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Those infographics are a little too simple because you cannot determine who is the "bad guy" in each case simply based on the fact of who is suing whom.

For example, in the Apple vs Nokia case, I consider Apple the bad guys even though Nokia is the aggressor. As far as I'm aware, that case boils down to Apple refusing to accept patent cross-licensing as "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory", whereas I consider cross-licensing to be the epitome of FRAND.

Many of the other suits are direct or indirect cross-suits. The best defense is a good offense, etc.

Some aggressors are willing to accept money, others are blocking the importation of devices. I consider the latter more unacceptable.

Others are the flailings of dying companies. Still evil, yes, but better than the patents falling into the hands of NPE's.

At the moment, I believe that the worst aggressor by quite a large margin is Apple. Microsoft, Motorola and the purchasors of the Nortel patents (Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson and EMC) are being "evil", but the typical strategy for boycotts is to target the biggest/worst aggressor. (That's why McDonalds always gets targeted even though its behaviour is no different from its competitors).

There are notable exceptions: Samsung, HTC, Google and a few other makers of non-desirable phones. HTC doesn't have enough patents of its own to be an aggressor, and I have no doubt that Samsung would behave badly if that was in its own best interest, though.

However, supporting the companies that are "doing the right thing" still sends a marketplace signal, regardless of why they are doing the right thing.

I used to trust Google, though. If it doesn't put a stop to the Motorola shenanigans soon, they'll have lost all remaining credibility in my books. Don't give me this "arms-length" bullshit. Your motto says "don't be evil", which means that you're committed to behaving better than your peers, so do it.
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Recent? I never cared for it, and I know that was a common sentiment amongst many 'HN' type people (even though there was no HN then), but until Ruby on Rails came out, I had never found something that had everything I needed and wide appeal. At the time, for me, that meant continued work on Apache Rivet ( http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ ) , which in a lot of ways was better than PHP, but always suffered from not having a lot of users.
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not buying. an "unattractive, poor white male" will still have it easier then an "unattractive, poor black male".

Re-read the article. People do indeed get different numbers of "points" to start with, and the variation within a group is still bigger then differences between the groups, so someone can be black, and yet attractive, physically fit, extremely intelligent and from a wealthy family - a very 'easy' difficulty level to play at, and yet, replace 'black' with 'white' and it will become even easier still.
"Triple blind testing" as KK would say. http://longnow.org/seminars/02006/mar/10/long-term-trends-in...

Triple-blind experiments will emerge through massive non-invasive statistical data collection— no one, not the subjects or the experimenters, will realize an experiment was going on until later. (In the Q&A, one questioner predicted the coming of the zero-author paper, generated wholly by computers.)
Assume for the sake of argument that processing is free and instantaneous, and that the cache is in-line with the normal network path (and much nearer to the end user than the content server). This is arbitrarily close to true as Cloudflare expands.

So you're actually saving these 5-200ms vs. non-cloudflare delivery. It might still be 305-505ms total page load time, or easily greater (I used GEO sat for a while, feeding cell; it was hell), but if it were 305 instead of 505 I'd be quite happy actually.

(I'm assuming a 4MB page with 100KB which actually changes between loads. A 4MB all dynamic page, frequently reloaded, which can't be cached but where a tiny delta is possible would be pretty pathological.)

With CDNs you can also get benefits from prefetch/prefill, either opportunistically (due to multiple users hitting the same thing, or through actual scheduled fill). Works for many media assets but not for dynamically generated pages, which is what Railgun is supposed to address.
Ditto First Great Western. The biggest insult was paying £450/m for a 30-min (admittedly high-speed) journey where you were lucky to get on the train, let alone get anywhere near a seat. Especially annoying when you'd see the 4 full carriages of 1st class with maybe 10-20% utilisation.
The entire patent system is broken, and every large company is currently suing. I agree.

But all the current lawsuites from within the Open Handset Alliance are clearly just defensive moves against Apple, Microsoft and Oracle, who are the Aggressors in this patent war.

Apple started to attack HTC and Samsung over Android, and then the OHA fought back.
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> Why would one need to send invitations if the outcome is already known once the party is over?

