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Not yet. :-)

It's stuff like https://github.com/marshray/qak in which I indulge my impulse to recreate the universe from scratch in C++11 on the weekends so I don't act foolishly during the week.

I've been porting it to the limitations of MSVC 2012 and looking at implementing a lightweight Node.js-like IO system in C++11.
>You're thinking of steganography

Not quite. Having a QR code featured in a photograph isn't steganography since the existence of information is hardly hidden at all. Rather than hiding the information's existence what I'm considering here is how you could make it legally difficult to unequivocally prohibit spreading information that's in plain sight (think "Free Speech Flag" [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Free-speech-flag.svg
This change doesn't eliminate prior art as it only applies to companies that haven't made a public disclosure. My understanding (and IANAL) is that if you make a public disclosure, you still have a "grace period" in which to file (and that your disclosure date has to come before the other company files).

The real difference is that secret company documentation is no longer the determining factor if neither entity has publicly disclosed. I've kept rigorous engineering notebooks for almost thirty years so we could (if necessary) prove we were the first to invent. There are other benefits to the notebooks (and I'm too old and set in my ways to stop now).
It scares me that they add 500,000 users and I don't understand how they make money.

At this point I'd like to either pay for a service or use something self-hosted to make sure I don't have to go through a painful transition again.
If you're sure the app you'll end up using hasn't been made public yet and the current alternatives are not going to do it for you, that's a risk you can take, definitely: but it's still a heck of a risk if Reader is integral to what you do online. At any rate, I don't think it's that hard to understand why thousands of people are already making contingency plans this far out.
The technology exists for the privacy conscious to greatly reduce their track-ability.

However the problem is that the platform which are becoming more popular for convenience reasons such as ChromeOS or iOS do not necessarily make this stuff easy or even possible.

I would be much happier to recommend these systems to people if they did not lose this control.
First to file does not eliminate prior art. Prior art applies to inventions which were published publicly. First to invent applies to inventions which were not.
John Scalzi's "The Human Division" is another serial that Amazon has really been pushing me to buy that I can only assume is worth it. Second for Wool being excellent.
Not relevant to the video, did you bother watching it?
The title of the article is totally wrong. "First to file" does nothing about prior art. What it does is change the rule for when two patents are filed at the same time. Before, there was litigation to figure out who invented first. Now, the first one to file wins.

Indeed, AIA expands the concept of "prior user rights." Basically, if you were using a patented technology first, you can't be held liable for infringement. It also expands the cases in which prior art can be used to defeat a patent application.
IANAL, but the headline and article sound very different from everything else I've read about this. Prior art isn't going away. Even in "first to file", that is only if there isn't prior art.

IOW if there is no prior art, the first to file wins. That makes sense because otherwise, proving who was actually first is terribly hard. But, if there is prior art, no one can patent it anymore (in theory).
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Can anyone say that these extensions make a clear distinction between access and store? As long as they don't store any information about pages I have visited or text I have entered in a browser, I don't see much trouble.
In some ways it just encourages a different style of development. There is more emphasis on forking processes and communicating between them, which some may consider to be a better practice anyway. It all depends on your domain. On the other hand, there's nothing stopping you from binding to pthreads and seeing how far you get with that (and from a quick search it appears that people have had some success with it, especially if you're calling into a lot of C libraries).
I think we'll see the opposite. Services like Feedly and Newsblur are already delivering a service which at least some population of people have preferred to use for several years. Even paying for it while Reader was free. And now they are in a position to serve the many Reader users moving over.
I've heard of Plan 9, but I honestly have no idea what this is. But it sounds interesting... could you give a briefer to someone that is not familiar with Plan 9?
I'm looking for a place/roommates in SF at the moment, I feel like I've seen other posts like this before. Maybe there should be a regular housing thread or spinoff site or something with so many of us trying to live in the same few areas.
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Firstly IANAL, but my understanding is this relates to the ability to file for ownership of an invention rather than the existance of prior art for Novelty.

A cursory examination of background shows that the act which standardizes the method of filing also expands the validity and scope of available prior art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Act

I also want to correct a misconception on the site, in most jurisdictions public disclosure invalidates patentability, one should check with a lawyer, review existing laws (at their own risk tolerance) or file a provisional before any public disclosure.
I wish I could agree, but I recently explained to one of my most intelligent friends just how much tracking is done, by whom, and how. She just argued that she didn't have anything to hide. A few days later, she admitted that I might have a point, but still wasn't interested in ditching Facebook.

