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Disappointing article, given all the other ways in which Chrome is harming the web. Example: There's a bug on a site I made in Chrome. It is categorically incorrect behaviour on the part of Chrome, it breaks the specs in order to be faster. How do I fix the bug? By calling a proprietary interface in Javascript that only exists in Chrome. Yup, that's right - to make my standards-compliant web page work, I have to do browser-specific stuff for Chrome. It actually works fine in Internet Explorer 9, and has no IE9 (or 8 or 7) specific code in it. This is actually the second time that Chrome has been the stand-out browser for causing issues when building a site (unless you count Opera - I don't).
This is a solid idea. An open version of Carfax/AutoCheck. And kind of like the way that Redfin keeps track of historical pricing information on real estate. Platewire is somewhat related (http://platewire.com/), but focuses on the driver instead of the vehicle.
Yep. On one hand I'm thrilled about this ruling, since it gives HTC some teeth in negotiations on the Android-related patents Apple is suing them over. On the other hand, I just ordered a new MacBook Air (with Intel graphics, which appear to be in violation of this patent), and I'm hoping it gets to the US before any possible import ban goes into effect.

Further proof that hurting the customer is really all that these patents do.
When the people you're listening to are "finding" cancer everywhere they look, one might be wise to start listening to someone else.
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wget does this automatically, in case grandparent doesn't know. I'm not going to try it (because I'm not going to analyze the results myself, so it would be wasteful), but I think "wget -r news.ycombinator.com" would take care of this... It will not visit external links without the --span-hosts parameter (I believe).
I'm not sure that follows. The idea that language choice is something that only comes into to play during the mechanical motions of banging your fingers upon the keyboard strikes me as wrong-headed.

If we agree with Wittgenstein that "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world", language choice profoundly affected the time he spent thinking about his solution, not just the time he spent inputting it.
Of course, if it were really about their problems with "racist" immigration laws, many countries in Europe have stronger and more strictly enforced immigration policies.
I haven't had much luck getting people on my team interested in code reviews. The day I started we put a ton of stuff in version control though.

In general, you should interview a team when you're trying to get a job and trust your gut on how much those practices you mention will be accepted. It's a little harder here, because for years the model was assign a dev to a project and that dev will own the entire project from start to finish. We still don't do a great job working as a team.

Craftmanship can take a back-seat to schedule. Lots of operational stuff (for grants and administrative purposes) gets pushed off to the last minute. And for research, the focus here is on the results much less than the process. The researchers don't care if you do it in a bash shell script or a clojure jewel as long as it's done - kind of like a startup. So if you can do it fast in a maintainable and cool way, all the better.

We are suffering the effects right now of some bad QC code. A non-insignificant amount of data had to be re-analyzed because of some code bugs. I would say interest is currently much higher in improvement. :-)

I did grad school (MS in CS), went to industry, and then came back. Returning was mainly lucky timing and personal network effects. But I was late 20's when I did grad school, so we're not too different. It was completely worth it for me.

Some PIs are like typical academics - they have MD/PhD (usually both) and can be somewhat dictatorial. But some are great and want your thoughts and expertise.

You could consider simply getting a job doing typical IT work in an organization like this. You're probably right that eventually you'll want some grad school (we are walking around in credential heaven here), but you could always try it out first.
He's a burgeoning pundit. Media, other leaders, and new people in the industry will take their cues from him.

You ever hear the joke, "Hey, dpark, what do you call a black man who has a PhD from Harvard?" It's an awful punchline, with a little bit of a truism: The perception that, no matter how smart you are and how hard you work, there's a percentage out there that will view you as less than nothing. You don't count, your contributions don't count.

Now, in that context, what kind of message do you think attaching that photo to a pundit's post about new media technology says to the 18 year old girl who's thinking about majoring in CS?

But hey, fuck it, right? It's a harmless joke and we're taking this too seriously. She'd probably be happier going in marketing anyway.
Excellent feedback! We agree wholeheartedly that handwritten is the way to go and have been working hard to address that very issue. We came up w/ something pretty similar during a few Thank Tank sessions based on some other products and technologies we've seen used elsewhere.

Our concept was that the user would download and print a special font card w/ the various characters and symbols listed, along with corresponding boxes for them to fill in each letter / symbol in their own handwriting. Once complete, the user could snap a picture w/ their smart phone, or scan and fax, what have you, the card back to have a custom font made by us using their own writing. There are some challenges, but the technology exists to make it all happen.

The user could then begin using their own handwriting, or choose an attractive one (as they currently can) for any notes they create.

