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> The term patent troll was invented by someone working for IBM ...

The term is widely regarded as having been coined by Peter Detkin, then a senior in-house attorney for Intel [1] and now a managing partner for Intellectual Ventures [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Detkin; see also http://www.intellectualventures.com/WhoWeAre/OurTeam/Bio/Pet...
From Wikipedia:

"In adulthood, it is clear that testosterone is not related to any consistent methods of measuring aggression on personality scales, but several studies of the concentration of blood testosterone of convicted male criminals who committed violent crimes compared to males without a criminal record or who committed non-aggressive crimes revealed in most cases that men who were judged aggressive/dominant had higher blood concentrations of testosterone than controls. However, a correlation between testosterone levels and aggression does not prove a causal role for testosterone. Studies of testosterone levels of male athletes before and after a competition revealed that testosterone levels rise shortly before their matches, as if in anticipation of the competition, and are dependent on the outcome of the event: testosterone levels of winners are high relative to those of losers."

People who think that testosterone causes aggression are putting the cart before the horse. Aggression (and status) causes testosterone.
I think most people agree that Eclipse is the best IDE for Java. Granted, it's not scriptable, per se, if that's what you were wanting to know.
Citations, please.

I know I've mentioned it once before, maybe twice. I'll also require citations on the "numerous rebuttals".
It's really easy to contribute negatively to a project. On the business end, I've worked with people who changed priority/direction/feature-sets so frequently that they actually made things worse; the project would have been better without them, hence a negative contribution.

On the technical side, have you never worked with a programmer that insisted on introducing his favorite framework/language, or declared that the "current code sucks, it needs to be re-written"? That's potentially a negative contribution. Hell I've even been that guy. It's not only possible, it's common.
A list of dates?

Using my command I showed above I get the following output:

2791	Ryan Funduk

Still, yea, if you want data you could put on a calendar then I would instead suggest `git log` with `pretty-format` which you could then parse pretty easily.

Docs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-log.html

Eg, here's a command that will output a csv with the commit sha, message, unix timestamp and committer name:

git log --pretty=format:'"%h", "%s", "%at", "%an"' | grep "Your Name"
This has to be the best weekend project ever. I wish I had seen it time to vote. Great call on the feature bucket, I can't even imagine how many ideas must have come out of your individual and collective heads. I thought of a few handfuls just after 1 minute of playing with it.
Google+ API Launch Still Months Away
When this was discussed last week people were deeply unimpressed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940505

Tests done by HNers suggested that the service introduced significant artifacts. One comment was:

Custom quantization tables and chroma
subsampling, with a bit of hype.

( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940759 )

Others thought it did a really good job, but you have to scroll down that discussion to the bottom to find people who agree with the site's claims.

I'm sceptical.
Fair enough. I wouldn't consider having a clone of the repo to be a blocker. You could very easily automate the cloning, reporting, deleting of a repo.
There's a big jump from nurturing to sexual display. If we really were trying to prepare women for nurturing roles would we be encouraging them to have breast implants likely to harm their chances of successfully breastfeeding children?
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Fair enough. Still a huge improvement though if you ask me ;)
Relevant blog post: http://amitamb.posterous.com/castbin

Example recording: http://www.channel-surf.heroku.com/pages/4e663322509a9e00010...

You can create demo of your product. Create reading cast for your blog.

Record the sites that you visit daily, and show the world what you visit daily.

Record your session, reading news on HN, and let others view it.

I would like to know how you will use it? Would you like to replay others' browsing to avoid repitition of going through news websites? Any constructive feedback is welcome...
I'll recount from a 10+ years gap of memory - and also with a disclaimer that this is not my area of expertise, by far. So, please don't believe me without additional supporting evidence.

However, what I took away from those classes was that gender was a very mutable 'invention' that Humans created through culture to systematically specialize labor in response to environmental forces. Some cultures invented two-genders, aligned with biology, to succeeded in environments where two specialized gender roles were more advantageous. However, other cultures of Humans invented several types of genders, and genders that crossed biology, to succeeded in different environments.

So, if those memories are even accurate, gender and gender roles in Humans are more aligned with the overarching systematic cultural forces than biology. And, even if we consider biology, there is a lot of cross-over. Humans are a very adaptive and mutable species.
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I'm not sure I don't want to go without paying nothing...
The last two sentences of the exchange quoted:

New Scientist: No, but you have – do you think you passed?

Cleverbot: I am, but I'm too lazy to do anything with it.

