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ISPs don't really want to charge both parties so much as they want to tax Netflix for competing with VOD services that ISPs (who are generally also digital TV providers) want to provide.

Its not really about getting money from Netflix, its about getting rid of Netflix.
I think betting is littered with heaps of regulations from different countries.
Unless something's changed Huntsville, Al was always a fairly high-tech southern city.
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Now we are moving away from the science and technology of extending lifespan and into the mire of politics. Just go watch 'When Worlds Collide'and call it a day.
Ha ha. I meant a little more curated list ;).
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Watch out, Meldium, LogMeIn likes to completely change it's game plan on its customers (LogMeIn mobile App drama) with zero sympathy. I wonder how they'll treat an acquisition.
this reminds me of an article I read a long time ago. paraphrasing a quote from it for this case:

that deep sea `mushroom' is a new branch of life is not a fact of nature, but an artifact of the way we classify nature.

http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/interests/aaa/marksaaa99.htm
>>> I thought STEM already are the highest-paying industry jobs, so already worthwhile

Could this be a simple case of supply and demand:

"This is partly due to a lack of room at the top. In the United States, the number of PhDs entering the workforce has skyrocketed but the number of stable academic jobs has not. In 1973, nearly 90% of US PhDs working in academia held full-time faculty positions, compared with about 75% in 2010."

When supply does up, and demand goes down, price tends to drop. I would assume that with an influx of PhD's and not enough open spots, salaries tended to either stabilize or drop, making a career in academia not very worthwhile economically speaking.

Of course when I was working on my doctorate, one of my professors told me flat out, "Academia carries a lot of prestige, but the paychecks leave a lot to be desired."
Wow, I'm just a recent college grad, but you're experience seems vastly different than mine. That's a much more negative view than the one my friends and I developed going through job searches. I wonder what the most important contributing factors to the differences are.
I intentionally did not try to answer the question myself because I assume there are people who are much more familiar with the details of the XMPP protocol and much more suited to making a comparison.

So fuck you and your shitty rtfm answer. I can't just read that and find out myself. Just like a bunch of satellite images would not answer my question what the weather will be like tomorrow.
"How does 1 second ticks stop liquidity and arbitrage? It just stops the faster connections wins."

No it doesn't. Let's suppose in your 1 second time tick you have more people attempting to buy at a price than sell at the same price? Who gets to buy and who doesn't? If it is FIFO then the speed advantage is still there. If it isn't FIFO it can be applied to non 1 second ticks as well.

"HFT aren't really adding liquidity since they only buy when they can sell straight away."

This is a completely untrue statement. Lots and lots of HFT hold inventory. Their inventory periods can range from seconds to minutes to weeks.

The impact is that by being fast market makers can reduce some of their risk, which means that they can price more aggressively. If they can't reduce that risk via speed, they will reduce it in other ways, namely pricing less aggressively. This will increase price spreads and decrease liquidity.
The ISPs didn't spend billions building this network, they were handed billions of dollars from the government to build the network

What if it were Comcast charging Sony extra money to deliver their streaming service for Sony produced content?
What if Time Warner wants to charge Hulu extra money to deliver content since it is owned by Comcast?
You can dismiss Netflix for not creating content to a small degree (house of cards, arrested development, orange is the new black all produced by Netflix themselves, I would argue they are a content creator as well but thats beside the point) but if you substitute Netflix for someone else, its obvious that this is anticompetitive.

This is hacker news - Can you imagine trying to start a web based company and being forced to pay monthly fees to every single ISP just to get decent speeds to end users?
What if Comcast decides it wants to start delivering goods so they jack up prices on instacart's monthly fees
Or they want to expand into Taxi services so they throttle uber down to 52 kbps for all their customers
Robot lawnmowers already exist. They aren't cheap, though if you have a significant sized lawn and consider your hourly rate.... Hrmmm...

Personally, I don't mind mowing the lawn. Yard work is my "me time" to tune out the world and relieve some stress.
Same with guys like Branson,Musk etc.
Chattanooga is beyond beautiful. It's probably the prettiest part of the state outside of Franklin.
Very interesting! With some manual or automatic annotation, this is one step closer to spatiotemporal player data, which opens up whole new boundaries of analysis.

As a point of comparison, there's a private NBA dataset (based on imaging and manual annotation) which shows the locations of shots made, annotated with the player name and whether they failed or succeeded - from this, you can do really cool things like Miller et. al. 2014 [1], who use dimensionality reduction to find patterns in players' preferred shot locations, potentially allowing you to create teams whose offensive abilities are complementary from a spatial perspective.

