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To be fair to Avaaz.org, this isn't about "crazy Americans" this is about the opportunity connect to a populist narrative, "Save the Internet from the US". In this way non-profits, NPO's, build a donation base using carefully controlled press releases and volunteers world-wide to connect their entity, the NPO, to helping troubled communities.

Right now they are building a mailing list to capitalize on global anti-Americanism. Understandably, they may not use the mailing exclusively to solicit donations, and will most likely sell it to third-parties, "We may share some of your personal information with certain affiliated groups." It all depends on what they consider more important at the moment, the privacy of the volunteers (anyone who gave their email address/tel #), or the helping the greater good of their causes.

References:

http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/20-5050267/avaaz-foun...

http://www.whois.net/whois/avaaz.org

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/privacy/
MSR developed the idea further, but Kinect originally came from an acquisition.
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Find something interesting to work on while you're in school. You'll gain experience and have something to talk about in job interviews.
Exactly, I think the team acted quite correctly, and its a shame that this is happening.
Said the man who reads web pages through an email client.
There was a question on Programmer's.SE asking the best way to recruit developers. That was my exact answer as well. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/47312/best-wa...
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http://pghcareerconnector.com/

Pittsburgh technology council "career connector" is a good place to put your resume. I had a couple of high-quality interviews after doing just that.

It is not silicon valley, but there are lots of smart people and many different kinds of technology companies of all sizes. The city itself is nicely compact and there are lots of opportunities for learning, recreation and entertainment.
The lesson to be learned here is if you can do something different and get people to look at and talk about your posting, more people will apply because more people will see it. If the place all of those 'more' people see it is a place frequented by A players (such as HN), more A players will apply.

In other words, this was a marketing/PR win - not a win in terms of how you are asking people to apply.
You can hypothetically use something like hearbeatd to do it; we run every Redis master with an attached slave and manually failover for now.

For a small team like ours, we prefer solutions that are easy to reason about and get back into a healthy state (it would take one server deploy to point all appservers at new Redis master), rather than fully automated failover and the "fun" split-brain issues that ensue. Of course that may change as we build out our Ops team, etc.
There's such thing as inertial navigation (that's how missiles fly even with GPS assistance), and potentially you can use a phone's accelerometer for that.
We have a datacenter in downtown SJ and I was amazed when first parked there on the -3 floor underground. My car's in-dash nav works perfectly there :-) There's no even remote chance that GPS can work 3 stories down in a solid concrete building.
I understand the embarrassment, but this isn't how science is supposed to work.

If we can't have glorious failures, we can't have glorious successes.
This is the only time I've ever agreed with RMS. Facebook is a disease. Please do not require me to log in to it for your cause.
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$100k/year with no benefits and a relatively short fixed term, plus the overhead of setting up the contract and having the space/equipment to fulfill it (admittedly those are minor in this case.)

In my experience for good contract work like this the prices start around $50/hour (at least in big cities in the US), and tend towards 75-100.

I'm not saying that _this_ should cost that much, just taking a stab at the rates I usually see in the DC area.
We would love to integrate Southwest! Unfortunately, they don't let anyone do that. You'll find other low-cost carriers on Hipmunk, though.

Southwest offers a lot of flights between SFO and LAX, but it's not true that the big carriers don't. I did a search on June 25 one-way SFO-LAX. Southwest has 12 non-stops. Delta has 11, and United has 16.
Many employers do not even care if you have a degree.

I remember when I applied for my first full-time, non-freelancing job. I do not have a degree (I had been in the field for long enough to feel that I had significant experience), so I would not bother looking at postings that requested one. Therefore, I did not bother submitting my resume to my that employer.

Instead, a headhunter found my resume, the company interviewed me and they ended up hiring me. I was fairly close with the person responsible for hiring me, and he stated that the degree never crossed his mind. Instead, they looked at the source code for one of my free software projects at the time and thought that I would be fit for the position.

I was later actively involved in the interviewing process for new candidates, and a degree was the last thing on any of most our minds. In fact, when asking for code samples, we found that many with degrees had only elementary knowledge because they only completed what was necessary for the course, but did not apply themselves any further.

