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I do use Firefox, so I probably hit that bug. Also, with NoScript, forbidding GA causes no problem.

But still, I would have liked the analysis process to be completely invisible from the client.
This is a new startup, just in alpha. An early version of the idea was a YC reject :)
I thought pg's most recent essay (which is awesome btw) would make a good example.
We'd love some feedback. There are more features coming but we've tried to launch as a "minimum viable product".
Be kind :)
That's just too general a comment, in my opinion. Saying "java is too slow for a startup" is like saying "Windows is too primitive for a startup". What if you're making Windows-specific desktop software? Or are we only allowed to talk about ruby-on-rails twitter mashups here anymore?
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There was another C&H fulltext search engine at
http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch/strips/index

Unfortunately, the publisher forced it to close it down.

Let's hope this one stays up longer...
I don't think it was his decision to sell. He was forced out/quit/whatever soon after the acquisition anyway.
If you think you have a shot at doing it, take the harder course.

Trying to get good grades by looking for the easy A is a good way to teach yourself to never try hard. Furthermore it sets you up for failure later when you find that you didn't learn stuff that people around you did. Plus it is boring, and boredom is not worthwhile.
That was the book that convinced me to start a startup with Steve. He'd let me borrow his copy of it, which is on his shelf to this day (I'm crashing at his place this week and just saw it). Can't recommend it enough. It's not brilliantly written, but it's written well enough - and the story, well...
Not if you apply design-by-contract, that's the whole point.
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Scientific progress goes 'boink'?
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for correcting me.
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Peace of mind. I always preferred flat fees for all services, even if I have to pay a bit more. When it comes to hosting I would of course expect a mechanism that prevents abuse. For example, lowering the traffic speeds considerably after a reasonable cap. Ideally, though, all the figures involved should be spelled out. Moreover, lower speeds would not be acceptable for a professional site (see next).

The funny (or worse) thing is that I don’t have any professional sites, and my personal sites are essentially text based. Hence, I never use more than 50MB of Linode’s 200GB! But still… I greatly value having the option of agreeing on a final price and absolutely ruling out any surprises at the end of the month.

By the way, I miss the American meaning of “unlimited” or “flat fee”… There it means what it says, but here in Spain the “flat fees” of mobile operators in particular are so ridiculously abusive that you wonder how it’s legal to advertise them so prominently with two paragraphs of “fine print” afterwards.
no, but I'd notice the content change (assuming they changed authors.)
Yes, try working at a major law firm where technology is something that's tolerated rather than encouraged!
A nuclear deterrent only works if both sides have nukes. Google is a pretty young company, with few patents. Oracle is a much older company, that bought many old companies along the way. Oracle's patent portfolio vastly outstrips that of Google.
Also note that the PS2 is still in production.
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> Not having a public IP I can live with

You do realize that it forbids your phone (or the computer you tether) to be a server, right? That means you can't receive calls over IP without the need for a third party, for instance.

So I'd say they do care about how you use their service. They wouldn't want to give you the means of destroying their busyness model, now do they?
It also failed on “paradigm shift” for me…

EDIT: Looks like someone defined that one since I tried it last…
This comes through the interdisciplinary nature of computational linguistics: CS people know that theories and models are just theories and models, and can be mixed and matched to fit your application purpose better. (People love to have pillow fights over principles in programming language designs and other assorted stuff, but in the end you just choose something from the menu that looks tasty or cook your own using everyone's ideas).

Linguists, on the other hand, are after THE TRUTH (i.e., what actually happens in part of human language understanding), or a good model of it. It's not uncommon in linguistics that people will try and construct The One True Model and look down upon anyone who mixes and matches bits from multiple theories - because, anyways, only the grown-ups are supposed to create new ones, and everyone else is prone to mess it up beyond recognition.

Take together the blissfully ignorant mixing and matching habit from the CS side, and the linguistics habit of having mutually incompatible theories that fight over subscribers, and you get the seemingly incongruous habit of CL people to mix and match theories that are not meant to be mixed and matched.
Again, as tptacek already said: careful. The summary isn't the actual claim either. The devil is in the details.
There is prior art in Smaltalk and Self ... the Hotspot compiler itself is an old Smaltalk implementation that Sun bought, open-sourced recently by SUN btw ... http://www.strongtalk.org/
Which is kinda weird, since the publisher of Calvin & Hobbes is known to be very aggressive towards this kind of sites. (Or at least they used to, maybe they've just given up.)
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why would you want to reverse-engineer a proprietary protocol, which still connects to a walled garden?

a more ideal solution involves decentralization. do you trust a single service provider?
Ok, that is probably true.

