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Application software is such a vague and undescriptive word that it's better to just use the terms "program" and "software" as they're impossible to misuse or argue about.

Wikipedia uses the term "utility" to refer to programs like mount, although again, just call it a program and be done with it.

(this is just a general remark, not a reply)
I think the blog title is a bit sensational here. 'Patent trolls', at least as I understand the term, do not produce products. That's the whole point: they're trolls because they do nothing but sue people, without adding any value themselves. Twin Peaks does produce products, so they aren't a troll. Red Hat has just found an interesting way to counter-sue in a fairly ordinary patent dispute.

The fact that Twin Peaks clearly waited until Gluster had been acquired by Red Hat before filing doesn't make it a troll.
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I'm glad you couldn't, made me smile.
> employ your own ethics system built around the Golden Rule

Wouldn't this system forbid you from cheating?
The GPL has a clause saying that if its terms are violated, all rights granted to the violator by the GPL are terminated. So if Twin Peaks did indeed copy Red Hat's mount code as alleged, they would never be allowed to distribute that code again (without specific permission).
That case was so ironic I thought you were referring to George Orwell there for a minute.
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That and it's a one-time counter claim for this specific situation. From the title I presumed that they had somehow made a 'generic' weapon that could be used to shut down any patient troll.
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The "Note" on top. PG says: "The strategy described at the end of this essay didn't work. It would work for a while, and then I'd gradually find myself using the Internet on my work computer. I'm trying other strategies now, but I think this time I'll wait till I'm sure they work before writing about them."
Often when I think I'm hungry, I'm actually thirsty. A glass of warmed water (surprisingly) quashes the need to snack. Cold water is no good. Does anyone know why that is?
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$YOUR_RUBY_PATH/lib/ruby/1.9.1/English.rb has the full list, with pretty decent explanation.
Here is a link (PDF) to the paper:

http://cybertron.cg.tu-berlin.de/eitz/pdf/2012_siggraph_clas...
I work at Yahoo and I don't know anyone that only puts in 3 hours of work/day. In a 14k+ employee company, I'm not going to claim every single person is putting forth 110% effort (you have slackers everywhere), but apathy is certainly not the norm by any stretch of the imagination, nor is it an acceptable attitude.

And there are quite a few teams at Y! working on meaningful and innovative projects. I work on one that I'd personally consider is both of those.
tl;dr: Bank guys are not cool, hey they caused the GFC! - how would you in with the team at a "cool software company" (your words).

Without even digging in, I wouldn't hire you for the following reasons:

1. We don't use Java, it's too enterprise based

2. You've worked in banks for 10 years? Can you be creative?

3. Banks pay very well, you salary expectations are unrealistic.

4. Whilst you appear to be very capable, you also come across as having a huge ego.

I would recommend going after a job in one of the big consulting firms. You would be a far better fit for them. Oh, wait! It appears, that's not what you want to do.
It is the examples of prior art that make it patent trolling.
Oh, I completely agree about zoning, rent control/stabilization, and other sorts of non-freemarket government regulations. etc.

I was merely pointing out that the reason I and everyone I know chose to live in NYC was not for a specific wage but because we like the city.
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Yeah, I'm doubting that. My shipping address was old, and didn't match my billing address. A) it accepted it, B) I could change it.
Except that education has gotten worse and more expensive as it's be centralized. I in fact would prefer a much more distributed form of education where school vouchers allow schools to compete for students and parents can choose a school that educates in the way they'd prefer.
Not to be a hater but this book got MAD programming errors. I guess since its not for beginners, there's no read to technically edit?

I mean, you can infer what he meant but man it would suck if you didn't know JS that well.

