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Have you seen PowerShell? It has only shipped with the OS starting with Windows 7, but it's a surprisingly powerful shell--in some ways it looks way more powerful (and complicated) than bash and the like.
From the companies that pledged so far, how many actually holds any patents?
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That was the first time I showed anyone. Couldn't have done it without HN and everyone's feedback. So, thank you.
You're right, I indulged in too much purple prose there. Sorry.

Would you expand on what you meant by:

> The context of the comment makes it seem like it's subpar on these things.

What I intended to get across was that Bottle, being a single file at ~2700 lines, makes it convenient to scan the code to see exactly what it is doing (or not). It also doesn't require a lot of typing to wire a function to a URL and offers some nice syntactic sugar while doing so: you don't have to @route things you can @get them or @post them (it's probably my Java background that makes me think in terms of separate code paths for the different HTTP verbs).

My take on a more detailed (and hopefully hyperbole-free) summation of my original post is:

"Because this was a short timeframe prototype, they had no Linux VM available in the lab so I had to use Windows. I found a recipe that let me run Python stuff as a service which I was able to wrap around Bottle more quickly than I was able to with the other frameworks I tried. Because I was working on a machine that had no access out to the internet, I had no virtualenv and had to instead bundle all my stuff up by hand."
I don't understand how the instance-hours are being calculated. One of my apps has the old 2.5 CPU-hours/day to the new 34 instance-hours/day calculation. The app is not CPU-intensive and 2.5 hours of work sound reasonable. It certainly is not hogging the CPU 34 hours the whole day. Does the new instance-hour include the process idle time of app?
> "If it's complex enough, and someone else did it first, there's no reason why it shouldn't be patentable the same as any other invention."

IMO a patent needs to go further than this. The whole point of the patent system is to preserve the incentive to invest in technologies. If I spent my life's fortune inventing GizmoWidget, and my neighbor can just reverse engineer one and set up his own factory... my incentive to invest is gone.

And these situations still exist - particularly in traditional engineering fields where the costs of prototyping, testing, and certification are enormous.

But really, what are the costs of sitting down for a few weeks and cooking up a new mathematical formula? I'd argue that being first to market while your competitors are scratching their heads is well worth the investment - given how little cost it presented to yourself.

IMO patentability should not be focused on how complex the system is or how trivial it was to derive - it should be based on how much it is reasonably expected to cost to develop. That is, after all, why the system exists.
this supposes that your Globe is of planet Earth. What if it isn't?
Is IV a non-profit? I think this idea might actually work if you dissuade the profit motive from corrupting the initiative.
One of my clients, whose app sees a decent amount of traffic, is going to go from $510/month to $2070/month _if_ the 50% frontend discount is applied. After the discount lifts, it looks closer to $3300/month.

Which, in my opinion, is insane.

It's not clear to me, yet, what impact the new 2.7 concurrency features will have.
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Hours when CPU is ON are counted. Not actual CPU usage or cycles.
Ubuntu does daily kernel builds and many people run that kernel - to see if some bug has been fixed, to get support for their newer hardware etc. Lots of reasons perfectly sane people can end up testing a daily build.
I'd like to see a different Patent Pledge.

One where software engineers pledge not to participate in formal patent creation. Because ultimately, all of the software patents out there were 'authored' by a software engineer. You have to have the person that actually invented the new implementation on the document.

Sure, your employment contract says that any IP you create on your employer's dime is owned by your employer. And so, sure, they could go out and pursue a patent for some new implementation that you invent. But you can stand up and say no, that you won't participate in the 'patentization' of your work (ie the formal, legal work to obtain the patent).

And without your involvement, it would likely fail. It certainly makes a statement internally and externally, at least.

How does this work? Well, you can make that commitment - in writing and verbally - when you join a company. Or you could simply state as much, formerly, in an email to your boss and superiors tonight when you get home.

