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traek··on San Jose's Google Fiber rollout is delayed to explores alternatives
> the quality of service was good.

But that doesn't make it a good business. And when it's not a good business, it gets scrapped.

traek··on Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
> Maybe not tech company, but Walmart just bought Jet.com

Nope, Walmart is reportedly in talks to buy Jet.com.

traek··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
From the main post:

> include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.

traek··on Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
It's less expensive in harvest season.

"a full ounce for 100 or less" -> 12.5 for an eight

traek··on Analyzing Last.fm Listening History
On macOS, http://bowtieapp.com is a good free alternative.
traek··on I went to the hospital to give birth and tested positive for meth
The probability of a false positive result = probability of not doing meth * probability of getting a positive test result while not doing meth. P(+ ∩ M') = P(M') * P(+|M').

That pretty clearly depends on the prior probability, P(M).

traek··on We Don’t Need More Blood Tests
Similarly, when running a hypothesis test statisticians "fail to reject" the null hypothesis, rather than accepting it.
traek··on Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto
Because the case rested on patent infringement, not contract violation? People don't need to sign a license agreement to be bound by patent law.

> Their business model depends on farmers agreeing to licensing their seeds. Nothing says that those farmers have to agree to that.

The entire concept of patents disagrees with you. If the farmers don't agree to a license, they cannot legally use the invention.

traek··on Apple updates its 12-inch MacBook with faster chip, but no extra USB
I don't see why employers making bad purchase decisions signals Apple "calcifying into what Microsoft was".

Just because some employers (and some ordinary people) might purchase it for situations where it's not the best option doesn't make the single-port MacBook "a horrible failure."

traek··on The Sugar Conspiracy
Do you have any sources for this? I'm looking for academic literature on the effects of tetrasodium pyrophosphate on satiety, but I can't find anything.
traek··on The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
> We don't mistake the almost ubiquitous use of cars in the US as an indicator that the US population is 'car savvy,' so why do we do it with computers, cell phones and the internet when in reality you need to know just as much about how they work as how your car does in order to use it?

That may be true from the perspective of understanding the technical workings of the internet, but it's orthogonal to the discussion of understanding internet culture.

"Internet savvy" in this context means savvy with media and savvy with modern social networks, not with the OSI model of networking.

traek··on Robin
> When you press the button, it leads you to a page with a button that says "participate". Pressing this button puts you in an IRC chat with another user. Along with being able to chat, there are three buttons to press. These are Abandon, Stay, and Grow. This is actually a voting system. When joining a room, a small text will be output by the server saying how long you have to vote, calculated by 2level - 1 and output in minutes. The vote runs on majority rule.

> When the timer runs out:

> If you voted Abandon, you will be kicked from the room. You can hit the participate button again to start from the beginning.

> If the majority voted Abandon, everyone is kicked from the room.

> If the majority voted Stay, the room is closed and a new subreddit is created, with the name of the chat room being the sub name. Up to 5 random people in the room are granted moderator permissions in this sub. It should be noted that the chat room name is a mashup of the current room users.

> If the majority voted Grow, they will be merged with another group of about the same size in a new chat room. You can vote again from there. Every time it grows, the "level" variable from earlier goes up by one.

From https://m.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4cwi9o/whats_up....

Basically it's another Reddit social experiment.

traek··on I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Twitter
Looks like "we" is StockTwits: https://twitter.com/crosbyventure
traek··on Uber Bug Bounty Program – It's a Sham
They treat corporate employees (not drivers) fairly well, according to friends who work there. I'd be interested in hearing if you have experience to the contrary.
traek··on Do jobs run in families?
The interactive visualization is very neat. Interesting data, and an interesting way of presenting the data.
traek··on Fake girlfriend, revisited
No, he is saying you need human moderators if you're connecting two users and letting them speak to each other.
traek··on The Illusion of Time: How Time Perception Shapes User Experience
Agreed, 100ms feels very different from 50ms or 10ms.

Microsoft Research has an interesting video[1] on the UX impact of different touch latencies. Even below 100ms, users are very sensitive to latency.

[1] https://youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?t=55

traek··on The Post-Mac Interface
Fair point, but there are some trends in technology that it doesn't take into account.

As technology becomes more centralized, the computing power of your phone or laptop becomes much less important than the power of Google's and Amazon's data centers. Your devices essentially become clients for computation done in the cloud.

Technological advancements generally don't require increases in the client's computing power anymore.

traek··on Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale
Yes.

https://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/paris/

traek··on Operators of Coin.mx arrested by the FBI
That means the statements are presented as facts, but are not yet proven and thus are technically only allegations.

Generally, one shouldn't present allegations as facts (use phrases such as 'allegedly'), but doing so is standard for criminal complaints.

traek··on Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
Google has a similar offering for apps running on App Engine, called Cloud Endpoints[1].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/

traek··on Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy
I get value from Google's personalized search and Facebook's customization of my News Feed. I'm not saying those services don't exist to drive company profit, but I do think that machine learning and personalization can add value for the end user.
traek··on Android Pay is coming
That's the ripple animation from Material Design[1]--it looks good on an product page for Android.

[1]: http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter...

traek··on Wait, Google Sent Me
I think we should (and do) have the option to decide not to pay and not consume the content.
traek··on IKEA introduces wireless charging furniture [pdf]
> It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years.

That's definitely not accurate, the 30-pin connector was introduced in 2003 and wasn't replaced until 2012.

traek··on Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi
It's pretty clear, actually. From the article:

> A lodging industry trade association petitioned the FCC last month for the ruling on blocking personal Wi-Fi signals.

> The petition stems from Marriott International’s agreement last month to settle an FCC investigation into a complaint that at least one of its hotels used communications-jamming technology to disable the personal Wi-Fi hotspots that many travelers tote with them.

Firstly, the ban on Wi-Fi jammers is an FCC rule, not a law.

So Marriott settled according to current rules. The hotel lobby then petitioned FCC to authorize them, and change the rules if necessary, to jam Wi-Fi. Google and Microsoft filed letters opposing this petition.

traek··on Git's initial commit
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a joke.
traek··on How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
When you say that "privacy-sensitive information" is "being leaked", you make it sound much worse than it is. The information being sent seems completely normal for an online word processor with a revision history, and it's not being "leaked" to anyone besides the company providing the word processor.
traek··on Reflected File Download: A New Web Attack Vector
I can confirm that on Safari, the file downloaded is f.txt
traek··on This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales
That's the prospective client, not the company which created the product.
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