skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very crudely, you might want to multiply that $300k guesstimate by a factor of 2 or 3 to take into account the cost of cabling off the main stretch, splicing, splitters, installing "lead-ins" / "drops" to each household, etc. Although if you were only serving a hundred households you could plausibly serve them all from a single large fibre cable along the main stretch by "pulling off" a couple of fibres into a smaller cable per household. This wouldn't require any optical splitting gear, so that might make things a bit cheaper.

For reference, the overall construction costs for Australia's FTTH rollout was somewhere around AUD$1000 - AUD$2000 / premises -- probably toward the high end of that scale, but the order of magnitude is right. This would underestimate the cost for a semi-rural area. In Australia's project they use fixed wireless / satellite for some areas where FTTx was not cost-effective.

Another thing to keep in mind is the maximum optical path distance -- from memory this is probably somewhere around the 20km mark from the exchange, probably a bit less, will depend upon the technology used. That still gives you a ~10km buffer region of potentially reachable households around your main fibre-atop-hydro stretch.
If war is the cause of the debt, its reasonable to think the country will be fiscally responsible during peacetime, and get back on its feet.

Greece's fiscal problems are purely fiscal, and there's no reason to think they will be fixed without fiscal changes in Greece.
Ten years is (if he's extremely lucky) a tenth of a guy's life. Taking away a tenth (or twentieth, if parole is to be considered) of a guy's life for the second time he robs with a knife, gun, or bat, and injures no one -regardless of the extenuating circumstances- seems reasonable to you?
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I haven't seen internal conferences, but I have seen a number of smaller companies (even startup sized) creating internal knowledgebases on best-practices, how-tos, etc. Some times in Wiki form, some times as just a shared google-drive folder full of writeups. Not quite a conference, but they serve a similar purpose.
Neptune is about 3 times further away than Saturn, and I believe Jupiter won't be in position for a good gravitational boost to get there for many decades. It's possible, but very very expensive.
A lot of people are comparing this to the German writedown, which in someways is both apt and not apt. Its also important to note that there are no easy paths out of this - money is not invented from nowhere.

The Germans took a horrific beating at the end of World War II - whole cities (Dresden et al) were literally burned completely to the ground at the hand's of the creditor's planes.

While it was the German people's fault to some extent, they were also realistically under a dictatorship when it happened and that had to be taken into account (not everyone or even a majority of people were in favor of the war).

This is the same logic that applied during the first two Greek bailouts (and the 60% haircut the debt has already taken in the private sector) - the Greek people were mislead as to the fiscal state of their country and deserved some faith and leniency.

However, after that, they have done very little to improve the fiscal structure in their company. EVEN WITHOUT ANY DEBT PAYMENTS, the country still is running a deficit because they are way over generous on their pensions, have way too many people working in government, and have a continuing rampant tax collection problem.

This has gone on for 5 years since the start of the crisis and they haven't fixed it (or even close), and by not fixing it, have made the problem way worse.

This needs to change now. They have proven they are not able to do it themselves, it threatens the whole currency, and therefore, like receivership for a bankrupt company, they need to have an external actor come in and do it for them.

Or default and leave the currency. (Which is in my opinion what they should do.)

This is not pretty - but that's reality - and the Greek people have earned it at this point by not electing leaders that have put them on a path to a sustainable fiscal budget.

There is a lesson in there for all of us.

EDIT: And there comes the predictable vote downs. I am honestly not anti-Greek, just trying to summarize the situation as someone with an economics background.

EDIT2: This is also not "just the Germans" - there is also substantial baltic opposition to bailing out Greece without reforms happening first:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/199040/article/ekathimerini/news...
It may be that there are few industries that require it professionally, but just because one's profession doesn't require it doesn't mean that one can't, or doesn't, use it. Consider, for example, Fermat, Young, and legions of other, perhaps less well known, amateur mathematicians (for example, Garfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#cite_ref-Ga...) and Napoleon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_theorem))!
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The target audience is bootstrappers who are willing to invest in growth. It's 1/3rd the price of any comparable conference.
Part of the reason Nintendo was not hungry to jump on the 3D bandwagon. Most of the 3D games on PS1 launch were very hazardous, messy and bland. If it wasn't for the technology prowess of the day nobody would have bought them.
I just wish phone controllers would start selling enough that more developers would design their games to use physical buttons for gameplay and touch for menu selections etc. Are the current options just that shitty?

