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These "best paper" lists are almost comical and a very poor way to find important papers. Have a look at citation statistics for the older "winners", they are only marginally better than the average for the venue - essentially nobody still reads them today and they've had hardly any impact all.

To find _important_ papers you want at least 5-10 years of hindsight - look for those that are still being cited a lot correcting for citation rings, dubious journals/conferences etc. As a side benefit, these can almost always be found online on some course website without requiring IEEE / ACM subscriptions.
C14 exists naturally as well. The reason you can date C14 containing objects has NOTHING to do with nuclear bombs.
I want to emphasize how strange a piece of aerogel is to hold. The aerogel fragments I've seen were cylindrical, and looked exactly like bits of hot glue sticks. However, it feels nothing like a hot glue stick. Touching this particular aerogel was like touching a lighter, fluffier, finer grained version of styrofoam, almost like the cotton candy to styrofoam's unleavened bread. The aerogel is also ridiculously low-mass, so it seems to require no effort to hold or move around. It's something that must be experienced.
Being an introvert doesn't mean not being influenced by the company you keep. Most introverts aren't asocial, they just enjoy being alone more than extroverts do.
I am not sure what the funding is, but Bike roads are much much cheaper than car roads. What makes a road expensive is how much weight it can handle, and when you move from a car to a bike you remove at least 95% of the weight the road has to handle.

You also save a lot of money because the road does not have to handle 80 mph speeds. Car roads get destroyed when wheels slam into small bumps or holes in the asphalt at very high speeds.

So while it may all look like the same asphalt bike roads are much much cheaper to both build and maintain.

Therefore, even if you never get on a bike you should be making your city build bike roads because, if other people chose to bike instead of driving, this will mean lower costs to the city and less taxes for you.
Hi, OP here. I failed on the title, it's $50/year not month. I fixed it on my blog but now it's too late :(
An ATM machine?
Also not sure what your complaint is. Working at the right level of abstraction is fundamental to being a good engineer.
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I don't see why you couldn't pass your code through sed in the Makefile before it gets to the compiler. (Other than being an ugly hack, any thoughts?)
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Wow, I don't say this very often, but tl;dr. Every single argument made in the article has been made elsewhere, but more concise. By the end, I was saying "Yes! I get it already! Enough!"

In summary:

Computers are smart enough to autosave. The save button is an anachronism. We should think about retiring it.
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Is OwnCloud a real competitor to Dropbox?
And that's why we can't just delete the save button. We need to rethink the way users "commit" as you say. Apple's versioning is an interesting take, but its UI is too hidden IMO and they didn't get the "Save-as" feature right, which still applies in a world without save.

My favorite UI would be a mixture of Apple's Lion logic and Google wave: Give me a prominent time slider, give me snapshots each time I hit the save button (which are basically just special markings on the slider) and let me use the slider to easily revert to any state. It gets more complicated with multiple users who commit asynchronously, which is something I will try to solve in an upcoming project of mine.
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I've heard rumours the principle investor is a retired astronaut/industrialist who lives on an island in the South Pacific. Apparently there were some strings attached though...
What an utterly asinine response, as if a random HNer is going to force a reexamination.

However their point is, it seems, that once Apple tries to leverage this it will be forced into re-examinations. Apple has forfeited a number of patents when they've used them, a re-examination occurs, and most or all of the claims are tossed. This will likely be another of the same.

In some ways I think Apple is a bit naive in this: Microsoft tries its hardest not to actually go to the courts, and they'd rather extort with blanket patent threats, thereby keeping the actual stockpile somewhat safe. Apple just keeps blowing their patent load, losing a bunch in the process.
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I keep getting caught by this on Google Docs. I whip in, accidentally change something while scrolling or copying and pasting, then close the doc. Bingo, I've lost information, sometimes entire paragraphs. What a pain. I should have the option to persist my changes when and how I want to.
The problem with letting things in this easily is that humans unfamiliar with the patent system fallacious assumed that since a patent was granted then there must be some merit to a patent infringement lawsuit.

If the average American began with the axiom "patents are merely forms that have been filed correctly" instead of "patents are something only granted when someone has invented something truly novel and reduced it to practice" then patents wouldn't be nearly as dangerous.

The problem is typically trial by jury in an east Texas courtroom where the jurors assume that patents are granted by a clerk with expertise in the area the patent was filed.

Patents are one area where a trial by jury fails badly because the average person is far more likely than practitioners to think a patent is non-obvious.

