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The post that you are commenting on does not support this viewpoint. Indeed, significantly more data was uploaded on Android devices vs iOS devices in this study. This is waved off as the result of the camera on the s4, but the s4 is not the biggest uploader in developed markets, the HTC Sensation (a non-lte-capable device) is.

You are very likely correct that iOS users touch their phones more than Android users, and your conclusion may also be right, but this is not really the place. The point of the article is to compare current devices to the iPhone 3G, not iOS devices to Android devices. Further, the comparison is likely only valid between devices running the same version of the same OS - we could say that this only proves that there is a bug in iOS that is destroying data plans if that supported the narrative.
The arrows do become higher-res at 200%, if you're having serious readability issues.

Or you could do something with Stylish or the like.
Nobody is engaged with their phone. Their engaged with their SO, and use their phone to reach them. There are no engaging apps on the iOS at all. Name one "killer app" for iPhone, and it would probably be Google Maps, which is of course available on most devices already. (It's been on PalmOS almost a decade ago.) Wow, but it's on iPhone and somehow that's a technological achievement? So what if people can pull data through their phones now at a rate that is comparable to actual daily usage. That is not an achievement, that's just another spin around the sink drain. Putting another layer of abstraction and metadata around it just allows you to control the water's path down the drain.

This is fine, because it's just supposed to be a phone, not a iPod, a phone, and an "Internet communications device" all in one. Nobody who does serious anything does anything serious on the iPhone other than talk or reply to emails like "ok I read this", (or just use it as a social signal).

I feel like all this talk is just a bunch of old money circling the drain of greed that Apple pulled the plug of. People think somehow that if they put the data in the cloud, they'll stop piracy, stop theft and stop deflationary pressures of all the air finally being deflated out the 10,000 year old bullshit-idea economy. The reality, the price of ideas is finally reaching the equilibrium price, nothing, and everyone just keeps fooling themselves that somehow this is for the best, and not the same thing that happened with Microsoft on desktops or at IBM so long ago. Someone's idea that we all are stuck in, but it's just one idea, can we please stop trying it and maybe go for something new, something that actually approves on the printing press instead of emulating it?
This is great feedback -- thanks very much!
Considering our leaders in America, I think it being a joke fits right in line.
I found quora a few times through google, and i HATED them because i could only see answer 1. I HATED QUORA soo much.

After signing up, I realised that its much more than just a QnA website.

Quora is a great place to find interesting discussions about a wide variety of topics.

The QnA part is mostly an excuse for domain experts to blow you away with interesting content.

its a community where experts can discuss interesting topics in their field, and I believe the "google spam" thing is helping keep the community this way for 2 reasons:

1. People coming from Google are expecting a "yahoo answers" type of website (public opinion, not expert advice). They want their answer and they are out.

If they could see all the results, the trolls (of which there are many) they would probably be tempted to signup with a fake account, just to add their throll-y whimsical answer or comment and never return.

2. If you go through the pain of being on-boarded, you probably care about the topic enough to become an engaged member of the community. Which will help maintain the quality of the website.
I tend to use Safari (on Mac OS) as my go to browser, so the simplest answer is probably familiarity as corresponding functionality exists in Chrome and Firefox which I've had no problems using when needed. That said, IE is not so good.

I think Chrome and/or Firefox provide more support for live editing of the current web page, however I've never made much use of that functionality.
Nope, there's plenty of math and stats involved in solving this problem correctly.

The amount of math you would apply here depends on your familiarity with the problem domain (this is where CS education comes into play), and your willingness and ability to work with higher level math and stats (this is where math proves necessary even in mundane software engineering tasks). For the record, even basic relational algebra can be seen as part of applied math, but the rabbit hole goes way deeper.

The best solutions for de-duplication of records without direct clues like unique IDs involve pretty cool applications of probability theory and machine learning, you'd find things like the Expectation-Maximization algorithm as prerequisites for understanding the current research. The foundational solution in this space is Fellegi-Sunter record linkage [1]. More advanced solutions include things like hierarchical Bayesian models [2]. If you dig deeper, especially if you are dealing with large datasets and basic techniques turn out to be too slow, you'd look into locality sensitive hashing and approximate nearest neighbors, which is a very mathematical subject, see for example [3]. In other words, math is encountered in even the most mundane software engineering problems, and you have to know where to look and what to look for.

[1] http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/assets/pdfs/publ...

[2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.4180.pdf

[3] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring05/cos598E...
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In that case, no currency has intrinsic value. If we went back to the days where I'd trade you 2 bags of rice for a fish, those things have value and other use.

