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The key phrase is "supposed to be"; "are not supposed to be patentable" does not imply "are not patented" in a system where patent examiners usually have very little idea what they're actually warding patents for and legal fees for challenging invalid patents are prohibitively high.
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Accounting principles, tax law, and theft laws are far easier for the layman to understand than programming. They deal with accounting and taxes in their everyday lives, and they understand it's wrong to steal. The principles are taught to every child in our society and they put them to practical use throughout their lives.

None of this applies to programming, which bears only the most tenuous of relationships to anything most people will learn or use in their lives.
This would be the case if copyright wasn't transferable. AFAIK, he wrote it while working for Google, thus the owner of his code was Google, which then transferred/donated the ownership to Sun. He testified that he copied the code which he didn't own anymore.

This is all pretty fucked up, but that's what the law is.
Probably doesn't help it. Probably doesn't hurt it either though. I'm sure the JIT realizes the whole operation is pointless and just replaces it with what is effectively (integer 15). It did look like there were bits of instructions put in there to make it easier for the JIT to see where certain boundaries/behaviours were in the code, and maybe this is one of them. Or it could be something stupid that just makes it easier for them to manage the code in the flash compiler. Either way, even if it is a bug, it won't negatively impact the runtime if the JIT is doing anything like a sane job.

Think of the output of the flash compiler as being like the output of the C processor. Then it makes more sense.
> You're mostly right, kind of. I'm going to try and explain this, but it's not particularly easy.

You did a good job, but I'd be interested to see how important details like this are thoroughly explained to a jury that's actually making a decision like this.
Your just being facetious and you know it.

This company is clearly trying to piggy back off of the success of the Ville game series, their art for the advert as shown in the article is clearly trying to imitate Zynga's art.

Although the other commenter does make a good point that it is rather hypocritical...
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Like the UI layout, but as others are saying it's not easier on the eyes: try to make the background more dark, not monokai-dark but not this retina-burning white either...
> I've been informed since I started reading and discussing CISPA that a primary purpose of this bill is actually the opposite of what people are worried about: that instead of getting private companies to share with the government, CISPA exists largely to provide a legal framework for the government to share information with private companies, so that when government systems are hit with new (say) Microsoft Office malware and "spear phishing" attacks, they can notify stakeholders in private industry.

I honestly wouldn't have a problem with that (who would?), but I have to wonder exactly what sort of legal problems they were having in doing this and why they couldn't create private agreements allowing that?
Do you have any more details on how to create such a script?

I have a T510 and despite the 80 watt hour battery I get only <4 hours of runtime.
"And anyplace I would expect a wireless charging pad to be, I would expect a wall socket."

How many people carry around the cables to charge? I'd love it if I could set my phone down and top it up 25% or more without having to dig out the hardware for it.
Congratulations Sean and team. Sacha, nice work on the design!
TechCrunch is a really neat cap-feather, but it mostly just pulls in a lot of non-real-user inbound interest in my experience (VCs, potential partners) - and if you're not close to ready or even interested in funding/partnerships, all that inbound interest wastes a lot of time, too - so you might as well get closer to a point where you're ready and willing to handle the inbound queries (i.e., capture your users, make them happy first), and then get the coverage.
parfe's judgement is clouded by his hatred of Mueller. that's the point.
If you have a DBA that knows MySQL extremely well and doesn't need to change. If you have a existing system running well, and the future roadmap of your development doesn't make staying with MySQL difficult.

I am totally a Postgres fan, but there are many sensible reasons not to upset the apple cart.
> If a theory seems to reflect more closely observable reality, I would bias my investigations toward that theory over one the projects something non-sensical.

I don't understand your basis for saying one theory matches observable reality more closely than the other. I mean, have you observed the heat death of the universe? And how can you say that what is being projected is non-sensical, except to the extent that people reliably find arguments involving infinity hard to make sense out of?

It might be that theory of evolution and the heliocentric theory purport to explain the world we observe, but the much more sensible seeming theories that they replaced also purported to explain the world.

As for the Bible being more compelling, well, I'm not surprised since many other people who prize gut feelings over abstract reasoning feel the same way.
Completely agree. On websites that are "invite only" either don't bother entering my email to get on the list, or I enter my email, get the invite five weeks later when I've lost interest (sometimes don't even know what the site is about), and delete it.
Even if it's not the bottleneck, making it faster will have the effect of making it use less power. We all want longer battery life, right?
30 years ago, my Apple II booted into a REPL in less than one second. 3 if you needed disk support.

