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Until recently, I thought that the patents issue was a PITA, but not that big of a deal, and something that would eventually pass after a lot of damage is done.

Now, I really believe that unless things change, the US is going to have a lot of trouble attracting new businesses to start at home, or foreign companies providing services in the US. Spotify will run their own cost benefit analysis of fighting the lawsuit versus attracting future revenue. Many small services that cannot afford an upfront lawsuit in the hope of future American revenue will just not open shop or services for the US.

It hurts me to see how the patent system is screwing with every damn thing. As they say for startups, competition from other countries won't hurt America, but inefficiencies and bad decisions within would. And IMHO the risk is not hypothetical anymore.
And you effectively copied the way 37signals structured their pricing page.
The post is Dead. Your coworker could see it if they turned showdead on in their profile.
There are two ways things get to the dead state. There is a race between votes and flags that you can loose(x number of flags will kill something unless it gets Y number of up votes first but the flags will make it drop into obscurity faster.) The other is for PG to decide to kill something.
DealBurner has been my project for the last few weeks. Aggregates instant deals such as scoutmob, LivingSocial instant, Groupon Now, etc...

Sign up is super simple, just connect foursquare or facebook places. Then when you check into a place that has a deal you will get an SMS with redemption information.
If the program used them in several places, that would be an improvement, but it doesn't. It's maybe a little bit atypical, but nearly all of the things it calls from Processing, it calls in exactly one site: the above, plus color_mode, no_stroke, smooth, background, and rect.

It does call fill from four call sites, but that was because there's no reasonable way to return a list of four arguments from a method in Ruby, as far as I can tell.
So... "obstacle" one is you're embarrassed by your gender?

What's the next one?
I don't think there's anything wrong with taking a layout/framework... but at the very least, change the colors, button styling... make it yours instead of copying every single detail.
I imagine there would be some overhead (e.g. each user transmitting a certain user-specific pattern every 1/2 second, and each AP transmitting a certain AP-specific pattern every 1/2 second), to calibrate the location of each user in AP-space. Fundamentally I think all the calculations involved would be fast linear algebra operations that could be done in hardware on the order of microseconds.
10M+ API Calls Per Day & More (MailChimp FTW)
Out of curiousity, who was first with a design like that, 37signals or shopify? http://campfirenow.com/signup the structure is also very similar.
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In the part of Canada I live in it's $1.33/liter, which is $5.00/gallon.

I don't see a rush to buy electric cars here. But smaller cars are more popular in Canada compared to the USA. For example, smart fortwo was introduced in Canada four years before it came to the USA. It's rare a product comes to Canada before the USA.

Americans don't have to go from gas to electric. They can go from gas guzzler to gas sipper.
People have been predicting Apple's death by the commoditization of consumer electronics since before Jobs' return. It hasn't happened because their expertise in both hardware and software is unparalleled and they have a sterling quality reputation, meaning they will always come out with cool products first and sell them in quantity.

People forget that they're not afraid to disrupt themselves either. If they can create a great $500 tablet, don't be surprised if they can make a great $200 unsubsidized phone if they think the competition demands it.
I'm sorry, but how the hell do you recieve three BS degrees at the age of sixteen (unless you mean BS degrees, which I'd imagine they'd really have to be...)
Interesting. I'll take a look at the links you just posted. Thanks.
"If this were an option, parents would be much more critical."

I seriously doubt it. Just look at all the sham private colleges that exist right now. Also, I think the problem with our kids isn't the school system, but a culture that doesn't value hard work and education.
For myself, I think advertising as it currently exists is a massive negative for society, and I think capitalism is a net win (perhaps marginal). So I insist that "marketing is bad" is NOT a shadow argument for "capitalism is bad".

You do a fine job of describing what I think is wrong with ads (that most ads consist primarily of false information, often conveyed via subtle signals that the consumer processes non-consciously). I also absolutely agree that making the consuming public aware of the options open to them in the market is beneficial to society. I agree that there's a tension here: if you want to absolutely ban all of the downside of the former, you also lose the upside of the latter. Thank god my disgusting bathwater is gone, but where's my baby?

However, it's completely preposterous to say that the only alternatives are completely unrestrained advertising on the one hand, and a government-sponsored consumer-reports on the other. The latter sounds like an experiment I'd like to see run, actually, but not enough to endorse it in my own economy, so I guess that shows how much faith I have in it. But we already live in a compromise: manufacturers of known social ills like tobacco, alcohol, and gambling, have restrictions placed on how they can advertise. We already have laws on false advertising, especially around food and drugs, and also laws on clarity in packaging (which is a form of advertising). I think that if there were public will to do so, we could iteratively, gradually, over years and years, successively tighten the requirements for truth in advertising.

