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Cut it with the "politically correct" crap. What Lee did was tweet the information of an unconnected person who happened to have the same name as somebody who was suspected of a racially motivated murder. That has nothing to do with Political Correctness Gone Mad!
I don't see how that follows. There's a percentage of their customers -- let's hypothesize 10% -- who were willing to pay an extra $20 for tethering. Now that Verizon can't charge for tethering, it can still raise base rates in such a way that, as long as these customers aren't paying more than $20 more, these customers are unlikely to switch.

Further, there are some of the 90% of customers who valued tethering, but wouldn't pay $20 for it. They might tolerate a $5-$10 rise in base rates without switching. Then, there are others of the 90% who could also tolerate a $5-10 increase in base rates, and still others who would be lost at each level of increase.

The exact net effect will change based on how many customers fall into which ranges of price-tolerance behavior, but the fact that the base rates now provide an extra value, that some were willing to pay $20 for, strongly suggests some increase in base rates, greater than $0 and less than $20, would be the new profit-maximizing rate for Verizon. And thus everyone who doesn't want tethering at any price loses out.

Regulations which prevent differentiated pricing can often help the high-end customers -- in this case richer people with multiple devices -- by preventing their willingness-to-pay-more from subsidizing the overall service. They may not help the price-sensitive and more likely to be poor customers. Thus the cheering of this regulatory action on some boards (including here) should not be taken as a proof of net consumer benefit. Just that it benefits rich heavy-tethering users.
Maybe they could outsource the running of it as for this to happen on the scale it did is clearly poor managment. Overloading is one thing but to allow that to propergate across regions is just unbelievable and for it to happen more than once is not good.
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Why? Everyone else iterates on hardware, they just don't refund it and admit that maybe it's not ready. Think how many people have shitty android tablets or iPhone 4's they have to use the kung fu grip on.

This is just Google taking the opportunity to back off on shipping a product while still doing right by their customers. After the kerfuffle with Nexus 7 order volume messing with their fulfillment, it's nice to see them get a bit proactive.

Edited out a very telling typo.
If you're more interested in the science side, you might like James Austin's Zen and the Brain. It's a bit old, but pretty interesting. For more modern analysis of meditation, the Mind and Life Institute has funded a lot of research, but much of it requires access through a university library, sadly. (Google Scholar might help.)

Also, if you're open to the idea that there might be more, but like me, not interested in anything mystical, I highly recommend checking out Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs.
Oops, important difference there. 2 x 12,5% is pretty close to 25%, yes :-)
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Was this a separate deal from the one where Google and Verizon screwed over wireless net neutrality?
They sold out, so presumably they got more interest than they were expecting.
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Is watching a YouTube video like tuning into a public broadcast, or controlling a private performance? The licensing of these is very different, which, for example, explains much of the rigamarole around Pandora's UI.
Interesting, though chromeos was ported recently as well. I just wished the Pi had the option to add more memory as that would open up so much more.
Surely the answer is to sign distributions (or not) as verified as originating from a domain (eg microsoft.com), then let the user choose which os to boot in the bios (or whatever becomes). Then if you want to run an os from an untrusted domain you can, or you can just stick to whatever is sighed as coming from microsoft

As far as I can see all pc manufacturers would need to do is verify the certificate of each os on an os selection screen and display the result to the user
How is it anti-trust to make vendors have a secure boot but also require them to allow users to disable it? And on the RT side, how is it anti-trust to do exactly what Apple does in a market where Microsoft has exactly zero penetration?

Double standard. It seems people are willing to let it slide with Apple but not with Microsoft. Even Mozilla came out decrying Microsoft's policy of not allowing third party browsers but never said a peep about iOS. There's no use throwing a fit just because Microsoft is doing it when you let the actual tablet monopoly get away with it for so long.
Yeah this system does not appear to be the quick glance I looked, but api's disired system does not need to model this one.

api's requirements:

> How do we design a system that is anonymous and un-censorable where users can opt out of being relays for certain types of data?

As long as we are reasonable by taking "un-censorable" to mean very difficult to censor and "users can opt out of certain types of data" to mean highly limit traffic of data type <x>, it seems like a hard problem until proven impossible.
Why are Hackathons an all-night event?
Why not over 2 days (a weekend) so people can get some rest in between? Am I just being soft here because I don't like the idea of staying up all night anymore? The culture of all-nighters and ridiculous caffeine/sugar consumption is overrated. And absolutely terrible for your health.

This is coming from someone with a day job who's interested in Hackathon-like events but generally unwilling due to the logistics.

