skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
90% of the economic profits are to be found in the top 10% of the market. Simple as that. By going after the low-end, they are chasing after a market which is arguably smaller in profits than the market they have yet to capture (namely the high end -- they are strong but haven't expanded to everyone yet) and risk losing customers (that would get the low-end device rather than the high-end)

The flaw in your logic manifests itself in many places, including app store revenues (comparing iOS to Android)
I made God's temple.

Highs and lows balance. mental illness is the ultimate scorned and humiliated. Blessed are you when scorned for you shall be worshipped. lepers

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT

in these things I
unawares sin, but afterwards am aware of it.

At other times, shunning over-anxiously this very deception, I err
in too great strictness; and sometimes to that degree, as to wish
the whole melody of sweet music which is used to David's Psalter,
banished from my ears, and the Church's too; and that mode seems to me
safer, which I remember to have been often told me of Athanasius,
Bishop of Alexandria, who made the reader of the psalm utter it with
so slight inflection of voice, t
It doesn't matter to me what car my friends drive but the network effects of mobile ecosystems are very real.

True, very true. But so far is very healthy and I suppose Tim Cook will eat these words if their ecosystem was in danger of being neglected by developers.
I'm not sure what the product is that you're building or how complex it is, but my sense is that maybe you're trying to start too big.

You may be passionate about it, but if you don't have the skills to contribute, setting the goal of contributing to that product without any intermediary wins is guaranteed to demotivate. Put another way, lets say your business is an automotive repair shop, but you're not a mechanic. You are passionate about fixing cars and work with a bunch of people who are really talented at fixing cars so you want to jump right in. If your first task is to repair the inner workings of a combustion engine, you're going to give up before you even start. Start by learning how to work a wrench and change tires. Assuming you are truly passionate about fixing cars, completing this simple task will provide you with an emotional reward. Move to something slightly more complicated that will require you to learn something else.

It's not a perfect analogy -- you could ask a 100 developers what wrench to pick up and get 100 different answers ranging in complexity, power and learning curve -- but the idea is to avoid tasks that have a huge up-front learning curve that would result in demoralization and disinterest.
> Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

That's the money quote to me.

For some reason everyone continues to think Apple should try to be the Toyota or Kia of the computer world, but in reality, it's perfectly acceptable to be BMW or Mercedes.
Actually looks like you're using some magic constants (e.g., __DIR__) and namespacing.

One instance of namespacing I've found so far is line 118 in the Common/InputDataProvider.php
Same here, I came in to post about that exact book.

There's also Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design which I have yet to read. http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Functional-Algorithm-Design-Ric...

In general you've got stuff like Introduction to Algorithms (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...) and the Algorithm Design Manual (http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...) both of which I have seen mentioned as good books. I'm in a grad school-level algorithms class that just started using the former (which is language agnostic, but we are doing our implementations in Java) and it looks pretty good to me.
I am biased though since I'm working on a phpunit cucumber/jbehave like port. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6410900
<quote>ok, bad example to some degree, I know those T&Cs can be legal and tricky to read but you get the point I'm trying to make</quote>

I think it is a great example! The effort required to comprehend the terms for those is so onerous that a small fraction of users take the time to even try.

We might be in a better place if, when faced with such a situation, we declined to use the service because of the lengthy and opaque T&Cs.
Santa Monica bid to remove Paul Conrad's 'Chain Reaction' nonsensical
You can even get a #content t-shirt: http://bunnyaimee.tumblr.com/post/61678190440/we-opted-for-a...
True, but I don't think it's really relevant, just a nice anecdote. ID was one company, many many amazing, award winning games were developed on other platforms, yet we don't impart any kind of magical powers of productivity to them. When I was going to college, many labs had NeXTs, SGI workstations, or another Unix variant. It's very likely people who were of the same generation would gravitate towards those development environments when they left. The NeXT's strengths, like Interface Builder and Objective-C didn't really apply to DOOM for example.
And they expected to win?
Revisualizing the Petabyte
#hashtagsarelame :)
That, or we admit that room temperature is enough to change us.

It might be, at some level, I don't know.

Am I the same person I was when I was born? Am I the same person when I wake up as when I dream? Was Phineas Gage a different person after taking an iron shaft in the brain as before?

Maybe it's more accurate to describe people as processes rather than objects. Which could support your premise while not necessarily invalidating mine, since the whole concept of a singular, coherent self would itself be an illusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_control#Surveillance_...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_control#Isolation

especially if "terrorists" are anywhere within the many small-networks lurking in all that data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_networks)
"The will to act."

