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Yea, the media always tries to headline this as a "hologram", when in fact it's just a 2D projection. Actually, just a glass with enough darkness behind it act as a mirror.

I'm sure there is a lot of know-how in what screen to use, to make the projection bright enough, etc, etc. But that's more fiddling around than revolutionary technology.
Or, you know, you could just write in Markdown.
I would argue the Kama Sutra is both historical and educational and not sexually explicit at all. Perhaps a celebration of human bodies even, I don't know.

The problem is that there is no one objective definition of seuxality explicit. "I'll know it when I see it" is almost as good as you can get.
Until your carrier decides you don't need the ability to install non-market apps and disables the option. Oh, and the phone in question is not yet rooted. This is a matter of time if it isn't already happening. Google can do the open and free dance all it wants but with the carriers standing between you and Google...
This is not a new problem in US entertainment and media. Compare the behavior of Apple with the MPAA ratings board which treats violence and sex in a similar manner, rating films which depict violence with an "R" while effectively censoring films with certain kinds of sex scenes with "NC-17" ratings (in case you aren't familiar: films rated "R" will be shown in most movie theaters but many if not most theaters choose not to show "NC-17" films). See the documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" for more.

I have no idea where this comes from, if it stems from some kind of deep rooted puritanical culture, but it's not exactly unique to Apple's app store.
All pja's are great ideas. I'm going to attach one to a Roomba and finally have enough power to do something entertaining with it..
I still cannot wrap my head around this.
My brain just switches off when I try to think how did we come to this when nudity (and of course sex) is taboo, but killing people is OK.
The fact that I don't even see any discussions about this baffles me even more.
I never did assembly on those old machines, just BASIC and Logo in elementary school, and some Turbo C by the time we had a 386.

I had heard of assembly and thought it was inherently "scary" and obtuse. But this PoP code is pretty easy to follow, and I probably should have taken the plunge way earlier.

Neat.
Every week Picozu gets on the front page on HN. C'mon guys...
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Do Not Target would then be equivalent to security cameras, so I see that is the ultimate outcome.

You cannot viably eliminate tracking via Do Not Track... the entire modern Internet is based on the concept of tracking.
Boom. Roasted. Co-founder of TechTalks.tv. Congrats to those who didn't get in either, sometimes a little rejection is all you need.
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A friend of mine that used to work at iTunes tells me that Apple always keep the front page of their stores completely 'family friendly'. Maybe this mentality is starting to filter down past the front page and result in a knee-jerk rejection of anything vaguely adult.
Doesn't ICT (information and communication technology) include hardware as well as software? While I understand the attraction open source holds, the law was clearly written not to require its use. Microsoft is not acting nefariously. They are simply commenting on government rules in a similar way to other interest groups.
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This is incorrect. The anthem is not Nazi, it is from a poem by Hoffman von Fallersleben, one of the early German democrats. Far from being illegal, the first two stanzas are simply not sung during official occasions and are not (no longer, up to 1991 they were) part of the national anthem.
I'm German too and I find this kind of thin-skinnedness a bit embarassing and is not substantiated by the article.
Otherwise the article is kind of boring, though it points out some key areas: middle-class not only in terms of individuals, but also in terms of companies, integrating organized labor, the vocational training system. Of these I find the last most interesting, most overlooked, most anachronistic, and factually I'm not quite sure if it actually works all that well (i.e. I believe other countries could improve a lot on the system).

When talking about Germany as a great economic system one must not forget that Germany is nothing more than the economic center of the EU. As a whole, the EU is in economic trouble, and Germany is a part of that trouble.

Also, current prosperity, like the current boom in technology, is largely due to the fact that there aren't that many other places to invest.
Some people do not like sex, and do not like people enjoying sex, and do not want to "promote" (i.e. talk about) sex.

Ergo anything that implies that normal people can be healthy and happy and want to have sex threatens this world-view.
I like the idea of meetups. It would be nice to have a feature that allows a group of musicians to arrange a get together, jam session, to play music.
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Very possibly. It could also be that someone at Google is watching what gets taken down from the app store an following suit.
The question is not, what would you do to make a living. The question is what would you do in your time if you had enough money not to go out and make a living.

