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Why aren't we sending probes out right now?

Agreed. Don't send a man to do a machine's job, and this is definitely a machine's job.
Only in magical HN land do companies "scramble" to address issues like this. The best thing to do is to pretend these companies don't exist and you've never heard of them, their patents, or what they're up to.

Once your patent lawyers have had time to study what's going on, then you're ready to do something.

It's not "disturbing" at all. It's just common sense.
A bit off topic, but since Jeremy seems to be in here, I've been wanting to thank you for High Performance MySQL - it's one of the best technical books I've read in recent years, with a lot of insights that had been hard/impossible to piece together definitively by reading online articles/docs alone. It has taken a lot of uncertainty out of things for me as a dabbling db admin trying to scale.
Actually, I followed the link because I thought this was referring to a programming language derived from them.
Do you mean there's too much information or it's presented in a cluttered way? How would you improve it?
Weird. I've never had any problem with visuals inducing nausea or motion sickness, but that (Deep Down, short) made me feel very unwell. Interesting part is the nausea only came on 5-10min later (I'm assuming it was that... aside from HN/Google News and a glass of water, that has been my only stimulus so far today).
It could be useful for corporate laptop users. I can imagine using this so that I know the IP address and connectivity status of remote users to use when they call in with issues.
Heh, funny to see this still floating around. This is the first draft of a paper I wrote with a partner for the "breadth and history of computer science" (EECS 101) class at Northwestern University my freshman year. At the time I found myself having just finished submitting a handful of patches to the FFMpeg project the year before I entered college, just finished a major patch for QEMU that winter, and using tinycc in a dumb project for using distcc to quickly find compile errors in huge C projects. When my professor/advisor put up this assignment and asked us to chose a notable character in the field I of course jumped at the chance to get to know the man as well as I had gotten to know his work.

To be honest, I'm a tad ashamed at some of the grammar and spelling mistakes in that draft. As you can see from the citation style and LaTeX footer, it was suggested by my advisor that I submit a draft to one of the general ACM journals for publication, but I never got around to it, so I never fully proofed the paper either.
That's the Battle of Britian Memorial Flight. I saw them a few years ago, they flew over my house as it happens. The size difference between the spitfire and the lanc is remarkable.

The sound of 50 lancs flying towards you at 20000 feet must have sounded like death approaching.
I could maybe buy this line of reasoning if the inventor in question was a true visionary that foresaw in app purchasing, and laid out a roadmap for everyone to follow.

But the thing is, the patent is an invention of something completely different - customer satisfaction surveys on fax machines - and has to be interpreted in the most general way possible to even approach covering what they're seeking licenses for.

This patent has added zero value to the iPhone developers it is targeting.
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I don't believe he provided units, since it was over a large number of runs, and the units would be relative and meaningless due to hardware and setup differences (he said as much in the comments, as well).
Which is terribly annoying when you have a crappy router that intercepts dns queries and sometimes fails to resolve, making Windows think there's no internet, which makes it NOT let you even try to send the packets. Not my case but I've seen it happen: big FAIL. What a crappy way of "checking" you have internet access...
(@yakyak, no they don't work, that's what's so screwed up not just the half-assed method for checking)
You say that but it's not just Apple that's being talked about - they've pointed out that Google and Microsoft have also licensed the technology and other large companies such as HP have been contacted about the fact that they haven't.

This isn't an Apple issue, this is an industry wide issue. Apple owning the patent would make the issue go away for Apple but it might actually make it worse for other app stores (if Apple decided to be a dick about it).

On the surface this feels remarkably broad and uninnovative as patents go (similar to the Amazon one click one which I believe was recently said to be invalid - potentially pending an appeal from them).

If this is the case (and it's hard to know without knowing more detail and more law than I do) then it really needs to be fought and overturned.

It would be nice to see the big players - Apple, Google and Microsoft - setting up some sort of fund to allow the small developers to fight this properly for everyone's benefit.