We're also planning physical delivery as an option, and are working on a privacy layer for private notes. The biz model you suggested looks very similar to a couple of the ideas we've brainstormed.

Loved you ideas about removing branding, and your thoughts on the freemium model.

Your thoughts are right on and re-affirm what we've thought, and what we've heard from users thus far! Thanks so much for chiming in, and for the warm wishes.

Feel free to email me any time (address in profile), should you think of anything else. You obviously grasp the art of thanks very well and we'd love to hear more!
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You might be a victim of confirmation bias. Not everything should be seen from the Google vs. Apple angle.
Uhm shouldn't that be ovious by reading the high level descriptions of each? They are for completely different use cases. Membase is a distributed Key/Value server and LevelDB is a Key/Value library.
"That's no moon. That's a space station."
You may not be able to arrest an idea, but you sure can give its owner more jail time for destroying evidence. What was he thinking?
Thanks for your reasonable comment on the topic. I would have felt the same way - to be honest it was the stream of comments that disturbed me more, following the post with nothing to add to the conversation but 'oogle'. If Tom were interested in sparking debate on bringing 'sexy' to g+ then he failed, because he has isolated a significant group of the g+ population with this post.
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=leveldb
He's not saying that small inventors couldn't profit. Just that their profits as a result of monopoly rights should be capped at a dollar amount. Patent rights are already capped in time: 20 years from the time of filing. After that, inventors no longer have the monopoly. The problem is that in high-tech fields, 20 years is too long. We don't want individual inventors to hold back progress for 20 years. Capping returns seems like a good solution. Inventors are still compensated, but within reason.
I can't agree more with you. I hate these stupid iPad-optimized themes which in reality make the reading experience worse.

Why would anyone prefer faked scrolling or faked pagination (that's what this theme does) over the perfectly good native scrolling? I simply don't get it.

The cause seem to be these guys: http://onswipe.com/

They created this theme which seems to have infected half of the web's wordpress blogs. I wonder if any of those guys who install this theme on their blogs actually have an iPad.
Why do women perform against their own interests?
Part of his rant is about things that are generally not considered to be "science". Economics is usually categorized separately as "social science" (look! Wikipedia agrees! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics). It's ironic that someone who "no beg[s], scientists to adopt much stricter standards of disseminating information" is so cavalier about lumping together very different fields of study.

This appears to be written by someone that doesn't have a background in what I think most people would identify as "science". I don't think the authors in the current issue of Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html) would understand the opening sentence of the closing paragraph: "If scientists want to be considered in the same boat as the guys who think aliens built the pyramids, then fine, they should keep going the way they are going.".
Just as relevant, to me: they were honest about their findings. Compare this to all of the highly flawed studies that some companies have pushed into journals in the past two decades.
> So awesome that the guys get to be the nerds while the woman is literally nothing more than an ornament, existing solely to fill out Google's logo.

Why is the woman nothing but an ornament to fill out the logo while the guys are not? The guys' are literally dressed to fill out the logo.
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"Aggressively clone as in...? "

As in completely overhauled the device from a blackberry knock off to an iphone knock off:

http://random.andrewwarner.com/what-googles-android-looked-l...

"Hate to break it to you, but iOS wasn't the first to do any of those"

I'm not making any claim that (1) iOS was first for any of those or that (2) whatever claims Apple is making are protectable or not or (3) whether google violates those claims or not.

What I'm saying is that: (a) some claims and protections have been granted, (b) it's Apple's right to protect them until/unless these protections are overturned/invalidated, and (c) I have no sympathy for people violating legitimate claims. This whole sub-thread is about "striking first" makes Apple a bully which is total bullshit. They're striking first because they're the person getting copied, that's how the dynamic works.

"the first Android phone (G1) didn't resemble the iPhone more than any other smartphone on the market. Most people that I knew were comparing it to the Sidekick when it first released."

That's rich, every review of the G1 I can find compares it directly with the iphone. Custom time limit a google search.
it's possible to declare some fields completely broken/politicized without jettisoning all of "science"

Exactly.
Good article, sensationalist headline. They demonstrated that existing genetic predictors of a single disease were not much better than random selection. 23andMe's business model does not solely rely on the prediction of Parksinson's Disease risk.
What point is that? Lumping unrelated fields together and disliking them all? What alternative does he offer?
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_1IECTAB2-to/TWV9IKxwQOI/A...
While the core of what you say is true, I think the overall message, in the context of the comments above you, is slightly misleading. Yes, you cannot just create a great website and magically get hits, you do have to tell people it exists! This isn't news, and "SEO" while much maligned these days is still a valid, useful and in many cases necessary skill. However, it is not necessary to engage in blackhat SEO practices and it is far from true to say that you must build spammy backlinks from social networking sites in order to succeed. I don't think you mean that it is, but it came across a little like that.
I would say at best this gives a rough estimate of the amount of users.

