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Hey I found the code, this first iteration actual reads a file in '.lif' format or a simplified version thereof, and then produces the duel html/c code:

/*<!-- */
#include<stdio.h>

char *s="/*<!-- */char *s=%c%s%c;char *t=%c%s%c;%c#define O (x[a][b++]=1),0%c#define _ (x[a][b++]=0),0%c#define TD 5; 4%c#define TR a++; b=1;%c#define Tr a++;%c#define N(x) f=x+1;%c#define p printf%cint main() { int x[99][99],a=1,b=1,i,j,k,l,n,f; for(i=0; i<99; i++) for(j=0; j<99; j++) x[i][j]=0; p(s,34,s,34,34,t,34,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10);/*--%c <HTML><TABLE border=0><TR><TD */5>";

char *t=" for(i=1; i<a; (i!=(a-1))?p(%c%%cTR /*%%c%%cTD*/5%%c%cn%c,60,62,60,62):i,i++) for(j=1; j<b; j++) { n=0; for(k=-1; k<2; k++) for(l=-1; l<2; l++) if(k||l) n+=x[i+k][j+l]; p(%c%%c%c,(n==3)?'O':((n==2)?(x[i][j]?'O':'_'):'_')); j!=(b-1)?p(%c%%cTD%%c%c,60,62):j; } p(%c%%cTr N(%%d)/*%%c%%c/TABLE%%c%%cA HREF=t%%d.c%%cn%%c/A%%c%%c/HTML%%c%%cTD */%cn%c, 60,f,62,60,62,60,f,62,60,62,60,62,60); p(t,34,92,34,34,34,34,34,34,92,34,10); } /* > */%c";

int main() {
int x[999][999],i,h,v,minx=999,miny=999,maxx=0,maxy=0;
char str[99],nstr[99],done;

printf(s,34,s,34,34,t,34,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,62);

for(i=0; i<999; i++) for(v=0; v<999; v++) x[i][v]=0;
v=0; h=0;
while(!feof(stdin)) {
fgets(&str[0],98,stdin);
i=0;
if(sscanf(&str[0],"#P %d %d \n",&h,&v)|sscanf(&str[0],"#%s \n",nstr)|feof(stdin)) { }
else {
while(str[i]!='\0'&&str[i]!=EOF) {
(str[i]!='.'&&isgraph(str[i]))?x[500+h+i][500+v]=1:i;
(500+h+i)<minx?minx=(500+h+i):((500+h+i)>maxx?maxx=(500+h+i):i);
(500+v)<miny?miny=(500+v):((500+v)>maxy?maxy=(500+v):v);
i++;
}
}
v++;
}

for(v=(miny-11); v<(maxy+12); v++)
for(i=(minx-11); i<(maxx+10); i++)
printf("%c<%s",x[i][v]?'O':'_',i==(maxx+9)?(v==(maxy+11)?"Tr N(2)\n":"TR /*><TD */5>\n"):"TD>");

printf("/*></TABLE><A HREF=t2.c>n</A><BR><TD */\n");

printf(t,34,92,34,34,34,34,34,34,92,34,10);
} /* > */
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I have one. I recently moved to an area with very poor AT&T coverage. I am under contract with AT&T, and I wasn't pleased with the prospect of having to go outside every time I wanted to make or receive a phone call from my house, so this seemed good for me.

I bought one for $150 (not $250). It works, but not very well. On some calls I get fairly severe audio distortion that makes it hard to understand people. I'm not sure how to fix this yet. Still, though, it's better than not being able to make or receive any phone calls at home.

Data usage isn't an issue because I have wifi, and call time isn't an issue because I never get close to my limit anyway.
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I think they will go the way of IBM: Relevant and profitable but not the all-encompassing mega-monopolist.
I don't see how the license is not free. The loophole is it does not state who's definition of evil applies. Therefore you can state that your software is not evil and be done with it. If Mr Crockford decides to sue you you will have a very easy defense.
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Some great points here on those first crucial meetings for any startup. Can't hit enough on the mistakes many entrepreneurs make in approaching VCs - use your judgement, but really know your audience, it is key.
Wow, someone can easily write a compiler/interpreter for your Algorithm

It is a very lame example, IMO.
Algorithm: I found a quicker way of sorting integers.Patentable.
Software: I wrote a program that sorts integers. Unpatentable.
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The only difference I see is that your Algorithm is written in a programming language that doesn't have an implementation. Yet. If I write one, that difference will go. Therefore this is not an intrinsic difference. It does not count.