And that was on a 1 MHz 8-bit processor.

There were people who could toggle a bootstrap loader into an Altair in less time than a modern x86 PC takes to boot.
Even if Dell's monitors had a 50 percent failure rate and no warranty, you would still be saving money by purchasing only Dell monitors. While price isn't likely your only concern, $1000 for a monitor(even a nice one) is really ridiculous. When you consider the fact that a 27" iMac only costs about $1700, it only seems even more absurd.
You're thinking too short term. The question isn't whether or not Watt's patent hindered steam engines for three decades, but whether or not the steam engine would have been developed at all in those three decades. The benefit for society is delayed so that inventors can be compensated. The only mechanism that is available to gov't to compensate an inventor is to grant a temporary monopoly. That was the market can decide on the value of the invention.

Here's another example. Imagine a miracle drug was discovered to cure disease X. $100M went into the development for this drug. Now imagine that it took 10 years of development but would have taken 30 years for public sponsored research to develop otherwise. Now, the public gets a new drug 20 years earlier than they otherwise would have. The pharma company gets 10 years to recoup its $100M investment, but at the end of the patent term, there is now a low cost generic version available.

So with public funding, the new drug appears at t+30 years. With private/patent incentive based funding the public gets access at t+10 years and generic/cheap access at t+20 years. I think that strikes a fair balance.

Where the patent system starts to break down is when the monopoly length is grossly over the amount of time it would take an independent person to also develop the invention (software for example moves too quickly for this to be effective).
Ah, interesting. I was actually referring to this talk he gave here at CMU -- http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18392445 -- but he says the same thing almost word for word (spent ~15 minutes trying to find where he says it; I couldn't find it, but I remember him saying it).
I think even in cases of medical malpractice, most parties would better be served through arbitration than through a jury trial.
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Not really. Because right now, simply excluding expensive individuals is far easier. You have more incentive to pay for prevention with universal coverage.

Again: Not sure what would work in the U.S. because there are more differences between the U.S. and Europe than just who pays the doctor's bill and there are a great many more things which impact health outcomes than how the bills are paid. Unfortunately, Americans seem largely oblivious to those facts, which is why we keep talking about who to bill rather than how to get genuinely better health outcomes.
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edited my initial comment to include the information. HTH.
No! If I was in his position I would do the same thing.

I wasn't writing with a sarcastic intent. It's hard to be genuinely surprised about realizing something on the internet without coming across that way it seems. I honestly just figured out why he might have considering writing about YC at all given his background.
In USA, you can reasonably expect to pay a developer around 100k. Add 50% overhead and the cost to company is around 150k translating to 12.5k a month. Adjust this number towards 20k/month if you are hiring in the valley.
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in this case imo Mueller has more credibility than parfe (no offense). Why? because Mueller's opinions were backed by facts. parfe's opinions were supported by ad hominem attacks.
It would be even easier to put a microUSB cable everywhere you'd put a wireless charging pad.
It's not critical about publishing on the Internet. The article is about Internet publishers' obsessive infatuation about the meta aspects of Internet publishing. I think your reply is a good exhibit on that subject.
I think it's important to distinguish the "VC model" (meaning investing LP money in early stage companies) with the current compensation models that are prevalent in the industry. The first is alive and well. The latter is broken.
Actually, I did not call it a "tax".

I was just responding to your statement:

"No government agency was involved in making you spend the money."

and I was careful to make the distinction between "encouraging" and "forcing" people to spend.

I would rather the government get out of the lottery business, because it seems like a basically useless activity. If we need money, let's ask for money. But it's not a high priority for me. Living in CA, there are plenty of other, much bigger problems than lotto.
Nordstrom offers unlimited and lifetime exchanges for cash. It appears to work well (overall) for them.
Thats a great list to avoid... but why not partnerships? Specially when working on a B2B platform, I believe its important to build relationships from the get go.
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Without diving in even as far as you have, my main problem with the proposed law is that it would remove FB's liability in complying, so the default will be to simply hand over any information related to any investigation. "Opt-in" is the obvious answer for a corporate entity wishing to mitigate its financial liability.
Then you're missing a colon

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These sorts of rebuttals about costs from colleges (not just Harvard) are often rather misleading when they claim costs only include things not covered by a "financial aid package", which is almost entirely comprised of fairly high interest loans (fairly high interest given they are close to zero risk as both there is no way to get out of them and most are federally guaranteed).

