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What a jerk and a hypocrite.

Patents are, like it or not, one of the weapons of war, if you will, in business. Have been for a long, long time. And, while I too hate the "we invented the button and we have a patent" crowd I also recognize that they exist for a reason.

Denying someone employment because the company they work for seeks to enforce their patents --legitimate or not-- is nothing less than being a dick.

If you want to do something about frivolous patents get involved politically, seek to understand the issues and push to make sensible changes. So, how about it Mr. David Sacks instead of being a total dick by seeking to cause damage to Yahoo employees, would you use your money and influence to help change patent laws?

I have yet to see any of the loud-mouths spouting off about patents offer to do something like put together a fund to be used in pursuing changes to the laws. An, of course, none of them will write a check for a few million to fund it. If I was in a position to get something like this started I would. Maybe someone can reach vocal anti-patent guys like Mark Cuban and ask him to throw the first ten million into the pot to get this going?

With the money available in the top layer of tech companies it should be possible to put together a fund with billions of dollars. This fund could either be available to fight patent trolls or act as a PAC (or both).

Imagine, if you will, what would go through patent troll's minds if they tried to enforce bullshit patents and this group existed.

Let's call it the AFSPL (Americans For Sensible Patent Laws). Furthermore, imagine that this group had massive amounts of money and a whole floor full of lawyers and engineers to throw at the problem. The ACLU of the patent world, if you will.

If someone comes after you with a bullshit patent you could bring it up with the AFSPL for review. And, if they see it your way they defend you. Trolls would disappear almost instantly. Bullshit patents would be invalidated. The skies would turn blue and the birds would sing.

Maybe they could even mount a massive lawsuit against the patent office itself.

Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe that there's a place for valid an solid patents, even software patents. Having said that, I've read through so many patents that have caused me to yell and scream at the top of my lungs "this is bullshit!" that it is easy to loose hope.

Nah, going after Yahoo employees is crap. Get a grip on reality and put your time, effort and passion behind a real solution.
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Not a very good deal, given Codeschool's $25/month unlimited access membership plan.
I'm not sure. I just don't think this is it.
there are a bajillion libraries out there for unit testing javascript (something test::unit-ish would be qunit). rails + backbone + JST style templating actually makes TDDing your js relatively painless
I think we can agree most people reading this site and competing in the startup space know accreditation isn't too important. Aside from us, there is the 99.999% of the professional workspace where this idea is heretical. For them, a reasonably credible system of accreditation carries a lot of weight. The post-Uni startup that addresses these concerns will take most of the pot.
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There's a been a lot of talk about big startup ideas on Hacker News lately. Here's a starting point.
Nope. Some people downvoted because your assumption that people know the positions of their representatives is wrong.

The average person on the street is has a level of understanding that's closer to "Keep the government out of my medicare!!". People typically don't know the names of their representatives, the policies they stand for and the impact those policies are going to have in practice. They have to know all of those things in order to understand the meaning of "Don't mess with the internet".
Also, CBS, Van Wagner and others... More importantly, the amount of red tape you have to go through to get a billboard up is crazy, so I can't imagine every billboard company isn't in bed with the politicians.
If you are throwing your code away every few weeks, it is probably wasted time. If your codebase is in a lot of flux, it will save you a ton of time, since a good test suite tells you what breaks every time you change something.
What in particular do you not like about the syntax of Rust? We're still designing the language and we are very much open to suggestions.
There are a lot of good people toiling away at Yahoo for one reason or another. In particular, work visas can tie you to the company for a good portion of a decade.

Just to take one example I'm familiar with, Flickr still has a lot of top-notch people.
Good question. The movement is all natural. I tried as much as possible to avoid changing my behavior because I was recording my location. I wanted to get an objective picture of where I had been.

One exception was at Stanford during WhereCamp, I walked around a park and spelled "Where"! http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronpk/6983337983/in/pool-1772...
I think there is a fair distance between caring how you dress and caring about architecture. For one thing, architecture tends to be more permanent and won't exit the train at the next stop. I don't go into restaurants I don't like and criticize their decor and their food, so I'm not sure why I should care about what others wear.
Better to be a bit of an unfair bully than to do sit around while parasites send the industry down the toilet. It's like chemotherapy: sometimes you have to hurt the body to kill off the cancerous cells.
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No need to bash Ubuntu just because it lost the coolness/freshness factor. It's still a great distribution, and the only one I know which serves excellent font rendering out of the box.

I love Arch as much as the next guy, but their default font experience is awful. The biggest headache of using it was constantly fighting/maintaining patched cairo/freetype from AUR (because they'd occasionally conflict with a newer version of some other package). And on top of that you'd have a ton of other packages with baked-in broken fonts like Firefox, xulrunner and Open Office.

