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I made the mistake of presuming the GP was contributing a substantial comment. This was not the case. In that case, he was not trying to pretend that three singular cases were representative of a trend.

> False data is still data isn't it.

No, it is not. Data has to come from reality. False data does not.

> Many fields use self-reports as a central part of their data gathering.

Yup. And then they recognize the potential errors this can introduce and have systematized ways of reducing them. For instance, surveys and questionnaires have to be carefully designed so that the self-report actually reports what we want them to report, and can be usefully synthesized into numerical data. Interviews are distilled into impressions and discussed or replayed with a colleague to mitigate bias. Repeatability makes sampling errors harder to remain hidden. Methodologies are written up with exacting detail so that they can be scrutinized and criticized when there's any doubt.

Over and over, they make up for the problem of anecdote and readily admit that their data can be faulty if an assumption is not recognized and accounted for.

> The worth of particular data needs to be understood, for sure, but this chastising of people presenting anecdotal information needs to be reined in IMO.

I am going to chastise people who pretend that their single cases have wider implications than the specific case they cite. If you'd like to rein me in, then perhaps I should start subscribing to the GP's paranoid fantasies of an Orwellian thought police.
what about renting vs. owning? Can't you arbitrage between the two. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/business/28leonhardt.html?...
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I apologize. I assumed you were doing something other than a knee-jerk, thoughtless reaction. I rescind my objection, since the only point you could have made with that post was not the one you intended to make.
Asset price changes are not wealth, they are inflation plus redistribution.
Off topic rant, the BBC's Click strand drives me up the wall on occasions that I see any of it. We used to have the wonderful (if haphazard) Tomorrows World as primetime science viewing and now we're left with Click which is broadcast in a time slot for the terminally stoned and apparently produced by ex '... for dummies' editors.
And don't get me started on the abysmal Gadget Show.
How is this a surprise, it's right there in the app store documents.

This is Microsoft complaining they should be except from the rules just because they're big. This is the beauty of the App Store, doesn't matter how big you are you still get treated the same as the little guy
I've said this before: for any given story there will be people who disagree with it, and the way HN is currently designed, upvoting a critical post is their only way to express that disagreement.
"Using a 3rd party website (or your own), you are unlikely to get the exposure of an app store or a telco portal."

I don't agree with that either as most app store-published applications get next to no exposure anyway. That privilege is reserved for a very few that either pay for promotion or go viral. So you're back to the old model of users either searching for a specific application to suit their needs (search engines existed before app stores) or "word of mouth" (which these days include forums / blogs and all of those existed prior to app stores as well).

There is this misconception among some (and I'm by no means saying that you're under the same illusion) that developers only need to upload to Apples App Store or Google Play and they'll see thousands of downloads and "PROFIT" (to quote a meme). The reality is the vast majority of apps do not make any money and uploading to central repositories does not mean people will stumble across your application or game. And what's more, anything you do upload is not only subject to the same limitations of users stumbling upon your product as before, but with the influx of new developers sold on this rose-tinted vision, you're now competing with significantly more software than ever before. So just the additional signal-to-noise ratio alone makes it harder than ever to make your application visible.

So I really don't believe the notion that app stores increase exposure for the average developer.

Where app stores excel is making content easier to find and install for the average user; one search interface with inbuilt download and install functions. That's a huge step up from Googling from your PC, downloading then either manually copying the .jar to your phone or installing an EXE locally on your PC with your handset connected via activesync. However I wouldn't say that user convenience guarantees developer visibility.
I never said anything about inflation over the 30 years following the home sale. I was talking about inflation between the $250k purchase and $1.25MM sale of the house.
It's also a model in Citroën's C1, C2, C3... line-up -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C1
> elsewhere but not renting it.

I live in London. if I somehow manage to buy an apartment with spare bedrooms, damn right I'm renting it out!
Porn is a multi-tens of billion dollar business, to think they don't have people in government is silly.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

Still, though, depending on a lot of factors, his parents may or may not make out net positive in the end.

Thinking about it a bit more, though, I think I'm harping on the wrong thing here.

