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Skeptoid's comments on TIGHAR's hypothesis: http://skeptoid.com/episode.php?id=4295

News articles always seem to fail to mention that Britain colonized the island in 1938, about 18 months after Earhart's disappearance. The town was built just across the main inlet from 'Seven Site', the location where TIGHAR suggests that Earhart and Noonan spent their final days. The US Coast Guard operated a station there for a while, too. It was continuously inhabited until 1965, when the colony was abandoned. So there being various human artifacts on the island is not really a mystery that requires explaining. The island is rotten with artifacts because it used to be rotten with humans.

It's fairly easy to connect the dots to form a particular picture - all you have to do is focus on the ones that match the picture you're trying to draw. Finding a Lockheed Electra 10E in the lagoon would be exciting, of course. But I'm not sure we should be holding our breath for it.
They do tell you how the standard of living is improving, because standard of living as a measurement is linked to things like purchasing power, GDP, overall wealth etc.

What you are looking for though is Quality of Life. This measurement is an attempt to do what you are looking for: harness non-economic indicators together with the empirical data to determine how people are doing.

EDIT: To your first point - If you are giving some of your wealth (often in the form of money) to someone else, you are usually doing so for a reason, in that they are producing something that you value. The very act of producing value is creating wealth.

Say I take out a loan of 100K to build a house. Did I create new wealth?

Yes. You're paying interest to the bank aren't you? Interest that wasn't there before. That's new wealth. You're also paying your realtor. That's new wealth, etc. etc.

The fact that you don't think the bank needs any more wealth is entirely besides the point.

There's a good pg essay on this that explains these concepts well: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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Quite so, but it might not have been obvious - that is, his remarks may not have been made across the table, but in a quieter tone. If you're in a group of 10 or 20 people talking all at once you're not necessarily paying attention to an exchange between two of your number at an adjoining table.

I don't know what sort of configuration people were in at this bar, obviously. But when she mentioned that the fellow singled her out, I took it to mean that he got into a one-on-one conversation rather than pitching his offensive remarks across a conference table. Bars tend to be noisy and people often break up into pairs or mini-groups as the evening wears on.
So here's a theory. An old adage used to be "I know half my advertising dollars are wasted, but I don't know which half!"

Now that you can get analytics on ad views and interactions, we do know that the interaction rates on ads in publications are terrible. Therefore, they command lower rates.

Is this a case where technology is "cleaning up" an ineffective use of marketing dollars?

Another change for advertisers is that they can get superior targeting online. Why broadcast to everyone when you can target your niche directly?

On a side note, I hate marketing. I want to either be the customer or the product, but never both. That said, I might pay extra for newspapers or media with no ads, only reporting. I want investigative journalists essentially on my payroll. Which is basically public broadcasting (NPR or PBS in the US), but I wouldn't be opposed to a completely private alternative. The issue there is that I'd want to pay an established name, an upstart would have to convince me that they'll provide excellent work.
I'd be willing to bet that in the real world a corner is actually the worst choice. It may be the most likely to get blank spaces, but its probably also more likely to box you in, and only gives you one direction of attack.
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Thanks for the advice. I just thought there would always be other candidates in front of me with Rails professional experience, so I would always be at the end of the queue. The dev bootcamp would be my strategy for moving further in the queue, but I guess that's not the only way.
Haven't tried it yet, but it's a risky departure from the previous long-standing design (and it applies to all of their models being released this year - i.e. the previous 7-row layout is history). They seem to be taking the redesign seriously though - some more information on their blog: http://blog.lenovo.com/design/thinkpad-x1-designing-the-ulti...

My worry is that they've moved the page/up down keys quite illogically down next to the arrow keys. It just doesn't map right mentally - moving pages up/down shouldn't have to involve clicking keys either side of the arrow keys:

http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/05/Lenovo_tablet_X230t_stan...

Not too happy about the home/end keys for similar reasons.

Making the keys more ergonomic is fine but it seems there really was no incentive for them to change the layout to a 6-row one other than arbitrary stylistic reasons.

