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Whether they encourage innovation or not, patents were at least intended to. You don't get a patent for nothing. In return for the exclusive right to use an idea, you have to publish it, and it was largely to encourage such openness that patents were established.

How common is it in practice for useful information to be gleaned from published software patents? How many of us have ever had a problem to solve, and thought: I know, I'll search the patent database to see if there's a clever solution that's been disclosed by the inventor! I would suspect very few. Which implies that we're not getting much out of "our" side of the bargain.
The problem is that without the solids and the eating involved in eating a fruit, it's way easier to overdo it and take in too many calories.
Hi, I don't feel great about "calling you out", but I want to ask if you hold a degree, or have pursued extensive study (perhaps to the point of publishing a peer-reviewed article) in any of the fields of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, sociology, cognitive development, or educational research?

Your reply comes off as highly authoritative, but I don't want to just default to trusting that you are an expert in every (or even any) field mentioned, and hence, are able to produce an authoritative hierarchy of their usefulness as applied to a specific unsolved problem.

Sorry to be that guy!
Not at all. My point was that there is no reason to educate all kids in the same physical building with the same lunch hour, etc.
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I don't think this is about freaking out over chemical compounds, it is freaking out over mislabeling and artificial food, and trusting the food industry.
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Not only is obfuscated gibberish becoming more common in patents, but many employees are being ordered to never ever read them, because that brings the added risk of treble damages for wilful infringement.
Will ClojureScript take care of cross-browser issues?
As it is, I have an unhealthy number of vim macros to deal with all the boilerplate that Java foists upon a developer.

I hate to bring up the editor wars thang, but knowing a lot of very skilled people in the Java world, I will say this: it's rare for a "best in class" Java developer to use anything but a full fledged Java IDE (not unheard of, but rare). If you're not using one of these (IntelliJ, Eclipse, or Netbeans, in my personal order of preference), you're really missing out on almost everything good that Java has to offer over other languages, as far as boilerplate-simplifying, integration, and bug-hunting. IMO, unless you're using a good Java IDE and have used it long enough to know it well, you are not actually coding Java, you're coding some shitty worst-of-all-worlds version of Java, and it's no surprise that you hate it. I don't know how I could possibly code Java and remain sane without the ten-times-a-minute ctrl-space auto-complete/lookup routine (along with all the other time saving macros and shortcuts that a good IDE will give you)...

FWIW, I say this as a die-hard emacs user (bite me, vim :) ) that uses it for damn near every "I have to edit some text" task that he comes across, so this is not an issue of me not understanding what a good text editor is capable of. Ruby, JS, PHP, Clojure, Python, and the like are in emacs territory for me, but when it comes to Java, the tools really do counteract many of the language's failures (and let's be honest, the number one offender is the lack of closures, with the annoyingly explicit static typing coming a close second), and I'll be honest, I miss the IDE features when I code dynamic languages - it sucks to have to resort to textual searches instead of actually walking the parse tree, even if it can get you 80% of the way there most of the time.

Honestly, I've always personally thought that AS3 had a lot of potential, as a mostly-statically-typed-but-dynamic-if-you-need-it version of Javascript, but even there the IDEs aren't quite up to the Java standard (mostly due to apathy, as far as I can tell, there's nothing about the language that would make any of the features common to Java IDEs any more difficult to implement in AS3 ones), so the benefits of the default static typing are somewhat muted...
So which one is bitcoin? (I am assuming these definitions relate to a california legal world only?
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To put on the Devil advocate's horns:

Those patents will be used to protect Google from a company suing them, when Google arguably copied their product (iPhone, iPad) which was totally new under the sun.

Yes, the patent system is fscked but there must be some protection for companies inventing new ways of doing things.
No. In my local supermarket, and in every supermarket I have ever been in (live in the Northeast, but have been plenty of other markets in the US and abroad) there is both natural white cheddar and colored cheddar, although sometimes the colored stuff is missing.
Fair enough, but given almost any thought at that time, we'd have thought of metadata (probably not DRM because we wouldn't have believed something so stupid was needed).

Once you've got a network, walkmans, a "mic" input, and a speaker, this stuff is obvious and that's the point.
Cristina (Crista) Videira Lopes started a list of programming or programming-related tasks like this:
http://tagide.com/blog/2011/06/things-ics-students-should-do...

