skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading briefly through the lawsuit[1], it seems that Osama Bedier was working as a senior manager at PayPal creating a product similar to Google Wallet (referred to as a "mobile payment" point of sale). He then interviewed and left for Google (whilst PayPal and Google were in negotiations for a separate business deal), and PayPal claims that he used trade secrets from PayPal to help Google create Wallet.

Stephanie Tilenius broke her contractual agreement with eBay after she recruited Bedier (and attempted to recruit many other PayPal employees).

"Bedier was the senior PayPal executive accountable for leading negotiations with Google on Android during this period. At the very point when the companies were negotiating and finalizing the Android—PayPal deal, Bedier was interviewing for job at Google	without informing PayPal of this conflicting position. Bedier’s conduct during this time amounted to breach of his responsibilities as PayPal executive."

I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like they have pretty good reason to be upset.

1. http://www.ebayinc.com/assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC...
Watson may not be able to perform surgery, but with "telesurgery" becoming a reality, maybe we can offshore it and still save 80%.
In response to the thread a couple days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580919
You're right! I haven't. You won the Internet. ;)

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Your pictures are blocked at work for me, but Wikipedia shows pictures of both snowy mountains and lush sea-side vegetation in Sochi. Elevation as well as latitude affects growing conditions.

As far as growing corn in Russia or having monkeys in Siberia goes, they are entirely different matters as to whether or not it is possible to grow bananas in Russia.

Wikipedia reports that Sochi lies in a 8b/9a hardiness zone. The banana species I linked to can grow in hardiness zone 5. I maintain my position that it is possible to grow bananas in Russia.

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Watson isn't a replacement for the physician. It's a physician's extender, a tool that allows a physician to "see" more patients in a day and provide diagnostic results in a more timely manner. The physician will still be the one responsible for the final judgment call.

BTW, it would have been nice if the journalist had bothered to consistently spell the doctor's name correctly (it's Siegel, not Siegal).
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This is a great example of a sweet little app that fills a gap for me. Some comments based on my initial usage.

Three bug-ish type things:

* If you have an entry without both a first and last name - say "Dad" - it displays the missing portion as "(null)". So, in my case, it shows "(null) Dad". I'd personally prefer it just displayed whatever it had and skipped the null.

* Clarify the "None" value in the "Notify Days Before" option. Does "None" mean 'Don't notify me at all' or 'Notify me on the actual day'? I tend to like to know on the day of, so I can call or otherwise contact the person. Without tinkering, I can't tell if the app does that or what this option really means. If the app can't notify ON the day, I'd really like it to.

Two requested features:

* Anniversary Support - I absolutely love that it populates itself from my address book based on the Birthday category. It would be doubly awesome if it did the same with the Anniversary entry as well! Perhaps have them appear on the "Upcoming Birthdays" screen with red calendar days instead of blue ones, and make an option to disable them if the person desires.

* Two Stage Reminders - It would also be cool to have two of reminders to trigger. Basically remind me a X days before and then the actual day of. X days before so I can remember to get a gift or make a plan, and then the day of to remind me again because I'm stupid :-). Other people would only want to be reminded once, so it should certainly be an option that can be disabled.

Two things I love about the app:

* If I had Facebook, I'm sure that integration would be awesome and useful. Automation is very cool.

* I love how it tells me how old they will be. Saves me from having to figure that out every time a birthday comes up.

This is a really cool app. I hope you continue to work on it and it continues to be successful for you.
That was Compaq, wasn't it? I remember hearing about it, way back when, but I never heard anybody praise it before. Was it perhaps your first keyboard, or almost your first? I tend to type with both thumbs on the space bar, so it sounds dangerous to me.

OTOH, I don't think I ever press the space bar with the left thumb, so maybe I'm missing a trick.
Has to be commercial I believe. A job prospect I don't think would be commercial, just trying to get info...
If you use their API you can add these. Takes like 5 mins to program...
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If you have the time to play with it some more ... I wonder, does gcc or clang or icc do a better job?
I'm sure this makes it at least a little harder to hire talent. I wonder how much. I know I'd never work for a company that thought it owned me, and was entitled to control who I could recruit to work with me after I left. I wonder how many other people feel the same way.
maybe it's an issue that they are worried competitors will use the API to reverse engineer parts of the core algorithm?
It seems it must be a tool in a tool chain, rather than a physician replacement. Tests must be run, and follow-up questions asked. Also, computers take everything literally, they don't say "Well, that's not what your face is telling me." or think the patient is lying, delusional, or misinformed. You can ask the patient on a scale of 1-10 of their certainty, but again, there are other problems.