[1] http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v32/miller14.pdf
Yeah with immortality will come changes. Folks likely to become very, very conservative if they have not decades but centuries at risk. Imprisonment for traffic tickets; voting age increased to 100 or more; heck just the change in the interest rate would rock the economy!
I think you'll be sadly disappointed if you buy a new Dyson.

My wife and I bought one about a year ago. It was great for a week, but now suction is average and we are constantly having to remove and clean various filters to get it to work well.

I suspect Dyson did use to focus on quality, design and longevity but that a few years ago they started selling quite average vacuums but still charging a premium for their "good name".
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I feel the same. I went through so many interviews in the last three months and now I feel sick of it.
I'd look at the history of BT in the UK. This is an example of turning complete monopoly into a thriving market.
I thought you mike like that ;)
As someone who is using react-router, there are some good reasons for it: it provides a nice way for the current state of the router (eg. the active route and the state that represents) to fit into React's re-rendering on updates. Existing off-the-shelf routers don't tend to cover this case (re-rendering from state without re-executing the route), so I wrote a layer on top of Backbone.Router to integrate the two, but react-router means one less thing to maintain, and it also has handy transition hooks (modelled on Ember.Router).

As for the use of JSX specifically, it's handy because it allows expressing ordered associative data, for which in javascript the other choices are both kind of messy: either an array of objects (verbose) or an object (not guaranteed to be ordered).
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What's the relevance of "for my wife"? It gives the impression that you're stuck in the 1950's.
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They're under investigation for fraud relating to HFT:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/goldman-under-investi...

I imagine that WSJ op ed is probably damage control.
"Certainly you don't need to travel that long out of SF to be able to get nice leafy areas."

You don't. Under an hour on bicycle or bus will do it.

SF also leads the nation in greenspaces, park area per capita, and has the largest urban park in the US, if not the world. Get out of SOMA once in a while, people.

EDIT: BTW, this is an example of why SFians are terrified of the onslaught of tech folks. People new to SF tend to have a very narrow view of things, taking over a year to really get even a basic feel for the city, while typically financially supporting the sort of businesses that dilute what the draw is in the first place. Anyway go on enjoying TN and come visit sometime. Book a few days extra before or after a conference and see the redwoods, they are the largest and oldest living organisms on earth.
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Thanks. I am actually looking for one with conflicting resolutions though and can't seem to find that in the links. Basically I want to make a game where you put out ants that compete somehow. Either the one with most converted tiles wins or if they can kill each other. It doesn't have to be Langton's ant specifically, just an algorithm that is as easy to understand.
Fun little idea. Tuesday all I eat is hot sauce. Monday I only drink lemonade. Wednesday I end my fast with the varied loaf.
Or maybe their wife cooks and they don't?
Although I would perfer pin/unpin,

You could easily implmement GC free allocation in Go and people do. Its not hard to write a library for explicit memory management:

1. mmap some memory
2. Write or port malloc and free like functions

This implementation could probably even use sync.Pool to good effect.
I'm guessing it is something they built for their wife.
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Back then (9 years ago mind!) it was a Sony sensor probably long obsolete now. 1024x1024 res which is shockingly low res but easily good enough for SLAM feature mapping.
Two parties benefit when you order a movie on Netflix: you, and Netflix. The company that builds the infrastructure should be able to charge both. It's just how public transit infrastructure is often funded by a combination of user fees and increment taxes on the businesses served by the new road or train line.

Indeed, it's a fairly basic principle of the economics of building infrastructure. A free market underinvests in things like train lines because the builders can only capture one aspect of the positive value created by the infrastructure (the value to the user). However, that leaves a large amount of value to the businesses that users use the infrastructure to get to. If builders can't capture that aspect of value, they'll under invest in such infrastructure. There is a whole body of work on this subject.
The examples given highlight the three sucky things about academic jobs: (i) less money than top-tier alternatives, (ii) insane competition at the start of your career, and (iii) difficulty maintaining work-life balance if you want to be successful.

ii and iii are the big issues for me (and obviously interwoven.) While it's not an original observation, one aspect of ii) that is especially bad is that most people probably have a distorted perspective on how good they are when they are starting out. The pool you will actually be competing with is probably much stronger than you realized.

