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Charter Business Phone down in 11 states
We had had good service from Charter Business for three years, but this year has been a disaster. The local problems, like line amps not protected from weather, I had sort of written off as random. Now after 30 minutes on hold the CSR tells me that due to problems with their switch, Business Phone service is down in 11 states! Somehow I suspect AT&T would have redundant equipment in this situation. So, is this karma from my regular Ma Bell criticism? Should I really expect poor uptime from relatively-inexpensive business phone service?
Instead of starting from scratch, we could build up on epub. It should already be possible to read DRM-free books on Apple's iBook app. It'd be nice if Amazon.com supported epub natively.
Ah, Ok. Yes, I suppose one could get open pollinated seeds currently available, select and hybridize them, and patent the resulting product (which probably is more or less what seed companies have been doing). So this attempts to stop that practice on seeds from the OSSI breeders.

It would have been nice had they been more clear about this in the article and talked a bit less about what color of shirts the people were wearing.
The "tl;dr" is stop being lazy and read the article, or skip it. No one else can read and comprehend for you on your behalf.
The interesting thing is it happened even before Toyota moved its North American Headquaters to Plano, TX.
Just like they admitted that XHTML 2 was a mistake and scraped it, I feel they should do the same with this nonsense.

Nothing about spdy or http2.0 sparks any sort of confidence with regard to proper robust protocol design, keeping things simple nor properly separating concerns.
Not me personally, but $10B being 0.3% of the annual US budget, I'd rather send up a couple more telescopes than fund a couple more months of war. [0]

[0] ...or thereabouts. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

Edit: autocorrect.
My first experience in the mobile game design industry
I dont agree. Their router processes data below the application layer. Thus why not define the webserver as the last server to serve at the http layer ?
Piketty has caused a political firestorm and whomever publishes newsworthy stories with Piketty as a hook is guaranteed a good readership. No mystery here. Media outlets chase eyeballs, not some ultimate factor of how important a story is to mankind or not. [insert long discussion as to how this sucks]
So you agree that single connection is a problem :)? Under mobile, where high RTT is the norm rather than the exception, this has compound negative effect on performance (mistaken long response time as packet loss, reducing the congestion window that makes all flows suffer, etc, etc.). Everything else being equal, applying SPDY on mobile introduced this new mobile "vulnerability", isn't this SPDY's negative impact on Mobile? Sure, if cellular networks has the same delay/packet loss characteristics as wired/wifi, SPDY would fly, but mobile and wired/wifi are clearly not the same. Also, I used that paper just as an example showing SPDY's performance problem on mobile (with very nice detailed analysis why SPDY suffers). My conclusion of "SPDY sucks on mobile" is from my experience, not from that paper. I just use that paper to show my point. Actually, I think their paper's conclusion is a little bit too "polite" toward SPDY. [Edit: adding reference to the paper] In that paper the sentence right before the "conclusion" you quoted is "In cellular networks, there are fundamental interactions across protocol layers that limit the performance of both SPDY as well as HTTP."
The article quotes from a critic of Piketty, Scott Winship, but the strange nature of of the quotes (highly selective and including quotes on irrelevant matters) made me suspicious. Here are the latest tweets on the matter by him:

1/Quoted in Bloomberg today re #Piketty but sounds like I side w him on rising wealth ineq & US wealth ineq>Europe.

2/To be clear, I don't. Think his original results failed to make that case, which is why I'm less worked up than some abt alleged probs.

3/But UK--&, I now believe, US--methods need to be explained by #Piketty, else looks pretty bad. Just not CONSEQUENTIAL 4 overall thesis

This is the part of the article that quotes Winship:

> Scott Winship, an economist at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and notable critic of Piketty's analysis, said the FT's allegations weren't "significant for the fundamental question of whether Piketty's thesis is right or not". In an email to Bloomberg news agency, he wrote: "It's hard to think Piketty did something unethical when he put it up there for people like me to delve into his figures and find something that looks sketchy … Piketty has been as good or better than anyone at both making all his data available and documenting what he does generally."
Great! Another un-google-able and practically un-type-able piece of technology.
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> but hey, my Amazon or Spotify experience rocks and delivers great value.

They won't if there are no more good books to read/music to listen to, because the gains aren't worth the effort that goes into producing them.

I don't think danger is books or music disappearing, but that the quality goes down, as the incentives for authors/musicians/composers to invest significant time and effort producing high quality work are reduced.

This particularly applies to the 'avant-guarde' works which push the envelope creatively/intellectually, but typically don't correlate with high volumes.
Here's the product page for CourseSmart Analytics[0], the product referred to in the link.

By my read it's just as bad as the OP suggests; the screenshots even show specific students' names with their "engagement index".

An aggregated view of student engagement seems like it would be quite useful, e.g. "hmm, only 5% of my students are spending more than a minute looking at this really important chart, I should emphasize it in my next lecture". But Panopticon-style policing, and as you say, comfort with that policing -- shudder.

