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but it doesn't sound kooky to me

The idea that expecting a product you buy to have the features it was described by the seller as having is a "sense of entitlement" seems pretty kooky to me. We can't have a functioning market like that.
Absolutely. Today, if I need to know about a specific CSS technique, I can Google it. A few years ago, when I was clueless about CSS, I didn't know where to start. So I read "CSS: The Definitive Guide." It walked me through why CSS exists, all the things it can do, and best practices. I would never have known the questions to ask without such a a well-organized guide.

Any time I want to learn a new topic, I get a book. And, incidentally, I still like paper books, because when I'm reading on the couch with one, there are no distractions. A computer offers too many other things to do besides read.

Books may change forms and distribution models, but there will always be a need for well-organized and thorough books.
List of Real Indian Hackers: Indian Hackers Facts | Real Truth Revealed 
List of Real Indian Hackers: Indian Hackers Facts | Real Truth Revealed

When it comes to hacking, every other guy tends to tape the "hacker" word with his name/codename without even realizing its significance.

Seriously guys..what were they thinking ?! I am still counting the number of “Indian Cyber Army” India has and the number of groups tend to increase recycling all the content, same VIP forums, same deface techniques, zero original research. Then there is Ankit Fadiya...dont let me even get started

In the end tired of all the bullshit around, I decided to cover an article on the REAL INDIAN HACKERS (or Hackers of Indian Origin), folks who are actually dedicated to security and are hackers in real sense. Lets start, shall we ?

http://www.amarjit.info/2011/04/real-hackers-of-india-indian-hackers.html
The discovery, as the article pointed out, was that this Was something un-catalogued and in fact an entire new branch of life that was not recognized. Not that the bug was unknown, but unrecognized for what it was.

Having seen it and not recognized it as a new order of life, is the tragedy. Because, honestly, we are almost all ignorant of biology beyond human biology.
When I read through the text, it didn't once think "this can't work". It seems plausible and if implemented, this could indeed be a big step forward.

I hope this, or a similar effort, will be actually be realized.
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Agreed, sorry.

I believe this is important to explore, and reading this thread saw only Google apologists of every stripe. I wanted (too badly) to see something substantive said. I should have just said it.
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Yes? For all practical purposes? I have never known anyone who has had a car stolen. I know several who have had their bike(s) stolen, often repeatedly.

Looking at the statistics[1], I see that in my country (Australia) there is a less than 1% chance of your car being stolen in any recent year. That seems to be pretty low, a nuisance yes but not all that bad. And that's even though cars are much more valuable than bikes - and very few people use any sort of aftermarket lock with their car.

I would say the law has dealt pretty effectively with car theft and I see no reason it could not be adapted to include bikes, too.

[1] http://ncars.on.net/docs/quick/aus_summary_qtr.pdf
Assume each "Google Meal" costs $5 in preparation labour, materials, plates & utensils (washing), fittings and fixtures, etc...

261 working days a year
1 employee
$5 = $1305 per employee, per year
How many workers in the 3.14 building? At 400 employees, that's half a million dollars. Does the board of director's fiduciary duty to their shareholders allow them to pay for the Scan Ops lunches?

I don't know what minimum wage in the states is, but I'm pretty sure most of those workers would rather have that extra five dollars in their pockets and brown-bag it. It's also a lot easier to justify an extra dollar an hour above minimum wage.

"Catered lunches" is a perk that (as far as I know) is very rare. Your company "not buying you lunch every day" is the norm.

I can't see any outrage in their perfectly normal behavior.
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It's "unethical" in Google's world where everybody[1] is trying to play by a fair set of rules. But taking a step back, it is really no more unethical than any other paid endorsement.

[1] Google excepts itself from time to time apparently, so I speculate that it also excepts others- probably for reasons that ultimately benefit G itself. So I'm alert to the idea that G's world may not be all that ethical in this particular department.
Mentioning the word "race", "class", or "gender" in a tech setting is a big no-no. They're huge hot-button words.

It scares people and they counter-attack reflexively, without deeply considering the arguments. That's been my experience from work, Reddit, and HN, in any case.

Notice that I'm not saying anything about the correctness of any particular position on a specific issue. It's that the specifics are barely able to be discussed because people are already in war mode.
You have to understand that in the US there has been a significant anti-labor campaign, both in the media and in politics for at least the last 40 or 50 years. It's been reasonably effective, and took serious hold in the 1980's - many of the posters here have grown up in a world where labor issues are mostly only discussed in a context of how worker demands are holding back corporations. It's difficult to not have your attitudes effectively co-opted if you're only exposed to one side of the argument for most of your life.
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Exactly; they serve two very different purposes. Reference books are dead, perhaps. But if I want a thorough introduction to a topic, I'd much rather sit down with a good book. My attention span increases significantly when I'm not sitting in front of a computer with a web browser open.
I am advocating a "keep your job, so you can continue the investigation, stupid" perspective.

