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Why shouldn't they be patentable. If your company spends money and time comig up with a novel way to sort or search or compress information, why should you not be afforded the same protections as a company that came up with a novel way to store energy, or convert energy?
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read on page 5 or so that he was 22 when he started. i'm 22, too. shit i will really stop wasting time with pc games and stuff.

time is the fire in which we burn...

edit: of course this are just my thoughts right now. i suppose i won't have the persistence
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good to see the requirements, excellent illustration.
That's why its imperative that founders learn the effective strategies themselves. The content is important as any product strategy.
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On MBTI: you have misgivings about the test, not the type system itself. I did a bunch of different tests over my lifetime, yielding various results. However, in a group session where all the different factors were explained and 'tested' with examples, I clearly figured out that I'm ENTP.

Don't do a test. Just read up on it and figure it out.

(note that MBTI itself is frowned upon by most psychologists - nevertheless, I find it a useful tool in explaining the basic attitudes and actions of myself and others)
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I don't see the point in making these subtle pattern distinctions. The model notifying the view is not significant enough of an architectural criteria to merit its own term. I submit that there are dozens of such architectural variances between MVC frameworks and that defining high-level terms to codify those differences isn't helpful. I'll even take it a step further and suggest that a focus on taxonomy diminishes ones ability to think fluidly about the low-level architecture and how to improve it to solve different problems.

This is quite different from (for example) the debates about the definition of REST. In that case there is a seminal paper and all kinds of subtle points leading to material benefits in web apps. What does Model2 have to teach us?
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I've deleted all Facebook cookies from Chrome and Safari, and now I use Facebook exclusively with a Fluid.app SSB with private cookie storage.

I can recommend this setup for any Mac users willing to spend $5 for Fluid. Alternatively you could probably rig up a 'Facebook' script to launch Chrome with a separate profile to achieve the same results.
Do designers need to code?
I rooted mine just to get rid of two things:

Facebook app
Amazon MP3 Store app

Was worth it.
I admit I exaggerated, the point I wanted to make in the post that got downvoted was that health insurance doesn't reduce the costs of healthcare. Health insurance is a way to share the costs, that's it. Real cost reduction comes from improved technologies, healthier environments, and healthier behavior.

I'm not saying there aren't other major issues with regards to the FDA and the expense and politics surrounding clinical trials, just that existing large companies are probably not going to innovate with substantially more success than a healthy startup and academic ecosystem.
It's an old problem. The people who are willing to do the killing are the people who rise to power in such systems. These are the people who are least likely to continue to uphold true utilitarian values once they've attained that power.
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Sorry I nuked the submissions for now. I've got real work to do for now, but I will put the site back up with better spam control. It was a fun experiment :-)

Mods, feel free to delete the post.
Interesting, but I would say a little bit shortsighted. There are jobs that CAN'T be outsourced and are pretty well defined. We are very far from automating away the jobs of nurses and auto mechanics.
There is a 100% chance that I was born.
I feel you! I have the same problem. I can't remember how many times someone walked up to me saying hello and I froze still cause I can't remember who he or she is..
Haha, it was fun, wasn't it? :D
iPad only if tablet only: Android tablet market is still immature by comparison
For Christ's sake, do we really need 4 or 5 anti-Facebook threads, especially when they haven't done anything malicious? This place is nearly as bad as Reddit. I am kind of upset about this.
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What functionality do you require that only a native mobile application can provide?

One option is a mobile-optimized web application, with simple native apps wrapping your URL, one for each supported mobile platform.
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Fair enough -- you're correct.

Coming back to the original point (and not in response to you in particular), using "begging the question" to mean "raising the question" is very common now, and trying to object to that does no one any favours.
As far as I'm concerned, I check it every other day and spend little time on the website but I'm connected almost all the time to the chat (as I have set up my account in Pidgin).
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In my opinion the term MVC should be avoided. It was badly defined from the very start and has been misused to the point where it is mostly a buzzword. Beginners spend precious time trying to understand the concept using flawed guides and tutorials, whereas experts dismiss the term as being to unspecific. My favourite CS teacher tought us MVC simply by suggesting that we made a command-line client before building a GUI. There must be more practical ways like this which one can use to explain the idea.
Next time. I would say it counts toward the last option, but I definitely will explicitly add it for the next poll
According to this [1] - "Some 31 percent of Google+ users polled said they have already abandoned their accounts or not written any posts yet on the site"

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-05/google-may-pass-twi...
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"In my experience engineering jobs are all about working with people."

