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If they were truly told to write an apology, then people are down on them because this isn't one. You cannot really apologise for anything without using the words 'sorry' or 'apologise'.
In terms of outcomes I am convinced that co-founder disputes (been there done that) are still a lesser risk to success than the banal reality of simply losing motivation as a single founder. I am a rather determined person but would I have gone through all the way with my first startup while going experiencing the roller coaster? Almost certainly not.

Another thing to consider: In a dispute you may actually be the wrong one, and even if you end up leaving when you would have been right, your remaining co-founders may lead the company to some success while you retain your vested shares and can recharge for/ start the next thing.
Step Up 4 Revolution 2012 is a nice movie.The Mob sets the dancing against the vibrant backdrop of Miami. Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs, called “The Mob”. When a wealthy business man threatens to develop The Mob’s historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily must band together

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Nice.

Back on the subject, companies go out of their way to prevent certain usage scenarios. If that's suddenly against the law, it's only reasonable for them to provide a way out.

Actively preventing you from using a product to the fullest is very different from supporting unintended usage.
I like this..
Wikipedia deserves a Nobel Prize
Apple Raises Prices In App Stores Across The World
So a few things:

1) The order from the court was for the UK site only. This makes sense - it was a UK ruling from a UK court which has no jurisdiction in any other countries.

There are separate cases in places like Germany. It make no sense for the UK courts to force Apple to make statements in other countries covering rulings made under laws that don't apply there and which may (and in some cases do) contradict rulings made under the laws of those countries.

2) There was no demand for an apology and I'm not sure why you think that there is. The court is very specific about what has to be said which is that Apple make it clear that the court ruled that Samsung did not copy the iPad. They also include wording which must be in there and details on the font size and that there must be a link to the actual ruling.

3) Judgements is a perfectly valid spelling here in the UK, they're used interchangeably. Check justice.gov.uk if you don't believe me - you get significant numbers of hits for both. EDIT: I bow to the greater knowledge of others here - both spellings are common but it seems that judgment is the one used for legal rulings.

Actual ruling here: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html

(Note that the appeals court changed 6 months to 1 month but upheld the link from the homepage).
My contextual parser detected sarcasm, not irony.
Yeah I should have clarified: for IE10, if you're not on the compat list, and you're in ModernUI.

We did warn them... but did they listen?
Tell HN: Follow those who seek the truth, and flee from those who find it.
As someone who was born in the UK and has lived here for all of his 35 years, I can confirm that this is someone taking the piss.
Hacker Jobs UK is rolling out to Europe & the US
According to that same TOS, users outside the US and Canada are giving their data to Facebook Europe in Ireland.
So they have to follow Irish law, which they don't.

Europe's Data Directive applies to all users outside of the US and Canada. The data directive gives me the right to ask them all data they have on me, and the right to have them remove it.

As a European they have given me that right by setting up a company in Ireland.
Well. That left a bad taste in my mouth. It was low and base, sounded like Apple clutching at strings -- trying to make the convince the public through almost-smear tactics.
We've had enough interest from various companies in the US & Europe to launch regional versions of hackerjobs.co.uk so we've almost completed both iterations and you can use the link above to register your email to get notified when we launch.

Prior to the US & EU launch we'll be introducing a lot more features to the site which we'll trial and error on the UK version so it certainly won't be an MVP.

Wish us luck!
Well, played. For a couple of seconds I was wondering why I had this impression of deja vu then I found this (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4692794). I burst out laughing.
Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later
From Microsoft's site http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...

Note: You may be required to activate the OS as the product key has been deactivated. This is the expected behavior. The VHDs will not pass genuine validation. Immediately after you start the Windows 7 or Windows Vista images they will request to be activated. You can cancel the request and it will login to the desktop. You can activate up to two “rearms” (type slmgr –rearm at the command prompt) which will extend the trial for another 30 days each time OR simply shutdown the VPC image and discard the changes you’ve made from undo disks to reset the image back to its initial state. By doing either of these methods, you can technically have a base image which never expires although you will never be able to permanently save any changes on these images for longer than 90 days.
You can be ruthless AND classy, they're not mutually exclusive.

