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For example, you can do statistical analysis of ... other cookies that you set in the regular course of operating the webapp.

That is a grey area at best.

For one thing, a cookie that has a dual purpose, controlling both logging in and analytics, appears to give up any exemption on the grounds of strict necessity that a cookie used only for logging in would be granted. You would probably be required to provide all kinds of explicit information about your use of the cookie to anyone before allowing them to log in and setting that cookie, adding at least one extra step to your sign-up process (or making use of a single sign-in service much less convenient for your visitors).

For another thing, that still restricts your analytics to cases where someone is already logged in or otherwise actively using your site. Often the more interesting things to know relate to visitors to your site who are not (yet) so active: what are your best traffic sources/keywords, where do new people come into your site and where do they go next, and where do they give up if they don't convert?
I saw sunburned people blinding drivers and causing crashes.
Congratulations on the success of your ebook. Also, thank you for your words of inspiration, that's quite thoughtful.

Could you detail the technical side of writing? I.e. what tools were used in getting this done?
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pretty simple - they (the dealership) do not have the right to modify a EULA - it would be like Best Buy accepting a EULA change for a MS software product.
Sorry, I'm not following. Why couldn't you use a function here instead of a code block to do the exact same thing?
I expect other players to come in for big name creatives. Maybe the Hollywood agencies, CAA for example. Or maybe the creatives themselves set up their own infrastructure.

Say Joss Whedon wanted to raise $10 million for a show. With Kickstarter he'd have to give them $500,000 of that, and it's not at all apparent that he would actually need them. If you had an agency roll this into existing services, maybe with a nominal fee, the big names may be more comfortable with that anyway...
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Couldn't that be easily faked? Anyone could memorize a speech in another language and make sure to get the accent/intonation down before recording. If he's an Opera singer he's already experienced in this.
NASCAR fans are not very happy with "fuel mileage" races, and I would imagine what you describe would be far worse.

// also not very fond of people who say we watch for the wrecks
these useless domains didn't have any commercial backup, .pepsi will be part of campaigns worth millions.
It's for the CHILDREN!!! Yes! that's exactly the kind of bone-headed thinking that's taking us down this path now.
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This seem like a whole series of posts on 'how to twist python syntax to save a line of code or two and make it unreadable'.
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There are a few "indie" authors now selling Kindle books for a buck or two and selling hundreds of thousands of copies. For instance, Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking.
Reminds me of the question of consciousness.
Really wish the Flash devs I worked with thought this way.

"Oh I've been looking into PhoneGap, it's pretty cool"

"Oh I've been learning Android development"

WHY???? When has a client even asked us to make an Android app.
I can see what you're saying with regards to bases, but economically... do you remember the 80s?
It's called resolution independence, and has been built into various toolkits and operating systems well before the first "Retina" device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence
Thank you for not posting as "$300mm"
www.pepsi does look broken, but http://pepsi/ is fine. We just need browsers to stop ignoring bare TLDs, like they do now if you don't put the http:// before.
My first thought was a "yo dawg, I heard you like javascript" joke.
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"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat."
pepsi.com or www.pepsi or site.pepsi or brand.pepsi. You've then just got a multitude of hostname parts to guess - which is more confusing.
As another poster pointed out, I see these numbers and variants often cited, even in professional educational conferences. Perhaps that is because it so closely and cleanly matches our own personal intuition about teaching. Unfortunately, it turns out there is no scientific basis for the "Learning Pyramid". And please don't use (Sousa, 2001) as evidence, I have the book "How the Brain Learns" and it simply punts on the citation to yet another institution. As an instructor, I still believe the idea has general merit even if the numbers are basically made up, but let's not take it as dogma.

I've tried to find the original scientific research myself and have concluded that it does not exist. I'm not the only one who has come to this conclusion either. [1] I would love to be corrected on this matter though. These days, I tend to use the following instead, which also matches my intuition about learning:

http://xkcd.com/519/ :-)

[1] J. P. M. Lalley, “THE LEARNING PYRAMID: DOES IT POINT TEACHERS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?,” Education, vol. 128, no. 1, p. 64, Fall 2007.
Both the Netherlands and Spain are in the Schengen Area, so there's no border controls between them. The same happens if you go to Zürich via Paris, for example. I've done that a few times; you don't go through Swiss customs.
Great article, and I'm glad other people are doing well writing and selling articles/ebooks/books on their own. I sell iPhone interface design/development tutorials and they've done really well, coming close to making a livable full-time income last year for myself even though I have a full-time job and sell them on the side. Writing and selling technical ebooks is like the secret money-making sauce that few know about :)
AFACT (Hollywood) are going to use this iiNet win as justification in the upcoming Copyright reform. Already, AFACT have used a similar statement by the Attorney General's rationale for the start of copyright reform.

