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I too had a great time during my internship at Microsoft. I'll never forget the sense of adventure I felt moving across the country to work in a team that made news headlines and impacted millions of people.

Working there full-time I found to be much different. The review system is a competition between peers, and it creates an environment that is at times hostile and at times theatrical. Instead of focusing on technical/product successes people were concerned with "visibility" from their higher ups. Because of this competition for good visibility, office politics dominated the promotion process. People would take credit for other's work and position themselves to dodge accountability for mistakes.

In consequence, many (but not all) of the people who were promoted into management were people I didn't want to work for. The worst manager I had there avoided talking about anything technical and was strictly interested in deadlines and, of course, his own visibility. To indicate his disinterest to his direct reports whenever someone began to discuss an issue in technical detail he would fake a loud and obnoxious yawn. Other managers I interacted with were better, but people like that who would "manage up" seemed to keep getting promoted.

Disclaimer: I work at Google now.
This essey is weak, I mean author is comparing apples to oranges. First problem with jellies is Fermi problem, it is approximation. If you have more people giving they answers mean of approximation will be closer to actual value. But second part is about concrete thing it is not estimating or guessing. First part is totally irrelevant. Second part could be used alone. But you just know that you can't please everyone so it is common sense I think. Like going for trip with people who are working in different jobs on different schedules, somebody will have to be left out.
This is downright censorship, if we would have a law like this, I would not post anything online in fear of it considered defamatory, since there is no scientific way to determine if something is defamatory or not, so basically anything I write can be considered defamatory. Laws like this are just an excuse for censorship.

Also the people who are the victims of trolling should get a life, talk to a psychiatrist or something, they clearly have a problem, because they give one damn too many about what random people are saying on the internet.
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now that you mention it.. I did forgot to include the leap year... :p
Ludicrous. Idiocy.
This is a startup blog. Their goal is to make everything feel amazing, so that more people become fascinated with "entrepreneurship", so that they can get more readers.

A few months ago, one of my colleague remarked that the main thing that tech blogs and new-gen incubators (ie ycombinator, thiel fellowship, etc.) did was make entrepreneurs out of people who wouldn't have created a company otherwise. I feel that there's some truth to that.

Offtopic: confluence, I'd like to get in touch with you, btw. Feel free to reach out through contact info in my profile :)
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I'm pretty sure they get away with it . Until we see a good cloud provider this will remain true, like the retarded pricing on current clouds.
When you lose the home Wifi signal, do the 'going out' actions (including turn off Wifi). When GPS tells you you're back home, do the 'coming in' actions (including Wifi back on). Seems even smoother than NFC touchpoints.
The title (and the first comment on the link) makes it sound like it's a perpetual motion machine, but as far as I can tell it's more like a tiny heat-pump: energy is conserved, entropy increases. Still kind of neat though.
I'm torn between my complete refusal to buy all things Apple and the fact that I really want this. :(
>> "I hope for it to be around ~500 pages"

Firstly congrats on the contract. You must be an expert in the field to be offered a contract.

The aim of quantity (pages) rather than quality is troublesome. I would be aiming to write something that achieves an objective - like an average web developer will understand how to apply HTML5 after reading; or a complete newbie will be able to start using HTML5....

I recommend going to a bookshop and checking out the current books on programming languages/frameworks. Try and find a style that matches your objective. Look back at books you read and what helped.

Unless this is an extensive reference guide, focus on quality content rather than reams of paper.
Happens to me all the time. I also have often the problem with a black screen after sleep :/
Out of curiosity, what team did you work for and in what years? Did you return full time to the same team you interned in?
Hehe, same here. I brought my girlfriend to a screening in SF, and she loved it despite never having even played a video game in her life before meeting me. She related to the creative process, as she is an artist (illustrator) confronted to that process on a daily basis.
This is awesome. I wish HN had more articles like this.
In case anybody else is interested, here's a post with link to the save file:
http://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar/comments/uyswv/here_it...

Time to fire up Civ II and try to save the world!
If radical climate change really is imminent, we should look in to geoengineering. Technology has already saved us from a few catastrophic predictions like this one.
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> a glass enclosed under sea walkway 30m down is not that much harder than building one 20m down

It's 50% harder.

What pressure are the passengers exposed to?

