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You're mixing technologies (PHP vs Ruby / Python) with types of programmers (inexperienced vs experienced).

Wielding a master's sword does not a swordmaster make. Surely you've seen enough RoR and Django projects to know that.

Some people will say that something not written in a strongly typed language is not well engineered. If it's not compiled, it's not efficient. This is just programming snobbery. For what it's worth, I was that kid in high school, except back then it was Perl. That's how I learned. Something that makes it even easier? That just creates more programmers. Without shitty programmers, we'd be paid a lot less.

I talk a lot of smack about PHP and JavaScript, but these terrible languages have brought more people to programming than any other languages.
Thanks, but no thanks! Don't trust you with my money. kudos for the service though.
I, of course, know nothing about your case. And if I did, I wouldn't be able to discuss it in public, because it'd get me fired. It must be nice taking shots in public where you know no-one can shoot back.

But since I'm completely ignorant of your case, I'm gonna shoot my mouth off a bit, and hope I don't get in trouble for it.

Google spends insane amounts of effort tracking these cases. I've met lots of six-figure-salary folks who hours or days of every week looking into corner cases. And they're just the tip of the iceberg. Again, I'm not speaking to your particular case, but the thing we learn is that out of every hundred people who say what you're saying, at least 99 of them have repeatedly violated the rules, and more than 50 of them got multiple warnings.

And it's not like Google is keeping the money. Google's fraud-fighting effort is not a profit centre, by any stretch.

I'm not saying that Customer Service is Google's forte, but the internet is full of a lot of lies, and lots of them are told by people who tried to scam us, or scam our customers, and are hilariously outraged that we caught them.
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The chrome to phone extension does exactly this. If you search for an address in Chrome, and click the extension's button, it'll fire up Maps with the address selected in your phone. It can be finicky about making you log in all the time, but it's nice for this exact case.
I refreshed the page, loaded the new design, and felt like the information density instantly dropped in half. I'm not sure if they think I'm going blind or forgetting how to read.

Text went away. Pictures and icons appeared.

The thumbnail pictures of the people in my chat list got bigger, their names stayed the same size, and all indication of their online/offline/idle status completely vanished. And half the people I talk to regularly disappeared from the chat list. A lot of my friends were perma-invisible, and not it won't let me see them. Great.

I feel like they want me to scroll through the news feed like I'm reading a glossy magazine full of pictures, but I don't want that -- I want text.

I had hoped that changing to the one-column layout would make things better, but all the posts feel like they have a width of less than 80 characters.
Just wondering when Indians will get to know the same!
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But isn't the point here that Microsoft doesn't want to have to build the app? Google builds YouTube apps for all major platforms but shafts Windows Phone because of their war with Microsoft. So Microsoft is forced to build their own, so they decided they will build it to be best for users, not Google, hence no ads, able to download videos, etc.
This would have never reached the extent it did if most people were right minded. We are not the norm in America.
One interesting thing I noticed here: my wife obtained her Masters in French law for just over €2,000. Many universities here in Europe are free or very low cost (often £150 per semester).

It's the poorly-subsidized, "for profit" nature of the US educational system which has led to the US going from first to twelfth place in the percentage of young people with university degrees (http://completionagenda.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files...) (warning: pdf).

While I applaud what I'm seeing here and I think it's great news, the "low price" of $7000 is only for the Masters program ... you already have to have a Bachelors degree and it's still a far higher price than you'll pay in many parts of the world.
Airbnb: hugely popular, still illegal
you beat me to it :P,

From this day on global productivity decreased by a significant degree
Newsflash: SoCal isn't as liberal as you may think.
Software snobbery.

"Cost and developer time are non-factors"

Bro, do you even startup?
And if she had hurt or, worse, killed herself or other people?

God damn it this is the whole point! Obviously if she had killed other people the story would be different. But she didn't. She blew shit up in an open place for reasons that were not sinister.

Motive matters. The reason she's getting so much support is because what she did resonates with so many of us, and we sense a kindred spirit.

Maybe you see her as a little terrorist-in-training who will use her new-found knowledge to blow up a marathon or something, but I have no reason to think that. I see a kid who heard about this from someone and thought "Wow, if I mix these ingredients in a plastic bottle there will be an explosion. Cool!" And then because she got off her ass and actually DID something rather than watch youtube videos or TV, she's far ahead of her peers.

I lived at a dorm at MIT which was known for several times a year making a coffee-mate bomb. The explosion was loud and the flames leapt up 5 stories, and then everyone would scatter before the MIT police inevitably arrived. It was fun.
The more likely explanation is that Google fans and Microsoft haters are doign the flagging.

