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Great article, can't wait to read the part 2, to know if i should move or not from Paris to Berlin !
Facebook May Be Worth $100B, But What Are You Worth To Facebook?
A Collection of Perlish Interfaces to the Gnu Scientific Library
I prefer "Software Developer" as a title. I tell people I'm a programmer.
Using Next Generation Bluetooth 4.0 on iOS / Mac
Thanks for who posted this, I'm ashamed to say that it is in need of an update/typo-fixing that hasn't been done yet (as you can tell by the winter seasonal photo).

The main complaint I've heard from people who go through Codecademy/Khan any of the other "easy-to-interactively-learn" options out there is that they don't know what to do with their knowledge of loops/conditionals/variables beyond passing the tests. I wanted something focused on applied tasks, whether it be web scraping/API-fetching or even something as simple as batch concatenating/editing text files.

That's how I myself learned, anyway, so just wanted to point out to other authors the value of simple real-world-data projects as a way to keep readers interested.
I'm always surprised that a discussion about the nature of the self can occur without any reference to Buddhist understanding of non-self, which seems to have sussed this out over 2000 years ago.
I am in no way an expert in this area. All I know is that the TOSes of ad networks are usually vague but very strict in this area, because of fears of abuse. You should probably talk to your account manager to get an exception / clearance prior to releasing code that dynamically refreshes ads via javascript.
Here are two attacks.

Correlation in time and space could be exploited. There's a phenomenon called "superresolution" where you can combine a number of slightly displaced images together, estimate the displacements, and use subpixel techniques to resample the image at higher resolution.

Superresolution might work well in the "bad video" situation where somebody is handholding a camcorder.

Wider than that there's the general possibility of modelling the environment -- for instance you can scale up graphics for old video games by having a model for high resoluton details that people find plausible. If an object is seen in close-up, details could be transfered to the same object further away.
Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests
I had said awhile back that I would shoot for a Python version since the code tries to be as Ruby-idiom-free as possible...but I think I need to first focus on moving it to a more painless deploying process, such as github+jekyll...and hopefully make it easy for anyone to port over the lessons/examples in other (high-level) languages
What happens when you mix three research programming languages together
I guess that checking the signature is a US thing, in the UK, Switzerland and Spain if you don't pay with a chip & pin card they ask for ID, and that works pretty fine security wise.
If nothing else, please could we stop people putting traffic lights on roundabouts, as the one defeats the entire point of the other.
I commute quite heavily in the UK, and there are certainly places I can see where traffic lights are either completely surplus, or could be reduced to peak-operating only, and there are other places where it would cause worse problems if there weren't traffic lights in place.
Considering that FB is profitable and that it has a decent war chest, it looks like FB is taking advantage of fools.

Smart move though, having $10+ billion in the bank must feel nice and leave a lot of room to maneuver.

Personally, I don't think FB is worth $100+ billion. Maybe $30 to $40 billion.
For me it's the latter. I learned to code on a US keyboard, because that was the only layout we had in Yugoslavia back in the day. Then I came to live in Chile, where you can't even find a US keyboard, and had to get used to not caring about what's written on the keys.
Losing it all is the only endgame I can see from that. Price will bomb rapidly especially with all the bad press.

I'm really not confident about this.
that ain't true. My Visa is swipe, and my Amex chip. All places accept both swipe and chip & pin, no matter how small the place is. Just make sure that if you swipe you have ID w/ photo with you.
Nice fist post. For anyone interested, he's another awesome guide to Rails Caching. Worth a read too. - http://broadcastingadam.com/2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rail...
This is a very bad sign, Facebook expects a big drop in his valuation and they can't raise money that cheap for a long time. The big question is, do first time investors know that Facebook has no confidence in it's own stock.

Does anybody know what happens when Facebook can't sell for it's initial price? There is a real chance, 16Billion and a lot of analysts think they are overvalued.
What is your never again brand item store [HP]
I think in most cases yes, but some I come across the sheer weight of traffic on the roundabout (at peak times mainly) means that no traffic would be able to join (say at a junction immediately prior to a major one which has 99% of traffic on the roundabout passing it and making the traffic waiting, keep waiting)
I can no longer work for a system that puts profit over access to research
How Can You Turn Your Android Phone Into Live TV?
Are the stars aligning for Windows Phone?
That really makes me want "arrrrr.pirate"
FWIW, GMail loads a new ad when I open an email.
I never understood that either. What is their reasoning behind it?
IPhone 4S: My Favorite Siri Commands
I've found coding useful in every non-coding job I've had where I have sat in front of a computer in an office...

Office jobs, and general running of any business can be improved with knowledge of code - or code itself imo.
Benchmarks: You are Doing it Wrong
I've heard that popular content gets lots of leaches, but they don't seed for long. They delete the file once they've watched it, because it just wasn't that good.

