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This is an overview of this paper: http://web.mit.edu/engelward-lab/publications/2010_Engelward... which looks to be some pretty reasonable research.

As I've mentioned previously, one of the challenges of talking about radiation dangers is that we don't have a lot of data around what is 'safe' and what is 'dangerous.' Or even damaging. This paper suggests that we may be conservative by over 400x what is considered a 'safe' dosage of radiation.

Or put differently, all the land around the current Fukishima plant, and much of the land around Chernobyl may in fact be safe to live on. With the definition that the residual radiation present may produce no more risk than you'd get from regular background radiation.

I am really glad we've got people digging into these questions.
I think comparing Dalton project to twitter is wrong. It's wrong because the whole point of it is that there is huge potential for something else, something more. I think Dalton's vision of what the project could be is blurry and I think thats a good thing.

So does Paul Graham - "The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one."

I donated because I want to see him try and would like to see something new (not twitter) come out of this. I think people lack imagination (myself included) and thats why they keep saying it's a twitter clone that is paid. I'm really glad he has enough courage to try. Thank you, Dalton.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4266155
I'm more curious about the timing of the write-down. Are they taking the write-down now, in an attempt to put the Microsoft of the last decade to rest as they prepare for the new Windows 8 lines?

How does company marketing influence these decisions?

Was their a financial reason to take the write-down in one large chunk? Or within a certain timeframe?
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4267946
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Steve Jobs said it best. They just don't have any taste and in a world where people will pay a premium where taste has been considered when products are being developed (apple, tesla, etc), companies like MS will be left in the dust.
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That's no different from using HTML5+JavaScript against browser specific APIs or using CSS3 vendor prefixes. Calling external stuff from JavaScript (even if that external thing is Windows itself) is not new and it's not bad that it's not portable any more than writing XUL wasn't portable.
But someone who posted "Like this if you love Doctors in Haiti" did very little, just as people signing up for a website do very little. I don't like to belittle "raising awareness" campaigns because I know how important they are. But there is no substitute for getting your feet on the ground or your money from your wallet. I worry that we are creating a generation of people who think posting something in their facebook feed is saving the world. It’s certainly helpful, but it has to be in conjunction with real work.

People who aggravated against SOPA certainly did something -- an important thing -- but people who made hard decisions, called or emailed their representatives and really coordinated this effort did more.
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Indeed. I like the idea of this, but without a clear constitution and statement of their mission I can't sign up for it and I certainly won't be injecting their code into my web sites.
I feel like your example of this is actaully a perfect counterexample.

If Intel really could manipulate the market successfully, AMD would not exist at all, instead of just having slightly lower profit margins but otherwise similar products, as you describe.

And also, there wouldn't be ARM, which seems to be taking more and more marketshare from Intel. Intel couldn't "lock them out."

And by the way, I think the antitrust action against Microsoft accidentally helped them maintain marketshare. If they had been allowed to continue integrating IE into Windows at the expense of much better browsers, that would have been a boon to Apple and Linux. IE isn't such a huge kludge/security problem now, but it used to be a serious competitive disadvantage. (This is just a hokey theory only tangentially related to the discussion, though.)
The example was small, but this technique can be used to great effect and great ease of reading when you have larger objects and sets of differentiation that you're working with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDmRRJzTo38 did OK with getting some of the examples in. No idea how they grew the arm of steel for holding that iPhone up though..!
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V1 was lousy. EF5 Code First is pretty cool (combined with a micro-ORM for specific queries that might need a perf edge) and EF6 will support async and await.
Choosing our battles.
Is Hotmail more 'unthinkable' than other free web email providers like gmail?
I disagree. The value is in demonstrating actions have consequences. This guy decided upon himself to sabotage his employer in order to destroy hard fought good-will. That goodwill is very valuable, and this minimum wage punk decided to destroy some of it. He should be held responsible for that goodwill he destroyed, and simply losing his job does not do anything for the damage caused.
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In another thread about this issue the fee to microsoft gives them a competitive edge in that ecosystem; stuff like marketing and highlighting inside the xbox live store. 40k for a patch is absurd though.
Perhaps there is context missing but the Apple one above refers to "uploading" and "storing". Seems like it would apply to anything you put in iCloud? And since it includes the catch-all "otherwise objectionable" it would seem to make it quite open ended, almost unusable really.
As much as I don't like this particular flair of drama, I'm siding with Fish. If a patch cost five figures just to go through certification, then Microsoft needs to rethink their XBLA strategy for independent games. Let this be another flag for teams to avoid XBLA at all costs.

