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>I think the way the courts work is that only the patent owner can sue for infringement.

I am not sure about that, companies like Intellectual Ventures/Lodsys do all kinds of manipulations.

>And recent events tend to show that Moto Mobility would not have been able to continue to sell smartphones if they had sold their patents to Google.

That wouldn't work like that. Google would (need to) provide patent indemnification to Android licensees like Microsoft does with their desktop Windows and mobile WP7.
The Power of Small Wins in Times of Panic
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Unfortunately, DC based on VC funding to local companies (including Maryland, VA and DC) doesn't hold a candle to NYC or Mass on the east coast.

It's funding numbers have been buoyed in recent quarters by large LivingSocial rounds but otherwise, there is not a lot of institutional investment flowing to startup in the DC area.

Look at pages 4 of 5 of the report embedded at the bottom of this link. You'll see DC doesn't figure near the top for VC deals or funding - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit...
Great talk, very down to earth. Great reminder that good business are sometimes very simple ones.
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+1 for DC and the growing startup scene there.

(I'm from DC and am on the investment team at 500 Startups.)
That the numbers were not small multiples of large powers of ten.
Did Apple tamper with evidence in the German Apple v. Samsung case?
On the price point - there's still the market buy/sell spread on the currency market.

Western Union exhibits similar behaviour.
I see the package deal being a rental offer so you can still have your rental market.
I remember watching Spirit and Opportunity land on mars, sitting next to my uncle,the day he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and I still remember the prediction that the rovers would die in 3 months due to buildup of dust. I couldn't help but wonder that my uncle was, at least, going to outlive them. I was wrong.
Congratulations! THANK YOU for serving our country. You may not hear it enough, but it IS greatly appreciated.
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i was once similiar to you, used to be the hardworker company types, and i meet at a point where i feel that i need something more chalenge and risky. if you're with a luck of enough budget on you, i recommend that you bootstrap yourself and try to made a product, usefull for others, say contribute to open source on github and making your portfolio in there. i'm afraid that those cheap works (unleast it's for social purpose) will just make you a cheaper programmer

Best of all, within this point, i'ts fulfilling my ambitious to becoma a better and useful programmer. i'm still trying, and it's just feel great
When the blog author argues that "Warren Buffet should write a check" he is not oblivious to the fact that asking everyone in your tax bracket to pay more taxes generates more revenue than making a voluntary contribution. Rather, he is arguing that Warren Buffet feeling guilty about not paying enough taxes is not a good basis for rasiing taxes on everyone in that category.

Rather, taxes should be placed where they will do the least harm to the economy. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_tax. Ideally, taxes should be placed where they will not distort people's behavior. So, the relevant question is whether increasing taxes on capital gains will have a change investors behavior making the economy less efficient. Buffet says "My rich friends will invest no matter what!" But, he provides no evidence to support this. On the margin, some investments will not be worth it with a higher tax (as described by lionhearted). How big of a problem this is up for debate. But we shouldn't make tax decisions based on Buffet's anecdotal experience with rich friends.
Did you restart ST2 after pasting the console command? After restarting there should be commands in the command palette that start with "Package Control." If not, go to "Preferences > Browse Packages…" and then look for a folder called "Package Control." If it is not there, there must have been a bug with the download. If it is, look in the console to see if there is a message about Package Control looking for updates.

It may be easier to use GitHub issues to follow up with this: https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/issues.
Buffet Is Lying On "Future Promises"
Being a savvy investor does not necessarily imply being an expert on public policy. And your statement pretty much nullifies any attempt to ever argue with anything Warren Buffett says, which isn't a very productive stance to take.
It's just a degree. No more no less. My engineering degree helped me to be a better engineer. My MBA helped me to be better at business. Education is good.
So the question now is, does Google consider these patents 'bogus'?
I'm not going to tell you what the right thing to do is, but what the most practical thing to do is. The 2 don't always coincide.

Without knowing what type of event you are holding, I would err on the side of caution and simply go through their process. Lest you want to get into a potential legal battle, which I'm assuming you don't. Yes, you may be able to create change in the system by fighting. However, on the negative side, you may end up hampering your own progress. It's a decision you have to weigh.

Another way to maneouver the situation is to try to meet the organizers in person with an open mindset and see if you can negotiate something. Try to understand their mindset and see if there's an opening in their thinking. Finding common ground is usually the first step to agreement.

I can't fully distill a solution for you without understanding the situation and players involved, so I can only give practical strategic advise. Hope it helps. Good luck!
I've done calculations before where vegetables come out to cost between $0.30 and $0.60 per pound, so it would be profitable with current tech.