In discussing some of these issues with a friend of mine, he said that he thought a good solution would be to substantially cut graduate enrollment and fill the labor gap with an increase in staff scientist positions. I think there's a lot to recommend that, but I can't say I see it realistically happening.
Looks very nice, kudos for the implementation. Just one question, am I doing something wrong or you can add just one meal per day?
I have no doubt the Dysons made a decade ago were excellent vacuums. In my experience the ones made the past few years are very much not worthy of the good name.
Have you considered an Aeropress?
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The history of the Internet as the most successful radical deregulation since the abolition of serfdom, or some other history of the Internet?
React community seems to be pretty intent on using NPM, I don't think I've ever seen a package for it delivered any other way
Why? What happened? I worked a lot on the mobile version recently, is it better now?
Search on "low cost kneeling office chair". Just look at the small
/simple ones. I swapped out my $1000 chair for one that I found at Staples for $100.

This chair also helped to eliminate my back pains while keeping my posture in good standing (by putting the weight on your knees you're taking it off your spine).

It's also very comfortable for longer sittings.
If you're interested in the LIDAR in a similar autonomous vacuum, this great presentation by an engineer is a must-watch/listen:

https://cmusv.adobeconnect.com/_a829716469/p17388090/?launch...

He gives examples of what the LIDAR sees, how the algorithms work, etc. in very clear yet technical knowledge.
> The ISPs didn't spend billions building this network, they were handed billions of dollars from the government to build the network

This is absolutely false. Almost all the existing cable infrastructure was built with private money.

> Can you imagine trying to start a web based company and being forced to pay monthly fees to every single ISP just to get decent speeds to end users?

So? It's precarious to build a business that depends wholly on someone else's expensive infrastructure. I don't see why web businesses should be different than app businesses in this regard, which have the same problem. If Apple decides to vertically integrate into your market, as an iOS app developer you don't have much recourse.
I saw a technology demo a long time ago, I think from Philips, that used a camera pointed at a whiteboard. Aside from the typical "take a snapshot of the board and fax/email it to me", the board could recognize and execute various actions by writing words and symbols on the board and drawing a circle around them. (e.g. "75+circle = set the room temp to 75 degrees")

This was way before cheap vision systems were around. I bet someone could hack something together today with a cheap Linux SoC, webcam, and OpenCV.

Combined with a video projector it could do even more. But then again, I don't want a noisy projector running all the time in my kitchen.
Hi Emarthinsen,
We use incoming/outgoing hooks that communicate with a very simple slack PHP service/class. For CapsuleCRM the command 'elvis leads' dispatches a call to the capsuleCRM API, parses the results and outputs does in the channel (with an incoming web hook). I would be happy to tell you more about this and share snippets
For quick and dirty integrations or integrations that are less time critical we use Zapier and IFTTT
It kept infuriatingly moving to the next item before I could finish reading. Proves the point, I suppose.
Order in chaos. Love it. I have few different patterns for ants on my homepage (implemented in ugly ClojueScript).
It's hardly most hedge funds that do this. But there are a few that do, and since price is determined on the margin, it only takes a few to move the price.
It mows for about two hours and charges its battery for about two hours. The charging station has to be connected to power. It drives slowly. Watch a YouTube video. They all go at a very sedate speed. If your garden is smaller than the recommended size for a robot then it should be no issue all.

Sure, it is slow, but eight or so hours of work time five days a week will get your lawn mowed. And, again, since it’s silent it’s not really an issue that it’s driving around. (But maybe don’t get one if you have pets or toddlers.)

Not all gardens are ideal. Many inclines lead to problems, as do thin connecting paths between different parts of the garden. But if your garden is quite straightforward (or even quite a bit more complicated then that) it’s not an issue.

Digging in the boundary cable is quite a bit of work (as you can imagine) and fiddling with it to make it all work perfectly, too, but I think my parents still spent less time taking care of the lawn last summer when they set it up than when they still had to mow. (Also, only the places where my parents were overly ambitious and wanted it to do things not recommended in the manual were there actual issues.)

If you have lawn going right up to some sort of wall or fence you will be left with a thin stripe of unmowed grass. My parents just quickly mow that every couple weeks, it’s not a big deal.

This tech has been around for decades, so it’s pretty proven. Besides my parents I know a couple other people who use it.
His point is that small industries (especially ones with very low margins like HFT) cannot wield the political muscle required to invoke "regulatory capture". For instance BlackRock, a large hedge fund that has been very vocal in it's anti HFT stance made more profits in 1 quarter last year than the entire HFT industry. If regulatory capture was going to happen, don't you think they would be in a better position to accomplish this?

Bill Ackman is another giant player who is highly vocal against HFT and is known to spend donation money to attempt to make trades go his way.