I think it's plausible and practical that this might get us to a societal state where the standard for advertising is informative, useful, and much much less manipulative.

Or maybe it wouldn't get us there, because getting legislation right is a bitch (especially in the US, apparently). But I see no support for your out-of-hand dismissal of the existence of practical, plausible alternatives to laissez faire.
Pretty much everything that tweets in an automated fashion gets unfollowed by me pretty quick. The twitter stream is cluttered enough as is, no need to make it worse by having weather vanes and thermometers screaming alongside my friends who see cute cats.

Maybe I'm missing the point, but I have yet to find a Twitter bot that provides anything of real value.
For version 8, I think it is a stretch to say that it will support 'closures'. [0]

The closures that are proposed are more like a bolted on psuedo solution, basically syntactic sugar that makes the language more complex. You can only use them in SAM (Single Abstract Method) situations. If only they just added a simple lisp like lambda expression...

[0] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/lambda/lambda-state-3...
That's bogus. "Piracy is not justification" doesn't make any sense. What am I trying to justify? I was pointing out a clear bug in the app store: under no circumstances should an unsolicited and unconfirmed charge appear on my account.

My pirating an app does not give Apple the right to charge my account without asking me. Apple's the one that I trusted my credit card info with, and it's their responsibility to not put any unexpected and unsolicited charges on it. I'm not even trying to justify piracy or say it's okay.

Regardless of your opinion on piracy, I'm surprised by this sentiment. Are you and the other commenters suggesting that any time you pirate any software or media, it's justifiable for some third party to charge your account for the price of that item? If I download a torrent of thousands of iPhone apps, should I immediately be charged thousands of dollars, whether or not I even use the apps?
I don't think this is going to work very well via a third party. This is something Airbnb has to offer themselves.
Thanks for those normalized graphs. Really gives a striking visual rebuttal to ISP's baseless claims.
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It is there in Excel and Google Docs already :)
Someone should make a small, remote controlled rover with an IR light and an IR sensitive video camera, and a robotic arm. The arm is not tipped with a manipulator, but with a Cat5 plug. This rover will be paired with a quad-copter with enough power to deliver and retrieve the rover.
I think it's disgusting. It tries to use the component model, similar to ASP.NET. Even Microsoft realized what a disaster it was, and the community moving to ASP.NET MVC, which is similar to traditional frameworks.
Even if the police did arrest a member of LulzSec, none of the other members of LulzSec are going to admit this until they have no choice (assuming that they are fairly intelligent and not going to throw him away out of spite, which would be somewhat dangerous unless they are certain that he doesn't know the identities of any of the other members). It is in their interest to be surrounded by as much mystery as possibly, if they admit that the person was a member than prosecuting him becomes somewhat easier (as the prosecution wouldn't have to demonstrate that he is who they claim he is), and - true or not - the suspicion that they were able to misdirect or fool the police makes them seem more dangerous, and may make officials more cautious about future arrests.
It is most likely because Opera was almost the only lone browser that refused to have 'Mozilla' in its user agent string from the very beginning.

A lot of websites still use UA detection scripts from late 90s(!) which STILL do antiquated UA sniffing which means Opera does not get scripts, styles or markup because it does not seem to have the 'Mozilla' in its UA string leading to broken pages.

There is an easy fix if it is an irritant which is to select 'Edit Site Preferences > Network' from the context menu on a page.

Also, we would be much obliged if you could submit a bug report if you come across a site that does not render correctly in Opera: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/

If you are a web developer, please do consider using feature-detection :)
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Well, only 2 are dead, and those two (Hayek and Friedman) are probably the most famous libertarian economists/thinkers. I think it would be safe to assume they would support the article above.
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you can make the same argument that diverting corn to feed cattle raises food prices

As far as I can figure out, diverting corn to feed cattle raises corn prices and lowers beef prices.

Since beef eats up a much larger fraction of my grocery budget than corn (and is, additionally, far more delicious) I'm cool with this.
Or maybe Topiary's friends are trying to convince the police they got the wrong guy and get some added publicity at the same time?
There are a few things I don't understand in this post

> neat nod to async systems that can use this neat trick to yield empty strings to signal that they are not ready yet.

Can't the system just do nothing to signal it's not ready yet?
I'm assuming it's based on the perceived cost of the software in question(not just Dr Chrono but all EMR system). I was surprised that Dr Chrono doesn't charge around that for it's software. A lot of those packages have so few clients that it needs to be priced ridiculously to make it viable. This is mostly due to over kill design by committee that makes it's expensive to develop. Dr Chrono as a small shop probably has the advantage here.
Well, people want different things. I just want the hammer.

