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Yes , I did, thanks.

> People who do linear regression at work don't add a x0 feature?

Sometimes they do that; sometimes the data already has a subset known to have sum 1 (e.g., if you binary variables that reflect "one of n choices" which must be set), and in this case adding x0=1 makes things worse (from a numerical perspective) for many algorithms.

Regardless, I've always seen regulation theory stated with lambda*identity matrices.
They should have had two connectors, linked together.

That way you can plug in just a standard microUSB, or a larger cable with microUSB right next to extra pins.
Thanks for the comment, the WebOS question is one I see a lot.

One of our engineers answered this recently on Quora, I hope it helps explain the differences a bit: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Mozillas-Boot-2-Gecko-compare-...
It's a shame Apple didn't design this new port such that a microUSB cable could plug straight into one half of it (for charging only).
What will happen to the traditional desktop?
I've been using Windows 8 RTM now for some weeks and to be honest I am very frustrated. It just does not cut it on the desktop.

I'm an author of two commercial desktop applications and, of course, thinking to make "metro/win8" versions of them. It will be hard and it will feel stupid because of the limitations in functionality what one can do.

I could just keep developing traditional desktop stuff and ignore win8 ui, but then...if traditional desktop apps are dying what's the point of keep developing them.

Or I could just go and switch to Linux (To be honest I really want to and probably will, I don't need to make living out of the applications, so I dont have to worry how many licences I sell and so on)

So fellow hackers, any advice for me? Opinions? What do you think about Windows 8?
What a sensationalist title. They dropped GPL, leaving MIT. This is a big win. MIT is significantly more free than GPL (it does not mandate that you make things derived from it free, but the license itself does provide more liberties than GPL).

They require CLA, so that they can put the code under MIT. It's legal silliness, but how is it at all bad?
Giving how shockingly similar Firefox OS is to webOS (now also open source), I would have much rather that they support that OS instead of reinventing the wheel.

Some strange strategic decisions coming out of Mozilla inc. these days, I would much rather see them focus on their browser instead (and Thunderbird!).
Let's just hope that it's fast enough then!

To be fair, I think there is much more too it than just HTML5 apps. Think beyond the single mobile phone device… it's more about how concepts will change if many different types of devices run apps and can communicate via the same languages (JavaScript, for example).

The other advantage is that it's free, and open for others to take and turn into whatever they want it to be. That's kinda cool.
Fx OS on the SGS2 runs BLAZING fast compared to the device in the video. The reason why we don't shout about that? Because we're not launching with that device and it's not right to raise expectations in that way.
I apologise for writing a long post - I have not time to write a short one

There is a reason MBAs are taught market analysis. Its important to position your product for maximum effect (usually maximum profit, but that may not be the case here)

The arguments for FirefoxOS seem to be

1. It's OSS
2. It's Web-technologies only
3. It's aimed at the "emerging" markets' mobile users
4. It runs on cheaper hardware better than the competition

1 and 2 are great. And no-one but us cares, except in 20 years when no child has even seen a line of code because OSS gets wiped out as all PCs are replaced by mobile devices.

(This is the reason I want this to succeed, and I want laptops to be certified FreeBSD compliant. It matters!)

Anyway this is about market positioning, not OSS. So.

Its a well-known truism that don't be in the middle of any market - you get squeezed from both ends.

The emerging markets have adapted enormously well to only having SMS and no smartphones (see anyone in Mumbai). That is not going to go away, so the true bottom end of the market is SMS capable devices. They will probably just give them away.

If Firefox OS says we are not as good as iOS then thay are squarely putting themselves in the middle of the market.

Aim higher folks. The world is not segmented into feature phones and smartphones. It is segmented into one market "I want to use a networked mobile app to get laid or get cash." You will never be the bottom end - that belongs to sending cash by SMS, or selling your harvest with a text.

So its the top of the market - what the cool kids have.

And so, 1 & 2 might just be our saviours. Apple made a great new product that was catnip to the coolest kids in the West. Firefox OS is geeky cool - it might just appeal to the coolest kids not in the West. And they will want to buy the 'best' phone - aim high folks.

I hope you succeed.
But userscrips.org is also for Firefox/Greasemonkey, is it not?

I never recognized or used userscripts.org with chrome (i did once or twice with firefox).

So, it still has the firefox users which it was created for.
You might appreciate this piece on Fx OS and WebOS: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Mozillas-Boot-2-Gecko-compare-...
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I'd be interested in hearing more about benzodiazepines and open-back visibility. I assume you're referring to nervousness about having your back facing a room?

Open-back visibility is unnatural. Picture a man, comfortably reading a book, and a tree. Where is the tree? Invariably, it's right behind him.

