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> You are creating capabilities for this device that don't exist. Currently the data provided does not help with any of your use cases. In fact, it could actually hurt.

Hurt? That's not physically possible... It sure as hell isn't going to bite my dog.

> I used to have a dog with hip problems. As her hip got worse she ran more, not less. Why? Because it took her longer. Sure, it was lower speed, and she galloped weird, but Whistle would still track that as an increase in running! As a converse, as she got better the time duration of her running fell, but her intensity and speed increased. Again, giving you the wrong idea via Whistle data.

Where's your data to back this claim up? I kid, I kid, but seriously don't you think these are changes that this device would detect, and if properly programmed point out to the user as abnormal? Now there's nothing to stop their algorithm from sucking and they could say "great job on walking your hurt dog for 27 miles this weekend on a camping trip dude. Gold star! (I'm assuming this is what you mean by hurt, not to be bitten) But, you'd hope that as the device matures they'd discover these sorts of things and look for them.

> As I said before, Whistle is the Moves app for Dogs. I suggest you download that app, see the data you get from it, and if you would like that for your dog then go for it. Just remember you're paying $100 for the same functionality provided by a free app.

I'm sorry my dog lost his smart phone last week so I'd have to buy him a new one... oh oh oh, I hear I could spend 100 bucks and get this same information in a nice neat little package that clips onto their collar!

The point of all this is that this device IS superfluous, I don't need any of this data. It falls squarely into the WANT category. Just like the fitbit (don't need that to work out either). It's a want kinda like say... a galaxy s4 (or iPhone 5), second laptop, extra pairs of shoes, raspberry pi, a new game, a new... you get the picture. No one is going to put this in the "You literally have to get one of these or your dog will die" category.

But you can't argue that a collection of data from all 10+ years is something that you ALREADY have . I say that because I like data. I like seeing graphs of activity, and being able to digest information in a meaningful manner. And it's not like you are going to make something that collects said data for cheaper than 100 bucks and create instructions/send it to me...

What I will say is that this device is not a substitute for caring for and watching your dog. Sure it'll give you pretty data, but at the end of the day they need love and attention more than anything else (which I think we can both agree on).
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I agree with this and the OP - but in my case Facebook has brought me closer to the friends I see every weekend. I mean, not only in the group messaging and event planning in preparation for our weekly gatherings, but it also improves our time spent together. We no longer need to talk about shallow details (restaurants we've tried, things that happened at work, what the weather is like on that side of town) but more quickly get into deeper conversations (or, you know, the drinks and board games).

It's also worth noting that hiding has improved dramatically since it was first introduced. Now, you have more control over what gets hidden. For example, you can remove a "friend" from your feed but still get notified when they have a major update or life event (e.g. get married, move away). That way, you can get rid of the noise that person creates but not throw out the signal at the same time.
The sentence you quoted actually is itself an anecdote, so this is an odd criticism to make.

And I don't think we should expect every opinion piece on the web to be a PhD thesis based on a ten year double-blind cross-over study. It's just a simple opinion piece that says, "Facebook works for me."
Weird is in the eye of the beholder. Let me put it this way, do you understand why matrix multiplication is defined the way it is? That looks weird too if you've never tried to derive it for yourself. That is, it's the lack of intuition and familiarity with the underlying concepts (vector algebra) that make it look weird. Also, the question is about a formula.

The determinant is a function from a matrix to a scalar that behaves in a nice way. The motivation for the particular properties chosen for "nice"-ness are complicated and out of the scope of the author's answer. But the idea is that you want some number that can represent the matrix in certain contexts (exactly the contexts defined by the listed properties). From there, you just go through the derivation laid out in the OP and you wind up with a computable function. That's where the determinant comes from, that's why it's "weird", etc.. It's a derived function. It just so happens that there are other emergent properties that make it rather useful for doing practical things with matrices.

> Its like listening to people talk about "power" WRT computers unless they know ohms law, you'd think there's gun barrels in there or little politicians.

I don't follow, the argument presented in the OP is semi-rigorous; words are chosen carefully and used with their usual mathematical definitions, not with the intuitive English definitions.
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The idea of an unbiased article is in my opinion just an illusion. In reality truth is a negotiation between different stakeholders and some form of settlement at the end where each side can somehow get away with.

