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im not suggesting every google apps customer should do this, but if you had purchased google apps through a reseller, said reseller could have helped resolve this issue within a couple of hours, most likely. without a PIN. also, why wait so long to use another domain's PIN to contact support? why not do that on day 1? lastly, if you change your MX records away from google apps, your mail will route to wherever you point it. google looks up MX like everyone else, for each domain. every time you send an email to or from a google apps account, it goes outside of google and then if it is an apps/gmail account and mx is pointed to google's mx, it goes back into apps. only then. could support be better on google's end for normal paying customers? yes. so could every company's IT support. just go through a premier reseller next time. most charge the same price ($50/yser) and include support, especially for issues like this.
It's specific to the iPad. The marker indicating a tap, will show on specific UI elements, since everything is shifting due to the animation. The case is from Google's implementation, not this one.

Not really something we can do anything about - it's an edge case.
That's cool. I think my first computer-related job was circa 1984, when I worked for Vera Molnar and her husband. Some of her art is in that archive, but there's more at http://www.veramolnar.com/diapo.php?y=1984.

All I really remember is being asked to draw triangles on the screen; an amazing interactive computer graphics simulation of a beach that let one adjust sun position and wave direction with knobs; and that I don't think I was ever paid; I don't really mind.
I'm not sure what they are suggesting here. I see five applications with a similar looking startup screen and a music and video player with very basic controls. What is Documents supposed to do ? Let you edit any kind of document (good luck with that) ? Is this a viewer ?

Having essential applications follow a set of UI guidelines is nice, but it's hardly revolutionary, and it sounds like the goal here is simplicity. Unfortunately, it's often the case that something too simple turns out in practice to be useless. In any case, it looks the target is people with a lot of screen real estate to waste.
It's actually about services. By having services like Xbox music, video, and live come bundled with the system they're trying to increase subscriptions and purchases. Ads no doubt will play a role but this article exaggerates it.
Apple has a big big problem
Boosting selects successive weak learners for the same classification problem, but under a changing distribution/weighting of the input space. Deep learning stacks complex models to create increasingly abstract representations. All I can really imagine them having in common is (1) they're both families of machine learning techniques and (2) they both (roughly) involve a collection of models, albeit in very different ways.
I really think this issue is overblown. Someone could literally use the Weather app for years without realizing there's an ad in it, for instance, because you have to scroll way over to the right to see it (past the daily forecast, the weekly forecast, the hourly forecast, national weather maps, and a historical weather chart). Since I typically care about the local weather over a short period, I never see the ads in the app.
The article is pretty clear about what the author considers to be the price: doctors are less able to give personal treatment and more likely to burn out and want to retire as early as they can. (Whether you agree is another question, but the article does provide this evidence.)
This reminded me of the future of the television in the Idiocracy.

https://montevallotimetravel.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/idi...
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Don't forget Office 365.
No. It seems that hospitals are paid on a per-patient basis while individual doctors are paid on a per-procedure basis. Unless I misunderstood the article.
Link to the academic paper.
"Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176246
The article is quite incomplete. The highest price is the opportunity cost of doctors going into billing instead of doing clinical work - especially for hospitals

I can say first hand that there is an extremely lucrative business-opportunity for physicians to go full time in billing - using domain knowledge and a careful study of the billing schemes to increase financial returns.

For exemple, what if you could identify the patient cases where manual recoding has the highest probable financial return, and compare individual returns to the cost of the human resources you have at hand (from medical coders to physicians) - to assign the best human resource to each case?

In a highly complex case, recoding by a physician who perfectly knows the coding and billing rules can easily double the value billed.

So for a >200k case, it can be worth having a physician spend 20 minutes carefully studying every aspect of the file, aided by specific software modelling the possible billing scenarios.

If you add some programming knowledge and statistical knowledge, all this can be easily automatized, and make even more lucrative.

A full industry is created, based on exploiting the arcane artificial rules imposed on the system - just like for taxes.

The real problem here it that it takes doctors, for which the next best alternative use would have been doing clinical work on patients.

I guess a society only gets what it pays for.
I think culturally, Hinton made a big splash and got people to pay attention to learning hierarchies and SGD-like training algorithms. Algorithmically, though, SGD is both ancient and still the dominant deep learning training technique (though useful tricks, extensions, and rules of thumb keep accumulating)
It might if they're only using their own ad network for those ads, and competing ad networks are not allowed to get inserted in there. They would be leveraging their OS monopoly to push their ad network.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong about them only using their own ad network, and not allowing developers to choose other networks for their apps.
It's really hard to emphasise how important identifying those moments when you're productivity starts to wane actually is....

