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Why are you under the impression that you need to build the device you describe yourself (which as other posters have pointed out, is just the standard patent description of a computer)? Are you implying I'm allowed to infringe on a patent as long as I outsource the building of some of the parts?
who was it that decided that there would be no more spending on infrastructure? It wasn't the common voter.
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Holy cow. We're expecting our first, and this just looks like an amazing idea.

You should totally cross-market with the diaper services.
It's not completely related, but weren't the Lisp machines (and probably Smalltalk) printing out "live-objects" on the screen?

It's not related as the objects being printed (and could be clicked on) knew their identity beforehand, and established rather, rather than being "grepped" and then using heuristic establish connection to them?

But then what about say simple dictionary that finds words in webpage, and connect to the local or global terminology web-site (couple of tech-related sites have that). Or news site, where certain words are automatically linkified
"HTC claims that is has found ‘alternate solutions‘ to these patents, but Mueller isn’t optimistic:

But can those patents really be worked around? Standing in front of the Great Wall of China, you can also vow to walk around it. That doesn’t mean it’s a viable option."

The fact that you can't go around those patents, emphasizes how broken the current patent system is. How are competitors going to be "innovative", which is what the patent system was supposed to encourage, if they can't actually take another path in building their product, and basically their only real options are to either infringe on the patents or pay the licensing fees.
"Yeah, I don't buy that this is an invention in the 21st century, with no prior art."

Maybe not in the 21st century, but it might be in the 20th century which is when the patent was filed (1996).

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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The question of whether automation causes unemployment to rise in the long run is addressed in detail here:

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

TL;DNR for the Wikipedia article:

People have worried about machines putting humans out of work for centuries. But the unemployment rate has not risen steadily over the same period even as technology has constantly grown. The long term trend (measured since the beginning of the industrial revolution) has been that new jobs are created as old ones are destroyed.

But, nobody knows if this trend will continue indefinitely. There may be some threshold at which technology is so advanced, companies no longer come up with profitable ways to use humans.

To take an extreme example, imagine if we had robots that were smarter, stronger, and in every way more capable than humans. One can imagine a lot of different outcomes in that case. Widespread, permanent unemployment is one of the less favorable possible outcomes.

This doesn't mean the Terminator has to be invented before that technological threshold is reached. Some say we've already reached it, but it's way too early to say with certainty.

In short, technology has improved most lives without harming overall employment throughout the last few centuries, but that doesn't mean the same logic will always hold. The Wikipedia article is a really good read with a lot more detail.
Nifty idea. I like the environmentally-friendly detergent, etc. but my first thought was to wonder how effective it is at killing bacteria. Some parents are going to be concerned about that, so it might be good to have some data.
Woah: "It would not be unusual for me to keep 8 browser windows with say 10 tabs per window. And some of those, I would keep open for a week or more because I didn’t want to lose the valuable information that I haven’t had a chance to process yet."
I wonder how long the ability will last to use Google+ that way.
> Google most certainly makes money, and a lot of it, from Android.

Could you explain how you are most certain of this? I don't believe they make any money from Android. If you mean they make a lot of money on ads from customers accessing their services via a mobile device -- then fair enough but that's not "from Android" any more than they make tons of money "from the iPhone".
I just checked how much my textbooks for the next semester will cost. Around $700, used. Ouch

No kidding!

Years back, in college, I hunted around and bought a copy of the textbook required for a course on discreet math. It was small and very expensive. Later I learned that some enterprising students had gotten a copy from the school library and, at $0.10/page, photocopied it (or at least the parts needed) and saved an ass-load of money.

I have no idea if an open-book test would allow for bringing in a stack of photocopied pages, but ...
It is quite common for `None` though.
> You're asking me how it's bad that Google is using a strong-arm tactic to punish content-owners who sued it?

Yes, I am. If you sue someone, can you really expect them to be nice to you afterwords?
I believe this code is painfully unreadable - and that's despite the fact that CoffeeScript is very elegant and easy to read. (It's not you, it's async.) Further, maybe i'm misreading this, but it appears getPersonality and getLastTalked are fired in serial. Can someone who knows CS well fix that and reply? Thanks!
This implies that physics PhDs are interchangeable.
Are they already licensing S3 patents though? If so, would there not be a contract of some kind in place to stop HTC from just pulling the plug?
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"Abolishing the DNS hierarchy"
Okay, thanks. I was just about to write the exact same thing (although I may have been more dramatic complaining about the huge amount of unnecessary white space that fills my small netbook screen).

