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Well, I don't know about law guru, but I did go to law school. Take that for what its worth.

I'm not an issues and appeals lawyer, but here's what I know about appeals. Appeals are only for questions of law, never for questions of facts. And the question of law must be unsettled (otherwise, why would SCOTUS take the case?) SCOTUS probably took this case to clarify the defendant's burden of proof regarding invalidity defenses.

Now, this particular case was about the standard of proof for invalidity defenses (and jury instructions). The trial court told the jury that MS had to defend against invalidity claim by clear and convincing evidence. Microsoft thought that was the wrong standard. SCOTUS said that the lower court was right.

So, since the lower courts applied the right standard, this is the end of the line. The verdict against MS will stand.

tl;dr: appeals (cetorari_ to SCOTUS) focuses on unsolved or ambiguous questions of law, not factual issues. (Mixed questions of fact and law is a whole 'nother story...you don't want to know).
Sci-Fi: The Dune series. All of them. There is no excuse to give up after the first one. Frank Herbert was a philosopher who worked in the medium of the sci-fi novel.

Fantasy: "The Worm Ourobourous". If Christoper Marlowe had invented the fantasy novel genre, this is what he would have written. The prose makes modern fantasy look like milquetoast.

Criticism: "The Art and Craft of Drawing" by Vernon Blake. The best attempt to capture the mental processes involved in drawing like the Masters. It was written in the 1920s when artists could still draw like the Masters and knew the tradition.

Programming: "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp". A gymnasium for the programming mind.
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It is virtually certain that we are very wrong about much of physics.

Perhaps not in ways that solve these issues. But we're still almost certainly wrong about things we consider very fundamental.
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Everyone at CMU knows who Jerry is.

For what I read, those were the course notes.
While the author makes a good point about how humans will never leave the solar system, there are a few possibilities to continue human legacy. Ethics aside, sending seeded capsules to a habitable exoplanet could one day (millions of years) evolve into an intelligent species. Although not human, a DNA signature or some other artifact could be engineered to validate it as a human colonization.

Additionally you could explore the possibilities of fleets of nano sized probes, which over the course of thousands of years, confirm the habitality of an exoplanet, and build a crude nursery for sperm (which could be sent at a later date). This method makes the energy/momentum problems slightly less impossible.
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I dislike the word "never". As individuals and as a species we are addicted to short term gratification measured in years or decades. We also have a narrow view of the concept of "self" and what constitutes consciousness and experience.

If we could stand building for the future and experiencing by proxy, a few more options become available:

e.g. We could transport a set of human "blanks" or a "blank" creating machine to a distant star at 10% of c. It would take a few hundred years. When it arrives and deploys, we upload our consciousness at the speed of light with no acceleration and deceleration into a "blank" human.

Copies of ourselves could be regularly transported to and from a distant star over a few decades.

A few technological breakthroughs would be required to make this a reality:

* True Artificial Intelligence. A machine that is capable of self-awareness and analysis.

* A complete understanding of the human brain and how to replicate the organism and it's contents.

* A complete understanding of the human body, the life support mechanism for the brain - and how to duplicate it.

* How to turn nuclear fission or fusion into propulsion at a high level of efficiency.

* How to build factories that can stay dormant for a thousand years, wake up and operate as well as the day they were built. This probably will be solved as a result of AI and the ability to create self-repairing and self-improving machines.

Many of these problems are in the CS and Biotech fields. That's what we do. Now get to work!
I was looking at the 500Startups class list today, and I realized a lot of these guys are not doing any on page SEO! I am putting my feelers out to see if there is a micro-business to be made here.

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It's the classic usenet definition of a troll, deadpanning the wrong side of an argument, forging headers and replying to yourself, stirring up non-existent controversy and getting the semi-clued in to waste time telling people "don't feed the trolls".

Done right and to extremes it's quite a schizophrenic art form. His commitment to the craft is impressive, I can't really recall ever having seen someone sell it so hard and so long without breaking character. The youtube videos [1] from last year especially, even when he throws in an obvious gimme like a letter from a fan that's over the top he does the whole thing without a crack of a smile.

He must work in the infosec world somewhere, it's funny that those that know him don't out him. Not many trolls are willing to go the extra mile and commit their real likeness, etc.