I'm sure so many of us have this mindset where we all think we are indestructible, mentally and physically, and burning through the nights to be that guy who "gets shit done" is as important as shipping your first line of code.

When I was a lot younger, I couldn't identify poor code even during my best hours, so I could happily burn through an all nighter, but after years of experience you get that wisdom to be able to notice when you aren't switched on. For me, this is usually at about 8pm at night (after working for a full 12 hours with minimal breaks). You start to notice that your concentrate flickers and something that should have taken 15 minutes has actually taken you 2 hours and it's now 10pm (and you have fifteen tabs of HackerNews open).

Do yourself a favour and just stop. Come back refreshed. Whether that is in an hour, or even a full night. Unless you have some insane deadline that doesn't depend on code quality, it's inadvisable to ever burn through it... because ultimately you are wasting time that could be better used on recuperating your faculties!
The main issue here is email. That is one egg. You're misfiling.
Oh, you mean the ones that voluntarily work these jobs to escape their dismal lives of subsistance farming?
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Yes, that's exactly what I mean.
Here's a list of 55 users by Micrypt of some of the people who have been in/visit #startups/HackerNews:
https://twitter.com/micrypt/startups-freenode/members

There's also a list of Twitter users who are most followed by the HackerNews Community here:
http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-b...
For years (years), this has been the obvious configuration to me for a laptop. Very happy to finally see it happening in a credible offering.

Not obvious from the pictures, but at about 6 minutes into the video it shows th screen completely flipped around flat in tablet-only mode.

The only improvement I'd make is to have the optional sleeve that covers the keyboard in tablet mode be somehow integrated with the unit, maybe something that slides from the bottom and then flips around to cover the keyboard. Otherwise that sleeve will either be lost or left at home.

Now what's left is to have these things more mainstream, and then gain Linux support.
Doesn't this amount to the same thing ?
However it pushes the store part in your face constantly even if you do not desire it, which is a shame as the DLNA stuff works well.
How Japan handles long shopping lines
DBN?
There's a big difference between a company providing bad service on one occasion, and a company actively blocking someone for days or weeks.

Don't imagine a restaurant providing the wrong food, burnt, and still charging full price. Imagine a restaurant taking the customer's iphone and keeping it in a safe for a month, employees ignoring them and telling them to leave. Are you really going to see many stories like that on Yelp?
If a customer asks me a support question that takes 10 minutes just to listen to (that's $1 right there), it's "game over": unless they go on a massive buying spree to get maybe a hundred programs from my store (unlikely), I have now permanently lost money on their account.

Support is part of the cost of sales and needs to be factored in. So if you get a lot of support calls, you need to either raise the price to accommodate or you need to eliminate the need for support somehow. Either way, making the support experience worse for the customer is a terrible support cost cutting tactic.
> The Xbox music store serves as both a music player as well as a music store.

Yet it's called the "Xbox Music Store" making it very clear where their priorities lie. iTunes is iTunes and can also access the iTunes Store. It's not "iTunes Store, Play Music Also".

> I don't consider showing content from the store as advertising.

Many disagree.

> Is iTunes also "a big advert"?

Nope, because the line between the iTunes Store and iTunes is quite clear. It ends when you click that "iTunes Store" link in the sidebar. Up until then, you'll see no advertisements or artists promoted.

Is the iTunes Store a big advert? Definitely. However it's a store, most are plastered with advertising. That is normal.

Ads in your music player isn't normal. If you're willing to accept it, that's completely different and entirely your prerogative. Many others feel they already absorb plenty of advertising and aren't interested in providing new avenues to reach them, especially ones through products that they paid for.
maybe it depends on how you view the specs, but I think what most people mean by HTML5 is the full spectrum of new features outside markup that enable app building, ie. filesystem API, Websockets, web workers, webgl, etc, which is to no where near getting a 90% coverage even by using tons of shims/libs. just browse this site to see how far along HTML5 is: http://caniuse.com/
That is correct. The problem is that the gradients get smaller and smaller as you back propagate back towards the input layer. So learning on the front part of the net is slow. Hinton has a lot of good material about htis in his Coursera lectures.
They even put ads in Minesweeper. Minesweeper!

I used to pop open Minesweeper and play a game in 30 seconds. Now it takes 30 seconds to get through loading screens and all this "Xbox live integration" crap. I hate it. Who really wants "achievements"? I just want a fast loading game that I can throw on a USB stick.

