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>If you don't understand the difference between "Windows 8 ships with its own app store and it is not an open platform anymore" and "Because Windows 8 ships with its own app store, it is not an open platform anymore..

Then why mention them together? Again, I don't see Valve giving apple a hard time over their decision to make the app store the primary distribution method for Mac software.

>The vast majority of Valve's users run Windows, so it only makes sense for them to be worried about the drastic changes with respect to app distribution in Windows 8.

You mean the addition of a store that doesn't really change anything? Steam runs on 8 exactly as it did on 7. Again, Apple had tighter integration and more coercion - which is why I said this sounds like FUD. Their concerns are inconsistent.

>Who said anything about getting exclusive titles?

I did, because what I'm trying to imply here is that Mac/Linux is not a serious gaming platform until such time as publishers would even think about considering making exclusives for it. Until that time, there just isn't enough penetration for it to matter.
It's cool and all but, if it's not included in the box it's not a feature. It's an optional extra.
Good points, but those would be improvements for people who have more volume.

As I indicated, tests of revenue (including LTV) are significantly harder to do. Also segmenting data makes it more work to interpret, and means you need to collect more data to draw conclusions.

If you have the data, by all means do it. If not, then try not to be too unhappy that you can't do it yet.
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Isn't cutting off at some confidence level on the 'do not do this' list for A/B testing? So far I understood that you test until you reach a predefined number of conversions, and then you check your significance to see if the result you obtained is valid. Not until you 'hit confidence'.

See for instance: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html

Is there anybody here that can shed some light on this?
Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling.

Yes they do. It's just not automatic - you tweak it in control panel to suit your preferences.
"Lame duck" usually refers to holding a position (such as an elected office) for the short while after a successor has been chosen. I'm not sure the phrase fits this headline.
Obama's Secret Weapon In The South: Small, Dead, But Still Kickin'
This is so damn timely! Thank you so much, I will definitely be using this.
With LTE everywhere comes bigger data allotments. It's very easy to get 10/10 Mbps with LTE.
I Don't Give a Damn About Getting Into YC
Just wanted to add Customer.io, which is a similar service we have been evaluating. It'll be interesting comparing this with that.
Random House and Penguin to Be Combined
A good friend of mine is trying to solve the food desert problem in inner city Rochester, NY. It would be interesting to see food desert data overlaid with this data as well. It's obvious that Manhattan is not a food desert and one can easily get fresh produce. Not sure about certain places in the Bronx or Queens though. It would also be interesting to see gentrification as a contrast.

-edit- on an iPad now so can't see the flash based map, but data can be found here:http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-desert-locator/go...
It can work either way. They could lower their prices, because otherwise people will move from Apple to the cheaper devices.

On the other hand, if the price conscious consumers move to competitors, they may raise their prices (because only people willing to pay a premium are interested anyway.)

Empirically, their are many examples of competition leading to lower prices. But the entry of low cost generic drugs have historically caused the associated branded drugs to raise their prices.

It's hard to predict which way it will work in the tablet market.
Mali-T600 series - The new Nexus between Graphics and Compute
What I like about LTE is the decreased latency (rather than the higher peak speed).
Ask HN: Does it make any sense to sort HN comments by time
While sorting posts by time and votes makes a lot of sense, sorting comments in that same manner seems wrong, perhaps even counter-intuitive (e.g., a new, perhaps inconsenqeuncial, comment becomes prominent just by merrit of being new). Shouldn't comments be sorted simply by votes?
Only if it actually generates growth. Ask me in a day :)
In all seriousness - just sharing what we learned. We learned a lot from HN and we definitely want to contribute also.
He's saying sprawl+wealth, I think just wealth. There are rural rich areas (Napa, Boulder, etc.) which have fewer fat people than places like Birmingham, AL.
Windows 8 is like a bad blind date, Google search suggests
Palm got rebuffed because they masqueraded as an Apple product. The USB-IF understandably didn't like that.

It won't be "harder for Apple to stop" Microsoft because Apple is unlikely to even try to do so. Apple has a documented method for accessing the iTunes library (RIM and others used it). Even if there were not an approved way to do it, the database is in XML so it should be relatively easy to work with it. Why Palm took the route they did mystifies me.

So what will Apple do now, you ask? Nothing, more than likely.
I think they're trying to say it's a bit complex and not clear-cut and simple.

That's to say that you can have thin poor people in India, for example, but obese poor people in the US. Likewise, one can have thin people in Manhattan but obese people right next door in the Bronx.

