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I'm not a fan of sotware patents, but perhaps there's a halfway house towards getting rid of them:

Make software patents only holdable by a real person (i.e. not a corporation), and not transferable. Any money received from a patent infringement lawsuit would be paid to that named person.

That way, they can be used for their original purpose (to protect small inventors and allow them to build a larger business), but can't be collected by the trolls.

(It would also give companies an incentive to keep 'their' patent owners happy).

Just an idea... I'm sure there's a glaring hole in it somewhere.
Regarding #4: with Facebook, at least I know where my data is going. I put it on Facebook; obviously they'll have access to it. But I don't like the idea of taking that perfectly curated data (for me) and handing it over on a platter to someone else, whose policies I don't know.
SEEKING WORK - France - Available anywhere

Freelancer for about 2 years, specializes in Flex, Air, PHP Application/site development.
Main programming languages : AS3, MXML, PHP
Secondary programming languages : Javascript - Ajax, HTML, CSS
If you won't eat your own dogfood, at least taste it
Nope not good enough. Software patents are doing much more harm than the potential gain from protecting your company.
The links are to two different courses though -- the previous HN link is to CS598 and the High Scalability link is to CS525.
A lot of people heavily borrow from existing site's designs; however, it'll probably hurt your portfolio. If people realize that your designs aren't actually original they may not want to hire you or they may insist on reduced pricing.
SEEKING WORK - SE Asia (American currently living abroad) - Remote with possibility of on-site anywhere in the US starting in August.

Run personal Django websites for myself and friends, and am developing a complex sales/registration site in Django for a technical training company.

Experience with scientific programming in Python/C++ - notably in image processing.

Strong knowledge of Java (was a curriculum manager/developer and on-site trainer for Java for 2 years).

http://jasonkotenko.com
Clutter-discoverability trade-off
REMOTE (HQ-London, UK) - .NET Developer http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/jobs/

Will join to Netsparker (black-box web application security scanner) development team
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Somethng like this scares the hell out of me:

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/05/17/facebook-patent-pho...

Now I'm in Europe where this don't apply, but we actually had plans making our platform available in U.S. later on with something that has to do with tagging images - which itself is hardly any innovation (?!!)!. I mean, c'mon. We will now probably avoid that and look east instead. I'm still fascinated that they managed to get thorugh with this, almost like the 1-click-purchase that Amazon trying to paten. It's almost like a fairy tale - with no happy ending.
I thought it was Hogan.

Edit: found it attributed to Hogan, Palmer and Player with a quick Google search. Player's is the only one with any context - probably was him.
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I've basically locked down my Facebook to where no one can see any tagged photos of me. I don't fill out any of my interests/hobbies and I limit who I add as a friend.

Google has me by the balls though. I'm sure they know me better than any other person alive through my searches, email, and google reader subscriptions.

I don't like it, but I'm also not overly concerned since I'm not doing anything to get me into any sort of trouble.
Obvious counterexample: me@localhost. (Not that this is a useful counterexample in the context of a form submission.)
Can someone explain to me how someone would be paid a salary in bitcoins?
What is it about their policies that is unknowable? Every time you install a FB app, you get a link to the app's terms & conditions and privacy policy.
Toronto, Canada

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>I'm not sure how many times I have to say it:

How long until you get clued in that maybe the problem is not with the end users but with your UI?
Austin, Tx - Fulltime

Gowalla (http://gowalla.com) We're the best way to keep up with your friends and discover new places ^_^ Looking for iPhone and Android developers. Hit us up jobs@gowalla.com, and mention that Richard sent you.
If you REALLY need to validate en email address:

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

but again, only if you REALLY, REALLY , REALLY want to.
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I think it is very relevant. The letter of the law may support Lodsys, but the spirit (protecting and hence encouraging the development and dissemination of new methods) does not. Laws are made for the well-being of the society, at least theoretically. If the circumstances are so much different that this benefit became a burden, I think the law should be overturned or ignored. I don't know if it can be legally ignored though, e.g. by a judge.
San Francisco, CA / Tokyo, Japan / Barcelona, Spain

Midokura (http://midokura.com) - is building cloud enabling technologies, such as virtualized networking technologies.

We're in early stages, but we already have customers, funding, and we are expanding fast in three continents.

We're looking for low level system engineers with Java/C/C++/Python experience, as well as front end engineers.

