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I won't question that young families and those who plan to be young families would be more loyal to a company with a policy like this. Is it possible that those who can't or won't have families will be less loyal to company like this if the practice results in increased workload during someone's parental leave?
Well when the dust settled we (Boston) did get a better highway system and a second tunnel to the airport, and only 10x more expensive than expected!

We need some faster pipes in Boston/ Cambridge. As a place that wants to be a tech hub, its a little embarrassing...
It's funny you say that, because 5 minutes ago I literally locked my door from half-way across the country. The cleaners forgot to lock it when they left. I don't have this lock, I have the schlage z-wave deadbolt sync'd to a wink hub.

Before this lock, my wife would leave the front door unlocked in the morning until the cleaners showed up hours and hours later. I'm not a fan of having my house unlocked, and I wasn't really interested in giving the cleaners a key that they could use anytime they wanted.

What is my alternative other than having my house sit unlocked until my wife gets home in the evening?
Also worth noting that Google isn't doing this because:

1) They want to be an ISP

2) They feel bad for America and want us to enjoy faster internet.

They're doing it because they have plans for products which necessitate nationwide high speed internet. I don't know what those plans are... maybe making YouTube the everything-video-delivery-system, maybe massively collaborative work tools as they expand Google Docs et al... maybe something we haven't even heard about... but they've got something coming that they require Fiber for.

This is a business plan.
Which subset?
It was a ZX81. "It's not a complete implementation" was presumed for anything running on that tiny thing. The base model had 1K RAM, which included all video & OS memory space. Getting it to do anything meaningful was a challenge. That somebody, back then, could get a sane implementation closely approximating chess running on it was amazing.
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Concerns about sharing keys in the consumer market are pretty common. You might hand out spare keys to a cleaner, pet sitter, neighbor who's watching the house while you're away, etc. and it's not necessarily comfortable knowing that they potentially have access to your house forever afterwards, if they decided to copy the key. The problem is largely ignored just because it's inconvenient to solve. Give people a realistic option for logging access and revoking keys and lots will go for it.
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Google doesn't need to add its service to every city. If you nail the top ~50 cities, then the rest must compete regardless. It adds massive pressure at a national level when you're talking about tens of millions of people having access to 1gbps, it becomes a cultural talking point, average people start applying pressure to politicians over it.

If you put a 1gbps service in Cincinnati, that forces Cleveland to have to compete with the economic gravity that generates. And they will either respond through attempting to build their own muni broadband or enticing eg Google fiber, or they will suffer and Cincinnati will draw people, capital and talent away from Cleveland.
I just hope it doesn't take too long to radiate out from Atlanta. Barrow County is the middle of nowhere, but it is right on the road between Atlanta and Athens.
Ah yes, nothing like making a stand and losing your job while raising an 8 week old to add to your troubles.
When I was an entrepreneur, the only thing I scheduled was meetings with investors (and potential investors) and meetings with customers (and potential customers.) When I went over to the investing side I had to change that: everything is scheduled (except the entrepreneurs whose companies I've invested in can call me on the phone any time they want.)

The difference is just volume. When my company was 40 people, whoever needed my attention could just walk up to my desk and talk to me, or I could walk over and talk to them. Now I get 50-60 inbound emails a week asking for a meeting. I'm not well-known like Brad Feld, I can only imagine how many he gets.

The question becomes quantity or quality? Do you have more, shorter meetings or fewer, longer meetings? Neither strategy is optimal. Brad wants more, shorter meetings (and has changed how he meets to accommodate that.) I went for fewer, longer meeting (because I invest in people and it takes me a little while to get a feel for a person.)

It's definitely a different world. There's no getting around that as an investor you're dependent on sorting through inbound and so you're necessarily somewhat reactive. As an entrepreneur, everything was proactive (because nothing happened unless we made it happen.) It seems backwards, but to be effective when you're reactive, you need more rigorous structure and process than you do when you're proactive. When you're proactive, you can make madness work.
Because you need money to fund the activities of those who can make stuff that the world wants. Only later will their work pay for itself and maybe for other things as well, like letting guys in uniforms play useless war games with Turkey.
This is really interesting news and I think signals what will be a really large change in digital video in the next few years.

Moving from flash to HTML5 adaptive bitrate is not trivial task and if you are familiar with MSE/EME, it shows how powerful the browser has become in delivering rich video content, either pre-recorded or live streaming.

With this, it seems to me there is a big gap now for encoding to new adaptive codecs, like MPEG-DASH and tooling to make something like livestreaming easy to do without flash.
"with goals beyond pure financial gains and rock-bottom self-interest."

This doesn't paint an accurate picture. Google isn't deploying Fiber out of any notion of selflessness. This is a competitive play, and a very good one at that.

