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We use AWS and this is what I can tell you:

1. Its really expensive: about 5 times as expensive as dedicated servers.

2. Not reliable: they will shoot down servers any time they like. You will need to make sure you have redundancies in place and pay for them.

3. Lock-in: their services (beyond EC2) come with a set of proprietary APIs that your app will depend on. This creates a lock in.

4. Still need DevOps: so you pay a lot, get locked-in and still need to put everything together by yourself and make sure it runs reliably? Yep, you still need devops/admins which at the end is probably the biggest cost of your operation.

So, here are my suggestions:

You have a low-volume and don't mind a lock in: use a dedicated mobile/web cloud ala Firebase/Parse/etc or go with a true PaaS solution like AppEngine/Heroku.

If you have a big volume: you will need to bite the bullet, hire some devops and setup+maintain your own dedicated servers. You will at the end pay much less for servers compared to AWS, have full control over hem and have no lock-in.
The Ethernet phy is actually pretty expensive, especially compared to USB 1.0. The isolation transformers alone are $1. Of course you could skip the isolation like some backplanes do.

The ID assignment for USB is pretty awful and so is the robustness - for larger products it seems Ethernet is on the rise again.
I would say it kind of depends on where you live. While this would be totally o.k. in the U.S. and pretty much no problem at all in the Silicon Valley, it would look fairly bad to a European employer.
FWIW, you have the exact same system with college textbooks: the International Edition we get in Europe is often 30-50% cheaper than the US Edition, and has big letters saying "Not for sale in the US or Canada". Then you also have a further Low Price Edition, saying "Not for sale outside India, Pakistan, ..." which I've seen at 1/10th of the US price, though usually printed on lower quality paper and lagging an edition behind.

This suggests that pharma is not a special case. And you can't point to any huge R&D costs for textbooks that are subsidized by the US.
What speed are you talking about? In my experience EC2 is not performant.

For example: http://remcobron.com/cloud-server-review-and-comparison-amaz...
Beautiful work! I'm in love with your site. I'm definitely going to be using the software. Thank you Jack!
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Probably because they have "the specific scanning hardware" mentioned?
I don't understand how this women is the main victim here. There is a person who holds a prejudice of expecting people in nerdy fields to be ugly, and she breaks that expectation. Is she the one who suffers from it, or is it all the other people he interacts with and thinks "yeah, just another ugly nerd"?

This is anti-nerd more than anti-woman.
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Definitely agreed.

The greatest flow state I ever had was building a "raft" out of small logs and lots of cord on a rest day on a backpacking trip. It took hours to gather wood of the right size, break apart the pieces that were too big, scrounge around for all the cord I could find in my gear, arrange the wood in a sensible way, and tie it all together. During all that time I was so focused on the task that I don't think an unrelated thought even entered my head.

It was completely useless: I had nothing to use the raft for, except to swim out a little farther into the lake than I could by myself. The raft didn't even work very well! And yet building it was tremendously satisfying. I can only imagine the satisfaction one might get from a task of similar complexity, but that's essential to one's survival!
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English has many dialects. American-English uses Mom. British-English (and Hiberno-, Australian-) uses Mum.
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I once nearly lost a contest because of a faulty SQL query on their side. If I didn't get to see the query, I wouldn't have been able to defend my entry and would've lost. Losing this contest would've been trivial, but if I applied this to a trial, it would be horrible.

The error was that a 'group by' was used to find the number of unique entries, even though they had leading spaces, that were part of their uniqueness. Group by doesn't take leading spaces into account, leading them to get a different result than me. I think that this could've happened to a lot of people, even forensic IT engineers.
F# also supports a typesafe printf format notation.

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/printf/
No, American-English changed too.
Part of professional life is understanding how to communicate with others and how to know before you say something how it will be taken. Some people aren't good at this, and those people should work on it until they get better at it. I wouldn't blame anyone who makes an honest effort. But many more people in my experience simply aren't interested in learning how to communicate with people that are different from them. In these cases, this mentality of blaming "PC culture" is just allowing people to remain lazy and ignorant.
You have no idea how weird and empty this kind of thinking sounds to a european.

Capitalism makes for such a cold world.
In Europe, the strictest interpretations of the directives regarding electric bicycles only allow for 250W of motor assistance at a maximum speed of 25 km/h, and only when the bike is pedalled at the same time. And bicycles are still quite stable and 25 km/h is not a particularly high speed: I can reach 40-45 km/h without motor assistance myself. So, no wonder pedelecs aren't that appealing here.

