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My apologies -- yes. I was actually thinking in a different currency.
It's really hard to take Krulwich seriously after the way he treated the Hmong witness in Radiolab's "Yellow Rain" story, including the callousness of the follow-ups.
Reading more, I see that iOS in the Car doesn't need to run iOS apps; it's "just" an iPhone dock with a touchscreen. :)
I'm probably not the only one who does not mind putting the phone in "airplane mode" (which I do anyway), but it is the stupid "must be powered all the way off" that bugs the hell out of me. I just want to listen to my music!
I'm not confusing anything, although I agree with you about Google. The point is that if source code is always available the value of software goes to zero, and the only value is in information. This leads to the existence of companies like Google, who rely on the data they hoard to make money. It also accounts for the "do consulting" explanation for how to make money out of free software.
If this really were a problem, don't you think the bad guys would have already exploited this to cause terror?
Huh. Why would you not be able to listen to music in airplane mode? I always do it on my phone, as I have them on my SD card. Now with the new rule when you will be able to keep the phones in airplane mode while take off and landing, I should be able to listen to music without interruption.
I strongly suspect that cellphone networks falling over because too many people are trying to call their families are not going to stop a pilot from talking with air traffic control. Maybe I'm wrong there, but I really don't think I am.

Regardless, that is what 'airplane mode' is for. Having the device on but not the radio isn't really about that.
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Yep!

That's why I was asking about the performance with more VMs, I don't use many virtual servers at RS for my day job.
I'm not sure there is any relevant law. At the federal level it appears to require "obscenity" which is very hard to prove for anything short of child pornography.
Really, you are going to give people crap for bad analogies, and then try to compare the actions of a conscious human being to an automated computer system?
I understand the point you are making, but the fact is without the app ecosystem a tablet like that is just going to be third place to the iPad and Android tablets. They need to offer a compelling reason to purchase a surface over those other brands of tablets. The windows desktop with a decent selection of apps (because of the removed signature lock) would offer that.

The thing is I don't actually specifically want a pro. All I want is a device that I can create content on. For me, creating content means I want it to run Visual Studio, Photoshop and Blender, along with some toolchain type apps like Git, Dropbox and Filezilla. These apps are just not ever going to appear as Metro apps. So currently, I choose to buy a laptop for half the price of a Surface pro.

The problem is the competition they have targeted. They've pitched the RT against the IPad and Androids and it loses on functionality, and they've pitched the pro against Laptops and it loses on price. An unrestricted RT would win against the IPad/Android on functionality and the win against the laptop on size and flexibility while matching it on price.
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Thank you for saying this. Some in this thread are being critical of the mistakes he made in planning his retirement. That may be, but he's owning it and working his tail off to continue to do what is important to him, namely see his children and remain independent. Much respect.
This guy seems remarkably youthful for 77. A lot of people his age wouldn't be able to handle his jobs, or would not be able to convince an employer to give them a chance. Even a burger flipper has to be able to stand for hours at a time and have a decent short term memory.
They don't really need Wayland right now, and OSS isn't required for gaming on Linux. I've been pretty happy with xorg + pulseaudio + alsa and their Steam for Linux client. I've been surprised at the quality this early in the game.

I'm still a bit amazed that they've released a Steam for Linux client that works as well as it does, and that they are iterating and improving it so quickly. They've done everything right so far, let's see where it goes.
Yeah, that's the other thing. If cellphones were so dangerous, imagine the havoc you could reap with a black trashbag full of old cellphones duct-taped into an old 10' satellite television parabolic dish.
I'm not sure that NBN ever published actual reports on rollout selection. They just said it was for legitimate engineering reasons. The frequent correspondence between priority rollouts and marginal seats is just a coincidence.

Perhaps there's a reason why it's better to have a weird patchwork of rollouts, rather than progressing geometrically or geographically or according to the network topology or whatever. I am genuinely prepared to hear it.
They want your attention in case something goes wrong.
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Biot, Could you post that to the Washington Post story comments? It might be helpful to others reading the story there.
Yeah, yet Microsoft still believes in that failure. They dont get that nobody want their Microsoft stuffs, they should stick to software. Nobody trust Microsoft anymore. Especially businnesses after X license audits ... I'm glad people understand how dangerous this company really is. They definetly lost the cellphone/tablet battle.
It's worth a lot, and while I am not female, and can't fully empathize, I would like to say that I at least sympathize and that I see and try to speak against what you are describing. Women in particular seem to be taught not to profit. In fact, I think on the other side of the equation it is part of what has been awkward for me. Many of my closest male friends see profit as part of their self-identity and it wasn't until your post here that it clicked for me that it may be related to gender identity.