"What are these red dots?" Also seems non-trivial to diagnose. They can be tested, or more questions can be asked of them, but this seems like an awful lot of work to be managed by a computer alone.

It's a good, or even great thing to research, but it seems far from implementation, and that's just from an engineering perspective, imagine the legislative hoops that will need to be leapt through!
I think it's fine if you're doing python all day long, but I'm using Python, Java, PHP, Obj-C and Javascript each at least once a month on a variety of paid and personal projects. Like I said, I have enough trouble keeping those syntaxes straight.
Aren't NYC livery cabs already regulated? How does a bit of violence from a regulated driver imply higher risks from unregulated operation?
'music', 'art', 'war' are examples of non-esoteric terms that don't end up at philosophy.

'libertarianism' doesn't end up at philosophy either :)

Though I'm noticing that even before 'mathematics', all my meme-true queries are going through 'science'

also... 'philosopher' doesn't go through via the script page, but on the actual wiki it's redirected straight to 'philosphy'.

Fun page, nice work.
> I enjoyed this article, I always find the argument that "these days you can't beat the compiler" fishy.

I enjoyed your example; very clever. I think the "these days you can't beat the compiler" should really be understood to carry a qualifier like "for compiling things that we understand well enough and that occur often enough that it's worth teaching the compiler how to optimize them". Knuth's maxim "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." seems particularly apt here.

Problems where humans can apply very domain-specific knowledge to come up with clever solutions are not the sort of problems that a general-purpose compiler is going to generate good code for. Knowing when you're dealing with one of those problems (e.g. writing inner loops for multi-precision arithmetic or vectorizing multimedia codecs) is part of being a good programmer. But to a first or even second approximation, you are not dealing with one of those problems, so you might as well just sit back and let the compiler do its job.
It's not that PayPal want to control their employees after they move on, it's that they want to maintain their trade secrets and make sure the employees actually stick to what they agreed to in their contracts.
Traditional databases will eventually wind up in RAM
As a happy user of ElephantDB, I'd say people are definitely too harsh. Elephantdb is awesome - my company has completely replaced HBase with ElephantDB and MaryJane (a lightweight way of putting data into hadoop that we wrote, https://github.com/stucchio/MaryJane- ).

That said, I'd love to see some code released, even if it isn't ready for primetime.
Also incorrect, Watson was fed the question as soon as it was revealed. He didn’t – just like the humans – have to wait until Trebek finished to read the question.
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A glasses company with a website does not a tech company make.
super(myclass, self) was. Like I posted below, sometimes I have real trouble keeping the 5 or so languages I use straight. The other day I actually forgot what 'None' is in python because I hadn't used it in a few days, and None is different than in the others.
Although this is a valid point in many cases, I don't think this is one of those cases. It's in these "infrastructure" type projects like kernels, compilers, interpreters, and parsers where "micro" optimizations are actually really important.

> But then say, you are writing the data do a disk. Well maybe it doesn't really matter how fast you are decoding the protobuf if next you are sitting there for ages waiting for that data to be written out. That 30usec gain is nothing on top of that 10msec wait time that is coming next, so was that week a good investment f you just did for pure speed improvement? (well you might have done as a learning exercise, then speed doesn't really matter).

haberman's parser (1460 MB/s) outperforms Google's C++ parser (260 MB/s) more the 5x. Note that even in the disk example, a fast SSD will have enough bandwidth to throttle the CPU on Google's parser.
On top of that, this is FOSS, which means his weeks of investment is multiplied every time someone downloads and uses his code.
Perhaps "abuse" means toys like this: http://www.translationparty.com/
How many fabless semiconductor startups are in NYC?
Clearing up about the 150M Microsoft invested in Apple in 1997
I really don't think perfect speech recognition is that far away. 10 years and we're gonna have something that can work. 10 years and we'll have an advanced Google Goggles that can help with diagnosis. Ask the question "What are the limits of human input?" Nothing besides touch, taste, hear, see and smell, and we're getting closer and closer to being able to input that data and process it as humans would.
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I thought this was fascinating, what do you think?
Another take : http://www.quora.com/John-Akerson/Microsoft/answers
>the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom

I find this absolutely fascinating. Consider that the reason we're at the centre of the world map is because we had the power to choose to put ourselves there, at the point in history when the maps were being drawn.

