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Still looks like peering to me: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/guidelines

Even if you can colo with Comcast (which I can't find any information about online) you're still not direct-peering with their AS, which is what Netflix is asking for with Open Connect. I'm sure they'll also charge you for bandwidth. This is definitely different than putting a box in a colo facility. This is putting a box in a peering location and eliminating the transit cost and performance hit.
Kudos to you for spending your time striving to help others in need. This project is amazing and also inspiring!
You can work with Netflix on this. Your peak usage time as an ISP should be 9 AM to 5 PM or 6 PM to 11 PM depending on if you serve businesses or residential. You then schedule the sync to be at 3 or 4 AM when normal traffic is at the lowest, resulting in minimal impact.

You can even get a cross connect (I believe Netflix will even reimburse your side of the CC fees, but don't quote me on that) to a Netflix hub so loading will not hit your 95th billing with your upstreams.
If Netflix is saving a shit-ton of money and providing a better service to their customers by peering, and Comcast has less upside, why shouldn't Comcast charge Netflix for the privilege?

I don't know if we can accurately estimate who's saving how much, and I definitely don't believe anything coming from Comcast. Given that there is no way to reach Comcast customers other than Comcast and both parties have an incentive to lie about their costs, I think zero is the fairest price for such peering.
I was thinking they have bad reputation. Have they not?
I would say you should hold off your judgement of value a bit. That is the charming part, to give a chance to people to interest you. Maybe they will too find it boring or distasteful and you will have a chance to be charming giving incentive to they chase their dreams. Or recognize that if they find what they do interesting, that is enough. There is no reason to judge how they experience their job. It is not like it is common to meet a dictator or something.

I agree with your parent comment, where a script that includes a fake reaction cheapens the interaction. Be open to diversity is a more honest way to be charming.

EDIT: 6d0debc071, for some reason I can't reply once more. But my answer is very much in the line of mbech last comment here. Use something that doesn't involve deception. A question rather than an affirmation.
I think these guys are using MagLIF (Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion).

Here's an article about MagLIF research using the Z Machine at Sandia Labs: http://www.nature.com/news/triple-threat-method-sparks-hope-...
I wouldn't be surprised if that cost is still a drop in the bucket compared to salaries though. How much deuterium is a startup like this likely to go through in a month?
> Its a failure of the country as an organism.

So people aren't free to have ideas instead of children? The most important modern ideas do more to shape the modern world than any number of children -- except those children who have ideas.
Well written; horrifying.

> His prone figure sprawled on the street for four hours in the unforgiving August sun, with blood on the asphalt—an indignity in sharp contrast with the quick departure of the officer from the scene.

> Police, some outfitted in riot gear, others in military fatigues, barricaded the streets. At least one of them draped a black bandana over his face; others covered their badges.

> One homeowner walked out of his house to find a spent flash grenade on his lawn. An armored truck rolled down the street, a flume of tear gas issuing from the back.
That's a bit simplistic.

Having "Examine.com" as our brand brought us weight - the domain is easy to remember, easy to understand, has a link to what we're selling, and so forth.

BUT - that 42k was never all we had. It was maybe ~25% of what we had. We decided that the brandability of the domain was more important than buying ads.

As you have a SaaS business, buying ads may work out. On the other hand, having a non-.com may backfire.

YMMV.
Fascinating, thanks.

At what speed do you replay text->audio (ie realtime, 1.5x,2x,...)?

Lastly, if you disregard price is the braille 'refreshable display' a better experience?
If you want to do patents then a technical background is almost a prerequisite and it's very useful.
"Paleontologists are sure that the fossil record is biased."...

"Land animals are probably very poorly represented as well. For example, most animals that are now alive, or ever have lived, are insects, but the fossil record of insects is poor."...

http://www.k5geosource.org/1content/1sc/fossils/pg6.html
Take a look at the Tagg. http://www.pettracker.com/
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The article's takeaway is "beware demands for rigor against the scientific racism common in my social circle." This is why he's raising strawman objections to scientific racism and pretending those are the only objections to it.[1]

Remember that Scott was able to write his (justly famed) Neoreactionary FAQ because he knows a pile of the neoreactionaries personally.

[1] c.f. the recent case of http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/our-lette... in which 139 geneticists told Nicholas Wade to stop misreading and quote-mining their own results in the service of scientific racism.
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It's a 16x16 screen world which wraps around, if you move to the left or right you should eventually land on a non-empty screen. The "world" is anything but finished, to be honest, it's more of a debug / feature test world than anything else at the moment :)

Here's a picture of the whole world for reference: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332843/tuff.map.png
Police, some outfitted in riot gear, others in military fatigues, barricaded the streets. At least one of them draped a black bandana over his face; others covered their badges.

