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I contend that mostly what you're getting out of your three days or three months somewhere is a blast of novelty. It's not making you any smarter or better, which is what a lot of people try to claim.
He's waiting until he's 59 and the kids have gone to college with full scholarship and live in the dorm.
we go sub-minute as well as check page content, etc.
They should replace their logo with a big black rectangle. This would get everyone's attention (not just google.com visitors).

They don't need to commit commercial suicide by shutting off their site ('hey, bing isn't that bad..'), but this is pretty weak.
Yes. (edit, I'd rather just say "I don't know").

"Do you honestly think that Google can be responsive for every aspect of their contractors?"
Wonder if Yahoo! will get real shitty. Then, 10 years from now, Yang will come back, save the company and make it the most tech profitable company ever. Better buy some stock.

:-)
Search SEC's EDGAR. You will find who the underwriters are selling the IPO shares to.
Why did these contractors do that?

It's not like they sweared on forums or watched porn. Vandalizing OSM is an effort-intensive task. You dont't do that because of lack of control. You do that because you were told to, or motivated to in any other way.

I don't see how they could do that accidentally; therefore we should seek why they did that; who knew what they were doing; and how it could happen at all.

What were their job? What were they brought in for?
I think that is a good idea. We should have a movement to destroy destructive entities like the MPAA, RIAA, NAR, and other groups that inhibit innovation with lobbying and lawsuits.

How do we do that?
Organizing groups of people to put together something decent in a highly limited amount of time and with humane treatment is extremely hard. I don't see Programming, Motherfucker addressing that in any way.
At the risk of sounding ignorant... what's special about Wednesdays?
Where do you see that? I saw that Google's speech-to-text now updates the text inline, definitely a nice feature, but no changes to the voice actions (it still operates on static, specific commands) or anything in the ballpark of Siri's interface.
I don't know what you are biting or why, but your question makes no sense. I didn't say anything was wrong with FreeBSD, I simply pointed out that networking is one of OpenBSD's primary focuses, and as such it offers much more. OpenBSD's firewalling and routing support is miles ahead of FreeBSDs. FreeBSD isn't the best at everything, just as no other OS is.

OpenBSD wrote the best BGP daemon around, the best firewall around, both of which integrate nicely together and with routing domains to allow perfectly fine-grained control of complex routing scenarios, created CARP for address redundancy ala VRRP but sans patent mines, had the very first IPSec implementation, etc, etc, etc. OpenBSD is used almost exclusively for routers, firewalls, VPN gateways, etc. You shouldn't take it as a personal insult that it excels in those roles.
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Hah, it's stupid to think that these happened because of lack of oversight. Sabotaging competing service is a high-level strategic action; no one does it for fun or by chance.
This is a good thing for Yahoo! Jerry Yang was a good founder and entrepreneur, but he doesn't have the skills or knowledge to run a Fortune 500 company. His decision not to sell to Microsoft and hiring Carol Bartz are some of his most fatal mistakes as Chief Yahoo!
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Do you really think Google stands much to gain from scamming Kenyan businesses and messing up Open Street Maps (who, might I add, have received donations from Google)?
Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang leaves company
Please do note that the GP said "adulterated spirits" — that is, rubbing alcohol and the like, which contain methanol. If you have normal alcohol poisoning (i.e. from ethanol drinks like beer, wine, vodka, etc.), drinking whiskey is a terrible idea.
Just reread my comment it's not vary clear:

He has a lot of overhead related to random assignment in order to show a progress bar and he also seems to be using a insane number of threads.

If you want to show steady progress as you do something to 1/2 of an MxN matrix join rows so x from top to x from bottom to get a constant amount of effort per Unit work + 1/2 unit effort if there is an odd number of rows. Basically, worst case is you have to wait for one core to process a full line when every other line is already finished. But, while you can cut the matrix into smaller chunks that tends to add overhead which is not worth it for large matrices split among a small number of cores. outer loop is x: 0 to N/2, worker does row x and row (N - x ).

Now, in his case he wants a single number, that is the count of the number of comparisons over a threshold. In his example he works out that What about per-thread count arrays? but forget's that he can just keep a separate count per worker and then add it to the total when that worker finishes or split off a few workers add up the columns in those arrays. Which is far less single threaded code.