Maybe it's exercise, diet (somewhat wealth/culture dependent) and other factors. However, the high intake of sugar-laden food is probably not something we would want to discount before knowing more.
I'm not "anti-union," but frankly almost all of the issues he complains about are supposed to be things that the union helps with, especially professional development. It sounds like the whole system is falling over in that area, not just the district and not just the union.
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Yes, it's probably somewhat frustrating to be laid off by Google and then later receive recruiting emails. But Google is a big company. The right hand doesn't always know what the left is doing. Or maybe the recruiter thinks you really do want to come back to the fold. Who knows.

It's pretty unfair to blast Google for "eroding" the public domain, fair use, and consumer rights. Google has been a champion of all three of those things, unlike some other companies I could name.

Does it really matter if Google+ doesn't support anonymous comments? It's not like there's a shortage of places online to make anonymous remarks.
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How is that different from Apple streaming only to OS X / iOS devices?
Keep in mind that if we only have 30-60 minutes together, I'm going to be putting forth a lot of energy in determining if you are even worth working for or are just another bozo boss/company. It is just as risky on my part as it is yours. That doesn't leave a lot of time to think about any challenges you send my way, no matter how easy they may be.

It feels to me like such a process tries to shift the power towards the employer, to make it seem like you would be lucky to even have a chance to work there and focus the time wholly on the business needs, when it really should be a mutual discussion to see if both parties feel it is a good fit. Passing your test with flying colours only to find we are a terrible match is just as damaging as hiring a bozo to begin with, no?
Make JavaScript Testing Fun With Testem | Nettuts+
Valve seeking beta testers for long-awaited Linux version of Steam
compliments of http://twitter.com/dn0t
So, once you've assimilated what everyone else is doing, do 90% of what the successes did, and 10% be bold and brash and overwhelmingly different so as to feel both familiar yet new.

Basically, the same formula as the KLF discovered (now) decades ago.
My eyesight isn't great, but I can't tell the difference between the resolution on my "retina" devices and resolution on other screens. Can most people tell the difference?

If not, this marketing and competition on resolution may be distracting us from issues that have a bigger impact on our usage experience.
Meet Bower: A Package Manager For The Web | Nettuts+
Yes - Ruby's internal workings are very mysterious to most people. While the C source code behind Ruby is open source, it's hard to read and understand for most people. In Ruby Under a Microscope, I explain how Ruby works internally… without assuming you know anything about C programming.

Why study Ruby internals in the first place? Here are my reasons (from the book's preface):
- By studying how Ruby works internally, you'll get a deeper understanding of the language and become a better Ruby developer.
- You can learn a lot from the Ruby core team. There is some amazing stuff inside of Ruby, and Ruby's implementation might help you while solving your own coding problems.
- It's fun! It's just super-fascinating stuff!

I learned a lot of stuff about Ruby usage that is not documented. You can read more in the book… :)

Thanks for your interest, and for asking!
Yes, which doesn't make Google any worse than most companies, but does mean it has regressed into the meaningless, incoherent, parochial grey glop that is standard corporate working life.
A good example of this being used is Facebook. Click a picture in your newsfeed, get a popup. Even though the hover shows a URL.

Command-click it to open in new tab, as expected.
Shameless Plug: Kytephone (https://www.kytephone.com/) adds a de-facto multi-account support to any Android phone or tablet running 2.2 or above.

It's aimed at adding accounts for kids and while it's not as extensive as the baked-in one (kids can't have their own gmail account for example) it does come with goodies such as time limits for games.
Agree...an improvement would be to add a transparent arrow on each side and only advance/go back when the user clicked or held down on the arrow. That probably exists already...
great starting point, I wish to have a tool that will show me internals of an unknown app.
Creating a Product and Learning from Mistakes: Entryless Style
Entryless, a tech startup focused on developing an Online Accounting Suite for Bookkeeping Automation has found itself making headway in the automated accounting market. This is mainly due to CEO and Founder Mike Galarza’s humble and relentless attitude to approaching a tech startup. He is happy to help other startup founders with his advice and advocates developing products for specific markets and fixing mistakes when they occur. His advice is to instead focus on product development for a specific target market, it guarantees demand when the product is ready to launch.

http://blog.foundersnetwork.com/2012/10/creating-a-product-and-learning-from-mistakes-entryless-style/
Show HN: Tuner.io - Look at the lyrics and sentiment in popular songs
Phishing mail offering free version of Windows 8
I assumed the CCI itself was some sort of RIAA/MPAA arm. I guess not?
Philips hue app-controlled lightbulbs debut exclusively at Apple stores
> Here's my educated guess: both poverty and sprawl correlate with obesity.

As long as it says "correlate", it is merely an observation on data. Easily verifiable but not very useful, maybe as a start for forming a proper hypothesis about causal relationships. Such a hypothesis would obviously be much harder to verify.
Good luck if Samsung thinks they can strike it out on their own without Google Play, Google Maps and Gmail.
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Indeed an honor for a select few. The correct Motto for your friend would be "Touch Me Not" and a good greeting/acknowledgment/goodbye would be "Hooah!"