However, I believe the future is in rooftop greenhouses with a transparent solar cell film covering, where the solar cells absorb in the green frequencies not needed for the plants.
> Anyone who has the imprudence to argue with Warren Buffett, the savviest investor of all-time, is most likely a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

So you can't argue with him about...

-Parenting?

-Philosophy?

-Regulation?

-Physical fitness?

> If you can't understand why, then you also may be a victim of the same effect.

Markham pointed out that capital is going to be invested differently if tax laws change.

I mean, duh, right? It's an obvious, correct, and important point that was overlooked in the OpEd for some reason.

If you disagree that changing tax laws is going to change capital investment, the burden is firmly on you to explain why instead of just saying "Dunning Kruger" which is basically a sophisticated way of calling someone an idiot.

So I'm holding by the "Godwin's Law II" suggestion - if you try to call someone out on Dunning Kruger, you lose. If you've got a good argument, just make it instead of calling names.
Since some might exploit or squat on these, no one should get them?

Following that logic, we wouldn't have any domain names at all.

The prima facie argument seems 'pro' - it's a technical restriction that didn't turn out to be necessary or as informative as originally thought. Why hang on to limitations that are essentially historical accidents?
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I'm no huge fan of the NeXT underpinnings of OS X, but the idea that using BeOS as an underlying operating system "would have forwarded the osx success a couple years" is silly.

Aside from the still-continuing claims of Be adherents and their Haiku descendants, BeOS was so very much Nothing Special and I find it highly unlikely the Magic BeOS Fairy Powder would have materially improved OS X.
As someone who has yet to design their first site, this was a very valuable look into the mockup process.

Does anyone have links to similarly chronicled site experimentation with respect to HTML/CSS, revenue models, or a/b testing as I feel this would give a fascinating insight.
Profits and capital gains are not the same thing. Additionally, no one is arguing about raising taxes to 68%. Buffett is simply arguing that the mega-rich should be paying an effective tax rate on all income that is similar to what the middle class is currently paying.

Also, comparing the US to Magnolia is a pretty dubious.
Thanks! I actually got demoted in order to go to medical school, then promoted on graduation back the same rank I left. First actual promotion since 2002!
ISPs could supply their customers with optional DNS servers that ignore these new domains, couldn't they?
We should be thinking about Smart Data instead of Big Data
Why support 800 pound gorilla? I am all for supporting under dogs and small but substantive social services.
Your point about the WinCE-based Symbol gear: drop WinCE and they drop all their customers that are unwilling/unable to port their code over to Android.
I believe you are referring to "How to start a startup"
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
derived from a talk to the Harvard Computer Society in March 2005
yes but the redundancy you have to use with mongodb gives you a very low probability of that type of failure.
I recently (after my move to TLV) bought me a pair of these Vibram (five finger?) toe thingies. Yes, if you try them in the store and are used to ~30~ years of wearing regular shoes, they are 'funny' at first. What a surprise..

I still bought them, convinced myself that I'd give them a decent try and at least wear them on the awful hot beach or something if they suck completely.

I love them. I only wear regular shoes now on rare occasions. The first two days were a constant source of laughter and I tried to walk on every type of ground (and - stuff) I could find. Childish? Hell yes, but fun!

Now they are comfortable like no pair of shoes that I owned before. While having no proof I do believe that I walk more straight with them and you relearn to roll your foot instead of stomping around.

If anyone wants to try this experiment and thinks about shoes like this: Don't give up after 5 minutes in the shop..
An admirable list for sure - but that doesn't really tell us why DC has more startup mojo than NY. Particularly when it can be quickly countered with the "Made in NY" list of companies, all self-reported and all with over 10,000 users.
http://nytm.org/made/
Looks really cool, looking forward to use this.
I didn't want to get into the discussion here on HN -- seems like everybody wants to fight the battle of taxes 2012.

But I did want to point out that the purpose of my article was to demonstrate my confusion and ask you guys for help, not necessarily to state that policy would hurt more than the mega rich. I understand the reasons pro and con for tax reform -- it's a great topic. What I didn't understand is what the hell Buffett was trying to argue: fairness, social efficiency, marxist philosophy, what?

As part of that, I felt that I had to come clean and show my position -- I think the entire debate is phony and just a way to control the masses. But I really, really didn't want to get into the politics. My interest as a writer and outhouse philosopher was the clarity of his piece, not the validity of the argument. (Commenter Ron came by the blog and made a great defense of Buffett's position. You should read it if you're interested.) Once we state our case clearly, then productive discussion has a chance to begin.

And it beats the living shit out of me how asking questions can somehow be taken as challenging Buffett or talking outside my expertise. The whole idea of asking questions is to demonstrate you don't have knowledge and to ask for help. People act as if I somehow called Buffett out. Geesh.
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I am willing to bet that you are confusing abilities you already had with abilities the MBA gave you.

