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> The pins on the plug are deactivated until after the plug is fully inserted, when a wake-up signal on one of the pins cues the chip inside the plug. This avoids any shorting hazard while the plug isn’t inside the connector.

I'm guessing that there's a different mechanism for power plugs, since they have to work even if the device is dead. Yes, there's always a market for poorly made third-party devices, but poorly-made devices have always had the potential to be dangerous -- scroll back to the top, and you'll see a dangerous, poorly-made adapter that manages to be dangerous even though the power is always transmitted from female jack to male plug.
I would agree with that statement. I look at Chrome for desktop and the almost linear month on month growth for 2 years to become the most used browser, IMO largely because they have placement on Youtube/Google/Gmail pages (and of course a decent product). This growth is incredible when they don't have significant pre-installation and unsurprisingly shows the power of having web presence.

Here is Chromes forward march: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201001-201208

But back to G+, over the short term (1 year) I see G+ getting some traction in the professional environmental, much likes Facebook's college crowd. Longer term (3 years) Google will use their massive presence across the search home page, Youtube, Android, Maps, Gmail and probably books/movies/music to sign people up bit by bit until they reach a critical mass where you may as well use G+ rather than Facebook from a reach perspective. Then you have the tipping point where a few features make the choice difference. And I back Google to innovate killer features and build brand preference over Facebook.
Maps-gate, antenna-gate, BS-gate. Every time Apple ships an iDevice, the internet and tech press spin some yarn about a defect in the device, how it isn't a big enough improvement, how it's only smaller and thinner, how it's copying Android.

And what happens... every, single, time? The public buys them in droves, and adores them to the last man.

Apple Maps is both a strong technical flourish, and it's a bold strategy for overtaking the leaders by bolstering OpenStreetMap, and I think that end game is going to work.
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Firefox is currently 17MB. It's pretty amazing that that size includes (off tge top of my head): JavaScript interpreter/compiler, HTML4 & 5 parser, XML parser, CSS parser, graphics engine, layout engine, WebGL, lots of typographical features, plugin API, extension API, DOM, BOM, developer tools.
Or, it may give store owners an incentive to give Coke more shelf space, so consumers can see more names at once.
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Maps is a core function of their flagship product, that used to depend upon a competitor who (for whatever, currently unknown, reason) would not licence them access to a key capability on that function (turn by turn navigation).
Whenever I see this line of thought I always recommend people read Douglas Hofstadter's amazing book Godel, Escher, Bach.

It's almost impossible to argue that art and science are even separate once you've read that.
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Jones Soda has been doing this since the late 90s:

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=200...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Soda#myJones
To be fair though: we could just as well be seeing the results of a contract expiring which to renew Google might have asked for unreasonable terms.

Think of it: the iPhone came out 5 years ago and 5 years is a conceivable contract term, just as it was 5 years for the YouTube app.

When the maps app was initially put on the phone, Google maps was more or less free. Nowadays it is very expensive (a bit better now, but still too expensive for many services out there). Surely not too expensive for Apple, but still.

The best way for apple would probably have been to extend the contract for another year or two to improve their maps service which they are clearly working on for two to three years already.

But maybe it is Google that didn't want that. Maybe they outright refused, wanted to only do it at 10 times the original price for another 5 years or longer, or they might have wanted a patent agreement to stop the witch hunt against android. We just don't know, but the reason for crappy maps could just as well have been Google.

Or as I use to say: why can't they just get along? It would be so much better for the consumer they both seem to put first in their pitches.
Anyone can create a poorly made adapter or a poorly made plug. My question is why would an industry leader put an elementary risk at the forefront of a new technology? The pins should be shielded.

Third party garbage is inevitable, and too often very difficult to tell apart from authentic merchandise. In electrical current even in low amp situations idiot-proof should be the critical part of the design.
Anyone play golf? I love it.

I also enjoy riding my motorcycle, reading literature, weightlifting, photography, and playing Battlefield 2.

I am learning to play piano and chess.
"I don't think rent control has much to do with the rents here." You are out of your mind. There is so much supply that is completely held off the market for decades because of this law. I'm a renter and have lived in SF for over 12 years and I can tell you that this law, along with Prop 13, needs to go away. It's completely constraining supply as there are tons of $700/month 2bdrm apartments in this city and many of them get handed down (I almost got one myself). If rents floated freely, like property taxes should too.. sure prices would go up for a bit but there'd be a normal balance of supply and demand and prices would likely be lower than they are today because now there isn't a small subset of people subsidizing the majority of rent controlled apartment dwellers... and yes I live in a rent controlled 1bdrm in Russian Hill that's $1,600 including parking.
I imagine that this is to keep compatibility with C. And also, this ensures that when a Left value is accidentally read as a Right one, you don't get a "random" bit pattern due to type punning, but a correct (albeit meaningless) value such as NULL.
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Agreed, it may be my age but I think as IT professionals we have a responsibility for the real world impacts of the systems we build and/or run.

