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Will be updating with prior art but please post if you have anything

Here is basically what they want to patent:

Purchasing virtual currency with real currency where the virtual currency cannot be returned to real currency into a gamgling game.

Using the virtual currency in the gamble and deducting/awarding the user appropriately.

2 claims that say the same thing: associating a virtual item to 2 users (implying that a virtual item can change hands, wow what an innovation zynga, thanks) and purchasing a virtual item with virtual currency

Transfering virtual currency and in the process verifying a social connection, between 2 users and placing a limit on how often they can do this.

Software patents need to be invalidated but we'll get into that later

I will be doing a live stream or a local recording of me trying to implement this "innovation" to be "defended" for ~20 years in the interests of the progression of science and arts in the shortest ammount of time

Also http://stopsocialgamepatents.org
Where does it say that? If they're pushing as much transit as they say they are, they would be going straight to the Tier 1's and running their own servers.

Also, when you're doing as much traffic as Netflix is, then you should be measuring in line speed, not data transferred. Providers bill based on speed (by the Mbit or Gbit) because that represents best how much of their total capacity you're using. It doesn't cost them anything to transfer some amount of data, but it does cost them in the total amount of bandwidth they have left to sell to other customers.
The current App Store policies aren't a theory. The move to the App Store for laptop/desktop was just announced. Apple isn't Evil, it does what any company would do if it could. It's disappointing to see this discussion degrading to Apple fanboy/hater or "conspiracy theory".

I think App Store is a great solution for most users and developers. But not for the particular minority I define as hackers.
Having the string "WebObjects" in the URl:s should be a pretty good indicator; https://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore...
See this post, there are two parts to DLR.

http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2...

I believe Mono guys should be blogging about this tomorrow, so more on future will be known then.

I think there's a lot of positives actually. It's unrealistic to think Microsoft was going to put big money into languages they have little control over, like python and ruby. They got dynamic into c# and f#. There is no reason to support python over clojure or any other new dlr language. I just hope the community is strong enough to make the DLR an even more compelling platform.
First, I think one needs to define genius.

Do you equate people who have achieved great success/heights as geniuses? Do you think Tiger Woods is a genius golfer or that Warren Buffet is a genius investor?

Or do you equate the kind of people who for example, listen to a piece of music they have never heard before, once, and can play it flawlessly the next moment. I think these kind of people are more savant than genius.

If former is the case, then according to this article, genius is nothing but deliberate practice for periods of around 10 years. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/...)
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I believe in doing deployments for enterprise apps on Saturday or Sunday AM; everyone is still fresh vs. sleep deprived, and if something goes wrong, you have a long time to fix it. Plus, minimal impact on the customers.

Another option is using the more-bogus holidays (Presidents' day?), or religious holidays you might not celebrate (Easter isn't that secular, so non-Christians can give it up).

The trade for staff is that you get comp time to use later, and usually at some multiple. I love working on Christmas for 4 comp days later.

Working a weekend and getting 2-3 days off mid-week is awesome; not only do you get more done while working uninterrupted on a weekend, taking a mini-vacation during the off days is very cost effective. $49 suites in Vegas, woo!
Ya. I have a mac and I always assumed that sun/oracle released their own version that was not installed by default. Well, it appears they dont.

>Apple Computer fournit sa propre version de Java. Utilisez la fonction de mise à jour du logiciel (disponible dans le menu Apple), afin de vérifier que vous disposez de la version la plus récente de Java pour votre Mac.
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NeXTStep was ported to x86 back in 1993, years before it was acquired and rebranded as Mac OS X. I would have been surprised if they had neglected to maintain an asset like that.
Part 2 of that FAQ (which regrettably seems not to be in the Google cache) links to another piece by Warren Sarle, which I consider to be the best description anywhere of a wide variety of optimization methods (some but not all specific to neural networks): http://www.creative.net.au/mirrors/neural/kangaroos .
http://allthingsd.jobamatic.com/a/jobs/find-jobs/q-Zynga/l-S...

^on september 17 as the site scrolls listings

Senior Patent Counsel is the first listing. Looks like they might have found someone
Real, SEO valuable in the long-term, is nothing more than another marketing channel. Saying SEO is bad for the web is much like saying leaflets you get in the mail are bad. As with everything marketing, there are good people/companies who get their message across without being sleazy or spammy, and then there are sleazeballs.

IMHO, Google had a few settings wrong (call them "bugs" if you want) in early 2000s which many techies capitalised on. It's no different than finding a loophole in the finance industry regulation and trying to get away with it. In the case of Google's bugs, Google eventually reacted and became much more stringent. Sadly, by then the reputation damage to SEO has been done.

