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I ... guess you could call it that.

Really I just don't like to work. (For someone else, on something that isn't interesting.) I would like to believe that the hours I spend each day studying, playing music and exercising count as "equity", but I could just as easily see it leading to nothing career-wise. The funny part is, I'm happier than I have ever been!

BTW my 2009 AGI was $22k, and I live in the Bay Area. It's doable.
For anyone who saw that the fuzzy link in the article was broken:

http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/WriteThinkLearn.pdf (I think this is right)

and here is the wayback machine bookmarklet to make your life easier :)

http://www.gyford.com/misc/wayback.html
It's one thing to hack out of educational interest or as a "white hat" but this hacker's motive was just to make money. Therefore my vote would obviously be yes, he should be prosecuted. If what the hacker says in his chat log is true, and he has made money by redirecting major sites in the past then he definitely deserves it.
grogsearch.com is also available.

I'm with the other dissenters here. Groggle is an obvious play on Google. Get over it.
First EDS and now this. HP is just going after mega deals but no real innovation in their own R&D. As an ex-HP employee I can only imagine what all they could do had they invested same in R&D.
I personally appreciate the level of attention that IE has been getting lately, but we're still fighting with the old versions, waiting for them to drop off

You can't really fault Microsoft because IE6 has yet to drop off. To their credit, Microsoft has made large strides in getting users to upgrade, but as reported in the past a lot of corporate customers are unwilling to upgrade. I'm sure a lot of people on the IE team would like to see IE6 die as much as the rest of us.
Timeline of Facebook Privacy Policies from 2005 to 2010
Startup execs fully realize that their pitches and figures are incredibly optimistic (read: improbable). The prime recipients of such pitches - investors - are well versed in tuning them down and seeking the grain of truth within the hype.

Candidates, especially young or recent graduates, are not. If you, an exec, hone a pitch on a jaded 40-something VC manager with 20 years of industry experience, and then use it umodified on a 20-something candidate with 0-1 years of industry experience - you are not being truly fair and honest.

And yes, the candidate is likely to discover that a year later, feel cheated and abandon you. Tweet about him being a "flake" if that makes you feel good; the blame lies solely with you.
No offense intended, but I don't think reading a book can help you with a relationship. I am not saying that all the relationship coaches are fraudulent but I just prefer to stick to one advice given to me by who knows whom.

"Talk"

It seems in todays culture, especially the busy lives of people in USA, people tend to forget the importance of personal interaction. I know people stay "in contact" using things like facebook, twitter or some other social networking sites, but its just not the same (or I don't know how to use them). The personal presence give it the more human touch. When you are with someone you can hold there hands, smell there perfume, actually hear them laugh (totally different from "lol" or "ha ha ha"), get lost in their beautiful eyes, give them a high five or chase them around if you are feeling childish. I don't know how people tend to forget one of the basic human instincts i.e of interaction.

While on the other hand social networking sites are also a means to stay in touch. Tell them when you were thinking about them and couldn't reach them. Just tweet sweet nothing to them. Or update on your facebook wall telling everyone how lonely you are feeling away.

I do not hold a degree in social interactions, nor do I have a life time of experience in such things (I am just 19), but one thing I am sure of, talking is the best way to manage a relation ship. You can read volumes and volumes of self help guides but when and if you grow tired of it just take the hand of your wife, sit down on your bed and just talk....
Yes and no. Fusion-io removes the io bottleneck but ALTER TABLE is still single threaded. So you're looking at a CPU bottleneck where only 1 core can be used.

We just did a lot of ALTER TABLE work on one of our clusters WITH fusion-io drives (2 in a RAID-0) for a 360GB table and it still took ~8 hours to finish.
As luck would have it, I'm an advisor for RethinkDB. They're doing great work, but also aren't quite ready for prime time either. I'm very optimistic for their technology in an OLTP system, but this is not like an OLTP system at all.
It is clearly a combination of Grog, a very common name for alcohol, and Google. Not sure how much of a difference you need. It does sound quite similar too.

Not sure how this is all his work down the drain, surely he can come up with another name, and keep going?
Good point. I was thinking of limited in terms of what the government does for people, but I see that it was a terrible example.

I still like building codes, though :)
Give the guy a break. He (like the rest of us in web development) spends hours on end debugging obscure issues in IE, after we just spent hours making it work across Firefox and Webkit. Considering the size of Posterous, he's probably having to develop and test against IE6 daily. The Microsoft executive named in the comments (Jeff Henshaw) is likewise fielding this sort of flak daily.

