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One of several most detrimental issues that can happen to a business is the development of a culture of entitlement. A culture of entitlement happens if everyone thinks that they are eligible for something since they are located in the building. A good example of this may be someone that believes he or she really should have a job because he or she has been with the business for three decades.
"I am a walking talking counter-example"

A single counter example is not a trend. Your experience is not the entire industry and the tech industry is just a small portion of jobs available to college graduates across the nation. Many, many industries care about degrees and how well you did. Just try to get a job at a major law firm without one. I've had friends apply for jobs as AAs and their grades came up. The tech industry is the exception, not the norm.

So, grades matter. They just didn't for you.
My bad - I just followed the link from the article.

So it's Stateparks.com fault?
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There are pretty strong guidelines with regards to patents for any technology you turn over to an ECMA standard which basically removes your ability to patent troll by legal license.
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I kind of wondered what it looked like before, now that there's no more cloud, but there's still all these comments about how the cloud is annoying.
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You can go here and fix it yourself these days:

http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse
Sorry, US$2000. (Which is still amazing, given the size of the box, but not so much.)

I got it from the “Recent liner freight rates” table on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship#Freight_market) and misread the caption.
In typical MS style though it is incredibly over engineered while not quite doing the job.
I love your super secret method!! In the circles I travel in, there's quite a bit of shoe-gazing... so I am going to try and find that wicker furniture building class - it sounds delightful.
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I'd say it's intentional due to Hanlon's razor in upper management.

Perhaps some logic like this: we can't lose "our" BBM users but blocking IM apps would drive users and developers away. Let's quietly block IM apps at the approval stage!

Also, "anti-competitive" is the wrong description - unless you count killing your own company. :D
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Very true.

I used Scala on a project a year or so ago. I needed/wanted to target the JVM. However, after looking at Java the language, I realized how far it was behind C# now. (I hadn't used Java in several years after going to work for a Microsoft shop).

Scala was fairly easy to learn, the new features of C# really coalesced nicely with the Scala language, so I didn't feel like I had to learn much.

There are some nice features of Scala (var/val immutability, etc) that would be nice to see in C#.

I think Scala adoption in the .NET community may be hampered by 1) continual improvements in the c# language and 2) the F# language.

The F# language in particular because it has full IDE support.

The Achilles heel of Scala was lack of really good IDE support. Coming from C#/Visual Studio, working with Netbeans and the Scala plugin was somewhat frustrating...it wasn't quite ready for prime time. (Considering it was the work of one person, it worked very well but had a few issues).
Sorry, but there is no "semantics" of statistical type. You have semantics, or have not.
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I totally agree with you. Another thing reading your comment is that lots of people don't own computers and only use the Internet through phones. This really screws kids out of a chance to mess around with computers. I know a lot people still get their first computers in college, especially women.
students when they submit the assignment to Turnitin, they assign a license to index the content for plagiarism detection purposes, and for nothing else.

I thought you said it was integrated into Blackboard, thus not requiring students to directly submit their assignments to Turnitin?
Right, unless you want to ruin your point entirely by stopping to define words. Communication relies on shared vocabularies, not just one person's vocabulary.

There are plenty of words I know that I generally avoid in conversation for practical reasons. Entertainment reasons, though... I caught my wife teaching our not-yet-two-years-old daughter to use the word "etiolated" when referring to a green bean that was wilted and yellowish.
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Interesting proposition of presenting ideas in an interesting mannaer. Now We are talking. But it is kind of Art. For few it will look picaso but for the others it will be a piece of junk.
"Anyone who disagrees isn't thinking?"

I didn't say that. But the whole world is not the Bay Area. I've known folks for whom this was an issue.
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hehehe yeah not putting it back for now ;) wasn't a deal breaker here or on disqus !
You believe that an hour or two of someone's time is worth $5? Even McDonald's pays more than that.
You need a laser?
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I think you (wrongly) mean to point the finger at the registries. Registrars don't create the string, they just offer it for sale. The registry creates and manages the string (.xxx, .biz, etc.)
OK, it says they filed a lawsuit against Google because they didn't want Google to LINK to their articles without paying a fee for linking. They won the lawsuit in court and so Google removed links to their articles from their search index, as they requested, and now they are mad about it. Why is the story "Google blocking" them. Google's only doing what a court ordered after the papers sued asking for that.
Can you give an example? I have disliked all the column-based screen reading formats I've ever seen.
It's nice how Python has "is False". In JavaScript it's "=== false". The python version reads a lot better IMHO.
There are definitely two kinds of people in the world: those for whom Design holds a special emotional impact, and those like me who have absolutely no idea what all the fuss is about.
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That article seemed more like an opinion piece. His "facts" consisted of "this person said so" type of arguments. Nowhere did he offer any arguments based on facts of reality. The entire article is based on hearsay. At no point in his rambling, incoherent response was he even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.

