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Maybe there is no twist, because the Google Fiber has put enough pressure on them. Who other than communists would think that competition can work wonders?
About 1e-12, assuming the density limit is about one person per square meter, and a micron nation is about one square micrometer.
Monopolies need to be regulated. Period. If Google got to that position for their own qualities, it doesn't change the outcome in any way. In a democratic society, whenever a business institution achieves a monopoly position it is time to move on to curtail the possible results of the power it has achieved over the market.
I guess you could make your point without being rude? Just move along if you don't like it, but respect the authors.
If no one archived it, it's gone. If no one submitted it to an archive, it's hard to find. If someone saved it to a floppy disk, it's probably gone [1]

[1]: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191
I assume the Chattanooga 1Gb is the municipal network that runs ~ $70/mo.
Why is there a Facebook logo in the footer, which simply links to Facebook?
I have found mentors to be very helpful in career or business situations, but I agree with you, they aren't super helpful with coding. Maybe with higher level design or architecture?
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When I was younger, I thought that the western countries (US and Western Europe) are better (off) than other countries like South America or Asia, because they have much less corruption than those countries.

Today I am differentiating much more and I must admit that I am not knowing, why we are better of as for example South American countries. Of course, they have a high level of corruption, but when you look deeper, you will see, that we in Europe have also much corruption. The main difference: While in many South America countries everybody knows about the corruption, for example in Germany corruption is much much more covered -- but it exists, maybe even in the same degree as in South American countries. It is just covered much more. What makes me worry is, that while the normal police-men in Germany may have integrity, the normal top-politician seems to have none left. I can give no name of a top politician today, where I would assume, that he is not influenced or even bribed by some groups.

I think, that this gives a really bad signal to all the people in this nation. Many say: "Why should I pay taxes, for those crooked people?" And I must admit, that this is a strong argument in these times.
In this hypothetical situation, the government could step in and save millions of lives per year with a short term loss of profit to one company.

In this situation you'd let millions of people die because you think it might reduce future medical research outcomes?

So obviously I haven't found a hypothetical situation extreme enough for you yet.
We make policy decisions that limit how much money companies can make from medical breakthroughs all the time. The FDA approval process, for instance. If we stopped requiring FDA approval, developing drugs would be much more profitable, but as a society we agree that drug safety is a good trade off.

What if drug affordability is a good trade off as well? There's no way to know without investigation, but that is why I'm opposed to making policy on purely ideological grounds. What if it turns out that limiting pharmaceutical profits, decreases medical funding by 10%, but increases access to drugs that are developed by 100%? Again it may work out exactly opposite, but if you oppose limiting the price of drugs just because "it's wrong", you'll never know.

What if it turns out that medical funding isn't the bottleneck in medical breakthroughs. What if the number of people capable of becoming researchers is, and what if that amount goes up with more affordable drug access.

Again, I'm not proposing a specific course of action, but I'm saying that there are situations where the free market doesn't work and regulation is necessary.
Anyone familiar with a site that'll let you generate/view rule 30 (or similar automata) to some high number of rows? Perhaps in a zoomable, Google Maps-style? My google-fu has failed me in this thus far, but it seems like something that ought to be out there.
I'm working on Bulk Resize Photos. (http://bulkresizephotos.com/)

It resizes batches of images in your browser. It doesn't do anything Adobe CS can't do, but most folk (outside of designers) don't have Adobe CS. It's also extremely convenient since all you need is a browser; nothing to install or sign up for. It can also be embedded onto external sites (eg. forms that require images be uploaded) with preset resizing settings.
Agreed. No one has the power to fire a police officer except other police officers or higher ups. The people of the democracy do not decide who is in power when it comes to law enforcement. I would like to see a checks and balances system or the ability to impeach anyone with any sort of legal power.
Hmm, as I recall, about half of my programming classes required me to write programs to run on MTS. 'Course, we studied IBM mainframe assembly language in one class...
It is a poorly understood term people use to shoot down unpopular opinion. This is so common. Here is one from last day where a user is accused of being a troll for criticizing the new StarWars trailer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/32yudu/furious_7_cro...

