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Summary:

. . . We’ve given Marketplace an overhaul . . .

. . . biggest changes to Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 are features and streamlined processes to help developers get their apps to market faster . . .

. . . we’re going to be very deliberate in our timeline for rolling out Marketplace . . .

. . . gradually ramp-up to full self-service capacity . . .

. . . Marketplace fully available to all developers in November . . .

. . . working toward a beta distribution solution to allow developers to privately distribute their apps for testing through Marketplace. . . .

. . . first payout of sales to date to take place in February . . .
Brilliantly counter-intuitive. It means that the annoying viral-hook message stays there for everyone who isn't sufficiently annoyed by it to actually go googling for how to get rid of it.
Okay, fair enough - a proprietary solution isn't forced to compromise or be subject to approval from standards bodies or general consensus.

However, I'd argue that the fact Skype might work well with firewall's isn't _because_ it's proprietary. An open-standard could work just as well; it would take more effort and time to achieve it, but I think it would be worth the extra effort because the benefit would be more universally felt.

In my opinion, this shouldn't be a primary reason for preferring a proprietary solution over an open standard. If it was, Microsoft's early efforts to introduce proprietary tags into HTML markup wouldn't have been so universally deplored.
> People are NOT hoarding cash. Ridiculous.

The numbers disagree with you:

http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/saving.htm
Probably. But what advantages would that give over Diaspora using XMPP?
Tweeting before you have seen/heard the product is an issue, but you can at least customise the message when you "pay" - e.g., "About to check out the new Band X download. See what you think: http..."

Stumbled across Pay With A Tweet in the wild a couple of weeks ago and thought it was quite novel. That said, I didn't know that it let you customise the message and didn't really know the band I was checking out, so I didn't make use of it.
Link Building interview: Todd Malicoat (@stuntdubl)
Gary Vaynerchuk Cares
just those 2 lines of basic made thousands of developers
couchdb has filtered replication so you can selectively choose what gets replicated

and it has continous replication with a comet changes feed, so push notifications are also built in.

the data schematics are a bit of a non issue, at some point someone needs to agree with what the data format is.

basically couchdb already has a lot of this functionality baked in as first class citizens, I agree that there is a lot of situations where people will be hammering couch into a hole that doesnt fit (source control would be a good one), but I certainly dont think this is one of them.
I think the issue is that things move faster these days which means the gap (in terms of time) between early adopters and mass market has shrunk.

Part of this is because of the internet, but it's also down to the fact that the changes are largely software rather than hardware and can be adopted faster and cheaper.

This means that where in the past alpha geeks would have adopted a behaviour and had it as their own for several years before the man or woman on the street, that period is now several months and the gap between something being identifiable as a geek trend and going mass market is so small that it's effectively disappeared.

This isn't true for everything but I think it accounts for why there are less solid non-mass market geek trends than there might have been.
There's a difference between being able to think logically and do some simple algebra and being a professional mathematician; similarly, there's a difference between being able to craft a half-decent spreadsheet and being a top-notch programmer. Still, these skills are quite useful even if you only know the "basics".
Not every, just most. The time I saw this used, I was quite interested to learn of the concept (as an entrepreneur admiring the idea) and find out about the band being promoted.

I've seen it once, which is a lot less than I've seen people checking in with Foursquare stuff which is excruciatingly boring.
There is buildr as well

http://buildr.apache.org/

It is built on ruby and follows the Convention over Configuration route. Which keeps the build file quite small.

It has hooks into maven and can be run on jruby or ruby
CouchDB sync is more like rsync than DVCS sync. The idea is that it is very simple, yet powerful enough to build more sophisticated systems on top of. Building small and large P2P systems on top of CouchDB is very much a design goal. The fact that sync can be used to build scalable HA systems is orthogonal.

To your points:

1.) I think the idea of this project is to define a common ground to allow seamless sync.

2.) CouchDB supports filtered replication, so you can define what can be synced and what not.

3.) CouchDB has a push-notification changes feed that does not involve polling.
hmm.. Actually, its the title of the post on howtogeek. I kept it as it is.
I believe Germany did in the late 1930s but for other reasons the Reichmark didn't quite end up as the world currency they wee hoping for.

You can decide to peg your currency against a more stable one eg west Africa and the French Franc - but unless the owners of the hard currency have some political reason to support your then you have to persuade the world's traders that you flobble-bead is actually worth a Euro.
Oddly, I seem to recall print statements which were less focused on the positive qualities of the code's author, and more focused on the negative qualities of other individuals.

