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Yeah, but the UK, for all intents and purposes, is a 51st US state, in terms of legal and privacy concerns.

If you want to protect your startup's users, you should base your company in a country that won't extradite people on charges that aren't even applicable in said country. (O'Dwyer casus)

And where police won't sell you location and other assorted private data to the highest bidder. (NotW casus)
Misleading as shit. Recent versions of good browsers still work and will work on XP.
I wonder what are the major new features in this release? The link leads just to a post in a mailing list announcing this new release.

Disclaimer: I am using bash most of the time but I am open to learn new things.
The part that is particularly noteworthy is not that "Reddit" discussed the event, rather, Reddit enabled a single user named integ3r to offer a more succinct, comprehensive, unbiased, unsensationalized story than anywhere else in the media surrounding the event.
Actually, an economic collapse in the US is one of the most likely things to occur during this century. If you can't see that coming you must be very naive.
There is a solution that requires you to use a semicircle line to join two of the straight lines. You could argue it meets the rule 'just four straight lines', and you would be all the more 'creative' for proposing it. However it is unlikely to be suggested because the convention is to draw lines that directly connect dots.
On the 'fake it,till you make it' path,Berlin seems to be right in the 'fake it' part.You guys write about low costs of living,however there are cheaper places in Eastern Europe with better tech talent availability overall.You mention the nightlife and a couple of the clubs are indeed world class,but I'd doubt it that you go there more than 5 times a year.The internet in Germany is borderline third world quality,in Bulgaria and Romania you get some of the fastest internet in the world for a fraction of the price you'd pay in Germany.The women are better than in the UK,but far from the best looking in the world.

What I'm trying to say with this point is,I don't really see the advantage of being in Berlin in the early stages of your business too,when you're just a 3 people shop,busting your asses all day to move things forward

Having written all that,I loved Berlin during my few months stay.
They aren't specifying the period for which they will be providing bug fixes and maintenance. Which means the software has an unknown (and judging by similar cases, probably very small) amount usable life left.

As opposed to how the app store paradigm of low-cost one-time purchases has lay people believe, software is radically different from most shelf-sold commodities they are used to buying in stores, in that it is destined to become less useful with time, to rot, if not cared for. Unmaintained software is prone to security vulnerabilities, gets harder to document and understand, and eventually becomes unusable on modern hardware. That "you're not losing your email client" is only true for today; having a working binary today doesn't guarantee you'll have a secure, working tool a few weeks/months down the line.

If the app store industry is intent on continuing to sell software as minimally critical to people's productivity as email software, they are going to have to come up with a persuasive, standardized, binding method of informing people of terms of support, and learn to stick to the terms they have set. App stores and their respective platforms are only a few years old; give it some time and people are going to collectively get much wiser than to tie their critical workflows and data to opportunistic pieces of technology built by bright young people whose top incentive is to make a fast buck and/or pose as "indies" to get employed by the status quo.
The times are really changing. When Steve Jobs passed away, I've learned about it on HN and Twitter about half an hour before mainstream news picked up the story.
"which no one studies in school"

In the Netherlands, German is compulsory in high school at the HAVO and VWO levels. Regrettably, I've pretty much forgotten all of it. That being said, the Dutch people are already half German.
You should take a look at HackFWD http://hackfwd.com/

For them it doesn't matter where you are in Europe. However, their recruiting mechanism is referrer based.
FWIW, we're no longer under Conde Nast.

Journalists were the first to reach out to us, not the other way around. While I do agree that there is a trend in online journalism to hunt down page views rather than legitimate news, I personally feel that the story presented here is newsworthy. The information provided by integ3r on the shooting was the most succinct early coverage that I saw. Of course I'm a bit biased on that point.
Just found a previous post on the same topic that links to an article that describes the changes between 4.2 and 5.0:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4276088
Postbox (Sparrow/Thunderbird alternative) on sale
If you're paying $500M in taxes, you just inherited so much money you'd need several trucks to take it to the bank.

So you're supposed to feel sorry for people in that position? That they have to pay so much tax they might have only a few hundred million left to pad out their mattress?

Most people are ground down to nearly nothing by taxes and cripplingly high insurance premiums. They should be so lucky to have this much left over after taxes.

You know what most kids inherit when their parents die? A giant tab for the funeral.
> I don't see any reason to not own patents in order to protect your work from being patent trolled.

Patents last a long time. Longer, sadly, than many companies. A good-faith company that owns several patents has no control over those "assets of the company" if they go out of business. If those patents end up in the hands of patent trolls there is nothing that the good faith company (or the ex-employees) can do.