So he must have been in on the negotiations only because of his name being on those patents, or his unique understanding of those patents or something to that effect.

I find it strange to see him talking to the Oracle lawyers explaining the patent situations in a 'we're selling you this asset with which you can attack google' mode, and to come out now and act all surprised and 'I hope I don't get dragged in to it' mode.

He should probably expect to get dragged in to it, most likely by Googles council as a witness for the defense.

If he presented it to Oracle in a way that 'made their lawyers eyes sparkle' that sounds like he presented it in a very favorable light (for Oracle and Sun) during those meetings, if he's going to be dragged in to it he will have to repeat his stance on why this is something that Oracle can do in court or he'll risk being sued by Oracle for misrepresentation during the meetings with Oracle if he comes down on the defense side with his point of view.

I really wouldn't want to be in his shoes, this could get very nasty. And it could damage the Java brand considerably.
What I don't understand and can't find anywhere: what is in it for Oracle? Do they want licensing fees? Do they want to destroy Android? Do they want Google to grant them licenses to certain patents Google owns?
And 90% of the value of the latest iOS devices.
Show that you're working on some product. Post a link to a prototype or half-baked website here. Explain what it is. Entries with most upvotes would win.

As for (b) I believe honestly telling that you can't afford it would be enough.
"that the majority shares the delusion; that this place is a munchkin group"

witch brings us to the point: You are right and the majority is wrong. But without good explanation, you still deeply care about what other people think about you("it still can do damage").

When I played pen-and-paper RPG, the storyteller used to favor her friends-interest over anyone else(the majority), so maybe that is the real objective: Impose your way of thinking over the majority, If not, you don't play.
>> I looked at the hosting provider you mentioned, and it seems the server is located in Germany w/ upto 4GB of RAM and 250GB of storage for ~$75/month.

I would have no problem using a VPS. In that category they even offer a $6.95/month option: http://nqhost.com/cheap-vps.html.
"Dogs breakfast" is terrible business jargon? I've been an MBA since I was 5 then...
You haven't worked with Java ME then ;)

Dalvik limitations are very justified, and even if phones improve over time, Dalvik also evolves.

Also when going head to head with Apple and Microsoft on such a far-reaching platform, having full control over your platform is valuable.
Hmm, a simple bot to feature a cloud platform. People might get the wrong idea about your service.
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Wait, has Cerf said something on the Google/Verizon thing?
this was linked a few days ago:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/10/vint-cerf-comments-on...
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First, more people are going to read just the articles, and up-vote just the articles.

I feel that every up-vote toward a (usually) third-party's work gaining users the same karma as comment up-votes is somewhat broken.

Anyone agree and/or have thoughts on how to fix it?
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> At least C# has lambdas...

And an open-source alternative which compared to other open-source Java efforts, is in pretty good shape, and also has a pledge from Microsoft.

I feel attracted by .NET, but every time I end up using it I wish I didn't ... it's like every year I wish for summer to go to the beach, but when it's finally summer and I'm at the beach ... it's too hot, it's too crowded, the water is dirty and I don't want to be there :)
Awesome news! Way to go for a great team and a great product!
Thanks, I'd missed that somehow. It is disappointing.
It is possible to print the paper at home, if you have a color laser printer. (600+ dpi required, but I haven't seen any lately that aren't at least 600.)

Newegg has printers that fit the bill starting at $150-ish. No special toner required, although Anoto does make some sort of custom ink you can buy for the purpose.

So it is possible to avoid buying their paper, just possibly annoying.
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The success and temporary "failure" stories are informative and sometimes inspiring, but what about the permanent "failure" stories? I don't mean your startup tanked and you're starting a new one; I mean by all indications this stuff just wasn't for you and you dropped out of entrepreneurship for good. What happened afterward and how was your career affected?
I wish you could tell us what "fixing" costs 4 grand?
that could work... intriguing step up from HN in many ways as I'd be putting my money where my mouth/comments/pts currently reside...
> It is disappointing.

The art of the understatement.
If you like lambdas, you'd probably like F# better: lighter syntax, types are inferred, and it looks like it's quite well supported by Microsoft.

But of course, if you consider F#, you may want to use the more free and open Ocaml.
>Is it mom 'n pop shops everywhere and extremely expensive search costs and high markup?

You're assuming that having lots of little stores as opposed to one big chain means high markup. It doesn't have to. Walmart has extremely high markup in certain areas.

