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But Apple knew about the consequence beforehand. It’s easy to predict. (I would expect that even companies which are not all that competent can foresee something simple like that.) I really doubt that’s the reason.
Go to town. What's hurt by it?
As a 2010 Android user, I get angry reading how "impressive" these new releases have become while my phone is stuck with huge exploitable holes and a horrible user experience(2.3). I have a feeling the numbers will decline once other alternatives come out because I can't be the only person disgusted with the platform. Can Jelly Bean even play pro audio apps without latency? Will any real pro audio companies even make apps for Android if they actually fixed the latency?
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> there are studies that indicate this

So... not a proven fact at all. More like a vague correlation with assumptions tacked to the end.
I completely agree! I updated something on my father's wikipedia page (he founded a city and was a mayor), and even though the article was 5 years old, the change brought the article under review and it was cited for deletion due to notability! I countered everyone of their arguments with sourced articles directly that met the guidelines for notability and they just deleted the messages from their talk pages. They eventually stopped responding and left the article for deletion. Luckily a compassionate editor came along (who happened to be female) and completely defended it and me.

edit: I just searched for the page and it is deleted! I am going to get to the bottom of this, this is ridiculous, who do these people think they are?

edit 2: When the editor apologized to me, she told me to notify her if the page was ever deleted "If the article gets deleted, please let me know. -- Uzma Gamal". I've sent her a message and will update...This is crazy!
Hackers news is only intellectually stimulating if you are a developer, programmer or work in start up. It doesn't really have that much interesting discussions beyond that.
Are terms of use legally binding? Do the Twitter guidelines (don't rotate the bird etc.) count as terms of use?

What is the worst that could happen here? The organisation behind the Olympics sending a letter to a site owner requesting they remove the link? And what would happen if they refused?
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Personally, I'm all in favor of having (potentially dangerous) outlets for people to have fun controlling machines and driving them up mountains. I would just rather those outlets were separate from, say, people's means of getting to work in the morning.
Yup! If it was fast enough this could really help to bridge the retina resolution lag.
Judging from the other comment threads here, I would guess the two languages with good vocabulary in each.
I disagree. Have you seen the benchmarks where they showed Python code in pypy running faster than C equivalents? Sure they were contrived, but they support the idea that theoretically any JIT runtime should be faster than ahead-of-time compilation. It makes sense to me, since the JIT runtime has more information with which to optimize the code - pypy knows what's going on with the code while it's executing, whereas the hiphop compiler only has information about the code itself.

In addition, an implementation in pypy should be able to support eval, which is impossible (or perhaps extremely difficult) with hiphop.
Google has been way behind in terms of execution with their Android story

What does this mean? I'm not sure I agree or maybe I just don't understand
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Sorry, Android 4.0, 4.1, 2.2, "a project to make it butter smooth", "the default UI".

It's jargon because it's HN and I'm used to being able to get away with it. I don't see how a code or release name is "polluting".

Maybe they should just call it "magical" every release and drop the versioning. Oh. Maybe "I want Android.". Not "I want an Android phone". Since, you know, the cool guys can't do version numbers or articles now because their devices are too magical for them. (This is a real thing, btw, you'll note that Apple doesn't use articles near their iDevices).
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I agree. I see SQL similarly to regular expressions. There's a handful of commands which let you do a lot of stuff.

The hard part in SQL is optimization which requires really understanding how the underlying database engine optimizes and executes the query.

Optimizing complex queries is no joke. It's one of the reasons noSQL seems nice at glance. You can do the optimizations by adding lots of indexes or using application logic. In reality, it's a tradeoff for other problems.
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It's actually less danger factor than it is the pleasure of competence, doing something well and smoothly. I live in London, where there are a lot of powered two-wheelers, filtering is legal, and it's just about the best way of getting from A to B in the congested city. Sure, it gets slightly more dangerous if you get into a bit of a race with someone else - the adrenaline of competition can push you a bit, but you're mostly just a risk to yourself.

But being able to skip past long queues of stopped or slowly moving traffic, safely and efficiently almost as if the traffic didn't exist, feels really good.
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Why should the robot care about the honking? It should already have way more data via sensor input than the human doing the honking has long before the honk ever occurs.

