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I completely agree. I make this point, though, because the parent article begins,

“You only got that internship because you’re a woman.”

Note that this statement does not imply she is unqualified. She could be absolutely qualified (and probably is). However, in the ficticious tiering example above, the female applicant has 10x higher odds than a male applicant of getting a sought after job at a first-lass company, even though both are equally qualified. For this example, at least, the above statement is explainable (minus the "only" part, which is just mean) by the huge difference in probability between her and her friend. Her friend would have to apply to ten times more internships in order to land an equivalent gig.
At least in Texas, it's illegal just to ask, as long as the interviewee did not bring the topic up.
The article talks of "losing control" not "losing revenue" hence what my post was talking about.

There will obviously be some lost revenue, but not really enough for Google to care. At least for now. Mainly Kindle hasn't done much to scare Google.

I remember when the first Kindle Fire came out and people were hailing it the end of Google and Android. Silk was going to eat Chrome for breakfast. Amazon Appstore would be the defacto "Android Marketplace". etc etc. I've yet to see any of that come to fruition.
I once got approach by someone putting together a fund for just this purpose. The rules were something like:

1. You buy into the fund with your shares.

2. The shares had to have had a valuation by a major VC in the past N months (N=4 IIRC).

3. You had to retain X% (they didn't want founders dumping on the fund.)

Finally decided it wasn't worth it. It is very difficult to have faith in other people's valuations of non-tradeable stock.
Step 1: Free Food.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!
If I were interviewing a candidate and had decided to ask this question, my response following their reaction would be "Just kidding. We don't do that here" followed by taking note of how concerned they initially appeared at the question.
Ask HN: What do you want to see from a Search Engine?
People always say that "Search Sucks" so:

what do you want to see from a search engine?
What do you think Google is lacking?
What will make you switch from Google?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Are you now aware of the mass assignment bugs?

Aside from the fallacy, it is a false argument to pose all risk as bad. Given what is presumed to be your idea of acceptable risk, I would expect you to surf the net behind 7 proxies: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/good-luck-im-behind-7-proxies
These all seem like great requirements to me.

FWIW, I'm actually using Windows 8 right now. I play plenty of games and don't use the market at all.
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That would be both immature and manipulative, of course.
wash post link on that page is dead, so... useless.

but here is something:
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/473/3056196/White-House-test...

Which linked to this which scares me. A new CMM from may that deals with energy. CMM red tape didn't save contractors from fucking up the shuttle program- how is it going to help our power plants from being "hacker safe"?
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Electricity%20Subsector%2...
Oh God... not that I don't trust the Chinese (they do tend to overpromise, though), but I really hope that building doesn't come down at the first earthquake or fire.

Plus, building it in the middle of nowhere almost guarantees that it will become yet another abandoned property like the famous Chinese "ghost cities" and malls...
My Pinterest account was hacked and reactivated
My wife noticed I had suddenly pinned something after my account had been shut down. I was able to log in and access my account, so I wasn't locked out of it. But I can't comprehend how it was possible that my deactivated account was utilized in this way, or what I can do to stop it from happening again.
It's hard to say. Microsoft paid directly for these "studies" in the past, and eventually people started ignoring them. So, now NSS simply doesn't disclose who pays for them.
Not that I agree with most of GP's message, but generally pitchers come out ahead if they win a game. If they bet a nontrivial but still small amount against themselves it could be seen as a means of hedging an individual game. And strongly frowned upon.
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"Fragmentation is not a problem because Google still is the primary Android services provider."

Doesn't the article point out that some of the bigger companies using Android, like Amazon and (in the linked article about TVs) Lenovo, are doing their own versions of Android that use none of Google's services? So Google is left high and dry - the other companies have taken the Android code but given Google nothing in return. This is how I understood the claim that Google has lost control of Android.
I don't say search sucks. I use Google every day. To answer your question, what I want from a search engine is finding the most reliable source of information on the topic I am searching for. I don't want spammy trash to display higher in search results than thoughtful writing based on careful research.
anyone felt 6 month is kinda long? I guess it depend on the type of product, but wasn't the first version of Gmail written in a day?
That's hideous.
Site's crawling for me and registration seems to be down. People like free stuff.
Yes, what anigbrowl said. Flag them silently if you know for sure that they are blogspam. It is of course a courtesy to identify the original source, if you know that, or to identify the Hacker News thread where the original source was discussed (as Colin Wright and a few other users do from time to time), but in any event flag it if it violates the guidelines.
WebGL Beginner's Guide seems good, although the subject is fairly niche.
I know this is going to sound incredibly lame but I wish they styled their usage of Bootstrap a bit more. I wish sites would spend just a few minutes to be a bit original in their visual appeal.
I thought that too when I hovered, but clicking is much more fun. You can get a nice swing happening.

