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I tried this a year or two ago when it was in beta, seemed OK. I used to run several web apps on AppEngine, but more or less stopped when they dropped Wave as a product - I basically had a negative emotional response to a cancelled service, and walked away from AppEngine.

I have been thinking of giving AppEngine, etc. another chance but I have been spoiled by very good customer support at RimuHosting, and the knowledge that some support for AWS would be available if I ever had any problems. Google needs to crank up their customer support efforts. I guess that the fact that Google makes relatively little money from PaaS services worries me. All that said, I really enjoyed using Google internal infrastructure during a brief consulting gig at Google, so using AppEngine, etc. is appealing to me out of nostalgia - for for the general public they might not be a great choice.
> right now I'm paying $50 a month for 50 Mbs down / 5 Mbs up through RCN

And I'm paying $54 for 20 Mbs/down on Time Warner, which is already a "discounted rate". (I'm in Manhattan).

The building next door to me has FiOS, but my landlord has no incentive to let them wire my building too.

I agree that New York City isn't the best target for Google Fiber, but the Internet situation here varies very heavily based on where in the city you live (not just the neighborhood, but which physical building and management company).
What most people today think about spirituality is childish at best, a hideous deformation at worst. "The Secret" is an instance of that.

I've spoken with some Orthodox monks in Eastern Europe, where I grew up. Some of them (a rare few, yes) are surprisingly un-dogmatic, and focused on spirituality instead. Take their prayer for example. It's not so much a naive conversation with an imaginary deity, as most people think. It's more like an old-school mental self-programming technique.

They instruct you to never say "give me money", but instead say "give me the strength to attain success" - and visualize it, the process, not the result. They emphasize that you remain the material agent; if you're "given" anything, it's the mental conditions that boost motivation and clear thinking.

Even from a purely material and scientific perspective, I'm definitely fine with that view, give or take a metaphoric understanding of the process of "giving" (it's ultimately a change in your mentality that occurs due to prayer and visualization, and even they emphasize that the way the change happens is a mystery better left alone if you're practical-minded).
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The FAQ does not mention details about bandwidth other than "Internet that’s up to 100 times faster than basic broadband", but Wikipedia says the free service is 5 Mbps down (1 Mbps up) and the pay service is 1 Gbps down and up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber#Technical_specifi...
The reasoning goes that feeling the need for something actually pushes it away, or rather a feeling of neediness attracts more neediness. But if you feel satisfied with your weight then reality will find ways to bring you to a weight you're actually satisfied with, such as inspiring you to go work out.
Absolutely - you seem to have nailed every point.

The only thing you've missed is this - we now know that for C=2 the minimal length required to force a sub-sequence of discrepancy >=2 is 1161. The technique used gives a hint of how fast this dependency might grow, and that might give clues about techniques that probably won't work.

It also seems clear that a similar brute-force check of C>=3 won't be possible. Knowing these things gives clues as to how we might now proceed.
It would not hurt one bit. You're assuming that billionaire execs care about and take pride in their business. The only thing they take pride in are their fortunes and place in high society - companies are just the means to get there and nothing more. Otherwise they would not allow such mediocrity as can be seen in every mammoth tech company.
It's a strong-enough name to be considered an asset. Worst-case ... just resell it.
It's good to see members of the Rails core team taking performance seriously. I've been on a personal performance quest for the last couple of years, and what I've discovered is that the Rails community as a whole (not necessarily the core developers, but just people producing Rails-related software as a whole) really seems to consider performance to be something of an afterthought. There is a lot of low-hanging fruit laying around that could substantially improve quality of life for the entire Rails ecosystem if people would put a little time into profiling their stuff and eliminating hotspots.

It's been very discouraging to me to see responses to performance issues that range from lukewarm to plain "I don't care". The Rails community could benefit a lot from a visible push by the core team to make performance a priority.
I've found a lot of system design and habit formation to be a kind of wishful thinking and naive in its own way.
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Not to mention if it came down in a politically tense time and the ensuing confusion triggered us to deploy the instruments of our civilization's destruction, which we like to keep ready at hand.
I wonder how many times the heroin trick has worked?
Exactly, calculating trajectories (accurately) is very difficult. I did a summer project at JPL where we would take astrometric measurements of various minor planets (including Pluto) and then update the trajectories. Even a big, well studied object like Pluto could easily be an arcsecond or two away from where it was "supposed" to be. (For reference, at Pluto's distance, that would be ~30,000 km off.)

But it's also possible that it's right where it should be and is too faint to be detected. Asteroids are very hard to detect because they're faint and they move -- so you can't expose the image for a long time to detect a fainter image. All you would get would be a faint streak across the image.
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I would also cite differential regulation.

