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Why no one will buy Motorola’s Developer Edition devices
Uh oh - I wasted a lot of hours on Torchlight. Luckily I had to return it (complicated story). I think I should pass on this bundle, too dangerous.
These are good points, but I don't think it relieves you of having to know whether your making a virtual function call or not, or wether you're passing an argument by value or by reference. You do have to know that, and in C++ you cannot know that by looking at the call site. In C and in many other languages you can.
I'm actually a little surprised that this passed apple's App Store screening. Clearly not in compliance with the infamous "Human Interface Guidelines".

Also irks me every time I use the app, as there is no quick way to archive and move onto the next item.

As a paid app, and a pricey one at that, one expects a little polish.

Grrrrrr make it better Marco!
This is incredibly cool. The idea of using the human mind kind of like a coprocessor is really amazing.
>I'd be willing to pay extra to be able to run a full OS, specifically...Windows, on my iPad instead of iOS.

That version is going to cost 800 dollars according to the article, and thats without a keyboard/dock.

Also, the "full OS" experience, may not be as full as you would think. They make a logical (IMHO) trade-off between performance, battery life, weight and price. This thing wont run Photoshop, Crysis, etc in a useable way.

So, you're essentially paying 200+ dollars extra for the ability/freedom to side-load. The target audience of this is limited to corporate use (classic desktop as backwards compatibility) and developpers.

And this is the strategy of both MS and Apple now. They are moving the low-end and mid-range to walled-gardens, while charging premium to professionals, who can afford it. The cheapest win8 device with the ability to side-load? 800$ .. The cheapest OSX device? 999$ dollars.

It will get even more expensive as the transition closes. The current price point of a laptop didnt aim at us: it aimed at the casual market. They are now turning the freedom to sideload (and to pirate, btw) into an expensive niche. They are going to milk us for the fat cows we are.

This is in no way limited to Apple, unfortunately. Our best bet for an open platform, is Android, because of its opensource nature, but be wary of the bootlocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninteresting_numbers
Arctic sea ice extent near the minimum
Well, I could prove it to you. Side by side speed test.

As for reliability, if you lose access to your "professioinally-configured endpoint" you're SOL. You can't do lookups (assuming you don't know how to do them by hand). Meanwhile I'm unaffected.

I would not have done this for myself and tell you about it if it wasn't faster. I'm not gathering info on users or selling anything. I'm not telling you what to do proclaiming I'm an "expert". I'm just an end user, like you.

When you use an open resolver, you are sharing a cache with everyone else who uses it. Some might do nefarious things to the cache.

When you use a resolver listening on 127.0.0.1 you are sharing it with whoever can access localhost on that port. i.e., no one (hopefully)

"professionally-configured" C'mon. You sound like a marketer's dream. Be a hobbyist. Be a hacker. Experiment. Thinks for yourself. Or don't.
I get it in my native language, Swedish, which means that they are doing some kind of detection based on the requests your browser is sending, or based on your IP.

If you don't live anywhere near Japan, nor have configured your OS/Browser for this language, I would guess their system for detecting certain region-specific IP's is outdated or broken.
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Virtues of radically honest feedback
As I posted in another comment, the problem you describe exists for this person regardless of whether it involves an ad or not. The entire UI for this app is a serious problem with a person of these limitations.

I fail to see how going to an ad page is a worse offense than going to Drafts as opposed to Inbox. Either way the person in question has to correct the mistake. Expensive in what way? Money, time, embarrassment? I don't see the difference.

The ad is between Compose and Inbox, so what? Are you suggesting that Yahoo somehow benefits from an accidental click on this ad? What's the purpose of them putting it there? Could it be possible they have it there because they consider that you are more likely to see it there and not that you'll accidentally click on it?

And again, what's the optimum distance that's acceptable? Fifty pixels? One hundred? I would have to assume that if this is the problem then it is a potential problem for nearly every website and application ever made. The reason this bothers me is because people are saying the burden is on Yahoo to fix this when the problem does not necessarily lay with them, but other factors are in play they have no control over. Some people are even suggesting nefarious reasons for this ad placement to "trick" people into clicking on it. For what benefit?