(edit - fixed product name)

[0]: http://instructors.coursesmart.com/go/institutions/analytics
The abandoned libraries I find end up needed to be mostly rewritten, even if I were to use them on Python 2.
It'd probably help the developers if you linked to them.
In general this seems to be the reason for most riots in commercial areas, as people realize that the police can't do their job they're more likely to join in and steal more, plus they might rationalize that most of this stuff is insured anyway so the only people losing money are the Insurance company devils.
Just google "Phở" and I'm sure you'll find plenty of relevant sites containing documentation, code samples, and more. Oh wait...you'll actually get a bunch of sites about soup.
>I would imagine that in a primitive environment, you will be eaten if you can't trust your hearing.

When I talk to myself in my head, I normally don't find myself saying, "Who's there? Who said that?" Additionally, if someone was the physically appear in my room and start a conversation with me, I think I'd immediately figure it out. There's some mechanism that lets us differentiate from internal and external voice that we experience every day. I imagine the same applies on some level to auditory hallucinations, if those really are any different from having internal conversations.
It's still un-google-able since it's an extremely common word (more than 2M results).
Fixed bars are annoying and should rarely be used. But what's even worse is when the mobile version helpfully removes the content or feature that you'd like to see.

Please just have one site, make it efficient, and be done with it.
All these concerns share an overlook of the practicalities of the web.

On the protocol level, there is a huge knowledge and API momentum that makes any protocol that fundamentally differs from HTTP an uphill battle for adoption. Whatever changes are made to HTTP, if it is too different from the application POV, it will linger behind.

Same thing about tunneling. It may not be elegant, but it's the way to fight the system. You won't change IT behaviour with a protocol change. One possible way to work would be to make new version oF HTTP have a working mode that reduces overhead to a minimum for any tunneling operation.

(The same argument hold to SCTP vs TCP.)
Really? They get data centers and bandwidth for free?

Meanwhile Amazon Cloudfront charges $0.12 per Gb. What was that about data centres and bandwidth again?

Be serious: $0.15 per Mb is a massive rip-off compared to the actual cost of delivery, unless the download is over 3G in which case it's merely an obnoxious markup rather than an outright rapacious one.
And of those, only NLTK isn't compatible with Python 3.
On Scott Winship, see one of my top level comments (I made two top level comments as I only started investigating this after I posted once). Whatever was printed in the article, he has said on Twitter that he does doubt Piketty's conclusions, and also that the FT allegations are significant.
Mostly just by looking at "server" header. For example, Hacker News has server header as cloudflare-nginx
The rich get richer faster than others because they're better at it... That's why they're rich in the first place. Does it take 700 pages to understand it?

Think about it: most people don't even try to get richer !
At the end the article mentions that the visible light coloration observed by Cassini. I think the problem with seeing them from the moons is the point of view. The moons orbit around Saturn's equator, and looking up towards Saturn's north pole you might not be able to see as far as the aurora. It depends on how close-in the moons are, I think. The distant ones might have a good view.
Yes, losing 25% of the already-scarce vertical space is a nightmare, to the extent that UX can be a nightmare. Plus, I've seen sites where the nav bar locks the URL bar in position and keeps me unable to scroll away from it, making it more like 50%. It's like I'm looking at the site through blinds!

And it's all for functionality I'm not even going to use!
that's really classic.
Seriously? Pretty sure this has been in iPhone Safari since 1.0 (tap top bar to scroll to top), or at least as long as I can remember. I realize other browsers/platforms may not have this but that's a pretty big one to leave out...
But that was mentioned as an example in the article.

Furthermore, I didn't say it was only that.
Ah, I misunderstood the contract: https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=APILE934L348N

"5.3.2 Currency Conversion. We may sell your Digital Book using foreign currencies. When we do, we will convert the List Price you submit to other currencies (each, a "Sale Currency") at an exchange rate we determine. We may periodically update the converted List Price in order to reflect current exchange rates. If the converted List Price would be outside of the minimum or maximum List Price we accept for the Sale Currency, your List Price will be converted so that it is equal to the applicable minimum or maximum List Price for that Sale Currency. Minimum and maximum List Prices are specified here. The converted List Price in the Sale Currency will be your List Price when we offer and sell your Digital Book in the Sale Currency. For example, your Royalties will be calculated based on the converted List Price in the Sale Currency."

They're referring to the conversion for the sale price, not the author payment.
I'll take the downvotes as a "no we didn't, and we think you are trying to be funny".

