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Finally a refresh to the contacts site. I always found this to be quite useful for managing my Android contacts.

It looks nice but there are definitely some improvements needed in terms of merging of G+ data with existing data. For example, some of my contacts have two birthday entries, one G+ (which might omit the year) and then one that I have manually added.
Actual Ubuntu mobile-devices shown off at MWC15
Yes! It's incredibly frustrating. I find a solution for one problem only to find out that the solution created a new problem. It's all because of sites like these. Maybe I'll just avoid these altogether or maybe I'll create a browser extension like Adblockplus that prevents me from following links to sites that are reported to have autoplay. What to do....
Hahaha, I was just watching this episode the other day. Youtube video for those that don't get the reference [0], it's from The Office (US).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc9-wGCHW0
I disagree with the characterization of people who think he could have used his means more effectively than this as "ungrateful, entitled assholes."

Are we required to celebrate everything a wealthy man does with his money as long as it's not overtly bad?
please be fast, please be fast

Edit: also please let us archive contacts. I want to keep someone's number, but scrolling through hundreds of people just to call someone is not ideal.
MethodHandles work on fields, too.
Google.com source code (not simple anymore)
view-source:https://www.google.com/

Maybe it's just me, but realized google.com source code (HTML) used to be very simple but it looks very different now.

Try navigating HTML elements using dev tools.
"The only issue that has the possibility of being legitimate in is the Benghazi stuff. Technically, it could have been a deliberate move to make emails related to Benghazi un-searchable during the investigation. Of course, this only actually matters if those emails contain anything significant/damning, and they probably don't."

Are you saying that she setup a non-gov email so she could make benghazi emails un-searchable before benghazi even happend? CT much?
404 on my work Google Apps account.
Not sure why people are complaining so much. It does what it says it does, the key phrase being: "... it unambiguously describes the job in a way that doesn't require reading, interpretation or additional interrogation by stakeholders..."

Perhaps you don't think that is a problem, or not a problem worth solving? That's fair enough, I suppose. I think it's cool.

I assume it generates candidate "workshapes" by letting a candidate sign-up and fill-out their own worker profile. If so, there might be another opportunity there by facilitating a way for recruiters or CTOs or whoever to generate small assessments in order to gauge a candidate's true "shape" versus relying on the candidate's self-assessment.
There are two prices offered:

- $89 for one 30-min question

- $175/m for unlimited questions

The first one might pass for a normal rate, but if you expect 30 minutes to result in actionable advice that's applicable to your business, you're in for a disappointment.

There's no question about the second one.
Yeah, the reporting on it hasn't been great, because the details aren't the story, the story is the name "Hillary Clinton". I'm very curious about the details of how this stuff works for all officials. Are there rules? What are they? Who do they apply to? Are there actual laws? If so, what are they? But "An Investigation Into Government Email Policy" would never be run on its own.
Off topic: OP mentions the AdWords Expert, Aaron Weiner of Software Promotions[1], who was finally able to get it all resolved.

If you have an AdWords campaign and its underperforming, HIRE THIS MAN. I had the opportunity to work with Aaron about 5 years ago, through a client, and I could not have possibly been more impressed. He took an absolute dog of a marketing campaign [2], and made it work. Unreal.

Anyway - I don't do this often, but he's that good. Hire him / Software Promotions if you need help with AdWords - you will not regret it.

[1] http://www.softwarepromotions.com/

[2] previously managed, quite unsuccessfully, by yours truly
Right, I stopped short because I reached the point at which I'd have to Google to double check anything.

Yeah, you've invented the 'mean absolute deviation' (or 'average absolute deviation'), which might be better than variance or standard deviation (the square root of variance) in some circumstances. It's been debated for 100 years: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003759.htm

Part of the reason for using variance might be like you said, to give more weight to outliers.

Part of the reason variance and standard deviation might be more popular is because usually the spread of a set of data has a normal distribution. And there are all these formulas and calculations that were invented before computers that are easier to do with variance and standard deviation apparently. Manipulating equations with absolute values is trickier.

There are also some mental shortcuts you can take if you know the standard deviation of a set of data. If a car is rated 8 on average, then about 95% of all of the ratings are within 2 standard deviations of the mean. Thus, if you want to buy a car rated 8 on average and want to be 95% sure that the particular car you buy is at least a 7, check that the standard deviation of the ratings is less than 0.5. Probably not a great example. Imagine instead you are buying oranges that are 8 out of 10 quality-wise on average, and you want to be confident that 95% of the oranges are at least a 7, so that you don't have to throw out too many. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rul...

