skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vacancies in NYC are incredibly low, so a landlord doesn't gain much by being able to advertise fiber internet. This, added to the expense of wiring the old buildings, means that its not a worthwhile investment.
> "where it's very positive"

I don't understand what you mean there. The founders are feeling good about things?

I realize it's probably much more simplistic than what you're looking for, but I did run across this the other day: http://foundrs.com/ It's a simple calculator for dividing equity. Maybe good enough to use as a starting point?

Or you could just say fuck it and divide things evenly:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131109064121/http://answers.on...
The protesters didn't burn down the place. They lit up the barricades to defend maidan from riot police and this is what we all saw on TV.
We didn't choose that visual up front, we worked with a designer that chose that look based on the product (Minimal Analytics). The brand has defined the product over time and is very recognizable.

Whereas a flat css theme wouldn't have been unique or recognizable.

But I'm not going to change your mind ;-)
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yes..

1 - create the object files (with luajit?)

2 - create a main() in c.. use "extern" to reference the external symbol in the .o files and call it from main.

The symbols in the object files produced by luajit or whatever need to be exported/ visible.. (are they mangled?)

3 - create a object file for main.c

4 - link the .o created from luajit(or whatever, dart?) and main.o together

If the linker cant find the external symbol it wont link to a binary (so you need to know how, in what names they are exported.. use objdump to lookup for symbols)
The quote from the article above can be translated to: "Let's use the fear of failure to drive success."

That can be done to a certain extent. Sun Tzu, for example, advised burning the ships in order to make the soldiers desperate. Desperate people appear to get a lot more things done.

The thing is that, this is not sustainable. Unsustainable efforts like this does not just lead to burn out, it also leads to unbounded profit motives that drives a lot of the inequalities today ... which, of course, makes more desperate people.

I have used this fear-of-failure to drive actions before. But I have learned that it is a part of "intensity". That is, I'm "cooking" myself. If I turn the heat up too fast, then I'm going to avoid it like hell.

When people open up to this part of consciousness where they realize they can change the intensity, it feels like you can do anything you want. BUT, it is the nature of that kind of experience that you overcome all inhibitions and obstacles ... including when you need to stop turning up the heat.

Coming back to the cooking metaphor: if you have ever cooked food before, turning the stove up to its max will not make the food cook faster. (If you don't cook, I highly recommend picking up some basic skills, like from Alton Brown's Good Eats series; there are a lot of interesting life lessons coming out of the application of heat to food).

So I have this knob in my life. I turn it one way and I can intensify the heat and pressure. I can turn it down and I can adjust it. If I want to toast and incinerate something, I'd turn it all the way to max. Usually, I want a nice simmer that will go on and on. It depends on the recipe (your strategy), your ingredients (what you have to work with), and what it is you are trying to accomplish.

A good, quick application of heat might inspire you to take action, but you can flame out quickly. You are totally allowed to turn it down so that once things get going, it will keep going.
Doto: Yet Another Python Digital Ocean Interface
They do provide a nice safety net against SQL injection though. A problem that Rails has from time to time.
I just logged in to skydrive and it says "As one of our first users, you've earned 100 GB". It is valid for one year.
How elitist is the hiring process? I'm always really hesitant to apply to places like that. I'm consistently one of the best developers at my job, I'm really good at getting shit done, and have a ton of faith in my ability. However, as soon as I think about applying at a "trendy" start up, I envision someone grilling me for hours to hand write sorting algorithms on a white board. I have no interest in that, and I feel that it has very little bearing on how good someone is at software development.
I guess it depends on what you're fighting.

If you're just lazy you might be right, but if you're not doing things because you are not sure you're doing the right thing, not sure what you are doing and how and feel intimidated and unhappy, it can help to get into a better frame of mind beforehand. Some things are so much harder when bad feelings get in the way.
Lol yah I know. I just fixed it. They also never sent me an email or called xD
The aggressive core of protesters are nazis. I think they had trainings and illegal weapon long time before protests(as well as radical youth / nazis in other countries).
Pricing is important, but SQL Azure to the best of my knowledge is limited to 150G and doesn't have data encryption. Encryption is very important for customers especially in multi-tenant environments such as SQL Azure.
I wonder how this sort of thing will affect Google's fiber offerings. Say what you will about Google (I don't trust them, but I don't trust anyone...including YOU!) but they run one hell of a tight ship and they are aggressive when it comes to their business interests (note G+ integrations with all other GOOG services).

