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Just to clarify, the idea of video in the browser wasn't novel. Your implementation was novel and might even have been the first instance of the general idea, but the only way you could claim such an obvious idea as novel would be to have invented the browser.
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Point taken.

I didn't write about it to whine, I wrote about it to plant the idea that AT&T should have some stricter requirements from Apple.

Apple has had a profound affect on my life and my way of thinking. I've had some emotional experiences with some Apple products in the past. I consider that a gift. I think that shouldn't be undermined for anything.

If the rep was encouraging and shared in my excitement, imagine the change in sentient from this one small change.
And here's an open source, self hosted solution: http://www.whoopsapp.com/

It only takes about a minute to set up on heroku, and it can store whatever you want, not just exceptions.
Sci-fi, scifi, sf, speculative fiction, science fiction, probably more. He can call it whatever the hell he wants, it's all valid.
What a lot of people are missing is "the market" can't grow faster than "the economy" over the long term. There has been a huge influx of money into the stock market as an increasing percentage of people hoping for historical returns. Causing people to chase after ever lower returns. It's gotten so distorted that the 'smart money' practically ignores growth in favor of other games.

HFT is the perfect example of this as they don't chase growth. There goal is to tax cash flows and market inefficiency. So, they leave low churn stocks like Berkshire Hathaway alone in favor of cheap stocks with a lot of turnover. If you keep your stock for an average of 10 years then HFT is meaningless to you. But, with hedge-funds often doing quite a bit of trading they can extract money without you realizing your trading.

In the end it's yet another reason 401k's are growing a lot slower than many people predict. Sort of like how people expect the economy to 'recover' when it was what there remembering is an unsustainable bubble.

PS: And of course Dividends are something of a special case in the above analysis.
sorry about the format, i'm intentionally trying to not so much to be accessible as to reach certain people who might already know. i'd like their feedback.

you are completely right that it's hard to peg the shift in present-wealth without a crystal ball, which nobody possesses - moreover, the future isn't even written.

so let's give you the crystal ball - it jumps wildly between valuation your net-present at a few million and hundreds of millions and sometimes billions and sometimes tens of billions and then millions again. it's useless.

but suppose that it is quite consistent that the idea is worth at least $20 million in net-present.

so, in this case - what is going on here when you, an only "competent" coder, are coding the idea yourself? Why would a millionaire code at a quality he could barely sell in the market (not being a coder), and which is just enough to show a prototype which gets funding, which gets the ball rolling, which... (all the things that lead to the net-present jumping between $20 million and billions, but never lower than the former).

So, what is going on here? Why is the person working at $0/hr producing work that's worth maybe $3-$4/hr? (buggy poor-quality spaghetti code php with no source control, for example.)

He is also directly losing a wage he could be earning elsewhere.

what is this behavior? What is going on here?

one answer could be, couldn't it, that he's producing low-quality, poor labor, because he has the chance to buy a chunk of a high-quality idea with it?

i mean, i personally know of a lot of stories of hundred-million dollar exits that started with an idea that the founder started following up on by-

- doing poor-quality accounting and business founding,

- poor quality legal research

- poor quality coding that had to be thrown away after his company was bigger

- poor quality biz dev that was mostly spinning company's wheels

a lot of other things of very low quality...

... but of quality just high enough that the idea pulls the company through, and his preconceptions can be changed by high-quality lawyers, his code is thrown away and rebuilt by real engineers, his b2b attempts are repeated by someone who can actually push deals through, his logo is replaced by a real logo that doesn't make you laugh, and so forht.

so, what just happened in this whole last example? what was the beahvior that led to it? (in abstract, theoretical, technical terms).

i want to know why he's buying his own low-price, low-quality labor, and why this works.
"Apple’s marketing strategy these days is essentially 'hold off on the advertising, just sit back and let the media go hog wild.'"

What a joke.
Interesting that google is stepping into this space.
The mensa application is not an IQ based threshold per-se (or at least, not anymore). They basically take any standardized test, and the thresholds are top 5%, not 2%. So mensa just means something like a top 20 school. Seeing the variation of output of even the better half of those schools, it sort of lowers bar for the "Brand Mensa". The 150ish IQ threshold (public imagination) would be a bit more strict in many regards.

http://www.us.mensa.org/AML/?LinkServID=005EB3F7-B83A-44BA-B...
" 'Never Quit.' What a spectacularly bad piece of advice. I think the advice giver meant to say 'Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment'. Now that’s good advice."

That's fantastic.
>This has nothing to do with lawyers

>which has everything to do with politicians

Most of them start out as lawyers. Coincidence?
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The stats across a number of large Australia media entertainment sites I was involved with earlier this year were between 1.5% to 2.0% mac chrome users from january to march.

Uniques over this period were between 2-3 million.

