skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another juror sheds more light on what happened. The foreman's view on prior art had a big impact.

"We were debating heavily, especially about the patents on bounce-back and pinch-to-zoom. Apple said they owned patents, but we were debating about the prior art. Hogan was jury foreman. He had experience. He owned patents himself...so he took us through his experience. After that it was easier. After we debated that first patent -- what was prior art --because we had a hard time believing there was no prior art."
"In fact we skipped that one," Ilagan continued, "so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-appl...
Haxe is actually the "successor" to MTASC
Drugged artist paints 8600 self-portraits
Or rides BART.
Of course, you then have to live near BART (or drive to BART) and then contend with the ZOMG GERMS!!1Eleven!
Sounds like he doesn't have the reputation to hibernate. He just needs to suck it up and do the work to build that reputation.
Two things of note:

1) This isn't a result of US law changing. This is a result of Blizzard responding to an already-existing law which probably wasn't intended to have this particular effect.

2) Blizzard could potentially do some real good for the world (and get some good PR in the process.) I hope they have some sort of maneuver up their sleeve other than just cutting off Iranian players.
I think Indian cities are suffering from a serious real estate bubble. The value that you get out of a property is really questionable. I'm just talking about services (electricity/water/sewage), road networks, air quality, water quality, public transport, surrounding neighborhoods, etc. Not to mention build quality, finish quality, and other factors. A nice property in New Delhi can cost close to $1M USD. That's say a 3 bedroom apartment in an upscale area. Land, of-course costs a phenomenal amount more. Mumbai prices are even higher.

At that kind of rate, I'd rather put my money elsewhere (you can buy great property pretty much anywhere on the planet for those prices..), especially somewhere that can offer a better quality of life.

.. waiting for it to pop .. if it ever will sigh
Well that and the fact that BART doesn't run 24/7 like New York's MTA. I have despised situations where I had to sprint to the BART station near closing time, lest I spend a ridiculous amount for a cab.
You pay if you go over 2GB usage. If your apps only use a single instance and <64mb RAM, you could have 32 apps before paying.
Hmm, that's interesting, thanks - ages ago, I used to work for an MSP in the SME sector, and I had not really thought of these two as equivalent. I suppose what I am thinking about could be considered a subset of MSP, with additional project work.
On that same note, as a performance tip I would expand it to "Cache your property lookups." Caching obj.property in a variable is much faster if you're going to reference it more than twice.
Los Angeles. You buy a house and its a trade off between commute and cost per square foot. I HATE LIVING HERE. Often.

I spend 90 minutes in a car every day, and while I love my house, my commute, gas cost, lack of public transportation, etc sucks. It also forces everyone to be so insular. No one socializes outside of work because we have to drive forever to get home.

I had a glorious three years where I lived .75 miles from work and it made the town better.
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This is brilliant.
Pinterest board with the contributions so far can be found here http://pinterest.com/ceciliagimenez0/www-ceciliaprize-com/
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I wonder what the nested drop down menus look like on mobile formatted size...
According to [1], apartments in the Sydney City Center are $11K/sq m. If my math is correct, that is around $1000/sq ft.

Outside the city center the prices are roughly half that (so a little more that San Francisco). According to the same data source, average weekly pay is around $1064.

[1] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...
That description may fit an Apple TV. Or any computer

One embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus
equipped with a wireless keyboard and software that
enables a user to access the Web and email services
[…] and other functions
I think they're hiring!
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I think the upthread comment was referencing malware in general. You're right that "viruses" are no longer a major threat (most are worms or trojans) but malware in general is still a huge issue, and Windows is the biggest target.
Although I understand that there is more than numbers behind the decision to buy or rent, people may find this calculator helpful in deciding: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
Been using Nodejitsu and Heroku, but been meaning to try going self-hosted PaaS.

My possibly flawed perception, is that it's cheaper, but one has less support and more work, going that route. Whether that's true or not, I'm unsure.
Chrome for ICS and the standard browser on Android 3.x never rendered my site correctly [1][2], especially segments containing code (they were completely misplaced)

I wasn't able to reproduce the error on any other platform, iOS, Opera for iOS, Chrome on the desktop, and off course not on FireFox, Safari, and IE...

At that point I just gave up.

[1]: https://plus.google.com/photos/113979921696834019350/albums/...
[2]: http://funcptr.net/
Surveys like these always highlight how Chicago is underrated:

New York: $275
Los Angles: $236
Chicago: $112
San Francisco: $459
Washington, DC: $164

Housing here is comparable to places like Richmond or Raleigh, except it's got the public infrastructure of a world-class city with 10 million people. Even if you live in the suburbs, you can take the extensive commuter rail system straight to downtown.
I am not sure if "open plan" offices are the best for programming productivity. Even early books like "Peopleware" bemoan the chaotic and reactive atmosphere to be highly unproductive as it interrupts the flow.

