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Interesting application of what I might call the "visible effect bias" here. (See: "That Which is Seen and That Which is not Seen" http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html)

The CPSC sues, complaining that warning labels are ineffective, because parents introduce the toys to their children anyway. The warning labels are ineffective because almost every toy small enough to be put in a mouth has a warning label attached to the effect of "choking hazard; not suitable for children", even if the toys are perfectly safe (which is to say, harm almost never occurs).

Toys are attached with false warning labels because if by some chance a child does choke, either the parents or the CPSC can sue, citing the absence of warning labels. The suitors can win even if the incident was unlikely, due to hindsight bias. Hence, it costs the company nothing to exaggerate the danger by adding a warning label, in order to protect themselves from liability.

So, what is seen by the regulatory system is that putting on a warning label could have prevented such-and-such a case of choking/injury. What is not seen is that adding redundant warning labels decreases the informational value of true warnings, causing increased future cases of choking/injury from truly dangerous products.

Ironically in this case the regulators then sue, arguing that warning labels are insufficient because parents ignore them, due to a problem that was originally created by regulators being too eager to sue!

Now, I haven't looked for any data showing that this is what happened in this case, but it seems to be a common pattern (for example, "may contain traces of peanuts"; and excessive waiting times for FDA approval of livesaving drugs).
The danger from knives is obvious to most children, and a cut probably isn't going to seriously injure them. Knives are not marketed as toys, and have a use other than being played with. If a child is injured by a knife, you will know it quickly, and understand the extent of the problem. Half of the people in this thread are comparing it to swallowing a penny, which is so harmless that you could make it a hobby.

This is not health & safety gone mad.
Officially, they are flexible on the actual rate, but I believe 30% is pretty standard.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newel...

Edit: Oh, and PC Gamer has a good bit about the update process.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/12/how-steam-is-about-to-chan...
I've actually used it for almost a year, as a primary browser. One of the reasons was that it allows (allowed?) switching of font rendering engine to either Apple or Microsoft one. It was part of the experiment whether it's possible to live with a Mac with its extremely blurry though shape-preserving rendering.

Turns out they've bet on ultrahigh resolution displays, where their rendering is perfect.
Only partially.

Mike Ash goes into some detail on his excellent blog: http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-06-22-objective...

Long story short, some of it is compile time, but some of it involves classes in Foundation (like NSArray and NSDictionary) implementing new methods (like objectAtIndexedSubscript).

iOS needs a base SDK update before those methods will be available there. Or you could monkey-patch them in with a category yourself in the meantime.
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Well, lets say serious injuries requiring emergency surgery, then - and lets find the actual statistics.
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It doesn't work very well yet. The text in the calculator cannot be changed, and it thinks 180! = Infinity.

Compare with WolframAlpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1800%21
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That isn't actually deceptive though, if the question is of how the government should be spending its time and getting involved with our business. If buckyballs are a relatively rare novelty toy with a clear warning label but a minuscule number of injury cases nonetheless, while a number of other products are more popular and are hurting more kids, then why should the government screw around with buckyballs at all? Aren't there better places they could be intervening?
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Who knows? Maybe it will prevent them from focusing unduly on use cases that match with what they happen to be doing at the expense of other use cases.

I'm not sure why someone's ability to design an API is more heavily in question just because they have a serious commitment to building that API rather than working full-time to build a company.

There's nothing wrong with building a company and there's nothing wrong with building a tool either.
So much negativity here. IMO the themes alone could be worth it. However the whole thing seems a bit laggy in the simulator he shows. 3GS is still on sale and I find that even with native iOS 5 it feels slow - I wouldn't want to run such a heavy handed framework on there.
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If you use iPhone/iPad, Thermo (http://thermo.me) does exactly that for temperature. Temperature right now and temperature 24 hours ago.
> ... of Skinner (who, as everyone also knows, was a total psycho)

Not so fast cowboy. Skinner's theories were far more limited than he or his disciples believed (ditto Chomsky and pretty much every psych or social theorist), but the behaviorists added a great deal to psychological understanding.

