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The summary of the article by Verizon is:

> Our network is fine. Netflix is buffering because we won't allow the traffic Verizon customers request onto the Verizon network until Netflix pays us more money.
One of the nice things when solving things on SO or IRC is that your work is available for many others to benefit from. Also, since it's public, I can expect to be corrected if I'm wrong.

I'd see this as being the same as saying "Oh, you commit to open source projects, so you'd be happy to work on this private project for free!".
Isn't the Netflix-to-Verizon transit something that we already pay Verizon to maintain?
Can't even load the site, the irony !
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ThingSpeak ( https://thingspeak.com/ ) is another open source data store for the Internet of Things.
Ironically, I can't load the website.
You should edit out those public and private keys.
"Payment Guarantee": PayPal offers PayPal Seller Protection, a warranty against chargebacks and other reversals when certain conditions are met, which virtually no other electronic payment processor offers. It's not good as cash, but it's better than taking a credit card through anyone else.

"Unpaid Bills": PayPal offers invoicing for free. Unpaid bills don't disappear, they're tracked and searchable.

"Immediate Cash": Money received through PayPal is spendable immediately, both online with PayPal payments, and offline with their free debit card. They also offer automatic daily sweeps to your bank account.

The only thing this post seems to convey is that the author thinks contractors should prefer cash over PayPal. The POS references are out of place -- service providers don't buy POS software, they use the invoice button in QuickBooks or one of the online alternatives.
That chart is worthless without numbers.

First off, the chart makes it sound like Netflix is preferring subpar transit providers, and that by simply switching to different transit providers, they'd be fine. But there's no numbers on total bandwidth. For example, if Verizon has 100Gbps to Netflix's content providers, and only 40Gbps to their other content providers, then the additional 20Gbps is going to be a drop in the bucket.

It could be the reverse: Netflix is choosing the 40Gbps provider where they could be choosing the 100Gbps, in which case they could easily triple the available bandwidth they have to send to Verizon.

But, we all know that's not the real issue.

Finally, if peak utilization means that netflix is saturating the router with reduced bitrate video, then increasing that could very well lead to saturation in the internal Verizon network.

EDIT:

I ran some numbers. If Netflix's providers are saturating at 100%, and other providers are only at 44% peak, and then peak incoming traffic is exiting the Verizon router at 56% peak, that should roughly mean that Netflix has roughly 3.6x the amount of bandwidth from "other transit providers" than it does from Netflix's transit providers, which, in turn, means that Verizon has roughly 2x the total bandwidth that Netflix uses available on it's network. What isn't mentioned is what percentage Netflix uses of it's current providers, how those "other providers" are split up, the maximum theoretical utilization, etc...

What isn't mentioned is how that's split up. It's probable Netflix can't use on most of those links even if they wanted to, and there's no word on how many links there are. If it was one giant link, and Netflix could use on it, sure, Netflix should probably try to do that.

Bottom line: I don't think there's anything technically limiting Verizon's capacity to Netflix's transit providers, as according to their numbers, Netflix's transit providers only constitute ~22% of the total bandwidth into Verizon. Down the line, it's probable that, even if these link issues were fixed at the border router, they would pop back up again in the Metro Area router or aggregation router, and really gum up Verizon's network.
Right, this simple model is vulnerable. They are actually having a conversation in the comments about this.

I just liked the way of explaining it to laypeople. Leaving all mathematics behind, taking a model that everyone understands (and yes, some commentators are missing the point, discussing how it is possible to un-mix colors).
If you'd like a different perspective regarding the quality of your broadband connection and the reasons for congestion this is a good read that basically says ATT at least does not provide enough connectivity from the Level 3's optical backbone to their regional networks. I suspect Verizon is probably the same.

http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/chicken-game-play...

Here's a letter Level3 wrote to ATT on the subject [pdf].
http://www.level3.com/~/media/Assets/legal/cicconi.pdf
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I didn't try to solve anything; basic income, zero income tax, zero investment tax, highly progressive consumption tax -- that's my my current ideal but unfortunately a progressive consumption tax isn't very workable.
That sounds great actually.
We don't have an API now but we're planning to start one in the next 30 days and I was wondering about how we were going to do the real-time aspect.

I'm going to bookmark this.
What I want to know is if it's technically possible with iOS to actually do it? I mean with the existing APIs available to developers?
Not sure where in the article specifically you are referring to.

