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Why? There are plenty of chiropractors who perform manual therapy and spinal manipulation to fix mechanical low back issues - and there is a LOT of evidence behind these methods. They don't delve into the bullshit subluxation theories.

That isn't "physiotherapy." That is quite clearly chiropractic medicine. And in that regard, it works. Just section them off into subluxation believers and people who work on lower backs. That's how I split them, considering I refer my clients to chiros all the time (and use them myself for my herniated lumbar discs).
First: Yes, the government goes after medical charlatans all the time. (And individuals sue like this quite often.) No, they don't get them all. And few of these cases are high profile. But that doesn't mean they aren't working to protect people.

Second: What does that matter? I'm no lawyer, but I'm almost certain a law isn't nullified as soon as one person gets away with breaking it. 23andMe is pretty high-profile. It doesn't matter how much a part of the tech entrepreneur inner-circle their founders may be, if they're doing something that might be harmful or misleading, it's completely appropriate for legal remedies to be explored. Especially when it sounds like they're thumbing their noses at the rather polite requests of the FDA.
You're right about the importance that distance from the screen plays, but in my experience, a 27-28" 1080p monitor (of which there are quite a few on the market) would have to sit too far away to use for anything but movie viewing and gaming.
I don't agree. I have a PT who uses chiropractic methods but I also have seen a chiropractor who does nothing but lower back manipulation and traction methods, both of which have evidence backing their methods to fix lower back mechanical issues. He is not a charlatan. It would be unfair to group him with the subluxation magicians.
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Found the founder's LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-vernon/6/167/bb5

Went to Arizona State, "Degree not completed." No reference of any academic CS background yet was a Senior Software Developer?

I'd hold off for a bit.
I think there's some amount of aptitude, but mostly it's just applying effort over time. Keep going.
Why do the new UltraHD monitors need to have the same name as previous Dell monitors? It's just a name. In fact, UltraSharp vs UltraHD seems like a great way to distinguish between 4K+ and lower res monitors, while still making both seem "good" to consumers.
The answer is buried within your message. As someone who worked close with company that entirely relied their existance on FDA, I will tell you FDA is not there to protect consumers or fight against miracle scam products; its there to protect business of those who pay the most (large corporations -- hello vaccines) from other small players who try to enter the market with (many times) better /cheaper/smarter product that the huge guys are offering. Its a dictatorship and protectionism at its best. Huge corporations cannot afford to spend 300 million dollars on some flu vaccine knowing that some little guy can pop up any minute with some more affordable alternative. It sad, its broken and its rot to the core when it affect human lives.

As of 23 I think they simply pissed FDA off one bit too much and now they are paying the price. It has nothing to do whether their product is safe, whether or not it promises miracles or simply a basic knowledge, or anything consumer-centric.
Economic inequality is a broad concept and only one in which I don't think the Internet is playing as positive a role as Alexis is bragging about in the introduction to this book. I know the Internet has made some people rich but it's not as flat and egalitarian a world as his optimism and unbridled enthusiasm seem to admit.

However I am reserving any conclusions until I've finished reading it.
> BRCK’s GPIO breakout provides 20 pins for digital and alaouge Read/Write as well as I2C, SPI and UART. This, combined with BRCK’s Arduino Profile, make it ideal for quickly connecting hardware to the Internet of Things.

See, now this is a description that makes me want to own one.
"23andme complies with all the rules governing genetics laboratories."

You're misunderstanding the difference between "runs a competent lab" and "provides a genetic test that's useful for diagnostics". You can run a perfectly clean, professional lab, and still offer a useless (or dangerously misleading) test.

The FDA, in this case, is more interested in the latter question than the former, and it's the most important question of all. The FDA is doing exactly what it should be doing here -- questioning the validity of the test itself, not the logistics of the lab doing the test.
A couple years ago at a company hackathon, I took this approach, and then just baked these same tools into the app directly.

Django middleware to turn on/off and collect & store the profile data, and then a developer interface to read the stored profiles and render in SVG using pydot.
Almost all helicopters have constant speed rotors and use the pitch of the blades to control all but 1 degree of freedom (the last is the pitch of the tail rotor blades, which directly controls the yaw in upright flight).
Someone at 23andMe must've read an advance copy of "Without Their Permission."
Most apartment buildings don't have accessible roofs, at least where I live.

But if that were possible, it'd be the safest altitude given they manage to avoid wires and antennas.

If they make it to ground level, I think there'd be plenty of people who would try to catch these things.
"Globalist - good, less languages - less barriers. Good for international commerce and knowledge sharing."

This is wrong, as there being more languages does not mean everyone is monolingual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

"Truth is always somewhere in between."
What if I claim it isn't?
It's worth pointing out that absolutely nothing about this interaction was corroborated except for the fact that there was an issue and the customer left.
Now they just need to offer bitcoin so that there are 100,000 places across the country where you can eat using bitcoin. Would be a massive win for the currency.
The one thing that stood out for me was the use of UltraDNS.

