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phd-comics.com got it right years ago. This is how news are relayed from the science community
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051809s.gif

I've been trying to ward off time travel discussions on facebook since the "ftl neutrino". "We measured X, can you help us find out what is wrong with the experiment" to "omg ftl cars next year!!!" is such a common step
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Same difference. Lack of closures is my biggest complaint about Java, my best language. The design philosophy of the whole System.Windows.Forms library (sub-elements demand how they are laid out, not wrapping elements) is my biggest complaint about C#, the language I use at my day job.

The lack of closures in Java means I have to go write an interface and implement that single method (or go implement Runnable). It creates line bloat which can separate code out too far and makes it harder to read, and so on. The lack of a feature is a weakenss.
How are any of these reasons that HipChat is "about to be ruined"? Both of those are huge products, and afaict were developed by Atlassian - not acquired.

Atlassian has made two big acquisitions that I know of (Bitbucket, SourceTree), and in both cases the product was better off after the acquisition.

From what I see, Atlassian goes in and provides cash and infrastructure, leaving the teams that were responsible for the product's success to continue making great things. I don't see any indication that things will be different for HipChat.
If you are that close, then wait. If the job is that boring and slow (since you said bureaucratic), then you should be able to automate it all away, and spend some time at home thinking about your future. You could make significant progress with the design of your product, culture, and entry strategy while securing your financial future. When you have your product ready to go and market tested (shh...), then jump. Maybe start paying some people on the side to help get things set up for you!

Good luck.

(..sounds like you work at Google, eh?)
It's what they've always done. The "iPad 2" was always officially just called the "iPad" as well. My friend won one in a raffle, and we scoured the box looking at whether it was the new "iPad 2" or not. It never mentioned the "2" anywhere, but we eventually realized from the device's shape that it was the 2.
@UGH

My problem isn't about "you know what you're getting, it's clearly communicated"

My anger is because THERE IS NO FUCKING UNLIMITED PLAN AT ALL

We are on HN, I have been on the internet DAILY for 15 years now. EVERY SINGLE DAY for many hours.

As a travelling consultant, I rely heavily on mobile access to the internet.

The fact that I had an unlimited account in the past - but now that speeds are getting acceptable, they are crippling them by cost.

It is corporate greed and it is bullshit.
It's like the megahertz war from way back when - you might have a CPU with 100% more megahertz but you're still using windows.
What's the deal with Heroku?
Can someone please explain the advantages of Heroku to me? It seems like one of those in-the-know companies. I'm not sure I understand how their scaling works and who they are targeted at. I currently host my apps in Rackspace, and would love to try something new, but don't necessarily understand the advantages.
Graphite is not a monitoring tool. It stores time series data and graphs it.

You can write a monitoring system that queries Graphite, and send notifications from there. Graphite can give you the raw data that backs the graphs:

http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/url-api.html#rawda...
The top comment from this thread a while back also suggested .is as a good options: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451783
Very weird. What I consider to be a "public key" is one of those long strings of characters in my `.pub` files. What they asked me to verify turns out to be a fingerprint (from what I understand elsewhere in HN comments).

I'll be honest - I didn't understand what those MAC address-type fingerprints were, and I accepted each key. Their email made me trustful, saying that probably no account was affected. I do feel bad saying this in public, but it is what I did when there was not more information immediately available to me.
They only got the Americans who kept assets with "Swiss" banks (UBS or CS aren't traditional Swiss banks). Those who took the time to come to Schweiz and meet with the private banks were not touched.
They are paying you $60,000... Hardly exploitative! And it's legal!
Do people keep POST contents?
The farther away from this Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch nonsense, the happier I'll be.

I think the reason people misattribute Apple's success to marketing is because everyone else's marketing is just godawful.

And no, I didn't make that name up.
Maybe they can’t give you an unlimited plan? Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.
Inelegant, but you could get a Sprint Mobile hotspot and use it (and 4 other devices) with their 4G unlimited plan.
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When it comes to vulnerabilities affecting modern day
browsers, there are two main categories: code execution
and post-exploitation bypasses (sandbox escapes).
[...]
Without one of these, the second type of vulnerability is
neutered.

The idea is to encourage researchers to divulge only their more common (and thereby relatively less valuable) code execution exploits, as fixing these exploits alone will (according to ZDI's theory) defuse any threat the sandbox escape exploits pose.
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Does anyone here have a good understanding of what the higgs boson is supposed to be?