I personally find the next posting of the author much more revealing [1]. It is a discussion on how much meaning one can find in a simple sentence such as "____ is a Jewish-American politician" all the way to the suggestion that some by "tagging all the Jews in Wikipedia dream of a time when those lists might be of service to the police."

Just goes to illustrate how much subjectivity can be infused into a few words that are in itself unquestionable facts.

[1] http://www.markbernstein.org/May13/WikipediaAndTheJews.html
I'd have to disagree, simply using the smallest priority flat rate box possible was typically the best option for me.

What would be cool is if you provided the same kind of service that paypal does for shipping (print and prepare labels etc.) as an addon / plugin to shopify or other shopping cart systems.
I signed up with Voicestream, later bought by T-Mobile. I've been with them more than a decade. A couple of times they've called to inform me I need to switch plans because they're phasing out the one I was on. It's been a total win, no extra money, more stuff every time. I'm in Arizona, and coverage is fine here. Traveling in the US sometimes I get T-Mobile and sometimes I roam. A visit to Europe a few years ago I saw solid coverage, mostly T-Mobile. Yeah, it was $1/minute to call home. So I called every night for only 5 minutes to talk to my wife and daughter. Compared to hotel and restaurant expenses? Whatever.

I never think T-Mobile is especially good until I hear others bitching about their carriers.
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For sure?

I thought Stripe blocked that specifically.
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I have one and a nasty case of buyers remorse:

1. PDF reading is the pits

2. The device is just big/heavy enough for me to never want it with me. Won't fit in any pocket, bulks up my slim briefcase, is hard to handle with one hand.

I'm waiting a while to allow myself to get a paperwhite.

All that said, you can have mine for $99 if you need one!
Facebook works for me very well because I don't quite use the news feed as a social networking feed. I have changed its push model to a pull model. That means, I have pretty much hidden all of my friends and use the news feed to only read updates from magazines and pages I am interested in. I however visit people's profile that I am reminded of every now and then to see whats going on with their lives. The closer I am to someone the more frequent her/his profile gets a visit. To make this tractable, I every few months go through a round of deleting people I don't care about (like someone I've met for a few minutes and I am sure I will not see again, or if I do I will mostly likely pretend I don't know the person).
I'm on one of their pre-paid plans with a Nexus 4. I don't see any DNS hijacking and tether occasionally without issue.

I'm in the Midwest and the coverage is good in urban areas (HSPA+ and good voice). Voice at best in rural areas though.
Sure, you can conceive of more complex rules to solve the problem, but that's complicating the syntax for little benefit. You can no longer say "The docstring comes before the arguments". You instead have to say something like "The docstring is the first evaluated expression in the function if the expression is a string, unless the function has multiple arities, in which case the docstring precedes the function's arguments and any isolated string expressions in the bodies will be ignored."
So here's my quick feedback to the team.

Pros:

- Pricing is fine with me - I'm doing a paid SaaS app with relatively high per-user revenue. You will likely price out most of other devs, however.

- I like the retroactive analysis. The idea of grab everything and let god sort it out speaks to me.

- I like doing both device and web analytics in one place. I don't think doing one or the other makes sense anymore.

Cons:

- I don't see a way to make sure a user from different devices is counted as one user, not two. I want to track the user across all touch points. From experience I know solving this problem is very-very hard - sometimes you want to see what the user did before he identified himself, which is where your idea of "one user per session" falls apart - a session might have different users in it signin in and out, and then there is a period between signins which can be attributed to either of the authenticated users before or after in the same session. Not to mention apps with support for multiple-account apps, (e.g. iOS gmail app where identity depends on which part of the app you're in).

With all that said, I don't think I will be trying it out. There are tons of analytics services out there, and I don't feel like I can make an educated decision about which one to try first, or at all. Where you can help me is by providing a survey of the problem space, talking about the problems, potential solution methods, and then addressing which products implement which methods.

Good luck.
I was briefly excited that this would be a new model, but ... no.

I guess they just found a few lost pallets at the factory, or something.

I have large hands, I read fast and I like to have lots of text onscreen at a time. Regular Kindles don't cut it for me.
Perhaps you could refer to a "standard" CalDav client interface included with Windows? Or .Net? I can't think of any OS that provides a standard library for this... Maybe Linux has a few, but not sure that it's in the box... same for OSX.
I am contending with what "esoteric" means here but I'd say http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/
Buying a DX screen replacement, hacking a controller out of an Arduino or sth. and hanging it on a wall sounds like a great project! Added to my TODO list ;).
I agree completely with this cat. Maybe it's because I use Facebook from Bolivia and ads aren't really shown down here (no market?), but almost of my timeline posts are nice to see. I also hide dumb, annoying and negative people but keep them as a friend to avoid hurting feelings.

