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So, being someone in the market to hire someone with Data Mining and AI skills, this: " i feel like there's not much it shows beyond commitment and a focused interes" is very valuable. Obviously there are other ways that may be cheaper, but this is not a bad way.

The other things I look for are evidence of raw smarts and a track record of accomplishment, CS fundamentals, and, of course, personality. (Also, prefer someone with a poor understanding of Football so that they don't upset me in the fantasy league.)
I wasn't aware there of existence GPS blackout areas anywhere, esp. in the continental United States. Do you have more information that would support your statement?

For what it's worth, GPS seems to work fine for a lot of people around Lompoc, CA: http://www.strava.com/rides-by-country/united-states/califor...
We need to stop talking about "job creation" and start talking about "wealth creation". It's easy to create jobs -- e.g. I can go round breaking windows with rocks and create jobs for glaziers. But creating jobs that create wealth -- that is, to create an opportunity for someone else to join their labour with my capital in order to build something that someone wishes to pay for, thus enriching all three of us... well, that's trickier.

For existing small businesses, though, I'm wondering to what extent easier access to credit is really the answer. Are there that many small businesses out there right now saying "ohhh, we could be making so much more money if we hired someone, but we need to borrow money in order to hire them"? Some, surely, but many?

The main reason businesses aren't hiring is that they're not convinced that putting extra people on staff will actually be profitable.
Aye -- conflicting, for sure. ICS is definitely a little more fancy than Metro, but that might just be because ICS has a higher resolution (note the two-line previews in Gmail -- only possible because of a higher resolution).
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Surreptitious surveillance to what ends?

If the <i>use</i> of any of that data -- for profiling, legal process, advertising, contact, etc. -- is prohibited, and the action of performing the surveillance exposes the entity to plausible legal consequences and/or obligations (notification, deletion requests, etc.), then its practice will be limited. Undisclosed phone recording in some states, for example (not admissible in legal processes, a violation of law of itself, etc.).

Much crime is economically motivated (not all, but much). Part of criminal theory revolves around making crime more expensive (to greater or lesser success, depending). There's an economic study of criminal activity as well.

Businesses tend not to undertake activities for which there isn't a net economic benefit. Shareholder obligations and all that. So yes, with an appropriate legal framework in place, it's quite likely that incentives for engaging in certain behaviors will be limited.
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Might just be a matter of personal taste, but I like it. I think the web model of design works fine. Survival of the fittest has done pretty well in history. Cream will rise to the top (MySpace vs. Facebook), standards will populate, and the experimentation allowed without a HIG leads to a more interesting, and over time, better experience. Even right now, I don't use a single ugly Android app. Sure, the average app may look like a car wreck, but 90% of everything is crud.

I'd rather have the ones with talent experiment so the best get better than enforce guidelines so everything is mediocre.
"I still think a webservice-based version of these contests would be much more fun."

The latency of this approach can start to hurt badly. Even a 100ms latency, multiplied across numerous turns, means that games can drag on for quite a while, reducing the number of games played, and reducing the amount of fun had. I recently ran a contest that did in fact call you as a web service, but we had to basically require that you were hosted in the same city to make it work in anything like a fun time scale.
You're moving the goalpost and being intentionally obtuse.

Vaccines then. Clothes. Shoes.

Want more examples of "unnatural" things?

The point is to equate something being "unnatural", whatever that is supposed to mean, with it being "OBVIOUSLY bad" is so inane that I really do hope you're either a troll or just plain did not think through what you wrote.
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It's probably checking for updated help files. Apple regularly uses Akamai's CDN.
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Actually, I don't see this as out of line or inconsistent at all. Providing free education classes, particularly the introduction levels, increases awareness, acclimatizes students to learning online, and they learn how to do it. (They being Stanford. They work out hiccups over servers, videos, tests, whatever in the free courses.)

If Stanford then offered the next level of AI class online, but charged $1K? $3K for it, they'd get all their money back. Could turn into a classic Freemium model.

On the upside, this would probably be better for students as a whole, because most of them have no idea what they're really interested in. The ability to take all the intro classes for free and then pay for the ones that are more interesting to them is pretty interesting, from a macro-societal point of view.
You could also look at Microsoft's history and declare that if it hadn't been for the widespread adoption of the internet then the Gates Foundation would be even richer than it is now.
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The headline would be fine in a magazine article or a tech-light site like Lifehacker.

