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They probably spent less to buy the entire island of Hawaii 2 than it costs to buy the average house on Oahu or Maui.

Bonus: I now own land on Maui, Hawaii 2, and Islay. Luckily two of these do not require taxes and one provides rent that can be redeemed in person in the form of a dram of Laphroaig.
HN does strike a good balance between civility and diversity of opinion. Or at least they get a lot of one controlling for the other. I tend to post from a right wing perspective but only had one comment flag killed (where I pointed out that it was hypocritical of French Americans to say that France needs to preserve its culture, while at the same time saying that the US has no culture, and anyone who says it does is a racist).

The one thing that bothers me is the flood of social justice themed articles, including one that was flag killed but revived by the mods. I guess the mods felt that they were reacting against over-zealous flaggers. But I think in practice they are overriding the opinion of the community who are sick of articles about issues like sexism in tech.
Ask HN: Concept for consultants to combat late payments
I wanted to prefix the title with "Ask HN", but the post was far longer than the 2000 limit. I figured I should follow the convention of using the 'text' instead of the 'url' field for 'Ask HN' posts. Due to the size of the post however, I am including a URL here to Google Docs where the content of the post is:

http://goo.gl/L6RrJF

Sorry for the confusion.
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An indictment is a deliberately biased, one-sided document.
I don't know what the right answer is here, but I find it intriguing that this approach is in a way the opposite of what Python ended up doing with the 2/3 split.
Kosh is a character on the TV show Babylon 5. It's where the quoted line is from.
Oh my gosh, ATI. I had some friends who were into that, and I even borrowed their Sacred Texts that showed with diagrams how boys and girls should dress. I was homeschooled but those guys were out there.

Made it hard to make friends though, since a good portion of our group was ATI. I was kind of an outcast because I listened to music that had drums in it.
Well, duh. The telecoms have sued over every previous move regarding net neutrality, and they've made it very clear that they are going to continue to do so even if the FCC does exactly what the court in the last case said they could do.

No one is surprised by this, least of all the FCC Commissioners considering voting on the proposals. I suspect that Wheeler's staff already has prepared legal analyses addressing most of the issues AT&T might raise in a lawsuit. Its hardly their first rodeo.
Great video worthy of a separate HN story submission!
> Which makes me wonder - will the FCC action do anything to expand the provider market,

No, the provider market is unlikely to significantly expand without local loop unbundling; fair access to poles and conduit may help in some cases, but overbuilding is still going to be expensive and limited.

> or merely ensure the quality of currently available access?

We'll have to wait and see what falls under acceptable and unacceptable network management, to see what happens to quality.
Ah, alright, thanks for the clarification, I guess I did misread it.
This makes the assumption that home visits are the same level of productivity as office visits. For the elderly, infirm, those who work during normal doctors' office hours, etc., home visits might reach a population that isn't getting good care currently.
If it wasn't a good deal, Twitter wouldn't be doing it. They were in the position of power and chose to trade it for something.

Twitters growth hasn't been the greatest over the past little while, improving their discoverability and brand power is bound to help them in the future. And there's always the potential for promoted tweets to show up in Google searches, which in turn helps twitter sell more ads.
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Thanks for your reply, brianwski. That's seems fair enough.
completed my first hack of the year.. ;)

http://periodicnames.com/
Full disclosure - I wrote this while learning Go, so there is a reasonable chance it isn't perfect. I'm all ears for constructive criticism :D
This is most likely to fuel user growth (which has been slowing down).

They can always renegotiate at some point down the line.
Oh please: stop with the revisionist BS just because he apparently came around the issue, after a very public and direct presidential nod no less. His is a classical revolving door story. He didn't intend to classify the internet under Title II but was forced to (anyone remembers his first _actual_ proposal? The internet does have a very short memory). Now, you can say that he genuinely changed his mind in the last few months or so but it's more likely that the cumulative effect of the activism around the issue (the apex probably being John Oliver's net neutrality bit) and the president's request were the deciding factors.
> I would want to see a lot of evidence to back up any assertion that programs written in statically typed languages are less likely to contain logic errors that compile and run just fine but don't do what the programmer (or his client) actually wanted.

As certain assertions related to logic can be encoded into static types (especially in a language with a type system more like Haskell's than, say, Go's), while static typing can't eliminate all logic errors, it can reduce the probability of logic errors escaping detection in the absence of testing, since compiling a statically typed program is, in effect, a form of testing (limited to those assertions about behavior which can be encoded into the type system.)
> They'll almost certainly still be able to block open mail relays

On what grounds? Open mail relays certainly get abused, but there's nothing inherently illegal about them or the traffic they serve.
I would think just more generally this guy knew to keep his cards hid even from day one. Black market is black market
I have thought about going for years. But now that you mention PGP-keysigning, that's clinched it. I had no idea. I guess that's not the sort of thing you put on a normal flyer.
The giants of the web continue to profit themselves at the cost of an open internet.
It's not just any light, it's pretty serious deep ultraviolet lasers. (one quick google was showing 60-90W pulsed @6khz lasers @ ~200nm wavelength.)

