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Rant: Is LinkedIn Trying To Take Over My Life?
It's just past noon, and I've already received FIVE e-mails from LinkedIn today:

1. Job anniversaries from my network
2. Who's viewing my profile
3. An invitation to try LinkedIn Ads
4. LinkedIn Pulse (more network updates)
5. New jobs in my area

Damn. Yes, I'm sure I can (and will) opt-out of any or all of these, but what kind of default is it to bombard customers with so many e-mails? It's insane really. Also comes off a bit self-important and arrogant.

I sort of subconsciously noticed a creeping increase in communications from them, but it really just hit me today. That may be because I just realized yesterday that I was getting actual "Likes" and comments on a new profile photo I uploaded. Why are they trying to be Facebook? That's not why I signed up.

It started as a good idea, but they've layered on crap that takes my time/focus and adds no value, given its purported purpose. Why do I need to know or congratulate someone for being on their job another year? Why do I care that they updated their profile pic? At least 75% of the updates via e-mail and their "feed" are 100% useless and seem like weak excuses to somehow keep me connected to LinkedIn.

And now, 5 e-mails by midday. It occurs to you at some point that this is meta-stuff. It's technology run amok and an example of a service that at some point started to require more from you than you get from it. You're no longer working or networking. Instead, you're spending your time managing LinkedIn and possibly paying them for the honor.

Maybe I'm a bit crusty today, but too many things are working to insinuate themselves into our lives these days and trying to demand our attention. It's especially off-putting when a service like LinkedIn positions itself as a must-have for professionals, people buy into the notion, then the service begins to morph and "take over".

Maybe it's time to unplug and link out.
I can't speak for hendzen, but your suggestion that women avoid tech because they're not as thick-skinned as men -- as opposed to being constantly exposed to hostility -- can easily be perceived as offensive. It sounds like you're propagating the myth that women are delicate flowers who just aren't as tough as men, which is part of what allows men to continue getting away with bad behavior.
What you are alluding to sounds like it may have it's roots in the Dunning-Kruger effect. I can't seem to find it in the article, but I seem to recall there was also some research done that found people that were considered highly skilled in one area tended to over estimate their skill in many other areas. Anecdotally speaking, I can confidently say that as programmers, we love to do just this!

If anyone knows the research I am referring to, I'd love to look at it again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
This sounds like a fantastic book. I only wish that I had thought about this before. I want one for my kids and for my niece and nephew.

It is sad that both sides of the gender gap here have decided to make this book about gender. No one made this article out about people and they great things we can accomplish. I'm disappointed.
I'm not sure where you make up your data from, but if that's the case, you might be going into a lot of low end data centers.

http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/idc-server-market-slowi...
This was going to be my comment as well.. better to detach the elements, and put them into a queue to remove completely in a timer loop... this way cleanup happens out of band.

I worked on a rather large extjs app, and IE was particularly bad about cleaning up dom objects with events attached, leading to memory leaks so bad that IE <= 8 would need to be reloaded a couple times a day. Firefox at the time was much better, and chrome was really new (so was IE8 at the time).

jQuery is good about keeping track of events and properly cleaning up, but it is expensive... though it's easy enough to .find('> *') and detach them, pushing those items into a cleanup queue.
Yes, mining is tricky, risky business, too much so for my blood. But, I think some find ways to ROI.

But, you know, a merchant wouldn't stop selling pickaxes during a gold rush, just because the customer isn't profiting. I wouldn't expect online retailers too either.
I think the answer to these types of question is usually pretty easy if you just put yourself in your users' shoes. What would you want the company to do if you were the user. Do that.
No need to wonder - you can see a picture of the man-portable Mk-54 SADM here:

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

Mind you, it's a pretty big thing to carry, but one man could carry it.
https://pledge.immunityproject.org/
As wearable devices hit the market, apps are sure to follow
It sounds like you may have been reading the anti-vaccination propaganda.
It most certainly is unpleasant, for the parent and for the child. One thing that helps is to keep it mind what the alternative is - having your child actually getting the disease.

One of my middle school classmates (from India) had leg deformities from polio, and could not walk without the help of crutches. He couldn't participate in most school activities, and was teased often. I wasn't able to find out why he wasn't vaccinated, but he was from a wealthy family so we always assumed they were in the anti-vaccination camp. Can you imagine being in his place? He has to suffer for his entire life because of a dumb decision that his parents made.

BTW I realize that polio vaccination does not require painful injections, but just pointing out that there are severe downsides to not vaccinating your child. Most certainly severe than a few jabs.
Agreed and disagreed.

