skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't, and it is the thing that I miss the most going from Ruby to Obj-C. All of the other benefits of ruby over obj-c are great, but it's the interactive shell that is the highlight of RubyMotion to me.
They might want Y! to sell chunks of it (Alibaba stake) just so the hedge fund sells their 6% out while the YHOO share price presumably jumps.

But lying about the degree, and that's easily verifiable, just doesn't look good for him.
I think the tech community thinks the MPAA is much more monolithic than they actually are. The individual companies are not going to agree on what content to offer at what rates in a new high-speed market, so the MPAA is going to talk about the one thing its members agree upon: piracy=bad.

I honestly have no idea why the MPAA spokesman decided to go on the record about Google Fiber. If it were me, I would have just managed expectations by pointing out that it's probably not in the interest of of MPAA member studios to remaster their content for gigabit rates, given such a small potential audience.

It's not like these studios just have uncompressed 4k files of every movie they've ever made just sitting on a hard drive somewhere, waiting for someone like Google to say "can you offer 500 Mbps versions and see what the residents of Kansas City are willing to pay for them?". Even if they did, every writer, director, etc. entitled to royalties from future releases would be up in arms saying they're not charging enough.
Look through these: http://www.ideaoverload.com/Find-ideas/Finished-ideas/Media-...
Sparkfun.
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To me, this link is broken.
I wasn't looking to answer any questions with regard to ethics. For your situation, I would want to know if you went on to purchase other X-Files episodes (or other works starring the cast members from X-Files). This would tell us whether or not your piracy was a net gain or loss for the studios.

That being said, I dont think there is a realistic way to build what I was suggesting.
What does the future hold for RIM according to Tomi Ahonen
That isn't the problem. The problem is, if they lied about this, what else are they lying about?
Looks like he lied but then I had no time to check everything out, hence the "might have"
oh god, thank you so so so so much for this.
I was with you right up until the last sentence. I have no problem with people being hired if they're skilled yet don't have a degree. However, lying about it shows a lack of integrity. I wouldn't want that person working for me.
An employee who fabricates credentials is fabricating other things as well. Your statement is saying that you are making a conscious decision to continue employing a person who misleads and misrepresents.

You might be okay with that, but there are enough people with character and integrity out there that I am not okay with it.
I probably won't get into anything as nuanced as concurrency in a screencast format. We certainly get into it in detail in the book.

The presentation that Rich Hickey did some years back is still relevant though (helpfully linked by spacemanaki in another reply — and originally recorded near here in Northampton, MA :-D).
Its not that Google's page is completely cluttered now. I remember using web portals at that time to search the web and then Google. The difference was day and night. Portals were that bad.
Jobs didn't need a college degree to be a good CEO.

In my opinion, college degree is not neccessary to be a competent CEO. Leaders are praised for different qualities than those which can be simply taught in a school.
This vulnerability is about as bad as it gets, and my heart stopped while I was reading the intro (it's so trivially simple to compromise a site).

Then I reached this sentence, which I felt needed to be bolded and underlined:

A large number of sites run PHP as either an Apache module through mod_php or using php-fpm under nginx. Neither of these setups are vulnerable to this.

<insert immense sigh of relief>. Thank God.

That said, some blackhats are going to be really sore that a backdoor that's been wide open for "at least 8 years" is finally being closed.
Do you really think Discovery would sacrifice ratings juggernauts like American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior, The Devils Ride, or American Guns to air anything Revision3 makes? Yeah, unfortunately, me neither.

Sadly, I'm part of the reason, since I enjoy Deadliest Catch.
> I would not fire an employee who I found out fabricated credentials

What company do you work for? I'd like to steer clear of it in the future.

It's one thing to say "I don't care about credentials". It's another thing entirely to say "I don't care about dishonesty".
I haven't tried Unity yet (yeah, I'm bit slow sometimes in such matters).

