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But it sounds like the app isn't doing anything a web browser couldn't do. This is a recurring theme among authoritarians now: take something that a web browser does, and argue that because it's being done outside of a web browser, somehow that's wrong. Look at weev; that's exactly what he did (there are certainly other aspects, but it was one used to scare the court and the aspect that the prosecutor willfully failed to understand).

"All those people" are responsible for a public API; in this case, it is a text-based api over HTTP only, meant for human consumption, but it's an API nonetheless. This app does not bypass that API. If they don't like how the API is being used, they need to change it; but of course you can't close it completely. This is the analog hole of the Internet.

Web browsers are just a client for that particular kind of API. It's ridiculous to limit which clients can access an API, as long as they do so correctly. Of course, you can make it difficult or impossible for unapproved clients to access the API, that will achieve the goal; that's what DRM does. But by not putting those controls on the API you're allowing new competing clients to connect with it.
The commercial banks deposit their money in the central bank. Normally, the central bank pays (usually quite minimal) interest to the commercial banks for that money. With negative interest rates, the banks' deposits in the central bank start loosing value, i.e. the banks must "pay" the central bank a premium for holding their money.

The desired effect of negative interest rates is that commercial banks more readily give out loans to businesses, rather than just keeping their reserves idle, as the potential returns from successful lending are better. The idea is to inject more money in circulation and stimulate economic growth.
> If Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic at peak capacity (as per the Akamai CEO's comments at a number of events), is it really fair to treat them like every other company?

If the ISP's customers are making requests to Netflix' servers, then yes.
FINALLY! The only open data they had prior to this was stuff put together by the LA Times' Data Desk and one lonely GIS data site for maps and parcel data. Glad to see Garcetti is following through on opening up this data!
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I used to work at Merrill Lynch, I saw what the focus on short term results did and the culture it created. It was almost always about the quarterly results. I once saw an entire team of bond traders fired because their quarterly results weren't up to scratch, only to literally be hired back within days at a much, much higher cost, because the market suddenly turned almost overnight and Merrill Lynch was caught without a bond team in that area and had to frantically scramble to get one at almost any price.

That particular team had been highly profitable, but their last quarterly result were poor. It mattered not that overall they were still vastly ahead in terms of profit for the company. They had a bad quarter and the next was looking poor, so they had to go, in order for the managers to have something to say to their investors.

If the share price dropped a few cents or if the results weren't up to or exceeding market expectations, they would fire a few thousand people. I kid you not, this is how investment bank culture works. You are only as good as your last quarter.

Traders would take very risky positions with huge or unknown long term risks, in order to make short term gains - for which they are richly rewarded. No one cared that this wonderful basket of exotic options was actually full of potential toxic waste, as long as it was printing money right now. By the time it exploded, most of those traders and managers would have made their millions and be retired or working somewhere else.

It was and probably still is this intense focus on the short term that caused ML to very nearly go under and why ML is now called Bank of America ML. I doubt they have learned and the next black swan event is going to take them out, or the one after that.
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Maybe he was talking about their public WiFi hotspots that are here http://hotspots.wifi.comcast.com/?
I placed some bets yesterday before but near the closing time. They were shown as included in the pool but after the event they were considered rejected. I would think that the blockchain would include some information that would allow it to be determined that it was sent before the closing time.

Interestingly, my rejected bets for the losing team were not returned, but instead paid out to the winner. I'm informed the site owner already.
If a large majority of customers that use a particular ISP but are having streaming problems across different devices and if Netflix has no load on their network, then you can assume its a problem with the middle-man.
Isn't it more like you give me money, and for that privilege you shall now have to pay me more money for as long as I have your money?
This is how you design a winning sales commission structure for startups
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> I'm constantly fascinated by the way folks consider socializing the telecom industry to be incredibly reasonable and socializing, say, the healthcare industry to be insanity.

Can't I want both to be socialized?
I find it (extremely) difficult to believe that Apple would remove the headphone jack from iPhones. Lightning headphones? Sure. Premium DACs driven from Lightning? Why not.

Remove the headphone jack? Suicide.
"Colombian salaries aren’t that much lower than US salaries". Seeeeriously doubt that they are paying $100k to devs (like in SF) in Colombia.
The open data portal is actually open source... many of the larger cities in the US are using it.. but yes, it's great!
This is evidently not true. Streaming services are a dime a dozen but their distribution of bit volume is not even. Netflix is far and away the biggest user of bits on the Internet and other streaming services are an order of magnitude smaller.

