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That exact same thing happened to me, except that I was using a smaller error rate, and a Hamming(7,4) code for error correction.

After the ordeal was over, I looked at the code that the other guys had been writing. They hadn't started on the error detection and correction -- I'd heard much wailing and gnashing of teeth earlier about how mathematical it was -- and their code (all in one big main function, with no indentation) wouldn't compile. I watched as they spent about an hour randomly permuting it, to no avail.

I'm not sneering at these guys. I'm baffled by them.
"So I'll freely admit I work stupidly long hours- I live on Redbull, and get off on making things that I can look back at, and say "Yeah, I'm proud of that."
My primary job is in IT, but I'll jump in on and spend two hours creating user stories or writing marketing copy. There's been times that I added code which is still in production years later."

Are you expecting your employee to go through those same sacrifices while at the same time only getting a paycheck?
Many people have a misconception about this. An intern is a hired position (albeit temporary), and working for free is simply volunteering. There are unpaid interns, but there are probably more misconceptions about that. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?_r=...
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The question is not whether all is well, or help is needed. The question is whether or not the help that we could provide would be a net benefit, or an overall drag on the existing disaster relief system.

Help volunteering isn't free (even ignoring the cost). It requires coordination and organization of where and how to allocate resources, which must be inserted into the existing plans. It diverting supplies that could go to displaced people in order to sustain the volunteers trying to help them. In many cases, it requires training, which takes away time from the people with skills that can be immediately applied.

Patio11's contention, which I have no expert opinion about but I'm willing to take him at face-value, is that the overhead required to extract value from a volunteer off the streets is greater than the value extracted. The Japanese need more help, but people who might be interested in volunteering are ill-suited to give help. A further point implied in the title but not the article is that the military could give humanitarian aide; I would be willing to believe this, as they have their own coordination, supply, and training already in place and would therefore not be a drag on Japan's relief resources.
SO is the exception that proves the rule.

Also, another thing. Linux/BSD push the bar way high up and force Windows to try and catch up. So even if you use windows, you're still affected by Linux. In the same way that you're affected (positively) by Apple even if you use Ubuntu.
If I may add to this...

Step 1: Create a landing page using Unbounce, you do not need to know how to code in order to do this. Describe your idea and begin promoting the landing page to collect email addresses of interested people. This will work best for "low touch sales" ideas.

If your idea needs a more intensive sales approach, try and get a letter of intent (non-binding agreement to purchase the software when ready) from potential customers.

Step 2: Once you have an idea of how much interest there is, you would then be able to approach potential tech co-founders with a more substantial proposal - "looking for a co-founder for a startup with X interested users, offering Y%" might be more attractive than "I have a great idea, can you build it for me".
Woah, hey. I wasn't trolling at all. I was suggesting the guy will be WAY too busy for me to ask for anything.
If you're talking about keeping production lines going - this isn't really part of what no-IP would do. Someone would still need to operate and maintain production and distribution - however the competition to do this would drive costs down dramatically.

Also, high margins and no competitive pressure make research and dev methods stagnant - no IP + public research funding and FDA subsidies seems like a more effective system to me.
Why are you people advocating for nuclear power so much? Solar and wind power should be the future, and they're renewable. Don't you think that's a much better future? Sure they might not be very effective now, but a couple of decades down the road with some big investments (like in nuclear plants) it should be orders of magnitude more effective than it is now.

Of course, a country like USA will never back down from using nuclear plants because they need their byproducts to make nukes.
Nice read. I've never read any Chomsky. He mentions inventions related to industries (textiles, steel and pharmaceutical...) and sciences. I'd be curious to read more from him about IP applied to art. Any idea where to look at?
.... both are not unique to the individual that created them. They both would have been come up with by other people.
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The operating system is just one component. People had lives and did things before there were operating systems of any kind.

Edit: For example, could you write CAD software without an OS as we know it today? It would be undoubtedly harder, but you could. People did this in the 60s.
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I apologize if this comment makes HN readers uncomfortable, but this article is just another one of those trite "There is discrimination in [field X]" articles with the whole basis of argument on anecdotal evidence. I don't profess to know any better, but are there empirical evidence (Say, experiments with the same resumes with male/female names sent around)?

