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"While the argument could be made that our debt is past a recoverable point..."

I'm not sure it could, unless I'm misunderstanding. The US could print up 15 trillion dollar notes tomorrow, and pay off all of it's debt. Of course, this would cripple the economy in a matter of hours, but it would still pay off the debt.
> Municipal broadband is a great idea. A town near me, Olds, just rolled out gigabit fiber to the curb for $57/mo.

I do wonder if Olds is just covering their costs (likely) or are turning a profit (unlikely) (most municipal initiatives I've seen aimed to provide bandwidth at cost)?

The infrastructure is new and shiny now, and works well, but in 15 years what will it look like? Most state highways systems are in atrocious condition, let alone federal interstates. If the municipal is not turning a profit (even a slight one), there might not be incentive/budget to continuously upgrade the infrastructure as new technology becomes available.

I think I would prefer a system in-which municipals lay and operate fiber throughout the city, but don't connect to the end users -- instead leaving that up to small ISP's to make the final termination and provide bandwidth (pay for the upstream, etc). This way the fiber can be available to a greater many small ISP's and give them a good footing to compete with the BIG5 and more, while simultaneously providing an incentive to keep the infrastructure current (better than the small ISP's could lay themselves and upgrades paid for by leasing fees from downstream).

Something along those lines would spur small business (small ISP) growth while forcing the BIG5 to play more fair since consumers would have a significantly larger selection of ISP's in a relatively short time.
Power to those who read the article:

[...], and the women won’t switch to iron cooking pots because they find them heavy and costly.
There's a huge portion of that story missing if you leave out Digg.
No because it will be extremely difficult for you to fit within your caloric balance and still get all the micronutrients you need. But the issue here is that the carbs are paired with something that doesn't also give you those micronutrients so you'd have to eat even more calories to get there, not the carbs themselves.
thanks for the links. sounds good to look at.
Other risk part i have in application is calling hw decoders from gst api for playing mp4 videos. not sure how well that is supported in nw.js especially for intel and arm arch.
I suspect, but cannot prove, that there is an important hidden variable: customers who can use Apple Pay typically have more disposable income [1], and that makes them hesitate less before hitting the final 'checkout' button.

[1] I do not have data supporting that, but find it likely, given that they bought an iPhone 6.
Firefox whitespace bug fixed after 13 years
I don't even know what to say after reading that article.

How can this be even remotely acceptable to anyone?

I mean they are using them in cases where they know for a fact it is not a dangerous situation - an elderly woman selling beer? They used it TWICE? Really?
And why should it be unique? Do you require that with every entity you deal with?
For anyone watching bitcoin technicals, has the volume been driving the volatility or has the volatility driven the volume? The volume spikes seemed to coincide directly with the price drop, so I am assuming this is someone just trying to divest themselves of a lot of bitcoin over the course of a few days.
I've read with great interest the source of libCello when I first saw it a few days ago on reddit, it seems like a fun experiment. Good luck with your project ! :)
I have previously read the site kindly submitted for discussion today and have recommended it (here on Hacker News, too, as I recall) before. This site is well worth a read. A comment asks for a recommendation of a book about macroevolution, transformation to new species among descendant organisms, and I can not only recommend two books, but also a free website. The website is 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution,[1] which I have recommended often to readers here on Hacker News. The books are Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne[2] and The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.[3] Both books are very readable and interesting and well deserve your attention. There are other good recent books about evolution that help fill in the research findings that have occurred since you or I finished our formal schooling.[4]

[1] http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0143...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/The-Greatest-Show-Earth-Evolution/dp/1...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/The-Ancestors-Tale-Pilgrimage-Evolutio...

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Inner-Fish-Journey-3-5-Billion-Ye...

http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Science/d...

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Fittest-Ultimate-Forensic-Evolu...
The only link on the page for me was the name which linked back to the homepage...which I was already on.
From a decentralization point of view, it's usually not good when a larger construct (federal) wants to impose regulation on a smaller construct (state). But in this case, the proposed federal regulation would encourage more decentralization, as it would empower an even smaller construct (municipality).
Over all my other problems with anarcho-capitalism and minarchism, the biggest is how much more time I'd waste and how much more anxiety I'd have.

Just thinking about all the new stuff I'd have to keep up with to avoid getting screwed gives me a headache. Food safety guarantors, some sort of court and law associations, drug safety certifiers, all kinds of insurance I don't have to worry about now, and so on.

Having to keep track of all that, who's best, who's had scandals and should be avoided, who's (known to be) subject to regulatory capture (think only the government is vulnerable to that?) or various other forms of corruption. Which ones give me bundle deals, are those actually better than buying the things individually from other providers. Ugh, it'd be miserable. Like all the problems of government and all the problems of real-world, imperfect-information markets in one. In my head it's like shopping for individual health insurance in the US (which is please-kill-me bad) or buying cars, but having to do that every. single. day. for one thing or another.