It's possible that if Netflix didn't exist someone would fill that vacancy but it's also possible that the aggregate total volume of bits transferred during streaming would be lower if Netflix did not exist.
Could someone explain the Chrome permissions when it says "It can access your data on all websites"?

I have trouble trusting an extension with only one review if it has so much power.
The parent is not generalizing. The first step of the application process, not just for H1B but for all employment-based visas (including green card), is to submit a ton of evidence to the Department of Labor that proves that you are being paid at least the median salary for your position in the region you are employed in. You can read more about that here (second paragraph): http://www.dol.gov/whd/immigration/h1b.htm

Do some employers game this system? Sure. But doing so is risky and repeat offenders can get blacklisted by the USCIS.
I certainly hope that if they sue, Netflix countersues and gets attorneys fees and punitive damages.
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I don't think that is how it works. The letter pretty clearly explains that Netflix uses for delivery third parties that have insufficient bandwidth to Verizon. Verizon did not -- at least according to this letter -- actively DO anything to slow Netflix down.
The parent was referring directly to Netflix performance, not raw upload/download speeds...
Maximizing shareholder value is less important than offering good customer service. Corporate greed is so disgusting.
Where do you draw the line? What shouldn't we socialize?
It makes sense to count people as what they consider themselves. Otherwise you are going to open a whole can of worms: protestants may not consider catholics christian, sunni muslims might want to exclude shia muslims etc.
> ...and in fact this is something that I thought even John Q. Layman knew about...

Well, maybe I'm not paying enough attention (or not in the right places). These days, my information on subjects usually comes from some combination of radio, television, magazines (print and online), newspapers, websites, online discussion, and the occasional book.

For the radio that I listen to (NPR/Radio Lab/et al), I'll usually take it pretty much at face value. I haven't caught them at an outrageous lie yet.

Television has zero credibility with me, regardless of the network, and so I don't even have regular access to it anymore. Even channels like Discovery have changed a lot in the past decade. At most, they'll pique my interest in a subject that I'll look at on my own later.

Magazines are pretty dubious. Subject-specific ones, like SciAm or Make, are fine, but political ones like Newsweek, I don't trust.

Newspapers are a joke.

I mistrust most websites, with few exceptions -- both the political "left" and "right" ones. If Greenwald came out and said that he had evidence of all of this stuff about the NSA, and he wrote endlessly about it but never actually released any of the evidence, I would be skeptical. (Which is why I appreciate so much what Snowden did.)

Online discussion gets treated with a dose of salt big enough to gag a horse. Nearly everybody claims to know more about a subject than they actually do, because online, the person with the most conviction wins, so it's almost impossible to separate fact from fiction. Even Wikipedia, you have to have a glance at the history page to make sure somebody's not yanking your chain.

So that leaves books, which I just don't have quite enough time for anymore. It takes me around a month now to get through 500 pages. :-/

In short, I haven't felt like I had a trustworthy enough, convenient enough source for political information in quite a long time.

> I'm still not 100% clear on how even paying limited attention to the historical actions of 3-letter agencies could lead one to have the former view.

The FBI, CIA, NSA et al have all been guilty of reprehensible things at some point in the past ... but there's a bit of a jump from there to "corrupt". The NSA now looks to be totally corrupt from the top to the bottom, thanks to the evidence that's been brought to light.
It depends on you and the company. AngelList might be helpful. You can see what other companies offer for salary and equity.

https://angel.co/jobs#find/f!%7B%22locations%22%3A%5B%22Toro...
AT&T can choose to throttle specific services.
What you want are core dumps, they allow after-the-fact use of the debugger. Use ulimit to raise the core dump size limit above 0 (I just use unlimited) and you'll get a core dump whenever the process faults. More specifically there are a handful of signals that cause a core file to be created, so you can also send the right kills to the process to get one on demand.
Difference being engineers don't get paid as much – though perhaps they should be.

Finance guys are much more aggressive about capturing more of the revenue they create in salary and bonuses, while engineers seem to shrug at being "overpaid" while letting proportionally more of their value go to execs, investors and giant cash hoards.
I believe it only applies to messages originating from a server located in Canada, in case anyone was wondering.

