skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not make it ridiculous, it just makes it not so significant. And when Google get this figured out, it wont be a problem for Android.

Right now they are moving important apps to the appstore, so they can be upgraded without changing android version.
And the new phone has the paratek antenna, this is going to be close

So the new antenna is what will save BlackBerry?
It's hyperbole sure. But the fact is that Apple's refusal to add upgrade pricing goes directly against Omni's entire raison d'être. They release exquisitely detailed and full-featured apps, and they've been doing so longer than any OS X developer since their roots are back in NeXT.

The current App Store pricing devalues software, it turns it into a disposable commodity to be purchased and discarded. Apple is willing to sacrifice it's own pro apps to this devalued future because that's not where it makes its money anyway and it has some major scar tissue from being held hostage by the likes of Microsoft and Adobe.

You can say it's just another distribution channel, but it's obvious that the App Store is the future, and is by far the most convenient and recommended channel and that will only increase over time. Comparing it to something that is easily provided by third-parties like analytics is to miss the fundamental connection: Omni makes the type of software that App Store pricing makes impossible to create and maintain over time. If this continues the ecosystem will dry up, and the type of pro users who love Omni's stuff will all disappear as well. It's a bitter pill to swallow because they love Apple's tech, but the writing may be on the wall.
Pop the Google pill and get a healthy life, with some ads on your arms and back.
To clarify, Fred's post has no data - just a statement of an inverse correlation between funding and success.
Judea Pearl has formalized a resolution to Simpson's Paradox:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34....

An oversimplification of his idea would be to say that given assumptions about the causal independence of variables, it becomes clear which way you should group the data. Although it's not always possible to make these independence assumptions, much of the time they are obvious and uncontroversial.

Taking the Berkeley gender bias case as an example: We know it's possible that biological gender influences which department graduates apply to, but that it's impossible that the department a graduate applies to influences their biological gender. This fact alone tells us that we need to look at the data by department rather than in aggregate, resolving the paradox.
I worked at Intel for a brief bit in their software group - it is literally a comical place. There is no chance anything interesting is making it out of there.
4 year old dancer lol
Make sure to disable all the new location related shit. There are a dozen new things in there that will rape your GPS for all it's worth. Also, the second I installed the Starbucks app it re-activated Passbook and the whole GPS system for that to automatically start itself when you walk into a Starbucks. No thanks. Disabled all of it and my battery has been much better.
Does Gmail labels fall short of your need?
They don't hold rights for the kernel, so they can't.

Linux Foundation can, as do anyone who contributed to the kernel they are using.
A taste of things to come
So ok, I think one interesting hypothetical would be that someone in your company publicly "likes" the Aryan Brotherhood Facebook page (though I doubt such thing exists and it would likely be some derivative). Could you sack your employee for being a total racist?

I guess it would technically boil down to what the actual impact on people at work would be. Do you have an employee who is an ethnic minority who feels threatened by this? Do they actively threaten them? It is complicated.

If we truly see ourselves as liberal and tolerant, how exactly should we react to someone who is openly part of an intolerant group who is offensive to our viewpoint? Do we draw a line somewhere?

Lots of questions, ethical and legal.
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I think with iOS 7 and Mavericks it will be possible to do upgrade pricing because of the new features in the receipts which critically include initial purchase date. With that you can offer an in-app purchase to upgrade to the new version features to customers who bought before a certain date and provide them automatically to those who bought after the date.

Note that I have not tested this or even studied the API in detail as I have no need for it at the moment.

It isn't without downsides though as you need to have both (or more) modes running inside the same app and test them to ensure that they all continue working.
people, aging is not a bug, its a feature!
Orbital Successfully Launches Cygnus Spacecraft on mission to the ISS
Apple seems to also believe in Multipath TCP
This could mean more people were logging in to those particular apps from old iOs5 phones.
It's a bit confusing, but overall, I really love the presentation of this article. I wish more serious research was presented like this, with lots of knobs for fiddling and experimentation. (See also: Bret Victor.)
Without access to some humane means of euthanasia, I think your statement is inaccurate.
It was a good process. My designer was quick, responsive, fairly priced, and came up with what I think is a great logo. I'm very happy with it, and I consistently get positive feedback ('cool robot'). What do you think: http://www.predictobot.com/ ?
> Could you sack your employee for being a total racist?

If you're in any of the 49 at-will employment states, you can sack your employee because you flipped a coin and it landed the wrong way. Hypotheticals about firing people aren't ever really interesting in those states. It's not complicated, and it wouldn't "technically" boil down to anything.
28% would be a truly astonishing number. Even if all residential construction was rental (no condos or houses) that would still be an insane amount for 18 months.
#1: "We need some publicity. Maybe we can ride Hyperloop's hype coattails."

