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http://www.quora.com/What-was-Adam-DAngelos-career-timeline-...

Answered by Adam:

"I was in college as an undergrad at California Institute of Technology full time until I graduated in 2006. Facebook launched in spring 2004. In summer 2004 I lived with the Facebook founders in Palo Alto and helped out a little, though I was mainly working on Wirehog, which was a social filesharing network. In summer 2005 I was officially a full time employee at Facebook, and then I took off the next semester from college to keep working at Facebook through the end of 2005. Then I went back to college for the second half of the 2005-2006 academic year, graduated, and went back to Facebook full time after that."
Not so fast.

APIs have been copyrightable for more than 20 years.

statutory copyright law in the United States and, in particular, the case law of the Ninth Circuit (and other circuits) already allow copyright holders to claim protection of the structure, sequence and organization of their works. Yes, already. On October 3, 1989, the Ninth Circuit held the following in Johnson Controls v. Phoenix Control Systems:

"A computer program is made up of several different components, including the source and object code, the structure, sequence and/or organization of the program, the user interface, and the function, or purpose, of the program. Whether a particular component of a program is protected by a copyright depends on whether it qualifies as an 'expression' of an idea, rather than the idea itself."

paragraph 13:"Here, the district court found that the structure, sequence and organization of the JC-5000S was expression, and thus subject to protection. [...] This issue will no doubt be revisited at trial, but at this stage of the proceedings we cannot say that the district court clearly erred."

Judge Alsup told Google's counsel that Google had to address the Johnson Controls decision with a view to the Java APIs.

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/886/...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/oracle-v-google-cant-make...
Also, price earnings would be a pretty foolish approach to valuing Facebook - I wouldn't be so sure that you are so much more sophisticated than the imaginary bozos you are criticizing.
People that don't know what a ventricle is or don't immediately make the connection will probably think something else. Assume the worst. Maybe to them it sounds like "Event Testicle"

It's all around very weird, probably doubly-so for non native english speakers.
Can you elaborate a bit more on this? I think I understand your point but a few more details would be great. Thanks!
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Must be nice to have 29m of "just" living expenses.
Triple home button taps are not meant to be used by everyday users, but visually impaired users who come to use that as they learn to use their devices.
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From the author's disclosure:

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We provide basic classification and regression trees for now, and we can decide which one is appropriate from the objective field type. Once we start adding in other types of models we will add a model type parameter for the relevant API method.
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The most frustrating thing with the Galaxy Nexus (4.65" screen) is trying to 'slide to unlock' it with one hand. I get most of the way across then my palm touches the camera button.
vim user on 12.04 here, no problems.

Perhaps you mean a gvim user on a 12.04 multi-monitor setup? I do everything on my single-screen laptop these days, so maybe you're talking about a different config?
The use of VBA arose purely out of necessity - I was asked to enhance a spreadsheet for underwriters of my reinsurance company. Those guys love their spreadsheets - I can't even describe.
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Former Ivy Admissions officer who was at Princeton the year before she resigned from MIT. Elite College Admissions is a really strange scene. There are Masters degrees and other credentials that people earn to move up to deanship's, but the actual job itself is completely bureaucratic and mechanical in nature. There were people in my office who'd been there for 20 years and sure, they'd read a lot more applications than me, but they had basically the same exact job as I did. Read applications, visit schools, vote on students twice a year.

So the concept of needing a fancy degree to do the job always seemed pretty funny.
Yeah, but it's a step function. You can service, say, 100k users on a couple of servers. User # 100,101 means you have to buy a new server. Technically that user costs more, but the next 99,999 cost 0. (Leaving out rules about depreciation, amortization etc - I'm just talking pure cash flow.)
My pet theory is that some people lie in order to "shield" other people from their own biases. For instance, let's say Indians have a reputation of being sloppy programmers. If I was a great Indian programmer and I knew about this reputation, I'd probably be tempted to lie about my nationality when applying for a remote job.

Female authors have used this strategy for a long time by using male pen names.
$1.7M in living expenses, not $29M.
If they really felt like they were 'the peoples company' and cared about the little guy they would have made this a central part of the IPO from the beginning, like Google did with their Dutch Auction. The only reason they may be considering this now and leaking info about it is because the demand isn't there to support a $100bn++ valuation - which is also why they are pricing shares in the $60-80bn range.