Utterly shameful.

To the people flagging this off the front page: if you don't see what the suppression of protest and the arrest of reporters by a militarized police has to do with a site focused on startups and the disruption of existing power structures, you need to think harder.
It would be pretty difficult to weaponize a closed system design without significant R&D. The only risk I see would be if some small component of their design was transferred to an existing military weapon to make it better.
It's human hacking when you recognize that the cues you're leveraging are inane and meaningless. Many people believe that the cues themselves are somehow meaningful or significant, and get caught up in the act.

How, exactly, is it naive to try to overcome illogical biases and ways of being manipulated?
Interesting to me was that there were plenty of foreigners in multiple states before 1960, it then dropped mostly to it's lowest in around 1970 and then grew again to today.

So what happened in the run to the 70s that so few foreigners live in CA, NY, WA etc...
Yes, it's all written in z80 assembly, although the GameBoy CPU really uses a mix of i8080 and z80 instructions, the mnemonics are all z80. I've also written my own assembler just recently, to have more control over the output and more easily generate debugging information: https://github.com/BonsaiDen/gbasm
> Not if you read the Constitution. This question is not up for a simple majority vote.

The Constitution creates a framework; almost all political decisions are majority votes (as interpreted through our political institutions). I don't agree that the federal government has usurped too much power in general (though there are specific cases); which one of us is right is decided by majority vote.
I think the distrust of confidence men is that its a lie. They have an ulterior motive and are willing to say whatever you will respond to.

With politeness, ideally there is no lie. It's not a polite surface--its a core personality trait. As he described, you may be polite to people you dislike but that's because you know you may simply be having a bad day so no sense in taking it out on a person, or pushing aside a budding relationship. That's really the story of his wife: he was polite, thus he left the door open to meet her again and not sour her impression of him by reacting rudely.
$29/mo basic plan and no trial? Meh. I will not even bother looking. Why? Because this makes me feel like they are dodging something..
In my opinion, this is simply making a concerted effort to like this person, and start comfortable dialogue. Even knowing this is a script, I'm excited to talk to this guy, rather than the usual challenging, testosterone-filled reactions I deal with on a regular basis. However distasteful and/or transparent, at least its a positive environment for conversation. Nothing is worse than talking to someone and thinking, their guard is already up
It is. It's also unavoidable with anything that doesn't compile to dalvik bytecode because none of the UI is exposed natively. If you want to see at a high level the horror involved check out this documentation from Xamarin:

http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/under_the_hood/a...

Still, it performs better than you'd expect.
No: the overwhelming majority of law school graduates end up in established legal practices that employ many attorneys. It's possible that not even a plurality of CS graduates end up as software developers at software firms; a huge number of CS graduates end up writing line of business software for insurance companies, or on their QA teams.

Law schools can exert pressure on law firms in ways that CS programs can't exert pressure on technology firms.

Do law firm hires endure hazing rituals like those in technology? I don't know. I doubt it. First-year associate hires aren't high-stakes the way tech hires are; the legal profession is structured around an "up or out" process that admits entrants to the profession mechanically. The technology profession as a rule does not, and relies intensely on status indicators.

You've agreed with me on that last point in the past, so I'd be surprised to hear you contest it now.

Here it's worth noting: the law profession does have gender equality issues; they just take place at a tier of the profession higher than where they happen in technology. But consider the implication of law forestalling the gender reckoning and tech front-loading it: entrants to the law field start amongst a relatively balanced cohort of coworkers. They get a foothold. They get experience working on real projects for partners. They get a track record. They have a different experience than minority entrants to technology.

Once again: the feeling of being singled out by your gender when you represent a tiny minority is different than being approached when you have a solid peer group of the same gender.

Hey: while I'm at it: I consult for F500 companies that build LOB apps. You can imagine that banks and hedge funds are more concerned about security than cat-sharing startups. Women are in my experience over the last ~9 years better represented in software jobs at non-software companies than they are in startups. Tech employees at banks and insurance companies are hired more mechanically and with less rubber-chicken voodoo than they are at startups. I don't think this is a coincidence.
> or even Uber

Talk about an understatement. Uber is just a cheaper cab. Commercially viable fusion is a game-changer on a planetary scale: Halting global warming by replacing fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel cells become viable by generating hydrogen through hydrolysis, energy-intensive desalinization plants deliver fresh water for drinking and irrigation.
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> A culture that chooses to not have children is a culture that has decided to stop existing.

Culture is memetic, species is genetic. As long as the species is growing, its quite possible that the culture that spends more effort spreading its memes will be more successful than those that focus that energy on biological reproduction.

