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That is surely dependent on what they choose not to patent. If they choose not to patent a new variety of floral hat, then there is unlikely to be much societal effect when compared to choosing to patent the hat. However if they discover a method for turning bullshit into an unlimited fuel source or something, then there would be massive social implications in whether the inventor chooses to patent or not.
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>In buddism, the term for discipline is the same turn used for morality. ( they dont make the distinction )

What's the term?
I was not informed of the exact analysis by which it was decided that they were infringing.

I do know that the technique was sufficiently non-obvious that at the time the various single sign-on solutions that were being pushed (eg Microsoft's Hailstorm) relied on having a single central authentication mechanism rather than having a method for allowing for multiple authentication providers.

In short while I don't personally think that a patent should have been offered for that, I do think that it is a much stronger patent than many other software patents. If I had my life to do over, though, I'd have more strongly objected to that patent than I did at the time. (It came very, very close to being sucked up by some patent trolls and used to sue everyone. Luckily the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing, and while one person was getting it evaluated, another one sold it into a defensive patent pool. Whew.)

The patent was taken out because it was something that they thought was patentable, and they wanted to have patents to their name. It was used in a product that allowed us to deep link to a partner, and have people arrive already logged in from our link.

Unfortunately the time it takes to get patents is so long that long before the patent was awarded, that product was discontinued and both authors had moved on to other employers. Indeed this was true by the time that the patent office came back with its first review.
As long as they are relevant I agree.
Theatricality and deception are powerful agents for the uninitiated. But we are initiated now. So we watch.
I think per year would be their style.
Pointless question. It isn't their business model.
Just a heads up, 'comms.io' (without the www.) sends you to a bluehost landing page.
Yes, it's cool that it's possible. I'm German, but I love English and I think everybody owes it to themselves to learn it. Also I love hearing people on the street talk English or Spanish etc. It makes me very happy to be here (moved here a few years ago, not even aware of the hype ^^). Berlin is the best, and part of that is that it's international and rather unlike other German cities :)

That said, if someone hasn't picked up a bit of German even after years, they're either extremely busy, or doing something wrong IMHO. On holidays, say in Spain, I always kind of disliked Germans sticking only to Germans, and speaking German all day. Surely you know what I mean? There's not having much time to learn the language, and there's being selfish that way.

I kind of feel the same way about this "it's a great, cheap place" stuff. This way it's not going to stay cheap, or cool, for long. It's already kind of suffered, if locals are to be believed. So let's leave it at least as nice as we found it? :)

The best thing about Berlin is the soul and the heart, not the commodities. I mean yeah, startups boom, but Tacheles is struggling - what's up with that? When in Rome, do as the Romans.. well then, if you move to Berlin, start learning German by listening to some Ton Steine Scherben :P

All of this wasn't meant as an attack. As a slight snark maybe. But not more, because generally, I'm super happy for people coming here and making it even better, I'd be a hypocrite otherwise. I'm just missing the voice of Berlin in all this. I mean that. Berlin is more funky, more beautiful and more clever than booms and VC give it credit for. To move to Berlin and not smell those particular roses strikes me as a tragedy.
North Korea having nukes is a huge problem if you are South Korea or Japan or Hong Kong or anyone else in the region. They don't want a child dictator who is clearly bored and with a point to prove having nuclear weapons.

I just came back from North Korea and it is like stepping back 50 years. But one thing is very clear they very much believe in a reunified Korea under Kim Jong Un. And as has been demonstrated with their previous tunnel attempts under the DMZ they are willing to do this by force.

Show me where France has on repeated occasions attacked their neighbours and destabilised the region.
I found this tool using Google about 3 weeks ago and it made my life so much easier while using sprite sheets. Great tool
Twitter in its early days made zero sense to end-users, and it was only through the effort of third party developers that it went mainstream.

Umm. I was an early Twitter user (April 07 - almost exactly a year before @daltonc), and I've never used any third party apps (except for Brizzly for a short period).

I think you are dramatically overestimating the impact 3rd part developers had. Twitter went mainstream when Ev went on Oprah. 3rd party devs worked on Twitter (initally) to scratch their own itches and because other people liked their work, not to make money.
Hey rob, thanks. Yup I've seen pen.io but it doesn't offer drafting, the writing experience is not that nice and the posts are not optimized for reading nor on pc or mobile devices, and we will also suport markdown syntax for writing.). The removing of article is an idea we have in mind, as we thought unreaden and unshared articles are just dead articles so why not just remove them? But this idea is not implemented atm so articles wont be removed. What you think on this? Would love ot ehar your thoughts on this direction.
$100 per year.
"male/female", or "männlich/weiblich" respectively.
Since I'm not reading them they can be ads for garden hoses for all I care.
Nope, it's a web app so as long as you have a browser you will be able to use it. And on mobile devices article are optimized to offer a nice reading experience on every one, not just ios. We didn't want to overcroud the page putting there images of anykinf of device, but as soon as we go out of the beta we will add more featurelist and explanation on it. Thanks for pointing it out, appreciated.
Well, I'd agree with that (in general at least)

The thing is, being CEO is generally way less specialized (and thus easier).

