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What incentive is there for users? Prizes, points, fame?

As a game, I think prediction markets do not entertain too many people because predictions are very long term. Have you thought of a way to fix that?

For what it's worth-- one of the issues I'd have with a mobile format for making more serious predictions myself would be that it's harder to do research on such a small screen.
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How can you be so negative about something which is providing a low-barrier entry point into electronics? Surely even if a few more people buy one of these kits and then start developing stuff themselves it's a good thing?

I know that my entry to electronics was assembly workshops run by the local university at a science fair. Every year you could buy an electronic kit and assemble it (following instructions) into something that did something (normally it was fairly useless). I don't think I understood what was happening in that kit at all, but it introduced me to the concept of electronics as something that you could work with.

I think the problem is you're assuming that the users would otherwise know more, when in fact it's more likely that if they weren't provided the tools by adafruit they'd know even less about electronics.
http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
Maybe those Mayans were on to something...
Sounds like the Eyes of Wall Street will end up sinking Facebook if they're not careful.
PlayCanvas is an awesome collaborative 3d game creation kit: if you're an indie game dev, check it out.

Disclosure: creator is a friend.
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The product is great. They are unique in the market. Their potential of growth is huge, every cloth eshop can use it. The technology stack is also great, node.js

My concern is if they can get another round of funding after 3 done already
. Staying alive for 3 years means almost nothing if people working there are payed under market average. I do net know about the exit but I think they can one day do an IPO to get some more funds. The question is should I invest my time now.? I am mid 30 and can't play around more than 3 years.
Wow, never thought there would be a day where my favorite college philosophy time-sink graced the pages of my favorite work time-sink. Mind, blown.

Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed, academia level resource. Basically a classroom accepted Philosophy Wikipedia. I wonder if there are similar academic resources for other subjects?

Detailed articles on Turing and the Turing Machine.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/
A look at the world's mobile penetration
The number is rapidly growing, which makes all the sense in the world. Yet, it's still impressive.
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This seems like a trivial thing to abuse
(and I'm sure many do).

I can't speak for Amazon, but at my employer, when a customer phones up or e-mails the customer service rep immediately sees certain details - number of orders by address, lifetime spend, spend in last 6 months, age of account and address, percentage refunds, fraud flags and so on.

Needless to say, the more legitimate an account looks, the easier it is for them to get no-hassle refunds.
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all kidding aside, this is a good thing, right? I have completely lost track what this means and where things are heading.
Doesnt matter until all browsers implement correctly the spec 100% ( cf IE ). What i'd like to see is a certification process. It's good to have a spec , but there should be a HTML5 certification ( could be automatic , you pass a bunch of tests, you get it, you fail you are not HTMLX certified therefore users shouldnt use your browser ).
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I've been to the highest yielding part of one of the biggest gold mining operations in the world. I went 2.3km under ground, and down 6km of tunnels horizontally, to a part where they were getting 40 grams of gold per cubic ton of what is essentially hard rock.
I hope casual and regular Instagram users riot over this change (doubt it, really), honestly, not for their sake, or to spite Facebook or Instagram, but simply because I'd really hate it if they started doing this, and it turns out to be an awesome money maker. I don't look forward to a web where that precedent is set.
So long Intagram, and thanks for all the fish.
deleting your account is futile, photographs will still remain on their AWS account.

after deleting one of my accounts, I was suspicious that they would still keep the photographs.

So to test this, I made a dummy account named after where i live; nikkojapan
http://instagram.com/nikkojapan/

i made a quick pointless photograph just to upload
http://instagram.com/p/K8bx_ZB59K/

Here is the link that still exists to the photograph of an account that was deleted right after the Facebook acquisition announcement.
http://distilleryimage6.instagram.com/6d96aaa0a45611e1a9f712...
God forbid. At least Microsoft didn't control our hardware. If Apple gets the same kind of monopole as Microsoft over computers, tablets and smartphones, they would basically control the entire field of technology.

As for the prices, people pirated Microsoft, which kept their prices pretty low (otherwise no one would buy it). With a monopole for hardware, Apple can dictate its prices (already very high) however it wants and people can either pay or go for the small non-integrated OSes.

That would be a nightmare.
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I didn't realize Apple's legal team was comprised of developers who could otherwise be spending their time working on the OS.
The benefit would be that Ruby could become another fossilized coprolite of a language, similar to COBOL, SNOBOL, FORTRAN, and RATFOR. It would still suck as much as it does today, but it would be carefully defined to suck, and implementors would create dozens of semi-compatible implementations to muddy the waters. As a bonus, I believe it would receive an all-caps name, preferrably ending in "BOL" like all the other shit-tastic programming languages of the past, and be ruled by a giant committee of malicious but ineffectual flunkies.