The examples at http://desandro.github.com/3dtransforms/ are great.
Perfect for local business shops too. Think of a local flower shop, I bet birthday orders could be huge for that type of thing. It scales decently as well if the business adds itself.
Hmmm. Interesting post. I might say that the closer community members are, the more the reward or incentive is getting to know the other members rather than fame or money. After all, that is the reward for interacting with offline communities based on close ties like family. Well, except for interactions with that rich uncle /sarcasm.
He's not refusing to put on the store. He's refusing to go through a charade of "certification" to assist MS to put it on the store - essentially to assist them in closing down their open platform by getting all the popular titles into the closed ecosystem. If MS will open up the store put it there without certification then I suspect he's fine with it.

While it would certainly have been more consistent to withhold the iOS port, there was no equally good open alternative on that platform, so it would have been a fairly futile gesture. On Win8, having independent games continue to thrive and ignore the Metro store will make a tangible difference to Microsoft's ability to shut down legacy apps in the future. So I can sympathise with why he would treat these situations differently.
I would like to point out that you can not future-proof anything that's security-related. You must have a plan to be able to upgrade or replace any security measures you have today, because the chance they'll be broken in your lifetime is extremely high.
I'd say most projects can be knocked together to a basic proof of concept in a day. However getting it to be able to support 100 million users (as per the article), or even be worth showing takes a lot longer then that.
I don't think it's FUD to point out the inconsistency that comes with on one hand proclaiming Android to be open and with the other blocking a third party company OEM Acer from shipping Aliyun phones under the threat of pulling early access to betas etc. Being Open implies the chance to fork and fragmentation. Google might be doing good for Android, but it seems to be going further away from being "open".
AOSP is open, Android, not so much.
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From your resume, it looks like you've lived in the area circa a year. Is that your entire baseline for judging the Mission's gentrification?
I'm not saying that theft by finding isn't bad, just that it's not quite as bad as normal theft. It is still pretty damn bad. Consider these options:

Option 1: TSA agents steal things from your bags.

Option 2: TSA agents steal things that you forget at the checkpoint.

Both options suck, but option 2 doesn't suck quite as much. That's all I'm saying. I'm not defending the guy. It's just that the headline made me think #1 was the case, but it turned out to be #2, and #2 isn't quite as bad as #1. Of course, both are inexcusable, illegal, and wrong.
Not enough question marks.
Reminds me of the bright colours of geocities days
I'm hardly an expert in this, but doesn't that architecture look similar to Intel's MIC architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC) with the upcoming Xeon Phi product? See also http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/intel-details-knights-cor...
The "just kidding" would probably need to be before I answered. If I start to get up and walk out and then they say "no, I was just yankin' ya!" I'm going to be really suspicious.
> What if you volunteered some time in a developing country and met someone who’d never spent a moment thinking about Chandler and Monica?

Most organizations that send volunteers to developing countries are either evangelical or are looking for educated people with skills, both of which require the kind of conformism that this piece rallies against.

BTW, in all seriousness, who are Chandler and Monica?
So you agree with the flip side argument that Google is just enforcing existing business agreements to which all parties are signatories, you just choose to interpret it as uncharitably as possible for Google.

Yawn. Business is business. Using open source software doesn't magically absolve you of responsibility to your contracted partners, nor give you the right to jerk your suppliers around. The simple truth is that Amazon handled this gracefully and produced a great product, and Acer screwed it up and wrecked things for their partner Alibaba. Making Google out to be the bad guy is just fanboism.
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If the slow down is only noticed on OSX, it's a OSX problem especially when OSX 10.7.5 just came out. Most application that runs perfectly on window tend to run poorly on OSX.

... Here comes it hate mail :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends (or was this a woosh?)
Or whatever. Just giving an example.
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Actually, a lot of twists
Actually, a lot of twists..
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I don't think the only two options are Detroit and Manhattan.

