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So, what would you consider an appropriate software patent? Let's say that some things, like logical addition, are not patentable. Would PageRank be patentable? How about swipe gestures on phones?
League of Legends and the other MOBA games are a very different model from AAA MMORPG development. (I'd call it a ridiculously superior model if I had investors who had staked me with $X0 million and told me make a video game, but I sincerely pray that I never offend anyone enough to have them sentence me to that.)
Agile isn't right for all software projects. For example, mission critical applications, like medical devices, shouldn't be developed with an agile methodology. Agile is better suited for projects that can be easily and appropriately prototyped.
Absolutely. To put what you said another way, it's one thing to put forth an opposing view for the sake or starting discussion or playing devil's advocate and quite another to do so for the sake of looking smart while being under the impression that if you disagree you're automatically smart-looking. All opinions are welcome here as we all know but it's not too difficult to tell genuine disagreement from look-me-I'm-smartism.
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I'm not understanding what you're referring to. Can you give a link or other example? You piqued my curiosity.
The same is true of most if not all hospitals in the US to my understanding. They cannot turn away patients in the emergency room for ability to pay. Still, the hospital can try to bill excessive amounts. Also, this does not guarantee the highest level of care to everyone, but neither private insurance nor most nationalized healthcare programs provide this.
Good advice, Patrick I appreciate it! I should clarify some things, I guess.
Fortunately, I'm adhering to all the YouTube api terms etc., so there are no legal issues (yet!). I suppose it's possible some entity like Billboard might take issue with using their name and/or logo to promote the site.

When I am talking about partnering, I know building a site is only part of the battle, so in terms of equity it would be much more substantial than 5%.

I guess maybe a better question then, is how to get those early adopters?
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I have the impression you did it the wrong way. It is very difficult to create a product and push it somehow into the throat of people. It's much easier to other way round. Find what people want and then build the business.

Cull.tv had probably good arguments, but I don't think raising money is a proof of sound business in these days. BTW, I hope they are not your competitors.

Edit: I wanted to suggest to contact patio11, but I see he just answered.
Disappointed to see no progress being made toward including iterative map reduce. Longer term I think we'll need to look to Mesos/Spark for real innovation.
It needs a 2-minute video to "sell" it to me. There are literally hundreds of PHP frameworks. Your list of "highlights" didn't make me want to try it.
I am from Adelaide, but am currently in Estonia. :)

I'll be back in Adelaide from January 2013 (wow, sounds ominous).
Why should people care about computer systems in a plane? Do you know all hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, audio, video, etc. systems in the plane? Would average person know how plumbing in a plane works? Does he know what is the name of the plastic the storage bins or his seat handles are made of? Does he know how the metal that makes the wings is made? Most of the people don't know anything about 99% of things they use beyond what they need to know to use it. It is called division of labor, and without it civilization could not exist. Computers are no different. They do a lot of stuff, and most people don't care about the details, and they shouldn't. There are people that take care for it instead and get paid for it.

Algorithmic literacy very little to do with computers. People identified the need to systematic approach to solving problems long before computers, and some modern techniques existed very well without them. For example, TRIZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ) was invented in 1946, without any computers existing. Systematic thinking and systematic approach to problem solving should be taught and learned, but programming is one narrow application of it, and should not be confused with it.
Running Linux? Excellent. The PCs in my classrooms all run Windows and are fairly heavily locked down so I just swap the VGA leads.
Italia Startup Open Day. - Kind of a big deal...
Yes, I should have said that, nvidia settings just bypasses the display applet. Didn't take ages though although not friendly.
Official release notes page from Apache: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r2.0.0-alpha/
Yup, can't get Unity (Ubuntu) or GS (Debian) otherwise. Gnome Shell works with nouveau drivers on Fedora 17 beta although it is clunky.
He doesn't have time to be tired. He's making electric cars and spaceships.
Well I agree to some extent, but I think the success of other video sites is proof that there is a market for a music video site with added value. I did build chartbrain.com to scratch an itch, but I do think it is a great way to enjoy music videos and stay on top of the charts.
Sequel is somewhat lowest-level and least advertised of three popular ruby ORMs (ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Sequel). For non-CRUD applications Sequel is usually my go-to guy.
It is sad that economics is listed tier 4 and apparently as important (if not less important) as drama... Such common perceptions are probably why there are so many financially illiterate people and so much bad economic policy out there.
Unfortunately, I can't read this as the site is utterly and completely broken on my iPhone. I'm usually able to ignore rendering issues but this really takes the cake.

