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This is the brilliance of what Google is doing. They are making cities compete for Google Fiber. You compete by making it easier, faster, and cheaper to lay fiber.

It seems to be working. Seattle's new mayor recently talked about how the city needs to make it easier to build out internet infrastructure.

http://murray.seattle.gov/murray-seattle-must-be-a-national-...

> Another possible solution includes granting internet companies access to utility poles at little or no charge, so that building more infrastructure is not cost prohibitive.

> We are considering [changing policies] which make it nearly impossible for internet providers to expand existing services without an unusually high super majority of support from neighbors.
some of the 'debate' even spilled over here on HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243122
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As long as Comcast is profitable that means there is more money that could have been used to upgrade their network but wasn't.
Oculus might be Facebook's "Bing."
You generally cannot search a vehicle's trunk under search incident to arrest. However, you can impound the vehicle during the arrest, at which point it is subject to an inventory search, without violating the Fourth Amendment.
> I'm curious to see what Facebook's Bing is going to be

The Facebook phones we've seen are the same thing on a smaller scale.
Cocoon is primarily JS APIs. It does not support HTML and CSS stuff.
The teams will apparently be building “widgets,”...

Has there ever been a case of something called "widgets" succeeding by any real measure? Even in fiction or idiom?
I'd like to see Google+ converted to an iGoogle type homepage that could be 100% private and would have the option to completely disable the +1 buttons and tracking across websites. It could have customizable widgets, optional social media integration, and would be a main/start/homepage for Google account users.

Google+ still has potential to be great (mainly because of their huge user database and Google name behind it) if they can successfully pivot and create something that is valuable, a Facebook clone forced onto people wasn't the greatest idea that Google has ever come up with.
Best of luck. May I ask for a high level overview of what is involved with bootstrapping a small ISP?
The article points here: http://stats.grok.se/
There are services that can do this (Skype, for example) but on closer inspection, looks like it's not allowed in some territories (including the US).

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA672/how-do-i-show-my-mobi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_spoofing
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The lawyers also do all the work and take on all the risk.
In case it wasn't clear, the DSL itself is also written in Haskell.
I read once that there is a ritual of bathing the dead that causes the spread of diseases like this in certain cultures.
People plan poorly. There's a lot of money to be made helping people through that.

And when these services are widespread, people will be free of the necessity to expend energy "planning" their access to the essentials of life. Then we can focus on bigger and better things.
User identity is at the core of Google's long term goal of Google "search" becoming the end all augmented reality AI assistant for humans everywhere. G+ was a halting step in this direction.

If Page really wants people to allow Google to feature creep their entire lives, G will have to wage a PR war to convince people that not only can G be trusted to manage identity, but that "Don't Be Evil" is a primary ideological directive.
Indeed,

I imagine at that point, the "Google identity" dictated what kind of "Internet neighborhood" they felt they had to situate their social network in.

But thinking about it that way, it seems clear that rolling out a product based on "what Google needs to offer" rather than "what people want" is recipe for failure.
For Facebook an equivalent of Bing could be a try to launch a mobile OS.
Unless you're using your ISPs video streaming service. :)
It's worth looking into this in more detail. The Book of the Law is rather unusual in that its interpretation is left up to the individual. People also tend to miss the humour.

"The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading.

Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.

Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself."

Thelema and Neo-Paganism in general tend towards postmodernism in their approach. They are generally extremely non-dogmatic and individualistic, and as such they attract scientific types, because they encourage exploration.
How does this incentivize them to provide faster service?

From my point of view, if they're allowed to let their service degrade so that they can turn around and charge Netflix more money to make it go faster again, how is that an incentive to provide a faster service? To me, this is an incentive to provide slower service so that they can charge companies like Google and Netflix more money.

Edit: Funny this sentence can be turned around on you by clarifying who requested those streams.

Prior to paying Comcast for transit, if Comcast Customers asked Netflix to push 4k streams to them, that decision carried no repercussions for Comcast Customers.
Unless you happen to know and care for someone who actually is on the autism spectrum, it's probably best not to go around talking as if you know what it's about.
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Yes. I used Visual Studio since 97 (and other Microsoft development tools that eventually merged into VS since 1991). I used VS more than any other development tool until 2001 or 2002. Used it occasionally until 2010. Visual Studio is a very good IDE, but, unless whatever you are developing is designed to run (or be served from) Windows, it's not particularly useful.

My problem is not with Visual Studio, but with Windows. After many years using Macs and Linuxes, Windows is an incredibly confusing environment. With Linux and Macs I always know what to expect. Trivial things like setting up wireless networking or a network printer or a multi-monitor setup often involve downloading a program that will install an application that will manage what you want to do. It's insulting to have to download a hundred megabytes of stuff just to use a printer and then have yet another icon somewhere on the screen that doesn't even visually merge with the rest of the environment.

