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If you have friends or coworkers who are native speakers, ask them to please correct you when you say something that isn't perfectly fluent.

Otherwise most people will ignore your mistakes, rather than risk insulting you.
Thank you. You too.
> Rockstar may not make devices itself, but it consists of, and represents, companies that do.

Then tell us why they don't file the suits in their own names.

It's clearly because they're doing something distasteful and don't want to get the stink on themselves, and because they don't want to be parties in a court case where the judge has the ability to rule against them once and for all or impose penalties.
Merry Christmas to everyone out there!
Do Amish children do that by choice? But you missed my point.

How much do you know of North Korea? Are you under the impression their culture is the same as the South's? Do you think the spies live a primitive lifestyle? Do you think these athletes live a primitive lifestyle? http://www.funis2cool.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/north_k... How many people in Pyongyang do you think live a primitive lifestyle? And if they suddenly learned of the outside world (assuming they were completely ignorant beforehand!) they would probably notice the impoverished, the starving, the homeless, the unjustly imprisoned -- in other words, the same types of problems, if perhaps of different local magnitudes. They might also notice a bunch of problems they don't have. They may even just see some of their own problems as caused by the West and reinforce their distaste.

My point is that it's ridiculous to suggest one's way of living will be instantly recognized as superior by someone else one assumed to have an inferior lifestyle. It's also ridiculous to imagine no one in North Korea actually believes in the legitimacy of the government and its goals.
I was looking at [this](https://yourkarma.com/) the other day. It looks like this is what you're looking for.

$14 per GB is pretty expensive though, but the data doesn't expire.
merry christmas HN
From what I hear (from the few people I know at Netflix) since there is a lot of fear that you can be fired at will, no one takes a vacation at all. It actually makes sense too, if one member of the team does not take a vacation but you do then you will come across as the one "slacking off". On the other hand if you are a set number of time off days you can take them without feeling guilty about it. Of course it depends on the culture in the group as well but I am very skeptical about it working in a company the size of netflix.
Wealth-based inequality is not domination. In order to wield your wealth, you have to give it away, or at least offer to.

political inequality, however, often results in domination.

Moreover, wealth is not a zero-sum game. In any free transaction, both parties are made better off (otherwise the transaction would not have occurred). With politics however, there can only be a limited number of any given political position. Therefore, it is a zero-sum game.

There are legions of wealthy people who conspire to trade in their wealth for political power, but do not confuse the nature of one form of power for the other.
This is the saddest thing I've ever read.
That is what I am inclined to identify as the problem. Not poor UX.
there's also the flawed assumption that freedom is a zero-sum game!
This game is an RTS (like Starcraft/Warcraft). It's not a Simulation like SimCity or Civ. Matches are meant to be played with 2 or more players and can last a few hours max depending on the map. With that said, my brother and I love it. RTSes for Mac have been lacking and this one is really solid even in Alpha. We can't wait until it gets more mature and modders get a chance to make mods on top of the already great core.
It's not about going out of business, it's about cost/benefit. What good does it do you to avoid paying a million dollars in license fees if it costs you two million dollars in lawyers fees to do it?

(The answer is that it keeps you from being painted as a mark by other trolls. But it still doesn't change the math -- it costs more to fight than to pay.)
This is the exact same shake I have and it's wonderful. If you're a coffee person, try adding some cold brew as well.
The Government Wants to Grade Your College
The author seems quite pissed at the state of crypto in the world, and he's definitely trying to help. I like the general language of the post. Good work and keep it up!
Can We Predict Evolution?
Although this does sound like a case of ad retargeting (as a number of other commentators have mentioned), it's worth being aware of the 'data brokerage' industry, which may or may not become more closely linked with advertising in the future.

Essentially, with so many institutions collecting and storing (even fairly anonymous) profile/intent data (browsed this page, purchased these items), there's an ability and motivation to have back-channels between data-driven advertisers; buying and selling user data to inform each other's targeting.

Retargeting pushes the user experience in this direction while being arguably more benign; it is a little more transparent and simple to understand than data sharing.
> "How much did the OP pay to use Facebook as a social platform?"

Spare me the "pitchforks".

