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I only wonder what everyone's opinion on someone who goes to work from 9-5 to do the job they love, then come back home to live the life they love, which doesn't involve reading about the company they work for or reading tech news or doing anything to do with their professional life. I enjoy fishing in my spare time and fixing my rusty, dingy boat, not blogging, working on project or running a startup. I know you probably think i'm terrible engineer and wouldn't want to hire me for your startup, and that's your choice. I love engineering and building stuff but I absolutely refuse to be caught up in my professional life 24/7. I may have a wife and kids. An older parent to take care of. It doesn't matter. What matters is i try to live a life and i only got 1 shot at it. I can imagine there are some folks at Yahoo! who have the same stance on their job/life.
So not only <xyz protection racket comparisons>, you can't actually even bank on it if you get it. '[..] says he's gotten Precheck screening on about 80% of his trips so far [..]'

While I'd much rather sit in some miserable lobby than stand in line for two hours, this means you save exactly zero time unless you're happy to miss X% of your flights..
They are pretty cool for mid-size groups. They won TechCrunch 50 (or were a finalist) the year I went.
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My take:

Stallman probably thinks of freedom as the most important right, so he'd probably tend to "the less I depend on society, the better" line of thought

and that's what happens, if you live completely immersed in society, you need money, and always more money then, to live, and that's the rules of the game, if you adopted simpler and more idealistic living, you wouldn't depend on money so much... and you'd turn out to be less of a slave of money

so how much of this "feed my children" is about capitalist race and how much of it is "feed my children"?

He really doesn't care that you think you need to make 200k/year to feed your children, the fix is inside the problem
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Probably the best evidence for your argument is the fact that he apparently negotiated a hand-shuffled shoe. I'm amazed anyone would agree to it, since it's pretty much a giant warning sign that the guy is planning to exploit poor shuffles.
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It wouldn't surprise me, but in that case competitors have no one but themselves to blame. They've known a retina iPad was coming since June 2010, so they should have booked capacity then.
Isn't this at least partly discriminatory? It seems likely if not Federal, there may be some kind of California law which may cover this.

It seems to me that making a public statement about this could burn them in the future.
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Naturally because it's on "simplecv.tumblr.com" this is pretty biased.

But some glaring omissions

1) You can compile Matlab to C++ code which is much faster.

2) With respect to Portability there is the glaring omission of Octave (nor to mention there is MATLAB for unix systems). (I guess that also counts for the price issue). I'm not a MATLAB guru, but in the couple of times I've used it, it seems like MATLAB minus the handy dandy documentation and IDE.

3) Debugging in Matlab's ID is so easy a 5 year old can do it. The variables are all there; you can double click on any to see their contents. Debugging in a shell in my experience is a much bigger PITA.

4) I didn't look at their documentation, but I honest really doubt it's better then MATLAB's. I've never seen documentation so well written in an open source project.
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Yeah, yeah, and degrees are wrong for expressing angles, and steering wheels are wrong for driving cars.

Incidentally, there's already a symbol for \tau: 2\pi. Same number of syllables and characters as 14, so what's the problem?
> "it is sad to me when people do the 'TL;DR' thing"

HN has a strong bias toward allowing people to allocate their time based on their preferences. The tl;dr convention is tremendously useful because it allows people to make an informed decision as to whether or not to read the article, based on a summary which is (typically) more accurate than the headline.

In particular, if someone thought the article might have something new to say about the math of blackjack, the original comment would have dispelled them of that notion and therefore saved them some aggravation.

On the other hand, if someone was looking for a short story about the personality behind a famous gambler and didn't want to get bogged down in math, your comment may have enticed them to read. Thus, both comments are of value.
Yes, this was certainly questioned. His threads on internal engineering lists (adopting this tone after just a few months at Google) are somewhat legendary. I'd caution anyone from forming an impression of the company from mchurch.
Seriously. Why not, "Lamaar Smith tried to Destroy the Internet." Hyperbole, sure, but it's a billboard.

