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My thoughts exactly. I think the digging was okay though, for the simple reason that she backed off as soon as he said he wanted to be left alone. And I don't believe a journalist doing research has to interpret silence or no-response as such, but when he communicated this, she let him be.

The second issue was absolutely over the line. It's not so much the name (which is sort-of public knowledge, although the Wikipedia citing issue makes it problematic), but publishing the other personal information really crossed the line, and the article would have been much better without it.

I don't think it's vindictive though, rather a very stupid oversight.

I also think it's too bad that the top comment conflates these two issues, because I think it's very useful to draw the distinction. Spending effort to reach a subject for comment strikes me as proper journalistic research--publishing the PI gathered in the process however, absolutely is not. Even tabloid journalists would simply just publish the comment, but not the addresses or names of employers used in acquiring said comment (be it for different, more competitive reasons, but still).
"Baker said that the firm resisted the move because it wants to build products that people 'love', and added that using standards that are encumbered by patents does not support this."

That's not at all what Mitchell said. She's said pretty much the opposite, that resisting this standard which is patent encumbered does not help us build products people love.

You really should read the actual posts by Mitchell and Brendan if you think that's "what's wrong with Mozilla" because I'm pretty sure Mozilla's doing the opposite of what you seem to think it's doing.
If you're not in Windows 7, you can also do this:
Select the window with Alt-tab, press alt, up, left, M (not at the same time). Then use the arrow keys to move the window around as you choose.

It doesn't work with a Chrome window though, since it seems to override those options.
As someone graduating from college soon and hunting for a job, I ask this of my interviewers. If they can't tell me where their tech news comes from or they give me an answer like CNet, I know it's not a place I want to work.
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So it starts out at as high a pressure as it will end up at the bottom? Because of course the problems of pressure are reversed in deep sea submersion as compared to high altitude flight. You have to pressurize a plane, the submarine will pressurize itself.
What happened to web apps? Five years ago they were The Next Best Thing because they didn't have updates, toolbars, service packs, filesystems, anti-virus...

Popularity for technology comes in waves.
Ideas are worthless. Opportunities could have a lot of value. Or not. With tech ideas it's mostly not, but not always. This "ideas are worthless" -- which I firmly believe, by the way -- is just a rule of thumb. It's not one of the Ten Commandments.

Share ideas. Think a bit about sharing opportunities before you do.

I have an idea to sell apples. So what? Everybody does. Share it.

I have an opportunity to buy apples down the street at one dollar and sell them in a nearby town. In this town apples are already selling for ten dollars each and the vendors are constantly running out of stock.

In that case, I'd keep my mouth shut and go sell some apples.

Ideas are just little blurbs. Opportunities are descriptions of value.

The reason your "I'm making the next E-bay for Twitter Reputations" idea is worthless is because it's a blurb, like selling apples, it's not an opportunity.
I have always wondered why there has never been a competitor site to Phoronix. My guess is that very few people with the interest and ability to understand things like mesa and llvm are motivated to make a website about it.
This is a classic correlation vs cause... head fake we always see.

All else equal a company should pay its employees a salary which helps them live a meaningful life. But the article doesn't support the title in any way.

Take best buy for example. Does paying their employees more save them from bankruptcy? Of course not.
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I don't think there's any general law for whether they do or don't.

On one hand, I can definitely look at C# right now and see how it is a vast improvement upon C# 1.0. I'll even go as far as to say I would probably refuse to write code in C# if it had not become what it is today.

On the other, I think you can only really change a language up to a certain degree before creating an inconsistent mess. If trends in the future dictate the need for a shift in paradigms, the extent to which existing languages can accommodate this shift is probably limited. I mean, you can often incorporate features that are based on the new approach to thinking about a problem, but once you start changing the core semantics of the language you're probably going to be better off with something completely new.
While reading this it is useful to know that David Malcolm is the author of GCC Python Plugin so he has seen the potential of modular, pluggable GCC.

https://fedorahosted.org/gcc-python-plugin/
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" The message - some workers in some factories are treated appallingly and that needs to stop and we can help it stop"

I think the message ought to be that workers in most jobs in China are treated appallingly, to the extent that Foxconn is an extraordinarily plum job that thousands of people apply for every time there are openings.
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They never stop? They've barely begun.
A Startup Junkie's Journey to Python via Java, Ruby, and Scala
(Try Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Large Text: it seems to work on my iPad for bumping notes to a larger font size.)
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The point is moot. They'll never have to pay money at all since they're only supporting this by interfacing with platform codecs. If they were shipping an H.264 decoder themselves it would be a different matter entirely.
> the submarine will pressurize itself.

