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I believe you have stumbled upon the very definition of a Mayan-style apocalypse vis-a-vis the year 2012.

Of course definitions matter. Like, what do you mean by apocalypse? It seems to me that a viral marketing scheme that latches onto the normative fabric of culture and society is a likely candidate. E.g. "Rebecca Black's Friday"--all social and cultural points of reference would be fair game. Hence the usurpation of cultural experience. A fair definition of apocalypse?
To lobby a software company? That makes no sense. If anything, that hacker would be lobbying Congress...and frankly, that's his or her prerogative. I don't care what they do. It's not dirty money just because you say it is; it's legally-acquired money that a subset of the population feels was obtained illegitimately. I don't like what has happened with the patent system any more than you do, but I'm choosing my battles. I'm disdainful toward patent trolls; I'm thankful for them, because they effectively give me work (invalidating their patents)
too long, don't bother reading: A proposition is only considered proven when a bunch of experts reach a consensus that a proposed proof is correct. This is currently not the case for the ABC conjecture.
Here's a tutorial I wrote in 2004 which is still a decent start these days. If anything, it's easier these days, because IDA Pro has HexRays which can decompile code into C and makes it very easy to navigate a compiled module.

http://www.atrevido.net/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ec99e239-89...
Think of Start Fund is like a blind startup index fund. But now that Andreessen Horowitz has made a significant investment in IFTTT I'd imagine they're unlikely to make any future investment in Zapier unless their business changes quite a bit.
Except patent trolls are not even close to the first groups of people to notice this "bug." Many "white hat hackers" came first; there are many law review articles published concerning the flaws in the patent system. It's not like Congress didn't know about it. They, like always, decided to punt. This is their wake-up call.
It does seem like a link-baity title. It would be more accurate to say "The proof of the ABC Conjecture has not been fully understood yet", which is actually not news because we're in the same state of things as when the proof was announced...
Wow, thanks for removing any reason I might have had for keeping Instagram. And to think I had this the entire time !
"Bud" is an abbreviation of "buddy", an informal term for "friend."

"Bud" is also a slang term for marijuana (which is made from the buds of the cannabis plant.)
Quite true. You're just the one judging others based on criteria you apparently know little about. Come on, man - loosen up a bit.
Do they really send people to reeducation camps for disrespecting the president in the US?
I'm not arguing for compartmentalisation, nor against the importance of all the teams you are talking about working together. There would absolutely need to be back and forth between legal and product as part of the encoding I am talking about, for example.

But it seems to me that if this was happening at even a basic level, then whoever is in charge of the product at Instagram must have known they were adding some pretty onerous terms. And if they didn't, it's a pretty massive failure to take the ToS seriously.

Neither option inspires confidence in a service that people provide with important data.
I think it depends on the job you're looking for.

Want a job at a big company? You'll definitely want to be really good at a smaller number of things.

Want a job at a startup? You'll need to do everything from marketing to design to every type of programming.
People don't have defenses like spam filters for FB like they do on email, because that channel was relatively clean of unwanted messages.

It's sleazy because they have weaned people off open and free protocols into their walled garden and now they are going in for the kill. It's like how Nestle gave baby formula to African mothers so that they would stop lactating, then they cut off the supply and charged the mothers ridiculous prices so they could continue nourishing their babies.
Yes, they do; they just aren't generally available on open terms. Kottke's blog uses (used?) an H+FJ web font.

I don't even follow your second graf. "Your typographical work"? What would that be? If I'd seen it and commented on it, your comment would make more sense.
DAO in fact is still developed today as part of ACE, and has been since Access 2007.
I wonder if the people who developed the game inside NK had the opportunity to play games made from the outside?
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Same here. I got the order number (which, like an idiot, I didn't write down), but I don't have any confirmation of purchase from DR element5. :/

If, in the end, it doesn't go through, I'm OK with that too.
How to clean a wooden rabbit hutch?
Before you cleaning the wooden rabbit hutch, do remember remove everything from the hutch so you can easily clean all of its surfaces.

Next, mix up a solution of one part vinegar to two parts warm water, which is strong enough to clean thoroughly, but not so strong that it will leave an irritating scent behind for your rabbits.

Moreover, scrub down all rabbit hutch surfaces with a scrub brush, paying close attention to corners; rabbits prefer to urinate and defecate here, so they are likely to be the area most in need of cleaning. Allow the solution to remain on the wood for at least five minutes so the vinegar can soak into the wood and remove the odors. Rinse the vinegar off with warm water and let the hutch dry.

At last, if you find the corners of the wooden hutch are still dirty or smell bad after you clean with a vinegar solution, you can use baking powder to neutralize odors by sprinkling it in the corners, letting it sit for a few minutes and then wiping or rinsing it away. You can also use baking soda to scrub off any debris the vinegar solution did not lift.