Can someone provide a summary?
Yeah, well I can decode double-rot13!
What are you, Amish? :)
Not a scientific account, exactly, but I seem to recall from reading James Herriot that some animals just do not care about injections, at all. Same with (IIRC) some cows and dogs, at least. This new device sounds cool, but I'm not confident it doesn't hurt.
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Anonymous, the prominent hacktivists group online, has been quite vigilant in addressing issues such as SOPA and PIPA, given the fact that Anonymous claims to fundamentally believe

Details: http://thetechjournal.com/internet/web-security/anonymous-hacks-into-reliance-servers-in-india-redirects-traffic-to-warning-page.xhtml#ixzz1w36rui7E
NTP is great and all, but...

When you're timing something that needs accuracy, you use a timer not a clock. If you need to use a clock, you use one clock not all the clocks. Yes, I work in the medical industry. Yes, we generally use timers not clocks. Yes, our clocks are all wrong too.

If you really do need a solution to the "time" problem (accurate time all the time), you need to issue everyone a smartphone.
Sequel is wonderful and for me represents a much more natural way to program than both heavy and lightweight ORMs (hibernate and AR).

There's a lot of syntax magic going on to give the appearance of a clean SQL DSL, but it leaks through more often than not. Still, better than anything else I've seen.

What's up with the presentation and meaningless photos taking up all the space? Black text on a white background and nothing else would be a lot better.
I experienced something similar near Yankee stadium.

They don't allow men to bring bags into the stadium. But they don't have a bag storage service (at least the last time I went). So random businesses around it provide bag checks for a nominal fee.

Funnily enough, they allow women to bring large bags and purses inside.
If you like C, I would suggest you spend some time with assembly. With C your stuck with both the compilers oddity's and the processors oddity's where with ASM you can really dig in and discover a host of occasionally useful but often strange behaviors.
Since I've just gone through Elon Musk's wikipedia entry following the SpaceX success, I think he's a good nominee. He seems to have been focused on improving humanity since college and actually has the means to do it.

I can't even read most of the Hacker News articles after reading about the things he is working on. Who cares about unit testing CSS when you could be building a fucking rocket to space?
Realistically the German's had zero chance of developing nuclear weapons. That wasn't known at the time, but we know enough about their program now to say that with certainty.
Everybody should learn to program in C, drive a freight train and recognize symptoms of hoof diseases in a horse.
Ask HN: How do you stop feeling overwhelmed when programming?
The same could be said for business but for this question, how do you stop feeling overwhelmed when programming for the big picture?

Programming one piece is pretty simple (usually). It's when I start adding more and more and more and more that I'm starting to feel overwhelmed by the machine. I know how each part works if I think about each part individually. I also know how I want the big picture to look. It's the middle that causes me to "feel" overwhelmed even if I take a few deep breaths, I can explain how it works.

The most overwhelming feeling is when parts of the program are decoupled from one another because it's the best solution to decouple them. The feeling I get from checking the couplings to see if it matches the big picture makes my stomach churn. One obvious example of this is going from JavaScript to HTML to Server Code to SQL. Is this actually going to produce what I want too see?

So, how do you stop feeling overwhelmed?
Fuel was a big (bigger?) problem. Albert Speer was an organizational genius and plane production (unsure about tanks etc) was actually increasing despite the bombardment. Lack of fuel and pilots scuppered the air force.
I'd love to post the graph I can't find, but this Wikipedia article gives GDP versus year. Until 1945 German output was increasing. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wo...
"1) The content creator cares more about attribution than monetization."

I wouldn't bet on that, if you're talking about a professional photographer.
I believe he is warning against the Coffee Shop fallacy. IE, you may like coffee, but if you think running a coffee shop is a good way to enjoy/experience coffee, you are unlikely to be in business long.