Also, I think the mid-Market area is perhaps not the only place we can look at in evaluating the effects on San Francisco.
"... A good piece of evidence is that the dust of Mars is significantly composed of 'goethite' ..."

you mean these? "small spherical hematite balls, dubbed ‘blueberries,’" ~ http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article/436306/iron_blueberr... Goethite: learn something new every day.
The prototype, perhaps. Not the version that initially shipped.
What people here aren't getting with the references to XBox and iOS is that Notch's objections aren't to closed platforms. He objects to PCs as closed platforms. Minecraft was originally an indie game developed for PCs due to their open ecosystem. It was only able to reach closed markets like iOS and XBox because of its success as a side project on an open platform. Notch strongly believes that the computer should stay a bastion of openness in order to sustain a indie game community--indeed, the majority of my own games I play today are small, independent games that provide a unique experience that I would hate to lose due to higher barriers to entry.
>Thomas Kinkade was, I believe, far more prolific than Picasso. But I do not want Kinkade-grade developers.

I meant "prolific" in the sense of producing lots of GOOD work, not merely churning stuff.

Which for Picasso, it was. If anything, the critics agree (which is as far a metric as you get in the fine arts).

>There needs to be some other metric for software development. Figuring out what that should be, and how to accurately measure it, is non-trivial.

Sure, but the "good programmers are X times more productive than bad" (as I see it) is not about producing more code, but about producing more of what a project needs. I.t they are qualitatively more productive, not quantitatively.

Come to think of it, it sounds more of an obvious statement, almost a tautology or truism: "good programmers produce MORE good code than average programmers".
So I shouldn't use a compiler? A bug in generated app code could corrupt my kitten photos just as easily as generated DB models could.
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Yes, I can see how making an application more consistent and predictable would be terrible for the end users.
The point here is not "don't use tools". It's "test your changes". Pushing straight from a tool into production, or making the change by hand in production, or anything on the spectrum inbetween, is unwise.
I bet http://opensourceecology.org/ would be really interested in this, if they wanted to open source the plans.
With all due respect, I'm going to Windows 8. I'd like Minecraft to be there, but if it's not, I'm sure some other indie developer will put together a compelling game on the platform.
Downvotes?

I don't see any offensive parts in my comment.

Is there any part of my argument which is not trivially and patently true?
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You managed to, in more words than the original article, completely miss the point of the original article...

None of what you assume a "fuck 'em" mentality means is suggested in this article. It doesn't say that you should go out and walk across the country, it simply asks "what if?". It tells you to consider other options, to do much of what you suggest in the last paragraph of your response, except in your response you still have the assumption that to be successful in life, one must "care about your success in the company (and in your career)".

This article to me is a reminder that I don't need to do what everyone else is doing, or expects me to do, in order to be happy. I need to do what makes me happy, in order to be happy. Sometimes those values align, sometimes they don't. And in the instances that they don't, if someone else has a problem with that - Fuck 'em!
Keep in mind that is the outer bounds. I am sure no one would complain If a team delivered a quality product in some fraction of that six months time period. Even more, though six months sounds like an eternity to a startup with 7 months of "financial runway", for teams used to the bureaucratic pace of yahoo, 6 months is likely considered to be breakneck.
When I first started reading, I thought "Now THIS is something Facebook should have been doing all along. It's a perfect fit.". Then I read:

2. Your friend is notified instantly

Friends enter their own shipping info and can swap for a different size, flavor or style before the gift ships.

What!? This seems like a huge product miss. It's almost the equivalent of buying someone a gift card. It removes the element of surprise that makes gift giving great and takes a lot of personality out of giving the gifts. I get that it's more practical but since when has giving gifts been about practicality?

IMO it would be a much better implementation to say "a friend is sending you a gift! Fill out your address so we can ship it out to you: ...".
OK, my response was maybe a little more snarky than I intended. Anyway, I think we are going to have to agree to disagree about the utility of turn off error checking in production.
I don't think you mean that Java "exiled" nouns, especially considering you said Java consists of "nouns nouns nouns nouns". To "exile" is to send away, to remove. It has the exact opposite connotation of what you were trying to say.

Other than that, this is pretty silly. The architectural changes required by allowing arbitrary HTTP verbs are terribly unnecessary for the sake of making semantics infinetesimally better to a few peo... no, not a few people. Just you.

The problem is, the PUT, PATCH, and POST verbs make it clear what is going on. All the SHUFFLE verb does is obfuscate what the server's actually doing. The verbs refer to what the request is doing, not the application. I think the ambiguity in that respect is one of the weaknesses of REST (or at least how it is now preached).
Nice hack (especially when you're clicking around), but what caught my eye was that maybe for the first time, Safari is actually waaay faster than Chrome or Firefox.

