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> the culture of mediocrity/naivety surrounding it

Unfortunately there is also a counter-culture of elitism and condescension. I'm constantly encountering PHP devs who look down their nose at their fellow developers and assume that anyone who doesn't write sites exactly the same way they do is ignorant and full of failure.

That's the feeling I took from the article. The author _knows_ all the best practices, but sometimes he just wants to get shit done and PHP lets him do it.
The USPTO has not always been so eager to issue software patents. Up until the early 90s they were reluctant as they saw code as a language which could be copyrighted, but not invented. From what I understand, most software patents came flooding in after the Court of Appeals ruled in favor in the case in re Alappat, 1994. OP could have spent some more time doing research on software patent history before writing this, I feel.

Edit for source
http://patentsusa.blogspot.com/2007/02/in-re-alappat-1994.ht...
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> We succeeded. People were scared, and they realized we weren't lying. The amount of invisibility-exploiters dropped from over 50% to less than 1%, and we went through several Sieges without catching a single cheater. This remarkable feat gave us a lot of credibility in terms of catching cheaters.

I think you rushed to a conclusion. Did people actually stop cheating? Or did they figure out a way to avoid sending that name-request packet back to the server?
Why would the 'I' in ROI not be (in some respect) the effort required to teach hacker-ness?
Oh come on, give him a break. He didn't say "Correlation doesn't imply causation", which of course is silly, but he said "Correlation is not causation", which is spot on.

Anyway, I've never been able to successfully do the uberman for more than a few weeks, though I did do the everyman successfully for a few months. As with everything involving messing with the brain, which includes things as simple as caffeine, the results could be disastrous in certain people. As far as I know I'm not such a person. I worry about what things like drunk-inducing-amounts of Alcohol or LSD would do to my brain, which is one of the reasons I don't use such things, but I'd probably be fine afterwards.
>There would be no outrage if they simply put "we'll share all your stuff any way we want"

There would still be outrage, it would just be outrage over burning users with sleazy practices. There would just be no outrage on HN because burrying something in the EULA that nobody ever reads is legally OK and therefore morally OK too.
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We have two software patent articles on the front page of HN. One from a developer saying they are unfixable; another from a lawyer saying they aren't broken. I think this succinctly describes the situation we are in.
As Gruber points out, Apple have gone out of their way to make this possible, right down to creating a device where an HTML5 app can have its own homescreen button and full-screen experience.

I think Apple wins when people make HTML5 apps that run everywhere. Unlike hte “old” Apple, the Apple is winning on price and obviously people like its design choices. At this point, apps that lock people down into the Apple ecosystem are a nice-to-have for Apple, but if everything is cross-platform, Apple still wins. The only way they lose is if somebody invents a “killer app” that is locked into another platform.

So allowing or even encouraging HTML5 apps is a great defensive move for the leader to make.
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> If a legal remedy is uninviting because of problems with the legal system this does not mean that "software patents are not fixable" it means that the legal system in general is poor.

Rather, he assumes that the legal system is poor, and reasons from that viewpoint. It's correct today, it'll be correct tomorrow, and it's unlikely to be different anytime soon.
It's impossible to do that, unless they managed to write a new client. If they don't request that packet on the original client, it'll cause the client to crash. It also would be of no use to them, because then they wouldn't know who, from which guild, whether it was an ally or enemy, was there.

I also had spies everywhere. If there was an ingenious method of getting around it, we probably would've known. In addition, no one really knew how we were catching them, so it would've required one of the developers to leak (unlikely), or someone extremely intuitive to find out.

I'll admit a possibility - but all the odds are against it.
I've never heard anyone even suggest they were the cheapest. I've heard of a lot other adjectives, though.
The requirement for many of my website is simply that it "must not consist solely of lowercase letters". (as well as a minimum length).
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The recruiter might not be able to tell you because the company told him/her not to, so in that sense the recruiter legally can't disclose it. It makes no sense at all for the company to say that though, and if the company refuses to tell you the % that your shares represent, it's a bad sign.
So what's the difference between using noreply, and using somnething like replybot and ... just ignoring those e-mails 99% of the time?
Anyone know how Google's reverse image search stacks up to TinEye or other services? Better coverage or more relevant results?
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I always have tons of tabs open. I have 25 open at the moment.

