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It appears this kills any chance of another manufacturer picking up webOS. If HP can't make it work why should anyone else try?

Hindsight is 20/20. Google and Palm could have made a deal. At least then the WebOS team could merge with the ChromeOS team. And Google would have that patent trove for a bargain price. And an in-house manufacturer, too, if that's what it wanted.

Too late for that now. At best Google will get the patents at a significant premium. ChromeOS is too far along to benefit from WebOS. And now Google has Motorola, what would it do with Palm's hardware?
HP Confirms Discussions with Autonomy Corporation
HP's exit doesn't exactly speak to the ability of Microsoft software to power compelling consumer devices.
Is that a name I'm supposed to know? Honestly, this article came across as little more than shilling for Groupon; I really don't care who wrote it.

I'm also curious as to how it's "unnecessarily snarky" to claim that a post like this might be trolling.
patent detente

The patent trolls don't understand detente. They don't understand MAD. They're the real threat, not Apple/Microsoft/Motorola/HTC/whoever.
Developing on WordPress using Git
Wordpress Developer Mark Jaquith explains how to use Git for decentralization, speed, fast and cheap local branching, better merging, more offline capabilities, staging of commits, and lots more.
What does "treated as an employee" mean though? That's presumably intended to prevent people from just starting a one-person company employing themselves.
Date an Entrepreneur
It's got faster again for me. I wonder if it's been rebooted, or if it's running out of memory, or if it's being hammered by traffic for some reason.

Just curious.
I like the simplicity of it all and the concept is cool, but I think the price is outrageous. 25$ for a single page with text and pictures? I could just get a free flicker account and create an album for my pet. I know "unlimited" is kind of nice, but I don't think people would upload that much pictures of a pet, probably no one would take the time to upload more than a hundred pictures. Remember that there is a finite number of pictures of your pet, if you only had taken 30 pics of your dog and he's dead, you can't really add more pics later on.

Also, I think the choice of picture on the plans & pricing page is not right. It's showing cute puppies but your website is about pet memoirs and I think it would make more sense to have an adult animal and maybe even give the picture an old look. The current picture does not appeal to the memoir side of the website.

Other than these things, I think it's well done and looks good.
Neat product, I recently met the guy who tracked down someone that stole his computer, via Prey.
At my incubator the organizers used ZeroCater and I've heard great reviews.
Yes, I think that's probably more accurate. Anyway, the point is that the end of the interview is a fallacious denial of that which is commonly called free will.
I was. Are you still planning on getting a Pre3 in spite of the announcement? I could deal with a smaller number of apps; but now I'm worried there simply won't be any apps at all for the ecosystem.
It's like Cisco and the Flip, isn't it - pure market plays, zero technical vision or willingness to go over the market'snhead to consumers. That said, HP never had a compelling vision for the mass market anyway.
I thought the list is the subscirbers to their daily emails... not the businesses they've signed up.
2. I don't actually know the name of the textbooks for e.g COFA0217

Spend some manual labour (or pay someone else) to either (a) look at the course website (b) contact the local campus bookshop and ask them what the course is.

find a used textbook worth $80, send it to me, for the price $80? Also, I still have to send the book to the buyer/seller.

No point adding layers for no point. Get the freelancer to send it directly to the buyer/seller.
That's just a few of the issues; we wrote that to talk to other pentesters about how to look for flaws, not how to build something secure.
Or you could listen to what biologists are saying..
I'd rather see them come out brandishing the palm brand, and acquiring Fon, and then going after a "home cloud" machine. We could use the "unlimited" home connections we already pay for that are often pretty good (<40ms latency, at least 2mbps up).
I don't necessarily disagree with you, just trying to explain where it came from. Software engineering is the "design based" curriculum.
Congrats Louis!
I run a photo scanning company in Canada (http://photoscanning.ca) and I was seriously surprised at the number of people asking for this service. I get a ton of teachers that are looking to have their material on their laptop instead of lugging everything around, students wanting their texts on their iPads, etc. We haven't officially done it yet as I hadn't looked into the copyright issue as much as I should, but may in the future.

The digital photography method is certainly less destructive, but hugely more expensive & time consuming. A $15,000 scanner can do 120+ sheets per minute... The pricing for book pages seems very solid (keep in mind that scanning is quoted in impressions, so your 100 sheets is 50 pages double sided, if I'm not mistaken)
Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

has long had an interface for searching patents, and here we see one example of an application of full-text searching of patent filings. Part of what has made patent law an arcane subfield of law has been the tedious reference work necessary to look up what has already been patented. If Google fulfills its mission of organizing the world's information, patent law will become clearer--perhaps clearly ridiculous in more than a few cases--and at length patent litigation will play less of a role in impeding technical innovation. Technology for the win.
I only follow one "celeb" these days and while he's a share of my feed I see a decent amount of traffic from other people, but maybe it is just the type of friends I have.