The actions of patent trolls might be curtailed if they knew that there was a distinct possibility that the next letter they sent off to a one man software house was going to be met with an army of the most vicious lawyers money can buy queuing up to kick your ass from here to kingdom come.

Does US law allow for 3rd party funding of such cases?
How much traffic are you really expecting on this project? Dont pre-optimize, most of the time a regular ol' MySQL table will do just fine and people over-worry about performance too early in the development process.

Stick it into MySQL, if it causes problems later, worry about it then (or email me from my email in the profile)
Great reminder of how valuable the right people at the right place & time can be.
An aside: As per the explanation, this picture shows Steve Chen (YouTube) http://levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/3.html . Is this Chad Hurley standing next to Peter Thiel http://levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/11.html ? "Where is Waldo?" ...
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Sure, Michael has had a significant (defining) contribution. I don't think that really makes a difference for these purposes though.
Lodsys say that Apple, Microsoft and Google are "licensed", but they don't make clear whether those companies actually paid for a licence, or if they were granted it freely by Lodsys as part of a PR campaign to make them look bad for abandoning their developers.
What this article doesn't divulge, is where the other two sets of servers will be installed. With a history of getting their servers seized by the government they won't bet the existence of their site just on one location.
Ask HN: Is your Gmail spam filter too aggressive?
I've been alerted by one of my clients who uses Google Apps that they are missing a lot of emails. I went looking and found all of them in the spam folder.
This prodded me to check my Gmail spam folder and it really had a lot of false positives in there. A quick Twitter search reveals many people who noticed the same behavior starting around the beginning of May.

Have you noticed the Gmail spam filter being too aggressive as well?
How would it look if Microsoft and Google stood up to "help" and fight for Apple just because Apple's app ecosystem has unresolved patent issues? Hypocritical as it is, obviously they will stay quiet, they want Apple to be troubled for their benefit.
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I'm looking at more from a developer relations standpoint - I would think every developer who's got one of these letters is wondering where Apple is and why they haven't handled it already.
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> To me this speaks volumes about data visualisation. Done incorrectly, it's useless.

I think it's worse than that: poor visualisations are counterproductive.

Visualisation techniques are practically valuable when they let the user understand something that would not otherwise be clear. For example, a tool might analyse a complex data set and use a visualisation that highlights facts that are relevant to answering a particular question.

In this case, I don't see what the visualisation tells us that simple tabular playlists don't. It doesn't appear that any use is being made of the extra visual degrees of freedom offered by the astronomical metaphor, and extra visual degrees of freedom (spacial relationships, colours, sizes, shapes...) are usually what makes a good visualisation technique effective.
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But why do French universities appear to perform relatively poorly in several international university rankings?
Yes, but a poll on the question has the same validity and effectiveness of those polls on FoxNews that force the answer to fit a political viewpoint. "Which democrat do you trust least?", "which of President Obama's broken promises disappoints you the most?"

The poll isn't opposition it's masturbation.

Objectively, there's clearly some value in it as a spawn to discussion, but (IMO) the results are completely disposable. Not only were they a foregone conclusion, the self selecting sample is completely skewed towards the "overhaul software patents" demographic.

99% of Dairy farmers think you should eat more cheese.
The value of a "we're aware of the situation" is basically nil as it's inconceivable that they're not aware of it (unless you hold them to be utterly incompetent or living in some sort of a bubble).

The law (and lawyers) move slowly so I suspect it's going to be some time before they have anything useful and if you can't say anything useful why say anything at all?
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This article fails by not mentioning all the Google Apps that Amazon would have to replace. They have a Market replacement but they would also have to have replacements for Maps and YouTube. The tight integration with Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, voice searching and Google Voice would also be missed, though maybe less so in a tablet. Presumably a partnership with Microsoft could provide replacements for most of these except YouTube (also Google's trump card with Apple), but that is pure speculation at this point.
Google and Microsoft should stand up because the same issue applies to them (unless you believe that every Android developer utilising any form of in-app purchase is licensed too).

