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I have heard some amazing stories about dogs, this one is pretty good.

In my home town, a dog escaped and went 7.5 miles to the Tim Hortons where everyday it was getting a TimBit. I was super impressed, before reading that I didnt think any dog liked timbits...

My brothers doberman is really intelligent. She can figure out how to get any piece of food no matter where you put it. She will move furniture to try and climb up and can be absolutely relentless. She has escaped on the leash a couple of times during walks and always ends up on the front porch no matter where she escapes. Dogs are like humans, driven by motivation.
Strong recommendations from Prof, former managers would definitely help. I can't reinstate the importance of a great personal essay.
> It's also pretty telling of something when more iOS devices have Google Now than Android devices do.

It's also pretty telling of something when you can make such blind and broad claims when Android is holding significant lead to iOS across the board.
With UDID gone, the mobile-ad floodgates will open – straight to Apple iOS
Prostitution is actually legal in Nevada.
I'm pretty sure that's covered under copyright. The company owns the code.

A trade secret is... what?
1. Besides being an engineer, I'm an IP lawyer specializing in open source (and run open source license compliance for Google), so I tend to use very precise terminology since the licenses do.

2. I actually was the person who put up the current glass kernel release.

3. Again, the parent i responded to implied Google has some affirmative obligation to place the source code on the internet. They don't. They are only required to make a written offer. Someone can take them up on that written offer, yes, and then they could repost it to the internet, but Google definitely has no affirmative obligation to place the GPL'd source code on the internet as was implied.
We do it anyway, because it's the right thing to do, but ...
When I first heard it ages ago I was dubious. The fact this is the only story since then makes me pretty sure it is a load of BS.

Seriously "Author Eugene Linden, who has been writing about animal intelligence for 40 years"

Pretty sure Eugene Linden has zero training in animal intelligence and is just a journalist.

Why can't people just be happy with the fact non humans are just that, not humans please stop trying to anthropomorphism them.
Well, since you already tried the most techy things, then yes, the Apple service is your best bet.
pretty sad to here this from opera. i've been an avid opera user for the last 10 years. i haven't seen as much innovation in any other browser like ive seen in opera. from mouse gestures to tab grouping to the closed tabs list to a million other features that were first in opera and slowly migrated to all the other browsers. sure websites sometimes didn't render properly and no one ever cared to properly support it, but still they were always on the cutting edge feature wise.

although this doesn't change my stance on using opera, i hope this results in a ousting of the current ceo.
1. Accessibility - For people with poor eyesight this can be a great tool as it has camera built in.

2. Augmented Reality apps where information will be overlaid on top of Real life objects to provide useful meta information.
I should say that I haven't played Sim City versions since Sim City 3000 myself.

The main criticism was actually not the tax rate, as much as the model. In most of Europe, most tax money flows to the national governments, and large parts of the municipal spending then flows back out from the national government earmarked for specific areas, such as education.

In many cases municipal governments have no power to alter tax rates, or are bound to a very limited range.

In many countries most tax revenue also comes from VAT, rather than income taxes, and highly progressive taxation is a large part of the discussion of income taxes. Just the idea of having a single setting for tax rate itself in the original was/is something you would occasionally find advocated from far right parties, but never the European mainstream.

You would also tend to see larger infrastructure projects funded by regional or national governments, rather than coming out of municipal tax revenue.

Of course a lot of this would complicate game mechanics, and so it might be considered "just" a simplification, but it creates a model that from a European perspective is bizarre.
For years, I felt that my failed startup was exactly that. A failure, and an embarrassment. Recently, I took to writing about it, hoping that simply having it written down would change my perspective. It did.

I was looking for a job change, and I used this chance to add that failure to my resume. It is a part of my history, whether or not I personally felt that it was a failure. Surprisingly, the instant I sent out my new resume to companies (I previously left it out due to shame), I was invited for interviews with MUCH greater success, and got a few decent offers. Of course, the companies I applied to were different from the ones previously, so I cannot say for sure that putting the startup had a better result, but it seems to be true.

Even during interviews, employees at these companies seemed to light up when discussing my experience with my failed startup. It has allowed me to value those 3 years much more, and no longer look back on it and hide it in shame.
Yes, but are they running opera mobile? My understanding was that it lost popularity when the government stopped allowing people to use it to jump the GFW.
I love the thought of someone so focused on a book, phone, or conversation with a friend that they didn't notice they were sitting opposite a dog on the subway. It could be a comic in The New Yorker.
Thanks! Actually, I'm happy to address this comment now that it got your positive rephrasing. But first I should add I no longer work at OkCupid, and even if I did, the company is far bigger than one person's opinion. What I'm stating on HN is my personal opinion, not OkC's.

