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Presumably, they would like to know which law firm employs her. That is relevant information, though I suspect she knows better than to cover cases her firm participates in after what happened when the Patent Troll Tracker was outed as a Cisco lawyer.

He was an honest fellow who got hit with a bunch of lawsuits from a troll who didn't like being called a troll and ended up in a mess because he commented on a case he was a party to and ended up resigning. He was outed after a troll put a bounty on his identity, no less.
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> Even less of news when he has to make this type of sale to pay taxes.

What did he do so he owes taxes?

Exercising in-the-money options is taxable. Receiving stock grants is a taxable event.

Owning stock (or options) in a company that goes public is not a taxable event.

Note that he got to sell (some?) now. Ordinary employees are still in lockout.
The linked book by Pierce is pretty fantastic as well. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/
First time I read the post, I found it to be a bit boler-plate. But then I re-read it, while thinking about the person who posted it.

You just graduated college. You havent lived that much. Still you had the guts to go out and get what you want. Due to the fact that your experience is limited, you can't seem to say anything us old-schoolers haven't heard or said before.

But you have something better than advice to talk about. You have the unique perspective of being a young twenty-something business person. Talk about that. Let us see the world through your eyes. Your frustrations, pains, and achievements. Tell us how you are sharpening your newly minted skills.

I wish you the very best of luck.
I don't disagree with that - a bar chart that doesn't start at zero can be misleading. But for what he was trying to do---compare means---it would have been a perfectly fine choice to do a lineplot/very thin bar plot and start the y-axes somewhere other than zero if he included error bars and clearly labeled things.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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No phone an a Wifi-only iPad might be a good choice for your first paragraph (assuming you have reliable wireless at your home), although the size would hinder mobility a decent bit.
By "suspiciously silent" you mean "Groklaw covered it", right?

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20090926131450...
Once while waiting in the lobby of a Google office I could hear the receptionist answering a frustrating call from someone asking for a search result removal request. She had to read from a script because people call so often -- they call reception at any Google-related business asking for help.
Yup, great free lesson starter for a charts and statistics lesson tomorrow, thanks to original author.

PS: laptops seem slightly more sane in uk. Lenovos 3+ years old go for around 10% of original purchase cost. Why computers realistic and other consumer electronics not? More informed market?
That's a nonsensical question. Some sensible people will say no, but some sensible people will say yes. If your free time revolves around television and you make too much money, what's wrong with dropping an extra $300?
It was extremely difficult to model two interacting surfaces -- for example, a wheel rolling on a surface with friction.
My understanding of this is the following: having implicit casts between certain fundamental types has always been a source of error that even led to own classes of security issues. Instead, Go, like with other things, is going the explicit way: instead of documenting a list of implicit conversion rules somewhere, the language forces the programmer to think about the conversion, and to explicitly state the intention in the form of an explicit conversion between two data types.

And to be honest, I like code that is explicit in what it does. That makes things easier to read and comprehend.
Why do you think she's employed by any law firm? She's a former paralegal, not a current paralegal.
*esteemed, dammit
Not really; it's linked here, not copied wholesale here.
Correct. He's more similar to the still occupied Bill Gates shaped hole.
Turn your back on the Enlightenment's ideological values.

I think that would make for some interesting stories. I could imagine the adventures of, say, a Bayesian Conspiracy surrounded by a burgeoning idiocracy that was largely sexting in class while the Enlightenment was being covered in history. (So it's not so much that society turns their back, they just don't get it in the first place.) This would be kind of an update of Larry Niven's Fallen Angels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(science_fiction_...

You certainly won't find any Cabrini-Greens in, say, Louis XIV's France...

Are you really claiming that slums entirely arose in the 3 to 4 generations prior to the revolution? Was there a huge pre-industrial revolution shift of population from rural to urban accompanied by huge sovereign debt? (This could be, I just don't remember enough about demographics.)

I would point out that he presided over a country where slavery was legal. (Though in his attempt at reform, he mandated that only Roman Catholics could own them and that slaves should be baptized.)
Well correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you have maintained that since it's a free service one should not expect reliable access or even a dime to be spent in dire circumstances outside your control; and you have further argued that Google is telling us the same thing in the terms (however inefficient the medium).

If it is or were the case, that Gmail is not even supposed to be reliable, then might be very pretty and convenient as you please (hence, not a smelly pile of crap, as one might believe from the terms) but still ultimately bad for most people. Particularly the people who are least equipped to judge the risks or recover from the mistake, because IMAP is Greek to them.

So even as apology for Google I think this is a fruitless line of argument, no disrespect intended. I do respect your opinions.

