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Yahoo proves that desperation breeds rather desperate moves. And make no mistake, I think Yahoo has been remarkably resilient in that any number of the gaffes and missteps they have committed could have done them in any number of times (or at least set the machine in motion full speed) yet have still remained at least tenuously in "the game". But this is bad. Very very bad.

Now as to how this makes SV like HWood, I don't see it at all. I worked with a stack of the studios in a past tech life (one I have no love for mind you) and the gap in terms of approach, the manner and the outlook between MPAA/RIAA/Studio management and the lion's share of tech firms is so wide as to be past the horizon line. They are simply totally different in many fundamental ways.
It's a hard problem indeed. Hopefully that will motivate some people :)
Most people fly rarely to never, and the TSA has slowly realized it needs to give special consideration to elected officials to keep itself safe.
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don't these law enforcement officials have anything more useful to do?
I suggest taking a look clang/llvm. They have a friendly API for access to parse trees and intermediate metadata exactly for purposes like this. And it's open source too!
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My first thought was "Vader"!
Unless Apple change his policy about Push (API) there is little Sparrow can do. Spaarrow is aware of this. They have a page dedicated to this Push problem:

http://sparrowmailapp.com/push.php
Interesting! I've seen DXR before but it used to be pretty limited, no advanced queries, and the project seemed to be dead. Nice to see there is at least work in that direction. Large projects such as Mozilla could especially benefit from it.
Some references, JURI is a committee from the European parliament. JURI is about the legal review of potentially new EU law (directives), it's a kind of legal advisor for the European parliament.

They had indeed the 1st March a vote about a draft report concerning "Permitted uses of orphan works".

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/20120...

Now if we look in Oeil (the database of all the legal document status in the EU instutions):

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?...

The proposal will go in 1st reading at the parliament.

You can find back the final amended version by JURI:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

The vote took place the 1st March 2012 at JURI (cf. Oeil) but I can't see the result mentioned in the blog post.
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Thanks, the link gives more balanced details on the interview itself, adding a better context to what rms said.
I'm becoming very irritated with Apple's behavior in the app store. While it's nothing new, I hate that they're restricting apps that compete with native apps.

Sparrow? No push notifications for you. Dolphin? Here's an NC17 rating (wtf?) for you, and by the way-- no way to change the default browser.

I'd really like to see a reasonable explanation for both of these scenarios by Apple. My guess is the only reasonable explanation is that they want to restrict and "protect" the user experience for that critical functionality in a way that seems like an ornery chef who refuses to cook your steak medium well.
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Interestingly enough, Dropbox was launched here on Hacker News with a video to "throw away your usb drive".

Since I had been writing "ad copy" for many years for my own shareware app at the time, and liked to encourage posters rather than criticize (as I knew how hard it could be to launch something), I instead posted a list of benefits in a way a person 30-70 years old could understand.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I've been honored to watch as subsequent Dropbox videos had become better at explaining the benefits to real people, with wording similar to mine, as well as surprised to see screen shots of that page with my username on it in presentations done by Drew Houston and Adam Smith at YC Startup School or MIT Startup Bootcamp.

I had the pleasure of meeting Drew after YC Startup School 2007, when he was still looking for a partner, at the apartment where the Xobni founders lived. I got a good overview of what he was building but didn't have time to show him what I was working on. A few people left to pick up burgers while I was talking with Drew.

My next encounter with Drew was also the day after Startup School, this time in 2011. It was surreal to sit around a table with Drew and visitors to Dropbox Headquarters in large office in downtown San Francisco, joining the people peppering him with questions about taking Dropbox. Again, people ate, but (mini) burgers were catered, and hundreds of them. :)

Edit:

Also, when I interned at Justin.tv (I went back to college to complete a B.S. Computer Science and a B.S. Mathematics), I created a console app (in Python) for broadcasters that could start with their JTV credentials and channel name and modify the packets of the video stream playing on VLC in real-time in multiple ways. Arash Ferdowsi was helpful in putting me in touch with the person at Dropbox responsible for client-side builds for some tips on building executables of my app for Windows, Mac, and Linux users.
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Thanks, yes it was a genuine question!
The 'knowledge worker' section would be a lot more convincing if it provided citations.
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He still made it to SXSW.

His talk (audio only) can be found here: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992467
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What will this look like 20 years from now when marijuana is decriminalised? I always wonder that when seeing these sad stories. How will our future selves view the ignorance of the past in regards to drug laws?