But I wouldn't be so quick to judge any piece of software. Only after learning how to use the system and the ideas behind it, you can properly make intelligent criticism of it. When I tried emacs, nothing seemed to make sense to me. I had to reference the manual and google all the time. And still I didn't become angry (frustrated sometimes though), nor did I begin to hate it.
What app/website do you wish existed?
If a CEO has fabricated experience they have questionable integrity - and their ability to lead is impaired.
I built something similar. I used a PCEngines Alix (x86, 5w, $100ish) and the serial port on my home security system. Fun stuff!
This does not surprise me at all. The existing media cartels have always opposed new technologies that make the transfer of information between individuals easier and faster. This is especially when the technology is dumb, that is, it does not and can not differentiate between content which requires a license to transfer and that which does not. When you think about it, since they're in the business of selling intangible 'licenses' for information -- things you don't need to enjoy the information itself -- their actions make perfect sense. What we need to do, instead of sneering at their perfectly justified self-interest is re-examine exactly how we grant these groups the artificial monopoly of copyright in order to ensure that the original purpose, that is promoting the sciences and the arts, is maintained and that the behaviour, which is now considered to be anti-social, of these groups is modified or eliminated.
you might want to obscure screenshot as well.
Wow, they go so far as to recommend gcc if you want "new" features. ~"We won't support those features, if you want them go use a more full featured product". Kind of makes it hard to keep peddling their product in the long term if they plan to lag behind no?
Sometimes you get lucky (like instagram) but revision3 hustled to thrive where many failed in video. Kudos to Louderback and team!!
def foo(bar, baz: "something") is perfectly valid ruby(1.9).
It's a matter of confidence. I wouldn't hire the best coder in the world if that person is a liar. If I know you fabricated this, I'll begin to think about what else you lied about. Even if you're clean otherwise, the doubt is there.

And in this case, the lie is pointless. Nobody cares if Thompson has a CS degree, so why lie about it? It's a poor reflection of character imo, and I wouldn't work for someone I don't trust.
Because Facebook hasn't split it's stock in a while, so talking about price per share has a common meaning for everyone that owns shares.

I would imagine the majority of people who own Facebook shares know exactly how many shares they own and not an exact percentage of the company.
"Jobs didn't need a college degree to be a good CEO."

Jobs didn't lie about having a degree either.
It's not a zero-sum game, and I think you need to get some perspective. It's great that the ESA is sending a probe to Jupiter's moons, and I'm totally excited about it. On the other hand, NASA currently has:

1. One spacecraft at Saturn (Cassini)

2. One spacecraft en route to Jupiter (Juno)

3. One spacecraft at Mercury (MESSENGER)

4. One spacecraft at Vesta (Dawn)

5. One spacecraft on its way to freaking Pluto (New Horizons)

6. Three missions [I think] still in operation at Mars (Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Opportunity) with a fourth on its way.

7. A few other comet/asteroid missions I've lost track of, plus

8. A bunch of other stuff, with the big highlights being Hubble and Kepler.

NASA's "already puny" budget is three times that of the ESA and easily exceeds the rest of the world put together, so one really can't complain too much.

That's not to pooh-pooh the ESA, by any means, they're doing some good stuff. But they have a long, long way to go before they catch up with NASA.

This will be the first non-American mission to the outer solar system, incidentally. NASA so far have sent eight. (Two Pioneers, two Voyagers, Galileo, Cassini, New Horizons, Juno.) All but Galileo are still in operation.
Or the claim that it's a financial burden. Layoffs involve expensive severance payments.
Isn't this what most marketing does? Or at least all top-of-mind marketing (e.g.-plumbers)? They plant the seed--they don't expect you to buy soda or a car while you're in the middle of watching a television show, but they want you to make you inquisitive about it. e.g.-How would that new car drive? Wow, that looks fun. I should test drive that at some point--and then when you're in the market, you go test drive it.
Keeping my fingers crossed somebody decides to extend it to perl.
Apple made a serious bid in the server space before, but it seems dead now. Remember the Xserve? http://www.bioinformatics.colostate.edu/hardware.html
They weren't bugs really. They seemed to be fundamental decisions they've made about how the thing works. Maybe I'm being stupid and that's why I'm being downvoted but am I to infer from this that this UI is for the super-intelligent elite only?

One thing that might have been a bug is that in the software centre, there was no search box for a free text search like in synaptic. I spent ages clicking around trying to find it but it wasn't there.
1. You can get your hands on a Raspberry Pi?

2. Do you really want to try and optimize for cost on sub 30 dollar items in quantities of approximately 1?

3. ADH8066 GSM Modules are approximately fifty bucks. Serial port, AT commands, etc. Who knows where you can get a data carrier for reasonable cost in this country.
Being able to get the job done doesn't mean it is getting done right. If they lied about something so easily verifiable, why would you trust that they're not lying to you about something more important? What does that say about your screening process and you as an employer and a company?

Lying about your credentials is really low and kept the more experienced person from getting the job. You may be happy with the liar's output, but you don't know how much you're screwing yourself (and their future employers) in the end by allowing that type of behavior to be rewarded.
Depends. From the article it seems they position their product as a C++ compiler. You don't expect your Haskell compiler to also do OCaml.
Gotcha, and I agree with you on that. Like I said in my comment, this is exactly what I say in interviews, and I haven't had a problem with it yet. If I do then I'll find a new job. After a little practice you can get a feel for reading people and companies and you can usually tell if you are on the same page. I also always ask how many hours on average people work per week, or something along those lines.