Ensure your rabbits’ environment safe is important, which is good for its health. Let’s follow the up tips and clean the hutch now!
Interesting. I will have to do another restore and see what in the heck it was. Maybe I was being asked to import settings/bookmarks.

One thing can do — a cheap trick that takes an extra step I feel we shouldn't have to take — make a Javascript bookmarklet. When selected it will fire that url open in Chrome.

The problem for me is it takes too many steps to get to bookmarklets. Not as simple to get to as in a desktop browser.

If you want to give it a try, add a bookmark/boomarklet withthe following:

javascript:location.href="googlechrome"+location.href.substring(4);

I did a quick search over youtube to see if anyone had recorded the restore process of an iPhone... Nothing.

Was your restore of version 6? Mine was version 6 -> version 6. I was not doing a version 5 -> version 6.

Later tonight I will backup/restore and record the process to see what the Safari/Chrome selection screen was all about.

Sorry I could not be more of assistance.
This is a simple case of default settings. Not much has changed over the years. He who controls the operating system/browser controls the portal and hence the referral.

As well-known and popular as Google is as a portal, they still need to play the default settings game. Android and Chrome are Google's way of making sure google.tld is a default setting.

One could argue that in the majority of cases, those 1% of domains are not chosen by the user, but by he who controls th default settings.
Who's to say that there's going to be a single 'ultimate interpreter' of the proof? If it's a community effort do we pull a Time Magazine and say everyone proved it... oh, and I guess Shin Mochizuki helped.

This whole article is just kind of silly. The fact that we don't understand it is a fact about ourselves, not about Mochizuki's reasoning. The argument is meaningful and correct or it isn't, and our perceptions of it are secondary to the thing itself.
Sorry I should have clarified. I meant in terms of the basics: food, shelter, water etc.

My point was that North Korea is borderline third world on par with other countries in the region.
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Nope. North Koreans made "The Big Lebowski Bowling" back in 2007: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-06/kim-jong-il-bowls-f...
Only the latter is phrased in a way that implies the searchers are primarily gun advocates, and that spike is only about 3x. Whereas searches for "gun violence" spiked 15-20x.
> You're adding at least one request.

It's pretty trivial to have the client hit the root on startup, and then cache that and never make another call. API roots don't change very much.

> First, are there then multiple roots?

Nope. Here's an example of what I call the 'hypermedia proxy pattern' in Sinatra: https://gist.github.com/3172911

I based this off of this talk by Jon Moore: https://vimeo.com/20781278 and demo'd it at the end of this presentation: http://oredev.org/2012/sessions/designing-hypermedia-apis

Basically, you can fold elements of the collection up into the parent, and the client will automatically make less requests. Jon's presentation goes from 14 requests for the first iteration to 2 on the first hit, 1 every hit thereafter, with no changes to the client.

> when your data is hierarchical, it's nice for other reasons to reflect this in your URI structure.

Sure! So provide both: one 'deep link' or full collection in the root (or wherever) response, but also serve the data as a separate resource that's hierarchical. Best of both worlds.
http://www.siliconprairienews.com/ is a good starting point.
KC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Madison, Detroit and Omaha all have great tight knit entrepreneurial communities, as do most of the college towns in the midwest.

I guarantee you there is at least one thriving developer meetup in your area.

Also, it has already happened this year but checkout http://cincinnati.startupweekend.org/ and other startup weekend events in cities near you. They are a great way to meet fellow entrepreneurs and hackers.
You're preaching for YAGNI, which is a philosophy that's more good than bad, for sure.

I am lamenting that doing hypermedia APIs properly isn't the default in Rails. I call out Rails because its massive appeal (to which I am no stranger) is doing It right by default, all over the place for the common case.

That obviates YAGNI, because it implies no extra cost incurred for doing it right. I'd rather enable It rather than assume I ain't gonna need It, all things being equal.

That said, I have worked in companies large enough that the interlocking pieces are pretty far removed, yet expected to interoperate fully. Having and using link relations could have saved us a couple of headaches. I am hopeful the Rails-api project might approach this with more.... maturity?
Yes, and I absolutely love the BS from Facebook about "connecting you with things you care about". I wonder if Zuckerberg and co really believe in their "world changing" mission. No, Facebook, there is nothing special about you, you were the first to make a slightly compelling social network (congratulations), and now we're stuck with you because of the network effect. There's nothing more to it than that.
Oops -- looks like the bourgeous running dogs of HN have just DOS'd the North Korean video game industry. Here's hoping Kim Jong Un doesn't consider this a declaration of war and transform the Web into a sea of fire...
> I usually have to browser windows open and next to each other, each using about 720 horizontal pixels.

call me crazy, but the way your arrange your windows is not really a use case we design for at pitchfork.

i agree that there may be a better way to do this, though, but we made the choice to scale fonts to viewport because we want a certain amount of information to look a certain way per page.
You should get back into it then. I know the Times is always looking for good folks.

