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Section 105 of the Copyright Act

"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
Good point. So where does this leave me?
Silverlight 5 unveiled: many new features, direction still vague
Amazon has lawyers, and at least some of those lawyers must be experts in the subject of copyright. It is not credible that Amazon was unaware that Government documents are not eligible for copyright. Instead, this response appears to be an attempt to justify the decision after it was made.

Interesting, for example, that Amazon does not deny Congressional pressure but simply states that reports of government inquiry prompting this action are "inaccurate".
If you're writing games with Unity, there's a good chance you'll be using Javascript, as they have implemented Mono/Javascript (with their own extensions) as one of the engine's main languages.

Of course, DOM is utterly irrelevant here, just wanted to point out its use in games.
Two Conspiracy Theories
You could proxy the page, and rewrite bits of it on the fly (adding a class and/or anchors around the bit you wanted to highlight).

If I wanted to do this, I'd start by hacking for a few hours on http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ I'm pretty sure I could get a (non-scalable, resource hungry) proof of concept running in a evening starting from there - that'd be enough to start showing people and seeing if they even understand why you might want to use something like this...
"...an editor. Eventually his revival will be commanded..."
from what i remember 1987's jee maths was the toughest. with the cutoff's in the lower teens or something....
How can Liberman be taken seriously by anyone - this guy epitomizes the out of touch clown.
Don't know what you mean by this comment. There already are plenty of games written exclusively in Javascript. I've written a couple myself. Even if you exclude html5/websockets, it's entirely possible to write a server/client game, even a complex one, just with AJAX (Asynchronous JAVASCRIPT And Xml). And that's not even counting the tons of singleplayer games, hell look at the JS1k and JS10k contests, most if not all of the entries were games.

Edit: or was that sarcasm?
It is fair if 3GS still has significant market share.
I have a question why did the website creator only use pngs?

I mean you could have used svgs and a js library like raphael to use svg instead to decrease the load times, etc..
As a current MIT undergraduate, I would say that this isn't the whole story. The reason that people are in an uproar about the new dining hall plan is not that we dislike change. It is because the new plan will cost incoming students an additional $3,000 per semester (students already enrolled will only have to pay $2,500). Also, our administration was dishonest in drawing up these plans (releasing them for student input during finals week, blatantly ignoring the input we are currently providing).

EDIT: well, maybe not blatantly ignoring our current input, but the concessions that they are making are too little too late in my opinion
Just so you know, you can only be a pedant for a little while longer; Ruby is currently being made into an ISO standard.

Not to mention RubySpec, which all major implementations are working to conform to. Even though that's built off of "What MRI/YARV do"...
This has been discussed a lot on HN lately - it was quite the meme for a while.

I did a quick !hn search for you[1] and saw these three popular submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934563

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1931456

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1927903

The general impression, as I've understood it so far, is that App Engine has its limitations, but Google makes you well aware of them, so adapt to them and don't get frustrated or surprised by them two months into development, or host your service somewhere else like AWS.

[1]: http://searchyc.com/submissions/app+engine?page=1&sort=b...
You know, you can walk into a bank and withdraw a wad of cash without a fee.

I went for a couple of years at an employer, walking my paycheck to the credit union each payday and simply cashing it. I'd deposit enough for writing checks for bills, but I otherwise started every other week with $2k in my pocket. Then they mandated direct-deposit, so I got lazy and my large cash withdraws became less and less frequent.
See http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-gran-turismo-5/17-3535/ for a video which shows some of this.
What the parent is referring to is that when a Python process gets the DeadlineExceededError, it will now be recycled. Previously it would be re-used, and this would break things if the error happened in the middle of a module import (because the module would not be re-imported). Django was especially vulnerable to this.
Cablesearch: Wikileaks cable search with ability to rate cables
Good for you man, I did the same about a month ago. Amazing how hard I found getting rid of the golden handcuffs.
Or pick a bank with conveniently located ATMs. I don't understand how ATM fees are an issue at all; I use cash way more than the average person and have never paid any.
A 55 year old who can't clearly bring more to the table than someone half their age is a concern. If the 25 year old was actually equally qualified, it would make sense to hire that person because they are young enough to move up the management track and into the succession track.

So if I'm looking at succession, I'm probably going young. If I'm looking for someone with enough sense to avoid re-inventing the wheel, I'm probably going mature.

