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During my one year at Google, the problem with the most complaints by far on memegen is Android L's "safety lock," requiring an extra swipe up before entering the unlock code.

This is an edict from the design team, which engineering brainstorming cannot overcome. Furthermore, the majority of engineers cannot implement a solution even if they cared to try: they lack permission to access the development Android source repository.

Maybe it's different in other product areas, but from where I sit, the atmosphere you describe feels like a myth that Googlers tell each other, and not part of its culture today.
Not sure what you're on about, the side-bar has the data about female labor force participation that you claim is missing (2000-2013):

74% - 69% US

71% - 79% Germany

69% - 76% France

etc.

So what we have is not anecdote vs. data, but conflicting data sets.
It's not the idealized free market that libertarians jack off to, but it is definitely a market.
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Very neat! One minor nit - I didn't know which one of the line was me and died on my very first move...
When you had a Supreme Court justice (Ginsburg) in your readership, you had political influence.
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>The huge error that Eastman made was to keep the same month-names for the other months.

The problem is, you'll find, that naming things is an incredibly political act. Agreeing on a new name for anything is a terribly complicated process, and when you're talking about something every single person has a stake in... well, it would have never happened. He tried very skillfully to bypass all that, and basically succeeded.

No, his mistake was to underestimate the clout that religious tradition still had on large sectors of the ruling elites. Even now, when we pride ourself in the "scientificness" and rationality of our societies, we're still enslaved by stories written by agrarian priests at the dawn of civilization -- in many ways, it's worse now because nobody would even entertain proposals as bold as modernizing a system we've been using, almost unchanged, for two millennia, no matter how broken it might be.
Exactly. I LOVE his weekly (well, when he's on...) 15 or so minute examination/attack of an important political or social issue. I may not always agree, but I find I come away with a better understanding of an issue and a few good laughs.
Considering that phthalates are banned in toys that children put in the mouth in the EU it may be a good idea to think about water containers for kids too.

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/internal_market/singl...
The US is the world's largest economy, roughly 70% larger than China in fact.

I saw an article recently that would contradict your assertion:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-overtakes-us-as-worlds-l...
Of course they don't need to hear that; it's pretty much a given. Their superiority is well-established at this point.
red lights on his head (“boosts mitochondrial function,” he says)

This seems to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoencephalography (in case you are going "What?", as I was). His company sells a machine for it.
>How is the moon's phases important in agriculture?

traditional agriculture uses the moon to determine what to plant when.

i'm not saying this actually makes a difference (altho it might, considering the moon does influence sea levels and hence how water flows through the system), just that it's what agriculture is traditionally based on.
I don't play games period, just wanted to show my support.
Just to clarify: by "worse than him" they meant more extremist, nationalistic and illiberal.
Security isn't just about protecting you from eavesdropping or data theft. Its about protecting the integrity of your content. ISPs and wifi hotspots can mitm you and inject advertisements and or otherwise modify the content of your website in midstream. No security means there is no assurance that the page you are looking at is the page you intended to see. I'm sure your church doesn't want parishioners complaining about ads for porn showing up on your website just because they accessed it at a sketchy internet cafe.

And no security isn't inherently bad, but a browser warning doesn't have to be judgmental, it just has to be informative. Warning for a bad cert or a self-signed cert but not displaying any warning for an unsecured connection is misleading, as it implies an unsecured connection is more secure than a self signed cert. By warning in some cases the browser has taken responsibility for providing information about connection security, it should do the best job it can at that, and that should mean warning users that unsecured connections are unsecured.
IMO, what algebra and programming have in common is simply abstraction, so people in the mindset of recognizing patterns to which abstraction can be applied tend to do better as programmers / automation engineers in general.
if I wanted a summary from a non HN user I would've gone there. I think people often miss the importance of someone summarizing it in their own words on a network.
Well there's that, and there's the fraternities. MIT, in my experience of having lived in Cambridge, is very much "work hard, play hard" for its undergrads.
Thanks for the advice and I did not know about the EA spounse scandal.
Actually that's an incredibly terrible idea.
You see single base-pair (and other) errors are very common during DNA replication. By having a lot of "useless" (allegedly) zones in our DNA, decreases, statistically speaking, chances of that error occurring in more important areas.
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Both?

Or a separate category?

Any grouping system would let you do both.
Call up graphicsmagick - either through spawning processes or binding to the library. All of those are solved problems, so if you don't have time/inclination to learn how they're solved, just use something that already did :)
Interesting but in Norwegian. Google translate for those who haven't picked up Norwegian yet: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Isn't Mandreel just another Emscripten style test that avoids the garbage collector in favor of typed arrays?