Whether or not you come out ahead has nothing to do with whether home ownership is an asset or a hedge. You can certainly come out ahead with a hedge: that is, the instrument that you use as a hedge can turn out to be a source of income in the end. That's part of the reason that it's there, to provide a possible gain to offset a possible loss. But that doesn't make it an "investment" after the fact. It's still a hedge.
More than just a little "oops" then?! Should Google be sandboxing the Sync service, and other similar potential non-essential processes that could take down the browser? (Assuming that Sync is not an essential process?)
I'm going though this process now as well. Any pointers, even not specifics would be great!
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Hardly matters if the hack is easy or hard. In either case, someone who enjoys hacking things will hack it (and the more difficult to hack the more enjoyment and so more likely to be hacked). Once a single person cracks a piece of software, they can upload it to tpb or similar and now everyone has it cracked.

So keeping the hacks as easy as possible with as minimal impact to paying customers is the correct way to do it. Having it be a little text file you edit that flags something as bought or not is the perfect way, as support can easily instruct users with difficulties to flip the switch themselves.

Making it difficult doesn't help anybody - people who want to pirate WILL download a pirated torrent. Don't give them reason to do this by making your version of the game worse than the pirated copy!! NB!!
I'm not so sure about that. I just worked on a website that contained some video (for a children's show TV format), and we did some calculations on what hosting the video would cost.

With 50 Mb/video, you can do 20 video's for 1 Gb of traffic. Which, at AWS cost 12 cents. Let's say you'd pay half that at a cheaper CDN, 6 cents. You would, just for transporting the video, need to make 6/20=0.3 cents/page. That's $3 CPM, which seems high. And this is only for transporting the video, not the other infrastructure needed. Not so sure that's a winning business-model.

To be fair, we also looked into setting up our own servers, some places have a few TB traffic with a $50 VPS, but than you need a lot more sysadmin work.
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> I expect that even if the gyros stop while you're driving you wouldn't fall over because... well because that's how bikes work.

I don't imagine the dynamics would be the same, after all, you're the gyro on a normal bike. If the vehicle was unloaded and you were going straight, you'd probably be able to keep enough manual balance control to come to a relatively controlled halt deploying the parking struts.

However, I imagine the gyros are going to be compensating for internal imbalance (shopping, baggage) in everyday scenarios, or be travelling around a corner, or in traffic, etc, so you might have less time than you think to regain control before toppling.
Terrible headline, I thought this was the revelation of a purposeful feature of Chrome that Google can use to remotely kill it.
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As with Play, Google itself is assumed to be perfectly trustworthy, fallibility just doesn't enter into their thinking. (As a reminder, Google literally have remote root on every Android device that has market installed. If your device is online, it's a few hundred bytes over an always-on socket away from remote install/wipe)

I'd secretly hoped the Chrome incident was bigger than it turned out to be. The world needs something like this to remind ourselves why centralization of any kind is fucking evil, regardless of the pin-up CEOs involved.
For anyone else who thought, "What, there was a period of time known as the cryptowars?" and wants to know more, I found this article gave a decent rundown[1].

[1]: http://www.fipr.org/press/050525crypto.html
I still regularly use groff; letters, invoices, ad hoc formatting of one-off tasks. tbl(1) is nice and the overall speed makes it handy for producing PDF in the back-end.
Imagine, in the far future, you were able to to create a simulation that was so advanced that it could accurately recreate everything that has happened in the universe so far, so that it was an exact replica of history. Also, that there is a way which you can determine whether you are in a simulation or not. Assuming you are in the real universe, if you make this measurement, it will show false, however when your simulation reaches that point in history, the result would show up true, and reality and simulation would diverge. The only way to stop this would be to make a more advanced simulation that could not be detected with any method, or to have some part of your simulation check for when this test is made, and spoof the result...
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Looks great but Windows only is pretty short sighted when the generative artwork community is mostly mac orientated, just check out http://www.creativeapplications.net
Seems like the gyroscopes would help with a bunch of those — traction issues become less about keeping the bike upright and more about controlling where the bike goes.

I don't see anything about ABS in the FAQ, but that would avoid the problems of locked front or rear wheels.

Also, I imagine this has only one brake control, unlike a motorcycle, so you can't lock up one wheel by stomping on your rear brake but not grabbing the front brake.

I also wonder how effective the gyroscopes would be against a high-side crash. Would the having to adjust for hills limit their ability to prevent one?

Having a seatbelt seems like it might help with high-sides, too.
There's a BBC radio show (which is also now available as a podcast) called The Joy of Tech, which is quite alright (and way better than Click, IMHO) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/jot
Instead of this, they should fix the reprehensible "new" UI in VLC. Starting with

1. You can't show the playlist and the video at the same time.
2. The playhead is a TINY DOT. Seriously, WTF? Is trying to grab it supposed to be some kind of game? Pathetic.
Watched the vice video which confirms my thoughts (Venezuela should have been ranked much higher).