I think this is completely wrong. The question is exactly the same if you're deciding what to do with your career or what to do with your fortune. Action is difficult, fantasizing about what you'd do if you were rich is easy.
I hope that Steve Jobs, who happily credited himself as an openly adherent member and ambassador of the counterculture that fought for ideas like this to be acceptable in a then over-conservative society, is rightfully turning in his grave.
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There is discussion about it, among both the gaming and film industries. See my sibling comment to yours and the documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" which is from 2005 IIRC. They delve into it quite deeply, even looking at why some sex scenes are given the deadly NC-17 (spoiler: the MPAA doesn't like gay sex and sex where the woman is enjoying it) and comparing the kinds of violence in films that are rated differently.

I remember one especially biting criticism from a comedian or filmmaker who basically argued that we have it backwards with the ratings for violent films, and instead should rate certain war movies so that younger people actually CAN see them, and rate other, "fantasy" violence higher so only adults who can discern the difference can see them.

I think the example was "Saving Private Ryan" which is rated R, but in this new scheme would be PG-13, because it depicts war realistically. The James Bond movies, which are PG-13 because they have no gore, should be rated R, because the violence in them is depicted unrealistically: with no consequences, with effortless skill on the part of the killer, and with clear cut "good and evil" roles. I'm sure I'm butchering this argument, but I found it to be an extremely compelling one, if a bit too optimistic that this would ever change.

In games, see the recent article on Jonathan Blow that was posted to HN, called "The Most Dangerous Gamer". There's definitely a related discussion among certain game makers about violence in games.
It is important to note that the author worked on a iOS only app. If he was working on one, his devision would most porbably have been the opposite, or at least more nuanced.

Still, I think he made the right decision.
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I think the article succinctly rebuts you:

"But there's a larger point here. Many hardware standards are indeed FRAND rather than RF, but contrary to Microsoft's assertion in the letter of 20 May, these would not 'be excluded by PPN 3/11's definition of Open Standards.' And the reason is extremely simple: because that original Open Standards document began by declaring:

"When purchasing software, ICT infrastructure, ICT security and other ICT goods and services, Cabinet Office recommends that Government departments should wherever possible deploy open standards in their procurement specifications.

"It then goes on to emphasise:

"Government departments should ensure that they include open standards in their ICT procurement specifications unless there are clear business reasons why this is inappropriate.

"That is, there are already two very clear get-out clauses that would permit the use of FRAND standards when there were no RF standards available, or - even more flexibly - if there were 'clear business reasons why [the use of RF open standards] is inappropriate'.

"Nobody is suggesting that GSM phones, say, should be banned from UK government use, as Microsoft's letter seems to insinuate. For a start, these are hardware standards, and not about software interoperability at all; secondly, there are no comparable RF open standards that could be used, and even if there were, there would be clear business reasons why GSM phones should still be purchased. There simply isn't a problem here."
http://martingryner.com/on-alternative-android-app-stores/ "In first week, Number Game got about 360 downloads on Google Play. By that time, Number Game on SlideMe had been downloaded about 700 times…in 3 days. SlideMe is the number 1 source for Number Game downloads adding over 100 on better days. If you also happen to update your application and get to “updated” section, you could pick up as much in few hours. SlideMe has less applications than Google Play, but a huge user base. Also it has a decent review process (it didn’t take 2 eternities like Amazons) and the best developer interface. If I had to choose just one market to publish my apps on in the future it will be SlideMe, not Google Play."
Be careful when looking at lifespan studies. A huge increase in lifespan vs. control does not mean much if the control is badly treated and short-lived compared to max lifespan for that rat strain. Some rats normally live to 42 months. The C60 could be making up for bad conditions without extending max lifespan. If so, many compounds have been shown to do this. This exact scenario was the cause of the resveratrol craze.
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but public companies engaging in crime is not uncommon.
Apple's app rejection policy seems as unpredictable as Google's account banning.
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Groklaw is weird. It's one of the sites that I never read, because I don't really understand any of the articles, but I'm very happy that it exists, for some reason, and always click through to the articles (which, as I said, I always fail to understand).
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What matters more is the fact that if a family member of mine wants me to make a personalized app for their iPhone, it's not doable unless the great big Apple approves of the app. (or we jailbreak).

