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This two activation nonsense has to end. That was fine before when we all had one desktop. I have been harping Adobe and Unity to allow 3 activations by default. I don't know one developer that doesn't have at least a mac, windows and laptop for testing. It's a silly game to keep moving the activations around when they are below the common threshold. 3-5 activations, one user per use is needed, maybe no activations required on that (isn't that what the cloud is really?). I have no problem having the app shut down on the other machine if I use on another device/computer but being blocked from using if you leave it open on two machines at work is annoying.
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Yes, which means that unless you're willing to expose your money-making machines to the internet (studio workstations generally are not) or are in a position to connect (which is not always the case on deep projects) you don't have a stand-alone app.
San Francisco's tourist areas is almost like a completely separate universe than San Francisco's residential areas.

On one side you have old streetcars, cable cars, cute restaurants, tourist traps, and wide sidewalks.

On the other side you have extreme poverty, homelessness, gang wars, a huge violent crime problem, literal shit and piss in the streets, and enough race and class tension to cut with a knife.

The two seldom cross, but they do sometimes. The southern end of the Powell cable car stop is one such place. Walk just a teensy bit further west along Market and you will notice a complete collapse of the city. In the Union Square area head just a few blocks west and you will be in the middle of the Tenderloin, which is the infamous heart of unsavory and disgusting things that happen in the city.

More adventurous tourists that don't rely strictly on the most standard guides will also get to see the other side of the city. Find your way down to El Farolito in the Mission for their famous tacos and burritos? Welcome, you're now in contested gang territory where randoms get shot as part of gang initiations.

It's a puzzling city. I lived there for a year, and while I enjoyed a lot of it, my overall impression was deeply negative.
See, this might be remotely tolerable if there was also a funded mandate to create federally-run queryable API free of charge for all online businesses to make use of. Alas, I doubt this will happen.

(And the first person to chime in with "hurr durr a chance to disrupt the state tax industry" can go fuck right off.)

EDIT: Reading Dan's summary above, it looks like states (not the feds) will be responsible for providing this API. Urk.
And if Facebook allowed it, people could see it as ignorance or money-grubbiness on their part.
I think you're both saying that $350 is too expensive.
Some decent urban planning would help as well. For one thing, SF's public transit is poor, it has too many cars, and its bike infrastructure is poor. It should take 15 minutes to get from the Sunset to SoMA by subway, but it takes an hour by antiquated streetcar. And if you try to bike it, you're constantly stopping at lights and sharing streets with cars, instead of on a proper bikeway. Compare Copenhagen for an example of how to do it better.

Also, some more integrated policies would help; the ridiculous fragmentation of municipal governments and transit districts doesn't improve the situation. Why are BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, and the VTA run in such an uncoordinated manner? Why doesn't BART go down the peninsula? Why are there miles of light rail in the middle of nowhere in Santa Clara County, but not in more dense areas? Why is there no higher-density housing near the Caltrain stations in places like Palo Alto?
Well, not something they meant to operate as a web service.
I'm impressed how gently the NYT describes him and his research. Wikipedia, which also has to worry about getting sued, frankly mentions the results of the reviews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield):

"On 28 January 2010, a five-member statutory tribunal of the GMC found three dozen charges proved, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 counts involving the abuse of developmentally challenged children. The panel ruled that Wakefield had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant", acted both against the interests of his patients, and "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in his published research. The Lancet immediately and fully retracted his 1998 publication on the basis of the GMC’s findings, noting that elements of the manuscript had been falsified. Wakefield was struck off the Medical Register in May 2010, with a statement identifying dishonest falsification in The Lancet research, and is barred from practicing medicine in the UK.

"In January 2011, an editorial accompanying an article by Brian Deer in BMJ identified Wakefield's work as an "elaborate fraud". In a follow-up article, Deer said that Wakefield had planned to launch a venture on the back of an MMR vaccination scare that would profit from new medical tests and "litigation driven testing". In November 2011, yet another report in BMJ revealed original raw data indicating that, contrary to Wakefield's claims in The Lancet, children in his research did not have inflammatory bowel disease."

That's a lot more than "retracted" and "discredited".

And then there's this bottom line for the hero: "Dr. Hilleman, who might reasonably have been expected to win a Nobel Prize, got hate mail and death threats instead." I suspect he cared little about that, and a lot about the resulting childhood morbidity and mortality.

Additional note: there's a very important vaccination principle known as herd immunity. If enough of the "herd" get vaccinated, then the ones for whom it doesn't take get protected because they never get exposed. You don't need the vaccination rate to drop by much for this to become a big factor.
Heck, I bought 100 shares when it was at $40 and even I feel incredibly lucky!
Wait... where does bag not rhyme with vague?
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> As a three-year resident of the Mission, I’ve seen the influx of money from the rise of Apple and Google’s stock plus the Facebook IPO change its character.