When people are in a loud or uncomfortable environment, one of the first instincts is to guard their back. Modern office environments don't allow this. Most have traffic corridors behind the person who is working. Over 8 hours, the stress builds up.

My wife is "neurotic" about other people being behind her and being able to see her computer. She also has significant hang-ups with believing that people don't like her (as far as I can tell, they do), and general depression.

I'm not a doctor, and I don't know your wife, but to me, this sounds like social anxiety. A lot of office environments make it 10 times worse than it needs to be.

There's also such a thing as "secondary depression", which is depression induced by an anxiety disorder. Office-induced social anxiety usually leads that way.

At some point, I learned that no one cares what is on my computer (as long as I'm not obviously fucking off) because everyone is playing his or her game rather than trying to evaluate mine, but it took me years to really get that.

your position -- that the "normal" people are indignant about having to somehow compete harder due to "the weak" having access to anti-anxiety drugs and anti-depressants -- seems unfounded in the available evidence.

No, not all the "normal" people. However, there are people out there who feel very negatively about the use of these drugs, that they're "propping up the weak", and this is the source of that attitude. Society has been stack-ranking people for some time based on their ability to handle stupid stresses in large amounts, and psychiatric medicines change the game. But that's a good thing, because that game doesn't deserve to exist in the first place.
I tend to think bringing in agile specialists and installing scrum process to save the project is a bit dogmatic. If you worked on a project for sometime and wrote/rewrote a lot, you probably know what's needed to be written. It's fairly unlikely the scrum process actually helps at that point. What keeps you going at it is probably "faith" you built through out the year since the onset of scrum installment... and, just a habit.

If you are afraid of writing unneeded, unimportant, and unpopular things enough to label them as a "failure", your focus may be to find needed and important things for your audiences.

Your focus may be to read the draft to a select sample audiences everyday, every week, continuously, and apply various analytical techniques to different statistical models you built from the feedbacks to overcome your fear of rejection, and "manage" direction, completion, and shipment of your writing.

Or just write. A lot. And read. A lot. You'll "get" trends. You'll "get" what works and what doesn't. Of course you need feedbacks. Of course you need plans and management especially if you are co-writing with many authors.

But my focus is still to write.
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It's been more than a decade since I've worked in C, but don't C compilers have an option to emit assembly directly?
You want to apply to Apple for a job as a lawyer, you obviously think you know more about the law then they do.
> On top of that, there isn't even a Lightning dock for sale from Apple!

There aren't even any Lightning products for sale from Apple yet, how about waiting more than 24 hours?
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The charger has a normal USB-A female connecter, so you can connect any USB cable that will fit in a computer to it. So the charger itself isn't limited to Lightning, but can be used with a USBA->microUSB cable.

Also see http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/rtte/chargers/questio... that says:

Which is the agreed common interface?

On the basis of the Micro-USB interface, the companies have agreed to develop a common specification in order to allow for full compatibility of chargers and mobile phones. These specifications have been translated in European standards.

N.B.: The agreement allows for the use of an adaptor.
How to find a marketing person?
What is the impact of the iPhone on the mobile market?
I posted further up but I'll put it here as well. You might appreciate this piece on WebOS and Fx OS from one of our engineers: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Mozillas-Boot-2-Gecko-compare-...
There is no 'random number'. Perhaps you mean 'a series of (uniformly/normally distributed?) random numbers between 0 and k'?

For a normally distributed series of numbers make a jump and report the length (in milimeters). You will produce a series normally distributed around your average jumping length.
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The original was 30-pin, the new one is 8-pin.

The reason this could happen is that many of the pins in the old dock connector are now legacy and no-longer used. Examples include a number of FireWire interfaces and some iPod-only S-Video and composite outputs. 8 pins were for FireWire alone.

Also, the 30-pin's availability of dedicated ports for many functions let accessories connect directly to the inputs and outputs they needed without needing to go through a digital conversion process that would require additional software and require digital processing hardware. So an iPod dock could connect directly to the power and audio out ports, resulting in a simple and reliable circuit design.

Now, years later, the cost of processing hardware has dropped massively so it's more feasible for a number of accessories to incorporate digital processing hardware to get the stuff they need from the digital in/out pins rather than needing dedicated pins.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

-Carl Sagan
Yes I read that from your other comment, the engineer begins with:

> There are many similarities

Indeed. And he then goes on to admit that a new version of Enjo JS will address many of the perceived shortcomings in webOS:

> This is a simplification, and I should also note that Enyo 2 (the next version of the webOS application framework, not yet released) is designed to be less platform-specific and allow Enyo apps to run on both webOS and in standard web browsers: http://enyojs.com/

Enyo JS 2 is now available for download: http://enyojs.com/

So again, why reinvent the wheel? What's the real benefit of boot-to-Gecko versus boot-to-Webkit (webOS)?
And there's already a connector that does exactly that, namely a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed connector ( http://www.coolgear.com/images/USB3-Micro-3FT.jpg ). Since they don't need SuperSpeed transfer rates, they could have used the SuperSpeed pins for their own purposes.