When it comes to fonts and text rendering, all users firmly belong into two groups: the 1st group would post a screenshot of their screen where the 'd' and 'p' are rendered with double line thickness at the tip of their curves, and then claim "my fonts are fine". The 2nd group would consider that unusable.

What Ubuntu excelled at (and still does) is to bring Linux to the 2nd group of people, which is a lot larger than the 1st one. All Canonical's questionable achievements like Unity, upstart and Bazaar have been easily eclipsed by them noticing and taking care of the elephant in the room: readability of text on user's screen. They fixed it by patching freetype, providing sensible defaults for fontconfig and by developing an excellent set of default fonts.

Sorry for the long rant, this is Arch birthday after all. Arch rocks! Long live Arch! :)
When Jeff & DJ Patil started using the term "data scientist," they were at Facebook and LinkedIn making products ("People You May Know," etc.) via machine learning on massive datasets.

It may be my ignorance, but when I hear "enterprise," "BI," "ETL," etc., I'm picturing some poor analyst doing database JOINs in order to dump the latest widget numbers into a PowerPoint table for the next board meeting.

Insofar as there is such a thing as "data science," I think it means making transformative use of data (ie by creating tools or models), not just summarizing it.
Copyright laws seem to be so strict these days, its tough to tell.
They probably couldn't even tell you his name.

Or maybe they could.

I'm amazed at some of things some Arizona[0] politicians support, such as the NDAA, things that should properly outrage the average citizen. But they don't, indeed these people get re-elected, and I believe it is precisely because of the outrageous things they support.

Even if the average Texan knows that Lamar was behind SOPA they may, for whatever reason, still think SOPA was a good idea.

0: Where I live.
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Because then the phone is no longer in the original state as when the defendant turned it over, and the FBI cannot prove it did not alter the contents of the phone (as images cannot be made while the phone is locked).
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I have always enjoyed tracking my movements when I travel and when I exercise. Here is the map I published a few years ago of my running habits: http://www.cederman.com/2009/03/i-love-data-part-3/

And when I drove through Belgium: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/37/86326741_a59159c807.jpg
Perhaps it's just me, but I feel like HN comments overall have gotten significantly more negative in the past few months. I can't recall reading the comments section for any recent startup launch or sale without at least half the commenters tearing it apart, often with almost no information to back it up.
Nope. Some people downvoted because your assumption that people know the positions of their representatives is wrong.

Fair enough, but it's naive to assume that simply equating Lamer Smith with SOPA is sufficient.
It makes me sad to read about all these cool features that I'm going to have to wait 4 years to use on any real websites.
Browser-ifying most of the algorithms is something I had in mind. I'd love to find some people to help! Volunteers?
As a New York Times Op-Ed author myself (with a friend; URL http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/opinion/09orlow.html), I can assert that the typical trajectory after such a performance is to end up commenting on Hacker News.
Since I run it without a problem on a HP touchpad with cyanogenmod 7, and now 9 (android 4.x), I thought it would work just fine on any device...
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Bulk pricing can / will really bite you in the ass.
http://blog.fixational.com/post/19177752599/opencv-vs-matlab

...just in case you also couldn't click or copy the link from the article
Tech bubble or not I am just glad that we may be seeing a decline and maybe even a reversal of the brain drain by Wall Street.
I know there is at least, cscope.el, xcscope.el, acscope.el, bcscope.el...

What's the advantage to acscope vs. the others? I personally use xcscope, I don't even remember why I initially chose it...
Ask HN: Codecademy for Photoshop?
Is there anything like Codecademy or Codeschool for Photoshop/Illustrator? I'd really like to learn more about the ins and outs of them, but haven't found one single amazing guide/tutorial site for learning things with it. The only way I've found to learn tasks are to just google "how to do X in photoshop" and I'll find a different blog post on a different site each time. Sometimes they're good guides, but other times not. I find myself wishing I could see a tutorial video often.

It seems like there would be a market for something like this if it doesn't exist, seeing as to how lots of education related startups are getting positive traction. Not to mention how many startups are design challenged and rocking the same twitter bootstrap templates.
You can "pop" as you navigate around.

Also, I've had a lot of luck with pycscope.py for python code + cscope tools.

GNU Global needs some love though. It'd be awesome to see it handle more stuff.
For me, Einstein notation had the major advantage in electrostatics of reeling in the complexity of really long integrals that show up in boundary-value problems in electrostatics as well as being able to rederive formulas like "curl of curl is div-grad minus laplacian" by hand in seconds (which I always forget -- I took Calc ).

