skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demand is not for L3, the demand is for Netflix. Level3 is pushing itself on "Comcast" (which is really a stand-in for the 5 ISPs who aren't playing ball with L3, and may not actually be Comcast at all).

Why must these ISPs play ball with L3, and not try to find competitors to do what L3 does? Isn't competition good?

Edit: People aren't going hungry (I know it's an analogy, but come on), people are watching Netflix at 480p instead of 720p/1080p. Let's try to keep things in perspective here.
Some speculation here.

There could be a multi-part strategy. Both Google & Microsoft probably covet the revenue and margins Apple received from selling their own devices. Those margins, in terms of phones and tablets are probably un-repeatable. Some next iteration of device however could contain offer big margins. That is something that could double Google's market capitalization. At the least Microsoft and Google understand that they need something to give them hardware experience.

Second, it allows Google & Microsoft to lead in hardware. Even if the Surface 3 flops, the OEMs have a guide pointing what is possible and which direction to go (or not to.) I imagined this was part of the reason why Google has had different manufacturers built their Nexus products.

The Surface buys Microsoft some time. The number of people who need Office and legacy systems is going to continue to shrink as special use case stuff is built -- whether from the analytical side like Tableau to something like FarmLogs. The operating system itself may very vanish in to the background, leaving us with some unix-based combination of Android and Chrome OS.
- Mortgage payment is always WORSE in the short term compared to rent payment. However rent goes up, and unlike mortgage is not fixed. So while I may be paying $1000 in mortgage but only $800 in rent, in ~ 10 years I will be paying $1000 in mortgage and $1300 in rent. And in 20 years, etc.

- You are correct about investing in properties as pure long-term investments vs stocks/bonds/etc. While mortgage may seem better, it is a singular point of investment, while stocks/bonds/etc allow you to diversify.
"Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard. What is hard is creating an algorithm that no one else can break, even after years of analysis. And the only way to prove that is to subject the algorithm to years of analysis by the best cryptographers around." (Bruce Schneier, 1998)

You are right to be cautious of snake oil vendors. The thing is, most of them are completely sincere in their belief that the new scheme is secure. But if it hasn't been tested by people qualified to break things, it isn't secure.

The difficulty is two-fold: (1) inexperienced cryptographers are unable to test the security of an algorithm sufficiently; and (2) experienced cryptographers are not common, they are generally busy enough already, and it's tough to get them interested enough in a new algorithm to really take a close look at it.
If it was "selling bits for $" we would already be done.

But today's ISP capacity is unsuitable for tomorrow's ISP demands. One might hand-wave the network as "sunk costs" but the ISP has to keep on sinking those costs.

In fact, that's what Crinkley is complaining about: the ISP isn't sinking costs into its peer with L3.
The waterproof case is strong, however the camera's have a 1 year warranty, and shitty hardware so if you actually use the camera don't expect it to last you very long. I've RMAd at least 5 of them over the years and many of my friends who use them have had bad experiences as well.
Nice :-) Now they can change their motto to "love is war."
I think Paystr is the way to go. They are new, but they offer a bunch more. Yes, they take a bigger cut than gumroad, but they offer a ton of services for your digital downloads, like support to your customers, if they have an issue, they call Paystr and they will resolve it, you do nothing. Also, if you sell enough, you can get paid THE NEXT DAY. Check them out at https://www.paystr.com. If you want to see them in action, go to http://www.joshuasring.com and try to buy the book, that's the checkout process. I love how the customer never leaves the site.
I wonder how their last employment program went. Any comments, gsaines?
Wanted this for a while, but didn't expect to see it. Trello is one of the few productivity tools that has stood the test of time for me (i.e. it gets regular use and has done for a few years now).
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https://duck.co/help/features
seems to be a good starting point, since it has links to the bang syntax(e.g. '!gh junit', '!a sicp'), instant answers('4 euros in €') and more.
I learned most of the things I use today by experimenting and trying some bang-keywords I considered feasible before actually checking DDG documentation.
Heh, here I was thinking he was making a pun between cash and cachet :-)
Oh; instead of referring to some bullshit clause in my contract, you're referring to something that's actually irrelevant. That's weird, but okay. I can roll with it.

