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So- if there is anything unfair about this, it is that small companies that can't choose to relocate from Cali bear the tax burden. But it is ridiculous to make it look like Apple is avoiding paying its bills. Instead why don't we see this as a perfect case in point for why we should privatize government? If we paid government directly for its services rather than requiring it to parasitically suck cash as it is set up to now, then Apple would have to pay its fair share of the services rendered in Cali and elsewhere. But, it won't be billions, because "billions" is not a fair price to pay for what it gets from the government- at least, unless there is something it is getting that I don't know about.
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I interviewed at Google 5 years ago, and they asked me tons of puzzles and math questions (game theory and theorem proving!!). I was being interviewed for a programming job. Looks like the process has changed.
On the other hand. Both of these points have been true for the past one year. It has been one whole year since WP launched. It's not like it's a brand new comer bringing something the market has never seen anymore.

And during this past year, both microsoft and nokia's market share actually decreased [1]. That's with both the points you mentioned, over one year.

Don't you agree that's enough empirical evidence that those 2 points, alone, are not enough?

[1] http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/03/brutal-...
A few observations:

- Lots of reference to military applications
- Nuclear reactors and shielding
- FORTRAN!

An interesting note about the applications on the nuclear side: I worked in a semi-high security clearance environment on certain nuclear operations. One item we dealt with in particular was a very old algorithm implemented in FORTRAN. We were attempting to scale the system involved, and the implementation of the algorithm was a major bottleneck.

The algorithm was phenomenally complex (it's nuclear science, after all). And, we had a challenge in documentation that was impossible to clear up with the original algorithm implementors: most of the team involved had passed away more than a decade earlier.

It was one of the neatest programming challenges I've ever encountered. Those old-school engineers were cool, and I wish our industry could keep more of those people around to pass along what they learned and help teach our industry going forward. The technologies may change, but logic never goes out-of-date.
Apple charging 9x market price for MBP RAM upgrades
The problem isn't really the OS. It would be hard to find something significantly more open than stock Android sans the Google integration. The problem is that the OEMs (largely at the behest of AT&T et al) sell most of the devices with locked bootloaders.

The tablet market has the potential to be the thin end of the wedge toward fixing that though. Suppose several of the existing PC makers like Dell get into the tablet market and start offering WiFi-only devices available with stock Android and unlocked boot loaders. I have to assume that those companies would be happy to see some real competition for Microsoft for once.

The trouble is going to be that Microsoft may be back to its old tricks with regard to not allowing PC OEMs to preinstall "Linux" on their hardware. We've already heard ruminations about Win8-on-ARM requiring a locked boot loader. It remains to be seen whether the PC makers will be willing to throw their users under the bus in order to appease Microsoft.
Among the other achievements of IBM I would like to mention the 4 Nobel prizes(3 in Physics):

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards.shtml
There's an important difference, though.

At my startup we've tried a lot of things, but we try them serially. We went through a bunch of ideas early on, doing our best to kill the idea in prototype. Here my co-founder talks about how we spent 6 weeks to kill an idea that other people spent 9 months (and millions of dollars) to kill:

http://vimeo.com/24749599

The failure mode that Suster talks about is trying to do all the ideas in parallel. I agree that startups should try a lot of things, but strongly believe they should focus on one at a time.
Right, they completely eliminate any buffering. That’s very strict, but you’re right. I thought you meant that there’s a subset of XPath that can’t work on anything but DOM.
I just think it is amazing that Kim Dotcom is making the FBI look like bigger assholes than he is. You would think this would be very difficult, but he is just completely controlling the conversation. Even if the FBI wins this battle, the damage to the reputation of the FBI has already been done.
I feel the same way about LXDE and Lubuntu, except I didn't do it because of Unity. I actually like Unity- I just don't like how bloated the desktop has become in Ubuntu. People were fine with the UI in Windows 3.1, but they just kept screwing with it for no apparent reason, and I feel the same way about Gnome/Unity, KDE, and new versions of OS X.
See also the coffee pot at 10:00.

If you can reliably find fresh coffee, morale is good. Low or now coffee, things are amiss.
I actually think that some government monopolies are not bad. The problem is that they can't be implemented properly if there's corruption (and there is, always).

For example in France the state owned the electrical company and the telecom company for a long while.

Result?

- Single electrical network

- Single, full fiber, telecom network.

- Health care, even if not perfect, is way better than in the US.

Those work very well and are among the best in the world.

When mobile phones came to the game, they did not interfere in any way. Result?

