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I've been holding out on buying a TV (not just a set-top box) until Apple decides to make one. I don't like the way cheap way most TVs look nowadays. I don't think I'm the only one that's waiting.

Then again, I've been waiting for years. I've come to realize that if Apple never makes a TV, then so be it - I'll just never get a TV. But the one thing I won't do is put ugly stuff in my home.
I wonder how many of the employees themselves are not eligible to vote (H1B/etc.). A lot of the political power of a big employer comes from two things:

1) Large voting bloc of employees

2) BATNA to getting their way: credible threat to move. Google can't credibly threaten to move out of SFBA, sadly, and Twitter couldn't credibly threaten to move to Brisbane (because, Brisbane is crap). If Twitter hadn't had crazy political connections, mid-market wouldn't have happened.

You don't get large amounts of power just by paying a lot of taxes or employing a lot of people; if there are big voting groups who dislike you, you're still screwed.
While I think Glass is a flawed concept, remember this is a single anecdote. This is not evidence of the product causing headaches.
Mind blown. I thought this was some ordinary Python or Ruby app. It reminded me of Ajenti (http://ajenti.org/), which is nice admin panel.

But Cockpit is insane (not in a bad way).

[starting cockpit] will cause systemd to listen on port 21064
and start cockpit-ws when someone connects to it.
Cockpit-ws will in turn activate cockpitd via D-Bus when
someone logs in successfully.

Cockpit is written in C, by Red Hat. The web frontend has dbus.js that does D-Bus over WebSockets to communicate to the backend. I expect this project will evolve into something much bigger.

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
I don't know about these days, but I personally had to deal with 4chan/Anonymous several years ago (before Anonymous became known for taking on public causes) and what they were doing was downright evil (and immature) with real-world consequences. "For the lolz." I wonder what moot was doing when he presided over this disgusting behavior.
"Just about dead" is quite the overstatement. They did $32B+ last year in advertising revenue. I hope they do die a quick death, but it's going to be a while before most people cut the cord.
Of course. Yet still, Carmen Ortiz approved a felony indictment of up to 37 years against Aaron Swartz for breaking one of those vague/broad terms.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/aarons...
When I wear sun glasses for a long period of time I get headaches. I find they restrict blood flow to parts of my head above my ears. So it could be just the physical design/weight/tightness of the frame. There's no way I could wear my sunglasses for 8 hours straight and they aren't carrying any kind of special electronics.
There's still the problem that most of the construction within SF is in areas where "people don't want to live", at least not "trendy" startup people. Generally 20something tech people want to live in the Mission and work in SOMA. Transit within SF is kind of defective, even for that pattern.

HP/Bayview would be the natural place to fix, and the third street rail/mission bay/etc. was supposed to open that up, but Bayview still appears to be the ghetto. Fixing Bayview will bring even more cries of racism/gentrification/etc. than other parts of the city, due to demographics; plus much of the available space in HP is either nuclear waste dump or dirty industrial, so it's expensive to remediate.
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I don’t feel the parent ever intended his observation to be a sincere suggestion ...
I think business might be a little more complicated than you think. :)
I've had no appreciable downtime on Digital Ocean, and have a network scattered around: NYC2, AMS1, SFO1, and now Singapore (whatever they call it). My app is low-RAM, low-CPU, but possibly high bandwidth and their stuff is ideal for that.
A shelf space analogy doesn't make sense. With a real shelf, there is scarcity. Only so many shelves can fit in the store, and only so many products on a shelf.

The marginal cost of a virtual good is zero. Apple's ability to support apps is effectively infinite.

There are over 1M apps in the App Store.

This is not about "shelf space".
A lot. Lucene is basically the inverted indexes, providing on-disk structures and a mechanism to query, as well as assorted bits like tokenization.

ES adds distribution (multimaster-replicated cluster of nodes connected via a gossip protocol), sharding, defines a document model and schema (the mapping of arbitrary JSON documents to index structures), faceting, aggregation (ie., roll-up-type calculations), various types of scoring (eg., geographic distance), ETL ("rivers"), backup/restore, performance metrics, a plugin system (eg., for indexing different file formats) and a bunch of other things -- and of course a REST-based API on top of the whole thing.
At the same point of time , using glass you need to concentrate on small area to see information on screen(based on glass videos) , so I think its design issue which can be improved .
When my son was 2, I found a free iPad app called "My Colours". It was a grid of 12 colors. When a color block was touched, a synthesized female voice read out the name of the color.

For my son, at least, it worked very well, much better than fancier (and often garish) apps, and he was even able to identify "turquoise" because of the app. When I had to reinstall my iPad, I found it was missing from the App Store. Fortunately, I found a backup copy.