Even the other story about Microsoft's response is getting flagged and is far down the front page for its points.

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

What's your explanation for this constant flagging of Microsoft related stories or anti-Google ones?

Read through this thread for examples for many more stories getting flagged off the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010

HN rankings graph showing abnormal and sudden dips.

http://hnrankings.info/5715168/

HN rankings graph showing low rank for a long time inspite of a lot of upvotes.

http://hnrankings.info/5715889/
They can get help from a human.

But Google will not issue chargebacks for payments made via "send money with GMail".
I come from Vancouver, where I am spoiled with sushi selections at very reasonable prices. There is a sushi restaurant/take-out within 2km walk from where ever you are in the city/suburbs. Coming to San Francisco, I was disappointed in the limited sushi places considering San Francisco is 3x more populated than Vancouver. However, for the last four months I've been testing out as many sushi places as I could. Best tasting and freshest around my neighbourhood is a tiny place in Castro called Warakubune Sushi ($$). Another good place is Sushi Time, a hidden gem with very fresh fish,($$) and Osaka Sushi, Japanese owned with bigger maki rolls ($). My friends have recommended BlowFish Sushi in the Mission area but I haven't tried it yet. It's more unconventional type of sushi and more on the pricey side ($$). Good luck!
Google Glass not out yet, and already banned
I believe this has been around a year or two already, which makes it a bit more impressive in my mind.
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Wow. Leverage all those reams of data about us to freeze out fraudsters... Impressive/scary if they pull it off. Hopefully they don't make too many false-positives that result in innocent bystanders being banished from the Kingdom of the Google.
Learn to write code - languages won't matter then. A spade is a spade whatever it is made of.
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I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

Rapture.

A city where the artist would not fear the censor,
where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality,
where the great would not be constrained by the small.

―Andrew Ryan

So - you know - a lighthouse in north atlantic is a good place to start.
>Thanks for doing exactly what the OP requested commenters NOT to do.

I countered jussij's perspective, equally posted without "links or references" (which don't necessarily make something valid, fyi), with my own. I didn't reply to the parent post that said "please don't say anything mean about .NET unless you can prove it". That poster is not the internet police, we are free to continue to speculate and navel-gaze and counter-navel-gaze despite his or her statement.

So, you're welcome.
How are people able to see if a post is being flagged a lot? Is there a karma level for that?
It is the most ridiculously ham-fisted Mary Sue pastiche that I have ever seen, but the art is nice.
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Did you just point out that Scott Kurtz (one of the authors of that book) gave some advice similar to that given by Scott Kurtz (author of PvP)?

(hopefully the humour/snark part of that comment doesn't overwhelm the information part)
2 - I guess my quip should have said "thanks Microsoft" in retrospect. (Although even if I wanted to run GMail natively, there's no Windows store app made by Google when there's one made by Yahoo, for example; I would ask why)..

3 - Sorry, but I don't buy this. A desktop app copy-pasted onto a Metro frame (I have no idea what the containers are called so excuse my ignorance) is NOT a Metro app (like the one Mozilla is working on, for example: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Metro).
Excellent project initiated by Google. I think these kind of projects will allow budding students in third world countries.
I disagree. I don't think that people have to excite a lot of negative press or otherwise make a fuss with something just because they're moderately displeased with it. Most people won't go to the effort unless the tools are egregiously bad, and we know that Microsoft's stack isn't. They can still be quietly unhappy, locked into the platform with hundreds of thousands of man-hours invested into proprietary applications that depend heavily on major, hard-to-replace platform components (see: WPF, not implemented by Mono, or Silverlight, hit and miss via the unmaintained Moonlight), and buying server licenses due to a change in the way servers are provisioned.

