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Are you saying it's worse to potentially cause an accident due to the sudden stop than to certainly have an accident as you run someone/thing over? I'm not sure I agree with you there.
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"The newly-patented buying system guides users through an intuitive, step-by-step process of clicking 'Buy It Now', entering your password, logging in because they signed your sorry ass out again, getting upsold shit you don’t want, continuing to your original destination"

If that were a real patent, GoDaddy would owe Ebay millions.
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I'm originally from NY and currently running my startup in Boston. I came here for undergrad, and after graduating, I thought hard about whether to run my company from Boston or NYC. I had been running a profitable online business by senior year, and knew that upon finishing school, I'd be hiring and scaling the business.

I ultimately chose Boston over NY. While I found the tech scene in New York to be vibrant with many great entrepreneurs and engineers, I also found the scene to have too much "noise" for my liking with what seems like a lot of bandwagon jumpers. In Boston, I find much more genuinely passionate techies who seems much less distracted by the hot new thing.

Granted, I love NYC and think it's great city. I also think that there's so much business and so many industries that are so ensconced there that it'll breed some really new transformative web-based businesses. Sectors such as traditional retail (esp. high-end), traditional media, and finance are ripe for great tech companies to join/transform the already established cultures there.
I think it's not really the size of the project per se but the proportion of domain complexity.

For problems with low domain complexity but involve a lot of boiler plate code, a more expressive language wins out. Likewise, if you spend the majority of your time thinking about the problem and little time on the actual implementation, then the language may not be your bottleneck.
As a social networking skeptic (no twitter, facebook, myspace, etc.) the only time I am tempted to dive into the social network, is when I hear about this kind of uncensored and real time information.

Lots of sources, perhaps none of them accurate, but tall of them together very informative, all very close to the action, and in real time, that is something impressive. But most importantly, it is something we will never get from traditional media.

Why Google has let this kind of service slip is beyond me.
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That's the one book I haven't read by Cory, I wonder if one can modify bitcoins into this(yea i had to bring up bitcoin, it's hacker news req right?)
I somewhat sympathize with your thinking. However, why do you like airbags then? Accidental airbag release can kill you a lot easier than sudden brake application can.
I find the word geek to be a compliment. Nerd sounds offensive though.
Fwiw, you can't signup for Google+ giving a birthdate that says you're under 18.
It might not prevent young teenagers from coming, but it says something of the expected audience, from Google's point of view.
They say it was a car bomb parked outside the prime minister's office - Stoltenberg was not inside though. At least two people have been killed. Police are now checking all cars arriving to and leaving from the airport. They have also advised people to leave the city center if they don't absolutely have to be there. The offices of TV2 have been closed due to a "suspicious package" being found there.

Apparently the founder of Ansar al Islam made threats against Norway recently.
> The word geek in this article is not intended in a derogatory manner

Pretty sure this type of "C.Y.A." sentence qualifies as management-speak.
I noticed that "Explosion in Oslo" article from the front page has been removed. My guess is because it isn't considered "hacker news" - a discussion we've had many times on this forum. So sadly, we have to resort to finding technical reasons to report major current events so they wouldn't be removed.
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I'm not sure I buy that. If they had real access to the internals, they'd be fixing the BIOS bugs instead of hacking around it in the driver suite.

I think the real problem runs deeper: the culture of "firmware" in the PC world is fundamentally broken. PC BIOS exists more to protect the business models of the important players than it does to abstract the hardware in a meaningful way. And frankly it's hurting those players (like the big one that starts with an "I") badly in the embedded space, where 12-second POST times, duplicated drivers, and thousands of lines of workaround code aren't considered acceptable.
Which would be very useful if he was the puppetmaster of the universe that leftists believe him to be. Be he isn't. Goldman fucking Sachs. Bailouts produce conspiracy theorists, and tea parties, Mr President. If nobody had received one, passing there wouldn't have been a backlash against big government, and passing the budget would be a piece of cake.
Does it means this doesn't work on IE when Chrome Frame is not installed ?
> He doesn't mention the word "geek", though. Instead, he calls those people "Eve" ... for quite interesting reasons!

