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> unless they're just counting on public hatred of the telecoms to carry them to an advantageous position.

Pretty much. They've made plain their envisioned future, and now they're haggling over the price. Netflix as a company doesn't actually need or want net neutrality, because free communications based on alternative protocols will undermine their lucrative position as the new hip entertainment provider. If you're giving Netflix money then you are responsible for helping to centralize (and thus destroy) the Internet.
> It seems that outsiders (I am guessing you are, by the way you frame it) are eager to remind us that we have large public sectors, or whatever you want to call it. It feels a bit rude to me; as if you know better than us how our societies/governments are structured.

It can be easy to take for granted your current situation, and become oblivious to it. So it often takes an outsider to remind the insiders of their situation. It is no different from how the lack of universal health insurance in the US may not be apparent to the ~85% of Americans who do have health insurance.
The parent comment bears repeating: "Clearly you've never been bullied before." You can't logic away emotional pain.
My questions about the public rendition of the hula hoop has large gone unattended to. (I know, I am unpopular.) I reiterate, yet again:
1. Were the ladies aware the had the gentlemen's attention ("gawking" as Julie called it)?
2. If answer to (1) is no, did they ever notice they had an audience?
3. If answer to (1) or (2) is yes, what was their reaction: stopped or continued?
Writing.

It's a habit and the more of it I do, the better I get on average. It's easier to come up with a blog post if I'm writing in a journal. It's easier to write in the journal if I've written in it the day before, or earlier in the day, etc.

At the end of the day, writers write. Here's Charles Stross writing about not writing:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/who_am_i/autobio-all-redacte...
> They get less pay while putting in more effort.

Who said anything about getting paid less? A salary is a salary.
> Every engineer, regardless of specialty, learns to write code: At least one semester of C/C++

I doubt this is universally true. It certainly wasn't in both my ugrad and grad institutions. Non-CS engg students had the option of taking a introduction to programming style course, but it was by no means mandatory.

Most engg students there had their first introduction to programming via Matlab assignments, which can hardly be called programming.
This is a toy I put together while learning AngularJS.

The idea: People struggle to associate the time spent behind their desk with the money that gets deposited in their account. Subsequently, they often make rash purchasing decisions.

In case it wasn't clear how to make it work:

1. Enter your salary (don't worry - not tracked)

2. Notice the counter has started

3. When you reach $1, the boxes on the right will light up
It's right there in the statement:

After being presented with the results we felt Tom could no longer be an effective leader at GitHub. He offered his resignation and we accepted.
It seems as if Netflix is more threatened by competitors like HBO Go and Hulu and Amazon Video than by the telecoms, so deals like this give Netflix an edge over other upstarts
The edit link stays open for a limited time window. (I forget how long, but it's 2 or 3 hours.) If you want to email your corrected text to hn@ycombinator.com, I'd be happy to put it in for you.
I've always liked the quote "Nobody has the right to not be offended." Certainly as members of a very privileged group few people have that right less than us.
Hacker News submissions and rank are definitely moderated and manipulated. First and foremost the site is here to promote the investment portfolio.
Schizophrenia is such a hard disease to study in the same way that cancer is a hard disease to study - it not a disease with a common cause (like AIDS for example), but a collection symptoms used for diagnosis purposes. At least with cancer we have recognised that it is not one disease (Cancer is thousands of different diseases with thousands of causes), but with schizophrenia we seem to still be looking for the "cause".
Hmm, disagree. The prototype doesn't have cancer, it causes the cancer. You're right that it's easier to say but it's saying the wrong thing.
They have to do something as an interim solution to keep the service working. Hopefully Comcast et al will get smacked down regardless.
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>In the meantime, lots of people are using and enjoying the language as it is.

I hear that a lot. That's not really an argument. People also enjoy stupid things, including things that hurt them, like drugs.
Depends what kind of product. If you're a start-up launching for Christmas, sure. But if it's a contract to deliver some long term custom product at a multi-year deadline (I have worked on such things), then you should definitely not push that prototype.

(Actually, the inverse error is often made: trying to get it right the first time around, which is impossible. A prototype is even worse, but least you can test your major ideas, so you can see which are good, and which are hopeless.)
Please, explain. I acknowledged the ways I could think of that a widely shared git repo could have its history modified. I admit my knowledge of gits lowest levels is a bit murky, but I'd like to hear specifics if you have them.
We can implement password policies to attempt to mitigate this, but what we end up doing is frustrating our users, who will struggle to remember the 8 character minimum, alphanumeric, at least one capital letter, at least one piece of punctuation password we have forced them to choose.

>>> math.log((26+26+10+32) ** 8, 2)
52.4367108134211

So a "perfect" 8-character password has about 52 bits entropy.