So, like I said, worth a lot. And making people feel good, caring for people, it's the most valuable skill so far as I'm concerned. Glad there are other people who value it.
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Taxi, takeoff and landing are the most critical parts of a flight. If something goes wrong and you can't hear instructions, chaos etc because your distracted with your music then you are a danger to yourself and your seatmates around you.
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People tend to learn from disastrous mistakes.
They should kill Metro/Modern UI on desktop ,it's the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever done.
I think one useful feature might be the ability to export existing Jenkins build jobs to the README files. Some ppl might be more comfortable with Jenkins interface rather than writing the README files from scratch.
Seems to me the author is conflating the principle of insurance with Obamacare.

Or in other words, it's not because the general concept of insurance can be wise that every implementations are interesting.
Make files aren't usually literate.
In the past year, I've been on three flights where a passenger's phone started ringing during takeoff. Nobody seemed alarmed.

They've been getting more aggressive about saying: "Turn off your cell phones. Off means off. Not just airplane mode. Off."

Nobody listens. I certainly don't listen. My SOP is airplane mode for iPhone and iPad with MacBook Pro just sleeping.
Good. If they were actually that dangerous, we wouldn't be allowed to carry them on board.

Shutting down cell radios makes sense; as I understand it, a bunch of cellphones moving at a couple hundred miles per hour can do some nasty things to cell towers, but it drives me absolutely insane that flight attendants gripe at me about turning off my Kindle. I usually just turn the backlight off.
I deleted it when they had the password leak last year.
The acts described in the article probably should have put him in jail. The latest is unrelated though.
Even though conscious human beings aren't able to follow a list of access rules quite as well as a computer system could, I won't hold that against them. There's nothing in my example which requires the librarian to make a judgment call. Barring mistakes caused by fatigue, laziness, corruption, and so on, the librarian should be able to perform nearly at the same level as the computer.
>> It has been called "referential humor", but I don't think it should be classified as humor, although for some people it seems to be a completely satisfying humor surrogate.

You're just completely missing the point. The joke is not the nerdy references. The references are a backdrop, a framework in which to develop the show's humor.

Do people really think, even for a second, that CBS developed a primetime network show whose jokes were targeted specifically to Caltech physics PhD students? Or even to self-identified nerds?

Think of it another way. The show is produced by Chuck Lorrie, the same guy who produced Two and a Half Men, which featured Charlie Sheen as a Malibu playboy. Did you think Two And A Half Men was written to appeal primarily to Malibu playboys? Would you consider that referential humor? Do you think Malibu bachelors got their panties in a twist because some of the jokes poked fun at the show's main characters?

Some of the characters on the show are quirky and flawed, and sometimes they're the subject of ridicule. Flip the channel to another sitcom. It's the exact same thing, but about jocks, or suburban families, or blue-collared delivery truck drivers.

Only the nerd community has enough of an ingrained victim mentality to take it personally, to think the show should be about them, or that jokes about nerds should be off limits.
Can I be the first non-US citizen in this thread express my incredulity that anything less than universal health care is tolerated? "Barbaric" is the term that seems to strike me whenever I hear of it, hyperbolic though it may be.
An automated computer system can only do what it's told. It perfectly carries out the instructions it is given. A human being can really screw everything up using their judgement and coming to the wrong conclusion.

The problem here is that AT&T employed a human being to design an automated system who didn't know enough about the automated system to ensure that it was correct. And then this automated system did exactly what it was told to do and made AT&T look bad.

But the fact that the code running on the webserver didn't reflect the intent of some AT&T exec or their company policy isn't the fault of those accessing the webserver. It's AT&T's fault for doing a really terrible job of QA/QC on their own systems prior to a really big launch.
And it's one of the top three reasons for people over 25.
Yea, this seems overcomplicated for something that can easily be smacked into a .travis.yml file with simple syntax.

Dream result would be what happened with RVM and RBenv merging their simple "select ruby version" files in that Travis, CircleCi, Jenkins etc. all agreed on a generic .build.yml file syntax and we could just use that.
I understand that psychology and psychiatry are imperfect, that they have a checkered history, that observability is difficult, that falsification is often unavailable, that the subject of study is itself tremendously capable of introducing confounding factors and so on and so forth. This is all true.

