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Are the women really more attractive in Austin? One of the things mentioned in the article is that in SF, people are in shape. How are things in Austin?
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Have an upvote, for an interesting comment. I'm not completely sure I agree with the sentiment, but you make an interesting point. I'm not sure what exactly it would mean to say that two different parties are both "100% to blame" for something, but I suspect there's at least kernel of something there that I would agree with.
Was the percent tool written with cynical intent? Or was it a simple in-joke, perhaps, among longstanding members of staff amazed at Google's growth? I'm not really sure what, if anything, I should read in to the tool's existence...
You state: "You may post as many replies on this thread that "threat" doesn't mean what we think it means but the law, common sense, and understanding of English, proves you wrong." however...

From United States v. Kelner (1975) -

"... the threat on its face and in the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate and specific as to the person threatened, as to convey a gravity of purpose and imminent prospect of execution..."

The "threat" made by the prosecutor in Swartz's case wouldn't meet the conditions of unequivocal, unconditional, or immediate thereby rendering it not a threat. A layman may feel that they were threatened or that someone else would feel threatened by the statement in the press release, but the law does not consider it one.
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This doesn't happen in Firefox so I'd assume it's a bug of the browser.
Yes, I do. Too many times I've worked with programmers that were pushovers to inane edicts from management, whereas if just a few had said, "I see what you're trying to do, can we accomplish this in a more efficient manner by ..."
Please do show how to do this in Go when you have a few minutes, I'm really curious (and happy to write it in Java once I see what you mean).
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I'm sorry, where is the deception?

"Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, "servicing the target" for bombing [1]), making the truth less unpleasant, without denying its nature. It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning (for example, naming a state of war "peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth, producing a communication bypass.[2][3]

However, euphemism is not the same as doublespeak. It will not be considered as doublespeak if it is used appropriately and without the intention to deceive. For example, using "passed away" to suggest somebody is dead is an appropriate use of euphemism."
looks nice. why double tap instead of a single press?
Where are you pulling your notion of "an acceptable level of deterrence" from?

If your willingness to persevere exceeds the willingness of society to punish you, then at some point society will be pushed to think hard about the issue. That's the whole point of civil disobedience. But those conversations need to happen in the realm of politics - not the courts.

In short, the courts should not try to preemptively block all possibility of civil disobedience by subjecting people a sufficient pain point to prevent it happening. Judges need to stay within the limits set by maximum sentences and sentencing guidelines, even if the judges believe that this punishment is not enough to deter the unwelcome action.
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It's highlighting some of the inaccuracies of google maps 45 degree angle views by showing how these buildings would look in real life if viewed from street level.
I've been using Clojure for a while now. Do you have any particular recommendations for resources for getting started with ClojureScript? I tried a while back and got really confused.
It sounds like you're trying to preach to a choir but talking to a de-converted atheist. :) Thanks for the link, though!

I've worked with embedded systems before, so it's not totally foreign to me.

But now, instead of programming a SoC or a board -- I want to MAKE the board! :D

I have a concept of how power would fit into an engineering system, but I mean

* How do I do board layout?

* How do I know which components to put on a board?

* How do I know what components go where?

* How do I test the system I want to build.
I worked in Cupertino for 5 years; just two towns south of Palo Alto it is frequently 90+ in the summer (and as you go through San Jose it gets even hotter). At home in Menlo Park and Palo Alto it was consistently ~10 degrees colder.
And this is just it, I was indeed senior level. I do not have the patience to play a cultural game internally just to get to a project that makes use of my skills. My bad.

If that makes me a bad cultural fit, G O O D! If a company isn't smart enough to pair me with a problem I am adept at solving, then plenty of other companies are, and that's why I left after only 4 months. Got a raise too.

Google's hiring process is toxic[1]. It's probably costing them big bucks that they can't quantify properly as a line item in their budget so they probably won't consider changing. All I know is that whenever I recount my days at google on HN, lots of people upvote my story, a lot. I suspect others have similar tales to tell.

[1] Not that other companies don't have their own personal poisons, but yeesh, why not try something new once in a while?
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We had a similar experience at the Brazilian Python user association. The content was deleted, IIRC, because the account was inactive for some time (we hold yearly events).
Criticism acknowledged - I'll fuck off.

