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infographic of 37 android related litigation http://twitpic.com/4c6an1/full

google/android is not an angel, they have copied generously for building their platform, which is illegal under current patent regime

but I do love innovation, maybe its high time we get rid of software patents once for all
Are those novels notable? Then by my definition she would gain notability for that.

As a general rule, if the only interesting information about a person is that they did X, then they do not deserve a page of their own. It adds no useful knowledge.

Now that I think of it, that is really what this is about. Does having a page about this guy that basically says he created clojure add anything useful to the world? It's clear in this case it doesn't. At least nothing that couldn't be said in the clojure article.

Knowledge is about organization (it could be argued that knowledge literally is organizing information). Does having an article about a guy whose sole notable accomplishment is clojure help to increase knowledge, ie increase organization of information? No, there is nothing to organize. For your Grace Metalious example, having a page that organizes her notable accomplishments is in fact adding knowledge to the world.
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but for me the Camaro work. It has redefined the world of Transformers as envisaged through the eyes of the bay is so interesting that not once I worry how he followed the original concept.
There's dozens of existing ways to have public posts that people can subscribe to (twitter, blogs, mailing lists, etc). In contrast there's not many places that let you share information the way Circles does. Kinda lame that as soon as people jump on Circles, they just want a rehash of the same features you can find anywhere else.
The standard response-- especially, I think, in popular books about Lisp and functional languages-- is that learning a new language helps you think and program better in other languages.

My own experience supports that idea, but not strongly enough to "justify" the time I've spent investigating other languages. However, I don't worry too much about justifying the time, since it's just something I enjoy doing.

From that point of view, I would say that if you enjoy learning Lisp, go for it. If as a hobby you brewed beer, or biked, or read Homer in the original, or played with your kids, would you feel bad that you weren't using that time to study Ruby and Javascript?

The only counter-argument I can think of is this. How many personal projects do you have under way? Could you be running into a problem where you start many projects but finish none of them? In that case, you might want to dig into the root causes of that. But it would have nothing to do with learning new languages-- that might just be a symptom of a problem that really might have something to do with "pointless" effort.
> Federal investigators and prosecutors aren't dumb. For all of those scenarios that you mentioned, it would be easy to tell whether or not this was a laptop that she used frequently.

Why doesn't the prosecutor ask banks and other parties for the records necessary to prove the accused is guilty? This is a mortgage fraud case right? Why can't they look at emails, contracts, bank records, and phone records that 3rd parties must have?

Since you can't defraud yourself, there has to be some other party involved who can turn over evidence against you.

If the prosecutor is so smart, why demand that the defendant incriminate himself? That is how the system in France works. Perhaps this prosecutor should move there.
I had issues with their domain management & DNS settings. Godaddy's was actually better.
I just went with Namecheap. I'm moving all my domains all of GoCrappy. GoDaddy is not only a mess to use, but it also costs a lot more.
Patent-pending tech can increase valuation.
Comments like this are why I love this site so dearly! :-)
I'm going to say without looking that's it's for ads. Oh and I'm sure that blocky logo isn't compressed at all, (same effect could have been done with the logo at 50x50 scaled up ;p)
Does the ToS let me communicate as if I were in a room full of adults and friends? Or does it require me to behave like I was visiting a grade-school classroom?
Flocking to Google+
That is why you use namecoin, the p2p domain name system. Unfortunately, it lacks adoption.
As he said, he blames the people who designed a system where plugging in a usb stick is unsafe, since the logical thing to do with media is to see what's on it. But for now that problem exists and people should be exceptionally cautious about such things.
In the US, people will need to pay $6400 per year for health insurance
When migrating our company's 15 domains away from GoDaddy I evaluated around a dozen registrars. Our criteria may be different from yours. With millions of subdomains and tens of millions of user-generated pages, we needed a registar that would absolutely honor our rights as domain owners. This was our top priority. Our lowest priority was cost, though there was a reasonable upper bound on what we'd pay per year. Features are somewhere in the middle -- we didn't want or need lots of extras.

Our priorities were:

1. rights as domain owners
2. registar stability
3. control panel usability
4. extra features (DNS, etc.)
5. cost

The winner was Gandi. Their combination of common-sense, customer-friendly terms and European privacy laws made the choice easy.

