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How often does this actually happen? I'm not altogether that knowledgeable in this area, as I am neither a biographer nor a historian. But I don't know where the "professional obligation to history" comes from. He's making a commercial product, not doing a research paper for a public university.

And sure, it'd be nice to see his source material eventually. But I'd rather see the coherent package of his research in a narrative book form rather than his notes. I'll trust Isaacson to tell the story of Steve Jobs through his own interpretation, as that is all that a biography can be.
A small business, which has other connotations (i.e., unlikely to turn into the next big thing).
Based on how meiosis works, I can see how methylation could be passed down to offspring. But these changes in methylation would have to occur within the specialized cells which produce sperm and egg. If the methylation pattern changes in your liver or heart cells, it doesn't matter since these somatic cells don't get to pass this information on to offspring.

Females are born with all their eggs, so any changes in methylation that occur to these eggs will persist into adulthood (I assume). But is it possible that these eggs are somehow protected from this alteration? As for sperm, these are produced within the testes following puberty, and are generated continuously. Therefore, in order to pass down altered methylation, the original gamete cells responsible for generating sperm would have to be altered. But if you wanted to do this successfully, you'd have to make sure to alter ALL the gamete cells. Otherwise you're gambling as to which sperm cell hits the pay load. Again, I'm curious if these cells are more or less prone to altered methylation.

I find this whole concept fascinating! Imagine...your dad gets bullied as a kid, results in altered methylation pattern, and this gets passed to you! Wow.
Downvoted for your ad hominem. Quality discussion is valued on HN. Please argue your point without rhetorical tricks.
This attitude towards the problem has always struck me as counterproductive. It's true, of course, that everyone has biases, but it's possible to address those biases without putting such a strong emphasis on their permanence. (I won't go into whether or not they are permanent here.) That emphasis seems more likely to create a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything else.

I'm only speaking from personal experience, of course. Take it as you will.
I maintain some tools (mostly open-source) and would like them to work on OS X as well. I run a mixture of Windows and Linux boxes and VMs, and there's no legit way (that I'm aware of) to run OS X inside a VM.

Wouldn't this service be good for me, allowing me to easily test my code on OS X?

A bit too expensive, though.
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I say sexism is fucked up, and this guy blames me for sexism in the tech industry.

No, you didn't say that. You said it was inevitable and that people should suck it up and stop harping on it. You're not the victim here.
When spending $12bil on a second rate hardware company is cheaper than the legal cost of patent defense, things like this will happen.
And "less than 1 hour" is supposed to be a good thing now?

I used to complain about the RTA (the NSW equivalent) in Sydney. But I have to admit that last time I showed up to get my New South Wales licence renewed, I was in and out with a licence in my hand (printed on the spot) in about fifteen minutes.
This is largely because of the GPL, not because of the App Store.

In other words, it's not that the App Store says "you can't distribute software licensed under the GPL"; it's because the terms of the GPL (which the software's author chose to apply to it) prevent it from being distributed on the App Store.
I'm a big believer in hiring exceptional talent over those with seemingly relevant experience. Highly motivated and talented people find new and better ways of doing things, that simple. Find it early, hone it, develop it, rule the world.
From personal experience, my impression is that this kind of defensiveness comes from a lack of perspective. Especially when you realize you're hurting someone (and perhaps yourself). I don't know whether it's confined to nerds -- there are a lot of regressive, defensive people out there. :-)

For people who pride themselves on being analytical and meritocratic, it can be a difficult thing to realize that no amount of detailed analysis is going to help because you've been living in a bubble for most of your life -- you have only a small amount real data to work with. It can be even more startling when your meritocracy not ends up not only not really being one, but possibly impossible to achieve given the constraints of human nature.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but just to be clear: traditional genetics' utility for explaining natural variation among individuals represents an enormous increase in scientific understanding, and is supported by tens of thousands of scientific papers and countless benefits to society.

It's somewhat absurd to compare the credibility of genetics as a field to what is still almost entirely conjecture.
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Yeah - the recruiter didn't know it had ever existed!
I think RMS is similar to Jobs in some ways. They are both extremely strong willed individuals that has done a lot but have some pretty serious quirks.

While I disagree with his pretty extreme views he is at least consistent in them. Also, even though I'm not a huge FOSS-proponent myself, I think the world is better for having some of them.
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The last sentence makes it clear that the intent behind this rule is to prevent circumvention of the App Store approval process, not to ban executable code itself.