- Each operator has a set of frequencies, successful operators have no bandwidth left (I'm sure you know of that issue in NYC, SF, and all big US cities if you're on AT&T. Same issue.)

- Deployment and coverage takes forever (again in the US it's the same, so many areas don't even have 3G or any cellular network at all) since not all zones are as profitable

- Same issue every time a new tech comes up (good luck til all the country is covered by LTE)

This concludes into: the state has to organize and regulate things for the good of the people (which actually also leads to faster innovation, see the fiber example again. France's full fiber network is in place since many decades!)

The problem is that no country really does even a little bit of that anymore. Every party is backed by corporations and sustain only their interests. The scheme is well oiled with several steps, and we aren't very different from the people in Europe from the 1700's (regardless of the country)
I don't understand why the host list is finite. The one I use isn't even a choice.

Also, why is this limited to Ruby applications instead of VPS performance in general?
Consider for a moment who that military decided needed killing en mass during the decade following the topic of discussion. Where all those communal farmers really threatening our way of life? When this army got it's ass kicked and left with it's tail between its legs a few years later, leaving those farmers to live their own lives as they chose to, did our society come crashing down?

Why didn't it?

There are no Mongol hoards waiting to invade, suggestions to the contrary come from those who profit from the fiction and those who buy into it.
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Do you really think sharing this info on HN will do much good? Seems like it is just a "injection attack me" sign for a bunch of Wordpress sites.
In your opinion, which types of employees are not too important to watch the dishes which they dirty?
How were the stolen images tracked down? Through services like TinEye?
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Increasingly, smaller articles about other articles get much more traffic than the original source.

This may be a good lesson for writers to learn (imagine how a pageview-whore would summarize your article, then summarize it yourself), but in the meantime we shouldn't encourage it IMO.
Apple charging ridiculous amounts for their RAM isn't news.

I don't understand how they can sell computers in 2012 with 2GB soldered in with a straight face (http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC968LL/A?).
And this is why it is a bad idea to look for null or nil as a value representation in place of text or number. Instead, use a different representation, like an empty or non-existent element/attribute, etc.
FWIW new models custom 8gb costs $200.

But yeah.
I would like to imagine that. But you run up against the "neatest roommate" problem.

Suppose you share a house with a half-dozen people. You are all good people, so whenever something seems messy to you, you clean it up. Problem solved, right?

In my experience, definitely not. Because the person who's best at perceiving mess tends to clean things up before other people notice anything. That person feels like they're doing more of the work. Because they are. And they feel unappreciated, because people generally don't notice the messy-to-clean transition.

I'm a recovering sysadmin; I burnt out because I grew so very tired of caring about things that people never noticed until they were broken. What they said then wasn't, "Gosh, I really appreciate how well the printer has worked these many months." They said, "God damn it! The printer's broken just when I need it the most!" I'd love to know how stabby Valve's sysadmins and IT people feel.
There's Hirelite[1] which touts itself as "Speed Dating for Jobs." Not exactly what you're looking for, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

[1] http://www.hirelite.com/
You need both to prevent fire and accidental shock. Fortunately, you can install both at the same time for all of your receptacles by using GFCI+AFCI circuit breakers. Unfortunately, they are expensive.
good deal! it's just a fun side project, wanted to try something different. good to hear i'm not the only one who enjoys it :)
I just patched my wootheme'd wordpress sites to address the issue until an official fix is out, so at least one person got positive value from this post.

That said, I really wish the original public report had been a private report.
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Come on, who here wouldn't want one of these?
Best Buy has something similar called ROWE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE

The business measures performance instead of hours. At Valve the performance appears to be measured as 'shipped'.

I'd also guess that Gabe is practicing his own version of servant leadership:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership
I think that's more interesting than the rest of the article. :P
And the coursera compilers class is distributing its dev environment as a virtualbox image. I'm lucky I have a copy already.
Correct. You need an arc-fault circuit interrupter for that.
My point is that structure is imposed somewhere if you want to query your data. Either that structure is in the data, or in tools that parse the data. There is a "conservation of structure", if you like.

Most of the bunfights between proponents of different technologies is really an argument about where to pay structural tax. You can pay more at write time or read time on a sliding scale.

For logs, I think the smart option is to pay as little write-time overhead as possible. Their purpose is to maximally describe an event with minimal interruption to service. Every strictly unnecessary adornment to structure takes you further away from that core non-functional goal.
Not that I have the most experience here, but I've never felt my time was too expensive to wash dishes. Your ego may vary.