It's a sealed unit, so presumably it's "pressurized" at ~1 atmosphere by the way of closing it up prior to launch.
Macs do not have the same power as a traditional unix. They are a lot nicer to work on once you get them set up properly though.
No. Airplanes are not air tight therefore they require pressurization. Submarines are air tight therefore no pressurization is required.

If the air in a submarine starts to 'pressurize' the last thing you're worried about is the bends. In a pressurization event on board a submarine you're going to be far more worried about how to get the ocean out.

The other issue is that when the air pressurizes it heats up almost instantly, it's generally believed that a large leak in a sub would create a wall of flame.
Bold statement. Keep in mind lots of us were balking at the idea of touch screens for even writing text messages when the iPhone came out.. Or jump back less than a lifetime to assumptions about how long it would take to get computers the size of our bedrooms.

Take a step back, and really consider how likely it is that laptops are FOREVER. It might be true, but things change and I think it's historically much more likely that ANYTHING you point a finger at today will be transformatively replaced in due time, than it is that you'll be able to accurately predict a permanent future for whatever an ultrabook is.

I actually don't have any idea what an ultrabook is, but it sounds like a very small idea... not something I'd bet on or invest in for the very long term.
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Oh, I'm sure it's totally an accident that this bill would hurt people trying to make government more transparent and help companies who give large sums of money to politicians. Totally.
I think he's saying the art justifies the means.

Daisey created a piece of art. It is a really good piece of art and it had great success as art. He got into trouble when people started taking his art as fact and he decided to let it ride to see where it led. He may have ended up a 'bald-faced liar' but until he misled TAL he was just a really, really good artist.
I think you might mean "useRs"...
In fairness, if anyone pronounced that the advent of the TV was going to herald the "post radio era," I would say they turned out to be mistaken. People don't listen to radio the same way they did before TV, but it certainly didn't go away.

If the PC remains as ubiquitous as the radio did, it won't really be a "post PC era", it will just be an era with a greater diversity of computing devices.
We might go back to the day when there were home PCs, business PCs, and workstations for engineering/development.

Except now the "home PCs", and many "business PCs", will be replaced by tablets.
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I think Atwood is right, PCs are on their way out simply because with tablets there is so much less that can go wrong. He mentions tech support in the article: THAT is why they will win, regardless of whether or not they will fully replace PCs, or whether or not they are better suited to writing emails. Millions of people who can't be bothered with anti-virus updates and the like will just find it a much more pleasant experience: "it just works" indeed.

(I'm a Mac user and I find myself spending a lot less time on tech support type issues than back in the day when I was using Linux and Windows, still it's hard to deny that iPads are currently the epitome of simplicity, compared to their power.)

And that's what I'm worried about: "No user serviceable parts inside". I'm concerned the very reason tablets will take over the PC market will also mean that tomorrow's kids' experience is very different from, and I would argue poorer than, my experience when I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC 20.

Ironically, my VIC 20 also was very user friendly. You turn it on, it's on. You put in a diskette -- well, it didn't load automatically but making it load was a very simple incantation, and once the game started, it was started. Things were simple and worked, for the most part, quite well. No tech support needed. But the BASIC shell was there right at your fingertips -- hell, the manual came with example BASIC programs.

Quibbling over the merits of BASIC aside, it was a simple experience but it was also tremendously open.

Things got much more complicated since then; network connectivity in particular introduced previously unknown threats to users, so of course this is a simplified comparison. Still, I wonder, is giving up the freedom to tinker with the system really the price tomorrow's consumers will have to pay in order to buy simplicity?

And if you're thinking about replying with links to IDEs running on the iPad: no, something that runs in the cloud and has no direct access whatsoever to the internals of the machine does not qualify as a modern-day replacement for this experience, no matter how sophisticated.
> This is good but IMHO he would be much safer in a spherical sub. I suppose the problem may be with having large enough viewports in a spherical vehicle.

Part of the problem is also descending/ascending - a sphere cannot do either as quickly as the "bullet" shaped vehicle designed here.
I agree with you there. I only let it pass my personal bullshit-ometer because it's a rebuttal to a popular article titled "use bcrypt".
I rarely am attracted to job listings here. They are nearly always poorly written and reveal various flaws of the founders.
Of course this article is a reaction to all the polarized good vs bad discussion that is going on.

Perhaps people should just think of Go as one of those languages to learn in order to broaden their programming experience, not whether it's going to be the new rockstar programming trend. It's almost as if the HN community is trying to vote for the web stack that is sanctioned after rails then node.js!

