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> It's really really hard to avoid Godwin when discussing the responsibility of the rank and file of an organization for the actions of the whole.

This is a deeply idiotic statement. In fact, it's quite easy to talk about how much responsibility Yahoo employees have for the intellectual property lawsuits started by management, and yet not make use of comparisons to the Nazis.

When the roads into Sunnyvale have signs saying "Arbeit macht frei" over them, then you can feel free to make such comparisons. Till then, you're a complete jackass.
Thank you for the summary. I hate when articles open with a teaser then bury the explanation.
Now the TSA is making money off of the it's own incompetence.
I agree that it is pain to integrate. Once integrated, however, these tools offer a start on the road towards semantics. Here is an overview of some of the techniques used in Treehydra: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Abstract_Interpretation

DXR is currently a pain to get up and running. There's been talk on the mailing list on streamlining the install process but it would still require a lot intervention depending the compilation process. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.static-a...
That's what I couldn't quite infer from your question, whether you meant "code reading" or just the reading of code. I was referring to "code reading", a la http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Reading or often called code "safaris." It's where you read other people's code to learn things. If that's not what you meant, sorry :-)
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"If a passenger is cleared for Precheck screening, a code is embedded in a traveler's boarding pass."

I'd give it 50/50 odds that the embedded 'code' in the boarding pass can be easily forged.
The article is a bit confusing. If I take it correctly, a few casinos offered him nearly 50:50 odds, and a discount on his losses if he lost more than ~500k. In other words, a great deal, worth ~$50k. And then he proceeded to have amazing games, winning millions by sheer luck. The article doesn't talk much about the luck this requires, and one wonders if he does have something else going on.
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The article makes it clear that he's very good at the odds of Blackjack. It was a bit confusing when it described the difference between the odds-sheets given by the casino and his method. But, basically, he follows optimal betting technique for every card played.
I meant any code -- one's own, or others.

I'll try GitHub out for reading others' code, thanks for your reply
Naw, it's just so the 'right people' don't have to put up with the hassle that the rest of the rabble do.
Then you probably shouldn't click through to anything published by The Atlantic. (Or for that matter, the New Yorker, the New York Times, etc).

This isn't a blog post or a new article. This is a short story. I thought it was interesting and I thought it was well written.

HN has a strong bias against anything artfully written (read: more than the bare minimum of words). I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering the crowd (mostly engineers, myself included) but it is sad to me when people do the 'TL;DR' thing.
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I haven't regularly read those discussion lists at Google for years and years, and even I've heard of mchurch. :)
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P.S. I am not bashing arch linux, I am just pointing out that the default Arch linux does not even have a ui and you can not compare this to Ubuntu.
The negotiation on the rules of the game is key. For example the difference between a 'soft 17' and a 'hard 17' is worth a few percentage points, and those points are valuable.
No, no, it is. From the paragraph after the one you are quoting:

“People were telling me I need to think of the Yahoo rank and file, folks who have families, but the talent market in Silicon Valley is so hot right now, the only folks staying at Yahoo are the ones who have stopped caring,”

(Emphasis on were added. Unless janitors are in hot demand in the valley this confirms the statement as is)
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“They began offering deals that nobody’s ever seen in New Jersey history,” he told me. “I’d never heard of anything like it in the world, not even for a player like [the late Australian media tycoon] Kerry Packer, who came in with a $20 million bank and was worth billions and billions.”

Kerry Packer's gambling is pretty legendary.

There's a story about how he was in a high-roller room in Los Vegas and there was a Texan (oil?) millionaire boasting about how big his ranch was.

Packer was annoyed at how noisy he was, so he walked over.

Packer: "So how much is this property worth then?"

Texan: "'bout $20 million"

Packer (pulls out a coin): "toss you for it"

Apparently the Texan didn't like that idea much...

Packer successfully invested a lot in building casinos in Australia and Macau. His son has taken over his empire and invested even more, though not as successfully.
As far as the "luck" goes nothing is recounted of the nights when he didn't win big. This all took place over 4 months and while he didn't gamble every night he didn't just gamble once at each place.

Probably his nights while he had the discount followed a normal distribution with most of them break evenish but as explained losses were cut off around 400K and winning streaks were allowed to spiral.

I don't really see luck being a major factor. In the long run he's going to have a blockbuster night and then get kicked out of each place just like he did.
On campus socializing is obviously quite different. I was responding to this:

"So it is too bad to me that there is no social aspect of this course and these types of programs. Udacity study group on google+ or whatnot would be neat."
Exactly. It's amazing how many people are saying "well, there are lots of programmers who don't pay attention to the latest technology, you can't just refuse to hire them".

But you can and you should.

Anyone at Yahoo/MS today is (on average) already under suspicion of being 2nd tier and a notch below a Facebooker/Googler. And those Yahoo engineers who stick through this one will tend to be the 3rd tier. They aren't going to see this Yammer thread and they sure aren't going to get hired by a good startup.