What I saw: "The software uses wireless beacon-driven technology that operates in tandem with smartphones based on a user’s micro-location to exchange data and information." "To help guide people through the r/evolution workplace showroom, Knoll employed Bounce by Knoll, a brand new mobile app that will push information to users as they encounter Bluetooth beacons positioned throughout the showroom." suggests that beacon broadcast an id, or position and the app uses that info to fetch data from the cloud relevant to the user's position, which is roughly triangulated from relative signal strength of each beacon.

They can analyze user's movement through the cloud.
Yes, but Verizon also wants Netflix to pay them for that same transit.

That's what the whole blog article is about. Verizon trying to invent valid reasons for why they want Netflix to pay them.
Recent research seems to show that xkcd suggestion is not as safe as one would think see (https://www.ted.com/talks/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_w...)
Hopefully 3 will do a better job of syncing, I had so many sync issues with 2 that I switched to Todoist.
Doesn't even load for me. http://i.imgur.com/wT7zV3f.png
I'm going to say something controversial, so take it with a grain of salt. I believe it depends significantly on the age/experience of the leaders (I'm 44 years old).

One thing that comes with experience is the realization that hours of startup work do not necessarily translate into results. At IndexTank I routinely averted multi-week efforts (saving lots of late night hacking) because I realized that their potential value to the company would have been marginal at best. It's true that there are times when a team needs to fix something ASAP, which may require 24-48 hours of near-constant work. However, this should not be the norm.

In the long run, having a team where everyone works insane hours leads to burnout, turnover, and monoculture (i.e. mostly twentysomethings without family commitments). A leadership team who can figure out that 500 hours of X is as valuable as 2000 hours of Y can yield the same results without unnecessary suffering.
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The page isn't even loading at all. Just the "his webpage is not available" message. WTG, Verizon.
Exactly. They took Netflix's bait with the "congestion" message. They're demonstrating that their network isn't congested and now we're closer to seeing that they really are attempting to charge multiple customers for the same traffic.
Keeping a password written down (in your wallet, in your desk, etc) is probably safer than you'd think, because people generally know how to secure physical items, but they're much less certain about how to secure digital information.

I think it's obvious that expiring passwords increases security to some degree. It's also clear that user reactions will induce people to reduce the security of those passwords. The password expiry interval you choose (potentially as long as the duration of the system's existence) depends on your threat model, really. Security is hard and often application-specific.
And we don't necessarily have to take every single view seriously. The vast majority of people don't want a massive polluting factory built next to their single-family home. The fact that a few people disagree doesn't mean that every project get bogged down in a discussion of the legitimacy of zoning as a concept.
The most incredible part is that the facts and anecdotes presented so far don't agree with Verizon's tale, so instead of Verizon decided to respond with a fluffy PR piece instead of fixing the problem or countering with facts. Verizon seems completely unwilling to take any blame in this and does not seem to have their customer's best interest at heart.

There are no new facts in this article other than a useless infographic and repeated claims that Netflix is saturating their link with content Verizon customers are asking for.
you actually watch below 720p?

i'd switch back to downloads for HD before watching something with that resolution.
> Are you a password cracker?

Is that a job title? I have cracked passwords before, yes.

> Do you have a password cracker database in front of you?

Yes? It isn't the English dictionary, it is a common password list assembled by someone else based on historical password leaks.

> Tbh the best password he could have written would probably have been a sentence like

As stated in the article, the complexity requirements didn't really allow sentences. And that is been my experience with a bunch of systems. They have artificial length limits (e.g. 20 characters) and require arbitrary types of characters.

Windows' default complexity requirements are a typical example of this kind of thinking. It should be calculated based on some kind of strength score, not on 1980s style character sets which actually reduce the scope of available passwords (e.g. if the first letter has to be a letter, you now know that it is one of 52 characters).
No, it was set up to be more or less "what pg finds interesting", and that is a lot more than tech and startups.
Or can.

My 5mbps AT&T DSL struggles to load Hulu and Netflix on a daily basis, even at just 480p
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You can always spot a one sided blog post because the ability to leave comments is always turned off. I bet they spent more time building the inforgraphic than they did addressing the customers issue.
We need ISPs and the general public to demand that first statement be delivered as

"Our customers request an unprecedented amount of data and traffic from Netflix."

This is Verizon's problem, not Netflix's.

ADD: Netflix doesn't just randomly send data and traffic onto Verizon's network. That data is requested by Verizon ('s customers).
That's the most windows phones I've ever seen in one picture.
Assuming you connected your Verizon IP to a VPN server that resides in a non-Verizon network, that test is insufficient to deduce that the ISP looks at the data. As Verizon is saying, Netflix does not pay enough for the data that they send. They don't need to inspect the data. By connecting your VPN to a non-Verizon network, Verizon sees the Netflix stream coming from that network (not Netflix).
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It's important to understand that there are tradeoffs with lazy loading. There's a spectrum, right?

