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Any major news publication that aligns with the vertical of your product or service is relevant to you.

PR for tech companies is cheap / free advertising.

It's not that TechCrunch is still relevant or not - because we're not really discussing the quality of their journalism or what they represent. We're talking about the staying power they have for a readership that's interested in tech.

So in that regards, yeah definitely - TechCrunch still drives tons of page views and click-through's so anytime you get an article there, it can't hurt!
I'm sure if I'd simply explained that to him, everything would have worked out fine for me, yes?
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In order to be awesome you have to register, wtf? I think this is proof that RMS is the awesomest.
A very nice list of projects to avoid. Well done.
Sigh. Trust fund baby's. It's hard to celebrate a home run when you've started on third.

Business Insider doesn't report in the article that his previous company, Votsu, had been sued out of existence. I wish I could have more respect for kushner....but I just can't.
I hope that there are exceptions for things like filming in public. You can see how horrid such laws are when the police want to suppress citizen-made films of their actions in the US...
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There is no way that this is going to happen. You can just feel the confusion over the product lines increasing when conceptualizing in the last paragraph before the 'Why?' bit. Now imagine every decision maker at Apple doing the same thing.
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(Upvoting you to try to cancel out the idiotic down vote someone gave you)

You can't really make analogies to land, because estates in land are special in law. (I'm going to discuss things from the point of view of US law. This will be somewhat applicable in other Common Law countries, although details vary, and the devil is in the details. Someone else will have to cover Civil Law countries).

A patent license would be covered under contract, not under estates in land. Whether a patent license is binding against future patent owners depends on the nature of the license. If it is an actual license, then there is a good chance it will bind future patent owners. If, however, it is characterized as a covenant not to sue, then there is a good chance that it will NOT bind future patent owners.

There are no hard and fast rules here--the case law is murky, with cases both supporting and contradicting nearly everything I said in the previous paragraph. Non-exclusive licenses are more likely to be characterized as covenants not to sue. (And that's explicit non-exclusive licenses--we are on even shakier ground with an implied non-exclusive license).

As you note, it is relevant that Oracle continues to distribute the GPL code they bought. This means that the conditions that might imply an implicit patent license in GPLv2 apply to them. The case that is interesting, and much more uncertain, is where party A releases GPLv2 code covered by a patent they control, and later they sell the patent to party B, and B does NOT distribute any GPLv2 products that use the patent, and so the only way to find that B is providing an implicit patent license is to find that they are bound by such licenses that A granted.

In general, it is simply bad practice to rely on implied licenses. Even if a court finds that they survive a transfer, there is a serious risk that the scope of the transferred license will be limited to those who already had a license at the time of the transfer.

A good software license, free or non-free, should be explicit about patents.
As a kid (10-13) I was fascinated by birdwatching, and often got up early to go down to the estuaries near my house. I'd pack a lunch, my binoculars, and field guide. It was about a 4 mile walk, but to a kid, that's nothing.

One morning, a sheriff's deputy and his partner pulled up, told me to stop, and started asking me wth I was doing at 5am. They were amazed that I would get up that early to watch birds...

Nowadays my hometown is a lot more "trendy" and the estuary is surrounded by multi-million dollar homes. And I wouldn't expect that an unaccompanied minor would be greatly appreciated by the LE community, nor would a kid that age be as safe as I was.
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"Carlin Robinson, 12, walks from her grandmother's car to the school bus in Manchester, Ky. Her house can be seen in the background. A study published in 2010, investigating high obesity rates in the town found that residents used cars to minimize walking distance, to the detriment of their health."

Association != causation. While the picture this caption is from is indeed ridiculous (grandmother driving her daughter essentially to the end of her driveway for the school bus), the implication seems to be that Americans walking less somehow has a causative effect in skyrocketing obesity rates. This seems entirely wimpy and facile.

Here's an alternative: there exists an underlying metabolic disorder that develops in a large proportion of the population, in response to something new in our environment ( new compared to pre 1950's ). A major effect that this disorder has is to partition a large part of our calorie intake towards fat storage. Now we have less energy available for expenditure, and as a consequence we either eat more or behave more sedentarily. Sedentary behavior will be a compensatory effect, that will indeed associate with obesity ( as measured by observational studies, like the one mentioned).

A good candidate for such malady would be insulin resistance [1] (and more generally, metabolic syndrome); Gary Taubes makes a very compelling case [2] that this is indeed the case, and that the primary change(s) in our environment to cause these problems is our marked increase in sugar and refined carbohydrate consumption [3][4]. The same hypotheses also seem a good explanation for rising type II diabetes rates.

