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This is the second time Google has supported a partner who is asking absurd percentages on FRAND patents.

Of all the IP litigation that is happening, why is Google seemingly supporting the least defensible and moral claims?

Maybe Google feels that the world is indifferent about their behavior here, but outside of strong supporters of open source code I feel like Google is losing the PR war about their integrity.
204 is no content. Think you meant 304.
I think djb is a brilliant programmer, and he has written some absolutely fantastic code, but I also think that he is becoming less and less relevant as time goes on. Various DNS servers have massively improved, security is being taken more seriously (due in part to him, no doubt) but his software doesn't seem to be moving forward...

dnscache for example doesn't (at least in my testing) connect over IPv6 to a remote name server to resolve a domain, nor does it do DNSSEC validation (and I understand DJB doesn't like DNSSEC, unfortunately it is here and I think that more and more having a validating resolver is a good idea).
Shady deals aren't needed. Intel can just make UEFI cheaper than BIOS by providing sample code for one and not for the other. Coreboot was never even on the OEMs' radar.
This is a really useful list. Now how to score a warm intro from my unbuddy Elon...
you can implement exceptions with error monad.
I've been using "Tinfoil for Facebook" on Android for this very reason. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
That's one way to look at it - like many of the risk factors we struggle against (market, product, incumbent), if it can be overcome it can be a definite barrier to competition.

On the flip side, it's still a risk.
I know what Hanlon's razor is, and I can guarantee you FB Engineering knows what a rollback is and how to know whether you need one or not. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that they're that stupid.
Google nailed email and has search down pretty good. Facebook has social networking. Twitter has ... something that keeps people dumping money on it.

Personally, my money is on Google winning out, although not my investments.
Yeah, I thought about leaving that second sentence off. Point remains.
I really hope they keep the wunderground telnet server running. I find that thing invaluable.
High fees are the "least" defensible? Apple just asked for and got a full-on import ban on the Galaxy Nexus...

None of this serves to justify the nonsense out there. But if you're willing to look the other way when one side plays hardball, don't be shocked when their opponent hits back. Patents are a huge mess, but this is hardly a one-sided issue about "Google", and to try to make it so is plain disingenuous.

(I suppose the counter argument is that Apple's patents were never termed FRAND, so that makes a technical difference. Might be so. But that's certainly not a "moral" difference, which seems to be the terrain you're standing on in your argument. Edit: and multiple folks posted just that. Let's just say I find that argument nonsense, "FRAND" is a technical distinction, not a moral one; try explaining it to your non-industry friends for an existence proof of that.)
This thing you're calling MOVE, how is it different from Qt's MVC + signals and slots [1]? You've discovered a new (for you) way of applying MVC and you've gone ahead and given it a new name. Nothing in your blog post is new, except the name of course.

If I sound snarky, it's because I'm sick and tired of similar opinionated proclamations in too many self-important blog posts.

Edit: Re the down votes. If you're going to write posts with titles like "MVC is dead" with no justification whatsoever, then proceed to self-post on HackerNews, then I feel justified calling you out on it. Again, I would appreciate someone informing on how MOVE is fundamentally different from MVC.

1. http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/model-view-programming....
I'm not sure GEB is intended to be agreed or disagreed with.
Looks awesome. However, I give you guys about a week before you get a takedown notice from Scrabble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexulous#Legal_and_copyright_is...
"wild accusations that we were just playing everyone"

You are 100% incorrect as to what I actually did and why. In business what I had suggested as a possibility is not something that would be frowned upon at all. It's the way business is done quite frequently. Do you think games aren't played in business and especially in negotiation? Consequently I wasn't being critical at all according to the way I viewed what you did. I looked at it in a positive way.

I've been negotiating for about 37 years and think about it every day and even as a hobby study the actions of a wide variety of individuals and companies. I don't claim to know what you know about programming or rise to your level of proficiency since it's what you do and I would never challenge you on that. But I do know about negotiating and business.

The "speculation" that I had was based on my experience. I even called it "speculation" and started my statement by saying "I'd love a post on how the price was set". That hardly sounds like it is coming from someone making "wild accusations".

As an aside I don't think that it supports your point to compare your situation to Apple and use the number 200k. Obviously.
Homosexuality has existed as long as humans, it's all over our recorded, and spoken, history.

The legal problem is mostly about the word "marriage" and nothing else. Sure, we could fix everything by changing tons of laws (LOTS and LOTS) - or we could federally re-define marriage and be done with it.
Or as a Canadian PM said "Different but equal is not equal".

