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Why the downvotes? It's one of the more plausible ways that could end the global patent system, whether you like it or not.
Those didn't stop the Patriot Act. Or any of the tons of violations the government did.
Pivot = Don't Give Up
"The wall is there to keep other people out" - a few thoughts on what it means to pivot, and how the new terms don't change much the substance of doing startups.
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"""I generally don't like the use of a metaphor as an argument since it often misses the point. Watching a movie without paying is not the same as stealing. I cannot give it to someone else what I have watched, I can't sell it, etc."""

That same holds for stealing a pie and eating it. You cannot give it to someone else or sell it.

You just decided on a specific, narrow, interpretation of "stealing".
You really think your comment is above retard level?
How to use Flipboard on your iPhone
(keep in mind, 2009)
Someone should clone this for PC. Why restrict yourself to the iPad market when you can write cross-platform code?
there are several, relatively well-paid, phd positions available at the vision group ;)
I've always held that if you name your methods and variables right, many lines of code can be read as sentences.

When describing the fetchmail config syntax, ESR commented that you should be weary of making something too much like natural language and too complex, but that he added certain optional tokens that get filtered out to make the syntax more readable.

Like the `wtf' command (from BSD?). It tells you what something means. The syntax is "wtf [is] <acronym>". To a unixhead, the is isn't necessary, but it makes the command read like a sentence.

If I'm willing to add in those little words, I find the best lines of code will read like a sentence

if (foo.equals(bar)) { /* then */
...

or

mv file [to] newname
I got a very simple scrollbar hourpicker, I can't remember seeing something similar on Google Calendar..
Hash Functions
What taboo?
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I agree with some other commenters here that the correct response here is not to blame Apple. Yes, it's fashionable to attack them these days, but it honestly isn't their fault.

The rules of the game fundamentally change when you add software patents to the mix. All it takes in this new world to ban a competitor's products is a vague patent and a sympathetic judge. Apple, in fact, has now been on both sides of this issue – suing Samsung's products out of the EU, and losing an injunction to Motorola in Germany.

You can't blame Apple (or any of the other companies who may emerge) for playing this game. If they can prevent their products from being pulled off the shelves, it's stupid not to.

It's akin to (as many have noted) the problem of nuclear proliferation. Blaming Apple is like blaming the US for not unilaterally disarming. Sure they didn't, but it's understood that they had a good reason, and, out of self interest, should have done exactly what they did.
You really think a very small number of hackers who know what they're talking about, boycotting companies is going to have an effect?

Most of the people buying smartphones can'e even spell "patent".
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According to this article, the unique ID is removed after the first update http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/google_chrome_unique...
It actually was 4000x times faster by using C's inbuilt counter ("-c") instead of "wc -l".

Any risks with just updating to latest version of grep instead of using the LANG=C hack?
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It's still there.

I recall looking up a way to remove it and found something for Chrome 8-9. However, that "field" has now been merged into some other field and you can't remove it without losing all the data.
How is it the world's most powerful if its loaded with Nvidia cards?

200 series era Geforce cards were slower per watt and per dollar and per slot (all important here) than 58xx series Radeons on both single precision and double precision math (and integer as well, but integer is only useful for crypto and Radeons have native single cycle instructions common for crypto which makes them about 4-5x faster than Geforces, but not a typical use case).

And if we're comparing series 400/500 to 69xx, the beating is much worse.
"3D support that uses the XNA API on the Windows platform to gain low-level access to the GPU for drawing vertex shaders and low-level 3D primitives."

Is this the type of thing they said was a security problem with WebGL? What have they done to mitigate the security risks they raised themselves with WebGL?
This is not really a 2000x performance "win", this is GNU grep(1) being so bad at dealing with UTF-8 to the point of being basically unusable.

The PoSix locale system is a nightmare, but the implementation in GNU coreutils is even worse, when it is not insanely slow it is plain broken.

I wasted days tracking down a bug when we moved a script from FreeBSD to a linux sytem that had an UTF-8 locale, even for plain ASCII input GNU awk could match lines erratically if the locale was not set back to C! I'm sure this bug has been fixed by now, but is by far not the only time I have found serious flaws with UTF-8 support in GNU tools, it seems this days the only way to be safe is to set the locale to C at the top of all your scripts, which is quite sad.

This is also required because due to POSIX locale insanity the actual behavior of tools as basic as ls(1), and more fundamentally regexps matching changes based on the locale, making scripts that don't set their locale at the top unreliable and nonportable.