Nuclear is a significantly more regulated industry than coal and natural gas. Consequently, it is cheaper to run coal and natural gas plants, just because there are large external costs associated with natural gas and coal (emissions, environmental damage) which are passed on to the taxpayer instead of the consumer.

It is quite possible that if natural gas and coal were forced to pay for their externalities (via regulation) nuclear would be more cost-competitive, and you'd see more advancement of nuclear technology in industry.
Sean isn't a shill. He is a tech lead at one of the major media distribution companies who has a zest for getting at hard data instead of speculating.

I said it once, I will say it again it is Netflix' fault for not shaming bad ISPs. Netflix controls the source code for their media player and they control their servers. With 99% accuracy they should be able to detect which ISPs are screwing them and release this in a report to consumers.
I'm the CEO of ZenPayroll and I added a comment to the main thread but wanted to clarify here as well. I chatted with the WSJ reporter about several topics, and she merged some concepts in her write up.

I was born in San Francisco, but grew up in the suburbs. When I was in college, I used to travel through San Francisco to visit my family and I told the reporter it's been amazing to see all of the neighborhood changes over the years. SoMa used to be much emptier, and was not a very residential area. After they built the Giants baseball stadium, there was a big building boom, and Mission Bay is now rapidly developing as well.

Separately, we discussed our housing stipend program. This perk was actually inspired by Facebook, which used to give a housing stipend for employees that lived within one mile of their office in downtown Palo Alto. We would do this program regardless of where our office is located (in SoMa or elsewhere) because we see a big benefit to folks not having to commute.

The reporter at the WSJ merged these two concepts, hence the quote you listed above.
All Automated Reasoning is... is programming a computer to search a space automatically. In First Order Logic, you use the Resolution Rule to generate the search space for example. But at the end of the day... Automated Reasoning is nothing more than a glorified graph traversal.

The FCT was solved with a hybrid method. Yes, you mention that there was significant human input in reducing the problem. However, a computer program was used to find (and prove) a huge number of those configurations.

Search and verification. That is all "automated reasoning" is. In AI circles the FCT is considered to have been solved by Automated Reasoning methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving#Relat...
>conversion from a rasterized scan to an "open markup language" //

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The problem is that a rasterised scan is a new - potentially unauthorised - copy. UK law tends to be more restrictive as we don't have the same sense of "Fair Use" as 17 USC.

Art 5.1 of the EU Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC; Section 28A of the UK CDP Act) at Section 1(b) allows for transient copies to be made when the copying is part of an otherwise allowed act. But the stipulation is that the copy can't have "economic significance".

Here the rasterisation then would appear to fail, even if it can be considered a transient part of the transfer of the information from copyright diagram to free-libre ML.

This to me - as a non-expert [though I consider myself pretty well read on copyright] - means that the conversion needs to be made without making an intermediate copy. A manual process would bypass the problem of making a copy for a computer program to analyse at the expense of lots of human input.

This is where things get silly as the end result is the same - the extraction of information from a catalogue of molecular diagrams - the process is just made more expensive. I rather hope my analysis is wrong actually and that a court would rule that scanning such works would be allowable in order to extract the informational content; would love to have more input here.

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... actually further looking at S.28A(b) makes me think I am wrong; that this should be allowed. I'm convinced that the copies made aren't independently commercially significant and that as the process of extracting the information from the diagrams is an allowed use then the "transient copy" legislation makes this allowable.

IA[of course]NAL.
So the average person can no longer afford to have a website on a domain they own? That sounds much worse to me.
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Expensive domain registration would make it cost prohibitive for average people to start a website. The better thing to limit is how many domains you can own, or at least how many domains you can park.
http://www.backofanapkin.co.nz/ provides some talking points (and an agreement if you want it) that you need to decide on upfront - even if you're going to incorporate later on.
Features tell, but benefits sell
Interesting producr. I've been looking into BIM integration for the FM software suite I work on, and the possibility of embedding a webgl BIM viewer to match our existing SVG-based CAD viewer. It seemed like a lot of work though to get it running properly (it seemed like one of those things where you can get a demo going in a matter of hours but finishing it up takes months).
Apologies for the logic fail.

I'm asking for evidence that shows candidates who have routinely fail traditional software interviews, have gone on to be above_average -> exceptional in their careers.

My hypothesis is that if traditional software interviews have systemic and endemic flaws--that is interviews produce there are a lot of false negatives, there would exist a large group of people who have failed continuously, but have yet gone on to be good-to-great elsewhere.