PS: Cache coherency can be improved by splitting rows into 2d shapes or grouping rows into wider bands. The second option is a lot simpliar for a similar speedup as long as the bands are small enough not to blow your cache and you don't have to many worker threads. Basically, it's simple but not cache agnostic.
All those homework assignments are done using Wikipedia. It will be very interesting to see what will happen tomorrow when people can't look up stuff there.
I always thought Foundation's grid system was way better. It's responsive and infinitely nestable (and I like the naming scheme better). But Bootstrap 2.0 might change all that.
Not entirely true. You can jailbreak the iPad 2 using http://jailbreak.me/ if you're running iOS 4.3.3. iOS 5 is still unavailable, and I wouldn't expect it to be available until the corresponding iPhone 4S jailbreak is out.
Well:

1: If this is the case, Google have correctly identified the source and it turned out to be the same in both cases.

2: Mocality broke on Friday. The OSM incidents were reported Monday, and apparently had been ongoing for at least a few days prior. I'd say they're largely coincident.

3: It does take some time for a business to respond, especially where contractual issues are involved. I suspect in this case the OSM report was a final straw / accelerator in Google's decision process.

Speaking for myself, I used the term "apparently" as we've just got Google's report of their action, I haven't seen it verified elsewhere. Though I'd be inclined to believe their statement (lying at this point would be a Really Dumb Move[tm]).

Really, given the scale of operations, this is lightning action on Google's part.

As I noted, the problem here is that there are three incidents (two tied to the same contractor) of malfeasance in Google's name (if indirectly, through contractors, on Google's part). This speaks to shoddy practices, or in best light, considerable room for improvement.
They can very well keep ie6 for cruftmaster97(tm) but they could provide chrome or firefox to browse the 2012 internet. I know some people call their browser "the internets" but it is in fact just a regular application that you can install as many of as you like. Kinda like if you said we can't use Latex for our yearly report even though you could create all diagrams and tables directly out of the database because we already have a publishing software installed. Word.
Wait, that is exactly what IT would say.
Justin Lilly's post on using org-babel for literate programming.
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I think implying that Linux leads to "yak-shaving" is disingenuous. I've found the standard Ubunutu and KDE distros are completely usable as is; there is no need to change anything. Just because you can fiddle all you want does not mean you have to.

Moreover, my relatively tech-unsophisticated roommate recently switched to Ubunutu; he has had no problems running the completely standard setup (I think he hasn't even changed the background).

On the other hand, on OS X, if something genuinely annoys you (like the menu-bar at the top) you would find it very difficult to fix.
Jerry Yang leaving Yahoo
Wow I launched my hosted search service, http://www.searchify.com at just the right time!
This is barely enough. Google now needs to make full reparations and find out exactly what was modified and return them to the correct values. The SysAdmins time on OSM is not free. Under tort, Google should be on the hook for malicious alteration of map data of its employees and contractors. Contractors or not, Google will have to exercise more oversight.

Perhaps someone can release a little utility that trawls through Apache logs called HasGoogleAlteredYourData?
There are plenty who would react the same way if it had been Microsoft instead of Google - in this specific case, I would initially give either a cautious benefit of the doubt.

It's not 1999 anymore, most people have moved on from automatic MS-bashing.
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Agree. Turn down $33/share from MSFT, you'd better have a killer plan to get your valuation higher. Never saw anything indicating a better plan.
It's a mix of both gall and ignorance made really dangerous with a massive dose of power.
The link just redirects to the 1.4.0 version of bootstrap.
Microsoft has an history of shady tactics coming from the top that Google doesn't (see the Halloween documents, for example). It's not reasonable to expect people to treat them the same.
I think it would be best to compose a short video that outlines all of the problems, as that's even more accessible to people. I've seen a few videos that are long, and a few videos that are inaccurate/vague, but no definitive explanation of the issue.

Here's the best video I've found so far: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/protect-ip/
it just takes me to twitter bootstrap github, is the site down?
MPAA blasts 'dangerous' anti-SOPA blackouts as 'stunts'
Google shutting down would probably cause a significant amount of awareness of the existence of Bing. This could be devastating to them. I would never expect a complete shutdown.
I don't agree with their conclusion at all.

What they found is that it's easier to make a relationship with people who are similar. But that is NOT the same thing as saying opposites don't attract.

Since it's easier, you will naturally have more relationships that are similar, but that tells you nothing whatsoever about the strength of relationships that are "opposite".

To actually do this study properly they need to quantify the "strength" of a relationship (somehow), then correlate that with how different the people are.

They averaged the data and in the process lost the most important part. If I have 10 friends who are similar to me, and one close friend who is different, the data will appear to say that similarity attracts, but that's an incorrect conclusion.
I did not know that... That's pretty awesome.
Sure it's dangerous. For MPAA's intents to have low publicity for that bill that is.
JEE is pretty sweet if I must say myself.

