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> From what I know (and I am not a finance professional), the hot-airiest phase of the dot.com bubble sort of looked like this. You had a ton of startups selling each other things and advertising with each other. It was not planned, but unplanned "emergent" bubbles are the most effective since nobody really realizes what's going on until the bubble is far enough along to keep rising out of greed and inertia.

Yup. Seattle Times had a detailed story on one of those:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinionnw/2014/03/27/naveen-ja...
http://seattletimes.com/news/business/infospace/
More kickstarter Vaporware.
Did they ever share any of their algorithms created in-house? (They claim many are.) If they share the method, why can't they share the code?

They do have some notes on internal implementation, that do not seem up-to-date, here [0]. Were they any more detailed than this?

[0] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/SomeNotesOnIn...
"social loafing"!
What distinction would prevent someone from abusing "Ask HN"? The poster penalized their own content, by hoisting what should have been a comment --- were this post appropriate for "Ask HN" at all, which it isn't --- into the text of their question.

Anyways: it's not worth the argument to keep pushing this thread. I just think it's interesting how many aspects of HN that annoy some users turn out to have an important role in how the community regulates itself. Note for instance how the site isn't flooded with bogus text submissions, the way sites with sticky comments get.
you do realize that your wifi router hooks into a hard line............. right?
Does this code even work?
The $s in BaseController seem to come from no where, I believe Angular will inject $scope as first parameter to the constructor, however, in the sample code, it seems to indicate that its pattern.
For a good angular+coffeescript scaffold code with basic OO, I recommend take a look at https://github.com/CaryLandholt/AngularFun
Incidentally. Now that I look at who's post I replied to. Obviously you know about --volume vs VOLUME.

I've updated the blog post to specify that since it was obviously unclear.
Ok, the replies to this make me wonder - I thought a two income family in SV was usually making in the range of $300k. Are the respondents below from SV?
It’s very difficult to anonymize data, and prevent that someone deanonymize it. The bigger cases that I remember are the AOL searchs and Netfix data. More info: http://www.cnet.com/news/aol-netflix-and-the-end-of-open-acc...
From my reading of the getting started guide, it looks like it treats your "working" directory as a git repository, with each run basically doing a commit & push.

This means that your data (in files) needs to be in the working directory, and is versioned along side your code. Sounds pretty cool, but I am not sure how it would scale for large / constantly changing data sets.
Because it's clear there isn't a lot of expertise in this thread, I'd like to make clear that nobody should be doing the cinnamon challenge based on these results, or the results of the authors' previous study on the topic. So far, the authors have some interesting data from cell lines and now a mouse model of PD. Specifically, the mouse model is generated by chemical intoxication with a molecule called MPTP, which results in damage to dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra, the region of the brain whose degeneration is predominantly implicated in the etiology of PD. There is good reason to be skeptical about whether this animal model of the disease is clinically relevant to sporadic PD seen in patients. Furthermore, dramatic results seen in a very obscure journal (i.e. not a mainline journal for neurodegenerative research) should generally result in knee-jerk skepticism until others repeat the work and a more significant review process has taken place. It should go without saying that there have been many compounds in the past two decades to show some interesting results at a preclinical stage that have not passed muster when moving to real patients.
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It's possible, but then the Wi-Fi router will be outside of your home, probably mounted on the poles, and owned/operated by your ISP. Who will be happy to charge you by the number of devices you can connect.

No thanks, I would much rather have direct control over my own home network. (Sure, you could achieve that with a repeater in your home, but then what was the point of moving the Wi-Fi router to the street?)

My home PC is hooked up to my router with a CAT6 cable. The router is hooked up to the FTTH modem with another CAT6 cable. So it's hard lines all the way. Both the speed and latency of this setup are much better than anything I ever got with any wireless alternative, especially when I'm trying to talk with other devices on the other side of a wall or two.
Because the spec and implementations came along well before we started putting HTTPS on everything, or even most/many things. Given the number of HTTPS->HTTPS links you would have run across in regular practice the spec and your proposal were probably more or less identical in practice.

As for why it's still that way... I'm sure no one has bothered to really think about it since.
Although your health records may have some legal protections, health care is only one determinant of health.

Other determinants of health, like your gender, food choices, lifestyle, income, driving history, family history, physical environment, education, social network, etc. have all been heavily mined.

Much legally protected stuff can largely be inferred anyway. There aren't too many people without peanut allergies that haven't bought anything containing peanuts for the past 5 years.
Apples: http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_...