But, I actually did read that for a half a second and think the phrase "broken down" can be done without. It doesn't add anything in my opinion, I know it is broken down (its a graph), the phrase is unnecessary, and it caused me at least to stumble mentally for half an instant.
>Like most things, it's not the monitoring that's objectionable

I vehemently disagree.
curl -I www.ycombinator.com

This gives you the HTTP Header, example output:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:11:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://ycombinator.com/
The great thing about this hypothesis, even if it happens to be false for homo sapiens, is that it separates the concepts of "intelligence" and "consciousness". Jaynes shows that it is at least logically possible for a being to be intelligent, but not conscious.

I think this has clear implications to AI.
Is it weird that the title of TFA is "The Scroll Up Bar" and the title of this post is "Fixed bars are becoming a new nightmare on mobile"?
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>MyMathLab

Oh god, MyMathLab. The second shittiest piece of software I was ever forced to buy. And at $120, it may have been the lowest value/dollar of any software I've ever interacted with.

Shout out to all the professors who either A) don't use textbooks, and only use free online resources or B) don't make us buy the textbook's shitty online service, so we can just go out and rent/borrow the textbooks for cheap.
Married to a clinical social worker, I am. One of my grandparents had 'a breakdown' during the Great Depression, another fought what we would now call PTSD from his combat experiences during the Second World War.

Mental illness is pretty common but remains somewhat taboo. That's unfortunate.
Could you clarify what you mean with "specifically addressing"?
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For those wondering: it should be 86400 instead. 606024 = seconds in a day.
Oh wow, that's cool. I didn't know that. Thanks.
Wrong. (Wrong on both details. I know authors who've been discounted to zero and sold as a daily deal for $0.99 and no, they did not get paid on the basis of the cover price. And again: if you want Amazon's best remuneration deal, you're required not to sell to their competitors.)
I don't see how it is coherent to ask for a string that is not unicode, and not bytes. What is it?
I have a few bugs I've encountered over the weekend:

1. The Linux binaries on the new site are a tar.gz.gz, making `tar xf filename` fail, and besides that inconvenience, is probably a packaging error. You might want to fix that.

2. The OpenFL provided Haxe installer is broken, because it tried to download http://haxe.org/file/haxe-3.1.3-linux64.tar.gz, which is gone. Please either fix the OpenFL installer or make sure download links are backwards compatible by adding a redirect. (I'm assuming both projects are run by the same community)

I worked around problem #2 by modifying the installer script to use old.haxe.org, since the binaries on the new site are harder to use because of problem #1. But this could definitely dissuade newcomers to Haxe, despite all of its qualities (which, in my opinion, are many!)
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A30F3VI2TH1FR8#1-5_Who_d...
People forget that doing backward breaking changes take a while.
Python 3 was released at the end of 2008, 2 years after Java 6. How many systems you know still run on Java 5?
Two words: "reversion clause". This is what literary agents are for.
In regards to the Host header. One thing that always seemed awkward to me is that the request line can contain the full URI on proxies but not for end-points. I suppose for backward-compatibility.

Instead of: "GET /some/path HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com"
We could have: "GET http://example.com/some/path HTTP/2.0\r\n"

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5.1
Went there hoping to read .history files of famous unix gurus.
Does 10 billion for one mean that it will be 20 billion for two? Once it is designed, and the teams are in place to assemble it and run the thing, economies of scale should kick in. Would be nice if most of that 10 billion was a sunk cost, and for 20 or 30, we could send up 50 of these things.
We reverted the title. The submitted title was "Fixed bars are becoming a new nightmare on mobile".

The HN guidelines ask you not to rewrite titles. Especially please do not rewrite them to make them more controversial.
Usually not hard at all, but even an easy transformation becomes hard when it is applied to a really huge codebase
Money has already been mentioned, so has James Webb space telescope. But also worth mentioning is that advances in optics (active and adaptive optics, better mirror manufacturing processes) and image processing has made earth-based telescope a viable alternative for space-based telescopes.

It's a lot cheaper to build (and fix!) telescopes on the surface of the earth (in a few select locations like the Atacama desert, the Canary islands and mountains on Hawaii) and the best of current telescopes can deliver images with similar quality to what the Hubble space telescope can produce.
Thank you for mentioning fpm, I'd never heard of it and often wished for something like it. Commenting to bring attention to it, and so I don't forget!
Wasn't the history something like:

JavaScript -> JScript -> ECMAScript?
First of all: I think the US education system (at both K12 and college/university levels) is deeply disfunctional.

However, I can understand and sympathize with a teacher's desire to understand how his or her students are using their time outside of class. In particular, knowing that a student who is struggling is not studying or is only attempting to cram at the last minute could be useful information for finding a strategy to help that student to improve.