Even ignoring that, I don't think I've ever seen a situation in which I think a horn actually helped in a near-accident situation. It tends to just be the thing someone honks in anger after the immediate danger is already avoided. IME (as someone who has never been in an accident but has seen quite a few near misses and accidents on SoCal freeways) usually once the horn comes into play it is either too late and the accident occurs anyway or the horn is honked after the fact as a "fuck you" to the other person.
> How is your reply any more relevant than his comment?

Gadzooks, you're right! His comment wasn't just silly; it was irrelevant, too! I missed that. Thanks for catching it!
Offline editing would be a killer feature.
It's all about age. Older people impose restrictions on younger people - because they can and enjoy it too.

Who goes to concerts? Younger people. Who reads newspapers? Older people.
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P.S. For added hilarity, the story directly below this one on HN is about cell phone tracking, where the top post is all talk of going without cell phones because the device's tracking could infringe on people's freedom.

Which is the scarier dystopia? Your phone keeps a running tab on your location, which could be accessed by the state or Google? Or your mode of transportation is tracking you, _and can be over-ridden or disabled at any time by the state or by Google_...
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I went through point by point noting why this post is nonsensical, but I have now come to the conclusion that this post is "Emre Sokullu's best development practices" and he needed a way to sell the post and so he went with the hip and happening startup phrase "MVP".

He seems to now have a clue about what the point of building a minimum viable product is... he also seems to be confused about which products are which.
Why is it silly? Consider this: we've had autopilots for many, may years. But even very limited gadgetry such as automatic parking is a very recent development in cars. And that is an almost trivial scenario.

(The reason the flying car won't be a reality is that all of those (auto-piloted) air planes do in fact have a crew of 1-3 highly qualified professionals -- and the flying cars would be piloted by the sort of people who can't figure out roundabouts. Also, the density of planes is extremely low compared to what would be the situation if flying cars were commonplace).

Also, planes have maintainance regimes that are vastly different from your car. I bet that you did not go through a checklist when you got into your car this morning, nor when you parked it. You probably do not have the faintest idea how the fluids are doing. You probably don't even know if all the external lights work. It is highly unlikely that you even performed the most rudimentary tests of all before getting into your car: walking around it and kicking the tyres. There was no qualified and certified mechanic (for your specific model) to go over your car prior to setting off.
I agree that this article probably wasn't the best but it does describe major problems for developers of Windows apps, many of which weren't the fault of the developers: they couldn't obtain a developer account simply because Microsoft doesn't allow for it in their country, and Microsoft additionally doesn't have the 'technical ability' to move apps from one account to another which would solve a lot of the issues that the developer describes. Also, the developer states that they weren't told specifically which parts of the app were considered 'immoral', and they didn't exactly have plenty of time to fix the app - their app had already been unavailable to their users for a month. Up to this point, their experience with Windows is similar to Apple's, but the fact that their efforts at promoting their app were thwarted pissed them off, especially after their previous bad experiences. Because of all this, your comment gives the impression that you hadn't read the post.

Why do you find developing for BlackBerry and Apple worse?
Can you point out which apps you created and published?
Dude, why do you Jimmy Wales is worth so much?

He runs Wikia.

What you are proposing is in direct conflict with his personal interests, but you can never win an argument on Wikipedia with that as evidence.
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Bottom line... Always code to the standards. Then hack it till it works in the current version of IE.
I think the exemption of GPL'd apps because of how they modify them is the primary one that makes me so angry...
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For reasons like these, whenever I see "please give me money" Wikipedia commercials, I just say yea....Nope!!
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These materials already exist and are called auxetics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxetics.

One notable example is the material that makes up Gore-Tex.
My materials prof talked about being in a lab that had a cube of it and how surreal it was to have it act this way.

There is already a company that produces auxetics commercially for some of the applications mentioned in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetix.
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Of course it's a fluff piece; I'm not sure I've ever read an article about Wikipedia that wasn't. Journalistic depth is rarely something anyone bothers with when discussing Wikipedia, nevermind scientific depth that actually usefully tracks things like the other problems you mention.
accident investigators != police officers behind the wheel. You probably know this, but still had to make an awesome comment about it?

It's funny how some people really think that self-driving cars are a bad thing, automation is a bad thing and people should be kept in labor. Yet, the same excact people, "optimize" their workflows by automating things, writing scripts, making the machines do as much as possible because there's no human-errors, it's cheap and it's very fast.

