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You obviously have no experience with the devices in question, and your generalisations about other cultures are ignorant, at best.

Cleaning yourself with water, whether it be your hands or your butt, is not a "fetish" and I cannot comprehend why you would try to paint it as such. Why are you so scared of the idea that you'll go to the extreme of trying to dismiss it as sexual deviancy? Your argument says a lot more about you than it does about the topic at hand.

And for your information, used pantie vending machines in Japan is basically an urban myth. There may be some in fetishist sex shops, I'm not sure. I'm sure you can buy used panties in American fetish sex shops, too.
...accredited schools hold a monopoly on the American education system.

Puzzling—is it not MIT OpenCourseWare? Perhaps its success is owed to its association with the visible, well-known brand.

Coursera on the other hand: Maybe a few adults have heard of it. We should wish them the best, but much more than accreditation would be needed to legitimize online education.
I see what you mean, that AT&T's income does not scale with customer usage, though AT&T did lose (existing and potential) customers due to their network problems.
It was the brands who sent the fans there via multiple marketing channels (TV, their website, etc), who updated the content for fans to have, etc..
The frameworks that AFT uses are open source if anyone wanted to make a better one :P

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libmtp/

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libusb/

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libusb-co...
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Seems the guy who stole the domain is trying to undo his damage and possibly hand the domain back (likely due to the negative attention this is bringing him). He posted this to his Twitter account a few minutes ago:

"we've already had this conversation. The DNS was changed in preparation to hand the domain back to Steve. You all jumped the gun."
https://twitter.com/MrADeveci/status/268837555129167873

"DNS propagation can take 72 hours. The domain was transferred about an hour ago. It was transferred to another UK registrar."
- https://twitter.com/MrADeveci/status/268881716876300288

UPDATE: Seems he really has handed the domain back now?:
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-re...
Totally agree with the poor experience you state. I went through college and I was appalled how much you paid for it and how inferior the teaching methods were versus the best things I had seen in High School or other places. On top of that, while most teachers were all credited researchers in their fields, they had no idea whatsoever what it takes to pass knowledge to their students (for most of them). This was really utterly disappointing and I am now a believer that online education can do better and without the "noise" of the classroom (where there are always a number of distractions).
The workflow I use is to have my library code in a folder outside of the unity project, and add a build target in visual studio that copies the produced dll into various unity asset folders. Definitely not ideal, but it works reasonably well.
Same here! I am utterly unenthused by the stated mission but I still hunted down every possible point just because they were there. Great game mechanics. I guess I'm just a sucker for ratings.
Sony sail flew for far to long on the wind of expensive, high-end TV's. TV's have become cheap, commodity items where "high-end" can now be had for less than $1000, and Sony has not followed up its leadership in the TV market with any other market in a substantial fashion (the relatively niche Playstation market notwithstanding).
I can only find a bunch of sites passing around an unsourced quote about London. Please don't gossip, can you remember at all where you saw this idea or how reputable the author was?
I agree with you that the spread of fanaticism will vary per user who's liked a page. I disagree that Facebook isn't trying to see how much they can charge to let brands get access to these individuals who maybe have a slight interest - whereby these 'Likes' could have been gathered on a separate platform that wouldn't now manipulate the fluidity/friction that exists with reaching all of those users.
I worked at Sony until about 18 months ago (European TV Product Planning and Business Development getting content onto the TV Internet platform).

This data makes it look like it could be going down quicker than I thought but it did have major problems and no clear route through them.

I think a lot of the engineering problem is that now the growth has gone there isn't large amounts of fresh recruits bringing new ideas. It also isn't THE place to work anymore which it once was in Japan (think Google 8 years ago levels of cool). The engineers are now mostly managers and outsourcing large amounts of development (particularly software to India). Manufacturing is outsourced so the benefits of having deep understanding of production and being able to optimise the products for that just isn't there. These combined outsourcings may be essential for short term survival but rob further from capability to differentiate and innovate.

Exchange rates are also killing Sony (and the other Japanese manufacturers). Massive proportions of their costs are in Japan and inflexible but their income is significantly in dollars and euros. They would be much better off if they spread their costs to regions where their income is.

The end of CRTs removed Sony's price premium in TV and Samsung at the high end and LG at the low end are brutal competitors in an industry where no-one is making money. However it is almost impossible to escape the TV industry as that would completely kill all the Sony franchise retailers (and with it a lot of other electronics sales) and any potential position as an entertainment platform/gateway company. It would also be a big admission of defeat and a lot of jobs would disappear.

A lack of real leadership has been a core problem but I'm not sure there is any way to fix it now.

