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Is that a defence? That they didn't start with the copyright on APIs as their goal, it just happens to be something they stumbled on as an idea and decided to use to pursue google?

Absent mindedly creating an hitherto unknown revenue stream that lets you apply licensing fees to everyone under the sun and destroying the software industry as a sort of half-baked by-product is just fine, if you didn't mean to do it at the beginning?

really?

I'm sure the business majors of the world will rejoice in that. I don't.
For one application I was designing, I planned to use Berkeley DB (key-value database) as a content-addressable data-store, ie. hash the binary blobs and use the hash as key. Then the hash would be stored at the application (SQL) database.

For very small files (such as your <100 byte PNGs) it probably wouldn't be worth it, but for larger blobs it be used to avoid the 'millions of files' problem.

I don't know if it would have worked, but I though it was a cute idea.
Google Street View was filmed at 30fps video format. You can generate a 2D route map directly from it without GPS or when GPS is not available.

I took some notes during the StreetView Q&A on reddit two years ago: http://blog.est.im/archives/554
Actually, it has msnbot listed, and according to this http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive...

The bingbot will respect msnbot permissions when it doesn't see bingbot, unless of course github has explicitly blocked unrecognized user agents too.
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Hah, this is the one thing I remember from that trailer (aside from Scarlett Johansson) - the Hulk's ridiculous jump. Great beanplating in this article.
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Strictly speaking "Between" were first movers http://appbetween.us/lang/en-us - but with the huge amount of press afforded to YC companies, you would never have known it...
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Since it mentions sensor fusion, is this not just* combining the data from the GPS, compass, accelerometers (and any other sensor input from the car e.g. comparing photos, IR, wifi signals) to smooth out any irregularities in a single sensor and making better guesses where they all agree. If I'm right then the demo video is cheating a bit by only showing the GPS input initially and the rest of the info seems to come from thin air, which might be why people think it's working with the underlying street data. Dead reckoning with a compass and accelerometer and/or wheel odometer/tachograph might also have produced a similarly wonky line, but then you have two different wonky lines to average together to get a better approximation of the true path.

Note this supposition is based almost entirely on doing the first 3 weeks of the Udacity course CS373: Programming a Robotic Car, but it seems to fit quite neatly with the stuff they talk about i.e. a car/robot moving, guessing how far it's moved, taking sensor snapshots of its environment then cleverly combining the data to figure out accurately where it is.

Off-topic: scrubbing back and forth in the blog video (to get a better idea of what was happening) seemed incredibly smooth for me, is this a side effect of Youtube/Firefox using HTML5 video? (edit: trying it out with Flash, I get a fancier, but less useful pop-up when I try to scrub, a tech limitation of Flash or just a design decision?)

* not meaning to underestimate the hard work and genius that underlies this technology, but the same concept is used in such everyday items as Wii remotes and suchlike.
And those options don't exist anywhere on Bing... unless you have to be logged or something strange.
It's not supposed to, except to say that Oracle isn't trying to fight developers - it's just fighting Google (though innocent developers may be accidental victims).

Frankly, I can't bring myself to whole-heartedly support either party. They're both big, fat, super-rich and super-powerful conglomerates who have no one's interest in mind except their own (and, possibly, their shareholders').
One solution would be to regularly send them an email (maybe once every three months) with the request that to send you their updated information (via email).

I wouldn't want the app to send this sort of communication in my name.

Would you use a new app that makes the "search contact(s) → call/write/message" faster and more beautiful?

The standard ios app is quick and pretty enough for me.
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what difference would it make to run android on JVM instead of DVM? Isn't android too far along to take a u-turn and change the roots.
I find nothing wrong with the "Me, Too" Startup Syndrome. I know plenty of friends who went to medical school because their parents were doctors, or it's the "Asian thing" to do, and they turned out to be decent doctors. Same for lawyers, accountants and gardners; a lot of "me too" happening outside of the startup world. Unlike 30 years ago, many more people want to go into technology because it's hip to be in a startup - hell, thanks to popular cinema (The Social Network) and mainstream technology (iOS/Android) geekie hobbies are now cool. People got mocked for playing with their Timex Sinclair in the early '80s, whereas today I have to sign up early in order to reserve my son a spot in the mobile game development bootcamp. Times are a changing, and the OP sounds like the indie college guy who's resentful that his secret band is now being followed by everybody.