I don't think it's fair to criticize a developer for venting frustration, but then give a Microsoft executive a pass when he blows out at him like that the same way in the comments of his blog.
That first comment is biting, and painfully true. Let's not forget that just because Microsoft has tons of money that doesn't mean that the programmers behind the scenes are infallible. Bing and IE were built by programmers just like you and I.
He is pleased, but he is not going to say so in the article, or there would be no reason to have the article in the first place. No doubt he will do everything you just said.
It's hard not to fault 'them' (the organization, Microsoft) because it was the years of inaction on the part of the executive that left IE6 as the foremost release for so long. It's not the fault of the current IE team and possibly the executives in the chain of command over the web clients, but it most certainly is the fault of the organization.
There are two different effects here.

One, as in the iPhone and all similar devices, is a scanning phenomenon caused by the fact that cheap or very small sensors are usually CCDs. Since such cameras do not actually have real shutters, the equivalent effect of a shutter is achieved by delaying the time that each line is exposed and read. Because cheap CCDs do not have multiple channels, the lines are read one at a time in sequence. The maximum speed that the lines may be read sequentially is the maximum "shutter speed" of the camera.

The other is the traditional curtain shutter of an SLR. Even a high-end CMOS multi-channel sensor will still see a slit of light on any speed upwards of 250, even though the data is not necessarily read a line at a time.

Thus, whereas the sensor in an SLR is exposed via a slit of light at higher shutter speeds, cheaper non-SLR cameras are always exposed one line at a time. Thus this effect is more likely to be seen on a camera phone than on an SLR.
I understand that you're trying to push your point, but I feel it's a bit pointless trying to defend someone who knowingly sold stolen goods for $5k. The finder did not contact Apple, the bar where it was found, or the original owner. I can't see how someone can justify themselves by attempting to "contact" Apple, then turning around and selling it to the highest media outlet buyer.
I just signed up, and the web site is remarkably slick. Anybody who's made web apps knows how hard it is to make something that just does what it's supposed to as well as this. I especially like the easy integration with GMail, Facebook, and so on.

The signup process is a bit long, but I'm not sure if that's a bad thing.

Edit: When I selected "Electrical & Computer Engineering" from the drop-down menu of departments, the ampersand got turned into "&amp;". I'm pretty sure this is a bug.
Is this an error that the average user will see while using the site normally, or is it a silent error that you will only see if you check your debugger? If it's in the latter category, it's only a bug in a fairly academic sense. If silent, meaningless JS errors are what it takes to make the site work across browsers, I would not consider that a failure of testing. To the contrary, it's efficient allocation of testing resources.
There is physical separation between availability zones, though I don't think it's been made clear what that separation entails on a brick-and-mortar level. Here's Amazon's description:
"Availability Zones are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be isolated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region."

I've always envisioned AZs in a given region as separate facilities on the same fiber loop.

Historically, we know that power and network outages have generally been isolated to a single AZ, supporting their claim of a high degree of isolation.

Here's the relevant page in the EC2 docs:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/in...
Ask HN: Maintaining useful business documentation
This question goes for lean business development folks, and patio11 : what is your method for maintaining business documentation?

Target of that product is myself, 2 months down the line; there is this landing page I put together while mentally holding a thousand insights in my head. I'm about to do multivariant testing, but will not recall what my assumptions were during the creation of the page. And I will learn new things, but later on will not recall, due to me having a very short-term memory.

Or there is this crazy idea I have, that has no relevance to the business as it stands right now; but I know for a fact that 3 months down the road will become very important.

So I guess this question has two parts:
What to document?
And: how to document to maximize recall?

Any helpful pointers would be appreciated
It may or may not be different data centers, I think they want to abstract that concern away from you. The purpose of an availability zone becomes more important from a billing perspective. Data transferred within a zone is free but if you go between zones you start incurring bandwidth charges.
Let me take a moment to rebut this.

"Stick with me and you'll get rich kid"
I've heard of CEOs who actually sat their employees down and showed them how rich they'd be based on what price the company is sold for. ("If we sell for a billion, I get a jet and you get a yacht.")

I've had someone tell me this before (read my iStoleYourStartup post) and I sort-of got the feeling from the beginning it was a sham. I played along because I wasn't losing anything as I was doing it on the side, but I knew this speak was shady from the start. Not looking twice at this is type of mentality and behavior is a failure on one's own part.

"I'll mentor you."
Most startup CEOs aren't ready to mentor anyone. They're still trying to figure things out for themselves. Even if they could, where would they find the time to mentor?

What type of history does this CEO have? Are they a serial entrepreneur? Have they made multiple exits or IPO'd other companies in the past? Are they mentoring you under the pure prospect of being a mentor? Again, this takes intuition and judgement.

"We'll change the world together, you'll see"
that's when changing the world gives way to "just increase page views!" and the job becomes more about the mechanics of SEO and link-baiting.

