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First of all, definitely second the recommendation for "Visualizing Data"... recently had to track down my copy from someone who borrowed it.

Also, while I agree that most "infographics" are generally useless and belong on USA Today (where I will never have to see them), there are some uses. I find a captivating "infographic" can be a good introduction when presenting information, sort of as an overview. A clever and small "infographic" can get people interested and help provide some context for the hard data coming up. I have a similar rule with pie charts: I only use them at the very beginning of presenting a topic in order to provide some context and ease the audience in. Once I'm past the first few slides and I avoid them like the plague.
Interesting observation: the permalink swaps "changed" with "is changing".
Email is absolutely horrible. Email is where I started to appreciate statistical analysis for charset detection. Email starts with 7-bit characters and rapidly goes downhill from there.

Email is also where I started to dislike UNIX devs who think that \n is a proper line ending on networked systems. "\r\n" is not the Windows way, it's the network way.

When dealing with email you eventually learn to completely disregard the specs and do whatever works which further screws up the ecosystem for everyone else.
100% correct and it really makes me wonder what the late round VCs were thinking. The only I can come up with is pure greed - willing to take an enormous risk for future IPO (above and beyond typical VC risk)
I will make an attempt at enlightening you.

There are a great number of greying or almost-greying engineers and other tech types who are part of a generation preceding the current "cool" generation.

This older generation of hackers and engineers got into the industry because the allure of building systems that made society a better place and benefited humanity broadly was a very powerful driver. For years and decades, this passion drove them to build the foundations of what we now know to be modern energy production, electronics, computing, and networking.

Dreams of taking civilization to the stars, of creating limitless energy sources, of using technology to empower oppressed people and bring others out of poverty drove many of this generation forward.

The reality? Masses upon masses of highly indebted hipsters sipping lattes, tweeting about a band they heard called "Shitdripper", on a device thousands of times more powerful than anything available to the NSA a generation ago, bitching about how they can't get a seven figure salary flipping credit default swaps anymore, in a city that, although it once stood for real technological innovation, works hard to churn out hundreds of also-ran photo sharing apps so that said hipsters can post a thousand photos of their purse dog wearing a kermit the frog costume.

Because there was a generation that dreamed of greatness, and the technology they delivered is being used to enable mediocrity.

At least that's my guess.
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I was familiar with him, but I was not up-to-date on the fact that he was now is working for Android... that is AMAZING!
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with composite food substances. The blame here falls squarely on Chipotle's inadequate sign-age. Adding bacon for flavour is a good deal different than adding pork, they are different foods, despite coming from the same animal.

Perhaps they should simply offer the beans without the bacon in addition, but the half-dozen or so people I know that keep kosher would never eat at a restaurant that itself wasn't kosher or at least vegan. Is there a significant number of people who will not eat pork but also wouldn't mind if the establishment cooks with pork? I'm not sure how much of an issue this is in practice, I think it's kind of assumed here by people in the states that unless it says vegetarian/vegan/kosher, it's not vegetarian/vegan/kosher.
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I'm from Germany and I'm currently writing a dissertation (similiar to PhD) on data protection law. My take on the situation:

1) Are the european data protection laws "perfect" or reasonable? No, they can't be, the most relevant directive is from the year 1995.

2) Do Google or Facebook comply with the European data protection standard? No way. Do they even try? No. There is something called the "Safe Harbor Directive" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Harbor_Principles) which Facebook and Google have declared to uphold. However they "self-certify" and in reality it is more like a "scam". For example Facebook is boasting about a "TRUSTe" certificate, which is practically a joke.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRUSTe)

However the story about the 50,000€ fine is just for publicity. Google has lost cases in civil court against consumer protection agencies about their privacy policy, but to date there has never been a fine by a government agency. Furthermore just because the law says "up to 50,000" as a maximum sentence doesn't mean you could realistically go that high.
Most businesses don't spend more money to aquire new customers than the lifetime value of that customer.