Basically, I was trying to get HN to bite on this issue. I just started the blog, so I would modify wording of the post if the submission failed.
I did purchase this because I will find it very useful, but I do want to say that providing an ePub format is clutch. Please, please do what you can to provide this format in the future!
I bet there was a internal screw up, they said they were working on it pretty early. Maybe there was something with the team. Any insiders here?
> [Facebook is] doing a really bad job on their products.

Shots fired.
Why do you see user survey's as value-less? Being able to gather and analyze information from a group of people is a great value.
the "distance from mountain view" was spot on. when i moved here to work for google, i was debating between living in the city and commuting, or living in mountain view and going up to the city to do stuff. thankfully, i'd spent nine months living in mountain view a few years ago, and knew that, realistically "going up to the city" would never happen (i don't drive); if i wanted to be in san francisco after work i pretty much had to live there.

so far, while the commute is a bit painful (45 minutes going to work, 70-90 coming back), i have no regrets about deciding to live in sf.
I assume he's taking stitching artifacts from Google Maps and making mockups of what they might look like from the ground. It's a bit hard to see that at first because Street View exists. Note that the vantage points from the ground are where pedestrians might plausibly go.
My guess is the energy generated by the spinning hemisphere is less than the energy required to move his wrist when holding the magnet...
Ah, we shared the same reading comprehension issue. Aside from the whiteboard or other fixed-surface situation, you can always just angle the paper. Writing with the paper angled about 60 degrees anticlockwise seems to do the trick.

Fountain pens are another problem area. You have to learn to write without "pushing" the pen. More info here: http://www.nibs.com/Left-hand%20writers.htm --combine that with fast-drying ink and things aren't so bad.
Why do you think these features haven't taken off (that's an assumption)? Maybe it's the map format? I've really enjoyed the curated approach that theflightdeal has taken and now hipmunk. As I said in another comment, I wish Kayak let you filter by cost per mile. The really great deals get lost in all the other deals.
Well, I am hoping you do release the ePub version to people buying the PDF because I am buying the book right now :)
I do think the democrats have a technological advantage in this case, but it is far less solid than it may appear at first.

For simple demographic reasons the republicans cannot continue to focus on the old white anti homosexual segment of the population, since there aren't enough of them left to form a majority (projections suggest that Texas may turn blue by 2020, perhaps even 2016, if Texas turns blue then the Republicans will never again win the White House) and the other obvious alternative for the republicans is the young, well educated people who want and end to marihuana prohibition and less government interference in the lives in general.

Should the republican pivot to take these voters in, then they may very well attract a much larger share of tech people.
That didn't actually answer my question, which was about what the reason for that being a "black list" offense was.
Really also without warning up front. That tics me off most. No warning. Its not like its porn or anything. Just webinar videos
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That's not a good solution because you're doing something to someone who is effectively powerless, and they have no recourse.

It's a recipe for large-scale, institutionalized abuse. All I have to do is label you crazy etc., and then I can do whatever I want with you, while no one has to see it.

Any case where we argue that we should compel someone to do something for social order needs to be handled with the utmost in transparency and restraint. I.e. not putting them in camps.
> If that's not "primary usage" for viewing slides posted online, I don't know what is.

Seriously? The primary usage is presentation..........
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As a simple and obviously rather obscure example to think about zero-sum blame, consider two men sitting in a room facing opposite walls. In front of each of them are identical control panels; in order to launch the nuke they both need to issue identical commands at the same time.

Both should be considered fully responsible for anything that happens. I would would not consider "Well he turned his key too!" to reduce blame in any way, they would both be to blame just as much as if the system only required one operator.

Wether this principle of non-zero-sum blame can be applied to situations less obviously engineered is something I can't really support, but it is a point of view that I hold.
Larry needs to focus more on Google and less on what others are doing.

Firstly their self driving car project seems to be pointless. Almost every car manufacturer e.g. Ford, GM, Hyundai, Toyota, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Volvo has had their own project for years now and Volvo will be shipping as soon as 2014. Which raises the question of who exactly they plan to license this technology to.

Secondly they need to address the lack of diversity in their revenue sources. Whenever you have 95% of your income coming from one source (advertising) you are going to have real problems. Facebook Search only needs to siphon 10% of advertisers away from Google to induce panic. Which isn't that far fetched.

Thirdly they need to make a decision about Motorola which is looking like being a terrible idea.
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The Maker Revolution improves our capability to make small-run and custom products, that's what's so great about it.

