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Hmm.. let's not criticize the situation now because it was much worse in the past. But I'm not shocked you used that argument given your apologist comments on other posts related to the National Sorority Agency on HN.

I kinda figured that part but to me that's a very very archaic way of thinking given that a significant number of people will eventually break the NDA and hint about bugs.

I just never understood the grand benefits of imposing NDA on iOS/OSX pre-release versions. I can't picture this giving Apple a big strategic advantage over its competitors in mobile OS.

The root of this problem, I think, is that Apple requires the $100 membership fee (and thus provide a developer account) even for testing apps on one's own device. If Apple, instead required this fee (and gave developer accounts) only when somebody has submitted an app for publishing on the App store for the first time, then there would be a legitimate filter against people who like to download betas just for experimenting or are plain nincompoops pretending to be tech bloggers.

As an added benefit, by doing this, Apple would also invite a LOT more developers into its fold who would like to experiment with apps on their own device without committing to publishing any.

I think Jeff Bezos will be bigger than Steve Jobs one day.

Or buy a Macbook Air.

IMHO, typing on iPad is stupid not necessarily because of the typing experience (I'm actually not terrible at it), but because the screen size above the virtual keyboard is too little. I want to write with a sufficient amount of text around the area where I am writing to give me full context. That's how I have been trained and and so have most people. I'm not sure why this would baffle anybody.

Need the usual disclaimer that you're a Googler :P

I often get 24 hours on my iPhone 4S (with a few things turned off). And that's what Moto-X is promising. So I don't define that as "crazy good".

People were mostly anticipating a crazy good battery and an unprecedented low on-contract price. Neither happened - time to move on.

Actually advertising and marketing optimization is a very critical problem that hasn't been completely solved yet, especially when privacy concerns are taken into consideration. It is critical towards keeping the Web free and create a more inter-connected economy. While this will obviously have the side-effects of "frivolous" analytics, there is indeed a dearth of enough hybrid practitioners-researchers in data science today. It will probably saturate in 5-10 years but I'm no analyst to predict that.

Should I start putting every substantial R/Python script I write, even if they are based on some tutorials, on the Github/Personal-Website? Is that how I "show"? I missed the Github bus for all my previous projects.

Should have studied harder in undergrad. All the current "Fellows" are from top tier schools :(

Well, I'd rather get my shit done smoothly with my co-authors rather than take a principled stand and all that. Most in the academia do not wanna change their authoring tools, especially if they are 50+. And all of this is driven by one thing: most of the conferences and journals in our field want Word submissions. I don't have the hallow effect to change that. So we'd rather everybody dance to Microsoft's tune than the other way around.

Genuinely curious - how can this data be used from a software perspective?

I think the first thing that comes to mind when you mention "word processing" is compatibility. Most of us in the real world depend on Microsoft Word - can you guys promise not to mangle doc/docx files as soon as we open it or save edits from Quip? :)

I'm pretty sure the dude himself is an Indian.

Many thanks for those links.

Does the author have any blog post or plan to write one about this part: "After some recent success of Bayesian methods in machine-learning competitions"? It will then be easier to translate Bayesian Inference to real world problem for noobs like me. I was trained in mathematical Bayesian Inference in an Econometrics class but I never did anything practical with it.

I think it's more of a confluence of "cheap", "perceived engineering smarts" and "spoken english" for the managers.

I'm not sure why you keep bringing up the Brookings paper [2] to support the authors' case. They clearly said this at the beginning: "Without attempting to fully resolve this complex issue, new detailed data on H-1B wages by occupation, presented more fully here, suggests that the H-1B program helps to fill a shortage of workers in STEM occupations."

Table 2 in the Brookings paper says the opposite.

" In recent years, from 2009 to 2011, nominal wage growth for U.S.-born workers with at least a bachelor’s degree has been high for the most prominent H-1B occupations. The average native-born worker experienced flat annual growth in wages over that period (0.0 percent), but wage growth for those in computer occupations—the largest H-1B category—grew by 1.3 percent each year since 2009 and 2.7 percent each year since 2000 for those with a bachelor’s degree. Wage growth was even higher for engineers, with 2.1 percent growth since 2009 and 3 percent growth since 2000."

I can't shake the feeling that for this crowd (to which the authors/researchers belong), the term guest worker has sort of become a code for "those cheap Indians". I'm also guessing the authors (and most people in this crowd) have never associated with a guest worker outside of their field of work.

Thank you for responding to both the questions. Yes I had forgotten that other annoyance of iPhoto - enclosing everything in a library. Looking forward to using your service.

I don't know what MHL HDMI is. How do I verify if I have one? My TV is 2009 Sony Bravia and it transmits audio (since I can use Apple TV).

Did you spot any cable during the presentation from the dongle to the wall or a power strip?

Can one of the founders kindly clarify how long it takes for a photo to appear on Mac once it has been taken from an iPhone, both being connected to WiFi?

I have compared Photo Stream and Google+ for this scenario (i.e. taking photo on iPhone and see them appear on the respective cloud storages). Despite Google+'s awesome anytime-anywhere availability, its upload/backup speed feels much slower compared to Photo Stream. But the fact that I need a garbage like iPhoto to access those photos on Mac makes it a deal-breaker for me.

So while I'm already sold on Loom's Mac-based access to the photos, I'd be willing to jump ship if the following are satisfied:

1. Upload/Backup should feel as instantaneous as Photo Stream, especially with WiFi connections.

2. (This is different than my original point) Loom shows commitment to its users by some kind of a promise that even if it gets acquired it will not shutdown the essential servers or at the very least not ask us to archive and download all the photos we've put into it so far. I had a lot of hope with Snapjoy and it turned into a killjoy after its Dropbox acquisition. I'd like to stick to a service like this on a long-term basis.

I was thinking maybe as an investor I'd see this move as an example of "potentially" good execution and a possibility of Google playing well with media giants.

So basically no expectation and hence no effect.

But does that Apple analogy apply here? Apple's rumors are at a crazier scale than Google's and Chromecast in particular was barely a whisper on the street, especially with more reports pointing to Nexus 7 in the days leading up to this event.