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On a related note (corniest pun of the day), the Australian musical comedy act Axis of Awesome made a song called Four Chords Song, which is basically a 47-song medley all using the same chord progression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome#Four_Chords...

They've said that the chords are used by some of the most well known songs in the world, and their performance demonstrates this nicely, as in this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

The above link is the official video; but they explain their reasoning better in this live performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IUdjMcEmo
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The fourth part is where Apple are acting in place of the judiciary. Taking the article at its word, Apple have taken and enforced a "guilty until proven innocent" stance with respect to their own suppliers and customers. Ignoring for a moment how bizarrely arrogant that is, there's a very good reason we rely on independent judges and juries to get these questions right.
"I just find it interesting that two otherwise academically talented areas are burgeoning hotbeds of neither startups nor even talent for said startups."

FWIW, there are half a dozen YC startups in Seattle that are doing well. And there are dozens more that have people who came from Seattle.

Also, companies are opening up engineering offices in Seattle pretty rapidly (Twitter, most recently, but also Facebook, Hulu, Google, Jawbone, Zynga, etc).

The reason you don't seem more startup activity in Seattle is that many are lured down to the Valley.

To one of your other points-- UW graduated 23 comp-sci students this year.
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Who should pay for that? The company which believes they aren't infringing and are already in negotations over the licensing? Or the family who presumable don't have infinite wallets?
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This is irrelevant to this discussion as long as none of the knowledge used was a trade secret. An employee is free to use expertise developed while at a previous employer.
Honestly, seems like a clever tactic to me as long as they don't wander into the realm of outright copyright infringement.

Think about it from the perspective of a freelance web developer: How many times have I heard "build me a Groupon clone"? How many times have I heard "build me Facebook, but <with this subtle difference>"?

From that perspective, it's actually a very clever and efficient way to attract a client base and not need to bash your head into your keyboard every time you receive a spec for a <business-name-here> clone.

That said--and I didn't look very closely at this particular site--infringing upon their technology is obviously unethical and wrong. Just my $0.02.

--

Edit: It looks like they're actually labeling them as things like "Groupon clone." Clever, sure, but I think this crosses the line into infringement. I am not a lawyer, however, so someone who is more familiar with the subject should correct me if I'm wrong :)
What conceivable technologies might make it practical someday?

How can we get back to a society that is able to engage in large scale projects again? Look at the rapid low-cost subway construction in China today.

I think you're a super smart guy with really broad interests, experience, and knowledge. I think you could make the impossible happen if you applied yourself to it.
There are limits to what you can do in terms of rigorous double blind nutritional studies on humans, unless you're a dictator or have free reign over a prison camp.

That said I'll take their gigantic 25-year study designed by people whose life work is nutrition over your personal n=1 study. I might not take over my n=1 study if I did one, though. So, I definitely see where you're coming from.
Linux is not bad for your hardware, misconfiguration is bad for your hardware.

Annecdotally, heavy graphic card use on any laptop (yes even running windows) will cause a heat death in a shorter ammuont of time than normally expected.
Amazon also has its own fancy vocabulary but instead of cool sounding words like manifold they prefer short acronyms.

Things like EC2 RDS AWS S3 EBS EMR IAM AMI SQS SNS SES HPC VPC

But Amazon is the reference in cloud hosting and these terms are well understood in the field.

Heroku also had to coin some words to describe their architecture. But frankly this outage report is worthy of an Hollywood hacker movie:

"A manual garbage collection process which created an unusual record in the data stream" Wow!
In the board game Twilight Struggle, a game about the Cold War (& #1 on boardgamegeek.com), you lose if you escalate matters to defcon 1 and cause a nuclear war. A big part of the strategy, though, is knowing how to cause your opponent to inadvertently trigger defcon 1 (http://twilightstrategy.com/2011/12/12/general-strategy-defc...).
> I probably just need to be more assertive, which I'm slowly getting better at.

To be fair, it took me (a generally obnoxious, opinionated loudmouth) the better part of ten years to get to the point where I feel I should be w/r/t my level of client assertiveness. It's tough!
A nutrition professor did! Here's the link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
Curious if Peter Thiel has children. If he does, did they or will they go to college?
As another person who's spent a loooong time learning these lessons the Hard Way, I can assert that this man speaks the truth.
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Good point. Obviously you would have to restrict the applied g-forces, therefore the time to stop would be longer. If I'm not mistaken, this should only a linear relationship though, e.g. if you restrict the acceleration, the time to do 10x delta_v is 10x the time you need for delta_v. As long as the earthquake forecast is good enough, this should be manageable, e.g. you need 300 seconds instead of, say, 30. 5 minutes forecast seems realistic to me. Obviously you can never give 100% safety - if the epicentre of a big quake is right underneath your trainline you might be screwed; However that chance is really small and we already live with these kinds of risks today.
They just have to provide APIs and other people will do the integration.
"You get to impact the lives of millions and millions of people."