What someone else says, especially when they have a special interest, is not the same as the truth.

The banking industry makes money off of debt, of course they are encouraging more of it. That doesn't mean it is good for the country or its people.

Research the facts for yourself instead of blindly believing what your banking industrial complex overlords tell you.
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I'd be interested in seeing any actual evidence you have for any of this, if any. The specific subreddits (such as /r/atheism) might sometimes be construed as a circle-jerk, but I've yet to see out-right hate speech against any sect of person that wasn't down-voted to hell.

That said, if you're a Christian on a site full of free-thinking and free speech such as reddit, you're going to have to be thick-skinned. Most, if not all, mainstream religions have never been kind to free-thinkers of their time, so you have to understand any resentment we may or may not have towards theists.
My impression was that it was just another (small) data point in the long list of negative incentives for chasing down cheaters. Most of it seemed focused on the disproportionate amount of time it took to enforce the rules, and demonstrating how blatant the cheaters are about it.
Agreed. The use of ML is highly dependent on the data. Having a something like the Prediction api is fine, but seems like the use-cases would be rigid.
So the root of the problem is a structural flaw in the implementation of undergraduate education and its conflicting requirements with your other university responsibilities?

The system is broken.
Well, it would have been interesting. There is, of course, quite a bit of controversy over what bitrates a normal person can distinguish. You make it sound like Spotify is being unreasonable, but I think they're being completely reasonable - if people can't hear the difference, why should they devote a large amount of their operational capacity towards making sure all their library is 320kbps?

I'm guessing Spotify would need to receive the 320kbps version from the label for it to be legal/work with their licensing. Can you imagine working with record labels? These are the guys that brought you the RIAA...working with them must be like pulling teeth. And doing all that work for almost no appreciation from your users (who can't tell the difference?).

If the listening experience is the same, your perception of the end product is the same - does it really matter? I mean, bad on Spotify for false advertising and everything, but I wouldn't chalk up their behavior as being a big deal.

I understand that for someone with good taste in music, like yourself, this matters. But for 90% of Spotify's users, I'll bet it doesn't.
"Vermont is a tourist trap and as such doesn't allow billboards. Should they allow them and just tell the leaf-peepers to enjoy the scenery around the billboards? Or is the presence of advertizement, willfully ignored or not, still intrusive?"

Sounds like it would conflict with Vermont's branding. In other words, for Vermont beautiful foliage is a far better inducement to get people to come and spend money than a bunch of signs with words on them.
It's an interesting project, but in my 6+ years of Enterprise .NET development, I've yet to work in a single shop that released a production .NET application that wasn't written in C# or VB.NET. Even F# seems to be very rarely deployed.

It's hard to get excited about any new CLR-based language development when clearly the broader .NET community and the customer base could care less.
In what ways does it not "do the job"? How is it over-engineered?
all the students had received your email demanding those who plagiarized to come in to talk to you, naturally everyone, even those who didn’t cheat, felt very uneasy and worried

This exact scenario happened in a class I attended some years back. Guess who felt nervous? Those who knew they cheated on the assignment and those who plagiarized habitually but didn't remember whether they plagiarized in this instance. The students who would never, ever, ever, copy-paste plagiarize did not feel the slightest bit worried.

That isn't true at all. I've never cheated once -- from elementary school through grad school -- yet I've been accused of it twice by professors. In one case, I created something so novel and excellent, the professor assumed I had taken it from an obscure book; in another, the professor misunderstood how my software worked and thought it couldn't possibly produce the output I claimed.

If a blanket accusation of plagiarism went out, I would be very concerned that another student might have found a way to copy my work, or that I might have subconsciously reproduced something, or that there might be some other false positive. I would definitely show up to find out what was going on.
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ICANN is a bureaucracy granted power by the United States government. Its embarrassing that this kind of linkbait crap makes it to hacker news.

