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They were also dumb enough to sue EA, my bet is this goes away pretty quickly (at least for EA)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100637098/Uniloc-et-al-v-Electroni...

A cursory reading of the claims explicitly outlined against Mojang makes me wonder if it's even a valid claim, they seem to be claiming the 'computer executable code' in claim 107 instead of a 'method'.

It also seems like there would be plenty of prior art to find computer code on an electronic device to prevent unauthorized access. I think the PDP-10 and UNIX would suffice such prior art.
The patent is here:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067?printsec=abstract#v=...

I'd encourage you all to read it.

The majority of the summary, related art and claims are related to "smart cards". That is: a user plugs a smart card into their computer, which has one half of a licence key on it, and it then verifies this with a server either over LAN or the web.

There are a couple of broad claims which could, if upheld, cripple many systems which work like this (log in to installed software over the web, essentially).

I think (think) they might go on to claim that the SIM has a UID (it does) which is somehow involved in the process of authing a user for Google's store. If that's the case, or Google is indeed passing identifiable information from your phone to your Google account for auth purposes, then that appears to be covered by the patent, which specifically mentions SIM cards as one potential alternative "smart card".

What really pisses me off about this is the fact that the patent holders so clearly conceived of a really terrible piece of technology. It was filed in 2005 at a time when a lot of music software came with hardware decryption (i.e. an anti-piracy USB key you had to stick in to your computer when using the software) and they apparently thought that "smart cards" were the way forward. Turns out they were shit out of luck on that, but in passing they mentioned something so vague that it inevitably came to pass.
There are probably levels of freedom though. I like producing useful things and would work even if I have $10M right now (I would also be less stressed and probably produce better work ...).

So getting a modest amount of money annually, and increasing the freedom at which I can do my other things is also attractive. I think a lot of people really just want to be comfortable.
I'm primarily thinking of Galaxy nexus vs Galaxy S II for head to head as that's been the first one that's been pushed by carriers.

I suppose the Xoom qualifies here as well though or did you miss the international marketing campaign, massive coverage and then how it sold less units then tabs running gingerbread.

The bottom line is in any of these had really caught fire with real consumers as opposed to the hacker commentariat we'd see a lot more of them.
EA sued by same patent troll suing Minecraft [scribd]
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>That's true of any simulation or model -it's only as good as the data that goes into it. //

Models can be predictive, indeed that's one of the main reasons to create a model to observe behaviour that otherwise might not have been expected.

A theory in physics for example is a model with proven predictive powers, the model [theory] 'knows' some aspects of what can be observed before those things can be confirmed empirically.

But as you indicate new empirical data can shows flaws in a model just as it can in a scientific theory.
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The KLF burned a million pounds and filmed it. Then the played the film in car parks to homeless people.
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Pithy but flawed.

The best representation of a thing is that same thing in the state you're trying to represent. The cat is not a model, a dead cat is not a great model of a live one.
This feels like a marketing fail. Kickstarter is supposed to be about helping people create things who would normally not have the resources to do so. Impressing the audience by showing off expensive luxury items (player piano, supercars, etc) does not help this cause.

They also failed to really communicate how the app changes your normal development workflow. Does it replace interface builder processes? Besides styling with CSS, how does it help in creating complex vector elements that would normally be made in Photoshop? Is it a standalone dev environment or a lot of pieces? Can you mix assets (pixel and vector)?
It's possible to write Python-scripts to use in Blender. Blender itself, however, is written in C.
That's for day sleeping, only
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DATA.

When are governments finally going to do something about the patent system?
There is a simple solution to this, though - You could submit one "donor" address giving X bitcoins, and submit X "recipient" addresses each receiving one bitcoin. Variations abound. As long as the recipient addresses you use are not used in a way that can be statistically linked with each other you're safe.

Of course, people might contribute too many recipient addresses trying to get free money, but this can never work - the transaction would be quickly aborted.
agreed, i thought he was being wildly optimistic with his estimates at the end there.
This is hilarious. Mojang is on not subject of US laws, US software patents can not be enforced either. So Mojng can totally ignore that case.
I think it's great these young guys have decided to do something like this, and learn Python at the same time! Also awesome that the RasPi Foundation are behind them too! http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1633
Ajax States
Ajax is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The AJAX has many states.
It is very important part of AJAX terminology in web development aspect.