Your novel analogy shows just how broken the patent system is.
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In Estonia, A-language is usually English and B-language mostly Russian. Partly because 'travel West, you speak English, travel East, you speak Russian' and many Russian-speaking people live in Estonia. For techies, English+Russian still is a much better combo because of all the literature available.
Not all browsers do this. At least one compiles directly to native machine code. Chrome's V8 does this according to http://stackoverflow.com/a/8819921
"HackFwd takes 27% equity in exchange ..."

And it's pre-seed money. Thanks but no thanks.
I cringe every time I hear perpetrators of mass shootings described as "evil". Evil implies a presence of something bad. It's an easy label that allows people to hate the perpetrator.

It's much more accurate to describe the perpetrators as cold, empty, detached. That is frightening, because there is no hope of reasoning or bargaining with someone who is truly detached from emotion.

There is no such thing as evil. I appreciate this reporter for offering a more accurate picture of who these perpetrators really are.
this is a civil lawsuit (x has to give money to y because he created a damage), not criminal.
If they deem the trial fair, whatever the underlaying law was, they will enforce the decision.
I think the patent trolls might have chosen the wrong target on this one.

You can get away with suing Microsoft without too much PR fallout. No-one is going to get that upset.

But attacking a much-beloved company with a much-beloved founder with a suit that could prevent millions of people from playing their favourite game?

I'd expect a certain amount of, shall we say, "third party action". Said patent troll might want to hire more phone operators. And PR guys.

And security personnel.
is this a joke? I think it is. But anyway, cmd.exe is, to put it mildly, crap compared to any other shell. When were filenames with spaces ever a good idea?

try writing your own server with cmd.exe (bash can do it in 164 lines see: https://github.com/sayanriju/Tiny-Bash-Server/blob/master/us... ).
Yeaaaah this isn't one of those cases, I'm pretty comfortable judging on this one
Sony Walkman Series F800 Will Surely Blow Up Your Mind
The Sony Walkman Series F800 is here with their all new PMP. This Walkman is an Android powered media player that has over took its pre-decessor commonly known as Z – Series.
Who wants to buy this awesome product..
Article says it's wifi and bluetooth. It probably just needs to sit under a desk with nothing plugged in, like so many power strips are doing right now.
I think it's safe to say at this point, that this entire story is bollocks. The guy has posted a few comments here, but never to actually provide any information of substance.
> If you own a software patent, you should feel bad.

You should feel bad if you enforce it.

Practically speaking, if I hadn't had a patent granted while I was doing my first startup, I would've never gotten the acquisition valuation I got. It's a part of the game, you just have to have an "IP." Do I think this is retarded? Sure. Do I feel bad that I got a patent? No.
wat?

I'm also from Finland and I used to study German at school, as did many others in my school. However it is hard language, and in Finland they mostly teach you writing/reading/grammar.
The patent is a little bit more complex than that.

But yes, it appears to be a "thing that exists, but with online stuff added". This form of tweaking, taking an existing idea and adding a trivial modification and being able to get a patent is harmful.
When I was young my attitude was similar but in my elementary school and high school two foreign languages were mandatory (English, German or Fench) so I didn't have any other choice. I live in Czech Republic.

At that age I couldn't care less but now that I'm thinking of doing a PhD in Germany (from what I've heard a very affordable country with many great life science labs) I'm very glad that I remember at least basics even that I haven't actually spoken German for six years.

I think that learning two major foreign languages should be mandatory. Almost everybody can learn one language quite well after +/- 10 years during childhood and to learn at least basics from the second one should not be that much of a problem too.
"We decided that we don’t want to be free users any more. "
"The philosophy..."
"This is why I am a paid subscriber to services like..."

Sorry but you are an idiot if you really believed that.
I'm going to be the grumpy old man and say I think this is a step backwards, not forwards. Detailed, minute by minute, updates on 'breaking news' like this are just an extension of the ridiculous 24 hour news cycle that I imagine many redditors dislike.

Personally I think that sampling the news at most daily is quite enough.
You're missing some big points with Berlin. Where to begin... germany has a great social health care system, the economy is booming, it has a world class educational system, relatively crime and corruption free AND compared to what you get it is cheap (maybe not as cheap as Romania, but the benefits outway the costs). If you want to get talented developers germany has something to offer them and their families.
I think the selling point here is ability to find tech talent and meet investors and prospective customers. For the moment money are in the UK, but all things considered they can move to Germany. And the action will follow along.
It all sounds interesting and I've been meaning to drop my corporate job for some time now. So is there a Berlin startup news site (preferably in English) so I could get a feel what kind of startups are there?