HFT is the little guy in this story, the little guy doesn't get to create regulatory environments.
Or maybe op's wife order meals and op cooks.
I couldn't find anything substantial beyond some Yahoo Answers posts, which aren't always the most accurate.
Does that imply that the browser extension does the MITM?
Points worth considering:

ISP's have tended to charge for a specific speed, not amount of data. By throttling the Netflix connection they're basically saying "We don't really care that you paid us to be able to access anything on the internet at this speed".

And it's worth noting that this is a case where the ISP is in complete control of the speed you get Netflix. There are many cases where the ISP doesn't have a hand in this, the server you're connecting to simply can't pump stuff out fast enough to go as fast as your ISP will let you. But in this case Netflix has more then enough server power (Which they paid for), but the ISP's are specifically slowing down the end connection to you're house to a lower speed then you paid for unless Netflix is willing to fork over more money.

It is almost exactly the same thing as if you were to purchase a 'subscription' to the post office where they guarantee your packages would be delivered in at least 10 days (when possible). But, packages from Netflix are purposely slowed down by the post office and get to you in 14 days instead, and the post office turns around and tell Netflix they need to pay more if they want the package to get to you in 10 days, even though you already paid for that speed.
> when the ISP's are the ones that spent billions building the networks that made Netflix possible in the first place.

Guess who pays for that ISP? The consumer, and the consumer pays by having to be on a shitty network where the operator blackmails the places that are popular, because they are popular. Also, the consumer pays through the nose for this service. And if all this money is going into infrastructure, why don't I see it reflected in my speeds?
I don't understand. Why are you limiting your wife to only one food item that's not even a meal a day?
Seems like price would be the best method of discriminating between them, if all other factors are showing low variance.
When you say HFT sharks, what do you mean? What practice are you describing. The reason that this is important is that the range and scope of electronic/algorithmic trading is highly varied. Saying you are against HFT can mean that you are against a wide variety of things.
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It has a login and extensive help info, so is clearly targeting far more than his wife.

Why the downvotes? I wrote "Gives the impression", which is valuable feedback for someone trying to design an attractive product.

[EDIT] To answer icebraining: It's relevant to his marketing. It may also be indicative of his preconceptions of the market. If he's intentionally aiming at traditional women, then great. It will turn others off.
Congratulations! Amazing tool.
The visual documentation is a nice touch (http://www.mealdays.com/howto/) and couldn't have taken too long to create. Just in case my mother-in-law doesn't know what drag and drop means.
It depends on how much money your neighbor would want to spend on legal fees proving your malicious intent. You are offering to replace the window, so there's not much more a civil court could demand of you.
I realize it isn't only a recent years activity. However, when it was floated 10+ years ago, it was met with a certain air of hilarity. The groundwork has since been laid (including that court decision) to get us where we are today with respect to providers starting to get bolder in their operations and lobbying efforts, to the extent that certain assumed beliefs about the behavior of the Internet are being threatened in a legitimate way.
So they can properly create an uninstall tool? Still have shit behind after LMIn went non-free and couldn't properly uninstall everything...
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I'm completely favor of non-UI components but that's not how a client-side router should work. What I mean is tying a particular route to a particular UI component is the wrong way to go. Instead the route should be tied to the application state itself, and application state should be what drives UI.
Same here. Medium posts are sexy :-)
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Ask HN: How do you validate your ideas?
It seems like the easiest way is to get a landing page or similar that says 'Here's my product, here's what it does' and gather feedback from people (and some points of contact) which you take on board and use to shape the development of your product.

How is this done in practice though? I was working on a project with a friend a while back and we posted a landing page with a mailing list here. The feedback it got was along the lines of "This is just a landing page, come back when you have a product".

How can you get useful feedback and validation on ideas without spamming links to meaningless landing pages everywhere?

I look forward to hearing your views.
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Sometimes. Speaking of which, I don't know how the net neutrality legislation is progressing with the EU commission.
It's server-side and the browser extension unpacks the result.
> ISP's have tended to charge for a specific speed, not amount of data. By throttling the Netflix connection they're basically saying "We don't really care that you paid us to be able to access anything on the internet at this speed".

I think you're reading an "anything on the internet" into your service agreement that isn't there, but even then you have at best a case for false advertising. If ISP's were up front about these practices, would it be OK?
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There's quite a few production Meteor apps. One of my favorites is https://respond.ly.

There are a few more examples here: https://www.meteor.com/gallery (although that page seems a little out of date)
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Hey Carlotta, what are your assumptions when using the graphs? how do you conclude to base your forecast on a linear or a quadratic etc model?
Who said OP's a dude?
In the US California seems to be the closest to some of the worker rights the EU has.