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Your site is claiming I have 792 Favorites (Twitter won't enumerate). Will all those be able to import?
Tech experts believe cash and credit cards may disappear by 2020
The full paper can be found here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.p...
As long as the inventor holds the patent, what stops them from making a new agreement with the assignee that allows non-defensive litigation?
I mean it's as close to patent for idea as it gets.

Patents are intended to be for inventions, and this feels like it qualifies.
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I'm currently doing pretty much the same thing as volunteer work. Would you mind expanding more on the methods you use?

My kids are in ages 8-12. One big problem is that I must find a way to have them work and explore on their own, but most of the tutorials and documentation that I know is good and up-to-date, is in the English language (and I'm Dutch, as are the kids). At that age they really can't yet read English very well.

Of course the best solution to that problem is to spend some more time and try to find good Dutch HTML tutorials. They should be out there, it's just that my Internet bubble seems to be a bit anglo-centric :) Also if Python was invented by a Dutch guy, there should be some quality Dutch language material written on it, no?

But apart from that, I also wonder if there's some other ways that do not involve reading manuals. While the cards thing seems interesting, I wonder whether the kids would be excited about it, it's not a school, they go there after school and are offered the opportunity to work on all sorts of technical projects with our guidance (there's also an electronics lab where they get to solder resistors and diodes and such to make flashing LEDs etc).

I'm kind of looking at how the more "crafts" like departments have it easier (apart from electronics, there's wood, metal working, clay/pottery and more). There, the teacher can just show how to do something and explain, multiple kids can watch and then try it themselves. With the computers it's like they can't do very much or explore new things without me explaining them one-on-one. Which takes way too much time and also isn't really the best way to facilitate the "exploration" aspect (which is one of our goals).

So I sort of know where the problems are, but I'm kind of stumped on how to fix them. Except for taking the time out to write tutorials (and perhaps some screencasts) myself.
It seems that investors trading on an exchange operating at discrete
time intervals would be at a arbitrage disadvantage if other
exchanges offered continuous trading in the same shares.

So a demand for markets that are liquid and efficient rewards
trading that is continuous in time over time-discrete trading,
and firms are competing hard to shave milliseconds from latency
with co-located hardware and faster trans-oceanic cables.

On the other hand, pricing is limited by regulation to penny
increments, with some pressure to telegraph smaller increments.

Are we likely to see a push for trading with offers and trades
denominated in milli-cents or micro-cents? Would smaller pricing
increments be welcomed by traders or regulators or neither?

Are any markets in the world trading at tiny denominations?
(NB: assumes pricing in integer quantities of tiny denominations)
The reason, of course, why people focus on coverage numbers is because they want to know if they are testing enough.

Bug rates and what they are doing should be the final arbiters. How often do Unit Tests find regressions? How often do bugs escape into the wild? As with many things, what is the return on investment?
Well the README does say: "No license, do what you want as long as it involves some Cool Ass Lakes."

Sounds legit to me!
“Playing fußball in the pub with our friends over playing fußball in the office with our team leader”

Talk about a false dichotomy. I evade this problem by being friends with the people I work with.

Overall, I think there are some good distinctions made here. And there is a good point to the thing: “To us it is just a job, but we still do it well.” I almost feel like the page should lead with that. That this isn't an indication that this approach is better than the other approach, simply that it's… Different.

Maybe I don't have a family nearby right now. Maybe I am at a point in my life where I can have free snacks and free time, where I can have sustainable pace AND muscle-man heroics AND still enjoy life outside of work. But that's beside the point of the page. The point here is to understand that not everyone has that perspective, and that it's important to respect those that leave their work at the office and dedicate more time to all the other things than you do (if you're one not one of the “501 developers”).
Android Users Are Apathetic
Indeed. If only this came out when I was still at the Times... could have saved journalism.
FTA: "The site's first $1m project was Double Fine Adventure"

Double Fine Adventure wasn't the first Kickstarter project to hit $1M, it was the elevation dock a short time earlier.
Great reply.