So why even bring them up in this thread? We're talking about the good folks left at Yahoo, the guys who are like Jeremy Zawodny and Prabhakar Raghavan, who want to leave before Jerry Yang's company completes its transformation into SCO.

Not the time punchers who don't know what the clock says.
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The $100 is for a background check. I doubt the TSA makes much money off of that.
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So in essence, the TSA is now an extortion racket. Might as well rename it MAFIA. I'm sure Congress can come up with an acronym to fit that
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Does DXR do anything particularly interesting, as far as source code search engines go?
Yeah this article is awfully written. Its portrayal of counting as even possibly unfair ("he had beaten the casinos fair and square [by not counting]") is ridiculous, and it does a horrendous job explaining his method. His method isn't even addressed until half-way through the article, the article is littered with totally unnecessary comments like "He plays perfect cards" (if you're not counting, every hand's decision should be set in stone), and the actual method they describe isn't logically consistent. At first they make it sound like he won by bargaining down special rules to give himself a substantially greater discount than the house's edge, but then they go on to say that he won $2 million later on without the discount (despite the house having a fractional edge), without further explanation. They've already made it clear that this guy plays to win rather than to gamble, so he obviously didn't win it by pure luck. So we're clearly missing something here...
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Seeing news like this makes me less inclined to be an early adopter in Milk's next project. Going into business with the primary intent to start a lot of projects and fail until one succeeds seems like a recipe for failure. While it's always an inherent consideration in every startup, it should never be your core strategy. Unfortunately for Milk, it seems like that was exactly what they had in mind. Kevin has a personality that makes people WANT him to succeed, but every user has their limits on how much they will continue to forgive.
You know it's great to make all kinds of great predications but it doesn't matter. We essentially saw it predicted in Star Trek.

What's more useful is to figure out how to connect more dots today. How can we go from a few consumer vacuum robots to "Rosie" the robot? How do we make solar as cheap as coal?

How do we education the other 4-5 billion people so they can contribute to humanity? We could have 10x the number of scientists and engineers and they'd all be solving problems.

In other words, how can we change the technology curve so more happens sooner?
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I'm so out of energy for this stupidity I can't finish my comment. Bye.
This story is a repeat and it's currently #2 on the HN front page.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3706075
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I think I will sign up and try it out knowing this.
But if you don't run it yourself, how do you know it's working? All you know is that the tests pass.

Tests can easily do more harm than good if you let them give you a false sense of security.
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I think it would be a good vector for news articles about the issue.. Especially local ones.
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No, that still doesn't make sense. The loss discount was on a per-trip basis, not per hand, so basically if at the end of the week you were down $100k, you only owed $80k.

The rules were generous but NOT totally even. The house still had around 0.25%, which is low, but not unheard of. Even on the Vegas strip you can find Blackjack games open to the general public under 0.50% house edge. Of course, that's
with optimum general strategy, not "playing your hunches", which could easily open the house edge to 10% or more depending on how dumb you're playing.

My guess is that he was card counting, but not with a traditional system, and he wasn't using it to size his bets, just to make strategy decisions, which would be harder to detect.

The odds of beating 3 separate casinos, over a reasonable number of hands, even against a very low house edge, are quite small.
I'm sorry I did not mean to be unfair. I was curious if the companies were able to distribute updates pre-broadband. I can remember downloading the twenty something floppies for os2 over a dialup.
I wonder how expensive background checks are and how much (if any) of the $100 they'd get to keep.
Negatory.
He was in uniform and not acting as civilian, even if outside his direct orders. Afghan law has no jurisdiction on a US soldier.

There is no legal mechanism to turn him over to the afghanis.
(Any legal war specialist, please correct me if I am wrong)
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Also, try to use pacman as much as possible.
The media decode pipeline on Android is nearly 100% different from the media decode pipeline on any other flavor of Linux I can think of. I don't know how having Netflix running on Android is really relevant to having it running on vanilla desktop Linux - the effort required is still large and the upside still simply isn't worth it to them, so they don't do it.
Peter fucking Norvig is going to sit you down and teach you some shit for free and all you have to say is 'argle bargle...social'?

Social: IRC, message boards, facebook, google+, skype, mumble, news groups, facetime, instant messenger, etc.

Try to teach someone something: Stack Overflow, reddit, hacker news, your own blog, also, all of the above under social.

Collaboration: google docs, drop box, ftp, gliffy.
Sounds like you've been doing a good amount of experimenting as well! If you use the default startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges method you'll get updates sporadically depending on things like what other apps are using location services, so it looks pretty crazy in the wild. It will also skip over many geofences if they are smaller than a kilometer or so. Our SDK manages this intelligently and can trigger the smaller geofences more reliably without the phone being in super-accurate mode the entire time. If you send your contact info through our site we'd be happy to talk about this further! https://developers.geoloqi.com/enterprise
No it's not. Soft 17 is worth approx. 0.25% on the house edge.
Even in Vegas, it's not hard to find 0.50% edge blackjack, even at low stakes.
Have you looked at http://nodester.com/? It seems like a good place to start.
This has been posted a few times (I think) but is still great watching for those who haven't seen it. Everyone should.
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And, if we haven't found the right people in 60 days time, we might very well be screwed.

