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And make it impossible for the little guy to, for example, sue Microsoft due to the potential huge legal fees.

The issue here is that patents are being used for extortion, and none of these cases ever end up going to court.

Maybe what would fix this would be to not allow private entities to pursue patent infringement cases with their own lawyers. Create a Bureau of patent infringement.

Make it so that when a patent is infringed, you file a claim with the Bureau, and they asses validity of patent and assign damages. No litigation, no settlement, no patent lawyers involved.

Perhaps we can defeat bureaucratic inefficiency with more bureaucratic inefficiency.
I wasn't even aware of that proposal, just found these examples[1] and love the idea.

Sort of in the same vein as static imports (as far as usability) but has a really nice added side effect of exporting a default impl from an interface that can be overridden.

Thanks!

[1] http://www.baptiste-wicht.com/2010/05/java-7-add-public-defe...
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None of them inter-operate. So, when you have a friend on Tango, a friend on Qik, and a friend on Skype, you have to install Tango, Qik and Skype.

We don't have a single protocol for everyone to standardize on, and we don't even have enough access to the various protocols to build a Trillian-like client that supports everything.
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You must be coming from a different C++ background. I had to program in Java for a couple years after 10 years of C++/Qt and was unpleasantly surprised. Java manages to be slower and more verbose/less powerful than C++.
I think this service has good potential - cleverly bypasses legal issues and focuses on aggregation, which is unique. Well done!
The links are rated with an algorithm, which equates to roughly points/time^2. If you are able to get several upvotes in a fairly short amount of time, that ratio will be high enough for you to get to the front page, where you hopefully get upvoted more. Don't try to create bogus accounts, as there are spam prevention measures in place.
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Sure. It depends on your definition of "significant." I don't consider a secondary point release with some performance improvements to be "significant" but others are certainly welcome to :-) Now 1.7..
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Could you please tell me something more about it? Tagged unboxed data seems to be a nice solution for me.
Swombat gives a pretty complete answer to that here: http://swombat.com/2011/1/13/how-to-get-your-startup-on-hack...
So when should I short Apple?
If you are a member of the frequent renter programs (e.g. Hertz gold club) it is a lot easier, too -- no need to fill in paperwork or even talk to a human each time, since your car should be waiting for you in a stall. Still not quite zip car.

The thing I hate about zip car I'd that the cars aren't maintained between users, so they are often dirty.

The thing I hate about both is that I like having a comprehensive trauma kit, tool kit, zombie/civil insurrection, wifi and inverter, nav system, etc. in my car, so it is not really convenient to transfer all of that between vehicles.

My solution will be company shared f-350 diesel and leased electric, shared at the office for work/personal use.
The downvotes probably indicate that you should have posted this instead of a weak snowclone; take them and learn from them.
Hypothetically, a device that allowed you to throw a bunch of isos on a flash drive, and automatically threw up a grub-like chooser would be really nice. Yes, I can write a disk to a USB stick, but it starts to be a little clunky since you need a partition for each iso.

Ideally I want all of my install disks on one drive, since I never know if I need Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows XP, 64 bit, 32 bit, etc. I'm tired of juggling physical media and isos.
This is not the case. If you have N spatially separated antennas then you can transmit information at a rate of N * the Shannon limit. This is the case with MIMO as well, except in MIMO both of your terminals have N antennas. This DIDO concept seems to use multiple base station antennas which may be physically separated but only one mobile antenna. Of course, as a consequence the increased channel capacity is strictly one-way.
"Patent trolls are hard to fight precisely because they create nothing. Big companies are safe from being sued by other big companies because they can threaten a counter-suit. But because patent trolls don't make anything, there's nothing they can be sued for."

This is a very good point and part of the problem. But there is a loop hole for big companies, that I can't help but wonder if it has even been used. A big company could, possibly under the table, use a small company to sue another big company, leaving no way for the sued to fight back.
I have tried to keep my resume a simple and plain as possible. I'm still at uni, but will be applying for a job soon so any comments and/or suggestions are much appreciated.

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The author isn't arguing that this is a bad idea per se, just that it doesn't actually work that easily.

>> But what I do not believe in is that magical plug that is called “framework independent pluggable application”. I don't know where this idea came from that it might work, but it does not. The idea that you can reused code on top of WSGI to work with Framework 1 and Framework 2 is not working out.
What you're choosing not to understand is the operative definition of "lie":

lie
[lahy]
noun, verb, lied, ly·ing.
–noun
1.
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
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Don't be such a jackass. I didn't say nobody was using C++ or Java. I was saying that many individual researchers switched from Java for things like "scripts".