They were ordered to give an apology, and instead forwarded a conceited, weasley worded temper tantrum. There's nothing ruthless about that, it's something toddlers do every day.
You pushed me to read it ;-)

"When everything is recorded, nothing is remembered.", the final line, reminded me of Mary Renault writing about the transition from oral (memorized) to written poetry in pre-classical Greece.
You are strongly verifying that someone paid the ~$25 incorporation fee, nothing else. The identity of directors does not even get verified during the process. It does not mean much without a trading history.
Not "Only if the assets are uncorrelated and independent", but "As soon as the assets are not 100% correlated".

That is a huge difference. The dot com bust affected (almost) all tech stocks, but they didn't all go bankrupt.
The predictable response - education isn't about learning stuff, but proving you can work on things which aren't really important.
This is B2B. Corporations do not apologise to each other. They may pay each other compensation, if ordered to.

Apologies imply feelings, and corporations do not have feelings.
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Just before the national election. Shame. They had a lot of potential with things getting worse and worse in terms of copyright, patents and privacy breaches by authorities in Germany.
University shouldn't be time capped or subject load restricted - people should be allowed to do as many as they wish

I'm particularly happy that Math and CS department in my university (University of Warsaw) was precisely like this. It let me take 2-3 times the usual course load, which kept me motivated, prevented from getting bored, and let me learn a lot more things than I would have learned if I followed the standard path. Sadly, it seems like this will soon end, as a side effect of new changes introduced by the government to alleviate a separate problem.
New York Times blocked by China after report on wealth of Wen Jiabao's family
Resources to learn top programmers' habits, approaches, workflow
I'd like to learn how top programmers work, to adopt some habits, tricks, way of thinking and approaching problems. I found some useful info in "Coders at Work" and now looking for something similar. I would like to find direction, recipes to improve, to create something significant. Can you please advise books, interviews, blogs, articles or screencasts where very good coders share how they work, think, approach problems, their routine?
I've been following Go rather closely lately and I noticed that these little announcements come regularly.
This is clever marketing (mind share!) and one of the reasons why Go is going to win out over D et al. When was the last time you read something about D? (Perhaps I frequent the wrong watering holes.)
?!! iOS 5 betas were ridiculously buggy. Even the stock apps wouldn't launch. But all iOS 6 betas were rock solid. I was running beta 2 on my (main) iPad untill last week and had no problems with first or third party apps.

The rest of the comment is valid and I quite agree with you, but this one was (according to my experience at least) so wrong that I couldn't resist :)
And those who cannot remember the past (and only look to the future) are condemned to repeat it.
This is written from a student perspective, where "mastering" means passing the exam. I'll stick with Norvig's 10 000 hours.
Although this is an accomplishment and there is some practical advice of value in the post, the "rules" he posts include correcting his own papers and tests and a minimum 50% passing grade.

http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/

Would be more compelling if he was not selling books. Nothing wrong with making a profit but I'm just saying...
I also am inclined to believe much of this. I actually did the same thing while at MIT for chemical engineering. Took all the required freshman through senior level classes at the same time, each semester, and finished all the requirements for a chemical engineering degree in a year. I loved MIT for this reason - they had no rules/regulations on the number of classes you could take in any semester, and they didn't enforce prerequisites/corequisites. Very different than other institutions I've trained at. I was still able to participate in extracurricular activities and develop relationships with lots of people.

It's true that I didn't attend a lot of classes (since they all overlapped anyways), and had 2-3exams virtually every week. The only issue I see is that there is only so much you can do online. I also did the same thing with Chemistry and Biology, which had lots of laboratory classes, and I don't see how one could gain the practical experience of putting knowledge to work in those fields without a wet lab class. EECS however is amenable to this (for the most part - likely hard for an optics laboratory), and most of my EECS labs were really done in Athena clusters instead of a distinct laboratory.
"AJAX is usually faster than Socket.IO to “code”..."

I tried node.js and some modules a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty easy to set up and I had a "working" chat application in few hours with socket.io. It was 20-30 lines of code, provided callback to send data immediately to other clients.

I don't think polling the server every 500 ms is a good practice, say 5-10 sec or more can be reasonable, but with socket.io you got it instant.
There is actually an even easier method.

In normal text, we usually link to things by first citing them then providing the link. An example would be Google (http://www.google.com). Its natural that we surround the link in () in normal text.

Now the bit we add to help the parser is to tell it where the thing we're linking to begins and where it ends. [ and ] are not usually found in normal text and are therefore used for this purpose. Thus the modified example would be [Google](http://www.google.com).
> However, eventually you’ll reach a stopping point where you can’t explain. That’s the precise gap in your understanding that you need to fill.