Marriage started as a religious concept. Eventually, it flowed into non-religious lawmaking with separation of church and state in general, and the churche's waning power over the state. It wasn't a grand plan with tons of subtle concepts.

An adopted child with two loving dads or moms is better than an institutionalized child with the state raising them.
And who says that there is no mommy-type figure in the picture too? You don't know everyone's personal business.

And news fella - homosexual women are physically capable of having children, and homosexual men are physically capable of providing their needed bit to get a woman pregnant.

To your last paragraph - why do we bother to elect lawmakers and have a government if not to make law.

Plenty of heterosexual couples cannot bear children either - should they not be allowed to marry?
I'm pretty sure that FB knew exactly what they were doing. They did think things through and decided the the short term PR loss was worth the benefits of gaining access to the email of 90% of their user base.
Does anyone have an explanation why it wasn't possible to sell Sortfolio when it was more popular, but suddenly at the deadline the deal materialized at the price that it was announced long time ago?

According to Compete.com, in the last 12 months Sortfolio traffic decreased more than 75% (4 times):

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/sortfolio.com/
Anything you need a Run dialog for, you can just press the Windows key and start typing. Everything in your path shows up, with "recently used" suggestions on the right side, and quick feedback if you mistype something.
Have you tried http://www.kontagent.com?
How do you feel about the typography and design of the magazine? I looked at a few of their sample pages and was a bit perturbed, but maybe they're just bad at picking sample pages.
Just for fun - "stochastic optimization" as in here:
www2.isye.gatech.edu/~ashapiro/download.php?Down=book

is in fact identical to "empirical risk minimization" in Vapnik's statistical learning theory. As soon as you are not 100% sure about any of the numbers in your routing model, you find yourself in the same setting as that studied in "machine learning"!
Sometimes the box in the start menu acts weird, like not understanding what I mean by Desktop\. The run dialog offers a popup with possible paths.
Um. Hi. I use facebook, this pissed me off.

Then I changed my email address back to what I want it to be, and I have ceased caring. I will continue using facebook to coordinate bar meetups with my friends.
JQuery 1.9 and 2.0 — tl;dr edition
Where and how did you acquire clients. What's your skill set, and your rate (range)?
It was for "all user information" whatever that means.

https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/destructuremal%20Sub...
I'm still confused. Did the address book trashing affect only iOS 6 beta users?
She didn't say they didn't have a rollback plan, she was saying there's no way to undo the damage they've already done. She's not privy to their internal plans, it was a metaphor.

Rolling back the change won't get people's time or email back, or undo the damage to facebook's reputation.
IANAL, but this might help: http://sos.georgia.gov/corporations/dissolve_llc.htm
Indeed. I'd certainly rather be able to nest functions, but C became a lot more powerful to me after I learned how to compile a bunch of high-level features to it. (Your 'ichbins' helped, by the way. That, LiSP, and some SML papers.) I'd still rather automate much of the heavy lifting, of course.

I'm weirded out by the idea of writing CPS-transformed code by hand for node.js, but apparently people like it? Perhaps it's something similar.
>India is a secular country. Hindus are not in charge

Tell that to the Christians of Orissa or Muslims of Ahmedabad or Kashmir.

50,000 Christians fled in Orissa in 2008, thousands of homes destroyed and dozens of Churches burnt.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/sep/01mob.htm

Thousands were still unable to return because of Hindu extremists more than 1 year later:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/orissa-christians-are-pris...

Remember when Hindu-dominated BJP kicked Jaswant Singh out of the party for saying the truth?

Jaswant Singh: "Look into the eyes of the muslims that live in india and if you truly see through the pain that they live of which land do they belong to? we treat them as aliens! because somewhere, inside we continue to ask that 'even after pakistan you still want something?' these are citizens of india now. that was jinnah's failure, because jinnah never left and never really advised the muslims that stayed back."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachar_Committee_Report#Main_fi...

-Muslim parents are not averse to mainstream education or to send their children to affordable Government schools. The access to government schools for children of Muslim parents is limited.

-The average amount of bank loan disbursed to the Muslims is 2/3 of the amount disbursed to other minorities. In some cases it is half. The Reserve Bank of India’s efforts to extend banking and credit facilities under the Prime Minister’s 15-point programme of 1983 has mainly benefited other minorities marginalizing Muslims.

-There is a clear and significant inverse association between the proportion of the Muslim population and the availability of educational infrastructure in small villages. Muslim concentration villages are not well served with pucca approach roads and local bus stops.

