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In the past when new fashions were introduced, it really sucked if you didn't like them, because suddenly that's all you could buy. People didn't like it. They just didn't have much choice.

As far as a 'recent' invention, humans have been building completely unique building, architecture and paintings for our entire known history.
Mmm Voodoo Donut.
They go out of their way by lobbying, which is to say they go out of the free market scope in order to avoid competition. So you are wrong in blaming the free market for this.

And when you say 'They won't develop drugs if there is too much competition' that only means that those existing companies won't do it - and as soon as they leave the market because they don't want to compete, several entrepreneurs will step in and fill the void because they're not afraid of competing.
I suppose I'm using left and right as short-hand for progressive and authoritarian, but it's a bit clumsy and not that much shorter.

It's an excellent article, but even if it is just a rhetorical position (re-reading, I accept it could be) I think it poisons the debate to the extent that nobody will engage with it. If you really want to argue in favour of releasing murderers and violent criminals from prison, it will be branded a "murderer's manifesto" and the debate is basically over. So talk about reforming the mostly futile drug laws, three-strike laws, etc, before anything else.
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does anyone have a good explanation as to why each side of the US has such dramatically different population patterns?
Do you actually believe that LCD manufacturers screen TFT transistors onto massive pieces of glass (like TV-sized) and then slice them down to phone-sized pieces for assembly?
I didn't mean to imply that the taxi experience isn't horrible, I'm well aware that it is.

I've no idea how Uber works in Chicago, but what I am saying is that if Uber wants to truly replace taxis, they need to provide most if not all of the guarantees that regulations impose on regular taxi services, not just taking credit card payments.

> Uber blew up in large part cause the taxi experience was so horrible. Especially for middle class business-travellers.

Does that mean something else should now take off since the Uber experience appears to be horrible for people with service dogs? I understand that it isn't their targeted demographic, but that should in no way denigrate the experience for anybody who isn't a drunk at 1am looking to get home
Idle observation - Windows Phone year-on-year growth is way higher than Android or iOS. Are you going to write your next app for that?

We don't, actually, have enough data to see quite how Play revenue is growing. But the really relevant point is that on roughly double the users, the payout is half. I'm not sure why that should be an absurd observation - you could try addressing that, but perhaps insults are easier.
They clearly had no choice re the see no evil emoticon, it would just be a brown blotch and unreadable if it was all the same color. Same for a lot of the black and white renders of it. And of course the ASCII for it is just white with an outline, (/_＼) , are you going to complain monkeys aren't white next?
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Very good piece. It really puts all the responsibility on the employer as it should be. See, if you do your job of getting people good for your environment, it doesn't matter whether their output is 1 or 100--the cost of integrating them is proportionate. For example if u have an intern with output 1 who fits your environment and the cost is .1 and another whose output is .25 and the cost is 5, ie to train them, you have a problem. It doesn't matter the output. It matters how frictionlessly they can join your company and not cause problems. And that is all up to u to forecast. I contract out all of the world all the time to developers of varying skill levels, motivation levels and personalities. It's up to me to match the right task to the right developer. And I don't need everyone to have 100 productivity or even have many available work hours.
If you're interested in this, definitely read the book _Suicide_ by the sociologist Emile Durkheim. (Published in 1897). It's an incredibly incisive analysis of several of the flavors of depressive thoughts that smart folks have. One of the top 3 books I've ever read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(book)
> I have no idea why are you bringing versioning into this conversation.

I can see that. Okay, let's say that someone has a corrupted music track on his iPhone, the track won't play, and even though it has a newer date than the original on his desktop archive, he needs to overwrite the new-date bad track with the old-date original.

> All I'm saying it, syncing does not have to involve a "source" and a "destination", nothing else.

All I am saying is you're not thinking about this with enough depth. In the above example, a modern, sophisticated two-way synchronization algorithm will overwrite the old-date good track with the new-date defective track unless the operator understands how synchronization works and prevents this default outcome.

> I don't know what do you mean by "get it right". That's a subjective concept.

No, it is not -- unless you think everything is a matter of opinion and there are no shared objective truths. And if you believe that, why do you even bother to post in public forums, forums that exist on the premise of the reality and utility of objective, shared truths?
I would take it off at night anyway.

If it comes with a nice dock that charges it wirelessly, what's the problem?

Actually, what I don't like is turning watches into phones, meaning we're going to change it every like a year or two, and getting angry because "the watch is old and it got slow".

