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> The big cable companies have had the technical capability to deliver video over internet subscription services for years. They haven't released them widely because if they did, it would melt the Internet.

The big cable companies have had video-over-cable subscription services for years, and well established customer bases for them, and charge very high prices for them compared to any video-over-internet service. They haven't offered video-over-internet services because they'd be competing with themselves, and only started offering some when people started moving to third-party services. Still, they'd prefer to levy specific tolls on third party video-over-internet services so they don't have to compete and, if they decide to compete, can have their competitors foot the bill. Its a pretty classical way of leveraging market power in one market to prevent free competition in another, and it was one of the prime things that was specifically called out as a targetted concern in every version of net neutrality / open internet regulation that the FCC has issued.
While working my first job out of college as an A/V Tech (I'm a web developer now - front-end) I had a lot of downtime and was bored. I asked a friend, another programmer, to recommend good sources for articles/posts and such and HN made the list.
10 Articles every web programmer should read. Personally, SEO has zero bearing on my work. Java is only relevant to a subset of developers.
Is it an option? I think if you move the time moves as well. If you aim badly you still need more time to get it right. You can just take a break in the middle by not moving at all. At least that's how I understood it.
If you read here:

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/How-to-use-H...

There's a way to set it up to allow by default.

The plugin looks really interesting, but I wish it would give more detail about the requests that were blocked/allowed and a better explanation if I blacklist something, is that permanent or do I have to save it each time?
They can pass the FDA as being validated to measure certain biometrics, but it's going to be really difficult to be considered a treatment.
When the article title includes the words "every programmer", that's a really large set of programmers. I don't think a programmer working on embedded systems needs to know about SEO, nor do kernel hackers, nor do scientific programmers...
Haha yeah, I'm a physician and I can tell you there're few things worse then when a patient get all worked up about some number that is "0.1" too high/too low. It's usually totally meaningless, gives groundless anxiety and waste everyones time.

It's not easy to interpret these numbers and you have to have quite a deep understanding of statistics, i.e you can be in the normal range and be sick, and you can be outside and be healthy. Type i/ii errors, precision, accuracy, calibration etc etc. I'm sure hackernews knows what's up I'm sure.

It's said about 90% of all diagnosis can be made only on taking the history. Tests are normally only done to assure, quantify, guide treatment etc.

* Testosterone: I have no idea why you would be interested in measuring this at home and I strongly suspect this could lead to misguided treatment with severe side effects.

* Inflamation: Probably a C-reactive protein. Pretty much useless on it's own.

* Fertility: Not sure exactly what they measure but I guess LSH/FSH. This job can be more easily done with a thermometer.

* Vitamin D: If you are worried, get it checked ONCE. No need to check day to day. If you take a supplement, your body will regulate the rest.

* Influenza: Again, not sure what they are testing and why you would want to do this as there's no specific treatment. When you do a test, always reflect what you will use the result for.

IMHO this device lacks the "test" that actually would be useful, like
* glucose
* maybe TSH
* your weight
* your activity level
* your caloric intake
* your sleep

Because these are things that actually mean a lot to your general wellbeing.

[not native english speaker disclaimer]
I found these while configuring Privoxy a few weeks ago:

GNU/Linux: http://andrwe.org/scripting/bash/privoxy-blocklist

OS X: https://github.com/skroll/privoxy-adblock

Scripts to convert Adblock-filters to the Privoxy-format. They have worked well so far.
> Science is one part process and one part people: you first have to trust the process to provide useful evidence, and you second have to trust the people to tell you what they did honestly.

I spent a few years in a heavy math PhD program before dropping out. The only two things I learnt.

1. Be skeptical of all statistics out there that you cannot personally replicate.

2. See 1.

The pressure to publish is real. The pressure to do something for the sake of novelty is real. The process becomes shakier and shakier as we go down the chain from Pure Math to Engineering and so on.

If there are Numerical Analysis papers with over 100 citations with basic linear algebra errors (that was a fun fucking two weeks of head scratching), why on earth would I trust the process somewhere downstream written by people who took a few grad courses in statistics?

Note that I am not taking sides here. I have no interest in one or the other part of the vaccine lobby. I just find it weird when people use terms best left to religion like 'faith' when it comes to scientific research.