[all of which is somewhat irrelevant to the effects of unemployment].
Oracle Says Sun Servers Set Database Record
Anyone else using Windows 7 and have trouble reading the post because of the font? Here's what the site looks like on my machine: http://awesomescreenshot.com/099470k29

Could just be me though, since I have all of those fonts installed (I think).
I've spent considerable time becoming an "expert" in other non-web languages. I'm curious about others' experiences with projects like Parenscript ( http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/ ):

"Parenscript is a translator from an extended subset of Common Lisp to JavaScript. Parenscript code can run almost identically on both the browser (as JavaScript) and server (as Common Lisp)."

Does anyone have experience with such tools? How about suggestions for similar tools in Python / Ruby?
His state disowning him in 3...2..1..
They have, however, put me out there as a guy who's capable of building products like that, which have led to some really good consulting gigs, thus allowing me to keep traveling the world and doing my thing from a laptop.

So indirectly it's only good if it's making you money...

:)
I think Michael Williams (third comment) has the right idea when he says "I’m sure you can find plenty of physicists saying spectacularly naive things about medicine...". Of course OP's discovery is amusing - even alarming - but approaching it with an air of condescension won't do much to advance either field.
The best way hands down is to do usability testing. No eye-tracking, one-way-mirror lab required. Just sit down with some outsiders and give them some tasks to perform on your UI. Even for experienced and talented UI designers, this is invaluable because it cuts right through all the learned knowledge you have of the interface, which is impossible to do for anyone who was involved in creating it.

Of course this advice doesn't apply to power user UIs, but those are easy because your users will constantly email you with improvements.
Irony yet again, the problem is with the font-stack. I guess you have a version of Helvetica that's not that readable. Only of they followed their own advice and tested it.Though this articles is nothing great and sorta ironic on this site but if you still want to read it - use Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

This is how it looks: http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8523/201012030938.png
Calculus is taught in high school and expected to be basic knowledge for any physician, even if they don't use it often, and especially so for researchers. Calculus is fair game on their admissions exam, even! On the other hand, there's never an expectation that physicists know medicine.
Anyone know if the actual magazine has declined as badly as "Off the Hook" over the years? I had an interest around the time of Corley's trial. Reading the transcript of the deposition of Jack Valenti -- may everyone dance on his grave -- was hilarious, and a depressing peek into litigation. The radio show was pretty good, but each time I revisit it (once a year or so), it seems to have devolved further into pointless wanking.
Amazon is making two claims of ToS violations:
1. "WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to [the] classified content the material"
2. Use of Wikileaks content could "cause injury to [some] person or entity"

The claims have some merit and Amazon has the right to discontinue service on the basis of ToS violations. But they seem to be applying, in the first instance, the same criterion to this case as they would to ordinary cases of copyright infringements, which seems ethically weak and a little outlandish. And while the second claim is at least superficially more compelling, the standard seems unusually broad. Isn't it the case, if only trivially, that Amazon already hosts and sells a lot of content that could conceivably be used by someone, somewhere to cause injury to some person or entity? In general, is the content provider absolutely responsible for the uses to which its content is put, and does Amazon really want to be in the business of policing that? The argument, presumably, is that Wikileaks' documents constitute an egregious and specific possible cause of injury, although Amazon still seems to be blurring the distinction between "causing" and "making possible" or "enabling", and discounting the possible good that the release of classified documents can do. I think it's also worth pointing out that Wikileaks has adopted a fairly heavy hand with regard to redactions in the past months, and asked Amnesty and the Pentagon (apparently in vain) to help in that process. Some minimal context for Wikileaks' actions and the Amazon message, not all of which throws the best possible light on Wikileaks:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/20...

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-22/us/wikileaks.editing_1_wi...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-war-...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...
I understand where the author is coming from because many interviews questions are unreasonable and test absolutely nothing.

However, if someone couldn't code a linked list on a whiteboard, I'd be severely worried. Same goes for a binary tree. If you know what a linked list or binary tree is, you should have no issues figuring out how to represent them with code in 10 minutes.

The other trickier problems are there to test problem solving ability, which I believe is a valid thing to test.

I think the reason for this style of interview is that companies are afraid of false negatives. They'd rather reject 95% of the qualified people and 99.9% of the unqualified people rather than 94% qualified and 99.5% unqualified.

Additionally, swearing all over the place never helps your case...
Oh that is awesome. Anyone know if there are plans for another tournament?
Good strategy, investing less than 1/25th of the money (as Google is considering) in a competitor of Groupon. I guess that Amazon has little chance of loosing money on this investment since LivingSocial is making money and this business space will grow.
Of course. I never claimed we don't have an egregious error on our hands.
ING Direct has been doing this for years.
Frances Yates and the Mnemonic Works of Giordano Bruno
Some of the lines of Amazon's terms, at least the way they are interpreted in this message, should be concerning to other sites hosting on Amazon. For example:

"that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity"

Any large scale UGC site likely hosts content that might cause injury to a person or entity. This term would seem to give Amazon the right to shut down the site simply by pointing to such a piece of content.