#2: "Yeah, we could simulate it and talk about the results in technical sounding but vague terms that we can't be meaningfully challenged on. But what do think will get more publicity, saying it will work or that it won't? There's plenty of latitude in the specs for us to end up with either."

#1: "That it will, of course. We want our customers to think they'll be validated by our software, not shot down. But make sure you provide a little advice so it's clear that we add value. And also hedge a bit so that just in case Hyperloop is a technical disaster, we don't look terrible."

#2: "Sounds good. I'll call Bloomberg and see if they have any spots available for vacuous puff pieces."

#1: "Was that a vacuum joke?"
Yes, I'm being a little dramatic, but...

Apple does "force" you to use the MAS. You can't use the iCloud APIs unless your app is sold in the MAS which means you also have to accept sandboxing. Who knows what else will be tied to the MAS in the future.

The situation is farcical because developers are paying Apple 30% of their gross revenue for the privilege of a sales channel with no customer information and the spectacle of begging for things like upgrade pricing and analytics.
From an NYTimes article earlier this year [1]:

According to the report, [tenure and tenure-track] positions now make up only 24 percent of the academic work force, with the bulk of the teaching load shifted to adjuncts, part-timers, graduate students and full-time professors not on the tenure track.

The report was published by Center for the Future of Higher Education in 2012. Link: [2]

From the executive summary from this 2010 publication by the American Federation of Teachers [3]:

Altogether, part-time/adjunct faculty members account for 47 percent of all faculty, not including graduate employees. The percentage is even higher in community colleges, with part-time/adjunct faculty representing nearly 70 percent of the instructional workforce in those institutions.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/education/gap-in-universit...
[2] http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/fil...
[3] http://www.aft.org/pdfs/highered/aa_partimefaculty0310.pdf
Well some airports are better designed than others and I'd imagine it's bloody difficult to do well. But the criteria of a good airport design is something most people can agree on and it's not about sexiness but about being able to get from A to B, get your luggage, find toilets and changing areas, find transport to the city etc. If you accept that form follows function, degrading function will make things less 'sexy' not more. Aesthetically attractive design is an emergent property of cohesive, useful, and consistent implementation, not something smeared on top to prettify - works well looks best. It's why we prefer tools like IRC, SMS, and text editors without embellishment. It's a lot of why this site or Reddit or Google is popular.
On the topic of clildren freedom and modern day restrictions etc, I always found this small article from the Austin Chronicle about life in the fifties very illuminating. It also explains the origins of the saying "This is where I came in" (and we have the same saying in my country, with exactly the same origins!):

"In today's America, where parents chauffeur kids to "play dates," only on the poorest streets do 7-year-olds still roam free ... but they don't go to movies much because tickets are so pricey ... the concession stand is even more expensive ... and you can't just walk into any movie (it might not be rated for kids) ... and you have to know the exact time a film starts ... and shopping-mall movie theatres are rarely within walking distance. Today you're blitzed by TV ad campaigns and product tie-ins in fast-food joints, so you know all about a Hollywood film before it starts ... and today's urban parents panic if their grade-school children disappear, unaccounted for, for hours on end.

Fifty years ago, none of that was so. In the larger cities, two or three movie theatres were in walking distance of most neighborhoods. Each had but one screen. The program began with a newsreel, a few cartoons, and brief "coming attractions" (not today's compilations that tell the whole story). Then the "features" began -- plural, features, for all neighborhood theatres played double, sometimes triple, features, two or three movies for the price of one ticket. Nothing was rated, there were no sex scenes or obscenities; anyone could go to any movie. Admission price for a kid was rarely more than a quarter. Popcorn for a dime, a Coke for a nickel. They weren't supposed to sell kids tickets during school hours, but they did. As for kids roaming about -- "Go play in traffic," our parents would say, and they wouldn't be surprised if we didn't walk in 'til dinnertime, which in our immigrant neighborhood wasn't until after 7."

http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2003-08-22/174046/
Do you think it would be worthwhile to try? I really would love to see the proper and complete source released for this card - it is a cute and capable device, and having to hack module.c to make use of it seems wrong.
As a planner, my biggest questions are around land acquisition. It's not usually the kit that's the super expensive part of these projects. That said, I suppose it's possible that the land requirements for the hyperloop are less.

I meet a lot of curmudgeonly planners who like to downplay the potential impacts of new technology (hyperloop, self-driving cars, etc.), but I'm open to the possibility of truly disruptive tech. Still, I have a hard time imagining that the land acquisitions will be that much cheaper for hyperloop.
Sock puppets and people with blinders on are becoming tiresome.