Other "me too" activities: marriage, children, golf, smoking, religion, tantric sex... sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. All a part of life.
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No one is saying the problem is that they aren't consistently applying their policies. Consistently applying a draconian policy is exactly the problem here.
"You might recall that the Lotus v. Borland suit (1990) originally resulted in a ruling affirming the copyrightability of a menu hierarchy."

Well those resources were certainly well spent, as the current dominance of these two companies indicates.
I'm not sure what databases have to do with your ideas about caching images and serving them via URLs with size parameters.
Suddenly, I feel like I'm playing DEFCON.

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Submission for a TechCrunch writeup of the talk, which includes some quotes and also embeds the same slides (via scribd):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831865
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Yeah, the article glossed over that step 1 though, lots of similar articles do. Once you have a big network of the right people have have your work well known and respected lots of things become easy.
A ruling could also go along the line that Sun / Oracle might have a copyright to the API but Google was free to use them.

In any case I guess we will see appeals from either side.

The author mixed in C# and VB in Mono - while MS has in the past applied and received patents on their APIs they have explicitly provided this use. This might be the way forward - company who created those APIs keeps control but let everyone use them.

Nevertheless, IMHO if I provide a solution like the Java language into the public domain / license it under GNU, parts like APIs become elements of speech - otherwise the whole thing becomes rather philosophical (and solved far more than 100 years ago by Hegel - 100% information is not possible).
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It would make a lot of difference. First of all, you'd be able to run programs written in dynamic JVM languages like Clojure, Groovy or JRuby unmodified.

Second, Dalvik was designed for low-power, low-performane, previous-generation handsets. Embedded HotSpot is years ahead of it in terms of performane.

I honestly don't know if Android is too far along to switch.
TL;DR: The Hulk is maybe around 250 kg and jumps atop a 120 m building in the movie, which using E = m g h means that he jumped with a kinetic energy of ~300 kJ. He pushes through a distance of around one meter, so using W = F Δx we can estimate his force as ~300 kN. Normal male feet have a surface area of 500 to 800 cm² [1], so if we use 1000 cm² for convenience, we get 3 MPa. The compressive strength of concrete is ~10 MPa, so we shouldn't expect the jump to crack concrete, but it might, if his peak force is higher and is exerted through the balls of his feet.

[1] (In my case, this is stolen from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2008.08.004 -- the blogger above tries to estimate his own feet but I have access through such paywalls. This surface area is given for one foot, but includes the top, so it's basically the same as two feet.)
> It's not supposed to, except to say that Oracle isn't trying to fight developers - it's just fighting Google (though innocent developers may be accidental victims).

In this case, the two are functionally equivalent. It's not even a subtle side effect, everyone is saying it as loudly as possible, so "accidental" or "unintended" seem disingenuous at this point.
Because anti-trust law (trust = cartel) covers price-fixing and non-compete agreements between companies, and that's not happening here.
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This talk was given at AirBnB in SF. Talks there are fairly new and typically occur every other Wednesday. There is a talk tonight by Yehuda Katz and upcoming talks are posted here: http://www.airbnb.com/tech_talks
Actually, if APIs/languages turned out to be copyrightable, IBM might just sue Oracle for using SQL and other related APIs. Oracle are even trying to invalidate the defence of implicit acceptance (same situation with both Sun and IBM).

Really stupid move on Oracle's part.
Wasn't this same article up on HN the same day they got acquired? Lot's of interesting stuff in here in general, especially when they get to talking about when their app actually uploads a photo.
The business majors of the world will rejoice no matter which of thse fat-cats prevails. I find them both equally disgusting (see recent discoveries about Google's breach of privacy in WiFi-gate).

