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For them there is no downside to keeping data besides a minority of their userbase complaining.

Well, that and violatng the laws of some of the countries in which they operate.
Autosteer is quickly gaining in popularity. From looking at the farm equipment in my area, I'd guess that 40% have GPS systems on their tractors/combines based on observing the antennas on the equipment. Precision farming is becoming important to increasing yields and reducing costs.

Right now, Kinze are heavily touting their autonomous system for grain carts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhA5aIw7xNk

John Deere and CNH have similar systems in actual production, but still require an operator to be present for safety reasons. And safety seems to be the big limiting factor. While the technology is basically there, nobody wants to remove the operator just yet. Though in this video, someone disabled the safety sensors to go fully autonomous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU4liQvrcm4

Most farmers are pulling their RTK data over wireless/mobile internet connections, rather than having their own base station. I don't know of anyone who maintains their own station. A few companies have placed base stations around various places in the countryside and will happily sell you their data.
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Is F# in the past 5 years? I remembered it as being a bit older.
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To be fair, F# is, instead of a new language, mostly a re-implementation of OCaml for .Net platform, in the same camp as IronRuby and IronPython. They even refer it as Caml.net sometimes:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fs...
Didn't Vonnegut write something about this? Meaningful phrases become catch-phrases, then buzzwords, then fuzz out into meaninglessness ("big data" is at that fuzzword stage).
I would love it if I could use "find my iPhone" inside my house without having to resort to the audible alert when other people are sleeping. So, yes, better resolution would be wonderful. Edit: and to address the obvious objection, no, the current resolution is not good enough for this. With the current accuracy, I'm not able to locate my phone within my house yet (iPhone 4, and no canyon issues here).
I thought they just brought the 5D Mark II to show how much the iPhone has caught up to photos taken with a camera. And not to say "hey! we're there now, the iPhone can replace a really good DSLR"
To clear up what this is, looking at the actual program description, it's not a class or a single course. It's an entire graduate program that takes 1-3 years to complete and the total tuition for the entire program is $9900-$11700.
There's almost no competition between the two. Mainly because
you can't really put free courses on a resume.

The education is free but the credentials aren't?
I think the concern over data coming back to bite you in a legal setting is more valid than others, but is still only relevant in very specific cases. Who else falls into the category of the "wrong hands" and what harm could they really do with a list of my interests, preferences and other information I make available on whatever social networking site I am on?
Your approach (result-driven hiring) work well in small organization. In big organization certificates simplifies and standardize hiring process.

I am not saying I support it, I am just saying this is being used and if student aims to work for big company, he probably better invest into this piece of paper.
LOL!

The css answer is too simple. The real answer is equally as simple but requires a basic understanding of what is going on.
What do you mean by "I can't actually do anything with it"?

If the problem is that you know what Ruby code looks like but don't feel comfortable enough to build stuff in it: go build stuff in it. Seriously. Just go write some code right now, Google around when you get stuck, and half an hour later you will already be a better programmer.

Do a few http://projecteuler.net/ problems. Just, like, three or four. Bam: You've programmed.

Programming can seem like this big, scary thing; it's easy to feel like you're on the other side of this big huge wall and to say "I don't know how to program, so I can't program." The catch is, the only way to learn how to program is to program, and no in-browser language tutorial in the world can change that. Go for it, and ping me if you get stuck.
I remember hearing something that went along the lines of, "I knew the music industry changed forever when I walked into the Columbia Records headquarters and all the posters for Warrant were replaced by posters for Alice in Chains."
Regardless of your definitions, I too found it staggering. We have reached mobile full HD. The fact that it's a few PPI lower than another device is meaningless--it's full HD and in your pocket. On a consumer device (with consumer pricing!). Staggering.
Yahoo Japan is a pretty Japanese company (dunno about the proportion of Japanese workers there). I only got a very small look at it during interview there, but google Japan seems much more westernized as far as the workforce is concerned.

