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The delivery is so emotionally charged too. It took several paragraphs of "I can't believe no one gets this!" before we even got to Milton's theory.
funnily enough when typed pier 39, the first auto suggestion was "pier 39" ( the right one) - the second one was "pier 39 san francisco" which i what i thought was the correct one and tapped on , but turned out to a restaurant named 39 pier.
I'm not sure Apple will "have to conform". It might be useful in terms of iOS competing with other mobile platforms, but historically Apple's been very happy maintaining tight control of their platforms even if it means being only a major supplier of hardware in a sector where there software platform is a far-distant second behind the dominant platform.

Its not hard to see iOS remaining strongly Apple-centralized in core apps -- and having a similar market arc in the mobile space as Apple had in the personal computing space.
"why would someone go ahead and use Apple's terrible search engine to help them improve their search?"

Because at the end of the day I want to make choices that result in more flexibility down the line. I do not want to live in a world where Apple is the only OS provider for mobile devices. Likewise, I don't want to live in a world in which Google is the only reasonable choice for map searches.
Bike directions take designated bike lanes / routes into account.
I guess they don't want you to mention external listings, like: "Search on Google for 'appartment name'";
It gives the installer no more or less privileges than if you were to download and run a binary or double click on an installer script.
Haha was very prepared for this question. The main differences for me are that roots doesn't rely on ruby, it's built for advanced devs (starts with jade, stylus, and coffeescript), it uses roots-css rather than compass, and the project structure is a bit lighter and cleaner.

I tried yeoman and played with it for a while when it came out, but for me it feels vastly different to actually use. The concepts are definitely similar though. Great question!
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fwiw, spotify is not available in all of europe either, e.g. not in czech republic, hungary, italy, poland, portugal, greece, estonia, slovakia, slovenia, latvia etc etc .
yeah no idea why not but it specifically won't let you use the word google or Google Fiber anywhere. It switches the text to (website hidden) in the description and completely removes it from the title. So a description like this: "One of the first houses with Google Fiber!" becomes "One of the first houses with (website hidden)!"

FAIL
If the local friends of the library gets $1 for an outdated book, that's a good thing.

Yes, nobody needs to know the Windows 95 registry structure, and few even want to know it in detail, but at $1, some people will buy a technical book just for an hour of mental stimulation and the positive feeling from supporting a community institution.

Reuse is better than recycling.
I wonder how much data the iOS app uses for it's vector based tiles compared with the Google maps one? Google Maps does seem a lot quicker than before.
Where does it say start time? just tells me when the campaign ends. What's the topic of the hackathon? This is all I'm seeing: http://snag.gy/YTPMO.jpg
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This will be just the hook to encourage my teenaged son to ramp up his programming skills. He couldn't care less about writing computer games, which seems to be what all the "learn to code" books are aiming for, but he'd love to make something HAPPEN. Could you imagine what would happen if you let a roomful of high school kids have a go at these?
Last time I used AirBnb, their system (posting, messaging, etc.) censored all instance of Google (case insensitive). At first I thought they just block all links but after some trials, even the word itself is censored.
Apple Maps is the native mapping framework. So for developers who don't want to wander very far, Apple will be their first choice. And Apple will be Apple's first choice for Apple apps.
Fair enough. This is why I have explicit instructions on how to install without the run-as-remote-file install method right above it. Do you think it would help to add a view source link next to it or something?
Raleigh, NC installed a two-lane roundabout a couple years ago[1]. Drivers could not handle it[2] (almost daily crashes) and it had to be reduced to a single-lane roundabout[3]. I can't imagine what Raleigh drivers would do faced with the Magic Roundabout.

1. http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/trans/planning/construction/Brochur...

2. http://www.raleighpublicrecord.org/news/2011/09/12/accident-...

3. http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/25/2218567/crash-prone-r...
>A general general purpose device that can be programmed by the user to perform tasks beyond what was initial designed into the device.

Does that mean the iPad and iPhone are not computing devices?

Also doesn't your definition encompass routers that you can install DD-WRT/Tomato on which will enable you to run things like Bittorrent on them?
Typo in one of the first sentences: "pratices".

Looks pretty good for the rest btw.
What kind of of CTR were you getting?
Mathematics isn't about numbers or even proofs. It's about simplifying until you get that class of problems down to a conceptual "nub", while thinking in a very rigorous way. Instead of five oranges plus nine oranges being 14 oranges, you just say 5 + 9 = 14, and that applies to any countable quantity.

It's because of these abstractions that we can predict the motions of planets or build computers.