As for sentences for URLs, I agree with you. There is a fine balance between saying domain.com/widgets/green and domain.com/buy-new-and-used-widgets-green . I always ask which one would you rather speak over the phone, and that gets the point across.
I don't get it, is this a joke?

There is already a crap-ton of SO2 in Venus's atmosphere (about 40 teratonnes, to be precise), that's where the sulfuric acid clouds come from. If we sent a supertanker full of SO2 to Venus every single day for a thousand years we wouldn't affect the amount of SO2 in the atmosphere by even 1%.
Is this the way the big companies talk to each other? By getting some random email published?

I don't think apple and oracle had a dialog going here, because why would apple want to look like the bad guy?

So if Oracle says "we'll do this", then great. Oracle will be appreciated again.
This is actually a pretty good idea. Remember the discussion of a payday loan startup a while back?

Mobile phone companies give people very expensive stuff (high-end phones) in exchange for regular payment. This is effectively a loan, given even to people no bank would deal with.

Mobile phone companies can do a lot of damage to your social life (by cutting off the phone); apparently, this is sufficient to keep people paying their monthly fee. Again, this includes people no bank would deal with.

The parallel to Facebook, say, would be obvious. But it's hard to make this work if the borrower can just change his/her password...
That is indeed a very good sales pitch :)
> At the peak of the bubble, something like one-in-seven people were employed by the construction industry, either directly or indirectly

Actually according to the CSO (http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/constructio...) in 2007 13.5% of the working population were employed in the construction sector. That's almost 1 in 7 people directly employed in construction.
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Hopefully they will further expand the new Air lineup with a 15" model boasting 1680x1050 screen (as available for the current 15" MBP). That would be the ultimate all-around Mac workstation for me.
If blackhats were not using SEO to game Search engine results and rankings, they would be using some other method to game other systems like webrings (remember those?), website directories or just good old email spam.

Silver lining: SEO rules are mandated by a Tech company like Google who can push an agenda for better web-standards.

The problem is the people that do black-hat SEO, they will always be around screwing things up for others through scamming and spamming.
Considering Java apps are banned from the Mac App Store, and there is currently no Oracle JDK for the Mac, I find it hard to call his comment decent. In the interest of not being inflamatory I refrain from calling it something else.
Yeah, you aren't going to be selling asteroid mined metals to Earth any time in the foreseeable future, the math just doesn't add up. However, selling metals and other materials to other off-Earth colonies might be economically viable. But that just raises another question.
No it's not. 2200 pounds on earth is 363 pounds on the moon (moon's gravity is 0.165 that of earth's).

1000 kilograms on the moon is 1000 kilograms on earth and vice versa. Pounds is a measure of weight and not mass. Weight depends on the strength of the gravitational pull.

Also, please note that when people in Europe say they weight "75 kilograms," they're lying. What they mean is, they weight 75 kilograms-force or kilogram-pounds, which are again measures of weight and not mass. In truth, they would weight 7.65KG which equals 75KGF)
Missing bit at the end of the original message:

"This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message."

It is amusing that these stern words, particularly regarding distribution, never seem to apply to the sender.
Moreover for little startups or single developers might be impossible. I was a Mac developer and now I am an iPhone developer because I already knew and liked the language and the frameworks.

For the project I'm working on right now I have to develop an iPhone app and an iPad one, plus a server to handle data, a Mac app to create the particular content we need and a Mac client to upload and handle the data on the server.

I am already overwhelmed by work (and I have a day job too) and in no way I can learn/program on another platform right now, especially because our app will be animation intensive and there is no easy way of doing this at least on Android.

In the future, if we are successful, we might move to other platforms as well, but for now I will just leverage the platforms I know.
Last sentence of Steve's reply: "This may not be the best way to do it" tells me that, there may be better way. I really hope that Snoracle will ship OSX distribution of Java.

Anyway, Java developers despite of being geeks, make a good PR for Apple. Just look at laptop covers on any given Java developer conferrence.
Shame, it's a really nice place to work. Nice Sumo sacks, too. There's a couple of HNers work there; I'm around most afternoons.
I left OSX for Ubuntu earlier this year because I felt this was the direction things were going, and I didn't want to wake up on kid's computer in 3 years.

BUT you could argue that the announced OSX features are more or less Ubuntu Software Center + some bits of Gnome Shell.
I think yo are confusing desktop and mobile environments..