Nothing is free. We all pay for what appears to be free, the price is just very well hidden in the current case. Advertised products will have the cost of advertisement factored in their price.

I am happy to block these unwanted ads, and to give people the tools to do so. Let's see where the supply/demand curves for ads intersect when you give people the choice.
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Simply not true in 2013. They are aggressively hiring engineers of all sorts. College degrees are less relevant. Google, of all companies, have developed some of the finest talent recognition software in the valley.
you should read Debt: the first 5000 years, and you will find that you are wrong; the entire basis of money is NOT Pareto Optimality. The author of this book I think makes a criticism that the economic just-so story of money exists to self-justify economics as a field (while conveniently ignoring that he's doing the same thing for anthropology) but the book is nonetheless an excellent treatment of the muddled history of money.
It is interesting to see small implementations like these - you can get a feel for a language in seconds.

https://gist.github.com/wting/77c9742fa1169179235f
He specifically mentioned "x86 chips".
Bitcoin Is The Ultimate Fiat Currency
Russia still controls the .su tld and allows registering new domains under it.
I understand that work is important in life, but it's not entire life, I believe. May be we don't need to think about work from the moment we wake up till the moment we fall asleep. Just saying.
This is one situation where watching TV as a background activity might actually be helpful. The best way to learn English is to surround yourself with English as much as possible. So, read, watch TV, talk to people, and to speak English at home as much as possible.

On the other hand, I bet her English is actually better than she thinks it is. I've met a lot of non-native English speakers who have unnecessarily apologized for perfectly intelligible (if accented) English.
And remember where Apple got its notification centre from. And remember how iOS was lacking copy and paste for years. And remember how it only got "multitasking" a few years after Android did. We could be here forever.

Also, didn't a Google employee basically debunk that "Google had to start from scratch after iPhone was revealed" claim?
Dear Jailbreak Community (part 2)
This is something I've found very weird: there's a sharp difference between the opinions of people I know in person and people online.

HN commenters love to hate open office plans. It's one of the few topics on which they agree with /r/programming!

And yet everywhere I've spent time has been in favor of open offices. This includes a few startups, sure, but also an enterprise software company (Guidewire), an academic research lab (Berkeley ParLab) and a quantitative trading firm (Jane Street).

In the ParLab, even most professors didn't have dedicated offices--apparently, this makes them more accessible and gets them to talk to their students more. David Patterson, the leader of the lab--with a lot of research experience--talked about how switching to an open layout was a real improvement in the research process.

At JSC, both traders and developers share an open space. This makes communication between the two parts of the company much more fluid. The founders of the firm all originally came from another firm where developers and traders were sequestered from each other, and they have found the shared open space to be entirely preferable.

Many of the other experienced people I've worked with have also been big fans of open office layouts. And these are some of the most productive organizations I've ever seen--probably some of the best full stop.

And yet most online commenters treat it as a given that an open space is completely inferior to real offices.

Personally, I'm a big fan of working in a nice open layout. It makes it much easier to talk to other people, even if I don't have a specific problem to solve. This makes work both more pleasant and more efficient because I can get outside input or an extra set of eyes at any point in the development process. Moreover, since I'm similarly helping other people out, I get a good sense of their projects as well.

And if I need to concentrate, I can just put on headphones or go to a quiet room. But I much prefer that not to be the default action, only taken when it's needed.
I'd recommend taking an intensive ESL course, which you presumably have many options for at local universities. (My wife, who is Japanese, is similarly looking into options.)

If that isn't an option:

For listening comprehension, and eventually speaking, practice "shadowing." Have her listen to interest-appropriate TV shows and say exactly what the speaker is saying, in real time. (You can also do this exercise with transcription.) It will be maddeningly difficult at first, but with literally hours a day of doing it, she will see radical gains.

This is a large part of the training for professional translators/interpreters. In my experience it works very well. It is also some of the most frustrating work I've ever done.
They did for awhile. I still have some vesting.
Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching
Interesting work. How is it different than this, which was published in 2012 at ACM-MM, a more respected venue than IEEE-ISM?

http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~yanying/socialrelation.htm...
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“This is why experienced developers can pick up a new technology in a day, where a beginner could spend months.”

