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Why does everyone assume that Lodsys is incorrect? If you sell someone a patent they can't arbitrarily declare everyone else owns that patent too. If apple wanted developers to be allowed to use lodsys patents they should have made it clear when they bought the rights to this bullshit patent that they could arbitrarily allow anyone they wanted rights to the patent..
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Are hold harmlesses common?

I'd have thought they'd be exceedingly rare in cases like this given the open ended liability that could result, certainly as part of an opening gambit.
It's kind of similar to how "you" (another plural) replaced "thee". Except in some versions of The Lords Prayer.
Ask HN: Ready to work at Google. Already in Silicon Valley. Where do I start?
I'm ready to commit to a job at Google. I already live near Mountain View. However, I don't know what job I'd take at Google. I'd honestly rather Google just hire me and then assign me a job. I'd also like some sort of tour of Google to get acquainted with the place. I have no clue what the orientation/onboarding process is at Google.

Where do I start this process? Anybody want to invite me inside the campus?
The year of the platform launch I made a small novelty app called Name Analyzer. While scaling it ended up involving some work, the initial version was made in a weekend. It no longer exists, but while it was still alive it spread to a big portion of Facebook users. I got enough savings from it to feel comfortable to fulfill my dream of moving to Japan and start working on my own apps full time.

It got 9 million users and made quite a nice sum from ads.
He's an exceptionally good communicator and has very strong soft skills, and applies them to self-promotion. He's also good at politics (as in convincing crowds of people -- not so much at interacting and making long-term connections with individuals). A lot of this has to do with feeling out crowds, and telling them what they want to hear. He's also got a slightly underdeveloped moral compass, which always helps (he was willing to be a little bit sleazy and subtly undermine competitors). That's mostly what it takes to get famous. He was also the only person, after RMS, who was arrogant enough to take credit for the whole movement.
The state of PDF support in Firefox on OS X has me stuck at FF 3.6, and it doesn't look like that'll be changing for a while (unless I want to experiment with random xpi's and running FF 4+ in 32-bit mode, etc).

Until that's resolved, all the fancy CSS tweaks in the world won't mean a hoot.
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I generally refer to them as agents or brokers. Those terms are more specific because, at least in the U.S., there is a legal distinction between the two.

I think the only times I've ever said "realtor" has been when it was informal. Having researched the NAR, MLS, etc. before selling my house, it seemed fairly obvious that realtor was a trade name and something I just assumed was trademarked.
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Fair enough - I can't really argue without trivialising things somewhat so I'll just leave it that :)
I would hope they are connected via a network cable, not wifi.
cant beat the japanese at their own game baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZeIOM50gT0
I remember you from the devs forum :). Hope you get big in Japan
Trademark law does not seem to care how inherently generic a term is, or about the history of the term. All that matters is whether the term currently serves as a distinctive trademark and whether the alleged infringing use is as a competing trademark.

This is why it's ok to use the word "entrepreneur" in general, but not as the name of a magazine or "communication product".
It's about faster release cycles not copying features.
Ipod touch has wifi.
Trademarks are usually registered in one or several international classes (there are 45 of them), but there's a cost per class, so most companies don't try to cover the whole spectrum:

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/notices/international.jsp

So, you can have a "Widgets" trademark for class 9 (Electrical and scientific apparatus), and another company can own the "Widgets" trademark for class 29 (Toys and sporting goods).

Some companies do register their trademark across the whole spectrum, like Coca-Cola, and probably Nike too.

Note that pharmaceuticals are a whole different story, as there are so many of them that you can have similar-sounding ones as long as they do something very different.
Am I the only one who was expecting "Female bloggers who won't sleep with you" to be one of the categories?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571874

Always pleasantly surprised that although HN lives in the internet, it is not of the internet.
you forgot a BOOYAH!! at the end of that
He definitely has an axe to grind, and the first Google result casts some doubt on the 90% figure: http://journal.webscience.org/138/

But his larger point remains intact: Freedom of the press/Internet is only an axiomatic good in educated America and Europe. It's on shaky ground in the rest of the world, which in a democratic referendum would make the educated population of America and Europe a rounding error.
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We'll publish some in the days&weeks to come. There are also a few additional details at http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2011/05/23...
> Also, the language just looks kind of crowded.

Would you care to elaborate? Feedback is my second name :) (well, feedback@opalang.org is my second e-mail address).
...and if you really want to play with it:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8634

Also, searching for "magentic card writer" on ebay returns quite a few models.

http://stores.ebay.com/Mini-MagReader?_trksid=p4340.l2563

Take a look at the handheld readers. It will make you never want to let your credit card out of your sight again.
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Interesting. I wrote http://snipt.net not long ago, but have had no such luck with AdSense (only made about $30/mo on 30k monthly uniques). Would you mind sharing your traffic that got you up to $1k/month?
I made a python program to check every possible combination. It should run for 1 more hour and then should spit "no solution found".

