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That's ridiculous.

I remember about six years ago, I got a notification from them for using too much data. When I spoke with them, I said I needed more data (we get everything over the internet, there are several of us here, and I also work from home). I needed to know what my cap was. They wouldn't say. They just said that I had gone over it and if I went over this non-specific cap again, I would be banned from service for a year.

Fine, then how can I buy more bandwidth at the same price? Can I just buy a second account and double my bandwidth? Whatever that cap might be? Nope. What options do I have? Nothing. Sorry, we can't help you.

When I moved, a Comcast person came by to offer me service and told me about their business offering. That is what I use. I have never had a problem with it. Granted, it is much more expensive, but at least I can generally do what I want.

I pay about $180/mo for 75Mbps down and 15Mbps up and generally use a couple terabytes per month.

Gosh, you're so unreasonable! Why do you need so much bandwidth?

It's ridiculous that anyone would ask that question in this day, but they do. And they ask it accusingly. How dare you use a lot of bandwidth. What kind of monster are you for wanting to use internet services? JUSTIFY YOURSELF!

First, we use Netflix. That is 2-4gb per hour per stream. With four people living here, that's an average of maybe two hours per person per day or 750gb/mo.

Second, we use a remote backup service across six machines and that comes out to between 50-500gb/mo.

Third, we consume a lot of podcasts, video podcasts (easily 1-2gb per episode), streaming music, streaming radio, youtube, live-streams on twitch.tv, two of us are constantly VPNed into work on at least one box, VOIP (often with video), video games, and countless other things. Multiplied by the several people that live here.

As more content is available over the internet and in better quality, this consumption will only increase.

To live with 75Gb/mo per person in the modern age when you get all of your entertainment and work and communication over the internet is ridiculous. And charging obscene overage charges is abusive.

Especially after we have all already dispensed with the "but bandwidth is a precious limited resource, like oil!" nonsense.
wait, the admissions are closed?!?! What gives :(

Btw it seems they found a solution to some of the problems faced by MOOCs. Lower the drop-out rate by introducing an entry barrier. And also restict the class size to reach a manageable amount for actual class-like experience. Also, offer an ACTUAL degree, thus providing incentive to students to carry on with the program.
Nobody ever thinks of the case where a program has to supply a password and not just check it. For example, suppose your program (that runs unattended) has to interact with some JSON-RPC API, and the remote server expects a password. That password has to come from somewhere.
I won one of your Launchpads at CSAW -- it seems that was just a teaser to this challenge. I'm having lots of fun so far!
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OK, but you can't get more "open" than interchange plus :)
Oh, I did read the essay but it's been a while and I don't remember all of the details. I took it that the post I responded to wasn't confused when it said that Blub was at the upper end of the spectrum but now that you mention it, you are probably right.
Decent analytics exist (disclosure: I am web lead for a company [1] in precisely this device space) but some problems we are facing are situations like the following:

Device manufacturers hiding the ability to decrypt their (proprietary binary blob) file format in the same DLL as their driver, forcing us to install it on the end user's machine, and refusing to release the source code to us either so we could verify it was thread safe and run it on the server or possibly use Emscripten/asm.js on it to be able to package it cross platform in the browser.

In addition a plurality of our userbase is on IE 8 and below. I don't even want to think about their XP situation.

That being said, we have a good start at excellent analytics capability. Feel free to shoot me an email (HN handle at gmail) if you're a device manufacturer, clinician, patient, Scott Hanselman (we're in Portland too! And we use .NET!), or just plain doggone interested in the space or just working on the problem.

[1] http://www.diabetespartner.com. Any feedback on the design is of course welcome. We do in fact support the Bayer Contour mentioned above.
This is excellent, thanks for sharing.

What do you use to ship the logs into ES? I'm not familiar with the technologies you're using, but is this in-sourced developed tools? Or, are there OS options for log aggregating in ES that you would recommend?
Does Google Glass have some visible indicator whether it's on, similar to webcams? If not I think this should be added as soon as possible, in fact I believe it should be the law for any video camera switched on in public places.
> The Ellis act should be repealed.

Communist.
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Selling something may not create value, but it does realize it.

I like PG's distinction of wealth (i.e. value) and money: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

So, while selling realizes a monetary gain, it does not necessarily create wealth also.

Here is why I still think it does create wealth:

* there is economic value in allocating resources efficiently

* (non-monetary) user acquisition increases the value of network effect driven products

* money goes to work when infused into a productive company (instead of being idle, money is invested in wealth creating assets)
All I can say is that my experience with Balanced has been most excellent, I really love what they do.

In my experience their team is extremely responsive and receptive to feedback, to the level customers can (and do) have impact on the product itself, that's pretty huge in my book.

