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Agile+UX
do you really think developers as engineers should only consider technical challenges per se? They have task - they find the solution for exactly this task?
"The multimaster replication will fail if two sites edit the same <redacted> at the same time, but that would never happen."
In the short run, there is a bit of tension between passion and "diligence", at least under some definitions of "diligence". This is because people with passion tend not to have the unconditional work ethic that is desirable in a grunt or subordinate, but counterproductive in a creative or a manager.

In the long run, some level of passion is required in order to maintain diligence. Not necessarily "work 80 hours per week because X will make me rich" passion, but a deep desire to do things well and correctly, and to learn the skills necessary in order to continue doing so.
This is out-of-date anyway:

http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Version_II_Mendel
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There's a Firefox addon as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442
"It has been nuzzling and shifting alongside the Mertz for about 18 years before this month's dislodging" - so we kinda should have seen this coming.
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/long-live-closed-source...
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ is a similar concept but they seem to have more ADS-B receivers in play, so there's better coverage of Europe (and also some of the rest of the world).
I work at an investment bank in NYC after working for a few startups in the internet and enterprise software space.

Maybe I got lucky with the group I ended up with, but I don't wear a suit to work (and actually like dressing "business casual") and technology certainly rules the day here (large distributed systems executing millions of orders a day with sub-millisecond latencies, etc).

Sure there's more bureaucracy but it's hardly "Office Space" and I'll trade that for 2-3 times the salary any day (with no cap... there are developers here making $500k/year)
What's even more interesting is how much of the image you can remove while still maintaining the illusion. Block out almost all the image except for squares A and B and just a VERY little bit of space around them. The two squares still look different colors.

The brain can mess with perception in pretty significant ways based on very little information.
How does that explain the circling?
Harry Broderick and his team already did this one, I know because I saw it on TV :)

[OK, that one will date several of us... but there was once a time when sci-fi on TV was so rare we would watch just about anything...]
This article is almost completely 100% opposite to my own experience raising money in NYC.

There's plenty of good angels here - largely entrepreneurs who have been successful with their own businesses. I talked to a number of them one-on-one and never paid to pitch.

There's plenty of good early-stage venture capital firms here - yes, fewer than Silicon Valley, but there's fewer startups to compete with.

Raising money from early-stage firms here was a relatively straightforward process. The deal terms were clean, and the valuation was adequate. (Trust me, you want clean terms and an adequate valuation over a high valuation under a ton of preferences anyway. Keeps your options open.)

Recruiting was also easy - I largely hired people I'd worked with before at other startups, or who came recommended to me by people I'd worked with before at other startups.

The differentiating factor, I suspect - because personally, I'm nothing particularly special - is that I worked at a few startups in NYC and got to know people over a few years before founding my company. (Like Chris Dixon wrote a while back, there's a time to learn and a time to earn.) I suspect this is largely true for Silicon Valley as well.
How does that work though? Can't the points where that check is called just be hex-edited to NOOP in the binary? The point of the article was that taking non-trivial portions of the game logic out of the game and pushing them to the server makes it harder to crack the system. Unless the game is constantly getting information from Ubisoft's servers that it needs to function (i.e. save-game logic, AI logic, etc), then the "verify with the server" code can just be ignored in a hacked binary.
Your reply isn't actually to what I said, but I'll respond to you:

The video is not the harm; the original taunting is. If it's a manner of protecting a minor, we can talk about pulling the video down.

If the kids were selling the video and making money off it, we can talk about prosecuting them.
Sorry if I offended anyone, but that was not my intent.

My usage of "Italians" was just a common English shortening of "Italian authorities" to "Italians" based on the context.

By "Italians" I did not mean Italian people, but just the Italian authorities, that too specifically the ones involved in this case.
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ADS-B data isn't linked to the transponder code - each plane has a serial number assigned by the ICAO. So this is the simply one plane flying several different routes.
As a question, that would be a correct paraphrase of what I just asked.
Hmm. Using iPython ot bpython causes the modules to be 200+ from the start.
Though it's sad that the 'extremely complex and irregular' part is probably not by design, but due to haphazardly adding features just to push out a product.
5% is still pretty good. The fact is most people offer .1% -> 1%, which is practically worthless after dilution.
Django implementation: http://github.com/rickross/osqa/

Rails/MongoMapper implementation: http://gitorious.org/shapado
It's been a while since I've worked with conditional probabilities, but isn't he missing the case in which the headache is caused by both a cold and a tumor?
I've worked at a place where "passion" meant "ignore everything and only care about coding". It also meant "work more hours, just because".