I tried searching my own username and it does not appear in the results.

Perhaps I just failed at using Google?
I've had multiple math professors tell me to study as much math as I can while I'm young, because once you're over 30 it's a lot harder to learn math. I'm in my 20's so I'm not sure if this is true.

It also seems to me that the math you would learn in an O'Reilly book isn't in depth enough to contribute to research.
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I'm curious what led to all the arrests. It's not that hard to hide your identity if you truly want to be anonymous.
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This appears to be written by someone that doesn't have a background in what I think most people would identify as "science".

I admit that the combination of the headline plus the photo he uses in his sidebar made me think derp even before I started reading.
This reminds me very much of Paul Lutus' essay "Is Psychology a Science"

http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/index.html
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Whatever the reason, the implementation is broken — it sniffs User-Agent and blocks everything else than Chrome.

If I change Chrome's User-Agent string to Safari, then this site blocks even Chrome:

http://yfrog.com/z/kh1rylsqj
All of those people have posted comments. That's how. If you have never posted a comment or submitted a link, yet have an account, Google won't find you/
For computer crime do they have to be able to draw a direct line from the act to the person's computer? Also, does a persons computer legally mean they committed the crime? What I'm getting at is, could a group like LulzSec guarantee lighter sentences for themselves if a line could be drawn from the crime to the group but you couldn't determine who actually hit the keyboard?
I can't imagine a more fulfilling place to work then the OLPC foundation. Its a shame they aren't hiring.
This is definitely true. I deal with unstructured data, and every flavor of data storage weekly (XML, Access, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, a few MS SQL Server instances, Excel, and plain text).

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oh, and forget about stuff being normalized or making any sense . . .
Well, since no one else is wading in here's what look like the usual suspects to me:

- obvious digital connection (forgot to use tor / ipredator / hacked vpn)

- timing attacks (keeping normal waking hours for his home country, using a vpn instead of tor)

- word frequency attacks (since he wrote a lot of press releases, his word choices may have been cross correlated with a personal blog)

- bragging to a friend

- getting flagged after showing up at a political/high-suspicion meet up (which might be enough to allow for a timing attack)

- voice analysis from interviews he did w/o a voice transformer being matched to other audio

- opsec blunders (loose lips when talking to press / on IRC / wherever anon talks)

Anyone else have any guesses?
Funny and true.
Doing something for someone even though you believe that they do not deserve it is part of being a better person.
See also:

Previous discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2526032

Benchmarks vs Kyoto TreeDB and SQLite3 - http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html (discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813061)

Benchmarks vs InnoDB - http://blog.basho.com/2011/07/01/Leveling-the-Field/
Exactly. Optical drives are to computing today what floppy drives were in 2000. I'm pretty sure I haven't used an optical drive in a computer for over 2 years.
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But if the driver who hits my car can't afford insurance or the repairs for my car, then the other driver has screwed me over.
Almost positive that's a direct quote toward the end of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.

Which kinda makes me grin and roll my eyes at the same time.
I can't bring myself to think of C as being fragile. Fragile is exactly the word I use for Perl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript. Lisp and Haskell, and maybe Java, are the only ones on your list I would say are more robust than C or Objective-C. I guess it's a difference of opinion, or maybe just bad experiences with other people's code.

Besides that, you mention dynamic-ness and memory-safety: these are exactly the two places where Objective-C is miles ahead of C! I don't even know what to say.
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Open sourced as of March 18th, 2011:
http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE...

That initial checkin:
http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/source/detail?r=2
This is actually far less important than geeks believe that it is.
So, when my bro learns to program, does he become a brogrammer and not a programmer ?
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I don't think anyone can claim the evidence was destroyed. All of their posts have been archived in many places.
That would explain blocking of Firefox, but they're blocking Safari and WebKit nightly and... everything else that doesn't have "Chrome" in User-Agent string: http://yfrog.com/z/kh1rylsqj
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Here's comparison with InnoDB http://blog.basho.com/2011/07/01/Leveling-the-Field/
"Literally" referred to the fact that the OP literally called them mad elephants, not that they literally are .
Or a USB stick.
I would imagine it is pretty hard to make no mistakes. He might have accidentally logged into his twitter account (or some other account known to be his) through the wrong browser, which allowed them to see his real IP address.
I think the fact that he did it at a conference made it personal. See the other post that is a peer of yours on this thread.