Why does everyone fall back to the default argument that the USD is "backed" by the US govt. It is in theory but what does it really mean? The USD is no longer backed by physical gold. If the world decided the USD was useless tomorrow, does "backed" mean you walk up to Capitol Hill and they will give you something in exchange for your dollars? Unlikely IMO. It's backed by debt that the Fed just creates out of thin air. All this talk about "intrinsic value" is nonsense.
Transbank indeed. As it stands today. it takes 2-3 months to get Webpay Plus (Transbank's payment gateway) implemented on the website.
I think sort of statement is pg's secret intention / reasoning behind keeping HN the same: hackers will make it work for themselves (e.g., via custom stylesheet etc.).
> Yup, this is one of a bunch of problems. For example, "no chargebacks" is great for merchants, but bad for consumers. And while coinbase does support a simple charge, they don't have any way of doing things like holds.

In the end, I think it makes sense that it should be the merchant's task to handle the refund requests. If the possibility is not built-in to bitcoin, why do you feel that you should make it? And of course, there would be no need for holds.

I actually did read that article in the past, didn't realize that was you. It may be interesting as a phenomenon, but I certainly wouldn't hold Doge in higher regard than Bitcoin, which has a much larger network.
The iPhone 5c surely cannibalized 4s/5 stats, no? I mean, in prior generations people would purchase last year's model. But this time they got the 5c instead.
I agree completely, which is why I didn't generalize further.
While booking flights in Europe I frequently toggle through kayak.de, kayak.it, lastminute, and kayak.com. Doesn't require a VPN, it's just that Kayak works through partners and the partners are country specific. You can often get better deals on one site or another, depending on the partner selection.

I haven't used it that much in North America recently, but it seems to be the same dynamic.
Oh no — I'm very sorry to hear that. We try to avoid giving ETAs for functionality in order to avoid having people get stuck like this. (At the same time, we sometimes do indicate when we plan to do something — which does have this failure mode.) But we should probably have been clearer that it wasn't going to happen imminently — want to drop me a line at michelle@stripe.com and I'll see if there's any way we can help?
Sure

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1virfc/lets_send_t...
Because the PCI guidance isn't factual enough? An essay could be written about the problems with broad statements like merchants only needing to worry about the inclusion of Stripe.JS and the use of HTTPS to be PCI compliant. Luckily those already exist. This one covers it pretty well:

http://pciguru.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/developers-beware-st...
In fact, given the target users (e.g. prepaid customers) why would an MVP for this service include an iOS app at all?
I changed one line to make it work faster.

From the "best" score I was worse than it by 150 or something. Not that I care really.
Thanks for the answer!

Also, I just looked your profile and I can just say good luck with what you're doing!
You should check out https://pin.net.au/ – it's an Australian competitor to Stripe. You can accept payments in USD and Pin will settle in USD to an Australian account (this is exactly what we do at FastMail). We've been using them exclusively for the last few months and are pretty happy, other than the lack of Amex support, which they're still working on.
Eduardo from Stripe here - sending you an email now; I think we can help!
A bug that lets you execute code on Facebook's servers is worth millions if not billions of dollars. You'll be rewarded with much less than that, but considering Facebook's market cap it is extraordinarily valuable.
There was a movie last year, The East, with a similar plot:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869716/
Stripe is amazing - I can't believe it took until 2011 for something like them to exist. It really blows my mind - one of those "seems obvious, but only after you've seen it" things.

Here's to y'all figuring out more than just CC payments in the future, and making them just as awesome.
I thought / had hoped that this would be intercom competition. What are the chances of mixpanel adding that? I love Mixpanel and would really like to centralize my analytics / customer communications.
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Same in Austin, TX, where Google Fiber is coming next.
Here's his site: http://guidetomedievia.tripod.com/main.htm
Good for you. Enjoy your money.
This is a hot topic where I work, however we try to integrate the erlang monitoring into a single interface for all machines and all OSes/apps. From this article it doesn't look like the tool will help observe the VMs from zenoss/zabbix sort of tool etc. Is there a reason someone would prefer to use exometer reports as opposed to managed metric reports from a big monitoring tool? What about watchdog alerts/notifications and formal incident workflows?
Is there some basis to your "fact" of bugs being bought for millions for a social networking site? I could understand if someone found a remote execution bug on Big Bank Corp's website allowing you to transfer anyone's funds to your personal BTC wallet.
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Note that this was for one specific iPhone model, so it is hardly (a) or (d) -- that is, not that Android is more efficient and not that iCloud sucks extra bandwidth for backups. Etc.