-Most of the variables indicate that Muslim-OBCs (Other Backward Class) are significantly deprived in comparison to Hindu-OBCs. The work participation rate (WPR) shows the presence of a sharp difference between Hindu-OBCs (67%) and the Muslims. The share of Muslim-OBCs in government/ PSU jobs is much lower than Hindu-OBCs.
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Shucks Jason ... now we're blushing! ;-)
Happy to confirm all this. Great to hear you were able to find a qualified buyer.

Your comments on buyers needing to qualify themselves to get a response is right on. Professional buyers pitch themselves to sellers as much as the other way around.
it could get administrator permissions but, to run a device driver, the device driver needs to be signed. to patch a device driver on the system would invalidate its signature and that modified device driver would no longer load.

so you modify the boot loader, but now that is dead. so you modify ... what? now we're "done", there isn't any further down the stack to go, this is the "base" of the "trusted computing base". hooray!
First, every negative thing you mention there happens all the time, and it's done by straight people in heterosexual marriages. Where's the gay connection?

All of the positive things you mention are generic arguments in favor of marriage that could be applied just as well to gay marriage. You're completely leaving out the part about why one group of people can marry, but another group can't.

Edit: Also, your Wikipedia link actually backs up my argument that marriage has historically been a religious institution, so I'm not sure what you're going for there, or how it explains why the government needed to get involved.
There were so many obvious problems with associating a @facebook with everyone's account. As soon as I heard the news, I thought.. hmm.. someone could easily scrape 1 million facebook usernames, and be able to send 1 million emails to all of them using their facebook email address.

And make it all uber-personal because they know their full name AND all their friend's names AND what they liked AND their hometown AND the college they went to, etc, etc,. That's a spammer's wet dream.
New New Rdio - Another View
No, I won't leave Facebook entirely over this, but I did just uninstall their application on my Android device. I simply don't trust them to have access to my contact list.

Frankly, I didn't trust them much before: I'm sure they were mining it, which is not something I would explicitly consent to. However, now I no longer trust them to not break it, so I've removed their access to it entirely.
Nokia claims Google's Nexus 7 tablet infringes its patents
Isn't Backbone JS going in that direction. The server just providing an API with rendered JSON as the View which then feeds the Client as the Model?
It's a metaphor. She's saying they can't undo the damage they've already done, not that they can't literally change the code (or email addresses) back.
google buzz?
Getting the info is incredibly easy if you're on the ground, and we plan to use people on the ground as sales people as well as information aggregators. It's not as hard as it seems, maybe 10 hrs a week of work for someone who can be there, and the bar specials can be crowd sourced. We haven't even done a good job letting our users talk to us, and when specials are wrong someone almost always lets us know.
Why Google did not design the tablet with Motorola
The Potential of Digital Communication
I forgot one detail. They don't just provide the links, but a way of discovering the link via other unique identifiers, some of which are confirmed. e.g. email addresses and phone numbers.

With #2 you'd still need trusted sources that can verify that a person i found via johndoe@acme.com or +1 (914) 555-1212 is in fact the owner of that email or phone number.
I wonder if anyone's tried tackling an "RSS feed store" the same way app stores work? Being able to easily add and remove $1/mo subscriptions would be quite nice, especially with a $10/yr option.
"For the cost of “Men in Black 3,” for instance, the studio could have become one of the world’s largest venture-capital funds, thereby owning a piece of hundreds of promising start-ups."

That assumes you know how to do that of course. People know and are comfortable with what they know. Drawing a comparison to a skill in another industry that takes years to hone really makes no sense.
Hey, mkbernier -

Do you guys do any placements for contracts or other freelance work? I work at Mapquest right now, and while I'm not in the market for a new full time gig just yet, I'm always looking for freelance work to help out the balance between dad's-fun-fund and baby's-diaper-fund in the bartonfink family budget. My e-mail address is in my profile if you'd like to chat - I'd appreciate a note!
An Interview with Trent Walton of Paravel
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Just to make sure we're on the same page, you are arguing that FB engineering was 100% aware of the consequences of automatically switching primary email address to @facebook.com for users who had setup that functionality, including overwriting email addresses in phone contact lists and capturing email unintentionally sent via those modified contact lists?

This is certainly within the realm of possibility and indicates that you hold the team's technical ability in high regard. If it is indeed true, I would wonder what percentage of the folks involved in the implementation actually thought about it and how high/wide the issue was escalated. I have certainly been in situations where after-the-fact I found out that something I had been a part of shipped with known bugs/features I didn't know about that I would have raised a lot more concern over.
Keyle -

As someone who's just on the cusp of 30 and is actively planning a move down under, do you mind expounding a little further on what happened? I'd love to avoid the same pitfall if possible.
True, but those points don't yield the PC an inherently superior computer from a utility standpoint.

