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Statements based on ambiguity.

Separate in what way from animals?
ITC judge rules that HTC smartphones infringe upon 2 Apple patents
possibly after being denied by the grand jury.

Pardon my ignorance of the American legal system but when, if ever, would that become public knowledge?
I think we should be looking to learn from everyone, but at the same time, the scale of the problem is so vastly larger in the US than Israel or pretty much anywhere else we could look to that I fear the lessons won't translate well.
That's an amazing matrix. It deserves it's own post.
I tell them what I do (website development) and follow up with a few examples of what I've been working on recently. Most people have no concept of what web development is, but saying that you built a system to report user statistics or to manage website content adds a lot of context to your job title.
What, essentially, you just said:

"US Treasury Bonds downgraded because of the Deficit Cap row? OK, so the Americans can just sell their half of Canada to France."

This Cyprus diversion of yours was just wrong to the point of surrealism. Let it go.
Don't use release candidates
Very nice article. It is centred about observing the past. But as evolution is going on, things change and I think that we are living in an era where things are changing and society will less favour the capability to compete but more to cope together. Think about the globalization, about global political institutions like UN, IWF, etc. Think about the fact that mankind is reaching limits of resources - oil, water, soil. I tend to think that these changes will actually change the roles and favour women, because it will be more important to share equally - that's just my personal opinion and I am actually in favour for it. I think we had enough wars and at least on this planet there is not that much territory to be conquered.

What do you think?
Indeed. C, ASM, perl and python. I do embedded devices.
Where in Wired.com's reporting is there any narrative that Assange directed Manning?

Your statement in the logs would somehow save Assange from a U.S. grand jury is laughable. And it's a very thin thread to try to weave a tapestry that Wired is in cahoots with the FBI. You must not read Threat Level very often.
I just executed an "Exodus" request from this service, and it is still up and running and working as of 4:41 PST.

Since Facebook hasn't blocked this application as of yet, I wonder if Facebook is taking the stance that the more people that see Google+ now, the more people might see that Google+ isn't as useful and polished as Facebook.

I love Google+ and am an active user, but they still need quite a few more features (checkins, business pages, iOS integration etc) before they'll be hitting their stride for the masses.

Regardless, this has been a fun month of July!
Yes, this happens. I'm speaking anonymously here, so take my word for it if you care to, but I know of 2 specific instances in 2 YC companies where employees received 2-3 months severance. There is another recent case (non-yc company) where severance took the form of high single digit vested equity for a not-gelling founder.

Particularly with founder or near-founder departures, fair severance can be used to keep a company legally covered down the road. Consider if Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss had just been paid back in the day.
Absolutely. Yeah, the "I'll will myself into doing this" approach doesn't work for long. There have been a handful of psychology articles on attention and self-control being limited mental resources (e.g., http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc281e.pdf -- [PDF]).

I was just saying that even with all kinds of tricks and fooling yourself and convincing yourself and whatnot, you still have to make yourself stop pushing that reward button and do some work. The key, for me, is to make it easier and easier to switch from procrastinating to getting work done.
But if that code passes the unit tests, then let's just ship it and go home! :)
I've done the math and invested accordingly.

I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but $2000 gold is around the corner, and the bottom in the early 2000's was well under $400, depending on the market you look at. The move in gold has been hyperbolic. Have you seen that pass through to consumer electronics? Are there alternatives to gold for these industrial uses?

I agree entirely that only idiots play roulette with the nations's entire money supply, which is precisely why we should take the roulette wheel out of the hands of the money printers at the privately owned Federal Reserve.
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Not only that, the whole thing reads like "hey, would-be-Android developers, please stay away from Android as I can't take the competition".
Yeah, but I think that message will resonate more with the HN crowd than with just about any other crowd. There are an awful lot of people that aren't motivated to be a better person or a more respectable person -- nor could I, for one, tell them that they should be.
Online legal records must be preserved, says Iowa Supreme Court
You Can Get a New 'Member' Made from Your Thigh if You Misplace Yours
Are You a Facebook Defector for Google+?
I agree. Never have been outcast from the tech community. Actually the opposite. People reached to me about possible leads.

If you network properly when you have a job (and otherwise don't need something from people), usually they are willing to help you out. Build your network before you need it.
Semi-related, does anyone perform automated unit test deployment, execution, and reporting on iOS devices? If so, how do you do it?

At my current company we have a rather large automated test infrastructure that builds and runs ~50 or so individual libraries and their associated unit test programs on around 20 different configurations for 10 different platforms. Most of these platforms have a way of doing an unattended deployment of our test programs (and associated data) to the device, execute the programs, and retrieve the output.