There's a reason the term ponzi scheme is being used by the business news, and it's not because they don't know how businesses work.
"Groupon must spend to grow, but must continue growing to cover its operational expenditures"

I believe some of Charles Ponzi's companies also suffered from these kinds of structural problems, luckily Ponzi like Mason was able to exit his position in the company through follow on investors before the issues started to seriously affect the valuation of the company.
No, the parent is largely right, BART was going to go to more places but San Mateo and Marin were cool to the idea and backed out.

http://www.bart.gov/about/history/index.aspx
Unless the statement in this posting[1] has changed in the few years since it was posted, this guy could lose his medical license over this... I'm all for using technology to make things easier, but something as regulated as the medical and pharmaceutical industry needs to be thought through and can't just use any third party tool to do what you want with.

[1] http://support.formstack.com/index.php?pg=forums.posts&i...
Do you have any recommendations for good biographies? Founders at Work is one that I would recommend.
I'm all for stronger privacy laws however banning analytics and forcing Google to pixelate houses does more harm then good.

Laws like that give people a false sense of privacy. House is still visible from the street and private info can still be tracked online.

Privacy advocate should focus on education and making sure it's explained what is shared with who. If it's clear what you're sharing by signing up to a service and everyone understand what that means we would all be better off.
I have had a car here in SF for the last few years, and only use it to go shopping, or get out of town. Last month I picked up a little motorbike - it is super convenient in the city. Parking everywhere, and for the most part, motorists are fairly contentious.
I'm not saying Nintendo is going out of business, I'm saying gaming consoles are about to become the 201x's version of the mp3 player: a huge product category that gets eaten by converged devices.

You could argue that Nintendo will sell that converged home device but Wii U sure ain't it. No it will probably be the big app platforms (Windows, iOS/OS X, Android/linux) that win the home.
It really stretches the term to call this a "Catch 22". Since it hardly fits that metaphor and "Ponzi Scheme" matches that definition exactly.
I disagree. If you've made the choice not to eat bacon then it's your job to pay attention to the ingredients in things. It's pretty common to flavor beans with bacon.
I think it comes down to marketing. I did not know YQL offered proxy access to all those APIs.
I didn't listen to the audio on this video, so maybe I'm missing something.

Don't you think it would be better to write the code like this?

source = windows_desktop_folder()
for file in source.list_files_in_folder():
file.move_to_folder(source.subfolder("Photos"))

Or in my pidgin Java:

Path source = windowsDesktopFolder();
for (Path file : source.listFiles()) {
file.moveToFolder(source.subfolder("Photos"));
}

It might take a little bit longer to write the code that way, but it seems to me that it would be a lot easier to read the code afterward when you have to debug it; and you could use the same search engine to search methods that you use to search snippets.

(There's also the issue that, however good your snippet library is, it will contain bugs, and changes in the outside world will require corresponding changes in the library. One example is that my code here could conceivably run on MacOS or Linux, while the snippeted code hardcodes backslashes and therefore cannot.)
Horribly off-topic btw.

Yes, it is. But, while we're off topic, I have to say I really like how in German, words are generally spelled like they are spoken.

(I was once fluent, but I don't use it enough, so have forgotten most of it. I can understand it very well still and it does, at least partially, come back to me when I visit Germany, thankfully)
Not so good in IE8. All the message gradients are royal blue and functionality like the drop down doesn't work at all.
"The question is what software do they have to sell?"

A few years ago, under Mark Hurd, they bought EDS and Mercury for that.

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

Never heard of their software? Be glad.
No. what i mean is the total cost of contract should be specified. If you're paying £30 / month for 2 years, they should have to say: this will cost you £720.
Why not just use markdown? There's no chance of messing up the escaping, and there's no knowledge of html required for your commenters.

Want to make something italic for emphasis? Encase it in asterisks. Want to make it more emphasized? Encase it in two. Links are reasonably simple, too (if you decide to allow them). Quoting someone, either indent it by a few spaces or put a > char in front of it, depending on the implementation.

Or skip markdown and use wikitext or bbcode.

It's easy for you, it's easy for your site visitors.
Full text of the tweet:

> Oh great. ([](){})() is now legal C++.

That's interesting, but what does it mean? I don't know enough about C++ to parse that expression.