I strongly suspect that the colors app was pulled for having been "too simple". If that was the case, it would seem that Apple seems to prefer bells and whistles to functionality.
It's mostly (entirely?) a joke about secret societies as a response to a DailyCal article. There's a post by FooBar which gives an explanation for the site.
I think collusion might be more likely than you think.
>I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed.

This is a really bad idea. While you might think that its impossible, some of your users are going to absolutely love the useless functionality that you added to appease Apple. When you remove it, you are going to receive an influx of 1-star reviews.
I bought this a long time ago. It's fun to use for a few minutes here and there but the novelty quickly wears off.
Much more likely we gonna be killed by diabetes, or falling from the stairs.. the propaganda is unproportional to the size of the threat.. meanwhile, other types of "predators" may scape from our sight.. not minimizing the problem.. just saying that there are bigger ones that deserve more attention
.. and overreacting wont help, i think, anybody.. so, back to the original topic..
This google glass. I do not understand.
I'm not shocked. It's a sadly common opinion. I do think you're full of shit, though.

Depression is completely different from things like sadness and anger. There is a superficial outward resemblance, but that is all. They are conflated because people who have never experienced it try to slot it into what they know, so they decide that depression is just the sadness they know, but stronger. It's not.

But no, I'm sure that saying depressed people are just sad and have control over their own feelings and that Prozac is no better than a lobotomy is going to totally help people.
I asked a few questions relating to depression at our health center and felt like i was being interrogated by the doctor there. The worst part of it was that I had the feeling that no matter what I said his mind was already made up. I wasn't committed or ejected from school or anything, but I definitely don't want to bring it up again at my health center. There's a counseling center here as well, but after my experience at the health center I don't have the motivation to check it out.

I ended up going outside the school and am happy with my choice. This is anecdotal, but you might want to do the same.
Want my invite? Let me know how to reach you. (I thought about buying it and returning it after 30 days, but feel like that's kind of a dick move. And no way I'm actually laying out 1500 for it.)
Do you know any good resources for buying raw beans online?
Funny enough, try making that argument to a Russian. The argument that language is more history than science, and is fluid and ever-changing. Many words in Russian are commonly, and in most cases properly, pronounced one way, and yet spelled another. It's infuriating. Of course, what do I know, I have the privilege of having no native language. Borne in Ukraine, first spoke Russian, with Ukrainian accent, then learned Ukrainian, with a Russian accent, and now my primary language is English, with eastern european accent :)
Szasz entire screed appears to be based on mental illnesses not being able to be concretely diagnosed or detected, but then jumping to the conclusion that they are completely made up and abused by society to control everyone's behavior.

Once you "accept" his conclusion, it doesn't seem possible to be argued out of it until science advances to an arbitrary point where one feels it adequately explains mental illnesses. "accept" in quotations as I honestly can't tell if his supporters are trolling or honestly believe what they're posting.
Consider looking into some larger frames -- I had the same problem, then my wife bought me some sized sunglasses (from Persol) that fit my giant head perfectly. No more headaches.
I don't like wearing them if I have a headache already, but they don't cause me to have one. My headache with them is other people.
I don't understand why this is newsworthy? Everybody could generate an unsigned certificate for any name in just a few seconds. The point is that they are unusable in any sane browser.
P2P isn't a good architecture for something like that. You pull data from a leaf node, through the core network, back to another leaf node, traversing the relatively slow last mile coax part of the network twice. Meanwhile, a relatively small number of movies and shows will dominate the demand, which Comcast can easily cache near the edges of its network. There is a reason Netflix is vying to get equipment in those spots.
No conspiracy necessary. From the article:

"With a snippet of embedded code, Tidbit could enable websites to tap into visitors’ computers and borrow CPU cycles to mine Bitcoin."

Ads that take over the screen for a few seconds are bad enouogh. A website that takes over a computer to run computationally expensive tasks? With ads, at least their is the opportunity to run adblockers. With a javascript miner, visitors are left with the choice of disabling javascript, and essentially their access to the modern web, or risking a website abusing their computer.

The subpoena and accompanying interrogatories issued to Rubin demonstrate that the people working for New Jersey’s division of consumer affairs have made little effort to understand what Tidbit’s software actually does.

Based on how Tidbit has described their software, it sounds like New Jersey knows exactly what the software actually does: it runs a BTC miner on a website visitor's computer, potentially without their knowledge. And as the ESEA fiasco demonstrated, this could result in actual, physical damage to people's computers.

Is this overreaching? Maybe. Maybe not. That's what the purpose of the investigation is for.
In what world does personal expected value versus expected cost of breaking the law ever become a good way to make moral decisions?

