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Well to it's credit, Apple Maps has gotten steadily better since it's somewhat premature release. It's not as if it was terrible when it came out and only gets where it is SOLELY on it's positioning.

Do I think it would've done as well without that positioning though? No. Brings many advantages not had by most apps.

As to Google Maps getting worse I honestly can't speak on it, I occasionally use it to find and verify addresses for shipping stuff I sell, that's about it and it always works fine for that task.
Recruiters, in the States at least, typically work for large recruiting shops that have many relationships with many employers. They'll contact you to try to fit a particular job, but are more than willing to match you to other jobs if you don't like that one or if it doesn't fit.

I cycled through like three recruiters before finding one with a job I was interested in. If you really like working with a particular recruiter, what you might do is look for jobs yourself and then forward those listings on to the recruiter, so he can do his thing. It's not how most recruiters are used to operating, and it's not something I've done, but I think it could work based on my previous experiences.

In my experience, recruiters are far more 'loyal' to job hunters than they are to employers, at least in tech fields. Hunters have nothing but options in who they go through and how they conduct a search. Whereas the requirements of companies are usually fixed and often are completely irrational. It's often easier to work with and influence a job seeker than it is to talk sense into an employer.
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Not to be racist, but this is exactly what I experienced when dealing with projects outsourced to India.
I believe South Park prefers to be a "middle voice" seeing both sides as completely polarized "you are with me or against me" and trying to entertain all ideas.

One perfect example for me was the episode where Kenny was left brain-dead in the hospital. Cartman wants the plug off to inherit his toys and the other kids want him to stay plugged because they think that's what their friend wanted. Cue a whole episode of "my side vs. your side" until we learn that Kenny DID want to be plugged off should something like this happen. Cartman was right for the wrong reasons and Stan & Kyle were wrong for the right reasons. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Friends_Forever_(South_Pa...

Or the 2008 episode about the american elections where both sides are obsessing about how the other will turn America into hell by the next morning only to discover the world is still there. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Last_Night..._(South_Par...
Was recently looking for information on building desktop apps with Electron or NW.js. Found a few useful links regarding source code protection. In short: Documented method is v8 snapshots. They are compiled code, run slower and are not cross platform.

* Using v8 snapshots - https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/Protect-JavaScript-source...

* Electron thread about source code protection - https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/3041

The second link has a lot of comments with useful information. One of them mentions that v8 snapshot format is documented and also that the actual code is shipped with the snapshot for future optimizations. nw.js just removes the sourcecode from the snapshot.

I'm curious if there is any reliable means of source code protection for Electron or NW.js apps.
I think the biggest problem was it was rushed a little toward the end, most of it seemed there and then parts of it felt like they got done in the last 48 hours. But that's pure speculation.
Guessing we are either going to see major changes in pricing structure, or a shutdown of Flickr. Pretty bummed.
It also kills old people which helps to compensate for the 1 child policy!
That's the opposite of what the article argues.
Microsoft probably doesn't buy the house directly. A relocation company buys it from you and holds onto it until it can be sold for a profit.
There's been a boom in small, low speed transportation devices in the last five years. For $100 you can get an "adult kick scooter" with a brake - I ride one to connect with transit. Small-wheel folding scooter designs hit a sweet spot so a lot of variants are passing through - different wheel sizes, polyurethane vs. air tires, hand brake vs. foot brake, and most importantly powered options. Electric small-wheel scooters running around $1000 are common, and recently there was a crowdfunding campaign for a generic conversion kit [0]. The article's focus on traditional mopeds getting caught up in electrification is an interesting complementary story.

And, of course more wacky, impractical stuff like the "hoverboard" or "powered longboard" has also come along at the same time. It's a lot of fun to watch all these new ideas come online - give it a few more years and they'll all be in the impulse-buy range.

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shareroller-add-on-e-powe...
Are you seeing a therapist?
Well, I read your comment to my girlfriend and now she is pissed off at me. Sigh.
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The truth is we've gone from a system where you are innocent until guilty to guilty to proven innocent [for everything that matters]. It really is a sad transformation.
This is probably the primary reason that I can't get behind the Zuckerberg worship, no matter how much philanthropy he's involved in or how dedicated he is to self-improvement and so on. The man's main contribution to humanity is the spiritual equivalent of cigarettes -- toxic, addictive by design, and marketed to young people. It's gross. FB is gross, and that makes Zuckerberg gross.
>Because women are smarter.