More importantly, what coding styles or features do the syntax rules enable by allowing us to use that string of symbols? I don't use Twitter, but I think that Matthew missed an opportunity to write an interesting and useful article or blog post by expressing this through Twitter. He already has a number of other articles here: http://matt.might.net/articles/
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I was thinking about this a couple of days ago - with Like buttons appearing all over the internet, Facebook has the ability to log what sites you visit, when you visit them, etc. Question is, do they? To what extent?
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Bacon is just one of many food items used for flavoring in foods. Removing it would, I assume, have a negative impact on the flavor of the food, otherwise Chipotle wouldn't have chosen to include it in the first place.

The "pork flavor" of Carnitas and the "pork flavor" in the beans aren't the same thing, and to suggest they are interchangeable (or that people order the pinto beans thinking that it is the only way to get "pork flavor") makes no sense to me. Most people, at least repeat customers, are getting the pinto beans because they have tasted them before, and decided they like the taste, not that they feel some need to increase the porkiness of their meal.

Every time I order a "vegetarian" bowl I am reminded that the pinto beans contain pork, so I assume this is an issue they have been aware of for a while. It makes sense to put a disclaimer and continue exactly as they have.

It makes little sense to alter their recipes to avoid every potential ingredient that might cause issue.
Actually, doesn't the JS in the (official) embed code send that data to Facebook even if you don't click the button? source: http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/Overview.html
It's a contract, and the contract cost doesn't just cover the phone, it covers a monthly service. People understand that.
Lots of companies operate with bigger debt than assets, as long you have incoming cash you can just get a bridging loan against it.

Thats not the problem. The problem is greater expenditures then income. Very few companies survive long in this position.
Actually, not in the slightest, which you'd know if you'd bothered to go any further than just my hacker news bio - say checking my Twitter feed - before dashing off an ad hominem attack.

No, I thought the post was boring, poorly written and just bitter. And that makes it unworthy, in my opinion, of the front page of Hacker News.

This kind of sophomoric crap belongs somewhere on Reddit, not Hacker News.
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which undoubtedly makes it harder to control

That's a problem for the software. Divided over the number of proposed units, the development cost is about zero. The mass of the zeros and ones is also nearly zero.

What it saves is moving parts, actuators, and driver circuits, all of which have a mass and cost per unit.

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I didn't see it spelled out, but I theorize what they do is modulate the thrust of the single motor by the wing's rotational position to tip the entire object causing it to trade some vertical thrust into lateral thrust. Given that they already had to have a micro controller and a variable speed motor driver for the motor, the incremental cost in mass and dollars is zero.
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Well, I may not be a great programmer, but after programming for 30 years, I'm a hell of a lot better than I was after programming for three or four years. The story of my evolution as a programmer is at http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/0....

Even after 25 years, I was doing things that I didn't have the knowledge or skill to do five years before. (On the other hand, sometimes I look at kragen-hacks posts from ten years ago and say, "Whoever did that must be a lot smarter than I am ---" before remembering it was me.)
Most of the vitriol is coming from the "cool" generation. It boils down to narcissism of small differences - the author is uncomfortable with the idea that he himself may be a "hipster" and so looks for all the things that are hip that he lacks. He then makes sure to publicly point out how hip these things are and how he lacks them.

I myself have been guilty of this but I eventually realized my own hypocrisy and just stopped caring about it. I'm a cool twenty-something techno-hipster - not because I want to be so much as because that's who I am.
Your going to have tell me what you think is wrong, because I can't read minds. I can't see any problem, but I'll rephrase to see if it's just the sentence structure that's confusing you:

Samsung worked with a company called Intrinsity.
They took the Cortex-A8 design, and Intrinsity made it a bit more power efficient.
Samsung sells these chips, and uses them in their devices.
They also sell them to Apple.
Apple gets Samsung to put Apple logos on them, and refers to them as the A4.
Apple bought the company called Intrinsity after all the work on the A4 was finished, nothing they've done in the pay of Apple has any impact on the A4 or Hummingbird core.

I responded to someone claiming that Intrinsity customised the chips for Apple. This isn't true. I linked to a press release that shows this.

