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The Apple situation's slightly more complex than that: they're certainly ruthless with their hardware, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they have commitment issues with their software technologies - ObjC, Foundation and AppKit's been around since the late 1980s from NeXT without serious architectural changes; UIKit'll be around for a while yet; let nothing come between them and their investment in the Apple Compiler Group. (The upshot is that they've sufficiently abstracted hardware away anyway, so hardware changes aren't showstoppers.) If anything, they're more conservative with tossing out the SDKs than most: OpenGL support, for example, is still absurdly piss-poor, even if they're getting better with their GPU driver support. But it does net you compatibility all the way down their HCL - at the bottom end, for example, is the mid-'07 iMac with the ATi 2600 PRO.

They do give not-so-subtle hints to hand over to them the cha-ching, though, when they EOL old versions of XCode - but that's usually the most you're going to encounter. So works Apple in general.
most of the images would be virtually identical. A million awful photos doesn't make a good photo.
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* Scandinavia is huge when compared to it's population.

* We (everyone in this planet) could live without armies.

* Universal healthcare and school system wouldn't work because corporations don't want it.

* US is corrupted.
We all want to succeed. We all also want our friends and business partners to succeed. It's just that people who have lots of money and power are better at accomplishing that than the rest of us. We all help our friends out; only the scale is different.
Why didn't they do the `if you keep asking, then we'll delist you' trick again?
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> If you think that the display was sexist, it is incumbent on you to explain why

This is a genuinely odd sentiment. The message was written by someone who thinks it is obvious why painted naked booth babes are "mildly offensive," for people who think it is obvious why painted naked booth babes are mildly offensive. Prefacing her message with a treatise on feminist theory 101 (or something) would just add noise to the signal.

In other words, this isn't for you and you can move along. You don't want to experience all of her "hectoring and whining," right? That woman is hysterical!
This is a transparent promotion for the nonprofit mentioned in the article.
It wouldn't be able to fly on three motors only. Opposite motors essentially stabilize each other, both on a horizontal plane and in terms of rotating then quad. So if one motor dies, it would do a combination of spinning out of control, similar to a helicopter without its tail rotor, and rotate on the axis of the two opposite motors that are still running.
It wouldn't be able to fly on three motors only. Opposite motors essentially stabilize each other, both on a horizontal plane and in terms of rotating the quad. So if one motor dies, it would do a combination of spinning out of control, similar to a helicopter without its tail rotor, and rotate on the axis of the two opposite motors that are still running.
This is a really interesting idea. I believe, however, in this form it wouldn't quite work as expected. What you'd end up with is five terapixels of data, but not a 5TP image. The way you'd get that 5TP picture is to arrange all those sensors in a grid and focus the image of your desired object onto that grid. In this form you'd end up with a very, very high resolution image because only a tiny fraction of the image would be falling on each sensor. Each fraction of the total image could then be combined into one mega image, and voila, your 5TP image!

If you have a million people all focusing their 5MP cameras at the same object, you'd end up with a million photos of the same object, but without anything more than 5MP because the entire image would fall on each sensor.

Perhaps people should donate their old phones to science and equivalent sensors could be arranged into a giant grid with a powerful lens attached. The only difficulty then would be atmospheric distortion, so perhaps a cheap trip out of our atmosphere would be in order! I propose we call it the Hacker Telescope.
from a pure cash standpoint what about warren buffet?
The discussions we're having about open access publishing are based on the understanding that new communications technologies specifically target those parts of academic publishing that cost money - the formatting, layout, publication and distribution of articles.

That's why we're able to have a conversation about open access in the first place: the original source of scarcity has mostly evaporated, but Elsevier et al. are still collecting rentier profits from the artificial scarcity of access to a printing press.

The part of academic journals that actually creates value - i.e. the work of writers, reviewers and editors - is mostly unpaid work anyway.
256 colors (well, 256 RGBA tuples) aren't always enough. Just look at the kind of images used by those heavy parallax websites.

Larger photo-based images will always look terrible, no matter which kind of dithering is used.
I think you have it backwards. They are trying to emulate us, not the other way around. That was my take from the article.

> Having said all this, I don't know who we can look to. Maybe no one.

That's precisely right. If you're at the front of the pack, you can't follow someone else's footsteps ... because there aren't any.