I too sometimes click on something other than what I intended. Most of the time I don't blame the app, I blame myself. There are times that people will employ tricks to get you to do what they want, that's when you complain; this is not a good example of this.
My wild guess is that 90% of the software systems ever developed are infringing those patents.

What else left to patent? "Method and apparatus to read a bit"?
Do you think that it is possible that the kickstarter model leads to press-than-sufficient sure diligence by lowering the barriers to investment that have traditionally driven larger investors to do more sure diligence?

Is it possible that kickstarter might be predicated on lowering inhibitions to invest below the levels necessary to consistently make sound, rational judgments?
"'Kickstarter could significantly improve things by imposing a cap on the amount of money taken above the original request."

That is your opinion, in my opinion this would be bad for KS.

I don't know why some grow ups people need someone else to put limits on the money the can spend on something, like they are dependent children who need to be controlled what they do with their own money.

Or worse, they want to tell other people what they can spend. They are totalitarian in the inside.
Speaking of unintuitive archive icons, I think Android's Gmail one is terrible. http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/android_ug_40/i...
I know this would wreck their whole sales strategy ("X amount of time left"), but I wish you could go back and buy an old bundle for something like double the average or whatever made sense for them.
HTML5 Web Storage – Cookies Are So 1994
AT&T's FaceTime blocking draws formal FCC complaint from interest groups
I agree that consistency is necessary but not sufficient, though, which is what I think you're getting at. Most of the time, though, consistency is clearly better than inconsistency. There's less to remember or, if you prefer, less to screw up. :)
Instapaper costs $2.99.
That seems reasonable to me - Java's had decades of optimisation, but Go's a fairly new language and runtime.

I've just started playing around with Go, I'm quite liking it. It's a different approach to things, which is always fun.
> But really why is that level of equity share of any influence in anyone's hiring equation?

To be fair the article doesn't say if it influences many people or not. I do think it is putting emphasis on something that is simply of no real importance to most people in the job market.

For example, it isn't clear to me if those jobs are paying market rate salaries or not. If that is the case then "equity" may as well be lumped into the 'free E-ZPass', 'paid gym memberships' category (not something to write home about, but nice all the same).

With that said, I'd cut any interview short that was expecting me to take a serious pay-cut for a fractional equity share.
Imagine if Android’s Gmail app made you click the trash to save something. We would certainly see complaining blog posts and snarky tweets all over the place. So why does Instapaper get a free pass?

As we can all plainly see, it doesn't.
Why? It's a file cabinet; a place where you archive things.
Person on the flight next to my wife, plunks down double digit dollars for WiFi and then clicks the NetFlix app on the iPad for their kid. It was a problem. A problem because the kid was not well behaved, the kid was in full on you-deny-me-this-at-your-peril whine/rant/scream. Mom was beside herself tring to figure out why the network was "working" but NetFlix wasn't, the Mom had zero technical grasp of what networks are all about (and why should she?).

As an engineer it really demonstrated how badly the tech community can abuse the expectations of the non-tech community. Southwest paid a heavy goodwill cost on that flight, I think that impedes the roll out of these services.
My cousin's friend was insured with Kaiser. She was mis-diagnosed for over a year. When she attempted to get a referral for a second opinion, it was denied.

She subsequently died from cancer.

Anecdote cuts both ways.

EDIT: I'm thinking now that my wording above sounds overly harsh or confrontational.

Let me restate: We have systemic failure.

In one aspect, a large fraction of the population is shut out of the system, outright. One might argue that better health would foster better outcomes also in other domains, e.g. employment. But we do nothing to explore much less create this circumstance.

In another aspect, participants can be reduced to "the luck of the draw". Get a bad doctor -- worse, an autocratic, bad doctor -- and you can be effectively screwed. As happened to my cousin's friend.

