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I've said this before here on HN, but you won't fix a system that's a gigantic clusterfuck of bureaucracy by introducing more bureaucracy.

There's but one way to "fix" patents, and that's to get rid of them and never try again. We've seen over the last decades (or, indeed, since their inception) that they do nothing but stifle and harm progress, both actively and passively. Today, in a globalized, digitally connected world, progress is speeding up and will continue to do so, probably by magnitudes. The patent system is utterly unsustainable in such a world, and we need to abolish it before it causes even more irreversible harm to humanity.
I don't really mind TeX's age since the results of typesetting with it are very nice and there is practically no alternative at least in academia. I find it a bit hard to imagine that html can do the same job. The minor (or major) inconsistencies between html engines can lead to so many different renderings from the same source and I don't think that you want that for your texts. I agree though that typography in browsers has come a long way since the early 00s and is definitely in good track. The tools you are mentioning are nice but setting them up does not seem to be any less complicated than TeX and friends (not mentioning the fact that the hyphenated result [1] from Hyphenator looks so bad; it begs for margin protrusion, but that's a different issue)

In my opinion LuaTeX (and its LaTeX counterpart) is the future of TeX. It builds upon the strong base of TeX and combines it with Lua which is a fine language for this purpose.

[1] http://hyphenator.googlecode.com/svn/tags/Version%204.0.0/Wo...
9% of gross revenues to be able to use hardware accelerated 3D and fast memory access?

The fast memory access has been available since Flash 10 days and usable with HaXe.

I'm stunned by how short sighted this strategy is from Adobe.
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That still doesn't make a case to learn OCaml.

What it means is, People who learn OCaml generally have to learn something else too. Because the jobs just aren't there. Which in case the person is better off learning that something else properly.

And that is a very big problem.
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So, is it down yet?
There is a very reasonable wikibook: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
See http://wolfslittlestore.be/2012/03/28/ios-design-resources/
Obviously no "people" are smart or stupid or anything else. You can only generalize like this if you don't know many of them, and so such generalizations are always a mark of ignorance, never of true knowledge. This is not only true for human users, it seems also true for the current state of the net.

It should always be remembered that the internet doesn't encompass the entire world, far from it, it is still a playground for a very limited elite, with certain views and perceptions (just recall for example how many people around the world don't even have a bank account, they are many, but are seldom heard on the net).
I've googled certain cultural terms from different societies, and at times couldn't find anything or could only find extremely limited information, because these themes were outside the scope of the usual demographics of internet users.

This of course is rapidly changing, with net use going the way of mobile phone use. And I guess a general adoption of the net will also mean English will lose its hegemonic place.
Most of my presentations work on the iPhone, this one is 1920x1080 ("HD"), that might have something to do with it.
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To the creators: Great job guys! I just ordered a map as a gift. I would have loved to carve a date or write a few words on the map though.

I found the entire process of ordering a breeze. However, I feel that the payment process should be improved -
1. PayPal forced me to sign into my obsolete paypal account due to same email id.
2. It showed me an annoying advertisement to sign-up for their debit card program.
3. It assumed my address was the shipping address.
4. I did not see an option to send this item as a gift.

I hope you guys keep getting bigger and better.
Python has a very low barrier to entry and that is bad. Very bad, trust me.

That sort of a market generally gets swarmed by low price developers very quickly.
While I agree that romanians integrate easily into the local culture (especially when the local culture is italian, french, belgian or spanish) I don't fully agree that romanians distrust each other completely :D. There are 3 classes of romanian immigrants that don't mix with each other:
1.The engineers, medical workers (doctors & assistants) and programmers: These are the silent romanians, one barely notices. 2.Construction workers and other low paid workers: These are the generic romanians and 3. The romanian gipsy group composed of organized beggars, pimps, prostitutes and thiefs = the bad romanians. When I hear someone talking romanian outside of romania, I try to classify him, and if he belongs to 3, I stay as far away as posible.
Please OP, you obviously have done the work, just go to a library or any free wifi location and run the damn thing.
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If the unique id didn't work out you could charge per post instead. Spammers would post more than other users. Extra accounts or not. Is there any way to make payments like this easy?
Allegations of similar behaviour in the UK as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17494723
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I see this new note on the Adobe Alchemy labs page: "Domain memory (used by Alchemy) and Stage3D hardware acceleration – when used in combination – will be part of a premium tier of capabilities for gaming in Flash Player, enabling a new generation of immersive online games."