> If you actually listen to the people who refuse to believe in things like vaccines or climate change, they seem to just think scientists are silly people who think they know more than they actually do

I think the problem comes from misconceptions in the fundamental nature of science. Scientists are not Gods who are bringing you truth from some mystical truth well. It is a continuous process prone with errors that eventually evolves into getting us closer to understanding processes. If people take that as a sign that everything is junk instead of having a healthy skepticism and reasoning for themselves, they have themselves to blame. Can't argue with stupid.
In 2008, my laptop was insufficiently powerful to produce some of the renderings I was building and so I had to do some research and that got reading about computer hardware after more than a decade of just buying stuff off the shelf. Reading computing articles became a worklike activity as the the economy tanked and the construction pipeline dried up and with it design work.

At some point, I started reading Techmeme regularly, and at some point after that I started following the links to additional coverage of the stories, and one day there was a link to HN.

The quality of the articles kept me coming back more and more over several months and gradually I started reading the comments. Eventually almost four years ago, there was something that so compelled a need in me to shoot off my mouth that I made an account and posted something. This was more than two years after my interest in computing had been rekindled.

At the time, it took 200 karma points [which a middling popular submission can earn in a few hours these days] to get the downvote, and I thought, well maybe one day. Then as I approached the magic threshold, it was raised to 500 [a number of karma points that can still be hit with something appealing to populist sentiment].

What kept me coming back is that HN is all the Really Fucking Smart People™ who write comments and find articles [or write them]. It may not be the center of the computing universe, but it's pretty damn good. And trying to write in a way that is similarly engaging turns out to be a lot more rewarding than trolling ever was.
Is AT&T really making $30/month from people's browsing histories? I suspect that data is worth dramatically less, so in a competitive market the premium for not being spied on ought to drop.
Lower in the graphs is always better on awfy, which corresponds to lower numbers are better in all benchmarks, except for octane where higher numbers are better (the axis is reversed so still lower in the graph is better).
Yeah, but you'd pay about the same price for gigabit ethernet from a company that isn't trying to kill net neutrality. I'd much rather google spy on my web browsing (they probably do with chrome anyway), than Comcast.
"First world"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
That would most likely be a capillary blood sample. Source: I'm a physcician.
I'm sure most corporations suck (it's inherent in their size, structure and purpose). But I know AT&T sucks. I've loathed them, ever since their backing of the Clipper Chip.

I'm currently using tethered wifi cellphone as my only home internet because I refuse to give money to either of my only two broadband options, AT&T or Time Warner.
Server-side rendering, npm support, etc.
I have my doubts on that figure as well, but if it's worth a lot less, why give the customer such a discount?
the problem is often unlimited free trials == subsidized by paid customers.

I'm sure if Heroku, for instance, was a paid product without free trial,it would potentially cost less to paid customers. This and services like mongohq,mongolab,... clearly subsidize free accounts with paid ones.

I think the amazon free tier model is a better model.You have one year to mess around but you still have to pay if you abuse resources.

Of course in the podcast hosting space,things are different since there is a lot of competition. Not that much in the paas market,where good services are rare.
Most paas suck,we all know which are the good and the bad ones.
Yep, that was the one I thought was conspicuously missing.
Ok, I just created a setup file which you can restore from the About page which focus can be said to be "ad blocking":

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/blob/master/stuff...

I selected the following preset lists:

- hosts-file.net/ad-servers

- someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

- easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt

Note though that this will work best with the upcoming v 0.9.2.0 which supports almost all net request-based ABP filters (my benchmark on github was updated yesterday for that version).

In the above setup, HTTPSB has been set to work in allow-all/block-exceptionally mode, so nothing is blocked except for what appear in the above files.

Keep in mind that HTTPSB doesn't do element hiding (I see this as a separate extension.)
I know CSS and SQL also.
I think it's a sweet solution conceptually even if it needs a bit of work on the UI to be more intuitive. Not a designer myself, but I see the value in being able to indulge in a sort of binge scrapbooking.

