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Too many patents granted without enough understanding of the state of the art

How far would $1B go to better understanding the State-of-the art?
> I have such a hard time believing how anyone could have believed that C/C++ programmers would switch to a GC-only language just like that.

Java believed the same thing. Many did switch. The difference today is that most of the people liable to switch already switched to Java.

If I could guess, I'd guess that Go is doing a better job at picking up Java programmers than C++ ones.
You're right that using it was always a risk, and as the article says, Google were completely within their right to shut it down without any warning.

However, wouldn't it have served them better from a PR point of view to give a warning, even if only a week in advance? If all these people have been using it for so long, another week of bandwidth/etc. isn't exactly going to break the bank, and it would have been the nice thing to do, to come out and say "hey, you weren't meant to be doing this, but we'll be helpful and give you a heads up to give you time to move off it".
I plan to buy it if it falls to 4 dollars or less.
I can speak from personal experience as I actually kept strict logs my senior year of how much work I was doing. Mind you at the time I was taking some grad classes, but it really wasn't unusual work loads compared to the people around me. I spent between 15-25 hours in class per week. I worked (teaching assistant) about 10 hours a week. I spent about 50-60 hours per week on homework, labs and general studying. And I did a varsity sport, which took about 3-4 hours per day. On most days, I would wake up at 5am, go to practice, go straight to class, stay on campus and study until 10 or 11 at night and then go to bed. Weekends would be similar. If I was lucky, I would get 1 night off a week.

I don't know where some of the other commenters get the idea that students these days don't take the time to study. I can't comment a lot about Harvard, but at my school, it was difficult to come across a student who wasn't taking a full load of courses (more often than not double or triple majors), involved in several extracurricals and often doing work study.
Ah yes. To me (to my productivity's detriment...) quite often when I visit Wikipedia it becomes a learning adventure. From one thing you can hop to the other, finding out all sorts of interesting and obscure things. To a curious mind like mine, Wikipedia is heaven!
Good point, you write it "by inspection" :-)
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So you have some kind of beef with HBO's business decisions. My heart doesn't bleed for you because I am uninvolved third party to your beef with HBO. I don't think that merits any kind of aggressiveness toward me. Leave me out of it. Complain to whoever won't take your money.
Deploy one in 5 minutes (by me!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgiONvm5JB0&feature=plcp
But ostriches do. Both ostriches and a pronghorn antelope are capable of running a marathon in about 45 minutes. I don't know how much farther they can keep going, but at that distance we're totally outclassed by them.

Sled dogs in the ididitrod regularly go 15 mph for 6 hours. That's faster than a human does a marathon, for several times the distance, while dragging a heavy object behind them.

We're designed for running long distances, and do very well at it for a primate. But we are very, very far from being champions at it.
I think that you should consider white labeling. Or perhaps not necessarily white labeling, but releasing SDKs to allow to use the platform from third-party apps. Obviously many app developers and companies could benefit from having it available from their own apps.
I can also see value for it in the academic world. Academia is starting to dip their toes in the crowd research and this could be very valuable. But again, I don't see a benefit to actual users to download the human.io app, it seems as an unnecessary hassle. Having it available from other apps allows third-parties to offer their own benefits.
"Basically, he's admitting that he doesn't understand how prior art works. The fact that the software wouldn't run on the same processor is meaningless."

He also doesn't seem to understand how software works either. More worryingly, neither does techdirt, assuming they do think that it is a fact. It would run really bloody slowly, admittedly.
The IPO price was $38. When it opened the price rose to $42 in early public trading before the price started to fall.

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-what-traders-saw-when...
But the point of this site is seemingly "understanding", not an algorithm - see the title of the page ("right, not rote"). However, what they really seem to be doing is breaking down what should be an intuitive process - understanding equalities and how to work with them - into several smaller, vague sub-processes which also aren't really easy to understand. I would argue that explanations like this might hurt someone's chances of understanding concepts like systems of equations later on.
Do I need a technical co-founder or should I hire?
Hi all,

How technical do you have to be to be considered as a technical person? People talk about how we need a tech co-founder. However, based on my profile below, can I just hire a smart whiz? I don't feel like giving up equity I built and lose control over key decisions.

Here is my profile:

-age 23

-business degree

-built my first PC at 10

-won a local web designer comp in grade 5 (back then, it was easy to code a simple web page and wow anybody in 1999)

-built a solo tech startup in 2011 and grossing $30,000 a month and growing fast (not my first startup but it is one that makes most money so far).

What I don't have:

-CS degree or formal programming education

-I can code easy stuff like procedural but cannot do OOP - the opportunity cost to learn it now is too high

-Never learned how to code until 2009. I stopped my computer passion due to middle/high school peer/parental pressure. I made some money off ebay though by selling things.

