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Curiously, this is the first one I read - the premise sounded interesting when reading the back in an airport bookshop. It was a little hurdle to get past the beginning, but once adjusted very rewarding. Easier to read than Feersum Endjinn, at least!

Personally I think "Look to Windward" is probably the best general introduction to the culture.
Seriously have you ever worked with lawyers? If not, you should probably think twice before commenting :)
This is half a truth, in that incentives do influence people's behavior:

> There is no fix for "corruption".

But not the whole truth, as the West is far less corrupt than, say, Bangladesh. We're under the impression that it's all because of our political systems and so are eager to teach the rest of the world Political Science 101 at gunpoint, convinced that if they only understood then they'd all be liberal democracies. But it's not their understanding of game theory that's flawed, it's ours.

As we've found out, it's not just a systems problem. Western Civilization? We didn't build that. There is, at least, a lot of residual faith in institutions built up over the last 800 years ago. And also some unabashed patriotism---the quiet kind that has you pay your taxes fully when you could perhaps pay a bit less and get away with it.
I was so excited by Teledesic and so disappointed when they folded. If someone actually pulls off what they planned I'll be right in line to be a customer, likely regardless of price.

I want to move far away from people and the only real limiter is decent high speed internet so I can do my work.
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I agree that navigating HN on a phone is terrible.

You can also unflag stories.
Just don't apply to those companies, you probably wouldn't like it there anyway.

In fact that interviewing style is being abandoned, see here the case of Google: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346126/Google-aband...

So why invest so much time and effort in preparation for an interviewing style that is only practiced by a small minority of employers. Its a big world out there.

One alternative: become a freelance, as those interviews are usually only for employees, and you tend to take a lot less bulshit being interviewed as a freelance, things are kept much more to the point.

Alternativelly, take this course at Coursera, lots of food for thought there -> https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI

Still for those interviews you indeed need to prepare: buy books on how to do those interviews, practice at home, etc. remember it has nothing to do with on the job day to day work, its just an absurd silly game.
I think a lot of people would be surprised at how many users and traffic you can really handle on a single server, or single pair of servers (web/DB).
I recommend installing AdBlock in your browser.
.uk was the first ccTLD, and the assignment precedes the decision to use ISO-3166
the article goes on to say the lander has solar panels that will recharge the batteries for additional work (although at a slower pace) as long as it doesn't land in a shadowed area.
"Any joe on the street" is not the consumer in this case. People purchasing retail POS systems would know what it is. They are the consumer. They could easily be fooled into thinking that Groupon's product is affiliated with the well known Gnome software when it clearly isn't.
We implemented the concept of knowledge over design. As you said our USP is the knowledge shared by our users. Now you can share your knowledge right on the front page of a design if you are logged in. And we hide the detail information of a design in the side bar page.

Please tell us what you think. Thanks a lot!
They say Groupon's Gnome is an operating system, do you know any details of how they built it? Is it Linux based, etc?
Not op, but GNOME had the name first...
Here's an amazing gallery of images from a distance of 10km:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/High...
Excellent. Groupon already was pretty high on my shit-list, they just elevated themselves to the top 10.
Yeah, that's what I assumed. I guess it might make 'developing' slightly easier thought, keeping in the same language with Node + Automation, rather than Node + AppleScript.
It's interesting to see the landscape changing. We really hope that our core values and own experiences make a difference to people.

Thanks for the kind words!
No, but I bet the IT people who decide which computers to buy for POS know what GNOME is.
No I haven't which is why don't understand why they need the money. If someone could explain, that'd be nice...
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>then think about how they might distribute their points

Just to be clear, you're not imagining people have to share their vote between parties are you? Range voting means you can give every party 100 if you want to.

>If I love candidate B and C, kind of like D, and hate candidate A, but all of candidate A's supporters are bullet-voting, how should I vote?

If you really hate A so badly that you think any one of B, C or D would be vastly better, then go ahead and give them all 100. If A not getting in is that important to you then your "strategic" vote is in fact, an accurate representation of your preferences.
The close-door button definitely does work in some installations. At a minimum, the button works in most hospitals. They tend to have very long open-door periods (to give people extra time), but also frequently need to get someone to another floor as quickly as possible.