Moving away from .NET is a long-term proposition, and it's an expense that few companies can justify no matter how much they dislike the platform. I believe you are claiming far too much credit for MS based off of a single growth figure.
I actually saw a demo of live conversation translation between two speakers (Chinese and English) using cell phones, at a Microsoft tech fest a few (2?) years ago. Something from MSR, obviously not on the market yet, so not quite there, but there are lots of people trying to bring the star trek universal translators to life :)
My first reaction was "Fuck me, you don't say". Of course they have no goddamned incentive to follow the goddamned law! You're going around rewarding them with taxpayer money for what is, at best, piss poor financial work and, at worst, criminal all this while saying they're "too big to fail" and that you'll take care of them no matter what and you expect anything else?
I guess I don't see the distinction you are trying to make. Google representatives helped Whitetaker sell illegal, often fake drugs, often times giving him feedback on how he could circumvent the company's own policies and various detection algorithms. In other words, Google acted in an evil manner.
Which of these arguments does not apply to computers?
I am just wondering.. If you are an auditor in a Big 4 firm, you should be pretty decent in finance itself. Why even look at tech? I am not sure what all financial consulting really involves, but it seems like the natural way to go for you.
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Well, if you're demanding standards, you could spend a few seconds looking up the definition of sexual harassment in the workplace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_environment_sexual_hara...

You'll notice 'pictures of pornography in cubicles' is one of them.

http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/currentissues.html (a government website, note) mentions specific cases where visible pornography counted as establishing a hostile work environment.
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If people comment and don't say they're Google employees, how do you know they're Google employees?
I don't understand your question. Just so it's clear, I consider smartphones and tablets to be computers also, and I hope that one day all computers (desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, watches, goggles, Borg implants) come with root-equivalent access disabled by default.
Her claims of ancestry that she does not have in her family tree which she used to get educational placement makes anything she does a loss for me. She has shown she cares quite a bit more about her own interest than at least parts of the public.
The only changes made were in MapKit and UIKit.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Genera...
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Maybe people who are actually just average HN users don't find those stories to really be worth reading as much as other stories.

Occam's razor, you know. Not everything is a conspiracy.
You could have left the first two paragraphs off and the tone of the post would have been much improved. It sounds like you've got a chip on your shoulder which impacts the positive impact your (unofficial) representation could have.
More specifically, this has to do with the Big Mac Index by The Economist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
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There are a few bizarre jobs paying bizarre salaries, except for that,the IT sector has very high salary for the workers, one of the factor is the less number of employee compared to most of the industries.
Posts with much less points are shown higher up in the page than this post. That is usually an indication of the post being flagged.
Note that the complaint is not about lack of upvotes, it's about people going out of their way to use their flagging powers which is meant only for spam links.
Personally, I say thank god y'all grew out of your "bling" phase. Shadows are pretty up there with "Site Under Construction" bulldozers for me.

Also, I don't think flat design precludes rounded corners?
Ask HN: How do you have time for dates and gym when working for a startup? 
I'm a 20 something female who just joined a start up in San Francisco. I used to have 9-6 type of job but now I'm finding that I'm working 9-9 most weekdays. How do you find time to meet and date people and also balance time to work out and have other hobbies? And some locals tell me that in San Francisco, everyone just does online dating, is that the SF dating culture?
It's funded, to the tune of a half million--I'm curious if he'll actually be able to deliver. I hope so.
> I guess I don't see the distinction you are trying to make.

I already told you: "I'm hesitant to call anything evil just for being caught in the cross-hairs of the drug laws in the US." If you think that violating the drugs laws (or helping someone to do so) in the US is evil, then we have a fundamental disagreement.

From my reading of the article, the sting wasn't to find out if Google was knowingly helping scams---just that they were knowingly helping someone sell illegal drugs.
> "I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse." - after hearing this from a fellow emacs user I am seriously considering a switch to Intellij from eclipse and see how it goes.
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As mentioned above by shadowmint, it seems that Microsoft is looking for some attention, and they have already succeeded. Well done.

But what are the long-term effects on the growth of what Microsoft really needs (a thriving third-party mobile development community)? I could be biased because of Google I/O's hype effect, but things like this only make me lean towards Android as my next platform to develop for (coming from iOS).

I agree with the definitional meaning of Microsoft's retaliation - large companies should work together to create amazing content (ie. cross-platform Youtube app) for their mutual users. As always, it's a shame to see immature rivalries come between progress.
It seems insecure to leave another point of access open to the conversation, if merely out of principle, due to concerns over leaving a window open for eavesdropping.
Not a US citizen here.

Is growing food for community is illegal? is it due to the FDA requirements?
They most definitely do. It would be silly of them not to.

They spent/d real money maintaining it, designing and providing for free.