Well, if you didn't invite anyone, maybe the reason no time-travellers came is that they weren't invited?
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I just hope someone doesn't come up with the stupid idea that this story is not tech related and kill it on HN.

As many "hackers" work on the next farting iPhone app or the next photo-sharing service that will leverage your social graph to puss fake viagra ads, stories like this need to be promoted to shame people chasing pathetic first-world problems.
Anyone who has spent time in San Francisco, worked in the industry or ever spoken to a person who writes like that knows the story to be a fabrication.
I would suggest that you take a look at the Less Wrong website ("http://lesswrong.com). It describes itself as "A community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality". There is a wiki, and "sequences", which are sets of posts on particular topics organized into a recommended order of reading. The posts on the website are very strong on critical thinking and analysis, not so much on creativity/innovation (in the context of new business/new product creation).
Note that encrypted traffic, indistinguishable from noise, is almost always then encoded for transmission in a format that contains redundancy (frequently, there are more than one such layer).

For example if you electrically sniff an ethernet cable over which only SSL traffic using AES is being sent, the first thing you will notice is a concentration of energy near 200Mhz. Then you may see bursts of a Manchester-encoded signal; further study reveals the regular structure of Ethernet headers and trailers, along with IP, TCP and SSL headers. Only within that will you hit a brick wall at the AES data itself.

Even if the payload is encrypted it should be possible in most cases to detect a modulated transmission.
Our company uses HBase, Elastic Search, GitBlit, SmartFox Server, Jetty which have been by this bug, MySQL is said to be affected too http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-sec...
Regarding point one, if I understand correctly the author means that since most apps open in their own web view rather then opening safari directly the fact that chrome can't be integrated is less of a problem.

The browser is not redundant, as people start it when they want to browse to some random page.

For me I don't agree, I open safari from apps all the time, so lack of integration pretty much guarantees that I won't be using chrome.
That site got a fair bit of press (and not in a good way) after they set up one of those bots pretending to be the author Jon Ronson. Jon interviewed the people behind it, judge them for yourself:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/mar/27/jo...
It seems to me that the kicker is the obviously superior alternatives, such as python, ruby, and JavaScript, don't offer the ease of deployment that php has via mod_php, and instead insist on the developer writing a web server. While there are advantages (performance, control) to the web server approach it is clear that there are advantages (simplicty) to being able to stick code snippets in web pages.

If you could deploy (say) python-decorated web pages via apache (on el cheapo hosting services) versus write yor own server and figure out how to host it then the problem would be solved. We have the languages, just not the ecosystems.

Obviously I'm not the first to observe this. Mod_python exists, it's just not popular.
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Somewhat related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
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That last feature is already in Mountain Lion/iOS6.
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What do you mean by 'renewable resources'?

The British rule in India was full of continuous exploitation of the Indian masses, both politically and economically. The value of freedom can't be measured in diamonds.

To learn more, start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement
(And a corollary: why so many systems are so woefully unprepared for such quirks in the calendar system, even though such quirks are well documented and anticipated - albeit not always regular? I mean, even leap years manage to knock down servers, even though they happen regularly, approximately every four years...)
Most "busyness" is good old-fashioned social ineptitude mixed with an ill-defined and defensive elitism. It comes from a "could-do-better" social-climbing mentality combined with incompetence in execution. It's an end result of (a) wanting only to associate with "high-value" people for some definition of high value, but (b) being unable to assess value on account of not giving anyone a chance. So the resulting behavior is to put this decision off indefinitely.

The "I'm busy" shield is a way of rejecting people without rejecting them. It's the ultimate in indecision. And most of these "oh-so-busy" people spend as much time on stupid shit (or useful work, but done inefficiently) as anyone else.
just test it (it's very easy to test on sites that get some decent traffic). well, "it's very easy to test" if you are willing to loose some traffic for some time (and as a SEO you MUST be willing to so such tests)

also i know the webmaster videos as well, they are more in the tone of "you have to be careful when you look at user behavior".

also your argument has huge holes: "it's GOOD if a visitor spends 5 seconds there vs. 5 minutes because it means they found what they wanted." well, there is an statistical technic called "standard deviation", if the SD is too big, don't factor it in. (i don't say that google does this, i'm sure they are more sophisticated, but it's a good counter argument for your example)

"Sometimes usage data is misleading." well, then G would just have to determine when it is misleading and with which probability.

i repeat: just test it. (and: don't read to much seomoz.)
Funny, it's a thing I repressed myself doing, always wondering if static analysis (call graphs and such) wouldn't be better.

