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>After my college experience I certainly think the two majors (or any STEM major plus a writing-heavy major) compliment each other.

I've written about this a little bit, in essays like "How to think about science and becoming a scientist:" http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/how-to-think-about-... , but my main advice to students who ask "What should I do with my life?" is to major in a technical or scientific field and either double major or minor in a humanities field (English, philosophy, and history are probably optimal). Many of them are surprised, since I'm in English lit, but a lot of humanities subjects aren't taught very well and have been substantially watered down, and I suspect a lot of the real action in the intellectual world is in the sciences, or at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities.
"It will thus have to wait until we can make
another major release."

It is said in the part about breaking API that it will just have to wait unless someone wants to pay him for the development fix or for him to make a fix worthy of the stable updates.
Unfortunately many people don't react on reason without an emotional component. "X really happened" can help there.

That fits the Facebook situation rather well: "Oh, they want you to give a real name snicker Seymour Butz will do". There used to be an expectation that such rules aren't really enforced.

Now they are, and it's notable that Facebook picks a method (reporting on your friends) with a certain tradition.

As a side note: That approach and "don't complain" go well together: said tradition didn't favor free speech, either.
What's so hard to understand? It's a convenient superclass for FactoryBean types that produce singleton-scoped proxy objects. If you understand the basics of Spring and how Spring does AOP, then this isn't difficult to understand at all.
Oh excellent. I can help those poor neutered friends stuck as half of user like "Susan N Steve Smith" because their significant other created that account.
Where is the X button? "leave me alone" ? i'm deleting my account right at this moment i had enough
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It's a cluttered market, yes, but I still believe there's large-scale untapped potential! I think a segue into 'knowledge management' rather than pure CRM could yield results - I used to work in corporate strategy for a global financial firm, and my takeout was that in many large corporations sales and marketing teams have their particular CRM systems in place but it's not integrated or accessible throughout the company (cue lots of missed opportunities). I see a big need in the corporate world for integrated, enterprise-wide metrics - CRM, but also sales, marketing activities, strategic priorities, financial metrics…all in the one system. It seems basic, but believe me for many large companies 'knowledge management' consists of Powerpoint and Excel docs, and version control is a nightmare. (They talk about Enterprise 2.0 but frankly it hasn't hit any of the firms I've had dealings with). I'd like to see company position snapshots at the click of a button - pull up sales for the last month, overlay with conversion rates, overlay with marketing activities, and overlay again with financial info. This level of transparency is completely lost in large firms and re-enforces a 'silo' company culture. Happy to chat further about it if you're keen, I toyed with a business plan around this before switching to my current startup.
Math isn't about moddeling, moddeling is applied math.

Math is about making up rules and figuring out what stuff happens with said rules.
Would be nice to know which of these are available on the various streaming services (Netflix Instant Streaming, Amazon Prime, etc.)
buddycloud is the one sane federated social network that is piggybacking on a protocol that has proven itself for over a decade. And I'm really expecting things from them now that they got incubator funding through Mozilla WebFWD.

I think the fundamental reason HN/Proggit and co. reject XMPP is because it's XML. Which is a ridiculous reason. Real-time streams over encrypted TCP seems to be the right way to go over forcing a protocol not meant for constant communication (HTTP) to do so.
Complex numbers are not vectors. If you have (a + b) in an expression, you can do algebra with it. If you then say b=ci, (a + b) would be a complex number, but the work you just did as if it were 2 real numbers is still valid.
Ok. We get it. Apple maps are subpar (for some people), they need to improve them soon. Is this YET ANOTHER STORY about it so interesting that it hits HN main page?

Btw, I've tried them and while there are some quirks, I really like them. Being vector is a huge win, it loads up quickly and whole experience is a lot smoother. As for accuracy, I live in a small town in Poland (not exactly Apple's main point of interest) and it's as accurate as Google Maps were.
Zero Hedge was an excellent site in its early days before it became popular. Most of the good contributors have left the site, understandably.

And Matt Taibbi was responsible for the legendary characterization of Goldman Sachs as a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."
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It is, but I am being sold.

Until this past week or so I've been highly skeptical of VC funding and much more inclined towards bootstrapping. I love that DHH video someone else posted in this thread. I think it's silly to focus on users and vanity metrics if you don't have a clear business model (even if it's not implemented immediately).

