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Anyone that wants to actually ship a product is aided by removing the fear of patent lawsuits.

If someone wants to sit around and think up ideas, and earn license money from those ideas, well then they need patents. Producing products is just different than thinking up ideas and filing broad patents and suing people that actually produce products.
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I'd say PHP is lowest because it has the most non-english devs. Might be interesting to check cross-languages.
That is just nowhere near being true.
Immature article but its an interesting topic.

As an engineer, it took me a long time to figure out that the same skills I apply to learning hard tech topics, could be used to learn about the business world.

The barriers I encountered (and my solutions to date) include:

- Business topics seem too boring! I think thats why I studied engineering instead. Solution: think about the money you can make by getting through them, it can genuinely make it more interesting.

- Many "business" people dont seem very smart (using my engineering metric), and so are a pain to deal with. Solution: Get over myself, stay humble. Read "People Skills".

- Many business books are so fluffy, and could be summarized in a couple dense pages. Solution: Read summaries, stick to recommended classics.

- Sometimes I was actually intimidated by important sounding business concepts I didnt understand. Solution: Talk to people, read, same as anything else.

- A lot of "business" aspects seem repetitive. Possible solution: Automate where possible (but it still seems there is tons of things that are dreary but not automatable).

- I dont know enough about business to evaluate "biz guys" skills. Solution: Talk to a lot of biz guys, get them to critique each other. Try to get beneath the bravado and big talk that often seems to be a biz guy trait. Learn more about their domain so you can see through it.

A lot of business is dealing with people. Some geeks dont really like people that much (maybe those weak people skills again!), so "biz guys" let them focus on tech. But the geeks really lose out that way.

Wish I knew all this 12 years ago.
Ask HN: Review our weekend project, quizforge.com
Given the post on the front page about selling to teachers (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011981), I thought it would be a good time to post a weekend project created by myself and someone else who doesn't frequent HN so much.

The concept is simple -- we're looking to make teacher's lives easier by providing a service that quickly/easily creates randomly generated quizzes on demand and ready to print. Only works for basic math right now, but we want to expand it into more complex math and different subjects. We have a long list of things we want to do, but its new and just now polished enough to show people.

We have some teacher test subjects, but we'd love to hear feedback from anyone. There are a few things we still need to add in and wire up, but the MVP is about 90-95% done and we're looking for feedback to iterate on.

Its our intent to have a freemium model where the paid account runs something in the $20/year range.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Good idea? Good price?

p.s.: as a warning, we'll probably wipe the user table within the next week or so. If anyone provides feedback and wants a free permanent account, drop me a line. I don't imagine HN will be the actual target user base, so I don't anticipate most people minding.
clickable: http://quizforge.com
Under a first to file system, you still have to be an inventor. If you're trying to patent something that you copied from someone else, you're not an inventor.

And even if you didn't derive your work from theirs, you still have a problem with prior art.
Most everybody uses some form of slow hashing. Bcrypt is a particularly secure and convenient form of slow hashing, which is why people recommend it so much, but there are other schemes possible. For example, you can take a cryptographic hash function and iterate it a few thousand times.
What if you were to stop thinking of yourself as a programmer and become more of a CTO in training? Your value to your team isn't doing code but in helping them work with outside coders and making sure everything runs smoothly. Instead of fighting that role why not embrace it? Code is a commodity, but managing code and being "that gray person" has real value to a company.
Education is like enterprise with crapy cycles and the lack of pressure from public market ownership.

What Jarred is getting at is the education corollary to the consumerization of enterprise.

This shift is propelled by two recent developments:

1) Internet services often offer a free "single-player" or freemium option.
- This reduces the value of the procurement person/intermediary in negotiating price
- This increases the propensity of individuals to try a service themselves because of decreased financial risk.

2) SaaS: these services are now hosted and can be initiated immediately, no longer requiring time spent acquiring a physical license or installing
- This reduces the value of the intermediary in "setting things up"
- This this reduces the time expense in trying something

I think relevant differences between enterprise and education are budget, average age, and different incentive structure.

There is definitely opportunity in pursuing this bottom-up approach to distribution in education and I think at the moment it is a largely unexplored path.

Would love to discuss more - best way is @hhorsley or hunter@coursekit.com
Not if you're listening in a situation where you can't read (driving, exercising, coding, etc). Then it's a net gain :)
I don't know. I think everyone has to figure out how to make a buck in this world, and inventors that don't produce any products anyone wants should be (in a fair world) out of luck.