There are following state in AJAX
0: This state represent request is uninitialized.(before you’ve called open() method in ajax request).
1: This state represent request is set up, but not sent (before you’ve called send() method).
Charging your customers, promising features, and then selling your business and going back on those promises is not good business. It's usually great to see startups get bought and winning but in this case they had a profitable business and they screwed their customers. Not to mention the half price sale they had days before the acquisition. If they knew the acquisition was happening this week and they did that sale to have a few big days before shutting down it was a really scummy move.

>> "Software is a business"

It is, but selling an app for 18 months and then selling your company is not. It seems to be ingrained in tech culture that you should sell your business. Why are so few companies aiming to become profitable and build a sustainable business? I understand companies like Instagram with no revenue stream selling, but Sparrow had a solid revenue stream.
But the hypothesis is being tested against the model and not against reality. The model can help to indicate the result but in my opinion it's not scientific advance until tested against reality.

Now there may be a question as to whether we can ever truly test a hypothesis against reality or if we're stuck with models ...
Why does a 2-5 employee company have to get to be a $100M in the first place? It's pretty sad if this is indeed true.
"whereas my G+ feed is almost a reddit/HN replacement"

any suggestions for people like Linus who post well and often to G+ publicly?
They use a variation on semantic versioning, which is pretty standard:

major.minor.revision

revision is incremented when backwards compatible bug fixes are added

minor is incremented when backwards compatible features are added

major is incremented when backwards incompatible change is introduced.

All of them are integers, and the smaller ones are reset to 0 when a bigger one is incremented.

For versions 0.x.x (pre v1), backwards incompatible changes are allowed at any time.

There are more rules, see http://semver.org/
Dumb question maybe but how can they sue a Swedish company? As far as I know there are no such things as software patents in Sweden.
Dangerous ... A default judgement could prevent them from selling Minecraft in the US, and could implicate other companies helping them who are based in the US (ie. Google & Appple because their stores are presumably located there).
Not that hard really. Not everyone sees life as bank savings optimization problem.
Probably because Mojang sell their product(s) in the US.
Does anyone else feel that widespread use of "hard AR" isn't actually desirable?

I'm all for soft AR, and anything else that increases the convenience and bandwidth of human/computer interaction.

But hard AR - seamless with the real world - makes it possible for people to quite literally lie to themselves (or, more sinister, be lied to) about what's real around them. I have nothing against solipsism, but with that kind of technology, it seems like it'd make more sense to go full-on virtual reality, if you want that, rather than viewing the real world through rose-tinted glasses.
Added in edit: These links are to two different articles, one is the same as the current submission, the other is an OpEd in NYT. They are different, but related. Sorry for any confusion, but, ironically, I've been busy.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183314

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183452

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184317 <- Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184651 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185305

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185397

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193531

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199336
You keep using this word "proprietary". I don't think it means what you think it means.

How is a codec I can download in complete source form and use in any way I like without licensing anything or answering to anybody "proprietary"?

The fact that we live in a world full of patent trolls that will sue you for tying your shoelaces doesn't make every codebase without explicit corporate patent indemnity "proprietary".
No a computer can trivially tell the difference.

But most people can't distinguish a properly encoded mp3 from the original at 192kbits and often much lower than that.
For transitional period, it might be even desireable that AR experience isn't lifelike. Easier adoption, avoiding PR disasters, tunning customer in etc.
How do you prevent sales in the US if it's only sold online? They can't order blocking using geolocation since the company is in Sweden... now I'm curious.
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But what happens when they don't have a legal entity in the US? Who will enforce it?
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[I'm not saying any of this is right, just pointing out how it's done]

(1) You go after the companies collecting the money (Visa etc) and delivering the app (Google, Apple). These very much have physical offices and principals in the US.

(2) You arrest people who dare to fly through/over/near the US. See: legal UK gambling companies.

(3) You attempt to extradite anyone not caught by (1) or (2), if necessary pushing for one-sided extradition and IP laws to do so.
It's amazing - you get organised and focus on a problem and somehow you are better able to work out a solution.

This is a 'hack'? Looks more like common sense and avoiding procrastination to me.

I know this sounds snarky, but attributing the word 'hack' to this is just sexing up something people have been doing since forever.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic
Lossy audio compression over about 160kbits is a boring subject these days because for the vast majority of users and samples it's more than good enough.