But this essay makes an amazing case for why outside funding is helpful, even crucial. And it's encouraging that he's emphasizing revenues, not just users.

I'm also encouraged because I was at the YC event at MIT this Wednesday, and didn't hear anything (even when I asked directly) about investor drama.
http://goodfil.ms does worth seeing once and worth rewatching.
LMGTFY is definitely considered bad form here on HN.

Even loser pays can be problematic, though, because the troll or bigcorp can fund a war of attrition for far longer than a startup or small business. I saw a variant of this happen to a company. An adaptation of the inquisitorial system to civil cases seems like the most sensible approach, if the goal is to provide equitable outcomes regardless of the financial resources of the litigants.

An alternative idea is a shared pool of legal funds. Both parties contribute to the pool and the pool is divided equally. If an aggressor wants to hire the best lawyers in the business, they have to provide the equivalent to the defendant.
And in some contexts -1 is rotating by 180 degrees, which happens to be 290, or i*i.
I can assure you that that lack of a decent notification centre (like the one Android has had for a long time) is not style, taste or anything else. It's a MAJOR pain in the ass.

To be able to disable wireless with a wipe and a tap is a VERY, VERY, VERY (you get the idea) useful feature.

As I said before, this is not style, taste or anything else but a MAJOR pain.
Great comment! From your wikipedia link:
"...any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no". The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bollocks..."
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Selling expensive enterprise products does have a longer sales cycle than cheaper consumer products, and increments to your revenue come in more discrete blocks. But that doesn't invalidate pg's argument about growth: you just have to use other proxies to estimate your trajectory.

For example, instead of active users you track a number of leads and how interested they are. Even without a single closed deal, you can measure your sales pipeline. It is an imperfect proxy for potential revenue growth, but so is daily active users for consumer internet startups.

Thus, if you are planning to sell an enterprise solution costing $100000, and you think you are going to make these kind of deals a few times a year in the beginning, then you use your sales pipeline measurements to estimate your growth with a finer granularity than a big sale now and then.
"The direction of Apple to go into maps is the right direction, but people will probably start questioning whether Apple products are as wonderful. It's been almost like a cult. We can always forgive people for one mistake, and for the post-Steve-Jobs era, this is the most significant. Another slip of this kind, people will start questioning Apple."

Apple has done lots of mistakes in the past. I've been an user of their products for only a few years, but even so I know.

It's not repeated mistakes that sink a company. It's unfixed mistakes. If users will find alternatives to iOS6 map app, they will use them. It's been like only a week since the new OS version was released. Not everyone has updated yet. People have been warned.

And the 'apple is cult/fanboys are blind followers' argument is one of the worst. Just like when non-religious persons belittle religious persons for being irrational, blind and manipulated. Which is stupid because it's not (generally) true.

Many make educated and conscious decisions. Buying a product is partially an irrational decision. BUT, the fact that Apple products produce those irrational decisions is the key to understanding the quality and the design thought that went into the products. And the fact that people keep on buying them, with every new version, tells that these products are really good. It's not magic. It's an illusion. It's just good products, and it's a damn successful company.

Mistakes can be fixed. Fixed ideas, hardly.
As a math student I can say that if the teacher explains something in a way that
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Except that for Twitter you do. A few MB = 30 seconds of tweets. I don't know why you think financial feeds are related to twitter, other than both being data feeds.

The $360k price tag is not "implied", it's the actual price for access to 50% of twitter's messages (see the link I posted). 100% access can only be negotiated with Twitter itself. To be fair, from the information I could find, the cheapest plan from gnip is $500/month[1], datasift is $3000/month[2], both quickly go up. That means you can't just whip up a prototype in the weekend for some new idea anymore. This pricing probably filters out 99% of the things that could be built on it, limiting them to projects with investor backing and ready business models (which twitter itself still doesn't have).

[1] http://web.appstorm.net/how-to/social-media-how-to/gnip-the-...

[2] http://datasift.com/pricing#costs
That article is a bit infamous for its over-the-top advertisement value by now.