Is there any smarter way to do it (in software) without brute forcing?
This is an interesting thought, but it doesn't seem like the best way to go about this. If it were phrased more like, "what's the best way to get Google's attention", then it would have some noticeable utility to someone other than yourself, and be worth discussing on a community-based site.

As a real answer to your question, you should probably find the email of a recruiter for the region and contact them. Do you have friends who work at Google? Get them to send a message to a recruiter recommending you. After that, with a lot of luck (because we've all discussed the problems with Google's hiring process) and determination, you'll end up with a job.
Of course, chrome-style versioning doesn't necessarily mean Chrome features. As I recall, at some point plans for Firefox just had way too many features and goals, so in draft at least they got split into 4 separate (and relatively rapid) releases. Is that correct? That sounds like necessity-driven decision making, rather than imitation-driven.
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You seem to be a a lot further along than me ;-)
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So perhaps:

"Lean software says features are inventory and carrying inventory costs money, but perhaps code itself should be considered inventory instead."
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They compare their results to hq4x, and arguably come out ahead.

Has the same algorithm been proposed before? (I take it that it hasn't. So it is indeed new ...)
Microsoft is a for-profit business, so we'd expect them to constantly be working on stuff like this. The mere possibility of derivative products is not news! There aren't enough specifics to even call this an article. This is mere marketing, and we shouldn't be helping Microsoft to do it.
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Be crazy. Just go at their front door saying:

"Hey, googlerz! Hit me up with a job. I already SQL-injected my CV in your main AdWords database. Come on, I won't be a xoogler, cross my heart!"

* Disclaimer: Concepts are language should be taken as a pamflet.
Considering that not all those eligible to vote, do vote, the numbers may be much lower, or perhaps higher.
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VPN technology is based on the idea of tunneling that involves establishing and maintaining logical network connection.

With this connection, packets constructed in a specific VPN protocol format are encapsulated within some other base or carrier protocol, then transmitted between a VPN client and server, and finally de-encapsulated on the receiving side.

No one can tell your real IP address or identify your locality.
All the programs installed on your computer will be working automatically via VPN, which is the main difference between VPN and proxy server, requiring software support for proxy connection.
> This is why as a cross-border cultural achievement, WIKIPEDIA deserves recognition and protection as UNESCO’s first digital World Cultural Heritage Site.

What, pray tell, is the point of any of this?

I get 'UNESCO' for, say, nice places that deserve recognition and protection, but... a web site? Are they going to cough up cash? Whose cash?
I've recently taken up hobby blacksmithing (focusing on blades). The skills required were completely alien to me at first.

At this point, I can hardly make nails. But stretching myself in such a dramatic way has really fueled my creativity, even when it comes to developing software.

No matter how much I struggle, I know that in 20 years of systematically pounding away on evenings and weekends, I'll have enough skill to make some good stuff. I'm confident that I can become a ABS Journeyman, and perhaps a Master if I live long enough.
Three cheers for Alan Bond's dogged determination to get this to reality and for pursuing private backing rather than the vested interests in the corporate sector or government. Perhaps this time the UK can innovate and reap the rewards too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bond_(rocket_developer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_(missile)
This looks really handy for testing and debugging complete systems. I've always thought VMWare was a bit overkill for this, and have never found anything else that made me want to switch. This is easy enough so as to make it trivial. Although, I will have to check to see if you can fire it up from the command line to use in the development process, ironically enough.
And that person would be despicable as well, thus it is a false dichotomy for anyone to assert that because the game is worth hating, those who choose to play a hated game are exempt from scorn.
Frankly, this is overly pompous.

Yes, Wikipedia is a remarkable feat, but let's take a deep breath before we elevate it to the same status as the Great Wall of China, Notre Dame, Taj Mahal and Angkor Vat.

And think the idea through: If Wikipedia can get on, is there any reason, what so ever, that Facebook can't? And hasn't the world heritage list lost all meaning by then?
The answer to this problem is not zero.

To the best of my knowledge all of the smarter ways to do it are just smarter ways to brute force it.
What would be different if Wikipedia was a digital World Heritage Site?

And Wikipedia's been going ten years: that's not a lot of heritage.
On OS X, there's possibly the best PDF viewer ever, in Preview. I'm curious why you'd want so strongly to avoid using it?
I read somewhere that $900mm of the offered shares were from insiders, thus Yandex is only raising ~$400mm.
And while we are at it, why don't we put the http protocol on the list as well?

