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I guess it would be more as a concept than technically. That is, you could send to a specific peer through the server. That way you could have only the messaging logic on the server and the game logic on the clients.

The clients would then (again theoretically) be able to agree on a game state, optimize messaging and the other things you would normally do on the server.
I think (hope) some people are just so desperate for work they'll suffer indignities like that in order to have it.
In a similar vein, it's not clear to me why I should be deprived of the knowledge that a potential future employer is a privacy-invading jerk. The censor not only infringes on the rights of the speaker, but also the rights of the would-be listeners.
Are you familiar with the concept of playing Devil's advocate?

Also did you read the final paragraph?
Thats easy to say, once you learned to hack the system.

But many brokers do take money to simply show you the apartment and nothing else.
I'm pretty sure the recruiter assigned to my school was specifically a diversity recruiter.
Sounds like something that can easily run afoul of securities laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_wage
I understand your position, but unfortunately it has little relevance to the world we live in. Not only is there no unambiguous rule to seperate "supplements" from "food", everything you say applies to things which are unquestionably food.

You complain about vague and perhaps incorrect claims for DHEA; I can counter with vague and incorrect claims for a whole RANGE of foods. Broccoli can cure cancer, red wine makes you immortal, pineapple juice makes your semen taste good, margarine is good for the heart, margarine is bad for the heart, eggs are bad for your heart. Need I go on? Some of the claims we hear constantly are true, some are false, and many are completely unproven. But what of it? Is vague talk about how red wine might boost longevity bad? If not, does it become bad if I take some red grape skins, grind them up, put them in capsules, and sell them with, again, nothing more than vague talk about how they might boost longevity? If so, then what claim about which foods are/aren't healthy can't be challenged? Our knowledge of diet and nutrition is INCREDIBLY weak; we're still trying to figure out stuff like "is too much salt bad for you" or "is wheat bad for you" (both open questions even today, despite what you might have heard).

And things which are inarguably foods have killed orders of magniture more people than supplements ever have. Between food poisoning, allergies, adulterated ingredients, poor manufacturing processes, down to foods which are, outright, really bad for you - walk down any supermarket aisle and you'll see them all.

Also, the author did strongly endorse a law change; he has noted that laws are NOW being enforced, but were not in the past, and yet still feels there is currently a problem. His discussion of Orin Hatch related to proposed changes in the regulations, not whether current regulations were being enforced.

The studies you quote are observational studies; if you knew anything about this field you'd know they are suggestive but prove nothing. (Thought experiment: Do you suppose people who take lots of supplements are EXACTLY like other people? Or do they possibly have some ailment that makes them more interested in improving their health?) I'm sorry, but science has hard rules, and the studies your quote blatantly violate them. There's no substitute for controlled randomized studies, and you cannot draw the conclusions you - or Forbes - have drawn from studies which are neither. There's just no real room for debate. In which case...where does that leave the argument about supplements?
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It's a good thing we exist in the top percentile of the world's population that affords us even the luxury to consider this sort of thing.
Someone is going down... hard time! You can't take photos/movies of TSA checkpoints!

At least I'm sure that's how the story will eventually be flipped.
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Well I remember when Chrome's security was broken for the first and only time, by a research firm. And guess who paid for that to happen? Microsoft.

So let me repeat that. Microsoft paid a company to break Chrome's security.
Look at it this way, click fraudsters are parasitic to advertisers but actually symbiotic for web sites and ad networks. So how can you expect them to aggressively prevent it? As long as the fraud doesn't rise to the point where the advertisers can't make money, they'll continue to run ads because the process is opaque and there aren't a lot of other viable choices.
If the presented figures are true, the probability of that happening entirely independently by chance are about 0.3 in a million.

It is reasonable to conclude that those decisions were not independent. But you're absolutely right that the correlation may come from the school rather than from Microsoft.
Mike, thanks for all the work you and others do on D3.

This week, I attended the first meeting of the D3.js meetup here in NYC http://www.meetup.com/NYC-D3-JS/ .

If you're ever on this coast, I know there are at least 190 other people who appreciate the work you do and would love to see you present on it.
Both of the students are CS majors. They presumably will both eventually work for similar companies. Why would the woman who is equally interested in computer science pass over the job posting, requiring an actual recruiter to be present, when the man does not? Do women get CS degrees and then leave to work in some other field post-graduation, not writing code? If so, that is a huge problem. Do they lose interest in computer science? Do they get sick of the male dominated environment in CS but just stick it out for their degree?