New language features are all fun, but unless they actually result in faster execution, or allow you to do things you could not do before, they're only use is to make some developers happy, which I don't think is particularly important.

It looks like there's some real solid good APIs here though which is great to see.

At first thought I imagined it'd just be useless pandering to developers like "You can now do closures or first class functions" or something equally useless.
Authorities still on the lookout for a possible accomplice, described as "Asian, approx. 20 yrs. old, wearing a T-Shirt."
If anyone could give me feedback on why the above is being downvoted, I'd appreciate it. Ta!

Edit: I'd actually like feedback please... it went down to 0, then up to 1, then down to 0 again.. and then back up to 2 after I posted this reply. I wasn't asking for upvotes, I want to know what it is that is making some people downvote this. Is it not in keeping with the etiquette here, is there some unspoken rule I'm violating?
I wouldn't trust a company to cover my insurance needs if I can't trust them to properly license the name of the brand they're leveraging.
Along similar lines: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765874
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The bug is that it didn't ask me to confirm before putting a charge on my account. Normally, if you try to update an app that hasn't been purchased on your account, it will give an error that the discounted price is not available on your account because you haven't purchased the app.

This is most certainly not a big in Installous. Have you used Installous? All it is is a collection of links to cracked .ipa's that people upload to free file-sharing sites.
My parents actually pulled us out of PRIVATE school and put us into PUBLIC school because we were outpacing the curriculum, being bored, and losing interest.

My sister got to 4th grade in the private school and suddenly didn't want to go to school anymore. She wasn't challenged. The private school's solution when my parent's talked to them was to assign my sister MORE BUSYWORK. The public school had an actual gifted & talented program we were able to exploit.

It wasn't all roses though- my mom had yell at several Administrators to get us the programs to challange us (my brother was in AP Calc, the highest math available, his freshman year of HS). It's true though: the biggest indicator of success in school is parental involvement.
I'm 14 and looking for computer-related online jobs
First of all, I'm not doing this for the money. It's been almost 7 years since I first started using computers and soon it turned into a passion.

And now that I am knowledgeable enough (at least more than an average user), I'm looking for "work from home" online jobs where I can practice my passion on a professional basis, while maintaining the 14 year old minimum age eligibility.

Here's a little background on me:

* I'm 14 year old, currently studying in 9th grade.

* I'm NOT from US or any other English speaking countries.

* I've been using computers since I was 7 years old.

* I can easily use Linux via the terminal, but I'm still learning shell script.

Some examples so as to give an idea of my experience:

* I can do basic virus removals and I don't use anti-viruses, just a full scan on an interval of 2 months, so far I haven't been affected.

* I tweaked my 6 year old PC to boot within 30 seconds (with XP, Linux boots much faster)

* I'm aware of the BASIC workings of the most of the technological softwares/programs/services on a wide base.

* I'm currently learning programming (python and shell scripting)
I'm currently not into hardware as much as I'm aware of softwares.
* Whenever any of my family members encounter any kind of computer problem, I'm the first person called for help.
The thing wrong with it is it presents itself as a replacement to WSGI without solving all of the problems that WSGI goes (or any new ones, AFAICT). And as a result, no, I won't use it in replacement of a standard for which I have tools aplenty.
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It's not about how many hours you work
Nor a particularly significant release ;-) (as awesome as JRuby is generally, of course!)
Here in the UK, gas (petrol) is well over $8 per US gallon (£1.30 per litre) and has been for some time. It hasn't been less than 79p a litre for nearly a decade. Most hybrid and electric cars are bought for use in London, where they are exempt from the $16 per day charge to drive into the city centre. I live in a large (>2 million population) city in the north of England and have never seen an electric car here.
Hrrmmm... good point.

So all that would do is require patent trolls to keep around a small development team to mockup wrappers to whatever IP they buy up to show they wrote it?

I suppose the due-diligence requires to disprove shenanigans wouldn't scale and could easily be gamed by reams and reams of "source code" that actually did nothing described in the patent but was sufficiently complex so as to confuse.

This makes me think your approach to expiring them after a short period of time is the right approach to start with.
>I am really curious if an event like this will eventually promote change in the software patent laws.

Me too. I'm thinking that the Apple/Lodsys one has the best chance of making a change, as for Apple so much is at stake.

