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Dr. House certainly made a lot of mistakes and he worked on a team.
I'm sure Steve Blank has his own hypothesis about what could possibly shake things up and restart the cycle of innovation in SV, would love to hear it. (that's the question he poses at the end of the lecture).

My mind wondered towards the influence of open source software, and open solutions, across all that is tech today (ok fine, all software at least). Technologies developed in secret were thoroughly featured in the history covered, but today for example we have the linux kernel, an open collaborative effort, underpinning most of what's being built for profit in the valley.

Can open source type efforts (maker movement/oss and other nicknames) change the pace of innovation? i.e. restart the valley's cycle of innovation? Is the valley not are the forefront any more? Is innovation in the valley being stifled by attempts to control IP? [0]

What will shake things up?

[0] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
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A wait for the lawsuit first negotiation strategy works well against people without the wherewithal for protracted litigation.
Exactly, but it then the just-good-enough case is the one that is really really efficient.
It's true that most popular scripting languages today were influenced by the same scripting (and other types of) languages that Perl was influenced by. Namely shell scripting and Lisp.

What I object to are the terms "most" and "modeled on", each of which are hyperbolic, but taken together are "hyperbolic squared" (to stretch the mathematical metaphor).

And Perl 6 hasn't had much influence at all, since nobody's been able to use it for anything practical in the last 15 years.

At best, Perl 6 has influenced people to learn other languages than Perl, which is a good thing, I suppose.
Here's the whole ruling:

https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/wb-gravity-...

It's more complicated (of course) than Gerritsen makes it out to be. The Hollywood Reporter does a decent job of explaining the contours:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/warner-bros-knocks-...

(and, in fairness, it's more complicated than WB makes it out to be as well).

Most of the ruling concerns itself with the admissibility of various documents for the purposes of a dismissal ruling, which is complicated by the fact that the court has to stipulate all of the plaintiffs facts as true and still find no cause for a lawsuit in order to grant the motion.

From what I can tell, the meat of the ruling is:

* Gerritsen didn't have a contract with WB, but with Katja and, presumably, New Line.

* Gerritsen's argument depends in part on the notion that Katja/New Line would, absent control by WB, have fought against WB making a picture based on work they'd already licensed. Katja/New Line didn't do that.

* Gerritsen might have a legitimate grievance, but it's with Katja/New Line and its previous owners, who were paid by WB. Gerritsen is thus in effect a creditor of Katja's, and if she's owed something, it's owed from the proceeds of the sale, not from WB's own bank account. Or something like that?

It's headachey stuff.
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I agree and think this is a nice and novel way to play around with go. The use of the double-underscores to highlight terms to replace is clear and easy to read. And the included assert() is perfectly valid as well as the docs about assert are strictly talking about a builtin... not about using the idea of asserting something in tests.
Yeah, the Air Force has been fighting tooth and nail because it's becoming increasingly obvious that manned aircraft are going to significantly drop in number.

Why call in a strike with it's attendant delay when you can just do it now?

Perhaps if the Air Force were a little more cooperative with the Army, the Army wouldn't have been quite so aggressive about its drone program.
Actually, I got curious and tried it out. Turns out Rust didn't optimize the heap case: it used the caller's stack, and only then copied the value to the heap.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?code=%23!%5Bfeature(core)%5D%0A%...
I'll take either a mechanical or a chiclet (like the Apple ones) keyboard over squishy rubber domes.

I personally think the chiclet boards have a lot in common with the mechanical ones - there's a very nonlinear resistance and it's pretty clear when you have, versus haven't, activated a key. I don't find many mechanical aficionados agree :)
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Sorry if anything has come off as being too argumentative. I just feel like you are downplaying the large impact that Perl 6 has had on Perl 5 and the public perception of Perl, and the impact that will come when a 1.0 version is officially released. With the new release coming up this may be the last opportunity to avoid the future damage, and that is what my question revolves around. As for everything else, we are really on the same side and I agree with you on the notable points, so I will leave out further discussion.

I am looking forward to the future of Perl 6. I really do like some of the things I've seen going on there, and it is fairly likely that in the future I will be happily writing Perl 6 code on some projects. With that said, I am very concerned about how Perl 6 carrying the Perl name will impact Perl 5, but that is separate from my excitement that a new more modern language will be carrying forward some of the Perl styles.