Oranges: http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_...
It can be shutdown, but with a lot more difficulty than just getting some random server somewhere used only for the botnet pulled offline, which was probably the point, really.

If I were a malware author I would never have assumed anyone could have gotten a court order to take an entire service offline.
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Sorry, I left town right after posting that. I'm a bassist, so it's 40 Hz up into the midrange, with not that much going on in the tweeter zone. So far my designs are just lightweight "pro audio" drivers in ported boxes. Nothing sophisticated, but I just want to be in control of how my speakers work.

Interestingly enough, I think that the electric bass involves a sort of de facto co-design, because the bass acquired its "classic tone" during a time when speakers were relatively low performance, i.e, having -3 dB points far above the lowest fundamental. To this day, speakers with that tone quality tend to be preferred by bassists, which is a fortuitous circumstance because it liberates us from dragging around huge boxes capable of actually reproducing that E fundamental at full strength.
Why don't they just buy an island make their own country with their own rules?? ;)
It sucks, but it's like someone trying to use a credit card out of Nigeria. Even if you're honest, there's a massive problem localized to your geographic area. It's not your fault.
It's worth noting that highly regulated industries are not necessarily bad for startups to enter, exactly because they throw up particularly high barriers to large companies. Google can't enter health without accepting the full baggage that comes with that - people worried about their privacy, every random nutter looking to sue them and get a payday, FDA breathing down their neck every step of the way, etc. A small startup can be much more nimble and targeted and address a very specific niche in a clever way and be very successful.
I'm pretty confused over that even an idiot would try to argue this case. It's something that has "coins" in it's name, and is touted as "the internet money of the future" and that is being used in substitute for regular money when buying wares all over the world.

If that isn't money, is ANYTHING money? Could one not just as well argue that dollars are just ink on paper, and therefore not money?
Can't wait for sidewalk/bikelane wars over this. Too fast for the sidewalk with people walking. Will cyclists give up there precious bike lane space?
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Agreed. This kind of spin sometimes does more harm than good. Not that there's any doubt that greed and corruption play a big role too -- but there are many, many more factors.

Hell, I wish it were simply a matter of one big "pharma conspiracy". That would be an easy problem to solve.

The reality is paralyzing in its complexity, as with all issues that plague large political systems. And as our technology and means of communication advance at a faster and faster rate, it only becomes more evident how far being we are in understanding "social tech", and how intractable some of these problems are currently. We are nowhere near close to being able to tackle problems in the domain of complex social systems.
I think you put your finger on it... people talking about Mathematica/Wolfram Language as a CAS are really chasing an idea of what it was 10 or 15 years ago.

Maybe I'm naive but I think that we really can just "all get along" -- notebook-based programming is just one example of how ideas can incubate in closed-source projects, and end up benefiting open-source projects. I'm hoping knowledge-based computation ends up being another.

And the reverse happens too -- Light Table is tremendously exciting, and I hope WRI can learn from that as it develops.
Copper can take quite a bit of abuse, the real issue you will find on your line will either be in the pit (Telstra trialled a program with a anti-water gel which had a reverse effect and corroded the copper connections). Or you have the issue of wiring within your house, even though household wiring is typically straightforward most houses in certain areas will have Optus and Telstra copper running into the house, how those are wired into the actual wall socket is another story as Telstra are only required to supply a working phone line if you sign up for TPG/Dodo or any other ISP that isn't Telstra. Sign up for Telstra and they ensure all wiring is nice and only distance/exchange conditions are a factor.
Sure, sure. But that's true of nearly all "fashion" brands, even Beats (though less so compared to Porsche or Armani or omega watches). There's nothing wrong with iPhones or apple products in general, they make some very good products. Pretending that fashion isn't a big reason behind the popularity of Apple products in general is silly.
I am not proposing that Mathematica is "somewhat better". Mathematica is vastly better for many things, especially visualization.

Other systems should "learn" from it, sure. It is hard to change Maxima, unfortunately, since it's entrenched in its roots from the 1960s. That's no excuse for making it difficult to use.

I think Sage's Python interface is doing better and better, learning what it needs to learn from Mathematica, including its documentation and interface.

I definitely don't agree with you that everyone should use or learn Mathematica though to learn it. As a student of computer algebra, I'd have to contend that Mathematica actually does computer algebra remotely correctly. A much more beautiful system for doing computer algebra was Axiom [0].