With all that said I'd give it a 50/50 shot the intrusion wasn't fake, I could see a website with an intentional vulnerability or two added to troll the skiddies. It certainly would fit with the rest of the commitment to the performance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywUK2Jat5k
Google isn't using the buzzword-compliant technology under the covers. Big deal - it still works, doesn't it? If you just skip from buzzword-compliance to buzzword-compliance, you never fix the underlying problems.

Also, according to Andy Ozment, there's only a finite number of bugs in any given software package: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec06/tech/ozment.html From that viewpoint, using "old" software might actually have some major benefits.
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What are some examples of functions that take advantage of having this sort of dictionary-like access to objects?
I hope there's an outside chance that they'll open its source. It really is a fantastic app.
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At the end of the day, grades really reflect work ethic. No secret here.

No one can say in retrospect whether or not grades affected life. It's one of many factors, and no one can say "me | 4.3 GPA" would have had a different life from "me | 4.2 GPA" or "me | 3.2 GPA"
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Good to know there are other Utahns using bitcoin than just me :D
Funny you mention this; I learned to program back in 2006 by watching a screencast of my best friend programming at CMU. I lived in Toronto.
I agree with pgroves, that it moves too fast in many areas, and maybe you are trying to cover too much info.

You also start with so much jargon I think. You wouldn't (I hope) introduce your product as 'a hosted daily deals solution for SMB retailers to do group buying deals', so why would you say it that way in the video?

Record how you talk about your company (or how others do) and get a feel for what actually explains, not the big corporate brand yadda yadda.

Think googles 'organize the worlds information' not 'a search engine backed by world-class patented page-rank algorithm which measures the popularity of webpages...'

Keep it simple, and clean. Tell people one thing, lead them to want to know more.
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As someone who has taken a variety of treatments for depression (never SSRIs -- only Bupropion, St. John's Wort, and most recently S-Adenosyl methionine, or "SAM-e") I can say from my own personal experience that they most definitely do _something_, and for me it's almost always positive. In fact, the only reason I've begun to suspect the role of "chemical imbalances" (which are likely caused by the environment and my own response to it) is because of SAM-e's effectiveness.

I have absolutely no financial interest in saying so, but because of its positive effects I'd like to make a plug: SAM-e has been completely wonderful for me -- it's worth checking out the extensive literature on it, which show results that are arguably more impressive than those of the SSRI and tricyclic crowd, especially because SAM-e has virtually no negative side-effects.
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MongoDB is a single-system database with support for replication and sharding. If you want a true distributed database, you'll need to look into Riak or CouchDB.

Riak also has no master!
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Thanks for the advice. I do not resent tests by themselves. For e.g. I'm fine if you are continuously tested throughout the year. However, I have an issue with a test that is 40% of your grade, and is just 3 hours. It could render your quarters work useless if you messed up.
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In its defence, Mongo is basically brand new. They've done the cool CAP stuff first, now they're discovering why everyone else keeps banging on about wanting ACID guarantees.

edit: I suppose I should have expected to be downvoted -- I'll elaborate on my thoughts.

The folk who wrote things in the pre-CAP theorem era were not ignorant of the problems of scale. They did their best to attack them and did an amazing job of it.

If you remove constraints, then yes, you can improve performance. But soon you will discover why and how those constraints were imposed in the first place.

The implementers of Mongo are, less some genuine advances, doomed to repeat history per Santayana.
"Volatility is not a real big issue because we can quickly move bitcoin into USD."

This is true today I guess. When everyone is trying to sell bitcoins it might not be so easy.
Talent acquisitions make me sad. I think about all the job creation machines that might have been.

There's a standard model in the valley on both the supply and demand side. It goes like this:

On the demand side:

Recruiting costs money. Hiring talent is risky when you don't know the caliber. Picking up one engineer at a time is costly and inefficient because you're competing with many other great companies. Acquiring a group of proven engineers not only solves all these problems but it gives you a way to lock them into working for you for years with an earn-out. And every engineer knows that dev's who "sold a startup" get laid more.

On the supply side:

A great business model is to come up with a startup that is super-interesting to talented engineers. Raise money and recruit them in droves with the prospect of massive wealth and being the next Facebook. Hand out stock options like candy and never mention the difference between short and long-term capital gains. Then when you hit 10+ great employees, start shaking your booty around the valley and see if you can flip for $2M per engineer plus a nice cash-out for founders and investors. [Usually around $20M total].
Frankly, because other currencies are devaluing so Bitcoin is acting as a store of wealth. Over the next 50 years, USD isn't going up unless there is a short-term panic.