As for the underlying issue, I'm all for new extensions. What bothers me is the dirty games being played when they are sold. Registrars create special rules that benefit themselves such as selling generic word domains off for a premium.
The trouble is, the FOSS packages simply aren't as good.

See this related discussion from Slashdot the other day, which highlighted the practical flaws fairly well: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/12/1855250/Interview-Wi...
This "convenience feature" seems nice at first glance, but it positively frightens me:
Our government can now coerce the general public to join a federal database with details of our private affairs by threatening ill treatment.

Airport checks are degrading. Taking off your clothes, public pat-downs... There's nothing dignifying about treating everyone like they might be a terrorist.

TSA has complete geographic reach in the US. They're in more airports than Starbucks and Cinnabon! This reach means everyone is affected.

I've never been one for conspiracy theories, but much of TSA policy has so far been "slippery slope" forays upon the general population.

Will the next step be a "known citizen" program that includes the features of the "known traveller" program and new benefits for volunteer-surveillance?
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>Grades just aren't a consideration.

This is just flat out wrong. Not all companies use grades, or care about the institution you graduated from. But there are entire industries where your main ticket for admittance is your pedigree. Cheaters water down the degree affecting everyone who didn't cheat.
What would the level of light produced by this red dwarf in comparison to, say, the light produced by a full moon on Earth?
Ruby isnt the same as RoR.

Ruby is a programming language.
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails

I learned ruby on rails by buying a book from barnes and nobles and following online tutorials. no need to pay for a class.
As I understand it, they wanted Google News to stop linking to their articles; not the regular search results.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Force doesn't always look like the point of a gun. More often than not it looks like court time and lawyers' fees.

See Hays Code censoring film from 1930-1968. See RCA tying up the FM radio patent for years in court and NBC blocking the emergence of Television. See consolidation in the radio industry limiting the number of participants in broadcasting.

Wu puts it nicely:

“If making yourself heard cannot be practically accomplished in an actual public square but rather depends upon some medium, and upon that medium is built an industry restricting access to it, there is no free market for speech.

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard.

But barriers in an information industry, trafficking as it does in expressive content, can represent more than a restraint on commercial aspirations; they can, depending on how crucially the information medium figures in a society’s communications, also restrain free speech."

Wu, Tim (2010). The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Knopf. Kindle Edition.
They will whine. Endlessly.

Then again, they'll do that anyway.
Ruling in English: http://www.copiepresse.be/pdf/Copiepresse%20-%20ruling%20app...

In the 2006 injuction, Copiepresse had originally asked the judge to "order [Google] to withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of the Belgian publishers of the French and German-speaking daily press, [it] represents, from all their sites (Google News and "cached" Google or any other name) from the date at which the ruling is served, under penalty of a fine for non-performance of two million euro per day of delay".

And the relevant part of the ruling was thus:

"Orders GOOGLE to withdraw from all its sites (and more specifically from Google News and as far as the Google web search engine is concerned the visible cached links) all the articles, photographs and graphics representations from the authors in respect of whom the intervening plaintiffs can prove that they retain the rights".

In another part of the document, it states that "Google News does not confine itself to placing hyperlinks but reproduces significant sections of the publishers' articles".

If you read the entire ruling, it is quite clear (as far as such a legal document can be clear) that only the copied content on Google News and the cached copies on the search result pages were problematic. Copiepresse or the judge had no issue with hyperlinks.

By taking it further, Google is playing a dangerous power game. It seems to me that this will inevitably lead to a EU anti-trust case.
Or maybe one incompetent overrode them all.

Manager: Evans, get in here! Why are our news articles all over The Google?

Evans: Um, sir, they index our -

Manager: I don't want to hear your technical mumbo jumbo! Get legal on this to get it fixed YESTERDAY!

Evans: There's no need, it's literally a 5-minute fix, I could just add an entry to robots.txt while the coffee is brewing...

Manager: What did I just say about mumbo jumbo? Get out of here, and send in Stevens from Legal on your way.
Is it just me or does the chosen voice sound synthesized?

It would be interesting to hear the original as a comparison -- I'd often prefer to hear a screencast straight from the founder.
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I've always looked at Scala as a great language to go to if you don't want to be on the .Net stack. But if you're happy with the .Net ecosystem, the combination of C# and F# are very tough to beat. The tooling is great, and the languages are really well thought out.

