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There is no much additional risk for those companies.

If they're already paying MPEG LA fees then even if VP8 is found to infringe MPEG LA patents, they are covered.

Most of the companies that would entertain adding VP8 hardware codec already have H264 codec, hence pay the fees.

The companies that don't pay MPEG LA fees, can start paying them.

The important thing to know is MPEG LA sells a bunch of patents. They don't care if they're used in implementing H264 codec or VP8 codec.

MPEG LA fees are relatively low and not a problem for companies like Texas Instruments.

The people who are really affected by those patents are startups, small companies, open-source developers etc.
A handful of broad claims, an abnormally high amount of data and decent writing, and discussions here ranging everywhere. So, because someone has to do it, and because I'm curious what his take on this is:

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I wonder why they even bothered to build containments for those reactors.
While there are some features of PHP which are inherently a bad idea (register globals for example) these are, for the most part, deprecated and removed in the most up-to-date version.

I agree with other views that it is the programmer's code that is insecure, not the language itself.
Also, Japan's population is very old...average age is 45. Older people take far less risks than young people.
The radiation levels at the plant gate at Fukushima are quite probably much less carcinogenic than a cigarette habit.
If the question you want to answer is, "About how many years will it take for my investment to double?" then the Rule of 72 is exactly as accurate as you would ever need it to be. For practical purposes, the margin of error doesn't go above six months. So if your investment doubles in five years or five years and two days, who cares? Your question was how many years will it take. Can't believe how anal some people are being in the comments here.
I went with voicestream(t-mobile) to avoid the major telcos in the U.S. Once it became t-mobile, they still behaved better than the others. About mid-year last year they started behaving much like the incumbents, so I switched over to Virgin mobile(Sprint Network). It seems the lesser evil at the moment. The network has been great for me and the prices even better.

Virgin's customer service is hit and miss. I have had some reps bend over backwards for me and others just shrug me off.

I will do whatever I can to not deal directly with one of the incumbents.
Canada did this with Wind Mobile that is shaking up our industry a bit but it had to get funding from an Egyptian telecom giant.
The government could have just mandated that the industry had to settle on a single standard (without the government needing to specify which technology to use).
The impulse for making static typing less partial and more complete causes type systems to become overly complicated and exotic as witnessed by such concepts as "phantom types" and "wobbly types".

"Modern type theory is hard. Let's go shopping."
Cool that you're representing Chapel Hill. I've always been very bearish on the startup potential of the RTP as a whole, but there are some shining stars in Chapel Hill. Durham and Raleigh are produce decent talent with Duke and NCSU, but only CH has a culture analogous to the West Coast.

(FYI, I'm an NCSU grad myself and spent high school and college in Raleigh)
"But that doesn't mean it's giving everybody --- or even anybody --- within a 50km radius cancer."

No, just the twentieth of an increased risk for cancer.

As for the isotopes, I thought I heard that Cesium was released, which lasts several years? (no time for watching movies sorry). Some reactors apparently also used Plutonium, though maybe not in the blocks that exploded.
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Police in Japan are said to beat confessions out of suspects, even false ones[0]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8290767.stm
It's crawling for me :\ Set up a burnbit, but it's taking a while: http://burnbit.com/torrent/165578/BMonreal11_PublicLecture_K...
Well it's not impossible. You could run them all and then decide which result to use. :)
Do you mean in so far as those things are carcinogens?
Because if they didn't build containment for the reactors, the fuel itself could oxidize and ignite, dispersing massive quantities of radioactive material over one of the most populated areas on the earth with virtually no time for anybody to react and mitigate the disaster.

Any other questions, I'm happy to take a crack at!
I also found it to be a somewhat shortsighted analysis. Conventional opinion amongst U.S. elite is that it's a very bad thing when one group controls the means of production which is primarily utilized by another group (whether the grouping be along racial/gender/class/other lines). But here it's celebrated. I guess because it's an economic argument for getting more women into tech.

But we already "know" that men who go into tech are not representative of the general male population - why would women be any different?
Oh nice, looks interesting and worked pretty well from my few tests.
Sadly, with the amount of requests I'd be doing (10000+ just for training), I guess I should build myself something on my own
Just because you don't have karma on HN, doesn't mean that you don't have karma elsewhere, such as StackOverflow or Quora.
Not challenging, just clarifying, because I agree.

In "given an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters, eventually one of them will produce the script to Hamlet", the key word is "eventually", and speaks to nothing about the quality of the monkeys or of their writing. It's a rephrasing of Bogosort. If you try to optimize the bogosort process in some way so it finishes in less than infinite time in the average case, it's not bogosort anymore.

