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"As a rule academics, writers, artists and critics..."

And in the real world, you are an asshole. It's not namecalling, it's an assessment of your character.
true, however guidelines are just that. and sometimes rules are meant to be broken.
Apple and Google are not foreign corporations

You said it.
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Yeah, it's a titanic game of chicken between the dominant parties. As The Economist put it, "biggest unforced error in history still on schedule".

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/07/democrac...
"I’m a big Android fanboy and proud PC owner."

How are both related except being not-Apple? Almost as if you are supposed to pick sides - one being Apple and the other not-Apple. Use what suits you. Doesn't matter who makes it.

"... but I worry about the future."

The author's mom is much happier with an iPhone and the author suggests that everything works. Also a friend is mentioned who uses a Nexus S which is "a pleasure to use". Given how things are it's reasonable to say a stock Android will always exists which Google launches with every new Android release. So what's the worry about?
The course has the requirement: "A solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required."

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Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on this, although I have been doing a lot of reading / studying on social network analysis and network science lately. But just to throw some ideas out and provide some food for thought:

Extrapolating from this fact, shouldn't the patterns (and hence the logic) within social networks hold meaning?

Probably, yeah.

What would be the equivalent of running "pulses" through the social graph?

Depends on how you see the analogy. Research on "diffusion of innovations"[1] could relate to this... the idea being that the introduction of a new "thing" (a technology innovation) is your "pulse" and its spread through the network is the analogue of the neural network processing. Also possibly related would be the idea of "information cascades" in networks[2]. Seems like there's something of a parallel between some of the SNA / Network Theory stuff and the Spreading Activation[3] stuff as well.

I don't know about trying to treat the social network as an analogue of a neural network, but the Social Network Analysis[4] folks certainly study the flow of information through a network. You might poke around the journals and forums on that, or the Network Science[5] and/or Complex Adaptive Systems[6] people and see if anybody is doing anything related.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_activation

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network#Social_network_a...

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory

[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system

There's an interesting wiki full of links related to network science and complex systems here: http://netwiki.amath.unc.edu/ that might be fun to explore.
A paid version with more features seems like a safe way to go; moving into the freemium model, somewhat. If not enough people buy it, you can always fold the features into the free version (though be careful about that; people who do buy a paid version may feel ripped off if the free version has all the same features). Other than that, you can always put a donate buttons somewhere, though I'm not sure how effective that would be.
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I decided to sign up for the course (I don't think I can officially sign up until later this Summer) but I'm not sure that I'll have the time or that I can afford the text. I'm also a Sophomore CS student, so the work would be very challenging for me.
I mentioned a method above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825015) and since entering it, I've thought a bit more about the issue. Most instances will have only two words. If it's three or more and the last word isn't two characters, then if the second to last is one of "north", "south", "west", "new", "washington" or "puerto", then the last two words form the state and the rest is the city. And you can ignore any punctuation.
It says the poster is not the author of the list. Are you talking of @darkgoyle or the original author?
Support. You can properly find some solution to your issue with postgres online. Oracle can send an Oracle certified engineer who can solve your problem.

Consistency. Your enterprise depends on terabytes of hyper valuable information (Wallmart with their sales data), can you guarantee that you won't end up with corruption issues? Or that the next version will work with your system too?

That said as long as you make less than 20 mil/year, Oracle isn't likely to be the best solution.

Just a quick question: which engine do you use for your MySQL system?
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Sounds like a prenup, and a bitter, angry, lonely person.
He was essentially being punished, made an example of for political reasons. I'm not an environmentalist, but thats not right.
Khan Academy has actually covered everything I've gone through in my statistics class and linear algebra classes, so I'll recommend that as I'm going two semesters with AIMA the upcoming year.

http://www.khanacademy.org/#linear-algebra

http://www.khanacademy.org/#probability

http://www.khanacademy.org/#statistics
There is also this to download those 'saved' links:

https://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile
These lectures on linear algebra by Prof. Gilbert Strang are an excellent resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
not so, he was able and willing to pay for the land, but the BLM doesnt allow people to buy land w/o drilling for oil. So he was charged with "disrupting a lawful government activity" - even though in fact those BLM auctions are NOT lawful.
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> Hi! I bet you're super nervous about meeting me, but please don't be -- I'm just a big dork.