If the guy is successful with Apple then it's inconceivable that they're not next so a little proactivity is probably the best way forward.

At the very least they should be putting together a strategy,
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I don't have an Android device, can someone explain how Google earns money from Android now? To me this article doesn't make any sense, Android is free for everyone after all. So why would Google care about an expanding ecosystem?
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Ecole Polytechnique is not an university, it's a separate system. There are a lot of engineering schools in France which are independent from universities. These schools are very small compared to universities.
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Anecdotal, but some French computer scientists I know think language is one factor for their relative invisibility: basically everything is done in French, and much of it is required to be in French. The increasing practice in some other European countries is to allow a greater scope for English in the sciences and engineering.

In particular, any official thesis or report must be in French, which means that the thesis itself won't be widely read/cited internationally, and means that it can't be directly chopped up to make English-language journal articles; the student would have to translate their own thesis to republish parts of it in journals. In addition, they aren't generally required to be able to: since everything official is done in French, it's not necessary for a student to have English writing skills of a level sufficient to write for a scientific journal (though they do generally need English reading skills sufficient to read papers in their area).
The original version still contains redundancy. It would be:

cell.live = count == 3 if count != 2
Ask HN: Which business model - monthly recurring billing vs. pay-per-sale?
Hi. We sell a hosted daily deal solution for online retailers, and we manage everything from marketing to the actual sales transactions of the deals. I was wondering which business model would make more sense for both our customers (the retailers) and ourselves.

We currently use a recurring billing model (with 30-day free trial), but we haven't been seeing good sales with that model. Should we switch? Make the monthly fee cheaper, or shorter/longer trial period? Or should we move to a pay-per-sale a.k.a. commission model? Or a combination of both, i.e. monthly billing + small cut for each sale?

No doubt, we can analyse which business model would be more profitable if we had a lot of data, but we don't. I was wondering if you guys have a preference based on gut feel, experience, or some reasoning.

Pay-per-sale seems to align our interests with those of our customers, thus making it a softer sell, but if we don't make much sales for our customers, our revenue will be pretty much stuck. Monthly recurring billing ensures predictability of revenue (allowing for churn), but would seem to leave a lot of money on the table if our customers get a substantial amount of sales out of our tool.

What do you think?
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Ecole Polytechnique is considered the best of breed in France (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique).

Other "grandes écoles" tend to follow the same pattern of breadth rather than depth.

I can't tell much about university as I haven't been there.
Lodsys don't care about making Apple look bad.

They're patent trolls, they care about making money. If anything they'd want to avoid upsetting Apple because the minute Apple's legal and financial muscle gets involved things are a lot lot harder if you're Lodsys.
One of the issues that is obscured by the discussion of nuclear plant minutiae is the question "what level of trust should be placed in government?"
> Oil companies do not drill on land where they don’t have the rights. Movies aren’t released that don’t clear all the music rights. Clothing manufacturers license logos from Disney or the NFL to include them in their product.

It's pretty hard to drill on someone else's land, use someone else's music in a production, or use someone else's logo without realizing it. Software patents are nothing like this.

Software patents would be more akin to it being patented for an oil company to drill with a very hard diamond bit, or a guitarist to hold their guitar a certain way during a solo, or perhaps a clothing manufacturer to wash their jeans for a more rugged look.

Maybe other industries do have patents like these, but I certainly never hear about them.
Don't you think it's a ridiculous notion that the distinctions between include and require (and the once variants) are meaningful enough that programmers should be able to express them?

