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Your comment appears to half 'attack' the commenter above and half 'attack' Bezmenov, while not saying much. If the use of 'crack-pot' was in reference to Bezmenov, I reccommend first watching his longer (hour-plus) classroom talk from the early 80s, also on Youtube. The main message and content is clear enough, and saying the current empire will fall is far from saying 'the moon is made of cheese'.
For every Starbucks messing up he/she/they, I can count 10 websites that can't get this right:

printf("%d %s in your cart",x,(x==1) ? "item" : "items");

0 items
1 item
2 items

I could swear eBay printed "1 items" for the first decade of it's existence.
Yeah, for that you can go back to your original solution, but wrap it all in a (function(){ })() so the scope of the functions is limited to that function. I think you need to assign the Cell function to window.Cell as well to escape the scope for that one component.

Unfortunately, it was much slower when I tested it last night. Close to 60% slower compared to your original solution, or 7% - 10% slower than the original prototype method version.
I've been building something similar, allowing anyone to track _anything_ about themselves or their daily life in pretty graphs: http://ontrack.io/

I've also built a very extensible API for it from the beginning: http://ontrack.io/api
Okay, I name you Patent Examiner Potentate. Just a few simple questions.

Are wheels obvious?
How about a wheel attached to two logs (a cart)?
How about fire?
woven grass to catch fish in a stream?
Taking some seeds from a plant and planting them?

Those completely transformed our lives, yet, for a very long time, were anything but obvious. My point is not to bicker about fire and how a patent process might have treated it, per se, but to illustrate how hard it is to recognize what is obvious or not. If no one else is doing something, in the tech field, is it because it wasn't obvious, or because the tech wasn't quite there yet? I've talked with quite a few (US) patent examiners and they are smart people, and find it anything but trivial to rule on obviousness. I'll say more about that in relation to "one click" below.

The bigger issue, to my mind, is the ease of research and implementation. It doesn't cost years of research to devise 'one click'. After you have thought of it, you can hand it off to a mid-level programmer and it'll be added to your stack in a few days - and a junior programmer could've had a prototype going in 15 minutes. Contrast that to the people rightly lamenting about investing years of work into medical device, only to have it stolen from them by a bigger (or just different) company.

I haven't studied the history of one click, so I could be wrong about its details. If so, please focus on the broader ideas. The argument is simply that if no one else does something for several years when it was possible, then that idea is not 'obvious', except in hindsight.

With that said, I'm not crazy about extending 20 years of protection to such a trivial implementation. But how do we do that without punishing people with years of research, or just a brilliant flash of insight? I'm sure we can come up with a straw man patent (and perhaps one click is that straw man, though I don't think so), but the difficulty is in ruling on non-strawman patents.
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> It really is no different than the meta data that the NSA is collecting and most likely we will see defense of the gathering using similar rebuttals, namely YOU have a right, the license plate/car/phone/database does not.

You're mis-characterizing the rebuttal in both cases.

1) With metadata the rebuttal is that the Constitution refers to the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..." There is a legitimate argument that AT&T's records about when you used their network is not your papers or effects. You didn't create the record, AT&T did. You don't usually even have access to the information, AT&T does. It's not something silly like "the phone doesn't have a 4th amendment right."

2) The rebuttal for gathering information from cameras is that the 4th amendment has never extended to what the government can observe about you in a public place.

The 4th amendment doesn't mean "I have a right to have the government not track or monitor me without a warrant." It says exactly what it means: the police can't search your person or your house, your papers or effects, without a search warrant supported by probable cause. The farther you get from that plain language, the more tenuous your argument becomes.

Vis-a-vis the Supremes, at least Sotomayor has questioned whether it might be necessary to rethink at least the third party doctrine, which is the basis for (1): http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_data_question.... I don't think anyone any time soon would think about revisiting the rule for plainly visible activity in public spaces, which is the basis of (2).
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Haven't read the paper, but another problem that occurred to me - if the mass of all particles is increasing over time, over whose time is it increasing. The rate of progress of time depends on the frame of reference, right?
Several factors: people use separate phones for business (paid by employer usually) and personal calls, often people have phones from different operators, because of significant discount for calls within the same network, illegal immigrants that do not get counted in the census also own mobile phones (sometimes several phones, like I mentioned)
Brazil has around 190 million people[1] with about 249 million mobile phone lines enabled [2].

People that have more than one line usually buy one line from each provider so they can talk "for free" between the same providers. It is not uncommon for people to ask you what is your provider so they will mark it and call from a phone that uses that provider when trying to reach you.

