skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "These higher levels of largeness blur, where one is unable to sense one level of largeness from another."

IMO that's the really neat thing about enormous integers. They simply pass beyond our ability to reason about them in the same ways that we reason about numbers in our everyday life. We can conceive of two and three digit numbers simply by counting to them. We can conceive of millions and billions by imagining piles of material (a 2 foot cube of sand might be 1-2 billion grains). We can conceive of larger numbers by counting the number of digits, or equivalently, using logarithms -- often comparing them to the number of particles in the solar system or the known universe, or thinking in terms of how many bits are needed to store the number.

At some point, though, we start dealing with numbers so big that Knuth's up-arrows or Conway Chained Arrow Notation become necessary. We reach a point where the numbers no longer correspond to objects, distances, or physical quantities. These sorts of large numbers are truly abstract -- the only way we have to measure them is with other ridiculously large numbers, which themselves are only understood as notation.

See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_numbers#Examples_of_numbe...
Looks like they beat estimates on the iPhone(though still down from the last quarter) and failed to meet estimates of 4.4M Macs and 13M iPads.
UX suggestion: Allow users to click on the answer, the whole row, not just the checkbox. See SurveyMonkey.
Is above $600 again and all of a sudden the panic disappeared.
That's not really true - it makes full use of the hardware which is why a 1.4GHz single core ARM is fine :)

I'd go as far as saying that the software and hardware are at one with each other.
The question private web-app providers never answer
The first question I always ask when trying out a new web-app is: "is it a collection of 5 to 10 click actions where every click takes 5 to 10 seconds?" That is: will it be wasting on average almost a minute of may time on each component of each and every workflow? For public web-apps you can sign up, try it out and find out if it is slow. For private ones (or ones that need significant set up) like Altassian's Confluence and Jira you don't get to find out until it is too late.
So, you want Angie's List.

Is anyone surprised that a recommendation site that gets its money from the businesses is less than honest? Is anyone surprised that when they get popular they turn into a protection racket?

Say it with me. "If you're not paying, you're the product." Or in this case, the club.
Facebook is an awesome company. Instagram is awesome too. But when someone buys a 13 person company with no revenue for a billion dollars, it means that some variable in some equation got corrupted. Most likely that variable was the 100B valuation of facebook.
It has much more to do with how GPS receivers calculate a horizontal position when they have limited satellites in view.

I don't understand the math but essentially you are trying to solve four unknowns. Latitude, longitude, elevation, and the time offset between the satellite and device clocks. If only three satellites are in view the only way to solve latitude and longitude is to assume a value for elevation based on previous results. Without a forth satellite the GPS simply doesn't know what the altitude is. But that estimated value is sufficient to give a good estimate of horizontal position.
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"Linux support ... Headless (command line interface)

Most normal (non-techie) users aren't going to care about these though.

I can see the OCR being a big win among college students...scan in all your handwritten notes, and boom! they're all indexed and searchable and won't get lost before you need them for your final exam.
Last quarter was a holiday quarter, so I think the drop in iPhone sales is expected. They only sold 2 million fewer in this quarter, which I think is pretty amazing.
Valve's Newell: Fan feedback is gaming's great advantage
I wonder how affects those of us who pay extra for more space already?
Pointer Lock API implemented in Firefox, game developers rejoice
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Ryan, do you have any problems with the business being located in Florida? In terms of attracting talent, even in light of a 4 day work week?
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Ahh, yeah. I guess because they look so much alike, I mistake WKN's functionality for Safari's (which this does seem to work fine with).
I tried it quickly. And couple things I have grip with.
1. I Synced my folders and a couple files showed up. I deleted the files I didn't want in my google drive on the computer, and they were removed from google drive.

2. I disconnected, And when I tried to sync back up it wanted my Google drive folder to be empty. It wanted to re-sync everything from the online Drive account. It wouldn't pick up where it left off.

I stopped using it right away.