You asshole, now I have to go out and buy the book :)
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Having been reading on early civilization settlements, I feel an interesting parallel to how deforestation caused some of their collapses. A core that overfeeds on resources while overgrowing onto them will generally collapse into its periphery. If Minecraft had a rain system, the rapid loss of woodland would not only cause ppl to move to be closer to the wood resource, but because the bare soil would cause flooding and topsoil loss (leading to lower agriculture yield).

And if Minecraft had a collapse for mining under things, it might be like industrial England when salt and coal mining altered the geology enough to sink towns (even when the mines weren't immediately under them).

Just some associations to more complex societal and resource systems that sprung to mind.
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It's all a matter of context to me. "Without our geeks, we'd be out of business, so we give them fridays off" vs. "Hey geek, ever seen a breast that wasn't a jpeg?"
People will need to be RFID tagged with their net present value.
I agree with the you. While it's mean, I dislike the current state of the Java community for the reasons zeemonkee stated in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793472

The tough part about languages like Scala and Clojure is that the existing Java ecosystem bleeds through heavily. For instance, while Scala boils away a lot of repetitious code, it's still there under the hood. It feels like an architectural band-aid. That may change as the ecosystem around each language evolves and writes frameworks and libraries in Scala/Clojure rather than reusing them from Java. However in Scala's case it's as if the language is being marketed as the next evolution of Java-as-a-language with a heavy emphasis on reusing existing Java frameworks and libraries, so I expect the people writing code in the existing Java community to migrate to Scala.

Elitest? Maybe. But I think it's a realistic view.

The newer JVM languages are great if you already have an existing Java codebase, however I'm struggling to find sound reasons to use Scala on a geen field project.
Are you talking about ThemeForest, or is there another one like it with great themes?
I don't think this person's experience is necessarily representative of all servers, or even most. I've seen plenty of servers where flora abounds.

Yeah, I was just amused at his description of the initial city, since it accurately describes a few spawn-zone cities I've seen.

I kind of suspect it's just a result of high population. Or maybe there's just a type of SMP player who gravitates towards city-oriented servers. Either way, on the private servers where I've played, people do tend to scatter over a pretty wide range (rarely less than a couple hundred meters between two people's dwellings), and most of the land remains unaltered.
> Automatically making a decision (that the human is better at making)

What about when the car really is better at making that decision? IMHO, we are few scarce decades away from cars that will just be plain better drivers than the median meatbag.
Spotify won't kill iTunes because like it or not, having music locally and accessing it through a superb user interface is just irreplaceable.
I use Twitter to check for breaking news and also doing one-on-one market research.
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Wikipedia says that Twitter has about 200 million users. The last figure I heard a while back was about 150.
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Hell, they could have just subscribed to bit.ly's Pro or Enterprise service and used their own domain...

Unless AP has some sort of agreement with bit.ly, this would seem to be a pretty big win for bit.ly. Lots of new visibility.
I believe it is fairly common in the US for victors to be awarded money to cover their legal fees. The problem is that none of these companies being sued are confidant they would win, and they don't have the money to cover losing.
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First time dad to, with a teething 7 month old. Definitely feel your pain. I've been just documenting the crap out of eeevvveeerrrything, but your method sounds like a good idea for the progress of a project as a whole.

The one thing I try to stick to, is make progress on at least one thing every day.
A great idea and youve executed it really well. However is it not ironic that a site offering to provide templates is using a template themselves.. :p
I think it's pretty cool, though it would be nice if they had a simplified single selection version. Which is to change a single select list into a text field with "instant search". The current incarnation make me first go for the pull down rather than just tabbing over and start typing.
Volvo has this already and it cuts low-speed collisions by 25%.

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I'm talking about ThemeForest. There seem to be some people who persistently claim that you need the extended license for SaaS apps; something that plainly isn't true.

However, if you're buying themes so that users can choose amongst them for their app's sales site, I think there's a good chance that crosses over into extended license territory. I'd advise looking into it at any rate.
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This is a decent use-case for the elastic networks that Color touted ... if a social network was pulling all the public activity from those in the vicinity into an automatic, temporary group that people could follow, the result would filter out people just using the hashtag to comment and leave a feed of raw on-the-spot info
When I was a teenager I wasn't using email, not because it was hard to use.

