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TCAS says "Traffic! Descend!" Pilot descends abruptly, calls ATC, resumes normal navigation. Happens again, same outcome, this time pilot notes TCAS inop, turns it off.
US supreme court to decide if companies can patent human genes
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I'm posting again as a reply, since it's kind of separate from my parent comment.

What kind of environment does the code execute in? What standard javascript functions/libraries do we have access to?
> Consider a school which loans out laptops to its students but then uses the laptops to spy on the students

No school would be that stupid. Oh, wait. (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/webcam-spy-settleme...)

> A suburban Philadelphia school district is agreeing to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by students who were victims of a webcam spying scandal in which high school-issued laptops secretly snapped thousands of pictures of pupils.
You are correct, but I'd point out that the fear of regulatory consequences didn't stop them either, as evidenced by the fact that their actions were illegal. Regulation from the top is one way to approach this problem, which is neither perfectly effective (ref. your links) nor free of negative side effects. No solution is perfect, including the voluntary inspections I'm talking about. My point is merely that there are other reasons to distrust regulation as a one-stop solution for all food problems, as seemed to be the contention of the parent of my original post.

The government inspectors and agencies are just people, just like any other inspection agency would be. As such, they are subject to the same sets of errors and failures. They are likely neither more nor less effective than a private counterpart playing the same role would be. What I'm attempting to advocate is that consumers should have a say in what is being inspected, and how, and by whom, and that I think the best way to accomplish that is through a diverse, voluntary inspection program with labeling requirements. If you believe that is "incredibly naive" that's okay with me. I would say the same thing about trusting a single, central authority to create a one-size-fits-all set of best practices for a food system that feeds hundreds of millions of people.
> But at the current time, demand outstrips supply enough that the limit could be raised without significant issues.

What happens when the tech industry crashes again, like it does every decade or so? Silicon Valley is tremendously cyclical and always has been. It's not a good idea to predicate our immigration policy on the current boom.
They're concerned about a shortage of cheap tech people.
I hate to pass up a chance to point out Microsoft's failings, but "its the economy, stupid":

from 'Chart Book: The Legacy of the Great Recession'

"In the fourth quarter of 2012, the demand for goods and services (actual GDP) was about $975 billion (5.8 percent) less than what the economy was capable of supplying (potential GDP). This large output gap, which is manifested in a high rate of unemployment and substantial idle productive capacity among businesses, is the legacy of the Great Recession. Congressional Budget Office projections show the gap closing slowly over the next several years as actual GDP grows only moderately faster than potential GDP.

GDP grew at a 0.4 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter. A period of growth of 4 percent or better would be needed to propel the economy back toward full employment more rapidly."

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3252
So another strategy to continue underpaying engineers. Sounds novel.
Virtual currencies - Mining digital gold
The quotas on a per country as opposed to population basis have to do with national security. No country would let a massive portion of its population potentially represents the interests of any one foreign sovereign entity. American exceptionalism only goes so far in this case. Hold the U.S. to the standards it sets for itself, but this is going to be a tricky issue to negotiate. A lot of it comes down to common sense.
Sold raises seed from Google, Greylock and Matrix to automate selling
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/backed-by-google-ventures-greylock-sold-launches-a-mobile-service-that-takes-the-hassle-out-of-selling-online/
Github is the reason I have an awesome internship this summer. Thanks :)
This sounds downright silly. No, they should not pay taxes on something free they are being provided by a private company. Should restaurant owners pay for the free food they have? No.
No.

In fact, I use a curses based program alongside the Mt.Gox API.

I had to log in at one point, obviously, but I can handle it all using the API now.

For those interested : https://github.com/prof7bit/goxtool
While the tone of your comment comes across as a bit negative, I appreciate it because it got me thinking about ways to automate CRUD apps even more than Rails already has.

Perhaps it could be a framework or application that would allow a non-programmer user to create basic CRUD apps with some sort of "app builder wizard" GUI by simply defining the record fields and their data types. Then it would automatically generate the tables and the corresponding models, and the create/edit views just like Rails does. It could also expose basic access/permissions configurations and have a bundle of CSS files to select from for the GUI styling, and a drag-and-drop interface for selecting GUI elements.

Basically, I'm picturing something like a cross between Rails and a version of MS Access with a more user-friendly front end a "real" database behind it. Or just a GUI version of Rails, bundled with some HTML/CSS view/style templates, really. Or "the Wordpress of CRUD apps." (Maybe this exists already and I don't know about it?)

