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> One aspect to the answer (and I am not a patent expert by any means) has to do with the much longer time-to-market represented by hardware development--hardware innovation would not be economically viable without the protection that patents provide.

I don't buy that.

> Note that software is still protected by copyright regardless of its patent status.

Copyright just protects expression.

Suppose I invent a new way to compute shortest paths through a graph. Why is that less deserving of a patent than a new way type of gearing. Why should "protection" be limited to "don't copy my bits"?

Consider automatic transmission control. You're suggesting that it should be patentable if done mechanically but not if done via software. How does that make sense?

Disclosure: I have both hardware and software patents. I don't see a big difference between them.
Keep in mind that we, as a society, decided to give them that choice to make. It was believed to be in the best interests of everyone to allow them those freedoms.

However, we as a collective, are welcome to change our minds if that freedom is proving to not be beneficial to society.

This is the problem we are facing today. More and more are changing their minds on the matter. They are not seeing the social value.
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I don't think it makes any sense to black out HN.

The purpose of the black out is to wake up people who have never heard of SOPA and educate them about the effects it will have on the Internet. It's not about some 'sacrifice' as some are calling it. It's the ultimate wake up call.

Rather, people of HN should black out their websites to get the message as far as possible. Let's keep HN up, so there's at least one place where we can stay somewhat organized and can keep track of things happening.
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I'm going to make it work in other browsers soon, I just wanted to focus on the product for a bit without having to worry about cross browser weirdness..
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I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title.

There is. I installed the user script Show Full Domain on Hacker News posts,

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121512

mentioned in an earlier Hacker News thread, and it works well. I knew the submitted article was from plus.google.com and was able to anticipate its content accordingly.

(I am running this user script on Chrome.)
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I guess the vagueness of the language is why we have lawyers, but the way I read the first "or" clause, HN could be painted as infringing. It is primarily designed to offer services (link posting and comment discussion) that (happen to) enable copyright infringement (see the DVD key I posted above). It's not designed for the explicit purpose of enabling copyright infringement, but it is designed to offer a service that, by its nature, enable and facilitates copyright infringement, if users were to use it for such.

To paraphrase:

the U.S.-directed site is primarily designed for the
purpose of offering services that enable
copyright infringement.

The way I'd expect a reasonable person to read that clause would be "you're a bad guy if you build a site that is specifically for distributing infringing content". The way I expect a lawyer would read that is "you're a bad guy if you build a site that includes functionality that can be used to distribute infringing content". Intent doesn't seem to be in play; only the fact that you offer a service that enables copyright infringement matters.

My understanding of it seems to be the thing that so many people have an issue with; the concern is that SOPA's loose language makes any content platform effectively illegal, giving the media cartels a sledgehammer that they can swing at just about anyone they please.
Do you think people will think it's only useful if I want to build a physics-based game? I'd like for people to think of it more just as a fun way to learn how to program, or, if you know how to program already, a fun way to build/solve physics-based puzzles.
Sure. Sorry for bad link.

http://bjfogg.com/
http://captology.stanford.edu/
http://behaviorgrid.org/
http://behaviormodel.org/ - this model is powerful and makes zillions for ones who know how to apply it to their products
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Not sure that "ad" is the right characterization.

Given that Fogg directs a lab at Stanford, and that this seems to have been launched within the last 5 weeks, my money's on this being a research project
It takes patience. I left a finance to learn to code a couple of years ago, but only got smart about networking last spring. I'm just now beginning to bring in some freelance / consulting jobs. You just have to keep at it -- and deliver on time, on budget, on spec.
The GHC Haskell compiler also supports dynamically scoped parameters via the XImplicitParams switch [1]. Type constraints are used to indicate which variables are propagated to the function.

I've used implicit params in my toy compiler code. While it somewhat simplified the structure of the code, I could have easily written the program without them.

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What I meant is that the children are comically pure, and utterly inhuman. Endlessly droning on about how much he loves his sister, never misbehaving or having a crush on a pretty girl; it all reflected a very strange impression of childhood.
I really like the idea but I think your greatest challenge will ensuring the site doesn't get spammed by false reviews.

