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I always prefer to leave a comment when I am downvoting, and I think that, at least in my head, it's beneficial in encouraging the type of behavior I would like to see more of on HN.

Simply put, I would MUCH prefer to see a long, well-thought comment by someone who has obviously put effort into their post than someone deriding them for having been so wordy.

Regrettably, I downvote so much more often than I used to (because there is, whether it's acknowledged or not, a battle between the 'old guard' and the new) that I am not able to leave commentary where I once would have, nor would my ire be appropriate by my own standard, so I often drive-by-downvote, all the while envisioning the day where HN will either be saved from those who prefer to make short, catchy quips than well thought diatribes, or I will leave.

I don't mean to make this all dramatic, as I will likely leave unnoticed when that day comes, but I wanted to give some sort of additional commentary before saying that I also downvoted each of Omron's posts, and I don't feel that sort of post is at all appropriate here.

Grellas' commentary is often invaluable on legal matters such as this, and I am visibly disappointed when I see legal threads where I could use some insight, and can't find a topical post by him on the matter as his posts are almost always the most enlightening for laypersons such as myself that are nevertheless interested.

Lastly, while I generally abhor the notion of judging people by account ages or karma values, I think Grellas deserves far better than to be asked to shorten his posts by someone with 82 karma, though I would be just as vocal if Oman had 20,000 karma.
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Being on the App store / Android market is a social/viral marketing tool.

Getting positive reviews and more downloads creates a viral effect as you get more prominence in the market.

But I'm just being pedantic. Congrats on the growth.
We're in the same ballpark.

JetSetter started as very 'Gilt' (members-only, flash sales) but they seem to be making a huge push toward the OTA (online travel agency) model.

And they've had some internal problems recently - http://www.tnooz.com/2012/05/15/news/jetsetter-ceo-out-after...
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Too bad nobody asked him what was holding up that turtle...

... First Cause is inexplicable. Get over it.

Ironically, I'd consider myself a believer, but some arguments are flat out cringe-worthy.
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When I look at it, the whole certification process seems so flawed when used as a repalcement for great work experience.
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> In medicine you don't typically do Viagra 2.0, with a boatload of new IP that makes the original obsolete (and hence any competitors shipping the old version scrambling).

Actually, there is an entire class of drugs known in medicine as "patent extenders". Take your expiring patented drug, alter the formulation, or attach an unnecessary chemical group that doesn't affect the mechanism of action, et voila! Twenty more years of monopoly.

As a result of this, there are drugs which were prescribed twenty years ago that are no longer available-- since the original developer has moved on to an "improved" version which may be less effective, while the generic version is not profitable enough to be widely available.

What this means for intellectual property, I'm not sure. It's a tricky issue.
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Sorry about the registration/login problems you and a lot of our other users have been seeing. We've been running into a few issues with logging in and our video servers that we didn't find in testing before because of the load from all the HN traffic. We're working as quickly as possible to resolve those.
Is there any way to make the capture window full screen or make it dragable so that it could be moved over top of the task bar for or icon tray for instance?
You can only stream through Google properties though. Can't even stream from a local PC. So even if you don't care, it's kinda funny. You have to stream things over the internet all the time.

The hardcore might be using things like BitPerfect and using their own DAC/AMP combos or whatever.
He has a lifetime appointment as a judge. Only 9 judges have ever been removed in the history of the country. It isn't likely that he will be removed. They can just appeal his decisions.
most industries? No. Some industries? Yes. I am a firm believer that patents do not belong in software at all. They're used to litigate not innovate and how often has a developer truly come up with a software technique that isn't in some form prior art? Most of the things that Oracle was arguing in the Google case were in-fact techniques that have been used in mathematics long before programming ever became a viable choice as a career (the rangeCheck point in the case is a prime example).

I think patents should only be for actual products, something you can hold in your hand. People like Apple trying to patent things like slide to unlock are idiots, you shouldn't be able to patent a movement.

As it has been shown many times, software patent litigation is a joke. Patent something real or GTFO. Look at people like James Dyson the dude has tonnes of patents all mostly on real products and techniques for doing unique things in the case of Dyson suing for competitors stealing his patented methods of cyclonic vacuum cleaners that's a real patent lawsuit right there, not arguing over whether or not a swipe is a zero length touch.
John Siracusa recently covered patents on his Hypercritical podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68. Nice dissection of the idea of drug patents as being "special" (vs other kinds of patentable IP) in there as well.
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Patents are for inventions, but software patents are used to insulate whole products from competition.
Agreed! When homeopathy works, it's because people call active formulations of herbal medicines homeopathic, even when they have way more than homeopathic doses in them.
Disclosure Singularity U alumnus here.

