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Indeed. And it was so abundantly clear that this phone was going to fail that I have to speculate that Amazon themselves must have known this. Maybe the sunk costs involved in such a project gave them no choice but to continue deluding themselves?

It just goes to show, even the big boys make things nobody wants.
You are playing from the old playbook though. Heck, we have HA NameNode setups and name node clusters now, and some implementations of Hadoop don't even use HDFS. The Hadoop's tech stack has changed a lot over the years. It's much different now. It's worth noting that there are many examples now of clusters with five figures worth of nodes.
Your point is very similar (equivalent IMHO) to Julian Barbour's case in The End of Time, that you can express the laws of physics without reference to time, since time can be defined with respect to a special distance metric between universe states (the Machian distinguished simplifier).

In fact, I think the analogy between Game of Life's governing rule and the Schrodinger equation is very clarifying!
Better to just use a separate server, considering they start at less than $10/month. It's a lot simpler to scale, optimize, and contain threats that way.

Docker is still a good solution. I just don't think the problem you're describing absolutely requires something like Docker.
I think that for many (most?) Fire tablet users, not having Google Play is a minor issue at best. I have many people in my family that love their Fire tablets to death. They aren't even impressed by the iPad. It just does everything they need with no Play Store required. Read books, Facebook, web, games, movies (with Prime/Netflix) etc.
The most ungrounded bullshit I have ever read on HN...
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Just asking out of curiosity. In general is it mathematically possible to encode N-dimensional information in a N-1 dimension surface.

Is this true for N=2?
A small nitpick to your comment: the most elite schools in the US are not more expensive. Schools like Harvard and Princeton are effectively free for families at median income. Only very wealthy families pay the "sticker price". When you adjust the out-of-pocket costs by the risk of not graduating, the elite schools are even more affordable, because they offer significantly more supportive environments.

It isn't out-of-pocket costs that keep poorer people out. It's more the difficulty of becoming a highly competitive applicant when you're competing with students who have far more opportunities to develop academic and leadership skills.
I don't get it :/
> Sabotaging a competitor is precisely how the free-market operates

No, it isn't. A free market is a market in which all transactions are voluntary: nothing happens unless both parties agree to make it happen. So unless your competitor agrees to let you sabotage them, sabotaging a competitor is not a free market operation.
That's a good soundbite, but I don't like it. Breaking a bad law can be virtuous, but I suspect in this case it's neutral at best.
I see it as zon just beefing up their mobile abilities: build know in android and top level mobile software, lay the groundwork for future dev, as mobile grows just like pc grew but way more, your ability to take advantage of mobile growth improves. This phone stuff is just a learning curve, and as hardware decreases in cost over time, zon can get a foothold and take advantage.
3.119 million sq miles - Continental US.

3.931 million sq miles - Europe.

1.691 million sq miles - The EU.

No, not a huge difference.
Bloc.io has a pretty good program, at a reasonable expense. Full disclosure: I'm friends with the founders (we all went to U of I), but my recommendation is based on what I know about their program.
There is no requirement that it be a single node or that they all be operated by the same party.
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I think you are conflating security advice with business advice. Obviously, you are not the target audience. I may agree with you on a technical level but on a business one I do not really agree.
> If Google and Apple make an agreement about smartphone pricing, then we might not have a free market for cell phones.

If people buy the phones voluntarily, knowing that the prices are set by agreement between Google and Apple, then that's a free market. The fact that you disapprove of sellers colluding to set prices does not mean collusion automatically stops the market from being free.

> The government could then use regulations against such anti-competitive agreements to end the price fixing and restore a free market.

Using regulations to force companies (or anyone) to do things they have not chosen to do voluntarily is not a free market. The fact that regulations might lead to an outcome you approve of does not make regulatory coercion a free market operation. The way a free market would "fix" price collusion between two sellers is by buyers voluntarily choosing not to buy from those sellers, causing those sellers to lose money and either go out of business or change their practices.
ML is 0% of the cost of a web app. JS and images and CSS flights of fancy make it expensive.
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Note that CloudFlare never states that they use Telstra for transit, nor what the blended cost would be for transit with the other transit providers, so this is actually, somewhat misrepresenting Australia.
Actually, in many places, Mom and Pop stores have regulators that stop Walmart and Starbucks from opening stores near them.
He says that it is an ill-defined term then goes on with So for the purposes of this article he will use json-over-http.

The actual method (json-over-http-, thrift-over-infiniband, best practices regarding conten-negotiation) is not the point of the article.