Personally I think a capitalist "utopia" would indeed consist of countless small companies all competing on equal footing with each other. The enabling factor would be instant communications and robotic production to keep costs down. Big companies damage the market because they move closer to monopolies. Imagine trying to get into the general retail space today!
Android is free though isn't it? they can have 100% of Google's Android sales in that case :)
This is a common misconception.

Yahoo's algorithmic search is powered by Bing. But that's like saying DuckDuckGo can't innovate because Gabriel uses Yahoo, Wikipedia and other APIs to get data.

Microsoft have partnered with Yahoo! to provide the core matches but what we do with those is up to us.
It's not as strong as with trademark law, but patent law does have some notion of estoppel--- if you know someone is using a patent of yours, and publicly congratulate them for it, and then years later turn around and sue them, your job in pulling off the U-turn is at least a bit harder. Among other things, they can argue detrimental reliance on your public acquiescence to their usage.
Nice. I did a quick search for my favorite strip and it came up as the first result:

http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...

There's lots of quotable stuff in the Calvin & Hobbes universe. Nice to see there's finally a way to find it.

Need one of these for Bloom County next.
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No, GPLv3 is useless here.

Oracle can sue for patents over any GPLv3 technology, and all GPLv3 says is that the company doing the suing can't distribute code under GPLv3.

But since they own the copyrights of Java, they can always change its license and leave the rest of the world in dust.
and who's running the adwords-like part of the business? Still Overture? Funny how MSFT does not understand that's where the money comes from, and where improvement is most needed.
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In some ways I'm actually glad you raised your views, because I'm not afraid of people peeking in to see what it's like now.

I'd still like to reiterate my point from the other thread. We aren't perfect, but not becoming Google isn't the definition of unsuccessful.

We have things we could do better, like everyone, and we'll work on those. Personally, the amount of support I've received from the tech community based on responses to PG's article has given me a two day smile.
probably not. Look at who's CEO. And at how many smart people have left, from the Founders of Flickr and del.icio.us to Jeremy Zawodny and many many more...
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...Check cashing via cell phone is pretty cool.

FWIW, I can do this with Chase and an iPhone app that they offer. No API, but, I don't need one. Mint works fine with Yodlee.
I just felt it cogent to point out that the article linked is a mere 71 words, while your above analysis of the situation is 215. I think you may be reading too much into this...
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eh, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you are an employee, you have already traded away money for comfort and stability. no matter what you think about the fairness of continuing to be honest in the face of what are essentially professional liars, for most of us, for various reasons, not having to lie is part of that comfort.

More cynically, many people here are not anonymous... Few few people, I imagine, are willing to publicly and non-anonymously advocate dishonesty.
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From Quora: http://www.quora.com/How-valid-are-the-reasons-for-Yahoo-pro...

The main point of Graham's article is that Yahoo! didn't have a hacker-centric culture. If there was a time when that was true, it must have been before I joined.

A company without a hacker-centric culture doesn't encourage the kind of risk-taking and experimentation I saw when I was at Yahoo! Search. As an engineer, I had direct input into product features at every level, from ideation to design to implementation to launch. If I had a crazy idea, I was encouraged not just to tell people about it (up to and including executives), but to implement it and see if it tested well with users. I was able to add my own personal touch to parts of the product (sometimes big parts) without needing to ask permission or wade through excessive red tape.

This may not sound impressive to someone who's used to the way things work at startups or small companies. But this was at one of the largest Internet companies in the world, on one of the most visited websites in the world. For Yahoo! to give me and other engineers the kind of freedom and power we had is not normal for a company or a product that operates at this scale.
Could someone be so kind to explain why this is bad for Java instead being bad for patents? I guess we all agree that software patents are bad. This issue seems to be just about them. Why is Java dragged into this? (Genuine curiosity.)
Interesting.

Please note, I'm not an attorney or expert on Java.

The complaint is quite vague overall, perhaps deliberately. It lists the various patents, says what they are, and alleges that Google infringed upon each one. It also suggests that Sun/Oracle owns heaps of Java source code which has been used by Google, thereby breaching copyright. Oh, and since I own an Android phone I too am infringing on their patents, but fortunately they lay the blame for this at Google's feet. Whew!

Nowhere in the complaint is there any explanation of what licensing obligations were applicable or which govern the distribution of Java. Nor is it clear when Oracle alleges this infringement began in relation to each patent, or why or how they consider it to be infringed upon by Android. The complaint mentions the Dalvik VM specifically.

