skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine the holistic image would be more sticky since that is the one more likely to be shared by a large number of people and is usually the more "exciting" view.

When you become well known in a small town for some particular thing which may give you a bad reputation you have the option to move away or wait for time to fade that reputation somewhat. On the internet there will be hard evidence in existence for perpetuity.
The key difference is they traded privacy for personal trust and rapport. When you live in the same foxhole with your entire family and are always interacting with the same small community, trust is built up over time. You knew everybody in a personal way, not just as an abstract notion of a person on the other side of the world.

The way we're heading, we'll have neither personal trust nor privacy. It's not JUST the lack of privacy that's a problem, it's the fact that any stranger can know everything there is to know about you. In a small community, everybody has to have good working relationships with everybody else or the community dies. On the internet, not everybody has your best interests in mind.
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> Although, oddly, steroids for athletes don't get the same cultural free pass there.

I think they do, among amateur athletes at least.
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How is the film under copyright still?
I own one and it's a beautiful piece of engineering and art, at a great price. I have fallen in love with it.
Apple will reject any app containing a mic icon
This article provides several examples where popular apps have been rejected just for having a mic icon in the UI. When the icon was replaced with another icon, the app was approved.

http://www.addictivetips.com/ios/does-interface-matter-in-app-submission-approval-by-apple-case-study/
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I love the position you're taking on this. It's a specific view of the future that is plausible, and contrary to my position. Nice work.

To restate: I bet $1 that the ratio of total ad revenue (not including product placement revenue) to GDP will be substantially greater than 10% of what it is today.

Hope we're able to track each other down in 30 years, love to see how it turns out!
It's honestly one of the reasons I'm still contemplating getting a new Mac when it's time to upgrade. I've never seen a PC laptop with both a comfortable, large, smooth trackpad and good drivers that provide the kind of scrolling you get with a Mac.
Tell me about it - several of my friends who aren't very tech-savvy would nevertheless go to great lengths in order to have someone jailbreak their iPhones - not to escape the walled garden or other greater reasons, but simply because they heard there's free stuff to get. Of course this isn't limited to software as those are the same people that haven't bought an album in years.
tl;dr - it's no iPad but it's pretty good.

I would say that's a fair assessment. And for a lot of couple balking at the $499 entry fee for the iPad, it may just well be what they've been looking for.
Of course, what works for the guy who invented Linux might not work for someone who just wants a download/install/everything works Linux setup.
I will be very interested to see the effect when the "privacy watershed" event happens. Which I'd be amazed if it didn't happen sometime within the next 10 years or so.

By that I mean something on the scale of the entire facebook database being exposed or a gigantic number of personally identifiable google searches being released.

It may not even be something that happens due to malicious activity, it could be a company choosing to do something with data that impacts a large number of people's lives in a very direct way.
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> I paid full price for every version of the Sparrow app I could find. I told everyone who would listen to buy it. I couldn’t have given them more money even if I wanted to. So, as a customer, what more could I have done to keep them running independently?

This could have been avoided if their software were open source, or if they committed to open sourcing it should they cease development on it.
I think I've been trolled.
Funny thing is the rMBP's shipping estimates has actually dropped to 1-2 weeks only today! It was 3-4 weeks before: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/21/retina-macbook-pro-shipp...
If I was interviewing someone with this problem, I would want to hear what questions the interviewee asked, such as: "Do you want to optimize for best average or minimizing the worst case?"
Shh.. Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away.
True though don't didn't they initiate the trend in Just In Time manufacturing. Not sure to what scale they do these days having previous read about them buying up mountins of flash memory few years back. I dare suspect that customised models like the macbook pro which are built to your spec from the choices you get a more accomodating item for building to order. Few standard configs will be in the shops and if you want something different they can get it for you. Items ike iPads they can bulk build as little variance/permutations as its just how much memory in them for storage. But yet there has been many a time they have sold out. No supplier realy wants that, but also at the same time it does help with free news and in a way help promote your product as it does have your advantage as long as those who miss out initialy can wait and not purchase a alternative in frustration.
What I find so hilarious about this is that they refer to it as "Mindcraft".
In what way do you find Google makes it difficult to use multiple accounts at once? I've been blown away at how easy and comprehensive the multilogin support is, and am curious about how your experience was different.
FWIW, I'm pretty sure it's a bad argument.