Don't get me wrong many of the products are still really good and even competitively priced but that doesn't mean Sony is profiting on them. In TVs I think the processing on the mid-high models is better than most competitors and the internet services are pretty competitive but there is a lack of nimbleness and imagination to really take a lead in anything other than picture quality. The PS3 is a good value product these days.
But of course, the profit margin on consumer electronics is (orders of magnitude?) lower than that form online advertising.
Is this for real? Wow, I'm sure a lot of rock star coders will hang there.
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Samsung: Settle With Apple? Hell, No
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=cs61a
Obama Secret Order Authorizes Cybersecurity Strikebacks
This looks really good.

What would be awesome is some kind of reverse tethering - use my computer's Internet from my phone connected to the computer over USB.
I've been waiting for this for a very long time; works perfectly. Thanks!
Misfit Wearables launches "Shine" activity monitor - "the size of 3 quarters"
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Brand pages are content for users, and it keeps people on Facebook instead of seeking out the brands and interaction elsewhere. There is no reason brands need to be on Facebook. If it now means being charged $3,000 to temporarily reach 1 million fans (and who knows of what quality level or fanaticism level) then they may question if it's worth it to them, and they are starting to. These brands who built up millions of likes on Facebook could just have a different system, that doesn't need to be connected to a central platform.

They are doing it the wrong way, though I don't care to help Facebook so I won't comment here as to how they should be doing it.
Take this with a grain of salt, but I vaguely remember some moment when everyone was talking about the announced ability to export to Flash, and a question mentioning HTML 5 or WebGL came up: their (unofficial?) response was something along the lines that they would do whatever it takes to be on any platform they need to if there is demand. I feel they have proven that they really care about wide multi-platform availability, with efforts like their "Union" program and availability on console and mobile platforms. This recent move to support Linux shows that also. If WebGL proves itself to have a large critical mass of developers asking for it, I bet they will very very seriously try to do something. I can't speak to the difficulty of such a move, or compare the actual results of their Flash exporting efforts, but I don't doubt they would do it if it was reasonably possible and there was demand.
Loyal EVE vision believer here; what do you mean? Can you back this up with links and examples?
Speaking in general terms… IMPO responsive design is flawed with the same paradigm flaws of "print design ported to the web". The one size fits all approach, in the case of print to web did not work. And I think the beta design has these issues in the "web design ported to mobile". Print, web and mobile design have characteristic that do not port over to each other. Have you see the new usatoday.com they seem to have the opposite problem, mobile design ported to the web.

Speaking to the redesign… I agree with what others have said… what am I supposed to look at? Everything on the page is calling my attention. When I scroll up and down, I'm not sure if I missed a box. It also seems that the page should be flipped, larger squares on the left, smaller on the right.

In contrast with the current design, when I scroll down, I immediately know if I missed a post when I visited 2 hours ago.

To be honest, if your traffic/engagement numbers go up, who the hell cares :)
If you live in SF check out the bathrooms in the Viz/New People Cinema on Post St -- they have these fancy contraptions. Maybe catch a movie while you're there, too :)
No worries, appreciate the feedback. Codecademy is aimed at beginners, we're focusing on experienced devs. HackerRank provides challenges, whereas we're promoting interactive competition.
I agree that there are needs open source software doesn't tend to fill. The question wasn't "does open source solve all software problems?", though. It was "does open source need altruistic contributors in order to succeed?"

Maybe more altruism would make Gimp fit your use cases, but I doubt it. Some work just won't get done without a profit motive.
Also, the term organic vs. non-organic -- the posts that reach a person's feed, organically, is set by the algorithm Facebook determines; It's not so organic.
I've never been a fan of the idea that programming be treated like other professional work like Architects or some such where people are held liable for accidents resulting from their work, but at the same time, I'd be very much down for some public shaming of people that implemented unsalted, or even salted, MD5 hashing for password storage.

You should know better or you should know well enough to stay away from security. It's like the people stumbling into a mailing list and asking "How should I write my own password hashing function" alongside more-or-less, "How do I do string comparisons in this language". I let out a whimper as I read that post.
That was fun! Hope to see more soon.
Gist.io: http://gist.io/4076068

Edit: Uh, why downvote? Not complaining, just curious; I have done this before for plaintext articles and will do it again, but only if it's welcome.
There are Blue Bottle franchises and Blue Bottle cafes - notably Mint Plaza (off 5th), Ferry Building, and Linden Ally (also Emeryville @ their roast plant).

Mint Plaza, their flagship cafe, is modeled very up-scale and is about the enjoyment of coffee. The tables are not laptop friendly (narrow), no power, and just like all their other cafes, offer no wifi.

