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> I view the broadband industry as a fascinating example of what happens when an infrastructure industry meets the technology industry.

I don't disagree with your comment, but your argument would seem to apply to the rest of the world, whereas in fact the US is in a fairly unique situation among developed countries.

Most of the current situation can be explained by the fact that broadband is currently the only unregulated public utility.

In NYC, I don't really pay much attention to electricity, gas, and water. ConEd kind of sucks, and I wish they were better, but really, they work well enough most of the time, and I'm not sure that I could name anybody else who would do it better.

The problem is that we sold off monopoly rights to broadband without attaching any strings of regulation, etc. Why should they bother to upgrade their infrastructure? Heck, we literally paid the cable companies billions of dollars of government money to do exactly that, and because we failed to enforce that with any real teeth, they just took the money and ran. Of course they're not going to listen when consumers say they "want gigabit". It would make no business sense to do otherwise, especially when 80% of your customers are unable to vote with their wallet and use a competing service[0].

There's a case to be made for either a free-market approach to broadband, or a more "socialized", regulated monopoly. Unfortunately, what we currently have is a hybrid of both, and it happens to hit upon the worst of both worlds.

[0] There's a South Park clip that does a great job of describing this relationship. I won't link to it here, because it's rather crude and possibly (?) a bit NSFW, but searching "south park cable" on Youtube should lead you to it if you want to laugh, sigh, and cry all at the same time.
Don't worry about the "real-world consequences [of] fail[ure]" because the author sure doesn't seem to either. For the risk-averse out there, don't you have some family to "fall back on so [you] will be unlikely to starve"?

I think the headline should be: We Need To Lower The Consequences of Failure
Hmm, taking a cynical view, this could be a win-win for Nokia. Consider this:

1) The device does well: Nokia makes some money.

2) The device flops: Nokia can lay to rest the common criticism that they should have gone with Android. They can say, "See? We did Android. It went nowhere."

Don't blame the lack of a Play store, because remember, they were in discussions with Google and could not reach an agreement. I'm convinced it's because of Google's requirement that "all your location data are belong to us" [1] which would directly undercut Nokia's own location services. Because of Google's all-or-nothing stance, that took Google mobile services completely off Nokia's table.

Also, in the unlikely case that it does well, I wouldn't be too surprised if MS lets it live post-acquisition. After all, it's using their services, and these days there's probably more money to be made there than in selling software.

1. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-licen... - "Google's Network Location Provider must not only be included, but set as the default network location provider; this is no doubt the clause that triggered a lawsuit from rival location company Skyhook."
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so is the USP that translation is done via machine like google translate ?
> The median position of a bunch of half-informed individuals plied with advertising is not something I have a lot of confidence in.

And here lies the problem. In the US the 1% actively disinforms the 99% through media manipulation and bad education. Thus you can't have direct democracy when people can't think for themselves. The whole system is rotten.

In most European countries citizens are educated from a young age how to think rationally and how to interpret information. You still have subtle media manipulation like sky-news but nothing as blatant as fox-news&hollywood. Switzerland has a very good history of referenda - because the population isn't intentionally misinformed and under-educated.
I read about this yesterday http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

Last September I posted this on my blog:
Imagine sitting in an airport, for example, and being able to join a First Person Shooter Game where all of your opponents are in the same airport – they could be other travellers, airport staff, pilots – anyone. But here is the main feature of this game: The virtual location you see in the game IS the airport and it is created using all relevant data (floorplans of the airport, wayfinding apps, and apps on your phone that are able to map rooms, measure direction, etc.). The game environment in which you travel seeking your opponents is generated using data being generated by their devices as well – sort of a micro crowd sourced battlefield with some help from publicly available data.

Where do I find a Tango Developer to work with to create this Massively Multiplayer Mobile game?
LOL! I wrote that for a presentation at the Game Developers Conference way back when. It was really a post-mortem, where the point is to show others what mistakes we made so that they wont repeat them. Anyway, its kind of flattering to see it come to life again... like some kind of Frankenstein internet cat. Thanks to all the positive commenters, and all you haters can fall into a timewarp and have to suffer through 28K modem hell all over again. ;) Or worse yet, be forced to watch Titanic...
Yes, predicting schedules based on volunteer effort is much more difficult than predicting schedules based on paid developer effort. Your proposed wording is a lot friendlier, but it doesn't match my experience with the project. (However, I've already written far too much on that subject, so I won't bore everyone again.)
Infrastructure is the quintessential example of a natural monopoly. Free markets encourage natural monopolies. A non-free market is required to avoid natural monopolies.
>my grandfather was in a coma for 18 months from Guillain–Barré syndrome which was a reaction to a vaccination

I'll follow up your useless anecdote with another useless anecdote. I had a close family friend die of the flu. In his 50s.

