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I wonder if it couldn't be largely automated. The actual API that is exposed to end users is not that big, and I assume they can keep using Dalvik. They just need another language that compiles to Dalvik and then automatically transform the Java code to that other language. Or something like that...

Wouldn't it be great if Android would be based on a better language than Java?
I think he stated that to indicate that we shouldn't just take Microsoft at its word that it won't attempt to litigate Mono et al. They'll find a loophole in the "Community Promise" (possibly the loophole described above) and try to hurt their enemies.
Yup - I tried a half dozen while thinking about starting YABT. None of them seemed to fit the bill just right.
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> But what does being a convicted monopoly abuser have to do with patent traps?

It has been already demonstrated they are willing to place profits above ethical and responsible (not to say lawful) behavior.
Actually, I think they could get traction, but for that to happen that would need to release an API to check if user "donated" to my blog/service/etc.

Therefore I can create a "premium" zone accessible for a smallest fee ever. That would create a need for user to create Flattr account. You pay to see some premium content. Also, you pay the same fee to get premium content on dozens, potentially, hundreds of sites.

Otherwise you're just hoping to sign up users to pay 10EUR(?) monthly as a kind of "permanent monthly donation". Even though it's not a lot of money, but still most people would avoid that: 1. it's a semi-permanent obligation 2. as practice shows - relying on people giving a donation for something available for free is a bad idea. (Let alone MONTHLY donation for same thing)

You need to provide something in exchange for their money. Give us the API to find out that user donated and we'll give him a reason to sign up with Flattr (premium content).
If the license doesn't mention patents, then it doesn't cover them. Copyright licenses and patent licenses are two different things. It's pathetic that the two are actually able to intersect in this manner.
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That's why I used the word 'developers'. Even twenty to thirty programmers is still a lot to manage, particularly if you have ambitions to do any of the programming yourself.
I couldn't agree more. I have seen too many fund managers succumb to the temptation of ever larger funds (and salaries), leading to inadvertent but fundamental changes in investing practices (more mgt fee/partner => more dollars to deploy per partner => bigger investments in each portfolio company => not venture capital anymore), though I hope those days are passing as the industry contracts. When salaries get big, the incentive to take investment risk declines (the upside value of carried interest is less than the downside risk of losing the LP base).
If the storage API inside the project is good enough (something YABT's isn't yet), swapping out where it gets the data is a minor issue. You could use Git for the main storage, then have a web frontend that reads from Couch/Mongo/Redis/NewHotnessNotYetDiscovered and lazy loads from disk. A post-receive hook or two for expiring data in that cache and you're set.
The Gates Foundation writes into their AIDS grant that researchers must share their data:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115335816005811923.html

My company helps the labs and researchers share their data using a portal website geared toward researchers and labs. Here is some of the data they've shared (chosen at random):

https://atlas.scharp.org/cpas/project/VISC/Completed%20CAVD%...?
Then it would be solicited, and thus move from the black area into the grey area.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
At the risk of being a pedantic jerk, the US did send troops to fight on the side of the Czar against the Bolsheviks. They were withdrawn when they found out how bad the Czarists were. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition
This bit at the end was interesting:

[...] any software found to be in violation of Oracle's copyrights "be impounded and destroyed."

How does one go about rounding up all the copies of something as ephemeral and easily duplicated as software? Is this common wording in software litigation?
Because I'm renting a single (Linode) VPS for development and hobby projects, not a bunch of machines.

It's not just IRC either, a bunch of other services do naïve checking of Tor exit nodes.
You haven't explained why that's any different from what Sun was saying all along, right up until they had a change in management and started suing people. And even if there are actual differences, then they're not clear even to above average engineers, so the mob will be swayed by gut instinct.
"But does it add to Twitter's costs in spam management?" Yes, it all adds up. If nobody did what he was doing then Twitter wouldn't have had to spent as much money on the problem.
So, what exactly are the features that a "family CRM" would need that normal CRMs don't have (other than integration with Red Stamp and Pingg)? Is it just the ability to mass email certain filters in your CRM?