Also, I absolutely would not tell a company that I want to work for that "under no circumstances" will I work any overtime. Nor will I hire someone that says such a thing.
It's a little ironic that its courtesy to obscure spammer's emails.
Agreed, but that wasn't the point...

Would you approve of a CEO lying on public investor documentation?
His pay package for yahoo is 27 million dollars, i wonder how much of that he will keep after he gets the pink slip? Probably more than I'll ever earn in 5 of my lifetimes.

It doesn't seem fair. But I guess demand for ceo's is high and quality ceo's are scarce.
Thankfully, MSVC is not the only game in town.

I'm using GCC and Clang right now, but I'm also itching to try out Pelles C, which comes with C11 support...
> As I understand it : iOS provides essentially a C (C/C++ /Objective-C) interface. Android has a Java API.

You're talking one level of abstraction above to what I am. Underneath that Java/ObjC API, there's a layer called the user space library. It consists of libc and other utility libraries that talk with the kernel. It is usually implemented in the C programming language (with a little bit of Assembly code that executes the system calls to the kernel), regardless of what language the APIs on top of it use. Android's Dalvik (Java) and iOS's Cocoa (ObjC) is written on top of that.
Have you tried one of these out? Where can you buy one?
Yeah, I guess so, it's just this was such a poignant form of marketing it really struck me.
I disagree. Why do we have this idea that one needs to be at a company for 20 years? I'd love to see some company pay a million dollars a year to all employees and have a limit of, say, 5 years for working there. It would be interesting to see what effect that would have when every employee knew after 5 years of working there they never had to enter the rat race again if they didn't want to.
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You've completely missed my point. Feel free to re-read what I wrote.

Just for reference, yes I code in both Objective-C AND Ruby.

There are significant speed gains when using the tools/language you're most familiar with. I've seen this first hand with myself, and in others... It's not about "how easy it is to learn" it's about "how much time it takes."

You're mixing together two entirely different topics.
Oddly enough, the caption "NASA had plans to send a spacecraft to Jupiter but later dropped them" accompanies a picture of Juno, the not-cancelled NASA spacecraft currently on its way to Jupiter.

The "cancelled" mission is actually the EJSM, which last I heard isn't quite cancelled, nor was it ever firmly planned. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJSM/Laplace)
LinkedIn Acquires Professional Content Sharing Platform SlideShare For $119M
It's less about whether he needed the degree, and more about whether he lied on a filing to the SEC about him having the degree.
The problem with interface builder is that it only exposes some properties and others you have to set in your class anyway. Why can't I set the background image of a view in interface builder, for instance?

With RubyMotion you get to roughly lay out your controls, and then you get to use the interactive interpreter for fine-grained adjustments. See around the 5:30 mark in the getting started video for an example.
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In his initial announcement of the HUD (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939) Shuttleworth clearly had the discoverability issue in mind; the vision he put forward was that, with the HUD in place, the menu's main function is now to discover functionality; therefore, design effort should now go into a good replacement for that particular aspect.
SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
I like that interpretation. These Zen stories always have many layers, I think, but for me, it's very resonant just as a simple story. Saying something like: don't go looking for mystical, sophisticated stuff when the proper thing to do is just to wash your breakfast bowl. A child might hear the story just like that: oh yeah, if I've had breakfast I should wash my bowl. But we're conditioned to make everything complicated.

Then I've also heard a more symbolic interpretation where Joshu is actually really asking about whether the monk has had some taste of enlightenment, and washing one's bowl here means getting rid of residues like pride.
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Its

UIView.animateWithDuration(0.5, animations:lambda { //do something })

in RubyMotion. Basically the same.
It also does not appear to be a problem on servers running php via libapache2-mod-fcgid.
I totally agree with what you say about subjectivity. I actually liked the HUD but my overall feeling is that it all needs to be refined and I certainly wouldn't give it to my parents like I would an iPad.
Great observation. It's very easy to forget after a year or so of good times that bad times ever happened. Yet, this too shall pass. The key component of my philosophy is to always provide more value than paid for, be it 10 days of vacation, or 30. This will create consistent demand for one's services negating the impact of economic cycles.
The general question is interesting... I think about it in the lines of:

Is it ok if I take a shortcut to get something that I am entitled to have access to because the rules by which my access is should abide by are basically bullshit?

I tend to think it is ok. I'm also indebted to Grace Hopper [1], who came up with the gem It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission, a behavior that I often find useful. Also, I tend to give the highest level of access to people working under my supervision so they can do their jobs without any avoidable hassle. It's important to be consistent, after all.

