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"the talent market in Silicon Valley is so hot right now, the only folks staying at Yahoo are the ones who have stopped caring"

Or people who can't leave because of immigration reasons(such as a pending green card).
So, they have no interest in being the best at what they do? I would hope not. And yes, details make a difference.
Ah I just figured something out. So some people here are calling FBI's stupidity for mucking with the phone, as in trying patterns that eventually locked the device. In other words if phones are known to lock they shouldn't just randomly try patterns on it.

But I believe the attempts were not random. They probably did what you suggested, inspects trace of the fingertip grease and discovered a much more constrained set of possible possible patterns.

So they basically got an un-directed graph and now they thought they could figure out the most likely directed path in the graph that would unlock the phone.

Somebody probably made an educated (but eventually bad) guess about what the unlock path would be.
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We're a (pretty good) group of developers who have been working on improving our design skills. We'd love it if you could give your feedback on our design, layout and prose. www.musicmind.co Thanks.
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Not to mention, I guess Yahoo! tends to pay really well (that won't be matched by Google/MS etc)
clickable: http://www.musicmind.co
It depends on the course. NLP and PGM are some fo the more hardcore Coursera courses.
QA itself is a process failure. If the testers have ever repeated an action more than twice, they should be automated, and you're back to automated testing.

The only QA I've ever worked with that was worthwhile spent their time writing automated tests - they were programmers concentrated in test. Otherwise, you're literally saying 'It would be cheaper to pay this room full of people to do what a machine can do instead of paying 1/10th their number to write the same thing as a test', which is essentially never true.
I wrote this some time ago for navigating with (g|e)tags, allowing you to view the current stack as you drill down:
https://github.com/markhepburn/tags-view
(you can prune the stack too, so you only see the important bits of context)

It worked well for my own usage, but it probably needs some love. I'm not sure how *cscope works though, and if it would be possible to add it as another backend.
the way he handled Pownce http://pownce.com/ made me lose all respect, the handling of Oink confirms this.
What Andy says is absolutely true. This machine learning class was easily the best class I took at Caltech. Prof. Abu-Mostafa got a standing ovation at the end of the course the term I took it. I wish I could have taken more of his classes.

It was also fairly difficult -- the assignments were hard, but at every step, you could look at what you'd done and say "I know why I'm doing this, and I can see how this works."

I remember at the end of the term he took several students' notes and made copies of them, so that he could compare the students' notes with what he was trying to convey, and could know if he wasn't teaching certain parts of the class well enough.

It's a shame that not all professors are as dedicated and responsive to their teaching obligations as Prof. Abu-Mostafa.

Oh, also, "introductory" in this context is meant to differentiate it from "graduate level". Every student (mostly juniors and seniors) in this class will have had several terms of math, theoretical CS, and practical programming classes.
I have had the best font experience on arch, out of gentoo, debian, Ubuntu, fedora, centos, and FreeBSD. It wasn't straight out of the box, but it was easier to make happen than on any of the others.
This seems a bit... premature. Not that I've used it. But in all seriousness, if Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook had shut down after the first few mediocre months... well, we'd probably all be better off. But you get the picture.

Was Kevin Rose involved in Pownce? That felt like another "meh" effort from the former Diggers.
This blog post says much about Yammer CEO, than about Yahoo! employees
1. New framework written

2. Wheels reinvented to fit on new framework

3. Framework develops an "ecosystem"

4. Framework grows to support ecosystem

5. Framework criticized as old and crufty. Repeat 1 with new framework.
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Agreed. I'm really struggling to see how people here can be so negative. The whole idea of Milk was to try lots of things and see which stuck.

People are saying "you need to stick things out to build a business" -- but Milk is sticking to their original strategy, and is in the process of searching for a truly big business.
People are calling Kevin Rose and his team a bunch of hipsters, but I'd rather that than the nerdy meta-hipsters who are everywhere online these days.

I really like the Milk model. It's another twist on the incubator/accelerator concept, alongside stuff like YC or the Samwers' Rocket Internet. A startup that looks like an investment firm -- instead of risking it all on one product, they're looking for a portfolio of products, to better increase the chances of finding that one breakout hit. And like VCs, they're not interested in small successes.

Sure, you can point out their model is unproven and might not work. But there's no need to hate them for trying something new.
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"people have to be able to look under the hood and fix the code that runs their society. Otherwise they become slaves to whoever made the rules by writing the code."

This is where we disagree. If you don't like the license that I use, don't use the software that I created.