Ok, I personally find this kind of lawsuit deplorable for 2 reasons:

(1) The world is better when people share ideas and don't try to claim ownership over them. If, while I worked at OkCupid, someone left my company and used "secrets" we held to start or improve a competitor, I would believe it was their right. And that I had failed to nurture their creativity or compensate them well enough.

(2) This is an individual being assaulted at a corporate magnitude.
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Uranium (or other radioactive materials) don't directly generate much electricity - they mostly generate heat. Most nuclear power plants generate electricity by having that heat turn water into steam, which is then used to power steam turbines that actually drive the generator coils. Of course, in order to do this, you have to be able to pump water into the reactor to be turned into steam, and that pumping requires power. So yes, while you definitely need power for the safety/management equipment, the major bootstrap issue is almost certainly all of the power necessary for the pumps.
It depends on the designer.

1) Preferably, all I have to do is say "That looks nice, let me know if you need the application to generate any dynamic elements." A good web designer will be able to apply their design skills to the site. They'll work with me, and I'll make sure that the system is generating whatever content they need to style. It's the best way of ensuring that the end result matches the designer's vision.

If that's not an option,

2) Ask the designer to provide all of the individual images that they used to create the mockup, along with relevant CSS and HTML. Some designers can't apply their design ideas to dynamic websites yet, but can create a static page of their design. We take that as a guide, break it apart, and then put it back together bit by bit in such a way that it works with the dynamic system. This is, of course, less efficient.

And if that's not an option,

3) Curse and waste time slicing apart the mockup to try to extract the same images that the designer pasted together to create the mockup. Then do all the work of converting the mockup to a web design and applying the design ourselves. This is least efficient and has the greatest chance of being not quite what the designer intended due to the increased likelihood of miscommunication, having programmers doing design work, and because the designer often knew nothing about the underlying system that they were designing for (otherwise we'd probably be in one of the previous cases).

Also, as mentioned by hnruss, we discover the implied functionality, find out the requirements, and build code to support it. Then we add in all the missing pieces that typically get left out of mockups, such as error messages, or content that only shows for users with certain roles or in certain conditions. (Ever wondered why error and confirmation messages are often poorly designed?)
I'm not so sure there's much demand by women, and even so I believe they would have extremely high standards for men that I'm not sure I'd be able to meet (esp. without lots of work in the gym).

If I'm mistaken, let me know, since it would probably be kind of cool to get money to help ladies (even if possibly old and/or ugly) achieve orgasms.
Recommend trying to find something short term in SF. Apart from the fact that all the major startups (Twitter, Obvious Corp, Pinterest, Airbnb, Square, etc) are based in SF, it's only a 35-40 min drive to Mountain View and most importantly, you'll be able to connect more easily with YC alum mostly living in SF. Check Craigslist SF Bay for short term, furnished housing.
Yeah we want to go close to the YC offices if possible. Do you know if most people do houses or apartments?
Wouldn't it be uncommon for a lawyer to allow him to say anything at all? As far as the lawyer's job is concerned, letting the client talk can never help, it can only hurt. I know this is the case for criminal cases, but I'm not sure if it applies to civil cases.
Is Xrecruting.com a typo in the blog post, or in the domain actually registered?
A year on and I'm still using a multitude of letterboxed apps.
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Just when my poor parents were starting to get the hang of using their new iPhones... On a more serious note, I know it's never going to happen, but it would be nice if Apple would just create a Theme system and allow the user to choose how they want their default apps and controls displayed.
Reality check: Harvey Mudd has 800 undergraduates total (my high school was bigger than that), implying 200 undergrads per year over all programs. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-... says they graduate 20 women with CS degrees a year, and this article says women are 40% of the CS majors, implying there are 50 CS majors total or 30 male CS majors. They don't say how many there were before or how that compares with other colleges, but the NYT article says that the national average is 18.2%; to bring the Mudd percentage down to ~18% while leaving fixed the 30 males, they would have not 20 females but 7. So the entirety of their gain for each graduating class is 13 students; that's not a whole lot of students that you need to poach...

The NYT article mentions that she extracted >$25m from R. Michael Shanahan, and presumably that's paying for things like sending the girls to conferences. (Mudd tuition is $57k a year. I wonder how the guys feel about that.) This article implies that she started this program in 2005; at 13 females a year over the last 8 years, that's 104 total, which over $25m is $240k a head.

> At Mudd, about 40% of the computer science majors are women. That's far more than at any other co-ed school.

The NYT link mentions that "At Carnegie Mellon, the percentage of incoming women enrolled in the computer science program has been rising since 2008, and is at 32 percent. M.I.T.’s figure is 30 percent." Given that MIT's undergraduate body is 13x the size of HM's, their achievement is vastly more impressive.