I considered buying one when I had a 5S, but decided against when it leaked that the 6's would be bigger. Don't know if the situation's changed.
>nothing intrinsic to [mutability] (in Java, at least) enforces the contexts' prerequisites (i.e. thread-safe access)

I guess that's where I differ: To my mind the mutability construct is not supposed to provide this. Instead, enforcing thread-safety should involve the use of concurrency constructs.

And, that's the thing: OOP represents a stateful paradigm, in the sense that operations may be performed which mutate the state of an object. When we bring out the Hammer of Immutability to prevent potential concurrency issues, we are basically saying that we no longer want to be OO because of an unrelated requirement. Let's turn the objects into structs that can only be passed around and copied so we don't accidentally screw something up. This, rather than using the language's actual concurrency constructs to safely share data.

>it is easy to end up with runtime errors when the environment of your project shifts

I can't remember when this has happened to me and I'm genuinely having trouble seeing the case. If I have an object which suddenly must be shared across another thread, then I generally cease to access it on the initial thread without some sort of synchronization.

So, I just don't see how you'd suddenly share data across threads under any model without very careful consideration of what's being shared and why. What operations will be performed with the data as input, what will be the output, and how/when do we communicate this to other threads?

Once you've done that analysis, then you have a blueprint for how to safely share data the right way.
That's too bad. I'd especially like to see how it'd work on comments, where I'd try to teach reddit to avoid in-jokes.

As for Amazon, maybe its recommendations are intentionally unrefined, like how Target discovered it needed to obscure its direct mail campaigns aimed at newly pregnant women ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... ). Granted, it's plausible Amazon just hasn't cracked the code yet.
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The spooky danger comes from lazy evaluation.

The "line-by-line" level has nothing to do with global mutable state. It has to do with locally mutable state. It's a lot simpler to change code that is written in terms of for loops and accumulator variables, than it is to change code written in terms of maps, folds, intercalates, whatever.

In any reasonably architected software, you can see how a function depends on global state by looking at its argument list. Those that use database connections take the database connection. Those that create database connections receive a parameter that tells them what to connect to. Pretty much everything writes log messages. If you're in a position to choose Haskell, then you're also in a position to make your software this way.
You think the hyperprecision was made on purpose to force players to replay (at cost) ?
Like most "loans" to friends, this one isn't being paid back, no. "Loan" is the word friends use for gifts to try and make it more palatable, but if you're charging interest and expecting prompt repayment they aren't your friend, and if you aren't it's not a loan.

But:

Either give him the money or tell him to fuck off. Those are the only realistic options. If you think he's going to spend it on drugs and he's sitting there promising that no, he'll use it to cover his rent, honest, and you don't believe him then don't give him the money. There's no moral option where you say yes, then lock him in your basement; believe it or not that's actually quite illegal.
This was interesting story from 2014
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-fro...
Usually smaller scale indie games are the ones doing it, big shot studios feel the need to go ham on graphics. Here's a handful I managed to scrape together from memory and quick searches, but it's easy to find more.

- Shovel Knight
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Hotline Miami
- Don't Starve
- Spelunky
- Braid
- Papers, Please
- Sunless Sea

There _has_ been quite a few retro-style, pixelated graphics style games to come out of that sector for one reason or another, but ignoring that, the games tend to have a more stylized feel to them. Limited fidelity means the games need to more creative, but I think that tends to just come with works of passion from smaller studios.
GPG has a massive "last mile" problem.

I suspect that people would gladly accept the ability to send and receive encrypted, signed emails, but the hassle factor of getting set up is simply too high.
Well, building that brand was part of the work, which you call "gambling". The technical side clearly can build innovation, but that's not even close all you need to have a successful startup. You suggest "building the website in a few weeks", so then you should measure how long it will take you to have people paying to use your site and scaling this globally.
There are billion-dollar businesses built with PHP, too. I wouldn't use that, either.

I don't like Java. I don't like Java at all. (I prefer Clojure or Scala, depending.) But I recognize why it is where it is, and Paul Graham saying Paul Graham things doesn't really change reality.
I love what you mention about thoughts...

I am relatively new to it (few months) but have found what I was looking for simply by understanding that I am not my thoughts, that without them I still exist. I began to understand that thoughts are a lot like weather, or like throwing a rock in a pond. For me, I was able to move from that realization to being able to not get swept up in thoughts.