(Disclaimer: Also a friend of one of the guy's behind this.)
I find this approach has a number of advantages:

- it forces you to flesh out your conceptual/paper design in a deliverables-oriented way and makes it obvious where the gaps are, which gives you a good idea of how ready you are to wrap up design and start development, and in turn can be used to create your work breakdown structure and task prioritisation; sometimes it can result in identifying simplifications upfront (saving you time down the line)

- when you have a good idea of the scope and complexity of a solution like this, you're less likely to waste time on the less important stuff

- if you're the tech lead on a team, giving your developers the high-level components and tests means they're more likely to get things right (or at least limit the damage they do when they get things wrong)

Without component-level unit tests or design, you can easily dive into a solution without thinking it through and really regret it.
Is the normal way to returning "success" values (throwing an exception?)

var resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Created);
throw new HttpResponseException(resp);
Another Crowsnest founder here. We're bouncing around the idea of incentivizing contributors to be involved in the community with additional free devices (assuming we can mitigate abuse). For example, if someone contributes the integration library for a specific device then there number of free devices per month increases by 5. Good idea / bad idea? Hoping to get feedback on this.
Web Forms treats the browser as a dumb terminal. Everything is processed on the server. Javascript is relegated to making the boilerplate work. Almost nothing happens client side.

This is all fine if you are on the local network, but it ignores all the issues that go along with the network, such as latency. There is no silver bullet for latency. It's a physical constraint. The same goes for bandwidth. Throwing an UpdatePanel on the form doesn't solve the problem. Try using a Web Forms page on your phone some time with a 3G connection.
Found it several times through organic search. Then, I went to the main page and thought that it was interesting.
Prices can vary wildly depending where you live on the planet. For 13.5 EUR per month in most cities in Romania, you can get:

1000 mbps download speed to the Internet

30 mpbs upload speed to the Internet

100 mbps upload speed inside the provider's network

Uncapped traffic

20GB Cloud storage

Free Wi-Fi in public places where the ISP is present

IPv6, Dynamic DNS, Parental Control
No, there are laws preventing it.
Don't forget the Links browser, which started out text-only, and then added graphics:

http://links.twibright.com/
We may have a wording definition issue here. I've heard multiple definitions of "integration tests". I usually use them where some people use "acceptance tests", aka, top-down be-a-user type testing (selenium in Firefox, for example). Sorry if there was any confusion there.

Agreed having a QA team also go through the app is great for finding things that tests can't catch, like usability errors, or crazy edge cases you didn't think about, etc. I have gotten to work with a good QA team and it's amazing the things they find.
CSC solidifies cloud leadership role
I'm not American and not particularly familiar with the economics of the agriculture industry there, so I don't really feel qualified to comment. I'll just point out that government actions often favour such large corporations, preventing for instance the collapse of certain banks and auto manufacturers during the GFC. I do know that farm subsidies in the US are quite extensive.

If the government had decided 70 years ago that it owned all the nations farmland, and had auctioned it off to four large corporations, making it law that nobody else could own farmland, would the farmland situation would be better or worse than it is now? I'd argue for worse.
The story was only cheesy if you took it at face value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)#Plot
New planet-hunting hardware needs just a minute to image an exoplanet
Strong start. I like being able to hit up a single place for a quick pulse on what's going on in the industry and then jumping back out without having to spend a lot of time screwing around on 15 different sites. There's so much good stuff out there -- I leave feeling energized every time I visit the site. Looking forward to seeing how they work out the kinks and polish the UI.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a VPN that can keep up with gigabit speeds?
I am a bit confused by this.

What do people think the ISP does with the packets? Who thinks that their browsing habits are hidden from the ISP (without using a VPN)?

So is this just an expensive opt out of targetted ads, or is it actually providing extra privacy features?
It's a bad thing if you only think about winning the current scenario with the least amount of skill involved. It's a very good thing though if you are using it to experiment and learn strategies and mechanics in a single player game.
SEO ???

hahahahaaha
I think its better to look at this another way: that they are making $30/month from the privacy concerned and that the higher price would not hold as their only price if they got rid of the "privacy plan". $150/month seems comparable to what other companies charge for similar services, while $180/month for that same service seems high. To me this feels like a trick to get most users to opt in by artificially increasing the price of their "standard" plan.
The beta version also supports blacklists, which brings it a bit closer to HTTPSB.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/1.0.html
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Don't they do that already? Except they call them "partners" and it's "anonymized".

