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Each generation of CPU design or gas turbine design or wireless baseband design, drug design, or nuclear power plant design still takes more R&D money than the last. And nobody was working on a competitive open source LTE baseband last I checked.

"Accelerating innovation" is something which, if it exists, touches only a few areas of engineering. In most areas of engineering, innovation has gotten more expensive, not less. Very few things are amenable to a distributed group of hackers working on it. Jet engines are still best designed by a roomful of PhD's. And those cost lots of money.

We can argue about how necessary patents ever were, but I don't think they're any less necessary today.

The question, in my opinion, isn't whether patents are still relevant. Its whether we can draw lines better to leave out less useful ones while keeping that exception from swallowing the patent system. E.g. if a power control module for an LTE radio is patentable if implemented in an ASIC, should it become unpatentable when you implement it in a DSP? If not: how do you allow those patents while invalidating Amazon's One Click shopping patent? To a certain extent, its tempting to just say: "its too hard to draw the lines, its not worth the trouble." That's easy to say if you're not Qualcomm and don't have a dozen companies who'd love to use your work for free.
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Eh, I don't like the one in functools. It allows overriding of variables previously defined, which personally causes more problems than it solves.

(So `functools.partial(foo, b=3)(a=1, b=2)` doesn't throw an error, and is equivalent to calling `foo(a=1, b=2)`)
Thanks (and to other respondents as well). I bought an Intuos Pen and Touch last night for about $150 and I'm keen to try that out.

I love sketching layouts and ideas, but tend to put off doing it on paper because then I have loose sheets everywhere or multiple notebooks, or pages that have a combination of sketches and other to-do notes.

Never tried a Wacom before, so very keen to give it a go!
The difference is that we have a statute allowing companies and individuals to declare bankruptcy. Here all we have are the written terms of Argentina's debt agreement. All we can do is attempt to enforce them. Is it really a viable option to pretend the agreements do not exist?

Perhaps we need an international process, analogous to bankruptcy, by which a nation can escape its debt burden. But I don't see how it is a federal judge's prerogative (or responsibility) to create one.
White House Maker Faire: “Today’s D.I.Y. Is Tomorrow’s 'Made in America'”
This is old news. And not really that shocking. You always use multiple models and check them against each other. None is perfect. Big deal.
Everybody always pulls Steve Jobs out of the bag to try and illustrate the asshole boss paradigm.

Steve Jobs also used to burst into tears in the Boardroom sobbing about how unfair the system was.

I don't see many management books advocating that approach...bawling your eyes out until your business partners acquiesce.

But, if I ever meet a Steve Jobs, a single minded visionary who is seeking to shape the entire paradigm of personal computing...

...I still wouldn't let him talk to me the way Isaacson reports in his book. Fuck Steve Jobs.

Plus, when it came down to the wire, Microsoft owned them. Literally.
http://tinyur1.co is your awnser!
> It's funny how being closer to the reality and more informed about the technology can mean one's guesses about the future are more pessimistic than people making pie in the sky guesses (think scientists versus sci-fi authors).

Bill Gates has an interesting quote about this phenomenon, for which I forgot the exact wording... it says that you are always wrong as to how fast things will occur, but you are also wrong when you think stuff will not be available for a very long time. There's many examples of such assumptions being wrong now and then.
You should redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.
Android and Windows Phone devices will add a kill switch
It is also one of the easiest ways to bankrupt your own business.

Business Admin 101 - Approaches to combat Predatory Pricing.

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/herbert-dow-and-predat...
Apple's jpeg animation hack used 4:4:4 so the blocks wouldn't interfere with each other. It's a neat hack, worth reading about if you haven't seen it yet: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1GWTMLjqQsQS45FWwqNG...
To be clear, I think in the medium to long term other than legacy HTML support browsers will get out of the layout engine business. Layout belongs in the JavaScript layer (or similar execution env) on top of a lower level abstraction, which is why I picked out WebGL as the most likely contender. Then the on the wire format becomes pure semantics, which can either be semi standardised, or not. (And Google clearly have an interest in promoting the former).

WebGL, as it stands, seems to lack a few useful primitives for such a task, most notably needing an equivalent to process separated iframes. That might be possible already, but if not I'm sure it will be cracked enormously faster than attempting to debate and implement tiny incremental improvements in the HTML spec.

My understanding is this is remarkably close to how the PS4 UI is actually implemented already.
Right, it doesn't search sub-categories, so while not completely useless, it's merely next to useless (no efficient way to search the corpus of public domain images on Wikimedia Commons).