I have nothing to add as far as a solution goes but I can say that when I see reviews or testimonials the first thing I do is try and verify the online presence of the poster. Whenever I see a link to LinkedIN it shows me that at least there is a real person here who I can check out.

If you can solve that problem without involving Facebook I'll signup. Good luck.
Confronting aliens in cowboys and aliens? Really? THATS the movie they pick for where ford had a role confronting aliens?

Oh, how quickly they forget.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zASTvOUGHH4/TnCuHuN64PI/AAAAAAAACc...
And what do you do after detecting a forged NXDOMAIN response? You still don't have the IP address you wanted.
What really stood out for me is the realization that children are imprisoned at Guantanamo. And we're not talking infants, but 13+ kids.
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I heard some people at a coffee shop today discussing the possibility of convincing facebook and google to shut down all of their services for a day because of SOPA, including google apps. While the anarchist in me was momentarily giddy at the whole idea, the realist makes me assume that there must be SLAs and service contracts for their commercial customers and their larger content providers and advertising partners. As awesome as it would be for Google to shut down everything and confuse the heck out of the world I'm sure the losses due to lawsuits and SLA fines would be massive.
Why should we believe the ACLU? Seriously. Enemy of America.
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I had some RSI issues, and in the process of researching remedies, I came across an article that pointed out that a lot of RSI issues involve the way our arms lie when we're sleeping. Thinking about it, I realized that the days I had the most pain where usually the days that I noticed my wrist hurting as soon as I woke up. So I bought one of those wrist brace things and took to wearing it on and off throughout the day, AND while I slept. After a week or so, my issues cleared up.

I did also mix in some various hand and wrist stretches and a limited amount of icing my wrist down as well.
First of all, thanks for the thoughtful reply. This is an interesting take on these sites and I agree that they are definitely employer-leaning in their offerings.

When we hire developers, we stress that 'mental modeling' is a necessary part of the process that we have no problem paying for. Other employers may not share the same view of how important that part of the process is. We block-out a reasonable amount of time for the developer to sit and think about the big picture and the details of how they'll execute.

In the several hundreds of hours we've tasked, we've had an overall good experience with the developers, designers and copywriters we've hired on oDesk. That's not to say that we've not run into a few bad apples but, overall, we've been pleased.

We're certainly open to the use of other platforms for contract work (we're not in a place to hire permanent employees) and hopefully some HN readers will pitch in their 2 cents.
Hey, you finally made the leap to HN! Did you independently discover a lot of these things yourself or did you come across parts in books/papers? For me the canonical example of deriving magic numbers is with the fast inverse square root trick (my favorite paper on it is http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf ) but I haven't seen many other instances... I haven't gone nearly far enough yet but I like getting pointed suggestions.

There were some recent submissions here about related topics like space-filling curves and secret sharing that I've looked at before. When I started looking into abstract algebra and came across finite fields I sort of laughed at the Wikipedia page mentioning right at the beginning "Finite fields are important in number theory, algebraic geometry, Galois theory, cryptography, coding theory and Quantum error correction" with each topic being linked. It's a fun way to procrastinate.

If your engine isn't part of some secret sauce I think it would be neat to study it. Unless you know of an already existing open source equivalent that's not hidden away in the corners of something like GCC?
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We should do it solely to work on a project or get some work done. We know SOPA, but imagine the time!
And how better to convince Google, Facebook, twitter, etc. to join us on a blackout or at least a "blackout" than by _all_ of us being a part of it and spreading the word as best we can?
I've noticed that hitting the back button on mobile safari often lands me on a cached version of a page (e.g. yesterdays HN front page instead of the current one), and a few google searches showed a number of forums with people describing the same thing. Seems like it could be a similar issue.
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It doesn't matter if the NXDOMAIN is forged or not (or whether forgery is detected or not). It's not like you can unforge and extract the original IP from such a response. Your browser can flash all the red warning lights it wants, you're not going to connect to the naughty site. DNSSEC does absolutely nothing to impede DNS blacklisting.
Where should they take the money from? You print all the dollars. Unless there's been trade with aliens, they won't have any earthling money.
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"Sweden" ... "The mistake those in the thread disagreeing with me are making is to assume that just b/c governments are less often observed to blatantly harass their own citizens, they are more civilized than the small time crooks whose lack of power occasionally necessitates messier tactics." ... "Obama has ordered the death of thousands"