Most rich folks are self-made, full stop. Here's some data: http://www.benefitspro.com/2012/07/20/fidelity-finds-86-perc...

However, I think you're dead on with most of your points. Being self-employed is in the "necessary but nowhere near sufficient" category on the road to wealth. The vast majority of self-employed folks never get rich. The vast majority of them work harder and earn less than their employed counterparts (there's good data on this, but I'm too lazy to Google it).

Short answer: work hard. Be self-employed because it makes you happy and more satisfied, not because you want to get rich.
I think there's a plus and a minus to the class navigation features of IDEs. Undoubtedly they make it faster to find your way through a thread of code, helping you to avoid breaking concentration and flow. However, I also observe that many of my colleagues who exclusively use an IDE never actually learn the structure of the codebase. Starting in on a bug or a task from scratch, they don't have the instinctive knowledge of what file & method to go to straight away to start working on the problem which I feel like I've gained via time spent navigating the codebase more manually.
I don't understand why people are so focused on Facebook's ad revenue and it's supposed unsustainability, since Google has been around longer, are way bigger, and you know what? The overwhelming majority of their income is also from online ads.

And you know what? Before that we had TV, Radio, and newspaper ads. Those industries didn't implode (or start to) until better ad delivery systems (the web) showed up?

So you know what's going to kill Facebook (and google)? Not some realization ads "aren't working". A newer and even better ad delivery system. (also unlike old media, there doesn't yet seem to be a reason to say FB or google won't be behind this new system either).

This is tired old bollocks.
Oh, definitely. He doesn't give a damn about how anyone is supposed to do anything and is convinced he's going to "change the world" or something stupid like that. Clearly a bad influence.
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I would hate it to do it in an interview setting since the question didn't state the goal of finding the worst case scenario. It's like mind reading. I did solve it once during lunch with colleagues when we asked each other puzzles, which was fun.

Is people ok with posting the solution here? Or want to try out some more?

Hint: square root.
What store are people buying it in?
This would be hard to implement, what with organisations being able to move their actual database to other locations around the world. You would need an international treaty.

Not to mention that it would stifle all kinds of things, for example the kinect uses facial recognition to recognise different people. The public would not support this sort of legislation if it meant all their fun stuff got thrown away.

Besides people could still keep databases, just locked away in encrypted partitions.
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> When I buy a ThinkPad, I intend to keep it for 5 years.
> My friends with MacBooks all replace them every 2-3 years.

Yeah that's one of the reasons I don't know if I'm comfortable getting one of the new Macbooks. I mean the Retina Display w/ 16 GB of RAM is lustworthy, but the RAM is soldered into place (thus the need to max it out at 16GB at purchase-time), the battery's glued in place, and the SSD is apparently replaceable but completely nonstandard.

But I'm confused about what to replace it with, and concerned that I'll miss some of the better OS X stuff. Keynote is fantastic for presentations. Never having to worry about hardware compatibility is pretty convenient.
"If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold."

This statement is complete nonesense and I do not understand why it keeps appearing everywhere.

You are almost always paying for apps and services, and you are never the product being sold. Sometimes you pay with cash, sometimes you pay with ad impressions. But you always pay and you are always the customer that needs to be satisfied.

Facebook is not free. You pay for it with your willingness to have Facebook show you ads. Ad impressions are as good as money for Google, because they can exchange them for USD.

Google Search/Gmail/Maps are the products. And Google has to make them as good as they can. Otherwise you, the customer, will stop paying for them.
The last time I played with SVG (on January) it had a couple of ugly bugs like crashing Google Chrome with many nodesin a graph and leaving trails when moving an object (a Hello Kitty for my daughter!)
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The article says they made "more than half a million" in the first six months on the Mac App Store, not $1M. Since then, they've consistently been in the Top 50 on the Mac App Store, so the numbers have likely sustained over time.

$1-1.5m per year is a realistic estimate, IMO. Of course, if Google was offering the rumored $25M, taking a 25x payday is pretty hard to resist.
Fair enough. Upon investigation, I've discovered there are a fair few OS X official system shortcuts which utilize function keys.

But I think you're an edge case. Apple targets hard the average consumer, and there are plenty (my parents) who don't understand an arbitrary mapping of a number to a function. The self-explanatory icons (the speaker with lots of sound vs no sound, the universal play triangle, etc.) are far more understandable. So why not save space?
>Although, oddly, steroids for athletes don't get the same cultural free pass
there.