My own feelings are more nuanced than what I think you are probably fighting hardest against (round condemnation of Google as evil, or Gmail as unusable). I personally think there are safe and constructive uses for Gmail, cigarettes, hard liquor, cars, pornography and pistols and informed adults should have ready access to all these. But I think as a matter of personal conscience it's better not to be a dick, and it's better long-term business, and I'm not against leverage being applied to make Google iron out this procedure or be more firmly up-front with the scary disclaimers that probably should be scaring away people who are not wise consenting adults. Again assuming that Gmail is operating on this sort of Libertarian-style principle that they are not even slightly and socially obligated to provide reliable service no matter how much they promote the product for wide and general use.
Using larger grids and combining this with the famous HashLife algorithm to "compress Space and Time" (http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/184406478) would be awesome!
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The scrollbars are just styled using CSS, it's not exactly a huge payload.
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An iPhone with a bigger screen should be easy.
Actually the API copyright question has not been answered yet - the judge has yet to rule on whether it's copyrightable, and the jury hung on whether it's fair use.

This case is not over.
You can blame people for taking and performing a job that requires unethical behavior, and if they don't perform it in accordance with the laws about unsolicited commercial email, it's also their fault.
IF something like this was possible, would they just change the exchange where FB is listed or will they somehow annual the first IPO and redo the entire thing?
Thanks, but I'm aware of Modelica and Scilab. In fact I have used them even more than Matlab, which I have only been using for about a month.

All the academic, hobbist and professional communities in what I'm doing use Matlab heavily and specifically. Available code/modules/"toolboxes" and support are severely lacking in Scilab and Modelica. I wish I had the time and the knowledge to contribute back but I currently don't.
Isn't that the definition of a techno-thriller?

Yes, but maybe create a sub-genre of techno-thriller that emphasizes big ideas and speculation about big societal changes?
> "Personally, you can't blame people for doing their jobs."

Woah. Why not? Why can I not blame someone for doing a job that's a net negative to society? Why can I not blame someone for doing a job that's purely parasitic and creates absolutely nothing of value?

By that logic, I can't blame dealers for pushing crack to kids - because they're just doing their jobs. Or, more legally, I can't blame used car salesman for being lying, swindling cheats, because they're "just doing their jobs".
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What I want to know now is where we go on the copyright. The judge is taking an incredibly long time working on that. The speculation I've read says that this may be good for Google, but who knows?

I saw a comment from Grellas on a prior story that said that the judge has some crazy precedents to deal with in his circuit and they can't freely adopt the Borland case's logic without dealing with them. I'd like to know how the request for briefs on Sony v. Connectix figures into that. Is that case from the same circuit? If so, that would really make me believe that he's working on a pro-Google ruling. After all, it shouldn't be that hard to come up with a finding of infringement. You only have a lot of justification to do if you want to find non-infringement.

Finally, I wonder what, if any, the impact of the juror telling us that is was 9-3 in favor of Google will be. Does that help support a finding of fair use or not?

That said, I'm glad to hear that Google has been cleared of infringing upon these absurd patents. I just hope they still get invalidated too, so that no one else ever has to worry about them.
Are there any Javascript libraries that do this same thing? I know backbone.js does, but I am not looking for a full MVC stack.
Brilliant. This reminds me of Knuth who stopped using email back in 1990 (!) [1]

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Pessimistic? I don't think so, he's facing the problems full on; asking hard searching questions about his chosen field and working for new insight.

That is not a pessimist, that is someone who has faith that he can find a solution; even if it is not obvious to him at this time.
> That's an application-specific function that shouldn't be bloating a database engine.

GIS most certainly belongs in the database. You don't want to load gigabytes of geo data as points in memory and build and filter geometries in whatever your application is, anymore than you want to load any non-trivial dataset in-memory and do your filtering in your application language.
Knowledge Graph: Wikipedia on steroids, or the beginning of the end for the web?
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I think Stross misses the ability to draw inspiration from 'good' stuff happening. I've challenged my SF writing friends on occasion to start with some change that really flips the bit. Two interesting starting points are;

Unlimited energy - Lets say Fusion or something like it finally comes around and now using a couple of hundred megawatts for a an individual a month isn't out of the ordinary. How does that change things? Imagine that you can install giant chillers in the ocean and regulate its temperature regardless of surface air temperature.

