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I went to an Agile class where the lecturer compared unit tests to double-entry bookkeeping. An accountant doesn't say "oh, I don't need to add up both columns here, I know it's just trivial addition".

Once I got in the habit of writing tests of even the most simple transformations, the code complexity and my test complexity grew at the same rate, so it's much harder to end up with a giant untestable mass.
Two points.

> it's just hard to make that big impact on search results with personalization

Trying to make a big impact on something that was more or less working might be the problem. A "don't fix what's not (too) broken" could be a good idea.

For your dmv example, actually, I din't know what dmv is, and my fisrt page (french localized) is about a medicament dictionnary for doctors (DMV, didn't know it either).

"dmv usa" doesn't get me the dmvusa.org result firt either (it's the one I get on the US google)

This seems to be the best example of why geospecific data can be widly irrelevant, and using the default setting, I get this kind of unusable results for half of what I search.
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This is called google "remarketing". Basically what happened is when you visited the Eames chair site, you received a remarketing cookie.

Then when you visit other google properties, google automatically gives you ads from that Eames chair site.

http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/remarketing.html
I'm sure this was just a talent acquisition. As far as I can tell, HumbledMBA wasn't doing very well. I think I remember seeing an article on VentureBeat saying they had -3 daily active users.
Given the projected market cap of Facebook, relative to Yahoo, the settlement could be worth 1/2 of Yahoo's market cap or more. Given Yahoo's revenues and they way patent infringement is punitively calculated, the infringement on Facebook's newly accounted patents would have to be worth a huge portion of Yahoo's revenue to matter. Otherwise, Yahoo could just close down the infringing services, settle on the back stuff, and continue suing Facebook.

If IBM's patents were core to how Yahoo made money, IBM would have already sued and / or licensed them to Yahoo. The fact that they didn't, leads me to believe that a lot of attorneys, on Facebook's behalf, are going to be billing tons of hours looking to find a square needle, to fit into a round hole, at the bottom of a HUGE haystack.
I don't think it's fair to say that it was a dumb decision, because as the article brings out at the time Linux seemed to be more likely to hit the mainstream than Apple.

Also it is ignorant to say that Linux is the past, as it is the current dominant OS when it comes to web servers making it very much in the present.
Way too broad a statement. Linux is clearly a future for a large segment of users, same as OSX.

Actually, let me take that back - with the new 'post PC' world coming where only techies will have laptops, Linux has a greater future. OSX will fade because all hipsters will just have iOS devices
I completely agree with you on this topic. In a similar vein, I don't want to read the average Joe's take on why he loves the iPad 3 so much (I usually abstain from commenting, though lately I've said what the hey) - I want to hear what smart, more enlightened people have to say. That was the real value of HN for me when I first got on years ago. It was hearing from people like patio11 when the topic of SEO came up.

The thread recently where Jordan Mendelson (napster hacker) chimed regarding Napster's back end is the quintessential example of what I'm talking about.
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Do you write lots of security fuzz unit tests? Cause I don't. I write tests that hit the edge cases I can think of, but invariably, I can't think of everything. I really don't think the security argument has much to do with unit testing.
Sorry but I don't see how your example of a guy initiating a dialogue with women he just met is an example of a power imbalance.

Sorry, but I must be expressing myself incorrectly. My understanding is that guys used to be entitled to just go up and sit with unaccompanied females in public. If there was asking, it was pretty perfunctory. (This is from a woman's commentary from a documentary about the 60's, about how consciousness changed from the 50's.) In some countries, it was customary for a guy to ask the already present male for permission, leaving the female out of the decision. (This is from my own knowledge of Irish traditional culture.)

Of course, maybe I'm biased since I met my wife by simply going up and talking to her while she was waiting in line to purchase a ticket for a boat ride

The question is, how much right of refusal did she have? How much presumption was involved on your part? I'm going to guess that she had a lot of latitude on the first part and there was little presumption. I'm going to hazard a guess that you would've been embarrassed, but taken her polite refusal, had things gone differently, but not been offended or felt the loss of something you were entitled to.