I'm part of that small percentage although I'm trying to change to Safari!
I think the most recent discussion here about 'blame it on a rogue employee/contractor/etc.' on HN revolved around Visa in Brazil: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396414

The problem is, this strategy/dark pattern works.
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"Forced" is something that has degrees. When we replaced private pensions with 401k's, and when we got rid of the firewall between commercial and investment banks, we made it very difficult for anyone to not invest in Wall Street.
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I'm pretty sure AT&T does have strict requirements from Apple, and that this one retail employee just dropped the ball or has some (also understandable) distaste for the iPhone-as-fetish-object ritual and is just choosing to opt out of it.

A carrier's experience will always be inferior to an Apple Store experience. That's news to no one.
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Very interesting article, thanks for the read.
Apple does gain from the release events, but they have a huge advertising budget and run some of the largest known campaigns.
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I'll gladly manually merge in this case. It doesn't scale obviously, it's more novelty than anything else.
It's been done to death. Just as with Deepak Chopra or climate science denialists there is no need to outline every argument at every point.
Axiomatics are entirely arbitrary if you will. Thats the whole point: I restrict myself to some basic rules only because that allows me to show other potentially useful things, consequences and applications.
> The fact that an MITM or XSS can completely undermine this

MITM and XSS are problems with many Web APIs. There are already countermeasures for MITM (e.g. TLS) and XSS (e.g. CSP). They are too difficult to use, and we need to make them easier to use. That is a parallel effort.

> outside of the secure RNG -- a definite good thing

The cryptographic PRNG is actually the enabler of pure JS cryptography. If all browsers provide only the cryptographic PRNG, then we'll see people implementing crypto algorithms in JS for sure. I would rather we provide them with (native code) APIs that guarantee maximal protection against side-channel attacks.

> As long as the server controls how the building blocks are put together, what keys are used and when, etc, the trust model is broken.

Even if these crypto APIs are less useful for normal web page use, I expect them to be an improvement for (packaged) installable web apps. We are planning on packaged web apps being protected by digital signatures (at least in Firefox OS) and having a default CSP that prevent the execution of any external scripts.

Still, of course it would still be up to the application developer to do all the other things that are necessary for their application to be secure--whether it is using cryptography or not.
Everything is black and white when you've only heard one side of the story.
It's not about entitlement so much as don't piss off the people who add value to your platform
Ironically the kind of measurement he would appreciate as sound science.
First off, great article/read. My only suggestion is that on your "TL;DR", you should add "(pay them)" to your "give a 2-hour challenge" part. You mention that in the article, which as a designer, I completely agree with. I would just make sure people don't read only the "TL;DR" and think you meant spec work! :)
>He describes his new theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers.

So is this On Intelligence 2?

I'm glad he's figured out how the brain works. He's going to need it to solve the turing test in less than 17 years:
http://longbets.org/1/

On a serious note, if you're going to have a "Videos" page on your new book's website, you need to have more than 2 videos (3 and 6 years old). If your argument is that technology is progressing at an exponential rate (which I find stupid, but let's take it at face value), then two videos from several years ago are probably worthless by now.
Probably the /sigh because it looks like a great framework if the problem you're trying to solve is to build the simplest possible TODO-list app.
"The media, when it’s functioning properly, should protect the public from marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things."

This may be true, but had media ever "functioned properly?". Nearly every media outlet generates far more revenue from advertising than from viewership/subscriptions. So of course the media is beholden to the marketers.
Fun observation: Ramit is fond of using the word "gamut" to describe his experience. In both this post and the first one, he uses the word at roughly the same point in the meeting to describe roughly the same idea: going from $x/(unit of work) to $x0000/(unit of work).

Some google-fu and http://bit.ly/OJALPO It seems to be a word he likes and uses well.
FWIW a street view 'type' car (differential GPS, 360 view camera, drive train encoding, wide band celluar/wifi scanner, and 100 TB of on board storage is significantly less than $40,000 these days. It is easier if you're just pulling ground data (no need to optically stabilize the cameras).
For those into stats / infographics, we've created one. http://blog.exceptional.io/site-news/exceptional-infographic...