But I guess in all the relaxing free time I'd have left after that stuff (none, to be clear), I'd be really, really free to do whatever I could manage to pay for?

I don't see the appeal.
> if I had a remote job it would be very tempting to head out there and get an acreage.

This sounds nice in theory, but some people wouldn't be able to deal with the isolation. When it comes to working remotely, it becomes too easy to just get stuck in your own world, so you need to force yourself to get out and connect with others. It's one of those things that you probably won't find out until you actually start living in the middle of nowhere and/or working remotely.
I´m working on it right now.

I decided to launch a tiny version of the app in order to attract customers but, right now, I haven´t a lot

Thank you
Well, I won't pretend to be unbiased, but don't worry - I'm on good terms with a wide variety of operating systems and O/S distributions. ;)
Not entirely. We can define species as groups of organisms that can't reproduce with each other. (For species that have sexual reproduction, of course.) See: http://bioteaching.com/modes-of-speciation/
Right, but they weren't using any mod tools provided by Blizz.
The government can't even manage its own budget, I don't trust them with the Internet.
Ten years ago my hometown built a municipal ISP. It since then has done the bare minimum to keep the network going, and is total crap. There is one other cable ISP, but they effectively have to compete with the terrible speeds and service of the muni, which conspires to improve nothing. State laws preventing municipal ISPs should be gotten rid of, but some people seem to think that a municipal ISP will solve all their problems, and it won't.
The latest Project Ara video spot
The ultimate solution is for the government (federal and local) to run the physical side of the internet (e.g. run wires to homes/business, manage the exchanges, etc) but let private companies actually sell the data access directly to the public.

As an analogy this is like the Greyhound Bus Line. When you buy a ticket to go from A to B on Greyhound you pay the bus company money and they provide you the service (and support as required), but the buses actually run on government constructed and maintained roads, bridges, and related infrastructure.

The internet would work the same way, the government does the physical side of things, and that gets paid for through tax and rental fees from the ISPs. Then the ISPs upsell the rental fees to cover support, advertising, and so on to provide end users with the actual service (e.g. they pay $.20/Gps to the government to maintain the physical bits, but charge $.40/Gps to the public).

This is how BT is kind of run in the UK. BT does the physical side of things, but then five or six different ISPs (including BT themselves) all resell internet using that physical infrastructure. Those ISPs then pay BT for the pleasure (and BT pays itself).

This would be one use of eminent domain that I would happily support.
If tickets became that much cheaper we might expect profits to rise because if cheap tickets were only $5 then customers might decide that it was worth paying $15 for a more comfortable seat.
It is a small town, but yeah, even in my larger city this is my primary fear of a pure-remote position.
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It's only a valid analogy if there is risk associated with polishing it.

If the diamond could be worth $10M when polished, but also could be worth $0 because of flaws you can't yet see, and there's only a 20% chance that it will be worth $10M, then $2M is exactly the right amount to take. And in this particular case, I'd take the $2M every time, because that's the exact expected value of 20% odds of a $10M valuation.

And when you have your own company, there is always some level of risk. The chance of $10M may be far less than 20% -- and there may be a 1% chance of $200M.

It's only if you think your diamond has either already been polished to the point of being worth more than $2M, or you feel your own odds of success at polishing are better than 20%, that you should say no to the offer.

The original author believed that, which is perfectly fine. He had previous experience with selling a company, and so he may have even been right.

But those with less experience may actually do well to sell unless someone with more experience is around to tell them they're sitting on a diamond mine that's worth way more than the offer. Or you can roll the dice based on your own appraisal of the odds; that's fine too.

I've actually been in the situation where I did say no to terms I didn't find good enough, but then later the company failed and I ended up owning 100% of nothing. So having them "underpay" for me would have ended up with me owning 40% of something at least, since they were going to fund it to the next level.

It's easy to take a look at the odds and guess wrong -- and it's also easy to be an armchair quarterback and tell people that they should have taken a chance instead of the easy cash. As a result of my experience, I'd likely lean toward the easy cash at this point, but feel free to make your own decisions as you see fit.
I'm in no way qualified to answer this, but this is probably good enough for most personal use.
Also raising the price of colleges everywhere because of the influx of additional money into the system.
Yes, we read the same article but we probably did not graduate from the same medical school. I noticed that the tumor did not grow between MRIs done "a few months" apart so the imminent danger invoked by the surgeon that did the highly unusual intervention looks to me like ass covering and justification for whomever paid for the intervention.

