skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The money becomes rather meaningless, if you can believe it.

Of course it does. The marginal utility of money specifically states that each additional dollar earned has less of an effect on the person's happiness and feeling of accomplishment. This is why "more money" stops being a motivator after a certain point.
This isn't a theoretical, and it's sadly not limited to the iPad. I've purchased the Apple suite of office programs (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and I can't install them without updating to the latest version of Mac OS X. That's OK for me, but it's been a huge PITA for the non-profit I work with, which is always struggling to get working computers, let alone modern ones. Because they can't install Lion on their computers, software we'd bought for them simply won't be re-installable if I have to wipe the system clean for some reason.

I was fed up with Android bloatware enough to finally switch to iOS a few weeks ago, but the lock-in on both platforms (non-stock Android + iOS) is beyond aggravating and feels more like a shakedown at some points.
I think it's a fantastic idea. Will it work while the device is locked though, or do I have to walk around with my iPhone/iPad open all the time? The page doesn't really make that clear, and it's the most important decision factor for me since I'd want to just have it passively tracking in my pocket or backpack.
> Plaintiffs were only winning 20-40% of the time.

They were winning 20-40% of appeals, it doesn't say how often they won overall.

It's hard to say whether 20-40% of appeals is a good number in an absolute sense (percentage of successful appeals is a more useful number) but in this case, it's only to compare with the 50-80% figure that came after the change, and I'd think that is pretty significant.
I used to run a small web dev IRC chatroom back in the day and was recently considering getting it up and running again. If anyone is interested in hanging out and helping me build the small community again, get in touch, contact@[MyHNUsername].com
There is a huge assumption that capital markets are efficient, but considering the existence of things like bubbles I don't think that's peculiarly true. The existence of 'brand' marking on the demand side demonstrates that the demand side of the equation is not efficient. And the distortions inherent in things like the home mortgage tax credit and farming subsidies demonstrate systemic distortions.

Further, people are far weather now than at any point in the past. So, even if capital markets where less efficient than ancient princes at distributing wealth, the inefficiency would be less obvious.
There is a huge assumption that capital markets are efficient, but considering the existence of things like bubbles that's demonstrably false. The existence of 'brand' marking on the demand side demonstrates that the demand side of the equation is not efficient. And the distortions inherent in things like the home mortgage tax credit and farming subsidies demonstrate systemic distortions.

Further, people are far weather now than at any point in the past. So, even if capital markets where less efficient than ancient princes at distributing wealth, the inefficiency would be less obvious.
Bye Bye, Bill: How Nguyen Doomed Color from the Start
https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
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Apps, Games and Websites
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Click "Turn off", it is purposely hidden as normal text even though it is the blue hyperlink color it blends in quite well.

If facebook had a (physical)complaints box it would be just out of arms reach above a large rose bush.
Hi Andrey, nice question. I'd honestly go for an IRC channel, i'm not really sure if anything like this exists, freenode should help in this direction. Anyway, i just added you on google+. I've spent over a year in Russia so far (NSK, Tomsk and Magadan) and i loved it :) And i'm also a startup guy. We can definetely get in touch. PS: I knew LiveReload and loved it!
That's always been my attitude, after 15+ years working in Investment Banks.

I could work at a local council, or (gasp!) a startup, but I think arseholes can work in any industry, and if I'm going to have to deal with people like that I might as well get decent money for it.

Plus if you're going to work at a non-software firm, it's probably the most exciting industry you can work on. I can't imagine feeling very motivated writing software to manage the manufacture of, say, baked beans.
Perhaps. I've heard the argument that because he was a patent holder himself, he was able to convince a significant portion of the jury that he was an expert in all things patent-related, and this swayed their decision in favor of Apple. But that's just the rumor machine. We'll see what the outcome of the appeals process is in a few years.
I wouldn't want a jury of "patent specialists", I want an inquisitorial panel including professional judges, laypersons, and technical (not "patent") specialists with the power to actively seek truth out in the open, and I want it for all cases. The adversarial system has overstayed its welcome.
Can I ask what's the name of your company? Or at least, what business you're in?
Why do sites not redirect to ONE!? :(

I understand having multiple domain extensions, but please point them all to one!
Actually, that's not legal. However, they can't prove you've done that, given it's an anonymous ballot!
You can manually slide these!
Also here is a nice paper to get started with LSI : http://www2.denizyuret.com/ref/berry/berry95using.pdf
The specific attack described (reconstructing a 3d environment from a collage of phone-camera images) might also be feasible using social network image data. Although the article actually discusses stealing information from the images directly, there is still the risk of one's shared social net photos constituting an information leak.

For example: how many profile pictures, on average, are required to create a construction of someone's office or dorm room?
Not on a mobile device. (iOS 5 Chrome)
Did you downvote me? You can google the studies yourself, there are lots of those supporting whatever conclusion you prefer.