It was a software startup run by someone with a management consulting background (won't make that mistake again), and since the founder/CEO didn't know how to filter good programmers, he just sought "passion" and "fire in the belly" thinking that would make great developers.
Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed
Wow - how does this work? Does anyone know or have a link to a place that might explain this?
Not exactly a law, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

If your laptop battery suddenly started dropping towards zero charge when it was plugged in, you wouldn't be at all concerned? What if you needed it at full charge to take it somewhere?
Not sure, but at first glance it seems to evoke results like "undefined" or "NaN", and cast them to a String. The trickier part might be creating the index into the String.
There could be some truth in your hypochondria comparison. Climate concerns developed as good global climate data became available in the 70's and 80's and the range of the data variability became known. It is possible that the fear around observed climate variability comes from the the unclear picture of what is a 'habitable' range of variability. Exactly what the 'habitable' range is seems to be determined mostly be political associations not data.

Also, the article mentions that not all "experts" are concerned,

"Some experts are concerned about the effect of the massive displacement of ice on the ice-free water next to the glacier, which is important for ocean currents, while others are less concerned.

Experts say this type of iceberg calving happens from time to time and these are not record large icebergs."

Finally, the atmosphere-ocean-biosphere system has never been in 'equilibria'. It is a highly nonlinear, nonstationary system whose dynamic are just beginning to be understood.
Yes, but you need a way to tell it whether you don't want to use the battery in a long time (so 50% charge is good), or whether you want to get up and go on the road soon --- where 100% charging is nice.
If for some reason you need a theme song: http://blog.purepistos.net/index.php/2009/03/18/debussy-reve... :)
From the apple website article linked in the posting:
"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her MacBook Pro on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing."
There is more than one way to skin a cat. (There is more than one way to be motivated about work.) Why do some assume their way is the best way, or only way? It works for you; great, thanks for sharing. Now don't diss other peoples' motivating factors.
Congratulations. :)
Be careful! People are not always reasonable about security testing, and if they're in the middle of an active investigation about a compromise, you can get slurped up into it by poking at them. That's a time suck and a hassle you do not want.
Cowsay recursion
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Entrepreneurs have no rules
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This isn't really an accurate description of what's happening in a parameterized query. In most cases, parameterized queries have already been parsed by the time inputs are interpolated into them; if you look at the protocol on the wire, you can see the difference between query structure and slots.

SQL Injection vulnerabilities happen when inputs influence the parsing of the query. You can't do that when the database already has an AST for the query.

Parameterized queries are not just a different kind of quoting.
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There are people working on it... whether or not they will succeed, I can't say, but considering that fake WoW servers exist, I'm guessing they'll pull it off eventually.
Zürich is a nice city, so you should not have too many problems finding nice outdoor space over there.
"Working with that library will take too long, we can do this faster if we just write it ourselves"
A good point. My gut tells me these people haven't truly gotten it yet. It doesn't take much to go, "hmm, i wonder if any other part of my application might be vulnerable" and these people certainly haven't done that.
Yeah, but since that probability of that happening is the product of the two probabilities, it's probably not a big deal. If the two probabilities were each 75%, then you'd be in trouble.
"'In a quarter century, when the digital revolution has made great progress and computer chips are millions of times faster than they are now, humanity will finally win the prize of being able to write a new encyclopedia and a new version of UNIX!' It would have sounded utterly pathetic."

No, pathetic is sitting on your own ass, reducing the last 25 years to Wikipedia and Linux while dismissing even those, and implicitly demanding that everyone produce something for you that's cooler.

You want something cooler because nobody's even really trying? Make it.
it is basically various ways of making javascript return things like "NaN", "undefined", or "false", and then using a numbered index to return a particular character of that word after it is converted to a string.

so "NaN"[1] would be "a". "false"[0] would be "f".

since they are trying to do it without numbers, they can create them using things like "++[[]][+[]]" which returns a 1. by adding up different numbers you can get the digits you need.
Could the circling be due to waiting for landing due to a lot of congestion at the airport? I'm not a pilot so I'm curious how that's normally handled.
But output normalization will not prevent SQL Injection attacks, so I'm pretty unclear on what you're trying to say.

I think you're trying to say that content neutralization (turning ' into &quot;, for instance) stops SQLI. It might or it might not, depending on the vector (tablespace injection doesn't care about metacharacters, for instance). It's at least more accurate than saying "if you make sure that the web app doesn't spit out [!@#$%^&*(){}:"<>?] you're safe".
So are you saying that the temperature up until now should not have been going up since we're not out of ice?