Or using a toolkit with decent UTF-8 support, like the from Plan 9 that one can use on *nix systems via Plan 9 from User Space ( http://plan9.us ) or 9base ( http://tools.suckless.org/9base ), if you use those also your scripts will be much more portable, as there are all kinds of incompatibilities among for example awk implementations.
If node.js could make things work on Windows using IOCP then redis could do the same. For starters, they could study the node.js code to compare the epoll version with the IOCP version in order to understand how to use IOCP,
Canada also has a lower obesity rate.

I'm suggesting that a U.S. healthcare dollar is statistically not going to go as far as a Canadian one, even if the U.S. had universal health care.
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I would give an arm and a leg for a decent implementation of NoScript for Chrome.
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woo hoo. cant wait!! ;-)
The problem is not having 2 or more app stores, the problem is having 2 or more app stores that are mutually exclusive.
You are confusing the UK with India and China.
Sure, but they are usually appointed by the majority party of parliament and its leader becomes head of government.
I thought Obama was going to 'change' washington and more specifically end the bs lobbying that continues to punish the people of the United States. Most lobbyists are going to be scum, but in a place where having job is so cherished, you can't blame them for doing their job.
The issue is whether opting in is correlated with worse health. When one large company opts in, it's usually not because the company's CEO is himself sick: it's just a general policy decision to offer employees health insurance, and then thousands of people with overall "average" levels of health are non-voluntarily enrolled (the only way to opt out is to quit their job). But the decisions of individuals and small companies to choose or not choose to buy health insurance are much more strongly driven by their own personal health, with less-healthy people and people who suspect they're likely to have health problems soon more likely to buy in, and healthy entrepreneurs more likely to opt out / self-insure.
You benefit from everyone else paying for public healthcare, even if you never get sick. Economically it makes sense to have a healthy workforce, and medically it's a really bad idea for people with infectious diseases to stay away from treatment because they think they couldn't afford it.

I have no problems with a blanket tax on that basis alone. It's not as simple as giving people the option to opt out - by doing so they impose a cost on the rest of society even if they never get in an accident or take their symptoms to a doctor. Being a member of society has always been a quid pro quo, and I can't see why healthcare should be excluded from that bargain.
Blaming Apple for giving patents to patent trolls is like blaming Pakistan for providing key information to help North Korea build nuclear weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass...
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The standard approach to expressing errors in a REST API
is to use HTTP status codes. As is often the case with
REST, this works fine for simple systems, but is simply
too limiting for more sophisticated systems, particularly
those which might submit a JSON or XML document to
describe a POST request.

That's what the response body is for. If a client PUTs (or POSTs) a malformed representation, it's reasonable for the response to be 400 with error detail in the body.

The "depth" parameter is kind of interesting, since it gives the client a choice as to whether multiple resources are included in the response. I'd be interested to see how others implement this (or if the client is given no choice at all).

But essentially this is a straightforward choice between latency and response size.
I thought they gave up on Silverlight. Is this the last hurrah? Or are they not going down without a fight?
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U.S.: Police arrested 62 protesters Wednesday as supporters of lobbying from Wall Street Occupy objective to promote the interests of U.S. companies in Washington, the corridors of power. Undeterred by the constant rain, more than 1,000 protesters - many of them union activists - closed several blocks of K Street, the epicenter of the industry of the U.S. capital influential and lucrative lobbying, around noon.
I have the latest version, and still have to restart the browser from time to time. Otherwise, it becomes impossible to use. When I check Process Explorer, the browser is using up to 1.6 GB regularly. Doesn´t sound right to me at all.
How exactly is the President, who is head of the executive branch, going to fix the shenanigans going on in the legislative branch? Remember, the President doesn't make laws, he just enforces them (indirectly, through the Executive branch).

The real problem is that asking legislators to pass laws against their own self interest will never work.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'm pretty sure that no President can solve this problem. Blaming Obama because you don't understand high school level US history is pretty sad and doesn't give me a lot of confidence that the average voter will ever solve this problem, either.
Short of Ron Paul, where do you find politicians, nay, statesmen who don't take cash from companies?
Also is it the same emacs on pc and unix?
That's a statistical fallacy along the same lines as "we only hire the top 1%".

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
The site is exactly as it should be. Simple , straightforward, not fancy UI tricks, good color palette. overall I understood and trusted the site in 30 seconds, and browsed it for 5 minutes.
If you add things too much you will become an also-ran in a crowded space.
Run with it. my 2cts!
Adding to what you said, I also find Plan9 regular expressions to be significantly easier to grok in your head compared to POSIX or PCRE regular expressions that push a lot of complexity on the user's side (PCREs are not even true regexps as PCREs are not regular).