Usually, I'll have about half a dozen windows open with about half a dozen tabs each. I group the tabs together so that each window holds similar tabs, so it's not really 30 things I'm keeping track of but more like 5-6. E.g. right now I have one window where I was checking finance related news, stock quotes, etc. One window with a bug report and several tabs open looking at relevant source code and google searches related to investigating the problem. I've got one window that's my mail. I've got one window with a few HN stories open.
Thanks for the advice. I taught myself python this summer and am currently learning GUI programming with pyqt. I am also learning django and javascript/coffeescript. I recently contacted the developers of IPython to see if I could help out anywhere and I have been reading to source of the qt-console app they just shipped with the new IPython. My goal is to have some meaningful contributions by the time I graduate.

So although I sounded pessimistic in my post above, I am trying to turn myself into someone desirable to startups. But I still have the feeling it is too little too late. Here's to hoping I am wrong though.
> [disclosure is] an important way the patent system encourages innovation, actually: it forces inventors to build alternative ways to do things

Are you sure it is not just a way of forcing people to waste effort making something different when there is a perfectly good solution ready to use? Is it not better to be building on things rather than around them? and having invention driven primarily by demand not by obstacles?

> Stop offering patent protection and there’s no more required disclosure -- all this stuff stays locked up as trade secrets

Are you sure it is not the likeliness of keeping the secret that dominates here? That is, if you think you can keep an invention secret for longer than a patent term, you will choose that instead of a patent -- since it will give you a longer monopoly. And if you think you cannot keep the secret, patent disclosure does not help anyone else that much, since the secret was going to leak anyway.

The supposed rational is one thing. Whether it actually works that way is another -- and there is no clear proof that it does work.
Those rationale can be proven to be false in virtually any industry.

Patents are supposed to be an inducement, but that rationale alone falls flat on its face once you realize that invention takes place in the absence of patent protections. Worse, patent protections make it more difficult to innovate as claims are broadened.

Disclosure is a laudable objective of patents, but largely unimportant as multiple parties come to the same inventions and talented persons reverse-engineer products (some of whom document their findings publicly). Enforced disclosure is not needed, irrespective of the protections awarded.

In industries where R&D is costly, patent protections are not needed when there is a first-mover advantage. Moreover, patent protections are not needed for commercialization, provided that the inventor continues to innovate after the first sale. Providing a guaranteed advantage to the inventor causes an overall harm to the market of the product, as the inventor has no incentive to improve the product or lower prices, because the inventor has no competition. Competition is healthy, and patents neuter it, leaving the market fragile and expensive.

All of these things can be demonstrated by analyzing the history of patent litigation. I can find no reason to support these rationale.
This was an autopilot flight, not an RC flight.

This was not the first unmanned autopilot flight across the Atlantic; that was Laima, five years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insitu_Aerosonde

Laima took 26 hours and 5.7 liters of fuel. Her three sisters didn't make it across the ocean.
You're right and I agree with a lot of the issues you pointed out. I'd recommend sticking with the Nexus line if going android, or at least as close as you can get to a stock device. My issue with the iPhone is the lack of solid 'cloud' support (although this is supposedly coming) and poor google services support (no turn by turn gps for instance). Android offers not only a lot more freedom than apple's offering, but the device can actually do a lot more as well. This isn't something I really realized until I played with my parents' iPhone after they got theirs. It really can't do that much.
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These movies are the general public's largest source of information on the idea of robotic exoskeletons, that is just a fact.
I'd have to disagree. My companies CTO of over 2 years is on a contract and doesn't touch code and I would describe as being in a typical CTO/executive role.
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No, you've missed a possibility: their only legal option is not to operate in both countries for as long as the laws are incompatible.