I completely agree. In my relatively short (four years) but intense (four jobs, in four different countries) engineering/programming career I still haven't been in a situation where social interaction wasn't a daily requirement in order to do a good job.

At the very least you must be able to interact successfully with your fellow programmers, and your boss. Without being confident in your relationship with them, everything becomes more difficult, asking for help, helping someone, providing feedback, admitting mistakes and getting acknowledgment for a job well done.

In a large or very well organized company it might be the end of your social commitment, but in a good part of them you are likely to deal sporadically with customers, engineers from other companies, production, sales, technical support.

If you get to be known as "that guy", if you get to be known at all, promotions and raises become almost impossible to achieve, and in hard times you'll be the first in line waiting for the axe to fall.

Of course I'm talking in my experience, I have no doubt that there are companies where introverts can thrive. But is it to their (ours) benefit ?

I have been an introvert all my life, and getting a job helped me in being more open (in a "sink or swim" way) even more than making me a better engineer.
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

Y'all right, only I just don't have the energy. I say. But maybe I have. You know, it sounds great to be a good painter (or musician or stuff) but then you (at least me) ends with "how is this worth the energy spend, isn't everything irrelevant in the end? why would i care? it is not relevant."

Sometimes i conclude that the only goal of being a good xyz is to be admired by others. If it wouldn't be for others then it would be for me. But, say, when i was the last man on earth, would i say "yeah, 40 years of painting every day.. i'm good now, that was worth it"... Would I?

Working on my skills just to get better would lead me to the (maybe right) feeling that I am better than others, making me looking down on others. I really don't want end up looking down to others (and envy those who are better than me). Can someone understand me?

I read the forum that the artist was really frustrated often. I know that. Is everything really worth the hassle? :/
This is probably due to incompetence, not malice. Bugfix a'hoy?

They probably meant "It is our intention not to collect information..." rather than "Microsoft does not collect information..."

If you make a mistake which contradicts something you've said in a formal contract, is there any way to basically say "Whoops, my bad, yo. We're pushing out a bugfix ASAP"? Would that even 'matter'? I guess it depends entirely on the exact contract, so there's probably no way to answer that.

I mean, people make mistakes. It's life; it happens. I'm just wondering if the legal system reflects that fact at all, or whether it's a hardcore stonefaced slavedriver that laughs at how naive you are for thinking you get a second chance.
Thanks for the update, that Fluid now has private Cookie storage.
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I don't see how you can call this a subtle pattern distinction.

MVC contains 3 words: 'model', 'view' and 'controller'. These interact completely different in "real" MVC and in most "MVC" web frameworks.

The point isn't the observer pattern; that's just a tool. The point is that in MVC, only the controller talks to the model. The model in turn notifies the view, but doesn't know anything about it. In Rails & co, the controller knows a lot about the view. Also, there typically is only one view per controller. These limitations are not there in real MVC, because the controller does not know anything about the view.

This nearly complete independence of the three components of MVC is what makes it good. Exactly this is what traditional web frameworks don't have.
Does saying I love creating awesome code that makes people stop, look and use it help? Or that I enjoy designing something developers look forward to working on?

I want to make health IT products that truly make a person's life better.
It's not his duty to report such things.

No one is "honor-bound" to report vulnerabilities; in fact, it seems unethical to expect any random person to try to fix any random problem they stumble upon, don't you think?

My philosophy: it's backwards to look down on those who don't report vulnerabilities; it's better to be pleasantly surprised when someone does.

But he's certainly not "hurting" anyone at all. He didn't disclose any details of the attacks.
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In 2007 I created an account and used it for a few months but it wasn't very interesting so I closed it. I found that it was maintaining artificial relationships with people I wouldn't be in contact with otherwise. It creates an illusion of connection, not real connection.

About a year ago I had to create an account for development that I use when clients require Facebook integration. I found the API to be slightly annoying to work with.

My view on social features is that they can add a lot of value to sites that have a real purpose beyond just being social: Delicious, StackOverflow, Lang-8, SoundCloud, GitHub, etc. are great.
Many users would be annoyed to lose their persistent login. Disabling 3rd party cookies globally will break many sites that use 3rd party services and may be against the site's TOS as it would negatively impact their ad revenue.
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Hi rawsyntax

thanks, must say your site looks nice too and I definitely like the idea of articles with videos to show off. Great job.

sam
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This seems like a gross privacy violation to not honor the logout button, and continue to track the account ID of the user. I would be very surprised if Google were doing this too. And I would be surprised if Facebook were not hauled into court over this (at least in the EU if not in the US).
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Could you elaborate?