If you want something like this to be effective, you have to take your inspiration from political attack ads. Throw his desaturated face up there on a black background.
If you mean memory as in storage, there are several ways around that for certain classes of data (mostly photos) through the camera connection kit. (I have a HDD photo tank that includes firmware capable of mounting a folder as if it were a camera card, fooling the iPad into mounting data from a hard drive.) On the other hand, with my 32GB iPad (2010), I don't think that I've hit a limit that I care about. (I don't typically care about movies on the iPad, and HandBrake works beautifully to convert DVDs for play on the iPad when I do care.)

For format issues, both AirVideo (http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html) and ZumoCast (http://www.zumocast.com/) provide ways to stream data from your primary computer with 'live' transcoding of the data into formats that iOS devices can play without any additional codecs.

My suggestion is buy the new iPad. Play with it. You'll either realize that your concerns don't exist once you have the device, or they matter more than anything else. If the latter, wipe it and sell it. You'll get great resale value for it, even a year later. If the new iPad is as hard to get as the iPad 2 was when it first came out, you might even manage to break even.
Testing is great, but I find that a set of full-system tests tend to give the most bang for the buck if you can make them run quickly enough.
It might still be worth a try. Specs and capabilities are easy to judge something by when you're looking to buy it (since they're all that you can really see without owning the device), but they sometimes matter less than the holistic experience once you actually own it. Basically: optimise for the common case. If 90% of the time you'll want to use your tablet as a tablet, not an SD card reader or portable drive, then it makes sense to pay more attention to the tablet experience than whether it can function as an SD reader or drive.

I'd recommend seeing if you can check out an iPad and whatever alternative you're looking into at a local store, and spend some time using them how you anticipate you would on a day to day basis.
While I hear there are some good android tablets, some are laggy (Kindle Fire, I'm looking at you), which gets incredibly frustrating over time. There are also other potential limitations, such as the app store (not to say Android isn't doing well there, but a lot of mobile apps still seem to start with iOS first, although this could change).

Disclaimer: I own an iPad, and I like it. I also have friends with both Android tablets and iPads who love their choice. If you feel that the features lacked by the iPad are important, then go for it and get something else. Good luck in your search!

(Side note: I totally agree about iTunes, especially on Windows.)
If you're curious though here's how I deal with your limitations & barriers. Not sure if it will work for you or not or if you want to change the way you do things.

I want one that I can throw ripped movies onto

Rip to H264. Even the piracy groups have switched to it. If you encode your ripped movies to H264 they will play on almost any device. Xbox, Playstation, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, etc. Even OS/2 Warp has support via VLC. (though good luck getting OS/2 installed on a machine with the guts to play H264 video) With all my files in H264 I don't have to worry about this at all.

I want a tablet whose memory I can expand with SD cards.

With cloud storage/services I feel like my iPad has unlimited storage. The one area I think this is an issue is transferring photos or videos from another camera into the iPad which is what the Camera Connection Kit handles for now. I suspect in the near future it will all be handled wirelessly. Looking back into history as soon as the local area network appeared people didn't really bother walking floppy disks around anymore. The same is going to happen with SD cards. I haven't owned an SD card in probably 6 or 7 years. I'm not really sure what I would do with one at this point.

I want one that lets me use it as a simple removable drive

There are a number of applications that just create a writable network share on the iPad. Seems easier to me than finding a cable and plugging it in. This also goes back to cloud storage/services that just sync the data for you automatically. I rarely find that I actually need to use these apps. I just put the file onto Dropbox and let it sync. Done.

bloated iTunes client.

I don't sync my iPhone or iPad to a computer anymore. Works fine without it.
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As far as the vast array of software goes, isn't it all going to have to be rebuilt for the new platforms (ARM etc) anyway? And if you want people to develop for Metro they're going to have to develop for that rather than just offering the same old software.

