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I'm in Chattanooga and I love it. Their customer service is great and they've upgraded me from 50mbps to 100mbps, then again from 100mbps to 1000mbps for the same monthly price. I just get emails that say "We've upgraded your internet speed!" I like a free market too, but it's too late to keep the government out of the competition. They ended that game when they allowed providers to lay claim to large areas free of direct competition.
Joel is very much still around and active. Jeff went off to build Discourse [0] although I think he still has a place at the co-founder table as invisible-benevolent-dictator.

[0]: http://www.discourse.org/
I think the problem with your comment is that it is both poorly reasoned and promotional.
This is also our launch day so we're giving away 15 free hi-res photos for free!
can anyone explain how / why a canvas drawing should be unique? Doesn't that defeat the point of canvas?

edit:

So here is poc canvas fingerprint code [1]. The upshot seems to be (1) the process of turning the canvas drawing into an image (image processing, export, compression, etc) leaks information, and (2) anti-aliasing and sub-pixel rendering also leak information. But as near as I can tell, both of those are essentially equivalent to information available in the user-agent string: os version and browser version. There must be more here because, eg, for this to be useful as a ios fingerprinting solution there are so few device + os versions available this info is mostly useless. What am I missing?

[1] https://www.browserleaks.com/canvas
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At this point it is not really a good idea to use Tor anyways, given that you are then automatically targeted by the NSA and at the same time potentially provide cover for covert operations of several countries. What is really needed is political action to limit the capabilities of security agencies to indiscriminantly monitor web traffic.
As a startup who's built all of its UI on AngularJS, does introducing React/Om into the stack make sense? We have a B2B product where the users deal with a lot of CRUD forms and dashboards.

React looks interesting, but only if it gives significant advantages (time-to-market, maintainability, etc) vis-a-vis AngularJS in managing a large code-base.

Any first hand reviews?
I don't think YAML is good way to configure a tmux session. But it's popular, and simple to implement, so I may add it. I'll consider it in the next version.
Reel aka manual mowers are not silent but close enough that audiobooks are no problem. Gas mowers and audiobooks don't mix as well. Electrics are kind of in between and depend on the quality of your headphones and if your climate will tolerate over the ear style headphones. My mom only mowed the lawnmower power cord in half a couple times, you get good at avoiding it after awhile.

It is a topic of great argument if you'll get bit by more mosquitos using the manual or powered mower.

Not to ruin the love fest but my experience is manual mowers don't tolerate rocks and kids toys.
The thing that is left out of the EPB conversation is the amount of federal funding they got. While it does make a good case study, what is impressive is the smaller cities that are beginning to roll it out even in states where laws ban/limit it.

Like Opelika Power in Alabama: http://www.opelikapower.com/.

For my startup broadbandnow.com we've been emailing every mayor in the US offering free statistics about coverage, fiber penetration, etc in their local area along with how they can bring faster speeds to their area.

So far the campaign is going well, we've emailed almost 300 mayors, but after countless phone calls and email changes with city officials, the disheartening reality is that most cities have 2 options to bring faster interent to their area.

1 - Install their own network
2 - Beg incumbent providers to increase their speed / coverage.

I think it's still a few years out, but I'm forecasting a huge slew of crowd funded or community backed providers entering the market to fill the gaps in coverage. (Our goal is to be a part of that movement)
Certainly. That's why I said "parts" and not "all".

What I meant is described in slightly more detail at http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-... , in the section "3D printing goes to space"

> Using state of the art manufacturing processes where possible actually reduces cost—even if a newer manufacturing method is more expensive, the cost reductions gained from the design simplifications more than tip the scales. In particular, Dynetics and PWR are using techniques like selective laser melting and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) to "grow" entire complex engine parts out of metal powders. The Dynetics team is focusing as much as possible on reducing welds and joins, and therefore reducing assembly and manufacturing.
I've always been critical of positive discrimination, from a "two wrongs don't make a right" perspective. I've felt that programs should aim at providing equal access, not equal representation. Had you spoken to me a few years ago, i would have strongly agreed that this program was a bad idea, and more likely to stigmatize than to emancipate. I would have especially heckled it for arbitrarily benefiting one class of people at the exclusion of all others.

However.

My country adopted new electoral legislation a while ago, forcing politicial parties to put the same number of women as men on the voting ballots. I thought it was a silly idea and would lead to a decrease in the quality of candidates, and in the end it wouldn't help women get elected. Then something peculiar happened. Because all those women were on the ballots they became much more visible in the media, and because they were more visible they got elected. Because they got elected, they shook up the political establishment, and that in turn infused politics with fresh ideas, cementing the women's right to be there. After a while, it became so self-evident that a lot of women were on the ballot that the door was opened to other underrepresented communities, and the notion that only portly middle-aged white men could get elected flew out the window. It's gotten to the point that if you got rid of the law mandating it, there would still be a diverse cast on the voting ballots.

