skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While a mechanism hasn't been shown yet, crickets were made to fear wolf spiders transgenerationally:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/650443]

After studying the issue, I'd be willing to bet a friend a lot of money that natural selection alone will be proven insufficient to fully explain evolution.
This post seems geared toward applying to grad schools, many of which receive hundreds of applications. Having to contact hundreds to thousands of references would probably overwhelm most admissions committees. Remember, for grad school, admissions are typically handled by the department, which has fewer people to deal with this stuff.
How is it more reasonable? He's comparing Steve Jobs to an infamously corrupt mayor who brutally suppressed anti-Vietnam war protestors and fixed elections to a guy who created products people loved (and was something of a jerk at a personal level, but that's something Stallman should approve of).

But oops, he got the quotation slightly wrong. It doesn't change the meaning but better make sure he gets the quotation right.

Oh yeah, and Jobs was objectionable not for making computers stylish but for being GOOD at at. If people hadn't liked his computers that would have been OK.
i think a large problem with that is that the offshoot campuses are almost always subpar to the original. Sure the degrees will still say Stanford, but the smart people will all go to California...NY Stanford will be their safety school
I've been considering something like this for outsources who don't have access to macs.
That's pretty sweet. There are a few exciting technologies that are going to make the future of cars very different from today:

- HUD's
- Driverless cars
- Siri or siri like voice control

Forget iTV, Steve Jobs should have been working on public transportation.
Not entirely powered by OSS. Google computers run Linux, many parts of Google infrastructure run on Python, etc.
It would be interesting- whether it's job ads comparing programmers to ninjas and rock stars, to using sexual images in slides at conferences, the tech industry seems sort of unique with regards to behavior that might be seen as juvenile in other industries.
I beleive it's 10K per year.
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You're quite right, a traditional die with 6.8 billion transistors on it would likely have serious yield issues. This is why Xilinx is using the silicon interposer to combine multiple die into a single package. So it's not actually 1 6.8b transistor die but 4 roughly 1.7b transistor die. Still huge, but in line with the level of integration that others (Intel, IBM) are using.
I don't buy the separation of Stallman insulting Jobs' deeds versus his person being a lighter criticism. You are what you do. And I can dig irreverence, but isn't there a point where--when you are proselytizing about the evil labors of the man who died 24 hours earlier--you're kind of just an asshole?

I respect Stallman's contributions in GNU, understand his position on patents and copyleft and his political agenda and feel it's an important part of the discourse (albeit not gospel). But at the same time, he seems like kind of a small, angry man. IMHO.
While an interesting analysis, I think it should be pointed out this is a nonstandard opinion. I don't have a problem with nonstandard opinions, I have a fine collection of them myself, I only object when people try to claim them as the mainstream interpretation. You ought to know when you've left the mainstream.

The mainstream interpretation most certain is that copyright is to protect creators, not distributors.
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Cable/IPTV companies are some of the last surviving tech dinosaurs. When will they wake up and tell the content providers that they will not carry their content bundled? A la carte channel selection is the only way I would ever have traditional TV in my home. Charge me $X.XX per channel and let me choose just the ones I want. I thought that IPTV would provide this, but the content producers are the kings.
i give it two days after launch for a cheap model sold by AT&T to came with ICS patched to ignore certain nascar apps.
But in Stallman's world no proprietary software is allowed.
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the example code has

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hadn't seen that in such a long time :)
Someone needed to keep an idea alive: that a developer's first duty is to freedom, even if presently they need to put food on the table. That's all Stallman needs to do, brandish the whip: "Stallman expects them to be."
Voltaire was wrong and I have proof. Behold:

"A short saying oft contains much wisdom." -- Sophocles
Looks like someone completely missed Stallman's point...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_United_States_h... indicates United States housing bubble was from 2001-2005. However, it also says that in 1998 the nflation-adjusted home price appreciation exceeded 10%/year in most West Coast metropolitan areas.
I continue to believe this isn't the right way of looking at the problem. There isn't a "tablet" market yet. The iPad sells to iPhone users only. It's an attractive upgrade/enhancement, and a fun device. But it hasn't creates a new market yet, in the sense that no one decides to buy a "tablet" and then researches alternatives. Instead, people fall in love with the iPad specifically and buy that.

