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This petition seems harmful to me.

To start, EFF doesn't support patents.

The http://defendinnovation.org site is EFF's attempt to evangelize the idea that current patent system is broken and gather support for changes that would improve the system a lot.

Any lunatic apparently can start a petition on change.org and some did because EFF's (realistic) position isn't radical enough for his taste: he wants abolition of software patents.

Now, personally I would prefer abolition to the reform ideas proposed by EFF but this is not about what is better. EFF probably has to consider things like: does a given idea has a chance of being implemented by congress.

EFF is fighting the good fight. They try to improve the awful patent system and I have no doubt they do it in the best way they can.

Nothing stops the guy who created this petition to evangelize abolition of software patents. He can even start his own foundation for defending internet and civil liberties.

But attacking EFF in this way is harmful. He brings nothing positive to the table and can only derail EFF's efforts by instigating infighting among people who want the same thing: fix broken patent system.

Finally, one can support EFF's reform as well as patent abolition. We would be better off with either one.

Just don't attack EFF for trying to do something about patents.
Ruby on Rails is a big and popular one for Ruby. For Python, you can try Django.
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That's just what OpenGL needs right?

Yet another incomplete ad-hoc extended subset of OpenGL 1.x functionality lacking documentation, regression and performance tests, a stable and committed team of maintainers, ...
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Seconded, as someone formerly 6' 130lb, and a frequent back pain sufferer (partially due to injury). I started doing weightlifting about a year ago, and deadlifts in particular made the pain virtually disappear as well as improving many other areas of my life. I found that it very quickly helped my back, even in a couple weeks.
I've flagged this. The EFF already is against software patents and the Change.org petition seems to be a hostile misinformation campaign.
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Perhaps he's among the people one might want to cut, then—highly paid scientists! Faculty salary increases are mainly going to the prominent STEM faculty, who typically make >$100k (sometimes >$150k recently), because otherwise you are not going to retain them in the face of competition from other universities and the private sector. So I guess the board should be happy about his departure, no? A decrease in payroll! Certainly some $65k philosophers who haven't gotten a raise since 2003 isn't where all the extra money is going.
This article is from 30 November 2010 and not new. Still, I wonder if they will honor their offer and grant him asylum from extradition (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18514726).
Right. That's a sign that people disagree about what exactly is on-topic. Not a sign that people want to turn it into an anything-goes meme factory.
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If I were to heed a recent HN post, I would downgrade you for use of an anecdote in place of scientific data. I would do so, were it not that the article you comment on had not a single reference. So I guess "the state of my mind (as my inconsistency-rejecting brain perceives it) refutes your unfounded theories" is fair game.
I used to fly to Tel Aviv regularly when I worked at an internet company with a big presence there.

People were almost universally warm and welcoming. It was common to get invited to weekend gatherings or to go out and get drinks at the marina after work.

I have a German last name that is similar to a common Jewish name, so people would very regularly ask if I was Jewish. I would explain that I wasn't; it could have been uncomfortable, but never was. In fact, it was nice not being Jewish because nobody ever pressured me to move there.

Jerusalem is a totally different story. I didn't get the feeling it was a friendly or safe place for outsiders. I wasn't comfortable there.

I also hated flying into or out of the country because of the security interviews; it seems very invasive to an American.

But Tel Aviv is very non-religious, open, laid-back and friendly. The technical talent is also very strong. Everyone speaks english it seems, even people working at Burger King.

In short, I never really had the desire to move there, because I'm not really a hot weather beach guy, but I could see why it would appeal to others to do so.
Correct, alignment was not a factor for single-phosphor tubes.

The eye is not nearly as sensitive to red and blue so those colors did needed higher energies. But I doubt that it was because the phosphors are cheaper. Computer terminals and monitors were very expensive back then, but commercial color television made some of the common components (like phosphors) relatively cheap.

Green was found to be readable and pleasant. It was the most common for IBM equipment (such as the PC monochrome display).

Amber is very visible, especially in bright light. It was popular too.

White was popular with DEC terminals.
One of the thoughts I've had about this device is whether we'll be able to use a Surface tablet as the touch input device on a normal PC running Windows 8.

My imagination pictures me connecting the Surface to my PC via USB and being able to use it as a touch control while viewing on a normal monitor.

Am I dreaming, or do you think someone at MS has had the same idea?
There's one thing about software patents that I've come to realize: If a products sole competitive advantage over otherwise exchangeable goods is algorithmic... Is the world a better place if those insights are kept proprietary, or if they are made public knowledge via the patent process?

Software patents have been misused in many contexts, but for work that genuinely transformatively advances the state of the art, is protecting the right to have a viable business around this insight while making the mechanics of this knowledge public, is that a bad thing?

