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Bill Gates didn't think so in 1991:

In a memo to his senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Mr. Gates worried that “some large company will patent some obvious thing” and use the patent to “take as much of our profits as they want.”
Nice, and it passes a couple of examples of the Scunthorpe Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
This Google cache link works for me: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:labs.ph...
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GNU Octave is a free Matlab clone (though I doubt the GUI is as nice). They actually mention this on http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html.
I don't think the Internet has had any detrimental effect on the quality of my ideas, but it certainly has had a detrimental effect on my ability to execute them.

When I wrote my MA dissertation, I suffered from the problem that I would write a few sentences, then check the internet or a book or paper, to make sure I wasn't asserting something false, or to see if I could find something to support my assertions or whatever.

It made for exceptionally slow progress.

To fix this, I took my laptop to a coffee shop where I would have to pay for internet access, without taking any books or papers (or only taking the specific one I knew I needed to refer to). Any time I felt I needed to look something up, I would write it in my notepad, and carry on writing.

Once I had hit my target word count for the day, I would go home and look up the things I had noted down, and make any necessary corrections or footnotes.

Basically, I physically separated the act of writing from the act of research.

I've not tried it for coding, so I'm not sure how well it would work. On the one hand, you can find example code, handy boilerplate, or whole libraries for many problems, saving you masses of time over actually coding it yourself, but on the other hand, I know I've wasted hours looking for existing solutions to problems, when it would have been faster to just do it myself.
if anyone knows this i guess its me. I put my resignation in one month ago and have been unemployed for about 2 days so far and I am loving it.

I'm sorry, but being unemployed for two days is nothing. It is obvious that the simple fact of changing your life, especially since it was you who took the initiative, is what's dominating your mood right now.

Try being unemployed against your own preferences (i.e. after being fired and unable to find new work) for half a year or a year - as in the current climate, long-term unemployment is becoming increasingly a problem - and we can talk again.

Also, the typical HN reader is probably quite different from the majority of the population as it is part of the hacker mentality to keep oneself occupied with interesting personal projects. There are many people out there who wouldn't really know what to do with their time.
First thought: people living in parallel 5D universes must find 3D games boring to hell

Just for the sake of argument, don't 3D games also include the 4th dimension? Surely a marketing guy from a games must have tried "NEW 4D ACTION YEAH!"-sloganed advertising by now?
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> Eastern Europe for one afaict doesn't discriminate against female intelligence.

Former Eastern European here -- not sure I would single out Eastern Europe as being "better" in gender norms. How do you explain the Devushka phenomenon? http://www.carpetblog.typepad.com/carpetblogger/2006/07/devu...

Going into STEM fields may anticorrelate with pursuing romantic interests -- but it doesn't imply that it correlates with intelligence/strength. I have encountered many more women with strong personalities who think for themselves among art students than among math grad students, for example. As a matter of fact, as a male, I am attracted to the "strong woman" type -- but paradoxically I find more women of that type among those who have liberal arts degrees. I believe this has something to do with engineering degrees being perceived as ones that "train you to be a corporate slave" rather than ones that strengthen your personality.
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basically:

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With that list of yours, you are not being hard enough on banning the internet. I would suggest limit total internet usage to 1 hour (there are browser extensions to help with that), delete all social apps on phone, use IE6 so most good stuff won't work, remove flash plugin etc.
Why no mention of that badly photoshopped image of the girl supposedly holding the phone?

http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Kenyan....

Beneath which they say 'Hwawei's IDEOS smartphone' -- meaning Huawei.
It sounds silly, but I find juggling is a great way to get a bit of exercise in the office. Once you can juggle it's a great way to step away from a problem and do something interesting but mindless for a while. After 10-15 minutes of it your arms will have had a little workout.
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So they can tell me 'you are stuck, restart!'? :D
My first thought was "Oh, I wonder if that means the spellcheck on my smartphone will stop substituting 'duck' when I meant to type something more profane." But after reading the article, I guess not.
This isn't radical enough. Allowing one hour of Facebook / HN per day is kind of like saying, "I'm going on a diet where I only eat ice cream between 8:00 and 9:00 pm."

Wikipedia is a huge time-sink. Needing online coding references is mostly laziness and habit. Download the docs you need, and if you still get stuck, read the source code of whatever it is you're stuck on. On the whole this is usually more efficient since there's no time lost in collateral browsing. (This is what I do on planes, trains, or when I've got Freedom.app turned on.)

I used to regularly go offline for 2-4 weeks at a time. I'd just go on vacation without a laptop or cell phone. One of the big lessons of being unplugged is just how wrong you are about needing to be all the time. Even as a founder I've managed to get away with going camping for a week by setting up everything so that emergency stuff goes out via SMS notification and throwing a netbook in my backpack (which effectively puts me in "push" mode for going online, which I've never needed or done on said trips).

Pull the plug completely. It'll be a much more instructive experience.
I'm definitely "a long-term thinker." I've already been at it for over 3.5yr :).