It would really interesting to know who is responsible for rakuten UK (or any other country). Since prices are in JPY, I am quite confused about the meaning of rakuten UK...
Ah, thanks. I was glad to see a C# package there ;)
I have a hard time believing this. You can pump liters of air in a condom. A couple of milliliters of semen is hardly going to cause breakage. I'd be much more worried about sharp objects (split fingernails) and slippage. Furthermore, anecdotal evidence would suggest that (1) the built-in reservoir in condoms is not large enough anyway and (2) condoms slip/stretch a centimeter or two from application to ejaculation, effectively creating a reservoir that's large enough regardless of whether the built-in reservoir contained air or not.
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> You are not using it? This is maybe the reason why you don't understand this.

Is this not word for word what a drug addict says to somebody who's clean?

I've used social networks and found all they did was replace real life social interaction with fake, scrubbed online interactions. I was never one of those "DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE AND RUN" fad followers, I just found that I was able to get by and communicate just fine without it.
Why it didn't send task to RTM before is something that needs investigation. Probably a task <-> RTM synchronization failure.
It's not clear to me that ad-supported == targeted ad-supported. The claim that there is no alternative is false--the alternative is less effective (and therefore less lucrative) ads.

If you ask a HN-reader to choose either 1) less intrusive data collection or 2) more profits to the website, I think it's clear why the user prefers door #1.
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> 1. Unlike Apple, which apparently eschews formal user research, Google relied on "ethnographic research" to shape Android 4.0.

I definitely think this idea has began to take a life of its own so to speak. I've read that Apple doesn't do Usability testing, doesn't do market research or user research. All of the points can be summed up with the "Apple knows best" idea. But, I'm sure Apple does user research - just not with a consultancy, or by asking users what they want. They focus on users' behaviour and their needs and incorporate it into their vision.

I don't think Google's core approach this time around is that much different from (what I presume is) Apple's approach. Google is using their ethnographic research to figure out what users do and what users need. I'd wager that Apple's own 'research' has focused on that all along.
It's going to be interesting when a dozen different countries have a dozen different resulting rules for the same question.
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Hey everybody,

This is (almost) the first time I've posted here, but I hang around and read on Hacker News almost daily.
After several months of work I've launched my project ShowSpace today in private beta today and I would value your feedback!

http://showspaceapp.com

ShowSpace is a system that lets users easily create niche affiliate storefronts, which are basically websites showing off products from a specific niche.
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I wonder the same thing.

In the "tech specs" page, it says the supported file formats are:

Books: ePUB, including fixed layout and enhanced ePUB.
Images: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP
Audio: MP3, AAC, .3gp, mp4, m4a, flac, ogg, wav, mid.
Video Formats: 3gp, mp4, webm

What does "enhanced ePUB" mean? Is it the same as EPUB 3?

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) recently voted to elevate EPUB 3 to a final IDPF Recommended Specification. http://idpf.org/epub3-a-final-recommendation

"Based on HTML5, EPUB 3 adds support for rich media (audio, video), interactivity (JavaScript), global language support (including vertical writing), styling and layout enhancements, SVG, embedded fonts, expanded metadata facilities, MathML, and synchronization of audio with text and other enhancements for accessibility."
What is wrong with being both? To me it seems like a mutually beneficial relationship. I am getting tremendous value from using their site to interact with and stay connected with friends. They are using my data to make money by serving me unobtrusive ads that don't really negatively impact my user experience.

I do think that being more upfront and more transparent would be a good thing, there are alot of misconceptions out there.
I'm curious what "losing control" means here. Do you mean they don't feel they have the willpower to resist these hyper-personalized ads? Or do they feel the ads will become so obnoxious and attention-getting (because of the personal nature) that it will interfere with their daily thought patterns?
As a side note, I'm convinced that one of the reasons WP7 is not gaining any traction is because it doesn't have the "one phone." They don't have a halo product that draws attention to the OS.
I think this really highlights some of whats wrong with America. We are beginning to value those who extract value more highly than those who innovate and create value. I have worked very closely with government employees and while there are definitely some very qualified people doing very enlightened work, the majority of the ones in government positions are there because they are unfit for private employment and in many cases lack even a remedial understanding of the issues they regulate.
It can. As CEO, one of his responsibilities was to create an organisation that would endure. Apple itself may be Steve Job's greatest creation. The test of the next 10 years is to see if that is true.
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True, but the OP asked explicitly for it and no one else seemed to answer that question.
Actually, you get a free certificate at the end of ai-class.com.
That's hardly a motivation for Apple. They still don't have an official dealer in Russia and afaik don't have any plans. Yet, most of government officials widely use iPads (including the president) and every hip kid around the block has an iPhone. This suggests that Sergei Ivanov is merely looking for more ways to tax their own population, not Apple. Russian GLONASS is an archaic POS that they them selves have trouble working on their own, approved devices and a 25% import duty on GPS-capable devices won't fix it.
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The evilness comes into play when companies are not transparent about what user data they are collecting and how there are monetizing this data.
It's 9 years old, which is more than 5 years.
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On the f-secure site, where's the tool to use for step 1?