I see this as a similar to an engineer seeing a mainstream news report of an unintended side effect of large scale engineering project.
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Thanks, actually I have an investment banking background and looking for advice on where to start learning how to code. There are so many languages out there I have no idea even where to begin i.e. Ruby, Python, Java, C++, SICP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

From my end I can model income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements bottom up or top down. Also know how to model out DCF, LBOs and M&A structures. Can also build out robust models that startups can use in their pitches to VCs when going through the funding process.
They won't make it off the 'new' page if they don't have community interest. If you don't think a particular article is right for this site, then flag it and move on.
Happened and died in Australia already. It wasn't that successful.
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"If anybody knows a study of a problem (preferably real world) where GAs are shown to outperform reasonable forms of hill climbing I'd be very happy to hear it."

GA (specially pseudo-boolean GA) is not a "Golden Algorihtm" that solves every problem as most people think, rather it is a "idea" that was pioneered by Hollad in the sixties, now it's sole purpose is to explain the theoretical aspects of other GA-offshoot Evolutionary Optimization techniques like GP(Genetic Programming), EA (Evolutionary Algorithm), DE(Differential Evolution), ES(Evolutionary Strategy) etc, etc.

I think GP has much more impact in attacking real world problems, GECCO Humies award list has many interesting results where RMHC's may not be suitable -- http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.html
It's also much, much smaller than Apple's images make it seem.
It's funny. I know of numerous cases of borderline corruption here. They may be legit, but they sure as hell run close to the line. I struggle to imaging what happens in a country considered to be 'actually corrupt'.
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It's a really thoughtful article, worth reading all the way through. But while I trust the author is right, I wonder how much is a "grass is greener" phenomenon.

Cadets hooahing in raucous agreement, in what amounted to a collective high-five between current and future Army leaders. The faculty briefings weren’t much different, as we were informed that West Point is the “best liberal arts school in the country” ad nauseam, according to a methodologically dubious 2009 Forbes college rankings report.

...

These cadets all report the same thing: their intellectual curiosity was stifled at USMA in myriad ways. Even while the Dean brags that “we’re better than Harvard, better than Princeton,” most cadets learn to “beat the Dean,” or do just enough to get by academically, with a wink and a nod.

I went to one of the schools that trades off with a few others the top slot as "Top Liberal Arts College", and I felt much the same. It was a wonderful school, with bright students and talented professors, but I too felt that it stifled intellectual curiosity in myriad ways and that the "wink and nod" were the real values instilled. Eventually I left, disappointed with it and with myself.

Did anyone manage to find a place where this was not the case?
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As this government would do absolutely anything to get closer to the US, I suspect you're not right. Even the previous government tried fairly hard (troops to Afghanistan for example), but this time it's shameless.
No i'd argue that your are attributing too much value to the logo and that the artist was underpaid.
That's what we ended up doing. As you say, not ideal and given that we were in a hurry, it didn't get priority for a long time (Since it was mostly futile anyway).

Anyway - Just an anecdote to show that things aren't always that simple.
I know Wintermute is hardly a unique alias amongst tech readers, but your initials aren't 'TC' by any chance, are they?
Both turn-by-turn and transit directions are available as 3rd party apps. Transit directions apps are free while turn-by-turn are fairly expensive (though I haven't checked recently). Despite having an iPhone I still have a GPS in my car, and since I started using iOS 6 in June turn-by-turn has become a staple of what I use the iPhone for. Apple is taking a short term hit in order to serve users better in the long term. Though maybe it would have been wiser for them to wait a year before switching. I expect this problem will be solved in 6 months but time will tell.
Thats drastically overestimating the ability of people to change/adapt.

I recall a comment once made - "statistics is the most important creation of our time, I foresee a future where even the simplest of men would have a basic knowledge of the field."

It hasn't happened, nor will it ever. People are born constantly into this world, and the large amount of development required to get to a point where you have sufficient emotional intelligence is a path littered with mistakes.