I get to talk to my immediate family instantly from anywhere in the city, laptop or mobile phone - what other free service does that?

Facebook isn't terrible, naysayers are just hipsters wanting to hate on something popular.
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> then the fact that is was used is not an indication of "brain dead" decision making.

I didn't mean using it was brain dead, i mean using it without knowing the implications might lead to (accidentally) using it in in a brain dead way. For example, I could see them implementing the protocol and testing it without crypto and then simply adding crypto on top of it without thinking about the crypto portion.
"History did it" is never a good reason to support marginalization. Especially when there are other, more neutral ways to split up "American Novelists".
Am I the only one that finds $299 to be way too much money for a single purpose device that really isn't that great at it's only purpose?
It's not a list of the "most prominent authors"; it's a list of all American Novelists. In addition, it was not being turned into a list of "mainly male authors"; it was being turned into a list of only male authors.
I've mostly always treated "guys" as gender neutral myself, even though it may be technically incorrect. I'll sometimes say "you guys" to refer to either a mixed group or even an all woman group.

I do use "you folks" as well, somtimes. Not often though. Can't really say why.
Its not quite the PDF reader I'm looking for. I consume a lot of PDFs in the form of data sheets and manuals for things like ARM cpus. I'd really like something closer to 12" diagonal with paper aspect ratios. Also 200+ ppi. At one point there was a 2560 x 1600 e-ink screen in the works but I don't think it ever saw the light of day unfortunately.

The retina iPad makes a reasonable replaceme, what it loses in size (too small) / power (too much so has to be plugged in) / readability (lots of glare, hard to read under bright workbench lights) it partially makes up for with rendering speed and color support.
Using nouns rather than verbs in links does not specifically relate to wikis and WikiWords. See this more general advice from the W3C in 2001: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere.html.en

> we do not recommend putting verb phrases in link text

More generally, links should identify what they link to, and more often than not that will mean a noun phrase, not a verb phrase.
I honestly can't tell if you are joking or not, because I love actually do love more data on everyday things, and this is hacker news so I'm inclined to lean toward serious on a statement like that...

I.E. I downloaded a sleep app and very much enjoy seeing how I've slept over the past few weeks. Also thanks to one of the other commentators I'm going to download move and check that data out.

Do you know of any place I can get at my data from Google to see what my internet footprint looks like?
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>> a start-up that will somehow make it easy to approach people you don't know and spark up a conversation

This technology exists and it's called approaching people you don't know and sparking up a conversation.

Social skills need to be developed just like nun-chuck skills and computer hacking skills.
We've setup drinks for people through our own personal networks (one or two degrees away from the matchmaker), and they've gone well. We use a variety of options, but our philosophy is: we don't care where we find a match, as long as they're good, that's all that matters. We can also keep notes on everyone using it.
Not yet, I don't have a good way to provide query ability on my postgres db. I also haven't yet imported a lot of files I have lying around.

You can email me for an rsync source that contains the work items we've generated. Right now this is about ~68.2M URLs, mostly on the big blog platforms. This list should grow considerably.
And if it is damaged on arrival, who is liable, you or the shipping company. Who do i have to deal with to get paid for my broken item?
PL/Lua can be installed in either trusted and untrusted versions.

http://pllua.projects.pgfoundry.org/
Or it could simply mean that there are more great male writers than female ones.
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Wikipedia has a failure which unearths some deeply embedded problems and then proceeds to fix them. This has happened how many times now?

Until I can get the same level of information (quantity wise) from another source, Wikipedia has immense value that fills a very large market gap -- even if they can't get their taxonomy of American authors quite right.

To say "Wikipedia’s about over" ignores the actual value of the site and greatly over-reacts to another mishap in the history of the user-run site.
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I'm really shy about sharing stuff on facebook. Maybe because of the number of highschool and college folks I have friended there.

So basically I'm a 'scroller' (I have a 20yo real life friend who called me this term offline).

