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The size difference between the two drives blows you away ;)
They are the same kind of crap as personal firewalls are.
The quotes are really nothing to do with copyright.

Quotes are like reporting -- they (the people) can't copyright something just because they said it. I can quote what you say, you can quote me -- there's nothing there actionable. (People do sometimes trademark quotes, but those are for limited use scope -- must definite usage -- and again, trademark, not copyright, so can still quote them).

Was the quote from a magazine article? Well then yes, the magazine has the copyright to the ARTICLE, but a quote from it would (I think most lawyers feel) be perfectly fair use.,

In no way on that site do I see an actionable copyright claim on the people being quoted (standard I'm not a lawyer though clause here)
They also rarely stop growing.

"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
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I really think that Joseph Gotlieb - your first link - is grasping at straws. For brevity's sake I will address his first objection even though I feel others are just as shaky.

[Objection #1: According to the interview, Gregory Perelman bristled at being addressed as "Grisha" by the media (Gregory/Grisha being similar to Robert/Robbie in familiarity). This could not possibly be true because he signed his own emails as "Grisha".]

This is a pretty big stretch. The Russian language defines 3 tiers of familiarity/address: a nickname for family/friends, a full first name for acquaintances of the same age, and a full first + patronymic name for everyone else. (This is similar to a French person being offended by an overly familiar "Tu" when a "Vous" is appropriate). Moreover, it is not uncommon anywhere to use a nickname in correspondence with friends and colleagues and a full name in more formal situations.

The forum discussion - your second link - is nothing more than a reference to Richard Feynman's auto biographical anecdote about the Nobel prize, followed by a bit of general bitching about journalists. One poster casts doubt on how Perelman and the interviewer connected (seems perfectly plausible to me that a Russian-Israeli journalist would connect to a Russian-Jewish scientist through his mom, whom he lives with, via the St. Petersburg jewish community). It really doesn't prove or even suggest anything of importance.

As far the claim that Russian bloggers couldn't track down the person who interviewed Perelman, well, I just spent a minute on google and found this: http://cursorinfo.co.il/news/novosti/2011/04/28/zatwornil/. Apparently, the Israeli paper was able to find the interviewer... not particularly surprising given that he had moved to Israel in the 90's.
How would you buy or sell a computer on eBay? Cash, checks and money orders provide no protection for the buyer against sellers that don't actually have the product. Credit cards and any 3rd party processor that accepts them have the exact same problems as PayPal.
Thanks for your comments. Yes, the design is a bit of an afterthought as that is not my strong point, but I will definitely put more effort into it and/or try to find someone to help.I had a look at Worio and their front-page works very well.
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A lot of japanese companies tend to consider software as not being as important as hardware... It's even more prestigious in Japan to study electronic engineering compared to computer science...
Because of that, the level of most programers I've seen working in big companies in Japan is surprisingly low.
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No, you are incorrect about the point being trivial. First off, the macros used in the original program will of course terminate, but if you simply "try every input to the compiler" like is being suggested, you will be attempting to compile any number of non-terminating macros (and you will of course not know which terminate and which do not (Halting Problem)).

The point is that "compilers terminate for every input" is trivially false.
I've heard it is easier to auto-rotate from a high altitude than an extremely low one.
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As a startup person, I had to seek out the opportunities to build a product as part of a small team each quarter at UW CSE. That said, you can do it if you have the motivation.

All the literature about the program mentions that you can optionally take 1 capstone course (which are the big project courses that let you have free creative reign over what you produce). My solution was to just do 3 capstones instead.

I ended up taking the Google/Hadoop project course, distributed systems capstone, and Dan Weld's web services capstone. Each quarter I had 3-4 people on a team, and we were able to build something awesome.