That all said, it's probably still the best notebook keyboard on the market. I have a MacBook here and feel/tactility of the keys is superior on my old 2010 ThinkPad (if only just - they're both great keyboards) - on the new models, layout issues asides, it's supposed to be even better.
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I would say the goal is not to have the highest probability of triggering a cascade, but rather, some combination of:

- high probability of triggering a cascade

- high probability of that cascade being "useful", that is, of being able to work outward from the cascade you opened. (Clicking on the empty corner and getting 1-3-1 on its borders means you still have to guess to escape the corner.)

- high probability of not leaving difficult areas for the end. (Coin flips are most likely to occur in corners and edges; in the middle of the board, you usually have information from multiple directions. It's still possible to be forced to guess in the middle, but it happens far less often.)

As a result, the strategy I've chosen on expert boards (based on experience, without particularly robust statistical backing) is to click the corners sequentially until I get one that allows me to open up more than a few squares. I occasionally lose a game on the second or third click this way, but I don't lose very many on late coin flips.
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Except for how loud it is. I prefer the Netflix UI on the xbox, but use it on AppleTV anyways just because I don't want to have to crank the volume to cover up the sound.
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Where do benefits come from? The taxpayer. Taxing them is just shuffling money between two govt budgets.
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RE: point #2.
To be fair you should also factor in the time, effort and gas it takes to go to Redbox, wait in line to rent and return discs. All the while hoping that new release is available and not scratched up. For most of us, that extra $2 to get it from Xbox is money well spent.
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First of all, I'm really enjoying my time with Backbone!

Unrelatedly, but in case anyone's listening, there's something I keep wanting in Backbone, but perhaps my architecture is wrong:

// inside my view
this.model.on('change', this._onChange, this);

// later
this.model.set({ ... }, null, this);

This example uses a hypothetical version of 'set', which won't trigger 'change' events for any listeners whose context is the third argument. So, my view won't receive a 'change' event after it changes the model.

Currently, when my view wants to change something, it modifies the model and then waits to receive the 'change' event before updating what the view actually looks like. However, this feels very indirect and doesn't always work out too well (sometimes I have to resort to setting a 'ignoreNextChangeEvent' variable).
On a tangentially related note, why can't Turner Classic Movies (TCM) do a proper app? They're the closest to an a la carte offering on cable. It wouldn't even have to allow full Netflix-style access to an entire library - I'd be happy to stream their curated schedule to a mobile or desktop device, as my subscription is one of the few reasons I keep a cable television account.
It seems to me that Patch beats a local paper any day. The argument that making a paper hyper local somehow saves it from having to compete with the Internet just seems off to me.
I'm curious your thoughts on Patch. Personally, any local news I read I get from twitter of facebook via Patch
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http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.5594.pdf
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"Get off my lawn" comment incoming :)

Once upon a time, there were some very large and very profitable companies whose business centered around "coupons". The difference is that they used to come in your mailbox, and companies paid for inclusion as a means of advertising. This was a very popular business model in the direct mail industry, which could be viewed as a precursor to many of today's internet business models.

So, there are plenty of institutional investors over the age of 40 who saw the Groupon business as something recognizable, and decided to invest, because we like to invest in what we know.

I can't believe I thought history was a boring subject in school. These days, the empowerment of just a little history goes a long way.
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This was Marco and other iOS developers' mistake. If they wait too long to come to Android, there will be established competitors on the platform, and instead of being considered a market leader, they might even have to play catch-up with those already established on Android.

This is the same reason why even Microsoft has decided to make Office for iOS and Android. They can't just ignore 700 million users (and soon to be much bigger) just because they'd want people to use Windows instead. Windows is a big cash cow for Microsoft, but so is Office (about as big in revenue), and they can't risk losing the Office market to others, and not getting to decide the future format for docs, and other benefits they now get from being the absolute Office leader.
Its not as simple as that. No company would let you pay for your own flights because it reflect badly on them and how they treat their talent, at the same time they most definitely will be reluctant to fly you from abroad to interview. Hiring is not so cut and dry, although you may have the best technical abilities they may reject you simply because of bad cultural fit.

devbootcamp is clearly not an option for you, i suggest you take spoom's advice and open source a project you can be proud of in Rails. Then maybe attend some conferences in the US, and try and network to seek jobs. I believe you can get a B1 visa to attend conferences and you should be legally allowed to interview, although IANAL so double check.
1600x900 on 14" is mediocre? Bear in mind that it's exactly the same size/weight as the 13" MacBook Air but has larger display (thanks to a narrower bezel on the sides), higher resolution, and an arguably better keyboard. Shame about the battery life, though. Also, considering they're using a carbon fibre shell, they should have been able to get the weight down to considerably less than that of the Aluminium MacBook Air. Sony got that part right with their own carbon fibre VAIO Z (lighter and with better display than either), but it has worse ergonomics than either the ThinkPad or the Air.