Plus Microsoft's XBLA terms are horrible. For example, you must sign a contract that puts your XBLA release as a pure-Xbox-exclusive release, or at least a timed-exclusive if you have the clout to fight back. (Only the majors can swing a "same-day multi platform release" via XBLA) The percentages XBLA offers are unfavorable, they make you pay for advertising on the games page, and I've heard that you make more money via PC release on Steam (or your favorite DRM-free service). In short: if you're seriously working on XBLA, demand a better contract or dump it.

It's just unfortunate that Fez's original contract is probably so old, the Apple App Store with it's free patches was a new concept then. If you're working on something that will take forever to do, get a PC prototype working first then dumb down to consoles if you must.
Two problems:

1) Suing him would only further tarnish their brand, as more people would learn about it.

2) Sue him for what? Buddy's unemployed and his last job was at BK. I'd be surprised if he had more than $100 to his name.
Network effect is snake oil. You sell the service to users by promising that their friends are (or shortly will be) using it. Once you plateau to the point where you're not adding users hand-over-fist any more the users satisfaction stops being a priority (you've essentially locked them in), and you start to make decisions that are directly against their interests.
I haven't seen the $40k figure confirmed by anyone from Microsoft. It's just being uncritically passed around by bloggers.
Ninja/rockstar/let's pick yet another stupid name. Or we could actually try "skilled engineer."
I think you can re-phrase your question of "Would I pay $50/year for Twitter" as "Would I pay $50/year for something like Twitter, when Twitter is already free".

App.net needs to be considered in the overall market, not as a stand-alone. It's biggest threat (I don't think) is the $50, it's going up agains a free established major brand in a network play. Has this ever been done before?
Utilities, roads, wireless spectrum, really anything that requires everyone to agree on a standard set of rules for it to work. Can you imagine if roads were built like web browsers? It's one thing to have a website not work in your web browser, but when someone's safety is at stake, I'm a big fan of standardization.

Of course -- and I've said this before -- anything important enough to be a monopoly is important enough to be heavily regulated in order to operate in the public interest (as utilities, roads and spectrum are).
The game industry has had "traditionally" certain kickback mechanism towards the gaming platform developers. For example I remember playing around with MIT/Sloans Platformwars, which even included variables for the game developer kickback in form of licenses[1]. I suspect these were argued by the mutual benefits in the development, branding and licensing. But of cause the democratization process initiated by the low entrance barriers in the App market are putting these in question. Nevertheless one could still see the fees taken by Apple from each App sale as a form of license to get access to their platform.

[1] https://mitsloan.mit.edu/MSTIR/system-dynamics/platform-wars...
"If some as-yet nonexistent magazine had sent me a piece of direct mail, asking $15 for its launch issue, I would never have paid that. Even if an existing magazine looked really good on the newsstand, and had a cover price of $15, I would similarly never pay that. But somehow the idea that by paying the $15 up front I was helping to create that magazine — that was enough to get me to pay.
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I think that’s the real key here: I’m not paying for the sensation of a hypothetical idea, so much as paying to support the individuals whom I like and admire. "

"Even if an existing magazine looked really good on the newsstand"

Ok all of the above is true. But if you passed the newsstand and saw the ten people in front of you all buying an issue, or, when you see a line at a restaurant you take notice and think something is special that is going on. Or if you walk into the office and see your friends bought the magazine what happens then?

To me, that is what is happening with kickstarter (among other things of course obviously). There is a lemming effect same reason people will follow people who park their cars on the lawn at an event (even if the sign says "no parking") or ignore a persons plea (famous NYC case years ago) if others aren't doing something.

That to me is the behavior that is going on with kickstarter. You see others are contributing. You wonder if they know something you don't. You decide to take advantage.

Edit: "You wonder if they know something you don't." I probably didn't state this as well as I could. In the shortness of time let's look at it this way. You see a pebble watch raises a million dollars on kickstarter. That definitely creates a halo in your mind to strongly doing the same. Now you might say "chicken and egg" to that but the fact is observation of what others are doing who are like minded generally sways people in a certain direction.
"web applications to first-class citizens alongside the native apps. Android fails at this pretty badly"

Android isn't "failing" at something that it isn't trying to do. Web apps generally suffer from low performance when trying to do anything moderately complex on a mobile device. If you must use web technology to create apps on Android, there is webView in the sdk for you. Many web apps that have tons of users like Google Maps, Pandora, etc. have native apps that are actually performant, follow UI conventions, and have access to all the APIs.
They knew what the policies were (one free patch, future ones are $$$) when they signed up with the platform.