Maybe there's some marginal value in saving highly paid employees from doing menial work, but there's also a cost in terms of culture when you treat people like they're better than anyone else.
Did you attempt to responsibly disclose this to the WooThemes organization before posting it publicly?
I haven't hit a 75 story limit, but I can't seem to save stories anymore. The last one I saved was 26 days ago, everything I saved today didn't work.
That's a very good point: insisting that a single person must have skills in math, computer science and data interpretation is creating a purely arbitrary set of qualifications.

If we make a comparison with other fields, we can see that trying to find a single person who has skills in several diverse areas is not something that's usually done. For example, do companies try to hire bond traders who can implement their own trading software? Or do we insist that airline pilots or surgeons or CEOs should be able to build and repair the technology they use?

And if a company did manage to find a person who was both a good statistician and a good software developer, wouldn't the combination of responsibilities pull this person in too many directions, making it hard to focus on on what they were doing? Also, it would take a lot of effort to stay current with the latest developments in both math and computer science.

If a company was too small to be able to afford to hire three full-time specialists to analyze their data, they could outsource their data crunching needs to consulting companies that specialized in this kind of work.

I also have a problem with the newly-coined term "data science". Scientists are engaged in discovering fundamental truths about the way the physical world works. I don't think that finding trends in a company's data counts as science. (I don't think that 99% of "computer scientists" are scientists either, including the professors I knew in grad school.) I liked the older term "data mining" much better, but I guess it's not trendy enough anymore.
Valid points, but isn't it awful also to have a company that basically wastes people's time and keeps them from doing anything but consuming?

I think computers should be employed to do useful things like 1. help us colonize space, 2. stop world hunger, 3. stop poverty, 4. stop war, 5. help people to love each other, 6. help us understand and love God/a higher being (assuming you believe in God/a higher being).

If your work is for some SAAS app that doesn't work toward those things- it is contributing to the death of humans just like a military application- only in a different way.
Well if developer time is that valuable, I think Mel Brooks has an innovation for your office that you should look into:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfXiIXTpE0

More seriously, I think that allegedly financial calculation often ends up covering up for laziness, arrogance, and hierarchies of social class. Make sure the code works? That's QA's job. Make sure it runs well? Oh, that's ops; file a ticket. Wash my own dishes? Hey, office manager, get on that. Oh, and and honey, make me some coffee while you're at it.

I know some companies work that way, but I'd never want to work at one.
For more context, here's their employee handbook that explains their flat org: http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
Unfortunately, it's a crapshoot to find outlets that don't leak power. Look for the ones with a mechanical switch to disconnect the USB ports.
> think there may be some correlation between a man liking porn and a man treating women as mere sex objects

I doubt it, given the negative correlation between porn and sex crimes:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v046j3g178147772/fulltex...

Maybe it's the case that those who most objectify others will be satisfied with using porn pretty much exclusively if that's an option, but I doubt it works like that. I think porn simply fulfills the 'punching bag' need, and allows other emotions to come to the fore in the real world.

> I have found that whining and complaining that men should not treat women as sex objects is a really weak position to take because it respects the assumption that all the power to change things is held by men

I fully agree.

I also think that one part of achieving equality is to realize that women objectify men, and that it's in their power to stop such behavior. Especially since any man who objects to being objectified by a woman is placed in a very precarious position in our current society, much like how people pretty much assume it's impossible for women to rape or abuse men.
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That is incredibly interesting. If you're uncomfortable saying who you work for in public, please contact me. I would love to understand more about your organization and put it on my list of potential companies to hire.
Oh the irony, I have to beef up my electronics for work so I blocked Reddit to keep me off it then I see this on HN.
http://webjournal.nerdfiles.net/2012/04/03/this/

Notice the date. That was the date.

What is interesting is that they are engaging in an activity that wishes to avoid reproducibility. They allow "facts" and "ideas" to swap.

Articles like http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5828 exist. There's the Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. All that theorizing needs to record facts. To do that, we need to be able to follow what the hell is going on without blatant wankery like with Anthony Crick or early John Searle's "foot in the mind" rubbish or Dennett's everything's-a-scientist metaphysics. Philosophers got the descriptivist bug with Experimental Philosophy. Linguistics has always been largely descriptivist. Now psychology is to do the same. Who cares that they may have false theories, let's see if they've described anything.

