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Agreed. Google is an ad company who want to look like a high-tech company. Maybe they can be changed later, but not now.

Sometimes they want to sell some techs, but (mostly) nobody wants to pay for their techs except marketers.
If somebody proposes a level of improvement they expect in an A/B test (and you have a good prior estimate of the untreated A-rate) they you quickly get specific sample sizes to route to A and B. You also have the form of expression so you can see what is expensive (measuring small differences) and what is cheap (driving up confidence). Frankly a Bayesian article that makes a similar calculation would be at least as good an article (as it would have a much less clumsy treatment of what are you expecting to measure as a distribution prior instead of a point estimate). But I think the merit is how fast you can get from start to finish in such calculations.

Edit: I've added some discussion on what you would expect in the Bayesian case as an comment on the blog.
While there’s still about zero percent chance of it happening in the near term, I have to think that long-term, Apple will port Gatekeeper to iOS. It’s a near-ideal balance of security on OS X: Non-technical users can stay in the walled garden of the Mac App Store, semi-technical users can allow signed binaries, and power users can run whatever they want.

I work in the mobile healthcare space, and right now, we’re starting to move away from iOS as a platform for future projects because of the restrictions and hassle of the App Store. We’re not making 99-cent games and artisan to-do lists, so the fact that iPhone users are far more likely to spend money on apps doesn’t matter to us – we need a platform that lets us communicate with medical devices and display information for healthcare professionals without a mercurial third party deciding what we can and can’t do.
I can pull up my password manager on my phone. That would take maybe slightly more time than opening my mail client on my phone.
I'm honoured to get a reply for post's author. Thanks for a link to very good article.
Good idea, but even the back-up fee is reversible on a credit card.
I agree wholeheartedly that students need to spend more time dealing with the setup of a problem (thinking about how best to express a vague idea mathematically) and in dealing with problems that don't have any known answer.

I think this is a huge part of "mathematical thinking skills" that we claim we want to instill in students. It's a sad thing that most people don't really have a good definition of what a "mathematical thinking skill" is in the first place. Figuring out how to adequately and precisely pose questions is one of the MOST mathematical skills, but it rarely shows up in discussions of standards and curricula.
> Missing the point. TSA is just another jobs program.

TSA is more a means of moving the liability risk of security from private firms (starting with the airlines, but its creeping out to other areas) to the government (which can simply handwave much of it away with sovereign immunity) as a subsidy (by removing risk) to industry. The jobs were there before nationalization, they were just private jobs where private firms were at risk of liability if the job wasn't done right.
Another sexist article.

You want to be successful? Stop holding onto the crutch of drivel like this.

With all the female ceo's, politicians, celebrities... The only one holding you back? Yourself.
I meant that in the sense of "the sort of person who uses a third-party password manager".
>HEAD has a new alias, instead of typing four capital letters you can say “@”

fwiw you've been able to type "head" for quite a while (forever?). TYPING IN ALL CAPS is a bit of a pain, I agree, but at least for me "head" is somewhere on the same level of typing-complexity as @, possibly easier.
> If it can prevent idiots or unstable from carrying a steel knife we should.

Should we spend hundreds of millions and molest millions of passengers to prevent this?

> Is TSA making people waiting? I often get to the airport two hours early so I think the waiting is fine.

What is the cost in lost productivity of this? We are spending money to lost productivity to prevent a knives on planes??
The Biggest Ship in the World Has Floated For the First Time
I have no idea about Somalia and their money-printing operations. I also have no desire to purchase anything from that country, or visit it. I certainly wouldn't want to buy their currency as an investment if it can be printed by anyone, or some army can come in and make those notes illegal, or the country has no economic development to make the demand for those notes increase over time. So what's backing that currency is a number of things, with "backing" being a synonym for "making it valuable or useful in the long term to buy things from and in Somalia." Having a country be physically protected from invasion being a large factor in that equation. Also, not only an army, but more importantly a naval force that can protect trade routes from pirates (doesn't Somalia have its own fleet of pirate ships?? lol.)

The other thing to evaluate in a currency is the amount of it held by foreign countries. If all of a sudden China were to dump its US dollars, I'm sure the value would go down (but what would they buy instead?) Yet at the same time, China has an interest seeing the US survive and/or thrive to a certain extent so those dollars remain valuable and/or useful.