This also explains the "why" of functional programming. Referentially transparent functions are just simpler than methods that are constantly changing. Of course, in the real world, it's neither desirable nor possible to eliminate mutable state: you sequester and manage it.

The opposite of mathematical rigor (defined semantics, reproducible behavior) is the sloppy, ad-hoc, corporate FactoryVisitor stuff that is tolerated under the assumption that programming has nothing to do with math.
As a meta-comment, this article dances around and only after an entire page of text, does it get to the actual idea.
All the people on the shortlist were legitimate contenders.
I suspect, just like spectrum allocation, the issues regarding peering/routing agreements between telcos/ISPs are also not new and it's probably been proven from a number of angles that everyone is better off if they find a way to cooperate.
Yes, it has both biking and walking directions.
How come Apple allowed this app? Isn't it duplicate functionality of the iPhone? I guess everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others...
Doesn't the first paragraph of the article talk about the history of hash collision attacks? Or are you talking about some other way in which this is not a new attack?

Also, looking at his numbers, btrfs is doing something very wrong, over simple hash collisions. A file system which takes over 5 seconds to make 61 files is simply broken (in this situation, not making general comments about btrfs).
Sorry, what do you mean "OP is misinterpreting Friedman's paper"? I don't think there's much "interpretation" here. He's basically saying: here is a paper about X. It is titled "X".

And I'm also confused by what you mean by "the OP has made up this 'Friedman's Thermostat'"... seriously, what does that mean? Friedman wrote a paper on Friedman's Thermostat. So how could OP [whoever that is, I assume you mean Nick Rowe] have "made it up"?
I just use Chrome on my iPad 4, I feel I'm getting the same experience as on the desktop and that's fine for me.
Why, "now" is always the greatest time in history to be alive, Dr. Pangloss!
Are you offering them compensation for their work?
Thank you - great catch. Already fixed and shipped : )
Personally since node is the only real dependency, I'd just use the npm installer. I didn't mean to discourage the work you put in, by the way. I might be using this tomorrow, but today is the christmas party.
Apple Maps doesn't know what you mean when everything is spelled perfectly, they have a lot to do before worrying about typos.
You aren't missing anything. The author's article isn't about the optimal ways to do statistics, it's a criticism of the informal economic discussion that dominates policy, blogs, and pop-economics--and, according to the post, an unfortunate number of actual econ papers--that says things like "economic plan X doesn't work because there hasn't been a change".

The criticism generalizes to any statistical methods, though. You always need to think about the underlying model before doing any kind of statistics in any science.
I hear you. Although that roundabout is scary, some of the entry ramps to the A-14 are worse. It feels like you have 3 meters to merge with two lanes full of inexpertly driven lorries.
Pretty scummy to not have Airplay on your first version.
When I was learning to drive (in Hemel Hempstead), I found it easier to get around the magic roundabout if you just thought about it as a road that happened to be a small circle with a few mini-roundabouts on it. Even when it's busy, I've found it quite straightforward to get around, mainly because you rarely have to wait long at a mini-roundabout (if the car to your left is turning right, you can start going since the car on the right is blocked).
Perhaps you need to install the App we're all talking about then. It's most definitely vector based.
I used to live close to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Colchester) - it's actually very easy to do, and is really nothing more than a road that happens to run in a loop and has 5 small roundabouts on it. The junction in the current configuration works a lot better than it did when it was a large regular roundabout, as the pattern of traffic made it almost completely impossible to enter the roundabout at some of the entrances.
For anybody who's interested: perfect multicollinearity (which is rare, except in case of human oversight) causes a matrix of less-than-full rank, which essentially means that it's not invertible (the matrix analog of "divide-by-zero" error).

More commonly, you'll end up with imperfect multicollinearity, which means that two variables are almost the same, but slightly different. The danger with perfect multicollinearity is that (a) you'll end up with very high variances associated with those predictors, but furthermore (b) the predictor reported as being the 'strongest' may actually not be the strongest. In fact, it may not even be relevant; the model just "happens
to be associating most of the variation in the response variable with that predictor. It's a more complicated version of this principle: http://xkcd.com/882/

I mention this because I see people - including people who should know better! - falling into this trap all the time. It's easy to overlook, particularly when you see the results you were expecting.
I agree we shouldn't try to tweek the economy with government, but the corrolary to this is that we shouldn't then raise up economic arguments to keep the government from solving real problems.

