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Sadly, it is somewhat disappointing how this situation was handled. It is understandable that Techcrunch is attempting to cover their own ass in terms of journalistic integrity but the fact that the individual at hand was a minor complicates the situation. When Arrington writes in "An Apology To Our Readers", anyone who is even remotely familiar with Techcrunch can deduce who screwed up from the information provided.

Yes, Daniel made a lapse in judgement, but being a minor (and clearly are hard and dedicated worker) he should have at least been given the opportunity to let this go down silently. When a minor gets into some trouble before they are 18, typically their record is wiped clean as they enter adulthood. Sadly, this is a permanent public record and could prevent him from getting hired or having a career in journalism again (whether thats deserved or not is up in the air).

As an intern, should he have been given so much responsibilty? Who knows really, it just kind of feels like they took advantage of Daniel and threw him to the wayside when he first faultered. Clearly that much spotlight and attention for someone that young might have been too much (at least without some protectionary measures). Losing his intern position and having to deal with that personally and with his family should have been punishment enough. If he wanted to make that a public issue, he should have at least gotten the choice. Instead he was forced publicly to disclose what happened to the world and might have to live with that small error in judgement his whole life. Ahah, it's almost the internets version of the story of original sin. I guess the temptation was to great for someone so young and naive and now hes been branded a bad seed.
"Google" is older than "googol", and appears to have been a mixture of "goofy" and "ogle", referring to crazily wandering eyes. It certainly entered popular culture with the Snuffy Smith/Barney Google cartoons, so Google (the company) can't claim coinage.
I spent most of that article wondering about the formatting - its one thing to be quirky and idiosyncratic but when it gets in the way of the message it might be time to tone it down a little.
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Fair enough about tracking down people who flee. Wouldn't that be some evidence towards a conviction though?

There's one thought that applies to smaller population. If someone disappears you can just stop worrying about them? Hiding from public and going to jail has close to the same net benefit for society. Just thinking.
TC only posted his name after Daniel made this post.

However, it was blatantly obvious since his about page disappeared http://www.techcrunch.com/author/danielbru/
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How can you tell? Did you work on it for a few months or you can just browse the SVN and notice it's well designed? I look and all I see at first is indentation style and directory organization.
I suspect that if someone were to do this and the content was crass - which it presumably is or they'd post it themselves - it would disappear.

Regardless, I think this behaviour should be actively discouraged by naming the parties involved as encouragement for them to either join the community in an honest fashion or alternatively to try their luck elsewhere.
Well, it doesn't have a JVM per se, its VM is the register based Dalvik, which requires a translation phase to convert compiled Java/whatever bytecode to it.
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Claiming an embargo is the same or even similar to cash-for-coverage is silly and immature. Is providing a press kit the same as paying for coverage? It makes the coverage cheaper for the reporter to provide, which has a monetary result.

Hating TechCrunch is certainly a popular opinion at times, and there are some reasonable stances to base that opinion on, but this is not one.
It's more to do with the fact that the intern is selling coverage for his own personal gain--Techcrunch the entity gets nothing.

I see nothing wrong with exclusives. This happens regularly in business not just in news. For Techcrunch, it's simply an optimization and they are likely to not sell their news space for otherwise non-newsworthy items anyway.
Python holds a strategic middle ground. It's far more productive, expressive and concise than the traditional procedural and OO languages. Although not as expressive and elegant as the new FP languages like Clojure and F#, the latter lack massive libraries and modules that have been written for Python. That makes them useless for any 'real' work.

Python is seeing some heavy use by the scientific community due to tools like NumPy, matplotlib, libsvm and what not. Good luck finding that range of independent libraries for a new FP language. I am not dropping Python in the near future, but I am watching.
I did the mistake of scrolling down to view the comments to that blog post, and sure enough, every single one of them are asking Facebook to change it back.

It's going to be as it'll always be: Four weeks of bitching and moaning, and after that everyone will have forgotten what it looked like before. You have to laugh about the predictability of it.
IMHO, ActiveRecord sucked the most ... form validations coupled to models, no lazy queries ... and after working with Django's models and Perl's DBIx::Class it was my biggest pain when trying Rails.

