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Honestly, good on them. This mobile patent crap is so ludicrous and out of hand. I'm glad that even though Google has to play by the same stupid rules as everyone else, at least they get the chance to remind everyone "you know this is a big joke right?" on occasion.

Christ, imagine how many jobs all of these patent cold war billions represent. Imagine how much time and energy is going into feeding a machine whose main outcome is stifling creativity and competition.
I buy paper books because I actually want to own them and keep them. The electronic stuff are tech books and pulp I would eventually trash when they are out of date or have been read.

Also, for the love of god capitalize your sentences!
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Nice idea. Good luck!
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This is ridiculously awesome, enjoying all the positive vibes and people taking the time to step back and think about who helped them. Keep it up!
but in this case thre is no patent at index 0 (or some other). Don't know if this was a subtle choice
It's an interesting comment on internet culture when a blog post about a 300-page book has a "TL;DR" section. :)
Just looking at the screens I've seen, I can't help but shake my head. Mind you, I haven't seen many. Inconsistent sizes of those "desktop" boxes, no coherent organization (there's a picture here, then an icon, then the time, then a different app, then news...), and an arbitrary rainbow of colors. I'm not too big on following pre-beta release info like this because there's just not enough there to answer my questions, but I'm hoping that the desktop/laptop installations of Windows 8 will still have a more familiar organization to it.

Full disclosure, I've never owned a smartphone or tablet, so maybe I'm just not used to that sort of layout yet. I can't help but think that everything is just randomly dumped together.
But I thought Google's patent play is a defensive play. So they should be looking for shields and armors not guns and bullets.
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Dreadful logo, sorry.

Like many others I thought it was an abstract illustration of a heart at first glance, and figured this was a medical devices company or something.. further inspection revealed everything from a boob to part of a toilet as other possibilities.

You almost certainly had too much input into the logo, your process seems to have involved a bunch of bike-shedding gone awry.
We might as well go full circle :)

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644192
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Do you mean from IBM or from Apple and MS?
Oh, it's definitely possible - Keynote for iPad (http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/keynote.html). No a menu bar in sight (at least, not in the traditional sense).
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That is really cool!

What if the guidance computer operated with a bad parser? I imagine that could have been disastrous.
I went to this last year and there were a ton of great speakers!
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I have started something like this, although I would barely call it alpha at this point. I would be willing to abandon it and contribute my effort elsewhere if there's another project further along or with a better design, but I offer mine for consideration.

https://github.com/eraserhd/acd

It's in the process of being renamed apothecary. It's based around using git submodules for importing other people's code. I was really tired of instructions like, "copy all of these files into your project." (Really?!)
A moot point yet creatively made.
it only works in chrome and firefox, not in safari... sorry.
Here are the speakers for this year: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speakers.php
What does TinyProj offer that WeekendHacker doesn't? The latter is free and has six times as many subscribers.
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My university's IT department is currently working on deploying Shibboleth [1] on campus, to replace the old mix of LDAP, Kerberos, and a homebrew solution called WRAP, at least for Web applications. I have been doing a lot of research on Shibboleth, so I was wondering: What are your opinions on Shibboleth?

[1]: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
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No talk about the network shields?
* Setting the expectation up front that these are paid projects

* Longer duration than a weekend's time

* Copywriting/Illustration as well

* Working on integrating with Forrst which should bring in many of the 40k members who're available for work, as well as making use of our reputation engine
I love this idea/website.

I went back to my high-school to borrow a lab coat for a Halloween party and while I was there I ran into a few old teachers and had a chance to thank them and have a good conversation with them. While a lot of kids 'hate' their teachers I seemed to be the near opposite.