It is interesting to contrast the soft sciences (for lack of a better term) with the hard sciences and how they relate to their history. Nobody would say "Newton was an utter psycho" because his theories didn't account for thermodynamic behavior, or because his dynamics were proven to be approximate by Einstein, or because in his later years he spent a lot time analyzing word patterns in the bible. Rather, what he said that was true gets incorporated into the textbooks and we move on. Sometimes Skinnerian dynamics apply, and we should use them in those situations, and learn about them, and toss them when not appropriate. Duh.

I am not sure why the soft/social sciences are so dysfunctional in this respect.

In anthropology this is extremely evident, but they are all psychos there...

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perf...
True. But it's also hard to exit at $150m+ without a $50m raise. The lean startups and bootstraps simply don't have big exits like their well-funded counterparts.
Magformers are a safe and interesting magnetic toy that offers that magnet magic you mention. I think the point is that some designs are inherently unsafe. They need to go back to the drawing board.
Some of those number are higher than I expected. Though, I am not sure it is a representative sample of what you will find on a store shelf.

Also, less than half of the list is above 200mbps, let alone "most" or "much more".

Array.prototype.map.call(document.querySelector('table.chart').querySelectorAll('td.number'), function(speed) { return parseFloat(speed.textContent) > 200 ? '>200' : '<=200'; }).reduce(function(previous, next) { previous[next] = (previous[next] || 0) + 1; return previous; }, {})
=> { "<=200": 40, ">200": 37 }
If you're using multiple platforms, I could see the benefit of not having to enter your credit card multiple times. But honestly, if you're going to buy a program on your PC, then walk over to your Mac and buy it again, do you really care if you're buying it from the same store both times?

I know that Steam lets you take your games from one machine to another, but I don't expect that to be the norm for most app stores.
While I imagine next to no one uses Safari as their actual browser on Windows, it was nice that it was there so most cross browser testing could be done on one box.
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Most EULA's contain a clause that says "This EULA may be changed by us at any time without notice to you. Your continued use of the product after any such change constitutes acceptance of such terms."

Seems like, if you don't have a script polling their website hourly for EULA updates, they can insert terms like "By continuing use of our product, you agree that we now own your computer, your house, your bank accounts, your first-born son and your immortal soul." And you'll have no choice but to pay up.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more headlines about companies trying this kind of s*.
MonoTouch does not compile to Objective-C. It compiles to native code, just like Objective-C, very much like Mono, CLR, or JVM do on other platforms. The real difference is running the compiler ahead of time, versus JIT. That, and disabling some functions that Apple deems bad, like keeping the ability to modify or emit code on-the-fly.

In the case of MonoTouch, you do get the infrastructure; they have the runtime ported over, and other libraries get compiled in as needed. So, in Mono's case, it IS "running .NET on iOS".

I see no intrinsic reason this could not be done for Java, although I don't know what this specific implementation is doing.
That's not what matters. What matters is whether or not they can change it in time.
I do. Apple pulled Texas Hold 'Em from the iOS App Store some time back and that was their only iOS game. Likewise, Chess is their only Mac game. I expected it to be removed from the OS.

Finding out that it got Game Centre integration is actually pretty interesting. Providing developers an example of the API in a working program is also a nice gesture.

I bet you anything most OS X devs reading this review that plan on integrating Game Centre in their own Mac game fired up Chess to see it in action.
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But it's marginally unsafe, and the risk is clearly labeled. As long as people are being informed of the moderate danger (and they are), it is nuts for the government to come in and try to take these off the market. The world is full of dangerous crap, and if you step back and try to keep a little perspective, this desk toy shouldn't even show up on your radar.
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I agree with you. Numbers of DS falling and it seems like even almighty Zynga cannot fix it.

