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So, a PhD is like an MD without the fieldwork. And a PhD is like this: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

What that myopic, institutionally-granted dent in the universe gives you is the ability to write grants and manage student researchers for a living, but it's not necessarily going to help you solve cancer.

And let's say you go into the private sector as a bioinformaticist, that might get you somewhere, except private industry has nothing to gain from cures. A cured patient is a lost customer. The money is in abatement of symptoms and suffering for a monthly fee, and so that's what industry optimizes for.

What you, as an outsider, have, that people already there don't have, is the ability to cross disciplines. (Yes, ability. Talk to a PhD sometime. Most can't see outside their self-constructed walls until they've been out of academia for a few years, and they'll always have biases.) Academia doesn't like this, since it threatens each discipline's carefully drawn territorial boundaries. But you can do research like this: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/data-science-deep-data-info...

Scroll down to the "Deep data" header and read that part in particular. There's a potential link between something and migraines, that's pretty much unexplored. Why? Because to advance in academia, your focus must be incredibly narrow. It is completely possible and likely that everyone everywhere has just missed it, because it's not some hugely popular or obvious micro-subject within the discipline. As an outsider, you can explore across different problem domains and different branches of medicine and potentially determine unexplored research avenues.

Gentlemen scientists and inventors of yore discovered new things regularly partially because there was plenty of low-hanging fruit to be discovered, but also because the big-S definitions of Science hadn't been codified yet, so they could pull from what would now be different disciplines without anyone rapping their knuckles with a ruler: http://interconnected.org/home/2011/03/17/finding_baby_scien...

Curing cancer -- which, while a multitude of diseases, comes down to magically identifying misbehaving cells and killing them -- isn't small-S citizen or gentleman science. It's royal, big-S science.

But, maybe the way you get there doesn't have to be.
Why does "street view" need to "collect data", much less sanitize it?

How could this possibly be a error of judgment? Take pictures, fine. Snoop on people's WIFI? What possible purpose could that serve in context of Google Maps?

> Just come clean about what really happened, sincerely apologize, and then take serious steps to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

I do not understand this attitude. They were spying on people. It is that simple.
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I do believe that Google passively collected data, rather than actively hijacked wifi networks.
A Rails consultancy (I used to work for) in Atlanta called Highgroove also implements ROWE, going so far as to incorporate it into the way they deliver to the customer. It was a great way to work and operate as a business.

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I'm really sorry, but I have to ask... do you perchance work for a game development firm in Washington?
This is not a shot at you but your comment sums up the 'privacy problem' in the tech industry right now.

Normal users don't understand even basic things (like securing a wireless network, letting an app access their contacts etc.) and tech companies are taking advantage of it. Most normal users get people to set up their wireless networks. They really don't have a clue. Tech companies need to be aware of this when designing systems and drop the attitude that it's the users fault/they should know better.
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That was a nice explanation of why what’s moral doesn’t map to what's legal. I’m not sure what your point is, though.
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Wrong question.

Is it ethical for a company that already has massive amounts of information on your every move on the net to extend that reach by peeping into your house as well? And then their CEO has the chutzpa to blurb on his g+ about "privacy" concerns.
More like, you were reading your diary aloud with a megaphone, and then got upset because your neighbor overheard a bit.
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This just in: centuries old economic and social inequity NOT immediately solved by well intentioned startups! Hipster nerds decry the idea as a failure for not generating a billion dollar valuation after 2 years.

Seriously, poverty in these regions is the result of so many factors, stimulating enterprise is going to be helpful but it may take a generation or more to see the effect.
No, it’s not necessarily immoral to break the law. There is it again, the error to try and map morality to laws perfectly.

Whether or not not paying taxes is immoral (by abusing obvious loopholes) is different from the law.
Ever heard of Skyhook [1]? Not that I know what it was used for, but generating statistics on the types/coverage of wireless networks could prove useful in the future.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
> When the program was being designed, the report says, it included the following “to do” item: “Discuss privacy considerations with Product Counsel.”

> “That never occurred,” the report says.