No product out there at the moment that gets everything right. The MacBook Air probably comes closest, although the battery life and TN+ display could both be substantially improved.

Note that the ThinkPad X220/X230 has both a better, IPS, display and can run for 12+ hours using a 9-cell battery whilst still weighing less than a 13" MacBook Pro. However, it's heavier than the newer slimmer notebooks and has lower resolution:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/record-breaker-lenovo-thinkpad-x22...
It's actually pretty astute, and a surprising notion, considering that we have all been tossing print media in the deadpool lately.

While it's a simplistic view - tossing in fb for more headline grabs may be a reach - it's an interesting way of looking at where mobile ad dollars funnel to market.

Print media - transitioned to mobile - represents willing eyeballs, captive audience, daily routines, solomo content that resonates with users, and just enough topical specialization to hold the mainstream consumer.

The stronger statement here is that print media might have found their footing again, and the survivors could once again be big plays, if they step carefully.
Importantly, it's also likely to be the first example, and failing at the outset will make it difficult to gain any sort of traction.
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Apparently the White House has something of a glass house situation on its hands: http://freebeacon.com/hostile-workplace/
I think SpaceX should take one. Throw maybe $10k of off-the-shelf parts in there, add some comms, and you have the best proof-of-concept and advertising ever.
> That said, if your site grows in some way you didn't originally anticipate and you get to a point where you need to shard, but can only do so by changing data stores, then it's sad.

I don't agree. Almost every site that grows in ways that weren't anticipated (or at a scale that wasn't anticipated) will have to make technical changes. If you don't need to make any changes it's almost certainly the case that you originally over-engineered. If you're optimizing for cases that you don't anticipate, I don't know what to call it other than over-engineering. Facebook started simple and only made Cassandra when they needed to, Google didn't have BigTable when they started, etc etc.
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Instagram, Flipboard, Instapaper. Who's next?
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I can't get past this (let alone the why of another MV*) - Why sugar.js? 6731 lines of bloat. This is going to turn off a great number of developers out the gates.
Typical Techcrunch knee jerk cookiecutter article written in great hurry to capture Google News traffic with a grandiose title.

Many of the media apps like ESPN, HBO, etc. require a Cable TV subscription to work. Microsoft is working with the Cable TV companies since getting access to content otherwise is turning into a huge mess with fragmentation.

True, it can be a Cable Box killer to some extent and the new Metro update last year was really great, even for the apps. But it's certainly not a Cable Subscription killer just yet unless you can live on just Netlix, Amazon Instant Video, VEVO, Youtube and a few others.
I don't think that that follows in any way from the article. But the idea is interesting. Care to explain or give references?
Live sports are the key for many people.

Of note: those of us who care little for sports save for the occasional definitive headliner. I'm looking for a source of top-tier Olympics 2012 coverage without having to get cable TV installed (haven't had it for the 6+ years we've been in the house, don't want to open that can of ad-filled worms, don't want to try closing that can afterwards). Any ideas/insights? An Apple TV "app/channel" would be ideal, but per Apple's norm I assume we won't know until near-too-late.
I'm not much of a console gamer, but I do play more than my share of PC games, and I have to ask... is anyone else really unimpressed by this touchscreen-peripheral concept, in any of its incarnations?

When I'm playing a video game, I want to be immersed in it. It's a very clever illusion, though one I doubt anyone ever consciously invented, that since your field of view is always in the same place in retina-space[0], a static screen can trick you into thinking you're looking or moving around by displaying moving images.

I feel like having a second screen, especially one I have to hold in my hands, could only distract me from this effect and remind me that I'm actually sitting on a couch, staring at a big lighted box... which doesn't really sound like fun to me.

