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I hope this madness in US patents policies gets fixed. But if it doesn't, it could be an opportunity for Europe...

http://blog.hashtagify.me/2011/08/04/european-startups-and-u...
I propose a new law: An observation of the form "Maybe <counter-argument>, but <observation>" can probably be adequately dismissed with <counter-argument>.
Big things are on the horizon for the jQuery.Gantt plugin. A reliable contributor is working on adding drag and resize to the solution while I work on some fiddly little bugs. I also believe someone had a proof of concept for adding dependencies to items too.
Lost at sea
Glad to see that Firefox copied this very useful Chrome feature.

Now, just imagine if Google had patented a "Method for silently updating a running web browser"...
Much faster Android compilation (for projects with big libraries)
Migrating to Objective-C literals with `tops`
This is my own question on StackOverflow, which I found answer for by accident. I've searched the internet and basically there were no information about this anywhere, so I guess it could help quite a few people.
Google plays around with the 'I'm feeling lucky button'
I find it somewhat suspicious that the original Pixate kickstarter was for ¢200,000 but they cancelled that 6 days prior to the deadline, with only ~$21k raised [1]. Now they're back with a new kickstarter for $25,000 (which they've passed) [2]. This article also raises the same questions [3]

This might not be too suspicious except that no where do they address what happened in the first campaign and what has changed since. Why did they need $200,000 a month ago but now only need $25,000? What has changed?

As the Dragons Den catchphrase goes, "for that reason, I'm out"

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2015210423/pixate-beauti...

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixate/beautiful-native-...

[3] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/26/is-pixate-astroturf...

Edit: added the links
I know a few people who use Usenet (I did as well for a while), mostly as they weren't cheapskates who were out for free alone, but as it was the fastest way to get something they wanted in a format they wanted. Most of them dipped off a bit when NetFlix came in (UK based) but as the catalogue quality isn't amazing it's still there as a good choice.

Makes you wonder why someone in the studios hasn't sat down and gone "There's nearly 10 million people paying $15 a month to get hold of movies, we could charge $20 and it's legal and get even more people and we'd be filthy rich", but entrenched behaviour is tricky to shift.

I don't bother with it now, it gets to a point where you're trying to manage data in the terabytes and it's just more of a pain than it's worth.
Please consider changing the name - it's already in common use for Windows Apache, MySql and PHP (similar to LAMP).

I'm also a bit surprised that they didn't first type "wamp" into Google and see what came up. Given the number 1 result for me is wampserver.com, it seems a particularly unwise decision.
That was exactly his point. It was illuminating to hear some Worst Arguments in the World that I have sometimes used without realizing. I don't see why everyone is getting so riled up.
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Antibiotics are probably helping to make our kids fat
How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn From It
Google should distribute two Android versions - one for the U.S. (with features like pinch-to-zoom removed) and one for the rest of the world. This would hopefully create some pressure to change the obsolete patent system.
A HN post or a Facebook post for every found iPhone?

Seriously, found items should be given to 'lost and found', the police or whatever the rules are in your country.

By the way, does Apple provide a service to match found iPhones with their registered owners? Due to mandatory activation, Apple knows at least one contact person for each iPhone. Such contact information would be useful for 'lost and found' etc.
The Internet startup model is broken and how to fix it
Curiosity rover sends back first Hi-Res image
Honest question: why make a meme generator ?
I live and work in TLV and would be interested.
Why you should never automatically open external links in a new window
Hold down the home button until Siri comes up. Say "who am I?". Look at the results and do the right thing: call your local PD's non-emergency line and report it as found property. Give them the info you found. They can figure out the rest.

If it's not a 4S, skip the first part, then call it in anyway.
European startups and US software patents: Threat or Opportunity?
Submarine patent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_patent

Well, I guess it's better than having to deal with that.
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IF I WANT TO GO US, I HAVE TO GIVE MY BLOOD, MY DNA. THIS IS DUE TO RISK FROM TERROIST. HAS THIS SYSTEM EVER STOPPED A TERROIST ATTACK.

AMERICA IS A POLICE STATE WHERE IF YOU DOWNLOAD AND SHARE A FEW SONGS, YOU WILL HAVE TO SELL YOUR HOUSE TO PAY THE OUTRAGEOUS FINES. ALL IN THE NAME IF THE RIAA.
On the media attribute
Efficiency & Effectiveness in Healthcare
The best thing about a free lunch isn't necessarily that you'll be eating nice food (hopefully) and saving a bit of money. It's that it forces you to ditch your machine or your ritual and to spend some non-work time with your work colleagues.

