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Generally speaking you are correct, but practically speaking I think Palantir is absolutely correct in claiming they are a new kind of company. Their hiring focus from early on has been on top notch engineering talent and even though they have people in forward deployment, they focus their hiring on people who have engineering/comp-sci degrees.

Even though in a certain sense there is really little difference between a salesperson and a "sales engineer" as far as their tasking, the difference in mentality is quite different. A sales engineer actually understands the underlying technology and probably has contributed to it in some way, whereas a salesperson relies on distributing hype.

I've spent a fair amount of time in major silicon valley firms (including Palantir) and I can say the mentality seems quite different. It is a bunch of brilliant people solving difficult problems. I think in a certain sense their marketing actually isn't that good, since it appeals largely to a technical audience but I couldn't figure out if their core product actually made that much of a difference.

How do you measure, for instance, if you catch more terrorists with a certain terrorist-catching tool than another? There wasn't much presented here except cool visual displays that claimed that they were connecting data from across previously distinct data silos. Is that amazing? Not really -- although certainly it is more than the government can probably do effectively internally, so I have some reasonable degree of optimism that they are delivering far over governmental norm and are worth whatever large cheques the government gives them.

Full disclosure: I briefly considered working for the company.
> Mobile users won't necessarily need all the things Desktop users do,
> since they usually have a very clear picture of what they want to do
> on the site.

That's backwards. Desktop users want exactly the same that mobile users do. Desktop version has more only because someone thought "hey we have some space there why not to fill it with something?". That something is often most usless stuff.

> PS: Please allow your users do "default" to a standard-version. I've seen
> so many sites break on mobile phones, making them completely useless...

The thing is: the default version will soon be the mobile one.
Take a look at Luke Wroblewski's "Mobile first" it's a good insight what's going on.
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So they will became your real market when they upgarde to the more capable smartphones, right? There should be a reason why they are "potential market" and I bet that not enjoyable user experience with those old-schoold devices is a big part of that.
It's hard to cover many aspects of it when we talked about getting our feet wet. I try to include as few terms as possible that potentially confused people to start coding Nodejs-MongoDB. It's probably a big problem when you try to get your feet wet on the first day you learn about swimming just by jumping all over the pool. But then, hopefully, we learn.

Thanks for your opinion :)
It's an ARM11 SoC running Linux, of course you can program in assembler. And ARM assembler is a very nice one to start with, many did due to Acorn's Archimedes home computer.
Upvoted the moment I saw the title :)
Did you know Ken Silverman actually prototyped algorithms for the Build engine in QBasic before porting them over to C? He must have found it easier to work in.
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The patent thing may look laughable from the outside but inside the US it's pretty much required by how everything in business has been set up - to squeeze everything out of anyone using so-called 'legal' methods.

The legal system in the US is basically a self-feeding machine that produces crap you have to pay for.
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They only removed parts of it, specifically the parts allowing them to use the information for marketing.

Also the Germans are going nuts about it because they claim the Origin EULA is a violation of privacy laws:

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/3477/article/origin-s-inv...

I was under the impression that Steam's anti-cheat bot actually did something similar to this too, scanning running programs to search for aimbots and the like. This might go further though, I have no idea if it scans non-steam folders.
Wonder how many people here got interested in development because of spending time poring over GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS? I know it was my first exposure to source code, and the ability to create your own game.

Sad that MacOS/Windows no longer includes any simple source code for curious explorers to discover.
The fact that you are getting downvoted is part of what stinks. It is a perfectly valid viewpoint. I happen to agree with patio11's response, but I respect your views and want you to feel like you are entitled to share them here.
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To abuse your analogy there are many fast drivers that have little to know mechanical knowledge.

You seem to be under the impression that to be an authority one must have comprehensive and detailed knowledge, particularly in areas you care about. I believe this is rarely the case. It's far more important to understand the essential. The key to being a good leader is not to know everything better than everyone, but to understand how to help everyone contribute their best, then get out of the way.
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Does anyone know if this book would be good on a kindle? I.e. is it straight text, or does it have graphics and sidebars, etc.
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Excuse my ignorance, but doesn't this just mean that Linux users would have to go into the BIOS and switch off the Secure Boot setting? And isn't Secure Boot solving a real security problem?

Besides, if you're running a computer powerful enough for Windows 8, don't you also have enough computing power for a virtual machine? Or enough money for a second computer?
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I have the kindle editon and it's quite good, with all the illustrations and all.
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Everything I read about the E-Cat sounds fishy to me. Especially the latest experiment - so the output is 480kW, and there is a 500kW generator connected, but supposedly not operating? What a coincidence!