I'd imagine this would have to be at least competitive with mp3/aac/ogg at those rates.
When are people going to start reading more than just patent titles?

This specific system and method involve using a card inserted into a computing device paired with a server over a network for authentication. It goes deeper than just the title.
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I think that is false.

I think freedom is more like love... money can not buy it, you have to work at other things to get it. If you think money buys you freedom then you become a slave to money rather than a person living with freedom.

I've recently quit the corporate treadmill and am working on a startup. I've gone from an annual 6-figure (GBP) income from my day job and projects, to an £8k income from one actually profitable bootstrapped company.

I don't think I could go back to the corporate world, and whilst a VC firm is currently trying to court me I fear it's just a talent acquisition attempt. I'm not interested in any scenario that isn't me pushing my work forward.

The only thing I'm interested in is the freedom to work today on something that I care deeply for and believe in. My entire existence is focused on one this thing: This idea I have must come into being.

No money can stop me from doing this, and that is freedom to me. To, today, choose everything I do and how I do it. To be happy knowing I have no distractions just to put food on the table, to be able to dedicate myself to this.

Today I can truly say that there is no amount of money for which I'd enslave myself again. Perhaps there might be such a figure tomorrow, but today there isn't. I live day by day, and I think that tomorrow I will feel the same way.

One fear I had in the corporate world earning that large sum of money... "What if I never quit and follow my dream?", "What if I spent my whole life working to secure the ability to follow my dream and then my life ended?". If you can, go for the freedom today. Money isn't worth it, it's such a bad measure of success, status, happiness and worth.

That said, if you execute your dream well and others agree. Then I think that money comes.

So freedom may bring you money... but money won't bring you freedom.
That's true for anything that exists in the real world. Essentially you are suggesting that reproducing something empirically is flawed because empiricism is flawed. No?
That's a pretty good idea: it's like public roads: normally, they're used by the citizens, but if there's a VIP guest or a military situation, the government can clear and use them for themselves only. Makes sense to do the same with frequencies (although it will be a bit harder to manage - like the EBS test in 1971 has shown)...
I can understand this reasoning, but is it really the case? In practice does anyone actually stick to HTC or Motorola because of their skins?

I know that the feedback I usually hear has a huge selection bias in this regard (almost all techies) which is why I'm asking the question.

Even considering the selection biased, I'd be surprised if people preferred these skins. I think that people who are aware of these skins, and the options out there, probably don't like them. If they're not aware of them then they can't prefer them, right?
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I'm curious how that works. It decodes the FLAC in JavaScript, but it still has to expose it in some format understood by the browser. To my limited knowledge there's no lossless encoding scheme supported by browsers, not even WAV PCM.

/edit: spoken too soon WAV PCM is supported by WebKit, Gecko and Presto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_Audio#.3CAudio.3E_element
Uniloc is Australian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Richardson and it won more than $300m from MS.
I think you are most effective with the tools you have been using the longest which are probably the ones you started using first.

I started with things like QuickBasic and PHP, so debugging by print has always felt natural to me.

This is a problem with things like Java that were clearly not designed around this paradigm where you should really be using a debugger or setting up log4J or something.
Yes, the equivalent of web ads would be ads displayed in a little square on the corner of our TV. We would ignore this square and focus on the main content instead. TV ads are efficient because they interrupt the program and takeover the whole screen. In print media, there are more and more ads that take a whole page if not two, for the same effect. 'Takeover ads' are obnoxious on the web, mostly because of their low quality. Not that I know how to do it right.
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It's fascinating how much he looks at the subject (the water lilies). One would have thought an impressionist such as Monet would be freed from this.
This is kind of a chicken/egg perception problem.
The perception is that if you want to buy a "posh" computer you should get a Mac. Therefor Mac=Expensive , PC=Cheap.

This is I guess part of the reason that auto manufacturers will use different brand names for different market segments. Because it's difficult to signal "I am successful and buy nice cars" with a Skoda badge.

An example of a "high end" PC would be Alienware, which whilst they have some nice hardware they just look horrendously tacky. Basically the equivalent of sticking florescent lighting all over your Subaru.

There is also the potential patent minefield if you want to start manufacturing things that look like or use similar materials to Apple devices.
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I don't think all or most VCs are assholes. Far from it. I think most of them are probably good people. The bad ones get a lot of press, but I think they have the same distribution as people in finance: a few jerks who get a lot of attention, while the majority, by far, are decent, ethical, and competent professionals.