Read your registrar's terms. See if you still want to save that $6 a year.
if you had issues with dns check out dnsimple.com
I mean that paying off $10 to Microsoft doesn't scale because very soon you'll be paying several others with similarly slightly-relevant patents and who are all already either in court, threatening to take their cases to court, or have a history of not being shy about doing that.
> From the link: Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

The real definition, from wikipedia: "Capitalism is an economic system structured upon the accumulation of capital in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit, usually in competitive markets." Ayn Rand's definition looks more like libertarianism ("a political philosophy that upholds individual liberty, especially freedom of expression and action ... minimization of the state and sharing the goal of maximizing individual liberty and freedom.").
The logo truly is a horrifically bad design, so much so that I just don't buy the claim that it is intentionally bad. That's just an attempt to save face because it is bad.

Glad to hear they are working on the speed problem. I solved it a while back by installing every ad blocker I could find.

edit: oh gosh, it's worse than I thought. The small squares of the 3 size grid on the right are a slightly different size than the 4 size grid of the logo. You can't convince me that is intentionally bad, that's just bad, sloppy, terrible work.
I have 63 domains and 5 SSL certs with GoDaddy. While they're definitely not a favorite company, I don't hate them so much that I'm willing to go to the trouble of transferring everything.

If you really can't handle their upselling or bad UX, then just use their mobile site (http://godaddymobile.com) or iPad app.

If you have issues with Parsons or their way of doing business, fine–I get that. Otherwise, meh ... just buy your domains and get to work.
We could just give them a name other than "Circle", like "Public Topics", "Broadcast Channels", or "Columns". Personally though I don't think it is confusing to have Public and Private circles.
Awful reporting. I stopped reading that bull shit after this -

The reason the non-Android phone makers are suing the Android phone makers is because they formed a consortium to buy a bunch of patents from Nortel when it went bankrupt.

These companies sued each other before the Nortel patents entered the picture. Anyone who follows Android must know it. Its almost as if this guy came out of his cave, googled a little about android and patents and wrote this article.
I didn't really get the whole "birthday" concept until I studied the pic for a time. They just looked like random numbers to me... because that's not my birthday.

Maybe include little explicit "month -->" "day -->" "year -->" labels floating over the example sudoku picture? Just to really hammer in your concept.
You need great UX because your product sucks.
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Ever since OKC was bought by Match, I'm seeing a deterioration in the site; and I'm leery of giving any more information to Match. I detest Match, they're a slimy bunch.
What if... (this is probably a crazy naive "what if") all these legal stuffs highlights the problem with the current patent systems and forces government to start thinking seriously how to improve it?

Perhaps this drama should be blown out of proportion while we're on it so that it stinks so bad that even "dumb" customers would start rallying against it :)
We've started building a new domain management service at http://iWantMyName.com and we're bootstrapped, profitable and proud as 37signals would say... ;)

Here is some more background information from a co-founder perspective:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2448717
I'll settle for 1 alternatives to XYZ Registrar if it handles transfers in a sane/simple way.
Interesting post. I think that two-column comparison tables are similar to the slopegraph and (if designed well) can convey the information almost as well, particularly if they have different coloured rise and fall arrows (with number of places). The bonus is that its a simple formatting since nothing breaks its line it can be done with text and inline symbols, instead of as an image chart. The loss is that the connection between elements is not as strongly emphasized, but its fairly easy to tell anyway.

I don't have examples off-hand, so I hoped I've explained what I mean well enough.
And they keep your whois info private.
http://www.gandibar.net/post/2008/07/08/Gandi-helps-guard-yo...
Check out this article first: Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext for usability: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727123
The code change was just an example.

How many writers throw away the piece they've been working on and start anew?

That fresh start is invigorating, especially for those of us who've been with Facebook since the college only days. In those days it was "Let's see who I can meet on facebook", where today my primary use of facebook is to keep tabs on those I already know. So now I have a huge mix of acquaintances, friends, and family and of my 650 friends I care about maybe 50 of them. I've considered deleting my facebook account and the signing up again, but that would just confuse everyone. Google+ is a great excuse to start new and to file away all those random people from high school into my "People I don't care about" circle. If I need to get a hold of someone from those days, a quick post to that circle asking if anyone can help me get in touch will do wonders. For everything else, they don't exist.
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The logo is horrendous.
Well if it's a "game", Godaddy's committing too many "violations" for our tastes. Time to root for some other team.
The money would come from not bailing out the banks. Or rather, bailing them out via individual bank accounts. Power to the people!
I think the big picture people are missing is that the average facebook and twitter user has put so many hours into their account. Adding friends. Following people. It's been a cumulative process over the last 5 years. Trying to cram that into a week is clearly going to seem overwhelming. What is most impressive is that many (myself included) find Google+ and Circles to be quite friction free.
I find it ironic where in a community that's so aggressive about how anecdotes don't equal data there are members who draw conclusions about a person and holler them from the rooftops based on a few random stories on the internet.