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Errr, it doesn't run a JVM, it runs the register based Dalvik VM, which is tuned for lower power consumption.

For those smart phones that do run a real JVM (as real as Java ME is right now...), the battery drain is I assume a debatable point.
From the explanation it looks like github isn't using '5 whys' when things go wrong. Has anyone tried this? Is it overkill or does it work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
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Is it "wastage"?

In the 50's, the marginal top income US tax rate was 90%, but the exemptions for dependents were very substantial.

However they weren't indexed for inflation so they became relatively trivial over time before Reagan got the Congress to index them. Perhaps a return to that tax policy is worth a try?
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Did you try cython/numpy/fileinput ?

just curious. Our team met perf problem in the past and each time, a rewritten code or even a rewritten module was all it took to get back on track.
The gist thing isn't a good solution at all. You're now dependent on github to be up to receive crash reports (...) both when they're generated and when you want to look at them.

Furthermore the user doesn't have an option to first look at the report before uploading it to the gist server. That's not very friendly.

If the only reason you use gist is because you don't know how to attach a file to an email message, I think you should just spend a bit more time on it.
For some reason, this "oh he's not an adult" line of thinking very much bothers me.

We should be looking at things like..how much experience does he have writing? with publicity and marketing? How many times has he admitted to doing something like this, and how many more people went up to Arrington and voiced their concerns about what he did? Where was the TC team while this was going on...or did he just not ask anyone for any advice and do it on his own, thinking that writing for TC would be a great leverage to get gear without anyone knowing?

Age does correspond with a degree of maturity, cynicism, experience and more, but this person so many people are jumping to defend because of his age of all things doesn't exactly have a lack of experience blogging for business, doing podcasts, organizing conferences and more. I remember seeing his sites about Apple and teens in tech years ago. Don't even know what was going through his head when he attempted to do this multiple times, and TC is far larger than anything he's ever done before, but he should have realized this was a really bad idea. Based on his experience. Not his age or lack thereof.

That being said, I think an outing on a site like TC is bound to hurt his reputation for a long time to come, and that's probably more punishment than he deserves.
No, I meant that the argument is legitimate in Chinese courts. It wouldn't be in Europe or in the US.
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Furthermore, gists are public. How long until someone reports a crash in /home/me/tmp/coretools-2.1.3/src/lesbians_and_horses?
The problem in France is that you CANNOT fire people without an excellent reason. It's just illegal. You may be forced to hire back the person or give a totally ridiculous amount of money.

There is however up to six months of probation during which you may let the person go for no real reason. It can unfortunately be a bit more complex than that and it's better to argument well when you fire even during the probation...

As for employment compensation, it's around 7% of what you pay to your employees. When fired people have one year of compensation from the public unemployment insurance.

I however think it's good that people don't end up with "nothing" when they lose their job, whatever the reason.

Our real problem however is not here I think, the real problem is that when I want my engineer to receive 78 €, I have to pay 178 € including all taxes. On these 78 €, the engineer will pay around 20% - 30 % of income tax (up to 50% if he really makes a lot of money) and we have a 20% VAT on just about everything.

fyi: I run my own company in France
I love how Nintendo were so open about their strategy, even before it became an obvious success, but the cognitive dissonance is so strong that even today many people (particularly the stereotypical "hardcore gamer") still actively refuse to understand it and will go to great lengths to explain away reality.
Here's a link to the now unreachable post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...
Maybe the scientists there are less ambitious than scientists elsewhere. I have read some good papers from MSR - I am interested in concurrency and how to express it more clearly in code - but MSR doesn't particularly stand out. They have a couple good scientists there doing fine research, but thinking of MSR as an organization that somewhat leads the way is somewhat of an exaggeration.
On Being the Right Size is in the same vein:

"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes."

http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
Very naïf question from a software-only guy:
given that such a chip exists, how is one supposed to USE this kind of thing?
Like, maybe plugging some kind of card on a PC? Or is it just interesting for hardware manifacturers?
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I don’t understand people declare the spam problem solved.