It also seems like he's saying that "code" as an aesthetic principle is a very small part of your business. Your code is a means to an end (for your users), and does/should not hold much of your attention as an intrinsic ideal.
The way the article paints all US wartime equipment as inferior is a bit of an overstatement, but that doesn't significantly blunt the overall meaning of the article.
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Meanwhile in Canada...socialized medicine and a better economy.
Yes, good catch, I had not thought of age as a variable. I go back to when 1024 by 768 was large, and I do use applications full screen and have one or two per workspace and switch between them with Shift-Tab/Alt-Tab. I'm no hacker though.

Zed Shaw's setup: "I honestly could probably code with nearly anything, so having the same setup as the end user is more important than having the most awesome piece of tech ever."

Mary Cook's "When I’m at work, I sometimes plug the Air into a 24” Dell monitor and use an external Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse. However, often, I find it much easier to get into the zone when I’m just using the laptop unadorned. It’s something about hunching over the small screen, I think."

I remember reading somewhere else that someone found the position and feel of typing into a laptop was reminiscent of using a portable typewriter.
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Has anyone tried to contest this rule as an illegal form of discrimination?
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Er, yes, should have said 'replacing a desktop and a small netbook used for presentations'. I was after views on proper laptop only.
I don't know. Maybe. But he doesn't seem nearly agile enough. He seems to be hellbent on a single goal: get to space on the cheap. I don't think he's ever going to be able to pivot away from that.
Exactly, I recently had a startup with approx 0 users try to recruit me by arguing that building the web app was "programming 101... we need someone who can architect for massive data volumes". I didn't take the job. That kind of attitude is going to cause them serious issues.
You know, you're right. I had previously thought that was infeasible due to transmission losses, but I ran the numbers (which I should have done before posting the above), and it would only require a worst case of 50% losses, and ~4000 of today's HVDC cables going around the world. And probably quite a bit better, since that assumes that half the world is getting its power from the other half all the time.

I still think everyone owning an electric car for storage is probably a more realistic plan, but it's definitely not impossible to create a world energy grid and run the world even just from solar.

Your comment is exactly right; a blend is what's needed. Though in the case of solar, a blend still requires very long, very high capacity HDVC cables.
I still maintain it works perfectly. You're getting too hung-up on where you rank each brand.
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Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
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That's probably my single biggest complaint about Web projects in general. The failure to describe, briefly and clearly, what a tool does.

Not a problem in this case (I've dabbled with R for over a decade), but I definitely feel your pain and agree with your criticism.

The HN default of using a vague headline and often linking directly to a site with little or no explanatory context (the fact that you can either post a link, or text, but not both) really doesn't help this.
Love it!
You made a very entertaining game out of this idea!

I'm curious if you did by any chance see my take on multiplayer snake? (From here or the tigsource forums, maybe?
It's playable at http://bfilmhelden.de:8080/ less polished tough.
Made some different choices. (E.g. clients can only send commands, and also send always the full game state.)
Men are the oppressor gender and therefore cannot be the victims of discrimination. Nice try, you dirty misogynist.
I don't disagree that the US government should and tries to do what's best for itself (to the extent possible within the constructs of the political system...).

I'm just saying that I believe it's not in its interests ultimately to levy such a heavy tariff on solar panels, regardless of where they're from. You may disagree on this, as many will disagree with China's policies.

I'd love to get cheap, subsidized solar panels--better if it's not subsidized by my own taxes. I just think levying a punitive tariff goes against even the spirit of self interest.
Can someone confirm for me that DAU according to Facebook includes visiting a page with the "Like" iframe?
The article/blog author does have a disclaimer at: http://coding.pressbin.com/61/Caveat-coder-About-the-code-sn...

but I fear that those most likely to just grab this code and run with it, are the least likely to even notice that page, let alone heed its (nonspecific) advice.
It appears more functional in style: http://laravel.com/docs/routing#the-basics

Good to see that.
How exactly is the rule enforced? Are men banned from bringing bags, or are males? Or both?

Rules like this really are stupid when you realize just how non-binary these distinctions are in reality.
Exactly. Consider how long SCO has stuck around as an obnoxious legal entity. Now give it billions of dollars.
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Nope. It didn't pop the 2nd day either.
Bah. Hacker News is not some sacred vault. It is a news aggregator for gods sake. And I am glad to have seen this short, sweet blog post. So I voted for it, in the hopes that others see it and enjoy it too :)
What is your business model ?