Another example is my experience from /r/php. If you go there and criticize the language, you will be called a troll and will be eventually labeled as such. People are emotional, and they will use terms like this when their beliefs are threatened. It is an easy response. In a while, everything you say will be, by default, down voted and even lead to a ban solely out of this impression.
As much as it pains me to say it, if you want good cable modem service, get Comcast Biz class. You'll spend more--obviously--but you'll get faster speeds, no download cap whatsoever, and far better support. You're generally at the front of the line for all things support-related. For a remote worker like me, it's the best way to go. That said, if I move to a Google Fiber town, I will drop them like a rock.
While it has a negative connotation it was a serious question because it was not obvious to me whether this is a serious project or not. But besides that what should a constructive comment to this look like? The design is just bad and I really hate watering down opinions. I prefer people telling me that I am the worst singer in the world a thousand times over ending up at American Idol with illusion that I am a good singer. Be as constructive as possible but don't let this make you dishonest.
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I posit white collar crime should carry more severe penalties than blue collar crime.
I wonder if they use 10GBase-T, NBase-T, or something else.
> Mathematically it appears to be just another neural network.

What's the difference, broadly speaking?

> IMHO, deep learning is probably more likely to give systems approximating general intelligence.

If HTMs are just another neural net, why do you suspect deep learning will excel comparatively?

I don't know the first thing about HTMs - just curious.
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>Twelve different companies which were researching the cure for aging silently shut down...

Maybe. But is the possibility that one of those companies maybe might someday develop a breakthrough justify the preventable deaths of millions of people right now?

And would they really shut down? Any company that produces a truly miraculous cure has to know that government will step in sooner or later. People aren't going to sit by while a company hands out the cure for aging to only the super wealthy. Surely a company researching the cure for aging would have taken this possibility into account before starting.

Medical breakthroughs aren't a linear function of funding. What if making medicine more available slightly slows new drug development but drastically increases quality of life for most people? Would that be worth it?
(Author here.) I agree with you, there are several factors at play in what happened to MakerBot. I believe Bre learned the wrong lesson -- going closed might have looked like the obvious solution to their drop in sales. But the one huge advantage MakerBot had over their competitors (and the cloners) was the good will and support from the open source community. With that support gone after going closed, MakerBot had to sink or swim on its own. I think they could have found a way to stay open while dealing with concerns of revealing future plans. For one, they could have kept the plans closed during development, but released all the plans on launch, forcing their competitors to play catch-up. As a user, I wouldn't necessarily need access to future designs for future models, but definitely would want designs to the current model that I owned. But anyway, I now buy LulzBot 3D printers, which are fully open. The latest version is TAZ 5.0. I can't tell, though, just by looking at the LulzBot online repo [1] if plans for future versions are also posted there ahead of official release.

[1]: http://download.lulzbot.com/TAZ/

[Edit] LulzBot is more awesome than I thought. They post the source for future versions that they're working on, too:
http://devel.lulzbot.com/TAZ/README.html
"'Kauri' - EVT version of the next printer after TAZ 5.0"
To avoid the Osborne effect, they could simply have produced new versions and only open the source once released.

That's not the real problem. I guess it was a combination of chinese knockoffs and stratasys proprietary instincts.

In any case, IMHO, the layoffs are a result of losing the open community, which is now being serviced by true open-source proponents like Aleph with their excellent Lulzbot printers.
Disney, Sony and etc. aren't the creative community. They are legacy publishers who are stuck in DRM obsessed mentality. Yeah, MPAA is their pawn. But such mentality doesn't actually help the creative community. You know, actual authors. That's what I was talking about.

> The fact that the industry is lopsided and dominated by a small number of big economic interests who wield disproportionate influence isn't inherently bad, taht's actually a pretty normal and expected outcome of any given system.

It is pretty bad, since they weild too much power to screw up the legal system, and this has negative effect on everyone, way beyond their own industry.
I did answer you, very clearly. If you understood my response you'd know that I would help that person. The issue is that your supposition has no correlation to the wars in the mideast and US involvement at all.
Have you noticed that at least in the US, white collar crime already carries ridiculously high sentences compared to the rest of the world?
Work for hire means that the artist transfers ownership, they can't even use it in their portfolio's unless the work for hire contract states otherwise. They can also modify,deface,butcher it without needing the artists consent.
Someone (smarter than me) should program a Pacman clone that takes place on one of these tori.
Some good angularjs content here:

https://github.com/jmcunningham/AngularJS-Learning

Honestly the best way to learn it is to do it.
Well the typical pattern I encounter is this:
John Doe get a problem with its PC, actually most of the time problems with malware on windows. He will reach out to a friend that "knows" about computer. This friend will do some kind of cleaning, if IE does not work anymore because of too many malware installed will get firefox or chrome to get around the problem and have internet working again. At that point John Doe get a link to Chrome on its desktop (sometimes called 'Internet') and this become its new entry to Internet. The only difference is now for every query John Doe is doing it is written Google instead of Bing at the top of the screen. Then sometimes later John Doe got another malware that has the default search engine for chrome to be replaced by another one with an affiliate ID or whatever and John Doe barely notice about it.