That 1KW and 20 mph is still rather generous for a skateboard.
Screen temperature is a public health feature which should be implemented by the OS. Until this feature arrives in iOS, the next best option is for apps to implement it. The ebook reader Marvin and Koala web browser both have controls for color temperature.
Well said about planning with a pen and paper.
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No surprise there

Typical of big companies to squash competition in favour of the crap they sell
+1 to not trusting your network (or any network), but that doesn't mean you should give up on securing your clients if you have control over them (e.g. in a corporate environment). FWIW Google certainly does not ignore client security. They do assume that all networks are untrusted.

"Google’s BeyondCorp initiative is moving to a new model that dispenses with a privileged
corporate network. Instead, access depends solely on device and user credentials, regardless
of a user’s network location—be it an enterprise location, a home network, or a hotel or
coffee shop."

"BeyondCorp uses the concept of a “managed device,” which is a device that is procured and actively managed by the enterprise. Only managed devices can access corporate applications."

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
If you are looking for an alternative password manager, take a look "Intuitive Password" online password mansger (www.intuitivepassword.com). I have more than 200 passwords and they are all different for each site, I use it everyday. It works on all devices including smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs without installation required. Intuitive Password provides a Data Restore Points feature so you can't lose your data using their service.
That didn't work. But this did: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-real-obama-doctrine-144...
Yes- agree with you. Most discussions around healthcare/pharma/hospitals have a moral element(look they are price gouging us). There are possibly some cases that fit the description but I am not sure if it applies across the industry.

If in fact, pharma companies where making super normal profits- it would show up in their financial statements. Operating profits for any given year may not be appropriate because a lot of the R&D costs are in the balance sheet.

A more appropriate (but still not perfect) metric would be Return on Assets (Profits/Assets) i.e. how much return are you getting on the capital you put in. Here are some metrics for some pharma companies. None of them are making super normal profits.

9.68% - Merck- https://ycharts.com/companies/MRK/return_on_assets

5.38%- Bristol Myers-
https://ycharts.com/companies/BMY/return_on_assets

5.77%: Eli Lilly:
https://ycharts.com/companies/LLY/return_on_assets

5.33% - Pfizer:
https://ycharts.com/companies/PFE/return_on_assets
> Thousands of dollars a month is pretty reasonable when you consider that.

Lets make venn diagram of population earning thousands of dollars a month and population that has HIV and see how reasonable the overlap it.
Would anyone be able to give more background on the controversy?
I would hope there would be funding from somewhere, at least at the state/federal level. Mathematical research has proven very important to a number of advances in the sciences, even research that was once thought to have no practical use.
Going up a couple levels to here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bknauff/dwebd/index.html is kind of an interesting snapshop of where the world was a decade ago.

Dartmouth is a weird place, though. Until quite recently, people didn't really text or use cellphones on campus, instead relying on an incredibly ugly email client that ran on a custom protocol called BlitzMail[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlitzMail
ADHD is defined in the DSM-IV and now -5 as presenting with predominantly hyperactive tendencies or with predominantly inattentive tendencies (or combined, presenting both).

I didn't read it as the author saying that males don't present with inattentive type. Rather, I thought she was saying that, since women don't as often present with hyperactive type ADHD as males, the general message is "girls have less ADHD." Which, then, can impair seeking a diagnosis for a female that has the disorder, since there's a general bias to look for other things first.

As far as I've ever understood the inattentive type goes under-diagnosed for both sexes, as it's not as disruptive to classrooms, where most diagnoses are started for children. The hyperactive type may be more often diagnosed based on comparisons between US and European diagnostic criteria -- the European model results in fewer diagnoses[1].

The author discusses this early in the piece:

[Dr. Ellen Littman attributes under-diagnosis in part] "to the early clinical studies of ADHD in the 1970s. “These studies were based on really hyperactive young white boys who were taken to clinics,” Littman says. “The diagnostic criteria were developed based on those studies. As a result, those criteria over-represent the symptoms you see in young boys, making it difficult for girls to be diagnosed unless they behave like hyperactive boys.”

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...
Thanks ;-). Working very hard on this. I hope you like. Waiting for your feedback.
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Speaking of simple -- the %M flag in 'statusline' gives you the + for modified files. No need to use an expression block.