The chance of developing Guillain–Barré syndrome is under one additional case per million vaccinations. [1] and catching the flu the regular way can contribute to developing Guillain-Barré syndrome and getting infected by influenza itself increases both the risk of death (up to 1 in 10,000) and increases the risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome to a much higher level than the highest level of suspected vaccine involvement (approx. 10 times higher by recent estimates). The WHO reports "Every winter, tens of millions of people get the flu. Most are only ill and out of work for a week, yet the elderly are at a higher risk of death from the illness. We know the worldwide death toll exceeds a few hundred thousand people a year, but even in developed countries the numbers are uncertain, because medical authorities don't usually verify who actually died of influenza and who died of a flu-like illness." [2]

As I said before, all medical interventions go through a "Risk–benefit analysis" and no medical intervention is without risk. But do the benefits of getting the flu shot far outweigh the risks? That's for you to decide, but anecdote does not make data. Your family is far more likely to contract Guillain–Barré syndrome from the flu than the flu vaccine.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_syn...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
> Programming is also a skill, but it’s not at all intuitive or tangible. Without guided learning, it’s impossible to even get started.

That's total b.s. I taught myself programming in middle school by reading books.
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The most amazing and irritating thing about JS frameworks is that every week you find something better.
Do you have a open example to this? I would like to know how is implemented.
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That's what I was suspecting, just wanted to be sure I understood things correctly.

'Your margin is my opportunity' -Jeff Bezos

I guess that only holds true when there aren't artificial barriers to entry into a market.
This is really a good idea! It helps both end-users and translators. It helps building an open-market for an activity which is very important to global communication. I wonder if you will have this available for blog translation?
The reaction from the BigTelco will be interesting to say the least.
(Disclosure: I work at Joyent.)

Are you accusing Brendan of misrepresenting SystemTap on slide 93? If so, could you be specific as to what that misrepresentation is? Brendan has a ton of experience earnestly using SystemTap (or rather, trying to use it), and it's hard to see how sharing that experience makes either Brendan or his employer "look stupid." For more details on Brendan's explorations of SystemTap:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/10/15/using-systemtap/

That's several years old at this point, but the architectural limitations highlighted by Brendan haven't changed.
Ugh, tell me about it :P. But is more something with a different approach than better most of the time. And others times are things that are already there since the beginning of time but remain overlooked
Don't forget the summer Olympics!
I have been a very long term customer of Cloudant (low usage, low cost customer) and I have always appreciated their tech. Especially good of them to open source BigCouch.

I doubt IBM buying them will change much of their business for customers.
One correction, the 1999 is when the article was written, the game was created mostly in 1996 and released early 1997. Your point still stands of course.
>> If I take your laptop, is it extortion when you demand its return?
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> Yes, that's my point.

Asking me if not-extortion is extortion doesn't make much of a point.

> But it's your laptop by social convention. There are very good reasons for that social convention, and I would oppose most changes to it, but there's nothing intrinsic to the state of the world other than what's collectively in our heads and extensions thereof that makes that laptop yours or it "right" that you continue to possess it.

Yeah, the issue of rights is just as complicated as you want to make it. Or you can just reject any notion of rights altogether, if you want to completely filibuster a conversation.

But it's important to realize that reasoning helps us find the "truth" about things. Sure, next, you could go into metaphysics and claim we can't even know if the idea of "truth" makes any sense. But you have to draw the line somewhere, because otherwise you'll never reach a conclusion about anything.

> But when my rights and your rights (or my interests and your interests) collide, we need a mechanism for collective decision making.

A monopoly on violence that enslaves hundreds of millions of people is not necessary for solving a dispute between two people.