I am not actually concerned about this, since I think that in practice Amazon operates according to far less restrictive terms than these. But it is interesting to see the rights they are reserving.
I think you mean that companies fear false positives which, in turn, causes a high false negative rate.
looking up the paper on pubmed reveals a flurry of letters to the editor published in the subsequent issue that call out the 'tai method' for what it is. i would actually bet a good number of the 70 citations that so worry 'flip tomato' are actually criticisms or commentary papers like this, as opposed to earnest citations.
Unfortunately, most HR departments don't understand that. To many HR recruiters, IT recruitment is a task of ticking off the checkboxes for knowledge, as opposed to screening for skills, character traits and personality.
Live From SF: The 2010 Techfellow Awards [video]
Well, I wouldn't want anyone to draw a conclusion about it from my 8-word summary reference! And certainly, some people just don't get it - here's a case that just hit the news today: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/three-strikes_opponen...

However, it's quite a bit more complex than you suggest here. Someone with two non-serious felony convictions who is then convicted of a serious felony, for example, can also get the full effect. Those servicing a second sentence can have their time doubled. And not everything that qualifies as a serious felony is the sort of violent crime most people imagine.

You might find these analyses from the Legislative Analyst's Office interesting - accessible non-partisan explanation of the effects and rules in the first one, and an update on how they're affecting state budgets in the second: http://www.lao.ca.gov/2005/3_strikes/3_strikes_102005.htm
http://www.lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/crim_justice/crimjust_an...
Amazing website of the egyptologist recently making the rounds
I was unemployed for a full year and a week (post college). During that time I sent out over 300 résumés, and applied to around 100 online systems. This ranged from front-end jobs (what I’m at currently) and design jobs, all the way down to groundskeeper and Wal-Mart stocker.

I had exactly five phone interviews and three in-person interviews out of the entire year. (One of which was a scam.) Not even Wal-Mart would give me the time of day.

...Until I got a referral from a friend to a recruiter. She got me an interview with a nice company, which landed me an offer in 14 hours.

I’m sorry, but your anecdote is a straw man.
Facebook: Hacker Cup programming competition
That's clever but besides the point, as Amazon didn't shut WL down over copyright violations.
My opinion of Amazon is improved. The position they're taking is unpopular with the nerd crowd.
Does 'Big Data' Equal Big Opportunity For Storage Vendors?
This concept sounds like a great idea for a chrome extension.
You know, referendums sound great on paper, but there is so much subterfuge, you almost need a professional to figure out what many of them actually mean.

If only you could hire someone that agreed with your values and made it his career to effectively pursue your interests as you define them. Some sort of "representative"

Well, that was the whole point behind representative government. Except that in the US and many other places, the system works as if geography is the only thing that matters.

In a system using proportional representation that is not the case. You don't have to settle for someone who best pretends they agree with everyone in your area.

You can hire an expert to handle your legal matters, your health, your mechanical needs and hundreds of other things. And they do what you tell them to do. Why can't you have your chosen expert represent you in government?

Consider the power of this. If we had PR in the US Congress from the very beginning, African Americans could have had representatives in Congress the instant they got the vote, even if half their votes were never counted.
They didn't once mention copyrights. There are other legal restrictions on publishing --- in the civil sphere, that includes trade secret law (if the information is materially relevant to your business and you take steps to protect it) and contract law (if you're bound by a confidentiality agreement). Obviously, the context of national security and state secrets provides many more ways to violate this ToS.
There's a big difference between "saying spectacularly naive things" and publishing in a supposedly respectable journal.

Plus, the guy deserves an academic weggie for naming a method after himself...
Just to get it out there, the current 800lb gorilla of Node.js webframeworks is Express:

http://expressjs.com/guide.html

That said, I think we're all still waiting for the real JS Application framework to appear. For better or for worse, Express is more or less a Sinatra clone for static pages. I'm hoping to see a true end-to-end JS system emerge sometime in 2011: one that provides models that can run on both the client and the server, live updating via Websockets as well as REST, views that can generate HTML on either end, with a built-in plan of attack for keeping common security holes in JS apps plugged.
Is it just me, or would one expect the dining hall system to be open to use for anyone who is a student (and their facebook friends)?
When I read this, I was kind of hoping that there might be... urm... 'easter eggs' in the digital edition. Would be very cool if it included an interesting (but non-threatening) exploit in the digital version to make it do something it shouldn't quite be able to do or that you were not expecting. (e.g. hidden in an article on exploiting Kindle or PDF security) The medium _is_ the message :-)
They'd rather reject 95% of the qualified people and 99.9% of the unqualified people rather than 94% qualified and 99.5% unqualified.