In fact, it seems the Chinese are going crazy about Bitcoins and Litecoins and it makes more sense for many to hold them than US dollars.. possibly because it allows them to make their funds available offshore and also pay bills locally.

As a side note, I've heard the Chinese have official printing plates for US dollars... another indicator about how important ubiquity is, in contrast to artificial scarcity to back a currency. If there's a lesson to be learnt about bitcoin, I think it's that artifical scarcity can also alienate a lot of people (even if it motivates bitcoin holders) and drive up the value of other crypto currencies, and if it was distributed more evenly from the outset, if today's reality would be any different. So my prediction is that there'll be a number of competing and complimentaty crypto currencies emerging supported by groups that were early adopters (or buyers) of them. If I were a fortune 100 company, it might make more sense to buy up say Litecoins on the cheap now, and then take payments in them later. (a bit off-topic, but useful to think about).. why give a free-ride to bitcoin holders? (unless the top execs are holding them.. or more likely, they'll be buying Litecoins now, esp Chinese ones)
Of course commits are not directories, but it's a good UI analogy. In any context where hg accepts a revision number, it doesn't also accept a path, so there's no possible ambiguity, but git's UI requires lots of ambiguous parsing. An example of this is how many git users get in the habit of cargo-culting "--" to separate paths from options.
Yeah, my approach is definitely one of "get it done as quickly as possible for my specific use case", and since Allegro made its headers easy to parse, I decided to just take advantage of that.

Maybe in the future I'll rewrite it to use libclang.
Enough of the PR. Get back to me when you've got a robot I can use instead of concept videos. This goes for drones, self-driving cars, and other robots.
Our decisions are fast for everyone.
Sometimes lawyers could need a little more time...
We are not requesting reincorporation most of the time but sometimes we are advising the company to do that for many reasons
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Do you really need to take up an entire day of somebody's time just to see how they code? Is there something that you can see in eight hours of coding with someone that you can't see in one or two hours?

Also, if you're going to require full-day interviews from your job candidates, it's not likely that someone who already has a job that they like will be interested in interviewing with your company. And if you're looking for highly qualified, experienced developers, they do already have jobs that your company is trying to lure them away from. You don't want to artificially limit your candidate pool to students and the unemployed.
Thank you moderator... a penality... Why?
Not just three chars, but three capital chars. I remapped caps lock to be the ctrl key, and didn't put caps lock to another key because I rarely use it anyway. For standard key mappings one still needs to hit caps lock or hold shift while typing. Is the change revolutionary? Will it totally revitalize my workflow? No, but it's a nice-to-have.

As for your scary example, if you don't like using "@" as an alias for HEAD, don't do it. <shrug>
The hard part is not the coding or statistics; the hard part is figuring out what to code/analyse.

I would want something on identifying actionable dimensions and how to talk to people to figure out how to help them
That was true on Android 2.3.. Things are inverted now.

But anyone with visual disability will still have to scavenge for a phone with actual buttons. And good luck with that...
My harsh advice, based on real and similar experience, is to get a job. Just to tide you over, to let you get back on your feet. Look for something in construction - maybe with a consulting firm that works with potential clients of your future business. Heck, they might even be interested in marketing the system you've developed. Regardless, what you really want in the future is freedom and stability, and to sacrifice the health and relationships you have now for that goal is a huge price to pay. I did it, I know.

Next, screw marketing - you don't need that right now. Maybe you had bad advice or just made it up, but what you need is sales - very different from marketing. You are the best sales person because you're the one who saw the need and believes in your solution. Forget websites and blogs and social media, that's not right for you - just talk to people and get them talking to people, until you can make contact with and sit down with potential customers. Tell them about the solution, land your first big friendly client and make them happy.

Just my 0.02 based on real life experience :)
AFAIK, it doesn't. 4.4 contains a setting that allows a provider to specify a different APN for tethering use, which I can imagine is a legitimate feature. You can also turn it off (on IPv4 at least)
It's surprising how transparent Kima is. The terms are reasonable and it's not like you have to take the money. Speed is a huge deal as well...knowing whether you can close or not can mean spending another 1-2 months working on your product and not have to worry about taking meetings from various VCs/angels.
I thought HEAD was too hard to type and have been using $h (zsh alias) for HEAD for a few years.