So manufacturers chasing "tablet" sales are fooling themselves. Maybe tablets will come of age, or maybe they're a fad. But right now the only way to displace the iPad is to displace the iPhone first.
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fwiw i would definitely pay for your service, especially the bookmarks/favorites feature. it rules.
You're forgetting multi-platform development. I'm creating an Android app (still unfinished) using appcelerator titanium, and was thinking about porting it to iOS later - it should be pretty easy. This kind of solution looks very interesting for me. Not a big market, but there is a market.
Yeah, the pricing is absolutely ridiculous.

At least there are alternatives:

1) Yahoo maps

2) Bing maps

3) OpenStreetMap

4) Nokia Maps

5) Cloudmade
This is a good devil's advocate summary, except feasibility of remote development with a GUI. I don't agree with a few of these points though.

"Someone who has either invested or going to invested 100's of hours to properly learn the iOS/Mac frameworks"

I think a lot of people will just want to experiment with something, or see some app, in my case I need to fix a bug in a desktop app I use. The kind of bug that I think just requires running a build and then searching forums, etc. for the error. I think the 100s of hours would have been wasted setting up virtualization and the toolchain but I can pay 20-50 a month to have that done for me.

"someone who is either unable to afford an older mac mini ($200-300 as noted in other comments) OR someone who has no cheap way to deliver older mac hardware to his home country."

A lot of people will want to try things out. There is a huge convenience value to just paying a monthly fee and logging in to a virtual system that is already setup versus the hassle of buying a mac mini, connecting it all up, setting up a virtualization, installing all the junk you need for development, etc. Not to mention the upfront cost of buying a mac mini will most likely be more than experimenting for 2-3 months. I'll need to update the software on it regularly, etc. And lastly, it is just another thing to take up space on my desk that I don't use that often that: collecting dust, taking up plug space, needing to not spill coffee on, etc.

The real question I have is developing in a GUI over remote access even feasible? How good does your inet connection really have to be? How much can be done via non-GUI ?
^ My favorite strategy when I'm defeated and my teammate is still kicking. Try to get a rise out of the enemey just as my teammate executes a drop!
>The classic business model of selling IP doesn't work anymore, but there are other models out there. Mozilla being one of them.

And iOS will be killed by Android anytime now. Right?
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I think you're missing the point. Computer programs are processes. There's a whole lot of amazing biological processes out there. Why are current human formulations about the nature of process (programs) so brittle compared to these other processes we observe? It's a humbling talk. Our notions of computation are somewhere at the primordial soup phase.
(full disclosure; have patches in many mapping frameworks, and a surplus of opinions)

You're probably better off just using a straight-up real maps API, like the MapQuest open tile API [1], and an open-source framework directly. And for this, use Leaflet or Modest Maps javascript. Not OpenLayers unless you really, really need OpenLayers.

[1]: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map
The replays would be awesome. Then you don't have to deal with the jumping camera.
Yes, I enjoyed that diversion quite a bit.

A few different solutions: http://pastebin.com/Mf6ZmhfA
He's explaining the source of his words, not comparing them.

You're too hysterical to speak with reasonably.
We might think it's not our problem if we don't act like a sexist jerk, but if we don't speak up and stop these behaviors when we see them, we are part of the problem.

BTW nice of you to reach out to try to understand what the issues were.
IPhone 4S Siri can do anything... ANYTHING
Software freedom is more important than "products people love".
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My immediate reaction to this (actually the Ars article http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/house-takes-...) is that it's a sterling attempt to create a problem for Bitcoin to solve.
Huge site devoted to teaching persuasion
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Location-based anonymous tasking with anonymous payment. Like a crowd sourced Wikileaks for professional information gatherers (journalists, videographers, photographers, audio recorders etc.). A global network to facilitate the buying and selling of all kinds of information.
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If I'm in the US, and I see that some Arab guy got offended by someone trying to congratulate him by giving him a thumbs-up, I might be completely at a loss as to what exactly he was offended by, or how to avoid it in future.
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In that sort of world, certain kinds of software would be underproduced. Software by hackers for hackers would probably still exist, but why would you go to the trouble of making something user friendly to sell to people?
I'd say six months of agonized indecision over what the outcome will be is most certainly a big deal. If the markets had fully priced this in, then they wouldn't be swinging around wildly while the EU vacillates. Sure, they're volatile because they're trying to guess how this will ripple out to affects other heavily indebted European economies such as Italy, Spain and so on. But the fact is that nobody knows what size haircut the Greek bondholders are being expected to take, which makes pricing more or less impossible unless one assumes it will be 100% and treats anything less as a windfall.