NIH wins every time at Apple, it seems.
There are four different Lightning adapters on the store (OK, for pre-order). You think a few days will make a difference? You think they'll announce a dock next week with an "oops"?

If they were doing a dock, it would be ready on day one.
What does microUSB not provide that they need?
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it!

To be clear, I'm not educated in business so my thoughts are my own (potentially naive) conclusions.

However, there are some very sound business decisions behind us chosing to go with Brazil first, and to go with cheaper, low-end devices. I'm sure they know what they're doing more than I do!

As an aside, we do have versions of Fx OS running on high-end devices and it runs amazingly well. It's not our market though (for now) so it's merely a cool "look what we could do with the power" moment.

I hope we succeed too.
Also, functionally speaking, the idea is that if you have your phone in your pocket and you have no charger with you, any charger of any other phone will do it. It is not the case if you need an adapter.
The performance is terrible. Have the developers ever heard of smooth scrolling? How can any self respecting developer release this?
What's the £50 device? I'm not going to buy a Galaxy variant to play with Firefox OS, but £50 is a different story.
Please not use Google web-font is slower and harm you privacy.

[Google fonts]
43ms -> [------>] DNS
120ms -> [-------] [----->] Get Css
150ms -> [----------------] [---------->] Get-rel woff font

Proof:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Skranji
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http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/skranji/v1/...

Use font squire and convert to base64_font -> better faster stronger
Probably. I haven't witnessed that yet though.
This looks like a terrible idea for a mobile OS, where every cycle should count. What about battery life? I think that for now, and foreseeable future, the only reasonable choice for mobile devices are native code based apps and system.
Thanks! I will add some hints as soon as I get to the source :-)
Is it the new CEO, or is it that Stripe means Paypal actually have some competition?
Mozilla seem almost apologetic about Firefox OS.

"aiming at middle market"
"performs well on low end hardware"

I think this is a mistake in positioning - this is still
an expensive piece of hardware for most of the world
(50 USD is not low-end if minimum wage in Brazil is
322 USD /mth)

Instead this has the potential to be "the best" phone
in most emerging markets - the most desireable OS,
because it can appeal to the very same people who iPhone
appealed to - the cool and influential geeks and designers.

Shout from the rooftops guys, its high-end, high-value,
cool. Let the network providers sort out how to put
50 USD worth of hardware into the hands of boys and
girls in the favelas. Just make sure everyone wants one.

And that means not apologetically aiming for the middle market.

Aim higher.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_countr...

edit: this was an edit on my other post here, but it is so different in tone it just was better reposting.
You can't read the cookie for the victim website from a malicious site. What you can do is send POST/GET requests to which the browser will attach the appropriate cookies.
What else do they protect against?
Xiki: Can your shell console do this?
Shaving a few mm is definitely a good justification for doing it. Every company is pushing for thinner devices.

The dock connector has been in use for years, it was fit for purpose then and it's not fit for purpose now. Apple as a company has never shown any remorse over killing technology and ports it thinks are outdated and pushing forward.

Personally I think it's the best thing of the new iPhone, the current connector sucks and is overly fragile, but I'm not invested in docks or similar mostly as the change has been expected since the iPhone 4ish.
I like it, what's the algorithm for choosing the next song?
Don't remember the details, Khosla was an investor though.
microUSB has 4 ports, Lightning has 8 ports. Since only two of the microUSB ports are for data (the others are power and ground), that means Lightning has an additional 4 ports that can be dedicated to non-USB data I/O.
You are right to start with low-end devices:

Get it running brilliantly on cheap hardware. Don't waste anything. Make the OS efficient. Do things in the most direct way possible with a minimum of red tape. Expose the bare metal to Javascript. Put the bare minimum features in the OS and let open source grow around that.
Just install Tampermonkey, then everything works just like before.
Could you post the Id of the feed? Will fix it as soon as I can.
> N.B.: The agreement allows for the use of an adaptor.

That doesn't make sense unless Apple ship adaptors for both the charger and phone.

As your parent said, the goal is very clearly to have one charger be capable of charging any mobile device.

So... can the Apple charger be used on the Nokia? If not, then they also need to make available an adaptor the other way around.

The whole point is to not ship chargers at some point. If Apple make it so that other chargers can charge the iPhone but the Apple charger cannot charge anything else, then Apple are still outside the spirit of the law.

