skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ISP sells "Internet" access, so it's reasonable to expect them to meet customer demand at common Internet peering points, right up to the edge of their net profits plus a reasonable return for investors.
I like this piece because it doesn't glamorize the startup life as much as other articles tend to. It's a lot more blood, sweat, and tears than anything else. And I rather miss long-form essays too. I didn't mind the length at all.
Corporate jail time (i.e. barring a company from operating in the marketplace) is equivalent to a death sentence for most companies. Nevertheless, I'd love to hear some ideas about what else "jail time" for a corporation might mean.
You don't "get" the feeling of wanting to do something with a social purpose beyond making money by making some executive happy? Or make something that's just recognizably cool? You don't even understand passion for things other than making money?
This idea (Jobs needed to be away from Apple to improve himself) gets mentioned a lot but I think it's nonsense. First: Jobs was petulant, mean and destructive to people he disagreed with – for his whole life. He never dropped this trait.

You don't think age, experience and his spirituality made any difference at all to these tendencies and the ways he applied them?

Of course we'll never know what would've happened had he stayed at Apple.

But I find it very plausible that had he stayed, the company could have ended up in even worse trouble, and that the maturity, experience and outsider's perspective he developed in his time away were critical in enabling him to attain the level of success he achieved on his return.
How so? The capital investments are too high. Regulation is the only thing that has successfully created competition to monopolies in our economic history.
hmm... so Netflix paid cogent before, and now you think they should not pay Comcast for the same service? Where is your logic?
The FyreTV Porn Streamer Maker Is Suing Amazon For Trademark Infringement
Seems there is zero chance the incumbents will spurn the TV-monopoloy people in an election year.
True. Creditors vs Debtors. Creditors are advantaged by deflation, debtors advantaged by inflation. Except where effects of one or the other affect the amount of bad debts.
I really hope Netflix has what it takes to do what is necessary if it comes to that point. And what it is going to take is for Netflix to simply blackout Comcast.

But actions like that can be easily spun out in the media (media of which has very close ties to Comcast) to make Netflix look bad.

What would make it better is for all of the major players (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple) to collectively blackout Comcast, whilst educating the public on how they are being used and screwed at the same time.
They don't. It is not a requirement. But if you want your employees to do overtime, you have to pay them either 50% more or 100% more, depending on whether it's "just" overtime or overtime during a time when they wouldn't have to work at all (weekends, official holidays, ...).

The very short, very inaccurate summary is, you get 50% for outside of hours (after 19h, weekends). You get another 50% for working on weekends. And you get 50% for working on official holidays.

Meaning you get 3x your normal hourly wage for working after 19h on Easter or Christmas for example.

Needless to say, companies don't want to pay this, and will lie and cheat to get out from under this. Problem is, if they get sued, the maximum penalty is 2 years' wage, paid out on the spot, and it's up to the employee to decide whether to continue working there or not (if you fire an employee, and put down as reason that you've lost a court case against them, that's likely to result in another 2 years pay for the employee).
If the story were glamorous or exciting, it would be missing the point. Wouldn't it?
Awesome! I'll definitely keep this spot in mind for hackerish projects that take up space
Rent or Buy?
The query language is embedded in legal Clojure data structures, so it would be tricky to port to JS. That's a drawback of embedded DSL's I suppose.
Wow, great work! I'm reading through this - it seems to apply to other programming fields other than just games programming. Really, really appreciate this hard work and making it free!
> on a factual level we have ridiculous bugs specifically caused by systemd that take down your system, and the lead developers saying either i don't care or it's by design.

Agreed. This is a big worry. When the lead developers of something this important sound this callous, I start getting concerned.
What competition?
Grog – a user interface plan for #nemomobile
I'm expecting CNG to become a lot more prevalent. Domestic supply is abundant and growing. Fleets and long haul trucks are increasingly converting. Natural gas utilities are pretty much everywhere, so the main thing that needs to be build out is the actual refueling stations. Standard refuling fittings are already defined.
> ...if transfers worked exactly as handing someone some gold does...

I have never bought gold, other than in jewelry, I suppose, so I could be wrong about this. As I understand it, transferring gold is actually quite difficult, unless you trust the person. Don't you need to weigh it and test it for purity? Bitcoin transactions over long distance are enormously easier than a gold transaction over long distance, I would imagine, too.
There is a reasonable argument for not wanting the FCC involved in setting technical policy for how a carrier runs its own network. It is at best disingenuous to claim "net neutrality regulation" is the only way to save the Internet.

Yes, I want the initial effects of net neutrality (mainly cheap access to comcast by CDNs and major hosting providers)

If someone builds a non-monopoly network, perhaps via multi-dwelling metro ethernet or fixed wireless, I want that network to be able to implement whatever QoS they want. If that means 155M links to buildings with 500 subscribers and some kind of local CDN node for video content which is "free" and QoS on other traffic, that's a win for consumers.

