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> It's pretty common for Americans to argue against things that are actually good for them. The dis-information campaigns funded by billions in contributions are very good at convincing people universal healthcare, etc. would actually be bad.

It doesn't have to be disinformation. For example, some may think that principles are more important than results. This could mean you care more about how infrastructure and healthcare is funded than the actual cost.

I've also seen people claim that others oppose universal healthcare because it would disproportionately benefit some ethnic groups they don't like.
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Because of the big screen, it's easier to browse the web on a tablet than on a phone. Easier than that is a laptop. A PC has an even bigger screen than that! But people still use phones, mostly for the minor convenience of having it in your pocket instead of in a bag, but also for the unique interactions it provides.

I use my PC for eight hours a day straight. I use my phone for maybe 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, maybe an hour long call once or twice a day. Is there anything wrong with that? Should I be using my phone more? I mean, why would I spend all the money on having a powerful phone when I'm only using it occasionally?

That's the logic you seem to be putting towards this watch. I'm not going to defend the battery life, it's totally crap. I'm just arguing against the logic. You seem to be saying if you're not using the device constantly, it's not worth having. I don't use my car constantly. I don't use my phone constantly. I don't use my Pebble constantly. But they're nice to have for their own reasons. The point of the watch is not to use it 100%, all the time. It's to use it when it makes sense to use it. Heavy application use isn't what it's designed for.

Still, I agree the battery makes it useless even for the intended functionality.
"If people start to switch over, then more sites will be developed to work in IE Lightning."

Based on this sentence, I get the feeling you don't appreciate the value of web standards? If Microsoft wants to be taken seriously ever again (they had 10+ years to make that effort with IE before they lost the browser war) all they need to do is render pages correctly, not in their own special way. That also means not inventing special-to-Microsoft codes.

Microsoft has a long record of screwing the greater community for their own self-interest. For example, sabotaging Java.
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Similar story, ~10 years ago a friend's dad (a hunter) found this crow alone and starving (he was probably 1 month old). He gave it to me. I feed him for 1/2 months and instead to leave him in a cage I decided to let him living outside... free.

He was super smart, he was able to recognize me he was playful but the thing that most surprised me was that he was really lovable he really liked to be petted and every time I was on my way home from school he would fly down on my shoulder and start to rub my cheeks happy to see me like a dog would.

Like a dog every time I called him within a minute or so he would fly down on my shoulder or arm everywhere from my small town. It was a powerful sensation!

One day that didn't happen. Indeed I was deeply sad. I thought he died ceasing cats or rats.

Around a month later I was driving home while from the windows of my car I started to see several crows flying very close to my car.

I stopped the car when suddenly something like 15/20 crows landed in front of me.

I'm not good in recognize crows especially at night but I suspect my crow found his crew and wanted to let me know he was fine. Maybe a proper goodbye?

I went home with a huge smile, I was a lover of birds, I had several of them, within years I totally stopped to buy them because I think a bird should be free to fly.

Crows are awesome.
I like it, but how about:

There are only 10 hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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I mean, I'm a little biased because I work there, but Terminal gives you multi-tenancy of compute and data workloads by default, and you get almost all of the properties of VMWare on containers (including VMotion style migrations).

You can make an account and boot apache Spark in about 30 seconds using this link [0]. It's running in production right now for a lot of people, and you can run Mesos on top of Terminal if you want it [1].

Again, I'm not trying to push this on you if you're happy with how stuff works today, but I think we've made a PaaS that solves a lot of these problems (and we'll let you run it on your own metal too if you want it). Check it out at terminal.com if you have some free time.

[0]https://www.terminal.com/snapshot/c81e6215eba5799335a45b6936...
[1]https://www.terminal.com/snapshot/44d4ee043422afec75dfd3bdaa...
Yeah, it's something I've been meaning to get too. To be honest I just keep putting it off, as I've been more worried about tackling the writing experience. Anyway thanks for the feedback, Ill be sure to make this quick fix soon.
By the way, you can check out privacy.daybook.io for an example of what daybook does.
I see, I didn't realize consumer ISPs were providing free internet access to Google and Amazon.
Wow - a mouse with a human brain! Better make two - one's a genius, the other one's insane. Never knew which was which.
"...non-idiomatic variable name casing (snake_case_in_ruby, camelCaseInJavaScript, dashes-in-lisp, scheme-predicates?, &c.)..."

That usage of "idiomatic" feels idiomatic to me. ;)

(I'd usually bite my tongue about such things, but your nic is picks_at_nits, and the thread is about the virtues of being pedantic...)
The problem with NAND flash is that it is not "RAM-like device" even for reads (smallest addressable entity is block even for reads).