It almost entirely depends on having good employees rather than direct CEO decisions (even thus some are really bad most are OK).

Sure there are exceptional CEOs but it's pretty damn rare. (rare meaning 1 every 100000 not 1 every 10)
I agree, that's good advice for platforms/devices that won't be able to run the app. For iOS the author doesn't have to do anything but wait.

The app gave you that message because Mobile Safari doesn't have a file picker. That'll change in iOS 6, which will be released within the next few months.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/06/13/ios-6-safari-media-u...
> It's very hard to kill so many people with a knife.

The Rwandan genocide was largely carried out with machetes.
What's with gigaom lately, are they even reporting on the same planet? First the questioning if freemium was a suitable business model for internet services, and now an article if twitter would be better if we paid for it. Obviously we wouldn't know what a twitter was if they charged up front, we'd probably all be using pwnce.

Also, how can you write an article about paying money for twitter, and not mention Yammer? Yammer are the guys who found out how you make a paid for twitter work. They do freemium by proxy, twitter makes the free product and they provide the paid-for alternative.
Ahh, true. How'd I forget about that?
This article might illuminate some of your questions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation...

The simple answer about France vs India and Pakistan is that France signed and supposedly adheres to the Non-Proliferation Treaty on Nuclear Weapons, but has joined as a 'nuclear weapon state', and are one of the five members of the UN Security Council. Being on the council means that they can have weapons, but agree to use them responsibly, and their adherence to the treaty means that they can verify the safety of their devices, that they are adhering to the treaty's requirements on inspection by the IAEA, and that they are abiding all disarmament requirements specified therein.

India and Pakistan, having not ever accepted the treaty in the first place, are in a different position. Their nukes are treated with skepticism naturally, but they haven't ever agreed to anything so are exempt from its guidelines.

North Korea is a unique case, in that it did sign the treaty, but later withdrew its acceptance and are now, as you say, 'posturing', after never having come into compliance when they were abiding the treaty and having acceded. That there are questions as to their governmental leadership, and that they are testing nuclear devices in secret only exacerbates that, at the very least, we need to keep our eyes on what they are doing.
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This is probably how media company works.

Milk the Juice until there's no more water.

Also keep in mind today is Sunday, no serious news out there so make up something to fill the end-of-month quota?
Boost Python is fabulous too if you want to call C++ routines. We do a lot of heavy lifting with that and use plain Python for higher-level tasks.
Isn't there some common library that contains a reverse() String method? That's why I like Ruby, for stuff like "string".reverse in the standard library. I can just use the language and know that the people writing the language are better language() method implementors than I am, which is fine. Not sure how well that flies in interviews at KPMG, but whatever.
All it means that at some point we'll evolve to be really good at sitting. I'm doing my share to make that happen.
Thanks Killswitch, if you signup we can keep you in the loop for when this will happen :) The more good beta-testers we have the better it will get for the public release .
cool! We also have the short version of it: fth.rs :)
I actually prefer the ads in certain instances. If a company is willing to pay per click, they probably have an offer that is compelling to me.
I would prefer if articles remain.

You don't want to burn a book just because it's old.

Something like ESR's how to become a hacker[0] is several years old, but it's still valuable and people still link to it.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Well, no, actually, I don't. Since it's part of the Bill Of Rights, it's not on its supporters to show why it's a fundamental right, it's on its opponents to show why it isn't.

The whole point of those rights being in the Constitution is so that you don't have to endlessly justify those rights later.

And, again, it doesn't appear to be anywhere near the same to you. That really is an important part to grasp.

There are people who can make quite a strong case for restricting the First Amendment for reasons that have nothing to do with oppressing the people, but for reasons of protecting the fabric of society. I don't agree with them, but that doesn't mean their points are of lesser quality. It means that the damage to society is a price I'm willing to pay to enjoy the freedom that comes with it.
All ads and all tracking on the net? I'd do between $100 and $200 per year for sure.

The more hypothetical, but interesting question: if you had to pay for it to use it, how much would you spend? Assuming no free bing substitute, I'd gladly shell out $1000/year.
$0, maybe less.

Google ads provide enough value for me on some searches that I would actively seek them out.

