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Ever since Microsoft started extorting money from open source vendors/OEM's with bogus patents, I've started dropping Microsoft's products as soon as I could.

The only one left is Windows 7, which I can't wait to get rid of in 2-3 years, once either Ubuntu or Android come into their own as more mature mainstream operating systems.
I wonder how people working at Facebook and Google deal with the "morality issues" of peddling advertising to impressionable children and teenagers (while calling it "innovation") while consuming 10x as much resources per capita as people in China who actually build real tangible things?

NB: I don't want to give the impression that I think advertising is bad or anything. I think of it like porn: fine for adults, but not something I want my daughter exposed to until she can appreciate what it is.
I morbidly wanted this to be another NSA scandal.
Why am I not surprised that IBM and "patent reform died" are on the same line?

Relentless.

(deleted)??? no free speech on HN eh?
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From my experience, defintely yes. I use the Revel framework for creating my APIs to be consumed client side (Angular).

When I make changes, refreshing the browser results in a re-compile which takes less than a second (assuming I have modified several files) on my 2012 Macbook pro.

With Go, unit testing is also blazing fast. My entire test suite (around 30+ tests) takes around 0.2 seconds.

Just for comparision, I used Play 2 (Scala) for a short while before that. Re-compilation would take in the region of 10 seconds. Startup costs are high in the Java/.NET world :(
I don't think the fine would apply instantaneously. Also, the money you give back (the not punitive part) is clearly not income, so why would you pay taxes on it?

More like you have to return 6 million you didn't earn. Your profits are now 3 million. You owe taxes on 3 million, and the remaining 2.5 million fine comes out of what's left.
You could. Not sure if Heroku offers a full fledged linux environment. Also there are unlimited databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, CouchDB or Redis ) included in the 1€ fee.
No ,I was saying that they have an impact on the actual mathematical aptitude, and the (again actual) ratios of men/women in STEM industries.
>Among people who score a perfect 800 on the Math SAT (top 1% starts at 770), men outnumber women only 2:1

So you are selecting outliers to justify the "proper" average outnumbering? That doesn't add up.
Time for civil liability for these breaches. At this point the risk of storing plaintext passwords is known enough that it should qualify as negligence.
If someone knows how this works, I'd love an explanation of it.
Amazon Locker looks great - though it's not ubiquitous. The closest one is probably a 1 hour drive (with light traffic) and I live in a major metropolitan area in the US.
Yeah. Well, at least Facebook and Google try to innovate, and are quite successful at doing so. Microsoft, never mind IBM...these are old dying giants who will never budge in the name of innovation.
Even if mathematical ability is totally determinative, and being a programmer required top 0.3-0.5% of mathematical ability, we would expect to see ratios of maybe 65/35 in the programming world, not 90/10 or 95/5.

That's true. But he described multiple factors that bias men towards programming. Even if individual factors (like mathematical ability) only cause 65/35 differences in isolation, combining a few of them together results in pretty extreme distributions.
I think he is still responsible for creating this monster. And he never apologized for the consequences of his actions that are still unraveling like today. Remember Ballmer was placed because he was always following his lead and counsel, as reported.
The blogpost says that OFA contacted them and forewarned about the size of the call. I guess that's the point where Mixlr could have asked an extra to handle the scale, while it sounds like they just said "no problems, go ahead".
I've been recommended David Skok's blog [1] a few times which is exactly focused on SaaS. Haven't had the chance to go through it yet, so I can't personally recommend.

[1] http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/
Because turkeys are stupid.
By overeducated the author means that there are many more being educated then there are positions to fill.
Bread and circuses.

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

Some people look around the world and see the carpet being grabbed from beneath their feet, and the appeal of a roof and warm beds for your family is not easily ignored.