Who are Yammer by the way? Should I know about them?

[googles] ahh, is a twitintraweb. Well, I suppose those fortune 500 media budgets have to be spent somewhere.
If it didn't matter what you wore, no one would wear suits. They're either uncomfortable and impractical or incredibly expensive, and sometimes both. The only real reasons to wear a suit involve either social pressure to do so or narcissism.
The difference between dealer play on soft 17s is worth a few 10ths of a percentage point, not a few percentage points.
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"The post-Uni startup that addresses these concerns will take most of the pot."

I don't know. It will be pretty interesting to see how it plays out. It was said above that Udacity's business model is to connect students with employers, so there will be a big push to make that happen. Contrast that with a school who focuses on accreditation. There will be less push to make sure you are employed at the end. You will, however, have the all important (to 99.999% of the population) accreditation.

If you are going in with the goal to get a job at the end, it seems like the former is going to yield better results, in my humble opinion. And if you are studying the subject just out of enjoyment, neither model matters, because who cares if you have a job or accreditation at the end?

I feel we're a long way from claiming one business model the victor.
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There's a lot in this article that doesn't add up. For example this quote:

"So my philosophy at that point was that I can afford to take an additional risk here, because I’m battling with their money, using their discount against them."

If he's already up significantly (battling with their money) the discount isn't likely to come into play. And he's still playing a negative expectation game so every hand he plays he should expect to give back a little of his gain.

I don't think we're getting the real story here.
"it doesn't look like [Peter Norvig] has any actual teaching experience"

From his bio, http://norvig.com/resume.html

1985-1986	University of Southern California	Assistant Professor

1986-1991 University of California, Berkeley Research Faculty Member

Fwiw, my personal prejudice: Peter Norvig teaches extremely well. I preferred him to Sebastian Thrun in the original AI class. He explains the essence of complex things in a very systematic way, which is what I look for in a teacher, but Norvig's calm and quiet approach (vs say Thrun's more apparent enthusiasm) may not be everyone's ideal.
Shouldn't it be better every time?
I had good experiences with nodejitsu & joyent - both are free for node.js still I think.
I know coders gotta code, but I would seriously evaluate the need for such a service before diving head first into it. You may be better off creating a service that allows artists to embed music on the new Facebook Timeline and charging artists for running that iFrame or something.

People really, and I mean REALLY do not want to join another social network when there are already so many to manage. Google+ is learning this the hard way.
I'd say helping her leave and get her next job was the best thing you could have done for her.

Even if someone had solved this particular crisis, it sounds like she wasn't going to thrive in this political environment anyway. At that point, leaving is the best choice and, all too often, people don't see that.
This is simplistic binary thinking - life is not black and white. Judging people by ticking boxes on a checklist shows a lack of understanding of people and the complexity of motivations.

Maybe the employee feels the project they are working on is worthwhile, maybe they thinks that if they can get their project to succeed, it will negate the need for Yahoo to pursue patent litigation, or maybe, the employee has loyalty and passion for Yahoo and will stick with it through thick and thin to try and turn it around. They sound like qualities any startup would benefit from in an employee.

Yet, you judge all employees on a single issue made by someone else at the company.
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How can you safely upgrade your tools (which often change in subtle ways), without tests? You can't.

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I was going to recommend http://badassjs.com/ as well. I notice someone in the comments there beat me to it but.. I'm giving the rec on HN ;-) (and I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't recommend new O'Reilly JavaScript conference taking place later this year: http://fluentconf.com/ :-))
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Based on this logic i dont see why i cant send an invoice to the TSA for my time. They are probably so incompetent they'd actually pay it...
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Yea, exactly. Whenever someone of Norvig's caliber is willing to teach, I shut up pay attention. I wouldn't care if Norvig was teaching how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I'd have my freaking notebook out scribbling down his recipe.

Despite being a programmer my whole life, I'm taking the Udacity 101 course because you never know how another person's experience with the basics might change your understanding.

Also, is programming a skill that really requires a social element for learning? I've definitely had a lot of fun programming in social settings and in groups, but a lot of the skill is built in the hours of isolation with your fingers on the keyboard.
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Don't know why Liu thought AWS would use blade servers. 1U commodity "pizza box" servers make the most sense by far. In-fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon was making their own servers (see Google http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html)
Actual headline:

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I guess there is supposed to be a brief pact before the escalation.
Why do you think dropbox is unlikely to find an acquirer? Because they're too proud to get absorbed into Apple?

I can easily see them being a massive acqui-hire, as they've solved the problems Apple, Google, and Microsoft (lexicographical order) have been trying to solve for years, and I mean the technical problems and also the marketing problems.

I don't pay for dropbox. I love it, but I could replace the utility it affords me with a couple of shell scripts and an S3 instance in a heartbeat.