skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments on that article are telling. The loss of privacy due to inappropriate data mining looks like it may cause at least some people to "go Amish" slowly (now, before I get jumped, I just mean "the avoidance of technology" by "go Amish"; please don't get religious over that).

Personally, reading this article makes me glad I never opened a FaceBook account. I wish gmail was not so all-knowing either; I hate seeing very personally directed ads (anti-depressants when I am sad after reading a break-up mail, for example). Just too creepy.
Online payments are not mainstream here. So my friends try to avoid paying for anything as much as possible.

My brother uses an iPod Touch. He has never paid for apps. I know this because he doesn't have a credit card and is still in school. He just uses it to browse the internet and listen to music -- like most people here who has WiFi on their phones.
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The specific bug was fixed elsewhere (if you check the updates to the bug report).

All that has happened was that didn't get properly referenced and the changes to priority suggested that the bug wasn't being addressed. Someone has just jumped on that ;)

It happens.
I agree, I think SciAm has much better Pop Sci articles, at least the original authors of the paper write their articles.
I like the clone. Fun to play around with, and it's definitely weird visualizing music with the chromatic scale in a format like this.

Game of Life psuedo-easter egg was also nifty.
If you check the recent update from the maintainer [1] this was just a misunderstanding - it was fixed yesterday and the bug report was wishlisted as an idea for a broader fix.

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/55717...
"Branding is for cattle", is what I say about it. I also rip out the externals, if for some reason I even buy the stuff with it. I'm OK with the traditional maker's labels inside suit jackets, etc.

In older times, a person's monogram would be on handkerchiefs, shirts, bedsheets, etc. (I guess it was helpful as a laundry mark). Replacing that with the sellers brand is distasteful.
The real problem here is the length of copyright terms, which now stand at pretty much forever. If we had more reasonable laws then anyone who damn well pleased could published it.
The Underground History of American Education posits that the main factor at work in the school system is the homogenization of people for the benefit of big business. From a tech perspective, it's easy to understand this motivation; wouldn't it be easier to develop that killer mobile coupon app if everyone had a device with the same capabilities?

Now I'm beginning to wonder if data mining is making the homogenization of people obsolete, if hundreds of profiles can be created, and it suffices business interests to simply be able to categorize you?
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Another headline correction that is needed is that the article doesn't tell us how Visa predicts divorce, just that they can.
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But he seems like the kind of guy who graduates at 16.
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I found the book very disappointing because it glossed over any real detail.
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My question wasn't about the article.

My question was how much fragmentation is there on iPhone to warrant VM. It has fixed memory and runs only one app at a time (mostly).
Pair that with the jQuery timepickr: http://haineault.com/media/jquery/ui-timepickr/page/

It's not bad with the year and the month view. I would have the year slide left and right, not just switch because that makes it look like nothing happened at first.

The actual date picker is a bit awkward since it's not a traditional calendar. It's a lot easier to figure out whether the 7th of the month is a Tuesday or a Wednesday by seeing which column it's in rather than what is written underneath it. That way you would have a much cleaner view as well.
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There are so few innovative web-startups in Europe. Most business are copycats:

At the moment we have round about 10 clones of groupon.com in Germany. They usually hire cheap offshore php guys to clone it 1:1. Cloning does neither need skilled on-site developers and architects nor better technolgy and processes (think of agile/bdd, ruby, python, younameit instead of php4-ish php).

Also in Germany bootstrapping is not really accepted in the public opinion. Neither is entrepreneurship.
Nearly everyone thinks you do this because you're not qualified or hard enough working to get a 'real' job.
This tends to change however small business are still avoided. This is one reason SaaS does not work here yet: most US SaaS apps are focussing small businesses or freelancers and don't care about the enterprise (right way imho).

