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There is some interesting stuff going on there.

The vector generated tile at the higher zoom has been redrawn while the tile below has not been redrawn yet, I would assume the redraw rate would be less frequent the more you zoom in do to decreased demand for the tiles.

The second interesting thing is that even though the raster tiles have had the bridge removed from the draw instruction the vector data for the click map on the map is still intact. That is interesting because that means that the vector data used to render tiles is operating at a different version than the vector data that is draw on the map. Which could lead to all kinds of weird scenarios.
Don't go wading in demanding more money with a line like "pay me more or I walk!". That won't work. Any founder worth their salt would just let you go because that's a really awful way to deal with people.

You're in this position because you failed to negotiate, failed to research the market properly, and (presumably) undervalued yourself(1). That's not a strong position to start from. However, hindsight is perfectly acceptable, so you might still be able to negotiate a better salary. Don't use the advert to show what you think you should be earning, but instead use it to show what the typical salary for someone with your skillset is. Be willing to give some proof points (demonstration of learning new things, willingness to do some of the less glamourous stuff, etc) before getting the raise.

Take this to your direct manager or HR manager if the company has one. Don't go to the founder (because that just undermines your manager, not because they wouldn't be receptive.)

Unless they're a dick they will listen.

And last, and possibly most importantly, learn from this. It's an important lesson. Don't be lazy when it comes to something as important as your job.

(1) It might be that they wouldn't have recruited you on $75k but gave you a shot because you're cheap...
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Yeah, you're right. The Oklahoma City bomb was homemade, and as we all recall, for that reason it was widely considered a completely justified bombing.
The "linen" Notification Centre pulldown has always looked awful. The other (pretty nice) uses of linen (multitasking bar, folder contents, Safari runoff area) have the impression of being embedded beneath the rest of the UI, while NC is the exact opposite. Secondly, it has a really harsh light to dark gradient on it that makes the top look almost like worn denim. I hope it's canned with extreme prejudice.
The story is presented to put the focus on the Haswell processor itself, and there will be saving there for sure. But I would expect that a good part if not most of the savings will come from the platform surrounding the processor. Intel has a lot of control there too, they also provide the chipset and define the requirements for the whole platform that ODMs then follow.

The PC platform for now is very inefficient. It uses standards with low power support, but typically a lot of elements are left always on and just waste power just because it is easier and up to now was not a big deal. But with the constant reduction of the CPU part now it becomes important to dynamically turn off the rest of the platform as much as possible, and not only the CPU internals. It's a given in the ARM world, and my understanding is that Intel finally brings this mindset to the PC with the Haswell platform. Which is very good and about time!

An example: the USB protocol defines Link Power Management, which allows to very dynamically put a USB link in low power (switch time is ~10 us). Supporting it will become required with Haswell from an old IDF presentation (that I've lost, so no link).

Another example: optimizing the voltages generation to avoid waste. We know part of it has been pushed into the chip with Haswell so for sure Intel looked into the whole thing.

This is obviously useful for laptops and tablets, but I would love to see this done thoroughly in mini-servers and HTPC devices. An x86 server doing nothing can burn 10 to 20W easily. A whole ARM tablet use less! I would love to see this reduced (out of principle, but also less heat and noise).

It can touch most part of the system and could be extended in time. For example in an ARM SoC for mobile it's possible to cut the internal display link between AP and LCD display if the image displayed doesn't change (the controller on the display locally cache the image). That saves the power from transferring data from the AP to the display over a high bandwidth external interface. That kind of thing could in time come to external display links.

The goal is to go all over the system with a fine comb, and make sure that when nothing happens no energy is wasted. We'll see how big a step the Haswell platform make in this direction, but it'll likely take several iterations.
No, he is responding to the initial branch. The quote is there in black and white
If Apple isn't very careful, iOS is going to come away from this looking like a freak circus of poorly integrated design. They could get everything right with the hardware, but if they make the software even the slightest bit undesirable, it'll drill iPhone 5S sales.