But (there's always a but) some content creators don't have the same pragmatic thinking I pride myself in having, and will tell you convoluted stories like "we don't sell the music/video, we sell the physical disc with the thing inside, and you can only access such thing trough the disc". And sometimes these convoluted stories do stick. Except that when you have a network as the distribution channel they don't work anymore and become plain bizarre "we sell you only the nontransferable right of watching/listening to this only up to 3 times in the next 24 hours and will not refund you if our network goes down and you're unable to watch".

So, my answer to you, and to the general question is: IMHO, you're ethically in the clear, but legally your situation might raise some concerns. Obligatory disclaimer: this is not legal advice. I would love to see what other people think about all this, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
TOTAL	$9M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL	$9M

Series A, 9/06 1
Greylock Partners - $1M

Series B, 6/07 2
Greylock Partners - $8M
That's what happened to us. Huge difference for us between Skype chat (no hook with Github)/paper todos and Hipchat (which tells us about new stuff onGithub)/Trello. But the best way to experience it is to try the tools :)
http://eindbazen.net/2012/05/php-cgi-advisory-cve-2012-1823/ has some more info, including the fact that they first reported it to the PHP devs in the middle of January.
> AFAIK Rev3 had a decent, proven business model

Definitely and that may have been a problem: the business model was certain and their valuation could be easily calculated. OTOH, Instagram's business model is uncertain and their valuation was calculated based on "comps" rather than on business model performance, leading to a much wider range of valuations. Add to that the fact Instagram became a leader in a hot market where Revision3 became an also-ran in a legacy market and their relative valuations make more sense.
Sort-of off topic: That guy has nothing on some of the other infamous CEO career lies... take the ex-CEO of Lotus (former makers of 123, Lotus Notes, etc). He lied about being a fighter pilot, having a PhD, and being a black belt in tae kwon do. source: http://www.zdnet.com/news/background-of-lotus-chief-under-fi...

I think people get to a point where they start to believe their made-up mythology. Or perhaps they reach a point where it's too late to turn back. That's what I learned while getting my PhD in Lying Studies at University of Fountainhead, anyway.
Looks like a stock price of $31.50 would give facebook a P/E ratio of around 60. For comparison, GOOG is 18.5 and AAPL is 14.

More financials are available from the updated S-1: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/00011931251220819...

And it looks like Q1 2012 net income was actually lower than Q1 2011. Oops!
More money may not get you good programmers but below market rate will absolutely get you crappy ones.
Discovery owns a lot more than a single channel - they own 13. It's possible that they could use these programs on Science, or maybe for a late night block on The Hub (as an Adult Swim competitor), or somewhere else.

(Or else not - it might be valuable to have Internet-only programs.)
> RubyMotion is built on top of iOS. You have access to the entire set of public iOS APIs and can also use 3rd-party Objective-C libraries or Gems

So this should be compatible with cocos2d right?
I think HTTPS is entirely necessary for services like Facebook. My friends share information with me privately. Without HTTPS, any intermediary or snooper could trivially see that information.

Out of curiosity, which services do you think are better candidates for HTTPS.
It basically only affects PHP as CGI (one PHP CGI process is started and stopped for each request). Anything using an alternative communication channel or API to process requests between frontend and backend is safe (for now).
Wow, it's pretty scary that a vulnerability as simple as this has been around for 8 years!
As the phrase goes, a fool and his money are soon parted. Along the same mindset are people who want to wait for a split to get in. I always chuckle a little inside when I hear that and then try to educate on why that's not necessarily a good thing.

Back to Facebook. I haven't looked at the financials, but regardless of what they are it's safe to say the share price will rise quickly due to the reason you stated, and that's of course why they did it.

A lot casual investors will see this as a way to fund their child's college education and jump in as soon as they can, no matter what the mark-up. Who knows, maybe this is the next MSFT or AAPL. We'll see where everything settles after the irrational exuberance of the IPO hits. I don't think this will be another GRPN or ZNGA. Even though they were both rather popular, neither of them had the number of eyes on them that Facebook does. This is set to be the most oversubscribed IPO in as long as I can remember.
If you raise the salaries enough, people from other locations will move to take advantage of the opportunity.
I used to think that I would spend half of my time networking. That's what happened the first few months but then I realised that if I continued to network that much, I would have far too much work.

If you manage to kickstart good relationships with clients, that brings other contracts without efforts.
Microsoft has never seen Visual Studio as a profit center. It's just there because compilers are complements of applications that run on their system, which is a profit center. The only reason they even used to charge for it was to not kill Borland's compiler business. As long as there's a C compiler for applications on their operating system, they're happy. If someone else writes it, so much the better.
Sometimes, they need to warm-up their accounts. This could have just been such a warm-up.
LinkedIn acquires SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock
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Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!
I'm also in this ballpark (300-600€ / day) which in the end amounts to twice the monthly salary I used to have.