[edit] And my second question would be this. If all of this is so simple that it can be demonstrated with a glass of water and a few ice cubes, why is it that a minority of serious scientists has doubts? The same scientists would probably confirm that your experiment is correct.
The trouble with applying Bayesianism in science is that your conclusion becomes dependent on what priors you think are reasonable. If different people disagree about that, then it becomes a debate about beliefs, not science. (Unless the priors can actually be determined, of course.)

This seems to largely be the case in climate issues, where it's clear that some people have such strong priors against anthropogenic climate change that the evidence needed to convince them outstrip what science reasonably can provide.
Mostly in serving there programmer overlords?
"We don't have time to do automation / refactoring / code reviews now. Just make it work and leave it for later."
You'd have to be crazy to live in Crown Heights for 2K a month.

I think on of the biggest problems is looking for a reasonable place to live in NYC is a total beat down. It takes time, and diligence and you can become disillusioned very, very quickly. You can also get screwed if you are new and don't know the various neighborhood profiles. And brokers... I don't even want to get started on brokers.

I live in a 1BR in Brooklyn (Carroll Gardens), but I work remotely for a startup. I still live here because it's easily on the short list for best city in the world. If I had to take a hit in salary to work at a local startup, I'd probably look at Sunset Park or Bay Ridge. Living in the boonies (by Manhattan standards, they are perfectly nice neighborhoods) is a trade off you have to make to interact with such a great city on a budget.
You are not piling on, you are making an incredibly important point. Are Olympic athletes passionate about their sports? To the exclusion of practice, training, and hard work? Come on.
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I think it would be better to just remove the people altogether. Taking photographs in pairs (and possibly using a small radar gun as well) makes it pretty easy to derive 3d, and Google Earth etc. is steadily getting more 3d of ordinary buildings. Texture mapping the street view photographs onto the 3d models of houses is surely not far behind, and 'editing out' people and cars automatically becomes practical.

Yes, this does need a huge amount of computing power. And some of that task can be farmed out. Imagine that when someone uses a Nexus One with their 'goggles' app, the phone does some primitive analysis of the scene as data comes in from the camera, then uploads the results to Google Earth's servers, allowing them to refine their models.

But I've always believed that Google were playing the long, long game with Google Earth. I can see it being a platform for everything from 3d games to real-time analysis of census or business data.
Boston occupies a strange place in my heart. I grew up in and around Boston, but am now a New Yorker, and I don't think I could ever move back. There are definitely worse places to live, but Boston has always felt more like a really big small town than a city to me, and the amount of close-mindedness and racism I've found in Boston has always been surprising to me. I just often don't feel comfortable in Boston.

While Manhattan might feel crammed, it's part of the appeal for us. Everything is always open, everything you need is within a couple blocks, you can get anywhere anytime in the city via 24 hour public transit. You walk down the street and hear tons of different languages constantly. The diversity in ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, and experiences is mind-blowing. It's one of the world's cultural centers. Art and music is everywhere all the time. We have enormous, beautiful parks all over the place, Central Park only being one of them. Gorgeous brownstone neighborhoods with tree lined blocks. Old factory neighborhoods repurposed into everything imaginable.

Is there trash on the ground? Yes, everywhere. That fades from your perception into the landscape within weeks of living here.

Maybe Brooklyn would be more your thing (it is for me) -- it's more laid back here and less crowded, but gives you easy access to all the amazing parts of being in NYC.

'No beauty' really is hard for me to swallow -- I look around me here all the time and am always amazed at how beautiful and diverse this city is.
Did you know having read a patent could increase the damages if you are later found to infringe it?

Most bad patents die in obscurity, never enforced, never discussed -- which is as it should be.

The best thing to do if you hear informally about a dubious patent is to ignore it -- don't promote it, don't mock it, and for god's sake don't study it.

Of course, if your professional patent counsel tells you otherwise, for example after you are specifically alleged to infringe by someone with the power to prosecute, that's different. In the meantime, amateur patent kibbitzing only helps the trolls.
Micro-ear could help scientists hear micro-organisms
Wow, raffi. That's really neat stuff. I'll have to check it out.

Have you seen a new product called http://scribeseo.com

You could perhaps get a bundle deal going with those guys? However, the trick would be balancing seo and writing for the reader.