So, to conclude by making an actual point, while you can point at this fog creek initiative and see its flaws, and i agree it is a flawed program, you should give it a fair chance and measure it by its achievements. You never know what might come out of it.
I think someone hits on this in a different thread, but there are forms of incorporating these sorts of utilities that avoid most of the difficulty of maintenance, etc. For example, in the recent multi-week power outage a few years ago here in CT, the best response came from the municipally owned power company serving the Norwich area [1]. It's not impossible to do this.

Also, there are better ways to look at how to fund these. For example, having municipalities own the wiring only, and let ISPs pay to have access to the homes (similar to how telecom or power systems work now, e.g. different charge for distribution). I would love more choices of providers, honestly, and with fiber, there are better options for managing traffic at the neighborhood and local level.

[1] http://www.norwichpublicutilities.com and http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/business/the-troubling-con... (the section re: Norwich is about halfway down)
> And who's going to spot if the Uber app incorrectly calculates distances, skimming a couple bucks off each rider?

If this is being used by thousands of riders a day, I would wager it would be spotted fairly quickly. Is there good reason to imagine otherwise?
It is decent list, what is interesting for me is discovery of OnSite, I really like this idea. I think it helps that it doesn't charge a percentage.
Actual PonyORM site: http://ponyorm.com/
It's really just a testament to how terrible the private ISPs are. At least with public internet there is a theoretical way to set certain standard, whereas with the ISPs' de-facto monopolies and huge capex barrier to entry we know they have zero incentive to ever improve service.
would also like to get in on this tashoecraft@gmail.com
You state yourself exactly the problem with this and many similar situations.

"I may do injury to others, but they may not to me."

From observation, many women are NOT OK with it. They may be not explicitly not OK with it (which of course is wrong too).

A few other thoughts:

Causing injury is fine as long as the recipient, and "most of the world," is unaware? The onus is on the rest of the world not to "cause a problem," and for the recipient to point out that injury is being done, and not on the afflicter not to do injury in the first place? A woman should just be happy to be with you "as long as you give her what she needs," which apparently doesn't include fidelity?

I would be less sure.
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LOL. Good luck with that.

It's trivially easy to detect this kind of TOS abuse, even if the traffic is encrypted.

I'm all for the creation of bypass networks but suggesting that connecting those networks to a cable modem connection is just going to end badly.
I just got off the phone with a recruiter who offered me a chance at a Ruby job based on my ASP.NET experience because, quote "they have a lot of old C# guys there and they're willing to train anyone willing to cross over".

This means I can make a lateral (stack) move without having to revert back to "junior" status. Hey, I love me some C# and .NET but the offers from the open-source community are just too tempting.

I booked an interview.
The speeds may go higher, but they still are rarely what is advertised. Perhaps they should attempt utilization of advertised speeds, at this point, that would pretty much be innovation. In the U.S. at least.
Where can I take a look? In my case, this is pure JS, no Light Table or browser plugins needed. No messing with V8.
Is it only for the UK?
JavaScript could have had a better design without impacting adoption. Likewise if IE had fixed the language along with all the other improvements they added, it'd also be better by now.

IPv4 is vastly better than JavaScript for what it does.
You get +100 rep bonus for linking your accounts, so you shouldn't have a problem being allowed to comment.
There are hundreds of reasons at nearly every level of a company that can contribute to this situation. Its best summed up by Sturgeons Law, "90% of everything is crap."
I tried actively increasing my happiness by reading up the on self help / academic stuff with moderate success. I probably managed to go from well below average (based on some Seligman tests) to a bit above. I kind of had a goal to get to the top 10% which I don't think I've really hit but onwards anyway...
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Really? Instead of JavaScript, essentially any other language could have been shipped and done a better job.
Truth be told, CodePlex is fairly popular in the .NET world. TypeScript simply is a JavaScript project, plays well with Node, NPM and Jake - I think it makes sense for it to be on GitHub. It's not the first MSFT source base hosted on GitHub, probably won't be the last. Heck, I work at MSFT and keep all my open source code on GitHub.