It seems weird for the writer to try to separate himself from this. The mission starting gentrifying well before 2010, there was just a bit of a lull at the end of the last decade. Not to put too fine a point on it, but he's a white stanford-grad who covers the tech industry for a website. Even if you're a poor recent college graduate with five roommates, your presence changes the character of the neighborhood.
I think that's what struck me most about this, that it felt forced, and also written by someone that doesn't quite understand exactly what programming actually is and is not. Writing a novel? No. I'd say it's much more like building a bridge than writing a novel. We use small machines to build a bigger structure that serves a purpose. That's why I accused the author of not knowing much about programming (indeed, he is a self-described "product guy"). Otherwise he'd be much more likely to draw parallels with building bridges or some other kind of engineering than writing a novel or authoring some other literary product.
I didn't say "small", I said "lesser".

Also, GitHub just have 166 employees (https://github.com/about) - presumably not all engineers. Any ten random selected medium sized software companies easily eclipses their volume.
Although understanding the difference is important, the specifics are typically far more relevant in a high performance language than a dynamic scripting language with lots of "magic". OP is interviewing for a C++ gig, so performance was clearly a motivating factor.

Not nearly as relevant for someone using scripting languages and building UIs.
Yeah, I assume by the parent poster down south?
I agree with you about the right to protest. I wasn't aware that was an issue: pretty sure that's not what the person I was replying to was talking about. Certainly none of the articles on the issue claimed that the police were acting outside the law. Maybe the guy beating a pinata with a pole was the issue, I don't know.
If Google Adwords allowed images, I doubt they'd let advertisers use 960px-tall face shots of Larry and Sergey to promote their political angle. It's just not classy advertising, in addition to being confusing to users.
Transparency is one of those things where more is always better.

Even if your assumption were true and no one cared about the content but the participants, how would that be a bad thing?

Chad Whitacre created something really clever and novel with Gittip. In the light of your harsh words, can you claim as much? :)
Is anybody using any of Clustrix's products? Thoughts?
It's not that simple.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732362800457845...
The core problem here is that high-earners are being concentrated in one area. If the Google employes weren't expected to commute to a computer, and were free to remote in from anywhere, their economic impact on their neighborhoods would be distributed, rather than concentrated in a couple locations.
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Well, I did four last time ... and selected from four offers.

Learn iOS. Live in a tech city. Eat three meals a day.

(Which is to say, that's a comment on the market, not me.)
I could have written this piece. It hit that close to home. I'm 15 years into my IT career and I can honestly say it's not getting easier. I don't believe it's an ageism thing, but just a symtom of something I still cannot put my finger on.

I put myself on sabbatical after realizing that my needs were not being met on a regular basis by my job. While I'll allow short-term ROI to be negative, I will never allow my long-term ROI to be negative [3]. I took some time out of my life to spend it with my wife and young daughter, something which I'd never done in my life. It is a blessing.

However, in the first week of my sabbatical I get called up for an interview with Expedia for a senior Web dev position. I thought "hey, I've never worked in the USA before, this could be fun". My interviewer was a junior dev who, in the course of the interview, demonstrated that he had very little experience in interviewing (whereas I have conducted > 100 interviews). In the technical phone interview I was asked some esoteric questions about finding the intersection of two integer arrays, what the O-notation would be, and so forth. I came up with some half-assed answers, since it had been years since I thought of those things [1] and since I was tired (on sabbatical) and didn't care if I got the job I asked the interview plainly how often this type of problem comes up in his work routine. His answer: never. Not once. I mentioned to him that I don't understand asking these types of questions, and I have never asked something like that in an interview before. I thanked him for his time, and prompted removed my resume from the application process [2].

To wit, my phone interviewing tactics for a Web dev position contain the following questions:

- when I type in a URL in my browser's address bar, press Enter, and then the page appears, tell me what happened technically in as low level as possible.
- what are the main verbs used in the HTTP protocol.
- something about CSS, JS, <backend language>, HTML
- something about how to handle a situation like breakfix, sensitive data leakage, etc.

Only after answering all of the questions in the phone interview properly, only then will I invite them in for an in-person interview. However, even an in-person interview doesn't contain stupid programming puzzles or tricks...merely practical examples of things that have happened on the job.

[1] In other words, I think of O-notation in the back of my head when I code (loops within loops, etc), but I don't lead with it.

[2] Oh my, they did not like this. Granted, I was working through their internal recruiting agency, but you'd think I just called their child ugly or something.

