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I own a Fire HDX 7" and it is a pretty amazing tablet. The many apps that integrate with Google Play Service for no good reason, like a password manager like 1Password, is pretty depressing though. I can't get the latest version of it. I would probably buy an Android tablet if I didn't have so many videos on Amazon's video store. I wish they would just make their videos available on Android. Amazon is supposed to be platform independent but they haven't made any videos available on Android and it fucking sucks. They're the only company that makes their content available across devices, and now they're not even doing that anymore. Why can't videos be portable. It sucks. It really sucks, and they're not doing this in the best interest of their customers.
From my perspective, I think limiting QPM is better than limiting the number of documents that you can index. In my current case, I have millions of "documents" (in a Lucene sense of documents) but relatively low usage. Obviously, my goal long-term is to increase the usage. So being able to pay to index a lot of documents but limit the resources (i.e., VM size, but not storage size) to search would be the best way to scale.

In theory, the more users I have the more $ I have to scale the search.

The solution I'm currently using (mostly because SQL Azure doesn't support Full-Text Search) is Lucene.NET (which is still on a very old version but supposedly 4.8 is coming) and AzureDirectory (which leverages Blob storage). It's clunky, but it works... at least for the scale I use it at currently. I would love to be able to use Azure Search and scale it up again just like with all my other services.
> People "buy" or support their governments through elections and immigration.

True, but elections are plagued by the public good problem, and immigration is in most cases an extremely large transaction cost. There is also obviously some pressure on governments from the threat of violent revolution, but that's an even larger transaction cost and less certain endeavor.
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Seems to be requiring a password to enter.
So you define P2P so as to force users to type in IP addresses of other users?
I'm not anywhere close to that part of the business, but I would be highly skeptical that she had much input at all. The kindle division, which this falls under, is highly command-and-control. Co-workers in the Kindle buildings say that they regularly see Jeff Bezos in their hallways (like 2-5 times a week), whereas I have only seen him once at a company meeting. Scope creep is a huge problem because you have dictator managers that all have their favorite feature that is priority 1, and there are so goddamn many of them. I wouldn't be surprised if some VP somewhere delayed the launch for a year just so they could launch with the cool-but-completely-useless 3d maps.

She was no doubt a part of the process, but there is no way she ran the show.
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Well, I was a poor white kid from flyover country. I slacked off all through high school while hating the cruelty and boredom, and did my best to get terrible grades. I knew nothing about test-prep, and buying a Kaplan book would have been a stretch. But my HS's counselor gave me a SAT fee waiver so I took the test and got near-perfect scores.

That made me feel like I should apply to good schools, and I liked Thai food and the New Yorker mag so I applied to Columbia. I wrote them an admissions essay about living in an Indian tipi and having a single mom, and submitted an application photo of me standing in front of my tipi. CU admissions ate that up and the rest is history.

However, I did have a supporting, loving, literate mother and I avoided becoming a meth addict/pot smoking loser. Both of those things really help avoid small-town stagnation.
Yep, in the last few years I keep thinking, "Maybe it's time to get over my distaste for Java and just use it". They have some kind of type system, lots of pretty good tools (aside from Eclipse) and documentation for even the crappiest Java library is light years ahead of what you get with most JavaScript projects (even API docs for Java libs are easier to navigate and read!)
It might be interesting to see a measure of spread visualized alongside the center of gravity (figure 2), perhaps using a translucent circle of varying radius.
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I haven't bought one, and after playing with them a bit I have decided not to buy one, but I will sing its only praise: It is the only non-apple phone that even approaches the level of apple's build quality. The Samsungs and HTCs are kindergarten toys in comparison.
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I think the most impressive prediction is something approximately like just-in-time compilation:

The actual operation of the computer will be under control of an integrated portion of the processor known as a supervisory routine. In some instances the program will not have been created by the processor prior to execution time, but will be created during a break in execution time under orders of this supervisory routine, which detects that no method is in existence in the program for a particular contingency. Although these supervisors will be on magnetic tape for a while, it is envisioned that they will be buried in the machine hardware eventually, to be improved by replacement like any other component.

This in 1957, when even concepts like "structured programming" had barely been imagined.
Netflix's market cap is 19% of Amazon's.
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> All the traversal methods require coordination with a 3rd party (ie: centralized) server so - yes - this is a show stopper for P2P.

Third party and centralized aren't the same thing. Any peer with a real public address or even a manual port mapping or a router that supports NAT-PMP or PCP can play the role of the "server" in this context.
Ask HN: Salaries for remote depend on location?
Anyone know - are remote workers who live in "cheaper" areas paid less because of "cost-of-living" or are they paid same?