I wouldn't read too much into that though - huge company, a bunch of projects and different audiences. CodePlex has an audience - there's a bunch of cool projects on there, too.
Water, electricity and sewer are stellar examples of things that fade into the background and are often run by highly regulated public entities. I would love for my internet to be as reliable as my power.
Well, given that it's a natural monopoly, the private sector probably isn't going to do much better with it. The natural inclination will be for a private business to demand ever-increasing rents to feed their shareholders' desire for profits and growth. Public investment can make longer-term investments that retail investors don't have the stomach for, and it's not like the private sector is utterly incapable of waste and mismanagement.
This post does a very good job of explaining clearly why Bitcoin could be huge in a way that someone not familiar or excited by the technology could understand. And I think the meta-point here from Stripe is, by the way 'we want to be the next Visa'.
+1 for Dapper - I'm a big fan. It is very fast and we use it to serve our live (mostly read-only) traffic, while using something like Entity Framework for the backend Administrative UI, which has a lot of inserts and updates.
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I read the entire comment before getting to the last line :-)
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Yes, exactly. FWIW what you've described so far doesn't ring like depression to me; rather, you're unhappy because you keep finding yourself in a situation you don't want to be in. But this is something you should discuss with a professional if you have access to one you like.
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You make two arguments and they contradict one another:

1. That public internet would suck because all public projects suck (and cite examples).
2. That private companies wouldn't be able to compete with public ones.

They cannot both be true. If the public offering was as bad as you claim, private companies could compete (e.g. on quality).

So which is it? Either public companies suck and therefore private companies would be able to compete (by virtue of them sucking less presumably) OR public companies don't suck and the private companies wouldn't be able to compete.

Your whole post reads like one of those propaganda pieces put out by the far right, interest groups, or think tanks. Just generic "all public services are terrible" then switch it up into "it is unfair that companies have to compete with taxes!"

One could take the logic in your post and use it to literally argue that all public entities ever should be closed and privatised. Even things like cops, fire services, and so on could be hit by that logic. There's no limits.
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Doesn't Dropbox have a master key? How else could they do deduplication?
One reason I'm excited about it is because it introduces some form of competition in a market that currently doesn't have any. As long as municipal broadband isn't the only option, they will have to provide better service than the existing companies in order to attract and keep business.

Also, the existing infrastructure was built with tax money and heavy tax breaks as well. Local governments won't really be at an advantage for having those levers to pull.
@xmodem: thanks for the feedback - we have a color blind mode which uses letters that should be released in the next few days. We tried to choose colors that were as distinct as possible for a color blind player, but there is definitely a limit to how far colors can go.
And was an untested design.
I imagine the recoil would have been ungovernable in the original blowback configuration and the reciprocating mass would have been relatively huge.
I've been reading all the Worm fanfic I can find on SpaceBattles. My goodness there's a lot of it. Some even finished!
I've never used browserify, despite working in node, so I could be off base but I thought you didn't need to make it an npm package to support CommonJS and play nicely with the rest of your browserify js.
Dr. Who is frustrating.

Many seasons start with a great potential, only to fall on their face. It can create such nice ideas... and then destroy them by reusing and abusing them.
(Weeping angels)

It also doesn't know how to 'scale'.
In the first (2005+) episode with the Dalek, you see how terrible and brutally efficient they are. Fast forward a few episodes/seasons, and now you must have an entire army to show how things are 'bad'.

Did you notice how many times the overall arc changes? Or rather, how it isn't described at all so the writers can come up with whatever they want?

SPOILERS

"Bad wolf" ---> "Oh I've just taken these words and sent them myself in the past." Yeah, right.

"Silence will fall" ---> So it's an event? Eh... no... it's a species that make you forget when you watch them? Almost... It's a religious movement! There! Phew, we almost had to plan something!
In that case, you don't do it for the outgassing, you do it for the actual contents of the comet.

If you have practical hydrogen-hydrogen fusion, it is at least theoretically possible to sustain quite a lot of civilization in the Oort cloud, in terms of raw energy and atoms. Without fusion it's hard to see it as anything but worthless ice, though.
That episode in particular is my personal high point of anything Star Trek, by far.
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Let me rephrase the question: why haven't they already?
Babylon 5, 1 guy wrote most of it, and it was much better planned than BSG
Yeah, this is awesome and it's making me jealous. I'm still dreaming of a world where one day Google will announce that golang source code is moving to git and GitHub.
> I disagree with your premise. I believe that all arguments rest of the degree of truth of their premises

I categorically wasn't referring to the choice of premises, but rather to the cost of finding and evaluating valid arguments themselves, even once premises are settled, for pretty much any interesting/realistic set of premises. That is, in your words, "how those premises lead to their conclusion"

The cost of finding a valid argument, or even deciding rather a prop is true without producing a witnessing argument, is more often than not intractable.