Are we "slaves" because we don't know the specifics of something inside our TV or car? no. and we won't be slaves if we don't get all of the source code to the software that we use.

You act as if it's a right and when enough people start feeling this way, the next step is usually to get the government involved to force software vendors to open up their source (Stallman has openly stated that he would like this). Viewing my source code isn't a right and should never be a right.

The free software and open source movements have both devalued developers. Why would I hire a software engineer that has years of schooling and costs $80K, when I can just hire a software mechanic for half price and make simple changes to the free stuff that the engineer created.

The same thing that is happening to other industries will happen to developers in 5-10 years. We are just at the beginning of the transition.

I've worked at many places that could have hired 5 developers, but only hired me because we were using open source and the majority of the what was needed was already finished. Another factor is that the younger generations, who have been using open source throughout their lives, are growing up and starting businesses.

I'm not saying this is a bad or a good thing, just my prediction.
I thought doing an "ask hn" with links/URLs in the content of the post was forbidden?
ax, the link that started this thread is actually a good example of something that is possible through Crowdtilt and not through Kickstarter. groupfunding, as we call it, allows you to pool funds for anything from a $4,100 airbnb house for a bachelor party to a $1,800 campaign for a friend's dog's surgery (two examples of campaigns that tilted today that wouldn't be a use case for Kickstarter). Hope that helps!
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I have seen arch break pretty spectacularly, but only on systems where i did some, to put it delicately, unadvisable things (put /tmp, /var/tmp on tmpfs, put /usr on unionfs over squashfs, etc). Where I have avoided breaking standard practice, I have never had a single problem. I also see it to arch's credit that I was able to do such horrific things to it with such ease (and fairly good documentation).
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After experimenting with countless distros over the years, Arch is by far my favorite. It combines the customizability of Gentoo with the simplicity of Slackware. Long live Arch!
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Check the TOS; it says pretty clearly they are not accredited and courses taken will not stand in for an accredited course.
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Their business model depends on their ability to teach and then connect students with hiring employers (in interviews they indicated their business plan is to generate revenue through recruitment). Whether accredited or not, as a student, what's good for Udacity is good for me.

The professors are also well respected brand names in their own right. Having your introduction to probabilistic robots come from Thrun to me carriers weight
Who is this for - fans, bands, administrators? I can't tell if it's an end-user service or a framework. If the former, how does it integrate with iTunes or any of the myriad other music services? If the latter, how will this help me build traffic over a competitor's offering?

Also, I hate the gray color. It looks like concrete with blue plastic tape.

On the positive side, I like the idea of social discovery via music and music discovery via social networking, particularly the former. One way to highlight this would be to let me search for an artist or genre and then offer contacts with people who are already fans of that and can recommend other music in the same genre.

Lots of luck!
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Doesn't really answer the question... Following the good old logic, we should all stay away from Milk's products until any of them "gains traction".
I am discussing the tendency of some developers of apps for children to deliberately swindle their naive audience. You are, by account of your latest post, talking to hear your own head rattle. Good day.
"Plus, satellite providers have a distinct advantage in that their content needs to be protected only in real time."

I could be wrong here, and it's been a while since I missed with Echostar/Dish hardware, but DVR recordings are stored on the hard drive in raw, encrypted form and then played back through the decryption hardware.
This madman, and Pingdom (tools.pingdom.com) says the page loads in 2.5 seconds, clocking it in at about the median of pages. I load it it in 4-5 seconds even on my _Android_. What rig are you using that could conceivably make it 6 times slower than an Android pad?
What do you think gentoo was? When I used it (2005-7ish), I think it was a toy for brat haxxors. At the time, I was a brat haxxor, so it worked well.
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You don't. You use QUnit and move on with your life.
All Firefox extensions can read the passwords if they're trojaned, regardless of whether they handle them or not.
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When the patent system is so fundamentally broken, and will take years to fix through political means, drastic measures have a certain logic to them.

Are there a lot of other public companies in SV that have a patent portfolio the size of Yahoo who are going after non-public companies with broad, web 2.0 patents? I think you could count on two hands the number of software companies with the patent portfolio the size of Yahoo (not counting NPE like IV).

If Yahoo succeeds with Facebook, they will extract this tax out of every new web company that is a success. And down the road, if MSFT really falls off, they will do the same.