I'm especially curious about Bay Area companies who hire remote. Do they pay remote employees who live outside of the Bay Area less than what they pay employees who live in the Bay Area?
Amazon had razor thin margins because they're spending hundreds of millions on a bunch of different projects that they expect will be the the future of collecting money for stuff and services.

If they stopped that investment, they'd be reasonably profitable. But right now, it's funding their world domination plans.
Two weeks ago at the Verizon store, they were selling Note 3's for $99 which appear to be at least spec-wise a far better phone.

In between the $99 Note 3 and the $650 Amazon phone there's an entire universe of better phones.

While there's some cool software included with it, I honestly don't think any of the things on show are killer features worthy of the price difference. The main special feature appears to be a "identify this item" which is basically what the amazon app on android already does, except now there's a dedicated button for it.

Do people really walk around identifying items for purchase to comparison shop on Amazon so often a dedicated button needs to be built into the device?
Yes, and even earlier - before ESX - nobody had thought of server paravirt, and there was only workstation. But these days there are free alternatives that work on all platforms and don't hound you for needless upgrades.

Besides, it feels like the fad around paravirt is over. There's a fair argument that its original server-side popularity was mostly a hack around 'doze's crappy install/config procedure, and 'doze is dying off.

Now we're left with containers, KVM and VirtualBox... the desktop replacement of VMWare workstation being the final nail in the coffin for its dwindling userbase.
Same goes for Blue Cross/Blue Shield (though I like Kaiser a whole lot). All these places have websites with various plan options. If you devote an afternoon to nerding out about the technicalities, you'll find a decent plan.

The important thing is to have some kind of catastrophic coverage.

If you don't go the Kaiser route, I would recommend One Medical as a nerd-friendly place to get health care in the Bay Area. You can do most stuff via website and they take a variety of insurers. (https://www.onemedical.com/sf/)
Enforcing anti-trust regulation depends on the industry:

If BurgerKing and McDonalds collude to set a hamburger at $10, then Joe's Hamburger will quickly open and win market share with its $4 hamburger.

If the product is an advanced piece of tech with large amounts of IP - there can only be a few firms, thus the need to prevent collusion through regulation.
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I note that at least in theory, "guaranteeing availability of off-peak and low-density service" is indeed at least partly about providing transit to the "underprivileged" -- that is, to people who live in unpopular/poor parts of town or the elderly who want taxi transit during low-demand parts of the day.

That said, I've never seen a lot of signs that taxi regulation was effective in providing service in low density areas and off-peak times.

Indeed, it seems pretty clear to me that the main purpose of taxi regulation is either:

a. Sincere concerns about "oversupply"
b. A revenue generation device with a fig leaf about a nonsensical "oversupply" problem.
c. A corrupt institution to guarantee the profits of politically connected people with a fig leaf about a nonsensical "oversupply" problem.
d. Or most likely, some mixture of the above.

Note that c. is probably not the principal answer here.

In any case, I think that there's a terribly high bar of evidence required to imagine that taxi regulations save us from the scourge of oversupply, and I've never seen the slightest whiff of such evidence. Why exactly is the taxi industry uniquely prone to oversupply?
My guess is you'll find plans in the 200-300/month range unless you have hereditary boneitis.

One thing to watch out for is that teeth and eyes are often covered seperately, for some unknown reason.
The very notion of a center of X makes a lot of sense when such a simplification is useful. For mass, the center of mass is a lossless (or nearly so) simplification. In physics, the movement of complex object can be understood with only its center of mass.

Not so with economics; I'm very skeptical of a "center of economic activity" constructed as shown in figure 2. What questions does it answer well that a proper geographic distribution does not? (It certainly doesn't imply that all economic transactions go through that "center".) I think it misleads more than it helps. (And I'm not even going into the 3D -> 2D problems.)
> Goldman sachs are probably simply buying up uber stock and dumping medallions on easily duped investors

Owning a taxi medallion is like owning a McDonald's franchise. Doesn't exactly make you a Master of the Universe. A $1 million investment in an NYC medallion nets you a maximum of about $75,000 a year: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/why-taxi-me.... The average McDonald's franchise nets $200-250k/year, and costs about $750k-1.5 million to buy.
You are conveniently ignoring the material grievances that they suffer by focusing on one aspect of the debate and pretending it's the whole thing. The fact is that gay people's life partners can not be granted power of attorney or numerous other marriage benefits is huge glaring inequity in our legal system.

Also, your original argument that a debate about Communism is also about human rights is applicable to any political debate, because of course politics is all about deciding things that affect people.