See e.g. http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=394
The fact that some users don't want to contribute to community doesn't mean it's not worth having it be open. You can still cater to consumers without closing your product to hackers.
Once you control for film age, the ratings makes a lot more sense. Films get worse ratings as they get older, so newer films naturally have better ratings.
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does disqus plan to import all those comments ?
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i little shorter and is a tweet. could you elaborate more on why apple chose lightning ?
Thanks for this citation. Forward, backward and lateral.. for some reason, this is what make the most sense to me in all these explanations of complex numbers. I guess you could also go upward/downward. And then, in a fourth or even nth dimension.
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Let's just hope this will not swing the pendulum too much in the other direction. If kids were only taught creative writing and no structure, it is to be expected that a strong push on structure will give them an edge. But if they had been taught only structure from the start, insisting a lot on that in high school is bound to have smaller returns (or even negative ones, if they are then very weak in creativity).
There's basically no difference between the two.

It would be one thing if a search for a hospital on iOS failed by returning "Not found." It's quite another if the search returns an abandoned warehouse 6 miles away.

Good luck convincing a jury that this isn't negligence, especially when Apple knew very well that their data was garbage.
Does the USA not have a database right?

http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/copyright/Page92.html

Effectively acknowledging that the contents of a database may have varying copyright (owner, public works, facts, etc), but that the database itself is given protection implicitly if the database is "original and the result of substantial investment".

This is why you find fake data in Google Maps, the Rare Record Price Guide http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0953260194 and so on. Because they are representations of databases and all the companies behind them have to do to have the protection is to prove that other representations of the data have been sourced from their database, which they do by pointing at the secret fake data that is part of the database.

Does that not exist? It offers protection to any entity that has compiled an original source of data at their expense.
I've been using AeroFS beta for a while, and so far, it is my favorite of the file sharing systems. It isn't as good as big local disk for video editing or anything, but great for keeping team files in sync across a bunch of machines.
There's another bias, where things are overrated because they're unusually good for their time. For instance, "Battleship Potemkin" is often considered one of the greatest films ever made because it was so innovative for its time, despite the fact that when you watch it now, it's easily a shitty propaganda film. It may have been a greater achievement, but as a film, it's somewhat lacking by modern standards. Likewise, MASH and Seinfeld were groundbreaking, but largely because of MASH and Seinfeld, we can and do make better television series today. I think the two biases largely cancel out.

This has some interesting consequences. For instance, in the restricted realm of science fiction TV, it's clear that Star Trek: The Next Generation is strictly better than the original Star Trek, just as the recent Battlestar Galactica is strictly better than TNG, because these series responded to and innovated on each other.

On balance, I still wouldn't say it's necessarily true that newer series are better than older series. It's still rare that a TV series tops The Prisoner, for instance.
You say "clearly want" but I you don't know that. You are making an assumption about what "everyone" wants based on what you want, or what you think is important. Maybe this demand goes beyond yourself to your friends (I mean hey, they're your friends because they are simliar to yourself right?)

Tech savvy people get lost in this thinking all the time. I don't get why in a startup focus environment like Hacker News I see this so often.

More doesn't mean better. I'm not trying to defend Apple here, I'm just saying that when you make a grand assumption about what the market wants based on some marketing hype, you've probably been steered in the wrong direction
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They found really difficult to monetize their product, since it's only composed of 140 characters displayed in a moltitude of format.
Now they will directly control the way tweets are displayed, for example they will soon introduce the Twitter Card format (a sort like the facebook wall story with picture/video/flash game embedded)

Think of the several monetization "experiments" of Facebook: ads, sponsored likes, sponsored posts, page offers, ecc
They were been possibile only because Facebook manage the way his data is displayed across all platform.
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Indeed the art looks solid enough that it makes me want to try it.

Possible design improvements (all can be seen in the last screenshot):

* the color of the text in the top left corner is uncanny, doesn't blend with the rest of the screen, and doesn't provide good readability.

* huge areas like the right side look too patterny. Using something like procedural generation would make it feel much better (see e.g Tiny Wings)
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Real names policies are questionable but debatable. Asking friends to report friends to some authority reveals utter contempt for the very personal relationships that Facebook supposedly thrives on.
I agree with your statement that the social impact of discussing racial/sexual differences on a wide scale could be harmful among the masses who wouldn't take the time to ponder and process the information in a balanced and gradated manner.