Is there a personal e-mail I could contact you through? I've been in a rut for a number of years now (had a company that succeeded, was unhappy, now I don't really know what to do) and recently my thoughts about the future have been driving me a bit insane.

I tried to find a way to DM you on Hacker News, but that doesn't seem to be a feature.

I have my email on my account page.
Well, the problem is: You can't enforce this rule and call yourself a Rechtsstaat at the same time.
The negotiations do not need to be public - as noted elsewhere opening them up would also come with a cost. International agreements like this are often negotiated behind closed doors.

What is a problem, is we can be sure that once the negotiations are complete and the agreement brought before the legislature for approval (essentially a rubber stamp as we already know), there will be very little time for debate and public comment before this shit sandwich is rammed down our throats. That's the really undemocratic part.

With that in mind these leaks are a great thing and entirely appropriate
Yes, it does, and of course fails if the site called is https. AFAIK some implementations work as a proxy after successful authentication to reduce that problem.

Other solutions use proxy configuration detection to redirect people to a proxy that first asks for authentication/payment. (wpad file)

Both solutions are kind of hacky, but they work for more or less all devices.
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You should try to get as many opinions as possible.
Generally most startups have one or two "star" employees, who actually created the startup. I would say that the single engineer in a one-man startup is worth a lot more than the average engineer in a 50-engineer startup.

Instagram had 13 employees and was acquired for $1BN. Ptch had 3 employees and was purchased for $6.5M. In those cases the technology and product took up most of that value. If the acquirer is actually going to use your technology, that will obviously be a large factor in determining the sale price.
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Only when the country was totally mismanaged. Nobody is interfering with the Netherlands for instance.
Groupthink takes hold on Reddit even without tailored sorting.

In fact, I suspect allowing more isolation between factions would allow for a diversity of opinions to brew in those pockets, with the good ideas inevitably metastasizing to the whole network.
Definitely true. Even if you have a properly setup key - which less than 50k people possibly do - there's even a high maintenance cost of adding and validating new contacts.
I guess that depends on your toolchain.

For Java, I use Maven which have some powerful tools (Maven Site) to create test-reports, documentation, api-docs, coverage reports, diagrams and much more.
It's also easy to extend yourself.
Anything using an MD5 hash cannot be considered secure.

Edit: From the site's blurb on Security: "iodine uses challenge-response login secured by MD5 hash." Sorry, but MD5 as 'secure' died a long time ago.
Ask HN: How do you think of some Chinese call HTML5 'H5'
Many people in China call HTML5 'H5' and it had cause some heated discussion. Some people (developer) think H5 is non-professional, the other think it just a short name for HTML5.

How do you think of it?
"However, after that, they have done very little to improve the fiscal structure in their company. EVEN WITHOUT ANY DEBT PAYMENTS, the country still is running a deficit because they are way over generous on their pensions, have way too many people working in government, and have a continuing rampant tax collection problem."

You know that the greek government was running a surplus as recently as 2013, right?

Most of the "bailout" money never went to Greece -- it went straight to their creditors. Greece definitely borrowed too much, but it's just factually incorrect to say that they haven't improved their fiscal structure.
As a C++ programmer, I make sure that things that can reasonably be const are const, because that reduces the number of places where things can go wrong.

That said, sometimes state simply has to change, and anything else is just ideology.
thats not really related and FL studio is for amateurs. im not saying anything i wouldnt to your face. ( it is actually a toy DAW ) you know what fuck the ignorant cunts on hacker news. they are sposed to be computer literate, but they are voting me down for saying FL studio is amateur. i been making music for 25 years. if i say its amateur its fucking amateur you cunts. also. suck my fucking dick.
I talked to Uriel about a week before he left. Sucks that he's gone.
we're sorry m8s
> Airbnb is an example of a company that is nothing more than just a brand, because anybody can build a booking website in a matter of a few weeks.

Many people have, and some (Roomorama, FlipKey) are reasonably successful. Heck, there's entire sub-sector of vacation home rentals (HomeAway, VayCayHero) that has publicly traded companies operating in it.

The problem with two-side marketplace is the trust. Bait-and-switch and similar scams have plagued marketplaces like CraigsList. You arrive at a place, and it's not what the photos look like. You make a reservation, and are told at the last minute that it got "flooded" a night before, and now the host gives you an option to switch to an inferior place or pay up more for a better-looking option. You arrive and find out the place is not for rent, and the photos have been taken by some scammer who thrives on taking small deposits and just repurposes same photos across multiple sites. Then it degrades into horrors like this one http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205794/Rape-horror-...