The new buttons however are quite nice and simple. There should be a hint of 3D though, to make them feel more "press-able". Other than that, I am okay with them becoming wide spread on the web, just don't surround them with so much wasted space.
IMO, the problem is much more than just automation and advancement in technology. It's actually far graver, and maybe inexorable at least in the short term.

Hate the man or his policies (or both), but you can't deny President Obama's observation that training education is the real problem in the so-called "jobless recovery". America as it currently stands has a total, almost prideful disregard for education (public and higher) and technical training. NPR and WSJ report that there are two million open jobs in the US. That's right, up to 2,000,000 jobs are currently open in places like manufacturing in the US. The problem? No one knows how to do the things that fill those positions. Extra tragedy: There aren't enough schools that train in these "manufacturing 2.0" jobs and there aren't enough people that care to learn those skills.

So, the more these jobs languish unfilled, the more productivity slows, the less likely the economy flourishes, and the more the currently unemployed will stay that way unless they remediate or accept jobs beneath their experience/education/skill level.

My personal pet theory, however, is that we don't have a jobs problem, we have a Business-with-a-capital-b problem. Entrepreneurship is still seen by many in two extreme ways that I feel actually turn people off to it.

First, people see entrepreneurship as some mystical, romantic idea reserved only for the rich, connected, and intellectually elite. You can't be successful in business without being (or knowing) rich, come from the Ivy League, or just dumb luck. None of those are in large supply, thus the trappings of success go to those who either know better (like we on HN?) or actually fall into the aforementioned groups.

If not the former, then starting a business is an action plan of last resort ("well, I've been unemployed for awhile now, may as well start that new business I wanted to do while I was wasting away in my cubicle for 10 years polishing slide decks and pushing papers." It's seen almost derisively ("Oh, you're starting a business. Couldn't find a real job, eh?").

Pie-in-the-sky solution? $10 Billion every year for 10 years on prime-rate or lower, long-term, guaranteed SBA loans. Create a federal credit union for this purpose, run by participating states, backed by the NCUA, to manage small-biz eligibility determinations, disbursements and repayment. Eligible business borrowers must have a business plan with 5-year revenue projections as well as application that are analyzed and "scored" using a points system like they do in Canadian immigration applications.

Then, open medicare enrollment to small businesses (below 99 or fewer employees) and self-employed persons and their partners/dependents. Base price on current per-capita cost on a sliding-scale to ensure no deficits or taxpayer burden.

Then, tax credits for every domestic job created.

Full disclosure: I'm a liberal.
Marketing question:

Any problems with using somebody else's trademark in your service's tagline?

Can I market my business as the "Netflix of ..." or the "Apple of ..." or the "Hacker News of ..." without getting permission from that trademark holder?

(I know a lot of generic products use a tiny line of type like "compare to Kellogg's Frosted Flakes," but it sounds like Plum Gear is taking it a step further than that.)
Isn't this a variation on the 'broken window' fallacy? It's true that at the moment it means less people employed, and that's certainly a problem.

In the long term, though, this means less work that has to be done, which means more available labor for doing interesting new things.

It's similar to how the food (farming etc) industry used to employ 50% of the population, and now employs closer to 2%. The answer isn't to try to find ways to re-employ 48% of the population in the food industry.

Perhaps it's time to start investing that surplus in the future.
> Government cannot create jobs.

This is nonsense. The government can fund projects that create jobs. Do you have any idea how many small businesses out there make their money solely from servicing government contracts?

Just as an example, I worked at a small software consulting firm during the middle/end of the dot com boom. We were a project shop. The contracts we worked on for the state allowed us to stay in business and weather the dot com bust. In the process, we brought in and trained about a dozen 'blue collar' type workers to do project management, account representation, and basic html and coding. As a result of that government money, those people got a new career path and ten years later the bulk of them are working at other companies making 6 figure salaries. Tell me the government didn't receive a huge return from their investment on that.
This works out to about $21-24/outfit you'd need for a 0-12 month old (assuming new clothes every 3 mo). It's a good abstraction and solves the "I'm drowning in boxes of unused baby clothes" problem pretty nicely.
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Watchout! Apple may file to patent "Startup", Lean startup and generally startup as we know it. These guys are out to destroy software creativity and invention in general.
Yeah you make a point. Same could be said about Outback Steakhouse.
Also, I can search my textbook. Can you?

Yes, it's called an Index.
We're seeing the beginnings of a transition back towards an economy of self-employment. We don't need people to operate the hamster wheels any more. Over the next 100 years more and more people will go into business for themselves, having all of the tools necessary to do services for others cheaply.
I'll still use the report as spam feature because it doubles as a block, which is the only way to make the tweet go away.
> (HyperTalk, if I recall correctly, had local variables by default and global variables explicitly, and was -- I think -- even more newbie friendly than JavaScript, so it's possible that JavaScript might have thrived.)

