The "60% of all names" is wrong. Let's imagine there are 3 total names, Alice, Bob and Casey. Alice is > 80% female, Bob is < 20% female and Casey is 50% female. Even though we're using the 80/20 cutoff, only 33% of the names are unisex, not 60%. You can't just subtract 20 from 80 to get the number of unisex names as the distribution is unknown (or unmentioned). You'd have to actually measure or take the distribution into account.
I really like the science in his write ups, there's obviously a lot of science in baking but so many write ups focus on story building and act as if there is some magic behind the steps or ingredients that obfuscates their true purpose.
Mattie also has another site (foodcraftlab.com) that has even more involved recipes, including a good read about cream cheese, I love the idea of, though I'll likely never find the time to make: http://www.foodcraftlab.com/food/fermentation/vegan-cashew-c... .
App updates also throw off reviews quite a bit, an update that changes a behavior (or color like you said) is likely to receive a large amount of negative reviews, just because users were used to the old way. These reviews are potentially valuable information for other users of the previous version. However it's mostly irrelevant to new users.
It's a version string, which as far as I know, has been acceptable since the beginning of open source. They just let us know that Google Play scans APKs for that string. I imagine Google Play also scans for other libraries, open source or otherwise.
1 star (and 5 star) are always going to be the biggest buckets. Even if you try to be very fair and strict, what does a driver that doesn't show up get? 1 star. What about a driver that stabs you? 1 star. Crashes? 1 star. Gets lost and makes you late? 1 star. Smells bad and a bit rude, but gets you there on time? Maybe this is finally 2 stars. These are all bad, but getting stabbed is a lot worse than not showing up or getting lost.
Likewise for 5 stars. Friendly, safe, on time, gives you a cold bottle of water, have a nice conversation. 4 or 5 stars. Chases you down with the bag you forgot in his car? 5 stars. You fall in love and get married? 5 stars.
Basically they're aware it's an issue and they're working on it both for the future of the platform but also in a backwards compatible way (using multi-dex and reflection).
This hack can't screw up another application, the author is wrong about that. It's changing the local process only and has no influence on any other apps (which are not just sandboxed into their own processes but also their own user ids)
Harmless Harvest explains it on the bottle and their website. They suggest that it shouldn't be pink when harvested, but if it turns pink later that's natural and okay.
http://harmlessharvest.com/results/coconut-water#pink
In freshly cracked coconuts, pink water can be a symptom of spoilage. This is not the case with Harmless Harvest which is completely clear when bottled.
All of our coconut water is clear when bottled. However, some bottles turn pink with time due to varying levels of antioxidants, or phenols, interacting with light. We could use additives to hide the color change, but the pink bottles are just as delicious and safe to drink as the others. Variation is a part of nature. It’s ok to be pink.
They actually are doing the knock to wake. BLE works and is an instant lock/unlock. Sending a command via wifi will let you know (on the phone) that the lockitron is in a power save mode and the command will be executed in 20 minutes (or whatever the actual time) or when you knock on the door. So if you leave the house and forgot to lock the door, you could lock it remotely and know it'll lock itself eventually. Knocking does work consistently to wake the device up.
It's definitely not the same experience though. I live in a condo and have the lockitron on my unit's door. I have the choice between opening the lockitron app in the elevator and send the unlock signal via wifi, but that means I'll need to knock for sure. Or I could wait until the elevator gets there and try to unlock, and if i'm really lucky it will be via BLE and unlock instantly, but generally the BLE hasn't managed to connect yet and I get no indicator, so I send the command to early and I need to knock anyway.
Speed is such a critical factor here. It doesn't take that long to pull your keys out, and it feels more awkward to stand and wait at your own front door than it does to fumble with the keys for a while. If I'm carrying groceries or a baby, then Lockitron has the potential to make things easier, but currently I still need to fiddle with my phone for a while (maybe in the elevator, but still) and knock so it doesn't really feel easier than using a key.
What would your insurance company say if you said "well I knew I forgot to lock the door, but I sent the command and I know it locks itself eventually"? It's cool but not really a mass market product.
The reaction would probably be better than "I didn't know I forgot to lock the door" or "I knew I forgot to lock the door, but was too lazy to go home and so I hoped for the best."
Plus, locks are trivially pickable, so it's not like they stop someone that wants to break into your house from breaking into your house.
Locks are not trivially pickable. It only looks that way if you watch a skilled person do it. It's much harder than many impressive juggling tricks, for example. Smashing in a window, now that's trivial.
Neither matters though, because a big purpose of locks is to show that you took reasonable precautions in order for your insurance to be valid. (YMMV, IANAL, etc. but that's the case here.)
I'm about as unskilled a lockpicker as you can get, and I can pick the four-pin locks on my apartment fairly easily. Someone with practice could do it even more easily.
(I've never used a pick gun, but I hear that makes it even easier. Especially for locks that don't have any particular anti-picking features, like the majority of locks on people's homes.)
In the U.S., there usually isn't any language in a homeowners policy about doors being locked, so if you have a police report, they don't say anything.
Perhaps something that groups (or even just a weighted score) people and comments by voting habits. If I consistently vote up memes and receive votes from other meme voters, then show me more of that kind of content and give my posts more visibility to that crowd. But if I regularly downvote memes then sink those posts from me, and sink my posts from them.
I imagine tuning such a system would be very difficult though, and you don't want users stuck in a bucket that they don't feel fits them.
