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And part of why I ended up skimming the piece is that I'm not convinced original post can be interpreted to that degree.

Remember, this is (putatively) a direct communication from the CEO of a large multi-billion dollar company. If it sounds breezy and informal, it is because she wanted it to sound breezy and informal. Whether or not the actual process described is breezy and informal is hard to ascertain under the fact that she wanted it to sound that way. Every sentence may be literally true, but who knows what was omitted to fit the breezy-and-informal template.

I think an awful lot of people are over-interpreting a chunk of text that probably doesn't contain anywhere near as much information as it appears to. CEOs at this scale are masters of using lots of words and appearing to say things while in fact saying either nothing at all, or saying something that bears very little resemblance to the surface.
I'm wondering if anyone shared my experience on this:

I'd seen a few posts referencing a change in the Yahoo logo. Having not been to the site for a long time (year or more?) I wasn't inclined to see. Then comes this article, which I get sucked into (proper & creative use of obscenity can work), and read the whole diatribe...without knowing what the new logo is. Worked up about the change, having now learned its details without knowing the result, I take a look.

Yahoo.com. New logo...meh. It screams "corporate" without the big-budget expensive-talent origin. It speaks of whimsy and cross-discipline inventiveness...beaten into submission by an unhappy "you did my job and now I have to clean up the mess" department.

The problem isn't that they didn't pay a large sum for its development, it's that there are people who are very good at such things (be it highly paid or tangential hobby) and none of them were on the weekend team. I'm reminded of the story of Steve Jobs calling a top guy at Google late one weekend to complain that their shade of yellow was wrong - and he was right.
I'm astonished by that time number. I have a 400 page book, with a 150 page answers to exercises that is emmitted as part of the book compilation and then compiled on its own. I use a simple shell script that compiles each twice (for the cross-referencing). It takes perhaps 10 secs on my five year old middle of the road laptop. Are you remaking complex drawings each time? What is the performance sink, I wonder?
We continue downloading from a different client (generally, files are downloaded from more than one client to improve speed) or if we estimate that that's still going to be too slow, we just load the image from the origin server.
This video shows him rather ham-fistedly interacting with a 3D model of a rocket engine assembly, then for some reason he goes on to show it being 3D printed.

Anyone involved in using 3D CAD and component design, including using Siemens NX which he refers to in the video will have seen or used a six axis Space mouse controller by 3D connexion which costs a few hundred bucks and is massively more precise than using a leap motion.

These space mice have been available for well over a decade and use simple optical encoders to derive translation and rotation.

No doubt the leap motion has uses at and beyond the desktop but it has a way to go yet to overcome the problems in the algorithms for interpreting gestures at a distance.
T-Mobile's coverage is poor in non-metro areas (I say this as a T-Mobile subscriber). The idea of a state-based phone operator that allows roaming from other states is an interesting one (though I'll admit I have no idea how it would play out)
Which is the same number of moving parts as a basic two stroke engine.

The trouble is the damn heavy and slow to charge batteries plus of course the environmental efects of mining all the battery materials.

What we need is a fuel cell based car with electric drive.
Beside the terrible name, if they pull this off, I would be very happy.

If they propose crowdfunding this for example, I would happily throw on it lots of money =D
Yes, you have a point in that modesty is virtuous. My "all-star" profile and it's recommendations were also keeping me fairly "externally referenced" in that I only kept the profile online for that fact that others has said nice things about me. I felt that knowing in myself that I am competent and fairly confident in myself was enough. No small feat given that I personally have a history of substance abuse, stemming from self-esteem issues. In this way, it did feel liberating.
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Well said. I studied mechanical engineering but ended up as a software/firmware engineer. What I learned in school is how to study theoretical literature and apply it to my job.
So what? Let's hope that he's got a really bad case of it.

He's got 7 billion dollars and a lot of resources that he can bring to bear. If he continues to take a deeper dive into its uses he could help spur further development. Either by creating the products with his team, or by purchasing third party solutions, thereby "investing" in other companies.

Now Elon needs to figure out how to incorporate an exoskeleton suit into one of his companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton
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Maybe he's not showing us everything? SpaceX competitive advantage is that they do everything in house. So he probably doesn't want to show all their capabilities. But it sure acts as a great recruiting tool.
Heh. It would be funny if people in COMSEC actually allowed this material to be leaked because they were disgusted about SIGINT putting so many vulnerabilities into publicly available crypto, and wanted to let it be revealed to stop that practice.

Unlikely, though. More likely that Snowden was just acting on his own. And he didn't really have "the keys to the kingdom"; just more access to a fileserver that had lots of PowerPoints on it than he should have had. If you note, almost everything that has leaked so far is PowerPoints where various branches of the NSA describe to each other and other government agencies what capabilities they have, but not the actual details of those capabilities. He probably had access to some fileserver used by the higher level executives at the NSA, but they do compartmentalize information and as they mentioned were very secretive about exactly what those vulnerabilities consist of, so there's a good chance that he didn't have access to systems where that was described.
Have a look at Rebol parse dialect for an alternative mind blowing way of doing things!