Go's differences to other languages are enough for it to qualify as a language to learn as one of the many languages to try out.
> Right, I am always skeptical of simple answers to problems when humans are involved. I like simplicity and elegance in solutions, but if there is one thing that I have realized in life is generally when humans become a variable in the equation, simplicity goes right out the window.

Can't argue with that.

> You can count me out of any solution that requires alienation or elimination of a group of people based on a common identity

Hate groups would probably agree with you since they generally have a hard time seeking support. Even though they are a group based on a common identity.

Damn, there goes that argument. Forgot about that. There was a time when people were trying to abolish slavery. Trying to highlight how – if you take a deeper look – you can see how it harmed others. And that that matters.

Put slavery in a chocolate coating, put a shiny wrapper on it and all of a sudden, we don't have a problem! As long as we don't have to look at it. And as long as it makes people feel better about themselves.

You don't need to ban religion or burn bibles. You just need to have an adult conversation about what religion's implications are, denounce it and see it for the foolishness that it is.
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Wow, that works. Jesus christ this has been a frustration for years.

Thanks
>It's not about the questions you ask, or at the least it counts for less than say 20% of the interview. It's about the discussions that come out from them.

I definitely agree with this. I suspect though, that its extremely hard for someone to police themselves to avoid giving a candidate points for giving the "right answer". It's just so easy to be drawn towards people who seem to be like us that most people will be easily fooled by a good BS artist.

The trick is to completely ignore their initial response as signal, and then engage them with their response, whatever it may be. It shouldn't matter what they say at all, but the discussion should be enlightening either way. This is where you can tell if the person has depth and has really considered their opinion. That should be what you're trying to find out, not whether they say "work on interesting projects".

You're right, hiring is an arms race. Especially when we have endless blogs about the next hack for hiring rockstars, and thousands of job seekers studying these to get that edge. As a candidate I know that I better give him the answers he expects, even if they don't paint a completely accurate picture.

Case-in-point: for this question my #1 would be salary. This answer would likely immediately disqualify me with 95% of the people who would ask this question. If they would engage me with it I would answer that

"salary is the #1 criteria for most people, they just don't realize it themselves. If someone were to offer you a dream job, perfect in every way, except they offer you zero salary, literally zero, of course you would turn it down without hesitation. But if it were another criteria you would consider it assuming everything else checked out. Thus salary is always the single biggest factor when looking for a job."

Sounds reasonable, right? Unfortunately we would likely never get this far. The interviewer would have already written me off to even bother probing for my rationale. Until interviewers stop hiring/writing off candidates on seemingly arbitrary criteria, the candidate will always phrase his or her response in what they assume the interviewer wants to hear.
I've said this before, and I don't mind rehashing it here. It isn't meant as a personal slight in the least, your priorities are yours to have, but as someone who does hiring, I do not operate under any desire to keep interviews short for that exact reason.

If my interviews are a waste of your time, then you aren't likely to be the guy I want to hire. I want to hire someone who wants to work for me for more of a reason than to collect a paycheck. I want new hires to believe in our purpose, to fit in with our team, yadda yadda, but ideally, I'd like our interview candidates to actually _want to work_ for our company because they like or admire it independently of whether or not they are collecting their checks from us.

Perhaps I'm biased, but that ideal candidate, in my mind, doesn't consider an extended interview a waste of their time.
Does it read chapter titles via the track tag? I don't see it mentioned anywhere.
Solid point!

I'm completely sympathetic to anyone that feels a particular tool for which there are many alternatives isn't their cup of tea. It's fine not to want to use things.

I'm way less sympathetic to a reluctance to even bother learning about something, but a mis-titled HN submission is hardly your fault.
Indeed, I didn't mean to claim otherwise, but as far as I know it's a large part of the reason why reddit has purged the listed subs.
"all the existing HCI research tells us that higher resolution displays are a deep fundamental improvement in computing"

Citations, please?
Disagree. Laptops were revolutionary for power users; post PC is revolutionary for the everyfolk.

Post PC means Jill Sixpack always has a net-connected device within arms reach. This is a big step closer to constant personal net connectivity.
I think the whole question Tablet vs Computer is pretty dumb in the first place. It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true.

Tablet and PC simply correspond to two totally different use of media. A tablet is consumption centered whereas the PC is able to produce complex goods and services than then can be consumed by a tablet. Will the tablet push away PC usage to very low level in some areas? Probably! Will it replace a PC for every usage ? Are you kidding me: Development, 3D Effect, Advanced Audio Processing, Advanced Photo processing. That's just as stupid as saying that photoshop is dead because Instagram can do sepia...

PS: I will absolutely never buy a tablet, I fight every day to stay on the creator side of society, with a tablet I would just give up!
The FY2013 deficit is $901 billion. If you remove NASA spending, the deficit is $883 billion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...