I'm not sure I understood what you do. What I know is that people like to be part of the show or feel like so. Add a like button and give feedback on the number of time a music is played. Open it to submission.

Create a tribe of people listening to music videos and the cosy feeling to be part of this tribe. Add a live chat for instance or commenting on songs. Make your place different of all the others. Look for animators like a chat DJ.

You could leverage on musician desperately trying to find an audiance.
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Think of the incentives for the other side of the equation: the price setter.

The product or service in question provides a different amount of value to different purchasers. Especially in the realm of software. By setting a fixed price, the seller isn't capturing extra value that they provide to certain customers (e.g., enterprise software sales).

The incentive for the shrouding is more powerful than people's desires for simplicity in pricing.
Ripping everything apart is what HN is all about. Look at any random article on the front page and tell me I'm wrong.
Hats off to the entrepreneurship here but the reason it's needed in the first place is a farce. Schools should get a grip rather than be happy their students get to fork out $22+ per month to work around their silly restrictions.
Does anyone have references to the impact of banning electronics on school performance? There is a similar move in the UK.

I like the retail shop storage idea; there is usually a newsagent/sweetshop somewhere near most large secondary schools.
Here's the blog post: http://chrishaueter.com/blog/2814-of-print-advertising-for-1...
We've got a service like this. We're currently working on a new version. See http://prettygraph.com
I understand what you are saying, but attention diversion is a problem with teenagers, I can tell you. They have grasshopper minds even without shiny rectangles.
Seems like a really neat solution to an (in hindsight) obvious problem. Makes me think of the guy with a camper-van full of PCs dedicated to form filling parked near the Chinese consulate in New York: https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/04/144636898/a-man-a...

I think in the prior example, they actually complained about the publicity they were getting because it clued in competitors, without significantly benefiting them, because their market was going to walk past the truck anyway.
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Just a little common sense: social security expenditures in European countries account for 28% of GDP. In US it's 7% (!!11).

Thanks for asking, btw, I knew it is bad, but I never even thought it is THAT bad.

http://video.minpress.gr/wwwminpress/aboutgreece/aboutgreece...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)
It is not true that wait times are only an issue for urgent care situations. If my grandmother can not walk without hip replacement surgery, and she is going to wait in a bed in for months, I'm happy to send her to the states for surgery.

Excessive wait times have been an issue for a very long time. Things are getting better, in part because there is a drastic comparison to quality of life health care across the border.

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App squatting, app developers beware.
I seriously hope you are being sarcastic.
I actually just answered within the context of sharing within a family... I also have my MacBook air, the agency Mac pro I use everyday, an agency iPad (used for iOS dev and website testing), and my daughters old iPod touch all using the same Apple ID! I'm really surprised that Apple allows 10 devices to share one ID. It's saved me a lot of money, but I certainly spend my fair share of it in the app store (~$300 this year).
One problem with the general lower standards argument is that it is so open ended. Based on that, the world could quickly slip into outright protectionism hurting everyone along the way. Sweden could slap massive tariffs on US goods based on low social and environmental standards or even currency manipulation for instance. Measured by purchasing power, the US dollar is about as undervalued relative to the Swedish Krona (and many other currencies) as the Yuan is relative to the US dollar.

Also, we have been importing commodities from brutal dictatorships for decades or even centuries in order to fuel our economies without ever complaining about low standards. Now that these countries start competing with us we're suddenly up in arms.

But ethical issues aside, such tariffs just make very little practical sense. Helping US and German panel manufacturers and at the same time hurting installers, equipment makers and consumers isn't going to help. Surely, the Chinese will retaliate.

Effectively, the Chinese and the Germans are subsidising everyone elses cheap clean energy. Let's just use it!
May be they found a perfect balance. I'm from the country where medical help is either free (covered by the government mandatory insurance) or pretty cheap. First thing we (me and my family) did when we came to US - maxed out our dental plans (and put a sizable chunk on top of it) to fix what THEY did.
I imagine it would be a relatively simply matter of getting used to it.

Objective C and C# both have extension methods, which are very useful when done right. Ruby has allowed you to reopen classes since forever.
Does anyone know if this improves error reporting at all? That one major pain I've had dealing with Hadoop: something goes wrong, you get some super obscure error message and consequently you'll end up doing a major binary search to find out what caused it.