Hey, remember this?

> Should be titled the Banality of Google Strawmen for the often repeated conspiracy theories of Google working with the NSA.

> There's simply no way Googlers would tolerate something like secretly sending user data to the NSA, it would be too hard to prevent internal employees from revolting.

> As an employee, I'd rather Google lose money and stock price and have the government shut them down, than send a firehose feed to the NSA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5807106

Well, did you lose your Google job yet?
Most manufacturers don't produce the updates for the carriers to make available anyway, from what I've seen it's mostly the manufacturer's fault.
GPL-violations.org helps organize enforcement efforts:

http://gpl-violations.org/
Interruptions/break every chains
If you are going though any type of pain, hardship,difficulties,sickness and you are wondering if better days will ever knocked at your door. This video is for you.
BlackBerry to cut up to 40 percent of employees
That is exactly the point here.

Its not instant death, but the process of a slow death that is the enemy.
Trucos - Comunidad de estrategas - Portal
Is this true, that kernel modules that are independently compiled are also "infected" by the GPL?

I do not think this is the case, and the recent Oracle v. Google case seems to suggest that APIs themselves are not copyrightable. So the kernel module API used by a non-OSS licensed module doesn't seem like it should infect the entire module. That is, importing kernel headers in a binary doesn't constitute a derivative work.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: I am not a lawyer. I wasn't a lawyer when I started writing this comment and, alas, I will not be when I have finished it.
You want population and crime rate included in the analysis? Fine. http://geosprocket.blogspot.com/2013/09/crime-doesnt-insert-...
Apologies if you just used a neologism, but I believe the phrase is "full bore".
> Call me crazy here guys, but what exactly will Calico produce/make/do/etc?

Presumably, its going to do research (probably secondary with an aim to commercialization, rather than basic research) on health problems, particularly on aging and aging-related diseases.

> The top comment makes me feel like I'm missing a magical paragraph in the OP that details their cure for death, ugliness and stupidity.

Its not a startup looking for venture capital that needs to demonstrate an MVP to attract investors in the near term, its a project that's already funded by Google as a small (by comparison to Google's available resources), effort. Efforts like that don't need to have a product on day one, they need a mission.
You don't need to boycott them. They are clearly breaking the license agreement so the Linux Foundation can just sue them.
Couldn't you run the same test (say) a few thousand times, then look at the distribution of numbers? Statistically they should be distributed evenly and be equally likely to appear for large enough runs.

Any number or group of numbers that are consistently over/under represented should point to a bias as far as I can tell.
This isn't really note taking, it's task scheduling. I was hoping for a guide to taking better notes so I can go back to an event quickly and remember what was said.
No fiscal discipline, and execution. Battery life on the new 5" phone is a couple days. Maybe the tunable radio helps. App gap is closing, unity ports, android, bloomberg is now on it. Maps suck. I don't know if they'll make it, aka survive, it is going to be close.

Edit,I don't know if the app gap is closing. But probably not.
Douglas Adams wasn't a designer of course but of all people he should have been aware of the role of design through the DRU - http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/12/design-r...
I really like LINE better than Whatsapp.
Twitter posts inaccurate metrics about its ads, changes them after questions
To further my other comment - I'm a regular commenter at AVC.com and Fred generally talks from the perspective of what's best for the founder, for the entrepreneur. This is why I am making these insights.
Googler drunk on company koolaid. Check.
Automating Functional Testing on iOS
That may get you written about in popular-science magazines, but your work will have a low impact factor- this is largely measured in how many of your fellow researchers cite your work, and its crucial to an academic researcher's career.

If your colleagues can easily see that your statistical analysis is flawed, they won't waste their own time doing work that builds off of yours.
It's a shame Apple won't release iMessage for Android
If you paid $50 million for the 40% and $5 million for the 10%, I think you would be hard-pressed to describe the 40% investment as more successful.
If it was a joke you would earn coins for closing out a task and you could buy stickers with coins, except that the really fancy stickers would cost more coins than you could earn but then you could buy coins using a credit card ...
The missing element is trust, particularly in the professional / business market. I wouldn't dream of suggesting Whatsapp to my professional contacts. But BBM I just might, especially if they are (or were in the past) already blackberry users, so probably have an identity there.
Grand Theft Auto V sales exceed $800M on the first day
The question is, when will the year come where [Linux on the desktop] is the easiest and most attractive option? I'm a little bearish about that being soon.