That was my experience. I'm sure they will fix it. Unless I'm using it wrong.
Woohoo! A place to store your stuff until you get your Google Account banned or Google loses interest (~9 months).
I'm in Houston, TX. My guess is a slow roll out, probably over a day or so.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/04/24Apple-Reports-Seco...
Am I wrong? If I am can you correct me? It would be nice to be corrected if I'm wrong instead of just being down-voted.
i remember one analyst telling, chinese new year is important for smartphone sales too. but the big question is why is ipad/mac sales are below expectations? didnt the new ipad help much?

edit: analyst expectations are averaged from http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-q2-2012-earnings-2012-4
Perhaps. In reading all of these that's never the vibe I've gotten. It's always been one of superiority or arrogance which is why I thought it might be tied to ego. Oh well, we may never know :).
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That's true, should have looked for a better one to post this at.
Apple’s crazy Q2, AT&T’s mixed Q1 + China’s Instagram
I've been using Nightly for a few weeks and definitely noticed. It's been about as fast as Chrome which used to be way faster.
It could matter if it was supported in software and ecosystem, which it more than likely won't :(. We have a lot of NFC terminals in Canada and I wouldn't mind ditching a few paypass/paywave cards from my pocket but it won't be that simple.
I disagree on the first point. I do love a good Simpson's reference.
This will appear in Firefox 14, in around 3 months.
Google Chrome implemented this not too long ago.

Given the work being done on seamless browser updates, I'm happy to think of the amount of browser installs that will support this in a year or so.

Many games are simply impossible to implement in a straightforward way without being able to lock the mouse.
First person shooters are particularly affected.
"Overall hardware sales decreased from its record previous quarter but with the notable exception of the iPods: they’re up from the same quarter a year ago." > "However, the iPod didn’t fare so well: Sales are down 15% over last year’s quarter."

What?
The examples in that section made no sense to me at all.
I adore HelloFax — talk about a well-designed product that solves a real problem.

Props to you guys for being so on top of things to have your Google Drive stuff ready to go on day 1!
OCR doesn't mean handwriting recognition, though... handwriting's a heck of a lot harder than print.
Also...

"In that period Apple sold 37.04M iPhones, 15.43M iPads, and 5.2M Macs. Even the iPad sold well with 15.4M units."

Being a journalist keeps getting easier...
The value of equity for a public company isn't a metric that only investors care about. It is the most comprehensive measure of a public company's well-being. It describes how much money the company is making and it predicts how much money the company is expected to make in the future.

E.g., suppose Facebook's equity takes a significant decline in value on the public market: employees become unhappy as the equity component of their compensation declines; Facebook's ability to make large acquisitions becomes more expenseive when its stock is worth less; and its ability to raise capital diminshes because it's more expensive to borrow exactly because their financials aren't as good, according to their stock price.

I personally believe that the long-term goals of investors and founders are very well-aligned. I believe that the common statment by founders nowadays, that they are building a company not for their investors but for their users, will produce the long-term financial results that investors want. It's the short-term goals of investors that conflict with that.

In short, equity isn't this isolated thing that can be happily ignored. It's tied to everything.
First thing I found when I looked in. I kid you not.
Bruce Schneier's discussion on this particular episode: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round...
It was estimated that they will sell 11.9 million iPads and they sold 11.8 million. So wouldn't say they missed by much. Also, the new iPad began selling on March 16th and the quarter ended March 31st. So the real effect of the new iPad should come this quarter.
I bought an unlocked, contract free Nexus One and still ended up with un-removable useless Amazon MP3 and Facebook and Google Play Books and Google Voice apps on my phone :(
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> i remember one analyst telling, chinese new year is important for smartphone sales too.

I never thought of that, very good point. I'd actually be very interested in seeing how many iPhones were sold in emerging markets.
The radio buttons don't act properly... You can light up multiple buttons. The whole two-click-to-vote thing is probably unnecessary. Otherwise, nice, simple.
I think another big factor is that consumers are adapting to Apple's release schedule.

Last quarter was the first full quarter after the iPhone 4S with Siri came out, so there was a lot of people holding off buying till it landed.

Now, in the coming months, many people will be waiting for the iPhone 5 instead of getting a 4S.
Because "expectations" are just wild-ass guesses.

iPad sales are up 150% year over year. How that's disappointing, I'll never know.
This qarter only includes two weeks of the sale of the new iPad.

Also, just now it was said on the call that they are selling iPads as fast as they can make them, so they are still supply-constrained. They either couldn't make as many iPads as analysts predicted (though, actually, analysts were very close, to say Apple missed the estimate doesn't really make much sense) or iPad 2s tailed off faster than analysts expected.
They're installing a service that runs with elevated privileges to bypass UAC.

I don't think it's a good thing to install that kind of loophole on your PC.
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are you quoting the failed to meet part from the DigiTimes article?
Seriously. I can get it shipped and receive it in the U.S. but requiring me to proxy up to even view the order page is a bit much.
You can download, edit and upload Google docs in a range of formats, including Word, ODT, RTF, etc.