Do you have something more substantial?

Meta: funny how this comment is doing karma oscillation (so far: + - - + -). But I would've like people tell me why 3 of them thought I have "crossed the line".
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The idea is to have the Arduino interfaced to a Telit GPS and GSM unit plus a 433Mhz radio for telemetry downlink. I'll launch the balloon to take photos/videos of near space and use the telemetry to track the balloon for recovery.
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You are welcome. We could extend your observation about the earth to the universe: the universe is the way it is because had it been any other way, we wouldn't be there to observe it (and to comment on intelligent design or the lack of it!)

The term used in Physics for this is the Anthropic principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle.
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Another common flaw in broken benchmarks: use a single client instead of many simultaneous clients. In this configuration you are mostly measuring the RTT plus the client lib implementation latency.

Another one is testing on-disk DBs with datasets that fit in RAM: the whole DB data will be cached in OS buffers and you don't get the picture of how the DB will perform with big data.

Benchmarking is one of the most complex tasks, but for some reason benchmarking is usually not done by the most expert guys in the field.
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I'm not sure that's how the license would be enforced, in practice. There's no automatic right for any party to dictate the meaning of undefined or unclear terms.
Indeed.

With 95, mainstream users got access to long filenames and a reasonably functional GUI.

Still, when you wanted a computer to "just work", you really had no choice.
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I think the problem is a lot of people are trying to patent "sorting integers", period, and its very difficult for a layman to tell the difference between these three.
I started doing this a while ago. I have some keys to access a building which needs a security code to disable the alarm, so I wouldnt forget it I wrote it on the key tag mixed in with a series of other numbers.

Alternativly I use KeePass to store all my passwords and for the master password I combined all the passwords Ive used over the years, so its about 15 characters long and easy to remember.
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Don't be too quick to conclude that its a physical condition. It could be emotional or psychosomatic. That would be consistent with being financially strapped, unemployed, not in school, no clear life direction, etc. Not judging, just pointing out that such a state is emotionally stressful and could manifest in phantom physical symptoms.

For more, start here but the net is full of success stories using Sarno's approach, so do a search...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno
I think that the argument used is that an algorithm can be implemented in hardware, at which point it is no longer a "program for a computer" and thus avoids that clause.
Interesting. How are you planning to recover the balloon?
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Let me replace the quatation marks for you:

"schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business," and programs for computers;

This how the patent lawyers interpret this clause. Companies I worked for pays £xxxx to their employees for patents. I've sat in some of the commitees which decides a patent is worth pursuing. My experience is the inventive step almost always involves some tweaking in existing algorithms.
Well done on launching! What sort of software powers this? Could you tell us more about the technical side of how your system works.
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So, balloon will be attached to the payload box via rope which has two things attached to it: a parachute and a radar reflector. Reflector is there so aircraft can see the contraption, the parachute will be open all the time, but doing nothing as the balloon ascends.

Once the balloon bursts (somewhere over 30km) the parachute will slow the fall.

Throughout the payload will broadcast its location derived from GPS over a 433Mhz link (probably RTTY) which I can track. Once at a low altitude (not sure how low yet) and within GSM range the payload will also SMS its location to another cell phone.

This should give me enough data to find the balloon. Plus there is software to do balloon trajectory prediction based on weather forecasts. That'll give me a general idea of route as well.

Also, on a clear day the entire thing will be visible from the ground using high-powered binoculars or a small telescope. If I have time I'd like to get automatic ground tracking in place by attaching a Yagi antenna to a powered telescope and using the downlinked balloon location to steer the telescope to train the antenna on it and to get video of the balloon's ascent. That last part may be beyond my budget unless someone's got a steerable telescope mount that has a computer interface (RS-232/423 or USB) that they'd like to give me :-)

I plan to use a small video camera that will be activated at altitude to record HD video of near space (and the descent). Currently thinking of a Slide HD which can record 4 hours of video and is small and light, but this part isn't nailed yet.

This is actually a really complex project: navigation, telemetry, all the balloon related aspects, interface with ATC, temperature extremes, weather, ...
Congrats Daeken! Nice big niche, too...

Gotta love the quote: "In today’s tough economy, hotel owners are striving just to keep their doors open" for a lock management system...
(I assume that your "way" involve the use of a computer, and that your "program" is "quicker".)

Now, I'd like you to explain to me how your way of sorting integers is not a program. Or how your program is not a way of sorting integer.