What kind of reaction do you think you'd get if your assessment had the opposite outcome? I'm all for brutal honesty, but it should be a two-way street.
Serious answer: digitalocean gives you a 40GB VPS for 20$/m and you can spin up an Owncloud instance in minutes.
Keep telling yourself that... Just because you were able to quit smoking after 20 years, doesn't mean "The dangers are not equivalent, by a long shot". It's amazing to me the kind of mental hoops a person will jump through to validate their behavior.
> it's in the public interest to find them.

Why? To bring their stash of bitcoins public via rubber hose cryptography?

> Iran... Michael Bay... drug lord...

None of these are very likely. It's much more likely that it is some reclusive technical genius who realizes that the release of their identity can have nothing but a negative impact on their lives. The chances are remarkably good that they would end up getting killed (or thrown in some state actor's prison) for their coins once their identity is revealed.

This kind of outcome isn't in anyone's interest.
"In the end, their intent means little, though; their words will have impact to discourage the spread of e-cigarettes as an alternative or cessation aid for traditional cigarettes. Is that a good thing? I don't know."

The UK department of health says no, ie please switch: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...
Flickr has an immense historical value being the first large photo portal. I'd be devastated to see pictures nowhere else can be found going away :(
This seems like an unprecedented situation. They much set $25,000,000,000 on fire at the same time that they made $29,000,000,000 on a great investment.

A company makes an amazing, generation defining large bet on a startup in a fantastic market. Which pays off as one of the best investments in history.

That same company then proceeds to do _nothing_ with its actual business. It purchases a series of tiny startups that go _absolutely nowhere_, the acquired talent of which create _zero value_.

And, simultaneously, new, younger competitors start eating their lunch in every one of their established markets.

If that's not unprecedented, I'd love to hear the other example. That situation would have to be just as fascinating.
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Smart read with some perspective on immigration from a scientist studying historical migration and immigration to the United States.

Couple of take aways:

> "The United States has experienced much higher immigration rates than at present alongside much larger foreign-born populations, and we not only survived, but thrived."

BUT

> "...if we returned to our noble American tradition of openness like in the 1850s and welcome in 8 million immigrants a year (same rate as 1850 as % of population), the truth is, large swathes of the United States actually would be “speaking Arabic” (or Chinese or Indian languages). Just like large groups in the US in 1850 were speaking German and Gaelic. This isn’t speculative fear-mongering, this is just a sober reading of the data."
Yup I did the same thing is 2012. It has been the best. Except reddit quickly moved in to fill the void. However, at least reddit is anonymous people, and I generally filter on subreddits that have positive communities and generally quality content. I guess you could really implement the same sort of filter with facebook though. I guess I just think the medium for sharing content on reddit or HN is better.
Anyone got any experience of AWS Mobile Hub
Any good for building native or cross platform mobile apps? Whats good about it, and what sucks?
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You're kidding, right? Those are all inspired by actual things Chicago has done.
Goodness. There are ultra-marathons, and then there are trans-continental ultra-marathons. I have a friend who did a number of 50s, at least one 100 (I was there to watch), and I think a Canada to NYC run. Her brain seems to fine as she approaches 60, but her knees aren't up to long distances.

(Full disclosure: I ran a few times over 26.2, only once as far as 50.)
Trying to compete with that $5 Raspberry Pi
No, she's a film lecturer.

Jokes aside, really I've found the best method for handling what has happened in life is just to share openly and honestly with others, which is what I've done here as well. I haven't personally found as much benefit from professional help as just sharing and reflecting.
I dumped Apple Maps when I noticed the data for my area was either never accurate or is at least 2 years out of date, and Google Maps seems fine to me on iOS. I don't have that zoom problem and since it's a Google app it actually has a one finger zoom gesture too.

I got a notification yesterday too saying they've added public transport navigation in London. Whether they actually added it yesterday or just didn't notify me about it when I was in London on monday I'm not sure - but they have it nowhere else I've lived and Google have it everywhere else.
This can be answered by the question "Is Flickr profitable by itself?" If so, someone will certainly buy it. If not, who knows.

My guess, someone will buy it and it'll languish for a year or two as the product strategy is developed and migration of technology occurs, then the new vision by new owners will be executed.
>Well, except for, you know, books.

Don't confuse file type with content :)
>But a lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged.

Those statistics kind of refute those lamenting male culture etc for the lack of more women in computer science.

One would imagine the 1969-1984 that the graph shows, the "male culture", bro attitudes, etc were far more imposing that they are in the milenial, PC environments of today. We're talking about the seventies to early eighties, after all!