For all the improvements they've made in the Desktop space, the direction they're heading with Metro is so awful for power users.
This is not the case, hospitals are also paid per-procedure.
Microsoft has its own SDK for Adds in Apps, but I am not sure whether other ad networks are disallowed:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506371(MSADS.10).a...
Ask HN: Has anyone else seen this Facebook phishing attack?
Take a look at this: http://www.facstatim.com/login/clien.php

I've been getting a strange notification from some of my friends on Facebook recently. It says "x has invited you to try 'update facebook security'". If you click that notification it takes you to a blank Facebook app which immediately redirects to the link in this post.

It is clearly a clone of the facebook session timeout page and is designed (as far as I can tell) to harvest users/passwords and spread itself. After you enter a user/password (even fake credentials), it redirects you to another page to take your credit card.

My friend actually fell for the first part of this and some of his friends have now been sent the notification.

I'm not sure about how to report this sort of thing to Facebook but this particular attack appears to be very convincing since it's not at all obvious (to most people) that the target site isn't facebook.

I've had a look at the root of this particular domain and it appears to be completely harmless. Strangely enough, when my friend got the link, his was on a completely different site, so it looks like someone has gained access to multiple sites to deploy a version of this scam.

If anyone knows anything else about this I would be very interested to know more.
Clickable: http://www.facstatim.com/login/clien.php
Dealing with someone close to death's door is one of the most painful things that I have ever gone through. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who knew Mark.
Something about FOSS...
Sorry about this, and I am probably flogging a dead horse, but I am just getting the details right here, that's all. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Per his own admission, he didn't attend both Boston and Berklee, but switched from Boston to Berklee, he barely attended class and did not finish college (see video above), and he did not answer to the question, "Did you major in music?".
Deep Belief Network
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Deep_belief_networks
No, Gnome apps(Documents, Music, and rest of crap) are not following siplistic philosophy, they are followitg easinest. There is huge difference between easy and simple.

Gnome alternative for KISS - KIED (keep it easy dumbass)
I needed to reset my Comcast password, the support person asked me what was your last password? and he was upset that I didn't tell him/her! unbelievable,
I took the opposite route. A startup I worked for got acquired by Google LA. Instead of joining Google, I jumped to another startup and experienced the most stressful 4 years of my life after that being a founding member of a failed startup that went on for way too long. :/ but.. I would do the same thing all over again.
You can chose any ad network http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj19359...
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So they're making net-near-shape parts in lieu of castings so they can: 1.) get different part properties (lattice structures), 2.) so they don't waste very expensive materials that are often blocks of unobtainium with 95% machined away...

You're right - it's going to be very difficult to get high tolerance parts using any method of 3D Printing. Don't say never - but isn't not as close of the koolaid machine would have you believe.
You should remove the word "randomly" from that sentence, since it's anything but random.
FWIW, the OP seems to be equating "sole proprietorship" and the disregarded entity status of their LLC. As such, the liability cautions you make might not apply directly to their situation.
i'm using carbonight now because i'm a boring person
I'm predicting Metro's primary home screen will switch over to M$ ads within 3 years to match the XBox.
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I have been contacted by a rather large and visible prospective employer two months ago. The head hunter seemed to like the "problem solving" angle, actually, but I guess my spoken English wasn't as "good" as my written English.
Most of the 'ads' in windows are actually just promotion of those services, or content available through those services. It's something that every other commercial OS does with their first party apps - iTunes is full of promos for iTunes content. But an article titled 'Windows 8 is about services' doesn't get as many pageviews as 'Windows 8 is about ads'.
That is not really handling long lines -- that is people standing nicely in queues.

What would be interesting would be to compare how long these people stood in line to how long they would stand in western systems. Given that western people are famously impatient (and that shopping centers know this), I am guessing that ours are better optimized.

But, yeah, its a strange feeling looking down on all those humans -- almost as if you were looking at a bunch of really well trained sheep.
Spot on.

Plus we already paid for the operating system. Taking ad revenue on top is just fucking greedy.
Not to belittle your point, as it is a rather amusing anecdote, but Lady Gaga came to prominence in 2008 almost 4 years ago. In 2008, my older relatives from the rural midwest where still trying to figure out e-mail. Now, they all have facebook accounts.
You're talking about Adaboost; general boosting can use any models and the only idea there is that it adds new model to fix residuals of the current chain. BTW "increasingly abstract representation" is a perfect example of this meaningless PR ANNs are built of.
If this interested you, consider checking out the book A New Kind of Science by Wolfram. It describes tag systems, and a hundred other things that are similarly cool and fun to play with.
Remember when software with built in ads was called adware and we had to install special programs to get rid of it?
Yes you can.

