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Instead, I’m trying to prove that the activists protesting today are liars.

Hmmm, not convinced. Why couldn't they just be mistaken?

Proponents claim that CDNs aren’t the fast lanes they are talking about, but that too is a lie.

"Fast lane" isn't really a technical term, so maybe this disagreement is based partly on misunderstanding? Has anyone ever complained about the idea of CDNs? If I'm unhappy with a particular CDN, can't I just hire another? That puts them in a different category than local broadband service, which is what I thought we were considering. If Graham insists that CDNs are "fast lanes", then we'll just have to be more specific in our complaints.

I would complain specifically about monopolistic (i.e. local) service providers charging me more for the transmission of one particular arrangement of bytes than for some other arrangement of the same number of bytes, ceteris paribus. The byte-arrangement preference is actually only a problem because I can't choose from a wide selection of different providers and plans. If the FCC would stop dragging its feet on white spaces so that WISPs could flourish, and if corrupt state legislatures would stop creating barriers to entry to this market, I'd be much less concerned about "net neutrality". I'm not lying!

However, I'm also not a fool, and I've observed this market for 15 years, so I don't expect the FCC to ever really disobey their masters at the Daughters Bell and the cablecos if they can at all avoid it. That's why I don't mind falling in with the "left-wingers" that Graham so mistrusts. Sure, they're mistaken that a federal regulatory agency would ever consider consumers' interests without the threat of Congressional action. However, I'm a consumer, and Congressional action is exactly what I seek! If there were a strong political coalition dedicated to reducing regulatory barriers to entering this market, I'd support that too.

The left-wingers may be right, and maybe the government does indeed need to step in and regulate the Internet like a utility. But, we should wait for problems that arise and fix them...

Graham writes as if all problems with this market are "potential". I guess he's happy that we pay more than consumers in other nations, for worse service. I'm not happy about that, so I'm not convinced by this sort of capitalist-ideology-motivated concern-trolling.
Reading a lot seems to help - keeps you up to date on what's possible, so when you hit a problem you have something in the back of your mind to resolve it. (more practical than algorithms-y).
I sometimes have to open customer documents - CSV and Excel - containing confidential details. Nothing may leave the company.
As long as you're using at least a 100Mb/s network (We use GbE), you should see a smooth experience. All works just as well as using a local machine, give or take some frames here and there. Just a forewarning, stay away from Google Chrome, and Chromium. They are awful to use with LTSP, you must deploy them as local apps as a fat-thin client solution, which isn't compatible with the Pi. The reasoning for this is that Chrome makes too many calls to the X server, and this causes horrible performance, you'll literally be watching chrome refresh, like loading an image over dialup.
>Imagine lifting your hand to move a brick and flicking your wrist to toss it.

Sounds incredibly exhausting to build anything sufficiently complicated. At that point I may as well become a mason.

I'd also prefer not to be trapped to one platform. I really hope this doesn't happen.
> When switching to systemd it isn't just install and go.

This I can definitely agree with. Has debian said anything about replacing sysvinit on existing installs or will they just be using systemd as the default on new ones?

The latter would from my point of view be a reasonable compromise and shouldn't alienate anyone.
I know, it's just hard. I hate dealing with an open loop - I have no feedback whether I'm explaining too much or too little.
The thing that startled me most about this story was how good the side scan sonar technology has gotten.
Yes, amazingly, this has been available on iOS and not on Android.
Regardless of industry, a non-technical founder can still offer many things, including fundraising (whether via connections or hustle), sales, admin, the boring research like talking to customers, dealing with accounting, legal... (I've also personally found that to have one person focused on figuring out what problems are worth solving, and the other on solving them, works very well, but many engineers are also good at and enjoy figuring out what problems to solve).

It's not just about relative ability, it's a question of motivation - few engineers truly enjoy putting on their tie to pitch 100 potential investors in a row, or convincing the first few clients to pony up for the product, with 95% of cases ending in a painful rejection.

In fact, if a non-technical founder (I'm looking at you MBAs "interested in entrepreneurship") wants to increase his chances with the better engineers, he can always do so by closing a sale and presenting the evidence to the technical people he is trying to hire for the job. "I've gotten a written commitment to $100,000 if we build this relatively simple piece of software, and I have another four watching, we won't need seed funding" is a considerably more attractive proposition than "hey, please build this for free and according to this PowerPoint from my Tech Ventures class we'll own a billion dollar market next year".
I would bet it is the cycling of GPS that the app is doing. If GPS is just left on, a battery can get burned through in a couple hours (for one of the newer iPhones, much less an older one). Those wacky readings are some of the initial results after GPS is cycled back on.