I just hate to see people rushing to either side in what is essentially a business war. I hate seeing corporations brainwashing people into believeing they have good intentions. They don't.
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I've used both Unity and MOAI. Unity is too heavy for a cross-platform 2D game engine - whereas MOAI is absolutely light and tasty.

No question, there is big power in the Unity tools. But if you want to build a 2D game with physics and access to cloud services, MOAI does a pretty damn fine job of giving you exactly what you need, and getting out of the way.

Plus, you don't have to buy a per-seat license for MOAI...
Better title: Acing The Interview Doesn’t Mean You’ll Be Hired. No explanation why though. Envy?
It's strange that Microsoft would want to off load Bing. I know Facebook supposedly have some decent search capability already. Maybe Bing would complement a Facebook type OS?
Amazon use Dalvik don't they? Why not the JVM?
Its allowed.
A while ago I spoke to a Unity engineer about this. He told me they have internal builds running on Linux. I think the main thing holding them back from releasing it is the testing they would have to do for each distro. Probably not worth it for the limited use it would see.

If Linux Steamboxes do become a reality they would quickly be able to release Unity for that platform.

Of course I wish they would release the editor for Linux as I would like to use it :)
A quick Google will find you the answer to the first question. The second just requires an additional equation, where people are suggesting powers in finite groups. This seems rather complex. Can we not reach the same constraints by only summing the even numbers, for instance?
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I frequently use the latter in Python. I like that it's easy to construct programatically (because it's data) and it more explicitly handles the various cases (especially the default case).
MOAI is very similar to Love2D in some ways (Box2D, etc.) but the general application programming model is different - you don't have callbacks to implement features in MOAI, you simply set up the state of various game objects and layers and so on, then let 'er rip ..

I've found myself being very, very productive in MOAI. It took me 30 minutes to build a Path-like custom control for one of my applications, whereas it took me a day or two to do it in Love2D, and its nowhere near as elegant as the MOAI approach.
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I guess http://www.icCube.com (an in-memory OLAP server) is quite easy to setup (in JAVA following Web standards). Then, a quite simple JSON/HTTP interface is provided in addition to the standard XMLA. There's currently a JS client API and an early JAVA API as well. The JS client API is used by their visualization library / dashboards.

I'm not sure that OLAP cubes are good for 200G / week. I would go for something in between. Use a map/reduce algo. to mine your data and generate the relevant data from which you will build cubes for later and different analysis.

As somebody said, I guess OLAP cubes concepts are still good nowadays and MDX is a very powerful language that goes far beyond SQL.

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As with any performance tuning advice, "it depends".

Bear in mind not storing files in a database does create restore issues, since database and file backups will have been created at different times, so there's always a risk of orphaned/missing files.
IT lawyer and digital liberties' advocate Carlo Piana mentions at https://plus.google.com/u/0/115445134403759043734/posts/coVx... that such API copyrightability has been largely denied by the SAS v. WPL case that came out today (nice coincidence !) : "[...] neither the functionality of a computer program nor the programming language and the format of data files used in a computer program in order to exploit certain of its functions constitute a form of expression of that program and, as such, [they] are not protected by copyright in computer programs" - http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&...
Because OpenJDK is GPL licensed, and I guess Amazon didn't want to open-source their code. BTW, Google doesn't want to open-source (or even let Apple look at) the Nexus Android code.
After hitting HN, this could be viewed as a text version of chatroulette… you don't know what you'll find, but it's probably not pretty. :o)
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I tried to ditch jQuery a couple of times, but always coming back. The reasons I dislike it:

* Stupid API.
* Stupid API changes.
* Stupid API documentation.
* Plugins are minefield.

The recent standardization of event handler attachments (see `.on`) is a lot saner than it used to be, but I believe it is still not there where it should be. (I don't know that place, otherwise I'd have written my own library.)