The tricky thing in all this, is that it looks fairly harmless on the surface, but it's still pretty corrosive in aggregate. Please don't fall into the trap of being offended because what you've done has a surface resemblance to subtle racism or sexism. No one is saying that you were being sexist because you met your wife in a line. When one gets rid of the overt forms of [X] one is generally left with [X] that resembles something else. (But if you are observant of the power relationships beneath the surface, there is a clear difference.)
From what I understand, people that raise a significant amount of money via kickstarter/crowdsource usually do so from their own, already established communities. If these people are in it for a quick buck, its likely they wont have the community necessary to raise any significant amount of money.
Ask HN: Are there any WhiteLabel Mixpanels?
I have worked at enough startups to wonder if anyone is serving this market. Say you are a startup and you need to open up some of your data to a 3rd party, are there any sites that let you send tracking events to an app, and then allow you to create a branded page for a segment of those tracked events?
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Yes, I suppose it doesn't, as you can't really freeze the execution state (or the relevant parts of it) for the use of the closure--e.g., somebody else can change the memory values before your code gets run and so you act on stale data. :(
I doubt they are legally allowed to do that. Otherwise it would be a simple matter of a lot of tape drives.
Smart, good looking and ambitious.

I should just give up.
This is not an opportunity for Apple. It looks like trying to get rid of a known person from competition. Linus doesn't even write that much code anymore - he's controlling the releases and is vocal in the community, but I'm not sure why would Apple want him for. They've got their own processes and they don't need that kind of control over internal developers.

Was there any real gain for them from that offer?
Heisenberg's Cat
I was thinking that too. There should be plenty of grads from the US Navy Nuclear Power School, and the officer grads are likely to have at minimum undergrad engineering degrees either from the Naval Academy or civilian universities.

http://www.navy.com/careers/nuclear-energy/
Really? I think Linux might be the future with it getting ready for the mass market, and with new hardware like the raspberry PI, Linux has only began it's global domination.
For tech savvy smartphone users, committing to a two-year contract is brutal. Mobile technology moves so fast that smartphones can seem outdated just months after they launch.

There is a simple solution to this. Just choose a plan that doesn't contain a subsidized phone. It's cheaper which means you have money left for the phone you desire. Once that is outdated, just sell it on ebay or wherever and purchase a new phone. And so on. Of course, the new phone will cost more than you get for the old one, but you really can't have everything.
"Interesting thing is that we currently give 1% of our profits to an environmental program through Patagonia called 1% for the Planet."

I think you are already doing it right, honestly. If you devolve 1% to whatever non-profit / good cause IMHO it's already enough. The real problem is that most companies will not do anything like that (1% is a lot), otherwise a few 1% to environment, a few 1% to open source, the world wold be a different place, entirely.
Perhaps a stupid question, but does the class at MIT cover this entire textbook in a semester?
Hold on there buddy. All Western designed PWRs or BWRs (which is nearly all of them) are not designed to be yielding bombs. Their neutron flux is simply not high enough to give enough enrichment.

Two other types of plants you might be thinking of when taking bomb materials into account. The russian design for Chernobyl was meant to produce electricity and bomb fuel which is why it had a graphite moderator which creates a very high neutron flux.

The other one is the sodium cooled breeder reactor which we chose instead of the molten salt design discussed in the article. The sodium breeder was good at making plutonium but still was never designed to have that plutonium removed in any usable fashion. Sodium is a tricky substance it reacts with water violently. The french still have a plant or two going as do the Chinese but it's really not a stellar design.

Now, I agree about the temps and pressures being unnecessary. The reason for these is about efficiency of scale. In a power grid like America's where we need 1 gigawatt and greater plants, plus with licensing a plant being so difficult, you build the biggest baddest plant you can which can output the most power. This means you go with the highest temps and pressures while still being ultra safe to create a more power efficient reactor.

Smaller reactors which would be better for the power grids of the world. Like 250 mega watts would not need these extreme environments. There are some great designs for a back of trailer truck reactor which can just hook up to a coal plant's secondary systems (steam turbines and such).

The best part of nuclear startups is nuclear is not a 'if' question. It's a when. I just hope we can disrupt quickly enough to bring that sort of power production here sooner rather then later.
Those are basically the same old tips for being successful on the internet (or at least trying to be that).
That makes it a perfect fit for language. The alphabet, spelling rules, and grammar aren't much different, unless, of course, you immediately recognize a lowercase 'a' because an 'A' looks like an upside down oxhead, and 'ox' starts with an 'a' in early Greek (or was that Sumerian?)

I do not think any extra mental load that learning qwerty adds is significant.
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yep, but it's strange because it's hard to think at the whole IT economy of today without open source. The idea of startups itself was completely different. What Unix? buy a license, with proprietary hardware maybe, and then purchase the web server license, and the compiler...