I really don't see the advantage MS is supposed to have here.
I use the MDN (#4 on the list) a lot. I only wish there was (or, I only wish I knew the name of...) a support-matrix site for javascript like there is for css (quirksmode.org). Some topics in MDN have that info, but not all (and when it does that info is very broad).
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This is the TSA we're talking about. The 'code' is probably the words, "Cleared for Precheck" printed on the boarding pass.
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If they are run by a continuous integration server on check in, it kind of doesn't matter how long they take to run.
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hey guys, i actually think he might have positive expectation:

he negotiated a .25% houe edge (roughly half of normal perfect play) and if he loses 500k he gets 20% back, each session independent.

check this analysis. he is +EV by martingaling his wins - 7/8 times he loses 400k with a 20% discount (400k x 7 x .80 = 2 240 000), 1/8 times he wins 400k x 8 with no reverse-discount = 3 200 000, so that's a mil in EV. if he pushes his martingale as far as he can his expectation grows superlinearly, which is why he martingales his wins until they cut him off.

is this math right? if he was -EV, the house would let him keep playing, hence telling him he can continue to play under normal rules. note he refused.

update: an easy way to see this (gross oversimplification) is if he plays only one hand/session he stands to win 100% of the money 49% of the time and loses 80% of the money 51% of the time.
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Demonstrably false.

I'm not going to bother digging through his archives to prove this (it wouldn't take much to do, but you're not actually arguing against Gruber as much as your skewed conception of Gruber), but I'm fairly certain that Gruber's reaction to Ping is "confusion" (at best) to "dislike" (at worst), not like.

It's not hard to find cases where Gruber has had a negative reaction to something that Apple has done, or where he's said something negative about an Apple product.
What kind of framework was this? Who designed it? So it sounds like if I build a big enough fence, it can work out pretty well?
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Sorry, I didnt have the ipad in front of me when I wrote the first post. The workhorse is AVPlayerHD, it can play just about anything we throw at it. I dont even bother with conversions. For car rides I just load up a bunch of movies that my son would watch and we're set. I only have the 16gb ipad 1, but opted for the 32 "the new ipad" for this reason alone.
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One thing I forgot to mention. You can enter the course now and still get a good grade!

At least for CS 373, and I think for the other ones, they changed the grading scheme.

We have already had three homeworks due and are now on week 4. In the old scheme, you could drop one homework (out of seven). Homework was half the grade and the final the other half. So you could currently get a max of 66% on the homework.

They added a grading scheme that counts the final at 100%.

They will give you the better of your grade under the two schemes, to not disadvantage people who did well on the homework.

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I was especially glad to see this, since a 'AskHN' post I submitted once didn't get any responses.

But...

All I see is a grey page with some text surrounding the middle area. No data.

On Firefox, IE & Chrome.

I bookmarked it anyway, so I can look at it after it works again, which I hope is soon.

Right now it's 15 hours after the post was submitted to HN.
Few questions not necessarily about design so feel free to not upvote. I'm wondering why you're creating this. Who has asked for it? Really, myspace is largely considered a failure and they are actually quite huge in this arena. They have a ton of bands still using their service and they make money. You can aspire to be as big as they are, but remember, they're largely considered a failure.

Also, what's up with the gigantic team? You're building a bloated, slow company from the ground up. If you're going after the social networks of the world, you need a nimble team that can execute an idea within hours of realizing it is necessary and a team this size will very quickly become unmanageable. You already have 8 people and you're looking for two more! A team this size makes me think you're planning to build this entire application in a vacuum (devoid of any user input) and you think you need a lot of devs to get it done quickly.

That's the end of my flame.

As for the design, I actually really like it. I like the general layout quite a lot. Few recommendations: It's hard to read because of the text and you need to clean up your english a bit. For example, "building relationships between fans, musicians, all while allowing anyone to build a personal online library of music." isn't a list of similar things. That's two similar things and something completely different. Doesn't feel right when you read it. There are a few examples of this.

Whether you're asking for advice on my first two paragraphs or not, I would really appreciate you answering them as I am really curious. You can email me if you don't want to answer on here. Email in the profile.
Why tau, BTW? Why not winnie, after the Wonder Years character portrayed by the eminent mathematician Danica McKellar?
I don't see a conspiracy theory or extortion here. To me it just looks like run of the mill bureaucracy and the bureaucratic non-solution to every problem: more bureaucracy.
Next time, ask them to clarify whether it's physical servers or virtual machines. They could easily have had 500K virtual machines running <100K physical servers.
Direct traffic has nothing to do with google and if it's only two pages, it's probably not a search engine.