<sidenote>
There should be a site with a substantial piece of code to discover and people would answer what were the main (3-5) steps they had to do to ~understand it and how long.
Apple's marketing department is an area I am intimately familiar with.

1. Are you targeting the iBooks market, or are you targeting the iBooks market? That is: are you competition to Apple, or a potential success story for them?

2. Apple meets interesting companies who are in interesting fields regularly. Biz Dev is a broad title. It can mean any of the following:

i. Hey let's be friends!
ii. This is a market we're going to highlight in the next keynote and you might fit in well.
iii. This is a market we are keen to exploit more and you're potentially competition.
iv. We want to acquire you.
v. We want to fuck you, hard.

If you're not sure which of those it's going to be you need to take a long look at Apple's objectives with iBooks and education and work out where you sit on their radar.

3. Don't give anything away that Apple couldn't already have reasonably worked out. Talk about the size of your team and your experience in this market, but don't talk about investment or investors. If they ask specifically then just politely say that its' confidential, and that you're sure someone from Apple can understand that.

4. Be passionate about the public side of your roadmap. Discuss the key problems and the solution you have to them. Have answers to the challenges you're likely to face (I guess traction is one).

Don't ask about Apple's plans because they won't tell you anything. However, do think about things that Apple could do that would help you get into this market and really open it up. Frame some questions around that if you can.

Sorry this is a little broad. I don't think you're naive enough to be expecting an acquisition or something, but you should also be prepared for the fact that they will probably speak to 100 companies like you every week, just so they have you on file.
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So about the same as the Caltrain, then.
The distances are indeed vast, but the time periods involved are yet more vast. A Von Neumann probe travelling at quite modest speeds should be able to spread over our entire galaxy in mere millions of years; the universe is billions of years old.

So while direct visitation by aliens seems highly improbable, such a probe making contact seems at least a theoretically plausible possibility.
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Google has not been so kind, any wise words?
Generally ill-advised to mention meetings with specific VCs and angels ("Facebook was truly interesting and led to three new meetings. Next four days went like a breeze - in total we had 15 meetings - with blue chip VCs ([...]) who have presumably passed (otherwise I assume you'd have announced them as investors).

Saying "met with top-tier VCs and angels" is usually good enough, without the downside.
I find the unnofficial swt staff twitter accounts more helpful. Generally when there's problems with trains I do a search for a #swt, you get all the info you need as well as sweary comments from other passengers. Cheers me up slightly on those days when I can't get home till 11 o'clock.
It is already happening with East-Russian women and West-China men. I'm not going to google for the link because I am in work and we all know what I'll get if I google that.
BrowserChanger by Ryan Petrich solves that last problem.

I'm assuming Hacker News readers are jailbroken.
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We got rejected as well after travelling all the way from Denmark. We landed saturday afternoon and got to the interview sunday morning and took the plane home sunday afternoon. We didn't even reach a point where we had jetlag.

I think one of the reasons we got rejected was our response to some of Paul Graham's suggestions. One of them was to expand the concept to include game characters (Iconfinder is currently an icon search engine). We didn't respond to his idea in a positive way but instead defended icons as a large enough niche to build a initial service people would pay for.
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They could also have fed the hungry merely by allowing prices to fall. But doing that makes it harder to get the farming vote (a big deal in that era).
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Well, I'm not an economist, never worked on anything related to it. But, I like "Pareto principle", I think it is brilliant. If I talk with some economist, I might bring that up in a conversation. What is so weird about it?

Also, being homeless and jobless (I have no experience with the earlier, and I don't recommend it) is great to improve ones intellect, because, the person has no stake in anything, and can come to unbiased conclusions on subject matters. Also he/she can dive in and learn anything, just out of curiosity.
Mhh why do a lot of Android apps need 'READ PHONE STATUS AND IDENTITY' permission? Seems unnecessary and makes me not want to use your app.
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Just using LC_ALL="C" would break people using some other language to write code. I personally strictly disagree with writing code in anything but English, but other people think it's okay to have Russian class names or something. Using LC_ALL="C" would make this impossible.
From what I've heard the majority of the problems we saw this time around were caused by a deadlock in NTP in a number of Linux kernels (2.6.21 until 3.3 I think, although that might be wrong).