There are, however, very specific sectors where other countries excel. It certainly wouldn't hurt to look there for guidance. In the end, though, the only thing we will have to guide us are our principles and convictions, hoping that they will lead us to a better place.
> (b) I would think that having a PhD would help qualify you for the top-level executive roles. Although, frankly, I've looked at company websites, and top-level executives with PhDs are not _that_ common, even in software companies. But yeah, I mean, there _should_ be a top-level decision maker who is _at least_ keeping a close watch on any research related to what the company does (I'm talking software companies here, not companies that _use_ software)... and the vast majority of people who have the necessary skills will be people who did PhD-level research. Anyway, this person should be able to advocate for how the company can leverage new research, and this should not just be left to lower-level (hierarchically) technical folks who have no true strategic voice in the company.
I think there might be a correlation causation thing happening here. :) A PhD doesn't necessarily give you leadership ability, you might join at a higher position and move up in a shorter time frame (because you joined at a higher position).

> Do you think this is true even of CS PhDs? I feel like in my research group, there is a real chance for any of we (students) to do this, but AFAIK I am the only one who has ever really thought about it, because my colleagues tend to keep their noses in the books and focus on narrow technical concerns, whereas I'm really a big-picture thinker. So: in my case, plenty of opportunity, just not much interest among actual PhD students.

My experience is mostly of C.S./Machine Learning PhDs. Let me give you an illustration. Say you spend your entire PhD figuring out one specific problem in recommendation systems, like for example, building optimization algorithms where the error rate is 6% or so. This is incredibly cool stuff but when you go out into the real world, you don't necessarily need that fancy algorithm inorder to solve problems. Really simple stuff works and the way production code works, keep it simple stupid is an important thing!
Doh -- of course... Many thanks for the explanation & the links!
> Tell me what it is you think can't be done

Actually, you did not ask about'what can't be done', but 'example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware and OS"'.

Instagram takes advantage of the underlying OS and hardware when it uses photo filters. Same as native games do. Could it be done in browser? Probably. Same as games.
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I was going to post something similar. Also we often see people insulting others when they post exploits too early or describe exploits in depth too early. Posting stuff like: "You're an .ssh.le, wait a few days before posting that".

I don't think so. I think exploits should be publicly posted as soon as possible and affecting as many people as people. Maybe even damaging exploits, actively deleting users data or servers data.

The bigger the havoc, the sooner the entire industry is going to realize security is a very real concern.

People are still considering buffer overflow, SQL injection, query parameters objects instantiation through deserialization exploits, etc. to be "normal" because "everybody creates bugs" and "a lot of bugs can be exploited".

I think it's the wrong mindset. Security if of uttermost importance and should be thought of from the start.

For example I'm amazed by the recent seL4 microkernel which makes buffer overflow provably impossible (inside the microkernel) or even the Java VM (the JVM) which makes buffer overflow in Java code impossible. It's not perfect (we've seen lots of major Java exploits, but zero were buffer overrun/overflow in Java code... Some in 3rd party C libs, but zero in Java code. Some other Java exploits too of course, but zero buffer overrun/overflow).

So security exploits are not a fatality.

All we need is people, from the very start, to conceive systems more resilients to attacks.

The more attacks, the more exploits, the more bad reputation and shame on clueless developers, the better.

I actually start to love these exploits, because they fuel healthy research by the white-hat community.

And one day we'll have more secure microkernels, more secure OSes, more secure VMs, more secure protocols, etc.

Let them security exploits come.
That would work for MBAs and perhaps JDs, but why tip the scales against, say, a med school that produces great GPs but not many cosmetic surgeons?

A money-based measurement is also heavily canted toward the "old money" set and their legacy admissions to their alma maters.

Money isn't everything. And often it isn't even accurate at measuring how well a school equips students to make it on their own.
Yes, you have to deal with the underlying problems - if there are any that can be dealt with, to get your alignment back in place, etc..
She was fired because she shared private information about the customer and made the company look bad.

I don't think anyone would expect to not be fired if they don't redact information that could lead to them being instantly identified.
Cut military spending and flourish?

Population density is lower in nordic countries(except for Denmark) than in US, so maintaining infrastructure is more expensive over here per capita than over there.

Smaller domestic markets are also an issue over here, as well as language barriers which also complicates exporting products to an extent.

