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>We wish to have control over our devices

I say this as an Android user who prefers Android over iOS for various reasons (Firefox and its Addons, mainly), but when you say that you wish to have control over your device, you're forgetting that one can jailbreak an iOS device if they so desire which gives one vastly more "control" over it, so to speak.

Granted, a reason (aside from vastly cheaper hardware prices) I choose Android over iOS is the fact that I don't even have to root my device to get more customizations and options (I use SwiftKey, for example) than an iOS device that's non-jailbroken, but I do pay a price for that in regards to less functionality, security and performance compared to iOS devices (in certain circumstances) because of Android fragmentation, etc. - Just ask most musicians why they prefer iOS over Android, if you want just one case scenario.

But, all in all, I wouldn't paint all iOS users with one brush that says they don't want "control" over their devices. "Control" comes in many forms and methodologies and is often in the eye of the beholder anyway.

>On the second point, myself and my friends do not use Google as an ecosystem

But, you must admit that takes time and time is money. Finding third party alternatives (you can trust and work well) isn't free once you consider the time it takes to do so.

>The value of an iPhone seems to be of the entire Apple ecosystem, it makes sense if you've bought into it already, or are choosing to buy into it, but not if you do not choose to be locked in.

Agreed, but there's workarounds. Also, I feel that way about Android considering its fragmentation limitations. I'm locked into some apps on Android I really don't prefer and iOS has better, more competitive choices of related apps that vastly suit me better.

It's all give and take, really. In the end, I choose Android (overall) but since I also have iOS devices I use for testing purposes, etc. I have no allusions that there's sacrifices I make by choosing Android over iOS.

>he's personally so deep into the Apple world that his perspective is skewed by that reality.

I'd focus less on ad hominem and more on the facts.
WTF?! Why wouldn't this have the same side effects as a stroke? Blindness, deafness and paralysis?
I have started to experiment with this over the last month. Staying at room shares on airbnb, working in coffee shops/co-working spaces during the day and then meetups at night to network. Doing this with a group would lower costs and keep a sense of familiarity. Do you think a less formal concept of this would work?
The statistics are murky. According to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_New_York_Cit...

less than 30% use cars daily, but even then that's something over 2 million cars from city residents alone. I would't drive if I lived in Manhattan or along the subway in another borough, but there's some places it makes sense.
> For lawsuit-related reasons, I'd avoid doing such a startup myself.

Of course, I think this is an idea that Indian based startups can pursue.
Show HN: Python-driven Resume/curriculum Vitae. YAML ⇒ Markdown and LaTeX
You're not alone! I wish Firefox for Android would allow you to view the source code.
You're assuming that suicide is a result of depression and not something else such as hopelessness.
You might also want to append some random data onto each id you assign, to prevent malicious bots from just iterating through all the id's and doing evil on them.
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This could explain it, it looks like their choice for hosting doesn't provide email:

https://www.squarespace.com/pricing/

Still, they could opt for Google's business email so they could use Gmail's backend with @remoteyear.com addresses.
You have no right to the free labor of others. Why should a doctor work under indentured servitude to whatever this nonprofit decides to pay him or her after over a decade of study. That's outright theft.
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Creativity and intelligence don't have a strong correlation.
Brains are probably lazy for the same reason animals in general are lazy - to save energy. The brain accounts for something like 25% of the body's energy use. I'm guessing it's similar to CPUs where most of the time they are under-utilised but can fire up when needed.
This reminds me of a Java project called Chronicle started by Peter Lawrey

https://github.com/OpenHFT/Chronicle-Queue
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So you're saying its not a real problem because startup people have resources?
Just put in a test, will check back with comments in a few days.
I'm really curious, how would this woman react to alcohol?
> That's a stupid response.

So what's stupid about the response? Either their is or there isn't an impediment law. It sounds like there is, just that "impediment" has been specifically defined in CA.