Physicists have subject domain advantages that psychologists and psychiatrists do not. Quarks do not self-deceive. Atoms will submit to any torture. Photons behave weirdly, but every photon behaves identically to every other photon. Humans are an altogether trickier subject of study and so the full apparatus of science is not always applicable.

What a mature scientist does is say, "OK, let's accept the limits of our field and do the best we can". As better observational tools become available, I expect that psychologists and psychiatrists will change their theories to fit the evidence. They've already been doing that for a long time.
When the shit hits the fan, I wouldn't expect people to be playing by the rules and leaving their phones off.
Just because Obamacare isn't perfect, doesn't mean you are better off without insurance. His post is not addressing the policy, his post is addressing the individuals who are deciding whether to enroll.
I understand this argument, but I've never seen anyone be asked to take out earplugs or stop reading their book to listen to the preflight briefing. It's silly policy with silly justifications.
If you don't like the sound of

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then you might enjoy CircleCI (https://circleci.com).

We've always believed in understandable configuration checked into source control, with sane defaults and configuration over convention. The configuration (https://circleci.com/docs/configuration) is sane and human readable in yaml, yet incredibly powerful, and allows you set up a simple config in 5 minutes, and a complex config in an hour.
Maybe the airlines/the FAA found out how to turn airplane mode on remotely.
Look, the fact that these two companies happen to be be geographically located in resource-rich land is in no way a merit. Apple pretty much did a survey and struck the iPhone, which has been guzzling up ever since. Google bought some land from Herman J. Android and it turned out to have a large natural deposit of everything that has been coming up ever sense in the form of its mobile offering.

But make no mistake: if you had put a stick in the ground you would have seen the same result, provided you were as geologically fortunate as these two lucky suckers.
Yes, yes, Americans are practically drooling Cro-magnons for not having universal health care. We know, we've heard it countless times before, and I'm not sure it contributes anything to the discussion other than a smug sense of self-superiority for the non-American readers.
Perhaps you do need to drive 2 miles to answer your phone, but I think the point was that the vast, vast majority of Google's users do not need to do that. (sidenote: isn't that because you have 2-step-auth turned on? how would you like it to work, given your circumstances?)
Yes and no. Yes, the problem is heightened by people specifying version patterns when they probably don't have to.

However, when you get a bundle install conflict error about json, one gem needing a higher version, and one needing a lower version... adding json to _my_ Gemfile/gemspec to fix it when I'm not using json directly is also not the right answer. Sometimes, even that doesn't work at all.
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It doesn't disappear, it's noted, but just not counted as received. It is wacky, but makes some amount of sense and makes revenue more even. It helps lessen the incentive to stack a quarter with revenue even though it starves the next quarter (someone else's problem).

It seems to relate with software updates being assumed:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/21/inside_apples_ipho...

> Based on research into what allowed this to happened, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was instituted to require certain minimum standards of financial accountability. Among its many rules is a provision that states that companies can't immediately book revenue for a product if the complete product has not yet been fully delivered.
The last flight I was on, there was a guy taking pics with his phone during take off. Nobody noticed.
Even if the market is small, it's critical to be "first" than later. That way you get a bigger share of the market instead of being drowned in an ocean of software like on many app stores these days.
> But there’s no equity, dividend or residual value in a splenectomy.

I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with that. The residual value is every day afterwards that you get to live. (not that I disagree with the sentiment, just sayin)
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All the statistical arguments are detracting from the actual issue. College is not worth it because it is expensive and time consuming but does not guarantee you'll be able to earn a living in the future. And unlike a skill or a business, you can't pass your degree to your children.
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How about the 'age' (since registration) of both? And btw why not just do the simple thing and disenfranchise newer users, anyway?
The four-types classification reminds me of a semi-famous saying by a German general, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord):

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.
This is one of the greatest motivations for young and budding entrepreneurs. Even more so than aspiring speeches or conference talks.

I'd like to thank everyone that posted links and revealed your numbers. People usually don't do that because it invites competition but it's amazing to see how nice and inviting the HN community is. I'm also AMAZED at the familiar faces. I've seen and bought a lot of code from some of you guys without realizing many of you visit HN.

Here's my crap:

http://dayonepp.com - Maybe $100/month (down season) then I think $500/month (up season) NOT passive. Lots of work. I handle fulfillment.

http://affordabl.es - $0, just launched

http://residentevilradio.com - $0, (ran Amazon affiliate links)

http://timeforzen.com - $0, needs redesign, will monetize later this year.