To me it always seemed like a problem of advertising the opportunity within the department, and encouraging big risky projects vs. focused, assigned classwork.
Stupid Question [stupid because I should know this]: If facebook shows 4 advertisements on a page, is that counted as 4 impressions in the "impressions" metric? Has there been any effort to normalize the effect of showing ads [I don't think I've ever seen a google page or search with 3, let alone 4 ads]? Theoretically, a person could load a page with a ton of ads and artificially boost the impression measure ...
Thanks for your comment :) I learning PEAR.
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Typestate for checking a much larger class of invariants.
This entire post is nonsense.

Consulting firms will throw you head first into the client shark tank to do real work for real clients. If you screw up, you're fired immediately. If you don't screw up, everyone makes money, and they give a little bit to you.

What you are describing is a temp agency, not a consultancy.
Thanks for your feedback - I appreciate it. I just tried with Chrome on XP and it works perfectly - the site appears correctly and the search box has focus. Can you give me more details of your system? Thanks.
I have no idea what's going to happen—my crystal ball broke last week—but I think this article contains a few interesting points. If Microsoft doesn't try to copy Apple and tries to build something using its living room technology as a starting point, it could expand in very interesting ways.

And regarding HP, I think it speaks quite well of HP that, unlike RIM, they seem to know how to STFU. I haven't heard much abuot their tablet, which is a good thing. It means they might be busy, you know, working on it, and not busy making promises about what they will do that renders everything they actually do seem underwhelming. (They did say webOS apps would run on HP desktop and laptop computers, which sounds insane, but despite that slo-mo car crash in the making, HP still has some credibility.)
Ask HN: Will ICANN or the US gov apply incentives to reduce domain squatting?
I have to believe someone has considered this before, but I couldn't find a write up on this specific angle... So here goes:

A friend is interested in acquiring a potentially very valuable domain. It's a single word, common vernacular, .com, but the owner won't budge for less than x. x = a very large number.

This situation seems very similar to someone owning a tract of land in or around an urban center. Their asset can be developed, rented, sold, entered into a joint-venture, or just sit there. But in real estate there are considerable holding costs imposed by government to encourage development, stimulate growth for economic development, improve density, etc...

Are squatters hindering growth? Or are they just savvy investors? Does anyone think/believe ICANN or the US federal government will step in here? If so, how?
Isn't that an IDS? Intrusion detection system
Incorrect analogy. A subclass is defined as a class which can be used anywhere its parent can be used. Your comment implies that the TSA could be used to perform any duty of the DHS, which is obviously false. The DHS can however perform any duty of the TSA, since the TSA is under control of the DHS.

So yes, stupidity of the child organization does imply some degree of stupidity of the organization as a whole. The converse however is indeed false (incompetence of the DHS does not imply incompetence of say, the Secret Service).
> without anything more complicated than slide rule

The V2 was quite complex for it's time. It had two gyroscopes, an accelerometer and an analog computer to reach the target.

As always, wikipedia knows more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Technical_details
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-language-is-bes...

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-language-is-best...
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"Dick" is short for Richard, as in Dick Clark.

Feynman was known to use this as a personal nickname.
It if were past tense ("From Charles Darwin on, evolutionary biologists struggled"), that would be fair, but the sentence reads as present tense ("From Charles Darwin on, evolutionary biologists have struggled"). As worded, the sentence implies that biologists as a whole are still struggling to explain it, that it's some mystery the field has yet to grasp.

Imagine if a sentence in a news story read, "For centuries, doctors have struggled to determine whether diseases are caused by an imbalance of the body's humours or by germs and genetics."

Would you defend that by saying, "It's not false at all. Germ theory didn't gain much currency until the mid-1800s, and we didn't understand genetics until a century later. So even if everyone immediately accepted germ theory upon reading it (which they didn't), that sentence is still an accurate history of doctors' opinions over the years"?
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there's a pretty large gap between startups that are in incubators or VC funded and those who are bootstrapped. can you elaborate any on what rackspace is planning on doing for bootstrapped projects and/or how someone is "qualified", since info isn't live yet?
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I wonder if the problem is that the music scene is so good here in Seattle that the recently graduated want to participate in that area, both as producers and consumers, and not so much in the tech area?
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Another good market to target is Hair Stylists. I just finished creating a portfolio for my girlfriend. I know there are hundreds of thousands of stylists that would love to have their own portfolio page.
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The WSJ doesn't already have the capability to take in and report directly on confidential leaks?
Good presentation by the team on their scaling challenges.