I would hope that the recruiter isn't, in fact, signalling something along the lines of, "your odds of getting hired at this company are greater than your equally talented male friend." If I were receiving that much extra recruiting attention because of my gender, that is the impression I would get.
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I'm curious, what does the author of the post, or others, think Chrome added that was unnecessary?
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I spent a good portion of my internship last summer working with d3 at Splunk, just wanted to say thanks for the cool framework. I love the "data", "enter", and "exit" calls, it's a really great way of thinking about data binding.

I'd like to try to incorporate it into something other than svg/canvas visualizations too, maybe just a normal web app or something, do you know of people using it like that?

Thanks, again!
> You appear to be going far beyond dealing with fraud, and instead wish to suppress activity that's being undertaken without any deceit.

'Deceit' does not start and end with the technical definition of fraud.

> Note, of course, that the vast majority of supplement products contain explicit disclaimers on their labels

They shout their ads and whisper their disclaimers. Why should we ignore their shouting?

> However, if I want to purchase a bottle of foo, honestly labeled as "foo" without making any unsustainable promises, and use the contents of that bottle based upon my own understanding of the properties of "foo", that's entirely my prerogative, and it's entirely my right to assume whatever risks the use of foo entails.

Why should you be able to sell something that you lead others to believe is good for them when it isn't?

Selling dandelions by marketing them as pretty flowers is fine. Selling them by marketing them as wine making material is also fine, as you can, in fact, make wine out of dandelions. Selling them by claiming dandelion wine is good for what ails you is lying. Can you honestly not see that last step?
How interesting that in both of those incidents, the employer was a government agency.
I should have said "generate competitive revenue." Sorry about that.

If you're still using C# or java in 10 years time for a commercial app, the only reason you will not be at a competitive disadvantage is because all the other competitors in your space are using the same languages.
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It's easier for them to use vi than emacs, because they don't have to use so many paws.
I'm interested in your position. I mainly don't agree about the non-zero sum or definite ordering parts (the BigTechCos that I've worked out explicitly stack rank applicants, so that means they do think there is some definite ordering that can at least be approximated), but I don't think that is a really interesting debate to have.

I think more interestingly, it seems like what I've seen is looking to hire interns where we can't even fill the spots we want with people who appear that they are likely to be actually qualified, they hire interns who are unlikely to be qualified because its worth it to filter down to the few that are. It seems that your suggestion that you get more qualified applicants than you have positions for, which really flies in the face of my experiences. Is it really true or were you exaggerating somewhat to make a point?
They are the "1-click" brokers. The experience doesn't mean that they aren't a part of a complex system. We usually applaud efficient systems don't we?

15% is justified because people pay it.
> Interesting how nobody's found half a rat in a factory that makes actual drugs, as opposed to "officially-not-a-drug" supplements.

Heh. You don't quite seem to be getting the argument. Supplements are officially food, and we find pieces of rats in food all the damn time. (Also bits of metal, glass, human body parts, bugs, and every other crazy damn thing you can imagine.) (Related: Food is potentially dangerous, but it's not tested. Again, what makes a vitamin C pill need clinical trials, but food not? Keep in mind, modern "food" is often just the product of a test tube, while many supplements are just lightly processed food (fish oil, for example). What's the difference?)

What you need to do is figure out why it's a huge, huge, problem for their to be half a rat ground up in Joe Slob's dietary supplements, but just one of those things for there to be a some rat in his hamburger bun.

So far, your argument for why supplements should be treated differently than food seems to consist entirely of "supplements are not food, legalistic tricks notwithstanding." That's...probably not going to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you. If that's a goal of yours, you might want to rethink.

(Also: You keep saying "fraud", but fraud is already a crime. Is it your argument that supplement makers aren't being prosecuted due to some massive far-reaching conspiracy at every level of the government? Or when you say fraud do you have some special definition of the word different than everyone else? Just curious!)
One of ten. That's it. They conducted just ten sting operations before a TSA agent stole one of their target iPads.
I understand what you're saying, but Google has pretty significant long-term incentives to keep click fraud to a minimum (the future of the company depends on people having faith in their ad network).

Digital marketers aren't dumb. If click fraud drives the effective cost of an a Google ad up past that of its competitors, budgets will move accordingly.
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Though I know the author, I don't speak for him.

I think you are falling in the trap the article is trying to help you out of. These economies are big, and they are moving fast, and shit is happening and will happen whether you see it or have heard of it or not. Facebook is not the definition of success, there is an entire spectrum of success and it exists in these economies with plenty of room.