It's not healthy to be permanently offended, but presenting an idea and being told that it isn't good (by someone presenting no alternative) or that you have ulterior motives (by readers of a website directed to startups of all things) isn't something someone should need to deal with.
Location-based services: Controversy at every level
Tweetbot changed iPhone user behaviour with one simple gesture
Are there usability reasons for a dark text on a light background being default in almost all editors?
Perhaps, but this is a very necessary stepping stone to direct adoption of BTC. Even if Coinbase and the like are processing a majority of transactions, more users means less instability, which is probably the currency's single worst problem right now.
6 rules to simplify a complex workplace
Seriously, what the fuck with the title change this time? Is the term "strip tease" offending, really? There used to be a Belgian-French television show called just like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip-Tease_%28TV_series%29
It's not calling the git command that's problematic, it's calling an external command at all. So you pretty much have to recode the hot part in another language, where you just manipulate buffers instead of piping stuff around.
How heavily does the project depend on obtaining correct target epitopes from Heckerman's protein Gibbs free energy simulation?

Is there a chance that HIV won't be controlled even if we can induce the immune system to be capable of targeting some of the peptide sequences that controllers often target? (i.e., might there be something else at work in controllers?)

Thanks for working on an important project!
"hoax" seems like way too charged of a word.

But I don't understand the intellectual condescension towards people who are skeptical about a theory that claims to not only predict the future behavior of an entire planet's climate but also how much one element of the planet (humans) impacts the climate.
double post prevention.

Today I ended up with something getting double posted and this struck me as odd since it was always such a basic feature on many other community services such as forums. In the past I also recall being shadow-banned temporarily for a double post.
Yes. Google does not take into account "viral" jumps in it's prediction algorithm for long term search popularity... they just simply "extend the line". Makes perfect sense. I forgot Google was run by middle school engineers.
Anyone who is mining with GPUs isnt mining Bitcoin, their mining the various other cryptocurrencies (known as altcoins) that use the scrypt hashing algorithm, Such Litecoin.

See here the profitability of scrypt based coins, hint: It's alot

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
It really depends on the role within IT you're considering: software development, system administration, project management, network analyst, support technician, database admin, etc.

What kind of role are you looking for?
Thanks for explaining that. I wasn't sure why it it would matter to Kid #1 if Kid #2 had the mumps, as long as Kid #1 was vaccinated.
I'm a parent, I have a sibling who is a parent, and friends with kids. I don't know a parent who wasn't aware that there are side effects to vaccination; any time a doctor does anything to your infant, you're going to be asking questions and they're going to be overcommunicating, and a mild fever after vaccination is an extremely common side effect.

I'm definitely dancing to the Dr's office with my kids to get them vaccinated (when scheduled). There are a lot of vaccines early on, which makes sense, because little kids are highly vulnerable. It eases up as they get older; it's been years since either of my kids got jabbed.
Seems like lot of comments have concerns with the programming part, so here is my view why indirect approaches can be also important:

When we started Rails Girls with Linda, we saw that there were plenty of programming workshops, books and education available. We didn't want to create one more. Instead we focused on creating easy, one-day workshop to get you to try and see what programming and technology is about, while also building your first sample application and getting meet the local tech scene. After the workshop we tell the people that you now have all the tools and contacts you need for programming or creating something. It's up to you to learn more.

The important part was that all these people (probably thousands at this point) got over the first step and of whom many wouldn't have touched programming otherwise.

In the same way I don't think this book should be about teaching programming that much, but more as creating stories and personalities for technologies to peak interest. Children's interest usually leads to questions and to more interest. You can then use that energy, answer the questions, teach more and extend the workbook exercises to more challenging things. You can also use those characters as a basis to explaining the technology world or talking about what you do for living.

The point is that when you're trying to get a new demographic interested, you need to find a way to get them over the first step, which is to get them involved and getting them interested. The earlier this happens, the better.

Why project like this and the Goldie Box are important, is that they create a story, a world and excitement around technology, for those who might miss or haven't found their innate interest yet.
A CSP implementation for C is likely large and complex.

A shell script that runs a few `sed` commands isn't.
> By your definition, computers should be terrible at Air Traffic Control, Driving Cars, Logistics Planning, and even playing Chess.

All of these are problems with complete information.

Chess is a solved game, however you can't analyze the whole problem quickly enough to cover it all.

Driving a car, a computer can have access to all relevant data--far more than a human. Sure, new data can be introduced, but the computer can pick it up and handle it as quickly as a human.

Poker is a better example of a problem with incomplete information--and computers do NOT excel at it. They do play excellent heads-up limit, which is more-or-less a solved game. They play much-less-excellent heads up no-limit, and they certainly don't approach new situations in a novel manner. The same goes for full table games.

