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There are a lot of ethical arguments happening in this thread, and I'm concerned that most of them are missing the point. They tend to center on the idea that these technologies will help the wealthy, while leaving most of the world to suffer.

I'd love to see Google work on initiatives to give the world's poor access to clean water and basic healthcare. Those are awesome causes -- maybe the world's most awesome. But if we categorize pressing third-world health issues as the World's Most Awesome Cause, well, aren't age-related diseases the World's Second Most Awesome Cause?

We should for sure allocate more resources to the World's Most Awesome Cause. But why are people attacking funding for the World's Second Most Awesome Cause? Convince people not to buy top-tier smartphones, or expensive cars, or big houses, and donate to charity instead. But don't try to convince people to die of heart disease. Even if this new Google initiative isn't the absolutely most optimal way to spend money to serve humanity, it's pretty high up on the list.

Please remember that about two-thirds of all deaths world-wide are caused by aging [1]. It isn't just the elite who are getting heart attacks, and long-term, I'd be shocked if it were only the elite who were receiving effective treatments to prevent them.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate

Edit: formatting.
come on, for real?

http://oi43.tinypic.com/1ou543.jpg
Intel has been supporting Linux for a long time. They've even had their own Linux distributions and UI framework development since at least Moblin, which came out back when netbooks were all the rage - around 2008?

If anything, Intel seems to have had remarkably little success considering the amount of effort they've put into Linux. Moblin was merged with Nokia's mobile Linux Maemo to create Meego, and that floated in the market like a rock tied to a solid block of concrete.

Since then, Intel has been doing Tizen with Samsung. It's a closed-development mystery OS that seems to be meant for everything, with every kind of UI, but still isn't shipping anywhere with any kind of UI anytime soon.
I think the 10x productivity thing might be true in unrestricted settings, where everyone is their own boss, but I doubt it holds up in heavy corporate environments. The reason is because you often have to justify your actions to other engineers, wait for feedback, etc. And commit procedures can be long and painstaking. So while some are certainly more productive than others, I doubt it's 10x.
That's a great point - I think it does make it a lot better when there's some kind of connection between a physical movement and the response from the app. The worst kind of swiping gestures are the ones where you have to get it just right, and then a menu "magically" appears out of nowhere.

I think another possible way of indicating the presence of a gesture might be through clever use of shading - for example, a subtle gradient on the edge of the screen where you can swipe, giving you the impression that there's something "just off the screen". I haven't actually seen this in an app yet - not sure why this isn't done more, especially for the Pull To Refresh trick.
>>A flag should really be for inappropriate content, a downvote should be used for "I don't like seeing this kind of content".

A flag should be for content that doesn't belong on HN. It's not necessarily inappropriate. The example in the guidelines suggests avoiding sports (which I am sure many hackers find interesting, I know I do), since it wouldn't fit with the broader goal of the site. However, Grantland ran a fascinating piece on the use of motion tracking camera in NBA arenas, with tons of interesting data generated by the Raptors. I remember seeing it hit the front page, since, despite being about sports, it fit the general definition of something that good hackers that are on HN find interesting.
No, because...

Antibiotics promote yeast infections, including gastrointestinal Candida overgrowth, and penetration of the GI mucosa.[11] While women are more susceptible to genital yeast infections, men can in fact get them as well. Certain factors, like prolonged antibiotic use, increase the risk for both men and women. ...[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_(fungus)
No company that wants to stay in business can afford to completely ignore user experience. Samsung, for example, is every bit as concerned as Apple about this and every recent study I've shown puts their phones ahead of Apple in user satisfaction. Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony etc very much want to do everything they can to make sure that people that buy from them today think of them first when it comes time to upgrade.

Maybe the very bottom barrel discount generic Android device makers don't care about this but you get what you pay for.
> Experts Exchange built their business on taking from many and giving to nobody.

How is the Stack Overflow business model any different?
It's probably more accurate to claim "14% above normal".
Sorry to reply to myself but I seem to have found a source for the below.

>I find it really hard to believe that quarter of all computer sales are Chromebooks. Does anyone have a source? One would expect Google to announce real shipments if they were that good.

>Web usage metrics from a few months ago showed that Chromebooks are used even less than Windows RT.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/google-chromebook-u...

The relevant statement:

>Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc

So, 20% to 25% of laptop sales costing below $300 became "25% of all computers" ? I don't know if the Intel guy said that in this keynote, or it's SJVN's mistake, but it's just terrible reporting.
I read stats somewhere that Windows 7 is less than half of all Windows installs. XP is still very common.
maybe we'll do that one next!
How to Fake Courage
Could you expand on that, I've heard people say this but I've never heard a good reason for why, they just assumed I understood it intuitively, when it wasn't too clear at all.
"Any reasonable person not aware of the trick would believe they had to pay for the answer."

