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Being totally dry/factual could mean that people don't read it and goes all TL;DR.
As bad as Google+ may be, it is still a thousand times better than Facebook and all that Facebook represents. Purely as a social networking site, Google+ in my experiences is much better... it's just that Facebook won in numbers because of network effects + first mover benefit. And I guess I'm one of the few who's been okay with G+ integration? If you don't like it just ignore it, don't go on it.

This little 'fire Vic' piece is silly and immature.
"I noticed that the email address it came from as well as the link went to a GoDaddy registered domain."

Who does a whois lookup on domains from spam emails?
The one problem with doing this is that it causes people reading HN on an iPhone to have to scroll from side to side for every line of text, since preformatted text doesn't word-wrap on small screens.
Chats in Hangouts are searchable.
Maybe they could get free conference passes, or an invitation to a company gathering if they are in the area.
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That is rude!
2+ minutes and yet to see any results. I think that means you owe me a beer... :)

N.B. I searched for "travel"
I claim my free beer. Or at least I would if the contact form worked.
Why you ended with that price?

I am asking because I am considering building one myself, I don't have money to buy one, but I have time to build one (also I cannot buy yours anyway, the shipping alone would cost more than the desk), so I am wondering if I DO manage to build one, if it will end costing a lot too.
BTW: I like Christensen's theories, but I'm not wholly convinced. Interpretation seems too subjective....

I am curious about what YC partners think of Christensen's modularity vs integrated (and his other theories), since they are VCs, in the business of predicting technology. But I've never heard them even discuss it...

Similar for Moore's Crossing the Chasm
Casio is coming out with their first GPS/WWV hybrid watch: http://www.ablogtowatch.com/casio-g-shock-gpw1000-first-watc...
Most of your review seemed to be utilitarian and useful for a second edition. That is awesome, the way you structured it means the author could use a ton of it, and it gives readers specific things to be aware of. Sincere thanks for that.

That said, you first point seemed silly. Simplified, partial and building block examples are used in almost all fields to facilitate teaching (including among medical students and surgeons). They are useful because they keep people moving along the process, teaching them terms, skills and concepts they will need to get to the next step in the process.

What is your alternative method for teaching someone unfamiliar with these concepts in a way that won't just put them out to sea without a paddle?
Lots in the social media space (ad tools, social analytics, crm, big data tools) also in the enterprise space (i.e add-ons for Salesforce, SAP, etc.)
Rather less silly, actually an atomic watch and close to wristwatch size: http://www.ablogtowatch.com/bathys-hawaii-cesium-133-atomic-...

edit: grammar
There's not really anything you can do about an individual spam complaint, aside from telling the end user and having them remove the email from their list (aside from things that are quite obviously spam).

The problem is the 'Report Spam' button is also the 'I no longer wish to receive this email' button to non-technical users. Just because you've received a spam complaint, doesn't mean that it wasn't an opt-in email.

Providers never attempt to verify your email list. If you generate too many spam complaints, you get terminated. It's not feasible for a third party to get a copy of your mailing list, then somehow evaluate how legitimate it is.
I love Scheme. And I love Clojure, which is IMHO Scheme plus some great ideas from Haskell.

I regret there's no Scheme or Clojure running on LLVM, which I think is a much better platform than the JVM. Julia, that resembles Dylan (another Lisp), is the perfect example.
I think that was a joke, suggesting New York is a lair for "ironic" people (I guess).
"DevOps is Ruining My Craft" (2012)
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Investigating the relationship between gold and Bitcoin prices with R.
From the post, arguing against G+ integration in YouTube, he writes,

"Want to post anonymously your crazy trolling stuff or you want to assume your weird troll behavior in front of your family, friends and co-workers"

Umm, pretty sure that's the point. Neither YouTube nor anybody anywhere really wants "crazy trolling stuff". YouTube comments had been perhaps one of the worst places for discussion on the web, second perhaps only to 4chan.
Forever? So people who bought it back then can still drink for free? If you buy it now it only lasts for a year I think.
+1 for NoVa (I am in Arlington)
You can just not use Google+. I like hangouts for what it's worth. I like that you can plugin stuff into it (basically an iframe).

The YouTube change is really sad though. YouTube is stellar in some many ways, but the Google+ integration is definitely a black mark. I'm sorry there are so many trolls on YouTube comments, but I don't want my public activity on YouTube to be visible with my real name. I've since stopped participating in comments, sharing, and uploading, even though I want to participate more. I want to upload game videos I've recorded, but I don't want to do it using my real name and API integration with Google+ pages and Google+ names like on twitch is broken. I still consume content on YouTube, but besides watching I hardly do anything anymore. I don't want a comment I made on a YouTube video to be searchable 20 years from now by someone who uses my real name (an easily searchable name).
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> better products

Better for Google's stakeholders, you mean?
Co-founder of PressFriendly here.