What I can do:

-Confident to grasp any IT concept if given time to research about it. I learned all the knowledge required for my current startup from Google.

-Code any simple procedural scripts in PHP/mysql/bash/perl/lua

-hack through existing scripts and modify them to my need

What I need right now and future:

-A true technical person who can relieve me in the technical development. I literally hack through my startup. While the codes are not pretty and might break from time to time, they are working well enough to 5000 paying members.

-Save capital for a $100mil+ startup idea
Yup, conditions are important. A wolf, for example, could outrun any human on the tundra, but not in the Sahara.
Being focused is being cross functional
Bangkok is 25 and Chopsticks loops with itself.
"The operating system has all the functional capabilities of an Android operating system but none of its hidden features that send users' private data to Google headquarters,"

Just to be clear, a completely open source operating system is found to be secretly sending private data to Google servers, and it also takes a lot of effort to change that?
your factoring, although correct, is not really useful in the general case. For example with x^2+x=1.
It's funny, they did give a warning of sorts.

Around a month prior to turning everything off, they started throwing in a random 403 to requests. No reasoning - just like it was being added by them to deter use.

I noticed this and just simply put in a try/catch, which "solved" the problem. Luckily I'm not building a business on it (that'd be pretty silly) so the downtime isn't the end of the world.

Here's a Stack Overflow post from during the "warning period": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878143/google-weather-a...

Seems like it was their way of giving us a heads up.
I just keep wondering why he was picking her up by the ankles in the first place..
Why don't they just sell the company?
This is why DBAs are a thing. Just sit back and enjoy the rediscovery of relational datastores in the blogosphere. The "thought leaders" are going to slowly figure out things like your post that were worked out properly in the 80s.
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I thought you could ask for a reallocation right away. The 18 months might be if you stay more than a couple of months in your preallocated position.
most accurate post i've read since 1999.
I was hired at Google at nearly the same time as a certain famous ex-Googler. Both of us were given difficult intro jobs with legacy systems, the sort of projects that chew up engineers and spit them out. It's a chance to prove your mettle.

One of us attacked the problem head on, taking on tasks that would normally be "below" us. In the end, the bad project taught him what he needed to know about Google engineering. He replaced the legacy system with modern infrastructure, which brought him public recognition from the senior VPs, new opportunities to work on interesting projects, and nomination for promotion.

The other one of us decided that he was too good for his job. He very publicly whined about how it was below him and how the only way to get ahead at Google is to start out in one of the interesting jobs. Rather than work his way up through a meritocracy, he expected to be instantly recognized for his natural genius. He got poor performance ratings from his peers and manager, and eventually rage-quit after about six months.

It was the classic Goofus and Gallant story.
Wow, that's a terrible explanation. Try drawing a picture instead. The factorization simply answers the question of where the graph touches the x-axis.
Looking at some other explanations from this site, it seems like it suffers from the same things people complained about with Khan: a lack of rigour, and oversimplification. They have some good visuals and metaphors, but ultimately the 'plain' explanations of mathematical properties are a poor foundation for someone to build upon when they get to higher concepts.
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Why, oh why, oh why, is that Windows icon so fuzzy. It's like the articles announcing the new logo and Windows 8 that had their respective logos as enlarged JPEGs with artifacts intact. Have some pride.
Have you ever tried to sell a web app with no traction or revenue? Its not easy
I was a little concerned at first with my dog, running long distances, but we worked up from 15 or so miles per week to 50, and he seemed fine with it. But I was running in the early morning at the coolest time of day, so I'm sure that helped him.
...the harvard drivel review continues it's churn
I don't understand why adding error in "factoring the error" helps in any way understand why we factor.
It would have started with a factorized form with 0 on the right, saying that finding that a*b=0 is easy to solve because of the way 0 and multiply work together.
The Steve Yegge blog post.
If your boss needs machine learning to see that you aren't happy, there are much bigger issues.
There's no more eloquent testimony to the limited value of a liberal arts degree than the idea that someone would offer seed money just to get new graduates hired somewhere.

There's a reason science, engineering and math degrees are more difficult to acquire -- they're more useful to people who live in the real world.

For those unaware of the economic spectrum of college degrees, I offer this:

http://www.universitylanguage.com/blog/07/college-graduate-s...

The top 2: computer science and engineering.

The bottom 4: history, English, psychology and sociology.
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pg has a lot invested in the idea of startups. He doesn't have anything invested in what they create. That's the disconnect you're seeing here. That the startup world permits such a disconnect is another problem entirely.