My counter to this argument would be that you can launch the game as a MVG in an unbranded, low-fi way that wouldn't jeopardize your actual game's launch. Instead, you'd just have a crappy game that people would test, and then you'd kill it and launch the new game without any association to the test game at all.
(3) Cost basis matters whenever you sell an asset, whether it's a house or a stock or whatever. You can get sucked into partnership cost basis calculations simply by buying certain mutual funds that are structured that way.

(6) Diverse activity means income in more than one jurisdiction. People who travel a lot for work can end up filing with dozens of states. A real hoot.
There are folks out there that really love NASA.

Other organizations might not be able to pull something like his off, but if NASA can, they aren't fleecing everybody, they're just taking advantage of their market position amongst computer enthusiasts as the recognized leader in space research.
So when do you plan on implementing ASI?
Perhaps there should be a kids' version of the app stores, instead of forcing adults to use what amounts to a kids' version currently.
The threshold is 500 (confirmed personally a couple of weeks ago), although the limit gets increased every once in awhile.
Each time I inspect high resolution photos of planetary surfaces taken recently, I cross my fingers and look for something out of place like a city in ruins or a crashed ship.
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This shall look terrific on my new geocities home page. Let me open Frontpage.
That's hugely broad. Basically they won't sue startups unless the startups sue them first.

I love this approach, but it should also be pointed out that this is a very easy approach for a patent-poor company to take. If you don't have many patents, you aren't going to sue other companies who do have patents and you'd sure like to look like the good guy if you infringe on their patents.
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Hit the big boys like Facebook (once, please), G+, Digg, etc.

No offense, but you lose some credibility mentioning Digg next to Facebook and G+.
Yeah, but they kind of want people who will listen to the "facts" and what the agreed explanation of the law is.

My Mom got out of one jury when the asked "Are you a member of the NRA?" she answered "No, but I own a shotgun".
How is WM shady? These are not moral issues, they are economic/social issues. (In my humble opinion, anyway.)
The founders are graduates from the University of Waterloo. :D

(+VeloCity)
It would go rather well with an animated gif of Jesus walking.
Nope, Still can't update my profile.
Foursquare : 20 million users and 2 billion check-ins
Threatening with "there's a risk that we'll piss all over your fireworks" falsifies "Not being a dick over being a rockstar".

I really liked the manifesto items, but after that the whole thing gets a passive aggressive tone. That is unfortunate.
Not only do they have the information, but they also are already calculating your taxes. How do you think they determine that you've made an error?
Ask HN: 99Designs vs Local Designers?
I'm wondering what everybody's experience has been in using a site like 99Designs vs hiring a local designer? Cost/Benefit analysis kind of thing.

Also assuming I wanted to go local how would you recommend finding an excellent local designer?

Thanks!!
This part really resonates with me, I really hope that this does occur one day (unlikely though), your heart (stress) and mental health are as important if not more then any job:

”High time pressure over extended periods of time leads to both poor inner work life and poor performance.” History will probably laugh at our time’s attempt to impose a mentality of industrial production upon creative work.
That sarcastic tone is so weird that it's clear there's more to this than working hours. I think it's about dead corporate culture, bad managers, and dysfunctional teams where people don't agree.

The more interesting part is the second half, in the smaller print where the author addresses his teammates. He uses words like "respect", but what he's saying feels contemptuous and passive-aggressive. That's the real tell here. Well, that and the suggestion that he doesn't believe in what he's working on. No wonder he feels like checking out every day.

Does it matter what time someone leaves? Only if people feel it does. What matters is that a team be aligned. If there's disharmony, work it out. If you can't work it out, change the team. Writing a "manifesto" is not working it out (though it might start a real conversation).

