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I certainly don't know anything about this from firsthand knowledge. The credit you cite in ANKOS happened long after their lawsuits and falling out, so there's no way of knowing how things would have transpired if Cook just went along with things.

I had read this well known review:

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/

"The real problem with this result, however, is that it is not Wolfram's. He didn't invent cyclic tag systems, and he didn't come up with the incredibly intricate construction needed to implement them in Rule 110. This was done rather by one Matthew Cook, while working in Wolfram's employ under a contract with some truly remarkable provisions about intellectual property. In short, Wolfram got to control not only when and how the result was made public, but to claim it for himself. In fact, his position was that the existence of the result was a trade secret. Cook, after a messy falling-out with Wolfram, made the result, and the proof, public at a 1998 conference on CAs. (I attended, and was lucky enough to read the paper where Cook goes through the construction, supplying the details missing from A New Kind of Science.) Wolfram, for his part, responded by suing or threatening to sue Cook (now a penniless graduate student in neuroscience), the conference organizers, the publishers of the proceedings, etc. (The threat of legal action from Wolfram that I mentioned at the beginning of this review arose because we cited Cook as the person responsible for this result.)"

That doesn't put things in a very good light. I have no idea if it is accurate or not. I just found your initial attempt to paint Cook as the bad guy unfortunate. Why would Cook have tried to publish on his own? That would be very unusual, and the simplest explanation is that it must have been some sort of disagreement over academic credit. Why else would he do that?
Thanks for posting the summary. I imagine it helps forming a somewhat coherent group.

Some of your activities could be a good inspiration for the next HN Zurich meetup, which reminds me...
"A way to get thousands of scientific papers on The Pirate Bay"

Awkward.
Yes, that bugged me to - and I'm a "far right Tea Party" type.

Just re-arrange the prior pictures for consistency, and such wordy explanations are not needed to make sense of the visual.

Oh, and the point most certainly, and apolitically, is "wow look at this debt we somehow find ourselves in all of a sudden" - 60% of the debt pile showed up in the last 4 years.
That was an awesome talk. I always knew that the speaker, Mikko Hyppönen, knows a lot about online crime world being a CEO of antivirus company, but that he is such a good presenter was new to me.
An organization such as a bank is a self-consistent entity. And the culture is the organization. Organization === culture. If you don't believe it, look at Microsoft - they cannot change for the life of them. You want to try to change part of the organism and what that will do is to make you foreign to the rest of it. Bad news.

People think that "saving money" will justify changes. It is not true, an organism will not destroy itself in order to become more efficient.
The impact of industrial agriculture can't be undone simply by buying from local farms. It can be mitigated, but mitigated does not equal undone.

If I buy my produce from a local farm whose soil is full of run-off from an industrial farm upstream, I'm still being impacted by industrial agriculture. If my local farm only has one type of banana because industrial agriculture has killed all the other ones (this is a metaphor, not reality), then I'm still being impacted by industrial agriculture. If I cook my locally grown produce with water polluted by industrial farms, I'm still being impacted by industrial agriculture.

Riding your bike to work doesn't make you immune to the impacts of climate change. Neither does buying locally grown produce make you immune to the impacts of industrial agriculture.
Concentrating on your idea full-time will certainly move it along faster than if you are working on it as a side-project.

However, this self-funded model can also be a slippery slope to self-bankruptcy if you're not careful. I would suggest laying out a careful plan beforehand. Figure out what your base living expenses will be, and determine how long you can go on 75% of your current savings. Set some realistic goals and expectations while you have a clear head (now), and as you start to approach a critical low-cash point stop and evaluate where you are vs. what you expected.

Keep in mind that this might make it harder for you to find a job if you take this personal sort of time and it doesn't work out. I would only suggest doing this if you can live for 8 or 9 solid months on savings, and STILL have another 3-4 months of savings to live on after that. 6 months seems like a good checkpoint time, you should have made some serious measurable progress by then. If you haven't, you'll need to start looking for alternate income, which may be time consuming and take a couple of months.

I would also suggest around the 5-6 month checkpoint trying to speak with some angel investors. Partly for the obvious point of raising money, and partly to get some unbiased outside feedback as to the viability and potential market of what you are working on.
Just curious - was it mostly in French? English? Mixed?
No I am saying that if they are doing their jobs properly any data accessible from the internet is data that would not pose (much) of a security threat if released. I agree that most likely a lot of them do poor jobs but you should not underestimate their rules, regulations and strictness when it comes to data security.
Effectively, this doesn't seems to ruin them, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793224: Elsevier 2010's profit is 724,000,000₤ (and that's only 46% of the group's total adjusted operating profit).
Thanks for the suggestions. All of the detections are extremely primitive right now, I didn't get a lot of time to put work into them (the whole project has roughly 2-3 hours of time into it) but tomorrow they will be improved.