I'll be glad to save another 1 character with 1.8.5.
That is a good point although there should also be a way to compare and contrast with other countries that didn't have slavery as an "advantage". Then you could try to back-apply the model to other countries, like if the English outright owned the Irish then economic growth would have increased ... or would it have?
> Do paired programming on the actual codebase -- but on an old problem

That's what I was thinking. Which is why I thought "uh oh" when the interviewer said they needed the features live later that day. So, not only does the coder get to do free work for the interviewer, there's time pressure as well. Sweet!
Only command-line, and only in well-announced ways, such as push.default=simple (which you can set now) and "git add -u" run from a subdirectory being applied globally.
This also means that all the information you collect is readily available in unencrypted form to any agency that might want to bulk-process it. You're essentially storing your information on postcards. That said, it might be a fair compromise for many of us.

Evernote has another problem: their Mac app was never "smooth enough". There was always something off about it, when compared to apps like Yojimbo. And these things really matter for apps that you use a lot.
Part of the problem with this question is that many students today don't know what a "shepherd" is. Perhaps this is also a failure of education, but it isn't a failure of math education. It would be better to say a "farmer" owns these animals, since most children would have heard the word "farmer" at some point in their lives. Or maybe it would be better to say "your neighbor" has so many cats and so many dogs but then the kids would probably just guess some advanced age because crazy cat ladies.
I think if each criminal act resulted in a separate conviction, then three strikes can apply. But I think if you go on a milk theft spree (over some period of time keep stealing a gallon of milk from a bunch of different stores), when they catch you, you would likely be charged with multiple counts of milk theft and get "Strike 1" for the conviction. (also ignoring that stealing milk probably doesn't trigger the three-strikes rule.)
The partners are based in Israel + Paris (no one in the US), which makes things complicated with time zones of they are investing in North American companies.

A request for "weekly updates" is also quite burdensome on founders, and they also have the optionality of a board seat (also unusual for investments at this stage).
Yeah, I wasn't calling anyone out. Or if I was, I was calling out my first reaction.

But the point that I still think is an issue is that we don't know how much of the effect is about what the students _understand_ as much as it's about how they see the situation they are in. What incentives are there, and what is the student actually thinking?
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That's the best I could find:

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2013/12/verma/
Ignoring the wishes of the people who gave them the better part of a thousand dollars for the piece of hardware in their hand.

The carrier control of tethering made sense back before the iPhone had market dominance. Now it's stupid and user-hostile.
It's very simple:

-Don't make up things where existing tech would do (ala NBT, entity metadata, etc)

-Don't use a signed number if negative values don't make sense in that context

-Include versioning if something needs to work across versions

-Choose consistent scemantics for data encoding (and anything else you can)

All of this will make it easier for you, too. Focus on reducing internal code reuse, maximizing external code reuse, and simplifying things.
Interestingly enough their pilot installation is right next door to a municipal water tower which is bristling with cell antennae.
Theory often proves fruitful in unexpected ways.
I can only subscribe to a definition of "enemy of the Internet" if it includes the Huffington Post and Zedo.
> If they don't need or want this job why are they coming for an interview at all?

If you can't answer that question yourself without assuming that every candidate is a desperate unemployed mook on their last dollar you can bend over a barrel to squeeze some free labor out of then you probably shouldn't be in a hiring position.

Flip the question around, if you didn't need somebody to do work for you, then why are you bothering to open a position?

> How many sales have you made at that price?

You're the one with a problem so big and urgent that you're willing to take a random person off the street and put them onto your production code for a day. As the person solving that problem for you, I get to dictate the price, not you.

If you think you can sustain your daily charge rate and grow your business without adding more people, why aren't you doing that instead?
The problem with Bitcoins is that you must be able to sell them afterwards. And this would surely be a huge leap of faith.
No pricing? No web site? What is this?
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Just fyi: I believe [make sure this is right before you do it!] you should be able to subscribe to iTunes Match ($25/year), delete the songs from your computer, then redownload them in the DRM-free format. Not free, but probably cheaper to do that than to upgrade a bunch of songs one-by-one to the DRM-free format. Then you could drop the iTunes Match subscription.
FaceTime Audio.
A power user is a more advanced user of a particular system/service. They usually push a service/system to it's maximum and know various tips and tricks to gain maximum efficiency from said service.
If they shotgun emails, I will add them to this repo so that anyone who leverages never has to be hit by them: https://github.com/rockymadden/scattershot

If they are at all thoughtful, they get a thoughtful reply back.
No, I need /an/ employee, like they need /a/ job
Well I find the unix in a nutshell book to be an invaluable desktop reference if I have senior moment and need to look something up.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596100292.do

And its probaly easier to use
> Then there is the problem with medicines.

