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This is good information, but there's something else that probably needs to be said: nobody wants to get sued.

I've worked only tangentially in the games industry, but I worked for many years in TV development. And people often asked why we (NBC or FOX, in my case) wouldn't accept unsolicited submissions of show ideas. The primary reason we didn't is that it was a legal minefield. If you read someone's submission, and you rejected it, and years later you developed a show with even the slightest hint of an element from that concept, the person who submitted it could sue you. And, even if he wouldn't prevail 9 times out of 10, he'd still eat up a lot of time and work and money in the process.

The problem is that there's really nothing new under the sun. Every basic plot imaginable has been conceived. Every core concept shy of the truly insane or inane has already been pitched (and even those have been pitched, trust me). The chances that your unsolicited submission will bear more than passing similarities to a concept already pitched, or already in development, are quite high.

Aggravating this problem is the fact that people have sued over the most facepalmingly generic bits of supposed intellectual property: character names(!), broad-stroke concepts (i.e., "I sent NBC an idea about superheroes; NBC made a show about superheroes!!!11!1"), and so forth.

At the end of the day, opening an unsolicited envelope is more hassle than it's worth. I can't say if this is a motivating factor for game developers or publishers, but I imagine it would be.
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without the user end data of where the user spends the time andwhy that might be imortant makes this site somewhat worthless..
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Yes, that worked! I am on OSX Lion.
This article is a selectively written nonsense, only to be expected from a typical 'sceptic' with a large chip on his shoulder.

For every dismissal he makes, such as 'there is no proof that Mozart used Phi', there is a fact that someone else did, such as Bela Bartok, which the tendentious author always conveniently chooses to ignore.

More to the point, mathematically speaking, his article makes about as much sense as arguing that Pi is just another of an infinity of real numbers, with no more significance than any of them. It is a pointless argument by someone who understands nothing of mathematics beyond an introduction to numbers.

I could quote a number of fascinating special properties of Phi but I will leave it to you, gentle reader, to consult the Fibonacci Quarterly journal and decide for yourself if it is all just nonsense.

Or look up this article in Nature: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2929/version/1/files/... , showing that the Golden ratio is found right in the Bohr radius of the hydrogen atom

Let me rest my case just with one example: continued fractions are an interesting representation for rational/irrational/real numbers, with a number of concrete computational benefits. Phi is unique in having the simplest continued fraction form: [1,1,1......]
Any idea if the database videos can be downloaded, just like the computer science lectures
The Mutual Friend Phenomenon
A single idea that Brian Scordato has spent the last six months of his life building a social media product around.
The point of this article is to say that abiogenesis, being the bridge between chemistry and biology, cannot be explained by science.

Usual anti-evolution confusion reigns: confusion about the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Check! Conflating a myriad of hypothesis with the conclusion that no solution is possible? Check! Mentioning of irreducible complexity? Check! The presumption that biologists regard Darwin as some sort of infallible deity? Check!

It's well written, but it's full of trickery. Consider: "Moreover, ‘chirality’ in biology demands chemistry to supply ‘left-handed’ amino acids and ‘right-handed’ genetic molecules". This presumes that early biology had the same requirements as modern biology.

Or "Consequently [since 1990], numerous new speculations are attempting to provide different explanation for the location of the origin of life on earth. There are several suggestions ranging from life beginning in deep sea thermal vents to bacterial life arriving from other places in the universe (Panspermia)." But Hoyle was talking about this in 1982, which was 8 years before the given reference.

Or "geneticists proclaim that by the assistance of RNA, structure of DNA can decide the structure of proteins" which is again, simply not true. There's post-translational modifications, there are environmental effects - DNA is only one of several facts which go into the structure.

Or even "Modern genetics fails to incorporate the plastic propensities of a living organism." WTF? That's slid in there without explanation. Any book which ties genetics and paleontology together must talk about the plasticity organisms through time.
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After 2 months of antibiotics feeling like I was dying, I met a Chinese doctor by serendipity.

What he said, blew my mind.
I guess it's not only a time saver.
Unless you actually would unroll/re-solder an instrument worth > 10000 EUR, which would scare the hell out of me.

Funny trivia: The article uses ' as delimiter here, as in 10'000 although Germany (the domain name uses .DE and the company is based there) uses the . here -> 10.000
Seems like the author ('from Italy') of that post is using the swiss notation? Any other (european) country using ' as a thousand separator?
"It's also worth noting that there were some very powerful interests funding the Tea Party."

