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This seems like a classic case of an app that shouldn't be an app. If you really want to push out notices to people every time there's a drone strike, why not send out emails? Or tweets? Or notifications over any of the myriad instant messaging platforms that already have iOS clients? Not only does it bypass apple's silly app store restrictions, it offers a much better experience for a much wider variety of users.

The only reason I see that makes the app store the best place for this is that app store users like to throw money at silly things they don't need, and the primary reason this is true is because apple has fostered an environment that makes it true. If apple feels that the presence of a drone strike app will make people less inclined to spend money in their store, that is exactly the sort of decision that this app developer is trying to capitalize on. It just went the wronG way for him this time.
Ironic; one could just as very well claim that America's mainstream media is among the most hype-driven in the world. Conversely, one could also make the claim that an app line Drones+ aims to take the hype out of the equation, by offering no-nonsense factual data.
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The thing about intellectual honesty is that when you don't feel like you know much relative to your peers and context (e.g., you're a freshman at Harvard), you don't think you have much to lose. You don't realize what you have to lose until it becomes clear about all the hidden potential that you've taken for granted and that you're risking -- how important intellectual honesty is to any type of sustainable effort.

So there is a chicken and egg problem with intellectual honesty. You don't appreciate it until you've acquired experience. And you don't acquire sustainable experience until you start to appreciate it.

The flip side though is that most young people just need to be told and slightly inspired about how important it is. Then they need to develop that over several years. In college can work. Learning to be confident with your own intellectual pursuits based on honesty though -- that's what college is supposed to teach. But yeah, a lot of time in all the competitiveness, it gets lost.
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huh? Capitalism is about risk and reward. Capitalists look to government for a number of things:

a) Infrastructure
b) Political stability
c) Market Regulation (e.g. fair competition, orderly markets, currency,etc)
d) and risk reduction

Capitalists are free to asks for any other thing that decreases risk, it doesn't mean the government has to respond in all cases. I disagree with George, there is not direct path between incentives and socialism.
Thanks. I personally believe in right and wrong, but also in degrees of right and wrong. Doing the right thing in a situation where everyone else is doing the wrong thing is more difficult. Doing the right thing when everyone is doing the right thing is easy. Thus, you don't really know your values or the depth of your values until you are placed in a situation where it is difficult to carry them out.

Here, for "culpability" I mean simply that I believe that the power to actualize the values of each individual differs, and that those who are able to actualize their values even in very difficult situations is worth more and to be praised more than those who are unable to and go with the flow.

This is to say that simply saying you have certain values means nothing. You have to act on those values and, because acting on those values can be difficult, I have sympathy for those who fail to -- even as I praise those who do.
How much does it cost to watch the entire IMDB Top 250 movies online?
Most people don't jaywalk for safety reasons, not fear of being ticketed.
"It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever" seems accurate, but obviously (and as this thread shows) it hinges on definitions of "Important", "Kind" and "Clever", and on context (in many circumstances clever > kind, of course).

It may be rephrased as something like "As a human being, it leads to a more fulfilling, meaningful life to be capable of empathy than to have a high IQ", but admittedly that's less catchy. And I'm not even sure it's sufficiently precise: maybe someone can come up with a better way to rephrase it.
Look carefully and you'll see where the ideas for the iPhone, the iPad, the iMac, AppleTV really came from.
The point of this software is to make it easier for people who have never registered before to register. The Democratic party probably spent their resources on this because they think that a large percentage of unregistered voters come from demographic groups that tend to vote for Democrats, such as recent college grads who were not yet old enough to vote in the 2008 election.

How would your strategy improve the expected outcome for the Democrats?
My argument is that they'd make much more revenue by taxing API than they hope to make with ads. Their API usage is obscene and growing rapidly, while ads don't really fit their users usage patterns.
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The quality of teaching and of the coursework is highly variable, even at an elite institution. A lot depends on the teacher's interest in the topic, their ability to teach, and the composition of the students taking the course (whether it's a required class for graduation, or an elective class).
Glad to hear this was never a discussion. You should've just stated originally that you know exactly what twitter wants, and left it there.
> Would you, for example, feel the same way about publishing a book if you had no right to keep other people from putting their name on it and claiming it as their own?

Except everyone is against this. Everyone is against plagiarism.

That's where the law falls down: We have laws against 'copyright infringement', a wonky idea that essentially nobody understands or cares about, but not against plagiarism, which is what most people actually are against and will work to combat.

Some people actually think copyright infringement and plagiarism are the same thing, to the extent they believe that proper attribution keeps them on the right side of the law. It does, of course: The right side of the moral law, which is all most people ever really follow.

Then you have the few zealots, who try to equate copyright infringement with theft. They might just as well try to claim that it's a violation just like rape is a violation so The Pirate Bay is guilty of rape. They'd still fail, but at least their failure would be more amusing to the rest of us.
"In fact, knowing which rules in life you should break and which rules you should follow is probably a critical factor for success in life."