In this one, where my taxes paid for the goddamned research.
Schools have counselors that you can go see and I would recommend doing it since they usually don't charge anything (which means it will be in your budget). I am 100% sure you will not be kicked out of school for seeing the counselor and this is completely different from what "Dan" from the story went through. The key difference being that you are seeking treatment for stress/depression/anxiety/whatever as opposed to seeking immediate medical care following a suicide attempt.
But the same DNS servers :(

$ nslookup
> set type=ns
> dreamhoststatus.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
dreamhoststatus.com nameserver = ns3.dreamhost.com.
dreamhoststatus.com nameserver = ns2.dreamhost.com.
dreamhoststatus.com nameserver = ns1.dreamhost.com.
I know. That's why Amazon is better positioned. They at least own the upstream infrastructure. Netflix is utterly dependent on three other industries, but is itself pretty easily replaceable. The had a first mover advantage in getting favorable content licensing deals before anyone thought it would matter, but that's fading fast as those deals are renegotiated. And its value add is totally fungible. People care about the content and will happily use another provider if they have the content. Netflix' foray into original content is an existential move.
Best thing that could have happened to you, given all the attention you're getting now? :-)
Anybody know if elasticsearch does multiword synonyms properly? (Solr doesn't). Thx
Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?
In theory I still don't like the idea of a content provider owning infrastructure.
It is a dildo name, if you believe the Jon Stewart show clip in the other comment on this page ...
The main sellable product of a modern very successful startup is public stock. They will soon fulfill this objective. The money that makes the insiders rich comes from the shareholders, not from the revenues. This is the unfortunate reality of America in 2010s. On a sidenote, it is my prediction that the Quantitative Easing is permanent.
If you don't turn on your TV you should make sure you return your Comcast cable box because you're probably being charged at least $3/mo for it.
The least useful passport is the expired passport :-)
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I'm not sure you'll be able to read his post properly while you do it through the chip on your shoulder.
OP says that a masterful understanding of coding in general necessarily leads to a disregard for features that users want.

I think this is a false dichotomy -- developing a masterful understanding of what things cost must be coupled with a masterful understanding of what makes things valuable.

If OP shared what caused him to think this thought perhaps a good conversation would happen. I could see myself write something similar about CFOs after encountering one at a past startup who kept turning the air conditioning off to the point where coding in the office was a sweaty experience.

I think the title of the correct article is "You want to think like a programmer and a customer" or "You don't want to thin like a bad programmer"
Doesn't it really just depend on what you focusing on and choosing the best language for that. I prefer python, but have written a lot of objective c, i created a search engine and ended up using lucene, nutch, opennlp and a few other Java programs and i really liked working with java and it seems like the Apache projects are really cool for big data projects. I also enjoyed javascript when i used it to create an api for an ios app but since i spend most of my time doing machine learning now, python is where the datascience community is and i love the opensource tools they create like ipython notebook, pandas, scikits, etc... So i just never get the staunch stance people take over languages but maybe its about being a "master" in a language and i am definitely not anyway near being a master in python.
Our lives sound nearly identical (39/married/3 kids) I've found that finding time gets a little easier the older the kids get. (now ages 8 - 14). When they were younger, it was really tough.
Personally, I'd try the commuting before moving. Moving eats up everyone's time.
YMMV on this, but I studied CS with an informal concentration on AI/natural languages. Here's some take-them-or-leave-them suggestions.

If you want to maximize the return on your time for this class, do a project which:

1) Uses one or many data sources which are publicly available but which, ideally, are not quite as simple to access as straight downloading a CSV file. A bit of practical experience with scraping, API use, or data processing doesn't hurt. Bonus points if you get a taste for working with large data sets.

2) You will not make an AI which learns to play chess in 11 weeks, or in 11 years. Just to set expectations. A more reasonable task for the same timeframe given your current skillset is e.g. "Given a large corpus of documents and a small number of them are hand-tagged, explore a few different approaches for classifying the remainder of the documents." A motivated undergrad can succeed at implementing a Bayesian classifier, but you will not advance the state of the art on chess.

3) A lot of academic projects focus on toy problems, like e.g. chess or a contrived simplification of a real system. There is no reason that you have to adopt this academic convention: consider picking a real system with consequences. There exist many websites which have information on them that actually impact decisions which people care about -- wouldn't you rather learn to do analysis on that rather than pulling out arbitrary trivia out of e.g. the British national corpus (which, I rush to mention, is an excellent tool).

4) Think about the presentation layer for findings in more detail that the typical academic paper, which spits out a sentence or two of summary stats and maybe graphs them. This might be an opportunity to have a bit of fun doing, e.g., a website which lets you search through your (voluminous) findings.