Even more evidence this will be an underwhelming IPO and anybody wanting to buy shares should wait until they've been public for awhile to get a better deal.
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To my knowledge, this vulnerability is anything but new. It's been around for years.
This is esssentially CDR coding. Here's what a Lisp FAQ has to say about that:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part2/section-9.html

Essentially, it says that it isn't as good an idea as you might imagine, because lists aren't often created all at once and they get chopped up and inserted into often enough the advantages of the scheme disappear.
At my old job, the other architects and I would spend days researching on our own, then lock ourselves up for days in a glassed meeting room with nothing but a notepad and a whiteboard and lots of coffee as we debated all the various methods we'd discovered, pointed out the flaws in each others' approaches, picking one person's research of choice and seeing how far we could push it and when/where/how it would fail in an attempt to reach the best solution.... then do more research, get some developers working on prototypes, and repeat the whole thing all over again in two weeks' time.

All I'm saying is, it's not necessarily hubris. Too often you find half-baked or half-researched ideas that work in theory but not in the real world or the opposite (being things that work great but in practice could only ever be used in that particular application). You need to look into what transpired before and after those 8 hours meetings before coming to that conclusion (not saying you haven't).
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the other side of the argument.

Google seeks to Europeanize the law of the United States with respect to copyrightability

Google tries to counter Oracle's very compelling copyrightability argument, which is very much a Ninth Circuit argument, with inapposite cases from all across the United States and, which is really ridiculous, by pointing Judge Alsup to yesterday's EU Court of Justice opinion on a copyrightability issue under the laws of the European Union.

Google even attached the entire ruling (though Judge Alsup could find it on the Internet) to its proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.

If we were talking about a policy debate and a submission to U.S. Congress, this would be a legitimate argument to make. But Judge Alsup doesn't make statutory law. He can do a lot, but he can't turn EU Directive 91/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programs into U.S. statutory law. Google is now wasting his time by hoping that this EU decision is so extremely persuasive that Judge Alsup will try to legislate from the bench rather than apply Ninth Circuit law -- but the latter, not the former, is his job.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/google-seeks-to-europeani...
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Yeah, almost felt like he was trying to brag under the guise of "transparency".
Caveat: As they say, one good test is worth a thousand expert opinions, and I'm no expert.

I'm inclined to say yes, it would still have a benefit. My thoughts:

- Swapping the FastCGI process back in shouldn't be any worse than loading a CGI process cold and initializing it (disk caching will probably be no help to CGI here: with so little free memory, the cache will be small or nonexistent and aggressively purged);

- Once swapped in, the FastCGI process will be able to handle multiple requests in less time and less memory than it would take just to start the many CGI processes necessary to do the same work.

Also, if the performance of your server is an issue, your FastCGI process should never be in a situation where it would be swapped out. You need to add more memory, and/or reduce the other loads on your server.
Took me a second to recognize the inside of YC. Fun stuff!
I agree with the other posts; too complicated. Plus, some people are grossed out by blood.

The name of your startup is definitely lower on the list of priorities when preparing to launch. I noticed eventyo.com is available. Just register something simple like that, and get back to work.
yes. that might be correct.
But I like a big dude like LinkedIn working behind the HTML app arena.
So I feel I'm not alone :)
Spent a significant amount of time before realizing you must be left handed. I've figured out how to hold my GN where my hand isn't too big of an issue. It's so weird holding my old Fascinate though.
I suppose (judging by the comments here and in previous threads) everyone on HN w/ a brokerage account will be shorting FB's stock as soon as it comes out, then?

It's a pretty safe bet that it's being overvalued, but I fear the hype of FB stock amongst the common man is going to keep the price artificially high for a little longer than it would normally. Might not be until the release of the first or second quarter results that people see what a farce it is.
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I really don't care for its physical appearance but some of its features now seem basically obvious. The "screen stays on while you look at it" or "eye tracking" seem great.
I'm fairly sure that section is talking about compiled code, structure of the app, the archive, etc, considering it says "compiled ahead-of-time, never interpreted, and you access the entire set of iOS public APIs." the previous paragraph.