Even recent studies [1] show that open plan office are detrimental to employee health. At least Google seems to have a good mix of cubicles and individual rooms.

[1]: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5isNavMO9o...
Indeed, execve in exec_command (job.c). That does not make it slow, since it's the very last part of the game, and one you could not really do without.
I think "transaction functions" are intended to provide a solution to that, although I do wonder how it would fair performance wise under very cpu intensive transaction functions.
My understanding is that when people build password-cracking dictionaries, they include common permutations in the script. That is, for the dictionary word "dolphin", the script puts in "Dolphin" and "d0lph1n" and so forth. I'd be very surprised if someone building a table based on common quotations didn't do the same thing. I mean, how many memorable punctuation-mangling strategies are there on a common phrase anyway? I can only think of a few, right off; they're probably the ones most other people would think of, too.

There is a very serious tendency to overestimate how clever and creative you can be in the 90 seconds you spend thinking about a password. Odds are, the "random" thing you're doing is the same random thing that a lot of other people are doing. And it's in someone's script somewhere.

If you roll dice, instead of trusting your brain to be clever, you know what you have is random and hence secure.
I think you forgot the Iran Iraq war. Not sure who started it but it was a war.
So the top grossing game doesn't actually have any gameplay. Does anyone else find this strange?
You can select the frequency with which you receive alerts. I have mine set up to send them as soon as they happen, and the turnaround is almost always less than an hour.
HNers are just regular people. They were regular people when they filled out the registration form that is the sole barrier to entry on HN, and when they did it in years past on Reddit and Digg too.
I don't have a reference now, but I recall reading a paper discussing this myth de C/C++ will always be faster then higher level languages like, say, OCaml. If I'm not mistaken, the article presented a scenario where C would be beaten easily because the compiler couldn't safely optimize some parts of the program (due to the use of pointers and manual memory allocation it was not possible to tell what parts of memory was being used where, or something like that), while the OCaml's compiler could.

It is always a matter of using the right tool for the job, after all.
> If we want to get Iranians to "come to the light" that is US policy

The Iranian's don't need WoW to realize that they are under tyranny. They know well what freedoms they are missing, and who is responsible for it. No one will be blaming the US government for taking away WoW, as these days all anger is redirected at the Iranian government internally. All due to recent tightening of US sanctions (last 2 years) and the massive economic pressures it has caused inside Iran.

> Every dollar out of Iran is a dollar less the regime has to "fight" its idealogical war.

It is naive to think that every dollar in Iran is spent on the regime's "ideological war". Specially people's hard earned money. If you want to trace back the money you're looking for, look at China for continuing to purchase oil from Iran.
I'm wondering if anyone else bootstrapping a (solo) company moved to a cheaper location in the U.S. to extend your runway? If so, how did it work out for you? Which places do you recommend?
1) are basic qualities expected in a decent human being - there is nothing uniquely Indian or heritage about it.

Yes exactly my point. Were you expecting rocket science?

The best parts of heritage come from doing the right thing. And doing the right thing is often hard and stark. Today is one of those junctures.

Heritage is not just historic, its being built right now. Your heritage today includes a grand ability to argue, and to mistake articulation for action. You didn't come across as someone who wanted to leave it at that.

Re: mysticism.

> I believed a relation between me and god is personal, and priests, temples, rituals have no business being there. Eventually, I became an atheist.

AFAIK, the personal, as opposed to institution driven, connection to 'God' lands under the penumbra of mysticism.

I am glad you have those answers, but those are your personal answers.

The answer to your question i.e. common heritage, is linked to 'Indian' history, which in turn is inextricably linked to religion.

For example : When the Mughals first came here, (and ironically displaced the previous Nawabs), they said that they found so many things different between the cultures that they could never foresee common ground being reached.

It was when the Sufi saints came though, and discussed their take on religion, that they found a lot in common with the cultures already here.

> I am saying it isn't and there isn't an authority which decides the Indian heritage.

I am not providing authority, I am providing history. You had a question, you got an answer. If you want your answer to be something else, well read through Indian history.

If anything, the history of India gives space for almost everything, be it a Fakir who wants to be close to gods by being close to the ashes of the departed, or someone who is an atheist and appreciates the logic of code.

----

Your final para is about having normal standards to deal with people. Its a great system, stick to it. But again, your question was about heritage not common sense behavior.

