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So, the masses are stupid, VCs are smart. Stock brokers and investment bankers are the ones who truly caused every recession and the Great Depression. Oh, sure, poor and dumb people getting mortgages wasn't a very good idea, I totally agree. But it would've been a drop in the bucket compared to tarring and gzipping said mortgages into 30:1-leveraged bundles (laughably underwritten by AIG) created by Wall St. They knew they were unsustainable, but pressed on, some not even taking the "five cumulative minutes" of thought to what they were investing in or how much of not-their-own-money they were putting into it, until it burst.

So, you're saying we should still keep all the money in that silo? That we should keep letting "risk modelers" who have exacerbated every speculative bubble since the Great Depression keep investing in Color and Groupon and boo.com and flooz because the masses are too stupid to do it for themselves?

Well, okay. But, I disagree.
There was already a proposal to do this in Switzerland. A Maglev train driving in vacuum. Unfortunately they are not really progressing because of money and politic reasons.

General: http://www.swissmetro.ch/en/home
Technology: http://www.swissmetro.ch/en/content/technology
Note that the Lite version of Speak for Yourself is still up on the App Store: I would urge everyone reading this to rate it and review it as quickly as possible.
Technically, the client did err, as it performed a request that is not legally permitted in its jurisdiction. For example, this response could be used for geographically-limited resources (such as BBC iPlayer), which means your client erred by not being in Britain.

If it's a takedown of some kind, your client erred by being subject to a government that ordered you unable to see the resource that you requested. The 4xx code fits, in this case, as 5xx implies the server made a mistake (it didn't).
I imagine you accelerate evenly for the first half, turn the chairs around and decelerate evenly for the second half.
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> It is my belief that this sort of immediate feedback is needed in other technical subjects ... Perhaps different methodology, or differently structured theories

The traditional feedback method is teamwork: the next student, or colleague, makes a claim about physics, and you exclaim: "Bullshit! As the mass of the pencil reduces to zero, the whole universe gets pulled off course." Traditionally, physicists and hackers were thick-skinned freaks; the triumph you felt more than made up for your bruised ego when the tables were turned. Now, normal people do these things; their feelings, more of resentment than glory, distract them inefficiently. They react the same way when computers call their bullshit.
Not an update, it's a change in default configuration. They reduced the price of one model, slightly increased hard drive. Same chips, same motherboards, same everything. Even Apple has retracted the "new" tag.
How do you manage the often-found expectation of customers that pay daily rate that overtime is unpaid, when those customers more often than not end up making sure you do a lot of overtime?
The Windows 8 OS bundle price for PCs - that is laptops and desktops - does not need to change much from existing prices for Windows 7 OS bundles. Microsoft already has awesome profit margins on Windows due to their monopolistic-style lock on that market.

If someone wants to sell a laptop for example, for most of the world they must also include MS Windows. When netbooks first came out, the Asus EeePC was Linux, but customer returns forced subsequent models to be a stripped down Windows XP - and a hard disk needed to be on netbooks from that point forwards.
Illinois now lets you purchase lottery tickets (including the multistate Mega Millions and Powerball games) over the net using a credit card.

One step at a time. And only a matter of time before the 72 hour lottery pool morphs into millisecond real time gambling.
Exactly this. Apple is, IMHO, in the wrong here because they have acted in advance of a court decision, thereby making themselves the arbiter of a patent claim, not the courts.

Actions like this only serve to highlight the dangers with the walled-garden approach... or maybe, better said, by acting in this way, Apple makes the walled-garden of iOS a less attractive environment for developers and reduces the motivation to innovate using their platform.
iOS 5 killed my 3GS. KILLED it, made it unusable, etc.
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Yes and no.

Microsoft doesn't support the consumer directly, but it does support the manufacturer.
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I was just looking at options for push notifications in ruby. I found a gem called apn_on_rails (https://github.com/PRX/apn_on_rails) which sort of worked. But I didn't know how to keep persistent connections and was afraid of accidentally spamming Apple's servers. I thought about outsource the problem to Urban Airship, but unfortunately their free service only works for 45 days then costs hundreds of dollars a month. Grocer looks really interesting and I'd definitely want to try it out.
It is important to keep a cool head and consider things objectively. That's why I think it's manipulative to inject emotion into this like the post does. It's one thing to empathize with this poor mother and quite another to consider the facts and have an honest, serious discussion. What has happened to this family is awful. There's no question about that and I feel just as bad for them as anyone. But now we can't expect anyone to keep a cool head because of the way the issue was presented. Injecting emotion into the discussion is manipulative and effectively halts any critical thinking that might have gone on otherwise.
It's been a long time the patent game is not about innovation anymore. The review process for granting patent fails to be transparent. And patents should never be made to last so long in the first place.
Are you very familiar with iOS development? I ask because those people I know who are were very happy with the improvements and APIs added in past iOS releases and seem to be delighted with what's being released with iOS 6.