Does using UltraDNS preclude using CloudFront or similar CDN?
Article is fine but misses a few salient points.

Appstores did exist, Docomo created the first appstore and any phones that were released by the carrier had to comply to Docomo's requirements. Nokia created an appstore with N-Gage, it didn't work and created a carrier backlash.

What Apple did was to stealth in their app store. It was all due to a strategic mistake by AT&T. Sure the Apple was a great device, but remember, the first version was 2G with a crappy camera and an amazing UI/UX and already seen as obsolete in developed 3G markets like Japan (I was working at Nokia in Japan at the time).

AT&T's mistake? Unlike any previous carrier or vendor relationship, AT&T ceded control of software updates to Apple. Apple could update the phone any way they wanted. They already had enough market power in the US that would prevent carrier boycott. At the time, all the carriers were trying to copy Docomo and push out their own appstores, and this decision by AT&T killed it.

In terms of smartphones being a commodity, it already is, anything that sells int he hundreds of millions is effectively commoditized, that doesn't prevent new players from coming in to try and disrupt the market. This is probably the third disruption in mobile phones, from dumbphones -> feature/early smartphones -> current smartphones, however it may be 'too soon' as each cycle has been around for about 10 years each.
Very neat! I wonder how long it took to make this?
This is beautiful. I also like coderpad.io - which does not have the REPL but supports multiple languages and can be shared. Good job!
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I don't really see it as about criticism of Amazon--though there was that tone in Lyons' piece. Amazon has a PR department and they did their job remarkably well in this case in that they succeeded in landing essentially a puff piece about future technological concepts related to fast parcel delivery with a supposedly serious journalistic institution the day before the busiest online shopping day of the year.

Kudos to Amazon PR. Not so much to 60 Minutes.
I guess by everybody who doesn't actively object?
I love the concept.

It would be cool to see some form of mesh networking added to this as well.
Yeah situations I've described. I didn't really give much background information.

IE: I was having a conversation with some techie friends back when the SOPA scare was still at its peak. We were discussing purely hypothetical doomsday scenarios that would involve a "darknet" and the technical implications of creating an entirely subversive network. The idea was brought up that we could use our existing telephone infrastructure to send data, and only a way to transfer data via sound would need to be developed. This was shared amongst a few of the participants until I piped up and said "you know dialup has done this already, right? The information is already there."

This is a conversation amongst people who are involved with and passionate about technology and are around my age or older. These are the kinds of people that I'd expect, if not to think of specifics right away, but to at least be lead to something that was as pervasive as dialup. True, I don't expect an 18y/o of today to know or think about it, or even a 20y/o, but a 25+ hacker, developer, or general tech geek? I'm just surprised at how many in that former category just don't remember it.
So if I understand the tech specs correctly, this 24" monitor is 185 DPI. (24" diagonally, sqrt(3840^2 * 2160^2) = 4406 pixels, 4406px/24" = 185 DPI) By comparison, the MacBook Pro 15" retina has 220 DPI, so it's a respectable monitor. Although for "Ultra HD" I was kind of hoping for something "ultra impressive"...
> Not only are they reporting trivial issues, but they also aren’t testing our site in a respectful fashion, by doing stuff like signing up to real events with fake profiles.

2nd to last paragraph mentioned this which seems like the real issue behind this whole article. Receiving a couple of security emails a day isn't a problem but the fake activity sounds like it's bad for regular users.

No idea how to stop something like this though, maybe put up a page for bounty hunters with some clear guidelines on how they're expected to act?
Moto G 2/3 of the price? Nexus 5 for $50 more? It doesn't have to be a "music player" of sorts, when the iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone part. So as long as there are decent Android phones out there with the same specs, that's the alternative. You could buy a Moto G and never use it as a phone if you don't want to.
Or have a man on the inside to file an internal support ticket for you ;)
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So really ... google cache to the rescue...
Too late. I thought of it.
complaining about its web design

Are you ruling out constructive feedback? The difference between subtle, obscure, and obtuse design is not always evident to the designers (or creative teams directing them). Think of what horrors people used to do in the (low-bandwidth) Flash era.
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hah, that's awesome. I'd suggest even coming up with a trite, cliche, cheesy list of vacant "lessons" rather than "nothing". "The journey is more important than the destination", etc
Shop for a cause.
I notice many of the artists you predict as breakout artists are Latin artists, but almost no artists on the Billboard Hot 100 are Latin artists. Are you predicting that these artists will reach some (possibly international) top 100 list, or are you making predictions about the U.S. Top 100?