Frankly I prefer the original. Same meaning, less couched in happy-happy bullshit. At least with the original I feel like I'm being addressed as an adult. The re-write reads like something a school principal gives to his students. The original - well, with a few tweaks maybe it's something I could imagine sending out myself. The rewrite, with its fake chatty "we're all such good buddies" schtick? never.

"I'm just a big dork", bloody hell, someone please shoot me the day I start saying things like that. It's a sliding scale between sounding like an asshole, and sounded like a goofy douchebag pretending he's everyone's bestest bestest buddy. The original might have been slightly biased to the former; the rewrite is way too far in the other direction.
Actually, someone has been arrested in connection with this case: http://allthingsd.com/20110729/airbnbs-rental-nightmare-ends...
Some people don't want if-else, while or for blocks folded, which will happen if you just fold on indent with considering syntax.
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To this point, there is no better party at breaking the HIG than Apple. Case in point: Garageband for iPad. And likely cases in point: every app they are releasing this fall, which were all made post-Garage Band for iPad.
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Mostly echoing tomjen3 in this, but:

Oracle isn't selling databases. They're selling database support. Similar to how IBM operates - they make good stuff, but you're really not paying for the hardware. If you were, they'd be outrageously expensive compared to something built more simply - see Backblaze, for an example: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h... .
> 3. Actually, if all human genes (and their proteins) were patented to prevent any use by any other parties, then that would be a good thing, because if it turns out that one of them is really useful to treat a disease, then a drug company would be more likely to pursue that as a drug candidate because they could license the patent and protect themselves from generics for a few years to pay off all the R&D costs.

Your hypothesis has been tested and empirically shown to be false. Genes that have ever been patented have had less subsequent innovation than genes that have never been patented: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16213

The reason that this lawsuit is being brought at all is that your interpretation in your final paragraph differs from Myriad's interpretation, so I would not say that everything is 'fine' from either party's perspective.
[citation needed]

Both Illumina and SOLiD are methods of sequencing by synthesis. Depending on how broadly you interpret the patent, both would potentially cause you to infringe.
Why aren't you an environmentalist? I'm not suggesting it's the only philosophy one can legitimately hold, but I'm wondering where your disagreement with the core tenets of environmentalism (sustainable growth and concern for human health and ecological balance) comes from.
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Yes, if your "compiler" translates "assembly with comments" to "assembly without comments," then your metaphor is apt.

Update: After reconsidering, I take it back. Introns are important, especially intron boundaries. So, my new assertion: so long as your "compiler" translates "assembly with comments" into "assembly with the same comments intact," then I agree that your metaphor is apt.
Absolutely some of the best lectures I've ever seen, on the internet or otherwise. Can't recommend Prof. Strang enough.
Write operations to a SQLite file lock the whole file. It's possible that your rails app had enough users doing enough writes so that the processes had to constantly wait.

As long as you are the only user, performance should be constant regardless of file size (minus fragmentation issues)
I wonder if any NeXT projects, after so many years, still exist in some pre-release form within Apple R&D.
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Aside: while you highlight the ego/arrogance of this individual, the last line of your comment - in an orthogonal sense - highlights subtle sexism in language (and hence [cough] thought...?).

cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt
"Whats attracted many of them is the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of special interest truck stops called websites". Oh Kurt Loder.
If those problems had been problems with Linux, we could have solved them.

But the fact that some hardware producer doesn't want to give up the specs so that we can support it? Not Linux problem.

They may be a problem for you, if you want to run Linux but it isn't Linux problem.