And just to repeat myself, broadly yes software patents have been awarded inappropriately time and again. But for those true insights, is a world better with a patented computational insight or a proprietary one?
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Isn't it an issue that you'll be working while there?
How about recommending movies to the person who hacked your Netflix account?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/v0z53/for_the_pas...
This strikes me as interesting because I believe the article mentioned that the state department rep didn't even know that apple was doing this.

It seems a bit above and beyond to teach all of your sales personnel to distinguish Farsi from every other Middle-Eastern sounding language out there. Call me ignorant but I couldn't distinguish Farsi from Arabic even if it was written out in front of me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsi
2 year old article, and it was the foreign minister who offered residency before the President rescinded it.
Hmm, I didn't know the he uses quux too. I claim independent discovery.
It's related for being the same store, which I care about because I visit it on a regular basis.

Not often does one store make the news multiple times in a short period.
I grew up in Virginia Beach -- you won't find much in the way of overheated rhetoric in the public discourse.
Can you name very many examples of cases where researchers have been searching for an algorithm and found it buried in an expired patent somewhere?

How common is it for some researcher to have an insight into an algorithm that no one else would be able to come up with independently (given 20 years) should the need arise?
EFF doesn't support patents.

What they try to do is to gather support for the reform of patent system via http://defendinnovation.org.

What some guy wants is for EFF to instead go for the kill (abolition of patent system).

Why does he feel that he should dictate what EFF does? I don't know.

Did he provide any reasoning as to why EFF should do what he wants as opposed to what they are actually doing? Not really.

Why he started a petition vs. writing a blog post describing his displeasure? Beats me.

To recap: EFF is doing something about broken patent system. They started http://defendinnovation.org and are trying to gather support for patent system reform and actually make this happen.

Some guy spent 5 minutes creating a petition asking EFF to drop what they're doing and do something else instead. Because he clearly knows betters.
sorry you misunderstood or I did not ask clearly. I am not looking for just a framework. I am alread aware of ROR and Django. I am looking for a framework that can help build Software-as-a-service (SAAS) applications.
It didn't take him three days to port all of the cruft from OpenGL 1.3 to Open GL ES; it took him three days to port the precise calls and precise semantics he relied upon in OpenGL 1.3 to OpenGL ES, and even then he punted on some of it.

The latter is a far, far cry from the former. The former is basically what a modern OpenGL (non-ES) driver does to support all of the legacy cruft on modern hardware. Recall that the OpenGL API is an API for a state machine. All of those layers of cruft built up over the years have incredibly arcane state interactions, are a bitch to support, and are why modern OpenGL (non-ES) drivers have gotten rather quite bloated.

Edit: to tackle the second part of your comment:

> perhaps it suggests that this API wasn't in any way damaging to the new system and could have been left in place originally?

The Immediate Mode calls he complains about not being there? They were "removed" (never introduced) way back in OpenGL ES 1.0, which IIRC originally debuted in 2003.

It's a pretty big stretch to argue that because reimplementing Immediate Mode on top of OpenGL ES doesn't have a crushing performance penalty on 2012's iPhone, it wouldn't have been a problem on what passed for mobile hardware back in 2003.

(which is ignoring the fact that even if the performance back then wouldn't have been garbage, taking the opportunity to make breaking changes and throw out cruft for an API that wasn't expected to host legacy apps was absolutely the right move)
I was actually expecting Microsoft to launch gesture control in their tablet .....

May be some day in near future.... I am sure very soon, they will integrate kinect and windows, and then ..... well everything changes ...

and rightly said ... iPad is a toy and for kids ... Surface is a gadget and for the grown ups ...
How could the strategy here be anything other than "pick 0"?

Even the other degenerate strategy of "pick something which is like negative infinity" is a guaranteed loser, and it's only interesting if you assume everyone else will pick positive numbers (which your web app specifies, though your problem statement doesn't).
Sourcing unnamed 'western officials' doesn't lend this too much credibility, however this could have grave consequences for how governments deal with communication networks, and therefore the internet
What blew my mind when I played around with this in college was the fact that it had infinite support (easy to prove) but also doubly-exponential in the tail.

