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"Continue to increase"? As has been amply documented in various HN threads, it hasn't increased at all in the last 15 years or so, really. Certainly not to the degree one would have expected. DSL speeds are basically exactly the same (slower in many cases) as they were in the late 1990s. If you are lucky and in the right urban area, you might have fiber or cable internet with faster speeds, but otherwise? It's still the late 1990s. And the prices, if anything, are higher today for the same service.
All I can say in reply is that I wish that I had had access to the best presentations of the subject matter that interested me when I was young. I learned calculus from some atrocious "IB HL math manual" over a weekend. I would have been grateful to have had a copy of baby Rudin at that time. Many of today's young (especially in rich areas such as SV) now have the privilege of unfettered and instant access to knowledge, and have been spared the horrors of a public school education drawing on sources full of dumbed-down and inaccurate information. I think this culture is gradually forgetting that the acquisition of knowledge is worth struggling for.
Of all the problems the current system produces, a few bubbly start ups here and there is a drop in the bucket. Overpriced startups, at worst, consume a few billion. Megabanks like JPM and Goldman have received trillions in bailout cash.
I'm sorry that no one replied... That's really shitty. I would have thought that for sure someone would have known of some opportunity available for you.

I agree with you though, there seems to be nothing out there.
Disagree that it's comparable to symmetrical up/down- the bandwidth my ISP charges me is irregardless of the direction. Your argument would be valid if I were only paying for data that I send, but I'm not.

Why can't I tell my provider that I want to minimize the latency when playing a first-person shooter, and I'm willing to pay for it?
Not just 20% market share, the top 20% most engaged, most spending mobile users. Out of a market very soon to be 6-7 billion strong. They may not always be the best market, but I'll try to serve them first every time.

800 million credit carded users today. More iPhones sold in a quarter than yearly global PC sales in the mid 1990s. That is big enough for a lot of things.
Down-voting my comment will not make the FDA regulations go away. You will not bring any biotech products to [edit: medical] market unless you comply with the FDA (or somehow manage to eradicate it).

Health-related products and services are heavily controlled -- in ways completely at odds with the common practices of Internet startups. If you haven't yet had to comply with these regulations, you may want to find out how onerous they are.

Here is one example: Quality System (QS) Regulation/Medical Device Good Manufacturing Practices [1], covering: Quality System, Design Controls, and Human Factors.

They audit your compliance with their regulations. You have to document everything you do, every decision you make, every change you make. That is not how startups commonly operate.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidanc...
That was exactly the conclusion of the paper. The US is effectively an oligarchy.
I agree with this, the problem is biotech companies rarely have enough money to pay for good advice.
Here comes the proverbial "Consumer Choice": Which primary Internet package would you like: Google Plus, Microsoft Office with XBox Live, Facebook, or Yahoo? Do you need any specialty cloud services: Amazon, Dropbox, Spotify? Would you like full access to uncertified internet sites for an additional $15/mo?
This is definitely a concern. In the case of Google Ventures, there have been 4 acquisitions by Google of GV portfolio companies since 2009 and the partners of GV recuse themselves from those convos: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/14/double-google-all-the-way/
I agreed, that was my first reading as well. I mean, the only reason you would want to pay money, as a content provider, is if your service is rate-limited to a degree that affects your customer.

It's not as if that "fast lane" will be gigabit speed. It'll be the same "up to" speed the customer was paying for in the first place.
While I havent used that library, there are plenty of ways to write obfuscated code in Haskell.

Some libraries may define their own operators (Scala suffers from this too), which can be impenetrable. Some libraries are better than others.

Although, I don't consider defining new operator names part of the syntax of the actual language itself.

I guess I'd just hope one doesnt start out jumping in to a complicated library. Its easier to start with more foundational materials.
Yeah, I don't fully understand the tradeoffs yet. I know that it has much better noise level than my last rebel. And the full frame sensor is very nice. (Though, now I want a good 50mm lens).

I'm definitely game for any advice I can get. I hate that I let that example detract from the discussion, which is for average photographers, something like this could help a lot. Doesn't sound like it is fully there, yet. But it is promising. Especially in tandem with the app idea. Exciting times are ahead for getting folks into photography.
China has a significantly broader definition of residence than does the U.S. A Chinese resident company includes companies incorporated in China as well as companies managed from China; Chinese citizens are taxed on their worldwide income for several years after they leave China, possibly indefinitely if they maintain their household, familial, or economic connections to China. In practice, this means that China effectively imposes worldwide taxation on its companies and citizens.

In the U.S. residence is a very straightforward. A company is a resident if it is incorporated in the U.S. An individual is a resident if he is a citizen, a greencard holder, or passes a mathematical "substantial presence" test.