That said, these were the opinions of my employer; others may not feel the same way. If you are able to provide extensive examples of your work to your employer (e.g. source code if you are applying for a programming position), that is likely to be more representative of your ability than a degree that only says "Yeah, (s)he completed this course."
My first reaction to this is that it is bad. Unlike other fields, you shouldn't be punished for making a mistake in Science. Science is driven off of mistakes and being wrong, and it's the opposite of everything else. I know the article says that there were other issues that led to this resignation, but just the fact that they've resigned has changed this scenario from being an exemplar of science to something muddy and mundane.
For a more visual explanation of the difference between where we are now, and where Alex would like us to be, see the diagrams in his next blog post.

http://infrequently.org/2012/04/one-for-dave-and-david/

There's some fantastic discussion in the comments there, too.
You've made this point twice now ("Every serious project in Clojure or Scala that I've seen ignores their concurrency stuff and goes straight to Java") and I'm curious to hear some examples as well as your understanding of why this would be.
Because it defeats his point, everyone has paypal, nobody has BTC. In order to acquire BTC, you have to go trough custom (less reputable) payment services with your credit card because IIRC you can't even use PayPal to buy them.

And on a more theoretical basis - because IIRC 1M$ of BTC purchases would raise BTC value to 10$ according to MtGox stats (I'm assuming that's the major trading market). Double that, quadruple or even multiply by 10, if there are more coins not listed at MtGox but available below 10$, it's still pocket change, probably what those comedians made from video sales alone. When comedy video sales causes your currency to swing 100% in value that's not a currency, that's a toy. It's a shallow market - because nobody is using it, arguably - nobody is using it because it's volatile, and volatility is the result of the shallow market, catch 22. So, while bitcoin is a great technical accomplishment, practically I don't see it taking of anytime soon.
It's also extremely easy to lose your bitcoins as well.
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related (last June)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2713463
>> This really isn't the bad part of the law

Although this one was a success story, it has largely been ineffective in stopping copyright violation in many other scenarios. Youtube, the biggest video platform on the net, still continues to host thousands of copyrighted videos, many owned by people who are notoriously aggressive about enforcing their copyright. I don't think the takedown scales really well. It's basically you vs. the internet and you are going to lose :)
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Outspoken misanthrope with poor social skills and a tendency towards an absolutist black/white view of the world dislikes social networking? Color me surprised...
Based on shear numbers, "spray" is probably accurate. But I don't think "pray" is the right word. Obviously Dave cannot give every company a substantial amount of attention but he is ridiculously attentive, has partners and has mentors.
You can observe and read about how the Russians and Chinese behave yourself, no? The great firewall? Syria? Putin's gradual takeover of Russia?

The US has plenty of defects, but is not really in the same league.

Now, that's no excuse at all to not demand better behavior from US politicians, but it is pointing out that "international control" over the internet is no panacea.
Woohoo, bring on the downvotes.
I don't think he was saying exclusively hire from the meetups...he was saying to add that to your recruitment portfolio. There are a number of developers who aren't looking per se but by engaging them in a more social environment than a job board, you have a chance of catching their attention about the new job you're hiring for. The biggest thing that Raganwald never touched on is that many of the best developers won't even apply to your job under normal circumstances because they're content where they are. Getting involved in the community helps engage those people.
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God says...
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I'm responding 9 hours after your comment. A healthy discussion has evolved over all of the utility a legally blind person could find in this device. I would say this was a major PR success.
And everyone reading this will be sharing the link on Facebook :)
I love how the response is basically "c'mon Richard, let's be more short-sighted about this." https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/csail-related/2012-Jan...
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Woah. I had no idea csail-related archives were published on the web....strange feeling to realize you've been in a glass house the whole time you thought you were in a regular house.

I only post that comment here because it served as a reminder to me that, for all the privacy reasons we shake our fists at Facebook, FB actually does a lot to surface privacy issues to us that were always there (like whether or not a lab mailing list is publicly available) but you might not have noticed.
You aren't more same just because you read email in webpages

Not that it makes it any betterfor him either.
I was listening to an interview on fresh air with baseball catcher Brad Ausmus today. He said something I thought was pretty insightful, and relevant to the science and people's reactions towards failure:

DAVIES: And when somebody could take a little berating what would you berate them about?