I feel like you were asserting there wasn't an impediment law, then citing me one. Maybe I'm just irritated at everybody else and it's bleeding over into this thread.
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Venues are paid a split out of the ticket price with an optional flat fee, aside from maybe the venues TM owns.
Yeah, they didn't even change some of the default squarespace photos.
One more sorting question, how do sort within the category like at http://emoji.codes/ where all the smiley faces are together / people are together / etc. It has a very neat order. I've tried sorting by the unicode value but that wasn't it.
Riak is just such a storage system.
In Scheme, we have streams for lazy lists.

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-41/srfi-41.html
Lots of criticism in the comments so far. Maybe Ticketmaster is acquiring them in order to resurrect their bad reputation and improve their services. Or maybe that's just what they wrote on the checks to Eventjoy...
I never seem to find a good "role eyes".
How to hire unicorns (aka tech-savvy marketers)
Biologists delay the aging process by 'remote control'
Before they can implement 3), they have to actually make ChromeOS scale nicely to high-res displays. I've got a Chromebook Pixel that usually runs at slightly below 1080p (closest possible with 3:2 ratio) despite having a max of 2560 x 1700, simply because the max res is unusable in Google's own OS without a massive amount of tweaking. UI does not scale, taskbar does not scale, have to manually bump up the font size within Chrome, etc. It's embarrassing.

And I say this as someone who really likes the Pixel otherwise.
Both of those pairs would share one-fourth of their genes; how would 23andMe be able to tell them apart, other than looking at their ages?
"But I personally also don't feel safe clinging to the right most bit of a lane with a dropoff inches away while vehicles whizz around me."

Right, I have no compunction taking the lane when the shoulder gets dangerous. Safety is always the concern. Note, for instance, that one of the specific times you're told you don't have to stay right (21202a4 - https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21202.html) is when a car might try to make a right turn through you (a frequent way for cyclists to get hit).
He was also just on The Tim Ferriss Show:

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/09/09/peter-thiel/
So when your legs stop working and you start crawling around the floor with your hands pulling the rest of your body, is that plasticity too?

It's easy to continue working at increased costs when you don't have a cache. That's.. that's what a cache is for; it's not critical to the infrastructure, it's here to reduce the costs.

Not to rain on any parade of course, I'm just pointing out I'd like to see more cases of actual plasticity of an email server that puts all jobs on hold while it temporarily takes over for a database server that just stopped responding.
1) I stated it as a requirement.

2) The projects I work at on $DAY_JOB that I control all have 3 hardware nodes for HA in both staging & production. Staging is under artificial load that plays back the same series of events on dummy data. [e.g. Job A runs -> Completes -> Puts a mock job in Staging's Job Queue -> runs on Staging with mocked data -> I randomly restart a node to see what happens]

Buying 3 1Us is $750 for a staging environment. If you have 1 DC availability, you can just put them on your Local LAN (Free).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Oracle-x4140-1U-Server-2x-Optero...

Now, you suddenly have a rough approximation of a 3 Node / 1 DC environment.

But what if you have multiple DCs, 3 Nodes per DC, Hot/Cold Loadbalancers and have DNS Failover Between Them?!

Say, you run a LBx2+Nodex3/LBx2+Nodex3/LBx2+Nodex3 across 3 DCs.

Assuming you automate the build, you could just pay by hour. But if not...

Linode's Failover IPs let you do the Hot/Cold LB thing [$60 for 3 DCs worth].
3 Nodes per DC [$40 Nodes for 4096 MB is probably more than enough to test most issues]. $360

So for $420/month, you could replicate a pretty big real world setup.

What if you have 25 servers like stackoverflow and a hot/cold DC setup that is all Linux?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...

Linode's Failover IPs let you do the Hot/Cold LB thing [$40 for 2 DCs worth].
13 Nodes per DC [$40 Nodes for 4096 MB is probably more than enough to test most issues]. $520

$560/month you can basically duplicate the 2 coast hot/cold setup with 26 servers.