My hypothesis here is that Vivek was trying to open a debate, to challenge the students to accept the possibility of alternative views, rather than pushing those alternative views. This is strongly aligned with his role as VP of Academics where he is trying to encourage the students to consider alternative possibilities and that there are different perspectives, this is within his role remit. Not to defend homoeopathy but it's when you examine and challenge existing hearsay that you can make great strides of innovation.
I am not the tick-boxes on a form. I am a human with all that goes with it.
I once read large parts of http://www.google.com/patents/US4614319 out of curiosity. The way it's written to actually explain the ideas shows up how most patents aren't.
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My understanding is that it can be dangerous for a company significantly affected by IP for its employees to read any patents. If that doesn't fly in the face ...
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I think you guys are in a unique situation where you have the power to let a copy cat pass or not pass. That doesn't happen to everyone. Not everyone owns the platform.
I believe the protocol over bluetooth was standard A2DP, but it required a serial protocol to pair the device.
Indeed. But one could have known as much by analyzing the moral case against patents: patents are unjust restraint of one human being from acting to think, create, and sell. There is no possible argument to say that you can bind another human down "because I thought of it first", really patents reflect the moral mentality of a two-year-old.
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Some departments do that. Unfortunately the tapes sometimes get lost. Go figure.
It's not a mix up. It stands for computer-generated imagery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery
I don't think you understand what freemium means. I have some reluctance to believe this but, as the stories go, it's akin to a drug dealer giving a free hit to "see that the product is worth paying for". It is not perpetually providing you free bongs. Clear?
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On the other hand, with drugs you have the problem that for the 20 years that the patent owner has a monopoly, the price to consumers is high compared to after the patent expires and the generic version becomes readily available.

People can die during this time because they can't afford the drug.

A possible solution:

1. Add to drug patents a compulsory license, allowing anyone to make the drug provided they pay a royalty determined by statute to the patent owner.

2. This royalty rate would be low enough that the generic drugs are cheap--maybe 5 to 10% more than they would be if there was no patent.

3. This would make it harder for the patent owner to recover their costs over the life of the patent. We want them to recover their costs (and make enough to finance developing more drugs) so need to do something to counter this. We can do this by making the patent term longer for drug patents. Instead of 20 years, make it something like 50 years or 75 years or even 100 years.

We all win with this. The drug companies (as long as they are in it for the long haul) make money when they put in the effort to develop new drugs, but the patients get the drugs at an affordable price right away instead of waiting 20 years.
I think you've missed another very important part out.

There's a very large, and extremely active community based around each course. Some are necessarily more active than others. Most of them have the actual teachers participating and I've witnessed the forum evolves into a peer-driven help system. Peter Norvig's activity on his course's forum was astounding and I've never seen a more helpful and active online community before.

I haven't seen that with other online courses.

OCW had nothing in terms of community engagement.
Coursera does have a forum for each course, but they are very dry and the engagement factor feels missing.

I haven't had a chance to take an offering from MITx yet.

I have seen a few interviews where Udacity staff or teachers have said they deliberately wanted to engage the students and to encourage them to become active and support each other and I've seen that it's quite a big boost to the rest of the offering.
I'm not sure if I agree on that. when we think about viral we think about one existing user is inviting another one. This is not the case just because you are on the store if your app does not add more value to the user then they invite a friend.
Facebook is one of these examples. Your Facebook is better when your friends are in there. For this reason you invite them.
An app that you use to hide some of your pictures is not getting any better just because your friends are using it.

Still good reviews and a good placement in the market makes finding and trusting you easier for the user. But if you don't get up in the ranks or search results there is nothing that gets you anywhere. Where as if you have a viral loop in your app, you can still grow even if you don't rank in the store.
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Clojure is better suited to write application, low level system software does not fit.
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"You're going to disparage the scientific credibility of the entire medical profession because some practitioners are focused on isolating and synthesizing the effective components of medication?"

My criticism of western medicine isn't that it focuses on new molecular entities (NMEs), but rather that it focuses only on NMEs despite loads of empirical evidence pointing out that much of the best medicine is potentially neither new nor a molecular entity. My point is that it's not fair to criticize alchemy for having guiding spiritual assumptions if you're not willing to admit that western medicine has its own spiritual assumptions.
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You don't need a ridiculously overpriced, underpowered Nexus Q to get to your conclusion (successful third party android consoles) though.