On a somewhat cynical note, I often propose having different leagues for popular
sports - one with and one without a ban on drugs. Could be interesting.
Although in a lot of ways Canvas is easier to work with, SVG has some advantages for user interaction because it takes care of interaction logic for you. For instance, you can register a callback for clicking or hovering on complex shapes, whereas with Canvas you'd have to calculate the hit detection geometry yourself.
I believe (can't find a screencap) if you don't have a card set up for Play yet, it'll show a prompt asking you to add one (and explains Play) when you add your account. You also get this mail[0] explaining the same.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/ysgrfp2bah95kfh/Screenshot_2012-07...
It's people that deliver software projects not processes.

I good and well motivated developer will deliver results regardless of the process used. A process will work well on a team if that team wants to implement it.

I wouldn't say Agile was a scam it has a lot of good ideas, ideas borrowed from best practices from numerous sources.

What it lacks that most processes lack is a true understanding of what motivates developers to deliver. If you're a manager and you don't know how to motivate your team then you're in trouble regardless of the process you use.
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Actually, the original intention was governmental censorship.
Am I the only one who didn't use it Gmail accounts?
How does switching to zero revenue possibly avoid the problem of developers not getting paid enough?
It looks like the page has now been changed to include the full view including name in the header section. :)
Its really eerie not being able to see who's the author of a piece of writing.
I propose a fun and existing amendment to intellectual property cases: if the plaintiff loses, the defendant gets to shoot the plaintiff (or the plaintiff's CEO) and the losing legal team. Not at a distant time and place, mind you, but right there on the spot. "We the jury find the defendant not liable blam blam."

I think that should reduce the number of patent lawsuits to approximately the number appropriate for an educated and free society. If you really, really feel that you've been wronged, go for it! But don't waste the court's or society's time, resources, and goodwill on horrid antisocial crud like this.
Seems Apple want to avoid any confusion with the Siri mic. I used the standard mic icon in quite a few apps so I'm going to need to take a look at the best alternative, unfortunately.
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Not every screen needs a back button. You can't hide a hardware back button.

I'm with Apple on this one. The back-arrow button in the toolbar reminds me I'm in a hierarchal app, and the label reminds me what the prior screen was. It's just the opposite for me: every time I use an Android I hunt around the screen for the software back button.
I upgrade my Mac the day after a new OS X version is released

I used to do that—until I realized that 10.7 (and now probably 10.8) don't offer any substantial improvements to things I care about (as discussed here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/mac-os-10-7-is-out...). In other words, I've probably reached "peak operating system," in that marginal improvements to OSes are really quite marginal. That's also true, at least for me, of a program like Word. Have we really seen substantial improvements since, say, 2002? Maybe in stability, but not much else.

I'm not arguing that software itself isn't improving—a lot of software has a huge amount of search space left. But some doesn't, and we get diminishing marginal returns. Maybe I'll upgrade to 10.8 or its successor—Textmate 2.0 or iMovie 12 could be the inciting factors—but there's a solid chance I won't.
All these microphone icons are nearly identical in style. Try one that doesn't look like a large-diaphragm condenser mic in a radio studio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sound_Recorder_icon.png
Absolutist statements like that sound nice, don't they? Shame that both history and the present day don't bear out your claims.

Thanks for playing, though!
Actually there's a slight optimization available. Why ten floors? Because basically what we are doing is establishing a most significant digit - the tens place, then the ones place. This works because 100 is a square number (10*10). But what if there were 64 floors? Then, to do the same thing (but in base 8), we'd drop every 8 floors. We can account for this as we drop by treating all floors above as a fresh tower and rounding to the nearest square number: Drop on floor 10 (90 floors remain - 81 is closest square, so now only go up 9 floors), drop on 19 (81 floors remain, go up 9 again), drop on 28 (72 floors remain, 64 is closest square, go up 8), etc, etc.
>it has no other reason not to send a bottle into the US

Except to serve it's customer, because if it doesn't meet import requirements then the customer's package will never arrive. I understand it may not be legally obligated so there's no repercussion except the shipment being confiscated, but it's in business to serve customers.
I bought one and it's finally a worthy Android device to my iOS devices. However, there is one tragic flaw with it--the tablet apps are of a terribly varying quality. Only a tiny tiny handful are tightly programmed with the device's screen size and other considerations in mind. No apps are as tightly polished as the good ones deliberately targeted for iPad. Most tablet apps on Android were automatically resized with no thought and it shows--they're ugly as hell.
Gmail supports POP3 and IMAP and they even mimic an exchange server, I think it's clear they think it's in their own best interests to give people a lot of options for accessing their email even if many of those options don't serve ads. I don't believe I've ever seen an ad on any of gmail's own mobile offerings, either.
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I wonder how important the actual wording is vs what appears to be the intent on what the patent covers.

