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> and the reason it's expensive to be a provider is...government regulations.

If by government regulations you mean "the fact that running cable means acquiring access rights across large numbers of privately held properties, and government protection of property rights makes you have to negotiate with each of them for the right to access unless you can piggy back on someone else that already has an easement without exceeding the scope of the existing easement", then, sure, its about government regulations.

But its the kind of government regulations that even the people who complain about government regulations generally support (often, support most emphatically).
So Comcast is trying to build a monopoly and people see it as a failure of Capitalism ? In non-capitalist societies monopoly is a default state. (India for example for a long had only one government telecom provider. It exists today with wages to turnover ratio of 103% where as for private companies it is 5%.)

If Comcast actually manages to create an monopoly it will be able to dictate higher prices for poorer service. What prevents Google or someone else who has interest in cheap internet from entering the market as a new service provider ? One answer as usual: Government.

All corporations are greedy and will do everything in their power to create monopolies and squeeze every last penny out of our pockets. This is true is all societies and the best way to stop them is not by letting government fix the problem but letting government out of it.
My understanding is that it is impossible to have a NULL reference. Can you show us some code that ends up with a NULL reference? I'd be curious to see how that can be done!
Clickbait headline aside, I think Go threw some baby out with the bathwater in the march to simplicity.

An example; try to sort a slice of runes.
I'm in favor of the FCC's equal-access laws. Otherwise people in places with poor infrastructure will have to pay even more to get service, which seems counter-productive for society.
I'm much more productive with 10 hour work days. Get in the zone, write a shit-ton of code, and then get back to reality. Three or four 10-hour days sound a lot nicer than 5 6-hours.
Except if they're on your board.

Pretty sure the Author is a "VC" in the sense that he is investing early with a BOD seat in his primary investments. That seems relevant--ie, its not special case--its the base case. Other classes of investor--eg late stage mezanine--is also often priced more competitevly on price alone. And angels are typically not investing quite at the stage where BOD governance is coming into play (pre series A).
Sure, but your identity persists across all subreddits. If someone makes an insightful comment on a programming subreddit, for instance, and has a high karma score, you may be disappointed to discover that 90% of their previous submissions consists of cat pictures, jokes, in-depth cartography discussion, and porn.

I guess reddit just feels 'diluted' to me. It facilitates a broad range of discussion and does so fairly well, but I can't think of a subreddit that is actually the best place to discuss any particular topic. It's generally my second or third stop.
In New Zealand I always come back to Skype. It just works, always seem to have issues with Google Hangouts and FaceTime.
Once you have their info such as email, you can always remind them, isn't it?
Parse has become so unreliable and my users complain a lot about APNS not going through. It's working for some and not working for many in PROD. Hard to figure why it's not working as everything else you touch in Parse will ask for a paid service (straight to Enterprise Plan!). Will have to code something by myself.
Sorry but they lost me when they disparaged anti-SOPA efforts as being "information exceptionalism".

There's a very big difference between information property and "real" property. Until we can make perfect copies of land and houses at the click of a button, the two are not at all the same.
Rape kits don't necessarily show consent or lack thereof, which is crucial but usually ends up boiling down to being a he-said-she-said problem. You could know who the rapist is with a rape kit that also points to the same person and still be dragged through the mud with the "you must have enjoyed it because you're a slut/you slept with him/her in the past" kind of crap - not many people can deal with that so.....yeah. Plus they are not always the end-all to a rape case even if you have proof of physical contact with no consent.

That's before you even get to any problems before you reach the rape kit stage - I've read way too many depressing posts on r/twoxchromosomes and other sites where women don't even know if they've been raped because they don't remember it after being drugged (good luck with a kit that late) or don't think it "crosses the line" or are just like "it was a bad night" if their boyfriend rips their clothing off and tries to have sex with them even though they were saying "no" and crying the whole time. Usually comes hand in hand with a culture that likes to perpetuate bullshit like "you can't change your mind in the middle of having sex" and "married people can't be raped by their partner".

Gooood luck with rape reporting in general, there's a reason - no, many reasons - why so many people keep silent.
Not sure where you live, but a lot of what is quoted in the article would be libel - is libel allowed as 'free speech' anywhere? The anonimity of users allows breaking of rules is a bit beyond anything I'd support.
So, the spell checker recognised English languages words, but that's as far as parsing the article got. What a lot of nonsense. Cyberlibertarians? We can just make up words now? And hope they sound impressive enough, and perhaps cromulent enough that the author of the so-called article can huff and bluff their way through? Is this is the kind of tripe the left want to publish, then yes, maybe it is best deleted!
If you actually want a fair investigation where the goal is justice, the last thing you do is go to the media and kick off a trial by peanut gallery.

Going to the media first is the very definition of "exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention".