Every CEO of a distruptive start up will want to "change the world." Just because most of them are wrong doesn't make them liars or criminals. When the default to "increase page views," they simply don't have the experience to perform under pressure. This goes back to the second point about CEO career history.

To the point about why he is writing the article in the first place, saying employees are trained to behave that way is removing accountability from the employee who could very easily provide value on his own terms.

I don't believe there is any sort of "solution" as it in the end every developer is accountable for how much of their career they are responsible for. Ever heard the phrase, "its not the jobs you are given, but the jobs you take."

Every single developer in the world has the ability to make their own image, brand, expertise, and career. Real job hoppers know this - employers that don't provide their vision get left behind to ones that will cater to their own demands.

This article is attempting to protect any negative job hopper image with malfeasance on the part of the employer - but only re-enforcing the "employer"/"employee" relationship in the process.

I guess my entire point to this mini-rant is that job hoppers make their own careers, choose trust selectively, and provide value at a level that they can make their own terms.

Downshifting to accusing that the second party is intentionally misleading (even though this can and does happen sometimes - as it did to me), and avoiding taking accountability for one's own actions is delaying the learning process and avoiding change.

If you "hop jobs," let you be the reason why you are leaving, not someone or something else. Take responsibility for your own career, and only give people trust who have earned it.
That is standard practice in many industries. At some point, maybe not in 5 years but more like 7-10, you will bring your Toyota to the dealership and they'll explain that the part it needs is no longer available. Your options at that point include using aftermarket or salvaged parts, likely installed by an independent mechanic, or to get a new car. Life goes on

OK, how about a television analogy? Let's say you bought a television 5 years ago, and come to find out that all the local cable and satellite providers have started to only offer HDMI connections to connect your television to. Chances are your 5 year old television doesn't support HDMI which would force you to upgrade.

Beyond being frustrated that your TV is obsolete, you probably won't chose those cable or satellite providers again in the future.
Don't get me wrong, I do not support hackers, but I feel like TechCrunch's game-like approach to this is a little immature. Nothing but a publicity stunt.
"There was a sound like that of the gentle closing of a portal as big as the sky, the great door of heaven being closed softly."
They're also probably more than a little worried that a headline like "TechCrunch files charges against hacker" might alienate some of their audience, many of which are 'hackers', albeit in a very different sense. I think it's smart of them to ask their readers what they should do.
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This has to do with dissolved gasses which escape on opening changing the freezing point, not the inability of water to destroy an aluminum can. Freezing water fractures solid rock, creates pot holes in roads, and has no problem breaking a thin aluminum shell.
They're the ones who got hacked, and they're giving the guy a chance to avoid charges, all while having fun.

I understand your point, but I also get why TC's doing it.
Maybe we'll finally see a legitimate competitor for the iPad now. All of a sudden, the market just got a little interesting.
Hmm Windows 7 plus Chrome dev channel doesn't do too bad with a 1.8ghz core 2 duo and 2 gb of ram. As in I didn't see lag anywhere.

Settings on or off for the animation and holding down mouse/not.

http://imgur.com/ByE7I.png
Wow, just looked at his reports. They are pretty insane.
Thanks for the comments!

The context problem is a continual issue with translation - but most of the time our customers handle it by adding comments to jobs.

We do allow you to attach comments to the job call - so you can add context there and also links to related material if required. We're considering adding an option to attach files too.

You can also group jobs together if you want them to be handled by a single translator - this obviously takes longer but makes sense for all-in-one projects.
Why don't they just remove the 30 second limit on web request execution time? I'd rather use Ruby/EventMachine than a complicated separate setup using both Ruby and node.js running on separate Heroku stacks.
I think you just made a new story for techcrunch.
Eh, if you can't figure this poll out you probably aren't making more than 50k anyway.
This seems to me to be a rather daft policy for determining which files are sensitive and which aren't. To be sure, I don't know what the right way would be-- I'm guessing something based on paths would work a lot better-- but this solution clearly has serious problems.
So what was the CPU on that bottleneck, out of curiosity?

If single core is the problem, throw a massive clock rate at it?

The i5-680 is out this month and is 3.6ghz native ("turbo" near 4ghz) should do 5ghz with good air cooling (it's 32nm) and then you could use ECC memory to be certain in a mission-critical environment?
Interesting that because of the amount of people doing startups on HN the average income is probably actually quiet low. Whereas I'd imagine to earning potential of the HN community would be high if everyone got the jobs they could get if they didn't want to start their own venture.
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This is why bricks are not allowed to have bubbles, if some water gets stuck in those in rain and in winter if it freezes we get cracks
pie- the goal wasn't to provide multiple upgrade scenerios- just to relay my personal experiences. the upgrade plugin is a great place to start as well- I didn't notice it existed until after I had updated. we will most certainly be using it for refactoring existing apps...
MS Supports most things for 10 years. IE 6 came out in late 2001, so you've got about another year and a half before your argument makes sense.
Maybe they could've checked only for files coming out of C:\Windows, and some from the "Common Files" of "Program Files" or "Program files (x86)"

I came to appreciate Linux/Mac OSX/FreeBSD style of putting everything in place - /bin/ /usr/sbin/, etc.