As much I think having a PR pro help you with your pitch is important, I think our machine learning differentiates us from this site and other list-building hacks.

We use machine learning to create custom media lists by comparing the pitch to reporter archives and what they've written over the last 6 months. Everyone else uses simple keyword matching.
https://github.com/dcodeIO/bcrypt.js/blob/master/src/bcrypt....
No, none of the description in this guide applies to UEFI. The UEFI firmware loads its bootloader as a PE binary from a FAT filesystem, not a binary blob from sector 0, and the CPU is already in 32- or 64-bit mode. The interface for calling firmware routines is also completely different.

This is a decent equivalent guide for UEFI:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-programming/hello.html
The last time I looked for a senior sysadmin -- less than a year ago -- I didn't get anyone who was comfortable programming in Perl/Python/Ruby until I started using the term DevOps. [1] via TFA

Ah, now I understand DevOps. Well, the sysadmin who can personally automate his job through programming--this is very productive person.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593681
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So all you have to do is change society so that people want to treat all income as equally taxable. Simples!
Where is the wasted time? I think foreign tourists get hung up on calculating the tax themselves, so they know how much the bill will be, while most Americans just pay the total that gets rung up.
It's good to stick up for people. It's less good to be thin-skinned on someone else's behalf.

Here, your attitude causes two problems.

First, you know and apparently like Kyle Isom, and so I presume you're also ready to tell me that he's an adult and a professional. Professionals do one of three things with criticism: ignore it, rebut it, or learn from it. My assumption has been that Kyle is choosing options (1) and (3) from that list. But here you are, inventing option (4): "get indignant about it". I wonder if you've thought about the extent to which people will attribute that response not to you, but to Isom.

Second, whatever you might think about the tone of my feedback, it's clear that Isom needs additional technical review for his book. Whipping up a totally unproductive us-versus-them narrative about "jerks" versus "open source" does the opposite: it generates drama. Even if you think my review was itself dramatic, piling more drama on doesn't make Isom's work more attractive to experts.

I'm not sure how big of a deal either of these issues are, but they're a bad habit for message board denizens. The exact same thing happened to Willem when he wrote his critique of the Akamai allocator, and Hacker News had a totally unproductive drama storm for a couple hours before Akamai (a) thanked Willem and (b) acknowledged that he was absolutely correct. Read the Akamai comments on the HN thread, and apply them here, substituting "Kyle Isom" for "Akamai", and I think you'll see that they apply.

Finally, I'll admit to being personally irritated by the claim that I operate from "experts only" logic with regards to cryptography. There are at last count something like twelve thousand people who have reached out to us for our free crypto challenges, and thousands of those people have gone on to solve multiple sets of challenges (something like 60 people have finished the first 6). Every damn one of those people is an email exchange that me, Sean, or Marcin had to have directly, on our own time, with no compensation --- the opposite of compensation, in fact, because we donate to charity when people finish them.

There are a lot of people on the Internet to whom you could direct the "experts only elitism" criticism regarding crypto. I am not one of them.

What's more annoying about that bogus critique is how it muddles a real issue. I'd like many more people to understand crypto and, particularly, what goes wrong when it's implemented naively. But I'd like far fewer people to plow ahead and implement their own broken stuff. The track record on amateur cryptography is bad, and what developers don't like to acknowledge is that the badness that work generates is an externality to them. People have in the real world been hurt, physically, because of broken amateur crypto. It is hard for me to take the hurt feelings of developers all that seriously by comparison.
But working from their coffee shop is? I would think a "good customer" to them is someone you walks in, buys coffee, and then leaves. Sure it helps that you probably meet people there (expanding their reach) but a half dozen people setting up camp in your coffee shop all day can't be ideal.
For phones? it already is.

For the desktop? it's always "next year"
All this integration is even more frustrating if you own an Android device. Sending a Google Hangout invite to my mobile device when I'm sitting in front of my laptop ready to go? Whyyyyyy?

I understand this can be disabled, but this was a terrible design decision in favor of G+ brand of cross-platform integration.
I can attest to Nokia's older smartphones being extremely easy to work on. I had a N8 till about 2 months ago. With 2 screwdrivers (Cant recall atm but it was either a t4 and t5 or a t5 and t6) I could completely tear it down and replace just about anything I wanted to in about 2 minutes. Charge port gone bad? No need to solder a new one in place just drop a new one in place. That phone was awesome to work on.