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I am not sure what you were aiming for in your response. You've been able to point out that India is very diverse, which I agree. I am pointing out as well, that the way that melting pot was bound together was often through mysticism.

----

Here,

The west had its progression from the Greek states, their fall, the dark ages, the renissance, the enlightenment, the reformation, along the way including things like the french revolution, women's suffrage and civil liberties.

India followed another path altogether. Indian heritage is defined by that path.
Here is the same story not behind a paywall:

http://allthingsd.com/20120828/exclusive-zyngas-chief-creati...
"Zynga creative chief" sounds like an oxymoron.
What, it's not The Onion?
Priming affect during tech interviews
They had a creative chief?
The moment Zynga decided they were going to make their money as a me-too game studio, they sealed their fate. You can get people in the Skinner Box for awhile, and get them to peck you millions upon millions of dollars, but eventually your brand is tarnished to the point where not even your most active users will vouch for you. And now they're going through the process of retiring executives and the standard hallmarks of a company desperately trying to make something broken work.
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Increasing severity of penalties doesn't generally work for cutting recidivism (and you'd have to steal a lot of bikes to make the caused harm proportionate to jail time for a person, even if you subscribe to the lizard brain "revenge" school of thought on punishment).
I admire the valuable information you offer in your articles. I will bookmark your blog and have my children check up here often. I am quite sure they will learn lots of new stuff here than anybody else! I face an interview in a lighting company http://modern-decorative-lighting.blogspot.com/2012/08/illum... which is successful because of your site.
That must have been a really hard job, trying to pick which game to clone next...
The weather is a deal-breaker for a lot of people, I suspect.
My two favourite games on my iPhone were Draw Something and Words with Friends.. until they were bought by Zynga.

The apps have become so 'social' and zyngafied to the point of almost being unplayable. (Constant spam for other apps, 'fake' notifications for Zynga app updates, HUGE decrease in performance, and so on)
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But the right amount of macro and alternative design can throw a noob off quite easily. Beside that I agree with you.
I admire the valuable information you offer in your articles. I will bookmark your blog and have my children check up here often. I am quite sure they will learn lots of new stuff here than anybody else! I face an interview with a lighting company http://modern-decorative-lighting.blogspot.com/2012/08/illum... which is successful because of you.
+ years waiting for it if your company is in Europe... We are still in the waiting phase.
i have always stuck with FF for firebug and because of how much i can customize every single aspect to my needs. i think opera fits the bill as well, but something about its UI doesn't work for me. ff is plenty fast and i dont need to deal with untweakable interface decisions as i do in chrome. i have said for a long time that i would give chrome another try when they give me an about:config equivalent and a fully customizable ui, but that's not in the cards.
Congrats Chris, this is big.

We at Cloudnode know the value of Nodester for a long time now. Thanks for helping us to you and the team.
There are GPS modules you can attach to your bike, if nothing else it could at least get the police interested if you say "My bike was stolen, it has a GPS and right now it is here"
The Avatar Economy
I have heard rumors that they use the TCP TTL field to detect tethering, regardless of device type. If you open a connection from a tethered device, the TTL field will be one count smaller than if the connection originated on the device itself. (This assumes that all devices being used have the same default TTL).

Ref: http://netmgt.blogspot.com/2011/03/detecting-obscuring-tethe...
> The lesson learned from this is that with a good and smart dictionary combined with handy rules either for hashcat or John the Ripper even the most impossible password can be cracked.

How did they come to that conclusion? Yes, surprisingly long passwords can be cracked if they follow simple patterns. I would hardly consider that "the most impossible password".
Why closed without any inform.
Not forgetting it. It was started by Iraq.
"In Light of Windows 8 Backlash, Linux is Poised to Win the OS Race" - this is a joke right ?

99.9% of the world's population have never even heard of Linux outside of the tech industry. It's either Microsoft or Apple or you're a technology geek who likes other stuff. Clearly, this article was written while on the green stuff.

My favourite quote - some are saying Linux may have a great opportunity to steal a significant share of the market away from Microsoft - as it links to ReviewLinux - The Source for Linux Reviews.

Thats like linking to a Microsoft Article which says "Windows 8 set to capture 99.999% of the market and destory apple" says the Head of Communication for Microsoft at Microsoft Headquarters while speaking about Microsofts new operating system Windows 8" lol. Slap a #fail on that one.
A valid goal, but I think you're misunderstanding your market: in your words, people don't use 2FA because it's hard to use -- not hard to implement. Organizations who have IT teams are fully capable of implementing reasonable APIs like what Duo or Google offers. But you'll realize that enterprises don't even care about the architecture, because they'll be paying you to implement it anyway.

