skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America has a weird uncanny valley of citizenship statuses. For all intents and purposes there are no (+) immigration laws if you're very rich or fairly poor, but if you're comfortably middle class and/or otherwise trying to establish a life here you're in for a Kafkaesque nightmare. Ironically, the political will for imposing that bureaucratic craziness is almost wholly a reaction to the total inefficacy of the system at the lower end of the scale.
Please learn to script?
I turned down a job w/Microsoft in the early 90's with great options. Interestingly enough, they kept calling me back - I really got the impression it wasn't that they really wanted me, it was just that they were curious about someone turning down their job offer.

Anyhow, I gnawed on this for some years, calculating what the options would have been worth, but I finally let it go when it go to be around 5m.

Anyhow, cry in your beer a little bit and move on.
I think that people are trying to coin separate terms to differentiate the amount of knowledge one needs to complete the task. E.g. writing some automation in Python is easier than writing the same automation in C due to a lack of needing to understand things like character arrays and malloc. In reality, it's all programming, just via different interfaces.
Credit for acknowleding their mistake, but man it took a long time for Google to stop mutilating their own feet with the flagship phone crap and lip servicing AOSP, forcing manufacturers to add sizzle to compete.
know your tools. i had a colleague who needed to xy plot some data from an instrument dump into excel. problem was, the data and timestamps weren't one-to-one. he was looking at a few thousand rows of timestamps with almost random gaps between instrument readings. he'd psyched himself up to spend the next day right-clicking 'delete row' to get his data set. select-column, goto special, blanks, right click delete rows. seriously, the guy almost had tears in his eyes.
i'm with the comment "learn how to automate using scripts" - should be a core skill
Just today I was talking to this guy who was a serial entrepreneur out in Silicon Valley, and got hired by USC's business school to teach entrepreneurship. Apparently there is at least a small startup community here, and he is trying to grow it.

This guy has balls, and he definitely seemed to know what he was doing. I was very impressed. Would be happy to put you in touch if you like -- my contact info's in my profile.
> no extra skins

On the other hand, I have found some of the features of Samsung's skin to be more useful than stock Android. The competition is good.
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No, actually that links to the poorly written gizmodo story. Itself a knockoff of the local paper, http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/...

Pretty sure that is both the original source and the most accurate write up.
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Ahh the data points aren't disjoint sets with respect to netflix/itunes. Interesting.
as Path, instagram and other photosharing networks are proving your social connections and photos aren't really a compelling enough reason to leave.
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Perhaps it is hard to come up with a comparison in this space (social media) because it hasn't had a tremendous run time with very many rises and falls. But perhaps looking at something like "browsers" can offer another comparison with more history. We've seen several shifts in the dominant players there. Some have gone away. Some have been slow and steady. Some have risen and fallen... but never died.

I don't think Facebook is a "fad" but I do think that it has a shelf life. It annoys me. I do get to keep up with the lives of people I once knew... but it annoys me. And honestly I'm not sure what annoys me more, Facebook or the people that treat Facebook like the Golden Calf. I would rather be on G+ but their lack of a full feature API is a barrier.
This is why I think Google should release major versions of Android only once a year, so 4.0 last fall, 5.0 this one, 6.0 fall 2013, and so on, instead of twice per year (with some anomaly in the Honeycomb period, which wasn't open sourced).

Manufacturers and carriers would have to upgrade fewer times (and hopefully more devices), and the vast majority of users should only be 1 version behind.
Legally or morally? Legally, I'm not a lawyer but I would guess not. Morally, he has to live with the decision he made oh and legally too since renouncing US citizenship is permanent (as far as I can understand the government site I read).
The same could apply to any field.
Here's my swing:

1. Start working on the reboot immediately, rather than dismissing the iPhone as a fad for over a year.

2. Include at least some source-level backwards-compatibility so existing developers don't have to start over from scratch, even though the foundation is changing.

3. Be nicer to your existing OEMs (early OS access/input, wider hardware support, skip royalties for a year or two, etc.)

1-3 are just about cutting off the next potential disruption (which, in this case, turned out to be Android) off at the pass. To be successful in mobile, Microsoft didn't have to beat the iPhone. They just needed to defend their position against everything else, which they spectacularly failed to do. There's also:

4. Don't buy Skype or if you do, give up on carriers and work on direct-to-consumer (and direct-to-business) "Skype smartphones" using data-only SIMs.
Lots of VCs and investors pumped money into AOL and non-monetizable dotcoms, too.