Why not pay a computer shop or a programmer 3-4 times the amount for the same thing, only with EE, you can learn how to do it yourself.

I mean would you you rather have a electrician come out and change your light bulb for you, or would you rather learn to do it yourself.
It's not that surprising given that the A5 has been powering the iPad's retina screen… Or am I missing something?
Sadly, it doesn't look like they support group messaging. That would be a killer feature.
Both answers are correct, and make sense. I guess my question is fundamentally: is this a problem of supply (i.e. - not a lot of appetite to fund debt at these levels) or one of demand (entrepreneurs just prefer equity).
>Does that mean that programmers who claim to have gotten rid of Microsoft/Windows products are really using Windows without knowing it whenever they click on a Stack Overflow link? :)

This! The whole article reads ass-backwards by suggesting that if you're accessing a Linux-hosted site you're somehow using Linux on your desktop. I have strong aversions to this kind of sophistry, b/c readers who don't know that that makes no sense innocently repeat it, thereby confusing others or being publicly smashed down by folks who do know better.
I would get the data from the same authority that is tracking inflation - rent is included in the basket. In the USA I think the Bureau of Labor Statistics does the 'official' data collection.

Rent prices are pretty uniform - there isn't that much differentiation between properties of the same class (# of bedrooms and location, are what mostly matters; tenants don't make choices based on the type of furniture); so prices are relatively uniform - you don't have to ask a lot of people get those prices.

This is of course confirmed each time someone tries to create yet another index - if you use the same basket and weights, only rarely there are any differences in recorded prices.
Maybe it's regional, but it's been more than a decade since I've been around a 2-7 year old that wasn't spending a significant portion of their time with dvds and games.

I wouldn't be so quick to rule out such social factors.
I always find it interesting that nobody mentions this. Your generation, and the ones before you, destroyed and defunded parks, they built malls over open land, they made 100% safe unfun playgrounds, they turned America in the the most litigious country in the history of mankind scaring anyone from allowing anyone ever to make a mistake or get slightly hurt, you buy your kids more screens than books, and then at the end of the day you wonder aloud why kids don't play as much?

* That was a proverbial you, no you specifically OP.
So the question is: Did drug dealing turn Walter White into a psychopath, or was his psychopathology lurking and accelerated when he got lung cancer?
Interesting. My guess was people downloading GTA V, which is something like 16GB and released yesterday.

Will keep an eye on the U.S. part of the map to see if it starts turning red as school gets out in each time zone.
Where do you find specialized developers?
I'm researching this to help out a medium-sized company that works on very specialized and new technology (e.g., Google Glass). There a sort of go-to place if you need something out of the ordinary.

Ideas so far:

- Specialist job sites... but where are they?
- Host events for developers (covering the specific technology)
- Employee referrals
- Telecommute/remote workers
- Train developers in (or support learning of) new technology

What else should they be doing?

Does anybody have experience with this?
Self driving cars are going to have a huge impact on parking. Imagine being dropped off at home or work or the store then the car just going away to a garage somewhere perhaps far away but coming back at the touch of your smart phone.

Parking spots, including garages, will become much less valuable. There will be many other impacts much harder to foresee.
Thanks for that feedback - we wanted to get Picture Messaging out of the door as soon as we had it before attacking the wealth of other features MMS has to offer.

Really hope you enjoy it and check in often as we support more stuff.
The number of curb cuts for private driveways in San Francisco is absurd. In most cases a private driveway results in one parking spot for the resident and one less parking spot on the street, for a net gain of 0 parking spots. It privatizes what would be a public spot. Curb cuts also make it more dangerous to walk and bike, as you never know when a car will come out.

In my fantasy world, curb cuts would be taxed. Many of the private home garages could be converted back into housing as it was before (and without raising the precious height of a building!) and increase the capacity of the city.

However, as others have noted San Francisco does not need more parking. It needs fewer cars. San Francisco actually has more cars per capita than any other city in america (source: Street Fight http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fight-Politics-Mobility-Francis...). Parking should cost money to discourage cars, improve efficiency, and generate revenue.
It struck me, while browsing that, I would like to be able to browse the libraries by excluding known types.

Things like "Show me all the things that are not frameworks or jQuery plugins"

I'm not looking for anything in particular, but it would nice to see the possibilities without having to search through things that I know I'm not looking for today.
Oh biscuits.
What are some resources/guides to design in a Dribbble style? There is obviously a consistent aesthetic (effects, shadows, etc.)
people without ghostery installed.
That's an interesting reply, with links to several different articles to back your point. Also, an interesting comment history.