I don't know, here are some other suggested reasons for using variance & standard deviation instead of absolute mean differences:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/118/why-square-the...
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-square-instead-of-using-the-...
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O2 users can call from their browser
This is an unusually political post to have risen so high on Hacker News. Is that because of the significance of email to the story? The use of email in this case is not very technically interesting. Or is there some other attraction?
So, first off, unlimited advice starts at $175. At $89 you get one task, not unlimited. That's like saying "the brand new 2015 Toyota Camry starting at $300". Yes, you can buy a Camry for $300 from a junk yard, and you can buy a brand new 2015 Camry, but you can't buy a brand new 2015 Camry for $300.

What types of tasks are you talking about and can you actually acomplish anything useful in 30 minutes. Examples please. Are you talking about setting up AdWords campaigns? Reviewing the <meta> tags on my website? Helping me refine my headline? Or will you help me set up a marketing strategy and research my customers? The latter can take days or weeks. Can I have you do that under the unlimited plan, 30 minutes at a time?

Also, "Ideally a request is about 30 minutes of work" is a pretty terrible way to phrase what you are saying. As a customer, I probably have no idea how long something takes you. I know what I need to acomplish, and will dump a crapton of work on you for the low price. Without examples, I will simply ask you "I need 10x the traffic I have now to site X" and expect that you will deliver.

I think this is a really aluring idea, but I need more details!
That's interesting. I always figured the max heart rate by age was just a recommendation. But you're saying the max heart rate actually decreases as you age? What would cause that?

So I guess it's good I can get 5 bpm above my age max but bad that a 6MPH jog for 5 minutes is all it takes?
Streaming Music Showdown: Spotify vs. Beats
I was given a non employee poaching contract to sign when I gave my notice at BIGCORP. It had some vague language like "I will not attempt to contact any BIGCORP employees with information about other positions". I gave it back to the manager at the exit interview unsigned and said nice try. I guess they are just hoping someone doesn't read it.
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Letter signed by 126 MEPs to end EU roaming charges in 2015, not 2018
The poster has claimed to make $150/hour on a freelance basis. [1] So this pricing is not out of line with that as a reference.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8460101
Thats really helpful, thanks! Will give it a try.
Nice, not a revolution though
IBM Pushing Apache Spark Along with Watson
By 1985 I was 20, I had: a Dragon 32, a BBC Micro, a KIM, a trs-80 pocket and a sinclair zx 81 as well as an Atari ST.

And I know plenty of other kids my age back then that had two or more machines. That was all that we spent our (hard earned) money on. I'm pretty sure that there were lots of adults too that had more than one computer.

Whatever didn't go to the rent and very basic food went straight into buying hardware, software and computer books.
Gmail accounts only; no Google Apps (yet?). Yet another roll-out (ahem, Inbox) where the paying customers get left behind. I realize businesses may want stability with new versions for training, etc. but it would be great at least to have the option by domain/account to be on the new products earlier.
How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Plunge
Byte Buddy is quite efficient. It is more or less like implementing Java code per hand. Byte Buddy comes along with a benchmark where the results are listed here: http://bytebuddy.net/#/tutorial

This way, it even beats the use of MethodHandles for accessing fields which still have a slight overhead over "normal" field access: https://gist.github.com/raphw/881e1745996f9d314ab0

Of course, there might be a flaw in the benchmark, those are tricky. Si please challange it, I am always interested in such details. I also guess, that the advantage will decrease with future JVMs.
In 30 mins I can do a basic AdWords campaign setup, review and probably adjust meta tags on your website, write you new copy, setup a marketing strategy (this would be multiple sessions), etc.

You would be amazed with what can be done in 30 mins. If you are on the monthly plan I go above and beyond. If I need to spend an hour learning your brand and company, I'll do it and then spend the 30 minutes executing. But as I said, 30 minutes is ideal, but not 100% set in stone. If it takes an hour, it takes an hour.

My goal is high quality output. But on the monthly plan you can get small bursts of that output.

For example, if you want a 1 year marketing strategy, that would take multiple sessions. But I can break it up over a month and put in the time required.
Ask HN: Why is there no solution for direct democracy?
Hi there,
i always asked my self, where there is no app, that solves democracy.

Why are we still voting every 4 years.
Going back to first principles, we should ask ourselves :
Why do politicians exist? They existed(!) in ancient greece, because people didn't have time to inform themselves, right ?
- We solved this with newspapers, 100 years ago.
But, it would be too much paperwork to get the votes from millions of people. It wasn't scalable.
- We solved that with smartphones, 5 years ago.

I would like to have votes like the one in switzerland, but with smartphones.
Can you give me reasonable arguments, why this is not already done ?
> There was no detail about what I had done wrong. As far as I was aware, I complied with their policies.