The idea that a professional programmer can pick up a language/technology in a day or two is unlikely. They can PLAY with a new language or new technology and understand the basic idea behind it but they are not going to know it well enough to write anything serious. The problem is not the architecture or the know-how but the syntax and limitations of the tool. Programming in multiple languages is hard; you must keep on shifting your brain back and forth between the syntaxes and the nuances of the languages. A design pattern is a design pattern no matter what language it is but the syntax of that language complicates things.

Last, let’s take a tool such as GIT for example, this thing has a zillion of commands and most of them do the same thing Why? All we need is tool to help with versioning our codes not something that stands in the way. There are a couple of GITUIs but when there is a problem, they send you straight to the command line without any real explanations. Now you realize that you should have learned it using the command line to begin with. A lot of people hear this tool was written by the creator of linux and they just jump on board like sheep when in reality this thing was not written with human being in mind. Why are we complicating things? Programmers are being smart so lets focus our energy to solve real problems instead of boosting our egos with the next tool that does not solve anything.
Using ranger as a frontend for vim works really well for me.
Retargeting typically uses Cookies, the scarier ones are Continuous Targeting, where Metadata is used to track you without cookies, or worse yet straight up user data sharing.

If you are John Smith of 1313 Mockingbird Lane no cookie is needed partners just share info about targeting.

Sometimes it is more general Someone at your IP shopped for an Xbox one, so you get ads for Xbox One. We see this at my office a lot. I shop for something, and the guys in the office start to see ads for it.

Then there is the really scary ones.
Your referrer data comes along with a search from Google or where ever, the ad network uses that with your metadata, or user data to know what you searched for, now they store all of those to track where you live based on you doing things like "Near:1313 Mocking bird lane" from Google Maps, and they now have your physical address, (or they get it from somewhere you bought something). Now your paper mail gets "Current Resident" targeted Spam.

Go a step further.
Your friend Bob plays Candy Crush on Facebook, the game gets all the friends of Bob and their cities. Using the data from above we now know you are friends with Bob. So we start sending you spam that uses Bob's last name in it, or We just plain send you spam that uses Bob's Full name.

As someone who has managed large online ad campaigns you don't want to know how much information I can buy about you. The NSA is not nearly as Scary as Google with regards to how much they know about you. And Google will sell that stuff to anyone with a big enough budget, with no care as to how we want to use that data.
Would it be significant? I think most computer vision feature descriptors can be run over multiple images in parallel.

It'd be neat to reduce the entropy of possible photos by using EXIF data (location, etc.)
quite agree
OP wasn't neccesarily suggestiong anything nefarious, but was curious about the technical details of how this is done -- as are many of us.

Can anyone give a basic technical explanation of how ad retargetting works, of how the information on what you looked at on Amazon makes it to wherever it is that controls what ads you see on facebook?
What are the main arguments for offices? Peace and quiet and the ability to focus?

Yes, with a heavy emphasis on the cost of (mental) context switches.

Personally I despise working in an "open plan" environment more than almost anything in the world. That said, I do it at my consulting job, and it's tolerable mainly because A. I'm not always in "the office" and B. it's a fairly small group.

I should point out though, that there's a balance to be struck. I mean, even I do like the open plan thing for brief moments here and there... Some of the random conversations that start up are hilarious and I've literally laughed until I was crying on occasion. And I will engage in the occasional nerf dart war with everyone. BUT... on those occasions when you absolutely have to have peace and quiet and are trying to focus intently on something, there's nothing worse than having to deal with all the noise and ruckus that sometimes kicks up.

On balance, I'll take a private office with a door any day. But I've always said that my goal for Fogbeam is - when we get to a point where we have employees, an office, etc. - to give every employee a private office with a door (and a "guest chair" or two), but complemented by plenty of open spaces (preferably around the perimeter of the building, near sources of natural light) with tables, chairs, sofas, rolling whiteboards, etc. so people can get out, be social, collaborate face-to-face, while having the sanctity of an office to duck into for deep thought / intense focus times.

I have also pondered trying to create a few "commons room" type areas.