On one end, you could serve all of your js bundled with browserify on the first page load, which, for SPA's will frequently block rendering until the entire bundle is downloaded, parsed, and executed. If your bundle is small, who cares? Once your app grows to a large enough size, that initial delay might no longer be worth it.

On the other end, you could serve almost no assets with the initial page load, and request what you need when you need it. Your initial render will be blazingly fast but any first interaction might be slowed by the latency involved in going to get the relevant assets needed to execute the interaction.

Somewhere in the middle you may find a solution involving sending half of your assets initially and requesting the other half when you need them.

It's not helpful to write off various methods of asset loading because of assumptions about latency, bundle size, or DOMContentLoaded event delay. The important part of this article is that it speaks to the various approaches to this problem. I'm guessing the author took the time to weigh the pros and cons of these approaches, chose this one which particularly works for him, and wrote about it to share his findings.

This isn't a trivial problem with one solution. Dig into the performance of your apps while wearing multiple hats and take what works best for your situation ;)
Who decides when a marked disruption is 'abnormal'?
Start an Uber competitor that only gives surge pricing charges to drivers. Your rates should be lower.

As long as monopoly abuses are prevented, this problem will work itself out.
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Seems the issue (according to Verizon) is that Netflix is using "connections specifically to be used only for balanced traffic flows.". Can someone comment on this and the difference between the two (if any)?
For those interested in these types of things, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It is a great quick read that builds on the same principle: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Yourself-Like-Your-Depends-ebook/...
I do. Comcast. Data cap.

Of course, what I would -prefer- is to ditch Comcast, and yes, watch at a higher resolution, and I will at the first available opportunity. But can't. Because monopoly.
Correct.

PDO is great because one API works with many technologies. So today you're working with MySQL, but tomorrow you may be working with postgres, and the next day sqllite or MSSQL. It's nice to not have to relearn everything (sure each technology will still have quirks, but largely they work the same with PDO). That flexibility comes with a few limitations, because if one technology supports it and another doesn't, that defeats the whole "one API to rule them all" thing.
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If I gave this level of feedback for every candidate I talked to, I'd never get real work done. I think there's also the idea that we don't want to burn any bridges or upset you. It's easier and safer to say "You're not a fit" than to say "Your code isn't good enough, and here are all the problems we found with it." If you take that poorly, then it stresses everyone out, and I'm at risk of getting irate emails from whoever. Furthermore, I don't want you to be badmouthing our company because you think your code is the shit and we disagree.

I think the best way to get feedback on a rejected code sample is to give your code to an objective third party and ask their opinion, like OP did here.
A lottery instead of an auction makes some amount of sense when talking about a necessary item (like general transportation in an emergency, or milk/other foodstuffs, etc). It doesn't make so much sense when talking about a luxury item.

So the question is, how do you see Uber? I love Uber because it's practically impossible to get a cab in SF, but I don't view Uber as a necessity. It's still basically a luxury car service, no matter how popular it is. If it gets large enough to cause the regular cabs to actually start disappearing, then I'll agree it's moving into the "necessity" space (as it will be supplanting the existing regulated supply of transportation), but until that happens, I don't think it makes sense to demand an auction.

As an analogy, if a natural disaster hits and prevents stores from restocking their milk, AIUI the existing laws prevent them from raising the price on milk in return (as it's generally considered a necessity). But what about the hippy organic store down the block, that sells more expensive cruelty-free, organic, locally-sourced milk? Seems like a bit of a luxury good to me, and I would not have a problem with prices being raised on that particular milk, because I can always go to the grocery store and buy the regular milk like everyone else. Of course, I don't know how the law actually treats this particular scenario (and I am rather curious).
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Front page had ranking problems that autokilled some stuff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8015140
Yeah the site/page has been down/slow. Getting ISE 500 errors.
> First, we will obsess over our customers.

I bet that not every customer of MS wants the mobile-first and cloud-first experiences. In order to push forward, they have to slam down a lot of existing models and platforms, e.g., the Windows before 8 and Office before 365, and doing these does not feel painless to MS, IMHO. They must be facing difficult choices in the years to come.
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Is this the same Nedb? https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb/

Looks like a pretty nice project.
There are several situations where I would be perfectly fine with 480 if it meant I didn't have to deal with loading issues. Watching a cartoon in a lower resolution doesn't detract much from the experience (IMHO).
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> Another way to think about it is that tech buses compete with public transportation.

