skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is significantly harder. Consider a graph (as in, graph data structure) of IM users. Communicating between an AIM and an XMPP user is a single line, and even though the two nodes are on different services it's not that hard to make work. Almost by definition, both services have very similar semantics for what an IM is, and stuff like presence converged a while ago enough for interop.

Now, consider a conference. Let's say AIM_A and AIM_B wish to conference with XMPP_X and XMPP_Y. Now there's six entities; the four users I just mentioned, and the conference rooms that are supposed to be reflections of each other. Conference rooms actually have complicated protocols for creating and managing them, fundamentally. Hooking them up to each other is very non-trivial. What does it even mean at the protocol level for XMPP_X to try to kick AIM_A out of the conference? You need a lot of infrastructure to make this work, almost none of which exists because it requires both conferences to cooperate, or a lot of implementation by one side or the other to be able to directly connect to an entirely foreign network on a foreign protocol. None of which the proprietary networks are likely to do.

Without cooperation on both sides this is basically impossible.
I don't think they had the same deal. Maybe the trolls licensed patents to them for $1 in order to have big names in licensees.
In practical terms, you can fire someone for any reason, just so long as you list an acceptable reason on the paperwork.

Very true. In practice the law is about what you can prove, not what happened.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Diaspora bring on some more experienced, less risk-tolerant engineers in the near future. They have a grand vision, for which the "minimum" viable product is almost identical to the final version, and bringing more manpower to bear on the problem might not be a bad idea.
I should have been clearer.

Every American has the right to question whether or not a law is constitutional. However, without expertise in constitutional law and elections, it is speculative to make claims that senators were ousted because voters believed a law to be unconstitutional.
We worry about this in my library. I believe the ultimate problem is that the value of a librarian does not scale very well and incumbent librarians don't necessarily have the skills or life experiences to pull it off. From my experience, short of working with PhDs, very few librarians actually perform complex tasks. So you have highly skilled laborers answering mundane reference questions all day.

I predict most academic libraries will cease to exist and be replaced with large computer labs and study halls, with their electronic resources managed by IT departments and daily operations (circulation, interlibrary loan, copy cataloging) performed by work-study students and paraprofessionals.
No, there is a free (as in freedom) version of Qt:

"The KDE Free Qt Foundation is an organization with the purpose of securing the availability of the Qt toolkit for the development of Free Software and in particular for the development of KDE software. It was originally founded by Trolltech and the KDE e.V. in 1998. After Nokia bought Trolltech, statutes were updated accordingly."

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...
I owned and managed a small software development company for nearly 25 years. We produced many creative educational and consumer products for large publishers. We had neither time nor money to research every innovative routine we developed for possible infringement. Nor did we have money to apply for patents or defend them if they were granted.

As we've seen, software patents stifle creativity and innovation; reward those with money rather than creative energy and ideas.
We only use FB and Twitter for easy sign-up/sign-in. We'll be introducing posting to FB wall / tweeting workouts/achievements soon, but that will be totally optional. We'll never post to your social network accounts without your explicit permission.

Email addresses are a concern as well, of course. We won't email you unless you authorize us to do so in your account settings.
This intrigues me, because fundamentally I see software as a form of mathematics. Given that mathematical equations aren't patentable, I don't believe that software should be either. Moreover, it seems that we already have many things in software preventing people from copying code wholesale (SaaS, the fundamental difficulty in reverse engineering compiled binaries). As a professional cryptographer/mathematician, how do you feel about the relation between mathematics and software?
I second this. Steve at Nerdfitness.com runs a great blog and community, you should definitely attempt to connect with him.
Depends on the area. Many banks act as middlemen for OTC trades that could and should be on an exchange. They purposely scuttle public exchanges because it would eliminate their lucrative fees.
There is a confusing formatting mistake at the end of this article. The Super-hero bit is a preview from another article (see the from the archive block towards the bottom). I guess the article's end break is missing.

I find it funny this was confused with off-beat writing style of VF.
Of course I know, that's why I read the code for. Understanding the code base is my job. Using print statements to exclude factors which could contribute to the problem is not different from using a debugger to do the same.

If you debug without knowing what you're debugging and just looking for getting it running, it sounds like you're the one doing the shotgun-programming/debugging, separate debugger or not.
Actually it's an example taken from here:

http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/apache/axis2/axis2-k...

But i don't know whats less performant, your reimplementation with regexes or the clojure sample.
I heard it too many times...

"The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse on old Nokia mobile phones) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. [...]

The tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times per day, about 20,000 times per second."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune
Same thing happened, but it still connected. I just had to refresh creating my profile.
I think it's a slippery slope to assume that just because someone is involved in a community that they are necessarily a good employee, and conversely, if they don't involve themselves, that somehow deems them "not passionate enough" or not as talented.

Just anecdotally, I have a friend who has a wife and two kids. He's not going to spend all his free time forking on Github. He does take on side projects, and is a very talented developer. Sometimes peoples' priorities are simply different, but it's hardly a reliable metric to look at. And I say this as someone who does see himself as an involved member of the community.
Yes but I think they should have an active use clause.

If you are not actively using what is patented the patent should expire much faster.

On the order of months.

This would discourage people from patenting things they only wish to use to sue others with or purchasing such.

Also if you just wanted to attack trolls directly the active use clause would only kick in after purchase.
it's the default message from cpanel which makes it look like you use some very bad hosting :)
Either you're trolling, or you're unaware that there were close to 500,000 patent applications filed in 2009 alone[1]. Let's say you have 500 able critics; that puts us at 1,000 patents to review per officer per year. Let's assume any given officer can review an application within one week with reasonable efficacy; it'll take ~20 years to review one year's worth of applications (1000 / 50; I excluded two weeks for vacation).

[1]http://www.inventionstatistics.com/Number_of_Patent_Applicat...
Your sign up process uses a few things from here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517296
that I really liked. I love being able to see a password I've typed in only once.
Just FYI, you have to add it to your cart to see the discount.
All of my friends and coworkers use Google Talk. I don't even have MSN! (and I barely use Skype, since my desktop computer doesn't have webcam nor microphone). In the end, I use the videochat feature on GMail, because it actually works pretty well.

I guess it all depends of the people around you.
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That's stretching it a bit. Just because more than one person hits upon something doesn't mean it's obvious; and as we know, it's much easier to understand a working instance of something than to discover/invent it.

So we need something to get around the problem of 'see new thing - figure it out - declare it obvious - sue to overturn patent'. Maybe the proposed first-to-file requirement will help that by taking the patent office out of the history-investigation business and just acting as a recording service, letting the parties fight out their dispute in court; I hope so. But it's hard to come up with some catch-all definition of what constitutes 'obviousness' because that will always be open to both honest and mercenary dispute.
If only paypal was still that personal and inspiring today.

Every new client I introduce to paypal these days I have to give them a lecture that "paypal is not your friend, do not trust them" (ie. they are not a bank and not a credit card company and will not help you, they are there to protect only themselves).
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Yup, I was very surprised they are on this list. Hot startup missing: Peixe Urbano. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/06/brazils-peixe-urbano-takes-...
Logged in, watched the tour, feel left out in the cold now.

* Lots of quests/suggestions/activities require stuff I don't have. I somehow expected more easily available things (i.e. run/cycle/workouts without the need for gear)

* English's a foreign language to me. I can talk you to insanity if we're discussion nerd stuff, but reading most of the quests is gibberish without Google Translate. Add more graphics so that I don't have to guess that much.

For now this seems to be heavily focused on native English speakers that like dumbbells/weights and have a good understanding of the science of fitness. That is, not me.

Maybe I kind of expected the WoW style easy gratification at first.. ;-)
http://www.fitocracy.com/profile/xenowang
Can you tell us about iOS web software products,i mean names?

One big fish is better than many small fish,but you can focus on one and call someone else to help you on the others.
I would vote for: "Don't understand the issue well enough to judge."
Funny, others are downvoting the "snip" comments as they are - if I'd deleted them (thus leaving a weird, broken-looking conversation), they couldn't! Oh well.
Seriously? Do you have an article that talks about game consoles in a library?
Invest the European branch's cash in the EU instead of paying the taxes for taking it home to the US?

(Disclaimer: I don't work for an international tax avoidance consultancy)
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He brings up, but doesn't directly address an interesting question: How many angel investments do you need to make to start to bring the risk down?

I'm in a similar situation, I flirted with a couple of angel investments, but decided that an angel fund would expose me to 100 startups instead of the 3 to 5 that I would have the money and time to do individually.
While your site layout is very nice, it's seems like the theme is a bit distant from the subject matter, which you describe as an RPG for fitness.

