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> Google is not an ISP for consumers

I mean, it is. They provide internet service, to consumers. They are by definition a consumer ISP.

You might as well say "Google is not a retailer for consumers". Except when they are (Google Shopping Express, Google Play Store, etc)

Not to mention the dozens of other, smaller groups who run ISP's pushing similar speeds, and make it their mainline business.

http://www.vermontel.com/internet
https://epbfi.com/internet/
http://www.sumofiber.com/residential_internet
https://www.highlandsfibernetwork.com/internet

> does the fact that OnePlus offers the OnePlusOne for $300 (to the few people who can get it) mean that the Galaxy S5, which has similar specs but costs twice as much, is unreasonably priced?

If Samsung had a monopoly on phone sales, so that you were required to purchase a Galaxy S5 (just as most people are required to by Comcast to get any modern internet whatsoever) then yes, it would be fair to say that the S5 is unreasonably priced when compared to a OnePlus.

But their not. Anyone can choose to not purchase a Galaxy S5, and still own a smartphone with a dataplan. You can't choose to not purchase Comcast and still have high speed internet (in most areas).

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If Comcast wants to keep their monopoly, they have to submit to regulation on prices and services. (Just like every other utility). If Comcast doesn't want to be regulated, all they have to do is give up their monopoly utility status.

It's fairly cut and dry. They can't have it both ways. They can't keep getting free government money as a utility, and then turn around and pretend to be a luxury good (like a Galaxy S5 is).
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sounds like fun, i'll try to stop by.
http://digitalsundial.com/

I won one. It is a very weird object.
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Yes, on mobile sync really only make sense if also works when the device has spotty or no connectivity, so that naturally entails eventual consistency in some form.

We are not ready to into details about how our sync solution will work yet, but watch out for some announcements soon.
How about this vs. UWSGI?
Ask HN: Those that travel and code, how did you start?
Hi everyone,

I'm sure there are a lot of developers who have the opportunity to travel and code at the same time. Shipping product from different countries all the time.

I would like to know, how did you start? Does your ability to ship code suffer? How did you persuade your boss to let you work like that? Are there any downsides?
I'd love to see the two as a couple.
> If you use a service, the service has a right to collect certain data about you.

I think this is the crux of the problem. The reality is that no, a service does not have a right to collect data about you. The service provider may ask that you provide certain data to use the service, but that collection is not a right.

> It only becomes an issue when the company behind that service has its hand in many pies and correlates all of the related data, or worse, if they share or sell that data to other entities.

The notion that one has a right to collect data from users of a service is the same notion that says the service provider has ownership of that data. But this is faulty, the data is not owned by the service provider, it was merely collected and stored. This distinction is important: if you feel you own the data, you feel that you should be able to sell it. If you feel you are a custodian of data, then you are defaulting to protecting that data from others that a user never agreed to give it to in the first place.
So what are you doing now? It seems like being able to approach small businesses is such a valuable skill.
I wish it was easy like that. I don't know anyone who has successfully "not-bothered-away" bullies. They will stop as soon as it's socially no longer a gainful action for them. Not bothering may be part of it but it's certainly not sufficient.
I am reminded of the "Voices From The Hellmouth" project from Slashdot long ago:

http://news-beta.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-...
How is the deal structured? Per stream, per 'play', per open? What about books that have higher list prices? etc. Existing ebook rights contracts are based on the agency model (70/30 split with retailer, then some portion of the 70 for the publisher and author). What happens in this model? Authors and agents will probably want to hold out for 'streaming' rights as a separate thing, perhaps. Not sure how Oyster and Scribd are structured, but i suspect that one thing limiting the major houses for streaming is contractual question marks.
http://www.digitalsundial.com/

This website sells small versions, my guess is that larger ones (as seen here[1]) are made on order, if at all.

[1]http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/genk-sundial-park
What made the American Revolution succeed through violence were the facts that (1) it was a war of attrition against a foreign, remote power, and (2) it was bolstered by another foreign, rival remote power. Due to its far-flung nature, it cost British Empire a LOT of money to keep the war effort going, and moreover at a time when they were hurting for cash (since this was just after the Seven Year's War with France). The Americans and French were able to make it too costly for Britain to continue to hold on to the colonies.

Britain also tried to take America back in the War of 1812, but was again thwarted by the costs of maintaining a war abroad (and the war had come to a stalemate by 1814).