Non-resident U.S. citizens are subject to worldwide taxation...but they have a very generous $100k floor, plus foreign tax credits for foreign taxes paid on their income.
Given a choice between overpriced cable and slow DSL I'm open to other alternatives. The status quo sucks, and it doesn't particularly bother me that AT&T wants to get a good deal.
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What do you think the primary motivation for industry trade associations is, in general? The Cable TV business has been under constant threat of regulatory action since its inception. This is like its principal business risk because they are basically monopolies everywhere they operate. It is extraordinarily specious to compare it to the AMA.
DAE just want a programmable vibrating alarm wristband and screw all this tracking crap?
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* I can see your point about speed to attain proficiency. I wish I had a good answer for this.
We've got a feature request open for that on github (the link above). I'm going to give it some thought when I have a chance outside work hours. Thanks for checking it out!
> As content + routes become mainstream (the top 1-2% of bandwidth), the price of hosting them approaches the dedicated bandwidth price. This is because the usage pattern variability is arbitraged upstream of the ISP.

I'd appreciate a simpler explanation of your point, for mere mortals like myself!
I think that is a good point. The author said he was walking/biking 10k a day, so he probably could use a whole different class for device. For the person who is struggling to get up to 10k steps a day, these devices are useful.

I do think they really need to improve durability. My wife is on her third fitbit flex in 6 months.
We need a raspberrypi-like device with wifi built-in, that can be fully off-grid (with battery, solar panel) and have about 100GB of storage, for about $100, and we can make this work.
Why? Fastlane charges are just another barrier to entry for potential upstart competitors. The companies you've listed are big enough to negotiate separate contracts for a lower rate or create solutions like OpenConnect to lower their costs. What better way to ensure that they have little-to-no competition than to have a crippling fee that smaller competitors would have to pay just to compete with them?
Oh, c'mon, that's just an excuse. In fact, it's the same excuse people use to avoid entrepreneurship.

Money helps you run a campaign, just like it helps you run a business. But sometimes the scrappy, bootstrapped startup still beats the big entrenched enterprise. That's why we're on HN, right?
That's what going on with the changes on Mexican laws, it let ISPs charge for 'premium' or content.
Who say's biotech products have to go via the FDA? There are all kinds of potential markets with lower or non-existent barriers to market, eg my company which makes Glowing Plants. These are the areas which make more sense initially as you really can take a lean startup approach to them.
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing (2008) [pdf]
Ahhh MAN! This same thing with the bracelet breaking happened to my Fitbit Flex - I'm freaking furious!
I miss Sun's "use our enterprise software, only pay if you need support" licensing. Oracle deep-sixed that as soon as possible, along with the pseudo-hobbyist licensing terms for the OS, effectively killing a large portion of the hobbyist and "sysadmin with a setup at home" market.

I ran (well, still do) a website dedicated to Sun/Solaris hardware and software users, was on the OpenSolaris external pre-release beta testing team/group, and heard lots of moaning about this, even from sales people within Oracle itself.

Pre-Oracle Sun was gracious and gave me a loaded SunFire T1000 to run the site and mailing lists, etc, on. Post-Sun Oracle gave me the finger.
> I just think any attempt beyond the traditional approach will benefit the soul of the human race, as much as it will give us Teflon.

I totally agree with you there.
If you think about it: lot of issues we can probably solve by writing a check of $20M to anyone who becomes senator and signs oath for not entertaining any lobbyists representing commercial interests. That would be a drop in a bucket in US Gov budget but would prevent lot of these guys from being lobbied by private interests or even cold calling them to funds their campaigns.
Since this is languishing, I'm going to submit Nick Bostrom's paper cited in the article [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637667
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I'm pretty sure the major tech elite is on board with this - their companies can pay for it, and they won't get upended by some upstart competitor.

Consumers lose, big time. The cable-ization of the internet just hit an inflection curve.

Now where are all those fools who were complaining about Julius "Caesar" Genachowski?
Regarding your first bit of feedback, there is a Javascript track which focuses on the language itself and then there is a JQuery track which teaches DOM manipulation, events, animation.

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/jquery
There's three kinds of corruption:

- apparent when there isn't (false positive - mistaken)

- apparent when there is (obvious)

- not apparent when there is (false negative - not obvious)

I'd define corruption as a pattern of putting profit/loss considerations ahead of public interests. Other than personal ethics, this is a really hard thing to control for because it goes to why people want to be public servants and what are their interests/relationships.
Actually what you said about mpd replaygain support is wrong. mpd support both replaygain info store in id3v2 and apev2. It even support flac replaygain.
Of course, some biotech is not aimed at humans. Anything aimed at humans will have to satisfy the FDA, in the US.
It Provides: significant mitigation of civil liability

