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dakotasmithon Terrorist Hunt Sends America Over the Edge

This may have also been done to prevent whatever interference or vigilantism may have occurred from a city who was pissed and not scared.

dakotasmithon Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

> Lately I've been seeing ads that correlate with things that happen to me completely outside Facebook. About things on sites I only access through google for example. I find this more disturbing.

Though you say completely outside Facebook, at least it is still just taking signals from other parts of the Internet. Imagine now what Google Now or Glass will be able add!

Seriously though, I think Perfect Audience (YC S11) https://www.perfectaudience.com does stuff like this. Here is a thread describing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4615408

Edit: Didn't see that you bought the BBQ sauce at the store exclusive without any online behavior. Unless you searched for it or use Mint or a similar service, I am at a loss.

dakotasmithon A Tip That Will Help You Learn To Code 10x Faster

The concept you propose is revealing. If I consistently underestimate the amount of time a project will take by a factor of 10, improvements in accuracy of my estimates (boring product management details) can be interpreted as becoming a "faster" programmer (desired personal development outcome).

dakotasmithon When I first heard the name "Safari"

Me too. At the time it was released, the metaphor of “surfing the web” was still very strong.

dakotasmithon A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

Google could have been asked to provide the same features, but there must be concessions Apple would have to give Google. These trade-offs, when evaluated by Apple, were not something that served their customers better. You can disagree with that, but it doesn't mean they are lying. And if it isn't obvious they are lying, it certainly isn't blatant.

To get what they wanted without trade offs, without hidden compromise of their customers, they had to leave their partner. A partner, mind you, who had shown they will put better products (GMail app, Map app) on their own platform (I like both those apps on Android, and GMail on iOS is a joke).

By building their own from the ground up, they also prevent this from happening again with another external partner who wishes to gain some leverage over the richest company in the world.

I'm not apologizing for the decision, or the quality of maps. And while I love to stigmatize liars, this accusation waters down the insult of blatant lying.

dakotasmithon A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

I believe the we in "we wanted to provide our customers" is Apple, not Apple and Google. Hyperbolic to call it blatant lying.

dakotasmithon The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

I needed to get another phone weeks before yesterday's iPhone announcement, so I went with the Galaxy Nexus, since it is contract-free and affordable.

Attempting to select multiple emails, one-handed across the screen with my thumb, has lead me to drop the phone several times.

Fortunately it is built like a cheap plastic tank. Dropping it is part of how I introduce it to people. "Remember when you used to drop your phone and the back and battery would go flying off, but the phone would be fine?" CLUNK

dakotasmithon The problem is with the (losing) teams that aren’t copying

Seconded. It wasn't until Christopher Cross [1] personally recommended the 11" MacBook Air to me I considered it as a primary computer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkIuKXwmlU not http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk

dakotasmithon Play mario to navigate this website

> It suffers by not fully committing to the idea.

It suffers by committing to this idea at all. Were it not for the exploitative nostalgia, no one would feel it was compelling.

> It's a nice HTML5 novelty, but just as unusable as all those terrible Flash sites.

It is a poor counterfeit. SMB has physics, this does not appear to. Your example of the context switch is another obvious annoyance. How does it's presentation add to the experience? I think it detracts.

dakotasmithon Play mario to navigate this website

Cute and potentially litigious.

Hope that is what you were going for.

dakotasmithon Steve Jobs on Average vs Best Software Developers

I think he's trying to use numbers to illustrate his point, but he's not declaring anything empirical. When asking “Maybe 20%?” the implication is it is at most 20% better, but certainly not 50% and never 100% better.

dakotasmithon The Perfect Compliment

I think that could be the cynicism talking.

Perhaps all of the people who now are your friends might no longer be you friends, but your new habit could've brought you new friends who respect you for your candor, even if it is slightly cynical.

dakotasmithon Sublime Text 2.0 Released

Conceptually, because of needs which exist outside of the coverage of that 80%.

dakotasmithon We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review

Mind sharing the code that generated this?

I am not the only person on HN who might like to have a way to examine real/presumedfake follower ratios for any number of reasons.

dakotasmithon OSX For Hackers

Sounds like you need to fix some Keychain Access settings. Grasping at Internet straws, but perhaps something like this will help?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2108355?start=0&tst...

