skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's two ends to the pipe though.

To my understanding, the upstream ends are linked largely thanks to peering, which is based on mutual benefit. At the upstream level, nobody charges other providers because everybody is interacting with everybody- sort of like, "I bought this round, but I know you'll be buying the next" so you don't worry about balancing the books.

Then Netflix comes along, chews up 35% of internet traffic, and basically takes a disproportionate piece of the pie. If I've got everything in my head right, this is against the spirit of how peering is supposed to work, and so it doesn't surprise me if spats start to develop upstream.

If Verizon is unhappy because they have to develop their last-mile network to meet promised speeds, that's Verizon's problem. But if Verizon is unhappy because the upstream is becoming distorted and they are becoming beholden to just one peer (Netflix) instead of an environment of free, balanced exchange- maybe that's not Verizon's problem.
Use protocol buffers because you get versioning? How hard would it be to add a version number to your JSON struct?

(Answer: Trivial.)
If you consider everything on the Internet to be content, then would that require ISPs to be paying every website that they load? They would, of course, pass that cost along to us with whatever markup they want. Enjoy your $24.99/month Netflix, delivered to you by Time Warner Cable! Want to use reddit too? That's another $3.99/month, but look at all those grumpy cats you get for that! Facebook is another $4.99/month, but you can't put a price on virtual friendship, right? :)
My ISP has provided 100 Mbps for years, and has recently brought 1 Gbps fiber. They've never complained about video services or torrents eating away their bandwidth. Guess why? Because when you're able to provide 100-1000 Mbps to each and every customer, the ~5 Mbps required for Netflix streaming is nothing.
A few tangentially-related things:

If you're generally interested in this subject, a popular toolkit for computational musicology outside of Haskell is Music21, in Python: http://web.mit.edu/music21/

If you're interested in Haskell and music, you might like Renick Bell's "Conductive" for Haskell-driven live coding music performance: http://www.renickbell.net/doku.php?id=conductive (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5TskLgsdBU from last year's Linux Audio Conference; he gave another talk and concert this year but I don't think the videos are available yet)

If you're generally interested in high-level functional language code to analyse musical intention, the IDyOM project from Marcus Pearce in my own group (http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/idyom-project) just made a release of their Common Lisp software for predictive modelling of musical structure.
Because at billion-dollar scale even 0.1% is better than 0%.
I'll reiterate the problem carriers face that I stated earlier.

Customer revenue is decreasing and because the market is saturated they cannot add enough customers to combat the atrophy of revenue. As shareholders expect growth every year, ISPs are forced to look for new revenue streams.

If you don't think they should be doing this as a private company, reclassify them as a utility. Otherwise shareholder demand is what gets satisfied.

Carriers have very specific equipment amortization patterns in their heads and they are financial models that banks accept. If carriers have to change their amortization patterns (more routers, faster) they have to change their financing which damages the value of the stock.

Sure we can do this, but what does "fair" mean here? I'm trying to say that the argument is not as black and white as people make it out to be.
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So Apple cares so much about audio quality...that they bought Beats? Does not compute.
If it's too big of a change you can "proxy" it through a simple ProtoBuf to JSON converter.
Putting aside my doubt that there is quality lost by the standard connector, there is miles and miles and miles of improvement that could be made to the terrible Apple earbuds. They're uncomfortable and sound bad, even in comparison to a $15-20 set of earbuds. I'm always confused when I see people that like music use them.