I completely agree. Especially for entrepreneurs, it's a super important skill that is not easily learned but often creates incredible advantages and opportunities.
And many, many of those people, in the industry, regulatory, and political sides, learned that stuff at schools like Harvard.
Logistic is effectively the same model as "exponential until pressure from a ceiling is applied". Look at formula for its derivative, it is the exponential multiplied by a factor that goes to zero as the ceiling is approached.
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Eh, if you tweak and stare at something for long enough, you can think anything looks good.
> Without copyright protections, I could get a copy of your book, remove your name from the title and use my name instead, and then sell it to others.

So that's what the law should prohibit, now isn't it? The law in this matter should be updated to reflect what most people are against. If it isn't, it isn't ever going to be enforceable, just like it isn't enforceable now.

(No, I don't think that every law should be brought into line with majority morality. Use your damn head.)
Well, maybe, but I was never one to care too much about grades. More often than not copying off me was a bad idea for most of the students because the professors knew that the level of work was too high for the cheater.
The open source driver does work OK except that the power management is messed up, so when I use it my laptop's fan goes at full power 24/7. That gets pretty annoying after a while, which is why I end up using fglrx (which of course has its own terrible problems).
it is missing integration tests, though
Those humane farmers don't nearly satisfy the demand in a he grocery store.
His Arduino callout limits the available practical options greatly. In his situation minus Arduino, I'd go with Go. It works really well on ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi and all the way up to Windows/Linux/Mac x64.

Go is my current first-choice language if I have the choice. Of course, in today's very segmented platform (web, desktop Windows, desktop Mac, desktop Linux, Android, iOS, WinPhone, et al) era, there's really no one language for everything. Even C falls down in some areas.
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reminds me of this lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkLtXfsPqVQ
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They are making hundreds of millions of dollars with ads. What do you mean by "ads don't really fit their users usage patterns"?

I hate ads as much as anyone, but they are working for Twitter. If you think Twitter's executives don't know what they are doing, you underestimate them.
In particular this means that this is anything but open source (at least if you go by the OSI definition, which I do).
> I posted the source code to most of my school projects on GitHub. If people want to crib off my code that's not my problem -- I did the work, whether or not they want to is their problem.

This is not true at all post-secondary institutions. For example, the University of Waterloo's Policy 71 - Student Discipline[0] explicitly puts the burden on you to prevent others from cribbing your work:

"Students are responsible for demonstrating behaviour that is honest and ethical in their academic work. Such behaviour includes:

<snip>

* Preventing their work from being used by others, e.g. not lending assignments to others, protecting access to computer files."

[0] https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guideli...
Instead of focusing on the pull request maybe we should think about better vulnerability trajectories. Next time don't make a pull request. Just fork the project, add some dumb feature someone will want or need, then leave your fork out there on Github. Morons will pull it down and use it without ever checking the code.
NYC and Tokyo are very tall and dense and mor expensive than Seattle which has height limits. You are overlooking the factor of how density begets density.
Have you spoken with someone at Twitter about this? I have. If you haven't, there's nothing to discuss.
You realize Hacker News is one of their examples of websites with poor contrast?
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I'm really tired of people calling Apple an innovative company. Apple is a company that polishes existing ideas to a point beyond most other companies, and they are damn good at this. Apple is also routinely rewarded for their skills by being the first to introduce a product in category X that is truly enjoyable to use. Is that not good enough?

As I understand it, the patent system was designed to protect individual inventors and researchers from companies like Apple, who excel at mass-production and marketing. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.
Nothing's hidden behind the paywall - Google can see everything. The general strategy for paywall sites is to let Google index everything and let a person's first visit to the site from Google bypass it as well. That way the paywall stays up, Google indexes their site, and they don't get in trouble for showing different things to the Googlebot than everyone else.
I went to school in Boston and knew lots of people of Harvard and MIT, and the amount of cheating was absolutely staggering. The "Greek"/frat network contributes to this cheating culture greatly (some houses more than others, but they're all part of it.)

Personally, I think that some of these people are so used to being that #1 student that when they're surrounded by other #1'ers, they do whatever it takes to remain on top, or so their logic goes.

They're not the people who ever build cool things anyway though, so who cares.
But were these ideas really revolutionary at the time? Even less so now. I think we always knew that we would have touch devices. We saw them all over star-trek. We knew that we would get TV and movies on demand over the internet, we had it in hotels, but public infrastructure wasn't ready.

Why is the iMac in your list?
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If the students couldn't figure out how to use online resources without collaborating with each other they don't belong at Harvard.
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I like how the registration form shows the form validation errors inline:
http://i.imgur.com/U5QL1.png

Looking at the source view(https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/blob/master/...)
it doesn't seems there is some extra markup, unless I am missing something.

So, How can I implement the same in my rails app?
Long rant incoming...

I'm currently building a quadcopter from parts and I'm writing my own control software.

I wasn't really familiar with RC components before starting this project, but I must say I'm impressed with the performance and reliability you get from very low cost motors, ESCs, propellers, gyroscopes and accelerometers.