There's also the publication that printed the article - a magazine known for its superficial interest in new and shiny tech, not its scientific accuracy. There's nothing in the very low res plastic 3D model that was not already visible on the radiologist's computer monitor.

I'm being this insensitive because I'm an adult and I let reason ruin a good story.
One of the ten most beautiful sounding words: cellophane (1940)
You're heaping praise onto a system that worked so well for you, yet balk at expanding access to that system to more people.

I'm not "balking at expanding access to that system to more people". I'm suggesting that the way we fund it should be changed.

If the community college you went to was funded by taxes, and taxation theft, then do you view yourself as guilty of being a thief, complicit in that theft?

It would be reasonable argument, but it's also irrelevant because I can't change the past. And my political ideals weren't as well defined when I was 19, as they are now.
Designing Game of Life mosaics with integer programming
Who cares? The Feds here are not in the business of bandwidth provision; they're acting to counterbalance the elephantine mass of Comcast by preventing them from overpowering municipal politics.
I think that the city should offer minimal service / support, and that there is opportunity for small or other businesses to buy and resell capacity wholesale, including a more full service install process.

Local power monopolies in many areas, at least, have to provide options for alternate power sources. Existing regulated telco monopolies have to let other providers use their infrastructure.

I think municipalities should be able to play that role, or to deem it a function of the city / county and contract out for it, letting private players compete in a market with a guaranteed baseline service.
Also features heavily in Planetes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
iTorch – iPython kernel for LuaJIT/Torch from Facebook
well they are all going to eventually learn how share information, else I am quite convinced that some retailers are large enough themselves, and definitely in groups, to ignore Apple and some banks.

Actually I hope they do. I am aghast at how fast people will jump into something just because Apple's name is on it when we don't know all the catches. You are effectively paying Apple to make a purchase, one you could make without yet another party interjecting itself into the stream.

I do not like adding touch points. If it means I have to swipe a card, I prefer signing all receipts, instead of just having my phone I am more than willing if one less exposure is available.
I run FreeBSD on Greenqloud.
Great to see this data, thanks for releasing it.
AngularJS: Internationalization
There's lots more coming in 2015. We've had many requests about how to begin contributing so we put together some Pioneer Projects. We're constantly adding to this list and they're suitable for various skill levels.

https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects
Yes, but what do they use?
I use this one-liner:

play -c 2 -n synth pinknoise band -n 2500 4000 reverb 20

Works like a charm - when I'm working, reading or just trying to get a quick nap in some noisy (sic!) environment.
As someone else put it, this means you are heading northwest. If the needle is pointing northwest, your compass is broken!

Amazing how many comments there are about this though. It's a mental illusion, like "what do cows drink?"
I agree with you, but I think there is far too much cultural baggage (at least here in the U.S.) for a less-than-five-day week to ever work. It strikes that in white collar jobs, people feel the need to think that their work time and presence is absolutely necessary for the well-being of their employers. Of course, this attitude often comes from above, such as when you get an email from an executive near the end of the year reminding you that you can carry-over vacation days, and if you a job that directly affects revenue, maybe you should consider carrying some days over.

The most interesting bit, for me, in the article was the observation that culturally, we've often forgotten that work is only part of our lives. So many of us base much of our identity on what we do for a living that we forget that the concept of vocation encompasses more than just what we do for a paycheck.
I got paid to go to community college and now I'm getting my masters at UIUC.

It's called FAFSA, and most of my peers did the same. I'm not sure why we need to make it globally free when those who can't afford it can get paid to go.

Also, the solders mentioned to tug at our hearts strings get school paid for.

Soooo why the need for a hug pay check from congress?
I wonder what the age distribution is? (Not just gender and race...)
Under OSX it seems that DTrace support is incomplete thanks to OSX' dtrace implementation [1]. [1] https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3617

I think only Solaris has full support?
Wish this was not only widespread practice for imaging but any medical test data.
so is irregardless.

Can I ask why you take the time to correct someone when it was perfectly clear what the intent of the sentence was?
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Plenty of otherwise intelligent STEM students and graduates hold the liberal arts in contempt and will take any opportunity to mock arts degrees/students/graduates.

In my experience the prevailing attitude of arts students towards science was that it was arcane, difficult and something reserved only for the smartest and most studious. Many science students, on the other hand, view liberal arts simply as a waste of time.

Neither attitude is particularly helpful.
Khosla Ventures Tops List of 35 Most Active Series A Startup Investors of 2014
I agree with making it possible for the common person to get involved, as well.

The problem with current Title II negotiations is that they still only involve top-level government officials and corporate execs. I'm afraid of making the rules too vindictive, but that doesn't mean I don't think what's currently happening is shady.