You should be able to check analytics for the user-agent, legitimate search robots have an identifiable user agent string. Can you give more information about the nature of those two pages?
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Is compiled matlab code much faster? when I did it in the past it wasn't, My understanding was that it's doing the same thing, just without parsing the matlab source code, which isn't that slow anyways. Similarly, compiling python to C using cython by itself, is not faster - Compiling code to native machine code by itself doesn't do anything, unless you do something different, like declare the types, or unroll loops, etc.. The overhead of scripting languages is generally in the dynamism, unless you optimize that out in the compile step, you won't get speedups.

there are nice debugging environments for python, look at any python IDE, or look at spyder for this sort of work.

python plugs into general purpose tools much better - this is one of the main reasons I gave up matlab for python after using matlab for 10 years in school, all the way through into my PhD thesis.
They'll probably do some racial/religious profiling in regards to how extensive a background check they give to a person.

Since my guess is most that most people who apply for this will not fall into the bracket where they do extensive background checks, they'll make plenty of profit off this.

Of course, it's also possible that the check will be a sham for all.
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It was enough to scare him away from incorporation while there was talk of an offer to buy the company. The customer that was going to make the offer would have replaced him in his business role, limited him to research, and shut down all the work that wasn't relevant to the one product of ours that they used, but they were going to give all the investors a very significant profit. He didn't care because he thought the company could be much bigger than the buyer wanted it to be, and also possibly because he was already wealthy and enjoyed being the boss much more than he needed the money. When I ponder that last part I guess it's possible that his worries about getting sued reflected a guilty conscience more than a real legal risk.
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I love the TL;DRs just as much as I love the artfully-written short stories. I find they both serve a useful purpose for me.
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If you did give credit to Google, one 25-year long query would really through off their average query times.
He got on the list the money he gave NYT the go-ahead to publish that article, and he knew he would perfectly well. Next week you'll hear about his new gig as an executive at a non-for-profit.
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To use SD cards, use Camera Connection kit. To play common video formats, use apps, such as AVPlayerHD. To use your iPad as a removable drive, use iExplorer (no jailbreaking required). If you don't want to use iTunes, you can completely avoid using it as well. The only thing that requires iTunes is to put your music on it. iTunes can be optional if you don't need to do this.

Regarding repurchasing apps, it may be a good thing. There are plenty of good iPad apps, which fully take advantage of the tablet form factor. Although I have not used many Android tablet apps to prove it, Tim Cook should have good reasons to criticize about tablet apps on Android.
I was really hoping to read about Don's tactics too, but when I saw the publication source, I removed those expectations ;)
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Completely agree. The 4:3 is only a problem when it comes to movies. Most things 4:3 is fine.
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I was running this on my iPhone 4S. Outside over wireless; waited 30 seconds on a full 5 bars and just gave up.

Not meaning to be offensive at all, maybe it is because of my location (Japan)?
The billboard should probably be Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc logos with Lamar Smith holding a gun shooting them with "Stop Lamar Smith from destroying the internet".
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Rackspace publicly discloses its number of servers.

The latest investor presentation slide deck on the Investor link from the front page of rackspace.com lists the number of customers at 170k+ on 79k+ servers.

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I suggested it to them, believe me. The CEO laughed: "Sure, I could do that, but why would I want my competitors hearing about this?"

I will also point to a previous comment I've made: "You can totally buy my weak attachment to transparency with a five-figure check" and leave it at that.
I really hate the uninformed India/China argument when it comes to exemplifying overpriced Apple products. Turns out, there are a lot of iPhones in New Delhi and Beijing used by a rising middle class...they even pay full unsubsidized high-tax prices for them. FYI, its not $5000, its $820 for a iPhone 4s in Beijing.

Apple is already making a lot of money in China, and I'm sure they will eventually make money in India after they open up a few stores and get people off the gray market (where iPhones are sourced now). I'm dreading when the next iPad comes out in China, there will probably be yellow cow riots again.