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This looks like a significant event for other mobile OS providers like Google. Is it?
I'm in the 7th month of starting a Health IT company and would be happy to answer (some) questions if anyone has any.
Meh. PayPal gave you $10 in its early days; they should be doing the same, given the complexities and delays in setting up an account.
Thank god, it would've been a disaster for the industry if this had been upheld.
I think it's the male that goes to the female in such cases. The decoy could perhaps be used to attract males. But I'm not an arachnologist, so there may be some obvious reason why that's not the case.
Another way to solve this problem in theory is to have Java-like annotations that force subclasses to call super whether they like it or not, and even where they must call super, for example @OverridesMustCallMe(location="top"). The super call could be automatically added at compile time if you don't provide it, or it could result in a compiler error if you don't provide it (probably the latter). Never seen a language like this though, so it may be a bad idea for some reason.
Turned off by the tacky as heck (and surely unlicensed) Ryan Gosling/Kate Upton posters I have seen all over Montreal promoting this. Not to mention the misleading hubris.
This is a huge reason why I currently only use and only recommend using openly licensed fonts (OFL, Apache, etc). The state of openly licensed fonts has significantly improved in the past 3 years.
You're counting country numbers instead of population numbers. China, India, and the US are all high-pop places, each supported by a major river system.
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i've been thinking about how to create something that can disrupt the medical industry for a long time, ever since beginning medical school. the sad truth is that medical industry doesn't welcome software disruptions. software adoption is usually a bureaucratic process due to the direct risk to human health, not to mention HIPAA and other regulations. quality of the software is not as important as selling the software while offering strong credibility and insurance, which makes it significantly harder for the typical small agile team to succeed. i am at the point where im wondering if i should sacrifice my time and efforts on a medical startup or just settle for other challenges that are not so messy. regardless, software will fix our healthcare system one way or the other. it's probably just going to take a long time.
Thanks! Though that still seems more expensive than filing the patent.
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"Calories in / calories out" is far from scientific. 500 calories of ice cream will not have the same effect on your body as 500 calories of lean chicken breast. It's a very rough approximation intended to get people thinking about their calorie intake and expenditures, but it's becoming very annoying to see people representing it as some kind of quantifiable scientific formula.
Nice of them to invalidate them - now - after they already passed them and Apple already used them in lawsuits - and won with them. But better late than never, I guess.
they screwed up the horse dance. how do you screw up the horse dance. it's got like, 3 steps.
This is exactly what I hoped it would be based on the title. Nice job, looking forward to seeing it grow!

Have you reached out to Trent Reznor? He's been a big leader in open-sourcing his music and actively encouraging his fans to remix. I suspect Beck would be interested as well; he recently released an album exclusively in the form of sheet music.
We built Firefeed to show how easy it is to build realtime apps with Firebase. We've put up a detailed explanation of how we built it on the about page: http://firefeed.io/about.html

The code is all open source and on Github, please feel free to fork and reuse the project. Pull requests are welcome!
I find that, more and more, I'm only buying Humble Bundles for the soundtracks (or maybe the one single game I don't already own). Still tends to make them excellent value, IMO.
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You're just throwing buzzwords together aren't you?
Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, etc., Odyssey series out in e-book form
"Your customer’s incentives are not straightforward."

So true.

Don't mean this to be cynical, but if you actually want to have a chance of upending the healthcare system, always clearly identify the flow of money (are costs paid by carriers? providers? Medicare? consumers? are the prices negotiated?), regulation (are fines built into the cost structure? what regulations are relevant? are they incentivized to be ignorant?) , and decision-making (e.g. how billing departments more often decide on the EMR to go with rather than the docs). Then check again, because it's likely you missed a huge underground river.

Then the tricky part is to align your business plan with your customers' incentives.
I hope I'm not the only one who read this comment and spent a moment thinking "but it is!"
Not sure if you fully realize the scope with which it's turning into a sort of Disneyland - people are climbing it in an endless convoy. I find it quite shocking. If you do, then I guess we just fundamentally disagree.
That's too bad. If it weren't for Apple bringing this to their mobile web browsers (and other phone manufacturers copying the feature), we'd still be tapping a magnifying glass icon that opens up a menu with controls to zoom in and out.
I agree with the OP. My day job is somewhat interesting but I have a feeling once I've figured out how it works that I'll be back in the same boat of doing less of my craft and more process. I am very lucky that in software engineering the body of knowledge is wide and always changing and that I genuinely like it.