[0] Seriously, think about this. It blew my mind.
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I'd probably recommend having an example app that uses the API anyways :)
I know some people doing data entry jobs at groupon.

1- they hate their jobs.
2- many are hired as temp, and given absolutely crappy wages
3- they are being hired to do something that could easily be accomplished with some programming (i.e., taking data from one system and copy/pasting it verbatim into another system)
Speaking as someone who has spent WAY too much time playing minesweeper -- Early on I came to a similar conclusion (though without doing the actual math) and started clicking on corners initially. I soon discovered, as most people do, that corners are much more likely to expand out into a tiny opening that you can only follow for a short time before you're forced to make a "coin toss" move. If the goal is to make a _usable_ blob, clicking in the middle is best.
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With transatlantic cables built for trading, this gives new meaning to the term "boil the ocean".

Ba-dum-CHING!
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Yeah, on this one they're not trying to kill Apple/Google, they're trying to kill Nintendo.

Plus, the Xbox division runs at arms-distance from the Windows team. Zune used to be there as well, but they've been pulled in/shut down.
The last Nintendo title I bought was Metroid: Other M. I've seen the endless parade of Mario Party/Mario Kart games and frankly I'm tired of it. Even Zelda is starting to get old.

In my opinion Nintendo seriously needs new IP - they've been riding on the coattails of stuff that was invented ages ago, and I haven't seen anything interesting in years.

It's also possible that I'm no longer in the target market, but I can tell you that Nintendo is not on the radar of my kids either (3 and 12).
And make Hacker News comments on my name? :-)
> Even then, it may be far from clear-cut. We don't know what those problems are. Have there been reports of harassment regarding this guy? If so, that's fairly clear-cut. But maybe this is just kind of a jerk, but hasn't done anything over the line before.

All of this is idle speculation that is really besides the point. The point is that conferences should have a policy for how to deal with these kinds of situations. Those policies are probably going to depend on a certain amount of judgement from the conference organizer. They make all kinds of other judgements, about who to include as keynote speakers or accept for talks. One of their criteria should, perhaps, be whether the person in question has stepped seriously out of bounds at previous events.

> I'm wondering where the rest of the community was when this harassment was going on at the bar. The victim says they were there in a group. So a whole group of conference attendees was just standing around, letting this victim be harassed?

You have been to a bar before, right? Many of them are dark, and loud. There can be many conversations going on at once. It's pretty easy, even with a large groups present, for people to have a conversation that no one else can hear, because there's music playing, and they are involved in their own conversation.

If people did overhear, there's always the bystander effect. In groups, people are sometimes less likely to intervene in a situation, because they expect someone else to intervene, or because they see no one else intervening and feel some social pressure not to break the ice.

And we've seen several other incidents like this. Sometimes, it happens off in a corner where no one else is around; or in a hallway in the conference hotel. Those are situations we need to deal with just as much, and we can't depend on there being a helpful bystander.

The only point is that we need a policy. The policy does not need to be bulletproof. These are human situations. There will always be cases that slip through the cracks. Some of them might just turn into a he-said, she-said that can't be resolved. Some people might never come forward to the conference organizers. Some people might abuse a policy to just get someone kicked out that they don't like. But you do your best to try and provide the best, most accepting environment that you can.

And right now, we have a real problem. We have people abusing the lack of any policies, the lack of will of organizers to do anything, to continue coming to events without repercussion for repeated behavior that is clearly unacceptable. We can do better.

You know, the policy might be a warning at first. It might include some form of adjudication if the events are in dispute. It might give someone a cooling off period, and allow them back after a certain amount of time. There are lots of options, and a large space to explore. But it is fundamentally unacceptable that we just say "well, we can't tell what really happened with a legal level of proof, so we're going to keep inviting creeps to our conferences and let anyone who feels uncomfortable with that stay away."
IIRC the way to get clients to round robin connect to different servers is to have your DNS server(s) return multiple IP addresses for a given domain.

I have no idea about how authoritative name servers work, but I'm assuming it's a prioritized list. I'd probably have all your authoritative servers provide all the IP addresses in any case.
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