So it's "when used in combination" (with Stage3D from my read of it). Here's the page: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/
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Notice you do not link to a map. Because this is total bullshit. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C._street_design_...
Is it just me or did the OP just blow a rare opportunity to be a hero? The power of a zero-day exploit is that you don't announce it and give the target a chance to make a patch.
Attempting to learn music late (~20)taught me this.

Start with a strong theory that you pursue until you know it's 99% wrong, sob ,get a new hunch (if you're really masoc.. passionated), repeat.

After many cycles likes these two things happens :

- the tunnel ain't that dark anymore, you can see shades, sometimes even shiny spots*. You get a carnal feeling that those little details you dismissed earlier have a lot more value.

- you went from 100% blind to 99.9% blind.

Tackling something vast and unknown by yourself should be discussed more often, I feel it's a large human nature myth in `modern` cultures. We rely too much on society to accelerate problem solving and get stuck into a little spot of dependencies.

ps: oh and by the way, fear/anger triggered by failure was adressed by stoicists somehow. ( at least according to wikipedia ~_~ )
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The latest Flash uses signing to permit access to these fast memory opcodes, see http://asvguy.com/2012/03/why-will-premium-flash-player-feat...
Schrute Bucks would've been my choice. /sarcasm
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I don't think solving the obvious national problems are the key issues. I think the larger question is simply "is the hype greater than the value?"

That's an important question. And I think we are in some stage where the hype is greater than the value. Sure there may be value in solving hte big problems, but there is also a lot of value in solving little problems that nobody else sees at the moment.

I am just not sure that Zynga actually solves any problems.
Not to mention, most startups either fail in 3 years or (hopefully) be in a position to pay for the extra servers.
It might seem like it. I haven't got the time checking out the web site, but it seems as a "tech blog" as that site that commented on the Raspberry Pi being an ugly computer a little while ago.
Come on, Windows PowerShell was released 5 years ago!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Power_Shell

One could even argue it's better in some ways, for example: "PowerShell differs from Unix/Linux in that .NET objects are passed between stages in the pipeline instead of text. This eliminates the need to explicitly parse text output.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells
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3 reasons to not turn back in 2 categories

Category A : walking in the dark tunnel is enjoyable

1) having fun so keep walking

Category B: its not fun

2) Peer pressure, either family, friends, investors, cofounders/employees

3) Expected upside at the end of the tunnel is greater than the walk back

In reality its a combination of 2) & 3) and why pg&co strongly recommend co-founders. e.g. 3) starts you out, 2) keeps you going.
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An overnight success story that took only 4 years. :) Shorter than most.

These guys are the real deal in terms of inspiring indie "it could have been you" team. Keith decided to quit his day job, and become a game designer coming from a non-game design background. And now they've got zynga-like user numbers.
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There are actually two difficulties here:

1. The problem in hand may not have a good solution. This is especially true of research type problems. You have to pick the right one, otherwise it can be a frustrating experience. This is where a broad knowledge of the subject and previous research help.

2. Some potential solutions may be very difficult to implement or explore, so one tends to explore the simpler options first. When these are not enough, you tend to loose faith.
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In order to understand why romanians take this so seriously, you need to understand the context. Romania is widely regarded by the western Europe as backward, poor and corrupt. On top of this, Romania has the largest Roma minority in the region ~500.000 according to wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(Romani_subgroup). The average westerner can't distinguish a romanian from a roma/romani/gipsy although they are quite distinct. In the last 20 years there were several waves of romanian immigrants hitting the western europe, including the Roma minority which are highly nomadic by tradition and very visible in the west because they beg and steal aggressively and live in slums in very primitive conditions. This lead to the association romanians = gipsies, thiefs, primitives etc. The current campaign is a response to these stereotypes, which unfortunately are easily promoted in western europe especially since western massmedia can't pick on blacks and arabs anymore cause that's clearly racist and open racism is not trendy anymore.
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They already started integrating other sources. Just today I got couple of listings from lemonfree.
I have always felt Python is the new Java. Same qualities of verbosity, low barrier to entries.