And then you have an environment where you can't even delete an open file. Or eject a USB stick just because some program decided to quit in an unclean way and leave a file open.

After you get used to a consistent and predictable platform, using anything else becomes almost intolerable.
Seriously? Bad planning? Those reasons are things that happen to everyone, sometime. Are you perfect?
> if Netflix decided to push 4k streams, that decision carried no repercussions for Netflix

This is not true. Netflix has to pay for transit of the bits leaving their servers just like everyone else. They just pay their transit provider for this, not Comcast (well, except when it is Comcast, but that's beside the point).

The right ways for Comcast to keep their costs under control re: video streaming would be to either meter pricing or drop rate limits. The problem is that metering is unpalatable to their customers, and rate limit drops would expose the lie that the entire cable modem marketing engine is based on (that last mile downstream throughput maximum is the only number that matters).
A lawsuit case like this is a civil matter - judgements / settlements are made based on some violation of a legal agreement between two parties. Violation of that legal agreement may or may not be a criminal issue.

For someone to go to prison, a criminal case would be needed, requiring criminal acts - not just violations of a legal agreement - and government prosecutor willing to bring charges against the parties allegedly responsible.

It seems there were (probably) criminal acts here, but as of yet we've not seen a prosecutor go after the case. These kind of things can be further complicated in the US because of the different standards of proof required for each case type. In a criminal case, the state must be able to prove "beyond any doubt" that the defendant is indeed guilty. Civil cases have a much less ironclad standard for guilt/responsibility, and can often be easier to "win" as a result.

Its certainly possible that government prosecutors are aware of the issue, and aware of the civil settlement, but don't believe they could prepare a compelling enough case based on the evidence available to win a criminal trial against undoubtedly well-legally-represented executives.
As a conversion optimization consultant, this is very interesting. It's not a new idea, but the execution is really great. The setup process was easy to do and understand.

A few comments:

1. Does the script really need to be at the bottom of the <body> tag? All my projects use Google Tag Manager -- which is placed at the opening of the <body> tag -- and it'd be much simpler to plug it in with GTM without ever touching code.

2. What does the JSON output look like? I wonder if it's acceptable for Mailchimp/Mandrill or other mailing list services.

3. I think it's a bit early to claim you have "enterprise-grade" targeting. How about IP filtering? Custom event triggers? Etc.

4. Is A/B testing capability in the works?

5. Any way to modify the popup code? I'd love to be able to add custom GA event tracking, and such.

With all that said, "Enterprise Level Conversion Optimization Kit" is really overselling yourself. Enterprise level? No. Conversion optimization? Only if your top-priority conversion is getting emails, which is rarely the case. That definition needs some more work.

Edit: And as several others have mentioned, the actual popup on your site is wonky. I tried triggering it (by moving my cursor towards the top-right corner) but all I saw was a very quick flash of the screen, followed by the small sticky appearing in the bottom-left corner.
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The decision to push 4k streams certainly would carry repercussions for Netflix both from a storage and transit standpoint, even absent paying interconnect fees to Comcast.

As a cable subscriber, I expect that when paying for N Mbps of bandwidth, I'm entitled to N Mbps of bandwidth of the content of my choosing. If Comcast's pricing model needs to change to a cost-per-gigabyte model in order to cope with the increased quantity of data customers consume, so be it. But sneaking the costs onto Netflix's tab effectively shifts Comcast's costs to all Netflix customers, allowing Comcast to artificially lower their prices relative to smaller ISPs without the market share necessary to effectively extract rent from Netflix.
Here is my analogy of bitcoin after 6 months of trading crypto currency.

Bitcoin and scamming goes hand and hand.

Bitcoin is a protocol for a digital asset ledger. Using it as a currency is absurd, and has no measures to protect people from fraud.

Until bitcoin has insurance, anti-fraud, buyer protection, customer service department, etc. then it will be suitable for real people to use as money. However this would incur many fees, and the fact it is deflationary is not necessarily a positive trait for a currency.

Too many headaches in the land of bitcoin, and for me I do not ever see normal people understanding it or accepting it. This is my honest take and I still hold some BTC. The dream is still alive, but the reality of the situation has kicked in and my optimism is on the decline.
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Personally? No, my hatred has been of use to me in the past. I doubt I'd be where I am today if I'd not hated where I was.

And while !Me might have been okay with staying there, provided she didn't hate it, !Me would be far less the sort of person I want to be than I actually am. She'd lack many of my pleasures. The absence of hatred is not by itself the presence of joy.