This might be biologically problematic in the long run if the culture didn't include a feedback mechanism that would lead to a shift in priorities if the species as a whole was no longer sustainable (as might be the case if that culture had become so dominant that there was no outside culture within the species to acquire converts from), but its certainly not the case that the "culture that chooses to not have children is a culture that has decided to stop existing", and it could quite plausibly be the alternative that, in the face of competing ideas, the culture that focuses energy on reproduction at the expense of reducing energy devoted to promoting its ideas has chosen to stop existing as a culture.
Hey, I had that about twenty years ago. The only symptom I had was that I would wake up with a headache for no apparent reason (not a migraine, but frequently nausea-inducing).

My ophthalmologist detected it during a regular examination and sent out for MRI/CAT scan/spinal tap to rule out everything else, then put me on a regimen of -- oh, now I can't remember; the medicine used for altitude sickness (diamox?) and eventually "cured" me; I haven't had a recurrence since.

I guess my point is that the grandparent poster should consider seeing an ophthalmologist and/or a neurologist at their earliest convenience. (My doctor was pleased that he'd "caught it in time"; he spoke of another patient in which it had not been detected quickly enough and that person had gone blind.)
The AWS credit is worth the $47 for most people, unless you are already part of AWS Activate, like all YC startups.
Yes, we would schedule it in the very early hours of the morning.

We are much, much too remote to get any kind of cross connect. We only have one option - our ~3000km of fiber.
For that kind of money they could've just kickstarted it.
The Federal government gets most of the headlines but there is a civic data revolution going on at the state and city level in the US. Here in Michigan five cities have civic data groups meeting regularly: Detroit, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. Jackson is one of the first cities in the nation to have an open data law in the city charter:

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2014/08/jacksonu...

On the statewide level we're holding the second annual Code Michigan civic hackathon which will expand to three locations this year: Detroit, Newaygo and Marquette.

http://www.codemichigan.com
I am excited to hear "sandboxing" in this context. Does rust have sandboxing by any chance on the roadmap?
Holy carp - he is writing it in assembly.

https://github.com/BonsaiDen/Tuff.gb/blob/master/src/core/co...

Nice.
> When the test results come back, they will tell Brown that, according to his patient’s DNA, she should do just as well on sugar pills as on any antidepressant or anti-anxiety drug. Instead of prescribing psychiatric medications, he can send her home with a prescription that reads, simply: placebo.

It's instructive to know that placebos don't work for cancer, but they do work for depression. When a placebo does as well as actual medicine to treat an ailment, it's time for some science to (a) find out whether the "real" medications actually work, and (b) find out what the ailment actually is. But that science hasn't been done -- as long as psychiatrists and psychologists are in charge of depression, a placebo will seem to be a suitable treatment.
So you mean the Amtrak Cascades Route?

http://www.amtrak.com/cascades-train
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Cost twice as much, worth ten times as much, in my opinion. I've had many times when a dog got away and gps tracking would have been very useful.

Keeping track of exactly where my dog is within 150ft radius, not so much. The "leash" analogy is also entirely misplaced. "Leash" implies having control over your dog, so it can't get away. With playtag it seems, there's not really any element of "control" at all, and if my dog gets more than 150 feet away it's basically useless.
Exactly Jevon's Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

It has all sorts of implications for life/work, where it could open up options for smaller towns; however, the problem becomes one of efficiency for the rail, as it can't slow down at every small town with a minor population unless it really was a feeder to the big city. I think it just reinforces travel between hubs (metropolitan areas, which still might have last-mile problems that Google, Uber, Lyft, etc. focus on).

I think it also increases the viability of what a "local ecosystem" entails. Suddenly, a manufacturing town that's normally an airplane away is a couple hours, so it's easier to establish a relationship and coordinate between two currently disconnected sectors.
"my own assembler" - now you're just showing off. :)
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So, I am planning to build this tool for some days now but not sure whether similar app already exists or not.. Even if there isn't, I doubt if there is audience for this concept..

Concept is : News Topic search:

A simple search box where you'll enter a news topic and it provides a timeline of incidents related to the topic.. It'll basically comes up with the news articles that surfaced and articles that are once trending and conclusion articles and more.. Search terms like "Malaysia flight MH370" "Ebola Breakout"

What do you thing of it? worth pursuing?
By car manufacturers?
It's not total bullshit. It's grounded in evolutionary psychology. We like people who are attractive because that shows that they have good genes and are therefor worth either a) mating with, or b) keeping around for other reasons. Nice clothes help make a good impression if you're in relatively good shape and your body is well proportioned. If you're 100lbs overweight, that tailored tux just makes you look like a penguin.
Great reply. The wiki also has a long discussion about Helium 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
Fusion produces neutrons either in the first or secondary reactions, but there are ways to minimize the amount of them and their energy (and damage/radioactivity)to where you don't generate "nuclear waste".
There is an interesting continuum of fusion reactions from pure D-D (which produces little energy, but lots of lower energy neutrons) to D-He3 (that produces some neutrons and lots of energy) to pure He3-He3 (that is called 'anuetronic').