The door close button is a perfect solution to this problem.
Sorry, I missed your reply. Yeah, if you can get in touch I'd be happy to find more unclassified stuff on the topic.

You can reach me through the website mentioned in my profile (www.pa-mar.net - there is a "mailto" link at the bottom of every page).

Thanks!!!
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When the GNOME foundation chose it, back in 1997, it was an acronym for "GNU Network Object Model Environment". (And it's pronounced with a non-silent 'G', just like GNU.)
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Have you opened a dialog with Groupon and if so, can you share anything of that communication?
This was a very good read.
I have poor short term memory (I'll often forget what I'm supposed to be doing at work), but I can usually remember when conversations happened within a rough range (a few days, a week, 2 weeks, months...) without relying on metadata, though I sometimes use metadata when I really can't remember. I haven't remembered a dream I've had in a few years, with maybe like ~10 exceptions.

Memory can be weird. I think recall of dreams is generally unrelated to memory though, and is more about sleep patterns (though poor sleep will worsen your overall memory).
Trademarks are a form of intellectual property.
That I have no idea what in this whole process takes so much money. If trademarks take this much money to defend, you might as well just sue anyone trying to use your name without filing a trademark.
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What is the general lesson we should learn from this?

Postel's law aka robustness principle [1] can easily lead into accumulating complexity when implementations adapt to the bugs in other implementations. How could protocol designers mitigate this problem beforehand?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
Lawyers write laws.

Lawyers want to make money.

Lawyers write laws in a way that makes them more money.
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Hi Josh. Can you give us Groupon's perspective on this issue?
Anything that brings down the ridiculous fees for internet access at sea will be a breath of fresh air for technologists that dream of living and working away from terra firma.

As it stands the receiver equipment alone runs $10K to $15K, and then you get whacked with a $3K+/month fee for unlimited access[0] O_o

A fleet of SpaceX sateillites should bring that price down significantly. If so, could usher in a new wave of telecommuters that ditch high priced apartment rentals in favor of nomadic living at sea ;-)

[0] http://www.groundcontrol.com/FleetBroadband_Service_Plans.ht...
All the exciting ones.
It seems to be based on iOS.
Did I miss the announcement that Darl McBride was taking over as Groupon CEO?
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Keep in mind that people might not want to link the example to associate their current account with a banned account to avoid getting banned again.
That's one site doing 3x the combined total sites' 2013 Cyber Monday.

Pivotal moment as the center of gravity of the world's consumer economy shifts to China.

The fervent dive into consumerism is incredible. Anyone in China seeing a counter culture emerging against this? Or is it too early
I have developed some games on my own and these math resources are far more than essential.
I'd argue that overcoming xenophobia is more important for us as a species so we can relate to each other.
From the article we posted at https://gnome.org/groupon/:

> we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications
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I cannot post that. It is IP and very domain specific code. But it is not that difficult to write an http server in libevent and add librdkafka to it.
It's a bit more extreme than that; read his summary; https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/93i0gkawa4q15lh/2014-11-...

Edit: cannot be the one you meant? He is part of the GNOME foundation...
The standard is not "ask any joe on the street" but "Will the create confusing among the target consumer"

I say yes, People making purchasing choices over a companies IT infrastructure will know what the Gnome Foundation is, that they create software of high quality, and I can see the case for Confusion. ie

IT Manager: WOW Gnome is now making a great looking POS System.

So the fact that "Avg joe" does not know what or Who Gnome is does not matter in the least bit
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I just came across this in watching an enjoyable LISA presentation by Elizabeth Zwicky. At http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C4r... is a story about customer feedback for a company which has, broadly speaking, engineers and admins.

Quoting from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C4r...:

"Engineers do not give out 5s. If you tell an engineer that the possible rating scale is 1 to 5 and they like you, they give you a 4. Because tomorrow they might love you and then they would give you a 5. They probably won't, but they might, so they give you a 4 so that they have room. We all are totally okay with this. But the world is also full of this other class of people who if they like you give you a 5. They're quite consistent about it. 'I like you. I see nothing wrong with that. I'm giving you a 5.'"