If you can't understand the difference between a class of people being denied common rights, and standard political debate about rules that ostensibly apply to everyone then I have no additional argument to try to help you see the light.
I use square cash all the time when I sell stuff on craigslist because:

1. People have usually heard of those little smartphone card swiper things.

2. It doesn't require any account setup or installation.

3. It works through email, which is already what we were using to communicate on craigslist.
The following quote is from "Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra" by Carl D Meyer, p 423-424.

"Generalized inverses are useful in formulating theoretical statements as those above, ut, just as in the case of the ordinary inverse, generalized inverses are not practical computational tools. In addition to being computationally inefficient, serious numerical problems result from the fact that A+ needs not be a continuous function of the entries of A. ... Not only is A+(x) discontinuous in the sense that lim_{x->0}A+(x)!=A+(0), but it is discontinuous in the worst way because as A(x) comes closer to A(0) the matrix A+(x) moves farther away from A+(0)."

Here A+ denotes Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse and A(x) = [1, 0; 0, x] in Matlab notation (or Numpy? I am very rusty on Matlab). And in case you are wondering why the generalized inverse is plural, there are different kinds of generalized inverses, Drazin inverse being a well defined alternative.
I don't think there is a market for a phone that is $600+ that is not an iPhone. I think the battle going forward will be for the best $200 and $300 phone (unlocked). If Amazon would have hit either of these price points, the product would be much more compelling.
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Except their CEO is a sleazeball - all this behavior comes straight from the top.
But there IS a reason. Java is a far more statically typed language than Javascript. That enables certain optimizations that will simply never be viable in Javascript, at least as it it is generally used. You can make an argument that this isn't the case for FFOS for some special reasons, but I don't think you can legitimately make a claim that there's "no reason" and leave it at that.
Granted, I started college 30+ years ago, so my perspective may be outdated, but I fear that it might not be. What you say about "asymmetry" struck me because it seems like a more widespread issue. Some anecdotes from my college years:

* The CS students did all of their work on the college mainframe, and there was a pervasive attitude that personal computers were toys.

* The earliest adopters of PC's, and of using computers to solve problems rather than as objects of study, were in the physics department.

* Math required students to learn programming, but only one course used it -- numerical analysis.

I wonder if doing symbolic math by hand still dominates math education. Of course I enjoy doing it as a form of recreation, but I think that my use of math in my subsequent career would be stunted, had I not taken an interest in programming outside of the math department.

I also wonder if "the hot stuff in discipline A is being taught in department B" is just a feature of the chaotic nature of scholarship and research, meaning that a student needs to explore more than one field in order to really be top notch in their main chosen field.
If you're still using Backbone, then yes, there are better things out there, Meteor being one of them. Others include React, Angular and anything else in widespread use that came out less than half a decade ago.
What I found most interesting about the story was when a character was confronted by the factual truth of a past event that didn't agree with what she strongly believed to be true. There is no room for objection as you can view all past (and present) events as they really happened.

But your comments are accurate. While, not always compelling, the concepts are pretty cool to indulge in.
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In practice -- again, see my experience writing jobs processing pbs of data on 1000s of nodes -- hadoop experiences namenode issues. Hadoop was designed many ways, blah blah blah, but that's essentially not what the software is as shipped. And that's about it; I was going to respond point by point, but your post displays a general lack of knowledge of large-scale hadoop deployments, so it's basically a waste of time.
They missed their opportunity in mid to late 2012 when NFLX hovered around $65. They're in the high 400s now.
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um, you sound like a vendor. hadoop does mean map-reduce + hdfs as the common usage by the majority of devs + admins. Claiming hadoop is now some distribution of tools is fine, but that's simply not what the common usage is.

I am a Hadoop developer, and I can tell you that Hadoop does not mean "map-reduce + hdfs". That's also not what people are installing when they install Cloudera's distribution of Hadoop, Hortonworks' distribution of Hadoop, or even Intel's distribution of Hadoop (which is being discontinued in favor of adopting Cloudera's). This is more old information from 2008, being replayed as current. YARN even lives in the Hadoop source code repository, it's hard to get more "Hadoop" than that. Spark has its own repo, but it uses many classes from Hadoop like InputFormat, etc.

It remains to be seen if yarn will carry the day or no; my suspicion is that many people are essentially going to be running spark on hdfs. I don't see much use for yarn unless you need to balance hadoop and yarn, and weren't their claims that yarn was going to support eg mpi style computation that didn't pan out?

Much confusion. Much sadness.

