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What are you seeing in the wikipedia article that is making you question it? I'm seeing a section dedicated to this subject http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_to_file_and_... (there may be newer versions, but this version has been up since you made your comment)
The problem is the fact that this whole "activations" thing is completely unnecessary and completely user-hostile (no bonus points for guessing whether pirates have to deal with this).

Even Apple, the poster child for the walled garden, locked down app stores we all love to hate doesn't limit how many devices you can have a given application installed on. They do limit the amount of devices that can protected music and videos can be played on, but even then they give you a once per year "deauthorize all" button (with exceptions granted with a quick call to support) and a de/reauthorize button in the app!
There are tons and tons of "web annoation" tools and services, but none have ever caught on. What makes yours different, and who is your audience?
Write a plugin for yourself complete with the key bindings you want. ST2 plugins are just Python scripts. Granted you have to know Python but I assume since you're writing C and mesing with Arduino you either already know it or can pick it up with no problem.
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Want a comprehensive list? Preferences > Key Bindings > Defaults.
I would suggest you stop caring so much about your score.
As an employer, the only two places I've ever looked are odesk and elance. I've never heard of Freelancer.com. Just one data point though.
I love reading tech stories from sites that recommend I next read a story about "Killer Vaginas".
Is there a video of a blind person programming somewhere? Even though I see the description, I still don't understand how someone can possibly program without being able to see.
Your comment reads exactly like an xkcd comic. I wonder why this is..
Some of us care too much.
More importantly, we won't actually need to park the cars. Private ownership of vehicles will plummet as a perfect taxi system emerges.
Thanks for the reply,

- That's not a feature yet but I'll definitely add it to the todo list since people train in both ways.

- Whenever you answer, the sound plays again: if you get it wrong it repeats, if you get it correct then it plays a new interval. But I can see how that isn't clear so I'll change the wording / possibly animations.

Thanks again!
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I do my best work (code|writing) when there is absolutely nobody around me.
Ask HN: How do you pair program with a remote team member
Our team firmly believes in pairing, but we have one full-time remote team member. The biggest obstacles I've seen so far are not being able to see the person you're talking to and the sorry state of desktop sharing software.

What software do you use for screen sharing and communicating? Any tips to make the process easier?
What's the point of this comment? You aren't stuck. There is a multitude of options.
I don't quite understand what you mean by preview the sounds? Do you mean like previewing the intervals? I can add small buttons next to each to give you a glimpse - thanks for the suggestion!

I was mostly going off the assumption that people would select one or two intervals at a time, learn them through error, and then select a few more but this is an easy change for more clarification.
You know, I would love for this to be one of those rare occasions when I can get behind the prevailing sentiment on HN, because $220,000 for noncommercial music piracy sounds as crazy to me as it does to you.

But then I remember that Thomas-Rasset lied under oath, so clumsily that her own expert witness wound up testifying against her at trial. And despite that, despite losing the trial so badly that jurors were interviewed as flat out calling her a "liar", she was again offered the same actual-damages $5000 settlement. And instead of just accepting that, she forced everyone back to court a second time. And then a third time. And then to a federal appeals court. And now to the Supreme Court.
Thank you, this:

> The thing to remember is that first-to-file doesn't mean that if i file a patent app on something you invented, before you do, that I get a patent.
It's about what happens when two people file patent apps for things they can both prove they invented.

was very helpful in clarifying.
I think another important point is that it removes a lot of potentially expensive litigation and discovery on who was actually the "first to invent" from a patent case.
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Likewise Ray Kroc and Jeff Bezos.

F.W. Woolworth is gone from the U.S. now, but they lasted for over a hundred years.
He's saving roughly $720 yearly by switching to DO. Most high-end smartphones retail off-contract for roughly $600 (which you would pay if you have a grandfathered unlimited data plan on Verizon or AT&T).
As someone living in a land far beyond the mountains and the sea (aka Switzerland) I'm thinking this: 5$ for a nice Hulu / Netflix proxy? Sweet!
Why doesn't Github do email notifications for gists?
The quote was a compilation of what I had heard from various people who positioned themselves as experts. Thanks for the feedback BTW.
If you don't like density, you don't have to live in it or work in it. Keep your car and your suburban lifestyle. Just don't ruin the cities we live in with your demands that we accommodate your lifestyle.
> but the "big picture" is 100% based on real physics.