I don't really know what benefits there are to gain from using Scala on .Net other than the fact that it's cool that it could be done.
On a different note, I feel that, If we share our ideas around the product they are working or interested, you will get some response. Again my post and suggestion on Tutorspree got me some response from both the founders. Another Post on Visa issue got quite few upvotes and comments. May be that is the only way to get the attention of HN'ers
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If a TLD registry deliberately creates a TLD in order to shake-down existing trademark holders, they are probably violating U.S. RICO (racketeering) statutes.

I won't hold my breath, but I'd love to see some enterprising attorney general subpoena some registries internal emails...
He's not saying it's logical. He's saying it's inevitable based on how people are wired.
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Are you sure that Firefox sandboxes Flash? Care to give a reference?
So how about not doing it at all? Where in the charter does it say the BBC should be doing anything other than TV and radio?
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It looks like Bing and Mapquest show the same thing mistake.

Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=10001&daddr=40.6125,-7...

Mapquest: http://mapq.st/n5vNiI

Bing: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=40.6055769046077~-74.83...
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My startup, Photochrome, has benefited from its page on FB, yes. But Facebook is not doing all that it can to open Pages to its users because revenue is derived from the buffer inherent in a closed system. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of targeted ads to drive likes/social connections, but free is nice too. Waiting for share-able circles or G+'s business offering...
If you want to cut the deficit, the answer is obvious: modify the budget. It makes no sense to pass a budget saying you will spend X, which directly implies borrowing Y, and then a few months later decide you will not authorize that very borrowing you just authorized, and without any plan to deal with the difference.

Where does it end? The answer to that is easy: it ends when a budget is passed where revenue and spending are more balanced. Trying to take shortcuts by playing games with the debt ceiling is a cheap trick that could be potentially disastrous.
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again, its the registries that do this - registrars are mainly a sales channel, we don't set the rules.
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That is a fairly facetious argument. After all, you can avoid VAT too, just by not buying anything.
Text and out of focus problems are solved in the upcoming Gimp 2.7.

Try it: http://gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu
Fair enough, I see you take the linguist's approach :-)

You might try googling for "statistical semantics" though ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_semantics ).

More relevant to HN, there are entire businesses successfully using this (admittedly primitive) notion of "statistical semantics": Chomp.com, SketchEngine.co.uk, SumoBrain.com , PearsonKT.com etc.
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Tech founder a bit awkward shocker.

The most interesting thing in the whole piece for me is that (a) Zuckerberg took them to the canteen and (b) that he was happy to queue (while they weren't).

Now you can argue about whether it was appropriate to take them to the canteen but I'd argue that if you're going to do it then having the decency to queue is a good thing and the "we don't like to be queued up" is the shitty view.

Never thought I'd find myself on Mark Zuckerberg's side in this sort of thing but there you go.
I'm building my own Bitcoin Exchange as we speak and I can tell you, these security measures are nice (we had most of them planned too, plus some) but real Wall Street level security is only affordable in a more mature market.
You should just post this under main HN.

It isn't really an Ask HN sort of item, and Ask should be used for "Tell HN", as that's kinda what HN main is for.

It'll probably get you more exposure, too. I'm curious to see how the licensing works out.
Ah, now that is better news than 1,000 TC funding articles.
FYI professionals are humans first and professionals second. If think that professionals can easily turn off how they are feeling and always act properly, then I conclude that you have little understanding of humans and little experience of how professionals act.

You've got that exactly backwards. Behaving professionally means turning off emotion and acting appropriately. Anyone whose job involves dealing with people has to do it, from grocery store cashiers and waitresses to doctors and lawyers.

It's expected, and literally millions of people do it successfully every day.
I think your comment is an example of the point of view that the author was talking about. The Google Prediction API won't automate the process of grouping comments or stories by content. Someone has to do the work of collecting the data and preparing the corpus, determining the best way to analyze it and prepping the inputs and outputs. There are levels of understanding and effort between having an idea involving machine learning and getting accurate predictions.

The google prediction api takes care of the code for algorithmic computation. While that's handy, it's only one step of a much larger process. The scale of that process is something that many people don't fully understanding about machine learning (yet).