Disclaimer: I am a college student who's been through the exact typical "hacking" conditions.. Staying up 72 hours before a big deadline to put together a project was the norm. I suppose the biggest argument in favor of this are the unique social experiences you get under this kind of duress.

What are your opinions on this?
The iCab browser for iOS is a gem.
I think a lot of people who are interested in these streaming devices have separate component for their AV stack and would rather use their setup rather than the 25W amp in the Q. The other set of consumers would most likely hook the Q up directly to their TVs. The only use case where I would find the integrated amp useful would be in an office, kitchen, or some place similar.
>Then the problem is fraudulent manufacturers.

Or a certification standard that mandated that vendors do something, but was highly nonspecific as to exactly how they were to do it.
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I've had pretty good experience with Clear everywhere except Manhattan, where the service is horrible.
Is your iMac running Lion? When I upgraded from Snow Leopard, it borked my rEFIt ubuntu partition.
Well, they're always going to be right in the "because we can" aspect.
Behold, the power of oh shit Microsoft doesn't even have a presence in the ARM tablet world, let alone a monopoly.
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I suppose that most of the time you are drawing the probability density (|phi|^2), but in a few case you show Re(phi) and Im(phi).

It looks a little to wavy. For example, if the initial state of a free particle is a (real) Gaussian distribution, after a time it should still be a wider Gaussian distribution (with the wave function phi modulated by a complex phase). I think that this is due to a problem in the numerical method.

In spite of this, the general behavior of the simulation looks right. For example, in the harmonic oscillator, if the initial configuration is a well localized state, after 1/2 period the configuration should be a well localized distribution on the other side of the parabola, and this exactly what the simulation shows.
Is there enough legroom? I tend to unconsciously wrap my feet around anything within reach while I'm working, and not being able to do that actually kind of impedes concentration.
This is has so many problems that it's sort of silly to just name one. But for me, this makes OS research much more painful, let alone anyone else doing anything with Linux that isn't using a distro blessed by Microsoft or one their proxies.
The micro-optimization driven desires of businesses are irrelevant when evaluating the larger picture. Carriers that decommoditize best-effort communications to misappropriate others' value should be taken to court for fraudulently advertising "Internet" access, and the colors of radio waves they enjoy a government-granted "public interest" monopoly on should be put to better use.
The aim of - un-censorable where users can opt out of being relays for certain types of data - seems possibly paradoxical.
but do we geta refund??? Doesn't look likely.
System76 is pretty close to being the official Ubuntu vendor. Full support, custom hardware, and Canonical's nod of approval. They're the Lenovo (et al) of the Ubuntu world.
I bet they simply gained some self-doubt based upon all of the feedback and were worried about having a real failure if they stuck with the plan. Good on them, really, and the refunding of pre-orders while still promising the unit is amazing.
I don't see Microsoft's name or logo anywhere in the outlook.com interface. I do see Google in Gmail however...

This is a refreshing take on email, I have been growing tired of the sluggishness of Gmail myself. I also like the way the ads look on the right and when you hover you see an image of the product. I have always hated the way Google ads look.
In theory they now have pooled data plans, but in reality they're not cheaper so you probably don't care. Also, I've heard that a 3G PDP context costs money, so seven devices using 5GB total does cost more than one device using 5GB, although probably not as much as they charge.

we don't get a discount when the iOS devices use [Wi-Fi] for data as opposed to cellular

Sure you do; that data doesn't eat into your cellular cap. Effectively cellular is ~$6/GB and DSL is <$1/GB.
I think of photos of people on landing pages as being relatively dangerous. When you show a photo of someone, doing something, you're asking the visitor to put themselves in the place of the person they're looking at.

If you have a pretty narrowly-defined audience, you might be able to find a photo that really encompasses everything your audience wants to be. More often, though, you instantly suggest that the product is "for them," not "for me."

There are two ways I've gone about handling this. One is avoiding people altogether, focusing on the product or the output of the product -- this can still tell a story, and hopefully the visitor can relate to that story. The other general method is to use cartoonish or abstract illustrations of people, which can allow the visitor to more easily put themselves in place of the illustrated character.

A well-chosen photo of people might convert better with the right audience, but it's a much riskier shot to take, in my view.
The best argument I heard was that it is equivalent to having a DVD player in your TV. Or a computer in your car. You end up pairing a long lifespan device with a short lifespan one. One half of the resulting device will get broken or obsolete long before the other half.

Moore's law applies to all the devices cell phones have been replacing for the past 5 years. Thus the cell phone is pairing with devices of similar lifespan. An amplifier is a different class of good. Their prices have not plummeted and their lifespans have only gotten better.
It's an interesting idea. There is a possibility though, that Hacker News itself is the only HN-type site that can be successful.