EDIT: I am indeed wrong! A non-Canadian company could hypothetically get in trouble for violating these rules. I wouldn't expect that to happen often.

Also, thankfully, the Canadian rules seem pretty reasonable. Everyone probably should have to get explicit (more than a prechecked box) permission before adding you to a mailing list.
The Eurozone's problems don't really stem from "over-regulation".
Why do the commerical banks store it with the central bank? Why not store it themselves?
> It's also very hard to prove that Verizon is throttling, versus, say, simply physically underprovisioning the connection.

It doesn't matter either way, in the end the experience is the same.
Customers should pay for the bandwidth they use.

ISPs have been miss-selling Internet connectivity for many years - "UNLIMITED!!" "FAST!!" "CHEAP!!" - and now they ( and their customers) are reaping that harvest.
Actually, following the semantic versioning approach there is no need to use anything but the major versions, because only them should make backward-incompatible changes.
Easy: other middlemen in the markets; "the finance industry".
Seriously great summary (love seeing stuff like this rooted in real world experience/examples). Thanks for doing!
Aren't content providers always driving up prices for content carriers? Consumers are paying for content delivery and if your business can't deliver the quantity or quality they want and someone switches to your competitors because of it that's your problem.
See, this is what happens when (presumably white, male) programmers don't check their privilege.
Indeed. Perhaps the most significant problem with modern civilization is not anything like hunger or poverty or even war, it's pessimism. I see it all the time among the "intelligentsia", the idea that human civilization is a blight more than a wonder, that the same applies to human population even more so, and that it would be more or less best if humans could please just stop doing things and leave stuff alone, really. This reflects a hugely negative attitude about humanity as a whole and our prospect for the future.

I believe we have a future full of wonder, adventure, cultural enrichment, self-discovery, and so much more ahead of us. But it won't come for free, we have to work for it, and we're much less likely to put in the work if we waste our efforts feeling defeated and sorry for ourselves.
I think having an issue attached to your PR is much better than converting your issue to a PR. Here's a good discussion about why it's been deprecated: https://github.com/github/hub/commit/4f70dd126f46dec14fc341c...
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The presence of Bahai'i in SC is rather unexpected. From the county map it looks like they are mostly in the Myrtle Beach / Georgetown area.
The Bay area might be short on developers but I know there are talented developers in other states that are unemployed or underemployed. So Colombia is ok but Nebraska is not?
> is it really fair to treat them like every other company?

Interesting question. I guess from my perspective I buy broadband from AT&T and they tell me under no uncertain terms that I have a cap at x amount of gigabytes. As a customer I expect to use all of that.

>Guilt tripping Verizon into adding more routers is a major net positive to Netflix's business.

As a customer it shocks me they aren't doing so. Yesterday it was Netflix, today its every kid with an Xbox1 or PS4 buying games digitally as buying physical media is out of style. What's a typical game nowadays? 20gb? That's the equivalant of many netflix movies right there, all at once.

What does tomorrow hold? Why aren't they prepared for this?
Well, I'm sure there are sects which disclaim each others' faith. For everyone else, they are close enough that they're Christian. When you are very similar to someone, the differences appear magnified. Zoom out and they are dwarfed by bigger differences.
1) Why are ISPs not classified as Common Carriers? This needs to happen like now.

2) This makes me want to get a Netflix subscription just to support them, knowing I would never watch a single video from them. I'm signing up right now. Go Netflix!
By literally creating the overlap.
Avro code is generated though?
Things that don't have a natural monopoly.
> I'm constantly fascinated by the way folks consider socializing the telecom industry to be incredibly reasonable and socializing, say, the healthcare industry to be insanity.

Is it really the same people arguing for that? First and foremost, the telecom industry is nothing like the healthcare industry, and they shouldn't be reasoned about in the same way. Common carrier status has precise laws and legal meaning surrounding it. Please don't confuse it with socialized medicine.
The extension needs access to the DOM when the page is loaded to find and replace words.