It can essentially do three operations: read block, write block, erase bunch of blocks at once. For the purposes of filesystem, this is actually an workable storage interface that does not need any additional abstraction layers.
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Shell scripts are pretty nice and it's unfortunate that the new crop of configuration management tools puts them on the sidelines instead of treating them as first class citizens in the configuration pipeline.

Now the much harder problem of orchestration is still an unsolved problem and I think that is what the author was referring to.
> PS: The accusations of astroturfing on HN are a vile sort of rhetorical tactic.

I'm glad someone with a history agrees.
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This helped me get started a little while ago http://chrisbarra.me/posts/docker-orchestration.html
Exactly, this is the thing people keep forgetting. IE has a market for people who don't change the default browser from their computers, and it's a good thing they are getting a better, modern browser (not that IE11 is bad, mind you).
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Competition requires a "free open market", which isn't a thing that exists, and it depends on a knowledgeable and informed consumer base, which also isn't a thing that exists, and this all depends upon there being choice in the marketplace, which as has been demonstrated ad nauseum, also isn't a thing that exists.

Hence regulation.
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> 4Mbps is already plenty for HD movies and video teleconferencing

The last six years of my life have been consumed by work on video streaming services. While in a lab environment you would be correct, I can tell you that in the real world you are off by a factor of about 4, and will be off by a factor of about 8 for 4k video.

> Most places in the US had zero 4Mbps options 20 years ago, and now they have 5+.

I have no idea where you got that idea, unless you think wireless is a substitute for cable or DSL. It's not.
Perhaps if a significant amount of the new accounts were not parroting discredited anti-neutrality talking points..

It's a pretty simple calculus. Some fairly influential people hang out here, and monied interests have been screaming their heads off that they don't want this. With that in mind, it's a lot more likely that shilling and astroturfing is going on than it is not.

Whether that applies to you or not cannot be said (it's unfalsifiable anyways), but the facts stand.
I've been looking at something like this to pick up. Didn't know that this was released until today, but there seems to be a lot of people who are using http://framerjs.com/. Seems like the FB team was using Framer until they developed their own. Check the Product Hunt post: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/framer
A rural Washington state regulatory and infrastructure organization, KPUD, is attempting to encourage access to the fiber they've added to the Kitsap county area. They have implemented this rule in a fairly watered down sense. The result is that, years after the large federal government grant to help high speed rural internet access, and almost two years after construction has been completed, no one in Kitsap county has access to fiber internet.

I have spoken to entrepreneurs and investors, and the reason they refuse to get involved is, without exclusive access to the last mile infrastructure, they would be spending thousands of dollars per building and be immediately replaced by anyone who could bankroll loss-leading services the longest (notably Comcast, who is setting up Fiber in Seattle).

This issue may be politicized, but I've run the unit economics with these people. The people of Kitsap county will simply not have fiber internet until this rule is removed.
Obviously moving can be a big deal, but IMO you should seriously consider it. You have a problem with available time, and commuting by car is a massive time sink. It's pretty insane how much "human capacity" is wasted this way!
Not really... just depends on what group you're around.
Maybe look into taking psyllium husk for those awesome no-wipe poos.
That's true. I so wanted to like the Windows Phone. I bought a Lumia 1520 and it was a beautiful piece of tech. And I like the default interface of the home screen (Metro works on a phone, not on desktop imho).

But .. then I tried to use the store to get apps and it was a desert. Or the things I could find, worked poorly.
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Does YAFFS follow the same principle?
I think labelling me as "very short-sighted" because we might one day, in the future, hypothetically reach THC intake levels that are considered lethal is a bit much. We aren't there yet, and even with the technologies you mentioned, we aren't even close. You would need to ingest a third your bodyweight (conservatively) all at once to kill yourself[1].

Physiologically, you would lose motor function long before you were able to kill yourself. So maybe in 2056 if somebody produces a machine that lets you take in 50kg of THC in a single hit, don't use it.

[1]: http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm
Startups care more about the short term. If it takes six months for a candidate to get up to speed a startup will probably pass on them regardless of how awesome they will be in the future. Larger companies don't have to be so short term focused.

Google, for example, often hires inexperienced developers who are smart and great problem solvers. They know they can rapidly, over a period of 6-12 months, turn an inexperienced dev into a good dev.
Yup. It seems that in this case the sarcasm was too hard for me to parse :(.
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Out of curiosity, was the intestinal issue the cause of some of the anxiety? Like you were afraid you'd poop your pants in public?
Mark Cuban's position isn't technically savvy, it's an opportunity for him to make more money.