Good content gets a lot of seeders, because they keep it for longer.
Wave Accounting Raises $12M, Adding 1,000 SMBs Every Day
People need information about a pizza shop at the time they want to order a pizza. If you're advertising prior to the event, your customer will need an incentive to remember to order from your shop.

Advertising only works as part of a larger joined up campaign or strategy.
The author completely missed the point. Never did anyone say "don't learn to code, even if you want to". Rather, what Jeff said could much better be interpreted as "don't just learn to code because it's the newest hype." That's really all there is to this issue.
I think (not a pro at this) all those shares have already been sold via IPO road shows to pension funds, banks, hedge funds and other investment houses. In fact, I read they wanted even more shares than FB offered to sell ("oversubscribed.")

So no major surprises. I doubt they just pick a number and just hope to sell $16 Billion
The compatibility library gives a developer a lot of pieces from the latest versions of the SDK that one might wish to use. Also ActionBarSherlock (http://actionbarsherlock.com/) is an excellent library that will allow one to create solid looking apps using Fragments and the ActionBar on older versions of the OS.
The link is not accessible anymore and no cache at Google, but from the screenshot there I see that this is actually based on an article at mashable:

http://mashable.com/2012/05/15/facebook-fad/
As someone living in London i can see Berlin to become the seedstage city of Europe fairly quickly.
This might result into becoming the startup hub #1 on the long run. But for now London holds the crown with an better uplink to the US and in general to international media and investors.
Your thoughts on this?

Could berlin be the Seedstage City of Europe ? Basically the Garage of this continent.
You missed the point. Your original comment was an oversimplification of how people interact, similar to the argument "If you're not doing anything bad, you have nothing to hide."

The way people interact with other people can not be reduced to a finite set of values, such as "friend or not friend" or "family member, lover, friend, acquaintance, co-worker". In other words, this is not a Facebook vs. G+ dilemma.

The problem here is the fact that Facebook has, yet again, limited the way we interact with other people by imposing their own structure and rules: if you don't want a person to know you're paying attention to them, don't pay attention to them.

Your proposed solution of "don't add them as a friend" is even more restricted. Maybe it's your way of interacting with people, but I don't see how it's justified to try to impose it on everyone else.
I think BBC iPlayer uses torrents internally to deliver its programmes. There's DRM, but it's not very restrictive. I throw my money at them once a year.
You seem to have your mind made up and no amount of rational and logic thought will change that. So I will simply wish you good luck in life. I hope one day you create something that everybody wants but you end up pennyless because everyone just shared it for free. Good day.
Yes, talhof8@gmail.com is my private email. You are welcome to check it.
Actually, the points you brought up sound pretty relevent, so I'll consider it.
What kind of background do you think will be better?

Thanks!
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I was in that boat for ~2 years (got out of it a little over a month ago). My problem was reduced in some respects, while amplified in others, because on my program systems engineers were developing signal processing algorithms[0] and implementing them in real-time signal processing software, in C. This caused all sorts of partial mismatches and misunderstandings, but ultimately the software piece got me out of there.

[edit] I would like to add that not being able to discuss what I did in meaningful detail was the most serious hindrance to my job search.

[0] This bit caused its own problems with a few companies, who saw "algorithms" and thought something else.
NHS 'pays up to THREE times over the odds' for IT gear
Analyzing the response to "Please don't learn to code"
We'll be able to remove traffic lights, signs, yields, stop signs, and every other limitation... Once the Google Self-Driving car becomes universally adopted. As long as the car itself is able to perfectly judge for safety, and possibly communicate with other cars, then there's no need to stop when the car knows, for a fact, that there are no other obstacles around.

Of course, that's still very far off!
Except for car park payment machines in the UK - which seem to accept your card and don't ask for a PIN or a signature.
Google patents its augmented reality Project Glass
Many of the large investors (Accel, DST) selling more shares, valuation of $100 billion for a $1b profit company? Bubble about to pop, smart money is getting out.
If you think how the whole web development has been changing from server-side generated views to more "produce data and send it over as JSON" style services, Node.js and others start to make a lot more sense. That said, the post has point that on more established platform you can expect to be more productive since you have more established work flows and standard libraries.

Btw. note the terminology: Node.js should not be called "framework", it's a platform. "Framework" is something that runs on platform and you extend/modify it's functionality by writing code. "Library" is something which you call/use from your code.
From the article:

> There's also an interesting coda to this convoluted tale. The group researching Brown's Brewery discovered that the placard in front of the Star-Spangled Banner at the National Museum of American History lists an anachronistic name for the building in which it was sewn. They have written to the museum to correct the mistake.
Basically, the guy is a genius. Read his Wikipedia bio.