I don't have an opinion on helmets, only on the logical fallacies used in the article.
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Do you mean checkboxes? But if so: yeah, me too.
Hmmm. I'm sure browser certs is a well-worn topic, so maybe you could just point me to a proposal/discussion about it, but I don't really see the benefit client keys have over per-user symmetric tokens if each app is its own CA. Symmetric tokens can also be distributed/stored without special browser support.
TDD works for some things, not so much for others. If you know what you want to build, and how it will work, TDD makes it more likely that you will build it correctly, and that the programmatic interfaces will be pleasant to work with. If you don't know how to make the thing you want to build work, TDD is not going to help you. At all.

As an illustration see http://devgrind.com/2007/04/25/how-to-not-solve-a-sudoku/ for an amusing example of TDD failing horribly for a simple algorithm problem.
As someone who commutes to work via bike 2-3 times a week, the thing I would appreciate the most would be if highways had walled-off bike lanes. The reason I say this is because surface streets having bike lanes is not enough. The thing with highways is that they are able to run diagonally to the surface streets, which often times reduces distances drastically. With bike lanes though, often times I feel like I'm zig-zagging to get from point A to point B, which feels terribly inefficient.
Why ? The device still works on iOS5 and will still run 99% of the apps available today and over the next few years.

Most developers are still going to be targeting iOS4+ for a while to come.
I think you missed the point. What is impressive is that Opera offers much more functionality than Firefox, yet its installer is nearly half as large. Whether or not the additional functionality offered by Opera is useful is irrelevant to this discussion.
It is a joke. To quote Guido Van Rossum, "if you look at it from 10km above, Python and Ruby and Perl are exactly the same language". I find it funny when people hate on Perl for its syntax, because it's so similar to languages people rave about. Perl's syntax is very expressive and if one knew it, it would seem as natural as Python's whitespace to a Pythonista.
Looks like you're a victim of the same bug as me: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/loqbCbK...

I'm sending it back for a replacement but in the short-term a factory reset fixes it.
It's weird jQueryUI hasn't implemented touch events for dragging yet. Here's an example using YUI: http://www.orangebits.nl/code/gallery-slidecheckbox/gallery-...
I'm wondering about the two-year or similar contracts people signed when they purchased or obtained for free a 3GS? Perhaps there's a corner case when someone got a 3GS + 2 year contract just five months ago. Might be some backlash if the device they planned to use for the next 19 months couldn't be upgraded to the latest iOS. Note this isn't an issue with iPod Touch or iPad due to lack of contracts (except perhaps an iPad data contract? But I'm under the impression those are more flexible, month-to-month etc).
Instead of shooting out a reaction formed entirely from your intellect, while sitting at a keyboard: go do it first, then come back and tell us if you think the problem was solved by a simple "no thanks."

The gay bar scenario is telling -- males can be very aggressive, and simultaneously, willfully oblivious to "back off" signals. Your polite request for privacy and unwelcoming body language might protect you from, say, 90% of approachers. The remainder can be very overt and dominating in their attempts.

So yeah, if you're so confident that you've solved the problems of every attractive woman, everywhere: try it out.
I think recent science is discovering that even physical problems with the brain can be overcome. Depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain, but talk therapy has been shown to be effective for it. The act of thinking certain thoughts changes the brain's chemistry in ways that can be either positive or negative.

Say that we find that ego depletion comes from a shortage of blood glucose in the brain. If that's the case, the cure could be as simple as stocking the microkitchens with M&Ms (man, maybe Craig Silverstein had the right idea 14 years ago). It's also known that certain stimulants like caffeine and amphetamines help you overcome your normal mental fatigue limits - the problem is that they often tend to create dependency and lose their effect if you chronically overuse them. The reason for looking into the physical mechanism is that we might then be able to find simple solutions that work and don't have long-term side-effects.
Two comments from a consumer Internet lawyer's perspective:

- Any company of any size in America has been sued in a consumer class action -- many reputable companies scores or even hundreds of times. Some lawyers make their living that way. Most of these suits involve highly subjective elements such as whether there was enough disclosure in the right place of the right type to avoid consumers being misled. (Inevitably, in any mass-market consumer business, some consumers will be misled -- not necessarily the sharpest tools in the drawer.)

- Don't ever believe the version of the facts portrayed in a plaintiffs' complaint (in any suit). Ours is an adversarial system, meaning that, as in politics, you can count on each side to overstate its version of reality about 10X or 100X so that it looks like they're inhabiting alternate universes.

JMHO.
Agreed. While a lot of other uses may be more profound in the long run, this one seems most achievable in the short (least amount of security concerns and consumer education).
Kill the landline: Google > Local Number Portability ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_number_portability
That part of it is not really a rumor; he gave several interviews where he explained in detail exactly how he influenced the jury. All that remains is to see whether or not those statements actually invalidate the verdict.