Probably my favorite line in the movie. I wrote an article about habits and willpower a while back based around that line, actually: http://collegeinfogeek.com/hack-your-willpower-by-building-u...
> I think it will ultimately be their demise.

It's funny how people have been saying that since the first iPod came out and yet here we are.
Sounds like they don't even need to recruit anyone, just continuously hold interviews.
Some medications or treatments are indicative of life's events. NSA may be interested in why this person of interest (because, it would definitely be a person of interest and not some random individual - snark) is suddenly taking anti-anxiety meds or having some plastic surgery.
I think it depends on what you mean by keep control? I'm still the majority shareholder, however, much of it will come down to the terms in the shareholder agreement (such as [investor] consent matters etc.).
OP here - happy to answer any questions in the comments.
The Gods themselves...
There are differences between being a product marketplace and a platform marketplace... the article touches on what might happen if Apple loses their status as the preferred mobile platform:

<< Android’s growth has far more important implications than just bragging rights. Developers tend to make apps for iOS before coming up with a version for Android. If Android continues to show up on more devices, the order could flip. As of 2013’s second quarter, Apple’s App Store generated 2.3 times more revenue than Google’s app store, Google Play, according to App Annie, an analytics firm. But Google Play had 10 percent more downloads overall. It’s one thing to cede a portion of the market because it’s racing toward the lowest possible price, but what if that market becomes the center of gravity for the entire industry? >>
What do you mean by "what happened with Gluster"? Every project tends to be better packaged for some OSes/distros than others, based on the developers' own expertise. GlusterFS was a bit more rpm-friendly than deb-friendly since long before the acquisition. That hasn't gotten much better, unfortunately, but neither has it gotten significantly worse. There's enough software in the world that barely even runs on any distro other than Ubuntu. Is it really worth complaining every time that's not the case?
#honestly_though_hacker_news_could_use_them_or_at_least_something_like_them #meta #hackernews
Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that.
James McNeill Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.
One tool one file to rule all your IMAP server
They aren't any more related to their threat model than anything else they're vacuuming up but that doesn't mean they don't want them. All it takes is one known terrorist with a known illness / rare treatment and "wouldn't it be nice to have this access" becomes "we need this access NOW" becomes "we will take the access, now and forever into the future, and there's nothing you can do about it."

Also, perhaps terrorist networks target people with terminal illnesses and nothing to lose? Or perhaps the FBI is worried that someone who has been denied treatment in the US will turn terrorist all on their own. We have a large population that has been wronged by the system and has nothing to lose, I think the FBI wants to keep an eye on them. I know, FBI!=NSA, but the whole "parallel construction" deal shows exactly what they think about separation of powers: at least a few of them see it as an obstacle to overcome, not as a safeguard against abuse. And a few people is enough to do all the damage in the world.

Also, let's not forget there's a heavy financial incentive for individuals with access to such a database to sell the info to insurance companies. It follows that such individuals then have a motive to push for the establishment of such a database. They could launder the info into some "proprietary liability metric" which they would be able to sell for loads of money. I don't know what internal checks they put in place after Snowden but they can't be perfect. Any shadow copy of your health records increases your exposure and provides an opportunity to the unscrupulous if the records can be accessed in aggregate.
Apple was never the big loser to Microsoft. Commodore was the true loser if you are looking at market share. We get to talk about Apple because they survived and successfully transitioned to a new product line. Commodore couldn't do that with the Amiga.
Transporter for Mac – easy access to your app’s metadata on iTunes Connect
Ghostery might not be as bad as the headlines suggest, but their tracking seems to be opt-out rather than opt-in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897682

http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actuall...

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-bl...

A few months ago, Disconnect's founder (byoogle) spoke about why Disconnect is better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5898165

Disclaimer: I used Ghostery for a long time and liked it, but now use Disconnect.
There is no such thing as "HIPAA compliance".

Also, do they sign BAAs?
Thanks, that's certainly worth noting, I think self-audits are a non-starter for HIPAA and PCI service vendors. If I were to recommend this to clients or implement as a storage option in one of our solutions, it would also be nice to have access to their SSAE16 docs.
This calls for a Scala port.
I have viewed 360 vids on the Rift. It's true they are not stereo, but they are still very effective. Simply being able to turn your head an look around is a significant aspect of presence.

These two vids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7HtvXc-Bo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4iltd0wMlU played through http://vrplayer.codeplex.com/ are great examples.
I imagine you could, though it'd be flat (unless they were captured in 3D).
Google’s New “App Launcher” Style Navigational Menu Weeks Away From Launch
This is my ideal solution as well. Processes are already fully isolated just like virtual machines or containers. They may only execute during time slices where the kernel schedules them, can only communicate and access system resources through the system calls the kernel provides them access to.