Perhaps you've found yourself hampered by the lack of certain APIs that Apple has yet to add or yet to promote from SPI. I know some devs in that boat. But I don't think you can accuse Apple of having lost focus on the iOS platform, or that they aren't feverishly working to give devs more power.
I don't really see a problem here.

Windows 8 will be a very disruptive upgrade for enterprise users due the greatly changed Metro UI. I think enterprises will instead focus on migrating desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7.

Many pundits think that the real problem for Microsoft will be the slow sales of Windows 8 for enterprise desktops.
Er, no, no I'm not; you're reading moralizing from what was supposed to be a purely phenomenological description.

Personally, I think it's okay that regular people risk (extremely small, in relative terms) money and, more often than not (in the long term), lose it. It's okay to build businesses that only profit because of human irrationality. It's their money to spend (or lose) as they please--and, in aggregate, as businesses, it's our profit. Just so long as nothing's coercing anyone into doing this--like, say, a gambling addiction--we have no reason to feel bad for allowing people to bet on us and then, potentially, flopping.
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"We're expecting them to be the A-Grade tech wizards who can give us 0 down time."

Exactly. But something like this which they said makes them seem so ordinary:

"The improved status site allows users to subscribe to notifications when an incident is opened. As a result, our status site experienced unprecedented spikes of load during this incident. This high load crushed the site,"

Basically saying whatever they setup for a status site choked on sending out emails or sms, as if they were hosted on a shared server and got mentioned simultaneously on a few major sites.
The intermediate resolution of 3840x2400 exists solely as a tiny step in the rescaling algorithm, a step which in itself does not add any information that wasn't there in the original 1920x1200 image.

The thing you're missing is that this step does add information. OS X will render retina graphics for the UI instead of the traditional graphics, then those higher-resolution graphics are downsized. So, instead of an 18x18 icon, it will use a more detailed 36x36 icon, then downscale that. In the case of apps that haven't been updated for retina displays you are correct — certain assets will be upscaled. But the operating system and many core apps are ready for retina display.

Nobody is saying it's a perfect solution, but it's much better than just upscaling. The point is that at these densities downscaling can look pretty good — supposedly better than the native resolutions emulated by the downscaling.
"and for real entrepreneurs there are some things even worse than failure, like boredom or just being like everyone else."

Zing...
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You should check out Embark's transit apps http://letsembark.com/. I'm not in California so I'm not sure about their BART and CalTrain apps, but I use it in NYC and it's fantastic.
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Please, um, tell us?
Your deranged sarcasm eloquently sums up what's wrong with our educational system: kids are taught that their opinions matter, regardless of how idiotic they are. Well the truth is, your uninformed opinion doesn't matter.
The article just boils down to "people interning at Microsoft have a positive impression of their employer." That's hardly a surprise, especially if they're interviewing people now, when they've barely begun their internship.
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I can understand the words individually, but I've never before seen or heard of a manual garbage collection process creating an unusual record in a data stream. It's like a tech jargon ad lib.
Interesting! I noticed a huge decrease in search usability but wasn't quite sure why. Simple queries like "Met museum" in New York would give me strange results.
Don't do work, and don't pick clients, where your contribution is indistinguishable from that of a college student.
you need a J-1 visa. In order to get the J-1 visa you need a sponsor and a job offer.

for the skills it depends what you're looking for.
I'm 26 - have worked at Microsoft since I was 24.

Microsoft recruited me off of Hacker News after my first startup failed and it's been a great place for me to learn and develop.

One great thing about Microsoft: I've been able to advance and take on bigger / more interesting projects without my young age being held against me. I can't stress how much I appreciate that after having been in environments where that wasn't the case.
I like postmark as well.
Requesting validation of a product idea.
Would you be interested to use a mashup of a forum discussion + chat?

The idea is to keep topics persistent as forums do, but real-timey like chats.

A use case, sports discussions during livestreaming of a game.

--

I'm very close to building one. (In fact I am 50% there)

Just thought HN community validation might be a good first step. :-)
This is unforgivably stupid on the part of Skout. They created an app with the sole purpose of allowing minors to broadcasting their real world location with the intent of chatting and meeting with strangers.

