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Is your customer the journalist or the original paper?

But then they wouldn't be getting all this attention...

I don't know that there is a "case" against them. My guess is that there are a bunch of mis-assumptions against them by proxy. I'm guessing but I think a chunk of people might think or suggest that the college prep education they pay their tax dollars for up with 12th grade is doing an inadequate job if community college or junior college is needed.

That and then there is a general "anti-university" sort of vibe in the world. "They waste a lot of time and money teaching you stuff that you don't need" or "it's just a piece of paper" where as maybe a vocational school might be a more "efficient" option for getting a job. I'm not expert but I believe a lot of community colleges try to offer college prep courses and try to help ease the transition, rather than just focus on vocational skills that can immediately be applied to a job.

I'm 15 years removed from the TV biz, but I vaguely remember 'birds' costing like $350m to launch, something like $200m + for the hardware, then $150m for launch fees and misc pre-launch insurances. In some cases, I want to say they insured them before taking possession of them, like if some guy at Lockheed has a bad day and drops a wrench on exactly the wrong part, you're looking at a substantial delay which could substantially impact business. Companies would talk up these satellites to investors for years before they launched, hard to imagine them not being completely insured up in to space. Then there was launch insurance and I think it included operations in many cases, TV birds had a lifetime of like 7 years and the operational insurance paid out if they had a certain amount of failure before the lifetime was up, transponders die and they need to spend fuel periodically to keep them in place when the fuel is gone the bird is done. I want to say the launch and ops insurances were like another $100m to $150m. All told you were in for half a billion to get in in to place and that's not including the lease on the slot of sky... I'm pretty sure Echostar was involved in some lawsuits about it and there are probably some public details that came out of that; maybe they wanted to claim more damages than the insurer wanted to cover or something like that and then no insurers wanted to sell them operational insurance.

It's not cheap but if that's your business you absolutely insure it. It's not cheap though. Would investors let you get away not insuring one? Rockets not making it in to space isn't uncommon.

I'm oddly glad that it's not just my neighborhood. Honestly, I liked living here a lot more before nextdoor. It's amazing how easy it is for people to say things to lower your opinion of them so dramatically.

Nextdoor should monetize their dataset. I could see some value in having a database of the irrational and racist people. It could be as simple as NextDoor selling access to a neighborhood you're considering buying in for a limited time. I suspect it might be really difficult to find a "good" neighborhood but some are certainly worse than others.

There are also very useful instructions that don't have semantics for most programming languages and have little or no use outside of booting a system. Like LGDT and some of the tricks to switch from real mode to protected mode.

What's maybe more curious, some instructions in certain modes aren't even implemented by some assemblers. I don't think it's entirely unusual to see hand crafted opcodes in an OS boot sequence. When the assembler doesn't do it, the compiler certainly isn't going to.

Communities have some commonality, something shared, something that unites them and then because of that encourages some decency standards. People that live in the same space, people that have the same hobbies, people that work in software related businesses and startups in the case of HN.

So you could build a community out of something and then have a general news discussion, that seems possible. Generally though, the vast vast majority of commenters have nothing original to add and they simply create noise. Perhaps those few nuggets of gold are worth the effort, it's hard to say, at least with HN we all have that common bond and then the actual topics tend to be related to it. Go scan the comments on a couple random foxnews.com articles and a couple random msnbc.com articles and tell me, if the article on foxnews is about the president or a non-white, I will bet you a nickle that you'll see a racist comment in the first batch or two. That's what you'd be working with..

I believe they will sell you a system outright and they had a long term financing option called "MyPower" but I think that's been stopped. They sold bonds to cover those loans.

The lease is probably the most popular. Until there is some sort of expandable DIY option that you can gradually grow out, I think the only really popular way to sell these systems will be either baked in to the mortgage or with leases and creative financing. The lease and financing does seem to frighten a lot of people though, SolarCity modeled loan payments off energy use and in the contract there is even a clause that says if there is a prolonged non-sunny period, you might owe a large chunk on the loan when it comes due...

I make no such assumption, I'm just pointing out that it's the current framework that we have and that with it content creators are given actual rights and among those rights is the right to significant control over distribution and consumption of their content.