I've been using the same Casio F-91W for two years and it just works.
Considering what that means some friendly white hat probably dropped that in via a comment field or the like rather than abusing it....
I can't find anyone but you who defines "a top CS program" as the top 4 schools, but you are right that the top 4 are better tan the 5th and 6th.
A simpler way to explain this is that for the iPhone 6, it really is a slightly larger iPhone 5 screen, like if you were moving from an 11" MacBook Air to a 13" one. But for the iPhone 6+, it's like moving from that 13" one to a 15" Retina MBP. And as we all know, the Retina Macbooks render at a higher internal resolution and then scale it down to the native one.

I do appreciate the technical explanation, but as Apple has done this before, for a quick explanation it's sufficient to point to the rMBP precedent.
Search for these in your favorite podcast app.

- Rich Roll Podcast (Lots of life inspiration & healthy eating advice)

- Tim Ferriss Podcast (Interesting random people and perspectives)

- An occasional episode of Joe Rogan Experience. I don't find Joe all that highly-intelligent, but I find his views, questions, and interviews interesting and thought-provoking.

- The Nerdist (Good, informal interviews)

- Trail Runner Nation

- Zencast (Everything by Gil Fronsdal)

I don't really listen to any tech podcasts anymore. I'll catch ATP on occasion, but for me they're all a bit of a waste of time, immersed in minutiae. I can catch all of the important bits I want with a 5 minute glance at my Twitter stream, or Techmeme or The Verge or wherever.

I also don't listen to every episode of the above podcasts. The only time I have for podcasts is during commuting and I take frequent breaks from any podcasts/music as a form of commuting meditation, left alone with my thoughts. That happens at least one day a week, and I've gone as long as 3 weeks of commuting in silence, with nothing playing.
That is because hispanic is not a separate race according to the census it is an ethnicity. There are white hispanics and black hispanics, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

mentions two theories why the 1918 flu pandemic ended (see section 'End of the pandemic').

I'm trying to understand the mutation theory. How come there is no 'watchmaker' situation here? Is it because a virus is simple enough that its replication is directly driven by thermodynamics, as opposed to more 'organized' forms of exploring the configuration space?
The other article that was posted here today about the US prison problem noted that crime went down significantly after prices of crack cocaine dropped, which would be a counterpoint to the conclusion you've drawn.
You oughtn't feel guilty about finding your situation stifling and soul-crushing. (If that's horribly millenial, well, perhaps millenials have managed to see the matter clearly. Every insight starts in some generation.)
Dunno if you've ever been depressed, but clinically depressed people do not generally ask "What is going to make me happy?" It's more like "Nothing is ever going to make me happy." This is the difference between ordinary sadness/unhappiness and clinical depression. A mentally healthy person will say "I'm feeling unhappy. What will make me happy?" and then take action to make themselves happier. A clinically depressed person will say "I'm an unhappy person. I will always be an unhappy person. What's the use, and why should I bother?"

I think that what you're describing is better termed insecurity, the feeling that your worth and happiness is conditioned on external events. There seems to be a large - but not universal - correlation between insecurity and career success, particularly in the startup, financial, and executive worlds. The feeling that your worth is tied to your net worth tends to drive people to work harder and harder, and to take risks that secure people don't feel are worth it.

Insecurity can often be a trigger for depression, particularly when those external events that you've tied your worth to don't happen. But they're not the same thing. Plenty of insecure people cope with their insecurities through a combination of manic striving and mild delusion, while others face them directly, alter their fundamental beliefs about their worth, and end up secure. (Ironically, they often give up some financial security to do so - I know some high achieving programmers that gave up the career to travel, or open local small businesses, or become self-help gurus.) I suspect it's also possible to be clinically depressed without being insecure, but don't know enough about clinical psych to be sure of that.
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Wow I had not stumbled across this idea yet... Are there any caveats or downsides to PDF over PNG? (other than xib/storyboard issues you mention)
I find myself curious about their :woman::no_entry_sign::dress: project - namely, what's the revenue model for all this free porn? My first guess is basically "Patreon for nakeds" but they really don't say anything about it.
Risk-taking behavior can cause males to injure or kill themselves, yet it is still an advantage.
This has been in the works for a number of years now, but keep in mind that you are breaking an 'unwritten contract' with your customer that assumes that they get the option to renew the agreement when their card expires.

People in general do not like to be charged for a service after the card expires and they have not explicitly authorized further payment. So better make sure this is written into your terms and conditions and that your merchant agreement actually allows you to do this.

Most businesses don't know about this possibility and very very few end users do. Technically you can basically fantasize any expiry date as long as it is in the future the charge will (likely) go through but to do this unauthorized is not smart. (Adding 3 or 5 years to the previous expiry is likely going to be on the money.)