If anything, debacles like this and Google TV 1.0 lose Android credibility in the living room space as prospective buyers ask "Is this gonna be another Nexus Q?" while they're considering purchasing the Samsung Galaxy Console.
Even if you're busy any time you're at work, in most modern workplaces, engaging with your coworkers is part of the job. Over the course of your workday, there are probably some periods where interruptions are less of a setback. We'd like to see conversations happen during those times, rather than when you're untangling some tricky knot of a problem in your head.
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FWIW, my information is quite out-of-date, I left that industry in '08 (I started in it in '96! http://web.archive.org/web/19961019065611/http://www.oztrave... )
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Working from home reduces visibility, you don't work from home to make more and get promoted, you work from home to avoid the retardation of a commute, busy work, excessive meetings, etc.

You work from home so you can put in 2 hours work, accomplish as much as anyone else did and spend the remaining 6 enjoying your life.

I'm pretty sure that everyone who decides to work from home did so for quality of life reasons rather than climbing the corporate ladder reasons.
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Exactly, patents and intellectual "property" always refer to arguments relating to physical property; when by their nature the explicitly limit the rights you have to use physical property that you own. It's outrageous.
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I don't see patents, or patent defence as a problem. The problem is that patents are being granted for lowest-bar "innovations", which are leading to these cases by companies that are merely using it as yet another competition tactic. In tech we're seeing patent cases are over trivial, often minor, features which others can accidentally infringe upon without noticing.

Pharma is a different beast, it's much more difficult to have a low-bar pharmaceutical, usually by the time the work is done the medication far exceeds the threshold of patentability. (Patent exploitation does still happen, as others have pointed out with insincere drug enhancements.) It's not about regulating specific industries(which would be exploited), but rather about raising the bar on what is indeed an original invention.

The blame for this mess lay on the USPTO. The patent system is being run like a commercial entity. A granted patent will attract over $5,000 in fees to USPTO, a rejected patent will only garner $125, with much of the granted fees attributed to curiously undefined 'maintenance' cost.

http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp#heading-6
"completely bullshit reporting, completely oblivious to what has gone before drowns out everything else."

This is really the crux of the problem. Reporting has lost its memory, and PR-copy-pasting substitutes for in-depth analysis. Everything else follows from that.
I'm one of the curators of Pycoders. Thanks so much for the kind words, it's much appreciated!
At least conception ally, patents aren't a restraint on creating, they're a restraint on copying.
You said that video usually supports the officers' statements, and not the civilians' statements, according to the official statistics. However, those statistics could actually be quite distorted, if the police regularly destroyed the video in those cases in which they were at fault.

I'm basically just saying that the statistics could be misleading.
I want to echo the sentiment in my response to agentultra.
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Regardless of where one stands on questions of patent policy, it is ridiculous to praise a trial judge for ignoring binding precedent.

(Yes, I know Posner is an appellate judge. He was sitting by designation as a trial judge in Apple v. Motorola.)
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Thanks for the feedback and sorry for putting the punchline below the fold. At some point, I might improve Intellisult's UI, but that'll have to wait. For a silly site like that, and with a budget of $0, it's difficult to prioritize every detail just for providing people with some free entertainment.

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A patent holder should -never- be able to ban an entity from using an idea in one of their products, if our society's priority to maximize quality of life ('if' because it is clearly not a priority for certain entities).

The patent system needs to balance the need for an incentive to invent, with the goal of maximizing quality of life. The current state of the American patent system stagnates society on multiple levels:

1) Patents, in too many cases, are a prohibitive barrier to entry for entrepreneurs. We have a system in which entrepreneurs know that if an adequately wealthy corporation were to knowingly file frivolous patent lawsuit, the cost, time, and energy to defend such a lawsuit could threaten the life of a fledgling business. Such a system can only have a chilling effect on entrepreneurship and economic growth. Trying to improve the world should -not- feel like walking on a minefield, and until that is fixed, our economy is not receiving the full benefit of its entrepreneurs.

2) Another inventor may be able to use a patented idea as a component for a broader, more useful (patentable) idea. A patent holder should not be able to prevent the development of innovations based upon their own.

3) In many cases, the inventor is not the best producer of his own invention. Society, as a whole, is best off when the best inventions can be produced by the most capable producers, and a patent holder should never be able to prevent this optimal economic arrangement.

American society generally values creativity far more than productivity, as reflected not only in its patent system, but in its popular culture, heroes of industry, etc. But in terms the health and sustainability of society, and economic output, productivity is at least as important. If Americans don't collectively acknowledge this, broader economic, and ultimately geopolitical, consequences will continue.

As a minimal solution to reverse these trends, I would suggest that patent holders be stripped of the ability to prevent others from being able to use their ideas in a product, but should be able to retain the ability to charge reasonable royalties. Thus, our society may be able to approach a healthier balance between its need for innovation and production.
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