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HTTP response codes don't cover all errors though. They're good at describing problems with HTTP communication, but aren't adequate for describing non-HTTP application errors.

Additional error indicators are fine (much better than overloading the meaning of HTTP codes), but they should be sane, meaningful, consistent with developer expectations, etc. It's that part where the implementation is weird.

I looked at their site and saw they're hiring. Being a problem solver I tend to think "I can fix your problems, let me help", so I looked to see if they need an architect or chief scientist or something... but when the architect position ( http://mixpanel.theresumator.com/apply/Eoh3qJ/Solutions-Arch... ) has the minimum experience of "Student (College)"... I just face palm and am not surprised by any of this - I bet their definition of solutions architect is really just sales support.

I think they just need to raise the calibre of their backend, the signals here (this article, the error codes, the job advert) are not things that inspire confidence in the product. As the main thing that they do is crunching data I'm taken aback that even their backend engineer position advert ( http://mixpanel.theresumator.com/apply/CiOzuu/Software-Engin... ) doesn't even have the word algorithm in it, but maybe they have a wizard who does that for them.

Am I being harsh? Probably... I don't know the guys there and I may just have a very narrow reading of too little info to make such assumptions, so to be a bit balanced (I'm British, it's what we do), they clearly "get" reporting needs.

Their interfaces are show that they understand the kind of thing people want to see. I was impressed by those, I've done reporting a lot, and so many times you see reports that forget that the reader is trying to understand something. So it's refreshing to see reports that appear to remember that.
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However, I don't follow the opposite train of thought.

If linking to copyright infringing material is infringement itself, then it surely must be infringing to link to material that is linking to copyright infringing material? Otherwise Piratebay could just give pointers to 3rd party services that host torrents that point to infringing material. (Well, magnet links could be considered links to torrents that link to warez.)

But that technically leads to a situation where you can't link to any site that could host links (to links) to infringing material. Mention piratebay.org -- oops, a link. Or you previously linked to some site that now has these copyright infringing links. Boom, you're infringing copyright.

That might be nerd's thinking but you really do have to have the line drawn somewhere because laws must generally be well-defined. You can't have a gray area where legality of something depends on the whim of the case. Linking is either illegal or it isn't, and if it's illegal it must be clear what constitutes linking.
"If Google doesn't have enough money to buy up patents, who does? Twice it has tried and been outbid, not by a single competitor but by a group of them joining together. In fact, that's where, to me, the real antitrust issue surfaces, that by joining together to squeeze Google out of two auctions, Google's competitors appear to have been plotting against it in ways that really must invite scrutiny, which, by all reports is now happening again."

I think this is the main point of this story and this whole issue, and that's what Google wanted to show us. If Google can't even get patents to protect themselves, because all the others keep banding together and not letting them win any auction, then something is very wrong here.

You may say, yeah but then why doesn't Android have its own patents? Well, I don't think it would've been possible for them to get that many patents in this short amount of time, and I don't think it would've been possible for Apple either.

Look at Apple, they are winning with patents not related to smartphones. If Apple wasn't this 30 year old computer company, their patent chest would've probably been close to zero, and a lot of these companies would've come after them, too.

Here's a look at the mobile patents everyone has. You can see Google is not in top 10, but take a closer look - neither is Apple.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-biggest-ip-war-ches...

So what would've happened if Apple didn't have any of their computers patents from before, and they actually were a new smartphone company? They would've probably gotten sued into oblivion as well, especially since they seem to make a lot of money from iPhones. Their handful of mobile patents would've meant nothing in the face of the mobile patent war chest of Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft, HP(Palm patents) and Motorola.

You can't create something as complex as a smartphone and a smartphone OS today, without infringing a ton of patents. So if a new mobile company can be crushed because others have more patents than them, then what does that say about the patent system? It says the patent system does nothing to protect and encourage innovation, but it lets the big incumbent companies crush the new guys with their large patent war chests. It's bad enough when it's just one of them, it's much worse when they all join together against that company.

