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Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems.

Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly.
For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;)

Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..
I would ask for confirmation that he even filed a patent before worrying about it (or just ignore it until you see a public patent application as asmithmd suggests). Otherwise, the cost of an email is a cheap way to eliminate competition (so long as you don't mind 'stretching' the truth).
Yeah. You can't write "THIS PAGE IS ALL LIES" on a webpage, but it's easy and helpful in a book.
I don't mean to be dense... but why would I want to order food on my phone? I'm reminded of Paul Graham's office hours video on TC. He asked one of the founders if his product solved the biggest problem in his life. I don't think there's a single person on Earth whose biggest problem in life is, "I have to tell the cashier what I want to eat before I can get fast food."
That would be the wrong metric. A sandwich shop could become profitable much faster than a Google, but I'd much rather invest in the next Google.
I have a CR-48, I did get the invite. I'm not getting it because they only have the white, I'd prefer the black. I'll wait and get it in Best Buy.
I've read and found from personal experience that you sleep much better if you avoid doing anything in front of a screen for an hour or two before going to bed.
No problem. I doubt there is anything app-server specific to the Celadon Cedar stack. Maybe the Bambidious Bamboo stacks there is Thin-specific configuration. But Cedar is meant to run anything you want through the Procfile, you could also use Mongrel or Rainbows or maybe even Passenger. But Unicorn gets my preference as of late! Amazing app server.
This article is much more about the evilness of patent trolls than about software patents.

My thoughts:

- Prevent the existence of trolls (for example by mandating that only patents that are central to your own business can be enforced).

- Raise the bar for the acceptability of software patents.

- Reduce the lifetime of software patents to something more in line with the software industry (a few years maybe).

But by all means, preserve software patents, they do have some value if used as they were designed for (protect companies that invest into R&D).
Wait. It could affect his kids. His civil liberties are at risk, and this involves a fear that he, who supports his children, could get in trouble: putting the dependents at risk.

Furthermore, in more than one sense, Bin Laden has won a victory here. He's inflamed Americans against middle easterners, his goal, and he's gotten lucky enough to have government protocols that protract the inflammation.

It isn't fair to call what can be a writer's honest feelings emotional appeals. They may be appeals to emotion, but you're trying to claim that the author was somehow dishonest in your context.
LibreOffice is such a bad name, hopefully if they merge back to OpenOffice and drop the stupid .org from their name. Is it the name of the project or their website? nobody knows!
There are some expenses you can't live without like food, rent, clothes etc. Holding cash in a deflationary (and non fractional-reserve) currency may be the equivalent of a savings account in a bank.

But hey, if people really did decide to lead frugal lives in order to save money, capital would expand faster in areas more essential to human existence. Consider it as a shift toward long-term goals rather than short-term gratification. Of course, the longer the timeframe, the harder it is to predict future demand, so there is a limit to how future-oriented people can get.
If you want legal advice, I suggest getting a consultation from a patent lawyer. They can help you determine how best to protect yourself better than any online forum, even one as smart as HN.

Too many things depend on your specific circumstances for generalized advice to be helpful.
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I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking the code that runs their forum is vastly different from the code that runs their business.
It was like "I am the CEO of blah, we just filed a patent..." stuff like that.

I should have realized this sooner, that if it was indeed a real challenge from someone with actual meaning they would have come with lawyers, and not some guy claiming to be a CEO of somewhere.

Guess I got the jitters too quickly. I feel better now though :)
So in this case, you're not talking about making the software easier to use, you're talking about about making a cleaner legal audit trail. Which I'll still argue makes the application in question harder to use and is a worse software choice.

But a worse interface that makes the software easier to code is one thing; a worse interface that makes the software more easily comply with the law is an entirely different trade-off.
This is something I feel like people are discounting.

+1 won't displace Liking as a _social network feature_, but it will be very interesting to see how it plays out as a _social search feature_, which is why I'm looking for how best to implement it on my own sites.