There's nothing wrong with going to the media first with a story of gender discrimination if you have the hard evidence to support your allegations. If you don't, taking that nuclear option without evidence will only discredit you because choosing the nuclear irrefutable evidence is careless and unjustified. If anything, JAH has actually damaged the ability for other women to use the nuclear option in the future. A hypothetical future situation in which a woman steps forward with gender discrimination claims like those made by JAH will be met with greater skepticism than in an alternate reality where she had stuck to only making claims about those things she could prove.

She should have only gone to the media with the story of misconduct by TPH and his wife (which near as I can tell was gender neutral with respect to the misconduct in question, since both men and women were impacted.)
Wouldn't the evidence be in the commit logs? It's customary in most places to explain what you changed and maybe why, it's not unusual to have a reference to a bug or story or case or something, likewise there is usually a product owner who knows about it.

Even if it's just pure cowboy style with a "fixed some stuff" like comment, the context of the change can be looked at. Honestly, this claim seemed like the most tangible one made. I'd say 1 of two things should happen regarding it, either someone else needs to get their walking papers or a pretty substantial apology is owed.
Without usernames, they would be 4chan. Which is fine, it just serves a very different purpose.
I don't really understand why she didn't take the guy up on his offer to resign. She did seem incapable of working with him or at his incubator after that. It was a good offer on his part, especially considering they didn't even have sex, just sleeping together on the same couch and him touching her breasts.

I don't think that result was even strange. They were both very drunk, staying the same place, she didn't go back to her room at the end, and she told the similarly drunk guy she was cold - a standard hookup line to initiate hugging, which is all that happened.

I've gotten clothed hugs from friends regularly who would never sleep with me. I've gotten hands under clothes both other people's under mine touching genitals and mine under theirs in bars and at pools and beaches and the like with people I had only met that one time. I think it is wrong that it happened in this case where she didn't want it, but it just doesn't seem the world ending thing to me like she treated it.
> Cyberlibertarians? We can just make up words now?

Where do you think new words come from? Magical word fairies?
I'm pretty sure async/await is supported

Source: I'm using async/await in Xamarin.Android

Maybe it's because Linux Mint doesn't have the latest version of Mono in the package repository?
Yes. http://golang.org/doc/gdb
It's also worth observing that people who actually take the time to write letters (or long form emails) today will tend to express themselves rather eloquently, whilst in times of yore people wishing to rapidly convey a simple message wrote telegrams that were usually decidedly lacking in erudition.

Here's one of the greatest and most read authors in the English language corresponding with his publisher in short form:
http://robertocorrea.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/mark-twain/

And even "HOW TO WRITE TELEGRAMS PROPERLY" style guides encouraged the use of phrases like:
Received your very fine letter and Telegram this morning so many things to be done morning after you left all we could do was pack and get taxi for train are leaving now.
http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/telegram.html
Yes, I ended a paid plan and I'm in the process of moving completely to my own hosting for most of my personal projects. I wrote up a little blog post about it here: https://www.petekeen.net/self-hosted-git-server
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The alternative is building the full binary transaction on your end, which involves selecting inputs, generating scripts, worrying about fees, etc. Implementing that is a week's project.

Hasn't BitCore already done that?
How is this an issue of free speech? Please explain yourself.
I stand corrected, thank you. I shall show myself out..
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I used to run CollegeACB.com, which usurped JuicyCampus.com and was one of the most popular anonymous college "gossip" sites ever. >20M monthly pageviews and sparse usage at 500+ schools, intense usage at 100+. I sold the business in 2011.

Yik Yak is heavily protected by the Communications Decency Act, and articles like this (generally) just serve to fuel the fire. After Time Magazine, Mike Huckabee, Chronicle of Higher Ed, et. al. tried to draw negative attention to CollegeACB, it only served to strengthen our brand and broaden our footprint.

One needs to understand that sites / services like these aren't going anywhere. They'll continue to enjoy legal protection and benefit from the virality of anonymity and mean-spirited gossip.

One of the most effective forms of dissent I experienced while running CollegeACB were spoiler-filled-spam. If people started posting Game of Thrones spoilers and other such content, I'm sure it would affect usage. Creating petitions, contacting school officials, etc. were totally ineffective, and almost always just made the promise worse.

I'm not terribly proud of my ownership of that site, though I did try to run it with something of a conscience: never called for gossip, voluntarily removed 30,000+ posts, etc. Happy to answer any questions if people are interested about this space.
If it gets canonized, I'd much prefer "cancerous prototype" because it's easier to say.
At first not great, but that was the next lesson to learn. There is always room for improvement but here are some of the latest metrics:

http://cl.ly/image/0P1s321C3a0G
http://cl.ly/image/0Z2Y2g041Y0Z
Or maybe awful men need to step aside and let others run things. They always ruin everything anyway.
Interestingly, people pay 100% the price of a microwave oven, which is usually used just a few minutes per day.

