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It's possible that they've only seen it as a meme, in which case they would have no idea who to credit. I for one had never heard of the original until just now.
Perhaps this very Microsoft blog post gives some insight into why an organization might hesitate to use a technology covered by Google-owned patents. (Google has promised to continue Motorola's policies on standards-essential patents, i.e., they will use them as a weapon.)
What if the evidence is exculpatory, but you still refuse to decrypt it? Then you'd be in contempt of court for failing to defend yourself adequately.
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You're right, it's fullscreen, I actually didn't entirely realize this. (I was sort of thinking of OneNote which has its own "full window for content" toggle which isn't fullscreen)

Windows in VS10 behave oddly in general around alt-tab and other things, I haven't managed to form a mental model of how/why they do.
If, OTOH, the government already specifically knows that you have incriminating data on an encrypted drive, this test doesn't seem to apply, per my reading. It's not "testimonial" for you to decrypt the drive, as they already know the evidence exists, and that it's on the encrypted drive. The plaintext doesn't give them anything they don't already know about.

How can one know something exists if they don't have it? They can be "pretty sure", but they can't "know". Therefore, providing the encryption passphrase is always testimonial. (Mumble, mumble, something about a radioactive cat...)
As it happens, I am also acutely short-sighted, something which was diagnosed about my 4th year in school. I often wonder to what extent (if any) the ADD might have been a compensating mechanism for the visual imbalance; the brain's very plastic at that age.
this is the key to this case and reasonings behind such a response from court:

> The Government attempts to avoid the analogy by arguing that it does not seek the combination or the key, but rather the contents.

Government had inexperienced prosecutor building case and the judge, rightfully responded to prosecutor request: in order to get the content that prosecutor wants, they need keys. By not revealing keys defendant is using 5th. Everything seems fine, other than I am sure this case will come back and this time prosecutor will wont the keys not the content. This mistake, I think rest assured, will not happen from Prosecutor's part again in this or any other cases.

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below is what I started typing but when I read the case again it stroked me as of why we dealing with such a decision. I decided to leave it instead of deleting if you want to read anyways:

First and foremost: I use TrueCrypt. Its amazing, simple, and it works. Just make sure, when converting existing partition, you use at least "3-pass wipe" mode since todays hard disk drives can keep "second layer" of magnetized data you were converting for months giving law enforcement access to your pure data pre-endryption. In my example, I have about 10TB across 8 HDD with my CAD/3DStudio Max work. I also have hours of digital-cam material from 2003 where 15 minutes of recording took 2TB of avi files and I never cared to convert.

Said that, I think in this case the court was terribly wrong and defendant should play lottery first thing he leaves the jail.

> First, the decryption and production of the hard drives would require the use of the contents of Doe’s mind

say what? they asked him for password he knows. He doesnt want to give it out. Court agrees saying that this would require to force defendant to use his mind and reveal information he keeps there and that noone else can access. May I know any court case or any case where defendant brain would not be used?? I dont honestly find a difference between asking him for password and asking him for anything else in any case proceedings. He is unwilling to comply with court, bottom line.

> Just as a vault is capable of storing mountains of incriminating documents, that alone does not mean that it contains incriminating documents, or anything at all.

sure, but if the Government has any other evidence against defendant, the burden of proof should clearly shift to defendant. If, for example Government has ISP logs of tons of torrent data downloaded by defendant router, one can fairly assume that illegal files are stored there. If defendent is not willing to "open the safe" by releasing the key, he should be found guilty by withholding the evidence. -- Just open the damn vault and show those idiots from the Govt & Co how stupid they really are!
Its a bit off topic, but I am curious about a bit of slang used. John Perry said "... sounds rather like Project Xanadu emerging from the Matrix ... ".

I'm familiar with project Xanadu and for a moment I just presumed "the matrix" was a reference to the movie. But then I realized the e-mail was sent in 1991 ...

What did he mean by "the matrix"?
I've been spending a lot of time recently trying to plan the work we need to do in the next few weeks to deliver or product to market, planning, meeting, discussing, etc. It was looking like there's no way to finish all the work we have to do.

Today, I made a point to avoid email and discussions with coworkers and just crank through as many JIRA tickets as possible. I was shocked how much I accomplished.