And bogosort is exactly what you don't want when you break the rules. Being able to break the rules is about knowing which rules to break and how to break them, not trying things randomly hoping it gets better. But one also has to watch out for being too knowledgeable and not being able to, uh, "think outside the box" when looking for new things to try.

To quote Web Dude, "did you restart it three times?"
>"Why don't Japanese loot? Because it's not in their culture. How is that culture defined? An absence of looting."

immediately followed by:

>A better explanation may be structural factors: a robust system of laws that reinforce honesty, a strong police presence, and, ironically, active crime organizations.

how is that in any way different from the circular definition the writer just criticized?

which I think indicates the real problem with the 'culture' argument; it's not that it's circular, it's that it is vague, which is why the rest of the (detailed) article is actually quite informative.
What do you mean by "open, public application process?" I don't see anything "open" about it. Last time I checked (last year) there was not even a list of applicants. I'm curious, how would an "open" process differ from a "closed, non-public process?"

Waste their time? They read applications so they can find the ones they think are going to make them a lot of money. It is a necessary step needed for them to make money. I'm not sure what your point is. You feel bad they have to read applications they themselves solicit in order for them to make money? Should someone else read them for them and they do nothing during the application process?

Getting their ideas vetted? Y Combinator gives zero feedback to applicants, leaving them in the dark as to why they were rejected. How does that help? Any vetting process I ever saw gave a "report" or at least some information as to why or why not a candidate was approved or not. Y Combinator does neither. As you said, they spend enormous amounts of time reading the applications (for their benefit) but zero time providing any feedback whatsoever for the applicants benefit. What does that tell you? Does that sound like an entity who is truly trying to help the developers? What do you take away or learn from that? What value does that have?
Don't ever deliver Pizza. Its like COPS but with more yelling and less clothing.
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Is the sms -> internet/ server -> sms pathway tied up in business patents by Twitter? I am sure I am (sort of) underestimating, but Twitter seems like a weekend project for a couple of decent hackers; if they piss enough people off is there any reason to stick with them except for (VERY non-trivial) first past the post market share?
Not just that, with the new update every time you launch the iPhone app it asks you "Twitter would like to use your current location, allow, don't allow"

No means no
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its wrong though, it would have to be Der Kapitalist to be a pun on it.
High human capital, perhaps? I would hazard the educational/ cultural level of a japanese high school grad about equals that of an American state univ grad (I is one, so I can criticize). Nobody would be surprised SF State got hit by an earthquake and the students didn't loot. (The low educational and cultural level of the US is embarassing....)
Ooh, another "it's just a weekend project!" comment.

Next step: convince everyone to use your weekend project, instead of Twitter. Allowing people to import all of their tweets and friends would be helpful, so be sure to implement that.

Next next step: Handle all of Twitter's traffic. Consistently, and you not only have to do it better than they did in the beginning, but better than they do it now.
Cesium has a longer half life than most of the radionuclides in vented steam, but it also settles out of the air and doesn't travel as far. Cesium was detectably elevated, but the region isn't blanketed in cesium soot.

The fact that the reactors use MOX fuel doesn't mean plutonium is getting into the atmosphere! That's not how it works. The reactors also don't use cesium as fuel.

Finally, please stop waving the words "increased risk of cancer" around like a voodoo totem. Everything increases your risk of cancer in some way. The notion of cancer risk is only meaningful in relation to something else. More cancer than what? The risk to the general population that you are referring to is, according the published evidence, so low as to be unmeasurable.

Because, you're talking about this situation as if the alternative was "simply not using nuclear power". The cost to human health of not using nuclear power is higher than using it, in two ways. First, the fossil fuel sources which are the only scalable alternative cause demonstrably more harm, both to the environment and to carcinogenesis, than xenon radionuclides detected 50km from Fukushima. Secondly, the malaria and dysentery pathogens that ride alongside lack of electrical power infrastructure reliably kill 1.7 million people every year.
I agree with Marco Arment and Jeff Rock in that it is perfectly understandable that Twitter wants to monetize their business if they wish to do so, but based on their recent decisions it seems that they are taking a path that will damage their business along the way. Also, I have never understood the value of trending topics. It is just one of the many metrics inherent to how Twitter works, but it is far from the most useful metric since Twitter is so full of spam and people that have nothing useful to say (which is their good right of course).

Anyway, all this does make me curious to see how Twitter is going to change in the next few months and I hope for the best - for them and for the users.
Minor nitpick on 2: Three mile island had no deaths.
The bit about the response of criminal organizations is very interesting. I've heard odd rumors about Japanese career criminals, such as commonly going into the business fully expecting to go to jail. Can any one suggest books / docs on the subject? (Preferably non hollywood-ized).
In an almost scripted turn of events. It appears Y Combinator doesn't even want to read the applications themselves anymore:
http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346017

Does that indicate anything at all to you?
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The funny thing is, clients like Twitterrific and Tweetie pre-Twitter takeover managed to figure out how to monetize the client years ago.