Perhaps I'm the only one who cares about data integrity, but making a conclusion from small observations is pretty flawed at best. Decisions should be data-driven.
They think they'll get paid more because of IP that'll give them a monopoly if they hit the lock-in jackpot and one or two of the many competitors does get paid in that way, while the others fail. Remove the IP and you remove the lottery-style incentive structure and then you'll see investment in the smaller, but still commercially relevant returns available from building on open systems. (This is similar to massive investment in minor, but patentable, changes to existing drugs rather than investment in novel, but less profitable drugs).
Maybe I just seem to never have Dropbox issues!

Well the only issue I have is that they don't offer more than 100gb without paying for their Teams plan which is way expensive for a single person. -:)
If there is enough interest in CashFlow, I will make it easy to run multiple what-if scenarios (premium/paid feature). I do it all the time myself but it takes a bit of manual labor. I think it would be cool if you could just drag-drop-slide numbers and see real-time charts. Having an optimistic, realistic, and conservative view would be good too.

There's not much I think needs to be done for E2V. It's pretty simple and does what I need easily. It already supports multiple users/emails/phones under a single account.

For Text, I want to improve sharing. Right now it's just a read-only share of a specific note + subnotes but maybe I can make multi-user editing (kinda like Etherpad). The history feature works well but I want to make it as easy as using undo. Maybe an option to have more than 10 notes. Right now you can drag the notes left-right to organize them but some people have asked for the ability to archive old notes. There is no 'check off' button or log of completed tasks either. I've never need to go back to check anything but some users have asked for it.
"Ricky and I met Mark at Startup School in October 2009 (I guess we have to begrudgingly thank Berkeley for at least that much)"

Hehe. As a bear I say Grrr... =D
I think we should also measure an average number of deaths caused by a single incident and the average number of deaths among strangers caused by a single incident. The incidents at nuclear plants are rare, but the consequences can be much more dangerous than from the other energy sources.
In most languages, it is not guaranteed to do the same thing; the multiplication may overflow.
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sounds like someone needs to make an app for kids that just lets them hit buttons
I did something like this recently. I got to enter my own secret question and set it to "What's the usual?" meaning my usual password. Note, that this wasn't the password I was using for the site.

Fast forward a few months, and I call the site's billing department. The decide to verify my account by asking me my secret question. Queue the CS rep on the other end being extremely confused when I successfully name out a long string of characters that he thought was just corrupt data.
Who would want to "fix" the pop-up problem by making the images load less quickly by going through a proxy? Also, this would affect performance for all users with every browser, not just IE (Chrome doesn't have those annoying pop-ups, instead it shows a warning in the URL bar).

In my opinion, this is finding a solution to a non-existing problem. I'm pretty sure users can deactivate that pop-up anyway so it's not the website's problem. They could always serve the images in https on their own server.
Would love to chat with you guys to see how you are handling the email process for those reports + other notification/transactional mails.

Product Manager for PostageApp, so you can imagine why I would want to chat about it. :)
The worst part about telling someone your new idea is "It's been done already". Anytime someone says that you know to just stop talking to them and walk away. Burger place? It's been done already! Tech blog? Been done already! I have seen more startups using existing ideas become successful than original ideas.
Anyone know what that card means or why it says "20 min."? If these cards are just repeating common suggestions for dealing with and overcoming addiction, there's something distasteful IMO about charging for the downloadable version...
The first three paragraphs are irrelevant fluff that have the opposite effect on me. We use one six thousandth of all the energy the sun currently radiates to earth? That's a lot more than I thought, and it's obvious that we'll never be able to depend solely on solar energy.

I don't agree with the author who uses this as the "obvious" cause for the investments seen in solar energy.

The main content of the article is interesting though. I didn't know prices fell that fast for solar power.
Erm, how long has Android been around again? It's hardly a rev1 product, and the iPad was "rev 1" under this definition and doesn't have the same trouble, and had half the processing power.

I'm an iOS developer and an Android developer, and I'm honestly disgusted by the level of excuses that is made for the horrible UX on Android. It reminds me of 10 years ago, when the meme on /. was "The Year Of Desktop Linux is always Next Year(TM)".
I also enjoyed your two hours of work, and noted the Elliott Smith influences. Keep it up.
Go is mainly meant to be used for systems development not application development. It's audience is developers who currently use C/C++ rather than mobile developers coding in Java.
We might as well just drop the whole idea of HTML, JS and CSS and just use 3rd party plugins to replace the whole thing. That totally makes sense. Innovation is for idiots.
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You draw the line where it works best, because it works best.

The goal isn't some nebulous definition of "freedom", where "freedom" is defined as "adherence to conservative orthodoxy regardless of the particulars".