Of course, hatred can also cripple you, rather than push you to grow: The unrewarded genius who consoles themselves that it's the world that's stupid in not respecting their genius, rather than themselves for not putting the effort in.

But that's a matter of context: honesty, self-knowledge, self-confidence, knowledge about the world. Simply because some hatreds are unproductive hardly renders the emotion itself malign, no more than joy is malign simply because some people find it in the destruction of others.
Bad planning happens.
Not really, because Oculus does not compete with anything done by any big player. It is a new territory for everyone.
Eh, cough syrup expires. I had a nasty cough a few months ago, and discovered that my previous bottle of cough syrup was 5 years old.
If you want to use box2d, use box2dweb[0]. It's much smaller and faster and is actually up to date. However if you want your game to run smoothly on mobile phones your best bet is Chimpunk-js[1].

[0] https://code.google.com/p/box2dweb/

[1] https://github.com/josephg/Chipmunk-js
One thing that is important to know is that there actually are not any confirmed cases in Sierra Leone [1] or Mali. There were many suspected cases in both countries, but all of them have tested false so far. So for now, at least, it is only active in Guinea and Liberia.

[1]: One clarification is that two people from Sierra Leone died from EVD while they were in Guinea, and their bodies were repatriated to Sierra Leone and buried there. Sierra Leone has since banned repatriation of bodies to mitigate the risk of it spreading through this vector.

Source: http://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/ebola/en/
> And yet you make no mention of existing employees on the payroll who contribute to this type of misogynistic behavior in the first place? You're not "worried" about that?

not at my fictional company, no :)

On a serious note, I was just making a tangential point, it doesn't minimize the really crappy things that she went through, and without equating the two I think its worthwhile to point out that Ms Horvath might not be going about this in the best way.
Surnames is even worse for me :)

My parents lacked any inspiration.
I second this. Chrome's multiple platform/profile feature is amazing [1]. I use it simply as as session manager [2] between work, personal, side-projects, etc. It greatly improved my development and browsing experience on the web.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en

[2] http://scotch.io/bar-talk/leveraging-multiple-chrome-users-f...
Xiaomi could do with a social network.
Thanks for checking it out, sorry it didn't work as expected. Can you tell me what browser you were on when you couldn't input the fields?
It would interfere with customers' other uploads (like backups), it would probably lead to poor service (how do you use 2Mbps peers to deliver 5Mbps streams?), and it would create another loophole for Comcast to degrade service that we'd spend months arguing about.
He's a polarizing figure. I know people who used to work in Social (and elsewhere in the company) that hated working for them, and now they don't work in Social. I also know people in Social who really admire him as a visionary leader who's not afraid to take a lot of personal flack to get the job done.

I think this is common to many people with strong opinions and the confidence to act on them. Marissa was very similar: some people absolutely hated her, while others really respected her.
If you're on a Mac, you might try Paparazzi[1] (no affiliation).

I don't specifically know if it has any trouble with a 5Mb limit as I don't generally pay any attention to file sizes, but it's never given me any troubles with pretty long pages, so I'm assuming it would work well in this scenario.

[1] - http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
I would argue that this information makes 2048 the better game: people like to win, especially when it comes to, what I call, "commuter games" (games played while on the subway where you often have no more than 20 min) so having a game that climaxes quickly is actually a pro (in my opinion).
I'll ask around about getting it officially put on YouTube
> Say what you want about Asperger's, but my son has autism ...

Yes, but you're mixing different things. Autism is a category that includes a "Rain Man" level of functioning, but Asperger's was a diagnosis du jour that picked out brighter-than-normal kids, plus a raft of historical figures including Albert Einstein, in a way that made it seem like an attractive diagnosis, such that now, we have people objecting, saying, "No! I'm an Aspie and I don't care what you psychologists say!"

Such a thing has never happened before -- there has never been a reverse stigma to a mental illness diagnosis. When psychologists saw people lining up to get this cool new diagnosis, they knew they had gone too far, so they started a process to remove Asperger's from the diagnostic manuals before their credibility was further eroded.

Remember when you read about Asperger's that psychologists, who have every reason to hold onto established diagnoses, couldn't wait to get rid of Asperger's and the embarrassment it caused them.
That is correct.

You don't have to sync if you paid for anything from Office 365 Home and above.

However it bugs you constantly to do it and all the save dialogs in Office 2013+ promote saving to "The Cloud". It's terribly irritating.
The response to your point is usually that no one plaintiff would have the resources to pursue their claims on their own. The expected value of bringing this kind of claim against a defendant, much less these defendants, is probably not that positive if you were to go about it on your own. At least this way you get $67k.

