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US patent law applies to any company that runs in the US - or to any company that operates in the country where the patent was filed.

Does anyone know how this applies to online companies that are registered and operated outside of the US, but still make a portion of sales from US customers?

I'd assume many startups are susceptible to infringing on patented ideas that were never implemented; and leave them vulnerable to this sort of stupidity.
I don't recall seeing any shovelware or bundles on my Alienware, besides the "gamer" goodies which I'm sure appeal to some.
Well to pick between GA and GP, the question is: are you trying to evolve a list of parameters, or create a novel function/program?

Parameters into function: use GA.

Function/program: use GP.

(speaking very roughly, that's the historical distinction between them)
I've just started using them and yes, the UX still isn't great.

On the other hand, they are two orders of magnitude cheaper than Symantec (nee Verisign)...
I think he’s suggesting that you’d do better by raising the price higher than $1.99.
> 2. Computers are doing more, and that ain't necessarily a bad thing.

Good point. I wonder how many lean-and-mean GUI implementations have been written with no regard for, say, accessibility for blind users via a screen reader, or even internationalization.

I suppose the way to arrive at fast software is to set realistic performance targets, then continuously measure performance and pour time into optimizing. But on general-purpose computers, I suppose no single development team controls enough of the technology stack to thoroughly optimize it. I wonder if even Apple could make a Mac go from cold boot to the Finder in 2 seconds or less, even if Steve Jobs himself had demanded it.
I'm not saying earmarks aren't bad and we shouldn't get rid of them. I'm saying that the only reason we can universally get behind getting rid of them is because they don't add up to much money and nobody is really invested. Let's try the same for social security or the defense budget.
Can't a prior art be found for this?
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I think this is what's going to drive the adoption of DNSSEC: free, DNS-validated SSL certs.

IPv6 should address the other problem - namely, that SSL certs are per-ip, not per-hostname, which makes hosting multiple sites a pain with IPv4. Or SNI could work, once Windows XP is truly abandoned.
Be glad they didn't claim they own a patent on wheels.
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This is a preliminary test to gauge interest for my startup idea. Would you pay a monthly subscription to get unlimited access to most of your outdoor adventure equipment. I propose a city by city gear pool where members get unlimited access to gear (tents, stoves, kayaks, GPS, Sat Phones, bikes etc...).

Membership fee would include insurance, delivery and pickup.

Are there any outdoorsy types out there that would use such a service?

In essence it would eliminate the need to buy those expensive one-off's that you only use every so often. Eliminate wasted time and money by sharing outdoor gear between members.

Doing some calculations, it would be roughly $50/month membership fee.

Any thoughts or feedback would be much appreciated.
There is really no point in the U.S. sending humans back to the Moon. It has nothing we need or can use, and we've already been there several times.

Other nations might want to send people there for the same reason that people still want to climb Mt. Everest today, long after the first ascent.
I'm guessing you don't have kids!

Taking care of another living thing can be wondrous for the self in so many ways!
Alas, while I feel comfortable not XB testing WinXP because it's less than 1% of users (or whatever threshold you want), I'm not quite as comfortable using that argument with SSL certs. Unfortunately the two solutions (SNI and IPv6) are unlikely to work on XP, so the only hope is to wait until all those computers are replaced or upgraded.
This one is interesting: 30 day mandate for computers sold in China to install filtering software called "Green Dam - Escort of the Youth Flowers" , besides the great name it even comes with a backdoor.

https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING1520_a.html
Sounds like we very much agree, then: it's a practical question of governmental engineering.
> Why would I want to pay if there is alternatives offering the same product at no cost?

Because free isn't necessarily a sustainable model given the current CA environment. Any server can generate its own certificate, but this does little to verify the identity of the server you are connecting to.

My point is that CA's provide a service that can't reliably be accomplished for free (yet - the CA model has many of its own issues). If you can find one for free, I would be lead to ask "what are their motives for providing this service to me?"
Not that I could find, but NameCheap sells Rapid SSLs for about $10 that offer unlimited reissues.
Usually when the United States federal government releases anything it defaults into the public domain.
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Most startups that I respect side with Meyer on this issue of colocated teams. There's much room for disagreement or, to put it positively, experimentation here. But there's no basis at all for acting like this is settled and anyone who disagrees with you is "backwards".