Wasn't necessarily the most creative work, but still seems related to what Woz is saying.
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If you're reading Hacker News but haven't read iWoz, or at least had it on your reading list for a long time and plan to get to it soon, then you're reading the wrong website. You simply can't get any more "been there, done that" than Woz when it comes to technology and startups. Steve's life is an open book, and you won't find any bullet points of indispensable wisdom in it, but you'll come away with a lifetime of experiences to draw on for your own decision making, and hopefully a little bit better worldview. I thought I knew all there was to know about the Apple story, but knowing a list of facts isn't like experiencing things from the point of view who made it possible. Would that the world had more Steve Wozniaks in it.
Patents are time-limited not eternal. The first company to build a laptop most certainly obtained a patent on it, as did the creator of the first flat-screen.
I wholeheartedly agree with these being guidelines. But--having been in this industry for 25 years--I know too many people would treat them as hard and fast rules. It's just simpler to check off boxes than to assess the capability of a person to learn.

What one really needs isn't a code portfolio in GitHub. It's not a mastery of Chef or Puppet. It's not knowing all the details of every relational database plus NoSQL. No, what's needed is the ability to learn and learn quickly; the other stuff is the nice-to-have-du-jour.
I agree cost benefit analysis is relevant. Instead your argument stated how unreliable ICE is by comparison. Ice isn't on trial. Ice is proven to be reasonably safe/reliable ect.

Secondly, my argument is not that you should worry about who also supports your argument, -but if you are going to agree with an article, find a better poster child. Otherwise, your argument holds little value as the original article refuses to support itself with research or references. I am certain that there is an article that accomplishes your opinion AND supports itself with evidence of some kind. Instead it sounds like before you even read the article you had your opinion, found the first article that agreed with your opinion, and called it a day.
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The stability will get there eventually.

Xcode 3 got a lot better over the years.
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One item that this (excellent) blog post does not adress is what to do about referer information which is generally not passed along when clicking on links on sites being browsed over SSL.

In order to "get credit" for all of the traffic that they send everywhere twitter had to develop a fairly elaborate system of redirections (built into t.co) to make sure that clicks from twitter.com ended up being sent out to the rest of the web with referer information.

It would be a real shame if everyone in the world had to develop a similar process.

Part of me thinks that browsers should start sending referer information even when you click on links for SSL sites, though this change would bring with it other problems.

It is not at all obvious (to me at least) what that best thing to do here is.
I once liked his work (Foundation mostly), but I have a newfound level of sheer awe knowing he held a Ph.D. Best author on my shelf, maybe.
The bog-standard for loop that transforms an array mentions the array twice and the index variable five times, giving you, let's say, 6 unnecessary chances to goof something:

for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
newarray[i] = f(array[i])
}

by contrast, the functional-programming method allows you to define the new array immediately in terms of the old one, just mentioning the latter once and without an index variable:

newlist = map f oldlist

To my eye, this gives me far fewer chances to botch it, and my reader can instantly tell that

(1) newlist corresponds to oldlist in length and order
(2) the only difference between the two is that the elements are related by the function f.

Every time I come across a for loop that builds up an array, I worry whether the bounds checking is wrong, whether the right index variable is used (esp. if there are nested loops), and whether an elements were added to the array before or after the loop. Lots to worry about.
I did say I was making an analogy, not establishing a direct link between patents and copyright. Patents protect a specific method of implementing an idea, so Palm synthesizing a smart phone with a color LCD (controlled by a stylus) does not prevent Apple from protecting the synthesis of smart phone with a color LCD (controlled by fingertips). If there was no innovation in bringing multi-touch to smart phones, why wasn't everyone doing it in 2007 when the iPhone was first released?
First its an inferior codec (particularly when compared to h.264 main or high profile)

Second its unclear if WebM is patent encumbered or not. AFAIK its not yet been tested but if this current battle heats up its likely to come under fire fast.

Third you now have literally millions of mobile devices and other CE devices with built in H.264 hardware video decoders very few with built in WebM.

A lot of folks haven't cared that H.264 is patent encumbered, they pay the licensing fees and go on their way with a very tried and true codec. Until now...
And Scottie Pippen only became maybe one of the top 20 basketball players of all time.

So maybe there is something to being part of a "4am" club.
No good will come of this.
Hey, at least they said "Please".
They can also go "negative" in a way, in that people who want to support someone will spend more than is reasonable. Just look at some of those recent Kickstarter drives if you want an example of that. People are willing to spend more real dollars because there are so many "negative" integrity dollars that the price is still "cheap" to them.
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Basic idea is that open-ended collaboration > working alone. Which doesn't so much conflict with the idea that working alone > working on a "committee" or "team", in my opinion.
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I would rather just put a snippet in that tracked javascript errors somehow, and also grabbed all of the user's browser information etc.