You're right though, there's no reason the UI wouldn't look identical as well.
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What type of algorithm (or at least what general class of algorithm) is generating the model? I'm just curious because I'm wondering if the input data has to be linearly separable or if it has a limited number of classes(I think that the iris dataset is only linearly separable in one case)?
Another oversized phone. When I saw its predecessor I was shocked by the size. How can you properly fit it in pocket? I don't understand why phone manufacturers are engaged in "we are the biggest screen" race? Make your hardware better. Things like Retina display add that wow factor. I have owned two Android phones (none of them were Nexus) and they were marred with hardware and battery problems. Motorola Droid (I used for dev stuff) had amazing hardware but rest other sucked big time.

Edit: Grammatical mistakes
About a year ago, I actually had a very similar idea to the one shown in the demo. I like this one better – mine used individual swipes to move letter by letter, two-fingered swipes to move one word at a time. The "analog" motion in the demo feels more natural and allows for much faster navigation.

I took another look at the US patent process (having never patented any inventions in my 2009 desktop interaction concept), with a vague plan of "shopping" it around were it to be granted, but the cost versus the timeframe, combined with the slightly scummy feeling of trying to monetize a patent without actually building anything, ultimately stopped me.

If the latter of those reasons doesn't stop the author of this demo from springing some kind of patent trap, the former probably will.
I agree, but I'd ascribe that to Google being run by technical founders rather than MBAs. The main benefit of technical company leadership is the ability to "see" across and coordinate the disparate areas.

Infighting and begrudging compromises only happen when the leadership is blind to the details.
Sure you can have multiple version installed with native packages; for examples, see the discussion at https://groups.google.com/group/devops-toolchain/browse_thre...
According to the S1 filing, this was the criteria for disclosing:

* each stockholder known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding shares of
Class A common stock or Class B common stock;

* each of our directors;

* each of our named executive officers;

* all of our directors and executive officers as a group; and

* all selling stockholders.

It's safe to say Eduardo doesn't fit into buckets 2-4, so as long as he doesn't own at least 5% or isn't selling stock as part of the IPO, he wouldn't need to be disclosed.
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If SSO is copyrightable, am I infringing on their copyright when I implement an interface?
Another alternative is http://youtubetime.com/

But I just modify the query string by hand. :-)
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They have a valid point on the CEO but when they call out a director for saying she had a degree in 'marketing and economics' and she actually has a degree in 'business administration' they make it pretty obvious this is nothing more than a smear campaign. How on earth could the difference between those degrees (from a 3rd tier school) impact her capability to be a good Yahoo board member? I don't even understand why one would lie about something like that. It's like lying and saying you here a high school lacrosse captain when you were actually a rugby captain.
By your reasoning, virtual keyboards should only have one keyboard layout as well. Why should virtual keyboards be limited by what's obviously a manufacturing constraint?
There must be a strategical reason behind this, I can't believe they'd make such a huge mistake.

One possibility is that they're trying to corner the native languages so developers start migrating more and more into managed runtimes. This gives Microsoft more power and control over what the programers are doing on their OS. Removing C++ would be too big a hit, so killing off C is the compromise they found.

The fact that they recommend GCC is intriguing though, I can't quite make sense of that.
I'll bet you a dollar that Larry and Sergei never actually bought a Sun server to run the search engine, but rather that they may have used some free resource available to them at Stanford.
The S2 fits in my pocket better than the HTC G1 did as it is so much thinner. The real problem is that it's too big to fit in my hand. I got the S2 not because of its size but because it was the best Android phone at the time (in terms of hardware anyway, battery life leaves something to be desired).
Because it is just another Android device and with so many released during the year there is a bit of a "meh" factor to it.

Also Engadget covered it with at least 20 posts. So not sure what you were expecting ?
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It doesn't look like it. You need to use the iOS alternatives (in this case, NSDate).

(main)>> require 'date'
=> #<RuntimeError: #require is not supported in RubyMotion>
(main)>> Date
=> #<NameError: uninitialized constant Date>
Looks like good old decision trees to me (with some discretization for continuous input values).
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Can someone enlighten me as to why Slideshare would be worth $119 million? Just curious as to where their value comes from.
Well, I see it as an investment. Hopefully, we'll both be satisfied by the outcome.
The Germans on the committee wanted the new car to be called the "Global Krupp", to emphasize integrity of engineering and tradition, the French preferred the hip and modern "Rapper", and the Italians "Caprice". They settled on the "Crappee", which was well received on the continent... unfortunately 80% of the car's sales were projected to be in the UK, where the name reminded them of shit.