The goal is something that works well.
Now that's a 404 screen
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Hm, did you check that each loop worked with its own loop variable? If not, how do you _know_ it does what you think it does?

If you code like this, you will have to be paranoid with each line you read. That is what makes such code bad, even if it does what it appears to do at first sight.
apply to companies that don't use recruiters :)
Something like this might be good for a smaller business with machines on-site. You could replace a rack of beefy heat generating boxes with a few of these and save on power+AC bills.

From a data center perspective, I think it has some merit too. If they produce the machines in small little blade-type servers that you can just plug into a box, wouldn't that simplify maintenance? And for availability, if a box dies, it doesn't take down 20 different vms with it.
Wait until you encounter some service like Yahoo Mail who absolutely refuse to change your password unless you remember the junk answers to the security questions. Even if I provided an alternate email contact, the security questions needed to be answered.

I stopped using them then.
I'm not sure how this fits into the discussion, but what you're saying can be used as an argument against IP.

Since people lived just fine before technology, we don't need technology all that much, therefore we don't need IP.
Nah, just got my communications(!) degree and moved up to NYC :)
That's between the companies and investors. Likely ~1% but don't hold me to that.
Well, I agree with you on some points completely. Though.the ipad was not rev 1 -- which version of iOS did the iPad run?

While honeycomb is android 3 -- it is a total rebuild.

However, to your point - the UX should be first in ALL of the android space's mind -- ESPECIALLY given that they dont have the design (UX/UI) powerhouse behind them that is Apple.
If Qato is going to copy someone's design, can't they find something better than Quora?

I mean, Quora's design isn't going to win them any awards; it looks like Quora didn't even use Photoshop, just straight-up CSS.
Could someone with Mongo experience help me gut-check this?

I want my data store to be durable and unsurprising -- barring a hardware failure or such, if I submit data it should either tell me that it failed to commit or it should be stored durably and without surprises (e.g., it should not truncate a long string to fit).

I've read some of the Mongo docco, and it's pretty exciting, but the lack of ACID -- primarily the Durability -- has kept me from really using it.

With a WAL journal, it sounds like maybe the durability issue is fixed. Is it? Could I use Mongo with relatively out-of-the-box settings plus --journal and count on a level of durability equivalent to a traditional RDBMS?
There are a ton of "smaller but commercially relevant" companies that sell closed software products too, and would not be able to do so, or would be hampered, without some form of intellectual property.

I'm a bit at a loss as to how many people on a site dedicated, in part, to startups, which for most of us are based on information goods (software) would blithely throw out the baby with the bathwater in terms of IP. Take a good, hard look at the current system and fix major portions of it? Sure. Eliminate it entirely? Probably a bad idea.
"I know of a few businesses that build these internships into their model as a way of keeping costs down."

According to those regulations posted we see that a business can't legally have an unpaid intern to keep costs down. The pros for an unpaid intern would be; 'Intern gets experience,' and 'business has potential future employee.' Whereas the pros for a paid intern would be; 'Intern gets experience plus compensation,' and 'business gets profitable labor, and has potential future employee.'
I don't know what the secret is, because "smartness" is vague enough that it's not objectively measurable. We aren't talking about lifting weights or running the mile where you can know your own abilities and compare them to another person's - intelligence just doesn't work that way. Interviews and conversations are the best way I know of to tell how "smart" someone is, but there are problems there as well.

The problem I have in mind (there are others) is that it's not very easy to tell if someone is smarter than you are. I find that it's easy to tell if someone is less intelligent than I am because they don't recognize their assumptions, draw incorrect inferences or are otherwise sloppy. However, in a sense I'm just testing for the absence of stupidity and not the presence of intelligence. I find it very difficult to tell if someone's actually smarter than I am or just more knowledgeable.

What I would suggest is that you have several people interview this person separately (ideally on separate topics) and use their opinions to formulate a judgement. If, after conversations on different topics, 5 engineers say "this girl seems to know her stuff" then it's a much safer bet that this is person is a bar-raiser than if it's just you. Yes, you'll likely be turning lots of people away, but that's what happens if you keep raising the bar.
They "stole" the Paisley pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)
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Mixed agreement.

...that could completely destroy your business

Yep.
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That's funny, because I look at that and think it's too bad I don't know anything about COBOL. It's not like I'm planning to learn it or anything, but it's quite different from anything I've ever worked with.