This case is the same. I would prefer it was some problem with Android, since we could then solve it but crap-ware on carriers isn't a software issue.
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If you google several of the names from the article, you'll find that many of those engineers are still working on NeXT R&D, although under different product names (OS X and iOS). I wonder if any of them ever imagined that average janes and joes would be running NeXT workstations on their cell phones?
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There's a whole bunch of places to stash unique identifiers. And you only need to overlook one of them, because they will repopulate all of them the next time you hit a KM-using site.

HTTP cookies, flash cookies, ETags, HTML5 databases ... it just goes on and on.
"Some people would be strongly advised to avoid the Internet: the hypersensitive, the humor impaired, and Puritans of every stripe." -- Kurt Loder (MTV), 1995

Great quote.
Sorry, but no. You'll get tracked through ETags at least; if you have a late-model browser you may also be tracked through an HTML5 DB or history object.
The decision, the process and the background are an embarrassment.

It's interesting to me that there isn't even the slightest bit of damage control.

What was it Lou Reed said ... Stick a fork in 'em. Turn 'em over. They're done.
Could you provide some evidence for Mr DeChristopher's ability to acquire $1.8M in short order? The actual issue seems to have much more to do with the legality of the auction than with whether or not he honestly intended to purchase the land for development.
Well, at least the part about "Will someone steal my grand piano?" is gone.
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The links are much appreciated. Thanks! The social network article is especially detailed , glad you pointed it out.

Funny, I was thinking of the exact same example of modeling diffusion of innovations when you edited your post to include that. Using a social network, you could simulate the diffusion of information about a product from the starting point of an advertisement. So theoretically, you could highly optimize your ad campaign to target just the right people that will spread the word of your product the farthest.
I completely agree - Sublime Text is awesome.

I originally coded in C# with Visual Studio. The part I had most difficulty with while switching to Ruby wasn't the syntax change (I loved that part), but the editor. Visual Studio really does a lot for you, but you don't even need to do most of that stuff in Ruby.

Just finding a good text editor for Ruby is a challenge. I'm very picky about text editors, and I prefer to code in Windows, just because it's the most comfortable environment (in my opinion). I was coding in Redcar (http://redcareditor.com/) which is a cross-platform Ruby IDE. It was very buggy and felt gross. It wasn't efficient, and it is missing a lot. I tried Notepad++, but after 5 minutes of it, I didn't want to deal with it. It just felt really old. I tried Vim too, and of what little I do know of making it more productive, I thought it was awesome. I don't want to spend that much time learning how to use the utilities for coding though, I want to get started. I use Vim for editing various config files on my server machine, but other than that I rarely use Vim

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> The only thing anyone can say with any certainty is that the next president of the USA will be a Republican

And they'd be lying.
Firstly, you might want to consider making your description more "dead simple." I had to read way too much of that before it became clear what your extension actually does. Fixing this could improve your bounce rate and lead to more users.

I would have suggested cloud backup and access as a monetization strategy since it's a useful recurring addon...but you appear to have recently added that for free. Whoops.

How about a paid Android or iOS interface?
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Taken to the extreme, one could claim "unlimited" service permitting one http connection a day -- open a second connection, and zero bytes go through until midnight.

You'd say "that's absurd; it's not high speed internet. You've effectively limited my speed." They advertise _unlimited_ and _high speed_. If they throttle, then one may have a case depending on the reasonable expectations one might have about how fast (total throughput) a service labeled as "high speed" should be.

(IANAL - this is not legal advice)
"We’re not thrilled by people who rave endlessly about the wonder of the net. We’re not impressed by brow-furrowing think-pieces about how it ought to written by people who aren’t doing the design and coding to make stuff work. We’d be far happier if pretty much everybody who has ever been described as ‘digerati’ were dropped in a deep hole where they can blabber at each other without inflicting their pompous vacuities on us or the rest of the world."

The websites for that are legion.
I'm not so sure, based on the comment the counterclaim was in reply to. Nonetheless, hopefully these tests better suit the depiction of what we can come to expect from these tracking techniques in mixed session types.
https://github.com/yieldproject/yield

He seems to have removed his readme during the migration from Google Code. It said that it's a staged event driven server in c++.
The coolest instance of this is that Paul Hegarty taught the Fall 2010 CS193p class.
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>DNA is not the drug, the protein is the drug.