You said it. The Tea Party is/was essentially a media fabrication. There's obviously a lot of middle class dissatisfaction out there to be mobilized and the right wing tried to co-opt it for their agenda.

OWS, on the other hand, is an actual grass roots movement. Furthermore, when I listen to NPR (of all media outlets) continually doing their very best to interview every fumbling 22-year old and make the entire movement look stupid it makes me think that OWS has some very powerful people genuinely worried.

Thanksgiving with my entire Republican family is going to be a blast this year.
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I remember someone in my team using WMI too. Not sure if it is as good as the other options listed in the article
One of the commenters says " The answer is probably just situational, but I'd bet that elegance is unimportant for a lot of code."

IMO that is miles from the truth. I handle code that "just gets things done" everyday and it is a real pain. Elegant code is not code that is just well formatted and clean, is code that solves a problem in an elegant way, a way that will scale better and that is easy to understand and maintain.

The real problem is that it's really really hard to get managers and clients to understand to value of elegant code.

When hell that is left after code-like-hell to get things done gets in the way of maintaining the code, the blame gets thrown in the programmer that didn't write good code. But they never want to trade off time for quality. And when we ask for time to get things done with quality, they assume it's an ego thing...
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They caused a lot of pain to a lot of 1%ers. If you think the financial sector likes, and purposefully causes, crashes, well, you're wrong.

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

George Soros made $1bn in a day. The UK Gvt lost 3.3bn UKP.

Some people believe that Norman Lamont rose to the highest office of economics in the united kingdom without the knowledge of how currency markets work, and that he could not possibly have known that his actions would be to hand George Soros, and others, 3.3bn UKP. But let us pretend that this was incompetence so that we can answer your point.

Did George Soros purposefully crash the value of the UKP? Yes.

I use this example, rather than other more recent examples like [1], because it highlights the role of government in the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In short, if the government were to say to the common man "We must give this rich person one trillion dollars and you and your children will pay for it", there would be revolution.

But if the government says "Look! The stock market has crashed! We must give one trillion dollars to the banks so that the financial system does not collapse, so that children and dogs do not roam the streets, oh dear God we must give one trillion dollars to the banks now!" And nobody complains.

Better yet, give one trillion dollars in a highly recognizable bill, lets call it TARP. Make sure that all of that money is paid back. Then, when someone says "But we gave you all that money", the rich can claim "TARP? No! We paid all that back! Look!".

But also give several trillion more in completely one-off, non publicized, totally forgettable transactions. For example, give citibanks $25bn in TARP funds - and also give them $275 in non-TARP funds. Then have them pay the $25bn back. Amazingly, if you ask the average american about citibank, they will say "Yes, they got $25bn! Bastards". "No! They gave that $25bn back! Look it up!" "Oh you are right!" And that will be the end of it. Fox News will tell you almost daily, "Look who paid back their TARP funds! TARP has made a profit!". TARP is the hand they want you to look at, while they make your future vanish with the other.

You have to admit, its really impressive.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/05/02/135846486/how-some-made-millions-betting-against-the-market
Ask HN: Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted.  No Money for attorneys.
Hi Everyone,

In 2004, I co-founded an Internet security company called Anakam. I was a programmer with some interesting ideas, and my business partner and I agreed at the time that I would receive 20%, and my partner 80% (he was financing the whole thing). We had a personal falling out in early 2005, and I left the company, always believing that my ownership was still intact. In October 2010, the company was sold for $64 million to Equifax. I found out about the sale after the fact; my partner had simply pretended that I never existed and had assumed my ownership. I am listed as the inventor on the company's first patent, which is still a key part of the company's product offerings today.

In February 2011, I sent a cease-and-desist letter to Equifax. They sent back a letter saying that they viewed my letter as an extortion attempt, and that if I did not immediately sign a settlement and and NDA that were included with their letter (without compensation), they would file a criminal complaint against me. After this, I showed my cease-and-desist letter to an attorney, who assured me that my letter was well within the law, but that their response was in fact extortion. There is a specific federal law that prohibits threatening to accuse someone of a crime unless they give you some form of consideration - in this case the outright dismissal of $12.8 million in claims. Their response came entirely out of left field, and I have not heard from them since the moment the attorney I showed the letter to told them that he believed their response was a violation of Federal extortion laws. The letter was signed by my former business partner, who was at the time still the CEO of the Anakam division of Equifax, and was, oddly enough, forwarded to me from their law firm.