What it comes down to is the developers thinking:

"Who will gamers hate more? MS for the policy, or us for not releasing a patch?"

Especially if they say:

"We have fixed the problem… MS just wants their ransom for us to give it to you."

MS is then in the bind of making an exception, thus creating the expectation for future developers that the platform agreement is flexible and/or a joke.

There's no way to win this one. Both parties have somewhat dumb policies and because of the contract are deciding to play russian roulette with user's data.
Only if you use these services. They are offering integration with them, far from forcing you to use them. And if you were already using them these features are an amazing boon and don't affect your privacy at all.

Using cloud based apps may affect your privacy but that is independent of this.
What about wireless spectrum? Should we just give access to spectrum to everyone who wants it? Your radio, cell phone and wireless Internet would stop working within weeks, I'm sure. Sometime monopoly is not only good, but necessary.
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I'm confused by the downvotes without comment. Have I misunderstood something? Or was he being sarcastic and I missed it?
For possibly ever becoming viable. Look, I'm a fan of indies as much as anyone else, but mass producing a game console- even one with this cheap of parts- is just not possible without more money. I'd be sincerely surprised if the money they've raised so far covered more than just paying the salaries of their employees and get the basic infrastructure set up.
If ubuntu 12.04 is any indication, I personally wouldn't go near it again ever.
They are releasing in 2015. The internet and the sort of hype around a gaming console is not going to last that long. Remember the internet (as a whole) has the long term memory of an intelligent goldfish. If they had a game to release right now, as the OUYA launched then you would be right but in this case it seems kind of far fetched.
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"That's no different from using HTML5+JavaScript against browser specific APIs"

Sure it is if those browsers are cross-platform. I doubt the Windows 8 APIs are cross platform.
> changed their whole strategy, focus and expertise in less than 5 years, simply impossible for a company that size

Microsoft was bigger than Nokia when, between 1993-2000, they executed several changes of greater magnitude in less than 5 years each (Windows 3, the response to Netscape, Windows NT).

> The problem with Nokia and Android is that Samsung will always, in every single case, have cheaper and more powerful devices. Maybe Nokia could've keep themselves in the game with a lot of marketing and a bit of luck, but eventually, down the road, Samsung would take over

Why? Samsung has only this year started showing small signs of becoming something more than a "fast follower". Nokia used to know how to lead the market... if they still did, they would have no trouble innovating to stay on top of Samsung.
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So the proxy server acts as a forced man in the middle? This has to be one of the most atrocious things I have ever experienced. Forcing a man in the middle is insane especially in a large company where there may well be a lack in competency.

HTTPS shouldn't magically appear to 'work' again, considering it is completely broken when a forced mitm is introduced.
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Only 250MB? For me it's 600-850MB... it's ridiculous.
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It was intentional. They used a good quarter to shoulder the write down of a acquisition. The accountant/lawyers know what they're doing.
I frankly never understood the real reason why Fez was released exclusively for xbox. From the outsider perspective it seems like a very bad decision when it comes to a game as hyped as this one was.
The really interesting angle to this is that (apparently) Windows 8 and the next version of office are going to default to storing a lot of stuff in Skydrive. So unless you actively try to store stuff locally it is going up to the cloud. It will be very interesting to watch what happens as a tidal wave of (intended to be) private porn hits Skydrive and consumers get their accounts banned en masse.

Like others, I think MS is in a dead end street here. There is stuff that they just can't allow - harboring child porn is illegal regardless of whether you're storing it for someone else, etc. But if they don't default content into Skydrive then hardly anybody will use it and people will keep assuming Google Docs and other cloud services are just "better" for collaboration. The only way out is client side encryption, but that disables many server side functions (eg: search) and gets god-awful complex for sharing between parties.
every time you turn on the computer it will log you in. So there's info sent to the server... As time goes by I'm pretty sure these service providers will find more ways to get more info from you and more useful ways to analyze that data. I know my view on the matter is pretty extreme, but I can't feel comfortable not knowing exactly what is being done with my data.
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You're missing what's right in front of you; the fact that web apps suffer from bad performance on Android is a prime example of how it is failing. Perhaps Google doesn't care about web apps, but that would be a huge turnaround from just a few years ago when it was one of the web's biggest proponents.
There are plenty of better restaurants than Burger King, and at most of them a thing like this would never happen.