If you can't build anything complex, without being a 10+ year old company (in that market) and not having thousands of patents - then something is very wrong with the patent system that was supposed to help start-ups and innovation. I think they all know this, but since they know they have the upper hand with current broken system, they will fight to maintain the current system.
It's amazing that Yahoo is still pulling so much traffic: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com+yahoo.com+goog...
See the paper by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan 'Program Design in the UNIX Environment' (aka 'cat -v considered harmful'):

http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
> If only a few experts understand what happens how could the system be reliable and secure?

Would you rather fly in a 747, or something from 100 years ago? The latter is far, far simpler and easily understood by non-experts.
I actually enjoyed "Lila" a bit more.
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I think the question is a little too broad for helpful specific answers.
This guy is just awesome, i can only imagine how broad his knowledge as a graphics programmer must be going through all this from the very beginning, always delivering next generation gaming engines.
Also love the fact that hes still a die hard coder after 20 years of doing this and doesnt want to stop anytime soon.
Not to forget that he is a part-time rocket scientist :) Love this man!
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Technology is improving at a higher rate than humans -- our wetware/body have fundamental limits than hardware/software. Hence, at some point -- sooner or later -- we start to run out of jobs that we are willing to pay humans to do instead of machines. (Lowering minimum wages could delay but not stop that.)
Probably more like a negotiating tactic. The more that they ask for the more the actual amount awarded will be.
Well, yes, instead of having potholes fixed, we'd be repairing the frame of our cars instead, at much much higher cost (and not doing other things). Further, pothole fillers end up employing lots of different kinds of people than a millionaire would. Finally, banks tend to loan to people with money... they don't typically loan to those who don't have money; it's not a zero-sum game.
The money they are looking for ($200 million) doesn't sound like they are going to stick with their current business plan. They might going to expand somewhere else.
Doubts are unavoidable. I'm in the same boat at the moment. People don't understand new ideas in general, only once it becomes mainstream. I think what's important is to go talk to people that would be potential customers and listen to them. Listen to what their doubts are, and build your solution to answer these doubts. If they think they would not use your solution, ask them why. They will tell you a reason, ask why this reason matters to them. etc. By doing that enough times to enough people, you will get a feel of why there is resistance to your vision, at which point you can either adapt your vision or go do something else.
Patents are not used for crushing other companies. They are used for getting a fair recompensation for the IP you have created. That usually means licensing fees. Apple has acquired several licenses for their use in iOS (well-known example: h264) and, guess what, they are not whining about it.

Acquiring "bogus" patents in order to defend from legitimate ones you infringe upon is plainly evil as it twists the whole patent system (and is one of the reasons why our current patent system is broken). Incidentally, that's what Google planned to do. That doesn't automatically mean they are now an evil corporation, but it's not fair to describe the whole scheme as righteous. It's just business.
Well, if you yelled "down with government" on a street in North Korea you wouldn't be anonymous for long. If you yelled "f*ck the police" in the hearing range of an American cop you'd probably be identified and harassed. What's at stake is a social compact that we respect free speech and privacy. Real name policies violate that from the outset. Of course, it keeps comment sections civil but you don't go to a random bar with a sticker stating your full name and address. But that doesn't make the interactions any less meaningful. It's not so much the anonymity but being able to keep a relaxed distance from being judged for what you say or who you are.
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I have my own private registered consulting company (just me and my co-founder) and work from home. My wife spends all here time taking care of our kid and the house.

My question is would you consider it ethical to give her a salary out of the company? Let's assume that legality is not an issue since I can fool the law by saying she works as a consultant (since she is as qualified as me in the same field). But the fact is that I also bounce of lots of my company related stuff with her.