What is a better alternative? (Other than preventing stuff like this in the first place.)
I think you want a pool of python interpreters read to go.
Honestly, I think widespread automated cars will be enough (And I am going to go out on a limb and say that Google technology will be in a huge number of automobiles 25 years from today), but if G has its way, and GFiber transforms ISP/Content delivery, their energy initiatives with windblimp turbines, deep machine learning for medicine, actual robotic assistants, G Books... The list goes on and on. Search is just the cash engine for the truly transformative tech.

There has rarely been an industrial force with the ambition Page gives to Google. If they succeed in even half measures on some of these initiatives, it will be transformative.
I hope that Hangouts will be sticking around long-term. Although WebRTC certainly helps in this area, Hangouts have quickly become the de-facto standard for mutli-person video chat. Not to mention a good chunk of our users use our app inside of Hangouts.
Google+ is in this weird place between Facebook and Twitter for me. I go to Twitter primarily for professional interaction, and Facebook primarily for personal interaction. Google on the other hand makes a ton of great services I like to use, but I don't want to curate circles there and I don't want some watered down feed of reddit-like linkbait.

Google has done a pretty good job on the no-doubt extremely thorny problem of unifying accounts and multi-account login. I'm reasonably happy with that. I love Gmail, and Hangouts, and Android in general, but Google+ makes me want to blow my brains out every time they try to ram it down my throat. For the hundredth time, I don't want to "find friends" before I join an urgent Hangout I've just been invited to.

The worst part is that they sacrifice their core strength to chase an unproven Facebook purely out of fear. Even if Facebook miraculously manages to crack social advertising in a way that eats Google's lunch (and given the questions around the value of Facebook advertising, that is a huge if), there's no hope for Google in trying to beat Facebook on their own terms. Frankly it's been an embarrassment for Google, and I hope they really have killed it as the central focus.
Very long, surprisingly easy to read.

Great article !
So you are saying I should care about Google's convenience?

I've never been to "my" G+ page and don't intend to go now. Google has annoyed me and it's their to solve that annoyance.

I am the consumer, get used to it.
When is the last time you heard of someone going to jail because of a zero day?
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> I like G+ for the photo back-up from my Android phone.

See, I don't use any of Google's 'let us manage your plaintext data' services except for mail (because email travels in the clear anyway, I'm not too bothered by that).

If they would enable me to store my phone, tablet & app settings, Chrome passwords and backed-up data on their servers, encrypted on the client with a key known only to clients I control, then it'd be a killer feature for me.

Indeed, if they would bake crypto into their products such that all data were encrypted to the public keys of the intended recipients, then I think that they'd be going a long way towards making the world a better place.

But as it is, there's no way that they are laying a finger on my WiFi password, my web site passwords, my photos or any other data I create and do not intend to send to the world.
This image http://www.willchatham.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/net.pn... has been making the rounds on reddit, surprised it hasn't appeared here yet. This is the most visceral/succinct explanation of the consequences of allowing the ISPs to have a "fast lane"...
Netflix and Google and Amazon and Apple should join forces to let Comcast customers know when they're being throttled.

"Your video is buffering because Comcast is slowing your connection down. Click here to contact Comcast customer support. Click here to find Netflix Certified providers in your area."

Netflix and Google and Amazon and Apple all have great brands with high customer satisfaction. They should utilize all those eyeballs to funnel even more hate toward Comcast.
Uh, what? No.
Because we're throwing a pile of cash away on fighting foreign wars we can't win and killing people rather than abolishing PPP and concentrating on looking after all the sick people at home.
Well, most GUI libraries.
I'm saying giving more than a passing thought to the particular backend that drives youtube comments is a complete waste of brainpower unless you happen to work on the thing.
> What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform

Er, Google announced that when they announced Google+, that it wasn't primarily a separate product but a social layer that would weave together all of Google's services. The Facebook-esque site has always been the tip of the G+ iceberg. (The Forbes article on the departure, interestingly, notes that the platform position has always been Google's position, but that the tech media never believed it [1].)

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/04/24/whats-next-...
This is what you are advocating for: http://www.willchatham.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/net.pn...
"a truly fair free market" doesn't translate to anything, because it's not attainable.
Thanks, this is helpful. Does that mean the federal government is not a party to this suit?

I'm pretty sure that other anti-trust cases are pursued by the federal government. If so, do you know whether it's still possible for the terms of settlement arising from such suits to be sealed?
It's a little sad I think. I like Google+'s overall interaction and how its used as a tool. I use Picasa to organize my photos and have it sync to my Google+ account. Google+ on my phone also auto-backs up all photos to G+.

Google+'s initial focus of sharing data with smaller groups of people was nice as well.

But Facebook and Twitter have a majority of the users already and G+ isn't better enough for people to move to it.