Unlike most revolutions we see today (which are revolutions at home, and become civil wars if they turn violent), the American Revolution succeeded through violence because it was against a foreign adversary and because the Americans were able to make it too costly for Britain to maintain their war effort. These preconditions do not apply to local revolutions, where no side has an economic incentive to stop fighting until the other sides are crushed. Each factions' lives are on the line, largely eliminating the cost consideration. It's not like King George III or the members of Parliament were in danger of losing their lives, families, and lands if the Americans won.
Epic is everywhere in hospitals, but at $1.7B in revenue, they're only a fraction of the size compared to McKesson ($140B in annual revenue). Cerner, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, Pyxis, and others are all big players throughout the value chain.
what about the democratic process? The UK politicians are being punished over the UK/US extradition policy. Who in the EU are you going to punish if one day we wake up with TTIP on our backs? Nobody, because there is no democratic process in the EU. Are you going to vote EU Commission out?

The lack of democracy is no.1 problem with the EU. Any person who believes in democracy really can't say I believe in EU at the same time.
Running fast makes Gemma feel good about herself and feeling good is the most fragile resource in the game. We realize that we need to represent the player’s emotional state somehow but nothing seems to fit.

Turn it around - completing levels or collecting tips or beating a clock produces good vibes, but when she feels bad she can't run fast, which limits her freedom of movement. After all, when you feel depressed you're not a bundle of energy, requiring you to do more climbing/plodding to get through the tasks you have to do.
Context: We're talking about teenagers. Yes, teenage boys have politics, and emotional cruelty. Still, on average, teenage boys are more physically aggressive and less emotionally manipulative than teenage girls.
Mostly it's drowning, and this being voted up on HN is one facet of the problem. Us discussing it being on HN is another facet of the problem.
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Headline is incorrect: She did not email models of her vagina, she sent "data that could be used to create 3D models of her vagina".

Small point? Nope. Quoting again, "one debate is about whether the scanned 3D data can be categorised as obscene unless the recipients have printed it out".

The actual BBC headline is "Japan 'vagina artist' arrest sparks debate".
It’s unlikely that we can prevent the total surveillance society from happening
>Why would you have both passwords be the same? That makes no sense.

Sure it does. With only one password you are less likely to forget how to log in to an account. It makes perfect sense.

>All passwords should be different.

And eat veggies with every meal. And properly hydrate throughout the day. And get 40 minutes of moderate cardio at least three times a week. And call your mother more. And floss daily.

You can't expect all the people to follow the "best" advice all the time.
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So, my only concern with this idea is the inconsistency of the stories we tell ourselves vs the way the world is, and how the two seem to be confused here.

High school, for me at least, was a fairly dark time in my life. If i knew myself, the only thing i would be able to tell myself is, it's going to suck until you're halfway through college.

Bullies, at least the best ones, don't leave you alone. They don't leave you alone if your confident, they don't leave you alone if you're hurt. They just don't care. They have either yet to learn empathy, or are simply sociopaths and you're simply a fixture in their lives, entertainment.

Now, assuming this is the case, which it was for me. You have a choice. Make a game that is a bit dark, existential, cathartic, or simply make a game that tells us to believe the nonsense that we are told to tell ourselves: be confident, give your bully the "i'm not a chicken, you're a turkey" speech, excel and you'll get respect.

I think if you want to make a truly interesting game, ignore the uplifting nonsense and go for the catharsis. It gets better when you're able to choose your friends, your you're able to make friends on your own terms, not just pick from those around you.

If i were going to make a game like this i would have aspects like:

* Having a good cry shouldn't be in game death, it should be a power up.

* Being vulnerable and hurt and carrying on regardless should be strength.

When i started making friends in upper level classes in college, i was able to be friends with people that saw the world in interesting ways, and cared about things that made sense. We had mutual respect, and that was that. The nasty politics of social groups has rarely ever crept into my life since.
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While I agree with what you're saying to some extent, it's not so one-sided.

Take the (digital) music as an example. For a long time CDs were the only way to buy it. Then it was DRMd CDs I couldn't easily listen to. (but Kazaa already offered an alternative) Then it was music downloads with its own players, that were more expensive than CDs. (alternative: DC at the university) Then it was DRMd internet download/streaming services at prices comparable to physical media. (and torrent everywhere)

Now finally we've got a fairly cross-platform access to (almost) all the popular music out there that brings the physical production, storage and distribution costs down to almost nothing. Artists had nothing to do with it, but the distributors/producers could be in the position currently taken by Spotify / Google Music / iTunes many years ago. They could also keep prices higher than the current ones. They absolutely failed by sticking to old ways.

Customers finally got what they were asking for for a decade and now people act surprised it's a good business causing race to the bottom. It will sort itself out if it's unsustainable. Interesting bands will likely create a new service, offering streaming at higher prices with more profits going to them at some point.

If some band wants to get paid above the streaming rate, they should publish their album for direct download - people will buy it if they're good enough.
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At this point, it has two votes.
This is great! It's always so hard to explain how bootstrap css and html work to non-technical people.
Cloudwatch desperately needs a new UI. Of all the AWS control panels, cloudwatch should have the best UI, but somehow, it is one of the worst.