You run YARN (or its close competitor, Mesos) because you want to have multiple jobs going on in the same cluster at once. You need things like per-user queues, job control, reserving CPU and memory resources. The jobs going on at once may be multiple MapReduce jobs, or they may be multiple Spark jobs. Even Databricks, which employs many of the early Spark developers, doesn't ship a product that runs Spark in standalone mode. They run on Mesos.
I think that how "big" the taxi business is is mostly a red herring, and that viewing it as a cynical ploy of taxi companies is an un-nuanced reading of the situation.

Rather, I think that the deal is that taxi regulators work with taxi companies and taxi drivers. Day in and day out, for, at this point, generations. Taxi companies and taxi drivers advocate for their interests and beliefs, as of course they do and should, both to the people in their local Taxi and Limousine Commission or local equivalent, and also to city councilors and such on the fairly rare occasions when those people take up taxi regulation.

The size of the market is to a large degree irrelevant. The taxi companies are going to advocate their interests -- mostly informally and without thinking of themselves as lobbying -- whether they're in a $5 million market or a $50 million market. It doesn't really matter how big objectively the taxi market is -- however big it is, it's their livelihood.

Taxi regulatory practices will be subjected to democratic scrutiny only rarely. Honestly, prior to Uber bringing all this into the spotlight, how much thought did you give to taxi regulations? Most people I've spoken do didn't even know what a medallion system entailed. It's a minor and bureaucratic subject that the ordinary people are typically uninterested in. Similarly, government officials who want to make a big showy example of rooting out corruption probably do not gravitate to TLC jobs -- it's just not that big a deal, and not that high profile.

In that environment, you'll often see a slow process of regulatory capture. And indeed, it's hard to argue that the taxi industry was not marked by regulatory capture.

But it's a mistake to imagine, because of that, a shadowy cabal of well-heeled businessmen with a gigantic presence behind them. Uber is the big business, not the taxi companies. The taxi companies have had a cushy deal, but that's through a slow accretion of generations of largely informal "lobbying," not a backroom power-brokering deal.
I'm less worried about the computers at an internet cafe being locked down with overprotective software than I am that the aforementioned overprotective software, if it exists, will probably do very little to keep out actual nefarious software which would just love to have access to lots of USB keys.
>Do people really walk around identifying items for purchase to comparison shop on Amazon so often a dedicated button needs to be built into the device?

Oh I didn't even know that was a feature. That actually sounds pretty cool to me. I know it's not a strong user behavior at the moment, but plenty of people price shop in brick and mortar stores (I certianly do it every time I'm at Best Buy, but it's just to get Best Buy to price match with Amazon), but maybe if (a) the phone comes down in price and (b) they offer some kind of brownie on top of the feature (like a N% discount over the brick and mortar store's matched price with Amazon, if you physically scan an item and the phone detects via GPS that you're at a storefront?), maybe it can slowly tide people over and change user behavior.
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>What about the privacy of your kids?
>My kids don't have anything to hide.

Did his kids say that, or is he saying that for them?
No, that's not it. They're keeping track of Lyft drivers in the area so that they know who to cancel, not so that they can avoid canceling rides.

And, look, if they could hail specific drivers that they'd never talked to before, I'm sure they would. But they can't. They don't control who Lyft matches them with. It sounds like they make some attempts to avoid just hailing the same driver over and over again, but sometimes they do hail the same guy over and over again, and in that case, they cancel.
Not true - none of those are a single div
Exactly my thoughts. Once they squeeze out all the competition, then its time for the drivers and riders to get squeezed.
I see a big theoretical and practical problem with Figure 2's projection of a 3D center of gravity to our planet's surface. For now, lets ignore all the other problems (e.g. does calculating a "center" really help answer useful questions).

The 2D projection only shows "non-radial" movements (e.g. shifts not pointed towards the earth's core). For example, if the center of gravity moves directly to the other side of the planet, the 2D projection won't change until the 3D point passes through the core, at which point the projection would jump wildly to the other side of the planet.

This is probably quite similar to what has really happened. I'd expect that the westward shift from AD 1 to 1950 had much to do with the growth in the Americas. Afterwards, I'd expect growth in India, China, and Japan moved the center eastward.
I should add that the story is especially appropriate for the HN crowd because the privacy-less world is realized by a Google-like tech company that decides that complete transparency via omnipresent recording devices would lead to a healthier society. The arguments made by Noah in the article are identical to those used by the tech company in the book.
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The flagship models like Galaxy & Note have a market. Some people always want the best. They also give the company an opportunity to showcase their prowess while they sell more modest models to the mass. That said the way things are going the difference between a $250 and a $600 phone are becoming less meaningful for current feature sets.
Wonder if they considered charging for this? Looks impressive enough that people would pay for a quality app.