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>mere property

Mark's stake in Facebook is a lot of mere property.
My understanding is that he's been with this girl since Facebook started anyway. I'd be surprised if she did not have a fair stake in Facebook even if she were not married to Mark.
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I'm sure he wouldn't: There's a reason his work is completely different from Tesla's.

And our discussion is about Tesla's broadcast power ideas. Bringing in a completely different concept is dishonest.
The problem is that people think "simplicity" is stopping and designing things from a clean slate. That hardly works. Real simplicity is a balance between all the forces, and that's only achieved with enough iterations to allow that balance to happen. If you turn around to nature you'll see this everywhere. Often the best solution is simply the only solution left.
Edison may not have electrocuted the animals in the video, but he fried an elephant with AC: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayint...
This is quite simply untrue. There is no requirement to live in an electorate to represent that electorate in Parliament, and in fact in the past it was very common for country electorates to be represented by city politicians. Antony Green has a great post debunking this myth:

http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2012/02/local-seats-for-...

(and Senators don't even represent electorates).
Is there some quantitative measure of curvature that works for the (n-1) dimensional surface of an n-dimensional solid for any n? If such exists, it would allow you to quantify this.
Neat project, reminds me of Gary Bernhardt's "Sucks/Rocks"

http://sucks-rocks.com/
https://github.com/garybernhardt/sucks-rocks
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/sucks...
Counterpoint: The reason that old Macbook is still in good shape may very well be because it wasn't pulled of the work surface and onto the floor by a stoutly plugged, tripped-over cord.

The benefits of the magsafe connector far outweigh the hazard in the uncommon scenario you've described. Those benefits are reaped over the entire life cycle of the machine itself. The hazard you're describing only occurs at the end of the life cycle of a relatively inexpensive and user-replacable subcomponent.

Design is very much about tradeoffs, but one would never trade off such vast benefits to ameliorate such a limited hazard.

Plus, you'd be using the hardware beyond its designed intent. This is very similar to never checking or changing the oil in your car, and complaining that the engine has seized after years of use. Just stop deferring basic system maintenance: go buy yourself a new battery!
This is my go to for inspiration:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354765
It's simply untrue. There is no such requirement.

The requirement that does exist that will be problematic for Assange is that a Senator can lose their position if they are absent without leave of the Senate.
Want to see a 100,000$ bill?
Pretty sure he's not planning on running it into the ground.
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Zero. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/02/face...
I think the theory is that with the current displeasure British citizens have with their government, extraditing Assange at te behest of the US wouldn't go down so well. On the flip side, Sweden has shown that they are willing to cooperate with US interests.

Essentially it's possible to extradite him from both countries, it would be a PR nightmare to do it from Britian
The couple may be madly in love today, but human emotions are fickle and people change and grow over time. Sadly, there may come a day when both are more concerned with the future of the FB empire than with each other.
No on said he did. Nobody plans on running companies into the ground.

It still occurs with unsurprising regularity. Lots of interesting books out there which talk about why.
What are the little technical details preventing us from having jetpacks?
This really stimulates my intellectual curiosity.
I believe GPLv2 has a clause against kicking puppies
Lsadump, a tool they mention in the article, does just that for the Windows machine key. The other token input data is protected with that key.

Reading a single token code out of memory from the soft token process while running would certainly work if the targets computer was on and the soft token was in use, but having a completely independent cloned instance gives the attacker a lot more flexibility when impersonating the user.
Also Exceptions should be used in "exceptional" circumstances and not as part of normal flow.
AFAIK just sell out and tank the price.
“We believe in the power of the technical community to help improve GS Collections.”

They aren't accepting code contributions right now, so that doesn't make much sense.
Java 8 is still probably a minimum of a year or 2 off. After that, it will go through another year or two of testing before any big corporation will dare even bother touching it. After that, it might start being used for new apps, but it will be another 2-3 years before it has widespread adoption.

On the flipside, what they've done isn't exactly groundbreaking, and could be used with Java 6.
Why? Because Java has good, built-in, worldwide namespacing that always works? Or because Java has IDEs that pull in imports automatically so developers don't have to think useless shit?

Or is it because you're fanboi who dislikes Java merely because it's Java and choose any opportunity, not matter how inappropriate, to disparege it.

Java is by no means perfect, but let's at least pick on it for the things it actually does poorly rather then just picking on it because it's no longer considered cool.
Given the sheer quantity of eyeballs on this story, I expect that the world would know if it exists.
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Err... is it normal for there to be recourse? If you do not have a controlling interest, you do not have control. That's that. If you aren't comfortable with that, sell.
Ladies and Gentlemen,

This is real life.
Well, he still has fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders, so they can sue him if he does something clearly stupid.

