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Wikipedia is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_parenting It has links to these studies, as well as criticisms about the limitations of these studies.
I agree that there's no problem with pointing out a local trend, but I didn't read it as being local in the original comment. Statements like "Society moves in a certain direction" make it sound like a statement that's supposed to apply universally, and it very much does not.

Sure, all of your examples point in the same direction, because you chose examples that point in that direction. There are plenty of examples to be had of the opposite direction.

We happen to be in a locale, both in space and time, where there's a strong trend towards more inclusion and more rights. But if you expand out to the planet and the long term, I simply don't see the trend. Things get better in some times and places, and worse in others, and overall we just sort of oscillate around.
I keep hearing this argument, and in most cases, it's invalid. For the average page, it's not 25M users but 4.4% of whatever the user base is.

These 4.4% more might still matter, but the cost-benefit tradeoff looks much different now.
Thank you for the rec, this looks like a great book.
For me that's one of the biggest mistakes someone can make when looking at doing A/B tests. This desire to understand the universe gets in the way of improving your website / app / business / bank balance. Yet, it's a common pitfall for many.

What's the purpose of those tests? To make you a better UX specialist? To scientifically prove a theory? Or to get the conversion rate up??
This seems bigger than Altair Basic to me. If this thing works well it's huge already. Battery time is one of the biggest problems for people working out of the office (along with decent internet and peace of mind).
Self-defense is granted only for a direct, immediate physical threat - for example, if someone is blackmailing you, defrauding you or extorting "fire insurance for your warehouse" then self-defense doesn't allow you to do anything to them; if you smash the computer of a blackmailer, it's just as any other computer-smashing.
The article listed the speed of a scud at "1,676 meters/second", "3749.11 mph" was simply a conversion from that unit to MPH.

I can only hope that for the sake of my post that my lack of attention to the increase of perversion of the velocity of the skud missile does not in some way invalidate my claim :P.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1%2C676+meters+per+second+to...
Personally: i downvote rude comments; insults; throwaway jokes and throwaway comments.

I try to ignore people I think are trolling.

I try hard to not downvote for disagreement but I sometimes do downvotes for disagreement.

Please do feel free to stiffle speech. Voting is not used nearly enough on HN. Vote early, vote often.

If I get a single down vote I try to understand my post, but I remember that fat finger votes are easy especially on mobile. If I get multie downvotes I might include additional information under a clearly marked edit, or a follow up post to clarify and expand my position.

I'm not good with words and I often write things I don't quite mean.
GPS went completely dead for me probably two years ago. Huge bummer. Happened at the same time I started to have motorscooter problems (primary mode of transportation) and until I fix those, it's not critical.

Thinking about getting another from ebay, but I don't know how to make sure I don't get one of the Hong Kong forgeries (burnt by that once before.)

>* sometimes you'd get a phone call, but the phone app would not swap in, and by the time it did the call had dropped

This has always been due to overmultitasking for me. I keep my processlist pretty lean and don't install a lot of daemons - and I haven't missed a call due to that for a few years now.
I carry a wallet, keys, and sometimes a phone, but not always. Not usually.

Most of the time I just, you know, use land lines at the places where I'm at.

If for some desperate reason, there's something that prevents me from tolerating a ~30 drive without in-situ communication, I mull over the idea of carrying a phone, and in the minutes it takes me to arrive at a decision, I usually just call the person I need to speak to, and square away the details on the spot.

Yeah, people have to try three or four numbers to get a hold of me sometimes, but like, that's their problem.
So basically - a marketing move :
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Caterpillar is another.
It's 4.4% usage rate worldwide. China is 22%.
Those technologies are some of the pieces of a self driving car, but they are not self-driving cars. The idea is to deliver a car that can be programmed to drive a route from start to finish under its own control, even if it can only do so under certain circumstances.

When you can pull out your smartphone and call your car to you from the back of a parking lot, then get in and have it drive you home, then you have a self-driving car.
Let's all eat each other in this holier-than-thou contest. It seems to be where everything is heading anyway with reduced privacy. The personal is now political or made to be.
One distinct advantage that smartphones have over simple phones is the ability to make unlimited, essentially free [1] phone calls and messages to people who may not be in the same region as you are. Think Viber.

It takes just one significant person in your life, who lives outside your range of unlimited-call phone plans, for this to be a serious argument in favour of using a smartphone.

[1] At the cost of a data plan which also takes care of internet needs.

(Edit: Grammar)
Relevant link to Eich's suppport of California's Prop 8: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/04/business/la-fi-tn-br...

This is not something that I was familiar with.
There's a need for an iPhone Nano (and like competitors).

