What I understand flexible to mean is "serving 99% of use case scenarios". Arguably Photoshop does this, Instagram does not. Or maybe a better analogy is Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements, which probably only servers 80% of use case scenarios. Or Chrome OS (80% of desktop use case scenarios) vs Windows (99.9%).
Yes, it's the only video on the list that I've seen and it's exactly because my 2 and 4 year olds commandeer my iDevices and watch those videos. See this article about one woman making $5 million from reviewing Disney toys and you'll start to understand: http://www.buzzfeed.com/hillaryreinsberg/youtubes-biggest-st...
You'd think there could be a way that they could track the times between pulls for the newsfeed as you scroll and get a lower resolution view of the same phenomena, basically how long you looked at those posts but without as specific data as tracking a javascript timer.
And it doesn't mention civil rights or feminism either. There may be various cultural phenomenons that play a part in increasing the labor supply, but enforcing barriers to entry disregards the dignity of people. The fact is, if you want to be materially successful in life you have to compete (at least in some way) with everyone you share the Earth with. You can't stop immigration any more than you can stop oppressed people from wanting to be free. The point of the article is though to remind us educated NYTimes readers that while we might be sitting pretty, there are certain classes of society who are getting left behind.
I don't know if it's as simple as it being always being either causation or correlation. Education level is used as a proxy of potential wellbeing indicators.
Yes, there are rare people who have never finished high school and had material success, probably most drug dealers who cashed out and bought franchises or real estate. So logically then general causation is ruled out.
But for most people without high school degrees it's extremely difficult to disassociate their lack of education with later material success.
Yes, the real issue in the complaint is likely the grandfathered consumers who signed up to AT&T understanding one definition of unlimited just to be forced into another. I don't think it's an FTC attack on "unlimited but throttled" data plans.
Yeah, you're right that the grandfathered consumers are a special case. It would be like having truly unlimited coffee refills then all of a sudden being told you're getting half-cup intervals.
The issue doesn't seem to be the "unlimited by throttled" business model, but the adequate disclosure of that information to the consumer. Other carriers may have worded it differently. More importantly though, AT&T had a grandfathered contract with consumers for unlimited without throttling (or "true unlimited"). Those changes along with their vagueness make AT&T a special case. In any case though, I'm sure the other carriers will watch this case closely.
Wouldn't it be more like after 2 cups they only get served in half-cup increments? I agree with the sentiment. Unlimited with throttles isn't truly "unlimited", but "unlimited*". That said, the FTC complaint seems to take issue with that AT&T did not "adequately disclose to its customers" this information. And there, I take some issue with this. AT&T did actually explain that. Maybe some consumers didn't understand that because of the lack of an asterisk. I guess this will be interesting to see just how important an asterisk can be.
I'm not endorsing AdNauseam, but the idea is that the information the ad companies track will be useless since the target person will appear to have clicked on every ad regardless of true interest in the product. For instance it will make it appear that a single, heterosexual male is interested beauty products or diapers.
Over the past two years, I went from being 1 lbs overweight according to my doctor to 6'1" 175 by gradually starting to run and then then do yoga. I was getting up to six times a week either running 30 mins or 1 - 1.25 hours of yoga, but I hit a limit because of my diet. I just don't eat enough of the right stuff to keep that up and those are moderate (not light) exercises. If I eat sugar and breads it might be technically enough calories, but without the energy to really work out well. I wonder how many people can't get into regular exercise because they don't eat right stuff either.
It seems like it moves more in decades of greater economic growth. There are probably a lot of factors to account for that, but it's interesting nonetheless.
A friend and I published some apps on the Microsoft store a few years ago, when it was still for Windows Phone 7. We've received several emails from Microsoft saying we need to update this and that or our apps will be removed. Because the apps never did that well - not surprisingly in hindsight given the market size - we never updated them. However we still get checks occasionally from the proceeds. Microsoft never removed them. I think they're just desperate to have apps in their store and inflated app numbers they can brag about. They obviously know what to do, but just aren't doing it.
Yes thank you, posts like this are what make HN good. It's not necessarily news or even related to technology but interesting for us hacker types nonetheless.
You'd think conservatives would support a domestic work tax credit then since they would be most likely to afford domestic employees and thus benefit the most.
I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.
This was interesting but the title "From China, With Love" seems descriptively weak and unnecessarily confrontational, as if somehow the Chinese government were to blame for one router manufacturers backdoor.
"The Google Search app will be able to show Google Now ads for nearby businesses". We'll that's good that at least Google get's to show its ads, because it's "open" and you are its product.
I can hardly understand anything in that doc. I'm a decent-enough iOS programmer from a LAMP and design background. It makes me wonder if in 20 years people like me will look back at the iOS programming guide and be equally confused. As programming gets abstracted out, put into frameworks and simplified at the user-level it's sure to go even more visual.
My uncaffeinated early-morning mind read the headline as why removing feautes makes people HAPPY. I think that would be a much more interesting article.
That's pretty great that one of the few Fox News articles to get on Hacker News is not only full of speculation and conspiracy-theory bait but also get ordnance/ordinance wrong.
I worked for a public university and the salaries were public by mandate. I found it harmless for a while, but it ultimately led to me to search for other jobs when I discovered a new co-worked who I considered lazy made $15,000 more than me.
I think a better idea than going completely transparent is to calculate the group or division averages and publish that number. It offers some of the benefits of transparency while depersonalizing the controversial data. But of course that would only work in mid- to large-sized companies.
I'm not sure Mozilla really has the clout with its mobile browser to make much of a difference for Apple. If anything, Mozilla building an open-source mobile OS will help Apple by dividing the Android's "open-source hacker" user base.
The algorithm probably works by showing paid posts to the people most likely to click on them, so people who don't click much don't get many promote posts or the non-promoted ones.