Having implemented motion blur numerous times, this is actually super interesting to me. However I was reading through your source-code and was having a hard time following along. Any chance you could explain what the physical models you are basing your algorithm on and how that ended up translating to code?

Thanks.
I think the issue that's concerning is that this increases the necessity to obtain a patent on any novel idea, lest someone else copy your idea, patent it, and then sue you for implementing your own idea. This means that now, every time you come up with some new idea, you need to spend all the time, money, and effort to patent it (and hope, in the process, that you don't come across an existing patent for that idea, since now your infringement of that patent will be willful with treble damages).

Especially in the software field, this causes all kinds of problems. As many people have pointed out, if you were to try and patent software that you create, you would have to file a patent for every few lines of code you write. With first-to-invent, I would expect (though I'm not a lawyer, and haven't studied this in depth, so I could very well be wrong) that you would be able to simply not bother patenting it, and then if sued, file a patent and use the first to invent rule to get your patent to override theirs.
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Although it triggers a frothing at the mouth sort of anger that it's now a race to file first, a more careful reading of it suggests that your patent should be denied if any evidence of your invention occurs before you file for it.

That is, one-click shopping cart type patents would be automatically invalid if any such thing already existed or this sort of mechanism was published or discussed by another party. Is this correct?
It seems like this type of question should fall in to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ domain as well or at least much more so the StackOverflow.
I was looking for a (publicly available) list of DigitalOcean's locations but couldn't find it. Would you happen to have a link?
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, but as a business-side person with an interest in "hacking", I find Codecademy to be extremely valuable. You can learn all kinds of programming languages there.
It's interesting how many HN'ers think it's just fine that the actual first inventor gets screwed for not using the patent system.
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It does not mean that. The filer has to prove they invented the idea, which they can't do if you've published it prior to their filing.

If you weren't going to publish or file a patent, nothing changes for you at all; you're exactly as exposed to patent litigation as you were prior to the change, because your inaction was no more effective at blunting bad patents under "first to invent". If you invent something and keep it a secret, other people have always been able to patent the same idea, because the law does not require people to read your mind.

Again, I think the issue is that the "move" from "inventing" to "filing" conveys a kind of paperwork urgency that just isn't there.
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You can have minibuses where you can get on/off anywhere along the designated route. Farm these out to private operators (regulated, of course), and you will have lots of cheap point to point public transport. It requires a city to be dense, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_light_bus#Pros_and_cons_...
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There are some pages on this topic. It seems that Santa Monica switched to a new scheme which detects if a car has left and resets the meter, rather than leaving some time for the next person. ("Greedy meters" say a few sources.)

> But Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of “The High Cost of Free Parking,” sees Santa Monica’s plan as a pale imitation of the more ambitious plans in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

> “I don’t see how this increases turnover — it just makes sure they get everyone to pay and they know how much they are getting,” said Professor Shoup, who is widely considered the intelligent-parking guru. “Anytime someone says something isn’t about money, it’s about money.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/us/santa-monica-resets-par...

(It looks like LA is using variable rate meters, which he says is better at improving turnover and of getting to the real market rate.)

More at http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/10/shoup.php:

> As an example in Santa Monica, which is starting to move in Shoup direction, but not quite there, we have some garages in Downtown that are in the red almost all the time during the week, and many blocks where on street parking is impossible, while hundreds of spaces are routinely unused at the Main Library underground lot and Civic Center garage at the same time. I know this because Santa Monica actually has a city website with live tracking of parking spots remaining at each of it's city lots.

> If there were stronger price incentives (meaning make high demand lots and street spots more expensive while making under utilized lots and spaces dirt cheap) and advertising of the availability of the under utilized spaces, instead of the same garages filling up to the max and people freaking out that we need more and more parking, maybe we'd realize we actually have plenty. Then instead of wasting yet more land use and city money for more parking capacity, we could start making more open space for people, such as more park space and plazas.

That was before the new meter system. Apparently, there's now an app for finding parking.