With the software engineering talent market what it is anyone but a dope-shit code monkey has the leverage to dictate terms.
I pointed out that git's good reputation is known even outside developer circles. It might not be the greatest contribution ever, but is it really worth -x?
I am sure there are a thousand reasons that these ideas would not be feasible, however I have been thinking of two other approaches towards software and business process patent reform.
(1) would be to shorten the time that a patent is valid to 1 year . Give the Company who 'invents' (and goes through the patent process) a small head start, however in today's quickly changing world, I think that this shorter time-frame is more proportionally in-line with the R&D investment of these types of processes. Patents that protect the Physical items (that in general are more costly to develop and take a longer time to implement due to the more expensive and time consuming manufacturing processes) the protection would remain longer (engines, chip-sets, medicines, etc)
I think that these shorter term-limits will shake out the patent trolls, yet still allow a patent holder some opportunity to leverage their work and license to companies that could not wait the 1 year, however after that, it is all about execution.
(2)Perhaps another approach (and much less realistic) would be to keep the existing term limits, but have a prix-fixe license fee schedule/menu for all software and business processes. There would be a few Tiers of patents (i.e. Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, etc). You would apply to a patent (and a Class) and the license fees would spelled out for the annual license fees. Perhaps the Amazon 1-Click Patent would be Class-1 (i.e. "pretty darn obvious" and the fees would be $100 per year), etc. Anyone willing to pay the fee could license the patent (no one can be denied). This would also stop hoarding, and would allow people with legitimate inventions to monetize their investment, however still allow those that feel that they can execute to also move forward an innovate.
TinyLetter publishers are similar to bloggers -- mostly individuals, sometimes with an agenda, sometimes not. Here are two examples of popular ones.

Kevin Rose:
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Green Day fan:
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As for finding users, everyone who subscribes to a newsletter (~500k) goes through the TinyLetter flow, so that's the best advertising. Just took a couple people to say (tweet, etc), "join my newsletter!" with a link, and the viral-ish loop started.
+1 for the credit.

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Well I don't think my reply formatted correctly on this iPhone app I'm using. Sorry if it's unreadable.
Thanks for the pointer to that project. Hopefully I won't have to do another of these off-the-cuff throwaways again (which means I won't have to leave the comfort-zone of virtualenv on Linux), but if I do, I now know where to find the kitchen sink. =)
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He may be enjoying it.

Not everybody gets to attend their own eulogy, and in this case, in tone and volume, it verges on deification.

Speaking of which, is there a comedian with balls to publish an Apocolocyntosis?
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People make crappy products then slap patents on them so no one can compete with them. For the greater good of society this should be illegal, competition breeds innovation right, if you make something crappy, you should welcome someone else to make it better, after all, if it was something you actually used, YOU would want it to be the best, no?

Also, patent trolls that create patents for ideas they have, and are completely incapable of executing.

Software patents are crap.
This is exactly what I feel too! I'm generally lazy when there is no goal and no pressure, but I do work hard on things when there is a need, interest, deadline or even peer pressure. But when it comes to the big dreams, I procrastinate, and I don't know why.

I just up-voted and bookmarked this article.
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I've heard of SecureCRT, but I haven't seen anything that would draw me away from PuTTY - what do you use it for? (genuinely curious)
The most famous example is probably Watt's steam engine. Bolton & Watt had high development costs and could not have gotten funding without their patent.

But once established they definitely used patents against smaller competitors. So it is hard to say for sure even in this case whether patents were a net win. They probably were though. The patent probably caused modern separate-condenser steam engines to happen at least a few years earlier.

(I recommend the story of Bolton & Watt to present day founders. It is remarkable how little has changed.)
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Afer reading the story about Ugmode/Modista, a suggestion for any start-up facing this problem in the future:
GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT YOUR PROBLEM!

1. Escalating embarrassment of like.com could have soured their potential acquisitions and forced them to settle.
2. If lawyers hear about your problem, they might help you. If you had the ability to reach every lawyer, professor and law student in the country, you would find someone. (Maybe not someone great, but someone who can at least avoid a default judgment and keep you in the game for another couple of years, and possibly emerge victorious.)

n.b. You do not need, or, probably, want, a patent attorney to litigate a patent case. Patent attorneys do tedious stuff with the PTO, courtroom litigators convince judges and juries. Nor do you need a lawyer from your city or state. You could have some kid fresh out of law school in Alabama dialing in to Northern District of California judicial teleconferences and filing your motions electronically.

-- Former patent litigator who would have liked to help, if he'd heard about this
I have a question. They note they have notified officials. I've tried notifying the FBI after our sites have been hacked, but they are not interested in it. Is there some other place to report? Does anyone really investigate this stuff?
Wow, I didn't know that this was a solo entry. Planning on throwing my vote in sometime tonight, but based on what I saw with the demo it looked awesome. Great entry, hope for the best on the results.
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Now that's a perfect example of something that seems obvious in hindsight, but obviously wasn't since the problem has existed for so long without a solution.

It's also nice to see a more EE oriented post on hacker news now and again.
There are lots of bugs in peoples' brains that prevent them from doing things that seem like good ideas, and I don't think the fear of becoming illegible (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-p...) is anywhere near the most important one.

My vote for the most important bug is as follows.

