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Cons: I don't like the new status bar, and the bookmark manager appears to have disappeared.

Pros: I like the tabs on top, and random hiccups that were occurring on OSX appear to be down. Personas are fully working now with the title bar in OSX.

Note: I'm just taking a break from Firefox 3, but I'll probably be switching back for addon support such as a fully working copy of Firebug and Greasemonkey. I haven't spent enough time to notice speed increases, and I haven't tested it.

What are everyone else's thoughts?
>>2) Are you trying to build something that you have in mind?

Yes I am having something in my mind which i want to develop; that's why i though why not new technology.
Startup Quote: John Doerr, partner, KPCB
I thought you were :-)

BTW, I am trying to build Harmony from source right now on OS X, just to see if it runs OK...
No conflict, no interest.

- John Doerr (@johndoerr)

http://startupquote.com/post/1538709005
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... all in a determined effort to increase employee morale.
Commercial use:

http://www.gazehawk.com/

Some open source:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gazetrackinglib/
won't work with all codecs, but that same concept can be applied to a lot of areas!
My objection is aesthetics. It's subjective, a matter of taste.

I prefer languages that you don't have to get used to. They're obvious, like a good user interface is obvious. Anyone can read their code, even if they don't work in the language. Go could be a language like that, there are no technical roadblocks for doing that, just a matter of the audience's taste.
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There's a tacit assumption that the discrepancy in emphasis and word choice is based on gender stereotypes, completely ignoring the possibility that men actually tend to be more aggressive and women actually tend to be more communal.

The statement "Subtle gender discrimination continues to be rampant," is completely unsupported by the evidence.

If we accept the common claim that women are discouraged from being assertive and behaving in "male" ways, then wouldn't we expect to see an behavioral difference? If there is a behavioral difference, wouldn't we expect that to be reflected in letters of recommendation?

This is shoddy science (failure to control for confounding factors) and implies shoddy social policy (maybe we shouldn't use letters of recommendation). What makes it worse is that it ignores what would be actual useful questions like the study that asked people to describe a video taped baby's behavior with some told the baby was a boy and some told it was a girl.
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OCaml is getting that much money from quantitative finance firms &c. if you are curious. There are a not insignificant number of them that use OCaml, and it is the only time I have heard of OCaml being used.
Is Google using some subtle permutation on every version of the email sent out?

All it would take would be swapping "--" for "...", "ie"/"i.e."/"eg"/"e.g." You should probably compare your local copy of an email with someone else before leaking it!
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Or, you know, women might on average actually be more kind, communal and tactful hence why their recommendation include these terms...

Men might on average also be more ambitious and outspoken.

This could be attributed to research suggesting women value interpersonal relationships more than men and that men take greater risks than women (hence terms like outspoken, assertive and daring).
I was thinking of my situation when I mentioned this - working from home and having roommates is rough. It's too easy to have a girlfriend or roommate distract you in your ten minute break. My girlfriend assumes I am fair game if I come out of my office, even after repeated "i am at work" conversations. I think most people just don't understand working from hom and how difficult to stay on track it can be.
Here's what Google had to say about social networks and email exporting less than one year ago:

"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click."

The occasion was Google disabling exporting of contacts from Orkut to Facebook. I happen to think that both Google then, and Facebook now, are perfectly correct. However, I am curious how those who see Google as clearly in the right, and Facebook as clearly in the wrong, would reconcile Google's statement and actions of a year ago with its statements and actions of the last several days.

Edit: citation http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/orkut-slows-hemorraging-to-...
Google is going to fire Google for hiring the employee that leaked the firing of the employee who leaked the raises.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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Honestly, I'd fire an employee who leaks a memo out. Not for doing it. But for being stupid enough to get caught.
The original post on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754790
Ask HN: How to find a "Founder Friendly" rental apartment?
My friend recently finished graduate school in design, and was excited to move to Boston to finally start his own company. He had lived in Boston previously without issue, and had great references at his previous apartment, so he figured coming back to town would be cake.

What he found, however, was that the landlords he hoped to rent from were not thrilled at the idea of a tenant without a "real job". When landlords inevitably asked "what he did for a living" he quickly learned to answer "I'm a software designer" rather than "I'm an entrepreneur" (even though for me and for him, the two can certainly be one and the same).

In fact, even the rental brokers he used were wary of taking him on - they insisted that without an actual paystub or an offer of employment from somewhere, they wouldn't be able to refer him to any of their clients as "qualified". It was only when he showed the broker his bank statements - showing he had enough to support himself and his rent for a year, in cash - that they agreed to run the credit check and let him apply to rent.

