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This should be the top comment.

If Google wants to patents to be part of a defensive portfolio to protect against lawsuits from Microsoft, then it does them no good to own the patents jointly with Microsoft.

The only good owning the patents jointly would do is take those patents out of play in lawsuits between the two, but that's not enough when you're already being attacked with other patents.

This should be abundantly clear, but apparently isn't.
It's probably a coincidence, I'd say. There are only that many ways to represent a piece of bread.
Extortion can bring out emotion. Extortion is disgusting, this is the "business" being analyzed here. You can take your emotions out of business if you want, but you shouldn't take out ethics.
Two of those examples (spelling correction and reversed scrolling) are user configurable settings. Mission control I'd say is less of a workflow breaking change and more of the natural evolution of exposé & spaces.
Thanks. I'm a little confused how this differs from a point cloud, though. Or perhaps it'd be more correctly called a "cube cloud"?
Any time I see a comment like yours, the correct response to your question is almost always, "It's a system problem." If we aren't effectively disseminating knowledge about an important public health risk, we're not putting ourselves in a winning position.
How did Braintree build a PCI compliant gateway so quickly?
Wow, you're pretty sheltered if F# is the weirdest language you've ever seen
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What food gets your hacking going? Any special dish that gets you all creative and ready to crank those MVP:s out?

... and yes, Ramen Noodles is a perfectly viable answer :)
There's an "ignore" button. :)
This is the obvious use case here...
I would imagine from Microsoft's point of view Apple is "safe" since they have known behavior and agreements with Microsoft already. I do wonder what Microsoft thinks of HTC these days.
"We learn mathematics from the most basic principles and upwards."

Interesting point, although I'm not sure it's 100% true.

For instance, we learn mathematical skills that are readily applicable to life at an early age. Solving a word problem might be the mathematical equivalent of writing a working program that actually does something. And we memorize "formulas", like the simple one to multiply large numbers, at an early age, but don't learn why it works for quite a while.

Induction and abstract algebras might be considered more fundamental, but are introduced much later.
A negative result DOES mean there are not detectable levels of antibodies. However, while obviously highly linked this is NOT the same as saying you don't have it.

They're correct to say it has a 100% detection rate (assuming it does, but we have no reason to suspect otherwise), but I think this is quite misleading - it's detecting HIV-specific antibodies, not the virus itself.
Doesn't a 5 year warranty seem short for a super expensive item that has no moving parts?

Even a $50 drive can be had with a 5-year warranty and it's spinning metal with rare earth motors at 7200rpm.

In any case, I wonder if ebay is going "d'oh!" right now: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218811/EBay_attacks_...
I am not at all opposed to providing information! I merely want the test to come with very easy to understand instructions so that people know what results really mean.
It says it's a SAS interface, but the picture shows a SATA.

This page has a side by side comparison of SATA/SAS connectors.

http://www.serialstoragewire.org/Articles/2010_03/intel.html
It's nothing to do with quality of work or education. The professional engineers have Canadian government stitched
up - in almost all local and federal govt jobs only a PEng can supervise staff.

You can work for the Canadian space agency and have as many physics PhDs as you like - but you will have to be unionised employee and managed by an engineer.
There is a even a campaign to remove the current exemption that university profs have, which allows them to supervise PhD students.

If a CS course doesn't qualify for PEng then nobody is going to take it.
Doesn't Chrome run javascript in its own process for each tab's page? How do they handle overriding default event handlers? Or am I misunderstanding something?
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But what do their votes say?

It may be the case that, when it comes to financial industry reforms, there's not much light between the two major parties. But what light there is is probably most clearly represented by Elizabeth Warren and the consumer protection agency for which she advocated.

Yet as soon as they took over the House, the Republican party made it a point to immediately attack her and sink her chance to lead it. So while the conservative base hates bankers, they seem also to have been conditioned to reflexively hate any kind of realistic mechanism to regulate them even more.
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The first part defines the "type" of Expr. An Expr can be an int, a variable string, or an Add, Mul of two Exprs. The next bit takes an environment (env) and an Expr (exp) and recursively evaluates sub-Exprs of the Expr. Then an environment is defined, mapping variables to underlying values. Then an expression is defined. Finally, the expression is evaluated in the environment.
You're right. They have to report the "legit" numbers. But - there is a section in the reports with all manner of notes and hand waving that accompany these reports.