Burger King is prioritizing their profit over food safety, but so are the people who eat there. Is anybody really surprised there's food tampering at a fast food restaurant?

People who eat fast food get what they pay for.
Thanks, I already use Webmasters Tools. Apparently I have no critical issue and nothing to report in the Optimization tab.
Yeah, I'm referring more iOS. I think the idea of "webapps as a first class citizen" is a bit of a red herring. Web apps will never be first class citizens (especially not on a phone) because they fail simple performance tests. I think what OSs ought to aim for is what Android does, a smooth integration of offline and online modes.

Ubuntu does this somewhat, iOS not really at all (though it is successful in the way you speak of), but I feel there's a combination of the way Adnroid, iOS and Ubuntu are doing this that could hit a sweet spot.
What did I just read? Are forbes tech/blog articles all automatically voted up or something? This is terrible.
Valve does use a form of stack ranking btw. Read their employee handbook. It's on the net.
OT, but about Google, what would you suggest to the Google founders?
Sure, let me know. avivsh at gmail. Always happy to meet local HNers.
Well, now that DANE is nearly an RFC I should change Chrome to use it rather than the TYPE257 records.

But the important point is that DNSSEC stapled certificates don't need the browser to perform any extra DNS lookups. The certificate itself contains the DNSSEC information and signatures. Since DNSSEC is signed the data can come over any channel; it doesn't have to be port 53.

Unencrypted DNS still leaks the hostname that you're visiting - that's true. However, the destination IP address probably leaks the same information and, if not, we sent the hostname in the clear at the beginning of the TLS handshake! (That's SNI, it allows SSL virtual hosting.)
OS X had all this in the Dashboard long before... anyone, maybe? There are some pretty amazing Dashboard apps, and quite a lot of them are well integrated with the Internet. They should have called it Floorboard, though, because that's where it seems to be hidden under, and system performance takes a huge hit as soon as you activate the Dashboard and every single app you've loaded into it, even if you only want to use one. If they had made them first class desktop citizens, you'd be praising Apple for this innovation. A nod should probably also go to Opera, which had something similar, but just as crippled in Widgets.
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Entire article in one meaningless quote: "Honey badger employees, though, “say ‘Screw it! I’ll figure out how to do this!’ They’ll find a way to get things done.” says Seidman".

Don't waste your time. Truism crossed with BS. without anything /actionable/.
TL;DR: developer builds software for walled garden ecosystem and is surprised when he's hurt by the owner of said ecosystem.

http://xkcd.com/743/

When will people get sick of variations on this story?
Just a personal observation: On usenet, it looks to me like the political and religious right have been using trolling for years. IMHO, its a bizarre thing that political trolling looks almost exclusively right wing. Heh, what ever the politics, at least they put the leg work in. Dunno if it has any material effect though.
The irony here is that their rescue seems to have worked out a bit too well.
The $40K figure comes from Tim Schafer, who has a history of being a reputable voice in the game dev community.

There's no real reason to believe he made it up.
Actually, three people were fired: http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/lettuce-p...
The fuseproject has existed for a while, where a lot of the skills come from. They aren't building a company from scratch... just a product.
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This is similar to one of the tactics credited with marginalizing the KKK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%28radio%29#.E2.80.9CC...

The impact it had was discussed in the book freakonomics.
Or an example of seeing what you want to see.

Microsoft still has an effective desktop OS monopoly. Last I bought a computer, I still had to pay a Windows tax. So their long-run market manipulation seems to be alive and well.

It's true that they haven't been able to dominate new markets effectively. But that says more about the volatility of technology and Microsoft's fear of another Department of Justice beat-down than it does about any principle of economics.

The Internet was a once-a-century disruption. (One that could well have been throttled in its cradle had AT&T not been broken up by government intervention.) Counting on lightning strikes like that, rather than robust regulatory support of competition, strikes me more as a religious outlook than a practical one.
I think firing the guy and leaving it at that is the optimal thing for BK to do. Let's agree that it probably won't be cost effective to garnish the guy's wages, in terms of legal costs to take him to court, the potential future income he'll have, etc. On BK's side, there's a lot of risk of negative publicity involved with taking him to court. I don't think being fired is being let off easy - surely this stunt will make it at least more difficult to be hired at another fast-food place.