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What?

Why would you do this?

You're basically saying you work constantly. What is the point of life if you're always working?

No friends, family, social activities, or random fun unproductive moments? Is this truly a goal for the tech community? To just be a slave your whole life?
Thanks everyone for their reviews. Glad to hear this isn't a POS text.

I'm taking this at Millersville University as a once-a-week, 3 hour evening course. I'm a Physics and CS major, and am taking it as an elective to get a Math minor.

With all the NSA and crypto news these days, it sounds like a great time to learn about the fundamentals of crypto. And I'm curious if there will be actual programming involved because to my knowledge, there aren't any prereqs for it, not even an intro to programming course.
There is nothing wrong with "copying" kernel. This is what the open source is aimed at: Infectious growth. In fact that was the right and smart thing to do.
Its not a hair split, consider MPEGLA, they don't make anything, they just provide a one stop shop for patent licenses. Or Public Key Partners. The list goes on.

I agree with the Nortel Retirees that Google knew this was coming, they just decided it would cost less to defend than the $X billion dollars they would have had to bid to get the patents.
"Kidnap" is a highly unconventional way to spell "arrested by local police and extradited."
> Are you saying there is no joke so bland, overused, and by the books that it would make people groan and say "that joke is so bad I feel offended you would think I would find that funny"

Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. A joke cannot become so lazy that it actually offends people with how lazy it is. In the most extreme case realistically imaginable, a series of sufficiently lazy jokes may anger people if they shelled out a lot of money on tickets to hear jokes, but even then they would not be offended unless there is something besides just lazy jokes at play.

Disliking fart jokes and being offended by fart jokes are two different things. If you are actually offended by fart jokes, chances are it has something to do with the scatological nature of fart jokes and your puritanical mentality towards such things. If you merely dislike fart jokes, chances are it is because you are not twelve.
And that's exactly why money is freedom, when you have it, at least.

Having money or, more specifically, not needing money means that you are free to engage in whatever business engagements you see fit. For the illegal immigrants, oftentimes, their options are "work for less than what is fair" or "not work at all". For them, the decision is easy.

For many Americans, overextended, and with no way to feed themselves without work, we see a similarly exploitative environment as well. The minimum wage is designed to prevent against that, and it does, though now people are suggesting it doesn't, but either way, economic freedom is freedom from having to enter into an agreement that you wouldn't do if you didn't have to.

Unfortunately, only having money buys you that economic freedom.
One of my friends wanted me to share how I work with him. I thought it might also be helpful for like-minded people.
Because the meme is about Nickelback.

Why isn't it pet hamsters like cheeseburgers? Why isn't it puppies that like cheeseburgers? Why isn't it parrots that like cheeseburger? The meme is that cats like cheeseburgers. Does it make sense? Is it something even worth bothering to analyze?
The reason for paying licensing fees doesn't have to be that Micro$oft has something valuable, it could very well be they are afraid of legal repercussions.
Exactly. Look I get it, we are engineers who like logical rules that are applied evenly and without exceptions... But google already does tweak things, so "integrity" is IMO a weird concept to apply to SERPs.
The most important of it all is write a lot of code. Write it for a cause. Write more of newer, faster, cleaner, clever, smarter code. The more you write the better developer you will become.
I am not. I love those tools. This is the real reason I mentioned their names. They helped me accomplish things. I truly believe, if this is the case, there are lots of other people who could benefit using them. Like I do.
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Lots of the patents now used by patent trolls were originally granted to companies that meant to use them to protect things they built. What matters here is not Nortel, but Rockstar. And Rockstar frankly seems to me to be worse than ordinary patent trolls. Ordinary patent trolls are just running protection rackets. Rockstar was created not to make money but to suppress competition.
I think "annoyingly lazy" is a very fair description.

"Offensively lazy" annoys me because I don't think it is tongue-and-cheek much of the time. I think it is a phrase that gets brought into the fray when a joke really was offensive to some people. I never hear it in response to "rated PG" jokes; people who say it probably are offended, but it seems they have misidentified the source of their feeling of offense.
That is a pretty striking finding. Has it been reproduced and is it accepted outside the work of that one researcher (and his students)?
The quote is a little less scary in context:

"But the "mystery" of Amazon's surging valuation over recent years becomes a lot less mysterious when we stop trying to understand it by looking at financial statements that were developed long ago for bondholders in an industrial economy, not for stockholders in an information economy – statements that don't tell us what matters most to investors."

The article had nothing to do with creative accounting or misleading financial statements.

To the contrary, Amazon's compliance with accounting rules is a key part of the author's argument -- that Amazon's expenditures on R&D and advertising, though resulting in lower earnings per share right now, are investments that will pay off in the future.

Full Disclosure: Amazonian.
Completely agree with that. I am trying to be happy. In the mean time I am trying to learn, discover, and have fun.
How does this compare to other (commercial) games in this genre?
> For example, "Australians are upside-down".