I ask because 1 hour @ 4 atmospheres of 80% N2/20% O2 is risking decompression illness. (Yes, 4 - you've got 1 atmosphere at sea level.) You can reduce that risk by increasing the O2 percentage but if you do that too much, you're risking O2 toxicity.
Need to read the article -- my library doesn't have access yet but this seems way too sensationalized.

I have no doubt the world will change. I don't think that we could prevent it even if we turned off the figurative taps but there's no way that the article advocates that the planet will not support life after this change.

Does it go into the probable losses and the mechanisms for those losses (heat/acidification/etc)? From that we could identify probable impacts to the nutrient cycle.
A pseudo-science article is at the top of the home page. hm.
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Maybe it just works in the USA?
... or you could get them here: http://www.tagstand.com/ for a third of the price and use an app that ties in with the existing profile infrastructure like tasker.
A plain ATM carc might be very difficult to use to get money from your account in developing economies. We had issues with our MasterCard debit cards in Nicaragua.

"Visa, accepted everywhere," I always thought, "Yeah, and everywhere Visa is accepted so is MasterCard." Apparently, that is not the case.

Just FYI, if you're traveling to a developing nation, make sure that your ATM/debit card will work to extract cash from your account.
It is a bit easy on Apple to blame not them but the "app store" model they created for their devices and control completely. Apple has been a leader in this industry shift.

Also it is not a question of physical media vs. downloaded software. Even physical media software now routinely call home to check for a valid license. So I suppose it is indeed legislation that we need, to prevent companies from revoking licenses.
And once again, the "crazy" views of the "fanatic" Richard Stallman ring truer than ever. Now that we rely more and more on computerized gadgets running programs for most of our activities, the sheer importance of Free Software running on Free Computers becomes more obvious, because it's becoming literally a matter of life and death.
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>So? Other companies are free to make the unchanged version after the original patent expires.

No they're not. You misunderstand; the original patent doesn't expire. It's EXTENDED. The original drug does not go into any public domain to be manufactured or built on by other companies.

Many drug manufacturers make generic drugs, but that number has decreased, which has led to behavior like the larger original drug manufacturers. I won't allege outright collusion, but it's crazy when everyone in an industry starts agreeing at one time that a medicine isn't profitable... Leaving a strong demand and opportunity for any one of them to step in and clean up... And no one does.

And before anyone wants to jump into the cost of research, some pharma businesses like GSK, spend about twice on sales and business costs than they do research[0]. And then there's the amount they DO contribute that gives patenting applicability to mostly public research.

It's quite depressing.

[0]http://www.gsk.com/investors/reps11/GSK-Annual-Report-2011.p...

Around page 136, I think.
>"Arguments at Apple are personal and confrontational. This began at the top, and it is part of the company’s culture."

That sounds like a terrible environment.
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"It's like one person giving to charities with no preconditions and another giving only to charities that support his political views. Both approaches are valid, but the latter doesn't have a base to feel morally superior to the former."

You give money to charities that do things you don't agree with? Weird.
Take a look at the test they added in the patch for an example of how the exploit would go down.
Agreed. That part was hard to read.
I think a lower goal and lower duration leading to higher success makes sense. As the article says, the lower goal average is just more realistic which I say resonates with people who are looking to back a project. As for duration, well...wouldn't you want to get in on something cool before it expires?
On those devices, Apple simplified the way UI layout is done by fixing the usable coordinate system at 320x480. As an app developer, you position things on retina devices no differently than on non-retina devices; placing a button at (160, 240) puts it at the center of the screen in both cases. The higher resolution / DPI is only used by the low-level font and graphics toolkit. As far as the developer and user are concerned, the device has a 320x480 "desktop" either way.

You can imagine an alternative scenario to this in which everything on the screen is half as big as it used to be yet equally detailed, with four times as many icons fitting on the home screen as before. This is what it would be like if the full resolution of the retina display were utilized just to provide more real estate instead of more detail.
That specific phrase "drastically lower our population very quickly" is very interesting because it appeared as exactly those words in the last article about this paper that appeared here yesterday: http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2012/study-predicts-im...

I made some comments about that exact wording and was criticized because that phrase as it is is not in the original paper, but was in the press release about the paper, a press release apparently written by the paper's authors since it gives them as contacts.

