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I agree it's a concern, however, Musk has said before that he's willing to open up access to its supercharger network, if other manufacturers are willing to license it. I don't know if he will still do that, but considering his ultimate goal is to see electric cars in general succeed, and that he has a much less aggressive personality than Jobs had, it's probably going to happen.
Very convincing on Retina display from two feet or more.
What about bandwidth issues? I'd like to preload a film in 4K so that I could watch it without interruption.

And lets not forget that Netflix's whole business model is binge watching, which means you could easily preload future episodes of House of Cards.
That's interesting. I know undergrads from UCSC also use the site. I guess I trust geologists to describe the material, its fiber diameter and length and whether the fibers are straight or curved, soluble or insoluble, and so forth. I don't think I would listen to geologists on matters of disease, though :-)

I've been to this area a number of times. I'm comfortable with it because if you do the math, it's pretty darn hard to poison open air. Working with the material in confined spaces may be suicidal. Walking on it under an open sky seems harmless.
Sigh....I grow weary of fashion police.
Anyone ever told you that beauty is not skin deep. Some of us like our code warts and all.
In related news [1], Brazil has just sanctioned net neutrality law : http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/23/brazil-passes-internet-bi...

Not only that, but also the telcos tried to smooth it out, saying they could still charge differently, and the president herself said "no, you can't".

[1] Really, no sarcasm here.
At his return to Apple he made that speach to their employees about how hard they'll have to work to keep Apple alive, and that they shouldn't be there for the money.

He was right, all the more so in hindsight.
You mean people like me. I hope for a better tomorrow.
Could ChaCha20 be implemented in hardware, too, and would that provide significant speed improvements still? Intel, AMD and ARM should probably consider it for their future chip designs, if so.
> I read that as the dilemma that Page was facing, not an absolute truism. This is an article about Larry Page at Google. It seems silly to be annoyed at the author for simplifying the dichotomy between academia and industry to move us through his life.

No, I get that it was about Larry, and I see why the author set it up like that. But writing "...the opportunity to become the inventor of widely used applications", seems like such a simplification of what it's actually about: A choice between two very different ways of expressing your creativity (granted you do research/publicise in academia). I really hope Larry built a company with more thought behind it than making the next Flappy Bird. I.e. SpaceX wasn't founded because Musk wanted to be an "inventor" of top 40 apps, and it seems like Larry didn't either, judging from the article.

And the other phrase "... would force him to deal with people in a way he didn’t enjoy". Something about that rubs me the wrong way as well. Maybe it's a bit too soft? I mean, sucks to be you Larry, not enjoying socialising, but welcome to the real world.

I don't want to seem too harsh, I'm only replying because it's nice to put ones thoughts into writing once in a while.

> Although maybe we just have different standards.

Maybe, but starting that discussion means that we'll probably start talking about "high/low" standards, and I try not to think like that.
But look at the arguments being held up by both companies.

Comcast is arguing that Netflix is trying to get Comcast to build its infrastructure. Netflix is arguing that Comcast is extorting them for their infrastructure.

Both arguments assume that everything must be streamed, and the only reason for that is the DMCA and our copyright culture.
Perhaps you can refer me to a less doctrinaire viewpoint.

I read enough on that site to make it quite clear that the Great Work is the actual book they seem to worship.

Regardless, this still seems rather religious, even if some sects are less so. By reinterpreting "great work" it sounds like so many rationalizations of biblical belief.
> You must have never had the "I'm not touching you" game played to you.

> Surely you all are not imaginative enough if you think that the union of the set of behaviors one can form that are within their rights are all desirable behaviors.

I didn't say that all of behaviors seen were desirable, and upon rereading my comment, I have no idea how you got the impression that I was.

> I mean, strictly speaking the NSA was well within its legal rights to do what it did. But what was that quote by Jon Stewart, "I think you're misunderstanding the perceived problem here, Mr. President. No one is saying you broke any laws. We're just saying it's a little bit weird that you didn't have to."

Exactly which behaviours seen during that scandal do you think should have been illegal or were borderline illegal? I am getting the feeling that you saw something that I did not.