I thought that was clear.
From the article: Marco then interjected into Burt’s official explanation to say that Google was actually putting pressure on Transvideo to fire me because of my investigations of the 3.1459~ building and the people who work there.
First up segregation is not the issue here but this guy's choice of words. The real problem here is if Google responds to any of his comments, on paper it really does look like there's a class issue and then the company can potentially find themselves in hot water. I would shut right up in that situation as well.

The way he keeps saying 'people of colour' and talking about different classes doesn't lend to his cause either, nor going right out with a video camera as it really does look like he is filming an expose. If he was smart, he should have replied he was simply curious as to what these guys do and why the rules are different for this particular group. To elaborate any further than that, well, he dug his own pit there.
As a gamer, it annoys me to no end how people are quick to defend and identify with companies that have even a hand in their favorite game. Many will even defend publishers of games they enjoy in unrelated matters, as if the publisher had anything to do with it.

It truly makes me wonder sometimes about the person on the other end of the keyboard when this kind of personal data breach is written off completely, laughed at as no big thing. I mean, I don't even have a PS3 or PSN account (waiting for Team Ico's next game,) but I can tell it isn't "nothing."

Really want to be disappointed in gamers? Google Image search "Modern Warfare 2 boycott".
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Nicely done!
It's not up to us to decide what is relevant or not to this guy as far as a reason to get fired or to look into something.
Security in large corporations are often very tight fisted.. If you forget your access card where i work, even if the security personnel know you, they have to walk you up to your desk like a lost child! until some manager 'claims' you

In this particular case i feel for this guy, but all security are going to see is a temp contractor who's making videos of google employees, and asking strange questions to interview them.. Their probably thinking either an undercover journalist (very likely at a company like google) or somebody who's just acting weird and would need future monitoring.. neither of which are really desirable!

not to mention during lunch breaks any normal employee would have one thing on their mind.. stuffing their face!
c) fix the issue.
Here is a good video that explains what it's like to develop psychosis after taking LSD. The actual talk starts at around the 2:40 mark:

http://vimeo.com/15959433

Note though that his experiences were relatively minor compared to what some other people go through. Here are a couple songs about the same basic experience:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HBCSF9nfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSSmLYAjvRg

There's no question that people with a family history or other predisposition toward mental illness shouldn't use LSD. In general shrooms seem to be somewhat safer, probably because they last only a third as long. They're still not safe for someone with mental illness or a predisposition toward it, but they seem to be mostly safe for everyone else as long as those partaking take the time to learn and follow all of the relevant best practices. (Including being old enough; you always hear about all the psychedelic researchers who lived until old age, but what you don't hear is that none of them discovered drugs until their 30s.)
It may be technically at-will, but anyone can tell you that you have to be very careful when firing an employee.
On the same page as the video? Sounds doable! :)

Thanks for the comment!
Confused: how is this different from the legion of other spyware/viruses I have to defend against?
how about the flight simulator easter egg in Excel? that was cool

microsoft always included cool easter eggs in their products

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
Why should something like that be present/active without the owner's knowledge and consent?

It's not the sort of thing I'd allow to run on my machine.
I'm sure you are working towards a competing product but just in case you aren't google apps calendar can share a schedule minus the details and as an admin (of apps) I can click on each employees calendar and overlay each calendar so I can quickly see an exact time.

- I agree with others though that being able to create a user account is a must (from there if I have a repeating schedule I could copy my times from last week for example).

- And for an admin being able to easily overlay all of the calendars is a must.

Lastly I read as a last resort, as I suspect of others, so I would give some visual indicator that you have to drag as I didn't immediately get it.
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Germany here. I'm with you on this one. But you must understand that HN is full of to-be-millionaires who are pursuing the american dream. Morality has no place in their lives.
IIRC, ath5k does not need a binary HAL any longer. There is also the madwifi-free branch which has the HAL in source form.
Has anyone here ever come across this?
> There is a need for mundane labor, requiring little education/creativity.

Well actually there has not been any real need for that for years now. With automation we could replace all those "dull" work places.

But the problem is: What do we do with the now unemployed masses? If we want to keep our capitalistic system that is.
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Anyone can be a mentor or investor in some walk of life. Anyone can be a founder, creator or student in another. Anyone can mod their own, or someone else's news list.