I have had false positives with every single spam filter I have tried. This is unacceptable when running a business, and if we manually have to double-check hundreds of spams each day, what is the point of the filter?

Additionally we spend hours each week working with users who do not receive our emails because of spam filters unknown to them (many believe the fault is ours).

It is 2010 and spam is still a major problem.
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Culture permeates an organization from the top. The guy probably just followed the tacit business practice, but was clumsy about it due to his age and inexperience.

I mean, Michael Arrington takes equity in return for publicity, this guy took a MacBook Air. What exactly is the difference?
Being a bad idea kind of reduces the value of whatever innovation led to it. When you find something obvious nobody tried before, you should get suspicious.

Don't get me wrong. I am an engineer and I frequently answer a "why?" with "because it's cool" or "because it could be done", but with years of experience come a strong sense of what's a good idea and what's not and what you describe looks like a very bad one. And not even a lot of fun to implement.
I was aware of that, but if they can include a seperate Flash VM, then they can include a seperate Java VM just as easily, if not more so.

It also raises my other often unaswered question about Android. At what point are they going to just use a standard JavaVM? The two main theories are A) that it was a licensing dodge because (like Adobe Flash did till recently) Sun gave Java away on the desktop and charged for mobile and set-top boxes, or B) it was necessary to get performance on low power hardware.

I didn't believe the latter reason at the time, and it's only getting less true as phones get better processors and people talk about putting it on tablets and netbooks. The former reason is apparently toast since Oracle has announced the merging of Java ME and SE which I'm guessing includes licensing terms.
I thought of Google when I read the article, when I got to the line about large animals being made possible by the development of the circulatory system.

It seems like there has to be a qualitative change to deal with scale. Moore's Law has multiplied computing power by a factor of roughly a million over 30 years. In most of the industry, that capacity has been eaten up by productivity enhancements. We have CPU cycles to burn, so we burn them in interpreted languages like Python and Ruby and IDEs like Eclipse, for some marginal increase in productivity.

Google chose to burn them by processing larger and larger data sets, instead. And there're certain emergent phenomena that occur as the data set gets bigger. Almost nothing in search or ads would work with the data available at desktop-scale.

The interesting thing is that by pushing on data size instead of productivity, Google's had to find other ways to scale productivity and the number of engineers in the organization. I've mentioned some of the public ones in a previous comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1101443); there're some others that I don't think I can talk about. But I find this whole notion of where you allocate resources fascinating. There's this conventional wisdom of always putting them into developer productivity, but Google's succeeded because they sometimes (judiciously) choose to move them into processing more data and find other ways to work around the productivity hit that entails.
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Actually, in the industry practically only review-specific gear is considered ethical (i.e., you are reviewing the product). Many publications even go to great pains to return products after reviews are completed, just for that extra measure of ethical cleanliness.
I like this a lot.

The other part of being 80 is forgiving yourself for the mistakes you did make :)
The page disappeared in a strange way: page title still states "Daniel Brusilovsky".
When you get new customers, tell them that you give discounts for the first job so they can see what a good job you do. On the invoice, put your real rate minus a discount. Then, the next time they ask for your services, charge the real rate.

To switch existing customers, just say that due to demand, you're raising your rates. However, for the next x hours of work, since they've been a loyal customer, you will continue at the existing rate. Then on your invoice, do as in the first paragraph! If it's a reasonable increase, I doubt many customers will drop you. And you may want to wait between projects to switch your rate, but the first x hours at the old rate still applies :-)

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If TechCrunch is involved, how could you possibly expect anything but a tabloid drama?
How is one supposed to report spam?
What he did was unacceptable.

Why should someone be bribed with free expensive products for writing a blog post?