[0] http://www.axiom-developer.org/
Learning a more functional language is a good idea, but you can also do more within JavaScript itself. Well after I'd been using higher order functions and Underscore, I found Michael Fogus's Functional JavaScript to be quite good. There is also JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite, which I want to read soon. For libraries, there's Lemonad, Bilby and Fantasy Land, all of which push the boundaries of functional programming past what you get from Underscore.

Regarding Haskell, I didn't love Learn You a Haskell, but did like Learn Haskell Fast and Hard.
care to list a package that you need to that isnt in atom yet? (i would love to take a crack at building it)
This is interesting, but as has been pointed out, the distances are very limited. Just something to think about, 802.11ac comes pretty close to the same speed with no wires at all, so, it kind of makes you think, why even bother with the wires at all.
I'm surprised the blog post mentions nothing about Google Health. Basically, Google has already tried this and failed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Health
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Results obtained with are better because Sage is open: in a mathematical research paper you can say:

"This reduces the problem to computing blah, which we did using the following Sage code. The function foo used here uses the algorithm of X and Y as described in their paper [XY2006]"

You can't say:

"This reduces the problem to calculating blah which the following Mathematica code computes using an unspecified algorithm for which there is no accompanying paper proving correctness."

Of course a paper proving that an algorithm is correct can contain errors, and also even if the proof of correctness is fine the actual implementation can contain bugs. But if you have no way of knowing how something is computed and whether anybody at any point in time even tried to prove mathematically that the method used is correct, you have no moral authority to rely on the result. That's just the standard adopted in mathematics: you can depend on results you have good reason to believe are true and are documented in the literature; you can't rely on stuff that's not written about. I don't know how citing results works in other areas, but that's how it is in mathematics (at least in the fields of mathematics I'm familiar with).
I think what you may be missing is that HN is and always has been determined by more than just voting. Voting, user flagging, and active moderation have always been in the mix (well, flagging was added after a year or so).

> simply suppressing important articles isn't going to do that

What important articles have been suppressed? Please don't cite the one from last night. It wasn't suppressed, except insofar as users flagged it.

> Perhaps the weight should be removed as a trial, and see what happens

Yes, that might be a good idea.
"speed of 10 Gbps for transmission of data over traditional copper telephone lines"
Good news for some places where they still use copper telephone lines connect to the Internet. But in my view, Chinese operators don't like this technology, they more like optical fiber. The first, it's faster than copper telephone and the future copper telephone lines will completely replaced. The second, in countrysides some bad guys steal the copper to sell for money, it's a big problem for operators.
Vaporware? Have you watched the video?
Great User Interface!

My feedback based on a bit of experience in this space [1]

1. Consider sticking to just .com and .net Most people don't care about the remaining extensions.

2. Increase the list of results to greater than 100 so the end user has greater choice in selecting the right domain name.

3. Don't show the list of domains that are not available. Only show unregistered domains.

4. Search volume keyword based domains are usually long. If you want only .com then it is harder still as most are taken.

[1] I built a similar feature into DomainMongrel.com

[2] It is similar to Lean Domain Search except that it uses a prediction algorithm to find related prefixes and suffixes.

I followed Matt1's advice from his blog and used zone files to make sure that the domains are available.

[2] http://domainmongrel.com/generator
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802.11ac does an order of magnitude less speed than this inside an RF isolation box. Bring it out into the actual world with other people using it, and you aren't getting anything close to a gigabit.
Have a look at the laracasts site, they have a good mix of free/paid content and the price is very reasonable.
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I've had a waiter bring my celiac wife the same salad back after obviously simply picking out the explicitly declined croutons (evident by the particularly hideous looking radicchio in that particular salad) instead of making a new salad as required. It's one of the few times I've exploded in public.
Still worth arguing. Much more to gain than to lose here.
This is kind of neat, but it negates one of the great benefits of skating (or walking, or running, or bicycling) which is exercise.
I don't think they have to, since this is not a bicycle.
Sometimes it's just a matter of signing an NDA to see the source code. I use a pretty expensive ($100k) EE simulation package and have questioned model implementations on a few occasions. The developers had no issues sending me the code in question for a simple 1 page NDA.
Ask HN: What did I do so wrong in this coding interview
A few days ago I applied for a senior Full stack developer in a mid size company. HR interview went great, I had a quick code test on paper that went OK as well, and a quite long technical interview that went great.