I like to use the status line to keep track of buffer-local options that differ from the default setting. That's what https://github.com/tomtom/tstatus_vim gives me.
Hmmm... Is F# a good alternative? I already have a ton of experience with .NET and C#. I'm thinking about doing a deep dive into functional programming and don't want to waste my time with something that has a major fundamental flaw.
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That is a slippery slope - everybody has broken some laws, including me and you. Does that give anyone the right to publish details about our cheating attempts?
First, it is rather ludicrous to suggest the main difference in health care expenditures is linked to the US subsidising medicines. For example, while the US spend 17.1% of GDP in health, the UK spend 9.4 % (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS). The 8 points of GDP difference represents close to 300 billions $, which would be a significant proportion of the revenue of all the pharmaceutical combined (I did not look much for reliable statistics of combined revenue, but saw that: http://www.statista.com/topics/1764/global-pharmaceutical-in..., which suggests ~1 trillions USD).

It is also well documented that sales are significantly more expensive in the US than in Europe (marketing expenses are higher than R&D for most big pharmaceutical, and that proportion is significantly more so in the US). So without more analysis, you can't say from higher sales whether the US are subsidising European healthcare or marketing departments.
> If Fixed was successful then by definition every ticket issued would result in a dispute. That's simply untenable for a city to deal with.

Heaven forfend the citizenry have the right to defend themselves before being punished by the state.
For those of you who don't do RE CTF's, anything XOR'd _usually_ (yeah yeah there are exceptions) indicates 'oh this region is interesting because someones trying to obfuscate something'. Sort of like "oh hey, this has binary has been packed with __, there's a fair chance it's been done for for malware purpose".

Things are a lot more complicated these days with FLEXlm and network authentication (KMS type stuff), but previously that'd be the first place one would look to start designing keygens (rather than just patching your JE -> JNE; JZ -> JNZ haha).

Take a look at Didier's Github. (1) It has basically the 'batteries included starter kit' of the Immunity/Olly/IDA plugins that are useful.

1: https://github.com/DidierStevens/DidierStevensSuite
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> "Manufacturers say decent returns are needed to reward high-risk research and prices reflect the economic value provided by medicines."

Contrast this market or model with mining, where small junior companies raise investment capital from people who want to take the risk of the junior actually finding a profitable deposit to mine.

It seems this is more what markets were made for; people who want to take the risk and get the reward foot the bill for that risk. Removing that cost from the cost of the product makes the product more accessible, and the financing comes from those who want to finance.
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That's quite a rash conclusion to jump to. Every language has its controversies and quirks. I would recommend deep diving both into F# and Haskell - you certainly won't be wasting your time either way.
Well, the author clearly has a crush on Dr Kissinger. But whatever, the characterization "a talented vote-getter, surrounded by lawyers, who is overly risk-averse" does seem accurate.
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The patterns picked up by the training don't seem to offer too much variation than a simple Markov chain. The author finds the generated texts similar to a conversation, because that's what they're looking for. But they look just as random as simply selecting the next random word that comes after the current word from the training set.
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The author, John McWhorter, is a great guy to listen to. His TED talk[1] is interesting, his TED-Ed lessons[2] are even more interesting, and his "Story of Human Language"[3] course is so enormously interesting and fun, I listen to it as entertainment when bored.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_la...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ted+ed+john+mcw...

[3] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/story-of-human-langua...
Withholding a tl;dr until I've read enough to understand it myself, here is where I'll be looking to generate a quick impression:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/search?q=foldable+traversab...

https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldable_Traversable_In_Prelude
Maybe it's just a sign of todays technology reaching some sort of early maturity?

You don't see many new revolutionary cars around either - or at least they all conform to the same idea having four equally sized wheels, 5 seats and a round steering wheel. I'm guessing 100 years ago you saw many alternative "paradigms" in the car making domain too, before our society settled on something that worked for the majority of us.
thanks @rdw, that is a great explanation.
Dont forget that journalism by its very nature is sensationalist. I doubt very much that this is a "major fundamental flaw".

Besides, you would also be asserting that F# does not have that flaw. I don't believe you have that evidence either.
> A free market for drugs makes sure that companies can recoup their investments and make a reasonable profit.

You know that patents make this pretty much the opposite of a free market to begin with right? You're starting with a government-granted monopoly for a period of time, so any argument which claims this is a free market is really just the drug companies trying to get your sympathy.

> Also, I don't want to live in a place where the availability of a treatment is determined by some government committee that determines what the value of a month of my life is.

In countries which have universal health care, there is no decision on the availability of a drug. Just which ones are free or heavily subsidized. Generally you can choose to have the generic at an very cheap price, or you are free to pay (or hold private insurance) for the brand name drugs. In very rare circumstances there is no subsidized option for a particular drug, in which case, again, you are free to purchase it with your own money, or hold supplemental private insurance.