But in case it's not clear, I completely agree with you: a panel of patent experts would have been even worse. The problem in this case was the judge trusting this guy when he said he wouldn't let his previous experience as a patent holder color his judgement.
tl;dr, but isn't the bulleted list a list of what Google Now does?
We could try the box-style left turns that are deployed in Asia (s well as a few places in the US).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juNLGZrb5Ak
It's actually poor UX for desktop users too. It is possible to slide the buttons with a mouse drag and have them fail to change state. I see this behavior on many sites trying to optimize for mobile, but it degrades the desktop UX.
You rather lack imagination if you can't think of an appropriate domain for using Python other than "readable shell scripting".
Yet another wonderful legacy of Ronald Reagan.
Well, for one thing. My dad would be dead if it wasn't for his bike helmet. That's good enough for me to wear one. It's anecdotal, but it's very personal, so I'm probably not going to change my mind.

What's cool is the helmet company wanted his helmet back so they could study it.
They look really good.

Hoever, on iOS5, especially when zoomed in - page just scrolls.

On the demo page, when not zoomed in, it hard to tell if it actually slides or not because the button is completely covered by my finger tip.
> For those unfamiliar with IRC

a tech savvy community where there are people not knowing what irc is - I'm damn old...
>>Most people have little or nothing to lose at that age.

This is no longer true. A couple of years ago, college seniors graduated with an average of $25,000 in debt. And that number is growing. What this means is that the percentage of people who have "nothing to lose" in their 20s is shrinking rapidly. Instead people are seeking "safe" corporate jobs in order to be able to pay off their debts. Working in a risky startup is not a realistic option for them.
Sure they do. This Pandora's Box contains cash, for lawyers.
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Notifications are a core part of Facebook but the number of users that want game notifications is pretty small as the linked article described (5% acceptance rate two years ago and going down from that). The explicit gamification in this article is pretty disgusting.
I realize the person in this example is the OP's girlfriend, but in my experience, the most common explanation is third-party payers. (For example, kid off at college, credit card bills get paid by parents or grandparents. Or corporate card used for many office-type overhead expenses where the recurring charge is so small, relatively speaking, it falls beneath the scope of any audits.)
UPDATE 2: Google Hangouts proved to be, well, a strange tool for the job. So I've made a Skype chatroom; please join if interested!

Link: http://is.gd/SoloStartupDoersSkype
Sure, but it's much more difficult.

I have a friend who is quite unattractive, women seem to get creeped out by him if he so much as sits near them.
ReSharper/Web Storm do a much better job wrt to JavaScript. I still don't feel like I understand what you mean by "IDE code". Is all code written in an IDE, "IDE code"? I was left with the impression that it is some inferior subset.

Would you write C#/Java outside of an IDE to prevent "IDE code"? What would the difference be?
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Not sure why you got downvoted, because you're exactly right: anecdotes are meaningless. In addition, Steve Jobs may be gone, but he reportedly left Apple with four years worth of product ideas, and like you say, iPhone 5 was designed when he was at the helm. The only thing he would probably have done differently is that he wouldn't have signed off on Apple Maps in its current state. But that's neither here nor there.
Apple has done this already by offering 0% interest loans on their website through their credit card partner, barclaycard.
When you spend half your time writing tests you change half as much, and create half as many bugs. Admittedly a bit of exaggeration, as tests do help.
The cryptosystem required to do per-app certificates is already resident in every mainstream browser; we are literally a UI/UX fix away from having that working.

Meanwhile, to a first approximation, zero people have tokens.
> the benefits of wearing a helmet apply equally to pedestrians and automobile drivers/passengers

Cycling is about six times more likely to kill you, per hour, than driving. So while helmets in cars would help some, the case for them on bikes is stronger.
Josh,

I see your long answer, and, being a bit familiar with companies like Intelligent Beauty, I raise you a long list of questions. I don't expect you to answer them, but in my mind they can help separate "value-enhancing offer" for customers vs. "revenue-enhancing trick" for the company.

1.) How long does the average customer stay in the monthly program before cancelling?

2.) What percentage of customers opt-out on initial sign-up?

3.) On average, what % of the monthly subscription charged to the customer is ultimately spent on merchandise vs. becomes breakage?

4.) If you changed the text next to the check box to say, "You will be charged $39.95/month," do you think opt-in rates would change? If consumers aren't being misled, you should see little-to-no change in opt-in rates.

5) If I call to cancel after N months, do you refund the unused balance? Do I have to use it as a "store credit?" Do you offer me 100 cents on the dollar or some fraction thereof? Are consumers given incentives not to cancel or to convert the remaining unused balance into merchandise before cancelling?

6) Does the unused balance expire? If so, after how long?