Some fun facts; half our customers are outside the US. We processed 145 million unique errors in the month of July.
Why not [1 2 3] and {foo 3 bar 4}? Clojure gets it right. :)
“an app that any competent programmer could probably whip up in a day or two”

You must tread very, very carefully when using those words. Being programmers does not magically admit us to a complete understanding of every detail of a piece of software. If you’ve ever delivered a product, you should know that what the user sees is only a fraction of the whole—even if the user happens to be a competent programmer. And if you consider yourself such a programmer, why not try replicating their software from scratch, if it will really only take a day or two?
You're thinking of complex numbers.
In the past, they had the "Google Election Center API" which provided at least some of this same data, but it's been deprecated and will soon shut down. So it's not that they're stepping into this space, it's that it seemed like they were about to step out of it but instead they are expanding their efforts.
Develop for status.net then? They don't have the user base, but if you make a killer app that runs there but not on twitter, well, you'll still win. If not, it's twitters fault they will fail when all 3rd party devs get new projects.
have you tried clojurescript
I would like to learn to write games for the desktop and then try to write one, one of the traditional desktop games using C++ and something like SFML. The game development field has always intrigued me.
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Vimium is awful compared to pentadactyl.
Huge only in the sense that a billion dollars is a lot regular people...Apple spends a fraction of what its competitors spend. Plus up until 2011 I think they spent about half of what they spend now.
I'm the fellow that's sooo tempted to add another 50 books to be read. But, that's an incredibly detailed list and more than enough to last. I will highly recommend 2 books though.

Anathem, Neil Stephenson. Have read this book at least a dozen times now.

Lilith's Brood, Octavia Butler. This is one of only 2-3 books in my life that made me physically uncomfortable at times. It's not a happy story, but very well done. It'll make you think and feel.

(3rd book)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy. Dark, stark, brutal prose. Not strictly sf, but is in an apocolyptic setting.
I mean it in the naive sense - we can observe the past but not the future. It definitely makes sense to paper trade a strategy and see its predictiveness in real time.
On the last question, I find it really interesting to note that the nth root of i will have n solutions evenly distributed around the unit circle. (As will any unit vector.) So for the cube root of i, we'll also have -0.5√3 + 0.5i and -i as solutions, which are located at 5π/12 = 30° + 120° and 8π/12 = 30° + 2 * 120°. (On another note -i * -i * -i = -1 * -i = i. It's so simple and yet not obvious unless you do a lot of complex math...which I do not.)

Read about the roots of unity (solutions to a^n = 1) to see the same concept in action. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_of_unity

It all comes out of the properties of rotation. We can first show that there are n nth roots of unity. It comes down to a^n = 1 -> a^n * a^n = 1 -> (a * a)^n = 1, which effectively shows that any multiple of the angle represented by a will also be a solution. If you use the full fledged exponent formulas, it's easy to see that there will be only n of these. Then if b^n = i (our case), b^n * a^n = i * 1 -> (b * a)^n = i. So adding any of the nth roots of unity to b will get a new solution for the nth root of i. Since one of the roots of unity is always 1, aka an angle of 0, we will only get n-1 new solutions from this. Hence there are n solutions. :)

EDIT: New here, didn't know the markup cues would interfere with my equations.
I appreciate the need to have parens to remove ambiguity and for something like an AST it is a very concise expression. It just seems like there are common patterns that could be abstracted out, such as the code at the bottom of this lispyscript example[0]. Every new line gets a open paren, LF + tab indicates another open paren on next line, otherwise LF is a closed paren. Again, I'm not a lisp guy (could you tell?) and maybe this is just because it's a js variant and not pure lisp code.

I appreciate when languages don't make me insert/edit/move over/count/deal with/etc. more characters than necessary. Maybe there's a good vim setup to do that already - that would go a long way to alleviate my concerns.

[0]: https://github.com/santoshrajan/lispyscript/blob/master/exam...
Discovered this when I visited YouTube in incognito mode.

javascript:document.cookie = "VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=u8uWhAyPa3U";
There are lots of ways to extract rent from the system.

I've read some stories where a pension / 401k plan was placing a large trade and HFT was able to detect it in progress and make money off the transaction. Look up front running, placing bids and withdrawing them, etc.

Even if you trust your investment manager, there are shenanigans going on in the system. The stock market isn't what it used to be.
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I'm really surprised Ryan Holiday made it on HN.

He's intentionally controversial - that's his strategy.
I have started reading the story of i:

http://www.amazon.com/An-Imaginary-Tale-Story-square/dp/0691...
Which will be fine once Android starts supporting Java 7.
Great site! Thank you for sharing.
Well that's good and well for an individual or a small group, but the classic case for patents is in things like pharmaceuticals. A patent protects someone from reverse-engineering something that a company may have spent years perfecting for hundred of millions of dollars.
Yup, Other Days. Crypto is a great book. Not really better, just different. I'd also recommend Reamde very highly. More modern, action thriller but definitely a Stephenson novel.
Thanks for writing :)

I actually just forwarded it to one of my partners.

His reply: "Is that a hint? JK. Good read man."
Well, Kurzweil did write a book called Age of the Spiritual Machines. And he does think he's going to be able to live forever and essentially reconstruct his dead father. And he does take 150 (previously 250) supplements and 10 glasses of alkaline water per day. And he did write a nutrition book about avoiding fat, particularly butter, organ meats, and eggs.