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I would personally say that gaming is a giant chunk of the iceberg. Others (for me) would be video editing, and music production. Oh, and testing sites in Internet Explorer.
Is this kind of like how you get good, reliable service from Google until "anything goes wrong", like your Adsense account is erroneously suspended, your site is erroneously blacklisted from their search results, or your Gmail account is erroneously disabled and/or deleted? There is story after story after story of what happens when your interactions with Google require human attention, and it's not pretty.
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I'm sure there are a lot of custom and legacy business apps out there tied to windows. But thinking of broad categories of business software (Office/productivity, browser, IDE, graphics editing, accounting, contact management), there are lots of alternatives that will run on a non-Windows PC. But looking at games as a category, you don't have comparable options on Mac or Linux.
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I think this captures a very common sentiment. Certainly folks I know have expressed it as well, which is that its one thing to have 'bonus' items cost real money but its another thing entirely to feel 'duped' into investing in something without knowing the costs. Its a challenging line in the freemium world because on the one hand you can 'dial in the amount of money you want' and on the other hand folks defect. There is an interesting corollary in taxation [1].

With Blizzard, one wonders if they will begin to compete with their customers by creating and then selling through their auction system rare or unique, and by definition game changing, items. The temptation will always be there of course, a company has to choose not to step over that line.

[1] I worry about using that example because it sounds like a troll, it is not.
Insofar as you are speaking as someone who does hiring, it might help people if you give an idea of your 'grading rubric' for work someone is passionate about.

I am personally interested in what you really mean by 'passionate.' This is one of those words which is used very vaguely...
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I think the point is even stronger because they are CS majors. These are people who develop software, and use their computer for many more purposes than the average user. If gaming is the only barrier for a CS major, then what's stopping the average user from switching to Linux?
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This isn't really about pasting text into vim, that is a very easy thing you learn in your first hour of vim (press p or at worst "+p).

It is about the more meta activity of pasting text (e.g. representing a vim command or an argument to a vim command) into the vim command line.
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Literals and object/container subscripting are different things, even though they appear at the same time. Container literals should be compile time too and available to all versions of iOS (or at least v4 and above).

I also think it should be possible to support container (NSArray, NSDictionary) subscripting for foundation classes at compile-time for all versions even if the new functions aren't around. They just have to translate to the existing functions. I bet they do this too[1]

(upvoted you, it is a very informative link).

Edit: some more thoughts.

[1] No, they don't do that in v4.4. But maybe they will in a future version of Xcode.
Is there a higher resolution version of these? Or perhaps a copy with better sound?
For example, all of the H.264 patents except Motorola's are licensed for pennies, which is something like 0.25% of the cost of an Xbox. But Motorola wants ~2% for their few H.264 patents. A complex product infringes hundreds of patents; if each one has a 2% royalty then the total royalties exceed the price of the product.
I am more concerned about current internet providers blocking technology for sake of their vested interest in old ways of business. Unlimited and unrestrained internet access is something so important and one of the basic needs. This morning I heard that ATT requires you to buy additional plans for Facetime. After data caps by all vendors, this is heights of absurdity.
MIT Scheme if you don't want to translate any of the code in the book.

Another option is that racket-lang has a sicp dialect of scheme that you can put as the language which will also work especially if you use drscheme (or drracket now) which is pretty nice for those that don't want or use emacs.
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I hope you realize that there is quite a difference between simply wanting or liking something a whole lot, and being addicted to something.

KFC does not seek to prey on the (hypothetical) few who are so addicted to fried chicken that they lose their families, sell their valuables, lose their careers, and sell their bodies to get another fix. They "prey" on people who like their product.

Real addiction (not your perverted sense of "addiction" being merely liking something intensely) is a hypothetical side effect of the businesses you give as examples. For the gambling industry and companies like Zynga, it is the business model.
If parents don't understand why a small magnetic ball bearing would be bad for their children to play with, then they're --- hate to be rude --- stupid. And their stupidity should not be used to punish private companies who make a perfectly safe product when used correctly by its intended audience.

They already have warning label, why isn't that enough?