As a regular desk-eater (like many I assume) you definitely miss that aspect in favour of getting a bit more work done.
Before you start graduate school, try working at a start-up.
This is link-bait, besides being old news.
I can imagine what he is saying. In a Cherokee 180 4 person airplane you do steer on the ground with your feet and control the throttle with your hand. In a Gulfstar 50 you steer on the ground with a dial for your left hand placed off on the left. You need training to use each machine. The world has not come to a screeching halt just because not all airplanes have the same controls.
Semantically (and probably officially) that's not really 'test first'. You wrote something else (html) then wrote a test for that. You should be writing a test that checks for the existence of that specific html, then watching it fail, then writing the HTML.

If you think that's wrong, then 'test first' isn't always the 'right way'.

No, I'm not being facetious or sarcastic. Just pointing out that 'test first' isn't a requirement. It's an approach that has some good points. I 've done portions of some projects 'test first' and they generally turn, but it's not an approach I use exclusively 100% of the time.

"If you start by writing code you'll end up with the UI that was easiest to code rather than the UI that looks how the end user will want it to."

The problems with this thinking (which I mostly agree with, btw) is that not every project gets to involve checking with end users, nor do end users really understand what/how something should work until they're using something that actually allows a degree of interactivity. They may not even be aware of what's possible until they're poking around 'live'. While you might be reluctant to rejigger large portions of what you've done to move toward "easiest to code vs what they want/need", that's a different problem. It's a problem you need to be aware of, and ready to tackle when you cross it (and you'll know when because you're now aware of it).
+1 ... this book is a must read for beginners...very well written with a foreword by Doug Cutting...

After getting an initial idea and when you are at an intermediate experience level, you can also keep checking posts on http://www.hadoopsphere.com/search/label/learn
let me save everyone some time:

> Jim Keller, the chief designer behind the A4 and A5 chips used in Apple's iPhone and iPad products has joined AMD as chief architect and VP
Sounds great. Assuming I'm in the country (I'm abroad for the holidays in September), I'm definitely in.
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Tutorial: How to make an offline HTML5 web app, FT style
Efficient Wireframing of a Web Form
Hello and welcome to the #6 part of our course on Design Documentation and Wireframing. This week we continue our journey with yet another important topic: Web Form Design.
I'm in. And so's my office mate.
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Question: Can I start a small dev company in some other country thereby bypassing any patent trolls? Perhaps somewhere like Sweeden where they are much more sane about these issues?

If this is the case, all we are ending up doing is driving technology away from the USA, and continuing to kill our economy.
Fyi, you need the CF3D Pro driver.
Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers
Why would you even bring this up? Apple has exactly nothing to do with this.
You do know that lawsuits are based on actual damages right ? So the idea that you would be sued for a billion dollars or a company like Apple would bother with you is ridiculous.

The real ones to worry are the Lodsys of the world who sue you for just less than what it would cost to hire a lawyer e.g. $1000. Those companies serve no purpose and need to be regulated out of existence.
The motors are not just motors, they just happen to be motors right now. I think it is the selfish gene that describes the path from a protein structure that facilitates the movement of molecules across the cell's membrane into a motor with a flagellum attached.

These things that are claimed to fall apart when a single step is removed were not there from the ground up to provide that specific function, separately they would have provided different functions and when they fell together in a certain way provided a huge benefit. The little bones in our ears were a part of our skulls before they were requisitioned by the ear.

The issue seems to be that the argument looks at how things are and assumes that it was the only thing that these parts have ever been working towards. That any steps in between were useless until put together in this way. Where it is more accurately a bunch of different things coming together to perform all these different functions.
One experiment could be excluding Texas when selling to US. That could take care of most of the patent troll court filings and move you down in their prioritized attack list.

AFAIK yet IANAL, if you have no customers in Texas then a company can't bring you to Texas court.

Unfortunately this does not help with more "legitimate" cases from real software companies.
Yeah, [incr Tcl] is now part of 8.6. There's no final release yet though.
Freedombox Kickstarter software released
RE: Cybercafe - To be fair, they do this because they don't have the infrastructure or the technology to track you and all your data.