The "I am" is ungrammatical, and exactly the sort of error you expect with a hyper-souped-up-eliza-with-tweaks.
.. which perhaps calls for collectively mette punishment.
pff read their harsh terms!
They steal your rights completely on pictures you upload.
Maybe I don't know enough about that 'Tech Talks' blog, but normally you link ripped of texts to the source, or when you've the permission, or is written by the author you write a little introduction.
It's a 1:1 copy from the following blog:
http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/08/29/video-game-progr...
Fuck TechCrunch
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No one is saying that HTML and CSS aren't with flaws. They are the industry standard, supported by all modern browsers, which changes everything. Similarly, you may prefer the syntax and philosophy of Lisp, but that doesn't change the fact that Java/C++ are far-and-wide the most popular languages used, and in many industrial applications -- industry standards.

The pro's for separating code and markup are thought to outweigh the cons, but there is nothing forcing anyone to adopt this standard. As you may or may not know, re-usability and maintainability can go a long way when working with a large webpage. If I am trying to massively overhaul my website while maintaining the same use-cases, the javascript is probably not going to change, but the HTML and CSS will, and herein lies the benefit of separation.

That being said, if for some reason you would prefer a button's behavior to be more apparent in it's markup, scripts can be used in-line with identical functionality. If your concern is linking to an external document (which is also done as a step of simplification of large projects, not obfuscation) it is totally acceptable to style an HTML page from internal <style> tags.
Just a warning that this autoplays with very loud audio so you might want to mute before clicking, adjust the volume control (bottom left) and then unmute.
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I personally owned three domain names this time last year. I have six now. They're all on Apache. So anecdotally I'd have to agree.
I think anything that brings value up the market will benefit consumers. Let me quote from Mark Mills of Forbes, where he explains that, although a tiny fraction of a percent of the U.S. population works in agriculture today versus 100 years ago, much of that population is now involved in food preparation.

Roughly a century ago when America had fewer than 100 million citizens, nearly 12 million worked on farms, a number that then comprised over 40 percent of the entire labor force. Now barely three million people call themselves farmers, accounting for a shade over two percent of today’s workforce. Meanwhile, technology enabled a 600 percent growth in agricultural output.

Both in absolute and relative terms technology blew the lid off agricultural productivity, and crushed direct farm employment. But, over that same century, somehow the American economy managed to generate enough wealth to create jobs for more than 100 million more workers.

Most of the new employment over the past century came from new services and new products that didn’t exist in 1900 – airlines and computing to name only two examples. It is worth noting that a lot of the new employment actually came from the same industry, food, as farming. It’s just that we count the jobs differently. While barely two percent of the modern American workforce is in farming, over 15 percent work in the food industry.

What is the next step beyond food service?
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Using cpython to do LD_PRELOAD hooks
They've already dealt with similar problems and haven't put any accounts into bad standing. The good standing/bad standing is more for VAC anyways.
Perhaps the "next-gen e-learning platform" should load in less than twenty seconds and present a simple, non-interactive video and slideshow in such a way that I can use more than a sixth of my browser window looking at it, and without autoplaying. Then maybe I would acquire some learnings.
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> 5.4% of girls and 14.1% of boys age 11 - 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD.

Wait what?! How did we manage to have a disorder that affects nearly 10% teenagers? There must be something odd with either the school system or the term "disorder" itself, because otherwise, such a flaw would likely have been filtered out of the gene pool. I wonder which it is.

(Same remark for learning "disabilities" by the way, though I'm less confident.)
Sure, but if the person actually had the idea that created the entire venture, it can't really be negative unless their influence runs it to the ground and puts the company in debt, I guess.
I think this is something of a straw man. I think it's the most reasonable position is that most differences have both biological and social causes. The controversy isn't over whether biological causes are the only cause--I don't see many people arguing that--but whether biological causes are there at all.
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Linux is the form of the operating system which is being used in the computers. This is considered to be one of the most widely used operating system by the people. There are different forms of the Li
Reminder that no one knows you are a dog on the internet. IRI is anti-Islam imo.
What unemployment? Nothing like that in United States of Software
Can you dynamically adjust the number of EC2 instances to optimise for processing time or price?
We need a new name.
Even one other time is enough - because it was pointed out then that it isn't illegal to change your residence and that Arrington had bought his house in WA, the only house he owns, before he started Techcrunch

this having nothing to do with OP doesn't really need a citation
Exactly. This may be simple propaganda for the mass media.
I also will not be installing games on my phone that require access to my contact list.
Where are you, sexularity?
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Very cool summary (and that does describe me). Just subscribed to the beta list.