An update to original article lends evidence to what you said:

Note: 2:08 pm. Thursday. As readers have noted, Cuban has been a celebrity spokesman of sorts for AT&T, appearing in a series of commercials for the wireless giant.
Yeah, I didn't mean that as an endorsement of Allwinner. Just a potentially useful piece of information.
We have actually been updating Internet Explorer for some years now. We don't touch machines that have opted out of updates, but for everybody else we've been moving them forward regularly.

Spartan is neat because it's a separate app, built on a different architecture that will not only continue to allow us to update in an evergreen fashion, but it will allow us to do so at a much faster rate.
There are absolutely ways to deal with what you call interconnected data, as I mentioned earlier: paired tests, corrections for autocorrelation, nonparametric and bootstrap methods for non-normal data and so on. But barring any examples of what you mean with interconnectedness in this context, it's hard to recommend any studies or publications because there is no One Method Of Interconnectedness Correction.

Also, statistics deals with many idealizations but the idea that randomization allows you to cleanly measure the effect of an intervention in the face of what would otherwise be confounding is simply not one of them. Sorry to disappoint, but with all you're telling us it simply sounds like the speaker was clueless.
I dunno, personally I thought it was dreadful even by the standards of left-wing articles bemoaning cultural malaise, some of which at least manage consistency.
Hipsters are attacked both for being "unable to do anything useful, alienated from physical labor" and because "never will they face the grinding monotony of mindless work", for taking unpaid internships and for having mortgages. They apparently go to food markets out of vicarious faux-working class escapism, and not because freshly-cooked spicy food is worth paying a bit more for than Pret. Middle class people that don't embrace the working class aesthetic are even worse.
The author doesn't seem to realise the average hipster has disposable income to buy £6 jerk sandwiches and £8 cocktails because £21k goes further when you have no dependents and rent by the room rather than because they're nascent millionaires tasked with finding new ways to cut working class incomes.

Hipsters are nowhere near as bad as keyboard class warriors whose pretentious prose belies the inauthenticity of their attempts to speak for the working class as surely as the braying accents they whinge about.
This is a politically charged topic with powerful, malicious actors. The thread an unusually large number of green members posting mostly against what HN has been mostly for.

It's an odd pattern, and the parent above saying it's "vile" to call it what it looks like is overblowing it.
It rankles me a little that you want to be a trusted voice in journaling, but can't be bothered to proofread or spell-check the very first descriptive paragraph anyone sees.
> if I'm paying extra for a service - I should get extra, and this prevents it.

No it doesn't. ISPs can still charge you for the bandwidth they provide. If you want gigabit service, that's going to cost more than megabit service.
It seems like the article maybe misrepresents what the thesis that inspired it says[1]. From the abstract:

"... the device still has its freedom to control block-allocation decisions, enabling it to execute critical tasks such as garbage collection and wear leveling ... Next, we present Nameless Writes, a new device interface that removes the need for indirection in flash-based SSDs. Nameless writes allow the device to choose the location of a write; only then is the client informed of the name (i.e., address) where the block now resides."

So it sounds like this approach is actually removing responsibility from the filesystem, not the firmware.

[1] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/yiying-thesis1...
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Is there a substantive difference between the two? Free speech has always been subject to a handful of legal regulations.

In any case, this is a red herring.
Good question -- so the most pathological tree of n nodes would be one with depth of O(n). If this was the case, the closure table would be of size O(n^2). In tree applications I can think of--like an org chart or site comments--the depth is O(log(n)), in which case the closure table is just O(n). Note that this same kind of pathological tree would be hell for a recursive query too, just trading space for time.
Not entirely. If you read the lower court ruling [0] you'll see that the argument made against allowing the subsidies is pretty tortured. You have to read the statute in the most literal and least interpretive way possible to think that the original intent of congress was to bar subsidies for states that opted not to set up exchanges. But hey who knows. SCOTUS season isn't until June. As it applies to NN, it is perhaps appropriate to note the different processes the ACA when through compared to whatever regulations the FCC ends up adopting. We shall see.