I really don't see (consumer)cars having no steering wheels, pedals or any other conrol equipment. What I see is cars gradually(within the next 5-10 years and onwards) get more and more of technologies to assist and aid with driving, ultimately resulting in a vehicle to which you can just say the address, and it will get you there. And yes, you'll still need a driving license for driving such a vehicle for decades, even if you don't expicitly take any control over the driving process.

For some it's an awesome future, for some it's a nightmare.
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I would be careful to conclude without data. For instance insurance companies have data that suggests that systems for warning the driver of lane drift make cars significantly more likely to have accidents. I can't remember if they had figured out why, but this is the sort of counter-intuitive results you have to expect when you are dealing with a field that isn't adequately understood.

And large populations of autonomous cars in obviously something we have zero experience with so we can't really know if there will be unexpected dominant factors.
I'll chime in with the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) in London is self-driving for the most part.
I dunno, the grammar you use in R is pretty weird, but it can all be expressed in simple function calls. For example "["(x, 2) is equivalent to the more typical x[2]. I've actually been thinking about re-implementing R, and PyPy does sound like the best way (I was also thinking of that Clojure implementation in C, given that R started out as a scheme interpreter. It would be a lot of work, but the rewards are massive. Reimplementing R the language is a lot less work than reimplementing the entire set of libraries.
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No, I'd probably leave. Unless the cats were really interesting.
It loses its "authoritative" nature. It becomes just a list of facts that have citations. Which has its uses of course but I think is much less interesting.

Would you trust wikipedia as much if it had a page for your neighbor's dog?
There's an obvious namespacing issue. How many people do you think have cats named "Fluffy," for instance? Beyond a certain point, it starts becoming difficult to find the information you want, except, perhaps by using a search function. Once you're at that point, you might as well be search Google for the info instead.

Edit: Wikipedia solves this problem currently with disambiguation pages. Those would become useless once they hit a certain size.
> I don't get most of the sexism debates.

I could tell. If you'd like to explain where you're coming from, that might invite a less snarky reply since you'd become a human being with a unique background and the potential for critical thought. Perhaps someone will even help explain to you what you "don't get". You might even have the chance to find out what others think.

As it is, the only thought I have is that you asked a stupid and inflammatory question. I shared that thought with you. Are you actually interested? Because walking into a bar fight and punching someone in the nose is not the right way to find out how it started.
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You're saying that because men and women are different, it is ok to be sexist. I'm saying that is false.
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I think Google's software engineering team has mostly been doing a very good job evolving and refining the platform.

Unfortunately Google hasn't done very well corralling the various OEMs into getting their work out there into users' hands and I agree their execution needs to improve there, although I'm not sure specifically what they can do without pushing OEMs away from the platform altogether.
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Actually Jelly Bean is finally supposed to provide usable audio latencies for audio apps:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/07/android-audio-improvem...

Unfortunately, it will probably be a while until there's enough of an installed base of 4.1 to matter, but at least the fix is in.
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This would be a very interesting post if you also wrote about the affect on signups/conversions.
But most Project Euler problems, once you get past the trivial ones (wherein the relevance is straight-up brute forcing), have almost nothing to do with programming.

IMO you'd be better off doing past IOI problems.
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If there's one site that needs a GUI editor, it's Wikipedia. Like MikeCapone said, it's not like they don't have the resources. It's something that should've been started on years ago.

> to take one example I was recently frustrated by, the editor at Adobe’s forums – and Adobe is a gigantic company with thousands of highly paid, experienced developers

I don't personally know any Adobe employees, but my (albeit limited) experience with Adobe software, such as Flash and Acrobat, certainly triggers descriptions such as "horrible buggy piece of crap."
All of this is true.. however you categorically stated that we "will never quite achieve" totally autonomous cars. To me that sounds like a silly statement especially when compared to flying cars (a totally different class of problem).

The fact is that we're very quickly edging towards fully computer controlled cars. You have to have a truly limited imagination to think we will never get there.

The argument about airplane maintenance also doesn't hold water. Result of a malfunctioning plane: plunge 30,000ft and hundreds dead. Result of a malfunctioning car: coast to a gentle stop. See any difference?
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"In fact, it's possible that people with certain psychological traits self-select for Wikipedia editorship."

