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I have another idea. What about finding a small group of colleges that compete with each other, filling out the profiles for those phd people, and then writing a blog post about it and sending it to the colleges?

Maybe the colleges will use it in marketing material or a blog post. Free publicity for everyone involved!

Then, whomever is reading the college's blog because they care about that kind of stuff will be compelled to claim their profile.
Ask PG: Are the Microsoft stories really getting suppressed via flagging?
There are two Microsoft-related stories on the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889

In both, commenters are alleging that the stories aren't being given the prominence they deserve because users are flagging them in bad faith.

Is that really what's happening, or is there a less sinister explanation?
How? See my response to eridius in sibling comment.
Sql Server and MVC also come to mind as less-than-ideal names.
could you give any specific areas you had trouble with?
Ars Technica includes Microsoft's response about needing the API and then mentions[1]:

"It's perhaps notable that the YouTube app for Xbox DOES include support for ads, and has done since last year."

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/google-tells-microsof...
I find these comments amusing in the light of all the agile discussions I read. None of this sounds terribly agile, having to specify everything up front... yet the truth is a lot of people are not competent enough to handle iterative development form either side. I wish more people would explore how agile works with people who can't code without detailed instructions and managers who don't understand how to do anything else.
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You're right, Microsoft PR sucks.

Google PR on the other hand, is extremely good, they have lots of people believing they're all about "do no evil" and "open" while laughing all the way to the bank.
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> My bet is on Google employees.

So, either your post is considered bad, deserving downvotes, or there is a conspiracy. I'd go for the simple explanation.
Personally, I'm developing a fairly advanced web app. Since I'm the only developer, I can't afford to split my time between web, iOS and android development. If a JavaScript bridge allows me to reuse all the logic from my web app, but replace the UI with a snappier native one, that would save me a buttload of time.

Maybe Apple out of the goodness in their heart decided to make this easier, but I'm skeptical.
Word is he is resigning in early June one day before his scheduled retirement.
> It asked specifically if he had ever pleaded guilty, nolo contendere, or entered a pre-trial diversion program. Completing the program smoothly does not necessarily mean that this incident will be completely over for her.

That is shady. It seems like there should be a law preventing them from asking that. The whole point is so the record goes away if it doesn't, might as well fight it in court.

I have seen these questions on forms. Usually phrased as "have you ever been arrested?". Interesting. Even speed tickets have an entry as "date of arrest" even though there is not physical arrest going on. Does that qualify? Can someone not be arrested but charged with a crime, tried and serve jail time? I don't know of all the technicalities.

Also think about this, how do these "background check" companies find out about this supposedly sealed and then expunged record?
I guess the Windows Phone guys don't talk to their Xbox counterparts...

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/28/youtube-xbox-app/
I think the same mentality was probably held about AJAX before google maps was out.
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So, either your post is considered bad, deserving downvotes, or there is a conspiracy. I'd go for the simple explanation.

Me too. Considering the flagging of bad-for-Google stories it makes sense.

That's what you meant for the "simple explanation" right?
Google Wallet is using Bancorp Bank (https://wallet.google.com/termsOfService?type=BUYER&gl=U...), the same as Simple.com -- so it's possible bank-account transactions could be made fast if you use Simple for your bank.
Their Xbox guys seem to have the APIs.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/28/youtube-xbox-app/
I'm not sure where you got that from my post.

Though, to be honest, I don't think that using Play (today) or Rails/Django (yesterday) is sufficiently less productive to merit the technical debt you almost certainly will incur starting with a PHP stack. (And I am an ex-PHP person, to the point of hacking around in PHP core...that's a few months I'd love to have back.)
The lottery of being born in the right place at the right time. Same goes for any historical figure; transplant any of them out of their historical context and they disappear.
No one expects an Erlang infestation.

Are you going to be at the Erlang User Conference next month? I will enjoy putting messages in your inbox while you fail fast attempting to walk and drink at the same time.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConferenc...
Your logical fallacy is: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white

You're completely ignoring the context and scale. She put some household chemicals in a soda bottle that caused a minor explosion. You're attempting to compare that to highly controlled biological weapons.

Do you really think it's justified to charge her with a felony?
Microsoft has nothing to lose in this, every mention of this story in the press helps them. They are probably hoping for a lawsuit
The depressing part is that they probably don't even pay their astroturfers and shills...

Lots of volunteers.
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Why was Microsoft evil? Because back in the day they hired only the best and brightest nerds and geeks. They had the same type of 'IQ test' interviews that Google does now. A company needs some code janitors and code monkeys, and others, to go along with the top coders.