Do you, or a company you're employed with, have a financial relationship with Microsoft? A simple "Yes" or "No" will do, thanks. I'm very trusting and will believe you.
Just who exactly is writing Linux?
They have a new one coming out soon called the performance of open source applications. The blog has a list of chapters. http://aosabook.org/blog/
How Facebook secretly redesigned its iPhone app
Trello For Lawyers
I share the opinion of anybody who's already had to support a product for twice its intended lifetime
See the blog: Auto Brewery Syndrome from Yeast (Candida) Overgrowth http://www.mytummytantrum.com/2012/09/08/auto-brewery-syndro...

and the links there. It's true.
How Quantified Should the Self Be?
And I thought my middle school math teacher had it bad. His name was Dick Working.
Hey, man it's innovative! Just like those cool new frameworks that read JSON! And that cool stickers from Trello! Artificial intelligence that can read your mind? State of the art voice recognition? Pfft.. forget that.
Ooh, that sounds pretty impressive actually. I wonder why none of the reviews I saw seem to have mentioned that.
If there is anything I hate more than the technique described in the OP, it are websites which don't center content.
>This one always stumps people.

A good way to "unstump" such people, is to ask, "Is there such a thing, as what it's like to be you? When Thomas Nagel used some such phrase in his essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", a lot of light bulbs were switched on.

Any experiencer, once his attention is properly directed, shall be certain that experience exists. Science, on the other hand, would be perfectly consistent with the non-existence of experience and experiencers.
Cool, however while waiting for their results, please eat healthy, do a lot of gym, lift heavy weight and become stronger.
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You should change "Experts Exchange were dicks to users" to "Experts Exchange were dicks to users who want all their content for free".

A lot of people, including me, have derived extreme value from EE over the years. And anything useful in SO is "closed as not constructive" anyway - so SO basically has 0 utility for me. (I am not saying this is true for everyone)
Chromebooks have a 5% share

Who cares - people like them, they have a nice sized niche. Just like macs, just like other distros.

They're great for schools - esp. high schools. iPads are probably the more suitable option for elementary age kids.

And luckily prices are staying down. Chromebooks are <$300. iPad minis are $329.

Windows 8 tablets are good for math/science/engineering majors who have to run windows software and might need to use the stylus for notes/drawings.

Even though I've used middle of the road laptops running Ubuntu the past 6 years, I ended up getting a higher end Windows 8 touchscreen laptop to use for video editing, games, graphics, etc. I'll dual boot to Ubuntu or else run it in a vm.
Well, pardon my analogy:
Internet is like roads network - infrastructure which you use to run...
WWW, which is type of traffic on road eg. cars
> Poor / lower class people become wealthy all the time, disruption happens.

I don't see why you'd say this. Economic mobility in the developed world is steadily shrinking. I don't see that shrink getting better if the rich can play on the time scale of centuries. Or if the corporations they own can do so.

As has been noted numerous times, poverty means you have to think "tomorrow" rather than "a month from now" or "a year from now". When you can think "eight decades from now" or even "two centuries from now", you are in an incredibly powerful position and I am extremely skeptical that people with that advantage will give it up for the rest of us.
For time-related tasks and events, I have used Day-Planners, Franklin-Covey planners, and PlannerPads. I pick one with enough space for the notes I usually make each day. This saves me the trouble of creating the month index pages.

For general notes, I have used regular blank notebooks, with an index page in the front. When I refer to some notes I took more than once or twice, I add a line to the index page, with some title and the page number. That makes it easy to find it again.
If you want to account for actual pay vs. advertised, you could probably model it to some order of effectiveness by applying a decay function of price vs. age of listing. This operates on the assumption that bargain rentals are on the market briefly, while overpriced rentals languish on the market.
>> And what is "this type of criticism"?

Perhaps gross generalisation is a fitting term? Basically it's somewhat insulting to insinuate that designers on Dribbble believe glamour shots are the be-all and end-all of design. I've heard several prominent Dribbblers interviewed on various web design podcasts, they know what it is and what it isn't.

>> To me it looks like the design world...

Whoah there, you can judge the collective opinion of 'the design world' from your desk?! :)
http://fairplayforchildren.org/ has a lot of good play related resources, it is a very small organisation so go easy on the site!
Can you give me a concrete example on how all that data can be beneficial to the entertainment industry?
You're absolutely right. For the 10% of the population that runs compute-intensive apps, they're going to need a good desktop every few years. The other 90% will probably just keep their old desktop for a decade and keep upgrading their mobile devices.
Don't Forget to Upgrade from iOS7 Beta (instructions)
The point of an interactive illustration like this is that it should make it more intuitive and easier to understand than the core concept, not more confusing.

What is the meaning of the green and purple lines on the graph, why do they have different gradients and why can't I adjust them? Why does the Simpson's Paradox apply sometimes and not others? Why are there so many bars and donut charts? What does the gray circle around the donuts mean? Information overload.
I took a break from dealing with an in-band null problem in image data to check HN, and here’s this. Oof.