Their so-called protection of "never [showing] a user’s location with greater accuracy than half a mile" is so weak as to be useless. The upside to this on Skout's part must have been so minor when weighed against the risk I'm baffled as to why they would ever launch such a service.
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They are, last I heard.
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But then it's not really continuous integration anymore is it? Having a CI server and practicing continuous integration are not the same thing.
I'm interning at a Big Tech company currently, and I'd disagree. While I can't speak to experiences as a full-time SDE, I very rarely interface with people outside my team (of ~10 people); from what I understand from my mentor, this experience is pretty universal for SDEs, though it diminishes as you take more senior roles in the company.

My work and a given intern's work has literally nothing in common; in fact, talking with other interns feels like talking to people working at a completely different company.
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Probably because the thing it correlates the most with is reading for pleasure, and that's easily done in a household that could afford lots of extracurricular books.

The myth that IQ tests measure any tangible internal capacity (or that they were even designed to do so rather than to justify the exclusion of eastern european immigrants and racism against blacks) will stay as the dominant view because the people who set the dominant view are people who get good scores on IQ tests.
I agree about the long haul view. As I understood it, one of the previous purposes of the stock market was to allow companies to be able to raise revenue by having risk-takers fund them. If the companies win, the risk-takers win.

What with micro-trading practices looking for ups (and downs) in fractions of a second, market activity no longer seems to make sense, from the previous point of view.

Maybe with a fresh round of investment by "laymen" we can once again move back towards a model that is closer to that of patronage...
I'm the opposite, I absolutely despise Kayak's UI and how it explodes for anything but the simplest itineraries (and even then it's a pain).

For one thing, Kayak doesn't let you pick your departure and return legs separately, and instead displays every possible permutation of flights that fit your search criteria. I remember seeing over a thousand "results" for SFO-JFK. How a user is expected to make a decision there... your guess is as good as mine.

The number of "results" explode even further for any flight with possible connections.

Also, the arbitrary filters that one needs to chop the result set down to something mentally digestible are also highly flawed. When I fly is important to me, but if I say, restrict the results to "departs before 11am", it will filter out something that leaves at 11:05am. The more "analog" view of Hipmunk is greatly preferable.

All that said, I'm cautiously hopeful for Hipmunk. I love their UX, but building a business around something that has infamously low margins (like, incredibly, razor thin margins) seems like a questionable strategy. I can see why Hipmunk has expanded into hotel bookings (though IMO it's not very good), but one has to wonder about the viability of its core product.
Actually, Steve Jobs' track record is closer to 50-50 in terms of successes vs failures. The difference is that his failures were usually not very significant, and his successes were monstrous.
The one thing that stuck out from this article for me was that Apple removed the application because the dispute had not been resolved after X time.

WTF?! That is all kinds of arse-backwards. If the patent dispute had not yet been resolved then you should not have removed the application, simple as that. The courts do not march to Apple's timetables.
I really agree with your point. It reminds me of an article written by The Atlantic some time ago with the provocative title "Is Google making us dumber?". It talked about how easy it is to find information using Google, but albeit that we're being bombarded by so much information that nothing really sticks. Sometimes I find myself spending hours and hours on Wikipedia and articles on the web that seem to only leave a faint impression in my mind.

The "create, not consume" mantra seems like a good way out of this endless cycle of "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
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There's nothing to stop them putting the app on their Apple device if they had the source.
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I've written for Wrox (the first edition, the one that went bankrupt :))

When I was one of two co-authors of a book I don't recall being told to hit a specific page count, but there was a push for a certain degree of "thoroughness." This typically meant going into possibly tangential details to avoid sending someone off to another resource. (Though if the other resources was another Wrox book then allowances we made.)

For example, in a book about XML (Pro VB 6 & XML[0]) there was a need to go through the XML specification. A whole chapter. I ended up using this as an opportunity to explain the spec and build some helper libraries that would make interacting with a DOM easier later on, so not a total loss, but it had a feeling of busy-work to me.

That was sort of a best-case scenario; two authors splitting book. I also worked on assorted individual chapters for other books and there I had an incentive to bolster the word count because in some cases it affected the pay.

In my experience writing a single chapter meant either a flat amount or a per-word rate. Writing multiple chapters opened up the option of royalties instead. I took royalties on the VB book and did OK. Sadly this gave me a false impression of tech writing as a profession.

Many Wrox books were more a collection of padded chapters than coherent, well-planned, guides. OTOH I think many people plunked down $40-50 just to get specific chapters that would get them past some problem.