One might look for a higher power setting if you are doing an hour / half hour run and not concerned about keeping battery life up.
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It will work fine, as long as it is your authoritative DHCP server on your VLAN/LAN. I have it running on an ESXi server, alongside a load of other VMs. I have allocated it the following for ~15 users: 4GB RAM, 4 Cores across 2 sockets.
I use it to know when I need to start running to catch the bus. There are not so many clocks outside. Anyone who works outside or spends a lot of time outside and needs to keep track of time will find a watch useful.
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Seriously, my battery life plummets when I'm in a hangout from the heavy CPU usage.
In the times that I was still building radio transmitters (for a very illicit living, selling them to pirate radio stations in Amsterdam) I had to hot-melt each and every long wire and coil in place so that it wouldn't vibrate.

The oscillator circuitry of a transmitter is (even when crystal controlled) sensitive to mechanical perturbation, which typically leads to spurious AM and FM modulation of the outgoing signal. To demonstrate the effect I once held a half our session on air with a guy on the other side of the city by just talking to the circuit board.

In a PLL or crystal controlled transmitter modulating the carrier in such a coarse way is much harder. Typically the modulation is done using a capacitive diode (a varicap) which is a diode whose capacitance changes with the reverse voltage. Because this voltage has to be applied to the diode somehow (in the days before SMD) this meant that that wire was again susceptible to microphony because air pressure on the wire changed it's location relative to the ground plane and that caused a measurable frequency shift. Not nearly as big a shift as in the older stuff but it was definitely a factor.

Wifi radios as much more robust than the stuff that I built. But I suspect that given a sensitive enough detector a residual audio component might be extracted from an otherwise non-audio signal by direct interaction between the sound waves and the transmitter hardware.

In a nutshell, it is very much harder to make something that does not exhibit microphony than to make something that does. You'd have to take that into account from the beginning of the design.
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Good point, the "now" implies a switch that may have happened actually some time ago.
Thank you for posting this! One difference between you and me is that I don't fly an A-320. It's really nice to hear your take on it.
Good programmers do live all over, but there are selection effects at work. In the US programmers tend to be people who like to program. In many other countries they are a cross section of smart college grads who do it more because it is a job that pays well and can be done over the internet.
This was a change made after the Tenerife crash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
Yeah, been using it for maybe half a year. Also have Google Voice — maybe that was a prerequisite?

Seconding Hangouts as a really great solution for travelers. Bonus tip: if you're going away for a while, transfer your cell number to Google Voice and avoid the mess of having everyone update your phone # in their contacts.
Actually, I was recently pointed at Joyent's node-http-signature[1], which is pretty clever. It can sign an HTTP request using one's SSH keys. Handy for a CLI client for a HTTP API.

I've done a couple of HTTP auth schemes for my dayjob and am thinking of using something like this for my next.

1. https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature/blob/master/ht...
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Working with offshore teams is no different than working with <anything new that you haven't done before>. You need to learn it. It is not the same as working with an in-house team. Different tradeoffs, gotchas and benefits.
Ah, I assumed he was talking about calls placed via the Chat interface in Gmail. I guess Google Chat has an Android app then?
These kinds of things have been happening to the human experience for some time now. I don't need to ask anyone how to get anywhere, or figure out how to navigate there with the rise of GPS on devices I have with me all the time. I can have food brought to my doorstep without ever talking to anyone.

At the same time, it's enabling exciting new possibilities. I can meet people with shared interests in a huge multitude of ways. I can talk to practically anyone I've ever met within a minute. I can learn how to do almost anything at a basic level given some modest interest and an Internet connection.

I think people are only beginning to realize the all-encompassing nature of how technology is affecting how we live, because it has become so incredibly pervasive and is moving so quickly. The human experience is most definitely changing, but it's not all for the worse. It's easy to be sentimental about the past, but the possibilities are often too enticing to hold onto those relics in favor of new things.
> having you tried contacting CloudFlare Support about it?

I could do - but I'm kind of angry that I even have to. What about the less technically literate, who might barely know what CloudFlare is, let alone figure out how to contact their support? (Yes, I use a VPN, but there's plenty of ways a non tech person might have a shared IP.) And why should I have to go to this effort, just to get read access to a website?

And what if I'm on a different IP tomorrow? Begging for my IP to be unblocked is no long term solution. (What about when malicious activity comes from it tomorrow, after you unblocked it? You'll just block it again.)