Also, the knee-jerk cynicism about the effectiveness of government is misplaced. E.g. government funds about 1/3 of all R&D in this country (and it was as high as 2/3 in 1964). It is definitely not the least productive third of the R&D expenditures. We crow about all these advances in medical technology, etc, but many of those advances are the direct result of enormous NIH funding. Our world-leading universities get well over half their R&D funding from the government.
They should get some nice desks and chairs for the rooms - the desk and chair they show in the room photo look uncomfortable to use for serious amounts of work.
Try Deezer. It is available in all the countries you listed:

http://developers.deezer.com/guidelines/countries
> "It’s hard to orient yourself, at least for me, and that’s when the dance begins (let’s not get into the figure-8 rave that Apple sometimes asks me to do to recalibrate the compass)."

But the suckiness of the compass is also what prevents us from implementing author's feature.

I mean, isn't this whole feature a response to "the compass/blue arrow sucks and is inaccurate, often not working at all, and is laggy and slow to respond even when it works". It would seem that implementing a new UX around it won't really help, since the new "fill up turn bar" would be just as unreliable and error-prone as its blue-arrow predecessor.
Yes, but I wouldn't say that "almost all" economists don't understand the principle (as in the title). I would be more likely to say that "almost all" reporters don't understand basic economics & statistics.
We are available in some, but not all, European countries.
Congrats on the book release! Sounds really cool. And don't worry about the Xamarin.Mac release, it's based on MonoMac so the work you put into this section of your book wasn't wasted. :)
If you check the source, really this is all the script does. It checks to see if you have node, and if you do it runs npm install roots -g. But this is good feedback and if other people feel the same I'll definitely swap out the one-command installer. Have fun at the christmas party!
Okay, fine, but then what do you think of the Casey Mulligan column that the author links to (third paragraph)? It certainly seems at first glance to contain instances of the error the author is describing.

(I am not an economist and have no position on this; just curious.)
Try Steve Keen for an economist who predicted the credit crunch. http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/

His book basically declares war on most other economists too: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debunking-Economics-Revised-Expanded...

I'm very impressed but I'm always looking for counter arguments to my current understanding so if you know of any good critiques of his stuff I would be very interested.
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Really great job, excited to try this out. Are there any other similar projects out there (aside from Yeomen)?
Out-of-touch elitist, like most of SV brats. If darpa did not exist, there would be no internet. The middle-class existed because once-upon-a-time people believed a rising tide lifted all boats.
If that was the case than the world's #1 OS is probably something you never heard of like VxWorks
I believe there should have been a /s after that statement.
If I had to guess, licensing. I imagine studios see AirPlay (legitimately or not) as a DRM backdoor by letting the stream out of the app; and thus don't allow it. Note HBO Go and Netflix apps don't allow it either.
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We don't need to be able to hail yellow cabs with an app, we need to be able to hail black cars with an app. Cabs aren't going to come to BK because they got a text message, they all swarm around Manhattan looking for short fares, but black car services are local and could benefit from easier dispatch and payment.

If you ask me this is the TLC anticipating public demand for the app and stepping in the way of it actually being useful under the guise of playing along.
Their search on the Google Play store isn't that great, though they now have a feature where what they auto-suggest when typing your query is usually what you want (for larger apps like netflix, ebay, etc)
Could you talk about what you think the contradictions between Friedman's and Kahneman's work are? As someone who respects both of them I don't really see many except for the Permanent Income Hypothesis which, though, Friedman was very proud of it nobody else seems to think of when they talk about him. His work on the role of money in the economy which he got his Nobel for was all very empirical, and when events showed he was wrong about the stability of velocity he was quick to change his views.
> Apple Maps is the native mapping framework. So for developers who don't want to wander very far, Apple will be their first choice. And Apple will be Apple's first choice for Apple apps.

I think developers will care more about better data than about the time it will take to import a framework into their X Code project. It's very simple to integrate either type of map.
middleman (http://middlemanapp.com/) is a solid alternative for ruby as well - this is the only other one i know of apart from yeoman as you mentioned
Cheesemaking dates back nearly 7,000 years
(from memory so these figures aren't precise but right order of magnitude)

Between 0.01 - 0.1 depending on the target. Highest CTR was with Perl developers.
As a developer I couldn't agree more.. the App Store is currently an unmitigated mess.
Another thing to note is that typical memcached configurations have a short max key length (256 or 512 or something like that).
My favorite thing about this is that the commenters all seem to be so angry at Time. They clearly did not read the article. I would put Time commenters ever so slightly above Youtube commenters on the intelligence scale.
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I grew up just outside of Cinci. I've lived in New York, and it's nice. Lived in Boston for a while, always a lot of fun activities and good food. Currently living in South Carolina, and the weather is great and people are pretty friendly.