Even 5 years ago I never thought gay marriage had a chance in America. But now it seems like just a matter of time and entirely obvious. There will come a tipping point with drugs laws in America where marijuana decriminalization seems equally inevitable. Unfortunately we still have a ways to go.
I've been a beta tester for the last month or so as well and I can definitely say this has replaced Mail.app for me. I feel relieved not seeing the red notification bubble growing. It's been freeing and I've got a much better way of managing my emails now. I hope Apple comes around on notifications though so this app will be even more popular(already broken the top 25 paid apps here in Canada.)
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Some people have had their choices severely constrained by circumstances. A categorical 'I won't hire from company 'x'' without any willingness to look at circumstances is silly.

Another thing the guy overlooks: these people could simply be extremely loyal and may hope that given Y!'s scale that there is a chance that the right management team could make things work. Other companies have been in bad shape and have survived eventually.

Loyalty is an excellent quality and penalizing it is stupid. You really shouldn't hire based on where people used to work, you should hire based on your needs, team fit and skills.
I feel that the animations are a bit slow.
I have never seen so many cops by the side of the road as I have in Texas...
I grew up in Arizona and Border Patrol is everywhere down south. It looks like Geohot ran into a permanent checkpoint. Seems like a really poor choice.
Thanks for pointing this out. As authors of the original post we'd like to see this fixed.
I have several (breaking) issues with the paid desktop version of the Sparrow.app. I've posted the most bothersome one on their support forums about two weeks ago: no reply at all. Nothing.

As a company that does epic UI, they should figure out that customer support is a form of user interface as well.

I'm not ready to give them any more money at this point.
This is the original article: http://www.alternet.org/visions/154518/why_we_have_to_go_bac...
This guy is an idiot. People at Yahoo that do not determine policy may not be at liberty to simply quit their positions. They'll have dependents, mortgages and other long running commitments.

To make blanket statements like this - especially as a CEO - is dumb, plain and simple. I have never used a Yahoo product and I disagree with a lot of things they've done in the past couple of years. But I'd never hold working at some other company during whatever period in their life-cycle against a former employee.

Yes, Yahoo! made a dick move. But that does not mean that everybody working at Yahoo! should be penalized like this.
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You're right that velocity has picked up. It actually picked up about a year and a half ago. I would say the main driver was the Django core expanding to include people like Carl Meyer (look him up on stack overflow if you want to learn how you help a community. He also appears to be an absolute monster at crushing bugs) Alex Gaynor, Andrew Godwin, and a bunch of other people:

https://code.djangoproject.com/log/django/trunk/docs/interna...

I think that Django went through a rough period of growing pains there but now seems back on track.
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there are several links in there citing sources, the second of which is to a paper from the author's relative(? spouse?), which it explicitly notes "contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early-20th-century leaders as they embraced the short week":

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People don't really wander around downtown Manhattan with bombs or assault weapons. If they're looking to bomb GS, figuring out GS is at 200 West is unlikely to be the greatest of their challenges. (There's few ways it could be more public than being listed in their Wikipedia infobox.)
Yahoo is an enormous company with lots and lots of different products some of which are operating at massive scale and would require a very knowledgeable team to work on them.

They pioneered a lot of those 'latest technologies' there and you'd be lucky to be able to hire them. Ditto for microsoft. If you think these are 'backwards' companies then you have no idea of what is going on there.

You are making blanket statements about untold thousands of people without any knowledge about the individuals at all. You can not make such statements. You can only make such statements about individuals, never about groups.
Because moms want to make sure their kids are safe from terrorists.

Only a very small portion of Americans are on Hacker News, so don't assume the TSA is universally loathed.
"It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are."

What if clients don't trust anyone? Its about risk/reward ratio. Trust/faith went out the window when the scam of a monotheist God gave into the lesser mistake of ubiquitous currency. The religion of the Semites was nursed on trade. Money is the visible face of the Abrahamic God. Its with this righteousness that Goldman Sachs engages in the world with such impunity.

Gone are the lineages of the priestly classes. Gone is the prudent care of the warrior/king caste. The merchants rule in the decadent age. Soon we will be holden to the mind of the sudra slaves.
There's something that they can do, it's written as the first option:

"On our side: if Sparrow was to do Push today, we would have to store your credentials (login/password) on our servers to frequently poll your accounts, and send you notifications.

This is a responsibility we're not ready to take. As a startup focused on iOS/OS X development, we do not have the skills to secure your data on our servers and we do not want to put sensitive information at risk."
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Yeah, I guess yours and nitrogen's explanations, taken together, can explain a large part of it. OTOH, low proportion of people who cross borders (esp. compared to Europe); OTOH, the nature of representative democracy (as opposed to direct democracy).
This is why the federal government was intended to have limited, explicitly enumerated powers. Now if you so much as fart outdoors the feds claim it's interstate commerce and they have the right, nay, the obligation, to regulate.