Basically Steve Yegge said that his boss doesn't deserve the respect to know this ahead of time. In fact its quite possible that 1000 people will know this before his boss does, including his boss's boss.

In many regards the only person this was disrespectful to was his boss -- and that makes it personal when you single out someone in this manner.
Where? http://source.android.com/ just says 2.3 is available, and google isn't turning up anything either.

EDIT: looks like the GPL/LGPL parts have been released (according to news reports, anyhow). Can you point me to a full buildable android 3.2 repo?
Whoever claimed tech journalism was unbiased?
This is slightly related to the fact that most scientists today no longer consider themselves 'scientists' for the same reason mathematicians no longer consider themselves strictly 'mathematicians': they're logicians, group theorists, geometers, algebraists, etc. Maybe a hundred (or a couple hundred?) years ago, learned men and women could call themselves scientists and be educated in almost everything there is to know in the human corpus of science, but that's impossible today with the hyper-specialization we have in all branches of math, CS, physics, and biology. In any empirical science, it's simply because there is a lot lot more data to play with, and in mathematics it's simply because more rules to the game are being discovered/created.
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also works; this is the first I've seen of

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for a numerical range find, which is VERY useful for date searches. A couple years ago, I gave a lesson to a class of mostly senior citizens for how to use Google to do genealogy work. We covered the range find, the inurl: and a couple other obscure but useful search enhancers. Pretty interesting stuff (here's the ODP, if interested) http://www.zentu.net/fmt/searchpresentation.odp
About like the difference between mysql and sqlite.
At the moment, it relates you to anyone sharing any of your three topics. We'll be adding a function to let you choose between seeing users with any of your interests, or being shown users who share your exact interests.
You want to change the world for the better? Be respectful of others you interact with on a day to day basis as a start. Steve should have given his boss heads up on this.
I don't follow DanielBMarkham closely, but I don't think his comments here on HN suggest a high level of "derp".

Do try to be a bit nicer.
I don't get why this is downvoted. You are right. At least Google explicitly marked this as a "Chrome experiment" instead of labeling it as a "HTML5 showcase".
I don't find it that surprising, given that we are taught from birth to obey authority figures (parents, family, teachers, policemen) /without question/. It's perhaps a useful simplification in early life but is one I've long-considered harmful.
I noticed that Google+ allowed something similar when sending bug reports. Do they use a similar method?
> Why are you being defending a position that has clearly upset a number of people, instead of engaging in a debate?

I am engaging in a debate. That's what it is when we hold opposing viewpoints and discuss them. It would not be a debate if I simply failed to defend my views. It would just be me surrendering to your opinion.

I might just as well ask why you're defending a position that so many clearly disagree with.

> This is why so many minorities don't speak up: because we aren't listened to. Time and time again, the majority will defend the status-quo, it's perceived rightful position to impose its will.

Very clearly people are listening to you. I am listening. Listening does not require agreement. If you want to debate, then don't accuse others of not listening just because they don't simply bow to your views.

> This entire thread could have simply been:- This makes me feel as if woman are objectified in computing as sexual entities before any other consideration....

That's hardly how you started the thread. You began with sarcasm and went straight to accusations of misogyny and then acted as if all the women posting were similarly offended.

I have asked why you were offended. In response you compared the image to human trafficking and a culture of forced prostitution.

Edit: Dropped the reference to child prostitution because that's apparently not the comparison you were trying to make.
Taking all the precautions necessary and doing it consistently while not talking/bragging about it to outside people requires a lot of discipline. Most of these guys do no really have it. It takes few rounds of arrests, trials etc for the core group of survivors to get actually paranoid smart enough.
A similar set of assertions by her fellow traveler Latham was debunked by the scientific community a few months ago:

http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/04/the-genome-hasnt-fail...

It should be noted that every paper 23andMe has curated to provide their risk calculations was originally published in a peer reviewed journal, often Science or Nature. It should also be emphasized that new methods (like the recent Visscher et al. manuscript) are starting to give considerable signal for predicting complex traits from genome sequence.

Take Genewatch with a grain of salt, they are activists rather than scientists and are infamous for trashing anything associated with genetics and genomics (whether GMO crops or complex trait research).
Note to myself : Search before you post. Apologies, I checked new and front page only!
He looks so different than OSCON 2007: http://blip.tv/oreilly-open-source-convention/oscon-2007-ste...
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Farewell freedom. You were so nice while you lasted.
I honestly wonder if the second one thought of that.
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