At night I've become more accustomed to reading tech books on the newest technology instead of whatever book for book club. Our profession almost forces us to keep up or get left behind. I love it. Always gets me motivated to think and expand my knowledge.
I am pretty sure he is interested in the startup. But he has a day time job and is unlikely to quit until seeing traction. He has his off hour activities, mainly related to his day time job. The time he can put into this is minimal. No personal relationship issue as of now.
There is however the problem that historically they have not keep a copy of the old docs online. So if you stick to 2.2.2 your probably going to be SOL when it comes to reference info.

Sure there is an archive somewhere of the old docs but that is a long way from ideal.
Um, speak for yourself. And how exactly is this "revenue"? It's more like taking the obligations of a lot of naive investors' money, the kind of money you should normally ask of your friends and family (read mom and dad).
My sentiment exactly, what a load of crap.
Yea, that Excel-table-like design probably breaks all design rules.
It surprises me most when I occasionally see design professionals complementing it.
I am rather a backend programmer and I have no illusions.

But even the Hacker News audience does not have enough geekiness to understand my previous attempt at a movie recommender system: http://5000best.com/movie-galaxy/
My favorite moment while at the top of a 14er in CO: heard a helicopter, looked around for it, then realized it was below us.
Talk and stop it immediately. If cofounder does nothing and you say that you will stop doing any work under these circumstances nothing will be done and this is not good for co-founder's shares. Stop it immediately. Once money, fame and press is involved it's getting much worse.
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I work in civic technology, and one could easily rewrite this to say:

“If I could short the entire big, fat, old, cynical, rip-off artist [government] software business, I would,” he said. “They’re not innovating. There’s nothing that those big companies do that’s really any good. The caveat is it takes forever to rip out those systems.” The half-life of [government] software, he said, is often longer than desired, making it difficult for new, replacement technology to gain a foothold.
> A lot of cultures live almost exclusively on carnivorous diets, in which vegetable fiber is extremely rare (if eaten at all).

Eskimos' diet is not a parameter to anyone other than Eskimos. Those populations have adapted to survive on those diets, and even then, with drawbacks to health and life expectancy. Also, Eskimos are certainly the exception, saying a lot of cultures live on meat only is a stretch.

> I'm not disputing that fibers help "push things along" by absorbing water, adding bulk, etc. But are we overeating them? Do we really need to be making a conscious effort to add or supplement them in our diets?

Fibers are integral part of a diet with minimal amounts of fruits, vegetables or grains. You don't need to add fibers unless all you eat is processed food.
No, I think it's far more honest to just clutch and panic.
> Bad patents can get submited as many times as the holder wants, but the USPTO can only mistake a bad patent for a good one once, and it's granted.

The problem is that the USPTO doesn't even seem to want to make the decision that early in the process. They seem to take a stance of "unless it is blatant crap, grant it, and let the courts sort it out and/or wait for enough complaints".

I think its just a matter of man power, they don't seem to be able to dedicate the time/talent up front to do a thorough job. Instead they make a bet that most patents are meaningless anyway so grant liberally and only put in the real time when/if a patent becomes an issue.

The problem with this is that it strikes a firm blow to one of the key goals of the patent system, to protect the 'little guy'. Making a patent a big enough issue to draw review is prohibitively expensive for most little guys. It seems like it takes two or more behemoth companies locking multi-million dollar horns to draw their attention.
I would recommend reading "Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World" by Marlene Zuk. It's a truly wonderful book about insects (and spiders too), about their evolution, and about how little brain power is required to display complex behavior.

Here are a few of my favorite, more on the philosophical side, quotes from the book:

Insects bring home the uneasy truth that you don't need a big brain to do big
things, and that in turn makes us question how the mind and, dare to say it,
the spirit, are related to the brain. It even makes us question what it means
to be human. What does it mean to have complex behavior? Does it mean you are
smart?

Natural selection can produce what looks uncannily like intelligent thought or
emotion but is no more than the relentless culling of minute variations in genetic
makeup, generation after generation, for millions of years. Not only that, but
insects too have small personalities, with some showing boldness in new situations
and some hanging back with what looks an awful lot like shyness. It's turning out
that we haven't cornered the market on individuality, either.

Insects are starting to answer the question of "What does it take?"—to have a
personality, to learn, to teach others, to change the world around them—with the
humbling and perplexing answer, "Not much." Humbling because they do these things
with brains the size of a pinhead, and perplexing because if that's all it takes,
what does that mean for us, with our gigantic forebrains and exhaustingly long
periods of childhood dependency?
No one's saying they can't implement pinch to zoom.
Well, looks awesome and clearly some quality and detailed work here. One thing I would point out is that I have no idea how to use this. Even after trying the demo, still no luck. I finally clicked a logo looking button at the bottom of the page and it linked to an animation that pretty much showed me everything I would want to know up front. Messaging for new internet concepts is a problem I'm familiar with too in building http://2fb.me . Are you noticing that people understand this concept with what you put up on the page (outside of HN)? Also, moonbase.com nice find!
They are absolutely different from most bureaucracies.