The correct place for requiring neutrality is when local governments negotiate with carriers for any monopoly rights. In exchange for a geographic monopoly on laying infrastructure, it would be reasonable to demand reasonable-and-non-discriminatory access to the network.

From a practical perspective, local governments are probably too technically and generally incapable of negotiating with big companies like Comcast, but that's a problem we're already facing. Model contracts would probably help with that, or state regulators.
Sure we need it. It's hard to provide it though, because the cost of entry into ISP business is immense (for example Calyx failed to create a privacy oriented ISP: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-calyx-institute see also https://calyxinstitute.org). Add on top of that various crooked laws bought by big ISPs which make it even worse (i.e. practically forbidding competition). So regulation wise there are things which can be fixed and improved.
That's the thing with businesses like ISPs. The barrier to entry is insane and rigged and just a mess.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-la...
According to Wikipedia there are 540 million active accounts as of Oct 2013, the ghost town trope needs to die because it is simply incorrect.
That one looks much less realistic to me. There were no long streak from drops that slid all the way down.
A New Kind Of (Topological) Computer Science (2010)
Hey do you know any more about Vodo? I can't quite figure out what their bundles are. Are the movies and music and games in the bundle CC? I see the Free Movies page but I'm unsure what the licensing terms for the bundle are.
Regulation also created some of the most successful monopolies in our economic history: AT&T, for instance.
Ask HN: How much time/effort did Heartbleed cost your team?
Looking for time or dollar impact of Heartbleed on your team:

1. < hour
2. Hours
3. Days
4. Weeks
5. Unknown
I believe so? Isn't there a 2^80 attack on SHA1? I think the bigger issue is that the security proof for a polynomial MAC is much clearer (and the MAC itself is much faster).
If the above assumption I mentioned wasn't true, I would imagine all these devices would have USB ports.
You are a legend. Seriously.
So, if Netflix just increases data that viewers are sending it, it's okay?

So if Netflix adds

setInterval('EqualizeBandwidth',1000/24)
function EqualizeBandwidth(){
$.post('netflix.com/dosbox', {data:randomLongStringEqualtoVideoFrame+1});
}

Then comcast will pay them. (And most subscribers will be fine if they only watch < 31 movies a month given an 8gb movie.)

But bonus if netflix causes every one of their customers to hit the 250gb cap and therefore hate comcast. Any politician that has family trying to watch netflix would complain of overages then and shut comcast out.
Because there are laws on the books explicitly preventing anyone else from competing with Comcast.
Trade API company raises round
few hours for our sysadmin, I suppose.
> In exchange for a geographic monopoly on laying infrastructure, it would be reasonable to demand reasonable-and-non-discriminatory access to the network.

Unfortunately state and local regulatory capture is often far more egregious than Federal due to lack of attention and oversight. Having the FCC whack the whole thing with one big mallet may be the only option we have.
Silly buzz words. You mean, high resolution
The thing is that these sites (as with many things) grow from a core of early tastemakers. In some circles these people know the hottest bands, the best new books, wear the coolest clothes, or know about the new restaurants in town before everyone else. In tech they know the best sites, and where they go the rest will follow. "People reading HN" might be a small minority in the grand scheme of things, but I would be willing to bet that they collectively have a huge influence on the web at large. They were the natural drivers of Google+, and they didn't bite. Meanwhile things have moved on from Facebook to Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc leaving Google+ in the dust. Do not ignore vocal and influential groups of users, even if they are small in number.
Krimes at the fingers
Google+ and Gundotra's lasting, and perhaps perverse, legacy to Google is the "social glue" that forcibly connects together most Google services.

That Google+ never quite managed to take on Facebook is obvious. A much bigger and intangible cost, IMHO, is the falling trust in much bigger Google products like search, YouTube etc. as Google+ was shoved down user's throats.

To wit, I don't use Google+, but thanks to its bundling I've also stopped logging in to any Google service on my laptop except on a strict need-to basis (for e.g. log in, update Google Drive doc, log out...or turn GPS on, use Google Maps, turn GPS off).
Love it, used it in a project a while back. Unfortunately it's pretty resource intensive. Had to disable it for most mobile and tablet browsers.
Tivo is a massively outdated business model. It's still relient on a time schedule run by TV networks. I'm looking for the modern equivalent of TiVo, something that lets me save and keep the content I'm streaming.

Parent was not using an anecdote to illustrate that streaming is better/worse than downloading.