As Fraiser obviously demonstrates, psychologists have had their Golden Age. Psychology needs management.
"What really sets Haiku apart, though, is its efficiency and speed. On my three-year-old desktop computer, Haiku boots up from a cold start in 10 to 15 seconds, and when running it uses only about 170 megabytes of RAM."

Sounds good to me, but 10-15 seconds running on what specs?

Also, looking at the video, it seems like this OS is stuck in the 1990s. That is fine as long as it runs a standards compliant browser, but it just seems lacking based on this video- has this changed?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixvppiSB7hc

I do like that it is just the basics though.
"While industry groups claim cell phones are safe, not all cell phones emit the same about of RF when in use."

These statements aren't mutually exclusive. This article depends on you assuming they are.
Start by deciding what you want to cure. "Cancer" really is a colloquially term for what is actually thousands of diseases.
Coincidentally I'm having a similar issue tonight. Heading to somewhere like Crucial usually gets you compatible memory way cheaper, but for an extra 8GB for my Mac Pro Crucial is coming in at $355. I dread to imagine what the official Apple price is, I didn't even check..
You might start by reading this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography/dp/...

.. there isn't one thing called "cancer", there are at least thousands of different varieties that have different genetic profiles, different behavior and risk factors, etc.

The thick, opaque layers represent actual human learning and experience and judgment, and you can't just skip over them because it seems more fun to jump right to the high-profile heroic stuff. You can't do the good stuff without learning the rest.

(*Ok, once in awhile people come up with breakthroughs in fields they know nothing about - and once in awhile a monkey will accidentally type something intelligible, given a typewriter. We still don't issue typewriters to monkeys when we need to get some writing done, even if it would work from time to time.)
I've developed apps for all 3 devices, and while I use the iPhone personally, I think WP7 is much better than android. Im talking about WP7 phones from a year ago too. Every time I use an android phone it is buggy and not at all responsive. When I click a button I don't like waiting for it to do something.
I like the idea of Haiku OS, but from what I've heard, for binary-compatibility reasons (kernel drivers? All applications? I'm not sure) it still ships with GCC 2.95.

Requiring a compiler over a decade old for a modern OS doesn't seem like a good long-term strategy.
Great, but there's still billions and billions of people who aren't participating in all that "innovation", mostly due to the local strongmen in their particular geographic area.

I don't have any answers, but it sure is frustrating that thousands of people will die today due to "solved" problems -- many from lack of food and water, of all things. :(
You can charge sales taxes. A company can't avoid those if they want to sell things to the country.
Source code in the blog here:
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How do you deal with the Dunning-Kruger effect? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

The short version is that people who are good at things generally get that way because they have a strong ability to tell good work from bad. People who are bad at things can't tell the difference, so they a) have a hard time improving, and b) think their low-quality work is pretty swell.

Is your culture perhaps unusually frank? Alternatively, is it very supportive in a way that makes critique more comfortable? Might you have a formal (or informal?) mentorship program so that people get useful feedback?

Are there peer groups that meet around particular skill areas? E.g., do visual artists get together regularly to show recent work and discuss it?
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thx, sadly i don't do video (there are readers and there are listeners in this world, i'm definitely a reader), but i'm giving here book a chance http://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models-Computa...
Have an upvote, though I don't see any reason to believe that the negative correlation between porn and sex crimes in any way proves that my personal opinion, based in part on first hand experience interacting with heterosexual men, is wrong. I think all it means is that having some outlet is better than having no outlet, not that viewing porn makes would-be rapists have more humane and enlightened attitudes towards women. Similar to the fact that countries with inadequate legal exports are your biggest exporters of illicit drugs: They need hard currency and that need doesn't go away just because they lack better options. If given better (more socially acceptable) options, people will usually take the easier path that leads to fewer problems. It is a form of self interest, not necessarily an expression of deeply respecting other people.
The Kerry packer (Australian media baron) quote is always appropriate:

During the inquiry he repeatedly berated the politicians conducting it, and the government. When asked about his company's tax minimisation schemes, he replied: "Of course I am minimising my tax. And if anybody in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their heads read, because as a government, I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra!"
Would there be much harm in posting the fix for others? If not, could you?
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At some stage they must have asked themselves, with all the effort they had gone through, couldn't we just make a serious offer to buy the BeOS IP?
This is actually one of my biggest concerns that keeps me from moving to an Air from a MBP. With the unibody MBP design it's actually pretty easy to do things like upgrade the memory and hard drive, and not pay the ridiculous upgrade prices that Apple wants at time of purchase.

With everything soldered on the Air, you lose that choice.