Having lots of capital might have enabled Facebook's short-term success, but you need a lot more than capital to sustain a compelling product and maintain a market over the long term.
So he was playing dumb earlier for the benefit of the jury - to make the advocates spell out their case clearly. This is what he was responding to:

> This copying allowed them to use fewer resources and accelerate that. Suppose they
> accelerated it two days. They're making $3 million a day now [...] If you just get
> one or two days' acceleration, that's $6 million

This is a good point; it's common to underestimate how long it takes to code something. And time to market is often strategically crucial - that is, productivity isn't just efficient, but can be the difference between success and failure. rangeCheck is trivial; but writing, testing, debugging, naming and documenting take time. A trivial typo bug in rangeCheck can cost a disproportionate amount of time - and it's amplified here, when rangeCheck was used to test other code. (Who shall unit test the unit tests?)

To answer Groklaw's final question as to why Alsup couldn't decide on API copyrightability yet, he clearly said he needed to do a lot of reading. He not only has to decide according to law, he is in effect creating law, since this specific issue hasn't been decided earlier. His ruling has wider significance than just this particular case. Future potential litigants will read his ruling, and will avoid court if it's clear who would win. Although he is only one judge and so his precedent won't be binding on a full bench/higher court, those judges would also carefully read his judgment. He'd better get it right, not only in the result, but in the reasoning, and integrating it with related cases.

It's great that Groklaw is making these transcripts - because the court is a public institution, I think the official transcripts should be available (and why not video too? The emphasis in oral argument sometimes isn't captured in a transcript.)
I think this is the original source http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/...

and it's a better article too.
I don't think it's algorithms specifically. Even a naive algorithm is going to be better than doing some rote tsk by hand.
Salary isn't income either, it's risked labor that should be deductible as a business expense.
Hell, I was born in the late 80s, and email is only useful to me at work. I generally don't check my email unless I need to find a tracking number or someone calls me and says they've emailed me something.

Facebook is one part of it. Texting is another. Phone calls are big with some friends (mostly with family). Email combines massive amounts of information that's not immediately useful (payment verification, tracking numbers, bank statements, etc) with a response that's far from instant. Combine that with the "no one uses it, because no one uses it" effect, and email is one of the most inconsequential technologies in my life.

But Facebook is not, at its core, integral to their/our lives. Instant broadcast information is. Like I say quite often, the iPhone didn't need Apple to make it, Apple just happened to be the one who did. Facebook could be supplanted tomorrow by anything, and the effect would be exactly the same.
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My mother was a computer science professor and was active with ACM's SIGGRAPH for most of my early childhood, but somehow I got through high school never learning how to write code. I did, however, learn that laziness can sometimes be a virtue.

In my second job out of college, I was running the sound board for a national talk radio show. We broadcasted three hours a day, and I was tasked with getting recordings of each day's shows uploaded as a podcast with the commercial breaks edited out. Being far too lazy to want to do this by hand, and recognizing that we broadcasted on a "hard clock" (a commercial break would run every day from 2:06:55 to 2:10:25 for example), I decided it was time to learn how to let a computer do the work for me.

Fortunately, a friendly coworker who was a hybrid of broadcast engineer and sysadmin pointed me toward bash scripts and cron jobs. Figuring it all out was a frustrating couple of weeks, but I certainly didn't regret it.

A few years later, among other duties, I was responsible for the audio archives of a very old musical organization. Mostly this meant knowing how to make decent transfers of DATs, LPs, 1/4" reel to reels, etc. We found ourselves with over 20,000 tracks of original recordings in .wav format and the metadata about those tracks in an unconnected database.

After far too many searches in the library database, followed by finding the desired file by hand, I got busy scripting (and perusing posts on HN that have helped immensely along the way). That project has evolved into a searchable website containing audio, video, photos and print materials of everything in our catalog.

Next week, I'm on my way to Silicon Valley to interview for a programming gig at a company doing very exciting things. I definitely didn't see it happening this way, and maybe it's not the best career move for me, but my life wouldn't be the same if I hadn't realized my laziness could be rewarded by learning how to code.
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Thing is the programming in this case is trivial; but if there's no tick on those guys that what they are doing is easily automatable; they won't go looking for a solution anyway.
if i remember correctly, this was the original vision for android. the nexus one (thanks bgentry) was initially only sold through google's online store, and then the carriers got it and eventually google shut down their online store. It's good to see google taking back some control.

between google and apple surely there is enough influence that together they can bully the carriers into sucking less.
What's more interesting is Oracle's lawyer's "rebuttal" to Alsup (according to Groklaw):

> I'm not an expert on Java -- this is my second case on Java, but I'm not an
> expert, and I probably couldn't program [rangeCheck] in six months.