Here's is OP example ported to parse:

; build some sub rules
r: context [
domain: charset [#"a" - #"z" #"-"]
proto: ["http" | "https"]
tld: ["com" | "org"]
]

; simple URI rule
rule: [
copy proto r/proto
"://"
some [copy d some r/domain #"." (append domain d)]
copy tld r/tld
["/" | end]
]

; capture
proto: tld: d: none
domain: []

; usage example
parse "http://www.example.com/" rule

; Above returns true with following variables set to...
;
; proto = "http"
; domain = ["www" "example"]
; tld = "com"

Here's a nice tutorial on parse (though it's probably Rebol 2 centric) - http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/parse-tutorial.html
Great post and spot-on.
Yes, they are. HOWEVER:

The USA is HUGE. It's not cost effective to put data where every inch of land is covered, ever slow data (EDGE). There's a ton of sparsely populated land, and rural areas. T-Mobile is a small operator and has the crappiest network coverage. It is 1000x better than it was 4 years ago, as they are adding more coverage, but it is expensive and slow. T-mobile is the worst for data coverage, and voice coverage. I had them for years, and I eventually dropped them for Verizon because I was finding myself without any cellphone service so often, because I travel often, and I find myself in rural areas. If I stayed in the city all the time it would work for me. That means no voice, no SMS, no data.

Take a look at T-Mobile's 3G and 4G coverage map (and voice):

http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx/

Verizon:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/support/coverage-locator

Sprint:

http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp

AT&T:

http://www.att.com/maps/wireless-coverage.html

The other big issue is we have two standards here. GSM and CDMA. GSM is what T-Mobile and AT&T use, and CDMA is what Verizon and Sprint use. These can't play nice-nice with each other. Plus AT&T's 3G was different from T-Mobile's 3G so a AT&T 3G phone couldn't work with T-Moble's 3G signal and vice-visa.

With 4G LTE, I believe this is a standard that both GSM and CDMA are "upgrading" to. I know that my CDMA phone needed a SIM card to work with the 4G LTE network (CDMA cards previously didn't require SIM cards).
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Except he is nearly always incorrect in what he is reporting. For instance, in this article he makes a claim that early reuters data leads to front-running. That is just technically wrong. If he is going to report on a subject, understanding the basics of it would be a good start.
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There's something vaguely "scammy" to be about the university logos being featured so prominently on the front page. My first thought was that it was being developed by a consortium of schools, but apparently it is considered good enough if one or more students at the institution use the product...
It has the promise of being a "competences graph", where you being endorsed for "foo" is worth more if those endorsing you for it themselves are endorsed for "foo", on the premise that it "takes one to know one". This would then be useful metadata that qualifies the rather dimension-less "connection".

But yeah, the execution is so horrid that it reeks of malice.
For those that are interested, here is a link to the scene:

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/paych...
Canada has similar programs. EBC (in British Columbia) provides a direct 30% refund on investment in eligible companies [1].

[1]: http://www.pushormitchell.com/law-library/article/30-tax-ref...
Thanks S4M, will try after coursera course.

Did you try it ? I know a good way to learn about things is to try to break them, but I wonder if that approach of "learn to break crypto to learn crypto" is as efficient in the very beginning as to try first to build crypto (most of the time, when learning a new tech, I cover the basics before trying to understand other people code).
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I'm the founder of Hidden Reflex, the creator of Epic...please do post your comments as you get a chance to use Epic! Our mission is to build a browser built on chromium that protects your privacy to the maximum extent possible without "breaking the internet". Tell us what you think, thanks!
Honestly Stock Market investing is not nor has it ever been for the common man. The hyper aggressive day trading & HFT sector is not for the common man. As for the slow long term investment route, the biggest section that gets abused by the savvy investors is the institutional pensions and such.

Bottom line if you are not going to put in significant effort you are not going to get much out of the stock market except by pure luck, and on average your going to lose... for the common man the effort necessary to make an extra 15% on your yearly income in the stock market, is more than if you did overtime or even went out and got a part time second job to earn that extra 15%
Two words: confirmation bias.
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> Personally I don't think there is an intern named Max who did that (most likely an agency)

Well, Max Ma does seem to be a real guy, who's claiming the motion graphics on his personal website:

http://maxmadesign.com/work006.html

@Maxmadesign
Personally, I think you're missing the forest for the trees. I think the unprofessionalism, the BS, the Mayer-hands-on thing... that is part of Yahoo's new branding strategy.