Infrastructure written by programmers will use different tools than glue code written by scientists.
You're only thinking of cars, and only comparing car use.

You're neglecting things like the fact that plenty of people who might be car commuters in the US would statistically be public transit users in Germany. So, fuel cost pressures that would turn a German to public transit couldn't do the same for an American who lacks similar access to public transit. Hence the potential for the American's increased desire for fixing the problem at the automobile level.

Whether it's true or not, I can't say. I am only commenting that comparing car commute times between the two countries doesn't really begin to address the question.
So basically, this research has shown that putting more effort in and studying longer hours combined with more effective studying grants higher grades.

This isn't a huge surprise. If you look at why working in groups gets higher grades, its because you have a support network to explain the material when you get confused. When you're stuck, you can have someone explain it to you in 10 minutes rather than sitting there thinking about it for 10 hours.
Just to ground the 1M figure in reality: how many users does Dropbox have? How many of those are Linux users?
"Open" does not always equal "Open Source."
I was sort of surprised at that logic. Aren't mathematical algorithms sort of different than software, especially in the context of what people are patenting? Like take the Angry Birds suit - the patent in question covers something about the way new level purchased, right? There is no one specific algorithm associated with that idea. Obviously, one needs to be implemented to get something working, but that's not what the patent is on. If you want to work on the theoretical level of "software is math", then aren't the patents in question on _classes_ of software, or on the effects of software, more than on the software itself?
The simple way around that - if you still want Foundry - is to get multiple term sheets and play them off each other. VC firms are like the Blue Angels - they'll follow each other into the ground if one of them leads them that way.
At the time when such mattered to the single core sub ghz cpu. The binary for Opera was still smaller then Firefox's. And if you didn't enable the mail client, it wasn't enabled.
What is bloat, is having an entire browser in an emailclient to render HTML messages, like Mozilla did.
This is off by 5-10x if you count all the costs (equipment, increased domestic costs, ongoing security liabilities, ...)
All of them?

There is a massive shortage of programmers in the market. Hiring a programmer costs a big company somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000. If you leave, that's half your salary down the toile, and they don't have anyone to do your work while they look for another programmer. This is a huge loss for them and something to be avoided. So if they can just swap two people's projects... done! It's cheaper!
I had been wondering about what advantage ClojureScript gave, since the biggest appeal of lisp to me is generally the ability to send functions straight to the REPL and see updates without restarting the program. Last night, I went on IRC to ask about this, and lbdknox responded that he was working on it as I asked. As he explained a little more, I realized that it wasn't an intractable problem - in fact, I was capable of solving it.

I think the lesson here is that you shouldn't just wait for answers to your problems - you should create them.
I'd be more interested in knowing how many Ubuntu installs there have been since Ubuntu One was released to see the uptake rate.
If people did use it, it would be a competitive advantage. "FaceTime, an enchanted service that changes your life. Only on iStuff."
The point is, even if you desperately need people (i.e. a shortage), you are still better off avoiding false positives.
I don't think we're the target audience.

I suspect the biggest gains will be sites based on proprietary products which may be in quite a state.
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The isostick is also useful for some newer machines. Macs have a lot less problem booting images, as you mention.
I've found that even newer netbooks don't like booting from USB flash sticks, but will happily boot from optical drives (and thus, isostick).

Some utilities will only boot from optical drives as well, though this is less of an issue with newer utilities and OSes. Windows XP is a good example, which is still in surprisingly high use today.

The read-only switch should also be handy :)

Best Regards - Eric Agan, Elegant Invention
business service isn't that much more expensive than their 20Mbit service. i've been paying $75/month or so and the upgrade to business in my area is $15 more/month or so.
That makes sense, but opening up Facetime doesn't necessarily solve that problem. It has to be open and all these video chat vendors have to decide to embrace it, possibly abandoning years of investment in their own protocol.

In general, I prefer open protocols and standards. I'm just not sure opening Facetime meets any pressing demands of consumers. I suspect this is a matter of not wanting to allocate resources to something no one is asking for. I can't say I'd blame Apple for that decision if it is, in fact, the case.