Semper Fi, while a good Motto and applicable, is the Marine Corp Motto.

Hooah!
I read it the same way as you did, that math is the best-case area for standardized testing. Thus my point: If standardized testing leads to this kind of 'driving out the good' in math, where it's most easily and effectively used to measure performance, what does that mean for less-well-served areas?
Looks like memorization to me. Looks like the questions are formulaic, and that students are expected to memorize both the formulas needed to answer the questions and the formula that the question itself follows. Sure, a student who actually understands the material will pass the test; but a student who does not actually understand the material can pass too, and will have an easier time doing so.

If you accept the notion that computer programming is math, then these tests are about math: you could write a computer program that uses some basic pattern matching and symbolic manipulation to pass those tests.
This is actually a pretty cool plugin, but save the blogspam and give the actual source: https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim
I think it's worth noting that in that regard, Google Plus, with its 'circles' grouping mechanism, is very good at respecting one's privacy to whatever degree that they wish and are willing to put forth the effort to implement.
3amOpsGuy, is there any chance I could email/contact you somehow regarding some ops advice? thanks!
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Standardized testing is just the application of the scientific method to education.

That's not true in any way.

The purpose of the education system is to create a well-informed citizenry prepared for a productive life and for the duty of running a country.

The goal of standardized testing is to get some very rough metrics about superficial, easy-to-observe aspects of some basic parts of the apparatus.

The two are very tenuously related.

If we were applying the scientific method, we wouldn't be doing things like national, uncontrolled experiments that assume that basing major decisions on those rough metrics will result in improvements along the axes we actually care about. And then acting as if those metrics tell us everything about one aspect of the system, teachers, because that's where the political focus is.

Applying the scientific method would involve formulating hypotheses and then testing them through lab work and field trials. That's what we do with medicine, at least some of the time.

Heck, we could start by testing the hypothesis that getting everybody to focus lots of classroom time on standardized tests improves actual education.
For games, I'd definitely recommend the NDK, which lets you write cross-platform code with OpenGL. Or just go with Unity and C#.
Killing the Computer to Save It
It doesn't matter what Apple or Google fanboys think, consumers have real choice in the Android market.

Some phones offer LTE, others have a removable battery, provide expandable storage, are waterproof, have wireless charging or even hold two sim cards. It's great!
Beeminder Integrates With Trello
I didn't say that Jim engineered the card reader - I said that Square credits Jim. I linked to this paper, but I do not think you explored further:

http://news.priorsmart.com/square-v-rem-holdings-3-l3t2/

It is a filing by Square about the patent you mentioned that is held by Morley. Square is filing to have McKelvey added to the patent. Thus, Square as a corporation associates McKelvey with the device's invention, not Jack.

All of the points you make were implicit from that link.

PS - I'm a student at WashU, did you graduate from here?
Most of us have been to public schools. We have direct, first-hand observations about the quality of teachers.

I had a few stars, most were just getting by, some actively sucked. From everything I've ever heard, most people had the same experience.

It's not like we're talking about something none of us know anything about. We've been there, seen it.
On Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreements
The mechanism for doing this is a total hack on Django's ORM. We build a bigass list of all possible JOINs and concat them together:

some_model__another__title
some_model__another__date
some_model__another__description

You select which fields and values to use, and then we can just dump them into a queysets' filter or exclude method using python's lovely kwarg expansion.
Your search for the bottom ten percent will put in place mechanisms that will affect the behavior of the remaining 90.

You underestimate the ability of people to use such systems to end up enforcing a stifling uniform and grey mediocrity.

Turn it on its head - if you switched the voting on HN to find the worst commentors, instead of bringing the best up top - what would happen.
I was just going to make a comment regarding Customer.io. We've been using them for a few months and are very pleased.
Teachers work 9-months out of the year.
Here's the site: http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2011/12/22/the-teach...
Personally I think these anti-discrimination laws are likely fundamentally flawed.
> You're entitled to your strategies. Why do you have to push your strategies on me?

Not me. PG. The principles I'm trying to adhere to on this particular forum mirror PG's. He set up the forum and asked that people be "civil". His word. You're the one wants something different to that [1], not Raganwald. And if you now say you support civility but reserve the right to redefine it, you're straying from the dictionary definition:

(Synonyms: civilian - polite - courteous - civic - mannerly)

> I'm pretty sure what Raganwald considers civility would be considered by most Hackers to be a lame net nanny kind of censorship

I don't know anything about Raganwald or his principles. But his post got 650 upvotes. While I'd never claim that proves "most" HN-ers prefer his position, you're making claims about him, the perspectives of "most" HN participants, most hackers, etc...entirely unsupported by proof. And you're redefining words to suit your argument.