That's a worse user experience, though. And you have no opportunity to ask follow-up questions, or even say "hey, it's fixed!". That kind of customer service goes a long way.
Completely agree.

And I know Javascript way better than Clojure.

But building an app with Clojure feels like I'm writing high quality code.

Writing Node feels hacky and I get an uneasy feeling with it for some reason. I've never liked nodes callback-driven async approach to development.

This post summarizes my feelings towards Node better than I can: http://dosync.posterous.com/22397098
Motorola and Microsoft are using the same tactics. Both are trying to get injunctions against alleged infringing products:

"In legal proceedings on both sides of the Atlantic, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft take its products off the market, or else remove their standards-based ability to play video and connect wirelessly."

This is a standard move in these patent battles; the same thing happened in the various Apple/Samsung/etc. cases of the past year. I presume the threat of lost sales is meant to motivate the other party to settle quickly (i.e., pay up!).
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"Hire a chef".

Hmm. I wonder what the average investor might think about that?
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I don't think this is "Fuck Google" so much as it is "Fuck people uploading stuff through this interface."

If I write some software that costs $999 and only works on HP/UX, it's not "Fuck Microsoft" or "Fuck Apple". It's "Fuck me."

I think they call it cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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I'm perplexed by the downvoting, given the obvious fact that courts evaluate rights-based arguments all the time. The proper scope of the judicial power is about the biggest ongoing argument within the legal establishment, it seems to me - unless you can point me at some agreed-upon list of rights retained by the people that I don't know about.
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I'm a Optimizely user and I find the engagement score to be the most suspect metric to use to validate anything. Especially for something as important as your homepage. Was there not a real goal state they could have tested other than "did someone click anything?"?
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Gosh, I know. That's awful. Its much better that hg allows people to type hg mv, rather than forcing lazy people to modify the .bashrc file so that they can type "ga" instead of "git add".

I mean, I know "hg mv" is actually longer than "ga", but by golly, expecting unix shell users to know about the alias system built into the operating system is just the kind of elitism we can expect from linus.
I'm afraid you misunderstood my point, as I never mentioned software patents at all. The iPhone is a synthesis of prior research that (in 2007) encompasses advances in both hardware and software. That is the synthesis that I think advances the useful arts, and it's beneficial to society for us to provide a legal framework to protect it.
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Still, handing over the data would require the government agreeing that they wouldn't mine the data to find a prosecution against you, which is likely what companies already do.
I think it is hilarious that the 3.5" floppy disk is still an icon. What does a pair of them would mean? Copy disk? Commands you use every time you use a program don't really need an icon. Is there any overlap between the set of people who recognize the disk icon and the set of people who click in a toolbar to save a file?
Remember, this article was written about 12 years ago.

That said, there are times when tossing out the whole thing and starting over is absolutely the right thing to do. You can identify these apps by when the 8x5 sticky index cards describing defects fill a 9'x15' wall, application instability is a feature, and the "Big Ball of Mud" anti-pattern definition uses the app as its case study.
You can assume those went down in the range of $2-$4M pre-money for a priced round (a single seed investor will want between 20-40% of the company, depending on how strong the team/traction is). Many seed rounds are convertible notes, however, which are not priced, but rather pegged to a Series A with a cap and discount.
Preparation + opportunity, would be a great title for the Jeremy Lin story.
What Googlerola is doing here really isn't all that far off from what Rambus did a few years back with JEDEC. That was a good time and a half.
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You might be right, although I have seen the way some of the simpler electric cars connect power to wheel and I could see there not being a way, but hopefully the Tesla is more refined.

It's interesting that they did not refute this untowable claim in their rebuttal.
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If the safe then contained papers written in code, or an unknown language, would the court be able to compel the owner to translate those documents? To me, the hard drive platter is the paper, whereas the encrypted data is the contents of the papers.
Motorola doesn't care what you think. They care about not getting nuked by Apple and Microsoft.
An important addition to your list of items that makes inventory more valuable:

2B) Purchasing intent for a commodity item where the inventory seller can extract a high percentage of the profit.

Apple isn't going to bid up the price of an ad that erodes their profit too much because, at the end of the day, they're the only source of iPhones.