Make sense?
Yes, that makes sense. I was thrown of by 'IT guys'. But in 50k employees worldwide corps in the EU at least I see a lot of business guys doing a lot of their work on iPads and Macbooks now. Anecdotal: a few business friends of mine working for energy and pharma now make their presentations on the iPad directly in Keynote and present it from the iPad. They don't touch PPT anymore. The Windows machine (or Macbook) only switches on for Word (hardly ever) or Excel.
I believe TOS-DR is working on it... http://tos-dr.info/

Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while though...
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>On Modern there are guidelines, horizontal swipe and pagination is key. You're used to high information density, utilization of screen real estate to show as much as possible on one screen to avoid a user needing to navigate away? Forget that on Modern UI. Whitespace rules, it is like the GMail redesign on steroids

Hold it there. They are called guidelines [1] because they're guidelines. You don't have to enforce them! That said, they're there for a reason! The reason is that you use your finger on tablets, not a high-precision mouse device. Seriously, have you tried operating Excel on a touch device?

Second, who says enterprise apps can't be made with this kind of UI? Some guys succeed [2]. You just have to think new. Of course Office in its current form can't be made for Win RT.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46542...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/14/one-dev-at-least-is-doing-g...
Why would any judge even bother to dismiss on the grounds that the statements were not sufficient evidence, when the statements are not even admissible? It seems to me to be a bad idea to have judges going around saying "if this evidence were admissible then it would win you the motion/case/whatever".
The person reading and agreeing to the TOS is not necessarily the same person as the one(s) appearing in the photos. It is the latter that needs to sign a model release.
Dont worry! The founders of instagram where afraid of this as well and they devised a poison pill before they sold out! All you images have been made useless for any commercial use by the application of shitty "lets make it look like a polaroid left in the sun for 30 years"-filters...
Presumably Instagram would not have the right to sell photos from people that restrict the viewing of their photos in public. I have my profile set up so only those people I "approve" to follow me can see them.
If I am comparing the speed of two cars, but one car contains 5 persons while the other one only contains 1, then it's an unfair comparison right?
I read Scott Aaronson's article on religious rules of interference the other day, and I guess he nailed it: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=232

What he says is that for religious people, rules of logic and interference only have to applied a limited number of times. So they never arrive at the contradictions their logic really has.

He also says that this mode of thinking is actually default for most people and also works in most cases. So I suppose you can still be an engineer, as long as you are lucky enough to have only projects that are solvable with the "just compute a limited number of steps" rule.
Ask HN: Where's the "more" link in "saved stories" gone?
I want to find some posts from a couple of months back that I upvoted but I can't see the "more" link in my saved stories. Is this a bug or is there a new limit?
I'm in the minority who believes that Microsoft's tablet strategy is reasonable.

Their long-term goal is to provide tablets that look more or less like the incumbents (8-10 inch, light, 10 hour battery life, 9mm thin), but can also run any Windows app you want. But that's not possible for another 2 years or so of advancement by Intel and other hardware suppliers. So what do they do until then? Just wait? No, they release two devices: an ipad competitor that's not a hybrid, and an ultrabook competitor.

They may both have modest sales, but the Windows store will start getting populated with apps, and Windows 8 will become familiar, so that when they CAN actually build a 'perfect' hybrid, all the other pieces will be in place.
The evolution of the web technologies is an organic growth that won't be stopped in time to say "HTML5 certified". Browser vendors are pushing innovations through other medium than the W3C (which sometimes causes problem) and but what's needed is driven by the applications (that's why people like facebook are pushing test suites like Ringmark). Looking at browsers using only the HTML5 perspective is sort of restrictive as people and application developers may have other needs either high-tech (NaCl, 3D) or slow-tech (assistive technologies). No browsers can do it 100% right because nobody will ever agree on what those 100% are now and in the future.
How does the jury misconduct claims reflect badly on Judge Koh ?

She didn't pick the jury. Samsung's and Apple's lawyers did.
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well i sure hope it's Flickr again!
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Because without fixed deltaTime, if the framerate is too low, you can't jump in Quake. With the "new algorithm", in the 3fps example, you still have to luck out and get a tick at the right time.