And yet, there were more women back then than they are now.

(Always suspected the usual explanations weren't the reason. It's not like medicine, law school, finance, etc have much better male cultures than computer science).
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Google's Quantum Computer Is '100M Times Faster' Than a PC
Why is that important? What might be important is whether the level of chemicals is high enough to pose a risk, not if something else is worse.
Any good sources you'd use to get off the ground running with file format reverse engineering?

I have a couple small projects on the backburner at work that require me to reverse engineer file formats. I've been able to decode a few basic details out of the files by looking for patterns in a hex editor but the finer details are still escaping me.
They probably do both. The official background check may come back clean. But, as soon as the HR guy or hiring manager put his name through Google, they see "So and so convicted of dealing crack."
I have the opposite issue, especially in the current political climate. I have people I consider true friends who are on both extremes of the current election cycle, so right now my news feed is nothing but extremely negative left vs right bullshit. It's made me stop following people who I genuinely care about and would otherwise like to keep up with, and it's so depressing that it's beginning to affect my daily life. The only positive posts I see anymore are silly memes or the occasional "I accomplished something cool" status updates.
Life imitates art :)

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/put-cancer-in-e-ci...
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Think about it. If you are a greedy capitalist, why oh why would you limit your market to half its potential?
While it may have improved I feel like it's still quite low. Outside of the valley and a few other key cities we're still largely considered anti-social dweebs who can't talk to women, have regressive sexist ideologies, are pedantic assholes, etc.
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If Satoshi really wanted to realise the value from his bitcoin holdings without being subject to a huge amount of tax he/she/they would ideally relocate to Germany where the tax office has said that if you hold them for over 1 year there is no capital gains tax (or equivalent) to pay.

That this guy was looking to move to the UK, where banks have been quite wary of bitcoin, (although the bank of england has not) is another strike against him being Satoshi. I would assume that anyone who was holding as much btc as we think satoshi has, and with this individual in particular in some sort of tax related issues, he would have been aware of german tax law and would seek to relocate there. Perhaps he was thinking of going from UK to Germany in time for 2020 when the Tulip fund would have been accessible.
The transition is indeed an improvement, but there is a dangerous myth spreading: that e-cigarette smoke (as exhaled by smokers) is "completely harmless". I've heard people describe it as "just water vapor".

Well it isn't harmless, and transitioning from a traditional tobacco cigarette to an e-cigarette doesn't mean you can just start smoking everywhere.
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Hard to say. There isn't a lot of direct competition. Smugmug probably comes closest (and I see their current pricing structure again makes it reasonable for non-professionals which it wasn't for a time). It really depends on how many people pay for a premium ("pro") flickr account which Yahoo seems to have been fairly ambivalent about collecting over the past few years.

Personally, I'd find it something of a bummer if flickr were to go away or seriously decay. I could switch but it would be a definite pain. (I also find flickr a great source of CC photos.)
Pharma’s Bad Boy Exec Paid $2M for Wu-Tang Clan’s New Record
How Pfizer Set the Cost of Its New Drug at $9,850 a Month
I'll focus on the professional salaries...

"Uncle" Bob Martin gave an interesting talk in London last night about the need for a professional body for software.

Doctors have the American Medical Association (or BMA here in the UK). Lawyers have the American Bar Association (I think the Law Society is the UK equivalent). They can regulate their profession, ensuring standards, controlling membership through certification, and raising the value/cost of the members.

Perhaps he's right, and we'd benefit from the same in software?

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/27/OathDiscussi...
"You can buy just one beanie or cap, but you can also buy two, four or the whole collection. The more you buy, the better for you."

Ha!
I'm not an expert here, I just speed-read the paper, so I'm happy to be corrected!

One probably dumb question: Does diacetyl (and the other chemicals) always have to be present in the original liquid, or is it that it can be formed through some reaction as the contents are heated up?
It's weird how this article finds so many things wrong with Facebook, but it cannot even think of an alternative. Instea it talks about how Facebook can adapt (and has adapted by every year introducing a revolutionary feature like "unfollow"), how it's not so bad, how we need to change to adapt to it like it's a new body in the sky.

How about just spend more time in real-life and less time photoshopping and broadcasting life-in-front-of-a-selfie-stick?
Spacemacs still starts up really slowly compared to vim and roughly equivalent plugins delivering similar features.
It may be worth that but as stated in the article it can't be realised without tax bill potentially up to $10bn.
I've had people nail general CS and SE questions and then completely flop the simplest of coding exercises. I didn't hire these people, and I'm guessing you would have.