Instead we should have trials by qualified juries, where the jurors are peers in the area in which the patent was filed. i.e. a software patent should be reviewed by a jury composed of software developers since they are the only ones competent enough to rule on obviousness.
If the actual question was "why wasn't C...?", the whole point of C was to achieve the maximum amount of power with a minimal language system. Making a preprocessor that is powerful enough to handle lexical and syntactic analysis of source code was not necessary for that goal. If you really want it, use sed (and don't forget M4).

Also, IIRC, programming languages with mutable syntax were generally acknowledged to be a bad idea around the time C was being born. Something about every program being written in a different language :-)
Losses that involve writing down inventory, goodwill, and accounts receivable don't stop you from settling paychecks each month.

It's weird that people keep refuting the importance of Microsoft's investment when the actual Apple people involved herald it as critical.
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Not only due to the litigious bent. Many past events left a bitter taste - the management of the MySQL products, the end of OpenSolaris (which was a very good Unix distro - and one that lives on) and so on.

This can be interpreted as an attempt to suck the air out of CentOS and Red Hat at the same time. Considering Oracle's past, the hypothesis cannot be ruled out easily.
A more just solution for fast tracking would be to commit to a FIFO approach requiring the filing entity to pay to fast tracking every patent in line ahead of their patent, so that patent clerks can get to their patent faster.
I reckon that developing a better alternative to scroll bars will be quite R&D intensive.

Apple first improved on the Xerox Star scroll bar with the Macintosh (the Star's scroll bar didn't have a position knob). With iPhone OS, Apple improved on the scroll bar by removing the buttons, and by implementing 'rubber banding' and auto hide.

Every elegant solution seems obvious after it has been thought up.
And with this they posted it. It seems like a time issue, not Oracle censoring a 'hacking' post. And now I feel a bit like a cynical doofus.

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/coffee_shop_internet_...
> In what aspect of life is copying good ideas not a good idea?

It's always a good idea, that's why it's so popular.

In this profit-driven society we live in, we've decided to make blatant copying of good ideas illegal so the original party with the good idea can reap all the profit from it.

Let's face it, if you, or I, or anyone of us came up with a phenomenal idea worth billions, and some company produced exactly the same thing in 6 months, we'd be pretty pissed about that.

(Note: I'm not saying that people are copying Apple exactly, or that Apple are justified in doing what they're doing, I'm just pointing out the reasoning behind what's going on)

> A scroll bar doesn't pass that test.

Interesting you should say that. You have no idea how much effort went into thinking up, then implementing the first scroll bar. Just because it's common-place now, doesn't mean it wasn't an example of the "good idea" we're talking about above.

Let's use the example that you invent a technique for 100% efficient solar panels. 5 years from now when every tom, dick and harry company has ripped off you idea and is selling it, there will be tons of people saying "but those things are so common, you can't patent that" exactly as you are with scroll bars, etc.
I believe the best approach for Red Hat now is to re-license as much of its software as possible under GPLv3 and enjoy watching Oracle trying to handle the explicit patent grants...
Loved my palm pilot (kinda). Really loved my treo. Didn't realize how lame it was until seeing the Jobs keynote for the original iPhone.

Originally these patent portfolios were considered defensive like nuclear stockpiles. Everyone assumed that mutually assured destruction would prevent the war from starting.

I'm not sure who is responsible for the current state but I do remember what every phone I ever saw looked like the month before the iPhone was released.
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I think that, as societies, we really need to reflect and debate on what counts as war. The US hasn't been involved in a total war, which I define as one in which both sides face the prospect of annihilation, since WWII. Since then, the West has been involved in countless conflicts that are, to varying degrees, removed from an existential threat. If we are truly fighting for survival, then I'm okay with forgoing certain rights in service to that fight. If it's just minor armed conflicts in service of political goals, as most wars since WWII have been, I'm not.
I'm excited about this. Not because it's a beautifully simple web app that provides a helpful service to a lot of us. Rather, i'm excited to see the source of a simple and effective Flask app! I'll be using this as a reference point for some lightweight apps down the road =) Thank you!
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They "fixed" this in JellyBean.
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Great reporting...
There was an essay by P.J. Plauger, I suppose collected into one of his "Programming on Purpose" volumes, talking about somebody he had worked with who was told to show off computers (then very new) to some biologists. He wrote a simple program that new how to generate itself to output (punched tape), and ran off copies. When the biologists arrived, he explained the program, and invited them to try creating mutations by punching extra holes. The usual result was a program that failed to run--call it sterility. Very rarely would a "mutation" occur and the program run to generate different output. I don't recall whether anyone managed to punch a no-op.
So here's one perspective for you....

http://work.ocregister.com/2010/04/05/working-for-free-unpai...