I used to follow Felicia Day but she was obliterating my feed so I said hell with it, she's awesome but not THAT awesome.
>I don't see how having WinCE as the OS hurt Kin's chances in the market after it shipped?

Well, it meant the Danger team had to start from scratch, and the delay meant they were going up against tougher competition.
Ouch, wouldn't want to be one of those cops.
Very impressed with the 500 startups!
Multibyte XOR keys are almost as trivial to break as single-byte XOR keys, for what it's worth. And if you know how to do that, there are "best practices" AES modes in which common implementation errors lead to the same attack.
(from CVS)

Jesus. I thought SVN had beaten CVS years ago...
Thanks for the feedback. Good insights on both pricing and pictures
HP’s Richard Kerris says it is looking for a hardware partner for webOS
UTF-16 has all of the disadvantages of UTF-8 and none of the advantages, and originally comes from the UCS-2 era where they thought, "64k characters are enough for everyone!" Unfortunately, all of Windows uses it, so we as an industry are stuck with it.
I posted about this when it was announced http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2838357 and there are a couple of links in there that should help clear up some confusion ... notably this one ... http://j.mp/nFD0xQ (link was real ugly, forgive me for using a shortener)

I was initially very happy about the announcement, but I think the employee-employer restriction is a trojan horse that really hacks the legs off from under the initiative.

here's the paragraph in question

> Yes. In footnotes 9 and 10 of the memorandum, USCIS indicates that while a corporation may be a separate legal entity from its stockholders or sole owner, it may be difficult for that corporation to establish the requisite employer-employee relationship for purposes of an H-1B petition. However, if the facts show that there is a right to control by the petitioner over the employment of the beneficiary, then a valid employer-employee relationship may be established. For example, if the petitioner provides evidence that there is a separate Board of Directors which has the ability to hire, fire, pay, supervise or otherwise control the beneficiary, the petitioner may be able to establish an employer-employee relationship with the beneficiary.

I see why they did it (CYA) but I think its kind of silly and counterproductive. I mean, you're trying to enable entrepreneurship but you want someone in the mix who is able to control them ... sigh
i just read a good comment on reddit explaining why that number is wrong:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/jn2dy/.../c2dgju...
SpaceX and the "No Assholes" Policy
"Is this part of the current trend at bashing higher education to make sure that we become obedient but efficient drones?"

No, the goal is to remove vocational training from higher education and return it to its supposed goal.

The graduate student that you describe is rare. A masters degree in CS typically means that the person took more random computer courses and knows no more about software development. What you fail to realize is that nearly anyone who wants a masters in CS can shop around and find a school that is willing to accept them.
Easily compare two documents with diff
I wish these projects were in Python.
Us H1B-ers are still tied down. I'd have to transfer my visa to my new, fledgling company. If it fails, I have to leave the country.

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that is incorrect. If it fails, your original h1b remains intact
Pretty much the same here. The primary issue at hand for me is the lack of 3rd party support. Twitter and facebook are boring to me by themselves, but when I can look at them both at the same time with tweetdeck I check them both often.
Anyone have any idea what their operations staff size looks like?
Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes
> I don't see how having WinCE as the OS hurt Kin's chances in the market after it shipped?

They already had an OS they were developing on, and insider reports were that scrapping it and rebuilding on top of WinCE just to satisfy the Windows everywhere mandate cost them a year of development.

WinCE might not have hurt it after it shipped, but shipping in a much different market than the one they would have hit a year earlier certainly did.
Don't know about States, but Canadian version of Olive Garden is not bad at all food-wise.
Unicode should be considered harmful, possibly even text. Never think you understand text, it is a very complex medium, and every time this topic is brought up, you learn something about some odd quality of some language that you might never have heard of. Yes, UTF-16 is variable length, yes, it does make many European scripts larger. Size is always a trade-off and there won't be one standard for encoding.

Text is hard, do not approach it with a C library you built in an afternoon, leave it to the professionals. I just wish I knew any...
Allow listing by text book, as an alternative to course number.
"Discarding the bachelor’s degree as a job qualification would not be difficult. The solution is to substitute certification tests, which would provide evidence that the applicant has acquired the skills the employer needs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28murray.html
People unsubscribe, spam filters kick in, or people just start ignoring the email.
The twilio thing sounds like a good idea. Given the mechanics, the more means of communication you have, the better you're protected against false positives.

I'm still a bit unsure about the part where "you're responsible for asserting that you're still alive." I'd like break it down to its basic premises and see if they actually make sense. :-)
The same was said when the iPhone launched.

edit: Care to explain the down votes? It's too early to make such proclamations. It took a while for the cellphone market to catch up with Apple, why should we expect the tablet market to be any different?
Windows will improve greatly once we stop having each application run random auto update, but have it all centralized.