[source: http://www.mail-archive.com/git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org...]

I know that CentOS/RHEL 6 was affected, but CentOS/RHEL 5.5 (kernel 2.6.18) was not.

So I guess it's just a coincidence, a bug was introduced in a code path that's rarely executed and so lay dormant for some time, gaining more and more victims as time went by and people adopted kernels containing said bug.
Differential compression? Isn't this what Opera Turbo and other web accelerators do?
I figure you already solved that problem, but maybe http://gittup.org/tup/ is general enough for your use case?
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>>Honestly if you were to ask me, merely the thought of being that person scares me.

Honestly, the thought of becoming either(small time job vs comfortable living with son oldman) of those old persons scare me. I would rather be an oldman, more like Ron from "Into the wild"(think lifestyle business), than either of these. Unfortunately, i can't rely on Federal Health care or pension for that.
I've been using builds of this for months, so fair to say it should be pretty stable now.
I'd surmise that the main reason leap years continue to break systems is that new software is developed within the time between leap years that fail to account for them.

Date/time handling is notoriously difficult to get right, and leap years are an edge case that's triggered very rarely, so it's easy for novice developers to fail to handle it.
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Exec summary: This is not caching. It is reduced latency for your visitors by removing connection setup over a large geographical distance. It also reduces the latency your web server has to deal with to effectively zero, but you can do that with Nginx. It also will reduce your bandwidth consumption from your providers perspective to a fraction of what it was.

I think describing this as caching hides the real benefits. My startup pushes 150 Mbps on average so I care about this stuff.

Rather than being caching, this introduces a proxy server that is geographically close to your visitors that then communicates with your server using an efficient compression protocol. So, much of the network path that would transfer a full payload is replaced by a compressed connection that does not have to build up and tear down a TCP connection with a three way handshake. The most important benefit I see here for site visitors is reducing latency by removing the connection setup. They will spend a few ms setting up the connection with a server a few hundred miles from them instead of on the other side of the planet. That server then serves a cached page or uses an established connection to only get the changes, which could mean as little as a single send and single receive packet.

Another benefit of this is that your local web server will be talking to a local cloudflare client which means there is practically zero latency from your perspective for each request. This means that each of your app server instances spends less time waiting for it's client to send or receive data and more time serving app requests. It's why people put Nginx in front of Apache.

I think the most important cost benefit here is reducing your bandwidth consumption. We're constantly negotiating our colo deal based on 95th percentile and getting your throughput from 1 Gbps down to 50 Mbps which I think this may do will drastically reduce your real hosting costs. Of course Cloudflare need to maintain their servers and will be serving 1Gbps to your customers but those cloudflare servers will be geographically closer to your customers. However because data centers bill based on your throughput at the switch and not how far your customers are away from you, I don't see that there are any cost savings they (cloudflare) can pass on to you. They're going to be billed what you were being billed for bandwidth, but they'll mark it up. I suppose you could argue there are economies of scale they benefit from, but that doesn't seem like a compelling argument for reduced costs.
Could you explain how would enforcing the law against the wealthy/privileged affect this situation at all?

Please be specific about the mechanics.
It worked good for me (HTC Desire S)

But this is what app says
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Hi genwin,

Thank you for your comments :)

I agree that something with local in it would be good. I'm thinking there might be a good word for those 'hidden' places that only the locals know.

Anyways: You're welcome to write us at team@stamsted.com

Best,

Kristoffer
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I commute on SWT daily from Bournemouth so I understand your frustration, I'm yet to have a week that has run every service on time.

The low point was a bike falling on the track and the train having to stop for an hour and a half for the driver to turn off the power on the line and walk the 2miles to remove the bike himself, ridiculous!

On a positive note, i've sometimes got the Virgin trains and had nothing but a good experience from them.

I still don't understand why there aren't power points in all carriages and onboard wifi, I mean National Express can do it on the coaches!