Wouldn't you be more inclined to choose a result on Google if people you know/trust +1'd it?
Actually, I think there is great risk. Money laundering is key to the operations of terror networks and protecting those who finance them - services rendered like web design can be a conduit for large money where no physical asset needs to change hands. It would not be out of the ordinary for a company to pay tens of thousands and even up to a hundred thousand for a site design.

I have done work in money laundering detection systems and I can tell you the means and lengths bad people will go to conceal and protect financial sources is mind boggling and it is quite often an excellent lead in finding said bad people, as they say - follow the money.

BUT - all that said I do hate most parts of the patriot act.
Operational innovations at Taco Bell rival those at any factory in the world
Smoking Guns is my favorite, it feels like a Clint Eastwood Western:

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I believe snopes had the final word on this

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

This change, sadly, needs to come from industry, with big $ behind it.
"As I write this, all in all I have received: 266 emails and 96 voicemails. This roughly equates to 12.7 emails and 4.3 voicemails per workday."

I just went through this myself and it was nuts. The phone rang from 8 am - 6 pm almost every 30 minutes for a week when I updated my resume on monster. My skills are back-end Ruby and SQL, both seemed to be high in demand in Chicago last month. I didn't capture detailed notes like you, but I wish I had.

"For the first week, I actually answered all incoming calls, but this eventually became unmanageable. I used the opportunity to hear them out and also sometimes give them a reverse pitch on GroupTalent for feedback."

Ha! I did the same pitching my start-up Vouched ( http://getvouched.com ) and doing impromptu Lean Startup style customer interviews. There is quite a range of talent and process in the recruitment industry. Some are real professionals, others are just playing on volume. I spoke to one recruiter who makes around 70 calls a day to get 3 possible candidates. The reasonable ones called 20 people at most and actually tried to develop relationships instead of dialing for dollars.

It's an interesting space, or as Charlie O'Donnell put it... a bad neighborhood. http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2011/3/21/five-reason...

Best of luck to you.
Your comment made me realize that computers have long exhibited this property. It was always nerve racking buying a computer because you could get one twice as fast in 18 months so people were hesitant to buy. This always appears to be true of almost all new developing technologies. In fact, all of the fastest growing industries I can think of exhibit this property.
I'm starting to think that the ransom model is the wave of the future for self-publishing. If it can work for small-time written works publicized online like role-playing games, what about other kinds of books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system

Think of it- if publishers won't agree, bypass them and drum up support by getting enough pledgers to prove them wrong. Then self-publish and have the last laugh.
Interesting article but the grammar and the typos... ouch. Especially when he's trying to use some uncommon words.
Tampa only has stationary taco busses, except the food truck on MacDill AFB, but Seattle has had the mobile variety for years.
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Awesome, thanks for the great response! Do you happen to know what model your buddy's laptop is?
Britain had the naval and air power to hold off Germany. Russia had sprawling territory and the winter; Britain had the English Channel. Germany would have been better served to win the North Africa campaign; that might have actually left Germany with a defensible position.

On the other hand, the entire purpose of the Nazi regime was to conquer eastern Europe, enslave or exterminate its population, and resettle Germans there. Victory required a successful invasion of Russia.
People use emotional appeals because they work. What's worse, those who oppose your ideas are frequently using emotional appeals of their own, creating a sort of communications arms race, where you have employ a little fiery rhetoric or a few logical fallacies just to get anyone to listen to you at all.

Granted, this is the internet, and we can theoretically hold each other to a higher standard of discourse. Just wanted to play a little devil's advocate.
added to my Enterprise hosts file: (for workers)

127.0.0.1 www.co2stats.com
127.0.0.1 apis.google.com
127.0.0.1 l.sharethis.com
127.0.0.1 w.sharethis.com
127.0.0.1 wd.sharethis.com
127.0.0.1 plusone.google.com
127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 seg.sharethis.com

any others I am missing? need to make sure this garbage is kept off of business workstations and the network
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Non-Tech Founder here . . .