So soon or later it's gonna happen maybe as everything is posing on this base.
This throws the absurdity of capitalism in our faces: Guido, a guy who developed software that benefits hundreds of thousands even by conservative reckoning, can't work on it full time.
I also believe Linux is the dominant smartphone OS. (IIRC, Android has the largest marketshare of smartphones http://news.cnet.com/8301-33200_3-57323943-290/ios-vs-androi...)
Why you should always read user comments under posts
Objective C-like Null Object Pattern in Ruby
If you have more than one app, you could try to do some cross promotion.
I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that engineering, with the exception of software engineering, was still very much a "suit and tie" field.
I don't think Apple will leave the desktop/laptop field any time soon. In fact the statements they have been making with regard to OS X Mountain Lion show that they recognize the importance of desktop/laptop form factor. They just want to provide some of the "hipster" features of iOS on the desktop.
There were a lot of things developed more than 140 years ago that we still use. For example, let's take the rocket engine, developed by the Chinese in the 13th century. I believe a very similar engine was used to put man in space.

What is old is not necessarily antiquated.
I think it's clear the Constitution is a threat to national security and must be abolished for the sake of safety.
John Cleese - a lecture on Creativity
That was a dumb decision on Linus' part. Apple is the future; Linux is the past.

This sounds so familiar; where have I heard it before. Oh yeah, it's what the MS fanboys were saying ten years ago :)

Not that I'm anywhere near Linus' capabilities, but I would turn down a job offer from Apple too. I don't much fancy working for evil.
The Navy trains operator-engineers, not design engineers. They are indeed one of the biggest sources of operator-engineers, though.
Not if the evidence is on the servers.
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It is hideously expensive. Don't know how these guys are gonna do it. I remember talking with a prominent VC who had a division in the energy space. They got a few nuclear startup pitches. Always, it was 'we need 100 mil... and 50 of that is going to the gov't for licensing'. If these guys have figured out a way around this. All the power to them.
There's also the Woz method of thinking about the problem so intently that you can simulate the whole system in your head without even looking at any code. Being unable to write your program bug-free would be like not being able to recognize your mother.
>Backing up your data on Megaupload and then not keeping a local copy is active stupidity of such vast scale that I refuse to believe it has ever happened in the real world.

To borrow a famous quote.. nobody ever went broke overestimating the intelligence of the public.

That said, having your backup service raided by LEO's toadying about for entertainment conglomerates was probably not even on the list of people's possible downtime concerns..
It looks pretty, the example looks pretty slick, but, it's not all that easy to use in a hurry, and I'm not even sure history exists

It shows a very good 'State of the Machine' at the current moment in time, but it does feel slightly like candy

One major, major thing I would add to convert this into something I would use for my 'strtup' is time, and the ability to see what happened at a time, or event

I am basing this on the 'live demo', but it seems like a report on what's happening now, which isn't really that useful in the grand scheme of things. For instance, if I drop a new feature or blog post on HN, I want to see what effect that will have on my application, and what users do and where they go after first opening that email or clicking on that link

This may seem insane, but I promise I am going somewhere. In my GCSE Physics exam, we were given energy diagrams, and told to do things with them like fill in the blanks. On the left, there was a kind of 'origin', which represented the energy given out by an object. So say a lightbulb gives out 80% light, and 20% heat energy, that would be represented by a 10cm wide arrow on the left hand side, which then breaks into a 8cm wide arrow pointing right, and a 2cm wide arrow breaking off from the main chunk and pointing downwards, to represent waste energy.

This loops back into analysis, say when Flow was first posted onto HN. You could break that down into signups, showing where people dropped off, what pages they viewed and where they went from there, and then render that in a pretty diagram, hopefully showing you where the friction points are

I do also have two minor issues I picked up on from Flow, and I suppose Mixpanel

Given it's a free product, which may or may not have the aim of pushing users into Mixpanl, I could not find any obvious links to https://mixpanel.com on the main page. Which was kind of sad, I wanted to read more about Mixpanel and what the bread-making product does, and how it sustains this free app

Secondly, I emailed Mixpanel back in January asking about details for an internship. Since then, I have received a grand total of nothing from them. Which is sad, metrics and user statistics are two things I thoroughly enjoy, and I would love to work with Mixpanel to build things like this
SPDY wouldn't just help on an isolated benchmarkable level; if the Internet en masse significantly decreased the total number of TCP connections, there would be a benefit to the herd. Congestion control would just work better. It's hard to measure such things.
This book has a great chapter on recurrence relations. Saved my ass in an algorithms course iirc.
Baidu and Wallah did not "steal code" from Google and Yahoo. You can argue they "stole" ideas of search and portal, but that would imply there's ownership of these concepts and it belongs to Google and Yahoo - which is wrong on both counts, both ideas existed long before their implementations by current kings of the hill, and nobody owns them.