I'm not sure this is a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it, but when you're selling a hundred billion dollars worth of one phone model, it certainly warrants caution. One bad generation of phones from Apple and the chain reaction could easily be apocalyptic (they have no moat protection, unlike Microsoft with Vista; the smart phone market is moving at warp speed; Android is an inch away from a global monopoly already; Apple's brand is known for very cool design, lose that and sales will plunge, no matter how much cash is in the bank).
Hm, glib answers aside, you're right. I think the real point is that counting writes makes no sense because it is both not the most expensive and not the most frequent operation involved. Really, the whole thing comes from looking at lists wrong. Find-and-delete is not O(1), and converting half of an O(n) operation to O(1) doesn't actually make an asymptotic difference. If you are genuinely just performing inserts and removals of known elements things will look different.
> I said it was created for minor workflow events

I remember those times when Javascript was only used for changing button images in the mouse over event! It was a powerful extra to designers to have this knowledge.
Sensors in the bridge to tell when it's in a dangerous state; Google et al. consume the feed to update routing
Bridge is still visible on Apple Maps, though at least they added little warning/info indicators: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3706/8813508276_05c689345b_o.p...
We still don't know exactly what it will look like, but depending on how flat it is that sounds just like Android.

Might be a mix, Android's black/white scheme with the perfectly flat Windows 8 design.
He's still there. He just posted an article there this morning. http://boingboing.net/author/cory_doctorow_1 Why do you ask?
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Maybe one more lesson from Tyrion Lannister:

UNDER PROMISE BUT OVER DELIVER. All to often a project manager feels compelled to promise the moon and the stars, inevitably setting themselves up for failure or at least a dissatisfied client.
5 cores on my samsung galaxy s3 (chrome browser), 2 on my mac book air (chrome browser)
Can an Attorney General sign a warrant? Isn't it supposed to be a judge who signs warrants?
> 8. “If we build it, they will come”

> " For every minute you spend building it, for every dollar you spend building it, you need to do the same marketing it."

I'd love to see a discussion on this tip. I certainly agree that they might not come if you build it, but I tend to think that is mainly because they (the customers) don't exist - that is, the market the early stage start-up's product serves is not large enough.

Other materials I've read actually argue that early stage start-ups (pre-product/market fit) often spend too much time and money on marketing. e.g. this post by Andreesen: http://web.archive.org/web/20070701074943/http://blog.pmarca....
See my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5762363

main will have a value of zero, and 0x600864 will presumably be &main (it's not the initial arbitrary value of main).

Auto variables are left uninitialized so that they don't have to be given a value when they're allocated. It's for efficiency, and it makes the compiler simpler to have this blanket rule rather than have it try to figure out the minimal initializations necessary (which probably isn't even possible). But this ocnsideration doesn't apply to globals or statics, because the initialization can be done at compile time, or (sometimes, in C++) on program startup.
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Further to this, it's a pretty interesting technical problem to think about why the bridge collapsed. A compression member or node at the top of the truss that forms the main span seems to have failed for some reason. The news story linked in another comment below says the truck hit something. This[0] secondary(tertiary?) truss looks like it might have taken a hit? It forms part of the horizontal truss above the carriageways which resists shear in the horizontal plane and therefore provides torsional stability; the bridge is effectively a braced tube, I think. Maybe the hit on that pulled the main compression member out of alignment enough for it to buckle? I'm not an engineer, but I'm pretty interested in engineering, I'd be interested to know if anyone with better knowledge can spot an obvious reason for the collapse.

[0] http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Interstate-5-bridge-c...
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Ok, well I agree. I mean global variables are not created dynamically. There is room reserved for them in the data segment which is initialized to 0. Can you give me an example where a global variable isn't initialized to 0? Your valgrind example doesn't say much about the value in the main variable ..

Edit, @deweerdt: ok :)
I'm not an arbiter of what makes things popular, but from what I can see, Node's popularity has more to do with the fact that front end guys no longer have to learn a new language to work on the back end.
I am not a lawyer, but my naive understanding of how it works is that a judge (or magistrate, somesuch from judicial branch) "signs off" on a warrant to authorize it. Maybe the article means that the AG approved requesting a warrant from a judge?
My chromebook is the first gen Samsung 5 550

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Series-550-3G-Chromebook/dp/...

Had about 9 hours when I bought it. It has dropped down now but it is still my first truly mobile laptop.

If I bought another chromebook now I would probably still prefer the old 5 550. Very good balance between battery life/power etc.

I am running Ubuntu on mine now and it is easily the most lovely computer I've ever owned.
I remembered the story when I was reading the musings of the Australian police about regulating the cad files.

As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate themselves, every regulation will be moot. Information always finds a way to propagate.
Hence the 'might'. An AED may be able to restart a heart in ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia (I suppose we can quibble over what 'restart' means).

CPR alone never restarts a heart (ok... not 'never', but it's uncommon enough (in adults) that it's not worth fighting over).
Really the Reader "Web App" - is not that exiting. Cloning it is only a matter of a few days work.

The interesting bit is the 'backend', the crawler and database, ie the servers that supplies the API. But that simply can't be open-sourced, as it too Google centric.