With Windows it's just folders everywhere :)

For example the German version of Windows might have C:\Program Files named differently
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The problem is in canada that an engineering degree is ALL that's required to be an engineer but is also the ONLY thing that's required.

I work with a team building satellites, we have physics PhDs. But we aren't engineers, so we aren't recognised professionals = we have to be in the union, we can't be mangers - while the lowest 'engineer in training' with a pass grade in an engineering degree is an exempt employee that can be promoted to a 'professional' post.
Even a little data is really useful. I recently learned that my LDL and triglycerides are a little higher than optimal. When that happens, your doctor tells you something like "exercise more" or "don't pig out on carbs and saturated fats".

That's the kind of sound but vague advice that people are really good at doing exactly nothing with. But as luck would have it, I've been counting calories with a web app for the past six months. I went back and saw that on a typical day, 55% of my calories came from carbs, which is known to increase LDL and triglycerides levels.

Telling someone, "You know how DailyBurn says you're getting 55% of your calories from carbs? At the end of each day, I want that number at 33% instead" is so much more effective that it's a wonder people who don't have this data can manage at all.
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Is that a screenshot of IE7?
The short-term price motivation is a great point. I'll think about that some more.

But how does this scheme encourage front-running?
Different focuses. The iPhone's a mediocre PDA when looking at its calendaring and contact management facilities; my old Palm Pilot did a much better job. I haven't tried Android, but I don't imagine it being much better.

While we may see smartphones take over completely, with multimedia, web browsing, email, etc. I suspect we'll see different design choices made for different types of users. That'll provide space for several competitors.
Seems that a number of these alternatives are unfeasible (given current tech) since net energy figures are negative ie it takes more than 1 barrel of oil to produce a single barrel. Of course we're banking on technology solving these issues which it has done 'til now.
This was... lemme see. less /proc/cpuinfo

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz

So it was a pretty high-end Nehalem proc already. And, yeah, we do have ECC RAM in the box, of course. Plus InnoDB does page-level checksumming to guard against corruption too.

But still, it was ~8 hours or so. Using all 8 cores on the box would have brought it down to ~1 hour if it could have been perfectly parallelized (and much of it could have been, I bet).
I wouldn't mind a post explaining your lifestyle. I don't see how that's possible. Not saying it isn't true, I'm just curious.
pretty cool, wonder if it could be used in reverse -- eg to deduce something interesting about the user such as whether it is the finger of a child or an adult etc.
Hahah, same here, same here.

There was a comment earlier on this thread a while back about seeing "more squirrels than humans" in the suburbs... it then apologized for the exaggeration. For my entire life, I've lived in a place where that isn't an exaggeration, and my nearest friends (people who I know well who are not my immediate family) live 20 miles away.

Seems like just something a large part of our generation, especially parts of it that grew up in the suburbs, takes for granted.
If so, then what is the reference point against which the distortion is measured?
Do you seriously expect me to believe that the name Groggle had nothing to do with trying to be a play on Google?

You're so angry about this, my answer is no, I don't expect you to believe that. As a matter of fact, I think it's quite likely they said 'oh cool, that sounds very web 2.0, like google for Grog'.

Where we differ is that I don't think they're infringing. ____gle is such a common suffix in English that I don't think it's sufficiently unique for Google to claim ownership of it. I know, I know, it boggles the mind that I would try to wiggle out of a tight corner by juggling etymological components on behalf of such an obvious boondoggle as a website that makes it easier for people to haggle over the price of a drink.
I guess at some point mining our solar system will become technologically and economically feasible. Maybe waiting for and 'roping in' a passing Asteroid would also work - aren't those things chock full of useful elements?
pour...down the drain

I wonder if that was intentionial on the reporter's part :)
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Author says that 80% of accidents are caused by driver inattention.

But, this doesn't apply to him because he became "comfortable" with his route.

So now, he "hacks" it and records his thoughts while driving, listens to audiobooks, and talks to his friends on his cell phone.

Wonderful.
how do you set up the poll?
Don't forget the phase-out of analog TV and analog cell phones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition
I did and thanks for the comment - It's really great to hear people's success stories :-)
I think you're missing the distinction between design and fashion.