The rule can be read as ambiguous when it comes to executable content that is not part of an app, just the document type that an app edits and displays. For example - you could think of calculating a formula in a spreadsheet as an example of interpreted code. Apple has no reasonable interest in preventing such apps.

When the documents that an app handles become more app-like, such as games, then Apple might decide to step in. They have left themselves enough slack in the wording of the rule to allow that.

I hope that they make the rule more explicit in a future version of the agreement.
I'm not saying the Sonic games are great, but that it's proof that Nintendo could still keep their brand characters (Mario and friends, Link, Samus, etc) without a console.

Proof that Sega still knows how to make great games:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1tuZs55Ko&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7sb_qlP8Gs
LinkedIn has become the defacto area for working world recommendations. Granted, people are not going to give you recommendations on there without it being a 'strong' recommendation, and you also have to approve it, so you will never see work-related recommendations that are bad. "Standard glowing references".

The people writing recommendations on LinkedIn are also usually colleagues, they don't have to be your boss. From what I have seen, they are also never produced under duress, since these people writing them may hang out with you outside of work.

These letters of rec may not tell you much, but they will at least tell you the type of people that the candidate has worked with in the past. If they are getting other developers to write letters of rec then they probably fit into a team environment well. If they get their managers to do it, then they probably are well-manageable. Etc., etc.
For the former, I need to look around, I've been fighting it since the early-mid '70s, not long after sugar price supports destroyed the moonshine industry and the BATF was in danger of being downsized because their Revenuers were out of a job. But they had this shiny new Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968 which completely changed the legal regime for gun sales and they preceded to use and abuse it heavily.

For the latter, this book is supposed to be good, probably the best in breadth, I've read quite a bit of the author's words and he's honest and very good, and the used price is right: http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Mountie-Cowboy-David-Kopel/dp/...

I have to run right now, I'll see what I can come up with later (you might want to add your email address to your "about" entry to make it easier to contact you).

And your point about "a modern, large scale, egalitarian society" is spot on: "God created men, and Samuel Colt made the equal" is the old saw. Adjust as desired, e.g. the feminist version is "created men and women"....
"That's the problem with randomness: you can never be sure."

http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator
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Single plan at $795/year? Yikes.

Dropbox is the absolutely easiest cloud storage service out there, that's certain, and I'm sure many people will find this a fair package with a fair price. But I suspect most teams of up to 5 people will find this price way above the opportunity cost of setting up and getting used to a different cloud storage service.

It bears repeating: I'm not saying it's a bad package, and it would be foolish of me to assume that the market will perceive this price the way I did. But I do think they should have started offering something simpler and cheaper, and worked their way up to plans like the one they just launched.
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I would even add: that you may not want to become the next big thing.
> Is this common?

Well, its not uncommon. From my unscientific survey among my colleagues I'd say ppl who don't own machines is upwards of 60%. Its not hard to see why. Banks work you quite hard anyways. I stare at a PC 8 hours a day. Plus there's the pager so you can respond to calls at night & so on...the association of PC=Work becomes quite hardwired. Last thing I'd want to do is muck around with a computer at home as well. If I buy a PC/Mac, like a desktop with monitor, where do I keep it ? I have to buy a computer desk and computer chair and all that? Dude I live in a tiny apartment 10 minutes from the bank. There's no space.
As to keeping up with my skills - I've been doing this some dozen plus years at this point. I will say if you know how to fold and write a parser combinator, you are golden. I know both, so my comp science degree wasn't a total waste. Most of what I do is just some combination of map reduce filter fold partition, occasionally some lazy eval/Stream, some memoization, rest is just standard finance - portfolio theory, capm, derivatives, option pricing, stochastic calculus etc - you learn those at school anyways, otherwise they won't give you a diploma, and the bank won't hire you without a diploma.
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As a "kid" I have loved being able to work with startups on a daily basis. The responsibility, challenges, and excitement that come with this job make coming to work everyday fun!
Didn't think we'd ever get this. Now I can use my factory SSD that's been sitting in the closet since I upgraded.
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Can you give any concrete example of where Issacson's apparently shoddy reporting has led to a well-rehearsed myth replaced the actual events?

Instead of complaining about how non-insiders keep trumpeting up "bullshit", help shed light on the truth.
Other discussions on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163509 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162352
I totally messed up on the Elvis one, I got .16 since I forgot that more than half of all twins are the same sex!
Any startup would benefit from thinking of itself as a business.