Please watch the below, which shows congo (which ranked higher than venezuela in this study) :

http://www.vice.com/vice-news/the-vice-guide-to-congo-1
If your apps are not featured on the front page, the so called exposure is close to zero. There used to be a new released category which lists new apps, and honestly that is a VERY good channel for exposure, although the window is just about 3 days. Now, even that is gone.

So what apple does is basically hosting + payment. No way that is worth a flat 30%.
> I apologize.

Wow. That's the worst non-apology I have ever seen. "I apologize your face happens to be in path of my fist". A pig with lipstick is uglier than the pig without lipstick. But I guess that's what floats your boat.

> I assumed

What part of "I hope these crazies are minority" was difficult to understand that you went on assuming whatever you assumed? Must you imagine things you want to respond to, and then respond to them, when no one is even talking about what you are responding to?

> I rescind my objection, since the only point you could have made with that post was not the one you intended to make.

I missed the meeting where you were appointed the chairperson of inferences.
Don't the wheels themselves act like gyros at medium speed? But I get your point, losing the gyros out of the blue on the highway might create a very dangerous situation.
"Sync is essentially Google's answer to Apple's iCloud."

This may be a nitpick, but Sync was originally a Firefox extension that Google released in 2007, before the iPhone was even released.
In all of your complexity, you seem to fail to account for the "control case" of GP's parents renting the whole time. You can't reasonably "charge" the $970K for the next 30 years of rent against their "profit" from their ownership experience.

What you've essentially proven is that, "In order to live in their original house for 25 years plus an additional 30 years of renting, they will have out-of-pocket housing expenses." That finding is air-tight, but also unenlightening.

What would it have cost them to rent for all those 55 years?
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It's the "poor kid that won the lottery" syndrome: doing things just because they can, hoarding cash, making up stupid rules to see how far people will comply, testing developer's patience at each turn, fearing that the miracle machine might eventually run out of steam if they stop sacrificing expansion slots to the almighty gods of dumbed down design.

It is mildly amusing if your livelihood does not depend 100% on them and you still have interesting platforms to work on (not necessarily mobile).

Apple will hopefully grow out of it and become an adult company: less bullshit, less "geniuses" at the bar, less patronizing.

Google, which is supposed to be a competitor, still takes 30% and you still don't even get a search box in the in-app purchases list...
Except not every OS makes it easy to install third party hacks. Or as beneficial.

Jailbreaking iOS is quite a step for the majority of users, and means relinquishing the benefits and ease of the Store.

Arguably, if this article is any indication, elements of Win8 are not secure enough to outweigh the benefits of these quick and simple hacks.

Having said that, Win8 is less of a closed minimal mobile system, and probably better compared to OSX. Desktop with a tablet layer bolted on.
I can't get if they are really serious about mass-producing an electric motorcycle. On technical side this company looks like it's run by an individual - Daniel. Team page [1] shows 6 employees not named as "Advisors". Out of who only two are technical (Daniel, the CTO and Kevin).

More worryingly Kevin's linkedin page shows he's not working at Lit Motors for last two months.

Looks like on technical side Daniel is pretty much alone. It's not necessarily bad, maybe they are just starting. I'm just worried they'll disappear.

Does anyone know if they are funded?

[1] http://litmotors.com/lit-team/
> then perhaps I should start subscribing to the GP's paranoid fantasies of an Orwellian thought police.

Apparently schools actually banning free playtime is a fantasy. Did you actually read the article and my comment before running in both arms flailing?
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> These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we see now that stand on the shoulders of giants and still manage to only reach their navels.

Do you really believe that, or are you just being melancholic? Every age has their visionary genuis enterpreneurs en the small-scale incremental-evolution enterpreneurs. The "enterpreneurs we see now" include people like Jason Fried, Elon Musk and Daniel Ek. Yeah, and founders of the get-a-notification-when-someone-unfollows-me-on-Twitter-app businesses, but people like that were around in the eighties too - you just haven't heard of them.

And, really, there's nothing wrong with either.
Terrible headline. GS says MS has 20% of the computer OS market. (Google Android 42%, Apple 24%, others 14%.)

