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That is because the jury system has been emasculated.

The Constitution in large part tries to lay out a minimum effective government, with as many checks and balances as possible to prevent that government tyrannizing the people.

Trial by jury was yet another check. If Congress and the President pass an unfair law, the courts are obliged to enforce it. But nobody can question a jury to know why they came to the decision that they did, and so juries are free to declare someone innocent if the law is bad. This is called jury nullification and is an honored part of the jury system. Surviving documents make it clear that this was the reason that the jury system wound up in the Constitution.

But the check has not worked as designed. In the 1800s employers sought, and got, anti-union laws. Juries refused to enforce them. The companies were clever, they sought and got laws requiring judges to misinform juries about their rights. You are only to decide on fact, you are not to decide on the law, etc. When they tried cases using unpopular laws and juries had received these instructions, the juries convicted people.

Those jury instructions have been modified over time, but still exist in some form. So much so that if someone states the honest truth it sounds radical. And that honest truth is that the jury system is supposed to a protection from bad government, and not a fairer way of determining the facts.
I know all this but with Samsung having such a strong position on the market, isnt it a time to "kill" the competition? And Apple being so cocky they just help Samsung to make up their mind. I mean, yeah its not a kindergarten they dont have to provide Apple with their components. I would think Apple may want to be "nicer" to them not to get cut off from parts to build their products. Last thing they need right now, is money. They need to keep products flowing into the market.
The old website had character. This one just seems like they are trying too hard and has too much noise. Also, I do not like that it just assumes that I'm on a Mac if JavaScript is not enabled. Wouldn't Linux have been a better choice?
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Google's business model built upon a disregard for everyone's IP has pretty significant implications as well.
Title is a bit extreme for an article that is esentially pointing out some negative elements in part of the latest facebook features.
I don't agree with the author and have not been using facebook less, because they added a ticker. I would even go as far as saying that because of these features facebook is NOT killing itself and rather is exploring ways to monetize and be a mature business. Can't say the same for twitter at the moment.
(insert standard disclaimer about being responsible for CUDA here)

I'm definitely happy to see more languages with GPU support, but schedulers to distribute work between CPUs and GPUs are a particular interest of mine. The most full-featured I've seen is StarPU:

http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/StarPU/

But there's still a lot of work to be done; it would be very interesting to remove the need for the developer to estimate time spent on CPU (or one type of processor) versus time spent on GPU and see the effects on developer productivity, for example.
Just sent you a copy of the paper. If you plan to use the result 'forever' then theoretically you would be willing to sacrifice a huge (infinite) amount of suboptimal performance now, so that you get the correct answer in the for when you decide to pick the winning idea. It would be very important to have the correct winning idea, because it is going to run for eternity.

In practice, we don't actually ever run the winning idea for ever. We do website re-designs periodically, we test new ideas, business needs change. So we can pick a reasonable value for k based on these constraints.

Alternatively, you can get better performance by _not_ picking a stopping criteria, and dynamically choosing which homepage to show. As soon as one idea appears to be doing better, you start showing that to more users. By choosing the appropriate adaptive sampling strategy, you can reduce regret to be less than if you have a constant sampling strategy. However, for many people the adaptive strategy may be more trouble to implement than it is worth.

The most important takeaway is to _not_ use repeated significance tests to determine experiment termination time. Either use the Anscombe bound with an appropriate k, or fix the sample size before starting the experiment.
It seems completely insane to have a jury of random people decide these kind of technical questions.
Build a Facebook Ads tool instead. Google clearly doesn't want to work with you, maybe their competitor does.
That's a level of political correctness I did not anticipate to be required of source control software. Taking it a bit too far imo.
How do Peter Thiel knows about this stuff and how do I know if it's true?
The article hints at a trend which isn't really happening: Apple's patents are hindering innovation in the Android space.

My terrible experience with Android stems from the lack of coordination between software and hardware.
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Your skepticism is mis-placed. Your concerns are lame in general and especially so for Priceonomics and this particular post. Priceonomics has a history of writing quality blog posts of interest to this audience. This post acknowledges the folly of talking about a funding and proceeds to spend most of the time supplying very useful information about the process. Asking for more detail about intended fund usage is unnecessary. Everyone already knows basically what the funds will be used for.

And you know what? Raising money is worth celebrating. Funding is critical to helping entrepreneurs be successful.
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If you aim to make inferences about which ideas work best, you should pick a sample size prior to the experiment and run the experiment until the sample size is reached.

