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My own line of thinking is close to yours. However, I think it's important to draw a distinction between trying to see the positive side of things and being realistic about outcomes. Because human emotions around happiness are very relative, the way you choose to think about your situation does affect your mood. On the other hand, just having blind optimism that things will work out in the future clearly is not helpful in motivating you to put in your best effort to make it so.
Not if the antennas are all carrying the same signal. In the described system, the antennas get phase adjustments, but they do not get different signals, and this idea doesn't rely on multiple, independent data channels. So the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem still applies.
ha! cool! we've had our visualizer for quite some time at hublo (http://hublo.co). the demo is public so you can try it with your own website.
I got FiOS in Germantown.
To flip things around: would you hire someone who was a really good fit, but was weak technically?
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no better place to wire than Philly...Start with a rollout of the Philly 'burbs

As someone who lives in the Philadelphia suburbs, I'm not sure if Comcast has the stranglehold in our area that you think it does. I only know one person that has Comcast and the only reason that person has it is because they don't have access to Verizon FIOS.

FIOS is faster, more stable and generally cheaper than Comcast Internet. Comcast constantly advertises how their Xfinity is faster for wireless, but they're basing that on the fact that Verizon gives you an 802.11g router while Comcast gives you an 802.11n router.

With FIOS, I pay $74.99 per month for 75 Mbps downstream, 35 Mbps upstream Internet with their Prime TV package and unlimited landline phone (need for alarm system). It's rock- of-gibraltar stable, I consistently get the same exact speed on speed tests that is faster than what I pay for, and it's cheap as hell.

With Comcast, it was ridiculously expensive, the speed was hit or miss and I generally had to reset the router and/or cable modem about once every few days.

So it would be great to have Google Fiber as an option and I hope it happens in the Philly area but there are places that are hurting for good options far more than we are.
This is dumb. "We found out why they bought missiles! To put on missile launchers!" (crowd says ooooh)
Imagine if we could program a computer with all known mathematical truths. What curiosities would it discover that we have yet to find?
ATT is now rolling out U-Verse in San Francisco:

http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2013/May/Att.htm

The challenge to ATT's plans was manifold:

1) ATT refused to put their equipment underground. SF's sidewalks don't need more cabinets.

2) U-Verse is DSL service. Sonic.net already offers 40mbps DSL service in SF, so U-Verse is not that much faster. Why does SF need more cabinets to get pretty much the same data service from the incumbent telco?

3) ATT is putting cabinets on the sidewalks, and running fiber to those cabinets to serve ~45mbps connections to folks ~800 feet away. If ATT had planned to run fiber from those new cabinets into residences ~800 feet away and provide 100mbps or 1gbps service, folks would have welcomed their project.

4) Monkeybrains [0] and Sonic.net [1][2] have had (for several years) workable plans to eventually deliver 1gbps service to the whole city with (they say) far fewer aboveground boxes that ATT "requires" for U-Verse, and don't even need to dig up the street to lay the fiber. I'm not sure why they've been ignored by the Mayor's Office and the DPW.

[0] https://www.monkeybrains.net/DPW-MonkeyBrains-March-2011.pdf

[1] http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2010/07/14/micro-trenching-at-soni...

[2] http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/12/15/sonic-net-plans-gigabit...
If individual A steals artwork, sells it to individual B, and then uses the cash to buy a car from individual C, and individual C uses the cash to buy a house, is the only person who loses anything individual B? (Assuming individual C didn't break any money laundering regulations)

If the stolen property is BTC rather than art, there would be no reason you couldn't follow a perpetual chain of transactions after it.

Curiously, that could be viewed as a very big strength for BTC rather than a weakness. I think a lot of trouble is saved by calling BTC a programmable currency rather than an anonymous one.
you say react as if there's an awareness by the group of organisms that they are dying out, when that's far from the truth. Think of a species as a network, with the leaf nodes around for only a specific length of time. Add in several events that isolate portions of the network, and it dies off in spurts, as each isolated portion becomes less fit and eventually ceases reproduction.

With the decline in our birthrate, it will be interesting to see (from a historical perspective, I'll be long dead) if we die out, or if we get out of this funk we're in now.
I wonder if you misunderstood his comment as a suggested method to solve the mathematical problem?

The way I read it, he was suggesting a possible way of reducing the size of the DRUP certificate from 13GByte by searching for common patterns, perhaps similar to the way bzip works.
ZenPayroll is just awesome sauce all over. We're ZenPayroll customers and love it. I've used other payroll services from the big incumbents... awful. When you use ZenPayroll, you kind of want to find someone from their team and hug them.
yea this attitude is a BIG part of the reason i switched to Java. If you learn some common Java design patterns (ahem... program to interfaces) then all of a sudden the magic of Ruby doesn't seem to add that much (in fact the data-binding in Java usually simplifies form validation). So then with a huge boost in performance for free, all of a sudden hosting costs are far lower and less billable hours are put to testing cache expiration.