To downvoters: how many times have you heard that startups are about people? Why does YC take people who don't have an idea yet? "What you create" isn't really relevant here. It's just a vector, it lacks standalone value.
These seem to produce entirely different sets of results:

For the bloom filter: (actual time=0.033..2.546 rows=430 loops=1)

And for the join: (actual time=7.440..64.843 rows=9 loops=1)

So the join returned 9 movies for person_id=160, while the bloom filtered returned 430.

I understand it's a probabilistic model, but that's a pretty whopping difference in data. Have I missed something?
I originally said the same at at $10, which it's on track to hit. Sentiment is making me reconsider...
Keith Chegwin gets stuck in Great Britain, which is probably for the best.
I use GrowlVoice now, but wish it was a desktop app. I think there is a niche for this, keep up the great work.
Gooterola (Moogle?) clearly is abusing FRAND obligations
on some of their standards-essential patents. As far as I
can tell, Samsung is trying to abuse some of their FRAND
standards-essential patents, too.

This is probably true but looks a lot like of case of "when someone attacks you reach for whatever is at hand". Samsung and Motorola clearly believe that those patents are the best thing they've got to counter Apple's attacks.
Unfortunately it seems that because those patents are standards-essential Apple's absurd patents have more legal power than patents that are actually interesting.
I second this, helped me a lot, too. In particular, it covers a wide range of topics, each with some introductory exposition, and gives a variety of example questions with answers.

Additionally, glassdoor.com has a lot of user-contributed interview questions and lets you search for/filter by specific companies.
Let me propose a better conclusion that has the potential succeed over vague claims about the human subconscious.

One of the best ways to get hired is to, like all great American beers, have the great taste of social proof with the less filling property of appearing to be inexpensive. Business people very much want qualified, capable employees, but they want them at the best possible price. Giving off the appearance that you are capable but unproven makes a business person's leverage sense tingle like no tomorrow. This, at least, has been my experience. Your mileage may vary.

I'm not sure that, as far as the general population goes, craving the "next big thing" is a global phenomenon. Those more concerned with getting attention (citizens of wealthier countries) over practicality might be more inclined to care. That would certainly help explain the hipster population plaguing the United States.
I'm not justifying those excuses. But those are the reasons students give (at least to themselves), and it would be naive for the university to overlook this and tell themselves that students just shouldn't cheat based on principle as opposed to fascillitating an environment that promotes cheating.

Perhaps "high standards" wasn't the correct choice of words on my part. I meant they all except themselves to get good grades. In particular where I went, where the school is largely populated with pre-meds where GPA is everything! If they're in a situation where the reward for cheating is high and the likelyhood for getting caught is low and they don't see any other option (not that there isn't but often they don't see it) they are likely to succumb.
Can you elaborate on what your best courses of action are if you are in this spot and would like to sell?
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It may bounce back or firm-up. Hard to say. They have a lot of great minds.
Really? I didn't realise it was that bad.
My guess is just that my sites fly under the radar because they are unimportant, have little traffic etc..

But if people finds you random (not <1024) ssh port, they probably scanned all of you ports? Which seems drastic. Last time I checked, a few years ago, it was not normal to scan all the ports on a large block of IPs. Maybe that changed, but I have never seen that on the few machines and networks I can check.

Anyway, my point is that targeted attacks is a another ballgame, but that does not make it pointless to protect against the dumb, automated attacks.
FWIW, the iGoogle API started getting flaky a couple weeks ago, intermittently returning error responses. So there was a little bit of warning.

A couple of other (supported) weather API alternatives.

* http://www.worldweatheronline.com/free-weather-feed.aspx -- free with attribution, paid option to remove attribution. (We ended up going with this for our site.)

* http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs -- free at developer usage levels, free allowance for sending traffic to their site, can get kind of pricey if you use it a lot and weather isn't central to what you do.

Incidentally, either of these will deliver a lot more weather data than you were getting with iGoogle.
It's also important to note that SpaceX was not Elon Musk's first venture. I'm sure success with PayPal gave him the confidence, clout, and partial financing to take on such an ambitious endeavor.
Hmmm... Isn't facebook still growing? aren't they making money? aren't they expanding?
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Didn't anyone even read Facebook's IPO prospectus?
Either philosophy is a dead end, then, or it is the base of all knowledge. Depends on whether knowledge is a tree or a graph, which is... a philosophical question!

My brain exploded.
Because most Americans are unaware of how limiting content providers are once you connect from a non-US IP. A blunt dose of awareness would go a long way in helping people understand the situation.

And it's not really their fault, either. How would you know that the whitelist even exists if you're always on it?
Sure but it wasn't a big startup event but a small event for teens looking to get into tech. He had little incentive to lie and put that much effort into personally conversations.
It did not evolve from property law. It evolved from monopolies granted by kings, and the desire to control who could publish and how extensively. So-misnamed "intellectual property" never had anything to do with property laws until very recently.
From a mathematical perspective, this is actually not that surprising.