Google are an "us vs them" company now not a "great products" company and that's why they do these things like downvoting rings that lack integrity. That's just the tip of the iceberg, and it's going to get a lot worse.
In cases where offline communication would catch tampering, why would the New Yorker's advisement to use offline communication go through untampered?

You seem to be misunderstanding me. I think that there is value to offline communication with trusted but unanticipated 3rd parties, but I do not think that there is value to the New Yorker pointing this out.
> The whole theory of government is predicated on ensuring compliance rather than locking everyone up.

Part of ensuring compliance is ensuring that people take reasonable care to comply before being caught not complying. That involves imposing consequences for people failing to comply when they have reasonable notice from which they should have known the requirements, whether or not they actually did know.
There is an art to being a patron of the arts.
I've been away from .Net for a while. How has it improved? How is the market for programmers in it? For freelancers?
Both Google and Microsoft are loaded so they can afford lawyers. Even if it goes to trial, my guess is that there are no real /seriou$ damages so the downside is very limited. Upside is attracting attention or the public, regulators and maybe giving Google a bad eye.
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Picasa is another example.
I can't figure out how to do the simplest thing with Google Maps: send a location to my phone (running Android) in such a way that I'm guaranteed that it will appear as the top choice when I click the Google Maps icon in Applications.

I can "send to phone" (SMS) a link, email a link, or send to a car I don't own or a GPS unit I haven't purchased however.

So I have meeting tomorrow, I want to be sure that when I click the Google Maps icon the address I want to navigate to will be the first thing listed.
It's based on the reality that people tend to buy houses based on the monthly payments they can afford, and property tax influences that reality. The old person living in a house may be paying the same amount of money in property tax:

$1'000'000 * 0.005 = $10'000/yr
$300'000 * 0.015 = $10'000/yr

It puts a general price pressure on decreasing housing prices. I would also put a much higher property tax rate on long term unoccupied property to increase rental supply to further decrease property values. California with it's relatively low property tax schemes favoring older people pays for it in overpriced property prices.
It is a little shady. The job application on which my friend encountered that question was actually for a public sector job with the state. I have been asked the same thing for a private sector job. My girlfriend has also been asked the same thing to work for a pre-school. All in Florida.

Edit: I'd like to add that I have moved back to New York (where I am from). My girlfriend is moving in January. Fuck Florida.
The point is that the spirit of scientific inquiry cannot be divorced from risk, danger, and even the occasional mischief. As we've heard over and over and over again, it is commonplace for folks who are going through their formative years and interested in science to do things like create experiments which go horribly awry or even to get up to dangerous mischief. As I mentioned elsewhere, there are appropriate ways to ensure that people learn the right lessons about potentially dangerous activities. And the right way is not "don't ever do it, don't even think about it, you'll be punished severely".
Yeah, I (and tons of people, apparently) misunderstood the changes to XMPP. They are removing the federation however and that does affect interop with their network.
I might use the opposite--a JVM implementation of C#--if such a thing existed. A port of Java on the CLR would be useless to me though, because I don't use .NET but if I did, C# has better features than Java as a language.
Early on, in the "startup" stage which seems to be the point that comment was making.
I liked the TRS-80 vs. Apple II ones better. This shit gets old.
I agree that Microsoft had a legally proven monopoly but Google is moving so fast that laws are light-years behind.

What we watched today at Google I/O was really impressive. Not from the technology side but from the business/velocity/applied-research perspective. I don't want to stop that kind of innovation but leave space to a more healthy web (APIs).
> Then why don't they give access to the Youtube videos and ads API to Microsoft?

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/28/youtube-xbox-app/

I guess they can forward the original e-mail to the WP devs...
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It's sort of hilarious that it's taken this long for google to realize how beneficial and valuable it can be to add simple social features to their existing products rather than trying to shoehorn a social experience onto everything even when it doesn't add anything in hopes of driving adoption. Pull is almost always better than push.
Online users are shown with a green bar under their photo.