And then they complain that they can't hire developers.

I don't think these types of interviews are well conceived. Human memory is extremely context dependent and a whiteboard/interview type situation doesn't establish the right context for someone who's accustomed to working alone with a mouse, keyboard and compiler.

Also the more knowledge you have the more difficult it becomes to retrieve that knowledge quickly. So these types of interviews might be good at selecting people who know all about linked lists and binary trees but not much else.
This could be a great opportunity for some US hosting provider to step in and show that it can be counted on to have a backbone and take a stand in regards to seemingly unjust takedowns like this.

Maybe if a smaller company could scale to take on the wikileaks load, they might be able to earn trust and gain business from people that see the righteousness in the move.
Being friends with woz and hanging out at the homebrew club is a probably better education in computing than any degree.
On a random tangent, having spent most of yesterday grokking the transition from a date to datetime on a subscription billing system, and the resulting implications to inclusiveness (ie. 1 day vs 1 second), I can say with no hint of irony that I truly appreciate the ambiguity of the phrase 2009-2010.
Facebook Engineering Puzzles
According to Google Scholar, it's actually been cited 137 times. Another paper published in '98, cited 499 times, reads:

The integrated area under the curve (AUC) analysis for glucose and insulin was determined according to the formula of Tai et al.

Damn.
The problem is most employers only care about actual on-the-job experience. You might be a strong Python hacker, but if you haven't used Python in a professional setting recently it doesn't count.
great quotes!
Yeah, you're right and I agree. Thanks for helping me rethink my position.
Assembly and C are low level languages. Javascript is high level language. The claim appears to be based on the fact that it is the lowest level available in the browser as if this somehow makes it comparable to assembly language, the lowest language available on computers. It is a straw man argument. Saying that they server "equivalent" purposes is bollocks. Using your flawed logic, one could say that because javascript is also the highest level language supported natively by all browsers that it therefor serves the same purpose as HAL in 2001.

The fact that various companies have sprung up that can take a language and generate javascript from it doesn't make javascript comparable to assembly.

Normally one takes a high level language and compiles it to a lower level language. However, it is not the case that simply compiling one language into another automatically dictates that one is higher than the other. In this case, it is done because javascript is the only language available, and some people don't want to learn it. I suspect that most people are put off learning javascript because the first time they tried it it was a PITA. Especially, it didnt do the same thing in IE as it did in Chrome. So people wrote frameworks like GWT and NOLOH so they could use languages that were familiar to them. I understand why: its easier to solve one unknown at a time. Presented with two problems: a) I don't know javascript and b) browsers are shitty, people decided to tackle problem (b) and ignore problem (a) by writing libraries in their familiar language. Ironically they probably now know more about javascript than anyone else.

I'm opting to deal with problem (a) and solve problem (b) by using jQuery. YMMV.

As for the advantages of something like NOLOH, yes, sure there are many advantages to using what is essentially big enough to be called middleware. However I suggest that the advantages initially presented by its ease of use will be quickly outweighed by all the things it can't do, or that it demands you do "its way". Perhaps NOLOH is the worlds first middleware that doesnt have this problem, or perhaps its the 2010 version of MFC. The problem is, by the time you find out its the latter, its too late. The risk of that discovery is greater than the learning curve of javascript and modern frameworks. Unlike assembly language.
Its because credentialism has permeated the software business recently. Credentialists love tests, its how they got their credentials, and if they don't keep believing in tests over real world performance, they will have to re-examine the true worth of their credentials.
Coding general solutions should be par for the course. I agree that some interviewers are coming up with contrived examples. But of the 6 data points I have now from hiring people, those who could code on the white board turned out to be good employees (4 of them) and those who could not turned out to be a vast waste of time (2 of them). As jconphoenix was alluding to, I would have rather ended up rejecting more of the qualified applicants than ending up with a time-wasting employee.
node.js is mature enough for serious work, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's fast, has a great community, and is improving all the time. In my mind, it lives up to the hype.
If you haven't already seen this list, make sure to check it out:

https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules
The author forgot to mention that Google renders the text, then places it on the image. Bing and Yahoo positions then renders, which leads to bad font aliasing.

Better to explain with a picture:
http://imgur.com/sy06x

Notice how the google's 'i' is perfect. No grey hinting.