You say selfless ideals, I say this is exactly how "the market" and "competition" are commonly understood to function -- in the absence of corruption, regulatory capture and state granted monopolies.
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> Sean Carroll, a highly respected and philosophically astute physicist, takes a different approach from Dawid. For Carroll, it is the concept of falsifiability, which was central to Karl Popper's famous philosophy of science, that is too limited for the playing fields we now find ourselves working on.

>> "Whether or not we can observe [extra dimensions or other universes] directly, the entities involved in these theories are either real or they are not. Refusing to contemplate their possible existence on the grounds of some a priori principle, even though they might play a crucial role in how the world works, is as non-scientific as it gets."

> Thus for Carroll, even if a theory predicts entities which can't be directly observed, if there are indirect consequences of their existence we can confirm, then that those theories (and those entities) must be included in our considerations.

Sounds convincing to me. But, are there indirect consequences? That's the key, in my opinion.
Reason why people defend unsafe languages:

If you make it idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot.
What usecases can you think of? e.g: comments, news stories moderation.
This might be a good time to sign the promise not to use C/C++ on new projects... http://www.flourish.org/promise/
Please, god, no. I'm tired of this gamification craze, and the last thing I want gamified is my damn sleep. The only achievement should be getting a good night's rest, and if we need fake internet points to entice us to get it, then I feel sorry for our culture.
No. Ideally, the goal is that users will upgrade as soon as a fix is available.
> They take more than a year planning a big OS upgrade.

That sounds painful.

I think the author is really advocating for a faster feedback cycle. Imagine if instead of a big upgrade every X months, you had a tiny upgrade every day, which didn't require rebooting and happened in the background.

Breaking changes could surface the same day they were shipped and be rolled back or fixed.

Now imagine that conservative players also constantly upgrade, but always stay 6 months behind the bleeding edge, getting only releases marked as "tried and true". Eg, if something had to be rolled back or patched, they skip over the bad version.

Wouldn't that make upgrades much less painful for companies like you describe?
Does anyone know if Google Fiber monitors your network traffic to serve targeted ads?
I admit I'm not too familiar with the old MSVC inline assembly system, but the way GCC/Clang do it certainly allows emitting identical code to what you can get with intrinsics, although using naive constraints might hurt you. However, the main reason I personally use inline asm is not for performance, but to access instructions which are not provided as intrinsics or require special register handling. For example, I recently wrote some code that did syscalls directly (because it was patching memory so the normal syscall functions might not be accessible); I could have linked a separate .S file, but inline assembly made the output look much nicer. Or, while I haven't written this myself, it can be used to write out nops which zero-cost tracing facilities will then patch, something which separate assembly files cannot do.

As for effort from compiler authors, I'd like to hear more about why it is supposedly so hard. (MSVC is also the compiler which has to prioritize their choice of C++11-17 features to implement over the years, while the competitors have complete C++11 and 14 implementations. I guess that's somewhat ad hominem on the team, but ...)
The intention of the WebSocket protocol is that the handshake is sufficiently unlike HTTP that nobody could make a meaningful response to it by mistake.

As for non-meaningful responses, isn't this equivalent to using <img src="http://192.168.1.1/admin?action=evil"> to send an HTTP request? That's also not restricted by same-origin, and never has been and never will be. You get the same result -- you cause an HTTP request to be sent somewhere, and the response isn't useful to you nor is the contents of the response visible to you, but the request and its side effects still happen.

I'm not super well-versed in websocket design, so I'm happy to be convinced I'm wrong, but that's my understanding of why it works the way it does.
I don't think it is worth noting, I doubt it would be productive to go into John Birch Society / Oath Keeper territory :)
I like the idea that this product makes the smartphone accessible in a group setting. Really cool idea!

I was wondering if you could comment on latency between the screen and smartphone (and back)?
I know group who does REBOOT once year, just not to forget how it is done.
I'm in this boat and Kickstarter was never involved. I placed a bog-standard pre-order through their web site.
When I was consulting, I found it was best for me to just let my clients talk as long as they wanted to...

Your clients were paying for your meeting participation, right? In that case it's entirely appropriate to let them talk as much as they want. I think Feld is in a different position...
Y Combinator is doing for software what Sam Philips did for American music
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct03/articles/samphillips.htm

There are so many parallels between the work of Sam Phillips and Y Combinator.

What would have happened to Elvis, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash if they hadn't crossed path with Sam Phillips?

Why has no one else quite achieved what Sam Phillips did in just a decade or so? What was his spirit/intention? We have Rick Rubin and the likes but somehow it doesn't quite seem the same.

Do great stars need great producers and talent discoverers to bring out that initial something from talent unable to contain itself and dying to burst out?
How about debian with freebsd kernel?
Nashville is becoming a pretty good city for tech.