Somebody has to draw a line in the sand. Get the employees to stand against this, because the mgmt never will.
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He was referring to the throttling of your connection because of what you're downloading. Net neutrality shouldn't allow ISP's to do that. Not to mention that this isn't a new law. It's "voluntary", which means it can't bypass net neutrality, yet that's what they might try to do.
My company doesn't produce a website, but we run a large suite of tests nightly, and before every release.
I think this is hilarious. Stallman would rather have you live in poverty and get donations or basically become a tech support technician than sell software for money.

My problem with Stallman is that he doesn't compromise. For the same reason many people on HN hate religious right zealots, I dislike Stallman.

The only people in my mind that don't compromise are dictators and I'm glad he has no power over anything that I do.
It isn't hypocritical. If you know someone behaves in a manner you think is unethical, you don't have to ignore it just because that information might be less accessible for the next candidate. You use the information you have about each individual candidate. If one candidate got caught stealing office supplies and you somehow know about it, you take that into account rather than ignoring it just because the next guy may have gotten away with it.
"I really wish I could pay for free services just for the peace of mind that they'll stick around. I've got my website on Tumblr ..."

The sensible middle ground is to host your site anywhere you want, but only using your own domain. If someone pulls a Posterous, you just point your domain at the next vendor, export from old and import to new.

Same with email. Your address should be under a domain that you own, then you can host your email anywhere that allows you to use your own domain. Even gmail does this.
Why not increase shareholder value through true innovation rather than patent trolling and abuse of a fragile and susceptible patent law system? I think the industry as a whole is better off when firms innovate rather than litigate. Just my 2 cents.
The nice thing about college is that it provides an easy way to find a lot of other smart people who are about your age.

Also, teaching someone else solidifies knowledge a lot more quickly than straight lecture or exercises.

So it is too bad to me that there is no social aspect of this course and these types of programs. Udacity study group on google+ or whatnot would be neat.
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Even if you test manually what you just changed, in a relatively complex codebase how can you guarantee that your changes haven't broken behaviour in a separate yet related aspect of the system?

This is what I find the major advantage of a comprehensive test-suite to be, I don't have to worry as much about breaking any part of the system as a whole - if my suite passes, then I know everything I've worked on so far works, not just the bit I think I changed.
What is it about Kevin Rose and commitment ?
Is my non-computer hack what YC is looking for?
This is my proudest hack throughout my life, but is it what YC are looking for:

"In 2007 I realised my parents were struggling financially despite what I previously thought were solid incomes and jobs. The increasing cost of living and a stagnant income meant that net pay simply wasn’t going the distance. I wrote to my father’s and mother’s employers asking if he could become self-employed consultants in order to write off high commuting costs and work related expenses against income. Despite the extraordinary nature of the request they both agreed, they thought it “made sense and anyway single clients consultants aren’t that unheard of!”

Not only did I bring about a more comfortable lifestyle to my family they are still to this day self employed and both have more then one client as of today. "
Ah, I completely missed that
I use a different definition of natural. The fact that the electrons, negatively charged, were moving wasn't known when they assigned the positive-negative labels. But still, although what you are saying is certainly true in proton/electron systems, it would be completely reversed in antiproton/positron systems, where the charge would be moving together with the particles.
Also, don't forget of ions, or particles in space, or in particle physics experiments, where both charges move.

The point is that the natural choice that you assign would be natural just because of some contingent conventions, but it's not more natural in terms of some more fundamental/mathematical meaning. While the pi vs. tau is.
Actually, the Udacity courses have very active forums.

There is a good mix of experienced programmers and absolute beginners...if I ever have a problem, I usually have an answer within 5-10 minutes, and I get to return the favour frequently.
+1 for irony anyways...
You can't talk about rational decisions without asking, "across what timeframe?"

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1175... (search for 'buxton index')
For folks who want Ubuntu’s font rendering on Debian, there is a simple hack you can try:

Get Ubuntu’s /etc/fonts directory, remove or rename your own /etc/fonts, and put Ubuntu’s in its place.

I’ve been using this hack in Debian Sid, I have applied it to several machines, and it always gets the job done.

Apologies for veering off topic.
I have a little thought experiment:

Yahoo is acting distastefully. David Sacks suggests that we threaten and punish those who work there. This includes those who can have no real influence on company strategy.

David Sacks is also acting distastefully.

Therefore if we were to follow David Sack's advice we should now threaten David's gardener and pool-boy.

I'm sure the cafeteria staff, interns, co-op hires, newly hired, green cards and so forth will appreciate being ostracised like this.
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We are rearchitecting our code base to make testing easier/faster/better
Thanks, great constructive feedback. A point by point:
It's for both fans, and bans. The interactions will be fan to fan and band to fan.