Even the two people involved can reach an agreement, but if that doesn't work out, they could let some kind of arbiter/court settle it. They'd do that because they'd both want to move on with their lives instead of wasting time, energy and effort on ultimately pointless bickering.
so open you window and see all the popular movements being beaten daily by the police.

i think you are more part of the problem if that is all the news you care for
Insert[ion] sort is already in there, heap sort is definitely high on the list!
If you read the article it's plain to see that the monopolies are enforced and encouraged by the currently existing regulations. There is no free market in ISPs in the US.
British middle class splits in two
But how will you address transaction malleability in Magic cards?
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Look into Debug.Trace for old-school println debugging.
I think it makes more more sense as a C64 game than anything else. It just fits the era and machine so well. Made me think back to the good old days where I would spend all day playing games on my C64.
How is this $0.01 per word? That seems too good to be true. The website implies says it's human translators, but translation usually costs an order of magnitude more than that.

The only company I know who are doing massively different pricing is Duolingo, because of how the work, but Unbabel seems to be the same business model as traditional translations, with a much lower price.
The todos.js one was generated by a tool called Docco, created by Jeremy Ashkenas (creator of Backbone, Underscore, and CoffeeScript). I agree that it looks really good and more people should use it for their projects!

http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/
Sorry to hijack the thread but now that you will have more time in your hands... can we have an option to download our data from HN? I mean my submissions, saved articles, and comments. Thanks!
Clojure and ClojureScript data structures use 32 way branching nodes. This means even with >2 billion elements in say a persistent vector you'll never have more than 7 hops on any particularly path. This means in the worst case you will need to copy and update 7 children all which are small arrays.

I did a bunch of GC testing with Om, the GC profile wasn't dramatically different than naive Backbone.js on TodoMVC which is also working GC by blowing away the DOM on every update.
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> what is this obsession with teaching your kids how to program? I would not want my future kids do the same always worrying occupation that I do ...

But chances are they won't. Review the history of literacy and print media. Early on, reading and writing was a specialty practiced by cloistered monks, and delivered in finished form to an ignorant public. Later on, because of technical breakthroughs, social policy changes rightly decreed that everyone should become literate.

We take for granted that everyone should know how to read and write words, but we're in transition with respect to the same issue in computer literacy -- the ability to, so to speak, read and write code.

Being able to program a computer in the future won't remotely resemble how it looks today, any more than modern print literacy resembles quill pens and parchment scrolls.
Well, we can check a few of those guesses pretty easily. Here is the stock React TodoMVC demo augmented with Swannodette's benchmarks:

http://drfloob.github.io/todomvc/architecture-examples/react...

Benchmark to your heart's content! On my system, Om is about 4x faster on benchmark 1, and 1000x faster on benchmark 2. I don't think requestAnimationFrame has a lot to do with it, and immutability only slightly more; I think the real performance gain is in having an application data policy tailored to make the most of React's behavior.

To plug my own work a bit, I built a TodoMVC example with React and my own immutable data structure library in pure JS. It performs a lot like Om on both benchmarks, and actually seems a bit snappier in places, like toggling and clearing all completed todos:

http://drfloob.github.io/todomvc/labs/dependency-examples/re...
How Netflix redesigned and rebuilt its television experience
it's more like they are not as big, paranoid, weaponized and violent than the US, so basically they spy less and kill less people as a result of the spying.

And also they have those pesky European Court of Human Rights and International Court of Justice overseeing them.

(Not everything if pink tho, some EU countries don't want GMO and Brasil and Argentina bet big on it)
> Call me naive, but I think it was Junior surrounding himself with folks who wanted him to finish the job that Pops started.

Given that those same people spent much of the Clinton Administration advocating for war on Iraq from outside of government, its a pretty good bet that that was part of the reason.

Though, to be fair, there's plenty of reason to consider that the "job that Pops started" was itself about oil, and that insofar as Iraq was targetted as an example to others, one of the reasons the particular example was chosen is because Iraq -- to borrow one of those vary same Bush II war cheerleaders description of why North Korea was treated differently than Iraq -- "floats on a sea of oil".
RIP Harold Ramis
Let's fix our braces: An Unofficial Postmortem on "goto failure;"
Sorry about the duck issue, we've fixed and pushed an update. The slow response is due to the high server load we've experienced in the last hour.
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In this case, your network is probably doing NAT64 or you should be doing it.