[3] That's my corporate-speak coming out. Basically, short-term negative ROI is akin to working really hard and losing a bit of sleep to see a project to completion. Long-term negative ROI is when the hard-work you are doing is not noticed by upper manager and you are passed over for awards, congratulations, and other extrinsic things.

Edit: clarity
Also, it goes the other way: A senior engineer will be a lot more picky, and take more care to scope out good places with hard problems: The places that have higher bars for hiring.
Great domain name and I love the header on the site. Love that you are willing to put this out there with placeholder text still in place. Why not right!
I don't understand; Clustrix (which rocks) isn't on the April index at all [1]. Is closing a round sufficient for it to debut at #5 for May? That doesn't seem very predictive.

[1] http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/april-2013-startup-in...
If reporting a 'scoop' was the only kind of valid journalism then I might agree with you, but it isn't and the fact that TC relies on that form of journalism so heavily is reflective of their shortcomings rather than issues or barriers for Gittip.

Journalism is also about providing a narrative that provides the reader deeper understanding of a topic in question. There's easily space for that kind of journalism to exist in conjunction with the raw data of individual conversations that take place to generate that narrative. In the same way that data journalism takes data available to anyone and makes it palatable I would expect the same could easily be done in this case if the journalist felt the story was engaging enough.
The fear that SF would turn into NYC is definitely odd. Seems to me that SF has already taken on the bad aspects of being NYC, while avoiding many of the good aspects. Becoming more like NYC could only be an improvement.
To understand the P = NP stuff, you first need to understand what people mean by "P" and "NP".

"P" refers to problems that can be solved in polynomial time. This includes almost all of the normal algorithms that you use in everyday programming, like sorting a list or using a hash table.

"NP" refers to problems whose answers can be checked in polynomial time. This is kind of a weird group of problems. Generally an NP problem will be phrased as, "Can you find a solution to this formula?" Like, can you color a given graph using X colors without giving two adjacent nodes the same color?

So. The "P = NP" question is whether these classes of problem are actually the same. You can generally solve a find-the-solution-to-this-formula problem by checking all the possible solutions. That takes exponential time, though. The "P = NP?" question asks, is there a general way of solving these problems faster?

Most people who have an opinion suspect that the answer is no. That P is not NP, and that there is no fast way to solve general formulas. However, it's really hard to prove that writing a particular program is impossible, and nobody has proven that P != NP.

It's a fairly complicated problem definition, so I wouldn't assume that all these folks are BSing you. It's just tricky to explain because it depends on a lot of other knowledge.
> San Francisco has one of the most tenant friendly laws in the entire country

What? SF is infested by rent-controlled buildings. Rent control is the most tenant-hostile policy ever invented. It basically means that newcomers (or people who had to move) are subsidizing ridiculous rents of those who haven't moved in a while. Rent control restricts the freedom of movement.

My barber pays $1600 for a 2br apartment two blocks from the my building where a shitty 1br got rented within an hour after showing up on craigslist. The very same 1br was $2,400 just a year ago, and $2,200 two years ago.
Posting the complete details of your felonious actions on the internet = not bright.

Note that it doesn't matter whether Google is cool with your actions, after the fact. What matters is whether the local prosecutor is cool with your actions, or whether he needs an extra easy slamdunk conviction.

Kids: do not do this at home.
I thought airbnb also posted a fake CL ad stating that a room is available, then when someone contacts the ad, then it says that the renter also posted at airbnb and redirect users to airbnb as well?
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Show spacecalnyc.com some love. Vote here: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+vote+%23spacecalnyc+for+%40spaceapps+People%27s+Choice+Award!

For those who are still reading, I along with few other guys developed an app during a weekend hackathon and made it to the finals. There is a people's choice award which we are contesting on (currently 5/160).
If nothing else do visit the site, I've put the link up there, I am sure just like me you will learn something new.

Again, show us your love :)
Surely you mean (++ A)?
> "I wish I knew about this so I could show up in my Google sweater."

I disagree very much with your notion that this is people pummeling at nerds because of some remnant of high school social pecking order, but please don't do this.

This is the corner of 16th and Mission. The local police station is literally two blocks away and still have zero control over this intersection. It is a mad house. It is the Mos Eisley of San Francisco.

The level of class warfare (from both sides) in the Mission is pretty intense, and the area is already a bit lawless to the point where the police have little control over an open-air drug den just two blocks from the station house. You don't fuck around with that intersection, the cops can't protect you well there, and everyone knows it.
Actually, the core problem is out of control zoning restrictions.

Recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651918
Arguable. Also, good number of girls have actually said they're extremely interested in these ratios too.