As I said to someone in another comment, the main purpose of the framework is socket.io packet analysis. The http detectives are merely for testing at this point while the framework itself matures
> Can someone with more political understanding than I have put all this clusterfuck-shitstorm into perspective for me, please?

Letting Greece into the EU was analogous to marrying someone who you fight with all the time under the assumption that "they will change" once you get married.

Of course Greece didn't really change their spending ways and the fact that we are where we are now is only surprising in that it took so long to happen.

I know a few funds who lost a fair bit of money because they predicted a default too far in advance.
So, software invented on the NeXT includes Doom and the World Wide Web? Not bad for a failed platform.
Video up now: http://blip.tv/file/get/Richhickey-RichHickeyUnveilsClojureS...
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm

$385B of this year's spending is just paying interest on the debt. Scale the $1000B (one trillion) picture accordingly.
the best way: start a more successful competing company - yeah, that's hard in the corporate bank sectors, but much easier than changing a behemoth that does not see the need for change - and behemoths only see the need for change when their survival is seriously threatened.

if that is not a strategy you want to pursue - then first change yourself! do you wear a suit? get rid of it. do you were shoes? get rid of them! so you work in a cubicle? buy a mac air and sit on the floor or at the cafeteria instead? to many meetings - for the next one wear a dress (oh, the good old times...).

first change yourself, then change the company.
All the presentations were and will remain in english. There was a fair share of people that didn't speak french, which is good!
English-only. Which is quite an achievement in France ;)
Considering the premium price of the Adobe suite, it's fair to expect premium support. Hopefully Adobe will get their software sorted at least as far back as CS4.
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If I'd like to "hack" a LAMP-Server I certainly wouldn't start by attacking Apache or PHP.

The biggest attack vector are outdated scripts. Once an attacker has access to PHP, he basically has a normal user login. Running PHP as the apache user gives the attacker full read access to all your web-folders.

If I where him, I'd put 2 lines code into the PHP-Webmail script to send me your e-mail logins and from there I can research further...

using fastcgi for php, block/log outgoing traffic per uid/gid, disable sockets for php uids, use suhosin to disallow certain php calls, nosuid,noexec webroot/tmp nothing really protects you against a mildy creative attacker...

I'm a sysadmin for a dozen LAMP shared hosting sites used by non-tech users and keeping these things secure is a major pain in the ass.

especially if your users want to use these riciolous unsecure php scripts. joomla die in a fire...

I'm sorry disabling version numbers is good idea but calling it "securing" your server is idiotic.

/rant
This is great - thanks for all your comments guys. I will read through all these links and build them into the presentation. I will also share the presentation with you all if any of you are interested.
I think it's very nice. I would like to see the ability to integrate it into other projects, to buy it as plugin instead of a monthly subscription service.

I also think you should give more details on how to create and embed a timeline, a video of the proccess would be excelent.

nice job!
OS X asks to install the JRE for certain programs like Eclipse or Minecraft but when I tried to do it with Netbeans I had no luck. I imagine there are other programs that do not work correctly.
Thanks for the useful feedback. Just to clarify. The banded timeline is a new way of showing timelines with our software. We also have a standard way ofshowing timelines, an example being: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-bas...

And we're also working on a Gantt chart style visualisation, which might fit in with your suggestion 3.

Not sure about integration with PowerPoint and Prezi. Don't get me wrong. It is a great idea. But our timeliness are in HTML/CSS and JS, so am not sure how easy (or even possible) it would be to integrate with them.

Maybe I am being a bit mean with the number of timelines in the free account but I worry that if I give the free accounts too much, no-one will upgrade.

Anyway, you have given me food for thought. Thanks!
And yet another control that pretends to be a dropdown box, but isn't. No. I'm not complaining about the appearance or the fact that it has a search field while the real dropdown doesn't.

I'm complaining about the way it responds to mouse actions: The real dropdown box, on my machine, expands the menu on mouse down after a no-doubt OS-specific delay. The fake dropdown doesn't - it only reacts on mouse up.

Of course, you can't make a a control work exactly like its native counterpart - but that IMHO just means that you shouldn't even try imitating them and provide its own unique look.

I really dislike nearly-native controls - they feel wrong to me.