Given how long such lawsuits take, it will of course be too late by then.
I would marry someone I trusted to death and beyond

Of course, but as a rational being you ought to understand you are fallible, and may occasionally misplace trust, no?
Official Map of All Startups in NYC (InternetWeek2012)
From "About the map":

"The Made in NY Digital Map is a visual testament to the vibrant state of New York's digital industry - showing a powerful constellation of over 500 homegrown startups, investors and coworking spaces across the five boroughs. Browse by neighborhood, review job postings, or add your own startup to the digital landscape - the Made in NY Map is a living resource that reflects New York City's dynamic innovation ecosystem.

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I guess his girlfriend finally got tired of seeing wedding ads every time on Facebook.
The claim was that wireless is "junk". Soljačić proved it's not.
I hate auto-generated code by IDEs.

It always produces stuff like... that.
Which makes it near-perfect for Facebook (more capital from the sale), but less-so for shareholders, particularly those looking to make a buck on a quick flip.
You said that it compares favourably and then noted that it's 1/3 the price. To my eyes that reads, "the Samsung charger is a better value", and I think that that's what you meant too, until Terreta corrected you.
Interesting article. There's something wrong with the interface for me (it doesn't pagedown properly), though.
That's a rather eventful 36 hour timeframe for Mark. I wonder what it all felt like?
Where does it say anything about 3 weeks? Was it 3 weeks of learning programming or 3 weeks to build this? The latter is impressive, the former is phenomenal. There are many of us who could benefit from learning from OP.
Of course, the ring had a wireless electromagnetic sensor and Mark was using gloves so it only triggers when he puts it on her finger.
more of a backup and less of a synchronization service

I would say entirely a backup and not at all a synchronization service. If you're using Tarsnap for file synchronization, you're probably doing something wrong.

Tarsnap aims to be "good unix software" in the truest sense of the phrase: Pick one thing and do it well.
Like being married helps with that...
As ugly as C++ namespace mangling is, it does seem preferable to the kind of hacks it takes to solve this problem.

On the other hand, with a carefully chosen three letter prefix these kinds of collisions should be pretty rare in practice.
That should make it easier, right?

No matter what, a divorce will never leave him not incredibly rich. He might care about something that’s not mere property (like always keeping control over Facebook until he decides he doesn’t want to anymore), but as long as we are talking about mere property, the amount should make it easier.
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GS Collections also seems to have new implementations of the basic Java collections (implementations of List<T>, Set<T>, etc.). I haven't studied them sufficiently to say whether I like them better, though.

At first glance I think I dig Guava's API a little more, but I haven't looked closely enough to really have an opinion.
"people change and grow over time"

How true and as anyone who has been through divorce will confirm.

In addition to the potential problem with what would be marrying simply a normal or a successful person I can't even begin to imagine the challenges of a marriage to someone with that much money and job responsibility. And no question marriage will detract from his work life (especially if he decides to have children). That even happened to Bill Gates as anyone who remembers the Gates before marriage will attest to.
And then hides it. Which I'll agree is a little stupid, but you never really see it in practice.
I have found it ironic that Haskell packages seem a lot more brittle than packages in a language like Ruby. It's possible to get into "dll hell" with gems of course, but my limited experience fiddling around with Cabal suggests it can be much more difficult to get exactly the right set of versions in Haskell.

Maybe this means that there are a lot of undetected bugs lurking in the typical gemset but at least you can get something off the ground.
I just tried one of the featured games. It was extremely basic, no sound and pretty lame. Compare it to any of the featured games on http://kongregate.com and you'll see that there's no comparison at all.

I like JS. I'm learning how to use some of its first class functions, and it's really cool! But honestly the only reason I'd play any of those games is because they're written in an interesting technology... not because they were actually more fun than the stuff written in flash.

There's a lot of potential, but the platform isn't quite ready yet.
While this is merely anecdotal, I feel compelled to note that I'm a PHP programmer -- as well as a Python and a Ruby programmer (in the sense of "somebody has paid me going market rates for working in these languages) -- and even for PHP work, I am not cheap. And, while I am of course a biased observer, I'd say I'm not low-skilled, either.

