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Yes. Adobe AIR is more like a container and functions similar to a browser while it exposes an API to access certain OS functionality (file system etc). Inside this container you can embed either Flash Player or HTML/CSS/Javascript based content.

Another way of looking at it is, AIR allows web developers to create desktop applications using the knowledge they already have.
MINOS is already working on reproducing it (see article), and if they succeed it will be strong evidence that we're looking at something new.
The point is you patent a specific method of trapping mice, that can be embodied in a device.

Your hypothetical patent would for example not cover a mousetrap that uses a box with the cheese at the bottom and a rod over it that the mouse will fall off if it goes out to try to stretch for the cheese, unless that is explicitly covered in separate claims. So it does not cover the general idea of a mousetrap but of the specific method of catching mice with a spring loaded trap.

(the method I described above works, very well, assuming the sides are slippery/smooth enough for the mouse to be unable to climb them) - my dad tried catching a mouse alive when I was a kid to show me; he tried 4-5 times, and it caught a mouse each time, but all of them were dead when we found them - we never figured out if it was from the very limited fall or from the shock or what it was).
That accusation from LiveDrive is pretty serious. It either has to be true or LiveDrive is liable for damages.

I have to say that both LiveDrive and Backify seem to be acting like children.
I'm glad they did - if for nothing else because I find the Coffeescript syntax obnoxious to the extreme.
This is like releasing an incompetable jQuery competitor just because it's been used internally for years.

This just creates more legacy code in a world full of legacy code. (By legacy I mean code that will stick around for a long time.) It doesn't really matter that Google has been developing this for years.

It would have been nicer and smarter of them to adopt Sass or Less (or at least the syntax), thereby eliminating yet another source of redundancy. It looks like it would be easy to do an automated translation of Closure CSS to either Sass or Less.

Competition on merit isn't even a question here, imho. Closure does less than Sass at the expense of a less elegant syntax.

The world of IT is full of these sorts of redundant projects. Competition is good, redundancy is not. In situations like these, people need to do is reach consensus on standardizing on one great tool, or at least compatibility.
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The Fire is going to get CM9 too (and probably will have an easier time of it, to boot).

Separately, there are plenty of markets where non-iPad tablets are going to get more than a fair shot (see: India and China). And there are plenty of reviewers that think Amazon has found one.

Me, I think they're probably on to something, but there are clearly rough edges they need to work on. That's why I believe the rumors that they've already started on an ICS upgrade for the Fire.
Yeah, definitely aware that it's not realistic in the current environment (and it might not be realistic on a wide scale, period, given human nature). Just thinking aloud.

Google is one of the few companies that I would say has stayed strongly principled and has taken a really long view on a lot of things. I think it's probably because the founders are principled and idealistic and are still at the helm, but also because they seem to have hired idealistic people from top to bottom. I wonder if it could ever be the case that a majority of companies were Googley.
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Pentile is great engineering. Given the choice I'd have a pentile display with the same number of sub-pixels over the alternative any day. If it was the same number of pixels, I'd maybe swing the other way but generally pentile has been a victim of the fanboy wars because (so far at least) Apple hasn't used it.

Though I believe it was rumoured (and frankly would have made engineering sense) for them to use it when they quadrupled the resolution in the iPhone 4 but Samsung couldn't guarantee enough production to fulfil Apple's expected demand. I can easily imagine another world where Apple makes some slick videos explaining the benefits of Pentile and anyone who doesn't have it is mocked, similar to how the iPhone's Retina Display, which they admit in the very name goes beyond the point of visibility in normal use is considered the minimum benchmark for a good screen.
1) Quoting source page: "The bit stream specification has not been finalized". This is something other implementers want to stay clear from for now, let alone it gets deployed in the wild and you have massive compatibility issues, or need to bloat all supporting software to support now-long outdated bitstreams (hi Vorbis!).

