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i wonder if, assuming he had one, his life insurance policy will pay out or if this will be considered a reckless action on his part.
It would go hand in hand with my other dream idea of HP deciding not to focus on the saturated smartphone market and instead try to strike back at the iPod Touch, reviving the concept of a separate PDA device. And what would be more natural than a new generation of PalmPilots running WebOS?

For one thing, the PDA market right now is basically the iPod touch. Certainly smartphones and tablets are hotter properties, but the former market is saturated (and I wonder if the recent report from WHO will lead to a consumer hysteria backlash against cell phones), and the tablet market is still nascent. PDAs are more compact, anyways.
Lets correct one sentence. In 16 years of using windows with no anti-virus, you have never gotten a virus that you were aware of.
Didn't the Google team also make Chrome now usable/installable without Admin rights?
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I agree with most of that Snopes article. Internet petitions (especially email ones) do not have a very good track record. Then again, there have been cases where online, grassroots sentiment has snowballed into something that affected the real world, no?

So the goal of AskForIt is to re-invent the online petition, Web 2.0 style, using all the modern social networking tools available, to help get some things to the tipping point that wouldn't get there otherwise.

Surely there is some level of public support for abolishing software patents that would get the attention of the politicians, so we're hoping people will decide that it doesn't really hurt anything to join on and see how high we can get.
I'd never thought of an oleophobic screen coating as a security feature until I read this. Are they enough to prevent or significantly reduce smudge attacks?
It's interesting...seems this comment is pretty controversial. Went up a few points, then went back to 1, then went up again, then went down again.

Can anyone explain why this is so controversial ? If you downvoted it, mind explaining why ?
Frankly, I would too--but in terms of culture and philosophy there were certainly significant advances post-1919.
I'm curious as to how much overlap there is in those Emails and Voicemails. My experience is that 10-15 Recruiters will all be recruiting for the same position and they monitor for new resumes and blast them with automated emails the minute you post your profile.
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Is there a way to do that?
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Yes. The date of the patent application is the determining date for a patent. I'm thinking that since they filed the application after you were already online, you're probably more or less OK, but patent law is weird.

This is just wrong. I'm growing increasingly frustrated at the number of users here on HN misquoting everything about patents. If you don't know or understand it, it's best not to comment. If this were something technical and you didn't really know the answer and answered as if you did, many people here would be up in arms. This is no different.

That said, while a patent term is calculated from the date of filing, a patentee has no rights until after the patent issues. So if the entity making threats against you has a patent which issues (which sounds like a big if), he can sue you, but only for your acts of infringement after the date the patent issues. Since the patent has not issued yet, he could not sue you for your actions between now and the issue date, only for actions post-issue because that is when that entity's rights begin.
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Don't know about the US, but the UK has a number of anti-trucking laws that would possibly prohibit it.
As the World's largest computer manufacturer, it is strange to me that HP would spend $1.2B to buy WebOS and Palm's patents and mobile hardware design talent, only to give out its sole marketable distinguishing characteristic to competitors. If any company is capable of exploiting WebOS's strengths with an array of skillfully designed and profitable hardware, it would seem that HP would be the one to do it.

If I was a potential OEM partner with HP, I would have to question their long-term commitment to the partnership; I would expect them to drop licensing and capture the hardware profits for themselves should the platform be successful and build a healthy software ecosystem.
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It will take several years for his patent to make its way through the system. In the meantime, software patents will be abolished.</wishful thinking>

He could reasonably claim infringement if he can produce documentation saying that he came up with the idea before your service went live. If he is a standard patent troll, he will probably request a license fee that's low enough to be tempting given the alternative (a potentially expensive legal battle where you have to disrupt your operations to gather proof of prior art and focus on this rather than on your business). Unless you're willing to fight him just on principle, it may end up being cheaper for you to pay his fee and call it a day.
Again? Really?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61434

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163630

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234790

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257328

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257653

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072030

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405546

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834631
I was thinking of starting a company that sells pet supplies to retail customers by way of a website. Think I'll be able to secure VC funding?
I guess you can assume not-remote if it doesn't say remote. If everyone who didn't allow remote were to specify "no remote" then it'd just mess with the folks who were searching for "remote", because it would also find "not-remote" and the folks searching for "remote" would get frustrated.