Most dumbphones sold now seem designed to urge owners toward smartphones. They're thick (an inch?!), the UX is stupid (staring at Verizon), syncing with anything is a hassle, and include other features as bullet points but barely useable.

They should be very thin (less than an iPhone 5), small as practical for holding, elegant attention-to-detail calling nuances, auto-sync with other devices where appropriate, and anything else it does should be limited and excellent. Voice dialing should be of high quality/accuracy. When on a call, should still show the time. There's a host of other nitpicky things that most phones suck at but are overlooked as the norm and no viable alternatives.

If I'm carrying around a tablet, why bother carrying a phone which is nothing more than the same thing shrunk? I'd rather a phone which is an excellent phone, and is aware of & connected with the other devices I'm around much of the day.
For the same reason Tesla built a roadster to start their company. Low volume and high margin is MUCH easier to achieve when you are small than high volume and low margin.

Watch Shark Tank for a while and you'll realize that even if you have a product people want, it's not trivial to scale a physical product business unless you have significant capital. Even if you reinvest the money you make, you are constrained by how quickly you can turn the money over.
We do custom pricing at scale; the fees depend on the breakdown of card types used with your service (and hence the underlying costs). Want to drop us an email at sales@stripe.com?
To be fair, shouldn't the Java benchmark program use StringBuilder?
Don't give up on android yet, it's just a dumb linux and despite vendor plots you can make it into dumb android like this guy did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw Cyanogen mod is going in the "smart" direction, but a mod could go in the other direction too.

Slides for hellaphone here http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-20/dc-20-presentations/F...

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For the record, I am an unequivocal supporter of gay marriage, and I have always voted for it.

The only thing that makes me at all uncomfortable about it is the possibility that it sets a norm where it is considered prejudiced and discriminatory to even ask the question of whether same-sex couples are the best for children.

For example, it is pretty well accepted that having two parents is better for children than just one (all else being equal; abusive two-parent relationships are obviously worse). No one would argue that single parenting should be illegal. But it's not taboo to say that having two parents is probably better for kids than having just one. (Though of course many people have superstar single parents and turn out great.)

Likewise I would never argue that gay parenting should be illegal. I just don't want to see it become an ostracizable offense to ask the question, without agenda, of whether same-sex parent situations are the best for kids.
Why might they do that, theoretically speaking?

Edit: A downvote for asking a question? Really? Is the answer that terrifying?
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Well that would be because I didn't know about the delayed extensions :) Will update the post accordingly.

And regarding .send… d'oh! I'm actually using .deliver in my code and changed it just before pressing publish. What can I say? It was 4am and I wasn't thinking properly.
Because it adds friction between separating implementation and interface. That is one of those things I want to be as seamless as possible. Is it a big deal in the case of 1 interface and 1 class? No not really. But in the case of thousands of them it becomes an issue.

It's actually one of the biggest things I notice when I come back to java land.
I think the rationale is that humans learn when something is interesting or by making a mistake. With PiinPoint, a potential customer will either make a mistake with the spelling and eventually figure out the correct spelling and "learn" it. Or when someone is giving a referral and they say "PiinPoint and 'pin' as two i's" then that's an interesting spelling and sticks with the person receiving the referral.
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I think I noticed a serious flaw, have a peek at the includes in the C source ....

#include <time.h>

The program is using its own standard library to time itself, and I presume this applies to the other specimen languages. In order for this to be a fair test, the timing method utilised should be the same for all languages in question.

I can testify from my own experience that time() in time.h is highly unreliable, my uttering of "naut mississippi", "one mississippi", "two mississippi" was far more precise.

Of course the above does not apply to memory usage.
Rational evidence doesn't have to be scientific.

But.

Even first hand anecdotal evidence has its limits. It really needs to be blatant to be significant. Second hand anecdotal evidence is even worse. If the phenomenon you want to catch is subtle, you generally a good deal of reliable data. That generally means something "scientific".
I need this up in Lexington, KY. It's the San Francisco of Kentucky! ...Or something like that.
She was definitely the first person to realize the potential that Babbage's Analytic Engine had, particularly outside of just calculating things. Babbage's design, if I remember correctly, was basically an improvement on a design he initially made to calculate trajectories for artillery teams, and most of his thoughts on what to use his computer for were "calculate (thing)". Lovelace wrote on how the computer could be programmed to solve more complex problems.