But maybe that's just me. Not everybody had an older brother.
System Admin Programing Language
Hello all:
I have been debating with myself and doing research as to which programing language would be necessary for a Sys Admin of CentOS/RHEL. I have attempted to learn C, but have not really found any situation that it would be needed, unless I am creating programs for Linux. I was debating between python, perl, or ruby. What is the opinion of everyone and if you have another language that you recommend please let me know.

JR
You're suggesting he was a Lisper?
small annoyance? If I'm running skype on my phone, it's basically constantly vibrating while I'm in a conversation.
Google: political system is "shocking," we want to change the game
You can make pinhole glasses with lots of holes, instead of just one. (Just look at the picture in the Wikipedia article for an example.)
Is this physics or chemistry?
I think all students on a technical AP-track should learn how to program.

Programming isn't a specific academic discipline as it is a TOOL to be used. Students that go on to study biology should have enough coding skill to know what they don't know, and go from there to do some genetic data analysis.

Mechanical engineer track students should be able to do some modeling and implement the algorithms behind them.

Business track students should be able to do more powerful analyses than excel sorting.

I only took a BASIC course in 8th grade and a 2-week C course in college, the rest was self-taught. But I've found myself using programming significantly more than any of the higher level calculus I've learned (not that this should be replaced!!)
I don't think the future is going to "judge" us anymore than we really judge past civilizations. We realize the mistakes they made were usually due to ignorance just as ours are.

The things they'll shake their heads about will probably be things like:

Having country policies decided by popularity contests instead of research and (where possible) science.

Spending most of our waking hours making people we don't even personally know rich instead of finding a way to spend more time enjoying what little life we had.
Stuxnet: Smarter -- and deadlier -- than the average worm
I cannot fathom putting the decision of a patent dispute in the hands of my "peers" -- 12 people that are chosen, likely with the prerequisite of not knowing much at all about technology, whose opinions on the matter are going to be molded by how well somebody pitches their argument, and not the contents thereof.
I was honestly surprised that they wrote the thing in Rails. When I saw that, I got a sinking feeling that they got WAY behind in the timeline.

I'm trying to find it now but I distinctly remember they said it would be written in PHP because that's what they knew. Switching to Rails was a terrible decision at that point in the game. Not that Rails is a terrible decision but using other people's money to learn Rails was probably not the best choice and the quality of the code suffered.

I would love to hear some discussion on why they decided to switch. Did they get behind on work? Did they find a limitation in getting the work done in PHP? Did they do it because it was "cool"? Only one of those is acceptable but still not justification imho.

As to the original question, I paid $100 dollars to the project but I didn't have high expectations. I paid for the concept. I paid to get the idea on the map and HOPEFULLY to have someone sit and think about the architecture for a minute. I fully expect to see people take the framework established and develop alternate seeds in other languages.
They open sourced some of their stuff though, e.g., the Ohcount project which uses Ragel FSM for counting LOC in a variety of languages (what generates most of statistics in Ohloh).
I just added this as a stand-alone article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759548

How to make the homepage.
Simple -

Patent trolls file suits against cool hip trendy geek friendly companies like Apple and Google.

IP companies protect their investment when it's stolen by big evil companies like Microsoft or Sony.
Do you guys really produce designs that are used by companies, or do you just hope to be ahead of their designs so that you can force them into licensing the designs they would have come up with otherwise by threat of lawsuits?
Perhaps they actually invent and design useful things and then license them.
A while back I made one of the calming and relaxing decisions I ever made: I decided to not meditate.

Before that, every time I saw an article like this I would feel pressured and hounded into meditating. But now I'm totally relaxed about it, because I know I'm never going to start meditating, and this detachment from the nonstop you-must-meditate-to-be-happy pressure fills me with a feeling of bliss.

I highly recommend not-meditating to everybody.
Flashing LEDs on bicycles are legal, as of October 2005, providing they are of a sufficent intensity. The actual law (The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 2005) can be read online here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2559/contents/made
Update your resume.

Much better companies than your current one are starved for good developers. You're not helping anyone by remaining underemployed.

(Be sure to have a job offer in writing before you quit, however. :)
Automation for the People (because Everybody Doing It Manually Hurts)
Ask HN: Recommend a freelance job board
Can anyone recommend some good freelance job boards that are not eLance/oDesk etc.?
Summer - The HTML5 Library for Java
Basically they ignored all my input. I came to the conclusion that Apress don't give a --- about the quality of their books. Or perhaps I should be more circumspect and say that they leave those decisions entirely up the authors and just publish it as-is.