But, because of Siri's architecture, telling a forum of hackers that you've "taught it" to do something is a wildly different thing.

Hackers click that headline because they're interested in the possibility space where you can integrate arbitrary third party apps.

And when they discover that your headline is a semantic game --that the implicit promise of the headline is a lie-- I don't know how you could expect anything other than complaints.
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Someone down-voted me, so I assumed they didn't like it :(
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I also hate the tagging.

For instance you do not usually opt-in to a group by yourself. Instead somebody else includes you in that group, without your permission. This is bad because opt-out of a group is an explicit statement that you don't want to be in that group, versus just ignoring a request which could just say that you don't have the time for that or you missed the invitation ... and people know you in those groups and opting-out is just rude.

This is not how real-life works btw.

I also got tagged several times in pictures that I do not like. Those pictures automatically appeared right on my "enhanced" profile page. When I untagged myself the person that did it thought it was some kind of technical problem and tagged me again. Then I untagged myself again, and got tagged again. Then I told that person that I don't like that picture and she got upset. I don't want other people tagging me - I want to tag myself in pictures that I approve of and this is something that Facebook won't allow me to do.

And talk about automatic tagging -- fortunately Facebook allows me to deactivate automatic tagging (for now), but this feature is just plain evil IMHO, as it encourages people to tag other people, even though that's not something they really want to do.

This list could go on and on and yet Facebook provides no means for me to automatically download the contact details of my friends. How fucked up is that? These are my friends, and many of them I invited to Facebook myself.

Basically these days I'm only using Facebook when I want to get in touch with somebody and I have no other way at my disposal OR if I want to spam people I don't care about ... but the real social networking that I'm doing these days is through my phone or through my email address.
I feel that there are many contributions that Rubinius has made to the interpreter movement. a) the race for performance against other interpreters, b) the creation of an official "ruby spec" that defines what the ruby language is , and thus makes both the interpreters and the main language better and c) created a movement itself that has many different goals and target audiences.

But I don't think that Evan, Brian, et al.'s goals have been to replace but rather further the movement of Ruby.
Not in the UK—http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/specs.html
As a Canadian I can assure you that we do our fair share of stupidity.
Very few sensible people are worried about anonymised, aggregated data being sold in return for a useful free service.

But what of the more specific nature of some of the things you and your friends discuss on Facebook?

What if bosses or potential employers could pay to look at your timeline? What if they could ask to see your GPS tracking data? What if Facebook could rent out user info to advertisers based on like button activity? Ever 'liked' anything pretty dodgy?

The point isn't that, obviously, they can't and probably won't at the moment. The point is how far down this route do we want to go and at which point should we draw the line.
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They're clearly distinguishable on both paragraphs and individual glyphs to me.
I think context is important here. I don't think I am wrong in saying that most YC startups consist of 20-somethings, perhaps even in their low 20's. At this age few are truly prepared for the stress, conflict and issues that running a business could bring to the table. And, in this context, it is probably far better to have more founders rather than less.

I've been an entrepreneur ever since I can remember. And, retrospectively, I know that I did a lot of dumb things when I was younger. It takes a while to develop the business smarts, thick skin and, if you will, intestinal fortitude a business requires. I've experienced business issues as I got older that I know would have totally decimated me when I was younger. You are simply not prepared for that sort of thing. Particularly things like impending catastrophic failure, when you need to be mentally and emotionally in your strongest mode.

Barely-out-of-teenage-years entrepreneurs (not meant with disrespect at all, just chronological fact) need a support system in order to stay the course, learn and not derail. That's why I think that in these cases the multiple founder "rule" is probably a very good idea.

I would say that older solo founders with previous skin in the game are probably a good bet (all else being equal). One young founder thrown into the jungle that business can become is probably a formula for almost certain failure.

While, of course, there are always exceptions to every rule, I do think that what I am saying is a reasonable characterization of the problem.
And don't forget, due to the PATRIOT act, simply having that information obligates facebook to serve it up to law enforcement without a warrant any time they ask. Think about that next time you "like" the High Times fan page or post "I'm gonna get crunk!" some Friday night.

Facebook itself may be pure as the driven snow, but I can guarantee the FBI is NOT.
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I'd be curious to hear more on your Continuous Delivery/Deployment process. We do that as well and sometimes parts of it feel like there is room for improvement. A lot of it comes with coordinating roll outs that include system as well as software changes, as well as having changes go to a test/staging environment and not others.