It looks as though human brains were architected to think in two modes: "near" mode and "far" mode. The reason for this is that early human tribes had important rules that directly impacted survival and reproduction (for example, "don't take more than your share of the food", "don't sleep with another man's wife"). It was critical for us to tell others that we were going to uphold these rules or we would get kicked out of the tribe. At the same, time our genetic fitness would increase massively if we could find a way to covertly break those rules while still upholding them verbally (more food and more descendents for successful rule breakers).

The upshot of this is that even if something looks good when processed using far mode it's not necessarily easy to translate it into near mode where it actually gets done.

In my view, this is an explanatory factor for procrastination as well. For example, the popular Google Chrome extension Chrome Nanny (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gpdgmmdbbbchchonpf...) requires the user to enter 64 random alphanumeric characters before visiting a distracting site--which moves the idea of visiting this site from near mode (where it might actually happen) to far mode (where it won't).

For more on near and far modes you can read http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/near-far-summary.html. Note that novel tasks and desirable risky acts are both associated with far mode.
Seems like if you want the users to not have to remember/be responsible for passwords this way is a bit far fetched. Why not just OAuth or OpenID? Everyone remembers their Facebook/Google/Twitter credentials anyway.
that application is so well written!
So it counts idle time. When a process is idle, it doesn't use the CPU, which can be used by other processes.

This basically punishes IO/network bound apps and favors CPU-intensive apps.

I can see why some of the web apps has 100X cost increase since they spin up a process to handle a web request which can take fair amount of network time but uses very little CPU.

The new pricing model is not web-app friendly but favors heavy CPU-intensive backend processing kind of apps.
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$22 daily after November? Without the 50% discount?
I know that the eco-group is trying to get publicity for a worthwhile cause and that it's easiest to do it by mentioning Apple, but it's misleading to think that if you don't buy Apple stuff, you're "clean."

One of the suppliers named is Kaedar Electronics which is a division of Pegatron, a South Korean company which is a spin-off of Asustek. Asustek still is Pegatron's biggest clients, but other major clients include companies like Acer and Toshiba.

Taiwan-based Unimicron is one of AMD's main suppliers for substrates, AMD gave them an award last year: http://www.pcb007.com/pages/zone.cgi?a=58721

Meiko Electronics of Japan is one of the biggest suppliers of electronics for solar panels as well as circuit boards for hybrid and EV vehicles.
Phenomenal program in an incredible country. To anyone thinking about applying -- just do it.
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The human touch to this one makes it the best article I've read about Steve Jobs.
Thank you for your reply! ;)

It seems I don't have any twitter friends on Subjot, yet..

Congratulations on Subjot! I really like the idea. Are there plans for some kind of 'reputation' for people in specific subjects they talk about?
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But you said "ask you anything" :P

Can you at least say how many 0's?
Not that I'm aware of, but they've been building games themselves to test out the tech, so they seem pretty grounded.
I, like you, actively repel the effects of advertising (though I have no doubt that some of it still influences me to an extent). However, if advertising really didn't work, then all products in supermarkets would come in colorless boxes, you'd walk to a touchscreen kiosk and specify your caloric and nutritive needs, preferred foods, organic/vegetarian/vegan/etc. requirements, and the kiosk would produce a list of items that met those requirements, along with prices and an objective evaluation of product quality.

How I wish that were the case! Meal planning and product discovery would be easy. Instead, I eat basically the same things over and over, since as a bootstrapping entrepreneur, I can't afford to throw away much food in the name of exploration. If we could get rid of the patent system that killed Modista (http://k9ventures.com/blog/2011/04/27/modista/), and replace advertising with information, I think my life would be a lot more awesome.
AppScale deeply confuses me.

They seem to do a rare (once a year or so) push of whatever they've developed into a public source repo, and then just leave it there. No updates, no bug fixes, no community involvement, etc.

Their site looks like they're trying to sell me something, but there's no commercial product in evidence. And the whole thing seems to be done under the auspices of a university.

There's a link to their supposed development branch, bizarrely on launchpad instead of Google Code where they seem largely based, but it's empty.