That's not a very Bayesian thing to say. It doesn't matter what sample size you decided to pick at the beginning. A Bayesian method should yield reasonable results at every step of the experiment, and allows you to keep on testing until you feel comfortable with the posterior probability distributions.

If 10 customers have converted so far, and 30 haven't, then you would expect the conversion rate to be somewhere between 10% and 40%, as evidenced by this graph of the Beta distribution(10,30):

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+BetaDistribution+1...

You then do the same with method B, and stop testing once the overlap between the two probability distributions looks small enough.

Anscombe's rule is interesting, but it seems rather critically dependent on the number of future customers, which is hard to estimate. The advantage of the visual approach outlined above is that it's more intuitive, and people can use their best judgment to decide whether to keep on testing or not.

Disclaimer: I am not an A/B tester.
Doesn't MonoTouch use Visual Studio ... or is it something else?
Samsung made $10 billion over the last two quarters selling devices with outdated 2.x Android software. And last time I checked my carriers, none of their myriad of Samsung devices came with ICS.

Clearly ICS and smooth scrolling is not important to the carriers or their typical customers. Consequently, ICS is not important to Samsung.

It's not ignorant to say that Andriod scrolls poorly. It's just that scrolling performance isn't a priority when you're already pulling in $5 billion a quarter.
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The past week has fucking sucked.
Ask HN: What did you learn from your Y Combinator Interview?
Be concise - Most common advice in all the research we've done, but still learn to finish saying things in less than 10 seconds

Insights - If building something in a heavily-crowded competitive landscape, be ready to have a ton of insights on how you're going to over come them some, if not all

Hair-on-fire problem - On being asked 'what drives us crazy or frustrates us the most?', we kept on going about our idea/product instead of being frank and telling them the things that REALLY frustrate us.

Be excited - We dropped our level of excitement after the first two minutes because we felt that we weren't impressing them enough. Keep your enthusiasm up throughout
Side issue: I assumed cops run red lights, etc., not because it's legal for them outside hot pursuit but because who's going to enforce it? I don't actually know anything about this.
Perhaps the best class yet. Fantastic. But one comment:

> Google was the first company that enabled people to figure out whether advertising actually worked.

Not quite. You know those late night TV commercials for ginsu knives? They've always used a different phone number on each channel so that they know which ad worked. Billboards for lawyers? Same deal.

Google didn't invent performance marketing.
... and it might still be a bad idea. the mere fact that sendhub has raised $2m does not mean that this is a good idea.
That can be seen with the naked eye.
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It sounds like to me that the main problem was the design or presentation of the product. "SMS newsletters" does indeed sound like a terrible idea.
It's a neologism...a lingual bookmark for a concept in the popular consciousness. I'm not sure that you can just tell people they're "wrong" for using it. They'll just tell you you're wrong for not using it.
These guys are f'in geniuses, and nice guys too. All the best to them.
I have to agree. The larger issue I have is with the cheap, awful plastic Samsung keeps using for it's phones. I just got an HTC One S and I have to say, the build quality is fantastic. It seems like HTC are turning a new leaf with their "One" devices.
i agree on information. i see occasional references and try to keep track of them, but i have never found a good blog or similar to follow. do you know of anything?

various random links: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html http://perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/cfuchs/Oviedo.pdf http://carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/bub_courses.html
I don't believe criminals will be any smarter than the average citizen.
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Well, there's always System76 http://www.system76.com customized, dedicated Ubuntu laptops. ;-)
because the JooJoo was announced BEFORE THE iPad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo

That combination of features is not unique.
I love TTW. I've read most of it now. It's detailed, for example the URL parsing discussion. However, Zalewski pulls the details into a big picture narrative.

It immensely benefited me -- a web developer familiar with the craft but lacking depth. It could be a difficult introduction to read cover to cover! By all means get it if you plan a deep relationship with web programming.
That's a reasonable opinion, but it's not how that type of intellectual property works. Again, Nilay Patel (a lawyer, fwiw) at The Verge:

Trade dress is the wonky red-headed step-cousin of the family that fills the gaps between the three; you might think of it as a trademark on design elements that trigger consumer recognition. [...] Apple's claim is that the iPhone's box and design scream "Apple" to consumers just as strongly as the word "iPhone."
You mean this isn't a joke? 2016 and interviewers STILL asking dumb, useless questions. Oh well ...
um..where do you live ? (country)
You'd be right, but it wasn't "similar" design. They weren't sued because it was a black rectangle.