But its expensive!

...unless this is a one-man operation, not really. A fully loaded junior engineer is a minimum of $120k. A robust staging environment is very useful and isn't going to cost more than 1 engineer month to setup.

Yes, you might not use the same hardware. However, it is close enough and honestly...the same hardware 1:1 with real servers [based on the ebay servers] and a rack at Fremont w/ Hurricane Electric is $600/month. 13 servers is $3,250 in hardware. Get someone else on the East Coast in like Buffalo, NY and you can get as close as your budget affords. I doubt you'd hit 1 Junior Engineer Year worth of $$.

Not really Free. Power and A/C are things you'll pay for but its not a notable cost [less than $100/month].
I'm being sincere here. I am surprised and excited to see interest in this. Someone very close to me has no discernible cerebellum and no one we've seen or known has ever considered it medically interesting.
> I think bane's point is that even though it's perfectly legal to ride a bike wherever a car can go (which is not true in some cases like highways and visa-versa like biketrails), it may just not be a good idea.

Basically. But DanBC obviously wants to push some kind of agenda to the point of absurdity.
You took it in the exact opposite direction of logical.

She's missing a huge portion of her brain and managed fairly well. Wouldn't that lead you to believe that it would take quite a bit of structural difference to cause noticeable societal outcomes?
If one designed their down-scaling properly, the caching layer would be shut off as the system contracted, not being part of solving the domain problem.
There weren't any cops there the time I went - that could be great or go poorly, depending on the cop... but probably something worth looking into (idk if they have).
I know what the reality is, and I know me feelings are irrational. Of course, depression usually is irrational.

Honestly, it depends on what frame of mind I happen to be in on a given day. Sometimes I look back on my ten years at a defense contractor and think how great it was to work on a complex radar power supply and on complex signal processing software with some seriously crazy platform constraints. Other times, I look back on that same period and see the two years of misery at the end of my tenure as I repeatedly tried and failed to find a new job to get me out of miserable working conditions, all while being told repeatedly from outside how hot software engineering was and figuring it must mean I was a defective doomed to my existence.
Censorship in China is a fascinating topic for me, because it's an area where we can use technology to figure out things about social issues on the other side of the world.

A great example of this is cases where chat clients use client-side censorship lists; in this case you can extract the entire list and essentially have a rich source of words the Chinese government is concerned about. For example (following on some excellent work by CitizenLab [1]), I recently extracted the LINE IM client's list of banned words [2].

The entries there are fascinating to read through; you get the feeling that there's a whole story behind many of them that's waiting to be told. Take for example, "江蟾蜍", which Google Translate glosses as "river toad". It turns out that this refers to an incident where a large inflatable toad was placed in Beijing's Yuyuantan Park [3], which someone then realized looked like former president Jiang Zemin.

I'm hoping to do more research reverse engineering Chinese censorship lists, hopefully even finding ways to efficiently probe server-side lists as well.

[1] https://citizenlab.org/2013/11/asia-chats-investigating-regi...

[2] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~brendan/line.txt

[3] http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/07/river-crabbed-toad-stor...
If Google will bring Android apps to traditional desktops they can gain something in a short run, but hurt Android as a platform replacing Windows. Android as Windows replacement can bring Google much more, but it would take much more time.

Personally I hope that Android with or without Google will replace Windows.
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Same here.. Once let our DNS provider subscription lapse (yearly renewal). Luckily discovered it about a week before the grace period ended.
That's exactly what it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence

Quote: "Empirical evidence (also empirical data, sense experience, empirical knowledge, or the a posteriori) is a source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation.[1] The term comes from the Greek word for experience, Εμπειρία (empeiría)."