That, plus "knowing secrets" was the coolest part of my time at MS. But after several years working on Win7 and Win8, I hated my job, and every week I thank my stars that I'm working elsewhere now. The bureaucracy was stifling and the product lifecyle is an eternity of sitting and waiting for plans to percolate down from on high. All the news about the company since I've left has validated my decision, and made me realize just how strong the reality distortion field or "Redmond bubble" is.
Teams can install these cameras in their own arenas. Are they allowed to install it when their team plays in opposing arenas? Do they have to negotiate with various team owners for this?
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As long as we're throwing out reading recommendations, if you're into the dystopian-future sci-fi genre I'll point out C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength as an early prototype of that genre. It documents the fall of a nation into dystopia, specifically; George Orwell himself was fascinated by this, as evidenced by the book review he published. (However, his praise was qualified, it was apparently a bit too much C. S. Lewis for his style in the end. He went on to address the very objections he raised when he wrote 1984 not too very long afterward.)

It's the end of a trilogy but you can operate it as a standalone book (and if you must start with the other books, Out of the Silent Planet is a cute little homage, but don't let the dense and somewhat-dull Christian allegory in Perelandra get you down and make you skip Hideous.)
There are expectations that these projects actually deliver their stated goals, including the 'rewards', when they receive the requested funding.

It's still a new experiment overall that can be innovated upon, but it's not immune to a crash in people willing to throw their money at random pet projects.

Even if the reality is that most projects deliver, having enough bad apples or outright frauds can be enough to hurt progress.

I read a recent piece talking about how many game projects seem to terribly underestimate the amount of money required to fund a game. Enough people who are terrible at estimating their financial needs can also hurt everyone. It's not like this problem can't be solved, but it shouldn't be ignored if you want crowdfunding to succeed.
I am not sure how it works actually. I know the Labor Certification part was skipped entirely and I was put in some higher priority queue. Whatever they did, it took just under 7 months from start to finish.
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It's not reasonable to expect it... but it is reasonable to use that as a reason not to use Apple Maps.
Thiel wouldn't let his kids skip college unless they had a blockbuster idea. I thought there was an article recently which showed one of his job offers actually required a college degree.
I read the wikipedia biography of Peter Thiel several time, and nothing indicates that he have children.

Peter Thiel is gay, so it is unlikely that he will produces an offspring.
> What makes me nervous is the overwhelmingly obvious fact that nerds like us are all too happy to leave money on the table. "It's stressful for me personally to effectively receive 8x$hourly instead of breaking out precisely how many hours I worked so I can justify 6x$hourly with the client without arguing". Well, you just left a new iPad on the table; if your clients are forcing you to do this because they are fucking assholes, then get better clients. It is a seller's market right now.

I wish I could somehow cause this to be bold and in 36 point type.
Tedious? There wouldn't be nearly so many, and operational security wouldn't be as critical.
but the same fix right?
That's the way Apple constructs it's walled garden approach. Apple is the sole judge of what will be on shelves and what won't.

I would discourage anyone to sell apps on Apple AppStore.
Is Javascript code always so full of bugs?
One thing that Kayak is doing better than Hipmunk is multi-airport things. I.e. We have here in Silicon Valley SFO and SJC. I usually prefer SJC, but can fly from SFO too. Some flights are cheaper or have less connections if you depart from SJC but arrive to SFO, or vice versa. I couldn't find how to tell Hipmunk that it is OK (or not OK) to use different airports for round-trip. Kayak does it very nicely. It also seems pretty hard to say "I like these dates but wouldn't mind to go day earlier-later if that gets me couple of hundreds of dollars back".
Rumor has it that Haswell-EP is going to bring 16 core, 32 threads CPUs (up from the current 10 core, 20 thread chips), allowing for 128 threads on a 4 socket systems.

Which is to say, we're actually not that far way from the title of this site becoming quaint, like Teradata does today - assuming Moore's law holds for a while.