I think I am extravagating to say I would actually pay for the ads, but I'd choose them over a free service without ads.
Thanks ojr! At least we are building something we wanna use ourself to write with, and from the feedbacks look like others will most likely be happy to use it as well.
Mine are bash, vim and screen ;)
This should be integrated with A/B testing (or some variant).
male/female

maennlich/weiblich

i.e. We'll employ you regardless of your genitalia.
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Good point, I forgot about my California taxes :(.
Agree! Looks like you are not the only one giving us this feedback so don't worry, feathers post will keep floating on the clout :)
I'm surprised by the number of people who don't drink coffee. High fives all around.
Just reached 3000 answers!
Thank you HN for this!
I am now closing this to start parsing the data. The kind people at @TrendCollective (http://www.trendcollective.com/) accepted my challenge to make an infographic out of this information. So expect to see this information in a cool way that was made entirely by the community! Awesome!
Citing economic data from the CIA World Fact Book isn't exactly propaganda.
$0, but it's not likely to happen anyway...

Selling an ad-free version of their services would undermine the value of the audience presented to their advertisers.

It would also be tantamount to admitting that their ads are annoying, if even in a minor way, and this would contradict their efforts to deliver relevant ads unobtrusively.
Regarding your opening line: leave it to a mathematician to forgo units. I assume you meant $0.02.

:)

- a sarcastic engineer.
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This appears to be a vehicle interface designed by someone who doesn't actually drive much.

When driving, you often care about acceleration as much as speed. Digital displays are horrible for indicating first and second derivatives; analog dials are great for first and adequate for second.

The best UI on a car I've seen (as far as actually driving it) is the Audi -- a Driver Information Display directly in line with the driver (showing next turn), and a center area. There's a reason for going for all-red indicators -- night vision. In rural areas, you often dial down the brightness of all controls to preserve night vision in case an animal or debris is in the road. If you're on I-5 driving from Seattle to SF, there aren't a whole lot of turns, so your nav system is really secondary (if on at all), and there's no reason for it to be in your line of sight.

For great designed interiors for drivers, I'd look to Audi, Porsche, and go from there.

When driving, I'd consider audio nav information to be primary, followed by simple next turn information, followed by a (north-centric, vs. vehicle bearing) map. 95% of the time the only nav info I need is "left turn in 200 meters, 100 meters, 50 meters, now", since I'm focused on other cars rather than my display. It's only with complex intersections (roundabouts, 5-6 way intersections where grids overlap, etc.) that I need to see the display.

Audio is inherently more minimal than visual information, so a car really needs to get it right. Simple things like the order of words in notifications, how frequently they happen, tones vs. words, etc. make a huge difference, and require design vs. advanced graphics to get right.
I don't even notice them. I don't notice ads on most sites unless it's the obnoxious ones. I actually don't even know how the cost-per-click ads generate revenue. I've never clicked one in my life.
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$0. I think the real question is how much money to keep your information anonymous.
> North Korea having nukes is a huge problem if you are South Korea or Japan or Hong Kong or anyone else in the region.

I'm not sure I accept that premise. But the U.S isn't listed there? So where is the U.S interest here? Or are we going to go with "stability in the region is in the USes interest"?

North Korea, by and large, is a problem for South Korea. Just as Taiwan is a problem for China (or vice versa). Where does a country draw the line of "national interest"? Because it seems (in the case of the CIA) to have gotten out of hand.

Edit:

> Show me where France has on repeated occasions attacked their neighbours and destabilised the region.

Substitute France with Israel then. There is no consistency with the U.Ses labeling of 'Evil'/'terrorist' regimes.
What if it was based on how much you used it? If you only use gmail it would be $x but if you used gmail + docs it would be $x + $y?

Or maybe $x per 1000 searches.... I dunno
The image implies that it only runs on Apple devices, and that will keep a lot of people from signing up to be notified. The page also doesn't say much about the product. Is this hosted, or do you still need your own web space? If it's hosted, is self-hosting an option? Can it export to something like WordPress' XML?

The copy uses a lot of words to say very little.
~$300/year
Kind of like a Heroku or PHPFog model....
As a aside, I think the American founding fathers' views of human rights was more that anything and everything is a fundamental right whether it is free speech or, on the other extreme, murder. However, since people have banded to form "society", to join society, a person would have to give up certain rights, e.g. the right to murder. So, depending on where you stand with respect to human rights, who should defend the right to bear arms, a person or a government?
This is absurd. A nuke can kill millions in one go. I'd sooner let Joe the Plumber have nukes than North Korea. "I won't use it, pinkies crossed" is no defense for such deadly weapons under any circumstances I can imagine.
The CIA was responsible, under Eisenhower's direction, for overthrowing Mosaddegh in Iran, leading to the Shah, and then the hostage crisis and the current regime. When you wave your hands and pretend to be adding up wins and losses like this, do you consider where the CIA is a net liability? How did their arming of the Afghans who would later become the Taliban work out, in your accounting?
Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice gives the original justification/proposal of it.
Will Chirp become the next Twitter?
Chirp app sends smartphone [ed. link] data via 'digital birdsong'