This seems to be an excessively common trend with Google and sometimes Apple.
Most cases that seem to be posted about say that they did not even get human contact and usually will be banned for life because they resubmitted but apparently didn't fix that one magical thing Google or others cared about.
Absolutely. In the 2000s the Unreal Engine had a price tag of half a million dollars up-front plus royalties (I don't remember the percentage) on the back end. That these companies are giving their engines—even their source code—away essentially for free indicates either that (1) engine sales was never a very lucrative line of business or that (2) the promise of establishing your technology as a defacto game engine standard—the Panavision of games—is even more appealing than immediate revenue.
Yes, 30 minutes of work is probably just enough to figure out what the business does, not how to market it. I wonder if this all is just an intro offer, trying to sell you real consulting services. I remember reading somewhere about a consultant (not in marketing IIRC), who would give the first hour for free, the next hour at $1, then $2, and so on. The idea was that the work early on is not as valuable to the client, and bigger projects should pay a higher rate. Never tried this myself, but I think that's a neat idea.
Since you wanted anecdotal stories, I've known multiple relatively successful people (not billionaires, but millionaires who moved in high powered social circles) who didn't read the contracts for their rental cars or hotel rooms.

It's not a particularly interesting anecdote. The anecdotes aren't interesting. Nothing ever came of not reading the contracts, but they were successful people who didn't take ten minutes to read a contract.
In Australia, we have some beneficial consumer laws (eg prohibiting misleading conduct in trade or commerce), and I have heard of some people deliberately not reading contracts so that they can rely on favourable oral representations made to them by the other party, which could be a big business representative or (more commonly) a shop assistant or clerk. The idea is that it doesn't matter whether the contract (often handed to you at the same time) says anything different to what you were told by the representative, provided that you don't know what the contract says and are genuinely relying on what you were told (and can later prove what they told you). There are some other caveats too but you get the idea. You do leave yourself open to the risk of agreeing to other nasty clauses in the contract wholly unrelated to what was said to you though.
There are six listed examples of tasks you could do. None of those could be effectively done in the 30 minutes you wish for a task to take. Marketing evaluations even on small companies with a low number of pages, landing pages, emails, and conversion funnels should take several hours. In 30 minutes you could provide heuristics/best-practices which could be effective, but could be a waste of everyone's time. I doubt you're going to be able to implement anything in 30 minutes, so you're just giving advice on what to do, which will then take someone else many hours to implement, which is very wasteful if they're implementing the wrong thing. Planning is extremely important.
On first glance, the marketing site is clean, tidy, and professional. Nice work there! I'll try out the app today. In the meantime a couple of things I looked for: A screenshot or demo and a help site for support.

The red introductory price text feels a little out of place. It's left justified when the rest feels centered, and I feel like it could be a better callout with improved formatting. It may be a British spelling, but I saw misspelled 'occassional' in the Beta section.

Best wishes with the project it looks promising!
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In theory, the "cooling off" periods you mention should cover the "minimum time" requirements that I'm suggesting. The devil is in the details, of course, but such periods where the contract being negotiated can still be called off would account for my concerns.

As for the rest of contract law, this very thread exists because of the problem of people not actually reading contracts. We can't make people read them, and we can't make sure that people understand what a contract contains[1].

What we can do is show that one of the requirements for a contract[2] hasn't been met.

I'm totally fine with skipping this requirement if it is the 2nd or later time you've signed the contract. I would also say that a business that wrote the contract has obviously met the time requirement already. This types of details are flexible and open to negotiation.

I am simply suggesting that trowing a multi-page contract at someone and letting them sign it seconds later shouldn't count as a valid contract, and that we can now calculate a lower bound length of time. It would be nice if this encouraged shorter contracts in some situations or favoring common language over what most people consider obtuse legalease, but this is not required.

[1] but maybe we should

[2] the "meeting of the minds", or mutual agreement to the contents of the contract and requirements of each party
when i was interviewing at olark, I also had about four interviews and at the third i declined the "do you have any questions?"

but i didn't just say no, i explained that i already had two other interviews and the other interviewers had answered all my questions.

i got hired, so i'm not sure if that's related or not.
It's marketing advice, not solutions. It's not "increase my business 10X", it's "I'm trying a bunch of Facebook ads, why is it not working?"
I wish Google would force app settings to comply to a framework / interface such that you could manage the configuration of all your apps via a single website (appsettings.google.com/devicename) as well.
Often the team and their connections matter way more than the idea itself, or the execution. So I'd say yay, super important.
I'm annoyed that even changing your mind in response to criticism or evidence is loudly condemned as a "U-Turn". There's great pressure to pick a position early on and then stick to it, no matter how indefensible it is.