This is a nonsensical way of looking at it. If the city opened up new bus lines going straight to and from Google and Facebook all the same people would be complaining about tax dollars being misappropriated by the rich. And they would be right. Why should everyone else pay for a bus straight to Google when only Googlers benefit?
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It seems like Netflix is the one providing value to the Verizon network so it should be the other way around. It would be like someone saying "I'm not downloading these files from a webserver because they're not paying me to download it."
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It's always kind of strange to me that Verizon only wants to provide settlement-free peering "where the relative traffic flows between an IP network provider and us remain roughly equal".

If you were to take that at face value, it means that Verizon would happy to provide free peering if only Netflix modified its client so it uploaded a number of random bytes equal to the size of the stream it was downloading.

But that's nonsensical, right?
On my phone I do.
> for-hire cars still have obvious externalities

Like what? Note that, for example, "They take up space on the road and pollute the air" doesn't count because not-for-hire cars do the exact same thing. It has to be an externality that is caused by the fact that the ride is for-hire. There may be such externalities, but I think they are far from obvious.

> the logic that taxi medallions were bad public policy because "monopoly" was flimsy

It's not the medallions per se that are the bad public policy, it's artificially limiting the supply (and then compounding the problem by making them transferrable). That's what the OP (almost surely) meant by "monopoly". Zoning also artificially constrains the supply of land available for certain uses, but that is clearly justifiable because of the (actually obvious) externalities of land use. The externalities of paying someone for a ride are far less clear.
Did you file a complaint with Uber? As far as I'm aware, what that driver did is a violation of Uber policies (both canceling without a good reason, and waiting 10 minutes before said cancellation). I think that Uber should proactively check up on all driver cancellations, but they probably only check up on complaints, so go ahead and complain when that happens.

If people complain when their drivers cancel, drivers won't cancel anymore (without a valid reason). The only way they can get away with it is if you say nothing.
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Why? I belieb that those keys are unique to the stream (which I don't really care about).
As if the hardware / software stack you'd 'host it yourself on' is secure?
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Not really. Even in an absolute sense, linux-vserver is/was contemporary with zones.

Yes, in the sense that partitioning technology isn't new. zones and jails are comparable to vserver/openvz/lxc. vpars, lpars, and ldoms have analogues on mainframes. Various hypervisor technologies (xen, kvm, vmkernel) are also not unique to solaris, and were done on Linux.

What Docker offers that none of these do not is that it's containerization for applications without the "weight" of even zones. It's not virtualizing systems. It's starting one application in its own container. That's it.

I don't know who's spreading this "Docker is just like zones" FUD, but it's wrong. Linux has had container-level virtualization for a decade, and LXC has had mainline support for a while. Docker builds on that, but it's different.

At the same time, EMC is not shitting themselves over docker. Application containers will not replace traditional or container virtualization for all workloads. But they will for some.
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Does he define who they consider to be a "customer?" This has been a problem with MS (et al) in the past.
I moved from the east coast to San Jose about 8 years ago. The adjustment for me was weird. I left a small town for the big city. I had to find things to do here that were easy for me back home.

What I discovered is that there are always places to hike, bike, walk, play basketball, social groups, tech circles you just need to find them.

I'm 37 (so 90 in Valley Years) and I share the same vision you described above. What worked for me was making sure I separated myself from my work. Make it appoint to get out and find the things I like to do and then dont make an excuse not to do them. Does that bug really need to be fixed tonight? Or can you fix it in the morning after some exercise, food, sleep and for me a clearer mind....

YMMV.
The first time the page failed to load, the second time it took 52.76 seconds according to the Chrome Developer Tools. I'm on a university network that is super fast.
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Do you honestly think that poorer people are poorer because they sit around watching Breaking Bad all day? Have you perhaps ever met someone who works hard at three jobs at minimum wage and can't make ends meet, especially in an incredibly expensive city like NYC? I mean what planet are you living on?
Anyone else notice that Wikipedia articles are more likely to show even numbered birth years?
Verizon is blaming Netflix for sending "an unprecedented amount of traffic" and "not taking steps to ensure that there is adequate capacity for their traffic to enter" Verizon's network.

The thing is, Netflix is NOT pushing any of that traffic to Verizon. It is Verizon's customers who are pulling that traffic from NetFlix -- and they are paying Verizon to deliver it!!!

More here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7701494