That's just ridiculous in so many ways. Even if you want to wall in your hardware to your own appstore, you should always provide SOME way of letting users install their own software, even if it's some hidden obscure option.
I don't agree that its a super hard job and that's why this problem has occurred.

Surely the review team should hear the iKamasutra's concerns and realise that the app has been in use for years already, and that the sudden reason to reject it is confusing and obtuse.
If a carrier is being evil I can switch to another carrier though. And if enough people avoid carriers because they lock you in, they will take notice.

There is nothing like this for iPhone. You can't go to a different company than Apple to buy your iPhone on different terms.
Is that home page generating a lot of sign-ups? Because I wanted to leave it as soon as I loaded it. All those photos seem very distracting to me, and the content in the middle is not very cleanly organized either.
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"... when Napster (1999) launched it became - at the time - the fastest adopted technology in the history of the world and went from 0 to 52 million users in 18 months.

It was shutdown by a court in 2001. When it was shutdown it had 52 million users.

One year before it was shutdown 50 million Americans voted for the Democrats and 50 million voted for the Republicans - in other words - there were enough Napster users that if they represented a political party, they would have handily won the American election and quite possibly would have elected a better president than the one the Supreme Court chose ..."
I'm not a fan of these sort of apps but from the pics provided, it seems to be made as tastefully as possible and without excessive "sexual allure" (ie. titillating apps made for 13-year-olds to download without their parents knowing).

(I'd say the 13 million "SALES" are also an indicator of quality but, Angry Birds aside, there's no way a number that high was all paid downloads.)
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This thing about discount on axes would likely still happen without tracking. Tracking in itself will allow to do things like do frequency capping (do not want to display the same ad 400 times to the same person), give higher values to displaying ads many times (second time is worth more!), or to display ads to someone we know has visited one of the ads' customer websites.

The general idea is to be able to do this kind of regrouping, and it is, for all purposes, anonymous past what a browser can usually send (IP addresses allowing to derive geographical location) unless you try to use tracking to generate some very precise information on a user. This is generally useless to do because real information will come from third parties and you don't need to do all that work by yourself.

That is to say, I'm much more worried about a company like google doing tracking when they know my mobile phone number, age, gender, name, occupation, etc. Than any third-party tracking business that will pretty much never know these things for sure, except when a business like Google or Facebook will tell them about it.

In general though, all of this tracking is much less worse than whatever use of a credit card I make, given they openly do much more invasive searches and can do far more with this information than most online businesses, limited to displaying ads that might or might not fit my likings better.
The median is more robust than the average, and the average that is more robust than the maximal or minimal.

* One strange case/rat can modify the maximal or minimal a lot (For example, some kill a rat with a gun or you are "lucky" and get a Methuselah rat.)

* A strange event also can modify the average a lot (If someone kill a rat immediately at the beginning of the experiment, the "new" average is approximately (n-1)/n times the "original" average.

* But some unusual problem doesn't modify the median too much. The median changes from the value of a rat to the value of the next/former rat, which is usually very close. But it doesn't matter how small or big the strange case is, the median is essentially fixed between two values, so it is difficult to modify too much.

The real problem is that 6 is a small number and it is difficult to get good statistical result with only 6 cases.
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It is true, as the article correctly points out, people often misinterpret average life expectancy, because they don't fully take on board the impact of child mortality.

That being said, the "grandmother hypothesis", that our ancestors gained evolutionary advantage in taking care of grandchildren seems to be a matter of some contention still, with some experts taking the view that no one survived to be grandparents.
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I read all those horror stories about US carriers. Here in Poland my gf bought an Android and:

+ alternative markets option was on

+ no google apps at all (umm, maybe youtube was there), no gmail account setup, etc.