Unlimited Biology - lets say we actually figure out how cells work, right down to every single chemical, its role, its action, its reaction. We gain the ability to arbitrarily rewrite every cell in our bodies, ok so perfect health for everyone, no more 'genetic disease', no more 'aging'. What is the world like in that scenario? Do we stay human formed? Do we keep our emotions? Things that we evolved for use as cave people, do they still serve us? Fight or flight instinct?

Its 'easier' in some ways to start from 'now' and delete things and write about their loss than to add new things. Its the latter stuff we don't see as much in SF.
I did think that he also campaigned against software patents in Europe, though I think there was controversy there, too, concerning his methods.
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Yeah this is really bad form. Prefix needs changed for sure. It's a really cool project though!

edit: filed an issue here:
https://github.com/dingbat/nsrails/issues/4
> Where does this end?

With Erlang QLCs :)
Florian wasn't just an anonymous blogger before he was outed.

His "bully pulpit" was the blog once named "Free and Open Source Patents" (FOSS) and he leveraged some earlier open source advocacy to lend credibility to his shilling in the present case.

http://www.fosspatents.com/

(Notice that the name is now seems to be changed at the site). One can however, easily find references on the web billing Mueller as an expert on "Free and Open Source Patents".

Edit: Added "seems" at bottom
Can you cite a source on that? I wasn't aware of her being retired and I find it hard to believe that someone with her skill would be unemployed.
I can't really understand what it does. Can you please explain 'like I'm a 6 year old'? :)
I had an account in college when it was college-only and it was awesome. Then they let my mother-in-law and Rob Scoble and my boss join and it wasn't fun anymore so I deleted my account.

It's wonderful not having the account, though. I recently ran into someone in charge of my High School's reunion this year and they couldn't find my address. I told them to look me up on Facebook later and that was the end of that conversation. Also, I don't get random "friend" requests from ex-girlfriends anymore.

It really didn't have anything to do with feeding the Zuckerborg. It just got incredibly tame very quickly, becoming less of a reflection of my friends and classmates and more of a reflection of my friends and classmates when our mothers and bosses are around.
Not true, they scan the binary for symbols. I.e. they check for any usage of private api's. I doubt that they will reject an app just because of their usage of NS.. classes, but on the other hand if the NS... class accidentally has the same name of another internal private Apple API, the app will be rejected (Has happened to other developers already).
Sounds more like a bit of writer's soul searching to me.
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I guess having to switch between my GMail and my Apps account has that one advantage. But fair.
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From the wikipedia page (so take it with a wikipedia sized grain of salt :-)

"Hayes had patented this concept in 1985 in patent #4,549,302, the Modem With Improved Escape Sequence With Guard Time Mechanism, generally referred to as the "Hayes '302 patent". Hayes licensed the guard time to other manufacturers for $1 a modem – a charge which competitors derisively termed the "modem tax". A number of manufacturers banded together and introduced the Time Independent Escape Sequence, or TIES, but it was not as robust as Heatherington's system and never became very successful."
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But why do you think that?

Is it because it will deter future litigation?

If yes, does that imply that there is a business advantage to avoiding litigation?

What would Alsup say about this case? As a programmer who is also a judge did he think there were really legitimate issues here that needed to be resolved?

I guess some see issues, and lack of clarity, where others do not. I see extremely weak claims and a very large legal budget. That's just me.

You may be right. If this makes things clearer, then it has value.

So should we thank Oracle for bringing the suit?

While we're at it, I'd like to thank Burroughs Corp. for all the early precedent they gave us.
I think Oracle would allow it if the price was right. The problem is that "one Java" probably means Java SE, which means you have to use bloat like JAR files and Swing/AWT, which would make Android less competitive with iOS.
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he excercised twice as many shares.
You cannot compare Apple products to commodity TVs.
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That's because it's illegal in most municipalities to douse spammers in gasoline and light them on fire.
slight sidestep but it would be interesting to see how the friendship factors have changed over the years. Could be fun to map on a news timeline to see how it evolves with the geopolitical events.
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I'll just leave this here...

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

(The OP's page has third-party javascript loading onto it (Google Analytics).)
It is a secure way to post messages. Anyone can see the posting (which is encrypted) but only someone with the password can actually read the plain text message. The password should be transmitted outside the scope of the site.
Right: first of all, congratulations on having the mental capacity required to get this far with your coding. You have undoubtedly come far from your days using Hello World.

The first thing I have to say is this, I do not mean this as an insult, but unless you are an extremely talented programmer, who can create amazingly functional sites, you will struggle unless you improve your typography and design overall.

Your personal website is the first thing anyone will see when they search for you, make it a good one. Take your time, ask people to tell you what they think (honestly, don't sugar coat it.)