Of course, if someone made something like this and got business users to actually use it to build their CRUD apps themselves, it could put a lot of CRUD app developers out of business!
One of my biggest challenges as an entrepreneur is I just can't take the plunge to start a business with no way of making revenue. Even though I can see all around me that that (once again) is how riches are made.
CPM advertising emails: What kind of scam is this?
So my company gets tons of emails like this and I usually always ignore them because every single one is the same format..some random no name marketing agency has a client with a large monthly budget.

"We have recently acquired a client interested in running a standard banner campaign on a CPM model. If possible, we would like to partner with you in running this campaign. I am currently unavailable to chat over the phone, although I would be delighted to get a campaign organized via email. Overall we would like to run the campaign for a total of 2 months with a $20K/month spend ($40K total)."

Anyone ever get emails like this? What's the deal behind it? I get these emails every few months from different people, and they are actually submitting them directly through our contact form...but they are always the same format (some client that has $20k/mo budget for a cpm campaign).
Nice, almost fits my desktop perfectly! Here's what it looks like on #! (crunchbang).

http://i.imgur.com/2zXWWD2.jpg

Some suggestions:

* replace folder icons with simple triangle arrows
* change structure of github repo so we can just clone it into packages
Welcome to the security conference lifecycle.

Step 1) What's something important? (SCADA / Smart Grid / Air Traffic Control)

Step 2) How likely is someone to catch me on the details? (Low)

Step 3) How dramatic can I make this sound?

Step 4) Press Release / Slide Show / Simulation

Step 5) Enjoy sugar hit of popularity.

Step 6) Get asked about vuln / exploit / PoC

Step 7) Fffuuuuuuuuu... Look! Jazz hands!

Step 8) Go to Step 1.

If you work for a boutique security consultancy, interleave elements of panhandling to various customers, clueless managers beating their chests and claiming expertise, and the occasional Congresscritter / Talking Head interview.

It is frustrating that this kind of noise drowns out the signal of actual, thoughtful research or reasonable disclosure. It is the hacker equivalent of security theater where Sensational New Discoveries (TM) distract from hard work and serious issues.
First-year med residents made more mistakes when working fewer hours
There's nothing stopping the H1-B worker from also arranging a false wedding (or a real one), though.
The customer funnel is the best way to evaluate projects.
1. Advertise Cost per click, lead etc.
2. Cost for them to purchase first time
3. Cost to get them to order again new product or re-order
4. Total Revenue earned before leave and never come back.

All business need to focus on this formula in one way or another.

Build the simples webpage or advertisment possible and see how much to get someone to click through or call your number. Could even work with real world businesses too. Think doorhangers and google voice number to track number of calls per 250 door hangers. Build a sales page or other method to get sale. If you have some kind of marketplace you need test for both sides.
All security can be broken/beaten. The trick is making the evasion process more costly than "proper" acquisition of the contents. In this case, it's easier to just look up all the 5-letter words matching known letters (or otherwise corresponding to other fixed-length overlapping words), to wit just write a crossword solver.

Bob can always just fall back on rubber hose cryptography.
Iran’s New Fake Inventions: Time Machine, ‘Islamic Google Earth’
> Tech companies are unhappy that technologists are treated like medical doctors: The US limits the supply.

The U.S. does not limit the supply of technologists. Industry has pushed for literally a century to flood the market with engineers educated on the public dime (many land-grant public universities were founded with the primary purpose of producing engineers to support the industrial revolution). The public spends huge amounts of money every year subsidizing the training of the engineers who work at these companies.
Not entirely on topic, but I also remember seeing something a few years ago about how you could actually telnet (sic) into some airliner flight control computers if you were able to splice into the physical cables (which run under the floors). Something about not using ssh because it messed up the prompts... Will have to find it.
Obviously, creating a welcoming environment for a new hire is beneficial to all parties, but this is somewhat absurd. One's workplace and one's personal life are and ought to be, by default, separate and disjunct. It should be the employee exclusively who chooses whether to bring their work home or bring their personal life into their occupational life.

There is something deeply disconcerting about having an employer go out of their way to meld one's personal life and work life from day one.
Since 2004, Rob Dyer (founder of Skate4Cancer) has been doing cross country skateboarding trips to raise awareness for Cancer. He's done this multiple times, the first one going from Newmarket, Ontario to LA, California. Here's the wikipedia article about him (and his foundation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate4Cancer

Here's the page for the documentary about his trips:
http://dreamlovecure.org/
>Google is a mix of paid and free.

Right that paid part is key. At this point Google's search engine is ancillary to their advertising business - admittedly one could not exist without the other and search came first. So you may be right that FourSquare's check-ins are ancillary to their driving offline traffic, but it appears they have not found sustainable revenues to justify their undertaking - if the value was there businesses would pay.