So what am I missing?
That is changing, albeit slowly.
Is Apple faking evidence to crush the competition? Not likely
I'm sorry to see this. Peter was a friend, and it was great to meet someone else in Chicago working on similar stuff. (We joked that you can tell us apart because he's the Peter in Chicago bootstrapping a social game built in Rails, and I'm the Peter in Chicago bootstrapping a social game built in Rails.) I'm hoping he finds a way to reactivate this project or starts something else great. I had similar issues working steadily on my project and eventually started a little contest at http://www.soplayweall.com to help keep myself accountable.
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I'm not sure there are any true "dollar stores" any more in the sense that "Everything is one dollar." However the stores evolved from the original gimmick are still called dollar stores even if the strict definition no longer applies.
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Tech company pay is great, if you mean later stage. Google, etc all pay salaries which would seem crazy outside the bay area, and iPads cost the same anywhere.
Trees also optimize for shading their competitors and avoiding being shaded, not just for efficiently gathering raw light. Understanding the shading factor would require extensive field work and Monte Carlo analysis.
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You're missing the part where it's become obvious that Groupon is spending more on provider aquisition than their lifetime value and they are spending a lot on consumer aquisition, more than what most analysts would put as a high end of consumer lifetime value.

Sure, it's a new market and there are some unknowns, but the only route to success with their current strategy is fanaticaly loyal consumers (who are very disloyal to providers but will be loyal to groupon over it's competitors?) and an ever expanding number of businesses that are willing to try groupon but have so far been unlikely to return.

Sure, it might be an Amazon but it seems arbitrary to pick that comparison considering how many other businesses arounds Amazons time turned out to be exactly what everyone said they were: unsustainable.
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The article mentioned bleach as a product that is in both stores so that's what I was using for my example. I haven't been inside a $1 store in a while so maybe the difference is that the $1 store doesn't carry Clorox while the Walmart/Targets of the world do.
Let's stop with the Amazon analogy. Yes, Groupon, like early-day-Amazon, is bleeding cash on customer acquisition. It ends there.

Amazon was building a retail infrastructure and they succeeded in providing value to their customers.

Groupon is busy spending truckloads of cash on luring businesses into their pyramid scheme, while founders and early-stage VCs are cashing in.

Pray tell how either customers or businesses are benefiting from Groupons. Is Groupon providing them with some service that I cannot duplicate tomorrow? Are they building some secret infrastructure that no one knows about? Follow the money, and you will see that no such thing exists.

Groupon is a fraud, and it's time we call it the way it is.
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Must be, around here(South Texas) dollar store implies a place where things cost a dollar.
Many internal tools use it.
Somewhat newbie programmer here. On lesson 6, "Otherwise", the default code seems to be wrong to me. It takes input from prompt() & assesses it as if it were an int/float, not a string. The lesson progresses with an incorrect solution (answer is "not even close" for 6 and 7"). Works if u look for "6" or "7".
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The url of the story ends with - …/wasting-time-online-boosts-productivity.html <- Its an oxymoron. This is crap
They don't proxy, they add edges.
not quite - twitter.com works fine in IE8 and IE7 (and even in IE6 - using the mobile version), whereas this doesn't work in at all in any of those...

Twitter itself isn't giving up on old browsers; which makes me wonder how interesting this would be to anyone else who wants to create a real-world site for the general public (the general public still uses those browsers quite widely)...
I have to say, I always liked how strict German is about how to say things, at least when learning it as a second language. It made it a whole lot easier to learn, rather than a language where there are 10 different ways to say the same thing.

I'm also a big fan of how few tenses are used colloquially--for instance, very few people actually use the future tense. You just have to add a time ("tomorrow", "in 2 years", etc.) to qualify a sentence as referring to the future.
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They have been moving towards enterprise services since Carly. Mark Hurd bought EDS and Mercury specifically to strengthen HP's enterprise offerings. Mark buying Palm seemed really out of place at the time.
I’ll be jealous that he was smart enough to make this.

envious...

But very entertaining. A somewhat satirical view of my life right now, even though I'm not in SF =(