In threads about this, I feel like a lot of HNers who want to work remotely have been very vocal, acting like there's a consensus among anybody smart when in fact exactly the opposite is the case, and to some extent crowding out substantive discussion. Personally, I agree with Marissa. I want my team in the same location and preferably the same room. It makes a huge difference to the quality of collaboration and discussion. If what you're trying to do doesn't depend so much on collaboration, then fine, but what I'm trying to do does.
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lol, what's funny is as I was commenting I thought the same thing "An APPARATUS that contains no more than 18 wheels and no less than 2." and at the gas pump we would see fuel tax and a patent tax! lol

Quote frankly I'm getting sick of the work apparatus!
SNI has been out for a long time. Windows XP with IE < 8 doesnt support it, but at this point, Microsoft has practically abandoned it so it seems reasonable to let those users suffer and tell them to use Firefox/Chrome.
I've gotta say, I haven't played with HTTPS sites all that much- does it mess up caching?
Yes, that will be a future post. Quite honestly it took a lot out of me and only now can I go back and revisit some of it. You will hear all about how my friends and family had to get food for me because I couldn't leave the computer. :)
Wow, that's really embarrassing.

I checked against IACA (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-architecture-...) in case I was missing something, and it agrees that your version is 2 cycles faster on Sandy Bridge. Worse, while both blocks are slower on Nehalem than Sandy Bridge, yours appears to be 2 cycles faster on the older architecture as well. Seeing as that came out in 2008, it's hard to be charitable to their boasting.

Would you mind if I use your sample code to ask the authors?
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

With an introvert you can only assume their level of incompetence. An extrovert will gladly extol the level of his ignorance.
There are some large-ish groups of people out there for whom this will cause issues, eg. people who play console multiplayer gamers (millions of people including Halo/COD/etc players).

As someone who games on Xbox Live, a part of me would actually like to see this become more common with other carriers to force next gen consoles to move to a dedicated server model since the current "pick a host among the gamers in the lobby and hope for the best" model results in a fairly poor experience a lot of time even without pervasive CGNATing.
>Perhaps you're a person, rather than a label.

Or maybe labels are ok until some singularity style computer can know exactly what each individual is and how to exactly optimise their happiness maybe the approximations labels give us make us better off.

When used correctly they can allow us to better know ourselves and also be more understanding of those around us.
The cynic in me thinks the current system is acceptable. Everything is copyrighted forever and everything is freely available on The Pirate Bay anyway.
Small open source projects, you can do it better.
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It seems like you've been putting a lot of effort in, but posix uid/gid isolation is increasingly pourous with the typical desktop environment these days. It sounds like you are ready for real RBAC - if you put the time in selinux (or apparmor or grsec) is leaps and bounds more effective.
You realize that when someone says 'white male' they are saying it in the context of other types of people in the same society? Ie we're still talking about the First World - just juxtaposing them to black males, asian females, white females, etc.

The existence of 5-odd billion non-white people around the world isn't really discussed :)
And when they all do it, or no other ISP will service your area?
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Thank you. I have said this many times. I have 10 dollars, but unlike the US or some other developed country, I can't just ship it overseas.
How can you patent an action? Could some one please clarify what it is that was patented? The sequence of pressing a set of particular buttons? Really?
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This is what I've started doing. Right now I'm consulting for a TechStars company doing some Akka stuff while I work on my own venture.

I'm single and 22 so doing this for a few months brings in enough to float me for ~year, not including the savings I had from the BigCo job I recently left.

The real bonus, IMO, comes from the fact that your former consulting clients are your most likely bet for job prospects if/when your venture fails, assuming they like your work of course.
It would be nice to have the option of encryption without identity validation. Most people interact with most sites without it today -- over HTTP. The only reason we can't encrypt all those connections is the big scary error message browsers throw up when you do so without paying a CA for their signature.
I work at home a fair amount and don't have a dog, but I do have a needy cat. He's indoor/outdoor (I have an office in my detached garage) and has the inate ability to realize I need to step away and take a break.

When a hard problem comes up or I am super annoyed about a problem, he's there to encourage me to play with him. Timely breaks that reset your sense of well being can help a lot.

The one thing about dogs vs cats in the work place, many people seem more allergic to cats than dogs (and cats generally don't travel as well).
Oh, I see. :) A year ago I tried an experiment with one of my other apps at $2.99 and there was some review backlash. Perhaps it's worth testing the waters every once in a while. My general strategy has been to price to keep the rankings up (for discoverability) and keep the price where it won't be a factor in user reviews.
it's $172 on mtgox, went up another $20 today. This is not a natural movement. This thing is a bubble that can pop any point, but at the same time, I won't be surprised if it goes to $1000 first. Like the .com bubble, you just hope that you can cash out before it crashes.
The bugzilla thread is an interesting read. And to be fair, the issue with the thousands of certificates is explained in it. It appears that the certificate is used to sign DFN, which in turn signs certificates for most German universities.