However, I got into it out of pure interest with no original intention/particular belief that it would get this far. Now though, I believe we have an established long-term vision and are executing on it.
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Even if you don't sit, you still have to be bent over to some degree, both in the hips and in the shoulders (to reach out for the handlebar), which is a position physiologically similar to sitting in front of a computer (sitting in a chair and reaching out for the keyboard). Also, the actual activity of cycling tends to stress the hip flexors, which are often already chronically contracted due to prolonged sitting and doesn't activate glutes that much (unless you use those cycling shoes which make the upward movement of the feet contribute to the bicycle movement as well). This is exactly the opposite of the pattern of activity that people with sedentary lifestyles need. This imbalance of muscular tension that I'm talking about results in very posture problems, like the anterior pelvic tilt - http://healthhabits.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/anterior-pel...
It's not silly at all, and we're working on that.
Hey Matt,

Apologies on the delay. I will definitely get in touch wtih you later today, cheers!
Just pass on them - these 'employers' are not worth working for anyway.
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But now you're turning it around, the nerd rage is not about them giving out that info, since the guy already knew that. The 'ruckus' (rather, Reddit lynch mob) is about them terminating the customer's account. (whether justified or not I don't know and I don't care).
Just the links & titles : http://pastebin.com/HmtPif1c
Very interested to see what htc and samsung did that apple copied? I'm talking about presentation style and phone visuals, not that it's "a phone, someone did a phone before, so they're copying a phone".
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Would love to incorporate a lot more math stuff, as I suspect there are some great sources out there. If you are so inclined, please let us know about them or add them to this Wiki: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki
Some of the exercises in the links you give are okay. Front squats are an especially advanced exercise--a lot harder than they look. And bench presses won't give you rounded shoulders.

I'd recommend Bootstrapper Squats (google it) or regular barbell squats, bench press, shoulder press, deadlifts and chins.

Riding a bike is an excellent warmup for your knees prior to doing any kind of leg work.
Thanks, but I don't see how that adds or takes away from "did in 2006", unless of course you state that the phone was built during first 9 days of 2007 before going public.
"You know how in the old days people used to travel to experience something new?"

What do you mean "in the old days"? From what I can see people are still travelling a hell of a lot to "experience something new" and this is often facilitated by the Internet. And it's hardly an age thing - most people I know in their 20s seem to be very keen on travelling.
Someone in the UK was convicted of a crime about joking about an airport on twitter. Getting kicked off the bus sounds mild in comparison.
And I don't believe that the methods which are intended to produce people "capable of evaluating the claims of politicians and making the most desirable choice (for that person) in the voting booth" are really effective at that.

You can't teach creativity. OK, maybe you can, but the approach of "throw the students in a group, and tell them to do something creative" is probably not exactly optimal.

Do teachers give any kind of useful guided instruction on high-level skills? Or do they just grade the assignments based on presentation?
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I can relate. For the last five months I have finally been committed to working full time on the idea that has been ruminating in the back of my mind for the last 10 years.

My time is spent in front of the computer doing research and writing code, and lately I have noticed that "insidious" thing too. Hacker News has become the biggest culprit so last week I enabled noprocrast mode for the first time. I was noticeably more productive.

However, even with it enabled I found myself habitually clicking on HN during context shifts -- evidently it is now wired in as a conditioned response (having it on my Chrome start page is probably one of the triggers).

Whatever it is, it's definitely noticeable and not something easily avoided because of the entanglement issue. This weekend I deactivated noprocrast to do some casual browsing and didn't turn it back on -- I probably should switch it back :)
But it's never been fair game to editorialize the headlines on story submissions here.

I don't understand your comment about editorializing headlines. The process of editorializing is making changes after the copy has been submitted. And, that's what happened to both the headline and original url that I submitted.

I submitted a link to this url[1] via bookmarklet. I trimmed extra headline cruft, and clicked "submit". The community upvoted it to #1, after you posted your comment, an unknown mod changed/editorialized the headline to remove references to DDG, and changed the url to this[2], which is pretty crap content IMHO, that I would never submit. I don't get that.

I'll stop this meta discussion, because it's really not that productive and uninteresting.

ref:

[1] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...

[2] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2087815,0...
And bench presses won't give you rounded shoulders.