> No, I'm not [assuming arguments cost nothing -- in terms of money or effort -- to produce]

> I'm only interested within this thread about the portion of marketing that is argument construction and analysis, and not in conflating argumentation with rhetoric, marketing, or propaganda.

I assert these two statements are in direct contradiction, since I've provided several examples in this thread of how even and especially appeals to valid argumentation can be used as a form of rhetorical manipulation or propaganda.

Arguments, formal or informal, are costly to produce and even sometimes costly to evaluate.

People with vested interests can and do produce higher-quality arguments than those who don't have the means or simply don't care. Or people who want no action to happen can bog down the conversation. Or people who want something to happen can throw more resources at research and argument construction than their opponents for finite time, and win out.

And all of this even if we assume that every prop has a truth value and that finding that truth value is even decidable, which definitely is not the case.
I find the opposition to static classes odd. Unless you need the data encapsulation of an object, why force people to create an object to call functions? I find too much C# code loves creating objects for no real purpose other than that's how it works.

For SO, if we guess they max out around 2000 req/sec, then if a bunch of objects are being allocated for each request, there could be added GC pressure. From my own experience developing much higher-scale managed code, allocating objects is a real pain and people will take a lot of effort to avoid it.
It's not quite as simple as that, though. To, for example, send money from the US to Kenya via bitcoin, you need somebody in the US who is willing to sell you their bitcoin in exchange for dollars, and somebody in Kenya who is willing to buy your bitcoin in return for shillings (which are then paid to the destination seller). Creating the technology that makes this relatively transparent is quite doable, but you still need an active bitcoin market in both financial markets. If the general pattern of value transfer is unidirectional (e.g. remittances) then there needs to be a viable flow of bitcoin out of the destination country (i.e. your Kenyan bitcoin purchaser needs to regularly make purchases from foreign markets in bitcoin); that's tricky to establish.

On top of this issue, big banks charge only cents to send large amounts of cash internationally (according to somebody I talked to a couple months ago, Citi charges 10c per international ACH transaction assuming you have $250k on deposit) so the volume in the bitcoin market has to be built from small transactions -- there's no real upside to doing large transactions over bitcoin vs international ACH.
The mantra I usually hear around here in regards to tech's harms--like putting people out of work--is to make the advances and let society adapt. It seems very shortsighted.
There is a deliberate reason the sites are split. Spolsky talks about in depth here: http://vimeo.com/37309773 Since it's largely sociological, it's also the reason my money is on SE as opposed to Quora in this space.
> Mark my words: these things will mostly be used against civilians and dissidents--not standing armies.

Which is why I (German) really hate our weapons law. War will come back to Europe, we are on the fringe of a fucking Cold War turning into a Hot War with the Russians in Ukraine. Not to mention the rising inequality in Europe - if it blows up one day, it will hit hard.

I'd like to be equipped and trained properly instead of being restricted to gas revolvers, stones and arrows. Or knives, which are useless as I'm a terrible close-range fighter.
You're looking for these comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063358
> Where the few that work are taxed almost all of their income to pay for the rest that isn't?

Basic income is more about charging rents on the commons, and in the "jobless future" those rents are mainly in the form of taxes on capital ownership than on "the few who work". (Pretty much reversing the present status quo, where taxes fall heavier on those who work than those who hold capital.)
The article's title is a bit misleading, since the author brings up (although then argues against) Kurzweil's idea that there may be jobs created that we don't yet know about to fill the void left by current jobs automated out of existence.

Your point remains though -- basic income will raise its head more often whenever the specter of automation is invoked.
The US is in the peculiar situation where a large portion of the population has been convinced that government cannot be competent and thus shouldn't be expected to be.

Meanwhile, in much of the developed world, people are shocked when a train is a minute late.
I think the company in custody of the goods should be held responsible for environmental damage they cause, up to and including retrieving containers they lose.
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Ask HN: Need help with Libya address system
Hello HN community - my friend who lives in Libya says that it is a huge problem that there is no street address system in Libya. It is really difficult to find a business or location without stopping to ask many people along the way. He says that many of the streets do not even have names.

We were trying to think of a technical solution to this - many Libyans have cell phones and smart phones. If there was a way that a business could add their name, category, and geo location on a map it would be really helpful to everyone.

Does something like this already exist that they can try to get people to adopt? If not, are there resources that he could tap in to to help to build this?

He reached out to me for help and I am reaching out to the HN community - this is an opportunity to try to solve a very real problem that affects millions of people every day.

Thanks!
You do need to have more than 200 rep on one site though.