Anyway, I disagree with you. Though I'm not saying your process is bad.
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Law is a middle class profession for most lawyers. Very few lawyers make anywhere near $1M per year. I guess that the number of US attorneys consistently making $1M yearly is in the hundreds or low thousands.

Median salary for lawyers is $113,530. That's a pay most lawyers don't achieve until they are in their late 30s or 40s.

Top 10 percentile is at $187,200.

Most lawyers spend 4 years in college and then 3 years in law school to land a $60,000 dollar job in their late 20s. Then they spend another 5-10 years paying off the student loans. Many programmers make that kind of money in their early 20s without any formal education.

Also, it's too early to say at what age programmers are "done". There were few developers in the 1970's and 1980's and they are now nearing retirement. Let's wait and see how it goes with the bigger generation of developers that are now in their 20s and 30s. My guess is that many of them will continue until retirement.

Source: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/legal/lawyers.htm#tab-5
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Are there any text-to-speech research projects that are indistinguishable from a human voice?
That would make any media company a loss-leader for advertising, basically.
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Angela Merkel named Time's first female Person of the Year since 1986
Calling a lens a convolution is an idealisation. It only convolves the signal on the focal plane/sensor, for perfectly focused light.
There's a difference between previous smokers switching to e-cigs and non-smoking children starting e-cigs, and these "scare mongering" articles are an attempt to provide information so we know how e-cigs should be regulated.
Psychological addictions are insidious.
Zuckerberg is not responsable for the existence of the Friendship Paradox or our natural instinct to envy, etc. Facebook mission in itself, is good. We have no reason to doubt Zuckerberg honesty to do good. Do you have any example where Facebook did something that they knew was bad but still did it?

It's true that social network bring bad side effects, everything does. They can only try to correct them.
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Less pyramidal schemes in people relationships. Also less need to earn money, to feel rich.

Usually things had a tendancy to increase differences, if you were in need, someone who had a headstart could use you and make profit. You earned a little while he gained too. Increasing it's position in the same way, more capital, more opportunities to hire, create business.
Yes, those yahoo chess ladder rooms burned through a ton of dial up hours at my house.
And it works nicely as a verb.
I find it interesting the transition towards physical sciences and away from computer science in the late 1980s. At that time, my mother, who was educated and worked in chemistry, started working at home as a programmer. It was a very good job that allowed her to work remotely most of the time and set her own schedule.
The thing is, people don't speak they way they are taught to write, in complete sentences. Instead, they speak _in actual conversation_ in a series of fragments, which often don't end properly (we trail off, let the other complete our thought, interject, etc), and would be ungrammatical if sequenced together. Remember, language evolved to communicate with others in conversation, not to deliver speeches and text monologues.

Consider this text: "Well the whole point of it was... I mean, when I was in school, we often-- sometimes we would go hunting after school, and I mean, you know -- look, nothing like this ever-- we could never have imagined it."

That's 5 or 6 sentence fragments, one after another. If you processed it in a naively serial way, you just end up with one big ungrammatical sentence. I'm only able to clarify it with punctuation (mdashes and commas) because I could parse it correctly.

A parallel system would benefit not from parsing such a string, but creating a set of candidate interpretations, (all the words together, this is a series of three phrases, this is a series of five phrases, etc) and determining the most meaningful match.
I don't think I would have ever been interested in creating websites in high school unless I had a purpose for creating them. Mine just happened to be that I needed a place to share the stats from the equipment / weapons on the Star Wars MUD my friends all played, so Geocities was my first entry into running websites.

From there I made a personal website, then eventually started tinkering around with Wordpress which helped with publishing. All the while picking up little tidbits along the way to help make the sites look better. (And of course it was important to customize your myspace page)

Eventually I decided to start officesnapshots.com because it was quite natural to start a website for fun and 8 years later it is my full-time job.

All that said, having a reason to create a website was what got me started.
Marketing only manufactures desire if you interpret desire in the most narrow possible sense as desire for a specific product.

What marketing actually does is make desires concrete and suggest to the audience how that desire can be fulfilled. If you look at one of the most famous examples of successful marketing, diamond marketing created demand for a specific product, but it was only able to do so because the emotional needs the marketers tied their products to were already there and not being adequately met.
He's not a "bad boy". He's a ruthless sociopath who will focus on maximizing his profits no matter the cost to others.