http://chirp.io/
it's a free and hosted solution. NO selfhosting planned atm, and we are thinking of exporting capability, but not amain goal atm.
Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) has an API: http://developer.ean.com/
That's untrue, desktop apps can (and already have) been listed in the Windows Store. They're essentially links out to your website where you'd need to handle your own payment and downloads, but you'd have a presence and show up in search results etc. Search for Age of Empires Online in the store for an example of a Desktop app listing.
$0. I like the ads.
Looks very simple yet powerful.
It appears to take the place of all the indicators. I think Toyota is trying to be cheap/global and put all displays in the center, with just a steering wheel and brake/accelerator on left or right hand side. That alone would be a no-buy for me, regardless of the display technology.
If you can already prove the idea isn't nonsense then there is no need to fund the R&D. If you can't prove the idea isn't nonsense, no one will fund you. Research tends to be either self-funded or backed by funding organizations that specialize in evaluating high-risk R&D projects.

Even among the organizations that specialize in it, there is a problem that there are only a handful of people in the world that can even begin to evaluate the potential of a proposal. And in those cases, the people doing the vetting do not fully understand it, but they are the best outside experts capable of detecting any subtle red flags that suggests it will fail. This is the normal state of affairs for advanced research; no normal person could hope to evaluate advanced research.

Kickstarter type models would be poor for funding most types of serious research. Leaving this to popularity contests like Kickstarter is a recipe for a lot of clowns and wannabes with good PR getting funded in the absence of serious (and expensive) diligence and serious research being ignored because it can't be wrapped into a shiny soundbite that everyone understands.
Don't you need a degree to self call "software engineer"? I'm outside US. Serious question here, just to know what North Americans consider SE.
Same with vodka, there are vodkas out there that aren't horrible to drink.

In response to excuse-me, personally I drink nice scotch when I want to enjoy a drink, but if I'm drunk and getting drunker, why waste money on something good when I'm not going to appreciate it?
What's a right? Isn't it something that no one can murder you from doing (or in general, use force to stop you from doing)? If murder is a right, isn't nothing a right, since anyone can murder you in response to anything?
Maybe Twitter should have an (official) Flattr account. ;-)
It is always both, not one perspective or the other. You can't export something without it being imported to somewhere.
yeap, I'm sorry. For me that is the worst part. I HATE digital speedometers. Because the thing is, I never look directly to the speedometer to read the speed, I look at the road but I can see the angle(and the acceleration) of the stick of the speedometer and thats how I feel how fast I am.
I fully agree. I got to the bottom and thought, "This is it?". There's absolutely no story about the guy. This article just serves to become more noise.
> "I believe emotion is useless"

Some time ago, my wife suffered from an illness that nerfed her emotions. It was surprising just how much her ability to reason degraded.

Reasoning depends heavily upon emotional responses like feeling uncomfortable, surprised, curious, or frustrated by the data / facts / information. One with reduced emotions becomes disinterested; they simply stop caring about understanding. They stop caring enough to work through difficult problems. They don't care enough to search for better data or better ideas.

I would agree that it's unhealthy to be guided by emotion in the sense of "I feel this is true" or "I believe this because I want to". This sort of emotion is mostly a distraction from rationality. But it's entirely healthy to be guided by emotion in the sense of "I care about getting this right" or "I'm bothered by these details not fitting". Without that sort of emotion to push you into rationality, you end up settling for weak, halfhearted, and ultimately irrational explanations.
Wow, Zynga seems to be proving a Poe's Law for videogame design. Cow Clicker seemed like funny satire, but it can no longer compete with this apparently earnest game design, which is literally a slot machine game, except that after inserting your "Bucket of Coins, $19.99", you don't even have a remote chance of getting it back.
I'll tell you a better project to build. And if noone else builds it I eventually will/might.

Build a HackerNews proxy. The CSS and HTML table structure of HN makes it completely unreadable on my iPad. And on the iPad there's no way to install a GreaseMonkey script to fix it. I don't want a dedicated app to read a website. In fact I think wrapping a website in an app makes about as much sense as wrapping a text file in a PDF and posting it on a website.

What I want is to browse HN in mobile-friendly way on whatever device/browser I use. Everybody needs to stop wrapping websites in apps, it's just downright ridiculous to be doing that in 21st century and in the age of powerful HTML5 web browsers.