The sole reason to pay her salary is to avoid taxes. My company has accumulated quite large sum of money and if I pay it all to myself, I have to give out 1/3 as tax. I reduce tax by splitting the salary with her. To me, she is as hardworking as I am, makes lots of sacrifices for my company (I have to frequently work overtime). We don't have a maid or a cook and no outside help. She does all things herself. Partly, I am fooling myself into thinking she even deserves a salary :-)

So, anyway, what would you hacker news people do in such a situation? Would you consider this ethical (if that's the right word)?
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I think technology slowly obsoletes economy. Pushes it towards more and more superficial exchanges and dissassociates price and value.

Since society is built on economy it finds out clever ways to no longer valid equation work = wealth

Young black people are missing jobs? Criminalise the thing they do and put them in jail. They are no longrt missing jobs an a handful of people might be hired to build and upkeep facilties where they are held.

There are a lot of such mechanisms that suck excess of available human work.
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It says linking to copyright infringing material is not infringement.
You completely underestimate how the average person finds something more important to spend money on now rather than saving for their future. The reason we have social security is because people don't save what they need to. If you don't have this, most of the population will be in poverty when they retire. Social security also has things like survivor's benefits: payments to children and dependents who have lost a wage earner.

I don't think the Social Security program is at all broken; what's broken is that we've used the Social Security surplus over the last 20+ years to help fund a general fund spending deficit.
I had to do a double take when I saw Bayes's theorem on that illustration - "wait a second, did I read that domain name correctly"?

Even more surprising is that they would use the terminology of prior and posterior probabilities and the like, applied correctly. It gives one the impression that the author knows what he is talking about.

I don't know how motivating this article would be to someone without training in probability theory, though. I mean, it's all well and good to be factually correct, but showering people outside of the field with technical terms and "weird" claims can, I think, be very counterproductive.

Concerning the theorem itself, no effort was actually made to at least rephrase it in a more friendly way. It's not enough to just poke fun at yourself with "(trumpets sound here)". Many people, even with formal mathematical training do not intuitively understand why it is true, and without that, applying it for probability calculations would feel like hollow and mindless mechanical work.

To that effect, I also recommend Eliezer's explanation, found at [0]. I must admit that I kind of glossed over it, because I had the correct intuition regardless of not formally knowing the theorem (no idea how to reproduce that, unfortunately, because it would be a pretty good tool), but even so, I found it both funny and informative. And as a bonus, it doesn't assume that you have any rigorous training in mathematics (a common misconception among mathematical explanations).

[0] : http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
We can argue about what is fair forever. Some people at Sun (Oracle) can say it's unfair to take Java language they developed and offer it in Android without paying anything to them. And Steve Jobs can say it's unfair to use ideas from iPhone Apple spent years working on in Android without even asking them.

The original post was about MS & Apple being anti-competitive by using patents. To me, using a dominant position in search/ads market to crush competition everywhere else is no better. This is exactly what Google is doing.

You should ask yourself a question: will you be better off when Google one day dominates web, search, mobile, browser, possibly even desktop OS markets and desktop software and there will be no Apple or Microsoft and everyone will be forced to play the same game as Google? Will it be better off for everyone to make revenue on ads and pay Google a 50% share? I don't think it's going to be very good. This is why I would like both Apple and even MS also be players in the mobile if they offer good products. Competition, not domination by a single company is what actually drives innovation. Whose ideas will Google steal next when Apple is out of mobile business?
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The whole dumping argument is a red herring and a waste of time. Just because something is offered for free doesn't mean its dumping.

Here's a definition of dumping: http://www.glin.gov/subjectTermIndex.action?searchDetails.qu...

Dumping only really has any meaning in international trade, and it refers to predatory pricing policy -- such as when Japanese steel companies were accused of dumping steel on the US market in order to kill their US competition a few years ago. To any reasonable person, there is a clear difference between steel and a mobile operating system. But, supposing this were in scope, if Google makes a profit from mobile advertising or takes a small cut of sales of Android phones by bundling Google apps, Android is still not going for less than market value in any kind of predatory manner.