In fact most startups that are not businesses do not have a very good prognosis, though quite a few still get acquired for technology or team.
With square, you are not setting up your own merchant account you just go and signup on squareup.com and get the reader on your phone.

Payfirma you still have to talk to someone and get an account signed up, pay monthly fees, setup fees.
Do you have any specific APIs or features in mind?

I think most app devs look at the installed base numbers and choose to support 2.1+ or 2.2+. I can't think of any APIs in 2.3 or 3.0 (or even 4.0) that are so wonderful that they are worth cutting off such a large part of the potential customer base.
I highly recommend an inexpensive desktop photo-oriented scanner, such as the Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner. With a list price of $200, it can handle prints, negatives, and transparencies (slides) at resolutions high enough to capture a lot of detail. Its driver software does a good job correcting color of faded prints and negatives, and it works with Windows or Mac. I've scanned about 12,000 negatives this year with one. (I'm a baby boomer who took a lot of pictures, as did my parents, in-laws, and grandparents.)
>For instance, if you go hang out in your local university's maths (or physics) department

There's the trans-gendered (male to female) mathematician who'd disagree. She says that when she used to give talks (as a male) she got respect, but now people say things like "Her brother was better" not realising it's the same person.
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> But of course there's really no such thing as "complete equals". Put me in a foot race with any other healthy 35 year old, or compare my oil painting output with that of any trained artist, and you'll quickly see why.

Ah, well that's a bummer. You know, it's funny, when you only read someone online without any face to face context, you kind of mentally fill in a profile of them that probably has no bearing on reality. I had you mentally pictured as something from the Age of Pericles, a mix of track and field style athletics, a little painting, a little sculpting, a little philosophy, a little music, a strong understanding of people, a thorough writer of both poetry and practical arts, a solid craftsman, a strong orator with a bent for rationality and a nuanced sense of justice, and successful in commerce and trade. This is how you've come across in writing, to me at least.
> Obviously in any big market there may be "lots" of consumers with any characteristic you want.

Right...

> I'm just saying that in my experience, every iPad I've seen has been owned by a previous iOS user. Every single one.

Did the same person write both those sentences?
There is no good reason to have DRM malfeatures, on someone from a society as backwards as ours would believe something like that.
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You flagged a submission because you didn't like some of the comments people posted about it?
It's cheaper than their nearest competitor in the space: http://www.box.net/pricing/
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No, but I'm also not telling someone who is experiencing it what they should do.
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Here is a guy who doesnt know what he is talking about. And he proposes to implement a new language that fixes Python's flaws.

Integer division is a slippery concept. Python 2.4 returns the floor of the result.

>>> -(5/3)

-1

>>> -5/3

-2

If a language "rounds" towards zero the results will be different and equal.

>>> from __future__ import division

>>> -(5/3)

-1.6666666666666667

>>> -5/3

-1.6666666666666667

The results are the same, but probably not what he is expecting.

The discussion about .1 reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about floating point;. You cannot represent .1 exactly. FP should not be used for financial applications if you want exact results. Use Decimal instead.

On the other hand, maybe understands all this and is just fishing for a language development project.
I cannot use Language X
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Picture Pericles after a lot of beer and pork. Take away any artistic talent. Don't let him shave.
Jungledisk is much much cheaper. https://www.jungledisk.com/business/
It's not clear without further scientifically designed testing whether there is more "cultural bias" in grouping people by saying "All of them look very Nigerian to my eyes" or by saying that it is easy to see which of the varied individuals grow up in the West and which grew up in Nigeria. (It's an empirical question, first of all, whether observer identifications of that kind can be verified by controlled experiments with unfamiliar individuals in either case.) There are definitely different cultural biases among human beings about whether environment of development matters most or ancestral lineage group matters most in making distinct human individuals more or less alike for the social purpose of grouping them by some commonality. One refreshingly interesting fact I learned from the book The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

http://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/...

is that the ancient Greek authors were overwhelmingly of the opinion that what made different people groups different from one another was different living environments (climate and topography), with the Greeks of course thinking that their living environment tended to produce superior people.
Make a hypothesis, let the market validate it. I would say if you're spending more than 1-2 months on designing, developing, and testing (on real cusotmers) your MVP, your cycle is probably too long.

