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>But at least in the US, there's a huge problem that the problems we have that can be solved are increasingly technical…

I would have to agree with this statement.

>…requiring more and more education.

I disagree with this statement if it means dealing with the BS that entails submitting oneself to the pipeline in order work on research.

>Meanwhile, the incentives we're providing incentivize not getting more education.

Oddly, I think this still holds true despite my disagreement with the above (if education == submitting oneself to the pipeline in order work on research).

For myself, I write software for mobile devices and eeg hardware for research and data analysis in a neuro lab and have to consult with other labs around the world who want to do experiments and don't have those capabilities in house, without having a degree of any sort. Occasionally this involves reading papers from topics like DSP, EM, comp geometry, and neuroimaging on top of software/hardware documentation for use in such software.

The post-docs and phd students I see are increasingly becoming inept when it comes to even conducting experiments and has lead to gross inefficiencies as more and more things require not only basic knowledge of computing and systems but other fields they are simply not exposed to on a practical degree. Even worse, there seems to be this expectation that they don't have to pursue/learn or do such things (probably because it wasn't covered in their syllabi and they wont receive a grade for it…), though I see a lot of superficial efforts at trying address such.

I think as long as the dynamics continue as they are in academia, they will allow for opportunity for those who have skills sans degrees (not signals of skills) to find work that is meaningful for them and possibly society… that will bought and paid for those who willingly submit themselves to the usual pipeline (at increasing expense).
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Single, non-functioning USB port is disappointing. I'd hope for a $200 router that I could at least get a NAS out of it.
Not sure I would put much weight in an article with a click-bait label like "Google’s smart home Trojan horse". I know there are many that are suspicious of this, but a site like arstechnica putting this in the title when it's, at best, speculation seems a bit sensationalist.
Proud STEM PhD drop out from MIT reporting in. Aside from a few who went into consulting or banking, I make way more as a code monkey than those who stayed to finish.
For testing you'd want to generate strings non-uniformly, i.e. you want to hit edge cases rather than test 1 billion similar 20 character length e-mails.
> How did you decide what to invest your time in? What would you do?

If you believe thinking is an active process-- then think about what is the highest and best use of your time, money, and effort. We waste so much time in our ditherings. Learn to generate the maximum results from everything that you do.

On this subject, Jay Abraham has some excellent advice> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89969.Getting_Everything_...
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It depends on how much it's played. A Steinway in your home is likely to last a lifetime or more. The Steinway in the recital hall at our school is between 20 and 30 years old (I think), and well past its prime. It's played (hard) probably 4-6 hours a day, and eventually they just wear out. It would make a fine piano for someone's house, but it's no longer a performance-quality instrument. (Our own personal piano is a pre-WWII instrument, a 5'9" Knabe with ivory keys. It's been rebuilt once, and is a little...quirky, and could probably do with another rebuilding. It was also a very good deal for two just-out-of-grad-school musicians.)

Some music schools have contracts with Steinway where they get all-new instruments every year, which are sold back to Steinway at the end of the year who sells them as used instruments. I'd imagine (but have no evidence) that music schools in general are one of the largest consumers of pianos. At our undergrad institution of ~200 majors, we have probably 30-40 pianos in the building. My graduate school probably had upwards of 200, and employed 3 full-time piano technicians to maintain them.
I worked late night that Sunday, slept through the whole thing on Monday :(
They should start the trading day later, so I can sleep longer.
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No specific knowledge of the AC3200, but I bought an AirPort Extreme as a fairly pricey "I'm sick of having network problems" fix. Couldn't tell you when the last time I had to reboot it was, and I consider it money well spent.

I'm glad DD-WRT/Tomato existed for my string of Linksys/Asus/Belkin type consumer routers in college, and I'm even more glad to not be tinkering with it anymore.

You might read through the AC3200 reviews on Newegg so you at least know what you're getting in to. Reception is mixed (28% 1-star reviews), with complaints mainly about dropped connections.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320...
"Gzipping alone gives you about 70% savings and minification alone cuts script sizes with more than half. Both combined (minifying then gzipping) can make your scripts 85% leaner."
http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapter4.html
Competing routers at similar price points have more LAN ports, are faster, often include a cable modem, have a web interface and app, and usually can also be used as VoIP server & answering machine (same usability as Google Voice, but self-hosted), and often even can be used as NAS.

For this price point, the OnHub has to do something special, or it will be a loss, like the Nexus Q.
Sadly, I agree. Over the last year or so, the quality of content produced by The Verge has noticeably decreased. I find it difficult to take their opinions of tech seriously.
I've worked on embedded systems with tight resource constraints.

Minification was used on those systems because the space savings resulted in performance improvements.