I guess I was expecting less https://banksimple.com/ and more http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/
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Another: http://textmessageapi.com
I don't agree. And algorithm is not the same thing as an equation, and I don't think your argument would stand up in court. If it were that simple to overturn software patents it would have happened years ago.
A lot of people have related to Diaspora as if it's a startup, but it isn't. It's a free software project, and the rules and expectations are very different.
It will be interesting to if global inflation follows the usual pattern in bitcoin.
How about hitting up the Daily Burn API for workouts as well?
I use Daily Burn to track my calories and workouts as it collates them for me nicely and it would suck to have to enter everything twice. I know a lot of people who are already on workout tracking/fitness sites wouldn't move (to much hassle and history) but you could produce a nice add-on to their data.
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Add something like that to the signup process then. I doubt that I'm the only one that just didn't dare to hand out Twitter access to ~something unknown~. Especially with the social media abuse we've lately discussed in several posts on this board.

Something like 'We never post something without your consent but might allow you to share your achievement in the future' or a more eloquent version might have relaxed me enough to hit 'yes'..
The blog post that the author points to says NOTHING of what the author claims it does. If the author is not referring to that particular post - none of the recent posts touch on the topic.
Exactly. Rose by any name smells just as good.
Duly noted. As mentioned, I'm no creative/graphics designer but we're hoping to have somebody with those talents join the team down the line.
I don't know Clojure, but it certainly reads as a direct translation of the original implementation, which is about as fast as you could make it in Java.

The Regex version, while similarly terse would be massively slower.

I agree the example is a bit odd, but it does serve the purpose of comparing equivalent code, which I believe is the whole point.

It does do the job of showing that simple (and by inference (?) not so simple) algorithms can be more succinctly expressed in Clojure than in Java. (not that that is particularly difficult)
I'm just going to reverse this and make it highlight articles that are interesting rather than filtering out articles that aren't interesting.
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Do we really believe that the big consulting companies or banks don't know how to filter for the better candidates given how much their business depends purely on having the smartest people?

You'd be surprised. Many many firms code via the endless-chain-of-6-month-contracts method. Yeah, eventually the code goes to pieces and needs to be scrapped and rewritten, but that point can be years after the existing management has moved on.

Are Apple, Amazon and Google really just more lucky at hiring?

It could very well be the case. Nothing breeds success like success. The best and brightest apply to Apple, Amazon and Google because that's where all the other best-and-brightest folk are applying. If your company doesn't have that same level of name recognition amongst the programming community, you might have a lot of difficulty raising your applicant pool to the same level.
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Rainbow Ramsey's theorem shows that complete disorder is unavoidable as well. :)
Windows is much better at this than it used to be. XP used to have hassle if moving between single-CPU-single-core and anything else or vice-versa, or any change that altered ACPI support, but Vista/7 cope better with such changes. Getting XP to cope with a switch between SATA controllers is something of a black-art (or so I'm told, I've never needed to try) especially pre SP3. Moving between "specialist" controllers can still be "fun", but then again it would be for any OS.

Linux has traditionally been easier to cope with when a complete hardware change is seen by the OS, partly because most standard distros have kernels with every common controller type compiled as a loadable module, partly because it is easy to install the relevant modules before the change (if you have the relevant knowledge, of course) and because it is easier to make changes if it fails to boot post-change using a live CD of some sort - this greater resilience to core hardware changes is probably what the previous poster is alluding to, but for most (though still not quite as many) hardware configurations commonly seen on home machines and work desktops/laptops modern Windows variants survive the transition pretty well too.
We freely admit that there's a heavy skew toward weightlifting on the site at the moment, but we're focusing on adding more quests/achievements around cardio and other activities quite shortly.
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One of the founders interviewed in Founders at Work mentioned something about this... I believe it was Woz.

I'm working at the moment, so can't refer to the book; if anyone else has it handy, please supply said quote. :D
They're falling from the sky! Just noticed your submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2553379
Is that because you think the problem crops up so rarely, or because you think the problem is very minor in general? Do you think you would feel differently if you were sued for gazillions of dollars for violating a patent on, say, using computers to create games for use in schools?
As I said before, my only interaction with them is an email I sent them a while ago (more than a year ago), advising them to seize the opportunity to create a p2p framework for social applications to be built on top on, taking care of permissions, friendlists, authentication, etc under the hood to allow developers to build the fun stuff on top of that.

The response I got, six months later, was to the effect of a brief "thank you for your email, answers to some of your questions can be found in the FAQ".
Thanks for this! Been meaning to pick up the Coffeescript book anyway so this just makes a great deal out of it.
The problem with that hope is that it ignores how innovation happens. There is no reclusive mad scientist working in some dank basement on the next-best-great-thing. That's childish.
Innovation happens through collaboration. You take someone else's work and you build upon it. Bit by bit, people build the next-best-thing.