Secondly, yes, a college entrepreneur can "make it in the Real World" - this requires plenty of hard work, dedication and not taking no as an answer.

Improve your abilities, get a product out there, even if it is the minimal viable product.

Now. Read the paragraph 2 paragraphs above this one. Get to work, you haven't yet begun and there is a long way to go.
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That "class is over, and now is the time to learn" is sick!

I just posted a similar story... but from the point of view of a current College undergrad:

http://blog.dillonhess.com/2012/dillons-summer-code/
Most of the issues discussed in this post are addressed in my Blog (http://deadropus.blogspot.com/) with more on the way.
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Ever wondered what it would look like if a robot grabbed you by the face?
I believe it might have been this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 ;)
Slides here:
https://raw.github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/master/Lindsa...

Well worth a read and they also lead me to https://github.com/progrium/ginkgo which looks like some very abstractions for building services like the ones on the talk.
Does anyone know why, as a Facebook employee, Mark Zuckerberg is not subject to the same 90-day lockup period for disposing of his shares on the public market as the rest of the employees?

EDIT: The lock-up period isn't an SEC requirement; it's an agreement made with the underwriters. The S-1 filing states:

"Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC may, in its sole discretion, permit our executive officers, our directors, and the selling stockholders to sell shares prior to the expiration of the restrictive provisions contained in the “lock-up” agreements with the underwriters."

And it looks like they let him do just that.
Can enterprise software can benefit from this type of modeling? One company that uses modeling to make enterprise just had a significant update today: http://www.mendix.com/blog/mendix-spring-2012-release-its-he...

It seems like being able to model enterprise apps could be important for complex legacy systems.
"I do not have to deploy multiple processes one for Rails and one for sinatra"

FYI, you can mount your sinatra app in your rails app and run them in the same process.
I think Stross misses the ability to draw inspiration from 'good' stuff happening. I've challenged my SF writing friends on occasion to start with some change that really flips the bit. Two interesting starting points are;

- Unlimited energy
- Unlimited Biology

These both have big potentials for bad thing happening as well. I think Unlimited Biology has already been done a lot, however. I think it's so prone to weirdness that it tends toward dystopian visions. Also, a lot of this territory was covered in the 20th century.

Perhaps there's inspiration to be drawn from good stuff happening despite the tremendous potential for bad?
So many mobile apps
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I'm thinking somewhere in the area Palo Alto/Mountain View +5-7 miles, not SF
oddly, hardly anyone realizes that Ranker.com is actually one of the most successful semantic web plays...
Browsing on work computer using IE7. Not supported by your site which is fine. The only comment I can make is that your favicon looks almost like Wordpress'.
You realize that you're just giving him more publicity, which is what his end-goal is. No one will pay him to be a shill if he doesn't have an audience.
Are you a coder who is into meditation?
I am very interested in creating a meditative service that is personalized to each individual, that will be highly attuned to a person’s particular emotional situation and a website that can act as a journal that will notate the patterns of your feelings each month, analyzing your initial mood and defining how meditation has alter your emotional makeup. All results will be aggregated on the site for the client to make use of.

Thoughts? Any observations will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Gosling's take on Oracle vs Google: would have preferred a different outcome
Strange that you got more access to data with an expired session than with a valid one.

Sidenote: Can't wait 'til Tinfoil opens up to a larger group; I've been over to your site several times over the past week. Looks like a useful product.
could you give the ballpark figures for the top 3-5 locations?
So it's only as secure as the method used to transmit the password to the other party?
Well, not my area, but a little googling brought up this:
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/cellier/MS/andres_ms.pdf (well, there goes my evening). I don't know, but I find the decomposition quite intuitive.
Ben here. Other info thankfully didn't seem to come through or be present in the response. But still gave me pause and not something I wanted my name on :)
TV model numbers are, I've heard, intentionally screwy.

I have a model number that ends in "-1" which I bought from a warehouse store, and this model was only ever sold to a particular chain of warehouse stores. The original model (which you'll find if you look up reviews on the web, or on Amazon) has the same number but ending in "-0", and the only difference is that they traded its second component input for another HDMI input -- something which 99% of people, myself included, will never care about.

The reason, they say, is so the big chains can advertise "Guaranteed lowest price!". Nobody else can stock exactly the same model number, so it's technically true, even though it's not uncommon for the almost-identical model to be cheaper elsewhere.
AFAIK, the locking in Mongo has more to do with them using memory mapped files than anything else. Other DB's, like Riak, do not have this problem. But perhaps someone can prove me wrong.
Actually found this: https://github.com/benpickles/js-model