This is not a "system". It is a medieval landscape of fiefdoms, varyingly ruled and also more concerned with their competition than with their populations.
1-954 a classic Fort Lauderdale area code. South Florida is like the Silicon Valley of scam businesses, with a gloried history.
I can collaborate that data somewhat - across the US apps I have access to stats for (a sizeable number of users) I see a similar figure (~6.5%) running iOS 4.3 and lower.

However, only 0.7% of devices are iPhone 3G and lower, so the majority of users I see running <4.3 are not updating out of choice.

This is all anecdotal, though - figures will vary dramatically across apps/demographics/etc.
Eh, you're right in theory, but in practice not really.

There's on the order of a 1,000-1,000,000x difference or more between a Numpy version of what OkCupid does, and what their C++ does, even if you use the same algorithm.

Similarly, when we recently farmed out a string similarity algorithm from Python to Java, with a more expensive and sophisticated approach in the latter, it ended up being conservatively ~10,000x faster.

I love Python and use it for...just about everything really, but until you've actually optimized software at a systems level you really have no idea what you're talking about.

Proper algorithms and data structures are necessary but not sufficient.

It's a pity higher-level languages don't offer better escape hatches when you need them.
It's claimed the system will offer 12mbps or more to each passenger via ViaSat-1, which should offer 140 Gbps total throughput ("the highest capacity satellite in the world" with "more capacity than all current North American satellites combined")

http://www.viasat.com/news/new-exede-internet-for-commercial...
I'm hiring experts to write tutorials on a platform about Programming 
We are hiring people to write tutorials about programming/maths/science. But we are willing just to get the best one, reputation must be proven.

We pay good for awesome hacker, viniciusfbm at gmail dot com
Boxer review: retro gaming on the Mac done right
Psychology research adds to evidence that multitasking reduces productivity
Exotic Transaction Types with Bitcoin
Class2Go: Stanford’s New Open-Source Platform For Online Education
>why would I donate to someone who's trying to start an enterprise or a product?

In order to bring to market a product you want that is not currently available and would not be feasible to bring to market without first knowing there is a sufficient market for it.

Kickstarter is the ultimate fail-fast, it cuts out a huge chunk of market-research when trying to build a business around something. If people don't want to kickstart it, others are unlikely to buy it.
I'd make a guess in absence of code.

Since none of the implementations were IO bound (unsaturated link), I'd bet on memory management as the deciding factor (it's hard to assume that an authentication service will be CPU bound).

Then it's not difficult to see why Java won. When it comes to garbage collectors, JVM has the best (production) implementation of GC bar none.

Go runtime has a lot of catching up to do.
Last time I tried to archive something, I hit the leftmost button, since a down-arrow on a folder kind of seems like an archive function. Then I hit the rightmost button, since it seemed like an action. Finally I hit the trash, because it was the only one left.

One interesting thing about this design is that if there were separate trash/archive icons, they would probably have confirmation popups, and so the number of taps is the same either way.
Another thought.

This is what gets me about some of these Kickstarter projects:

A project like LIFX is, without a doubt, impossible to get done with $100,000. Not a chance in hell anyone could pull that off. At least not for a real product that passes all testing, safety and reliability requirements that go into making a consumer product.

What would have happened if they reached their $100K goal and maybe a little more? Say, $150K. It would have been a complete bust. No way to deliver.

Are these projects fraudulent from the start or are they simply innocent or uninformed wishful thinking? You are asking for $100K of other people's money. If you know full-well that it won't be enough, what does that mean? If you don't know how much it will cost, what business do you have even posting a project like this?

As it stands right now they are at about $800K. My guess is that, to do this right, you need about two million dollars.