(Fair warning, I'm presuming the back button of which you speak is a Safari back button. I have not experienced this problem myself and I have full-disk encryption on, which requires you to enter a password for most anything.)

dakotasmithon Facebook: Legal action against employers asking for your password

Sometimes pieces of government are unaware of laws they are breaking until a well-funded challenger can use the courts to educate it.

dakotasmithon Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Google

Logged in, and in Texas, my search for 'dmv' returns the California DMV.

Then New York.

Then Virginia.

The only results for Texas DMV are two ads at the top of the result listing for sketchy drivers-license.org type "businesses".

dakotasmithon AT&T Threatens Plaintiff With Termination Of Service Unless He Shuts Up

You see my point exactly, if you could find 10 people in March, I'm sure April has 10 more. Or 100 more.

dakotasmithon AT&T Threatens Plaintiff With Termination Of Service Unless He Shuts Up

Actually, class action lawsuits can be more easily dealt with, since the lawyers on both side negotiate the terms of the settlement.

A litany of small claims court settlements would put more money in the hands of plaintiffs, not lawyers, and would be available in the news cycle for much longer than a class action lawsuit/settlement.

dakotasmithon The biggest iOS 5 bug you've never heard of

So you are saying that when you replied to a group MMS, it didn't only send it to one person? Have you tried this on a feature phone? I believe this is the same thing of which you speak, but generalized about MMS: http://omaskon.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/caution-when-replyin...

I always thought what you turn on or off is the UI for the grouped message roll up for all subsequent replies. You can't opt out of Group Messages that are MMS because they are Group MMS.

¿Am I misunderstanding?

Edit: 1st link was about a Blackberry w/ Group MMS. Here is one for an Android phone w/ Group MMS: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-rezound/183344-replying...

dakotasmithon The biggest iOS 5 bug you've never heard of

This entire bug report is confusing to me. What is your expected behavior?

From what I can gather, you do (or did) not have group messaging enabled. You were on the receiving end of a group message. Replies to that group message also came to you, a recipient of the initial group message. Because you do not have group messaging enabled, the messages which were in response to the group message were not grouped.

I know I sound pedantic, but I do QA. If we're calling it a bug, let's get some expected results and steps to reproduce.

dakotasmithon Ask HN: Where exactly does wikimedia spend $28M+ this year?

I posted regarding the volunteers requiring additional management, since I felt this comment was downvoted for presuming volunteers == travel expenses greater than the travel expenses caused by the Board.

dakotasmithon Ask HN: Where exactly does wikimedia spend $28M+ this year?

As far as having lots of management, I know that QA is both outsourced and volunteer driven. I'm under the impression they have a lot of volunteers for various tasks (it is Wikipedia, after all).

Volunteers incur management, but they don't show up in the head count.

dakotasmithon Ask HN: Where exactly does wikimedia spend $28M+ this year?

The top number is for salaries, wages, and benefits.

That doesn't just mean what people take home, but payroll taxes, the employer's typically more expensive side of the benefits contribution toward health care, and retirement or 401K matching.

I would presume the take home salaries before taxes are about 60% of the 114k average cost per employee.

Edit: I meant 65%, but then changed to 60%. As I'm in Texas, I didn't even consider state taxes they might have to pay in California.

dakotasmithon I want to pay for TextMate 2

Your point being Textmate has a large customer base whose primary platform is Internet café Hackintoshes... in China?

dakotasmithon Ask HN: Learning, understanding and applying Data mining

Stanford. Mining of massive data sets.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html

Complete book is available.

dakotasmithon MacBook Air is enough for a work machine

If you go into System Preferences > Accounts, you can right-click on your user and choose Advanced Options. I copied my home dir to the HDD, then linked it here.

You get more nuance from symlinks, etc, but this was a simple method which worked for me. Other people mentioned symlinking some dirs, but no one had mentioned that you could move your entire user directory this way.

dakotasmithon Video of tsunami in Japan

What part of Japan is this?

dakotasmithon IPad 2 Official Specs

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC953ZM/A#overview

The iPad2 is the only device which supports video mirroring.

For all other devices, restricted video out remains, even with the Digital AV Adapter. It will only send video when the application supports it.