That said, I will still probably end up migrating toward Clojure/cljs and js-focused apps...

EDIT: It's a waste to bleed a client if all your blood-money is going to Heroku! XD
> I had a recruiter ask my GPA and SAT scores for a role in my late 20s.

I think the question is: could they be used against you?

I don't see how they couldn't, and you wouldn't know.
I wrote this when I was an intern over the summer, questions and comments obviously welcome.
Nice try Google, I was really happy about Atlanta until I saw the cities listed.

Most of the cities they listed are in very sketchy areas that probably dont even know the difference between their regular connection and a faster fiber connection.

Avondale Estates - not so nice
Brookhaven - will probably benefit
College Park - crime area, could care less about fiber
Decatur - some areas will benefit
East Point - crime area
Hapeville - crime area
Sandy Springs - will benefit, lots of Apartment Complexes
Smyrna - will benefit in some areas
Yeah, also disappointed. I thought for sure it would at least be planned.
Actually, I and many others I know would pay a significant rent premium for a building that had fiber access, so I think a case could be made for it financially.
It actually IS pretty awesome. You just generally don't want to apply it to the body of your entire site!
i just checked online, and it said it was available in my zip code. got super excited, and called Verizon. after 20 minutes on hold I asked them if "Fios is available in my apartment" after which I was asked 20 personal questions and told that there is some "good news" and i'd be transferred to a "Verizon specialist", who asked me 10 more personal questions. Finally i was given a great introductory price of $59.99.. great!! and then he informed that Fios is not available in my apartment, but they can still give me reliable fast internet which will cover all those things i told them i was going to use it for. I told him that it was really misleading how I got conned into answering all these questions all for a marketing pitch of a service i didn't ask for, and the guy said that he was "upfront with me about Fios not being available in my area" he just needed to spend some time to perform this check.. WTF?!

i feel so violated.. at some point i even asked how those questions are relevant to checking Fios availability, to which i was told "these are just part of standard questions i ask everyone"

if you call Verizon, refuse to answer any questions until they tell you if Fios is available at your address.
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why should I act as if I own think, when actually I do not?

Because you get paid to?
depends - with water and sunlight we should be able to colonize several planets in our solar system - getting sustainable crops going might be a problem, but once the soil biome is established: profit!
So I guess I have a 1 in 34 chance of getting Google Fiber. Better than nothing...
It's a horrible shame that many developers don't think through the consequences of their implementations before publishing services that trade in personal information. The technique published in this disclosure, as well as the fact that the service sent users' exact coordinates before July, should have been some of the most obvious concerns in building a service that shares one's picture while purporting to keep one's identity and location hidden.

Is Tinder still sending date of birth instead of a calculated age, like in the API example? It seems that no one there has given any thought at all to this topic other than to splash some water at the earlier fire. (IncludeSecurity, could you let us know whether Tinder is still sending the birth date data?)

I can understand that many people don't think through the consequences of sharing personal information, but it's hard to believe how many developers dealing with other people's information give it so little thought as well.
It isn't about the provider, it's the speed we care.

Are they going to let my router able to get stable internet from LTE technology? I have desktop and laptops and I don't want to add wireless card to my desktop in particular. I rather serve things over my own router. How are they going to market to home users? FIOS has been said to be high speed, reliable, fiber-optic. Great. I am willing to add $20 to my monthly bill to get one.

And how can they drop the agreement like this?
ADP will never be simple because it's not supposed to be. It also won't die for the same reason. It handles payroll processing worldwide. Payroll is complicated enough when you're just dealing with city, state, and federal payroll taxes. Can you imagine how complicated a system must be to account for all of the international rules and variations of payroll and make it accessible via a unitary interface?

ADP is targeted at corporations with payroll across multiple jurisdictions. The Apples, Googles, and Microsofts. It's not targeted at, nor intended for small businesses, even though they offer a SMB product. If you're not at least dealing with payroll across multiple states, you should be using a your bank's payroll service offerings, or (if you trust them) a local payroll service provider or a payroll SaaS.
Yeah, God forbid anyone should bring high-speed networking to poor areas. Fiber should be reserved for rich white people.
I think smartphones are more than able to meet most needs of users - word processing, browsing, writing emails and so on. The problem with smartphones is NOT processing power, but rather battery - in fact, if it seems that current smartphones are a little underpowered compared to our other gadgets, well, that's because Moore's law doesn't work so well for batteries - however we are talking about plugging in the smartphone in some sort of dock that is also connected to a keyboard and a bigger monitor, so the battery issue becomes moot.

