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I cannot speak for the HN readership in general of course, but I suspect the downvotes come from folks who don't believe you've added anything to the conversation. It is perfectly reasonable to say 'this is an ambiguous question' if you follow up with 'I chose to interpret it this way ... and my response is ...' or 'The definition 'good' here isn't well understood, does good mean socially good or corporately good, or good as in you won't go to hell if you do it good?'

So yes, the question can be interpreted in many ways, when I read it I felt the OP was trying to find examples which support the claim that the software patents are 'good' where good means they provide a net benefit to the community.

That being said, software patents are an emotional topic here and sometimes that overwhelms the conversation.
I can honestly say that I hardly ever really use math in the programming I do. The rest I agree with.

EDIT: To clarify, I hardly ever use math at the level I was required to study in my comp. sci. degree curriculum. Of course I use basic arithmetic calculations often enough.
Well my first encounter with software patents was with the Diffie-Hellman and RSA patents. Followed promptly by the Lempel-Ziv compression patent and then the MP3 patent. Can't say that I enjoyed any of those encounters :-)
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> This was before they even had @foursquare.com email addresses (and well before our series A round).

It sounds like it was pretty early on...
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try moving to downtown district of a big city, there's a ton more to do than in the suburbs.
I can relate. After starting a job out of college, I had to spend 40+ a week at work, and then still had my own side project(s) to work on. It's been a process for me to learn to take time off and invest in other deeply important aspects of life.

I realize this isn't directly relevant since you're currently single, but... I spend time with my wife and son. In your case, try to reconnect with close friends you've lost touch with, call your dad/mom/brother/sister etc...

Another idea is to get outside, do some walking/hiking/cycling/swimming... This can be a bit of a beast during the hot summer months depending on your location; it's usually cool in the mornings pretty much anywhere though.

It's hard to re-learn relaxation but it's a worthwhile endeavor!
Here is one of my PHP standards... I prefer this to more complex template systems, although the idea is borrowed from Symfony I think. The style I try to adhere to is to only use simple variables and loops in html templates. This is the basic idea:

function render($data, $templateFile) {

extract( $data );
ob_start();
require $templateFile;
echo ob_get_clean();

}

It turns an array (or DTO object using get_object_vars) into global variables in the template, so this code in a controller

$data->foo = "bar";

Is accessed in the template like this:

<?= $foo ?>
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The Book of Life or the Akashic Records is one of the ways that you can figure out your great existence.
I disagree with just about everything in this article. Social marketing works and it is measurable.

In my experience, the first step is to gain followers or fans. The best way to do this is through targeted advertising. While it is possible to build a follower base without advertising, it is harder. Advertising gives the advantage of speed and targeting.

The second step is to keep providing people with good content, while at the same time, promoting your product. As you provide content, you can measure the number of comments and get a feel for peoples' thoughts. This becomes easy after a while because you become accustomed to your audience and know what they like.

Does this mean that you are going to be able to sell your product? It really depends on your product and the market, just like with anything else.

I would question the product-market fit before I questioned the value in social marketing.
Let's think about the what's going to make ppl pay up more. How about some public humiliation?

eg. If Twitter user A owes money, tweet at all A's followers telling them about it ... "@AFollower Did you know @A owes @B $20?"

http://www.spanishvida.com/2010/02/22/in-spain-debt-collecto... is the story I heard that sparked this idea BTW.

Not that I'm saying this is a good idea and you should do it, I think you'll be shut down so quickly, I'm just pointing out ...
An added benefit of this is Exchange customers can take advantage of what Microsoft has learnt from filtering Hotmails spam by using FOPE (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/forefront/cc540243) as a cloud based spam filter. It's amazing how well it works
A better title would drop the "Why" because the "why" is not really answered. Indeed, the message of this piece is that we DON'T understand why some messages spread on social network, only that some do and most don't.
Agreed. If you limit your application to WSGI then mongrel2 is "just" another high-performance event-driven webserver. To really take advantage of the advanced features of m2 you need a framework that's more closely tied to its model of the world.

(speaking as author of the m2wsgi module linked above)
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1) re evolution: when I say it's a "loaded" term, it's because it is sometimes by people who seem to make the additional assumption that mutation and natural selection are sufficient to produce the results we see today. I think that assumption is unfounded and seems to be more like a wish to keep things simple. I don't for example see how gay people could be genetically predisposed to be gay, since they would have a reproductive fitness level far lower than others. But that's not even the biggest thing. Little mechanisms which could hardly make a difference in survival one way or the other are doing an amazing job. Maybe it's sexual selection. But where is the evidence that all that we see around us was produced with simple mutation and natural selection?