The main issue with pointing to Wikimedia is that it seems to funnel people into Creative Commons licenses. Maybe that is not the intent, but that is what happens. I like the idea of a prominent place that encourages the Public Domain.
Why the web sucks (1995)
I usually pull the clutch in and shift to 6th instead. Kill the engine with the kill switch and than flick it to start position right away. I restart the engine by feathering the clutch. In top gear there is little chance of rear lockup, unless you have a super high compression motor. In any case, it's not something you should do all the time, but having done it a few times, it makes me really want a high power, perfectly silent, electric bike. I think it would be really fun. For the freeway riding I would have to get a muffler simulator or something that makes some noise, because, if people do not here you, they usually do not see you.

Silent electric bikes would also be really awesome for riding in the woods. That way you can have some fun without annoying everyone within an ear range and scaring all the animals away.
But free-space wiping is pointless and not a security benefit on regular spinning platter drives.
Except that if anyone sees this longer explanation, they can realise there are often ways to improve the way they've presented their story and create something to that appeals to a broader range of people.

Things like bullet points, pullquotes, images and so on are a bit like an inline TL;DR.
Not if you are in Oil and Gas :)
I mean, sure it's trivial to you. But what if it wasn't. What if your boss used language that excluded you for some reason. Would you still not want to work with me when I went to bat for you?

In that hypothetical situation, I'd of course want to work with you because you were standing up for me, obviously. I wouldn't want to work for the boss because he offended me -- well, I can't say I wouldn't want to work for him; it depends on his reaction to being called out on it.

But that's kinda the overall point: some people are offended by some things, and some people aren't. Just because I take offense to something someone says to me, it doesn't mean it's actually offensive (and vice versa). I want to associate with people who aren't offended by things I consider trivial and non-offensive, and I don't want to associate with people who offend me and think it's ok.

And that not set in stone: it's certainly happened in my life where I'd say things that I didn't find offensive, but after getting called on it and hearing other perspectives, over time I would change my mind.

I just get a bit worried that, considering how much we discuss and consider issues of sex and race here, we tend to take completely innocent statements and blow them out of proportion. Intent does matter, to a certain extent. The line where something where "no offense was intended" goes from "ok, no big deal" to "offensive regardless of intent" is different for everyone. But I feel like that line tends to swing toward the latter much too soon for sex/race issues, to the point where it gets hard to genuinely express yourself without a very high risk of offending someone.
That's a good point, I shouldn't treat them as the same.
>We will work to ensure the Federal Circuit—the court that hears all patent appeals—diligently applies the new filter on patentability.

Doesn't the Federal Circuit have something of a history on cases such as this, where they essentially say 'fuck it, we're not listening to the SCOTUS', and continue to rule as they please? What's to stop them from just doing business as usual in defiance of the Supreme Court?
The iWatch Will Have A 2.5-Inch Rectangular Screen And It Will Be Out In October
I guess it makes sense that the only library left to have in Google's web stack was an HTML/CSS framework. So now the circle is complete - you can run a website in Chrome on a Chromebook with a Starter Kit layout (all images as WebP of course) on top of AngularJS, running off a Go backend on App Engine.
Kudos, very cool. Maybe instead of 'no disk' something like 'SSD for boot media, no local bulk storage' would be clearer, as I was a little confused by this as other posters below were. It's also a little interesting that the 'High CPU' option has the fewest cores of the three options... Any comments on that?
Holy moly. What a hack.
That's so cool! I want to ride one now! That's a really good use of electric bikes, I think. A super quiet, AWD, off road bike. Would be nifty for riding in the forest.
Wait, what? The whole point of wiping free space is to prevent file recovery tools from doing a low level scan of the drive and retrieving deleted data, since a delete doesn't actually zero out the space, it just marks it as available for reuse.
Let's hope the drive manufacturers have implemented the encryption correctly. Here's an example where makers of external drive enclosures didn't:

Enclosed but not encrypted: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...
Google web kit setup
Would love to chat, also working on something. Profile.
It's probably best to link to the original source for this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Facebook buys Yo app for $5 billion Dollars
I don't know, I don't judge either way. The way the guy worded that question reminded me of someone I spoke with a few months ago about west Hollywood, so it was more important in my head than it actually is reflected in the article. All of the posts have hilarious memes and are worded in memes. Some people need to realize the internet isn't serious business. This work with Jepesen is truly incredible however. I'm so glad someone is doing it. The end result is that a lot of the fail will be fixed or at least thought about so end users have mitigation strategies. Everyone wins here.
T-Mobile offers one-week network test drive, free music streaming
Regarding point #2, I think "may be easier to recover" means easier than if it weren't encrypted for the reason you stated (the blocks are in use and won't be trimmed), not easier than on a conventional drive.
rip amazon one click patent.
Smartphones Embracing ‘Kill Switches’ as Theft Defense
I'm not missing that at all, and I totally get that. In my early professional life I wanted a much more strict separation between work and non-work, but I've since changed.