The media aren't interested in honesty and wouldn't recognise it if they tripped over it in the street. They're interested in feeding the scandal machine. If there isn't any scandal, make one.
Me three! The camera and flashlight are disappointing (my 3 year old 4S was brighter), but aside from that I really like the Z3C. I'm not exaggerating to say I've gotten 3 days of battery life without touching Stamina Mode or Ultra Stamina Mode.
Thanks for your thoughts and feedback. We created Cluck as a way to get some of the advantages of phone calling (attention-grabbing and high-bandwidth) while still preserving the casualness of messaging.

There are a lot of times where I either can't talk on the phone (in lecture, in the library), or simply don't want to (out of social convention), and I use Cluck to have meaningful conversations.
Interesting, though I'm not sure if it's solving an actual problem. I feel like one of the major aspects of SMS that contributed to its rise in popularity is that it is non-intrusive.
Well things are not going pretty well, there is still no real solution to the crash of 2008 in sight, right now we still have essentially bankrupt banks that are trading worthless assets in an artificially created market. Look at the charts in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_... for example, real average hourly wages are still lower than in the 1970s, gdp growth has largely decoupled from the real economy, large sectors of which have shrunk.
“I'm not smart enough.”
> As far as I am concerned this one has the non-traditional keyboard (CTRL is NOT in the lower left corner).

OK, that's one part of non-traditionalism :-) Luckily, the Ctrl and Fn keys' functions can be swapped in the BIOS (but obviously, the key labels will stay put).

I referred to the strange setup of the Caps Lock key, and the missing 6th row with function keys. (Although the functioning of the function keys is different in the 3rd generation model than in the 1st generation model).
Interestingly this isn't on the official arduino.cc site, but rather the "other" arduino site.

more info here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/10345530055/is-ar...
http://fortune.com/2014/09/25/why-startups-fail-according-to...
You can set up a quality marketing strategy in 30 minutes???
I like the new design, but it seems impossible to merge contacts that aren't automatically detected as duplicates by their less-than-perfect algorithm.
Is it possible to share contact group between different gmail user ?
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Very interesting that I find this here! I was on the PR2 team for awhile before things stagnated. I don't think the team at this point over at realitymod.com would benefit from anything happening at EA in regards to BF2's license. A lot has changed and things are moving very slowly nowadays.

You might want to check out Squad (joinsquad.com)
Ideally I want to avoid one offs, hence the small jump.

Everything goes into an email based queue system. So you could schedule 30 minutes of consulting daily but the timing will not be as consistent.

If you have something you need help with, I will be able to jump in to help daily if that is your request.

It would be one account for one brand, business or individual. In your case, each property would be 1 account.
I don't think I will buy one now but I really wanted a MeeGo device. It really looked like the perfect solution for a Linux zealot and apologist like myself. Now I have little to no desire for a Ubuntu phone.

Once phone's become our computers AKA Chromebook OS is what I suggest for just about everyone now a days. I will certainly want a Linux based phone but maybe than it will to late and I will still be the only person to never purchase or own a laptop and keep clicking away on my desktops till I die.
Good point, I'll update it to be more conservative for other people trying this out.
Once you get past pencil pushing jobs and jobs that don't require more than a week of training, interviews need to stop becoming interviews and need to start being conversation. It needs to stop being, "will they give me a job!?" and transition to, "do we want to work together?"
Here is more or less exactly what Kanye West said in Oxford earlier
Masters of Doom makes Carmack sound as responsible for ID's culture problems as anyone else. (Mind you, I'm not sure how reliable that impression is: in some places the author gives the impression that he'd pencilled in Carmack as the designated baddie of the story.)
My pre-coffee brain thought this would be contact lenses... I was so excited for a second.
I had that thought at first, but I figured out how to do it.

Check the box on the left for two contacts, and then in the upper right you can click the merge icon, two arrows coming together.
>It shakes my faith in Google

Only just now?
While I certainly agree the media has an agenda and feeds us what they want, the public has to take responsibility as well. Each of us is responsible for our own actions (in this case, votes).

Also, that video was hilarious.
Funny enough I was actually going to make it 2 business day turn around because I want to account for quality over quantity of output.

All the advice in the world won't help if it's not effective.

That being said, I do take consulting outside of this project, but I have yet to tie it back.
Especially when game devs are giving 30% of the sales (starting from the first $1 they make) to the marketplace where they sell their games...
That material is great, thanks! The style reminds me of c2 wiki.
> How is this supposed to be a scandal exactly?

How about the release of proprietary and sensitive data into an unverified third-party system? Potentially traversing the Internet unencrypted in the process.

I've seen people dismissed from companies for that. Shouldn't Government be even more rigorous?