Deminification would be less of a security concern than potential issues being introduced by minification.
It’s not meant as in "takes all your data out", but as being the first step to make people use Google’s Smart Home devices.
> Seriously, those things should just be banned from retail investment and retail investment education.

What? That's absurd, you want to ban "buy/sell now" at the market price? There is no justification for wanting to ban the most basic and most ordinary transaction type.
No, you don't understand.

Science is its own reward. You're pushing forward the frontier of human knowledge! You should share everything you learn for free with the world, and just be happy that you left the world a better place than you found it.

Money is such a lesser reward anyway compared to the adulation scientists get. After all, history will remember the guy who discovered the capacitive touchscreen, not the one that made billions putting it into a phone.
It may seem really marginal, but any time you can save downloading assets on page load is money. Everyone should be using gzip already, but minification shaves off precious milliseconds on top of that.
This device is one these things that are not missing in your life until you realise that they exist.
I think the retort here is that alcohol is actually the house fire and the scarier sounding drugs are the leaking pipes
What's the difference between routing a coaxial cable to the middle of a room versus an ethernet cable? At least you can get long flat ethernet cables.
Google Chrome also does this out of the box (and has for awhile).
Are you kidding? Probably about 1 in 3 people I know has taken piano lessons before, and about 1 in 10 people I know practices regularly, if I were to guess.

On the other hand I can understand why sales of pianos are dying. Young people these days are increasingly living in shared apartments, multi-family spaces with poor sound isolation, and constantly on the move around the world and needing to live light. Most people who practice solve the problem either with an electric piano or visiting a communal piano at a nearby school, university or elsewhere. Those communal pianos, if maintained well, tend to last several decades.
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Electric cars primarily "fill in the bathtub". If you look at a chart of energy demand over 24 hours the off-peak (cheaper) hours are often referred to as the "bathtub" because that's what the chart resembles. To deal with the bathtub electric companies have to turn on/off electric generation systems appropriately. Most of those generation systems (hydro and even coal, as two examples) are more efficient if they run continuously rather than start/stop. So electric companies want to fill in the bathtub, and are already willing and eager to fill in the bathtub.

This is also where you get into discussions about the "smart grid". The thing to note is that the grid in most countries is already "smart" on the production/generation side: it has to be to deal with changes in demand over time, particularly given something like the bathtub that happens every single day. The goal of the "smart grid" is to make consumption smarter by signaling better when demand might change (my owner just got home from work for the day, your house says, so please get ready for higher power needs this evening) and electric cars are a vanguard for the "smart grid" precisely because they are programmable consumption devices with useful consumption patterns that can be smartly adjusted. An electric car (or its charger, same difference) can ask the grid for energy and adjust its energy input to the grids needs (and vice versa), charging on a slow trickle during high demands and a full blast to help fill in the bathtub. Cars use a whole lot of energy, but primarily in short bursts (trips to/from a destination) and ultimately spend a lot more time parked. With a little bit of information from the user, or a bit of inference from pattern matching, a car can predict about how long it will be parked and about how much charge it will need for the next trip (which is not always 100%; if you drive to lunch from work you probably are only planning to go a short distance because you have to return to work just after lunch). The energy grid loves this because it can better predict demand over time and better adjust consumption to meet generation and vice versa.

(This is all even before you get the "smart grid" facets that electric cars are giant parked batteries and that a truly "smart grid" could borrow energy from an electric car to meet high demand and then repay that energy (with "interest") as demand shrinks back down. It's this part that gets a bunch of interest when people talk about the "smart grid", but that's actually a less practically useful part of it than just consumption demand knowledge and preparation/time-shifting. The "battery loans" would more likely be useful and actionable merely at the scale of between your personal car and home than at the level of the grid.)
I know it's anecdotal, but I have heard from some of my human prop trader friends about guys who made a killing buying on Monday morning.
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Do you have a source for this? Sounds really fascinating, and I would love to read more about this.
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Build a hello world for Google Cardboard.
It is a spy device to peek inside your home and your internet usage to 'improve' the quality of ads that you see.

The fact that it has sensors scares me.

Sure they can adjust the brightness of that ring with the ambient sensor.

What I would do if I ran an ad company is use that sensor to find out what time you turn off the lights and go to bed. And what time you wake up. And then send you more relevant ads.

Or use the bluetooth in it to find out what devices you have at home, or what car you drive. Or what IoT devices you are using.