With the economy hurting like it is, I can't figure out why the US government would be doing something as stupid as this. They're threatening the livelihood of a private business.

It just makes no sense to me. I miss personal accountability and responsibility.
Handy. Minor nit - I think the trig functions should default to degrees rather than radians when you type in something like "Sin 45" from the main search
Nitpick:
without Steam and without any equivalent of it, PC gaming would have (probably) died 5 years ago.

Your sentence is like saying that without Internet Explorer, we would still be paying for internet browsers. It's praising Microsoft for what it did and mysteriously assuming that in absence of it, no one else would bring the cost of browsers down.

This is my nitpick with "what if X didn't exist" scenarios: people imply that nothing would fill the vacuum.

Another example I just made up: "If Linux didn't exist, we wouldn't have a free, open source OS". I'm pretty sure FreeBSD or something like that would grow like Linux instead. Not saying it would be better or worse, because, frankly, I don't know.
I think I understand what you are saying, but I don't understand how it relates to the article. For example, the article doesn't seem to say anything about Hayzap being boring and a turnoff to engineers on account of paying 50% of market and offering worthless equity.

It sounds like there is some personal history here. Is there?
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You can statistically build a model that has recursion. It's just that such a model cannot be sure it has induced the right grammar - that's what Chomsky's argument was. I think the obvious counter argument is so what? Given any other constraints like parsimony you can certainly reliably induce a grammar.
Thanks for the link. I was wondering if they'd implemented type-inference to check what method to call for the indexing operator since the operand could be either an NSArray or a NSDictionary. It turns out they've elided the whole problem altogether by doing this at runtime with new methods. Given how dynamic objective-c is, this seems like the best way to go about it.
How is this different than isolation / repeatable reads in SQL transactions?
The original system like this started in Copenhagen, and doesn't cost anything - when you return the bike to the special rack, you get your 20Kr piece back.

Lots of other cities around the world have bike sharing programs now. The more fancy ones have a smartcard system that you charge up and it deducts money for usage.
It's not his obsession with iOS at all, it's Apple's obsession with iOS leading to that being by far the most logical explanation for why something has changed in OS X if the answer isn't immediately obvious. Last time I checked the only iOS device Siracusa owns personally is a 2nd generation iPod touch.

Why does a button now look like that, or a feature now work that way, why is that app renamed or that texture changed? The answer is usually "because that's how it works in iOS". You're making a mistake in assuming that because he's trying to explain Apple's motivation behind it that he agrees with it.

As for why Apple is obsessed with iOS, it's probably because it has made them tens of billions of dollars, has vast and focused mindshare, and it's wildly popular. iOS makes tons of hard decisions in the name of making a device that users can pick up and run with.

Our opinions on it (you, me, and Siracusa's) are basically irrelevant. The key is Apple thinks iOS is the quintessential operating system and it has the sales to back it up. That's why ML is the way it is. Acknowledging that when trying to write a review about it is important.
They don't need to out-compete the other players in internet gambling to make the "real money". They merely need to join them. I would be very surprised if they were actually unable to accomplish that, given that they already have the public's trust and attention. If they can't leverage that to at least some success, I'm not sure they could do anything.
What's happening now is that all the old stalwarts in the poker world (Partypoker, PokerStars, and Full Tilt) are being sued by the federal government while, at the same time, the brick and mortar casinos and Indian tribes are ghostwriting gambling legislation to heavily favor themselves.

So, you're right, but it's an even shittier situation, because there already was an online poker marketplace, and it's being stolen from the original players in the industry.
It doesn't seem far-fetched to imagine that manufacturing initially moved to China because of the cheap labor, but that it's stayed there because of the supply chain advantages. Labor in China isn't cheap as it once was, scrutiny of conditions is heightened, and domestic labor isn't as expensive as it once was either.
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There is only 1 listed victim for Buckyball injury requiring surgery.

So 1 surgery for 2.5million Buckyball products sold thus far. I'm gonna take a gamble and say the rate for bicycles is going to be worse than that.