So I'd say there's more than a passing resemblance to the master of woo himself.
According to the docs, (array 1 2 3) and (object "foo" 3 "bar" 4) works, too.
> Can I ask what the point of enabling websites to create vulnerable cryptosystems is?

You yourself noted that Javascript, not this API, is the enabler of vulnerable cryptosystems in web apps.

Also, sometimes you want to implement a vulnerable cryptosystem. For example, imagine a PDF viewer or a Microsoft Word document viewer that wants to be able to view password-protected (encrypted) documents with acceptable performance.

> What are the applications that would not be possible with a high-level "envelope" interface that are key use cases for the Web Crypto API?

I have asked this question quite a few times. The responses are that the model you and I have in mind doesn't fit the model that certain applications want/need. Also, the people working on this are people that are used to programming in C with CAPI, PKCS#11, etc. So, it shouldn't be surprising that the API will look a lot like a Javascript transliteration of CAPI, PKCS#11, etc. in the end. Finally, I think some people perceive it as being easier to standardized "Javascript PKCS#11" than it would be to standardize several high-level "foolproof" APIs.

Please also see my other response(s) in this thread.
Thanks for the recommendations. I've personally read them all, but could go for a re-read of Anathem.
Can someone please also do this for:

1. Matrices, especially matrix multiplication. Unlike matrix addition, multiplication is defined in a very weird way. I think I understand where it is coming from -- defining it that way allows representing and solving linear equations. More insights, however, would help.

2. Dot and cross products. E.g., the magnitude of dot product in 3D is a.b.cos(theta), while for cross product, it is a.b.sin(theta). I never got sure what happens to other combinations like a new "vector" product whose magnitude is a.b."cos"(theta)?

3. How is a set and "belongs-to" operator defined? Most books I have come across just assume these (and later define natural numbers and addition from them).

4. Why is 0.9999... considered to be "equal" to 1. I understand them to be equal "under the limit", but not without. This seems to be in my way of understanding Cantor's infinities.
There are some cases where it's perfectly fine to not have to release the data, like if you, as a company make a map of how much each store makes in revenue, and you want to use OSM. You should not have to release internal, confidential sales data.
Apple has to start at some point with its own maps. The trick is that these will be lower quality in the beginning but only with time they'll be able to incorporate user data and get better. The longer you delay the later you'll have better maps.
Given that the Pentagon now sees cyberattacks as "acts of war", I wonder what the public response will be.
Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books and recommend it highly. I felt less thrilled by Anathem however. I absolutely loved the first ~200 pages, but was disappointed by the rest.
As far as I know. Honestly, by use/require/refer-fu is not very strong, I always just use the ns macro.
An USA. USA doesn't have 'sweat of the brow' aspect of copyright, so it's debatable if a 'collection of facts' (i.e. the OSM database) could be copyrightable in the USA.
Apple spends less than Microsoft, but it is almost entirely on a single product (the iPhone). Product for product, Apple's marketing budget is immensely larger than other similar companies.
Easy: they bought their own freaking satellite.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/08/first-google-satelli...
I agree that they have no reason to listen. In all likelihood, no single thing that any one person can do is going to get them to care at all. It's more about the collective voice and reiterating that you can't treat your developer community like crap.

Even if Twitter never listens, if this (or anything I write for that matter) causes anyone to think before they make a poor policy decision for their dev community, then I'd be a happy camper.
> someone willing to buy now for $50 beats someone willing to buy a second later for $51

We have misinvested countless millions on a system which produces the wrong answer, optimizing for millisecond latencies which benefit neither companies needing capital not investors providing it.
If they use OSM, they have the actual map data. That's all OSM produces...
Cool, but could do with shortening the 'function' keyword. It's just too long for the amount it's used.
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I disagree. If huge product failures/not-quite-scams-but-might-as-well-be keep happening, people will loose faith in the Kickstarter brand. This is them protecting themselves, and their community.
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What I get for not penetrating further than the examples. Yay!
"fanboy" is a cop-out term that means that you aren't willing to accept that someone else has a different experience and opinions than yourself. By using the term "fanboy" you are very clearly signaling that you are discounting anything and everything the "fanboy" says. This is the textbook definition of close-minded.

Far more often, the person slinging the word "fanboy" is the person who refuses to accept new ideas, to accept that other people's differing opinions may be just as valid as their own. This is what close-minded is. And quite often, the person who is tarred with the word "fanboy" is in fact quite rational and has good reasons for their opinions, and may very well be open to differing opinions. But you'll never find out because you immediately labelled them as a "fanboy" and shut down the discussion.

And thus, the simple rule. Anyone who uses the word "fanboy" is not worth listening to.
Wow. This is a great piece, even though I realize I've been guilty of just about every single thing they say NOT to do...
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