Harvard gives these numbers:

Tuition and fees for 2010-2011: $36,142

Room and board for 2010-2011: $12,308

Average financial aid package for 2010-2011: $41,300

This is presented to look like the average student pays $7150 a year to attend Harvard. (Not including incidental expenses, books etc.)

This is misleading because not mentioned is that the financial aid package typically includes a Pell grant of a maximum of $5500 (average $3,593), leaving the remaining $35,800 covered by loans at 8-10% interest. Other than the Pell available to low family total income US citizens, the financial package is not scholarship style grants that come free and clear. The student ends up over $140,000 in debt upon graduation and Harvard gets their entire $48,450 each year.

The term "financial aid" is intentionally misleading and used against naive parents and students in articles and personal exhortations to convince them that college is affordable to them. We don't talk about "financial aid" when discussing loans for houses or cars, that would be considered misleading by nearly everyone. Saying college is affordable because you get "financial aid" consisting mostly of interest loans makes no more sense than saying that mansions and Hummers are affordable because "financial aid" consisting of deferred loans is available so that you won't have to pay hardly anything during the first four years. Actually the mansion/Hummer case makes more sense since their loans are not ones you can not get rid of no matter what (not even bankruptcy) and that if you don't pay will cause serious legal problems like revocation of needed professional licensing.
There's no history for any reporting. It's always someone whose speciality is anything but the subject they're reporting on, because their speciality is journalism.

This is likely written by a guy who wanted to be a journalist, and liked all those gadgets he got to play with so when he couldn't get hired at a real journalism job, he went to a job he thought he'd get to report on all those cool gadgets and toys he loves, but the pay is utter shit (as most journalism jobs are) so he doesn't have time to fact check his own work. He's not at a major publication so it doesn't get read by an actual fact checker. And the editor likely gives it a 30 second look for any glaring formatting errors and rubber stamps it.
"If the verdict stands, the end result is that Java may not be as open source as it was thought to be. Oracle may be able to essentially take Java out of the public domain, at least as far as its use in cell phones."

I call b.s. on this. If the involvement of Oracle here is causing cognitive dissonance substitute Sun Microsystems and review issue.

Java is open source. There is an open source license and you can license it. (Note: You are implicitly agreeing to OSS licensing when e.g. forking on Github.com.)

> "as thought"

Terms of that license are well known. Nothing ambiguous to "think" about.

> "take out"

Violate my GNU licensed code and you may find I will "take [you] out" of market x.

If copyright violations of APIs are ok, then where the tooth in [GPL], for example. "Free as in freedom not free beer".
I think the legal scholars have excellent reasons to believe what they believe. Here's one: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/03/20/supreme-court-mayo-v-pr...
A similar charger as an add-on for an older Samsung Galaxy costs about $35. If you pay even $5 for a simple USB cable and a wall socket adapter you're getting ripped off. You probably don't even need one of those because you already have four or five lying around the house.

This is a dumb argument. Cars cost more than shoes because A) they are more expensive to make and B) people are willing to pay more for a better solution.

devices are going to require power faster than battery technology can keep up... I'm not so sure I see this happening.

My EVO 4G would like a word with you :)
> (Who is the prime minister right now?)

It's Yoshihiko Noda.

Try telling them you learned everything you know about Japanese politics from watching "Reform Without Wasted Draws" (ムダヅモ無き改革) ;)
Has RIM learned that mobile communication means more than BBM and email?
I know!! I kept thinking that throughout the interview. It's implying his wealth is much greater than it actually is (not that it isn't great already)
By placing the files together in the memory you may get some extra performance, but it depends on how your SSD is internally organized - you may have some locality effects if the drive pre-fetches more than the block you called for into a cache faster than the flash memory.
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There's 2 big ones:

1. Writing code.
2. Not committing.

You should never write a single line of code until you have a customer lined up. Not in theory, in reality. Not a friend that says it's a great idea, and they'd use your software. A list of verifiable people that you don't know that want to pay you money. Someone that can write a check at BigCo. Someone that is beta testing your product live.