It's a tough call. GAAP isn't going to adequately explain the nuance of every business, so notes are appropriate to explain things better.

But, bankers and accountants take advantage of this and twist the notes beyond sane bounds in an effort to make the earnings look good. Taken too far, this behavior can invalidate the accounting reports, making them totally opaque.

There isn't a right or wrong answer here. This example, I think, is pretty silly - as it's not a difficult thing to glean this info from the standard reports. But there are cases where strange accounting practices are good and helpful because underlying business is itself strange.
I was never really familiar with who Felicia Day was until I saw her on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show (link: http://www.kevinpollakschatshow.com/archive/?cat=197)

After that 2 hour interview, I realized she was an extremely smart, forward thinking woman who is going to do amazing things. And clearly, she is.
Better false positives than false negatives. Generally, after testing positive for HIV, there are follow-up tests done to verify the result (usually with a different test from the first) and to check for t-cell count (to determine how damaged the immune system is).
There was an episode of 'The Office' where Jim took note of any time Dwight wasn't working. Dwight stops using the restroom in favor of a bottle beneath his desk. He keeps his eyes open while sneezing to keep them focused on his computer screen.

How granular do we get in defining what qualifies as a "work hour"? Do we not count bathroom breaks? The time it takes the computer to warm up? The milliseconds between keystrokes? "Work hours" will always be an issue of semantics. Here's my definition: any time I'm not dragging my feet about accomplishing a work task. Here's my tautological definition of a "work task": a task I perform for work.
I feel the word "Mogul" is misleading.

Not to take anything away from Felicia, her success is inspiring, but the message seems to be about how content creators on the Internet can produce great content with only a fanbase of a couple tens of thousands of people and still succeed financially.

It goes directly against the TV idea where shows have to go head to head and spend millions of dollars to amass at least a few million viewers and only a few can succeed.
No city has a lock on innovation. But some regions have a large population of intelligent, attractive cough asian cough women. Young single male engineers notice, and for this and other reasons they are drawn to Silicon Valley.
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I see what you're saying, but I'd argue it's more like opposing the introduction of comfortable new rubber seatbelts instead of those ugly, old-fashioned webbing ones. Who cares which one works better; people want the convenience only a rubber can give them.
Cold Pizza!!! although its usually anything within reach...
Wow. Yeah, that's pretty misleading. Hope they have a big warning label to go with it.
Denying information is the same kind of "public health policy" that leads to nonsense like abstinence-only sex ed.
My motivation for this was seeing that people regularly pay freelancers on oDesk/elance hundreds of dollars for this kind of thing. Or perhaps they're paying way less than that, but they're waiting weeks just to get that first buggy 1.0 version deployed.

So I think there is real value here for someone who wants to get their basic webapp 1.0 version out as quickly as possible, and not have to pull their hair out over stupid things like signups, or Facebook integration.

I am in fact sitting on some Adsense ads for this, but first I wanted to get some basic feedback on whether I'm totally off-base or not with the idea. Thanks!
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All this said, I think it's role is a not to be a "check if someone is clean for sexytime" test (incidentally, probably not a good tagline).

Instead, it's a cheap, easy and effective way to test people (especially pregnant women) so they can begin a medical regime, rather than not having any realistic means to test and risk further spread and health damage.
Does anyone here know anything about what goes into creating a test with a 0% false negative rate? That sounds impressive (even with the noted caveats that it's detecting the antibodies and not the virus).
How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, without getting Crunched.
Total Bytes Written (the amount of data that can be written before the flash memory fails) is often associated with a Bytes/day for 5 years. Client SSDs are around a couple hundred GB/day for 5 years. Enterprise drives are more like 5 TB/day for 5 years. SSDs are designed around optimizing that metric, which is viewed as an aggressive use case. A warranty should reflect that use case.
At the risk of going (further?) OT, the new black-friday is the "PRE-black-friday" sales in early November where they try to get you to spend money before the supposed sales later in the month. I actually got some unprecedented prices early last November.
Help build my dad a pair of augmented reality glasses for his glaucoma?
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Not a food but drinking Yerba Mate gets me in the zone.
It's a simple expression evaluator evaluating a + 2 * b with a = 1 and b = 2. The fun part is that it's all done using only the one recursive Evaluate function with everything else being driven by the type system and pattern matching. The entire program is also strongly typed with only one type declaration (the env argument to Evaluate).