- some map/satnav crapware but nothing standing in the way

So... not everywhere in the world carriers are monopolized by GOOG. (and I'm not saying that maybe we dont' have some carriers who put google setup by default, I don't know)
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Reminds me of Louis Benezet's experimental elementary math education system (ca. 1930s), and Sanjoy Mahajan's Street Fighting Mathematics. What a clever idea.
Yes, but that volume would not have been used for station maintenance missions. If you look at the manifests for the shuttle, they hardly ever used all that volume even for station construction.
What you are saying boils down to "Surely it's obvious that...".

Of course, the problem there is that it's not obvious to a non-trivial number of people. Who apparently in this case work in Apple's review department.

The most obviously idiotic things often look perfectly sensible from "inside", or from a singular perspective.
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My company was acquired by Google a year ago and while on paper I am deemed a Google employee I wouldn't actually classify myself as one. I would say that I am still a sysadmin for a (dieing) startup but with better perks.

Anyone else in a similar situation?
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OP, stop spamming. Your account is literally entirely made up of posts pushing "Picozu". Get some original content, otherwise repeatedly submitting the same link is not welcome on this site.

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I don't know about Ruby, but it's not redundant in Rust; you can enclose arbitrary expressions in braces, and | is the bitwise OR operator, and Rust allows implicit returns such that the following is the identity closure:

{|x| x}

Trying to rewrite this in your syntax as:

{x| x}

could cause ambiguity if you had defined a variable x somewhere up-scope: is that a bitwise OR or is it a closure? True, the correct behavior could probably (maybe?) be inferred from context, but that might require Rust to switch from a simple LR(1) parser to an arbitrary-lookahead parser, which would inflate compilation times.

In any case, Ruby's hamburger-notation for closures is well-known by this point, and I'd hardly call it novel anymore. In the case of Python's __special__ methods, the whole point was to discourage people from heavily using them in the first place. Making ugly operations ugly, as it were.

Your point that newcomers might be turned off by a language's syntax remains valid, but you've also demonstrated that newcomers lack the context necessary to be aware of the tradeoffs necessary in language design. But hey, tough shit for language developers, huh? Yes, tough shit indeed. Languages must be familiar enough to attract people, but they must also be sufficiently expressive enough to retain the interest of the people in the community who really matter (the elite hackers and the devoted evangelists), while at the same time seeming novel enough to justify switching away from whatever language you were previously using in that domain.

TL;DR: It's a thorny issue, and simply saying "syntax matters" is an unjust simplification. :)
I hope not, Valve is doing just fine without Apple.
For example, great lens kit (to buy) costs 100 times more than this camera. Then there is electricity, grip, light, costumes... etc. But most expensive thing in shooting a movie is a) people, moving people b) set construction, permits, fancy grip.
I'm rather skeptical of this. Perhaps because I live somewhere where there's only 3 different carriers and they all started capping mobile internet in the same month. And they all dramatically raised prices in the same month. Etc. For now, you're able to buy a vanilla Android phone from a third party, but what happens when carriers start to only allow IMEIs sold through them or their subsidiaries on their networks? Carriers have way too much power right now, partly because Google caved in and allowed them to butcher Android phones.

We need to be vigilant as a lot of consumers don't really care about these kinds of things.
In this case the crux of the problem is that they're deleting an app that's almost as old as the app store itself.

Curating content is almost impossible to do; app stores should limit their reviews to exclude:

- viruses

- blatant spam and copyright violations

and THAT'S IT. Assessing the quality of an app is what users' ratings are for (and of course excluding adult content is just childish).
Its funny that Trend Micro is blocking my website although it is safe and its nothing wrong with it.

Thanks for your info though :)
At the end of the day YC is just a business with the same goal as every other, to make money. They pick people and ideas aligned with their own interests. It also seems to be that a large part of it is to find companies that are easy to pitch at demo day for future investment.

It isn't a charity and given the number of applicants the chances are high that some other team has a more sellable or easier to market plan.
For most of us that didn't get in the worst possible outcome is a bruised ego.
Keep on working and see it as a chance to have a friendly competition with the companies that did get in this batch :)
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