From what I remember, it's very plausible to me that the "to do" item was actually just part of the design doc template, and they just never edited that part of the template. Which is not to say they shouldn't have had a review, but they may not have actually affirmatively set themselves the goal of having one and then failed, as the article suggests.
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Is this what brogramming sounds like? Too much Rockstar to rinse off the plate, leave it for somebody else?

Are we engineers or high schoolers these days?
The writer meant exactly what he wrote. Thats the reason you have to delegate UI updates from worker threads to the UI thread.
Any suggestions on how to maintain focus, while still allowing team members flexibility on what they work on? It seems to be a very fine line I have struggled with in the past.
Because they want to triangulate all the wifi access points. This helps you to fast and with low power determine your position using wifi on your android phone. This is valuable data and I think both google and apple used a third party for this before but have since build up their own database of wifi networks.

The payload is used to help and triangulate the accesspoints more precisely (according to the article).
Yes it is legal to film a movie in general though unless the movie is in the public domain you would be committing copyright infringement by distributing it. This is a separate issue from privacy.
IIRC one of the reasons Apple passed on BeOS was that the lack of a stable C++ ABI made app dependencies on the OS classes very fragile. For example, API classes had to be padded out with dummy members to make room for later non-breaking additions to apps.

Is this still a problem? Isn't this why just about every other OS exposes it's lowest level APIs as C apis?
Another question bothers me more: Who makes dishes?
So if the military does something and it is bad, then it isn't their fault because politicians made them do it. But if the military does it and it is good, then they deserve our praise and thanks....

Do you recognize the problem here?

Regardless, this whole thought that we should be "thankful" to the American military is absurd. They have billions of dollars to spend every year, why do they also require thanks? Do tanks run on thanks?

No. Thanks is needed because without the blinding effect of popular societal support, their actions do not stand for themselves. The military requires praise to be shovelled onto it like coal into a furnace 24/7 so that its hired guns can continue to lie to themselves and sleep at night. Listen, if you think they should have thanks, then do it yourself; however it is not your place to scold others who want nothing to do with it.
I'm excited to see what happens here. 3D Systems is releasing a printer with a proprietary filament cartridge[0], proprietary interface, and commercial ecosystem of downloadable solid model files[1] into a world that has inexpensive commodity filament spools[2], open interfaces and software[3], and a community of mostly open source solid models[4]. Can they really put the cat back in the bag?

[0] http://cubify.com/cube/store.aspx

[1] http://cubify.com/store/model_list.aspx?searchtext=&minp...

[2] http://ultimachine.com/catalog/print-materials

[3] http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

[4] http://www.thingiverse.com/
gitslave probably is closer to what you want
Its more than just Android/iOS- their location data also works for computers with wifi as well (eg when I press the "share my location" button on Google Maps from my MBP, they pin my location down to within 50 feet)

They certainly did not need to keep full packet contents though, just IP/Macs of nearby address to map to an approximate lat/long
I think it's breaks down like no experience = SDE 1

2 years = SDE 2

5+ = SDE 3, regardless of language.
As mentioned in the report, that's the maximum that the FCC can levy on a licensee that fails to adequately answer a (not enforced by subpoena) Letter of Inquiry ("failure to respond to Commission communications").

In paragraph 49 they mention that they may start applying much larger fees to companies with that kind of revenue to discourage thinking of that kind of fee "as a cost of doing business".
At Tinkercad, a cloud based solid CAD system, we see "serious work" happening in a cloud environment.
This is cool, but I'm more intrigued by the Solidoodle[1]. It's less than half the price ($499) – a much better entry level for the average consumer. It's not as pretty or have wifi, but it does have an extra half inch of print space.

[1] http://www.solidoodle.com/
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I liked the design of their pages so I went to look at the source and noticed every page is wrapped in a top level form tag, can someone explain why they would do this?
I think you'll find the "walk away" part is not that simple, considering the fact that it would constitute a crime. The kind of crime law enforcement is quite familiar with and that leaves plenty of traceable evidence because it involves financial transactions.