Besides, ditching the 1/8th inch just because their headphones use lightning accomplishes nothing but vendor lock in. I changed my mind, they'll probably going do it. I'd be too expensive to include nice headphones with every iphone and without eliminating the port everyone will keep using their terrible old earbuds.
In this vein I am personally boycotting apps that request access to my contacts when they clearly have no need. The latest instance was an update to the BoA app that suddenly wants access to my contacts. Hell no. If they want to add a 'share with a friend' feature (my guess) then Android has this feature baked in via intents and in such a way the app has no access to my contacts.
The one that annoys me the most is playback. Songs will often stop playing randomly. It only seems to happen with the web client, not the iOS app, but it happens on a lot of different computers and people I have talked to.
You're quite right that we're double-coding along the X-axis (and the Y-axis as well to a lesser extent). The introduction and the "How to read this chart" tooltip should help explain that, as should the year legend within each mini-chart ... but if you have a concrete idea about where we could place additional explanation to make it clearer, let me know.
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I suppose this is for small images... cos .psd's can grow to really heavy files. For instance a product presentation mockup, a single page design ready to be sliced (i.e. home.psd), or anything with "Photoshop 3D" can be easily over 100Mb...
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Yep - the debug toolbars for Pyramid, Flask, etc. do as well, using the same facility as here. The cool thing about this feature is being able to see the local variables from real exceptions in production instead of just in your local dev environment.
I'm not assuming anything. Look at the headphone jack on your phone. It's starting to look a little big. That's precious real estate.
Netflix could also make their buffering settings more advanced. i want a bigger buffer if my internet is unstable, and it should be transparant how netflix buffers..
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My advice to GitTip: 'if it's not broke, don't fix it'. You had a great year, so proceed cautiously with any systemic changes, and error on the side of transparency. Keep conversations as open as possible because the real solution to 'Bad' Speech -- is more speech.

The only exception to that rule is personally threatening language, which should not be tolerated at all. And only a coward would resort to that low level of action.

But with that being said lets not construe honest disagreements that are substantiated with reasons -- as a personal attack or a cause to feel 'threatened'.

And as far as funding goes: except for clear cases of fraud, let people decide for themselves where they want their money to go -- and let transparency take care of the rest :)

P.S. They are using flame throwers on twitter about this thread -- when they should be replying here :D (twitter is a better place to polarize with out of context 'headlines')
Bin Laden was indeed an extraordinary case, but the USA unilaterally kills a lot more foreign people than just that guy.
30-pin was an Apple-only connector, though. Same with lightning.

The 1.5mm jack, on the other hand, is the standard audio connector for just about every consumer-grade device in the world. Not sure what the upside is for Apple, even with them owning Beats.
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Must be nice to have a choice of ISPs...
You only really pay AT&T for one end of the pipe though. If your end can deliver 100Mbit/s, how responsible are they for the other end of the pipe? Have they met their commitment?

This is the biggest part I think people are missing- they are not thinking about the upstream end of the pipe. Maybe it's the same story even when you do consider the upstream, but I'd at least like people to acknowledge that aspect.
This is an excellent point. I'm a Mormon, and from our perspective, it's clear that we are Christians, but others have disputed it. At that point, there is no authority to decide where we fit.

As you said, there are plenty of similar cases, so it's easier to just count everyone as what they claim to be.
Yes, because I am paying Verizon to connect me to Netflix. If Netflix's traffic is so high, it's because lots of people want to pay Verizon to connect them to Netflix. If Netflix is so expensive, Verizon would need to raise their prices for customers; possibly offering low-bandwidth customers lower prices. If Verizon wants to give me free internet access, then it would make perfect sense to charge Netflix to deliver to me. Otherwise, Netflix paying large sums to Verizon is only going to ensure that we won't get alternatives to Netflix, because the barrier to entry will be too high for smaller startups. And if bandwidth is the issue, do you think Verizon should pay companies it primarily uploads, but not downloads, to (such as cloud hosting services)?

Personally, I'd really love to see Netflix start using encrypted peer-to-peer to distribute the bandwidth. See if Verizon would be willing to cripple all VPN and HTTPS users to try and shake down Netflix.
Dropping the analog-output port of the headphone jack would allow all digital DRM straight to the speaker. The analog hole still exists, but it's smaller.

Interesting impact on developers that use the ADC/DAC for other things, like Square and sensing apps.

It'd be a surprise to see the jack go away at first, but retain it for a while before a phase-out.
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Arrogance ? Maybe. Still, lot of people got high investment in good headphone - and won't get any equivalent for a long time with a lightning connector. And, another point is : headphone with a jack are compatible with a lot of hardware. Why change ?
I thought EFTs were only possible due to HFT, which seemed like one of the greatest benefits to retail investors. A little bit of arbitrage tax is no where near as bad as sales loads and management fees.
Well done, my friend.
No one who listens to audio through headphones EVER charges their phone at the same time. What an impossible scenario.
Sooooo... where do I get the WebGL (demo on the page) version? I want that.
Sure, but Netflix did "peer" with Verizon (read: put their servers on the Verizon network). At this point, anything happening is either Netflix's fault (for not buying enough bandwidth) or Verizon's fault (for having a congested internal network), and we don't have enough information to know which.