Google has taken a pretty good interest in us lately: http://archive.tennessean.com/article/20130925/BUSINESS04/30...

We have the second-fastest growing market of tech jobs: http://fortune.com/2014/12/23/tech-job-trends-2015/

We are attracting a large amounts of college grads: http://www.businessinsider.com/city-observatory-report-on-th...

Of course, I'm partial since I live here. Unfortunately, I'm in an area outside of metro that I'm sure won't get fiber.
Any chance you could integrate it with a Hue or similar to do a light-based alarm, given it has wifi?
All the time: SQLi, XSS, arbitrary file upload, ...
I don't see how there is even an argument against parental leave.

Humanity isn't here to ensure the survival of the corporation. We allow corporations to exist. If we decide that family time and bonding with our children is important, which we should, then the corporations need to adjust.

Fathers and mothers should get time measured in months to bond with their children after birth. It doesn't even need to be paid for by the company, we should just be using the unemployment benefits we've all already paid in to. It'll also help the job market as some positions may require temp workers to fill gaps. I'm honestly perplexed how anyone can be against mandatory parental leave and I'm a single guy without any children or any plan to have children in the near future.

Someday most of us won't work, not in the sense we view work in this current day, so why fight the inevitable? We should embrace it and take steps to get it right that is fair and sustainable.
They have, but not in nearly enough quantity to satisfy everybody, and apparently they decided they just can't realistically do it.
> What I would love is to eventually have a CI server do it for me. Every single day, it would run bundle update, run the tests, and deploy unless there's a problem. If there is a problem, it drops me an email with the trace and fixing it becomes part of my morning routine.

Agreed. A while back, there was a security fix in the default php5-fpm configuration (0666 -> 0660, I believe), and I skipped it when updating. My website went down until I learned to change the owner of the process. And this wasn't even a dist-upgrade.

Sometimes manual intervention is required.

In my case, I run updates almost every day. If I had to wade through 6 months of backlogged updates, I would have wasted a lot more time identifying where it broke. Smaller feedback loops are a win.
Unfortunately, this is how capitalism works. Currently the world wage median is $9733 (http://www.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-household...)

If you make more than that, you're being squeezed down to it. Below that wage, machines don't make sense, yet. And with the squeeze happening with all of the 'sharing' economy, your wages will go even lower.

In effect, capitalism has failed us, as a country and as a world. Do I know the answer? Nope. Some will say communism, socialism, anarchism, or some -ism. But something will need to be set up differently. Lest we will see the US come out as a 3rd world country. And I'm not entirely sure it's not a good way there.
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Well, sure they accumulate. So do salaries. If it's not worth the money to your company, don't spend it. Same goes for salaries.
I assume your comment was not meant to come off as hostile, but please don't use the word 'rape' to refer to things other than sexual violence. Doing so creates a hostile environment and minimizes the experiences of rape victims.
What happens if you have one child, but your second pregnancy is a multiple?
I backed two Double Fine games and have them both installed on my computer. Sorry you have sour grapes, but calling it 'fraud' is libelous.
> it unfairly discriminates against companies that are unable to provide government-mandated perks to parents, or people interested in having children.

If a company is unable to provide government-mandated payroll to its employees, shouldn't it be considered a failure?
Might as well throw a --no-check-certificate in there
He's written some (American-style) Libertarian screeds.
Different components of a system will have different goal prices. The previous complaint about being expensive was about the cost of the electronics and motor. The question/complaint here is about the cost of the deadbolt. There's absolutely nothing inconsistent about saying you want a cheaper motor or electronics, while insisting on an expensive, quality deadbolt.
As someone living in Atlanta I can't friggin wait for my break-up call with Comcast. Soon!
Well, certainly in developing countries where bandwidth is limited, you're going to be watching a small resolution, and any amount of CPU is fine so long as you can cut the bitrate.

There are a lot of people in places like that.

Also, Allwinner, Intel, Mediatek, and Rockchip all have SoCs announced with hardware VP9 decode: http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/socs (not sure how many of those are already shipping).
It drives up the cost of employment and will eliminate marginal companies which otherwise might exist.
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It's the exact same as saying that it unfairly discriminates against companies that are unable to pay taxes or pay the minimum wage or pay wages on time because they're too small to have that kind of money to throw around or have tough financial times.