That's a very interesting point(s). Again, arguing from a devil's advocate POV. People who are generally against software patents commonly make the claim that it stifles the innovation of the single person, sitting in the their dank basement working on the next-best-great-thing (see other comments in this topic for examples, including a rather brilliant quote by Carmack).

In terms of collaboration, sure, patentable ideas/software often exist due to collaborative team efforts, just like patentable physical widgets like industrial egg fryers. But that team is generally paid for by one company and the patent is then assigned to that company.

There really appears to be a few major issues that I see with the present system:

1) Patents are transferable

2) Patents aren't researched enough against prior art before reward

3) Patent length is too long

4) Fighting bad patents is expensive and overly hard, even when armed with tons of prior art

5) Patents don't necessarily need an extant physical or implemented example to be granted.

6) Patents can be granted without the intention of implementation.

I think for real patent reform to work, these 6 points need to be addressed to keep the concept of patents (risk in exchange for exclusivity) a workable model:

1) Patents shouldn't be transferable -- this eliminates patent trolls

2) The Patent Office needs to be properly funded and given enough time to properly research patents before grant.

3) Patents (like copyright) needs to be shorter and dependent on the effort required to create the patent in the first place. For example, software patents should probably only survive 12-18 months. That gives the owner a risk/exclusivity that's long enough and if the idea proves valuable, opens it up for others to use (and improve the economy as a whole) within a reasonable time. In other words, this recognizes that risk doesn't just end at the grant of a patent. Actually doing something with the patent is important.

4) Appealing bad patents should be relatively simple and swift.

5) You should actually be able to demonstrate something that's patented.

6) If you don't use the patent in a business use-case, you lose it. A bit like Trademark.

Just some random ideas.
The Matt Daemon (see example usage at bottom)
Missing option: I keep MY software patents, abolish the rest.

Every time I've argued this with software engineers it turns out this is really what they think.
I don't know the differences but here is the Patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Even if the compensation is reasonable, I don't think its reasonable to ask the person to put their existing job on hold for three days while they fill out your glorified job application. The way I see it, you shouldn't ask the person to do anything you wouldn't be comfortable having them do while they work for you. As a manager, would you be comfortable with one of your employees taking three days off to work on a project for another company?
Thanks for the suggestions and your thoughts Sodaware :).
you mean http://www.fs-driver.org/ ?
ext3,ext4 are backwards compatible to ext2 (you lose journaling and some other nice features as you roll back).

When you revert to ext3/4 you usually end up having run a checkfs on boot though.
I checked bitcoin's site a little, and I don't quite understand how do you get bitcoins in the first place... or more important, how the global amount of bitcoin currency evolves.
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The original method serves its function correctly: it acts as cash. Nothing inherent in cash allows you to un-spend it if you didn't get what you paid for. (The legal system can force someone to give cash back, if you can track them down, but BitCoin intentionally makes that difficult or impossible depending on whether they take steps to preserve their anonymity.)

Escrow services exist in the real world, too, for much the same reason: holding party A's cash and party B's item until the escrow service has both, then giving party A the item and party B most of the cash, minus their fee.
Another FYI,
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(I'm for abolishing all software patents.)
The justification for patent protection is that is required to encourage innovation in the arts or some such.
In reality, innovation in software is happening in spite of patents. Consequently, there is no justification for for granting this harmful monopoly.
I got my current job by doing a 3 day consulting for my boss over the weekend. I took 1 day off work on a Friday and we worked on Saturday and Sunday too. At the end of the day on Sunday he made me a job offer (note: I was not looking for a FT job, I was about to leave my previous job because of an upcoming move and hoped I would be regularly consulting for him afterwards).3 days, if you think the investment can be worth it, is doable, 3 weeks...well, that's a whole different matter.
Funds are probably an issue. $200k may seem like a lot, but it isn't when you start hiring professionals.
I posted it because of Coffeescript in the first place :)
I still hope and wish someone working at AIM or AOL would let me know the email address associated with my AIM account for which I have forgotten the password some years ago. I've had too many accounts with too many ISP. The forgotten password procedure only works if you remember which email address is tied to the account, not if you have forgotten it too.

But now since anyone can connect to my gmail jabber address, I guess I'll keep doing without AIM and drop my stupid hope of getting in touch with a human being at AIM :-)