Healthy shoulders are a result of a balance between the static tension of the upper back muscles and the chest muscles. If you already have rounded shoulders, it means that the chest muscles are too strong and too contracted, while the upper back muscles too weak. That's why a personal trainer or a doctor will prescribe regular _stretching_ of the chest muscles as part of a treatment for this condition. If you're healthy, then bench pressing won't give you rounded shoulders, provided that you balance the training appropriately with upper back exercises. But the point is that people with sedentary lifestyles tend to have their chest muscles already chronically contracted from the posture they keep for most of the day, so they should first work on stretching the chest muscles and strengthening the upper back. When their posture is balanced again, they can workout normally, balancing bench pressing with rowing exercises.
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Not much of a diet, that. You pretty much described what I use the internet for, about 14 hours a day. OK, perhaps I visit HN more often, but otherwise I would fit the mould.
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Seems to be 40/100 now, guess they would have done better not to link it to people who are going to review them badly...
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Well, you are right here, but that's essentially the point I try to address. Everyone of us has to decide on his own if he wants to work on something, which has no positive effect on overall society.
It's a bloody overview mate, it mentions everything in more-or-less random order :-)
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Why would they do that? A patent portfolio can be used much more profitably as an extortion racket against startups. Sell out to us or get sued ...
Please, describe me a curved line with one coordinate only.
Don't get it wrong. Everyone has to decide on his own if he wants to work on something useful for society or not. There is no general way to judge that, but it is always a personal decision based on ethics the person considers worth to follow.
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You're obviously well educated on the subject. I agree with what you're saying. That's why my recommendation above was to do Bootstrapping Squats (at first), bench, deadlifts and chins -- just the basics. You especially want to strengthen the Posterior Chain (hamstrings, glutes, lower back) and Bootstrapper Squats are a simple way to get started.

There's a great book called Starting Strength that gives a basic starting program.
This is abandon-ware. I saw a lot of similar projects leaved open sourced which died quickly in no-relevance. What a difference between healthy open source project where you get support and bugs fixed...
> does not fully support HTTP 1.1. As a result, for example, although it's possible, it's not trivial to proxy WebSocket connections

Non-sequitur. WebSocket protocol is not HTTP/1.1.

WebSocket does have HTTP-like handshake as a hack, but it does not give required behavior in spec-compliant HTTP/1.1 clients, e.g. RFC 2616 requires connection to be closed after Upgrade is sent. WebSockets needs it open. HTTP requires proxies seeing Connection:Upgrade to remove the Upgrade header. WebSocket clients require this header to be present.

So basically a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant proxy is unable to proxy WebSocket connections by design.

If you need only fast downstream communication, you can use Server-Sent Events though.
Is there room for another search engine?
I am developing a structured search engine to help web searchers find user-contributed information (yes, I know about network effect) in a way that is easy to perform sophisticated queries such as 'a list of jobs in industry A where the company has branches in B, C, D states and is founded by someone whose name consists of E'.

(the given query is just an example, though; it is not restricted to jobs)

The concept is similar to Freebase but not exactly a clone as I don't do clones.

I bounced this idea to a local (I'm Singaporean) forum and the typical response is "Why should users use your search engine and not Google?" even though I have stated that it is not meant to be a replacement for Google.

I am curious to the response of the HN community.

Is there room for such a search engine?

What kind of queries do you not use Google for?
It worries me if I read that someones social interactions happens 99% online. Are there no spouse, neighboors, friends?
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> Remember that MS court case its won

Unless I am very wrong, no such case exists. HTC, Samsung, Tom Tom and other victims of patent extortion settled out of court.

> But its a totalitarian system if they aren't releasing evolving code

No, it's not. It's only so if you don't make your own fork, which you are free to do. Unlike, for instance, WP7, which only Nokia (soon to be renamed "Microsoft Mobility" ;-) ) has gained permission to do - and I doubt they can do more than add a little theme here and some preinstalled app there. Freedom also means you have to take care of yourself. You are free to take the code Google offers, but, if it doesn't do what you want (but does what Google wants) it's up to you to change it.
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Thanks for the reply. While I do have an iPhone I try to avoid iTunes (I used it twice to update my phone since I got it two years a go). The programming course does sound interesting though I could use a good course to supplement my self-thought knowledge of the platform.
I worked on a project around a year back (something like fetch.io, but a stripped version) and had a deal with the employer that we'll be sharing the profits that are made from the service. He invested on the servers and the premium accounts with various file hosting services. I took care of the entire application. But he scrapped that project even before the beta is launched saying that the operation costs are more and he see no point in launching the service and also partly because of the legal issues involved in downloading and distributing content from other services. After reading this post, I feel like I should open source the code that I'm not using now.
Any line, really, but let's go with a spiral. The natural coordinate is its arc - there is no rule saying only cartesian coordinates are allowed. Indeed, geographers use latitude and longitude instead, saving a full coordinate.
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Regarding running--if you aren't a runner, yes, trying to go out and run five miles might just do more harm than good. Start slowly--run a block, walk a block, run a block--gradually building up to a mile, then two miles.

Most exercise is going to hurt a bit if you've lived a relatively sedentary life. There is a difference between the pain of "my body isn't used to activity" and the pain of "ZOMG, my heart is going to explode." Pain is just weakness leaving your body.
It's publicly accessible, but I wouldn't call it official.
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Is the end result of this whole mess and congress' refusal to do anything substantial about it that countries like China cease to be copiers of technology invented elsewhere and become safe-havens for innovators to do what they do?
Absolutely correct. Hell I was unemployed for 2 days, 3 days ago (and will be again in 2 days...).
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Same exact prob. The 25-minute counter is there on the desktop. I just haven't pressed play yet. Instead, there is HN to go through.
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this is not 1d it is obviously 2d because it has a x and a y coordinate (1px * 300px), why call it 1d ?...i dont get it! maybe someone can explane that.
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