Praise of the man:

"The one talent of David's that stands out is his ability to lay out a course of action that would take into account any sort of complicated facts and develop a far-reaching scenario. It's a chess player's sense: If I do this, the following 15 things are going to happen, and if step 11 goes so, I'll do this rather than that. It's a fantastic game-playing ability." Thomas D. Barr, quoted in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986

"The Boies memory is one of the first things cited when people discuss his strengths. What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure." Time Magazine, "Get me Boies!" by Daniel Okrent, December 25, 2000
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Agreed. I don't have that much time to watch Netflix, but just seeing what my kids scroll past really tempts me. My tastes just differ: I'd really like to watch the old 60s "Thunderbirds Are Go!" for example.
Would offerrign some sort of coupon have helped give them an incentive to rememeber? Can you do coupons on Facebook?

Maybe Facebook should move into doing some kind of deals thing like Groupon?
iTunes has user ratings and reviews, although they seem to be read-only on the Apple TV (I believe you need iTunes to write your own). You can't sort by user rating, which is also a problem in the app stores.

Netflix on the Apple TV has genre listings — I believe Apple designed the interface, so it may be a little different from other versions.
"I knew it would be a long wait at this set of lights."

As an odd hobby of mine I like to watch the clock when I get to a traffic light to see how long I actually wait. I don't record it but I am amazed how often I only wait about 1 minute. I think the facts are much different then everyone's perception.
In light of the significant advantages of Berlin are you going to be leaving Paris?
The Unexpected Benefits of Weekend Projects
Eole Water's Wind Turbine turns Desert Condensation into Drinking Water
A really long shot;
1. Crawl web for images and store them.
2. For every frame find similar images to make a subset of the image store to be searched in (will call searchset)
3. divide the frame into blocks suitable (possibly depending on the format and compression of the video)
4. For each block find similar blocks in the search set and use extrapolation to generate a better picture.

I know this would take time but worth the try.
He seems to lose a lot too.
As a driver I can understand why removing traffic lights makes sense in some regards.

However, I spend less time driving than I do by my usual form of transport, walking, and frankly there's a minor subsection of drivers who are bad enough as it is (case in point, how many jump zebra crossings).

Maybe it's just in need of disruption, adaptive pattern systems and such.
Well, wikipedia doesn't talk about truth, but about verifiability. That's a bit of a problem because most people (even most wp editors) don't get the difference. Certainly people visiting wp expect it to be both truthful and verifiable.
Not my analogy, and I agree it was terrible.
I 'love' the British voter registration process.

"You can do it online!" say the commercials.

Yes, you can fill in a form online, you're then presented with a PDF that you have to print off, sign, and post back to the local council office. Huh?
I think this article is timely in the sense that it calls attention to an issue that is (hopefully) being debated right now. And that means that developers seeing this referenced on HN and other sites will realize that now is an opportunity to engage their brains and give feedback on this issue which will affect lots of us.
I think 1 minute is probably about the average wait in off-peak traffic (I'm going to have to start timing how long I sit at lights now) but on my journey I pass through at least 10 sets of traffic lights - waiting for 1min at each of them adds 10mins to my journey (admittedly I don't wait that long or even at all at most of them) but the potential is there
> Advertising for local businesses is huge business

$90B p.a in the USA and growing.
Facebook Increases IPO Shares
Google+ is sick
very true, i guess there might be exceptions due to average transactions sizes. 5 GBP for parking might not compare to a 3,000 GBP Louis Vuitton purse
Games Businesses play on Facebook, Twitter (buying Likes etc)
It's his "trial" skills. There is a team of lawyers, each lawyer skilled in one particular aspect of the case. Mr. Boies's specialty is pulling all the information collected/discovered by the various attorneys and creating a grand advoacy plan that includes strategy and argument. So an attorney incredibly astute at patent law may not be so good when it comes to verbal argument (specifically, appealing to the sentiments of the jury is an art in itself, and few attorneys are able to master this skill) and overall case strategy, but is able to effectively assist Mr. Boies in preparing for trial.