The day after the HR sent me an coding test that involved creating a simple memory game in JS with a tiny back end to store high scores. So I banged out this code as fast as possible, while trying to emphasis on maintainability and testability. I sent back the result as github repo:

https://github.com/m4nuC/memGame

Didn't hear back for a few days but eventually arrived a mail stating that "this code felt far short from a senior developer standards" and obviously didn't get the job. I know I cut a few corners, no unit testing, a couple of minor bug and obviously not a production ready app but I thought that would be enough to show that I knew how to build a web app without spending 2 days on it.

I couldn't manage to get any more info from them on what they meant by "falling far short of senior developer standards" So what in your opinion went so wrong about the code?
It's perfectly possible to become a customer of a company based solely on objective appreciation of the qualities of its products, but that doesn't stop it from being a fashion company. A lot of people, like you apparently, want to pretend that Apple is not a fashion company to even the slightest degree when, of course, fashion has always been a big reason for the company's success.
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Take for example remote/rural communities however. It is enormous investment to run fiber out to these communities. Eventually, the copper will need to be upgraded... In the mean time, this is an excellent stopgap measure.
As opposed to something like RapidSSL which would require an MX record change?

Point the MX record to an intermediary server which forwards all non-RapidSSL e-mail (so no one notices an interruption) and captures the RapidSSL messages for you. Generate certificate.

Once you have the certificate, you can swap the A record over to your own machine and no one would be any wiser.
CastChat is an app that allows you to send "broadcasts" to other users in your area, with a range of up to 20km. These broadcasts will be sent directly to your phone, so there is no need to refresh/pull from a database each time you want to see if there are any new messages. You can then message users privately, if you wish. There is no need to make any accounts!
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People into traditional programming languages look at Mathematica and see abstractions for which they see no purpose.

People into PL research look at Mathematica and scoff at its low-brow, for-the-masses term rewriting, lacking whatever theoretical property deemed "essential" that week.

Yet somehow the language has formalized and made more computable and consistent more domains of math, science, and increasingly data than any other.

There is no honor or glory in purposeful ignorance.
>> I don't think high level abstract concepts like functional programming are even relevant in the real world of software development

This is nothing but FUD and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I think you are right. I'm not a pure Android developer, just do some works with Android. Your test give us a good news, we happy to see Android more smooth.
FP is going to feel like programming 101 at first before you get over that initial hump. That's the way it went for me at least. The trick is seeing it through and making it past that first frustration phase. Once it clicks, it will change the way you think about programming. I'd say pick up the defacto book in one of the langs you listed and get started! I went with Elixir, and I'm hooked. Dave Thomas' Programming Elixir is an excellent place to begin.
Wifi is very convenient, but adds latency, drops more packets than a CAT5 cable will, is (theoretically speaking) easier to eavesdrop upon, and degrades much more quickly than wired connections do when the number of clients is high. That's enough for me to prefer wired ethernet when possible in the present, and those problems would only get worse if you're sharing an access point that is outside your home/apartment, that you don't control, with dozens of people. Plus, I'm no RF-engineer, but I think the "high bandwidth" and "relatively long distance transmissions that must pierce thick walls" goals are at odds with each other, especially when working at wifi's high frequency range.
If you want an introduction to functional programming, why not go all the way with a pure functional language such as Haskell:

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
Not trying to be rude, but why is engadget linked here instead of the actual KickStarter? I can't be the only one who hates struggling to find a source link on most news sites? Wouldn't it be more useful to just link to the KickStarter?

Edit: Ok so engadgets source links are easy to find but still why not just link to the KickStarter?
IMO Haskell is your best option if you want to learn functional programming (being a purely functional language) and this is the best guide to learning Haskell I've come across: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

It also has an irc channel that is fairly active (#haskell-beginners).
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Perhaps someone with elevated privileges at the NOC or systems groups does but otherwise the answer is likely no - at least at every large company Ive worked at sensitive data on production systems was off limits to 99% of the technical staff.
I just bought your MacBeacon app the other day. Works like a charm, thanks!
Wow. Genius move by Amazon.

Poor Hachette. RIP.
Thanks for the quick reply! Would you be willing to provide some more details about your service? Just so I understand: I can just upload my C code and you will run it...can you tell me how to do that? As in, prove that this is possible by at least mentioning this somewhere in the documentation? Or perhaps giving me a link to the appropriate reference material at dominoup.com? The website is very slick.
The eagerness with which you desire conflict on an issue like this is bewildering. Maybe this isn't the forum for you.

I've also shared bike lanes with skateboarders without any issues or "wars".