Again I think FourSquare just needs a little innovation, by way of new feature(s), to generate the revenue and significant revenue by my estimates.
Raw bit-coins can't do fast transactions without risking double spends. Which limits you to a ~20 min checkout process or using 3rd party services then you deal with whatever their rules are.
When you say "half the prevailing wage" where are you getting that figure? I've hired people for Facebook, Google and many startups around SF and I can say with 100% certainty that you aren't even close. I would say that H1-B candidates pay is pretty much exactly the same as American worker pay. Hell, I would strongly object even to "H1-B workers make 95% the wages of American workers" because I believe it is actually closer than that.

Furthermore, if we as a country don't care about investing in education, we can't then throw a tantrum as a country when the countries that DO invest in education are rewarded for it by having their workers hired here.
48 here ... and I do it because I love it. In fact, I've been to management and back three times (but I've learned my lesson now). I still feel the same "joy of discovery" I experienced upon writing my first line of code but I'm a bit more capable now.

I think there are people who were made to be makers/tinkerers and other that aren't, but fake it for a period of time. If this was the 1800's, I'd be laughed at as a "fool inventor".
[meta] I'm always pleasantly surprised and enjoy reading the discussion when Marginal Revolution articles gain traction on HN.

[not-meta] Can someone explain (to a 5 year old) the AD-AS model that's mentioned in the article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD-AS_model
Awesome, thanks.

I understood the basic premise that any country wants to be able to limit the number of immigrants, in theory, to ensure that their citizens get jobs, assuming the citizenry is skilled enough.

It appears to me that at the heart of immigration reform is education reform.

Frankly, I think that education in the US is utterly broken.

And I think that at the core of this issue is the difficult balance between socially funded services and for-profit corporate motives:

If we find that developing a basic level of skill and well being in a society is dependent upon a well educated and healthy populous, then the purpose of a civilized society should be providing education and healthcare to the people who create that society.

Then, the ability for the market to build for-profit companies, staffed by well-educated workers seems to be a natural benefit.

The fact that the US is at odds with its own people over education and health - while at the same time upholding policies that would prevent well educated workers from being able to enter the country speaks to a much more dark and sinister character of the US government as a whole.

And it may just be the sad result of many many complex factors and not some conspiracy of the government out to stifle every aspect of healthy growth of society - but the fact that there appears to be so much active resistance to fixing these sorts of issues surely makes one wonder what the fark is really going on the minds of the government to let these issues fester.
The telescope picture shows a date of "21 Farvardin" which corresponds to April 10th. If he has been monitoring his laptop for a month, this date would've probably been earlier than yesterday.

http://www.iranchamber.com/calendar/converter/iranian_calend...
What happened to ... you are being paid a lot of money to do this job, welcome, we look forward to getting to know you, in the mean time here's your desk.

Is our generation incapable of being productive unless we are treated and spoiled like children?

I don't want to have NERF fights at work. I don't want to go to a party or for drinks three times a week after work. I don't want to feel like my employer is a fraternity. I want to get my work done and return to my life at home. I guess this means I'd quickly get purged from this kind of company?
An engineer is not worth the same everywhere or to everyone. It's a matter of supply and demand. Goldman and Morgan Stanley pay engineers more than Google et al, because they know it's the only way to convince them to work on their shitty legacy systems rather than on cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley.
Footling with the definition of 'collapse' is on a par with 'how many angels dance on a pinhead?'. It's reported that "Greek unemployment reached a fresh record of 27.2pc in January. Youth unemployment reached 59.3pc".

Choose the words you prefer. Let's admit it's an appalling future for a whole generation along the Med countries.
Same here. I can only stare at a white background for so long before my eyes start to strain out. Plus, I find syntax highlighting to be far more effective on a dark background on a light one for some reason. I actually have a hard time reading code when it's primarily black text on a white background.
After the dot-com bubble many people were not hired again. We are not even five years out from the greatest recession in many decades. Many of these people have fundamental technical skills. They might know more perl than most and not have much love for ruby hipsters, but they understand the permanent aspects of programming and related disciplines, like the logic behind it. I think a lot of this comes down to Silicon Valley's ageism problem (you know the one no one here ever talks about). There are many technical workers who people think are outdated, despite being responsible for the first P.C. and later internet revolution. For the record, I am 24, and such things do not affect me. But I think opinion here might be skewed on an age basis.
Not really. If a Bank gets a reversal before funds have cleared its pretty straightforward and the stack will almost unwind itself as each Bank reverses credits to the accounts in response to reversals before them. Depending on type of transfer yes there is a date beyond which reversals are not possible but the number of transfers has little to do with it.
I have done exactly that a number of times- I am on my third job in the US on my H1B visa, and am absolutely paid market rate for my time.
Defaulting to hire on credentials will put you out of business
At least when you get an auth from the CC network, you know you're guaranteed the money.