So to summarize: this is a tiny lavishly funded program staffed with elite teachers and graced with the attention and praise of famous or notable people, with miserably small results which cannot possibly be replicated on any kind of national scale.
Google AdWords and bidding systems might fit this bill
On a site with "News" in its name, you'd expect articles to be at least somewhat timely. Otherwise, we could all just start posting random wikipedia articles or other things we happen to have just discovered ourselves, regardless of whether they already made the rounds months or years ago.

This was a great article - I read it when it came out - three years ago. Unless there's an update, it's worth noting that this is a three-year-old post.
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No, nor do they take equity.. They do provide a ton of "goodies". Credits to hosting providers, lawyers etc... And the mentoring is priceless.
Edge-cases happen. By definition. And some edge-cases are necessary trade offs.

Without knowing MUCH MUCH more into the issue, I wouldn't call it neither oversight, nor incompetence.
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Australia's energy regulator (http://www.aemo.com.au/) runs a separate pricing market (ancillary) for producers who are able to provide black start capability to the network, amongst other things like frequency regulation (I think...).
Right, because justice tends to be a one-sided story. Let's be clear that all you are basing your opinion on is an abridged, single viewpoint account of events.

There is such a rush to bless this guys post and chastise opera in these comments it is astounding. I don't understand the complete disregard for a balanced consideration of the facts.
dumb question here (and I do apologize for it) - but I never really understood how you can see someone is being downvoted. I know when I'm downvoted because I lose karma - How do you know what someone else is being downvoted?
Well, not any. For example, still no built-in decent package manager able to download and install software along with dependencies.
Good question. In the normal process, we offer no funding, and take no equity. We give advice and coaching to companies we think are likely to move the web in a positive direction. Keeping money out of it at this stage keeps things simple.
See my answer above. We should tweak the site to make it clearer, thanks for the feedback.
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http://www.techinasia.com/operas-mobile-browser-silently-con... - Millions of Monthly Unique Users in China and other Asian countries as per this article on 03/05/13
Ah interesting take. Did you go through YC?
GUI-based system still needs command shell or it will lose a lot of flexibility arising from being able to evaluate small bits of code and therefore code incrementally.

"Immediate mode" counts.
Some homes have short term sublet rentals. (airbnb, homeaway). For short term apts in Mountain view, try here: http://bit.ly/ZSpLCS
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You and the guys who work at Xenforo can have a my old employer is suing me party. Curious, what idiot in management at Opera decided to MITM attack https traffic on mobile platform for "optimizations"?
We should be very very thankful for these questions. They differentiate the people that have really read around and understand what it is that we're doing in CS, and those that have just been to the lectures.
I think that assumption is "tricky", in that Sim City lets you control a lot of things that would not come out of municipal budgets in most European countries, and this is part of what makes it unrealistic from a European perspective.

The limit is actually ludicrously high if you consider municipal taxes. E.g. Norway has a tax load of somewhere around 40% (which includes the effect of up to 25% VAT - the income tax rate for most people is substantially lower), but only 12% of tax revenue, or 5% of income, ends up back in municipal coffers. The rest is spent in regional or national budgets.

Of those 5%, maybe 3% actually is income taxes, and they're outside the control of the municipal government.

So if we are to see it as municipal taxes, the limit is ridiculously high, from this perspective. If we are to see it as income taxes, or total tax load, it is way too low.

But even the idea that the municipal government can control tax rate to that extent, and has that wide latitude in where the money gets spent is (fairly far) right wing from a European perspective.
What about the possibility (perhaps remote) that damaging the ex-employer's reputation (by disclosing what at least looks pretty vindictive) will bring it [ETA: the ex-employer] into a two-front war and make them less successful in the suit? I'm not a lawyer so I'm way out of my depth here, but is this something that could possibly work?

Edit: slippery pronoun
I guess it works when customers are competing for limited resources. Could you create a supply limit in SaaS that customers would compete to buy?
> We do it anyway, because it's the right thing to do, but ...

I don't really understand where this is going. Is there some implication that Google would stand to benefit in any way from not releasing the code?
I meant that with that level of trust it wouldn't be too hard to adapt the attack to shift to gaining that sort of information. ie; We are adding you to our employee database but we need your SSN last 4.
I'm sure the paging toggle helped you in your case, but I'm also sure that it's not the OS X paging implementation that causes this "in general".

I.e that if someone doesn't disable paging, he will have the effects you describe.