You can get in now and innovate and be the very successful startup, or you can sit back and wait for someone else to do it.
I'm not following...why would major device manufacturers want to starve Google?
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Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a read when I have some time. Still, questions linger. Artis live up and down the coast from Santa Cruz down to LA. There are even art towns/communities -I don't see a lot of innovation coming from there. Sure, artwise they may be avant guarde, but proponents of progress (aside from social change) and drivers of innovation, I don't see that. If anything, they seem to tend towards conservatism when it comes to progress.

Now, engineers and scientists might enjoy and even admire artists for their literary imagination, expressiveness, showship, fame, etc. In popular culture, perhaps perpetuated via the products of these same artists, people tend to stereotype engineers as socially inadequate and dull. So that's a bit ironic. Personally, I think it's somewhat incidental. Engineers and scientists have some of the 'artist' in the old Renaissance sense of the word, but they are primarily innovators and not expressive artists.
Wait..wait..wait....

nobody has caught on to the fact that NSS did this test with the latest version of IE and horribly outdated versions of FF and chrome?

Hacker news I expected better of you.
And the luxury to post it online.
I think the advice I would give is, before settling into a course in life, go out and meet as many people you can. Try to just observe and see outcomes. That way you have an idea of what lives are like along certain paths (in general).

Myself, I really only had the example of my parents and some relatives. I don't regret this, because I really like my path in life. It is not easy, but it is driving.

However, if I could give myself advice, it would be to mingle more with more people from more diverse lifestyles, just to see outcomes, attitudes and daily lives.
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>Not having that for a long while was one nail in the coffin of tcl, especially after web & infrastructure APIs became increasingly important.

The ActiveState distribution of Tcl comes with Teacup, FYI. And yes, it would have been nice to have had it back in the '90s.
That is not true. You can create apps on top of app.net that can be used by non-members (as long as you respect their TOS).

For example, you can see my cloud of what people talk about there:

http://adn.loqix.com/

I could use my developer credentials to allow people to exchange information via the app.net backend. Of course I'd be responsible for whatever gets posted, so that places obvious limits on the kinds of apps I could write.
Communism is the most blood-soaked ideology there is. They make the scary Nazis look like professional wrestling.

If anyone said there was Nazi principles in design they'd be pilloried. So how come a so-much-worst one gets a free ride? As usual?
no you cant. Take a look. Its not HTML. the email appears no where in the HTML,JS, or CSS. Its a hack that dynamically changes the pseudo selectors and combining the before and after to make a complete word.
Agree. The author complains a lot without naming any specific features that are considered "bloated." As a web developer, I love all the features that Google rolls into Chrome with each update; especially in the developer tools section.
The headline gave me a slightly incorrect impression. ABC news left valuables at checkpoints as part of a sting operation. While it's still inexcusable, taking a lost item isn't quite as bad as actively stealing. I think the legal term is "theft by finding": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_by_finding.

I guess the TSA agent didn't know that iPhones, iPads, and many other tablets and smartphones can be tracked and wiped remotely. There is a large risk to stealing them and little reward. I bet theft rates will decrease as word of these anti-theft features spreads.
I don't think that's possible. Even keeping the number of BTC fixed is a policy.
Everyone says stupid shit now and again, whether it's to a random person on the street, your best friend, or your spouse.
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Not much for a micro-controller company.
I don't think this is much better. I wouldn't work for someone who asked me this question, even if this were the rationale. Who knows why someone would divulge their password. I bet there are reasons other than being completely devoid of common sense.

Regardless, I bet that any predictive relationship between willingness to divulge a Facebook password in an interview and the ability to perform adequately as a software engineer is weak at best. To me, an employer who doesn't understand that shows poor capacity for unbiased reasoning.
It's discussed in the malware pdf. Chrome also has some exe blocking in addition to the safebrowsing.
Ten. That's their sample size.
Its horrible finding an apartment in NYC. Especially if you're a working professional. Most people don't have cars, and apartments aren't helpfully near each other, so you're spending a lot of time hopping on trains and walking streets. If its the weekend, you're spending a whole day just to see a few places if you need to wait for trains. As you can imagine, any place where giving the super a six pack gets you a set of master keys, people aren't very reliable. Half the time you show up and the apartment is gone, the listing is wrong, or the place is a heap.
If you work during the week, you're either running around at night looking for apartments, or by the time you get to the weekend, all your research is out of date. This is why brokers exist in NYC.
And if they don't? They'll probably disqualify you as a potential employer for asking such a question. Just doesn't seem like anyone wins from this.
Right, but you're going to get this unfairness no matter what criteria you use, gender or otherwise.

