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How many (and what type) bugs you can afford to let slide really depends on your users' needs:

As a biomedical technology, we have to demonstrate the scientific accuracy of the product we ship. We also have to be aware of the consequences of bugs to our users. While Facebook users may not mind a slightly finicky widget, laboratory technicians are much more sensitive.

I'm all for rapid iteration and product development, but I think it's important to ship things that are context-appropriate. I also feel that there's substantial, if intangible, value to being proud of what you ship.

I worry that a culture of shipping somewhat-broken things may end up doing us harm.
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I didn't see the mannequin at first, but that gives a good sense of scale. Does it keep balanced with some sort of thrusters? I can't see any.
This meme has become an ego stroking impulse of knowledge workers but it evinces a gross misunderstanding of economics on a fundamental level. More than that it represents a disturbingly insulting implicit characterization of "unskilled workers" who are incapable of adapting to a changing economy.

The economy is not static, and it has never been static. Indeed, it's actually far less dynamic today than it has been many times in the past. And no, you and your software are not going to change the world so drastically that suddenly people won't be able to find work. People will still work, they'll do different jobs than they did before. Supply and demand. Today many processes and systems are more efficient, by orders of magnitude, than they've ever been before. And yet at the same time a much larger percentage of the population is active in the work force than before (since many more women work today than in the past, among other factors). Is this a deep paradox or just simple economics?
I was inspired by the NPR web apps post on here a week are so ago and just wanted to play around with hosting a static site on S3 that's generated via a cron job.

It's pretty simple but gave me an opportunity to play around with a few new technologies.
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Let's start by pulling this discussion apart into three questions:

1. What effect will technology-based efficiency gains have on total wealth?
2. What effect will technology-based efficiency gains have on the distribution of total wealth?
3. What should we do about #1 and #2, especially #2?

The answer to #1, IMO, remains very favorable. And I think that's obvious so long as you measure wealth by the value and owner-/consumer-perceived quality of what is owned and consumed, rather than by market prices.

As for #2 -- a rising tide is clearly lifting a lot of boats worldwide. In the richer countries, that's more debatable -- but I think it's still true. Dollar incomes may be flat, inflation-adjusted, but electronic entertainment (for example) is a lot better than it used to be.

But it's hard to deny that income disparities are on the rise. And it's reasonable to think about those income disparities in part by counting numbers of "good" jobs (probably down) and (of which there are fewer) "great" jobs (probably up).

Historically, "good" jobs have arisen to more than make up for those lost, perhaps after an uncomfortable transition period. If that's what's going on again, we can muddle through without great answers to #3. But if This Time It's Different -- and it well may be -- then we need to reorganize our economy, our work practices, and everything else, rebalancing work/leisure in the way some people (often socialists) were already (and falsely) arguing was necessary decades ago.

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And finally -- at a minimum, we're causing problems that society needs to deal with in terms of general job loss. We're also causing other problems, such as privacy threats. So it's our duty, as very fortunate individuals, to also put some effort into alleviating them, or in some other ways of improving the world.

I, of course, have put some effort into the privacy issue. (http://www.dbms2.com/category/liberty-privacy/page/2/ -- more coming soon). Others may look at general economics (e.g. the OP here), or censorship, or the need for better STEM teaching, or in unquestionably beneficial applications of technology, or whatever. But we all should be thinking of what, personally, we can do to try to help.
In the linked PDF in the article written by the FBI agent the IP address is used as a piece of evidence in addition to other evidence like emails with addresses and names, so I guess the answer is yes.
No this is not the first large occurence of this issue.

A fork this big (dozens of blocks covering multiple hours of transaction history) already happened in August 15, 2010, due to an unrelated bug: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
So is the redirecting to HTTPS thing going to permanent then?

I guess I'll have to figure out how hack some Chrome extensions that haven't been updated for 3 years since the creators seem to have hard-coded the HTTP URLs.
Ah how awful and awesome that the world is becoming like a William Gibson book.
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But if the whole point is saying there is a lot of money in this space so it's less of a risk then why mention 1%? Mentioning the market size and opportunity is important but I think the issue people (such as myself) have with this specific framing is:

1) It makes it seem like you believe there is no way you could get less then 1% market share. Because 1% is so small that it must be easy to get.
2) It often de-emphasizes why people would choose your product over any others because you only need such a small percentage to be successful
3) It makes it seem like you aiming low. Aiming to get only 1% of a market to me means you ether don't have huge faith in your product.
New Zealand, Canada, Australia... All became relatively independent of the UK without warfare, suicide bombings or any kind of violence.