That's all I could find before I grew disinterested.
Why not post to one of the other stackexchange.com sites like
http://programmers.stackexchange.com, there is a wide variety now one probably fits the kind of questions you want to ask.
Hasn't that always been the case? That's why when people start asserting bad patents, the Internet lights up with quests to find prior art to invalidate the patent.
You could use read receipts, but those are super annoying for the person receiving the e-mail.
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And can anyone really argue that private cars add to quality of life in Manhattan? It should be limited to licensed taxi cabs (preferably electric/hybrid), emergency vehicles, commercial (delivery, maintenance, etc), and that's about it. Why should an individual be allowed to bring his Hummer into that tiny island full of pedestrians? Close more roads to vehicles and give them back to pedestrians and cyclists. If it's hard to ban, just jack up the bridge and tunnel tolls to $50/car.
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Are you sure that you understand the meaning of positive and negative feedback? Positive feedback leads to runaway (it adds); negative feedback is self limiting (it subtracts).
I'll give it another shot.
I can't speak to a comparison with Chinese cities, but TJ is pretty safe, as there are hundreds of thousands of middle class people living there now. Just stick to the places they go to (Zona Rio, Agua Caliente, etc) and you can have a nice evening out for 1/2-1/4 what you would spend in San Diego.

I believe there are also 1-2 startup incubators (space only, no money to invest) in Zona Rio now.
Have you ever taken LSD? More than just a tiny amount? Look at your reply, and how you reacted to the article, and think about if someone would want to be around that during such an extremely sensitive and vulnerable time (tripping).

That's all it really means... not that people who take acid or drugs or any better than anyone else. It's just an openness of mind that doesn't really put labels on things and can just go with whats said. It's a state of mind that doesnt automatically as a knee jerk reaction shut someone elses (subjective) opinion down as to what wisdom they can learn in a state of ego-less-ness.

After all, you may think the article sounds pretentious or condescending, but to me I see just what it's saying in such a wonderful non-judgmental way. I think the fact that point might not occur to some is, in essence, exactly what its referring to. Kind of self reflexive :)
There are assumptions that are made of certain speaking patterns. The voice tonal thing makes it sound like everything is a question.

"I think I would be a great fit for this company?"
We both know that this is not the same.

Let me put it in networking terms.

Cars provide a circuit model. You go from point to point over a single dedicated "channel".

Any kind and combination of public transport does not do that. It is a packet model and you, the human, are the packet. You must change modes of transport and hope that they sync up, aren't running early or late, fit your schedule and so on.

Except in the cases where point-to-point travel takes substantially longer (very dense urban cores), I think most people will always prefer cars.

(Yes, I know the analogy is imperfect because the car can be seen as a packet blah blah blah. But cars are not sentient. Humans are and it is humans who decide what mode of transport to use.)
I was probably not adding to the quality of life, but I used to really enjoy driving around downtown Manhattan at night. FWIW, there were few signs of life down there after 10pm.
It's really easy to get help from strangers. If you're lost or need a tip on where to go, you can stop and ask a local. Networking is easy too--plenty of tech networking events in the city. Spontaneous idea exchange at a coffee shop is probably a bit more difficult. As other commenters have noted, the Seattle Freeze is a real thing.
You can just show up at the border with your license / ID. If you have a passport they can look it up in the system. No fine, maybe a little lecture. Happens 100s of times a day as lots of people are still not aware that you need a passport for re-entry (used to be just a DL until a few years ago).
There are people that get the Agile buzz. They take the word of whatever source imparted the wisdom as gospel and try and use it as a hammer in every situation.

The reality is, people, projects, and situations differ. Smart people and groups evaluate these additional approaches like any other tool - can it bring value? The exact answer to that is rarely the same for any two individuals or groups.
First I'll link you to these two replies [1][2]. I can go in more detail if you'd like.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5211294

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5211332
And the public transit isn't great either. No subway and a very limited light rail/streetcar system.
Not only that -- the article basically implies that even if you aren't specifically working on your side projects on company time, that they can impact your work, because it can be distracting. So that means no dating, getting married, or having kids. No hobbies. No educational pursuits. You work, go home, maybe passively watch TV (but don't talk about last night's Seinfield at the office), sleep, and start over again.
I've had the unpleasent experience of within 1 week having my mother board replaced twice, and my wireless chip and keyboard replaced once. (And my bios service tag not properly reset after one of the motherboards). Through all of this, Windows somehow got the idea that I was pirating it (okay, pretty clear where it got this idea from). The license key that came with the CD did not work. After several boot cycles and re-tries at activating windows, I decided to try again, and when it failed that time I would use the activate by phone option. Somehow, when I ran the activation executable that time it activated without any further prompts. Not entirely sure what this story says about MS's computer fingerprinting.