Plan9 regexps are very easy to reason about, more explicit and don't look as line noise as much.
> If I was in the US or elsewhere

Just the US, if you restrict yourself to "advanced economies".
Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is not the main benefit of WebOS. I believe the main benefit of WebOS is that it supports HTML5/JS applications natively in the OS, and they are not bound by a browser frame.

Nobody wants to have to open a browser and load a bookmark to get to an application that has browser widgets taking up space at the top, bottom, and side of the screen. They want a home screen icon they can tap once and get an application with native look and feel. If developers can write that app in HTML5/JS then it's a win/win for both developers and users. Developers get a highly portable framework that allows them to rapidly develop software and users get a native app experience.
Patents are anti-freemarket - they are restrictions on what one can actually do to their own property. They are government granted monopolies, that's about as anti-freemarket as you can get.
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I'm trying to connect the dot here... What's the scarcity of job has anything to do with hiring the top 1% fallacy?
In countries with UHC, parents can usually get paid medical leaves (or "caretaker leave", depends on the country) to take care of sick children.

Therefore, in most countries with UHC they'd have been taken care of and likely would not have had to do a fundraiser.
I never thought about that. Most resistence has been the graphic on the package. I am going to try that. Good idea. Thanks.
To attempt to avoid this, Canada has a category of "designated public office holders" whose post-office employment is restricted in various ways for five years, in an attempt to avoid them becoming lobbyists or being paid by lobbyists immediately after leaving office. Sort of like a 5-year noncompete agreement for politicians, perhaps.
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You don't. They are human too, tempted by greed or afraid of what happens to them when they are done serving.

It goes along with WANTING to be in a political position, if one did not want the money or the power trips then that one is likely also a nutjob of zealous flavor.

The flaw with this logic, is that the ideal politician does not want the job, this could make them incorrigible or careless. It also means almost nothing gets done by the incorrigible politicians (which I have to see as a good trait for any government) and poor quality work is done by the careless ones.
> Yes it might be a grey area but I'm okay with exceptions like this.

It's not really a gray area, a number of countries either have a concept of "caretaker leaves" or let parents use sick/parental leaves to take care of young children (in Sweden for instance, parents can take their paid sick leave — 364 days @80% then 550 days @75% — to care for children under 12)
Agreed. Knuth no doubt chose a simple, but non-trivial, program to build from scratch to illustrate the technique. McIlroy responded with an equivalent made up from Lego bricks. Knuth documented what he did. McIroy said "I used this command" n times.
They've had enough time to build a FASTRA III since this was released...
Haha Busted, I remember that. But now that Silverlight is in shutdown mode and they declared HTML5 as the winner of the thin-client battle I guess it wouldn't matter to include in the release anyway. I don't work with any Windows stack anymore but IMHO I found all the .NET 3.0 a big failure from the version number to WWF, WPF and WPF/E.
Does anyone understand what the bug in grep was?

UTF-8 regular expression matching shouldn't be different from ASCII at all, as far as I can tell. In UTF-8, every byte by itself can be identified as a start byte or trail byte, so if you want to match a regular expression, you don't even have to care about UTF-8 in any way. Any legal character in the regexp you want to look for can only match at a legal character start in the haystack.
There are too many opinions around here that at one point either the HN readers will follow some of them and become a followers (and lost their own primary focus) or they just become more convoluted (should I try X? Y? Z?).

The key is to recognize the patterns (news, prog-lang, running business, scaling) in HN quickly before we become HN-addicts. Once you learn the patterns, HN becomes an average place (e.g.: re-hash of news).
> In this case, the boy would most likely be forced to wait.

Unlikely: the reason for wait time in UHC systems is prioritization based on needs (rather than money). This child would likely be labelled as high needs (highly depressed immune system and "easy" treatment) and be at the front of the queue.
What makes you think so? sl4 support until 2013 and sl5 until 2021 sounds like great news for people invested in silverlight. Also despite Maryjo's speculation that sl5 will be IE and windows only, now we know SL5 continues to support the same set of browsers it supported in sl4 on both windows and mac.
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Can you give an idea of where you are with your start-up? Just because you 'want an investment' doesn't mean your ready. Many people suggest you should get introductions long before you actually need the money.