We also have a high number of people with phones that allow multiple providers with one device.

Business and personal cellphones are not uncommon either.

[1] http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/...
[2] http://extra.globo.com/noticias/celular-e-tecnologia/quinto-...
I could also just left click and hold the back button to get where I need. Neither is satisfactory.
Really? I admittedly mostly used MAE on Solaris -- which emulated a 68k processor -- and it was reasonably fast.

I never had cause to use SoftPC.
I've always wondered if it wouldn't be interesting to treat certain parts of a web application kind of like Objective-C NIB files. NIBs are sort of used to load new code into the application at run-time. We could do something similar with javascript maybe? Load parts of the UI in chunks based on what the user is currently doing with the application so that initial load times are lower.
Been building something like that at http://ontrack.io with a very robust api (http://ontrack.io/api) with ability to input data and export at will.
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Shouldn't dogs that attack humans be put down in any case? I thought that would be standard consequence if a dog bites a person.
Good design doesn't mean "put everything in smaller containers." Chrome uses distinct rows for tabs, addresses, and bookmarks because each field can contain a lot of information.
The point is: just because it is easier doesn't mean the rules have changed. It is still and always has been legal for someone to track you driving around town, be that by paper and pen, Polaroid, or streetcorner mounted camera with wifi.
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I just gave the maps demo a go with a coworker and it worked really well. Smooth, and responsive (even in street view).
It's like having google docs functionality for everything. Will dig into it more soon, but first impression was great.
Thanks for sharing.
Here are some more sources -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Gender-neutral_la...

and

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Singula...

Using the singular-they seems to be completely acceptable and preferable to the alternatives provided by the author.
Crucially (at least on my device,) there's no granularity to this opt in - I cannot choose to backup my application data but not my WiFi passwords. Now my options are to either accept Google's storage of my network passwords or set up and maintain my own backup system.
That's a neat blog, thanks for the link!
I went to a Hackathon at the GoInstant offices recently and got to give this a try. I'm pretty impressed, I was able to get a collaborative app put together and working with multiple users without even setting up a server backend.

I did eventually add a server backend to my application for storing data, but the multi-user parts are all done with GoInstant and work really well, a lot easier to manage than your traditional Socket.IO based approach.

Anyone interested can checkout my app on GitHub, but be warned. It was done in one day at a hackathon, so the quality isn't great: https://github.com/brandonwamboldt/goreview

In Use: http://goreview.brandonwamboldt.ca/
Unfortunately, the Nexus 7 bricks itself if you don't keep it charged.

I've tried several unbricking ideas from the web, but none of them has worked....
The carriers sell the phones for less and make money back through the service plan. That's the basic model for carriers offering phone subsidies.
Surprised they didn't include plain baking soda
Interestingly, swamp plants also deal well with longer absences, because one can just drown them completely when leaving. After a few weeks the water is gone, but the plant is also fine with that for a while.
My first thoughts:

- It looks _really_ great. I'm not super familiar with the interfaces that librarians have to use, but I can't imagine it looks or feels as nice as this. When the kinks are worked out, I can definitely see this being great.

- Upon first login, I'm REALLY confused. This first dashboard is way overwhelming. Perhaps a tutorial on first run, or don't show the widgets unless there's some data.

- There should definitely be a way to import books. There may be a standard library format, if not use CSV. Almost all libraries will already have a system that does this. The only way you will convince them to change is if the migration process is easy.

- The rows in the catalog view widget seem to get big enough to fill the widget. When you don't have many books, it looks weird. Probably better to set these as a fixed height.

- Make the entire row for a book clickable. The whole row gets a cursor icon, but only clicking the text takes me to the next page.

- Deep linking doesn't work

- When I add a book manually, the ID doesn't seem to stick. I entered "22222", and now I can't find that anywhere.

- CoverSwish is really cheesy. Technology for the sake of technology.

- There seems to be an image field on books, but I can't find where to upload an image

- The whole app is _really_ slow. Currently I'm hung and can't get back in. I guess I'll end my review here.
Any tips on how someone who's not familiar with these things can work out what's legit and what's dangerous?
drop by sometime and say hi! We've made a real mess of things.
ha! this is awesome coming from super expensive coffee selling Starbucks, who just increased the price of their products, so they can pay for professional editing...lol, j/k

The author's solution about using the first name of the person should be the standard across the board. It hurts to read these sentences as much as reading bad code.
> On a Macbook trackpad or magic mouse you can also set three-finger tap to middle click (with third-party tweaks like BetterTouchTool).