Very happy to see them doing so well and growing.
...with really annoying ads played at 150% gain.
The most ridiculous.
Looks really nice! The animations are slick and the implementation seems simple enough.
I think you have a number of ideas already, anything more specific would probably depend on knowing the unique parameters of your situation. What business do you have that someone wants to acquire?
You can see that there's an image on the glass if you're facing the user, but you have to be fairly close.
He doesn't anonymize it at all. Read: 'Revenge of the Nerds'. He specifically mentions Java as the language the pointy hard boss prefers.

Also, the post I responded to (and my subsequent post) was a bit confused about what it referred to as Blub. Blub is in the middle and LISP is on the top of the power continuum.
The city is kinda dead at nights, but it's more alive in the Mission Area than most other areas. It is too expensive, but the software engineers can afford it readily enough.

But I don't think it's about the "coolness" reflecting on you that these software developers are actually going for. I think it's more along the lines of having a store nearby that sells liquid nitrogen ice cream during the summer. Which is pretty cool. (And other establishments including night life and dining establishments, naturally.)
Our first advice is not even to talk to acquirers unless you want to sell the company now. It's remarkable how often founders who don't actively want to sell will talk to acquirers anyway, just to see if they'll make some offer too good to refuse. But acquirers never do that. When their offers are surprising, they are always surprisingly low. And the conversation is far from zero cost. Very far. That's the other big mistake.
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I feel there are two kinds of people, those who have the ability to sit down and talk about things without feeling the guilt of not doing it and those who feel I posters for just talking all the time. There are people I know who are talking about the same ideas for more than a decade without doing anything about it, yet they can come back the next day and talk with all the excitement and ambition in the world as if they're oblivious to the fact that they won't do squat about it
Well 3 years of imprisonment and torture before an indictment isn't considered unconstitutional in the US, apparently (e.g. José Padilla). So we're a long way from Canada's state of enlightenment.
I assume that OP meant:

> If a professor doesn't publish, he/she can lose [a chance to gain] tenure
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This is valid criticism, and shouldn't be getting downvoted just because people disagree.

I'm a huge Rdio fan and love almost all aspects of its design, but (especially on iOS) I regularly get confused as to where I am and how to get back. A few moment's thought (or just fumbling between panels) gets me where I'm going, but there are simply too many almost-the-same-but-actually-different panels sliding around to be intuitive. It's particularly messy when trying to juggle browsing music with a managing a currently playing playlist.
This article is just terrible. For absolute certain the entrepreneurial life is an emotionally challenging one and some investors make out better than their founders, but if the difference between a poorly paid coal miner and a funded founder chasing his dreams on another person's dollar isn't totally clear, you're an idiot. Maybe I make another person richer than myself through my hard work, but I did it building an Earbits, not flipping burgers. To compare the situation of a funded founder to that of a "laborer" is so misguided. The latter not only never see a big outcome, but have no chance at it either. You can't talk about the madness of an Instagram outcome at the same time you imply that founders are their investors' bitch.
This is a simple question that very likely has no simple answer. They probably have a mess of different identity management solutions within the various departments, schools, and collaborators; with lots of really old security policies. It's possible no one even realized there was a hole until these guys made their site.

Unable to figure out a deep security solution fast enough to keep up with a couple of young hackers, they shut the site down instead.
Fraud protection, isn't it obvious?
Giving our office's Glass to people to test, they're so distracted that they'll walk into things. Sometimes these things are pillars clearly visible at eye level.

I personally hate the idea of drivers wearing these things. My undergraduate was in psychology, neurophysiology, and hence I've been formally trained in attention and perception - I've got a better idea than layfolk on how these are compromised, though I'm not a professional in the field. In my opinion, the Glass is a significant attentional split - which is bad for driving. One example: say voice control is working fine (it doesn't always). You still have to take your eyes off the road, target a small reticle, make sure the glass is responding correctly. Even after that, there's still issues like just having a phone call in the car, which regardless of the device is a driving-performance-reducing attentional split.

Glass really, really impresses me as a technological feat; as a product I think it's a solution looking for a problem; and as a social phenomenon, I think it's quite dangerous when mixed with common activities like driving.
I like Udacity's new focus on courses designed by companies.

Traditional education is far too detached from what is required in industry, and has trouble keeping up with the pace of innovation.
RIT also has a similar service [1] there's a new ui in the works for the spring, but it's interesting to see how widespread this issue is.
Also I have to say RIT has done an awesome job if coordinating with the devs, they give a CVS dump of their course database periodically.