The Fusion Ads that were featured on Twitter in particular were excellent -- I actually found some the ads interesting enough to click on.
Thanks for this. I didn't know about update-in. Are there other 'update' functions?

However, it's a good thing you want a DAG, because with immutable data structures you're hosed if you want a cyclic graph. Or at least you won't be building them out of such structures, which means you aren't getting to use Clojure's functions for sequences, collections and maps. Thus Clojure does not seem to be a good tool for graphs.
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Does it continue to ask you, once you've answered "allow"?
The title of this bothers me. It suggests that you shouldn't yell at waitresses because it blows investments but, really you should not yell at waitresses and it also happens to blow investments. Don't put on a shoe for people you are doing business; be the person you would pretend to be.
I could implement that if its something more folks are interested in. Maybe give users the options to specify the 960gs options or Blueprint positioning, etc.
I wasn't. ¡
This is a side-project that I've been working on for the past couple months. It let's you outsource small jobs like building IKEA furniture, washing your car, grocery shopping to people within your own community or neighborhood.

It's been a labor of love, and I'd appreciate any feedback you have.
The social pressure to make good on entrepreneurial promises is important. And doubly so, since studies show that the mere act of telling someone else what you plan to do ALREADY gives you an internal sense of personal satisfaction, and REDUCES the likelihood that you'll follow through.

In other words, it's dangerous to tell people your plans unless you are sure they will continually pressure you do actually do it!
The problem is how Virgin Mobile implemented data with Android, not the phone itself. People who have the Samsung Android phone have the same issue.

Search #vmdd (Virgin Mobile Data Down) on Twitter and follow the fun.
Rather than downvoting my rather heavily caveatted remarks, perhaps you could answer the question: Is there a patent encumbrance that makes this more than a technical problem?

EDIT: moved "heavily qualified" to something more idiomatic.
"A single cross-country flight is a 40usv exposure; ... An hour maximally exposed to the highest recorded level of outdoor radiation 50km away from the plant is roughly equivalent to two round trips between LA and New York."

Well that is not what the XKCD chart says. I was merely counting blocks (not converting units). According to XKCD, one flight is two green blocks. So two round trips LA/NY would be 8 green blocks. According to XKCD the 50km radiation was 180 green blocks, or 22 times the round trip (in a shorter amount of time).

Blame XKCD if his chart is wrong, not me.

Also XKCD says "CLEARLY linked to increased risk in cancer". Again maybe blame XKCD if his chart is misleading.

If Fukushima is so harmless, why did they evacuate a 50km radius? Because of the media?
Let me rephrase from earlier -- is Twitter technology patented?
Seeing the comment counts makes me wonder what the comments were. Is there any way to see those?
So why don't they evacuate 50km radius around everybody who lights up a cigarette?

Don't get me wrong, I want to believe you, and I am actually hopeful that no lasting damage has been done at Fukushima. But somehow all the optimism does not seem to add up 100%.
Downvote? How about a response?
Instead of doing that, a team of one computer literate person could fork StatusNet, and you could spend the rest of the weekend trying to convince Ashton Kutcher and Charlie Sheen to join your service, and buying hardware to support them.
Why does apartment hunting still suck?
There are so many apartment hunting websites, but they're all so terrible. Most are just covered with ads and redirect to listings created on other sites. Rent.com is decent, but it's still a little "meh" - it just feels like it has no heart. Padmapper is decent, but it just feels like a pet project that isn't innovating any more.

I feel like this is a market with no real great tool for this. I can't say that anything that I've used has given me a "wow what a great experience" reaction.

I don't know what the "best" way of doing this would be, probably very similar to how other sites do it, but just with minor tweaks to make them more relevant or something.

Just some thoughts from somebody currently looking for an apartment!
They are not only carcinogens, but carcinogens that (from what I can tell) are almost by definition worse than 100msv radiological exposures, in that radiological exposure is one of the purer sources of carcinogenesis we can measure, and 100msv is the floor of our ability to measure it.

Compare that to eating four or more serving of red meat in a week (hardly a crazy amount in the US or Argentina); that corresponds to a lifetime cancer risk comparable to having been a former longtime active smoker. Smoking will reliably give you cancer. 100msv of radiation will give one out of some huge number of people like you cancer. Probably.
I doubt that Eric Meijer, one of the co-authors of the Haskell 98 spec, personally finds modern type theory too complex to deal with. He seems to be proposing that it's not necessarily a positive language feature to expose a very complex type system to the programmer (or at least, to make it mandatory).
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There's a domain that I want. The registrant details were hidden behind Domain Discreet, which no longer exists, and none of the contact info works, email bounces etc. so I can't approach the owner and ask what they want for it. It was due to expire last year so I used a deleting domains provider to try and grab it, but several months after it was supposed to have expired it was re-registered by its current owner for another two years. Tried filing a complaint with ICANN about the invalid contact details but no dice. Advice?
In real life, its even harder than that. The monkey has to realize he's typed the sonnet.
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That's exactly how I learned that you can use http://graph.facebook.com in this way!