I think we definitely need some GC throughput/latency benchmarks in the standard suites.
I find that Firefox is currently faster for everything except 3D stuff. It may be a driver thing (nvidia on Linux).
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This sounds like a good idea and a step on the right direction. However working in the embedded world, no one has yet created a system for using https that does not involve a lot of complex steps to prevent the browser from warning of an insecure link.

It would be nice if all browers worked more like Firefox where it is easier to add exceptions.

Going forward I can imagine the conversion I am going to get, "why does the brower say that my traffic controller is insecure?"
I would add "The Music of Life" by Denis Noble to that.
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" Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
1984
yea, good point. With this analysis, it is difficult to conclude that format is the "reason" the show is popular.

What would be helpful is to break out all of the success levers mentioned on the article (format, length, etc), and compare Serial to other shows, for each leaver.

Would love to see that next...
An HP. Read all about it right from the ugly horse's mouth.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c0176416...

I love how the "small percentage of older HP ink supplies" is a list of printers as long as my arm.
It is not crazy to want your money to go to companies that treat their employees humanely. This article literally describes instances of slave labor: farmers receiving just barely the necessities of survival and forcefully detained in work camps where food is witheld from anyone who chooses to work. To argue that the best solution is to create a more perfect market is bullshit. These practices are wrong, immoral, criminal and need to be forcefully stopped by the Mexican government. And when the government is ineffective, American consumers need to demand that companies actively ensure that they are not part of the problem.

These people go hungry day to day, and your solution is Yelp for Mexican farms? These people don't have internet connected devices, and if they did they wouldn't have internet. They don't have running water! The article discusses the uselessness of the courts for redressing these problems. A Mexican ACLU is a non-starter when Mexico's courts are disfunctional.

Strange article for a Libertarian crowd? Because Libertarians like to pretend everything in the world is rainbows and butterflies? Bullshit. This article is entirely descriptive. Nowhere does it prescribe any particular solution. That is left as an exercise for the reader. Unless being Libertarian means you don't give a rat's ass about human suffering, there is no reason Libertarians wouldn't be disheartened by this story.
Incidentally, the new office formats (both the "open" and the open one) are zip-files with (among other things) xml-documents. I saw someone a while back recommending storing them uncompressed when working with VCS -- gives pretty useful diffs with no extra work (I forget if they recommended extracting, or just storing without compression).
There are just as many options as before, just now all but one are a bomb of incompatibility.

Instead there will just be a lot of confusion of what is compatible with what and a lot of tears when people waste money on something that's incompatible. Say... a user without a PC who has a large iTunes in the Cloud library buying an Android phone. "Wait what do you mean I can't listen to my music any more?"
Can someone post a screenshot?
Do you imply that functional programming in general is dangerous and useless?

And what's your standing regarding the total languages? How dangerous is, say, Agda2? How useless is HOL?
There is no "Europe", especially not in these matters that are so strongly, if not almost exclusively, determined by cultural and economic factors in sovereign nations.

Please stop doing that, comparing the USA to some fictional country called Europe to prove a point. I agree with many of your arguments, but where the author of this piece is generalizing based on anecdotes, you're generalizing based on stats. And opportunistically picking and mixing stats from different countries on top of that.

For someone who likes to throw around stats and pretend to make a scientifically based argument, what does a conclusion like "most European countries are behind the USA" even mean? Europe has countries the size of a few football fields. It has large, thinly populated countries, small, densely populated countries and everything in between.

I would really appreciate it of people would stop using this fictional Europe for their ideological political arguments about the USA.

Full disclosure: I happen to be from a country in Europe that has higher participation rates for women than the US, is not Scandinavian, doesn't have particularly strong supportive policies (better than the US, but that isn't saying much) and on top of that: despite these stats women in this country are leaving the labor force in large numbers when they get kids, which particularly shows up in a lack of women in senior leadership positions. These things vary wildly per country and culture.
I really want to see one serious double blind study where someone extracts oil out of snakes and tests its effectiveness on various common ailments. Not for scientific rigor. At this point, I just really want to know what would happen.
Which add-ons did you have installed?
And how exactly it is related to recursion? You should have said "memory leaks are dangerous", and everyone would agree.
Here's a screenshot somebody took of it running on a Cathode terminal: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/543587063765823490