That's what Python does, it has its own severe failings (especially when the language is lexically scoped). I like dynamically typed languages, but I've come to the conclusion that scope inference is terrible, and variable scoping should always be explicit (and probably statically checked as well), trying to infer variable scope will fail silently and badly.
If we have a patent which is violated if the bundled software includes a feature but isn't if the software is separately installed later, by what argument is that a rational patent? Where is the huge philosophical leap between a tool within the platform and an extension which plugs into the API?

The simple answer is, as we all know, that there isn't, and that they've wrapped some fancy language for a general purpose computer around regular expressions (which very substantially predate the patent) and managed to get the patent granted. This is ludicrous.
> Queue

I'd understand this better if people didn't always pick the longer word when the short one would be correct.
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The 3rd point might be a legitimate notification service, like ifttt (e.g., I sign up for something that tweets a link to something to me whenever a page with no RSS updates; if a hundred people sign up for the same thing, it would look exactly like your third point.)
To play devil's advocate here, if this patent really can't be worked around reasonably, than this may be, finally, an example of a software patent that is valid and worthy of a patent because it is a true and novel invention.
Well that depends.

straightline.co.jp has plenty of Japanese websites that have a variety of visual designs.
Perhaps someone who understands patents better can explain this quote to me: "According to intellectual property activist Florian Mueller, Apple is unlikely to grant HTC a license for these patents and might make a damages claim."

My understanding was that a patent (unlike copyright, but like musical performances) was something you could not refuse to license, you could only extract a licensing fee. That being sort of the point of the inherent tradeoff of a patent—by making the blueprints public so anyone can use them, the gov't gives you a time-limited right to make money from anyone that uses that.

But the above quote would seem to contradict that. Can anyone explain?
Looks a lot like C# 5's await/async keywords:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/tags/async/

Cool to see growing interest for this at the language level.
I'm sorry, but I don't see this working for complete strangers. It's true that extended families regularly exchange clothes, but they're not the real competition.

Your real competitors are the (fairly regular around here) mom swap events. You can buy the same quantity of clothes for less than your monthly charges and see what you're getting in person.
I have to take issue with one of the statements; "Things are lasting longer and working better."

This is absolutely untrue in my personal experience. Maybe he's making the comparison using different dates than I am, but I've definitely experienced shoddier product quality and customer support within the last few year than I ever have before.
It's on the list of todos to preserve the input line-numbering in the output code. This would mean some changes to the code emitter, and also to the code emitted to preserve the ordering of statements.

In tame/C++, debugging either compiler or runtime errors is straight-ahead, as the developer doesn't need to examine the mangled code. Now if only JavaScript had the equivalent of cpp's #line directive....
If they were licensing why would they be in court with S3 and why would the judge rule infringement - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-01/apple-gets-mixed-ru...
I don't know about you but I prefer to buy fresh diapers for my toddler :) In all seriousness though, my wife often finds buying in bulk at kids r us to be as cost effective as diapers.com is (YRMV obviously).
If Apple were eBay it will now hold patent for online auction.
As the Father of a 19 month old I can only say this is a complete rip-off.

Craig's list, friends and family, birthdays, holidays, garage sales, second hand stores, 50% off coupons, the list goes on and on.

$16/mo for two outfits? Really? Maybe $1/mo/outfit or something like that and I'll bite. Right now, one years subscription would be more than her entire wardrobe and we're pretty much done until age 4.
If there are many job openings, but little actual hiring, then there is no real demand. If there were real demand, businesses would actually be filling those supposedly open jobs and figuring out how to make use of who they hired. Cherry picking with open job ads does not in itself show demand.

If wages are rising for people who make more than 400K, it's because demand for people who fill those jobs is real. That may be because businesses have decided that maxing out on employees who almost literally make money is better business than maxing out on the people who are effectively tools for the 400K+ crowd.
The server isn't even a remote server... it's just a service reachable by an opaque API on the phone.
Indeed. A lot of people on the Internet have what I call "Joe the Plumber" syndrome; they imagine themselves as though they are better off than they are, and then get upset when something helps the little guy. In this case, people are upset that there is no money in developing your own phone OS, because you can't compete with Free. But in reality, most of these people don't make phone operating systems, but they do buy phones. So Android ends up being great for them: cheaper fun electronic toys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber
I second this based on hard personal experience.