Email: careers@midokura.com
If they do, they would be in violation of Facebook platform policy for app developers. Impossible to know if they do or not though.
I actually think that's not a bad idea! I want to read this book:

http://chronicle.com/article/In-Defense-of-Flogging/127208/
Your question assumes two things that I haven't said, implied and are simply untrue. I'm not sure if that's due to a misunderstanding on your part or a lack of clarity on my part.

First, it assumes that we want to be protected against "others independently developing a similar algorithm". Second, it assumes that I "believe that my company deserves to be protected" from such other people. We're not concerned about other people independently developing a similar algorithm as it's rather non-trivial and as I mentioned, it took an awful lot of effort to develop it. We're much more concerned about the very real problem that people (e.g. competitors) will use our research and work.

As for your second assumption, personally (and I'm not representing my employer here) I don't believe that we have the moral right to be protected from other people doing their research independently who reach the same results.

In lights of all this, I really don't know how to answer your question.
As an American living in the US all my life, I've never seen anyone casually toting around guns on the street anywhere, except on TV.

EDIT: I'm not denying that you saw that guy with the glock, but your last sentence makes it sound like it's a common occurrence in the States, and it really isn't.
Large German lobby organization supports ban on Bitcoins
Couldn't the same argument be made of any protocol? Not all browser implement HTTP in the same way, IPv6 isn't compatible with IPv4, but all agree to switch, HTML is governed by a central body but a lot of the influence comes from the community.
I'm having a hard time imagining how there could be a general way to introduce an inexpensive defense process. Do you suggest a public defender system? Would it be subsidized by additional patent application fees?

Additionally, keep in mind that road goes both ways. Suppose you devise something that is arguably worth a patent and suppose you later find one or many people infringing on your patent, far over the line of fair use. If legal defense is now cheap (dollars/time-wise), you may be stalled in the courts trying to legitimately defend your patent.

There is the approach of increasing punitive fines for unworthy suits or false claims. But patent law is messy. How do you prove the other party intentionally made false claims, wasting the courts time? Or what is an unworthy suit? Somewhat related to punitive enforcement measures, in one of our states a government official is automatically jailed for 1 or 2 nights if they close off an open-meeting no matter the reason. I personally think this is an appropriate punitive measure, but others may think it harsh.

I don't think either approach would work -- both would likely make the system worse. What we need are both a court system and patent office that are sufficiently staffed and have a minimum competence. (I don't mean to insult -- I say this in the context where an official is utterly out of their realm of expertise).
LA (Marina Del Rey), CA - http://www.smalldemons.com. We are a start up founded by Yahoo! and MySpace alums - looking for an awesome front end dev (full time position).

We’re still in stealth mode, but we are working on something pretty cool :). ~10 People at this point, so you may be getting in on the ground floor of what we hope will be a very interesting company to work for.

http://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Web-Developer/8bd43510/ or jobs@smalldemons.com (include HN in the subject for extra special consideration :). Feel free to contact me (nikita@smalldemons.com) if you have any questions.
Montreal, Quebec: Radialpoint is looking for a django developer http://bit.ly/m2lDey
New Delhi : App store search and discovery startup is looking for a marketing/bizdev manager http://iapps.in/jobs
I assume AirBnB have received many cease and desist letters from craigslist. Craigslist is just waiting for AirBnB to get bigger so they can get big chunk of money.
Are you going to make the code available? I love reading other people's sinatra code.
There's also the HN contractor doc: https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...
Someone who has bitcoins and employs you, then transfers an agreed number of bitcoins to you in recompense.

That seems obvious, so I'm sure I must have mis-understood, or not understood, your question.
The transaction can happen. I think the problem is in converting your bitcoins to USD or EUR since they are not used in real life.

A PayPal alternative for BitCoin (think CoinPal), will be a good start for non-geeks. However, the currency needs to have some stability so that people can trust it for their real money.
I'm not really sure what you mean. If company X allows customers to pay for goods/services with bitcoins then they would be able to pay the wages of their employees using the bitcoins.
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Many folks have said basically the same thing. Great sentiment tho!
The contractor (or employee) would negotiate the appropriate contract with the customer (or employer). Typically these days such contracts specify that all payments will be made in an instrument such as USD or EUR, but the contract could just as easily specify BTC.