Bear in mind that I draw a strong distinction between "undesirable" and "should probably be illegal".
> Realistically, I'm much much much more likely to lose money stored in a Bitcoin wallet

Oh absolutely. What I was commenting on is that the source of this protection is not the bank alone, but the expectation that someone will pull it through if it went bust.
From what I can see, DataScript is in-memory only. Wouldn't that be the same as downloading Datomic-free and creating an in-memory db?
The problem (on both sides of the argument) is that there's conflation of the website-ISP relationship (i.e. should Comcast be allowed to throttle services/make "fast lanes" for certain services) and the provider-provider relationship (i.e. should Comcast allow other providers to get direct connection into their backbone?)

The agreements between Comcast and Netflix fall into the latter, but because people only think of Netflix as 'a bunch of servers connected to the internet', many don't realize that Netflix/Cogent has stuff inside the backbone, which is a different discussion.

A (shitty) analogy would be the difference between the post office charging me more in stamps depending on who I was when I want to send a letter (net neutrality), and the USPS charging me for the right to be able to have my own stuff inside the post-offices themselves and dropping stuff directly into the trucks.
I'm sorry Comcast but you aren't a simple "industry observer"...you are The Industry(tm).
It'll be interesting to watch.

A year ago I was thinking biofuels might be the way to go, I've since concluded that the capacity for production simply fails in any conceivable scenario to meet present levels of demand.

I do see liquid hydrocarbon fuels as attractive, though, based on energy density, flexibility, storage stability, and the very large level of installed base and technological familiarity in their use. For those reasons, the US Naval Research Lab's electricity-to-fuel synthesis relying on seawater for both hydrogen and CO, using the Fischer-Tropsch process, and producing fuel at a $3-6/gallon price estimate (I suspect that will go higher, and at present, crude oil price is about 70% of the final cost of gasoline at the pump), might allow for a continuation of fossil-fuel energy systems in a carbon-neutral and sustainable fashion.

Not cheap by a long shot, but plausible.
It's funny that a website apparently dedicated to this issue doesn't mention:

- which rules are supposed to kill net neutrality.

- how do they kill it? (by "picking winners and losers online"???)

Well hopefully Wikipedia will be more informative.
Myth: "No ISP in the country has been a stronger supporter of the Open Internet than Comcast[.]"

Fact: "Comcast spent the most money of any organization in support of the Stop Online Piracy and PROTECT IP bills, spending roughly $5 million to lobby for their passage."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Lobbying_and_electoral_...
Can you point to any of the specific comments that you think arguably threatened others?

I did not see any such comments on HN, although admittedly I did not follow the story closely on reddit, tumblr, or twitter.
The economics of fossil-fuel gasoline will change markedly. I wouldn't use current price points as a reliable guide to future projections.
I'd be more excited by the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with other talented professionals.
I'm an ACH product manager who's worked the user side of ACH for years, and I've never seen a conversation like this. It's amazing. Even though most of it went off on a file-transfer tangent, I've picked up some really interesting tips. Like, I never imagined there would be stuff about ACH on GitHub. BTW, ZenPayroll is an amazing product and I want to work there.
It seems Tevye Krynski, their MIT engineer, while still working there is also doing his own thing:
https://angel.co/tevye-krynski

Talent hard to get and hard to keep maybe.
That would kill Netflix before it hurts Comcast.
https://www.youtube.com/inbox#comments/
Does anyone know why google doesn't offer a webserver?

I want SPDY, QUIC, and whatever cypher ordering magic is required to make my service faster on android. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to deploy this for at least a year because I have to wait on nginx and openSSL. By the time I could reasonably deploy this, shipping android phones will have the hardware to make this irrelevant.

Maybe google sees their in house webserver as a competitive advantage. Maybe their own internal infrastructure is too complicated to pull out a simple useful webserver.
Ask HN: Does Google rummage through the Gmail account of job-seekers?
If you apply for a job at Google, will they read your personal Gmail account to get more information about you as a candidate?
"Silicon valley is where the astounding success of the very few is held out to the youth in exchange for their time, their energy, and—well, their youth."

I guess everybody should have figured this out by now. This, of course, is exactly how LA and Nashville operate, too, for different areas. The Pretty Womanization of entrepreneurship, if you will.
Definitively agreed. I'd love to pick your brain and chat
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If lots of people are helping to translate, it could be. It depends.
This entire story underlies to me the need to bootstrap into something that is already working and has numbers before talking to anyone about taking money.