That will, in this particular case, probably result in a significant dent in both the US and EU economies in the immediate future, followed by a phenomenal boost to the European economy at the expense of the US in the longer term. That will continue until the US understands that it can't just impose its will on other countries around the world any time it feels like it, and more specifically that while the US government and big business don't care much about privacy, it is a fundamental societal value in several EU countries.
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I don't understand why something so simple of an idea like OAuth should be so difficult and painful to implement. I hate it. We need a different solution, or a better reference implementation.
Those are arguments, not proofs. Whether or not patents have actually been a net positive to innovation is a matter of active academic debate.
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As someone who writes endless reports about the flaws of other peoples' security systems I find it quite easy to write in certain styles, but quite hard in others. I have standard terms that just drop out of my head onto the page for common vulnerabilities as I often find it quicker to do a mental paste rather than open a document, copy and paste to another one. Do any of the programmers or designers on HN do this?
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I voted up your posting, but please use the original title "New leukemia treatment exceeds 'wildest expectations'". The HIV part is pretty irrelevant.
Is it just me or is this the worst title I've ever seen for a post? Compare to the article title: "Israeli Start-Ups Skip the Valley, Go Direct to New York"
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Yeah, the article says it is a threat which prompted me to ask here but they don't explain much more than that unfortunately. I was looking for a detailed explanation of how it works and what can be done to avoid it.
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Nota bene: I made two changes to the headline. The original read "Man who found Apple iPhone prototype in bar, sold it to Gizmodo, to face charges.”

First, the “found iPhone in bar” is part of his defence. It has not been established as fact that it was lost or misplaced in the bar. Second, Gizmodo’s defence at the time was that they did not purchase stolen property, they paid him a fee for the scoop and merely took temporary posession of the phone.
This. My password is not a word, not even a word with substitutions, but it is optimized towards typing it on a keyboard (in terms of when caps come in, when numbers are added, switching hands, etc). I can knock it out in a second and it's muscle memory with zero risk of forgetting. correct horse battery staple, not so much. I lose some entropy by making it typing-friendly, but the cracking algorithm to simulate that would be pretty difficult. I'll take the loss.

As an aside, 1000 guesses a second? Seems generous.
DSSID is just authentication. Most APIs need authorization, that is, a way for humans to let some client access their account on another service.

For authentication, I still prefer OpenID, especially since it's distributed (both BrowserID and DSSID tie you to a single provider).
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Since virtually all Israelis served in the IDF at some point of their life, isn't this merely saying that "Israel's elite programmers head to Silicon Valley"?
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Funny comic as usual, but the 20 years thing is probably invalid. How long would cracking tr0ub4dor&3 on a 486 take? Also I remember some systems didn't allow pass phrases back then. Windows NT in particular had a max password limit of 14 characters, iirc.
That is what I do, I have a 4 character personal salt, like "7Pd$", and put it in the middle of a lowercase word or phrase. Having a symbol, lowercase letter, uppercase number, and number will satisfy most password requirements. I use it on many sites, so it is easy to remember. It also makes it simple to write passwords down, e.g. "correct horse ^ battery staple" which means to me "correct horse 7Pd$ battery staple", but would not be useful to someone who saw it, since they don't know my personal salt. A combination of what xkcd said and a short personal salt that's easy to remember is probably best.
Be aware that adding to the length simply by taking more of the lyrics adds very little entropy. If you're trying "Oh say can you see" then it doesn't take a lot of extra bits also to try "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming".

Similarly, extended passages of text -- even if they don't come from a restricted corpus like that of song lyrics -- have less entropy than you'd think. A smaller number of independent random words is likely to be a better tradeoff.
Nothing fancy at the moment - just some if blocks in our templates. We'll probably start using redis set membership for feature flags in the future though.
This assumes that China and the rest of the world are idiots. By borrowing more and more money and devaluing it, US is gradually losing one thing :trust which is very important for the US economy.
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Makes sense. Changed.
I see now what you meant.

I think it depends entirely on how and why the debt is paid back. We probably agree that the act of paying back the principal of some bond cannot have an inflationary effect if the owner of that bond just uses the money to buy the next bond, so it's not the act of printing the money itself that causes inflation.