Its a social network, not currently a framework.

It will help you build traffic because currently the only way to interact with fans is either through face to face, or another network like facebook, which is an imperfect medium because:
a: It's not designed around music and therefore is hard/impossible to share your playlist, or to have more interactions with a band than simply posting on their wall.

b: Spotify is a stopgap service, which is doing kind of well on the social front but not the artist front. For example, Lady Gaga recently took her music off spotify after earning a grand total of: $100 dollars through streaming.

On the design, okay, I definitively see that. Do you have any colors/patterns you'd recommend?

Thank you so much.
Doing joins or foreign keys is no problem. You simply join against the appropriate hstore function.
nice collection of resources: http://datascienc.es/resources/
My company has a pretty complex system for testing. But almost all code that makes it into production is done with ridiculous deadlines that forces us to skip all of our testing. Ain't that life?
I think this is something that I'd like – but it's very hard to figure out from the landing page copy. It's unclear who the site is actually for... only try to sell to one person at a time.

The text is incredibly difficult to read, largely due to the text shadow being set at -2px (try just 1px), but also because of the font.

The shadow of the text also isn't consistent with the shadow of the header bar.

The icons look like they were picked from different iconsets, and also pixelated in some cases.

The positioning of the icons isn't ideal to me, nor is only showing the description text on hover. It actually took me awhile to realize that information was there.

The footer links on hover also have an entirely different shadow not consistent with the header or text.

Your site is focused on one of the coolest verticals, and yet the design is sort of boring.

Hope this helps!
Being a reverse engineer who knows what symbolic execution is, is a lonely occupation :( http://www.openrce.org/blog/view/2049/[video]_Semi-Automated...
Udacity is definitely focussed on shorter classes. I wouldn't call them easy though - accessible is a better word.

Anyone is able to take their CS 101 class - no prereqs are required. But it's fairly substantive. There are always forum complaints about how hard some of the homework is.

I think they've picked a good balance of accessibility vs. rigor. But I expect that as they add more classes, people will be able to use Udacity to acquire real skills.

Put another way: The fact that 50% of their current classes are for novices (i.e. one course) doesn't mean the situation will stay that way for long.

And they are very, very good at teaching and online delivery.
Because the only time you try to find a project is on search.npmjs.org?

This is the same problem as "Go". The community has to develop a different term for googling the project than the project's name.
That means you belong to the 1st group, i.e. people who prefer pixelated/rough text look from the 90s. No offense, but this "looks fine to me" attitude is what has been historically handicapping the Linux desktop.

Below are two examples of "looks fine":

Case #1. Thin non-antialiased fonts sirca Windows 95:

http://i1-linux.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Arch-Linux_...

Case #2. Default Arch anti-aliasing with poor quality:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZ2dKqaJUYw/TqCuVyI3WDI/AAAAAAAAAj...

Just look at "archlinux" rendering in the URL.

And this is how Ubuntu looks by default:

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f111/334...

Notice the excellent typeface they developed themselves, consistent and high-quality anti-aliasing, etc. This looks gorgeous on a modern high-DPI screen. Group #1 thinks this "looks blurry" and Arch works fine for them.

Simply put, It is technically impossible for Arch to provide you with the best font experience because their freetype is compiled with, hm... parts of code removed. The parts that are responsible for hinting, bytecode interpretation and subpixel rendering. And the way they ship Open Office and Firefox (well, last time I checked) makes their fonts non-configurable at all, since they ignore system/global version of freetype.
Haha yeah that paper is how I got started reversing VM based schemes. A short paper that does use symbolic execution and theorem proving is BinHunt, although it's a blatant ripoff of Halvar published 4 years later. Their only claimed contributions are (1) symbolic execution and theorem proving for basic block equivalence and (2) backtracking for their maximum common subgraph isomorphism algorithm (in contrast to Halvar who I believe used direction instruction comparison for basic block equivalence and a greedy subgraph algorithm). These could be meaningful contributions but they provide no data to prove that that the posited accuracy increase of symbolic execution and backtracking is worth the large performance hit.
I actually liked Norvig's teaching style. His ability to get to the essence of a topic quickly is quite remarkable.
Thanks, I really appreciate this. The icons were a particular challenge. Do you have any favorite icon sets?
have you read doctorow's "makers"? he presents a reasonably plausible way in which a "search for stuff in your house" system could evolve (based on dirt cheap and deeply unobtrusive rfid tags you simply attach to everything)
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