Also, I recommend doing this for other things too, for example, I recently had an operation on my hand and the nurses and other staff at the hospital were awesome. I'm going back for a follow-up appointment and I'm going to bring a thank-you card and a couple of flowers to give to the ward.
I like the idea, but I would feel a lot more comfortable about "1,000 rad folks" if the site gives an idea of what kind of these people are. For instance, these are top 250 users in the category on Forrst. Sample profiles would help as well.
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Mutually Assured Destruction is a defensive play... it's a recognized form of deterrence:

Mutually Assured Destruction is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment, and implicit menace of use, of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use by said-enemy of the same weapons against oneself. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium in which neither side, once armed, has any incentive to disarm thereafter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
You're totally right, and I'm working on that as fast as I can.
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I've been using Instapaper for at least two years, and I've been following a handful of people since Twitter integration was implemented, but to this day I very rarely check the social sharing of articles on the service. There are already sites for sharing articles. Does anyone use the sharing features?
Nowhere in the article is an investigation mentioned or even inferred.
Here's a list for yah from a user perspective having just given TinyProj a glance:

a) TinyProj is focused on exchanging work for dollars, WH leaves it open to barter, finding co-founders, etc.

b) TinyProj has an actual user interface for input vs. WH which asks you to write an email.

c) WH is FREE, TinyProj is $25
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Thanks for this. I've certainly got nothing against WH. I actually would rather Tinyproj not venture into the barter/cofounder space - others are doing that well already :)
The subject of the post was more the software not the hardware. The Arduino in the post is using the WiFly shield: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9954
> six times as many subscribers

For now. As TinyProj and when it taps into the Forrst userbase, you'll be looking at a solid, skillful, and numerous candidates.
Amen. This is probably coming from people who think that a computer which basically resembles a thin slab of aluminum is not too "cold". It's basically minimalist which is what Apple strives for these days and does a good job with. The really interesting design choices in Metro (to me) will be apps with a lot of text ala Outlook.
i am confused as to why you just didn't take a screenshot...you actually "shot" your screen...

In any case, signed up :P great idea btw
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Bad/inside joke. People are doing that on Forrst a bunch, so it was more of a nod/friendly jab at them.

Thanks btw! :)
It may also help to specify the currency(s) involved...yes we'll all assume it's USD for now.
Thanks for your support and glad you like our site! It's so awesome thinking back to all the great teachers we've had and taking a minute to say thank you. Hopefully we'll be able to connect you directly to them soon!

Great idea on the hospital staff thank you site too :)
Tangentially, given the comments referencing Star Trek and SpaceX, I'd like to point out that SpaceX lost Scotty's ashes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/science/space/03launchweb....
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This actually sounds more like lean startup than unlike it. Yes lean startup encourages getting to testing your ideas quickly, but it also focuses on reducing process waste. If you have a mature product and enough data points suggesting major new feature, I think it'd be a waste to try and recollect those data points or build half of the features just for the sake of being lean even if in the past you have been mostly spot on with taking customer feedback and releasing successful major features based on them.
The 'regions' used in QuickDraw are an amazing (for their time) data structure, a testament to the genius of Bill Atkinson. I strongly recommend reading the patent to see how cool and useful they were to the original Mac windowing system (http://patentdetails.patenttools.com/patent/04622545?searchi... click on the 'download pdf' link in the top left).

Steve Jobs know how important regions were: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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http://seekingalpha.com/news-article/1823690-windows-8-metro...

"Furthermore, applications for the ARM version of Windows 8 will only be available through the "Windows Store" - and only apps compiled to use its "Metro" touch interface will appear there."
I just don't get how those amounts of patent help anything. Don't you just need the good ones? Every company seems to hoard them by number instead of picking them by validity.

"Ok fine, you can take my hyperlink-in-any-application patent but you've got to buy my 1000 other crappy patents about artificial-life-in-smarphone". Who's got to select the 1023 patents?
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I don't know how much this kind of patent warfare happens outside software. It's only in software that you can count on competitors "infringing" your "inventions" if you simply buy enough patents.
A question pops to mind. And keep in mind that I don't actually use Instapaper, so I might have missed some obvious detail.

Let's say I find John Smith on Facebook, and somerandomguy on twitter. I have no reason to believe that these are the same person, and he doesn't intend for it to be known.