Noah's a great guy (and a personal friend) who made a joke that didn't go over well.

Was it in poor taste? Possibly.

But let's get some perspective here before judging others and remember that everybody makes mistakes. You probably were lucky enough not to make them in such a public forum, where random people would holler words like "sexist" and "douche" at you from across the internet.
I don't understand the comparison. It seems like slope graphs and sparklines serve very different purposes. Both of the Tufte graphs in the piece (the "receipts of government" graph and the cancer survival rates graph) would not have conveyed nearly as much information if they were sparklines. The cancer graph is particular is magnificent.

The first set of bullets following the taxes graph clearly outlines what this type of graph excels at. I don't think those reasons overlap very neatly with sparklines; which are better at showing trends in time series data in a very small space. To me the key point about these slope graphs is that they show the relative rates between subjects very clearly. Sparklines do not do that as well, indeed they are often pretty compressed along the y-axis.
1&1 is on the same playing field as GoDaddy.
For registering a new domain I would recommend google apps, because of all the google apps integration to your domain. And if you are looking for server hosting I would recommend linode.
It's in the sidebar. Just amused me is all.
The article ends with the author suggesting the studios get together and create a single source for digitial delivery to make it easy for the consumers. Well, it turns out the studios are doing that, it's called DECE and the first step is a suite of DRMs and a rights locker called Ultraviolet. Unfortunately, it's a huge consortium that will have tremendous trouble actually getting anything done. It's also primarily aimed at supporting digital purchases to supplement the ailing DVD market instead of just biting the bullet and recognizing that rental and subscription are what most consumers want. Still, it's a serious effort despite it's flaws, so it's not fair to say the industry isn't taking the changes of the market seriously.

A much more difficult problem is undoing the years and years of distribution rights deals and complex availability windows that plague any improvement in the market. These deals lock up content, creating exclusive windows for entrenched players and hamper true innovation. Unfortunately, solving the rights windows issue, which includes not only time but also geographic limits, is a much more difficult problem to solve with fewer incentives on incumbents to change. If they don't, the whole industry will suffer, but I don't see this issue being solved any time soon.
For a simple registrar that supports DNSSEC I've been quite happy with https://www.gkg.net/. Their prices are reasonable and their site is quick and functional, though it's navigation is a bit clumsy. I can't comment on their hosting (including DNS) as I've not used it.
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Here's an extension to remove it :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enejibegbgfghbnanp...
This is why it's called "disruption." Basically there's a lot of mid-to-late career people whose (comfortable-to-extremely wealthy) lifestyles depend on ensuring that the status quo is maintained until after they retire.

Après moi, le déluge.
Yeah, I worked for a small tech company in Illinois whose owner's Asian wife became the owner for the right contracts and who put the minority receptionist in a suit and introduced him as a... president (I think it was) for different state contracts.

Very impressive program.
Krugman is a buffoon, his solution to every problem is " print more money".
You clearly have missed a lot when it comes to GoDaddy. You've made the same mistakes that many have made repeatedly. Everytime it's the same, "we thought we were fine, just hosting some domains", right before they have downtime because their hosting was suspended or DNS info dropped at a whim that GoDaddy acted upon with little short-term recourse.

It's not hard to transfer, that's just laziness.
I'm not sure if it's just new or if it's truly disgusting, but the new TechCrunch look just isn't sitting with me right... so instead of being a whiney prick, I figured I'd try to tweak their current layout to make it look & feel a little better. This 1 hr rough job looks a lot less distintive than their new design but it just feels more readable for me.
I totally agree. We have over 100 domains and 10 SSL certs with GoDaddy. Sure it gets a little annoying opting out of upsells, setting the domains to manual renewal, and changing the registration to 1 year with every purchase, but it adds a net of maybe 15 seconds to the purchase. That's well worth the savings and the flexibility they actually provide through DNS controls.

Their customer service is great and you can always get in touch with someone if you need any kind of support. Also, the iPhone app is really great. I don't know why that doesn't get more attention, but it's the most powerful Domain or DNS management app I've seen out there.

Like Callmeed, if you want to avoid them 100% b/c of Parsons, then I respect that. Otherwise, they're a budget provider that does a good job when stacked up against other budget providers in different verticals.
The cancer survival rates graph is magnificent. Super easy to understand, very information dense, and shows some very interesting trends. I never really thought about how different the slope of some of those diseases could be. That some cancers give you just about the same chance of being dead in five years as 20, and other drastically different odds.
Google+ will burst the tech bubble
We have seen the exact same scenario during the first tech bubble. The tech darling of the time, Netscape, had it's head torn off by the 800lb gorilla (Microsoft) and that marked the beginning of the end of the DotCom bubble.