They run Django, PostgreSQL.

http://ontwik.com/python/disqus-scaling-the-world%E2%80%99s-...

Quite impressive that they run ~100 servers to serve about a billion page views in a month.
I have a background in branding so I don't want to throw cold water on this post, but you can take things a step further: For a startup your product is the most engaging aspect of your brand — so get it right.
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I agree that my macros explanation was stretched. I simplified it too much.

Restarts are really nice, I first heard about them in "Practical Common Lisp" google talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeAdryYZ7ak
Thank you very much for the invite code(s).

I couldn't resist and look forward to testing it out further tomorrow!
Thanks! I didn't know about Read it Later.
take a look at the logos on the link for this very submission, that's kinda the point.
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Indeed, all seems terribly quiet on the Apple JavaScript Engine front lately. For a while they were leading the pack (and, in some ways, they probably still are) but aside from Mobile Safari, not much lately.
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From the post:

3. Creating a genuinely useful product.
For some reason this really reminded me of the "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" posted a couple days ago. If you're interested see there:

HN POST -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2512740

Part 1: http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/October/Unwritten_L...

Part 2: http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/November/Unwritten_...

Part 3: http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/December/Unwritten_...
For me the most important point in this article is that Thrift includes an RPC implementation while Protocol Buffers does not.

This was very helpful while writing an iPhone application that records audio and sends it to a server for voice recognition processing. Thrift allowed me to setup the iPhone client and the Windows/C# server in only a few lines of code. Protocol Buffers required that I establish a socket connection, send the audio data across, and then reassemble the data on the server side. Not the worlds most difficult problem, but being new to Objective-C at the time it was a bit tricky. I wish I had known about Thrift when I was building my initial implementation based on Protocol Buffers.
On the quotes: If the quotes have not been published by those who spoke them (the author), then they are not copyrighted. In fact, Startupquotes.com could claim copyright ownership of the quotes (and the photos if they took them) as they are the originating author, even if they are quoting someone else. A book of quotes is copyrightable.

On the photos: Yes and no. Using a private person's face for commercial gain without their permission might be problematic. The "public figure" statement doesn't apply here, as that is only relevant in libel / slander cases. If you remember, Obama was able to take down an ad in Times Square that used his photo / image without his permission. And he's definitely a public figure.Of course, if you are using someone else's photo without permission, then you are violating the photographer's copyright on the photo.

Here's the rules on whether or not you need permission to use someone's photo (image):

Photographing People in Public
Q: Can I photograph people in public places without their permission?

A: Absolutely. People get really muddled about this issue, but the reality is that you have a virtually unrestricted right to use a camera in public. One big caveat: It’s common courtesy to get verbal permission. Nonetheless, people don’t have the right to bar you from photographing them in public, where they would not ordinarily have an expectation of privacy.

Q: Can I publish pictures of people I’ve photographed without permission?

A: That depends upon the purpose of the picture. If it’s artistic or editorial in nature, or can be characterized as to inform or educate, then you do not need your subject’s explicit permission.

If the picture or any associated text may be libelous, defamatory, or fall outside of what courts have described as "the normal sensibilities" of the target audience, then you may need permission from the subject for your own protection. You also need permission from the subject if the picture is used for commercial purposes, such as in an advertisement.