I hope you're right. If something doesn't change for the masses, alternatives will never really gain traction.
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> in my view it seems quite fair that simply thinking up an idea and doing nothing with it doesn’t grant an individual unending rights to it.

Surely coming from someone who never devoted any time whatsoever to solving a difficult problem.

Not defending the US patent system. It's still a mess.

This first to file rule will have one important effect: People and companies will not most-definitely patent ideas. Yeah, I know, ideas are not patentable. If you spent any time reading through patents (me, probably several hundred) you know with absolute certainty that a huge percentage of granted patents are ideas that never saw reduction to practice.

The new setup means that I better file as soon as I think I have all to moving parts figured out because if I wait another year for the normal course of R&D some guy might beat me to it. So, I'll go ahead and file to get a patent on my idea. And I'll do so as soon as humanly possible. Reduction to practice? Prototypes? No time. File! File! File!

Not sure this makes things better.
It's free form clustering software. Standard Plan 9 tends to have a pretty rigid structure for how all the services on the grid are organized. This is an attempt to make things much more free-form, so the system can be set up more easily by home users, and everything is more reliable.
I think you should contact http://archiveteam.org
i'm looking for a place/roommates in SF too. perhaps we should team up with each other?
>the difference between a machine with or without OS would be 10-15 dollars

This used to be true, but microsoft upped the oem price of windows quite a bit since Windows 7. The estimates I've heard are closer to 50-70 dollars.

This article doesn't contain a number, but in it a director at dell claims the price went up for windows 7: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15177
I highly doubt that's a stable or dominant strategy. As long as there's pressure to build systems, they will find people to build them. Not to mention, those sorts of jobs can be fun, intellectually challenging problems.

Like Narus - we probably agree it's not in the world's interest to have companies or governments with such technologies. But offered money and a chance to work on such a system, I'd work on it in a heartbeat.

It's unlikely that there will be a shortage of qualified people or that the extra money required will make any impact. And you could always take such jobs, and donate to the EFF.

This is such a common argument, I'm sure it has a name.
Hi, I'm the other LeChat founder. The issues with running an IRC server:

1. you still have to run it somewhere

2. you have to support it

3. there's no search (grepping through logs is not search)

4. you have to use screen/tmux to not miss anything

5. your CFO will probably never use it

I think there definitely is a need in a chat tool that is "easy" to use. Having said this, I think IRC is invaluable, just in a different context.
Few points in defense of perks:

1) A lot of it is about efficient use of engineering (or sales, or product) time. Yes, one can skip catered/cooked meals, gyms, and onsite dentists, but what's the tradeoff? The team will go out for lunch, which, depending on location, might waste up to two hours of employees' time. In a busy location like SoMa or FiDi it's just deciding on the place and then waiting to be seated, in a remote location, like Google's or Facebook's campuses, it would be the time it takes everybody to get in the car and drive.

2) Tax savings also come into play if the company is profitable or on the verge of achieving profitability. Catered lunch to every employee of the company is a business expense, transferring the same amount of money to an employee in the form of higher salary or bonus is taxed at both company and employee levels.

3) Some of the perks cost very little to establish. Car washes, onsite dentists, haircuts are something that employees usually have to pay for, and it's just the matter of providing some space to the vendor who's willing to provide this service to the employees.
Yeah, great story. There but for the grace of $DEITY went Woz.
repack without the most heinous permissions: http://ge.tt/3os1cIb/v/0?c it's quite good - shame they ask for those.
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The democratic party used to be full of bigoted racists before and during the 60's, let's not forget that.

Both parties have nothing to do with the parties they used to be even 50 years ago.

The republican party became evangelical/right wing in the end of the 70's. But it is not sustainable because of demographics.

A funny fact is most Latinos and Blacks are culturaly more conservative than liberal ( christians / anti-gay ...) , but given the hate on the right they are not going to vote for republicans. And Obama is certainly not a communist. He is not even a progressive.
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Filing is the inexpensive part. How much do you want reviewed by experts? Are you up-to-date on the latest approaches and case law in the subject? Should your invention be patent the software, or the software running on the hardware. Are your claims drafted against users, vendors, installers, competitors or some combination of the above? How well have you supported your claims? Have you made a range of claims of decreasing scope so that you end up with the broadest coverage you can get for your invention? All of these can be hard challenges best left to experts, and plenty of people have made big mistakes here like writing an important software patent that could only be enforced against customers (for a B2C product).
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I don't get it, surely if I bet on only one number and win, my return must be higher than if I bet on even/odds. it's not the probability that counts, rather the expected return.
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This headline is both misleading and totally false. The author should have consulted a patent attorney before touching his keyboard.