Could also be that the agreement had an anti-defamation clause, and Verizon was counting on that to avoid upgrading their internal network.
1) Agreed.

2) Agreed.

3) All of the big Telcos are public, but your point stands.

To be explicit, I wholeheartedly agree with you about humans making pseudo-random decisions. I'm trying to explain the dynamics of the Telco position, from their vantage point because I think it helps the discussion to view things from other angles.
Don't forget about defamation. Sure, you can spread lies in order to do me harm. But I can sue you for the damage done by those lies. Why would you think that lies that damage a reputation are substantially different from vandalism that damages a building?

Not that I think Verizon actually has a strong case for defamation. Netflix should have little difficulty arguing that they had good reason to believe that their claims are true. I don't think this is going to end well for Verizon.
Assuming you mean "ditch the huge, thick coax connector", yes. That make's some sense. Looking at the end of an iPhone the audio jack is the largest element by some margin.

One wonders about a "watch". Would you want to plug headphones into it? The thickness would be significant there. (I view the "watch" as a notification and acknowledgement interface as an adjunct to a mobile device. I think it makes more sense to plug the headphone/microphone into the larger device from a battery standpoint. Headphone cables down a long sleeved shirt make some sense though.)

Orthogonally, Apple just sprouted a bunch of ways to interact between devices at the WWDC. Maybe a person that would wear gigantic headphones would not wear a "watch", but would handle their acknowledgment functions through some interface on their head ornaments.
I doubt banks can store physical cash for (much) cheaper than .1% per year. $1MM takes up 40 cubic feet and weighs more than a ton, you think you can securely store that for less than $1000 a year? I'd say maybe, but not by much. Then there's the initial transport costs which have to be amortized.

Edit: I misread my wiki.answers.com link. That's the volume and weight for $1MM in singles, not hundreds. The costs start to look a lot more plausible, especially given that there are 500 Euro notes.
That's rough. I feel like they're itching to turn the developer's joke into a 'hot topic' of feminism debate.
Come on man, really?
The dataset I used was completely wrong, and it cost me!

The schedule of when the city is supposed to clean the streets was ignored. My car was ticketed because the city decided to sweep one day early. * * *k chicago.
If you want something trippy, try installing the extension first, and reading this comment second. It took me two full, very confused reads before I realized what happened.

EDIT: Part of the parent comment now [post extension install ] reads:
> The five words are posture, posture, posture, posture, and posture. For example, you could be reading an article with the phrase "posture of view." This would be replaced with "posture of view."
As the issue is data flowing FROM Netflix TO the end user, I think your 'correction' may be incorrect, as it is indeed the 'last mile' that is in discussion.
There isn't enough cash to do that.

Quoting http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/money/aggregates/aggr/html/in... (tab Background) "M1 is the sum of currency in circulation and overnight deposits;". From http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/reports.do?node=1000003478 on April 2014 we had M1 = 5,498.8 billions Euro

Banknote circulation data at http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/euro/circulation/html/index.e...

Banknotes: 948 billions Euro
Coins: 24 billions Euro (*)
On the other hand, can you swear that Netflix is doing all that it can to minimize bandwidth?

There's a conflict of interest: Netflix has a vested interested in provided lightly-compressed, very-high-resolution, bandwidth-hungry movies to its subscribers, especially if it obtains 100% free peering that it demands, as bandwidth would be free for them. On the other hand, ISPs are forced to upgrade network any time Netflix unilaterally decides to increase the bitrate of the movies, without this bringing any benefit to their bottom line.

For instance, if Netflix halved the bitrate of all their movies, subscribers will complain, but surely they would be able to deliver them without any buffering to everybody, and at the same time to keep free peering agreement and whatnot; they would go from 35% of total US bandwidth to 17%, and ISPs would be satisfying their customers' choice.

So where do you draw the line? Surely Netflix can increase the bitrate at will, at any time; should they be "allowed" to do it any time they want, while keeping a free peering agreement? Should the ISPs be forced to upgrade their network every time?
My thought is that they will probably revamp the entire line of beats products to be up to apple quality for hardware. They bought it for the brand name and the streaming service.
I somehow doubt this will happen. What if I want to charge my phone while listening to music?
I just signed up to this and tested it out, and I have to say, it's awesome.