This is (roughly) the framerate I got when I tried it on the these three browsers (all latest versions, Windows Vista):

Safari: 60 fps (or 30, or whatever "completely smooth" means)
Chrome: 20 fps (compared to Safari)
Firefox: 30 fps (compared to Safari)

But why? Chrome has always been the fastest (on Windows - on Mac, Safari is somewhat smoother for me)???
> Say that your goal is to hire from the top 1% of the field, and the top 1% is indistinguishable from each other.

That's not how the world is.
Like others have said, its not unexpected that some water remains, however its also possible (especially due to its location) that the object that caused this impact was made of ice.

I'm not sure if Mars suffers impacts from it, but impacts from sources such as the Oort Cloud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud) often contain ice and other materials. There are other examples if you search around.

The universe is a big and crazy thing, the possibilities of what can and have happened are almost endless.
People seem to be misinterpreting her comments. The product will ship in 6 months and reach 100M users eventually.
Wouldn't that be pithing on your parade? :-)

An article from 2007 on the debate : http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12026-mars-rover-finds... there are still some that believe at 'just the right time and place' you could get liquid water on the surface, but everyone seems to think it would be short lived.
How would the existence of Windows 8 stopped the creation of Minecraft? He still could have developed with it (there's the desktop). He could have deployed his app, had it certified, etc... There doesn't seem to be anything that openness would have provided him.

Open platforms are good for a few classes of devs:

1) Devs at competing companies. Closed platforms make it easier for one company to shut out a competitor.

2) Malware creators.

3) HW tinkerers. This is probably the class I have the most empathy for. With that said Win8 has a complete desktop mode fully available for tinkering.
Not necessarily miserable, they might be just good marketers creating an online audience for themselves to advance their careers or feed their egos.

Fun stories about fun lives (fictitious or real) are something people use for entertainment nowadays. You could call it "reality blogging."
You've listed exactly 3 points from a multipage document with dozens of requirements as if they summarize the whole document. This is not true - the requirements go way beyond the points you listed.

Apart from that, these points are merely necessary, but not sufficient for getting titles published. In a closed ecosystem you hand over control of your ability to publish to someone else, and that is fundamental. The terms that really matter in the MS developer agreement are:

> i. App Availability. Microsoft has no obligation to make any app available that you submit, even if that app is Certified

and

> j. Updates. Microsoft may update this agreement at any time in its sole discretion

That leaves open any kind of anticompetitive reason MS may come up with in the future to manipulate the store.
Starcraft :P http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DMAI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
I think the best part of this entire exchange is that it provides proof that shipping code wins.
C++0x has some useful features, but it doesn't address Yossi's complaints about C++, which are at a more fundamental level.
And yet when people make decisions, they are much more influenced by anecdotal relevance than statistical soundness. Reminds me of the time when my buddy was trying to get a spot doing research as an undergrad in one of the biochem labs. More than one prof had labs where female undergrads outnumbered the males, so he said he wished he was female so he could "wiggle my ass" to get into a lab.

edit: Also, there are statistics of overall populations and statistics of subpopulations. Sometimes the smaller sample sizes (the subpopulations) are more relevant.
I'm just going to leave this here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rinearson
Oh I see, because they are disadvantaged and thus achieve less, we should disadvantage them... that'll make the world a better place.

That's why those people who believe that are wrong.
There is no way to do a truly large scale beta on iOS. Your options are to release it to a select group, or go though the review process are release to everyone. That's not to say all Closed platforms would have caused issues with Mincraft just some of them.
What is Windows 8 "certification" that he's complaining about? Is it about adding it to the Windows Store distributed by Microsoft? In that case, doesn't it need to rebuilt with WinRT/DirectX?

Or to add it as a link to the developer's website like desktop apps can have in the Store?

The requirements are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh74...

Can't see anything really bad there, if anything those rules finally herd the Windows application cats.
The first "version" could be the wrong term. I'd be asking how long did it take for the first "user facing version" to be produced. I imagine 6 months isnt far off, maybe less but it would be a very restricted beta.
> I don't think it's FUD to point out the inconsistency that comes with on one hand proclaiming Android to be open and with the other blocking a third party company OEM Acer from shipping Aliyun phones under the threat of pulling early access to betas etc.

What you're saying is misleading. Acer were the ones who broke the rules and Google enforced them, for good reason too.

If you sign up and agree to be in an organization in order to gain early access to firmware, then you should abide by the rules of the organization. Otherwise, don't join.

> Being Open implies the chance to fork and fragmentation

Yup. If you don't want to play by Google's rules, do what Amazon did and make your own version. Or as a better example, do what Archos has been doing for near 3+ years.

Google provides timely improvements that they eventually send back upstream, but they have no obligation to instantly provide these updates to AOSP to everyone.