That's counting PCs, phones, and tablets. Presumably not counting embedded devices. Not clear whether it's counting servers. (Are servers PCs?)
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Cheers, I'll give that a listen. I ought to stray from Radio4 and 6music a little more often.
...it's just the political affectations I find preposterous

You're choosing to ignore that the draconian laws are actually in place and for the stated reason to prevent piracy.

They're asking for the ability to choose on which basis people consume their product.

They can't on their own, so they demand the government to apply an unreasonable amount of force. There's no consensus for the actual situation, just political inertia and propaganda.
Please don't stretch my words to the point of hyberbole.

I said the adult industry doesn't have an organization with clout comparative to the RIAA. That's true as far as I know.

Do you know of such a broad-based lobbying group for the adult market?
And "self-destruct" does not mean "crash". I thought they corrupted the installation or something.
It will take a 'baby elephant' to knock over this bike - BBC News
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divs are an issue, because divs commonly include other divs commonly include other divs commonly include other divs ....

jquery-box2d does not animate the DOM of the webpage you see, it animates clones of the elements of the website you see, so basically you create and animated clones of elements that have animated elements of clones of elements and so on... this is probably solvable (everything is), hopefully it will be solved by somebody who is more in love with the DOM than i am
Exactly. But some may say this is a free market, Apple can do whatever it wants in its own garden.
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Submitter here. The judge in question is Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which is the intermediate appellate court that hears essentially all appeals in patent cases. The procedural context of the case in question is a bit complicated; nevertheless, the quotation in the submission title may offer some insight into Judge Newman's general view of patents.
AWS is the most expensive "CDN" that I've ever seen in my life. Their prices rival Akamai and their service certainly doesn't.

With volume, you can get CDN pricing to 1 cent/page. The adult market, if nothing else, is a place where even mid-range sites can have massive volume and cut special deals.
Gyros spin very fast on very efficient bearings. A rotating mass will not stop immediately unless forced to do so. So even when power fails completely, the gyro will continue to rotate for quite some time (several minutes probably) and fulfill it's purpose - well, unless something penetrates the gyro housing and blocks the spinning wheel. But then I guess your problem is not limited to falling over.

Another issue with fast spinning disks is that they can rupture and send splinters flying, but it's rather unlikely that both gyros fail in the same catastrophic way at the same time.
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I've seen very similar things for sale at gas stations on the side of the highway in Spain.
For the long distance commuter.
Not necessarily so. Other payment systems like Paypal can come in and be the gatekeeper.
A/Exactly. There wasn't probably a copyright infringement in the first place.

The whole article is a non sequitur anyway. Psy won the Internet fame lottery, you cannot extrapolate anything about copyrights.
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As a non-native speaker, "bike" confuses me. This is some sort of motorcycle ... what do you call a bike nowadays that this didn't confuse anyone else?
There's a similar case with dance (club) music. eg the "Amen Break":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
Good nitpick. Fully agreed. Apple was the late-comer to this game trying to come up with an answer to Google and Android's seamless sync capabilities.

I'm saying "trying" because from the feedback I've seen online, iCloud is seriously suffering in usability because of Apple's design-decision that iOS shouldn't "have files".

Before 2011, before iCloud, Apple's best sync offer was to take your device, hook it up to a machine via USB and install iTunes on it, and then wait. Wait while your device was in a locked, non-usable state, with no ETA.

In 2011, Apple told you to get your cables out. And people claiming Google was the one responding. That's absurd. But it seems people are good at forgetting stuff like this. Stuff which made me and several others permanently leave Apple's platform.

Apple is the one who fell behind, Apple was the one trying to catch up, Apple is still the one needing to catch up. The article framing it the other way around is disingenuous.

If people stopped giving Apple credit for shit they didn't do nor invent, maybe people would realize there are better options out there, at a much cheaper price.
I've been working on warehousing software for the last three years, integrating various pieces of automated machinery and humans with handhelds on two continents...

Best advice I can give you is non-technical - you (usually, and probably doubly so during a recession) have some bright people working on the floor, find and empower one or two of them to guide the software process. Life became much easier when we had a "product super user" who used to be one of the floor managers for a specific set of processes, who was able to tell us what processes wouldn't work, help us think of stuff we hadn't, who knew where stock shrinkage was likely to occur, and so on...
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> The bearded guy raised the point of needing to trust the vehicle to not fall over

I guess this will be only an issue to people who own a motorcycle already. I on the other hand as someone who never rode a motorcycle would have no problem with the C1. (But maybe that's because I know how reliable gyros are?)