2) "If Google can encourage Firefox to start supporting it". Yeah, like they did with WebM, and then completely backstabbing Firefox by never actually removing H.264 support from Chrome, despite claiming to going to do it for many months. If the Firefox developers don't have total amnesia, I think they're going to need a lot of encouragement.
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Good idea, but saying "I work at X company doing Y" for most companies is about as 'anonymous' as the average Facebook profile.
That may be true, but there is still fair-use.
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I live in SouthEast Europe(Balkan),graduated Computer Science and I work at local software company.I earn about 670$ a month [which sucks :) ].But that is the current situation in my country( average salary is 540$).I work 8 hours a day,5 days a week.

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To me that tells me that they don't understand central aspects of open source, and/or are worried about losing control.

When companies take this approach, it dramatically lessens the value of what they release. Case in point: Your description above. If this had been released around 2006, it could've had a dramatic impact. Now there are plenty of alternatives.
I missed your logic. If Obama is a big supporter of RIAA and MPAA, then why wouldn't he come out and say that he is for SOPA?
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So this is an Android messaging replacement we are working on, basically to promote/spread the word about our main product, the landmark database.

We figured that in order to get the app to spread, we need to not only have our own thing (landmarks), but be better than the other messaging Apps so users have a reason to try it out. So in the latest version we added "say sender's name"-feature, which we have found pretty useful, and I will be working on other improvements.

I would love any feedback on the app, the blog, anything!

Earlier HN discussion about the first version of our app: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640511
If I wanted to look for a job anonymously, the last thing I'd want to do would be to sign in with my LinkedIn profile. I'd probably rather make an extra email account somewhere and use that.

It seems way to easy to implement a third column to this offer: Companies! Find out which of your rat bastard employees is about to abandon ship for only $50 (per month). Get email notifications as soon as one of your employees logs into our site and use our handy Word template to fire them automatically!
Agreed.

E-learning has the potential to: decrease the costs of getting an education, create the potential for "mass customization" of education, reduce credentialism in society, make learning an end in itself for many people, force universities to become less complacent, and probably many other effects I am overlooking right now.

Starting an e-learning startup is something I REALLY want to do. I love learning and I love startups.

I hope I can make that happen someday (nudges everyone with similar dreams).
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IOS and Android are so different, so if you wanna start, make your choice!
If you like/use java try Android, IOS is on Objective-C.
Also, for IOS you need a mac for development SDK, for Android any os is supported.

and then search for tutorial and quick starts, the net is full :)

enjoy!
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You can't always solve political problems with technical solutions. A truly distributed internet could be considered a mechanism to bypass IP protection laws, and made illegal. I think the best that can be done under the circumstances is to keep broadcasting the message that the DMCA is more than enough.
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I would not look "stupid" to you, but I'm not even sure I've understood the actual differences between the two classes :(

Did you find the course schedule or some more detailed informations about them?
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Is this actually the case though?

Isn't the physics of CPU design (quantum tunneling etc) just as complicated as that of a fusion reactor (or arguably more so?)

If you meant that the behavior of the plasma itself is complex from the mathematical point of view.. yes, that is true. But it _is_ modeled (along with nuclear explosions) on one of those computer thing you physics type sell short. :P
There's Android File Transfer for Mac users, which supports MTP. Not sure there's anything at all for Linux users.

This issue has turned the phone from must-have to never-want for me - it's unbelievably handy to essentially have a 32GB USB hard disk in my pocket wherever I go. Are there any actual advantages to MTP or PTP for end users?
I have used it and for basic usage this is correct. Only needed minor changes after moving from jQuery in a mobile project I did.
When I go to your blog post, it says "Oh noes! Something went wrong."
> it has been shown that campaign funding has an unsettlingly strong correlation to campaign victories.

Do you have a citation on this? I recently read Freakonomics where the authors claimed to be able to prove this theory false, but I didn't look up their numbers.
It's very similar to the argument that Jeff Atwood gave a while back that "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard... )

And taken on those terms - not on the cost accounting of cloud vs local - it makes sense to me. Is it a convincing "no matter what" argument against cloud hosting in all cases? I'd say no - there will be cases where sheer scale or fluctuations in scale make cloud hosting more attractive. as the article admits.
point 2 is just a little overdramatic considering all the other support that Google offers for WebM e.g. buying it for $130 million in the first place, supporting it in Chrome and Android, converting the entire Youtube back catalog, producing reference hardware encoders and decoders and giving the designs away for free, etc. etc.