In short, I do appreciate Perl 6 and I don't mean to downplay anything going on there, but my concern is about what it all means for Perl 5.
No, if you buy a company, you buy it lock stock and barrel - that includes outstanding debts, existing deals, and obligations.

Otherwise it'd be trivial to make a company go millions in debt, then sell it to an accomplice who would keep the assets and poof the debts.

This still happens, of course, but there are fraud laws against it, and successful attempts when they happen generally require wriggling through a lot of loopholes.
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Maybe the soil has something to do with it also. There are some Mangoes that only taste the same if grown in a certain region of India, and I always heard that was because of the soil + climate.
That's not the point! The article was about how FB deals with privacy, and it makes some considerations on the fact that from the very first moment you start using it, you do accept that they are entitled to record every little detail about your life. And I was saying, is it worth it given there are some least worst alternatives? No! Not at all!

I never said that those alternatives are ad-free, but at least they are operating in a different way.

Google may know my current location, which bands and pizzas I like, my job, all I've searched so far, and even does automatically scan my mail to put some targeted ads in it. Ok, but at least formally, they offer me the chance to opt out from all of that: don't track my position, don't save a chronology of my search history, don't do targeted ads, ...

Speaking of Twitter, they are probably analyzing the hell out of my tweets too, but by design Twitter it's much less all-around-every-aspect-of-your-life than FB. Can you really compare the quantity and the granularity of personal and private information that FB is admittedly collecting with Twitter's?
Honestly they have a much clearer business model too: pay them some money, they'll put your hashtags in trending topics. That's it. Moreover being that Twitter is mainly used as a public communication system - and was born like that right from the start - I couldn't care less if they analyzed what I was saying because that's how advertisement has always worked! If I decided to publicly express my love for baking cakes and the day after I was presented with an advertisement for a baking course in my city, then that'd be perfectly fine. Go around and shout out loud "I love dogs!" Sooner or later someone will approach you trying to sell you a dog. That's supply and demand. It's always worked like that and there's nothing wrong with it.

Of course, what Google and FB might illegally be doing under their hoods it's a totally different concern...

Here we are speaking about how FB is publicly and explicitely perpetrating this behaviour and how dangerous it can be not only to the uninformed ones who go by the "I have nothing to hide" argument but to their friends/relatives which don't even own a FB account.

So all I was saying is: is it worth it, given what we know about FB and that there are some least worst alternatives (even by a small degree) ? No, not even for a second. And we should start exploring those alternatives.

And the following quote from @jasonbarone, which I had originally replied to, explains exactly why:

>"I don't know of any other way to stay connected to the things that matter other than Facebook."
> Their rents are subsidized, but the same subsidy is not available for buying property.

That's just a whole different brand of stupidity. If you're going to subsidize people, just give them the money and let people decide whether it's more important that they pay rent or buy a house or live with parents and go to college etc. Central planning bureaucrats are going to get it wrong nine times out of ten.

> Generally, in European countries and areas with high demand for housing, subsidizing construction is not necessary, and could be counter-productive. Making land available for construction is enough.

What land? You can't make land. There is plenty of land in the middle of the desert or the tundra but nobody wants to live there. What you need is to find some old two story apartments in places where people actually want to live and put twelve story condos there instead. Or in bigger cities, replace the twelve story buildings with fifty story ones.

You don't even need subsidies. That is what the market would do naturally when housing is expensive, the problem is local governments actively interfere with it. Existing residents don't want the homes they already own to go down in value when the housing supply increases, so they throw up a bunch of zoning regulations that de facto prohibit the construction of high density housing.
Sigh. Standard disclaimer: nothing I write here has got anything to do with my job, I'm not representing my employer in any way. I cannot talk about anything I know personally. I've also never worked on any of these projects. However, I can read, describe, and link to public material on the internet like anybody else.

In all honesty, I have no interest in the news archive projects; I read an HN link, followed some of the links in it, and said "this isn't what I was promised on the previous page". It sounds like you just made a second attempt at writing the article. I suggest you take the original one down and put this one up instead; it stands up to at least the completely superficial fact-checking of reading the links in it, which makes it a significant improvement - although it now appears to be a list of fairly straightforward bug reports. (I like bug reports. Bug reports are actionable.)