I'm sure there will someday be someone clever enough to get away with it, but most people are likely to get caught very quickly.
Nonces, used properly, should be fairly decent protection against the kind of CSRF attack you're describing. They're not bulletproof, but, someone who
knows enough about the internals of your site to generate a valid nonce probably has several other possible attack vectors...

I haven't looked at the actual theme in question, but I can imagine that a lot of Woo clientele want to be able to preview their posts with all the shortcodes intact, which is what this function does, and why it has to receive shortcode data through request parameter.
I was genuinely interested in the answers, so thanks for the interesting replies. I don't have a dishwasher so I didn't know it could be so quick. I agree spending 10 or 20 seconds or a minute on something that's useful for everybody is not a bad idea.

I'm just not sure how that scales for tasks that require more time. If there is some task that requires 20 minutes, and the company is big enough, do the answers change or do they not? Maybe it is better to hire a dedicated person for the office to do that than to make everyone use 20 minutes of their time every day on such task?
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Could be any number of things, operationally, and could also have a buffer built-in to the maintenance window to avoid unexpected issues.

Take a breath, you have more important things to worry about.
This project needs more attention.

I also feel that it might need to become it's standard.

For now, though, the parser relies on the CoffeeScript interpreter, and the JavaScript eval call. Any code from the superset of CSON--that is, the CoffeeScript language itself--should be seen as an error. But instead, in a lot of cases, it will still be parsed, and evaluated, as usual.
They require three different answers.
> I would have liked them to move to bitbucket.org because it was built with Django.

But Mercurial itself wasn't (although it was written mostly in Python). I think this is a good example of taking the pragmatic choice (GitHub) over the ideological choice (Bitbucket).
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All true, and also: GFCI breakers will not substitute for the dual breakers used in many panel boxes, they are too big. And, use of GFCI breakers is not compatible with three-wire circuits used in many locales in the US, at least. (What I mean is, two hot wires of opposite polarity sharing a common grounded conductor, allowing to run two circuits over three wires.)
Outside of Google, Palintar, and some of the other machine learning or niche consulting companies, I see little to no research on problems as hard and potentially influential as those that IBM or HP work on. The big reason you don't see what they do is that they don't work on consumer facing products very often.

The companies whose work I see at CS conferences and in patent searches for core algorithmic techniques are mostly IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Google. The majority of companies that are in the top links on HN on a given day do not do interesting research of the type IBM is doing.

Further, there is a lot of reinventing of the wheel going on in the startup scene these days. Just look at "new" things like in memory databases, column stores, event driven frameworks (Node.js) and others. All of these things are many decades old and do not count as new research even though they are newly written implementations. They may be more approachable to the common developer than the decades old implementations, and that has value, but this is not "research".
The gem was written for everything to be handled locally and then committed. If you run the rake tasks provided it will take care of putting everything in the right place for you. Just make sure you commit the changes and push them.

Glad you find it useful. I made it
For my own selfish needs but thought it could be useful for many more people which is why I made it a gem and open sourced it
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(1) The military deserves praise or blame regarding how well they do, militarily speaking, and the politicians praise or blame regarding political decisions. You're conflating the two.

(2) And, yes, you should be thankful that someone is willing to defend your freedoms.

(3) I don't scold people who don't thank the military; I scold people who denigrate the military. Actually, it's not scolding, it's showing a more rational way to think about it.

(4) I've enjoyed this, but I'm done here.
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That charger isn't even small. If you take a look at some of latest Braun and Nokia chargers those are much smaller. (I'm sure there are many other manufacturer using these chargers that aren't larger than ordinary euro-socket). Actually Apple chargers are HUGE if we consider latest development trends.
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It's because the site is made with ASP.NET webforms, which requires that top level form tag.
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I'm thrilled and excited to see this transition. I'm also very grateful for all the work the Django team does. I really love the framework as a whole.

I hope the Django team can fully utilize the benefits of using github, and further decrease the resistance to contributing (through pull requests).