I'm in Interactive News, on the news side (for a few more days, at least ;) Special features like this one are usually done by Multimedia (recently merged with the Graphics team), and there are also many detailed individual graphics, photos, and videos that are a part of it.

Things like article templates are more in the Design department -- but they also collaborated on this. Really, everyone pitches in as best they can.
How about:

Message passing is more robust than the currently prevailing shared memory + thread spaghetti practice. Many/most problems being attacked with the latter approach can be reformulated to use message passing and looser coupling.
I don't think it's just aesthetics, they ask a lot of money for a new charger. And because they conveniently chose to use a patented charger thingy nobody else is allowed to make, you're going to pay them that bundle of money.

I'm convinced Apple designs their products to break quickly, especially components that are not covered by warranty (e.g. cables, chargers, earphones, etc). Those inexpensive components render the whole thing pretty much unusable, so you're forced to buy a replacement. It pisses me off.

Yet, if I were to buy a new laptop, I'd probably buy a MacBook. They're just so damn nice to use.
Victory for the tabloids: Online porn to be filtered by default in UK
If you don't know that startups are risky going into a startup, then you are greatly misinformed. That's the chance you take. The analogue is someone investing the last dollar in his bank account in a lottery ticket. If it's a win, that's great! If it's a loss, then you lost (and I highly doubt you'd have the sympathy for the fellow who put his last dollar in a lottery ticket)
They briefly displayed non-discounted prices shortly after they got the site functioning again, but then corrected it.
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Facebook is looking to make money off of this. Your proposal results in 0 profit for facebook.

EDIT: to the downvoter -- explain how the $1 proposal doesn't have a profit motive.
Is this true? That would make a lot more sense.
Other than the single phrase you pointed out, nothing else in his post jumps out to me as being similar to the typical Indian style of English writing. Until very recently I used to work for one of the big outsourcing firms so I've exchanged more than my share of emails with offshore devs. This one just doesn't strike me the same as those emails.

I'll give you (2) and (3) but he may also just be overreaching. Analytics could equal throwing Google Analytics on a page. Ecommerce, a PayPal integration. And who hasn't grabbed some data from the Twitter API when testing out a new framework or library? I'll agree that that's a very broad range, maybe.

Overall, however, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not an overseas dev trolling for leads.
I applaud Jamie and the POP team for going for it -- everyone who develops on a proprietary platform like Apple's (apps, hardware, whatever) faces this risk. It's a risk you have to take if you want a shot at success.

Sometimes it doesn't work out.
I have to agree with this. There is a lot of discussion about this proof, and also with the idea that the reasoning that leads to it may reveal new insight.

There is little to gain by lamenting the potential difficulty of verification by pointing out your interpretation of the accessibility of previous famous proof attempts.
Calling out the lack of peer review is a red herring. There is plenty of incorrect work accepted into journals every day.

If Mochizuki's work is correct, then in most senses, the result is proven. Whether that proof is yet accepted is another matter entirely.
It's the zero part that bothered me. The difference between zero and a very very very small quantity is not a big deal until it turns a finite number into something that is not a finite number, and then it's an infinitely big deal. So my brain got distracted wondering "is it really zero?" until I reminded myself that the important thing is that I knew what you meant :-)

There are two schools of thought in teaching linear algebra. One focuses on matrices, and the other takes the perspective of linear maps and vector spaces. The course I took in college was all about matrices, and I didn't understand the point at all. I hated it. When I reviewed my linear algebra for grad school, I got a book that took the abstract approach, and it felt a lot simpler. The linear algebra perspective on Fourier analysis is that the functions e^2πisx form a basis for a vector space of functions, just like (1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0), and (0, 0, 1) form a basis for R^3. Any function in that vector space can be represented as a linear combination of the basis elements. That representation is the Fourier series of the function. There are a lot of technical details to figure out, such as which functions are in the space, exactly how to calculate the coefficients of the linear combination, and how to figure out if a given Fourier series converges, but intuitively you can say:

"The Fourier transform is simply a method of expressing a function (which is a point in
some infinite dimensional vector space of functions) in terms of the sum of its projections
onto a set of basis functions.[1]"

There's a similar description on Wikipedia with more detail [2].

The neat thing is that even though Fourier transforms is a complicated subject, even though I barely scraped by learning the basics fifteen years ago, and even though I couldn't do any real calculations today to save my life, this way of looking at it is so simple that I can't forget it. When I look at the equations I am quickly oriented: the series is a linear combination of functions, the functions are an orthogonal basis of a vector space, and the coefficients of the linear combination are obtained by projecting the function onto the elements of the basis. It's a good place to start if I ever need to learn something about Fourier transforms again someday. It's also a good complement to the concrete spatiotemporal intuition that the article provides.