Now this is still a controversial topic [5], but my point this kind of explanation seems much stronger and more on-the-mark, than such flaccid ideas like 'americans are getting fat because they don't walk to school anymore'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Calories,_Bad_Calories
[3] http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Cleave/cleave_ch2.h...
[4] http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/02/by-2606-us-die...
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance#Causes
You're spot on identifying Amazon as Apple's only real competitor.

Amazon was, however nowadays Google sells music, rents and sells movies, sells books, and of course sells apps. The reason they rebranded the Android market to Google Play is because of this ecosystem.
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I could see that in the suburbs, but people commonly walk downtown, in the museum district, and the Rice area. Lots of new condo towers going up in the past few years, and the light rail connects those areas.
True.

Do you know if SQL 92 is finally fully supported across DB servers?

This was a nightmare back in the early 90's.
Agreed. Although I would call it prosumer, which is just a consumer with a bigger budget :-).
Pidgin really sucks, trust me. I have used that for 3 years. Although there is no better app. But as Facebook releases its native and sexy Messenger for windows - its gonna be break through!
This is a ridiculously misleading post, cannot believe its on the front page. The NYT is worth approximately $1.5B. It's market cap is $928MM, its debt is $773MM and cash is $175MM. Enterprise value = Debt + Equity - Cash, so that puts it around $1.5B.
it holds true the law the person doing the recording is in.

unless he used a mechanism provided by a company doing the connection that resides in the US or some other place where it's illegal.
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ZA/Joburg resident here - he was actually located after he SMS'd his girlfriend, and the cops used his mobile phone signal to locate him. It was widely tweeted, but from what I gather it had very little to do with the actual recovery of the gent in question.
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I second this type of approach - when I developed an iOS app that needed to display the results of multiple long-running API requests made on the server-side, I had the app make a request and then wait for data to be pushed to the device on a persistent "back-channel" connection the app kept open. This way data could be displayed as it was available, but the app didn't need to poll or open multiple TCP connections (expensive on EDGE, which was common at the time).
> According to this paper [1], mean comfortable walking speed for a male in his twenties is 253.3 cm/s (~5.67 mph).

It's been my experience that 3 mph (the speed I tend to default to) is considered fast by most of my peers. I'm in my twenties.

That paper is from 1997. I suspect a lot has changed.
Yeah El Camino sucks (and 100F to boot, that is probably less than once a year occurrence), but it's quite nice to walk through the neighborhoods. I used to commute 10 miles from Sunnyvale to downtown PA by bike (or maybe Caltrain if the weather was bad). The first time I rode all the way on El Camino, but within a few weeks I had pieced together a route that completely avoided El Camino. I felt pretty proud of myself when I figured out all the pieces through trial and error. A few months later Google Maps added bicycle directions and nailed my route almost perfectly.
> I think this followed from one primary thing: shift to software, which Sony has been absolutely terrible at forever.

A very interesting phenomenon (and it has been discussed here as well) is how software has always been seen as inferior to hardware in Japan. Besides Ruby, what other well known software packages or services are coming from Japan? I can't think of one of the top of my head.

There is also a culture of "appliances" there. They are infatuated with appliances and robots where hardware comes through as the main feature rather than with general PCs and laptops where software is at the front stage. I think there is a cultural difference there. But I think at some point Sony realized that that not focusing on software is a problem, and perhaps an order came from the CEO to "start writing more software". But of course you can't change the entrenched company culture easily. So I think they got distracted with that, they wasted resources and ended up with inferior hardware and inferior software as a result.
This should not be on Hacker News. Why did you post it?
I thought this would add another interesting wrinkle to the conversation. It is from a few years ago, but I found it counterintuitive and interesting (as a lay reader).

"The safety of routine X-rays has been called into question following the unexpected discovery that cells exposed to low doses avoid or delay repairing damaged DNA."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3568-routine-xray-safe...
> I haven't worked on any teams. I've always written software solo. What of it?

Well, that means you have zero experience with the majority of concerns expressed in this thread, and so are not qualified to opine on them. You work in a happy bubble and I envy you for it, but in the real world you very very rarely get the go-ahead to refactor old code. So in the real world, you very very rarely get to see a quality code base. In any language, really, but PHP compounds this problem with its idiosyncrasies. But you wouldn't know about that.
One page and readable: http://www.readability.com/articles/yqn3js4v
If you use Google Voice, you can press "4" to record incoming calls.
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One difference between this and Google Glass is that Glass is monocular. Unless you're blind in one eye, you will be able to see "through" the projection.