On the other side everybody wants web-related things as cheap as possible. Usually it's okay to redo it in a couple of years. There's no visible premium segment except some banking corps or offical corps but they're still doing either cobol or JEE with the most available amount of abstraction and bloat (sorry, been there, done that).
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They don't only want to homogenize the consumer, they want to also homogenize the workers. A fungible workforce is a boon.
I think that this is a perfect illustration of software developers not being real engineers as they don't think as engineers. My first degree is in Mechanical Engineering and I can assure you that proper engineer would never consider anything like that short of being an "absolutely critical flaw". Real-life machines such as elevators or various industrial equipments have all sorts of fail-safe mechanisms built in. These people aren't born with safety always being the first thing they consider, it's something they are taught at university.

Simply telling people to "don't do that" is not an adequate approach because people make mistakes, it is part of human nature.
Well, most people think multicellular when they get excited about life because multicellular is how earth life gets complex. To that end eliminating flukes that happen only once is important.
make an iPad app out of it
I haven't had a single issue with correctness in my 9 months of development. That is, everything looks and operates exactly the same on the device as it is the simulator.

Performance is obviously the tricky part, along with seeing real hardware in action (GPS, 3G connection speed) and software features (Push Notifications, iTunes integration).

also note that you don't need to buy the developer program to develop and run programs the simulator. the developer program only is needed when you want things to go onto a device
I like the idea of letting you jump through multiple months at once, but I think it should show all of the days in the month. If you aren't looking for something in the span initially shown, you're probably looking for something just beyond that. If you start changing the month around it could be anywhere that you want and extra clicks are added to find the right day to select.
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I would expect them to have promotional leaflets available that included the promise.
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Are you using D-Sub/VGA or DVI from a docking station?
Bit of a hysterical rant ✓

Written in the over-defensive Apple-fanboi style ✓

Tells me nothing I didn't know ✓

There's nothing wrong with checklists, it's just information, unless you have some weird compulsion to claim that the one with the most, or the fewest, is in some way superior. That's the dysfunction.

This does happen in committee-driven enterprise software design and purchasing and is I think a genuine problem. Gadget blogs summarising useful information about products (does it have a CD drive yes/no) isn't a problem unless you've taken it as some kind of direct insult to your lifestyle choices because you bought the one that did, or didn't, have that feature.

Removing the checklists is not going to magically stop geeks fighting over pointless tech choices, they are just a tool that is too often used as a weapon.
i strongly disagree

the simulator will run with the performance and memory of your workstation, this is NOT a realistic test of your app.
Have seen many devs that run into showstopper memory/or speed problems once they switched to on device debugging
( always test on the device !! )

Moreover you have subtle api inconsistencies, some calls work on the simulator that fail hard on the device ..

stuff life location , rotation , storekit , etc are different ( but that should be rather well understood )

so if you develop on a fast workstation and not a underpowered laptop then you should always prefer a native simulator ...

( my experience is based on working with iphone,j2me,and android emulators )
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Gaaa. Question, are their any children involved? What a about a big indivisible asset like a house?
Bose could only hope for the kind of market success that Apple enjoys, I think that analogy breaks quite quickly. Bose is seen as 'high end, very high prices, exclusive'. Apple is seen as 'high end, simple to use, premium, but not high priced, and definitely not 'exclusive''.

The 13 year olds here have iphones, I bet they don't have a bose sound system in their bedrooms.

More likely an iphone dock with a bunch of speakers attached.
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Anybody that breaks up using email in stead of a face-to-face is probably not worth being sad over.

How people part ways says lots about them.
Usability, style and safety do not belong in a checklist because there's no simple yes/no or appropriate numerical figure, which is why only one of the example tables in the article is even vaguely realistic. This does not mean they should not be considered in purchasing decisions, just that they're complex to evaluate and compare.

Not listing dimensions and weight is ridiculous, or would be if I'd ever seen a comparison that didn't include these basics.
>> the next/prev buttons are no fashionable: now you can hide them!