I routinely run with only direct cookies permitted (no third party ones) and with all cookies except those I have explicitly whitelisted being deleted each time my browser is closed.

I am not aware of any problem this has caused me for a long time, including on the sites you mentioned. Maybe there is some useful feature I'm not seeing at all because of the cookie restrictions I impose, but maybe they've just got better over time at not relying on cookies for things they shouldn't?
Not initially, but he did use it for a while.
Can you describe the examples used in the group session?

The primary flaw with MBTI types is that they cannot be tested for. The common descriptions are too vague and inclusive to devise real tests. The tests that are given sort you into categories of other people who have answered the tests in a similar way, not necessarily with people who demonstrate scientifically observable traits exclusive to one type or another.

Contrast MBTI types with zoological taxonomy. Classification of animals into categories starts out with basic, concrete observations like "has a spine vs. doesn't have a spine" and over time has grown to include hundreds and hundreds of categories and subcategories-- all based on the increasing volume and quality of empirical observation. MBTI types, in contrast, aren't based on empirical observation. They're based on ideas and subjective interpretation of human behavior.
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I uploaded a copy to http://puremango.co.uk/sicp.mobi

Which you should be able to download directly from the kindle's web browser. For some reason trying to download it directly from github fails when you try to access it directly from the kindle.

Hope that helps.
I recently deleted my FB account, after having not logged in for apparently over a year. I think I only set one up because it is popular on some of the health lists I used to frequent -- lists where "please pray for me"/handholding bs was also very popular and where I routinely got attacked for trying to talk about things that were actually helpful with health issues. Someone who was openly hostile to me on some other unrelat listed tracked down my FB account and added me as a friend. Um, yeah, not what I consider a friend. My impression of and experience with Facebook has been rather negative. I finally decided to simply delete it. I don't understand what the appeal is at all. (FWIW: I'm online constantly and most of my friends are online friends. But FB and me did not hit it off.)
Regardless of whether copies of Stuxnet or variants of it can be used successfully in the future by "any dumb hacker", Pandora's box has been open, the code and concepts are out there, and it only takes one (dumb hacker(s) - competent or not). The threat is real! even if some believe the author might be "drumming up biz" or there is an 'overdramatization of cyberweapons/cyberwarfare. What gets me is the following: Regardless of Stuxnet in this article or any other past article that has discussed network security, what rings true here and will continue in the foreseeable future is this - "Most engineers are aware of the problem, it's just that they don't get the budget to fix the problem. The risk is just discounted. As long as management doesn't see an immediate threat, there is a tendency to ignore it because it costs money to fix." So, even if there was a holy grail of a security measure, I fear that it will have to take real cyberterrorist attack of some sort to really implement it. There is a measure of complacency by government and businesses regardless of whether copies of Stuxnet is out there or not.
It was invite only until very recently. And when I was interested in sending out invites it was gmail only, I don't know if that ever changed.
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I just did it by browsing on my iPad to the github source for the sicp.mobie and clicking "view raw". The iPad then offered to let me open the file in the Kindle app.

It doesn't see to sync to my Mac Kindle app though.
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I would love if anyone can add more to it... i'm trying to start a big collection :)
The LWN article is from What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511990
Sloppy indexing causes bad scalability
there is a lot of this type of "mistakes"
if i would let my imagination to take over i could say they do it on purpose and say it is mistake only if they get caught.
It's not really a fair comparison ... Google has millions of users already and it's completely frictionless for them to adopt yet another available service. Facebook and Twitter had to sign up brand new users.

I'm perhaps a perfect example ... I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account at all. But I did sign up for G+ in July and do occasionally use it.
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It sounds like the app has some credentials set up in it that are just not correct. You could try checking your account manager (under Settings) to see if you have a Facebook account listed there, which you can then delete.

I have the Nexus One, with the Facebook app, and can confirm that this is not supposed to happen.
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A similar discussion about Cocoa MVC: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/353646/design-patterns-fo...

The point is that it gets you to think about design patterns that the framework writers intended.