Engaging with the subject would require substantially more effort on my part to research and investigate what's going on here, because I don't know anything about it beyond what I read in links here. I'm not going to do that. However, I would encourage anybody with an interest in this subject to do the research and write up their findings.
> Here’s why you should pay close attention to this experiment. After just a single year in Chicago’s intensive tutoring and mentoring program, known as Match, participants ended up as much as two years ahead of students in a control group who didn’t get this help. A report that is being released Sunday by the University of Chicago Crime Lab also finds that they performed substantially better on the Chicago school system’s math test; their scores on the N.A.E.P. math exam reduced the usual black-white test score gap by a third. This success carried over to nonmath classes, where these students were less likely to fail. Greater success in math also helped get them on track to graduate. It also led them to become more engaged in school, and they were 60 percent less likely than members of the control group to be arrested for a violent crime.

> I know of no initiative for disadvantaged young men of color that comes close.

Neither do I. I look forward to the post-mortem explaining why this program will turn out to be a failure like all the others.
Ok, let me go point by point

a) you are right. I was only referring to the pre-euro accounting. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

b+c) I don't know the exact figure, but if I remember correctly, private loses were about 20% only.

"One estimate is that Greece actually subscribed to €156bn worth of new debt in order to get €206bn worth of old debt to be written off, meaning the trumpeted write-down of €110bn by the banks and others is more than double the true figure of €50bn that was truly written off. Taxpayers are now liable for more than 80% of Greece's debt.[219] James Mackintosh, Investment Editor at the Financial Times, noted a JPMorgan Chase estimate that "only €15bn of €410bn total 'aid' to Greece" actually went into the country's economy, the rest having been handed over to its creditors. " [1]

d) Yes, they can't 'force' any government to do as they say, but if they don't, they don't give them the money they need. They aren't open to negotiating at all. They want the gov. to sell profitable businesses and to reduce social spending. That is their 'sensible' way to deal with the issue. I don't have first hand experience of what they did in Greece, but if what they tried to do in Portugal is any indication, it was a loser's game from the start. They didn't care about economic recovery or sustainable growth. No, they were repo men trying to get as much of the money back as possible. Which is fine, it's their job and the countries accepted the money, but then, not for one second please tell me how these countries are lazy and spenders, and the damn hard worker Northern brethren has to act like a parent. Let's not forget Germany were one of the first countries to go over the 3% deficit target and got scot free through political pressure [2] [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#An...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/nov/25/theeuro.poli... - sorry, its the guardian, but you can google other sources

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact#Refor...
>PERT 3-point estimates...It's taught in project management courses but there're no simple tools for it.

Thanks for mentioning some theory behind this. What is lost by doing a simple best/worst/likely time estimate of all sub tasks, as compared to doing the full blown statistical analysis? The simple approach can be achieved relatively easily with a spreadsheet. For small-ish projects, does the full blown approach provide any significant benefit?

I work mostly on small projects, implementing new server/network infrastructure for small/medium businesses. Time estimation is always a crap shoot, and the only approach I know to combat it is to pad the estimate with generic line items like "testing" and "troubleshooting". If the statistical analysis would help create a better estimate of time, I would spend time developing or contributing to an estimating tool.
Interesting, but it seems to be unaware of some Clojure libs. It suggests,

(.trim " foo ") ;; Java interop

instead of,

(trim " foo ") ;; With clojure.string

Clojure.string is available from Clojure 1.2, which is ostensibly the version used in the comparison, yet is for some reason not actually utilized. (By the way, we're approaching Clojure 1.7 at the moment)
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> I may be the person who is most looking forward to Rust being stable...