[0]: As the Velvet Underground sang, "Those were different times." :)
Why would you be horrified at the prospect of living?

I suspect it is you that needs to put a bit more thought into this matter.
Possibly, I immediately substituted one dollar plus ball for bat, then saw I had 2 balls and a dollar making up $1.10. Or 5 cents a ball. I honestly didn't pull out the algorithm sheet, it just sort of worked itself out in my head before I had time to think: what are they looking for...

Not to say I don't have biases, just not for word-number problems.

Poker on the other hand is another matter, I still chase straights and flushes in games with wild-cards, even though I know those hands are almost worthless.
I think the emotional price paid by this family is part of the discussion, however.
So what benefits are you saying are lost/given up by this model that another model preserves?

Also, feature branch development is just how we're using it. The code monitors git for any new branches and automatically clones jobs for new branches. This would support a more traditional master branch with release branches created periodically. Those release branches would automatically get Jenkins jobs created for them instead of someone manually having to do it.
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If I mechanically replace the words "routing mesh" with "load balancer", I instantly know what they're talking about without losing out on any important details.
Continuous integration doesn't mean all development happens in master. A policy that works well for me is that anything that will require more than 2 minor commits to accomplish should happen in a feature branch. If tests pass in the branch (and you probably want to insert code review/sign-off at this stage as well), merge to master. If tests pass in master, deploy.

From what I can tell, this just makes it easy to run tests in branches. My team uses something similar that kicks off a build whenever someone comments "build it" in a GitHub pull request, and posts the results to the pull request discussion.
Disagree. In the comments on HN we are free to discuss this without emotion, or referring to emotion but keeping it in check with logical arguments that respect the system, the inventor(s) and the critical user.

I find it unreasonable to expect a mother, on her personal blog, to keep the same detached sentiment when her child's literal voice is threatened.
Wouldn't emergency brakes pretty much kill you if you're traveling a few thousand mph at the time?
"it seems to me that it's worse than having no second factor at all"

I agree with you totally. A second authentication that is much weaker than the first (prone to social engineering or even googling like the endemic first name of your favorite uncle questions) can be worse than just having one strong authentication. For some reason many companies think that building a bridge out of very many weak components makes a strong bridge. That is not true though, you have a weak bridge in the end.
"... more full of crap than average..."

Than average what?

I often lurk on LessWrong, and post there very occasionally. I find it to be a very rich source of original ideas, some of which are truly profound. YMMV, of course.
Not likely. It did not recur any other time in the 2.75 years I lived there. It was an isolated military base in the Mojave Desert. I lived on a cul-de-sac with limited traffic. We didn't even have a mailman driving into the cul-de-sac because we had locked mailboxes at the entrance to the cul-de-sac. The master bedroom was on the second floor. Etc.
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Yes, I think you're right on your source.

In short, markets move around for a whole host of random reasons.

The nightly news 'the market moved lower on profit taking' or 'the market moved higher on positive news X' is just rubbish.

Occasionally, there is a cause-and-effect like an unexpected interest rate change, or a better-than-expected sales figure in a key industry, but for the rest of the time, it's just random movement.

The worst thing is the need to commentate on it confuses the correlation in the general publics mind, so people believe you can talk the economy up or down, which is an assertion I don't agree with.
They originally launched it for adults only. The option for minors was added later in reaction to demand.
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A family member is in the biz press. joshu has it right. Although, in this particular case the attribution is probably correct.
It's probably more reasonable to compare the costs of this tunnel to undersea tunnels like the Seikan Tunnel (33 miles, $3.6 billion to build in 1988)[1] and the Chunnel (31 miles, $21 billion in 1994)[2].

1988 $3.6 billion = ~$7 billion today[3].

1994 $21 billion = ~ $32 billion today[4].

Put it altogether, the tunnel itself would be around $3.5 trillion[5]. Maglev + vacuum stuff would cost more.

(BTW, I love WolframAlpha for stuff like this.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel

[2] http://www.engineering.com/Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/Art...

[3] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24US3.6+billion+1988+d...

[4] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24US21+billion+1994+do...

[5] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28%2432+billion%29%...
It might not be too useful to you unless you're doing iOS development but it does show that Jetbrains can implement decent C/C++ support if they think it's worth their time.

However, I don't expect their C++ support to ever be as good as that of an IDE like XCode that actually embeds a real C++ compiler frontend (Clang) in the IDE. I think that's really the only way to deal with a language as pathologically complex as C++.
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