I enjoyed the piece - the writing, the story. It's meant to have a melancholy, no-end-to-the-story tone. That's the entire point of it.

What people have to realise is that most of the rest of the world sees silicon valley entrepreneurs based on what they saw in The Social Network. Ziplines into the pool and young girls hitting bongs while nerds with headphones bashed out code nearby, oblivious. So something like this would serve as a strong counter-current to the prevailing narrative, that it's just a case of hopping the bus and pitching your ideas and becoming rich and famous while still young.

Realistically many career paths have low probability, high reward exit points, and that continues to attract youth. The movie or music businesses are really no different. It could easily have been a story about LA and a bunch of wannabe actors waiting tables and going to auditions - some will luck into roles, others will burn out and take normal jobs, a lucky few will walk into top roles because of connections, family or supreme talent.
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It appears the comments are moderated. I attempted to post a comment and it's now in the moderation queue.

Presumably "0 comments" is simply the number of comments that portray Comcast in a reasonable light?
What I would do is use two different hosting providers that are located in the same (or nearby) city. That's if you're worried about your master-master setup.
Have you tried handling your urls in php? Most apps/frameworks I've worked on in the past few years all do better url mgmt then you are probably going to get with just nginx configs.
Asking people to move to San Francisco for 3 months is just a tad bit crazy/expensive don't you think?

One might spend ~$5,000/mo for a short 3 month stay in San Francisco.

Why not organize accommodation for them as well? Renting a house for 3 months over a summer and dividing it by 3-4 grantees would be cheaper for both parties. And it would help manufacture some incredible collaboration as well imho.
I thought this was an interesting article on the subject - "The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Proposal Is Even Worse Than You Think":

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/24/fcc_s_new...
Like the other guy said on reddit. He's hitch-hiking. Relax, he probably just hit somewhere on the country side without wifi.
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The first time I heard about this kind of stuff when I was searching 'Aleister Crowley' in Google but hit Jet Propulsion Lab in the following story:

http://io9.com/5978746/the-strangely-true-connection-between...
By submitting a comment about it every time, one might hope that eventually site owners would get the message. Lobbying required persistence.
> "Following the precedent of Project GNU's rebranding "FireFox" as "IceCat" for their own political and ethical reasons"

Do you mean the issue of Mozillas restrictions on the "Firefox" name, which the FSF/GNU think are at odds with their notion of "Free Software"? Do you mean you are annoyed with the FSF for their entire purpose in this world?
Damn, that is an impressive writeup. I'm staggered by the amount of work needed to enable a new crypto suite, and amazed it got done so quickly. The scale at which Google operates is genuinely mindblowing.
Is 16-byte Poly1305 more secure than 16-byte HMAC-SHA1? (Actually curious. Citation: I've done all the matasano crypto challenges, and all of the stripe µctf stuff :).)
Certainly there is a great body of literature that occurs within mundane circumstances. But in this case I felt like the story itself was mundane - banal, really. Well - there's no disputing taste.
There's a difference between providing interchange transit, and transit to your end users.

ISPs are being paid for transit to their end users _by their end users_.
Legally? Yes. Morally? Up to you.
There's one born every minute, and more than ever they can even code.
But the author isn't smearing ZenPayroll. He's pointing out that even if the company is world-changing, the employee has zero basis for making that judgment and is buying into the mythos for other reasons.

The comments about that investor show the same obliviousness from a different angle -- the guy was too busy partying with random celebrities to know what companies Google Ventures was even invested in.
The Internet is not a delicate flower that must be either rescued by, or rescued from, the 5 national-political-party functionary lawyer/lobbyists on the FCC.

It's a fluid force of nature unleashed by digital technology. Companies that add tolls that don't come with commensurate value will be washed away by alternate-path competition.

Government should punish deception and break up monopolies (especially those its own rules and franchising have created). It should open more wireless spectrum. It shouldn't be designing service packages or determining what's "commercially reasonable".
I wonder if the "?hn" at the end of the URL was added to get around repost prevention† or a favor for the people watching analytics at Wired?