[1] http://schedule.csh.rit.edu
The Virginia Beach law lecturer with the great 'Don't talk to cops' video on youtube mentions that the federal government doesn't even know how much written law there is - they can't catalogue it all.
The expense of pulling phone records will outweigh the traffic ticket anyway, and neither party would be particularly interested in going that way.
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Or a) they wanted to record the conversation b) they wanted to keep the meeting off the books.
It's not grammatically wrong to start a sentence with "But" if the previous sentence is complete. It's just one of those things you hear is wrong from a teacher at some point.
Jeez, Google really has no limits on how much data about you they want
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Can someone explain what "cmp.b	@r13, 0x2400(r14)" does, and/or how I would find out myself?

I looked through the manual and saw the instruction 'cmp' tests the two parameters for equivalence, but I don't see 'cmp.b' anywhere. I found the TI manual for the instruction set which happens to say something about '.B' being a byte operation, but I'm not sure if that's related.

The tutorial explained that @r13 uses the value in memory for the address in register 13, but '0x2400(r14)' is really confusing.

I was thinking it just meant register 14, but that doesn't seem to be the case because the comparison fails when r14 (which is the value 0x0000 at this point) and @r13 match. I thought it also could mean the literal value '0x2400', but the comparison still seems to fail when it should match, and that doesn't explain the r14 in parenthesis at the end of it.
Everything that is near-socialized in other western industrialized countries is paradoxically more expensive here. 3 Years of law school is $150k, not counting actual cost of living. Schools run in the realm of $14k to $50k a year in tuition costs alone.
Seriously, reading this article it's almost as if they're deliberately re-enacting Harvard's response to houseSYSTEM (which included course reviews, scheduling features, and of course, The Facebook) from 11 years ago. It really says something about institutional behavior. There must be some kind of Independent Thinking Students Emergency Playbook they hand out in elite university administrations.

As then-President Summmers said on September 15, 2005, “We are a community that is committed to the authority of ideas, rather than to the idea of authority.” What a perfect line to summarize their utter hypocrisy.

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html
0x2400(r14) is an offset syntax. Take the value in register 14, add 0x2400 to it, and look up what's in memory at that address.
To be fair, the "Flexible-Data Option" seems to only be available on the "Economy Plus" plan, which is their $20/m @ 3Mbps option. Still an annoyingly small quota, though.
Where's all the FUD about collecting user data and doing evil things with it that we've been seeing in the Google+Nest stories lately?

"But what about when google sells your data to insurance companies, who then penalize diabetics for not maintaining specific glucose levels?'

"Do you really want google to know every single thing you put into your body?"

"Can we trust google to not put advertisements in the contact lens, making you watch a 15 second commercial before being able to read your gluose levels?"
His $20 reply is an answer to the "why don't you sell more merchandise" question. Where he tries to explain that the merchandise model has a lot of hidden costs.

As you read the whole thread, I suppose you've also seen this quote?

Nicolai, and others,

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of those stepping up
to the call for contributions. Every little bit helps.

See: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138974990608900&w=2

Anyways, talk is cheap. Donate helps which as a lot of others here I just did. Thanks Theo!
Just curious, how old are you and how long have you had it? I've had it for 11 years this February, and while my A1C is pretty terrible (high), the idea that I might not be able to detect lows eventually is pretty terrifying.
Though with the power company at least you can buy more electricity. With my cable and DSL providers in my area going over is not an option. There are no plans above 350Gb. Going over starts insane overage charges. My relatives just moved into the area and were faced with a $900 bill with overages b/c they used 950Gb of data. Thanks FCC I didn't want competition anyway.
DigitalOcean has a solid platform for the price, and we've personally had great experiences with them, with only intermittent downtime when their SFO location first launched.

In terms of the suspension you're referring to, they're an automated detection as far as I'm aware, so it really sounds like there might of been something happening that you were unaware of.

Regarding alternatives in this price point, you aren't going to find many options. If you're willing to step up your budget slightly, CloudVPS[1] and TransIP[2] in the Netherlands have both been great for us, and are still quite affordable considering what they provide.

If you're really stuck within your current budget, you might want to look at EDIS[3], whom we run several Slave DNS/MX servers with. They're about on-par with DigitalOcean pricing and offerings, with a much larger choice of locations, including the US.

[1] http://www.cloudvps.com/

[2] https://www.transip.eu/

[3] http://www.edis.at/en/home/
Education, like most things in the US, is supported by debt. Tuition for a single semester at Georgia Tech, for an out of state student like myself, would run $14,861: http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/Spring_2014/Spr...
Keto is effective for Type-2 which is caused by people not having a proper diet in the first place.
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Yep, I would take that deal in an instant. Here in India I get a maximum starting limit of 80GB, after which they drop the speed down to a 256kbps crawl. And if I want extra data I have to pay around $10 (that's USD) for 5GB. Fuck.
You know what else Google gives it's employees? Tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars.

