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EA/Maxis Sue Zynga for Copyright Infringement
> Yeah, but, "identical behavior" and "strikingly similar" are not Copyright violations.

Good thing you're not a lawyer.

Ferguson v National Broadcasting Co:

If the two works are so strikingly similar as to preclude the possibility of independent creation, 'copying' may be proved without a showing of access
B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It
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If you get a Google alert email and forward that on to someone else, the person you forwarded it to can unsubscribe you from the alert by clicking on the unsubscribe link. Same for most automated emails you get. How many people realize this?
Reuters hacked, fake news posted
> as few as 100 cows and as many as 1200

I think those are actually pretty small numbers, and might not even count as CAFOs (confined animal feeding operation), right?
The Washington Monthly had an interesting angle on college rankings, and how different their results are from US News:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...
No, we don't need any more social. We need less.
Yes, and I would pay even more for Facebook if it meant they would not track me the way the do. For this reason I have never pushed the "like" button, and basically only use Facebook for (occasionally sharing) photos (of my dog).
The higher you are, the greater your tangential velocity to the ground. Launching a rocket from the top of Mount Everest vs a beach on the Dead Sea is cheaper in terms of energy required to attain a given altitude.
> Come over to feminism. We're fighting for everyone to have the same opertunities.

No, you're not.

For the most part, feminism is aimed at giving privileged women some of the same opportunities that privileged men have.

As a "not very privileged" man....

And, in many cases, the result of "same" has been (at best) marginal increases for women accompanied by huge decreases for men. It's unclear why that's an improvement.

And, we've yet to see feminists address female privileges, except, of course, to defend them.
That was one of the factors that contributed to the "flop". And your point was addressed in my first issue. "Identifying a problem vs fabricating one".
That wont work. Assuming that the reason for the bad plight of the cows is that the worse treatment is more profitable, not that the farmer is sadistic, the farmer has two options: A) Conventional at cost X per unit and B) Animal friendly at cost X+N per unit. Now, to achieve your goal, you tax A at at least N per unit and subsidise B at the same rate. Now, people start buying B in favour of A and the farmers shift production to B, and soon production of A ceases - but as this is the object of the taxation, the tax revenue disappear and with it your budget for subsidising B. B now costs X+N.
'to develop the safest' is the future tense. It seems nitpicky but I believe Elon is trying to communicate that safety of the crew will be a priority.

If you read some of the Congressional debate on the commercial crew program you will see that some people question whether or not a commercial enterprise will put the safety of the crew ahead of their own profits, and even the survival of their own company. Their argument is that only a government agency with a mandate for safety can be assured of making that choice even when that results in escalating costs.

It was pointed out in counter arguments that the Challenger blew up in part because NASA launched it over the objections of the commercial provider of the solid rocket boosters.

My personal bias is that while we lost a lot of people doing barnstorming stunts in Aviation, their willingness to put their life on the line allowed things to happen faster than they might otherwise. I am not sure if I could objectively reason to that bias though. I did get a chance to talk to the folks at Scale Composites just after they did their X-prize winning flight and they felt that they were over regulated in the name of crew safety. Nobody objected to regulations to protect the safety of the people down range or nearby, it was constraints on the crew that chafed. A tech remarked that he would not be surprised if they were asked to put an ADA compliant bathroom in Spaceship One at the next review.
The Wednesday Witching Hour
No, I was talking about the publication. "Ad hominem" means "to the man." Your implication that I am bigoted against religious people is an example of ad hominem.

I am a religious person. That religion happens not to be Christianity. Obviously, I have no problem with religious people and I have no problem with reading things written by religious people.

I am asking for HN to not be used as a channel for evangelism. We don't see Muslims posting da'wah here or Scientologists offering their pitches, so I don't know why Christianity is the exception (except that it is the cultural majority).
> or have a purse for instance

It's called a messenger bag. Usually cheaper, more versatile, and a leather one can last you a lifetime.
The apples to apples comparison would be a responsive site versus two separate sites for mobile vs. non-mobile. In that case, I'm not sure its clear a responsive design is fundamentally more complex and expensive to build. In the latter case, every time there is a new feature you have to essentially implement it twice.
Ask HN: how do you manage your time in an early stage startup?
We launched a few months back. It seems we are getting overwhelmed with operational work, bug fixes and customer support. At the same time, to code something significant you need at least 6-7 hours of uninterrupted time which we are finding hard to get. Will be interested to know about your experience in this stage.
All Glory to the Church of Org.