A tool without restrictions, operating on a finite set of rules. You decide whether it evolves to be used for good or evil.
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I'm no graphic designer, but the blank space above the third column in the grid of comics is really distracting until I scroll it off the top of the screen. That aside, I really like the strong grid.
I applaud the fact that a developer can charge for his time and effort into building a good product. While I love hearing about these success stories, lets not forget the fact that all applications are different. There is an inherit and perceived value for everything and it's all dependent on the audience. The ROI per user is different for everyone, what works for you may not work for someone else. Marco's audience is made up of mostly tech savvy individuals where the implied value is greater than the cost of the service. This isn't the exception to the rule but it isn't the typical audience that a lot of startups are trying to capture. Every audience and product is different and take inspiration with a grain of salt. With that being said nice work Marco.
Wow, it's pretty much the same as Titanium Desktop.

(yes - I remember XULRunner and Adobe AIR - but the first didn't have any usable documentation, and the later is just Flash with webkit web view + AS<->JS bridge)
I agree. It was unnecessarily sensationalist and ultimately invalidates its own title. Going from "common insect recognized as belonging to new order" to "discovery of a new life-form" is quite a leap. The author also seems to conflate knowledge (or at least awareness) with formal labeling. Plenty of people had known and even collected these insects for years, but hadn't gotten around to naming and categorizing them yet.
Django had a project accepted to Google Summer of Code 2011 to get some schema migration love into core, so the future looks good, but if you ask me 'pip install south' isn't that much of an issue.
Fur Elise is cool, but playing "It's a small world" when you already have a hardware problem is just evil.
Anyone can be a mentor or investor in some walk of life. Anyone can be a founder, creator or student in another. Anyone can mod their own, or someone else's news list.

A tool without restrictions, operating on a finite set of rules. You decide whether it evolves to be used for good or evil.
omg, dunno but before investing so much time and effort into raising money you are probably better off with just building out your product.

Basically for a small team this means you cant work on your project for weeks if not months.
Aren't a lot of Microsoft'ies also contractors? If you are a contractor and rock the boat, you get fired; that is pretty much the way it is.
I wonder why it is confidential. The only reason I can come up with is they don't want any more copyright infringement lawsuits and they're scanning Disney books...
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Despite the downvotes you've gotten (I know PG removed them, but I can still tell by color) I really think you've got a good point.

I honestly felt at least some of the same vitrol that comes across in your post, but suppressed it for the purposes of discussion.

In reading your response, I had quite a cathartic reaction. I actually felt myself relax. (I hadn't even realized I was holding tension - neat!)

Regardless of any other votes you get, thanks for putting up an honest reaction.
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OP sounded like a muckraking moron, a wanna-be Michael Moore. If you go around interviewing people with an agenda and you get to re-cut the footage however you like, it's possible to get it to seem to support whatever conclusion you want it to - that's why they wanted the tape back. If this guy wants to make a video "as a personal project" to "deal with race and class issues", whatever that means, he should do this entirely on his own, not as a part time project while employed at Google using any Google resources.

It's clear from his tone that OP has a point of view he wants to push - he wants to feel aggrieved at oppression, whether or not there is any. Given that OP was dumb enough to do things the way he did it's not clear he's smart enough to understand that he's being a moron. In this litigious culture, firing OP was a good idea and explaining to OP why he was being a moron wasn't necessarily a good idea. Besides, "some folks, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em."
Professional is not a word I would use for Zed. Someone that's professional would not be as confrontational and antagonistic as Zed is. He seems to be that way, often to his own detriment.

Oh please, can we just give this tired old tripe a rest already?
I think what is happening is there's a threshold for successful applications. Every application and website has a vetting period where momentum and marketing can advance to certain levels where a reputation is attained. This is where Instapaper is right now. Marco wouldn't have the audience he has now if it wasn't a free service to begin with. Now that the service has a reputation and a successful following you are allowed to charge a premium.
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It is possible, though not the easiest thing in the world, to rebuild your bios while removing the lojack option rom.

http://www.freakyacres.com/remove_computrace_lojack

This article gives an overview, there may be better sources or you could refer to forums people use for bios modification of SLIC tables to get a better introduction to the tools.
On a related note, they had an indie game contest thing at SXSW and I think at least half the games were done with Unity (including the one that won).

Must be a pretty good tool.
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Why would being interested in sociological issues get him fired?
Historically, Google has made little effort to combat any type of spam which generated revenue.