Unless they are a charitable organization and totally motivated by good intentions the would probably want to scan all the content you pour into their system and build a profile on you so they can sell you better to their real customers -- ad buyers.
The ranking in the front page is affected by flagging. Usually, the more points a post has and the more recent it is, the higher it is ranked. But flagging pushes it down. So if you see a 100 point post submitted 10 hours ago above a 150 point post submitted 6 hours ago, it means that the 150 point post got flagged a lot.
Sure, the chances of finding an expert are low, but you'd be surprised how well it works. See, the tweet was posted to HN by someone and the chances of finding a Postgres expert here are significantly higher. More important is that the costs are low, even lower than writing to a ML. So why not try?
When it comes to weather models it's probably a good idea to have at least two of them for validation and performance comparisons. These things are (a) quite complex (in the order of 100k-1M LOC), (b) important for humanity for various reasons and (c) not as expensive as you might think.

To give you an idea, for the price of one F-22 fighter jet one could go and build the world's best weather prediction, including the price of the supercomputer (as in the world's fastest one) as well as the initial software development.
meh. Nice to see some rationality but the real rate of inflation measured by private entities never stopped being published by senators in congress taking advantage of their immunity.
Here's to hoping that we as a society have the good sense to decide to reduce the barriers to entry for freelancing and entrepreneurship, so that anyone with skills can simply create their own job and trade their labor freely--without having to worry about "benefits" because the government actually provides those like it's supposed to.
You don't have to use imaginary numbers to model AC circuits. The math is just easier if you do.
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Who knows. I imagine so. There are 2 aspects -- using it to build a profile on you and collaborating with the government agencies to help them gather information on you, or complying with a wiretap warrant.

They could have still be doing both but secretly. However if you mentioned say "home brew kit" in your chat then started seeing home brew kit ads, it would be a dead give-away of what happened.
> If you are a content creator, Youtube tries very hard to look like a platform.

If you have money, scammers try very hard to look like business partners.
Thomas got me to do it and later preach it. It's a virtuous cycle! (Also, charge more.)
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Thanks for the post, but have to disgree on some points. the differences aren't small, they're quite big when you realize that ranking makes a huge difference to how many people see it and how many more new votes it gets, especially if it goes off the front page.

Adding more data for perusal. HN rankings charts show abnormal behavior too, because all the complaining led to more upvotes or it would've fallen off the front page.

http://hnrankings.info/5715168/

http://hnrankings.info/5715889/

Will post more screenshots of downranked submissions tomorrow, maybe we can figure out exactly what's happening.
No matter how disciplined Spolsky was with the funds, nothing's ever the same if you know that you have the option to just inject a bunch of money into one of your projects should the need arise (and of course, SO had another non-cash leg up: the blogs of Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky as major marketing avenues, i.e., the instant attention of large swaths of the developer workforce). If you don't have that option, regardless of if it's used or not, you play by different rules.

Stack Exchange is cool and everything, but it didn't have the same difficulties that face most bootstrapped startups.
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Germany also stores some energy by pumping water uphill for storage behind dams, but there's only so much capacity (only so many dams). That will change if other low-cost grid-level energy storage systems become available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage
Hi guys. I'm trying this from an iPhone 5 and it doesn't do much. I choose a single player game, then Start Immediately, and a grey tiled background appears with buttons across the top "Start Game" etc, and an empty text input at the bottom. Hitting buttons doesn't do anything.
If you produce meaningful business value in 2~4 hours, just charge for the day. Butt in chair is not what they are buying from you. If they wanted cheap butt-hours you're already not cost competitive. Instead, deliver what they're asking for and don't worry them with irrelevant trivia like your fluctuating time-costs at different stages of the product cycle.
Well, flat is fairly objective. So it has that advantage. I've seen lots of ugly designs that were not flat. I also don't find flat designs ugly, whereas you do, if I'm understanding you correctly.
well, actually the design is more clean, crisp and fluid. The burst of information in social media has let the sites to concentrate their design on news feed and presenting information in the most suitable way. the trend of minimalism is a very good approach of Google and I think that soon all social media sites use minimalism as their theme during layout design, the concept"less is more" has worked for many sites with huge information, text or picture such as Behance or Google and certainly will work for more.
I work with people like you describe. I'm not saying your plan is not working out for you. But I'm willing to be you are not an enthusiast. You work for a living, and are interested in the things that work brings, not the work itself.

Do you understand how awful it is to work with people who are only trying to do a job, won't take any risks, and are generally satisfied? It absolutely sucks trying to make a difference and getting stuck on a team with casual, 8-5 coders who want to dumb down every project, add limits and impose process because that supports their goals of just keeping a job. And it's not about having 'fun challenges.' I can find enough fun challenges at my home with a few books to waste the entire rest of my life.
any improvement on ndk debugging ould be highly appreciated
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I thought the same thing till I saw this

http://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-source...