I don't know how it is over in the US, but here in the UK the whole issue isn't really high profile, even with stakes as high as they are. (IE. HTC not being able to sell mobiles if the patent decision is upheld in December.)

One thing is for sure, I for one would not put any app in a US app store, which is a shame for me and my potential customers.
This brings to mind a very interesting idea as well. If the changing physical location of the receiver is causing changes in the composite wireless signal the device is receiving, and the base stations are recalculating and refreshing this all the time very quickly it could potentially be a very reliable and accurate GPS as well.
There are many places where prices are higher than that, I would have liked them to explain why those places don't have electric cars.

As a concrete example, nowadays a liter of gaz is at about EUR1.50 in France. That's 1.50 EUR/L * 3.8 L/gal * 1.43 USD/EUR = 8.2 USD/gal.

Of course people drive less here: cities are less car-friendly, public transportation is more developed, and when choosing a house, people take transportation to work/shops/leisure into account. But there is virtually no electric car, despite significant tax breaks and nuclear electricity at 0.10 EUR/KWh.
This isn't the "insurance industry stepping up". This is an entrepreneur doing some market testing.

Yesterday, someone registered this domain name anonymously, and is now collecting email addresses to gauge market interest. fishcakes is an account that is a few weeks old, and submitting this article was hir only participation on this site so far.

I'm all in favor of lean startup metholodogies. Just call a spade a space, and please edit the title.
The particular 1 bits he took were of unusually high quality.
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> way to return a list of four arguments from a method

p, q, r, s = * method_that_returns_array_of_4_things

* aka "splat operator"
Why does Google+ insist on using your real name?
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Perhaps you should read the white paper and the patent application before writing off a decade's worth of work as bullshit?
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I think a lot of the use cases will come after we have this implemented everywhere. It's often not obvious what a new technology can be used for, but it becomes clear later.
I think it's wishful thinking to claim that the perfect answer is already known.

Markets aren't the answer; they're a method for finding the answer, or (more likely) multiple answers.
It seems like you would still need to copy the rpm repo to another medium?

Apt changed my life...<3 debian.
Mobile payments using contactless technologies such as NFC goes beyond the transaction at the Point-Of-Sale, in terms of providing a context to my payment.

Even though it maybe that it would be easier to take your credit card and swipe faster than taking out your phone, launching the app and then initiating a mobile payment, the advantages are as follows:

- The app can tell me if for a particular retail category, I have crossed any predefined limits I have chosen: Say 300 dollars for Gas this month, or 200 dollars eating out.

- The app can tell me, if I make this payment, whether that impacts any bills or checks that are set to clear right away. This lets me avoid any late payments, bounced checks etc.

- If I had a debit card and a credit card with the bank, the app can choose the right card for me to use. If I am near my credit limit, then the app can default to my debit card. Or If my account is drawn out, then it could use my credit card for the purchase thereby saving me Overdraft fees. Or if there were specific coupons that would warrant the use of one over the other, then the app could show benefits of using both and let me choose.

- If the purchase amount is significant, and requires my credit limit to be raised, then the card could do an STP and ask me to whether to increase my credit limit.

- If the purchase amount is significant, instead of using a credit card, the bank could ask me whether i would like to open a small loan and approve me rightaway by showing me the salient details (rate and term).

- The app could show me how many rewards points I stand to gain from making this purchase.

- Even better, The app could possibly allow me to use my rewards points towards the payment instead of paying cash or credit, provided that the bank and the merchant has an agreement in place.

A lot of this might just be wishful dream for a while, but shedding the plastic for a powerful payment alternative will finally deliver on many fronts including the ones outlined above. If Banks continue to think and operate as they did in the past, they stand to lose out against upstarts like Square, Dwolla who are disrupting the payment industry. But I do agree that the players in this space, including the NFC enabled terminals, Banks, Payment Processors all need to work together in facilitating this and ensuring its a seamless process. Yes, it will be a radical shift from how we pay for things today, but there are tangible benefits to customers who are willing to change their payment modalities.

This space is still being shaken out in terms of players and alliances. NFC is still in its early stages, but I believe this is the way to go.

I am interested in hearing others opinions on my views as well.
I've heard an (apocryphal) story about a bubble-gum brand that protected an otherwise unused trade name by manufacturing and selling one stick of gum under that brand each year.
It is Spotify today, which is just a music streaming service.. for which a lot of other alternatives already exist. It could be a high-tech foreign robotics company in future which might just decide not to market products in US or worse price them much higher factoring in all the litigation fee...
Spy magazine once did an article, where the reporter documented himself committing dozens of innocuous looking acts in public, all designed to accrue ridiculous amounts of jail time.