Is Instapaper going to show me that everything John Smith likes, somerandomguy also likes? Is it going to pick one or the other? What happens?
I very much hope that the JWST gets built, but let us not soccumb to the sunk cost fallacy.
2nd hand opinion: ex-day job investigated using it for our universities. Result of investigation was a resounding "inappropriate for our needs." They cited a few reasons. One of them was "insufficient documentation in Japanese", which is probably not an issue for you. Others were "poor UX" and "high anticipated integration costs."

We ended up picking OpenID instead. If you've heard me talk about OpenID before, "Shib: not quite as good as OpenID" is all you need to hear.
This has a lot of potential -- signed up -- good job!
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I'm not power productivity suite user but I would have to believe close to all of Office's features can be implemented with the proper UI with the advanced features of the apps hidden away from the eyes of the average user.

If it's a question of specs or software maturity then it really is just a matter of time.
Dart will probably work on Chrome Frame, not on its own plugin, which is already a fairly used.
Honest feedback: the first thing I thought when I saw the logo was "a toilet?"

This before reading that someone else saw that too.

But your product is _very_ compelling. The screenshots look good: less overwrought than your logo and, to be honest, your homepage.
You mean like your "Contributing to acd" instructions? :)
Great idea, I recently (I'm in college now) went back and thanked several of my elementary school teachers who were really excellent. They don't get nearly enough thanks, but I know for damn sure I wouldn't be where I am today without them.
My only gripe is that its not available now hehe.

I read the headline and was like "score, I want me some of that pie" and clicked on the link only to discover they aren't ready to launch yet.

Really excited though, hope it takes off for them. I think it would be a great way of not only learning to program better/differently but also to expose yourself to different programming styles.
> my role was miniscule, but I am still very proud

Most individual roles tend to be minuscule, specially in such a huge endeavor. But you should be proud nevertheless - you and others like you made some of our greatest voyages of exploration possible.

It will be very tragic if Mercury, Gemini and Apollo continue to be the best examples of space exploration done right. We need to do better and we need your shoulders to stand on.
I would have thought there are many other industries where it is just as possible for patents to work in this way, though I have no idea which, if any, do.

For example I could imagine car manufacturers all having a bunch of patents... just imagine. Nissan have a patent on controlling your car radio from buttons on the steering wheel. Ford have a patent for having the horn button on a stick that's connected to the wheel, while VW have a similar one for the horn button right on the wheel itself.. Could go on and on, and they could have great fun taking each other to court.

Some industries maybe aren't so open to pointless patents (maybe pharmaceuticals?), but in most I think you could do a hell of a lot. Maybe they already do the same, but we just don't hear about it. Maybe they could, but are wise enough not to bother. Maybe the patents system has just been in use for a longer time in those industries, so companies aren't allowed to get away with so much crap?
I was about to use it for several projects when I realized I have no idea who I'm going to working with on the projects. Is it 1-on-1 all the time?
That was the idea, in fact.
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Wow. How does this work?
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

Having played with Windows 8 on a PC with a trackpad, Metro gets old really, really fast.

If they keep both the desktop and Metro in Windows 8, this will be a huge failure.

They need to choose one for each type of device: Desktop for PCs, Metro for tablets.
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The number of patents licensed = 1023 = 2^10 - 1.

Ofcourse, there can be doubt about their seriousness this time.
Yeah perhaps I didn't phrase that to well, from what I read the cost required to complete and the opportunity cost given the lead time on these projects I think makes sense to go ahead, of course there is a limit to how much money it makes sense to pump into the project.
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I explained the situation to the VP that hired me (my first boss) and he was happy to have me building webapps on the side that didn't connect to the same market. He has since left the company. Should I reach out to the new VP and make sure they know what I'm doing? What if they want to shut me down?
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Well, your request for work gets sent to all the relevant subscribers (i.e. if you need a developer, to all the developers on the list).