If you think copying Google is "dead easy", you're well on the way to become a multi-millionaire. I've tried recently a number of emerging search engines, and none of them is as good as Google, despite the fact that copying PageRank is supposed to be dead easy. On the other hand, I'm sure Google's understanding of Chineese or Hebrew or Russian is not perfect and specialized engines can do much better (I know about Yandex on Russian market, but I'm sure there are more).

There's a place on these markets for much more than one player, so treating everybody being in the same search engine market as Google as "stealing intellectual property" makes zero sense. It's like treating everyone that makes smartphones as "stealing Apple's intellectual property". Maybe some hardcore Apple fanboys think that way, but this is not useful for anybody but them and Apple, certainly not for the consumers or for the public.

As for "respect for intellectual property", I don't see why Chinese should necessarily respect artificial mental constructs that were erected by Western politicians in order to produce some utilitarian value. These things are defined as utilitarian, the only reason that is being argued of why somebody can use the idea and somebody else can not is: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". If Chinese do not agree that this would promote Progress and useful Arts for them, why they should feel obligation to respect it?
how's apple any more "evil" than any other big company (google included)?
Probably over 80% of shiny content that users consume on Apple devices is served by Linux servers. Ever heard of that little thing called cloud? It's powered by Linux for the most part.

By making operating system a commodity Linux changed computer industry forever, and it's not going anywhere. Don't underestimate it.
It's common for companies who both patented technologies each other need to use to make an agreement where they exchange rights to use each others patents. It is strategic and keeps them both moving forward while still keeping the little guy down.
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I think the article is wrong in saying that the problem is caused by bullies and aggressive people. (At least I understood that.) The problem is more general than that and is hard grained on a lot of people and not only the ones who feel superior to women or want to hurt others.
How is competition "sub"-ethical? Competition drives innovation. VC's say it all the time, the IDEA is worthless without excellent implementation. I find it perfectly admirable that a VC would invest in two companies that have the same idea. It helps the VC feel more comfortable with their investment and adds enough competition that the two (or more) companies will have to do their extreme best to come out on top. The VC wins, the best company wins and the customer wins. Sounds like something Apple might consider unethical, but it's really not, it's competition.
Not working for Apple is possibly the best decision Linus could have made. One can argue that Linux would have kept moving forward without him, but it's really a shame when great talent leaves the open-source community.
The man might be opinionated, and some might not like him, but where would we be without his continued contribution?
>The compatibility problems you have trying to get data off a disks in a hardware raid make it impractical (do you have the EXACT SAME version hardware revision & firmware; without this you can't guarantee you can read it back)? Its either that or you have to pay data recovery guys to rebuild it.

Forgive me for for sounding like a member of Anonymous but..

So? That's the government's problem. I don't see why a private company should be in any position where they're required (at wallet or gun point) to help in an investigation at their own expense. Pull the drives, warehouse them, and let the FBI do what they have to do. They have IT to rebuild the RAIDs.
I'm looking for visual examples as well if ever!
You may be underestimating the number of techies liking OS X.
They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.
I'm wondering this, too. The data would still be there, and they wouldn't have to worry about maintenance costs at least, right?
Virtualization technology for the cloud age: C99, Google NaCL and ZeroMQ
>Creativity is destroyed in academia.

I wonder what this means for nuclear engineering's future, because I'm looking at Transatomic Power's team and I'm seeing a lot of influence from academia. Both members of the actual management team are PhD candidates, and all three members of the advisory board are professors. Granted this is one sample, but it seems like the barriers to entry for energy startups in general, but especially those dealing with nuclear power, are too steep at the moment for anything to move forward without help from academia.
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Why do you agree then that Google has gone into a filter bubble?
Honestly, I wouldn't work for Apple either. I'd hate to give up the community I've spent most of my programming life a part of - the jailbreaking community. It'd take more than a giant salary to rewrite my values. :P
your own statement explains why it was like that: because software was just a small commodity passed along the real stuff (the hardware). Not much of an industry there...
Searchify hits a million queries a day to IndexTank search API
Sounds like some kind of OCD obsessive, or the plot to a bad sci-fi movie. Hinge your existence on your code? What does that even mean? I code therefore I am? How good is "good enough", anyway? It's quite possible to churn out decent code without it being the hinge of one's existence.

The same comment goes on to say "When you jump of the cliff their is exponential growth before you hit the ground. When its time to pay bills well climb back up the cliff when you get to the top of it you will find your self much further." so there's either an awful lot being lost in translation, or this is someone to whom coherent thought does not come easily.
Oh yes, the marginalization of women in tech is definitely "internet drama that doesn't matter."
> "Apple is the future; Linux is the past."

Even Apple itself doesn't believe that. They left the server market when they killed Xserve.