So to keep things simple for the purposes of an article he uses probably the most common method; is that really cause for a self-aggrandizing snarky comment?
I suspect money is a big motivation behind all the hand-wringing by statisticians. It is about jobs, grants, prestige. I don't blame them; people want these things. I defintively see a competition between computer scientists and statisticians for the mantle of date scientists. When the current bubble bursts and the hype dies down, one side could have won and the world could be very different, or not. What do I know?

I am a little torn between realistic business demand of paying least money to get jobs done and thorough mastery and understanding of theories. Look at biostatistics; there master graduates become data analysts and process data. They know the nomenclature and can understand instructions from more advanced statisticians. The majority of practitioners don't know proofs and they carry off their tasks reasonably well. I would call all but very select few statisticians applied statitisticans and the world is fine with that. I am not sure machine learning industry will not turn out like this, although I am not looking forward to that day.

I would just note that numerical optimization is a big deal in machine learning while I know of no statistical department strong in it. The popularity of SVM owes a load of gratitude to pracitical breakthrough in dynamic optimization. But if one elevates to the level of functional approximation then statistics is similar to almost all engineering fields. In fact, I suspect statisticians have more common with engineers than scientists. I bet Eric Cantor didn't care that polling results had margins of errors but that he lost his House seat due in part to overconfidence coming from unreliable statistics. Real world applicability, not theoretical nicety.
Why do you need something to differentiate your business from other competitors?
I am co-founder of a very young startup and I have struggle to understand why all the investors are asking for something that differentiate my business from other competitors. Assuming there is only one relatively bigger player in this very large and untapped market. What did differentiate Plated vs Blue Apron or Grubhub vs Seamless ( of course before acquisition).
Also we have shown (Launched in May 14) 25% weekly growth so far in our sales.
> businesses are against it

I think some businesses are against it (they tend to be the smaller ones), but other businesses (these tend to be the larger ones) like it because, while it imposes a burden on them, it imposes more burden on their competitors. Also, businesses can often get into a position where they basically write the regulations that they will have to abide by (i.e., regulatory capture). In that situation, regulation can be an asset for a business.
Didn't realize how sensitive to costs I was. I read, "try Polis free," but as I scrolled down it wasn't difficult to notice the image with $15/hour and it almost made me close my browser until I watched the video and then looked at the image again more closely before I realized it was about minimum wage. Based on my experience, I'd recommend using a different question and/or image. Just a thought. :)
> Sustaining one poor student who needs $45,000 a year in aid requires $1 million in endowment devoted to that purpose

I don't see how this makes sense. Why does it require over 5x of what you would expect by multiplying cost per year times number of years??
IPv6 doesn't mean everything has to be globally reachable (except for certain ICMP messages that should always work). By default, I think blocking general inbound traffic is the right way.

When you want to run a service (i.e. something peer to peer or a web server or something), there are protocols for applications to tell the firewall to open certain ports, such as PCP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol
> This allows you to have a single ssh process on the normal ssh port which places user sessions into their own individual docker containers in a secure and locked down manor.

Funniest instance of this misused homonym I've seen.
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The endowment is invested, and the dividend supports the student. This quote assumes a 4.5% yearly return on investment. If the institution spent the endowment directly, they would shortly no longer have it.
I was thinking more of the Winklevii. Basically, people that play a small role early on then leave (or jettisoned) only to come back claiming they were the idea/backbone/major contributor.

I totally agree Glass got screwed.

Many years ago I wrote the code for an online store. I outsourced the payment processing and photo upload functions. If the store somehow managed to grow to Amazon size who knows what those 2 developers would say. To me, they played a very small, but essential, role.
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Shouldn't we be more concerned with the frequency of poor people becoming not poor? Frankly, I'm not convinced that going to college, potentially accumulating debt, and not having a guarantee of a job is really the best strategy for someone near or below the poverty line. Perhaps there are other avenues available that promise or at least offer positive outcomes that don't require a college education.
Interesting thread.
One thing I think is missing from this discussion is how significantly even the nature of transportation has changed in the era of mobile phone tech. Some context: I live in Seattle, grew up in Minneapolis, went to school in New York, and my aunt and uncle lived/live in Manhattan and have for the last 25 years. I recently got them to experiment with Uber in New York. They rarely take taxis, so it was just sort of a novelty. They hated the experience but only because they believe there has been a significant loss of "institutional knowledge" about cities (for lack of a better term, I guess). What I mean by that is this driver had no clue where to go. I think this is sort of a danger with rideshare (not that I'm arguing against it...I'm not) wherein the drivers rely overtly on the technology to guide them. Someone visiting the city can't get in a cab (uber) and say "Hey, I'm looking for x, y, and z tonight...where can I find that?" My Uncle was telling me that, as bad and dangerous as it was years ago, cab drivers were basically the resident experts of a city. They were so plugged-in to everything that they had almost a 6th sense about them. That's been my experience with Uber in Seattle. I cannot rely on the driver to get around the city at all. My experience with Lyft has been so much better that in some cases I'd rather walk the mile back to my place than catch an uber. All of this might just be the learning curve uber has built for themselves as a direct result of the rate at which they've been expanding. But it's something both companies should address. If uber/lyft really are going to dominate urban transportation (and even inter-urban transpo....uber vegas anyone?) then they need to do more than just take me from point A to point B. They actually have to know where they're going.
I didn't mean that this is done out of necessity, I mean people only give a half-baked mess of standards that is modern web-layout/css the time of day because it's foisted upon us.