I just used TT-RSS for the backend, and built my own GReader like front end in a matter of ours.
And on Linux Intel's powertop utility can.
The eugenic view I was referring to is not saying

People should not be treated because it would spoil the gene pool

but rather

We certainly want to treat diseases, but this will spoil the gene pool unless we prevent the spread of bad genes

Solutions to prevent the spread of bad genes range from quite evil (forced sterilization has been used extensively before WWII but I have never heard of something as bad as denying treatment) to slightly controversial, e.g. screening of embryos [1].

By the way, I have just stumbled on the Wikipedia page on dysgenics [2], which is more specifically what this argument is about.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnos...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics
I would strongly suggest you read the novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, instead of watching the TV show. Hours and hours of worth of detail had to be cut from the series to convert it for TV, and while they did a great job, you're left with little more than a highlights reel by comparison.

The novels are a must if you're after the detailed history and politics of the world the characters live in.
That's true. But my life gets better every time I get to use my laptop without tripping over or fiddling some annoying cable. The chromebook just sort of fades away, a computer that is just available and portable and problem free (sort of)
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Really awesome work, had my hopes up for this and the video does not disappoint!
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Actually, the answer may be more simple.

Guessing, that gmaps switches to drawing vector data at a certain zoom instead of rendering the road line vector data to the TMS tile.

This simply means that the version of the vector data used to draw at the increased zoom is the older version but is actually being used to draw the roads on the browser instead of rendered into the tile before transfer.
Both are yet to give me an account.
I agree that the less politics on Hacker News, the better. However, I think there is a grave risk in writing off the possible abuse of political power because the alleged victims are not in your camp. As Martin Niemöller said:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
The answer is obvious. Is it ok to kill someone with a kitchen knife, or a frying pan? What world do you live in where these answers aren't obvious?

Your comment adds no value to this discussion whatsoever.
The fact remains (as far as I know) that the Obama administration has prosecuted more leaks under the Espionage Act of 1917 than all other presidents up to now combined. So we have a few possibilities:

1) Obama is prosecuting at the same rate of aggressiveness as previous presidents but has happened to have more prosecutable leaks under his watch than all previous presidents combined.

2) Obama is prosecuting at the same rate of aggressiveness as previous presidents, and there has not been a sudden increase in prosecutable leaks, but Obama has found out about them better, and thus been able to prosecute more.

3) Obama is prosecuting at an increased rate of aggressiveness compared to previous presidents, because there has not been a sudden increase in prosecutable leaks the president knew about

4) It's all irrelevant because comparing 0 vs. 2 vs. 6 prosecutions among 20-some presidents is too small a sample size

There's a lot of missing information here, so it's easy to see how some biases would tend towards 3 and others would tend towards 1-2 or 4
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Interesting. We tried to do the same for Haskell. The shortest we could come up with:

import Unsafe.Coerce;main=unsafeCoerce()1
@bnegreve can't reply to your post, but i was mistaken. externally visible symbols are also initialized to 0
The failed NHS IT project cost over £12 billion: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/22/nhs-it-project...
Actually you don't have to link it separately if you don't link against stdlib. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5762578
calm down. they know what they are doing.
So it should mostly look like the iPod app and the podcast app. Great
That's correct, my bad.
As much as I (And, I'm sure, many here) loathe the recent overuse of textural design in Mac- and iOS, I think it's also important to note that similarly dreadful results can be achieved through equally slavish devotion to flat design. The most important thing is functional design--design that conveys its purpose in the most concise and clear way possible. Flat isn't important, texture isn't important--what's important is clear communication of purpose.

I think Ive's background as an industrial designer prepares him well to do that, as the design of his products testifies. But this article makes the rumored redesign of iOS sound like change for the sake of change--a dogmatic revolution against textural design instead of a reasoned reconsideration of Apple's recent design principles. If that is the case, I think Apple will meet some bad press from angry customers, much the same way Facebook does whenever they do one of their redesigns.
As an American that doesn't care, I can say that the media is in quite a hypocritical situation with this one.

They've had 10 years to look into this, to take a stance, to confront the US Government on the issue. For 10 years they've ignored, or not cared, about issues like wire tapping, searching through emails and phone records, etc without a warrant. Issues like locking up an american citizens indefinitely without a right to trial. Issues like using drones to kill americans.

They've ignored these issues for going on 10 years because, I assume, they felt they were immune to them. That they had protections against them that 'regular' Americans didn't.