You don't need violence to be effective.
I've never messed with any DNS settings at all. Does this mean I'm using my ISPs DNS? And what are the benefits of something like OpenDNS?
Why is making a job obsolete destroying a job? I see it as progress. It frees up a human resource to find a more rewarding opportunity. Any worker(s) made redundant certainly don't feel that way at the time of impact because they get the opportunity to evolve by trial. One observation I've made regarding replacing people with technology is the inherent brain drain: all the details get abstracted away into the new technology or system and no one remembers or thinks about them anymore. When something goes wrong, those details matter. That creates a different demand and the cycle continues.
I've never actually had cause to read Tomas Paine before, but I'm finding I like it very much. Thank you.

(I guess I had some cause, but never enough to warrant any sort of effect. Again, thanks for lowering the bar of entry enough that it was truly hard to ignore).
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Agreed, this is not solely for recruiting women, but also for building a team that is more accepting of diversity in general.

Note this video of a messy hackerhouse: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/tc-cribs-likealittle-lal/
Not a single commenter is a woman.
Thanks for pointing it out, we're improving it now!
I am using the aync bcrypt module for nodejs. I am using it as an api for ios app. I will do the 1k test and let you know.
What happens when automation completes all tasks more efficiently than humans?
In fairness, parent was replying to GP who mentioned Axis of Evil, so you're one post late :)
I'm sure that a large part of that was also "legislators calling ISPs out on slow speeds" and "public outcry" (manufactured or otherwise).
>So, you’re doing all of the above, but you still don’t have any women applying to work at your startup? Well go out and find them. As someone who was recruited or referred to each of their last four jobs, I know that most of the candidates you want aren’t out there looking. Take the situation into your own hands and search Github, LinkedIn, Facebook or whatever other networks you frequent. One day, in about two hours, I put together a list of about 50 prospective female candidates. If you can’t find potential female candidates, you’re just

Isn't this illegal in America? That would be considered a discriminatory hiring practice.
Yeah, you probably want to avoid privacy related bugs, or bugs that allow people to steal credit card numbers or passwords.
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The concept we can keep consuming to keep ourselves out of trouble is naive.

We can not sustain the growth required to replace lost jobs, it's just not mathematically possible, the world is finite.

Concepts around consumption composing of the arts(Attempting to loophole limited resources) are also misplaced, already we are seeing computer generated actors and artists.
It's in the miners best interest to work for the bitcoin economy as a whole since their coins value depend on a coherent response to these types of black swan events.
Bug report for kogir: all items with an id less than 5million are 404'ing.

E.g. this loads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5000000

But this 404s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4999999
For what it's worth, http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif is being referenced by pages on https://news.ycombinator.com/, leading to mixed (SSL vs. not-SSL) content fun in browsers.

Also, if SSL is now a permanent thing for HN, it would be a nice bonus to see "add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;" in the nginx configuration block for the https server...
150 years ago the agricultural sector employed roughly 80% of American workers. Today, it employs less than 3%. It may be hard to imagine looking forward rather than back, but dynamic economies are capable of experiencing such dramatic shifts AND of absorbing and reallocating the labor towards more productive uses. They key thing to understand is that once certain modes of production become less efficient relative to alternatives, often because of technological advances, it frees our resources and productive energies to engage in new enterprises. It's true that employment dislocations that occur from rapid technological advancement can cause great transitional distress; that is why it's important as a society that we find humane and efficient ways of supporting people through these changes. However, the net result of progress is that we are all better off. No one can say exactly what the baristas or the project managers of today will become, no more than anyone could have predicted what would have become of the farmworkers who were displaced in the great migration towards a service economy. But, the last 150 years have seen a veritable explosion in the specialization and profusion of occupations which were previously economically unviable. I see no reason why we should not expect the same kind of evolution going forward.
They have no actual control over what the miners do, but they have a lot of respect in the community, and most miners are likely to listen to their advice.
I know at least one person whose parents have overlooked the earth-shattering moral conclusion that "Homosexuals are not evil incarnate".
I had a really bad feeling reading this article. Especially the parts about cleanliness and alcohol. Empathy's always a tricky thing, but I'm picturing something like this:

Welcome to $company. Here at $company we understand that $your_group people are different from $most_of_us_group people, especially with regards to $list_of_old_stereotypes, and we've made accommodations on that basis to make you feel more comfortable. We hope you appreciate this.
Sorry, I should have linked to the short summary first, if a mod wants to delete this comment and edit the link to go to http://www.ssa.gov/history/tpaine3.html instead, that would be grand.

The summary for you comment-first clickers:

> In the winter of 1795-96 Thomas Paine wrote his last great pamphlet, "Agrarian Justice." The pamphlet was first published in French in Paris. An English edition was brought out in 1797.

> In this pamphlet Paine advocated the creation of a social insurance scheme for the aged and for young people just starting out in life. The benefits were to be paid from a national fund accumulated for this purpose. The fund was to be financed by a 10% tax on inherited property. A tax on inherited property was used due to Paine's general philosophy of property rights. Although he based his social insurance scheme on a line of argument that might sound quaint in the present era, in other respects his plan was quite modern, recognizing the problem of income security for the elderly, and the desirability of creating a national fund for this purpose.
Is this a freelancing site?
Another effect of Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft.

This was the topic of a very heated debate internally 4 years ago, allowing the whitelist itself was a massive cave-in by Sinofsky who had set a fairly hard line against all plugins.

I'm hoping all of the jaded Windows decision makers who so adamantly wanted to ban Flash have been sufficiently spanked.

That said, I do wonder how well Flash will work on 7" tablets or even phones. Flash waved the white flag long ago on Android and Microsoft most likely will not support Flash across their entire OS line.
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It's also (hn) an effective way to get quality beta testing of new startups.
This would have to be in a different industry though, no? Inherently the point of automation is to shrink the amount of labor required to do a task. So as to your comment and in my example of customer service, employees laid off from company A would need to acquire technical skills to manage the new automation in that industry (likely that company B has already, or will adopt), or move to a different industry completely.

The problem I see is that everyone is automating though. Or is it assumed that enough tasks can't be automated to actually effect unemployment?
The issue is that it won't be nearly as effective as you think it will be.
0.8 clients were wrong to accept it, because doing so caused a failure of consensus.

Unfortunately the limit that was hit (which isn't quite as simple as 'size') was implicit in BDB and how Bitcoin prior to 0.8 used BDB. So no one was aware of it.

Extensive testing during 0.8 turned up several consensus breaking issues that were created during the database switch out, and very large blocks were tested... but the particular kind of very large block required to reveal this difference in behavior was not.
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How is it cool to put someone else's non-free copyrighted work on github?

I'm not a fan of DRM or what they did to Sim City... I've also got nothing against reverse engineering, excerpting code snippets, and that sort of thing. But violating the terms of GitHub, in addition to someone's copyright? Not cool.
Adobe promised that a well-performing Flash on mobile devices would be coming any day now, for several years. It never materialized. Forgive me if I don't believe that they've finally solved it for Windows 8 tablets.
More appropriate title should have been "launch with lots of bugs and it is still ok" in the context of this post. "Launch with bugs" will have meaning when you could actually launch without bugs. Of course, any software will have bugs when launched or even if well matured.
No it's a site that provides companies and their teams the following resources to build and grow the company:

- access to articles, advice, expert contacts according to their areas of interest

- questions and answers with top experts in any field

- paid projects with top experts done on the site leveraging Basecamp for getting the job done (this part is like a freelancing site... in which you know how good the person you hire is).
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Security through Obscurity is actually a valid tactic, in most arenas. It can't be relied upon in isolation, which is what many people tried to do. If you already have a robust defense system, it adds an additional layer.