Personally, I want teammates who are passionate about doing great work. Come and go whenever works for you. But passion doesn't get turned off like a light switch at the same time every day.
The common way transaction fees are handled in US equity markets is called the "maker/taker" model. When a participant adds liquidity to the exchange order book, AND that order is executed, they are given a very small rebate per share (they are the "maker"). The other side of the order, the firm who "removed" liquidity from the order book, is charged a very small fee. The difference between the rebate and the fee is the spread the exchange earns for executing the trade.

Note that not all orders that add liquidity qualify for rebates, the rebate may depend on particular order properties as well as the way in which the trade executes.
Can't believe someone at Twitter wrote this. It's riddled with semicolons.

(ducks)
Webbygram: a web interface for instagram
I like step-by-step instructions like this. Is there an equivalent for OSX somewhere?
Yep, that's why I always demand that if you're not going to use curlies, you make it a one-liner.

// okay
if (!isActive) $parent.toggleClass('open');

// not okay
if (!isActive)
$parent.toggleClass('open');

That way you know when you change it to two lines, you have to add curlies.
The objection to Google Play was that even though it wasn't theoretically bad, in practice it caused problems. The parent demonstrated that the postulated problems don't show up in reality. What is the point you are trying to make? If it doesn't cause ill effects, no, it's not a problem!
Shady? What do you mean? This is America! Guilty until proven innocent!
Tupac Shakur hologram might tour with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
The Trapezium Conundrum
Was just trying to show how quickly things change, since a year or so ago, every site had that digg button as well. Guess it didn't really read that way
Spool is still here, and still transcoding and caching videos. We got some new stuff coming down the pipe, so stay tuned.
The source is 130 lines, if nothing it's at least a teaching example of how easily one can play with canvas.
Didn't read the fine print...

Does this mean that you will be able to use any Twitter-patented technology at will and not expect to be sued for it?
I worked on a project that implemented a task queue using a database table. Workers would SELECT FOR UPDATE a couple of rows, mark themselves as owners, commit the change, and then do the work outside of the transaction.

The workers were configured to fetch new tasks every 30 seconds. With 10 workers you'd expect tasks to get fetched from the queue every 3 seconds, but that is not what we were seeing. The tasks were only getting picked up on 30 second boundaries. What was going on?

It turns out that the tasks were piling up. As soon as one task tried to update at the same time as another it would get blocked on the database lock. Its own transaction would then run really quickly following the first transaction. However, since these two tasks were run in immediate succession, now they were synced for life. They both slept for exactly 30 seconds, the first one wakes up a few tens of milliseconds earlier and grabs the lock, the second one wakes up and blocks on the lock, and this happens in perpetuity. Eventually, due to small randomness, all tasks entered lockstep and would be a small thundering herd against the database.

This was noticed by a developer and fixed by introducing a small jitter in the sleep time. After the push our tasks were picked up in three seconds and our end-to-end workflow time got substantially shorter.
Oracle wants the licensing money because if they give Google a free pass then certain other players will want a free pass (e.g. IBM). HP is a bigger target for Oracle than Microsoft is and I get the feeling that Oracle views Google as an upcoming threat.
Mandarin grammar isn’t nearly as lax as you make it sound. It’s just a (mostly) positional grammar, with few exceptions—A+比+B+adjective and 把+object+verb, for example. Still, I agree: Japanese grammar is rather complex and cumbersome, especially if as a foreigner you don’t know the casual abbreviations.
...plus I think it says "...for two years" or something to that effect.
You would get payed if you stayed longer? Here (Portugal) it's common practice for every kind of dev to work overtime with no extra pay, it's seen as a trait of the job and it's not just when there's a huge deadline, because there always is.
I've used mosh for about 10 days.
It's worked perfectly for me. I disconnect/re-connect my laptop quite a bit between work/home/meeting rooms/hotels. My mosh sessions have lived through it all. I haven't had to restart or reconnect it once.