I could see the concave/convex behavior when I explored it computationally, but I couldn't figure out the theoretical/equational basis for it. I was working with a fixed number of players. I'm pleasantly surprised to see the variable-player Poisson version is simpler. I definitely wish I knew more stats, because the fixed-number version stumped me when I tried to solve it directly. (I don't know if it's possible, except for N = 3.)
There are OpenShift, and I think Joyent open-source its SmartOS too.
Meh. By that definition, what we now know know as philosophy is not what used to be philosophy. By the same tack, I could define "hot dogs" as all written, systematic knowledge in the West, and thus claim that hot dogs predated all intellectual pursuits.
What's the difference between 'git diff --color-words' and what you posted?
Sure that's fair enough, but still, it's a bit like using Woz as a username...
Right. They were monochrome hardware, so color alignment was not a factor.
Do you mind sharing how stable that configuration is? (Both the monitor and keyboard)

I've found one difficulty with even moderately nice standing desks (i.e., a Herman Miller desk) is that they vibrate quite noticeably when being typed upon. Combine this with an adjustable monitor (read: easier to customize, more expensive, and shakier) and you get quite an annoying result.
Not everyone has Sprint, and Voice doesn't integrate MMS.
You need to do a combination of sitting and standing. I ran into the same problems you did when first trying out a standing desk for about a year. I went back to sitting for a year, and then finally invested in a motorized desk (geekdesk.com) to get the best of both worlds and I couldn't be happier now. When I'm sick of standing, I sit. When I can't stand sitting, I stand.
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If you are serving people from all over the world. In terms of charges, ease of integration, setup, reporting, etc. etc.
Please include pros and cons while comparing. Expecting nice comparison between Paypal, Stripe, Braintree, Intuit, etc.
Have you seen the Witcher 2 intro they made? Incredible:

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I find your first suggestion interesting: I consider the lightning talk "for advanced speakers only". You have to fit a cohesive point into just five minutes, often in an environment where the slides are being advanced for you. If you make a single mistake, you might throw off all of your timing as you scramble to repair your flow. The slides have to be meticulous, the talk scripted... I only agree to do a lightning talk if I have a ton of time to prepare. However, if you would like me to, right now, give an hour long talk about almost anything related to a computer, in front of a live (not recorded: recorded is harder) audience of almost any size, I'd be happy to oblidge (and the longer the talk, to easier it will feel).
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That's partly true. The PRC and the Guomindang (the Nationalist Party) of the ROC both officially claim that they should be ruling all of China, but the Minzhujinbudang (the Democratic Progressive Party) of the ROC views Taiwan as having developed its own culture and identity that's distinct from Chinese, and they don't try to claim ownership of or any relation to the mainland. And in English the phrase "Taiwan, China" really means 中国台湾 and not 中华台湾, i.e. "China" there refers to the PRC rather than the land of the Chinese people. So both parties in the ROC reject the phrase "Taiwan, China."
But it's not OpenGL. It's OpenGL ES. Windows 8 is also not Windows 95.
I got really lucky. having just moved to alameda from SF, into a house 3 times as big as my apartment, I had very little furniture to fill out my new place.

The neighbor across the street was having a garage sale and I bought two adjustable height desks from him for $200, one of which is an electric raise-lower desk!

I feel so lucky as I have wanted one forever, but couldn't afford one... now I have one!
A number theory class I once took provided us with the following "proof", claiming, in fact, that it was the most useful thing we would learn, and would make a great party trick.

Theorem: Anything less than 91 which looks prime is prime.

Proof: To do this, we will calculate the smallest number that looks prime but isn't. The numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 all have easy and quick divisibility rules, so our number cannot be divisible by any of them. 7, however, is hard to check for - so clearly the first number that looks prime but isn't will be divisible by 7. Sadly, everyone realizes 49 isn't prime, because it's a square, so we need to find the next difficult prime factor. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 are all also subject to quick tests and divisibility rules, so discount those. 13, however, is ugly - thus, the first number that looks prime but isn't is 7 times 13, which equals 91. Q.E.D. (My professor insisted this stood for "Quite Easily Done".)
I have no idea. Haven't bothered to look into it.
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They didn't call it "OpenGL". They called it "OpenGL ES". The ES is a significant part of the name. The fact that the name happens in part to contain the word "OpenGL" is not a promise of source compatibility, and even the most cursory glances at the documentation would have made it clear that the API has a different name because it is a different API.

It's incredibly daft to argue that part of a name amounts to a promise of backwards compatibility with a different API, in perpetuity. The X11 protocol isn't backwards compatible with that of X9 simply because they both share a name-fragment.
I'm not super clear on the tax implications of this and they aren't mentioned... any insights?
Any first hand review of Gondor ? I have consider it for my app few times but never tried it.
David, kind of a side note, but I really enjoyed the following talk you gave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKCv4IOO1Y
Speaking of 'bitchy for nothing', it's probably gauche to point out, but as I've had to downvote your last few comments for excessive snark and name-calling, I'd encourage you to pause, reflect, and figure out whether or not you really want to be posting the brash comments you have been.