No, that would be me! :)
I would be interested in a short rundown on the current state of privacy networks, including: tor, i2p, gnunet, freenet, anonet etc. Do kad/emule/gnutella still exist?
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Unreal: "A WB receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper. This is especially unusual, given that the Harry Potter film series is the highest-grossing film series of all time."
I had a similar problem a good while ago, on a much smaller scale, when a company that was buying land to put solar panels on it went bankrupt - essentially, they bought the panels, installed them on land that was actually belonging to another company that belonged to the crook's wife, and then declared bankruptcy after setting up some deal with the wife's company whereby it would get first rights to the assets (the panels) which were liquidated for pennies on the dollar. End result, they got free solar panels for their land.

I did an electrical design for them, and ended up not getting paid because the debt was with the defunct company, not the wife's company.

When I asked for my father's advice, he told me that legal channels are powerless in these cases, and offered to loan me a construction crew to go to the land at night and either steal or destroy as many panels as I felt was fair.

Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, although I am guessing that it's more of a Mediterranean thing than an Anglosaxon thing. The general consensus among Italians and Greeks to whom I told the story is that this was a fair manner to solve the issue, the general consensus among Americans and Canadians to whom I told the story is that my father proposed a criminal action (This whole thing happened in Italy).

Virtue probably lies in the middle, but I wouldn't know what the middle ground for this sort of thing is...
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Be careful with these guys. They instruct people to use weak crypto with their privacy service.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/#...

(RSA key for the certificate you end up installing is 1024 bits.)
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> While Microsoft Office for mobile is a satisfying success ...

Are there numbers supporting this claim? A cursory search revealed no publicly released usage statistics
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> What is lost by doing a simple best/worst/likely time estimate of all sub tasks, as compared to doing the full blown statistical analysis?

I'm not sure I understand you, but I'm just going to talk at you anyway.

In the 3-point estimate you break the estimate down into smaller parts, then have experts assign best/likely/worst case values to each part. Then they are rolled up into a single CDF.

The thing is that the formulae used are basically made up. They give a "triangular distribution", which superficially resembles a normal distribution at low precision. But lots of things don't resemble a normal distribution. You can hope that through the central limit theorem your estimate will improve towards resembling a normal distribution ... except that humans persistently underestimate everything.

A lot of the Ops Research / PM literature is about fiddling with the formulae, or introducing adjustments based on historical data, which all helps. But by itself the 3-point method improves outcomes simply because you bother to enumerate stuff.

The other secret is that if you do it a few times, you tend to look at previous estimates and you begin to remember things that are frequently forgotten. A common cause of underestimation is leaving off common tasks. For example, software developers can often give a reasonable estimate for the core work they're doing (code and tests), but tend to forget to account for everything else that's needed before a feature can be considered done done: merging, discussion with others, integration, deployments, documentation and so on.
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a link to the accompanying presentation is here [1]
This is an interesting topic as the way browsers currently treat SSL warning is very user unfriendly.
Most users just know what to click to get past the warnings, not what the warning actually means for them.

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The big problem with Android is the lack of updates for popular phones. Love it, or hate it, cyanogen does address that.

More significantly, manufacturers have tested the waters with cyanogenmod devices -- oneplus one, Oppo n1, Micromax's Yu Yureka. I for one would be more likely to buy a cyanogenmod supported phone than a 'touchwiz', 'optimus' or "Windows 8" phone if I was assured of two year updatability.

And how would this help Microsoft's bottom line? Android... with Bing.
Aws S3 JavaScript Sdk lets you download entire objects from s3 using the gtObject function. But there's no support for multipart parallel downloads. So I wrote one for node.js which turns out to be much faster when downloading large files. It allows for auto retries if any part fails making it more reliable. It uses the node.js stream api so the object is written to disk as it is being downloaded.
Most of the early automobile pioneers? Westinghouse? Alfred Lee Loomis? Henry Flagler?

I think it's easy to assume that people who are known for massive success in a single industry were only involved in that. If you dig into a lot of their lives you see that they had many other ventures, some which were successful (Miami) others were not (Fordlandia). However their primary/initial success is what gets all the historical coverage.

Also as time goes on and the engineering achievements are seen as more routine, they become less and less notable when not put into the context of the times. At one point the transcontinental railroad was seen just as crazy as the Hyperloop.
I made the switch from an Android Sony to a Lumia 530 this Christmas. Apart from the LCD TN screen the Lumia is easily the best phone I've ever had at half the price.
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Here's the docket and selected documents (blame PACER):

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