What makes HN work isn't the software, it's the behaviour of the community, which vigorously votes up and flags spammy or off-topic posts. I imagine that a community of tech-minded hackers are the most suited for this activity. I imagine that a large majority of those visiting a fitness-related site would be less tech-savvy and logically-minded.

You are very likely to get a LOT of spam from advertisers, and if the community does not moderate it then you'd need super-users to do it. Maybe digg would be a better model?
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Curious that you decided to leave out the 2000's decade. In a coma or something ?
My understanding is that the finite bandwidth of the spectrum puts a limit (for a given level of technology) on the total data capacity of the network, not on the number of service providers. Could we not have more providers for the same number of users by divvying the spectrum into more chunks? Instead, I think the number of providers is limited by the huge entry costs of building towers. It's the low marginal cost of operating these towers (compared to their build costs) which leads to monopolies.

I would love clarification.
History may be valuable in mathematics, but it is demonstrably skipped. Few know much about it.

When I was in grad school in math, I made the interesting discovery that if p and q are polynomials over a commutative ring, any polynomial that is symmetric in the roots of p and q is actually a polynomial in the original ring in the coefficients of p and q. (The construction works whether or not the ring can be embedded in a field where said roots actually exist.) Using this observation it is trivial, for instance, to write down in fully factored form a polynomial that has sqrt(2) + cube_root(3) as a root.

This construction was news to various mathematicians that I talked to, including a combinatorics prof who studied symmetric polynomials and a number theorist who worked on stuff related to the algebraic integers. Then finally I talked to a very old mathematician with an interest in history. He told me that I had rediscovered an old way to do things. At his encouragement I went to the library, and picked up an algebra book from the 1800s. My construction was taught, and there was a whole chapter full of problems where students were expected to use it to come up with polynomials with specific roots.

Furthermore as I looked into it both of the professors that I mentioned before worked in areas whose history dated back to the observation that I mentioned. It was used in the original proof that the algebraic integers form a ring, and that construction was the original reason that people were interested in symmetric polynomials.

For another demonstration of how little of their own history mathematicians know, ask anyone why the notation for the second derivative is d^2y/dx^2. Then ask them where the f' notation comes from. Then ask them what Cauchy was trying to do that lead to Cauchy sequences. Most will draw a blank on all three.

Don't read on until you're satisfied that you don't know the answers.

In the original infinitesmal notation, d was an operator. It could be defined by d(y) = y(x + dx) - y(x). And you'd calculate a slope as dy/dx (drop any infinitesmal bits). Well when you work out d(dy/dx)/dx it turns out that you get d(d(y))/(dx * dx) which is more compactly written d^2y/dx^2.

The f' notation was introduced by Lagrange in an attempt to get rid of infinitesmals by defining differentiation as a formal algebraic operation on polynomials and power series. This fell apart when Fourier demonstrated that apparently well-behaved power series could be used to construct pathological things like step functions.

Cauchy came up with Cauchy sequences while attempting to define infinitesmals rigorously. His approach fell apart on the seemingly trivial example of how you rigorously prove the chain rule when the derivative of the inner thing is 0. (He was trying to avoid 0/0, but in that special case you get 0/0 all over the place.)
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Facebook Groups should really have this.
Haha. No there's totally not as you see it in the pics. I removed the black panel at the base which gives 8 nice more inches and a foot rest on the lip. I find my feet playing with the spring mechanisms for the pedals while I code.
Probably a cool way to learn and apply Python too.
Samsung sells a lot of their hardware with MS software on it and are dependent on favorable licensing terms. This business Samsung does with them overshadows all their other partners in terms of revenue.
Sorry to hear that. This subject was new to me but by now I have watched the OP's series and the first episode of the living dead (thanks HN for another stimulating experience). I find them extremely interesting, more like essays than lectures. You know, in an essay there are a bit more artistic liberties.
It is not clear to me that a system could be created that would be fine grained enough to take into account individual preferences with out general AI. I can imagine a rough grained system were none of them match perfectly but some get close. A user would have to pick a standard and live with the good and the bad that came with it. Not perfect but more choice then what you have if you sign up to be a tor relay or run freenet now.
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It's both. The form of the writing rather than the content per se is what's meant to illustrate his points.
It's not exactly clear what you mean by "velocity" in that question. Drift velocity? Fermi velocity? (and others) These two differ by multiple orders of magnitude, so it's easy to wrongly conclude that another physicist doesn't have a clue.

Intuitive explanation: drift velocity is the overall streaming velocity of the moving electrons, fermi velocity is the velocity of a single electron. The reason these are different is that electrons move back and forth heavily, thus the fermi velocity is high. But under normal voltages, they move just slighly more in one direction than the other on average, which is the drift velocity. Of course this is highly simplified, and the real story is quantum mechanical.
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While this is wondeful, ZDNet misses something huge picked up on Ars.