Ethically, I think you have to do more than just file paperwork and leverage the government to extract money from others. It might be legal to tax people producing products, but it isn't moral or ethical.

Besides, it isn't the inventors (generally) who troll. The patents are sold to lawyers (like Intellectual Ventures) that troll, and they are the inventors on very few of the patents they take to court.

Maybe actual inventors can sue even if they don't have a product? I see no advantage in this, but I doubt this group is big enough to matter either.
Hey Jarred - since you're actually in a school, could you ask a couple of your teachers if they would actually pay for something out of their own pocket even if all it did would make their work life easier? And how much? And what would it take?

I ask because conventionally companies that have taken this approach (eg. Xobni) of building a great consumer products that solve problems in the workplace have generally struggled to actually monetise it. Typically folks expect their boss to pay for that sort of thing.

Perhaps the classroom is different though - perhaps teachers perceive something that makes their work-life easier (maybe halving the time they need to spend marking after class) as being worth personal investment (because they know the stogy guy in the IT Department will never pay for it).

Ask a couple of teachers (and if you could, let us know what they say!).
Sounds more like money laundering than racking up reputations.
Easy reason: camlp4's macros are typechecked. Meaning, it's impossible to build an invalid syntax tree using them.
I agree. Architects should just be senior coders - the people whose strategic decisions are usually right (mostly because they know how to test their assumptions). Having a specific person who doesn't do anything else but architect is broken - APIs are for programmers. If you aren't eating your own cooking you have absolutely no right to be claiming you did it well.

Similarly, you could hire a developer on the strength of their testing and get them to champion a stronger infrastructure but like the architect they need to be an active developer to judge the usefulness of their solutions.

I'd say managers (of coders) need to be coders too. They can survive not being if they're great managers, but they're doing it with a handicap of not being able to understand the tools and see the big-picture their team is missing. And the state of the art, not whatever they used in school twenty years ago.

But, conversely I think I was a lousy employee early on (in terms of value created for the core product / hours spent) because I wasn't thinking of the business aspects of the company. So while I think everyone needs active programming skills to participate meaningfully in programming, I also think those programmers need to be aware of the business they're in, the entire industry trends, and that of the problem domain the work is in. If you design/make/sell a farming GPS, for instance, you'd better have farming experience.

Perhaps the loosely overlapping networks of broadly-skilled individuals managing their own (but with input from an on the rest of the company) doesn't scale well, but I've yet to see a better idea.
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There is no known way of getting a quantum computer to solve an NP-complete problem in polynomial time. Integer factoring is in NP but not complete for it.
Right. Because the patent office would never allow a patent on toast.

Patent number: 6080436
Filing date: Jun 14, 1999
Issue date: Jun 27, 2000

What is claimed is:
1. A method of refreshing bread products, comprising:

a) placing a bread product in an oven having at least one heating element,
b) setting the temperature of the heating elements between 2500 F. and 4500 F., and
c) ceasing exposure of the bread product to the at least one heating element after a period of 3 sec. to 90 sec.
2. The method of claim 1 including the step of exposing the bread product to electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range between 1.2 and 3.4 microns.

3. The method of claim 1 including the step of selecting said bread products from rolls, muffin, buns and bagels.
nicely demonstrates why some 'tech guys' are desperately in need of a good 'biz guy' (or gal!) if only to round out the edges of their horrendously overblown egos.
Instead of changing the escape, you can tap it one more time. So, to drop your 2nd (nested) connection: ~ ~ .
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Logically, if you are writing a new app and believe W8 will sell a lot (probable), the go with the Metro since that gets you both chipsets. The problem with that is that Microsoft has been a little erratic since .Net with what I should write to. It is almost like Java and what UI library I should use. I do think the app store, if it only shows stuff that will run on your machine, will mitigate a lot of the problems.
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Ok, I'm being somewhat unfair. HTTP is an adequate (although overly-complex) protocol for simple document retrieval. It is unfortunate, (in my opinion), that we've used it in a whole ton of ways for which it was never intended.

Have you considered some of the hacks that we have to use to make HTTP do what we want? Comet/longpoll? JSONP? Have you looked at the bajillion different ways in which browsers and proxies fail to implement caching in a consistent manner? How browsers will only allow a limited number of concurrent connections to a particular host? Have you looked at a x-www-form-urlencoded post? Do you think that's a good way to send data around?

