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Well, I can't control everything. :-)
I went to college and stopped after I got my Associates because I had already landed a job in the software development world without my degree. Since then I have a few different programming and design jobs, I currently own my own development company that is doing better and better every month.
Anyways, if I decided to go work for someone and they didn't hire me because I didn't have a BA or better, I probably wouldn't want to work for them anyways. I would like to work for someone that believes that experience speaks louder than a degree, because in my eyes, it does. A degree just shows you went through a structured learning experience.
This reminds me of Charlie Chaplin's Nonsense song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0daS_SDCT_U
Ask HN: Prototyping service that works with Nerf-material and inflatables?
I'd like to test a concept in two materials, polyester foam and inflatable PVC. I've checked the following 3-D printers, but they don't have the materials I'm looking for.
http://www.shapeways.com
http://www.sculpteo.com
http://www.ponoko.com
http://i.materialise.com/<p>I've also checked with various rapid prototyping services, but still no luck. Unfortunately, carving down a large Nerf ball won't work because the shape is somewhat intricate. Any suggestions on the best way to iterate a physical product in these two materials without working with a manufacturer?
Only somewhat joking: maybe there should be a rule that CAs are only allowed to issue to entities in foreign countries, outside traditional alliances, to ensure independence. I'm pretty confident Iranian intelligence couldn't pressure a major US CA to issue a cert for Iranian intelligence gathering; I'm pretty confident Turkish intelligence couldn't pressure a Japanese CA to issue for intelligence purposes. The problem is then US sites would need to get their certs from (at best) Russian or maybe Chinese CAs, and possibly only North Korean CAs.

This still doesn't prevent the "evil CA issues something covertly to do evil", but it at least leaves an audit trail in that legit, widely-used certs aren't likely to be issued to illegitimate parties.
His views are insubstantial. His main argument is that his previous ad hominem positions were not sufficient to condemn GMOs (correct) and that GMOs haven't caused any problems yet.

He has not presented evidence that GMO's are safe. He has two main arguments:

1. Trial and error crossbreeding affects entire genes.
2. Viruses sometimes spread genes from one organism to another.

First, trial and error crossbreeding isn't likely to produce anything catastrophic. We've been interbreeding plants for milennia. Current techniques may be more risky, but generally speaking it should be hard for plants to produce a horrid mutation based on natural interbreeding mechanisms.

Second, just becauses cross species gene transfers do occur doesn't mean that it's safe when we do it. If such transfers have occurred in nature for a long, long time, then it's safe to say that nature has created pathways that are safe. Our pathways are new.

I'm making a Talebian argument here. Nature is a VERY complex system. When we mess with it, we make incremental visible gains, and run the risk of large, invisible losses.

It means nothing to say that GMOs haven't caused harm yet. All it would take would be ONE catastrophic GMO plant to cause large amounts of damage. By definition, we won't be able to foresee this until it happens.

HN is a very tech positive community, and also a community that's very aware of the complexity of large system, and their fragility when meddled with. When considering GMOs, many forget complexity due to a pro-technology attitude.
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What is the deal with Apple and Waze? Poker
This an example of such a printer: http://production3dprinters.com/slm/direct-metal-slm
Thanks, they look pretty good.
I really think it should not. I run ssh on the standard port, and as long as you use something like denyhosts and public key authentication, and you disable password and root login, you should be good. You could even limit the IP ranges allowed to connect to ssh, but that kind of limits your ability to connect from different places.

The little malicious traffic you experience by having ssh on port 22 is dealt with by denyhosts, the attacker would not be able to get in and they would never be able to try again from the same host.
WebKit is constantly moving forward, and is not stagnant like IE6 was. Many of its initially-proprietary web features have been standardized and adopted by other browser engines. The primary challenge is convincing web authors to support the standardized versions of the formerly-proprietary features alongside the browser-specific versions.
If he's changed his mind based on facts, then I'm happy for him. However, the implications of Monsanto's Terminator seed technology (DRM for plants) is so sweeping and, frankly, frightening that whatever time society wasted due to the anti-GMO activism was worth it.

Does anyone really think that if we didn't make a stink about GMO that they wouldn't have gone full steam ahead?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol... wherein we learn that Monsanto acquired the company that did the initial R&D.
Even McNulty on The Wire? When I saw him later on some talk show and he was speaking and holding himself as a posh Brit (ie himself) it almost broke my brain. So, yeah, he fooled me.
The fun part that distinguishes an early Lisp from the pure lambda calculus is the mixing of strict evaluation and call-by-need. I had to hack that a bit by making a distinction between Procs created with proc vs those with lambda and by tearing apart function bodies. I forget how the original Lisp made the distinction. It looks like I need to re-re-re-re-re-read the Lisp 1.5 manual.
And yet... you can use it to visit maps.google.co.uk [0].