I'm a new iPhone user so I haven't necessarily kept up to date with App Store developments until recently, but I believe that prior to Facetime Apple was a bit reluctant to approve video chat apps. Maybe that played into the announcement to open it up.

If people start clamoring for open video chat standards I'm sure someone will step up to the plate.
It could be interpreted as spam. People often think that "I want to help you" is "I want you to pay me" in disguise :)
There is a direct quote in the article that says they will be taking it to the standards body.
i registered two..
it really should make a nice weekend project :)
"Just because Congress is incompetent doesn't mean we should put it on SCOTUS to fix our problems for us."

Actually, that's exactly how the system works. Check and balances.
Regulatory capture is the danger there.
I hate getting that message.
I see it fairly often on blogs.

From a strictly pragmatic perspective, it is boring if you only talk about yourself all the time, while talking about the interesting things others are doing lets you promote yourself less overtly.
All those things you list are a detriment to the merchant since they all hold up the payment process (longer checkout lines, disgruntled customers, etc.) as well as potentially giving the customer incentive to back out at the last minute.

If I were a merchant, trying to sell me on the above "features" would pretty much convince me not to take part.
How would that change make it any more difficult for a little guy to sue a big corporation? I think you have missed the part of within reason, Microsoft wouldn't be able to put an individual on the hook for all of their court fees just those that a judge deems valid to pay for the suit. This change would make the patent holder vet the validity of their patent before they can automatically sue, which is the goal we are looking for. A defendant would only exercise the option if they believed the claim to be frivolous for fear of losing in court. For legitimate cases the parties either go to court or settle.
If you watch the actual presentation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1edQuxclUs&feature=playe...), Steve makes a clear distinction between being built on open standards and what they plan to do. What he means by going to standards bodies and making Facetime an open industry standard isn't really clear, but it is clear they didn't do that.
Isn't that what Nathan Myrvolds (sp?) company does? Create a bunch of shell companies, sell them a patent with a "backend" deal.

Worst case, the shell company is dead.
Big companies are interested in getting rid of patent trolls, because the defense against trolls is asymmetric. They would like a system that allows them to attack or defend against other large companies, while they remain immune from trolls, such as Intellectual Ventures and its off-springs, like LodSys. One solution would be a 2 year expiration on software patents. Another idea would be to demonstrate "substantial" sales for renewals.
> What is the difference?

Do you honestly not know the difference, or are you just trying to make a point? Because, and I feel justified in saying this, any reasonable person would look at what he said, and what has happened, and realize that he hasn't done what he promised.

That it was part of the marketing for the product as well doesn't help matters. Part of the reason I got the iPhone and got excited about FaceTime was precisely because it was supposed to be open. That it's not would have played a big part in purchasing decisions.
Shell companies have limited value in this case. Because if Microsoft uses XYZ corp to sue IBM then IBM can just sue Microsoft again and again.
I guess that is the main difference. US citizens are not willing to pay for more than 4 dollars and will start looking for ways to decrease that. You guys are already accustomed to $8 somehow. It really is a lot of money, don't know how you can afford it.
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Here's the only information we have publicly about what happened with the FaceTime open standard: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...
Yes so there are likely some software companies that might have issues (depending on what the changes looked like) such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM (not sure if these companies would object or not, just citing companies with large portfolios). Some non-software companies like pharmaceuticals almost certainly would oppose changes that would affect their ability to exercise their patents.

Edit: A better example might be a company like Intel that has a lot of hardware patents. It is potentially difficult to change the patent laws to prohibit software patents without affecting hardware patents.
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Does anyone feel that the new white space standard (up to 22Mbps over 12,000 sq mi; 802.22) could be a game changer?

Original article was posted here yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814917

Cross-posting my question from this thread:

Is this spectrum encumbered by any regulations that would prevent an enterprising individual from leasing some land near a backbone connection and setting up a startup ISP?

Would LOVE to see the regional cable monopolies face real competition. 22Mbps is about 30% more downstream and 4000% more upstream speed than I get from Time Warner Cable in NYC.
I got this too late, but I'll try make it to the next meetup (in sept).
> Or, if you are up to the challenging, junior level courses your freshmen year.