The biggest problem with the file-based route is when you have multiple people working on one file. You can't work on it at the same time (or you have a merge problem.) You have to sidechannel quite a bit about which version is the current "master". All kinds of issues that are solved by using a non-file-centric document.
It's a shame though, you think they'd support it.

Think of everything Linux has done for them.
Don't know about that. It looks to me like it's getting less cyclical.
Instapapered it. Egan's novels always make my head hurt, and then make me want to read them again.
Legal terms cannot be copyrighted, so feel free to take a look around and cut and paste from some sites you like. Most of the terms can be figured out pretty easily, its the ones you leave out because you're not a lawyer that will come back to bite you :)

That being said, it doesn't matter much if you're not raising money, like others have said. Your chances of ever needing them are very low, they're mostly for show and do more to make you look like a real company than they do to protect you. Its like insurance, what start up buys insurance? Your chances of being sued are so low, it barely registers. Just copy the terms of a site that's like yours and go with it.

Once you raise money, change your tune and hire a good lawyer. Money needs to be protected :)
$6.5 million in PROFIT generated every hour. Mindblowing.
I didn't learn it in school too, and though i wasn't bullied, i would not send kids to school.

I think this is a problem of introversion, not of homeschooling.
Agreed, but the "techie" crowd tend to be the early adopters for products like this and help drive others to use them. It's not totally crazy of Google not to support Linux out of the gate (for the reasons you and others noted) but it is a little surprising, nonetheless.
To get this into perspective:
https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/asymco

"The largest company grew earnings by 94%."
The Square video (and many of the ones in the same style) are by this guy:
http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lisagor-lonelysandwich-2...
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Where are you getting the 11.9M estimate? 13M seems to be the general consensus.

Source:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-on...

Also, won't the new iPad sales be the highest during the launch week and then settle down?
It's even worse to have people with ancient versions because firefox was installed by admin, but they (as they should) run as a regular user.
what's up w the third book link tho? some crappy book by a guy named CJ
There are times when posting a comic is the only reasonable response.

http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-09-23
Most Awesome Use Of Technology EVER
The other day I was walking back to the office after grabbing a coffee. On a busy street corner a little distance away, I noticed a mildly attractive girl that I will call Anne. I noticed another girl that I will call Chloe make eye contact with her. I then saw Chloe sort of open her coat as she was walking by Anne and Anne slipped some "little package" into an inner pocket in Chloe's coat. Then they bumped into each other and acted like it was accidental and greeted each other and acted as if they were friends randomly bumping into each other. As far as TV has taught me, this was clearly a drug deal.

The COOL part is that I then saw Anne whip out her iPhone. On top of her phone was a square credit card reader. Chloe proceeded to then give Anne her credit card, which she swiped and completed a transaction.

Square, making corner drug deals possible since 2009.
That's an interesting idea. Is the main motivation of your suggestion to find a way to enable you to better discover things you might like without relying purely on reviews and ratings? In general, I agree that ratings and reviews have inherent biases that are hard to smooth out. There are so many more dimensions to it, such as how much weight you apply to a review written by someone that is trying a certain type of food for the first time.

Do you think that you would see better results if Yelp was able to use a collaborative filtering approach to somehow personalize their results such that they more closely match your tastes and preferences - based on other users' data?
I was wondering about that as I was typing...damn that would be cool to have.

If lots of people's handwriting was scanned in and used as a training dataset, that could be a way to do it on Google scale - like what they did with Google voice, training it for all different accents.
The location of each GPS transmitter must be known exactly for the triangulation to work, and existing GPS receivers know nothing about the location of shopping-mall transmitters. They only know about satellites.

So that's why you couldn't do this with existing receivers, but I don't know of any reason why you couldn't make new receivers that cooperate with a new type of ground-based transmitter built into cell towers or similar. Multipath might be a problem but it seems surmountable. Do any radio experts here know why nobody has done anything like this for cell phones? (The Wi-Fi/Bluetooth positioning talked about in the article is based solely on signal strength which is far inferior to the GPS method).
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Then he should sue. Every case brought against Yelp has been thrown out so far. I'd imagine that if this racket stuff happened, at least -one- case would come to fruition.
Question...

Does the "GDrive for Businesses" not allow for a shared corporate folder?

https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products.htm...

This seems odd because if you're a business, that would exactly be your need.

I hope I'm wrong, otherwise I'll continue to use my Dropbox for Teams.

https://www.dropbox.com/teams
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To the contrary: it will be a shame when they implement full screen if take away the current layered option. Firefox is the last major OSX browser to work in fullscreen while still allowing apps to be above or below it. With Moom's hotkeyed window positions--it's extremely convenient to bring a text editor to focus and still be able to scroll the web in the background.
Mozilla, please don't let this happen!
I don't know how Mozilla came to the conclusion that their Web inspector is actually usable.