Of course, it's all a moot point until we start making money... sigh
How about official Cydia?
They get 4X better CTR than other ads, and decent conversion. Even if they don't work for >99% of people, they can still be profitable.
Happy Festivus!
What's the best way for a foreigner to improve English to a great level?

I wrote a FAQ comment about that a while ago that became one of my most popular ever comments. I'll link to that here rather than repeat all the text again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302816

Good luck!
Google is now crying like a little kid after they tried unsuccessfully to buy Nortel patents... Pathetic.
Well, that depends, particularly for Snowden. "Under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, no person who swore an oath to support the Constitution, and later rebelled against the United States, can become president. However, this disqualification can be lifted by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress."
I haven't seen a job ad since I started my current job (~3yrs ago) that looks more interesting than the job I have. I do desktop applications (WPF/C#) one day, C++ computer vision/algorithms another day with an occasional scoping of signals with an oscilloscope and logic analyzer thrown in. All this and no politics or deadlines.

Most of the jobs I see advertised are one dimensional - they want a GUI person OR a computer vision person OR an embedded person, rarely more than one thing.

I've had a lot of great jobs and the thing they shared in common is they were small or tiny companies.
Wow, very impressive.
I’ve Learned To Love (Wearables) Again
How to track Santa with Google and Microsoft in 2013
The problem is that a less than A player in either design or backend programming will more likely shit things up instead of contributing in a minor way. It's just hard to believe that you are an A player in both.
you can't have a virtual static function. Either, but not both. The rest though are all basic c++
Not exactly what you are looking for, but we are trying to incorporate this issue into our course structure at www.codeyelp.com (not released yet). Even if you do not want to enrol, this type of end-to-end deployment video should be released soon.
What an efficient robot. It is amazing how our entire lives are about being most "productive". Do we do anything just for the for the fun of doing it, in an unstructured unplanned way?
Hey, did you also here that there are NO trees on their campus?
Thanks! You too sir!
Uh, hey, I'm Zach. Thanks for the shout out. I'm mildly uncomfortable with you using Aleph as an example of good, idiomatic Clojure, but I suppose I can live with it.

If you're looking through my code in the future and have questions, please feel free to get in touch.
> They can't opt out of minimum wage because there are laws, not because it's otherwise coerced.

You missed the point. Let's get rid of the minimum wage. Suppose Alex is looking for a job, but all the jobs they can find that will hire them pay less than what they think is fair. Does Alex have a choice? No; if they doesn't get a job they will starve and die.
"I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion."

- Patrick Bateman
It's by definition anti-competitive. Its entire purpose is to reduce competition so that the inventor can profit from it. Even if inventors were required to license their inventions to other people for a truly fair rate it would still be anti-competitive since it would increase the costs (and thus barrier to entry) of competition. The inventor still enjoys a significant advantage in the market (not having to pay the license fees).

It's fair to ask if it's bad for there to be an official form of anti-competition, but call a spade a spade.
I wonder how many of those people ever had their own office. If you don't know any better, what you have may seem pretty good.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. For some types of problem solving, a closed space to think for an extended period of time is really useful.
From what I've read, you can update the Cydia to a newer, official version from within itself.
The article is from 2006. Things evolve.
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This is typical western philosophical bullsh. As life becomes easier in Western world, people have more time to fret about such inconsequential things. Please carry on!
There is nothing childish about cereal and toast.

He didn't say "Lucky Charms" and "toast loaded with grape jelly".

I eat a low carb meals also, and I totally get not wanting a sugar crash due to eating a carb-loaded breakfast. But sheesh "Well, you could try eating like an adult" just sounds terribly condescending to me.

Plenty of adults eat cereal and toast for breakfast and are just fine doing so.
The tl;dr is Google Google Goo.
It's dozens of orders of magnitude less of a fucking joke than Twitter and the blogosphere as far as journalistic quality. Quality control is hard and when a newsroom full of full-time professionals fails, it's not as if *.blogspot.com was really going to do better.
While my experience is similar, I can also state that none of my coworkers who have had private offices have ever mentioned or even implied in any way that they'd prefer a desk in an open space.