Check out the publications by Ciresan on MNIST, have a look at Hinton's dropout paper or at the Kaggle competition that used deep nets. Or try it yourself and spend a descent amount of time on hyper parameter tuning. :)
First off, this isn't a pivot. They're expanding their service. A pivot is moving in a new and different direction.

Secondly, they are not the first company to make a misstep, and if most of the comments are regarding the ability to search by airport name, that is a fairly minor issue to resolve I'd hope. Particularly if they had the feature previously, the back-end might still be there and they'll just need to update the UI.

This isn't 'horribly wrong', decisions need to be made, they just made the wrong one. I doubt this is sinking the ship.
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Here's a page from Oftel (the official UK regulator of telecoms).

(http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/oftel/consumer/advice...)

> When do you stop paying for a phone call?

> Call charging ends when the telecoms company disconnects the call. This is usually but not always when the caller hangs up and the call appears to end.

> Voice calls The caller originating the call must hang up for the call to end. The person receiving the call may hang up, but this will not end the call unless the originating caller also hangs up. Only when the originating caller hangs up then will call charging end. You should always check you've replaced the receiver correctly. If you have any concerns that your call has not ended, you should check that you have a dial tone - this indicates the previous call has ended.

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Here's a story from the shitty Register about this method of scamming people:

(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/19/phone_disconnection_...)

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if you go into settings, you can change xbox music to open directly to "My Music"

Xbox music has actually been one of the highlights of my overall negative Windows 8 experience. The free streaming service has a fairly extensive library.
Well yes, if you have a _really_ dumb editor that makes keyboard navigation clumsy as hell, then you are faster with a mouse.

It is just like that if you go into the jungle, you are faster on foot than in a Porsche.
> "If it's harder to attain these things, how are more people doing it?"

By going further and further into debt.

How quickly do we forget? The crisis of 2008 wiped out millions of people who were mortgaged up to their eyeballs just so they can own a home. Real wages have been stagnant for years (and regressing in many parts of the country) while home prices continue rising. People are leveraging themselves to extreme (and unwise) levels just to afford the same house their parents comfortably bought with a single middle-class income.

The average student's debt load at graduation has also increased precipitously over the last few decades[1].

Economics and debt is at the root of these frustrations. The affordability of people's futures has decreased dramatically, a trend that was masked and softened by irresponsible borrowing and lending. But now that ride has come to a stop and we're faced with the reality that, for the majority of America, even people with upper-middle class incomes, the lifestyle of their middle-class parents seem downright unattainable..

[1] http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/student-debt-load-dee...
It's very frustrating hearing someone walking around when they think they've disconnected but they haven't.
About all that can be said in response is that if true, your experience will be treated as a bug report, and promptly assigned to someone to fix.
> whether it is the means to share holiday photos [...] or play that new album you just bought.

"What happened to just starting Emacs?"
In theory v1.0 of socket.io will fall back correctly if blocked, as it will be based on engine.io. This is what I last recall, as I've had other problems with socket.io and clustering - I've just moved on to pure engine.io going forward (and loving it).
I was going to say exactly this, metro screen is a way of transitioning the same way the Xbox UI has.
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I do, like, 40% of searches in my language, so it is still a lot of work. Anyway, language recognition is actually pretty easy nowadays, especially with the amount of data DDG has from crawling -- if they care about foreigners of course.
No.

Deep learning is not about fixing the residuals of the current chain. Deep learning isn't even about residuals in the first place. It's about (1) finding good representations of your data (aka feature learning), (2) then adding a discriminative model on top and then (3) tuning everything. There is no relation to boosting at all.
I hate to be that guy, but here's what I think

1) Most individuals here who want to monitor just 1 campaign don't have a strong brand. So there's very little value added with your app. They'll search for their brand on Twitter once a week to see the handful of mentions they get.

2) The BIG brand names already are using a platform like Hootsuite or SproutSocial to take care of everything social-media related. Which allows them to monitor their brand throughout the entire web(not just Twitter). As well as view analytics on their followers. And schedule messages.

IMO, your app is simply automates the process of searching for a brand name on Twitter. The categorization of the mentions into support questions, complaints, etc is not a huge value add, as most users will want to view all of their mentions, and don't care what bucket they fall under.
All these changes from the traditional Windows DE to this new thing they have with Windows 8 prompts the inevitable question: What are they going to do for corporate and businesses? Are they going to try to push the same interface for the typical office working environment?
Minesweeper? Really?

Hopefully, the people who laughed at Gabe Newell and Notch for being "paranoid" are starting to get it now.