Is that imperial influence, long since waned, still echoing across the years, visible in the wikipedia graph?
> ... [Bedier] not only used trade secrets from PayPal to help Google create Wallet, but also poached Stephanie Tilenius ...

You have that switched.

> Google hired Bedier after another former eBay executive, defendant Stephanie Tilenius, solicited and recruited him.
Hopefully, this means Paypal sees Google as a legitimate threat. Good. The world could only improve if Paypal ceased to exist.
>As far as growing corn in Russia or having monkeys in Siberia goes, they are entirely different matters as to whether or not it is possible to grow bananas in Russia.

you win as your logic's complexity is beyond my understanding considering that Iowa is in zone 5 and corn can be grown even in zones 2-4.
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You’ve got that slavery part right. Here is the Thirteenth Amendment, Section 1: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

This led, for example, courts to conclude that prisoners have no right to be payed minimum wage. (I honestly don’t really know what to think about that. I’m not sure whether I have a problem with that.)
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>I respect patio11, but his bingo card earnings are far from impressive.

That depends where you're standing.
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"A former prison guard turned inmate"

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I wonder how much would be helped if you thought intentionally thought about writing your blog as essays to be collected in a book. (A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other various material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side)

Growing up, I used to love reading Mike Royko. He was sharp, and funny, and told the greatest stories in his newspaper column (A newspaper is a regularly scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint.)

And his columns (A column is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. Columns are written by columnists.)

And then once a year, once every couple of years or so, he would collect his newspaper columns into a book.

And we would all go and buy his book.

At the beginning of blogging, I used to follow some bloggers that I thought were funny, and I would suggest they write their blogs in a way that would allow the blog to be collected into a book.

I thought by giving up a bit of the immediacy, by developing recurring characters (http://www.amazon.com/Slats-Grobnik-some-other-friends/dp/05...) that it would actually make their blogs more interesting, and give them a longer lasting character, than just a blog post that is mostly disappeared 10 posts later.

Sadly, Jeff Jarvis and others also thought of this, and then added cement galoshes to it by naming it a "blook". And that was the end of that.

But I hear what you are saying. Blogs are nice in that like a magazine they do emphasize content about a current event. Books are nice in that their organization adds a great deal of value to an otherwise random collection of unconnected essays. In that way, a book is an argument, (a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition)

Blogs provide value to a socially connected world of twitter driven ADHD fanatics each seeking out the next shiny shiny source of poutrage.

But there has to be a more useful organization than just blogs, a calendar, and a google.

Perhaps if you thought about it as a book ahead of time, you could start out with a table of contents and a thesis, and use that mashed in with today's latest current event to focus what you blog about. And that would help you keep track and link from one post to another the way jwz does, or philg, or pg, or others.
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There are more details in the interview tzs linked to [1].

>It was as though he thought his interpretation of policy superseded the authority of the people or office who/which set out the policy.

It's worse than that. According to the juror in the interview, there was no policy on who could get the passwords. So it wasn't a matter of interpretation; it was purely pulled out of his posterior data storage unit.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588689
PayPal, that exhalted bastion of ethical business practices, will be very successful in this appeal to public sentiment.
HN user daeken has been writing an OS in .NET http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os
Actually, I'd think the first signs of abuse would be the most difficult things for a computer to diagnose. Excuses are given, nobody says anything about violence, the person slipped, but the non-verbal cues might raise a red flag.

I'm not sure how much common sense world knowledge would be in Watson. "Hey doc, I got a pain in my chest while watching the football game vs Cal at Memorial Stadium." The DDX might include angina despite the computer being unlikely to know about a fan's emotions or environment of a football game.
Paypal, at least in my experience gouges its customers at every turn. For instance, the exchange rates they used are generally highly outdated.

However, I have not used Paypal in several years so they might have fixed that.
> assembly implementation will always be faster

only if you don't suck at assembly.
I'd be interested to see some benchmarks of some computationally expensive applications vs. running them on Linux or another OS.

How much gains are you making by optimizing the OS?
Because he doesn't understand how hard it is to easily allow payments when so much fraud is out there - especially once you go int'l. He's just naive.
Yes - I've been seriously considering XMPP for this purpose. I haven't seen any serious reason not to consider it other than some people's dislike of IM protocols.
The part of this that stands out to me: the OS claims to be open source. But the bootloader is proprietary. Why? Does the source depend on proprietary specifications that have been embedded in parts of it or something? The documentation doesn't obviously preclude writing a replacement, but nor does it seem to be designed to encourage such a thing. On the surface it's not complex enough for this to be a huge task, but I'm suspecting there's at least one strange grinding obstacle in the way…
I really hope our generation figures out how to get out of this quagmire somehow." What is one thing we could do the reinvent the Social Network concept?