You end up with platform-specific features, behavior and bugs, compounded across multiple pieces in the stack. You also end up with conflicting design decisions.

In my case, I wanted to use Apache & Python, but the recommendation is for a threading Apache on Windows, but forking on Linux (allowing e.g. mod_python).

To be cross-platform, I ended up going pure python webserver at the cost of performance and then had to deal with divergent cpython threading behavior, as well as postgres win32-specific issues.
I agree with everything you said but the #1 obstacle to owning you own business is seed capital. You don't have to be a genius or rich to start a company, but you do have to be willing to take a potentially big financial risk to do so. People fresh out of college don't have 20k to live off of for 6 months before they can turn a profit on a business. The average household has 10k+ in debt; those people cannot start a business either.
There is no requirement on what you must charge for a license. So, a $1,000,000 per handset "license" would be a perfectly valid offer, and obviously unlikely to be taken up by HTC.
As others have said this works out to $21-24/outfit...but that's a rental fee, you don't get to keep the outfit to pass down to other kids (of your own or of your family and friends).

I suppose there's some value in being able to trade in the outfits once a month to get new ones but it's not enough of an appeal for me to justify the price. We currently pay ~$10-20 for an outfit for my 9 month old daughter which lasts her about 3 months and $15-$30 for my 2 year old son which last him 6-9 months.

I likely won't use this service unless the price drops although I appreciate the idea and the utility. Nice site too.
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> The manufactures that put Android on their devices are not mom and pop electronics firms

And this has no effect on treeface's reasoning

> the implication that this is somehow shifting money to poorer people is kind of ridiculous.

Again, there is no implication money is shifting hands.

What treeface said is that a massive amount of value is being generated by lowering the cost of building smartphones, thus reducing prices and allowing more people to use them and (he/she didn't say that) by offering a convenient standard software writers can write against, creating a market larger and less fragmented than any other player had managed to create.
That's done after the tweet has been posted though. What I'm wondering is if they have the ability to check tweets after they're submitted but before they're posted.
Yep, very good point. Inserted a paragraph about it on page five ("Firefox 1.0") - thanks :)
Copying is only plagiarism if you don't cite/reference your sources.

(I'm being somewhat tongue-in-cheek here)
Furthermore it's probably on the OS installation disk, so you don't download anything that specifically marks your installation of Apache at all aside from updates.
> 1 more question if anyone has a deeper understanding of
> this. Why is HTC being sued for something the Android OS
> is doing? Is HTC infringing, or is Android?

I'm not an expert in "patentish" language, but it is of my understanding that the patents as they are redacted apply to a complete working cellphone and not only to it's OS or software.
"Many consumers are unwilling to give up the trademark red envelopes. DVDs feature newer titles and the latest theatrical releases that aren't available through the company's streaming service."

Talk about a false conclusion. I don't really care how they deliver the movie to me, but when a movie I want to see comes out on DVD, I'm going to put it on my DVD queue. I would, without hesitation, watch it through their streaming service if I could.
The branch which attempted the defer keyword also had working code. The input was clean and the edge cases of what to do with return, try/catch, etc had been thought through.

The stopping issue was twofold: Coffeescript cares about the readability of both the compiler input and output and… Coffeescript cares about not inserting dynamic lookups and calls into the program which can add undefined performance impact.

Perhaps a fork of coffeescript that is targeted for writers of async NodeJS code would be able to safely trade those off. I think jashkenas believes that Javascript will benefit from many little languages springing up to solve specific problems.
It might not be true for the whole workforce, but it is true for the median. For the rich healthcare costs make up basically nothing in their compensation, so all of their compensation increase show up as higher wages. The really poor often don't get healthcare. But for the median, they get healthcare and healthcare expenses are fairly big compared to their wages.

This doesn't mean that the compensation of the median worker has perfectly tracked GDP growth, because there has been a moderate but genuine increase in inequality in compensation. But it isn't nearly as big as the increase in the wage gap, and saying "real median wages have decreased" is misleading.
https://github.com/280north/cappuccino/blob/master/Foundatio...

Nice. Pure class-object-reference equality up to the root. Won't work calling functions across windows, but who cares.
XenSource, SpringSource and JBoss all sold for $400m+. You definitely need to have traction in the market and a product that is loved by enterprises to make that big of a business though.
You feel comfortable with that statement as a universal?
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Materials are much better now than in the 60s or 70s but not as good as in the more distant past. My house was built in the 40s and looks better than 10 or 15 year old houses in the area. On the other hand, insulation was crap or non-existent then and furnaces were less efficient.
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