And with a constant delta, if you choose it right, it can be easier to get collision detection right. You can possibly get away with checking if two things are colliding with each other right this tick instead of checking if they might have run through each other between ticks. With variable delta, if you want to get it right, you might have to check where things where half a frame ago and such, and at that point it might be easier to just check more often instead.

And I think you should probably ask the same question about variable deltaTime. Assuming that coupling rendering and game logic is not some best practice that you should default to, why would you want variable deltaTime? (There may or may not be some good answers to that, and maybe it totally depends on the game and so on.)
> MS wants enterprise to adopt Win8 Pro on Intel devices. Which practically all are around 1000$ and have a battery life of 4 hours.

Not all devices will have 4 hours of battery life. For example core i5 Acer Iconia W700 is reported to have 7 hours of battery life by engadget http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/14/acer-iconia-w700-review/. Also intel clover trail is also reported to have good power efficiency. We will know the truth in next 6 month I hope.
One rival would be PDL which has been around for over 16 years on Perl.

Some refs:

- http://pdl.perl.org/

- http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2012/06/adapting-p...

- http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2011/06/cuda-and-t...
Since you cannot delete all photo's at once, i deleted my account.
I'm an "Android guy" and the first thing I do with my new Android devices is at least gain root (so "jailbreaking"), and sometimes install a custom ROM. I'm sure some people do it to get apps for free, but for me it is solely because there are a number of things (such as complete backups) that can't be done without rooting the device.
Perhaps the real truth is that Microsoft always needs a version 1.0, before they get things right with version 2?
No, what I meant is that if someone is proud of their code and aren't afraid to share it with the world you should know probably lighten the hell up and let them be.
Semi-widely used I'd say. XMPP and SIP come to mind...

What I like about DNS SRV is that it's standardized and relatively simple to handle, in contrast to some of the other naming schemes out there (eg. CORBA).

I agree though that tools / libraries need to get better here.
Oh, I think you're right there. My point is that the people who use it won't care about this issue - this isn't the thing that's going to drive them away.

It's far more likely to be something less damaging but more obvious to users, like in-feed advertising.
Isn't that against their privacy policy?
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My experience is that it's a love/hate relationship. Often the IT management prefers to run with Microsoft if they can because it's already interated into the existing infrastructure. And Microsoft has very good salespeople that can tell these managers how well a new product integrates with their existing Windows platform.
Any new platform threatens to add more support and more work and contains lots of unknowns.

The "lower parts" of IT often knows more about the pain points of certain Microsoft products and have more hate then love, or at least are more open to consider alternatives.

Microsoft has a _lot_ of enterprise software that is not easy to replace for a big company, not to mention third party software that runs on Windows. And some of that software works pretty well.

Microsoft screwing up their mobile strategy has now shown the IT departments at most major companies that iOS and Android devices can work just fine, and this is the beginning of the end for Microsoft dominance in the enterprise.
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The problem is that whereas previously people would just stick with the 2.0 of Microsoft's previous generation; they are now switching to a competitors 1.0 that was better thought out than Microsoft's offering.
100% spec implementation doesnt stop innovation. One browser vendor just needs to respect the spec. If ones want to add more features then i dont see how respecting makes innovation hard. You can still build on top of the spec. Just respect it.

But it is my duty as a web developer to ensure the features i use will be available widely , i dont want to get trapped into this on that plateform , while other major browsers will never implement some "innovative" features.

So innovation if you want, but i care only about stability.
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I've never tried Scala, but I suppose I should give it a chance. I'm a fan of Lisp, and the two languages seem to have a lot in common. Scala's expressive type system seems like it has the potential to be both a blessing and a curse, but admittedly, I know next to nothing about the language.
The hours whiled away on plato.stanford.edu shouldn't count toward a man's life. :)

Something I'm not grokking:

In the exposition the list of examples presented as typical of Computer Science – "certainly not just programming" – is this one at the end of the list:

"... the design of embedded systems ..."

Huh?

Why doesn't that fit? There is no further direct discussion on the page that could apply (that I found). Is it a modern perspective that the embedded world and the high-end world are becoming so blurred as to be identical (such as Linux on both)? Is it simply Moore's law in action reducing the cost of embedded solutions to the point that embedded design is no longer something special?

The other examples, "the construction and optimisation of compilers, interpreters, theorem provers and type inference systems," clearly hit meta-activity more than "just programming."

Maybe it means embedded design is a transcendent synthesis? http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
ars doesn't know what he/she is talking about.

Admissible evidence is one of the most fundamental parts of the rule of law.
Same with finance sector. Everyone has iPads. We spent the majority of the last year optimising our web app so it works nicely on iOS. We're even doing offline apps soon for data collection.