This is closer to flipping the Pepsi logo upside-down and selling cola, then bitching about how unfair the patent and trademark system is.
Downvoted?? Really?!

I'm pretty sure this is contributing to the discussion, no matter how unpopular it may be. I'm disappointed.
How did they come up with the numbers? I may have missed it but I don't see their methodology. (Do they have someone on the inside at Apple?) Until I see the methodology, this article is no better than making a random guess.
Many of the features listed apply, but certainly not all of them. Again, it is an "and" relationship: Apple claims ownership on all of those features combined. Here's a JooJoo's home screen: http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/224043-joojoo-home-screen...

The JooJoo does not include three of these items: the "square icons" on the home screen, the dock of, again, "square icons", and the "metallic surround framing the perimeter of the top surface". Thus, this doesn't apply (at all) to the JooJoo.

On the other hand, the original Galaxy S phone did seem to apply to each one on the list: http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/844649/2011-04-19ap... — metallic border, check; rounded square icons, check; dock of round squares, check; rounded rectangle shape, check; equal sides of black borders, check; dominated by screen, check.
Not much, I'd imagine. First, since this isn't an ICANN thing, the new TLD will only affect a tiny minority of people who choose to change their DNS servers. Second, I'd imagine most software would try 192.168.0.42 the IP address before 192.168.0.42 the domain, if only because the latter requires a DNS query. So at worst, nobody will read your blog.
The only problem I have with the right-side phone is the busy/light wallpaper makes the icons and text a bit hard to read, but give that phone a black wallpaper like the one on the left has (and this is an easy user-tunable parameter) and problem solved.

For some reason every picture of a Galaxy S (I | II | III) phone always shows the app drawer open. That is a surface that most users seldom interact with.
What make numbers friendly?
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/
Here's a minimal list:

* HTML / HTML5
* CSS
* JavaScript

Later on, when you feel the need for server side programming:

* JavaScript on Node.js
Well I didn't say it's entirely to better policing, hence the "in part".

For a citation, why not look at the last part of this article which was very popular on HN a few months ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120...

273 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691372

You're going to have a hard time debating that improved police techniques haven't made a difference at all, regardless of your personal opinion of Disney movies.
The two comments just above this as I post are complaints about Draw Something requiring Facebook wall posting permissions, or else the game won't play.

I could easily see a 30% decline in userbase due to silly restrictions such as this. Sure, you could just start a new account using an email address, but then you've lost all your previous games, and all your friends will have to re-associate you with the new username. It's frankly easier to just say "uh, they want what? no..." and close the app, being reminded of the experience anytime you think of playing again until you remove it from your phone.
I've discovered a new FB setting in the app permissions dialog: when it asks you to grant post permission, you can set the visibility to "Only Me".
At some point an employer needs to see code that a candidate has written, so unless the candidate wants to write code specifically for each company they send a resume to, maintaining some open source software is surely the most efficient mechanism to do that.

Artists maintain a portfolio of their work; why shouldn't programmers?
I had the same thought about the download link -- it does seem a bit odd.

But if you think about it, it does make sense. Very few people will not have JavaScript enabled -- those who do will be web developers or other technologically-minded individuals. I'm sure this is not exactly valid, but . . . it seems to me, at least, that a lot of the time this sort of person is going to be using either Linux or an Apple system.

Between the two, AFAIK, a Linux system is far more likely to have git installed already. If not, most would probably want to install it via their distribution's package manager (as the Linux download page actually directs you to do). So it does seem a semi-logical choice.

Personally, though -- I would have fallen back to a list of download links for different platforms.
Where is the OpenCL version?
You've made many references to engineering jobs, but many engineering professions require not four, but five years of college, with next to no option of employment, much less advancement without it.

Let's be clear, you are talking about software engineering.
Android scrolling wasn't bad enough for normal, non-picky users to notice. It's only techies who are used to iOS scrolling who complain about it.
Thanks Untog. You got the gist of what I was saying correct. I'm not referring to what will happen today, or even this year. But the reality is that governments do not have a good track record of allowing large sums of money to change hands without wanting to exercise control over the process.

It is only a matter of time until a well-publicized fraud is capitalized by one or more politicians to introduce legislation limiting or outright banning such transactions.