Building a trust network and keeping a reasonably clean two-side marketplace is very hard, and is a major asset.
Ahhh that's really cool! Thanks for clearing that up.

Not sure why I got down voted.
What? Are you saying that I can legitimately read

contains :: NameClass -> QName -> Bool

two ways? Like,

contains :: (NameClass, QName) -> Bool

And

contains :: NameClass -> (QName, Bool)

? What about four types?

contains :: Urk -> NameClass -> QName -> Bool
Your analogies are shit.
Was it? Not technically, I think; monetary policy was surrendered, not fiscal policy. Unless you're making a comment about how there can't be sane monetary policy without matching fiscal policy, in which case, carry on.
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Or the original Ninja Gaidens, Silver Surfer, Battletoads...gamers have it easier these days.
He didn't publish the other 93 "yes, soon!" emails.
What's your new "Reddit"? Did you migrate to Boat?
Oh, sorry, I thought that was in the instructions to the game. My bad. The other stuff you can do though.
So: when did "democracy" become an overt policy goal? And how?

(There's a story there. It's interesting.)

There are numerous states that have functioned quite well that _weren't_ (or aren't) democracies.

Nazi Germany was, in fact, a democracy. Hitler stood for election in Germany's presidential elections of 1932. While he didn't win a majority of the July vote (none of the _six_ candidates did), he was appointed chancellor following a series of inconclusive elections.

A concern of mine is whether democracy brings wealth, or wealth democracy. Causality's arrow is sticky.
No you are right about that. I was a bit overdramatic but I'm skeptical when a vc can say oh we don't do travels or hey just not really our specialty be cause there's no way that all 7 of them would have the exact same policy. Some hedge funds,or pension fund has one clear strategy they are legally bound to but all 7 vc in this case displayed the same response or none at all. Clearly there was someone that did end up investing in them and to be fair if they didn't respond it doesn't mean anything. They could've been just very busy or slow at typing emails, just follow up until they reply with a yes or no.
[off topic] What's really conservative in Corporate Japan is its lifetime employment system, and even Nintendo isn't immune from that. The entire society is gridlocked in that assumption and it will probably take a national upheaval to change it. I'm expecting that the change is inevitable sooner or later, and it will be very painful one.
For some people it would be confusing with the current html tag <h5>. There's no name conflict in the case of JS (javascript). I think this is all about preferences. Human languages, as programming languages, are evolving. I don't see any problem with the case of calling html5 H5.
True. I did not think about it this way and just went with a common expression.

Feel free to read it as "Haskell isn't all sunshine and rainbows."

To be clear (before you say that "sunshine and rainbows" seems like a weird idiom because sunshine causes cancer), I meant that I think Haskell also has disadvantages.
You've got it exactly backwards. The brand is the least valuable part of Airbnb.

The most valuable thing about AirBnb is the market capture. You can no longer easily compete with them because of the network effect that is now in place. Brand is irrelevant by comparison.

The competitive game is over, because they've taken the market. They were able to build from the ground up. To do what they did, now you have to take listings away from them, which you won't be able to do because of the reinforcing network effects, such as the listings, ratings, users, trust, etc.

They could change their name tomorrow morning, and it will not matter. They have captured 1.5 million listings, the owners, the user accounts, the ratings, etc. The only way to lose that, is to screw up the operational business (primarily either by really upsetting owners, or by missing a huge technology shift).
I don't agree.

The fundamental business model of Airbnb didn't change through all those homepage iterations—those were just redesigns of the exact same concept. In fact, for the time I think Airbnb's original designs were quite current.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873803
I'm curious what you think of a project like https://keybase.io/
In a way, yes, they do. Chrome pushes out a dozen or more fixes for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities every 2 weeks.
Not quite. It's equivalent to either

contains :: (NameClass, QName) -> Bool

or

contains :: NameClass -> (QName -> Bool)

In other words, you can treat it as a function taking two arguments, or one function taking one argument and returning another function.
Behind the scenes story of the growth of a daily email (and a website)
There are some people who love their job more than many other things in this life. The CEO in question was a true gamer at heart, and i suspect that many other gamers if given the job of being CEO of Nintendo would do that their last day.
First time I take a look at Earthbound. Fine pixel art.
There is a difference between saying that "the Greek people are corrupt" and saying "the Greek government and tax-collection system (or other systems) are corrupt".