By the time you have a cohort stable enough and mature enough, you also have a counter cohort learning from the first obvious mistakes, or arguing against the older group.
I cannot believe I hadn't heard or realised that the Youtube app had been removed! That's insane! Is this common knowledge or has it gone under the radar?
Yeah I thought it was a brilliant success in Australia.
Like the author of the article states - you wouldnt go a day without seeing a bottle in your feed.
It was pretty active for at least 6 months before it died down.

I dont drink coke, but I did enjoy the fad.
The reason he says that a good startup idea looks like a bad idea is that good startup ideas must be hard, and if they weren't, many people would have already done it by now.

For example, if a startup were able to create a piece of software that could take a block of text and produce a summary (not keywords and such, but a real summary that a human would write if asked). I would think that that seems like (and IMO is) a good idea. Here, the problem is how do I do this rather than should I do this.

The problem truly is, "How do I do this profitably?" Sure, lots of problems are hard. But there aren't very many hard problems that are also profitable. In my opinion, that's the greatest difficulty with a startup. It's not convincing investors that the problem is difficult. It's convincing investors that people are willing to pay for the solution.

A historic example rather than a theoretical one could be Googles' basic concept of page-rank. It seems like a good idea (this is not just hindsight, IIRC there are even stories about Larry Paige explaining the concept at the time and people thinking that it was genius). Just, how many people at that time thought of it? Even if people did think of it, it still is a technically difficult algorithm when you take into account the sheer amount of data that it must process. So again, the problem is not should I, but rather, how do I.

Again, you're misunderstanding the problem. Yes, PageRank was an "obviously good" algorithm. Heck pg himself thought of something very similar while he was at Yahoo. But you have to also remember that, at the time, web search was considered a "dead" field. Everyone thought that the future was manually created indexes and portals (like Yahoo) rather than in search. Google's real accomplishment was, IMHO, showing that web search could be profitable. Yes, they couldn't have done it without PageRank, but the new algorithm was only a necessary factor, not a sufficient one.
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As a main Groovy developer, the Jochen Theodorou, that was spoken of above, I think I have to correct the above quite a bit.

Yes, the distribution contains 2 jars now, one for the groovy parts being precompiled with the invokedynamic port as well as the invokedynamic implementation itself and another one. But! The other one is not a static version. It is the normal dynamic Groovy, that was it before. Of course you can use the indy jar and use non indy code as well as you can use @CompileStatic with it. Should there be any problems in mixing indy and static compilation, please report them, they would be bugs. In both jars indy is disabled by default and needs to be enabled on the command line or as compiler option if you want to use it. The problem with having precompiled groovy code in indy simply is, that it cannot run on a pre jdk7. The alternative would be to have no indy precompiled stuff in the distribution and we may take this path later on. So the difference between the jars is, that the second jar has additionally classes for invokedynamic support and precompiles some stuff using indy, while the non-indy jar has no indy classes and is compiled like before. Static compilation has absolutely nothing to do with it. So sorry, but you say above is large nonsense and please stop spreading non-facts and false flags.
Groovy 2.0.4 was released because of some critical bugs in stub compiler, that have been a bigger problem to other projects, that want to release soon a new version.
As for Groovy++. If you want to hear the full story, I will tell it you, but not in public, because I am respecting Alex, but what I would have to say about this, wouldn't sound like it and is not explained in a few lines of code. Let us just say that we had some very negative vibes between us. Him being my boss in the G2One days made things especially bad.

Then about lazy evaluation... the way I know them is for example generators. There is an article on the Groovy wiki on how to make generators using groovy.lang.Closure. I don't think that lambdas in Jdk8 will allow for example partially uncompiled code or non checked code paths until needed. So the will effectively not be better than Groovy in terms of laziness.
Agreed, this is an excruciatingly common viewpoint in my experience with other CS/tech geeks. It's often justified by some variant of "tech makes money, ergo, tech is good". Or alternatively, "tech is objective, ergo, tech is good".
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Would love to check out Vim at some point, however refactoring sugar makes me stick with IDEA.
Every time someone managed to get a custom printed Coke bottle - the proud owner inevitably photographed the bottle for display on Facebook - which of course is the real genius behind their marketing campaign.

It may have been an expensive marketing exercise for Coca-Cola, but being so different definitely grabs headlines.
I was under the impression that in the event your tenant does a sublease when the lease forbids such a sublease, that the subtenant can be evicted at any point with 3 days notice. Is this not the case?
No trial? It's not exactly the kind of app I can test in 15 minutes.
What, you think Chinese people are the only assholes who have riots?

Here's a bunch of mostly white Canadians having a riot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzOUKODdZ4
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I have mixed feelings about errors as return codes. Then again, I have mixed feelings about exceptions.