[1] http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS4240/Lectures...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_space#Fourier_analysis
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Wow. I was at Boppo's site swap workshop at some east-coast juggling fest in the early 90s, where his girl friend would shout out a string of numbers, often containing 8s and 9s, and he'd demo them. And Allen taught me how to pass 10 beanbags, although I never made it work with anyone else. Cool to see where Allen ended up.

I never heard of the Cambridge swaps until now.
Trackpads on "other" laptops are also pretty bad. I wish there was a non-apple laptop with a trackpad at least as good as the ones on the macbooks.

It's like comparing iphone's touchscreen with any android phone. All phones pre-jellybean had a touchscreen that just didn't compare to the iphone.
Umm... that's quite simply false. Between 1994 and 1998, somewhere between 240K and 3.5M people died from famine in North Korea (of a total population of ~20M).[1] And while it's possible that there are similarly arduous conditions in China, the Philippines, Thailand, and (even) the US, the average citizen is certainly better off in all of those places.

To put those famine figures in perspective, that's roughly the equivalent of half of California perishing from starvation during the mid-1990s (at a national scale -- if you prefer to think at a more regional scale it's like losing SF from the Bay Area).

[1] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine for a quick overview
From what i read elsewhere, the message delivery is free. However, if you recipient is not a friend, you message will end up in their "Other" folder. By paying $1, you'll land in their inbox.
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It was enlightening. Thanks.
Mm, as opposed to what? A page currently cannot message members who liked it.
Awesome. Minor issue: there's some stuttering when flicking on a mac touchpad with Firefox. If I keep my fingers on the touchpad while scrolling, the scroll seems to follow just fine without stuttering. But if I flick it up/down fast there's a delay as soon as my fingers leave the touchpad - and then 200-1000ms later (depending on how fast I flicked), it starts scrolling again. This doesn't seem to happen in Chrome.
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on point 1:

"API's" <-- this could be sampling bias, but I've never seen an american write it like this (though, to be honest, I've never seen a resume include the abstract assertion that the person is familiar with APIs)

"Social API's" <-- If this person used the Twitter API then he or she would say it.

"Experienced in domains" <-- This phrase didn't strike you as odd?

"I am on the hunt for Developer-related position." <-- That could be eastern european, but struck me as Indian.

on overreaching: ostensibly this person realized that the community has many technically competent people. Overreaching makes sense when talking to a recruiter. When you are talking with other technical people, just get to the point! No need to say "Health IT" or "Finance" without going into what exactly you did. Finance is particularly bad, because there are many ... for lack of a better term, mindless roles in the major investment banks.

But the fourth point really bothers me. If I wanted to be hired as a web dev, I would have a sample up. Something that would show I know what I'm doing. It's not that hard, and the prevalence of free micro hosting like AWS or github pages or nodejitsu renders the economic argument moot. Hell, even a simple twitter bootstrap site would say that he or she knows that it exists.
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The other answers are pretty complete so I'd just like to highlight some points:

* The H1B quotas tend to get filled pretty quick, this year they were covered by July (iirc). They start accepting applications on April so try to get that done as soon as possible.

* The expedite fee is almost a "must".

* I've seen a couple of companies adding a "the candidate must be fluent in X language" where X is your native language. They use this to justify the fact that they couldn't hire somebody else. Maybe not ethical but it's something to keep in mind.
forget about your personal preferences for a second and think about this from a marketing perspective. This could be huge for Facebook.

Marketers dream for this type of targeting. Now, instead of an ad that people ignore, you could get a message delivered directly to these people. I, for one, would gladly pay $1 per targeted delivery of message.

If the system works as elegantly as Google Adwords, this will be big. It could go either way though. 1) users revolt against this and it flops, or 2) users actually like the messages from high bidders because it targets them especially well.

Will be exciting to see which way it turns out
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What is that supposed to demonstrate?
If what he says is true, it's ridiculous that phones do this be default. Some clever hacker could create a virus that would sit dormant until your phone was plugged into your computer upon which it would steal all of your data. You'd think phone manufacturers would include some sort of way to disable auto-data sync as leaving it on is a major security risk given the number of people that charge via their computers.
Clever hack. It suggests a product, a USB condom, the device has a USB plug and a USB socket, it connects the power lines but not the data lines. With a bit a careful surgery on a USB cable you could manually do this. I don't know if it would then charge though. A surefire way to build it would be to use an "FTDI cable" [1] and pull the power of to a USB socket.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9718
X is pretty weird sometimes, you switch displays, or suddenly connect a third display, the only way to fix it is to reboot X. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I honestly don't know X well enough to debug the problem, so restarting X is just the faster solution. I'm guessing you probably don't us X on the road as much, I feel like this is a normal thing for me -- restart X to solve problem with weird display.