Steve Jobs did not outlaw manual installs of any software on desktop Macs..he just made the MacApp store feel Boutique or exclusive to consumers..
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Definitely - but watching Apple's current iPhone/iPad policies, which direction seems more likely?
> DES

Almost anything involving that word, including your proposal, is a bad idea.
Really? Is it that bad?

I didn't know what fizzbuzz is until I read about it on wikipedia. But I frequently run into "web developers" that don't how sessions work or how cookies work and don't understand what CSS does. But i figured it was just these guys who give programmers a bad name. I had no idea it was really that bad and extends to the basics of programming.
Fair enough. I feel like marketing is subjective unless you can back things up with concrete numbers/facts, which i can't :)
Building product != Building business

If you want to build a business, then you need a real plan for sales and marketing. Doing these well is just as hard as writing code. It takes a lot of careful thought, and it often takes money.

Even if you got your one-time appearance in TC, you'd find it wasn't enough. You need a sustainable strategy for acquiring customers. You need to calculate that the money you get from each customer is ultimately more than it costs to acquire them. Depending on your market, you may need a lot of money up-front to build a sustainable business.

These things don't take care of themselves. There's no simple one-time solution like showing up on TechCrunch. If you want a business, you have to build it.
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I did this for 3 semesters after running out of money (at MIT, undergrad) and thus being unable to afford tuition. It was a little easier since I was in the system -- I could register, take classes, and then they would deregister me retroactively each semester. I got to take classes, sit exams, etc., just didn't end up with credit.

I actually learned more in classes where I knew I wouldn't successfully remain registered than before, since the only reason was to learn.

If the school itself hadn't screwed me over so much on financial aid/loans (0, since my parents wouldn't pay any of the "expected parental contribution"), I would feel bad for imposing marginal costs.
why should Oracle do that?
Do you know any bank or company that runs Oracle on Macs???????
I don't see any reason for Oracle to maintain java on this platform. We understand that oracle only moves its butt, if moving the butt makes cash. Does anybody know whether they make cash out of java on Macs?

Even if Oracle would provide java, would anybody put so much trust into Oracle, to base the future of his/her software company onto this? Apple again has proven to be unreliable.

I think, this is a serious blow either for java or for Apple itself. Probably we may have to fall back to c, fortran or delphi?
Yes, I would pay an upfront cost but not a recurring monthly thing.

For example, I have a LAMP project I want to run on a VPS and will only access the server over SSH. You could go in and rip out all the crap like FTP servers, mail servers, close unneeded ports and tune it for Apache+PHP and MySQL and I will pay $20-$40 for that.

In 6 months, if my app has taken off I ask if you can update/patch/harden the machine again for $40-60.
Is it good software thanks to PHP, or in spite of PHP?
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> URL's are now sentences.

Which is still better than http://example.com/portal/servepage.asp?state=URHDA43FIDNWQI... (add 100+ chars) type of URLs we used to have before the SEO era.

Most SEO is nothing more than basic web concepts implemented right. People benefits from that, too.
"Despite its popularity, PHP is considered by the programming elite, almost without exception, as one of the worst languages currently in use today"

I would say, the blogging-about-programming elite, rather than the actual programming elite. I haven't coded PHP in years, but some of the most brilliant devs I know use it when it fits the task.
Link to the actual blog entry: http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/ewww-you-use-php/
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sorry I thought I replied yesterday but apparently my comment got lost.

Using a (hash)set instead of a bloom filter caused memory usage to explode, which in turn led to memory thrashing/swapping which in turn led to slow processing times.

The rest of the code runs in constant time (well, linear in the size of the item, with num(items) >> size(items[n]) ) and it did work fine for smaller inputs.
<rant>

My impression is that a lot of comments are just restatements of the usual clichés: "get the first paying customer", "luck vs perseverance", "minimum viable product", "execution vs great ideas", etc.

As someone who has already asked this kind of question on HN, that type of cookie-cutter advice really isn't helpful at all (assuming you have been following HN for a while).

We need more specific, actionable advice. Here is mine:

</rant>

Grab a copy of "The Four Steps to the Epiphany"[1] by Steven Blank and apply his methodology. It's broadly a "How-to" guide on discovering who your customers are, what they really want and how to make them buy. According to your story, it seems you are focusing too much on getting PR when you really should go out your office and talk with your customers directly (instead of via TC).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
You need to launch an MVP ASAP. And a lot of times, that MVP is only just a landing page (with no other functionality)!