There are two general use cases for exceptions:

1. Unexpected (typically fatal) problems;

2. As an alternative to multiple return values.

(1) is things like out of memory errors. (2) is things like you're trying to parse a user input into a number and it fails. I despise (2) for exceptions. It means writing code like:

try:
f = float(someText)
catch ValueError:
# I just parsed you, this is crazy,
# here's an exception, throw it maybe?

where this gets particularly irritating is when you start writing code like this:

try:
doSomething()
catch ValueError:
pass

I nearly always end up writing wrapper functions around that crap.

Java is worse for this because some libraries (including standard ones) abuse checked exceptions for this. I actually prefer:

if f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(text); err != nil {
// do something
}

or even:

f, _ := strconv.ParseFloat(text);

for this kind of scenario.

For the truly bad--typically fatal--error conditions and cleanup, IMHO defer/panic actually works quite well. I certainly prefer this:

f := File.Open('foo')
defer f.Close()
// do stuff

to:

try:
f = open('foo')
# do stuff
finally:
if f:
f.close()

as Go puts the two relevant things together.

Don't get me wrong: I like Python too but I do think Go has a lot going for it and has a bright future.
From the article
"Common to both MHL and MyDP is the need for an additional transmitter (driver) chip as well as a switcher chip that goes back and forth between that and the USB transceivers. This, of course, implies additional space on the device board for these chips, traces and passive components, as well as increased power consumption. You can, of course, put in a micro-HDMI connector and drive that directly, that would save neither space nor power."

That's not microUSB becoming compatible - It's having to add hardware inside the device which makes use of microUSB's pins. The Lightning connector seems to push that to outside of the device i.e. make the right cable/adapter and software and you can adapt to anything without requiring support from specific hardware inside the device. At least that is what he seems to saying and it'll probably take some more analysis and dissection (not to mention actual adapters) to support that assertion.
Someone can fix this by creating and popularizing a simple preprocessor that implements a macro called "safely" that expands to something like "call this function, and then if it errors, report the error to STDERR and abort execution". Then just prefix the majority of your commands with "safely", and implement your own error-handling in the few cases where you care.
While you have a valid point, Flutter has some pretty deep and well-trained computer vision code that can't be replicated in a month or two. In addition, even if one app (say iTunes) builds this functionality, users would still want gestures for other apps, which is why a separate gesture-recognition-focused product makes sense. I can see Flutter's core tech being useful (e.g., as an API) for a wide variety of uses beyond video consumption.
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Somewhat related experience in the past few days -
A co-worker who never had known or cared about privacy, all of a sudden asked me how she could change her privacy settings on facebook.
Curious as to why she did it - she said it was because of a friend of hers sent out a chain mail message asking for her to be removed.
I found it ironic, that for those users most at risk of being exposed to lax privacy safeguards at FB, it was the network and social effects that were most likely to educate them in how to reduce their foot print.
I remember installing it for the first time and it felt just right. The other browsers at the time (Mozilla Suite, Netscape 6.x, IE) just felt so bulky.

You could tell right away that this software was going to go places.
"Wikipedia says Genetic Programming is a specialization of genetic algorithms where the objects are programs. I think this is the only thing I have ever seen where the specialization turns out to be more general than the parent."

I think GP is "not only" for evolving assembly programs -- http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.html
Same goes for Australia, there's a high level of corruption in the form of donations to politicians.
Very interesting, it's available from health food shops in the uk, labelled as helping with joint pain. Since I also get a bit of that I'm going to have to try this. Do you have any other links that discuss its use for weight loss?
This plan won't work.. 1 issue...The only person left in the the unit when the rental agreement expires is a subtenant who has not been approved by the landlord.. Which is a legal reason to evict. Also you can not pay rent while being evicted but you'll still owe that rent(plus interest, legal fee's, and allowed early termination fees). Plus because of your stated goal is to 'game' a system; and how you are doing things you are actually perpetrating this little thing called 'fraud'..

Also.. Not saying you are giving 'legal' advice.. does not free you from any legal liabilities. It's fairly equivalent to a truck with a bunch of rocks in the back, and having a sign saying "not responsible for windshield damage".. because the truck DOES have a legal responsibility for windshield damage they are only trying to scare people from suing them.

P.S. My worry if I was Air BnB is if that the attorney general eventually sees there business as fraudulent because they essentially enable so many leasers to do something which there lease specifically does not allow them to do.
Where would you put on this map those places that offer free university tuition then?