If I understand correctly it is supposed to be the carrier of masss. At the same time its proposed mass is larger then the mass of a proton or electron. How can mass not be quantized to multiples of the value of a single higgs boson?
Very true! Thanks for gently pointing out that hole in my logic. The leap from correlation to causation is a very big one. Anyhow, like you, until I see something other than restaurateurs complaining, I'll give Yelp the benefit of the doubt here.
> Perhaps the simplest explanation of the Fermi Paradox is that potential growth for a starfaring civilization is geometric (being a sphere ultimately limited by the speed of light) while growth rates are exponential. And exponential will ultimately "win".

I read a paper within the last few months that used simulated expansion into a galaxy to debunk that idea. The fallacy is that growth is continuous and ceases simultaneously across a civilization. The (simulated) reality is that only a tiny percentage of frontier colonies need to survive to prevent extinction and eventually resume growth.

I wish I could find the paper. Anyone know the one I'm talking about?
Right, customers call them that, but Apple calls their products iPods and MacBooks when they are selling them. The names are simply "iPod", etc. The hardware revision number is only used when need to disambiguate.
But that's not the actual product name, as used by Apple publicly.
Don't remember if the video addresses this (saw it years ago), but aren't most exponentials just part of the ever-present logistic curve? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function )
I agree. I have to use the web based interface whenever I'm on Linux. I'd really like to see a native client.
Have been wanting to write something like this for the past few months. Glad someone else did it. It is making me go crazy!
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Multiple times I've called a URL a "URL" only to have some linked data enthusiast "correct" you by saying "you mean URI".
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You obviously have never seen the work of a truly talented carpenter the work the wood shop turned out at my first job was stunning.

Some of the models (for hydrodynamic research) they produced in teak and other hardwoods where works of art.
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Apple can commit to shipping millions of iPads and makes procurement decisions based on that fact. You're talking about the company that buys a significant proportion of the world's NAND flash production preordered a year ahead of time. iPad has enough economy of scale that as soon as Apple found a display manufacturer able and willing to manufacture the screen they wanted, they immediately promised a large enough preorder to make it cost-effective. Remember, Apple ships more iPads than any PC manufacturer ships total units, and all those iPads use the same parts.

So in case you were wondering why Apple keeps obscene piles of cash around, that's why.
Rails logs POST and GET parameters by default.
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Actually, I see this as the abandonment of resolution independence.

I was thinking the same thing. It's amusing to think that Apple found resolution independence harder than waiting for/making panels quadruple in size. Certainly good for marketing though :)
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"... We're moving to an approach where we have a contact form. This doesn't appear to work as well ..."

I'm no fan of forms.

An email address I can rely on my email program to work, not so with forms that depend on 3rd party code/design. Email just works. On a deeper level though forms just seem to get sucked into nothing. There is no destination so it doesn't feel like you are contacting someone directly.
How is that "more dangerous" than having the users never look at the keys.

Most users will not have many keys (probably just one), and will be alerted if they see more.
Ah interesting, thanks for the correction, it's been too long since I've bought one of those. I didn't realize that they were even supporting the 3GS anymore, let alone selling it.
You make an interesting observation about reviews not degrading over time. That would seem like something that benefit both Yelp and the places that are reviewed - Yelp's review averages would be fresher, and venues that may have greatly improved over time in response to low initial reviews would be rewarded with stronger-weighted recent reviews.
Why is it wrong for restaurant owners to hate Yelp if they are constantly running into roadblocks when trying to ask for transparency on how they filter the reviews and the only way that Yelp can help is if the owners are willing to pay for Yelp's services? It nothing short of extortion.

Basically what I think Yelp should do is

* stop extorting entrepreneurs

* be more transparent
I just rechecked the number and you're right, sorry. The numbers I quoted where only for El Al (the largest national carrier). The total number of all airlines is a bit over 13 million. But hey what's an order of magnitude between friends :)
This. This. This. (Sorry to be so reddit). But seriously the joys of discovering a new city is trial and error. Why on earth follow the cyber crowds when the actual journey of finding new places - whether they turn out to be terrible or tremendous - by itself offers so many experiences and opportunities?
Yelp apparently does what the BBB does: Extort people by offering "brand cleanup" in exchange for advertising dollars. A disgusting business practice, and I'm sure to pass this along to my "social network".
Yeah, I added a bit of a qualifier there to try to make it clear that I was talking about how humans read reviews - for all I know, Yelp reviews do algorithmically get less important over time. That'd be a smart thing to do.
Er...

http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbook
I find chow.com to be the best way to discover specific new restaurants. I use Yelp to find menus and hours, and to locate the names of a bunch of suitable e.g. watch repair shops in the area, but gave up on their ratings and reviews a few years ago (approximately the time they hired a bunch of salespeople and started extorting businesses...)