Looking through the licensing information on the phone itself, there's a bunch of stuff from Sun under a 1993-4 license which is very short and confers the right to use, modify and distribute the software without reservation. Most of the rest is under the Apache Harmony license, and a sprinkling of others. Well, I suppose if google were deliberately infringing, they would hardly mention the fact in their licensing statements.

So where is the problem?

14. On information and belief, Google has been aware of Sun’s patent portfolio, including the patents at issue, since the middle of this decade, when Google hired certain former Sun Java engineers.

A good ZDnet article suggests the engineers in question may be 'Lars Bak, Robert Griesemer, and Frank Yellin, all former Sun employees who now work for Google on Java and Web browser technologies, and all of whom appear as inventors on one or more of the patents in question.'

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oracle-uses-james-gosling...

Also (possibly, IMHO) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bloch

I don't know what Oracles chances are. On the surface it looks like rather weak sauce, with some of the patents being questionable because of prior art...but like I said, that's an amateur perspective. Oracle appears to be saying the bare minimum necessary at this time. Google will likely move for a summary judgment of dismissal, denying that there is any substance to Oracle's claims, and at that point Oracle may have to make some more specific allegations.
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Apple has mix feelings on HN. Compared to Google which the majority would say they love.
Yes, the ones who looked at the whole Google background images debacle and decided they were prudent all along to put some sort of QA in place. (Despite all the conspiracy theories, Google putting background images on google.com for everyone without an option to turn it off was genuinely a bug made by one developer who pushed it out without needing approval from anyone else.)
A great idea, a reasonable pricing and a bit luck. You found the recipe.
This probably wasn't the best time of day to post to get feedback, but we were a little worried about the spike in server load if we were lucky enough to get some YC love.
I wonder how much did google give away till now...
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I think Yahoo's search division is quite different from the rest of yahoo; yahoo's search division, at least when I left it a few years back, was still very heavily influenced by inktomi, and from what I saw and felt, it was a Engineering/hacker driven culture.

(now how different is it from the rest of yahoo? honestly, I don't know. I never worked anywhere else.
I feel like all universities should abandon Java, and completely banish it from all coursework.
Reading this question, a scene from the movie Greenberg popped into my mind. They turned down a recording deal when in college and both amounted too nothing and they pushing forty, the scene after the house party, he has an argument with his friend and his friend tells him......that the biggest hurdle he has overcome is accepting the life that he didn't plan for. I can't remember correctly but that was the just of it.

Look, for every 100 people that venture into entrepreneurship, less than 10 make it, that is why there is so much money to be made. You should be proud of your effort, the only time you should be pissed at yourself is if you didn't commit 100%, in the long run we are all dead!
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IANAQP and I haven't read the paper, but I've read the article, and the logical interpretation of the article is that increasing the physical scale of the oxygen atom position fractal would increase the superconductive temperature.
Actually, I wouldn't mind a good threat against MySQL--it would make it easier to convince them at work to consider switching to PostgreSQL.
That's very much false. I've worked with several of the engineers who were involved in that, and they went through all of the standard code & UI approval procedures. There was a bug in the ability to turn it off, but that also went through all of the normal code review & approval channels, it just wasn't caught.
It's also possible that PG talked to executives... and executives everywhere seem like idiots to hackers.

I've met technical founders who were really sharp who listened and tried to emulate their business-focused partners to the point where they came off as kind of dumb to me. I watched this happen to one guy who was, by all appearances, smarter than I am at the beginning.

(Of course, he may still have been making good decisions; he certainly made plenty of cash; they just looked like stupid decisions to me, and, well, I ain't rich yet, so maybe he was on to something.)
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Because people will use something else instead of Java to avoid being sued by Oracle. Just like they stopped using OpenSolaris to avoid being sued by NetApp (like CoRaid). One by one, the open Sun technologies will fall into irrelevance.
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He didn't say he was in on the negotiations. He said he was in the integration meetings, presumably after the sale had been agreed. So he didn't say 'we're selling you X', he said 'you've been sold X'.

Also, it's not clear whether any special presentation was needed to make the lawyers' eyes sparkle, other the mere possibility of extracting licensing fees from Google.
I have a client who owns a bricks and mortar store that's been in business for about 15 years and employs about 20 people. They were using PayPal for payment processing on their website, when one day PayPal decided they didn't like the way the company was structured, and froze all funds.

Nothing they could do to appease PayPal. Six months later they got their money back, they now hate PayPal with a passion, and use eWay who have been great