that remote teams make it difficult to communicate and create a company culture.

To be sure, this could also be seen as an acknowledgement of their own weaknesses. In modern business, shouldn't a contingency to reduce burn rate by hiring from lower cost-of-living areas be a valid option? If so, then why shouldn't management be able to communicate well enough to execute on that? Are they so vain to think that not only should the company be viable and successful, but that they should succeed at the highest cost possible?
If that's the problem, why not prohibit municipalities from creating local monopolies? Why have the FCC dictate limits on the design of network pricing and services everywhere, even where there are many options?
My personal conspiracy theory is that AV software are actually backdoors for the international three letter agencies. For my taste the market is unusually fractured with many of the players coming from the typical spy powernations. Plus it would be the sweetest access door as they are almost always whitelisted and get access to the internet regularly.
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Doesn't raleigh already have municipal fiber? I know there is fiber in in the RTP area.
I was discussing paths to the CDN, not the performance of the CDN's servers themselves. If the servers are the bottleneck, and not the network, shouldn't performance be roughly the same (or worse over) the VPN verses the local connection?
If it's installed, yes. If it's not installed, no:

$ man ddate
No manual entry for ddate
I feel your pain :)

This is somewhat like what I face with things like the Leap Motion or the Kinect. There are clever things you can do with them but rarely are they better than what you would do without them; truly practical use cases that justify the time and expense to implement and maintain are hard to come by.

For the IoT, if you have a garage then you might want to turn on/off house lights or adjust the thermostat when a car enters or leaves. Or have a way to detect if a room has been empty for X minutes (I'm thinking sonar to tell if extra mass is in the space; Kinects are overkill) and automatically turn off lights.

I'd like to be told when I'm running low on milk and eggs.
I guess this is sarcasm, but it's not clear what you're trying to actually say. How is a connection-pooling proxy supposed to make an application more resilient to network partitions? If anything, it's worse, since you have twice as many points of failure -- if either the application can't talk to the proxy, or the proxy can't talk to the database, you're hosed.
> "Don't buy from bad startups."

Do you have a resource that can definitively tell which startups are bad and which ones are good?
They most certainly have pissed customers that might go elsewhere, and they often do have deadlines.
Define "parallel store"

Do they forbid someone making a curated collection when every URL points to the location of the app in the Play Store?
Except for the part that comes down to Earth, depending on the place where the ribbon breaks.
This idea, making future consequences (positive or negative) of present choices more vivid and real is something I learned from this LessWrong article[1]. I think it will appeal more to this audience than _The Secret_.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/9wr/my_algorithm_for_beating_procras...
That's pretty much not true of any widely-used open source project. They have deadlines and pissed off companies that take their money elsewhere.
The designers at Salesforce recently wrote an excellent blogpost that relates to this: https://medium.com/p/c8f3001f709b

tl;dr
Salesforce made a style guide and a HTML/CSS UI kit of the style guide. This allowed them to implement designs faster.
Yes. The only reason I can say that is because current military phased-array radars do it. I would quibble with "at once", but they can certainly accommodate multiple targets, in series, in a short time span.
I think that's more due to the NRC and the NIMBYs, than it is due to being a utility.
I think the takeaway is that it lets developers be the designers. Most programmers I know are pretty good at solving problems, but they don't always have an eye for visual details aspect of it. The style guide gives them a framework to work in, and can hopefully prevent a UI atrocity.

Maybe hiring an outside designer to do the whole app would get you better results, but if you're going to toss all of that as the app changes, it might not be worth the expense. Assuming your devs aren't bad at user interaction stuff, this gets you most of the way there at a small fraction of the cost.
Canada related question. Do all the major ISPs in Canada have bandwidth caps on consumer broadband?
Whole program optimization is really the killer feature for static linking today. It's possible with dynamic linking, but a static compiler can really go to town shedding weight since lots of libraries have common code structures (see every sufficiently complex C library and its own implementations of various data structures).
I worry that the rules will forbid ISPs from having explicit whitelists/blacklists, but will do nothing to prevent them from having undersized and saturated transit links then demand payment for peering with content providers like Netflix.

What would happen if consumer ISPs were required, for each customer, to choose a single point (at the metro level, probably) where they are required to peer openly? That allow all Netflix-like companies access to customers, but since it's a point local to the customer, would not impose any long-distance bandwidth requirement on the ISP.
Ask HN: Need help from outside in establishing initial equity picture
I am wondering if there is such a thing as a neutral 3rd party service that provides an outside assessment to help a team that is ready to incorporate come to a decision on equity division?

It's a scenario where there are different levels and types of input, where it's very positive, and the general spirit is it'd be good to get a neutral/outside take on how to set things up rather than haggle or negotiate internally.