EDIT: http://siliconallee.com/ seems to be the thing I was looing for, anything else?
Yeah we should get back to more important stuff like, why vim is so much better than textmate :p

I feel like hn articles are more an expression of the community's interests than centered around a specific set of topics. Kinda the vibe I've always got anyways.
Almost all accelerators do this. YC strongly encourages you to live in the Valley.
I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment but call foul your pejorative use of the word "retarded". It's just too easy not to compare bad things to "other" groups. English is a great and vast language; show some respect.
I disagree. Firstly, whilst the ends do not justify the means, this was an incredible technological and cultural achievement. Humanity's first, faltering step out of the cradle.

Secondly, two great warrior tribes holding enough weaponry to kill every human on the planet many, many times over hold guns to each other's heads... and then divert competition from violence into technological achievement. The message no longer just "I'm best because I'm stronger" but now also smarter, more technologically advanced. Means of competition that does actually give the world a brighter future, rather than just ending it for the other tribe.
I wouldn't worry too much about a crashing Euro. The exchange rates will most likely become more favourable for other currencies if that would happen. If you plan on staying there a longer period you might even see Germany reverting to Deutsche Mark, which should be even more favourable when exchanging back to your own currency once you leave considering that Germany itself has a very strong economy.
Patents were initially devised to let inventors to recoup their R&D expenses by giving them exclusivity on the market. And this - the R&D expense - should really be a defining factor in whether or not something is patentable.

This way a 5 minute brain fart by a recent graduate won't be patentable, but a clever optimization technique that stems from several man-month of testing on a cluster of Crays will be.
They spent millions defending it, the case lasted 8 years.
Do suggest alternatives. I am not a native speaker.
Assuming generation lengths of a conservative 20 years, earning 2% interest after inflation and capital gains tax on the money would result in the real value of the estate staying constant after taxes.
My observations as someone who's checked job boards/sites continually for almost 20 years:

Through the mid-nineties, when I graduated college, the requirements were reasonable. A solid understanding of software development fundamentals and reasonable experience for the advertised position. Focus was on ability and potential.

A few years later, as the .com boom was underway, requirements dropped to unreasonable levels. I saw people with embarrassing "qualifications" who were far better compensated than me. If you could grope a computer without getting slapped, you were hired to build web sites and paid top dollar.

A few years later, after the bubble burst, the pendulum swung in the other direction, hard. The market was flooded with applicants, and requirements at best matched the resume of the person who left. At worst, we got "10 years of Java" in 2001. Focus was on experience in very specific (and usually broad ranging) skills.

I have seen very little recovery from this point. It became the new norm. I do think it's getting better, but not a lot better, and only recently.

People are hiring employees like they would consultants or contractors. For short term hires, I want very relevant experience because paying premium, short term rates to someone learning on the job is very expensive. But if I'm hiring an employee, I just want someone who can learn quickly and with whom I can happily work for the next 5 years.
When committing to CSS, isn't the natural way to go the HTML5 + CSS3 way? Currently it is all about performance. I would like to see better solutions than phonegap and titanium.
Another one: http://venturevillage.eu/
> Bytecode on the web is a shitty idea.

In my book, some kind of byte code or other intermediate language is a lot better idea than distributing the source code of web apps. There are a lot of disadvantages to delivering programs (for immediate execution) as source code. Note: this is orthogonal to open source and licensing.

So what would be needed is an intermediate program representation that:

- Is well defined
- Is a good compilation target from various source languages
- Is easy to validate for correctness and security
- Is fast to interpret and compile
- Distributed in fast to read binary format
- Suits a dynamic language

In my opinion LLVM IR or CLR bytecode are the most technically suitable alternatives out of existing ones.

The web has quite a long legacy of Javascript and a tradition of supporting deprecated browsers so this kind of revolution is unlikely to happen any time soon.

> Besides: I can't think of language-neutral bytecode projects that ever worked. Remember Parrot?

JVM, CLR and LLVM are all popular compilation targets that are used with dozens of different source languages each. Bytecode and program representation was never the hard part, it's the frameworks of the OS/platform underneath.
DMCA is not a problem. The code ie copyrighted. You cannot copy it without permission (which you don't have). You cannot legally "take it apart to look at the code" to build a derived work without permission (which you don't have).

A country without the DMCA still has copyright law.
Sorry for incorrectly presuming you used it knowingly. The word "retarded" as it is commonly used in modern colloquial English originates with its use to describe people with mental disabilities of one form or another: they were at one time classified broadly as "mentally retarded". That was gradually abbreviated as "retarded", which has gradually been used as an insulting term for all manner of things (including but by no means limited to humans).
If you don't mind answering, what was your path to the Parkinson's diagnosis? I mean, what were some of the first signs that something was wrong?
> "There is no such thing as evil."