The extension works locally on the client. It does not send your data anywhere or talk to any third-party servers.
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how about the part where you get 30% of everyone's income, and the (sole) right to take it by force - yeah it's good to be a government. this is getting silly.
s/last mile/first mile/
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Excellent question. Anything that doesn't have a natural monopoly. I can say with certainty that the following should be socialized or delivered in non-profit ways:

* Water

* Sewer

* Power

* Internet

* Healthcare

* Fire

* Police

* Roads

* Education (added per /u/CodeMage)

Feel free to chime in if you can add anything I forgot.
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I'd rather use Avro. The binary encoding is more dense and there's an officially supported JSON encoding (the text encoding for Protobufs is mostly intended for debugging)
I suppose that if you had it hooked to a single router, that could be your one device. ;)
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... Your wireless network service is best effort. This is why your service provider doesn't have to compensate you for dropped calls or dropped packets or towers with insufficient capacity.

The word "promise" is not an accurate reading of the legal concepts at play in bandwidth purchase. Dedicated bandwidth for consumers is expensive and completely unavailable on cellular networks.

Verizon also doesn't have to let iPhones connect to their network and only does so because they benefit financially from the relationship. Trust me, putting a device onto a major cellular network in the US is highly political, full of peril and financial alchemy.

Source: I do lots of telecom stuff specifically around wireless.
I guess I'm in the minority based on the other comments here…

After spending a few hours with the documentation, I felt like I had a generally good feel for how you would interact with ES through curl, but then jumping into using the Ruby library there seemed to be a big leap and I felt like I needed to have a much more intimate knowledge of how ES worked to "get" it. A lot of guess and check before I figured out how to query properly. I've also been unsuccessful in figuring out how to implement accent folding. At this point I assume that this has something to do with "mapping", but I couldn't figure out where that was supposed to be set up (again, through the Ruby lib, but I was also unsure where to start to just accomplish that via curl…).

Who knows, maybe I just need to spend more time reading the docs, and maybe the information that I need is in there somewhere, but to me it felt incomplete or disorganized. I'd love to stop using Solr for document search, but making ES do things that I know how to do in Solr ended up being too time consuming.

I ended up feeling like I probably had to go to a training session to really get it, which is a shame…
Whatever happened to the right to free speech? There are of course restrictions to free speech, such as you cannot yell fire in a crowded building unless there really is a fire, but this is not one of those scenarios. The behavior of Verizon and the other ISPs are grossly offensive!
You seemed to have fixed it. Good job.
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> An ISP's job, as a private company, is to maximize shareholder value.

You lost me there.

"There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer." ~Peter Drucker (whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation)

“On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy… your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. Managers and investors should not set share price increases as their overarching goal. … Short-term profits should be allied with an increase in the long-term value of a company.” ~Jack Welch (former very successful CEO of GE)
Does it work in the suburbs?
Not a bad list.

Cheers.

I'll note that we should have explicit public subsidies for Internet and that I would much prefer to have public networks with private operators (to my mind that's heaven for competitive markets but politically impossible in the US).
I spent $450 on mid-range earphones (Shure SE315) and custom-made sleeves at an audiologist.

Even though I'm old and have some hearing-loss from the military and outdoor activities, I am able to tell the difference between sound files encodings on familiar music. Also, I can hear on my Macbook Pro when the amplifier circuits get power - there's an audible hiss.

If I can hear it, someone younger can almost certainly hear it, if they've trained themselves in how to listen and don't try and multitask.
I could be wrong, but based on what the article claims the copyright information is not re-posted anywhere. It's displayed from the original source on demand.

The schools position is analogous to claiming that someone is pirating your freely downloadable PDF document because they used Nitro instead of Adobe Reader to view it.
That made my day brighter. Sorry you're getting so many downvotes for that. :(
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The "high frequency" in HFT compared to human traders is a little like the "high fructose" in HFCS compared to table sugar. To wit: "high frequency" changes the relationship of HFT to other sell-side traders; it's what allows HFT shops to potentially outcompete human market-makers.

However, it's the category of sell-side traders in general that matters for liquidity.

You're using imprecise language here (for instance, referring to market makers as "investors"), but the clear implication is that you believe that normal, "buy-side" investors provide adequate liquidity. But they don't, and we know that, because the more competitive the sell-side gets, the lower spreads get.
That's a very weird headline. The report doesn't question the importance of "human spaceflight beyond earth orbit". It surveys possible destinations and concludes that mars and its moons are the only places in the solar system we have any hope of reaching within the foreseeable future (does that surprise anybody?), and therefore that's what NASA should focus on.

The report's main point is that a major increase in NASA's funding, as well as an increase in political support and international cooperation, is required for this to happen.