F# is a neat language. I'm sort of surprised he went with the type system rather than computation expressions/async workflows, which are my favorite feature. They aren't unique (they're monads) but the syntax is nice. I'd happily code in F# if I had a reason to write .NET code.
This was taught in my school system, but not in such depth. They focused on prevention, rather than recognition, and we had to rely on old faithful Wikipedia to tell us the rest.
Is Google suffering from Microsoft Syndrome?
Awesome! But actually I think my comment was inadvertently a bit more illuminating than the SICP exercise :-) Despite being on the web, SICP is a "traditional" textbook and doesn't bother to link to Wikipedia. Instead they use some sort of stone-age technology called "footnotes", stuffing all supplementary material right into the book as a couple lines of tiny text. So the student gets the feeling of following a twisty cluttered rabbit hole instead of exploring a new land.
I thought the winning tickets would be decided first, then filled with winning/losing numbers and symbols, specifically to avoid situations like this.
I thought I was the only one. Pizza is almost better the day after!
Can we block HBR? I have yet to see an article that isn't garbage.

Btw which passion do you think steve jobs has? Seems like it worked out for him. Hmmmm.
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A big steak with stir fried veggies, some grilled pineapple, a loaf of french bread, and a nice beer.

Starving yourself or eating low energy bullshit is not productive =/
NAND flash can only be written to a certain amount of times before it fails. This used to be around about 10000 write cycles, but is falling as process size shrinks. Current gen consumer grade NAND flash is good for about 3000 write cycles. This isn’t actually as bad as it seems at first glance: on a 1.6Tb drive you’d have to write 4.8 petabytes of data on average to kill every cell, and the drives are smart enough to fence off failed cells. Also, enterprise level drives use more expensive but more damage resistant cells. On the other hand, you’d expect enterprise level drives to be subject to a lot more write cycles so that balances out.
Most groupon subscribers I know (including myself), are super active for the first couple of month after signing up, and then forget all about it. If this is any sort of indication of a more general trend then they'll probably have to keep that marketing expense high for the foreseeable future. Not only to capture new users, but once they reach saturation, they'll have to refocus their marketing towards reminding their older subscribers to come back and keep using them.
One thing the article mentions is that there is a semicolon that can be seen, indicating it is a web-based order. That is not the case universally, it seems - my web-based orders do not have a semicolon after the app name on the order summary page.

You can tell, however, that it is a web-based order by the full customer contact info (including real email), as well as the additional developer-specific order number at the bottom of the page, when viewing the order details.
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My first thought is that this is definitely not for a developer. I can get a site similar to this running in Rails in just a few hours for 100% free besides time spent.

What it's really for is people who are looking to build websites but are doing so from the business side. The people who want to have a site up with the minimal amount of coding possible.
In exactly the same way that running Chrome hooks into Window's "program execution system", or installing a new video card hooks into windows "driver extension system".

Microsoft provided an API, and the WebM plugin implements it. That's how this sort of thing is supposed to work. That it doesn't any more (at least, not in the world dominated by a particularly popular mobile device vendor who shall remain nameless lest I be flamed into oblivion) is what I found depressing.
Getting Likes isn't just about marketing to the friends of people who Like your product - although those feed stories can generate viral growth - it's about marketing to the people who Like your product. Once you're in a person's News Feed then you have plenty of opportunities to turn casual users into evangelists.
No. An even better example than my first is opposing the installation of air-bags because they might cause people to stop using seatbelts.

Unlike this rubber seatbelt strawman, these tests actually work, and actually have a use. What is their use? Allowing people to make more informed decisions regarding their sex life and HIV. What is HIV in layman's terms? A death sentence. These chips will potentially allow people to avoid an untimely and painful DEATH, and you oppose them because you hypothesise that stupid people might ignore condoms as a result and get something instead that is either not deadly, or require nothing more than a few shots of penicillin.

Opposing the spread of such devices is beyond comprehension to me. It's flat out abhorrent.
My research overwhelmingly points to you being wrong. If you can provide some supporting references, I am happy to be corrected.
"Hid" is a strong word. They're basically trying to sell this idea:

"We won't need much marketing, nor will we be offering significant equity compensation in the future. Acquisitions are a "one-time" thing. Therefore, our long term profitability is looking pretty good."

We, as investors, are welcome to accept that reasoning or not. I think it's pretty weak. Others will disagree. But it's pretty plainly stated. (If anything in a financial report can be considered "plain").