And here the phrase, not from the actual paper, appears in yet another alarmist article claiming that total irreversible planetary doom is certain if purges do not begin.
And that doesn't include the several large field sites in the U.S. (Charlotte NC, Irving TX, Fargo ND, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston) and elsewhere. I've worked for Microsoft for over a decade, both in the field and on campus, and while some groups are like a "start-up" in the sense that they're brand new, everyone knows they work for a huge company. For most of us, that's why we're here; we get to do really neat things but with the relative security of being at a big employer.
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I would even go so far as to call it junk science.
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I took Thiel's class at Stanford and I can tell you that Thiel is kind of a nut. He has a lot of very smart, very on point things to say -- however he is either gravely misinformed or pretty much delusional in his views of broader academia and its role in the proliferation of technology. You can see this tangibly from his founders fund investments in the bio sciences sector. Thiel views everything through the lens of incentives and grossly "overfits" this methodology to academic research arguing that the incentive to publish and be peer reviewed is responsible for the break down of truly ground breaking research. So instead he throws money at equally delusional (but somewhat qualified) PhDs in advanced fields for which he seems to have little grasp for. You see the same patterns in the people selected here -- ideas that sound "cool" as if from a sci-fi novel but tangibly very distant from real markets and profits.

I doubt his fund gets deal flow from serious silicon valley technology firms.
Now I reversed the app back to where it was at first; fast and only searches "hash+plainstring". Now the results include all the hash databases too. The server IP gets banned from time to time, but the IP should be dynamic, so the bans won't last forever.

I could use Yahoo, but it doesn't find nearly as much hashes as Google.

Also, no logs are kept.
But ironically if I want to work for him, I need a college degree :)
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Most of this is just bold claims without any backing. Every kid thinks they are the next Einstein, Jobs, or Gates. For the more technically oriented people, university provides the best environment for access to scientific papers and domain experts around. Hell, Thiel's own startup Palantir hires people "preferably with phd's." It's not the degree that matters, but what you learn during it.

Thiel has some form of political agenda and this is just a stunt to try and further it. I do not claim to know what his agenda is, but if I had to guess, I'd say his aim is to promote his libertarianism ideals.
If JavaScript is the assembly of the web, where are the compilers?
Of course they didn't beat thermodynamics, but still, assuming they can scale the tech up to a useful power, it's a light that's also a cooling element. That'd be more than kind of neat, wouldn't it?
The article is a hodgepodge of mixed metaphors, and reading it leaves me with the impression that the theory itself is as well.
Based on this report, this is my rough understanding of this vulnerability:

When you pass nested query parameters such as "id[a]=b&id[c]=d", Rails will parse it as parameters :id => {'a' => 'b', 'c' => 'd'}

If you use where(:id => params[:id]) it will become
where(:id => {'a' => 'b', 'c' => 'd'})

And when Rails convert that to SQL statement, something can be exploited (though it's not mentioned in the report).
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Intern at Microsoft here.

As time goes on, Google and Facebook will eventually be bogged down by the same bureaucracy that exists in any large company. The main difference between Google/Facebook and Microsoft at that point will be what business they are in. If the past and present are any indicator of the future (which I accept might not be the case), then Google and Facebook will be bringing in the vast majority of their revenue through selling ads. Microsoft, on the other hand, will probably still be making their big money selling software. Now I'm sure that a lot will argue that Microsoft makes $x off of android and $y off of linux, but this doesn't really make much of a difference to the engineers. In my opinion, what does make a difference, especially in the minds of "young tech idealists", is that Microsoft sells software, not ads (for the most part).
See here my ironic friend: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4001377

Isn't the world hilarious :D.
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Wasn't 3.2.4 specifically released a few weeks ago to address that very same SQL injection vulnerability? Is this a regression?
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If you want to study the subject in more depth, I cannot recommand enough "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming" by Herlihy and Shavit. It has a nice theoretical part, followed by more practical applications.

I also enjoyed "The Art of Concurrency" for a antagonist approach to a close domain. It may be more accessible.
Doesn't sound too different from Microsoft's alleged "warring project teams" culture.
Maybe. Outright aggressive is sometimes better than passive-aggressive though, which is what many cultures turn into.
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What about the original paper?