If processes are insufficiently isolated, it's the system call interface that's broken, not the isolation model.

It seems to me that virtual machines and containers could be implemented on top of the existing process hierarchy by allowing a parent process to intercept and reinterpret its child process' system calls. Simple example: Want to implement chroot? Intercept all open() calls and prepend the root path (taking care to prevent escaping with '../').
Getting setup with Machinelearning Environment
http://shrikar.com/
Thanks. My <1% claim was ill-founded, I was assuming the use of tabs and trailing braces to minimize single-character lines so a little arithmetic in my head pointed to a small relative cost. But out of the box pretty printing does not try to minimize whitespace characters like this. Seems like it could be a worthy hack.
Except that Apple really honestly don't care about market share. They want to capture the high margins and profits in the premium end of the market, and that's it. Going too far down market would threaten to undercut the value proposition of their premium products too much.

The corollary of this is that Apple knows there is a large 'junk' end of the market, and they don't care who captures it. Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Symbian? It doesn't matter. There's not enough profit there to be worth it. It happens to be that Android has captured the lion's share of that end of the market, and therefore dominates sales numbers. Doesn't matter. Whether one OS dominates the low end, or a dozen OSes split it between them makes no difference to Apple as long as they keep producing consistently high quality products that sell well.

Just look at the PC industry. Apple makes as much or more profit than all the Windows licensees put together. Windows market share domination has actually played into Apple's hands by forcing Windows Licensees in a race to the bottom against each other, leaving Apple the only high quality premium PC hardware vendor outside the server market. Selling lower priced Macs would just undercut their own high end sales and margins, and the same goes for phones.
You make it sound as if that's some original thought from Apple headquarters. I've seen that comparison for years in blog comments. I swear sometimes it felt that even Steve Jobs got his talking points from blog comments.
Well, you're a founder. You're working for your own aims, not someone else's. Under those circumstances, I'll see your 70 hours and raise you 10.
These 360 rigs are cool, but they're not stereoscopic as far as I can tell.

I'm not sure how feasible a 360 AND stereoscopic rig would be, but it would be totally awesome. Maybe some sort of head-sized sphere of fisheye cameras with some software to stitch the stereoscopic channels together. Or maybe something involving light field photography (Lytro etc).
At the end, they shot the eagle to retrieve the camera.
Radagast is better with animals.
Wait, what?

Are you referring to something like globals?
If you know about someone that is actively trying to use it and cannot because it is LGPLv3, please ask them to mail me with more details. I'll be happy to go over the perceived issues with the legal team.
How could you even make that statement?

Say what you will about the US, but I think the results of a Stalinist / Maoist mashup speaks for itself. It is and was pretty obvious who the agressor was in Korea -- the Soviet tanks rolled into North Korea weeks before the Japanese surrender specifically to grab Korean territory. The Northern attack on the south was very clearly a land grab.
Well, so does the NSA.
is there anything that suggests this is an actual GoPro?

i own several of them and i'd imagine that because of the way they have to be mounted, their width and frontal surface area would impede flying quite significantly.

i'm inclined to think it's a more slender camera, like the Contour. http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home

GoPro goes way overboard with their marketing; they've become the Kleenex of action cams.
Toward Cycle Cities: How Architects Must Make Bikes Their Guiding Inspiration
Did you try to rewrite the app in C++ and look on how many percent reduction you get from that second try? I think it’s fair to compare that second app in C++ with the rewrite in another language since a rewrite will likely always be shorter independent of the language.
Managing Availability of Your Apps' Previous Versions
Notice that you cat test2.c and then compile test.c.
> The flaw in your logic manifests itself in many places, including app store revenues (comparing iOS to Android)

I think this is what so many people ignore when trying to compare ecosystems. People who have a major focus on what they spend on their phone are also going to have a major focus on what they spend on phones.

The last figures I heard: Android lead iOS by 10% on app downloads, but the iOS App Store generated over 2x revenue.
A firefighter’s plan to save lives and employ brothers
Was it an open-ended, "What can we do for you?" or an explicit question about open plan itself?
On this topic, Gustavo does note in comments that there's an exception for static linking
Um iPhone4 _is_ sold in India.. at the equivalent of > $500. On the other hand, there are mobile carriers galore selling phones with near top-end specs (quad-core, HD, extensible memory... and the clincher, dual-SIM!) and no-skin Android (4.2+) at $150 or less.
When I read stories like these, I don' think of it in terms of the interviewee being a genius and "above" the silly questions they ask them. For me, it's a look inside a company who doesn't have their shit together and doesn't know how to properly interview candidates for the position they're hiring.
What will probably happen is a quick 7.1 release to fix most small alignment bugs, and then iOS 8 will refine everything. I'm guessing iOS 9 will be the polished version of this UI design. Not making excuses, just postulating what might happen.
Not to be rude, but it just seemed like a stealth brag post.
Open Space of Gold
What about Go support for Qt native?
Hi - Yes, TrueVault does sign a BAA. We also carry a comprehensive cyber liability insurance that covers any post-breach costs and regulator fines (hopefully it'll never come to that).
YES! I'm so grateful that these guys scooped up all this useful info into one place.
What were the numbers ten years ago? Twenty?