I had nearly exactly the same experience when I first moved to DC, and people I've spoken to seem to agree this is a common problem. Luckily, I had a job offer I could display, but without one, I wouldn't have had any luck at any of the places I was looking.

So, my question for HN is - while you're founding a company, how do you find places to rent that are ok with you being an entrepreneur? Could you perhaps post any leads you have for apartments you like that are "Founder Friendly"?

I've set up a spreadsheet and Google form here: http://bit.ly/bMBOlW

I plan on taking the results of it and mapping it to make it useful (if you specify I can use your info in that manner) for everyone else too. I'll post this on HN in a few days.
I doubt there are 23,300 possible permutations. Moreover, I doubt a Googler wouldn't think of this classic before leaking his e-mail. Any other theory? Perhaps no one was fired and it's just link bait?
"Hey Bob, I'm thinking about leaking my email... can I diff it with yours?"

The other problem I can see is that there's only 5 or 6 of those points, which would be enough to narrow down the leaker, but not ID them outright. Probably easier (if more evil) to check all the outgoing mail in gmail.
Clickable: http://bit.ly/bMBOlW
It bugs me that, as a man, I feel like I can't say this (though I think it). Thank you for doing it!
I'm lucky...my mom had to recuse herself from the committee where they decided on whether to buy the software my company makes (for obvious reasons).
So was there really an ad smack in the middle of the email?
LiMobile: create iPhone applications on Linux (without Xcode and Mac OS X)
I share here the project and / or initiative dubbed LiMobile (Linux SDK for immobility). The main objective of this project is to provide the composition of the rapid development environment for mobile devices from Apple even for users with little knowledge in GNU / Linux platform. As its main focus is to prevent disorders package dependency and version mismatch.

in short, LiMobile believe to be the first image (appliance) GNU / Linux distribution based on openSUSE created with SuseStudio. Designed exclusively to provide freedom to develop applications for Apple devices (iPhone, iPad) without the need to get a Macbook, Mac OS X and Xcode. Agrardecimentos to special parties Erisvaldo Gadelha Scott Jackson by shortening my learning.
I heard from a Googler before the article came out that the leaker was fired. While one could imagine a second, as-yet unleaked email about the fake firing, isn't it much simpler just to assume that the leaker was fired?
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly ...
My last reverse engineering project consisted mostly of hours sitting at Chipotle with hex printouts and a highlighter. That was a file format though, not a protocol.
Most likely somebody just forwarded it to their favorite blog, especially if they didn't think the email was confidential. Pretty easy to track outgoing email.
Seattle, WA - Adobe Systems (http://www.adobe.com/)

I work with the Services Infrastructure team here at Adobe and we're looking for interns! Check out my post for the opening here -> http://blogs.adobe.com/charles/2010/11/wanted-computer-scien.... Hope to hear from you!
Didn't they just redo the AdSense interface? Maybe you can bid for ads on internal memos now.
well, it looks like the Boxee Box _should_ be supporting Netflix "by the end of the year" and they appear to be in talks about Hulu+.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/netflix-and-hulu-plus-com...
A credit rating agency predicted last week that we in the USA would lose "social cohesion" - like civil unrest in England going on right now because of huge tuition increases and general harsh government spending cutbacks.

I think that we in the USA should look to England, and what happens there predicts what will happen here (this is what Lord Rees Mogg said about 10 years ago).
> Each time you miss your training, you lose twice. One for being behind your schedule, and another for being behind your opponent.

This is a very interesting and motivating point. But I do not think it goes into the causal matrix.

It may be behind your schedule, behind your opponent, and behind the refrigerator. But you don't simply add everything that your training is behind.

Your training schedule prepares you for your opponent. Being behind your schedule is already equivalent to being behind your opponent.

That said, changing one's perspective can be very beneficial.
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For me, the silly covers are only part of the problem. The rest: (editor) Chris Anderson's hyperbole. The web is dead! Everything will be free!
> Berklee is like a library. Everything you need to know is here for the taking. It's the best possible environment for you to master your music. But nobody will teach you anything. You have to teach yourself.

