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Well that's the question. I personally find it very appealing to just quickly add a link to a page and then have the benefit of getting problem reports, rather than having to implement that popover myself.
Does the latter argument actually work in court? Is it the expectation of courts that people will continually monitor patent applications looking for things to invalidate?
As a Brit without a US Visa, probably not. But it's a fantastic idea.
Thank you!

The JavaScript part of the link is only launched when the user clicks on it, so a bad JavaScript page shouldn't interfere with that. And even then there's an HTML fallback.
Perhaps the most interesting or important is: all of heraldry. One might initially think that is rather remote from logos, but it is really a principal root of them. Heraldic devices -- 'armorial bearings' (particularly) -- are defined abstractly, in clear conceptual forms, leaving the rendering details unspecified. (Heraldry also developed a graphical serialisation standard long before, and in a way more elegant than, SVG-XML etc.) It might be 500 years old, but it still has something to learn from.
Wow.

Thank you. I had no clue that you would find that useful. I just wrote the fist thing that came into my head.

Of course, I like helping people out. :)

Oh and check your inbox. :)
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> Software algorithms are mathematical expressions. I don't need to show prior art to prove that having a patent on 46,456,456 + 235,566 = 46,692,022 is meaningless even if nobody has done that particular calculation before me.

Straw-man argument by over-generalization.

A better analogy would be that software systems are machines that can be fully specified in some formal system.

But then, so are physical machines, for most useful levels of abstraction.

The distinction is simply not as clear-cut as you're making it. If a software system can simulate a physical system, should there be a difference in patentability?

If you're speaking narrowly of individual algorithms, then perhaps you have an argument, but what's important is how you pull all the various algorithms you need together.
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You’re assuming that in a deflationary environment, your hypothetical family’s nominal income will stay constant over a 20-year period. Nice work, if you can get it.

If I work in a widget factory and the price of widgets goes down because of deflation, while my nominal wages remain constant, then my wages as a share of that price goes up. That situation can’t continue for very long. The factory’s shareholders want a real return on their investment, especially since they could just cash in their stock, put the cash under a mattress, and wait for the price of everything to go down further. If the factory itself is in debt, the creditors will be demanding the same nominal payment as before, further squeezing the shareholders.

So either I have to accept a cut in my nominal wages, or I have to make more widgets per hour for the same nominal wage, or I get laid off. And when I and lots of people like me have less money to spend, the people who manufacture all the things that we buy have to reduce their prices further, thus increasing the squeeze on their employees’ wages, etc., etc.
It's amazing how seemingly little things can be so difficult. I'm currently working on a landing page for a product idea I have. The product itself is actually really simple and trivial to get if you see it in the flesh, but explaining in the confines of a landing page has proven extremely difficult.
A specific cover letter targeted to the company is much better than a generic one. You can have common paragraphs in all of your cover letters, but I would recommend sections that particularly target the needs of the company you're applying to. For example, if they say in their job description that using technology FOO is a bonus, mention that project you did with technology FOO and why you were really excited about it.

Otherwise, you lump yourself in with every other person out there. You need to make yourself stand out without lying or going over the top. If you can make it clear that you are really interested in THEM and not just the job, that's a positive from the employer's perspective.
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This is not a true rationale- it's a kneejerk reaction.
The mention struck me as a joke, not a serious comment.
This is already more analysis than the joke deserved.
So if I invent, say, a genuinely novel new form of public key exchange, or a new psychoacoustic model that drastically improves audio compression, or a novel forward error correction scheme --- these things shouldn't be patentable, but a new kind of bicycle kickstand should be?
Citizen Space (http://citizenspace.us) might be a good option for you. For a small donation (they recommend $10 to $20) you'll pretty much have what you need for working on your app. You should give 'em a call just to make sure there's space available, however. Not sure how quickly the drop-in slots get filled up.

Of course, Starbucks now provides free Wi-Fi so that may turn out to be good enough. I occasionally use the 'bucks across from the Metreon (4th & Mission). It's right next to a parking garage (not all that cheap, however) but does have lots of power outlets, and there's plenty of decent food options within walking distance.
If you're in the mission, check out Philz Coffee at 24th and folsom. Then check out Haus coffee across the street (sorta).
It's novel and somewhat useful. I've added it and will see if I continue to use it. It's the first time I've seen the the bookmarklet applied like this, so that's cool.

It could benefit from some UI design - the icons are rough and there is too much stuff crammed on the menus.

I hope you're tracking which buttons people actually click and use. Use that analysis to streamline the UI and remove underused items.
I mean that in this logo example, there is little semantic noise in the recognition process:

Not many other logos using bats (because bats typically scare people maybe). Now, imagine your logo was a cow, or a bicycle, do you think the logo would be recognizable in any form? regardless of how well it was designed? I guess this statement is just not true in every case. It's just like Apple's design philosophy: There is just room for one Apple in every industry (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1762682). Maybe there is also just room enough for one black bat logo in the world...

Unfortunately, the freedom enjoyed by entertainment logo designers with regards the choice of their iconographies is nothing like the constraints of say, designing a logo for one more enterprise software startup for for one more ISP.
Web companies are quite different from screenplays.
It does take some trust on the part of the users but the risks are alleviated by the fact that the money is insured and even if I had your credentials, your bank should not allow me to log in as I'm accessing it from a different computer.

If you mean FDIC insurance, that's only if the bank fails; identity theft type losses are probably not covered (you may want to research and confirm this).

Also, I don't think it matters from which computer/ip address someone logs in. If you know my login credentials, you can do anything to the account (though this might vary from bank to bank).

I think you need to be more proactive about security and fraud before people will be comfortable.

http://finkin.com/InstitutionSearch.xml

Thanks, I'll take a look.
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Raising an exception is a good method. A better method would be a condition system [1], which enables more fine grained handling of such things. throw and catch are a kind of bad implementation of this, but there is no reason you couldn't use them, except that very few people do.

In practice, maybe a Ruby linter could/should pick this pattern up and warn about it? It wouldn't be hard to identify functions which return a value based on a block if with no else say.

[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
Do you have any evidence which suggests that third-party creativity w/r/t your logo is bad for you? As one example, I see all kinds of websites with reddit/digg/twitter/facebook buttons that have been restyled to fit the design of the website; I really can’t see how this hurts those brands.

(Or do you only mean third parties working directly on your behalf? I suppose in that case guidelines would be important.)
The 6-7 versions are all referred to as Europlug for some reason. The CEE7/7 is the grounded "compromise" one. This is the one I implied, which is the most common grounded connector in Europe today.
I'd take all of this with a grain of salt. This is a survey from a dating site. The majority of their members haven't been able to get any in other ways and hence use the site - so comparing partners, experiences etc is not necessarily a good subset of general society.

I'm not putting down anyone who uses such a site, in this day and age I certainly would if I was single, but I am not sure the sexual habits of single people who use a dating site is really a good subset of data for this.
The most surprising thing about this post is that 5% of OKCupid males and 10% of OKCupid females think the earth is larger than the sun. WTF?!
To support more rows than 70000?
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I believe the picture before ( http://www.iconeye.com/images/news_july_09/choi_uk_folding_p... ) is how that looks before the 3 mini-plugs are inserted. The block with 3 cords coming out isn't 3 in "physical series", but a special 3-way adapter that fits the slim (unexpanded) new plug they designed.

( Disclaimer: I'm in the US and I've a three-way adapter with a cut off ground prong for traveling, so feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt )
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So you're saying that if you trip over the cord while your hair dryer is plugged into an American socket, it doesn't fall off of whatever ledge it's on? Do you use an industrial hair dryer or something?
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Perl is big in Japan with a quite active user community. Mixi.jp was also mostly written in Perl.
I have difficulty believing that there's that big a difference between straight women and straight men in terms of same sex experiences. It's more likely that the stigmas attached to male same-sex experiences led more of them to lie about it.
The fear seems to be more that accepting homosexuality will somehow "normalize" it. I realize that begs the question, but I've never claimed that bigots are logical.
Regrettably no. I was not aware there was a FF or Chrome available for my OS (which is OS X) that takes advantage of the GPU.
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To be fair we don't know if this claim is true or not, I certainly doubt any lecturer at UWA condones plagiarism.

(Also thanks HN for changing the thread title, though it does sound a little harsh towards UWA)
Thanks! I'm fairly confident it is the most technologically advanced bookmarklet that exists, at the moment. An insane amount of hacking went into making something that could work on every web page, with pretty much any browser.

The icons are automatically generated based on favicons, and the folder icons are from an old icon set I'd purchased years ago. They could definitely use the touch of a designer to make them more appealing. I don't have the skills or time to do it myself. I'm hoping the sub-par visual appearance of the toolbar isn't too off-putting, and that the functionality makes up for it.

The toolbar is customizable... just drag and drop items by their icon to move them, or delete them (by dropping them on the antiquated Trash icon). The default set-up was just my guess of what things people use the most. If there's something you're looking for, it only takes a second to search for it in Quick Find (ctrl + space), then drag and drop it to your toolbar. I'm tracking all of this so that I know which tools are most popular, and will use that feedback to generate a better "default" toolbar.
I think the commenter is referring to the terminology "HTML snippet" not the concept of it.
I also suggest making it possible for me to extend it/customize it. You can then get a community around it to further develop 'plugins' to your toolbar. Your advantage is in the 'toolbar bookmarket' platform - esp if you make it easy to plug in javascript snippets to do other interesting things.
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Could it be that Chargify's troubles in finding clients are caused by lack of demand for flexibility in payment system?
It's one thing to dream about having sophisticated and flexible payment system.
It's another thing when such flexible system is offered to paying customers.

Customers don't like to navigate across gazillion payment plans and generally prefer simple and stable payment options.

My guess is that companies that play with pricing too much -- do not have long-term success and therefore cannot really grow and support Chargify.
Seems like a logical conclusion is that the homophobe is worried that a homosexual will want to sleep with them and that the homophobe will find that situation irresistible. See also: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/2246

On that note, one should be able to easily Google up studies that have shown correlation between homophobia and being aroused by gay porn...
Have you considered a different solution to credibility?

Like charging for an open source commercial license for "embedded" use only and you retain the rights to be the sole general api provider?
I finally realized the other day what I think is the core miscommunication between the pro-patent and anti-patent camps.

Patents stifle innovation when capital costs are low to 0.

If I can build something fun (and potentially commercializable) for $50 dollars + my time, then there's no way I'm going to spend multiple (ten) thousands of dollars to license someone's patent. The innovation dies right there.

Yeah, these monopolies make sense if I have to set up a plant, or do years of research, but that's not true in software anymore.

There's another factor at work. Creative types can't help but make things. They don't necessarily need a financial incentive to make stuff, nor would they want to get bogged down in those details. They make stuff because it's fun to do, and they have some (un)reasonable expectation of commercializing some projects.

Great engineers make stuff even when no one is paying them. They can't help it.
I am homeless by choice, I gave away and sold all my belongings in Los Angeles and moved to Paris.

That is really all you need to know. This guy is a techno-moocher, a vagabond, who works odd jobs to earn cash and is a "writer".
It would be nice if they would tell us what percentage of their site fell into the different gender/sexual orientation categories.
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I don't know what that value is.

Me either, which is of course part of what I was hoping to get some insight about from the discussion here.

I've some ideas about what I would have been happy to have found when I was starting projects, e.g. a simple hosted API for user lifecycle management, but little evidence so far to support viability as paid services.

Well, I suppose I'll just have to launch them and find out, then.
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I'm glad stuff like this is being worked on.

But the fact is, it won't really work until we have strong AI. The more I learn about it, the more I'm convinced that nothing except human-level intelligence can properly parse satire, irony, metaphor and simile.

Natural language is just too contextual. Sentence parsing and vocabulary identification/disambiguation are really hard problems, but even if we solved them entirely we still wouldn't be able to make sense out of a plain-text corpus.

That said, I think NLP research is one of the most promising routes to discovering how to build a strong AI.
You don't think it's likely that the stigmas attached to male same-sex experiences lead fewer of them to have them in the first place?
Interesting point about having an industry body for CC-licensed content. I know someone at CC and I just forwarded this dicussion to him. Maybe they can do something.
Wondering if anyone else here has participated in an improv everywhere skit. They're pretty awesome if you live in NY! I've been in the MP3 Experiment 3 (central park) and 4 (Hudson River Park). 3 is still my favorite.
> AFAIK all those other languages only run on Dalvik by first being compiled to Java byte code format

You seem to think the JVM bytecode format is specific to the Java Programming Language™; why is this?

Admittedly Sun has muddled things up here by using the word "Java" to mean many separate things.
Citizen Space sounds a bit like Hacker Dojo in the South Bay.
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:) Recently acquired by Bb (from Elluminate). Not a user of the software so I can't really comment on that, I'm a Web guy. My Wife uses it and does occasionally complain to me now that I work for Bb, as if I could do something about it. I like the team that I work with though, good people.
I had this idea coming from somewhere that gay-ness is occurred by mind body mismatch (No offense guys).

"In personality traits" chart, gay men appeared to be more feminine (or less masculine) while gay women appeared to be more masculine (or less feminine). But following this line of thoughts, in the "what's bigger: the sun or earth" chart, the gay men and women seemed to have the places switched.

Just something I noticed.
Now, imagine your logo was a cow, or a bicycle, do you think the logo would be recognizable in any form? regardless of how well it was designed?

Your logo is supposed to create an association between an image and your company. If your logo is a generic something that gets lost in the noise of all the other similar logos, it is pretty much by definition not well designed.

If anyone could just pull a fantastic, iconic logo out of their ass on a whim, this story wouldn't have gotten any upvotes. You seem to be saying "gosh, I can't blindly apply this to crank out my own logos, so it's not useful", but that's wrong - it's useful precisely because it's so rare, because it becomes an ideal to aspire to.
I think the lowest i could work for is 40k. The program sounds really noble, and it appeals to me, but going from 80k to 35k is hard.
People love to read about themselves -- this includes hiring managers at companies. Find unique and recent news about the company to discuss in your cover letter, and why it interests you.

Use FB/LinkedIn/Twitter, etc to find out info about people at the company, and try to send a note to a specific person, rather than just responding to jobs@bigcorp.com which is often a big black hole.

If you send a personal note to employee Z at the company, make it personal (don't attach your CV, but include details about employee Z or Z's company you find interesting) and ask if Z knows anything about position X you want to apply for -- your chances are much better if you can get your info to a specific person.
I've been at numerous parties where I've seen straight women making out with each other... never straight guys. I realize that's not exactly sex, but it's along the path.

Edit: Forgot to mention... there's no real reason to lie to a match question on OKCupid. You can skip the question or answer it while making your answer private.
What about the system requirements? As sad as it may be, a lot of people in under-funded organizations are stuck using computers that are 5-10 years old, which may not support Windows 7.
If there was ever a convincing argument that women are dumber than men, this is it.
This is definitely something I've been considering, but I first wanted to see if it's even worth investing more time into it.

It would be pretty easy to allow users to create their own shortcuts and tools. A shortcut is just a url that contains special keywords, like %url%, %text%, %domain%, and a corresponding text "Search Google %text%" (%text% gets converted to a textbox). The hard part, in my opinion, is explaining this, and providing an interface for the user to make it.

Javascript snippets is a whole other world. I wanted the toolbar to be able to use any GreaseMonkey script, but there are some things I can't make the toolbar do, since it's just javascript on a document (like cross domain POST). There are a large variety of GreaseMonkey scripts that would work on it, though, and I was thinking about allowing them to be easily integrated into the toolbar.

It was fun hacking together a few HN tools, like "sort by hotness" which I use all the time now. It looks at the stories of the frontpage and sorts them by how much activity (points + comments) they've received per unit time. To find it, search "HN" in Quick Find. So, I agree, there's potential for opening it up as a platform much like GreaseMonkey.
I realize that combinations of algorithms are still algorithms, but where do you stop?

The main problem with software patents for me are that

1) They stifle innovation by killing small projects or forcing innovators to not care about infringing (for which they can be sued later).

2) A lot of them are BS. There may be not prior art in the patent database, but for a specialist in the field, they're obvious.

3) It costs too much to patent, which puts too much power in large companies' hands. They can spam the USPTO with brain farts, with some non-zero probability of having them approved. If I save for a year, I can make one patent application per year.
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Oh, very nice. I never even thought about using FB/Twitter/LinkedIn. Thanks!
Proposed design pattern -- autohide viewed items
I'm sure this has been implemented in some fashion, but I'd like to see more sites that have a large amount of browsable content give users the option to auto-hide what they've already seen.

At least three times this week I've had to browse sites (ThemeForest, istockphoto) with a huge amount of content where I may not know exactly what I want, but I'll know it when I see it.

The problem is that, if I go through multiple sessions of browsing content, I often forget where I stopped browsing. Or I keep seeing items that I've already viewed.

I really wish these sites would give me a checkbox to not show anything I've looked at. It
would give me a pretty convenient way to look through your entire inventory over a period of a few days without wasting time. It would also help me notice new content without it getting lost in the shuffle.

So if you've got a data heavy site that users are likely to browse, consider adopting this. Let's hope it spreads on.
I'm no fan of software patents but comparing a simple arithmetic operation to an algorithm is a bad way to argue about software patents. Algorithms are a higher level of abstraction that can be quite complex in the end. And they are rarely the unique way to do something. It can even be almost impossible that an algorithm is really the best choice in your case.

Do I think software patents (or any patents) make sense? No, but I won't call software algorithms simple mathematical expressions similar to adding 1+1.
I don't think it's that surprising. Not everyone is scientifically literate, and there's always going to be a certain percentage of people who will come up with the wrong answer when queried on a basic scientific or historical fact. And this group does tend to skew female.
Don't extrapolate from your experience with women... extrapolate from your experience with men. Men are far less choosy about who they would sleep with, given the opportunity.