Despite what you've said, non-PC devices are for core tasks (email, web browsing, messaging, etc.,) a highly-refined, elegant and convenient experience for many end users. Given a person who uses their computer almost entirely for the tasks I've mentioned (and there are plenty of this type of user), would it not be right to recommend them an iPad or other tablet?

What, exactly, would that user be gaining from a full-fledged desktop or notebook PC? That question is getting increasingly difficult to answer.
Ask HN: How to get an edge in traditional business using technology?
Hi guys, first of all i would like to introduce myself. I'm a business student (19 year old) from Chile looking forward to start a new business. I'm sorry if my english isn't perfect, it's something i'm constantly working on.

So basically i'm starting a specialty food store - wholesaler, focusing mainly on Caviar and Truffles (at least at first), a pretty small niche traditional kind of business.

I know i'm probably lacking funds in comparison to my competition, but i think i can probably outperform them in everything related to web and internet (i'm not exactly a hacker, but i think i'm pretty proficient with technology), as the take of the competition here is pretty much "brick and mortar", with little or no taking advantage of new technologies.

So, how could i leverage this technical advantage to get an edge in this business? Good SEO and a nice e-commerce page comes to mind, but i'm pretty sure there are other areas and tactics i haven't thought of.

Thanks a lot.
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The licensing for the font on that balloon was rather expensive, and the balloons internal blatter consists of panda skin.
If you are already having sex, does it really matter if you marry?
c) Use FB
Exactly. These college towns are often so small that a whole app for people to save a few bucks would most likely not be incredibly popular. Then again, I'm not much of a drinker so my point of view might be a little bit skewed on this one and the target audience might provide a genius business model. I guess we'll see.

+1 for same alma matter :)
shipping is free though!
France may extend TV licence fee to computer screens
Diablo 3 is a racist sexist video game?

I think we may be a little far 'round the bend here.
Behind The Scenes At Twitter’s New San Fran Office
Located in a ginormous art-deco building, it comes complete with an arcade room, rooftop garden, massive gourmet cafeteria (called @BirdFeed) and even a yoga / meditation room. You have to ask the question, would it be possible to do any work in a place as cool as this?
That would make sense giving her the benefit of the doubt, thanks. The transition to metaphor was pretty blurry in the article title.

As I pointed out elsewhere, they can just forward the email to the intended address as an unwelcome MTA, so I disagree with your statement that they can't get people's email back. I agree on the time and reputation points though. However, I don't think any rollback has ever gotten those back, so 'rollback impossible' because it can't do what any rollback has ever done seems disingenuous.
> We are going to need to hire programmers in the future. Are there people with Clojure skills (or those that we can cross-train) around? In our geographic region? At the price point we can afford?

I think this common perspective is a little misguided. Programmers retrain fairly easily, inexpensive recent graduates doubly so. With JVM languages, it's particularly true, because the overall environment is so large compared to the language, and all that comes over for free.

I don't really understand the business world's preoccupation with 5 years of experience. My experience has been that some programmers "get it" right out of school, others never get it, some continue to improve into their 60s and beyond. Experience levels correlate strongly with desired starting salary, but not with skill or ability to learn.

> In 5 years from now is it likely that this is going to be a marginalized technology that we have trouble finding skills for?

Lisp was a highly marginalized technology for a few decades there. No doubt you could scour résumés at Monster.com all day and not find anyone who had bothered to put it down. But nobody who actually tried to hire Common Lisp programmers had much difficulty finding them or paying them, because of the prestige. Very few languages seem to enter an actively-hated state (Cobol and Mumps being obvious exceptions); the rest enter disuse and we programmers get all misty-eyed for them.

In short, this is one of those "obvious" business fears that turns out to be completely irrational.

On the flip side, where I work, we use Java 6, JSF 2 and Hibernate: industry standard stuff. Nevertheless, we've been able to fill only one of three open positions in the last three years, after multiple month searches. The size of the labor pool is usually not the limiting factor: in our case, we are in the middle of nowhere and offer below industry standard compensation (though it's very high for the region). Where you are, what you pay, what the benefits are like, what you work on; these kinds of things are going to have a much more dramatic effect on your ability to find developers than simply choosing an off-beat language. Plenty of recent graduates would rather work for less money on interesting problems with desirable tools.
Can you describe the problems you've seen? Wife and I were over 30 when we moved to AU from the US. Certainly quite a bit of paperwork, but wasn't all that tough in reality.
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Thank you. I for one am tired of seeing the "People you only interact with online are not friends" canard. Relationships don't work that way.
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