I still applaud this man for his contributions though.
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There actually is something to the idea of getting blood flowing to the different parts of your brain -- there's also a study showing a correlation between the nostril you're currently breathing out of right now and which nervous system is dominant (you have two). There's a breathing meditation exercise where you try to alternate nostrils -- it's a bit trippy once all of that O2 starts hitting both sides of your head at once.
Vermont is going to go single payer and MA already has Obamacare - neither of which imho are good models, but I don't see people flocking to them for health care.
I'm curious what the average login rate is, versus the average Hacker News login rate is. I don't mind using Facebook for login, but I do it cautiously. This, I'm a bit too nervous to try.
Oh boy.. I had wondered if you were going to say this. Sorry to break it to you, but you are conservative. (at least as far as your HN comments go)

Just go back and reread any thread of yours regarding TLS versus designing new protocols. The liberal cryptographers will design dozens of protocol implementations with starry-eyed visions of new unformalized properties that don't actually exist. Most will be used in places where TLS would have sufficed and most of them will be broken. But eventually something new will come out this mess, provide enough advantages to gain traction, and become hardened canon over the years. Conservative philosophy will never design a crypto protocol, but it will prevent a lot of damage from the redundant badly-designed protocols. Both philosophies are needed.

One could be both liberal and conservative in different areas, but your non-technical comments read the same way. Or perhaps you're just a bit confused about what conservatism actually is. Totally reasonable given the shifty name calling that masquerades as political "debate". This is quite long, but got me started on seeing where the continuum underlying the political spectrum actually comes from. http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/01/gentle-... . Eventually, despite that series's mischaracterizations and slightly wrong decomposition, I realized I am liberal (sorry MM) (also, this does not imply that I support politicians who use that label).
(re-branding of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712)
This is a tweak of BuddyHack, which we posted to HN earlier today. We had to tweak the site which was banned from Facebook originally.
This is true, and a known bug: http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533
Man, I must be getting old, first thing I thought of when I saw the question was a FSM implemented with function pointers in C.
I would love to know how this was done. Given you can't edit tweets, and the ID of said new Tweet is going to change rapidly (given the number of new Tweets per second).

Did it involve basically predicting what the number was likely to be by observing the current posting rate, tweeting a bunch of times, and then stopping when one of the tweets matched? Or am I missing something?
Unfortunately I'm not the one to ask. Harj is the visa expert, and he's on vacation.
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This is why I shop for groceries at Aldi instead of more popular brand name supermarkets. They have only the store brand of all products. I find that in addition to saving 50-60% on my food bill, the trip to store is super fast, stress free, and I have all of the same food I would have otherwise gotten. The only thing I go to a regular supermarket for is deli/seafood/meats which are not branded.
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I made a boids implementation in WebGL a while back

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bpd9116/WebGLU/examples/boids/boids.h...
We've done a few FB apps before and the avg CTR on splash page/home page usually comes out to anywhere from 10-30%

We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.
Besides more then a few of these being more opinion then fact, I don't think the wider application selection is valid like it was one or two years ago. While there certainly are specific applications you can find on the iphone only, these also exist for Android. If you really want numbers, apple said 700 000 at the latest presentation, and android seems to have had 600 000 a few months ago.
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One of Dart's goals is to become a compelling and useful option for developers of many backgrounds to write awesome modern web apps. Compiling to JavaScript is crucial, as JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web. Embedding a Dart VM into a browser gives even greater performance for Dart apps and support for features such as snapshots (a quicker startup from a serialized binary heap).
Um, why exactly would you use something like Clojure if you're not comfortable building up your own particular set of libraries that you like for your project?

Clojure to me seems like a language culture that would likely tend towards smaller libraries that do specific things than something with batteries included and such like Rails.

If you want something on the JVM with more of a batteries included approach Play Framework for Java and Scala is pretty nice and Lift for Scala is cool if you're willing to take a very different approach to your web stack.
I like how you changed the app. Realistically, you could still use it on a friends facebook, but at least they can't say you are promoting it now...
"Disclaimer: This app can and will post a large amount of hilarious content from your Facebook account."