People want this to be true so I can understand the reporting but come on, this is just not real.
At least Google will remove you easily if you request it (via your robots.txt file).
Ad at the bottom of the article: http://i.imgur.com/sC0g8.png

I know it's automated, but still :/
I didn't remember that you could do graceful degradation with qbasic :p

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I hadn't considered getting rid of downvoting entirely, but it makes sense, especially since we can't agree on what it should be used for. Some of us think we should only downvote vapid, trolling or otherwise lame comments. Others (pg included) think it's perfectly fine to use downvoting to indicate dissenting opinion. It would be interesting to see what happened if we just abolished it.
If they managed to lure Michael Lopp (Rands) away from Apple, they must have a special appeal to engineers.
It is not. It even dynamically links to libpthread ...
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> Novembre 1998

Has there been any progress since, is the question ... googling around I find a lot of press-release type material breathlessly translated into English but not much else ... surely, by now, someone has been able to measure the copper isotopes produced and at least take a stab at a theory ...
We need to have a separation of powers, in a constitution, between software and hardware. Computing is power.
This is why I install my games on a separate bootable harddisk, which I only boot when I want to play a game.
Unfortunately, it does not work on qbasic emulator at http://repl.it/
That's why i said he is a great CEO. He has great management and business skills. Yes, I would call Warren Buffet a financial genius and I would call Steve a business genius. Bu t he is no where near Einstern or even Bill Gates.
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Great writeup. BTW, I like it when I hear people (usually customers) talk about building a company that they want to run for a long time, wrapping their life around it (and vice-versa).
The first point is actually the best thing that has come from Mobile Design thus far. It significantly reduced the amount of unnecessary distracting Ads on the page. Since, as you've said, they are usually used to fill the space larger Environments offer.

I've used the mobile first approach for my last project and I think a site isn't truly responsive if it hasn't a liquid(%) layout. Building those layouts is a pretty messy thing though :(
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I had never used justin.tv before but I just tried searching their site for "startup school" and got a lot of hits, but not for the latest talks.
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Henry Kissinger has famously said that power is better than sex. Well, clearly he isn't a programmer!

Actually, what Kissinger famously said was that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac, which is something somewhat different. I imagine he is describing it as a one-way function...
Async behaviors would be a great read up for your next article :D
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Another book that takes this "soup to nuts" approach to the pillar of computer abstractions is Zalewski's "Silence on the Wire". It's mostly focused on computer security, but it does an excellent job of peeling back software abstractions and showing how innocent decisions like blinkenlights and link-following web spiders can be utilized to compromise security. My favorite computer security book, easily.
I assumed he meant that a bunch of different programmers on the project thought they could avoid buffer overruns by either wrapping or completely re-implementing strlen/strcpy themselves. And probably not ending up any more safe than the standard versions.
> To say MS puts no pressure is ludicrous. If an OEM wants to have the sticker, they have to enable secure boot, end of story.

Your wording is ridiculously deceptive. To get the sticker, they have to enable secure boot, sure. Secure boot is not an issue, as long as you can turn it off, which MS is not requiring. So no, MS is not putting pressure on OEMs to do anything remotely anti-competitive.

As for any incentive that PC makers may have for preventing secure boot's disabling, that's complete conjecture (even if it may be right in the future), so let's stick to the facts rather than FUD, ok?
Seems like most people strongly disagrees with that bottom line about friends, ignoring the rest of the post, which is very inspiring. Thanks!

I actually somewhat agree with that bottom line. The whole point is lost when we try to put it more softly and ‘appropriately’. It just sounds too unnatural for us social creatures. But it is in some way true, as it is true that your environment influences you much:

For example, people born in poor families have little chance to become rich and successful no matter how hard they work—it just requires different mindset. That mindset, it seems, can be acquired by either a) moving away from friends and family that drag you down (the earlier the better) or, probably, b) being an introvert, asocial person. I've had myself a similar experience.

I think I've read somewhere that the more social a species is, the less smart its representatives are at average—take for example dogs and cats. (I would appreciate if someone would confirm or disprove that information. And it should still be mentioned that individual intelligence doesn't appear to matter much in a group work anyway http://lesswrong.com/lw/3mh/link_collective_intelligence/.)
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I would think this would be on the "front page" of every media outlet by now. It would rival the announcement of the potential aids vaccine. OWS folks would be playing it up as the beginning of the end of the Evil Corporations.

Instead, silence.

I consider it very unlikely that the experiment was a success. So that leave two possibilities: 1). Deliberate fraud, a la Madoff. Or 2). interesting science, not fusion, but still a reaction that is not well understood. Something like a fuel cell, when for a while it looks like e_out > e_in, but in reality e_in happened over a long time, and as such the reaction is non-sustainable.

I'm hoping for 2)- an honest mistake in which we learn something.
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The whole concept of software patent is an abomination.

Why not then just dive into api patent? "the ability to read data from an input stream of bytes", "the ability to show the strength of a wireless internet connection signal", "the ability to compute something"

Nothing right now is slowing down innovation more than these nonsensical patent-wars.