It's all about making Yahoo feel more personal. More like your friend. Mayer is trying to personally invite you out for coffee to and talk about the fun she had bashing out their logo.

I'm sure there are refinements that are happening behind-the-scenes after Mayer's "weekend". Hopefully resized forms of the logo will still get some TLC - the public doesn't generally notice when those things happen.

Remember the demographic that Yahoo survived upon - women. Non-geeky grown-up middle-class women. That's why the new logo reminds you of a department store like Macy's, or the makeup counter at Shoppers Drug Mart. That's who Mayer is targeting with this ad, even this blog. It's a huge number of people that most of the technorati ignore - Facebook captured that market practically by accident, and Pinterest is exploding because somebody finally thought to actually aim in that direction on purpose. And what's pinterest about? Craftsmanship. Craftswomanship. Getting your hands dirty on a fun little artistic project.

Like making a logo.

Latter-day Yahoo has always found strength in ignoring the geek elite. They lost the geek elite a long time ago. This includes you, design geeks.
> This is easily disabled in a make up file or by recompiling the .exe pdflatex or similar.

The executable just takes a command line flag. On a Linux system, man tex will give you information; see the shell-escape option (TeX Live and MacTeX disable it by default, I don't know what MiKTeX does).
This demo comes close (only works on the phone, and make sure to swipe up to see the menu): http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2220075/ios7/lax.html

I forget where this comes from, I just have the link.
Ask HN: Starting on a new project, what programming language to use?
Hey Guys,

I have good experience with Java, Javascript, HTML and actionscript. I have dabbled in ruby,nodejs, scala, clojure, lisp and lots of other languages. I am going to start building out a new web application. I was thinking about building out the web application with a new language, so that I can get a deeper understanding of it. So what is the best language and framework for a java guy?
How does this compare to std::stringstream? I don't see any mention of that class in this article.
Absolutely true.

A spike in orders in advance of an "important" time implies that people are trading in anticipation of market movements around that time.

It does not, on its own, imply that anyone has material, non-public information in advance of anybody else.
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"If they had done this a year ago"

I guess we would never know but I disagree with you. Part of Nokia's charm had been always the ability to differentiate from the rest. And that would be really hard to do in an Android environment where the war is about high-end hardware at a cheap price.

Right now, Lumia 920 was supposedly in the same league than the Galaxy S4 and the iPhone 5 (performance wise speaking). But the S4 have a quadcore CPU and 2Gb of RAM while the Lumia "survives" with a dual core and 1Gb of RAM, roughly the half of hardware.

WP8 is fast enough to mask that hardware difference but without that advantage, I can't see how they would be competitive enough either with the price or with the spects
I agree that those who are outraged/concerned need to bring this out into the public sphere...however, I think the OP is ignoring the effect of technology here. Even with government surveillance curtailed, they will still have room, with the advent of more powerful computers and infrastructure, to make mistakes...and so individuals should get used to the practice of security, because, unlike a home invasion or breaking the seal of a physical letter, it's much harder to detect when your online privacy has been (inadvertently or maliciously) broken.
My money is on Mozilla...although its hard to bet against the 19 year-old.
I posted on the wrong level, my suggestions are here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6339708
I once asked, on LinkedIn of course, if anyone had ever gotten a job using LinkedIn.

No one had.
> Note though that when you say "could grow up" you yourself are implying that they are not "capable and responsive" at the present time.

No, I imply that some may not be "capable and responsible" at the present time because they are not empowered right now and treated as idiots, and that giving them trust would make them so.

>> Do we want to live in a world when one power should be powerful enough to project its own moral norms to all the others?

> Yes. And you too. I just happen to agree with the current power on this particular issue.

No, I don't project anything to you. As I said, do what you like, but don't forbid someone else to do the same. If you don't want to do it, fine, but if me and my boyfriend/girlfriend/neighbors what to do it, leave us alone with your projected moral views.
So what he can do in the video is not exactly revolutionary. But none of those techs can live up to their potential without this kind of experimentation and integration with each other.

It's not the next Tesla, but I'm glad to see someone taking these technologies seriously, even when they have some work ahead of them.
Heard of Planetary Annihilation http://www.uberent.com/pa/ ?
Apparently some of their guys worked on TA back in the day..looks very promising to me!
> Undermining cryto from the inside means deliberately exposing all communicates to increased risk of hacking by anyone, anywhere

Well, that does depend on how they weaken it. If it gets weakened such that it goes from "impossible" to "nation-states can crack" then there's still only 3-4 agencies in the whole world that could decrypt.

But that would also tend to preclude passive wideranging cryptanalysis, which is what I'm sure NSA would prefer to be able to do.
I develop web apps with Python + Django, and I enjoy every minute of it.
While I agree with the author's ideals, I think the comparison between the personal computer with a personal home is not a very good one: computers are not local anymore, they are (very) connected to a global network most of the time; houses are not.