With this change bugs like #17144 wouldn't haunt me for months on end, because I'd just fix it.
You'd only incur any sort of performance penalty when doing a syscall though. This article talks about sandboxing something like bzip2, which would do a few syscalls on startup and from there on only for I/O. Most of the execution time is spent doing computation, which wouldn't be affected by ptrace's performance overhead.
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It's because they used ASP.NET to create the site. More: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3038217/why-does-asp-net-...
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This is not a shot at you but your comment sums up the 'privacy problem' in the tech industry right now.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Whether or not normal users understand these things isn't relevant. The fact is that in countries with strong privacy protection (like most of Europe), collecting such data is illegal regardless.

It's the act of collecting the data that is considered invasive.

Compare this to the real world: we do a lot of things in public, but it would be really invasive if Google employees would start following us around, recording our public movements and conversations. We shouldn't have to live our lives in secret and "encrypt" everything we do in order to have some privacy.

The bottom line: it's not the part of the tech industry that provides "insecure" services that is at fault, it's the part of the tech industry that feels it has the right to abuse the information "because it is there".

We should stop accepting the widespread notion in the industry that crime is a valid business strategy until you get caught.
The ethical ramifications of work that is military in nature that an engineer must consider are close enough to on topic for my taste. These are concerns I know are considered not only by myself but by several of my peers working on the east coast, where jobs with military contractors are a looming presence in the minds of any STEM major looking for work.
Android C++/NDK by itself counts as a niche? That's kind of surprising! I would have thought a profitable niche would have to be a bit more specialized by now... I guess the NDK hasn't been out all that long.

I imagine gzipped Lua bytecode would be quite a bit more compact than gzipped compiled C++; does it work out that way in real life?

Does OpenResty work well with LuaJIT?

[1]: http://openresty.org/
If an ordinary Joe had tried to open your unlocked mailbox to read the mails he would be arrested. But if a $150b corporation does this, it would be wrapped in wrist. Only Google can get away so easily from this. Imagine if Microsoft had done this.
Also, please don't end up like the mongodb github project. They have 70 pull request, 0 closed.
The study showed that pictures are enough. Although I suppose real ones would be more effective (and have more side effects).
If apt-get is the wrong way to install Rails, it sounds like a problem with Rails. Just whose responsibility is it to keep the version in the repos up-to-date anyway?
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Is anyone else wondering how they apparently got 'full text of emails' just by briefly monitoring open WiFi networks as they drove by??? What email isn't on HTTPS these days?
Back when I wanted to get involved (I had a lot more free time), I saw it as an opportunity to have a graphically friendly operating system á la OS X, but actually completely open source.
The innovations of the past century were easier for amateur inventors to build without capital. Think of the Wright Brothers - a couple of bicycle makers built the first powered aircraft.

Could the equivalent pair of bicycle mechanics build the first reusable spaceship or electric flying car? Building a new space launch system will cost $500m+. Neither governments nor large aerospace firms are willing to take large risks with this amount of money. Incremental improvements to proven systems are much easier to justify.

I think crowd-funding and the Internet will lead to a new boom in innovation. The Pebble watch is a good example. The VC's turned them down, and now the public has pre-purchased $7m of Pebble watches in two weeks.

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Thief opens your door and my reaction will be: meh. Use better locks or at least lock it ;)
While I agree it would be a crime, how hard would it be to enforce? Can't the perps just claim some lame excuse for why they didn't execute on their stated plan?
Sure they can; but only if it "just works."

Wifi; a sexy form/structure; an easy to use interface; it seems that Cube (or someone else) has the potential to be the Apple of the 3d printing world.

I could see my father buying something like this; while he would never end up with a reprap.

For myself; and most of HN I would imagine they would go the open route; but there are a lot of people (This thing needs to be in Sky Mall) that I think are potential customers here.
Dhaivat, not to nitpick but perhaps you should add a disclaimer to the bottom linking to the official installation page so no one bookmarks your page and tries to use your instructions later if they are out dated.

See

"External tutorials

Note that that any outside tutorials are NOT supported whether they work or not. Tutorials are great, however we have spent massive amounts of man hours debugging the installation process. Please use the install process(es) from this site only, as this is the only supported installation types and methods. "

on https://rvm.io/rvm/install/