I would expect computers to be very good at all the tasks you mentioned, and mediocre (but trainable) at those like poker. I expect that this, too, will change in the future, when we manage to invent better ways to handle incomplete information, especially if there's a rapid feedback loop.
Q: playing with http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/#map there seems to be pretty significant Measles presence in Europe although (aside from the UK) I'm not aware of any specific anti-vaccination movement and there's no whooping cough and only localised mumps (greece, a pair of outbreaks in Germany, the Netherlands or the iberic peninsula) and rubella (Poland, Romania) clusters. For instance, aside from (the significant) 15000 cases of mumps France is completely free of vaccine-preventable outbreaks. So are Italy, Switzerland or Belgium.

Given mumps is endemic in much of the developing world, especially northern india, pakistan and sub-saharan africa, could the measles outbreak in much of europe be in (unvaccinated and potentially partially contaminated) immigrant communities rather than a specific anti-vaccination movements?
TigerDirect is a "has-been" company? Do you live under a rock?
Why Google Wants to Give You 101 Alternatives to .Com
Thank you. "An analysis of 32000 Californians over 11yrs. found the a cellular pertussis VAX to be 53-64% effective."-NY times
Than put more programmable constructs into Minecraft-like games, obviously. And no, Redstone doesn't count - stuff that celebrates ease of coding, not difficulty.
This is based on a report by the Council on Foreign Relations. Members include:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Chevron Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., McKinsey & Company, Inc., Bridgewater Associates, LP, Kingdon Capital Management, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co...... and the list goes on.

http://i.cfr.org/content/about/annual_report/ar_2012/AR2012_...
That's a large part of talking about doge though.
Right now I am a Windows sysadmin with a lot of support experience, looking in to furthering windows experience and hopefully get some project management or network stuff to expand my skillset and stuff.

Thanks for the reply
+1 where it makes sense.. however this doesn't work well with a modular application, and could lead to a lot of higher level handlers/listeners.

I think the more expensive cost is cleanup, or lack of proper cleanup leading to memory leaks... I'll usually detach nodes to cleanup, and put them into a queue that's run in a setTimeout loop... that way they don't slow down the UI.
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Now it's "Who cares, it's all for publicity".
> How would you like to be largely invulnerable to XSS? No matter if someone managed to trick your server into writing <script>alert(1);</script>, have the browser straight up refuse it?

I don't quite get how this header makes you invulnerable to XSS, would someone mind explaining?

It seems like it only prevents XSS attacks from loading remote javascript files. What's to stop the attacker from just injecting the entire script inline? If you can get a small piece of javascript to execute you should be able to get a larger piece to execute just fine.

I can see how it makes XSS more inconvenient, but I don't understand how it makes you largely invulnerable to it.
From their FAQ (at the page bottom):

### If this vaccine candidate is so promising, why can’t you get enough funds for it from government and foundation grants?

We’ve spoken to many parties and some seem interested, but do not believe this is the best route for us at this time. The landscape is highly political, and most bodies are focused on creating a neutralizing antibody vaccine. Anytime a product completely novel and innovative enters this space, it is extremely difficult to obtain early adopter. Given the extreme toll HIV/AIDs is taking on many communities around the world, we must move swiftly. We are confident these groups will come around down the road, but we do not want to wait.
True, but I subscribe to the belief that if I sign up for something online I should be able to cancel online.
It happened to me almost every day for a month, then I got a new phone.
Working great with vagrant+VirtualBox here on Windows. I initially set it up to try out the CTF docker image, but it's working fine straight out of the precise64 box (+ an apt-get git)
Are you insane? If there was any credible science to contradict the climate change hypothesis, it would absolutely be funded. There are trillion dollar industries with massive vested interests in climate change not being a real thing.

I can't say for certain how corrupt or not the climate science community is. I can say for certain that there isn't a lot of money in being a scientist.
I think you may have responded to the wrong comment...
Windbg extension for VM traffic manipulation and analysis
Vaccine does have some pretty heavy side effects though. The worst being an evolutionary pressure against stable virus, leading them to evolve towards instability, causing future virus to be much more severe (as in HIV like)
I agree about a constitutional convention ... trouble is, that sword cuts both ways. It's a great opportunity for those you agree with to get major changes through ... but it's a great opportunity for those you disagree with.
Have you read "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War" - I found that a lot more alarming than Command and Control (although I agree that Command and Control is an excellent book).
They also hide on the FreedomPop Premier page that after the first month those "free" ($20 value mind you) offerings cost you $9.99 each month after the first one. They make the "Continue" button huge and the "I don't want free stuff" continue link much smaller.

I would definitely say there are Dark Patterns in use by FreedomPop. Caveat Emptor.
It's been a looooong time since I fiddled with the Quake 2 source, but I remember the basics.