Anyways, great stuff. Thanks a lot.
Escaping will get you killed. Do you know what %u2032 means? +ACc-? %ef%bd%b1? Parameterize the query.
"I read about this cool new language in beta...."
There is a huge "maybe" attached to that statement. It's also possible that several of the popular NoSQL databases could have key patterns that will corrupt memory in their C-code runtimes. There are good reasons to consider NoSQL databases, but security isn't one of them yet.
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It's the people that don't get it that you have to worry about, because they're just going to let their lawyers do the judging.
Yeah. He should have titled it "I'm the man"
precisely, the only people stuff like this hurts are the legit users who pay the money.

The hackers will rewrite the whole game if they have to, to make it free. It might take a little longer for them to release it...but can you honestly name a single game that hasn't been cracked?
That's awesome. I hadn't heard about it before.
As we learn more about the ramifications of climate change I think it would be irrational not to worry. I live in a civilized country with modern building standards and easy access to food and clean water so I'm not too concerned about myself. I'm very concerned about the many millions of people who don't have that luxury. If you're already on the razor's edge increased flooding or increased drought could be the difference between life and death. We also have to consider the political ramifications of mass migrations due to people fleeing floods, mudslides, drought, changing animal/insect populations and their impact on agriculture, etc. I think you're right that it's not really anything new, weather patterns have always been subject to change, but we have more humans on the planet contending for ever more scarce resources today.
Remember that parameterized queries aren't a panacea. There are plenty of things that don't parameterize well, such as table names, sort orders, and limits.
Google's openness goes much further than glass walls. For example, you'll rarely find a person in a private office. Even Page and Brin share an office.

In other words, Google does not believe in privacy.
Making strings out of nothing is hard, but how did they managed to execute that string out of nothing?
Hey, Look She’s Naked But It’s Art, So It’s All Right.
...and make it secure.
I'm tempted to suggest that the aircraft was put into a holding pattern, likely due to foul weather at the destination, and eventually forced to reroute.
Avoiding broker fees is a bit easier said than done IMO. I suppose it's much easier if you already live in the city. But if you're moving to NYC and only have a limited time to find an apartment, it's hard to avoid.
Agreed, I've never been able to get into Tower Defense games but I (and my 3 year old, to the chagrin of my wife) have really enjoyed playing this one.
I remember talking to a friend of mine back when the prius was the only hybrid out there. He said he cared about the environment and wanted to drive a hybrid but he couldn't bring himself to buy one because he didn't want people thinking he was one of "those people"

Given the heavy Android concentration in the mid-west I wonder if it has to do with the same phenomenon and that people are rejecting the iPhone because it's seen as fashionable.

(Then again it could just be AT&T's sy 3G coverage there)
The folks at the Verizon store the other day were telling me that it's best to let a phone battery run to near-depletion before replenishing, because they only have a finite number of depletion-replenishment cycles, and running the battery to, say 50% capacity then replenishing uses up one of these cycles.

I have no idea whether or not this is true.
I just use Opera's built-in accessibility mode.
Readability + Print to PDF + email to kindle = awesome
I guess we have different definitions of "pain in the ass".

In Brooklyn you can find places to live along the N that are 3 or 4 stops to Union Square.

And yeah, Brooklyn Heights is nice, but other than the promenade and some large apartment buildings, there is nothing there that set it apart from Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens/Park Slope/etc (although those places are expensive in their own right, but nothing like the city).
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> "In 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor market."

what is the outcome of this? does that mean the majority will be provided for free of cost?
I said git local operations are way faster, google them.
The RepRap (and indeed the whole concept of 3D printers) is awesome and exciting and I think has the potential to make a huge difference to the world.

However, they really need to stop describing it as "self-replicating". It's only self replicating if you ignore most of the parts and the assembly which is to say it's not at all self replicating in any way. Yes, it's cool that it can make some of the parts in itself (those that happen to be small and made of plastic) but when you describe it as "self-replicating" you set up unrealistic ideas of what it actually is. Sell it on its on merits, not on inflated claims!
I don't want to go off-topic but:

"Defining "reasonable rent" as 30% of after-tax income (which is about the point at which governments should limit rent levels, IMO)"

How on earth would that work?
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"I live in fort greene and I pay 735 a month -- for validation purposes."

With roomates or 1BR/Studio?
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Syed - Are you A/B testing the three big bullet points at the top of the page? I read all three, and said "I'm pretty satisfied with what I use today, maybe, no." I probably would have left the page then under any other circumstances (update: "any other circumstances" meaning had I not found this link through HN posted by the founder of the company).

Also, the 'free for bootstrapped startups' section is below the fold on my 1680x1050px screen. Plus, the text in that section (once I found it) doesn't give me a lot of confidence in your longevity (don't get me wrong, I'm bootstrapped, too. It's just a psychological hurdle other users of yours will need to overcome).