Particularly, we use chef with the Opscode Platform and a git workflow for our chef repo, but that doesn't mesh as well with with chef's versioning of cookbooks. There can be a disconnect between chef cookbook versions in development and the branch they're living in within git, and making additional changes that we do want to go to production while other development is happening on stuff we don't. We don't do long running processes like this, usually a day or two to maybe a week, but the shortness also adds to confusion as branches change or what not.
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Diaspora is up and running and is it is a great project. They are non-commercial, do not sell your info, and survive on donations and grants. Everyone should open a free account and donate if they like what they see. https://diasp.org/ No invites needed. Please boycott someone else.
Google isn't actually running this. They were only a sponsor in years past.

It's actually run by the University of Waterloo computer science club as an open-source project.

A Clojure package is in the works, I think.
I've read numerous Haskell docs online and they are pretty good. However I felt the need for a more in-depth book and I chose "Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming" (3rd edition) and I'm LOVING it. It's excellent and I recomment it for anyone starting on Haskell.

ps.: I'm not a professional coder and my experience has been on using Python/Shell Script for sysadmin stuff only. However, I constantly read C code to figure out issues and how the book tries to make a parallel between FP and Imperative is quite nice for me.
It's not obvious to me. How were you harmed by facebook logging this data?
Lots of other countries do though https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Copyright_on_... and Helvetica Neue was just updated in 2009. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Helvetica#Neu...
If you are really on a shoestring (i.e. you cannot afford a graphic designer), then I would really recommend Inkscape - which is to Illustrator as Gimp is to Photoshop. It's a bit foreign if you've never done vector graphics before, but if you're working on logos it really is the way to go. For colors & palletes, go over to colourlovers.com - that's a good place to start anyway. If you are only after the odd pic or two, any of the stock photo sites is good and relatively inexpensive. Also, there are a ton of sites such as deviantart.com where you can find free graphics and fonts, etc. or at the very least you can find some really talented artists that might be able to get it done for you.
There is a privacy setting forcing all tag requests to come to you for approval first. Obviously it isn't easy to discover, however.
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Are there any examples of cancers caused by viruses apart from HPV?

Certainly it can't be true that all cancers are caused by viruses, can it? For instance, some cancers are caused by radiation.
The GPS chips include it (and Galileo) anyway since the frequency is close enough that you don't need any extra HW and with ASICs it's easier to just put everything it and fab a single device.

Whether the ASIC implementation works and whether the iPhone API actually uses it - is another matter
I agree. Documentation and a simple example isn't enough. I look forward to going through the material.
I really wonder how much of that is because the EU is made up of many countries and these countries want to protect their own. It's kind of similar to how the breach disclosure rules are significantly different from state to state.

The other thing that I wonder is how much of the US not having the strict laws is due to Corporate Personhood. I honestly don't know, I'm just throwing it out there.
I see two sans serif fonts in the same broad style and line width. It's not clear if the identical metrics are the defaults or an artifact of the presentation there (though "stealing" font metrics for the purpose of layout unification has a history much longer than the tech industry's). And Helvetica Neue is hardly an Apple invention anyway; it's a rejiggering of an ancient font everyone has been using and cloning for decades.

Really, what's the point here? That Roboto is another entry in the Helvetica/Arial family of sans serif typefaces? Shocking!

Edit: If I had to find a flame in this area: I think it can be argued that if Google really wanted to make the Roboto font into part of the Android brand, to the extent that they market it via its own name, they should have worked harder at making it unique. This is, indeed, a very bland tweaking of a strong existing standard. It's not something particularly notable.
>perhaps companies with more employees per profit would have a tax incentive and companies with fewer employees per profit would have a penalty.

That would be terrible. You'd be penalizing the Googles and Apples of the world, who create good jobs, and rewarding the Walmarts, who create shitty ones.
Yeah, I remembered it being significant, but wow. That is larger than I recalled it being. Probably due to a very unscientific test at the time. ;)
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FYI, there are a few other resources kicking around too. Thanks to OP for another.