I look at the 86% and thing we're doing pretty well because we've improved enormously during my lifetime and are continuing to do so.
That's awesome. QML is a really incredible piece of technology. I had a lot of fun building a cross-platform desktop app all in QML back in 2010 (www.betterinbox.com)

I wish some ideas from QML made their way to the web. The anchor system, for example, is really powerful for layout.
I hear you. In a sense you could argue the liberal arts and community colleges do focus on undergrads, and the research schools take undergrads and professional programs along for the ride to pay the bills. In that case undergrads who subsidize faculty who are only concerned about producing Phds are knowing participants. But even still, the liberal arts schools (say Amherst) shouldn't be 20x the cost of the community colleges.
These are excellent, I've recently been following them as a hobby project. My results so far are here :) https://github.com/emmett9001/pong_nes
A couple things.

1. There wouldn't be zero kids and young people. Just not very many. The death rate will always be non-zero, and our ability to support new people will grow over time.

2. I get that no more children is a bummer, but I'm not really understanding how it is so awful that it could be described as "dystopian", much less something to kill yourself over. The world is vast and interesting, and children are just one neat facet of it.

In any case, I can see how it might work to give people a choice. If you'd rather die sooner and also have children, you could opt out of both the sterilization and the immortality.
'Alien Bugs' Discovered In Earth's Atmosphere
Well by that measure it's off-topic then.
I think that is entirely in line with the true values of agile, which haven't really gotten through.

Slow food isn't about slowness for the sake of slowness. It's just about being realistic and interested in the long-term. It's about saving energy and mental stress.

One beautiful expression of this ideal is in "Domain-Driven Design."
Paul,

We don't have any published performance numbers at the moment as we just implemented our cluster within our production environment. Looking to do a post-facto write up on that in a bit.
Open Offices?  Private Offices?  Here's a third option
I always find it funny how more money is spent on audit tools like this, and yet people get no training in HIPAA, so they e-mail spreadsheets of social security #s and medical records to 3rd parties, to say nothing of dropbox and pastebin. Most people would shit themselves if they knew all the violations that go unreported.
Yes, they do sign BAAs -- it's the last point on the page.
Hi OP.

What programming concepts does this game cover that aren't already handled by the 1994 game RoboRally? Or is this "RoboRally for little kids"?
I'd love to learn more about HIPAA compliance and web applications. Any good resources out there? From from a developer's standpoint HIPAA feels like a lot of grey area.
If I recall, the things that InstallMonetizer installs are less of the "persistent memory-resident toolbar-like crap" variety, and more of the "hey, would you like us to install VLC while you're here? Maybe Firefox? Google Earth?" type. Those aren't quite as bothersome (though they still are a nonzero amount of bothersome), because they don't do anything unless you choose to launch the program.
yes yes yes yes yes! Great to hear this sentiment being expressed.
I had nothing to do with the effort with getting it merged. But Junjiro Okajima (the author of aufs) seems to have tried a few times, and obviously it hasn't worked. At the same my observation as a "real world implementor" is that it works great and no obvious alternative is available.

Again I'm not an expert in "kernel politics" (you could even say I know nothing about them).
おっしゃる通りです。ただ、「何」を天に任せると聞かれたら、「運」がいちおう適当な返事でしょう、ね。
I kind of addressed that issue. If most people have the idea that your hammer is actually a screwdriver, it isn't their fault for misusing it. Someone put that idea there, and you as the creator of this not-a-screwdriver are responsible for the failure of that message.
It's not the way I would translate it myself (I would say it's just a name, and really has no meaning), but it is a common English interpretation that's been floating out there.
Investments in complexity bring fewer and fewer benefits, until maintenance alone consumes all resources.
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Ink at PennApps
I'm surprised that the post didn't call out the unix built-ins cut, sort, uniq, and cat. There's an amazing amount of data processing you can do with just those commands.
An open question - why do you prefer doing this in the command line versus via a scripting language like Python? I get the piping philosophy, but why one versus the other?