I claim that the system in nordic countries would not fit to US because of way, way lower purchasing power. Imagine cutting your pay by 33 % and having the local grocery prices hike up by 25 % for example. Good? No.
Perspective.

Simulation games tend to be top-down and focus on controlling large swaths of things from an abstract point of contact.

Sandbox games tend to be perspective-based and focus on controlling some single person or group of persons from an intimate point of contact.

Or, more pithily: In a simulation game, you pan; in a sandbox game, you walk.
This is a point of contention for a lot of people. For myself, reduction of a women to their body in order to sell a product is objectification that appeals to a message that women are commodities. The majority of objectifying advertising has this implicit message built it. You might enjoy Killing Us Softly for more information about women and advertising (this link is trailer only, I'm afraid): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlmho_RovY
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I've found the Economist to be surprisingly biased and uninformed when it comes to the Nordic countries. Makes me question if their reputation really is well deserved.
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I was ok with it. It's just the HN equivalent of "Yep, I know I'm going to get lambasted, egged, heckled but so be it bring it on" type of thing.
When I graduated high school, all I wanted was a list of the top Computer Science schools in the world. I can't recall exactly what happened during that period, but somehow, I ended up at the University of Nebraska.

Something is broken.
That's nothing but blind speculation.

There is absolutely no evidence that it would have been considered that way.
Try adding a link to comments on Hacker News on the bottom of the article.
Shameless plug, but Bloomberg's Data License product has, for example, all exchange traded options with full greeks, IV, etc available with many years of historical data among plenty of other asset classes. Typical sales are done to Terminal customers, but the team is always open to talking to businesses with a different model.
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I think the title speaks for itself
Probably not for useful definitions of "generous," which should take into account the actual utility (in money or time), given away. Someone who donates half of their life savings of 50k is (I would say, at least) more generous than someone who donates 90% of 1 billion.
Here's google's take on it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-creates-60m-di...

(And here's a smoother-loading version: https://www.readability.com/articles/q8x2ifi3?legacy_bookmar... )
The practical result is that kids are banned from nearly any site that could conceivably discover their age - presumably even by commenting in a forum or on a blog entry.

Actually, nix that. The practical result is that kids are taught to lie about their age. Fortunately this skill will come in handy when it's time to get a fake ID and buy booze.
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I'm very surprised, but excited, to see this is true. Thanks for sharing.
> “The report concluded that there were observable, repeatable and verifiable ways of measuring teacher effectiveness,” wrote Gates in the letter. Anonymous student surveys that asked such questions as “Does your teacher use class time well, get class organized quickly, help you when you are confused" – were proven to provide useful feedback as were reports from trained professionals observing teachers at work.

Students are notoriusly bad at rating their professors. This was proved with almost ideal control groups at the Air Force Academy [1] and again with groups of trained professionals/graduate students who learned first hand about the 'Dr. Fox Effect' [2]. Even teachers don't seem to like the teacher evaluations done by students [3].

Anecdotally, I can say that most students in my college classes either didn't show up on the survey days, or they walked out the door as soon as the surveys were being handed out. There's also no incentive to provide useful feedback from the student's perspective. If you're taking a survey about the class, it means the class is over and you'll probably never see that professor again, so why bother? I made an effort only because I felt an obligation to help future students, but I'm not sure there are many kids in college who share that feeling.

> Mary Ann Stavney, a high school “Master Teacher” profiled in the annual letter, spends 70% of her time observing other teachers, meeting with them and providing input. The problem, of course, is that this kind of measuring, particularly the hands-on observation in classrooms, is costly, adding about 2% onto payroll.

So you can have cheap and unreliable measurements, or you can have accurate but costly ones. Who's going to pay for the latter? The rating agencies? The schools? The students? Imagine the costs to enact such a program across all colleges in the U.S. alone -- some of the larger state schools easily have > 1,000 teaching faculty across a myriad of disciplines, and they're teaching increasingly diverse student bodies.

The thought of trying to implement a thorough, standardized program of that scale is mind boggling. And that's probably why we've been facing this dilemma of measuring teacher effectiveness since the day the first schools opened. Bill Gates is right that we have a serious problem, but it doesn't sound like he's any closer to a solution.

[1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/06/study_h...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_evaluation#Criticism_of_...
It is a shame. As it stands now, the system "punishes" rule followers who leave the original, uninteresting title and thereby get no traction.