To address your points:

1. I think it's up to the founders and early employees to set the culture they want. It will usually change as the company grows, but my general feeling is that if you don't like a company's culture, don't join it. Yes, it sucks if you get a bad feel for it while interviewing, or are misled, but that should be the exception, not the rule.

2. The author of the original article actually directly addressed this, and pointed out that not everyone joins in, and it's ok. The kind of atmosphere where there's that pressure is indeed pretty toxic, but I don't think the family-type culture necessarily has that bug... though they certainly are a place where it can breed. But again: if you (as a founder/early employee) are willing to put up with a much smaller talent pool in search of people who really truly fit the culture you want, that's your choice and your business.

3. That's definitely a genuine concern, but I don't think it's ever really been any other way at small, early startups, at least in the Valley. My experience is certainly not extensive, but for the work-your-ass-off early startup type, they just tend to end up that way, because you spend so much time with your colleagues that closer bonds just end up forming.

On the other hand, the non-crazy, have-a-life-outside-work type early startup is also a thing, and (I would guess) tends not to have that type of approach.
What I Learned at Startup School
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend Startup School in New York City. Here's a post about a few of the talks and what I've learned.
That's not how satire works.
> The one policy you can always count on our government to enforce is "protect bondholders at all costs."

Unless of course those bondholders are institutional investors, and the other creditor is the UAW. When governments are so intimately involved in these kinds of proceedings, the only thing that we can be sure of is political expediency.
Why would anyone use this? This is the epitome of wasteful spending.
I wonder why languages don't support currying arbitrary parameters.

It seems like it would be easy enough to have a special "placeholder" keyword that means "these parameters will be the parameters of the curried function". To take his example:

var jp = formatNames2('John', 'Paul');

That might be written like this instead:

var jp = formatNames2('John', 'Paul', _);

And then if you want to curry the second parameter instead of the third, it's easy:

var jp = formatNames2('John', _, 'Jones');

Or maybe they do and I just haven't heard of it?
Agreed. Why should I pay $4.99 for quarters when I could go to the bank and get them for free?
> Don't explain what your company does. ... Google would never send someone an email saying "I work at Google, a search company in Mountain View which is organizing the world's information".

The Google comparison is a poor one, since Google is extraordinarily well known, and most start-ups aren't. And even they do describe the team each position is on, at least on its job postings.

If I were getting enough cold emails that I wanted to filter some of them out, I'd be likely to avoid emails that made me do work to research what a company does. A brief sentence about what they do, and why the recruiter/CEO/etc. thinks I'm a good match, would go a long way toward getting that coffee date.
But you don't know whether the blocks are actually being over written or if they've been marked as bad or if the information is in slack space or etc.

"Pointless" was too strong. "Not secure" would have been better.

EDIT--

More specifically, most utils don't tell you that they don't touch slack space unless you search the forums. See, for example, CCleaner which lists a few limitations of CCleaner's free space wipe, but which makes no mention of slack space.
Are there any statistics about this? In my southern Brooklyn neighborhood, which is on the cutting edge of approximately nothing, the laundry rooms in all three apartment buildings I've lived in converted from coin payments to stored-value cards in the mid-2000s.
Subscription pinball capacity?
I wish the developers took this a bit further and visualized the AI decision making and object tracking.

Perhaps even visualize some of the WebRTC communications (a la WebRTC internals) to explain how things are working, visually.
Is this real? Social experiment?
It's also worth noting that this is not a Silicon Valley company, but a Pittsburgh company: https://twitter.com/calebrown/status/479791618267299840

Interview with the founder: http://valleywag.gawker.com/real-startup-that-mails-you-quar...
Real.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/real-startup-that-mails-you-quar...
You must not have been following the Argentina saga very closely if you think the courts are ruling out of political expediency. The U.S. government has appeared in this case multiple times in support of Argentina, but the courts rule against them anyway. The U.S. government (the executive branch, that is) would clearly rather the courts allow Argentina to wipe out the bondholders and start over. This litigation has become a major point of friction between the U.S. and Argentina diplomatically.
Didn't mention read disturbance. MLC and TLC flash (esp. the latter) have semi-destructive reads, so that you need to re-write a block after several thousand reads as well as on any write.

So you can't treat a drive as a ROM, even if you disabled physical writes somehow. Of course, you probably have enough read cycles available to do quite a few full scans of a drive...
I may be misremembering, but I have a feeling the per-app volume mixer was available all the way back in Windows XP. Possibly sound-card dependent?

