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Humans aren't APIs. If observing Stack and a whole heap of other sites (even apps and gadgets) have ever taught me anything, it's that your creation is what your users take it to be. Not what you originally intended.

I mean sure, the "nudge" method works by locking, deleting even outright banning, but in the end, people will do what comes naturally. It's like trying to make water flow upwards on a waterfall. The natural direction of interraction is toward discussion, not just question-in-answer-out.
At this point we are already making assumptions about the validity of distinction between conscious action and instinct. Is conscious action an instinct? Where do we cross that line? I am afraid the definition is recursive. Thus we are ascertaining the consciousness of the action by assuming/accepting/defining the consciousness of the actor based on the lack of instinctive behavior!
OK, so get out Wireshark and have a peek for yourself. Figure out how to decode the data in the responses returned from the server (I'm sure it's not much more than maybe binary packages of metadata transmitted over SSL) and examine it until you're confident.

http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/16788/wireshark-decrypt-s...
http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/03/10/pulling-b...
should help get you started.

"The great thing about facts is that they're true whether you believe them or not"

Also, Notch has "confirmed" this (if you trust him more than a sketchy anon source that RockPaperShotgun has stated that they've verified) https://twitter.com/notch/status/311535572596432896
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| it's not about "liking someone" necessarily, it's
| about being excited to be around them and work with
| them.

That's just another way of saying "liking someone." You can "like someone" for a variety of criteria.
Well, they were right about Netscape.
Hi msprague, thanks for the enthusiasm! We're actually discussing possible approaches to a public API for developers. We're still in early development and don't have a name yet, but if you send me a note at the email address in my profile we'll keep you up to date on our progress.
I think most people considered the spin off into Lucent to be the true end of what Bell Labs was. There hasn't effectively been a Bell Labs since 1997.
Don't worry about them. He's still remaining attached to University of Toronto part-time specifically because of his remaining graduate students[1].

[1] https://plus.google.com/102889418997957626067/posts
Just curious, why can't you get a computer? You'd be better off with even a 10 year old model than an iPad, if for no other reason than having a keyboard.
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He isn't anonymous to RPS - they say they know who he is, and verified he worked on the project just aren't publishing his name. That's a lot different than an "anonymous tip."

"Our source, who we have verified worked directly on the project but obviously wishes to remain anonymous, has first-hand knowledge of how the game works."

Either RPS is being duped, or it strongly adds validity to the story. RPS has a great reputation, and if they say they verified it, I think that puts the burden of proof now on EA to show that that the claim is incorrect.
Another easier way: Be an elite.

Besides bulkheads which are often blocked until day of departure, many exit rows are preferred seats and snapped up by elite FFs weeks and months in advance. Depending on the airline, some let you assign exit rows at the kiosks.

The tips from Mahalo are mostly crap.
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What does this have to do with Reddit?
Yaron Minsky of Jane Street said pretty much the same thing about OCaml in one of his talks. And it makes sense. Go and OCaml are not mainstream, so the people who know these languages are likely interested in improving their own skillset, and it makes sense that they would be above average programmers. If they like the language enough, they would of course want to work with it rather than other languages.
I can also relate to the "success=charisma hypothesis." In my comfort zone, I feel (and therefore act) a lot more confident than when I'm in an unfamiliar situation. It can affect tone of voice, posture, body language, eye contact - all sorts of charismatic gestures.

I once walked past Bill Clinton having lunch in an NYC restaurant, and from 100 feet away I could almost feel the charismatic aura around him. It was impressive, and has stuck with me. But perhaps it was as related to the several hundred people around with their eyes glued to him, as it was to any charismatic qualities he may have been born with.
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I've seen your product, it's very slick. We'll definitely contact you about possible integration.
> It's not really "go" that makes the difference

But from what I've seen and read about Go, it does seem to have things in it that do make a difference.

For example from day one Go was designed for with concurrency in mind and that's a big plus.

To see how this can help this Rob Pike video does a good job of showing off Go's version of concurrency:

http://blog.golang.org/2013/01/concurrency-is-not-parallelis...

Now, you can implement concurrency lots of different ways using many different languages. But I've used a lot of languages and I never seen concurrency done as easily as shown in that video.
Great article.