Surely that depends on your definition of the word, and by most if not all definitions it definitely is possible to be evil.

Maybe nobody can be pure evil, as in nothing but evil, but if you let that rule out calling them evil then you can equally say there's no such thing as nice, mean, clever, stupid, etc. etc.

Evil (adj)

1
a : morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked
b : arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct

2
a archaic : inferior
b : causing discomfort or repulsion : offensive c : disagreeable

3
a : causing harm : pernicious
b : marked by misfortune : unlucky

(Merriam-Webster)
I know what the word means. I also know its slang meaning, which you appear to be ignoring. Now, please do suggest an alternative that carries the same expressive load in a similarly succulent manner, but without being "offensive to other groups".
MySQL was open source before Sun bought them (you cannot un-open source something). Then Oracle bought Sun.
Anne Hathaway passing a good time and enjoys beating up men "a little too much"
How to Pirate Movies, Music, TV Shows, and Books Without Getting Caught
According to the article, the Rauschenberg piece in question is on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Aren't museums exempt from many kinds of purchase limitations? At least they seem to be able to buy cultural treasures that would be illegal for an individual to acquire.

The solution would be for Metropolitan to buy the piece for $29 million, the amount of taxes owed by the current owners. They don't make a profit, but no actual loss either (except the ownership of a piece that they can't legally own and which is already in the museum).
First, Seigler says he likes Google's Nexus 7, now CultOfMac saying MS has better taste than Apple?

Perhaps the Mayans were right after all! :P
What kind of attitude, exactly?
Wealth Held in Tax Havens Skyrockets. Amounts to $21 Trillion?
Get of your high horse, will ya. We all know what he meant by "retarded". This pedantic nitpicking does nothing but sidetrack the discussion.
Here is a nice discussion on LWN about wakelock / autosleep: http://lwn.net/Articles/479841/
I think that whilst notch has raised some valid points, he has really written an argument based on half the picture. I believe that maybe notch should read up more on criteria of patentability, other patent areas, and the feasibility of having everything 'funded by government' and perhaps share some of that too.

I agree that something like a software patent may be a bad idea, but you have to realise that a lot of people read your stuff and get influenced by this 'half of the patent picture' and then leave with the wrong idea and start criticising legitimate patent areas.

For example: Company A spends $200M of investors money finding a new anti-depressant. Ok so they invested all of this money, now they need to spend 8 years proving to the FDA that it is safe to use, there goes another $300M. 'Generic pharmacies inc' says hey, thanks for doing all that work, now we can manufacture that drug in our factory for 1c/pill and make a little bit of money, good luck recouping your research money because we just got all the cheap sales. Company A goes bankrupt, the investors lose their money. Company B and C notice this industry is poor for research, and decide never to spend that money finding an anti brain-tumor agent.

However, if company A had patented their idea, then they will have around 10-15 years of patent-protected time (because they have to patent before divulging it, and by the time you get through trials and approval you can often have just a few years left) to sell their drug at a price where they can recoup their $500M, and invest in more bigger and better research.
Meanwhile, whilst patented, other companies can see that research and build upon it with their own research - they just cant rip them off with the money they are owed in that time by selling it without permission. If they really want to sell it, they can ask the company to license it to them, and pay royalties. Later, the patent expires, as all of them do, and then generic company is free to manufacture it without paying the inventor a cent.

Is this not a valid reason for patents? I'm sorry notch but you cant copyright a pill, even though that copyright law may protect your own interests (minecraft)
> So the phone company can compress and send a lot more data

Actually, the limits date back to analog phone lines with circuit switching of a century ago. Back then there was a wire going through switches from one phone to another.
The quality requirements were that those lines had to pass 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz or so. That often required "pupinization" - adding inductive coils to tune the line's frequency response.

If you look at a spectrogram of your voice, there's very little power above 1.5 or 2 kHz. However, it seems the high frequency part is important to understandability, including perception of emotional overtones.

(Just the other day, playing with modems, we found a weird case - voice being pumped through before the call was considered completed - which I suspect is the persistence in digital protocols of the analog behavior of a century ago.)
> 471 million in estate taxes on a $1 billion collection? That's depressing.

I agree. It should be much higher.
genuine question: if it's so great and the capital of a rich country, why is it so cheap? (e.g. what you mentioned about apartments in the city center.)