We've had some pull requests since then which add colors and other things.
To be fair, it's incredibly CPU-heavy. It uses an iterative approach to calculate the forces exerted on the grid, so for each frame it calculates the force exerted on each node a set number of times. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration)

However, this shouldn't be so heavy that the Firefox JS engine struggles with it...
Please stop bringing this subject up.
Yeah, I know.
You are 10x programmers, willing to bash anyone in the comments with your superiority.
Wanging your dong, like you own the place.
This is very childish.
Until I don't see an open download for this kos.
GO FUCK YOURSELF.
I can't believe you got so much circle jerking without having anything real to give.
You want to stand behind your superior toy.
Let me have a go at it. It's fucking 2014.
Don't jew this bitch up. You'll get your pennies in the after life.

Either let us enjoy what you speak of, or crawl back in to the cave you came from.
Surprising that with quite a few core contributors and (as far as I'm aware) pretty good adoption nobody picked it up though...
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There exist various solutions -- the technology is called Digital Asset Managements (DAM). There are some open source/Free ones as well. But none that are really good AFAIK.

You generally have the option of either using lots of data and bandwidth (think: storing rendered 4/8K jpeg2000 frames of animations, for each new version/cut/render you want to keep) -- or tight integration with the various software involved (ie: only keep latest "render" -- and a track of changes/a "script/log" that can be used to render/generate all the missing versions).

I'd think in general 3d meshes shouldn't be too hard -- but good luck finding someone doing media that don't use some big bitmaps somewhere (textures, backgrounds, etc).
Anything interesting in the Sony leak?
Heard about the movies and MPAA's anti-Google attacks, but what else have we learned that's interesting? Did we hear about cool new technology? Cool ideas? Something that sounds like seeds for progress and new innovation?

Somehow one imagines that in a massive leak of private and internal work by a huge company, there should be the basis of new sparks of creativity.
>Absolutely not. Production (at a given level of quality) is cheaper than it's ever been.

I have no data to back this up, and I'll spend some time looking for this, but this doesn't seem true. While hardware, processing power, and sets may have gotten cheaper, I'd argue that the cost centers behind production has always stayed the same and that its been salaries. And I'd argue its worse now that you have to hire VFX teams - no camera costs as much as 90K/yr VFX artist.

>These actors might have to get accustomed to less, like everybody else.

Which is why I'm sure the entertainment industry is going to spend a lot more time figuring out how to squeeze comcast prices from the internet generation. And I'm sure its more likely that they will cut a few writers, and cheap out on the CGI before Brad Pitt get called in to negotiate.
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The translated article says that the "police, Police Security Service and the National Security Agency" have the authority to use these types of devices. It seems very reasonable to me that they may do so around government areas.

Did I miss something?
I've recently taken up cooking as a hobby. I've been making at least 2 meals a day, experimenting with a variety of cooking styles. I've invested my own money into equipment and food - most of it is not cheap. Like you, I supported my surprisingly expensive hobby with a day job.

That said, I would never ever for a moment think that line cooks don't deserved to get paid, just because I am not.
I agree that it seems more boys than girls do things like write mods for games. My point is that just looking at boys alone, ignoring girls completely, the proportion of them that do write mods for games and similar is still well in the minority. Hence my point that males, looked at as a group independently of females, don't actually have a strong affinity for computers.

And no, I don't agree that "all the young people today know heaps about computers". I just left a job where I was the 41-year-old sysadmin and there were a dozen or so twentysomethings. Apart from one or two self-starters, I was the go-to guy whenever there was a problem requiring a bit of computer nous. I'm talking about simple stuff that a power user would be able to do. In the same vein, just because you drive a lot doesn't mean you have an affinity for vehicles. Plenty of people that have driven for decades can barely change their own fluids, for example. Mass usage != mass affinity.
I'd like to echo some of the sentiments that whether or not this is common, you should probably just write this team off. It seems like they're assholes and even if they could suppress it long enough to hire you, you'd know that they really think shitty things about you because of your race.

However, the reason I'm bothering to reply here isn't that, it's to say that you may simply want to reconsider aiming for the games industry. I know working on games sounds sexy, and I wanted to do it once too, but I landed a gig in the games industry once, and it made me realize that developing games is not really any more fun than developing any number of other software products, but it has the huge drawback that there are a bazillion people who want to work on games bad enough that they will settle for a shitty salary with shitty working conditions working on a shitty game. These are the candidates you're competing against, so this is the candidate you will become.
If something like their full details on the PS4 or research on a PS5 had gotten out, that might've been entertaining.
The most significant "barriers" probably have to do with social norms and gender roles. Gender roles have a real affect on preference. So while it might not, though it might, be that biology plays a significant role in whether or not females show interest in CS gender roles certainly DO.