RE: Bank accounts - Yeah, I've heard this happen from my friends. But they say that it's quite much easier to open accounts in private banks as compared to the "State Banks". But even they require some sort of person to vouch for you.
eugenes and catamunt, it seems you are both hellbanned.
It's closer to the second one. The implementation. It's just that in some cases it can be difficult nee impossible to implement it any other way.

I would recommend reading some patents. Most are far more specific than you realise.
WsAMP would be a more appropriate, recognizable, brandable and less clashing name.
This is an interesting point; but is it feasible with web products? We would need a lawyer here... and the sad truth is that the only real winners here are lawyers.
So when is an Europe based company actually considered as entering the us market and fall under us patent laws?

(edit)The question is about web companies, located outside US but selling to us customers(software,web apps, ebooks ... - digital products).
I've always been of the opinion that there aren't any tech minded people making those types of decisions for publishers in Hollywood. Also, I'm sure there are a fair amount of contractual issues that prevent the open distribution of content using a paid model.
Initial indications from a small sample size says that they strongly prefer direct debit for recurring subscriptions of any kind, and still like the concept for one-off payments.

What they like is the direct debit guarantee and that they have visibility and control of the payments.
Poor man's IFTTT in 3 lines of code
I'm in too! @idangazit

Shame, we had a meetup group until exactly last week—which shut down for lack of use.
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I removed any reference to Apple (after all, they created webkit and didn't patent it) five seconds after publishing the comment. Im curious: Where did you read it??
All the cited apple patents on multitouch gestures appear to be filed since Jeff Han's TED talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ - which clearly demonstrates many of the patented techniques. I find it really hard to understand how any of these patents were awarded.

[edit] Some of the quotes from his 2006 presentation are quite relevant to this...

... "Now, multi-touch sensing isn't anything- isn't completely new, I mean, people like Bill Buxton have been playing around with it in the '80s." ...

... "Now this is a photographer's light box application. Again, I can use both of my hands to kind of interact and move photos around. But, what's even cooler-

(uses fingers to 'grab' two corners of one of the photos and 'pulls' it to full screen size)

is that, if I have two fingers, I can actually grab a photo and then stretch it out like that really easily. I can pan, zoom, and rotate it effortlessly.

(slides piles of photos around)

I can do that grossly with both of my hands,

(pulls photo out of stack & enlarges it)

or if I can do it just with two fingers on each of my hands together.

(grabs empty space around photos & zooms in and out of canvas)

If I grab the canvas I can kind of do the same thing- stretch it out- I can do it simultaneously, where I'm holding this down-

(holds pile of photos down while pulling out another)

-and gripping on another one, stretching this out like this.

Again, the interface just disappears here. There's no manual. This is exactly what you kind of expect, especially if you haven't interacted with a computer before." ...

Which sort of begs the question that if an expert in the field thinks the gesture is exactly what you would expect, even if you had no expertise whatsoever, then how does that not qualify as obvious?
My memory is fuzzy about this but IIRC some folks from the Gnome Conduit project launched or talked about launching a web version of it. Not sure though.

Sadly, the project seems dormant. Could be an interesting starting point anyway.
That is less about patents and more about STANDARDS.

And if you care about that you should be very critical of Google, Samsung and HTC who have abused the standards process at the expense of everyone else e.g. H.264, 3G. Imagine life without a standard video format or wireless standard.
Pipes was, and I'd like to emphasis, still is a useful tool. A shame that Yahoo didn't market it better.
I was just thinking about this. Reddit is usenet without the files. That blew my mind a bit.
I still use Usenet daily. To post messages on programming and linux groups. And mind you, I'm not alone (else it wouldn't make much sense, would it?). In fact we're back in the good ol' pre-AOL time, when only a few roamed there.

Maybe the solution to the HN problem is moving it to Usenet :)
Why so many posts about the name?

This is great -- especially with all these readymade implementations. Also multiple WebSocket protocol versions support is really important.
Maybe they do and don't even know it. Some database engines will compare blobs, and then delete duplicates.
I think that's the wrong approach. They should continue to distribute one Android version, and that version should retain pinch-to-zoom, while they fight the absurdity in court.
And for the die hard Emacs users there's: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd...

I generally try to refrain from bringing up Emacs in threads that have nothing to do with it (since Emacs does everything) but I was pleasantly surprised by its gdb support and I have used it extensively in the past.
You know, I was just thinking the same thing about Minority Report. How does that not serve as prior art? I'm sure there are plenty of others before this as well.