This isn't working on iOS though because of its dependency to Xcode. We've tried scripting Xcode with AppleScript but this is fragile and routinely breaks.

Has anyone tackled this problem and succeeded?
This is rather interesting in that if you're committed of certain crimes and repay your debt to society, your records can be expunged. If you were charged and acquitted, they may not. This used not to be a big deal, but as courts have moved their records online and anyone can now dig up another person's legal history in minutes, the technology is proving to be a mixed blessing.
There are many songs not in Rdio's catalog and I have to pull up iTunes to play them. I cannot mix and match non-catalog music with Rdio. I did not say it's useless, just that it cannot be my exclusive music player. Furthermore this becomes even more of a hassle on the go as I would have to pull into a different app on the phone to play non-Rdio music.
New releases will not show up instantly in Rdio and there's no way to get them into Rdio's interface. MOG suffers from the same issue.

Of course this has been my experience. I reason it's possible for someone to be completely satisfied by Rdio's catalog but for most people there will be missing music.
Did VMware Screw-Up With Its New Pricing Model?
Well, some of the companies you mentioned are using the same obvious and/or prior art laden patents as a weapon against their competitors, so that 'sad day' has obviously already happened.
I don't know if your post is directed at me or not, but to you and all the other people in this thread assuming Out of Milk on the Google Android Market is the only source of advertising and revenue that we have and will explore...well all of you are making a giant assumption.

Everyone, please understand the following:

We understand that putting all of your eggs in one basket is dumb. There is no success there. But when the largest portion of your market all of a sudden starts screwing with you in ways you can't figure out, that is a problem and it is something worth discussing.
I remember reading this a couple years ago. After I read it today I told my kid to stop the video game and "read this." Then we talked about it, how if you want you can go beyond what the teacher is teaching, or even in a parallel direction if the teacher isn't covering what you want.
Startup idea: Baby clothes for rent by the month
> You say this as if being sexist is a bad thing

If you know how to read English, yes, it's a bad thing. In the modern definition, the connotation of the word implies over-generalization. i.e. it's not rational behavior. No one interprets it otherwise unless you're trying to score points.

> The problem happens when women are judged by what men are supposed to do, or when men are judged by what women are supposed to do.

Somehow we know women are "supposed to" demote the rest of their aspirations and nurture a child all the way to adulthood because they breastfeed a child until it's 2, but a father can pursue his dreams because he need not be around after depositing a sperm donation.

> No, it simply stands to reason. You cannot subjugate the females in society, generation after generation, and expect it to survive.

Around we go... You'll have to define "reason" for me, because I usually think of it as taking into account existing evidence, including reading about women's experiences in such societies, before drawing such conclusions, but, to each his own. There is such a thing as a sustainable society that never reaches it's full potential...

> All parents, mothers and fathers, want their children to accomplish what they could not.

I worded this badly. Most parents want their children to be successful. This does not imply that the children should exist as proxies for them -- as complete representations of their self-worth. Again, I suppose it's sustainable culturally, although I'm not sure how it's supposed to be non-miserable. :-)
So a bank being able to create an unlimited amount of currency is bad, obviously, but limiting your currency growth to how fast you can mine gold out of the ground isn't much better.

Let's take a very simple example. Say there are two people on an island. The first can build boats, the latter can fish. There is no currency. What should happen?

Case 1: No transaction. Both die.
Case 2: The first builds a boat (boats are very resource intensive!) and gives it to the second. The second fishes and has fish. The first dies because he has no fish.
Case 3: The first agrees to build a boat and rent it to the second in return for part of the first's weekly catch for the next 10 years.

To support Case 3, you basically need contract law. But the contract in question is very inflexible. Does the boat maker enter into similar contracts to cover his needs for clothes, etc? Ideally the boat maker could just sell the fisherman the boat and use the money to buy fish or clothes or anything. So you need currency.

The key question is: how much currency do you need?

Obviously, you need enough to be able to serve as a proxy for the goods and services in your economy and promises thereof. The Fed may not be great at estimating that amount, but pegging it at how quickly you can mine gold out of the ground doesn't make any sense either.
Sorry you are correct the debt is rated not the country.
"The problem is that there exists no plan with reasonably-priced,
reasonably-fast non-capped internet access, while there is a demand for it."