7) Do you email customers to let them know they need to log in every month, or is it their responsibility to remember?

8) What portion of the company's revenues (and, more importantly, gross margin dollars) is in product sales vs. unused subscription dollars as breakage?

9) Why must consumers call customer service to cancel vs. doing it online? Is it difficult or time-consuming to reach customer service?

If this subscription is a value-add for customers, one would expect:

- A high portion of the charged dollars converting into merchandise sales vs. becoming breakage. Consumers rarely find it enjoyable to be charged $39.95 and not to get anything for it (even Columbia House sent you the CDs at the same time they collect the money; you get the money first, and I have to remember to come to you to get the shoes).

- A reasonable % of customers opting-out at initial purchase. If 99% opt in, your disclosure is ineffective, as it beggars belief that people are dying to pay $39.95 a month. Or, if you change the language of the text box as I suggest above, no observed difference in opt-in rates.

- A low churn rate in the % of consumers who call to cancel once subscribed.

- A consumer-friendly policy that allows subscribers who cancel to receive 100% on the dollar for the unused balance either in cash or store credit, at their option.

- The majority of the revenues and gross margin dollars come from shoe sales, not subscription fees.

- Easy, online cancellation. Shouldn't it be as easy to get out of the program as to get into it? If not, why not?

[Edit: formatting, again]
Those disclaimers shouldn't be necessary under US law provided we're talking third-party, user-generated content. See discussion of CDA Section 230 in an earlier comment. As a social media lawyer I thank God every day that that section (and DMCA Section 512) exist, because with out them, social media wouldn't exist as we know it in America. Every site of any scale would be sued into bankruptcy within weeks.
Table 12 in the East Village (Ave A & 12th). Free wifi, power outlets, and it's mostly empty during the week.

In Brooklyn... reBar in DUMBO has free wifi, though it's more of a bar but seems pretty dead on weekdays.
Guido's right.

I often forget the trailing colon in conditionals in Python the same way that I almost always include a trailing comma after the final element of a list in JavaScript.

I don't have these problems in Haskell.
Here's one that impressed me: I put on my calendar an appointment for a movie I was going to see w/ the name of the movie. Google Now on that day pulled up a card of the the showtimes and theater info for the theater of the movie that I was seeing. I hadn't put the name of the theater in my appoointment.
Funny. I just started using these.

The assumption that the "toggle" is 50% of the width is hard coded into the library. I went to change it and, holy cow, the code is a mess.

I got it to work, but had to disable the click-and-slide behavior.

Be warned if you decide to change any of its behavior!
Outstanding summary and links. I constantly refer people to the CMLP and EFF sites (as well as chillingeffects.org and Stanford's fair use site) as great references for bloggers and other online publishers.
Helmets are important for inexperienced cyclists and mountain biking, because you have a high risk of falling. But riding around town is a low risk activity and a helmet is unnecessary. We need to learn to distinguish between these scenarios instead of lumping all cyclists into one group.
I would strongly advice against using these. While these type of toggle switches work great on mobile, they can we really confusing on desktop/mobile web: where does one click to change state, which state is active etc.

Matt Gemmell wrote a good post about toggle switches some time ago: http://mattgemmell.com/2011/11/01/on-off-switches/
I'm assuming you're talking about the Think on Mercer. Just to clarify, the Think on the Bowery is much smaller and has no wifi (and last time I was there had a passive aggressive sign about people using laptops in coffee shops).
Lame. Google Voice is free.
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No, it's not doing that because I'm on Firefox Extended Support Release (which is currently at major version 10) and it says my browser is 33 days old.
TDD helps with design problems, not algorithm problems.
Good point. I missed that this was just appeals.
Happier? No. For my uses, both apps are adequate. I do not use maps apps often, and I if do, it is the old-fashioned way: look at the map before I leave, possibly make a screen dump to make sure I'll have some map avaiable on the road, and use that screen dump if necessary to get where I need to be. I will, at some time, miss street view, though.

Reading discussions, I also learnt and verified that iOS 6 location search is lousy (I think it doesn't know enough about statitics, or doesn't have enough statistical data (yet?). If one searches for, e.g. 'central station', it will happily return hits such as 'Starbucks central station' or 'the X hotel, central station' in favor of the actual train station. It should know that, when in doubt, it should go for the most often sought for hits)
1. Read more carefully. I was not talking about infringement.

2. Yes. I acquired a passing familiarity with the US legal system in law school.

3. Again, read more carefully.
Working on a Clojure implementation here: https://github.com/ChristopherBiscardi/Maximum-Clique--Spars...

Have some other stuff to do, will probably finish later.
Not just privacy. Any consumer class action -- as long as AT&T Mobility holds -- can theoretically be avoided by a well-drafted arbitration/class-action waiver clause in the site TOS or other customer agreement.