If CSS were just another layout engine for just another platform, people would laugh it out of the room and not bother with this kind of artistic stunts.

CSS does not deserve the kind of respect that would go into this sort of craftmanship.
With a name like that I hope the patron saint of Dockersh is Sean Connery
> Do you have any evidence to believe "elite" university graduates are more competent?

I guess I'm talking about the difference between a strict rule and playing the odds.]

> You can ask applicants what courses they took and what their grade scores were. So if you had two applicants with the same grades in front of you, would you still pick the one that went to a brand name university?

With no other data, yeah, I'd pick the guy who graduated from MIT with great grades over the DeVry guy with the same grades. But of course my job during hiring is to try to acquire more data, and I swear I tried really, really hard, and sometimes it made the difference.
Observations. I think many people would benefit from meditating over the tremendous significance of map #26: Asia is ridiculously important.

About the money stuff: this is all extremely misleading chiefly because a lot of people grow and/or catch their own food and build their own houses on community owned land with no debt, thus have minimal expenses and no interest in having or raising this number. The global capitalist system seeks to change this, often by stealing their land at gunpoint or children with the lure of materialism, but while increasing material 'wealth' (ie. shiny trinkets and nominally convenient tech) ultimately results in bad things happening to health (sometimes; this can go both ways), community, security, and the environment.

In map #35, Open defecation in India, look at the difference between the hard-line Hindu state of Tamil Nadu (southeast) versus the long-time communist state of Kerala (southwest coast). Incidentally, you see open defecation in southeast Asia and China as well.

In map #37, in 13 years I've never seen anyone appearing to be obviously malnourished and/or starving in China (and my time tends towards mountainous/poor areas), so I'm not sure where they get their statistics from. The throwaway remark about them 'getting better at feeding their people' is frankly bullshit: China is a leader in agricultural science, they are very good at extracting vast productivity from small areas of land and producing protein-rich foods such as tofu in harsh climates.

Similarly, map #38 is complete bullshit. China is absolutely covered in extremely high quality infrastructure such as highways.
There's probably more kinds of geniuses than those that do well in speed math competitions. At least, I hope for all of our sake.
It's not a requirement, it's just that it tends toward it naturally due to the asymmetric addressability. As long as there are two or more global addresses available to the public on which to run STUN, UPnP, etc, there will be "competition" but it is immeasurably weak compared to what would be possible with direct (non-NAT) addressability. In an environment without those obstacles, systems are naturally designed in a P2P way - simply from the need for scalability.

Case in point A: Skype leveraged an initial P2P design at a time where direct addressability was the norm (and there were many freeware alternatives that allowed direct dialing)... Now that Skype has become dominant, it has switched to a centralized infrastructure 1) because it's owners can (it makes administration, censorship, and surveillance easiest), and 2) because a P2P model no longer makes sense with most users relying on their centralized bootstrap servers.

Case in point B: Dropbox and similar services have replaced self-hosted FTP, I would argue, simply because noone wants to maintain static port mappings and Dropbox is easier.

Even without other incentives, the presence of NAT is a centralizing force that - taken to the extreme (such as with carrier NAT) outright precludes P2P - and that is undesirable. In an Internet with NAT (or any other violation of the end-to-end principal) all systems suffer the same fate: centralization (the antithesis of P2P).
Why as a startup you should start embracing Docker?
What is nice about meteor is how quickly you can get off the ground and build something with it. Then you realize: I have no idea how this stuff works. Is it secure? When do things update? Is there too much magic?