I recently asked What to build into a better social network (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586836) I'm on a mission to build a bigger, better network.

I'm starting to see that people are longing for a social experience that is truly social. Better algorithms just aren't cutting it. What will?
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Honest question: why not? What's the line between a tech company, and a company that makes their own glasses and sells them online?
Reading the complaint, it's not just that a PayPal employee went to work at Google. According to the complaint, Bedier (one of the defendants) was negotiating a payment deal between Google and PayPal while interviewing with Google. And soon after Bedier left, Google apparently scuttled the entire deal. And there's the matter of Bedier putting PayPal strategy documents on his personal machine days before leaving PayPal for Google.

Of course, we're only hearing one side of the story at this point, but at least from PayPal's perspective, this isn't just about losing a couple of executives to Google.
Thank you agent86. Your feedback is appreciated.
1. The (null) is a bug and I will fix that in the next release.
2. If you don't turn off notifications, you will always be notified on the day of the birthday. The notify days before is an additional notification that you can receive. I will try to clarify this on the settings page.
3. The anniversary support sounds like a good idea. I'll try to add that to the next release.

In addition, I was thinking of adding notes to track birthday gifts to give a person. Do you think notes would be useful to you?

Thanks again for your feedback.
Why is there a correlation between Facebook and Porn Hub?
Mobile and good web programing will only grow in importance. Maybe look into specific problems you'd like to solve or are inspired by, and work backwards from there as to "what would it take for me to do this"?

Some people would only live on the coasts. If this isn't you (and it isn't me), you can have a much lower cost lifestyle in "flyover country." Austin will be more expensive than the rest of Texas, but for good reason. And it's still cheap compared to the coasts.
If you can earn 25k a year from a simple bingo app, put together a few more similar apps, then you have a decent salary. And so what if you think if his bingo earnings are far from impressive. That first sentence was unnecessary.
Actually, this seems like the perfect opportunity for pharma companies to "help" in creating the database.

That's actually what they are already doing when pitching new drugs to doctors. Now they only have to convince the system designers and not thousands of practicing doctors.
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Paypal has a long documented history of freezing accounts for ambiguous reasons, often with little or no recourse for the account holders.

One quick/recent example:
http://www.theindiestone.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=20...
It does take a bit of work to add a new task, but it's important work. Without it the problem is difficult to understand and the correctness of solutions is impossible to verify.

However, if you don't want to write the boilerplate, task suggestions are welcome: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code:Village_Pump/Sugges...

I don't know how effective a suggestion is, but my bet is that the interesting ones are processed quickly. I've been visiting the site and it has grown very rapidly, owing in no small part to all the work shortcircuit does.
I understand that but you should think about this: are you really passionate about solving the issue of "anti-social" social networking?

I really don't know. I do know that "partial solutions" won't take you far. I'd find a higher purpose for your project that allows you to reach more people.

Would it hurt to try making this into an app? If you can't build your own solution framework, integrate it somewhere people need it.
If you think Microsoft "is doing great" with Windows 7 then it's people like you that are dragging Microsoft down to an unprecedented level of irrelevancy.

It's not about magic, it's not about glitter, it's not even about wild P/E. It's about using their massive base of resources to do something other than crank out derivative products for existing markets and rest on their own laurels.

Today's Microsoft has no idea how to innovate. Yesterday's Microsoft was aggressive, produced new products that were competitive, and never shied away from a fight no matter how bloody. They were the Lance Armstrong of their day, always winning yet having people suspicious of their methods.

If they're not careful, Computer Associates will beat them at their own game.
It's easy - Facebook is all about voyeurism. And when you can no longer get your fix from Facebook stalking your friends, you move on to the next thing. Purely conjecture, of course.
Another interesting thing we had in the 80's were intelligent peripherals. A Commodore or Atari floppy disk drive is a computer in itself, running its own software and attached to the computer through a serial communications channel. In the case of the Atari, at least, you could daisy-chain devices off the serial bus in a sort of a network.
Consider your position if you were mistakenly convicted of a crime and incarcerated yourself. Would you have a problem with it then?
Related paper: Context threading

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/syslab/pubs/demkea_context.ps

The gist is you can structure your interpreter to improve branch prediction by keeping your vm & hardware in similar states.