Grep is defeated by whitespace additions, so ruby to the rescue. (No FITNESS OR SUITABILITY IS TO BE INFERRED TO THE FOLLOWING. THIS SCRIPT MAY CAUSE PSORIASIS, LOOSE BOWELS, AND NEARBY CATS TO ACT ALOOF)

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# See http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_c.shtml

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end
end
That is it. I find my android phone animation perfectly acceptable until I tried an iPhone. Even a Windows Phone 7 feels better. I really hope android 4 address this problem.
It's not an entire graduate program. Instead you'll usually see this called a post-graduate certificate program. It's a series of class that area all in the same specific area (in this case 3) that at the end you'll have a signed piece of paper from Stanford that says you took these classes and passed.
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> The chance of getting the disease is also low,

This is quite wrong. About 15 years ago I went on a trip up the Rio Negro in Brazil. My wife and daughters had taken the standard preventative medicines, but they all came down with a drug resistant form. I escaped because I took a low dosage antibiotic. Their treatment was complicated because the disease didnt manifest itself for 2-3 months, not the normal < 30 days. Also malaria runs in a cycle of 2 weeks or so. It could be detected (then?) only when they were too sick to go to the hospital. When they felt well enough to go to the hospital it had retreated to the liver and wasnt detectable.

> Its incurable

Not true at all, but the treatment (at the time) required a two drug phased treatment. First the active disease needed to be cleared from the system. Then the reservoir in the liver needed to be killed. They had a drug resistant strain which required strain specific treatment. Treatment in Brazil was complicated because the drugs were OTC and most people treated themselves without a doctor's supervision, leading to the drug resistant strains.
All Apple had to do to be different was to have their own factory in China (as opposed to contracting FoxConn), use the cheaper workforce, and treat the employees better. Blind outsourcing is the culprit here I believe.
You can proxy https. See RFC2817 section 5.

-molo
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Facebook using the information we have made available on their network ("intrusive data collection") doesn't really have a negative impact on us as users. At least not in any tangible way.
> I do like the fact that elite schools are offering online certificates, but for $10K there has got to be a great value proposition.

The value proposition is that you have someone else pay for them. This is something that you can have most employers pay for as a continuing education proposition. It's the same way I got my MS without paying a dime.
The better way to frame the choice is 1) less intrusive data collection or 2) ads relevant to what you might actually be interested in.

Some people don't like simple remarketing, but I do. It's not so bad that Bonobos reminds me to buy pants from them every once and awhile... I like their pants ;)

And I'm not sure of the brand effect display ads have had on me but I know I'd rather see something relevant to business, finance, or tech, as opposed to feminine products or entertainment magazines.

Yes, I'm speaking the advertising industry party line, but I do kind of agree with it.
You're missing the point of the abstraction: it's about groupings of people based on roughly how old they were at major cultural events.

You're complaining that the concept isn't "Generation 5993"--the point is that we all have all generations in us, but those of us who were in school when 9/11 happened have, as a group, a different perspective. Just because someone's a baby boomer doesn't mean they won't feel like Generation X every once in a while.
Online education isn't any more free to provide than anything else. And not all courses will scale equally well either. For instance, would a data mining course include several thousand cpu hours per student?