I know we are on HN here and this may sound crazy for most of you guys if you don't get the opportunity to witness this behaviour but that's what I witness every time I meet people older than 40 that are not in my web people circle.
Is Sonic fiber still limited to that stretch of Florence Ave? Wish they'd bring it to more residential areas (I'm in Santa Rosa), but I guess they're focusing on business customers.
What do you mean it has nothing to do with REST? It's an application built on HTTP.

The same issues do not exist. Response 2 does not return "silent success" it returns 409 Conflict. The client can distinguish between conflict & success.
Yup, I only buy LulzBot printers (I own 3 now), pretty much a direct result of MakerBot's decision to go closed.
>For every winner, there's a loser. While you rally behind websites that are penalized (often with good reasons), you forget about the economic surplus that favors other businesses and regular users.

This is true, but I don't think one company should have the power to affect so many people.

>It's hard to measure if an algorithmic tweak is good for users, but Google has no incentives to do otherwise.

Google has plenty of incentives to make algorithmic tweaks that aren't good for their users. Left to their own devices, with no fear of regulation, do you think they would ever display a link to Bing Maps even if Bing Maps offered a better service?

Google is a search provider and a content provider, there is an inherent conflict of interest.
LTCM was bailed out by the banks, not the Fed or anyone else in Government. LTCMs LPs got wiped out. The bailout was to contain systemic risks to the rest of Wall Street.

QE is actually more like trillions of dollars.

A revolving door is frowned upon when one party benefits directly to the deteriment of competitors. Citadel can't really get special favors from the Fed as there's little the Fed could even do if they wanted to benefit Citadel over other hedge funds
I wish goodluck to you man! As as you're alive there's always hope to look forward! :)
I am defending the honor of technology, of makers, of people who believe the world can be improved through positive-sum progress rather than continuing the negative-sum squabbling that often dominates human history, and that is all that is left if bad leaders are chosen. I am fighting because there is a good side and a bad side and I want the good side to win.

The decision to produce Evan Spiegel, to fund him and make his career and pull strings to make his startup succeed and give him press exposure, was a fuck-you to all the people who've spent years and decades in technology working hard and actually trying to build things worth caring about. There is a cultural war going on between the future and the past. Evan Spiegel was produced (and he is a product, not an entrepreneur) because of his rich daddy; he is a product of past, much like a tyrannosaur's forearms. But when the past blocks the future, when resources are being diverted away from progress to pay tribute to a set of entrenched players who deliver no present or future value, it's time to speak up and encourage the fight. The problem won't go extinct if we don't throw a meteor or few its way.

When people fund and support the careers of unqualified psychopaths, generating bad companies with horrible cultures, we can let it go or we can fight. One way to fight is with public ridicule. Attempting to discover peoples' motivations, when they act in bad faith, should not be out of consideration. When the suppositions are reasonable, as they were in my case, it is a valid tactic of discourse.

I never claimed with certainty that there was any specific type of relationship between these two people. I merely pointed to the most likely possibility given the information in the OP. It should be clear that I was, in fact, making a claim of suspicion (justified by what was in the OP) rather than certainty.

This war is bigger than the two of them, and it really doesn't matter what type of motivations the main actors have. It matters what people do. When people are working for the bad side, does it really matter why? Perhaps I should apologize, not because I may have been wrong (and I thought the admission of suspicion rather than certainty was clear) but because I brought forth a divisive topic that threatens to distract us from the real issues. I do not always fight perfectly, but you must admit that I do fight. The desire to defend what is good and oppose what is bad is one that I hold strongly, and I do not believe that I should be ashamed of it.
Curious, from a strategy stand point what's the reasoning behind Google not launching gigabit in the Bay Area? At this point they've likely learned and scaled, and Comcast doesn't want to seem like a laggard in a large market. But even if it was 1 month delay for Google, I'd still switch and kill our Comcast account.
That's not my point, but yeah since you mention it.
It's been done successfully many times in many countries. Look at Britain for example. Say what you will of the problems they have now, but they're undoubtedly better off than when they were under the thumb of the monarchy and the aristocracy. Gradual changes in the law punctuated by occasional serious strides forward led to a near complete abandonment of the previous system.
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That's just the page for new plans. I've been told by comcast customers (I don't live their), that Comcast certainly has caps. Can anybody who is a Comcast customer confirm that?
Borg! (Not that I would rather have my Internet from Comcast)
As a French guy who half grew up in London and spent many years there I heartily disagree with you. I think my opinion is more alongside of "Midnight in Paris" - culture changes and evolves all the time and it's not a good idea to try and freeze a particular moment in time.