Parent was using an anecdote to prove the fact that UIs exist that allow people to store media, rather than constantly streaming it.
The point isn't to necessarily to save isps money. It's to not allow them to charge netflix for peering agreements (esp when they don't accept the netflix caching boxes)
What kind of company pays you to engage in self-discovery?
20 years ago, no one had any broadband options. Now, most places have at least 2 wired options, plus 2 or more increasingly-competitive wireless options.

Policy on spectrum and wires should aim to increase those options, not dictate the technical workings of ISPs, or limit the contractual design-space of private companies.

If abuse materializes, so will opportunity. There's a glut of capital to build more paths - towers, blimps, drones, fiber loops - if there's profit to be made and no local or federal barriers to new models.
Are you also the strafer32 who just created an account three hours ago to badmouth the new CEO of Mozilla and troll on the comment threads of Hacker News [1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strafer32
Les voitures de luxe sont incontournables au Salon de Pékin 
Passez en revue les voitures de luxe exposées au Salon de Pékin en avril 2014 et découvre les nouvelles tendances en matière de SUV et de berlines.
Tesla uses a proprietary electrical plug. A J1772 adapter is included with their cars to charge at level 2 charging stations. A CHAdeMO to Tesla adapter is also available for about $1000.

This means you cannot charge non-Tesla EVs at a supercharger. Sorry.
Sadly, like the Target predicting a pregnant teen, Amazon could probably use data to figure out when you need cough medicine.

The ultimate operations experience is JIT arrival based on predictive behaviors.
This was a no-solicit agreement, not a no-hire. If you were working at Apple and wanted to work at Google, you could just apply and get hired.

And then you could get a counter-offer from your current employer. Nobody stopped this from happening, and a lot of engineers made a lot of money doing exactly this.
Where do you see that? His LinkedIn profile seems to suggest that he is only working on boomtrain.
Internet Archive is great.

I'd like access to current creative commons works,though, not just public domain items. I'm trying to fight the copyright regieme, which prevents me from accessing the culture around me.

Going back in time to the 40s doesn't exactly do that for me. Don't get me wrong, IA is amazing, and I use it all the time. But I'd like something like Netflix that was exclusively for CC works. vodo seems like a good contender.
Leaving it to localities also enables more experimentation and inter-locality competition (as with Google Fiber rollouts)... while national rules create a premature uniformity.
Just go with WordPress then, you've been hinting at it yourself. Given the amount if plugins and themes out there you should be able to find one for each your needs.
OK, that's freaky. I read the HN comments first, then the original article. By the time I read the original article, it had been updated to quote the HN thread:

On Hacker News, the grumbling about the settlement was
immediate. “I honestly do not understand why the
plaintiffs would settle this case,” one poster wrote. But
some saw another side: “What did the engineers risk with
this lawsuit? Nothing. What did the law firm risk?
Getting paid peanuts for hundreds of hours they spend on
the case if they lose.”

I did not know that the NY Times had started updating their articles with quotes from discussions about the same articles. Do they base which quotes they choose on your referrer? Will I see different quotes if I view this linked from Reddit?
Quora springs to mind: they somehow get knowledgeable and articulate people to take the time and effort to write high quality articles for free.
If you are one of the class members you should have received mail. They might not have the right address. You could try contacting the law firm.
That's the point. It makes it the ISPs problem in a country where the ISPs continue to under deliver compared to other 1st world nations.

If Netflix eased in making the ISPS the broken loop to millionaires, politicians, and their families watching movies - more poeple would ditch the major ISPs and have fiber.
You've got my up vote for your argument on giving a new network the right to choose to do QoS. But, I disagree on your conclusions.

The FCC's previous decisions to keep the existing carriers from becoming common carriers was supposed to incentive new broadband service. New broadband service did not happen, your theorized metro ethernet never came about. So, since we are stuck with regional monopolies granting them further privileges is blindingly stupid.

You are correct as well to say that it is "disingenuous to claim net neutrality is the only way to save the 'net". Another option was to open up the infrastructure & allow competition on it, like other countries have successfully done. But, the FCC has already chosen not to do that leading us to where we are today.
Medieval bishop’s theory resembles modern concept of multiple universes
> There is no physical law that prevents the breaking of the entire bitcoin model, or that ensure the network - and one and only one unforked network - will always operate.

But there is, its the law(s) of thermodynamics. Entropy is derived from thermo, information theory from entropy, and cryptography from information theory. So the theoretical security of bitcoin is absolutely rooted in physical scientific law.

> I have absolutely 0 faith whatsoever that bitcoin the current protocol can last even 3 years.

It's already going on 4 years, since the last critical bug you mentioned (August 2010). But you do have a point, that the software is not formally verified for correctness. (If it was, then we'd have the practical guarantee that the implementation of the protocol is as sound as the design of the protocol in theory.)