Been trying to get an answer via Google search but have not able to make headway.
I've heard this "survive off planet" concept over and over, and inevitably someone points out that even after the worst conceivable environmental disasters, Earth will still be more habitable than any planet within 1000 years travel.

And I've never heard a compelling response to that, so why do people still think leaving the planet is important for our survival?

The only scenario I can think of where a radiation-soaked pocket in the Canadian mountains is less habitable than "off planet" is when the Sun starts dying. But that's not really a pressing concern.
Patents in .txt format.What interesting things would you do with this data?
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Previous mass extinction took 60000 years so even if another mass extinction event is happening now we won't even notice it.
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I wasn't criticizing the entire article. I was disagreeing with a single person's claim that disagreeing with a cultural norm is the same thing as failing to understand it.

Most of the advice in the original article was pretty good. I just happen to prefer meeting people in a more natural manner. I just wouldn't feel right spending my free time trying to manipulate my way into a rich person's life with the hope that I might somehow benefit from it in the long run.
I don't think it's cynicism at all. It may not be explicitly about being able to call someone up at 8pm, but rather about building a culture where everyone is hanging out at the office all the time and your social circle revolves around your coworkers. That's a deal if the company can get that for $500/month.
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Some dirty ISPs are refusing to use the CDNs that Netflix makes available to them instead of straightforward packet discrimination. I blame Netflix for not shaming Verizon and such with CDN usage stats.
To answer both you and your sibling comment - there would be a difference in performance, depending on which CDN is delivered to you. I don't know of a way to request a specific CDN from Netflix, and if the one that's the closest to you is having perf issues, that doesn't mean the one closest to your VPN will have the same perf issues.
Any form of wireless seems like a band-aid compared to wired broadband.
Definitely agree regarding their coverage -- only being in 7 out of 50 states is no minor drawback.

The death of ADP and its ilk can't come soon enough. Payroll might not be as 'sexy' as some other markets, but you're right that whichever start-up can battle the big guys here will absolutely make a lot of money.
As we gradually migrate data from MongoDB to MySQL, this code has been hugely helpful. It is making the transition as smooth and efficient as possible. I hope others can get some value out of the gem as well.
Get it in writing. E-mail, fax w/ signature, gpg signature, etc. Some kind of verifiable writing should be sufficient.
I currently live in NYC, and I've lived in Raleigh

Howdy neighbor: I live in NYC too. A lot of NYC already does have fiber in the form of FiOS. I'll also observe that NYC's overall Internet situation appears to be much better than many places; right now I'm paying $50 a month for 50 Mbs down / 5 Mbs up through RCN. In Tucson, where I used to live, I was paying $70 for 12 down / 1 or 2 up.

Google is presumably targeting the places with the crappiest service and the most amenable local governments; NYC's service isn't terrible and its government isn't exactly known for being responsive.
Why couldn't they lay fiber to core areas, then setup some sort of wireless redistribution - there'd be some lack of speed due to more users using same connection, but it would mean less construction required. As they could just setup more and more access points throughout the city, and some sort of wireless login for specific users... --Might be a possible solution.
Thanks for your reply.

You are right - on the iPhone it does things correctly unless I rotate the phone again.

On my camera ffmpeg says it never sets the flag. So not your fault :)
> Present cell systems don't adjust phase to maximize reception quality in a coordinated way for each of several transmitting antennas, for each packet, for each participating device. That's new.

You are just describing MIMO pre-coding which has existed for more than 20 years.

I don't see what is patentable: Distributed beamforming necessarily requires physically dispersed antennas. Adding a data center doesn't seem patentable. But I don't know anything about patents nor do I care that much.
VZW stopped rolling out FIOS across the board I believe.
A style guide is an important way to keep everybody on the same page. Not enough products have one. As others (including the OP) suggest, this is not the entirety of design, but it's a great step after something like Bootstrap to help differentiate the product.
instead of being a not-android, i would like an ubuntu phone as desktop errr... notebook, laptop, netbook replacement. 5 to 6 inch, octacore, full browser, ability to drive 4K displays or TV, full ubuntu desktop. that would ultimately be the end of the PC market for devs, pros.
If you can't get over your competitors, join them! Start automatizing things... This could be a good start for a web developer: www.theclientrelationsfactory.com

But you are absolutly right. Things change fast, and the thing is changing fastest is the change itself.
Not to get too in-depth with home network troubleshooting, but are you on a wireless network? Interference may be a cause.