This is a useful technique, giving motivation and focus. Though imperfect: it can't detect incorrect understandings that seem consistent. But to be fair, that's a tricky case.
So far Samsung only fights with Apple with whole slew of superior products. Well... also Samsung marketing makes fun of Apple marketing if that counts as a fight.
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Fragments and the ActionBar. The new holo styles and interface conventions. The flexibility of layouts and the way that activities work. There are some rough edges, to be sure, but it all seems a lot more forward looking than Apple's miniaturization of Cocoa.
If I’m reading the judgment correctly, the court never asked for an apology. The court asked Apple to present certain specific information – which Apple did. That’s all.
Oh I totally agree. It just so happens that the new start interface works well with my existing workflow, which I think is more of a coincidence then anything else. I can't imagine what the user experience is going to be like for somebody who actually expects to navigate through a tree of folders for their applications.
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It certainly indicates that Go is the language you should probably be using on AppEngine, given that you pay for resource (CPU, memory, etc) usage, and Google themselves are optimising Go to minimise that same usage for their own systems.
Learning for exams and learning for yourself are obviously different kinds of activities, even if the level of depth and rigour are similar.

For maths-heavy subjects, I'm not really inclined to believe that traditional exams are the best way to assess a student's knowledge and understanding of the material (especially with regard to rote memorisation). Exams in such subjects haven't changed fundamentally in many many decades, even though we now have lots and lots of new things we could do with them.

For instance: do more with computers - like getting the students to solve real-world, many-tentacled, hairy problems by numerical methods, rather than giving them some carefully pruned equation that just happens to have nice analytical solutions. Or introduce more computer-assisted mathematical modelling (e.g. use classical mechanics, to start with). Or on the pure front, teach students to write or at least understand some interesting automated theorem prover.

Stuff like that.

I suspect that traditional exams have survived simply because they serve their purpose: a percentage of exam-takers fail the exam (which allows the exam-setters to claim that their standards of assessment are rigorous), and a fair percentage will pass the exam, some with flying colours. Whether or not the actual learning goal was achieved has not been determined, since the exam is deemed to be the only instrument that can measure that.
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I'd say we've got two different upgrade paths here. D is aimed squarely at the C++ crowd, so the biggest enemy it has right now is that C++11 is actually half-way decent.

Go is a bit more difficult to pin down, demographic-wise, but I'd say it's a mix between C minimalists and Pythonistas and other scripters who want something faster but don't want to go with a JVM-language or go all the way down to bare metal.

This target group as well as Google's pedigree is why you're reading a lot about it at web programmer's forums (like, well, this one), consisting mostly of people who wouldn't (and couldn't) touch C++ with a ten foot pole.
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>They are a disorganized bunch of immature young activists, who in a streak of megalomania abandoned their strict focus on IT related topics and it just fell apart.

But isn't that the nature of the culture that they arose from?

I think it's more that conventional politics are incompatible with the culture of the Internet where there are no well defined parties, everybody can think for themselves and everything is disorganized and that's not a bad thing.
what I really miss from markdown (and even more from reStructuredText because I actually use it a lot) is strikethrough (which github does support)
Exactly. When he says "Expertise and mastery give you the career capital to earn more money and enjoy lifestyle perks.", sure it does, but expertise is not achieved by "taming it" in 10 days or a year for that matter.
There's a ton of good advice in this thread:

Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626201
Oh, there was also the little incident where foreign phones were blocked from South Korea, including the original iPhone for two years.
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Our word irony comes originally from the greek word 'eironeia', which was typically used of someone pretending to be naive or ignorant (e.g. Socrates).

More recently, it's split into a number of different meanings, including dramatic and situational, but it is commonly used in modern times to refer to a situation where the speaker means something other than what they say by their utterance.

In both this more recent meaning, and in the older greek sense of 'feigning of ignorance', the comment by acslater00 was ironic.
> their actions seem to be deliberately designed to suppress the market and suppress competition

But then why aren't people on HN down on Samsung in the same way?
"The defendant will now revoke the false accusations."

"Goldstein is not a crook?! Goldstein is not a thief?!"

"This intonation does not sound like a revocation at all."

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"Well, then at least apologize!"