Someone commented on that blog about the TED talk that did a demo on "the pinch": http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_tou...
For every 100,000 inhabitants in the US there are 743 people in prison[1]. In Norway the figure is 73[2]. California spends 9.4% of its budget on prisons[3], which is more than what is spent on higher education (7.1%)[4].

In Norway prison time can almost be seen as a holiday[5]; time to think about life; time to reconsider your options in life. In California, it's the same, but the options are mostly criminal.

In Denmark, Sweden and Finland, the average reoffend rate is 30 per cent[6]. In Norway it is 20 per cent[6]. In California the corresponding figure is 65.1% [6][7].

I think it is time for a reform:
http://www.laprogressive.com/prison-industrial-complex-calif...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...

[2] http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_stats.php?a...

[3] http://www.laprogressive.com/prison-industrial-complex-calif...

[4] http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/StateAgencyBudgets/6013/agency.htm...

[5] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norw...

[6] http://www.whatthefolly.com/2012/01/03/californias-recidivis...

[7] http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Docume...
Indeed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4322869
Seeing as I have yet to read up on the matter I can't say that I do or do not have the trait myself. But from the little that I've come to understand I'd say it's highly plausible.

I'll continue to look into it, I find awareness of oneself's personality of highest importance and I always strive to learn more about why I do the things I do.
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But what is your point? Is a majority of the world population going to fly one of those airplanes as part of their daily routine soon?
Yet all cars steer using the steering wheel. I think it's a pity to introduce unnecessary differences just because trivial things are being patented. (trivial on my opinion, others may disagree)
This is a very interesting question, especially for web companies...
We do a lot in Java and Scala, but we do most of our ETL in Ruby too. So basically Ruby would be fine - and we can potentially help with the Java port in due course if that would be helpful!
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When I reached "Taxation is theft!" I was moved to come here and comment on it. It only took about a second for me to stop myself and laugh. Apparently others here weren't quite so levelheaded.
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http://www.plyply.com/rants/areyousure/
Just a note: this article is from 2008.
Great use-case for lnotify, haven't thought about that. Feels much cleaner than having cron jobs for conversions like these.
So the idea that you would be sued for a billion dollars or a company like Apple would bother with you is ridiculous.

Unless you're a small German café or something:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/apple-threatens-s...

But why let inconvenient facts get between you and your religion?
Tell me about it, usenet becomes more of an addiction and less of a service. I spent more time cataloging and organizing me collection than watching any of it...

Access to [American] Netflix has made it so much easier to view the content my family and I want with out the need to queue terabytes of data.
If your friend does not have the ties that prevent him from moving from his current location, just moving from a large city to a rural location (while staying in the States) could cut their cost of living 50%.
With the listen gem you can write crossplatform scripts (http://rubygems.org/gems/listen).
The only problem I have with this as an end user is that Twitter brought out all of these applications and completely ruined them. I was excited for Tweetie and it offered the best Twitter experience hands down, only beat by Tweetie 2. Twitter for Mac was great back in the day too. When Twitter bought Atebits, they stopped touching the Mac app and completely destroyed Tweetie.
I like to apply a few different methods to developing web applications:

I write unit tests to ensure the correct data comes out. This usually involves doing a quick "get a blank page loading" bit of boilerplate, then putting the tests (and required data) in place. This involves a fair bit of discussion, sitting down with a calculator, and drawing on the whiteboard. Then I write the code to pass the tests.

In parallel, the screens are being designed and put up on our wiki. Once this is done, I'll make the screen look like the mock-up, which involves a visual "test".

For more complex stuff, this is done in a more piecemeal fashion, although the design is usually put in place in one go. What I'm working on right now has involved 4 iterations of this so far.

For what it's worth, writing the tests first forces you to make your code easier to test which, for a web app, is incredibly useful. I've seen some web applications developed without testing in mind, which tend to have the effect of "funnelling" the user through specific steps. They tend to get a little fragile when the user inevitably steps outside the narrow corridor they're pushed down.
This is a wrong way to reason about it.

The article appears in an Indian paper, why single out U.S. as the country to compare to?

Also, just because other countries have other restrictions (wrong or otherwise), that doesn't justify such restrictions in India.

P.S. Avoid typing in all caps. It comes off as rude.