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The need for precision input will never go away. What we'll continue to see is continued hybridization of the tablet and laptop ala-ms surface. No developer really wants to work on a a subset os and or jailed OS(iOS) full time or an underpowered machine (surface).

What I would like to see is something like a 13" tablet that runs a full OS (i.e. Full OSX, Linux, etc) that I can dock while at a workstation to one or many larger monitors AND several input devices (Keyboard, Mouse, Wacom, Printer, etc). Then when I am on the go, I can grab the tablet(brain) portion and if needed a precision interface or two (wacom, keyboard that's portable enough) and stuff them in my bag hopefully taking up less or equal space/weight to what say a MBA would take up. And it would be great if it would do this in a graceful fashion. Basically I don't want to have to compromise between devices. The only compromise I should have to make is that if I am on the go, it's not feasible to carry around a 30" monitor.
Message Bus (Java) - New Release:1.0.6.RC - enveloped messages, more performance
Sure, but its kind of hackish and many people don't know about it. It also doesn't really apply to dynamic languages like Python :(
Knowing that the military-industrial complex has strong influence on US government and its agencies one has to both wonder and be surprised that SpaceX (presumably not part of that complex) gets such a lucrative account. NASA is one thing but US military...
Liver failure is a concern in 30something crowds. Not from properly used paracetamol, which is a very safe effective med when used correctly. Certainly from paracetamol overdoses (which are easy to achieve) and also from excessive regular drinking. People have little idea how much alcohol they actually drink, nor how much they could drink safely.

The current understanding of paracetamol and alcohol is confused - some people think there may be a protective effect from the alcohol; other people think the combination may be more harmful than the sum of the paracetamol and alcohol; others think it's only a problem with pre-existing liver damage.

Aspirin is harmful to the stomach lining, and I personally would not like to take aspirin after heavy alcohol use.

(http://www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/pwy/paracetamol/pharmwebpic...)
I think that the many people who struggle learning to touch-type would disagree heavily with you regarding how intuitive a keyboard is. I'm pretty certain we could come up with a more natural method of input, however that could have the potential to diminish the important characteristic you raised regarding explicit and specific input.
Use two Dropbox accounts on one computer
These are really great words that stand the test of time. Inherent truth is eternal.
I would think that as such a platform, building compatibility for multiple providers would be a top priority. Beyond compensating for technical difficulties, it would let you shop around for the best price and performance at any given moment.

They've already built their own complex scaling system that doesn't seem particularly tied to AWS. With a moderate amount of additional work, I don't see why they couldn't deploy it to any provider with an API.
I think calling it a 50% success rate is disingenuous. The "failure" they had was because the satellite wasn't the primary mission, it was piggy-backing on the primary mission. It didn't make its orbit because after a recoverable mishap NASA didn't want to take any chances with the orbit of the ISS.

That's not a failure of the rocket. It's just the operator of the primary mission calling the shots, and the secondary mission suffering as a result of that. That's the sort of risk you assume when you piggy-back on the primary payload when launching on any rocket.
Posting this after reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962975 , and also being wary of how the administrator in Dropbox for teams can access your account.

I've tried it with a temporary account, and it seems to work well.
Stop bending semantics to fit your binary view point.

Instant in this case means you move the brush and it distorts as you move the brush. No parallax, no beach ball waiting for it to do the computation. It happened as you moved it. It was instant. Even with brush sizes the size of the image you were using.

It had unlimited undo. It had unlimited layers. That's not an arguable point.
Continuations that are not single use are usually called multi-shot continuations.

Single shot continuations are very useful though. They are enough for a very large percentage of the situations you would use continuations for while being much more efficient to implement (no need to save the stack)while also being more reasonable theretically in other situations(call/cc can be used to break some important invariants when it interacts with mutablestate and other things like that. Its kind of subtle)
How does Finland treat wireless spectrum? The problem in the US is that the vast majority is partitioned to the military, old tv and radio bands, and as a result only a few specific ranges are available for.. purchase. And then AT&T and Verizon own all the viable long range wireless spectrum, so they take advantage of the duopoly and just keep jacking up prices with no chance at competition.
Judging by the article, Alexander's work seems a lot more relevant and interesting than the simple structures the OOP folks have built and called by the same name.
I work for an OTA and this is likely not Expedia per se, but the local office trying to up the value of their sales. Small hotels are always going to have more problems than a big chain, as they don't have any real time data connection to provide availability and room information. Either they send in their information and hope someone enters it correctly, or they are provided with access to a portal they can manage their own data in. If the local property manager is only interested in getting credit for high value sales and the small property owner doesn't have access to the portal, then likely the manager can screw them over so that people wind up at the more valuable properties. OTA's prefer data connections because that way the data is more up to date. It also means any errors are the fault of the chain (unless the hotel system itself has bugs).