So, questions: I know I'll never program in COBOL. But I'm interested in programming languages in general. How much of a "quick intro" would be worth digesting just for the purpose of contrasting to C, VBA, Lisp, etc.? Is there a good one to look at?
Your method is likely storing a plain text string that would grant access to other accounts you own.
In fairness just because something is published on the web doesn't mean it is in the public domain. A manufacturer can publish blueprints but you can't build and sell an improved version of their product if they have a patent on it.
Let's officially replace the use of the word hits when citing traffic with something little bit less ambiguous;)

Hits technically refer to each request for an item to your web server. So one page view can have 10+ hits if you take into account that each image can be construed as a hit. It doesn't help that some web analyzers still continue to measure and proactively show hits almost as synonymous to a pageview. It isn't.
I read an example on the net once that might clarify the "no immediate advantage" thing.

The guy was talking about working at a rail yard. At the end of the day, train cars were driven back into the yard for maintenance and/or storage. Interns were not allowed to do that, since it benefited the company. So the cars had to be moved back into the yard, then one or two were taking back out so interns could drive them back.

Kind of odd, I know.
At this point, it's the best option for our huge energy needs. Like you said, a few decades down the road, solar power might be somewhat interesting. What do we do until then? Burn coal, which is far more polluting?

Next, solar and wind energy yield but peanuts in how much energy we actually need. A recent article suggests that, with impossible 100% efficient solar panels, we'd have to cover 1/6000th of the earth to meet our current energy demands. A few decades down the road this will probably be doubled because of our growing demands.
I had the same feeling. It's not just in the browser, it's throughout the whole experience, so the raster trick for zooming that's mentioned doesn't explain it completely.

Google really needs to sort it out. It's a shonky user experience that really doesn't need it to be. I was certain that it was hardware acceleration that was missing, but obviously not. There was that bug ticket which indicated that Google thought it was garbage-collector related, but then that was supposed to have been modified in 2.3.

It's really pretty poor, and is certainly not helping to sell devices. Put an iPad 2 next to a Xoom, or a Nexus One next to an iPhone 4, and you really do see the difference. In stores like Best Buy, that's how they're setting up displays, of the two "flagship products". And I'm sure customers are going to go with the Apple product after trying them both.
Oh you wanna try doing code golf, after a little while it warps your thinking and this sort of thing starts looking reasonable :)

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Yeah, I've thought about doing this, but the problem is that the value is generally stored in plaintext and accessible to a wider range of support personnel than I'd be comfortable with.
Just for the record, I meant it sincerely when I said that we were grateful that Ben Newman and Albert Sheu showed us an XSS hole in Qato, and that has now been fixed.

The site in question was just an unpromoted testing prototype which barely has any content and happened to have the Quora-like skin on at that moment. It probably shouldn't even have been publicly accessible.

Another Qato site on the same server is http://robofaqs.com, which is sporting our OSQA clone theme. It doesn't look anything like Quora at all, but is powered by literally the same server instance. That's what we're trying to say - Qato is the general purpose Q&A engine under the skin, and these various skins just modulate the way a Qato site looks.
What the FUCKKKKKKKK? You DO know Chernobyl wasn't a nuclear explosion right? It was a STEAM explosion.
I sincerely hope that's not what happens here. I would hate to see someone lose their job over what seems to have been a temporary lapse in judgement.
Yes. Ramp up nuclear, ramp down coal. Potentially it is a very green technology, and at worst it's an improvement over the fossil fuel status quo.
I had the interesting experience of maintaining a device driver written by a hardware engineer, for a servo motor. There was no reason for it to be in assembly language, but it was. No comments, either. Very bright guy, but he'd just never absorbed much common sense about coding up maintainable software.

I think the thing here is that, for the most part, hardware guys don't want to write software, so they don't bother to learn how to do it right. This usually comes back to bite them in the ass, when they end up needing to write some code anyway.
Direct evidence from him, no. But I think it's a reasonable assumption given that it's a stereotype in our culture. If I swapped the genders, then his question sounds completely out-of-place to me. I'm willing to assume that it is sexism because the mental-model I think a person would have to have for it to not be sexism seems less likely.

One could, of course, just ask the person what they meant, but we weren't privy to the actual conversation to know if she did.
My 64 bit install of Chrome is working perfectly fine, although I have no idea if the flash plugin it uses is 64 bit or not.
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I'm surprised the keyboard has lasted so long in nearly the same state. Some notable exceptions are the remapping of function keys on Apple keyboards, and the brilliant reuse of the caps lock key as a search key on Google's Chrome OS netbooks.
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