Interestingly, and not coincidentally, Haswell is also the
first chip that will support hardware transactional memory, which should speed efforts like PyPy's STM, which enables you to write code without manually locking anything.

http://morepypy.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/stm-with-threads.html

Great submission though - bookmarked!
It was pretty funny? I laughed. Might be a scandinavian thing.
Patent claims get thrown out because that's how patents are designed. The idea is to break your invention down into an onion of claim layers so that when it comes to court, if a claim is thrown out as being partially or totally invalid, it's just like peeling as small a layer off the onion as possible. The point is that you can't be sure exactly where the court are going to stop peeling, but by breaking it down into layers you can be more sure that there'll be something useful left when they do, and you minimise the risk of their going too far. I don't think that strategy is dependent on which direction the burden of proof lies.
IOS6 maps lacks public transit and pedestrian directions data
I live in SF and take the commuter shuttle to work. I imagine there are many others who are in similar situations (or work in SF). I have no car, and find no need for one (parking spots are scarce anyhow) and thus use public transit directions extensively on my iPhone. I also use pedestrian directions often to get an estimate on walking time. Driving routes are usually much longer than walking routes, so the transformation for time estimates from one to another is certainly non-linear.

So I'll be sticking with iOS 5.
Anyone else feel the same?
The most important aspect to me is that I don't have to care about where I put the serial, the files or what sites I should download from if I want to reinstall in the future.
Also Steam handles "directx and the like dependencies". Movies would be great too because I could just re-download it on another computer, at a friend's home if I want to watch it with him/her, etc. No more storage devices to walk around with.

Edit: forget about all I wrote before, I do it for the hats.
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Exporting copied products back to the US is illegal, though, by my understanding.
Some of the newer PCs aren't too bad with this. My desktop sucks with sleep, but the two laptops I use are pretty flawless (though one's battery is terrible). I haven't shut one down in 3 weeks, and the other in a week. They're pretty standard, too; the good battery life one was around $600.

Haven't used a Macbook, though, so can't compare.
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I will point out that Thiel is not completely anti-college. His position on the matter is that if you want to go to college, you should have a firm grasp of what you hope to achieve out of it, not because you are blindly following your peers or acting on advice from elders.

If you do have very specific goals in mind during your stay in college, $100K isn't going to sway you away anyway. Otherwise, it is probably a blessing to realize that there are other options available to you. Too many end up going to college simply because they do not see any other options or believe it is the only path to success and that is what Thiel is against.

If Thiel were to have children that decided to go to college, I am sure he would support their endeavours. It would not go against his worldview as long as they attended for the right reasons.
The writer is based in Seattle, and predominately writes on topics related to Washington state, including a healthy dose of Microsoft-related stories (not always rosy).

http://blogs.reuters.com/bill-rigby
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I've met Daryl Oster, the guy behind ET3, even contributed a few ideas crudely sketched out on a notebook -- stuff I'm sure somebody involved had already considered. Anyway, he seemed nice, smart, legit. I really love the basic idea and goals of ET3. I was a little bit concerned that it wasn't farther along in terms of implementation versus theory. But he did say that he's worked with folks in China and they were generally much more receptive to it there, whereas in the US there's more bureaucracy and legacy inertia. There's right-of-way issues, NIMBY, legal stuff. I think all the edge case scenarios are riskiest -- those need to be addressed in the design, if they can be, things like what happens if a tube is pierced, what happens if a passenger has a crisis and needs to get out of it quickly, etc. But the basic physics of it are pretty attractive because of the efficiencies and economies of scale.
I agree that these were historical arguments for the patent system. But I don't think those arguments were entirely valid then, and they're even more suspect today.

The end of trade guild secrecy had far more to do with the advent of mass production than with the patent system. Highly trained craftsman could be organized into a guild. But large numbers of easily replaceable workers necessarily couldn't.

As for the elimination of generic drugs, the drug makers themselves argue that figuring out how to copy most new molecules is so cheap and easy that they need strong patent protection to recoup their research costs. Reverse engineering drugs is cheap and getting cheaper.

Software is not going to get more secretive without patents. It's hardly possible that it could -- almost all commercial source code is already treated like trade secrets. The implication that software developers actually utilize techniques gleaned from patent applications is pretty far-fetched.

Security-by-obscurity is orthogonal to the issue of patents. All the peer-reviewed security algorithms that actually get used are unencumbered by patents, which is precisely why they actually get used. (The slow adoption of elliptic curve cryptography has been blamed on the existence of certain patents.) There's no incentive to design your own crypto algorithm and keep it secret -- that's unnecessarily expensive and stupidly risky. People share these techniques out of self interest, not because they enjoy patent protection.