This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.
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Then you will know that Genetic Programming can be used for classification, structured learning, symbolic regression and even meta learning [1]. For classification you can build a program that searches for a program that best uses the input to predicts classes. I have done this (there are better heuristics than the old kind that lead to really big dumb programs). Or you can combine boosting with Genetic Programming or you can use them in Learning Classifier Systems. All these lead to classification based on genetic programming.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko

As an aside, My definition of Machine learning is more inclusive than yours. I mean if you are going to separate out optimization then I guess you don't count stochastic gradient descent or Matrix factorization as part of machine learning? Machine learning is basically the combination of statistics and optimization where you can work with a lot of data and the output of your computation is more important than the model.
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> We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.

Respectfully going to disagree on that one. The "Unhack" button doesn't seem to have removed any content from my profile but it did post a link on my timeline promoting the app (and using the old URL and name). Definitely not expected behavior.

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buddyhack.com
"Sorry guys, I just got Buddyhacked. Whoever it was, I will find you, and I will get you back."

There's a reason I use the 'Only Me' privacy for the few new apps that I add, and it's behavior like this. Luckily when you remove an app there's a check box to remove activities generated by that app.
So it does work for things like phone numbers. I read the review of that book some time ago and thought it was just for one-off competition shenanigans.

i'd say it's useful (more useful than a review from a book about exercises and the reviewer is writting with out even trying it out)
You are posting this comment on a forum that is run by a business co-founded by someone who was convicted under the same statute as Swartz is accused of violating. You knew that, right? Many years ago, he "broke the law" and was convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But he served no jail time. I guess the situation was different in many ways. Tell us how. Or maybe it was not so different. What do you think?

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

My guess is Swartz will end up dropping his rebellious attitude and will apologise for what he did.
Then, wouldn't 2-3K of guaranteed work be better than a lure of 7-8K? If you are looking at top-notch devs who can code and execute an idea from scratch, that's not a bad deal at all.
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For what it's worth, I appreciate your casual comment right here. Thanks for thinking out loud. I can relate.
Also, here is the blog post that accompanies this collection: http://jchenry.me/2011/05/26/Reading-List-%3AA-Crash-Course-...
Does anyone else find the dual role of POST as a create verb and as "complex search criteria" verb problematic? The WebDav RFC defines a SEARCH verb; why don't we see it used in more REST HTTP APIs?
The only implicit post is when you use the unhack feature, and it lets your friends know that you hacked yourself.
"Intellectual property" as a socially and legally recognized concept is nonsensical and harmful, even in instances like the GPL where it's intended to increase freedom.
I'm a big fan of the giving myself some kind of challenge to prove out a framework or technology. Like, "build a meme site" or "build twitter" or something like that. It does two things. One, you are forced to use the technology for a real thing to solve real problems. Two, it becomes very apparent how good the documentation/community/libraries are. Both are critical because most any technology can solve most any problem you throw at it if you are willing to write enough code, but the libraries, documentation, and community make a huge difference in the day to day experience of using any language or framework.
If your best argument for why someone should stop doing something is that "it's offensive," I will have trouble taking your side.
Fixing that one now. Must've missed that one whenever we tweaked the app.
gbog sounds a bit like the main character from Verne's Paris au XXe siècle, a classics scholar who is shunned for searching for timeless truth in a modernist, materialist world that focuses only on technology and business.

The classics are classics for a reason: they are universal and timeless, and contain deep truths about the human condition that resonate forever. If Gates had read them early in life, maybe he would not have developed the predatory personality that characterized his business career and Microsoft in general?
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"you are conservative" ... "Just go back and reread any thread of yours regarding TLS versus designing new protocols".

Here I stopped reading.
Hard to use it from scratch (as is mandarin for me) as it does not have phonetics for the new sounds

you will probably learn a lot of bad pronunciation.
This is a nice presentation about URL best practices, but it doesn't really get into the most relevant or interesting topic of RESTful API design which is resource design representation. I'd love to see more in these specific areas with concrete examples of the approach others have taken.
I like the Chrome reader; it lets you read offline. Also, for programming titles, I actually prefer using a second monitor: more screen than a device, plus ability to copy and paste code is nice.
I imagine they're spending tons on focus groups and market research trying to find out what people want. They're probably not hearing "we want to turn lights on and off with our iPhones". Or at least not enough people are saying that to justify them building a product line around that concept and selling it at Home Depot.