Stuff degrades in UV light, and that laser is going to be far brighter than you would have ordinary experience with.
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Reminds me of the Klondike Big Inch promotion Quaker Oats ran in the 1950s:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-07/features/87021...

Here's what happened:

> Ronald Bottrell, my source at Quaker Oats, said that in the early 1960s, all the land reverted to Canadian-government ownership. The reason: nonpayment of taxes.

> ``The individuals who had received the deeds in the cereal boxes had become the owners of the land,`` Bottrell said. ``Obviously, none of them ever paid taxes on it. So the ownership of the land went back to Canada. The promotion was long over, anyway.``

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotio...

More:

> Although the deeds were a campaign promotion, many people took ownership of the land seriously. One man wrote Quaker Oats to announce that he had collected 10,800 deeds and was now the owner of 75 square feet of land. Another man, accused of murdering his wife, used his deeds to secure the services of a defense lawyer. The lawyer asked to be excused from the case when he learned the land consisted of 1,000 inches.

http://articles.dailypress.com/2000-04-04/features/000403013...

http://articles.mcall.com/2008-04-29/features/4064347_1_yuko...
> Oh please: stop with the revisionist BS just because he apparently came around the issue, after a very public and direct presidential nod no less.

Wheeler has been one of the three members of the FCC favoring pro-neutrality regulation for quite some time. Its true that he recently came around to the view that Title II was an appropriate vehicle for that regulation, but he's been a supporter of FCC action to enforce neutrality principles for quite some time, as demonstrated by the previous Open Internet Report and Order, the last NPRM in which he took one of the two paths toward enforcing those principles laid out in the court decision striking down the old Open Internet Report and Order, and his new move to use Title II, the other path laid out in that court decision.
You know how you sometimes get recent and relevant news articles when searching? News sites love that. Free traffic.
In which country is quarterly undecanoate typical? I know the US FDA hasn't approved it and here the standard esther and frequency of injection are cypionate and once per week, as far as I can tell.
The "no blocking" and "no throttling" requirements are both subject to the exception for "reasonable network management."

I wouldn't be too sure that the FCC wouldn't see preventing or restricting server usage on residential connections as "reasonable." The general thrust of the way they talk about the internet is somewhat rigid and one-way, even in this document. They go out of their way to note that the proposal is for consumer internet access, and not the services offered to "edge providers" (though they leave open the possibility that the courts might force them to treat both the same).
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I've tried to keep an open mind about homeschooling, but every child or adult I've come across that was homeschooled is just, weird...

I'm disappointed the article didn't go over how/if the kids get the much needed social interaction. Kids need conflict, and a lot of it, in order to fit in well with society (and especially the workplace).
InfluxDB CEO here. With the current version of InfluxDB (0.8.8), metadata should be encoded in the name of the series, which means you don't repeat it.

In the next version of InfluxDB (0.9.0), you can encode metadata as tags and it gets converted to a single id.

With either of those schemes you should see much better numbers on storage.
I am considering homeschooling. My main motivation is that I really hated school and so did my wife. And I didn't learn much after 6th grade. Most of the school work I did was a waste of time. I don't want to waste anyone's time or mine (even though I'll end up spending more time). And I think I can offer a better education. It's nothing to do with values, intellectual curiosity, or schools being rotten to the core. I think schools can be fixed, but they're dysfunctional currently.
How close is Estimote to solve friction?
I think there's an interesting interplay between this FCC announcement and the earlier one on classifying "broadband" connection speeds of 25 Mbps and above.

If an ISP is required to abide by net neutrality and can only sell broadband when it meets the above requirement, then the FCC is essentially mandating quality and consistency of service.
He's been on most sides of this: http://www.cnet.com/news/why-fccs-wheeler-is-defying-the-gre...
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InfluxDB CEO here. The data model for 0.9.0 should map up nicely with what you're trying to do. It supports measurement names, and tags. It would be great to work together to have InfluxDB as another option (other than OpenTSDB) for long term storage of metrics data.
> I wouldn't be too sure that the FCC wouldn't see preventing or restricting server usage on residential connections as "reasonable."

Bittorrent is peer-to-peer where each peer is both server and client, and the FCC very early on -- even before attempting to adopt general open internet regulations -- ruled that throttling bittorrent wasn't "reasonable network management". This seems to be a fairly strong indicator that preventing servers on "residential" connections would not generally be reasonable network management.
> Those threads were where the regulars started to really get to know each other, and develop their own shorthand, nicknames, and inside jokes.