I'm an Ivy MBA (yippee), and I'm working with a Natural Language Processing PhD and another guy who will be starting his PhD in NLP in September. However, neither can serve as a full-time Co-Founder . . . gotta find that person.

The business plan (yeah, the MBA actually wrote a whole one) has been vetted by some iconic folks in the industry, and proof-of-concept should be done by the end of the summer thanks to the brilliant NLP folks and some amazing designers.

So what are we doing? Basically, the hypothesis is that there is a fundamental misalignment between the way that people intuitively think about engaging with information online and the tools we use to engage with information online . . . we think in terms of our interests, yet the existing tools/services are structured by function. We're going to realign that.

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Cheers!
I don't think The Melt is doing this right, but it could be useful. Let's say you ordered it from an app that sends the restaurant your GPS coordinates at the time of the order. It then continues to send your coordinates as you travel to the restaurant.

On their end their software computes an estimated arrival time allowing them to precisely time cooking to be fresh and ready for you to eat when you arrive.
I found it to be quite useless to talk about the philosophy of mind to people on the internet. Either its a circle jerk because you already have the same oppinions, or you waste time talking about different things while calling each other retarded.
Adding another manufacturer to the ecosystem will probably make WebOS more attractive to "power users".
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This investment strategy probably doesn't have a ton of capacity though. I could make a thousandfold annualized return on a dollar by reselling snacks outside my apartment for ten days.
It'd probably be easier to build a BTC-related website, let it grow a bit, then empty the wallets of everyone visiting it. It'd probably also be easier to compromise an existing site and throw your code/exploit up. I wouldn't try building a worm, that's for sure.
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Why is it not doing what you expect it to do? When content on a page changes, an entry should be added to the history.
the current and prior major release of Chrome...

Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history
It turns out this happened a year ago and the proposed fix I mentioned has already been implemented:

"Since this post a year ago, this feature has been implemented as keypools=100. Personally, I think it is a bad idea and does not address the problem, only pushes it off to the 101st address. At that point, users will come to expect certain backup behavior and then one day (presumably when they have more 'real' rather than 'play' money) it doesn't work as expected.

Unless the pool is recycled (change is returned to a random or cycle of addresses) then this is far more dangerous.

I propose, instead, what is expected. The change should be returned to the same address that the BitCoins were sent from.

I understand this decreases deniability/anonymity. But if someone really is paranoid, they should really be laundering money through multiple addresses in random amounts at random intervals. Sending change to a new address is just an obvious 'paper trail' considering all transactions are public, it doesn't take genius investigator to follow the money."
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My wife's netbook is starting to get a bit flaky (power cord issues) and if we decide to retire it permanently to a desk for the kids to watch movies with and buy her a new one I would definitely consider a Chromebook, but only if they get the Netflix plugin I've been hearing about working. My wife does three things with her current Win7 netbook, she reads her email, browses the web, and watches Netflix.

I received the invitations you speak of, and I was also one of the pilot CR-48 users. Pretty cool tech overall.
You know... that sounds doable.

Quadcopter are very fast and can go very far before they lose power. And a single sandwich is not a very heavy load.

If you are outdoors and can give it your GPS coordinates, a single restaurant/quadcopter port, could serve a very large area.
Would there be any value in a large collection of prior art software, designs, "look and feels", etc? The idea being that since we feel that many software patents are trivial, why not actually implement the ideas and thus provide a line of defense against silly, trivial patents.

Very novel, complex software that might be worth a patent would be very unlikely to turn up in such a collection because of the effort required. Ideally, this would help create an ecosystem where patent-worthy software is awarded a patent, and trivial software is not (because of prior art).