By making Expedia aware of how their local managers are operating they might actually get this fixed. No OTA wants this kind of bad publicity. Just the US alone my employer (and its parent company) have nearly 300,000 hotels available. Keeping the data current is a massive pain at that scale since at the other end are individual people.

Also note that for most OTA's there are only a couple providers of hotel photos and one dominant one, and we all hate them as they suck terribly. Unless you are a speciality provider like Oyster or Hotel Tonight and can take the few photos you need, or are Tripadvisor and can get customers to take them, you are at the mercy of the photo provider.

So a quality bitching can get you better service (as a hotel provider) from an OTA. Even better is make a deal with someone who provides small hotels with data management (which does cost money) so that your room availability is all electronic.

The hotel business is all about filling rooms. The average hotel hopes for 70% rooms filled tonight. OTA's do provide a lot of hotel bookings so you can't do without them. But if the local OTA hotel property manager sucks there are 4 major players you can deal with (plus all the speciality ones). Yes you have to give them a commission (20%+ usually) but if you work with them correctly they can fill your rooms.
Yeah I can't wait till people wise up and don't just see "the cloud" as one AZ in us-east-1.

(It wouldn't have helped in this case, but its a general annoyance I have.)
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but it's my opinion that you're being uptight and there's no need for our language to evolve in regards to this one specific thing. Saying "you're mom xyz" to as a euphemism for "the average consumer" is neither racist nor sexist.
Not really. Python doesnt have typeclasses so liftM would be a fucntion receiving the monad dictionary as an explicit parameter. At that point, you can pass that dictionary to the decorator:

def liftM(m, f, x):
@do(m)
def doNotationBody():
...
...
Universal Principles of Design http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Design-William-Li...
I don't use Expedia as I've found their service to be horrible, and their technology in the early days had all kinds of issues with losing session and the like, so I abandoned them 10+ years ago.

I do use Orbitz. I'm not sure if they are guilty of the same sins, but I've generally found their service to be adequate. I book directly with airlines when it makes sense and doesn't take too much effort - but most hotel booking sites are horrible and prices are usually higher.

It would be great if an open platform like AirBNB emerged for hotels - perhaps AirBNB itself.
Funny, when I first saw it I wasn't sure if my monitor was screwed up, whether someone had defaced HN or if some Chrome plugin was misbehaving. Though I eventually figured it out with the alternating red/green submission colors and HNSearching for "Christmas CSS". I also found out that you could change your topcolor and immediately set it to #000000 so people would stop pestering me when they saw I was reading a hacker website.
Sure, here's the Omni California Hotel (https://www.room77.com/hotel-los-angeles-omni-los-angeles-ho...). We rank the rooms based on preferences that you set with the radio buttons at the top and we generate the views automatically using Google Earth technology. We recently added in the ability to look multiple directions from a room and see a stitched 180-degree version.

We have about 3,000 hotels for which we have floor plans and views for mostly in the US and over 16,000 that have unique "Insider Tips" about what rooms are best in a hotel. We search 200,000+ hotels so that content is a bit hard to find right now and we're working on exposing it more. We continue to add more content daily.

Would love any feedback you have.
For reference, Section 805(c):

http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpa/fdcpact.shtm
Not having access to Amazon Video (note that you don't have access to any Amazon Videos, not just Prime). I wasn't able to get the app to work side loaded on the Galaxy Nexus. Not saying it doesn't work on the Nexus 7 but it would make me hesitate.
That satellite is a billion dollars because of the expensive existing launch options.

Having a launch option an order of magnitude less than what exists at the moment is pretty important - it means people can build and launch two satellites for the same price.
good metrics to consider! any I missed?
The history of desktop applications is full of examples of clever or unique applications that never took off or failed to gain widespread adoption. Sometimes these applications had a superior interface to the dominant app (and sometimes not).

It would be really useful to see a few side-by-side comparisons of how a task is accomplished in LivePicture compared with Photoshop.

Although Photoshop is powerful and feature rich, I find the interface clumsy and awkward (Illustrator, in my opinion, has an even clunkier interface). Does the lack of serious competition against Photoshop keep Adobe from re-thinking the interface?

Apple's Final Cut Pro clearly had some influence on subsequent releases of Premiere Pro, but there's no serious competitor to Photoshop that I can think of (yes, there are alternatives, but none that are likely to take users away from Photoshop).