Anyway, it's not expressly meant to be a "family CRM", but its simplicity and design seem perfect to me for this sort of thing. My buddy is building http://www.karmacrm.com which is still in beta.
How about using google checkout or amazon payments. Both of them allow for recurring payments afaik.
Our judgment is always clouded by survivorship bias, the emergence of self help social media, has only magnified it. Its one of the the main point in books by Nassim Taleb. One of the strategies he suggests is to to pursue a dual strategy where you invest 20 - 30 % of resources ( effort, time or money) in High Risk - High Reward strategy while keeping rest 70 - 80% in low risk.

Personally I pay a lot of attention to stories on HN when they mention failure (complete and not just cosmetic how we failed and then won type stories).
The way I've been explaining Padrino is that it's Merb built on top of Sinatra.

Merb was a lightweight, modular framework made up of a small merb-core and then merb-more, a collection of 20ish gems that provided various bits of functionality, most of which were problems that Rails solved in its core. Stuff like merb-helpers. If you wanted fancy helper methods, you required the merb-helpers gem. If you didn't care, you would not require that and have a slightly more efficient app. Similarly, it didn't have an ORM baked in--you'd use some gem like DataMapper (with an additional merb_datamapper gem that told Merb how to integrate with DataMapper).

Padrino seems to have the same setup of a minimal core with lots of modular plugins, but its equivalent to merb-core is sinatra. Which is awesome because sinatra is great and this way they don't have to reinvent the wheel.
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So this fellow says that they should link Android to pieces from OpenJDK that cover those patents, such that it is then considered a derivate work.

IMHO that's a stupid suggestion.

Judges aren't stupid, Dalvik is not a derivate of OpenJDK in its current form.

And even if it would hold, pretending that it is would destroy their chances if Oracle pulls another batch of patents out of their arsenal that aren't covered by the implicit grant in OpenJDK.

It is also unclear whether Dalvik infringes or not. And this discussion is moot anyway ... Google will do what big companies are doing, settle or counter-sue.
Thanks for the shout out, Pete. A few bits and pieces:

Creative Commons has started an organization called Science Commons that has done some great work on getting scientists to share their data:

http://sciencecommons.org/

A promising step in this direction is Sage Bionetworks, which is attempting to use an open source style approach to drug development:

http://www.sagebase.org/

There are some very well known people behind Sage, and it's received backing from Merck (and Science Commons), among others. See, e.g., http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/19646, which states that Merck has backed them to the tune of 150 million dollars. At the moment they're just getting off the ground.

A much broader overview on open data and related issues can be found in Peter Suber's open access timeline: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline

Another interesting step is the Federal Research Public Access (http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/FRPAA-introdu... ), which would make most US-government sponsored research publicly available. It's not quite the same as open data, but is very consonant with it.
This reminds me that I should really get my finger out and finish some of my HTML5/Canvas experiments at some point.
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Yep. Peddled everything from "sensual massage devices" (which I had no idea Amazon carried) to e-books.
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You recognise the difference between trying to build a start up, and spamming affiliate links about to make a quick buck though right?
Awesome set of links Pete!
One of my co-workers told me that he prefers reading ebooks on his iPhone 4 to his iPad - we side-by-side compared them, and the iPhone screen density makes a huge difference.

That said, the form-factor is a little awkward for longform reading.
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Ask HN: 5% ownership; or hourly-rate. Fair?
Our MVP is ready for deploy. The business model has a tech part (SaaS) and an operational part (business service). My partner (and friend) is offering me the following:
1) Past year dev effort to be a cash loan to the company (outside of the share agreement, if any).
2) 5% of the company against a renewable 3 year service-contract agreement; OR; an hourly-rate (no ownership) and a 7% of revenue (upon completion of any work).

I'll be responsible for all things tech (maybe around 15 hrs a week), and he'll be all others (part time too).

The company has a potential $120K in profit, and an exit of maybe $10M.

Appreciate your help.

Is the 5% a fair share? If not, at what percent you think I should negotiate? Should I accept the hourly rate?
Think of it this way: app stores are kind of like privately owned bookstores. The owner of the bookstore doesn't have to carry the art book of nudes or the pro-Nazi thesis.

I would be very unhappy with a general bookstore openly refusing to carry a book solely because of its political content.
And they can probably not be forced to keep it, either.
I am not sure if there is that much of a practical difference between having a backlight or not. As someone who reads a lot of fiction though the Kindle experience feels exactly like a paperback with the added bonus of a dictionary and notes. The iPad may be better for some people but it is not the same thing as reading a printed book like the Kindle is.
Yea, that's exactly what I was looking for. I'm wondering what barriers are preventing this from getting biggers? Big education? Prestige for tenure / publish or perish? Publisher oligarchy?