In the end it's just a way for big companies to prevent competition from smaller ones that can't handle the heat of the war.
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This is very likely to be a scam. The guy is just delusional and trying to get financing to make it work because it probably doesn't work at all. Why don't they visibly disconnect the generators? why don't they allow anyone to verify that new elements have been created inside the fusion modules? why all the secrecy and only letting reporters go in for a few minutes during the test? They've been publishing their bullshit papers since the mid-90s. If this was for real, reproducible and all, somebody else would have verified it by now.
Looks very nice! Though the discrimination between intending or not is done based on whether the previous action mutates the object (no new intend) or creates or returns different object (new intend), right? This is something that can't be known on the language level unless there's a specific syntax for it, which doesn't seem to be possible for Javascript based languages (e.g. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1738).
I graduated w/ a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering with a minor in CompSci. From the review, this sounds like all the stuff I learned that wasn't CompSci, distilled into an easy-to-read form. Stuff like flip-flops, RISC assembly, how memory works, etc. It sounds fantastic.

Having the benefit of an EE based undergrad degree was awesome for this reason, esp. since my first job was firmware design. The downside is that I never took a compiler course and have had very little exposure to stuff like discrete mathematics and turing machines. I didn't learn anything about OO design 'til after school, and I still haven't gotten into functional programming.

Sometimes I worry that I actually missed out on the good stuff. :/
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How would that be different to the current situation?
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I majored in math (undergrad and grad), and I'm having a hell of a time finding a job. At this point, I'd seriously consider selling back the right to say I attended my grad school in exchange for a payoff on the student loans I took out there, if it were a real option.
Because so much functionality is being packed on these SoC devices now. You literally hook these chips up to some RAM and Flash and add some I/O connectors of your choice, and you're in business.
I hope the bad Amazon reviews based on Origin, which is just a poor Steam clone, don't deter people from buying Battlefield 3 - it is easily the best PC FPS game there has been for a long time. With a half decent graphics card it's no exaggeration to say the graphics are jaw dropping, and the game play matches it.

Unfortunately if you lose your internet connection mid game, Origin closes the game immediately. You lose all XP/progress you have made in the game since you launched it.

Steam had its share of problems when it launched and it looks like Origin is exactly the same, except the tool isn't there to make our gaming lives better but to stop piracy without giving a crap about the gaming experience.
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I have given this book to 2 people who told me they wanted to know more about computers. It's very easy to read and does an excellent job of explaining basic computer concepts. Probably not too interesting for this crowd. But it's an excellent introduction to computing.
I think QBasic.exe is smaller than adobe.com's favicon
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A quick search on HN revealed this very page has been posted 5 times before.

All the recent discussion about improving the "quality" of the HN front page seems more relevant with so many repeat-posts popping up quite often.
Maybe he meant QuickC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickC)
Joesph's reply is absolutely correct. I just wanted to add that JSON is a special case of what I noted above: OT is more of a protocol than an algorithm, it takes in operations and performs a transformation on them. It's up to you to decide what those operations are and how to transform them.

The canonical example of a text document with operations consisting of inserting or deleting strings of characters is a little error-prone, but in the context of humans editing text in real time, there's an assumption that they will correct any visible artefacts.

However, when you have structured data created and consumed by algorithms, your tolerance for artefacts goes down to nothing, and you need to choose a different set of operations and carefully design the transformation function.

In between structured data and unstructured text there is also text with semantics. As noted above, you can ignore that and leave it up to humans to fix it, or you can bake some smarts about the text in. There are existing products that treat numbers as a special case, for example. It may not be worth the effort, that's a design choice.

Anyhow, this is a lot of blowhardiness just to say that OT isn't an error-free way to synchonize strings, nor is it just one algorithm, it's a protocol and part of the design process is deciding when and how to go beyond plain text and the obvious transformations on the operations.
While it's right to be skeptical, it's worth considering that the press has been burned by cold fusion claims many times by now.

No serious journalist would touch this without a ton of caveats, and then what's the point? So a lack of massive mainstream media coverage doesn't really mean all that much.

Especially given that these guys seems to be secretive, which is understandable whether or not it's real or a scam - if the process is easy to reproduce, and claims are that the process is very simple, and thus if the effect is real they're probably worried about someone copying it and finding simple ways around any patents they might apply for.

Of course the second reason to be secretive would be if it blatantly is a scam or they have failed to make it work and refuse to accept that they won't find a way to fix it.

And history is littered by companies like this that claimed to have similar stuff for all kinds of reason and then just fell off the radar after it turned out they were frauds, wrong or delusional...
I thought most EULAs were ruled invalid in Germany, as you pay for the product before you accept the EULA.
They can't be pure capacitors, otherwise the charge would be leaking away. No capacitor in the world is going to be reading .6v three days after being charged to 9v.

Also, the paragraph about the piezoelectric effect in salt is incoherent nonsense. There could be a plausible electrochemical effect causing a change in the output voltage when the cell is heated; but the .1v change resulting from vibration has to be pure measurement error. That is quite plausible, since she's using a three digit hardware-store multimeter, and .1v is the smallest possible change it can measure in the 200 volt (?!?! 200 volt mode when measuring the voltage of an electrochemical battery?) range mode.
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