I'd send feedback directly to the mosh folks, but I have to subscribe to do so. A general thought for any project: please make it easy for folks to provide feedback.
The SEC seems to disagree, and says that HFTs added to the drop. HFTs also apparently burned through about half of the trading volume just trading with each other.

> The combined selling pressure from the Sell Algorithm, HFTs and other traders drove the price of the E-Mini S&P 500 down approximately 3% in just four minutes from the beginning of 2:41 pm through the end of 2:44 pm. During this same time cross-market arbitrageurs who did buy the E-Mini S&P 500, simultaneously sold equivalent amounts in the equities markets, driving the price of SPY (an exchange-traded fund which represents the S&P 500 index) also down approximately 3%.

> Still lacking sufficient demand from fundamental buyers or cross-market arbitrageurs, HFTs began to quickly buy and then resell contracts to each other – generating a “hot-potato” volume effect as the same positions were rapidly passed back and forth. Between 2:45:13 and 2:45:27, HFTs traded over 27,000 contracts, which accounted for about 49 percent of the total trading volume, while buying only about 200 additional contracts net.[9]
While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.
I'm curious about their thoughts on Pivotal as well.

In addition, how do you track velocity?
But it's not 50/50 or Eve wouldn't be playing.

Of course it's not. Alice has a lower appetite for liquidity risk - that's why Alice chooses to pay Eve to take on this risk.

A price-increasing event occurs and Eve jumps on Alice's sell order...

First of all, there was probably no event. It's most likely that Eve had passive orders - buy at $10.00, sell at $10.05 out in the market (HFT's usually don't take liquidity, that costs too much money). Alice came along and chose to fill Eve's order.

Ignoring that, you also haven't explained how Eve's "unequal market access" plays any role in this. Why does Eve have to be a machine in this process? While being a machine helps Eve beat Eddie (another machine), if no machines were in the game then Eve could easily be a human. In fact, Eve was a human until fairly recently.
It is true that spoken Japanese often leaves much up to context. If you were to translate English sentences into literally equivalent Japanese phrases, you would invariably create phrases with far more syllables. However the language is not used the same way as English. A child will say in English "Mom was angry with me." In Japanese he says "okocchatta." Same information conveyed but requiring context for the Japanese (doesn't explicitly say "mom).

Furthermore, I would argue that when you compare equivalent sentences in English and Japanese, the Japanese sentence often conveys MORE information. Take the English sentence "You did not eat." 4 syllables. There are many ways to say this in Japanese.

A formal translation would be "Anata wa tabemasen deshita." Somewhere between 9 and 12 syllables depending on pronunciation. This sentence conveys a lot of information that the English does not. For example, the use of "anata" instead of a more rough word for "you" suggests that the speaker has a certain type of relationship with the subject. The same is true of "tabemasen deshita", which could have been "kutta" meaning "did not eat", but much less polite.

In myriad ways the Japanese language allows for speakers to be explicit about their relationships with others and their sense of place. English by contrast requires listeners to be more attentive to tone of voice, body language, and word connotations.
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Alice is holding a security that is decreasing in value, and her book order isn't going to clear.
A Fragrance That Smells Like A Freshly-opened Macbook Pro
I was thinking more about the main thrust of non-competes I've come across, which is that you're not allowed to compete in the same industry. I read an article a couple of years ago about hairstylists and other service industry workers being out of a job for 12 months because they'd been forced to sign non-competes.

Not poaching clients is a common clause though, apparently. I haven't really run across that clause because I don't have to power to solicit clients for my employers anyway.
Yes, everyone please stop listening to Nielsen.