Another way to do this would be to structure it as a contractor to be paid $100/week for general consulting; something that insulates your friendly employer from any risk with bringing you on board.
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Well, you'd better ship in a timely fashion, or you'll sour IndieGoGo on video glasses, and they'll be no crowd-funding sites left for that sort of project. No pressure! =)
I'm already working on an Android version of a new app.

I've been working on an iOS version in parallel but if this happens I'll just abandon it.
"Save" -----> "Mark Version"

I think the save button more or less provides a way to save a version or "mark" one. I don't want to see the button disappear, but rather change into a "mark version" button that allows auto-saving to happen, but gives the user the opportunity to set their own points of reference in a document's history. In software that auto-saves, I often feel a bit disoriented. It makes it harder to jump back to a certain state of a document.
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uh, correct me if i'm wrong but isn't that her job to do that and typically those jobs pay extremely well?

And on the flip side, if there was a large bonus for reducing debt by that much by year end, would that incentivize this person to do anything possible to reduce debt even at the cost of the companies long term survival?

Expanding on that it seems reasonable to consider the possibility that bonuses for some year end goal could be causing CEO's and others to do whatever it takes to get their bonus while damaging companies long term survival, because they put their bonus first not the company.
Sorry to hear that. I don't find the typeface to be as good as my current favorite workhorse serif (Elena, from process type, which I licensed for http://gazit.me )—but I don't find it to be objectionable or harmful to legibility either. Quite the opposite, I found it to be a serif with personality—less so than the commonly-used Skolar—and it reminded me of Elena (the shape of the adnate serifs, the slightly negative stress, the relatively-tall x-height, and the lowercase 'e' in particular).

I'll revisit type choices at some point, but right now the goal was to get something up, and as much as I love the faces you've specified, half I'm sick of and the other half aren't sufficiently ubiquitous.
Could we put a glass roof over that and fill the interior with a breathable atmosphere?
Not really. I still have one of these lying around somewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN

There were many other options, and as usual Apple simplified and minimised.
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Great stuff. I see a great use case for this: when people want to write a reply to a post they can just fork the original gist and write their reply above it, like this: http://gist.io/3140173

In this way you can regard the list of forks at the right of the gist page as the list of comments (screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/1803161N432H).
Apple still had billions in cash when it accepted Microsoft's purchase of non-voting shares.

Microsoft's pledge to continue making Office and IE for Mac was way more significant, as Apple's share price had been going rapidly at the time. Microsoft showing faith in the platform put a temporary hold on that.

That gave Jobs the time he needed for rigorous reorganization. Gil Amelio had already fired thousands of employees. However, Jobs replaced the entire board of directors, most of the VPs and other high up execs. He discontinued most products, including the Newton MessagePad and eMate. He terminated the deals his predecessors made with Mac clone makers. And then he worked hard with the very best of the best within the company to create one or two new products a year, slowly building a strong lineup of profitable products.
While this article makes some good points about modern design borrowing far too much from the past, I fail to see how this is a pressing issue in software today as the author would like me to believe.
"Ground bursts also produce more fallout, since they dig up and irradiate earth and scatter it to the winds."

don't the produce the same amount of fallout? but the one in the dust is measurable and the air is not as easy to quantify?
Because warmed-over bro-backslapping Sailerisms sure don't stink of herd mentality, right? Aren't you late for your mutual-reinforcement MRA support meeting?
Read up on undo in vim - your edit history need not be linear.
While I wholeheartedly agree that the current system is awful and needs improvement, and I do think this would be an improvement, I also think one of the problems with having a trial by qualified juries as you suggested is hindsight bias.

The problem is, merely presenting the patent and asking "Is this obvious" will lead to many affirmatives due to hindsight bias.

It could be done differently though. Before presenting the jury with the patent itself, ask them to imagine ways of solving the problem. If many come up with the same answer, then it's very likely the obvious solution.
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If one's going to get rid of the save button, then the program should sure as well give me feedback about when the last time it's saved. Often times, when I want to close something that autosaves, I'm not sure if now's a good time or not.

When it comes to version control, you do actually want to control when a version is saved, because there's meaning behind the different save points, conveyed to others that might want to fork and merge. Wading through a history of meaningless changes is no one's idea of fun, because the intention of the version isn't conveyed well only through the changeset.
Great job on the page linking UX. Very intuitive. I'm working on a similar product so it's good to see what others have come up with.

Good Luck!
> The procedure is the same.

No, it's not. I can buy currency with cash, it will take me 10 min to get them from a local bank.