I bought $30 of Bitcoin just a month or so ago. Obviously they've done very well so far and I'll just leave them indefinitely to see where it goes. Yup, that increases deflation. Nice, for a change!
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Yuck, didn't see it until now, but as a customer, it's enough to make me cancel.
Check the jobs link at the top and also notice that you can't vote for it / no arrow; therefore it's a jobs posting, which are exclusive to YC companies.
I had virtually the opposite experience to you, including it for the sake of discussion. I'd tried most of the same list as you and had very little positive outcome (all over the counter items or meds that were easy enough to get by saying the right things in order to a local GP)

Through the period I'd experienced some significant lows that all met different criteria - extended depression, severe self harm and mutilation, social difficulties, drugs, alcohols, other unsavoury behaviour (not quite hookers and blow but close enough). Most of the chemical strategies weren't effective, or it was easy enough to discontinue them them shop around for something else a few weeks later.

In the end, I think I reached a point where I was genuine about change and engaged with a psychologist, and within a couple of months the outcomes were very apparent, and positive. Not saying its a good measure of anything either way, just a demonstration of another scenario I suppose.
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Okay. You just wave 5 or 6 magic wands and then it works out. Isn’t that precisely what the essay claimed?
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I realize I'm late to the game here, but I know the founder and lead developer of Widget Press personally, and he is one of the hardest-working individuals in the indie Mac software development game. I contributed to him despite having never used one of his products commercially, but I believe the type of nonsense that allows trolls like Lodsys and Macrosolve to exist needs to stop.
How do we know it's not a scam?
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>I for one would be very impressed if we could make a fully self replicating colony & factory in the next 90 years.

He/she never claimed we will. The claim was that we the entire human knowledge will fit on a mobile device.
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If you haven't seen this one of Notch, it is pretty inspiring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629810
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As impossible as the physics seems I think the social problems are bigger. Scientists are currently unable to convince people to act against the potential catastrophe of global warming. Humans are too stupid to organize a planet wide self preservation effort that requires any significant amount of resources. I think the more likely scenario for humanity over the next 10 thousand years is several cycles of civilization and population collapses with a constant degradation of the environment and fewer and fewer available resources. This century might be the zenith of human achievement. It might take a smarter species a few million years from now to escape this rock.
To provide a anecdotal counter point to balance this discussion, I obsessively close windows I'm not using.

I dislike clutter and distraction. If I leave a Twitter client open or IRC I easily get distracted by it, so I'm constantly hitting CMD-W and use Quicksilver to open them when I need distraction. Same with iTunes when no music is playing.
I don't know how many times I said the words "I had no idea it was so easy" when I had my Palm Pre. It really is an impressive OS.
I tend to write in a hyperbolic way to accentuate the point I'm trying to make. Obviously the BAs et al do a lot of work, but I was trying to contrast the number of non-developers to developers (yes, there were only 2).

I should note that my opinion of BAs is not very high, based solely on the dozen or so I've had to work with. The job sounds worthwhile, and I'm sure there's excellent BAs out there, but the company I used to work for didn't employ any of them (or perhaps the culture was such that the good ones left)
Say I'm in the US, but I have an overseas website hosting a browser exploit kit that pushes a trojan to non NATO type countries that steals their bitcoin wallet and mails it to me. I then spend those bitcoins with a US service like this and get a US company to ship goods to a US address. Let's even say the US service knows I'm shady but doesn't care as long as my bitcoins show.

Who of any of us are breaking laws? My understanding of US standards is that hacking foreigners on foreign lands generally doesn't constitute a crime, and most jurisdictions don't seem to treat virtual goods like wow gold as actual theft.

Seems like a rocky and lawless world out there for crypto currencies, especially with so many russians / eastern europeans involved in bitcoin.

I have trouble believing I'd get very far calling up the FBI to report a bitcoin theft.
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pretty cool, but after 7 cards it repeatedly bugs me to register. I'd rather just run through the commands quickly, not register, and not necessarily rate how well I knew them.

That said, it did teach me a few new rails commands that I didn't know.
the site could use a FAQ. I'm not sure I'd like to give up my address and email and all that, not knowing exactly how the site works first.
A little over 100 years ago the humanity just learned how to overfly one football field.

In space, today, we're in pre-aviation days: we're still using hot air balloons for transportation. We make them lighter than air (i.e. shoot them up in space) and let the wind (i.e gravity) to carry them places.