Edit: Removed paywalled link (there's a better one somewhere in the thread). My point is that the article seems inaccurate, so it may be a mistake to judge the matter by the impression you get from the it. I'm yet to read the paper myself.
The app looks great. I wanted to point out the following (I might be missing something here) --
When I'm on the Customers tab, I see 0 open tickets for Alex B but when I click on Alex B and see his detailed page, I see 4 open tickets.
"With that shift, cable companies that have spent billions of dollars building their networks are seeing an uptick in consumer's "cutting the cord" -- essentially making the cable companies a conduit to other content providers."

That makes it sound as if the Internet video companies are doing something wrong, and "taking advantage" of the cable companies. The cable companies should've known from the beginning what they are getting into as "ISP's". Offering an ISP service is quite different than a cable service. They shouldn't be trying to cripple their own ISP service in favor of the cable service. If that's happening, then maybe the companies should be broken up.
I completely agree to the point that any IQ-test like test is just a proxy to meassure what is commonly called intelligence. And these tests are just proxies, they bear in themselves the risk that any studiy based on them is more analysing the proxy (in this case the IQ-test, SAT or whatever) than the real thing (in this case intelligence).

On the orther hand I completly agree that is damn hard to meassure intelligence correctly. But as as long as you don't have proxy that works as well for "educated" westerners as it does for "uneducated" bush or jungle tribesmen you still have quite a high risk of error in your studies. Just my 5 cents.

P.S.: Upvoted rstevensons posts, don't see any reason to down vote him for being critical about multiple choice tests as a basis for such studies.
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But this is wrong. Cringely needs to read MacRumors!

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/12/apple-spokesperson-confi...

Here is the relevant part of an (already confirmed) email Tim Cook sent to a pro customer:

Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event, don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year.
Links to the actual paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature1...

http://www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/pdfs/Barnoskyetal2012...
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The last line "The more we attempt to know ourselves, the less we actually understand." is worrying me a bit.
"Did you read the original article or just the news story?", he asked, exasperated.

The article that the news story references was just published in Nature, which has been around since 1869, is peered reviewed, well-respected, oft-cited, and has many distinguished moments, including the initial publication of Watson and Crick's work on DNA. "pseudoscience" might be unfair. Nice object lesson in the "social structures for doing something just aren’t there" though.
As a platform provider, why bother work on an app that thousands of developers can do better, and not work on a missing feature that can enable further innovation?

I'm not sure if you want to hear the answer to that or not.

It's economics & platform strategy. Ping was created to attempt to increase the stickiness of the iTunes platform, to appease the record labels (who wanted an alternative to MySpace) and to bring Apple closer to Facebook. All of those things were major strategic goals for Apple at the time.

Making the iPad something more like a laptop when the MacBook Air already exists? The only way your "bug" will get traction within Apple is if someone decides that is a goal of the iOS platform. That might happen, but pulling an Apple engineer for a whole week off other projects to work on it seems unlikely to happen without fairly major executive sponsorship.
Empower women.

I'm serious. If you want to curtail the out-of-control growth rate, and consensually so, women need to be able to choose birth control; they need to not fear rape; they need to not be viewed as an economic liability (where e.g. parents with a son might stop there but parents with a daughter say "hey, we need another child so that someone cares for us in our old age").

The places with high birth rates will be the places where birth control is either hard to find or culturally discouraged.

To test this, I went to the CIA World Factbook and multiplied their population growth rates (which are sadly from 2002) against populations to find that the situation looks approximately like this:

Country Millions added/yr
India 15.79
China 6.45
Nigeria 4.34
Ethiopia 2.98
Pakistan 2.95
United States 2.82
Indonesia 2.58
Bangladesh 2.55
Brazil 2.26
Philippines 1.94
Congo, D.R. of 1.90
Egypt 1.61
Uganda 1.28
Mexico 1.25
Kenya 1.05
Iran 0.99
Vietnam 0.96
Turkey 0.96
Tanzania 0.85
Iraq 0.73

The net is 76.46, summing over all countries, so India is 21% of the problem, China is 8.4% of it. One nice thing about this metric is that both Bangladesh and China are reasonably high here -- Bangladesh of course is struggling with some of the highest population density in the world, while China has a low growth rate but their population is absolutely staggering. It's very hard to get them both to appear in a top 10 list of "where the problem is".

If past history is any indication, China will self-regulate its population by descending into civil war, so the major thing to focus on is India + Pakistan. However, if you could make a dent in the United States somehow, that could also help to reduce our population-deficit.