Most people with MBA aren't like you and thus won't reap the benefits of perspective.
"I prefer not to" (Bartleby)
My understanding is that most tax incidence economists believe the corporate income tax is primarily born by shareholders. Sure it's a very complicated issue, but if you pin it on one party then shareholders is the least inaccurate.
> Investing is the science and art of placing money where it does the most good

Err, no it isn't. It's the science and art of placing money where it will grow the most. That is neither equivalent nor synonymous with "does the most good".
Yes, and I agree we need to raise taxes (putting me in a very small minority of libertarians). But as to the question of how much government needs to spend in order to have a functioning society, the clear answer is "much less than it spends today".
How pedantic. Two hyphens is a dash, and the "'" character is perfectly usable everywhere you want a single quote or an apostrophe.

Does it really matter how many spaces after a dot one uses, or if dash is really a dash or just two hyphens[1], or how paragraphs are handled? No! Nobody will even notice!

Work on actually getting things done, not adhering to the standard this rag of a publication mindlessly pushes.

[1] As it has been done since the dawn of computing.
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I know it is hard to pass judgement from a single story like this, since I am sure someone has another version of this story to tell...but this still takes a bite out of my "I love Apple" mentality. If this is entirely true, it is the kind of thing that should really upset someone who has believes in a fair and just world. The fact that lawyers can get away with filing million dollar lawsuits with falsified information is a slap in the face of what the legal system should be.

I have seen this in much smaller scale personal lawsuits as well and it is really disparaging to see the system manipulated by lawyers and there to be no consequence for doing it. In my opinion if a lawsuit is filed with entirely fabricated information which was easily verifiable by the filing part at the time of filing, then there should be serious consequences for those people.

Sorry this one upset me a bit :)
Has Google wasted $12bn on a dud patent poker-chip?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/15/google_motorola_the_...
Alternatively, one could make it opt-out rather than opt-in. Slashdot does this for your session - you can mark a session as being at a "public terminal", ensuring that you're logged out when your browser session ends.
Are fluid simulations for video games different from "actual" fluid simulations? The article just seemed like a discussion about fluid dynamics, but when it says things like "... for games", I always think it's about making something look realistic without actually solving the real equations.
I'm not against companies using Google flexible UI to innovate the interface but I strongly believe Android needs a good example of consistent user experience. Everything is just too fragmented right now. Just look at system icons alone in any Android phone, they are of million different styles.

With Motorola, Google should try its best to have a phone with everything thought out from hardware to software design.
How about this? http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2008/05/the-dumbest-thin...
Maybe they weren't for sale separately?
Just an empirical observation, your average karma seems to recalculate on a periodic as opposed to a continual basis. I've noticed at times that, after posting something that gets a lot of upvotes, checking my profile (even when I don't hit my browser cache) doesn't show any increase to my average, yet waiting a day or so does.

This is purely anecdotal and unscientific, but it's a consistent observation.
So is it in "about:troubleshooting", "http://about:troubleshooting, "http://www.about:troubleshooting, "http://about:troubleshooting.com, "about.troubleshooting", "www.about:troubleshooting", etc.

Mundane users make this mistake. Don't rely on a large percentage to get this right.
Isn't your port of KVM integrated into the Solaris kernel? How are you ensuring they are two independent and separate works under copyright law?
It's so dumb, I'm 403 forbidden to see it.
Respectfully, this isn't true. Safe inserts are safer, but not safe. There could still be a problem writing the data to disk, and (My|Postgre)SQL just doesn't have this problem.
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Unimportant. The patent problem needs to be solved Right Now, and it's worth risking a long term complication.
I've not had a problem with addons since 3.6. They've autoupgraded all the ones on the Mozilla site, so far as I can tell.
Build one for them anyway. Then show it too them. If they say no it is still a portfolio piece.
Paul Fox seems to have been working on a Linux DTrace port since 2008 (based on the directory listing). He blogs about his progress on DTrace (and other things) at http://crtags.blogspot.com/
http://bash.org/?99060

t0rbad> so there i was in this hallway right
BlackAdder> i believe i speak for all of us when i say...
BlackAdder> WRONG BTICH
BlackAdder> IM SICK OF YOU
BlackAdder> AND YOUR LAME STORIES
BlackAdder> NOBODY HERE THINKS YOURE FUNNY
BlackAdder> NOBODY HERE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR STORIES
BlackAdder> IN FACT
BlackAdder> IF YOU DIED RIGHT NOW
BlackAdder> I DON"T THINK NOBODY WOULD CARE
BlackAdder> SO WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT FAG
*** t0rbad sets mode: +b BlackAdder*!*@*.*
*** BlackAdder has been kicked my t0rbad ( )
t0rbad> so there i was in this hallway right
CRCError> right
heartless> Right.
r3v> right
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I didn't realise you guys had taken money from Sequoia - congrats. Could you be the first YCC to go public? I've got high hopes.
Yeah, but then you get way more people who leave themselves accidentally logged in.
I love Weebly. My only complaint is this I couldn't find any professional looking templates for a dance studio. Everything looks like a blog template.
>their long-term incentive to commoditize mobile software and hardware.