Kidding aside, they did a great job with workflowy. I still only use org mode, but I've suggested it to several people who wouldn't be comfortable with emacs, and they've all loved it.

org-mode + mobileorg + git = my entire life.
I'm going by the stat in iStatmenus. It slowly grows from 0 the first 2-3 days.
And yet Apple has a patent on it…

Not sure what to make of that.
The Trese Brothers have attempted to contact Google many times via email and through Google's support boards since the first warning and have heard nothing back.

Google didn't respond to a request for comment from me [the author of the article].

I think you need to read more closely.

And BTW I'm generally favorable toward Google, and my pocket holds an Android.
"I completely disagree" is just code for "You're wrong"

I completely disagree with that statement :-D

"I disagree" is a statement of opinion -- I believe something different than you do. "You're wrong" is an assertion of fact -- your belief is incorrect. The former is much less of a direct challenge to the other person than the latter is.
I still don't follow why you're saying "waiting 8 frames".
But I think I get what you're talking about -- essentially interpolation.

The problem would come from anything other than simple movement of a static sprite. If there's some much as a wispy smoke trail animation off the back end of the rocket as it flies through the air, the sprite data isn't going to give you any indication where those particles should be waving about during your interpolated frames.
The reality is that its not as easy as that.

Its not like "oh well, I can't be a freelancer because it doesn't provide healthcare, so I guess I am forced to just take that $90,000 a year job with full benefits."

The reality is, and I know I'm not the only one, that it can be much easier to find "freelance" or "contract" work than full-time employment with full benefits. And the alternative can often be zero income, because unemployment insurance doesn't cover a lot of circumstances, and it really doesn't apply (or shouldn't) when you can easily pick up a "freelance" or "contract" job.

The closest thing to 'full-time with benefits' that I have had (recently) has been 'contracting' jobs through staffing agencies, and there were no useful health benefits. Actually they had sort of a token health insurance, but it wasn't good for anything.

My health condition makes it harder for me to pick up and stick with one of these supposed full-time with benefits jobs that would probably be huge a waste of time anyway. I have a startupy idea and sort of a businessish that I am working on, and they are just much more useful ideas than most jobs I could pick up. And almost all of the most joblike jobs I have ever had have involved bosses who didn't know what they were doing wasting my time, office politics, and usually a few completely useless coworkers who I couldn't stand.

So I have been doing the "freelancing" thing, and even though the budget for this latest project basically has been on fumes for many months and I have to work for peanuts and can't afford healthcare, if I did manage to find a regular "job" after we get our new version into production, I don't think that would really be a win. It would suck all of my energy and time out just to support some asshole's lavish lifestyle on the basis of what would (odds on) just be a business based on some spammy bullshit marketing hacks or some other way to suck money out of the economy without providing any real benefit or innovation. Literally the only reason I would do that would be to take advantage of the healthcare after X months, assuming it somehow covered pre-existing conditions.

My hope is that the next day gig will have a better budget, and also that I can finish the startupish thing and that will provide money for me in a way that is not a waste of my time and allow me to eventually get rejected for health insurance and then reapply to the other California program and then get the insurance and then finally get my Nissen fundoplication.
He must have meant the San Fernando Valley :-)
I've always thought it would be cool to have employers offer "MAKEation" days instead of vacation days. This would be time accumulated to take a month, a quarter, or even a year off to build your own product/service/dream. The company offering this would also provide mentors, resources, and periodic sit-downs to discuss investment into your new product/service/dream. You maintain your insurance throughout this time also. When you return to work, instead of having a meeting to "be brought back up to speed", you discuss with managers how to integrate your new business into the company, what you learned, and then make a presentation to the rest of your business/department. The idea being that every business can be it's own incubator of sorts. I would imagine this would attract top talent to your company, allow for new sources of revenue, keep your business fresh, and promote innovation among those that might otherwise be more risk-averse.
Valve’s updated Steam agreement bars class action lawsuit, but is it legal?
What do you want to learn?
Exactly. Look at the Touchpad and Playbook for examples.

Just because a product "works" after being killed doesn't mean it'll do what you want/need it to. The iPad is a safe play, it'll have new apps for the foreseeable future. The Surface (particularly the RT model) is very much up in the air.
It's disgusting.

You ignore underprivileged male hackers because too many other hackers are male? How is that fair?

I'm sorry, but we aren't going to help you. Why? You have the wrong organ between your legs. Next!

Are you sure what you're doing is even legal? What do you do about trans/intersex applicants, or do they not matter to you?
Not just those who are self employed, I think pretty much anyone that is human has probably felt depressed at one time or another. This seems similar to all the pharmaceutical commercials where they try to convince you that you need medication if you have ever felt tired, sore, nervous, etc.

It really does seem like a huge distraction from building a business that not only do you have to find and pay for health insurance, but that you have to run a gauntlet just for the opportunity to possibly be able to buy insurance.
I feel like Coke could probably make the same argument about Pepsi. There are plenty of examples of very similar products competing with one another in today's marketplace.

It seems like EA winning this could lead to a lot of anti-competitive activity down the line.
Vybe: concert starved music fans in the middle of nowhere will get notifications
Not counting their initial failures, SpaceX has had a 100% success rate. And each rocket was so significantly different from the previous rocket[1], that it's more fair to say they had 3 rocket models with 100% failure, rather than one model with 60% failure rate. And the Falcon 9 has a 100% success rate. And they were awarded this contract, so obviously NASA believes they can achieve the desired reliability and safety for the rocket that will be used under the contract (not F1).

I'm not affiliated with SpaceX, nor trying to be a fanboi, but I believe you are distorting things.

[1] Which did earn them a lot of criticism from the industry, actually
Impressive FB Covers for Timeline
Recent changes that Quora has made to their interface ( several UI dark patterns implemented to get people to automatically share / integrate with FB / Twitter ) as well as this move of hiding answers makes me believe that they are desperate, not confident. I had high hopes for Quora from the beginning but have been continually let down to the point where Quora seems like ExpertsExchange 2.0 now.
Remember Cuil?
Does anyone remember cuil. A search engine touted as a google killer and started by a bunch of google mutineers. Now even the domain cuil.com is free.
Google rules indeed
I'm willing to bet those exact dimensions came about by someone sending an email that went something to the general effect of:

"Here are some screenshots. Redraw them."
Or for the sake of giving away fewer MacBook Airs? Not that the warranty covers accidents per se, but Apple's advertising the MagSafe's "safety" benefit leaves them at least somewhat exposed to potential liability. The profit on the adapters is going to be offset significantly by the increased inventory required to stock and service twice as many port and PSU configurations and the cost of bundling an adapter with every Apple display sold in the foreseeable future at no extra charge.
Probably, they prototyped the game using rips of Sims assets, and as they replaced EA's art with their own they tried to keep the new elements consistent with the old ones (rather than, say, having some walls suddenly 1.3x as tall as others for no obvious reason.)
> So what you're telling me is that they have a more sophisticated system than previous ones with sophisticated backups.

Given that the shuttle's SRBs were "once they start, they don't stop until they're empty", sometimes more complicated is a good thing.

> Until you have actual experience with the weird stuff that goes wrong in the field, you do not really know what is going to go wrong. And the more complicated the system is, the more true this fact is.

I'm fairly certain SpaceX has been employing people with actual experience.

> Incidentally I had the opportunity at one point to ask the first software developer ever hired at SpaceX whether he would trust his own software. His answer was enlightening, I wouldn't want to put my life in the hands of someone who trusted his own software, so I'm going to say no.

That's why they probably have more than one developer plus QA team.

> There is always SOMETHING that can go wrong. You want the person who created your safety system to be a paranoid freak. And you have to pray that they didn't miss something. You hope and pray for the best, but until you have actual data, you don't know how it is going to turn out.

True, certainly, but the same argument can be used on cars. Things still go wrong, but we can also safely say they're safer than a car from the 1970s.
"In 2010, of all the farms in the United States with at least $1 million in revenues, 88 percent were family farms, and they accounted for 79 percent of production." -- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-triu...
I'm unsure the perception of B2B among VC's is as bad as commonly thought.

My last startup was pure B2B, and during our valley runs I found most potential partners / vc's / workers were very excited (in part because of the opportunity, in part because of perceived market movements, and in part because B2B can be fun) at the prospect of growing in B2B.

B2B companies may not spawn a media darling, but it doesn't make the business itself unsexy.
Comprehend (YC W11) hiring devs and testers for next-gen analytics
Kind of depends on ratios apparently. Not to pick on Airbus but they have had planes drop out of the sky over the ocean, plow into the ground at an air show, and run out of gas mid flight. But they have survived. Most of their planes have worked fine.

If SpaceX has 500 successful launches and one blows up and kills everyone on board, it will be sad, but it wont kill them, it might not even hurt their stock if they couldn't have avoided it.

That is a long way of saying the answer is that they probably won't have an issue if they have done a good job on the engineering and find out quickly the root cause of the accident.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ⊥
Chrome allow native C/C++ code to be run in the browser
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You missed another interesting option. Have robots (or pharmacology) which can reversibly alter a person's joy module(s) so as to take joy in dealing with sewers (or making/managing robots to do the same), and people who are fine with having the robots teak their joy-production neurons for a suitable duration of time.
Sure, and that's the point-- you can't even do something as unimportant as wear a particular kind of clothing without subjecting yourself to serious social pressure, but we're being asked to believe that gender roles don't really affect people's choices.
If you're not skilled enough to create something good, you're better off finding something good and copying it exactly — you're probably not qualified to understand which parts are essential and which are arbitrary. It takes guts to copy something exactly, though; most people can't resist the urge to make their mark.
Weekly Cloud Post Recap: Chaos Monkey, Open Source Cloud Architecture, DevOps
Yep. To add to the anecdata, my dog managed to yank my laptop off of my desk quite easily, not a month after I bought it. Everything was fine --- OK, the dog was spooked --- but my laptop was still plugged in.
EA knows this type of litigation is probably a waste of time, in terms of shutting down a particular game. But, it is probably at least partially a PR stunt to drive down Zynga's flailing stock price and hurt the long term outside capital outlook for Zynga. Smart move EA.
Entrepreneurial Happiness at TEDxNewHaven [video]
Well to be fair Harvard isn't ranked that highly for CS, and this single data point doesn't say a whole lot about it either. You'll find CS undergrads that are willing to enter, but would place last in this competition at MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon.... every school.

Just playing devil's advocate here. Rankings are a crapshoot, and I don't love the Ivies at all.
This is just vague and way too large an effort. Plus many of these goals are being embodied by current html5 efforts.
> I understand Zynga even less now.

Honestly, it works. We can hate it as much as we like; at the end of the day, Zynga is in fact pulling in cash.
"Try Los Angeles, there are few gringos here, and fewer all the time."

I was referring to this statement. And it is a racist statement. It is exactly as racist as saying "Try Illinois, there are few wetbacks there and fewer all the time." These are clear statements by the speaker that the group in question is both undesirable in general and worthwhile to eliminate or distance oneself from, a belief commonly called racism.

With regard to demographics, few of the thousands of undocumented immigrants likely respond to government questionnaires.
Radio Shack's TRS-80 turns 35 today. Please don't call it "Trash-80."
That's simply not true. In some hourly paid positions in some locales, there are mandated overtime pay rates, but salaried employees have no per-day hour maximums.

The fact is that employers don't work their employees 16 hours per day because it's counterproductive and employees would go find employers who didn't work them so hard if they tried.
I think loss of a crew early in the program might indeed do a private space company in. Assuming the engineering of the launch abort system is any good, though, I think it's a lot more likely that the first "disaster" will be an incident where the launcher is destroyed but the crew survives. It's possible that a situation like that might actually increase the public's confidence in the company.
> Awww hell. Now it's on
In a sense all computers are "just calculators". That statement wasn't meant to mock the Apple II in any way. After all, modern computers can't do "more" in terms of computability. I was mainly refering to how instruction sets were smaller back in the day. Looking at the instruction set of a x86 CPU really makes me kinda dizzy sometimes. The 6502 on the other hand has some 56 instructions (if my quick googling proved correct).

I do like the bigger lego blocks as well. They're great for doing any actual work. I'm also not trying to force assembler onto anyone. But as you point out, digging into the internals is a whole lot of fun and a very interesting journey through the world of computing. It kind of feels like discovering the very essence of it in a way. As a bonus point it teaches you a whole lot of things that might be useful one day.

Bottom line, even with today's powerful languages it's never wrong to dig a bit deeper, if just for experience and insights.
Between choosing EA vs Zynga, I'll choose to side with the Lawyers on this one.

:D
Good stuff, and I agree with almost 100% of that. The only thing I take exception to is the (seemingly) implicit suggestion that "sexy" is defined by what college kids like:

And that’s true. B2B is unsexy in that I don’t build things that my college friends want to use.

Nah... if you're doing sexy technology, it's sexy even if not a single college kid has ever heard of it.

I'd encourage everyone to NOT buy into the HN echo chamber mentality... there is a LOT more to the business world than consumer facing geo-local-social-mobile-photo-sharing-cat-picture startups.

Do cool shit that solves problems for people, charge for it, and make money... that's not a half-bad formula.

(disclosure: I'm a founder of a very sexy B2B enterprise software startup).
You're starting a company but first you have to spend a day or two along with a bunch of money finding a group health insurance plan (whatever that even means).

I wish it were that easy. You also have to figure out if there even any doctors nearby that will accept your insurance.

We currently have to drive around 30mins-1hour to take my newborn to the doctor, and of course only during work hours.

You also have to deal with the fact that insurance companies mess up, a lot it seems. We've had to deal several times with our insurance mistakenly denying coverage and have to fight tooth and nail just to get them to pay it.

It's incredibly alarming to come to a $9000 bill in your mailbox because someone accidentally put the wrong ID number while typing.
Orbital isn't building man rated vehicles.
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It's still an evolving area, as evidenced by the recent Tetris vs. Xio lawsuit:

http://www.sunsteinlaw.com/publications-news/news-letters/20...