London has an extraordinarily rich, and international culture. You can go to an Ethiopian restaurant where most people barely speak English and see a coffee ceremony, or have chicken gizzards cooked in chorizo in Victoria served by a Portuguese man who arrived last year; you can even live in South Kensington and be fine never speaking a word of English (as many French expats end up doing, kids at CDG etc.). Even looking at so called "native" English culture, a LOT is influenced by the historical openness of the British Empire to foreign land.

Take Earl Grey: the tea is Chinese and the Bergamot Italian. Or the nation's favorite dish: chicken tikka masala, which is Indian fusion. Or look at the upper classes: who is at the top? Is it the Russian oligarchs fighting for penthouses worth tens of millions? The Chinese billionaires expanding into Europe? The rulers of the financial industry which dominates the economy of a country which is 78% services? Or the increasingly irrelevant land owning aristocracy? In France it's much easier: the elite lives in 16eme or Neuilly and will have studied at the same schools. A true self-made man like Xavier Niel is almost a pariah when in Britain he'd get his own TV show and influence IT policy.

A good point of comparison is architecture: aside from la Defense, Paris is frozen in its Haussmanian redrawing, with most of the cities showing identical streets that were innovative in the late 1800s but struggle to cope with the increasing population today. London on the other hand stretches from the futuristic, Manhattan-like Canary Wharf to the preserved City with a sprinkling of amazing towers (including Europe's most talked about recent skyscraper, the Shard), or the various slices in time such as South Kensington's Victorian architecture or even the Barbican, a testimony to the central planning Brutalist rage of the 60s and 70s.

And the reason for that is squarely the free and encouraged economic migration, the fact that London remains the best city to try your luck in Europe (whose citizen can work anywhere they like within the member states).

A larger version of the phenomenon is Silicon Valley: why don't more companies come from other countries? Because as soon as a decent technologist appears there, he is either scouted and asked to move to the Valley (as happened to the CEO of a Cambridge startup after a 26m USD round, allowing me to grab his flat on the cheap) or he will move there to take advantage of a friendlier environment and the best ecosystem in the world (culture, people, funding, legal framework...). Of course, you hear the same grumbling about the disappearing culture of the "old" San Francisco, even though the city is barely over a century old and has gone through many more booms and busts...
French IT industry should get better organised and stronger as a lobby to influence and educate congressmen first. And I think we actually are going into the right direction here. It will take time to see the impact of it though.
They don't have caps in the Bay Area. I've done at least 1TB of traffic each month since I've signed up with them. I live in East Bay.
if you take his dystopias together (shockwave rider, Zanzibar, sheep look up) you can put together a compelling vision of the future.

I think what a Brunner saw is that even if technology changes, people don't. In many ways, that's what science fiction has always held as its mirror, from the morality tales of its origin and forward. It is where Star Trek was at both its weakest and strongest.
"Westeros"....

You know, I don't think so. Trades have been around for a lot longer than universal justice. Slavery is only recently going away. Important people in the community have traditionally done what they wanted and as long as it wasn't too egregious, they usually got away with it.

A little light googling turns up no shortage of cases of apprentice abuse, (including sexual) from the relatively recent past (1600's on... a time that is comparatively modern in the "objective" dispersal of justice). One can only imagine what earlier times were like. No doubt there have been plenty of beneficent individuals, but the beneficent treatment of fellow humans is sadly often the exception historically speaking. For most of human history there has been a very different standard of what was acceptable than we hold today. A third party flogging for failing to follow orders (or simply because the flogger was having a bad day) likely scarcely raised eyebrows as long as it didn't get out of hand for most of human history.

Even today we still see remnants of this relationship. Abuse of underlings who put up with it because they think it will get them somewhere. Taking on an "apprentice" out of sexual interest rather than simple interest in their development. Human nature has not changed terribly much... just the rules.

I don't know what kind of relationship OP is after or what he is willing to do to get it. I do wish him the best of luck on his quest.
Google Fiber prioritizes municipalities that make it easy to get things done. San Francisco makes it very, very difficult to get things done.
Dragging out the most appalling random thing you can find from some loosely associated (or not) ideology is no way to have a conversation in good faith—it's a way to terminate such conversation. Hacker News is for conversation in good faith, so please don't do that.

(I'm not defending this project or its ideology, about which I know nothing. HN discourse needs to be free of bomb-throwing regardless of the target.)
Can deep learning algorithms learn from temporal data ? So far I have seen object recognition from a single image but not some intelligence gathering from a video.
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