Even in an ideal world where there are no secret government agencies looking through all of my data, I would still seal the envelope of letters I send, and I think cryptography should be treated as at least that. Increased public awareness is a good thing, and if we can trust it that's even better.
Military usually excels at it's applications.
Right now, it's not anonymous but we're working on adding anonymity by relaying traffic through intermediate peers (like Tor).

Re: stealing bandwidth, I feel like web apps are being held to a ridiculous standard compared to Desktop apps. If you download an app, does it explicitly ask you for permission to use your upload bandwidth? I've never had any app to do that. But, a lot of apps do use upload bandwidth. In fact, Spotify does P2P to serve a LOT of its content. Check out the stats from Spotify: http://torrentfreak.com/spotify-a-massive-p2p-network-blesse...

Ultimately, I think it's better for the web if the traffic is more decentralized because it renders sites hard to DDOS and censor. You can read more about this aspect of peerCDN in our Mozilla Ignite App here: https://mozillaignite.org/apps/479/
All this and you don't delve in "founding" which is what made me cringe more than the grammar (as a non-native speaker I tend to tollerate bad grammar but spot quickly bad syntax)
Hmmm, while I agree with the sentiment, I don't think it's as simple as putting it in the hands of a "professional".

Simply picking the right designer is something that requires an inordinate amount of taste to start with. People with no taste or feel for design stand a strong chance of picking a poor designer (or agency).

I'll cite Wolf Olins here as my example. Not only is it clear that no one in Wolf Olins seems to have taste or a feel for design, their clients don't seem to have it either. So there's a feedback loop of affirmation as people with no taste reward other people with no taste, which in turns makes other people with no taste think those other people with no taste have taste because all the people they know that they think have taste think those other people have taste.

Meanwhile, the actual people with taste are watching from the sidelines, because they've marginalised themselves by being honest about what is good design and what is bad design, but with a passion that comes across as pedantry and rudeness. So they watch in despair as the whole debacle unfolds in front of them, growing ever more frustrated which serves only to marginalise them even more.

While I'm here... I think almost everything Wolf Olins churns out is sub-stadard slop barely worthy of a fist year national diploma students portfolio. Their work has neither grace, finesse, or charm. It's all cack-handed indulgent arse-gravy of the highest order dipped in a seemingly bottomless ocean of post-rationalisation and I can not believe that people keep lapping it up. It's rank amateur. Their work stinks like shit and I hate them for it.

And there I go, proving my point about why no-one listens to designers.
Insider trading requires material, non-public information about a publicly traded firm, which the Michigan Survey is not. Additionally, there are regulations which pertain to releases from the the Treasury and the Departments of Labor and Commerce which also would not apply to the Michigan number.

The Michigan Survey is one (probably the most prominent) of a number of private surveys and data point the big banks, but also include things like National Association of Purchasing Managers Survey, LA Port Traffic, Mortgage Banking Association Mortgage Applications, American Institute of Architecture Billing Index (leading indicator of construction), and a host of others.
Too many negative comments here.

Folks, "there's nothing new", until there is. At some point, new tech is a toy and dismissed because of its limitations. The whole idea is to identify those limitations and push through them.

SpaceX actually has some use for new ways to interact with virtual 3D objects. Everyone is focusing on modelling, but there's also the visualization. Which can be more important than the modelling itself. For comparison, think about how much time you spend writing code, vs reading and debugging code.

Technologies like these enables us to get new ways of looking at things. We are focusing on rotation and panning, but gesture-based interfaces can provide so much more.

Also, we are thinking about people sitting at desks, where other input devices might be more desirable. But what about gesture-based screens in other environments. Say, at the factories themselves? We are visual beings and we like to point at stuff (and talk about stuff). Maybe a combination of speech recognition and gestures would enable new interactions with machines?

Yeah, comparing to Iron Man is silly, but it is amusing. And easy for the average Joe to understand. That is PR, and NASA could learn from it.
This is frequently the case with IT driven projects. Someone sees a new technology and has to promise the users, "You can still do what you always did" to get approval. This is also what happens when you replace things for technical reasons. (We have to upgrade Sybase, the old system doesn't support the new version of Sybase, so we'll implement something new...)

The best cases of improving enterprise business is when the project is driven by a respected line manager, who can challenge people to make tough decisions. These are frequently managers with CS or technology backgrounds who have migrated over. It can't be a, "Put this person on the project because they're not useful elsewhere." It has to be, "Put this person on the project, because it's the only way to guarantee it'll succeed."
Funnily enough I just signed a new lease in an apartment that doesn't have fibre. We rejected a place that did have fibre, just down the road.

Bigger apartment with better kitchen, view, facilities, and lower price. There aren't many places connected yet, and it's not looking like many more will be.