The HTML doesn't appear when inspecting (no, that takes an extra click). The CSS appears in an extra vertical sidebar taking up even more room on the screen. You can't add a Console button, but 3D View is worthy?

I love Firefox, but this it's just plain odd they didn't integrate Firebug into core.
>When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services.

This leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. At the very least it's confusing, it uses extra-broad terms.

Sure, I'd give them a "license" to resize my photos, but do they really need all of this? This reminds me of iOS apps that HAVE TO ask permission to access your location in order to access your photos!?

Can some clarify what all this means and why?
Google Drive SDK announced, but APIs are only for Web apps right now
Thanks, worked just like you said.
There's no question such solutions have been available, but the reality is that most companies haven't implemented them.

Even if a company is aware of TFA, it's still probably cheaper and faster to get it via Google's products than implement a solution in-house using RSA, etc.
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Follow-up anecdotal data: Drive app on my 1st-gen MacBook Air is using 2-4% CPU, even when "paused."

(For comparison, the Dropbox client uses 0 to 0.2% CPU when idling.)
I understand why you (and others like you) express this sentiment, but I think you're putting the cart before the horse.

This comment doesn't expand the conversation, it just expresses an opinion and doesn't attempt to engage the original poster. In scolding delsarto for creating a post with (I assume) limited on-topic discussion & engagement potential, you've created another post with limited on-topic discussion & engagement potential.

We already have some language in the guidelines on how to engage in discussion, but maybe something specific to "what about posts you don't think add to the discussion"? OTOH, Communities that try to enforce rules too stringently end up being communities about those rules.
Anybody noticed how rare it is for OP to post?

His first page of submissions are mostly from 3 years ago.
For the record: the sales organization at Yelp has a read-only copy of business data in Salesforce. Salespeople are not able to fiddle with reviews in the main database. They're two completely different systems. There's no possible way a salesperson can hide/show reviews to try and sell advertising. The salesperson can _claim_ to be able to do it, but they're lying.
Apple sold as many as they could make. Whatever it is, (low) demand for the new iPad is not the reason why Apple didn't meet expectations.

Also: follow the links to the source. The Atlantic article misquoted its source. That source claims that the consensus is 12 million.
Huh? The real threats are the threats you have to opt in to use?

This doesn't make sense to me. I can use DuckDuckGo if I don't want google to track me. However, I would have to gain citizenship in another country and then move there to evade the laws these bills put in place.

Laws that allow US politicians and their corporate friends to record me, suppress my free speech, and put me in prison for 5 years. A longer sentence time than the man who killed Michael Jackson (4 years). For simply sharing a music file.

Wow, am I missing something? Really, am I miss understanding what you wrote because I don't see how these bills are not the real threat? How can you say Google and FB are the real threat compared to these bills?
Hold on, who are you to judge people on that? If someone wants to drink and play video games all day on their fifth day, then good for them! If they are producing quality work, then what does it matter? There is this obsession with productivity in the US and the startup community in general that I find incredibly distasteful. People are already risking their financial lives for startup businesses and you're going to come on here saying that's not good enough. That's typical Silicon Valley hivethink.

Maybe you need to get out of the office more, bud.
Citing ample evidence without links to it. Amazing.

Yelp's filtered reviews fluctuate as well. Reviews that are filtered can be unfiltered if the system decides the reviews aren't actually spam.
AWS prices are negotiable. They're certainly getting a better price than what's on that page.
It would be interesting if you could map an S3 drive locally - then do a custom install of dropbox and point it at the S3 mapping on whatever machine you have then you'd be using dropbox to sync to S3
Chris Granger, of Light Table fame, has a few handy libraries. None of these are quite on par Meteor, but they are the basis for Light Table.

https://github.com/ibdknox/fetch - remoting

https://github.com/ibdknox/crate - html generation

https://github.com/ibdknox/jayq - jQuery wrapper

https://github.com/ibdknox/waltz - state machine

Checkout https://github.com/ibdknox/live-cljs for a cool example of using these libraries together.
Yeah, reading further that might be the case. My initial scan said that the apps had to be present in the chrome market and approved. But the REST API looks like it just authenticates via OAuth and does the I/O directly by the client (FWIW: the OAuth authentication would be an annoying step for a background FUSE daemon, but not insoluble). I don't know which is correct.