Getting a no hire from one or two companies, would not classify a person as a "false negative", it could be (as others have mentioned) an issue with fit.
They also talk about setting a budget. It's easy to imagine schemes where there is a fixed fee plus a percentage of the part of the budget that is saved.
Mycorrhizae are pretty darn cool. Two kingdoms of life abandoning a history of distrust to form an intimate partnership and solve a Hard Problem. It's symbolic.

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

"experiment.com" sacrifices the neat science and the symbolism. The only appeal I see is utilitarian. Given their difficulties with "Microryza," I understand that this is enough to motivate the change, but it seems like the opposite of cool and quirky.
Am I the only one that likes the name Ryza more than Experiment? Experiment just sounds so bland to me and will be harder to rank high with.
It's amazing to me how many people here on HN complain on one hand about companies not wanting to make massive capital investments to build out faster internet service while simultaneously espousing regulating such services into low-margin dumb pipes.
That's some good work. It's a pity Tinder barely acknowledged the assistance.
I believe it should be fixed now.
Nice story. I've added to to my collection of articles that validates the view that Google is in a world of hurt with respect to meeting growth expectations with their Ad business. We've seen a continual (now 10 out of 12 quarters) fall of CPC, we've seen rapid expansion of "inventory" (additional ads on Google properties, and additional properties) and now we're seeing pressure on the Ad buy/sell markets directly.

I'm curiously waiting to see when that lands them in court (they are checking the boxes for monopoly, and abuse of same, as far as I can tell.) Microsoft got away with it for a long time, but eventually it whacked them hard. So when the Internet advertising space is artificially constrained by Google using its position in the space to control pricing or competition, I expect there will be legal action at that point as well.
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So basically you don't want to work with above average people.
So is Google a startup then? They are definately trying new models and markets - Glass, self driving cars, robots, etc.

How would AirBnB be any more of a startup than Google?
To be fair, San Jose has a pretty awful political climate as well. I mean look at VTA.
Articles like this one come up regularly, so let's not discount the method just because the word "design" doesn't mean anything.

"Design" can mean anything from Illustrator graphics to market research, interaction design, or even implementation. It's a dangerous trap to assume skill and experience in some of those areas equates to skill and experience in all of them.

The author of this article has clearly identified the intersection of need/acceptable cost, he just happens to be using an excessively generic term to describe the role. It's still a valid model, especially if the team already has talented product thinkers who are capable of following a style guide.
I live in Philly and got FIOS fiber recently. Girard station area.
Things like "Top 10 Reasons X is Y" becomes "Reasons X is Y" I believe.
... and google is racing to catch up. There is a monopoly to be created and rent to be extracted and no matter how "not evil" an organization is, if they play in this sphere, they must adhere to this model or they won't be in business.

Everything you need to know is written in a very nice book, recently published:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu#The_Master_Switch

... you could have predicted well in advance that google would go this route.
I have seen this happen in a couple different industries. I did web development from 96 to 06 and I felt the same forces at work over that time.

After that I spent 6 years in AAA game development. Again, many custom systems were replaced with middleware.

It's my opinion that these trends are driven by the needs of business, generally. Technology (and other disciplines) are a means to a business goal. Imagine a game designer with an idea (or anyone with an idea). They want to execute the idea with as little pain between conception and execution. They don't care about linear algebra or DMA. It's this force that leads to commoditization of tech.

IMHO you can't avoid this, and it is not necessarily bad. It's also been my experience that you can find places that do the work you want to do. But you might have to move.

Best of luck to you.
I wasn't accusing Sean of being a shill. I was pointing out the absurdity of his accusation that I might not be a real person, since by the (silly, of course) way that HN keeps track of these things, I've contributed much more here than he has. His comment was condescending and dumb, and he deserved to be called out on it. Think I'm wrong? Argue with me, don't start calling names.

Netflix does publish ISP numbers, and the trend over the past 6 months for Comcast and Verizon has been awful, as is shown in the "not credible" WSJ article I linked.
I only tested dotfiler under OSX and Ubuntu. Feel free to give it a chance with Cygwin.
>Do I now first need to transfer all but 0.1 coins to somewhere else, so that I can send the remaining 0.1 coins back?

You make it sound like this is a burden. It seems easy to me, as long as you track taint per-output rather than per address. Just pretend people followed best practices and used a unique address for every output.

So let's take eterm's suggestion that clean coins always come out first. So all we need to do is build a transaction with at least .1 tainted coins, put the non-refund coins as the first output, and put the .1 tainted coins as the second output. First output is an address we control, second output goes back to the person we're refunding.