A Facebook review site where I got reviews just from my friends (or domain experts, ideally also selected by my friends). Right now, Quora and Foursquare seem to be the way to use "friend networks" to find stuff, and then domain-specific sites like chow (for foodies), wis (for watches), etc. too.
As someone pointed out in another thread, the 1.3 million number is wrong. The correct number is 13 million. Sorry.
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You hit the nail on the head. Github Enterprise is too "expensive" in attention required. While we are security-minded about our proprietary code, we also recognize that we have a limited budget for "distraction overhead." We chose infrastructure largely based on how little we have to think about it. In this case, the distraction cost would be significantly higher than the risk-weighted cost of IP theft. I still would prefer to minimize that risk, but without the additional staff and systems you mention, the only reasonable alternative we have is a local server with no internet connection. Alas, connectivity is a fundamental requirement.
May 1 seems a little late to be issuing invitations for those of us who would need to be booking flights to make it out there.

Any chance of a quicker yes or no if we send our info right away?
I heard a similar story about US Marines having to give up nailclippers, but being allowed to carry their sidearms on board.
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Would it be considered bad, then, to ask my friends where they like to eat, and discuss it? All my friends live in North Carolina.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with talking over ideas of where to eat with friends. It doesn't mean that I'm living my life wrong.

But let's just say for sake of argument that it's best to always be random and spontaneous. Tonight, you should randomly pick a channel on TV, and watch it. Or randomly select a movie. Maybe you don't watch TV or movies. Then a random book off the library shelf?

I do in general terms like your suggestion about being spontaneous, and living in the moment, and embracing chaos and randomness. And here's a suggestion for you: don't tell other people how to live; it's unseemly.

It's a nice suggestion, to live in the moment and be spontaneous, but it's highly impractical. Sometimes it makes sense to work with more information when it's available. Would you randomly select and just sit through a movie? A TV show? How about buying a random car? Selecting a spouse? Sometimes it makes sense to be discerning with limited resources. I'm as zen as the next guy, and live in the moment. I just got to this town, and I'd like to start my search with what people think are the most awesome places to eat. Is that so wrong?

It's surely not as wrong as you guys thinking I'm conducting my life improperly for wanting information about where cool places to eat are.
The government allows Verizon and AT&T to use the wireless spectrum with many caveats. One caveat is that they can't royally fuck their customers. This is royally fucking their customers. Hence, cause for a lawsuit is established.
And "non-technical" doesn't mean "middle management". Or, more to the point of the OP, there doesn't seem to be room for anyone who's not a programmer. That's a lot of roles, IMO. (Case in point, I have a CS degree and extensive business experience and have no desire to be a "programmer.")
I think he meant "opt out of having reviews filtered", not "opt out of being listed on Yelp".

I think that would be a more valuable thing.
That said, it's pretty disturbing if this part is true:

Over the past year, I have attempted to get some clarity
and assistance from Yelp. I have had no success except
that its sales staff has repeatedly advised that if
we would only advertise with them, they could "help us."

In order for a site like Yelp to be trustworthy, its editorial and advertising people need to be totally separate.
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Well, if you must know, I am the "IT Guy" for 9 different construction outfits. I'm not even a real programmer, but I am trying to learn (currently erlang, lua, python, ruby, and javascript; also git, and vim). I am now recording all my calls with these companies. I intend to post them to reddit, once cleaned up.
There's no way to delete keys on another account. The bug only let someone move their key to another account.
Could? As if this is hypothetical?
Maybe they shouldn't force customers to take an unlimited plan in the first place if they couldn't support it. For a very long time, until you could actually use that much data, att forced us to sign 2-year contracts with unlimited data.
Yes it is, but people only understand model numbers if it's something they take a deep interest in. I'm into smart phones and computers so I know how the naming conventions work. But, I don't know or care about the naming conventions for things like TV's, sports stats, cars, etc. Example; I've been looking for a new car recently and I find the model naming conventions confusing. I just want 6 seats, reliability, reasonable overtaking performance, reasonable fuel economy. I don't give a crap about most of the other stuff and I'm annoyed at having to learn it all so I can chose which car to buy.
I love Sol Food and eat there all the time. It's one of my favorite restaurants in the bay area. I would give it 5 stars in a second.

That's the other problem with this whole thing, I guess. Yelp's content is basicallu 100% subjective.
That's why when you go away somewhere it's always best whenever possible to know at least one local person or try and chat one up while your there.