I think the real problem is that many of the students I see (I teach CS at a small college) are focused on the external artifacts of education --- grades, a degree, etc. --- and not the actual learning. If students don't see an intrinsic value in what they are doing, they will try to game the system by cheating, memorizing instead of learning more deeply, etc. Over time I have come to realize that one of my duties as an educator is to try to motivate students to learn. As such, any information available to me that will help me understand whether or not a particular student is using his or her time effectively outside the class is valuable.
Let's define "major".
Is there some alternative specification that solves these "issues"? Or is this one of those hand-wavy "solve it" kinds of things, where we have the luxury of not considering or worrying about the inevitable downsides of alternative approaches?
Hi Mike,

Pony had the ability to produce JOINs from the very beginning, but during that presentation we found that Pony produced subqueries for MySQL and that was not very performant, correct. Since than we've improved Pony and now it got a query optimizer which replaces subqueries with efficient JOINs where it is possible.
Here is the query from that presentation:

>>> select(c for c in Customer if sum(c.orders.total_price) > 1000)[:]

The straightforward way is to use a subquery here, but Pony's optimizer produces LEFT JOIN because such query usually has better performance:

SELECT `c`.`id`
FROM `customer` `c`
LEFT JOIN `order` `order-1`
ON `c`.`id` = `order-1`.`customer`
GROUP BY `c`.`id`
HAVING coalesce(SUM(`order-1`.`total_price`), 0) > 1000

In our opinion this is the main advantage of Pony ORM - the possibility to perform semantic transformations of a query in order to produce performat SQL while keeping the text of Python query as high level as possible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014976
Ruby did it and we're not wringing our hands about how Ruby is dead. It's just that the whiners feel particularly empowered in Python, they believe they have a chance of getting Python 3 erased.
For a brief period I worked at GE-IP. The reason I did not continue was, I felt I could add more value to the customer by using open source software and was not allowed to use it.

I was working in the mining industry. Where deep vendor lock-in is seen as the only path to success. GE follows this model to the core. Before a major revolution there needs to be more open source industrial software.
So, AT&T/Verizon sell subsidized locked phones and get their money back on the long run.

If I wanted to, in the US, could I get a contract with a lower value because I'm not buying this subsidy? If so, wouldn't the right move would be to do so and buy an unlocked phone? I'm guessing AT&T/Verizon's interest is far larger than banks', leading to a better deal, even if you don't have the money right now.

On the other hand, locking my phone is the wrong way to enforce anything. It's my device to do what I want with.
Well I want to see the image for the article too. We're still figuring all this out anyway. I doubt that as long as people want to show ads on tiny space challenged screens (a very long time), reading news on a phone will suck.

I will also mention that I think having switched to an Android phone with a large screen (the Galaxy S5) has improved this problem for me. The iPhone screen is just too small and Apple really needs to make a larger screen phone because that tiny thing isn't competitive, but I'm a very big person with big hands and big pockets. The S5 is also a very good phone, the plastic casing is weird, but I just put it in a really nice case and I never even notice the cheap materials the thing is made with.
Similar to why starters, missing startup
Gratitude would have been better
and the table doesn't include Kharagpur (and Roorkee, Guwahati) because their percentages are smaller. It is conceivable that if they were all added up, they might even surpass MIT. But as you said, its not fair.
Those 'Enter' landing pages + left menu frames are classics. Good times
Way easier to configure than apache!
This is the same problem addressed by the ancient, universally known tool named virtualenv. How are you delivering pronouncements about the unsuitability of Python 3 when you don't have solid knowledge of how things are done in Python?
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Mostly, what you need to become a "Python 3 expert" is learning the Python 2 __future__ module. Use it for a while, then the switch will be seamless, intuition-wise.
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There is a 'feature request' link at the bottom of each page for site suggestions.

My opinion for what it's worth, your replies in the thread did not really add much in the way of content and the thread did not lack improvement for want of more in the same vein.

HN is not email. The OP does not own the conversation.
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> Really? They get data centers and bandwidth for free?

They get it for significantly less than $0.15/MB. AWS S3, where Amazon likely stores eBooks, charges $0.12/GB with the first GB each month free. Even if you add the $0.03/TB to store the data and the $0.0000004 per request, and it's still more than 1000x times less than they're charging authors.

Charging for 3G data might be reasonable, but charging that much for regular internet traffic is excessive.
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You have fallen foul of the HN formatting codes - you mean 60 * 60 * 24 seconds in a day. Or use the coding format:

Seconds_in_a_day = 24 * 60 * 60

Of course, this is wrong anyway for any number of reasons, but it was the original intent.
Posted 18 days ago, oddly :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717414
Piketty's work is, frankly, much more important than one paper about climate change that has been alluded to a couple times.

I had to look up that paper to know which one you were referring to, and I follow climate change very closely. Piketty has lead to a firestorm of criticisms and rebuttals and counter-rebuttals: virtually every major political and economic blog has addressed it. Yesterday I saw a pile of copies of it in a mainstream bookstore. They're in totally different leagues.

Reinhart–Rogoff falls somewhere in between those extremes, and IIRC FT and the Economist have both mentioned its flaws.
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