If Google Fiber comes to an area that's controlled by TimeCast (ComWarner?) will Google enter into an aggressive pricing war? I mean there were rumors several years ago that they intended to license the dead air waves to use as free internet. And I'd let Google inject ads into my browser if it meant getting that insane bandwidth - especially if it's for free.
Well Verizon was finally given approval in 2009 for FIOS in Philadelphia. but they suddenly stopped their FIOS rollout, coincidentally at the same exact time the cable companies gave Verizon a big chunk of their spectrum licenses. Of course everyone involved insists the two are completely unrelated, even though Verizon had been trying for years to get into Philadelphia.
I believe they are confused.

http://vesti.ua/kiev/38221-pogib-korrespondent-vestej-vjache... (russian)

Nothing to do with vesti.ru
Seriously? No Seattle?
Nope. There is municipal fiber in Wilson, NC which is about an hour away (greenlightnc.com). I'm not sure about RTP.

A crappy anti-muni broadband law was passed at the state level a couple of years ago (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/03/cable-backed-anti...), so apparently the network has to be run by a private company?

There is joint initiative by local municipalities and universities to bring in a private company to run fiber (http://ncngn.net). It's not clear to me how this will be affected by the Google announcement. (They released a rather vague statement about it.)
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> We can't say the ISP is in any way at fault here.

FWIW though -- I'm not blaming my ISP, specifically because I don't have enough data and don't care enough about assigning blame to get it. It wouldn't matter anyway, I'm basically stuck with this ISP.

Thanks for the DD-WRT rec, I'll try that out.
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That's not always what it means - but it's very often how the average person pushes it. As Barbara Ehrenreich points out in her book "Bright-Sided", insisting someone has to "think positively" isn't going to cure their cancer, and the refusal of some people to face the grim reality of certain situations is just absolutely idiotic.
It would go against their strategy. By wiring up all the GF-friendly cities first, people living in GF-unfriendly cities start asking "why can't we have that, too?" Thus ratcheting up pressure on the local political systems.
Very excited to see Portland,OR on the list! I'm tired of Comcast and the other options are quite lacking in one way or another.
No. They should roll out to insane hamlets like Climax, NC [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax%2C_North_Carolina

no, I'm not from Climax...but it's an awesome name for a...settlement?
There's always room for new competitors, if that were the goal. About 20 years ago, almost no place had 'broadband' - only dial-up. Since then, most places have gained 2 or more wired broadband options, and 2 or more wireless options, that are all many multiples faster than dial-up.

The wireless technology keeps improving. New wired infrastructure can be run – as with Google Fiber or other initiatives. The sensors and robots for such installs also keep improving. And for sticky 'last mile' wire bottlenecks, sharing of that conduit could be required, or a 'minimal universal neutral' service option be required where there are no other options.

Instead, the FCC seeks to limit how all broadband services, everywhere, must work, to respond to an abuse threat that remains almost entirely theoretical. That itself is an anti-competition, anti-differentiation move. It also adds another lever of power by which the FCC's other regulatory tendencies – such as censoring indecency or enabling wiretapping – could be applied to the internet. (In the UK, Australia, and South Korea it is agencies like the FCC which maintain compulsory national internet black-lists.)
San Francisco vs. New York: Which City Is More Startup Friendly?
If I was a Linux distributor, I would seriously consider replacing 1.5 MB glibc with an alternative (musl based on this chart).

Why aren't more distros looking at the possibility?
If you buy something at Overstock.com or cash out at Coinbase or an exchange they can find you.

Related: I've met several people who are planning to use bitcoins to avoid paying taxes. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why that could be a very bad idea.
Thanks for the tips. I have the seen the calculator for equity. I am just curious if more robust services exist?

I meant "positive" in exactly the way you suggested.
Yep, iOS is the only one left - Chrome on Android has it, even Firefox OS has it.
Canada is a land where a lot of the big businesses maintain their position by wheeling and dealing with the government under the guise of economic protectionism. i.e. they'll protest that without these limits Canadian jobs will be lost. The most productive stuff here is the resource extraction going on in the west, and a shocking proportion of the rest of the country is subsidised by this, so the gov are incredibly sensitive to any noise about jobs. The excessive regulatory environment of the telecoms sector is a side effect of this larger picture.
Awesome. They added Leawood to the list of cities. Now they need to complete some of the neighboring areas they have already started on and make some progress. Although I wouldn't complain if they just abandoned those and started on Leawood.
Some parts of aerospace, specifically the higher profile projects where people will feel like they have bragging rights for working there. Also, maybe the game industry? Basically any industry where people people are dying to be on the inside, despite what the job may entail or their long term prospects.
> This process is performed for each packet, for each device, which explains the high computation workload.

Could this not be sped up in ASIC hardware? I'm not a hardware guy, but I would think a GPU could fit the bill for these sorts of geospatial on-the-fly calculations.

EDIT:

"Accelerating geospatial analysis on GPUs using CUDA"

http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/opentxt.php?doi=10.1631/jzus.C110...
It is a field of AI, not a field of Mathematics.