- Ben Elton, "Gridlock", paraphrased.
I have to agree with the adding more and more layers on top of Android. It is ridiculous and will do nothing but increase the delay between updates which is already unacceptably poor.

Android really needs to sort this UI layer mess out.
Postgresql has both Levenshtein and metaphone functions as part of the fuzzymatch extension. It's nice to have this when trying to match addresses.
Appeal to tradition. Most physical keyboards don't have dynamic displays.
Still a lot, but a house in Palo Alto and personal security alone might justify most of that. Guys like Steve Jobs who take $1 in salary already have lots of liquidity, and Zuckerberg doesn't necessarily have that.
I've already found nine vulnerable sites. Six gave me database passwords in the disclosure, including one at Sony.
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Dan Loeb's letter doesnt say he lied on his resume, does it say that somewhere else? I feel like Im missing something.

He himself prepares his resume, while some flunkie is writing his bio in documents. The former would prove he was a party to fabrication, the latter would need additional information.
I'm interested by the statement that "the Copyright Act is meant to protect expression but not vocabulary". Could someone familiar with copyright law elaborate on this?

I'm interested in the general concept, but also curious how it applies to specific cases. For example, is the format of a media file just as copyrightable as the contents represented by it? Is this in line with the spirit of copyright?
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Fantastically thorough research, the kind of stuff I love to read. However I can't help but feel the much less impressive other answer "Use Levenshtein distance, here is the link." (paraphrased) is the better answer.

The long-winded answer goes in to a huge amount of details on really interesting pattern matching problems... but not really the specific problem mentioned by the question asker.

I'm glad for a world with Stack Overflow and other similar resources, because I find the long answer fascinating but if I were asking the question I'd much prefer also having access to the shorter, succinct, and also-correct answer beneath it.
ok, so:

#1 how is it possible that there is 0% users in China.. IF they truly believe NOONE in China has facebook account, then any other of those numbers could be made out of the blue as well.

#2 Why is it soo important to attach Zynga everywhere they disclose info? is it some sort of Zynga-FB agreement or what?

#3 David Fischer is missing comma after "VP"

#4 Peter Thiel, James Breyer, Reed Hastings, Erskine Bowles, Donald Graham -- what are they "Directors" of?

#5 Frequency of words appearing in S-1: second place: mobile. This is a HUGE indicator to anyone thinking about startup... things ARE and will continue to happen over the mobile device more and more. This sound trivia, but think about another indicator: your startup idea versus mobile.
Some people complain about swiping over the keys? Then add a scrollpad at the bottom of the keyboard where you can perform the same swipe to place the cursor. And use the shift key to select, same as the video.

I like that idea a lot.
I'm disappointed. The hardware face buttons are still there. The volume buttons are still directly opposite the power button (and thus far too easy to accidentally press). No ringer switch. The bezel is a bit smaller, but not enough so to be interesting, and the screen is PenTile. No Cortex A15 CPU.

Bright spots seem to be a GPU that can finally compete with what Apple's shipping, and some imagination put into hardware/software features like the eye tracking and proximity-sensor-triggered calling, though TouchWiz is probably still a net loss.
It proves the language choice is irrelevant. It's the solution that counts. Even VBA can be written clearly and works well. It's fun to watch as hipsters flaming echo other for their adopted cool languages though.
I've had to do this a few times when building simple input normalization features. The trouble with scoring based on Levenshtein distance in that case is that it improperly penalizes phrases that are significantly different in length but similar in content.

For example, let's say I was searching a database of countries for "North Korea". In my list I have:

South Africa (LD: 6)
Congo (LD: 9)
Republic of Korea (LD: 11)
...
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (LD: 28)

The actual answer (DPRK) will be pushed far to the bottom based on a naive ranking that uses LD.

The hack that's worked best for me? Rank based on the number of common two-character substrings between the source and target. It's simple, easy to build an index for, and has surprisingly great results. Its ideal use case is if you don't need to return a single absolute best result and can, say, present the three best to a human being and let them pick the match.

For the above search I'd get the following results using the two-character method:

Republic of Korea: 4
DPRK: 4
South Africa: 1
Congo: 0
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