I've used Dragdis for some of my bookmarking before, but the sharing ability coupled with the independent conversations linked to what I share makes this really neat.

I like the fact that it's linked to email because I see myself using this with colleagues or a few select friends at a time, not sharing blindly.

What are the limits for email sends on this? Is it managed by my provider?
What if Comcast's network is built around the idea that traffic is exchanged relatively equally? They put in gigabit switches everywhere, a nice fair balanced network.

Then Netflix comes along, and suddenly 35% of Comcast's customer traffic is all going to a handful of Netflix DSNs? Suddenly Comcast has to redo the whole connection. They have to buy top-shelf hardware just for Netflix.

I don't know if this has happened, but it's an interesting thought experiment to see how "just one company" could place disproportionate burden/cost on the ISP, as compared to the case where traffic travels to & from many different entities.
Samsung Z is Galaxy on the outside, Tizen on the inside (not Android)
Didn't all the accessories that relied on the old 30-pin connector stop working when Apple switched to Lightning a few years back?
"Pinkie Pie discovered an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to gain ring 0 control via the futex syscall. An unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting in denial of service) or for privilege escalation."

Damnit, Pinkie.
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If you can't find any work as a junior web dev at any salary then you're possibly doing something wrong with your resume or interview. It's impossible to give feedback on that without more info.
Many "Main Street" investors have their retirement savings locked up in large funds that trade much more frequently than the investor themselves do. Would you not say that HFT is skimming off of those trades, and ultimately skimming from the "Main Street" investor's retirement savings? Would you say that the marginal value that these firms add for those investors' funds is worth the premium?
The question is why didn't they try this with Comcast before shelling out millions of dollars.
> David Chang, a 2102 MIT graduate

So that's how they're doing it, they got a programmer from the future to help!
I was wondering about this too, but it's not inconceivable that they could overcome this by releasing a new cord with a subtle connection port that accepts a device to be plugged into it. Although I'm not familiar enough with the Lighting architecture to know whether it's possible to charge the phone and stream audio output simultaneously through a single port.
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What's the plan when wearables take off and you can have 1000 songs in your Google Glasses, "iWatch", or that credit card size computer that you keep in your wallet?
If there is imbalance between the traffic Comcast is sending to other networks versus what they receive that's because of the policy to forbid residential customers from hosting their own servers. Comcast created this situation because they wanted to force the internet to behave more like television.
Push the string harder!
Not to mention that Beats' business would be shooting itself in the foot by locking their products to working with iDevices only. I mean, you wouldn't even be able to jack them to your Mac! This is the worst idea ever!
This is tragic news. Instead of working on an open cross-platform solution, they create their own proprietary crap. This must die. Vote with your money.
Not if it's -0.1%.
Intel confronts a big mobile challenge: Native compatibility
I think you can use the lightening adapter on older accessories. This is the case for my logitech speakers I bought 3 years or more ago.
Intel has solved the problem of ARM-native incompatibility. But will developers bite?

App developers now frequently bypass Android’s Dalvik VM for some parts of their apps in favor of the faster native C language. According to Intel two thirds of the top 2,000 apps in the Google Play Store use natively compiled C code, the same language in which Android, the Dalvik VM, and the Android libraries are mostly written.

The natively compiled apps run faster and more efficiently, but at the cost of compatibility. The compiled code is targeted to a particular processor core’s instruction set. In the Android universe, this instruction set is almost always the ARM instruction set. This is a compatibility problem for Intel because its Atom mobile processors use its X86 instruction set
It has nothing to do with the size of the country. The US sees immigration as a privilege offered to a lower being [note], while Singapore sees (qualified) immigration as a way forward.

[note]: This may have been true for a long time in the history. People were going to the US mainland because their conditions were bad enough, and anything would have been better elsewhere. I can understand that point of view, although e.g. my situation is on equal terms in the US vs my home country. However, I don't think it'll serve the US interest in the long run.
Leipzig is a application on top of Overtone which works at a similar level to The Music Suite i.e. scales, keys, phrases, melodies.

https://github.com/ctford/leipzig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_kQh34EWA
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Wireless headphones. Induction charging. I see where they're going. Completely waterproof closed phone. Solution to their number 1 returns issue.
If it takes 2 hours to send you 1 hour of content, no amount of buffering is going to give you the instant gratification you want.