An app called Jack OS X does the job on Mac: http://www.jackosx.com/
I find it highly unlikely too, but I think your math is a bit off. You don't need to excite a single nerve, but the entire system. I don't know anything about physiology, but I wouldn't be surprised to be told that there are 10km worth of electrically interconnected 'wires' in our body. If there are, then it wouldn't be outrageous to hypothesis that it could 'pick up' EM radiation at such frequencies. Whether it's enough to matter, I highly doubt, but it doesn't seem completely out of the ballpark.
Looks like the classes for the icons are way wrong, or they forgot a clear:both; somewhere which makes the rows cascade improperly.
I'm surprised more people don't know about this BackStop extension that does just that:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backstop/pidcjgldc...
Total OT:

If you ever get the chance to open a roll of quarters, it is a really cool mini-experience (kind of like cracking an egg). If you do it right, it looks effortless. Wrong, looks like you are trying too hard to make an omelette. One of those essential retail skills like box folding I admire.
1 Parallel Construction

2 National security preventing your lawyer to ever see any evidence against you.

Both already being used in US.
Yeah, I recently had to make something commercial where I didn't think attribution was going to be possible, and I knew that SA wasn't going to fly. I figured I'd check out Wikimedia Commons but found it very hard to find truly public domain images. Though there might have been usable pictures available, I ended up just going out and taking one myself because the search wasn't really practical.

I also think a lot of people of the current generation probably don't think that much about licensing and copyright and don't realize how many strings they're attaching to the use of their image when they upload it, when my guess is that for most people, one of the CC licenses like CC-by-SA is essentially the same as releasing it into the public domain (for them), but of course it excludes it from inclusion into any non-CC works for likely over 100 years.
Replying since I can't edit the post... Some studies regarding the contributions, consistencies and inconsistencies of the CAFC.

1. "Promoting the Progress: Three Decades of Patent Jurisprudence in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit", Damon C. Andrews" - http://law.missouri.edu/lawreview/files/2012/11/Andrews.pdf

2. "On the Causes of Unpredictability of Federal Circuit Decisions In Patent Cases", Paul M. Janicke - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=960636

3. "How Federal Circuit Judges Vote in Patent Validity Cases", Mark Lemley and John R. Allison - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=189512
The website is down. $4.99 for how many quarters?
You are, I live in ABQ and the two by me are still quarters. Stored value would be much nicer.
Falcon 9 Reusable 1000m Fin Flight
I was able to quit after switching to an e-cig for a few months. Several of my coworkers have done the same. I think it's because I was more drawn to the act of smoking than that nicotine kick.

With an e-cig, you still get the feeling of smoking (and nicotine), but it's still not really the same, and after only doing that for a while, I feel I mostly broke the habit of smoking, at which point giving up nicotine wasn't difficult at all.

I realize that doesn't totally address the "What could I do instead" part of the question, but it might help in the process of quitting. Best of luck to you.
Ah, gotcha.

Thing is, that depends on the filesystem. I know that the usual shred commands don't work all that great on Ext4 due to journalling and such, but Microsoft actually provides[1] a first party tool to do it on NTFS (at the file level) to handle those edge cases.

Apple provides[2] a built-in free space nuking tool as well.

That leaves sector reallocation by the disk controller, but doesn't that only happen if data can't be properly written in the first place anyways?

[1]: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.asp...

[2]: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3680
I like this tool in theory, but the inital web site for it sucks...

I was interested in learning about their "Live Browser Reloading" but was unable to learn more about it, as I ended up traveling through a Kafkaesque labyrinth of documentation pages.

Google guys/gals: Please keep working on this, but also make the website more friendly!
Less social?

Subscribe to Flickr, set your upload default to private.
I frankly don't care much about fees.

I care a lot about recruiters utterly wasting my time with garbage resumes, even when I've told them what I wanted.

I would prefer to see two or three resumes a month of people I want to talk to than two or three resumes a day of people that don't meet the bar.

Most of the good hires come from referrals anyway. Very, very few recruiter-fed folks have passed interviews and worked out, at any company I've worked at.
I don't think that's the usual way, because it will completely miss collisions for fast-moving balls.

They don't need a quadtree or an rtree if the number of objects is fewer than 100.

Also, when using a quadtree/rtree etc with dynamic objects, you'll need to rebalance the tree as objects move around. If the rebalancing is more expensive than the speed gained by using it, then those datastructures can be harmful, not helpful. This is case is relatively rare but something to keep in mind.
For those who can't figure out the change machine at the laundromat.
So $15 for $10 of quarters a month. I can see how that would be worth it to save time on going to the bank. Not clear to me how near the range is where it saves enough time to be worth it to the person before they would just own a washer and drier rather then using a laundromat mat.

It might make sense in high population density areas where space in an apartment is at a premium. Any one from a high population density want to chime in and confirm or deny.
For me, video games not only serve as an entertainment package. They are a whole different worlds to me. I dream of a game which could bring me into alternate reality, with near perfect settings from the real world, with my own twist, and a game in which I will not respawn again, much like Rouglikes in UHD 3d.

I am trying to make such a game, but its too hard to complete by myself in such a short lifetime :/