And absolutely you want the people in charge to determine the value of a year of quality life, when trying to maximize health outcomes for a certain budget. The only other option would be subsidizing drugs based on lobbying from the companies, which would be absurd.
A more complete description is available here [0], but the essence of it is that the type of many functions that used to be specifically about lists has become more general, but also arguably harder to understand.

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldable_Traversable_In_Prelude
> Also, I don't want to live in a place where the availability of a treatment is determined by some government committee that determines what the value of a month of my life is.

This is Sarah Palin's "Death Panel" argument, and it's a weak one.

If you have a fixed healthcare budget you need to decide how to spend it. The most sensible way to do that is to determine which treatments provide how many years additional quality of life, and pay for the treatments that provide the greatest benefit.

You could debate the nitty gritty of how those calculations are made, and sure, there are ehtical quandries in there. It's a tough problem and sometimes mistakes are made. But that's not what you're doing. What you're doing is spreading FUD.

You could suggest that health insurance is the proper way to run a healthcare system. I'd disagree with you, based on the fact that Britain's NHS covers its entire populace, supporting a higher life expectancy than the US, and costs less PER CAPITA (not per patient) than the US Medicare system that only pays for a small percentage.

What's more, if you want to skip the waiting list for a replacement hip (the elderly score less well under the QUALY system) then you always have the option of paying for health insurance, or paying for the treatment directly.

What's more UK health insurance is cheaper than US health insurance, because the health system isn't filled to the brim with moral hazards inflating prices.
Serf would be a nice marketing word today I think, you could make a little picture that depicts the language as being in serfdom to the user. ;) Maybe I've had too much coffee, or not enough, I forget how that works. Whatever the case, I haven't drunk the exact right amount.
FTP (The Foldable/Traversable proposal in prelude) is a change done to the core library of GHC 7.10. It brings the Foldable and Traversable typeclass to Prelude and makes the existing function of Prelude more polymorphic. Like the type signature of the function "and" changes from [Bool] -> Bool to Foldable t => t Bool -> Bool. People in the Haskell community have divided opinions about this. You can see more details here[0].

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldable_Traversable_In_Prelude
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From a cursory glance (I'm not part of the large haskell community), there doesn't appear to be any controversy.

This just appears to be a decision of an individual to stick to what they think is the best platform/version for them. Since the individual was also the Release manager, seems like stepping aside was the logical thing to do if they do not prefer the latest version of the language.
How does that work with science / maths / engineering interviews? When asked to solve non-trivial calculus questions in an interview do you think they are more likely to admit students who give "interesting" answers or the ones who give correct answers?
"If he start­ed Jorf in 1987, that means he start­ed it around the same time Perl 1.0, (and the syn­tax is much nicer ;-). He start­ed it around the same time Gui­do start­ed Python."

This is quite interesting as it's not really clear a better syntax would automatically make it "win" over other languages, or even that it's a significant factor. Maybe a prerequisite in most cases, but I think here are a lot of other factors that can be more important:

* Surrounding library and tooling and documentation

* System requirements to comfortably run it

* Initial community

* Ability of the author to promote it

* The nature of the early adopter individuals and companies (thought experiment: young Mark Zuckerberg sits down one night and proceeds to write thefacebook v0.0.0.0.1 in Perl, not PHP)

"So, he became a suit ;-)"

I saw the emoticon ... but CTO of a startup != suit in many cases
Unless I'm mistaken, full-color emoji aren't a property of the shell; they're a function of the terminal. Emoji are simply text, and it is up to the terminal to render that. (i.e., the application, be it the shell or Python etc. outputs an emoji code point, and the terminal renders that — potentially as full-color emoji if it or the font rendering layer knows what to do. Works quite well in OS X, where the font support is great.)
The interesting bit to me: If you load the app with content before entering China, when you are in China the app won't open. It seems to be deactivated if your phone connects to any Chinese cell tower. This seems to be a bit heavy handed, particularly for Apple, but also doesn't feel terribly surprising.

Also, the article seems to be based on some Reddit posts and no actual fact checking, so the quality of the journalism here is pretty low for the NY Times. I'd expect they could check with some of their staff in China rather than write "it appears" and use an anonymous source.
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But the price of a calculator is totally unrelated to the cost of the R&D associated with the calculator. The original point was nonsense.

The company wants its return to be as large as possible. Speaking in more sensible terms, they want to get as much money as they can regardless of whether they've reached a magic internal accounting threshold or not. R&D just has no relevance at all to product pricing.
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