And you could also be right that significant differences don't exist on a genotype-based level beyond different populations being vulnerable to certain diseases, knowledge for which we have incontrovertible proof. However, my intuition (and the closely guarded intuition of many sociologists, anthropologists, geneticists and other academics who don't buy into the mainstream narrative that human groups are all exactly equal despite several millenia of evolutionary branching) is that the genotype plays a larger role among observed differences than is commonly accepted. Thus, the argument that some groups of people 'do worse on average than other groups because they believe they will do worse' is not as strong as 'some groups of people do worse because they are on average inherently less capable at performing on a certain task, whatever their level of self-belief in their performance at that task,' an argument for which much evidence exists. Note that I am not stating we should change social policy or even necessarily our current cosmopolitan world view based on this information.. I'm just pointing out a fact of reality which is glossed over with emotion and fear by starry-eyed academics.

The counterpoint among intelligent people is to claim that it is not a fact that genotype-based differences exist and that to think they do is not only wrong but also harmful. Much the same way creationists dispute a missing link of evolution though and falsely conclude that God must have done it all, just because we don't have every possible piece of evolutionary data on the chain from single-celled amoebas to Homo Sapiens doesn't mean we can't form a highly probable link of progression between the two based on the large amount of available evidence we do have. I forget the Latin term for it so I shall refer to the above as the fallacy of ignorance: in the absence of complete enough information to satisfy a logical positivist, it is impossible to draw a likely conclusion at all.

Among anyone who is interested in what's true about reality, no subject should be taboo, and one should be guided by evidence and truth alone. Is this ridiculous and naive? That's a subjective value judgment, a judgment which I think becomes increasingly arbitrary the more open minded and intelligent the person thinking about the topic is.

tldr: Truly open minded and intelligent people (which are quite rare) who can approach controversial subjects with subtlety and even-keeled rationality should follow the truth wherever it leads them, even if it's to conclusions society deems 'improper'. Then they should hide these conclusions from almost everyone they speak with. lol.
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Moral ambiguity is something that passes in and out of fashion, and it's something that Firefly never really delivered on. Where Firefly really shone was as a prototype for the naturalistic science fiction approach that Battlestar Galactica mastered.
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I would need an iPhone version too, in order to make it an equivalent of DropBox. Also, it's beta - there are going to be problems, bugs, etc. DropBox is polished. When AeroFS will be as polished, then it will be attractive on account of the ability to have much larger storage space and privacy.
It seems like the solution is to special case sensitive headers like "Cookie", so that the compressed version doesn't leak information. But isn't every byte equally worthy of protection? What if there's sensitive information in the body?

(I get that the format of the Cookie header is probably much more structured/predictable than usernames or account details that might appear in the body, but surely a good cryptosystem would be 100% resistent to these sorts of side-channel attacks, without any need to guess which headers need to be handled more carefully.)
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Or Watchmen. If there was a separate category for superheroes, maybe....
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Thank you for explaining in three simple paragraphs why I hated every calculus professor I ever had.
I think that micro USB wouldnt suit so well in a 'docked' situation either. Where the connector needs to take the weight of the phone.

The lightening connector looks (I haven't seen it yet) like it could support the phone. So when it is sitting in a cradle you don't need to worry about bumping the unit and the connector breaking off inside the phone.
I tend to think that Real numbers is the first kind of numbers that have nothing to do with reality. There are no perfect circles, squares or triangles in reality. Real things can only look like circle if you don't look close enough. I think same goes for sinusoidal waves and everything else.

All fundamental physical laws that contain e or pi or event sqrt(2) seem suspicious to me.
In many countries (most signatories of the Berne Convention) moral rights are inalienable. You can't renounce them, regardless of will. That would make that clause in the TOS unvalid for anyone in these countries.
Hotmail doesn't store any passwords, it is all centralized as part of Windows Live ID (Passport).
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This attack depends on being able to control the requests made; cookies are automatically added to the request, which makes them vulnerable. There aren't many times when you'll have enough control over a portion of the body to make non-cookie attacks viable.
There are no invalid combinations of fields in this case, any combination is valid.
If there were invalid combinations, of course, this wouldn't be a nice API.