AFACT:

Today’s decision by the High Court exposes the failure of copyright law to keep pace with the online environment and the need for Government to act, leading film and television industry companies said following the announcement of the decision.

http://www.afact.org.au/index.php/news/high_court_decision_s...

Attorney General:

“The draft terms of reference reflect the fact that technology is constantly evolving and testing the boundaries of copyright law,” Ms Roxon said. “In our fast changing, technologically driven world, it is important to ensure our copyright laws are keeping pace with change and able to respond to future challenges.”

http://www.alrc.gov.au/news-media/2011-2012/copyright-inquir...

If you want to highlight how you think Copyright Act should be, here's a source I wrote that's pro-Internet: https://pay.reddit.com/r/AUInternetAccess/comments/ruala/cop...
I'm not sure if this whether you're being serious or not. If you aren't, than could you please explain the relation between ebooks and college? I see the knowledge-is-pricey relation, but I find it weak. Writing a book and building a school, hiring staff, etc. is not a strong comparison.

If you were being serious, than the reason college is costly is because everything that goes into me being able to attend a college costs money.
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I've thought a little more on the whole subject. What we certainly shouldn't forget is that there are people who are better than 99% of other ones -- by definition, on average, one of hundred around you is better in learning languages than all the rest. I have a friend who's such a talent: after learning the foreign language in school for some years and not leaving her country, she spent only three months in that foreign country and sounds to the native speakers like somebody who was there much, much longer. Now if we'd ignore the years she spent learning language in her home country, it's easy to falsely claim that she did everything "in 3 months." Now the second question is -- what is that that she did.

If you would ask even professors to rate her based on what they hear, they'd give her the highest notes. How people sound is a very important point in the feeling other native speakers have, because those who are not top few percent have problem with that and for them, there is a good correlation between different aspects of their language capabilities. So if some professor is evaluating her for a C1 grade based only on whet he hears in a simple conversation with her, she'd pass it easily. However, if she'd have to write for a C1 exam and the same professor would have to give her a note only based on what she'd write, it would be another story.

Now consider also this: the author of the article we discuss is an opera singer. It's obvious that his "ear" is different than the one of an average person. He hears the nuances better. He is also preselected for his abilities to control his vocal tract enough to be probably one of at least one or even more thousands!

In short, I can easily imagine that he can sound even much better than an average guy who reached C1. Still, if C1 includes a written exam, it's not the same. Take a look at the message exchange between one talented person and me -- I believe him he's better than the most, but still it appears that he didn't understand the point and the arguments to which he replied even as they were in his native language. That's the really hard part, especially as I'm not a native English speaker and certainly not in possession of language superpowers, we can still see how hard is passing the gap between "good" and "the comparable to a good educated native."

That being said, if we compare, let's say, a million people, one of them will be by definition better than 999999 other ones. If the author of the article is one of those, it explains a lot, but then that's the major information missing in his article and the rest of it gives a false hope to 999999 of a million readers.

So I still believe that the article omits some important detail regarding that C1 feat of him. Most probably there is some mix of "small" details missing, just like in the conversation seen here -- some years of a foreign language in school, some years of learning and singing the whole opera pieces in French and a big predisposition for learning languages.
It seems that every author that writes about being in a bubble thinks that they are the only ones that can see it.
ignoring the fact that everyday an article hits front page of HN talking about being in a bubble and no one can see it.

So when everybody is saying that nobody is seeing the signs of a bubble does that mean that we are in a bubble?
How will the API's change? Small update like going from iOS4 to iOS5?
It is editable. Stop the emulator and enjoy.
What would be a non-idealogical reason? States are driven by ideology as much as you and I are.
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noticed a comment about rvm + pow. If anyone is having that issue, I solved it by doing: http://josephhsu.com/post/21386307243/tip-rvm-pow
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on productivity of programming languages and environments: the more complex environment you need for programming language - the less productive that language actually is.
I'll publish another post detailing my toolchain, but here's the overview.

I wrote the book using Markdown and styled the PDF with CSS using PrinceXML. The kitabu framework (http://github.com/jstorimer/kitabu) held it all together and automated the translation to different formats.

In the beginning I had to dive into the different formats to get them all working as I wanted but now I've got that automated.
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When you say "clone", do you mean pin-equivalent or just another SoC-based board with similar features and performance?