I generally agree with your technical criticisms of the language (I generated a bit of heat and light a few months ago with a blog post called "PHP is not an acceptable COBOL"), but I don't think your assertions about the economics are entirely correct. I don't think most companies choose PHP because they expect it will let them get cheap help -- I don't think most companies actually choose PHP. They end up with PHP for any number of reasons that don't have anything to do with long-term planning. (Also, if you were putting together a database-backed web site in the early 2000s, there's a very good chance you'd go with either ASP or PHP unless you had a lot of experience in web programming in another language. After you built up sufficient inertia, switching would be difficult.)

On the flip side, there are a lot of companies out here in Silicon Valley using Ruby on Rails because it fits very, very well into the niche you describe: take a bunch of Rails gems and learn just enough Ruby to hold it all together with spit and duct tape. If I were starting a company and wanting to hit the "low-skilled, cheap niche," the only downside to choosing Rails is that low-skilled Rails programmers frequently don't recognize that they're low-skilled, because the mere fact that they've chosen Rails makes them think they're definitionally awesome.

(N.B.: I like Rails a lot, but gosh, it's attitudinal.)
I have a Facebook account, I just refuse to login to it unless I want to actually access my Facebook account.
"According to David Kirkpatrick's book, The Facebook Effect, Zuckerberg met Chan while in line to use the bathroom at a Harvard University party. The pair dated on and off again in college, but maintained a relationship as the Facebook CEO rose in prominence in the technology world."

What really interests me, at this point, how do you know that she truly loves him?? Its hard to know that when regular people like me and you date, and here we are having a pair that dated "on and off" for a while and now one side got filthy rich.

Perhaps I am spoiled and I never loved anyone, but in his shoes, I would have never really believed she is in it for love. Sorry.
Probably one of their many hacks at getting the launch cost down as much as possible.
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Has anyone used SEOBook? Is it worth it? Or can you get all the information on that website over the internet for free?
The discussion was about wireless transmission of power. It was stated that it was impossible. It's a reality.

I'm refraining from further conversation. Good evening.
As much flak as Java gets, at least they got namespaces right. Python got better, but it's still not what I would call great.
Mark Zuckerberg just got married in a surprise wedding
that depends. to the ground financially? if ads click-through wont progress and they wont find mobile revenue model, it will be extremely hard for Zuck to keep users happy AND keep this operation running (financially, that is).
I hate these government-accounting style stories. The numbers reported in the graph are the percent change in infant mortality relative to the rate of change to meet MDG. Is it just me, or would it be more useful to illustrate an article about infant mortality rates by a graph of the actual numbers for infant mortality in these countries?
What about the typography needs improvement? In my opinion, it is very readable.

There are is no window decoration, and I'm fine with that.
Didn't Attwood quit stack exchange to spend more time with his kids? If so, why so much blogging lately? It takes quite a while to write a piece like this, and to be honest is rather fluffy.
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This file seems to do the trick. Using macros to override class names.
https://github.com/jverkoey/nimbus/blob/master/src/core/src/...
> Morgan didn't want that wireless junk ("Where do you put the meter?")

I've also heard that Morgan realized all the copper mines and refineries he had stakes in would lose value.

I'm sure there are others reasons floating around out there too, they're a dime a dozen. Frankly I doubt Morgan ever explained his real reasoning to any journalists or authors, and these stories got narrated in somewhere along the way.
How quaint, another person who insists that people who don't use their preferred formatting just doesn't understand it! Never mind that maybe they just disagree--there has to be something wrong with them, right?

I don't use tabs because of an equally obvious reason that spaces are better: because I end up padding with spaces because the tabs are too big. For example, I like having horizontally consistent parameter argument lists, like below:

class Thing {
def beep(bar: String, baz: Int, quux: Seq[String],
quuux: Map[String, String], quuuux: Int) = false
}

If I tried to use tabs there, I'd be off by a space and have to add another space. Someone with a different hard-tab width would then get mad because there's an "extraneous" space in their view. And then we all have a nice big slapfight and sound like your post in the process.

(Plus, my editor treats four spaces in a row as a soft tab anyway, so I don't even notice it except when I want to. Life is peachy.)
The thing is that simplicity could be right under a programmer's nose, already done, and they will pass right over it. They will start building something new when a simple solution already exists for what they are trying to do.

Some people just want to write code. No matter if it needs to be written or not. It's like nervous energy.

The important question that we fail to address in arguments about simplicity is "What is it you are trying to do?"

Most times, it's a simple thing. Or it's a number of different things, each of them simple. But the programmer cannot see it that way. He envisions something else. He envisions a large project. He fires up his "IDE". We're doomed, heading for complexity from the start.