Imagine the most educated human 120 years ago is being told about planes heavier than air, air transportation over oceans, jet-powered planes, autopilots and fly-by-wire, not to mention people on the moon. He would say it's impossible, due to energy constraints. Today a daily JFK-NRT flight uses more energy than all the horses which lived two centuries ago would be able to produce in their lifetimes, combined (my math may be off by one order of magnitude: it's late here). Today we're this person. Educated enough to have valid arguments against it, but utterly incorrect.
I guess to some extent. I think the reality is somewhat murkier. It's possible a lot of these companies startup with niche skills and lack broad expertise meaning they're going to have holes.

If you've got a handful of employees and your expertise is DDOS protection then are you going to use your next hire on a DDOS specialist to work on your DDOS protection product or bring in someone to make your website safer?
I am not in the US. Can I order products from this site and receive stuff from new egg in my home country (Russia)? Can I order from amazon if it is cheaper than newegg?
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Why is that your guess?
The shoemaker's children have no shoes. This happens all the time. How many programmers do you know that spend all day automating the processes of others and yet still manually copy files to the production server instead of automating their own processes?
The logo was a combination of two of Apple's own images (iSync, and the wifi menu bar). I think your claim that they "stole the guys app and logo" is a little murky, at least regarding the logo.
Another gotcha we found is that you can't do any type of real-time aggregation in a production environment.

There is a group() function, and there is Map Reduce, but since they both run via the JavaScript engine and the nature of JavaScript is single-threaded that means that you can never execute more than one of the aggregation queries at a time. So if an aggregation query is taking a long time to run, all other queries will block and potentially timeout.

Supposedly we'll have better options in 2.0.
"Ebay with bitcoin payments" to me wrongly portrays the site. I was expecting to see a bitspend for ebay http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639572
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oh... duh. thanks. didn't even try to parse the rest of it.
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That only works if one supposes that the only reason to pay authors is because one must do so.

That said, any company which treats their customers like thieves will turn some fraction thereof into such.
He's already allowed for nanofactories and artificial wombs, so why send humans at all? Send frozen sperm and eggs and have the robots make the people once they get there. Now, all of a sudden, the length of the journey doesn't matter. Fling probes off willy-nilly at nearby and distant stars. If they get there, great. If not, you've only lost cash.

Edit: The cool thing about this is that, assuming these technologies come to fruition, the entire project could likely be financed privately by a group of wealthy backers. You wouldn't need the massive bureaucracy of NASA or their dependency on Congress. You'd simply develop, test, then manufacture the (likely quite small) probes, then send them up and out on commercial rockets.
I am not a chemist nor a psychiatrist, so I know next-to-nothing about any of this. However, I have on occasion read various reports on trace pharmaceutical presence in drinking water supplies (e.g., http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/10/health/main3920454...) -- clearly the amounts are too small to have acute effects, but, taken over the course of an individual's life? Especially in the earliest stages of childhood? Is it a possible contributor towards this "epidemic"?

I know there are a few HN folks better versed in this kind of stuff. I'd love to hear why those reports are bunk, or why it doesn't work that way. Just curious.
How does any skeptical person know that it's not a scam? Give it time and see if/that other people use it successfully.
I cared very much about my grades in undergrad, and I ended up with a very high GPA. So far, I'm glad I cared as much as I did.

Will your grades matter after undergrad? That depends on what you want to do. It will hurt a bit if you go to grad school (your undergrad grades matter for getting grants). It'll hurt a lot if you want to go to medical school (but you can still get in to some schools if you bring your GPA up somewhat).

Do you have a project or set of projects that demonstrate ability? If I had to choose between two people, and one had demonstrated his abilities with great code/art/etc, I'd pick him over the guy with nothing but grades. However, if I had no other metric to measure you by other than grades, I'd pick the guy with better grades.

If you want high grades, you have to push everything else aside and focus on doing well in your classes, and not taking on more than you can do well in any given semester. If you can't do that, quit school for awhile. Do something great in the meantime so that you have something to show to yourself. Self-esteem is something that can't be faked, or given to you by others. You have to earn it yourself. Either way, don't do anything halfway, because that's just a recipe for the same mediocrity you're inflicting upon yourself now. It's not too late to turn yourself around.
Wow a real flame bait.
i suggest another topic to discus here on HN:any monkey can learn to code, and read manuals all day lon. some monkeys get an ego and start thinking that. they are somehow more hardworking or smarter. not true. you just a monkey that can read and obbey instructions in the book.