I don't know, how can anyone be taken seriously after something like that? He's clearly either stupid or willfully ignorant if he thinks he (a no doubt well-educated and intelligent man) couldn't learn to program rangeCheck in six months.

Yes, I know, of course his defence against this charge will be "I can't be expected to know industry-specific things like this," but then why on Earth are you allowed to regulate and prosecute it?
One way facebook could monetize would be to build/buy a system like skype and fully integrate a telecoms offering. It makes sense since the whole thing is about keeping friends in touch.
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What a stud, and what a perfect rebuttal to the deeply flawed "Please don't learn to code".
Willful ignorance is never a good solution. It's due in large part to the how fashionable it is to be "dumb", and "non-techy", and "etc" that our public policy w/ respect to science and technology is such a junk show. The only way out of the current patent mess and into some semblance of a functioning society which can actually enjoy the fruits of technology and invention is people like this Judge who have "learned to code".
as you can read from what I think is the original source (http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/...) californium was the neutron source and uranium was used in the multiplier.

«A steady stream of neutrons is needed for these purposes. Kodak used small research reactors, including one at Cornell University, and possessed a dollop of californium-252, a radioactive isotope that endlessly sheds neutrons.

But it wanted a more potent in-house system, so in 1974 it acquired a californium neutron flux multiplier, known as a CFX. Small plates of highly enriched uranium multiplied the neutron flow from a tiny californium core.»
Which is exactly why a liberally (small 'L') educated population is so critically important to the functioning of a representative government.
Is that a direct quote from the AdSense email? The grammar is terrible.
Don't leave until you close on other job. As others have noted, your value plunges in the eyes of other hiring folks even though you feel you are the same person.

You also are perceived to be less in a position of strength on compensation negotiations.

And finally, since you don't have a job, there will be a little bit of a question about why you left your last job, a little bit of a non-positive aura about that.

This is just the way the interview/hiring dynamics go, whether we think it is fair or not.
This link might be better:

http://blog.hulu.com/2011/12/08/from-hulu-labs-face-match/

It lists some shows that allow identifying actors by clicking on their face. I tried it with the Glee episode "Choke" and it worked for me.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322
YouTube has an unrivalled collection of videos. I used to listen to most of my music on YouTube, and built many hours of playlists.

But I don't use YouTube any more. The level of advertising got to beyond tolerable.

And that is the problem these sites have. I might spend four hours on the weekend with music videos on, but I just could not increase that, there is not enough hours in the day. To grow, the site has to increase the proportion of ads, and then it starts to lose users based on their level of tolerance for crappy, repetitive advertising.

So anyone buying Facebook and suchlike for growth potential should also consider that there really is a practical upper limit to the revenue it can pull in before it becomes annoying and starts losing users. IMHO, YouTube is beyond that limit now, Google is pretty close, Facebook has a little room, but not that much.
You may be confusing the G1 with the Nexus One: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
Not exactly. He's paying some tax now, while Facebook is still private. It's just that once it's public, the value of his stake will be much more transparent and so he'll have to pay more taxes.
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Hoping to see if there will be a who's hiring post this month...thanks! Would like to submit a job posting to it.
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perhaps $.25-.3 - bragging around on cocktail parties what a glamorous eye you have got.
On fragmentation, your blog post is exactly backwards.

You're calling out hardware fragmentation, but that's exactly the fragmentation the consumer wants - they see it in the store and pick it (via form factor, price, etc.). Beyond that, Android couldn't rein in hardware fragmentation without being something utterly unrecognizable. On Android dealing with hardware fragmentation is your job, just as it is in the desktop/laptop/netbook/... world.

Software fragmentation is the fragmentation consumers can't see and, generally speaking, don't want. And that's the fragmentation that is often preventable, as CyanogenMod's porting success demonstrates.
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Resuming fetching multiple unfetched fragments of a resource is already possible with HTTP range requests. Checking the entire file can be done if the server provides a Content-MD5 header (though I'm not sure actual client use of this is widespread), and checking parts of it is infrequently useful by itself to the processing application and would be highly application-dependent even if so. The big win of BitTorrent is the distribution of available channel capacity over the swarm of downloaders; if you're not going to use that part, HTTP does quite well by itself.
I fully agree with the principle, but note that these numbers indicate the market rate for salary, not necessarily cost of living. The two are correlated but not the same. Here is a table that lists cost of living as calculated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics:

http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/bestcities_sort/index.php?sor...

For example, note that Honolulu has a salary coefficient of 92, but it's actually one of the most expensive places in the country to live. It has a cost of living coefficent of 171.