If you're trying to duplicate the RPi exactly, you won't be able to. Nobody else can get the BCM2835 chip except the RPi guys.
As an IE7 user in work, finally I can gloat! (no, actually, it's shit)
This article needs a patio11 bat signal.

I would be very interested to get his thoughts on this, and he didn't comment on it last time it was posted.
That is actually an excellent idea, thanks!
JavaScript just adds another thing that could go wrong, in exchange for a potential increase in usability. On a site like this, it's almost certainly not worth it.
When these can be used in laptops it would give a whole no meaning to "MacBook Air" - Sorry couldn't resist.
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How are search engine algorithms confused in your opinion, and why would new TLD's complicate it further?
> They're useful in C# as a way of defining a function within another function (which sometimes makes for more readable code)

Why wouldn't you just create another function in the same class?
Not really. If you don't know what you're looking for, you just go to http://pepsi/ and navigate from there.
> The law is the law as it's written and then as it's reflected in court decisions.

That may not be as true as you think.

I don't really know how the modern UK legal system works in this regard, but in the US, the courts would A) defer to the interpretation of the agency (in this case the ICO) as to what a statute means, and B) greatly frown on any attempt to prosecute without warning people who reasonably relied on the agency's declarations.
What a load of rot. You're better to advertise something generic such as 'visit the <brand> website.' or 'find us online', rather than a barrage of non memorable domain names and various social media urls. This is such an elaborate con.
I do see some silliness, but I don't see the kind of money that flowed in the late 90s. Or am I wrong?
I know about the Gittins index to solve Multi-armed bandit problems, from 1979.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittins_index

I thought that was supposed to be optimal in some sense. How does the paper cited in this post improve on that?
Wow, Amazon really wants Kindle books priced at under $10. If you self-publish, you either choose a 35% royalty rate and have few restrictsions, or you choose a 70% royalty rate and have to keep it under $10 price.

For someone with a $25+ book, it ends up making very little sense to list it on Amazon at all. You are probably making at least $20 on the downloadable copy, while the Kindle one would net you $8.75 at the 35% rate.
Who's the real "Dropbox of the enterprise"?
This is all speculation.
I don't fancy hostname clashes.
I think that you might be discounting the value of Kickstarter's execution - or rather, a hypothetical Joss Whedon would be discounting the value of their execution.

In the same way that Twitter is "just a database of SMS messages", Kickstarter is just a "payment checkout" - but of course they are both greater than the sum of their parts.
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My interpretation is that OP is not arguing that BigCo's aren't currently making money.

Instead he's saying that the amount of resources being pumped into the ecosystem (financing, incubators, startups) is significantly larger than what is required.

That the market as a whole won't grow fast enough to satisfy the needs of all the investment capital being deployed.
My feeling is that this rule is often true, but also mostly useless. Because of why it's true: post-facto rationalization. Every product ever made is the first to do something - though sometimes we are forced to make up new words to describe just what that something is - and if that product is a wild success it will turn out that that something was the important thing to be first in.

I'm fairly sure that the first iPhone camera shipped out of the box with the ability to snap a photo and then email it to a list of your friends. I'm sure that there was a way to post an iPhone photo to Facebook. But in the next five years when two dozen Instagram clones get founded, flail, and die, we will be told that they failed because Instagram was the "first" to "really" get mobile photo sharing. Where "really get" is defined circularly: We know that Instagram was the first to have it, because no earlier company managed to become Instagram.

Similarly: The IBM PC was not among the first PCs to hit the market, the iPhone was not the first smartphone with a touch screen, Facebook was not the first social network, Dropbox was not the first way to sync files between computers, Amazon was neither the first online retailer nor the first online retailer of books:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000044.html

More classic examples: Singer didn't build the first sewing machine, neither Swan nor Edison built the first electric light bulb, Henry Ford was far from the first automobile manufacturer (but he was "first" in several other things, which are now known to have been vitally important, because they formed the basis of… the very successful Ford Motor Company!)

One could probably rephrase the rule to make it more useful. (Perhaps a variation on the classic "nobody ever got fired for buying the industry standard"?) But it's surprisingly hard. The subject resists glib generalization. I'd just pay more attention to the other rules. ;)
I am from Germany and I am really embarassed by the stupidity in my country.
Youtube should just disable its service for Germany. Grooveshark did the same. Everyone who is serious about the internet could enable the service anyway.
Can you explain your position a bit more? I mean, its illegal to go around nude in the United States and I'm not sure how banning public kissing is objectively any worse than that. You can say that local laws should reflect what the local culture finds acceptable in public, in which case both sets of laws are fine, or you can say that everyone should be really liberal in what they accept in public, in which case both laws are bad, but I'm not seeing why you would only object another countries laws against kissing in public.
Brazil fingerprints U.S. citizens only, as a calculated return of the insult.
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If only we had gone with the other order for domain names, that is com.disney.www instead of www.disney.com.