The new law does not change the basic requirements for a patent that the invention be novel, useful, and non-obvious. If prior art exists, the novelty requirement is not satisfied, and a patent either should not be issued, or should be deemed invalid in subsequent litigation.

What the new law does do is -- assuming no prior art exists -- potentially change the effective date at which an invention was "born." Previously, two competing inventors trying to obtain a patent at around the same time would seek to prove to the USPTO when the invention was born based on evidence of their work (research notes, implementation notes, etc.). This leads to a lot of difficult work and judgment, and frequent litigation among two competing parties.

Under the new law, however, the birthdate of an invention is when the patent application is filed. Simple as that.

As for the prior art concern, I can imagine folks saying, "well, if the new date is the date of filing, what about that other inventor who actually invented it first?" Here's the thing: it doesn't matter. If the other inventor did, in fact, invent it first, and publicized it, both parties would be out of luck. The first inventor would be ineligible to receive a patent because he publicized his work before filing, and the second inventor would be ineligible to receive a patent because of the prior art.
Not really. Since my wife started writing she's averaging about 2 1/2 to 3 months. And that includes the 2-3 weeks waiting on the copy editor.
Why not stop using facebook, google, apple and all these surveillance tools?

Have you ever asked yourself why you can't remove the batteries of your Iphone? Ow Yes, design is everyting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-trac...

Demand privacy, respect privacy, develop privacy and pay for those that offer it to you.

"If you are not paying for a service you are the product being sold" and no, google and facebook were never your friends.

Time to wake up!
Ironic title. The parallels people are trying to draw are not from Apple, but from NeXT.

But Canonical would be wise to notice that even NeXT found specific markets to target to become profitable.
For reference: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
They must be selling your info. Just look at the Chrome access: "Access your data on all websites" and "Access your tabs and browsing activity"
We have sold SketchUp off to Trimble (but with a parnetship to keep the 3DWarehouse and Sketchup Free available). Not a typical scenario however.
But that's exactly my point. Where I live in the poor south, most kids have iPhones because they are "free" and their parents can't do the math to realize that the monthly fees make it incredibly expensive. But I have yet to see a single local kid who owns or even has access to a mac laptop. (not to mention the $100 for the developer license is a month's rent for some of them.) So as far as they are concerned, it's impossible to develop on their phone.
Try Couchsurfing. Might also get a few hits there..
We use Unfiltered. Playframework/Scalatra are also considered as good alternatives.
Computer science isn't something that is becoming increasingly more mathematical, but quite the opposite way: computer science was seen as just another branch of mathematics. Alan Turing didn't quite have physical machines at his disposal to develop a theory of computation on, so he invented an abstract machine. Von Neumann thought that the foundational trouble in mathematics with Gödel meant that pure mathematics would soon be a sterile field, so he went on to design the Von Neumman architecture of computing machines we still basically use now. Read some Knuth or Dijkstra. They're mathematicians first, specifically, computer scientists.

It was only in the 80's or so that computer science started to be seen as its own thing instead of a branch of mathematics. It's around this time that university departments separate from the mathematics department started to be created.

When modern "CS" graduates come out of university thinking that an "algorithm" is some irrelevant theoretical tool that is only useful for implementing standard libraries of programming languages and forever forgotten, I weep a little.
The Innovator's Dilemma is one good basis for this argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_Dilemma). I can't do it justice, but in short, senior management can lose focus on long-term trends if there are too many diverse products being maintained. And whether they are savvy managers or not, they are in a position to heavily influence the direction of everyone across the whole company, meaning that the company can quickly lose its ability to see the forest for the trees.
a /g/ mention on a hn linked blog.

end times.
It's a tangent, but, one of the things apparent sometimes when politics is discussed is that reductio ad absurdum is absolutely not guaranteed to work as an argument technique. It depends on everyone involved being able to recognize the absurd.
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> or use something self-hosted

Take a look at: http://www.feedafever.com

Just installed it. Works just like Google Reader, with a few bonus features. I don't have to worry about being shut down anymore.
Equity split board game It's great and free (for now)
The Ubuntu Touch experience
Newsblur is fully open source.

You can host it yourself if you do not want to pay for it.
That's despicable. The way we look at the inventors of mustard gas, lobotomies, and torture wheels is the way history will look at you.