Mr. AUSMUS: Usually when I was berating someone it was because they were pitching what I would call scared. They were trying to avoid contact or they were afraid that the hitter was going to hit the ball. In sports in general you can't be afraid of failure, but in baseball there's so much failure you really can't be afraid of it. So the only time I would berate a pitcher or get on a pitcher would be when I felt like they were pitching scared on the mound and that they were trying to avoid contact because they were afraid of what was going to happen. So unless you were doing that like I said I general rule was to walk away with them feeling they could get out of that situation.

I hope popular and public reaction to scientific failure doesn't give way to "researching scared".
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Like it or not, this particular hiring filter seems to have caught on bigtime. The only downside to it is that there are people like myself who love to take a stab at solving puzzles regardless of whether they actually want the job or not. In the past 2 years, I solved online puzzles & scored interviews with the founders of 3 yc companies ( greplin, poundpay & freshplum) & 4 giant financial shops ( BlackRock & 2 other hedge funds I can't name/nda). In some cases like BlackRock, the puzzles are quite involved & can take a week to complete. Puzzles are a lot of fun....I just wish the associated job was equally interesting.
It was the "unnecessary and paranoid" bit that really turned me off. Flaming everyone who doesn't use the same style wasn't warranted, IMNSHO. I responded with snark.

I think in general the answer may be to use the style that mimics the other code in the application. Rubyists may prefer the newline endings; those using Java or PHP may find having the semi-colon more comfortable. Having less contextual switch between languages may be easier.

Such a sweeping statement seemed a bit ridiculous. Choosing to interpret it in a broader context was intended to highlight my opinion of the original statement.

EDIT: It's been fun watching the mod of the GP go up and down ... zero, back to one, then to zero ... over and over.
Every new language/environment has the problem of needing interfaces into the lower-level system. If this takes off, you can expect the people to build the FFIs and share them.

If not, usually it's not too difficult to only wrap the calls that you need. There are also methods for automatically generating FFIs, although that only works with certain APIs.

Cocoa is definitely accessible from C. Objective-C is just a superset of C, so if you compile all the generated C files as Obj-C you can write any Cocoa code you want.
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Question is, how many of us would even know about human slavery in Vietnam without the Internet? I grew up when people got their news from whatever the networks chose to squeeze into 30 minutes of primetime news (Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather at their peak), and from the morning paper which varied in quality around the country.

Society as a whole is much better informed now, yet a handful of rent-seeking assholes are running a scorched earth campaign to protect their obsolete sacred cows, potentially at the expense of all of society being better informed about what matters in the world.

If you can vote for both, by all means do it. But if you have to choose one or the other, then I'd argue it's not so black and white which is more important to human life and liberty.
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You've to keep in mind that a lot of Linux users (myself included) have NoScript turned on when browsing Internet.
Do you mean your eye's lens, or an external lens? I think there is some confusion in these child comments over which you mean. At any rate, it seems it projects onto your eye's lens
Yegge's now-famous rant paints a really different picture. https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...
No easier than losing your data or having somebody hack into your computer.

It's money, you're suppose to treat it as such.
Another reason why Americans (and Canadians and Brits and Australians) don't need to learn foreign languages: many other people speak English as well. I spent the summer in Germany two years ago. I am conversational in German, but when I would talk to someone they sometimes picked up on my accent or my use of a grammatically proper word that didn't necessarily fit with modern German trends. About 50% of them instantly switched to English. Of those 50%, only about 30% went back to German when I said "auf Deutsch, bitte." What it ended up being was me speaking in German and getting responses in English. They were all too happy to use me to practice their English.

We don't need to learn a foreign language, because a large number of non-English people speak English anyway.
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Writing copy has always been a thorn in my side. It’s a skill that I want to nail down - it’s doing more harm than good at this point.

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One email per day, for one month, with a copywriter working at a tech startup.

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This is all about feedback and measuring my personal improvements.