No asset class is completely risk-free, and bonds are no exception. The yield on a bond is meant to be reflective of its risk factor. But in practice, sovereign debt default is rare and the yield so low that buying bonds is equivalent to leaving your money in the bank - a riskier proposition in some countries than others, but an inherently conservative investment all the same. In absolute terms, they're risky, but so is putting your money under the mattress. In relative terms, they're the investment equivalent of the savings account: nobody buys bonds in a politically stable country with the expectation of losing money on the deal, they buy them to keep pace with inflation.
I am confused by one of such points:
> He designed them to refuse even to let users install their own choice of applications — and installing free (freedom-respecting) applications is entirely forbidden.

Is installing free software (open source) on Apple products forbidden? Or that means something else?
MapBox (http://mapbox.com/) hosts tiles (http://tiles.mapbox.com/) that you can use with much less restrictions, and download full tilesets if you want to really hammer a server. There's also a tool (TileMill) for designing maps from scratch or with OpenStreetMap data. It's a self-plug (I work there), but pretty relevant today.
Personally I'm really hoping Blizzard doesn't go after things like this too actively on SC2

At a cerebral level, I love to see bots in development for RTS's. Beyond the cool factor, it could wind up developing all sorts of new strategies and spur more high-level discussion. That said, it would really destroy the battle.net experience if bots became prolific.
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"He designed them to refuse even to let users install their own choice of applications — and installing free (freedom-respecting) applications is entirely forbidden."

Uh... installing free software is forbidden by the GPL, not Apple. Since GPL forbids further restrictions on distributions, there's no way to legally install them in an Apple device, because of the EULA.

Since this is already forbidden by the GPL, for Apple it makes (legal) sense to not approve them in the first place.

EDIT: Removing comment about the approval process.
Carter's papers on the subject:

﻿Ballester, P. J., & Carter, J. N. (2006). Characterising the parameter space of a highly nonlinear inverse problem. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 14(2), 171-191. doi:10.1080/17415970500258162.

Ballester, P., & Carter, J. (2007). A parallel real-coded genetic algorithm for history matching and its application to a real petroleum reservoir. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 59(3-4), 157-168. doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2007.03.012.
>(once had somebody on HN tell me that women are genetically less likely to want to do tech![!!!!!!!])

Are you trolling? That does not seem to be a sexist or retrograde statement.
I'm not very familiar with you, so perhaps there is some context missing. But those statements are extraordinarily odd.

No one is equal - or perhaps you know of some physical or natural law that demonstrates this supposed equality? If anyone was equal to another they would be identical and indistinguishable.

I know of a mathematical formula that allows me to compare to whole human beings: what value have I received from your existence vs. another's existence? It's an imperfect formula, no doubt, but it's not equivalent to null. Specific people have far greater influence on any given individual than all people have influence. Therefore, they are superior people from the perspective of that individual.

The last statement lacks sufficient context for me to comment: "And now that he's gone, I'm more of a person than he ever will be" - I can't determine the meaning. I suppose it's something like: any person that is alive at this moment is better than any person that has ever lived and died. And that's not supreme hubris? (Perhaps there is some indication you're referring to the potential of a person living vs. the potential of a person dead, though that ignores the reality of continuing influence and inspiration that some dead people retain while a living person likely never achieves at a similar scale.)
I appreciate the notion, but the massive success of github's private repositories (which of course are stored on their servers) would suggest otherwise.
Wait. You are a professional programmer at a bank and you don't own a PC or mac at home? Is this common? How do you keep your skills up to speed?
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I'd assume that getting into StanfordNYU would be just as hard as getting into Stanford in California, so I don't think it would be much of a safety school.
His complaint isn't that Jobs was good at it. His complaint is that Jobs sells computers that restrict users freedoms to use their own hardware as they see fit, with their own software or software of their choice. He merely complains about Jobs being good at it because that helps convince users to use machines that otherwise restrict their freedom.

The thing is, a lot of people are willing to trade their freedom for a little convenience, especially if that freedom seems abstract and the convenience is immediate. But if enough people do that, you can run into serious trouble.
There's also (I'm as surprised as you are) Mapquest. They have a whole host of open APIs now, built on OSM, and even have web services like directions/elevation: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open

http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/directions-s...
This is like complaining that T. J. Stiles didn't know enough about trains to write a biography of Cornelius Vanderbildt.