And weird level of verbosity for a scripting language.
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Very interesting app.

I tried loading the live demo on a desktop browser and got many alerts about missing Cordova APIs. Perhaps you should put your PhoneGap/Cordova calls behind checks, so that the app works as a regular website as well (for the demo, I mean)?
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I'm curious. Why do you need to update templates so frequently? I would have expected academia to have a fairly static, albeit perhaps large, set of templates. E.g., at most one for each journal in your field, one for each conference, one for each publisher, with any of these only changing rarely.
This is one of my favourite things to do. I love connecting with strangers to pick their brains - and sometimes it becomes a friendship or mentorship. I've learned and experienced a lot as a result of this habit, so I want to outline how insanely simple this approach is.

For Mentorship:

1. Figure out what you want to do.
2. Find people who have achieved this.
3. Contact them (rules in a moment).
4. Create a good back and forth dynamic.

For Interest:
1. Identify something interesting about the person you want to learn more about
2. Contact them to ask a simple, non-overwhelming question
3. Keep the conversation going if relevant, or let it die naturally. Don't force shit.

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CONTACTING PEOPLE WHO ARE AWESOME: A PRIMER
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The following is a hierarchy for contacting people with respect to effectiveness and long term benefit.

1. WITH AN INTRODUCTION
- Face to face by third party
- Face to face with third party introduction prior
- Phone by third party
- Phone with third party introduction prior
- Email by third party
- Email with third party introduction prior

2. WITHOUT AN INTRODUCTION
- Non face to face, with an easy (and, hopefully unexpected yet interesting) question. This is actually how I contacted Derek the first time. Email is good if you can write well (do a copywriting course), and a phone is good if you can wrestle past gatekeepers (not that hard).
- Face to face

That's it. This stuff is not hard - in fact, it's easy. Don't stalk, be cool, pay it forward wherever you can.

- R

P.S. Can't get people to respond? They're busy, or you aren't interesting enough. Adjust your tact.
P.P.S. Contact details are easily found with Google - old blogs, personal blogs, deep enough on the website, whatever.
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Of course it is and we should, but way too many big money interests have way too much stake in the system to just shut it off. Ron Paul has more chance of abolishing the IRS.

Lets just start with the "Be a dick, lose your patent" act. Baby steps.
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On the other hand, Romanians often find it very easy to understand Italian, more so than most other latin languages. I know I do, I can watch Roberto Benigni films and mostly understand everything, without ever specifically learning italian (but Italian/English subtitles do help).
Here is the problem in this & many other debates, especially online:

"that they do nothing but stifle and harm progress"

Maybe, on balance, they do more harm than good. But they don't only do harm. For one thing, they're embedded into the way a lot of things are done (some of them important) and you can't know in advance how changing it will affect stuff. They also do what they're supposed to do (incentivize innovation) at least some of the time.
We're going to be annihilated compared to HTML5 but we're going to use our IP to squeeze every last cent of you on the way out? ;)
I'm not sure that's surreal. Interfering with this child's ability to develop communication is genuinely going to impair her ability to function as a citizen. That's why this case is interesting - it shows that patents have adverse effects beyond deciding who gets to profit from an invention.
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That's good and all, but I still have my doubts. Their attitude stills sound a bit like "yeah, we're building on SPDY, but our implementation is sooo much better...", in a competitive kind of way.

But I suppose if they can actually collaborate with Google on this and try to make the best possible implementation together, that will be good for everyone.
Adobe is slaughtering the goose because it knows the golden eggs will be worthless in a few short years. I'm only surprised that they are doing it so blatantly.

And good riddance. The Flash runtime is probably the worst target I've ever developed against, made worse by the smug and arrogant blogging of the core developers (which pops up in the search results when googling bugs they caused, which in that context is infuriating).

Haxe runs loops round their AS3 compiler, in speed, stability, bug count, and code optimization, and there's pretty much no feature of the Flash runtime that doesn't contain well known and crippling bugs reported years prior.