As an Australian, I don't mind it. Reddit bots which make jokes about it on every comment with the word "Australia" in it ... that's annoying (because bots wear out their welcome pretty fast). But most people like to be joked about.

The only lazy jokes which actually hurt are those which are rubbing salt in a wound.
Here's a good price tracker: http://camelcamelcamel.com/

I've definitely noticed Amazon prices going up. I purchased another chef's knife and it was $10 more expensive than when I first purchased it.
Thanks for the tip. That's really dumb.
I did not say the copying is wrong. I said copying is not innovation
Can anyone provide advice on which language to pick? I started learning C++ and Java in high school and college because those were forced by the curriculum. My first two jobs out of school forced me also to use C# which was close enough to Java. When I wanted to make the leap to script languages, my choice between Python and Ruby basically boiled down to the strength of the local Ruby / Python communities, and Ruby clearly won in that realm.

But with functional programming, I want to learn, but I have far less direction. Scala is perhaps the biggest, but still small. Haskell seems to be the most "hardcore", which appeals to me, whereas I keep anecdotally seeing people who like Ruby and Javascript (my two main languages) also tend to gravitate towards Clojure, and I can't explain why.

So far I've hated Scala's syntax and formatting (much like I hated Objective-C). Haskell is making my brain melt. Clojure seems quite simple and reminds me of my days writing Scheme in school. Any thoughts?
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Sorry, there are memes for other artists too. Why Nickleback meme?

If it isn't worth analye, why are we posting on HN and why are we discussing it? Because it is worth analyzing. Because people, we, all do put in subjective thoughts when we make stuff. And it is worth asking whether that's a good practice or not, whether it is following code of ethics of not. It is part of ethics.
Saying "Apple-backed" (or "Apple and Microsoft owned" as past articles have) insinuate that those companies are pulling the strings, which is not necessarily true. Straight from the horse's mouth [1]:

Given the amount they paid and given the on-going issues at least some of them have with both Google and the Android platform, many reports have talked about the consortium going on the attack or have assumed that it is the shareholders that have driven things. This is categorically not the case, Veschi says. “It was entirely my call based on the facts in front of me,” he states. “The shareholders got an email telling them what had happened after the suits were issued.”

You might not believe him, but it's not necessarily that unbelievable. For instance, Intellectual Ventures is, in a way, "Google-backed", since Google invested in one of their "funds" (or whatever they call it). Yet IV turned around and sued Motorola two years after Google acquired it.

1. http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=d258542c-dbfc...
But even in such cases, there is often no unambiguous X is better than Y argument, because the question isn't exactly clear (There are many dimensions to this. How large is the project, which people are available to work on it, what is the maintainance schedule, which players are involved and will have to look at it, what kind of things do you intend to do, and do you envision hiring people in the future who will work on this?). These then add the a bunch of possibly conflicting dimensions to the right answer, and many of these can be better for X than for Y, even if Y is, from a language design standpoint, 'unambiguously better':

* Dev stacks

* # of developers you have or can reliably hire for it

* The general 'vibe' of the community. Some amazing languages have communities that are nasty, or tend to like overly verbose catering-to-ridiculous-generality libraries, just have way too many conflicting libraries for the same thing, don't have ANY libraries, prefer writing academic 'look at how fancy I can make this code look!' over just getting things done, and so many more unfortunate habits. A great many things that need doing are so simple, the benefit of a strictly better designed language often just don't weigh up to burdening yourself with the nasty habits of the community. You can try and go against the community, but now every time you search, the examples won't 'feel' right, most libraries will clash with your programming styles, when hiring new folks you need to retrain them significantly, and so on and so forth.

Even PHP has benefits. I admit the language is badly designed, extremely inconsistent, dev tooling sucks and the language by design isn't helping in that department either, and the community has an unbelievably nasty habit of mixing up a complete disdain and cluelessness about even basic security and a love of 'hey, it works for me' mentality.

But.. PHP's deploy stack is easy to understand, very widespread, the model pretty much forces you into writing your apps in a way that throwing money at the problem will pretty often work to solve scaling issues, there are a bajillion examples out there, programmers are easy to find, and that 'hey it works for me' attitude can actually come in handy if you're developing in-house.

I love to get on my high horse and shout trite things such as '... but PHP rots the brains of your programmers!', and I do, but if I have to be perfectly honest, I can foresee scenarios where it makes sense for a company to go with PHP.

And, hey, if PHP can sometimes be the right answer, clearly there is no room for the concept of 'X is unambiguously better than Y'.
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Because functional code is on average half the size of imperative code. The shorter the code, the better. If that argument doesn't convince you, then you need to first understand why writing short code is so important.
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You understand that Jay-Z is in charge of his very own corporate empire, yes? He's a mainstream businessman -- talks like one, swaggers like one, is appropriately humble like one. Dresses like one, too, button-downs and everything [1][2][3][4][5][6].