That right there is a beautiful example of idiocy regarding TSA policies. Remember that that wasn't even a result of 9/11, it was after police foiled a plot to blow up planes using liquids in the UK in 2006 before the terrorists even had a concrete plan. It's always after something happens that TSA reacts, making me believe even more strongly that what passengers get to personally deal with is mostly just security theater rather than anything actually useful.

Bonus points: there was never a limit on the medication you can bring with you (albeit haphazardly enforced with absurd requirements sometimes) even when all liquids were banned, and there has always been a gigantic backlash every time there was a news story about medically necessary liquids being tested or confiscated in unreasonable ways so TSA has never really dared to ban them in the first place. The best thing now is that they don't even bother to check that what you're carrying on is okay most of the time in my experience, nor have they ever cared that I didn't bother to bag things like inhalers separately and declare them to anyone. But they have thrown out a nearly empty toothpaste container for being an ounce too large - that I had gotten past security with a week before - just because.

I'm looking forward to traveling as a "trusted traveler" (aka pay them money!) tomorrow where TSA will even explicitly tell me to leave my baggies of liquids in my bag. :)
Ah, I forgot this was "Hacker News America".
Thanks. It's much better for me now
Ask HN: Any ethical, non-tracking advertising services that are decent?
I'm getting ready to release a project that I've been tinkering on for a while, sometime in the coming weeks.

Ever since the whole NSA debacle started, I've been trying to shift towards a free software lifestyle as much as possible. I want what I'm working on to be RMS-approved, but I also need some form of revenue to keep the servers running. This puts me in a bit of a predicament because a lot of advertising solutions track user actions and contain non-free code, and that's something that I don't want to subject my users to. So are there any good advertising networks that, at the very least, don't track user activity?

I realize that "the cloud is a trap," but I don't think a weather forecasting service would make much sense in any other context.
Ok. Thanks a lot. We are trying to make it clearer
J Craig Venter wants to convert DNA into a digital signal
Not so sure ... read some Isaac Asimov. (And yes, I'm generalizing from fictional evidence, but I'm only playing).
Idunno, sometimes the translations do lose some context. I've lost interest in anime since then, but when I was younger I saw a fansub of Princess Mononoke before I saw the official sub... and yeah, leaving some of the monster's names untranslated made more sense. Calling the creatures the Deer God and the Demon instead of Tatagami and Shishigami created a bunch of connotative problems. AFAIK, those aren't even real words in Japanese, so translating them wasn't necessary - they were names, titles, not things needing translating. By translating Tatagami into "demon" they created the impression that the beast was evil instead of angry and cursed. By calling the Shishigami the "Deer God" it created the impression that it was the god of the Deer instead of the god of the forest itself.

The folks watching it with me found the Disney sub confusing when I had no trouble keeping up with the original.

So there's a balancing act, and I'll agree that otakus are too quick to leave stuff untranslated, commercial translators are too agressive at picking a word that doesn't fit.
Ah, I get it. You explained that far better than the OP did!
Android tablet software is the same as the phone software. The software should be written to automatically handle different screen sizes, orientations and aspect ratios as needed in a single bundle.
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No problem! I'm critical because I love you guys. =)
Let's assume the shepherd graduated high school at 18 then bought 2 lambs and a farm. He was nice to his sheep so didn't breed them until 2 years and not after 7. The average litter size is 2 and the average age is 11. Let's assume an even number of male and female sheep. At year 2 he'll have 4 sheep (2 original and 2 new lambs). 2 more at year 3 and then 4 at year 3 (the first litter can now breed). At year 7 the original sheep stop breeding.

The shepherd is about 30 years old after he has passed the 125 mark. The dogs didn't matter. (Some story problems throw you a red herring.)
A significant difference is that a major part of the value of getting into YC is having successfully completed the selection process. There's a reason that when hiring and looking for funding, companies will usually include the year they went into YC. Given the value of the brand, it's likely that YC could offer less for more equity and still be oversubscribed.
Motorola actually died, it just limped along in the mobile space until that part was acquired by Google.

Motorola off-loaded their CPU manufacturing, that's now Freescale Semiconductor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor), and ditched their PC business. They're still losing money in mobile so it's likely they would've cratered before long.
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