The cost of spreading information continues to plummet. Conversely, the cost of keeping secrets continues to increase. I don't think the premise of a permanent monopoly of secrecy is remotely plausible. Even military technology (which of course relies only on secrecy, not patent protection) seems to proliferate on time scales shorter than patent lifetimes, though this is a hard contention to prove.
The biggest culprit here, in my view, isn't Apple, PRC, or the patent system.

It's the death of physical media and the rise of the "app store" model.

I have programs for my Apple //e computer that are over 30 years old. Most of the companies that made the software have long since disappeared, and the computer hasn't been supported since the '80s, but I can still use them.

That software is my property. I own it, and I can use it for as long as the disks hold out.

By contrast, the software on my iPad isn't really mine, in any practical sense. I'm licensing it, and it can be taken away, or I can be forced into "updates" that may change it in ways I don't want. Sure, I can avoid updating my apps, keep the iPad offline, and only use apps that run 100% locally, but that's an impractical solution, at best.

Consumers are becoming trained to think of their devices as barely more than hermetically sealed dumb terminals (although they wouldn't use that phrase). The notion of "owning" things by paying for them is fading. "Cloud" apps that are free or subscription-based, music and movies that you stream rather than buy, the books on your Kindle, even the seeds that farmers buy from Monsanto aren't theirs to own and use as they please.

Steven Hawking famously continued using the same 1980s-era speech synthesizer for decades because he felt the voice was part of his identity. The company that made it went out of business, but he didn't lose his voice. He could have gone for constant updates, a new and "better" voice every year, but he chose not to. Because he owned his speech synthesizer, it was his choice to make.

There is a lot of obvious benefit to the app store model, from convenience to cost savings to ease of use. There are also many cases where it's vitally important that people own their software and their data. I don't know if it means we need more options for physical media and manual installs, or legislation protecting people's purchases from unwanted updates and removals, or something else, but I see this as a problem that's not limited to just this one situation.
I'm buying myself a Playbook. They're on clearance everywhere (more so than they already were) now that they're being discontinued.
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This is definitely over the line of infringement. Pininterest? Really? The idea isn't too bad IMO, but the way they are going about it is.
No, but a lot of my friends went to work for them straight out of school. A couple still do, and they are happy.

I also just hired someone who worked there for 2 years. So I have some perspective from both sides, but not as an insider.
Can someone enlighten me on how easy this SQL injection vulnerability is to exploit?

I thought that SQL injection was "mostly" a thing of the past with newer frameworks such as Rails and Django. I mean, short of concatenating your query string together, it is much harder to set yourself up for failure.
Only 23?! UVic across the gulf graduates more than that.
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Thanks for the heads-up. I've updated the Rails Tutorial book accordingly.
Just to be clear, the issue has more to do with the vendor-supplied OS vs consumer-installed OS. My biggest overheating-when-should-be-sleeping issues have almost always been Windows on a Dell. But I have had it happen on a Cr-48 and MacBook as well.
I like the simplicity. I personally really like to have either tags or at least status field for issues. I know some people just like open/closed but for our team we have thousands of tickets that pile up so we need to keep them organized in some way. nice work on the app though!
It wouldn't be the cloud, it would be local gigabit ethernet and thunderbolt interconnects.
No, in this case, Linux really is bad for your hardware. Reading gp's wiki link, it would seem the feature to clock down the GPU is disabled by default because it's still a work in progress. That would mean that although it works in a lot of cases, it's not yet truly dependable. And if it's not yet truly dependable, then it's not able to dependably care for the hardware in the best way possible. And as such, Linux can be bad for your hardware, though it isn't always.

Any rebuttal you might throw at this reality would make me to look at you more and more like this. :)

http://xkcd.com/644/
Please no random sports fan chit-chat here. This is Hacker News folks. We have lots of other mainstream places for that sort of thing. Thank you.
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I heard Adam Lashinsky speak on a recent Stanford Uni podcast. Pretty remarkable insights on Apple and Steve Jobs. Jobs turned the place into a pretty unique organisation.

Podcast:
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2931
Oh wow! A downvote! So, the message I'm getting is that a) it is appropriate to be horrified at the prospect of living; and furthermore b) asking why is inappropriate...?

This is seriously weirding me out.
Thanks. It's easy to keep things simple when you are building for my use case, which was rather basic.

That being said, I see the value of tagging. Perhaps a future addition.
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