Your local florist will compete against the guy across the street to buy that add even if nearly all the profit goes away because he can't easily differentiate his product.
Napoleon Hill once said that man just does ambitions to impress women! Now that you lose your girlfriend, perhaps this is the case for you? You lost the bulk of your motivation?
I agree with you, but by the same token. MS has been a patent troll for years, the nortel patents is only the most recent case. Oh and look, Google took notice. The shoe is on the other foot and Google is using it as a bargaining chip.

They are telling MS "leave android alone, or we make sure all of YOUR products take a hit. Worst case scenario, we create a massive shit storm, who do you think will lose more? Want to bet your company on patent trolling?"

I am happy they are going after one of the biggest bullies on the playground.
They could, for future products, but I suspect that all current iDevices have hardware H264 decoding support, and no WebM decoding support. Meaning battery life or performance would suffer on the web, though it would still be fine for things obtained from itunes.
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Those analogies miss a key point. Only the testimonial aspects (e.g., implicitly acknowledging that the files actually exist and are under one's control) are protected. Furthermore, under the “foregone conclusion” doctrine, even the testimonial aspects may not be fully privileged.

See Footnote 19: "If in the case at hand, for example, the Government could prove that it had knowledge of the files encrypted on Doe’s hard drives, that Doe possessed the files, and that they were authentic, it could compel Doe to produce the contents of the files even though it had no independent source from which it could obtain the files."
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weekly all hands dinner? insane.
Seriously: like throwing some coins in the guitar box of the musician you hear in the subway whose melody really sets your mood straight for the day!
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If you disagree with the terminology, that's your opinion. A lot of terminology is kind of weird. "Klien Bottle" is called that because it was called "Klien Surface" in German, but "Surface" in German kind of sounds like "Flask", and they mistranslated. The name stuck because it was kind of appropriate.

I say it's a 2D surface, because while it lives in 3D, it's "thin" in one dimension. It's like saying a piece of paper is a 2D object.

And when I say "it can't live in 2D", I'm kind of lying - it can live in a weird kinky 2D space, but NOT a boring 2D plane. Well, you could smash it into a 2D plane, but it would self-intersect (get all smushed together, losing its shape). And by "shape", I mean topological properties ... but I hate jargon.

But a Mobius strip is a 2D surface which can't live in 2D (a boring flat 2D plane); in the same way a Klien Flask is a 2D surface which can't live in 3D; and a knot is a 1D surface which can't live in 1 or 2D. Press a knot into 2D, and it crosses itself (self-intersect). Force a knot into 2D, and it will break, or join up with itself (depending on the material).

Real mathematicians (i.e. not me) will say "manifold", not surface, but it's more or less the same thing.
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What about these?

f1 list = foldr (&&) True list -- && is logical and
f2 list = foldr (||) False list -- || is logical or
f3 list = foldl max (head list) (tail list)
f4 list = foldl min (head list) (tail list)

Do you consider them trivial, or too hard to understand without rewriting as a loop? Honest question.

I think if you use a non-associative function as an argument, then fold is hard to understand. But then an explicit loop won't help much.
Wow, way more Microsoft hate here than I expected. We likely all agree on how terrible software patents are. However there is a difference between patents. Microsoft's request for FRAND pricing on patents related to mutually created industry standard protocols does not seem unreasonable to me.
> Turn this around. What's the argument for doing it? "The gain using our proposed initial dictionary is seen only for the first header". This is completely counter to the goal of Spdy to keep connections open and reuse them; the longer connections are used the less the initial dictionary matters.

Browsers won't keep SPDY connections open forever in the hopes of someday reusing them; the "initial connection" case will happen quite frequently in a normal browsing session.

> Even just visiting one page, average say 500 KiB, it save on average 121 bytes total. That's 0.02% reduction in size. This seems like a "substantial win"?

When did you last visit a page with 500k of HTML? I suggested the hopefully very common case of sending a very small request and getting back a very small 304. The whole exchange consists entirely of headers; I just checked a few examples and got figures in the 300-400 byte range for request and response combined. That would make 121 bytes closer to a 30-40% savings.

(Also, I'd love to see a reference for your figures on expected bytes saved through the prefix dictionary.)

> Yes if the very first request is an expensive CGI this may be some marginal benefit. I think even the Spdy designers claimed this was less than 1% and sometimes a loss. This happens very often, that the first page requested from a site has some really slow loading CGI? I think the site is broken.

Server push seems like a win at any point in a SPDY connection, not just for the initial connection.
I imagine with their home page they could measure engagement best by keeping track of the percentage of people who enter their zip code to begin a report.
Is 0.999… really equal to 1?