Your comments don't generally seem too ill-informed, but there are standards of conversation that are worth holding to, and your recent remarks are falling short.
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Yes, I know what the content is. My point with showing that particular article is that cisco is not ignorant of securing to NSA's requirements - they have been working directly with them for years.

There are other MISO (psyop) groups embedded with all manners of information exchange. The Intelligence arm has people in all media outlets.

This was revealed multiple times in the last 12 years as we found out that handlers from intel ops were approving stories in the MSM.

This is NOT tinfoil folks - this is the farking reality.
If those faculty aren't bringing in increased grant funding to cover their salaries, then let them go. Grant funding made up only 1/4 of university revenue, and in the face of only a 60% increase as overall expenditures have grown 80%, has actually dropped from just over 1/4 in 2001 to significantly under 1/4 in 2012.

At the end of the day, the growth in expenses has not been funded by grants, etc. The biggest component of increased revenue has been tuition. A tripling of tuition is what has paid for the 4-5% annual increase in faculty salary expenditures. Opposing faculty cuts is a slap in the face to the students that now pay 1/3 of the university's operating expenses.
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One thing to note. The blog writer Girish already had lived in the US before and had a social security number without which I do not think you can get a federal EIN. So if you have never been to the USA, you cannot have a social security number and which means you cannot incorporate? I will stand corrected if someone has better information.
What if you only need to store negative integers?
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So OpenGL ES (Embedded systems) was not different enough? I actually think OpenGL ES didn't go far enough in the initial spec.

ES 1.1 still has alot of the old fixed function pipeline, but then in 2.0 they scrapped it all entirely, opting for a smaller, more modern API. That, to me, was a bad move. I think they should've made the shader based pipeline in 2.0 part of the 1.1 spec.
This article just seems like a lot of buzzwords and unrelated points.
> Windows 8 is also not Windows 95.

Windows 8 is backwards compatible with Win32 and even Win16. If it wasn't, there would be hell to pay. WinRT is a somewhat clean break with the Win32 legacy. But that's only required for Metro apps.
60 minutes has an interesting take on the current situation in tel aviv:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409182n
Any recommendations for what sessions to watch first? What are the most substantial new features, one should pay close attention to with respect to iOS?
Right, but again: those are the parts of the API that are already discouraged and downright deprecated as of OpenGL 2.0. If you were developing an app targeting OpenGL 2.0, following what I understand are the best practices for that version of the specification, OpenGL ES will require little to no porting.

The problem then, arguably, is not that OpenGL ES is called OpenGL but that OpenGL 2.0 added an entirely unrelated pipeline to that used in OpenGL 1.3: you could then claim "how dare they reuse the name for what is now two APIs stuck into one library". However, they shared a lot of underlying conventions, and they were honest about bumping the major version number.

If anything, the fact that jwz is happy he proved--that you can build an OpenGL 1.3 emulation library over OpenGL ES--would argue to me to /not/ include the 1.x features as part of the standard, but to instead encourage third parties to distribute such libraries. The fixed function pipeline wasn't removed from the API as it is unimplementable, but because it is a ton of obsolete code that 2.x coders avoid anyway.
By all means sign both the EFF petition and my petition. Still, EFF has never been the kind of organization that tries to cut deals inside the beltway. They've always been an organization that takes principled positions. Given that reputation, I think the implicit message of their campaign--that abolition is too radical even for EFF to endorse--undermines the argument for software patent abolition. I have no problem with them advocating incremental reforms, but they should also say that the ideal reform is eliminating software patents altogether.
In all my years of reading HN, this may be the dumbest title and question I've seen.
No one who isn't a member of an oppressed minority ever has to 'deal with' policies of oppression. You can still contribute to the effectiveness and reach of those policies though - glad for your sake you're able to distance yourself.

There is too little consciousness of the economic and social context of the work technical people do.
I did something similar, except I used old cardboard boxes I found around my house. In the end, I gave it up. My neck and shoulders felt good, but I could feel the blood pooling up in my legs and feet. It just wasn't comfortable. I think some sort of hybrid standing/sitting position would be ideal.
I had 10 minutes to create the poll before the library closed...I definitely could have done a better job describing the problem, you're right.

Each person was told to pick a number between 0 and 100

The number I would pick would be dependent on who else is taking the poll, how much credit do you give them, etc

I'm in my phone now with a low battery, otherwise I'd type
It actually has 128MB or 256MB of RAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch#Models
If you read the material at defendinnovation.org, you'll see that they do not oppose patents on software. They call for changes to the patent system designed to make software patents work better. Which is fine, but not the same thing.
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