For non-HTTPS web there is also: https://www.sixxs.net/tools/gateway/
Here's a video of another version (although I'm not sure if it's available for download (yet)):

Happy Flappy ~ http://vimeo.com/87434521
Years ago, I made an even more obvious mistake with my startup, which was on recommendation involving a so called "management team" and giving them equity. Just say no to any proposal that puts "management" and "team" in the same sentence because it's a scam waiting to happen.
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Why We Need More Complex Programming Languages (Yes, You Heard Me Right)
Sprawl makes infrastructure investment orders of magnitude more expensive. For example, a small business [1] provides the fastest consumer access in the city of Seattle, but they refuse to do business outside of extremely high density buildings. There is no way a small business could do the same in McSuburbia. In the sprawly world outside of the US's dense cities, only municipal governments with a lot of political willpower have the resources to invest in the infrastructure needed for fast internet.

[1] http://www.condointernet.net/
Just yesterday Perl has once again been declared dead on Hacker News, and here we have it happily strutting along in a keynote about a bleeding edge topic. :)
Google is a verb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out_(espionage)
This is great, I'm particularly excited about the pricing. I was also wondering about the Crowd Translation Community. I do a lot of research that lands me in foreign texts. Often they are 100-200 years old & contain industry-specific terms.

I've always been wary of shelling out for a translation service, as I worry that the subject matter & age may make translation to English an expensive/arduous process. But, at a penny a word, I'd definitely be more willing to at least test the waters.

Being that I may momentarily have your attention, could you give an opinion on whether or not you think my use case would actually be successful? Again, with your pricing, I'm down to try it regardless, so I'm signing up, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.

EDIT: Just so you are aware, I'm trying to add money to my account, but the confirmation email doesn't seem to be arriving. I've requested another, nothing. Maybe you are getting hammered by activity right now, but UX-wise I think forcing confirmation of the account should come BEFORE you enter your financial information, not after, as it leaves me babysitting it.
There are a couple different ZFS ports for linux available. Native and FUSE. There are some linux distributions which include ZFS and can even do a ZFS root fs.
Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day are both truly great films with an astonishing influence on American culture. He'll be missed, but never forgotten.
Actually, I _loved_ netrek... it was an inspiration! It was more RTS than flight sim tho. But it was quite possibly the first MMO as well! I never played it over a modem, tho, just on a LAN... which is definitely not the same thing as a 28K internet connection circa 1999. But that game was genius, and quite possibly _would_ have worked over slow, lossy and highly latent connections, I never tried it.
You say that, but subs do have nuclear power.
So Fez underwent a somewhat significant API overhaul in the last few weeks. Now it is much more of a DSL, but is also much more expressive.

I'm worried that perhaps it's a bit too esoteric. I am confident in every design decision we made, but I want to make sure that those decisions are as transparent as possible. If you find some explanation lacking, please let me know so that I can update the documentation!
I'm pretty sure the US rents the land. You're definitely right about money injection. There are ~48k US Personnel in Germany.

Source: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/04/17/report-us-paying-b...
His character in Ghostbusters 2 was a tech role model for me too. The idea that science and engineering could solve practical problems was eye-opening as a kid.
I'm surprised there isn't a version built inside minecraft yet.
Do you think that doing text mining on the films subtitles will add interesting information?
This Open Source Digital Condom Will Literally Shock You
Also setsockopt TCP_MAXSEG = 536 and do small sends with your own ID numbers. When one IP fragment from a fragmented packet goes missing everything stops and then everything from that packet is resent. On lossy networks that bigger packet has a bigger chance of again having a missing fragment so there will be an additional delay.
Google debuts a calculator to predict public cloud costs
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Great story of building an awesome founding team. Thanks for sharing, Zach.
So we all get how this isn't a "real" thing (having your own undersea cable won't help at all in preventing someone from listening in on that cable's traffic), but it is interesting from the point of view of "Why this headline? Why this story?" It seems targeted at making unsophisticated readers uncomfortable with the NSA's activities and how it reflects on the US in the rest of the world. I have no idea how successful it will be, but its a nice counter balance to the various "Our illegal activities had some benefit for you" stories we've been seeing.
Hell they have to chase him as a ghost cameo.
This makes me sad, Harold made me laugh so very hard and I will always remember him for that.
"BitCoin is just like any other money: the base system is based on distrust but for it to be mainstream an ecosystem of trust must be built around it."

Speaking of ecosystem, I noticed that FDIC insurance suspiciously missing.