Btw, Video of the 27C3 talk in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRjNV4YMvHI
If I understand this correctly, you're saying that they actually encrypt the message with a single key. Then they encrypt the messages key with the public key of all recipients and send it with the message, so each user can decrypt the message key with the private physically attached to the device and use it to decrypt the message?
Awesome, that was precisely the kind of annoyance I remember.
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not patenting an action but a system. In this case, as the article specifies, the combination of a scanner, LAN, and application software that allows a user to one button send a scanned image to email. Yes these are patentable under current law.
Does this mean it will become much more difficult to associate an IP address with a customer account for the purposes of file-sharing-suit trolls?
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Surprised to see myself in the article, forgotten I'd given that interview.
I think it'd be awesome if they used vine-style short video clips of the people rather than the present photographs. i know there may be insurmountable barriers of access, but still.
I'm prepared to believe that this writer is smart and serious and just makes consistently unfortunate style choices. But at some point, if you insist on walking like a troll and quacking like a troll, what does that matter? This stuff makes huge demands of any reader who doesn't get off on the author's snark groove, which I don't. Am I missing anything valuable?
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I'm really not looking forward to this in general.

Isn't there also the option of using the same ipv4 address on a few thousand customers and just assign them 10 routable ports?
Bitcoin is deflating at a far greater rate than you could make investing without some kind of extremely leveraged scheme.
He does seem to have a nice smile, and probably has a firm handshake.

ugh.
Great insight - thanks for this!
Theres a new post about patent trolls every other day. This makes me so fucking mad, can't they do anything about this??

Couldn't they pass some kind of legislation that says you can't have a shit shell company thats 40 companies deep or.. anything...
One thing is that it can ruin the UX of the page. I was constantly hitting the overlays while using an iPad when all I really wanted to do was advance the page I was reading.
No because they will just associate IP address and NAT port number. I'm sure the ISPs are keeping track of the NAT associations for this and other abuse tracking purposes.
or use both bathrooms?
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I've been doing yoga for about 6 months now.

I've gained strength, flexibility, and feel fantastic every time I leave a session. I also believe I'm less stressed and can focus better.

The classes I attend present the physical aspects as a gateway into meditation and relaxation.
Maybe patents should have restrictions on transferal? This kind of problem would be less frequent if the original inventor had a period where the patent was non-transferable.

What might happen? Would this decrease patent hoarding and trolling? Would options to buy make waiting periods ineffective?
I for one care less about working remotely than about being forced to work in a noisy, distracting open space environment. (Or, for that matter, in offices having no sound insulation, which can be as bad if not worse.)

Consistently, I've found that the people who like such environments tend to be the ones creating superficial solutions full of errors and short-sightedness.

Group dynamics subsequently spread the fallout from such shortcomings. (I've come to think of corporations principally as a mechanism for risk dilution, in this respect.) But, for those who find this insufficient, the process is exhausting.

It goes further than that, for me. I simply can't think in the midst of the noise.

Being able to work wherever, from wherever, is also attractive. But wasting my time and energy on what I find to be counter-productive noise -- that's the worst.

I'm actually rather good at collaboration, including face-to-face. I refuse to sit next to someone and work to ignore them, for hours on end, when there is no point to it other than achieving a "best practices" (read, square footage and most superficial measurement of cost reducing) workplace.

So, I have this "attitude". (I don't express it as such; instead, I politely request and explain my preference.) Yet I've repeated ended up being the person with an extensive network throughout very large organizations. I help other people out, and some of them remember this and return the favor. (I inevitably end up finding a community of like minded individuals.) Real collaboration, as opposed to simple co-location.

P.S. Sigh. Sorry if I got a bit ranty, here. But this topic really pushes my buttons. In the "corporate" environment, I'd be repeatedly lauded -- highly -- for my work. But when I broached this topic -- a polite request for a quieter workspace -- it was, officially at least, a non-starter. Certain managers did what they could, unofficially. Others were simply critical.

Too many people want "high performers" -- and lament their dearth -- but they refuse to listen to those people's real requirements.

And I've too often seen arbitrary edicts substituted for real, attentive, you-have-to-work-at-it-and-earn-that-big-salary management.

I can understand the "other side". But, individually, I've come more and more to the decision to lend it little of my respect.
When I tried Tails it had the noScript plugin disabled by default (actually in blacklist mode, I think, which allows javascript on 99% of websites). Even the plugin itself warns users not to leave it disabled. I wouldn't trust something with that big of a security hole. If anonymity was so important that I couldn't trust my own machine, I wouldn't trust a linux distro made for anonymity either.
I like the interface, agree withs some of the comments about flattening it out.