When I used AdWords, I would say that 30% of the clicks where fraudulent and 90% of those came from Google "content" partners who where nothing more than link farm pages.

This has existed for the last 8+ years and Google has absolutely done nothing about it, except for odd case here and there.

They even went so far as setting up their own domain parking service (Google Domain Parking) to allow this type of behavior (and monetize it).

For the most part, Google only penalizes those who make Google look stupid... JCPenney.
I don't understand what an upvoting news site has to do with advisors or entrepeneurs. How does the right column relate to the left?

I understand that Ycombinator has hacker news, but the two aren't tied to each other very closely.
this is the most interesting read I've found on HN in a long time. Thank you for publishing it.
Is there some law that says it's impossible to pursue riches and simultaneously be a moral person?

I'm European too by the way. Your comment is inflammatory and unnecessary.
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I'm in need of a book recommendation for learning Python (not learning programming, just adding this language to my repertoire).

My learning method is more "start coding something, and refer to a reference book frequently" than "do these lessons and you'll eventually learn enough to start coding something you actually care about". A good reference is dense and to the point; it makes it quick and easy to look up both the syntax of individual features, and the thinking behind them.

Basically, my ideal programming book is Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" -- I want that, but for Python.
he was there to cause trouble and google got rid of him. smart.
Thanks! I hadn't thought of that at all. I'll play around with it.
The secret rule that your employer may not want to pay you, allow you on-site, and provide you access to their resources while you film an exposé on their labor practices that could potentially open them to outside scrutiny, legal and otherwise. Especially as you try to paint them as racists when they ask what you're doing. They would have been justified for firing him for stupidity.
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Calling potential investors a "waste of time" just because they didn't invest or grant you further connections is a little harsh.

Its just like saying all the girls you hit on that simply weren't attracted to you were all "wasting your time", and you make some fancy graphs on the ones that do sleep with you in big green circles.

It makes you look like a pick up artist trying to find the best way to score a girl and make everyone else look bad.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

There are more options besides making it over-simple, or leaving it incomplete (nebulous).
First, that scene is a huge part of what makes the first Matrix fun. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Reading this reminded me of something that I've thought of a number of times but don't have fully worked out. (I.e., bear with me for a minute if I ramble.) We need a better way to describe the parts of (many) skills that lie between 'thought' and 'muscle memory'. (Maybe some researchers already have better ways?) The only sport that I was ever expert at was pool. For many years in my 20s, I played at least twice a day for anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours each time. (I was in grad school. First stretch was post lunch, usually shorter. Second stretch was out at bars post evening work. How long depended on how many people I beat.) Eventually I reached the point where I would shoot, pick up the chalk, rechalk the cue slightly and already be walking to my next shot. I didn't really think about all this and it wasn't exactly muscle memory (as the grip, stance or swing is muscle memory). But I knew where the cue ball would end up, and I knew what my next shot (and ideally, two, three or more forward) needed to be and I would move towards that spot intuitively.

Wayne Gretzky has the famous quotation: "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." That's the thing I wish I could describe better. It's not pure thought (it's barely conscious thought at all, usually), but it's also not physical training only. It's both - combined with a very clear mental picture of the domain you're dealing with. (Cf. what people always say about Larry Bird "seeing the whole court" at all times.)
JSONx has a very limited use case, A quick check will show that the documentation points to its use in devices on the edge for transforming/bridging/proxying http://bit.ly/ky0q53 http://bit.ly/iDF2Y5
I think someone from Google needs to explain what went on here. Why is what's going on in the 3.14159 building regarded as top secret? If they're just OCRing documents surely that's no big deal. People shouldn't be fired simply because they're interested in sociology.
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You've presented some arithmetic and no information at all. If the story is that these employees are being employed at minimum wage then that's something that contradicts the "Don't be evil" ethos.
So if everyone is treated equally, with the same pay and the same benefits, why would anyone choose to work a hard job? What incentive do you have to spend years and considerable amounts of money learning a skill set when you could just be an artist or something instead?

Sorry, but not everyone's work is worth the same. It isn't fair or equal, and it shouldn't be.
Even better than this is to not generate a hash, but an HMAC with the hmac "secret" being some kind of site-key and salting the input. It can't be hit by continuation attacks, to which prepending an unchanging salt is completely vulnerable.
I read everything on the page, but have no idea what it means.
I like it a lot. I don't read comics, but your simple presentation, use of the cover images, and descriptive text made me interested in the comics.

Minor suggestion: If it's possible it might be better to extract the price and list price from Amazon, rather than hard-coding them; they could change.

The title shown in hover text is unnecessary since you have the title below the comic.