This time around the flagship startup, Facebook, now has a credible threat from Google. The difference is Facebook isn't yet a publicly traded company. And I have a funny feeling the artificially inflated valuation of Facebook is just as quickly deflating right now. If Facebook's value starts declining before it goes public it could be trouble for just about every other startup that has not already gone public.
It doesn't. My "side" project took years. I finally finished a couple weeks ago, but since it was a "side" project, I was never too motivated to finish it. My motivation was when I got extra time after graduating in May. http://www.hipsterorhomeless.com is that project.
Because the presence of public circles (channels, topics, columns) need in no way dilute the current functionality of (private) circles.

G+ is where the audience is at, so that's where Notch would like to broadcast. Obviously a large number of fans are already following him for the purpose of getting this specific information, not noise on other subjects. If we don't enable that category of user, they're going to depart for greener pastures completely (rather than alienate their fans with a poor experience).
It actually got worse after that, where he started blathering about antitrust based on the winning bid being 5 times higher than the opening bid.
Google+ Circles: Illusion of privacy
If you are already familiar with another lisp check out Rich introducing and discussing the language in detail:

http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-1-1...

http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-2-1...

transcript: http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/clojure-for-lispers-tran...

It's not 30 minutes but it's what pushed me past using it on side projects to using it whenever possible and advocating it.
I switched from Godaddy to Moniker a little while back---quick, easy to use, and price-competitive. They're outside the US (in Canada), too.
cool! love it!
My comment was not at all that "grandma can't understand this". I mean that the concept of Circles needs to either evolve to where it has almost a different meaning altogether AND/OR that there are better mechanisms for targetting content than circles. How many damn Circles am I going to end up with (politics, democrats, hacker, programmers, lgbt and allies, etc plus family, friends, coworkers) plus I now have circles that are used for privacy directionality and others used for announcements. But what about announcements I want to share, but just with my family?

Circles are about privacy, I think that this tareted publishing is a categorically different idea and that Google doesn't even need to take the risk of muddling the Circles disinctions.

Besides, I'm convinced a tagging system (cross reference links with other social networking sites, "read" the web pages and combine it with Prediction API, etc) or self-tagging or sharing within Sparks (like subreddits [if you've used them to understand how much they can change the experience of a social networking site], or even better because the conversation is smaller and more intimate)

I feel like shoving it into Circles is brash and missing a good opportunity.
Updated to include suggestions from discussion!
The difference is: Everything works with Chrome updates (plugins, configurations), everything is a mess with FF upates.
Google definitely needs to do something about the public/private problem. Earlier today I blogged about why I think Google+ sharing is not revolutionary: http://www.ajennings.net/blog/?p=41

Google+ doesn't support the broadcast/subscribe model that well, and although it helps posters keep stuff private when they want, it ultimately leaves the decision of how much information is too much or too little about some person up to the sharer, when it should be dictated by the recipient.
I'm not so sure you get it. Yes.. you can subscribe to a lot of different mediums. But unless I use one medium for each audience, there will be overlap.

For instance.. barrybe may be in a "Friends" circle and a "Programmers" circle. In a programmer to programmer relationship, I only want to hear relevant topics. As a friend though.. I may want to be subjected to your waves of pictures highlighting your 2nd childs 1st steps. There's no way to keep the kids crap out of my "Programmer" stream.

The same is true for your blog. Unless I can subscribe to particular tags, I can't keep our interaction focused. I may get a rant, a story, an educational post.. it could be anything.

So the next best thing is organize all content by topic (for me). And here we have it.. "Hacker News". Except.. this environment is far less personal and far more intimidating.
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Alright, that's done, now where's the all-code Hacker News? :)
They're completely different concepts though. One is "I don't want these people to be able to see this". The other is "I want to publish this at people who are interested".

When I publish a post via my +blog, and it's about my piece of software, I want to publish it to my project followers, but I don't necessarily want to target it at my family. Does that mean I want to hide it from my family? Not necessarily.
Some browsers blur scaled up images so you don't get that nice blocky image.
Ask HN: Agency won't pay; site live. Copyright?
I was hired by an agency to work on a project for their client. Everyone is happy with my work on the record and the site is live and operational.

However I have gotten the ultimate runaround as far as getting paid for any of my work. At this point, I am seriously considering getting a lawyer. Meanwhile, does anyone know if I may have a legit claim to request the agency, the main client and the host to pull down the site because significant portions of it(60-80%) are operational only because of my code or fixes. The signed contract says nothing about copyright transfer though I've heard by default your work belongs to you until you explicitly transfer rights.