JEE, Spring, Maven, Checkstyle, Findbugs. Lock and Loaded.
Assuming that it's dead easy to merge two operating systems, and assuming that two wrongs on this occasion DO make a right, I'd still worry that it'd be pretty far behind Android/iOS/WP7. In all reality they'll be competing with WP8, iOS6, and whatever the hell batshit name the next Android release has. Could it compete?

In theory, yes. Assuming that you hire the same theorist you hired earlier who merges operating systems without a problem.
Incidents in which tools have been useful to me personally: Traffic accidents (I've responded to about 20-25 in the past decade outside warzones, and probably seriously improved victim outcomes in a few, the last being 2 weeks ago); loud noises at night (ranging from two being shot and bleeding out in front of the loft in the tenderloin, to raccoons in trash cans, to everything in between), power failures sometimes incident to hurricanes, sandstorms, ..., all sorts of fun in warzones (mortars, people dropping cargo containers on top of other people by accident, porta-potties upended by high winds with person inside (!!!), street altercations (kid with knife, feral dogs, drunks, drug dealers on my front step blocking the entrance, ...), etc.

Plus the thousands of cardboard boxes, envelopes, plastic clamshells, bottles, cans, etc. which have fallen before me.
This certainly piqued my interest. Do you reckon that eventually some of the interesting features (such as tasks, channels and smart pointers) of Rust could be implemented in Clay as libraries, with type safety and everything?
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More discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476665
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Hacker News flooded with posts about Jerry Yang
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Or telecommuting. I freelance remotely and make upwards of $100 an hour. It seems like a lot until you remember:

-- No job-related health insurance.

-- As a contractor, I pay almost twice as much employment taxes as full-time employees in the US.

-- Business is sometimes sporadic

-- your next paycheck is not guaranteed.

However, all that is perfectly acceptable to me since in the end, I'm my own boss. There are only a few kinds of job offers I'd consider at this point since I'm very happy with being a freelancer. But don't take the $100 figure at face value -- add in taxes, business cycle, time needed for marketing and accounting, etc, and it's not as much as it seems.
So you think the senior evil overlords at Google made a affirmative decision to deliberately sabotage OpenStreetMap to make it look bad in comparison to Google Maps. And that they instructed their agents to cover their tracks.

Seriously?
Thanks for the suggestions - it's certainly an issue we're thinking about and looking to improve.

Also, d3.js is a pleasure to work with. Really appreciate all the work you've put into it.
Where does one draw the line? This feels a lot like group punishment: one member of the group does wrong, the whole group gets punished. Is that just? Should Google then proceed not to hire Indians again (assuming that was actually the contractor's nationality)?

Also, to all the folks implying malicious intent: What does Google stand to gain from sabotaging Open Street Maps? Especially after sponsoring it for some years in a row via Summer of Code and similar initiatives?
I'm also leaving (the UK) for Berlin to start doings this come April.. Can't wait.
Although to be fair I think SOPA is pretty benign now. I am actually sort of in favor of it as log as it doesn't harm american websites and as long as it doesn't require anyone to make special exceptions in the DNS.

Preventing American based advertisers and banks from paying foreign-based sites which would be prosecuted in the united states seems like something we should be able to do, so that Americans' unlimited ability to download hollywood movies from foreign based sites and songs from kontakte is limited.

America isn't overstepping its juridiction if it is only legislating what American companies can do.

That said, I disagree with the lack of due process in SOPA. I much prefer Issa's bill called OPEN. Issa rightly pointed out that there are better agencies for this than the attorney general's office, such as the ITC.
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I wish we had a truth in politics law that would punish these guys for lying or cheating the public
OpenJDK Doesn't work with the supermicro ipmi-KVM tool. It's been brought up, but closed as wontfix.
Although to be fair I think SOPA is pretty benign now. I am actually sort of in favor of it as log as it doesn't harm american websites and as long as it doesn't require anyone to make special exceptions in the DNS.

Preventing American based advertisers and banks from paying foreign-based sites which would be prosecuted for being egregiously devoted to piracy or trademark infringement, in the united states seems like something we should be able to do, so that Americans' unlimited ability to download hollywood movies from foreign based sites and songs from kontakte is limited.

America isn't overstepping its juridiction if it is only legislating what American companies can do.