But to answer your question about how to contact investors, the best way is through personal contacts. Depending on where you live, this could be more or less difficult. You'll also need to 'sell' your start-up to the contacts first. I doubt a contact would do an introduction for you without knowing what they were introducing. Use this to your advantage. Pitch any contacts you have who might be able to introduce you to investors. This will also give you practice with your pitch and help you refine it.

You can also try AngelList, but my understanding (I've never tried it) is that you'll need to have social proof to really get anywhere on the platform.

Are there technology/entrepreneur meet-ups in your area? If so, go to them. You may not meet investors there (though you might), but you will meet other start-ups and somewhere somebody is getting an investment and they have contacts in the angel/VC community.

Lastly, keep in mind that it isn't about what 'you' want. You have to sell the investor on your business and you. It's what THEY want. Telling them that you want investment so you can grow your business, etc. etc. I'm told won't get you very far.

It is better to tell them what you're building, where it is going, why it is going to change the world and make a ton of money. Ask for advice, not investment. Ask for investment and you'll get advice, ask for advice and you'll get investment.
> It was about a family that decided to relocate to be closer to their son's doctors at Duke.

It was not exactly a decision, leaving a 3 years old child for 6 months in a medical environment tends to be a rather hurtful option for everybody.

> They also decided to stop working during their son's treatment to better take care of him.

Outside the US, there are UHC countries with (paid) caretaker leave, or allowing parents to use (paid) sick leaves to take care of young children if needs arises. In Sweden, they could have taken up to 364 days at 80% salary (and a further 550 days at 75% salary). And even without that, this would generally be protected circumstances: the employer would not be allowed to fire the employee for taking unpaid leave to take care of his/her child, not without taking significant (monetary) risks.

> By starting to talk about the need for universal health care, the entire conversation changes away from what was a simple story about the power of social media to help people.

I'd expect that people in here try to get to the root of the problem instead of praising band-aids. Praising band-aids is good, but insufficient: band-aids are a short-term solution to potentially systemic problems.
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Remind HN: There's a lunar eclipse right now
Starts at 6:06am Pacific Time. Anyone west of the Rockies to about Hawaii should be able to see it.
This won't end lobbying, but it's a start in the right direction if people call their Congressmen and ask them to vote for it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/saving-our-...
I disagree. The family would not have had to stop working during their son's treatment in any country with universal health care. The US family medical leave act is ridiculous in that it only allows up to 12 weeks in a calendar year of leave before the employer is entitled to terminate you. In any other first world country with universal health care, the right to take an extended leave of absence to care for a sick or dying child is protected by law.

Other countries have looked at the economic consequences of forcing a productive citizen to quit their job to care for a dying relative and have determined that it is both less costly than paying for professional in home nursing and less costly from a societal standpoint in that the family does not need to collect welfare assistance because they lost their job.

How is that not related to the story?
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I often say the Middle Class is still around right now because the two main parties can't agree on how to wipe it out.
Why waste one minute cleaning up spam on the old site, if you were planning on opening a new site that replaces it? Wouldn't it have been better (and less riskier ahem) to have simply put that effort towards the new site instead?
I'm sorry, did you mean to say "How's that hopey, changey stuff working out?"
Agreed. It's like someone writing a whole article about all the harms of smoking, and then ending the article with "Now of course I'm not saying quit smoking, just cut down to a pack a day."
The concerns that have been raised around security in WebGL are 99% centered around shaders, which have been available in a limited form (just pixel/fragment shaders) in SL for a while now, as image filters. It's been a fairly hypocritical argument the whole time, IMO, although I do believe the risks are real (since I've been doing a good bit of WebGL/general 3d security analysis for a while myself).
Thanks, the site is live again but people cannot add new content anymore. I am glad you liked it.
I am assuming that by "other two", you are referring to Google and Microsoft. Microsoft has a history of shady tactics, but they've been relatively "good" recently. They could easily fall back into bullying tactics, if they wished to. Although they do have tons of antitrust agreements they have to honor.

Google, on the other hand, has no history whatsoever of using patents offensively. I don't think [1] they've made a single offensive patent case, ever. If the morality of a company is going to affect your choice, Google is by far the better choice.

[1]: I haven't verified this statement. It probably doesn't hold true for some of the companies that they have purchased, e.g. Motorola Mobility.
The GP is right though. Get the right rep with the right amount of pull in Congress, and it will happen regardless of what is said. However I think the statements being asinine make it easier to fight back and more costly for reps to go along with it.