I don't want to deal with 20 different auto-updaters, plus just in case running both

Secuinia Personal Software Inspector -- notifies you about known vulnerabilities in software, and about updates.
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

File Hippo Software Checker -- notifies you about updates to software you use, especially if said software doesn't have own updater
http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/
No one seems to remember that it took the iPod 3-4 years to take over the MP3 market.

HP also bungled by not offering a 7" model, and not competing on price from the very beginning, even if it meant running at a loss to chase market share.
Why wouldn't something in the cloud work for you?

I personally have a Google Apps account that I connected to my iPhone as an Exchange account, and it syncs my Contacts and Calendars plenty well, and gives me my mail at the same time.

I presume a regular Gmail account will serve the same purpose.
I wonder if there are rules around the board. Could I make the board with my family? Sure, I could be fired, but it isn't likely.

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You probably don't want to do that since it would invite quite a bit of scrutiny ...
This is a repeat article of a business borne in Japan fueled by iPads and lack in home shelf-space in big cities. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/japanese-book-scannin...

I think they scan new books, once they have one scan in inventory, they don't have to scan it again. When you send them your book, it's proof you owned one and they send you a PDF. That is, they don't scan all individual books --so if yours had margin notes, that would be lost, I believe.
I apologize. On rereading your first post, your criticism of the fellow was his "stability" not his anger management. You actually did what I was complaining people don't do.
Blackberry counts as a half? Seems high.
I browsed through your materials and can see that you're a capable young hacker, willing and able to work on lots of things.

However, it might be helpful to talk about the type of projects that most interest you. A little personal touch can go a long way..

Best of luck!
Are there that many examples of HTC, Samsung, Motorola having trouble with patent trolls as opposed to Apple/MS ?
I've lived in Tallinn for most of my life.
I wonder if WebOS will be attractive to any of the handset makers that harbor suspicions about Google/Motorolla - HTC? Samsung (call it Bada 2.0?)? Sony?

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It strikes me that Apple could make a lot of money by making cheaper (sub $1,000) MacBooks now that the competition is running scared. If they could sell a 2010 white Macbook for $900 (which I presume would still have a respectable margin), you wouldn't see a PC on a college campus and they'd even make a compelling case for a bigger enterprise push..
> Rubinius and PyPy take quite different approaches to solving the same general problem.

> However, it's not breaking new ground like PyPy is.

I know about the differences. My response was to the parent post "if there is something like PyPy for Ruby".

Rubinius doesn't need to break new grounds, nor provide a toolset for implementing interpreters. All it needs to do is to provide a decent JIT with reasonable speed and low memory consumption, with the added benefit of large parts of it in Ruby, so that the contribution ecosystem is more active. That will be pretty much analogous(and all analogies, by definition, are inexact. Or else they won't be called ananlogy) to what PyPy is for Pythonistas.
VZW originally planned to provide more attractive data plans and provide full marketing support, but Microsoft was so late getting the Kin to market that VZW essentially threw their hands in the air and dropped those plans.
Sure, you can put blinders on and ignore the last 3 years of identical arguments being tossed around, and the results of those 3 years of sales.
Yes, it is really just a matter of time... and of Android tablet manufacturers finding the sweet spot between features and pricing (which ASUS has with the Transformer but other manufacturers have been iffy with thus far)... but that too is just another thing time is already sorting out.
Well Java was supposed to be open source, too, until Oracle sh!t on it, that is.
Spotify is Defective by Design
Yes ... you could get them as a cofounder (probably give them controlling shares) and then apply ... but the trouble is showing that your wages could be paid. You might have to get some capital invested or use savings.
Cool. I sort of remember that Knuth in his fourth volume considers a similar problem. His list of 5757 5-letter words can be downloaded here (http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~sriram/21/fall07/words.html). The coolness of this is that you can place more than one letter in a square. So first the simpler problem (one char per square) with that list, then come back to this one.
I think Musk is right to point out that many people don't reason from first principles-- basically, that they consciously decide not to think about something, but to allow other's thinking to guide their thoughts. ("It has always been done this way")

I recently began teaching in a school where students are required to write extensively in every class, including "extras" like PE, Music, or Art. I've found that, generally, students who have been subjected to that system for a number of years are far better at reasoning (and expressing that reasoning, naturally) than those who are new to the school. (It is astonishing how quickly new students, who inevitably struggle with complex reasoning at the beginning of the school year have made leaps and bounds in this area, and are far more skilled at verbal reasoning by the end of the school year).

All of which is to say: I think that this style of thinking is greatly buttressed by enhanced linguistic ability, as language is critical to higher-level thinking.