Alternatively, the contract could specify that payments will be made in BTC, but the payment amount will depend on an exchange rate with some other instrument such as USD or EUR. In that case the customer is merely providing the exchange function as part of the contract.
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One advantage of a really long trial (say, six months) is that if your product/service has become useful to them at that point, it's unlikely they'll bail out. As the deadline approaches you can send them an email or on-site alert reminding them that they'll lose the time/data/learning/connections they've invested in. That kind of pitch doesn't hold water for a 14-day trial.
Immigration Reform - Immigration Direct
There are no sounds for immigration reform coming from the Federal government. The White House is quiet on the matter. The U.S. Congress does not want to deal with it. It appears that when re-elections are concerned, the talk of Immigration Reform disappears into the darkness.
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Isn't this really just similar to a freemium model? You get limited interaction forever and must upgrade to a paid plan if you get hooked and need more.
"Qrapping paper" sent my mind in the totally wrong direction.
This has also concerned me as well (and lots of others), and on Reddit we had some thoughtful discussion here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/hid2r/how_will_you_...

One of the best suggestions in there is simply to separate your checking and savings accounts so that a compromise of your spending money doesn't leave you without any coins.

There's also a link in there that says the upcoming clients will store the wallet locally encrypted and only decrypt in memory for transactions-- there are weaknesses to this (i.e. the bitcoin client trojan you mention), but it's better than what is done today to secure the file on disk.
You think that you are being so extreme that it is ridiculous.

Well, lawyers already went there: http://www.plotpatents.com/

"A Plot or Storyline Patent application seeks to patent the underlying novel and nonobvious storyline of a fictional story. Such protection is to be contrasted from the copyright protection of one of millions of possible expressions of an underlying storyline. The field of possible applications is broad, and may tentatively be split into an entertainment-advertisement dichotomy. The epitome of an entertainment application is an original, thought-provoking, often shockingly unique movie plot. Several potentially patentable features may have been found in the plots of, Memento, The Thirteenth Floor, Being John Malkovich, Butterfly Effect, The Game, Fight Club, The Matrix, Total Recall, The Truman Show, Minority Report, The Village, Groundhog Day, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to name a few. The epitome of an advertisement application is one of the many thoughtfully hilarious Super Bowl commercials."
Only if you won't do any business in US, ever.
Are we going to do a "Who is Hiring?" for remote positions this month?
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I imagine we would, simply because we can; we're a commercial entity after all. Personally (and I'm not representing my company here) I don't think that's a good thing; if they could prove that they independently reached the same results without using any of our research or work (or we couldn't prove the contrary), they should be protected. That's not the case though at the moment unfortunately.
Facial Recognition: The One Product Google Has -- And Is Holding Back
Just out of curiosity, what's the hardest data set in the world?
Grandparent already addressed this:

"If the patent system didn't guarantee us monopoly on using the fruits of our own R&D, this algorithm probably would not have been developed for a very long time, if ever, by anyone. It would have been innovation that never happened."

You may not agree with the conclusion, but it does address your question.
Totally not copyright. Copyright applies to software too, but patents are the one everyone cares about. The idea of patenting plots is a good one. In fact, it might even be legal _except_ that everything that can be done in a book has been done already. Software is such a young field these immodest trolls are able to exploit them.

So to clarify: Saying two different movies both of which has the "friend turns out to be bad" are copies is wrong; that's just not enough of a similarity to base a copyright case on. However, if you happen to find a way to patent it (which you probably could if there hasn't been prior art), you would be able to sue for patent infringement.
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Engineering:

Senior iOS Developer,
Senior Mobile Web Developer,
Android Developer,
Automation Testing Engineer,
Technical Writer,
Database Analyst Engineer,
Linux Systems Administrator

Product Operations:

Customer Experience Lead,
Senior User Experience Designer
SEEKING WORK (Designer) - Currently in London, frequently works remotely and can relocate for contract duration at reasonable notice.

Portfolio: http://zoltanray.com

I design interfaces and lead creative teams for websites and mobile apps. I've designed for some of the biggest companies in the world (HSBC, British Airways, Tesco) and numerous startups. Over 100 completed projects in the last 8 years.
QUESTION: If I was a guy that bought a second hand Mac, how can I make sure that I was not being watched? This issues a new privacy concern too.
This has always bugged me - the sense of entitlement people have when a free service experiences an outage. The people behind SearchYC are doing us a favor. They should be thanked, not reprimanded.

So, uh, thanks. I've used SearchYC many-a-times.
Pune, India - we are looking for guys/girls who are smart and get things done. (Please forgive the double post, didn't expect to see two separate who's hiring threads.)