However, it's far from any kind of industrial revolution. It's also important to point out that rapid prototyping has been a standard tool in most manufacturing disciplines for at least the 20 years I've been an engineer.

Another encouraging side-effect of the Maker discussion is that the new consensus about the advantages of local manufacturing. We've been complaining to our bosses about the loss of manufacturing capability not only because our jobs are going overseas but also because the local knowledge about design-for-manufacturability and the other DFx's are eroding.

When I started my current job we had assembly lines, machine shops, reliability and regulatory labs and a large force of highly skilled technicians. Now it's almost all engineers and the most we can hope for is to build the first 10 prototypes of anything we design.

The "Maker" induced renewed interest in rapid prototyping has caused a subtle shift in the minds of mid and upper management about how far to take local manufacturing before going to CMs in China.
Japan - they've stopped their nuclear plants and are therefore in need of imported energy.
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That may not be entirely true: using hydrolitic disproportionate of super-critical water and heated crushed coal slurry, dropped 10000 feet down in a closed continuous feed chamber, the coal slurry will break into shorter segments and reform as hydrocarbons using the hydrogen from the super-critical water. The same process may also be applicable to bio-mass, such as plant material.

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Y'all are trippin about the cost of living. I make $26,000 a year and do great in San Francisco.

You can be lazy or live cheap here, but you can't do both.
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I haven't used it but here's a 10-part mega tutorial on modern Clojurescript: https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/
Well, yes I agree with, just signing a petition will achieve nothing. Just like the man down the pub complaining about XYZ will achieve nothing except give him an outlet to vent. As the old saying goes: Actions speak louder than words!
Does anyone genuinely believe that?

Yes. Engineers deal with uncooperative systems all the time. One might have the task of getting SCADA system A to integrate with financial system B, and report to management system C. But SCADA system A rate limits requests from a single origin, and the financial calculations will be inaccurate without more frequent updates. So, the engineer creates a system that appears to be multiple different origins to SCADA system A, and the world still turns.

I think what terrifies lawmakers and non-technical people is that, for the first time in history, computers present a potential world in which their expectations of the outcome of force and command do not apply; a virtual universe in which the laws are entirely different, and it takes bending over backwards to make the old laws of the physical world apply in the virtual world. So they do the only thing they know how, apply the physical world's laws of force and command to that chunk of the physical world at the opposite end of the virtual world, in a scale that is proportional to their vast fear instead of the actual behavior.
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Lots of self-promotion, very little content
Nice, really wish there was eraser, that's pretty much it.
Where in San Francisco? It's my understanding that rent continues to go up in basically every part of the city, and it's even incredibly expensive outside the city.
I've actually been using Insynq (https://www.insynchq.com/) with some pretty good success. I especially love how it handles having multiple drive accounts; the different Apps accounts can get kinda hairy.
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So what did you mean?
"It is unfair to label this poor quality, the author clearly describes a problem with moving a security tool like SSH into the browser."

Yes, I agree. The grandparent does point out a valid problem. However I believe the parent was referring to the sarcastic tone and negativity, which I also believe should be out of place here on Hacker News.
Of course a person isn't a nothing. The issue is that many recent grads (especially those that are smart/have done well) somehow seem to forget that as far as the work world goes, they are back at the bottom of the pile.

I'm simply pointing out that many of them - particularly in this generation - don't seem to have any idea of their overall place in the grand scheme of things.

There are close to 50 years of "top of the class" grads floating around out there. That's the competition.

if the interviewee isn't willing to turn down an offer, someone will take advantage of them.

While I don't disagree, the fact of the matter is that a new grad rarely, if ever, has this luxury. It's true that it may very well be in their best interests to not take a job despite not having an income. I've seen far to many though that never get the right start because there idea of "being taken advantage of" is so far out of whack with reality that they don't take any viable position. Given 1-2 years of unemployment, they become less and less valuable, and more and more desperate.

9/10, as a new grad, you should take an appropriate offer from the first company that makes it. The experience you need is much more valuable to you than the interview quiz, the dress code, or yes, even the pay.
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I'm glad you recognize the irony of asking for a discussion then deleting it. I wouldn't mind if you just kept the posts live.
The timer still exists and leaks memory until the timeout expires. For instance if you write an interactive command-line tool reading one character at a time from stdin with a 5 minute timeout it works fine when used interactively, but if you cat a file to it then it explodes memory (because a timer exists for 5 minutes for every byte read).