I realize it does not mesh well with the narrative you are trying to advance but take a look at the difference in HIPAA fines for an individual/organization that demonstrated reasonable diligence and another that willfully neglected HIPAA:

Per violation Annual Maximum
Reasonable Diligence $100 $25,000
Willful Neglect $50,000 $1,500,000

http://www.ama-assn.org//ama/pub/physician-resources/solutio...
There already is a tax on US Payroll..? You just mean increase it?
It had to be done....
I don't entirely disagree with your sentiment, but I think there is a fair distance between Zynga and its ilk and the unregulated penny stocks. Zynga has had trouble demonstrating much of a profitable plan, but every investment bears risk and I don't think investors should enter the market if they don't feel comfortable with the risk level. I avoided Zynga partially because I avoid tech debuts for the reasons you cite, but more importantly because I didn't trust the model. That said, I've been wrong on the market more than right.
It seems like it's now closer to 15%.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/02/12/smartphones-are-now-a-95-andro...

Once again, I understand the "we sell BMW's" attitude. What I want you to understand is that the shear volume of Android will make it the major software platform, much like Windows is the major software platform, and the Mac is often treated like a second class citizen.
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This is an amazingly hard problem and I wish you all the best.

One thing you won't learn at school is all the complications involved in validating a target. The best resource I know of for this is the "in the pipeline" blog by Derek Lowe. I have spent 100s of hours reading all his posts (they go back 10 years) and especially the comments. It is a hard slog, but the amount you will learn is staggering.

Edit. I guess is should include the link http://pipeline.corante.com/
As to Haskell's syntax, I think it's really just as complicated as it needs to be to express the ideas Haskell embodies succinctly and precisely. It doesn't have any more syntax than most other languages; it's just a very different syntax than most non-functional languages. And this is precisely because the semantics of the language are also very different. Haskell, for example, is not block-structured, as nearly all imperative languages are. (It does simulate this with do-syntax, but this is only a simulation). I understand though - I find Clojure practically unreadable, and this has kept me away from it to a degree.

As to where Haskell fits: you're correct, there are many other great languages out there. But I think Haskell is really unique in offering what it does. Clojure, Go, and Erlang are all great in their own regard, but none of them provides the degree of safety that Haskell does. For example, none of them enforce purity, and all three of them freely allow the use of `null` values (which is really quite surprising considering how many problems nulls cause). Clojure and Erlang avoid mutable state like Haskell does (though not to the same degree of rigor) but don't provide the elegant solutions for simulating mutable state that Haskell does with its monads, which almost allow you to "have your cake and eat it too" with state. None of them encourage the degree of abstraction that you'll find in Haskell. Also, at least according to the Computer Benchmark game, Haskell beats all three of them in terms of speed, as well. Haskell's "place" is in generating highly robust code with good performance, and also works as a beautiful language for expressing certain mathematical concepts.

This doesn't make Haskell a perfect language, but it absolutely has a lot to offer that other languages don't. And it's so much different than other languages, that at the very least it can change your perspective on a lot of things.
An interesting point - thank you. I was just listening to a bbc podcast on Minsky, and while everyone agreed that previous economics failed to predict their instability, everyone now thinks Minsky is the key to preventing instability - but no one mentioned that actually death is part of life and we need not to prevent the next crisis, just not let it cause such damage. Harm reduction as public policy - whatever next
It means that senior executives can wash their hands of the matter. They did their job correctly, they'll argue.
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I have exchanged to 5 Ups and all of them DOA. Since I bought from Amazon I cannot get refund from Jawbone. Now I have my Up sitting in the draw for months...
Maybe it is the pattern matching aspect that is throwing you for a loop? Are you familiar with Prolog, Mathematica, Erlang, or syntax-case macros from Scheme? Or is the the dollar sign ($), or something else that may be bugging you? Maybe post a simple example of one of the worst offenders.
The value of these things is correlating things and thanks to services like Human API or Exist, people will do the heavy lifting for you. I personally use Fitbit One and Basis, waiting for Amiigo to arrive, and, yes, I backed HealBe, too, although most people say it's a scam - I really need the unique data it provides. It's important to accept that none of those will be accurate. I personally can live with 20% off - some data is still better than no data, don't you agree?
The "one docker container per VM" is a Beanstalk-imposed constraint, not a Docker constraint.

I think it's helpful to frame Docker in terms of encapsulation.

Imagine a basic Java app with multiple dependencies. Rather than build a lean app.jar and rely on the host providing dependency1.jar and dependency2.jar, many folks package it all into a single app_with_dependencies.jar.

But what if your app is a web app with static content? Rather than depending on the host system to serve the static content separately, many folks package it all into a single app_with_content.war.

But what if your app needs a specific version of Java? Rather than depending on the host system to have the exact Java you need, folks are starting to package the app into a Docker image that has their desired Java version.