Meanwhile, this kickstarter project has raised enough to prove the concept and at least get me a couple of those lights.
Yes. Please publish it.
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> Um, why exactly would you use something like Clojure if you're not comfortable building up your own particular set of libraries that you like for your project?

I decided upon Clojure as I think it meets the needs of my project well, which is basically an expert system. I need to consume a number of domain specific java libraries, and the native support for logic programming with core.logic and datalog is a big win. Clojure certainly wasn't the easiest choice - I would be much further ahead if I started with Ruby.

> Clojure to me seems like a language culture that would likely tend towards smaller libraries that do specific things than something with batteries included and such like Rails.

I should clarify that I think Clojure's favouring of smaller composable libraries is ultimately a better approach than the monolithic framework. It is much more difficult to get to a point where you're productive however.
"App" doesn't imply smartphones. It has been used this way since at least the 80s:

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22kil...
Term 5? All that says is if you don't accept the terms, you don't get to use the software. There's no irrevocable termination of rights.

At worst, all they have to do is download a new copy of mount and presto, they have a new license.

[err, that's for gpl2. gpl3 has a more complicated termination procedure.]

ok, so in light of gpl3, they just need to go back and get a gpl2 copy of mount. It's not like mount has changed all that much, I'm sure the 2007 version will suffice. Or they could just write their own. How many lines of code are we talking about here?
It's such a pity interesting teachers like you (judging by your post) are only available at special programs.

I can count good teachers in my life with just one hand (and not in binary), and when you think about it, about how they really made a difference in who you are right now, it blows my mind to think what could happen if all teachers were that good.
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Related, from just over a week ago: "Why I wear the same shirt every day" - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4490538

Decisions take effort and focus. At some point, the payoff simply isn't worthwhile.
I do not think that he knew thousands of if-then rules would be needed, likely his estimate.

But that aside I believe that such a search space could be handled by GP. That very problem is what I've been tackling for sometime now. Its position on my list reflects that particular bias. But there are techniques. I use EDA's like MOSES and was heavily inspired by http://www-ia.hiof.no/~rolando/ but have my own original contributions. The method is also interactive for tough problems, these really help in reducing the search space. Although I have not succeeded in a use yet, I have been thinking hard about how category theory could be used to constrain space or perform particular automatic transofrmations (https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/origami...., https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/a...).
I wish someone like the creator of Curiosity Descent footage ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esj5juUzhpU ) could get their hands on the three separate RGB channels and combine them manually. The frames did not seem to be overlaid properly and combining 1R + 2B + 3G as 1F, 2B + 3G + 4R as 2F etc. caused offsets in every frame.
A pity. I chose a technical topic so there would be some chance at making impartial judgments or understanding opposing views.
Those were just example of simple tasks that a junior developer can do. And a junior develop in my company is someone of any age who has less experience. What kind of industry would we have if we only hired senior developers? If we said junior developers have no value? I guess we'd be a bit like the fashion industry where anyone new is just supposed to work for free.
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Term 4 in GPLv2. "Any attempt otherwise to copy ... will automatically terminate your rights under this License."
I was hoping for a Node.js alternative. One question, have you thought about using https://github.com/samshull/node-proxy instead of searching through the environment to find binaries? Using .get() you would only need to identify programs that are requested, rather than knowing them all up front.
And some bosses, like mine unfortunately, are so uptight about it that if I stop and stare at a wall / ceiling / close my eyes for even 30 seconds trying to solve an issue, I get the ok get to work speech and 15 things added to my already too long list.
I've started using the older term "monopoly" instead of "property". Respect for property rights is so deeply ingrained in our culture that it's really hard to argue against it without sounding like some crazed hippie. Arguing against monopolies is much more respectable.
I think it's a good question if only for the quality of answer it gained for the rest of us. But it's certainly not what I would expect from a very experienced developer.
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