But don't get me wrong: The controls are really cool and incredibly useful. If only they didn't try to mimic the native look without quite matching it.
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The point is they're unfunded: we don't know where the money is coming from, short of raising taxes or printing more. It's like putting the kids' college educations on a graph and realizing there's no current or future income/savings to cover it.
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A video tutorial would be great. And is definitely something on our todo list. Along with a FAQs and other useful stuff.
A simple text-based todo editor for Eclipse
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This nearly completely breaks the select ui on iOS. It should do some kind of feature detection so that it can disable itself on browsers that have alternate ui's for controls like this.

For example, this converts a select menu to an input field. On iOS the keyboard comes up instead of the select control.
Then the employee must have granted the employer a complete and exclusive right to use the copyrighted produces. There is not other solution: otherwise you can extort your company by threatening to leave and revoke all their rights to use your work of the past years. Many types of companies are near impossible without exclusive rights to the fruit of their employees' labour.

This is why in for instance The Netherlands, in every contract, an employer will by default demand all the rights related to work you do in your spare time, if it is related to your profession. And this makes complete sense: in the past, there have been problems with people that loved their job, did some work in the evenings for purely job-related stuff, became disgruntled later and successfully sued to the company for infringement.
My problem with this is that when I see the box (e.g. Multiple Select), I perceive it as a text input. I'd be ill-surprised to discover on a site to (all of a sudden) have this protruding box appear out of nowhere.

Better solution: on mouse click, hide the box. Only show the box for autocompletes.
They are most likely putting the bitly links in parenthesis so that the story can be printed as is.
Changing culture (or changing anything for that matter) is a REALLY DIFFICULT job and it takes a long time.

There's an excellent substantial podcast/interview on this subject on "software engineering radio": http://www.se-radio.net/2009/06/episode-139-fearless-change-...

Linda Rising wrote a great book about changing culture, "Fearless Change". She actually approaches this topic pragmatically using the concept of "patterns" as the tool. (http://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Change-Patterns-Introducing-I...)

IMHO, you're in for a long ride if you want to make substantial changes in culture. I think you really have to love the place and people you're working with to be able to tolerate the amount of highly cooperative effort and "politics" it will take.
Awesome. This is going into my UI toolkit.
Nearly off topic, but all these debt issues make me think that this is why "world level" currency like bitcoin can be interesting. If it starts to spread enough to reach a critical mass over several economies, this kind of electronic currency can be the only currency disconnected from a single economy. The value of such currency would be function of the volume shared in each economy using it, where economy would be the US, EU, Japan, China etc.

You could say, a bit like gold, but easier to pay with.

Note that I am not saying I endorse bitcoin or any kind of crypto currency and recommend you to exchange your Euros/Dollars for some. For me, it is too speculative at the moment. This is just the concept which I find interesting.
This link seems important to me with regards to the discussion on the "Should scientific articles be available free online?" link[1]. It shows that clearly the closed publication company could continue to do their useful work (organizing conferences, administrative tasks around papers reviews, distributing printed version of journals, maintaining website and databases of publications) while lowering their prices a lot.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790739
It's important to note, it's not the amount of debt that is CDS-insured but the number of CDS contracts that have been written.

The same 4.8B could have been insured 1000 times.
Anyone with access to classified information is given extensive security training, with regular refreshers. This means that if classified documents to make their way onto an unclassified system, it was done by someone who was specifically trained not to do so.

You are correct that, despite this training, classified information do sometimes accidentally make it onto unclassified computers. It is usually discovered almost immediately (most often by the person who did it), and almost always involves very small amounts of information (it's hard to "accidentally" copy large numbers of files). The bigger the collection of documents, the more likely it is to be discovered quickly. These events are a huge deal because the cleanup process is so extensive and thorough.

I've read a lot of conflicting reports in various articles, probably because most journalists don't understand that words like "secret," "classified," "confidential," "restricted," and "sensitive" all have very specific meanings in a military context and are not interchangeable. As far as I can piece together, the documents in question were merely "restricted," not secret (not classified at all, for that matter).
I found the books by Tom DeMarco (who became famous for his novel "The Deadline") to be very insightful as well as instructive on that topic.

In particular, his book "Slack" (2001) has a chapter "Managing Eve" where he describes how to manage exactly that kind of great employees we use to call "geeks". He doesn't mention the word "geek", though. Instead, he calls those people "Eve" ... for quite interesting reasons!
This project looks awesome. This stuff is annoying to have to replicate yourself, and I'm glad to see MooTools support as well.