1) Yep, it's easiest to compile on Windows, I think. Not sure about Linux, but I recall that the projects were Visual Studio based.

2) I don't think you'll find replacements for the official data files. The easiest way to get hold of the official ones is to buy Quake 2 on Steam, which is instant, then download the data there. Alternatively it's also available to buy on Amazon, still.
I really don't get how it's so awesome. I have SwiftKey on my android phone and it's never been faster for me to swipe Type vs just tape type with my phone. The predictions are some much easier and cause much less friction than trying to swipe everywhere. Can someone who really loves swipe keyboard explain?
Well, Google is working on integrating Bitcoin into Google Wallet. Do you consider them a "has-been" too?
Not really, nope. Very small user base here comparatively. LINE and KakaoTalk were huge in Korea when I was there last but when I came here no one had even heard of them.
Sounds like a dark pattern.
Don't dodge criticism by retroactively changing the meaning of what you said. We all know damned well the major lack of diversity in programming is the lack of women.

Rather affirm that this is exactly part of what you were saying [1]. I'll one-up you: indeed, the chance of a male writing such a book is much smaller than the chance of a female writing such a book. Acting as if gender wouldn't influence choice of content and style is ridiculous.

And before anyone jumps on my back: I'm telling it like it is, which implies nothing about how I think that it should be.

[1] Why would 'diversity' be a good thing, if not for the fact that it results in, you know, more diversity? Differences in the input result in differences in the output.
Our Looking Glass aircraft(EC-135C) flew 24x7 for many years with 2 launch officers. They could launch the minuteman missiles from the air and didn't require NCA approval. It also could contact the subs via LF/VLF and tell them to launch.

Their mission assumed DC and SAC HQ were already taken out.
Will a larger iPhone cannibalize the iPad?
Martians MAY have helped Snowden too!
Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is Hacker News.
Ultimately unvaccinated people put the whole community at risk by reducing herd immunity. For pertussis the threshold is over 90% for prevention assuming that 100% of the population is immunized. If 10% are not immunized then your already behind for a disease with high transmission rates.
Whenever I read the words "herd immunity" my eyes roll over.
It sure feels good to be a free loader every once in a while. And let's not forget that medicine is not engineering or mathematics. I 've met quite a few doctors and my impression is that their average IQ does not compare very favorably with that of coders or engineers. And let's not forget that the medical profession has a very long history of suppressing inconvenient truths or adopting a condescending attitude towards anyone who dare challenge their authority. Plus when I pay a "doctor", I expect him to advise me what's best for me, in my narrow little case, not what's best for the society as a whole. But then again I suppose that if the Government wants me to take those shots it must be for my own good, right? I mean, who am I to decide what chemicals and "weak" viruses get injected into my own body?
BBC:How India acid attack victim found love
The click through from the LA Times:
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/vaccine-preventa...
But if I was setting up a playdate for my kids from someone who ordered pizza from the same place as a hitman...
Good, good, good. More of this. Inspiring children to learn how to solve problems is very important. I don't know if it'll work out or not but we certainly need more people that try.

That robot-parent programming in the gym blog post was one of the more inspiring posts I read in the last couple of years.
On the contrary, I'm very glad that HN is as critical as it is. Is it the Only Correct Worldview? Absolutely not, and if you rely primarily on HN to forge your opinion of tech and startups and programming, you're going to be very cynical and blasé.

I'm sure that if Donald Knuth posted a "Show HN: I've been writing a book called The Art of Computer Programming", half of the comments would be negative (a fair lot of them would likely be about programming isn't an "art" and how it's preposterous to call it one). And so what? Again, I don't see this as a problem unless you hold HN to be some sort of ultimate source of information and discussion, which it is absolutely not.

But given how insufferably pompous SV culture can be at times ("Yeah we're changing the world with our totally rad app, and building the most amazing engineering team in the world"), I actually find it refreshing how comments on HN will try to pick anything apart and find whatever flaws it may have. It can be borderline ridiculous at times, but honestly so is everything else.

tl;dr if you're sick of HN, you're probably spending too much time on it
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I think we're roundly into stage 2 now.
Then I don't really know what to tell you. It sounds to me like "talking about Doge" is a euphemism for "spamming".
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I am alarmed by how difficult it is to get a consensus on this matter that should be able to be put to rest via empirical data. As a side effect impotence in regard to rationally approaching the vaccination issue, we have people with a lot of power on both sides, saying the exact opposite thing, which hints at a far more systemic issue with the way that some people seem to approach problems today. Are we incapable of having rational approaches to real and lethal issues in the world? I worry about where else in our national psyche this type of thought process has leaked into...