Inside the conversation, if someone is faded out then they are not there, but an unfaded image shows when they are currently in the conversation.
No, those who care about service will switch to google fiber. Then Comcast will see that the number of complaints about their service is decreasing, and go on to praise their employees.
For now companies which should be scared of Google Fiber aren't. It took the US years and lot of tax money to build the infrastructure which current ISPs own. Google has done parts of one city with only 2 more on the way. It will take a long time until their business practices cause them failure against fiber competitors. ISPs aren't interested in improving their networks, only in making money off of the money they've invested into at this point.
interesting, I see they run about $160, but I think the LG L9 is a better deal for $30 more considering the support you get.
A few interesting statistical facts
What have you tested?
I'd go with "flagging bad comments" or "flagging bad stories". I liked the Ars one better http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/google-tells-microsof...
Strange, I've never heard the term "figure drawing" used in the context of comics or animation. Maybe it's common within the field, but the artists I know generally associate it with drawing human models. Wikipedia doesn't mention it either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_drawing

Interesting post though. I liked seeing the Cowboy Bebop characters again, and the point about the need for the body to be identifiable without clothes makes a lot of sense.
There is no silver bullet for this, but there are ways to mitigate the effect. However always remember that email spam rates are a way of saying that the email is not interesting enough

If a user marks you as spam, unsubscribe them from the email.

Make sure your content is interesting enough for readers to actually read it and possibly respond. If it is not, you may want to spend some time rewriting it and adjusting the copywriting

You may want to adjust the times you send out the information. If you're sending email in response to signups you may want to send it around half an hour after signup. Try to time it for when users will actually read it (so usually non-Monday or Friday weekdays)

Always make sure to have a one-click unsubscribe button in a fairly obvious location. If a user wants to unsubscribe they are likely to hit spam if they can't find the unsubscribe link.

You can give users whitelist instructions, although frankly I don't know how effective this is.
If he were more objective...

If he were more objective then he would not be Gruber.
It's controlled by your browser, so check your browser settings.
I would just like to say, as someone who has gone through a similar probation program, that dopamean is absolutely correct.

This may be better than a conviction, but Kiera is not out of the woods and this moment of hijinks at age 14 may follow her for life. At least she has popular support and the attention of the media, many young Americans face these laws without that benefit and it is a scary road to walk.
Looking at your posts, it appears your posts has more hate than reason when it comes to Google.

FYI: I don't work for Google. So its not just google employees that disagree with you.
I imagine that there is a great deal of YouTube content which Google is obligated to revenue share advertising money on (Vevo music videos, among other content) -- Google can't fulfill those obligations if those videos are showing up on WinMo without ads.

Today's remarks about XMPP interop from Page really bother me. In the late 90s, Microsoft was the vendor that wanted interop/federation (on MSN) and nobody took them up on it either.
ToS violations may not be "the" reason, but it is enough of a reason to force Google's hand, whether or not they have other reasons.

Exactly how long do you think, say, Viacom woulds tolerate a high-profile, name-brand YouTube app that blocked ads and supported video downloads? And what do you think Viacom would do to Google if Google's response to that app was turning a blind eye?
Google can easily transform reviews into a simple social network feature. Something that becomes a byproduct of the ways that people use maps ordinarily. This is potentially quite huge, because reviews always have a problem of opt-in self-selection. If people start using maps to keep track of which restaurants they personally like the most then that gives a huge amount of implicit information for other people searching for restaurants.

It's like the way pagerank works. It doesn't rely on explicit rankings, it relies on extracting implicit trust and authority information from the natural and organic ways that people link things on the web.
> Why was Microsoft evil? Because back in the day they hired only the best and brightest nerds and geeks.

No. Because they abused a monopoly position hurting competition, therefore artificially inflating prices and preventing the kind of progress we see now in non-PC segments that are not suffocated by them.

Also, for extorting every Android handset maker with a bogus (and secret) list of patents.
into a dustbin, to meet Clipper, Delphi and Java?)
This one is _counting_ to an incredibly large number -- slow it all the way down and watch what it's doing:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,3,1,1,2,1,1,0,0,1,0...
I blew up all kinds of stuff when I was a kid. Why? because I was interested in seeing what woud happen. That doesn't make me a criminal.
And one of the better resources is by the 37 signals team:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3096-giving-away-the-secrets-...

Your email going to spam is a very difficult problem to solve unfortunately. Most companies will use warmed-up ip addresses, as cold ip addresses can easily end up with a bad reputation and be sent to spam.

I've also known companies to unsubscribe users who haven't read an email for a few weeks (at least 3-7 unread emails).
Isn't that information dependent on the number of users in a given area? So if very few people in a metropolitan area use Waze, the information would suck?
Metro apps. See the new hangouts app? It's not on WP.
I like to over-analyze too.
I was under the impression that javascript's strict mode already does this?
This is a really interesting battle of platform vs proprietary business going on here. Is Youtube a platform? If so, then it should be offered to everyone equally. That's almost the definition of a platform. But is it actually a proprietary business that operates purely in the interests of its owner? In that case it should be offered to whoever makes money for the owner. If you are a content creator, Youtube tries very hard to look like a platform. But if you are a business that wants to make money from showing the content - Youtube looks like a proprietary business.