Online communities, like any communities, need to develop the right culture in order to thrive. People have to get to know each other; then they'll engage in shared defense of the culture against hostile outsiders (trolls, in this case).

If you're trying to create on online community, then you can short-cut the process a little bit by attempting to install your own culture via participation (modelling the values you want to see in your commenters) and moderation (excluding those who violate the culture).

But to do that effectively is very hard work. Hard work that most people and most publishers don't seem willing to do. So they end up with crappy pointless comment threads.
A low tech solution is to use a laptop that doesn't have a battery and keep it plugged in all the time. When they grab the laptop the cord invariably comes unplugged and the thing turns off. Bonus points if you have a fake battery so the weight doesn't give the game away.
Affirmative action do not hurt efficiency
The Flynn Effect: Are we really getting smarter?
>> I ... don't support... democracy
>
> You're the real terrorist.

Maybe I was unclear. I don't consider Pinochet a paragon of democracy, and I don't support neither illegal drone strikes, or illegal kill squads.

I still think there's a difference between hands-on assassination and drone strikes -- while both remain deplorable.
It's tough to support these people after this:

https://twitter.com/nzle/status/502928099164815362

http://blog.xoxofest.com/max
InfluxDB CEO here. The next version (0.9.0) has support for tags and efficiently encodes the measurement name + tagset as a single 4 byte uint.

Previously, you would have had to encode metadata in the series name. Otherwise if you used string columns you'd see a massive waste in disk space since they were repeated on every measurement.
Of course it didn't. Please, let's keep this discussion grounded in reality.
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> I knew I was playing in a grey area

For me it looks like this is obviously illegal because he conducts a business without registering one.
I said above that that I do support net neutrality for any location with only one ISP.

You've floated this idea a few times here. How would you propose this rule apply in Manhattan, where the availability of a second ISP option can vary not only block by block, but building by building?
i'm not familiar with the details of this but it appears they walked back on it and apologized? what's the issue
That job ad doesn't indicate that Apple is going into the search business. Getting into search would need a bigger team.

Given the publicity, this may be a bluff by Apple. Yahoo did something similar. In early 2014, Marissa Mayer announced that Yahoo was going to build their own search engine. Nothing happened. That seems to have been a ploy to get a better deal from Bing.
If you develop a successful business plan selling pineapples- and then a regulator comes in and says that assumptions x, y, & z are no longer legal- why would a business owner decide not to "waste money" on courts? Is it not obvious that the best reason to do so is that you've made investments based on a set of assumptions that have a longer horizon than the next 6 months?

The courts exist to provide relief in the case of a conflict. Without them, the only conflict solution is violence. If a company has invested billions in network upgrades and has a regulator come in and upset the apple cart- it's either cheaper to accept it or it's disastrous. I know the appeal of hyperbole, but apply occam's razor. Why would they 'waste money' on the courts?

Swapping copper for fiber requires expensive trench digging. Planning upgrades costs billions.

Monopoly is a word which you are misusing. Verizon is the leading wireless ISP in the country. Comcast is the leading wireline ISP in the country. Centurylink is a dominant force in ISP delivery.
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Like many things that we love about Python, I believe it came about as a reaction to Perl. Because I'm pretty sure Perl 6 has been in development since I began learning Ruby, in 2005. That means the entire time I've been a Ruby developer, this project has been in development. I'm honestly surprised that it's being released at all.
So you're proposing there is no TV+internet package available from the ISP, they offer only internet and you get your TV from someone like Netflix.

If the ISPs at this point charge a price for just internet service that makes offering that service profitable, what are you expecting customers to do? Go without internet service?
I hate the tone of that letter, has the typical PR tone all over it.

Basically to sum it up: "Your Social Security Number, Name, Birthdate, Address, and everything else needed to steal your identity is at risk. But don't worry! Your credit card number is safe."
How does this compare to PlayN? [1] Any relationship?

[1] https://code.google.com/p/playn/
InfluxDB CEO here. It's true that Bolt's performance is horrible if you're writing individual small data points. It gets orders of magnitude better if you batch up writes. The new architecture of InfluxDB allows us to safely batch writes without the threat of data loss if the server goes down before a flush (we have something like a write ahead log).

Basically, when the new version comes out, all new comparisons will need to be done because it's changing drastically.
Or maybe girls don't want to have to share a bathroom with creepy boys pretending to be girls. Attributing bigotry to everything you disagree with is unwise.
I think GP's issue is that they walked back and apologized, not that they invited the person to begin with.
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Does a service meet the requirement when the highest possible rate is 25 Mbps or when the average rate is 25 Mbps? Underprovisioning is standard practice, and it's possible to get only a tiny fraction of what a link is physically capable of.

Also, I don't see anything there about QoS or uptime guarantees. (Uptime guarantee: "One nine." "90%?" "9%.")
You may be right.