That's assuming you already mixed up your coins and can't just send back the exact same transaction they sent you in the first place.
This comment is the vulgar truth.

The industry wants hordes of people who color by number with the newest frameworks, not hackers.
Have you seen a steel bridge lately? They require constant maintenance to prevent them from rusting away. Even stainless steel will rust eventually. The only thing that lasts more than centuries is stone, and only the really hard stones will last for thousands of years.

The other problem is location. Humans like to build on coastlines, and coastlines shift. We have very little evidence of ice-age era settlements today, but the few sites we do know of show that there were some pretty sophisticated societies around at the time. It's very likely that there are/were more sites, but today they're under a few hundred feet of water off our coasts.

As far as natural resources: apparently there are extensive empty holes in the ground around the great lakes that used to be full of copper ore, based on what's left in the walls. So much copper ore that the mining must have gone on for centuries, or involved tens of thousands of people. No one knows who did that, but a likely possibility is the Phoenicians during the Bronze Age. So that's one example of the type of evidence you're talking about, albeit for a more recent period. To go back much further, we'd have to know what kind of resources they were after and where, and hope that the landscape hasn't changed so much that we can't recognize the evidence of resource mining.
Rank high for what? The term Ryza? It's easy to rank high for a made up word, but if you're ever in debate over whether to use a domain with ambiguous spelling or a standard word...go with the standard word.
Same for me. My apartment building in Stockholm is from 1943. It has copper for phone (DSL) and cable, plus fibre right into my hallway.
I think the journalist didn't understand what he was seeing. Clearly if signal strength is improved and phase distortion is removed, the error rate will go down and this will improve apparent bandwidth, but without requiring more bandwidth than the system already can provide in principle.

To me, the first sentence in your quote from the article is simply hyperbolic but has no connection with reality. The method doesn't do away with network congestion, it simply improves the signal at each participating device.

> Congestion is a function of channel bandwidth and operation rate.

I think the congestion this method addresses is that caused by unsophisticated signal treatment methods and an overall decline in performance. Obviously if the system can optimize the phase at each transmitting antenna and improve the received signal for each device, then more devices can use the system simultaneously. That's not how I would define "do away with network congestion", but again, I think the journalist just had no idea what he was describing.
Thank you for the thorough reply. I appreciate that you guys recognize sorting algorithms are not the daily work of an engineer. Working on a problem with another engineer is actually what I consider to be the "perfect" interview. Aside from getting a developer in for an entire week as a trial run, I feel like that's probably the best way to see if they're fit for the team and capable of the work.

The question is whether or not I'm a "hacker" :)
Heap works great with dynamic content - in fact, we use it ourselves all the time on our own single-page app (built on Backbone).

As an added bonus of using Heap with Angular/Backbone, we automatically capture all pushState events, so you'll get accurate pageview tracking for free.

Not sure what you mean by your second point, but it sounds interesting. What sorts of use cases motivate this?
At some stage Government a both federal and local are going to wake up to all those benefits in kind that sv seems to hand out - as a way of raising additional tax with very little pain the hard working familiy's (tm tony blair)

After all what voter is going to argue with clamping down on tax avoidance if it means that the increase in property tax isn't as big this year or that the federal government can use this additional tax to reduce the deficit (or more likely for pork in some agricultural state)
Hear hear. I've never been more frustrated about the ISP situation than when I lived in NYC. I have some friends that had such a bad experience with TWC (daily outages) that they voluntarily dropped down to ridiculously slow DSL, their only other option.
Sounds like one of those 'boutique' consulting agencies that likes to build 100% mandatory pairing into their costs when billing clients for their sake.
Limiting number of domain registrations per-person probably won't work, because one can get thousands of sockpuppet "shareholders", each having registered a sole domain.

And parking domains is indistinguishable from using them. Unless under "parking" you mean explicitly stating this domain is for sale. But with imposed restriction squatters will just remove those and park domains with "this domain is... well, you get the idea".
Switching from the Facebook API to the Google+ API
Its more tax efficient that way.
Hey Harlan, we think we fixed the FontAwesome problem, it was false advertising...the font was not awesome at all, it broke our whole damn blog.
"January 1st 2014 - We look at the server-side traffic to see if the same issue exists and see that the high precision data is no longer being returned by the server (awesome looks like a fix!)

"February 19th 2014 - As the issue does not seem to be reproducible and we have no updates from the vendor....blog post published."

So, this has been fixed now? The rest of the post wasn't very clear about that.
Fixed. Kudos to Erik on your team for emailing me to resolve immediately after my comment.
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