I would think that this might be more informative if you separated artists/singles that are clearly catering to different language populations.
Yeh, what a ridiculous beat-up piece. Nothing of substance.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll know to avoid in future.
Sadly truth means nothing in the courtroom. Only what you can convince people of. Had Diffie been a bit more more upfront in his testimony at the start, the troll's lawyers would have had no ability to impugn his credentials and get the judgement for infringement.

It really sucks that all juries are pulled from the same wide pool, especially when the case is so incredibly esoteric. A murder or a drug case? Sure let anybody be a juror. But deciding some highly technical stuff? Probably ought to at least have an engineering-ish degree.
Check out this guy's tweets. So many negative reviews on the internet https://twitter.com/WayTooGosu

Also, the entire site seems to be running on PHP..
I love the image of a drone hovering in front of my window, waiting for me to let it in.

But I doubt it's technically feasible.
It wouldn't even need a human operator from Amazon, I would gladly put a marker on a map to show the drone exactly where to drop it if it prompted me upon adding a new address/checkout.
My understanding is that quad/octo-rotor helicopters do not have constant speed rotors because they turn about by varying the relative speeds of each rotor. They don't have any sort of swashplate.

My understanding is that this simplification is more or less the entire point of quad-rotors, since otherwise a single big rotor would be much more efficient.
Unix timestamps ARE NOT guaranteed to be monotonically increasing. They just tend to do that.
> If there's a way to make it top to bottom while keeping the UI useful, I'd love to hear!

I understand that the UI looks very nice, but at least for me, having the explanation boxes be in order would make it a lot easier to use. So here is my suggestion:

You can keep everything looking exactly like it is now, except get rid of the lines altogether, and display all of the explanation boxes in order.

When the user scrolls down far enough, display the query at the top of the page with fixed position so that it is always on screen. Then topmost displayed explanation box will get highlighted, along with the relevant portion of the query; unless the mouse is hovering over a certain box or portion of the query, in which case that command/box pair becomes highlighted instead.

If a user tries to scroll with the mouse wheel or keyboard, but there is no more content to display on the page, then the scrolling causes the highlighted box to change instead.

If a portion of the query is highlighted which is not on the page, then clicking that portion will cause the page the jump so that the corresponding box appears and becomes highlighted.
if i am not wrong it takes SIM network. What if the network is not available ? Moreover, why someone will take extra device with them if they can use mobile "wifi-hotspot" feature to connect.
Were the moon teeming with life, that might be a concern, but we know with a reasonable degree of certainty that the moon is without life. It's unlikely that any life well-adapted to earth's environment will flourish on the moon without a support system, so there is little risk of harm to the moon's environment (or lack thereof).
I will concede that the site's infrastructure may be subpar (I really have no knowledge of it), but your statement is highly pretentious.
Could always use cookie paths and require all secured or stateful actions to hit some path (domain.tld/a). As long as no cookies are set at root, same benefit.

However, having static assets spread across multiple host names also helps browsers which can spawn multiple threads to pull assets from a page. I think most browsers allow 4 concurrent threads per HOST. In this case, it's just one additional host.
Interesting article. I attended MHacks (my first hackathon) a few months ago as a high school student. It was amazing not only because I learned so much, but because of the attitude of the people there. Just blew my mind that there were so many innovative people there.
If there is such a thing as Registered Jack 47, it's gotta be the most obscure engineering standard on the planet.

Based on the context, I'm not sure they even meant to say RJ45, since they mention Ethernet over USB elsewhere in the blurb.

edit: They explicitly say 10/100 RJ45 port later, so it's probably just a typo.
Response-by-mail, yes, though the latency is a drag.

Phone support might have been an option. Even if household phones were rare, most people could get to a location which had a phone. However 1-800 (toll-free) lines didn't exist yet (though you could reverse charges with operator assistance). Hrm ... I'd heard a tale that 800 toll-free service began as the result of a request from President Ford for some way for the White House to accept calls from citizens, though Wikipedia's history of toll-free service doesn't make any mention, might just be a red herring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-free_telephone_number#Hist...

More to the point: the idea of individually staffing offices is now pretty much a non-starter. Though I wonder what the real economics are compared with creating a national-scale Web infrastructure.
I think you'd need a helicopter for that - or wait for Amazon Blimp™ airship delivery.
Is it just me, or does it seem like UITableView is a combination of controller and view? The delegate has both controller functionality (selection) and view functionality (cell height). I keep trying to use it as one or the other and you just can't do it.

Although, my view of MVC is that the model is just the data (pretty lightweight), the view just draws the things, and the controller handles user actions. So you could remove the view and do testing on the controller. This doesn't seem to be Apple's perspective, so maybe I just haven't figured out their perspective yet.
When did it go up two points? Last time I checked it was RJ45.