And you're making a number of mistakes:

1) Treating "government" as one common set of practices around the globe. Say what you will about Obama and the United States, but governments with more local interests (e.g., Switzerland, Iceland, etc.) are almost certainly better than organized crime groups for both their internal people AND those outside their boundaries.

2) It's simply wrong to state that the Swedish president traveling around with guards and their "hidden" arms is a display of pageantry. Rather, it's a well-founded (and tragically necessary) act of self-preservation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme
> I wonder how much of an x86 chip is dedicated to handling legacy instructions or largely unnecessary instructions. How much saving could be achieved by a radically simpler instruction set (for example no neg/call/ret/push/pop/bcd instructions).

It's been a long time since I was in a closely related biz, but back then, the answer was "not much if you want to go fast".

Instruction decode isn't a huge deal. Micro-op sequencing isn't a big deal if you're going out of order (and many risc instructions tend to get broken into micro-ops).

The number of architectural registers used to be a big thing, but X86_64 is good enough. (I don't know if anyone got around to renaming memory.)
I'm just troubled by the fact that alien TV signals appear to look like static.
I have a hunch that you might be absolutely right. But it's unclear to me whether following this advice would improve my quality of life. Right now I'm productive, working whenever I can without respect to the clock. Limiting my productivity just so I can conform to an Earth day seems like it could be counterproductive.
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I'd love to hear about your experience as a tech person getting your MBA.

Also, great idea and website. Oddly enough I just heard a presentation yesterday about MobileIgniter, who amongst several other things, does something similar. They did the TechStars iOS app, which does exactly the same thing - pull blog entries from WordPress. Nice work!
I'm fairly sure when I tried something like that it popped up a "Page not found" dialog. I may have been doing it wrong though.
The paper can be found here:

http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/es...
Well, I feel like right now the focus is much more on the solving aspect rather than learning to program the game.
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I think there's a huge difference between the kind of "coding" being discussed here and the work of an actual software developer. That said, if coding simply means having some familiarity with the concepts of computer programming, then I think it definitely makes sense for those people who are interested to partake!
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You might consider doing consulting to keep your cash flowing, and working on your own startup on the side until you're ready to go full time on it.
Yea, I can see that. Any thoughts on how to encourage the creation of levels?
I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period.

I wish the same, but for different reason. I can't open Google+ links in office. :(
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Of course there are scenarios that are difficult in either language. And lobbying to replace JavaScript with Ruby (I assume you mean in web browsers?) is simply madness for a host of reasons that aren't worth repeating. Lobbying for blocks in JavaScript is sensible, though, since it is actually being considered for the new spec.

It sounds like you think my requirements are contrived. If you prefer to use functions as iterators in JavaScript, and who doesn't (unless you like polluting methods with counter variables?) ... there is no way to have iterators halt early without throwing exceptions or coming up with special return values. Every programmer needs to iterate and break out of loops. It is easy to break from iterator functions in Python and Ruby, since the languages natively support this concept. JavaScript doesn't--that's all we're saying, and it would be nice.
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I played this game as an intern at Microsoft in the summer of 2006 and subsequently introduced it to many students in the computer engineering department at the University of Florida. It makes for an interesting study in group psych if you can find people who are tolerant of how unfair it can sometimes be.
Almost: unfortunately via the terms, you need to display the geocoding results on a Google Map.