I just think the sociology of the VC ecosystem is broken. I think there's a lot more social climbing and fluff than real technology and real work coming out of it, not because VCs are bad people (they aren't) but because the society has gotten to an undesirable state.

I don't have any direct negative experiences with VC, but I've seen some shitty human beings get funding, and then go on to do some awful stuff in their startups. And the ethical problems in VC-istan may not be directly caused by VCs, but the VCs are the actual bosses and they should be clamping down.
I don't know US law, but is this http://www.quizlaw.com/patents/what_are_the_penalties_for_pa... correct? You see, if there's only monetary penalties and company is sued then no individal is in danger of any sort. I mean (2) and (3) often came around in such discussions, so I have to ask: is anybody ever arrested in US and thrown in jail when that somebody's company potentially owns money to somebody. Because at least in Europe I'm not aware of cases even when some individual owns money to somebody and he can be arested - the only method of extracting money out of somebody is seizing the assets.
Realistically (1) is the only thing you can do as patent owner. All you can do is try to prevent sales in US. But still, Swedish company can not break any US law.
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It's good but not good enough for 'professional' use at the lower bitrates.

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.
Never had a problem letting my brain come up with solutions of its own. The problem lies in that my brain often comes up with solutions that are overly complex, which take a lot of work. The headache comes from trying to distill those raw ideas down into something more manageable.
You did not miss much. I use Sparrow as my main prefiltered-private-email client on MacOS X. I don't think the UI is revolutionary. Maybe it is on iOS.
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Proprietary: "something that is used, produced, or marketed under exclusive legal right of the inventor or maker."

The WebM trademarks and copyright are owned by Google.

Yes you have a license to use WebM as it is today. But Google can make the next version closed source and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it. And of course companies are going to use Google's 'official' WebM regardless if it is open or closed source leaving you screwed.
It's possible that this is not his normal work style, but that the director asked him to move the head a lot to add some action or to conform to some preconception of "what painters normally do".
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What happens to all the newspapers/ news sites that run on ads? Advertising money has allowed the public access to non-subscription news on the web for some time now.

If you take all that money away, doesn't the free content mostly dry up?
Go is missing from the analysis (sadly, because it's definitely more popular than some of the languages listed!) - but yes, casing is used to determine the scope of your variables. It's actually a rather elegant solution (I find Go's syntax to be generally elegant, but YMMV)
I wrote out "Every even integer >2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes" on a sheet of paper.

We'll see if staring produces a proof.

Edit: had some interesting thoughts but after 20 minutes the goldbach conjecture remains...unproven :)
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People chose the Lumia 900 because of the design, not because of the specs and the OS (it used the same hardware and OS version as others 6 months before it, so why weren't they so interested in those?). They also chose the Galaxy S3 because of its (mostly) top notch hardware, not because of its "Nature UX" skin. People also tend to buy the iPhone because of how good it looks.

In fact I think there are 3 main reasons why people buy phones in general, and I'm thinking the mass-market here, not the "smartphone savvy" people, who fight over versions of the OS and new features:

1) price (most people have a price range in mind when they buy a phone)

2) design (most people want to either impress their friends or feel good themselves about using it everyday)

3) hardware quality (reliability, feel, display, camera, etc)

I doubt how the software looks is even in the top 5 priorities for most people. Branding is probably a top 5 one, too. When people think of a company that makes "crappy" phones, they generally don't think about how the software looks or works, but about the hardware, and they tend to also buy on brand, just like with many other types of products because branding offers them a level of "trust" that the device will be "good", and won't break a day after purchase.

So I think there's more to it than your simplified view of the market. Also with your logic, then the Windows Phone OS is dead on arrival because it both forces them to use the exact same looking OS, and even worse, it forces them to use the exact same hardware (pretty much).
I love how the Plaintiff has called the game 'Mindcraft'!
Ah, but if I'd just be able to read and post as throwaway over there..
> My FB newsfeed is full of inane posts by family and a few friends

You can't really blame that on Facebook.
You should probably do a Google search for what you have in mind. Since Google allowed "sharing circles", much like sharing lists on Twitter, a lot of people have shared their "tech circles" or whatever.