What's more, many people simply don't go looking for alternatives. Mastering Photoshop or Illustrator will stand you in good stead in the employment market if you're looking for a visual design job. And if you get stuck with an application task, there's a good chance you'll find a solution by searching for it online. There is an absolutely enormous number of supporting resources around Adobe's Creative Suite of products: tutorials, training, books, discussion sites etc.

All that helps to maintain the status quo and makes it much harder for competing apps to gain attention.
Dimensions of Quality
Other people need to type besides programmers. If touch-screen keyboards eventually become good enough., programmers will be able to use them too. And programmers may use some more visual interfaces, but pure-text will still be more powerful.
What kind of investor focuses on valuation and ignores whether a company will be successful?

You said "there are a segment of investors who use valuation to drive their decisions, even if its irrational to do so".

It is not irrational to use valuation to drive decisions, though it is obviously stupid to have that be the only factor. It is however, a major one.

Of course if success is highly probably, one should not be deterred by valuation, and in fact valuation should be higher. These days, many companies are not risk discounted enough, making many investments a bad deal for investors. Companies raise at $10M valuations and go out of business 6 months later. This is not healthy.
Not really. More focus on working with tables and reusable custom named functions which operate with one or several columns. General idea is that a new table is some function of an existing one.
> I wasn't able to get the app to work side loaded on the Galaxy Nexus. Not saying it doesn't work on the Nexus 7 but it would make me hesitate.

This was probably because of the difference in form factor. The app was not developed with phone users in mind, since Amazon doesn't have a smartphone (yet).

And either way, not having access to Amazon Video is an insignificant inconvenience compared to all the advantages the Nexus 7 has.
There is a very short set of slieds explaining as much here:
http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/
True, but those things are quite inexpensive compared to all of the other stuff that governments spend taxpayer money on, at least in the United States.
> You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, (snip) your quality and your probability of success in delivering a payload to orbit diminishes.

What else, conceivably, could Lockheed say?
Just like with PHPJS (an effort to bring PHP standard library to JS) there are missing implementations:

http://www.php2python.com/wiki/function.mt-rand/
Your point 3 is incorrect. The analysis fails to show that the data observed can be distinguished from data drawn randomly from a Poisson distribution of mean 2.

The double negative here and concept of "distinguishing from" is important. In particular, this result does not rule out being underpowered by which we'd mean to say that given infinite tragic observations we may be able to make a case to distinguish the data from the random distribution, but since we only had a little that effect was buried.

Again, you cannot even say things like "are likely not" and "should expect" because those are epistemologically reversed from what we can state. What we can say, in parallel, is

- We do not have evidence here suggesting that mass shootings are copycat crimes (if we buy that copycat crimes would lead to non-Poisson distribution of mass shootings).

- We have not been able to show it flawed to predict 10 mass shootings over the next 5 years.

It's definitely a pain in the ass to rework all your statements this way, but it's also necessary for them to mean anything resembling truth. Statistics is a fickle beast, especially frequentist methods interpreted predictively. This song and dance, however, is required to make the general process of using statistical tests trustworthy enough over time.
Why does Photoshop need to be killed? Seems like a good, powerful piece of software loved by many.
Is there some reason you can't do that?
> Even hackers have priorities.

I would say that this is incorrectly worded. People have priorities, and those priorities show whether they truly have the hacker spirit or not.

> First, when I'm not hacking I think it's a nicer OS than the competition.

This already exposes that you are not a hacker. If you were, you would value the increased hackability and customizability that Android gives you, rather than the my-way-or-the-highway approach taken by iOS. The fact that you think iOS is nicer than the competition means that you aren't a hacker (in the original sense of the word).

> when I am hacking on things, I think it's a nicer OS to develop for. As a hacker I can call all the private APIs I like, run in the background, fork of child processes, and really just generally make a mess of things.

Again, this shows you are not truly a hacker. Part of the hacker ethos is sharing, and iOS restricts how you can share by not allowing those "private" APIs to be used in apps published on the App Store.

> I don't have to do any of it in Java (which after a day of work is a welcome relief).

This is an issue, but I would consider it a minor one compared to the other, more important problems.
Longer or more expensive is simply filtering. Agony is creating a new metric. I see those as different.

Now, if the metric is useless or synonymous with some of it's underlying drivers, then you are right, nothing there. I find the agony score to be more useful than any small combo of filters, but perhaps that's just me.
Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link
It could be Jarvis the Developer AI Assistant aka DAIA™ of Tony Stark's creation in the recent Iron Man movies. Voice activated commands, holographic interfaces that responds to gestures, audio-visual programming instead of text, etc.
>I have never, ever seen nl2br referred to as making anything secure or safe.