$ wc -l /usr/share/dict/american-english
99171 /usr/share/dict/american-english

>>> math.log(99171,2) * 3
49.792892048685374

3 random dictionary words has almost 50 bits. 4 words would have about 66 bits.

Couldn't average-user password strength be hugely improved by giving better password instructions (if your signup / passwork-change page is SSL as it should be, maybe even provide a few dozen random words as possibilities)?
The stigma is absolutely the biggest problem with the treatment of mental illness.

It would be as if you went to someone with cancer and said, "Well, if you really wanted to, you could just shrink that tumor right now. You just don't want to commit to changing your life. It is your fault."

I never believed this until my sister died. Now I realize just how broken the system is.
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1) "Finite resources", when talking about Intel, is a relative concept.

2) As mentioned above, Intel has a history of undermining compilation on non-Intel processors. It's not just a question of passively not spending time testing on other CPUs.
Do we know (a) how many people would have updated their copy after her commit and before his revision and (b) how many of those people don't just automatically do a forced pull when necessary?
Google Shopping Express will also use your own Costco membership to make purchases (and I believe they do similar for other store discounts/memberships). I just got a delivery of Frozen on bluray at the Costco sale price of $15.99 and I get my 2% back too ;)

Kind of a shame Google won't charge more for the service. I do not want it to go away. I would pay $30/hr and up if they also did perishables instead of having to figure out how much more random amount I'm paying instacart or other services. I would even use it to replace my Amazon purchases to an extent...
This would only weed out approximately 0% of liberals in the modern U.S. though...
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I'm not trying to make a blanket case for the acceptability of hate speech or libel, but I think there are situations where allowing them is useful.

If you are, deep down, a hateful racist, it's better that everyone else is at least aware. If for the most part you are a nice and reasonable person, there's a chance you'll be corrected and come to accept the incorrectness of your beliefs.

On the other side of things, what if everybody does share the opinion that X comes too close to the sexual harassment line on a frequent basis. It's easy to imagine that libel would appear on Yik Yak about X. But now X has a big red flag and is more careful to respect people's boundaries, fearing legal action.

This doesn't cover all cases, and doesn't pardon all libel. But especially with anonymous comments (it's not a reputable source like The Guardian), a tool like Yik Yak can help to relieve social tension, or at least bring up topics that everyone is otherwise too afraid to approach.
Yup, they just shipped mine on saturday. Think they are about to backer 3000 now.
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Actually not a westerner :-)
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They could purchase transit from someone that isn't Cogent. It would be more expensive than what they're paying the ISPs, but I rather doubt they'd be talking about "tolls" in that case, because everyone that originates traffic on the internet pays for transit.

That's been one of my primary issues with Netflix's behavior in this whole thing. They've presented this false dichotemy of "we pay the ISPs protection money, or we can't deliver our bits to you :(", and it's just...not true.

Here's a list of everyone that peers with Comcast. You might notice that the list is larger than "Cogent and Netflix": http://bgp.he.net/AS7922#_peers
You can still get schizophrenia in your old age. "23.5% of patients with schizophrenia developed the illness after the age of 40" Beyond that in the elderly it often get's lumped in with other form of Dementia and ignored.

IMO, finding real treatments for mental illness is probably the most important part of longevity research as a healthy body and a decayed mind is in some ways little different than a dead body.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/564899_6
When I was in grade school, we had the same thing, called "slam books". The kids would write the same sort of gossip about each other in a notebook, and the notebook would get passed around. If a teacher caught you with one, you got punished.

It blazed around for a month or two, then burned out as people just got bored with it.
It wasn't P2P for everyone, they had "servers" in the P2P network called supernodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol#Peer-to-peer_ar...

The battery drain could be from anything. I'm not sure if they use GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) to reduce battery these days but without looking at the code I don't think you could say switching to a centralised server model fixed the battery issues.
So they'll just get replaced. Amazon and Google do seem keen to get into that space.
yes I am. Me and all my coworkers, are actually quite good but are doing a shitty job. I'm included.

The shitty part is that they pay me above the market.
More info about Epiphany and its architecture can be found on Adapteeva's Wikipedia page [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva#Products
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As somebody who follows this topic very closely (nutrition, inflammation, mental health and autoimmune diseases), I find Terry Wahls' work to be very encouraging. I also find the strong interest by the research communities in inflammation and its causes to be cause for hope. My personal opinion is we've created incredibly toxic environments through a thousand mildly-toxic cuts, and I hope we can make it better sometime soon.
Mine arrived last Saturday, so I can confirm it does exist!
This is an excellent point. My guess is that computer drivers will just have to be polite and will be taken advantage of.