† Original submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628952
Sounds remarkably like this explanation: http://zen.lk/2013/11/28/how-i-finally-understood-bitcoin/

Disclosure: I wrote this last year.
I think in the long term all the nerds, as you imply, that hated Real Names will be vindicated and it will be obvious that this enforcing people to spread their real names all over the web is a bad idea.
Any objective magazine would pair it with a gas or diesel car and do a "Top Gear" style race, and compare and contrast the tradeoffs.
I've done SF -> LA and SF -> Vegas without any issues.

The supercharger in Folsom enables Tahoe, and was one of the first to go in. But because of the cold and the elevation change, you have to stay there for more than 2 nights to make that one practical (or stay at the Ritz, which still seems to be the only hotel with >110v charging.)
yep. no inverted pyramid here. it's straight up buried lead.

i kept skimming just to get to the moral of the story. it was good writing to be sure, but i feel like it could have given a little more tidbits to the reader
What we need is more competition not more regulation.
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Except that it's not funny. There is a menu choice called, "Issues", under which lies this: http://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-resources
"I'm sorry, there are no Netflix Certified providers in your area."

Seems like a natural place to put "click here to contact your state/federal representative"

While I grant that cynisim is definitely warranted, at the end of the day, these companies have monopoly jurisdiction because we the people allow them to.
Looks like they did:

http://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo012_3.html
Uhm... NO!

You pay for guaranteed bandwidth within Comcast network. Not the whole internet.

Which gets back to the whole issue at hand. If Netflix wants to improve their service they need to pay for better transit. So they cut out the middleman and go directly to the source of the majority of their viewers.

This is no different than Twitch, Google, or Microsoft direct peering with Comcast. They see the value in allowing people to access their services as fast as possible, so they spend the money to do so.

This is internet 101. Netflix just wants everything for free.
In general I agree with the sentiment behind this post. Except, I disagree with one sentence that's key to the context in the case of Comcast:

"If you don't like what they do, try and get the law changed." I think this needs to be appended with "and do not buy goods and/or services from them."

Unfortunately, in my case with Comcast, as with many high speed ISPs around the country, there is 0 competition. In order to get speeds higher than 5Mbps in my area, the only option I have is Comcast. In an anti-competitive / monopoly market, I lose the ability to vote with my wallet by finding a competitor whose practices I agree with.
EVs make sense for some people. But not most people. Not yet.
Too bad competition went anti-customer and killed open peering 15 years ago.
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Agreed!

The US's existing FTC regulations are plentiful and relevant.

New "Net Neutrality" legislation that does not address existing regulations but seeks simply to impose government between Carriers and Customers doesn't help much.
Well, from a purely 'distance covering' point of view, clearly a liquid fuel car would win because of faster refueling, higher range and speed limits.

I was more thinking of a road trip article, where the travel itself is the focus of the article. Is the car comfortable on long trips? Are the superchargers always easy to find? What sort of characters and people do you meet at supercharger stations? Did the forced longer stops make the journey better or worse?

It's a big difference to 'who got there faster'. That would be a foregone conclusion.
RedHat and Google can afford to add FIPS to their own Libre SSL if they want to stop using OpenSSL.
Salaried employment is made of suckers who can be compensated with less than they might be worth because the alternative is a world where they would have to fight for every scrip, scrap, and slice that they are owed.

I've been on both sides of that coin---I've worked for the startups and I've worked for "the industry." Am I being "taken advantage of?" Am I being paid less than I'm worth? Probably.

But I wouldn't trade the comfortable life of knowing my paycheck won't bounce for the hardscrabble life of the startup cowboy any day of the week.

I'm curious what your recommendation is. Is there a third option? Are you recommending people not work for the firms specifically involved in the settlement? I guess I could always look into IBM...
How do you propose we get competition without regulation?
Well, yes they are. The can has been kicked down the road. Few things have actually been repaired. Printing and borrowing money only temporarily solves a current problem, and pushes other problems down the track.
That's correct, but this shouldn't be understated. Bitcoin provides the ability to be sure that a transaction is legitimate when you're on the receiving end, and that the it can't be canceled later. This can be done without knowing anything about the person on the sending end, much less require a level of trust based on the sender's reputation.
Or, we could take the entirely reasonable step of declaring ISPs to be the common carriers that they obviously are.
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