But my heart will always be in the Midwest. Wide open spaces, friendly people, affordable <everything>, tolerable seasonal patterns.

I don't have any experience with the startup scene, I imagine it's not fantastic =/
Awesome data. Really interesting to look at, and great presentation.

But there are a few things that kinda bother me with this:

The problem I can find with this data is that it isn't a representation of the reddit hidden communities as a whole, just the hidden communities of those who actually post (only 20% of Reddit).

A question I have is whether these are two-way connections with the groups. It's not clear exactly how the analysis is done 100% (perhaps I missed this portion), but could connections between subreddits be generated by there being a lot of people who post in a very tiny subreddit also posting in a larger subreddit? This means that though someone may like Large Subreddit A, they may not like the more specific Subreddit B. But a lot who like Subreddit B like Subreddit A.
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Post IDs are sequential. The newest post on /b/ is 443,351,492, and the next-nearest is /v/ with 166,654,765.
Not to mention being able to hear every single tap click and movement on the laptop is really distracting. However everything else looks pretty slick!
Not only that, the sale had more than 30 seconds of overhead. It may be 30 seconds of actual work, but the $120 includes soliciting the sale, invoicing the client, communication, transferring credentials, etc. There's no such thing as 30 seconds worth of work.

I used to do this sort of work in high school. I got to know a bunch of bugs in IE and when people were having trouble I'd help them for money. There were times when I'd net over $100/hour, but they were few and far between.
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But I do see harm in attributing the reasons for achievements to the wrong things.
What is this `FactoryVistor' straw man and why do we assume that its behavior is not referentially transparent?
I'm almost at MVP point so once that's ready I need a server upgrade or a decent hosting plan. Then when that's in place I need Adwords etc. though as others say, FB is untrustworthy at the moment so stay away from them.

Really it's just infrastructure and advertising that needs investment at this stage.
I did. I can't find anywhere to toggle into AirPlay mode.
A couple of key paragraphs:

"Now, NCTC [National Counterterrorism Center] can copy entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited. Data about Americans 'reasonably believed to constitute terrorism information' may be permanently retained.

"The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be given to foreign governments for analysis of their own. In effect, U.S. and foreign governments would be using the information to look for clues that people might commit future crimes."
There's a big difference between constructive criticism of genuine problems (such as issues with Apple Maps searching) where you may learn something and the "you're holding it wrong" kinds of comments. I'd go to reddit if I wanted to read a bunch of dumb repeated jokes.
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Craigslist was never actually found liable that i remember, they settled.

But yes, they are basically trying to present it as a marketplace they have no control over, to avoid liability and getting themselves regulated by the SEC/others.

Whether this is going to be effective, I actually tend to agree with you and think it won't, but it's almost certainly why they are doing it.
That was my exact thought. This is a good idea once the compass doesn't suck as bad, but until then this feature would be just as frustrating because of the high potential for error. It would be no different than the frustration you already face, just in a new design.
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Simple arguments and lack of citations cut both ways... where is your evidence that "reduce, reuse and recycle" initiatives have had a non-negligible effect on fossil fuel consumption? Here's a factor I bet was bigger: US emissions hitting a 20-year-low this year due largely to electricity generation switching from coal to natural gas[1] due to record low prices of abundant natural gas.

[1]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/us-emissions-idUSB...
Am I the only one who read the blog article? It's an old idea that shows up in the literature of various smart economists, and is in fact just a name for a common phenomenon in statistics, with the twist that human behavior causes it. He's not criticizing people for not having heard of the name (which he seems to have made up in 2010), he's criticizing people for being unaware of the idea despite it being an old idea and, he alleges, a very important one when you start studying human behavior. All of this is in the blog post.
Why do New Yorkers think it's acceptable that the NYC Taxi Commission gets to say yay or nay on the app?
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MSVS is free-$500; and has the significant advantage of both a direct connection to the .NET team and not being that bad of an IDE on it's own merits (not to mention being bundled in a MSDN subscription, which a MS-heavy shop is going to have anyway). It's far more viable on Windows for JetBrains to augment MSVS via R# rather than attempt to compete head-on when the deck is so stacked against them.
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Agreed. Google should have kept maps as an android-only product. Whatever ill-will Apple has gotten over maps is now gone because "I can just install google maps for free now!"
I find that rather annoying too. Every other click it seems to be asking me to login to my Google account. Kind of makes me wonder why they are so insistent.. Good way to get data for local ads?
This is pretty awesome. It will make it so much easier to prepare for code reviews and be able to tell someone about how much time it will take to do one.