IANAL, but I sure can pretend pretty well.
Since the others have a 'process' for what constitutes a good idea, business plan, marketing plan, etc.. what we will be doing is bringing some of that internally where our team does the same thing for bootstraps. It's exciting stuff and we are trying to include everyone.
For me, the entire point of Wikileaks is that it is a secure way to leak anonymously designed by a crypto theorist and expert. The security involved with this WSJ thing is opaque, and sounds loosey-goosey based on the Delany paraphrase here. I think they would have been better off trying to get Openleaks off the ground, because Domscheit-Berg seems like he has a model of being a trustworthy technical middle man for traditional outlets.

My bet is that the WSJ is not comfortable with actually not knowing the sources of the leaks - the security sounds like its goal is to prevent intrusion by external entities, rather than to anonymize.
I'm surprised they didn't mention what I consider the greatest cardinal sin of sign-ups: if you're not validating email addresses, start the user's session as soon as they register, instead of making them re-enter the same info again into a login box. (Even if you're sending a validation email, you could allow the user to postpone validating, or at the very least, log them in automatically upon clicking the link in their email.)
The copyright of the photo belongs to the photographer — so that's the only real issue I can see (although there are plenty of creative commons photos out there). On the other hand if they attempted to sell t-shirts or posters there could be issues. (and I'll add to this that I'm not a lawyer)
So, you disagree with me. That's perfectly fine.
But why are you down voting me for not sharing your position?

I've been working a long time in the "security industry".
Believe me, it has reasons why I call products like WAFs snake oil...
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have to agree, beautiful commercial. As there are services that try to replicate memory storage. I hope that a gmail account will still be alive and kicking 20 years from now, when my daughter can appreciate everything I've archived.
Thom, if you're so convinced that the financial industry provides so little benefit to modern society, why don't you try and live in a country without one.

The Great Depression in the US (which effectively wiped out a significant portion of the financial industry here) was the source of much misery and pain. Pick up a book on bond valuation and capital allocation and tell me if YOU would like to do that work for yourself. Finance is hard won and specialized knowledge. Don't dismiss that expertise.
I totally agree!
http://b.lesseverything.com/2010/3/30/brand-is-the-aftermath...
Incorrect with regards to using their photo / image. Irrelevant with regards to quoting them. See above.
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I consider this huge. Aside from the obvious man-in-the-middle network attacks that could capture this easily, it also creates a huge physical security flaw: if you save/archive your emails, I can sit down at your machine, type "password" in the search box of your mail client, and trivially steal a dozen or so of your passwords. If these weren't auto-generated, it's even worse, as most people re-use passwords.
Next project: build a mock-up of what the 810 would look like scaled up to an 8GB capacity - 45.3 times as large on every dimension, with nearly 2800 cubic meters of volume.
They might use MGM v. Grokster to make some kind of inducement claim, but one might think that this would be the sort of thing copyright holders would do, rather than the DHS. I don't know that they have in mind, but it's probably one of the few straws they could grasp at.

And there's that other test case Grellas posted the other day, suing C|Net for distributing Limewire. It obviously hasn't been decided yet, but it could create a dangerous precedent in the future. I strongly suspect they expected everyone to just cave. As things stand, I expect that copies of the extension will get hosted outside the USA, making any further action meaningless.

Even had they quietly allowed it to get taken down, someone almost certainly would have hosted a copy or created a new extension outside the US.
I thought you were talking about performance, in which case the relevant chart is:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

Which shows Go is well ahead of OCaml.

The "which language is best" chart you linked has rather arbitrary weighting.
It's a bit more than a "useful product" — for example an engaging game like Farmville isn't "useful" but it does quite a bit of brand building within the product. In many ways you an give software a personality (example: gamification), and those little touches might not be useful in and of themselves. A good real world example would be that the old Macs booted up with an icon of the computer with a smiley face — that wasn't useful but it was a great brand building exercise. Contrasting with that Acer did the same thing with their monitors and their logo was so ugly it made the brand cheap.
... its a joke people. relax. http://xkcd.com/849/
This is pure guesswork (I am not he) but given that he's happy with go, perhaps he likes the style of programming that go promotes? It's not OO, it's not FP. More like evolved procedural programming, I guess.