The ones interested make it known and then you can get in contact with them and decide who you wanna work for.
It's more stylish, of course :)
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Very true, the feeling of "they don't get nearly enough thanks" is one of the reasons for the site. although sometimes we don't realize it right away, teachers can really change our lives.
> Tradeoffs. Mutually exclusive tradeoffs. Separate devices are required. ... And you can’t give iOS apps even the option to run continuously in the background without sacrificing battery life and foreground app performance

This is a typical Gruberism of false logic. He starts with the notion that all Apple's decisions are holy and right. He then derives conclusions by extrapolating from that.

There is no reason that tablets cannot achieve fantastic battery life while running background processes. They certainly need to be designed to achieve it. Existing Android tablets support background processes and multitasking and get comparable battery life to the iPad - typically we're talking a sacrifice of < 10% battery life to achieve an incredible expansion of utility. And this is not taking into account the fact that Android is a less efficient OS overall (utilizing less hardware acceleration, running most tasks inside a Dalvik VM instead of native, etc.) Even the iPad itself evidently does background processing as you can have it play music, give you calendar reminders and all kinds of other things happen in the background even when it is in sleep state.
It looks better that way anyway.
I've noticed this need as well, and launched something similar: http://gun.io

It's free for Open Source, and a 10% fee for non-Free projects. Winner-take-all!

Hopefully we'll both work to create a culture which helps independent developers help each other. Good luck! Email me if you're interested in collaboration.
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I built a system around Shibboleth at a University several years ago. We did some extra work to improve the UX. I'm not sure how installing Shibboleth itself went, but from an API use perspective I can't complain.

OpenID might be a better choice these days. It was more dream than reality when we picked Shib. If OpenID isn't an option...I'd vote for Shib over cobbling something together yourself from AD.
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Maybe Microsoft will have to redesign both the operating system and the PC architecture so that the PC still does the stuff of old on one half and competes with the cloud on the other.
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never used the social sharing features, expect to maybe post an article to Facebook once. Its funny, its the opposite of Buzz. Marco realizes that people view Instapaper as a mainly private place, that on occasion a person wants to share something from. This is also the function gmail accounts play in many peoples lives, which is why buzz was not well received.
I would say 6 hours an average during weekdays. Maybe 9 hours of sleep during the weekend days.
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The first thing I looked for when I picked up a card was a "recycle bin". Also, I cannot delete an organization I created.

I realize this is developing, but I would like to request some buttons for important actions. Some choices are not accessible enough, and thus require too many clicks to perform.

It would be nice to simply minimize the board and see a list of other boards I can open. For more complicated projects, as the user above noted, minimizing lists would be a helpful feature.

I would also like to be able to edit a card's text from the main screen without having to open it up and then click on the title again (e.g. to correct a mistake).

Thank you!
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Okay, I'll give you #2 after that. And I'll point out that asking for a 10:1 difference in expressiveness from JS is, let's face it, ridiculous. (Except in specialized domain applications perhaps.)
I follow a handful of people on Instapaper and check the friends list for new content now and again, but rarely do I see anything there.

It's like I'm the only one who regularly "likes" the best articles I'm reading. I wish this weren't the case.
FYI, this actually happened in the nascent aviation industry--the government had to step in to force the players to cross-license their patents (in order to have planes for World War I):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_patent_war

Some interesting bits from that Wikipedia page, which demonstrate that patents don't necessarily promote innovation and that being too litigious with them can damage one's reputation:

From the "Patent War" section:

"The Wrights' preoccupation with the legal issue hindered their development of new aircraft designs, and by 1911 Wright aircraft were inferior to those made by other firms in Europe.[9] Indeed, aviation development in the US was suppressed to such an extent that when the U.S. entered World War I no acceptable American-designed aircraft were available, and the U.S. forces were compelled to use French machines."

From the "Aftermath" section:

"The lawsuits damaged the public image of the Wright brothers, who were generally regarded before this as heroes. Critics said the brothers actions may have retarded the development of aviation,[9][14] and compared their actions unfavorably to European inventors, who worked more openly."
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CNN jumped the gun here. I'm asking myself why someone thought this deserved to be on HN?
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It is possible that Crown Business (Random House) has a better royalty arrangement in place with Amazon. For all we known, even Wiley could have one and it's just pricing the book as if they didn't.
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