How is this any different the the "pandering" you describe?
I would too, I would get a job at Google in their lab if it meant being able to take one home early.
ISPs have kind of painted themselves into a corner with flat rate pricing sold on the basis of peak bandwidth. They can't afford to let people saturate their connections, but any change to the pricing (like caps) makes customers feel like they're getting less for their money.
Google developing contact lens device to help monitor blood glucose levels
Yup. There went my evening.
50GB free for 3 months a year

So you are allowed 3 hits of 50GB or in excess of 50GB a year?

Is that what you meant? 3 violations?
I've never agreed with the idea that labor is the "sole" or even "primary", source of value.

For example, I find nothing more valuable than clean air and water.

Off topic, but I believe this should be the basis for funding society rather than appropriating a portion of people's productive labor.

Land is valuable. But you don't really "own" it because no one made it. Likewise the Aluminum in a can or the steel in your car. You just borrow them for a time. When we are all dead and gone these things will still be here and people will likely use them.

Society should charge for the use of what really belongs to everyone instead of this part time modern indentured servant hood called payroll taxes. It seems much more just.

As a side benefit... consumption is discouraged and production rewarded. What better for society than that?
How does this help type I diabetes? I see nothing about this diet that does anything beneficial over alternatives. Type II maybe, but please try to research a bit more before throwing in a dictate.
I mean, that last statement is true in the areas with brown-outs because the electricity companies haven't provisioned enough generating capacity to handle the load.

No one would be complaining if Comcast had a 5TB/mo limit on 100Mbit lines.

The problem is that Comcast (and many other ISPs) haven't actually build networks that can supply internet at the levels people want, and they charge overly high rates for services which can't provide what people are told they can.
> Nope.

I am missing a legal nuance? It seems like a challenge along these lines is possible but unlikely to go very far.
Does U.S.(or any other country) government recognize this degree for working visa or immigration? (H-1B / green card)
It really comes down to phrasing. If they had said "Have you tried a ketogenic diet?" Or "Some people have found a ketogenic diet to be helpful with type 1 diabetes." it would be fine. Instead it came off as an order or command: "Switch to a ketogenic diet."

One of the things about written communication is we only have your phrasing and word choice to inform us of your tone and meaning. It is vitally important to use proper phrasing to avoid being misunderstood. It is entirely possible that their comment was innocuous but it came off as rude.
Okay but Spotify premium streams at 320kbps all ogg vorbis.
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> And at some point in the last 10 years, didn't OpenBSD's distro servers get owned up?

Yes, a cvs bug I believe. No kernel will protect you from bad user-mode code that really wants to execute everybody's shell script.

> Among security research insiders, OpenBSD's reputation became a little bit farcical.

I spent lots of time looking through the OpenBSD Kernel, togheter with FreeBSD and Linux kernel. It was my job for years, looking for vulns and writing exploits for them.

I still admire the OpenBSD Kernel for their simplicity and tidiness.

No comparision to FreeBSD kernel-side. FreeBSD kernel often have commits of several hundreds of KBs of mostly unaudited code. They still don't enable stack-protection today in 2014. It's a joke. My windows phone had stack protection in 2003.

No comparision to Linux either, the Linux kernel is so huge, so full of code that even if it's way more audited than FreeBSD, there are still vulns lurking everywhere and exploits for linux kernel came out almost monthly. Probably it's the reason it have so many security features, more than OpenBSD nowadays.

Windows, their kernel is a work of art. Microsoft only have to fire the guy that says "hey I got a great idea lets parse some random protocol inside the kernel"

But I disgress. OpenBSD is still very good. Very safe in the default install. It will protect your firefox from being owned by a NSA-sized enemy that really want to hack you? no. But the problem is in the browser, not in the kernel. Don't use a big browser. It's not in the default install :)
The platform he's referring to is Xbox, per the Adam Orth article. It's a game console, some of the people insulting him were likely children.
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Even though that is a Master's thesis, the writing is sophomoric.

I was especially offended by the misuse of "externality" in the first page: "Lower income people should not bear the brunt of the negative externalities of economic development" (she is referring to housing prices, which are not an exernality).
Better yet:

Vim can save a session via :mksession file_name.vim which can then be restored by vim -S file_name.vim

It's nice when I have to quit programming while in the middle of task where I'm drowned in context spread across multiple tabs and splits. I'm not trying to spread the Vim gospel; this feature is nothing really extraodinary so I guess it's available in other editors/IDEs as well.

Overall this is roughly equivalent to putting your machine to sleep mode while your edition session is still on.

My personal opinion is that both methods make OP's look pretty primitive and hacky.
I am curious whether the tuition fee is same on international (non-EU) students or non-research courses.
I will wear an ankle bracelet for Google if it means I get my hands on this.