However, I think Li-Po batteries are a huge safety issue. There are multiple factors:

* The battery chemistry is very unforgiving. You overcharge, it gets damaged, you over-discharge, it gets damaged. Same for charge and discharge current. The failure mode? Flammable gasses are released and eventually the whole thing sets itself on fire. And that's a fire you can't extinguish using typical means like water or regular fire extinguishers.

* All RC Li-Po batteries use a soft shell. If your model crashes the batteries can and will get crushed, which leads to an internal short-circuit, which eventually starts a fire.

* No RC Li-Po batteries incorporate Smart Battery controllers (like in laptop batteries) which could prevent overcharge/over-discharge and over-current conditions.

There have been plenty of incidents involving Li-Po fires, including whole houses burning down.

And still, the batteries don't change. Li-Po makes perfect sense for RC applications because it has great energy density and allows high discharge current. But to me it looks like some simple safety features could make this technology safe enough that you wouldn't have to treat your batteries like small bombs.

As a side-note, I've initially tried to use laptop Li-Ion batteries for my quadcopter. Each motor + propeller unit requires almost 12A @ 11V when at maximum speed - quite typical power requirements for a medium-sized quadcopter. I couldn't get more than 16A out of an older 6 cell battery (voltage was abruptly dropping if trying to draw more, so I guess this was the limit of the cells). I've then tried a new 9 cell battery (which was too heavy anyway). The controller on this battery considers 20A discharge an over-current condition and shuts off the output. So I'm stuck with Li-Po batteries and hoping that they won't set anything on fire.

I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable with current-technology Li-Po powered vehicles flying around a city without being watched.
Your comment seems reasonable at first sight. However, your argument presumes there being an "Apple aesthetic."

Rounded rectangles, bounce-back, swipe to unlock are refinements on what existed already. That does not imply they are novel. Apple, really is standing on the shoulders of giants(or-otherwise.)

Refinements and a reality distortion field does not an
aesthetic make.
Shouldn't the consumer decide what apps they want to buy instead of Apple?
This is a case of the changing times leading to miscommunication.

The implied intent of the rule is that READ-ONLY NON-INTERACTIVE Internet use was permitted. To today's students, the Internet is a READ-WRITE INTERACTIVE tool, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
> “I didn’t really expect anyone to download the app if it was in the App Store,” Begley said.

> “That was the point; I don’t think people want to know when a drone strikes.”

So, what was the point, then... to waste a bunch of peoples' time?

(edit: To the people downvoting me: mind explaining what the point was? I run Cydia, the alternative to the App Store that people are saying should host this instead, and honestly if someone came to me with something like this that didn't work the first two times and in the end resulted in tons of questions regarding what kind of response it would have, leading to some massive discussion, and then I found out that the developer didn't even expect anyone at all to download it ever and that was the point I'd be really pissed that he had wasted a ton of peoples' time in the review pipeline working on a project that was designed with nothing more than the intent to troll the system.)
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According to this article, they made $140M in 2011 from ads. Of course, they project to make 3 times as much by 2014, but that remains to be seen. I think they can make much more by leveraging their API usage, which is larger than all the other large tech companies.

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/31/twitters-advertisin...

Regarding ads, people consume twitter for opinions, networking and links to content. They are rarely with purchase intent, as opposed to when they are actively searching something on Google, for instance. Facebook are facing a similar problem with their ads, but Facebook still has a much larger userbase and the time spent on the site is much larger than with Twitter. Promoted tweets are too obvious and often have a reverse effect on people who receive it.
There is a fundamental difference between using online resources to find an answer to a question and collaborating with others to find the same answer. Part of the grade is based on how well you can find the answers, not how well your collective group can.

If the test is open book, open Internet, that doesn't mean you can ask your friends on Facebook for help, just because Facebook is on the Internet.

I think that the class was likely poorly designed, but that doesn't mean that the students are all in the clear.
Wouldn't be too sure of that. There's a world of fan-fiction (canon and otherwise) that exists for Harry Potter. One (rather excellent one) by HN frequenter less-wrong: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2269863/Less_Wrong.
Note that the class in question is a Government clas that had a reputation as the easiest course in school, taken by students who wanted to coast to a degree. It's a far cry from the bastions of intellectual inquiry found in other departments. But this year, the professor decided to change the course's reputation, and the students were caught by surprise.
this reminds me of stephen wolfram's talk at TED recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OVlfAUPJg
They didn't learn it at Harvard, so much as they didn't learn any different at Harvard.
I can see how (b) gives them legal cover, since it says that you can't use the software to forge voter registrations. However, (a) implies that you can't reuse the code as the basis for software that's used to fill out some unrelated type of PDF form, like a tax form. So the terms of the license are really too restrictive to make the software legally safe for anyone else to use -- my employer's lawyers would never allow me to use this software as part of our commercial product. So while it may be technically "open source", it's not really a contribution to the free software community.
So you've specifically asked someone in a position to make those decisions at twitter, whether they'd considered taxing their API? and they told you explicitly "No, we want to cap API usage regardless if it can be a profitable channel or not"
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