Whoops, this post could be annoying for those searching for "remote", couldn't it? I'll stop saying "remote" now. Sorry for saying "remote" so much.
Yes. I argue this "convincing" process is at the very least a centralized process, and at the worst deeply problematic.
Investors would rather invest in a company that has a 1% shot at being Google than 100% shot at being a normally successful sandwich shop.
> This is already a huge boost.

Like I said, I've been to this rodeo before. Heck, I even drank the Kool-aid one of the previous times that functional languages were going to enable parallel execution. Since there's nothing new this time, I think that it's safe to say that the result will be the same.

Easy to find and nicely separable dependencies may be necessary, but they aren't anywhere close to sufficient. (BTW - the relevant criteria is not "huge boost" but significant boost, and I don't mean distiguishable from random chance.)
I recently spent $50 on eBay to get an old Pentium II "ultraportable" laptop. It's very thin, has an acceptable screen size and resolution (1024x768), a keyboard bested only by my ThinkPad, and is fantastic for the two things I'm using it for: a) All the exercises from programming books (currently PAIP; after that I'll resume SICP). (It can easily run Emacs, SLIME, and SBCL.) b) Web browsing, both with Chrome and links2.

Did you hear the part where it cost $50? And how it runs all the software I want?

Now, I'll admit it's not quite as small, nor as glossy, nor quite as fast as a Chromebook. And I do love the web, and could manage most of my life with nothing more than a browser. But I absolutely do not have a spare $500, and even if I did, I could get an <strike>iPad 2</strike> Android tablet, beefier netbook (nevermind a netbook with more flexible OS options: I'd probably dualboot ChromiumOS and "real" Linux), a Kindle DX and normal-sized Kindle, 10 of the aforementioned craptops, or any number of more practical things. Even if I was told to spend it on a novelty computer, I'd be tempted to get an OLPC for $200 and use the rest on...well, anything.

This rant brought to you by someone who actually likes ChromeOS. What the heck will someone who's on the fence about it going to think?
Tried to integrate it on http://infostripe.com but ran into issues of it not rendering as expected or when expected, the counter balloon having some CSS background issues.

I'll try it again in a bit but I am disappointed so far with the implementation. Maybe it's getting crushed.. but it is Google..
> That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical.

Except for licensing. LGPL prevents proprietary forks. IIRC Apache allows them. I wonder why Oracle would want to change the license (or not donate OOo directly to the Document Foundation)
I think that's the problem, no one company is capable of doing it on their own. I don't think what Apple has done can be replicated now, in fact I don't think even they could replicate it if they were starting over.

A monoculture just can't compete at this point. I love WebOS, but I won't buy the phone. The apps aren't there like they are on Android, and as long as HP alone is selling it the platform won't be big enough to encourage that.
As with all of their projects.

With a project of this size, scope, and adoption, I'd imagine the "acceptance" will be somewhat rubber stamped, and the process will focus on setting up the proper ASF development environment, review of existing code, etc.

I think a lot of people are looking for drama where none exists; ASF is just following the same procedures that EVERY project would be forced to go through.
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> hopefully if they merge back to OpenOffice

Sure, and ditch the LGPL license and adopt the Apache one...
Too many: android app (JS + PhoneGap, not so bad); two FB apps; a CRM for small-to-medium music and dance schools; an online "object shortener" (like bit.ly for files - videos, music, images, Word docs, Excel sheets, PDFs, etc.) - upload once, view anywhere.
HTC and Samsung are both building Windows Phone. It's not exclusive to Nokia.
But this is the creation of a social platform. They've just turned their search results, one of the most used things on the web, into a place where you will now see recommendations from friends if you search for topics where they've already +1'd it. It creates pretty much the same value as a Facebook like. You and I may dislike it and it does cause clutter, but Facebook likes are very popular with users and drive a lot of traffic. Google is doing the same on what I believe is a larger group of people and what I know is giving much more relevant information (i.e., I don't get informed about my friends' opinion on sneakers until I actively look for sneakers).
the pattern locking is optional in android. i use it just like a pin, but because it's a pattern, i get to swipe between the numbers (which are points on the pattern screen) instead of tapping and lifting on each one, so it's faster.
| If any company is capable of exploiting WebOS's strengths with an array of capably designed and profitable hardware, it would seem that HP would be the one to do it.

