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New comment by rogerchucker in "NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls"

rogerchucker — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:08:13 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions"

rogerchucker — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:07:06 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions"

rogerchucker — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:40:12 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions"

rogerchucker — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:36:26 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos"

rogerchucker — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:30:07 +0000

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

New comment by rogerchucker in "IOS productivity app market on the cusp of change?"

rogerchucker — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:24:34 +0000

Or buy a Macbook Air.

New comment by rogerchucker in "IOS productivity app market on the cusp of change?"

rogerchucker — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:24:36 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "Moto X phone specifications"

rogerchucker — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:09:19 +0000

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

New comment by rogerchucker in "Moto X phone specifications"

rogerchucker — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:08:29 +0000

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".

New comment by rogerchucker in "Moto X phone specifications"

rogerchucker — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:09:13 +0000

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

New comment by rogerchucker in "From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition"

rogerchucker — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:27:16 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition"

rogerchucker — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:23:47 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition"

rogerchucker — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:15:38 +0000

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

New comment by rogerchucker in "Introducing Quip"

rogerchucker — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:16:21 +0000

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.

New comment by rogerchucker in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

rogerchucker — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:13:29 +0000

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

New comment by rogerchucker in "Introducing Quip"

rogerchucker — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:34:17 +0000

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? :)

New comment by rogerchucker in "Quora's "India Problem""

rogerchucker — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:16:42 +0000

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

New comment by rogerchucker in "Probablistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers"

rogerchucker — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:01:31 +0000

Many thanks for those links.

New comment by rogerchucker in "Probablistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers"

rogerchucker — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:31:22 +0000

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.

How to power the Chromecast

rogerchucker — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:55:47 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3212934?hl=en&ref_topic=3058948

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6100475

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