BTW, I'd be willing to do extra legwork to test it. If you eventually add CSV import, AT&T has CSV (and XLS) CDR downloads. Feel free to email me if you need a sample.
no one is saying that, at least, I'm not saying that. If you're happy with what you have then good for you. If you want to look at ways to increase a sites performance, then you'd do well (amongst other things) to have a designer lend you a hand.

But the choice is always yours.

Since you brought it up though; If you understand typography, you understand why it's important. You could take every other design embellishment out of any design and Typography would still be able to do most, if not all of the heavy lifting.

But I'll stress the point lest I be accused of forcing this opinion down your throat: No one is forcing you to adopt a designers viewpoint, and I'm not saying you're wrong if you don't.
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I pressed Ctrl+- a few times and your design broke—the "Paste some code" and "Apply settings" get shifted right, off the page, with a huge space in their place.
I think this patent law professor is an important voice, but once again my point is simple. Patents are NOT needed in the software industry to promote what is already a very fast moving environment. I prove this by showing something that is plain to everyone who is familiar with how tech companies work: they base their technology on incremental innovations, internal research, or open source. They do NOT read patent disclosures. We do not need to give out 20 year monopolies to incentivize patent disclosures by "inventors" to the public, because no one cares about these disclosures!!

The relevant numbers would be the proportion of companies that public patent disclosures have helped. For example, how many people were helped by Google publishing their PageRank algorithm (in its "best form")? Probably some were helped, but not a lot. And this is one of the BIGGEST and most HELPFUL examples of patents. How many were helped by amazon's 1-click patent disclosure? I am willing to bet maybe ZERO people were actually helped because by the time it was asserted, it was OBVIOUS to everyone who made the technology.
Seems pretty cool! Simple and does exactly what it needs to do. However FullScreen is not working for me on OS X Lion in Safari.
yes, the number and size of EC2 instances can be set by switches on the command line when you launch the job.
I really like to write my plugins in Python, and Sublime Text 2 accommodates this perfectly. With the recent addition of Vintage (vi) Mode, I find myself using ST2 over vim more and more.
Ahh, sorry, I wasn't familiar with the shortlog command.

I still want to be able to pick out patterns in the data tho. Getting the data out is only half the battle, then you have to be able to pick out something interesting in it.

If you see my other comment here, I already wrote some scripts that pulled timestamps into iCal files and graphs.
Wish I could tell more!
Being sued by shareholders is a 'cost of business' for a public company.

Funny how those same shareholders had absolutely no problem with it as long as it was making them money, but now that the strategy has backfired they want their risk negated.

For the record, I don't think that 'lost revenues' should have been part of the settlement to begin with, it's fairly obvious that the consumers found a reason (for instance, price or availability) to do business with the Canadian companies.

The only worrying bit about ordering drugs online is that you might get counterfeit stuff or something that has not been approved with a very good reason (for instance, side effects that are detrimental to your health).
It's not the lack of graphics that I find unwieldy, it's the fact that the content seems dumped onto the page with only a cursory thought towards hierarchy. I look at it and see an impenetrable wall of content, which I personally find difficult to sift through.
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"The innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises..partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have a long experience of them."
I saw that but I mean how do you know you need 100 instances? Is there a way to estimate the optimum number or at least set boundaries, such as max price or max processing time?

Do you get back info such as how long each instance took to do its job?
it is so unusual like greater than sign in all programming languages is "<" but in XUDA it is "{"

....but that's a... less.... oh nevermind
Disorder: a disturbance in physical or mental health or functions; (dictionary.com)

Disorders are of varying degrees. Just because medical science starts figuring out something exists in the gene pool doesn't mean it's serious enough to qualify for "filtering out". It also doesn't mean that every "disorder" has to be disabling in order to exist.

Even if it did, it's a long leap to claim that it would have already been "filtered" out. Humans are dealing with a flood of more incoming data/stimuli than even 40 years ago. We have no idea if humans are actually better at handling it today than in decades past.
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I have to question what your agenda is as a (former?) TechCrunch writer. Are you perhaps trying to curry favour ahead of the launch of your "pre-launch startup" (from your profile)?