But those who rewrite the title to something more obviously relevant get decent views even if the submission is re-titled later.
1) it does count edge pixels - recognition is based on the shape of what you draw, so for the algorithm, a black picture is like a white one (but I admire your endurance to paint it all black)
2) server is under heavy load atm, it might drop some requests - just retry
From my perspective in the U.S. I see things quite the opposite. We are slipping towards the european model with expanding entitlements, unfunded mandates and an ever expanding litany of ridiculous laws. Self reliance empowers the individual and the state. Few things are as inefficient as government bureaucracy.
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It's not hard when they kidnap people, take them to far away countries and torture them. If any non-US allies behaved like this we would never hear the end of it.
"As of 2010 however, 1.33 million people or 14.3% of the inhabitants in Sweden were foreign-born."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Sweden

The equivalent number of foreign-born citizens in the US is 13% according to
http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/
It never really grabbed me though i'm no way a critic, but watching from early on I think the phenomenon owes a lot to factors beyond the gameplay itself.

Sentiment against big budget games with poor gameplay had risen dramatically which was opening a bigger market for indie games where simple graphics were a badge of honor. Many of these titles lacked strong replay or the ability to play with friends. Releasing in such early alpha (for money) built a highly engaged fan base (as most closed alphas tend to be) and yet set expectations rather low. Notch's clear passion and close relationship with the community along with frequent updates did a lot to build a strong community that essentially became invested in his success at a personal level. The simplicity of the game also created a situation where seeing how much could be done with so little became a big part of the appeal or at least what grabbed outsider's attention. The result of all of that was a genuine grass roots movement that snowballed into an unstoppable promotion machine.

It's not to take away from the game or his skills at all, I have a ton of respect for him and what he built. But I think it's very unlikely Minecraft would have been much more than a blip if it had been released as a finished product by faceless game studio.
There is an API already to export data. Currently it doesn't use the Greenbutton format, but is something to be considered in the future.
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What is this "future of healthcare IT" event? If it's open to the public, then it sounds like something I might be interested in attending.
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Read >100 times, or just clicked >100 times?
While it appears the processing requires more hardware than cell phone cameras have, the basic technique is widely used in astronomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis
I agree with you on points 1-3. I think your point 4 is not relevant; the question was about women being sexist on purpose and not just incidentally. Also in the situation in the article, the question is not whether the degradation was intentional, but rather whether there was any degradation at all.
No, I am saying that pointing fingers is easy to do and I can point to anything I wish. Blaming others for societal problems when there is clearly issues from within the very people this post defends is wrong-headed. If you want to be taken seriously as a person, I would suggest you learn to take responsibility for your own actions and be an equal opportunity blamer. Look in then look out.
Although according to Transparency International[1] US isn't any more corrupt than an average European country and does damn well compared to the southern countries, although tailing nordic countries quite a bit. Still, doing very good in comparison to the rest of the world.

Of course, there can never be too little corruption in a country, so everyone has room for improvement on that part. Even us nordics.

[1]: http://transparency.org/cpi2012/results
An isobar display instead of individual info points has been a goal in pressureNET for a long time. Giving the user enticing visual feedback is part of making the app more broadly appealing.
I am waiting a month now for my iMac :(
Rankings are broken. I looked into it as part of a startup idea and even memorized the U.S. News 2012 rankings. The 2012 rankings were super easy to memorize because the schools are almost exactly where you'd expect them ranked based simply on pop-culture guesses. This even happened when lawyers were asked to rank the best law schools. Consider this fun excerpt from the New Yorker where they ranked a law school that didn't exist:

Those lawyers put Penn State in the middle of the pack, even though every fact they thought they knew about Penn State’s law school was an illusion, because in their minds Penn State is a middle-of-the-pack brand. (Penn State does have a law school today, by the way.) —http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_...
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Individually you're right, in aggregate I'd expect the data to be very accurate.
Indeed, I believe Reddit itself claims to have a strong "no doxxing" policy so I'm surprised the picture/thread wasn't deleted, especially when it became clear that people knew who had left the zero tip.
Sounds like bitcoin requires a backup system by default, then. Because otherwise, the first virus written by some pissy kid that just deletes wallets will devastate a lot of people.