The graph (with, admittedly, artificial data meant to portray an example) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C4r... shows it most clearly, with the satisfaction numbers from engineering clearly trending down. Apparently, engineers don't like to fill out forms, while admins do, so satisfaction survey results also have a sample bias in favor of the 5s of admin staff.
Nope, what I'm saying is that instead of the company doing that many billable hours, my coworker played with docker and puppet instead.
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I'd love to try implementing C4 or Metronome or Staccato, and I have some interesting applications for them too. The problem is all this development is sponsored by Azul, Microsoft, and IBM. All the Bacon papers have corresponding IBM patents, all the Petrank papers have corresponding Microsoft patents. It sucks. Even if I come up with something new, it'll look like a slight variant on something someone else has done and I don't want to get sued!
It's a trade-off: C vs A. If you can't lose data, Kafka's current configuration is unacceptable. There's an open issue, but it isn't fixed yet, and this means Kafka is (currently) unsuitable e.g. for use as a transaction log. Kafka is great if your data is lower value (e.g. web analytics).

It's a pity, because it would be great to have an open source component for the Kafka architecture, but where data-loss is unacceptable. Hopefully this will be fixed in Kafka itself; I've also been working on something that is based around Raft.
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TIL I have been pronouncing it wrong all this time. Which may be the result of my background in genetics though :)
I'm working with the GNOME foundation, not with Groupon. Our perspective on Groupon:

> It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications
Remember the insane planes they flew on the early nineties? I have done crazy almost sci-fi memories from my childhood, admittedly some probably exaggerated by imagination of that age.
I've been programming since the early 2000s and I would say that Node's growth/popularity is unmatched. There are a combination of things that makes that a reality though: you have JavaScript's growth on the back of what Google shown Ajax could do, then you have Github, then you have Nodejs itself which allowed more people to participate because of the "ease" of JavaScript.

From my vantage point, Node is poised to replace Java as the write-once, run anywhere platform. Well, as long as that platform has Webkit running.
That's microcode.
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Can you explain this a little more? We've been investigating kafka v kinesis, and the severe restrictions on kinesis' API has been giving us pause.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/service-sizes-...
I think the people replying to this thread think you are working for groupon.
That is the only way this makes any sense.
Also "I'm all about giving to the right kind of fellow human being", which excludes $currently_demonized_minorities.
The lesson is "be strict in what you accept, since the beginning".

For instance, a lesson learned by the Linux kernel developers: when adding a new system call to an operating system, if you have a flags parameter (and you should, which is another lesson they learned), if any unknown flag is set, fail with -EINVAL (or equivalent). Otherwise, buggy programs will depend on these flags being ignored, and you won't be able to use them later for new features.

But it has to be since the beginning; once the protocol is "in the field", you can't increase the strictness without pain.
Here is one particular (opinionated) explanation: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/opinion/krugman-nobody-...

In general, the foreign debt taken on by the US is similar - e.g. bonds issued by various countries, and bought by the citizens and the government as an investment asset.
Registering the trademark doesn't make it cheaper to fight, it makes it easier to win.
Well, without these IP laws GNOME wouldn't have any recourse, would they?
I've always been told that you have to practice remembering dreams in order to get better at it. And the often-cited way of practicing that is by keeping a dream-diary that you're suppose to write in whenever you wake up.

Likewise, I've never heard of the whole "you only remember a dream if you wake up during it". Sometimes I go through a few dreams, wake up naturally, and remember some of the previous ones (and not the last one).
MS isn't bothering trying to force RT down anyone's throats anymore. MS is working with HP and Toshiba to release hardware at a price point that competes with Chromebooks.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/hp-plunges-downmarket-with-...
Really annoying that they don't have a Mac desktop app for this, but they do for Windows
sooo, not exactly related to Alibaba, but they sure do take this Singles Day thing seriously?! that is a heck of a sales promo stunt
This "chemical composition" is like reading packets off a broadcast network. It's not the full state, but it's good enough to reverse-engineer what's going on at a high level.

Blood work, including blood neurotransmitters and hormones, can tell you a lot about someone's state of mind specifically because of this.
Gah! No, definitely not; I'm helping with the GNOME defense campaign.
Very true. Indeed several of the books are about the culture dealing with some kind of (generally not serious) crisis. Most enlightening: the Culture was created initially as a setting for Use of Weapons
Exactly. :/
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Surely though, if Gnome win the case then Groupon would become liable to pay the costs?
I can only provide some insides with UK universities.