Malaysian here. A lot of what's mentioned in this article also applies to Malaysia. Being an engineer doesn't carry the same prestige as being a manager - there's a perception that if you are still coding at the age of 35, you must have failed at life. That bit about computer science graduates being stuck in "enterprise IT oblivion" - that also rings true over here. The end result is that:

A) It's really hard to find real engineering talent. As in people who understand the harder computer science topics. Don't talk about deeper machine-learning stuff - even finding people who can code up a webapp from scratch is a challenge. Most of the smart ones are now either working overseas, or are now in non-technical positions.

B) Our IT projects are woefully sloppy. Just visit any *.gov.my website for proof.
This is good news. I've been using Trello for a while now, my main use is to keep track of my clients/projects/tasks,
I really hope it stays free forever (like they say)
How did you spot the loopback port bottleneck?
Oh, I actually have a bluetooth keyboard. I also have a chrome netbook, but they end up being about... equal frankly.
Yeah I can't figure this out.
And since last year, you can choose Bitbucket and still use git 100% of the time.

THAT seems to me what Fog Creek is doing here -- realizing, shit, we picked wrong, but now we have all these users, how can we take a mulligan and pick git?

And they did it. So like somebody else here said, what they've done is change the answer to "Does it work with git?" from no to yes.

(Note I am also not saying that anybody choosing hg over git for their own development 'chose wrong'. But if you are trying to do business by selling people a mainstream DVCS service, hg isn't the best choice you could make.)
It doesn't seem like the game is that taxing on decently good processors. It seems like you should easily be able to do those calculations if you have some extra cores lying around.

One thing to keep in mind is that even in big, 16 city regions, only subregions of 4 cities each are actually connected by roads and rail. In fact, these subregions are practically autonomous, except maybe for air travel (I don't know). This is why you have 4 great works per 16 city region. So first thing to do would be, if there are actual calculations taking place between these subregions, cut that off.

Now we only have the interconnections of 4 cities to deal with. Only 1 of these cities is 'active' at a time (the one you're currently playing on). I don't see why you couldn't do a rougher simulation of what is happening between your active city and the three other cities. You don't have to track agents from other cities to the active one, just have a counter that keeps track of total population.

I may just be a naïve computer science student, but this doesn't seem terribly hard to do if you already have everything else in place. And it couldn't possibly be slower than what they currently have: I've watched one streamer have 3 cities within a subregion all have different values for progress on a great work. They weren't synced up at all. It was just silly. On one local machine, there's no way this could happen.
Without anymore than a cursory glance it appears all the love went into the Mac app. What we got for iOS is, by all accounts, barebones. That said, I'm still hopeful that this tool finds more teams; it's great.
Thank you for your answer. If you're right and this is the Go way to do it (and I have no reason to doubt you), it's exactly what I was afraid of. I can see why for loops would just read better. Feels like a step in the wrong direction though -- at least for me.
So what exactly are the NSS reviewers doing instead? Also, could you reorder HTTP headers to put cookies last? And at what point do we say "Screw it, TLS is dead"?
I found that on Quora :)
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You're right, and that is the intent of the tests. We don't ask that question of candidates at all, and I just updated the post to clarify that.

It's not about 'process-hipster cred' - most people who know me will tell you I don't give a shit about anything like that. It's about having questions to keep in mind when evaluating a candidate and your ability to work with him/her. "Is he/she an asshole?" is one such question, but these are others that we have found to work well.
A lot of classes have their class location as a subreddit - like the mysql[1] for example.

1 - http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit/comments/oas6u/cl...
Just updated the post to clarify:

"[UPDATE] Just to clarify the above, we do not mean that we ask candidates these questions. These are questions for the existing team when evaluating a candidate, and it isn't about forcing people to come in on a Sunday, or convincing ourselves that candidates are just like us. It is simply about hiring people we would want to work with, be around, and help / be helped by, no matter what the occasion."
I was originally very excited about Go when I first learned about it. But then I got tired and frustrated quickly after having to listen to the other Gophers telling me that I don't need this or that feature because there is a better way to do it in Go.

Like.

I don't need exceptions because Go function can return multiple values.

I don't need a mocking framework like Mockito because Go has interfaces.

I don't need an interactive debugger because I can debug with command line using gdb.

I don't need named arguments because I can instantiate a struct and call my function with it. (Have you seen Ruby or Javascript code? Almost every function takes 'opts' as a single argument. Go is probably going down this path too.)

Then I learned about Scala. I'm not saying that Scala is better than Go. However, it has everything that I need. :)
IANAL, But just documenting this in a blog post makes it public record and potentially opens you up to lawsuits to anyone you didn't hire in the past.
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I'm pretty much waiting for the "offline" release, the 100% all clear that noone is having issues, or the crack. whichever comes first.
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Oh come on, you can't show that video w/o filming what happens when you try to touch the stream!