So how will the user know that they must use the mouse wheel to navigate pre/next year or months? For me, it's not good usability-wise.
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Like I said, its "written for the layman". If you want to get into high detail for one of the many examples in his book...you will eventually find yourself at places like this: http://www.retrosheet.org/game.htm :)

Also if you want some more technical detail about the overall process there are plenty of books out there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055042.
Interesting point of view. I'll try to see how it react. Thanks
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You probably right, but "can" is not "must" :-)
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I kind of agree that statistics should be viewed as slightly different subject from math proper. The math aspect of statistics is not, in itself, the important aspect. The interesting (and in my opinion harder) aspect is the more subjective part of getting a good feel for how to pick from the myriad of statistical tests available to use on your data and to analyse exactly what the results from those tests mean relative to your data.

Both of those aspects are core to applying statistics and neither are purely mathematical. Both are also often ignored or marginalized by those who simply see statistics as applied analysis-light.
Well, LLVM using the llvm-gcc front end. As for the brand new Clang front end, "Patches are welcome!"

I'm not too surprised by the "hype":

GCC is old; I was using it for mature SPARC production work in 1992 (and I think earlier), even with a good alternative handy (the one supplied for ObjectCenter).

Being able to take advantage of a couple of decades in the advancement of the state of the art is a big thing. E.g. it's written in C++, which wasn't an option for GCC and is one of the few domains where I don't think the use of C++ is insane ^_^.

It's not twisted by design choices that are intended to keep it Free Software instead of just Open. (For that matter, history shows that RMS isn't a great project steward on technical grounds and he's very much a Cathedral vs. Bazaar type. The official Cathedral GCC version pretty much died and was replaced by a community Bazaar one around a decade ago....)

Have you looked at the error recovery and messages it can do ^_^ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244109)?

Anyway, as soon as the next version gets released (RSN) I'm going to see about getting my current infant C project running under both GCC and Clang.
Slightly off-topic: if you post something with a misleading title that you can improve, please do so. This article has no information at all on how Visa predicts divorce, just the third-hand assertion that they do. An Amazon text search within Supercrunchers yields nothing of value, either.
Captain Obvious at work? How does it answer the question? Assuming you know what the question was about?
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I found a relevant discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1364733/block-requests-fr...
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In comparison, the "lot competent" phrase Aditya used is much more clear and unambigous in communicating what he intended, though it isn't quite the Queen's English. The real irony here is that you think you are doing a better job!.

Wow, you aren't a native English speaker, are you? I've never had someone mistake the phrase "student code" until now.
Since they don't seem to tell what their success rate & the accuracy of the predicted date are, I wouldn't say they "can" do it, which would imply that they are 100% successful at predicting the day of a divorce.
The whole point of having an Iphone app is the userbility. Please have a look at this article.
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And yes we have an iphone App for live global sports news!
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This just means that officials will use copyright to censor information which is embarrassing. For example, if something appears on Wikileaks which they don't approve of they can just claim that the leaked document is under copyright and block the site.
I like the idea. I think key to success of this idea - getting people already know the subject to participate in the service. Their input might be more valuable. So it also brings down to point to ranking various lists available on the same topic. Digg/reddit like voting might be useful here and in turn might improve engagement also.
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There's also newspapers that isn't as focused on analysis as The Economist, which release on a weekly basis. Some newspapers even have international or weekly editions like The Guardian[1]. It does seem like this was a lot more common before the breakthrough of the Internet.

Also I think there's an issue with the format. I personally enjoy magazines like The Economist more in print, while it's the other way around with daily newspapers.

[1] http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/
Curious if this has already been done (I like Coffeescript but want more)
It is hard to read your "ironically" as anything other than "you are not as competent as you claim and your sentence structure reveals it" . What was the "irony" here?

Apparently you have a penchant for jumping to conclusions, then behaving defensively when your shortcomings are pointed out. Thanks for revealing yourself so cheaply and easily.
Well, it's implied that she wants her team to read them but they can't do the workload (125 pages per person per semester); perhaps this is more of a budget problem.