That said, my first reaction when looking at the first Country dropdown example was that I liked the native one better since in OS X it shows me dozens of choices at once (fills most of the screen vertically) and then in the "after" suddenly I was constrained to only seeing 7 countries at a time. Not a huge deal but felt like a loss in usability (but a gain visually). If the faux dropdown was just a little taller in height it'd be better.

Secondly, this just killed iPhone support. Apple did a good job with <select>s on iOS and this completely breaks it. It should just turn itself off on iOS.
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Does that makes him a hipster?
Looks fantastic, but here's another feature it doesn't have which makes it feel less native.

Try mouse scrolling too far whilst the menu's options are open/visible. The parent page scrolls as well when you reach the start/end. This doesn't happen with a normal select menu.

I wonder if there's a way to do an event.preventDefault() on the mouse scroll event when reaching the end of the list?
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Usually contractual agreements between an individual and a company, such as a university, can override the default rights granted by law. You can always sign away your rights, so we would at least need to know the default clauses in employee and university-enrollment contracts.
Don't manage. Lead them.
That is true of work done in University research labs, but course work, where you are paying to be there, not so much. Especially in undergrad and masters programs where students are less likely to work for the university.
It was a really fun night: quite different to most meetups (thanks to the diverse range of people that HN attracts)... so there was something for everyone!
This is a nice function but

1) This only works if everything is really a seq so [[1 2][3 4] 5] does not work
2) the name is not optimal
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I don't hate Java. I just prefer to write code in Ruby.
It'd be better if it looked for the HTML5 "placeholder" attribute even in older browsers rather than having to use "title" also. Some JS plugins [1] do this to replicate placeholder support in older browsers and I don't think there's any downside.

[1] https://github.com/mathiasbynens/Placeholder-jQuery-Plugin
The first question: what power do you have to affect change? Are you senior management? Or "protege" of someone high up in the company? If not, your odds of bringing in sweeping cultural change are low. Very low.

Second question: how much reach do you need? Do you want to work in: (a) an environment where no one wears a suit, (b) an environment where no one has to wear a suit, (c) an environment where tech people don't have to wear suits, (d) an environment where suits aren't required but everyone seeking promotion still wears one? The more people who will have to change to suit your vision, the lower your chances of success.

Third: the problems with your work aren't abstract cultural issues. They're concrete. So focus on those, because some are very easy to fix and some are get-another-job-now intractible. What's the real problem? If you enjoy the work but hate the "sterile, dreary" office decorum, suck it up because that's a small issue. If the problem is bad management and you're a grunt, best to leave on your own terms because raising the issue could have you leaving not on your own terms. If the problem is bureaucracy, ask your manager if it's possible to hire another person to manage the bureaucracy so technology people can be more productive. Abstract cultural problems are vague and hard to specify, much less solve. Concrete problems have solutions (but the solution may be that you need to get another job.)
Promote https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Intrapreneurs... in your Bank.
Google does the same.
"Refactoring came to us from Java"

Maybe the word came from the Java community but people have been carefully restructuring code since code was invented.
I'm not looking to profit from this so I'll give you a brief summary of the concept.

Essentially, the idea is to remove, or at the least, decrease, political influence over science. The problem right now is that very few scientists can research things which actually interest them. Often, they are working for a company which is attempting to make more money, or the military, which is attempting to kill more people, or academia, where the idea is to get the most prestige. All of those things directly decrease the quality of research and have no place in science.

As a scientist, I could go onto this site, write up a hypothesis and outline the experiment that needs to be performed to test it. Then, people who have an interest in the particular piece of research could provide funding, loan equipment or even directly contribute by becoming part of the team. After the experiment has been completed, the results are released in the public domain (this also helps to break up the monopoly that scientific publication have). Crowd sourcing is then utilised to verify the findings and discuss their implications.

To put it another way, science should be something that everyone can do, given enough free time and determination, yet, as things are, only a select few get to do this and often have to deal with mountains of politics to get to that stage.
Well my guess is that Groupon is appealing because it is purely an advertising platform, while Sun was a big company with lots of different products. Java was one of them, and while it would have been great in hindsight for Google to take control of the Java related patents, they would have also had to deal with all of Sun's other products (including hardware) which would not have been so appealing.

What would Google have done with Sun's hardware business? Shut it down? Gone into the hardware business themselves?

Groupon is pie in the sky sort of stuff and thus easier to acquire logistically speaking.
What I find most depressing is that you hear such moronic examples of patents that on reading this title a tiny part of me was thinking "well.. maybe..".

Not sure if that says more about the patents system or my awakeness, I hope the former.
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