close in-house integration of software and hardware hasn't been known as a way to commoditization
You can't build railroads before it's railroad time
We have no current plan to. Going to Silicon Valley for YC doesn't
mean moving there permanently. (There are about a dozen YC funded
startups in NYC.) And if ambitious people are willing to go to
another city for several years for college or grad school, it doesn't
seem like a big stretch for them to go to Silicon Valley for 3 months for YC.

There's a long tradition of ambitious people travelling to the big center of whatever they're interested in. And while NYC is more of a startup hub than it used to be, the Valley is still the center. Founders who come here find it an eye-opening experience. So we wouldn't necessarily be doing NYC-based founders a favor by establishing a branch there.
I had the same problem
There are three versions of Firefox:
Release (the version that you should be using)
Beta (If you want to do some testing, or don't care about minor instability)
Aurora (If you are feeling particularly risky and need a new feature NOW).

That's it.
Well, is he really using G+ himself or is his stream empty because he never posts anything?

Anyways, I'm a tech guy, but also into photography (http://plus.google.com/104936988539783595605), and I must say G+ keeps me plenty busy, more then I've ever been on Facebook, where I sometimes cross post to, roughly, the same audience (non of my family members though are on G+ just yet). Actually, I like G+ for being useful, easy to use, and I give Google credit for listening and quickly adapting and evolving.
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Yet another problem that can be reduced to the chicken V egg dilemma.
So why not use Perl then?
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Dear Procrastinator,

Go read up on the topic of procrastination, because it's actually an interesting field of research within psychology. I know you want to, because that way, you can procrastinate even more!

I'm appalled that nobody has yet mentioned http://procrastination.ca — home of the Uni Ottawa procrastination research group. Also home of the excellent iProcrastinate podcast: http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/

It turns out that procrastination is an immensely complex and multi-faceted issue, and no one single solution is going to help everybody. I like the OPs advice, but don't think it applies to every procrastinator! Also, it might be the right advice for you if you want to combat your procrastination, but it won't help you combat other "bad" aspects of your psyche, and eventually, you're going to fall into your old habits.

I'm talking out of experience here: I originally went to a psychiatrist because my life wasn't working out anymore (it was really that general.) Several (mostly inconclusive) diagnoses and 2 years of psychotherapy later, I feel like I'm finally starting to grasp why and how my life went wrong.

Not everybody who procrastinates has serious mental issues. But just as a hint: if, for a prolonged period of time, say, a year, you aren't able to get back on track, or you aren't able to fulfill your dreams or expectations, try a therapist, if you can afford it. (I happen to live in a country with free health care, so I didn't have to deal with that, gladly.)
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No; the KVM kernel module is in its own repo: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-kvm
Isaacson's biography of Einstein changed how I think about the entire genre. Pre-ordered Jobs.
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Given that you didn't know better than to not use 1.3.* initially I find it hard to take your continued propagation of your posts on MongoDB seriously.
True. Opt-out would probably be a security transgression with the current scrutiny of social media.
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There is a very big difference between engineering and business and I am kind of surprised that you would make an argument to the contrary.

Your engineering degree help you become better at engineering because you can more or less predict the outcome of how things behave. The theories are seldomly proven wrong.

If the matter you control in engineering were made of "business matter" life would be much more dangerous than it already is. Humans don't follow the laws of physics the same way.

You seem to be confusing doing good inside larger organizations with being good at business. There is little to no correlation.

Being good at business is more like being good at music. Education is no guarantee for success.
Feel free to prove me wrong.
Great design and the app looks dead simple, i.e. it is not scary looking, but I need a bit more information.

"Radio Silence lets you block internet access from any applications you would rather keep silent."

My applications have/need internet access? Why do I need to silence them?

Do not assume people already know why they need this. Find a good selling point to the above questions (privacy, right?) and drive it. You should then be able to charge at least $30.

I also feel like I would feel more confident in the product and the co. behind it, if I saw links that lead to things like contact, documentation and support. I do not want to be left out in the cold should I need help.

I hope this helps.
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