*The reverse flow is quite mind boggling :O
I've been coming up with some Bitcoin tshirt ideas. As soon as you support Coinbase I'd love to put them up.

Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you need a beta tester!

Also can you please please please get American Apparel 50/50 shirts? They're the only shirts I buy now.
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I'm using bluehost, if that helps.

My random clicks indicate that they support Ruby, PHP, and Perl, as well as apache, which I think? means I can install whatever I want? I tried following an apache guide once but was in pretty deep over my head.
Man, thanks so much for suggesting SSH, I don't know why I never thought of it before, but it has totally changed the game for me.
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I call it desktop version because full functionality seems to only work with a mouse pointer. I do believe that the things that do not work with a pointer could work with touch
These all lead to dead ends:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721105
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262

Do you have a link for the post you are talking about?

EDIT: In this thread pg says wait 30 seconds between each request (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702488), but that doesn't work either.

EDIT: "unimpressive" Was this is what you were referencing?: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqL8kR005z0QdEN...
Kind of. From the description in the YouTube video:

Set up your camera and switch it to 24 fps. The higher the shutter speed the better the results. But also keep in the mind that the higher your shutter speed, the more light you need.

Motion blur isn't something you "turn off" -- it's the natural effect of light being collected over time. The faster the shutter speed, the less time the camera spends collecting light each frame. That means both less motion blur and a darker image.
We had the benefit of building products for a market that was highly active on Twitter. That and two popular HN posts bootstrapped both of my current company's products. I owe a ton to HN, but even more to Twitter.
I guess it's likely my fault, but I utterly fail to see why larger eyes necessitates more processing circuitry. I guess if it actually had higher resolution, but is that necessarily the case? If all the larger size does is let in more light, then what difference does that make to the post-processing except that the data is better?
For Rollbar (http://rollbar.com) it's been a fairly random mix: friends, twitter, reddit ads, sponsoring the Node Knockout, the occasional HN comment, and a surprising amount of word of mouth. More recently we've done a bit of PR but it hasn't been targeted at customers.
I looked online for people who I wanted to be our early users, then emailed everyone with a personalized message. Surprisingly, when you are honest with people and ask them to join something that would benefit them, it's possible to get a lot of interest. Took some time though, a lot of time.
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I wanted to write AirBnb for Wi-Fi initially. But our product manager stopped me. A sad day for the world.

Samuel - if you are reading this, look what you have done!
This is really interesting. Some friends and I had trouble getting leads on who to "sell" our prototype to, and we had the thought that it may be an even more legitimate problem than the one we were previously trying to solve.

Can you comment more on the sell process to individual users with HN and Twitter: did you find and go after people that tweeted or posted about related topics to your products, or look for people that might want your products, or did you let them come to you through your posts or tweets?
> So when is the last time that PARC or Bell Labs produced anything of note?

Some—perhaps many—of their alumni now work at Google doing cool things. For example, Ken Thompson and Rob Pike created Go at Google.
"It was the perfect example of Dunning-Kruger."

You guys are hanging out on IRC making fun of people that are 'stupider' than you, attack the messenger instead of the message, while you post a non-generic function to fool unsuspecting readers into thinking Go can do map in a way comparable to OP's example. Look in the mirror much?
"The video just added a camera trick to photograph the ribbon in the same place during each oscillation appearing to freeze it in place."

This is such a concise summary and I'm totally with you. I think. If I understand right, it would not be impressive to watch in real life and is just a property of the recording. Correct?
Come to think of it, I felt the same way. Left the registration page up in the background while I worked on other stuff. Eventually came back and made an account.

Others might not be so patient!
My ctrl+F is not turning up any results for Poe's Law. I cannot tell if this is one big reddit inside joke or if everybody in this thread is actually serious. It's like an infinite loop of sarcasm and irony.
I think first of all, Dropbox is a service that many normal users relate to. We had A LOT of test users in our office that tested different iterations of the app. They connected Dropbox with something that "just worked" and was synced across all of their devices. But maybe we had a bad sample of users, I think with the feedback here we'll have to rethink how position this.
Nyquist-Shannon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_samplin...
What is the advantage of getting Salsa20 or curve25519 into TLS 1.2?
It does support the contact list already!

But going forward we'd like to add even more social graphs: LinkedIn, Twitter, G+ etc.
Three months before the MVP, I started a blog and established myself as 'somebody' for data analytics in the target domain. Started participating in online forums and commenting on other blog posts relevant to the target domain, specifically focusing on data analytics.