The definition goes on to contrast empirical evidence with reasoning and other ways of approaching analysis -- all the non-materialist approaches.
"If you're going to be hung as a horse thief, you might as well take a nice ride."
Ok, this link seems to work:

http://seanmcbeth.com:8080/demo.html
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REST as a Service
Science describes the world as it is, no matter how strange, whether or not it's 'materialistic'.
That is kind of what insurance is for though - to level out the cost for everyone.

No, the point of insurance is to reduce the variance of an individual's future cost. Due to the law of large numbers, averaging across independent identically distributed people is equivalent to averaging over the future, but that's a side effect.

Averaging over independent non-identically distributed people is NOT part of insurance at all - that's what I'm describing as "the socialist part".

An example illustrating the difference - say you have 10 dice, and if a die rolls a 6 it costs $1,000. You also have 10 coins, and if the coin comes up heads, it costs $1,000. Insurance is when you charge the dice $166 and the coins $500. Socialism is when you charge everyone $333 - that's redistribution from the dice to the coins.

The link about smoking costs is interesting, however that applies at the level of government paying for lifetime costs. Annual costs are higher. So insurance for this year should cost the smoker more than the healthy person.
"Please wait while a version suitable for your device is downloaded from the app store".

Simple.
Maybe it isn't that the cerebellum is "gone" but maybe the surrounding tissue that bordered the cerebellum has sort of involuntarily taken over the same function. Those nerve endings that would terminate in the cerebellum are probably still intact?
:| => blank, bored

:/ => puzzled, unsure

:S => confused
It is unrealistic on how a sponge in surgery costs $45 or a set of 3 small towels (x2) costs $380.

Also, the optimizations in health care over the last couple decades actually have gotten it to cost more overall, mostly due to processing overheads and bureaucracy.

When it comes to getting multiple bills, part of that has to do with their standards with insurance agencies. Usually you have CPT (R) codes, HCPCS, ICD codes and so on (at least in the US, international places do not use CPT often.)

There is professional billing, which generally involves physicians or specialists time and expertise. While hospital billing involves staffing, reduction of capacity (like taking up a room or a bed), and all supplies, materials, and labs performed while admitted.

Another thing that is standard in the industry is that it actually costs more to consult someone than to refer a patient to them. Part of this has come due to insurance agencies being more supportive of consulting which means that the specialist can benefit more patients with less responsibility transfer and time.
Also fun is when the bike lane doesn't take parked cars into account, leaving it either completely obstructed or entirely in the door zone - at which point the only safe options are take the lane or walk your bike. You see that less in new construction, these days, thankfully.
>I read the article. It was interesting but like so many others it puts all the blame at Reagan's feet, and brushes over the culture of extreme paranoia the Soviet leadership had at the time due to poor intelligence

You may have read the article, but I don't think you read it very throughly. They didn't put all the blame on Reagan alone. That's incorrect. They mentioned Soviet culpability within the article.

via page two:

"An argument can be made, of course, that it was not the Reagan Administration alone that was responsible for either the confrontational Soviet-American relations of the time or the acceleration of the nuclear arms race. The two adversaries had been locked eyeball-to-eyeball since the waning days of the Second World War in 1945. The USSR had spent much of the 1970s stirring up trouble and expanding its influence throughout the "Third World." They had deployed troops to Afghanistan to save their tottering client government in Kabul on Christmas Day 1979. They had pursued several rounds of nuclear buildups of their own (and in fact had deployed medium-range ballistic missiles in Europe first). Soviet leaders, of course, always claimed that their international behavior was defensive in nature -- undertaken because we were out to get them. And we always claimed that our international behavior was defensive in nature -- undertaken because they were out to get us. "

Considering the other parts you missed previously, I would suggest you re-read the article I linked to if you want to form a more valid opinion of it.
Well you're also not being particularly pleasant in the exchange. Maybe you should go cool off or ride a bike or something to see things from his perspective.