This is an idea I've thought about for a long time. One could argue that much of this idea might already be implemented by websites like sourceforge, github, etc. A focus on explicitly being prior art would probably help, however, justifying the need for a separate archive of ideas.
That makes a lot more sense. I still don't think I'd use it ("fast food isn't fast enough" is not a complaint I've ever made), but at least I can understand why someone would.
No, basically because I have a Xoom and don't use the CR-48 as much as I did before it.
I would consider it more seriously had I not made that purchase.
And would you consider investing in a company that was working on a digital currency related product?
Patenting software is like patenting music.

Oh god, please don't give them ideas...
No? Not even a little? Just to be clear - I mean the part that replaced nginx + Varnish combo (HTTP routing), not the deployment stuff.

In any case, I guess you won't / can't say what you're using instead of those two? ;)
Nobody gives much credibility to Elop's strategy of reviving Nokia's smartphone business with WP7.

That didn't exactly help to stop the sinking ship.

We can't blame Elop for the years of suicide of Nokia - is is a consequence, not a cause - but we can blame him for blowing a hole on the hull in a lunatic attempt to make the ship float.
Well, it still has to be a good sandwich shop to succeed, and I'd rather invest in a successful sandwich shop than one which will flop. So I'm just curious to know the overall track record of success had by YC funded companies - from a perspective other than 'got more funding' or 'is valued at X'.
They've got to be versatile if they can have a hope to at least challenge Windows Phone, much less dethrone Android/iOS. I also suggest they sell any device that they themselves make under the Palm brand. Go back to your roots!
There're potential privacy implications to using your call logs to build an implicit social graph. People have an expectation that their phone call records will remain private; look at all the trouble the NSA got into when they started spying on them. There's no such expectation when you explicitly give your relationship data to a third-party website.

Not to say it won't happen, but a bunch of things need to be worked out on the legal/ethical/cultural side of things before this is practical. As PG always says, social changes take longer than technical changes.
Order a Samsung Chromebook today if you get an invite from Google
Honestly, it seems like they're just pragmatically dumping projects they don't want or can't make a profit off of.
>If it were 100%, I'd worry we were being too conservative in
>who we funded."

Note to self: if you're succeeding in everything you're doing, you're probably failing to attempt awesome things in which you could succeed.
Obvious sickening propaganda for closing down the Internet!
You still have to respect opt out, even if it's the default.
Depends. Do you have a cofounder? Are you aged between 20 and 25? Are you a technical founder who actually understands how to make a grilled cheese on your own, or are you just expecting to hire a grilled cheese expert?

edit: Actually I think the ideal would be two technical founders with complementary skills. One knows how to make a grilled cheese, and the other one knows how to drive.
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Enterprises like to centralize everything then they get trapped into the trap that they set for themselves. Nature and people are decentralized, technology should be the same. Imagine if there was only one tree responsible for the oxygen on Earth. Let people manage their own desktop environments already!
Isn't that kludgy? I mean, using a keyboard controller (in effect, a second computer) to reset the one you can't?
Not absolutely sure, but I think it was something along the lines of a Toshiba m200.
Back of napkin math:

Funding of $25,000 per startup (funding plus costs) x 210 = $5,250,000 in funding costs. To factor other costs and be conservative, double that to $10.5 million.

YC usually takes 6% equity. Assume that's diluted in half, conservatively again, to get 3%.

Total current valuation of 4.7 billion: $4,700,000,000 * .03 = $141,000,000

So... using all conservative numbers, YC's return has been .... $141,000,000 / $10,500,000 = 13.4

Whoa... did I do that math right?

A return of 1340%

That's... pretty astounding. Talk about a win/win/win situation for everyone involved... if the order of magnitudes here are even close, well, massive congratulations to everyone involved. Wow. Wow.
Just Java by the same Peter van der Linden was also quite good humor-wise, although I haven't read it in years (it was released around the same time as the first JDK). It's significantly thicker, though, since it covers a broader range of topics like networking and GUIs.

The best of the humor is contained in sidebars dubbed "light relief"; I seem to remember a passage indicating the author was not invited to write a specification because the other authors "didn't want any light relief in it" or something to that effect.
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