> Another point is that Microsoft, with all its power, can barely break the iOS/Android dominance in mind share.

That's because Windows Phone doesn't bring anything new, while being as restrictive as iOS and lacking apps, plus in my opinion it's still very, very unpolished. I own a Nokia Lumia and I use it as a dumbphone, in addition to my main Nexus.

Mobile careers won't promote it because they've got nothing to gain for doing it, mobile phone makers won't build phones with it because mobile phone makers prefer stuff they can control, users don't want Windows Phone because it brings nothing new and developers don't want to target it because it has to wait in line after - the web, Android and iOS.

> Openness is rarely a worry for smartphone users and developers alike (only a minority of them care and the impact on revenue is probably irrelevant).

The success of Android proves otherwise. Android is right now number 1 in terms of market-share because it is open. Here are some facts:

(1) mobile careers promoted Android heavily because it is open , long before Android was polished or popular (2) mobile phone manufacturers chose Android, long before it was polished or popular, because it is open and so they could adopt it instead of implementing their own shitty iOS alternatives, (3) many Android users loved the ability to install on Android the kind of software that's normally banned on iOS and (4) at least one developer (me) prefers Android because it is open-source, because it allows app installs from third-party sources and because you have to be a dumb fuck to depend entirely on proprietary platforms and walled gardens.

HOWEVER, I do agree that a new OS cannot win on openness alone, because for better or worse, Android is fairly open (Amazon can testify ;-)) - maybe mobile careers could see a way out of Google Play's grip on Android, or maybe they could see it as a way to get out of Samsung's shadow, however a new OS does need more than this.

But I also think that Ubuntu brings something interesting to the table - I do want a full-fledged computer that I can carry in my pocket and that I can later connect to a full-sized keyboard and a big monitor and have a full fledged OS ready to use.
I think their strategy is good. Demand comes stronger after you show results. The pitch is much stronger when you say "look at all the benefits this city got for welcoming us in". This isn't about proving a point, it's about bringing fiber to as many people as possible.
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Hopefully the startup will dig deeper.

Early in the life of your company you're hiring for very long term, and you need generalists.

Unless your company is building a product around whiteboard coding or something.
Post author here: I appreciate all the comments. Even the negative comments because it's important to know all reasons for opposition. I'll point you to another HN story today, ZenPayroll raises $20M [0].

They're not on a path to acqui-hire, they're not trying to pivot away from something you rely on, they have fantastic support (but more importantly a product that's so clear and easy to use you don't really need support).

We (SimpleLegal) are ZenPayroll customers and love it. They are the exact reason your company should seek out startups as vendors.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7264844
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I think there's a simple solution - municipal fiber everywhere with companies allowed to lease access. Internet access looks like a utility and quacks like a utility, so it should be treated like one. The timeline for breaking even on the investment has been pretty reasonably short in the examples I've seen.
There was a post a couple weeks ago along the exact lines of this. The guy actually released the framework ish thing he used on github. Its a node pleb stack link: http://www.rm2kdev.net/2014/02/built-full-application-two-da...

I got to working on something using this but wasn't a fan of a few things so I ripped it apart and created my own from scratch. It was a good learning experience in any case but all I ended up changing was a couple of requires, made the configs a bit cleaner and included https by default. Usually you do that with a nginx proxy but I like to keep things pure and stand alone if possible.

After learning a bit from that I'm now only using it as a rest api back end.

My front end stack is amounting to something like this so far:

- Angularjs and or node express MVC with mustache

- Suitcss for the obv

- Busterjs to test

- Gulp to build

- Component.io to manage deps

- mongodb (its unstructured way is great for weekend projs)

There are a lot of options, and a lot more options the lower you go. I.e PayPal or stripe, express or restify etc etc. Those are mostly per project preferences to me so I didn't bother listing.

I still need something for doc generation needs to be node based or at least hackable to be. If anyone knows anything good let me know. I dont really like what's out there I prefer something highly automated even if its a pain to set up its worth it when it comes to docs.

Speaking of generation again I'd really like to see an api crawler / client lib generator for express. Anyone know of anything?

I also need more easy setup ci options.

Edit, didn't really answer your question: I tend to avoid app templates and generators like yeoman. They never really suit me and my tastes, maybe I should make one? Heh.
In sweden this sort of thing is done by the city/state not 'the market' which makes for a different set of arguments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_by_count...
At the least, isn't the IRS able to come look at your possessions to approximate your tax liability, or something along those lines?
sorry I added "which has since been fixed" to the first paragraph. We like to write C and Ruby langs, still getting used to this English lang.
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I think it's more of an "eggs in one basket" issue than thinking there's any better home for us out there.
Curious to know why someone would have to go with ADP or Paychex. I've used one of those before. Painful.
Ask HN: Is async request processing possible with Python Django?
I started with Python Django to build my web app since it was mostly short-lived http requests rendering UI. As the product matured, now I realize that I need to support lot more web service calls (with no UI component). The web service calls need to be processed and responded to asynchronously for 2 reasons: 1) My code may call another web service in turn to get some data to service the call and I don't want to hold the original thread or process while doing so and 2) Certain requests can only be responded to after certain events happen on the backend and I don't want to hold the thread/process blocking and waiting for that event.