I'd really like to talk to guys in this field.
It would surprise me if Amazon doesn't have an effective automated way of detecting this. It would be easy to detect based on user behaviour when they hit the Amazon page, and Amazon isn't known for throwing money away like that.
I am rooted. There is no 2.2 release for it.
Actually, there is no connection between Google's decision and freedom of speech.

First off I'm not attacking you since you mentioned that you are not from the US, and the majority of people in the US don't understand this either.

Freedom of speech is not the right to be able to say anything you want anytime, anywhere, anyhow.

Freedom of speech is the right to say anything you want without government interference.

Google is not the government. They own the app store, it is their property. If they want to limit what people say, that is not a freedom of speech issue. That is a property rights issue. If I want to go stand on the lawn at Google HQ and have a KKK rally, they have no obligation to allow me to do that. Same goes for the app store.

Google has every right to remove the material. Property rights are the foundation of this country, probably more so than freedom of speech.

As for the difference between beliefs and skin color, actually there is a huge difference. It is in court decisions that there is a difference between things you are born with (skin color) and things you choose (beliefs).
can you quantify "shitloads" into an actual metric?
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That's much different though. Those people were at least manually clicking on the amazon links and not having their cookie stuffed secretly in the background. I have a low-traffic book review website that makes $2/month from Amazon affiliates, and around Christmas someone bought a Kindle and I got credit for that, which was a nice surprise. All I ever linked to were books, but if someone starts browsing around Aamzon then you'll get credit for whatever they end up buying.
Well, F# and Ocaml aren't purely functional… so you're right.
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Like any opinion, people are bound to have different ones. Using something like Passenger, you just put your app somewhere on your box, and add two lines to your httpd.conf, and you're done. I use nginx/unicorn, but it's still really easy.
here in the US we do have freedom of speech. From flag burning, to KKK rallys and in this case Nazi insignia are all examples of free speech, and protected by the Constitution.

To me, Nazi insignia seems like imagery rather than "speech." If you agree it's imagery, do you think that any imagery should be OK to own and distribute, no matter how offensive it is (as with speech)?
I don't recall ever in my life seeing a math equation with an empty parenthesis on one side.

Is this some American method of teaching math? It's bizarre.
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I'm missing something here. Your partner is offering you 5% of the company while he keeps 95%?
Microsoft's ambitious (but incomplete) vision for Windows Phone 7 gaming.
Having money gives you options, having no money gives you limited options and being in debt you have none. Simples.
Banking is a highly regulated industry and so products usually stop at national borders. Even banks that operate in multiple countries (RBS/Citizens, Santander/Sovereign, HSBC, etc.) basically operate as separate companies in each country.

It's expensive and time consuming to comply with so much regulation. If BankSimple does well, I'm sure they'd be happy to expand internationally, but at this point it's questionable whether the public will gravitate to BankSimple. If they tried to launch in multiple countries from day 1, they'd be spreading resources very thin dealing with all the different laws. This way, they can launch, be successful, and expand.

In some ways it's like physical businesses. You wouldn't expect a new fast-food chain to launch with 50,000 stores worldwide, would you? Unlike the web which is decently universal, they need to wait a little to catch on and grow.
I'm completely baffled by this too. I was awaiting being kicked from the Amazon partner program month ago - yet it's still running.
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Well yeah, it needs to publish a list of those, how else would Tor clients know how to exit through them?
Bookstores don't carry every book ever made; they're "curated". They have no obligation to carry every book you might want... if your tastes are significantly outside of the mainstream, you're going to sometimes have to order from a specialty seller or directly from the author/publisher.
I've been pondering how to solve this too. Bought a domain for it recently but haven't decided what form it should take.