I think that it would be a mistake to say that computer science has truly been around for 160 years, though. A few people (there was also an Italian who was interested in Babbage's work, although I'm not sure what his contributions ended up being, if any) does not a field make, and the fact that any progress in it was more or less put on hold until the early 20th century (when mathematicians started working on what you could calculate or construct in a finite number of steps), and you didn't get (untyped) lambda calculus and turing machines until 1936, which is probably the best place to truly start the idea of computer science as a field. (And since you got early devices that were sort of primitive mechanical computers in the late 30s, early 40s as part of the whole Bletchley Park cryptography work by the Brits.)

A very large debate around the turn of the century was if mathematics that you couldn't specifically construct in a finite (or countable) manner were, which became particularly heated after Cantor's set theory work (showing that the real numbers were uncountable) and then things like Russel's paradox (showing contradictions in Cantor's naive set theory if you allowed sets that contained themselves). I'd argue (without firm, researched proof that it was definitely the intent and case) that the spirit of early computer science (lambda calculus, turing machines, etc.), which was concerned with what you could and could not compute with a finite algorithm, came in spirit from those sorts of debates. (See finitism, intuitionism, constructivism, etc. for parts of this debate; traces of it remain in modern day mathematics with some people's concerns about if the Axiom of Choice is a valid or reasonable axiom to have)
"This is a strange one to me and can indeed be a sticky situation. I am NOT judging people who use Firefox, work at Mozilla, or even support Brendan’s right to his opinions. It’s fine that you think I shouldn’t judge his opinion. (This is getting confusing). However, this particular subject is not one that is negotiable to us. We are personally affected by his actions.

It’s not his belief that hurts us. It’s that he actively donated to a cause that directly negatively affected us, personally. It’s not abstract. It’s not a witch hunt. He’s certainly allowed to have his opinion, of course, but I’m allowed to judge his actions of supporting the cause financially.

Actions have consequences."

There you go, sums it up right there. Some past actions are hard to overlook when you're personally affected by it. However you view the news of Brendan Eich's new CEO position and people's opinions of that, you can't ignore the human element of his insignificant (financially) but significant (philosophically) prop 8 contribution and how people take it personally.

Edit: Adding onto my thought of how I view the human element in this story: we all try to be rational, but I bet you everyone of us throw that away for a gut feeling we have of someone. If you don't like someone, no amount of reason will make that go away. That feeling spreads to what they're associated with. In retrospect, we reason our gut feeling and we either turn out right or wrong. I understand hcatlin's decision in that sense since I have felt that way before.
Dumbphone aficionado here too. I know full damn well I'd be a smartphone zombie glued to the thing constantly if I had one.

I do have an iPad which serves as a great middle ground, portable nearly full featured computing when I need it, but it's not quite so temptingly convenient to pull out and distract myself in the middle of a conversation or restaurant.

(Actually my phone is a fairly well provisioned feature phone, an AT&T Z431 with a browser and email and GPS and camera, but I don't have a data plan to use any of it. All I do is voice calls and text on AT&T's cheapo prepaid plan.)
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No, we don't have a specific number we're shooting for. We're just trying everything we can think of and seeing what sticks.

We expect that we'll rapidly exhaust the supply of radical ideas and then we'll be left with two or three winning UX paradigms. From there we'll begin doing "normal" A/B testing in a linear fashion.
I guess what we are saying is that once you become CEO any and every opinion you hold is fair grounds to oppose/vilify you.

If there were any suggestions that his private opinions were impacting Mozilla policy/road-map/work environment whatever then yes this stance does beg the question.

OTOH what this debate is implying is that if there is any hint of disagreement over opinions between adults, then all bets are off and we lose the ability to work together or tolerate that other person as the head of a corporation.
I still hibernate from time to time when away from power for long periods of time without use. Once a year or so, maybe :)
The gist of the argument is that it's a false equivalence. It's not a radical view -- it is supported by a majority of Californians (certainly a progressive state). Unfortunately, judging from the downvotes I'm getting, this forum isn't as inclusive as it would like to be.
The definitive phone, a Nokia 1280 [1], featuring

- Phone calls
- SMS
- FM Radio
- Flashlight
- Snake
- 528h standby / 8h talking
- Casual apps: calculator, calendar, countdown, converter, ...
- SPEAKING CLOCK
- Can be used as a ball to play catch sports

My only cons are having just one alarm and having to little space for sms. Of course, it would be amazing being able to develop for it. There's absolutely a market for these phones outside of developing countries.

[1]: http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/nokia-1280/specifica...
Its not thinner. The x240 is 0.8 inches thick [1] and the MacBook Pro is 0.71 inches thick. [2] Not trying to fanboy here having used both of those laptops recently.

[1] http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x24...

[2] http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
Better analogy would be if the "criminals" flooded the streets with bicycles or cars preventing the pizza delivery guy from delivering your order.