ISPs probably do reserve the right to negotiate with peers on their terms, but I don't care about that because I'm not paying them to have a certain agreement with peers, I'm paying them for a certain quality of service. If they are not providing that service (an example being giving me 720p Netflix instead of 1080p like I have paid for) then that seems like a pretty straightforward contractual violation. I'm paying for service and not receiving it. Netflix is providing the service to the ISP. I am providing my money to the ISP. Why is the ISP excused from holding up their end of the bargain?
How were you able to do it? I don't condone the 60-80 work week, and myself will never go over 40. (I do have side project of my own though). If I were to take 4 months off to travel to Asia I would have a $0 income when I came back, because I would have been let go. When I was in school I had to work to pay for my tuition and books which meant I wasn't traveling anywhere. I took out loans and had aid, but if I took out more, that would mean that I was just mortgaging my future leisure time that I would have to make up earning that money back at interest.
Since everyone is pitching their own solutions, how about I post mine. Let's take the example of Netflix and Comcast. Instead of no deal with Comcast, and thus giving Comcast Netflix users really slow or no service, Netflix should make the deal for now, and tell subscribers that if you use Comcast the Netflix rental is higher. By passing off the higher costs to the users, Comcast customers are given the incentive to switch ISPs.

Everyone shows loss aversion, and so will be determined to find out why being on Comcast gets them penalised. They will learn about its dick moves, and complain to Comcast to make them remove these fees so they can access Netflix, which they have already paid for access to.
I don't really get it. What's wrong with Dropbox?
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Why not let me choose how much of each component I want? I'd be interested in having 64GB storage, with 8GB+ RAM and at least an i5. I personally don't need so much disk space on a portable device.
But it is split, or let me assure you, my AT&T ADSL connection is very much not free. TV is not apropos because in the US subscribers don't pay for it (compare to the U.K. "television license" and advertisement free BBC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un... ); cable is paid for, and there are or at least have been commercial free channels on cable. That plus a lack of censoring was part of HBO's unique selling proposition after all.
Haha, agreed!
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Wonderful and fascinating analysis. Thanks for the data.

You can see why SSL proxies would prefer a lighter weight protocol, hijacking all that traffic is taxing! On the other hand, if you're in the middle for presumably legitimate reasons, you have a responsibility to protect those connections. On the other hand, a malicious man-in-the-middle would want to go undetected, and probably does a better job of passing along the same protocol the client is using. It's time to replace those ancient proxies, and perhaps consider not restricting your users freedoms. A win-win.
considered by whom? Saying "it is my opinion that ..." of course wouldn't sound that important.
> When [/if] Office is released for many of the differing O/S and hardware versions of Android, I'll agree your description have a point.

There's a phone version for Android 4.0+, but not yet a tablet version.
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May I know why you think it's scam?
It's not even a one-time cost.

Without knowing the specific numbers, I'm pretty comfortable saying that the costs to an ISP to get the bits all the way until they reach the peering point is much less than the costs to an ISP to continually upgrade their network.
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OSX is less unix than it can get. No X. Crazy apple-only-standards... Heck you can't even use vim!

i will eat my hat if you open vim in OSX and be able to copy/paste. The + register just goes to nowhere. OS X is broken unix.

windows sucks in many regards, but it always had million more devs than OSX... i know implementing fixes on top of windows goes against the free software philosophy, but there are already too many. I can run remote X apps from another box easier on windows than OS X.

The only leverage apple ever had was IOS. you are forbidden by law to emulate IOS or OSX on any non-apple hardware. so people started to be forced to use macs. it wasn't natural adoption. And IOS is only relevant while we have dumbed down smart phones. Now that this became a standard tabled (a full computer, that you can run windows or even install linux) IOS will lose appeal, and apple will be sidelined to the history of computer history as it always manages to get it self into.

downvote with all the hate you want. you know it to be true :)
Could you please tell me why it's gross?
In my analysis I did include a 3% inflation rate for rent increases as well as property tax increases. The analysis is looking at the long term 30 year outcome of taking the net balance you have renting and putting it into a higher return investment. In many cases you can do better even though you're making rent payments.
Good catch. Thanks! I was referencing this source:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?topic=16574.0

And "cal 1999" where it looked like Dec. 11 - 17 was a traditional week.
Hi michaelmior,

Those simulations are used to calculate the public leaderboards during the competition. They aren't used for final rankings as the simulation results need to be validated. However, they provide a nice way for people to gauge their standing.

To perform the final ranking/validation, we'll play n of the top games on each team against each other and then sort by wins and losses. We're not quite sure of how large n will be, but I think it will be 150-250. It would be nice to calculate the public leaderboards this way, but as a O(n*m) calculation, it really doesn't scale in practice (we have to strike a balance between accuracy and responsiveness of the ranking system). The public leaderboards are calculated with a Bayesian algorithm.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! :)
I think he means, "Any word you have to look for in a word-book is the wrong word."