"The FCC concedes that Verizon may charge $20 per month for customers who retain grandfathered unlimited data plans."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/tethering-apps-must-b...

So I won't be benefitting from this. The most ridiculous, bullshit part of all of this is that unlimited plans aren't unlimited anyway. They have "Fair Access Policy" data caps (5GB for Verizon IIRC) that are just like the modern plans with a tad higher caps. They just advertise differently. It's the same damn thing. And I don't get free tethering. Ridiculous.
Could you elaborate on the loader code bug?
I'm interested if you still have it. If it's gone I may still buy the book, it looks very promising.
To add to what gojomo said: tethering fees can act as a price discriminant for providing a service with significant non-marginal costs. It's possible for price discriminants to have positive effects on everyone, although that need not be the case with tethering.
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Maybe they're copying Sonos.
I don't place wireless data access on the same level as health coverage.

I use Sprint which has unlimited data and unlimited data is a very good sign that competition still exists in the wireless market. Once it goes, perhaps it will be time to start thinking about even more regulation.

I'm not some free open market type either. I'm pissed off about "Obamacare" only because it doesn't go far enough.
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I guess bundling would be nice, but I don't really see the logic to placing requirements on how the providers structure device plans.

I think the furthest I would go in that direction would be to require companies that control a large percentage of nationwide spectrum to sell access to their towers at regulated rates.
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Another innovation?
The key is, if possible, to go off and do something else for a while before revising. What seemed perfectly clear when first written will often seem a little off when reviewed with a cleared head.
The headline is stating the facts, what you are suggesting is stating the google spin. Its usually a better idea to report the facts rather than the spin. There is no Google bashing in that headline.

There was a lot of negative feedback to this, and this is probably a good step. Its also nice to see the goodwill gesture of fulfilling preorders for free.
I like the snarky remarks at the end of the code like: dealer_says("Now I have to go back to working as a VBA programmer!")
As soon as a company goes public the share price becomes what people talk about instead of other factors. Seems like a disincentive to go public.
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I notice this on Quora too. I don't like it; I don't want to waste readers' time.
As an entrepenuer, I'd LOVE to have people complaining about my idea.

For various reasons:

1) The idea hasnt come to fruition yet, so it can be shaped and molded with feedback. (unlike color or cuil which both hard-launched with a full product and strategy and no sense of reality)

2) People are talking about your company. peroid. Building something that noone cares about or only gets the odd "thats cool" is way worse than having pages of critiscm.

3) Knowledgable people are spending their time analyzing every part of your business. For free.

Once you get past the sensitivity to rejection/bad feedback which all entrepreneurs do in the first year, its not such a bad thing. Although obviously not a goal one should strive for.
I'm guessing they'd have to send out an OTA update to the OS to remove that message. Depending on your device, as we've seen, that could take years.

Install the Foxfi app, it's free and gives you wifi tethering on Verizon Android devices.
This looks so much better than the Metro-ized ribbon disaster of the desktop preview that was released. It's actually looks a bit better that the new Gmail which I like as well.

The problem with M$ products of course, which makes us all very skeptical is how well it actually works.
Verizon's LTE is only on 700MHz. They could charge a tethering fee on their old CDMA network, but that seems like it wouldn't work when their LTE network won't have a fee.
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For fun, let's look at the net income from this venture.

The seller sold about 3,300 records. Let's say that he paid an average of $0.60 per records. That's a cost of goods sold of $1,980 and a gross margin of $8,120. The Facebook ad cost $150, which brings net income in at $7,970. Not bad, hey?

As per return on investment, let's toss in a measure of time. Let's say that, over the years, the seller spends an average of two minutes on each piece of vinyl he sell. That means that he spent 6,600 minutes (110 hours) on these 3,300 pieces of vinyl. Add in another 6 hours for the sale and the seller still made over $69/hour off of this venture.

This analysis ignores all the time it takes to become good enough to actually deal records.
yeah, I recently replaced my piano with an Williams Overture 88 ($500),
midi out, headphones, weighted keys, sounds just like the real thing.
Just get the app FoxFi -- it allows you to tether for free, even on a non-rooted device.
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This is something that awes me about Apple every time they do it.

At the press event:

"Great new product..."

"We think it's the best ever iYada, yada yada yada..."

"And you can order it today."

How the hell do they do that?
I'm actually wondering if it's entirely because of Ouya. I'm sure someone at Google saw that Kickstarter explode and took a look at the trickle of Q preorders.