Just now, in my other browser tab:

>Please complete the security check to access coinmarketcap.com

(btw, Disqus is giving you different comments depending on whether https or not, that's why I missed my comment being published.)
I'm objecting to saying "we have reached 1.0" when what they really mean is "we are releasing 1.0 beta 1"
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The abominable live feed took the lustre off everything Apple announced. It plagued them throughout the entire presentation. Apple's entire business revolves around user experience and frankly during the live feed I kept thinking to myself if you can't pull off a live feed then what makes you think you can pull off a game-changing watch? Especially in an era where nobody wears watches anymore? The entire presentation left me with the feeling that Apple has jumped the shark.
You snark, but this has happened time and time again. It's a perception thing.
Hell, who doesn't have a popup blocker now?

Again: the vast majority of people. Taking things that techies do and extrapolating to the internet population at large never ends well.
> The philosophical reasons being the centralisation of control over a key aspect of Linux to a group of developers that aren't universally trusted?

In the case of Gentoo, they already support systemd[1] as an alternative.

What I don't entirely understand is, systemd is an umbrella project with many sub-components[2] that are depended upon in many non-init packages now. As far as I can tell, none of the systemd devs care for anything other than Linux support [3], so any packages depending strictly on systemd components are unable to run/build on other systems, or have to now support two+ subsystems.

Gentoo provides support for alternative platforms such as OSX and BSD via the Prefix[4] project, so for them to switch to systemd (and its sub-components) as a default would be to make the Prefix project harder to accomplish.

Again, I don't know enough about the various components that comprise 'systemd', or how modular they are outside of Linux. If someone can clarify any misconceptions I have, I'd be grateful.

[1]: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd
[2]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Sys...
[3]: http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/Lennart-Poett...
[4]: https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
It would be great if the HN crowd would stop critiquing things before learning how they work.

- If your iPhone gets stolen then you deactivate it via Apple's existing Find My Phone feature. Deactivating your device will block payments but you won't have to talk to your bank nor will you have to get the cards themselves replaced.

- You can use a password instead of the thumbprint to pay. So you could indeed lend your phone and password to somebody for them to buy things for you. Or you could just reimburse your friend for whatever they purchased.

- People already have a working smartphone on their person at nearly all times, I don't see how "wearing out more easily" is much of a critique. Nobody is suggesting that once somebody starts using ApplePay they destroy the corresponding physical card.
> it’s free to call numbers in the U.S. and Canada, and the international rates are really low

So is it free to call a US number from another country, too? Or only if you call from inside US?
Is failing to comply with the DMCA and taking grave financial harm a reasonable thing for them to do? I cannot see how that would work.
I would be really surprised by that. The gross 30%, presuming it always applied, would be about $6 billion per year, which would be an enormously expensive online store. Of course Apple's cut is often lower than 30% -- I can frequently buy $100 iTunes cards at Costco for $80, for instance, and then add that the retailer surely gets a cut as well.

Nonetheless, the iTunes empire is currently doing almost $20B of business a year, with a $6B cut. The NFL, in contrast -- for all its seeming enormity and influence -- is about a $8B business, gross.
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I agree that the usecase is not coming up properly. Additionally, I would prefer a "constant" value proposition rather than for so many stakeholders such as students, freelancers etc. If the usecase is generic, would prefer a generic statement.
The most interesting part to me is that congressional support has increased for funding more than one venture in case one runs into technical difficulties (now that the Soyuz option is ending).

“The Russians have done NASA a favor in terms of funding,” Caceres said.
Great work Valim, Eric and everyone else!

I was following their progress and there was a constant and steady stream of changes over the last years.
Good point. He says you need to make them do documentation; How about your responsibility to document requirements/specs?
Almost certainly not.

Credit cards have always been a usable payment method, Apple Pay just makes them easier to use in an app. No one used them for IAP of digital goods because Apple forbade that on a policy level, which is likely to continue. Likewise, apps already allow credit card purchases for real-world items like Uber rides, Amazon physical items, etc.
You'd just be exchanging your 'cell phone bill' with a 'data plan bill'. The phone company really doesn't care if you stick that SIM in a tablet or in a phone.