I heard one of the owners/managers explain it was because drinking at a Blue Bottle coffeeshop is about enjoying the coffee and the experience, not an alternative for an office
I agree with this comment: "But, and this is a huge but. The taxi experience in San Francisco is horrific - easily the worst out of any city I've ever lived in, and by a wide margin to boot."

So how would you envision ripping apart such a system and replacing it with something better? If you are like many people you might say "Oh its freakin' impossible, we've got regulatory capture, crooked politicians, back channel relationships, this will never change." But if you don't just lay down and give up, you do cause changes. That is what Uber started.

But what is interesting is that you start by 'drawing fire' and that exposes these relationships and it forces some of the people in dubious positions to go full criminal or not. One of the weirder things I've learned about large organizations is that there can be 'unwritten rules' which are maintained by people who would rather not be seen as being in control, and so when you start pushing up against them you get this sort of anonymous push back kind of thing. If you do the 'right' thing and ignore the push back then these same people start exhorting their control points to "do something" and that is when the 'drawing fire' part starts.

These companies are handling this exactly right so far, call their bluff. Tell the CPUC "Hey, either give me a rule that I'm violating or go away." and since there aren't any rules really, just people with influence who wish there were rules, the ones that they try to use against these guys don't work well. Time to start watching the bills in congress for some small amendment to some random bill that says "Oh, and if you offer a ridesharing service you are a transportation services company." tacked on to something which gives money to farmers or something. Then suddenly (if you weren't watching for it) you'll get hit with "Well you are violating this Federal Law which just so happens to have been written earlier this week/month/year." But that exposes the congressional rep who is on the playing board, so you go talk to them and figure out how to make supporting this stuff be more useful than opposing it. And then there will be a newspaper report about how some guy offering rides actually has a criminal record about a mile on long and oh my god if you used one of these services instead of a "real" taxi you might be delivering yourself into the arms of a psychopath! And then there will be attempts and DMV regulations that say you can't offer rides in cars that are older than 7 years old. It goes on of course.

It is a symphony of sorts, all the various folks trying to keep the status quo, protect their turf, etc. And this is what it sounds like.

FWIW the noise level indicates success on the part of SideCar, Lyft, and Uber.
Actually South Asian toilets have water cleaning as well. For the squatting ones, which are becoming less and less common, people use mugs - for western toilets, there is a flexible faucet that you can use to spray. So no. This is not a fetish. At least not one that is restricted to just Japan.
Do not view. It has a popup that acquires complete control of your browser -- at least it did on the iPhone.

Please flag this link to oblivion. It is spam.
since it's a bit easier to erase some pencil than it is to start again in Photoshop.

Not for me. I use a Wacom (with Illustrator, not PS, but same diff) and flipping around the the pen to erase is really no different from using a regular pencil. Except way faster.

Since I can use layers and selective editing and save off versions I feel much more relaxed doodling and exploring this way. It's trivial to save the interesting ideas while obliterating the crap.

If I really wanted to start fresh, select all -> delete is quite fast.

The big wins for pencil and paper are: ease of transport and accessibly (much simpler to carry around a sketch pad and some pencils); the tactile feedback; the resolution.

Much as with using a word processor vs. a typewriter and some Wite-Out there are interesting psychological differences at here, too.
Uber also has extended their service to include some real taxi drivers in San Francisco (which would have a normal taxi license)
I wish I could see the whole leader-board or how points were allocated so I could improve my score. Otherwise, very nice job.
Since you mentioned Jeckyll, I also want to mention Octopress, which is based on Jeckyll http://octopress.org/
It's not really free distribution though. People are on the internet, and Facebook is on top of the internet; People aren't stuck on Facebook. I disagree with the importance to Facebook of having brands integrating with Facebook. A 'Like' button on a brands' website is extremely valuable to Facebook's brand, to strengthening that ecosystem, etc. - and is one mechanism the brand used to promote Facebook and getting them into their 'live newsletter.'
Looks pretty good..can you post some contact info to your profile? I have some questions about what you guys do when you design websites
Ah, I just have to say I loved that I could just start doing them. No sign up, no email or anything, you just gave them to me. Wonderful.
Thanks for the tip. I read the docs for mogrify just now, but it says it overwrites images and I don't see any option to change that or add a different output path. The need here is to take a source image from a folder like drawable-hdpi, and produce a new, converted image in a folder like drawable-ldpi. I guess maybe you could copy everything first, then modify it? Although that seems more clumsy than just running the find command already being used. Thanks for the help!
trailing stops limit your risk to a percentage of your initial investment. Its the same thing as with purchasing a stock. That investment can also lose all its value overnight. Its less likely to happen ( less risk ) and its also less likely to really increase much ( less reward ). All options do is scale up the risk/reward.
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Ask HN: Legalspeak - what does Amazon mean with this statement?
Amazon updates its "Product Advertising API License Agreement", the new version being effective 21st November 2012.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/agreement-changes.html?ref_=pe_173690_26827400

Refreshing the content of this agreement, I noticed the following passage:

"You further acknowledge and agree that our rights in the Product Advertising API, Data Feed, and Product Advertising Content are of a special, unique, extraordinary character, giving them peculiar value, the loss of which cannot be readily estimated or adequately compensated for in monetary damages."