I'm in the same boat. On section 28 of LPTHW. Luckily, I am working with a startup where I hope to cut my teeth helping more with building our product instead of just being a customer guy. I promise to follow up when I get a better answer. Feel free to contact me.
I eat what I want and I have stayed between 130 and 135 for over 10 years.
It's interesting that in the UK TV series of the Apprentice, the candidate who came second lost for having this as their business plan. TaskRabbit have a better set of suggested tasks than she did though, and a better demographic/channel (SV intetnet) compared to a UK-wide phone service.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/series7/helen-louise-milliga...
Tap water = 0$
1 Apple, 2 Banana < 1.81$
Problem solved.

Edit: You could also buy 20 apples at once and keep them stored. This reduces your time overhead significantly.
Fuck, now that's gone. This needs to be more popular. I work with datasets that are large enough to be impractical with third parties anyway.

Edit: Don't correct me saying it's not gone because they got acquired, I saw what dotCloud has done with Duostack (which had offerings which were more interesting than PHP). That is to say, nothing.
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hahaha... judging by the IQ score, only the Opera devs are still using Opera :p
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I believe bitcoin to be a "payment instrument", but I could see an argument that it doesn't fit intk any of these definitions as it is really designed by someone as a competitor for "momey", so we would really need to look at laws for currency exchange or something, but that just underscores that bitcoin is fundamentally then unlike MS points, which are pretty much a gift card.

Also, definitions similar to this are generally accepted. I happened to know where in Calofornia's legal code I could go to get a firm definition that clearly laid out the "gift card" exception, but frankly the answers other people already have been giving should have been sufficient: I was mearly providing evidence for "gift cards are normally exempt".
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Introduce yourself to folks at startups you admire via LinkedIn before you go. Have coffee, visit offices, whatever.

Most important? Realize almost nobody is that amazingly more intelligent / driven / insightful / etc that you can't achieve similar results.
Google, Apple & MS have all done good and bad. I'm still wondering why Google sided with Verizon against net neutrality. It certainly didn't seem like they were looking out for the best interests of the consumer.

These companies are still businesses and, when faced with the choice of what is better for them or for the greater good, I expect them to choose themselves.
As many of us know, one fact about dense programs is that they're difficult for humans to understand. Since human-created programs are sparse, we can understand them -- which means that we can improve them, and programs don't have to wait for aeons to improve via genetic selection.

Density is overrated.
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Wrote a blog post a couple weeks ago about turning it into a keyword quick search.

http://www.pushingbits.net/posts/google-im-feeling-lucky-add...

Very useful.
It's not about whether Google is good or bad, or doing good or bad things.

In the US, patents are allowed for the sole purpose of encouraging innovation. In the case of Android, Google's work is in danger of being halted, and in a way that does not clearly make it easier for their competitors to innovate more with less competition. Thus, the software patents being used against Google are likely to have the opposite of their intended effect, unless Google can force a stalemate by gathering their own patent war chest.

If we didn't have all these software patents, all the money going to litigation could be invested in the real business of making products, which would be a net win as long as there are market forces spurring innovation.

(Another way of looking at it is that software is cheap enough to develop that companies don't need decades of market exclusivity to recoup their costs. The fundamental computer science R&D needed for a cell phone software platform is negligible compared to the QA costs of making it production-ready, and those QA costs are already well-protected by copyright.)
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What I would like to know is how compressible (transcribed) human genome is.
My two cents:

-Trash out www. from urls

-Does not follow redirects

So it can not reach my app engine application on custom godaddy domain

-For big registers (as godaddy redirect server) top 1000 list is not so informative, as there are many trash hosts. It all starts from digits (and consist of digits). Showing hosts starts from letters, may help
Just FYI there's more to entrepreneurship than just creating an MVP. It involves customer development, fundraising, etc to create a business as opposed to just a side project.

If you go to a startup and do product type work, you'll have a chance to put your skills to use and will get to create things. Having a varied skill set is an asset not a liability. However if you can't use those skills to execute and focus, then you get the negative term of being a generalist.
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They are implemented as rootkits in the operating system kernel and gain unauthorized access. This might not be that damaging. However, the people installing this can gain significant information to anything you type in the keyboard.
For all those who don't understand German and/or don't have Facebook (from Google Translate...):

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UNIOS is the first operating system that allows easy starting of Windows, Mac and Linux programs with just one system.

It runs either Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X in the background - no virtualization takes place of the above operating systems.

Regardless of whether Microsoft Office 2010, Apple iLife, FaceTime or Dolphin program runs under any known UNIOS without driver issues!

The hardware control is handled by a specially written NT kernel - so users must only have the normal Windows drivers to install eg a DVB-T Stick.
Plug and Play is also supported.

Antivirus programs are unnecessary thanks to the security procedures "sandbox" of each individual process is encapsulated in a sandbox - if someone wants to attacke the system can thus bring UNIOS not completely crash.