There is also no mention in the manual that it is unsafe! One of the big problems with PHP is how easy it is to write dangerous code and how the standard manuals and tutorials often give little explanation to this.
>Does the lack of serious competition against Photoshop keep Adobe from re-thinking the interface?

It's probably more a case of pros who have invested a great deal of time in adapting themselves to Photoshop's workflow and quirks would be really upset if they rethought the interface--however excellent a job they did.

FWIW, Adobe did a really excellent job when they had a clean sheet of paper with Lightroom, although it took a couple iterations to get there. (Mostly--it's more modal than I'd prefer in some respects.)
To be honest, i'll still book where it's cheapest.
Usually i use a lot of those sites, including tripadvisor, etc. to check for accomodations and in the end i'll book where it's cheapest. I'll check on google maps for hotels, check online pricing, but in the end.. when the hotel itself is more expensive (plus expedia and co offer me a good meta search not only one hotel!).. why should i pay more for "less"?!

Never had problems with expedia&co myself but i rarely need to cancel/change reservations.

It's not my fault that the whole hotel business doesn't seem to be capable enough to do this on their own.
Did you expect that you would be able to use it without an account? That's not really a reasonable expectation, at this day and age.

If not, why did you balk at creating an account with a centralized provider that lets you log into multiple websites with the same account, claiming you don't want "Yet Another Damn Account"?

Hell, I logged in just because it supported Persona and I already have an account there (and love it).
Something similar happened to me once. I rented a car with Alamo through Expedia at Chicago ORD, pick up around 11:30 pm. My flight was a bit late, and when I got there the Alamo counter was closed. It turned out they closed at midnight. It was impossible to pick up a car from Alamo.

I called Expedia. They told me to rent a car from Hertz and pay for it, they'd pay for it. When I called Expedia on subsequent days nobody knew anything about this conversation. They refused to pay for my rental, and said that if I could prove that Alamo was closed they would refund the original rental. Of course it would be a long and tedious process.

It wasn't worth my time, so I forgot about it. Never used Expedia again.
If you think taxes are high in the US, perhaps you should come to the UK.
Touch screen keyboards lack something essential: feedback.

Such keyboards are not usable for anything other than casual typing; you're not going very far with them.
I know they have some degradation of service in their recommendations but I can't speak for the rest of the service. A coworker was telling me that each recommendation on your main netflix screen is provided by a different service. So lets say its suppose to be feeding me scifi recommendations. If the scifi service is down, then it will just remove it from the main screen and I will get a different recommendation category until its back up.
On the server side I'm hardly believe that a SOA like architecture will be largely used. I'm biased because I'm the author of an ESB like systems for working with services even simpler: https://github.com/salboaie/SwarmESB.

The core concept for SwarmESB I call "swarming" that is a method to compose API's in a distributed system.
Swarming can be for SOA's orchestration what REST is for SOAP.
Introduction:
http://www.slideshare.net/salboaie/swarms-introduction
Yup, even when the front page for the hotel (or airline) claims to "always have the lowest rate". Sometimes you can call and negotiate a price match, but it's easier to just book through the online agent. Since online prices are occasionally unavailable, it's most reliable to actually buy online, then negotiate a better price directly, then cancel the online booking, but this is borderline abuse of the online agent and you have to be careful with the cancellation policy.
> For the most availability, best prices and service,
> always book directly with a hotel.

(Full disclosure: I work for Booking.com an online hotel booking website and Expedia's competitor)

I think it's a gross misrepresentation to say that the customer is always best off booking directly with the hotel. You get something you wouldn't get when booking directly through the hotel.

When you use an OTA you have collective bargaining power; If the hotel screws you around in any way it's now the OTA's problem. They'll call up the hotel on your behalf (in their native language, which you may or may not speak) and either sort it out with them or make sure you have somewhere else to stay because you're now their customer.

Of course the service you get differs a lot by OTA. But from the customer's perspective there's usually a net gain by booking through one.
"I still don't get how embedded chipset manufacturers can keep competing with the largest graphics company in the world in the gpu space so easily though."

Just for some perspective:

Samsung total revenue: $247 Billion
Apple total revenue: $157 Billion
Qualcomm total revenue: $19.1 Billion
Texas Instruments total revenue: $13.7 Billion
NVidia total revenue: $4.00 billion

NVidia is the relatively small fish in the pond here, and if they have relatively more graphics experience the others have relatively more experience with everything else in this space.
MarketEnabler/MarketAccess is also very useful, especially for people not in the US.