At least for wireless users they already do. It's only a matter of time before they do the same with land-line users.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732346370...

http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/privacy/our-updated-privacy-p...
I think this is the fourth or fifth time, in recent memory, that I've seen someone from Mozilla criticize Adblock Plus and call on its developers to make changes. ABP startup time and memory consumption were subjects I recall, and its general impact on page load times may have been as well.

I can understand Mozilla taking some interest in how addons behave, and constructive feedback on extensions is a good thing. However, ABP is the type of extension that is likely to have issues in those areas because of what it does. Which is very important to users, especially those who rely upon it for its privacy and security enhancing capabilities. It is those users who should decide whether the performance and resource usage trade-offs are acceptable. Mozilla shouldn't make, or try to make, such decisions.

The situation with ABP 2.6 (https://adblockplus.org/development-builds/faster-firefox-st..., https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22906) might not be a case of this, but that along with the wider pattern of platform developers being more controlling, does make me somewhat concerned about Mozilla taking too much interest in extensions. I hope my worries are for naught.
no I'm from Istanbul and William is from London, and now we're in Berlin :)
The Oatmeal Review: Tesla Model S
HOWTO: Spring XD for Real Time Analytics With Twitter Example Code
Is there a single-file version of virtual dom available for download? I am not finding any instructions in the repo on how to build it. Also, why does it have so many files in the first place?
This was great, and exactly the kind of thing I'd want sites to implement in protest of FCC's net neutrality rules:

http://www.feld.com/wp/

But the code he links to in the article isn't what I'm seeing on his site. Where is it?
The only problem I see here is that yours: You wanted customers to discover bugs but you didn´t think that this would cost you money.

As I see it, paying $400 a month for a "bug discovery" service is not that bad if it helps to improve your product. It is your expectations that are not in line with yours actions.

It is true that "people Don’t Value Free Things", but it is equally true that you don´t value your customer´s time.
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At least, if you're a programmer and need to learn a little about SEO, this is a decent article. Most information on this topic are in slideshow format, with only broad bullet points. This one is pretty text heavy and information dense, which I appreciate.
This is strictly an opinion, but I think your pricing is way off.

The Pro account should be $9 or $10. You should move to dedicated server hosting, or to perhaps Linode, and drastically reduce your cost basis and dramatically improve your value proposition. 250mb of storage is nothing for $19 / month. The numbers just seem out of whack. Shouldn't customers easily be able to store a huge number of podcasts, given how cheap storage is? Store and forget. You want their content on your servers, all of it. For $99 / month I better get a terabyte of storage these days.

Slash your costs to the ground. Boost your value proposition to the sky. Dramatically increase how many podcasts customers can store on your service. You want them to stream your brains out, and you want it all to happen with bandwidth rates around $0.01 or $0.02 / gb.

With scale, and lots of usage, expand what services you offer to customers. Storage & streaming are commodities, so treat them accordingly, and instead focus on building a customer base with modest margins on the core, with an eye on what you can do with all those customers over time.

By going with the easy AWS solution, you're pinning yourself into a very tight corner on costs.

Again, all just an opinion.
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The moderate use is the magic.
I'd like to have a Moto for a model use comparison.
Are You Really Gluten-Intolerant? Maybe Not
… and yet in practice many people live in an area where they have only one option either at all or for greater than DSL (or even ISDN) speed. I'm not talking about rural areas, either, but places like New Haven, CT or Washington, DC.

Theoretically a new company could try to compete but the major companies tend to choose not to start price wars and it's a very expensive proposition to run competing cable out to houses, particularly since the incumbent will usually lower prices to make it more expensive for the new entrant. Around here, in the areas which have competition both Verizon and Comcast will cut and remove the other company's cables when they do a new install to maximize the cost and inconvenience of switching providers.
Maybe Boston has a decent power grid. It varies quite a bit from city to city. NYC is aging fast. Hence our feeder lines blowing out several years ago taking out a chunk of Queens for over a week (fun fact: ALL of our ice cream shops went out of business as a result).

Then there was Sandy that took out all of lower Manhattan when the power station near my old apartment flooded and blew up. We'll likely get hit with more of these as NYC will be more prone to flooding due to climate degradation.

Don't forget the great northeast blackout of 2003, either. Living in a 12th floor walkup with completely dark stairwells and minimal/no running water for multiple days wasn't fun.