I had only a relatively cursory introduction to general relativity last semester; I have at best a vague understanding of Christoffel symbols, to give you an idea. So if Einstein notation can at some level become a way to fling symbols around and forget you're doing physics, I guess I haven't gotten there yet. I would like to think, though, that were it introduced alongside vector calculus instead of several years later, people might connect the adscripts with their meaning more easily.

Usually, if I want to understand the geometry of a problem, though, I find the best tool is a diagram, if at all possible.
You are correct. JOBS act just passed the house. My mistake.
that's not entirely true, as his district also has part of Austin where anti-SOPA/PIPA sentiment is quite high.
Problem with browsing the web is that you have to wade through a lot of crap. Maybe encyclopedias will be missed after all.
Currently brainstorming where to take it from here. As mentioned above browser-ifying things is in the cards, and I'm interested in beefing up the classifiers, adding clustering & POS tagging.

Also the current inflection functionality is crappy and needs to be rethought.
Would you mind telling me these characters?

>the author probably doesn't use 𝜀 as well,

>𝜀? Probably refers to the error

I'd like to know which my browser (latest Chrome on up-to-date Win7) is failing to render.
The algorithm course for Coursera looks like it's fairly general in its scope.

I wouldn't call it "light", though, and it's not that good in my personal experience FWIW. Courses will vary, of course, but the attention to presentation in the Norvig video is mind-blowing compared to Coursera's algorithm course whose videos gloss over everything with hastily-scribbled, illegible black on white.
Cost-benefit analysis: spend a few hours trying to translate a raw flash dump into a readable format (in addition to the normal forensic work of looking at the phone's drive's contents), or spend <1hr to see whether a pro forma subpoena makes all that work unneccessary?

This isn't a high-priority case, so the FBI will always go with the cheaper, quicker option.
10 years and still simple and awesome. Thank you guys. Really.
That's true now, but the android market started from 0% at some point in the past and back then Linux on the desktop was non-zero.

I can understand the growth predictions from one and the other but honestly don't see what's the difficulty on writing a multi-platform player, it cannot be because of the DRM requirements I would assume, since they already have it for a linux based machine.
Yammer CEO talks about not hiring Yahoo employees who don't leave.
Netflix has been live on Android devices for about 9 months.
Ok, but that just reinforces the point, right?
I guess jerk is subjective enough that you can offer that as your opinion.

But how is he a hypocrite?
I'm unsure how any company founded on dead labor can possibly have anything other than a toxic culture.
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This is fantastic! I've been ephemerally plotting my GPS tracks for a few years (though I'm only up to about 1.6M points), but the thought of publishing my tracks on the open internet has always seemed just a little too creepy, even by internet standards.

Beautiful maps, though.
Treehouse seems to be starting to venture into that area, but there's not much content up yet: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/photoshop-foundations

I would definitely be interested in such a thing as well.
It's not about being realistic, it's about finding out what sort of information Google retains about its users. Low-profile cases are the best times to test these sorts of fishing expeditions because attention and resistance to teh subpoena will be low. (In contrast, in a high-profile case, the defendant is likely to vigorously oppose any such attempt.)

In other words: The FBI doesn't care if they actually get the information in this case; they want to know if they'll be able to get such information in future, more important cases.
What method do you use to distribute commercial desktop software?
TBH, I find books better than websites for that stuff.
Although that could just be a sign of brittle tests....
It looks like a dating site. What's your USP?
Last time I looked it came with 8.4; I would highly recommend installing 9.1. A lot of awesome things have come out in the last few years.
Texas's 21st congressional district had 651,619 people in 2000. The district contains parts of the Austin and San Antonio metro areas, which grew 37% and 25% respectively in the intervening decade. Let's use the lower value since there are rural areas in there as well. That gives a 2010 estimate of 814,523 people. 27.3% of Texans were under 18 in 2010, which gives a voting age population of 592,158.

In 2010, 236,284 people voted in the district, of which 162,763 voted for Smith. Let's assume all voters know who he is and what he stands for, and that everyone else probably doesn't. That gives us 40% of the district's population that know what's going on. Fewer voted for him, and even fewer like what he stands for, since voting is usually a compromise.

This is an overestimate.
Of course there is the 'knowing you're being reverse engineered and doing something else'. I don't doubt for a minute people who write sensitive code, be it malware or DVD decoders, might simply act differently if they thought a debugger was involved, not so much as not act at all. Some of these techniques could be used there.

That being said, the more interesting thing is poking around in the inner bits of the machine and seeing how it comes together. Highly recommended for anyone serious about wanting to know how the machine does what it does.