However, you aren't making a fair comparison to the security of gold. You're comparing gold in an idealized scenario to the real-life in-practice security of bitcoin. But the security of gold in practice is also flawed, e.g. the case of counterfeit bars with lead in the middle and gold on the outside. Also, the physical nature of gold brings risks from which bitcoin is immune: it occupies physical space and so is impossible to hold secretly, and moving it securely requires an armed escort (even that doesn't eliminate risk, only reduces it).

In an apples-to-apples comparison you have, on one hand, the potentially/likely buggy, imperfect software which implements Bitcoin. And on the other hand gold with all its real-world in-practice flaws (true supply masked by a paper market, physical inconvenience & risks, etc).

> The truth is that there should be a bitcoin-like protocol that contains real-world regulatory action: if such a coin were pinned to the dollar, ($1/coin) [...] the protocol would be able to replace fiat currencies much more easily.

There's substantial ongoing effort to create exactly this. But generally the proposal is for the "real-world regulatory action" to be the deterministic output states of a decentralized "contract" enforced by the laws of computer code running on a p2p network. Rather than the whims of a centralized group of emotionally charged and politically biased humans.
One of the experiments I'd like to see is someone getting either a highly-regulated utility (possibly even municipality-owned) or some level of highly competitive market correct.

I don't think a local government should be in the business of delivering IP to residential/business customers, but having an exceptionally easy process for trenching might work, or conduit, or dark fiber (or even lit fiber to areas).

After a century, we're still innovating on the power networks (net metering, etc.). We might even be in the Edison vs. Tesla days for IP.
I'm not sure what to tell you. I follow the mailing lists but very deliberately don't post on them, because I would drastically increase the noise level, which is already often bad. I can say that it does not look like the TLS WG has a "default deny" stance w/r/t/ new features for TLS.

I like what Google is doing; they control the Internet's most important server properties and one of the most important clients, and are taking full advantage of that to testbed TLS refinements and then bring them to the IETF as working code.
Bitcoins have significant value in that they make certain illegal and semi-legal activities much easier. As long as there remains some way of converting bitcoins into a more widely accepted currency, bitcoins will continue to have value no matter how much their prices drop.
A (comically large) CHAdeMO to Tesla adapter will be available for about $1000. CHAdeMO has a maximum output of 500V/100A or 50 kW, whereas Tesla Superchargers are presently 120 kW.

http://shop.teslamotors.com/collections/model-s-charging-ada...
I loved that the disclaimer was 2X the length of the blog post. Oh, and that they try to cram this into their anti-Netflix tweets by including the URL http://imprtnt.info which has a pdf of the same disclaimer.
https://www.hightechemployeelawsuit.com/

Though I think the deadline has passed... you had to register to be part of it.

Update: oh, I take that back, you have until 4/26/2014 it says.
A slow and phased community development worked really, really well for Facebook. Remember: it was deployed into a world already dominated by MySpace and with multiple rivals.

Slower, with a solid core community, would have been far better for G+ IMO. It opened up too fast.

Not only didn't it have a gelled community, but there were far too many UI / feature glitches and omissions. Many of which persist to this day.
TS*: Gradual Typing Embedded Securely in JavaScript
There's metro ethernet for businesses in a lot of markets. And weird stuff like Sonic's flexlink, and of course things like Cogent.

The residential market is horrible, but I think the economics of providing good networking to suburban homes are difficult. In cities like SF, the city itself is a major impediment. In a place like Austin, there should be a lot more options than there are (thank you, Google!). Business service and multi-dwelling building service is where I think there's a lot of untapped potential.
This Planet Money podcast does an excellent job explaining the current situation, why there is not more competition, and what other countries did that worked out well.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/04/299060527/episode-...
This article is so insanely true, the problem is people who wish that it wasn't so.

Think of the number of startups that basically walked into huge series A but literally have nothing under them!

There's a caste system at play, so how are YOU going to escape it?
Total agreement as I just posted above. A slow and staged rollout for Facebook worked great. In large part because it started with a small, well-suited, and high-status user base (Harvard, Ivy League), and expanded from there.

Into a world already dominated by MySpace and with plenty of other social network contenders. Including Google's own Orkut, Buzz, and Wave.
Lessons Learned From a Year Without Showering
I think I read it through HackerNews, pretty sure that Drive points out that time constraints are not a motivator.

Here's a google.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?chapterid=17055118

Essentially, time constraints hurt autonomy and therefore creativity. If you have a deadline, you are more likely to find the quickest way that works as opposed to the best error free, scalable long term strategy.
It resolves the overlap, but doesn't combine the drops into a larger single drop.
How Google added a new cipher suite to SSL for Chrome