Anyway, I'm not really after a big discussion of HTTP's merits - my apologies for excessive opinionation. I am, however, interested in why so many people think REST is a magic bullet.
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same here

plus move it to a high non-standard port
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The resource you are changing is the booking resource identified by

/booking/:id

I would go with PUT /booking/:id with a status of canceled.

This makes sense to me because of the semantics of traditional FSM.

You are going from some state (active) to (cancelled). You are not dictating the resulting state, only that you would like to set the status to cancelled.

PUT can return an error in which case the transition failed.
It can return success and the transition is good.
I'm a mathematics teacher that teaches some basic math courses.

I like the top part of the webpage. It's very nice. The bottom part's font size is way too small. It was hard to read so I didn't. Also the color of the font was too light and that compounded the problem.

I'd like to see how a quiz is made before signing up. I hate that I have to register before seeing how a quiz is made and what options there are while making one. I didn't sign up but will check back.
> But all that talk about the richest 5% living the life of riches is just not accurate.

It's relative. You seem to define rich as basically being able to spend whatever you want and not have to worry about money. As another commentor has stated, being able to own a home in an area like the SF bay area is rich. It is a very desirable area, with good climate, and jobs.
I bet the Quixtar (Amway) folks will object to this name.
FileVault by itself is sufficient, at least with Lion. Even if you're able to boot the machine or mount the HD, you'll need the user's original password to decrypt the data. The Password Reset app is useless until you first unlock the encrypted drive.

(I'm pretty sure that pre-Lion's FileVault is in the same case, where you'll still need the user's old password to decrypt their home directory's encrypted dmg, but I'm not 100% certain.)
we do plan on linking some examples on the front page soon. its fresh off the presses, we literally high-fived about it working about 30 minutes ago. we don't have the marketing stuff complete just yet.

will look into the readability and change it asap.

much appreciated :)
Ask HN: Any good open source sports games?
Despite the fact that most devs at one point or another have wanted to do a game -- and sports games are among the best selling -- why are there no open source sports games?

I was looking at the trailer for NBA 2K12 and just awestruck by how nice it looked. I thought for a second, maybe I could spend some time and contribute to an open source version. Alas, there's really nothing.

Does anyone know of a good baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey open source games?
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So you think that inventors who don't practice shouldn't be compensated.

No, they should not. If you don't practice then you, and the public in general, are losing nothing from your inability to sue people who are actually making things happen. If you don't practice then you have no expectation of being compensated for your work other than hoping that someone else steps on your patent and trolling them. If your patent actually has value then you should be forced to take the risk to demonstrate that fact by putting the invention into practice -- you do not need to be successful at the practice, but you should be forced to at least make the effort.
Prior art has very little to do with denying patents in the U.S.
Milton Friedman said that most fallacies in economic thinking were derived from the "fixed pie" assumption: that one party can gain only at the expense of another. In an ideal world, the pie would always be growing, and those marginal increases in utility would spill over and everybody would increase well-being gradually over time.

But that's not what happens.

The top 5 percent may create some gains for the other 95, but their gains that "trickle down" do so very, very selectively, and only go so far. Probably the most obvious evidence that trickle-down economics doesn't work is this:

The share of wealth held by the bottom 60% dropped 7.5%.

When over half of the people are on the shrinking pie side of the table, it's pretty tough to spell "Net win"
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I can't see how this is a good decision. Their streaming service is cheap but lacks titles. I use DVDs to get the shows and movies I can't get from the streaming service.

Obviously streaming is the future but the DVD part generates profits. The streaming only service - if it truly stands alone - is soon going to be competing with Amazon, Google, and Apple but without as much cash as these companies.

With their stock's price drop maybe Google or Apple will be willing to buy them. I don't see them surviving on their own without being bought out.
Another useful term if you're interested in the truly scary data gatherers is "data broker", though good luck finding anything concrete about this shady industry.
His point is merely that the logic does not evenly apply to patent trolls and small inventors. He is saying nothing about the overall benefits of the patent system.
While they seem to be going to great pains to be genuine and upfront about what they're doing, why does Netflix need to create a separate company in order to innovate? Apple doesn't have a separate Mac and iPhone business and they seem to innovate just fine.