Chrome and Firefox in desktop and Opera and Android in mobile have enough combined share to shift the market on this if they want to. I'd hope and assume that Mozilla's decision making would be a bit more related to their mission to support an open web than to petty recriminations for percieved slights.
It's not "just logic", it's math, but yeah, pretty much.
Triviality is supposed to be a test case for the validity of a patent. I think you can make a reasonable argument that if the first few users of a technology all independently invent a technique, that technique should be considered trivial in the context of that technology.

I don't think it's necessary to deify Carmack, either. He is an extraordinary programmer, but he is not super-human.
Saying that because fsync() doesn't work in AWS that it won't work 'in the cloud' is much like saying that because you can't take a cheap sedan to the bush that a 4wd can't possibly exist.

Google can't exist (well) on top of AWS as AWS is designed for the deployment of (qusi)stateless applications. Saying that you can't build a data intensive application on top of it is like saying that your machinegun sucks at grating cheese.

OVM was designed to run a search engine origionally (darkmatr, now defunct due to lack of comparitive profitability), so you could quite easily build google on top of it. It wouldn't surprise me if google would work really well on top of that stack.
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This is an oblique way of saying that (quantum) reality consists of many (classical) worlds.
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Saying that you can't get IOPS on AWS is like saying that your machinegun sucks at grating cheese. It's really not meant to do that.

But that's fine as AWS isn't the only cloud platform out there, and some are actually desgined to take data intensive workloads.
Being in Europe (the UK), I am all for SOPA. If it goes through, the EU will get all antsy and we'll end up with our own Internet without the controlling interests of the US.

It's win-win for the EU member states.
Hehe, yes, we're making all that good stuff actually this weekend. :) We felt tired of working on little details and wanted to immediately push out to get some feedback. But we've realized we need more detailed information and how-tos available also. I'll email you when we put it up!
Thanks, I dont have mac,and I have little experience in Java so I guess Android is the way:)
> It is quite a mystery

It is not a mystery at all.

http://flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
If you put a vacuum in it and shrink wrapped it it would float.

But I don't know if the material is strong enough to result air pressure if it was shrink wrapped (i.e. would the air pressure squish it?)
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Not so. You can have frozen smoke with a vacuum in it. There are two types, closed cell and open cell (just like any foam).

According to wikipedia the lowest density frozen smoke has a density of 1 mg/cm3 (not including air!), which is just slightly more than this material.

The 4 mg/cm3 number in the article is incorrect (I wrote to them to let them know).
id wants to release the code as GPL. To be GPL there can be no legal obstacle to distributing and modifying the code. The patent is not held by id, and I doubt the patent holders have allowed anyone to copy & use this patent as much as they want, ergo you can't copy & use the code as much as you want. So you can't release it under the GPL.
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Thanks for letting me know! How about now?

When I load it now, I get the blog text but not the images, and a weird theme.

The blog is running on posterous, and it did show up fine for some time.
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> Why is this less likely than the alternative?

Because the alternative is quantum mechanics. If unconnected states can communicate, QM is wrong. QM is extremely unlikely to be wrong.
This is why I keep facebook in a separate browser. The could technically still track me using flash cookies but as the site isn't on my "can play flash content" whitelist this is no issue either.

It means I can't comment on a growing number of sites that use fb for their comments system, but that is no loss to me in my not-so-humble opinion.
No, the apparent weight would be 0.9 - the air inside the material is "floating" in ambient air, and would not be measured on an ordinary scale.

Technically you also have to account for the slight buoyancy the metal has in air (but it's far below the error margin so it's ignored).

Basically on earth when you weigh things you are measuring weight, even if you say grams (which are supposed to be mass).

If you want true mass you have three choices:

1. Weigh in vacuum.

2. Use a scale that shakes the material on a spring and measure the frequency (i.e. measure inertia).

3. Calculate the volume of the material, calculate the weight of air of that volume and add that weight to your measured weight.