Stop making excuses for Google. This is ridiculous ffs.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8vfzurnKw
> this "fix" would have been submitted to and vetted by a functioning group of experts who would have immediately said "Dude, no." and it would have died silently.

Maybe. Or maybe it would have been like all those "Turn off your Windows paging file" for XP and Vista websites.

Or all those "RAM Booster" softwares.

Users get sucked into a bunch of hokum, and having a clueful person tell them it's nonsense often does nothing to stop the nonsense.
A superficial reading of the news would lead one to believe that Monsanto == GMO, and I believe a lot of people are swayed to be in the anti-GMO camp by the bullying tactics of Monsanto.
I really like the tutorial style of the lessons and the smoothness of the UX. I am not a poker player but I just recommended it to a friend who plays a lot. Nice work!
When I was attending the University of Southern California, I learned that Steven Sample, president of the University, has "patents in the field of digital appliance controls that have been licensed to practically every major manufacturer of appliance controls and microwave ovens in the world. More than 300 million home appliances have been built using his inventions."

I have no idea whether patents are the reason for the differing controls, but I just thought I'd share this interesting fact.
That's the problem with the HN:News iOS app - it shows the comments first and I've always believed it should show the article first.
I'm a European and unless I focus, the lyrics of English songs just blends in with the instruments. The song has no meaning unless I want it to. But when I hear other languages, it's hard not to notice that I don't understand.
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That was a wishful "should"; a naive statement made in the hopes of it becoming self-fulfilling, an impersonal prayer to the universe. Not an imperative directed at you.

Besides, we have better uses for you ;-)
I read his argument differently. He is not claiming they are safe in an absolutist sense, merely that they are safe enough to alleviate the food shortage the world faces without them.
Honestly I think the title is just PR BS from Google. You can use WP8 browser to access maps.google.co.uk and it works perfectly fine [0]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8vfzurnKw
Absolutely something I plan on doing, thank you.
Interesting about the magnesium - I like chocolate, almonds and cashew nuts. All high in magnesium.
Ask HN: Pair programming to Self programming
I got used to pair programming from 9-5 job. Now I am having hard time to do non-pair programming. Any suggestions to overcome this.

I am easily getting distracted by facebook,HN and Reddit.
Sure they will. It doesn't have to withstand drop from top of building. Just drop from pocket most of the time. A bit of plastic definitely cushions the blow.

Otter Box seems to be one of the most popular that I see, and it is definitely made to offer some protection.
I absolutely know that feeling. I appreciate the advice, even if it was a tad contradicting.
I'm curious what sort of realistic disaster scenario you think might occur due to cross-species gene transfer (and for that matter, purely synthetic genes) in GMOs, and how the existing safeguards are inadequate against it. Normally I'm against FUD, but please, go nuts, so long as there's a reasonable chance of it occurring (i.e. we're not talking about a mad scientist who wants to create man-eating plants)
The the only reason I change my ssh port is to reduce log file noise. Not as a security mechanism.

Oddly enough, I have also run across networks where outbound port 22 was blocked. Handy for that too.
You learn a lot in college. It's a structured environment where relatively well-curated information is supplied to you at a reasonable pace. You could find the same information elsewhere, of course, but it is often hard to know where to look or who to ask. Things like algorithm design, software engineering, and project management are very useful things to know. College will teach them to you. If you choose not to pursue further college, you should have a plan for teaching yourself.

Additionally, there is some perceived value in a having the degree. In a perfect meritocracy, if Alice and Bob have similar skills and experience, they should be treated similarly in the professional world. However, if Alice went to college but Bob was purely self-taught, the real world may well hold its prejudices against Bob.

Here is a personal anecdote of mine, which may be relevant to you. Not long ago, I finished a 4-year bachelor's degree in 3 years. On my resume, it lists a 3 year time span for this. I regularly get recruiters (both official company recruiters and 3rd parties) asking me whether I actually finished school, whether I was in a proper 4-year program, and the like. This leaves me in an awkward situation, and I am forced to clarify my circumstances.

People often joke about the value of a piece of paper, but sadly there may be some degree of truth to this one.
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I'm always surprised and intrigued when people switch from being vehemently on one side of a debate to the other. I'm reminded of televangelist Pat Robertson claiming that the Earth is way more than 6,000 years old: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/29/pat-robertson-chall...
Fantastic point. I think that pretty much sums up my hesitation on continuing, why would I work for a company that doesn't care about me and my experience?

Best of luck with your Development Company and I appreciate the feedback.
The reason its not supported is not because of technological limitations. It's just anti competitive practices from Google.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I know enough to know that we don't know enough. Too many times we've done things that in hindsight should never have been done had we had more information. I fear this may be one of those times.
Well, winding down means you probably don't have the funds to patent whatever unique thing it is you've created. Which is a bit of a shame, because you could have donated the patents in some manner that would prevent someone else monopolizing them.
Read closely and you'll spot this...