AWS really needs to reorient themselves here if they want to get serious in the space.
I am just starting to work on a Roguelike in Java now. How did you know?
One more thing: you should definitely look at the Reaper recording software: http://reaper.fm/

It has honorable pricing, an unlimited trial, and every feature you could ever need. It's particularly well suited for the kind of stuff you're doing: it has ripple editing, automatic alignment of repeated takes and so on. Can't recommend it enough. Make sure to read the manual though, it uses the mouse buttons in an unusual way.
Yes it does. Maybe not as often but it does. And you can't always ignore mean words either. I can, and I assume you can, and it is a very useful ability to be sure, but not everyone has such an easy time discarding the opinions and words of others. My son, for example, cannot. I am still hoping to teach him the skill, but it will be something he learns through difficulty, not something he comes by naturally.
Excuse me, but this is not about "free trade" per se. Trade between Europe and America already is to a large extent free. Why do you think it has the volume it already has today? So free trade rhetoric is misplaced here. What TTIP is about is about regulations, for example concerning food or medicine, patent and copyright laws, etc. And I, for one, abhor US patent laws, or their blatant and complete disregard for the environment or animal beings, etc. I don't want your crap food here, your GMO conglomerates, or your patent lawyers. And for sure I don't want Germany or France to be financially liable to some faceless big corp when it rules certain things in the interest of the people it is supposed to protect and represent! Sure, do what you want, you can have your "standards" at your side of the Atlantic and continue to get reamed by your political elite and Washington lawyers. But don't export them here, to us!

What I find particularly galling is how TTIP proponents dangle a decimal point rise in GDP in front of us when it is not even possible to forecast accurately the economy as it is. What is more, let's go with it and assume it came to pass -- GDP miraculously increased by what they said it would as a result. What about the costs incurred in terms of loss of (even more) control over our food supply chain, increase in health care costs, more draconian imposition of your patent and copyright laws, etc etc.

Nobody with a job and not a specialist can be reasonably expected to get to know in detail what such agreements entails. So there needs to be a basis of trust that the US will not fuck us over. And here you seem to forget: The US, since Adolf Bush and his co-captain Barack Hitler, is doing its best to lose massive amounts trust and goodwill here, even in traditionally pro-America Germany. You don't have much credit left, both literally and figuratively, better not squander it. We believe you less and less. Just go away. You have already taken more than enough.
Rather, on average, teenage boys are bullied more physically than emotionally. It's been a while, but I remember. I received both physical and emotional, but the physical was worse. I didn't take the long way home to avoid people who mocked me.
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How is Buffer app able to upgrade users outside of app?
So there I was on Sunday doing some research into in app purchases and upgrade mechanics and I tried Buffer.

Buffer allows a user to 'Upgrade to awesome' after downloading the app from the Google Play Store. However, when the user selects the option in-app they are directed to the Buffer website where subscription is taken - for content provided in-app.

How are they able to do this or are they just breaking Play Store rules?

Thanks!
Made me laugh. IIRC that's Merlin Mann's characterisation of material based on surprising factoids and "everything you think you know about x is wrong" type stuff.

BTW you should all strongly consider listening to the Roderick on the Line podcast. The latest episode is a good one.
> I do not think you can generate enough great code in a few days to get noticed.

I'd agree that you can not generate enough great code in a few days to get noticed by the open source community in general. However, you can generate enough great code in a few days to get noticed by a hiring manager who is sifting through a couple of dozen CVs, all of which look pretty much the same as yours, deciding who to call in for an interview. A modest amount of code can also give a hiring manager a first-order indication as to its quality.

What I'm talking about here are developers who have nothing at all whatsoever. That should be a massive red flag. Unfortunately, because so many job candidates have nothing at all out there, it can't be.
Children subject each other to behaviours that would see them sacked or even arrested if it happen when they were adults in a workplace.

This is not about "stop saying things that offend me"; this is about things that you would see as pyschogical torture if they happened to you.

Perhaps there's a niche in the market for "Torment as a service" - you sign up and confirm, and then you get a month of the kind of abuse suffered by people. There are varying levels of abuse on offer.

The game does fail to acknowledge one thing: most harm suffered by children happens in the home, usually from siblings. This is true even if we only include activity that could be considered as "abuse" (physical, sexual, or emotional) by child protection social workers.

The scariest thing to a child is likely to be a member of that child's family.
Wonderful crossover piece. I could email this to members of my family or my other nerd friends. It's intimate and shareable. Plus it works as a promo for the game. The structure is nice, and it flows. Most excellent.
In order for someone to be a "beta male", it implies they are being competitive, too. They are just less successful than the "alpha males".