Just wait. In a year, or five, when it happens I'll do a blog post linking back to this discussion as a reminder...
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As a developer who loves using git, I am more than happy for others to go to the effort of selling it to business stakeholders. Why wouldn't I be?
@ShardPhoenix It IS completely insane to have a jury, a group of people specifically chosen because of their below-average intelligence and lack of technical knowledge, decide any kind of technical questions, especially this. Sad place we inhabit in this universe indeed ...
Mysteriously, AT&T changed their plans very shortly after Apple announced iMessage. Obviously they foresaw a lot of people downgrading their plans so they just did away with the tiered plans completely.
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Cute.

When NoScript is in "Allow scripts globally" mode, the only things it blocks are particularly nasty vulnerabilities (its anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking features, mainly). As I said from the start, that mode presents no problem at all for the overwhelming majority of sites (script-heavy or not), so when it renders a site unusable that's probably a sign of a serious design or security problem. I've only seen that happen once or twice, so I figured it would be nice to point out the issue.
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Seems to me like every post Nirvana makes turns into a battle. I don't intend to pass judgement on the validity of the main point of his posts, but I think what sets people off is the unnecessary blend of either pro-apple rhetoric or libertarian talking-points (all stated as fact) that are controversial topics (by hn standards.)

While I disagree with his conclusions some of the time, the controversial topics + the ultra loquacious posts are always a blast for me to read!
Apple doesn't have a patent on the square. Or the rectangle. Did you not read the article? Infringing phones were phones with all of those listed characteristics; not just one or a few of those characteristics. The "Apple owns the rectangle" myth is just that: a myth perpetuated by those who fail to understand IP litigation.
> And last time I checked my carriers, none of their myriad of Samsung devices came with ICS

I don't know which carriers you checked, but the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (which runs stock ICS) has been on the market for several months now. In the US, it's available from Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910348
What an ass. He'll never sell it though, so his loss.
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I don't enjoy playing it anymore and I uninstalled it as soon as it gave me a notification that was ad-related. That's way too obtrusive.
Whoops. Perhaps I am due two more sittings then.
> Ever notice how the speakers always have private speaker-only lunch rooms [...]

Most speakers are people too, you know. :)

It may depend a lot on the kind of event to which you're going--but certainly within the Free/Open Source conference world (from community- to corporate-organised events) my experience* is that most speakers don't see themselves as "above and separate" from attendees.

While events might have a speaker room it's generally used to grab a quick snack, stash some gear, find an organiser, make last minute presentation changes or as a quiet spot to get some work done in the middle of the madness. :)

And generally a speaker-only dinner or bar event is created by the event organisers as a token of appreciation for the speakers.

> the speakers want to network with other speakers.
In general the speakers want to network with anyone interesting/useful, speaker or not.

Two recommendations:

1) If you enjoy or don't enjoy a presentation please give concrete feedback. Either in person or via a conference feedback mechanism. It really helps to know what's working and what needs further improvement. And it's a good first point of contact for networking.

2) Apply to become a speaker! Start from somewhere small (or not) and go from there. It's too easy to convince yourself you've got nothing people want to hear. A few years I started with speaking at a local evening event in a town in New Zealand--this year I'll be speaking and running an extremely well received workshop at OSCON for the third year in a row.

* Blatant plug:

If you are going to be at OSCON (the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon) in July and want to learn how to get started with the Arduino consider attending my "Get Started with the Arduino - A Hands-On Introductory Workshop" http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/23941. In the previous two years we've introduced about sixty people to the awesome & fun world of Arduino. It's also been one of the highest rated tutorials at the conference for both years which makes me think I must be doing something right. :)

Also, if you're interested in creating Android accessories with the Arduino you should also check out my "Arduino & Handbag: Create Android Accessories Without Android Code" presentation: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/23946

And apparently if you use this promotion code you'll get 20% of registration for the conference: OS12FOS

/end blatant plug :)
Can you teach someone to be an entrepreneur?
Yes, that is your experience, and you seem very aggressive about offering it us as something more than what it is, an anecdote.

I don't think skipping college is necessarily a bad choice for some people, including you, but you are exhibiting a common trait of people who've been reasonably successful irregardless of the fact that they ended their formal education early, which is that they aren't aware of the shortcoming of their understanding of the world. In your case, I'll point out that most people end up working for 30-40 years, an early lead can fade.

Also, new grads from a good CS program can start well over $50k year these days, and many of them will have paid well-under full-price for tuition.
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The only thing more insane would be having one or a few persons with clear history of positions on an issue decide these kinds of questions. That is what you end up with if you use "experts" -- people with some sort of vested interest in a position that really can't possibly be impartial.
Not strongly ordered enough for what I want. Cool though.
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Wait until someone picks up .intranet. Heh.