Not at all. They mean different things, and they're used for different things. Import-if-it's-available is include, import-or-error-if-missing is require, and they're both quite handy. The once variants do what most programmers would expect, but the non-once ones do what most template users would expect. Should the "once" have been a flag? Yeah, why not? But that doesn't mean the functionality shouldn't even exist.
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I saw this and thought "how does it know who I am?":

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Interesting question that I'm wondering about myself, for LiberWriter ( http://www.liberwriter.com ). It seems pretty natural to just sell it once, but it'd be nice to get money that kept rolling in somehow.
If you have enough money for the first days/weeks/months/years.
Later in that article:

> As some of you might be aware, I’m a theoretical computer scientist, not a physicist (much less an experimentalist).
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I would guess that the cut google takes from market app sales is significant, so, Amazon running an alternative market is somewhat of a threat.
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Ask HN: Is there a "show us your work" for job hunting managers?
I'm a developer who followed the management track and found myself really enjoying it. After a few years of managing a decent sized IT department, I'm interested in putting out some feelers and seeing what else the market has available. No gripes with my current employer; I'm primarily looking for something that's more challenging. (A bump in compensation certainly wouldn't hurt either).

This is the first time that I'm job hunting as a manager and I'm not sure what's expected of me. One of the things we've always emphasized during the hiring process for developers is the same thing I see a lot here on HN: "We only care about one thing: what have you built and shipped? No resumes needed here, we just want to see what you can do." (From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542432)

Is there an equivalent for managers? I've really cleaned up my resume and made sure to highlight the things that I've achieved but it feels weird to be job hunting without a portfolio of things to show. Are my personal programming projects still relevant since I'll primarily be looking for a tech management position?

Any advice is appreciated.
There's a corollary to this: if you value your time, aggressively limit the number of components in your life.

We do this in tech by bundling up things: I don't have to worry about a certain cellphone chipset's lifetime because I just toss the entire unit after a certain period and replace it.
Chrome dev tools now have pretty print built in. Probably need dev channel.
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From the article:

>This means they’ll have the games and Google’s own Android Market will not (at first). That’s huge. And you can expect more of those types of deals.

Is it, and are you, saying that if I have Android from Amazon it's locked in some way and I can only install apps sourced from Amazon. That seems pretty crazy.

Surely I'd install apps from Google and from Amazon?
That really depend on what the goal of the interface is. For quickly finding the song/album you want yes, for exploration not necessarily.

It would be a stretch to call HN the future of interfaces unless you refer to the underlying algorithms.
I like the reference given in the first paragraph:

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Munroe is listed in the bibliography as http://xkcd.com/163/
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Especially since researchers aren't able to accurately simulate Earth's climate over a smaller timescale, despite having much much better data about the current climate. Heck, for that planet they don't even know the composition of the atmosphere.
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For C# and the core language, yes. But not anything higher on the .NET stack. Novell had some patents that was able to hold Microsoft at bay. But since Novell sold off their patent portfolio, who knows?

Personally, I wouldn't touch Mono would a ten foot pole, but that's just me....
I think you can change interface, but you can't fundamentally change our sensory organs or how we process information (at least not with an app). We have a biological bias to certain interfaces.
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I'm betting there's whole lot of people who don't consider their jobs entirely "consensual".

If you're referring to the use or threat of force, that's a completely different crime.
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Thanks, that's a very helpful illustration and gives a good idea of where it ends up. It's actually more readable than most of the other examples I've seen which I think err on the side of being too simple or too clever.
Google's apps won't be pre-installed on the device and they won't be available on Amazon's "appstore". You could probably get Google's apps somewhere on the internet and side load them, but that's not a very good user experience.
An Amazon tablet/phone wouldn't have the Google Market. Not because it's locked; because Google charges for it and has certain requirements the manufacturer has to agree to; requirements Amazon probably wouldn't meet.
Wikipedia says you have to be a US citizen or resident for the MacArthur grant. As far as I know he's French.
You only have to keep filing for 10 years if you give up your citizenship specifically for tax purposes. The US does enough evil that you're bound to be able to find some other reason for giving it up.