Going that direction ... Did you know? A typical microwave oven uses massively more electricity simply powering the LED clock compared to the amount it uses actually cooking food.
I don't think it's a lack of knowledge that is the problem here. Almost all kids are taught the basics of "be nice", "don't be a jerk".

But if someone treats a person badly, and they have the option to get revenge anonymously ... a lot of people find it hard to resist the temptation to hit back. Just this once.
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it depends on how the r is distributed doesn't it?
Suppose there is Alice who owns 1M in bonds and doesn't work while Barbara and Charlie own a 100K house and are blue collars.

If the houses price goes up ten times while the bonds pay only 110% than total inequality goes down even if Alice still hasn't worked a day.
The author of this article is an exceptionally talented writer for a high-school student. And what she describes below seems like a positive development:

One student told Inklings, the school newspaper, that “kids are just mean these days, and they needed a new way to insult each other.” Maybe. I remember when Formspring and Honesty Box infiltrated my middle school hallways. But Yik Yak felt different. It wasn’t just a new tool for the school’s bullies; it was also an equalizer. No one was safe, regardless of his or her place on the social pyramid. Bots and Amigos were targeted just as much, if not more, than the gays, the fat kids, the nerds, the friendless. “K. sounds like she has a cock in her mouth 24/7,” went a typical attack on an Amigo. Staples Guidance counselor Victoria Capozzi says that one student, prior to finding himself the target of a homophobic post, was completely unaware that his peers even questioned his sexuality. Suddenly, the social 1 percent was subject to the same sort of cyber torment that had in the past been directed at the students at the bottom of the pyramid. Yik Yak gave everyone a chance to take down enemies, reveal secrets, or make shit up in order to obliterate reputations. You didn’t need internet popularity in order for your post to be seen; you just needed to be within a 1.5-mile radius of your target and your audience.
Easy enough, conceptually at least: Allow people to see other users' activity/karma which is only within the current subreddit.
I certainly understand the concern, but I think the timeframe of this contest will serve to mitigate the problem. Three months is, in my opinion, long enough for a motivated participant to come up with an entry that could easily compete with a multi-year project.

Additionally, the openness encouraged by the competition (as a judging criteria) will allow the community time to scrutinize entries and call out any that appear to be 'cheating'.
Charge carriers tunneling through the insulating barrier of MOS-FETs are a problem for a few years already. The good news is that it reduces exponentialy with tension and insulator thikness, thus it can be worked around.

Dopped areas on silicon transistors have a minimum diameter around 10nm, that's the uncertainty about the position of charge carriers. Features a bit smaller than that will probably work, but much smaller ones won't.

That said, we are still far from the ultimate limits on CPU design. Those limits above apply to CMOS CPUs made of silicon what, despite describing all of the currently produced ones, is only one among many possibilities.
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I used to run a similar service (CollegeACB.com, sold in 2011), and spam was one of the only effective deterrents.

In particular, posting spoilers to popular shows seemed to really impact usage.
I hoped to find a discussion of the tension between the formulations of freedom in the "Cyberlibertarian" and "Left" viewpoints. But this article just asserts that because cyberlibertarianism doesn't agree with the Left it must be part of the Right Wing Conspiracy, knocking down a few straw men along the way.
It's been closing in on 25 years since I've been a HS student, but I can't imagine that being anywhere close to a good idea at all.
If it reduces insurance rates and accident rates, is that good?

If such scoring technology is mandatory at the behest of insurance agencies, is that bad?

If 'naked' cars -- cars whom are lacking the scoring technology -- are prohibited on certain roads at certain times, is that good?

Self-driving cars will be the gold standard that humans are measured against, how we apply that standard is something else entirely.
Are journalism schools teaching their students the right skills?
I think part of it is the anonymous nature. When a juicy rumor got spread in your high school, you could figure out who was saying it and write them off: "Oh, whatever; that kid's an asshole and is just out to get me, anybody who's my friend knows to ignore them."

But with this, you don't have that. Maybe the bully from your math class is telling everybody you suck dick for money; maybe it's the kid you just started sitting next to at lunch. All of a sudden it's not just the mean kids who might be spreading rumors, it's everybody in the school and that's pretty hard to ignore.

also, it's worth noting that the way you feel about anonymous slander at 33 is going to be heavily coloured by your maturity and perspective: You've been out in the world for a while, and you know that there's a bunch of bullshit that just doesn't matter. That's an admirable attitude, but let's be fair and recognize that 16 year olds are not really well known for their ability to put high school in context. It feels like their entire life for them because at that point, it is.
Looks like an industry ripe for disruption.
DSL was a colossal failure of regulation. With the line-sharing rules, it was no longer financially viable for the telecoms to invest in infrastructure for common carrier services that they could no longer sell at a premium. Instead, they started investing in wireless. The telcos COULD have invested in FttN and FttH solutions, but wireless became a more attractive investment since it didn't carry the line sharing rules. Thus the telcos abandoned high-speed internet access and the cable companies (which were not under the same rules and could thus justify the investment) became the monopoly they are today.