"Metaphorically speaking, that is. I don’t mean athletes as in people who play sports. Athletes, as in people that can play any position within your startup. It means someone is first and foremost a generalist. "
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't it just be that people are seeing improvements because running this every second makes more memory heavy apps in the background leave ram? It seems, just looking at the comments here, that symlinkers have had no good effects, while those installing the app have.
I don't care what Jason does on his website. I do care when people don't post the original source.

Some sites are worse than others. This site isn't bad (I trust the people telling me so) but still, this instance? It's just a YouTube embedded video.

I think the added value that I've missed is "approval[1] by Jason K." - seeing it's from his site means people are more likely to clicky the HN submission. That's fair enough. I just need to remember it, I guess.

Sorry if I was grumpy! I don't think I was.

[1] Approval isn't a great word. "Collation" or what ever fits too.
If patents were very expensive and someone with no money invents a novel cure for cancer in their garage the next step is to go find money to both get a patent and make the thing happen. If they don't have money and come up with a real --useful, marketable-- invention they'd have to go get money to make it a reality anyway.

Again, as I said in my note, not well thought-out at all.
Just one more comment:

As I am studying computers/programming now, I find myself at a disadvantage over things that are probably trivial to others. I find myself not knowing the basic of things, for example. The stack? The heap? Turing Complete? With all of this stuff that is second nature to others, I had to learn about it from scratch by Google, etc.

I don't know if that was the most efficient usage of my time . So, in a way, I feel that I have missed out on a lot of basics that many take for granted by not having majored in Computer Science and have had to take the "long road" to understanding.

If you can avoid taking the "long road", you might instead have more time to spend on learning far more interesting things.
I can't speak to the position of the OP, however, I have a general point I don't think I've seen mentioned. For some individuals, a college degree may not serve much value, either financially or for it's own sake. However I feel that collectively, all else being equal, a world where most poeple have been exposed to a broad range of views and have learned the liberal arts and sciences from passionate thinkers is better than a world in which they haven't.
Don't be evil, Google.
Please remember it.
The fox once wanted to partner with hen, so it went to the farm.
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When you get to the top, every way is down.

Currently (well, before the portables took over) everybody has a Windows machine, and buys Ofice for it. Once people change to non-Windows machines, they don't get more numerous, thus, if MS drops the price to stay competitive, revenue will go down.

Yes, they do, they also get richer. But changes in population and economy aren't quick enough to compensate for an order of magnitude drop in price. At least not at the short term.
This first paragraph summed up much more succinctly what I was trying to say in an earlier comment.
Sort of; using Firefox 17, the mobile UI loads, but is very jerky and zoom doesn't seem to work.

Regardless, I think Google Maps should try to draw something (no matter what browser the user has), with a big "unsupported browser" box. Redirecting to the home page is a user-hostile behavior.
Not sure. I'd have to run a test to really know what "degrades" means in real life. I was hoping someone would know.
All phenomenal points. I think this is most likely going to be the route i'll take. I'll continue working and taking one or two classes a semester until I get the degree.

Really good points across the board, definitely quality advice and I really appreciate your time.
I'm getting confused with all these stats but it's just sloppy reporting by the tech press.

This writer didn't even mention that this is just new smartphone sales instead of overall shares.

I thought VentureBeat is one of the better ones. I guess not.
From what I understand, he's not saying that, the anger is towards the lack of communication. English sounds the way he speaks, but the tone (and the question) is unrelated.

As an italian, I can tell you American English may sound many ways but I'd never define it "angry".
I cannot test it myself. But there are many people in the comments saying it doesn't work on co.uk either. Maybe it was only working when the uk version was outdated.
May be a dangerous idea if an attacker gains control of the antenna.
> a lot of these tools have tutorials that don't really walk me through all of what I want to do, which initially involves a fairly straightforward "CRUD" type of application

As it happens, I just completed a 4 part tutorial building an Angular CRUD app this afternoon! http://jphoward.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/end-to-end-web-app-...

The backend in the tutorial is in C#/WebAPI, but it's very easy to apply the concepts to any server - the server is tiny and very simple. I'll be doing a Python tutorial with Flask-Restless very soon.

I'd be interested to hear any feedback. I'll be adding video wall-throughs in the next week or so too.
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I agree, it's unlikely investors would block a deal like this if the founders want it. At $20 per user I think it's a very reasonable valuation for a company at this stage, same type of valuation instagram and foursquare got. However I do buy the fact that the founders believe they can create more value and continue to grow.
Note that the video shows the user able to access the desktop version, but the article is about accessing the mobile version. Here's what the mobile UI looks like: http://i.imgur.com/oCveo.png
If you can separate GMOs from the more evil commercial activities revolving around them (patents, seed control, ...), then I don't get it.