Also, I left out of the story that: After the last hardware change windows booted several times without issue. After the first time it complained it was invalid the computer would fail to boot until I re-installed GRUB from a live cd.
Between the GRUB incident and windows activating I identically let windows install updates (which I thought couldn't be done from an unactivated install). After these updates, when you try to log on, you get a fatal error in its attempt to launch 'your copy of windows might not be genuine' program, followed by a failure to launch explorer, followed by a black screen. I looked up the error, and it seems to be a result of the update unrelated to the activation issue. Booting into safemode and installing the update solved that. Several failed activation attempts later and my computer was good as new.)

One of the many reasons I use GNU/Linux as my primary OS.
Dropbox also has that feature
I had to upvote you for that. You just reminded me of some great memories from 2 decades back that we're otherwise lost :)
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This is supercool. You mind sharing the system?
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Agreed, pretty much 90% of that article was hedging to pander to "outraged" stupid people. Except I think the people that were "outraged" by the original article are probably mostly fictitious, or at least exaggerated.

I mean, what's the takeaway from the article? "Have a diverse skillset". Got it. Mind blown. (Except not).
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>These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

However, it occurs over such a timespan that the immediate effects are a non-issue, just long-term. The average person does not take into serious consideration the 30+ year effect of a decision, but a more near-term one.
"Keep your car and your suburban lifestyle"

Small town, in my case, 90 minutes from the nearest mid-size city.

If you don't demand that I pay for rapid transit I'll never see, or use, don't restrict the kind of car or truck I can buy, then deal.
If you want to get paid by the hour try oDesk, better prices (just my experience).
"If you invent something and keep it a secret, other people have always been able to patent the same idea, because the law does not require people to read your mind."

This is not right. Prior to AIA it was possible to invalidate a patent by showing secret invention by another inventor prior to the patent invention date, among other things.

See also: Metallizing Eng. v. Kenyon (secret commercial use by party) or Eggbert v. Lippman (secret use in public) or Gore v. Garlock (Secret use by third party).

In fact, there is a bunch of "secret prior art" that AIA eliminates.
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I have had so much fun watching Gravity Falls with my (17 year old) younger brother.
Awesome list!

Also:
- Circa - heavily summarized news. Great for short reading.
- Instapaper - clean read later service.
- HackerNode - gotta get the Hacker News on the go.
- TimeHop - a "this day in history" for your social networks.
- Droplr - really simple file sharing service.
- Tweetbot - really clean Twitter app.
Congratulations. You built a strawmen and are now knocking it down. I never said what you are arguing against - that "raising prices automatically increases profits."

Feel free to address how venture capital distorts prices at any time.
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I don't really disagree. Many communities in the U.S. are very pedestrian hostile (and that's perfectly fine if that's what they want)--I don't see why a city where most people don't own cars needs to avoid being car hostile.
Whoah. How did that work?

Also: from having been through the patent process a bunch of times: does this make it "harder" to obtain a patent by eliminating the ability to sell the invention under NDA before filing? I remember this being part of the M.O. of building, selling, and then patenting technology at companies I've worked at.
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Great demo!

This is probably obvious, but for the first time it occurs to me that motion blur is essentially the same as anti-aliasing. They are eye-tricking hacks to work around a lack of resolution in the medium -- screen resolution, in the case of pixel anti-aliasing, or "time" (framerate) resolution in the case of motion blur.

Recently I've been wondering if as very high-resolution displays become commonplace, anti-aliasing will become obsolete. If I could play an FPS video game on a 500dps monitor, would anti-aliasing make any perceptible difference? At some pixel pitch, even text anti-aliasing won't matter.

The same thing seems to apply here. If we had 5000Hz screens (and could run our animations quickly enough to keep up), would applying artificial motion blur buy you anything?
It ameliorates, but does not solve, these problems.

Many people will still want their own car for comfort and status.

Most people will still travel to and from work during the traditional rush hours.