No matter how I squeeze my brain, I still fail to see a difference between an algorithm and a program. To me, that's only different labels for the same thing.
Linode/Slicehost are always a safe choice.

But if you want cheaper, take a look at http://arpnetworks.com/vps -- they start at $10. Heard good things about ARP.

Might want to visit http://lowendbox.com/ too, but it is something I do not recommend if you don't know which of the gazillion hosts featured there are reputable.
While 95 introduced long filenames to a mainstream audience, it was very unstable. MacOS 7.5 was not perfect (and the PPC migration brought some instability), but it was not nearly as bad as 95. NT4 had a kernel internally more advanced than MacOS classic, but most users wouldn't be able to tell.

Microsoft's GUI offerings started to really compete with Apple's with 95 and matured through NT4 and 2000.

Apple had a good product, if you compare it with what the PC market was offering. OS8 and 9 were well-rounded OSs that competed mostly against the 9x family, as XP, which made the NT kernel mainstream, wasn't launched until after OSX.
Thanks! I'll be writing a blog post on the tech shortly (actually moving right now -- on the road but saw our press release pop up), but a quick rundown: at the core is Pylons, with a bunch of custom modules for making sqlalchemy nicer, handling forms in a sane way etc; on the frontend, it's your standard HTML and CSS, but uses "pyvascript", a Python->JS compiler I wrote for this, which supports real macros. I spent quite a while building up the framework to simplify the development, and I plan on releasing all of it when I have the time.
How would you encourage the development of new pharmaceuticals (the process of which costs vast, vast sums of money and can take decades) if, as soon as the new drug is done, anyone can come and just copy the formula?

I'm not pro-patents on everything, but pharmaceuticals is a case where the patent bargain seems to produce benefits in terms of drugs that otherwise might not be developed.
Isn't that one of the reasons we have courts (or depending where you are, other forms of dispute resolution: mediation, arbitration etc.).
D. Richard Hipp, the SQLite creator, makes a very good living from consulting and support contracts from what I can tell.

"SQLite consortium" membership costs $75,000 a year: http://www.sqlite.org/consortium.html
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> everyone wants to be the next Ballmer.

Eww... I would never want to become Ballmer. ;-)

And to keep with your example, Apple also floundered after Jobs was kicked out. They had decent products, but nothing insanely great.
This is a great point. Often people conflate the (probably) sensible VC preference for a two-person startup with the idea that two people are necessary for a successful startup. These are two totally different ideas, and only the former is really defensible (the latter having many counterexamples).
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If they wrote this in pure assembly as a personal project: congratulations and good on them. However, if they actually believe that this is a performance benefit I have to say that they know just enough about hardware optimization to be dangerous.

One of the great things about writing the core in C and then either optimizing for the compiler or writing the inner loop in the target ISA is that one can adapt with the CPU architecture. Anyone who has done development for true high performance architectures knows that you need to optimize for memory architecture as much as CPU architecture. When the new Xeons come out with double the L2 and a larger cache line and X cores in NUMA layout, writing everything in the Pentium 3 ISA is going to look pretty stupid.
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The idea of using a computer program to sort integers is not patentable. A way to sort integers quicker is patentable.

For a real lif example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_258/03
> IBM hasn't invented anything worthwhile since the IBM PC

I have to disagree. The PC was not innovative at all - it was little more than a repackage of existing stuff. It's architecture was hugely successful in the market thanks to IBM's muscle and its poor judgement that allowed Microsoft to sell MS-DOS to clone makers.

But nobody should say the PC is innovative. The Apple ][, the Atari's (both 8-bit and the STs), the Commodores (the VIC 20, the C64, the Amiga) were all innovative, groundbreaking products.

The PC was a kludge. And mostly still is. Recently, playing with hardware detection I found out my Atom-based netbook has an ISA bus somewhere inside it. I wanted to wash my hands.
I'd love to hear someone frank legal input on the risk of a team leaving a company to start a similar competitive product, and marketing themselves in reference to the previous company. If I work at GE, learn how to make light bulbs, then start a light bulb company leveraging all that expensive R&D but with no costs, do I have a problem?
It's been a long time since I've benchmarked a RDBMS, but it's always the same story: Benchmarks are rarely done correctly. People think a benchmark as the definitive way to prove their point, so they hastily and sloppily design a simplistic experiment to measure their desired quantities and then cite it all over the place as The Truth.