I'm not saying that's an easy separation to make, but science and technology will continue to move forward. If it brings about our end, so be it. You can say the same about a lot of different technologies. It just happens to be the dangerous phase we are in (transitioning from a Type 0 to a Type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale).
This report is not measuring new unit sales. "Kantar’s panel data is generated by more than 260,000 consumer research interviews on a year basis in the U.S. alone"
Many Google engineers here. Anybody care to explain what are the technical reasons why this would be not supported?
I was thinking this for few months.
So what if Blackberry launches on Feb 1 where it sold more than the IPhone 5 that day?

Would you say that the Blackberry has the biggest market share?
Never heard of this guy.

Along the line of the argument, "John Smith, leading health care reform advocate, admits health care reform is unnecessary." And "Renowned atheist, on deathbed, admits atheism was a mistake." At least with the atheist guy I had heard of him.

So it is an 'appeal to authority' argument, but it's not even an authority who many people have heard of, and fewer still have ever thought of as an authority on the topic, and in fact who it looks like the side he is now aligned did not consider to be an authority until he said he now agreed with them.

Also the article's suggestion that this guy created GMO criticism and without him no one would have asked questions about GMO safety is absurd. Lots of people have reasonably been asking those questions. It's absolutely not something that one person created out of nothing and became the undisputed world leader as if he is some kind of pope. The article reads a lot like propaganda trying to create a straw man leader and then watch as the straw man commits suicide.

Another problem is the conflating of criticism with attacks/vilification, and the ad-hominem use of claiming critics are anti-science: "To vilify GMOs is to be as anti-science as climate-change deniers". This is the opposite of reality. It is very science oriented to ask about risks and be as interested in long term safety trials as we are with pharmaceuticals.

(To be clear, I am not getting to pros or cons of the argument, just noting this article makes a poor argument.)
> ...some degree of truth to this one.

Ahhhhhhhhh puns.
Personal bias much? I see you work on Safari at Apple.

How come it's OK for WebKit to extend the spec with non-standard features but it was not OK for IE 6? Sure, some of the features have been standardized and included in other browsers, but the same thing happened with IE! You can thank IE for the XmlHttpRequest after all.

I can literally see no difference between IE6 adding non-standard features vs. WebKit doing it. You just have personal stake in WebKit succeeding and don't want to admit it's basically the same thing.
That's a video of the desktop UI, not the mobile UI. Users are complaining that they can't access the mobile UI.
well neither works on windows phone.
How do we get that information if people are running around burning these crops to the ground?
Google is taking the bizarre position that only iOS and Android exist on mobile (and only the official browsers of those platforms).

I don't ever remember Google Maps being blocked in Konqueror or IceCat, so I'm not sure why they are using this tactic on mobile. More importantly, a lot of good-citizen webdevs work at Google like Paul Irish, must be rather awkward for those types.
Okay, how about the lesser of 10% of the patent owner's monthly income or $10,000 to file? From there, it would be another $10K for the first 5 years, and $50K for 3 5-year extensions? Then the filing can be modest.. and upon approval, will be about the same to cover 5 years, and have to re-up at a higher cost.. assuming the patent is actually worth keeping active by then.
Weed-killer resistance transfers to a weed, helping boost it to invasive species?

Some mutation makes crop more vulnerable to a particular plant virus, destroying 80% of that crop in EU or US?

A huge multinational wants to include "TERMINATOR GENES" in their crops to make sure the cropped seed cannot grow; environmentalists freak out at the name and oppose that; the multinational doesn't include that gene but now inspect the fields of people on the route of seed delivery and if they find any gene-manipulated crop (which is probable from wind-blown seed) they sue the farmer into oblivion.
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On the one hand, this isn't really any different than Microsoft not supporting Office on Chromium.

On the other hand, isn't the whole point of web standards to avoid situations like this?

I suspect we'll just get confirmation of something we really already know: standards are really important only when you're not the market leader.
I'd say its just the opposite. It's anti-competitive practices from MS. They're trying to build their own walled in hardware/software garden. It would make more sense to me if MS was blocking Google stuff, not the other way around.

They probably figure if they let Google in on some things, then they open the door to supporting all of Google's apps like gmail, chrome, calendar, google docs, etc. Which goes against them wanting people to use outlook.com, their calendar, MS office and IE as their main browser.
And all the drawbacks I cited in the original post, ie, nobody outside the Android team bothers contributing anything, and the project has less developers and less features than it would if it were truly open.

Why would new phones be 'spoiled' if their source code was released?