No, the reason nobody (in and only in the US) uses 2FA (because nearly every other country in the world uses it widely) is because it's a pain to use for the end user. No enterprise is going to invest their time and energy into a solution unless they're either required to by regulations or is truly better, easier, more secure, or whatever than competing solutions to make it a compelling sale.

If this were a hobby project then I'd be cheering you on -- why not make a token 2FA with a slightly better API? But as a YC-funded company whose likely avenue of success will be through the enterprise market, you NEED to develop a product that is better, faster, easier, more secure, etc than your (rather formidable) competition.

Trust me, I'm familiar with this market ;).
That's a bit unfair to him. If you read the article his job was to represent creatives at the senior management level. That doesn't mean he was the creative dictator and at a company so focused on data-driven development, he probably didn't have much power at all. Which means he probably hated and/or disagreed with many decisions that were made and argued against them. Would explain him now leaving the company...
I ride a motorcycle year-round...not happening.
Found this on pg's Facebook profile: http://i.minus.com/joiEdx6W3YHcZ.png

Compare to the original (easily found with Google): http://i.minus.com/jGgj22Vnipvhc.jpg
The war against Iran is taking place during the elections, all presidents did this to activate the patriotism and get reelected.

Who wants his kids to play a game with other kids which ask them why their daddy is bombing them? "Oh wait, I can't follow you into this dungeon, I can hear bombers - ... - USER DISCONNECTED"
Talk:Pedant
Or you can ride Caltrain. The downside is the accidents on Caltrain tracks. It will literally take 2 hours to get to Mountain View from SF when there is an accident.
Tbqh, this kills the bay area for me, socially speaking.

NYC was way...way better in this respect.
The day OMGPOP was bought by zynga - I deleted the game. Never went back. Never will play a zynga game.

The day quora fucked with user settings, I deleted my quora account.

I put my mouth where my money is. I am not content to be fucked with.

I have never had a facebook account for the same reasons.

I am sensing there is a market here.... (I'm lying... there has always ben a market here - just nobody with balls to tackle it - plus given the NSAs BS.. I am guessing there is one HNer that has not only the balls, but the technical chops to handle a great service... RDL)
Some of my friends ended up joining community groups in their respective neighbourhood because driving outside of a certain area is a pain in the ass, putting greater emphasis on what's nearby. Granted, I know most people probably don't do that.
Taghuddle puts the sexy in hashtag photo aggregation
Inspired by an idea from a less obvious source, Nikko Bautista developed Taghuddle to aggregate photos submitted to social media networks with the same hashtag.
As a technologist I'm always excited about new stuff, but there's another part of me that thinks it's really neat that some of the world's most important software was written 30 - 50 years ago and still works just fine.

Can you imagine a time 1000 years into the future where software written today might still be in use? How cool would that be?!
> As the table below shows, in San Francisco you’ll need to work 20.6 years at the local average wage of $1,478 per week in order to save enough for a 20 percent down payment on a typical 2,000 square-foot home.

Well, it's a good thing that most homes are much smaller than 2,000 sq feet in SF. It's also a good thing that if you are buying a house you probably have a 2nd income.

Those two factors alone should reduce time to save to 7 years or less.
Since you are in Scotland and the invoice is overdue, you can legally add £40/£70/£100 penalty to your invoice (which one depends on the invoice amount) + charge 8.5% annual interest. These do not have to have been specified in your contract with the client as they come under provisions of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act.
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> what does the average citizen expect a 'rich' person to do with their savings?

Perhaps donate some/lots to a real bona-fide charity (this does not include your church - that's just influence peddling within your own community). Or maybe doing some angel investing in potentially meaningful pie-in-the-sky ventures?

Bill Gates is an example of a rich person doing something worthwhile with his money.
I've been working in India for over 7 years. Getting an employment visa issued (and subsequently renewed) is a kafka-eque nightmare. However, it wasn't because of having to pay bribes to every officer up the chain.

Immigration is just a genuinely dysfunctional entity.

(Believe me, if I thought I could at any point have paid petty bribes to get the damn thing over with instead of wasting weeks of my time, I think I may have actually done so out of frustration).
I'll have a look, thank you
I'm a bit confused by you invoking the word money. What money is Quora missing out on by you deleting your account?
Like locks at doors, only meant to desuade the random amateur. Given enough dedtermination, preparation, tools and skills one can enter anything.

But since I'm not the Pentagon I don't live in nuclear bunkers and don't employ regiments of cybersecurity people. I uess the risk of being cracked by pros is just part of the normal risk of live.
> intelligence has nothing to do with race or genetics.

Nothing to do with race, sure. Plenty to do with genetics, though. Intelligent parents tend to have intelligent kids.