Even if it's paging related it's probably something that effect specific users, not some overall fault in the implementation of paging.
could you link me to where the original is?
If votes is <= 0, the text color changes from black to light grey. He is now in the black, but the comment would have been made when that wasn't the case.
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it's a redacted version of the full link.
That's very true, but it was just a class project, and wouldn't have been the end of the world.
This reminds me of a side project I've been working: http://autobot.io. Idea is to have a chat bot in your email that can handle mundane tasks. I started with scheduling as that's a particularly acute pain-point for me.
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Or better still, let the court hear both sides of the story and let them decide.
What do you mean "allow him"?

Lawyers do not make decisions (or at least, should not).
We exist to assess risk, analyze liabilities, advise clients, and hopefully, present options and strategies to minimize risk while still accomplishing a given goal.

Any smart lawyer in this case knows part of him still being hirable is going to be not having his entire reputation destroyed. Depending on the accusations, "say nothing" may not be a necessary or even valid strategy.
Additionally, the client is the one paying. If they strongly feel they want to defend themselves, your job as a lawyer is to try to make sure it does not legally jeopardize their case (or warn them if it will and they want to do it anyway).

In any case, note that civil cases in most countries are strongly pushed to settlements. This is one of the reasons for broad discovery in most places.

All of this said, lawsuits against employees like this are pretty darn rare. Having been involved in a number of these situations on the other side, usually they are just bluster, basically a warning that "if he works on something competitive, we will come after you", or a warning shot to stop poaching.
An actual lawsuit is usually reserved for exec and above, which i don't think he was (Sorry if i'm misunderstanding the level/ladder distinctions Opera uses :P)

Lawsuits like this tend to only result when someone has really pissed someone else off, or plans on doing something one side sees as really damaging.

Again, the above is my experience in the US, Norway may be different.

Outside of the actual legal realm, there is always a hearts and minds war. People stop paying attention to this stuff very quickly. Whatever gets said in the first few days will be the narrative for a long time.
After the first few hacker news posts, this will go away for a year or two, and then someone will win or lose.
In the meantime, if he doesn't speak, everyone will think of him as "that guy that stole stuff from Opera".
On the other hand, if he frames the narrative right, it becomes "Opera, that company that is going down the tubes because it has resorted to suing former consultants on baseless charges".

Since nobody really wants to go to court, or lose mindshare (In this case, it's very valuable to both sides for very different reasons), whoever frames the narrative best tends to extract the most favorable settlement terms, or at least, go into the suit with a better stance and ability to press claims harder.

In an actual trial of course, it won't make a lick of difference.
Except that Opera has historically been one of the most significant proponents for open standards, the WHATWG, and opening the web to people without internet access. One should also not forget that Opera is now contributing, and have already landed several patches, to the Chromium and Blink projects.
I care about genealogy! Of course, it's debatable if I'm considered "young" since I'm 30. I think maybe there would be privacy issues and personality rights to photographs that would get in the way of such a big family tree.

Not to mention a security issue as well since most financial institutions ask for your mother's maiden name as a security question.
The title is a bit misleading. It's not an attack, more like well done social engineering.

But the context is very helpful - especially with the amount of detail you provide, along with the email exchange, one can see the target was totally abused.

The lanyard, laptop, false recruiting - you really overdid it, but I mean that in a positive way. I like it, it's so great - you could almost make a movie out of it ;-)

That's creative thinking. Congrats on your victory.
I don't see that being a problem, provided everything he wrote is simply a matter of fact. Perhaps I'm an optimist.
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Opera Mini can't render HTML (only OPML), so they have to make the SSL connection on your behalf from the server. This isn't exactly a MITM attack, and from what I remember last time I played with it, they even warn you of the implications the first time you try to view secure content.

Opera Mobile and Desktop never mess with SSL, period.
1. You didn't have to tell anyone you were a lawyer. Just speak and it will remove all doubt.

2. Who you are is irrelevant to the original comment...

3. Your third statement only affirms your status of lawyer as you are twisting a statement to suit yours.

original statement:
It's not as if they were making us a gift... As soon as they sold their first device it was required by the Linux kernel GPL2 license to release the kernel source code.

Your version:
<He> implied Google has some affirmative obligation to place the source code on the internet...Google definitely has no affirmative obligation to place the GPL'd source code on the internet as was implied

I still can't see how releasing the source on the internet was implied regardless of your lawyering... ;)
"training in animal intelligence" sounds impressive.

I believe this is the guy:
http://www.eugenelinden.com/index.html
He actually wrote an awful lot of books.
No, but have a ton of friends who have gone through YC. Also live in SF. Can give you more advice - want to add me on LinkedIn?
>> Sure, but the parent said "it was required by the Linux kernel GPL2 license to release the kernel source code"

>> This is not technically true.

You sir, are, technically...

Do you work for Google by any chance? It's good manners to technically declare any conflict of interest. Not technically required, but technically suggested by the technicians at HN