For almost 8 years I've had to constantly scrutinize people's benchmarks (worked in networking and distributed systems research, and measurements are crucial in those contexts), point out their errors, and make them think about the details and "hidden" factors that affect their experiments. I haven't met more than a handful of people that could get a benchmark right on their own, and none (including myself) that get it right the first time.

It's good that there are people that could point our errors out.
And, I would like to point out, is almost as entertaining as watching Sun bleed dry.

Not at all.
This site reminds me of another site that has been online a lot longer: http://www.passwordchart.com/

Instead of having to store a number to regenerate your card, the card is (re)generated from a "master" password that you can memorize and never write down. You do not even need to print out your card, as you can generate your card online at any time.

I have a friend who uses this service; he has a complicated "master" password and simply uses the site domain ("news.ycombinator.com" for example) for the second field in order to generate the password to use on each site (HN).

For those who have personal policies of regularly changing passwords, just regularly change your "master" password and be sure to update your passwords on all affected sites (keeping your second field the same).
Oh dear. I can see the open-source and pirate communities coming down on these guys like a ton of bricks. I wouldn't be surprised to see a CDDB-style distributed database and server and accompanying mobile apps up by the end of next week. Shazam's CTO may well have been better off turning a blind eye.

It's got all the elements hackers love: software patents, an underdog, free speech and an interesting technical problem.
They should slash the product line. They won't because of the lock-in loops. If they cease to offer one product line, the lock-in loop where it participates gets broken.
Welcome to HN. I hope you'll stick around and share what interesting tidbits you are able from cases you take on. Your fresh perspective will be highly welcome.

It is a shame that the patent system is essentially inaccessible to the "little guy" without becoming a celebrity charity case or piquing the interest of someone like the EFF. Here's hoping that you can do much in your coming career to remedy this.
Looks like an interesting system. If I were planning a hotel I'd certainly consider this, along with replacements for the crappy in-room entertainment software.

Regarding the press release, in the future, I'd put the mortal readable function of your product first. The first sentence of your press release doesn't mean anything to most people. The second half of the third sentence finally gets to the point.
A lot of IT and Programming work is a lot of reading punctuated by short bursts of typing behaviour and 'walking speed' amounts of clicking. Stuff like typing dictation or pro star craft players is constantly clicking and typing, so I'm not surprised that you don't have RSI problems. Try taking 10 pages of written text and typing it out with no breaks, you'll feel the pain soon enough.

Or your like those people who never have problems with their teeth or eyes despite abusing both. Some people are just built better, other people have weaker systems like skin prone to excema, but since it is internal it's less obvious.
Hi all -

I'm the author of the original post being discussed here. I can see that most everyone on this thread disagrees with me, which is fine.

I just wanted to let you know that because of being linked to on HN, there has been some thoughtful discussion in the comments that addresses several of the points raised here.

Cheers,
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Your argument assumes that you need some kind of artificial encouragement to make the development of pharmaceuticals thrive.

Against Intellectual Monopoly[1], shows rather strong empirical evidence to the contrary: drug development thrived before patents arrived, and didn't accelerate after. They may even have slowed down.

Your argument is appealing, but most probably wrong.

[1]: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...
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Microsoft has to mature a lot to become an IBM.

Check what IBM's basic research did and compare it with what Microsoft Research outputs.
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I read an article (found via SearchYC actually) earlier today about this. While I definitely understand how that emotional turmoil can lead to psychosomatic symptoms, I don't think that is what is happening here.

My last job, by pretty much any measure other than income, was worse for me than being unemployed. Near the end I had been out on multiple stress leaves (I think the total was 5 weeks out, beginning about 9 months prior to my dismissal) and was generally in bad shape. My stress level was so high, in fact, that my boss (the good boss I had for about six months, but before the stress leaves) took me on a detour during our morning coffee run and bought be a bottle of Valerian pills to try to calm me down.

During all of that, I never developed these sorts of symptoms. The only physical effects I can really think of were the insomnia and a case of strep throat during one of the leaves which that same boss said was likely caused by my stress decompression.

Having said that, however, after reading that article this morning, my wrists have felt better than they have in months. I've been attributing that to a) the stretches I found on YouTube this morning, and b) the right-before-bed ibuprofen regimen I described above.

I'll definitely give Sarno's work a second look, but I'm so worried about ruining my life by permanently damaging my wrists that I doubt I can really commit to any approach which requires me to actively ignore signs of potential damage.