Automated Theorem Proving is a very old field, one of the earliest fields of Artificial Intelligence. The first proof of this nature was the Four Color Theorem, proven by an automated reasoner as opposed to a mathematician.

At which point, the insight into the matter is understanding the AI algorithm and how the AI searches for a solution. And finally... how we can be sure that the AI itself is provably correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_com...
You have to back up the positive thinking with action, of course.
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Neither AWS RDS PostgreSQL nor Heroku has a PGBouncer.
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This is some pretty brazen bullshit. If switching away from their service after they fold or get aqui-hired will cost any more than 0 dollars and 0 hours, and you still go with a startup, you are begging, not asking, for that bullet in the foot you're going to get.
I don't support the merger, but I do support your coinage of the title TimeCast. Make it so!
That sounds like regulation, to me.
On the other hand, I've heard Holocaust survivors tell me their optimism was what allowed them to survive. I don't think these witty sayings prove anything.
You don't need a "datacenter" per se, but you need a private control plane shared by the devices so that they can pass relevant information to each other. As long as the sites are interconnected and have some sort of addressing that is tied to their geographic location (i.e. devices know very quickly who their neighbor devices are by address), a central datacenter is not necessary.

TL;DR You need a shared bus for passing geospatial data between geographically local devices.
Amazing cover of "Let it Go" from Frozen"
This girl has some chops! She deserves more views
Kinda like Athol, Massachusetts?
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I find his reviews to be worth reading as well.

It's actually very refreshing to see a list of books that doesn't include amazon affiliate links.

It's almost like the website owner actually read the books and isn't just trying to cobble together a list of books to make a buck.
Nokia's upcoming Windroid phone exploits Android's Achilles' heel: Its openness
If the system needs to calculate interference on the fly, it should be trivial to prevent interference to other interconnected systems.
When you've already hobbled the market mechanism on the seller side the only thing that seems to make sense is to try to browbeat the amorphous tide of the demand side, i.e. shouting at the ocean.
London, 2012, garage, 500,000 GBP :

http://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/news_features/Parking-mad-...
> it's a non-stop, predictably and inescapable barrage of "Yeah, but", "Well, on the bright side", "Hey, at least"

In moderate dosage, it is useful to blunt negativity and hopelessness, which can also cause failure. But use too much of it, and you're lost in la-la-land. As they say, it's all in the dosage...

I think the positive thinking method would get a lot better if it focused less on the outcome, and more on the process. Don't focus on having the great job and enjoying it, focus on the qualities that it takes to get there.
I think you have missed the point of the analogy.
You usually make things less politically hostile once you've deployed successfully in a few politically friendly zones. People's opinions aren't immutable.
It actually makes sense, infuriating though it is. Individual iAds are vetted by Apple, so any WebGL vulnerabilities aren't a problem.

Of course, it would be better if Apple just tested the damn WebGL vulnerabilities. Not like they have to worry about many graphics cards.
While space elevators make for a fun toy gedanken for space enthusiasts who don't have an engineering background, they will never happen for one primary reason: As soon as you have a material out of which you can build a space elevator, you have a material to make extremely lightweight filament-wound pressure vessels. You essentially get SSTOs with amazing payload fractions and greatly reduced mechanical complexity for free. LH2 gives you tanks that are too heavy for an aluminum craft? No problem. Elevator-grade carbon nanotube composites are 1/1000th the mass. Go nuts.

When vehicle mass fractions go from 10% down to .1%, payload mass fractions go from 2% to 12%, minus trace amounts of structure.

Was it Asimov who said that space elevators will happen 50 years after people stop laughing? I hope so, because people should never stop laughing at this idea. (Really? We're going to better utilize space--i.e., cramming NEO with nanosats--at the same time we erect a huge hazard in NEO? Come on!)
Rumors are IE on Windows Phone 8.1 will too. [1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/windows-phone-8-1-the-latest-on-whats-o...
If they wanted people closer to the office it would have made so much more sense to NOT be in SF itself. $500 doesn't go very far in that neighborhood. That's roughly a walk in closet.
Heroku actually does seem to support/encourage it:

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/11/22/connection_...
https://github.com/gregburek/heroku-buildpack-pgbouncer
That's not a market failure, but that's rather using a market failure as a hook impose a particular ideology about what the internet should look like. Hypothetical: say there was no last mile monopoly. The coax into your house was owned by the municipality, which allowed competing providers to plug in and provide the rest of the network. Would that eliminate the need for net neutrality regulation? No: companies could still pay ISP's to prioritize their packets all the way up to the municipally-owned coax into the customer's house. In other words, the regulation has nothing to do with the market failure ostensibly justifying it.