(To be obvious: If it were those alternatives, or (e), then iPhone models 5C, 5, 4S and 4 would use similar amounts of data. At a minimum, most 5/5C should have iOS 7.)
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This is all vague reasoning compared to a huge flood crisis screwing up the supply chain for years. Why should I believe your claims about 'the cloud' and 'diminishing returns' rather than an amply documented crystal-clear cause?
why would you work on something for 3 years and not have any sort of beta out there. How do you know what you have is going to work or if anyone is even going to use it? It just seems crazy to work on something for this long and hide it away for 3 years. With all of the things on the internet that have changed in 3 years, how do you know your approach has not become out of date...
The problem isn't with the code -- it's with market & business viability and end-user desirability.

"Get lucky with strategy at the executive level"

I love how the most important part is hand waved away to luck.

IBM, Amazon, Ebay, PayPal, Akamai all had/have a solid, long-lasting strategy around making things that are: 1) Desirable to users/buyers/decision makers 2) Feasible, but sufficiently advanced from a technological perspective and 3) Viable from a business perspective, over something more than a short-run.

AOL and Facebook both did 1&2 pretty well (exceptionally well, in many ways) but #3 both fell short on -- Facebook has never had a really strong monetization strategy and now they're potentially slipping in terms of user desirability (amongst some segments) and still, they're failing to find an outright win with their monetization strategies. Ultimately, I think the OP was pretty spot on.
Yep: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-incr...

NoSquint only seems to be useful if you want to adjust the global zoom level.
I think the answer to your question is yes, but at the risk of being downvoted, you might get a nasty reality check if you view source and do a find on the string "table."
This is happening on many exchanges already.
Apart from not being able to run the challenges on Firefox, the Matasano CTF has been great. Now, if only I could figure out level 2...
> getting really good dom performance out of Backbone is hard because of the lack of built-in delegated event support

It actually is builtin:
https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blob/1.1.0/backbone.js...

In fact it takes a bit of effort to not use event delegation when setting up your events dict.
Choice quote:

"People who can climb the greasy pole of whatever hierarchy they decide to attach themselves to."
Thanks for taking the risk :-).
I based that statement on what I saw in Michael Sandel's HarvardX (edX partner) Justice course. There's a lot of thought experiments and hypothetical situations premises are tested against to see if they still hold to be moral; really interesting.
Maybe, but they had some weird management issues. When they acquired Netscape back in '98, there was a notorious all-hands meeting at which an AOL executive informed the disgruntled Netscapers that they were "perfectly free to leave", and so they did, draining that unit of some top internet engineering talent.
Yup, confirmed by Facebook on the linked blog post.

That seems like a nice chunk of money. I can't help but think about how much his exploit would be worth on the black market though. 10x that amount maybe? I have no clue.

Either way, being able to put a bug find like this on your resume is probably worth a lot more than those payouts.
People want access to their apple calendar, on all their devices.
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Very likely there is some efficiency stuff going on in here. GSII is on the list but not the GS3, interesting.
It actually seems like a really good alternative to push notification, which can be too intrusive for some applications.
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So am I blind or do I not see the actual amount of data used? Avg MB or GB? if Apple 3g is the measure what was the avg user consuming on the 3g? How do I know how much more 5s users are using if I don't have the baseline?
Indeed. The fact that this is specifically about the 5s and the recent iPad tells me that part of this is probably the speed of the A7. If it's faster to open apps, browse the web, etc, you tend to do more of it. That makes the device more useful to users and reduces friction, which leads to high usage.

In short: They use more data because they're better devices.

But there are also probably some of the other variables mentioned by the parent. They just apply to all iOS devices equally, not just those models.
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However they do it, it's safe to say it will involve "crowdsourced" content contributed by people who weren't paid for it. Big surprise...
This is both amazing and scary. The amazing part is obvious.

The scary part is we now have companies that are worth a billion dollars that are unlisted and have no public scrutiny. Either a billion is not a very large number to the American people today, or we believe that public scrutiny is unnecessary for large companies today. I don't think at all that Stripe is one of them, but wouldn't a billion dollar company be a powerful entity that could invest to subvert the public interest?
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I'm glad we're in agreement. It's all too rare to find people who are so easily convinced even when they're very wrong; kudos.
Huh. Can you comment on what he's doing then?
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There was some similar discussion in Germany last year. The major ISP announced to throttle monthly traffic above 70 GB in the future. Funnily enough they told that 70 GB are enough for every user while telling everyone that Internet traffic has a high increase every year.

Fact is, that their backbones aren't on any limit at all. The real bottleneck of the Internet connection is actually the last mile, the subscriber line. And that cable is exclusive per customer, so no shared medium and throttling wouldn't improve anything than making it possible to earn more money by selling premium contracts. To be fair, this is different for Internet over the TV cable which is indeed a shared medium. Still, throttling on the basis of a monthly limit doesn't make sense since it is reset for the beginning of every month.

Oh, and also that ISP was the only one not interested in doing a direct peering with Google's local CDNs for free. In France Google is actually paying for getting YouTube better routed.