"Metrosexual" is just a more PC way of calling men who care a lot (relatively) about their appearance/grooming gay. The term has supposedly nothing to do with sexual orientation, yet the term is ostensibly about it since it has "sexual" as a suffix. (And I don't really see how so-called metrosexuals can't be competitive.)
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What do you think would happen to bid-ask spreads if this was imposed?
I was thinking more than 1 person must be thinking this sounds strangely like an invitation for a fat torrent.
patio11 has a great blog post tangentially related to this:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-en...
To talk about the kickstarter campaign for a second: It seems that they've seriously undervalued or underestimated the amount of interest in the game: the highest reward is $1000 and it's gone (there's only one) the next highest reward is $300 (5) and they're all gone too. meanwhile they still need to make over $25,000 in basically just game sales, which can erode future game sales (when the game is officially released)

They are also asking for an insanely small amount of money for a game that won't be out for another 9 months, while promising to develop for 4 of the 7 major platforms.

Best of luck, I hope it's good because this is the first AUS kickstarter I'm supporting.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1107526107/ninja-pizza-...
Rupert Murdoch Is Trying To Buy Time Warner For A Huge Price
Comcast agent's 'belligerent' tone prompts apology
I didn't realize it was indefinite access. That does change it, and makes it worthwhile. I just wish I could edit my last post still.
"Time Warner's share price jumped some 16.35% higher in the first 20 minutes of trade on the New Stock Exchange to $82.62 per share." Bwahaha. Does this show how happy investors are that TW rejected the offer? :-)
It's still audible decoration.
I think the next step is all you can eat games, we already have movies, books, music, why not games? It seems easy with platforms like Steam
I even doubt incompetence. If he has my resume with my current job listed on it and pitches to that exact same job, it's purposeful and malicious.
So all the parents here forgot what it was like to been a teen. Seems about right.

Here is what the article said - "Teens worry about their peers."

This is apparently eye opening to people who were once teens. What is it with parents that completely forget high school?
> But it does not work any more. The "growth" of the last two decades did go 99% into the pockets of the millionaires and billionaires.

According to the world bank, the number of people in poverty worldwide declined from about 1.9 billion in 1990 to about 1.2 billion in 2010. That is despite an increase in surveyed population of about 1.4 billion over the same period. ( http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1,0 )

Now, it is possible that economic growth over that period was so enormous that only 1% of it (or less, considering that there are more people in the world besides the very destitute, millionaires, and billionaires) was sufficient for that amazing reduction in poverty.

But it seems unlikely, so I would appreciate a source for the assertion "The 'growth' of the last two decades did go 99% into the pockets of the millionaires and billionaires."
I hope this works on the iPhone although since the Kindle lending library does not I would not be surprised if it doesn't. Since I'm blind a $69 Kindle obviously won't work and I can't justify $200 for a Kindle Fire that I would use just to read books. I did the math and it would take me several years to make buying a Kindle Fire worth while verses just buying the books through Kindle.
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That's a bit like telling people who live in dangerous areas that the best response to a mugger is not to let them impoverish you. Bullies select people who seem physically or emotionally fragile to start with.
Sorry for the self promotion, but checkout my TEDx Talk on Open Source hardware and IP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGhj_lLNtd0

How do you make a profit selling something? It's pretty straight forward: You provide better service, quality, price, availability and innovation than your competition. Open source has nothing to do with profitability, the way you run your business does.

Arduino is a good example but there are many other healthy companies doing open source hardware: SparkFun, lulzbot, dangerousprototypes, seedstudio, TI, STmicro, I'm missing dozens more but the coffee is a little weak this morning. Mouser and element 14 even have OSHW categories that they sell. Tindie is a great place for discovering and selling shorter run, cool little open source widgets. Checkout the https://pinocc.io/ and Clyde Lamp kickstarters. My wife got her Clyde reward the other night - it's AMAZING.

How do these projects have sustainable income?

1) They sell the thing for more than it costs. Sounds simple but kickstarter is littered with projects that got this wrong.
2) Innovate to sustain (and increase) your number of customers, products, and income.

This is where the future is: I don't have the want/skills/time to build a good, aesthetically pleasing, desk lamp, so I buy a Clyde. The fact that it is open means I can change the user interface to fit my needs. Open source products will win because users will want customization that closed system simply cannot support.
You are right that Vermont and Wyoming are even more ridiculously over represented than DC would be.

I may be biased as a Californian, but I don't see why a person from Wyoming should have 25% more representation in the House and 6500% more representation in the Senate.
Sheez. Why not enable users to drag any tab to anywhere along any edge of any window?

Tabbed window manager with pie menus for The NeWS Toolkit 2.0, from 1991: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/TabWindowDemo.mov

NeWS PostScript source code: http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/tab-3.0.2.ps.txt
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