BTW Geek Atlas was great. I bought it for my dad, but my mum ended up reading it the most.
In general, here's how patent damages work (in the U.S.):

1. If the patent owner can establish that it would have made the sales that the infringer did, then the patent owner is entitled to the profits it would have made from those sales. (That's often hard for a patent owner to prove, especially if it is a "non-practicing entity.") Not surprisingly, this is referred to as lost-profits damages.

2. Otherwise, the patent owner is entitled to a "reasonable" royalty on the sales the infringer made that are covered by one or more valid patent claims. The royalty is supposed to be determined by assessing -- in hindsight -- what a reasonable licensor and reasonable licensee would have agreed to before the infringement began. (There are variations on, and complications in, the analysis that I won't go into here.)

3. Usually what happens at trial is that each side puts an expert witness on the stand to walk the jury through his or her analysis of what a reasonable royalty would have been. Opposing experts' analyses can vary wildly.

4. All of these determinations are made by a preponderance of the evidence. That is, jurors are instructed by the judge that they are to determine whether the patent owner has submitted evidence sufficient to make the patent owner's damages claim "more likely than not." [EDIT: As a practical matter, jurors often can be influenced by which expert witness they found more believable and/or likable, and by their perception of who is the good guy and who the bad guy.]

5. See http://www.virginiaiplaw.com/2010/03/articles/patent-litigat... for a summary of some recent contentious issues in the patent-damages area.

6. If the jury finds that patent owner has proved, by clear and convincing evidence (not just a preponderance of the evidence), that the infringement was "willful," then the judge (not the jury) has the authority:

a) to increase the damage award up to treble damages; and/or

b) to find that the case was "exceptional" and award the patent owner its reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses of litigation.

7. As a practical matter, any prospective juror who knows anything about the subject matter is likely to be excluded. [EDIT: That's because patent-owner lawyers don't want jurors to have pre-conceived notions about what is or isn't patentable in that field.]

FOOTNOTE: It's not well-known that lawyers don't pick a jury, they unpick it. Usually, prospective jurors are randomly assigned sequential numbers from 1 to N. Jurors can be excluded "for cause" (e.g., because they know one of the parties, etc.), or by the lawyers' using their limited number of peremptory strikes. The first 12 people remaining (or six people in some cases) become the jury.

8. EDIT: The discussion above presupposes (i) that the patent owner has proved that at least one claim in the patent has been infringed, and (ii) that the accused infringer has not proved, by clear and convincing evidence, that all infringed claims are invalid.
I think they're hacking on arduinos, MSP430s and pogo plugs.
Is there a 'minimum followers' option? A tweet to 0-1 followers isn't so great. I'd try it with a PDF I sell.
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Not sure if you want to join some OS project or you are just curious about current android scene.

Anyway I will use this for a bit of self promotion though - we have just released public alpha version of source code editor on android - http://www.touchqode.com

We have bigger goals with it - just for now we want to make code editing on mobile phones easier.
It might not fit general idea of cool (for us it is definitely cool) since our post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759122 just sunk :)
I thought that they'd pretty much announced that they were doing it? Effectively placing adverts in the timeline.

But this is about Twitter the platform rather than Twitter the organisation isn't it? It's closer to formalising the sort of promo the MacHeist guys do where you get extra stuff for tweeting about them.

I must admit I like the idea as a business. It's limitation is that the more successful it is, the more frequent it's messages, the more spam like it becomes, the more people will hate it and the less successful it will become...
Anything involving cleaning with 'piranha' probably isn't really a DIY project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution#Safety
May 6 Flash Crash and Its Causes
Technically, I don't see social networking as an interesting concept or challenge. It's all about the network effect and I'll gladly follow like a sheep to the next Facebook, whether it's open or not, if my friends are there.
a controversial statement designed to elicit discussion.

I am of the opinion that for a site called Hacker News, most people here seem complacent to emprofit a company that locks you into their walled garden, meanwhile giving the finger to choice enablers that do the same exact thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
No it represents what a market maker thought the value of the patent was multiplied by the chance of collecting on it.

What would the idea of the iPod have been worth in the 90s? The then value of Apple's consumer electronics sales (ie 0) or the current and future value of Apple?
There might be a broader base of deployed email servers. It is easy to get an email account somewhere, and also easy to host your own email server.

EMail might have been stress tested more, because of all the spam mail. I am not sure how common it is for XMPP to spread hundreds of messages per user in a short amount of time.
Move to another country. The US has set up a perfect storm of a shockingly awful school system, dumbed down media from every angle, emotion in politics causing people to frame every discussion as "my side = save the US" vs. "their side = destroy it", etc. creating a large group of people who just can't be reasoned with.
Which is still the same principle. You're mechanically restricting the cone of light from each point of what you're looking at, where a lens will change the direction of light in that cone.
AddThis: Firefox Add-ons
Exactly.