What seems good for the consumer is not always good for the consumer. See how Verizon halted their national rollout of FiOS and instead plowed $130 billion into purchasing the 50% of Verizon Wireless they didn't already own if you want a very recent example of this.
I am new to the industry and have only really had limited experience. Is it more fair to call these symptoms of dysfunction or business as usual. How do you begin to avoid these problems?
It's properly addressed in the actual paper [0]:

True SIA should be accompanied by decreased immediate-early gene expression in the pain-processing neurons of the spinal cord dorsal horn; we observed a dramatic (≥50%) decrease in Fos protein–positive neurons in mice injected with zymosan and exposed to male but not female experimenters or shirts (Kruskal-Wallis test statistic: 12.0, degrees of freedom = 4, P < 0.05; Fig. 2d). Much is known about the neurochemistry of SIA, which exists in opioid (naloxone-reversible9), non-opioid (cannabinoid-1 (CB1) receptor–mediated10) and mixed opioid/non-opioid11 forms. The male experimenter SIA seen here was found to be the latter, as it was blocked (observer × drug interaction: F3,56 = 2.8, P < 0.05) by the broad-spectrum opioid receptor antagonist naloxone (1 mg per kg body weight (mg/kg); P < 0.05), by the inverse CB1 receptor agonist AM-251 (10 mg/kg; P < 0.05) and by a combination of the two drugs (P < 0.01), at doses not affecting pain sensitivity per se (Fig. 2e).

In other words, pain in mice is associated with a particular protein binding neurons in a particular part of the brain. The researchers showed that in mice handled by men, the proportion of those neurons bound by the pain-associated protein was significantly decreased, supporting the hypothesis that male-handled mice are actually experiencing less pain.

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth...
In regards to Julie's statement of GitHub being a "toxic workplace" and the findings of this investigation, I think what we're seeing here is how microcosms of culture can affect the whole organization.

When I worked at a large corporation, it was easy to find people who absolutely loved the culture of the company, and people who absolutely hated it. If you drilled down with each person, it would come down to their personal experiences with their everyday team members. Daily interactions are often extrapolated to the culture of the company as a whole, for better or worse.

So I think both Julie and the report are right. For Julie, her experience was very horrible, and since it involved a cofounder, it's no surprise at all that she saw this as a systemic part of the GitHub culture.

And if the other female employees did not have to endure similar experiences, it's no wonder that others do not share the belief of GitHub as a toxic workplace.

The takeaway for founders and leaders: culture can't just be set from the top, it must be reinforced at every level of an organization.
> Your basic argument is that, although robots will make mistakes, we'll let them kill just a few of us to save many more. That seems like it's not going to go over well with most people.

Even if this was thrownaway2424's argument - which it isn't - it would still be valid. It actually illustrates one of the biggest problem with people - the public's inability to "shut up and multiply". If we would replace (ceteris paribus) human drivers, that kill hundreds of people a year, with self-driving cars, which kill a few people a year, then it'd be a clear-cut Good Thing, a win, the right thing to do.
> I was just thinking the same thing as I re-read my comment. It is a false dichotomy and it was badly phrased.

Thank you for that. It's somehow very much appreciated.

As for the sexism accusations; Many, many women feel they're being discriminated at work ( and they're usually right.) Only a tiny, tiny percentage chooses to speak out about it though because of the very high costs associated with it.

My guess is that in this case Julie-Ann just happened to be one of those silent women and when things escalated with Tom it was just a case of 'now that my reputation will be ruined anyhow I might just as well get everything off my chest.'

If you read her original post she also doesn't make that much of a big deal about the sexism stuff; it's just 'one amongst many' of the abuses she listed.

Also keep in mind that, assuming she's acting in good faith, it's very likely that the reverted commit was indeed very small and dubious but was accompanied, verbally or non-verbally, by something that very clearly and unambiguously communicated the real reason; but of course without leaving a paper trail.
You complain about rent control but you want to enforce equal opportunity audio-codecs?
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The first of your points is the Hawthorne effect, and I agree that we should not conclude anything from short term productivity increases.

But your second point is just absurd. If wanting to keep your shorter working hours turns out to be such a good incentive to work harder and smarter that it improves productivity on the long run, then how does this not prove that shorter hours improve productivity?