Your response will include what I am doing right and wrong. It will not include corrections. Instead, I want links (Copyblogger, etc.) that explain what I am specifically doing wrong. Then I will respond with updated copy. We will go back and forth a couple times till the copy is perfect. If perfection is not reached you will give me your version of the copy.

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When I was a kid, my parents sent me to camp, even though all I wanted to do was sit home and write text adventures in BASIC. I hated camp. I hated the kids, and the counselors, and most of all I hated how everyone acted like if you didn't like it, if you weren't having fun, then there was something messed up about you.

Facebook = camp. The most oppressive and authoritarian thing about it is, at root, that most people appear to enjoy it and not see any problems with it, while you view it as this heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space. The worst thing about it is that sinking feeling that no one cares what you think.

Feelings like this have been articulated far more effectively, and by individuals far more likely to have an impact. It's kind of questionable that a one-paragraph throwaway rant like this has hit the front page of HN. But if that indicates that a lot of people around here have burned their facebook accounts, or are planning to, that would be a hopeful sign for civilization.
I started out pretty fat; I think my weight was changing faster. Probably as the cube of my waistline. :p Also, my girlfriend at the time (a nurse) informed me that a lot of weight loss in the beginning is visceral fat, and won't necessarily manifest as shrinking dimensions, but will make you healthier.
I feel this same way about "brogrammers", do they even exist? I've never met one, and I'm a pretty social guy. I'm sure there are some douchy guys who happen to be programmers, but are there enough to even call it a trend? Or is it just this mythical "they" who we love to poke fun at and make nonsensical statements like "We can't serve alcohol at tech events because it will attract brogrammers."
I agree about the absolutist black/white world view but it is unclear to me how RMS is a misanthrope. Skimming the whole discussion on that mailing list it's also apparent to me that - while RMS did go offtopic by advising people to not use Facebook - poor social skills were in fact exhibited by the next commenter who replied to him in a very sarcastic and hostile way.

Taking the subject matter into account it would have made sense to instead chastise Stallman for exploiting an entirely different discussion (apparently about some student project) and injecting his own absolutist view into the original story that was at best only tangentially connected to Facebook.
I really like this idea. I've downloaded plenty of apps that pop up a dialog asking you to review them. I've always found the pop up to be fairly pesky, but I think I would change my mind if it offered the better version for doing so.
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While I agree that it shouldn't be automatic, this isn't actually a relevant complaint as sending a message to the developer stating "your app was rejected for three countries, but can be deployed immediately elsewhere" makes a lot more sense that forcing you back through the 5-day approval process; not just for the developer, but for Microsoft as well: that time isn't cheap (especially for a free application).
Diet is the most important: cut out anything with flour and sugar in it.

Exercise: skip endurance exercises - they waste muscle. Do some weight exercises 3 times a week, or chins/dips/pushups if you prefer bodyweight exercises.

Keep workouts short: 30-45 minutes. Always warm up before workouts, no need to stretch. Once or twice a week do this: run fast (sprint) 100 yards 5 times, rest for a few minutes between runs.

I've lost 20 pounds in two months and gained some muscle following this plan.
What you say is mostly correct but I want to fix a few of your statements and assumptions.

Regarding the skepticism on the end results of retargeting I can say that all the transparent retargeting companies offer you A/B testing of your retargeting campaigns. What we do is show PA ads to a control group and your retargeting ads to the experiment group. What we see is a lift of conversions between 40% and 200% and CTR doubles at worst compared to non retargeting display campaigns, these numbers vary by industry but are a good representation.

Google has moved its entire network inventory to the Google Ad Exchange. What this means is that for every impression there is an auction in real time where multiple buyers bid in real time for the right to show an impression to a specific user. While it's true that Google might filter out impressions that they deem particularly interesting for them it is not what we are seeing on the exchange.

AdRoll.com adheres to both Do Not Track and to the AdChoices initiative. Both of these allow the users to opt out of all retargeting campaigns either from their browsers or from the Ad itself (through the AdChoices icon). More information regarding this initiative is at http://www.evidon.com.

Disclaimer: I work for AdRoll.com and we are the biggest self-service retargeting platform.