Sounds exactly like a library, except (I presume) extremely expensive. I only went to college because I assumed (correctly) that at least a few great minds would be there. What's the upside to Berklee?
It's that pesky Sarbanes-Oxley I tell ya!
The nil-nil philosophy.
Assuming a worst case of two possibilities for each difference, that comes out as ceil(log_2(23300)) = 15 differences necessary. You could easily get that by swapping out words for synonyms (especially if you use more than two synonyms per difference).
But not before zipping back to HN to submit that comment. ;)
I think this is more a case of mistaken identity.

Where did Wired get all the journalistic cred that Cindy seems to be lamenting the loss of?

I've been a reader for years, and it's essentially Maxim for geeks.

Add to that Wired readers are overwhelming male - 75% according to their latest media kit:

http://www.condenastmediakit.com/wir/circulation.cfm

Conde Naste is in the business of making money with Wired, not journalism.

Or is that too cynical?
This is very different from software development, which involves a hugely broad diversity of skillsets—only one of which is programming—and the ability to have them all work together without clawing each other's eyes out. Project management, technical writing, graphic design, operations, support, quality assurance all must be cohesively brought to bear in order to claim leadership in software development.
"Internally at Google there are several teams that choose Go for building production software"
This is a good point. I'm a 42 year old software french fry cook (rock star code ninja I am most definitely not) but I'm happy, make money and get to spend time with my family. The downside is that I don't exercise my IQ as much as I'd like at work but to make up for it I study Chinese, read and work on personal projects.
So I'm on ProPublica's web team -- the organization mentioned in the first video -- and we deal with the types of messy data Refine is made for on a day to day basis.

We've been using it pretty much daily for about 5 months now and cleaning messy government data used to be time consuming and destructive, with google Refine it's so easy and fast to join, cleanup and do rudimentary analysis on said data.

It especially shines when you have to merge many disparate data sets into one. My colleague, Dan Nguyen, did just that for our Dollars for Doctors app:

http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

and he scraped the data from reports like this:

http://www.pfizer.com/responsibility/working_with_hcp/paymen...

(one company even put the disclosures up as a flash movie).

Of course we could write scripts, use grep/awk/sed or import it into a database, but Refine is really it. I encourage you to give it a try if you have questionable data you'll need to clean.
i doubt it's that complicated, they have full control of the mailservers, I bet the person just didn't think leaking the information was that big of a deal.
You can also use trailing spaces. I have done this on the past successfully
My sympathy on that conversation, but I think calling Wired a technology magazine might not be terribly true anymore. It is more a pop culture magazine that happens to show tech.
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I really want to see a journal of someone who tried this: what they asked for, what was surprisingly accepted and how rejections were issued.
Apture[1], you mean ?

[1]: http://www.apture.com/
Or maybe they announced that they dis it just to keep people from doing it in the future.

Not like someone is going to stand up and say that they weren't caught (or at least not till they leave their jobs.)
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An argumentative paper is one of the most interesting papers to write. Argumentative topics are usually controversial. If a good topic is selected and a convincing argument and counter arguments are provided, writing a paper of this type will be an easy task.
You can grab data from a web api, for example, geocoding:

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/Geocoding
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Telling the world that Googlers are all going to be walking around with $1000 cash in their pockets is a threat to their safety.

I think that's a weak argument. First, I doubt Google is literally going to give everyone cash. Second, a 10% pay increase is not a life-changing amount of money.
OEM, never retail since retail is always more expensive. Yep, same plastic egg cartons with a ton of packaging peanuts. Received 8 1 TB drives.
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Sony suffered a bit with the PS3 being used by Universities as cheap super computer clusters. I believe from memory PS3 had a very low attach rate (the number of games purchased per console). Though from Sony's view point they are also trying to move TVs and ensure the success of Bluray so perhaps they were happy with a low rate.
Ask HN: Help me with creating a business card and name.
I'm starting a small business and I need to create a business card and name for my business to hand out to people. The business is mainly an automotive parts distributor.

1. Where can I get business cards for cheap? Should I go to a physical store or do it online?
2. What are things I should consider when creating the business cards.
3. What are the things I should consider when choosing my business's name?

Any other tips would be highly appreciated, thanks HN!
C'mon... you state that google pays (or intended to pay) the extra bonus in cash (but not the regular salary).
Not off-topic, as the submitter appears to have already brought up Vitamin D, Numenta, and Jeff Hawkins (guy who invented Palm) earlier in this thread. ;)

Bonus points for the hilarious example video.
I'm pulling the shows from Oh My Rockness. If they recommend a show at those venues, they'll show up in the listings.