I have yet to dig into my 1020 seeing as it is still under warranty.
Beer timeout here as well. I only accept beer in person, however. Give me a shout when you are in SF, and best of luck!
If I think the spammer is legitimate enough that a complaint will make it harder for them to spam, I do.
FWIW, I liked the colors, but totally misinterpreted them (I assumed the color represented a single value on a gradient, rather than two channels), and I almost missed the "next page" link at the bottom

I also thought it would be better to have the starting point inside the convex hull or the ending point higher behind it, so that the algorithm would look further than 1 square in the counter-heuristic directions. As it is, the heuristic was exactly correct about the length of the final path, it just happened to start searching to the right instead of starting straight down.
#1 reason why I think they should not fire Vic Gundotra: all of this is most likely not Gundotra's fault, but Larry Page's fault. Gundotra was VP of engineering before and then he was VP of...social, or whatever that department is called now. I don't think he wanted the job, but most likely given to him to clean up the Android leadership structure a bit (I think Andy Rubin was answering to him rather than directly to Larry Page back then), and to put one of their more experienced leaders in charge of this major and critical (from their perspective) project for Google. Maybe he wanted it in the same that he wanted to "prove his worth" with a new major project, but I doubt he seeked out a social project.

#2 reason why they should not fire Vic Gundotra: I really like him, ever since he gave that Google I/O keynote in 2010 [1]. I thought he gave a Steve Jobs level of keynote, and it's still the most exciting Google I/O I saw in recent years. When Eric Schmidt announced his retirement from CEO position, I was hoping Gundotra would get the job, actually.

Kill Google+ if they must, but I think firing Gundotra would be a big mistake.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3U2GXhz44
I don't know if the following were on the front page when you visited or if fitztrev has added them based on comments, but the front page now addresses height and shipping costs (which probably bring the cost more into the range that you're used to). There are also small cubes of the different finishes. I agree that it would be nice if the photos indicated which finishes were shown.

- "To ensure the proper height, we will contact you after your order to get your height."

- "We are currently offering FREE SHIPPING to the lower 48 states."
Not everyone who doesn't want their real name associated with comments is a troll. Forcing real names isn't the solution. I don't want my boss or members of my family to know I spend 40 hours a week playing games like DayZ and commenting and liking videos where bandits are making awful jokes about breaking people's legs and leaving them stranded in the middle of a forest in gruesome video games. There's nothing wrong with liking horror or survival games but not everyone needs to know that's my thing.
While reading your review, one of the main criticisms seems to be that the it's not made sufficiently clear that the code as written is insecure.

In keeping with the philosophy of being hands on; would the book be improved if after introducing the code in the first section, have the reader implement an exploit for the same code?
This is pretty much a good article on DevOps. In my words i see DevOps as a bridge spanning the kernel, systems, networks, qa, packaging, and deployment. for a highly optimal system all these need to be planned for with care and attention. DevOps is a tough and long learning to be good at.
Buying QNX was the true brilliant move on Blackberry's part, it is a very strong platform IMO. Their downfall has been a failure to think laterally on how to leverage it outside of what their core market was. They are now being forced to do that and I think it will work very well for them if it hasn't come too late. I very much want to see them succeed.
Correct in this case, but you could use a simple CSV to get World Bank data as well.
It's not that I don't think that staticly typed code isn't advantageous. It's that it seems to often impede finding better abstractions by locking our thinking around local minima.

'a . 'b -> 'b

Is a great place for a procedure to end up in production code. Yet, it's not necessarily a great place for me to start because I'm lazy and might try to force

'c . 'd -> 'd

into working kludgetasticly simply because like most people I find it hard not to love my own ideas, and inertia makes it easy to stick with them even when I might find better alternatives.

Static typing, like any heuristic, does well in some situations and poorly in others. The bad thing isn't that it's not a free lunch. The bad thing is thinking that it is.

The same of course is true for dynamic typing and strong typing and duck typing and Haskell and Lisp. Though I'm not sure that Lisp was ever intended to prove anything as a programming language [1] in the way that Haskell was, which might explain why after 50 years we can graft enough onto it to argue about its comparison to Haskell.

[1] As distinct from it's invention as a mathematical formalism for describing lambda calculus.
I'm sure there are several services out there that send you a monthly amount of beers, preferably different kinds and whatnot. If not, that needs to be a thing, :D.
Is there a problem with the page?

I only see 3 startups, and they are hardly amazing...
I don't know if fireing Vic Gundotra is helping, but I definitly agree with all the other points. How Google is trying to forcing us into G+ is just too much and annoying... And I think they harm themself with ranking pages better if they integrate G+...
It was my understanding that Google + was created to tie Google products together.
The main purpose of this was to stop Google getting in trouble for recommending its own services in search results.