(By the way, I agree with pretty much everything in the grandparent comment.)
> He is to cram his 6-foot-2 frame into a personnel sphere just 43 inches wide, forcing him to keep his knees bent and his body largely immobile. The dive plan calls for him to remain in that position for up to nine hours.

My heartfelt sympathies go out to Cameron--it sounds like riding coach on a transcontinental flight.
The NASA program cannot be compared to what the Chinese did with 300 ship expeditions. Maybe that would be better compared to our expeditions in the Middle East and the military industrial complex in general, but not NASA. I agree with the comment completely about how Europe won. Maybe the commercialization of many aspects of space is the key. I for one am excited to some day travel between New York and Hong Kong in a couple hours on a Virgin Galactic flight, if such endeavors are profitable and competitive then space may lead to 500 years of thriving growth. Still though there needs to be government backing for the cutting edge, which does not need to be armadas but shouldn't be shut down completely.
Ask HN: Tool for gathering quotes for use in non-specified future context
is there such a thing out there? i'm thinking of a bookmarklet type thing where if I'm reading a speech, it automatically grabs the <quote> tags and perhaps some usr tag functionality. in future, i'm writing an article and need that killer quote by the president but #@$!@ if i remember when it was or what speech it was in. kind of like a super-focused delicious with single use-case in mind.
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That is actually dependent on the application, but even when the default is tabs you can just drag the tab out to become a window.
Naturalistic fallacy.

I have no hard statistics to back up either side, though.
Myers-Briggs is not really a reliable instrument [e.g., 1, 2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyers-Briggs#Validity
[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Cult-Personality-Testing-Misunders...
I literally LOLed at CNet. That's a good one, I think I'll have to keep that in my toolbox for future interviews.
But I would say in the 'post mainframe era,' we've gone from a time when most computers were mainframes to a time when most computers are not. Thus talking about the 'post pc era,' implies (in my opinion) that the vast majority of people will only have a table.
Unconvinced.

It might seem like laptops are revolutionary, or were, but useful ones have been around for 20 years, and to what end? They've become progressively more useful in terms of screen quality and battery life, but they have consistently failed to produce any kind of revolution. And why should they? They're just a more expensive version of your desktop computer, that's small enough to carry around.

I'm happy to class this as useful, but the laptop's persistent insistence on being merely a small version of the desktop falls somewhat short of "revolutionary".
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Let's assume it costs $5/month per instance of Office 2000-Whatever. It's really more than that with the MS ASP licensing, but let's use $5 for round number sake. Let's also assume they have 500K users using Office, also what I would consider a conservative number.

That's $2.5 Million/month in licensing costs alone. That pays for quite a bit of developer time.
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I hate to say I agree with someone named Whateverer, but you hit it on the head. We have issues locally we need to solve. In 100 years we can still go to space. Same with 200 years. And we'll have tons of productivity improvements between now and then. But we don't have a public school system capable of producing scientists.

All that said - perhaps... perhaps... Perhaps the minerals and compounds needed to survive as a species are elsewhere in our solar system.
Presumably if they set the initial pressure at something greater than 1 atmosphere, but still within the comfort level of a human they wouldn't need to engineer the hull to withstand as much?
Not a Fad! It is a solid workhorse! Configuring Node servers is hardly an issue - maybe 5 minutes work. Writing services to run on Node does require some JS experience and becoming comfortable with the asynchronous nature of the Node environment. But most efficient browser side code is written in the same style.

Node shares the v8 JS engine with Chrome - so it is a high performance environment to write services for. Being able to use the one language, JavaScript aka ECMAScript, on both the server and browser is going to ensure longevity with lots of experienced programmers.

Will something "better" come along? - given enough time, YES!

Is it suitable for any task you may think of? - NO! It is unlikely that we'll ever see a truly capable Swiss Army Knife of software engineering - not that I'd try to fix my car with a SAK either!
An iPhone battery is roughly 1400mAh at 3.7V, which gives 5.2Wh or 18720 watt-seconds. A standard power outlet in the US supplies 15A at 120V, for a maximum of 1800 watts. So if you could charge your phone using the maximum power available from a standard outlet, it would take roughly 10 seconds. A typical laptop might take about 1-2 minutes. (That's assuming 100% efficiency, which is unrealistic.)
Suppose hypothetically you knew everyone using your service used a strong password. Say they all have good password managers that generate 40 character random passwords for them.

Is there then any need to do more than a simple salted hash? (Remember, the hypothesis is that all your users are using strong passwords).
It's weird to see PHP as being comprised of 62.5% C, though obviously it makes sense.