One would hope they are working towards a sustainable model for efficiently allocating education services, and doing so will require reasonable fees for some courses.
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> I watched "Reality Bites" and read Coupland's "Generation X" and thought "how can they be so complacent and moody? Isn't there more to life?"

I'm trying hard not to come off as acerbic, but maybe it's because you've taken two pieces of fiction and tried to cast them on an entire generation? I never read Coupland's book, but the characters from Reality Bites reminded me of exactly zero people I knew.
Nice rant. He manages to sound curmudgeonly without getting too political.

We live in a very interesting time. Photography has now been around for over 150 years. Sound movies are close to 100. Videos of average Joe and his family are coming up on 40 or 50 years.

What does that mean? It means that instead of just hearing stories from dad and gradnpop, we have pretty immediate access to several generations -- and we can hear them in their own words, when they were young. Not some kind of age-filtered reminiscence.

And guess what? All of them felt like they were the first to discover sex, or drugs, or protesting, or making a world a better place, or empowering the common man -- the list of commonalities goes on and on. Each one whined about how terrible things were when they came of age, each one had crazy ideas that were based a lot more in emotion than reality, and each one managed somehow to grow up and make their way anyway.

I think it's pretty cool, but it also kind of has to suck to be in your 20s, 'cause a lot of it has all been done before. So when I look at the Occupy folks, I think it's awesome, even though I have no idea what they want aside from some kind of fuzzy vision of a Utopian world that's probably impossible. That's fine with me -- the hippies didn't really make much sense either, but they were mostly some really nice folks.

I wonder if each generation will now feel an obligation to "out do" the previous ones, now that they can see and hear the previous ones protest. And I wonder how the older folks will react. Will it all be "get off my lawn!" like this guy? Or will they just smile and pat the 20-somethings on the head (which is probably a more enraging reaction, really)

200 years from now we'll be able to "talk" to a dozen generations. This experiment will just keep getting neater and neater.
I recently read the Coupland book and I found it very hard to get through because the characters were so universally unlikable. I kept wanting to reach through the page and punch them in their smug, useless, self-absorbed, ignorant faces.

Eventually I decided that was the point of the book, you weren't supposed to like them. I'm still not sure though.

If anyone could enlighten me to what on earth the point of that book was, then I'd be appreciative. I guess it could be simply a portrait of a certain type of person at a certain time in history, but it doesn't seem to say anything about them. Maybe that was the point, Coupland was trying to show that these people were utterly irrelevant and pointless? As I say, enlighten me.

Maybe I was just in a particularly philistinic mood when I read it. Thinking about it, my dislike for it may stem from the fact that myself and my friends are in an extremely comparable situation to the characters economically and with respect to our relationship to society (except my friends cant even get mcjobs), yet we take almost the opposite attitude to life. I recognise their problems, but am appalled by their solutions.

(For reference, I'm in my twenties.)
Being both what? I wrote that I agreed with the point of the article. My point was that most people, who are only casual users, are going to take a while to slowly make their way down this path:

1) Oh, what a cool service! For free!

2) Huh, they're showing me ads for stuff I'm interested in... what's up with that. Oh! They're selling "me" to these companies! OMG! Privacy!!!

3) Ah... well if I know exactly what they are and are not selling, and I get the free service, I guess that makes sense and I'm ok with it. It beats paying, and I do like using it.
When you use something for free

Are you talking about the app here? Because the price of the app has nothing to do with it, since I'm sure many paying apps use analytics tools as well.

The problem is not the use of analytics to improve the app either, but the fact that Flurry can track you specifically over multiple apps.

If you're talking about Flurry being free, the major problem is that, as a developer, you get the functionality for free but it's the user that pays by giving away behavioral information. You're making the decision for the user that it's ok to use a service that will track you over multiple apps.

edit: I admit that I use Google Analytics on websites, so I'm no better… (though I don't have any "real" sites) Ideally, there would be cheap (or better: FOSS) analytics tools you can set up on your own servers that are good enough for most basic tracking. Or to go with analytics tools that don't have an advertising arm. (do they exist at all?)

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Ok, I just looked at your profile. I feel it's important to note that you co-founded a company (Pinch Media) that was acquired by Flurry. Seems like a relevant disclosure.