[0] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1673339.html
i have always wanted Canvas as well as read-only array buffers (for things like map-reduce image analysis) to be accessible in web workers.
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Fixed terrestrial wireless is indeed a substitute to cable and DSL (especially DSL)
Fixing healthcare is a much, much larger problem. Totally irrelevant to this conversation.
The Comanche Empire (2009) is an excellent history on this subject. The author argues that the Comanches were an imperial power like the Spanish, French, and American forces they battled -- and like the Americans, also a nation enriched by slavery and slave trading.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Comanche-Empire-Series-Western-History...
You keep them in sync by only deploying from those files, exactly the same best practice for deploying any software.
The team has significant experience with C#, but none with F# (or indeed with functional programming at all). It seems like changing the architecture from a well-partitioned yet still monolithic service to a microservice approach is enough of a paradigm shift. Switching also to a functional approach may lead to some exploding heads.
Avian neuroscience is actually pretty cool. Our neocortex is made up of 6 layers of cell bodies, with interconnections and projections to other parts of the brain and body. The avian brain, however, is not divided into layers, but is more like the brainstem, in the sense that it's a lot of nuclei and bulbous areas called the nidopallium and mesopallium. The songbirds are well studied, if you want to do some research, as we the vocalizations are easier to measure and mess with. Mind that crows, though very smart for birds, as still nowhere near us humans or our close friends, the dog or pig. It still seems that the neocortex and many other factors have beaten the corvid brain to civilization and are, at least in this environment, better suited for higher intelligence.

Good starter articles on corvid intelligence are:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626540/

http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teac...
This is a nice little paper that provides a great introduction to machine teaching. I think the Socratic dialogue format was an excellent choice as it makes it very easy to follow.

The big problem with machine teaching in many practical applications is what the paper refers to as the "glaring flaw", and that is that you often don't know what the learning algorithm might look like (e.g. in the provided nefarious example of trying to defeat a spam filter). In fact, the learning algorithm could be arbitrarily complex.

In the case where you do know the learning algorithm exactly (e.g. the learner is a robot where you have its precise specifications), the problem is the deterministic optimization problem described in this paper. But when the learning algorithm is unknown, the problem becomes stochastic, and then you're facing all of the traditional problems with optimization in a probabilistic space (e.g. overfitting, robustness problems, etc). That's not to say that it's strictly impossible to apply machine teaching approaches in such a case, it's just that it's a much more difficult problem to find a somewhat optimal training set.
That's basically what filter does in Clojure (and probably any other language with lazy evaluation): http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2010/05/laziness-in-clojure-so...
Thanks, I had indeed missed that. Glad to hear it's not completely forgotten.
Amen. Isn't Google Fiber an attempt of the market responding to a lack of competition? It's probably more likely for a company to go out of business / lose market share than for a government agency to give up power.
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I wonder if we will start seeing companies coming up with their official signs? I guess that should be happening already.
They're not embracing it, they're consuming it. Embracing another culture is altruistic. Narcissism is looking at another culture and considering whether to "inoculate against" or "experience" it as a feature of your own life.

The twenty-somethings are filled with a sense of meaninglessness because their lives are meaningless. They allowed their careers to define who they were, and are now surprised when the market created a large, ticketed carousel for them.
Agree strongly RE embarrassing part - for now I just gave up on experimenting while cooking for friends; I tried it once, and they laugh at me ever since. Costs is also a factor, but I notice I'm afraid of experimenting even with small dishes and cheap ingredients the fridge is stocked full of.

I'm starting to realize now that it's just a stupid fear I need to overcome. I'm glad this thread forced me to think more about my attitude towards cooking.
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Yep. It's just a more gradated version of the iOS Photos app icon. It's pretty easy to see what makes the simpler version look the way it does, when you blow it up[1]: there are just eight translucent roundrects with gradients, and everything else emerges from how they overlap.

(And from the fact that the gradients form a complete hue continuum. Look at the small triangles in the middle to see the destination colors, and see how they match the source colors of their neighbours.)

[1] http://www.icreatemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Pr...
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Im curious to know about this t-shirt startup where people create design and sell them based on the demand. What might be the cost of making a basic Teespring T-shirt and what might be their margin?
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The same arguments being repeated again and again, usually by multiple different people (almost as if the arguments have been disseminated from the same source), with any rebuttals or addressing of those points by people opposing the central point being ignored or not addressed in good faith.

See upthread for an example of this.
I'm not super familiar with BuySide but it sounds like they were a traditional brokerage that worked on a discount.

Our service costs less because we do less manually and more with technology. A typical agent spends 80% of their time looking for leads and trying to find properties for their clients. Most of the effort in submitting an offer is filling out a bunch of forms (computers are good at this). We let clients find homes by themselves and are working to automate as much of the offer submission and close process as possible. In this way, we have the margins of a scalable technology company, rather than a traditional human-powered real estate brokerage.

In terms of not disappearing, I can't guarantee anything but we're working our hardest to build a sustainable business!