As a former litigator turned startup founder, I can attest to the difficulty of assembling the right team with the ideal point man for a trial, and when you do find one you respect, he is worth every penny. David Boies is one such man - nobody has gotten fired for hiring him as the lead trial attorney.
Why would the police arrest you for spending a day in the park?
To be fair, Acel, DST and others are really small investors, compared to Fidelity, Barclay's, BOA and the likes. Plus, Accel's and DST's business model is to score and more or less get out at the IPO.
This is an excellent initiative. Believe me I know exactly what you are talking about. I have gone over countless numbers of exercises In the past where I put my name and then do some selection statements but beyond that I don't know where to go. Working with APIs can provide a needed sense of practicality. I had few ideas just reading some lines of your first chapter. Keep up the good work.
Iran hangs "Israeli spy" on word of WikiLeaks' cable
To get out of a crappy, dead-end situation. I took a pay cut to get to a better company without having to relocate. The reasons are somewhat complicated, but my reply to grumps above explains a good portion of why.
Stanford’s Credential Problem
What kind of pizza place is only open two nights a week? I know a way they could more than triple revenues in a flash....open 7 nights!
Their is another company that is breaking into this market in US, Brazil and Europe. They are working on making it easy to accept cards in Europe and also getting the governmental approval for coupon fiscal in Brazil.
The company Tillify.com are also rolling native apps and web apps for all devices that work consumer side and vendor side, They are also using the mobile phone number as a digital id to enroll consumers into their platform.
I've heard some Spanish traffic lights are quite "smart" for traffic control (these are mainly on highways rather than junctions/pedestrian crossings) where if you travel at or below the speed limit, the lights are green, speed and they go red thereby giving a positive association for not speeding (ie if you don't speed, you and everyone else travelling the same stretch probably get there faster - make everyone stop as you're speeding and most likely people won't be happy)
Watching football is a very unmotivated state of mind for the viewer to be in, but companies still spent over $200M in 2012 to advertise for the Super Bowl. The only commercial any of my friends remember is the one with the hot chick for the car company that I can't remember. Companies still spend billions upon billions of dollars per year on advertising not based on search, and simply based on number of eyeballs and potential demographics.

Just because you don't put useful information on Facebook doesn't mean that hundreds of millions don't as well. There are literally hundreds of millions of people that likely put very relevant information on their profile, which means that targeted ads might work for them. The inverse of you is that I use incognito mode on Chrome, so Google likely knows nothing about me, since I don't store any cookies. It might be able to divine something from my IP address, or maybe there's a backdoor in Chrome that overcomes incognito mode for the purposes of Google ads, so who knows.

We are in agreement that Facebook's current state of advertising is terrible. They, however, made $4B last year, and will likely make more this fiscal year.

The only thing we're arguing over is that I believe there is this vague "untapped potential" and you don't believe it exists. Maybe they'll figure out a more engaging advertising mechanism than their current ad platform. Maybe they'll use Google Ads instead of their own ad platform. Maybe they'll buy Netflix and they'll have their own tv channels with traditional tv ads. Maybe companies will be able to pay to get their particular event promoted on people's newsfeeds, in more indirect methods, such as if the new Avengers movie just came out, they could spend money and then Facebook would consolidate and highlight every time your friend went to see Avengers and posted it on their status.

There are a lot of "maybes" paths that lead to much higher revenues and higher rates of user monetization. This is why people are willing to pay 25x revenues, and a $100B market cap at IPO for Facebook. The entire premise of their market cap is based on their ability to increase their user monetization. If they can't, then I agree, they will certainly fail as a stock.
Sure, nothing is ever perfect. But think about the alternative. How do uneducated people know which "experts" to trust? The term "snake oil salesman" came from somewhere...

Learning a little about your car can help keep you from getting ripped off by a crooked mechanic. So why wouldn't learning a little about the world help keep you from getting ripped off by political leaders and other public figures?
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> Of course, this will result in the shareholder equity to be diluted for each of the newly issued shares...

As I understand from the article, there is no extra dilution here. The shareholders are simply selling more of their shares.
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So when can pedestrians cross?
How does ICS help Samsung make more money for Samsung?
In Serbia timedout / down too... retarded PIPA, SOPA, APIPA and it all started with that idiotic Metallica lawyers... hope they will rot in hell
Had they randomly spent $240 on media elsewhere, would they have gotten a better return? For a pizza shop that's open two nights a week, I wouldn't expect so. Based on this data alone, the authors' conclusion is a bit grandiose and FUD inducing:

...social advertising is so new that nobody knows for sure [if it improves sales]. It's still unproven, untested and largely unstudied.

This simply does not follow from the anecdote of one tiny campaign, so it's coming from somewhere else.

I don't want to ascribe malicious intent to the authors, so let's rebute their conclusion directly: "social advertising" isn't wholly unlike other forms of advertising, with the principal difference being that you now have access to a lot more data when deciding who sees your ads, such as people's declared preferences and their social network.

It's up to businesses to figure out a media strategy making use of those data. Sure, this might take time/experimentation, but also seems quite obviously a better deal than placing ads in the Yellow Pages or broadcasting them (nearly) indiscriminately on TV or radio.
I think that's been beaten to death with http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...
I've found that especially in Mobile browsing, the pagination ends up offering little advantage to anyone, beyond statistics. Mobile versions of news sites will often not have ads, only a small header, the text and the pagination links, so I'm not sure why they would continue to use the technique.

On top of this, I find it very irritating when reading a paginated news article that split to a new page right smack in the middle of a sentence. And it's happened more often than I'd care to remember.