Now they find out and they are just as susceptible to those rules as the rest of us an want to put a rallying cry for us to come to their side? Even further they want special legislation protecting them from it, while leaving the rest of us unprotected?

Please. The media deserves absolutely zero sympathy on this one. Maybe if they were doing their jobs, maybe if they actually cared about the American people the way they claim, they wouldn't be in this mess.
You could try to make it out of glass, I guess.
I didn't post about it last night because: If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Here's the Reddit thread a FB friend linked:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1ey32g/i5_bridge_in...
It's amazing how much things change when you're not paying attention. Thanks for explaining this.
A gun on a plane is widely useless post 9-11. One of the sane responses to those attacks was a requirement that bullet proof cockpit doors be installed on all aircrafts.
Is there any news on how much less heat these things will produce? The heat issue is one of my biggest concerns about the current crop of ultrabooks.
I get 2-3 cores for a quad-core i7, Chrome on Windows 7. It should probably be 8.
This isn't a left-wing or right-wing issue, it's a civil-liberties issue concerning life in a free society. The press, while not one of the checks & balances envisioned by the country founders, serve in that role by revealing the misdeeds & transgressions of those in positions of authority.
I'm probably older than you (almost 30) and I don't think you're aware of the long-term career risks in this industry. Yes, it's cheaper to go all-in on a startup, and you might build something that makes life (yours and others') a lot better. There are a lot of great things about living in 2013. There certainly are opportunities that didn't exist 20 years ago.

However, what happens when your bootstrapped startup fails is an unholy cocktail of the following:

a. Your savings is depleted.
b. You learn a lot, which overqualifies you for junior-level work.
c. People try to take advantage of (a) and offer you low-level positions.

Rapid learning (b) and zero credibility advancement (c) is a recipe for disaster, because you'll probably fail when you get shunted into some bullshit low-level job after having been "spoiled" by the experience of getting do real work.

It's the career problems that make this game an unholy mess: the fact that most so-called "tech" jobs are career-killing, subordinate wastes of talent that slowly turn you into an unemployable idiot. It's the risk that you'll be 37 and taking orders from a 25-year-old "tech lead" who only knows half a programming language and won't listen to your ideas. Worst of all, at that age you probably have a spouse and kids, so suicide isn't an ethically defensible option. At that point, you just have to suffer for 40 years and die of natural causes.
Some guns are useful as clubs without the bullets, but this one is just useless. Unless that same angsty teenager can also acquire bullets, there isn't really a problem - the legal age to purchase ammo is (as far as I know) the same as purchasing guns.
This is very scared as 3D printers are becoming cheaper soon any one could print out a gun with litte effort.
As people said, you can create your own guns but whats different is this takes little work which any one could do.
This could be a world problem as soon as 3D printers become mainstream, especially in countries with tight gun regulation.
That's most unfortunate to hear, because I just bought 10x used Intel X25-E SSDs for my server because SSDLife.exe said they only had 6 months of use, with 99% of their life left & an expected runtime of 10 more years.

With these drives typically around $750/each, it'll be difficult if not impossible to find deals on 8 separate lots of _good_ used drives.

I can only afford them when I see an exceptional deal on eBay, and feel lucky to have found these I just got for $200/each. I strongly doubt I'll be able to afford to implement 1 drive per lot with my server like your warning implies would be a good thing to do.

It seems you'd have to buy them all new at different times of the year to be able to implement such a thing, which I certainly can't afford.
"But those people would be the same ones moaning about how much money we're wasting on NASA in 1964."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

It's quite telling that you're ignoring the billions/trillions we've wasted on useless projects since 1964.
Don't draw lines through one data point. We have no idea which features of economic disruptions of this scale are general and which are incidental. What we do know is a large, prosperous middle class is a historical aberration. It also seems that automation has little in common with mechanization, because automation replaces mental labor. It is not obvious that new industries will create more employees than they replace. Perhaps new industries will advance in lock-step with new automation systems. Gregory Clark compares the modern worker not to farmers before the industrial revolution, but to horses before the widespread adoption of the car. The 'wages' of the workhorses fell below subsistence level. Perhaps the wages of people will, too.
I remember my old friend saying that he could use the 'hump' battery on his think pad and it'd give him around 14 hours. But that was a 14 incher. Honestly though, I think we've got enough power in todays laptops for even casual gaming over and above office work that first priority should be battery life and second should be screen resolution keeping all other equal.
This is true. Linen (and texture in general) is a fantastic as a way to represent the virtual seams of an OS. It's just really really poorly used in certain areas like login screens and notification center where it dominates the interface.