> Note: the Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited.

from: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

So, though the limit is technically lower, it's practically and legally quite the same.
Thanks for the boost. Reviews will be moderated. As of now the plan is to have all feedbacks/testimonials go directly into user dashboard which will then be approved or declined by the user. Of course, there will be some negative reviews as well but the user has the choice to either approve or decline them. This means there will only be positive reviews, but then again testimonials are mostly positive. Whether or not people choose to show both the good and the bad is upto them. Clients who want to leave testimonial won't have to sign up, ever. This is to encourage them to leave testimonials. The only way facebook will be involved is if the user wants to share their testimonials/review on their profile page.

"....reviews or testimonials the first thing I do is try and verify the online presence of the poster." --> We will have links to client sites or some form to verify that it is not fake. Still working out the details but definitely something we are considering.

Thanks again for your input. Very much appreciated.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster :

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"Best practices" is a no-true-Scotsman argument. Any example I come up with of something that blows up a C++ program is going to contravene some best practice somewhere. A long time ago someone said buffer overflows were easy to avoid, and so I did a little math, counting up the revenues of companies that sold products that mostly mitigated the impact of buffer overflows. Billions and billions of dollars, lost to "inability to count numbers of bytes".

In any case, my pointier response to you is, "allocation lifecycle and use-after-free", which doesn't care how many layers of abstraction you wrap your pointers in.

"Irredeemably"? No, just very, very expensively. I suppose I should thank them.
I was wondering about this, too, if some people won't just sue Google.
By shapes do you mean borders? Or do you mean buildings and things... The borders come from http://www.openstreetmap.org/ which is editable/exportable in many formats.
and what will people from other countries do?
That's like one guy on this whole thread. Everyone else would be more than happy to see you in an interview.

We all would. We're just not seeing you gals come in. We've got quite a few female project managers and business devs at my company, but no programmers.
Make the stakes much, much higher for a new TLD, but make the chance of getting one almost assured if you make it through a more rigorous screening process.

The junk that's out there now is embarrassing. .aero? .museum? Are these jokes? It took more than ten years to establish the blindingly obvious .xxx domain while they were flirting with the idea of a .store or .shop domain instead.

Domains are growing increasingly irrelevant when search-engines are the only reliable method for channelling people to what they want, but the namespace pollution we have to endure forever will be a constant source of irritation.

I have almost no idea what the current TLDs are, and even Mozilla, which needs to know this for security reasons, is having trouble keeping up. Regional registrars seem to change their mind as to how they will assign domains without any sort of official notification, no paperwork at all, which seems reckless for a TLD.
Pretty sure polymorphic inline caches are standard fare in both Javascript and other VMs (JVM, CLR, etc.). What other techniques are you referring to?
This was so much fun! Maybe programming a small task needed to complete a level might give the desired inverse effect. :)
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In relationship to this post whats everyone thoughts on smart docs like Posterous has? aka Mashery I/O docs, Swagger?

It takes the API explorer model to the next level....and integrates with documentation.

You get up to date docs + API explorer + code stubs. Is this the future?
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HN should blackout every Thursday as a "get more stuff done than usual day." (For this reason, Google has no-meeting Thursdays.)
Wouldn't there be lawsuits against Google when content is taken down to comply with SOPA and other anti-Internet bills? Not to mention extra costs in complying, both in reputation loss and revenue.

I believe they will run it by the legal team anyway.
Yea, I was thinking about that. Maybe I'll do that for the next level I build.
What about in comparison to a distance we'd be likely to reach before we annihilate ourselves?
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It stands a good chance of becoming the registry of choice for casual use, especially if it gets an official TLD, but otherwise it's a bit crazy to think it'd ever be used for serious concerns. It's way too shady.
There's a lot of Arabic and Chinese TLDs already.
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What's especially interesting is that your iphone layout is actually better than G+ on a desktop webbrowser, where the lines are insanely long and do not wrap when the window width is reduced.
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As a "businessperson" that does some light coding on the side for fun (mostly scientific programming), I really appreciate the author's argument.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to find organizations that know how to make the most use out of those skills (outside of the start-up community, and even within the start-up community it's surprisingly rare to find job postings for BD folks that mention relevant/valuable coding skills).
I think their most effective move would be to black out google.com search, because that's what most people see. I see diminishing returns in shutting down their advertising and enterprise services.