From the phone company's view there are only data networks, voice networks are dying out. Voice is just another form of data.
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The call out from Gmail is still present.
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It's fortunate that Cloudflare don't have a monopoly on serving HTTP content with DDoS protection in that case, although perhaps they do have a monopoly on providing those services for free.
So did they take the ability away and then bring it back or was it persistently available?
Can LibreOffice edit MS Office files non-destructively now? I'm impressed with the improvements lately, but I'm still too scared edit shared .docx files at work based on bad experiences with OpenOffice in the past.
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Widespread is one of those relative terms... finding a carrier that understands people use their phones outside of population centers has always been a challenge for me.
Déjà vu ;)
That would play havoc with people used to clutches. As it is, I often have a couple go-rounds with 'the brake is not a clutch' when I get a rental.
Doubt it...
It is actually still available in Gmail - you can opt out of Hangouts. For now.
You could ask for a re-telling, that will give you the closed loop. Just ask someone to explain the concept to you rather than the other way around.
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And that assumes overlap between office hours.
What's interesting is the timing of the announcement. Snapchat timed the release at precisely 1:00 PM ET — the same moment Apple started broadcasting. I can imagine this is a common PR technique; hiding bad news behind the noise of a major event..
Having worked with offshore teams and being in the role of an offshore team, I completely agree.

If someone is looking for an offshore team, follow this approach: look for a outstanding, talented person. A single person, who you can develop trust with, and ask him about his core team and colleagues. If they are for your liking, go with them as the offshore team: they may not have all the people at the time of the discussions, but usually they are able to build a team in a short time.

That way, they are really committed to your project, and you won't be just another client that has some meetings with them.
One display, clearly labeled with a different color, different font, using degree symbols vs. "ft/s" units - you're saying this is bad, but two displays right next to each other, labeled similarly, isn't?
I disagree. Watches that cost below $1k are seen as "low-end". At the higher levels it's all about prestige. I had a boss that wore a $50k Franck Muller to match his $150k pinky ring. He only cared about showing it off. It's a piece of jewelry to him.

The new "watchlet" is not expensive enough or exclusive enough to warrant any prestige from the truly wealthy. I doubt it will have much impact on Rolex's bottom line.

Now if you said Tag, Burberry, Movado, etc, then I would agree. Those are lower end quality watches with a similar pricing. Bottom line: The apple watch targets younger crowd with excess cash, not the rich like Rolex.
In fact, Sococo (I work here) is a work collaboration tool; its developed in part by an Engineer from the Ukraine. Another hurdle not mentioned in the article: on day in our morning mtg (his evening mtg) he said "I have to go; we're having a revolution today". Apparently his apartment overlooked that square with all the burned couches and embattled soldiers. So, no contact with him for a few days.

Great guy, don't get me wrong! But there's lots of hurdles to an overseas relationship.
Not technically literate enough to contact cloudflare support but using TOR or a VPN is an interesting combination.
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It's configurable per-keyboard because not all keyboards have modifiers laid out the same way. Mac keyboards have the bottom row ordered Ctrl, Alt, Cmd; Windows keyboards are ordered as Ctrl, Win, Alt. So, if you're using a Windows USB keyboard on an Apple laptop, you'll often want to swap Cmd (= Win) and Alt on the USB keyboard, but leave them alone on the internal one.
Someone closer to the browser development at Mozilla etc. could answer this better, but wasn't the original implementation of private/incognito or "safe" modes meant to be subtle?

Before we were all concerned for our privacy these modes were (and prob still are) mostly used for surfing porn. When one is surfing for porn in "private" mode it would benefit to have the UI not scream "I'M DOING PRIVATE STUFF".
I'm asking because I work for CloudFlare and specifically I'm about to start working on the reputation system that deals with things like the CAPTCHA that you are seeing. So, I'm personally interested in understanding what you are seeing because we should not be blocking people who are legitimate.

If you don't feel like contacting CloudFlare Support you could always just email me directly: jgc (you guess the domain name :-)
> Then it has to have its own build system, with its own descriptor files

...Why? Just interface with the existing build system. Most have very clear semantics, and it's not clear anything is gained from prioritizing one over the other. All the ide needs to worry about is generally syntax highlighting, targets, flags (e.g. to enable debugging), and the STANDARDIZED error reporting.

Also, gyp, ninja.... so many build systems. CMake only has a fraction of the market, and not even an impressive one.
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Does Dart have libraries for interfacing with DB systems on the server side yet?
I'm not sure what you're trying to refute. I was (am) saying that installing the JDK is really pleasant and painless. Installing the JRE is gross for the average Windows user because of all the bullshit that Oracle stuffs in there.
What I would like to know is if Apple has any plans to make Apple Pay available for the mobile web?

Implementation issues aside, I am not too hopeful on that front. Which is really a pity, because it would be so much more useful in a browser context.

For one-time purchases I am not downloading an app, and even for shops I use regularly I overwhelmingly prefer the web, because most apps are markedly inferior to their browser cousins.

See: Amazons Windowshop apps' lack of filtering.
There was a Google Talk app that was replaced by Hangouts.
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