They need to provide 2 adaptors. The charger must charge a Nokia, and a Nokia charger must charge an iPhone.
You could have at least checked the front page, there is the exact same story already.
Exactly, that's the issue I have with Google Reader (such an obvious functionality is missing). Now I can categorize my news within one feed by using this tool.
Yes, it's a shame Mozilla has completely halted desktop Firefox development in order to develop Firefox OS instead.

(Wait, what's that? A company/community can work on more than one thing at a time?)
What in Clojure is biased towards web programming (or any other domain)?
Battery life is very, very good. I can leave this thing on for days and it's still running. Now obviously that's not running too much in the background but there is no reason why a JavaScript phone would have a detrimental effect on battery life.

You should try it out sometime, it's really not 'terrible' when you get hands on. But your opinion is one I see a lot and we're hoping to change it in the future, slowly ;)
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD823ZM/A/lightning-to-30-...

Why wouldn't this one allow the iPhone 5 to work with existing docks/devices ? So long as the device is sturdy enough (which I can imagine it would be) then there should be no problem.
But adding a random length, random comment within the body of your HTML might eliminate the correlation between a correct key character and compressed length.
I don't like how you brand Denis-Courmont a zealot or bad apple for not letting others break the license terms of his code. He licensed his code under the GPL for a reason, and if someone doesn't like his license, they shouldn't expect him to waive his rights on his code. (I don't know about the case, I'm basing this on your comment alone.)
In principle I see the problem, since we could potentially get a lot of lawsuits arguing if strcpy instead strncpy was a typo or malicious intent. However in practice ( and assuming a well written law) most cases should be a lot more clear cut, since an entire rootkit is clearly not a typo. So thinking a little more about these issue, I think a reasonable test would be, if the developer directly profited/exploited an bug.
What's the location of the policy file in Linux?
> (Wait, what's that? A company/community can work on more than one thing at a time?)

But that's the whole point: they're not, at least not in the case of Thunderbird. Firefox OS clearly has a higher priority for them than Thunderbird.
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The BMGF operates through endowment, which a lot of organizations do. Basically, they don't expect many regular small donations (like a lot of smaller charities do), they expect just a couple of very big ones. Because the donations don't come every year, they need to last. So they invest the money, and use the interest for operation costs and grants. This way, they can give that $2b a year[1], in perpetuity. Another big donation means that they only give out slightly more per year, but that the donation will basically last forever.

There may be a better model, but this is a well respected method for making a big charitable gift last.

[1] more in years when the economy does well. E.g., in 2009 they gave slightly over $3B.
Oops, sorry about that. Can't I edit my own submissions? :-/
It's a ZTE Kis. You can't use it yet because it's a development version but we're working on getting devices available to developers before we launch properly.

The Kis is merely a test device for now.
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I don't know the stats, but I'm fairly convinced anecdotally there's still a huge segment of users who don't know or care about apps, and don't much know or care about the OS either. They'll use whatever ships with the phone.

If you're an OEM, how would you target these people? As long as you can get a clean, attractive, easy-to-use OS, you'll take an interest in one that's easy for you to customise, and ship with solid default apps, some of which you can monetise on. I think Firefox OS offers that possibility to OEMs, they get to completely control the experience and keep the relationships with customers. And the customisation process - being HTML5 - is arguably simpler and less of a specialised skill.
>1 and 2 are great. And no-one but us cares, except in 20 years when no child
>has even seen a line of code because OSS gets wiped out as all PCs are replaced by mobile devices.

While these guys are off saving the world from the evils of proprietary software, is it ok if I just get on with teaching my kids to program using Codea on our iPad?

Edit: Ok, I too wish Apple devices in particular were a little less locked down, but hysterical prognostications about the end of hacker culture don't do the cause any favours.
Actually I think it was a validation issue. Try entering some garbage in the filters.

I didn't get far enough to get the feed Id.
You may want to try http://www.founder2be.com as an additional tool in your co-founder search.

Note: I co-founded this up after not finding a co-founder for an earlier idea myself. Somehow this idea of building a match.com for co-founder seems to have filled a need and now there are 10,000 or so incl. current and ex- Googlers, Apple, etc.

I love the topic of co-founder finding. Also because some people have surprisingly strong opinions about whether a service like this can be possible at all or if you need to go way back with your co-founder.

As was said earlier, the Dropbox co-founders did not know each other long before... I think anything is possible. It depends on the co-founders ;)
Are you sure? how do you think makes more money with the AppStore? Also i paid to be a developer so i still am a customer. And if it was for that even normal customers need more a computer than what Apple needs them...

You are also forgetting that if it wasn't for the developers that created the content in the AppStore the iPhone would have been just a phone like all the others.