I'm not really inclined to put time and effort into something whose model and motivation completely escapes and/or scares me.
Do you have a sense of how much tuning can reduce costs? We're looking at a ~7x jump in prices for a big app; might we be able to quarter that? Halve it?
That service (reputations from SO, Github, LinkedIn etc) is available: http://strictlydev.com/
Something to put our problems in perspective (Warning: an "X Factor" audition)
kernel.org hosts more than the GIT repo.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=d...
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This is exactly what was missing from MailChimp. I set up a TinyLetter newsletter for my personal site.
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Hi, this is kind of a dead thread now but I wanted to reply anyway.
We reposted this again today here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945981
And it got to the front page and I was getting some really good feedback before it got downvoted to hell for being a duplicate.
I would suggest that the fact it made it to the front page and got a bunch of good comments is evidence that people were in fact interested in it, and getting traction on HN is sometimes a matter of submitting things at the right time with the right title.
I don't want to go to reddit or "pivot drastically" - I want feedback from other coders and startup participants here on HN, and your suggestions are entirely unhelpful. Maybe a better question is why does it bother you so much to see resubmissions? You think I am making HN worse by my multiple submissions, I think you are making it worse by not taking the time to look at and critique the work of a fellow HN reader. If you had the time to comment on how much my submissions annoyed you, you could have taken the time to offer some feedback on my app.
I am assuming (big, unfounded, no-data assumption here) that, with multithreading, instance-hours will roughly match CPU hours for most applications. Most apps take care to minimize actual request CPU usage, so most is in the API.

With the new changes, API time doesn't count, so all you're left with is pure CPU time. Since a single instance can service one request while waiting for another's API to return, you're pretty much limited by the CPU time you use.

I hope to be proved right, anyway.
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I have written multiple projects for GAE in Django and even ported one to it. The changes are seriously minimal. In the ported project, I had to change two lines of a lookup query that was a JOIN.

If you're concerned, use Django-nonrel, it's been amazing so far. Otherwise, appscale sounds like a good alternative.
Here is the leaked memo I think you're talking about: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chro...
I wasn't asking a leading question. Nor am I being snarky, sarcastic, or disingenuous, despite that several responses here have been quite rude. Again, I came here to discuss infrastructure policy, not be embroiled in some kind of power struggle. If you read the entire thread, you'll see very immature behavior on the part of commenters here, as well as very pretentious canned one-liners like "looks good on paper but" from people who obviously have no idea what they're talking about.

Nor have I complained about being downvoted, though it does seem obvious that some moderators here are totally high on power.
> Unix is(was?) a commercial product

Unix was originally a non-commercial product, albeit produced by paid researchers at Bell Labs (owned by a commercial entity, AT&T). And actually, Wikipedia claims that {Thompson, Ritchie, et al} received no financial support for the first version, which was developed on a spare PDP-7, so I'm not even clear if they were using paid time to work on it. It was non-commercial because AT&T had been forbidden by a 1956 consent decree to be commercially active in the fledgling computer space. It was only in 1983 (with the breakup of AT&T and the consequent expiry of the consent decree) that commercialization of Unix started, over 15 years after its creation.

So the successes of Unix pre-1983 should be lumped with the successes of GNU (founded that same year) and Linux, as being non-commercial and not-for-profit.
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You should also note that CPU hours turn into instance hours in the new pricing, but it's a straight conversion. With multithreading, the instances you use will go down, perhaps significantly. I believe they will about match your CPU hours, so you might see comparable pricing (if the price per instance hour is the same as the old CPU hour, anyway).
Well, except practically infinite, automatic scaling and zero administration.
I've learned about a fair few local services via Groupon and Living Social. They don't work for all products, but for the products they work for, I suspect they're more effective than advertising. I walked RIGHT BY a restaurant near my office twice a day for 8 months, but I finally tried when it was on Living Social's Instant Lunch. There are a few more restaurants where I work (Judiciary Square/Chinatown in DC) like that. It was more effective than if they had put up posters or billboards and way more effective than if they had gone even bigger with their advertising.
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Yes, agreed, which is why I find Fowler's (and others) documents a little hard to take seriously. They ARE writing to disk, and doing a lot of other work to try and keep the data intact in case of failure...which is what a DB does. I'm all for the idea of keeping some data in memory for speed, but moving it all to resident memory is just moving the same components around.
You're certainly the only I have read who doesn't like it.
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in my home country you're supposed to report it to the police -- just like you report the burglary or mugging.
Is this taking multithreading into account at all?

Also, congrats on bugsense, I highly recommend it!
I have one new app during design phase. The frontend part is going to be in GAE since I had done couple apps in GAE and familiar with it. A part of the backend will be in AWS because I need to run a custom 3rd party app. With the new pricing model, it doesn't make sense to run webapp in GAE. I'll redesign the thing to run the whole thing in AWS.
From a global security standpoint, kernel.org is an important site. Hacking the authoritative source for the linux kernel has serious implications for anyone who runs linux, which is lots of people probably including law enforcement.

Note that, as mentioned on the site, actually doing this is much harder than simply rooting the servers.
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