> the rest of the world

This is what fascinates me. I want to know how to get my programs to reach out into the world and do something "real." That's been the most interesting thing to me for a while.
We stayed at apartment block 333 River Street which was right on the Hudson, next to the 'W'. Luckily for us the company paid for it as the rent for a massive two bedroom apartment was about $3000 a month (2008)
However, Hoboken is a big place so I would imagine more sensible rentals further away from the river front. It's certainly worth considering.
Five Strategies to Break a Startup Terror Barrier
I have a separate account for that stuff - JonIsAWhore I believe it's called (it's been a while since I used it).

I don't mind these things. If I have friends who abuse them I unfollow them or hide their updates.

The only thing I'd like is to know that I can get the product / service the old fashioned way if I want by paying cash, and keeping my soul clean if that's what I choose to do.
I want a distributed social network, I just don't have high hopes for Diaspora.

Two big challenges: making it work technically, and getting people to switch.
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
Meta: In a snobbish way, I find it very satisfying that the poll was constructed using, "Couldn't care less," as option three. It's ridiculous how often people say, "I could care less," when they mean the converse.
I would think that people would be more bothered by all the north/south freeways that intersect each other at right angles.

No, I'm more concerned about the part of I-80 West up near Vallejo which is also labelled I-580 East, and vice versa.
It's only an investment if you plan to use it later for some other purpose than suing people that turn an idea into reality and actually contribute realisation of that idea to society. As it stands society will never benefit from most inventions unless a "big evil company" "steals" the idea (through their own research presumably) and turns it into reality.
Because open systems like xmpp and facetime will enable choice and skype will either open to interoperate or die.
Craigslist? ducks
Perl, Python & Ruby should all be equal to the task. There isn't really much of a hole in any of them for standard systems administration tasks. I would spend a couple days with each and find whichever feels most comfortable to you. Give what is involved for most systems administration work, there isn't a whole lot to differentiate them. I have found issues with python on various linux distributions where I had to do extra work to get a later version of python to work while not breaking the existing install which is used in various admin scripts provided with the OS. That is a relatively minor pain but one you should be aware of. Don't go willy nilly upgrading your python install on a linux box w/o being aware of what might break.
It depends on how you do it. If you're clumsy about privacy and UI, you might just make the next Google Buzz.
I don't even think you should receive a patent unless you intend to commercialize it. In this system, you have incentives to make your patent as broad as possible, as well as look for "me-too" patents that you can get by studying existing ones.

If your sole source of revenue is licensing the patents that you've created, you're a patent troll. The initial patent wasn't intended for this.

The patent wasn't originally intended for this. It was there to protect small inventors as they brought their ideas commercial. When Edison brought is light bulb to the market, only he could create light bulbs. This helped protect him from larger, more established firms, from copying his design so he could get his business bearings.

What you are doing is not that. You research some idea, patent it, then pocket it away until it's handy for you. If you make no attempt to show your patents, seek funding, or otherwise try to commercialize the idea, then you're a patent troll.
How many surgeons that you know are getting home at 6pm? I'm not saying that they never sit for X hours in a given day, but I'm saying that there will be plenty of days when they don't. Remember, this is in response to a question about who (if anyone) might go for a day without sitting 3 hours. There are a few realistic options-that's the extent of the argument I'm trying to make.
Why some Ceatec gadgets get lost in translation
So...who from HN is developing for this market place or plans to do that? I really wonder what kind of audience of developers this device attracts.
Personally, I think the future will be shocked to see that the American Libertarian was every considered a legitimate political stance. I do wish we could create some kind of virtual sand-box where Libertarians could go try out their ideas and see exactly why they wont work.
This is exactly as I suspected, so thank you for confirming this.

"The systems analyst who can code is a better systems analyst because he can test/evaluate his ideas." This is something I have found from my personal experience and I'm glad I had that background. It truly has helped. Anyone reading this can count this as solid advice.

Moving into programmer/analyst territory is something I've considered only briefly and I'll look at it in greater detail. By brushing up on my dormant programming skills I guess the worst that'll happen is I'll become better at my current job. Never a bad thing.
"All your base are belong to us" predates the internet.
Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share
At least here in NYC, the % of listings on Craigslist that are freelance is rather low and in general, given the time that most people put into posting jobs in general, the overall quality seems to be low.
And after 4 months still no new regulations (or measures to ensure this doesn't happen again) have been introduced.
Be sure to check out the interactive graph with the sequence of events.