Most people don't have the luxury of sacrificing their lives for an ideology, and even fewer are willing to risk their family's lives.
What was there before it was deleted?
I think it's poorly worded. It's saying that that level of education has enough people employed. Anybody continues to pursuit that career (lawyers according to the article) is therefore "overeducated".
I wonder if the original reason for using a modal OS-level popup was to prove that it's not a fake prompt displayed by a malicious site.
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It said he decided to sleep at his girlfriends. Where does the bus full of children enter the story?
i wouldn't get too worked up. i skimmed it and then noticed that the author is a 9-year-old school boy from Uganda, not exactly a financial analyst on Wall Street.
That's what we get for having an open community and embracing all posts.
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so they are worth the $525 USD? I am looking for a solution that deadens everything so I can work and maybe sleep better at night too.

Did you send them custom ear molds, etc?
Buffet style!

Can I get on the life-raft yet?
Dame of What?
Singling out IBM and Microsoft is a bit disingenuous. IBM seems to be the vocal subject in the article but there are far more companies behind the opposition as shown here: http://images.politico.com/global/2013/09/22/final_-_letter_...

The list:

3M

ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.

Adobe Systems

Advanced Technology Ventures

Allison Transmission, Inc.

Architecture Technology Corporation

Beckman Coulter, Inc.

BGC Partners, Inc.

Bi-Level Technologies

Biotechnology Industry Organization

Boston Scientific

Brash Insight Corp.

BSA - The Software Alliance

Cabochon, Inc.

California Healthcare Institute (CHI)

Cantor Fitzgerald L.P.

Caterpillar, Inc.

Ciencia, Inc.

Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.

Colorado Technology Consultants

CONNECT

Cotera Inc.

The Cummins Allison Corporation

Dolby Laboratories

Domain Associates

Donohue Consulting, Inc.

The Dow Chemical Company

DR Systems, Inc.

DuPont

Eatoni Ergonomics, Inc.

Eli Lilly & Company

Embedded Systems LLC

Entrepreneurs for Growth

Entropic Communications, Inc.

ExploraMed Development, LLC

Fairchild Semiconductor

Fairfield Crystal Technology

Fallbrook Technologies Inc.

Flocel Inc.

Forsight Labs

ForSight VISION4, Inc.

Foundry Newco XII, Inc. (d/b/a Twelve)

Freescale Semiconductor

GearMax USA Ltd.

General Electric

General Nanotechnology LLC

Global Network Computers

Great Lakes Neuro Technologies Inc.

Holaira, Inc.

IBM

IEEE-USA

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Innovation Alliance

Inogen, Inc.

Insight Legal

Interknowlogy

Inventors Network of the Capital Area

IP Advocate

IP Pipeline Consulting, LLC

Irwin Research & Development, Inc. eptember 19, 2013

Johnson & Johnson

Karbonique, Inc.

KeepSight LLC

Kovogen, LLC

Lauder Partners, LLC

Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), Inc.

Lightstone Ventures

MediaFriends, Inc.

Medical Device Manufacturers Association

MH Systems, Inc.

Micron Technologies

Microsoft

Miramar Labs, Inc.

Morgenthaler Ventures-Life Sciences

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

Neodyne Biosciences, Inc.

NeoTract, Inc.

NeuroPace, Inc.

NeuroWave Systems Inc.

Nevro Corp.

NuGEN Technologies, Inc.

NuVasive, Inc.

OL2, Inc. (OnLive)

Orbital Research Inc.

Patent Office Professional Association

Power Auctions LLC

Precision Combustion

PreEmptive Solutions

Procter & Gamble

Prometheus Research, LLC

Qualcomm

Rearden Companies, LLC

Restoration Robotics, Inc.

Sapheon, Inc.

Software Partners LLC

Soleon Robotics LLC

Tessera

The Foundry LLC

TM Technologies, Inc.

Trading Technologies

U.S. Business and Industry Council

Vibrynt, Inc.

Xerox Corporation
"...under what circumstances would it be beneficial for my dishwasher to be "smart" at all..."