Sure, it's all virtual, you're not actually 'stealing' their money since you weren't actually going to pay for it anyways, but if we're pedantic about it you are depriving them their rights. As the owner, they can copyright it, they can specify the terms by which you're allowed to view it or not view it. They can decide to not let you view it. You are taking that right from them. You are saying your right to access the content is more important than their rights, it's pretty simple.

Sure, it's a big faceless corporation that already has billions of dollars, so it's as offensive. but it's basically the same thing as a GPL violation. Whenever a big corporation steals, err, I mean 'copies,' GPL code and refuses to give the output away, they aren't actually stealing, they were never going to contribute anything anyways...

Chicken and egg. It costs more than you think, for probably fewer geeks than you think.

ARM seems really well positioned, if there has ever been something to square off with Intel, it's ARM, you can get cheap SoCs and play with them. The software ecosystem is growing so maybe someone will throw down and be willing to put together a full ATX system, I suspect it will cost more and perform less than an Intel based product though.

Is there a specific implementation that people are worried about or the EE specification?

Was there ever a time people were happy with the J2EE/EE process? It moves slowly, the opensource and smaller implementations do lots of cool stuff that isn't part of the specification. The big money implementations generally seem and feel like they are years and years behind the times. Sun seemed to have issues actually listening to and working with the community too... And the regardless of any actual experiences, people just seem to love to bitch about Oracle.

Well you can have another, can't you? Or is leaving the EU a one-way thing?

I'm sort of jealous. They had a referendum on Scottish independence and they honored the outcome. I'd love to have an up/down national vote on abortion, gay marriage, gun background checks.. At best here in the US, you're voting for a derivative, you're electing someone on the wish/hope that they support your issues if they get a chance or opportunity to of if they're willing to use political capital to actually propose the issues.. With something like abortion, it's at least 2 derivatives removed, you're voting for someone who will hopefully select a court justice (should they get to) that will align with your issues should the opportunity ever arise for them to make a judgement on it. And what's more perverse, there are a lot of single issue voters that take that multiple derivative issue situation as the only issue that matters.

It'd be an interesting experiment if nothing else.

Weren't maintenance laws ended for a reason? In England I thought it had more to do with the differences in class, commoners could sue lords but without another lord on their side they were pretty disadvantaged. So other lords could simply lend their name or backing to a commoner and the original lord would have to fight a more substantial case, regardless of merit. The lords passed the law to protect themselves. Lords and commoners are closer now.

I'd argue that maybe we need to come up with a way to go even further. This is only interesting because the idea of actually materially harming a corporation through litigation is so foreign these days. That and for some reason a few employees of some major news papers have allowed gawker to be lumped in with their own publications, giving "maintenance" to the idea that this is a first amendment issue. Do you have anything to substantiate that it's "not good" to allow third-party money in the courts? I'm sure there are things we haven't thought of but can it be worse than big money in politics? There are still judges that run their courts, right? They still have a roll here.

Do the customers know what Rails is enough to like or dislike it? Or do they like the promises of quick functionality which you translate in to lower costs?

If I may also ask, have you run in to an older rails app when someone wanted some fairly minimal additions? Have you been the "next guy?" or do you avoid those projects? Did you migrate it to a newer rails? rewrite it? Or write old rails code? I've run in to a couple of ancient apps that were running untouched for like 4 years, they want to freshen the application, maybe add some features, you have to sell them a major refactor, or you can't touch it, like they depended on some gems that were orphaned. It's not exclusive to Rails, I've seen this with node too, once the application needs to be living and breathing to stay healthy, once you put it on the shelf, it's dying. An express.js 2 to 4 migration is effectively a rewrite, it's not super terrible but it's a chunk of work that isn't adding their new features.

I've simply never heard a long term success story with rails or node when it comes to maintenance. It's maybe not a technical thing but it seems like it's the culture of both communities. Blue sky and green field code? It's a blast, fixing up or adding to someone else' existing code? I probably wouldn't touch it. Oddly, I don't feel the same way about a lot of Java stacks though.

I grew up out west, had family and such out there. That was a big reason.