[1] "Why are you so fucking hung up on civility? What is it about you that can't handle a little incivility?"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709310
I don't have that clear a picture of the mobile landscape over the past couple of years (since the last time I was in the market for a phone), but has this not consistently been the case? I remember hearing as far back as 2010, "Specs aren't everything, android fans are obsessed with numbers". The price of course is rather new, but to my memory, this latest comparison really seems entirely in line with the last couple years of the smartphone landscape.
Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
Why does it bother you that others care about getting into YC? People have different understanding of our world and their positions in that. It is fairly legitimate for them to express what's on their mind and their feeling about their actual priorities.

Having said that, I think you shouldn't care much about getting into YC. One size doesn't fit all.
The "relatively" qualifier leaves a lot of wiggle room, but how are you comparing the educational system?
I didn't see a list of DPI aware applications at the link you gave me, is that a typo?
That's an interesting viewpoint that I'd love to discuss more. I disagree, obviously, but want to know why you feel so strongly that statistical thought is intuitively impossible?

I feel like it's closely related to combinatorial thought. To again steal an example from Papert, he often talks about asking children to count the numbers of possible pairs of colors of marbles given to them. With some formal training it's easy to visualize and pare down to the right information, and it's also easy to visualize the process. Given a variety of colored marbles, I imagine you could easily estimate the magnitude of colored pairs possible. Children cannot and must learn to think that way at a certain point.

In the same way, conceptualizing uncertain events in the larger space of things that could happen and becoming familiar with the extents and limitations of the casual models we all use is a way of thinking that takes a great deal of effort (today) to come to have, but feels intuitive once you do have it. I believe that there's nothing inherently impossible about teaching it if the appropriate tools are available.
I don't really have any interest in dealing with Unity (to me, it's not programming) or C++. I generally use libgdx for messing around/prototyping. I'd be more likely to go to Mono than the NDK, though that too is a lot of work.
Heh, thanks :) But i'm not :/ Anyway, it was already a good deal in the first place, i'm not gonna complain.
Yup. Different is not always wrong, but different-and-worse is.
Take what Michael Church says with a grain of salt. I was around to observe his threads on the eng-misc mailing list while he was still at Google. Without his consent, I'd rather not say what went on, but I would advise you to get your information elsewhere.
$230 is closer to $250 than $200. Memory plays tricks so probably that was the figure I baulked at.

And note that I paid $26.44 shipping + tax on a $249 base price, so somehow my shipping was significantly cheaper than yours.
Not completely true. The metro app developer will still have to include pixel art at varying resolutions since these do not scale automatically very well.
We do a hybrid model where we augment the public fare with a parent organized "auxiliary academic association" (once a week classes).

Also, any parent that wants to be involved with their kids education should check out Odyssey of the Mind (getting kids on teams to do creative problem solving. Fun!) -- http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/
It's goal isn't to be a fully featured CDN, CloudFlare is a whole suite of tools, use what you want, if you have something better use them with CloudFlare.
That just sounds like an easy way to rationalize your counterargument while avoiding being shown the error in your thinking. If a comment is worth disagreeing over, it is worth explaining why you disagree, otherwise nobody learns anything. Save your voting for the quality of the writing, not the arguments being made.
Or "pattern recognition" versus "model building".
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I think it makes sense for Google because the more devices they have in the wild, the more advertisements they can serve. Also, the more data they can get from users (location/maps/statistics). And I very much doubt that they are selling these at a loss. More like breaking even.
"Windows," if defined as "the windowing library", does. Even Explorer doesn't work correctly at 200% DPI scaling (you get a tiny nav bar and a really long search bar). It's junk.

What's worse is that VS2012 is nearly unusable because IntelliSense explodes all over the screen. I have many sads when I have to deal with that on my rMBP.
Even then it will have to make economic sense to switch. After all the equation is not x > y but $n using tech x buys more computing power than $n using tech y.
Obviously I'd set the random generator up such that it operates within the rules of the mp3 specification and only creates valid mp3 files; I don't think that detracts from the experiment.

Storage space is the only major limitation here. With current computing power I could easily have random mp3 files spat out at an alarming rate, such that it wouldn't take too long (I'm guessing a matter of months) until I managed to produce an infringing file this way.

I could probably speed the process up by teaching the 'random' mp3 generator certain patterns to pursue; fade-ins and fade-outs, repetition, etc. Again, I don't think these detract from the substance of the experiment.

It's kind of like teaching someone to play a sport; you show them the rules of the game, and a bunch of 'patterns' that players tend to adhere to. Eventually, they'll make a sequence of movements, lasting 30 seconds or so, near enough identical to that performed by a famous sports star.