What is Amazon's intent of putting this passage into the agreement? If monetary compensation isn't adequate, what then?
Not only that, it's pretty pathetic to be susceptible to an injection attack anyway.

Though, I suppose it would be easy to find a hacking target based on which services email you your password in plain text if you forget it.
I think that maybe the problem was that engineers were encouraged to aim for the next completely wow gadget and become the father of the next Walkman, Playstation... And too little emphasis and reward for progressive minor improvement and polish removing rough edges (particularly in software). I think when software became more important and hardware less Sony didn't have the right balance of people and didn't do enough to adjust it.

I worked in TV Product Planning for a long time. There was virtually no contact with the content arms. It was remarkably hard to work with them even when we wanted to. If anything while I was there there was too little co-ordination and collaboration and too much of different parts of the company fighting or just going in opposite directions.
I have my first child coming in a couple weeks and this is the type of stuff that I'm going to love showing she or he.

Awesome
Being able to see what it was without dicking about with authentication was great.
Minions: a fast parallel ssh tool written in haskell
I love the story where the creators defined a Lisp interpreter in Lisp, and then one said, "you know, we don't have a Lisp compiler, but I could compile this source by hand." It's quite an elegant concept when you accidentally create a fully-functional interpreter overnight.
Another advantage is that technically the Android Market will let you upload multiple APKs for a single market entry now as long as they are only compatible with different devices. So it is possible to post a different APK for each density class using compatible-screens targeting...
Chicago options market goes nuclear, files $525 million patent suit
Get a generic art history book , study a ton of design from other designers, make a shit-load of bad stuff but keep on going anyway, and you'll be a better designer.

You won't really know what you know until you apply it. You will likely suck at it. Doesn't matter. You'll suck a little less at it next time.

"The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Tripp
Microsoft's IE Chief: The Browser Is Only as Good as the OS It Runs On
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It seems that previous owner of the .com domain has handed it back to Cyanogenmod already (probably due to the unwanted publicity):

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-re...

They will stay with the .org domain though, and have the previous .com domain redirect to it.
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You can do similar existential types in Haskell:

{-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification #-}
data Foo = forall a. Show a => Foo a

[Foo 10, Foo "blarg", Foo (Foo (Foo "str"))

However, I think having the extra constructor there is very important. If you were willing to overlook extra syntax and the behavior of the type, then even a normal tagged union starts to look like sub-typing!

In fact, in practice, that's exactly what you use where you would use sub-typing in a different language. There are some significant differences, but I'm sure you can see a parallel.

There is also an intuitive parallel between existential types and normal tagged unions. The existential type is somewhat like a way to create a tagged union for an unbounded number of types. This naturally means it can't actually be tagged--the tag loses its meaning and you now can't recover the type of the contents--but in practical terms they're similar.

As I said, thinking of it like sub-typing is a pretty good intuitive guide (although it might lead you astray sometimes). I was just being pedantic; there's something about formal semantics and type theory that just raises the pedant in me :P.
It shows a before and after of an attractive young woman, then throws a popup at your browser -- impossible to navigate around without giving them the demanded "ok".

I'm trusting Apple's closed garden here and hoping I didn get hammered.
I've completed every point-granting action I could find on the site and I'm at 4029. 2528 of that came from linking my Github profile.

I assume that component scales based on the usual GH vanity metrics. The person atop of the leaderboard (https://github.com/joho) has 700+ 'stars' between his 70+ GH repos.
That is incredible, wasn't expecting much.
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I'm not sure I was clear. In the cases I'm discussing, society has made an explicit deal with a group of providers within an industry. Essentially that deal is: purchase a license, run your business this way, charge these prices, etc., and we'll protect your market.

NB this does not apply in equal degrees across all industries, and your horses -> cars example doesn't qualify.

In addition, note that I was agreeing with you that the transition, on the whole, is definitely desirable. I'm only arguing that there may be moral consequences in not upholding society's end of the trade I describe above.