It's very backwards to me to be focusing so much on the work environment and employers themselves for ways to attract female CS employees when those people don't even exist in the work force in the numbers desired. Or the pipeline for that matter.
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He insulted no one. You missed the word "some" at a key point in his comment.
I'd argue its different because the music industry only really every had one lever - marketing and distribution, and the internet made the former really cheap and destroyed the latter. Taylor Swift's label is technically an indie label, and I'm willing to bet the budget and people employed in the production of her latest album is a tiny fraction of what Michael Bay employed in his latest Transformers flick.

Due to the huge budgets and returns movies still have, studios are a lot closer to venture capital firms than distributors. If it ever contracts it would likely be in the form of making less content and making safer bets rather than paying everyone less.
I guess things were different here in Europe. I remember in High School (so... 2002ish? BitTorrent existed but there weren't any big popular trackers yet) We'd download a movie from Kazaa in the computer lab during CAD class and then watch during a long lunch break. Kazaa definitely supported using multiple sources.

Then when I went to Uni there was a large campus DC++ network with internal 100 MBit downloads.
Some asshole downvoted you for no reason. Have an upvote.
Here's [0] a small IRC client that uses escape sequences for its UI if you want to look at it. Not mine.

[0] https://github.com/rcr/rirc
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Great. So with this proposal all website operators that don't pay their due to the Certificate Authority cartel will be marked as "bad" sites. I'm all for restoring trust but not before the CA issue is resolved.
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I don't see the insult. It seems to me they would support the decision to stay home, but their partner clearly prefers to work.

I'm in a situation right now in which only I am working and my wife's at home with the kid. This is for visa reasons (H-4). My wife's self-esteem has plummeted because of this situation. She indeed complains it is extremely boring to stay home all the time. I completely support her desire to get back to the workforce, and I really look forward to the added benefit of our combined income.
What those programs are likely actually doing is not deliberately resetting the attributes, but saving a file by (1) writing to a new file, and (2) moving the new file over the old file (thus destroying anything about the old file that they aren't aware of in the process.)

Not sure if this helps figure out a way around it.
A modest proposal?
It's literally their job to run relevant advertising.. it's a testament to Google's advertising that we expect better of them.
The new acronym is {M|W}ITM. It's more inclusive. Can we get the title changed?
This is directed to entrepreneurs. Just want to get the juices flowing, and organize ways to continually learn about building startups. What activity do you partake to make your self a better entrepreneur?
Thanks for your insightful contribution!
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Mallory (malicious) and Trudy (intruder) are often used in crypto books.
what's irony here?
Algebra and programming are very, very similar. Algebra [1] deals with formal languages and their rewrite rules in general. Programming is dealing with a certain (but yet very wide) class of formal languages and an extremely wide variety of rewrite rules (i.e., algebras).

It does not matter that nobody is using, say, a term "refactoring algebra", but it is still, essentially, an algebra.

[1] Here I'm referring to a generic meaning of "algebra", as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_algebra
When the national secuity agency was told they started their own investigation on the following day, it may not say much but they had the opportunity to admit ownership and they didn't, which points in the directon of illegal activities.
These organizations were interviewed, and had the opportunity to remove their installations prior to the scanning. Also, according to PST, the installations they use are portable, fits in a suitcase, and such it would not make sense for them to go after the fake base stations..
Been waiting for shadow Dom for years now.
Hi Jeremy1026, do you think the update on the landing page is clearer now? www.goowi.net ?
@aphyr Wanna repeat how impressed I am with @Lucidworks testing of SolrCloud and how well it behaved. Solid work all round. :)

https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/543547826756530176
> People who work in managed languages don't care about pointers.

Yes we care, they are called references.

Use too much of them without thinking and performance goes down the drain thanks to cache misses.

This is why managed languages that care about performance have value types and padding support. Even Java is getting them.
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maybe the initial concept, but what is easier to debug afterwards?

So much teaching material for beginning programming is tainted by the cult of mutability that I have coworkers writing for loops instead of maps or the like for relatively trivial tasks. The end result is I have a harder time reading code, and the amount of possible bugs grows.
It is really fascinating how much the music adds to the experience; it creates an instant atmosphere.
I was really curious and your answer was very informative. Thank you.