I did that. It was somewhat of a shocker to my RA to have one of his freshmen to be in his Calculus III class.
A quick check of 10-year IRRs will tell you that this problem is not localized to Boston.
Kudos Steve! This is a wonderful thing for entrepreneurship and innovation in general. The NSF is the largest "VC" in the world. Their "fund" is $8B per year! And they give out 10,000 grants to the smartest scientists in the country. Minus overhead, that's an average of 400-500K per grant! I can't wait to see what type of companies this program produces.
Oh gosh, I'm glad all these good people on HN have lined up to defend Steve Jobs, I don't know what I would do if I found out that he, at any point in time, lied to me. I would just... I would probably faint. Just thinking about that possibility has made me all lightheaded. I need a fan. I need to sit down. Steve Jobs will not lie to me! He is a good man! He makes the devices I crave! Electrolytes!
In terms of multi-path, I can well imagine that being inside a fast-moving car in a body of traffic isn't far off the worst-case scenario - not only is the receiver moving (unpredictably, if they're changing lanes), but there are a bunch of reflectors moving around them, also unpredictably.
and that's the biggest hypocrisy... what they are really supporting are the interests of existing businesses.
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Well, the problem with it is it has a negative performance impact on everything else in your codebase, the first time you see any pointer you need to check if it's tagged or not. The advantages are clear: you don't need to allocate anything on the heap for integers. Which means you're sacrificing performance on everything else, for integers. Solutions such as automatic type-specializing containers don't carry this downside, and carry the same upside. For example at the moment PyPy type-specializes dictionaries. Python has a single `dict` type, which can store anything, but we type specialize and fallback if we get it wrong. Similarly, we're working on type-specializng lists, tuples, and user objects. If there's anything more I can answer let me know.
The article is basing itself on market pressure while the UK is an example of regulatory pressure.
If we run out of it all of a sudden yes. We are starting to feel the pain at least here in America and already we are starting to adapt. So no, our society won't collapse. We will find a way, we always do.
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That's what we're going for!
Thanks for the support! Hope your boss does the pledge, the more the merrier!

After working as a tech for several years, I know I always wanted something like this. It's great to finally build it and help everybody out!

Best Regards - Eric Agan, Elegant Invention
The problem is that many of the recently published hacks are embarrassingly simple. These are hacks that are impossible if you have a decent security policy in place. The biggest issue, and the one that these hacks are highlighting, is that the software industry has a huge security problem. And this is mostly because the industry has a huge quality problem (security is an aspect of quality, it's not a feature).

It's not that it's that much more expensive to build high-quality secure software. The research indicates that high-quality software projects are actually cheaper than average software projects because the maintenance cost is much lower. The state of the art is far removed from the average practition of the art. Nobody has a solution for that. Lulzsec are just a symptom, they are not the problem.
Thanks for this. I truly didn't believe learning multiple computer languages could make you a better programmer until I saw this diagram.
I think you underestimate how much the SCOTUS considers the interests involved in a case not just the law.

That's not saying that SCOTUS would invalidate software patents, just the opposite. The SCOTUS discussion I've heard have turned on how invalidating software patents would be a fairly short step to invalidating all patents and there are too many interests involved to let that happen.

The argument in the supreme court debate I remember was essentially "software parents as a generic are absurd but tossing them out completely would be an earthquake that we don't want to play so we need a line that would allow some but not all software patents". Nothing turning on technicalities in the overall approach even if the solution they'd grope for would likely turn on said technicalities.
I think it is. If people haven't learnt yet that the single most important skill you need as a programmer is being able to read any code, in any language, and take a good guess at what it does, be able to hold abstract programming concepts in your head, and match them up to random code listings you have never seen before....

Before you can write code, you need to know how to read it.
When chc mentioned "The little guy usually can't afford the money and time to patent things, much less enforce them", I assumed (s)he wasn't talking about little guys like Stac Electronics, a publicly traded company for whom a $9.7 million sales quarter was evidence of declining business.

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-22/business/fi-7159_1_pa...
It also completely discounts the human cost of warfare, if such a thing is even measurable.
For us Mac folks:

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Only if IBM knows Microsoft is using XYZ
"Off the chart" is a pretty good description of PHP.

(sorry, couldn't resist :-) )
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There is an important detail. In this system, you need N transmiters to send the information to the N recivers.

All the trasmiters use the same frecuency, so the difficult part is to "mix" and "sincronize" the N transmitions in a way that each one of the N recivers see only the data it needs.
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Excluding the patent extortion industry, any industry who believes it's hard to define a software patent. "I know one when I see it" might not cut it and there might be some nasty edge cases where an algorithm controls a physical process.
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