By the time, I launched MVP, influentials in the domain were aware of me. In a few months since launch, I gained several hundred registered users through these activities ... not a single penny spent on ads or to generate traffic.

Now I am working on figuring out how to generate revenue ...
The true end of Bell Labs was when Lucent started financing customer purchases. They were carrying dot com bubble debt on their books as if it were a solid asset. When the music stopped they had spent their actual assets to the brink of destruction.
Just to be clear, these are all details GCM takes care of.
I was hoping for a standing wave too. One of the most fun things we did in physics class last semester was attach an oscillator to a tense string and try to find the tensions that would produce a nice standing wave. It's really trippy to watch a string rise up into a stable wave right before your eyes, no frame-rate tricks required.
Ok, we should probably clarify that then. Everything is routed to their home/office router. Once you've given access your phone is out of the equation.
There are a few points from this publication that are suspicious:

1. There's no mention of funding sources for this study.

2. It's a small sample size of "two major studios".

3. Most importantly, this study isn't peer reviewed. [1]

[1]: http://www.ssrn.com/update/general/ssrn_faq.html
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I used Glympse before Find My Friends was added to the iPhone for ETA stuff:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glympse-share-location-frien...
Thank you! It's a lot of work put into it, all with a scrappy startup budget.
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There's simply no technology that makes you switch from 30 machines to 1 (you say you keep 2 just for reliance).

Obviously there must be other architectural changes in play here (I'm guessing RoRs thread-per-request vs some kind of event loop on Go?). Please be more specific.
Benign merely denotes non-maliciousness – I would call this a benevolent bonnet.
If you assume the cones and rods in the eye are still the same size, but the eye is bigger, if the portion of the eye covered in receptors remains a constant ratio, a relatively small increase in eyeball size would probably make a large difference. I'm too lazy to go look up the surface area of a sphere and don't recall it of the top of my head, but if I'm not mistaken the surface area grows much faster than the diameter.

I assume that only letting in more light would be a bigger pupil, not a bigger eyeball, hence the bigger eyeball has a lot more data to process.
You're arguing a point he's not making.
unless you internally processed images at 24 frames per second, yes.

however you'd be hard pressed to simulate this manually without any wave generator, which is why the speaker is crucial to the illusion.
I assumed they where talking about the 'world' economy and if that's the case it may be both true and irrelevant.

Ex: ~20,000 player city's are uploaded into a model. They do a simple calculation based on excess energy, pollution, ect. The result's of that are fed back down and then they run the model again adjusting for new city's and client city updates. Now even if 10mhz per city is used your talking about a 200GHz worth of processing which is far more than an i7 but shared and mostly irrelevant in single player as you could just as easily fake the global numbers.
That's a pretty amazing workaround and delightfully ironic that it's made possible by MAC-then-encrypt.
The authors are from a prestigious school, CMU. Still, I was curious to know who funded this research. Alas, not surprisingly, it is MPAA.

The CMU lab is called Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA), and according to CMU's press release "The creation of IDEA was made possible through a gift from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)"

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/society/2012/fall/entertainment-...

"The MPAA was interested in CMU in part because of our unique strengths in the performing arts, computer science and technology, and management," noted Smith.

Looks like MPAA also had something else in mind, when they funded this lab.
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Have you see Koding? http://koding.com . Web-based IDE and terminal access to cloud servers they host for you. I've played around with it a bit and it is really, really cool.
This is correct, although if you saw it in person lit by a strobe light flashing at 24 Hz, you'd see the same effect.
Databases many times are the bottlenecks of infrastructure. You can't just spin up new instances easily to fix the problem. Many times you have to completely re-architect your database schema and architecture to handle to increased demand .
That pop-out menu also leaves artifacts on the page.
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The residual activity on Twitter from a #1 HN post is where we focused our energy, mainly by retweeting, engaging, following, etc. I think these HN posts also helped build our SEO and especially as some bloggers wrote about their experiences with our products.
True, being an elite would be easier. But then buying a first class ticket would also make it easier :) These are tips to help a "normal" person who has to fly once in a while.
hopefully this will be the Stripe of AU. Accepting cards in Australia is a nightmare.
Can we just mark this language as deprecated? It's too complicated to render!
Are you sure about this? Hasn't Daniel J. Bernstein been fighting this meme for years and years? Is he just wrong?

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Works on IOS, too. Quite a nice piece of code.