The weather has been mentioned by others. They have relatively rough winters. Fairly hot and humid summers. Spring and autumn are pretty awesome though, unfortunately that's when CMU was doing the CMU thing and play time was limited.

Perhaps it has changed as Paul suggests, but in the 1990s they were still in their negative pessimistic ways. It was routine to hear locals talk about how the city's best days were in the past. I learned 2 things: 1) when big time jobs leave it takes a long time for the place to heal and Pittsburgh lost a lot of jobs from the unions and steal and all sorts of things. 2) I grew up in a fairly optimistic place, at least a neutral one towards progress and just building things and doing things. They had this negative attitude that just sort of sits on you, I couldn't place it until I really left, but the negative attitude was oppressive. You're young and excited, you want to dream, you want to believe the dream and it's a place where a lot of people have had their dreams go away. A substantial portion of the populace just sort of expected Pittsburgh to fail when it attempted things. I found that attitude rough, it wasn't obvious to me the entire time I was there but it didn't feel good. It's bigger than just Pittsburgh, Wheeling has experienced some rough times, I visited Youngstown once (they had the nearest version of some store where I could exchange some Christmas gift) and it was like visiting a different country.

The tax situation there isn't great. Sort of surprised nobody has mentioned this, there is like a city income tax. And then ultimately, more money is more money, you can talk about the cost of living but iphones, xboxes and cars cost the same everywhere.. I want to say the good starting jobs for fresh grads in the Cleveland/Pittsburgh area were like $50k-$60k in the mid 1990s, out west I made more than that.

PGH is a great town, a lot of character, it's a good town to raise a family in, it has a lot of positives. Surely there is enough money there to spin up some VC funds, I could see it being a small to medium startup hub but I don't know how much it has really changed.

It's unfortunate that we've become so jaded but I thought the same thing. That was too specific a statement. CIA officer's won't do the torture, it will be Saudis, Israelis, British, etc.. Or American's that are employed as "contractors."

What would be considered a come back for them? Is it even possible to define that?

Over the years they've had decent income, they have great traffic numbers, they have all these things that seem to indicate success inside the echo chamber. Now they've got a shit brand, the brand is right there with AOL. They aren't going to have google or facebook numbers though, I don't know that I'd expect any other company to match those though.

It's just a game now, tons of people are envious of their traffic. they've probably got some great properties as well, sports, finance and fantasy sports seem to be universally enjoyed. Someone just wants to steal it for as cheap as possible.

I just did this:

time bro --quality 6 --input linux-4.5.tar --output linux-4.5.tar.bro

real 0m18.436s user 0m18.228s sys 0m0.184s

time gzip -9 linux-4.5.tar real 0m30.555s user 0m30.424s sys 0m0.172s

ls -lh (I removed the metadata): 106M linux-4.5.tar.bro 129M linux-4.5.tar.gz

Only 82% of the size at 60% of the time. Now this is pure text so that's not a good example of everything.

The whole war on terror and this bulk collection is predicated on stopping crimes before they happen. It's a giant catch 22.

Would stopping mass shootings and not-called-terorrism-but-domestic-terror be part of the use cases here? Like if you were to ignore some other laws and track gun ownership and purchases, maybe cross reference it with the use/prescription of certain medications and then cross reference that with anti-social posts on the internet or associations with certain call-themselve-patriots-but-really-hate-the-government type groups you might stop some mass shootings. Maybe save some actual lives.

It's a terrible rabbit hole to go down, we need to stop it all ASAP.

Feel free to make a donation to that project. You can donate specifically to the py3k pypy project.

There is next to no money in pro cycling. Sure there are a few very very elite riders that make millions, maybe 10 to 20 of those. There are also the other 160 riders that start a grand tour. Read some of the documentation USADA put out on Lance. Not about the doping, but like Dave Zabriskie was a legit world class pro, he raced the Tour, and I think they listed is salary in those early years as like $24k. Another name that comes to mind, Gilberto Simoni, as fine a climber as has been, a grand tour winner, in his earlier years he worked as a bike shop mechanic in the off season to pay his bills.