Straight up murder doesn't quite fit the situation here.
It seems like a leap to assume that engineers working on a product that could kill multiple people would be as careless as those working on mobile apps for sharing photos.

For self-driving cars, security and safety are features. For the others, for better or worse, they are afterthoughts.
It's a hosted backup and search service, I'm not even sure you'd want them to destroy the digital version. You probably have to close your account for that.
Yeah, no. That's an impossible standard.

How do you feel about abortion? If you're against it, then you are seen as bigoted against women's right to their own body. If you're for it, then you're seen as bigoted against the rights of unborn children to not be murdered.

And even if you could think that way, you shouldn't. Why not? Read http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html for why I don't want to put such mental blinders on.
I don't think you understand how money works. Remove money, and people will trade items for items. Money is the intermediate unit of your effort and time. "We" motivate our workforce in a natural way by choosing how we trade our (effort and time) for items they have. The value of those items changes as supply and demand changes anyways. The reason "we" are not letting Iowa feed us is because we don't want to eat 3 meals of corn all day every day. How would you "motivate" them to? Force? Which single entity would decide all these things? You, our new overlord? Sorry, I'll take my chances with the current, awesome, system ^_^
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This reads as pretty ironic to me...
I was really excited for the same reason. Sadly, it seems all of my friends are either too old or disinterested to be on Povio. I had a serious forever alone moment when I fired it up.
Since they filed a patent on it, I assume it is new tech. There is new charging tech from time to time, but most of the IP belongs to those big semiconductor companies, like TI. I know TI has an innovative power management module for LiPoly batteries, but it is pretty expensive.
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To add on this, I would advocate you to think more in terms of user experience (which pc addressed very well) rather than fraud liability when making your decision.

Of course it depends how big your customers are, how well-educated about fraud your users are, and your own tolerance for risk, but in my experience transferring the risk liability onto your customers is a very bad idea if you can avoid it.

Even if you're not technically liable, your users will blame you and hold you responsible if they end up losing money to fraud, even more so if their online stores are hosted on your website (which is probably the case if you're referring to your product as a marketplace).

Because they are potentially much smaller than you are (if you are offering a self-service platform, this is the kind of users you'll tend to get), they are extremely sensitive to risk and they are at high risk of incurring a catastrophic (to them) loss. If that happens, leaving them to their own device will be extremely bad PR and will potentially cost you more business than if you had absorbed the loss. I was talking to a friend who works on the fraud team at Square (who use Stripe Connect), and I recall they reached this same conclusion after one of their merchants on SquareSpace was attacked by fraudsters. We don't use Stripe at Eventbrite but I can guarantee we could even never suggest passing the fraud losses onto the event organizers without losing a lot of business.

So don't imagine that by having your users register their own Stripe account you will be cleared of fraud issues (at least for buyer fraud -- merchant risk is another issue). Instead, just pick the solution that makes the most sense in terms of product and ease of accounting.

Also, because as the owner of the marketplace you have much more data than any individual merchant, you are better equipped to detect and fight fraud than they are -- if you have the capability and are able to assume the risk I would highly encourage you to do so, even if it means increasing fees for your users to cover your costs. As a nice side-effect, you'll even be able to advertise a "no fraud liability" policy for your users which may sway potential customers that were hesitant with trusting some online platform to handle their money.
I used to type an equivalent of this into C64s in stores. I even had a few of these printed out. It does tend to have a lot of short loops but sometimes you get an amazingly complex path for such a simple method.
There are people at every large software company that donated to one of the sides of the political battle. Some of them may have received a promotion after the fact. Does that mean that you should boycott those companies too? (Google, Apple, etc.)

After all, after people get paid from their job, shouldn't it be their right that they can use their money as they please?
None of the judgements need to be 100% true - it's not automatically, but if it's noticeably more likely than it is this way, then it's completely valid.

Are you arguing that in that scenario it's more likely that the one-workplace worker really has better experience, or are you arguing that it's possible that he has better experience?

CV-sorting is not a maximization problem, it's a satisficing problem of getting a few good candidates to the interviews at a reasonable cost; which generally requires throwing out 90% of CVs without spending the resources to seriously investigate those people. As long as you have enough qualified candidates, factors that "often are bad, but sometimes are good" equal an automatic forward to the circular folder under HR desk.
Irrelevant of any feelings towards being gay or not.

Surely this is a form of oppression in itself. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, whether you approve of them or not, and so by effectively black-mailing others to conform to your perceived social 'right'.

I see this as a sad attempt at press. Having never heard of this company or product before.