This is insane.
That sounds like a large-scale version of what happens every summer weekend in New England as Boston and its suburbs head to the cape.
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Will UNESCO stop the rampant deletionism if Wikipedia becomes a World Heritage Site?
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You're a programmer. In discussions about programming--even an unfamiliar language--you are not a "Lay Person."

I hope you can see the flaw in your analogy here. The CLANG article didn't include a sentence at the top telling you what a compiler is, what a pointer is, etc. You knew because you were part of the target audeience: people with programming knowledge.

The Seeking Alpha article target audience was: People who are active investors and interested/knowledgeable wrt finance.

Normally I wouldn't waste my time with comments like this but you said it's the worst submission to HN all year! And in reality, it's a very informative article that just happened to be using jargon you're unfamiliar with.
I agree to an extent. I've heard a lot of VC's that I really enjoyed, I love hearing their opinions on which sectors are heating up and where the future of technology as a business lies.

That said, VC speakers, especially on panels, seem to devolve into a discussion of the VC industry. Whether it's "frothy", deal term trends, etc, etc. The stuff that is relatively easy to look up but doesn't have a whole ton of bearing on a real business. ("Real" in the sense that you'd do it anyway regardless of how/when/if funding happens.)
That is copyright infringement, and would not constitute fair use.

Around ycnews it is often said to not worry about that. No one will sue you until you get big, and then you can negotiate. I have no opinion on that advice.

Studios are unlikely to license you big name movies and TV shows.

Can you contact independent filmmakers instead? They may be giving their work away for free already. You could create a market for it. Your customers pay to use your service, and then you give a cut to the filmmaker. Filmmaker makes money where he wouldn't have before, and also gets greater exposure for his work.
The "Skylon" name makes me very nervous for some reason :)
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I completely disagree. Wikipedia is, to my mind at least, much "grander" than any of the other things you mentioned. It is literally the largest collection of human knowledge ever assembled. And it was done by combining the work of millions of contributors. In impact it is more important than any of the things you mentioned, and in construction, it involved far more work.
GP must have assumed that people who've procreated have enough social awareness to know that if they really want their daughter to date nerds, they have to forbid her from even hanging out with that kind of guy--you never know when they're going to hack a bank, or make some kind of dangerous robot with lasers and rocket engines on it.
Most of the things you mentioned were a vast, designed effort by a society to build something grand and longlasting. Yet one isn't; instead, it's a commercially-minded platform for ephemeral individuals to waste time and stay very loosely in touch with a very large number of people. It's not a project being built. And, to throw my personal opinion into the mix, it's not even close to edifying civilisation like any of the others.
The fact that all content is donated to the public is a big divide between Wikipedia and Facebook, as is its fundamental mission. Or is Notre Dame just an old building?
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If you like TaskPaper then you should give NotationalVelocity a shot.

TP was still trying to do too much for me. I.e. copy/paste would inevitably mess up the structure, and wait, why am I supposed to babysit that structure in first place? And what's up with the awkward fulltext search collapsing projects by default when matching them?

NV doesn't need any structure. It burns into your muscle memory and then just disappears. I can't praise it highly enough.
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That may have been more than 750 million years ago.
I don't think it really counts as an "upgrade" if you opt-in to a beta.
Even in a bulk deal, the term of the license would undoubtedly be the full remaining term and the license would be irrevocable. Thus, I would doubt that Lodsys is staking its claims against the app developers on any such ground.

If I were to speculate, the likely issue is whether the licensing for Apple's products (iPad, iPhone, iPad) effectively covers the downstream development of software intended to run on those devices. Lodsys would be arguing that the license does not extend to what the app developers do; Apple is saying in this letter it does and that Lodsys is misusing its patents if it claims otherwise (such misuse, if legally tenable, constituting grounds to invalidate the patents).

As to clawback, that would be highly unusual and would almost certainly not be in a license of this type made to major players.
"...they finally assembled the pieces to create an incredible, epic and cohesive gameplay experience."

Most game manufacturers don't tout cohesive as a feature... it's supposed to be a given. I hope I'm wrong, but given what I know about the development of DNF, I can't help but suspect that the reason they are mentioning it so loudly is because it isn't.
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There's millions of man-hours of heritage. I don't have data to back me up, but I'd wager more time and effort has been spent in building Wikipedia than in any World Heritage, maybe more than all of them combined.
But I don't really know what difference would it make if it became a World Heritage.
"Who care's if Mozilla has more extensions? They cause too much trouble when you upgrade."