Edit: I'd love to hear why I"m wrong about this from someone who down-voted. Am I missing something?
Rather than jumping to conclusions, we should wait to see how this plays out.
The fact that I could see an eyewitness to that event was overshadowed by the huge cigarette ads. It reminds me of the current state of online ads, only it's huge banners for electronic cigarettes instead.
This is completely unlike the usual fare on Huffington Post. It is an analysis of the fight over Section 18 of the legislation which would ban vague business process patents. Something we would like. Except that it applies only to banks, which is why Pelosi opposes it. If it applied universally I suppose she would support it.

It is so long that I am only a third of the way through it, but I am definitely going back to it as time permits.
My personal kill rate on patents that I have dealt with is in the high 90th percentile.

Perhaps add contact info to your HN profile? The community here includes people who might eventually need your services.

A question: how prominent, really, is that region of East Texas where we hear that most of these suits get filed? Does it make it significantly more difficult to do your work? I'm always shocked when I hear about that. It seems an outright corruption of the system, like the hanging judges of the past.

Edit: I see you already mentioned this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2845398) but I would like to hear anything more that you have to say. Oh, and please keep posting here. You clearly know what you're talking about..
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They also changed my google checkout payment schedule for non-android payments to "next month payouts", meaning bills for development were delayed up to 30 days from when the client got them to me.

Google doesn't feel like they "get" this "people want and need their money thing".
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And it wasn't suspicious when the lottery got back a large number of unsold tickets broken off the reel?

I give Srivastava credit for finding and exploiting the loophole, but they also seem to be easily closable. So the scratchoff is vulnerable. Future ones might be as well. A little common sense and better security could avoid another mishap.
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An additional piece of information- you're approximately 4,000% more likely to transmit HIV during this early stage infection because of this high viral load. Some research estimates as much as 50% of all new infections come from people in this early infectious window.
They couldn't be used against them, but they also couldn't be used as collateral against Microsoft's other patents.
Thanks for playing this role on HN. I've responding to people on engadget to this effect; it really worries me that there are so many comments like "no more condoms for me!"

The irony is that such a technology could easily worse the epidemic in the U.S. because of such ignorance.
Couldn't it be that Google wanted these patents for their defensive value against Microsoft et al.'s existing patents? IANAL, but it seems to me that co-owning them would be, at best, a wash, as neither company could leverage the patent portfolio against the other.

Moreover, co-owning would not address the issue of how to defend Android (remember that it's handset makers, not Google itself, who have thus far been sued) from Microsoft's other patents.

It's like a game player offering to exchange pieces. At the end of the day, they still have the same material advantage they started with, only with less opportunity for the underdog to turn things around.

Google didn't want to trade pieces; it wanted to win. Obviously, they lost, but it matters in this discussion who they lost to: a coalition of their rivals.

(Regarding the bid numbers: that's irrelevant. $3.14 billion is a very serious offer, no matter how you slice it. Unless you want to suggest that Google wasn't serious about their IPO, because they used the decimals of e.)
I'm a big fan of the BABIP against stat for pitchers for the same reason.

It's amazing to see how good a pitcher can look when his fielders are getting to everything only to have him fall of the table when the law of averages kicks in the next season.
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Yes, (a (non-broken) lottery might be a rational choice even for someone understanding the math behind it.

If you only have $20k and need $0.5M for an urgent life saving operation, then the expected payoff for not playing is -$20k (death) and it's -$20k+(some non-negative value representing the win) for spending all of your money on tickets.
Just like most other disease control campaigns, you appeal to people to change their behaviour, you use social control to support their choice to comply and ultimately you use laws and the iron fist of the state (see smoking or leprosy as good examples).

Seriously, in campaigns to minimise HIV transmission in much of the rich world, they generally use self-interest, people's feelings about their loved ones and the broader sense of social concern as drivers, and above all, non-judgemental honest information - that has worked pretty well in many places (although concern about rapid infection growth in some communities amongst young men-who-have-sex-with-men has been growing recently).

Fear-based campaigning hasn't had a particularly good track record in public health campaigning, at least as far as I recall (just one statistical analysis of road-safety campaigns: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/1839/1/1839.pdf)
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Duly posted.

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Yes, but there is a big difference in the Amazon way which was to own the LOSS and report it the SEc way and Groupon's way of actually LYING..

Look back at the Amazon founder statements during the loss years than look at Mason's now..
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