I believed the same thing until recently. HN User Aloisius let me know about Web Pass, which is unfortunately available only in buildings with 100 or more residence units, in this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2711784

"symmetric 100 Mbps uncapped service in San Francisco for $33/month"
Google+ actually has check-ins, both through the native Android app, and through the mobile web app. What's more, the current version of Google Maps on Android also has hooks to allow you to check in on Google+ without leaving the Maps app. You can even set Maps up to automatically check in, or remind you to check in, the next time you're near that location.

Now why anyone would want this is still beyond me. I've never been one to actually use Foursquare or Gowalla...
Just a small remark: Factory pattern is anything but complex. Y combinator actually seems much more complex to me (though, I'm not proficient in functional programming, so that might be why I find it complicated).
I'm astonished at how broad the patents in question seem to be: http://www.google.com/patents/about/5946647_System_and_metho... and http://www.google.com/patents?id=nCYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=f...

The first one especially seems like it could describe any computer system at all. I guess I am just not smart enough to be a patent lawyer, and I say that with a straight, straight face.
"Litigation that attacks open-source products limits consumer choice, hurts the economy, and discourages innovation."

I find this interesting, in a world where software patents exist this seems tantamount to saying "software patents ought not to apply to open-source products", does Google really mean this to be read as "[Patent] litigation ... limits consumer choice, hurts the economy, and discourages innovation", if so, given that they are in a better position to influence legislators than I am, what pro-active steps are they taking to change the status of software patents? Or do they really mean "we don't like it when Apple uses patents against us"?
Well there are 7 levels of A rating. The US certainly doesn't deserve to the top most tier since there is active discussion of default. No I don't think it actually would but what is the point of these ratings if they are being used like this?
In theory this is the benefit of 3rd party stores, but the only viable one is the Amazon Appstore, but that has it's own massive issues. (To be part of the free day promo you give up that revenue, absolutely no concept of what is actually compatible with the target phone, web experience is better then the handset experience)
This is starting to get scary. An indie developer like me can have their life's work crushed with a single letter for something as ridiculous as having a method to transfer bytes from one storage medium to another.

For smaller (i.e. one-person) companies targeted by this kind of insanity, would it make sense to dissolve the corporation being targeted and simply transfer ownership of the targeted product to a new business entity instead of even bothering with investigative legal costs?
> Most of the things we derive happiness from in life are an integral part of our normal life-death cycle of events

Most? Do you mind elaborating?
Ability to organize isn't really an indicator of the good or harm you do.

Do you know what another regime is that had a legendary ability to organize? NAZI GERMANY.
The problem with commodity money is without other supporting infrastructure you have no way to denominate commitments of future obligations (at least at a macroeconomic level). You can introduce contracts with respect to commodities that can be traded (eg: a contract for 100 pork bellies to be delivered in 1 year) but then you still get into modern finance.
Gender differences in attention spent on ads (nsfw-ish)
Thanks for the Lego bridge link. Very awesome!
Biggest surprise to me, men spend more time on the face. (although I'd imagine men and women have different reasons to look at her body.)
Here's another great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsm-QbN9r8
That sucks. Your disillusionment is understandable. I guess my viewpoint on this assumes the employer is honorable. Maybe too narrow an assumption in this market. But your comment shows you did take your employer's situation into consideration, which is what I'm hoping to find.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-St...
Ask HN: How to drive user aquisition for my new social networking application?
I'm developing a new social network: one that could change the way people communicate for the better. Good applications launch every year but that's never enough.

What are your suggestions on how to drive users to join, invite friends & come back often?

IDEAS
Launch at one university or large network only.
Using an "invitation only" waiting list strategy.
Forcing users to invite a few friends at sign up.

Any more?
Interesting. Let's see how his first startup goes, and how it ends up. Remember the crunchpad? The main problem i see with him is that he's not technical. Also how popular are his conferences/blog going to be if others see him as a competitor? Anyway, best of luck to his endeavors.
You can see some better numbers here. Of course, when I say "interest rate risk", that function involves duration.

http://etfdb.com/etf/JNK/fundamentals/
http://etfdb.com/etf/IEF/fundamentals/
You don't need fancy academics to see why the gold standard was a bad idea.

You need money to function as a proxy for the economy. Every time grows up and enters the workforce, you need to add money to the economy to be able to serve as a proxy for his or her labor. As population and economic activity grows exponentially, you need to add exponentially increasing amounts of money to the economy just to avoid deflation.