Ick. I hate doing two-finger taps as it is. I don't believe one should need anything other than a pointing device with one button to browse the web effectively. Needing to hack in ways to simulate extra buttons is bad design. Why not use a keyboard then?
The PyPy platform is really amazing.
I hope one day the we can use all the scientist Python libs on PyPy!
cffi (http://cffi.readthedocs.org/) makes writing FFI much easier and in more portable way then using python CAPI or clunky ctypes.
And now the STM - a remedy for the famous GIL.
Well I don't agree that there's far more valuable data than the ability to access my internal network. If my wifi network wasn't segregated from my wired network, by getting my wifi password you have bypassed my firewall, giving you access to my/my company's servers.
I don't like how similar the words "Cosmology" and "Cosmetology" are.

I was very confused upon first reading the title of this article.
you'll have to revisit that for localization, you could use ngettext or similar right away.
No sure about everyone else, but after this past year, I am wary about anything CNN claims happened.
But Yahoo did comply, they just fought and failed. If anything Yahoo proves these companies didn't have much choice.
Punitive damages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages
Redeeming your eGift couldn't be easier. All you need to do is:
1. Redeem your eGift
2.
3.

That doesn't really work for me, either. Surely steps 2/3 would never be reached - you'd end up in an infinite eGift redemption loop!
>Most people really have 10 different WiFi networks? I have two. Home and work. Who has 10?

Home, work, the office where I do side work, my in-law's house at the beach, my parent's house in another state, multiple friend's houses that I frequent, my doctor's office, local restaurants, etc. Some of these places are cell signal dead zones and the only way to get a signal is to connect to WiFi. Plus WiFi is faster, more stable and doesn't cut into my limited cell data plan.
Didn't Yahoo comply after they initially resisted?
It was clearly a display error, its not like the guy could have paid off the national debt considering the real money in that amount never existed in the first place.
Here here. Wish I could double up-vote.
Having a product in the wild, I agree w/everything on the list. I also wanted to offer the following. Numbers correspond to the order in which the OP lists them:

1. Error Tracking. I'd also recommend catching JS errors that are happening client side. Whether they're sent to 3rd party analytics or bug tools, or sent to your server for logging (what we do) is up to you. A JS error can prevent your app from working just the same as a server side bug can, so definitely do this.

2. Setup your support email. Yes, but also include a very easy to access support form inside your app. Even though I include our product's support email address on our website and in account verification emails, 95% of support emails come from w/in our app through the built in support form.

3. Get a few friends to test the app first. We were fortunate to have friends very eager to do this, that also represented our target audience. In addition to finding bugs, we also found they re-emphasized features we left out or thought weren't important. They also downplayed features we decided to include instead, either b/c they didn't work as expected, or weren't as important as we thought they were. But use good judgement when acting on their feedback, depending on how much they represent your target audience.

5. Uptime Monitoring. OP, what are your uptime reports saying? I test drove Digital Ocean for about a week, but their network was the least reliable out of all 5 hosting providers I tried.
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Four years ago [1], two years ago [2], and today.

Tomorrow I'd love to poll on where in the world.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588

FYI: for anyone in the 13-18ish category, if you are interested in a startup mentor (or a technical one w/ rails/node.js/meteor.js) I'm working with a few people at Stanford willing to take on mentees. Shoot me an email (hn@withoutfriction.com)
At the very least you should probably look at the theory before claiming to discredit it. The "radiation" is lower energy microwaves which are quickly scattered.

As for your other questions, these are addressed in the theory. How about reading that first.
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Sadly, you may be right, but at least someone is bringing this up. Go NJ. I wonder what Chris Christie thinks...
or baking soda related hacks, I mean. it can be used for a ridiculous number of things and common problems
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The price is ludicrous, especially considering the plethora of high quality free online courses.

I think their pricing may come from the fact that data science is the 'hot' field right now, so I suspect they'll be capitalizing on the corporations that will start pumping money into training their employees in data science. So I wouldn't be surprised if you start seeing some forture 500s covering the cost of this for a new hire.
That page doesn't actually explain why the galaxies appear to be moving away from each other.
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(I'm a woman and I really would rather not textually eradicate my gender, thank you very much.)
Not sure about Russia, but in other countries there are tight regulations for phone subsidies (treating them for what they are: dumping of retail price with the purpose of locking in users - a blatantly anticompetitive practice that would be illegal in most industries).

Strong competition has a similar effect. If the SIM free contracts are good enough, people are not going to get into lengthy, expensive contracts. This doesn't happen in places like the US because there's a very strong cartel/oligopoly there that affords them the right to simply deny you a terminal if it's not under the carrier's conditions.