Regarding bacteria and viruses: that's micro-evolution, isn't it? Why is it macroevolution?

2) Regarding the BBT: so why do people think there was a "big bang" and talk about the "first few seconds of the universe" if the universe is probably infinite, and it is only the visible universe that we see expanding?

3) I don't know, I'm not a physicist... seemed like an intriguing way to think about the expansion though
Not trying to be snarky, but a huge benefit of going to a place like "Stanford Business School" is precisely the advantageous effects of "naming-dropping" you went there.
It's not just that they provide free services, it's that those services are beneficial to society. Obviously this is very subjective and complex. Wikipedia would generally be regarded as good for society - removing the barrier to obtaining knowledge. However, if Wikipedia details how to make a bomb, that's regarded as bad for society.

Google helps society. They provide good search. What separates then from Bing is that they operate with the idea of "do no evil". Bing are seen as copying (an idea - stealing) which is bad in society.

Zynga provides cheap entertainment, but that's not good for society. TV isn't seen as good for society anymore - it's passive. There's an opportunity cost to being entertained - you could be productive - learning on Wikipedia.
That's definitely a factor to be considered. Over time, I think it's fair to say that England significantly outpaced the Continent in industrialization. It's hard to say whether overall the English patent system facilitated that process, at the cost of imposing temporary roadblocks such as what you describe.
I have a small boat (starfish). I sail it in smug bliss over my graceful mastry of the winds. Im a complete sucker for things like codifying board game rules in prolog, but that doesnt cross your mind when you are lord of the local waterways.
Cool app. You could integrate with the WePay API so that the person owed money could actually collect easily online.

https://stage.wepay.com/developer
I have kids, so a big chunk of my weekends tends to be doing stuff with/for them. There's also shopping, laundry, housecleaning, yardwork... all the boring normal chores. If I have any energy left I try to read a bit or learn about something new. I find it difficult to do anything really productive on the computer over most weekends. Sometimes the stars align and I get a few quiet hours.
I like this example about the man and work.

Why does the man find value in what work gives him in return? Because he feels he needs those things, he can still make the choice not to get them but why would have this choice in the first place, why do those things appeal to him?

The same as how a dog will choose to jump when you train him to expect treats, he could just ignore it but someone he'll do it because treats taste good. Why they taste good is I believe something that is honed by evolution. (Same as how we like things with Fat in it. Fatty stuff taste good for a reason.)
He was referring to Brooks' law, so he was making a comment about the project. Your post was completely offtopic.

And by the way, your post being downvoted wasn't ironic at all.
I find this true in many PhD fields (and their relative measures of success)
We were a small nation of rather poor farmers, right up until a handful of Canadians (British at the time) beat the snot out of our military and burned our capital in the War of 1812. If the marines hadn't been funded during the First Barbary War in 1800-1805, we probably would have lost the War of 1812. It really put the lie to Jefferson's agrarian utopia.
Oh dreadful, it's like reading an Enterprise solution deployment whitepaper.
Also, your API key may be at risk if you append it to a URL that you proxy.

For instance, we're doing this proxying with Tumblr (sans API key, fortunately) and they occasionally issue a 302 redirect and tack on some parameters. (for caching reasons, I assume) The 'Location' header that is sent back would have your API key in it, so you'd need to detect that and strip it out. Also, if they throw a 500 error they may echo your URL back at you.

I'd probably move this code up into this application layer unless you're very sure about the API you're using.
Jam session. Get a guitar or other instruments and find out what open jams there are where you live. It's easy to pick up enough skill to strum along and soon enough you could lead some of your own.
I lived in China for seven years and am two months through a long term trip around India. What you are saying seems true to me. India's problems - aside from population - are government and infrastructural, perhaps reinforced through corruption. The degree to which people study and scrabble for jobs, inventing false specialist vocabularies and constantly one-upping each other in a bid to appear 'educated' or 'successful' is truly saddening... there's seemingly just no other avenue for people to move forward through.

When Indians ask me the difference between China and India, I tell them "China has economic wealth and great infrastructure - India can't flush it's sh*t out of the cities. But India has democracy and is spiritually wealthy."
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Reconnect to old friends or make new friends. While there's a certain masochism about sacrificing everything on your startup vibe on HN, if you want to do startups/entrepreneurship for more than a single deathmarch to burnout, you need to keep things sustainable.

Keep training jiu jitsu, maintain social relationships, chase girls (or boys or whatever) and make sure you allocate time to keeping yourself healthy - physically, mentally and emotionally. For most people that means a social network (not the facebook kind) to keep you grounded.