Being able to pay other companies to give you better service is an intrinsic advantage to being big, and is not the product of a market failure. For example, Amazon works out a special deal with the USPS for Sunday deliveries. That still gives a huge benefit to Amazon versus smaller competitors who can't afford to pay up. Being small comes with penalties, and the FCC shouldn't impose an ideological view of the internet that artificially removes these disadvantages.
It usually validates the existence of the market, but not which part you play in it.

My last business was in a market with two very well funded, very large competitors. But they were only interested in the larger deal sizes, leaving lots of smaller customers completely underserved. After burning through a couple rounds trying to go toe-to-toe, we refocused on these smaller customers with new messaging, sales approaches and product and immediately had the biggest year we had ever had to date.

One of the other things we did with product was to try to bring capabilities only the big guys had, but in a cost efficient way to the smaller customer. This gave them an opportunity to compete on a bigger stage.

We were also able to convert some small customers into bigger customers as they grew. Having a long history with them kept us onboard with them and kept the bigger players out.

In anything, when there are only big players involved, there are always gaps that can be filled. It's why, despite there being Bing and Google, there's still domain specific search engines, or despite there being Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, there's still space for companies like Hyperkin, Valve or Ouya to have a go.
Dreambox is a good online option for self-directed math exploration. Otherwise the best results will come from interaction... be prepared to answer lots of questions, and ask lots of interesting questions.

There are plenty of fun games you can introduce, one of my favorites is graph-paper racing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game) Also Monopoly or any money-based game where you can learn to make change. Set and Quirkle are good logic-based games. I'm experimenting with some tabletop gaming with my 7yo, starting with Battletech quick-start rules. It's a hit so far. Not very challenging math-wise, but a lot more fun than Monopoly. :)
"Vesti is distributed free in cafes and metro stations in Kiev. It is considered close to Sergei Arbuzov, the acting prime minister."
My cynical guess was that it makes it harder to leave, you're in an expensive area and can only justify being there because of their perk. I definitely appreciate the less cynical reasons though.
This is awesome, and way more valuable than a heat map. I love how you give away the full suite of analytics tools in the freemium model, so you only pay when you scale.

Overall, a brilliant idea and something I'll be integrating very soon.
Right. But the relevant regulations are because people are scared of the word "nuclear", rather than because electricity is a utility.
Here in BC you can't use a hand-held cellular device in stopped traffic:

http://www.icbc.com/road-safety/safer-drivers/distractions

"The law applies even when you’re stopped at a light or
in bumper-to-bumper trafﬁc"
I definitely agree! In my writing, semicolons are a sign that I wrote too fast and didn't go back to edit my ideas into separate sentences.
We're following a similar approach with a distributed team @ NakedApartments.com. So far, it's worked really well for us, especially with keeping moral high. Glad to hear we're not alone.
I think I heard about this perk during the earlier days of Facebook.
How do you know it doesn't rely on directional antennas in addition to the multi-phase solution? If I were trying to do something like this I would ABSOLUTELY use multiple directional antennas in each base station AND phase things appropriately.

I don't mean trying to make a ball of yagis or other narrow beam antennas. But at the very least try and take advantage of splitting a base station into multiple (2, 4, 8, etc) slices. I can't see how that would hurt performance (though it would probably make things more expensive) and it would certainly make it easier to get more bandwidth.

Here's an excerpt from the patent:
[0120]FIG. 3 provides additional detail of one embodiment of the Base Station 200 and Client Devices 203-207 shown in FIG. 2. For the purposes of simplicity, the Base Station 300 is shown with only three antennas 305 and only three Client Devices 306-308. It will be noted, however, that the embodiments of the invention described herein may be implemented with a virtually unlimited number of antennas 305 (i.e., limited only by available space and noise) and Client Devices 306-308.

Obviously I haven't studied the patent in detail but that does sound to me like there are multiple antennas per base station.
I live in Sunnyvale where the options are Comcast (who will happily sell a 105Mbit connection for $$$), or DSL from ATT or Sonic. I personally use Sonic since they are a great ISP.
Thanks. He, a bit after I stopped doing "real" work and went scripting. :-) :-(

Sometimes I regret that, but then I think of the repeated reading of the Effective C++ books. Not to mention the writing of C for a week which I could throw together in hours in Lisp or Perl.
I like the Experiment.com brand name so much better, as cool and quirky as Microryza was. Congrats on a good find and sane price!
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Devil's advocate:

Rockets are still less safe. Rockets still produce tremendous accelerations. 12% payload fraction is still much less than 50%, or 90%.
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Exactly. This, from a couple of weeks ago explains quite well what they're doing:
http://chistoprudov.livejournal.com/83284.html
The Triangle region of NC would be a great place for Google to start with this.

Seriously, with all of the technology workers working in RTP, and all the university students in the area, as well as the emerging startup hub(s) in Durham and Raleigh, the area could really put Google Fiber to great use.