D-D fusion makes Tritium (that decays into He3), Helium 3, or Helium 4 through the fusion process itself, with no breeding.

We believe that there is a correct ratio called Self-Supplied in which you have a small amount of 2.4 MeV neutrons, only deuterium as an input fuel, and the majority of the energy is from the Helium 3 fusion. The hard part is how to separate out the right isotope mixture from the exhaust between pulses.
The disingenuous aspect is simply having a canned response intended to induce positive feelings (intended to make them like you?) regardless of whatever they are saying. Even if it's often factually correct (e.g. "Everyone thinks they do difficult work") I still think it's insincere to have this line up your sleeve that you march out regardless of input from the other person.
They just add a history item everytime you interact with the map. If you click back enough you should escape.
I got there too.
What do you do when you believe that you can do great things but something that you have no control over is holding you back? You believe that you are good at what you do and are meant for great things but you have to do your job even though it doesn't do justice to your capabilities. How do you cope with that? Seeing your future as an underachiever pains you. What do you do?

Problem Solve. Swallow your pride and do what needs to be done. "Being Great" is not the ego trip you think it is. You get there by doing hard things for a long time while people act like you are crazy, stupid, etc. It isn't all about your ego. Set your ego aside.

If you really believe you can "do great things" than start doing 'great things." But, you know, I think you and I maybe interpret that phrase differently. If you are actually awesome, that will eventually shine through. But it won't be a picnic. You don't get the valor without doing the hard work first.

So, even while you work a regular job, you can make plans for another startup and work on pursuing financial freedom. Paying the bills now, even though it isn't doing something sexy or trendy or ego-enhancing, is part of pursuing financial freedom.
I run a small accelerator in Florida and we have two businesses that were primarily monetized with AdSense. The businesses have been growing nicely and as of this month were on a $3.6MM annual run rate. We were constantly working with the AdSense Partner Acceleration team and had even been invited out to Google HQ for their Think Publishing event last spring.

As of last week both the Acceleration Team and Google AdSense Support stated the account was in good standing and ad unit implementation and site content was approved.

Yesterday morning we received automated emails stating "account has been closed for invalid activity" and that all unpaid payments will be withheld. When we emailed the individuals of the acceleration team we had been working they said it was out of their hands.

This is a serious blow to the businesses. After spending over a year optimizing the properties and user acquisition the businesses now need to completely pivot and find a new source of revenue. In addition it is a blow to cash-flow as they have spent substantial time and money acquiring new users based on AdSense earnings.

While AdSense does provide excellent yields for site and app owners, the downside is they can effectively put you out of business with no explanation.

I am shocked at the poor level of service and lack of overall service the AdSense team and Google has provided.

We're excited to see how the teams pivot, grow and evolve from here.
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I'm from Australia, where the "road-toll" is very much front and center news. It's constantly compared to "this time last year" in the newspapers and on the nightly news. I would bet that any Australian that has even a passing interest in "the news" can tell you what the annual road toll is.

It was quite the shock to come to North America (both the US and Canada) to find it barely gets a mention, and most people have no idea how many people are killed each year on the roads.
Url changed from http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsideslasvegas2014..., which points to this.
If one of your servers were hacked with 1.7 million confidential documents lost but the attacker left a note saying "I know it looks like I took a lot of documents, but I really only took 200 000." would you tell your boss 1.7 million documents were stolen or 200 000 documents were stolen?
For CO and NV, I'd say it's the Rockies/skiing and Las Vegas respectively, which attract a specific personality type respectively.

Arizona, I have no idea.
Their patents are easily found.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20140023170
https://www.google.com/patents/US20110293056

It's not a completely novel approach, and it's probably not a great investment compared to some other fusion startups, though I am glad people are investing in this rather than idiotic app companies. Kudos to the big-Y for taking on some useful risk. $1.5M is cheap, and should be dished out to many such companies.

Interestingly, the inventor seems to be interested in using the technology to build rockets. If they achieve > break-even, this might actually be a better use for the technology, as it is not obvious how to extract power from the plasma based on their patents, but it would be real easy to just shoot some plasma out one end of the thing for a dandy rocket engine. I guess MHD would work, and would not be a patentable innovation, but this really looks like a space rocket to me.