With bitcoins you have to jump through all kinds of hoops and pay all kinds of fees.
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Nuclear testing did change the levels of C14 significantly [1]. Carbon dating is impossible for dates after the '50s, when large amounts of nuclear testing started.

[1] http://www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualDating/files/RC_3.ht...
Too bad the results would likely be different in other jurisdictions.
I agree with the sentiment, but disagree with the idea that America was at risk of 'total annihilation' in WWII, at best the axis powers could have kept the country on the N. American continent, but even that wasn't a likely outcome. Our economy was just too strong for them to overcome.

That said, I tend to classify battles against nation-states 'wars' and battles against non-soverign groups and individuals as 'law enforcement.' To the extent that a group can declare 'war' on the US its really a statement about rejecting some sort of legal enforcement authority rather than trying to destroy the country.
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Well, hold on. The problem is/was E.D./TX but not because jurors in EDTX have reverence for patents; rather:

* EDTX judges move cases faster than most other districts, which makes legal threats by NPEs (small companies for which presumably all revenues come from judgements and settlements) more credible.

* EDTX judges have well-defined rules for handling patent cases, unlike venues that see far fewer patent cases, which again makes filing there easier.

* EDTX is among the more plaintiff-friendly districts in the country; across the board in all cases, plaintiffs tend to win there.

* EDTX judges grant fewer injunctions, dismiss fewer cases, and issue fewer summary judgements, which are again things you might want if you were a huge company trying to stomp an NPE's frivolous patent claim.

* And, sure, there aren't any big companies there and patent troll defendants are often unsympathetic to residents (although one voir dire consultancy I found wrote a blog post about finding an unexpectedly high number of IT pros in panels in the district.)

Also, before we point the finger at EDTX as the root of the problem, know:

* The America Invents Act made forum shopping to EDTX harder; plaintiffs can no longer join a whole bunch of different defendants in different locales into a single venue, but rather have to go defendant-by-defendant doing small cases, each time making an argument for why the proper venue is EDTX.

* Appeals Courts have apparently taken to reversing EDTX denials of venue change, so when EDTX judges refuse to allow defendants to have their case heard in SFBA or Seattle, there's apparently a decent shot at getting that overturned.

I think it's possible that to enforce your "qualified jury" standard, you'd have to amend the US Constitution. In any case, that standard doesn't make much sense, because patents are transferrable; the party "harmed" by willful infringement could very well be (in fact, almost certainly is) not a "peer" to a panel of technologists. And think it through some more: sure, as technologists, we'd sure like our biggest hot-button legal issue to be determined solely by our direct peers, but should that really be the rule in general? What happens in complex technical cases in the extractive industries like oil & gas?

It would make more sense to simply say that software can't be patented. There's no Constitutional can of worms there: Congress has the power to pass a law saying exactly that.
> Call me elitist

I'll call you overly impressed by irrelevant credentials. (She's not an economist or statistician.)

As for me, the validity of her conclusions don't depend on where she works, whether she was wrong about being part Native American, etc.

> Warren has successfully defended her conclusions in academic circles for years.

The Atlantic story contains cites to some academic eviscerations of Warren's work....
"The bulk of [your] time"? Unless you have an independent income, this may be the bulk of your free time.

Off the top of my head:

a. Live where you can get by mostly walking or riding a bike. That will help with fitness.
b. Take some classes. If you already know a musical instrument or two, I suppose you can learn another easily. From a given level of mathematical maturity, you can learn more math on your own. But foreign languages, drawing, and painting seem like skills you can use some help with. Community colleges, university extension programs, organizations such as the Academie Francaise and the Goethe Institute offer things that can help you.
c. On your own, you can read plenty of history.
d. Philosophy is worth reading, but requires some context.

Good luck.
To play to win? What? Whats there to win?

If Apple ever ends up in a situation where iOS is the only mobile smartphone OS left, USDOJ antitrust will probably obliterate them. No more facebook integration, no more app store, no more curtailing customer choice, and all of the other shenanigans Apple does under the curtain of "freedom of choice".
Yes but the point is nuclear tests doubled the amount of atmospheric carbon 14.

So [all of history: rising C14 level] ... [-nuclear tests-] = now double of all of history rate to that date.
I wonder if the wiping techniques used to securely erase data from government HDDs would count as prior art here.
There just needs to be some UX work here indicating the document status. Just like typing a chat message. "blahblah has entered text"-style. Evernote did this early on in their Windows application, we did it with Ubernote - it rocks. Everything should be autosaved+versioned.