If you want to practice on code that is easily obtained I suggest you poke around the World of Warcraft rootkit code that it uses to prevent people from cheating at WoW.
The hiring situation with no experience is a slightly different beast, particularly if you're not involved in open source or otherwise generating a lot of public code that people can look at.

People are rightly wary of hiring untested kids fresh out of college because so many of the just plain cannot program their way out of a paper bag. Not to accuse your friend of incompetence, it's just that until you have some kind of real portfolio, it's damn hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.
The remote debugging is long past due. If google wants to push the mobile web and Android they need to step it up. Their browser is awful compared to the iphone's and the tooling isn't there. It's a place Android could really excel and, as a mobile web dev and Android user, it's been really disappointing to watch them sqaunder the opportunity.
No I'm not, the problem is that libertarians talk in circles. "It's never acceptable to use force!!!". What about xyz. "Well of course you use some force". Ok, so what does libertarianism mean? "taxation is violence!!!". Um, but don't you need taxes to pay for that government you said we needed a minute ago. "Well of course :confused look:". So what does libertarianism mean again?
So many courses, so little time!
Is it just that I'm old, jaded, and maybe better, or could it be that many men would regard this a perfectly good chance not to be lectured? None of the issues covered here--that I can see--are particularly secret.

Sorry if I'm letting the victimization movement down here...
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Where's the "We have a QA department" option?

lulz
Why would I not want to share my personal information with advertisers. I certainly don't want to be marketed feminine hygiene products if I am a male. I also don't want to get offered oracle integration products if I am a Microsoft SQL shop. Targeted advertising is fine by me.
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Wow. A sensational posting without any evidence yet.
I didn't expect an article like this appearing on bloomberg. Greg Smith made observations on the culture and all they have to say is that they are not charity?
Detecting debuggers and altering behavior is so much the oldest trick in the book that it is actually covered in depth in this Codeproject article (Codeproject is often unusually well written, and so is this article, but be clear that this is really basic stuff he's talking about).
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@aaronpk we're currently looking at geoloqi but would you mind clarifying the benefits of using your service over iOS CLLocationManager calls? Specifically, have you analyzed the relative power consumption & accuracy of various CLLocationManager settings?

For example, we found the best power consumption when the desiredAccuracy value is set to kCLLocationAccuracyThreeKilometers, and we trigger the startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges method before entering into the background. Surprisingly, the accuracy was much better than 3km but varied depending on device & OS. Similarly, the power consumption was affected by the background network access schemes & buffering we used, of course.

Anyway, we stopped our studies after sampling just a few devices (3GS, 4) and one or two OS releases (iOS 4.2 and 5.0). Don't mean to pry your secret sauce, but what type of calibration are you offering?

Thanks!
It's scary that so many programmers don't write automated tests when their entire profession is about abstraction and automation. If you want it to work, test it. If you want to maintain sanity, automate it. It's not particularly complicated.
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I must say I am quite disappointed... watched 2 hours of this, then started skimming, sorry but everything I have encountered is quite trivial (and I see myself as a rookie in the field). Did other HNers find new bits in those lectures? if so, please point out.
Ask HN: Why is everyone mad at Yahoo?
I always thought that Government makes the laws and corporations try to make the most money, for their stakeholders, staying within those laws. Why aren't politicians taking more heat?

After the Google settlement, I'd be pissed, as a Yahoo shareholder, if they didn't take Facebook for all Yahoo's patents are worth.

And Facebook is filled with smart people and investors. I'm sure they knew this was coming, so is this part of their strategy? Let it all play out in the court of public opinion?
I am sorry that I don't have an implementation of a Django-site that would leverage this, but it is a truly awesome idea. Where I work, we have a site that is managed by Wordpress. We serve it from Akamai so we have to flatten it out. Our methodology boils down to a sitemap and a wget script that pulls every view. We then lftp the flattened version out to Akamai. This process is time-intensive, but it yields terrific results that you bulleted out in the article.

Oh, how I would love this approach with Django! Since what we have isn't broken, no reason to fix it as our focus is elsewhere at the moment.

The biggest gotcha can be the lack of server-side logic. Imagine orchestrating a time-sensitive, multi-phase event visible to over two million users by uploading a JSON file manually at appropriate times to Akamai and relying on JavaScript to handle redirects/DOM changes for evolving views. It takes being creative with the baked approach, but it can very well be done!!!

(Source: Had to make it happen!!)
Re #1, that is not what TFA says:

After some backlash, Sacks is considering modifying his proposal to only extend to executives and lawyers, but he still feels all employees should take some ownership.
Linux has and continues to be a rounding error in terms of marketshare. If it were to grow to something like Android marketshare I'm sure they would consider it, but just saying "android market started from 0% at some point" isn't really justification for them to do Linux right now.