Another thing is that in addition to cost of living, one must consider state taxes, which you can calculate here:

http://letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_jumi&filei...

WA, NV, TX, FL, and IL have very low state taxes (for me), whereas DC, CA, HI, NC, and NY have high state taxes.
See this comment below. Also you could make the case that you are locking in the 15% LT cap gains rate, which could and likely will increase at some unknown point in the future.

>> The numbers on and analysis of his tax liability in the article are demonstrably wrong - at a level of error unworthy of The Economist. His tax liability is calculated on the value of the stock as of the date he renounces citizenship, which was last September. Today, Facebook is worth maybe $100 billion. Early this year, a private equity offering put the value at $50 billion. Last fall, who knows, and it's all subject to negotiation with the IRS - my guess is no more than $25 billion. That means he evades 75 % of the tax bite by renouncing citizenship, and will be paying at most maybe $125 to $150 million of that $500 to $600 million tax liability he would owe if he sold all his stock next week.
Talk to a lawyer before you do anything. A few hundred bucks now will save you a lot of headache later. If you're going to be running a business, it's probably a good idea to get in touch with one anyways so you don't make any future mistakes when it comes to contracts.
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Can you explain the bit about already having been taxed at the corporate rates? I've seen others mention that but I never quite got it. Say a person buys $1 million of AAPL at $50, then sells at $500, netting $9 million of capital gains. Where and when were the corporate taxes paid on that $9 million?
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Finally.. Firefox on Android is fast!

The older version is really painfully slow..

Slow enough to switch to other browsers like Opera Mobile or Dolphin..

Back to Firefox..

Anyway using the Samsung Galaxy S i9000
That was exactly my question. Your price premium might be $0 -- rationally, I might add, but I wonder what the market's would be.
"If you look forward 5+ years, everyone is doing much of their internetting via their phone"

Not true. People spend a significant amount of time in front of a computer "at work". Those people are still going to be sitting in front of a "desktop" in 5 years and still have the same behavior. There will be more mobile, but there will always (especially in only 5 years) be people "at the office" doing their job looking for information.
I'm not saying he did anything wrong, but it is a bit of a slap in the face. I think the US should have a policy of not admitting renouncers to the country under any status.
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Learn to read... sure, I've heard the US adult population is 30% functionally illiterate.

Learn math... sure, I've heard the US has some of the worst math scores in the developed world. Learn advanced mathematics, why not?

Learn to rebuild your car's engine... sure, I'd guess that upwards of 95% of car owners don't know how to rebuild their engine! The shame!

et cetera et cetera et cetera... learn what you want, please don't tell me what I should spend my time learning, or what would be good for me to learn. Maybe those 30% of illiterate adults who couldn't be bothered to learn basic math skills will make great coders, but I somehow doubt it.
I have a dynamic site that I'm pretty sure google does not run the javascript. How do I get google to run the javascript?
I think you have left out the brand advertising, advertising that needs to hit the customer much before he is looking for something and do so repeatedly. That is the segment where Facebook seems to have a clear edge.

Google can get into action when the intention finally surfaces in form of a search. Facebook can help you to create the association between a brand and that intent in the stage before that manifestation. For example, when you are thinking of buying a smart phone, you will search for the "cheap smart phone" and restrict yourself to 4-5 top brands in your head. Or how when looking for "cheap flights", I have preference for certain airlines. Brand Advertising can help you get into that top group in people's head.

If that pie of the advertising is big enough, I have no idea.
On a slightly different note (from that same Groklaw article), I like Oracle's defense against Google's claim that they didn't have access to the patents in question:

"Access? Google organizes the world's information! Of course they had access to the patents."
When I was a student at the University of Arizona '86-90 there was a reactor on campus.

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It was just decommissioned:

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"is not going to get you on the good side of the lawyercats."

I don't know of anything in particular that would prevent an employee of a company from posting a comment here or in a blog reply anywhere simply saying they thought it was a good idea to buy the stock that would warrant any action.

But lets say (since I don't have time to fully research this I'm basing my answer on many years in business and dealing with the Federal Government, lawyers etc.) that there is some law that makes this "illegal". The chance of the federal government, SEC or anybody caring about a comment like this is nil.
Here's how he's avoiding taxes:

He's making this move before Facebook is public.

Once Facebook is public, the value of his stake is much more transparent (and harder to fool around with). In your first example, the valuation of a privately-held company determines the exit tax. In your second example, Facebook is a public company and its valuation is determined by a public market. Singapore has no capital gains tax, so if he exits now with the lower private company valuation, he won't pay taxes on the difference.
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