Don’t represent missing data with a value in the same domain as real data.

Maybe I’m just grumpy, but that seems like a clear, persuasive, and generally realistic goal. In cases where you’re constrained to break that rule, at least approximate it. For example, if you’re stuck using strictly floats for a percentage like this one – without recourse to an undefined/null/none type – you can still use -1.0 or Inf or NaN and not draw the lines.
The internet is the world-wide network of computers. The web is HTTP and HTML and other such technologies, that may or may not run on top of the internet, but when they do they form the world-wide-web or web for short.

When people talk about clothes on the web, it's nonsense because they probably don't run HTTP.
I made this mistake on iOS6, and swore I wouldn't let it happen again with 7 -- simple instructions, yet so easy to forget you need to move from beta -> release.
I don't know who you mean by "we", but generally users expect something new with a new OS, new hardware, or basically anything with the word "new" in front of it. Apple didn't announce IOS 7 by calling it the next IOS, they called it the new IOS.
Kids need some or all of the following things when growing up:

- a creek or open stormwater drain to play in, be careful during rain
- a field big enough to experiment with golf in without killing someone
- a covert campground as a base to launch fire cracker attacks on the local youth group
- somewhere to do wheelies without being hit by a car
- abandoned stuff to explore, the older and dirtier the better
- a haunted looking house to be scared of (containing an elderly person who occasionally appears at the window)
- a beach, island or isthmus, to play Robinson Crusoe on
- some dirt to create a marble obstacle course in
- a hoop and stick to make running more useful
- a local cop who will make you do chores for trying to steal dinner from the local prawn farm
- cane fields to get lost in
- loose rules to a handful of sports
- a tall tree with branches overhanging a river to tie a rope swing to
- some kind of farm nearby where one can meet a horse, cow, goat or sheep

I'd also like to suggest a trampoline, but I'm keeping it out of the list because you have to buy it. It is imperative though for the early stages of learning to do somersaults in mid-air.

Thinking of all of these things from my childhood makes me somewhat lament the fact that I now live in a tiny apartment in Sydney and hardly ever leave the city.
I do not think that we would have the same economic system once everyone is immortal or living for hundreds of years.
There are more people who believe the google brain washing of "Google itself is singularly advancing the world of driving, ubiquitous computing, and medicine!" than realize google is just very noisy about the things it does (plus the fan-blog-fawning multiplier of hearing about the same thing in 10,000 different outlets).
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I guess my kids didn't get the memo. They had an early release today from school today and are in the backyard building a teepee out of sticks with a friend and playing a game that apparently involves a lot of running and giggles (at least that is what I hear inside in my home office).

My oldest did ask if she could play Minecraft as soon as she got home but I told her no and that she should go build something real (I guess that is where the teepee idea came from).
Serious question: what makes such a world inherently better if that's limited only to people in the position to exploit others? Because I personally think that's the likely scenario.

Giving the rich the tools to exploit the rest of us even further seems pretty foolish. Likely, even inevitable--but no less foolish.
Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets Juju DevOps
Molecules line up in laser grid
People complain this will increase the number of cars... maybe if all 100,000 theoretical parking spots opened up today. But assuming this plan goes into effect, it would require a very long time before they could even get to a significant number of new parking spaces.

But these wasted spaces the author talks about are areas where a car should be able to park nicely without hitting anyone. But because of a driveway/bad planning the car either has to be small enough or have a driver that is really good at parallel parking to fit into it. So even his suggestion is enacted, it wouldn't actually increase the number of parking spots, it would just make some of the current difficult ones easier to slide into. My apartment complex has two garages with driveways about 2 cars apart. Every morning when I walk out I either see one very large truck there or two cars that are nearly touching.

All that wasted time by the driver to make sure he was outside of the driveway and not hitting the car in front/behind him, or the extra time the car that could have parked behind the large truck. That time adds up for everyone.
Surely some studies account for this? If you look for people who do X and people who don't and just analyze their lives, yes this problem is likely to exist. But if you take two randomized samples of a the population and say to group A, "do X," and to group B "don't do X," you have an effective control group. At least I think so. Don't some dietary studies even provide the participants with custom food regimens to try to eliminate extra dietary differences between study participants?
And I don't understand what makes you think annoyance/hatred of EE has to do with HN identity. You seem to have drawn this conclusion based on the fact that most HN users dislike EE. I would posit that most developers and IT workers who used search engines prior to StackOverflow would dislike EE quite a bit. It is not surprising that the sentiment you see on HN would correlate with that.
(I work at Priceonomics)

Sorry to hear the map boundaries are looking weird to you.

We're using US Census boundary shapefiles to draw the city limits. This is how the map should appear: http://i.imgur.com/xk8WI6Q.png - does it look different on your end?

Email me if there's anything else I can do -- omar@priceonomics.com.