Basic English. Improving communication since 1930. Er, that is, Making better exchange from 1930.
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Any word on the batter life, what with it being thinner and lighter the previous models?
Very cool duckduckgo.

A question.
Where do ddg guys get this massive taste for color red?

Thank you.
L3 is not pushing. I cannot stress that enough. L3 is not pushing. L3 does not push. Pushing is not something L3 does. In the Game of Pushing, L3 is not a player. If you navigate to wikipedia.org/things_which_push, L3 is not on that list. If all the entities of the universe were put into two groups, one labeled "pushers" and one labeled "not pushers", L3 would be in the second group.

The ISPs must play ball with L3 because their customers are asking for content that L3 is trying to provide. If the customers ask for different content from somebody else, then somebody else would be providing the data.

And excuse me? Don't blame me for the crappy analogy; you're the one who brought it up. I thought it was a stupid analogy too, but I thought that speaking in your own terms might help you understand the situation.
I'm not sure if this is what they do, but it seems like a solution would be the git commit hashing procedure. So at the end of a day/worksession have the app take the hash of ( what you entered today + yesterday's hash) so you create a provable trail of changes.
Can't do that. These are corporations with vast paper trails.

The concept of "Tortious interference" [1] comes to mind but I'm certain there are other legal theories that could be employed by Comcast.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
...and how hot it gets!

"The first surface that can't boil your eggs" would be a slogan that make me buy one.
> There is no such service. Not only does it not exist, it cannot exist. No ISP can provide that. Any independent network on the Internet can start dropping your packets tomorrow for any reason. Including a lazy admin filtering out your entire country. Or due to a copyright agreement. Happens all the time.

The point of net neutrality is that, while ISPs should not be held liable for what other entities in the network do, they shouldn't engage in those practices themselves. In logical terms, that's a perfectly reasonable goal.
What about the CDN's customers, ie., companies with sites that their costumers couldn't access?
It isn't new... see http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GC26Ad04.html and pages 30-31 of http://www.international-relations.com/CM2012/Satellite-Hack...
Dear Gabriel Weinberg, after so many posts on HN, I am still missing the point behind DDG.

Can you tell me, the end user, what are other benefits of using DDG aside _privacy_ (given I am using chrome/incognito by default)?
I think it's pretty specifically popular with developers in the start-up space.

I suspect the majority of developers (outside of this few percent in the startup space) continue to use Linux and/or Windows. They just don't go around writing blog posts that start out by presenting opinions about usability of other OS's as fact.
The name of this program is the "Government Security Program".

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2003/jan03/01-14g...

I found it odd that Microsoft justified the GSP in terms of the "unique security requirements of governments". I could also refer to the "unique security requirements of civilians": individual bearers of human rights, targets of espionage and surveillance by well-funded sophisticated adversaries, typically don't have large IT budgets... and if one "unique" part is supposed to be that Microsoft would be pressured to include a backdoor in its products to facilitate spying on foreign governments, well, plenty of civilians (including American civilians) fear that Microsoft would be pressured to include a backdoor to facilitate spying on them.

(I would not use the term "open source" here, because Microsoft didn't make the code open source, it just allowed particular people to read it!)
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Small ISPs also like this because they typically are very heavy on paid, private internet and don't do much peering due to having small, localized networks. They stand to gain, proportionally, the most since they can charge the people the were previously paying for access.
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That is true. (Good lord! Why didn't I see that? Dammit.)

I assume he meant, "The New Oxford American dictionary, by the way, is not, like, singularly bad," which would be intentional, at least. But still, that hoarks up the paragraph.
> Although eminent domain is an interesting argument, not that I agree with it necessarily.

Why? Public funding and a government-granted monopoly were the reasons local ILECs have the power they do; they'd be given fair value for their gear in the ground.
Great to see CodeCombat getting more exposure.

I've actually started to use it to teach Javascript to 10 year olds in my local primary school (through a CodeClub I run). It has been a great experience and a lot of kids are moving quickly through the campaign levels.
I even have a few kids who moved on to the multiplayer levels.

Quick remark: the computers in the school are Core 2 Duo machines with 1.75GB of RAM. They are running the latest version of Chrome on XP but often crash on CodeCombat (lack of RAM?). It's a shame but reloading usually solves the problem. Also, getting coordinates on the map is usually quite tedious (it doesn't seam to work all the time).

I am really excited about the future of CodeCombat.
I'm not sure why you were getting downvoted because the one thing that stuck out to me, after saying to myself "Huh, I'd love to get one of those to play around with." was that in the marketing page [1] it said "Go to microsoftstore.com/whatever" to preorder one yet when I poked around that site there was no reference whatsoever to the Surface Pro 3.