That's not to say that interstate air travel is outside of the scope of the feds, but that there's so much scope creep in Congress that it's hard to focus on that come election season.
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I had severe issues too with the Mac app too, like lost email drafts. The problem is that email is difficult to handle. Sparrow does an excellent job with the UI and while that part was ready for a 1.0 release the email handling was not. It takes a lot of manual testing due to the way other email applications and servers abuses email standards. They released it to early for it to be labeled stable IMHO. The current release is decent though, but still found bugs and it has been a while since the latest update (they must have put all resources on the iPhone-app). Hopefully they haven't done the same mistakes with the iPhone-app. Looks great with my limited testing so far and I have replaced my main Mail-icon on my home screen.
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Of course you can make statements about groups. In a different context, most of the people here agreed with this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

I feel safe suggesting this, because they'd never do it.
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That was 2007. A generalization about a group of people's ability to write software, which arose from observation of their company's products and behavior. If that's not legitimate, I suppose all must have prizes.
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Good luck and trust what happens, even if it's not what you're currently after. (it could help avoid some of this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102143)
No, my business is continuing to grow year on year. People seem to love installing my dead software on their dead PC's running that dead operating system Windows and they are quite happy to pay me for it.
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SELECT * FROM companies WHERE field='tech' ORDER BY growth_rate, market_cap;

That will roughly correspond to a rank ordering of companies that are both growing and big. Apple and Facebook will be near the top of that list. Yahoo and Microsoft much lower.

You could also do it Turing style, analyzing LinkedIn data to see which company is raiding which for talent. Very few Googlers are going to MS. And very few Facebook people are going to Google. Like PageRank, these migration signals give you a rank ordering of desirability.

You can rank colleges the same way, which is why people from Stanford and MIT are usually in the headlines for technological breakthroughs and why people from Directional State are not.
No, you can't.

Within every large enough group there will be individuals that you'd be more than happy to hire.

What most people here agree with does not change the facts.

Microsoft as a company may suck (and even that depends on your viewpoint, I would agree with that statement but plenty of people do not and they may have just as much reason to believe their opinions as I do) but that does not automatically translate into 'everybody that works at microsoft sucks'.

Oh, and they're still one of the largest software companies and one of the largest companies in general. There's bound to be interesting work and interesting people within its walls.
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Overall, I think you have a really creative mind and should start working on some of your ideas, to make best use of it :).

Me too :) I just need to partner up with someone who is more grounded and has the mindset of testing everything. I live too much in my intuition and ideaspace.
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Sorry, I meant to write about the 'knowledge worker' section in particular. I've edited to reflect that. The only cite in that section is supposedly to a US military study but actually goes to a findarticles.com page that doesn't directly support the statement being cited and that makes no reference to said study.
The iOS push notification service works by having a remote server determine when a push notification needs to be displayed to the user. The only way for Sparrow to do this would be to store the gmail credentials of every user who uses their application on a server (instead of each individual users iPhone). This would obviously introduce a lot of security considerations that Sparrow don't want to have to deal with.

Alternatively, Apple provide an API that certain apps may use to regular check for updates by running code on the iPhone, but Apple are not allowing Sparrow to use this API.
He wouldn't do that. He's playing to win, not to gamble. Streaks aren't a statistical phenomenon in the sense that once you start a streak, you'd be more likely to keep winning. As far as non-card counters are concerned, and as far as all players are concerned if a continuous shuffle machine is in use, each hand of blackjack is an independent event. Once this player wins the casino's money, it becomes "his money," not "their money." By "their money" the article meant if he's up during a game and the odds are still in his favor, he'll continue as long as he feels like it. If the odds are no longer favorable, there's no way an advantage player like him would start gambling $2M for kicks.
I like that they're being honest about this and are focussing on what they are good at. The request push option, useless as it may be with Apple in charge, might be just what is needed. As they already state, allowing an e-mail app into the app store in the first place is a step in the right direction. Why not try to prod Apple to take another one.
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It likely is not going to take 20 years... at least, for states that aren't Texas. My state (Washington) is the front-runner to regulate the sale of marijuana in this year. I-502 polled with an 8 point lead last month, with 47% in favor, 39% opposed, and 15% undecided. [1] Of course, the initiative in California polled well last year and still failed, but this is almost certainly going to pass in less than twenty years on the west coast.

[1] http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_WA_2...
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The States are not a democracy. They are a democratic (all citizens) republic (government by proxy vote). See nitrogen''s reply.

A democracy would indeed find it easy to change such things as the TSA. Unfortunately a democracy would also find it easy to, say, change the rules of evidence governing proof of your guilt, because their perception of you is that you are bad and need to be punished, and the court system is one way to do that.

It is the tragedy of democracies that it is easy to make major decisions hastily whose consequences are either not understood well or understood all too well by a few for their own advantage.