Lots of companies are trying to have it both ways these days. Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google too - all want to say, "hey, here we have a platform, you can come and develop here and make money without prejudice". But at the same time they all want to say, "we make the rules, we decide who wins, who loses and who's in and who's out and have no obligation to be fair about it".

Once upon a time people screamed murder when a platform company started weaving its own interests directly into its platform. For example, Microsoft would get heavily criticised for using "secret" windows APIs in office. Not that they didn't. But there was a general consensus that it was highly unfair for MS to have access to APIs that others didn't.

These days this resistance has been broken down by companies like Apple and Facebook, offering incredibly attractive "platforms" but without the guarantees that a platform used to have. Would anybody complain now that Apple uses a private API on the iPhone that 3rd party developers don't have access to? These days people virtually insist on it, for security, if nothing else.

So to me this is one more aspect of this long and winding battle between companies that want to have it all - pretend to offer "open" platforms but keep the reigns under their control. And they are all guilty.
I never really cared for it in the past, and not today either. It looks messy, disoriented in some way. I like things uniform and with structural order.
What is it missing that you are missing?

Mono is pretty damn complete. The stuff I've found it to be missing are very Windows-centric stuff and wouldn't fit in a Unix environment anyway.
Well it is obvious that the metabolic syndrome is not a joke, and there are no silver bullets.

The problem is that almost all official guidelines are political in nature, dumbed down, one size fits all and watered down or shaped by lobbyists.

Cutting or increasing any single component of the diet won't make much difference. There will always be hyperresponders that will make anything look amazing or deadly with proper massage of the data.
> laughing all the way to the bank.

I agree, how dare they make money.
they gave me a laptop for free.
Looking at your posts, it appears your posts has more hate than reason when it comes to Google.

That's an opinion, but I no longer fall for Google's kool aid...and yes, there's some boomerang from having drunk it earlier on.

FYI: I don't work for Google. So its not just google employees that disagree with you.

The good thing is that I am not looking to get noticed, get funded or being hired here so I truly say what's in my mind. I am 100% sure that many [insert corp name here] employees disagree with me on virtually every topic.
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If you're missing lambdas based on Python's neutered implementation, you're not really missing anything with go.
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There are lots of reasons for Microsoft to comply with these demands.

At least one reason for each major media company Microsoft currently partners with (or wants to in the future)... They, after all, are the ones most invested in these particular YouTube anti-features. And should Microsoft stymie Google, I'd predict that they won't remain on the sidelines.
I can think of another female who endangered herself for curiousity's sake, and the body of scientific knowledge this world possesses is infinitely better for it.

In that particular person's case she wasn't arrested. Instead, it resulted in her becoming the only person ever to receive two Nobel prizes in two separate areas of science.

Go figure.
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It's already fucked her life. This fiasco is going to be the top result of any future searches potential employers will see. This is just a pure god damn disgrace to humanity and the DA, the cops, fucking EVERYONE involved should be prosecuted for the bullshit they're putting this poor student through. This is not right.
Human embryo cloning is considered unethical - why? Why any different from developing them from an egg? Why a problem at all?

If someone wants a child, and cloning can produce a viable embryo for that, what's the big deal? Because they might have a twin? We don't execute twins and triplets as monsters.
Betaworks uses a lot of Python and churn out some fantastic companies. I'd check them out.
True but some degree of selectivity must be related to capacity rather than qualification. They probably have an abundance of applicants with enough skills to get through the program but their capacity forces them to be even more selective than that. Those are the people that would likely be well served by this program.
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The only thing else I really wanted was video games, which were effectively not allowed in my household.
Have you tried mb_string?
You couldn't buy the VS licenses + SQL Server + Windows Server with the money YCombinator provides you.

So, yes, most microsoft products are incredibly damaging for a startup.
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They aren't catering to stodgy, old businessmen with three chins. They are catering to a different audience and in that, they are succeeding.

Look at all the things they can communicate through use of a meme. Using the success kid meme implies that the customer would get a feeling of awesome accomplishment and it is applicable to the topic.

I am a little biased because I also use memes in my product blog posts for this reason. I suspect that they subconsciously do the same.
thanks for the comment. would love to do it in Miami. actually Miami is on the list for the Fall or Spring. Stay tuned.
I had to stop at the "1. The success of Windows Azure" part. Will get back to the article as soon as I stop laughing...
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