There is no TV money for the teams. The team sponsorships aren't even guaranteed for any serious time. It's all about individual results in what is really a team sport. And then the best years are during the college years for everything else, close to no pros actually have college degrees or anything. Worse, I can't think of a pro that came out of college and ever did anything other than domestic racing. I mean, the team bikes are technically supposed to go back to the sponsors according to most deals but everybody just sort of knows that a lot of riders sell them to supplement their income, there are even web stores that specialize in it.

Cheating is cheating, be it chemical or mechanical or whatever, but cycling (like skiing, track and field, etc) is a perfect storm for it. If you do it and don't get caught, you can get rich, like life changing rich. If you wash out, not just did you lose what little paying gig you had, but you've probably got limited options outside of cycling. I'd argue that other than the love of the sport and sportsmanship, there are a lot of cyclists in a certain age range that have no reason not to cheat one way or another.

Don Coppersmith wrote an article in the IBM system's journal that said as much.

I was on vacation when a trip to Beijing was planned for me. The secretary, for reasons I don't expect I'll ever know or understand, insisted on flying Eastern China Airlines. Complete with an extra stop in Shanghai... It might be different now (this was like 6 years ago) but it was very much "the people's airline" then. It wasn't just very tight seating with limited recline capacity, but there were some strong odors as well. Not sure a valium would have got it done. It's the only time I attempted to buy an upgrade mid-flight. The American flights to and from L.A. on the American side were delightful.

Maybe the idea was to help with the culture shock in the same way "getting jumped in" helps you adapt to gang-life.

The genius of it all is there is no 'hate' or 'dislike' button. It only allows 'positive' or no results.

I suspect facebook and company will come up with a solution to the problem of how do you indicate that you saw something without commenting when it's not socially acceptable to 'like' it. For example a funeral announcement, you don't want to 'like' it but you want to say 'thank you' or something yet you might not want to comment.

A real dislike or hate button would simply result in a lower signal/noise ratio. Maybe new types of bullying where lot's of people 'hate' on somebody.

There never was a serious public discourse. Why would giving everyone access to easy ways to contribute simply make that happen?

I don't know the reason why, it could be simple as most people aren't that smart, but the truth is the vast vast vast majority don't have anything interesting to add and most probably don't care what you're talking about anyways.

Just think about this for a bit: it was a socially acceptable social meme that people would stand around the "water cooler" and talk about TV shows. TV Shows!? That's what we've got when the masses are left to their own devices.

What I do think could potentially become a net positive is that in the bad old days, you had to catch someone putting that racist cartoon on the bulletin board or follow them to see the bumper sticker on their car. Now you can search them out, that's kind of interesting. I don't know that it will cure racism, sexism or other discrimination but it will further push them back in to a smaller place.

This is interesting: http://serverfault.com/questions/653792/ssh-key-authenticati...

There is another axis that would be pretty interesting. I suspect that these "national security" types get a sizable and relatively automatic boost in pay for a PhD and it's likely not correlated to any performance or value.

Top Secret America by Dana Priest (http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/d...) is a somewhat interesting read on it. There are some politically angled results you can take from it but one of the most obvious non-political results is that the national security apparatus employs people that tend to be better paid, live in better areas and have all those benefits (better schools for their kids, less crime, etc..) They also seem to be disproportionately white men. If you squint your eyes just right, it looks an awful lot like a jobs program for white men. The book is a few years old but as I remember it I want to say the average pay for a top secret cleared generic 'analyst' was in the $150k+ range, more if you're in a valuable specialty. Then the real kicker, most of them justify their own jobs and contracts, oversight consists of reading that justification, which I guess isn't totally unusual for government work but since they're contractors it's a little odd.. It's not performance based.

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Since Amazon is basically Walmart without brick and mortar and they make some compelling money from their AWS, why wouldn't Walmart be interested in getting in to that business?

Do content providers have to pay certain royalties with h.264? I thought the players were free of royalties and the license was paid for encoded content. And then with h.265 I thought I heard that there were two different license pools with different licensing strategies.

I'm not sure that meme generators have royalties very high on their list of concerns, the big hosts that host a lot of them might have some concerns about it though.

At this point, a newer webP based off the newer VP10 might be the only realistic PNG, GIF, and JPEG replacement but it doesn't exist yet.