But let's talk about the actual stuff on there: not a single piece of interesting clothing for men on the entire site as far as I can tell. I don't think people want to endlessly browse nothing, they want access to new ideas.
Was this released through official channels or leaked? I'm assuming it makes a difference, but I wouldn't know...
Put it in a separate translation unit and compile that with different flags.

I've tried it in separate units, and haven't been able to get things out in the order I have them in the source. ICC does the most rearranging (which in most cases other than this leads to faster code), and GCC generally does what you say.
But both do things like turning my reloads from memory (to reduce port pressure) into register copies. I was wondering if there were flags I'm not finding to prevent this.

If you're really at the spot where you have real, debugged code that is better than compiler output, the compiler is providing no value and you might as well use the assembly you've written.

Likely the best plan, but this is being used in an open source library where the rest of the work is done with intrinsics. It's a "when in Rome" thing rather than a technical concern.
Being an introvert is soo cool these days. Sometimes I try and act like one at start-up meetings so people can assume I have great ideas! hahah j/k. I would consider myself a hybrid! :)
I love the energy that dogs bring to the office - we have anywhere from 2 to 5 in the office at a time, and sometimes it can be a bit hectic - but the positive vibe that a little dog coming by you for a quick pet keeps me going through the day.
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I wanted to wire up Redmine and Trello, but they didn't support Redmine at the time.
The wikileaks cables exist in grey zone; it's they were never released by the US Government, but they are public. Generally speaking if you are not and do not plan on being an employee with a mandated security clearance, you have nothing to worry about. If however, you do have or want to acquire clearance you should not look at Wikileaks since you will be violating the terms under which clearance is granted.

Also, elements of the intelligence community have made statements that suggest that applicants to some government positions could be refused if they tweet or say anything about Wikileaks. [1]

1. http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/09/schools-warn-students-not-...
I came across this several days ago, and it failed to make any impression on me.

What's the point of this article? Sam Altman is arguing that democracy doesn't work without growth, and hence the government should be trying to promote and measure growth.

Mencius is arguing that the government should manufacture busy work for people to do. Because there's no other viable solution. But he says it will never happen. So the whole article seems pointless to me.

I have read Mencius's blog because he had a good article on the state of CS research. But it is becoming increasingly discursive and low on utility.

Also I think the title is basically link bait. It doesn't have anything to do with anything; it is basically name dropping for no reason.
I guess we need a way to buy certificates with bitcoins?
I don't dispute your account, as I don't know the particulars.

One minor quibble, though. Unless you're specifically talking about water tankers sitting unused, most fire engines carry a fairly limited amount of water in their internal tanks (technically, a "truck" has ladders, while, in SF at least, an "engine" has a water tank + a pump + hose lines).

In San Francisco, newer engines have a 500 gallon internal tank. That sounds like a lot, but the rated capacity of the pump is 1500 gallons/min, meaning at full flow (150 psi) you have 20 seconds of water. At best, with a small line at a low pressure, you have a few minutes of water.

Again, not saying you're wrong or repositioning the engines wouldn't have helped. But unless it's a trash can fire, the first order of business at a working fire (structure or wildland) is securing a dependable water supply.
I am mildly disappointed that there is not a torrent seed of the whole dataset...

It might be interesting to see what sort of correlates could be inferred by a crowdsourced analysis.
Likely that would just mean that the troll company would pay the same upfront sum to the owner for the right to "represent" them and sue other companies and keep any revenues.

Also, consider when StartupX is bought by BigCo., and BigCo wants to simply keep the company running exactly as it was. Clearly someone else is controlling the patents than the original owner of the company.
Yes, you both did. To a user losing / is just as bad as losing ~, because ~ is all she cares about, not her OS settings, hence why I think the idea that running as root is worse than running as an unprivileged user is silly in this context.

They are effectively the same: an unknown script executing "rm -rf ~" with an unprivileged user is going to cause as much grief as root running "rm -rf /".

I couldn't care less that the system is still up if all my data is gone.

Also, I believe “rm -r” traverses mount points.
You can also ask a trusted friend. Just ask them to be honest and upfront about their biases.
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This seems like a great example of how inflammatory language makes an argument less effective.
It's never been required, as far as I know. AdMob and several others existed and were in use before iAd.
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I should add a little info here:

First HN post, long time lurker. It's been a sleepless night spent surfing on great sites like humbleMBA.com, trying to get things straight.

I just wanted to get some thoughts out, and I certainly wouldn't mind hearing some opinions as well.