I also don't think the representation in the Glass demo video is accurate: I'd expect the images it projects to add to the background rather than replace it entirely. I don't think they could make an "opaque" projection if they wanted to.
Salt Lake City's downtown and everything north, east, and south isn't sketchy at all. If you start going west, it's a little different story but compared to most anywhere in SF it's super tame.
Must not be Portland, where driving makes you one of the untouchables, as distinguished from the Master Race astride their bicycles, kitted out in TRON gear.
I am going to reply to my own comment and also note that their first engineering hire, Shayne Sweeney also didn't go to college for programming.
Through accessing the audio streams or through the microphone (hearing the earpiece with the mic)? Because last time I checked, only the latter worked on phones from certain manufacturers.
I realize it sounds funny, but AirBnB for pets could have a much larger impact on my life than Instagram ever could.
Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough?
Not mentioned is the fact that something like 2/3 of traffic deaths in the US are pedestrians struck by vehicles. That's around 20,000 people per year.

Auto manufacturers are pretty good at protecting the people inside the car, but we're not so good at protecting pedestrians.
When computers start not doing what we want them to do because of laws... Lookout. Im sorry dave, i won't print that, or copy it, or show it, because a senator's notary is on it, and it may contain corruption or fraud. According to law xyz, this file has been deleted. Please call your local senator to file a complaint.
Exactly. The organized sports for kids is insane in its breadth and depth. We used to play one, maybe two sports. Now normal kids are playing something most seasons. Not only are they playing, but they are going to special coaching sessions, camps, and so on. This is much more prevalent today than when I was a kid.

We had football practice twice a week (at 12 yo) with a game on Saturday.

She got a ride to the end of the driveway? Probably because she has a double-header soccer match that night. A soccer match at which some parents will get into a fistfight- but that's for another thread.
Hm, I'll admit I've spread a bit of misinformation on that matter myself, thanks for the correction. The source for my confusion (and I suspect others as well) was some comments around the time hip hop was made public that it basically wasn't worth using unless you were willing to put in a significant effort to write your php according to some strict guidelines. That made me peg it as something akin to pypy's rpython.
It's worth that only because Google can easily pay it.

Google's net income was $9 billion in 2011(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google). According to Facebook's S-1 filing in February 2012, Facebook's net income for 2011 was... $1 billion(http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125120...).

The real question still remains: Why is Instagram worth that much to Facebook?
I agree the example was unnecessarily long-winded, distracting, and almost tautological. Sorry about that.

I think we might agree but are talking past each other. You say "Why single out physical attraction?" No reason except attraction in friendships is exactly what we are discussing.

Where I believe we are getting hung up though is that you believe that inherent in the assertion that men and women (assuming hetero again) cannot "just" be friends implies that they cannot be "real" friends. Nobody is saying that. Nobody is saying that attraction implies malicious intent. Nobody is saying that because there is attraction that a friend relationship is based completely on false pretenses or merely serve an ulterior motive. Furthermore, I believe you are a "real" friend to all of your friends - I have no reason to believe otherwise.

Your concluding paragraph is wonderful and I agree. "Friendships exist at the equilibrium between competing forces" is a great way to put it. My point is that, in almost all cases, one of those forces pulling a man to a woman in any kind of relationship is sexual attraction. I believe vice-versa is often true, but the man to woman attraction almost invariably will be a factor in the relationship.

Again, the friendship can be real and contain good intentions and real cooperation. It does not suggest an ongoing campaign of seduction. The poorly stated thought experiment was merely to ask if you acknowledge the force of sexual attraction as an important one in the equilibrium you describe.

Can you honestly say for any of the friend relationships you have with women that attraction is a negligible component of the equilibrium? Are there any from which you are not deriving at least a little bit of ongoing benefit from the good feelings of being liked by or associated with an attractive woman?

All that I am saying is that I believe the attraction is almost always there and has a big role in who we choose to befriend and keep as friends. Even if it is completely innocuous in most cases we should acknowledge it.

Hopefully I have clarified sufficiently. Do you still believe you disagree? I am very interested in your answers to my previous questions. Thanks for reading.
Drive through ATMs? Never heard about that before. Suppose it makes sense in a drive centric area, but then I only use an ATM once or twice a year and I can walk to it if I need to.

But about the only time I do pay with cash nowadays is a drive through KFC, perhaps they dont trust people to not drive off with their portable pin&chip terminals...
If Zuck owns Instagram he doesn't have to worry that it will hurt Facebook in some large way. Instead he can hope owning Instagram will help Facebook in some large way. That's worth a billion to him.
ohloh.net has been at this for a number of years. I've found it a useful way to make sure an open source project has enough lasting momentum before I start to rely on it.

See also:
https://github.com/mmcgrana/gitcred
>When Apple dropped floppy drives from the iMac, they were dealing with an early-adopter set of consumers.

