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Shouldn't this loophole be closed? Something like: only allow the exclusive owner of a patent to sue potential infringers. That isn't enough to make shell companies a losing proposition, though, because they still contain the risk of losing a suit. I prefer the bond idea, it is a simple and more direct route to making NPEs liable for their actions.
I watched that on BBC4 last night. Quite interesting. Best nuggest of information for me was that "Tetris" is Greek for "fall", cool!
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Transfer caps are the norm here - we used to have zero-rated national traffic but that was phased out by all ISPs some time in the early 2000s.

You're absolutely right, if all our piracy at least was kept on-shore via DC++ or similar, it would likely cut demand for international bandwidth in half (the same goes for probably any country). As it stands there are substantial caching servers employed by every ISP for most high-traffic static content (Youtube, Steam, onshore broadcasting...)
Gets me thinking of the probably unique animals that would have evolved there.
Evidence of a shift in the geographical poles some time in the past?
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Just because the name is similar to names used in other places doesn't mean it's inherently repressive. Try to look beyond the cover of the book.
I disagree. China employs cheque book diplomacy. The US employs military force diplomacy.

I don't know which country you come from, but I know that down here in Australia, we are geographically connected to Asia. A very large proportion of our population is of Asian heritage. Chinese is now the second most spoken language in Australia (but still a minor percentage). Our last Prime Minister spoke it fluently. And the sentiment of the average Australian is quite different to your perspective.

We haven't been fed endless reams of US propaganda but we've seen clearly what is happening in the US. The crackdown of occupy movements. The NDAA. HR 347. Obama's kill list. Al Alwaki. His 16 year old son. The comments about Julian Assange. The treatment of Bradley Manning. I can go on and on and on. But its off topic.

OK. So China is a big, bad, mean, corrupt, communist regime. But they are actually paying our bills. They are putting up real money and providing real investment. We didn't sail through the GFC v1 in 2008 because the US graciously helped us. It was China.

It doesn't really matter if I'm wrong or right. I'm just pointing out that the perspective from here is very different to the perspective you may have.
While something like gmail may have come from 20% time, Google's 20% time is a marketing ploy. I don't think we're going to find a response where it is really 20% instead of 120% at Google.
I still would like to know what Valve and Blizzard have encountered with Win8 that makes it trouble. I have not had any problems with Steam and WoW. Maybe they do mean drivers though..
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> The article claims that the US is "near the bottom in terms of actual social mobility", but only supports this with some points about how social mobility in the US isn't that good.

Data that supports their statements is easily found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/04/us/comparing-e...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to...

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/04/b1579981.html

> The US is still one of the most meritocratic countries in the world.

This is only a convincing argument against the notion that social mobility is low in the US if you already subscribe to meritocratic principles.
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We've seen the same kind of attack. We ended up limiting our DNS resolvers only to our own prefixes. It's a simple ACL in bind that allows recursion (domains your DNS server is not authoritative for), only to our subnets.
Here's the submission that linked to the actual blog post, not to the whole damn blog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326619
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The VentureBeat interview [1] makes it look like gaben is referring to the changes in app ecosystem (eg. integrated Windows Store with 30% margins) rather than a specific technical problem. Although I suspect a major games studio coming to Linux might also enjoy the ability to poke around the source for the few graphics drivers which are open.

1. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/25/valves-gabe-newell-talks/
Yep, most probably. For ex: I have had audiophile-grade sound quality differences in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and Windows (Windows 7) due to the drivers [1].

[1]Dual boot on a Sony Vaio FZ-21S, with onboard ASIO chipset, headphones - Pioneer SE-A1000 (Equivalent to a Sennheisser HD - 595) with no equalizers.
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Maybe the new app store, which may drive down their profits from steam a little ;)
DPC Latency maybe?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itproperf/th...

Other than that, it's just valve making linux version of steam and tries to promote it.
"Never work for free -- breaks employment ecosystems" -> mantra.

Tesla -> mantra goes out the window :)
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Ah, args should be a tuple:

p = Process(target=f, args=(num,))
The term "meritocracy" is one of those annoying words that appears to have a current common usage that is almost the opposite of what its originator actually meant.

Michael Young, in his satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy was actually warning about a managerial style where people are promoted based on a definition of "merit" that is exclusive and self-serving for those currently in power and not based on actual objective performance. Anyone who has had any contact with long-established bureaucracies (e.g. the UK Civil Service) will recognise this kind of "meritocracy".

Here is Michael Young righting fairly recently on the topic:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

It's worth noting that the Wikipedia page on meritocracy describes Young's essay as:

"The essay was based upon the tendency of the then-current governments in their striving towards intelligence to ignore shortcomings and upon the failure of education systems to correctly utilize gifted and talented members within their societies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
This is pretty sad news.

In the 90's, I heard that ihug internet used to get their bandwidth via a satellite to the USA.

Do options like this still exist? Would they even be feasible for todays bandwidth requirements?

It would be interesting to know what kind of options exist that could provide some much needed competition against the Southern Cross cable
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Articles like this are declaring issues in existing communities. This make it natural for members in those communities to create opinions and question when listening, internalizing, and cultivating the issues brought forth. Some of those opinions will be of the type "Is this issue, compared to all other form of issues already identified in the community, significant different that it need a imminent and unique reaction?".

Hackers/programers/scientists/problem solvers is also extremely, to the point of obsession, interested in identify root issues when talking about problems. To find root issues, one need to ask questions, like are there similar issues like this one? Are they caused by the same problem? What suggested fixes are there? are those proven to work? whats does the number says, do they show a trend? are there sources that back up what people experience? How can we eliminate research and political biases? are there additional factors involved like relative risk, risk assessment and risk aversion?

Denying those questions and asking the community to accept the issues as facts, immune against research and question, and just shut-up and follow any suggested fixes it gets, is wrong. Just simply wrong. Maybe that will result in people dropping out, showing up in small numbers, or who starts making their own exclusive conferences/coding groups/fill-in-the-blank. Maybe. But maybe the better way is to ask the questions and find the answers?
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Steam working with hardware vendors on Linux drivers means everyone in the Linux community benefits. This is fantastic news.
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This feels like a specialized TaskRabbit kind of thing (like what they tried to do with the $10 delivery for In-N-Out anywhere in SF). Could be workable if there's enough customers.
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And that post didn't make it to the front page, because the title wasn't very descriptive.

I wanted to read some real hacker news discussion, which we're now getting with a better title.
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Probably. But what would the cable operator do about it? Even assuming they could locate the section of cable that sent down, sending a ship out to it and either sending divers down or (more likely) hoisting the cable up for inspection would be incredibly expensive.

Edit: And if they did somehow find a tap, its hard to know what they would they do then. Snip it off and trigger an 'incident', or leave it in-place and forget they ever saw it. My guess is that the share holders would rather didn't look in the first place.
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I have studied in classes where I was the sole guy + 30 women (Physcology course). I can only say, you get used to it after the first few days.

That said, any assault, be that a bottle to the head, first to the face, hand to the groin, or foot to the torso, should be reported.
Larger discussion:
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I guess you cannot avoid a few misses in that much information. I found most of it to be true.

That said, I think it glosses over the fact that US states have huge differences and he has only experienced a subset of them.
It would make for good parody material:

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Yes this is a "problem" on HN sometimes. The original posts don't get upvoted, but some summary/repost by another more known site does. Yesterday there was an article that was submitted from multiple sources, but it was only the Engadget one of all the sites got to the front page.
Only if you actually can special case it automatically during compilation. It could still require a few tricks if your comparison comes from a user-defined query. At a minimum it would have to be something like: figure out which column type are you using, figure out what basic type does it map to, use that type in the template.
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Take these results with a grain of salt:

> We are using a 32-bit version of Linux temporarily and will run on 64-bit Linux later.
The only way to make "audiophile-grade" comparisons is through blind tests in an appropriate room.

I'd just like to point out that you'll have more variations in your sound by just turning the mini-jack connector than by modifying any driver, who do nothing more than copying a stream of digital audio into the buffer of the sound card to be sent to the DAC.

The only area where I've seen changes caused by drivers is on latency, a latency that matters only in a creative context.
Who knows? Maybe a large part of us came from there.
Brilliant article. Please note that this was written by Addy Osmani, best known for TodoMVC.
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Windows 8 is a change in direction for the Windows app ecosystem and for the user interface as well. Valve games make a lot less sense on a touch interface, and they worry that's where Microsoft is quickly heading - to a Metro-only future. A future where everything also has to come through the app store.

No matter what kind of company you are, whether a software or hardware one, if you're doing "well" in the current/status quo Windows environment, then Windows 8 is a threat to you, because it will change a lot of things, and most likely for the worse for regular "PC-oriented" companies.
As far as I know, bandwidth isn't the limiting factor in satellite communication, but latency is. The distance to geostationary orbit means that a round trip for a packet would take at least 500ms before factoring in networking delays etc.
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I'm unsure how that's necessarily a problem with HN so much as it's a problem for headline writers. There are a lot of articles hitting /new every hour; it's the original headline writer's job to grab our attention and make us read them.
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Yes those options still exist, no they do not even come close to the bandwith or the pricing available on submarine cable systems.

Pricing on Southern Cross cable dropped massively a few years back when PIPE's PPC-1 went from Sydney to Guam. Ending the cosy duopoly between AJC1 and SSC. It was also one of the first cables out of Australia that wasn't owned partly by an incumbent telco (Telstra, Optus etc).
Why? Aren't 64 bit versions supposed to be even faster?
First time programming ever? How did you find the learning curve?

Anyway, congrats, looks really good. Good luck.
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I wonder whether larger pointers could result in being able to cache less media. But that's a wild guess.
I find this to be short-sighted. I also program, and have found Algebra to be very useful. Solving a problem trivially with Algebra can sometimes save you lots of programming work. Granted I don't use Algebra in my day to day, I'm glad I know how to do it and have found it useful often enough to say I'd be less of a programmer without it.
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This strongly suggests that the idea of "run away" greenhouse effect, wherein the Earth latches into a permanent irreversible hotter state ("like Venus", the media was saying back in the 80s and 90s) is not true: the Earth has been 10-20 degrees F warmer in the past and has declined from there.
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Who delivers? Is this a P2P marketplace (like Taskrabbit, etc?)?
I heard that python concurrency model is based on userspace threads, so when I saw the "setDaemon" call I investigated and learned[1] the difference between daemon and non-daemon python thread (I hoped to see a different difference - oh, a pun).

That said, why making daemonize a thread when we'll be joining it later?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190010/daemon-threads-exp...
Indeed tsahyt, I'm also a bit concerned. I'm actually divided here. Besides the "flashplugin" package, I don't have any more proprietary packages in my laptop (I didn't remove the kernel proprietary blobs too), but I really want to install Steam and play Counter Strike 1.6 on Arch. It would be amazing. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I'll probably end up installing Steam, disregarding DRM and closed source software.
"Mapping the legal genome" brings to mind visualisation of case law in diagram form so dependent on search terms you could see a visualisation of relevant cases incorporating the precedent cases and then below them cases which have relied on them.

As a lawyer, this would be interesting for me to see and would definitely be more interesting and helpful than current search methods from which it isn't immediately clear the hierarchy of case law is.

Whether this is an idea which would be attractive enough to monetise successfully is another question entirely...
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Not necessarily, see: https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/
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It's getting so that I'm running out of snarky things to say about some of these God-awful Atlantic pieces that keep showing up on HN. They're like cockroaches.

...In other words, as Hayes argues in his book, America isn't truly a meritocracy. Sure, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, and equal opportunity laws have helped to remove many of the barriers to success...

A meritocracy, by definition, is some sort of social hierarchy based on merit -- you take a test, you gather in the most bottle-caps, you beat your classmates at arm-wrestling. Whatever. Things like the Civil Rights Movement deal with correcting historical and societal injustices. Instead of something you do, you are being judged, at least partially, by something you are. This is done for the betterment of society.

Don't want to argue social engineering, but viewing somebody by what they are is 180-degrees away from viewing them by how they perform in some kind of merit-based system. For the author to juxtapose these two concepts in his mind as one being an example of the other is just.......sad. Perhaps his premise was more about the matter of how he felt various social ideas that are supposed to create a equatable social result such that more minorities or women succeed but instead create additional stress. That's fine, but that's not a meritocracy.

The article goes downhill from there.
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Hmmm, maybe..I suspect it could be something to do with the ASIO drivers, because there is some "spatial-ness" enabled when I use Linux instead of Windows for such stuff. To verify this, I tried playing a FLAC ripped directly from an Audio CD I had @ 1140kbps approx. and I'm not sure how to put it, but I can confirm there was a "spatial-ness" and more instrument-level distinguish-ability while on Linux. Maybe its specific to just this laptop? Who knows...
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If it comes back, then yes. I don't think fiber can have a "loose connection". It either works or it does not.
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Oh heck, don't laugh. That's happened to me a couple of times already!
If they use the X32 ABI, that won't be a problem.
This is true, but when you look at geometric proofs all you are doing in HS geometry is deductive logic using an abstraction which is a general approximation of the real world. That's why I could see getting rid of HS geometry and just having a deductive logic class too, perhaps with a unit of Euclidean Geometry included in it.

Algebra and calculus are different though. They are tools for finding unknown information and thinking about changing values.
Latency can be a problem also when listening to music. HP Power Manager in recent versions (January to June 2012 verified on several EliteBooks) adds so much latency once each 30 seconds that even I can hear it. I even lost entire keypresses.