I can see the incentive for disinformation, especially for managers/employees of these venues. This problem can be solved with scale (one reported ratio completely different from the others is a red flag). Of course until we reach scale, we can't do that; but also, until we reach scale, there is not really incentive to misreport.
Why not offer both? In a manner similar to AWS, let me have the option to pay for a fixed amount at a slightly lower cost and pay for additional "as I go" at a slightly higher cost?

If I have no way to predict my baseline usage, I'll just stick to using the no-guarantee price. But once I have an understanding of a baseline usage amount, I'll commit to paying you in advance for a certain amount in exchange for a slightly lower rate. If I don't meet my goal/quota, I lose it. If I go over, I can buy more at the variable price.

Why does it have to be either/or?
Show spacecalnyc.com some love. Vote here: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+vote+%23spacecalnyc+...!

For those who are still reading, I along with few other guys developed an app during a weekend hackathon and made it to the finals. There is a people's choice award which we are contesting on (currently 5/160).
If nothing else do visit the site, I've put the link up there, I am sure just like me you will learn something new.

Again, show us your love :)
> Facebook rejects ad that uses Zuckerberg's photo to further its goals, without Zuck's consent.

FTFY. They'd do it even if Candy Crush used his photo. This is not newsworthy.
Me neither - I'm from New England, though, so I looked there first.
That's assuming a lot.
Great job, the site looks really nice. Way to get it back up as quickly as you did. If you don't mind me asking why did you take it down in the first place?
Go on Dice, then search for any job listing requiring J2EE/struts/hibernate. The technical interview will consist of explaining what polymorphism is and a handful of OO design patterns like singletons and factories. Then give a poignant speech about the evils of multiple inheritance, why interfaces are better, why you love XML, why writing SQL statements in the code is wrong and the only way to talk to a DB is with ORM, and you are done.
Experience has taught me that it is far easier to catch negative anomalies (an apparently bad thing happened), than it is to catch positive anomalies (things that look normal, but are actually bad).

Consider that to catch two nodes deleting the same resource, you'd need to correlate the messages from all nodes. (Or, at least, know that there may be a problem with nodes trying to delete the same resource, and plan by recording every resource deleted in some other node.) Whereas, with a 404, you can determine that there is a problem in one message - and have the resource information to search through your history and find related events. Given that some of the systems I've worked in have had thousands of nodes - I'd rather not go through the log history from each node on every normal event to verify that it isn't actually abnormal. At a certain scale, relying on correlation and positive anomaly detection approaches such a level of difficulty as to be nearly impossible.
Heh. Where I live (Long Beach, CA), they deal with the homeless in equally idiotic ways.

I was volunteering for an "alleyway beautification" project in downtown, and it just turned out that there was a small, cute park adjacent to the alley. To our dismay though, we found it to be locked 24/7. When we asked the city officials, they said it got locked because the homeless were using it as their living space!

Similarly, when the cops are dealing with homeless people with mental disorders, do you know what they do? They don't actually take them to the station to write them up - they learned long ago that doing so doesn't accomplish anything (the system is not equipped to deal with mental disorders, especially in people with no money).

Instead, they sit them in the backseat of their patrol car, drive them over to one of the adjacent cities (i.e. San Pedro, Carson, etc.) and drop them off there. That way, those homeless become that other city's problem!

Can you believe it?

It's crazy. I feel really bad making this analogy, but it's like sweeping the trash under the carpet and pretending the room is clean.
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So the republicans are in favor of closing tax loopholes now? Oh right, this is for consumers.

I thought I woke up in an alternate universe where congress wasn't bought and paid for.
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Its really just a software problem. The vast majority of products made in the US which you describe all have unique identification numbers called UPCs, Universal Product Codes. With the exception of in house made items like custom baked goods almost every product has a universal code. That code can easily be linked to a database which identifies its characteristics by state and county etc.

Once you have the characteristics by state/county/etc. (how the product is described legally), you can then cross reference it to where it is sold to and calculate a tax.

Is it a lot of data? Absolutely, but it is doable and the person/team who does it is sure to have a fairly large business charging companies who want their products sold online and companies using their system.

[ADDED]
There will likely be multiple providers which should drive the price down and economic profits to zero. There is no reason why you would pick 1 tax calculator over another except price.

Most foods won't be an issue since they aren't sold as much online.

If you are a retailer of a new item with low volume, that is really where this is a problem. Once you make over a million a year in sales, you will likely have to hire an expensive consultant to figure out your tax implications.

[Additionally Added] I agree that it will be a challenging transition. But, in 10 years, this will be a non-issue.
Down for me, confirmed down for plenty of others on IRC and Twitter.
Macromedia was bought more because of it's foray into the mobile space. This is back when adobe still considered Flash Light to be a viable path.
There is also a disincentive for patrons to preserve any good thing they have going on.
And there will be competitors.