I do not have the resources to pursue this matter at this time. I am told that I could have those involved in authoring and delivering the extortion letter prosecuted criminally (possibly including Equifax itself), but I have little interest in that right now.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can/should do in this situation? I have come to the realization that I may never see my $12.8 million, but the extortion really added insult to injury. Any suggestions would be helpful.

You can email rr@guiyui.com if you would prefer not to post in public.
yes , they can be. There is a tab on the upper right corner if you are signed on for the course.
Seems like you are right. Maybe submitting this was not such a great idea after all. Well anyways, I had a good laugh watching that one.
What you're describing is so common when government embrace an industry that it is it's own field of economic research. It's called moral hazard.

I try not to draw too many conclusions from signs or any individual expression of opinion. But I do note that the protesters marched to the home of the J.P. Morgan CEO as well as the J.P. Morgan headquarters, even though J.P. Morgan didn't bet the house on sub-prime mortgages and didn't need bail-out. That's location and action indicating anger focused on Wall Street.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020349970457662...
The problem makes enough sense in what it's trying to prove, I can't really understand it though without knowing what it would be used for.
I really respect Stanford's willingness to share content for free. They seem to have let go of the elitist notion of the past wherein content is worth so much to universities. This feels like they actually want people to learn.
It can, if that 1% effectively control the system.
1) Do you have documentation regarding the 20% ?

2) Sounds like you should seek an attorney who would be willing to take a cut if they win the case.
Hu ?

By my count, there are quite a lot of people who have low interest in maintaining a computer and want things to just work on Ubuntu (far less so on other distributions). People who had to use linux for a school project, people who just stumbled on an evangelist at some point, and blindly obeyed the "Install linux, it's better, you will see !!" stuff. Or just people who were a little bit curious.

I see plenty of people around me that don't know (and have low interest in learning) how to do much more than fire up firefox, and who still run Ubuntu. If these are power users, then I'm a sysadmin god.
I don't have any concrete advice to add, but I think this is an awesome question and I admire your positive attitude.

Maybe the one thing I would say is, be willing to move if you can. I left my hometown when I was 26 (for grad school in my case), and it was the best thing I ever did.

Good luck!
Maybe I'm getting crazier and more radical in my old age, but I'd say that if the 1% can afford to buy/bend the system to their ends, then it most certainly can be systemic.

The fact that I hear Obama's "$1B war chest" being trumpeted and that Tim Pawlenty drops out of the Republican race solely for lack of funding reinforces what I've felt for a very long time - that campaign finance is the elephant in the room in terms of the issues that are bringing this country down.
Wow. This is great. I haven't seen anything like this before. It would seem the implications and applications are tremendous.
Bail-outs are a symptom of plutocracy, which is very much the fundamental nature of the American system (amongst many others).
thanks mate! I will try it out
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Hiding the web, one page at a time
The way you interact with the desktop environment is a pet feature?
Samsung seeks iPhone ban in Australia
JSON is a great data interchange format but I would veto it as an option for configuration files since it doesn't permit comments.
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I'll throw two out there -

1. Campaign finance reform. Debate the details, but you can't debate that there should be some.

2. Vastly greater oversight/transparency, if not an outright ban of the current lobbying system.
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Great for open content, hope all universities adopt this kind of approach.
Thanks for explaining all this.
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I do have documentation regarding the 20%. The one attorney I have spoken to says, for reasons I still don't entirely understand, that I have a better shot at trying to sue them for using my intellectual property without permission, since it is quite clear that I wasn't compensated as agreed for the license to use the technology.

They also say that a civil extortion claim is the low-hanging fruit in this situation, but this particular attorney was unwilling to take it on contingency.
You can still change desktops using the same shortcuts, just not using the same animation. So I'd say yes, in this case a pet feature.
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There's a difference between trusting someone with your physical hardware and handing them your credentials on a silver plate.

There's also a pretty harsh difference between the security practices at Amazon and the practices that Opscode displays in their OSS-code.
Apologies for changing the title; from my stint in finance I have an aversion to the word "talent" as a synonym for "employee".
What about a northwestern European model ? Equality through high taxes.
Used for?

Many problems in math have no intended practical uses (although uses, funnily enough, tend to turn up in time.)

Knowing what it might be used for really doesn't usually offer any special insight into the nature of the problem, nor how to solve it.
whaa a poor power user did not get what they wanted..wha..wha...

For background ESR work is not in UI but in small but important stuff like GPSd, etc..