No, this is incorrect. The iMac was the computer for people that were new to computers and the internet. It was the computer for everyone, not early-adopter gadget geeks. When they dropped the floppy there was an enormous amount of bitching from said gadget geeks, yet the computer still sold very well with the general consumer.

The rest of the article is iffy at best, I don't see Apple adding another tier of laptop products when they are simplifying their other product lines (e.g. iPad 2 -> iPad)
Typically you only need to follow the laws that are applicable in the region you are in. However, there are times where you can be tried for breaking a law in a country you don't reside because you have knowingly and willingly broke that law and tried to get residents of that nation to do the same. The instance of where that happens is Richard O'Dyer (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120113/09184917400/us-to-... first link that I found quickly).
One striking thing to me, as someone who spends half my time in San Francisco and half elsewhere, is how much thinner San Franciscans are than most other Americans. Now, it could be because San Franciscans eat less sugar (perhaps because they are wealthier and eat better on the whole). But the Bay Area in general is pretty wealthy, and I think you still see a lot more large people on the peninsula than in SF. The peninsula is much more car dependent. I don't think it's a coincidence, but I can't prove it either.
Sucks that HN has been bundled in with the other sites SEO and social jerks target and manipulate.
The problem I have with these sort of services (and its nothing specific to signalbox) - is seem to be aiming at the wrong market. Need to think bigger.

For something like 100,000 records - in general a pretty standard instance of mysql can cope just fine. A lot of the time the database you get free with shared hosting, can cope with queries on this sort of size database just fine (as long as they have indexes). (Or the free database you get with heroku)

... true yes you have to do a bit more sysadmin tasks - maybe even backups etc. But all very doable.

As a beginner at sysadmin tasks, I start to struggle with mid-size datasets. A couple of million records. This is when backups begin getting a pain. Query optimization is actully required. Things start getting painful. full-text search is non trivial. geo-indexes are cumbersome.

But its harder finding a database provider for this sort of size. getsignalbox's doesn't even consider this possibility (other than the 'get in touch') - it might well be able to cater. But talking at $200+ a month, which starts to get serious.
+ this sort of mid size is where the cloud could excel, where sysadmin tasks start to get non-trivial.

Another thing missing - is a simple bulk upload - to be able to import a midsized dataset to be able to try out the service. Even if that is a 200Mb CSV file :)

IMHO of course! (Or I need to think smaller ;)
I remember a few years back, I was on the phone to a friend of mine a lot and I kept hearing a beep. I asked her what it was, she said she couldn't hear it.

Now I remember she had a Nokia 5800, so someone I don't speak to any more has all logs of our conversations, and I didn't even know until now. That makes me feel very violated in all honesty.
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I'd add:

3) Tmux sessions are restricted to the size of the smallest client connected to the session. We've recently started using it at work and it works fine for 2 of us, but 2 others found that the resolution differences between their 13" and 15" macbooks means that the 13" sets the tmux session size so the 15" doesn't use the whole screen.
Pattern matching, principles, and knee-jerk reactions
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Yup. Since you cannot (as far as I know) influence luck or good fortune, your only option if you want to succeed is to hedge your bets and make as great an intelligent effort as possible. I'm still struggling with the 'intelligent' part...
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I have to agree with MrDunham - that's the exact pronunciation that I thought of when I first read it.
A box under development can and will have all sorts of terribly insecure behavior. It shouldn't be on the internet. I'm not saying you "lose" anything by trying to secure it, I'm saying that you already "lost the [security] game" when you put the box on the unfiltered internet in the first place. Your goal should be limiting exposure when it is compromised, not trying to lock down hatches on a leaky hull.

Specifically: dickering over whether or not to make screen suid root on your dev boxes is an exercise in needless optimization.
I think my old LG VX8700 (from 2007) had this functionality as well. Interestingly, it only recorded the other side of the conversation (not powerful enough to record both phone-in and mic-in at the same time?).

I wonder what caused manufacturers to start removing the feature.
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Are you insane?

In production, you should have error_reporting set to something like: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED

And then:

display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
track_errors = Off
html_errors = Off
ignore_repeated_errors = Off
ignore_repeated_source = Off
log_errors = On
error_log = /path/to/log/file (or syslog)
I'm not sure that annoyance level is what should matter when we're talking about respecting local privacy laws. Perhaps a better interface can be designed/implemented, but that's another matter.
When I google search for just mtx, it's all car audio, whereas mutex gives a wikipedia result for mutual exclusion as the first link.

Not everybody will recognize mtx as mutex while reading code, and lots of people learn code by reading it, rather then from standards.
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Some actual data to assess. By several measures, Instagram no more expensive than 30-odd other similar acquisitions, some of which worked out great (Paypal, YouTube, Mint.com), others not so much (cough -- Broadcast.com -- cough).
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