People don't even use Excel now - our platform is powerful enough to cover all of the normal use cases in the financial sector.
Which of course is why she didn't say it.

A Judge will often do something like: It's wrong because of X, but even if X doesn't apply then it's still wrong because of Y.

It's telling that she didn't do that here. (Unless she did and the article just doesn't mention it.)

For example (from this same ruling):

> U.S District Judge Lucy Koh noted that Samsung claims to have "worked around" using different technology than the Apple patents found to have been infringed such as the iPhone's popular "pinch to zoom" feature.

> And even if that's a false claim, the judge ruled, Apple's demands to yank the Samsung products from U.S. shelves and bar future sales was too broad of a punishment in devices built with technology backed by hundreds of patents each.

Quoted from: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/judge-denies-apple-request-ba...
Other suspicious things...

William Stott of the Lancashir Fusiliers was a private, never a paratrooper, and died fighting on the front. The Fusiliers are a line regiment, they had no airborne element.

There is no such thing as 'K' Sector Normandy.

He claims 27 1525/6 "translates" as 27/6 15:25 - which is rather a big leap, especially when you look at the actual message slip.

The message is laid out in standard one-time cipher style for the British Army at that time.
Why ? Apple just needs to approach the same data providers Google uses and they will be about 90% of the way there.

And they do so without having to hand over user data to Google.
.NET may not be popular on HackerNews, or for building your startup, but step into any bank or big-business company and you'll see nothing but .NET (it has slowly been taking over the area that used to belong to Java 5-10 years ago).

It's a shame how some people view .NET as a closed platform and not open source friendly, when Microsoft has been making a BIG effort to push .NET into the open, especially ASP.NET. Let not forget things like Nuget, which has completely changed the way most .NET programmers work. Then there's Mono, which is just getting better and better every month (Host ASP.NET MVC web sites on Linux... now you can, thanks to Microsoft open sourcing MVC and Mono supporting it)

All in all .NET has become a very embracing platform for open source. I use it for just about any job, with great success.
Yet, iOS has a much higher information density than WinRT and still works very well. Of course you can ignore the guidelines, if _most_ apps follow the guidelines you will end up with a platform that looks very good in product demos but isn't as good to use for actual work.
Awesome! This is better than i expected & exactly why you need some demos, so people know. thanks! =)
Of course it is, but because of appeals Judges will typically make an extra ruling as if the evidence was admissible (just in case the appeal finds that the evidence was in fact admissible). This way that part is settled either way.
This one is a real perl see --

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From OP's comment: I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it

He might not be interested in Forbes' list, but care about the reaction from the HN community. I see no contradiction.
Even if you keep things exclusively in memory, the information is still vulnerable via cold boot attacks:

https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/
"Linux for ARM supports legacy x86 apps"

?!?

I'm a huge linux fan but I've never heard of this outside of some sort of processor-emulation layer and full VM which wouldn't give you the world's best performance.

Have I missed something?

--edit--

Did you mean support for older apps is (comparatively) easy because they can be rebuilt from source?

Also I'm not really sure what you mean by linux support for ARM being in the early stages. I've been running linux on a variety of ARM devices for ~8 years now, since the NSLU2 days. Good support for a huge variety of ARM SoCs has been in place for many years now.
There is scholarpedia:

http://www.scholarpedia.org

At the moment the majority of the articles are on computational neuroscience, but it is slowly starting to expand.
I guess its really trivial to point this out which is why it isn't being said, but they did send rovers to the Mars, and they kept the ISS manned with the shuttle program, all the while under orders to move away from manned missions.

This isn't a comprehensive list by any means.

~~Also - the cold war ended, the symbols are now eroding.~~
Yes, this. And in the few instances where they needed assistance resetting a password, that should be all they're allowed to do without logging in.

In the transcript, you'll see that the rep tries to offer a password reset before relenting and just giving the scammer every single order number for the past two months. Big mistake.

The "skip sign in" button is absolutely the vector being used to run these scams, and that's an incredibly good point. Though I can see there being some trouble for users who want a number to call off a packing slip without having to open the Amazon site to trigger the call first.
In Portugal the Foursquare data is quite accurate, if not always comprehensive outside major urban areas.

Personally, I'm a big fan of the service, and while I have no clue about their financial status, I hope this is real and comes to fruition. It would be a shame to see 4sq acquired by some larger competitor instead of travelling their own path. A deal with Apple would be great for their sustainability, I'm sure.