I guess more people value the internet now so naturally RJ is going to rise. ;)

edit: Oh. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070313080701AA...
Why does it have to be either? At best it's convenient, at worst it doesn't effect you. No need to make a value judgment. :)
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lowglow appears to be an experienced member here, so maybe I'm missing something, but this feels a little blogspammy to me.
no, they're unrelated except that the resolvers for the CDN might not exactly match the geo for your ultraDNS (or dyn or home-based powerdns, or whatever)
I hear they have Cinnabon in Africa; they could even power this thing with tasty pastry and call it Africa-ready.
How would one go about writing an HTTP call in Python and converting to appropriate XMLHttpRequest in JavaScript? Is this project capable of something like that, and using the native JavaScript ability, rather than a predefined jQuery variable?

Trying to understand what this would be used for besides basic object mapping, iterating, etc.
DisplayPort is indeed superior and I'd gladly take a cheap UHD monitor with both HDMI 2 and DisplayPort.
I disagree. Apple is in a serious lull innovation wise. Google has won the eyeballs of the majority, and their ad business is not an innovation driver. MS is stuck in a deadly dance trying to isolate developers from themselves and/or direct hardware access with their closed source Apis and CLR.

I think firefoxos has a serious chance of pulling a ... Er... Firefox circa 2002 if the threat does not force the hand of their financial supporters.(google)

Thanks to google, there is a ref platform now, it's mostly a software problem; necessity is the mother of invention. With apple blocking anything remotely menacing off their app store(coinbase? Seriously? Who does that?) and android being a boring spying endpoint, cool hardware like the nexus 5 could get an new skin with a cool cloudphone thingamajigger.
If you think that the problem is something called "Unix Time", then you do not actually understand the problem.

The time used for "Unix Time" is actually UTC, which is a standard that is specified in international standards that predate Unix. It is specified in current international standards for everything from aviation to HTTP requests.

If Unix tried to use something else, you'd generate massively more confusion for every Unix developer as they were having to figure out the current conversion to what is actually required for interacting with the rest of the world.
Sony hit a quality nadir 5ish years ago, from what I've heard they've decided recently they can't compete with Samsung and LG at making cheap crap with good components and they're trying to be a quality company again. The Xperia Z hawt secks for example. I haven't touched a PS4 yet or a VitaStation, so I can't speak to their other flagship products.

I'd love to see Sony take on Apple in making quality well-designed equipment and metal laptops. Even if Sony is just as bad as (if not worse than) Apple on IP law.
If you don't mind answering, what were your frustrations with clients, and could there have been a way to avoid those pitfalls?
One of the worst things, universally known, about Google is virtually no customer service even for paid users.
UltraDNS must be the main way they do their own routing, per comments from an ex-AWS engineer:

"Funfact, everyone here knows that Netflix is on AWS. That's a no brainer, it's plastered all over the AWS site and the Netflix blog. However, if you traceroute their IP space and check their AS numbers, you'll see they do all their own routing. Obviously, this is done with Direct Connect."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1e5o4p/iaman_exaws_eng...
>Truth is always somewhere in between.

Either that's totally wrong (implies equal weighting), or it's a near-tautology (only false if one position is less than 100% accurate).
Ya...just like the cops who are tasked with investigating themselves and always come up with a reason why it was okay to fatally shoot a 15 year old with a toy gun...ya...
Do you have some links that helped you get started with the whole WebRTC setup? I watched the google i/o talk on WebRTC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HzZkd2A40&hd=1) but it's still a mystery to me how to implement STUN and ICE, which they didn't go over in the talk. Some SaaS services are popping up but I'd like to know if you did this all from scratch and what resources you used.
Yes, but those are smaller markets.

As much as we're loathe to admit it, the USA represents the largest single market of wealthy (in global terms) customers. That means the USA is the place high-end consumer tech lives or dies. Other markets are more fragmented (so they're more expensive to sell in) or less affluent. There's lots of exciting things happening in Brazil and India, but those are lower-end spin-offs.

I'm a Canadian. Our entire consumer market is based on getting America's sloppy seconds. I have no illusions.
I watched it with a group of friends. At the end, the only thing I could say about it was

"Well, that part about Google having customer service was pretty good."
lowglow is Dan Gailey, who runs Techendo.
For a site called "UXmatters", it could sure use a design overhaul...
why not contact the admin email on the whois information for the domain, or go through ENOM which is who google seems to have run this operation through....they can probably help renew or get payment information updated......
I've been reading the Culture series by Ian M. Banks (RIP) recently and have been fascinated by the idea of an underlying energy grid between universes, and how that is used to power spacecraft moving at 1000x multiples of the speed of light.

What is even more interesting is how the ideas of scifi from decades ago - considered outrageous at the time - are now coming true. The possibilities of even near-light-speed are endless, much less actually being able to exceed it.