garrettlarson

> As a contrast, none of the Top 10 most valuable Y Combinator companies use Java; largely considered the battle tested enterprise language.

I’m not sure what this is based on, but Airbnb uses Java pretty extensively.

> Hoping to highlight the elusive order in the distribution of the primes, he and his student Ge Zhang had modeled them as a one-dimensional sequence of particles — essentially, little spheres that can scatter light. In computer experiments, they bounced light off long prime sequences, such as the million-or-so primes starting from 10,000,000,019.

It sounds like they simulated shining light on particles that were distributed based on the interval between subsequent primes, then looked for patterns in the resulting diffraction. The title was worded that way for a pun (the chemist revealed interesting information about the pattern by literally shining light on it).

> There was a substantially greater increase in bicycle commuting in the bike-share cities, yet the total number of injuries decreased in bike-share (but not control) cities, again showing that more cycling means safer cycling [7].

... or that the cities built bike lanes next to the bike share stations.

> Individuals with documented helmet use had 2.2 times the odds of non–helmet users of being involved in an injury-related accident

... perhaps because cyclists are more likely to wear helmets in areas with unsafe biking conditions.

He means "should equal or exceed":

> If you are doing better than the 40% rule, that’s awesome.

You can click the time of each comment to get a permalink: http://workingwithwords.blogspot.com/2004/08/gee-i-wonder-if...

Wikipedia articles have the same functionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Anchor

A number of Bitcoin services have gone under after being hacked. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/history-of...

National Geographic picked up on it as well: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/why-have-...

Is there an advantage to method swizzling instead of just subclassing UIApplication?

Does anyone know why stash names are so ugly? I've always found typing "git stash apply stash@{3}" to be pretty painful (not to mention redundant).

The number of "married" teens is inflated by people jokingly reporting themselves as married to their friends.

The site says it uses Bluetooth and attaches to a standard deadbolt (that panel is presumably only on the inside of the door).

Quest bars are the best I've found: http://www.questproteinbar.com/

> Michigan Central Station stopped serving trains in 1988 with multiple plans to redevelop the building falling through since. The Morouns have owned the building since 2001.

FTA

> Facebook also failed to implement some sort of craigslist, which is something that would really serve a big purpose for people in general (advertise for any sort of stuff, jobs, dating, help needed, local announcements...). I don't understand why they don't do that.

Facebook introduced Marketplace in 2007: https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2383962130

That's good for most cases, but I don't think it works for groups of prime cardinality. In addition, the problem often allows each participant to have a different value function (e.g., one person wants lots of pepperoni but the others prefer mushrooms). In such a variant, a team might have problems agreeing on which piece is most desirable.

Xdrive was around: http://web.archive.org/web/20001017113816/http://www.xdrive....

If you find yourself in a similar predicament next year, SF Beer Week has a searchable schedule that will get you pretty close: http://www.sfbeerweek.org/schedule/#q=pliny

"Rendering and the Javascript engine are provided by iOS through UIWebView." - https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/faq

> Apple has transitioned from a small company with a narrow focus to a really big company with a much broader focus... Amazon, it seems, is more true to their brand.

Exactly. Amazon has always been regarded as a focused webhosting/video streaming/grocery/general store/digital device company. It's not like they started out as a bookstore or something.

He encountered problems typing at a reasonable speed, saving a Word document, videoconferencing, and opening the mail client. They sound like issues that can be corrected with a software update, but I don't think they're specific to his workflow.

While the filesystem is not directly accessible by either users or apps for security reasons, it is possible for apps to communicate and/or exchange files. Your app can register the ability to open certain filetypes with the OS (e.g., so users can open mail attachments or Dropbox files in your app) and it can communicate directly with another app through custom URL schemes (e.g., to accomplish single-sign-on using the Facebook app).

It takes two hands to hold a device and a stylus.

Does anyone else find the article title grating? How does one leap into the high end of a pool?

Product videos are a pretty significant upgrade, though.

There have been academic papers inspired by the Wikipedia gender gap, but this isn't one of them. This study examines differences among different Wikipedia localizations and only mentions male dominance in passing as a suggestion for future investigation.

It should really be expected that most political biographies are about men, given that the overwhelming majority of world leaders have been male. But some other gender statistics are less easily explained: http://wikisym.org/ws2011/_media/proceedings:p1-lam.pdf

I had to change the IFS=' ' declaration to get this to work on my system (ls appears to use newline as a delimiter). Cool script.