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, wears T-shirts, jeans, and sneakers.

Where are you getting your preconceived notions from? Ask yourself.

[1] - http://www.regalrealness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/jay-...
[2] - http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5034ed43eab8ea7e2d0...
[3] - http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1183!/img/httpIm...
[4] - http://www.okayafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/jay-z-world-tou...
[5] - http://richkidsbrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/jayz2.jp...
[6] - http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/jay-z-premiere-the-...
Because they've built a culture of brash shoot from the hip growth at all cost.
Because it's slower and has larger keys for equivalent security levels. There's growing concern based on recent advances that RSA and DH may not be as secure as is generally thought. [1]

Despite the unease certain people (like Schneier) have with ECC in general (it is more advanced math and fewer people understand it well), and NIST curves in particular (did NSA choose weak classes of curves?)-- based on public knowledge, there are advances in factoring and the discrete log problem, while there's no similar progress against ECDLP.

If NSA knew some attack against ECC or weakness in p256, p384, p521 curves (i.e. anything which doesn't apply to RSA), that would mean they sabotaged the security of Secret and TS information that's allowed to be transmitted using NIST suite B, which uses ECC and specifically those curves. Military comms between NATO allies might also be using Suite B.

Is it possible that NSA has gone completely off the rails, only cares about the security of their own ECI (which I think tends to use their Suite A algorithms)? Are they willing to throw all other cryptography users, including NATO military comms users and other parts of the US Government, under a bus in pursuit of their ability to weaken generally used encryption? Perhaps, but I think it's unlikely. Speaking of which, does GCHQ use Suite A algorithms, or Suite B (including standard ECC and NIST curves), or something else? And the rest of the Five Eyes? That's something that unreleased Snowden documents probably speak to.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/astamos/bh-slides
You're right that shipping !== good code, but I wouldn't be able to keep shipping the same product if it weren't somewhat valuable to my customers.

The point isn't that I'm a unicorn, but that good developers can exist outside of code challenges.

People like me, that are self-taught and work super hard in order to improve our craft...we're not appreciated enough.

Everyone wants a rockstar, forgetting that drummers and bass players add a lot of value.
Yes, happier than ever before. If I was not, I would never continue this. It really helped me accomplish a lot. But there are other things in life that help you. Friends and family, I appreciate them all.
The title of this is "This is How I Work", not "This is How I Play" or "This is How I Spend Time With (Family|Significant Others)". Many of you read way beyond the content of this article and drew the conclusion that the author has no capacity to write equally lengthy posts on those other topics.

The schedule laid out is probably idealized. Would this really be as useful a post if he or she qualified everything with branches like "well, unless it's the first Tuesday of the month... On that day, I meet up with...", "Oh, and every Monday morning I have to put the trash out".

Knowing exactly what you need to do when you really need to shift into Get Sh*t Done mode is incredibly useful, and takes trial and error to continually improve. Stories like these provide new things to try in your own process.
Anyone know if this is merge mined with Primecoin or does it just use the same algorithm?
> Two of the transactions were with Netflix to register new streaming accounts.

I had Netflix and one day noticed I was billed twice on my credit card for Netflix service, one was OK but the other just appeared on my bill.

I used the online chat to talk to a Netflix rep who seemed unimpressed and not the least bit concerned (no frowny emoticon). I asked how a new charge I didn't authorize could appear on my credit card, she had no idea and just kept repeating the company line their system is unable to credit me, so I said but somehow it can magically take double the money? Nice.

Anyway, no apology, no concern so no Netflix.
No, because as the claims state, the bread is heated at a temperature between 2500 F. and 4500 F. Toasters generally operate at much, much lower temperatures -- around 300 F. In case this seems like a minor distinction, consider that toasting bread at 2500 - 4500 F does not give you toast :-)

"A toaster works by applying radiant heat directly to a bread slice. When the bread's surface temperature reaches about 310 degrees Farenheit, a chemical change known as the Maillard reaction begins. Sugars and starches start to caramelize - turn brown - and to take on intense flavors.

"That's toast.

"With more heating, the sugars and underlying grain fibers start turning into carbon.

"That's burnt toast."

- Quote from a Consumer Reports test on toasters, June 1990 (found at http://www.toaster.org/works.html)

I'm not sure what this patent gives you -- heck, maybe it does refresh stale bread -- but it certainly won't give you toast.
Sadly I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only solution to the broken way patents work in this country is for things to get so bad, and these troll lawsuits to get so egregious, that Congress is forced to act and overhall the entire system.
I wanted to create a website to do that, the Boston bombing was what made me think of using public images to see if I could match people. Or at the very least pick a date and a place and access the images in that area maybe see what's available via Google Maps.