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The classic destkop is always there a click again in the start screen.
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Yeah, I find the best learning happens when you put that knowledge immediately to work in a real world problem, and preferably one that's meaningful to you, as opposed to most term projects. And that's where learning for yourself makes so much more sense; if you're learning for yourself then you probably already have a real world application for it which got you into the goal of learning it in the first place.
My best bursts of rapid learning are almost always project/puzzle driven. I didn't, for instance, set out to master FFT directly, but it seemed like something that could improve my abysmal performance on a Project Euler that I was working on, so I looked into it. I question (open-mindedly, not snarkily) the efficiency of ploughing through a course or series of courses. On the one hand there's the possibility of cross-pollination that having all sorts of cool bits of knowledge and techniques fraternizing in one's head for as long as possible promotes. On the other hand, there's the sense that the most efficient learning sequence is the one that matches the actual sequence of problems as they present themselves. Just-in-time learning of helicoptering, but if and only if you find yourself in a rooftop gunfight, as it were. Of course, then the issue becomes predicting forthcoming problems with enough lead time to learn the solution.
from a UK court

Pedantically, it appears to be from a English & Welsh court, not UK.
Just about a few months ago someone recommended "From Dawn to Decadence" here on HN. And I wondered how old this guy is and still doing impressive stuff. I highly recommend the book, even though the title may cause you to have doubts about it as a liberal.
Ask HN: Review my startup
Hi all, i finally launched my startup(www.impressionable.me). My story is a bit different, in that i did not intentionally create a startup for growing a business brand as such.

Back in 2010, one of my siblings approached me and asked me if her nose was too big, but was too afraid to post on social sites(guess she didn't want her friends to laugh at her or just wanted opinions from people who did not know here), and being a "hobbyist" programmer(learning ROR) at the time i thought this would be a good project to help develop my skills(no plan of developing a brand). Finally in mid October this year i completed the project and launched the app.

We now have 32 users(not much) and have already asked us to change things on the app(like add some features). My question to all you guru's out there, is what should i do? Carry on, got no hope, bad design, wasting my time, sell, go to startup school, etc.
Actually when one thinks about it, there's little proof that communist/socialist nations tend towards dynasties.
Cuba and North Korea are outliers.
For a large percentage of the population, "mp3 player = ipod" and "smartphone = iphone".
Consolation Prize: The Game Console Is Dead. What Will Replace It?
Ubik, pkd :

The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you."

"I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt."

...he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

"You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.
...this guy really knows how tomuch puts the "bait" in "link bait" ...nothing about linear algebra in the article but the perfect title to hook the bank of HN fish ...congrats to the OP for pulling this one off :)
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I think Dawn to Decadence is one of the most fulfilling books I've ever read. It is a stunningly densely woven survey of western culture since the 1500s.
"Culture of the internet"? Theirs is actually a problem old as dirt. We're talking about a broad, participatory democracy vs. elected officials and representatives. Look at Switzerland, who are one of the few countries actually getting by with a semblance of the latter. But mostly it's not exactly considered an efficient alternative to current systems, something that proponents would have to work on hard to disprove it. And Occupy hand signals don't really help here.
The Pirate Party needed to prove that their approach is working internally before they make it a general policy, and it seems they have failed.

And apart from the organizational chaos, it also seems to be a lack of passion. There's no really grand unifying consensus for the party, beyond "copyright is bad", which ain't something that really gets your blood boiling (like basic human rights, saving the environment or making sure that God has his rightful place etc.). A lot of the so-called "scandals" about party members was mostly them showing that they're not willing to sacrifice too much for the sake of the party, if I remember correctly.

If they want to emulate some internet access, they probably need a Linus Torvalds. Right now, they appear closer to 4chan. Having a dedicated Brony time doesn't really help that picture.
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There's a differenc between trying to maintain app store policies that strike a balance between security, end user interests, developer interests, profitability, etc. and intentionally putting bugs in your OS to break third party products, stealing third party products and building them into your OS, or bundling free products with your platform or office suite to drive third parties out of a market.
Also worth looking at the tests for Text::Markdown which is the canonical version of Markdown on CPAN.

https://metacpan.org/source/BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.000031/...
One of the most interesting investigations into luck was last year's show The Experiments: The Secret of Luck, by Derren Brown. The entire episode is avaiable on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mN33w5Ftw

I would heartily recommend anyone watch it, it certainly enhanced my own understanding of the concept.