Exactly. I switched to Chrome because of this and Chrome's better (less buggy!) Sync features.
The biggest one is (was?) the use of GNU variable length arrays. The GNU extension has different syntax than C99's variable length arrays. There are also instances of __attributes__ on platform specific code.
How long does Apple's app review process take?
This doesn't come as a surprise. I knew this was coming the first time I logged onto the network in 1995 and was blown away by the fact that there where no enforced rules to contend with.

Halcyon days to be sure. Pre-spam, largely pre-ecommerce and you'd have to hunt to find an ad. Even when you did, it was kinda cool. Novel, like.

16 entirely too short years later the many too many (as Nietzsche would say) are fully entrenched on the network, bringing with them all of the social ills that are the hallmarks of their culture, a world I willfully turned my back on 16 years ago in favor of a dwelling place of the mind, inhabited by kindred spirits, which is not to say the likeminded.

No, this comes as no surprise, I just miss the network I grew up with.
My 2 cents on this is that the decision for something to be considered a worldwide heritage cannot be taken in such haste. Time averages and moderates the opinion. Sure Wikipedia is a nice achievement. But its merits, benefits and importance would have to stand the test of time. Perhaps our future generations can take such a decision, but for Wikipedia to propose that right now, is 'overly pompous' as someone commented.

EDIT: Downvoted for this! It stands to reason that a true measure of greatness comes with time. This is the reason that the 'pontification' process has these checks of time. To let reason and proper debate hold sway over other considerations.
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So it's a single Oracle DB ? No RAC ?
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but have you considered how you would disprove the alternate possibility that the "easily-persuaded majority" is a bogeyman conjured up by the media to explain why the candidate that everyone you know voted for wasn't elected?
>switching to a date-based version system would be the wrong move

It already is, its just done with a "2.6." prefix.
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I remember playing Duke Nukem on my N64 when I was only 8/9 years old. I'm not a big gamer but it was one of the most fun games I ever played. I can't wait to get this. I'll be installing Windows 7 on my Mac just to play it.

Hopefully it's been worth the wait!
I prefer opening a PDF in a tab until I've had a chance to see if it's something I want to keep. With download-and-open-in-Preview I'm filling up my Downloaded Files folder with a lot of PDFs that I don't want to keep, and I'll have to delete them manually.
Liberation/spreading democracy :)
is this once instance where they finally switch from "aiming for perfect" to "done is better than perfect"?
did they use any code from 3D realms in the end?
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It can be huge depending on your target market and the psychological nature associated with the product. Look at a pricing study it's quite amazing how much a few cents can make a difference. I always do psychological testing (a form of A/B testing) to determine the optimal price.
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worked great for me. awesome!
i've been wanting to learn Processing so i could create public apps like this that do fun things to photos.. has anyone done that?
My wife is gonna love the jumping cockroaches.
Despite working largely in the games industry I don't generally get excited by new game releases - other than Portal 2 which I massively enjoyed, I haven't really played any single player games in the last 6+ years.

But DNF does look like it's going to be really good, and I'm actually looking forward to play through it. The 2k (publishers) guys were at Gadget Show Live (a 100,000+ consumer event in the UK that I'm involved with), and spent quite a bit of time talking about the game there, as well as trying out the demo. (They claim that a colleague of mine and I were the first people not related to the developement to play it in the UK, which I'm slightly proud of).

It's obvious the amount of passion that's gone into the game, and it's obvious how hard they've tried not to let down the fans who have been waiting for so long. And, most importantly, it's obvious that they weren't afraid of making a FUN fps title, not a game that does it's best to make you think you're in a real-life situation.

Really hope it's as commercially successful as it deserves to be, and as I think it will be.

edit: To give an idea of how it will live up to people's hopes, here is a picture of Paul (my colleague mentioned above) http://lockerz.com/s/91561838 playing the game. He's 39 and doesn't have a huge amount of time for playing games now days. He was at E3 in 1999 (was it 98?) when they first demo'd DNF, and has been waiting since then - when I told him he could play it at Gadget Show Live, he was like a kid on Christmas morning. And he absolutely loved it, was blown away by how much fun it was. (Side note, if anyone reading this went to the event, you might recognise Paul as being the presenter from the main stage in the Game Zone hall =].)
That's one thing I do miss, although using a bigger piece of paper makes the need to rearrange less frequent. I generally make notes like this only for transitory stuff, if I am sticking with paper notes for a big system then different bits will be on different pieces of paper, which allows easy rearranging.
It would have been another 3 years in the making if they hadn't.
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Censorship, racism, systematic discrimination based on sexual orientation or religion come to mind.

...and for some reason, property rights and freedom of contract are always forgotten. But for a prosperous society, these are every bit as important.