The CRM angle is one I hadn't thought of, though it's kind of an obvious leap (in hindsight of course). I've been thinking more of a CMS plus address book.
Someone was telling me that typically hardware markup is 3x-4x from the bill of material to the retail price, but in India it's more like 5x-6x because of customs and duty overheads. Anyone care to comment?
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I like the response page when you search for something that's not defined.
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From what I have been able to make out, both these services are not available in India.
I guess somewhere RMS is grinning from ear to ear.
Drill down in the comments to find this pic that Fred posted of himself ROFL'ing in response to one of his commentors... very entertaining: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredwilson/4887958978/
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I've been thinking the exact same thing for my family and am busy building https://szpil.com.
Fair point. Most of my posts drift like that because I write my way into ideas. It's like thinking out loud... and then I hit "post".
All I can say is, nice work. It's creative. I've made some decent money off affiliate programs and twitter. What you're doing is similar in nature to what a lot of people are doing (human and bot).
And how does freedom of speech apply here?

This is a property rights issue. The existance of these applications damages Google's ability to sell Android phones (see Steve Job's mocking of porn in the Android store as a good example). Google has no obligation to support your speech if it damages their property. They have no obligation to support your speech (i.e. pay to progate it, which clearly they are doing here by paying for the servers).

Basically you are saying you have the "right" to force Google into paying to support your hate speech. Bullshit. That has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Sure, maybe "stashed contributions" is simplistic to the point of being wrong. It isn't that I'd like a better mattress to stuff paper under.

In my mind, money is an acceptable enough fiction that I can convince someone to allocate me a hamburger for lunch today. The fictional aspect of it is very handy in performing the time-travel of paying my future self part of my wages of today.

Times change and in the future a hamburger may require more or less money as it did today. My bet is that in the long run, that hamburger will be mostly the same or a functional equivalent will cost less because human ingenuity is an unlimited resource.
there can be a (self-imposed) obligation

Unimpose. That's all there is to the liberation promised by not carrying a cellphone.
Some very good articles on self-improvement.

Also some totally insane nonsense on spirituality and enlightenment. Which is probably what happens to you if you make your career out of self-improvement.

The early articles are excellent, including the first article I ever saw describing what we would now call a conversion funnel (only it was for shareware)
Great animation, but still: how do you know when is before your time?
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The images that are used by a Yahoo Store website are created once and for all and then stored as very small .gif files. For example, all the buttons in Paul Grapham's web-site are stored as the .gif file
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/paulgraham_2117_16484650.gif.
You can download that file for yourself and examine it and learn that it has a size of 2896 bytes. So even on a 56K connection, it should take a fraction of a second to download all of the buttons Paul uses.
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We called these hackers "polymath" and it is far easier and much cheaper to get rid of TV and get hobbies.

Beside, 4 hours of tv watching a day is practically a part time job. Might as well spend that free time on something more relaxing and brain stimulating.
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Yeah, it seems to be quite a common problem at the moment. Look at Twitter; more specifically Digg, who have suffered from this for years and are only now getting out from it.
This could almost be a list of "36 Things You Can Do with Shell Scripts To Do To Make Your Life Easier".
Yes - that's the offer. [edit] - he's the original idea owner (which went through 2 rewrites).
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i have that exact comic posted on my cube wall.
The article describes the apps as themes and pictures, but then says they "spread hate." While actually agreeing with the policies of the Third Reich is hideous, making your phone have a swastika on it (for a costume party, perhaps?) seems innocuous. Were there apps that actually spread hate in some way?
Java isn't a timebomb. Sun has sold licenses to companies (ex. IBM) and the terms are well understood. Google didn't buy a license and is now going to deal with the outcome. If your running WebSphere or some licensed product this move will not affect you.

Plus, if you are an IT shop in the fortune 500, you company probably has closer ties with Oracle than Google.

// I am a little concerned with non-Java related VM's in case Oracle goes after them with these patents.
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A similar piece by James Wolcott was posted to HN last year or so.

I do have the urge to see what people are reading around me (usually on public transportation) and find that aging eyes have done more to impede me than e-readers. Maybe if I rode through a more prosperous end of town it would be different.
I suppose you could draw your line at around 50, but check out what they have to say at first from their point of view.
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Oracle must be pretty sure of victory, or a positive outcome at least, otherwise why would they go after Google right away? They could have gone after HTC, as Apple did. That would have been a more likely victory, which Oracle could have used as leverage against Google.
It seems like there's something missing from the story. I don't see how Google wouldn't have known they were infringing on Sun's patents. How could they release Android without a licensing agreement? It would be insane.
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