The important thing is that these ISPs just try to make money on both ends of the cable while actually arguing with the power of the opponents. "Hey enduser, here you'll get YouTube! - Hey Google, wanna have more satisfied users?" And that they are often actively lying for achieving that.
I don't have a 5s, but I went from the original retina iPad (with the A5) to the iPad Air (with A7) and the difference is massive, and it does lead to more usage. Just the waiting time could easily result in me going on 20% more webpages per day, or watching an extra youtube video.
yeah, i'm aware that perl is used by biologists, but the question is more like, "should perl be used by biologists?" no question that c is not a great choice, but what about python? or, hell, javascript, even? for the kind of programs biologists would want to write (i.e. programs that need to describe a system that performs several tasks rather than programs that need to perform one or two specific tasks), it'd be helpful to have a language that not only has data structures like arrays/lists and hashes/dictionaries but also a data model that includes things like classes as a primitive. python in particular has numpy/scipy.

perl's syntax for regexp matching definitely makes it a good choice for programs that have to do a lot of string-munging, but that's what i meant by "sys-admin-type stuff."
> Way more likely ISPs will do a little deep packet inspection and re-write the page to have a message along the lines of "Netflix & Google are the reason your rates keep going up. Your video is buffering because Netflix & Google want YOU to pay more for Internet service"

Haha, good luck with that on increasingly HTTPS-only services.
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When something better comes along to replace or supplement it, Facebook use will undoubtedly level off or decline. Until then, I doubt it will decline much if at all.

It's gradually replacing all the independent communities with convenient Facebook communities and user groups, it's a convenient one-stop site for communicating with friends, sharing pics and generally relaxing at the water cooler.

Teens of course will always look for some alternative (WhatsApp, Reddit, etc) so as not to appear to conform to their parents' generation, but in reality there is no particularly great alternative that offers everything FB offers, especially in terms of sheer numbers of participants.
I mean tanks have been deployed, not just APCs. Military[1].

[1] http://youtu.be/NSQ989fCrbU
I love using facebook. It's great for connecting with friends and discovering my network. I post most of what I do there and twitter.

that being said I'm constantly looking for something new. It seems facebook has hit a wall in its cutting edge delivery of products and services. Is this a product of their IPO? I'm not sure how internally they've changed, but whatever happened, it seems to have changed how quickly the product has evolved externally.

Good luck to them though, staying #1 is difficult and requires an agile thought process.
so pretty much everything this person said was great is why i hate quora.
After playing with the extension for a moment, there's one key feature that'll probably make me keep it installed: per-site configuration of text-zoom vs. full browser-zoom. Firefox's "Zoom Text Only" is a global setting, but the extension permits it on a per-site basis.
Patrick, big fan here - we also met in person once, in the Mission. Congrats on the milestone, and keep up the good work.
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That sure is a boring perspective of the web of the last 15 years.
BTW, I use the VPN to mask my internet traffic… sorry NSA

That's okay. I'm sure the minor inconvenience of not seeing the data flow directly to your local IP is more than made up for by the data collection at both sides of that VPN...

To be serious, I wonder if they apply extra scrutiny to VPN providers, and use traffic analysis to build correlations between TCP connections. The extra effort might be justified by a higher class of data going across the connections.

Then again, it's probably easier to just use some form of evercookie injected into TCP streams on the fly...
Doesn't "decimation" mean FB would be left with only 10% of its present user base? 90% versus 80%, not that big a difference, really. In any event, I don't believe it will happen; there's no credible alternative on the horizon, at least not yet. Google Plus doesn't seem to be taking over, and who else is there?
I see this all the time, that people cannot perceive pixels smaller than x degrees (using angular units to cancel out pixel size vs. view distance). And it's true--the eye cannot resolve smaller that that value.

But just as we cannot perceive individual frames at 24 Hz, but instead see motion, there's still an emergent effect that is perceived when we juice that frame rate up to 60, or 120, etc. There exists a frame rate where the perception changes from "really fast slideshow" to "motion" and that value is pretty low (something like 12 Hz?). Yet, higher frame rates still deliver a noticeable change in the quality of the video.

I think the same effect will apply to very high pixel densities. Moire effects that occur when the news anchor is wearing a striped jacket, for example. There's gotta be other emergent qualities that come out of having such a tight pixel density, even if no single pixel can be discerned at a 3 meter distance.

(Disclaimer: the above is pure conjecture, I have not compared a 4K display to an HD one from normal viewing distance)
Happy to swing by your office sometime when you're hosting one of those hackathons (we're a few blocks away ourselves) :)
Manipulating websites that way is likely illegal in a lot of countries.
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Really, really popular and the basis for many sucessful applications?