I'd say this is more often the case than not. The few times I've interacted with wikipedia editors I've found our differences to revolve around differences in opinion rather than quantifiable standards. Of course, the opinion of the wiki-nazi carries the day. I agree wikipedia would be better served if it focused its editing on clear cases of unacceptability ("obviously fraudulent, marketing-oriented, illegal, or obscene according to a widely accepted definition of obscenity") plus in improving the language and grammar of the contributions.
This rules.

I don't like the text input system.
An editing environment that makes it easy to develop in a specific domain doesn't make it any less "real" than any other environment.
You have created the perfect layman meter. I can't of any of my friends or collegues who would even consider searching for such a program since in blurring can not be done.
Didnt use your program but this can be proved mathamatically.
These people will never use explorer and even if they would,
They are the kind if crowd who actually reads error messages.

On the other hand you have my grandma,aunt. Random old folks who fall into the red messege = panic & insta call super urgent call to me.

So yea far more layman are using IE
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All these are great, but nothing beats http://www.spacecollective.org

Just to give you an example is this book recommendation post

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Warning: There is some weird flash thing in the very beginning but just click to continue.
> it's not like they don't have the resources to do it.

Have you ever looked at the Mediawiki code base? Last time I skimmed a bit, a few years ago, it was an utterly horrible mess of spaghetti PHP. Just finding developers capable of doing this would be a big challenge. The Wikimedia Foundation has a lot less resources than you might imagine, considering the reach of its projects, and there are an awful lot of other funding priorities (not to mention other code priorities). They’re doing the best they can, but making sweeping changes to the code base is a lot harder than it looks.

> I think there are powerful members of the community who want to keep it somewhat insular and closed off as a defense mechanism.

Do you have any evidence for that? As conspiracy theories go, this one seems pretty weak to me. I can’t think of another organization of comparable size which is as welcoming and open to involvement and contribution from ordinary community members, at all levels of decision making. Almost the entire management and operation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation is carried out in public, nearly all of the parties involved are volunteers (with a quite small number of full time staff keeping infrastructure running, handling legal issues, and so on), and many many decisions are made collectively, by consensus.

It’s easy to hate on anything, as a disinterested outsider, without making any real attempt to understand the internal processes involved, but organizing millions of people is a highly non-trivial job, and I think the Wikimedia community has done pretty admirably, all things considered.
Well this is a very odd story.

For those that don't know NAB who owns half of this alleged patent troll is one of Australia's "big 4" banks and pulls in over $5B a year. It is hardly in need of cash.

Why on earth it is messing about in the US is beyond me.
Pro tip: nobody should have to find the FAQ. Esp. if you're crowdfunding.
"to be honest I'm not particularly surprised that what was, on 29 April 2011[2] a stub on a wedding dress was nominated for merging."

The article was flagged only 16 minutes after it was created, so it didn't have time to evolve.
Seems to me like they are often not actually out to delete the article, instead they're using the threat of deletion to try and spur the author to clean up an article to wikipedia's standards. Otherwise they'd have to do it themselves. In those cases I think it's actually a pretty reasonable strategy. There's a lot of crap and vanity articles that are thrown up there on any given day.
Wikipedia isn't a blog where you just browse through all articles. You have to actively seek out articles on each topic.
"You agreed that you wouldn't pirate content, when you signed up with your ISP"
Why? Why would your ISP care about it?

Why didn't you agree (in a contract with ISP) that you are goind to brush your teeth? That you won't troll online? That you would pay your taxes?

Because it's State masquerading as private party interests.
Doing with lies what they can't do with laws.

P. S. You americans have very unusual opinion on what makes a contract and what you can put into it. Very, very unusual. And it seems that you don't even see it.
Honestly, I think inner city scooters don't really factor into this debate. As you mention you pose a limited risk to others and your choice to risk your own well being is exactly that- your choice.

2000kg passenger cars travelling at 60-100km/hr are another story altogether. My guess is that there would be a tiny fraction (<1%) of all road fatalities caused by purely mechanical failure. That leaves 99% (stats pulled from my ass) caused, or largely contributed to, by human error. For a large class of these errors a computer would never cause the problem or safely navigate around it.

Saying "I want to keep driving 'cos its fun!!" isn't really good enough in that context.