The more I think about it, the more it sounds like I may need something like nginx for my web service calls (from whatever I have heard about nginx). Can python django really be used in this manner with an appropriate web server and a set of middleware components? If so, can you recommend a particular stack choice? If not, what are my options and can you educate me on the pros and cons of those choices?
Treat domains like a trademark registration. You have x amount of time to show that you're actually using it for something. And that something has some kind of value.

There's issues with what's considered value, but our existing system is nonsense.
OP is talking about MySQL on Windows Azure. SQL Azure is a managed SQL Server in the cloud AFAIK.
NeXT ran on intel so it probably wasn't too difficult.
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Not true. You could have an online WebGL game that requires an account and dynamic server provided data to run. The account would cost money.

EDIT: Added last sentence.
256 kbps was pretty slow even in 2002. Using that as your baseline is like bragging that you doubled the wealth of somebody who previously had one dollar to his name — big percentage improvements on small numbers are not huge accomplishments in the grand scheme of things.

My personal situation: My Internet is the worst it's been in years, more expensive than it's ever been, and I have no other option than Cox in my area. I know very few people who have seen any notable improvements in the past 10 years.
> It's a horrible shame that many developers don't think through the consequences of their implementations before publishing services that trade in personal information. The technique published in this disclosure, as well as the fact that the service sent users' exact coordinates before it, should have been some of the most obvious concerns in building a service that purports to share one's picture while keeping one's identity and location hidden.

Not taking trilateration into account may have been a careless mistake. Sending literal GPS coordinates, however, means the developer probably didn't care.
One of the things that led to the current situation is municipalities granting favorable franchise agreements to get companies to serve places like that which the market wouldn't have served to begin with. I don't think we want more of that.

The future is here, in the U.S. too: http://www.akamai.com/dl/documents/akamai_soti_q213.pdf?WT.m... (see page 13). The U.S. ranks 8th in average connection speeds. It can't compete obviously with places like South Korea, where half the whole country lives in the Seoul metro area, but is better than much of Europe.
Like buying a house, no?
Really interesting - this exploit could apply to any social app that tells you the distance between you and another user
> As Steamboxes begin to roll out and the platform gains more developer support, owners of Ubuntu phones will find that the device they're already carrying around is also a microconsole.

If those phones have x86 processors, that is. Ubuntu phone supports ARM, but Steamboxes certainly won't.
I agree, especially where I live I actually have a choice between Verizon and Comcast. I have FIOS and love it. Best internet service I've ever had. So fast you can almost hear the bits as they blast out of the pipe.

But my point wasn't that Philadelphia isn't a competitive market. My point was that, as a Comcast executive, seeing Google fiber trucks all over your neighborhood and coffee shops is a bit of psychological warfare so to speak. Furthermore, you know Comcast has all sorts deals in place that help them maintain their monopoly. Google would bump into each of those head-on and make hay out of it in the local press and online. At a time when Philly is trying to increase its image in the national tech scene, this would be a very interesting place to shine some light.
If you are trying to launch a new line of smartphones, I would say that is a pretty shit turnout. They're not trying to put out wristwatches.

Unless they were half-assing it for Ubuntu Edge, or deliberately set themselves up for failure, then at the very least they have demonstrated themselves incapable of estimating demand and rallying required support. What have they done since then to correct these failings?
I believe "Someone" is wondering whether it's possible, and if so helpful, to work out the common factors in those search trees and give them names, much as a certain chess search tree could efficiently be called "Stonewall White" if it represented all boards reachable from that class of opening.
"The set-theoretical axioms that sustain modern mathematics are self-evident in differing degrees. One of them – indeed, the most important of them, namely Cantor's axiom, the so-called axiom of infinity – has scarcely any claim to self-evidence at all". John P. Mayberry
Well done sir, that may be the widest brush I've seen used to paint with today!
I think their strategy is to get it out to as many people as possible in the most efficient way possible. I imagine doing construction in SF and NY is a nightmare so it would be a fight to get it done. If you do it in the easy places first, show all the benefits, and get the big cities jealous, you can drum up more demand than if you go through a painstaking multi year process just to get it in one city.

Their rollout to Kansas City was impressively fast. Had it taken years it would have done terrible things for their campaign.