Now, explain to me how we could've sustainably kept mining exponentially increasing amounts of gold out of the ground?
I guess the computer science-y name would be Higher-order Function.
It's an opportunity for HN'ers to hold forth on programming.
FWIW there are some similarities with getting a bad review in a large bureaucratic company (I know for HN readers this either doesn't apply, or they wish it didn't!), one common thread that I would emphasize is that even if the headline reason for the firing or crappy review (FOCR) is complete BS or political or whatever, there is very likely something that you did have control over that either precipitated the FOCR or created an excuse for it, but the immediate shame/rage/pain of the whole FOCR may make that hard to see. Expect to need to sit on the experience for several years before the full value to you can be gleaned. Having been through this in a couple of guises I have definitely learned some real lessons about both myself and the behaviour of teams, managers, and companies.

I suspect the same can be true for some startup failures... maybe in my next adventure I will find out.
The problem with the NOOP solution is that most of the small sites (the ones with nobody doing ongoing maintenance) are hosted on managed shared servers -- avoiding an upgrade isn't an option. The site owners will just wake up one day to an inbox full of UR WEB IS BROKE emails if they're lucky, and may even understand enough of what the ISPs first-level help desk drone tells them to get it fixed. (I imagine, though, that accusations of extortion would be more likely, since the quick fix would be a VPS with a non-refundable one-time setup fee.)
I imagine the difference is in how you listen to music. Having been a staunch evangelist for Rdio, I've found that the people that really fall in love with it are usually album listeners. If you prefer to listen in more of a radio type setting, Spotify would probably be better due to the improved playlist functionality.

So I guess it comes down to whether you're trying to discover in the sense of finding new artists, or just finding new music to listen to in the moment.
It may not be legal. There is a "red flag" provision in the DMCA which could potentially make Grooveshark liable.

I remember Napster attempting to create a system to block subsequent "sharing" of known copyrighted works.
it's ridiculous that the SEO crap has been brought to these app markets and that developers have to worry about this, especially in system that is completely controlled by google. "shopping list" is in the app's description and it's a highly reviewed application with lots of downloads.

google has access to more valuable data here than they do with web searches. if the majority of users search for "shopping list" and end up installing 5 different apps, which do they usually keep installed? rank that one higher for future searches. you can't fake the number of app installs like spammers can gain junk inbound links for pagerank.
Breaking: company that copied other company's invention in favor of less stringent copying rules.
If evolution explains everything, it explains nothing.
Wow, that's quite a response! Now I can see why you've gotten so many karma points on HN! It seems you've looked up a bunch of info about me, but where do I find anything about you? :D
"His misdeed was to think thoughts that are not allowed to be thought" << could not agree w/ this more, people are WAY too sensitive on both sides & fail to realize what really matters in life (including freedom of thought).
No, why?

Also, your first example is ungrammatical, and the second is seems somewhat awkward when it begins (as theirs does) with 'With Tulalip you'.
Is a domain name worth $3,000?
Hey HN Community,

I have a dilemma and I figure that you guys/gals are the best people to turn to for advice.

Currently, I'm working on a very early stage startup. I own a domain name for it that I don't particularly like, but it was available on GoDaddy so the price was right. However, I just recently found a domain name that I love. I really think that I can build a great brand around this domain and I'd buy it right now... except for the fact that is costs $3,000.

I currently have $6,000 in the bank, so this will take half of my account, but I will be able to secure funding from friends and family in about two months and will have no problem covering the cost then.

What are your thoughts? How valuable is the domain and brand to a startup's success? Would you take the risk?
Precisely. I've said that a gazillion times as well.

A quote from Arstechnica:

How dare we post our own content to our own Facebook page

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/facebook-shoots...

I've got used to the fact that the average teenager or grandmother is constantly producing content and giving personal data to Facebook for free. I guess email is just too hard for the non geeks.

But seeing industry pundits be surprised by such a move is indeed concerning.
Attacking Dawkins (of whom I am not even a reader) by citing some other guy's fall into religion, depression, and eventual suicide is not only tasteless but utterly irrelevant.

> The problem with this essay is that is paints us as slaves to our genes

The problem with your comment is that in the very first sentence it makes a huge assumption that we are not slaves to our genes. Compelling arguments may well be made otherwise but not by some attempt at an "appeal to assumed general knowledge" for want of a better description.
iinet (at least) also gives free quota to 3FL gaming servers, as well as a large portion of Steam downloads. Which I've definitely never had a problem with it (still being able to play games when capped = :D)
Well spotted. Also, the four trochaic lines list the steps of the tree-building process, and the iambic couplets explain the purpose of it all. She's using meter to reflect a semantic division.
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