I wasn't using it because the available clients / providers sucked. I ended up with an email account on @yahoo.com -- but the interface was clumsy and slow, spam was running rampant (still is), storage space was awfully limited and POP3 access was only for paying members.

But here comes GMail, with a kick-ass web interface, with more storage than you'll ever need, with free POP3 access and I've been emailing like mad ever since.

Email for me is the best form of communication -- mostly because it is asynchronous (I don't have to answer right now); but also because I can choose whatever email provider I want while keeping my address (I own my own domain).

Email is so good that every other form of communication directly competes with it (poorly).
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There are 2, actually.

Rovio makes, sells, uses, imports, and/or
offers to sell infringing applications, including but not limited to Angry Birds for iPhone andAngry Birds for Android, which infringe at least claim 27 of the „565 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271.

U.S. Patent No. 7,620,565 - 27. A tangible computer readable medium having stored thereon, computer executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising: monitoring a product for an occurrence in the product of a trigger event of a predefined plurality of trigger events, incrementing a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event in the product; displaying a user interface, configured to probe for information regarding a use of the product, if the counter exceeds a threshold; storing an input received from the user interface on a device; and transmitting the input to a server.

Rovio makes, sells, uses, imports, and/or offers to sell infringing applications, including but not limited to Angry Birds for iPhone and Angry Birds for Android, which infringe at least claims 1 and 24 of the '078 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271.

U.S. PATENT NO. 7,222,078 - 1. A system comprising: units of a commodity that can be used by respective users in different locations, a user interface, which is part of each of the units of the commodity, configured to provide a medium for two-way local interaction between one of the users and the corresponding unit of the commodity, and further configured to elicit, from a user, information about the user's perception of the commodity, a memory within each of the units of the commodity capable of storing results of the two-way local interaction, the results including elicited information about user perception of the commodity, a communication element associated with each of the units of the commodity capable of carrying results of the two-way local interaction from each of the units of the commodity to a central location, and a component capable of managing the interactions of the users in different locations and collecting the results of the interactions at the central location.

U.S. PATENT NO. 7,222,078 - 24. The system of claim 1 wherein the two-way local interactions comprise a transaction for sale of a product or a service contract for the commodity.

That first one looks like a counter that triggers a data push to a server when it reaches a certain number. Really?

That second one is a simple feedback form that pushes the data to a server? Really?

I can't believe these. Cripes.

IANAL.
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There are some amazing skills of view of zoo animals I can not imagine who is convinced of all these great actors and directors to take part in this film but it s really impressive when people see this work together.
If you ever do want to try out a new app server, what I do is use embedded Jetty. It's not an app server that you deploy your web app to, but rather your web app becomes a runnable application. This makes deployment to something like EC2 completely trivial. Just copy your app there and hit run.
My teenage son - who, raised right, grew up on Nethack - absolutely loves this game, and will occasionally stay up all night and be found still feverishly working on some elaborate construction in the morning. From what I have seen, it is ASCII crack.

edit: I guess it's modified code-page-437 crack:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

edit again: This article really is a very interesting story behind the development. Even if you don't play, it's worth reading.
I've heard people say that, but if that's true, why didn't they include many of the (much more commonly used, IME) patterns like Big Ball of Mud, Stovepipe System, Spaghetti Code, etc...? There's lots of nightmarish patterns/techniques that were omitted. I find no plausible way to account for that other than that the patterns are (perhaps implicitly) prescriptive.
Lodsys will probably ask for an injunction of some sort, restricting further sales of the alleged infringing products. Take-Two and Electronic Arts, which are large publicly traded companies, are fellow defendants. The defendants have 3 options: 1) discredit the IP claim Lodsys is making on the technology 2) prove they are not infringing 3) pay the fees Lodsys is asking. I would suspect Rovio to follow the lead of the larger co-defendants in this case.
"all they need is a system that would detect bib numbers on the runner's shirt, and then auto-sort it for easy reference."
...uhhh
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The distinction between “pass by reference” and “pass by value” started with Algol, if I recall correctly, and made sense in that language, where you can declare which arguments of your function are passed in which way. It also makes sense in C++, which has a similar feature.