This simply sets a different bar for hiring any employees at all, and that's a fair bar that's equal for all companies. The very cheapest package of hired work that you can buy includes a minimum wage, social taxes, safe working conditions, paid vacations, overtime pay and maternity leave. If you can't afford the minimum package, then you can't afford to hire people, period. The people have voted that if your business is only able to provide sweatshop-style employment below that minimum level, then you should take that kind of business out of the country.
There is a cost to upgrading and there is a cost to staying behind. As soon as the cost to stay behind outweighs the cost to upgrade I upgrade, but no sooner. Otherwise I'd just be throwing away money and time. The bigger problem here is that the cost to upgrade is only known after the fact. What should be a routine job can easily spiral out of control into a marathon of misery.
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It is sure great that the UK never has and never will have a child molestation scandal involving individuals in power, some of whom may try to silence, cover up, or postpone the issue by abusing their power.

There are plenty of people who hold positions of government power that have done far worse than abuse surveillance for their own ends.
I agree, it is funny, but we run code we can't even see all day long. This is only 38 LOC. Anyone who is going to run it, however, should make sure they understand it.
The post was about Bitcoin (the currency) not bitcoin (the protocol). You read it twice and didn't get that part? :-P
A soft cap on corporate size seems like the simplest solution.

EX: 20,000 employs and or contractors and companies can’t own shares of other companies without being included in that cap. Outsourcing seems like the obvious loophole, but hardly an insurmountable barrier.

Though, increasing tax load as companies scale is probably a much better option. Not that there is a realistic chance of this passing any time soon, but large companies are harmful to both democracy and free markets so it's likely to be tried by someone.

PS: The only real counter argument I can think of is global completion.

Edit: (3 downvotes no responces.) How odd, looks like I hit one of those things you can't say. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html I wonder why?
> Yes, someone will have to pay: the person raising a child. If they can't afford to take time off to have the child, then they should seriously reconsider having a family. Having a family involves major expenses that only increase as the children age.

Agreed. My parents didn't have me until they raised enough money to take time off. Likewise, I don't plan on having a child (if any) until I have that cushion.

Quite frankly, I don't begrudge the government or corporations for not providing such benefits. I don't consider it their responsibility.
Did you forget about the entire city of Philadelphia? 14 inches predicted, < 1 inch actual snowfall.

OK, but so what? This is about unpredictability, not over-estimation. If the unpredictability was better conveyed the best case scenario is still everyone preparing like they did for a storm that didn't hit. Worst case is suffering hardships due to underestimating the storm.

I'm a bit further northeast and it's coming down pretty hard outside my window right now. The preemptive cancellations really did avoid a lot of unsafe travel here. We have a bit more familiarity with the unpredictability of snowfall predictions, but it usually manifests as people saying: "It won't be that bad" and getting into trouble the few times it really is that bad.

It didn't hit the cities that aren't used to big snowfall. But those cities house a lot of national media, so now we get to listen their scorn for the next week.
I know people much less wealthy and busy than Feld, whose secretaries screen all their calls. Admin help isn't that expensive for someone like this. Presumably an assistant would have a list of potential interrupters...
It is an issue because they are not free to hire "the right people that fit [their] company's needs". They're "free" to do so if they have money to blow on it. Which is something small, budding, or failing companies do not have the luxury of doing. Hence why small/budding companies are discriminated against with such prejudicial (albeit noble) regulations.

Additionally, they are further not "free" to hire the right people, because the right people might end up being "all white guys", or whatever is cheapest at the time, etc. And we all know what a public lynch mob that would create if it ever came to light. That's assuming your country doesn't have laws against it in place already.
Gemnasium provides something similar to what you describe in the context of Ruby applications with Gemfiles. It can be configured to automatically generate pull requests updating outdated dependencies, which could trigger your test suite to automatically check for regressions.
It was the style at the time.
Walmart has 3% net income margins; Costco has 2% net income margins; Target has 3% net income margins; BestBuy in its best days had 4% net income margins. By that premise, nobody should have ever built grocery stores or most retail outlets.
Thanks for the feedback! We're really excited about the potential it creates for new Android apps, since current apps are still made with the small screen in mind.

As for the latency, it's about 0.1 seconds, barely perceptible for the most part. Our CTO spent a ton of time getting it as responsive as possible.
Same situation for myself currently. Doing some grad work at ORNL also.

I'm really frustrated by comcast, my fiance and I have a hard time doing bandwidth using things simultaneously (netflix/twitch). I constantly watch our data meter to make sure we don't approach the cap.

Although it's kind of baffling because I recently lived in the bay area. AT&T's UVerse I had wasn't much better in terms of the bandwidth and price, I don't recall a cap though.

I'm here for a few years before fleeing back to CA. I've been researching how to start any sort of movement for reasonable service in town but it seems the town council is pretty alright with comcast, even though some tech business have actually moved from knoxville to Chattanooga for the internet. So really not sure what to do other than give up.

EDIT: Wow, I actually didn't realize how bad the situation is here in Knoxville, read more here http://www.metropulse.com/stories/features/downtown-knoxvill...
Agreed. Would definitely need the "cooling" version.