If Apple is selling for cheaper than the carriers can afford to sell, then they will simply do what they are doing: stop selling it.
If someone has the resources to obtain your Wi-Fi password from Google and is determined enough to get within range of your network, you're being targeted by a very dedicated adversary. Things like physical security, TEMPEST and listening devices become valid concerns. This is a highly unlikely adversary for the majority of internet users.

Note that non-targeted attacks (the type that leak password lists) are not a serious threat here.
Its good to at least see elected officials giving it lip service. That means the awareness and concern we feel is shared by enough of our countrymen that even politicians feel its pressure.
That actually isn't the point. No one is saying it's illegal. They're saying it's creepy that the government has a database of your physical whereabouts that they can store and search through for all time.

Of course, the "rules" have indeed changed. It's pedantic to the point of ignorance to only consider laws and reject the context in which those laws were made (pre-wifi-enabled-streetcorner-cameras). The words on paper might not change, but a rule effectively changes when the environment changes around it. Consider also: every other legal issue that intersects with technology.
Awesome! Excited to check this out -- I've had the same idea kicking around in my head for a while.
Thats true, but wasting space with a container that's too big and almost never fully used is also questionable. And a lof of information can quickly become to much information so having a lot in bookmarks there doesn't seem practical to me.

I just tried this and it works well so I'm sticking with it.
Did you read the article? The point he made was, if you don't know which gendered pronoun to use, just use their name!

"In a case like the generic email I got from Starbucks where the gender of the purchaser is likely unknown, the solution is even easier. Try this little programmatic trick:

[$first_name] [$last_name] wanted to make your day so [$first_name] sent you a $20.00 USD Starbucks Card eGift to spend on your favorite beverage."

Or "this person" would work in many situations as well.

Also, what is "especially in Starbucks' home town" supposed to mean?
That assumes your application data is less important than your WiFi passwords. I don't think a distinction at that level is useful. To be useful, it would have to be per application. I don't care if some game status is synced, but I surely care if my email credentials are (although caring may just means I'm aware, it doesn't necessarily mean I would change it).
Impressive. Time to get a Jawbone.
Better yet, put the stuff that's not related to what's on the tab (like bookmarks) OUTSIDE of the tab. Then I don't have to explicitly hide my bookmarks every time I capture a screenshot of a browser.
This seems to make assumptions about a relationship between mass and gravity that may or may not hold as "mass changes" in this way, but it's certainly something to look at.
That's a whole level of difficulty above this, my friend.
It's the indefinite retaining the data which concerns me.

I don't believe in everything in black and whites. Perhaps you collect data and save it for a fortnight and within that fortnight presumably any crimes which may have occurred within a certain area will be known and one might start looking for cars which were within the area. After a fortnight if nothing comes to pass, then presumably you really don't need the data from that locale. And the case might even be made for up to 6 months or a year since sometimes criminal investigations do take some time. Perhaps you make the case that within a fortnight an area needs to be declared a crime scene in order for the license plate collection data to be maintain for up to a year.

But then you save the data for the foreseeable future and who knows what happens with it. Sheriff Arpaio or some gung ho type like that decides computer programmers needed to be monitored and bam, every where I've been for years on end shows up on a map? That seems a little iffy even if the scenario seems far fetched right now (really far fetched since I don't have a license much less a car at this point in my life, but asides aside).
Agreed about Cygwin. I used it for years out of necessity, but I don't like when people suggest it as a remedy for Windows's anemic command line. Cygwin adds a tiny amount of what is needed. For one thing, Cygwin can't do anything about the terminal emulator, which is very weak.
Have this for seniors & babies and you'll make a lot of money.

There are very limited devices available to track data though.
What technologies are you using on the backend?
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This argument came up in the GPS tracker Supreme Court case.

The Supreme Court's decision effectively said that having to use people to tail suspects or whoever put a brake on the government. The GPS trackers removed that restriction. They proceeded to rule GPS trackers without a warrant as unconstitutional.
I believe you're unfamiliar with the modern intimidation/punishment technique police use of killing family pets, especially in front of children, if at all possible. I'm sure the next step in the WarOnTerror(tm) will be shooting the kids themselves. Preferably in front of the mother for maximum intimidation value. Why yes, I am disgusted to be an American.
Yahoo put up a lot more of a legal fight than Google, but they were forced to comply eventually and Google did do some fighting.

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013

The EFF gave Yahoo a special extra-shiny star in "Fights for users' privacy rights in courts", but Google got a star there too.