Otherwise, pick a hobby, preferably one that is social but where you won't be tempted to spend escalating time on it. Sports league, dance, improv, whatever.
I recommend cycling. It's meditative, healthy, and if you do it around urban fringes you tend to meet cool people and stumble on interesting places to acquire sustenance. Goes well with audio books or (particularly when large mountains are involved), trance ;)
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If anyone wants to know more about why the subjectiveness of the DSM is problematic, check out Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters, and then also this Wired article:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/

I realize this is only a book review and not an attempt to fully explain the issues, but even still the author of this piece doesn't do the best job at actually explaining the various issues. (Albeit it's still a good read.)
Neither does using a wiki have anything to do with G+. Your original question was about the editing method, not G+ (I think), the person responding to your original question responded to that, and I expanded on that answer.

I suppose the posted article was also really about Google Docs, and only related to G+ because they were using Docs to create information about G+.
You're barely even offensive, you're just a waste of space. You have an inflated sense of how strongly people feel about your comments. I'm only voting you down because you're noise in my conversation.
Also a great looking implementation. Although, I'm not sure it's obvious that you can click on the circle to expand the available jobs. It also seems that some of your other users (aside from Urban Green Fair) aren't aware they can place multiple tasks to complete.
Sleep.

Seriously. I sleep.
Where do you live? If you are near open spaces / nature preserves, you can go hiking or camping every weekend. Perhaps go bicycling?

Physical activities are good, they keep you busy and your mind sharp. I have personally tried to establish a resolve to work myself to pieces on weekends in some form of activity or another, and it's been paying off.
If you don't have problems socializing with people, then get out and meet people. I'm not probably the best one to talk about this. I'm also single, 20 years old, spend all of my time in front of the screen.

I have tried a month ago dating, but that didn't work out and I gave up too quickly. I'd be interested to know if anyone has a solution for that.
Both, really. It's a sort of clever way to deal with a problem that plagues non-savvy users.
I have 2 kids and an infant. My wife works most weekends (fri noon through sun night) so I spend my weekends as "single dad".

Lots of playing on the floor, going to the park, cooking, and that sort of thing.

It's a reasonably good life though I sometimes envy you single, childless guys for the enormous number of hours you get for yourselves. You think you know. But you really have no idea just how much time you have right now. Enjoy it

So from that perspective here's my advice. Do all the stuff you can't do when you have kids. Have lots of sex. Go on spur-of-the-moment day trips. Stay up late and sleep all day. Take flying lessons, or dancing lessons,or whatever. Seriously work towards ticking off items on your bucket list. Don't just sit around though because as soon as you have kids your combined disposable income, free time, and social flexibility shrink to a thousandth of a percent of what you have now (that's only a small exaggeration
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Most of my time is spent with my family, I have two small kids. I try to sneak in some time to work on my personal project unscatter.com
This quote seems to fall victim to the Naturalistic fallacy. That which is natural is not necessarily good, and that which is good is not necessarily natural. Whether or not patents have an overall positive effect is reasonable to debate, just don't say that they're unnatural, and therefore wrong.
I appreciate your reply. I do think I was trying to add to the conversation, if only by pointing out that the question itself was not as well posed as it could have been. Perhaps I should have gone the extra mile and offered an opinion based on one (or both) readings of the question.
Disregard normal life. Work on your startup.
I think what he means is that you can actually design a site for your project and host it on Github. For example:

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Are there any non-google sites that do this on google code? As far as I can tell, all of them look like this:

http://code.google.com/p/waf/

Which is fine, but I'd hardly say that a new user would find that less daunting than the Homebrew page. There's a lot going on, and it's trying to cater to both people who want to use waf and people who want to work on waf.
Origami! The modern stuff's amazing and so addicting.

If you're reading the compiler book because you love to do that, I don't see the problem. Free time is for doing anything you want to, as opposed to things you need to because of obligations. If you love thinking about startups, do that. Work-life balance only needs to be considered when you feel like all you do is work.
Maybe at some point, working on an app that suggests date ideas!
Whatever you do, stay away from any screen of any type. Go out. Hike, bike, run, walk, rollerblade, anything.
That's an odd angle to look at this considering this is an industry which requires no formal education or accreditation.
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Great - now go and read this (http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...) to cheer yourself up.
The book is about Google+. That's why it's called Google+.
Run, eat lunch with friends, and do as much creative/educational activities not directly related to my day-to-day as I can. That also includes doing "touchy-feely envisioning" for some of the time. If partially relates to my job, of course, but it helps me get ready for the next week. Taking a step back from work while actually thinking a little bit about work itself helps me charge back up.
Three reasons that come to mind:

- You bought bitcoins in the past, and now decided to get rid of them.