For gaming UNIOS is also ideal for UNIOS also supports requirements such as Microsoft DirectX 11 and OpenGL - so make games like Crysis 2 or Portal 2 is not a problem for UNIOS there.

UNIOS is modern and therefore meet the current demands - as well as technologies such as USB 3.0 or Bluetooth 3.0 compatible!

The user can customize the behavior and appearance of the windows - a Windows user can have the Close, Minimize and Maximize buttons on the right side and a Mac user on the Left!
Thus, the user must not get used to the keyboard UNIOS combinations of the respective operating systems are possible!

A nice gimmick is the iPhone mode - the user can start iPhone apps in UNIOS.
Then the user can only test an app under UNIOS before it synchronizes with his iPhone!

The hardware requirements are needed UNIOS the following:

Processor: 1.6 Giga Heartz (single core processor)

Memory: 512 MB RAM recommended 1GB of RAM, but

Hard disk space: 4.4 Giga bytes of free memory minimum

Graphics card: min capable with 64 MB of graphics memory and DirectX 9.

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All done by a team of students around Maik Mixdorf (18)...

I don't think it is real.. Maybe a bad Social Media Campaign?
I agree with balakk on all of his points, since that's when i started using Opera too, around version 2. It still is the most complete browser experience without requiring any extensions.

Another thing that makes me stick to it is the integrated mail client. It's extremely minimal, out of the way if you don't need it. My browser is always open, so having a built in client, that indexes my email, and is searchable even if i'm offline is definitely awesome. I don't need to use Thunderbird, etc, since the minimal features are all i need. Give it a spin!
Great way to boost the confidence of the community in Oracle handling Java...
how old and how tall are you?
FYI - several more examples of good Java code (concurrency):
http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/
http://code.google.com/p/jetlang/
http://code.google.com/p/actorom/
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So we're all just projecting what we do onto the smart people here, right?
Ping me on Freenode #midgard and I can give you more info how to proceed. Out of curiosity, though: are you sure this is Midgard MVC and not MidCOM, the older MVC framework for Midgard?

Doesn't matter, though. We're building compatibility bundles for both. Though Midgard MVC is already in somewhat running state.
Ideas are worth nothing. Execution is. Touchscreen phones were nothing new, it was just that Apple built the first one that was actually fun to use. And as their reward they've made quite a bit of money.
I've lifesourced the following things:

- wedding envelope stuffing and addressing (TaskRabbit)

- travel itinerary, safety, and language school research (TaskRabbit)

- idea generation (Mechanical Turk)

- scanning of wedding thank you cards (TaskRabbit)

- wedding photo cleanup (Fiverr)

- logo design (Fiverr)

- article research (TaskRabbit)

- custom octopus-related pottery as a wedding gift (non-Etsy online artist)

- other custom artwork (Etsy)

I actually own lifesourcer.com, which was intended to be a blog about outsourcing parts of your life, but I've failed to actually do anything with it. As to outsource this as well, if you're interested in this topic and want to write about it, feel free to contact me and we can partner.
Producing the nitrogen for fertilizer is very energy intensive. Thus, food prices will follow the oil price.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/jul/15/ap...
EJ writes: "And I was - but no longer am - scared of Airbnb’s reaction, the pressure and the veiled threat I have received from them since I initially blogged this story."

Wow. That sounds quite different from what Brian Chesky claims here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/on-safety-a-word-from-airbn...
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I find this bit particularly damning: "During this call and in messages thereafter, he requested that I shut down the blog altogether or limit its access, and a few weeks later, suggested that I update the blog with a “twist" of good news so as to “complete[s] the story”.

Seems like we are all still waiting for the "good news" ending to this tale.
>I'm still wondering why Google sided with Verizon against net neutrality.

They didn't. They got Verizon to agree to a compromise position on net neutrality.
Welcome to HN from a kindred spirit. I'm a former homemaker and homeschooling mom. Serious health issues caused me to seriously question conventional wisdom about nutrition, so I appreciate the tone of your site. (The standard medical advice for my condition amounts to "live on tons of junk food to increase your fat, salt and calorie count!" I got better in part by focusing on better nutrition. Much of what I have found works flies in the face of what "the world" believes to be true for people like me.)

Count me envious/jealous of your financial success with your blog. :-) You have what I once wanted and never got (in terms of lifestyle -- I still hope to work out the online income thing, though my kids are grown now).