One tends to get the sense that any time Winer writes something negative, his real concern is that people aren't paying him enough attention.
Yep
http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-faq.html
At risk of Godwinning, let's just say that often the people actively and happily chose things that are very oppressive. And this is were Stallman is coming from. He very explicitly understands that people like Apple products (he even says that making things stylish and smooth are positives in this piece). It is because Apple products are so good that Stallman reacts so strongly to them.

You and I may disagree with him about how oppressive Apple devices are, but there is definitely a reasonable argument to be made that they are.
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I read and reread The Cuckoo's Egg back in the day. It's a classic, as far as I'm concerned.
Neither can I. Could you perhaps be a little clearer?
Not exactly. If you use 30,000 a day you will pay $20, or only $0.66 per one thousand.

They are giving you over 9 million requests a year for free. Its not unreasonable to expect the profit from that to help subsidize the excess,
I like this idea. Basically, a site connecting startups and early adopters. Ineedanapp.com?
>So if we are not to sell pets, does that mean we need to give birth to them ourselves?

200 years ago it would sound like a valid issue about slaves. Today it sound like absurd.

As long as you are boxed inside the "owning" paradigm, your issues sound valid and arguments are sound. Yet, once the paradigm shift in people minds happens - from "owning" to "coexistence" - the issues and the arguments would become either moot or absurd.
Various other posters question the assertion that the entertainment industry is small:

Computers and Electronics: 1.1M people employed
http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag334.htm

Motion Pictures and Music: 365k people employed
http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag512.htm

Computer and tech sector workers get paid more on average per hour as well. That said, the entertainment industry is probably a bigger exporter relative to its size (how many foreign movies do we watch?) and is also REALLY good at creative accounting. Maybe it's actually making a lot more money than the figures say.

I think you can lump a whole pile of extra industry sectors in with entertainment and still not get close to the tech sector.

So it's definitely a case of disproportionate lobbying.
I didn't say you shouldn't read it -- I didn't even say I wouldn't finish it myself. I just said why it was painful for me to read it. And why the story is so well-rehearsed, and how the myth has replaced the actual events. So many people are reading so much more into what I wrote than what I actually wrote (and think).
This reminds me of Knuth's conjecture. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=443037 (Starting with 3, apply some combination of factorial, square root, and floor functions. Knuth conjectured all natural numbers are achievable this way.)
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So you think that the Geocoding API will work via IP limits as described in the link I provided, but regular Maps API calls will be subject to domain limits?
I was thinking that too. $66/month is a bit steep for a 2 person team currently using their personal Dropboxes.
No one is still able to crack the make money while open sourcing something unless the tool is completely tangential to the way the company makes money

Countless consulting companies do that, but the biggest example is RedHat:

http://investors.redhat.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=6073...
I have a couple of friends that work at Mozilla. They are indeed getting paid, have always gotten paid, and (in all likelihoods) will continue getting paid. You are probably referring to the Bugs for Cash thing they did. And a quick google search shows that, yes, mozilla has made good on that too.

As for the IRS, they were auditing Mozilla's finances. And since when is there an implicit assumption of guilt in an audit?
> No one is still able to crack the make money while open sourcing something unless the tool is completely tangential to the way the company makes money

This might not be so much about making money as not losing some. Say you develop a product in Ruby and no fast XML parser exist but you need one. You could start development of such a library, and once it reached some maturity give it to the community, which in return will make all sorts of improvements (from code review to bug fixes to refactorings to translations, etc). Net result: you don't waste so much time on a critical dependency and can concentrate on your product, and so everyone moves forward.
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> Just because an app was the most popular six months ago, doesn't mean it
> should be the most popular now. But a leaderboard model is a self reinforcing
> action. The most popular stay the most popular. The new upstart doesn't stand
> a chance at unseating the aging category leader.

I don't think this is actually true. Having had many apps make it into a category leaderboard and then fall back down, it's pretty clear that simply being on the leaderboard doesn't give you enough momentum to stay there.

The apps that stay on the leaderboards are being promoted in additional ways (word of mouth, advertising, App Store features, website reviews and plugs).
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Yes, but the yield on Irish 10 year government bonds is 6.09%, while Greece is paying 7.82%. After that payment takes place the coupon on Irish bonds will go down, possibly under 6%.
> free software (open source)

Whoa there, buddy.
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