Very interesting video, and the interactive transcript was extremely cool.
Yes, its possible.

www.h1b1.com/concurrent.htm
www.h1bplanet.com/h1b-part-time-concurrent.php
etc.
I joined a startup hedge fund six months ago after five years in VC. The amount of corruption and questionable practices on Wall St that continue today, even after enactment of supposed tougher regulation and oversight, surprised me. It's not a level playing field out there.

I think the situation will improve, but it seems to be an uphill battle against corruption in the regulatory bodies.

I do wish there were more software employed for the enforcement. e.g. it's blatantly obvious that there is insider trading if you examine spikes in volume prior to M&A announcements. I can't imagine it would be that hard to mine the transaction data for offenders.

But as the article says, you can't build up a good database of evidence if you are regularly purging the data.
This is a great product, insofar as 10-year-olds will steal it from BitTorrent and use it to get their first taste of web design, then stop using it once they get serious, then reminisce about how terrible their first projects were. Just like lots of us did with FrontPage.
This is great and expected news for the last few weeks, but is it true that you need to be employed with minimum wage? That sucks! If I want to startup, I have to definitely go full time now and there is no way I can pay myself that wage. They need to relax this rule, if they want to really support startups.

This is my 8th year here in USA and I have a green card being processed. I have decided to give it all up, move to India to start working on my idea for a year and come back here next year as a dependent (my spouse would continue to remain here).
If this rule allows me to create my own startup without the wage rule, I should be able to remain here on my own H1 and possibly continue my green card as well (or does anyone know how it works in this case?).
Mark Douglas, Founder SteelHouse Media - From Oracle to eHarmony
We definitely need some examples, yes. :)

Our packages work exactly the way you describe: a module which can build anything you like, and which has references to other packages for its dependencies.

Apters build steps let you run an arbitrary command, commonly a shell script. For more common cases (a C package with autotools, Java with Ant, etc), you can import a module which knows how to build them, and let it do all the work. (That module is versioned too.)

The language looks something like this:

let env = merge [deps.libfoo, deps.libbar, deps.gcc, prefix "src" (deps.source)]
in extract "/installpath" (build env "/buildscript")

This would merge together some dependencies, including the source code, run a build script in that environment, and extract the installation path from the result. /buildscript would likely contain something like "make DESTDIR=/installpath install".

deps.libfoo and deps.libbar get mapped to other Apters packages via a dependency list.

We handle incremental builds through caching: any build step with identical inputs (by hash) will use a cached result.
You mean that it is not ASCII compatible?

Also, Mac OS X, Java, .Net, Qt, ICU... there are a lot of support for UTF-16, for other reasons than backwards compatibility. Processing UTF-16 is easier in many situations.
You might be able to automate that.
Ideally you'd get something besides a PDF, which is a pain in the neck to turn into a 'real' eBook.
You can barely taste Vodka when mixed with Red Bull, and to begin with, just practice smiling at strangers; within two weeks you won't be shy anymore. From then on, just remember to be kind to everyone, and you'll be fine.
So very true. At the company (very large defense contractor) we have to ask the same questions to every applicant. We can't ask follow on questions or deviate from the pre-defined question list. It was deemed legally unfair to ask different applicants different questions. That makes it harder and harder to distinguish the good from the bad.
You are wrong.
What do you mean "original h1b"?

Once its transferred, its transferred. There is no "return policy" equivalent because its tied to an employer and your past employer wont necessarily keep the position open just in case you need to come back.
I don't think that's the case, but there definitely isn't a market for tablets that fail to compete on features or price.

The brilliance of what Apple has done with their mobile products is hard to overstate. They put all this effort into designing mobile chips and a mobile OS for the iPhone and iPod Touch. They took the fruits of those efforts and stuck them into a tablet format, and bam, you've got an iPad. They took them and stuck them into a set-top box, and bam, you've got the Apple TV 2G.

They get to spread the development costs of their silicon and OS over these four product lines. Talk about efficient reuse of your development investment. I own three separate devices powered by an A4 CPU and iOS operating system.
Landfills are so 80s.

woot-offs are where not-so-successful consumer electronics go to die these days (and I say this as a big fan of woot, and bargain basement priced semi-abandoned technology).
Someone should create a database of all similar patents that are granted so it's easier to prove that other patents are invalid because they are equivalent to the ones found to be invalid, essentially disarming them.
Not correct ... as soon as the transfer goes through you can start work at the new company.
Place some patented IP in the cable to shut out third parties. That's classic Apple innovation.
5 things you should know before starting a company
Google Chrome Native Client Examples Gallery
If this is like switching between layers using your scroll-wheel, let us push part of the sketch back or forward, scale down or up.
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Who would buy it? How about the bidder who lost out, Apple?

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rim-google-hp-palm-2010...

One year later, I'm sure whatever it was Apple saw in Palm (patents, according to the above article) is still there.
Understanding my perfect score means ignoring all the shots I missed.