- You generate bitcoins and want to spend them.

- You are outside of the US, and want to buy Amazon.com stuff.

If they play their cards right, they'll make big bucks and help the bitcoin economy in the process.
It would be interesting to see how effective this approach is. I was told by the HR firm helping us through our last layoff that most technical jobs (in the US at least) were won as a result of personal contacts or networking rather than a crop-dusting approach.
Seems really nice but it needs to be simpler. The reason why Dropbox works so well is because you can pretty much install it on any device without having to think.

I do like the idea of open sourcing it. When I took a look at the code I was surprised that it was written in Java. If the intent was to support a lot of platforms I think writing at least the core in C or C++ would've allowed him to get more versions up faster.

Oh, and what do you mainly need help with at this point?
The article's analysis is severely flawed, and I suspect intentionally so. It tries to lay the blame on inventors, innovation and technology workers for the unemployment of unskilled workers.

We don't have enough manufacturing jobs in the country not because technology has made it so that everything is made by robots in gleaming factories.

We don't have enough manufacturing jobs in the country because we have zero import tariffs for countries that use slave labor and have no enforced environmental regulations. This is a situation created by globalist bankers, not inventors.
Man, those chairs look uncomfortable.
I was in this situation during the 2000 bubble burst.

Many of the developers accepted equity in leiu of paychecks, and then began drinking heavily at the office.

The company in question eventually met their obligations and is still operating today. I would caution that most companies in the above scenario do not make it out alive, though.
Meet like-minded people for brunch and have a meaningful conversation at a coffee shop afterwards.
What came out in the logs isn't relevant to Manning's defense, insofar that the logs are in the hands of the prosecution and so would be given to Manning's lawyer, irregardless.

The same goes for Assange. And nothing in the logs rules out that Assange "ran" Manning nor do they prove it. All they have is Manning saying Assange is good at OPSEC. So Assange may not know WHO Manning is, but still may have directed Manning to get more info or look for this or that. That's the presumed essence of the grand jury proceedings.

Nothing in the logs changes any of that, nor would the publication require the gov attorneys to show exculpatory evidence to a grand jury. A grand jury is a one-sided proceeding intended to convince a group of people that someone likely committed a crime.

Lamo promising "immunity" to Manning on journalistic or religious grounds? Meaningless, except for your opinion of Lamo, which I assume was pretty damn low even before you saw the full logs.

This is all sound and fury, when the real truth is simple as can be. Manning chose the worst person in the world to confide in.
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I work my ass off coding mon-fri for my corporate overlord, to spend the weekend on my most rewarding hobby: coding.
I go to bars with friends, I go to concerts, I read, I sometimes just go to places like Barnes & Noble, buy a coffee, and either read a magazine or just sit around and watch people. Lately I've just been going out with a few close friends, usually to a bar or two or three, to drink and laugh and talk and have a good time. It never gets old if you're with the right people. Yeah, it's not hiking or biking or walking, unless you count walking to the next bar, but it's always great being able to unwind. Definitely not the healthiest weekend activity, though. If you can handle being alone and have some money to burn you should travel. I'm going to Europe for a couple of weeks just for fun. Being single has its perks.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book on compilers or thinking about your startup's marketing campaign, but I think it starts to become wrong when that's all you do. Being single isn't necessarily a bad thing either. I mean, it isn't the greatest thing all the time, but that all depends on how you're looking at it.

Anyway, if you think it's fun to just sit around and read then by all means do that. Don't think you have to do something else. By the looks of it though, you don't think it's fun. It seems like you're forcing yourself to think it's fun because everything else seems scary or too difficult to do. Don't just work all day everyday. You'll just burnout and be worse off then you are now.
They. I'm not a part of the company...
Fantastic writeup on social and cultural capital. So good, in fact, I'm going to link it next time I have to argue with people about the cultural and social advantages being born wealthy privileges them, even if they don't inherit a dime of actual capital.
Indeed, but it side-steps the parts where the blogger inflates the importance of being passionate and such. Anyone less fortunate in those terms in that point in life probably couldn't get away with it, even if it were still a great school (top-50). It goes along the same irony vein that results in so many people to using Mark Zuckerberg as an example of how/why dropping out of school can be better than staying in, all the while ignoring the fact that he was still at Harvard, far above and beyond the initial position of those re-purposing the example for themselves.
reading a book on compilers, seriously, the dragon book, i'm on page 61, "top-down parsing"