But maybe they could offer some sort of incentive to other drivers on the road. Imagine getting a check in the mail for allowing a Google car to merge into your lane. Or on the flip side, a ticket for cutting one off?
Not sure what you'd define as useful, but the core value add for UA these days is more in location-based segmentation, rich messaging, automation tools, etc. Sending a single broadcast notification is the most basic thing you could do, but not necesarily the focus.
Do you think that would help? I don't. When Netflix was using Tata, the Tata-Comcast links also got congested. Even if Netflix spread their traffic across all the backbones, I suspect Comcast would just refuse to upgrade all those transit connections.
What about a Chrome extension? Are they UART/RS232 or is USB serial an option?
Google pays for transit?

https://peering.google.com/about/

https://www.techpolicyinstitute.org/files/amkinternetpeering...

"Some of the largest content providers have, in effect, created networks equivalent to those of Tier-1
ISPs. Google has the most extensive set of peering points, covering every continent, but Microsoft,
Yahoo, Amazon and Facebook also have extensive peering. TeleGeography, citing Arbor Networks,
indicates that “Google has boosted its share of traffic exchanged via peering links from 40 percent in
2008 to 60 percent in 2010.”
They are making a critical mistake here by not letting users pre-order the next batch. It says "Sold Out" and you can't do anything else. They could make hundreds or thousands of sales over the next day or two due to their free launch publicity, but they're fucking blocking everyone from paying for it.

Most of the folks like me who would have bought something today while reading about it will just forget about it later. These guys are missing out on a huge opportunity.
The reason why roundabouts don't work in America is that roundabouts solve the wrong problem.

Roundabouts are more efficient when faced with non-extremal traffic densities.

American traffic densities vary from near-zero to near maximal with very little time spent in the middle. Roundabouts are NOT more efficient in that kind of traffic regime.
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I guess my frustration is I have been resolving my own issues for more than thirteen years. To me, this should not remotely be a hope of "sometime soon." It is something I think we have the information to be resolving in the here and now. I am baffled and frustrated that I get so much hostility for attempting to speak of my own experiences in addressing such issues.

Yes, a thousand mildly toxic cuts is certainly a factor in my life, snowballed in part due to a bottleneck in how my cells function.

Thank you for commenting.
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Think about it from a measurable outcome based perspective.
That way it doesn't matter who's idea it is - if the idea cannot measurably achieve the goal of the idea, then its just not good and that's that.
Remember ATT bid for T-Mobile? FCC stopped the deal to keep the competition and also so consumers have a choice. Same applies here but seems they are turning their eyes away.
Your example of Picasso painting does not apply, by definition that is one of a kind item and only selected people want them, it is not a commodity, so market competition does not apply.
any thoughts on how it compares to the CSS transitions polyfill [1], speedwise?

[1] https://github.com/rstacruz/jquery.transit
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I am from the UK too and, indeed, "the c word" isn't used in a professional setting. Luckily, HN isn't a professional setting. The word is reserved for friends and vermin. You can probably guess which of these I classify our troll as.

Well, I didn't mean to cause offence to anyone it wasn't directed to, irrespective of gender.
You seem to forget the fact that on the internet anonymity makes us even bigger liars and assholes. Also that these are kids going through puberty and the like, not a tribe of super mellow and "rational" people.

Even beyond that, extremely personal attacks are rarely "constructive criticism". "This guy is super ugly" isn't going to be super helpful on a personal improvement level.

Negative feedback on a personal level also rarely works. This talk was about performance reviews, but it covers the criticisms of people's personality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI#t=1402
Right, because Intel should spend their finite resources buying every imaginable Intel-compatible CPU from other vendors just to test and qualify them for the Intel compiler.

That's not what people are asking. Removing the code that sabotages performance on non-Intel processors would be trivial for Intel to do and would benefit users enormously.
And this is why most countries do not have the death penalty.

The chances of getting it wrong are never 0 and it's impossible to undo or make reparations if you get it wrong.
I provide a direct comparison against Transit in the top-right corner of the documentation.
> Downvoted comments whose font colors are adjusted to more closely match the background page color are still easy to read simply by highlighting them because the highlighted background color doesn't change, leaving you with outlined, legible characters. And it's actually quite tempting to read these comments since it takes such little effort to do so.

Isn't that the point? Downvoted comments are less visible if you are skimming, but easy legible if you care to see them.

> Adjusting the opacity property seems to affect both the font and the highlighted background, making it near impossible to read a comment set at, say, opacity 0.2.

Making it impossible to read a downvoted comment means it is impossible for people to find inappropriate downvoted comments and vote them up. Downvoting isn't supposed to make a comment unreadable, its supposed to make it deemphasized so that it is less intrusive while keep it readable with minimal, but non-zero, effort.
JQuery should just implement velocty.js' animation functions?
Obligatory question: was the student shot by another student?
I also note the the "lights" in the simulation are cycling WAY faster than I have ever seen a traffic light cycle in the US.