If they use the money to buy other things then this might cause inflation if it happens at a large scale, say the hypothetical spending spree that I wrote about in the parent post.

The thing is, since it is pretty much impossible to predict when and how such an event is going to happen, and the best remedy likely depends on that knowledge, it seems unwise to me to cause damage to the economy right now in a (probably ultimately futile) attempt to prevent such events from happening in the first place.

It seems even more unwise to cause such damage since such an event may never happen anyway. After all, it is actually very rare for a government to (net!) pay back part of its debt, and paying back all debt is almost unheard of. Except for the rare times of government surpluses, the US government has never actually net paid back its debt over quite a long history by now, and I see no reason why that should change in the future.

After all, there is significant evidence that government surpluses cause recessions: http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/02/10/the-federal-budget-is-no...
Somebody got me with that exact trick during the Charlie Sheen debacle: I was going back and forth between the Twitter page for @CharlieSheen and @CharIieSheen and couldn't figure out how this was possible… I didn't feel exactly smart when I realized what was going on.

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Nope. Gold prices are going up because people believe gold prices will keep going up, and keep speculating as such. It has no bearing or relationship to inflation, since most of what we buy is not made of gold.

Energy prices are 50% off their all time highs. When they were high, it was a demand story, not an inflation story. Likewise, with food.

In any event, even if all of those statements were true, that's not what inflation means. Inflation is not "things get more expensive", it's "money gets cheaper". There's a big difference.

Inflation is low. Very low. Too low, in fact. If inflation were a couple percent higher, and nominal GDP were also a couple percent higher, the economy would look a lot better than it does right now.
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These kinds of planes would be handy for moving small amounts of contraband...
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Unfortunately, they do so rather poorly, and they do it as a 40-minute video interview. They also don't provide any useful or meaningful refutations.

Things they have yet to demonstrate:

Animation in a remotely current version of the engine
Animation of more particles than comparable technology (Atomontage)
Dynamic shadows or light sources
A world composed primarily of non-duplicate objects
I use Pentadactyl (formerly Vimperator), and hide the tab bar entirely. 'Number of tabs' then becomes pretty meaningless, as all tab-switching is based on a history stack and regular expressions (a la Emacs buffers), so one just lets the buffer list grow. I only notice when there's a noticeable slowdown (which on this Core i7 with 3GiB RAM starts around 180 tabs).
The exoskeleton is supposed to follow your movements, so you'll shift your center of gravity in the same way you normally pick up a 50 or 100 lb weight without the exo. If the added mass of the exoskeleton isn't enough to let you compensate through such repositioning, then you won't lift the 500 lbs.

This thing is designed to augment strength and reduce fatigue, not grant omnipotent lifting.

(Smaller people like me tend to better understand the effect of advantageous positioning to reduce fatigue and better leverage what you can move and lift. Yes, one can actually use one's brain to do more physical labor.)
It's true that DSSID is only authentication (for now). But I will be releasing the code once it has stabilized so anyone will be able to run a DSSID server.
it was obvious from that comment alone, and then became overwhelmingly obvious that that is why he was uncomfortable based on his other responses in the thread.
Well...

Within the colloquial definition, the plane is of a class known as 'RC planes' - it's of a size and general design pattern that is conventionally controlled by a ground based radio pilot, it couldn't be used for carrying passengers, goods or weapons. For very sensible techincal reasons it had to run on autopilot for much of its journey, but the vehicle itself was still undeniably a member of the class colloquially known as 'RC planes'.

By analogy, let's suppose I purchased a retired F1 racing car for whatever purpose. I don't have the entries, licenses and any of a number of other things to enter it into FIA sanctioned F1 races, but does that stop it from being an F1 car while it's not being used for F1 races?
mmm You got me thinking. You're right, both look error prone.
Typing errors increase as it gets longer or more complicated.
In addition, those phrases just make it difficult for the people who you are trying to persuade to listen to you. I really struggled to read this article, but it's hard to think clearly when the author is constantly calling you a lazy moron.

In the end, the only people who finish the article are the people who already agree with you, now even more confident that they are right and the opposition are all idiots.
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