Of course you have to hope they have taste.
But once you go to 4G, that limitation just doesn't make sense any more. I know several people for whom 4G is the fastest internet connection available to them. Sure you could hack around it by setting up a wifi hotspot on a different 4G device, but still forcing them to use a slower network for larger downloads seems kind of dumb.
Hooray! Another iteration of an expensive toy for tech managers trying to justify their jobs and people who think that money buys taste!
We have stats on this from other sources, actually. But it did provide some interesting graphs this morning :)
Eww, that's a nasty bug, though Python certainly isn't the first language to have it. IIRC, Dylan's "init-value" for class slots did much the same thing.

But really, this question only tells you whether a candidate is lying about Python experience on their résumé. If the candidate answers, "I have no idea. But I have 5 years of Ruby experience, and many years of Perl before that, and I can be competent in Python within a month or so," this question tells you nothing either way.

I've always been delighted to hire a really good programmer. I'm usually not too picky about which languages they're really good at.
This isn't the only thing we're doing. Most of the work is going on behind the scenes though.
Agreed. For areas that Zagat covers, I find it to be a lot more consistent and consumable than Yelp. With Yelp, I find myself having to read through reviews and trying to apply context to the reviews and I still find the recommendations more random overall. I still use Yelp, but if I'm looking for a quick "Where do I eat on this business trip that's near my hotel?" Zagat is quick and unlikely to steer me (too) wrong.

I agree with another poster who recommended Chowhound--again if you're willing to spend some time reading rather than just looking for a quick 2 or 3 restaurants to choose from.
They're wrong not only for the reasons that I listed at the end of the post (the factors that make Yelp and Yelpalike business work, are not going their way) but also because they keep asking for the impossible. Yelp can't give venue owners the transparency they're asking for, because that means also giving them the information that they'd need to game the system. It's the same reason that Google only speaks in broad terms about its search updates: after a certain point, the information that you need to see to prove that the system is fair, is the exact same information that you need to see in order to exploit the system. So neither Google nor Yelp shows it, and I'm fine with that.
Resolutionary. What a godawful marketing department word. The first thing you see. I miss Steve.
I agree with your first sentence, but disagree with the second. That you can find an exact mapping does not prevent the underlying API from being more complex than what you need. That you had to realize "Oh, m=2" is more complexity.

I'm not arguing this is a terrible thing. In fact, I think this is an acceptable level of additional complexity for the power it buys you. But if we're going to make an honest evaluation of the trade-offs, I think we must mention this.

It may be relevant to the discussion to point out that I work on a tuple-based streaming system. Product: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/streams/ Academic: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1890754.1890761, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1645953.1646061
>One of the problems with Yelp is that burger king has 5 stars, because 'everyone' loves burger king.

Funny you would use that as an example! (Besides it being completely untrue). I avoid certain Burger King locations because I know how poorly they perform. Meanwhile, the reviews on Yelp actually reflect that franchise service can vary.

Let's address the pompous overtone of your post implying that fast food cannot be "good" and therefore should not receive 5-stars. Oddly enough your apparent attitude creates one of the major problems with rating systems. You seem to be a customer looking for a Michelin rated meal while ordering food served on a paper plate.

If I want fast food, 5 stars means something different than if I want a multi-course meal, means something different than if I want a slice of pizza, means something different if I want ethnic food.
I can believe it , most laptops have names that are pretty much impossible to remember which in turn makes it very difficult to recommend a specific model to anybody not to mention uninspiring.
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Maybe it just didn't work out well that day for some reason and I should give them another shot. I thought maybe the love came from 2 years ago, and they've slipped, but perhaps not...
If you look at this as an uptime issue, it has the same answer as any other uptime issue. Redundancy.

A single server isn't good for uptime because when it dies you're screwed. At the next level, a single data-center only gives you so much uptime because if that data center goes down you're screwed.

Same thing here. Any single TLD isn't safe for any number of technical and political reasons. If you want to be safe, register multiple tlds with multiple entities so you have redundancy.
We sent someone back in time to make this change. Somewhere there's an alternate universe with a secure GitHub by default. Thanks!
My references are people I like and respect, and I'm not going to impose on them any more than absolutely necessary. I don't even give out their numbers until I have a firm expectation of receiving an acceptable offer. (I make an exception for HR staff, because confirming employment and such is part of their day job rather than a personal favor.)

Besides, if you have the slightest clue, your references will all speak favorably of you. It's a test with very poor specificity.
The cost is mostly in the tooling. So, if you are doing 1 million units and running your tooling 6000 hours per year, then if the cycle time is less than 20 seconds for any operation, then you are not fully using that piece of equipment. If you are doing 15M units a year, you will need to design/build/buy 10-100 units for each manufacturing step. That cuts your cost tremendously, because the custom design and engineering only needs to be done once.
> True. Not even the ones made by Apple.

Apple is probably the worst offender on that issue, in fact.