This is a language designed for concurrency where there's no way to have an efficient timeout for blocking operations. Blocking operations and timeouts go hand-in-hand (select(), poll(), pthread_cond_timedwait(), etc) so why doesn't "select{}" have a timeout clause? It makes no sense. Not even to mention what happens when the system time changes by a lot (your app probably gets hosed).
Nicely put. I was more aware (marginally) of his political activism and vaguely knew something of his past (I do really like his writing about web.py - and now that I'm reading it, all of his writing).

It seems to me he was driven by the need to score a coup, and move fast. To be the hero who liberated an entire database, instead of a contributor to a slower process that would have slipped past their defenses - which as I've said elsewhere, really would have gotten us something, instead of the nothing we have now.

I think that need was due to his need to recapitulate his early acclaim when he was 14. And in retrospect, that really sucks.
Maybe inside NYC or Boston city limits, but not in rural NY or MA and certainly not on the freeways. PA, on the other hand... you don't drive through PA in the summer without hitting at least one section of freeway that's become a parking lot because of road construction.
So, you'd regard a candidate as lacking integrity if you scheduled an interview with them, but they then cancelled because they'd accepted another offer first?
>The reason why those legal fees are so high is

...because the penalties are so high. That's the actual reason. Because when the maximum penalty after a trial is a 30 day misdemeanor, you hire a lawyer and pay them two months of your salary and you make your case, because that's about the point past where spending more money to defend the case is no longer worth it against the possibility of losing.

But when the maximum penalty is a 30 year felony, or even a 10 year felony, you spend every dime you have, because the penalties are that high. And then, because criminals are so consistently charged with enormous penalties like that, which makes them consistently go all out on their defenses, the prosecutors go to Congress and say "we don't have enough resources to fight these people who have these high priced defense attorneys" and they get multimillion dollar budgets for individual cases.

Which brings on the arms race. So now you're not just spending every dime you have, you're spending every dime your parents have, every dime your friends have to prove that you didn't do it, every cent you can borrow from a bank or a loan shark, because the alternative is even worse. And the more defendants spend, the more prosecutors get to outspend them, because "we can't have criminals with more resources than prosecutors."

Scale back the stakes and you scale back the resources needed to fight over them.
Selling software over the internet to strangers is only a very small part of what "doing tech" is. Like I said, you could "act" in a local volunteer theater in Nebraska but to say you can "be an actor" anywhere is inaccurate.

If you want to grow beyond a 1-5 person shop, if you want to build incredible software that is used by hundreds of thousands or millions of people, you need a critical mass of great engineers, designers, marketers, etc working together.

Sure virtual teams are possible but just ask Jason Evanish (OP) about how Kissmetrics went in the reverse direction - from virtual to in-person and how that's transformed their business for the better.
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Please see above edit - and thanks for pointing out the same thing three times till I actually processed it
The discussion focussed on the entire technological stack; and I do not think that anybody claims that we will be designing and printing comercial airliners from scratch at home. By contrast the maker revolution is (in its first stages) about the long tail of manufactoring. So in the forseeable future it is about beeing able to sell small runs of specialized goods at prices compareable to more generic and mass produced competition. While we still need several million people to produce the arduinos that power them.
Is there anything like this but for Flask?
Well especially during a recession there are some Americans who could be making this much, or even used to make this much, but are un- or under-employed. Some may have retired with that much, but the falling stock market decimated their retirement.

It wasn't meant to read much into >_>
What? What neighborhood were you in? $10 for a burrito is outrageous. I never pay more than $7, anywhere. What kind of burritos were these?
Sure, but if you read more carefully, you'd understand the context for the rest of the entire conversation is national, if not North American.

You can't expect everyone to switch context on your whim simply because you want to.
This and clear all.
Any reason you didn't go with the standard 1.0 is the first non-beta release?
I think this article misses not only "the" point but pretty much all points about the "maker" revolution. The maker revolution is about the world of "atoms" being converged into the world of "bits". Just as desktop publishing technology engulfed specialized information-centric industries such as mathematical and musical typesetting, 3d printers are the first step towards what Neal Stephenson referred to as "matter compilers" in The Diamond Age -- where the gap between design and physicality is almost trivial -- the idea that this will look like guilds or mass cottage industry or whatever is wrong-headed: it will look like something we've never seen before.

(I think matter compilers are going to far, and we'll probably use standardized recyclable lego-like pieces rather than atoms but the idea is basically sound).