Putting it all together, you could imagine something like "I have developed a website and/or Chrome plugin which, when pointed at an Etsy item, predicts the likelihood that it will sell. Or it predicts the likelihood that a KickStarter campaign will succeed. Or it predicts the final sale value of an eBay auction -- better in some categories than others, see page 6. Or it successfully paints a red/blue map of the United States using no prior knowledge other than a geolocation database and the Twitter stream. Or it asks you ten questions about seemingly irrelevant trivia and then makes a surprisingly accurate prediction on how long it has been since you ate sushi."
As someone leaving the beginner stages and moving to intermediate development I found this to be very true and wish I did a lot less tutorials and just started to hack stuff together. I learned far more doing something crappy from scratch than 100% on some "X" clone!
I used to admire Apple back in the day, not any more. For example, 2011 MBP laptops are having huge problems with the GPU and Apple is saying nothing. The user forums at Apple are overloaded with complaints, but no employee dignifies that with an answer. To me that seems like very bad customer service.
That's because much of JS is new. Server side is new. Even client side MVC is relatively new. Python has a long, long history that means its frameworks are much more stable. In time I expect JS to be the same.
You said "A big problem with Bayesian statistics (as I see it) it that it not always possible to have any sense of what the prior probability is." This is a common complaint about Bayesian stats -- the choice of priors seems arbitrary. That's what I was responding to.
That's kind of interesting. Why were they so excited to get his invite and why was he so worried about managing his connections? (Ie uninviting people.) Curious to understand the behavior.
There is a kind of scarcity in abundance.

When the marginal cost of shelf space approaches zero, another factor comes into play: time spent by the buyers.

With too many shelves in the store, many products will never be bought, no matter how good they are.
Contact scraping is the only thing keeping social media going. I say let it die.
I do python and scala at work yet I love php, it's made a ton of difference to the web (think wordpress for example) - it's perfectly possible to write killer php and do everything from machine learning to webapps. PHP has the best date extractor of any language that i've seen.
Still waiting for google fiber that is under construction 5 miles from my house. "Supposedly".
I realise many are in the mood to dump all over apple but... really, if apple or anyone treats their app store as a store-front, it's not hard to understand how the store manager might find this application to be just adding noise.

if you think all apps should be allowed no matter what, then you are right to be bothered by their rejection of this app. if you think any store manager has some reason to filter apps, then you cant really complain.
wow

such hire

box is better
> There are many very legitimate reasons for a developer, especially one well-versed in many languages, to not want to use PHP.

Like what? I feel there are many reasons why it is a dangerous language for a novice, but if you can be productive with C/Java/Python/Go/YouNameIt, you can probably write nice, maintainable and reliable PHP.

If you're talking about technical difficulties or elegance or whatever, sure. I'll just go with the Facebook argument. I've bootstrapped many projects for companies who aren't made of über hackers, and going PHP guarantees them they can very easily find people who can pick-up the code later on. Also, any * hosting will run your code.

I think nowadays, ideally, I'd just use Go for everything. But in reality, productivity > idealism.
Glad to hear it.

Since you are apparently not, as JustinCEO claimed, hellbanned, I'll remind you that I'm still waiting on those citations. You demanded them from everyone else, it's only fair that you should provide your own.
> The purpose of university is to weed out the mentally weak and the incompetent.

I believe the purpose is higher learning.
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In browsers, yes, but what about apps? Search StackOverflow for e.g. "ssl ignore server certificate" and despair...
I do that kind of stuff. Maybe not to that extreme, but very similar in nature.
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"The purpose of university is to weed out the mentally weak and the incompetent." What universe do you live in? The purpose of universities is to educate the populace and to improve all aspects of society by providing an environment for academics to pool their collective talents for research while educating future generations of professionals.
This was on HN recently, though it sounds like there's more experimentation to be done.. http://mattvukas.com/2014/02/10/comcast-definitely-throttlin...
Care to elaborate? I was a bit struck by that point too.
w/r to the idea of being the guitar player, it's called "the flashy demo." If you really want to appeal to a crowd, there are some ways to do it with code. A large cross-section of "indie games" is based around bits and pieces of exactly this dream - make something very eye-catching that gets attention, money rolls in, and then later you get up on stage to take your award, so on and so forth...

But even if it came true for everyone, it just isn't the real reward, even for the virtuoso guitarists who actually get that kind of attention hundreds of times a year. If it's not intrinsically rewarding it's going to be another gig and mean shit-all in terms of how you feel.
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Welcome to wearing glasses
>To play devil's advocate, what it means is that Comcast has the better business model. After all, that's why Apple and Samsung dominate the cellular industry.

what?? Does Apple or samsung have any control on how much carriers charge?

By your logic, ATT wireless, verizon wireless, and other cell carriers have to make their own cell phone and not just be a middlemen that funnel someone else's content on someone else's smartphone.
We're all selfish and make decisions in our best interest (our families' and close ones' interests _are_ our own) - whether or not you look at those selfish decisions as a "sin" isn't a distinction I've made or intend to.
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