No one ever does this since it doesn't matter. But if you want to be exact....
No, that doesn't demonstrate that the technique is "trivial", but it does make the requirement that the patent be "non-obvious" much harder to defend. As you note, if the first few people to look at the problem come up with the same solution independently, it is dubious that the solution is non-obvious.
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What is even more worrying for me, and the way I understand SOPA (note that my understand comes exclusively from reading the news, mostly Hacker News, I haven't read the law), is the fact that copyright holders can cause a website to be "banned" from the internet (i.e. domain unresolvable, deleted from Google, funding cut) without any proof. So, in this case, the whole congressman's website could be "put offline", and fair use/willful infringement wouldn't even matter - unless, later, the congressman would decide to challenge the action in a court of law.
If you assume the problem is correct, in other words one and only one of the four answers is correct, then you have to exclude the two identical answers (25%). You are left with 50% and 60%. You pick one of them at random, and the chance to be correct is 50%.

If you start with the assumption that the problem is wrong, then ... it's wrong.
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Just curious about your fourth point above... Why do you think two landing pages would be better?

I've seen this approach used on a number of other sites that are seemingly successful, and am debating the single landing page approach for a project of mine, so I would be interested to hear the pros and cons.
Chicken and egg. Designers will not use a format not supported by the majority of browsers and browsers see no need to implement new formats unless people are asking for them.

It goes against the web design principle of making your site usable to all users regardless of what they are browsing with to use an image format that is not widely supported. This principle is backed by users who will simply leave your site in disgust if they are asked to jump through hoops to use it. Very few designers will be willing to maintain two versions of all their images just because one of the formats is a bit smaller.

Microsoft has it's own range of newish web image formats that never caught on. History suggests IE is unlikely to support anything "not made here" unless it is forced to. The competition to Microsoft's image formats, JPEG2000, never caught on either. Firefox has an infamous open bug about adding it in dating back to 2000: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351 - over 11 years! Despite what it looks like in the last comment, my Firefox 8 still does not have support.

The last image format that managed to make it was PNG, and that was almost over a decade ago, although alpha support in PNG was added comparatively recently to IE. Last time I checked MNG (PNG's answer to animated GIFs) still wasn't widely supported.

Sorry to be such a downer, lack of support for JPEG2000 was a let down for me. As I see it Firefox, Opera and Safari will all need to support this first, before web designers in general will even consider using it. Only once a significant number of web designers are clamouring for it will IE slowly add support for it. Only then will it see wide use.

Tool support is vital too, most importantly Adobe PhotoShop. No web designer I know of is going to muck about in the commandline with imagemagick.
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Here's the original Stanford Tech Entrepreneurship syllabus:
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and this seems to be the one of the lean startup launchpad:
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What you care about at any reasonable scale (ie. the point at which costs matter) is $/serviced request. That usually ends up being dominated either in $/cpu cycle or $/iop. The current problem is that most cloud platforms suck iops which makes them far more expencive then they really should be.

Cloud vs. dedi vs. colo in terms of raw prices though, depends entirely on your price of money and the price you can negotiate with your provider.
I think that goes completely against the whole point of the website, it's a platform where you can let people know your interested in finding a new job without your employer finding out about it.
Update: posterous.com seems to have some problems:

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We're experiencing some database issues at the moment. We'll be back up shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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https://twitter.com/#!/posterous/status/137494809559580672

Another update, 33 minutes later: The site seems to be working fine now. No new tweets by posterous on the subject, but I have my fingers crossed it will stay up now -- it is not too often I get the blog to the front page of Hacker News.
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Isn't the test 'an engineer sufficiently skilled in the art' ?

Carmack would qualify as 'an engineer sufficiently skilled in the art'. That he's one of the most skilled wouldn't be relevant.
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I would assume that somebody who participated in the implementation of a law and then broke it, would be the last person to be able to invoke a good-faith belief that their actions are legal.
Keep in mind that screwing with syscalls is an AWS thing, not a virtualisation thing. They make fsync wierd for good reason though, and they really don't have much they can do.
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