Why try to solve the internet forever in one fell swoop? Any such effort is almost certainly doomed to fail.

Municipalities sharing what does and does not work over time, and spreading working ideas to new places like wildfire is more like open-source, more agile, and more anarchist, though that's probably not a selling point for most people worded as such. ;)
The Iraq War has cost us ~$6,000,000,000,000 (that's ~$17k per US citizen).

Under Obama's plan, that money could be used to pay for two years of community college for every student willing to do the require work for the next 1000 years!

Of course we shouldn't "buy everything that's cheaper than the Iraq war", but that's not what is being argued. This was just to show a contrast between two ~10-year projects. It doesn't take a lot of work to figure out which investment has a higher return.
:-) Basically Uber for Coffee junkies
You still get a /64 at DO, though. So this doesn't hold true.

EDIT: Should add that you do not get a complete /64, but 16 addresses from a /64. Probably in a private VLAN or something.
How not to do a password manager
Samsung makes Takeover approach to Blackberry
Does the study of history have a direct economic impact to communities? In most cases no. I assume you recognize the importance of history for human culture?

So in the context of an environment where we encourage extended education via monetary assistance, we strip away all forms of assistance for the study of history due to some qualifier. Is this wise?
BlackBerry Ltd gets takeover offer from Samsung worth US$7.5B: source
Samsung reportedly in talks to purchase BlackBerry
Now that is very nice. It does board milling, pick-and-place, and solder paste. It's the latter two operations that matter. ("In this world, you do not make your own PC boards." - The Art of Electronics. Board houses do it better using photo-etching, are cheaper, give you plated through holes, and have fast turnaround.)

Here's a nice hobbyist pick-and-place machine:
http://briandorey.com/post/DIY-Pick-and-Place-V2-Project-Com...
This one has a vision system to get precision alignment. In the era of the $10 cell phone camera module, there's no reason to have one without a vision system. You design some fiducial marks on the board, and the vision system goes looking for them to get precision alignment. This makes up for small errors in the board position. When putting down a part, the vision system matches up the expected pattern of pads with what it sees and fine-tunes the position. This is easier than trying to hold everything so rigid that blind placement works. A vision system also lets you check that you picked up a part properly from the feeder, and that it's in place properly after placement.

Your little assembly line is then a pick and place machine, a solder-paste dispensing machine, and a reflow oven, which can be a toaster oven with precision temperature controls. There are many small shops in Shenzhen like that.
Going from 50% deficit spending to paying off equivalent of 100% of GDP (which enjoys a 2-5% annual growth) amounts to "won't be able to". We'd have to cut spending by 1/3rd just to stop increasing the debt. We'd have to route all federal revenue to debt for 5 years to pay it off. Ain't happening.
If it's so, it's because Docker isn't a good abstraction. (And we can expect it to get eventually replaced by something that correctly solves the problem.)

We have plenty of examples of good abstraction already (programming languages, operational systems, databases...). After we get one, most people stop even thinking that it's prossible to program without them.
Berlin chosen to be home for Bitcoin horror movie
I've heard some profs at Santa Monica College also teach at USC.
5% for gofundme, 3% for credit card processing
> On RHEL or Ubuntu, you typically have to install the developer tools, hunt down the source RPMs/DEBs...

Nitpick, but on Debian/Ubuntu this is a lot more simple than you make it sound:

apt-get source xxx # download the source package for 'xxx'
apt-get build-dep xxx # install everything needed to build it
FYI, I actually agree with you that Angular is overly complex and has a lot of serious problems. I even wrote about my gripes with it back when Angular was still somewhat "cool" (here: http://lhorie.blogspot.ca/2013/09/things-that-suck-in-angula... and here: http://lhorie.blogspot.ca/2013/10/things-that-suck-in-angula... ), and last year, I wrote a micro-framework of my own to get away from the frustrations I was getting w/ Angular ( I talk about it here: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/lessons-learned-from-an... ).

A lot of the stuff I wrote there is still relevant.
That's great. Really accurate. Also explains why we're all here. :P
I would not say they have no interest I would say these are two different cases. If I'm out and about and my card gets declined , I'm going to be extremely upset. At home on a computer if it gets declined .. eh I use another one. Also I think its up to the issuing bank as well. I know if I'm going out of the country I have to notify the issuing bank of the credit card I intend on using.
almost, perhaps, but .. a company for high end watch aficionados? Maybe instead, he should consider a TV show where he interviews people on the streets of SF who think really bitter things about all tech people and all tech companies and use them as a filter for his next ideas.

That is my honest, constructive criticism of a company aimed at high end watch aficionados.