And somebody made that damn robot fish too I had an idea for that back in the mid 90s :( /rant
Says the research would be presented Dec 10th. Anyone have a link to the presentation/whitepaper/code?
I just can't help but think most people already knew this before he revealed it...but then I remember...so many people are just under a rock
Favorite part so far:
"Under this standard, from a source surely more authoritative than
Wikipedia, ICC-IDs are not passwords."

Meow!
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That would incur some serious data processing expense.
We don't need to insinuate anything.

It's clear that both Microsoft and Apple are pulling the strings. They didn't collectively spend $4.5 billion to just have Rockstar do whatever they want. (Not that creating a patent troll under any scenario is morally defensible for Microsoft or Apple).

The shell games provide them plausible deniability only to naive.

They sued Android. Android is a big threat to both Microsoft and Apple.

Coincidence? I don't think so.
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You effectively summed up why I was thinking "Man, this is kind of the opposite of the kind of place I'd like to work" while I was reading this.
Thank you! It seems really great.
Just want to mention also that knowing the answers to these questions does not mean that you'll write bug-free code. Bugs are a product of shipping, and occur regardless of talent or ability to answer said questions.
Isn't "unprofessional", perhaps put under other names, an old mainstay in west-coast tech?

The standard HN attitude towards, say, wearing suits (or even just 'business casual') would be considered "unprofessional" in many circles. This mostly came to a head during that "Zuckerburg/bankers/hoodie" circus from last year. If somebody honestly told me that they believe in casually dressing for work, I wouldn't consider them to be tactless or lack a filter.
Let's start a new internet country where it's isolated from the rest of the world's internet and we can have privacy for all!
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Posted this link [1] in another comment, but apparently Nortel was in licensing negotiations for years before Rockstar was formed, and its CEO claims the current owners had no say in filing these lawsuits.

1. http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=d258542c-dbfc...
Can you give more hints about this word? I want to know and I don't get the hint.
Part 1 begins again in January and part 2 begins right after it's done.
Ask HN: What's the best way for a foreigner to improve English to a great level?
My wife and I are Italian, and we live in San Francisco. She's trying to find a job but feels stuck because her English is not good enough (I think she's at an acceptable level, but clearly she can't speak or listen as good as a mother tongue). She's looking for advice on what's the best way to dramatically improve it in 4 months, 25 hours a week or so. Thanks!
This is a very hard question to answer, because this genre tends to one game per player, just because the games take forever (a civilization 5 multiplayer game tends towards 10 hours), and this nature leads to a lack of game changing.
The titles in the sidebar:

>Korean Government Turns Its Back on Abandoned Babies

>Korean Woman Kills Stepdaughter By Force Feeding Her Salt

>Man Forces Three Runaway Middle School Girls into Prostitution

Wtf humans? Not that it compares to the atrocities in North Korea.
Why think of it that way? Perhaps they bought those patents for use in their own devices. Perhaps they've been paying Nortel to use them up until they bought them out.
Right, I think that's what I'm getting at. A lazy joke that is nothing but lazy is nothing more than a standard failure to rise above mediocrity. Repetition can push it into "annoying" very quickly.

If there is some element of rubbing salt in the wound, then the joke can cross into the territory of "offensive", but that can happen with novel jokes as well. Repeating an offensive joke can make it more offensive, since it contributes to an overall atmosphere, but the repetition itself is not what is offensive.

Australia being upside-down might not be the best example of a joke that crosses into offensive territory.
Would be cool if they distributed via torrent (though their d/l speeds are pretty impressive anyway).
Rockstar in my mind is symbolic of everything wrong in the tech industry these days. I love Apple products, but I love Apple just a little less for getting its hands dirty in this. Obviously there are other companies as well, but I'm not as attached to them. If this ends up speeding up patent reform, I guess it's worth the bitter pill. I'm tempted to switch to Android the next time I get a phone.
I think you might be unfamiliar with 'open source' and its licensing. Android is a Linux-based distribution, which means that it uses a Linux kernel.

'Copy': make a similar or identical version of; reproduce: [1]
Google forked and contribute to the kernel. They did not create their own identical version of, or reproduce, the kernel.

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/copy
if you click on the x in the top right corner of the ad, theres an about this ad link that will give you details on who generated that advertisement.

http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/02/22/rtb-part-iii-cookies-use... this describes roughly how they identify you.
You're not wrong, but this whole conversation is mental masturbation.
First idea: http://www.duolingo.com/ — there's Italian to English.
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Why do you think a result within a bound is useless?
circle + (beefjerky - cow)

One of the tweets from the article used the term. Baddox quoted that term. If you turn on "show dead" you can see baddox's comment.
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Agreed. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should. Things like this may drive more toward ephemeral sharing.