For other languages, I think framing parameter-passing in these terms just creates more confusion then it resolves. I would rather describe the situation like this: In Java, when you pass a mutable object (or array) to a method and the callee mutates it, the caller will see the changed version.
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The publishers that use the AP tend to be deathly afraid of anything that might lead users away from their sites, so I'm not surprised to see that they haven't used hyperlinks until now. That said, I have no idea why they chose bit.ly, although part of me suspects this is some sort of covert advertising campaign that bit.ly is paying the AP for.
My guess is that there is some sort of Oracle licensing agreement that prevents Apple from distributing Java with the release. You'd think that these two massive public companies would be able to work something out

This is pure unfounded speculation.

In reality Apple probably wanted to make the Lion base install leaner.

Many components are are now simply loaded and installed on demand. Like for example also extra voices for text2speech.
Or you could report them on sites that are for that kind of information. I applaud HN's determination to remain a site for hacker news, and not accept anything and everything that may affect a hacker in some way, shape or form.
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Didn't amazon did something similar? All of this patents are so closely linked if someone sues, it will start a war..

Look at the Apple vs HTC case..
Let the patent wars begin :-)!!
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uhhh is a very insightful comment, you're so brilliant!
But seriously, with 40MM I am sure they could figure it out. Heck, just give me the 40MM and I'll figure it out. :)
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The specialized solution is made up of 120-nanometer-wide polymer droplets. The droplets consist of a fluorescent dye, sensor molecules designed specifically bind to certain target molecules (in this case, sodium or glucose) and neutralizing ions.

Hmm.... could this turn into a more generic approach of antibody based tattoos which could detect a large range of things, including bacterial and viral infections?

And the exam would consist of you snapping a picture of your arm every morning which is automatically sent to a Watson like computer for analysis. (Well it wouldn't have to be Watson level AI, it's either positive for something or not.)
If it helps, I'm a data point who's seen lots of Google+ activity among close and remote friends, embraced by many who were avid Facebook users (I wasn't). I can't compare it with others from my point of view since I joined other social networks late, but it seems to be doing quite well with people I know. The much feared group inertia was given a quick and solid kick by Google+ in my case.

Just thought I'd balance the comments about it being empty and inactive.
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Considering how much bigger NYC is than Boston I don't see what the hubbub is all about.
Stupid graph, that's comparing apples and oranges. Yes products are identical, but the distribution is totally different.

Facebook intentionally was only on college campuses. It let them scale slowly and work their way up the chain so to speak.

Twitter was crushed by growth and didn't have an existing user base to tap into.

Google+ growth is impressive, but it's built on top of how many Google Accounts, GMail accounts, Chat accounts and so on? It was designed from day 1 to get to the same 700+ million users that Facebook had.

I doubt either twitter or facebook ever considered the idea of getting a billion people to use them when they launched.

Also, even more than Buzz or Wave, Google+'s only value lies in inviting your friends. So, people invite their friends. It's like a social game, it only is fun if other people play it. It is in everybody's best interest to invite their friends, otherwise you are just sharing with Google's servers. If I wanted to work on a wave, it was with 1-5 people, if I want my social network on Google+, I'm going to invite 100+ people.

Apples. Oranges.
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Well, what did Google lose? The title includes a subscript, "What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search", and yet, the article has almost nothing to actually say about the subject.

Nothing.

Instead of substantive contribution here, Mr. Jackson gives us simple-minded insinuations: if only Google had thought harder about how people use Twitter to talk real-time about the disasters, they would have realized what they would be missing out on.

Right, Mr. Jackson: as if there is a person in tech who missed the Egyptian riots. As if we all don't know about the thousands of Syrians who named their kid "Facebook".

The fact is, if Google did "end" their relationship with Twitter on purpose, then the real question here is why they would do that. Sticking your head into a search bar, complaining that you can't find Twitter results, and then pretending like no one else notices this is not an argument.

On the other hand, if you lather it up with a recent tragedy, it becomes journalism, doesn't it?