Anybody know if the rails MVC pattern was based on Cocoa? I know a lot of Rails devs who are also Cocoa/Touch devs.
It is indeed sort of disturbing that panopticlick gives me the message "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,769,884 tested so far."
MVC - MVC is separated, Models can notify Views.

I don't think the ability for models to directly notify views can be considered a strict requirement. NextStep/Cocoa followed the MVC pattern closely without having this ability for a long time. (It was added as "key-value observing" in Mac OS X 10.3.)

Without direct notifications from models to views, it's up to the controllers to notify each other of model updates. Personally I find this pattern preferable to having models doing uninhibited notification broadcasting on their own.
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During the production of sperms (and eggs), one of the steps has crossover:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover

They get new chromosomes that are a combination of the two corresponding chromosomes from the father (or mother). The exact points in each chromosome where the crossovers happens are different (perhaps almost random), so each one of the sperms (eggs) is a very different unique snowflake.

(And there are also a few mutations that make them slightly more unique.)
Ask HN: Would you build a startup from open source?
People build sites and businesses around third-party APIs and often this is discouraged, so alternatively, what open source applications and codebases appeal to you as the basis for a startup, perhaps as a fork? Are there code licenses you seek out or avoid?

Are there any successful open source based startups that have inspired you?
At the end of the day Google is really not the company you have to be worried about - it's the ad networks. They are the ones implementing zombie cookies using the 10 or so methods of storage and the ones that directly sell your information to even seedier companies. I used to work for one so I know what goes on. This will always be a dance between smart developers usurping tracking efforts and smart developers coming up with new tracking methods.

I really don't understand the extreme sentiment that your info via cookies is the worst form of privacy breach there is. Why would you not be more concerned with the companies that charge $.50 per call to access an API that can fetch information on anyone that fills out a form ("Oh I never knew my neighbor only makes $48k a year")? I guarantee you these companies know more about you than Google, Twitter and Facebook (unless you post every thought ever, of course). Case in point, they knew my coworker's wife at the time was 4 months pregnant. Unless you can derive such information from searches (doubtful and completely not worth the effort) then this information obviously came from elsewhere. Perhaps, for instance, like the doctor's office.
People could easily share lives with their friends and families long before Facebook. Email, IM etc. But not a whole lot of people seemed to bother with it. Now Facebook brainwashed everyone that it's almost irresponsible not to share.
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I have never fully grokked the architecture of web "MVC" frameworks. I now realize it was because of confusing naming.

For people who are familiar with the MVC pattern for desktop UI's, I think it is confusing to use the same name for web frameworks which follow a different architecture. On the other hand, for people without this background, for whom MVC means "like rails", it is probably more confusing to introduce a new name for the same.
I guess I'm too nice myself. It'd be nice if we all did that extra 10% to make the world better.

Normally these things are incredibly easy to report—sending a quick summary of the problem to a specific email address is all it takes.

(Facebook has a web form for it[1].)

[1] http://www.facebook.com/whitehat/report/
Tanenbaum pointed this out a couple decades ago with respect to AT&T:

At one time, 80 percent of AT&T’s capital value was the copper in the local loops. AT&T was then, in effect, the world’s largest copper mine. Fortunately, this fact was not widely known in the investment community. Had it been known, some corporate raider might have bought AT&T, terminated all telephone service in the United States, ripped out all the wire, and sold the wire to a copper refiner to get a quick
payback.
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That works too. Cool.
I (submitter) am not the author.
TFA

> In short, we're talking about MVC when a model can notify (through the Observer pattern) the views about the changes. It's not possible in a classical Rails app (it's possible when you use WebSockets, Pusher or a similar technology, but it's not so popular yet.). MVC was popular in desktop apps.

MTV isn't really Web nature. You change the database schema, and the browser client automatically refreshes? I don't think it's really useful. An ad-hoc solution would be better.
Well, I can't tell more about the application but one of the requirements is for it to work offline. Doesn't it cut out the web app option? Otherwise maybe I can set up a local http server on the device?
I blackhole facebook.com at the domain level using pdnsd:

neg {
name=facebook.com;
types=domain;
}

I have no idea why people are so eager to give away their privacy to Facebook and others to sell and whore-out to the highest bidder. It's akin to getting a handful of bright, pretty beads for your property.
Source? That doesnt sound like an unreasonable number, but I'm dubious of articles like this (site I've never been to before, obvious bias, lack of source).
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