There also students very frequently were using GMail and just used mail forwarding from their university email accounts.

With at least one large UK university we've seen very strong uptake of the MS Office apps & email (85% vs 30% in the years before). They also have a large number of distance learners for which these solutions are substantially better than what the university offered previously so that might skew the numbers a bit. Uptake of OneDrive for example was much lower around 40% 3 months after the roll-out but still rising. Stats that MS provides on this are mainly MS Exchange (online) based (plus some SharePoint / OneDrive data - the rest of the stats they provide are at best historic or unusable).

At the same time when the university wanted to communicate with all students besides their course work, they used Twitter or Facebook and not email.
Take a look at qalculator. You won't even remember about Units after it.
GNU Units (available in Homebrew) is much more complete than the OS X version.
The aliexpress sales are really good this year. Around 40% of users on mobile https://twitter.com/Alizila
Copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, trade secrets are all lumped together under the intellectual property term. Yes, you can argue that the term itself is incorrect as property is used here in a way that contradicts the law itself, also lumping together different laws under the same umbrella, preventing rational discussions about specifics, but there you have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property
Yes, it is being pedantic ;). You may also have noted that nobody "tricks out" ICBMs (the aftermarket parts available for ICBMs is rather limited...), and may have concluded that the original post was simply taking a few liberties with the language...
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I didn't see any comments that applied to patents (e.g., that they cover inventions, that they require the inventor to disclose all relevant details of the invention, that they have definite lifetimes, etc.), so while I agree with you and Stallman that it's important to be explicit about when you're talking about copyright, trade secrets, patents and trademarks, I don't think anybody's created any confusion yet.

Besides, for amusement's sake, the USPTO stands for "United States Patent and Trademark Office."
There is plenty of research demonstrating adding money to low income people does increase happiness, but adding money to high income earners does not. So, the question is why does adding money to high income earners not increase happiness. It's generally assumed that high income earners are not spending their disposable income 'optimally'.

PS: Sure, perhaps their not measuring 'happiness' and if it makes you feel better call it fruitkerfluffle if you want. However, that does not invalidate the question.
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None of those people you spoke to sound like lawyers. It won't cost six figures to have a lawyer send a letter. Your competitor might not like the six figures prospect of defending themselves.
Could a nation state jam these? Or in other words...could a person in a country who's internet is censored get unfiltered access via these satellites?
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I was feeling depressed and experiencing brain fog for around a year before I asked a doctor what was going on. He suggested I try taking vitamin D and sure enough within a few days of taking the 2000IU tablet each day, I was feeling like a hundred bucks. I swear by the vitamin D.
As you pointed out, this is already pretty common. As someone who's tried this before, it's hard to find the right balance. To setup a dead simple kafka config is about 10 lines of shell, so simple, it almost doesn't make sense to do.

A complex kafka setup is pretty involved (relatively speaking) and becomes domain specific pretty quickly, at which point, it probably becomes less usable / understandable to someone who is trying to learn / get interested.

On the whole, I agree with you. Some of the open source software that exists now is truly amazing and I think lots of people are defaulting to less-the-optimal solutions because they just don't have exposure to the latest and greatest.
Fermat's Last Theorem is proven true, is it not?

Without having seen the proof that came to Fermat's mind, I don't think it's anyone's absolute opinion on the matter that "It's not up for debate" and that Fermat's proof being potentially true is "missing the fundamentals of science".

If you may re-read my previous post, here's the thing people disagree on : "Did Fermat write this having a correct proof of it on his mind or not?" I do not think anyone can say an absolute "yes" or "no" to this. Although it does point to "no", considering that the mathematics used to prove FLT are far beyond Fermat's time.
Or maybe they even work for both companies? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589879
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Can you also sue them for frivolousness or something like that?
Seems to be a hiring thing. There was a previous thread about here [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080
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Answer: Very well.

Kafka supports replication and fault-tolerance, runs on cheap, commodity hardware, and is glad to store many TBs of data per machine. So, retaining large amounts of data is a perfectly natural and economical thing to do and won’t hurt performance. LinkedIn keeps more than a petabyte of Kafka storage online, and a number of applications make good use of this long retention pattern for exactly this purpose.

From http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/questioning-the-lambda-arch...
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