In dispute situations you will possibly also have less recourse.
Honestly, reading about how detailed ChurnBuster gets (they have an actual real live human doing white-labeled calls on their clients behalf) I feel like if anything Spreedly should hire them to handle things on behalf of their clients.
> "A few of us are lucky to be able to find or fashion an environment which enables us to give our best day after day after day."

That's not what A players are - at least in my book. An A player is productive and brilliant regardless the environment. A better environment allows them to be more productive, but they always stand out from the mass.

Maybe that means the A players I encountered were simply skillful enough to always pick the right environment - that's certainly possible. (If so, there's an obvious lesson in there)

But yes, there are B and C players. And they do drag down teams. If you have a good manager, they're able to coach the B players, and they'll shed the C players. If you have a bad manager, they try "A only", or they don't care.

"A only" doesn't work. There are not enough A players to make that possible. "Don't care" results in your typical dysfunctional corporate environment.
Actually my impression is that poorer people are more likely to be depressed. Consider the high rate of suicide among poor Indian farmers, or the high number of homeless with mental illness.

A quick google search for studies of the correlation between wealth and suicide seem to confirm my view, eg "a 2009 Gallup survey [shows] the rate of depression is nearly twice as high for Americans making less than $24,000 a year than it is for those with annual incomes above $60,000." Of course, the real story is more complicated: It seems the correlation is much less clear for poor regions than for poor individuals, and I saw some suggestions that poor people living next to wealthy people were more likely to commit suicide.
And because of trade secrets I can buy "generic" Coke for cheaper. Do you see now how things would be different for prescription drugs without government intervention?
Tried using ZFS in the earnest and got spooked, felt it was not production ready. Wanted to use ZFS for MongoDB on Amazon Linux (primarily for compression, but also for snapshot functionality for backups). Tried 0.6.2.

Ended up running into a situation where a snapshot delete hung and none of my ZFS commands were returning. The snapshot delete was not killable with kill -9. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1283

Also, under load encountered a kernel panic or a hang (I forget), turns out it's because the Amazon Linux kernel comes compiled with no preemption. It seems that "voluntary preemption" is the only setting that's reliable.
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1620

That left a bad taste in my mouth. Might be worth trying out 0.6.3 again.

I am still leafing through the issues closed in 0.6.3, but based on what I see, 0.6.2 did not seem production-ready-enough for me:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue...
My own rule is 3 years so at 12 to 18 months you're amazingly fast.
Hm, so among other Central Americans, what makes them stand out is their Spanish heritage. But in America, they stand out for being Central-American.
I'd say Arch is for people who have the time to learn and care how most parts of the OS work. I use it because I like to heavily customize everything, and want complete control over how everything is done.

Take a look at the beginners guide to get a feel: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide
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I don't know if it's the color choices, the dot placement, or some combination of the two, but this appears misleading to me. Looking at the Central District in Seattle, one could be forgiven for thinking it is a majority black area.[0] In fact, African-Americans only make up ~20% of the population there (very high for the PNW, but hardly a majority). The New York Times census map gives a far more accurate image of the racial demographics of that neighborhood.[1] I believe the NYT map only has one dot per 100 people, which means the dots are larger and less crowded. Notably, the NYT map uses green dots for white population and blue dots for black population - the reverse of the map linked here. That means if the color choices are having an impact on the way we perceive mixed neighborhoods, the effect is the opposite depending on the map you look at (i.e. you are more likely to think a mixed area is majority black when looking at the OP map, majority white when looking at the NYT map). It's worth thinking about color perception and optical illusions when viewing maps like this.[2]

I love map-based visualizations - they're interesting and fun to look at. Nonetheless, I don't think they're the best way of conveying demographic information.

EDIT: Groxx has a fantastic comment about the order in which the dots are drawn. This could explain my observations.

[0] http://imgur.com/SWmuX1b

[1] http://imgur.com/lEwahHd (http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map)

[2] http://www.illusionspoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Col...
Huh. Does any/all of that apply to AWS specifically as well, or is it an exception?
How does one hope to define "excess" if there's a carveout for "happiness and entertainment"? Beyond our Maslow needs, most of what we spend money on is arguably for "happiness and entertainment", no?
> As for your point 3: I disagree. I think the news article makes a case that salt and blood pressure have no relationship, which isn't true. It is only true if, almost by definition, your salt / water regulation system is healthy.

It never states the inference directly, although as is common in mainstream media, the title of the piece is stronger than what is then told in the text. I think you may be getting too hung up on the title, and I understand the reason. Mainstream media often over-generalizes scientific findings, more so in the field of nutrition.