I'm currently looking at a 6 week cycle for one "iteration".

It will depend on how difficult your product is, as well. There was a linked article on HN recently about how dropbox's MVP was too complex to build ahead of time, so they used a video demo as their MVP.
I guess FRA will be happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
I'm reading your "Academic job hunt advice" right now, very useful.

Until I read your teaching statement I'd never really been clear on what the hell a teaching statement was supposed to be.
You don't have a right to happiness, but nor do you have a right to inflict emotional distress on people. And when someone is emailing unpleasant thoughts to a specific individual as opposed to expressing them on a public blog, that's crossing a line from self-expression to harassment. It is, literally, making it personal.
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as the requestor, prepare sample letter for the writer

A slightly less presumptuous version of this strategy is to provide a bullet list of things they may like to include in a letter. When I'm writing letters I usually ask students for such a list. I wouldn't really want them to draft the whole letter.
I exclude stabbing myself and I don't think that's ugly. Its in the same vein that I exclude stabbing my computer with crapware from Apple and Microsoft.
This is exactly what we have had to do, Sean. The company has been incorporated and I'm waiting to finish the paperwork with the bank so that the US company has a bank account and we can begin process payments.

I find it unfortunate that this is the case though. I used to believe that it was due to regulatory differences of Canada vs. the USA but I don't believe that's the case.

Again, I'm not an expert this is all just based on my experience but the regulations for opening an account in the US are far more detailed than they are in Canada. The issue in Canada just seems to be that there is not enough competition. The banks in control of the payment processing industry are really large institutions, they're not hungry to gain ground by looking for new ways to do business.
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I have run extensive tests with DSLR cameras, trying to approach the level of quality that you'd get from an entry level scanner. My research project in uni was on this topic. It just isn't there yet, even with these prosumer cameras and high quality lenses. The concept is good, and it works for a $30,000 hasselblad, but this will produce brutal copies from an iPhone 4S.

I'd love it if this was possible in any reasonable form as I'd abandon scanning and go to this method. In a millisecond.

Trying to justify that it is OK based on a 550 DPI is ridiculous as well - sure, the photo is large enough, but the optics inside the camera are not.

Do your own tests and see, but this is gimmicky to the extreme
Yes, you're completely right about that.
Considering my current rhythm, by the time I finish learning VHDL, it'll be available for US$10 a piece ;-)
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Not a lobbyist. Not a politician. Not a financial services CEO. Not even a trader.

A priest.Bravo movement, bravo.
I'm part of a small team using Dropbox right now and yeah, this was a killer. We're living inside the 2G free limit at the moment, waiting vaguely on expense approval. It's not even the amount, it's that it lives right between the "just do it" level (e.g. $30/mo on someone's credit card for EC2 hosting) and "management-visible priority" ($4k for development boards).

It's simultaneously too much for me to do on a whim and not enough for my superiors to care. Drop it to $35 and bill it monthly and we'd buy it in an instant.
I was hoping it'd be much smaller. Something closer to the dimensions of the SSD module itself would be really nice.
> Apple puts DRM on for the user's safety.

Nope. Guess again!

It'd be trivial to redesign the bootloader so it could flash any image from the USB port. This would make it easier for Apple techs to restore a known-good state (say if a new exploit was used to install a rootkit rather than one-click jailbreak)

> There should be something between the GPL and the BSD licences, GPL with an exception for whatever DRM the first party agrees to.

This is called BSD. There is no middle ground - either the end user can tweak the software running on their device, or they cannot.
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Maybe they just disrespect him because... let's face it, surgically mutilating your penis, taking a bunch of hormones and demanding that everybody call you "she" is just plain weird, regardless of what current orthodoxy says.
Yep, that's the boat I'm in. I've got google apps for my own domain, and maintain 2 personal accounts on there (one for friends, one for acquaintances), my work is also on google apps. That means that there are already 3 google accounts that I'm juggling (or struggling with) and I was loathe to add a 4th account just to use google plus.
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This applies to everyone, not just Stallman. You can't expect people to feel empathy for everyone in a world as connected as ours, it would be overwhelming.
It's not about the content; it's just about the level of empathy implied. This correction had some, and he went to greater length to explain that he had nothing against Steve personally.
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I would rather live in a world where people like Jobs are in charge (iPhones and Mac comes to mind), than the one in which people like Stallman are (unix terminal and command prompts come to mind).