And I would use the microphone to find out how many people are in your home. Or if you have kids, and how many.
I forget which one, but a review I've read in the past 24 hours said that they plan to eventually have a web equivalent to the phone app for basic setup.
Yeah that was meant mostly tongue-in-cheek. There are plenty of ways to break it, I just didn't imagine that anyone would bother.
Thing is, most ETF liquidity is provided by high-speed market making algorithms. ETF pricing works through an arbitrage mechanism. To give a contrived example, imagine a ETF "Mega-Tech" (MGT) whose composition is 0.75 shares AAPL and 0.25 shares GOOG. At the close of trading, large arbitrageurs can exchange MGT shares in-kind with the ETF issuer for 0.75 shares AAPL and 0.25 shares GOOG or vice-versa. If the ETF is ever trading for more or less than 0.75AAPL + 0.25GOOG, you can make money going long the stocks and short the ETF or vice-versa.

So, knowing where AAPL and GOOG are trading, the ETF market-maker sets his bid and offer in MGT such that he can try to trade AAPL and GOOG at a better price to offset his risk and capture a small profit. Since this position is fully hedged, he gets special capital treatment and can accumulate large inventory in the ETF if there's a large imbalance between natural buyers and sellers.

Now, imagine AAPL is halted. The ETF market-maker can't hedge his risk or have confidence in what the ETF is worth. At first, he updates his pricing to assume the worst (remember, this is a dumb risk-averse computer, maybe AAPL is halted because it's the next Enron) and bids a lower price. He can't get the same capital treatment on MGT hedged with GOOG or some other ETF, and this is a much risker trade, more of a statistical arbitrage than a pure one, so as people keep selling MGT to him, he hits a risk or capital limit and pulls his bids completely.

Real ETFs can have 100s of components. Since this is a mechanical process, high-speed market-makers can charge a very low spread and be the best bid or offer in the market almost all the time. They just trade 100s of ETFs at once to make it up in volume. This drives humans out of the market-making business, since human traders who did the same thing are undercut by machines. Because of this, few well-capitalized human traders are sitting around waiting to pounce on ETFs trading at a massive discount since it rarely happens. They're all doing something else with their lives.

A good solution would be not to allow market orders in ETFs when their component stocks are halted, or to halt trading in ETFs when the components are halted. Market stop orders should probably be banned in general. I can't think of any other business dealing where a person would walk into a store and say "I'll buy/sell this at any price", aside from buying lobster on a date.
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Something like $180k base + $100k equity + bonus is more realistic.
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I appreciate the honesty here, but don't see how this is a reason to downvote his comment. His comment contributes meaningfully to the discussion.
Then that'll be interesting, eventually.
I feel that 350k+ is an exaggeration or perhaps the top 10% of Netflix engineers. Netflix is well known for paying large salaries almost entirely in cash (though I've heard that it's at the expense of an equity package or more fully fleshed out benefits). I'd expect that a mid-level engineer at Netflix would be looking at 200-250k though I don't have a lot of data to back it up.

When I worked at Google (2013) a mid-level engineer was making about 175-200k if you considered publicly traded stock and annual bonuses to be cash equivalent. The numbers grow quickly once you start ascending the ranks to Staff Engineer and beyond but again that's only about 10% of Google's engineers.
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I think it is better than ever, though. I especially like places like Treehouse trying to put the idea of a four-day work week out there.
It is mentioned in the article that the OnHub lacks a microphone.
From the article:

From virtually no imports of New Zealand honey just seven years ago, China has drawn level with Hong Kong as the second largest market in the world, according to government statistics, importing nearly 1,500 tonnes in 2014 — the large majority of which is manuka honey. Taken together, the China and Hong Kong markets far outpace the UK, which has been the world’s largest market for a decade but has seen imports steadily decline since 2009.

And from Wikipedia:

In the wake of the high premium paid for mānuka honey, the majority of product now labelled as such worldwide is counterfeit or adulterated. According to research by UMFHA, the main trade association of New Zealand mānuka honey producers, whereas 1,700 tons of mānuka honey are made there annually representing almost all the world's production, some 10,000 tons of produce is being sold internationally as mānuka honey, including 1,800 tons in the UK.[1]

Those number definitely don't add up. Presumably the vast majority of Manuka being consumed in China is counterfeit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81nuka_honey
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"Google told me that it will eventually offer a simple web interface for setting up the OnHub, but at launch, a smartphone or tablet is required."

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/31/google-onhub-review/
Someone should break this sucker open and find out what else is in there. Microphone was a guess actually. But I would place a bet on it that it is there.
Thank you. I think the benefits of Guix start to become even more evident when you work in a multi-language environment with god knows how many package managers. We don't yet have all the packages that people need, but that will happen in time if other people see value in Guix. We will see.
Just to be clear, it's not MY account, but I thought this article might lead to some interesting discussion.
Interestingly, Bitcoin and similar systems use a Forth-like stack language as script.