An alternative that I haven't seen mentioned, but is supported, for some appliances: Your electrical or water supply utility could tell your dishwasher to delay its cycle in order for the utility overall to better balance its load.
>>Why is competitiveness a good thing for the business of writing software? Don't you think cooperation would be better for such a deeply team-oriented discipline?

Mostly because compensation, benefits, raises, promotions and incentives are in most cases at individual levels. So people chase goals what you want them to chase.

Also note what's good for the team is often not good for the individual. I know this from personal experience, if you have a mix of high and low performers in a team and the rewards for them are going to be the same regardless of performance- The next thing that happens is the low performers make no attempt to increase their performance and high performers are always supposed to make up for it.

This creates immense frustration for people who are performing well. They see no reason why they must be doing heroics to take the same amount of money as the guy who isn't putting even a fraction of their effort. So the whole team collaboration stuff collapses.
It's not quite that clear cut. In this case, Rep. Goodlatte probably considered how vocal opposition of the bill by large corporations could cast him as 'Anti-Business' by his constituency, or a challenger in an upcoming election. There is no mention in the article that IBM, Microsoft, or any other company offered to contribute to Goodlatte's campaign fund or support him in any other way in exchange for the removal of the CBM provisions.

While American politics is often seen as pay-to-play, especially after the 'Citizens United' decision by the Supreme court, it's important to differentiate situations where there is almost-direct financial ties from situations where it is more a question of political pressure. If some people (i.e. the tech-consuming public) elected to pressure our representatives more than large companies, this bill could have turned out very differently.
Great catch, thanks - we're not pushing the homepage too hard yet :) so my pride isn't too badly hurt. Rolling a replacement soon!
Isn't this a rather blatant sales pitch... err 'inbound marketing'.. for the author's "Online Business Ecosystem paradigm"? (I didn't make that up. It is in the article)

Random Anecdotes. Check. Softsell, some obvious truisms . Check. Throw in a reference to Apple marketing the IPod and tie it into whatever the point being made is. Check.

Why does this marketroid article get so much love on HN?
Today I found out I inadvertently bought an Asus motherboard with a service called "Intel Management Engine Interface" (mei) which "enables remote accessing to the PC including the management, monitoring and maintenance irrespective of the operating system state and PC power state as well".

http://intelmanagementengine.com/intel-technologies/all-abou...

It sounds to me like an official backdoor and I only found out about it because it conflicted with suspend to RAM. I removed the kernel modules for this service but couldn't find a way to disable it in BIOS.

Surprisingly - the product page doesn't contain any information about the presence of MEI whatsoever.

Needless to say, I'm not very happy about it.
You double-posted, about ten minutes apart. HN automatically killed the second post because it was identical to the first (before your edit).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6769490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6769575
So you idolize people who create intangible things that don't make life any better for most people all over the world, but it's wrong for people to create intangible things that you don't approve of. I agree with your disapproval, just not your backwards hero worship.

And if you're going to lampoon anyone who uses "ill-gotten" wealth for philanthropy... I can't see how you'll ever be happy. People do or supervise things you consider "evil," then they turn around and work charitably, but no -- it's gotta be squeaky clean all the way down?

It may be time for a reality check.
I don't count Linus Pauling in the same company as the other three.

While he was the 20th Century's premier chemist, by being both absolutely brilliant, and getting his Ph.D. at just the right time to be the first to apply the then new and not yet completed quantum mechanics to chemistry, his second was the notoriously political Peace Prize, and he got that for being a prominent politically correct scientist at the right time.
You're responding almost entirely to things I didn't say.

> Research and data might make people feel bad, and not making people feel bad is obviously way more important than increasing knowledge.

Not what I said at all, I said the standard for proof should be extremely high. High standards for proof != don't do research (though I admit I should have said so more clearly as I used the example of Summers without condemning what happened to him. He shouldn't have been drummed out for asking the questions.)

> We can discontinue this policy when there is a 50/50 gender split among all STEM workers, educators, and investors.

I assumed that the word "reasonable" was implied in what I was saying. But you're right, some people might propose absurd attempts to bring things in line.