To be open minded, this doesn't necessarily have to come out of Kickstarter. Maybe someone is willing to invest in these guys. Someone sees this as an MVP of sorts, comes in and puts $1.5 million on the table for a big chunk of the business. I wouldn't, but, hell, I probably wouldn't have invested in Facebook in the early days either. What the hell do I know.
I have no idea if it is "right" since I'm not going to duplicate this exact benchmark, but it seems likely. Raw performance hasn't been a huge focus for Go, though this has been changing. The tip version produces much faster code than the last official release that seems to have been used here. Also you often get more efficient Go from the gccgo frontend than from the Google compiler since it can take advantage of a lot of front-end-neutral optimizations that gcc already has (though this gap is closing as the Google compiler gets improved). For the runtime, work continues on the goroutine scheduling, gc, etc.

Go is getting a lot faster and pretty quickly.
We're following the exact docs for Twitter Bootstrap with regards to HTML output, and yeah it can sometimes get a little div-heavy. We will be supporting other UI frameworks as well as emphasizing semantic HTML as much as possible as we grow beyond Bootstrap.
Can you fill in "etc."? I'd be interested to know what definitions they used for the levels (and whether it was consistent across different sources of data).
My bear history is a bit shaky. I thought that weak bears were against the US constitution, as bears have a right to be armed as a defence against presidents who want to turn them into stuffed toys. Have I got that right?
can someone explain to me how you can make money on a game like Rochard (one of the games in the bundle)? There is such an incredible amount of detail in the background in each scene, it looks like few thousand hours of work just that.
She also had a blog and a Google Plus page. What more credentials does one need?
I'm really glad that someone is doing this research. I first heard about the potential benefits of MDMA in therapy at a talk by David Nutt some years ago, but he was skeptical that we would be able to investigate it further because of tough restrictions around research into illegal drugs.

In case anyone is not already aware, David Nutt was the head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), a scientific advisory body to the UK government. In 2009 he published an editorial comparing the harm from taking ecstasy (MDMA) to the harm from horse riding (in short, you can make a powerful case that horse riding is much more dangerous than taking ecstasy). In October 2009 he was dismissed from his position, because "he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy."

In my view it was a terrible decision by the UK government, and showcased their reluctance to make evidence-based decisions on politically charged subjects (like drugs, prison sentences, immigration etc). Since then, David Nutt has formed the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD), whose website [1] is well worth visiting if you want the most up to date and scientifically reliable information on drugs.

[1] http://www.drugscience.org.uk/
Google says goodbye to IE8
>Reality is that which is practical for us to concern ourselves with. //

By that definition reality is completely subjective which rather plays towards my point.

You find the axiomatic basis of scientific understanding to not belong to "practical knowledge". Or that the axiomatic nature of standard logics is not practical? So basically all of physical science, mathematics, logic, ... understanding the epistemological basis of these things is impractical? Because? On such a position theoretical physics would seem to be 'impractical' and not something to concern ourselves [humankind] with - the advances in theoretical physics in the last century or so have worked themselves in to almost all areas of modern 'Western' life.
Just curious, why do you feel a hover effect helps in this situation? As an indicator that the pointer is where you expect it to be? How does the hover effect help in cases of shaking hands that cause the pointer to move upon click?

Also, do you use a mouse or trackpad?

Seriously, I'm curious.
It was $4.99 for a very long time, and $9.99 before that. I guess people remember you as an expensive app even after you drop the price.

http://appshopper.com/news/instapaper-pro
Patents cover areas of technology where developing a solution that can be commercialized at scale is much, much more expensive than software. Without patents, how is a pharma company expected to pay the enormous cost of research, development, and FDA approval of new drugs? Let's not let obvious flaws in software IP protection condemn the concept of patents in general.
I once hired a designer to put together the cover art for a CD, based on the fact that he was nearby, affordable, and had a limited but decent portfolio online. (The project had a small budget, so we weren't shooting for the stars or anything.)

Little did I know, his expertise was in building ambigrams, and we spent an entire round of drafting + feedback moving away from an ambigram concept. Everything worked out in the end, but the initial miscommunication was probably our own fault. We hadn't done our research, and we probably weren't the best of clients to begin with, as we had no idea what we really wanted and thought we were safe leaving the direction up to him (with hardly any input on our part).