That's not an MVP, that's a Dry Test. There's a difference.
A central concept in the article is k-anonymity, which I only learned about maybe a year or two ago. Researching, it appears though that it has been introduced in a conference article in 1998 and has been published in 2002 (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.163...), which I found rather surprising. It's a shame that the knowledge of this concept seems to be mostly restricted to CS circles. Maybe the rather steep technical barrier (research seems to be published mostly in technical context - non-scientific metric: half of the url in the resuls of googling for 'k-anonymity' has 'cs' and 'edu' in the domain name; and no literature on anonymizing datasets for people with only basic schooling in statistics and database theory seems to be available) is preventing the uptake of better database privacy protection.

Of course there's also the issue that incentives in collecting and storing sufficiently anonymous data are not aligned (and sometimes in direct competition) with the goals for which the data is collected. This company seems to be making great strides in this field with this research, I hope they keep pushing the edge and publishing their results.
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Ask HN: How about multiple sign in for Twitter.com? 
I have multiple twitter accounts for personal, business, products and I believe most of us have. Doesn't it make sense to have multiple sign in , an easy way to flip between different accounts at twitter.com. I would certainly use this feature. Many twitter clients provide this feature I think, but I prefer the web interface still.
White-hat SEO helps accessibility.

When client asks "can't we just Flashajax the hell out of it?" they won't listen to response that it won't be accessible, standards-compliant, etc. But they do listen to "No, Googlebot won't index it".
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This is probably my favourite post & thread on HN to date. There's some great comments here, so I wont repeat stuff. But I would suggest hiring a PR agency. The right agency will get you a great ROI.
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I am curious as to why this got downvoted. Can anyone explain to me how this is a "bad comment" worthy of being downvoted? Why is understanding yourself better "bad advice"? (We have a member here who successfully started a bakery after figuring out why trying to be an entrepreneurial hacker wasn't working for him.)

Sign me: Baffled.
Why would java allow other apps to gain root access?
This is a really old conversation and it has steadily become less and less relevant over the past 5 years. The most effective SEO practices these days involve off-page and off site linking and on-page optimization is gets slightly less and less effective every year. Tricks like keyword stuffing URLs, title attributing everything, and no-follow sculpting, which used to actually make a difference at one point in time, essentially make no difference these days. For most SEO aware web developers these days, SEO is more and more about accessibility and usability, as it should be.

The most effective tricks these days mostly involve passing as much link juice to the site as possible, and matching it to good content that is based on sound keyword research and user demand. In order to do this in such a way that actually makes a significant difference in ranking without being penalized is usually beyond the the average developer "dabbling" in SEO. The blackhat term for this is "link laundering" and it's really the only way to get the huge traffic gains in a reliable and sustained manner. Most SEO companies fit into one of the 3 following types:

1. Basic SEO is getting easier to execute with all the hand-holding that Google gives out to webmasters these days, however the benefits are minimal. Most of that realm is about making sure you're not screwing up your content, rather than optimizing it. The kinds of gains you get by doing this are maybe a 30% increase in traffic, assuming you site is not screwed up to begin with.

2. On the other hand, using link laundering/pyramids even less talented SEOs can see somewhere in the area of a 400% increase in traffic without much risk of a penalty. This is a lot trickier though because imitating a strong, natural, niche link graph is a lot harder than most people think.

3. The last strategy is commonly referred to as "turn and burn". This basically involves taking whatever content you have and link spamming the hell out of it which will cause it's traffic to spike briefly before being banned from Google's index. Ever seen all those spammy comments in you blogs that are pointing to a really crappy landing page? This is what they are doing.

Now granted I've made a lot of generalities here. Most of the time I see people discussing this topic they seem to not understand what SEO is compared to what it was 7 years ago which is why I'm taking the time here to explain this. The rules change a little when you start out with a valuable asset such as a large quantity of good content (such as any of the Q&A sites), or a set of very high quality links (anyone that's been covered by the major news outlets) because you can base your strategy on getting the most out of those assets.

Anyway, now that I've gone off on that tangent the easy answer is yes, good SEO is good for the web because it makes content more usable and accessible, and bad SEO is bad for the web because it means more spam.
What's so bad about PHP? I’d assume the goal in web development is the end product or service and not the means to it. It seems easy to miss the forest for trees, and delve into cult-like arguments of whatever software stack is hip.
I think the global diamond market serves as a counterexample to your scenario. The producers would simply limit the supply to whatever level is sustainable. If multiple competitors increased supply or decreased prices too quickly, there may be a temporary freeze on production, but once the supply dwindles production will resume.
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