That said, I disagree with the lack of due process in SOPA. I much prefer Issa's bill called OPEN. Issa rightly pointed out that there are better agencies for this than the attorney general's office, such as the ITC.
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If so, that were some particularly inept secret agents...
Although to be fair I think SOPA is pretty benign now. I am actually sort of in favor of it as log as it doesn't harm american websites and as long as it doesn't require anyone to make special exceptions in the DNS.

Preventing American based advertisers and banks from paying foreign-based sites which would be prosecuted for being egregiously devoted to piracy or trademark infringement, in the united states seems like something we should be able to do, so that Americans' unlimited ability to download hollywood movies from foreign based sites and songs from kontakte is limited.

America isn't overstepping its juridiction if it is only legislating what American companies can do.

That said, I disagree with the lack of due process in SOPA. I much prefer Issa's bill called OPEN. Issa rightly pointed out that there are better agencies for this than the attorney general's office, such as the ITC.

What I want to know is, where are the provisions in SOPA that say you can be thrown in jail for uploading a song? I thought SOPA was just about curtailing distribution of infringing material by foreign websites.
Ah, this is really interesting. I knew that far more work had gone into the code NumPy rides on (of course), but not really much more than that.

I rewrote my clojure code to use JBLAS (jblas.org) and found stunning improvements: https://gist.github.com/264a2756fc657140fdb8
Response from OH Senator Sherrod Brown regarding SOPA/PIPA
Yeah, since contractors willfully, and without any prodding/directives/orders from their employers, like to spend their hours in labor-intensive tasks that just happen to be vandalizing their competitors' data.

I wonder, under what tasks were these hours billed by the contractor?
We're actually using the Twitter Streaming API, which has pretty high limits even with access levels lower than the full firehose.
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ITC can do it, as per the OPEN bill.

Although to be fair I think SOPA is pretty benign now. I am actually sort of in favor of it as log as it doesn't harm american websites and as long as it doesn't require anyone to make special exceptions in the DNS.

Preventing American based advertisers and banks from paying foreign-based sites which would be prosecuted for being egregiously devoted to piracy or trademark infringement, in the united states seems like something we should be able to do, so that Americans' unlimited ability to download hollywood movies from foreign based sites and songs from kontakte is limited.

America isn't overstepping its juridiction if it is only legislating what American companies can do.

That said, I disagree with the lack of due process in SOPA. I much prefer Issa's bill called OPEN. Issa rightly pointed out that there are better agencies for this than the attorney general's office, such as the ITC.

What I want to know is, where are the provisions in SOPA that say you can be thrown in jail for uploading a song? I thought SOPA was just about curtailing distribution of infringing material by foreign websites.
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I don't notice any hesitation from those "seasoned developers" when it comes to advocating specific practices elsewhere. According to Bob Martin, if you don't do TDD you're not even professional, for example.
I'm inclined to agree with Mr. Costolo that the blackouts are foolish, but not for the reason he cites. SOPA and PIPA are not just "single-issue national politics". If passed, they would have far-reaching and unforeseeable global consequences for the Internet.

However, I do regard the blackouts as ineffectual, as they don't send the right message to Congress and are too hostile ("hijacking" or "hostage-taking" come to mind).

I can't be the only one here who thinks the clamoring for blackouts by major websites is ill-thought-out, and might not produce the desired effect. They might even achieve the opposite of their intent, pushing Congress deeper into the pockets of Hollywood lobbyists and away from hostile tech companies.
This could make the lanes of slow traffic infinitely long in your "ideal" situation, which means there would be cars entering the highway with the same destination that never had the choice to get out of the flow of traffic before decelerating.
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Wait a week and someone will scan the book and put it on a torrent site.
I ask this the other day: "Over the next 50 to 100 years will the Automation Revolution and the exponential increase in worker productivity force a new form of Socialist Capitalism across the globe? If not how will global economies and governments deal with these changes? Are we already seeing the shadows of the impacts to come on today’s economic hiccups? I would be interested in seeing how the readers of this forum foresee the coming changes that are certain to take place over the next 100 years."

But no one wanted to talk about it. Hopefully this article gets people talking because I am really interested in how people envision the future.
I don't know about "torturous chaos", but there is certainly a point early in the life of any business where a) any silver linings are accompanied by big voluminous clouds and b) many well-meaning people tell you to cut your losses (+) and take the job at Google instead. I've gone through that three times.

+ : n.b. They'll say this even if you have no losses.

It's also probably true that, for probably any value of X less than maybe 5 years, there is a business who had a graph substantially identical to mine for day 1 through X and then decided on X to throw in the towel.