Think of the act of clicking the first link in the Wikipedia article as a function that takes in the page you're on and outputs another page.

If you call this function on itself over and over again (ie use the output of one step as in the input of the next step), you will eventually enter a loop. The proof of this is simple: there are only a finite number of Wikipedia articles, therefore you must eventually reach an article you've seen before. (This is the same reason systems with a finite number of states cannot be chaotic.)

Since it's necessarily true that all articles will eventually reach a loop when you iteratively click the first link, we have to ask: how unusual is it that they usually reach the SAME loop?
That's funny because the first link on the Animation page is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion

Is that an Easter Egg (illusion == doesn't exist)?
I love wiki. I spend hours following links. Having loops is a feature or else I might never stop.

Greek City States ->

Polis
City
Human settlement
Statistics
Data
Level of measurement
Stanley Smith Stevens
United States
Federalism
Politics
Art
Human behavior
Behavior
Organism
Biology
Natural science
Science
Knowledge
Fact
Proof (truth)
Argument
Philosophy
Problem
Doubt
Belief
Proposition loops to Philosophy
Not quite, 6.5 meters would be about a 1:45 marathon time. Currently the best marathoners can do 2:04 which is about 5.6 meters per second. For a half marathon world record pace is just over 6 meters per second.
Don't ask how technical we consider you; ask whether you are technical enough for what your business needs. It sounds like the answer is no, so you need to get someone more technical than yourself onboard one way or another.

Anyone who joins your startup is going to be taking on a risk: you could go bankrupt very easily, and if so they're out of a job. It's perfectly reasonable for them to want equity to balance this.

This doesn't necessarily mean a cofounder. Obviously if you're doing / have done most of the work then you take most of the equity; put a number on your startup's current value, and issue them shares monthly at that valuation as part of their compensation. (Or offer them to contribute a similar amount in cash upfront, if they want to be an equal cofounder). But unless you've got a demonstrably stable business and can pay a market salary to the person you hire, you should expect to include a decent chunk of equity.

If it's really a $100mil+ idea (which I highly doubt) then why are you so worried about exactly how you slice it up? $50mil is already plenty to retire on.
This sort of selfishness is really not something you should expect people to applaud. We all do things to improve our lives, but thinking only of ourselves is nothing at all to be proud of.
Regarding the space consumption, it seems like this is a tradeoff of storing two integers (plus the row overhead) per rating versus storing 335 bytes per movie/user.

For the join table, that's 2 integers * 575,281 ratings * 4 bytes = 4,602,248 bytes used in the join table.

With the filter, in each movie row, you need to store 1632 bits for the person_filter and 1048 bits for the hash, so 3,883 movies * (1632 bits + 1048 bits) = 1,300,805 bytes.

In each user row you need to store the same number of bits for the filter and hash, so 6,040 users * (1632 bits + 1048 bits) = 2,023,400 bytes.

Is my math here wrong? With this approach you save about 1.22MB, or about 27% over the join table approach (ignoring how much overhead there is for each row of the table and each page to store the table in).

Depending on the dataset it doesn't seem like the space savings would be worth the sacrifice in accuracy.
IDEABOLT: Create a central repository of interesting cases and diagnoses, with a super intuitive UI, make it freely available to all MDs in the world to fill up and consult, sort of like the github for doctors.

You can make money by being the intermediary to find subjects for experiments, e.g. "For a study we are looking for identical twins who cannot see from birth but now one has restored vision where the other does not".

Does something that looks remotely similar exist?
This has been known a bit longer than this article mentions. The Western States 100 orginated from the Tevis Cup horse race [1] when Gordy Ainsleigh attempted the race on foot in 1974. While not directly racing horses it was the first known ultradistance man v horse footrace

1: http://www.ontherunevents.com/news/0231/ws01.htm
It was funny, and I don't regret reading it, but I regret reading it here.
Some small additional info:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/uk-facebook-shares-...
In another time it would lead to "God"
I thought it was meant to give us an intuitive explanation for why we approach things via the "factoring algorithm" as a method of solving these guys.

In any case, it's just a simple example case. x^2 + x = 6 can probably be solved just by staring at it for a little bit, but once the equation gets more complex, trying out a couple of numbers in the [-5,5] range is not gonna work anymore.
This may be hyper naive but is this the consequence of beginning most articles representing the current topic as a more specific form of another topic?

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra

"Algebra ... is a branch of mathematics." (mathematics being a link)

So if you continue to generalize you'll end up at the most general subject which appears to be philosophy.

[update] added an example