Each layer of encapsulation simplifies server provisioning and thereby improves app portability. Taken to an extreme, you can treat your hosts as homogenous and run any Docker container from any server.
There are 2 apps that do exactly what you're describing: Human (mentioned in the title) and Moves.
FIPS mode is as my grandfather would say: "eyewash." Something that appears to address something by doesn't. (FIPS mode is a "clipboard audit.")
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Apple does spend comparatively little on R&D (perhaps part of that is because they don't produce 400 different models of every darn device), but their margins on iPhones are still nowhere near 70%.
A user went haywire and downvoted a whole bunch of comments. We'll correct the damage.

All: when you notice substantive, civil comments that are unfairly faded out, please give them a corrective upvote. This is a longstanding community practice. It usually only takes one or two corrective votes to get a good comment back to par, so every user can make a significant difference.
> I won't say we're absolutely comprehensive on all of these topics, but if the bar for

I think you're right not be comprehensive, trying to dig deep would be ridiculous. I think the parent is specifically looking to address the problem of teaching an abstract concept (programming, often through algorithms, data structures, object orientation, all extremely abstract things), which can be aided by some orientation of where the topics in the class reside in the larger concrete, applied space.

I remember when I was sitting in my first object-oriented programming class trying to figure out what all of the "objects" and "instances" were that the instructor was talking about. I didn't have the mental model to associate the groupings of code snippets on my page to "things" that could be manipulated and could "communicate" with each other. Once I was able to build that model, I was able to grok the concept of object composition, etc.

Years later after designing a few systems, I am able to construct large mental models and know where what I'm looking at at a given time (whether that be a database, business logic snippet, or HTML elements) lives in relation to the rest of the system.

It's far from essential to learning "how to program procedural code", but it's essential in building entire things, or even pieces that touch other parts of a whole.
And/or adrenal fatigue.
They purchased more than 50 acres of ranchland. It is a subdivided piece of a huge ranch that has never been developed. They had to "homestead" it in the sense of building everything themselves. The deed says it's 50 acres, but the prepared survey measured something approximating 55. They told me how much they spent on the property itself; I can't quite remember the number but I was surprised by how affordable it is. Of course, there isn't much in the way of services there but they do have satellite internet access and have built a house on the property, have a garden with an irrigation system, solar panels, raising chickens and some livestock, etc.

I have visited there and it's one of the few residences I've ever been to where you can do a full 360 degree revolution while standing on their property and all you see is nature except for their small prairie home...no other buildings, power lines, or structures owned by anyone else in sight. Also, the air there is wonderful; there's a faint scent of sage all the time.
The last person appointed to protect the republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power.
This is an even sillier definition of double taxation than I was giving you credit for.

Dollars don't pay taxes, taxable entities do.

A corporation is a separate legal entity that serves as the tax base. If it makes an income, it will pay a tax on that income.

An individual is also a separate legal entity that serves as a tax base. If a corporation pays an individual dividends, then the individual will pay tax on the capital gains from their investment.

How is this any different than when a company pays you an income. First, the Federal government taxes you, then the State government does, then come Payroll taxes, then any local taxes, then you have to pay property tax, then you have to pay sales tax. Each dollar is quintuple-taxed! Or more!

edit: GWU PhD Law Professor spells it out better than I could: http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/buchanan/20030220.html
This is great news.

FIPS mode is as my grandfather would say: "eyewash." Something that appears to address something by checking boxes on a clipboard audit but doesn't provide anything but security theater.
I think emerging research in genome engineering and sculpting evolutionary fitness using genome engineering tools will probably solve these disorders. However, these technologies have--in my opinion--lower hanging and more profitable fruit in other biomedical interventions, such as cancer therapy. They will probably cure mitochondrial disorders as a side-effect, though, and possibly by small start-ups (since there's such little money in these rare, one-shot-cure diseases).

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in systems biology.
It works primarily not because of technology but because of inter company agreements, contracts and regulations.
Love it! Beats Flappy48 by not requiring a plugin and by being named with a proper power of 2 as all good games in the genre should. Nice work.

Edit: Sure, Threes may have launched the craze, but it too would have been better based on pure doubling.
Chilling! Interesting that classical music esp.of atonal variety wasn't tried a la A Clockwork Orange.
>But at the end of the day I really don’t need an app to tell me that I ran 7k in the morning, walked 3k to and from work and biked five minutes to meet a friend for lunch. There is literally no value being added to my life. By none of these. This is the obvious stuff. Everyone remembers their activity during the day and I honestly don’t care if my “Fitbit friend” Tobias walked five minutes less or more than me.

Exactly why I've yet to buy one or even try one.
On a small monitor (11" MBA), not all the topics in the list are visible and the list does not seem to be scrollable.
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