When I get some more time, I'll add all the venues in NY and personalize based on Facebook likes.
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He probably used his Gmail account ...
Yeah, this is really pretty pleasing to use. Good on the AirBnB guys.

It looks like the "Daily Deals" are exclusive to the app?
wait a sec... Is it really a 10% raise? "we're moving a portion of your bonus into your base salary"
Yes, for now :)
You'd need over 14 binary manipulation choices, but only about 9 if you had a choice of three. If you include word synonyms in the choices, with over 250 words in the memo, I don't think it's unreasonable.
I work remotely, and have done so since 2004. I've worked for and with distributed companies and people all over the place, including the US, Slovakia, Singapore, New Zealand, and closer to home here in Australia. Where I live is classified as a regional city (100k population) and is 1 hour flight from the nearest major city (Melbourne). Software development work locally is virtually non-existent, or pays WAY below what I can make working remote, so I chose this path over moving my family elsewhere.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that it IS out there, but remote work is probably the most hidden of hidden job markets - every single one of these roles/projects has come through word of mouth. As you've already pointed out, if you're in the US, you already have some things going in your favour, namely language, timezones, same culture, same currency and banking system, etc. The best advice I can give is start working your network - people you went to school with, mailing lists and IRC channels for technologies you use, etc.

If you want to ask me anything else about working remotely, feel free, I'll try and answer to the best of my ability.
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Combined with another HNer's comment that 3/4ths of Wired's readership is male...well, you're selling to male geeks. So putting Will Wright on the cover of Wired is like putting Jon Hamm on the cover of GQ.

(can't believe I made this comparison...)
Yes, the precautionary principle, Pascal's wager. I take it from this that you are a devout Catholic, or perhaps a fundamentalist Muslim?
But when it's actually leaked and posted, it'll most definitely be trimmed.
I think the thinking here is that hard drives are cheap and ubiquitous.

I have a whole drawer full of old hard drives, and though most people don't, I'm sure a lot of boxee's eventual user base does.

Given the amount of streaming content available, I can see why they didn't include it, I think if you're likely to want to have a hard drive inside this thing, you're the kind of person who'll have very little trouble finding one and plugging it in. The less savvy users won't notice it isn't there.

I realize I'm setting up a straw man problem here: a problem that'll only exist for people with the solution already, but I simply don't see a strong case for needing a hard drive. Do you need it to store video locally? If so, then they could never have included enough space, if you're only storing a few things temporarily, they you're likely able to buy a small thumb drive & store things there. Are there other reasons to have a hard drive that I'm missing?

EDIT: never mind about the flash drive: there's an SD Card reader on the front of the thing.
You might want to read the history of Wired magazine on Wikipedia. Early Wired was a much different beast than the Wired magazine of today.
Exactly. Those Cosmo covers play off insecurities and get women to spend money on advertised products.
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I'd love to hire that person.
I think it's telling that I knew subconsciously the instant I saw the 'communal' list that I would never, ever want a colleague or superior to describe me that way, while I'd be happy to have any of the 'agentic' list applied to me.
This is huge for me. I manage an inventory system for several government contractors and you'd be amazed at the thousands and thousands of inconsistencies you can find. Sometimes it takes days, and on one occasion, two weeks to completely sanitize them.

After a quick trial with this, I'm sold. This is truly amazing for people with similar jobs such as mine.
The bonus to base salary is an additional change. The 10% raise is discussed in the previous paragraph, and then the bonus change is in the next paragraph, starting with "There's more."
"a) they'll have that level of affluence and b) that sea levels aren't going to rise more quickly. I don't think either of these things are assured at this point."

Look again. Even the most pessimistic predictions shows that Lomborg is probably correct. Lomborg's significant body of research trumps your 'I don't think' unless you can show us some real evidence.
You say "couple percent of GDP" as if that's a trifling thing. Economic growth is typically only a few percent of GDP, so if you allot that elsewhere perhaps you cause an economic plateau or regression.

Anywho, the key point is that nobody has put as much effort into a thorough and serious analysis as is warranted.
I agree with you completely.

At the root level, though, even that isn't the real question. The real question is: given any particular measure which may impact AGW, what's the EV of that particular measure? For instance, building tons of nuclear power plants has an EV which is affected, but not necessarily dominated, by factors related to global warming. Likewise for measures targeted at reducing car usage.

It may be that the typical cap-and-trade or carbon tax schemes proposed to deal with global warming are -EV. That doesn't mean global warming shouldn't inform our decisions.