2 weeks ago I quit my job in NY to work on my new startup, Styloot (name still a work in progress). Our goal is to build a search engine for fashion. We have a nice office in Model Colony. Currently we are 10 people (CEO, CTO, adviser, web designer, 6 content creators), with lots of work to be done and not enough of us to go around.

We have room for all sorts of people - our main focus right now is on design/user experience, web development and machine learning.

We care a lot about attitude - if you want to build your own startup someday, we probably want to talk to you. We care far less about grades, whether you went to IIT, or whether you've used django before.

Why you should work for us: you'll work very hard on difficult problems, you'll be a vastly better developer/designer when you are finished, and you might even become very rich.

Contact info is in my profile.
"In chess there’s a saying, “only the good players are lucky”. Whenever a good player wins a game, the angry opponent often says, “ahh, you were just lucky”. But it always seems the good player gets lucky more than the bad player." - http://blogs.wsj.com/financial-adviser/2011/04/18/how-i-help...
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AMD Shows Off Trinity APU based on Bulldozer, APU for Tablets
SEEKING WORK - Nomadically traveling the world (currently in .ca) - Remote only, availability up to 20h/wk

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* UI designer: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/9002

* System Administrator: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/8921
Additionally, to own copyright, you would actually have to _create_ a product/movie/etc. How any patent holder can sue without actually creating or using their own patent is beyond me.
Freemium is a Money Burning Business Model, Cheapium is Better
Alright, Fred. We all agree with you here, the people you need to convince are the ones writing the laws. You're a wealthy and powerful person, who is good friends with other wealthy and powerful people, so why not leverage that? Hire a lobbying firm, get actively involved in the cause.

Whatever you do, don't count on Reddit and Hacker News to do it for you, that's just slacktivism.
Creative uses of QR codes are cool, but I wonder if misapplication is going to hurt the concept.

I was at a major mall here in South Africa, and a chain store, Woolworths, had a large QR code stuck to its window. I use a low-end Blackberry (a typical phone around here), and I have a few different QR apps installed. Helpfully, the blurb under the QR code even recommended a reader.

Problem was, my camera/app combinations could not read the code. It was large, so I had to step away from the window to get the whole thing in focus. When I tried, people walked in front of me, blocking my view, and something (glare?) confused the readers. I gave up after a few minutes.

Would a better phone have made a difference? Probably. But my phone is quite typical of the type found in the target demographic. People who are exposed to frustrating experiences like mine are going to be put off.

I hope the people who do T shirts, scarves, etc, actually pay attention to the readability of their codes.

Here's someone else blogging on the Woolworths campaign - but unlike him, I doubt we will see much more QR from Woolworths for a while:
http://www.marcforrest.com/2011/03/14/woolworths-climbs-on-t...
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Very interesting story. I went to a ruby meetup event and they told me the best way to build a team is to post what I have so far on GitHub. Just another thought for others looking for technical co-founders.
London (UK) and Boston (US). H1B.

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While we don't have remote workers, we do help successful candidates relocate to London or Boston including arranging visas where needed. For example, last year we hired HN readers from Denmark and the US, and we moved a Polish employee to Boston.
This would be a subset of Freemium. Freemium can be trialware (time based), crippleware (feature-based), metered (usage based, like Dropbox or Flickr), etc.

It'd be interested to see someone measure the effect of this. By offering a timed trial, you can (theoretically) create a sense of urgency. On day 7 of a 14 day trial, you can email "Only 7 days left! You haven't logged in much yet, so you better hurry up and take it for a spin!". If you removed that time pressure and replaced it with a "Looks like you haven't used OurApp much yet. You still have 14 logins left!", would it perform as well? From a marketing point of view, I think saying "take your time" wouldn't be a win.
In an interview on NPR, the lead writer of the paper explained that while there's no shortage of banks willing to process spammers' transactions, they can take down a merchant account in a matter of hours but it takes days to set a new one up so, at least right now, the advantage would go to the defense. (If banks make setting up new merchant credentials near frictionless then we're back to square one. And we know we can't do anything about banks.)
Actually, when the porn sites accept it, you know it's mainstream. That would be a nice way to end all the recurring billing bullshit.
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We're looking for a Ruby Developer (on site, german speaking)

http://www.msales.com/jobs/ruby-developer (in German)

http://goo.gl/DeBp1 (the above in English)