Name another bureaucracy that slid its hand up my leg until it encountered The Resistance, or a bureaucracy that prevents me from bringing my favorite deodorant when I travel, or one that can arbitrarily say that I am not allowed to fly across the country.
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And them having a patent on this feature comes into play there..... how?
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Blogger, author, and administrative assistant do not pay well in the vast majority of cases and cannot be gotten easily -- decently-paid positions in those fields are very competitive.

Sales is usually commission-based.

Fire-fighter requires physical fitness. Appliance repair requires appliances. Personal trainer and dietary advisor... are those even real jobs outside the tiny enclaves of the very rich?
Try:

http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/

http://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/

And/or search the Web for "packet radio".
Whats wrong with you? It's juat a technical demo of firebase
I've just tried it. That code compiles without warnings by the default configuration of gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) in my desktop (it's an up-to-date Debian Stable install).

If the default settings of gcc included throuwing out warnings for every time a function is declared without parameters and missing the void, lots of people would complain, and loud. It's a very common construct.
If this new H.264 support in Firefox means that you can control playback speed on YouTube itself, you should also be able to control the speed on Khan Academy (or any other site that uses YouTube's iframe embed).
I would recommend trying, especially if you have medical training and know the space. While it is difficult, with the appropriate go-to-market strategy and determination you can get a foothold and grow from there.
There's lots of great free-for-commercial-usage typefaces out there. If you don't already have Fontsquirrel[1] (who also has a fantastic @font-face generator[2]) bookmarked, you should fix that immediately. Google Web Fonts[3] is also another (obvious) resource.

[1] http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

[2] http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

[3] http://www.google.com/webfonts

Also, while I'm at it, I guess I could name some typefaces I've grown quite fond of: Alegreya, Aller, Cabin, Delicious, Fontin Sans, Lato, Open Sans, PT Sans, Puritan, Quattrocento Sans, Rosario, Source Sans Pro, Ubuntu. All great stuff!
Still, having to inquire about the price of something that my brain perceives as a commodity is jarring.

Love this line.

http://www.youworkforthem.com offers licensing for mobile apps at checkout. Interestingly, the price difference between eBook and mobile app is the same.
It should have been invalidated in the course of the trial, but we have a wonderful notion of presumed validity.

Instead we just went through both an expensive lawsuit and a re-exam procedure for a patent that never should have been filed and hence never should have issued.

It begs the question: How often are damages paid for "infringement" of invalid claims?

Lawyers made money. The USPTO made money.

Businesses lost money, not to mention time.

Anyone who is paying licensing fees for Apple's bogus pinch to zoom patent, you can stop paying now. Thanks for playing.
No problem. I'd just add the 5% thing right on the homepage (step 3), don't make me wait until signing up :). [Or rather, I won't bother signing up until I know the cut]. 5% is really good by the way; udemy takes 30%.

Customer export would be good. Might want to have some aweber / mailchimp integration but that's a good v1.
Going through the GitHub repository at firebase/firefeed right now. This looks pretty slick for 500 lines of code.
This solution will work for me. Thanks! I suppose it makes no difference that the variables are defined twice? I guess I was just getting stuck on the metaphor of other frameworks (eg. JQuery UI) where my custom files are kept separate from the library. Make sense?
I wouldn't have used the same language as the parent, but every time a developer creates a FB-only login, it promotes the idea that it is acceptable. It is not.
Please feel free to tinker, fork, send pull requests, etc! It's all open source.
The important thing to keep in mind is that you're not there to do you boss a favour and he's not giving you a job to do you a favour (that doesn't mean you can't, or shouldn't, be nice to each other, and do each other favours - but it's more of a long-term view of the situation).

Market pay is whatever you can make someone pay you. If your current employer can't pay you more, either you're not producing enough value, or the value you're producing is being inequitably shared with others in the organisation. Very often in engineer-driven, but non-engineer-led business, this could mean a too big or over-paid sales force. Both is a sign of inefficiency.

Chances are if you are on good terms with your boss, you can explain this to them. If they still can't give you a raise, explain that the situation compels you to dip your feet in the water (ideally, you've already done this as the conversation has the potential to sour the relationship with your boss).

As always, pull a patio11 and make sure you can articulate the value you're adding in terms of the money you bring in - this always comes easy to sales people (because, well, it is easy - they physically bring the cheques into the building). You've never just refactored component X. You've refactored component X which allowed your team to deliver high-value feature Y to the client, which you believe was brought up as a deciding factor in the contract renegotiations.
That's like saying you can't use drop-down menus on the web, because one site did it first. I'm not saying in other cases that it might not have taken longer for the others to figure it out (months, years?). I'm saying that they shouldn't be able to patent something as easy to implement as that for 17 years, or whatever the patent age is.