Peace.
Yeah and the sysadmins get paid well for doing all that stuff. Sorry, but I don't see the point in arbitrarily assigning extra gratitude for someone doing their job. If there's something wrong in that you're not properly compensating your sysadmin, one day of "appreciation" isn't going to change that.
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Тази диета се ръководи от лунните фази. Както знаете, Луната влияе върху процесите в тялото, тъй като голяма част от организмът ни е съставен предимно от вода.
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I'm using airbnb in Berlin right now. Two days ago I received a knock on my door. Turns out it was the real owner of the apartment and he had the Paperwork to prove it. Fortunately he was nice enough to let us stay without compensation. When I went to the airbnb website to try and call them all I got was a web message box. I filled out a message and sent it on its way but that's a pretty lousy system. Luckily for me my situation is nowhere as bad as ej but airbnb really needs a 24 hour hotline. I've had many good experiences but all it takes is that one time.
Chesky's claims are addressed directly in the blog post, and don't look good.
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Part of the problem with this ruling is the abuse of Cleanfeed, BT's blocking system. There are a lot of people in the UK who were only ever happy with Cleanfeed and the IWF being in existence for as long as their scope was limited to the "worst of the worst", clearly illegal content.

This ruling is why, if you're going to have a system like this, it's not enough to simply say "Well, it'll only ever be used for X. Trust us." You have to go through the effort to enshrine that limitation in legislation.
I didn't take it as much of a compromise on Verizon's part and very few, if any, did at the time. Looking at the effects of this legislation today, the only winner has been the carriers.
This article on TC adds nothing at all.

Original blog post:
http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare...

HN submission of that blog post for discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820615

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ADDED IN EDIT: Clearly this is contentious - it went up to two points, now as I write this it's down to zero, and who knows where it will go next.

Yes, I agree, sometimes TechCrunch adds information, but I claim that in this case it doesn't. Further, I claim that by reading only the excerpts they include, you are not being given the whole picture as written by the blog author. The post is well-written and well-crafted - providing summary excerpts does not give the full impact or the full situation.

And, given that the crunchy bits don't actually add anything, let me quote from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html where it says:

Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.
They'll turn eventually. Google is great at the moment and will continue to be such for some time I think, but once a company gets big enough lawyers and HR types start to infect the organization and the clock starts ticking.

And when they do, they'll have all these patents!

edit: To clarify, I think it was a good idea they got these patents, but as for being used offensively I think the question is "how long until" rather than "if".
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Personally I like what I get in stackoverflow... A way to preview in-ine as I write the [wiki] style site-specific syntax.

If markitup can do similar for forms, it would be a great way to usefully promote utilization and expertise using those constraints/syntax.
What gets shared on Twitter vs. Facebook?
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How old are you? In your 30s your body most likely will change, significantly.

Besides everything else, you are good to get periodontal disease and have false teeth early on. Nutrition is clear on several aspects. Eating horrible food is not some perceptual mystery. Eventually it will catch up to you. And it often makes you feel bad instantly.

Try changing your diet for 30-days, eat more fruits, vegetables, cut your sugar intake etc and see if you feel different.

And have you seen Tom Naughton's film Fat Head (the anti-Super Size Me doc)? Some bad logic in it but you sound like you could appreciate it. Good luck.
Tabs CAN be dragged - at least on Windows and Linux - not sure about Mac.

I also fell in love with tab stacking. It's just easier to group tabs into stacks in a single browser window than having separate windows. In later case I spend waaay too much time clicking wrong window.
Submitted a week ago to a deathly silence. No comments, very few upvotes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789794

Will this submission fare any better?
23, 5ft 11.5in (Hey, the doctor's the one who's always like "11 and a half", not me! Then I'm always tempted to say "You mean 11.5323in")
Yes, the reason is the runtimes for them suck, or aren't needed.

If there was a decent runtime for BASIC or COBOL, which gave real world advantages over everything else, I'd switch to BASIC or COBOL in a heart beat.

I'm a programmer. The language I use is pretty irrelevant. If It starts looking ugly, I'd just write a cross compiler. This is not rocket science.
"...don't look good." is quite the understatement.
If he tried to manage the fallout, it totally backfired, and now they have a full-blown PR nightmare to deal with, which could've been avoided.
Interestingly, I've seen multiple non-tech persons with Bing as their default homepage (most of them having IE as browser) actually searching for "google" with Bing to search for what they wanted in the first place.
I guess it's likely that people do it the other way around.
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I disagree - people are always interested in TechCrunch's take on things. Indeed, AirBNB used it as their PR channel the other day ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/on-safety-a-word-from-airbn...) so linking to the TC article certainly has value.