To me (and I know I'm simplifying just like the random commenters you speak of), the patent is _intended_ to cover 1. performing heuristic searches on multiple areas (modules)
2. using a different search on each area

However, it uses the word "predetermined" when defining the heuristic algorithm to use for each area. If my code randomly picks between two slightly different heuristics (even with a very low probability), would it still be covered under the patent?

Also it says "heuristic algorithm" meaning singular algorithm. If I ran 2 algorithms in parallel (even one that always returns no results) and then chose the "better" of the two, would that get around the patent too?

Are patents vulnerable to this sort of work-around due to subtle interpretations of wording, or is it really the intent of the patent that matters?
Apple has always been clear with developers that any system wide icon they use cannot be used for any other action. For example if you use the 'i' (info) button for anything other than showing information (usually by flipping the view) you will get rejected. It helps maintain consistency.

All the app shown in the example have used the iOS Siri/dictation icon to do something other than launch Siri.

Also, why is everyone using that mic design? Very few real world mics actually look like that anymore. Why not use something people are more familiar with like a standard dynamic mic shape?
No, what the article seems to be talking about is almost exactly the opposite of what you are saying. Yes, getting organized and focusing on a problem is a good start but the article is talking about a way to get creative ideas when facing hard problems. Specifically, the idea is not to focus on a problem directly. It is sort of a lateral thinking strategy where instead of attacking the problem by banging down the front door, you instead try to find a side entrance. Last week, I was working on a very tough puzzle and trying to attack it directly with just pure concentration wasn't working. I just kept getting into a loop and couldn't make any further progress. The solution didn't come until the next day after I had stopped thinking about the problem and involved a very different strategy. Another thing I've noticed is that solutions that come this way are almost always more elegant than solutions that come from raw conscious effort, even when both methods solve the problem.
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There's also the issue that information is easily spread "virally" online. The information that is actively spread though tends to be stuff that is outrageous or scandalous (often taken out of context) or whatever rather than the positive but boring stuff.

Star wars kid could probably cure cancer, but he'd still be "the star wars kid" to most people.
From the very interesting first link:

Karl Marx allowed for supply and demand, quoting Adam Smith himself, and I believe, describing the status quo of the era:

" It suffices to say that if supply and demand equilibrate each other, the market prices of commodities will correspond with their natural prices, that is to say, with their values as determined by the respective quantities of labor required for their production."

I don't think that this disagrees with the classical economic theory you mention, in any way. Would you to care to explain your point in a little more detail please? If anything it's one of the refinements that you speak of.

I'm not being dishonest here, I genuinely can't spot the difference. I have difficulty in spotting what aspect of biot's statement is inherently communist.

In Marx's own view on how things ought to be, paraphrasing, communism was a world in which each gave according to their abilities, and received according to their needs.

In this communist scenario, what each person contributed has no bearing on their compensation. So by supporting the current status quo, biot is not in my opinion expressing Marxist views, in fact, quite the opposite.

In fact, I've heard people denounced as communists for wishing for wage caps.
Can you be better about deleting these things or at least getting them out of Google? If you're going to shut down conversation, it seems rude to keep your spot high in the rankings.
I will be very interested to see the effect when the "privacy watershed" event happens.

I would put money on nothing happening.

There have been large scale credit card leaks before, without any real lasting impact.

There have been "facebook stalking" murders.

What privacy violation could possibly be worse? I suppose genocide based on something in some online profile is theoretically possible, but even in countries where there is risk of state-sponsored attacks on people based on their online profiles (Egypt, Iran, Syria etc) there has been no real change in behaviour.

"People" (speaking in averages here) seem comfortable enough (or too lazy to do anything about) with companies knowing pretty much everything there is about them, even in the worst circumstances possible.