In the same vein you have a pet peeve with media behaviour, I have one with M.D. behaviour. One that may paint the overly generalized title in a kinder light:

Doctors often prescribe life-style changes: Eat less, eat better, exercise more, don't smoke, sleep well, sleep regularly, avoid stress. They fail at prioritizing, because they fail at recognizing that patients will never completely change their lifestyle. Willpower is a limited resource, and should be allocated as such.

The prioritization of lifestyle changes is important. If reducing salt intake is competing with reducing BMI, it should be a no-brainer that BMI reduction should come first. It is rarely the case. They are either presented as equally important changes or, since reducing salt intake is easier than shedding 20kg, doctors go for the easy goal.

The prioritization problem should be obvious. The closer to the root of problems you attack, the better the result you'll get. Salt intake is way way down the causal chain to health problems.

As such, blanket stating that you shouldn't care about salt in your diet may be good, if it leads to freeing willpower to do other lifestyle changes.
Landing page needs some improvement (already suggested by others).

If 'proxy industry is pretty big with over 1 mil searches monthly' then why don't you target some of them, especially the ones having low competition in SERPs ? Use Google keyword tool/planner and search suggestion box to get some ideas on this.

+ improve landing page title (currently it's 'SkyUl', which could be changed to your-title-with-primary-keyword : SkyUl)

+ also improve h1
> You've moved your argument from "synchronization always must have a source and destination" to "certain synchronization models are not well suited to some use cases".

No, I have moved from specific examples to general examples, and general rules. The most general rule is that synchronization cannot be automatic and have a desirable outcome.
The SSID thing may be suspicious, but everything else?

Websites track those same metrics. Heck HN has, at a fair rate, links to articles encouraging developers and founders to gather analytics.

None of those functions even should suspicious, unless one fears the word "global" (I mean globals are evil but this is taking fear a bit too far! ;)

The article title is horrible link bait, and even the article admits "well nothing was really found."
Two-factor authentication looks more appealing then ever. But first go to www.gmailleak.com make sure your account was not compromised.
I find that none of the drawn emoticons I see ever really depict what I mean by :/ It's not a sad face as in that set. It's like "huh" or "what" or "ok", neither sad nor happy, it's puzzlement, filler, sometimes a "uhhh". Maybe that's just me though.
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Since there was never an iOS update that did NOT break my app in some way or another, I don't expect resolution hell to work out of the box. Android had to deal with this for years and matured. In iOS, the last release of my iPhone app asked me to upload a gazillion different pixel-perfect icon sizes.

I have a small online business. I have neither time nor patience to do this shit myself, but it'd probably take one person for the app only to maintain it properly through all these nasty upgrades all the time. Oh, and this person now needs at least 4 different iPhones to test that stuff properly.

Good for you that you were the Android guy. I'm the guy required to have an Android guy and an iOS guy. Which sucks ;)
He claims no one is bad and some just don't fit and will thrive elsewhere, but this is nonsense to anyone with big corporation experience. I've met many people who never did any work, only jumped to the next easiest excuse for why they turned nothing in, and just got their pay check because it was too much of a pain to fire them.
As a mental exercise:

Say from a purely utilitarian perspective, if you consider that the survivors of the depressed group are overall better off (higher overall payoff + inclusive of a strong negative in those under suicide) than the survivors of the non depressed group (say, mostly moderate payoff) then it works out. Kinda.
Correct, and courageous. A- and B-playership are mostly about context. People who are engaged and secure at work behave like A-players, trying to achieve more every day. People who are worried about political changes and protecting an income or status turn into B players.

"B players hire C players" isn't always true, and I use the name "insurance incompetent" for that (put someone awful on the team so no one half-good ever gets fired when you have to take a lump during layoff season). It's only one of many ways that people make suboptimal decisions out of insecurity.

A lot of terrible software is built when people with A-player talent turn into "B players" due to environmental insecurity.
As an iPhone app developer, I agree with your first sentence, but the resolutions are actually the smallest issue. In addition to what has been said in the sibling replies,

* Designing for iPhone 4/4S and 5/5c/5s is almost the same, at least in portrait orientation. Most layouts are a little flexible vertically - and they have to be, because users might be in a call, or have the personal hotspot active, in which case the OS reserves some space for an additional status bar. Apps have to be flexible vertically, period.
* It is much harder to support all the larger text sizes that are available in iOS 7. Much of the iOS UI is built on UITableViews, and these "tables" are terrible when it comes to line breaks. I have increased the text size and many apps can't handle it, including some of Apple's own.
* If you are extra masochistic, enable "Button Shapes" and "Reduce White Point" in the Accessibility options in a custom-styled iOS 7 app. For example, this will darken tint colours, which can make buttons harder to read if they are placed over an image (which the OS will not darken).