Also, check out the staff section on the Nielsen Norman Group site: http://www.nngroup.com/about/people/

- 4 old white dudes
- 12 young, attractive women
This is a good portfolio builder, I'm impressed. Don't think I'd ever use it though.
Please, someone change the name of this post to "Raspberry Pi review", as "RasberryPi" ensures no one will find it when doing a proper search.
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I think this is fairly common. We had this at Bank of America too; our own non-Internet IP-based network. It even did multicast, almost.
No, I think it means that the patents will never end up in the hands of people that just plan to use them as weapons to extort other companies vs. their actual useful purpose, which is to protect innovators from having their hard work ripped off.
Top Ubuntu app downloads for March 2012
Same website look at the right links, or go directly here:

http://solarianprogrammer.com/2012/02/20/living-on-the-edge-...
With all due respect, this article is dead wrong. For several reasons.

Agile development only works in very niche development circles. You couldn't write an AGILE operating system, for example (or rather, shouldn't). Similarly, writing an AGILE game is equivalent to setting sail for fail.

Consider this: a potential customer can purchase an older AAA title on steam for 5-10 bucks. They can purchase a brand new AA title for about 15 bucks. They can purchase an extremely polished indie title for 5-10 bucks. As a developer, what's your bottom line here?

Games HAVE to be finished, debugged, and polished on day 1 of release. AGILE development works for incremental software development, not for games. I don't think you realize how many one-man development teams out there release extremely polished and innovative indie titles and STILL don't make it on Steam (or other marketing platforms). There is absolutely no way a half-assed AGILE-released game will make it on the Apple Store, let alone Steam.

Furthermore, gamers in general are a cynical bunch. Release a bad/unfinished game, and you're done. To reiterate, I completely agree with the prototyping idea - i.e. hey this seems like a fun mechanic lets make a quick prototype - but not releasing the prototype to the public (unless we're talking open source projects here).
If I was ever elected president, I would direct congress to reduce the size of the tax code by 10% each year. If they fail to do so then 10% are automatically eliminated - eg all those whose last digit of the article number is 3.

The real reason for why things are so screwed up is corrupt politicians who use their power as a fund raising mechanism. For example there were several taxes added temporarily to see if they worked well. They did, but congress doesn't make them permanent. Instead they wait to be paid each time to renew them temporarily again. (This started in the Reagan administration.)

See this excellent talk by Lessig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc

The whole tax provisions as fund raising is covered at 7m30s.
The website is the core of my business.
That's an awesome idea! I hope you do it.
Sure thing, we can grab all of those (unless any were authored by a protected user).

EDIT: If you have a particularly large amount of favorites, faavorite will put you on a drip-feed import where we just grab them 200 at a time. This means you can still look around the app (or go make a coffee, or go to bed, or anything) and we’ll just grab them for you until we get all of them.
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I don't see how that claim could be true. The IRS has been pushing for simpler taxes for decades, and if they don't have the clout to make it happen H&R Block doesn't either. Taxes are complicated by much larger forces.
Kids Hackathon Saturday at Stanford - No Experience Required
Hack the Future is putting on a hackathon for 5th to 12th grade students in the Bay Area. Spots are still open, but it's filling up fast!
The bookmarklet works in Chromium on my Ubuntu box, but not on this machine (18.0.1025.162 m, Windows Vista).

The Pocket extension in the Chrome web store works perfectly and looks prettier. I don't know why they didn't just link to it in the first place.
> patched sources

it was for... I don't recall exactly, something non-standard gcc did with templates, possibly? Anyways, they sent me the sources pre-patched, I just compiled it.

> gentoo

that I didn't administer, I only used it. I was a real newbie at the time. I just figured that since you specified ubuntu...

> I understand that, from where you stand, this is trivially simple. Just don't assume everyone has your experience.

I see your point, though. I might be looking back at it with the rose-tinted glasses of experience. Also, when I first skimmed through it I only read up until the point where it said that it was complicated and then I got interrupted by the real world for a while, building suspense.
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My expectation would be that you would still have one central PM and Planning board but you'd have a separate Current Development board for each team (i.e. different teams for different components/modules).
Maybe a JS-based MUD adventure game that shows background images for each room.

It looks really cool, I kinda hope I do find a good use for it.