I get where you're coming from and what you're advocating, but your presentation needs a lot of work.
If anyone in Pune is interested, I'll be there in October and will be happy to offer free advice (worth every rupee) on handling the US side.
I'm not the best person to elaborate, but I'll explain from my limited knowledge.

OCaml actually has a very complete object system (with ugly syntax, but don't judge). It's similar to OO you're used to in Java etc, but the types are often inferred instead of requiring that you state up front that classes/objects are subtypes of other classes.

It allows you to use objects just as you would records, except:

1. You don't have to predefine the object types anywhere - with records you do.
2. With OCaml "objects", you get inferred "row polymorphism", which means that you can make a function (without any type annotations) that accepts a point, and accesses point.x, and point.y. This function will also, gladly accept a 3D point that has an extra field point.z, that the function never accesses. In OCaml, you never even needed to predefine a type for 2DPoint or 3DPoint. This is similar to, but different than the OO "subtyping" that you're used to in OO languages.
3. Records don't provide this "row polymorphism" that OCaml objects provide.
4. Records do allow pattern matching.
5. I would like to see the best of both. Pattern matching and row polymorphism into one new record abstraction.

I'm sure there are tradeoffs (likely something to do with predictable memory layout accommodating efficient instructions). Row polymorphism may make type inference times longer, or error messages less readable. I'm definitely not the right person to give an overview of this - so please do your own investigation on the tradeoffs. I'd love to hear an expert chime in.

But all in all, I'm happy with records and the performance I see. Named arguments (with optional defaults) (which OCaml has) can fulfill the role of a unified record/object system, in some cases.
Hey, we actually aren't trying to create a new standard, that would be awful and not what we're trying to accomplish. We're closely following the emoji standard published by Unicode, which all of the other major emoji sets follow as well.

Most implementations of emoji on the web use Apple or Twitter's emoji sets, which are not open source and may put you at risk of copyright infringement. Native implementation is fairly great on mobile at the moment, however desktop is another story, often displayed as just black boxes(most notably in Google chrome).

Some more info on the unicode emoji standard:
http://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html
The article mentions:

"Problems in the cerebellum can lead to severe mental impairment, movement disorders, epilepsy [...]"

However this seems potentially much worse than the symptoms this woman without a cerebellum is experiencing. Is it theoretically possible that people with damaged but otherwise intact cerebellum to be identified at birth so that they can have their cerebellum removed completely? My thinking is that if you do it early enough, plasticity might allow other parts of their brain to take over and do the job better than the damaged cerebellum would be able to.

This is probably one of the reasons why I am not allowed to perform surgery without a license...
I see empty cells are treated as zero by SUM and the + operator: http://sheets.alhur.es/c8045lb

This reminds me of http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2014-August/11...

>> There is no excuse for a
spreadsheet quietly taking a never-assigned cell as zero,
but indeed it does. WHAT THE HELL WERE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING?

HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284939
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” I really like this Hemingway quote. If you are just doing a startup for the end result then you're probably in it for the wrong reasons. You're probably going to fail, so hopefully the journey is somewhat rewarding.

Most of the comments here are pretty harsh, but I think the author has some really good points. Maybe not everyone is impressed by his former management consulting job, but even if you aren't, quitting your job (or forgoing a regular salary) to do a startup is probably not going to be supported in everyone in your life. My personal experience has been that most people have been supportive, but I live in the Bay area. My parents try to be supportive, but I think they think I'm crazy/foolish and keep it to themselves. Social pressures can be a big hardship, having support from friends and family can make things a lot easier.

As far as money goes, he is totally right. Having savings to live off of for a year+ is a wise plan. (But so is living frugally from the first day you quit your job, and perhaps bringing a refillable water bottle).
That's sad, not neutrally unsure or puzzled.
The censors are lucky to have a country-specific language.
I would suggest reading through these articles. Brewing and Food trucks each have their pros and cons, but there's a lot more to both of them than you may think.

Brewery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7375043
Food Truck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376402