I used to be, but I'm coming round to the view that with all of the big commercial players, now including Microsoft, pushing heavily towards services and "the cloud", the decay of their traditional desktop offerings will create an opportunity for a Linux-based (or other OSS) platform to become relatively attractive a lot sooner.

This is partly about the operating system itself, but it's just as much about the applications. Building a direct competitor to MS Office is something few sane people would consider attempting, given market conditions and the effort required. Implementing a native desktop competitor to a typical on-line "office suite" today is something a small team of smart people could do, reaching functional parity within months, and there is nothing close to a dominant incumbent in the market yet, nor is the user experience for these web applications anywhere near as polished.

In short, as they lower the barrier to entry and open up the market, they make it easier for Linux-based applications to catch up. They also make it more attractive for someone to invest significant resources to polish up those applications as a commercial venture.
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I didn't know that but that seems reasonable. I calculated what my bare minimum living expenses would be once and came out to about 12k. Once you get down to that income level there are a lot of expenses that just go away like in my state your property taxes are reduced to effectively zero if you make less than a certain amount.
We wrote Bloglines, the first and greatest RSS reader web app, in C. And by "we" I mean Mark Fletcher did, and the people he hired like me, continued it.

It wasn't bad. You just get used to keeping track of memory, arrays lengths and pointers like you do anything else. While I do prefer Python these days, I always enjoyed the looks of horror Java and PHP programmers greeted me with when I mentioned our language of choice for Bloglines.
By this logic, algebraists and combinatorialists also can't teach calculus, given that they probably only got as far in calculus (namely 1'st year of grad school) as all the non-tenured, non-research adjuncts.
Good point when 90% of businesses and professionals use Linux desktops that will be the day that they beat out windows for desktops my bet is desktops will be extinct by the time that happens.
This seems a clear GPL violation to me and Transcend deserve an expensive legal education.

"GPL also makes anything linked with a GPL sourced component a derivative work - requiring it too to be licenced under GPL."

This isn't correct. The result of linking a GPL work with another work is itself a derived work. To distribute that derived work you are required to make the all sources available under the GPL [or strictly more permissive license - read the GPL yourself if it matters] so you have a choice between:

1 not distributing the derived work (the binary) OR

2 ensuring appropriate release of source code OR

3 coming to a private arrangement to receive a (non-GPL) license from the copyright holders of the GPLed work (not practical or possible with Linux) OR

4 (not recommended) committing copyright infringement by distributing the binary without permission.

The GPL is not viral and does not automatically cause licenses to be granted to linked work. It sounds as if Transcend have gone for option 4 which would make them commercial copyright infringers and liable for penalties in most countries of the world (Berne Convention etc).
if you really work for Microsoft, you would perhaps have known that there are certain countries where Windows phone outsell the Iphone because there are no carrier subsidies and the Iphone is freaking expensive!

Buying an Iphone for $99 because it is subsidized[0] is a 1 percenter solution in global terms.

[0]I use the word even though I doubt it is the right word since it's more like purchased on credit actually because you're going to pay for it over your contract period hence that isn't how subsidy should be used
Sebastian Thrun's team was the first winner of DARPA driverless vehicles (2nd year) challenge, the year before that contestants failed very early. Do you know car manufacturers with such know-how ? They probably had research about it but I doubt they were as complete. Since Google backed the project they did very extensive tests in the real world. GM and such are bringing back computer aided driving but I'm sure they're too busy sustaining their business to put resources in something as disruptive and risky.
Thanks for clarifying. That it's not limited idealized cases is a very good point, and my apologies for my earlier snarky comment.
This basic argument could be used against any new technology, ever.
I don't think so. Maybe if I'd need it much more, I could somehow come up with greasemonkeying UI to use labels for this, but currently I think labels are more like folders.
Kuhn popularized the phrase "paradigm shift."

In his view, it occurred over generations as adherents to older scientific models died of old age - e.g. the Copernican model replaced the Ptolomeic model because Ptolomeic astronomers went extinct.
I'd wager the odds of Blackberry Android handsets in the next year just went to overwhelming, I doubt they will get one out before xmas though.
If I have two Docker instances, with a common base image containing e.g. libc.so, then will those two instances share libc's memory? When Docker moves from AUFS to BtrFS, will it share the memory there also?

Edit: I ask because the idea of getting 100-1000 instances on a single machine is attractive, but seems like it might be difficult to achieve in reality...
By full vacuum I was referring to the conditions you have in space. And no - when you have even a slight allowance for a margin of 'error' or leakage - that's all you need to balance things out. And if the leakage is higher, it's a matter of efficiencies reducing - not complete failure.
DHS to test facial recognition technology at hockey game