I don't think HP agrees exactly. It appears that they think that there are many people capable of exploiting WebOS' strengths and perhaps are even counting on it. An excited developer culture around an OS tends to work out well for the hardware manufacturers.
"official warning"

Does this mean you would only count it as a "warning" if the Nazis actually sent an envoy that said, "Hey, we're coming for you now?"
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Small nitpick, but Hudson was moved to Eclipse, not Jenkins. Jenkins is the community fork of Hudson.
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When they discovered that, it might've been a good time to think up a different name.
>If not, you can always file an application covering the implementation details of your technology that distinguish it from existing prior art.

He said that he is currently practising his invention in public. Thus he can no longer obtain a patent on said invention, his practice of it would provide prior art except under very limited conditions (which don't coincide with operating a business on the internet).

It is possible that he could obtain a granted patent but if any competitor knew that he had already being practising the patent they would know that they were immune from it and it would be effectively impotent to enforce a monopoly position.

As an aside: in the US applicants are required (or were a few years ago, I guess it could have changed) to disclose any close prior art they are aware of in their application. You can also make observations against the grant of said patent but I can't quote the USC without looking it up.

OMG - just looked it up, http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/1100_113..., USPTO actually charge you to give them prior art against an application. They charge you to make the examiners job easier ...?!?
Strange. Does anyone know if upvotes can resurrect a dead comment? In any case, I just gave it one in hopes it'll help..
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> I've always thought that works of software that represent an actual effort of development comparable to physical invention should enjoy the benefit of patents.

There is no "effort" requirement for patents on physical inventions. There's also no "it was done by experts" requirement.
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> you're talking about about making a cleaner legal audit trail.

Not exactly, the legal audit trail can be messy and it doesn't matter one bit so long as it's accurate. In the case described change one is logged and the undo constitues a second change which is also logged. Change one incurs liability for the user and change two simply increases the liability for the user (sorry I can't go into specifics) even though it's correcting a problem. In my experience it's very difficult to create a user interface where the "undo" action clearly indicates the consequence of the change in these scenarios. Preventing unnecessary changes via a combination of up front documentation and confirmation provided the better user experience, and legal liability reduction, in my experience and based on some user feedback.

> 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.

Believe me, not confirming user actions would have been less code and easier to build and maintain in this case. Legal compliance on my part would have been maintained in either case. Allowing my users to quickly and easily build up liability would be doing them a disservice however. Adding some friction to those transactions was agreed to be the better option by everyone involved.

I think the idea that confirmation vs undo is subjective. We can go on and on for hours and come up with examples and counter examples. The particular context of the action likely determines which provides the better user experience in total (not just on that one screen or interaction but via the consequences of the action as well). I would certainly prefer that if I'm using a system like facebook that it confirm I really want to make my home address and phone number public before it does so rather than letting me check a box and it's done. The same goes with a money transfer where an undo may not even be possible after some amount of time. Not prompting for confirmation certainly makes the transactions move faster (less friction) and undo is easy enough in many cases, but does that frictionless transaction have the best outcome for my users? Not always. The blanket statement that "undo > confirmation. Always." is just plain wrong, not that you made it of course.
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If he puts his missiles on rail cars, you haven’t got a chance of hitting them all. So it was, metaphorically, with the actual battlewagon; when it was at the peak of its capabilities, it was overcome by the manoeuvre warfare tactics of the aircraft carrier (which is itself probably made obsolete in real modern warfare by the cruise missile, the internet and the satellite).

Don't forget robots! Man, you think the guided missiles in the first Gulf War were cool? Now we can kill people entirely by electromechanical proxy, staying out of the line of fire and incurring little to no risk ourselves! Man, we're living in the future! What a bunch of pussies we are.