What if the simple programs are boring? What if they are short? What then? The programer is itching to code something, anything. He's going to do it. He will produce something complex and unleash it upon the world.

He will have to use "features" to sell his work. (Chances are it will be very similar to other existing programs.) As such, his program can never just do one thing. It must do many things. It must have features. Because that is the only way he can convince people to try it.

Some users will bite. Success! Or is it? This how we end up with an overly complex monstrosity.

What if programming is really a boring task of writing simple, efficient, reliable programs? Then what?

We'd be nowhere without UNIX. And it's a simple boring (well, not to me) system. There is no GUI. But it works. Take some time to process that.

You do not need to create simplicity. (All due respect to STEPS.) You simply need to wake up and discover it. It's running your system. It's right underneath your nose.

Discover, not create.
They don't want lambda just because they want lambda. They want function collections with filters and transformations, and you can't have that without lambda. When Java 8 lambda syntax arrives, it will be compatible with this and Guava.

They also likely have no interest in using JRuby because it isn't statically type safe and therefore adds another category of things that can go wrong at run time that is completely unnecessary to test for when using Java with Generics.
I seriously doubt there was a pre-nup.

California would shred through it anyway.
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The analysis shows that the test results contain zero information, unless you believe that teachers change quality randomly every year. If correlation begins to appear in those evaluations, it will be because the test has been gamed.
What is it like to be a young person (10 to 18 years old) now?
What about people finding issues with their code: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections/issues/2 ?
I see what you are saying, but don't you agree: hadn't not demand got burned out quickly and drew the price down, they wouldn't have had to put a large buy order at $38.

I mean, do you really believe they were offering $300MM of stock ready to sell on an "open action". They would all shit their pants if someone would have actually execute that.

No, what they did was not illegal, But yes, what they did was unethical and anyone knowing anything about trading will take it as a negative sign in terms of this stock's performance.
> ...if you e.g. change the type of a function, you have to change or comment out all the code that calls that function before it'll compile.

I thought so for a long time too, but then I discovered `undefined`. You can replace any expression with undefined and if there's a type, it will compile, and explode at runtime when it tries to evaluate it.
good read, I +1 you. And don't forget that Facebook does not have a special place in media when it comes ONLY to a positive news; they will write about them big time whether its good or bad news. This will definitely not play nice when there are some bad news, because lots of publicity around bed news will have an impact on their stock performance.
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I fucking hate goldman sachs.

Note because of politics. Not because of any financial action they've done.

Because they hired that despicable fuck Ulrich Drepper. Seriously, the amount of nice, young people who were forever turned away from GNU/open source with a bad taste in their mouths because of that scumbag dipshit.

I don't care if he was right % percentage of the time. The point of a project is to welcome users, and if you can't do that, why the fuck are you maintaining it?

I mean fuck, how many projects switched their libc implementation because of that fuck? Fuck. Fuck that guy.

The worst part? I didn't even get something rejected by him. I've just read enough of the communications with that guy to have his name seared into my brain next to the part that produces bile.
I had one. I did not use it. I deleted it. I debate getting a new one.
Software is eating the world. But I really shouldn't be surprised as I am at this one, since trading is well-known to be the most algorithmic math-geek industry at present.
cabal-install leaves something to be desired in the dependency management area. There are active projects under way to improve the situation, largely borrowing from Ruby along the lines of rvm and bundler.
Yay! Now I can mash the keys as fast as possible and look like a bit of an idiot, yet still somehow magically be typing the code to a program I have yet to discern the purpose of!

Where does this get it's source? can we set it?

--EDIT-- seems it might be a fork of: http://hackertyper.net/ but that is a guess. and that is the linux kernel I was typing...
HackerTyper.net is much better, custom files, the whole shebang.
For his sake, I hope he signed a pre-nup.
I laughed out loud when eventually an "Access Granted" popped up.
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pretty slick, it's right at the top, you specify the file:

< script type='text/javascript' >
Typer.speed=3;
Typer.file='code.txt';
Typer.init();
< /script >

here's the source then http://hackertyper.com/code.txt

edit: OH! right on... looks like the whole details are exposed through http://hackertyper.net
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I wonder how this will affect Africa as a continent. The article doesn't mention possible effects this could have on these nations, such an analysis would be interesting to read.
Previous posting of the original hackertyper.net from a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485159

CodeTyper (a fork that added sounds) was posted a few days later. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499883
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It is these cases that brought the ternary operator to Python:

def f(x=None): x if x is not None else []