Additionally, there are different trade-offs for DDOS vs source code. Source code you leave behind obscurity, in order to get a well-tested and well-vetted implementation. In DDOS, you're using ops, not code. All your responses are custom-crafted anyways, so there is no well-tested implementation for you to gain. The benefits of transparency are much smaller, and the benefit is the same.
The guy doing the "print all" job spent months looking for a new "print" related job, worked a McD's for a while and eventually went back to school to be retrained and is now employed as filterer for 'inappropriate' images on a social network. So, don't feel too bad.
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More info here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billio...

but that site seems slow to respond right now
No, it's not illegal to engage in recruiting efforts aimed at diverse candidates. Many large companies have programs to specifically to recruit historically under-represented candidates: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/sga/undergrad/in...
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Is it better to have access to 50% of talent or 100% of talent?
I've always wondered if this type of speculation helps or hurts the chances of a deal (if the price runs before the offer is officially announced, then the suitor will need to pony up more cash)
It doesn't. The only thing it does is help the attackers prey on another unsuspecting website. Open business practices anyone?
I don't know of any, no; you'd probably want to partner with a friendly local bank for that. Offering such an API seems like a great unfilled business idea; I can easily think of half a dozen great businesses to build around that API, and a couple of really obvious business models to charge for it.
I don't recall anything else like this out there. Seems like a no-brainer that this should exist.
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This may not be such a good idea from Blackberry's perspective. The Blackberry is used by all government officials , bankers and executives almost everywhere. Given the recent exposure of Chinese government's hacking attempts , it would be a terrible idea for Blackberry's servers to fall under the control of Chinese government . I am aware that Lenovo makes excellent products with a spotless record of respecting consumer privacy --- but I am not willing to give them the access to all communication between key officials and executives of the world as I firmly believe that the temptation would be too great for the Chinese officials to resist.
I agree. Frontier has a fiber and a DSL offering. Seeing both mixed together (I can just guess that that is what is oing on) is pretty useless.
Ok so i've beta tested this a little and they are on to something. Full disclosure: I know the poster personally.
Well, you asked me a yes/no question that has little to do with what I said. So I figured I'd just answer it in the same manner.
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>“could possibly make sense, but first I need to analyze the market and understand what exactly the importance of this company is.”

That doesn't sound like it's being seriously considered to me.
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My biggest complain with Chrome right now is it freezes up and take over the entire CPU for 10 to 30 seconds every now and then. It's the case on both Windows 7 and Mac (10.8 Mountain Lion). Usually when that happens, I take a mini-break. Before it was lightning fast. I tried to switch back to Firefox but it's still IMO considerably slower in general but admittedly much more stable and doesn't freeze up for no good reason. Chrome seems to be slowly slipping to where Firefox was before as author ranted.
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I've been coding in Objective-C for about 3 years, and I have a manageable understanding of Java. What are some good tutorials/resources for making the transition to Android from iOS?

The Google "Getting Started" tutorials were really clear and helpful, but I need more! Anything that makes comparisons of classes would be extremely helpful. For instance, it seems the Activity class is semi-equivalent to UIViewController class.

Side note: I find the emulator device/OS choices overwhelming. I knew there was fragmentation, but holy crap.
The concept of shipping asap does not have to mean a complete rollout or the entire biomedical industry, but shipping to a production system that a certain group of users USE for actual work.

Shipping® also encourages a single source of truth for the development team to work from. The master branch is really just another branch when a project does not push that master immediately to production.
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First comment: "...At least this way, CMU students will be inoculated against blind indoctrination.﻿" Because functional programmers are never trying to indoctrinate you... Right?
That's a practical answer and good suggestion. For us, wireframes don't quite work -- we need a little interactivity (customer base, plus existing market entrants, require something...mostly for appearance of progress.)

But yes, I can think of plenty of scenarios where wireframes would do the job.
Prices have been above $36 for barely a week, 5th/6th rally saw high volumes; the recovery (8th to 11th) was weaker and did not break the high. The volume of both sell-offs was comparable, but the today's low is higher. I reckon it might flatten out around $40 for a bit, then pick up again.
I am aware that Lenovo makes excellent products

Not in China they don't. Buying Lenovo has left me with a valuable lesson in the power of branding; if it's not Samsung, Apple or Galaxy I am just not buying in future.
If this philosophy is antithetical to your culture, you certainly don't have to follow it. These were not meant to be hard and fast rules, but something companies might want to take into consideration when recruiting.

For example, while I certainly enjoy chips and beer, it's not the first thing I want to see on a company's recruiting page.