Unless there's a chargeback 59 days later. These kinds of arguments can go either way.
There should be a seizure warning in the title... Other than that, neat little trick!
I concur.

I used to work on interfaces to all the computers on the latest 747 and the 787 and there is no wireless way to talk to any of the computers or sensors that have any input to controlling the airplane.

I am not making this up.

On the 747-400 I was on a group whose computer got input from all the 70+ computers on the airplane. It was all wired.

On the 787 I worked on a database during the development of the airplane that tracked all the information that flowed between computers. Nothing came to any computer that controlled the airplane that was not by wire or fiber optics.

I also dealt with ACARS. It is a read-only system on the airplane. It gets information from other computers and transmits it via satellite to the ground.
Production Challenges to 'Delay' iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone & New iPad Mini?
You are not changing the world
I know a guy who has people send him photos of their junked cars and he uploads them to various forums/boards and sells them. Gets a commission for every car sold through it. He is not rich, but does all right. And that's one of the worst kind of trash/garbage out there: junked cars.
An appropriate use for an animated gif in github
Current policy: U.S. allows more immigration (per capita) than many countries, but not as much as, say, Canada. U.S. has several programs intended to exploit foreign workers, such as the H1B program, without really offering them a path to citizenship. These foreign workers are neither citizen nor permanent residents, but simply temporary workers, here on sufferance, and are subject to being removed from the U.S. at any time. Technology companies in particular benefit from this as it keeps technology salaries down across the board.

Historical parallels - Chinese workers were imported to build the transcontinental railroad. They were paid approximately 2/3 of what white workers made, and charged for room and board. About 1/8th of them died from on-the-job accidents during the 7 years or so it took to construct the railroad.

Amusing connection: the president of Central Pacific Railroad at the time was Leland Stanford. You might say that exploiting foreign workforces is in the blood of Silicon Valley.
Missile launch test delayed by Windows 8, Jong-un furious at Microsoft
Hey, no fair taking away this part of my comment! "(or it's not very common at least)"

But when you say "40% of all land is lease hold" - are you talking all land now? I was talking about residential housing, and should have made it clearer I was talking about the domain I am used to, i.e. houses in major cities, i.e. in my case Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Having a quick google around and it looks like in rural areas leasehold is more common.

Interesting to learn more about this stuff, thanks for the link.
Why are folks still calling cloud a "gimmick"?
I think the potential is huge but as of yet unrealized.

Gnustep seems to want to make Openstep again with 'Project Builder' and 'Interface Builder' but do they have tools to cross-compile for multiple platforms? I don't think so. That would break it open, compile fat binaries for any linux, windows, mac or (linux-based) phone.

Xcode is very nice IDE and I use it daily. Having .xcodeproj support in GnuStep so you can just port over an existing os x/iOS app would be key.
>>I would say that H1-B candidates pay is pretty much exactly the same as American worker pay.

As an H1B worker, I can attest to this. In order to get an H1B, your company has to first prove to the Department of Labor that it is paying you at least the prevailing wage in your area for your profession. If the pay is less, the application is almost always denied.

On the other hand, there are many expenses associated with hiring H1B workers. Hiring lawyers to deal with documentation costs a lot of money, and the overhead on HR to generate that documentation is immense. So on the whole, H1B workers cost companies more than their American counterparts. Companies just hire them because they cannot find any qualified Americans to fill those positions.
Anyone else thinking dolphenstein is an evil genius cracker who just got a load of HNers to run his exploit?
ty, never heard of that one
Aha, thanks for the clarification.
Because it is too late to edit, I should add that we are no longer accepting remote employees. Sorry about that.
Well, it's their job to keep up with the state of technology, I guess.

Still, I remember the State Department talking about developing tech that was supposed to help protesters in areas that service was disrupted. Tin-Can would fit that bill.
If they know the device is stolen and don't cooperate with legal authorities, aren't they as criminally liable as a private individual who buys a stolen device and doesn't care about it?
the headline is a play on obviously eating brains and a subset of VC's wasting entrepreneurs brain time by taking meetings when they have no plans on considering investing...
The problem with H1B is that you have to apply April 1st to have the best chances of getting one. And you actually get it in October.

If you want to work in the US being a foreigner you've got to find a job more than 6 months in advance and only at one time every year.
Moreover, doing this sort of thing is presumptuous and may actually work to the detriment of the employee. What brings one pleasure at home may inhibit productivity at work. For instance, I have a large number of art pieces, decorative objects, lamps, etc., at home that create a certain aesthetic that I enjoy when not working. However, I prefer to work in a relatively spartan environment, and superfluous items or clutter just creates more mental overhead and makes concentration harder.