Assuming you're right about their profits, that's 18B per quarter. Operating cost have been said to be around 5B per quarter for Google and 1.25B per quarter for Bing.
500k-1m users (According to Google Play doesn't seem like much. It seems more like a strategic buy to me, the way Microsoft has been trying to push the boundaries of late with cloud productivity tech
You don't need factoring to add rational numbers and reduce fractions, only greatest common divisor.
Increase spam in general by misconfigured mail servers getting hacked and IPs getting blacklisted.
In the “born programmer” theory, surely the trait begins latent and could manifest at any age depending on exposure / triggers / mentors etc? And university seems a likely time for that to happen; not everybody had access or was given that first nudge into computers earlier in life.
he said. she said. 10 years later.

http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/91476212698/this-is-a-b...

Given how little we know, it's impossible to know what happened or who is right and who is wrong.
> Nothing happened.

First hand or just based on trend?
Good job issuing the release in the middle of the night to try to avoid the PR, too. What a trainwreck. Anthem basically passed out identity theft kits, and you can even sort by income to go after the rich ones first! (Why does Anthem know your income? It doesn't seem relevant to offer you health insurance products.)
The Economist article is written with the presumption that there are are problems that need non-neutrality in order to be solved and that there is thus a tradeoff of some sort to be made. They cite better network management, and give as examples latency-sensitive applications that suffer from the lack of guaranteed latency.

Those are fallacies. The lack of guaranteed latency is fundamentally no bigger of a problem than the lack of guaranteed bandwidth. Non-neutral traffic shaping is not necessary to maintain good performance, and in practice a best-effort network can achieve acceptable latency for things like VoIP without having to explicitly identify, classify, and prioritize VoIP protocols. ISPs may be accustomed to using such explicit techniques, but neutral alternatives exist and work better for general purpose connections, so we shouldn't carve out any exceptions here.

The Economist also points out the difficulty of determining when traffic is or should be illegal and blockable. It is not at all apparent to me that ISPs have a need to be involved in subjective decisions like that in order for us to have a functional Internet. Is erring on the side of allowing traffic and prosecuting later really going to cause serious problems, or can we come up with an objective set of guidelines for what constitutes a DoS worth blocking?
You found me out. It's a wonder it took so long. But you, Internet rando, you at last have discovered my shameful affiliation.
I know there's no single number to quantify this, but I really wonder what the signal to noise ratio on Twitter is. Sure, if you follow good accounts there are some gems from time to time, but it seems the vast majority of tweets are just complete wastes of time and resources, spraying out at a ridiculous rate.

For this to add value to Google SERPs, they're going to have to dedicate some real time, energy, and resources to process all of those tweets, something I think I wish they'd spend on other stuff than identifying which tweets are about someone's cat or not.
Since I can't reply to the reply to this message.

Not sure whether guarantees or provisioning levels are defined, but today's definition of "broadband" is 4 Mbps, so all else being equal, the FCC is trying to modernize the language.
In addition, in any location where a company is the sole provider, net neutrality applies, which would solve the problem of choices.

You've floated this idea a few times here. How would you propose this rule apply in Manhattan, where the availability of a second ISP option can vary not only block by block, but building by building? I'm not sure if this is unique to New York City, but the choice to bring a supplier into a building is often the result of an exclusive contractual agreement with that provider (I waited about five years for FiOS to arrive as the second option in my building, finally supplanting the incumbent Time Warner 10/0.5 "broadband" option).

N.B.: My initial response was to your similar comment deeply threaded below.
Huh... looks pretty cool.
What languages do you support?
Another thing to shoot down that fantasy: someone makes a casual mention of illegal activity, and as soon as you complete the transaction they pull out their FBI badge and arrest you on charges of money laundering, aiding a criminal, etc. People from localbitcoins have been targeted and subsequently busted this way, for doing no more than this guy.
Bingo. There's nothing to see here. Any search for "search" makes it obvious. What I find interesting is that some of these <a href="https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=36607344&openJobId=3660... are in San Francisco</a>.
I expect an explicit allowance for this, because that's the easy way out and there really isn't the political will for anything else.
I suspect content search. Imagine people's home filled with Apple TV, Macbook and iPad. Now what you need is content search. TV program search is done, and it isn't really much exciting than Netflix's suggestion. What about content people bought? Browsing history? Payment history? Medical? Calendar? Travel? Weather? They have a whole ecosystem they built since last release. As other speculates, a refined but better, unified version of spotlight, not just for iOS or OSX, but a truly search with their devices connected. With Sri now you can ask at home like Amazon's Echo, or ask Sri when you are driving. Content search is what matter these days.
Also if they expected to face prosecution were they not to find anything, you might expect them to often 'find' things whether they were there or not...