If Android is being "dumped" to get an advantage in the advertising market, you would have to take the argument further on to other absurd conclusions. Should free newspapers be prevented from "dumping" in racks nearby paid-subscription newspapers? For that matter, is Craigslist dumping classified ads? Should Apple accuse Google for dumping email service in order to help corner the advertising market, since gmail is free and mac.com email is not? The absurdity continues.
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The ensuing blame game and rage depresses me:

http://youropenbook.org/?q=AAA+obama&gender=any

http://youropenbook.org/?q=aaa+republicans&gender=any

http://youropenbook.org/?q=aaa+democrats&gender=any

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http://youropenbook.org/?q=aaa+politicians&gender=any

I have my own opinions as to who's responsible and what amger is well placed, but I think one can draw their own conclusions.

Yes I know these are a limited sample set of people who have set their profiles to public. But still...
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I dont really care much who owns those patents to be honest, I care about those companies who consistently, loudly and vocally oppose software patents.

To me, this argument looks like:
<some stuff I dont care about in the slightest>
Google: Software patents are bad and are going to be used against us.

That puts me, in this fight, squarely on the side of google.

But I am not fussy, if Microsoft comes out again and vocally declaims the evil of software patents, they can be on my side again as well.

What I really want to see is large software companies consistently and actively working against software patents in every direction, putting the patents they control into a pool that everyone can join on the agreement that they never sue anyone for patent infringement, and giving everyone in the pool equal ownership of the patents in there.
While also working to lobby for overriding reform of the patent system.

that would be a good start, and I dont see anyone doing it at the moment.

So really, sod them all.
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By the same logic, you should be able to "program with programmers", and apply the same thinking to teams of developers. It's exactly this MBAness that HN rails against. I'm not saying one paradigm is superior to the other, but I would caution against the facile sort of thinking that places developers above other mere mortals. It's tempting to think that we need to be able to spread our wings and realize our potential, while they are best managed and regimented in a programatic fashion, but that sort of distinction requires an argument that seems to be lacking.

If we acknowledge that a sales force can benefit from this kind of regimentation, then we must either allow for the same to be true of developers, or offer a convincing argument as to why it can't be.
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So you think the US has had inflated ratings for years just like with subprimes? And should be even lower rated?
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So they rated junk as AAA. Do you imply US bonds are junk because they have been rated until now AAA by the agency?
Those don't come into play because Moody's and Fitch maintained their AAA ratings for US treasuries.
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Those horrible evangelicals and ... some other conservatives. Fukuyama chose a safe target. (Or not. I didn't listen to the speech.)

"Time magazine's Joe Klein has suggested it is legitimate to look at the religion of neoconservatives. He does not say there was a conspiracy but says there is a case to be made for disproportionate influence of Jewish neoconservative figures in US foreign policy, and that several of them supported the Iraq war because of Israel's interests, though sometimes in an unconscious contradiction to American interests:
"I do believe that there is a group of people who got involved and had a disproportionate influence on U.S. foreign policy. There were people out there in the Jewish community who saw this as a way to create a benign domino theory and eliminate all of Israel's enemies....I think it represents a really dangerous anachronistic neocolonial sensibility. And I think it is a very, very dangerous form of extremism. I think it's bad for Israel and it's bad for America. And these guys have been getting a free ride. And now these people are backing the notion of a war with Iran and not all of them, but some of them, are doing it because they believe that Iran is an existential threat to Israel."[75]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
I'm curious, besides having locked in throngs of users with their free email system years ago, what other competitive advantages does Yahoo have?
I dont understand how you can tell bogus patents from legitimate ones? legally speaking, they all look the same to me.
could you give me a run down on the differences?
Many of the updates have introduced bugs that, from an outsider's perspective, ought to have been obvious. If I were a gambling man, I'd bet they don't do any kind of automated testing. Add Notch's peculiar reservations about Git to that, I suspect that agile practices are way too advanced for their team.

I'm just speculating of course, as are we all. Just saying that from my perspective, they don't look like a team using agile practices. They don't look like a team using any kind of standard industry practices at all, really.

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