Obviously for all the usual reasons she's getting a lot of students who aren't good at reading, and it's not clear to me that they'd be better served by a generic remedial English class instead of having to write more real world stuff in her's.

Also a "you get what you pay for" problem; perhaps we shouldn't expect better from a 2nd tier or lower state schools (e.g. below the University of Texas system (for which I have some affection from a NSF Summer Science Training Program at UT Austin I attended in high school) and I'd guess below the Texas A&M system).
Thanks for the kinds words guys - I agree :)
Actually, it is covered in some courses like "NAND to Tetris." It should be covered.
It's nice, but it really needs keyboard navigation...
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Agreed, it wasn't immediately obvious how to scroll the non-buttoned version.
A pop-sci article that contains less hype is Brian Hayes' The Spectrum of Riemannium:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-spectrum-of...

If you want to learn the actual math of random matrices, Terry Tao's notes are a good start:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/category/teaching/254a-random-...
Ohh its worse than that. They can just think that Wikileaks might in the future host some copyrighted material and block it.
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Really? It's definitely not on the iPod Touch: other windows do not finish loading in the background, they wait until you swith to them to load. If you're right, I wonder why Apple made it different on the iPhone.
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The article is badly titled. It explicitly states after the lede that the author was unable to determine how Visa predicts divorce.
...without paying the author of the work. Are you sure that's what you want?

How long do you think the copyright terms should be? In the case discussed here, we're talking about a work from 1965. You think that everything published before then should be up for grabs?
It's also available on the Complete New Yorker DVDs, and in most public libraries, if you still believe in the world outside of the internet.
In the decade since, Slashdot has provided a bottomless well of bad writing, couldn't-care-less editing, and profound ignorance of virtually every aspect of the real world. It has set the standard for moronic prose, and deserves being remembered as we try to meet and exceed the abysmal benchmark it has made

Ironically, it is considered a bastion of knowledge by many today. Most of that is due to the depths to which the net has sunk in general. That said, it is a source of real knowledge and insight. When something egregious enough is posted, a real expert is often driven to post an informative reply from their personal experience.
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Wow, the comments there sure are an abomination. It's a meaningful and interesting post, and then this. Sad.
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With this kind of thing, the devil is always in the details. He's looking for genes whose expression levels correlate with those of genes known to be involved in the process of interest. This is not a new idea. The trouble is that spurious correlations can arise in all kinds of surprising ways, and swamp the interesting ones.
And if you think your purchases say a lot about you, just wait until somebody gets a hold of your social network data.

(I am willing to bet that "Percentage of friends who divorced" and "Percentage of friends who divorced recently" both whallop any naive demographic predictor of divorce risk you care to name.)
That was oddly addictive.
No problem with rules 1 (its, it's) and 4 (pronouns never use apostrophe).
Re rule 2, most contractions can be confused with other words, and look very wrong, if the apostrophe is omitted, but a few (e.g. youre, mustnt) still look OK.
Re rule 3, some plural possessive nouns look OK without the apostrophe (e.g. "horses hooves" for "horses' hooves"). I'd never skip the apostrophe for a singular noun though (e.g. horse's hooves).
Re rule 5 (Plurals never use apostrophe), when the word is an acronym or capitalized, I'd put an apostrophe in (e.g. the four B52's, I've received 7 RSVP's so far).
It is really missing Monday - Friday. Otherwise I like the idea.
I've got a Monome and Ableton Live and can do similar with a nice hardware interface and output midi to any of my synths around here- but I've never have tried doing that if it wasn't for this app.
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If it's responding to sideways scroll, then multitouch users may discover that by themselves.

Update: no, it seems to be buggy in Safari and scrolling is soaked up by the browser, so I can't two finger scroll on the calendar.
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I use it for my email. However, if I believe they take issue with sending lots of automated emails (e.g. signup verifications).
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Its funny how different this story could have been told, if the plumber hadn't come by.
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