For those of you who weren't at SHDH, you can see Yury's talk from last night here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13439718 - his talk starts at 14:40.
Why?

To reiterate, yes you could build a clone, but the odds of duplicating Twitter's success is almost nil at this point.

Or are you asking if they're legally capable of forbidding people from creating other clients?
Since it's sometimes considered nice to explain a downvote, I wanted to mention I downvoted you for spending time telling us how qualified you were instead of just restating your question in a simpler way.

I don't know why your other post was downvoted, but probably because people think it's not an interesting question, could be determined by actually going to Google yourself and doing your own homework/search and most people don't feel like patents, if they exist, are the problem with twitter's dominance.
I'd settle for them managing to bill me properly for my POTS line after no more than 3 tries (it took 6 after my most recent move).
The basic fear may be unavoidable, but the current media coverage is ridiculously overblown (there is one casualty so far at Fukushima---due to a fallen crane, not any kind of radiation).

This is fearmongering, and this _is_ avoidable.
I'll wager you're in teens or twenties. Go to restaurants long enough, you'll see it.
Am I mean for just not caring what's currently trending on Twitter? Feels like a similar problem to showing ads on blogs. I'm there for the content and the ad has to be exceptionally good in order to get any of my attention.
Every single URL: "This is not a valid URL. Please try again."

Also, don't clear the input box each time I focus it. I might simply want to correct a typo.

Other than that, it looks interesting.
Also create mobile clients for everybody to use. And don't forget about an API.
So is radioactivity harmless or not? Would it have been a problem if the containment had broken?
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I'd be interested to hear what 'normal', non-power users of Twitter think. The 'mouth-breathing buffoons' that Jeff Rock so denigrates (and evidently make up most of Twitter's users) may actually like this UI feature.

Viewing the world through nerd-tinted spectacles makes many things seem horrible that are perfectly OK to a regular person.
The US is slowly inching its way back toward telco monopoly.

Bravo!
No, there's probably not a patent encumbrance. IANAL.

But there's so much more that makes it more than just a technical problem. Ask your random 40-year-old working in a non-tech industry if they've heard of Twitter. Now ask them if they've heard of StatusNet or identi.ca.

In a nutshell, that is what makes it more than just a technical problem.
Marco totally nailed it. At this point I'd rather something adsense-like that can push ads I could be interested in (possibly with the quality of the Fusion or Deck ads).
Well, you don't seem to understand what "qualified" means in the context written -- when I said that my response was qualified it meant that I put caveats around it ("I qualified my response"). Sorry if I was unclear.
it sucks because the data they all aggregate sucks. landlords are lazy and agents purposely withhold information so you have to contact them directly.

house hunting sites are usually much better because most of their data comes from a standard source (the mls) with defined fields.
Do higher wages make you work harder? Do lower wages make you slack off?
would you mind elaborating on the niche/product? URL?
They're good at their jobs, too: The clearance rate for murder in 2010 was an unbelievable 98.2 percent, according to West—so unbelievable that some attribute it to underreporting.

High clearance rates don't mean police are good at their jobs. Police in Japan can hold a suspect for 23 days without charging him. During this period, they try to get a confession out, using techniques such as sleep deprivation. Furthermore, once you get to trial, it is usually with only a judge, not a jury. All levels are pushed to keep up this high conviction rate. So just because the rate is 98%, this doesn't mean justice was actually served at that rate.
That's interesting. The alert should only be presented to you twice - if you respond No to both cases, it should simply disable location services for the app.

Mind you, I did that manually - at least once I discovered it leaves them enabled the whole time the app's running, which means a significant battery hit on the GPS.
I agree with you 100%. I went to an agency that said they help you find an apartment free and turns out there is a total of $400 in fees, so much for free. I'm going to go back to the old school way, looking in the newspaper at least they are somewhat straight forward!
Actually -- by saying "very qualified remarks" forkandwait was not talking about his/her education. S/He was instead referring to the fact that by calling the problem of getting market share "(VERY non-trivial)" in the OP - they were well aware of the issue and asking a simple question about twitter's patent protection (or lack thereof).
NameJet, SnapNames, or SEDOPro. The latter WILL track down the owner, but will cost you more. Backorder thru the other two and wait.
Perhaps you could do some simple detection if a given field is a url (i.e., using a regexp) and auto-link it in the generated reports?