> 1+1=3. Doesn't matter if you can prove that 1+1=2.

First of all, I was commenting on the standard by which we should accept 1+1=3, and which of the two (1+1=3 or 1+1=2) should be our acting hypothesis until we know.

Secondly, I said we should act as if differences are due to bias _until long after_. I was arguing for the default standard, and when it would be acceptable to change the standard. I never said never.

> Yep, unimaginable catastrophes.

Are you actually ignorant of the human history of genocide, dismissal of female person-hood, and racially driven slavery?
Let's not get carried away. Bill Gates is Chairman of the Board of Microsoft. Its not like he is far removed from the company that he used to run.
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A related free service (but not a competitor) is http://rpubs.com/, to which you can publish R scripts, R-markdown files and more using a single mouse click from RStudio.
San Diego isn’t Silicon Valley. And that’s fine by me.
This article reads like those (thankfully) classic evolutionary biology texts.

Or those unthankfully modern evolutionary psychology texts.
Maybe they'll cancel their $9.99/month account!
Because there aren't any other jobs.

The real question is, though, why don't the women get/take such jobs. I think the answer is a mixture of the following: (1) they are worse at such jobs than men (physically weaker and menstruating, which I assume might matter for a job like truck-driving), (2) (I assume) women get more government help, because they are more often (single) mothers and (3) women can play on other qualities (more social, better caregivers, more attractive, less dangerous) that allows them to get other jobs (nanny, waitress, secretary, ...).
Interesting article. I have not seen a lot of quantitative studies on society in general (that is probably personal bias, however).

Is it wrong to say that a lot of the root cause of this is from capitalism? Is socialism a better solution for more complicated societies like the ones we have today?
There is not (edit: much) about Facebook that deserves the label "innovative." It's an entertainment product designed to sell advertising, no different than the Superbowl or American Idol. That's totally fine, of course, the world needs entertainment and I like using Facebook to send pictures of my kid to her grandparents as much as the next guy. I also loved the first four or five seasons of American Idol (it's gone downhill) and have a Superbowl party every year.

I feel like some people in Silicon Valley have this weird investment in the word "innovative." They have this need to justify making tons of money while essentially working in the advertising business. So they label every little engineering advancement "innovation" utterly diluting the word. But why is that necessary? There is nothing wrong about working in the advertising industry, or making a bunch of money selling people entertainment.

But, comparing Facebook to IBM (or even Microsoft) is absolutely laughable. IBM is pushing the boundaries of semiconductor manufacturing, designing new CPUs, building artificial intelligence, etc.

Google does innovate (Glass, cars, etc), but they don't make any money doing so.
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I used to share you pain - lasership was the worst!

Routine non-deliveries that they'd report as delivered, only to have it randomly show up 1-2 days later. Customer service was pretty bad too.
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so youre cool with hitler stealing money as long as he donates it after?
I wondered why the author didn't bring that up either. Just talking about how women are nurturing / expected to be nurturing isn't the whole story. These expectations translate into the idea that women have to be the primary caretakers of their kids, but men do not unless they really want to and decide to go against the grain. And lots of women feel guilty if they are a "bad mother"!
But all of that self righteousness is driving in the direction of lets try to fix the disparity through social change. I'm saying that even if we believe they're going to be wrong, we should try what they propose (in a structured and measurable way).
depends on the screen size... I have an HTC One and looks ok...sometimes I have to turn to landscape mode for a better view...great on tablets though.
Just the site has been redesigned. This is part of Microsoft's larger brand refresh, but we also made sure the site was fully responsive as well.
> it's gotta be squeaky clean all the way down?

Yes. You seem to be implying that this concept is strange or ridiculous, and I don't understand why.
What application do you use to write technical procedures?
I have been writing procedures using Microsoft Word, but I feel I'm limited by the amount of formatting I can do with Word.