For instance, a typical transaction goes like this:

[scriptSig] [scriptPubKey]

Where scriptSig is: __signature__ __public_key__

and scriptPubkey is: OP_DUP OP_HASH160 __some_hash__ OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG

In rough terms:

OP_DUP works like classic Forth DUP, duplicates the immediate stack element. OP_HASH160 replaces the stack element with its hash160. OP_EQUALVERIFY performs a "fail if not equal" and OP_CHECKSIG takes two elements from the stack and verifies they're a pubkey and its signature.

So basically that's how the system verifies that a transaction is signed by the owner of the input address to go to the owner of the output address.
Companies don't sleep, individual traders are fucked anyway.
"To See and Not See" is missing from this list:

http://www.willamette.edu/~mstewart/whatdoesitmean2see.pdf

This piece always makes me think of how older generations approach technology, and its a good read if your building for a demographic that has low technology exposure.
I am a huge fan of "The Last Question."

For those who have not yet seen it, it's worth listening to the author's reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3U30wSAV4Q
This would also be an easy win for a company such as Google that is finally 'getting' design since every router web interface I have ever seen has been beyond appalling. It wouldn't take much to be the industry leader in this regard by a country mile.
Very nice. Also http://www.atarimagazines.com/ - classic scans of Analog, Antic, creative computing, Compute! ...
I worked just 4 days a week for almost all of my career, for many companies. It is all what you can negotiate. Long term, I think that I did better work always having 3 day weekends, and opened up time for other activities like writing books and getting more exercise.
~3 weeks ago I upgraded to an industrial-quality Cisco Aironet 1252AG access point (no -ac but it does -n 300Mbps just fine), that I got off eBay with power supply for a grand total of $60.

I'm a big fan of separating the NAT/router functionality from access-point functionality, and my core "router" is a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter (X right now, used to be the Lite).

I'm also a big fan of tweakable routers/APs (I formerly wouldn't buy something unless it could run DDWrt or OpenWRT) and have a couple storage tubs full of various wireless gear, including an Asus AC68U and the Ubiquiti Unifi-LR (running OpenWRT) that was formerly my main AP.

Despite all of this, I have an OnHub on preorder that should get here tomorrow, and I'm excited. There's tons of promise for this hardware, including home automation features that haven't been implemented yet - and despite what one review said, you can use it just as an AP - that's what "bridge mode" is.

However, I'm going to run it in parallel with the Cisco AP for a while before moving all my stuff over. Always have a fallback plan...
The world would be a better place if we all had this thought process, but I could never have this perspective. Even when I first read your comment, my gut reaction was disgust. It took me a moment to reflect and even then I know I couldn't condition myself to think like this. I crave external approval and as much as scientists might think of themselves, the world at large see's you as a tool used by politicians and entrepreneurs.

Thanks for being able to have a healthy perspective and I hope you can convince more people to do the same.
> There's not much on electronics - nothing about how such big pulses are generated, or the clever trick which allows transmitters and receivers to share an antenna without blowing out the receiver.

Well, you have my curiosity now. Any good sources on these?
Conceptually, this is a reasonable line to draw in the sand. Minified Javascript should be thought of as equivalent to assembly language or Java bytecode[1], and if the policy is to not ship compiled binaries without source available, minified JS should fall into that category.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... is funny, but the honest truth is that it's likely the future of web technologies, as Javascript is so deeply entrenched in the fiber of the web standards and the practical implementation of the browsers.
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I wonder if one could slash costs by building a stack on top of Imgix that concatenates several "master" images into a single "grandmaster" image and then just serve them up individually with cropping operations ...
Apple Airports all require apps. There's no web interface. They have Windows, OSX, and Linux apps.

I agree with you I prefer a web interface. Just pointing out that there is a pair of very popular routers that don't have one.

Fortunately they also don't need internet which it sounds like the OnHub currently does? In other words if I'm doing some kind of installation that users a router without internet I can still configure an Airport but if understand correctly I could not configure an OnHub ... yet?
Did you use any other framework beside react ?
Why, specifically, American companies? I've encountered countless companies from other countries that lie.
The FDA approves requests to use non-approved medications 99% of the time. When you hear about someone unable to access an experimental drug, it is almost always because the pharmaceutical company does not want to make the drug available early (for various reasons).

> At the meeting, a senior FDA representative indicated the agency has approved over 99 percent of expanded access requests submitted via single patient or emergency INDs since 2009, suggesting the regulatory agency is not a major barrier to expanded access. As such, provided the access request is reasonably related to the potential benefits of the drug, the biopharmaceutical company is almost solely responsible for the decision and liability regarding whether to grant expanded access to an individual.

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/07/31/individual-patient-...