It just seems odd to go to so much trouble for the unveiling and then say, "but you can't check out the specs/look at accessories/drool over it" until 12:01am.

[1] http://blog.surface.com/2014/05/announcing-surface-pro-3/
Coatis are adorable! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3dVCdaRkA0
I found these for iOS:
http://www.idangero.us/framework7/
http://ionicframework.com/

Does anyone know equivalent on Android. I could only find onsenui.
"97% profit margin" is a self-doubting figure. As soon as you hear it you should know that someone is trying to sell you something.

It's like deciding Microsoft's profit margin based on the cost to physically acquire CD-ROMs.
This is turning into a flame war. If you can't see how negotiating peering agreements is relevant to a post whose first sentence begins, "There’s a peering crisis apparently happening right now among American Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and backbone providers..." then I don't know how we can continue...

The crisis, if you've read the article, is that Level3 is getting shunned by 5 of its client ISPs. The ISPs are NOT shunning other backbone providers, just Level3. So yes, this is entirely a contract negotiation between Level3 and 5 ISPs.

This isn't an existential crisis of the Internet, like Level3 is trying to portray it, it's Level3 being shut out of additional business by 5 ISPs because they won't play ball like the other backbone providers.
It has been a pain in the ass to get PXE booting working on the Surface Pro 1 and well as Lenovo's Yoga and Yoga 2. Some of their USB-Ethernet adapters don't support PXE at all.
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It will be interesting to see how that aspect ratio feels. I definitely like the 4:3 ratio on the iPad, and hate the fact that Android devices are all 16:9 or 16:10, which is a terrible tablet ratio for anything other than watching widescreen video content. I would also prefer a laptop with a taller display. 3:2 might be a really good sweet spot.
why there are no last mile providers like comcast and ATT?
Awesome, thanks a lot. If it is of any help, I was using Chrome (Version 34.0.1847.116) on OS X Mavericks.

So now I just need to hope I get the invitation :)
Ties in well with Paul Graham's essay "Mind the Gap":

It may seem unlikely in principle that one individual could really generate so much more wealth than another. The key to this mystery is to revisit that question, are they really worth 100 of us? Would a basketball team trade one of their players for 100 random people? What would Apple's next product look like if you replaced Steve Jobs with a committee of 100 random people? [6] These things don't scale linearly. Perhaps the CEO or the professional athlete has only ten times (whatever that means) the skill and determination of an ordinary person. But it makes all the difference that it's concentrated in one individual.

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
If they stop supplying it to us without discrimination it will. The internet is made up of plastic and metal boxes that are under other people's control - not magic.
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Secret Feature #1- Drag and Drop One-Shot Samples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LVr7ONiCt8
The Elm hackers continue to impress me. FRP, the interactive timeline debugger, and now functional 3D graphics. Functional game programming is a big interest of mine, and I've taken a lot of inspiration from Elm in my own personal project to create a 2D game engine for Guile Scheme.
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I still need to push back on this a bit. The mandate of the site is: intellectually interesting things. There's nothing intellectually interesting about "making a quick buck". It's true that HN has an entrepreneurial orientation, but it's also true that many more users aren't doing startups and come here to learn.

Since I'm the lead optimizer, I know what we're optimizing HN for. The answer is intellectual curiosity. It's a hard problem, maybe even a lost cause, but people should at least know what we're trying for.
At this point this seems to be the ONLY solution. Knocking Comcast off the internet for 24 hours would result in a lot of attention towards net neutrality and their lackadaisical attitude towards peering.
Is it pronounced maybe like how a Russian might saw swift? I can't help but say it like that.
Why should L3 play ball? Just because everybody else is doing it doesn't make it a good reason.
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3602.htm
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Customers are not asking for L3. Customers are asking for content, of which L3 is one of the providers. L3 is pushing L3, even if you say they're not.
Welcome to the club :)
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmlr/2012-07-01_qr_encode_your...
Their incentives are explained on the frontpage http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
This release makes me very happy. I never really took a look at Elm but yesterday I've receive a bug report on a very old library of mine to parse GLSL. The author of Elm told me it was used in their WebGL work and pointed to that Thwomp example. I didn't know that library was actually used by anyone!
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The biggest problem is when it turns into wagile development. they want to have a requirments document and an analysis and design document and then code and unit test with QA all in 1 month instead of like 3 mo.
Airplanes have pretty low reliability - multiple maintenance man hours per flight hour. But their time in-transit, equivalent to time between ports for a ship, is measured in hours, not weeks.
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