Like Bill Hicks said, why can't we use this technology to shoot food into the mouths of hungry people instead?
It's somewhat arbitrary which precious metal we use, but it's not entirely arbitrary.

There's the usual reasons we use e.g. gold for money. It's fungible, ductile, rare and essentially impossible to forge. That rules out cigarettes and Yap rai as stable currencies.

As far as gold vs. silver vs. platinum, the inflation rate (i.e. the rate at which new metal comes out of the ground) is also important. Gold inflates slower than silver, simply because there's more silver in the ground.

As far as gold vs. platinum, it's important to look at what happens if the world decided to move to gold or platinum as a currency. Gold is already used as a store of value, while platinum isn't. If everyone moved to gold as currency, it would become far more valued. If the same happened to platinum, its value would go stratospheric. There are essentially no platinum reserves (compared to gold), so its price would be even more volatile, and its price would spike far more than gold.

Platinum is also much more concentrated, geographically. There are like 5 working platinum mines in the world, and like 4 of them are in South Africa. South Africa has more of the world's platinum than the middle east has of the world's oil supply.

Those objections are not insurmountable, but human civilizations have been using gold & silver as currency for thousands of years, but the same is not true of platinum. Don't underestimate inertia.
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Any more information you can provide? I looked at kinex.com and all it says is "network design, system administration, software design professionals" which doesn't sound that physics-heavy.
What's stopping a malicious client from just generating a lot of tiny transactions to fill up the block chain and overwhelm all the other clients that perform the verifications?

I understand that the current database with all the transactions takes up a few hundred MB (and this is why it can take a while to verify a bitcoin transaction).

Couldn't a small number of clients attack the currency by DOSing the network with transactions?

Edit: found this, I guess they know it "might be" a problem https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Denial_of_Service_%28D...
What? How does arresting someone even come close to bombing a city? Would that make you feel more like a "patriot"?
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Android's sharing intent does it right. We need a browser supported standard for sharing things much like they support RSS now. That way it'll be integrated and we won't need sites mucking up their design with this crap.
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Note that this way of rebooting was common in DOS though.
There was also a contestant on America's Next Great Restaurant with this idea:

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But can we make the assumption that YC companies are chosen because they have the potential at becoming the next Google, therefore if they are profitable they're on their way towards that goal?

It's a small assumption, but I think one that could be made.

It makes more of a success/failure comparison than a return percentage calculation, but it would still be really interesting to know.
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Something similar we are doing to personalise app search at http://iapps.in
Ithica NY seems to be dealing with these issues pretty well with its Hours currency: http://www.ithacahours.com/intro.html
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I click on them frequently, and buy from them frequently. Often times the ads are more relevant than the organic search results.
Beta does not measure volatility.

PG means alpha here.
Fascinating stuff - thanks for posting. :)
I'm surprised WordPress.com wasn't on board with this at the start. It already has Like buttons (ugh) as well as Twitter, Facebook, etc. WordPress is otherwise great at getting its blog posts into Google results, so I figured this was a natural.
The message sounds more defensive than agressive. Establish contact with them and try to build a trust relation.
Note that they were honnest to inform you at this stage. This is positive.

Try to get a hand on the patent text to see if there are differences in the methods. If one thing is different, then you are safe.

Check also about prior art. If your method was described in a document, a manual or somewhere else, it becomes unpatentable. His patent may then be rejected.

Don't get scared about it. Investgate and diagnose the extend of the problem (which may be a false problem), know your potential ennemy and see if you could turn him into an ally. He may have a patent, but you may have a business. It is the execution that matters. But evaluate the risk and odds to lose ground.

If you had some innovation, you should patent it, or publish it to make it unpatentable. You may publish it in patagonia to make it prior art to blow a patent troll if one shows up and keep your sauce secret in the place where you develop your business.

Patents are not expensive if you write and fill it yourself. I did it here in France and it costed me 280€. It did took me some time to learn how to write a patent, what to be carefull about, but it's not that hard.