A whole lot of intersections in the US would likely improve with that simple "innovation".

People are less likely to crash a yellow-to-red light when they know that their turn is coming again in 30 seconds. Make that 5 minutes and streams of people are going to crash that light.
A truly dystopian monetization strategy for this type of app would be to let users pay to reveal each other's IP address and/or location (location costs extra).

Edit: Or worse, enable and encourage bidding wars over whose identity gets revealed. It may sound obvious when you actually say it but there's a great potential for evil schemes profiting from "shallow" (not cryptographically ensured) anonymity.
Hi!

Sorry, I didn't mean my comment to come through as criticism to this particular project. I meant it as a more of a warning to people who might be tempted to use such a complex system for something like running a small few entries in their website. Chances are the effort to integrate it would be bigger than just writing a minimalistic thing in the existing codebase.

I agree that systems like these have a place if what you want is something akin to Drupal (but with a nicer codebase.)
We had Julian come by and demo this to our team a few weeks back. Totally awesome work he's doing here. Great job Julian.
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I so thoroughly circumvented their CSS and animation codepaths that they would have to house a lot of redundant code to incorporate Velocity.

But a boy can still dream :-D
I begin with an outline. Then write stream of consciousness until I get stuck. Then I go back and edit what I wrote.

When I get to the place I left off, I return to stream of consciousness writing.

This style really preserves my voice.

Finally, I try to cut the length down by 50% or more.
ah sorry, missed that. Transit is much smaller though if you dont need all the features or extremely high perf.

EDIT: looks like Transit introduces hz tearing in perf demo, might be a bug in lib or demo?
This is interesting because it helps address the problem of how do you know an advance is unwelcome without doing something that could be considered an advance. It avoids the awkwardness of having to ask that question "are you open to advances?" before actually making an advance. However, relationships are formed over time, and romantic and sexual relationships are often serendipitous. It's up to each party to communicate effectively and unambiguously if misunderstandings are to be avoided. Using this kind of app/service/record-keeping sounds just as interesting/desirable/sexy as having to ask that question point blank (that is not at all). Is there really much difference between "Would you like to go out with me?" and "Can I ask you to go out with me?"
I hear that a lot. That's not really an argument.

Well, it certainly isn't a convincing argument that it is the best of all possible languages, but it does lend weight to it being worth a look in its current form. Personally, compared to other languages I've been forced to think in (Java, C, C++, ObjC, Ruby), it comes out favourably, but I'm quite happy to accept that some people might think it is stupid, dangerously simple etc, etc. and listen to their reasons why - there's room for more than one language in the world.
Yes, actually, I do think it would help. Perhaps not in the short term, but let me explain what I mean.

Comcast isn't specifically throttling Netflix, they're just not providing sufficient link capacity for primetime delivery of traffic (including Netflix) via some routes. Netflix could provide traffic across alternate (or multiple alternate) routes; as those saturate (particularly with the emergence of 4k streaming), Comcast's service as a whole would suffer. Anyone who was delivering traffic via Cogent to Comcast could attest to how awful their delivery was during primetime; if that were happening on multiple links, it wouldn't just be Netflix and a few other services that were slow, it would be the entire internet, from the perspective of the Comcast customer. This would serve to exert pressure on Comcast to upgrade those links.

It's not a pretty solution, but the issue isn't "Netflix is throttled", the issue is "Comcast is a shitty ISP", and Netflix peering with them directly does nothing to solve that. Degrading multiple routes will exert more pressure on Comcast to improve than just about anything short of Google Fiber moving in next door.
The easiest heuristic is "Are they changing ticketing systems twice per year?"

I've never seen a competent team spend any amount of time chasing after ticketing system nirvana.
Well, there are a lot of people with different agendas out there. Nobody forces anybody to read valleywag :) And nobody is forced to accept accusations for which the proof is not provided.
LibreSSL Portable (not part of OpenBSD) is bringing LibreSSL to other platforms
I expect these new gossip apps will follow the same arc. People will eventually realize that whatever is posted on there is bullshit, and will not take it seriously.
Quick enough that no app creator would be so stupid as to ignore subpoenas for IP addresses and get replaced by someone else's app.
That "diverging diamond" would terrify me.

Seeing a car moving at high speed on the right in a parallel trajectory is a deeply ingrained alarm bell that I'm in the wrong lane.

US Interstate 35 in Austin at 51st Street used to (may still have) have an overpass lane like this and it took a LONG time to get used to without it causing "Danger Will Robinson" reactions.