So, ultimately, we trusted him more than we probably should have, given how little we actually examined his style and areas of expertise.
All this and I can't specify that I want to search only Ruby language repos via keyboard shortcut of any kind.
Borderlands 2 (2012) - ENG / MULTI6
I don't think it looks enough like one. I know it's anecdotal evidence, but I've had many people ask me what it is or what it does.
Yowza. That's ... quite expensive.
With Alfred on OS X, I created an extension (http://cl.ly/image/3U3V2h1X2U02) and a hotkey: (http://cl.ly/image/3s3A0B0g2120)

Then I can do:

⌥⌘L, my-github-command, ⏎.
I will grant that a hosts file or a local DNS server is faster than a 3rd-party DNS, assuming I have the site in my cache already. But if I visit a new site, I'm going to have to look it up somewhere, and the DNS server that my local DNS server contacts could have the exact same cache poisoning problem.
A lot of those backgrounds look procedurally generated or tiled in some way. They're still wonderfully crafted - just not necessarily hand-modeled or hand-painted down to the pixel.
Step one: variable patent lengths.
Economics is a bunch of crap. Sorry you wasted time studying it, bro.
Chicago Teachers Union Strike: A Teacher’s Perspective
The Business of Education: Avoiding a Skills Gap
Not exactly the same thing, but I am building a site for my wife to do custom greeting cards. It's not really at a stage where it is designed to be used automatically, but if someone was interested, we'd be willing to look at it.

The current site is the product of a couple days of teaching myself how to use Stripe, Bootstrap, and PHP, since I'm not really a web developer.

http://www.heartstoheartscards.com
I don't think the judges over there are substantially more ignorant about technology than the average judge in Kentucky or Montana, etc. They can call in experts to advise on technical questions. I'm afraid technical knowledge wouldn't help much, they have this cottage industry of patent lawsuits and they'd probably prefer things to stay as they are.
Show HN: instafilter.io, a cloud API for applying filters to images
You might be right about the general meaning of the term "block." However, in Ruby blocks happen to be implemented as closures. This was one of the main points I was trying to make... that blocks aren't as simple as they seem, at least in Ruby.
If you're really comfortable with Java, and you want to get something out of the door, it may not be the best choice to switch languages (as would be the case for rails). If you already know ruby, then go rails by all means.

Instead, you might consider a of Java-rooted option:

The play framework is pretty slick (http://www.playframework.org). The APIs are fairly light and easy to pick up, and the templating system is rather powerful. The documentation is solid, and it's not like you'll need to spend hours in tutorials to get started Play does both Java and Scala, and works fine with either. I'd actually recommend you stick to Play 1.x, as the 2.x docs and stuff aren't as mature and are much more targeted to Scala developers.

Oh, and heroku loves play. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/play
Personally, I hate tactile clicking on trackpads. Especially on newer Mac-style trackpads where the track surface is the button; I constantly have issues with my cursor moving and missing what I intend to click.

If you have a touchpad with crappy drivers, tap-to-click can be painful, yes, but good touchpads are pretty decent at discarding accidental taps. Many drivers also have options to adjust tap length, etc, if you're interested in fine-tuning it, but it's never something I've had to do personally.
Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It
Ah, great idea. I like that
I have a problem with the idea that $9.99 is expensive. I bought a croissant to go with my coffee this morning and ended up spending that.

The idea that using hours that bill at $150-$200 (current stab at journeyman iOS dev rate) to build products that sell "pricey" at anything over $1.99 is a problem. Problem might be the wrong word. Con.

Marco will be fine. Or he won't, I guess. That's not my problem with this line of pricing thinking.
To be honest, I think the HIG standard would be to just have the rightmost action icon, that has options for "Delete", "Archive", "Move to Folder", etc. So it wouldn't really be nay faster.

Also, the App Store review certainly doesn't enforce the HIG.