The most accurate comparison is source code to binary. DNA is the source code; it gets compiled to protein. It's really hard to say that one is patentable and the other isn't.
Using a social network, you could simulate the diffusion of information about a product from the starting point of an advertisement. So theoretically, you could highly optimize your ad campaign to target just the right people that will spread the word of your product the farthest.

Yep. Gladwell talks about the marketing aspect of some of these ideas in this book The Tipping Point. Actually, despite being a "pop science" book, there's a lot of good stuff in The Tipping Point, in terms of providing good starting points to start exploring. Reading his book was one of the things that got me interested in this field. From there, I started reading the stuff by Duncan Watts and Albert-László Barabási and then some of the more technical stuff. It turns out that network science underlies and unifies all sorts of stuff. It's really proving to be fascinating... well, to me, anyway.
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Using illegal methods to disrupt illegal activities is not legal. You can't shoot a guy to stop him running a red light. There are rules about Citizen's arrests, but they are pretty specific.

On the other hand, making a nuisance bid at an auction (especially when you are forthright about your actions, which he claims he was) doesn't seem like a serious criminal act.
This used to be in their FAQ:

Will someone steal my grand piano?

Highly unlikely. Grand pianos weigh thousands of pounds and do not fit through doors.
Can't speak for dublinclontarf, but personally I'm not too concerned for the environment simply because I'm fairly indifferent as to whether mankind makes it or not.

The Universe has been doing quite well without us for billions of years and will continue to do so if we are too dumb to keep our little rock habitable (which I suspect may be the case).

Oh and we're not planning to have kids :)
Grades are a flawed concept anyway, a bad solution rooted in the factory mentality which underlies much of our education system. Things like this are just symptoms.
And how many millons does he pay more than you?

Stop whining about the wealthy. Steve earned his money, you have no right to them.
the point of the comment i was first replying to was that 'it always worked for brick and mortar shops'

here in LA it's impossible to walk into a bar or restaurant and not see that sign.

but yes, i see your point too.
Would your belief as to the plausibility of a valid claim be different if VP8 were still the closed, proprietary, non-royalty-free product of On2?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'd chalk it up to 2 groups with deep, deep pockets making a long shot bet because they can.

Once Sequoia invested, the acquisition was derisked for someone like Google. Then Google just needed to offer a price of some multiple of the investment ("How about 5x? Not bad for 6 months!"). Conversely, Sequoia might have hoped for a flip knowing Google was so aggressive for social startups at the time and invested accordingly. As far as I can tell, the Color leadership were blinded by their own genius and these early "signals" of success and they screwed up their acquisition, launch, and thus far all meaningful execution.
This looks great -- definitely much more informative than the previous answer, and pretty honest about the (small) risks of using airbnb.
Way to go with the empathy. You'd make a great AirBnb spokesman. :)

I don't think EJ gives a flying monkey's back side about how "disruptive" AirBnb is, or has spent any time thinking about how her story would impact their financing and business model. Because, really, who thinks like that?
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ah nice to know all that. thanks

so, updating my back of the envelope math for the monthly costs:

~US$700 rent
~US$700 for 'living' (food, transport, etc)
~US$4000 for paying two extra junior programers
that will take you around 7 months to burn the 40k.
maybe 6 if account for the trip and initial set-up.

interesting.
Is this still Hacker News, or have I traveled to a strange and horrifying dimension where we've become Reddit? Enough Airbnb posts already!
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#2 is interesting. but my bet is there is already plenty of competition around. first step should be mapping them.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll work on the description. I thought those media quotes pretty much summarized the app, and hence added them at the top.

Sync was one thing that too many people were asking for. So we immediately built it and put it out. We really weren't thinking of monetization back then.

An android / iphone app is a frequently requested feature.. We could charge for that and still not annoy people, because hey, it costs us money to get into Apple's developer program!
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