Is there anything else out there that is directly geared towards writing procedures, user manuals, step by step tutorials and the like?
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I believe in the future things will be quite clear, without PR manipulated opinions. They will be remembered as sociopaths.
Right, I was implying that even after they said 'no problems, go ahead' (perhaps by opening the discussion about an enterprise plan). My reasoning is because it makes it easier to shift blame for the procurement officer. In the event of a service failure instead of being picked on for hosting a presidential conference for the price of a chipotle, you can blame the company you paid a good amount of money to for their crappy service. Anyhow, glad everything worked out and I'm sure they made up for it in marketing.
That's also an over-simplification.

For example at AWS you can get a fully bidirectional 10gbps link, regardless of what other tenants are doing on the network. Nobody else that I'm aware of can match that. And you'll quickly find that 20TB of bandwidth at those network speeds are nothing, you can cross into petabytes without breaking a sweat (1 petabyte at 50% of bandwidth 24x7 for a month for just one server.) At that kind of network volume bandwidth costs dominate everything (about $65K for an petabyte of bandwidth at Amazon.) I challenge you to beat that anywhere.

Also if you have bursty traffic patterns, AWS comes out a lot cheaper because it's designed around quickly scaling up and down capacity.

In the end it depends on matching a provider to your particular needs because they vary wildy in strengths and weaknesses and costs.
Instagram Is on Windows Phone Store Today at 11AM PT. Would be interesting.
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I got the impression from the blog post that the President's team disabled that feature for fairly obvious reasons (i.e. can't really let 10K+ people chime in). Here:

"Unfortunately the call was marketed and promoted as a “conference call” and questions were invited in advance [...] which does happen to be what Mixlr is intended for [...] However, in the end they didn’t really use it that way nor to the extent of what Mixlr allows and it was just a one-way broadcast." (from the eighth paragraph in)
I am assuming you're changing your vote next time for the Green/Constitution/Libertarian party as well? Since I assume you'll treat the congressmen and their political parties who take the lobbying money the same way you treat the corporation that is giving the bribe.
Riddled with DRM though, so I'd avoid it.
...(well they provide virtual keyboard also if thats the case).

If you assume a key logger, you should also assume a mouse logger that captures a partial screenshot for every mouse click, as well as the possibility of capturing the contents of password fields (malware in the Windows 9x era would iterate through all OS widgets to find password fields and save their contents).
If you're mass murdering without justification in biological/cultural/racial differences, isn't that by definition not a genocide?
These days I find myself afraid that Facebook is going to eat everything and there will be no jobs outside Facebook. Its so easy to setup a Facebook page instead of a website, and it normally has the up-to-date information that people are looking for ("What band is playing on this bar tonight?")

Some of those are also already selling through Facebook and just let their websites die...
Really? The president does a mass mailing to millions of Americans telling them about the conference call, where it is hosted, and how to participate.. and you're concerned about revealing him as a customer? I think only the Swiss are that much of a stickler for privacy.
IP is a universally supported networking protocol. The alternatives seem to be industry-specific or worse.
What if Sony was also in that bunch? Genuinely curious: I had to make a similar decision a year ago, and since Sony had been on my shitlist because of DRM-related prosecutions, I went for the Xbox.
Instead of "voting with dollars" because of companies' lobby groups, why not put your energy into joining EFF or other patent-reform groups?
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But IQ is not that important when we're talking about being successful, making money, or building a good tech tool. Otherwise people with genius IQs would be the only ones ruling our society...but that's definitely not the case.
Kinect and Watson come to mind...
It's called market segmentation, and that by itself isn't a "scandal".
> which I can't wait to get rid of in 2-3 years, once either Ubuntu or Android come into their own as more mature mainstream operating systems.

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It's relatively simple actually. It just what's called a "codon map" to map "codons" (3 letter sequences) to amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), just as ribosomes do in cells. Here's a codon map for example: http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/WO2000052183A1/im...
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This is a good example of clean, well written Go code.

Great job oleiade! This is definitely on my radar.
What do you mean? You're saying that because it was published by Bloomberg?