Then browser TLD defaulting would have handled most cases and we could have had additional conventions (such as *.store). (The "www." subdomain is basically useless.)
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How so? From what I understand, these regulations make the Like button illegal -- I believe that was the main target of this legislation, together with similar efforts from Google aimed at tracking users across websites.
Sensationalist headline alert: They forgot to finish the sentence with "if you leave Wi-Fi turned on".
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While this script is fine, it adds an extra HTTP request per image to check for a retina version of the image. Also, the browser will start downloading the small version before it loads the big version (adding another extra http request). Check this easy jQuery snippet that does the same thing, but avoids these issues:

http://www.archer-group.com/2012/development/javascript-jque...
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As someone who knows absolutely nothing about CPUs, is this CPU design _that_ good, or is it just the fact that Notch made it that's generated all this hype?
That is exactly what I meant - this is a synthetic example. The article has synthetic examples. People want code blocks, but no one is really showing why. Own control structures are cool, ok, but what are you trying to solve with them? Where are the real, convincing before and after examples that are not easily solvable otherwise?
Given Microsoft's position, wouldn't it be best if they simply announced that the Lumia will be upgradable? If they want to win the "hearts and minds" of people, they should make the extra effort to allay any and all worries.
Facebook bought Instagram for as much money as it would take to put something like 112 '69 Volkswagon Beetles into low earth orbit.

Now maybe that is an isolated incident, but I'm not so sure.
And it's not easy to identify you...yet. I thought about rewriting the headline, but stuck with the original guidelines and didn't.
Well it's turing complete so... ;)
Accent in foreign language is a very complex thing. Germanic languages shared same tone. So I would agree that an english speaker could _manage_ the german accent and vice-versa.

The #1 problem with accent is that in order to master a foreign accent you have to be 1. Young, 2. Gifted.

It's impossible for someone who's over 18 years old (arbitrary) to master a different accent (French from english speaking, Cantonese from French/English, etc.)

That's why 6-8 years old who learn a foreign language are so good at it, they have the brain set for learning accents.

You only kid yourself if you believe that you don't have an accent in xyz language and you started learning it past your 20s.
Something that's not entirely clear to me from the article: is this how Google's new indoor maps stuff works? If so, can someone reconcile that what's described is a way for the infrastructure to track the handsets, that the handsets are still anonymous, and that the maps run on the handset (so unless I'm missing a link, the system must be passing data to the handset).
The kind of optimality we're talking about is the up-to-constant factors / Big-O kind. The Gittins index has better constant factors than UCB-1. However, UCB-1 can be computed easily whereas Gittins indices are very expensive to compute.
I thought that they already did this automatically? I uploaded a video I took from my old apartment, because I lived behind a club* you could hear music and Youtube automatically detected it on upload. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOANhQ9nQYk and the message I see via my account:

""Hi Friend", musical composition administered by:
EMI Music Publishing. Your video is still available worldwide. In some cases, ads may appear next to your video. Please note that the video's status can change, if the policies chosen by the content owners change. Learn more about copyright on YouTube.".

I have also uploaded videos from TV shows that have been detected automatically as content owned someone else. This clip from a UK TV show "countdown": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuHREvK74-4

""Countdown-Countdown", audio-visual content administered by:
Channel 4" Your video is blocked in these locations: Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom. Please note that the video's status can change, if the policies chosen by the content owners change. Learn more about copyright on YouTube."

Doesn't this satisfy the courts that Youtube is going to great lengths to prevent this?

* Never live behind a club, it's ridiculous.
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The CPU design is bare bones which is part of the fun.
I have no idea how the traditional Hollywood system works, but if Whedon raised $10m from a studio via an agent and, I dunno, a production house or something, how many middle men would get their fees from that $10m and what would it add up to?
No it's not a great CPU design at all, it has some big limitations.
There's something to be said about ".com" addresses...

When you place "pepsi.com" in a can , people know it's a web address. Now, if pepsi has its own TLD, how should they refer to their web site? Just "pepsi"? "www.pepsi"? "web: pepsi"?

I suspect they will reserve their TLD, and then continue to use "pepsi.com" as before, thus rendering these new TLDs useless at best, and noise at worst.