On commitment, cue the joke about pig & chicken opening a ham & eggs restaurant: The pig says no thanks, he'd be committed, the chicken would merely be involved. This kind of ties in with #1... If you don't have an actual paying customer lined up, it's really easy to get involved in "side" activities... I'll just bust out this contract real quick... Sounds like a cool company, I'll go interview (especially bad when it involves samples).
The main issue, for me, is that "Gmvault Gmail Backup" and the logo are unbalanced. The logo is too big, and its colors could be more sophisticated. If those things were cleaned up it would look fine (unless you're allergic to boostrap).
Indeed, but that was not the question at hand: "when a judge tells the jury to assume something, is he implying there is a good chance that that is how he would judge the case?"
One of the challenges is that the buyer (LP) is usually managing billions of dollars (e.g. a pension fund or large endowment), and venture is only a tiny fraction (a couple of percent) of his total asset base. It's difficult for those LPs to have expertise in an asset class that is such a small portion of the portfolio. The obvious objective criteria is past performance but understanding the potential of a team requires a deeper understanding of what makes firms successful.
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s/corruption/information leak
A Linux laptop should be a good laptop. But we should be aware that having Linux pre-installed does make a difference.

A) You'll either pay the Microsoft tax or have Linux pre-installed, possibly both depending how how deep MS' hooks are.

B) Having all the drivers work is important, especially modern laptops will often switch their peripheral chips without changing even model # so there.
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Absolutely.

The public information should say what the companies are doing, and how far they are (maybe just mention one or two milestones for each; you want to make each look good on its own metric), and maybe whether or not money is being raised, but the exact amount is probably bad, and quoting actual price (pre and post money, etc.), like a few of them do, is a really bad idea.

There are reasons not to do lots of explicit price quoting in the US market which wouldn't apply in Chile (US securities laws around a public offering), but there are plain salesmanship reasons to not quote a price before someone is interested. Any serious investor is going to know roughly in the range all of these companies need ($100k to $2mm), and the big rounds are probably going to be made up of multiple investments from independent investors.
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The grandparent comment explained clearly why this is. It's because the work that can be done by "codemonkeys" who will hang sheetrock if you give them good directions, but can't make architectural or structural decisions, is already being done by the compiler and other such software, so the only work that's left for humans is the stuff that involves making those decisions.

You could probably regulate "software construction" and mandate specific methodologies, but we can see already what the result would be: just look at the SEI CMM Level 5 Certified software development teams that already exist: Wipro, R Systems, and so on — technically inept companies that only exist to rip off clients who don't know any better.

Any country that mandates that kind of development for all software will be rapidly left behind by the countries that don't as software becomes an increasingly important part of the 21st-century economy. They'll still have human beings laying their literal bricks and tarring their literal roofs, while the rest of us are living in robot-built houses full of fountains and sculptures, or dynamically-reconfigurable programmable houses.
This is completely out of my field, but would it be possible to dope a soundtrack with an audible signal to extend your bandwidth, without the actual music causing more interference than the extra bandwidth is worth?

I'd assume that you should be able to predict the type of background noise created by the soundtrack reflecting off a person sitting in front of a computer at a predetermined distance. In 90% of cases we're going to be talking a person sitting in front of a desk.

Again, this is way out of my ballpark.
Read the FAQ (see http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) - Some posts are considered "Content free" - Also, I didn't downvote you. Do try again!
This is a matter of law, not your opinion. If the judge rules that APIs are copyrightable and Oracle holds the copyright, Oracle has legal standing to bring cases that infringe its copyright, whether or not the code itself is licensed under the GPL.
That age is really young to start thinking about teaching them programming. I'd work on just teaching them basic logic and things of that nature, leaving out the computer part entirely for now, I think there is still a lot that can be learned about programming logic without even using a computer.
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Most people are exposed to math and to cookbook recipes for cooking food, both areas having strong relationships with programming.

What is harder to grasp is that programming is an intersection of math with cooking. And cookbook recipes are copyrightable, while math is not.

And so the burden lies on the lawyer to describe the relationship between an algorithm and the math behind it. That isn't necessarily hard, but requires creativity and time, plus you have to take into account the short attention span of most people, so you've got to pick your battles. And I guess Google's lawyer did a bad job here.
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That site is a lamentably putrescent piece of excrement and a heinous dastardly waste of time assaulting the decency of good folks. ;-)
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Big time developers have always said that OS X is a better Unix development environment than Linux. Dell is smart to come out with a power Linux development station. My friends have been replacing their unix workstations with Macintoshes. Mac OS X is basically plain Unix -BSD flavor. Now Dell is going there. Smart by Dell

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NLP is insanely fast-moving. Especially the machine learning side of things (like the EMNLP conference), proceedings this year have very little overlap from even 7 or 8 years ago.
The ironic thing is I can hear those sonic rodent repellers at the very top of my hearing range, yet my dogs are completely not bothered by it. Neither are my friends dogs, one actually goes and sleeps by the one in my living room (I don't believe the devices work, but I have yet to have a reason to bend down and remove it since I moved in).