You must be a terrible person to be willing to directly further evil in the name of money and "fun".
Funny stuff, and no doubt often accurate, but it wasn't my experience. I wanted to work in game theory, and there weren't an game theorists in the Harvard mathematics department; there were, however, in the business school. So I went over there, and Elon Kohlberg told me of an outstanding problem, and gave me a couple of papers to explain. I worked until I had a proof of the conjecture, and that was that, even though it had in fact been proved elsewhere (the Mertens-Neyman Theorem) a couple of months before I finished.

The whole thing took about a year, after which I stared my post-doc in public policy. After that, I became a stock analyst. After that, I tried some startups (not successfully). Then I became a self-employed industry analyst.

What could be more straightforward than that? :)
>It 7zips the files and handles splitting and merging of large files?

Yes. It also handles the uploading and the downloading.

>Try apt-cache search libgd and you'll find the (single!) dependency is already packaged

If you actually try to compile and run s2png you'll see that it segfaults when you compile it in Ubuntu 12.10 (so also in Linux Mint 14) and 12.04, probably because it was written with libgd1 in mind. I had a few people try it and it only compiled to a usable binary in Fedora.
They mentioned (on Twitter) plans to offer premium options in the future. They also have ads, so that may be how they pay for it now.
It's interesting, but I can't tell from the documentation what it's actually for. It's apparently for clustering, but what does it do? I had downloaded the image a week or two back, but it just...booted Plan 9. A few examples that tie it together or explain some sort of use case would be great.
I'm going to be working in Mountain View full time and am also looking for roommates.
"offered money and a chance to work on such a system, I'd work on it in a heartbeat"

You would. But that doesn't mean that everyone would.

I am appealing to those of us who value privacy and ethics above making a quick buck or getting to play with neat toys.

It's not like there's some huge shortage of interesting technology jobs in this second internet/startup bubble. And not all of these jobs are for companies that want to spy on their users. Many of us still have a choice.

Even if you are at a company which spies on its users, you could at least try to make some positive change from within, or at least avoid advocating for going down the road of ever more surveillance and spying.

Way too many developers, VCs, and founders either don't consider the privacy implications of what they're doing, or are only too happy to collect and sell data about their users to the highest bidder.

This mercenary mentality is not some unchangeable part of human nature, but is a learned attitude that can be countered and rejected.
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> The consequences of the Incompleteness theorems are often overstated, but they do falsify the idea that mathematics is logically consistent, or that a set of symbols, however clear and unambiguous, will prevent basic misunderstandings in even the most fertile minds.

The incompleteness theorems don't falsify the idea that mathematics is logically consistent; they do falsify the idea that any reasonable mathematical theory could prove its own logical consistency.

They also don't remove the possibility that there is some metamathematical justification for an unambiguous interpretation of the concept of the natural numbers or even of a set (see all of the work in large cardinals, culminating in Hugh Woodin's recent work on extender models for supercompact cardinals).
>>A funny fact is most Latinos and Blacks are culturaly more conservative than liberal ( christians / anti-gay ...)...

I was looking for some sources to support that claim when I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia_in_the_Latino_commun...

and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia_in_the_Black_communi...

It's true! Wikipedia says so.
Have you seen the tutorials at the ANTS farm subsite? They show a series of things you can do to explore the 9worker and 9queen in combination with live CDs, which show what I believe are new exciting features for Plan 9 that I have tried to add. There is also a full length paper explaining how I have tried to improve the design of Plan 9 and how I use ANTS on my systems.
You can turn the button off in the preferences easily enough.

I think they ask for site permissions so they can extract RSS URLs out of the page via aforementioned injected button. Either way, Chrome extensions have visible source, so it's not too hard to vet it.
This has been my experience. "Hustle" and "Hack" make up the ying-yang of tech startups. Hustle skills are more valued nowadays in SV than hacking skills. Silicon Valley these days is full of hustle and hype, but with no hack to back it up.
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what is the best software for hide ip in fedora ?
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I bought Fire Emblem, and I'm having quite a bit of fun. If there wasn't a demo I'm not sure I would have.

It should be noted that there is a good reason 1/3 of people bought it online: supply was too low. I would have bought the physical game but it simply wasn't available.
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We ran some numbers and as long we run our own boxes (and buy our own RAM), our margins look pretty good.

But we'll see, obviously. We don't have enough data to dispute your prediction at the moment :-)
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Yeah, that was my point. At the time this article was written the most recent resurgence of this philosophy was epitomized by the book I cited.