What really seems to be going on is that Netflix is getting ready to spin off its DVD business. That this seems so obvious makes the repeated apologies feel like an insult to our intelligence.
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Forking the conversation, but going out of your way to make yourself agreeable is not efficient conversation. Now, the workplace and an Internet forum may differ in terms of environment, but if I applied "going out of my way to be civil" to the workplace, it would make for a lot of inefficient conversation and meetings. Being direct is much more preferable in the workplace, and as long as you leave out insults and profanity, it can be quite civil. That is what I'd expect in everyday life as well. My standards of comparing the workplace and other environments may not be shared.

Perhaps you would prefer people use more phrases like "I think", "I feel like", or pose sentences as questions. I suppose that works well enough for me without destroying conversation efficiency too much.

The word "accusation" has a broad spectrum of emotion, but perhaps a very narrow emotive connotation when heard by the accused.
https://github.com/ylechelle/OpenUDID

Replacements are already popping up.
Seems like this will only mildly fragment the issue.
I think they're all based on hashing the MAC address.
I wonder what Netflix will show for search results that are only available on Qwikster.
One thing the article didn't address is performance over time. Even with TRIM support, SSDs get slower as they're used. Occasionally, cells die prematurely causing spare capacity to decrease. This won't affect read speeds much but it will hurt writes. These older SSDs will still be faster than hard drives but they won't be as fast as you'd expect them to be.

Now for some of my own data. Here's an Intel X25-M G2 after a lot of usage: http://abughrai.be/pics/ssd_erase/Screenshot-160%20GB%20Soli...
and here it is after an ATA secure erase: http://abughrai.be/pics/ssd_erase/Screenshot-160%20GB%20Soli...

The G2 has TRIM support and this drive was used on an ext4 filesystem with TRIM enabled. After the erase, performance was almost back to that of a pristine drive. There was a 6GB swap partition on the drive as well as the ext4 partition. I'm pretty sure swap partitions aren't trimmed, so that could have been the reason for the performance degradation.
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Awful, awful decision. I have no intention whatsoever of maintaining 2 accounts, one for streaming and one for dvds. I'm straight out lost revenue.
Obviously it's a bitch to worry about whether your ARM device will run an old x86 app, but CLR/.NET apps should be fine, right?
You're welcome. It's a nice site and if you can pull it off it's a nice idea. It would be nice to pay for a service like this provided the cost wasn't too high.
This decision was not made over night, and this change has been coming for quite a while. In fact, if you go look at this post on Netflix's API blog dated 27 June 2011[1], you'll see:

As of Oct. 14th, 2011, the Netflix API will be focused exclusively on offering content and functionality from the streaming catalog. As a result, we will be discontinuing the support of DVD-related features in the Open API.

They go on to say that this is to support long term goals around internationalization, but that does not, by any means, preclude this split.

[1] http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Upcoming_Changes_to_t...
Very nice cool site, good execution. Also impressed that this was built with ASP
That specific mile you are talking about is not one of the examples I am talking about. Have a look at nautical miles, sea miles, and geographic miles and you will find they were based on the Earth at times during that period. Apparently the Chaldeans used an Earth-based "mile" also.
This seems like an act of desperation.
It's really too bad they didn't use STM32 parts. STMicro has a really nice line of Cortex M3 chips, and some of the best development libraries I've been able to find for these cores.

As for problems the ARM-duino might run into- one of the attractions of the Arduino is you can get away with very little code, and there are many pre-written libraries. This is not the case with the Cortex M3, which is a pretty sophisticated device as far as 'embedded' goes.
I have a bad feeling that offering a much more powerful Arduino will only result in people writing more inefficient code.

I'm sure the ARM-duino JVM & the Ruby interptreter is right around the corner :/
I read this and my brain immediately thought it had to be an April Fools joke. It took a second or two to remember it is September.

Regardless, my hat is off to them for betting the company's name on their streaming business. I know that's the only part of their service I use anymore -- I've had the same DVD checked out for over a year because I couldn't be bothered to deal with the perceived hassle of managing my queue and planning what I want to watch in advance.
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0

This is cheating, you've effectively disabled the 'D' in ACID; you aren't doing an fsync() at every commit.
Prior art still invalidates patents in first-to-file systems.

First to file only means that, if you filed for a patent on some thing after someone else who also filed to patent it, you definitely don't get the patent (in a first-to-invent system, whichever of you can show the oldest documentation of invention gets the patent).
Qwikster.com was registered in May 2010. This was not an overnight decision and I doubt even the contrition in the blog post wasn't well planned.
Just out of curiosity, why would maintaining two accounts be so painful? If that were so, wouldn't it be equally painful to maintain different social network accounts (assuming you have two or more).