Say you leave the gender ratio unspecified and instead decide based upon the interviewer's gut feeling. Then you'll bias the hiring process toward schmoozers with good social skills.

Or you decide based on which college the applicant went to. Then you bias it towards people who were willing to shell out for a prestigious piece of paper.

Or you decide based on whoever responds to your offer first. Then you bias it against people who have lives and better things to do with their time than refreshing their e-mail waiting for a callback.

Really, the only solution is to acknowledge that life's not fair, and people sometimes get things for completely arbitrary reasons. Which is really hard for a lot of people to do - it was hard for me - but you end up being a lot more successful when you don't think too hard about all the folks who get undeserved job offers and promotions and think more about how you can tilt the odds toward being one of the lucky ones instead.
Except not only is it theft by finding, it's also in their training to turn in lost goods.

It's not just the law; it's very clearly their job.
All of the brokers I ever talked to in NYC were "in" with management, I was always the "first" to see an apartment that "wasn't listed" and it inevitably wasn't the one the broker put up on Craigslist with the awesome pictures because it just got taken "yesterday."
I'm a former and returning Microsoft intern, who interviewed in her freshman year. I strongly suspect I got the interview as a result of being female and facing discrimination early on (but not because I was female and they wanted to hire someone of my gender).

Long story short, I'm used to being dismissed or looked over by my male peers - often in CS, but also in the hobbies I've taken up over the years. I found the only way to be listened to or respected was that I had to prove myself very quickly to anyone I had to work with. I got my interview after talking to a Microsoft dev doing recruitment for 10 minutes about a project I worked on after identifying he had a personal interest in that field. He didn't even look at my resume, but I saw him star it when I gave it at the end of our chat.

I would never have been able to do that if I wasn't used to being over-looked. I can signal that I'm competent and easily discuss projects or tech interests within a couple minutes of meeting someone because in the past few years, I've learned that when I neglect to do that, I'm going to get ignored. Because of that, I have an incredibly advantage in that many of my male peers CAN'T do that, simply because they've never had to until it came time to search for a job.

FWIW, one of the biggest reasons I'm returning to Microsoft is that it's one of the few places I've ever felt like I was respected off the bat regardless of age or gender. I couldn't imagine working with most of my peers back in school because of the lack of respect. There are bad apples everywhere, and certain teams are definitely geared towards older folk - but there are highschool kids doing internships there, in some very coveted areas. The guy was out of line, but he's definitely the exception and not the norm.
That's an outstanding list of problems that are all amazing start up ideas. This is where real estate can really be disrupted.

These guys, http://bermanvc.com/ are really smart. They invest in real estate related technologies and even invested in YC alum 42floors.
Unbelievable. Can't even get the fucking acronyms right.

SOPA is the "Stop Online Piracy Act". SOPA expanded criminal liability for copyright infringement and provided new tools for rightsholders to shut down suspected infringing services.

The executive order discussed in the WaPo article regards CISPA. CISPA has nothing at all to do with SOPA. CISPA would have allowed providers extended protection from civil liability if they shared information about network attacks with other providers and with the government; equally importantly, CISPA allowed the government to share information about network attacks with providers, which is something it has no effective way of lawfully doing now.

CISPA has so little to do with copyright and piracy that the draft of CISPA that the House passed explicitly exempted IPR breaches of all sorts from the mechanism. But that doesn't stop the Internet from rolling all these policy issues into a single ball and yelling at it.

The EO Obama signed does even less than CISPA; an EO can't provide liability shields to private companies. Mostly, the new EO just tells the various federal bureaucracies to pretend to that they're actually doing something to improve the security of our swiss-cheesed government IT systems.
Sorry, I went on a tangent there. The benefits of wimpy cores have certainly been elusive. Some good links
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/trishulc/paper...
http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/MozillaCaseStudy...
As someone with a young family (multiple children too young to participate in any hobbies) a full-time job, extended family and a house to look after, I'd suggest the "stop beating yourself up" route. Yes, you could be doing all sorts of cool projects, but it would probably have to be at the expense of other things. Cool projects will wait, but your family won't wait, and they will grow up in your absence.

As you've stated in another comment: accept the pace. One strategy I'm trying is to just noodle away with whatever time is available. I doubt I will be able fit in a "change the world" sized project, but I'm hoping
1) It will be surprising how little time some things take to do, once a start has been made.
2) Once I'm underway, I'm hoping that time wasters, such as TV, will naturally be pushed aside as I find it is more enjoyable to do other stuff.

One issue I'm finding is that's important to have a well organised workspace (mine is not yet). Otherwise all the small snippets of time get used up with finding things, rather than doing things.