However, the jQuery ecosystem is hard to leave because

* Monopoly in terms of plugins,
* Already cached everywhere (from Google CDN),
* Solves all cross-platform issues.

There are a few other bits like the culture of short commands because of chained functions, but I personally find that a very minor detail.

I also happen to like the author's ongoing experiments with performance improvements.
this is great, thanks. a fun tour of CSP, Go, and frankly a fun problem space (chess).
One question is what will happen with Apache Harmony? From what I've read of the case, Apache have basically done the exact same thing that Google did, but Sun/Oracle never bothered to go after them. How will that project survive with the proverbial sword of Damocles hanging over it?
"The problems were so difficult that he wanted to sit with me and read them together to make sure that I understood them"

That sounds slightly condescending to me, especially as the problems don't sound that complex to describe and he is a mathematician! It doesn't surprise me that someone who takes that attitude reacts badly to someone easily solving a problem that they couldn't.
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I'd suggest more that the interviewer felt threatened rather than envy. From their point of view, they would have someone smarter than them working under them, who might show them up to senior management or displace their current position in the company.
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Why do you say this?

A market segment just is a market according to the dictionary definitions. And legally, a lot of EU competition law concerns exactly how one individuates such markets/market segments.

Can you draw out what you're claiming more?
Because being able to solve puzzle problems isn't actually a good predictor of employee quality? (It remains an open question why interviewers use them at all in that case.)

Many interviewers do not (in reality) want to employ people who are obviously better than them, whatever they may say in public?
Problem solving is only part of what makes a good employee.
People tend to hire, not so much the best people they can find, but the people who are most like themselves.

And if you hire people like yourself, and your job ad says "We hire the smartest people," then you must be the smartest people! I've found it to be a huge negative signal. These sorts of interviews seem to mostly be about developers patting themselves on the back about how they stumped the applicants in interviews.

I think we need to have the talk about the "hire the smartest developers" meme in our industry like the web hosting industry talks about five 9s of uptime. The first nine is writing FizzBuzz. The second nine is being able to design and maintain large systems. The third nine is knowing the finer points of Prim's and Dijkstra's and a copy of TAOCP with arbitrary dust coating on the shelf.

Do you really need talent that meets a higher standard than that? Maybe if you are Google or NASA. But if you are not launching things into space, you don't need to hire the world's smartest people. Certainly, there is a spectrum between 'we write CRUD software' vs 'we read journals and do some novel algorithms work', and a company in the second category will want to say something positive about the intelligence of their employees as a signal. But "we hire the smartest people" is absolutely the wrong thing to say.

"Smarter" is not even better once you've hit the threshold of "acceptable number of nines to write this program." I routinely pass over hiring extremely smart people. Some of them have abrasive personalities, or are the wrong cultural fit, or are not interested in the problem domain, etc.
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You can run other JVM languages on Android today. The Android compiler take Java byte code and translates it to Dalvik byte code.

See here for Clojure: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Android+Support

"Works out of the box with 1.2.0+" -- other JVM languages should have a similar story.
True. Then again, everything large corporations do is disingenuous.
Documentation isn't a bad word - I regularly make documents to describe the architecture of my projects, along with their an outline of how to get into the codebase, for example. Comments are also documentation, though, and in this case comments are the right place. If I'm looking at a configuration option and thinking 'That seems a bit odd. Why do we have that set?' I want to be able to see the reasoning right there, not have to hunt through a wiki in the hope that someone has put their reasoning somewhere.

In my experience, comments are less likely to go stale than wiki docs.
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For the first one, if they are in an order, and in an array, you can do a binary search, O(log2 n) time - better than linear time. Perhaps the question was misstated. Also, the friend's relationship is accidentally disclosed as a son.
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First of all I apparently can't read a train schedule. ;)

Secondly I thought whoever keeps posting the same math blog you've been flagging had started yet another account, CW3, and I posted a comment, which I thankfully deleted, saying how CW3 is such a jerk. In my defense I would not expect you to be hellbanned.
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