He took advantage of the situation. It takes a lot of time and effort for hardworking people to make money and I don't see why a kid should be given a MacBook under unethical circumstances.
Heh. Political candidates here (Ukraine) also offer you 300 UAH (about $40) to vote for them. The elections are in a few days.
This is fantastic. My main gripe with C++ in non-system code is that there are too many features which complicate the code base and should never be used. This seems like great guidelines and a good subset.
Journalistic integrity? Are we talking about the same "publication"? The one that published stolen emails from Twitter after attempting to extort free advertising out of them?
Xbox overall is still at least $5 Billion away from being profitable, possibly twice that.

What does Microsoft need to do to get back it's Mojo? Split itself into multiple seperate companies that actually need to compete in the free market and that can no longer consider wasting Billions on faulty hardware, losing a format war and missing explosive market growth opportunities as "success".
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> because it has a different licence

In which manner does the GCC license restrict the user in a problematic way? (well, except GPL's distribution restrictions I suppose.)
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I hadn't read up on MongoDB. For those interested, here are some projects using it: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments
What are you using it for?
It's like those Halliburton contracts which apparently force you to give up your rights to complain if you're raped.

It's like .. right, does this happen often? What exactly inspired this clause's inclusion?
I don't really see how being young is an excuse. Wrong is wrong, and he was old enough to know it. And Arrington did try to shield him (to a very limited extent); what would you have him do, keep someone on staff who has been proven to be corrupt?
The "safety net" should NOT be generous or minimize the "cost of losing one's job"; it should do no more than assure that losing a job is not a catastrophe; it should not be made less than seriously uncomfortable.
Encryption of all email would make intermediary virus scanning impossible and spam scanning next to impossible.
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-google goggles - image recognition is what's required for many of the things you mention including robot maid, driving car (the darpa challenge used lidar, which is expensive - purely vision based would be much cheaper).

-the limiting factor to flying cars is actually air traffic control - which is still manually done, but could easily be automated (it's basically a giant constraint satisfaction/optimization problem)

-kiva robots (constraint satisfaction/optimization applied to mobile robots)

-heartland robotics - rodney brooks's startup, uses machine learning to control light robot arms so that heavy expensive limbs used in industrial robots aren't needed (robot arms for a few dollars in parts).
The very best way - and the simplest too - to up your rates is not to charge by the hour, but by the job and to work like the devil.
Unlike the US, Ukraine has a very high percentage of voters. In some regions it's well over 100%.
I can see both sides of this issue. My parents have no problem with the computers for basic uses. My mom needs help more than my dad but if you tell her once, then she is ok.

On the other hand, one time about 10 years ago, I used a friends computer to print out a flier that I had made for a nightclub promotion. The name of the file had a cuss word in it. I forgot that I had copied it to the desktop to print it and the parents freaked. They were only a little bit mad about the cuss word. They thought I had put a virus on their machine because I changed the Desktop. They threatened to call the cops and try to have me kicked out of college. I calmly went it over there, explained that it was only a picture, and right clicked and erased it.

Until that point, I never realized that some people didn't know that you could place files on the Desktop of a computer.
It depends on the reasons for the safety net--- one reason is a simple humanitarian one (don't want people homeless, etc.), for which the bare minimum suffices, but another reason is as an automatic business-cycle smoother, in which case you want reasonably generous unemployment benefits: http://www.nber.org/papers/w4750
The changes due to GPLv3 (non-discriminatory patent licence etc.) seem to be incompatible with the interests of BSD people [1] as well as perhaps Apple, who is the main sponsor.

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Right now, for me, it comes down to the libraries. I'm much happier in Ruby, but Ruby doesn't have nltk, scipy or boto.

Then again, Python doesn't have rake.
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You're ignoring that Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. It's not so much the crunch required (although non-Apple products have suffered here in comparison), it's the battery drain.
I was about to flag this but then I got to the link which explains what the incident actually was. I think it makes for relevant reading - both that such things happen, and for the way tech crunch handled it. It's an unsavory part of life, but this makes it more important to have such incidents as transparent as possible.
Publishing your stuff in an academic paper is not necessary for these purposes.
Judging from the comments, people leave Python to do toy projects in functional languages.

My guess is that after using functional languages in real projects, most of them will go back to Python.
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