He is work here..both GNOME and Ubuntu have made decisions that are making an impact as far as driving adoption of new users to the platform..both sets of developers deserve big round of applause..
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I'm looking for some fearless alpha testers to test a web app and give feedback. If you're (1) opinionated (2) loquacious (3) passionate about tech, you're the person I'm looking for.

The app is called mesmira (http://www.mesmira.com/) and the intent is to:

1. enable you to interact with others on the basis of shared interests

2. maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio UX with two-levels of filtering (interests & personal network)

3. enable you to "follow" specific people on specific interests (no general follows).

Essentially, you can create your own personal network for every one of your interests. and talk about something you're passionate about with people in your network (a question, a post, a link share...).

I can't support more than 50 users or so at this point due to my hosting limitations. Hopefully, I can up that limit soon.

If you'd like to participate, go to http://www.mesmira.com/ and click on the image. You'll get a popup to fill out to get an invite.

Thanks and looking forward to working with you.

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This is great. This is a pretty old, no brainer JSR that seemed to have got stuck in committee for ages. A few highlights:

- The standard is DI friendly (rather than just having a singleton way of getting a CacheManager, which is how a lot of the other JSRs behave, making it difficult to have different implementations in the same VM)

- It's got compare and swap from ConcurrentHashMap built in, which is great

- Support for write-through and write behind

- There's no support for asynchronous gets / puts but that's not too surprising.

- It's not clear how to set a per entry expiry

It'll be interesting to see how this maps onto something like memcached.
Meaning changes, but that doesn't mean that it is impossible for a native speaker to make an error. In this case, the phrase has a well-documented meaning (and a long history), and the usage here is clearly a misuse.
I spoke with Travis on Friday at Enthought and he opened my eyes to some of the possible problems of the pypy-numpy effort (which I've started discussing: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-October/00860... ).
I hadn't realised that the port might exclude use of the rest of SciPy, this strikes me as a massive missed opportunity if it comes to pass. Perhaps a few other knowledgeable folk could post in the pypy-dev thread so we can reasonably understand the limitations and possibilities of the various approaches?
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that makes a lot of sense and reminds me all of that stuff I've read about HIIT
> I'm sure Canonical has done plenty of research on usability.

Any links? I've found a few results from months ago, but results/feedback there weren't so positive.

http://design.canonical.com/2010/11/usability-testing-of-uni...
http://lwn.net/Articles/438678/
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That was neat. Here's an implementation in Python:

# Python implementation of Conway's prime formula for FRACTRAN
# The output is the sequence A034785.

from fractions import Fraction as F

terms = [F(17, 91), F(78, 85), F(19, 51), F(23, 38), F(29, 33),
F(77, 29), F(95, 23), F(77, 19), F(1, 17), F(11, 13),
F(13, 11), F(15, 14), F(15, 2), F(55, 1)]

n = 2
print n

while 1:
for i, f in enumerate(terms):
fn = f * n
if fn.denominator == 1:
n = fn.numerator
print n
break
else:
break
It's been stuck since 2001?! Any ideas why?
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Interestingly enough this is most often the case with pure mathemetics: their proofs are pursued purely in the interest of understanding & attaining them - the implications & applications of which are sometimes unrealized for decades (a great example is Evariste Galois: his number theory and symmetry/group work was decades-later applied by physicists to define many of the laws physics appear to obey - check out the wiki).
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Can't they just put disclaimer, "If you insist on submitting your idea, oh well, thanks. We might agree to realize your idea or part of it, but you must know that we can't compensate you in any way."?
Use adblock[1] or advertban[2] if you are annoyed by ads. IMHO, neither publishers nor advertisers loose a penny if you _consciously_ use ad blocking solutions, because this means the probability of your _intentional_ click on annoying ads tends towards zero even if you'll see all these ads. In other words, you don't belong to the target audience of these ads.
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So is there anything out there showing Android patterns or better yet, non-iOS?
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This is a difficult film to understand and even if I accept the challenge Im not sure if I give too much credit or not enough.
This is incredible, all of this makes me think higher of Stanford as an institution. The fact they're both giving all of this away for free and that they're putting so much of it up. I was impressed after the first two but now they're adding more and making finding the courses more structured.

Khanacademy showed alternative education methods, Stanford didn't try and discredit services like this, instead they put many of their courses online too. I'll be going through these courses later.
No, 99% of the funds TARP paid directly to banks has been paid. However there was a large amount of money that went to AIG and other bailouts.