I know it's fun to blame ISPs for all the problems under the sun, but it's actually rarer than one might think that the ISP itself is the cause of a home networking issue.
Good answer. I always post this: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/att-ordered-stop-u-verse-... when people ask why SF isn't at the top of the list. Existing telcos already can't easily roll out faster service!
We do the exact same thing at Buildy, but in Python. Here's the class:

https://gist.github.com/irskep/9099262
I think some do but it's rare. Stripe seems to be doing a good job: http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...
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Canonical already failed to demonstrate that their community gives a damn with their failed crowdfunded flagship phone. I see absolutely nothing to indicate that the community which failed to be impressed with Ubuntu on the "Ubuntu Edge" will provide a solid niche market for it on other devices.
Very well said. Thank you for jumping in.
If, by your definition, positive thinking includes preparing for the worst, how come whenever I bring up worst-case scenarios with my colleagues, they accuse me of being negative.

I don't think most people share your definition.
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Cool to see they're expanding, but I'm disappointed to see that there's no love for the upper Midwest. Wouldn't expect it in Chicago but Milwaukee (where I am), Madison, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, and possibly a few smaller cities would all seem like reasonable candidates (although I acknowledge there's issues with all of them).
RCN is a solid provider from what I hear. I'm JUST out of their coverage area and am consigned to Comcast. Tis a terrible fate.
Doing any kind of utility work in NYC is a nightmare. There's lots of stuff underground (power, telecom, water, steam, sewer) that has been built up over the years and is in various states of obsolescence and disrepair, and in many cases isn't really marked on any utility maps. It's not a trivial matter to just dig a new trench for fiber.

Here's a interesting story of what happened when an electrician found a 250VDC feed that was supposed to be abandoned decades ago: http://www.electriciantalk.com/f5/fixture-tails-44009/#post8...
Wow. That's disgusting.
It's called multiple access and it doesn't really have to do with beamforming: There are many multiple access systems that do not rely on time division, CDMA being a prominent example.
How long does it take for landlords in the area to realize that there's an extra $500/mo to be had?
Because a_k = x implies a_{k+1} = x for all k.
Asteroid mining.

Mine some asteroids for iron, carbon, silicon, water. Now you have the raw materials for the biggest solar powerplant ever made. Ship the power down the space elevator and you have cheap renewable energy without the downsides of it being earthbound. Ship any excess ores down to earth for more profit. Some of those asteroids could have billions, if not trillions of tons of raw materials ready to use.

It's a bit far out there as ideas go, but so was visiting the moon at one point!
This is quite an issue in my life. Believing and practicing positive thinking seems like such a self-evident, unquestionably good thing. Especially among a certain class of people, it's almost never popular or ... I don't know - "socially tenable" to challenge this. But I can't help but challenge it. Because to me, it just looks like a nervous tic. In fact, it looks like a stubborn, neurotic horse that insists on only turning to the right. It looks compulsive, and subtly fear-driven. In conversation, it's a non-stop, predictable and inescapable barrage of "Yeah, but", "Well, on the bright side", "Hey, at least" - and no matter what I say, they won't stop returning like it's tennis and they're scrambling all over the court to stop the ball going out of bounds by any means.

And the people who do this are as offended by my view of the world as if I spilled shit on their white suit. I'm biased, but I don't see myself as overly negative. The way I see it, I just don't go out of my way to see the bright side, or try in a motivated way to hit positive notes while conversing. I don't feel motivated to be negative, either. But this sure as hell makes me the most negative person I know, by default. To me, I just can't have a view of the world other than the view I have; and I can't speak things other than what I think and see.

From the other side, for myself, I have been guilty of the same thing in the past. But since I became more aware of it, I now try, when someone talks about bad luck or unpleasantness in the world, to listen and nod, rather than allow my larynx to reflexively spasm into a positive platitude.

No, I am not fun at parties. Not to worry - I don't go to them.

Also, yeah I think criticizing positive thinking in general, and The Secret in particular, both in the same short article, is pretty sloppy.
If you'd asked me three years ago, I never would have guessed it would turn out like this. We have Internet Explorer supporting WebGL on ARM-based Windows tablets manufactured by Microsoft itself, yet the iPad still lacks WebGL. It's like bizarro world.

One gets the impression that Apple feels WebGL is perhaps too much power in a cross-platform package. If you need to do 3D-accelerated GUIs or games on iOS today, you build an Objective-C app for the App Store because there's no other way to access those APIs. Is Apple protecting their lock-in?
Its possible that "security by obscurity" has a different meaning in the programming world. When talking about computer or network security it is used to describe any mechanism that attempts to defend a system by hiding something. One of the classic examples of security by obscurity is when a person disables the broadcasting of the SSID on a wireless router.
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You are correct. I had the peculiar idea that Ostankino was 1800 meters tall (well over a mile) its actually 1800 feet. Which is still pretty tall. There are other towers taller than Ostankino now. This comes up a lot at a telecom company, "You think climbing a 100M tower is a PITA, there's one in Russia thats.. etc etc"