I quite like Google +, it does need work but I don't see it going away any time soon.
I'm not disagreeing. I'm just pointing out that a critic is much less useful than an author.
If you missed it, there's a pretty rad standing desk on Kickstarter right now that has some nifty, discreet power controls. $399.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2036834894/the-most-aff...
How is this different from just searching the news with your favorite search engine?
> instant coffee

Begone, plebe! :p
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Chromebooks (with either Google Drive or Office Online) are as work-worthy as Windows RT devices. Both are perfectly capable if your work only entails answering emails, browsing the web, and light word processing. If you need to do anything that isn't possible in a web-app, you'll quickly find yourself turning to a different device.
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Isn't so hard if you've seen the email address before. Hashing an email somewhat of a joke in the industry.
The c1.xlarge referenced in the article, which has more disk than c3.xlarge, really doesn't have room for OS cache unfortunately. You can try experimenting with lowering heap, to leave more for the OS, but we found that HBase needed all we could give it or risk OOM.

I haven't used c3.xlarge in production, because it has so much less disk. But for that reason you could probably get away with less heap in the RS, leaving more for the OS. However, keep in mind that the HBase block cache is optimized for HBase use case, whereas OS cache is not. There have been some profiles done, and block cache usually performs better -- http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/12/hbase-profiling.htm... for example. So I would value that over OS cache on a low memory system.

The ideal, in my opinion is i2.4xlarge. You can give 25GB heap, which is manageable with java7's G1 GC, giving plenty of block cache, and still have 100GB to split between the DataNode and OS cache, or anything else you want to run. I'll cover that in another post.
You're going to reverse a bitcoin transaction on some cookies you bought? That, sir, makes you a jerk.
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You are correct. Perhaps I did not make my point clear. If you publicly post pictures of your new Porsche and your newly remodeled kitchen and claim that you only made $10k last year, why should that not be cause for the IRS to take a deeper look? You do not, by definition, have any expectation of privacy in that scenario. If you sent the picture of your new ride in a private message, that is a different story.
I don't know if they were there before. In any case, those things should be front and center, especially the free shipping. Those are great selling points.
US$1500 for something that we cobble together here in Cambodia from rubbish because we don't have any money?

You have rubbish from an industrial collapse? We have rubbish from a fucking genocide! Now THAT is furniture with a story!

We are happy to sell you standup desks built from wood from french colonial Indochina for US$1500. Our new office is being renovated from such a building.

But if you want a REAL story, we have a premium standup desk made from reclaimed wood from work camps run by the Khmer Rouge for US$3000.

For US$5000 you get bullet holes.
I would argue that relying on Javascript to display what ought to be a simple static site is the problem here, but I also agree that perhaps the plugins ought to recognize what's going on and allow that JS to run.
This question was asked at the tech conference yesterday, and they may clarify it in the MDK [0] but the project team seemed to downplay this aspect, preferring to pitch the idea of a "low cost mobile phone for the next billion users."

Still, the modules can be emitters (ie., BT/ZigBe modules) although they were unclear about how module developers would get these certified. And I guess no one is stopping you from adding cables to a module, but the UniPro based and M-PHY current specs wouldn't get you very far... 10cm cable perhaps?

[0] http://www.projectara.com/mdk/
$45 per month? I get free coffee at work.

Well, I do now, they only recently changed the coffee machines to ones that produce drinkable coffee. Before that I'd spend money to get decent coffee, probably far more than this service is offering. Starbucks etc in this country charge much more for regular coffee, probably due to a much lower volume / amount sold.
Bitcoin was never designed for instant confirmation. The sooner everyone involved realizes this, the better.
I used this service while I was in Israel, and it's really amazing. CUPS pays the coffeeshops for each cup you consume, so the shops treat you like a real customer, not like a "groupon" customer. Honestly the biggest benefit is the spontaneity of it all "should I get coffee? eh fuck it why not."
I've been using H&R Block's "At Home" software (the product previously known as "TaxCut") for over a decade without major complaints. ~$50 (the "Deluxe" edition + State + State filing fee) and about two hours of my time for a moderately complex joint return seems fair to me.
Windows 8 is all about having a proper touchscreen driver - what do you mean?
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It's almost like a practical Mozart/Oz with all Lisp awesomeness. CTM shows how programming with many different paradigms can be extremely powerful.
It's just a euphemism for 'engineer'.
That's still quite a bit of work - there are some projects I'd do that for, but if (for instance) an IRC bot was having an issue, I doubt I'd bother if submitting a bug required writing a new test, and submitting a PR.