It's the quality of one of those crappy little proprietary tools you get from vendors, except it's the biggest platform in the world.

The day HTML5 overtakes Flash, I'm going to pop a cork.
This is a very good observation.

This distrust was actively cultivated during communist times - if you would speak your thoughts to the wrong person, you would be made to disappear in the middle of the night by the secret police. The kink is that you didn't know who the "wrong person" was - brothers would snitch on brothers, sons on fathers, co-workers on each other. So you couldn't trust anybody.

This slowly changes with the generation change - younger generations didn't live through this paranoid system, so they don't understand the fear and the reservations - but the change will take another 20 - 40 years IMHO.
This is your opportunity to educate us all then, bub. What are the health implications of eating manufactured vs real food?

Start with: What constitutes 'manufactured' vs 'real'. Draw a line in the sand here. Is pasta 'manufactured'? What about cornflakes? Quorn? What is the Quorn is labelled as 'Organic'? How about a hamburger made with steak mince? What about if it's steak and tendon mix? What about if bone meal is added? Where's the line?

Having established this, move on to well established science - peer-reviewed papers in reputable journals. We want to hear from your research on those health implications. Is a steak-meat burger more dangerous for you than one from bone meal due to red-meat carcinogen factors? Or is there something else at work there? What in the 'manufacture' of food is problematic? Mislabeling? Mechanical treatment? Additives (which?)?

Thanks in advance!
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I'm Romanian. This seems like a harsh generalization, but I can see how it might look like that from the outside.

How about this alternative that's always been true for me and well.. probably everyone: people spend more time with like-minded people, be they foreigners or not. Why? I don't really need to answer that, right? :)
So what does that mean? Well it means that you integrate easily into like-minded communities. If you're a foreigner then it's very probable that you're the odd one out and the community is composed of mostly natives.

I have lots of Romanian friends with whom I spend most of my time with, but I'm convinced that it's mostly due to the fact that we're like-minded. If I overhear a Romanian on the street do I instantly feel a need to talk to him? No, but I don't instinctively distance myself from him either.

edit: typing
His arguments _for_ pagination seem to totally trounce those against! In terms of user experience, ease of implementation and technically (deep links, spidering etc). I've come away from reading that article absolutely against infinite scroll.
How about tmux (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/) for remote pair programming?
Paying customers. Alternatively, active users. Any form of positive market reaction to what I'm building keeps me going.
UK and other western countries were sitting ducks in the face of the eastern european gipsy invasion and their supernatural ability to exploit the social protection programs and other benefits. And now all the romanians take the blame. I'll retract my stereotypes when you will show me one gipsy having a real job.
No-procast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3763855

Edit: Longer version: It is because of his noprocast setting.
You think html5 is going to compete with flash/unity on 3d gaming??? Haha, you're cute!
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You are most likely running 10.7 and it was installed clean. Previous versions of Mac OS X made that directory group-writeable by default (and 10.7 upgraded from a previous system will keep the old permissions).

Here's the line for 10.6:

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This is why we need sandboxing on the mac. I wonder whether there are particular barriers for Microsoft to add that sooner rather than later?
> why am I not using this other technology instead of spending time re-implementing it

Because this other technology/platform may lack something that the current platform has. Or you have constraints that lead you to usage of the first platform.

Maybe this other platform could take a hint or two about stuff on the "copying" platform too, so that things go full circle and it does not stay up some ivory tower.
That's my question. Is anyone working on anything like a interstellar drive now. Of course it's likely we might discover something in the future, but as everyone knows, we are living in the future now.
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Canvas 2D obviously can't compete with this, but what about WebGL? Does WebGL beat Flash in graphics quality/unit of performance? I'm not sure it can. I believe NaCl can do it, though.
Wil, have you looked at lowering the upfront price of new versions - You would get more customers(but probably less revenue), but you would make back the money on upgrades to a larger user base.

Actually, I'm not really asking if you have looked at it - you probably have. But I'd be interested in hearing your analysis, particularly as this seems to be the route that Apple has taken themselves - cheaper software but you pay full price for each new version.