I do go to facebook to scroll once every couple of days and it is interesting. I'm just happy that people aren't as shy as I when it comes to posting updates and uploading photos etc.
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thanks! thats exactly one aspect of frustration I had with expedia. Last year they had a net income of almost 500 million. Why even bother denying such a trivial amount claim. The amount of resources they spent fighting my claim and goodwill they lost from me and my friends is so much more. I actually spent money on Fiverr to have people retweet my message.
I think the point was that all the women were being moved to the "American Women Novelist" sub-list while all the men remained in the "American Novelist" top list. If they had moved all the men into one just for men also and then made the top level list just link to the two sub lists that would have made more sense. This would also open up a format for additional sub lists linked from the top list.
PL/SQL only looks like Ada, it's not very featuresome.

Bonus fun: IBM DB2 has a PL/SQL front end that compiles to their own bytecode.
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I've watched 11 minutes of it, and I plan to watch the rest. Fascinating lecture.
LA is just called LA, though people do say downtown LA. I've only heard of San Francisco being referred to as the City by West Coasters.
Actually, you are being silly. You have never been in "the hood" then where cops take forever to get there. Ever been to L.A., NYC, etc.? All that stuff cost extra money to equip a vehicle. Cameras can't do much with someone that has a bandana and shades on. You think the police will actually dispatch a helicopter for a driver-less vehicle? You sound like YOU have been watching too many movies. The cost to run drones in the air would end up being astronomical. I hope you are not being serious....
Is government harassment of photographers an example of streetlight effect?
This comment highlights how print-oriented and inflexible PDF is. I hope that now that we have ePub, PDF-only content will become increasingly rare. Does PDF still have any advantages over ePub or web pages?
Seems like the animator attached motion capture to the rig. Awesome job. Very awesome if the animator did everything manually.
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Well, my specific denomination named themselves evangelical presbyterian, but we're fundamentalists. While you can glean that we have a Presbyterian form of government and purport to be evangelical in nature, to be honest, you cannot read too much into a name - a group of Christians are best understood by their fruits.

I've always struggled to reconcile how someone could suggest they're Christian but only choose to believe certain parts of the bible and dismiss the rest as just stories (note, I'm not referring to how specific parts of the bible are illustrative in nature). For me, the whole thing crumbles away if you dismiss parts of it.

I've heard people suggest that it's more important to take away the good things and good examples than to actually believe in the stories as facts.

Anyway, that's just a slice of my opinion.

I'm interested in your statement that evangelicals are communitarian and fundamentalists are separatists, I see this practically in some church communities - but I see the opposite in others. I would consider my church more on the separatist side than communitarian.
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Thanks for the overview. It's refreshing to get straight answers.

Which wallet are you guys using? I've heard good things about armory which make it easier to do hot / cold storage. Keeping withdrawals separate from the application server makes a lot of sense; is this using the SSL protocol for JSON-RPC on a non-standard port, and then closing off internet facing ports for that computer/server?

Are you doing any sort of 2 factor authentication to limit hacked accounts getting emptied?

I'd be happy to email or something if you're up for it.
Agreed -- and I find your use case interesting, because when I hear of some obscure new social network that only works on web or some has some crazy obscure features that only rich white tech people care about, I think about the case of someone from Bolivia/South Africa/Phillipines who uses Facebook, can access it on pretty much any phone, and finds it valuable...a problem that many products/networks (outside of maybe Twitter and Evernote) have successfully solved
> The sentence you quoted actually is itself an anecdote

No, it is a conclusion drawn from an implied accumulation of anecdote. An actual anecdote would be something like, "when my brother on the other side of the country had a baby, I found out on Facebook, and was thus more connected to him." Ie. it would demonstrate connectedness to someone far away who is cared about deeply.

I think the original author and the poster you replied to probably have very different definitions of "deeply". Facebook doesn't seem very useful for first tier people who get the phone/snail mail/IM/email treatment or third tier people who you don't care to keep up with much, but it has a sweet spot in that second tier. It's usefulness to individual people is probably proportional to how large their second tier is.
When is the last time you read a privacy policy disclosure?

A reasonable person would assume that if an application has no functionality that requires sending data over the network, the application won't surreptitiously spy on you and send your data over the network.
I'm disappointed that my part of the USA is ignored by these maps.
Hawaii has its own form of the English language, sometimes referred to as "Hawaiian Creole," but more commonly known as "Pidgin."

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