Maybe if the patent system made a bit more sense, we wouldn't be so much against all software patents. It reminds me of the argument that people shouldn't be yelling "SOPA" everytime a slightly dangerous law appears, because in the end the whole protest thing loses its effectiveness. In the same way Apple and others shouldn't file for a "patent" everytime they work for a few hours on something. But the system shouldn't allow these type of patents in the first place, otherwise there will be companies to take advantage of it.
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Nearest road to Kathmandu was (for me, in 2001) a 14-day walk. The airport at Lukla is about 7 days. Everything comes in by porter or by yak train. It's nearly 18,000 feet altitude. The mountain goes straight up another 2 miles vertical. This panorama is fantastic, but realize it's on extreme wide angle, almost fish-eye. The mountain seems to take up the whole sky.
Yes, it's especially odd since Apple already has a print partner to order prints from inside iPhoto on OS X, and they do card printing in the Cards app on iOS. Odd gap to not be able to just order prints from your phone.
It has that magic combination of art, humor, gameplay, and actual theme. It's 150+ hours for me, climbing toward all the Steam achievements (just got the Mamas Boy the other night).

Since you've already hit it pretty hard, I would add the DLC, it adds lots of Fun to the game. It does make performance take a major hit though, because of the way the developers used Flash.

My other piece of advice is: don't get spoiled. Don't read about the enemies, levels, powerups, etc. online. Just play the game and let it teach you.
It would be refreshing to see a twitter clone that was a free-for-all w.r.t. pseudonyms. Post as anyone and then if you want to register a name you link it to email/fb/twitter.
I'm hoping it's a sign of change within the Patent Office. If this becomes a regular occurrence I'll be extremely happy.
Your argument ignores the example, and continues to expose the same misunderstandings about trademarks that are popular on the Internet: trademarks have nothing to do with owning words or imagery, they have to do with context.

As an example of how wrong this argument path is: right now there is a trademark application published for opposition on the word "FACE", an acronym by the Florida Autism Charter School of Excellence, Inc.

They have been using this term since 2007, and I see no reason why they will not get their trademark filed, because it does not conflict with Facebook's usage, as you simply would not get these two usages confused.

In fact, these usages are encoded into the registrations themselves: you have to specify a class and define how you use the mark, and then that mark only exists within that limited area; you can stretch it some, but those stretches are all fairly common sense.

As an example: if you had a restaurant called Apple, it would matter severely how you rendered the Apple, what kinds of other imagery and colors you used, etc.; even though this was outside the scope of computers, you might still fall under their trademark.

But, they DO NOT "own the word Apple". To continue to make such claims demonstrates a severe lack of understanding of why trademarks exist and how they work, and doing so in this post is undermining and diverting from the real issues.
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So if I build a scraper to give me my information from Facebook and archive it, am I violating the ToS?

I'm so sick of this era of "Let's all build a service and lock users in" and it pains me every time YC picks another company whose future is "build a huge social base and then we'll figure out how to monetize it".
Very much dislike having to use Facebook account...lame...
If users want to integrate Facebook give that option to them, but dont exclusively require a FB login...laame

UI is a little confusing and could be overwhelming for alot of folks.

However...This is a nice idea here. I have found several really great songs I had never heard of before in minutes! Perfect for people at work wanting to find new tunes.

What happens if a video that is on the popular list is deleted at some point by the source?
I've been thinking lately that with the number of patents in existence, the likelihood that a newly submit patent application is truly novel without any invalidating prior art is probably very low.

The USPTO should start each review under the premis that the application will probably be denied unless the application includes sufficient justification for it being truly novel.

If the USPTO started denying the majority of applications you'd, 1) start seeing less applications, and 2) applications would be of a higher caliber.
Older Android browsers (<= 2.2) had a two-part button, for zooming in and out. One tap, no menus involved. I much prefer this since I can hold the phone and zoom with one hand, using my thumb.

Google Maps for Android has something nearly identical with the +/- buttons. I've yet to find another browser that implements this behavior (Android 2.3 removed it for whatever reason).

Pinch-to-zoom has always felt gimmicky in comparison. Having to use two hands is annoying.
No, fortunately I don't. The concept of masses as ruling body is flawed because individuals constituted masses and masses are moved by only few individuals at the end as was proved by history and as it was objected before it was taken seriously. It's a naive concept. Tell me, how in the real world does masses actually decide correctly without being first constituted by rational individuals? And if you put individual before masses, you are not talking about Marxism.
Fork the code and roll your own! You can even host it on Github pages, since it's all static content.
Another Apple patent rejected by US Patent Office, but its fate is uncertain