You certainly seem eager to mischaracterize my comments and malign my intentions when we've already gone from "every time" to "once before". While you're at it, point out where the comment is "copy and paste[d]" elsewhere. Since you can't, we'll chalk that accusation up to yet more slander.

Nowhere did I say changing residence for tax purpose was "illegal". Someone else may have characterized it as such. Take it up with them. There's a huge gap between "illegal" and the state of California making a claim that Arrington is still technically resident so the sale is subject to California state income tax.
'As for the Intel "ultrabooks" – more vaporware from the 1990's-era PC industry.'

These don't look like vaporware.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/lenovo-announces-u300s-ul...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/02/acer-aspire-ultrabook-s3-...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/toshibas-portege-z830-is-...
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I drop a brick if the build takes more than 30 seconds.

10 minutes is one hell of a compile-pray-cycle.

At the moment I'm suffering a 60 second build on a project and it's very frustrating.
The font looks slighlty blurry on Chrome (Windows 7). If I turn the lights off, it looks better.
Safari Lion is the only browser I've found that the fullscreen doesn't work as instructed, unfortunately. You have to hit the arrows on the upper right corner of the browser, as far as I know. Does anybody know of any other way of doing this?
The desire to be attractive is hard-wired into female biology.

Well, that certainly fails to explain the Woodabe.
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Scoreloop asks for this permission, might be a good idea to remove it.
I mostly agree with the sentiment, but this line stuck out at me:

25 per cent of young American women would rather win
America's Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize.

Only 25%? That's spectacularly good compared to their male counterparts. What percent of young American men do you think would rather win the Super Bowl than the Nobel Peace Prize? It's got to be at least half.
What do you suppose is the street value of the keys to 4 CAs?
That's true. A big advantage of this solution over, let's say a self written post-commit hook, is the past. It doesn't matter when you start collecting this data, thanks to Git you will have data about yourself from the past. With a post-commit hook that's not the case.

I'm still not sure what's the best way to go, but thanks for your comments!
It's clear you don't understand what depression is. Neither did I until it took away my creativity, imagination, enthusiasm and the ability to enjoy anything at all. Depression is not "feeling sad", it's an illness that makes you psychologically and physically sick, and you can't "snap out of it".

It may be that your friend isn't actually depressed and is just too lazy to work. But if she is in fact depressed, you're not doing her or anyone else any good by saying she should just "suck it up and get on with her life", because she can't, and being reminded of that is just going to make it worse. Depression feeds on itself. She may look fine to you, but you can't see if someone's depressed. We tend to hide what it's really like, this absolutely maddening feeling in our heads, the constant headaches, dizziness and mental and physical fatigue is not something you want to announce to the world. Nobody except my doctor knows about my depression.

I don't know about the statistics presented in the article, but I'm an example of the economic and social cost attributed to these illnesses. I've wasted a year of my life on depression, during which time I've been unable to work. Luckily, so far I've been able to live off my savings but if I'd been needing support from the state that cost would've doubled. I've never been the most social and outgoing person, but with the depression I became grumpy, uninterested, whiny and generally a little unpleasant to be around.
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A demand for workers is not the same thing as no unemployment. Plenty of people out there with outdated skillsets.
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Not just no, HELL no. Enom is almost worse than godaddy in some ways, especially when it comes to transfers. They will hold you down for the maximum amount of time they can before actually processing a transfer. I've had to deal with their support more than once because of a XFR being stuck in their process somewhere.

They're also a huge reseller. I'd rather deal with a tier 1 provider instead of one 2 or 3 links down the chain.
I posted it here exactly for this reason. Many of the app's 'regular' users complain that it's too tough and can't solve it.
Maybe this is obvious but you can write vim plugins in python, end user vim simply must be compiled with python support. On my laptop running ubuntu, vim came with ruby and python support by default.
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What is the best alternative to those who think they have a good idea for an app?
I agree it's easy (and fun!) to oversimplify gender differences as a function of biology. But basic parental investment has always seemed a convincing hard limit to me.

The Bateman Principle sort of sums it up, though reading the Wikipedia page shows it's more complicated than common sense might dictate (as you should expect):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%27s_principle

It's not as clear-cut as Bateman thought and there were a lot of methodological problems with his experiments apparently. Nevertheless, different strategies for different sexes.

I conclude that some amount (how much?) of what we identify as gender differences flow out of these different strategies that are rooted in sexual reproduction, which requires a fundamental dichotomy of types. Still, I'm all for individuals cutting against the grain.
Intel is already developing a linux distribution in-house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo