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The patent system has people like Apple revealing the inner workings of their inventions so that other people like samsung can stand on the shoulders of giants for the small price of a royalty. It works great.

You are saying you'd like to go back to a time when there was no open publication of inventions and companies like Apple would keep their inventions secret and obscure so that others couldn't see them.

Really?

Cause if you want innovation, then you want Apple to win this lawsuit.

If they lose then they will stop publishing patents and start keeping their inventions and methods secret.
>The water company is raising prices on everyone because we're not using as much //

If they're like the UK water companies then they'll be moaning they're suffering but still be making vast profits.

It's like "we can't fix the pipe network without increasing water bills and we already put them up 10% this year; oh and we made 20% more profit this year so we must be serving our customers well ....".
Yes I did and it was on purpose, because I was listing exact examples from his comment. Probably should have put them in quotes though, I'll give you that.
Curious that they decide this now, near the time of the verdict for the US thing. The way human psychology works, I think this will sway jurors against Samsung, because they don't like dictations by obscure remote countries.
How's this for the actual discussion: There have been cases of people dying because the pharmacist misread the doctor's scribbles and gave them the wrong prescription.
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It's nice to see someone using Zurb Foundation for a change ;)
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If Alzheimer's disease isn't solved within the next 60-100 years, will there be 1990s-style interpretations of cyberspace behind future nursing homes?
Presumably script that proceeds right to left (and even upwards) was originated by left handed scribes

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spellchecker : left handed scribes became left handed scones. The history of heavy baked goods in the development of human civilisation has been scandalously neglected by a blinkered academic community.
We spend our lives devising novel, elegant optimizations to complex systems and we call this hacking. Most people partake in novel, powerful biological augmentation and we call this medicine. Interestingly, in the realm of competitive, physical human achievement we call it cheating.

Consider that as computing becomes more ubiquitous and personal, as technology merges with medicine, as we move past augmented reality and pacemakers into the cybernetic age of the next 50 years, this is very much the future of hacking.

From the opposite side, consider how storage could soon be DNA, computation could soon be artificial neurons, and how computer vision could be lab-grown retinas. Still not seeing the convergence?

By the end of our lifetimes, the business of bio-ethics and optimization will become very, very relevant.
You just said "a fantastic start towards a new paradigm" about something that happened 3.5 years into a 4 year presidential term, with an election coming up.

I don't think a new generation is running things. That kennedy camelot spin was used in 2008, but it is 2012 now, and I don't see any evidence to support it. (EG: Pick your issue, Marijuana dispensaries are getting raided, the PATRIOT act has been expanded, the Afghan war is expanded, the TSA is now molesting and taking nude images of travelers, etc.)
Some verification of the bit flip issue:

http://files.seds.org/pub/spacecraft/MAGELLAN/ms12.12.89

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=8...

I found nothing that mentions perl, but Larry Wall worked at NASA in those days: http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news112f1/b135/co...
Certainly looks faster than typing on a standard touch keypad, but this makes me really not look forward to my next phone. For the last couple of years I've had a Blackberry and I've become used to being able to send out paragraph-long text very quickly and efficiently. But of course a Blackberry Curve leaves a lot to be desired in terms of the functionality of a modern smartphone. So I want a better phone, but I'm just regretful of the fact that it's going to end up being some kind of iOS or Andriod fully-touch, because I know my efficiency will go straight down.
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At the bottom of the letter, Gandhi writes "I see that I must reserve the right hand for N.J.". And the caption at the bottom says "Left hand."

Do you suppose that means that Gandhi deliberately wrote this letter with his left hand?
If he is ruled sane, then his killing 60 people is considered the actions of a sane person. his rationle and entire defence was not he did not do it, but that he did it to wake People to the awful democratic liberal open society - basically they just declared terrorism a sane response to democracy.
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AFAIK, system two is not immune to cruft...
Suggestion: it would be nice to see RDS instances in here too.
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It also alerts you if any journalists tweet about you or your industry (which can be really useful if you're trying to get press coverage for your startup).

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You've been sold the idea that they patented "bounce back". I suggest if you go and read the actual patent itself, you'll see that it is something quite different.

Further, consider the case where there was no patent system. Apple invents a new type of touch hardware, but keeps it completely secret.

If this were the case, there would be no Android, and no Windows Phone 8 System either. Google would be spending years trying to reverse engineer how it all works (even with the advantage of patents they're still trying to make android work smoothly like the iPhone does) and Microsoft would be just stuck.

Because of the patent system, people can read Apple's patents and then extend them. And in the case of Microsoft a cross licensing agreement allows Microsoft to "infringe" on Apple's inventions without worry.

It even benefits Samsung-- as Apple offered them a license to these patents in 2010. Samsung could have used them and worried about other areas where they could extend the state of the art.

What's broken is that these companies think they can get away with violating the rights created in law-- they want the patents so they have access to the technology, but they don't want to pay for it.

What's broken is that you have this opinion about a system you don't seem to have any understanding of, because of an ideological position you've been told to have by a company who is profiting by stealing other people's work in order to try and dominate the phone industry the way microsoft dominated desktop operating systems.

What's broken is that HN is overrun with people who can't be bothered to learn about patents beyond the idea that "patents give you the right to an idea!!" and yet I suspect the vast majority of them get to vote in national elections!
Registered. :-) (because of steve blank!)

I am just wondering how many of members from this group have attended udacity courses.

I attended the one from Chuck Eesley at venture lab and although it covered many useful points .. I seemed to lose interest in it in couple of weeks.

Just wondering if it is because of being lazy and less disciplined ....

What is the opinion of investing online time for topics like entrepreneurship ...
I seem to be more attracted to be part of something involving great guys from across the world.
Personally, I think ticket description is more important than code, so I always create a ticket first. Unfortunately, github's issue tracker doesn't allow attachment, and thus it inadvertently promotes this "pull requests from out of nowhere" behavior.

Call me old fashioned, but I still like ticket + attached patches way more than anything else. Recently, I stumbled upon a Google Code project with several defect issues. One guy commented on each of the issue with a link to his github fork which he has applied the fixes. I clicked the link, and found that the fork has been deleted. What a waste.
This quote really stuck out for me...

"The international bodies governing cycling have ordered USADA to stop, have given notice that no one should participate in USADA’s improper proceedings, and have made it clear the pronouncements by USADA that it has banned people for life or stripped them of their accomplishments are made without authority."

Perhaps he was advised that these guys can't do anything because they don't have the authority, so stop fighting them. I can declare that I strip Armstrong of his titles, but nobody will listen to me, so what would be the point of him fighting me? I guess we will find out what authority USADA really has now that Armstrong has quit fighting them.
Seriously.. putting their petition software online is hardly creating an [open and participatory] government we can trust.
tragic and sad are suggestive emotions. Thus you should understand that there are people like him and I that don't find that tragic and sad at all.
Let me put it another way: Ignore Apple for a minute, consider just the market for Windows laptops. The subjective experience will always be, at its core, the experience of using a vanilla install of Windows 7.

To use a car analogy, imagine all car makers built their car on a Toyota Camry chassis. They can put in any engine they like (that's your CPU and whatnot), they can paint it and add aftermarket body kits (that's your keyboard, trackpad and plastic screen bezel) and they can hang an air freshener from the rear view mirror (that's your preinstalled software like the 30 day McAfee trial). The Toyota Camry chassis is Windows.

Ultimately, all those Camry-based cars are going to have a very similar driver experience because, at it's core, it's a Camry. When one Camry-based-car maker is competing with another they talk about paint job and engine because the paint and the engine are the only differences between their products.

Apple, in this analogy, is the only major car maker that isn't building on a Toyota Camry chassis.
Patents are not about information nor ideas. The design patents are equivilent to trademarks.

Utility patents are about novel original inventions, not ideas. You can't patent an idea.

If you've ever gone thru the process of patenting an invention, you'd know that it is not abundant.

In fact, any kind of brains at all is rare. (And for the record natural resources are abundant and only limited when government has control-- there is more oil in the world than we could ever hope to use at current rates. We'll have moved on to other technologies long before we run out- but the high costs of oil are artificial scarcity created by government.)
So South Korea is an "obscure remote country?" Wow.
It is included within Amazon. I'm not sure how I could extract that information (does Heroku have a known static IP range?). Right now, the script uses the following command and looks up under OrgName: whois -h whois.arin.net 'n ip-address-here'.
Maybe Johan was a huge troll and it's nothing but turn of the century pornography.
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I'm the author of the Damn Cool Algorithms series of posts (http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms), a couple of which have been featured here on HN, and I'm looking at resuming the series on a more regular basis.

What algorithms do you think are 'damn cool' and not already sufficiently well written about in an accessible manner?
The fishing definition is still very much in use. See e.g. http://outdoorsportinggoods.poorfish.com/search?w=trolling+m...
You haven't read the patent and what you said here is quite wrong.

You can't patent and idea, or even a behavior.

So the question is, why are you guys lying about the patent system to get google off the hook for violating patents?

Notice there was no cry to "reform" patents before google decided to copy the iPhone.
That wasn't an objective statement, that was more a characterization of the way americans see the rest of the world.

Imagine how north koreans have misconceptions about America. America is equally awash in propaganda and many americans have never spend significant time outside the country enough to realize it.

It sure surprised me once I did.
Generally most major universities have systems in place for licensing work back to researchers and often have biz dev teams to help researchers spin of research into companies.

In terms of VCs it would depend what sector you're in. In for example clean energy and pharmaceuticals funding research is par for the course, but for a web app you've got little to no chance.
None of Apple's patents are on ideas.

It is the people who want to excuse violating the patents who claim the patents are on ideas or behaviors.

Of course, if you'd actually read the patents in question you'd know this.
Worse than simple ignorance, naïve ideas about science lead people to make bad decisions with confidence.

This is the reason these articles capture my attention.

A related problem not discussed in the article is the tendency to use so-called "scientific" explanations to a non-scientific area of life. A better understanding of the scientific method itself in education is essential. Simply prefacing a statement with phrases like "it has been scientifically proven that..." or "statistics show..." is used to lend a vague scientific credibility various claims. It shows up in a slightly more sophisticated form in political diatribe and in educational settings as well.

Although of course there might be a flaw in my scientific reasoning about the article ;).
Relative dates are awesome. They're easier to understand, and save us a lot of space.
We use the timeago [1] jQuery library. It shows relative dates in an abbr tag and keeps the microformat in the title attribute, which shows in a tooltip on hover. We use the en-short [2] locale, so it formats times like '1y ago', '1mo ago', '3m ago', etc.

I think Gmail's format is the best of both worlds, but we don't have the space for it in our sidebar gadget.
Finally, the screenshot argument isn't very convincing, and neither is machine readability or ambiguity. They're formatted for humans, and they're ambiguous on purpose.

[1] http://timeago.yarp.com/
[2] https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/blob/master/locales/...
Downvoted for breaking guidelines.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."
>> Apple published its work and how it was done for everyone to see... and it did so in exchange for a right to license that work to those who wanted to extend it

No, Apple had to publish its work to gain market share. The looks of an iPhone minus branding logo become public domain by necessity.

There is no way that Apple could have kept its iOS API secret, or the dimensions of its iPhone secret, while achieving success. Therefore, these materials cannot be the basis of a patent.
I would love to see a demo linked from the home page.
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As Nirvana says, this was meant as figurative for how I imagine our brains will pick this up. Basically "who are these people that they want to tell us the law?".
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Drawing a line for mental health is hard. Where would you put it? Are religious people sane? Helicopter parents? Fanboys? People with fetishes? All that isn't exactly completely reasonable. It's been said that sanity is more about consensus, than rationality.

Terrorism itself surely can be a sane act. Sanity has nothing to do with morality. Spreading terror to win your battles has been practised since antiquity, war paint, bag pipes, guerilla warfare. I would find it hard to draw the line right here. Then it wouldn't take much to say that by definition, every killer is insane.
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Hey everyone,
I'm currently working full time while doing one unit a semester of a computer science course at university. In my spare time I am trying to learn as much about different languages (currently C, objective-C, html, css and php) as I can, however I am getting frustrated as I don't really know where to start and how to go about practising. I have been reading a few books but it's just not the same as actually working on a project and learning on the go.

If anyone has any suggestions or resources that could help me it would be greatly appreciated if you provide them!

Thanks in advance
Good point - this wouldn't such be a great solution if it caused problems for other people. That has been accounted for, though: the sign actually says "Sonderfahrten" (special trips) in the area where the bus number(s) would be, to indicate that there is no regular scheduled service.
I am facing the exact same problem with Intel GPUs you mentioned. So, currently I am running my video driver in Vesa mode (just 800 x 600 resolution). But, I would still prefer to use an open-source Unix-based system than a proprietory one.
2012 days ago is a really bad example. A proper implementation should display something like 'created: 5 years, 6 months ago'.
Like everybody else, I wrote my own router which somehow began to grow and became a so-called microframework: http://azuki.desfrenes.com/

This is probably what I would use for PHP, but obviously other languages have better solutions like ruby/sinatra, python/flask etc.
This is exactly my point.

If Gandhi says 'Bad handwriting is a sign of imperfect education.' Evaluators correcting the exam papers may think anybody with a bad handwriting is a poor student discarding the content of what he has written.

Sometimes people just go by the trends. Times have changed a lot since Gandhi. These days non-violence is taken as a sign of cowardice, during Gandhi's time it was considered a sign of perseverance, patience and taking on the enemy with moral courage and ultimately defeating him by mere Kindness and courtesy.
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>> They protect the small guy more than they do the big guy, for instance, though this is often ignored or the opposite is claimed

What small guy benefited from the patent system in developing and marketing their invention?
First of all, practice makes perfect, throw yourself in to a project, even if the task seems childish and inane, get yourself in to the routine of regularly churning out code and you will become a much better developer.

One thing you will find is time pressure, as you go forward you will want to give up or spend more time with your family, make sure you devote some time to them as well, an unhappy coder generally makes for unproductive sessions.

Once you are in to the swing of things, coding away big chunks every day, you will find that the standard functions given to you no longer suffice, try to write a small library to ease whichever issue you are having (but please, don't bother us with it if it's yet another javascript library!) and you will begin to understand modularity and namespacing.

One key thing is this: if you have the passion, no matter your situation you will become a much better programmer, if you don't care or don't devote time to the task you will wilt.

There may be those who claim that they learned python in 6 weeks, or became a coding superman guru in 12, but this is a game of masters and those stuck behind them, it's a long journey ahead of you and a few years before you can really say you are competent but if you stick at it like the rest of us, get involved with the community and do your part, you will inevitably, through trial and strength of will, be where you want to be.

If you are stuck for a project, try implementing a simple text based game in PHP, then try to convert some of the code to c and port it to the software level, it will teach you a lot about the differences between programming languages and when to use one over the other.

P.S. Wrote this comment for your deleted topic :)
There's a great deal of examples of this in economics, and this is not just a theoretical problem-- it causes bad electoral outcomes.

For instance, the idea that "government spending stimulates the economy" is a naive concept. It sounds good- right, because they are spending money, that means it is creating demand and the goods and services they are buying increases economic activity.

The scientific reality is, this naive concept is ignoring the cost of that government spending. All of the money government has comes from two sources- inflation and taxes. Whichever way they raise the money, they do economic damage.

Thus government spending, like Obama's so-called "stimulus" plan, actually hurts the economy.

This is why, for instance, the unemployment rate ended up being higher than Obama claimed it would be if his plan wasn't passed.. even though his plan was passed.

But it is not very hard to find people who believe that some other thing caused unemployment to be higher.

In fact, both the Republican and Demcorat parties, and their partisan's ideologies, reject the science of economics and embrace pseudo-science.

In my lifetime, I've seen a great increase in embracing pseudo-scientific concepts or even anti-science positions, most recently and alarmingly, by people who insist that they are right because "science" agrees with them.

Another example: Glaciers are getting smaller because of global warming. This belief is completely unscientific-- there is no way to know how many glaciers there are on earth, let alone whether they are getting smaller, and nobody has even tried to guess whether more of them are shrinking than growing.

Another example: The idea that the TSA protects us against airplane hijackings. Or that somehow the government is protecting us against terrorism. Or that mass shootings would be worse if guns were less regulated (the stats: 9.2 is the average number killed in areas where guns are banned, but only 2.2 people die in areas where the intended victims are allowed to be armed.)

Politics' natural enemy is science.
Traffic is worth sh*t.

You need targeted traffic which converst (buys your product, clicks the ads, whatever your conversion is) and that's something these guys can never give you.

If you want to spend money on traffic, you're better off learning how to do PPC advertising. At least that way you get traffic from people who have some interest in your site. You can easily find a voucher from Google for 50$ free PPC advertising to get you started.
I find a frustrating number of sites don't put any date on their articles/posts. Everything on the web should have a visible date somewhere.
The reason why SV is the scene for startups is simply because of the people here. It's expensive in SV, the traffic sucks, nightlife is mediocre, etc, but nobody cares about that stuff when they need to create a company. They only care about talented individuals, investors, and other existing startup companies. Getting free rent is just not enough of a motivator for moving to KC.
In Switzerland, a virtual train is used for the same purpose:

http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/region/bern/Pflegeheim-realisier...

(Link leads to a German article.)
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