http://peepcode.com/products/backbone-js
http://peepcode.com/products/backbone-ii

http://workshops.thoughtbot.com/backbone-js-on-rails
Fair enough. But I meant "fast" relative to Ruby 1.9.2, not "fast" relative to anything else. The "require" issue aside, REE beats out 1.9.2 pretty handily in a lot of real world situations. I've seen 1.9.2 win in microbenchmarks, but I haven't actually seen it perform better on a real app yet. Obvious selection bias there, but the point really being there's no compelling reason to upgrade.
I also think that the most important part in all of this is the timeliness of their responses. 15 minute responses shows that businesses are investing money into social media by hiring people to watch Twitter feeds or personal handles at all hours of the day.
There would be no problem if advertisements were a good faith effort meant to inform you about a product you may be interested in. As it stands, they are attempts to manipulate people into making irrational choices. Giving advertisers even more tools to get into your psyche and understand how to most effectively push emotional buttons for their own profit is not a comforting thought to me. We're assuming that advertisers would just be getting demographic data, but it would probably go much deeper, and it could be used for broader purposes. For example, Facebook sees that you're upset about losing a football game, here's an ad which says that you're not a man unless you drink this light beer. Or maybe you got dumped by your girlfriend, here's an ad showing a happy couple drinking Corona. They could also analyze broader trends. There seems to be a lot of middle school girls talking about this band, let's use them in our next advertisement for this frivolous fashion. Yes, this is already happening to some extent, but they could be much more effective with a data set like this where people assume they are talking to their friends. I'm not a marketer, so I'm sure someone in the industry could come up with even more "creative" ways to use the data.
You are obviously missing the point but let me humor you:

When you access a bank you are publicly trading the information between you and the bank. That means that if somebody on your LAN sniff your cookies (and SSL wouldn't be used) you could use their account on their bank website.

So yeah, bank info is public as well.

You cannot use the internet and expect things to be completely private like you can't go in a bar get naked in the middle of the dance floor and expect nobody to notice it. (Ok, this is far fetched but still.. I thought this was funny :P)
Not quite the same thing.

The ruling said that publishing a hyperlink wasn't the same as re-publishing the original article.

Making a torrent file available is providing a way to download the copyright offending file - that's a totally different charge.
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APL/K's expressiveness does not come from making every operation a single character (although they do work together nicely).

It comes from selecting a good set of primitive elements and their rules of interaction. It turns out (for K) that ~40 primitives are sufficient to cover what you need, and it is therefore possibly to assign these to single ascii characters (20 unary, 20 binary; e.g. "xy" is multiplication, but "x" is "first element of x". Most languages overload unary/binary on the same symbol).

Take, for example, the "maximum substring sum" problem (see link in the K idioms above). Using K syntax, it's

|/0(0|+)\

Using Q syntax (K with words instead of characters), it becomes

max over 0 (0 max +) scan

Three times longer, hardly using any non-alphabet characters. Just as unreadable to the uninitiated, and still 10 times shorter than a comparable Python or ruby implementation.

Once you do get used to thinking in APLish or Kish, then the first version to the second version is like "a+b*c-d" to "a added to b times c and then d is subtracted". I know which one I prefer.

Short isn't equal to expressive, but your comment is irrelevant to APL or K.
Suppose for a moment, that putting extra people on staff will never again be more profitable than not hiring them at all. What then should society do?

I'm totally open to the idea that the supposition above may be ludicrous, but would like to see how we will create the wealth you describe.
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The APL-family of languages aren't just short. Those single (and double) characters are each very powerful. APL was not based on the von Neumann style of programming. It is much more comparable to Haskell and the like.
Wow, lots of talk here about a service that none seem to have used.

You all are probably way more involved in creating software and doing private finance than I will ever be, so I can't speak to those areas.

I've been using Diaspora for about a month now - maybe a little while longer and while there are growing pains, I've been really impressed with the way the service works.

While there are lots of people who use Diaspora and Facebook, I ( hopefully ) deleted my Facebook account as I got tired of being the product and use Diaspora exclusively.

And like I said, I'm no tech guru. Any operational questions that I posted were answered promptly and courteously. The folks there are still claiming its alpha, and it works pretty well for me.

Oh, and to the registration question - I Scroogled ' diaspora pod ' and the first listing was for https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supporte.... The fourth listing is the pod that I belong to diasp.org - I had no problem signing up the first day I tried.

Try it for yourself and then let us know what you thought
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Stanford has a lot of free courses too (Eg: this one about databases: http://www.db-class.org/course/auth/welcome ) and I think if one really wants to learn for the sake of learning and enrichment rather than having an official Stanford cert than these classes are good enough and you would not have to spend a fortune.