BTW, where's http://CandyJapan.com guy? Last I heard he told us his project was successful at around $3,500/month in revenue.
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I'm glad this is finally happening. I have had a number of very poor experiences with flight attendants just because they think that something I've got is turned on. Most of them demand to see the unplugged end of my earbuds if I'm ever wearing them, or stay to watch me power something down.
> on both platforms equally well

But if they are optimizing a number of things in their own distribution, it's not far-fetched to think that games would run marginally better on the SteamOS.
Sorry, but I'm skeptical about this because it defies logic.

I'm not an eBay expert, but it seems unusual that the bid jumped from 2,500 to 10,000 in one big jump like that.

Is this a fake bid? Some kind of weird spam or marketing stunt?
I have a simple IP lookup site (http://showip.net) that I created many years ago. I created it because I needed it (but mainly too learn at that point ;)
Since then it has gotten better and better indexing on Google until it reached a steady level at around 100.000 - 130.000 visitors / month.

The ads has been fluctuating quite a bit, but overall it has been going steadily up.
Currently I earn somewhere between $250 - $500 / month.

I haven't done much but a bit of tweaking now and then since the initial version, though I have had plenty of plans...
I have changed the GEO IP location DB a couple of times, but the only major change was a rewrite from PHP/MySQL to Node.js and a GEO IP database directly in NginX.
This is my experience as well, although on Royal Jordanian and Emirates, they actually have in flight cell phone service. Few people bothered to have their phones away, much less off, and nothing happened.
And these are on Boeing & Airbus aircraft, the very same ones that United & Delta are using.

I hope this rule does change. There's simply no reason to yell at people to turn cell phones off anymore.
Is Sam saying that investors recommend that a first engineer gets 1.5% (and that he recommends 3%), or that he recommends 1.5%?
Still not Bundler's fault -- it can't install both versions. At any rate, versioning is a hard problem.
Is that actually an official position though? I've only ever heard it as post hoc rationalization. There might be a bit of sense to it, but on the other hand, it's not hard to jostle someone into paying attention, as I'm sure your neighbors would. They don't prevent you from going to sleep before takeoff or landing, and that's at least as difficult a context switch.
I have a Surface Pro and I don't feel it competes against laptops at all. Its screen is too small to use the desktop for any period of time. The keyboard (both the touch and type variants) are terrible for doing any real quantity of typing. The trackpad is clunky and primitive, using your finger on the screen itself is also a poor substitute for a real mouse. And finally, you have to have a steady, solid surface to use it in "laptop" mode. On the train? On the couch? Forget it, tablet form is your only option.

I really like my Surface a lot. However I feel it has two use cases: a very powerful (and quite nice) tablet (really, metro is wonderful!) or as a desktop with a monitor, keyboard and mouse attached. At work we are a Mac shop, being able to take something out that is tablet sized but becomes a full fledged Windows PC by borrowing the needed peripherals from the Macs is really awesome.
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Somehow seeing it repeated makes me hopeful that people will eventually be confronted to the point that their head will intentionally or accidentally recede back from out their ass.
While a standard .build.yml file sounds nice, I'm not sure we understand the problem well enough to figure out what the optimal syntax would look like. This matters because the syntax has large implications for 1) how simple your build process is 2) how much overhead your CI system can take care of, for you.

For example, at Circle, we're still experimenting with yml syntax for user-specified parallelization commands. Each different syntax we've looked at has different implications for what kinds of problems are simple, and what kinds of problems are expressible, using the syntax.

So yes, standards, but not yet :-)
I would just like to highlight one of your criteria: Is your prospective advisor... genuinely excited about you?

This is more important for future academic prospects than I would have anticipated going into my PhD program. I fit your list of attributes for all other criteria save this one. And without my supervisors enthusiasm for my work or my future prospects I've started losing confidence in myself and in my abilities. More than confidence, I'm missing out on networking opportunities due to his lack of interest.
A steam-related carrot with lower fees might be a huge incentive. But when we are speculating a gaming company in the business of selling $60-$100 games might be more worried about their ability to differentiate their products from sub-$10 games. If they believe steambox could provide that then it might be an easy sell.
Microsoft isn't killing the Windows Desktop (i.e. traditional windows apps) anytime soon. 99.9% of Windows users rely on it.
Yeah in the recent bundles it has been much better.
> It's the same appeal that xkcd has. It has been called "referential humor", but I don't think it should be classified as humor, although for some people it seems to be a completely satisfying humor surrogate.

Humor is subjective. But just because what is funny to other people isn't funny to you doesn't make it "not humor", its just not humor that appeals to you.