But if you spend a bit of time learning how meteor’s core packages work (deps, ddp, livedata, blaze, etc) and how they work together — almost all of the apprehension disappears.

I recommend digging into the Deps package first, it powers reactivity and is surprisingly simple (only 1 kb).

EventedMind has great videos explaining reactivity and Deps https://www.eventedmind.com/classes/meteor-meteor-reactivity...

Meteor also started putting together a manual to explain the core concepts http://manual.meteor.com — the first chapter is about the Deps package.

With any new concept there is a learning curve. But I believe the concepts meteor introduce are too powerful to ignore. The saying is that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic :)
It's surprising that the number of non-traversable hosts is only 4-8%. Aren't most cellular (3G/4G) users behind symmetric NAT, or is this considering only PC users?
If the only reason for not getting the Nexus is the ability to change batteries, he could just carry around one of those portable phone charger batteries, and then he could enjoy a Nexus and be always charged.

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/portable-devices/other-devi...
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Boosting was, I suppose, invented by Schapire and Freund, both CS guys, but its most successful form, gradient boosting was invented by Friedman, a stat professor. Random forests were developed by Breiman and Cutler, both stats professors. SVM's probably weren't developed in statistics because they don't have a probability model.
Actually, I just turned it into an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexbecker...
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It's amazing how CSS lets you do stuff like this but still can't center things easily.

Nice demo by the way, but why on earth did you use an id rather than a class?
This is ridiculous. So now every tom dick and harry trying to sell something online need to keep in mind a new government regulation which can be bypassed in 10 different ways by those who will do it nevertheless.

At this rate government will even regulate the size and position of buttons. This is something the tech community should unwelcome rather than acting like cheerleaders.
I think my crazy weekend hack qualifies (and might even be more weird). A game based on the unique adventure of peeing with no lights on :)

https://itunes.apple.com/tc/app/peeindark/id711900905?mt=8
Hahahaha! I suppose I've been looking at that too long to have thought of that. Yes, great idea. That would be quite a fee.
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The reality is that customers just don't want to use Firefox OS. Even with Amazon's support, it would still be very inferior in many ways to Android and iOS, and even to some of the other less-popular mobile OSes that are already out there.

Given that Firefox OS apps written in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript should run just as well on Android and iOS, anyone actually wanting to use such apps is better off just getting an Android or an iOS device. That way they can run the Firefox OS apps, as well as all of the other apps that Android or iOS support.
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You can also take a look at http://manual.meteor.com/#deps , which is provided by meteor offically
Well now we need to see the photo. Good story.
Poaching drivers is one thing. Canceling rides is another.
I have built and integrated some pretty complex components with blaze templates without needing a component api. I am curious what use case you ran into where the template api was not sufficient?

In your comment history I saw that you asked for reactive template variables. I know of two ways to accomplish that, 1) attach a ReactiveDict to a template instance in it's render function, 2) pass it in as a variable to the template inclusion {{>template myDict}}.
Map 9 is so badly coloured; the black lines indicate the largest volume of trade, but blend into the background. The red lines pop out, but represent the least trade.

I love Map 10 though, principal exports, very interesting.
Very few locations in the United States have regulations protecting mom & pop stores from Walmart or Starbucks. You're exaggerating by an extreme factor.

You can count the number of municipalities with such actual laws to the tune of less than 100 out of 19,000 cities in the US.
> Beyond functions there is nothing good. There are three object-oriented programming systems, none of which are simple or straightforward.

I don't think this is quite fair. R was greatly inspired from Scheme and stole a lot of good ideas. S4 is very similar to CLOS, and does a fairly good job. If you come from Python or Java, this system looks crazy, but being unfamiliar with a language style does not make the language bad.

> To this day I don't have a good mental picture of genomicRange (a foundational bioinformatics package in Bioconductor for NGS data analysis) data structure and how to manipulate it (one main data structure, I believe).

It's a dataframe attached to ranges. This design extends lower classes like IRanges, and all the accessors, setters, etc are consistent. You can manipulate the range part with integer range operations and manipulate the dataframe part as a dataframe. I would check out the IRanges vignette — this is very helpful.

> R, more than any other language I know, is an implementation-defined language.

This is the most severe problem for sure. I'm cross my fingers someone forks R's implementation and does it right (which should break a lot of packages and code).
Looks like it's known and was marked as "won't fix", but it seems like a major privacy vulnerability to me.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252165
Mostly at this point I'm curious whether Amazon will attempt to iterate themselves into a second version. Thinking they can just improve the phone, maybe alter the pricing, and try again.
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