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How about any judge who passes judgement on things like this, has to learn to program just a little bit. Just so they can understand how trivial some things are, compared with others.

It does sound like the original patent was bogus. How can you patent something so obvious and trivial as this? If you can sum up the idea in pretty much a single sentence as you can here, should raise a few flags.
I can't source this, so disbelieve it if you like, but Comcast and others are seriously looking at IPv6. The reason is basically that they know what a pain it is going to be to switch. They want to get a head start, because they know that sometime they're going to ask for some new IPs, and actually be told "No."

The trick is that v6 isn't useful unless both the clients, servers, and networks are doing it. Comcast and others will need to push on Level 3 and others. Fortunately, they're big enough that they can play the "I hope nobody else does this before you; we might need to buy transit from them" card.
Anonymous are hackers, just like us. They force us to recognize the limits of our wired world, and laugh when we fail.

At least their culture beats that of Twitter, amirite?

edit: But I digress, this issue has been bumped to the front page too much. Definitely.
I stopped reading after the first page. It is obvious that this article goes over the top. "Reading your data by observing the flashing red LED on your network switch," nonsensical.
The USSR lost 23 million people, ~13% of its 1939 population. The US lost 1 million people, ~0.3% of its 1939 population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
You should check out his writings-- I doubt he's the kind of "religion professor" you suspect he is.

For example:
http://www.amazon.com/After-Religion-Postmodernism-Mark-Tayl...
http://www.amazon.com/Erring-Postmodern-theology-Mark-Taylor...
http://www.amazon.com/About-Religion-Economies-Virtual-Postm...
I have been a rather young animators apprentice back then and I remember videos from A|W and Softimage circulating about from the salesmen about their representative software. I still remember A|W video they've sent us which showcased PowerAnimator 9.5 (Still miss it's OptiFX quality, not the same as in Maya!) and guys from Naughty dog working on something not yet released (Crash Bandicoot). I clearly remember watching that VHS sitting at my workstation (Indigo2 Maximum Impact) and looking at those guys also on Indigo2's (regular graphics, green ones) like they had a fun of their life, while I was preping color corrected shots for an alcohol drink commercial, sigh. There were big wars back then between A|W and softimage, there was even an alliance PR from Psygnosis, Konami and SEGA which stated they will use Softimage only for their games. SEGA later developed Animanium, which is a shame it never reached target audience - it went bust (Animanium, that is).
That's a tough one to decide. I read the patent quickly. I know quite a bit about PCI, cache coherency and prediction.

I'd say whoever wrote the patent covered a good idea. Good enough to be patentable? Hum... It's clever. Not completely obvious. But not earth shattering either...

If Apple couldn't find any prior art, meaning the patent authors were truly the first ones to come with this, then I'd have to side with them and say that yes, it's patentable.

I'm just surprised because there were millions of academic and research papers on such topics. No one described this before or even mentioned it in passing?
OK, maybe they're better then the twitter crowd, but I think > 0.001% of them are hackers.
No, the world's best headlines are on Wikipedia. Each article is titled exactly what it is about.
I'm aware I lost the thread of my own point about the Hindu temple analogy and turned it on its head instead, hopefully the two points mumbled there are apparent, because I think they both apply, but yeah, I'm a dumbass ;-)
I don't care either way about 4chan, but I'm surprised that Time is still publishing the results as if they mean something. It's just a funny hack.
What about CS grad school? Don't research labs take the pressure off of PHD candidates to find tenured positions?

(Disclaimer: This is an actual question, not 'fightin words')
Ask HN: How much % for the Idea/Concepts behind a Startup
I have started a start-up in January and since have gathered several co-founders who will be joining full force in the Summer. I want to have a equity sharing vesting-over-time structure finalized and agreed upon. Since money is not involved yet, equity sharing seems to be the only fair option towards everyone. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580930)

I want to make it fair for everyone including my self, and wanted to know what % of the ownership is usually held by the original founder, as the person responsible for the key ideas/concepts and as someone who risked it all and went all in working on it a few months before the rest of the team was formed.

In other words: How much is the key ideas/concepts behind a start-up worth?

Thanks HN

edit: when I mean how much it's worth, I am also meaning idea/concept/research work/proof-of-concept as a whole. I think it was a bit misleading the way I worded it earlier.
> On non-IE browsers, the difference in speed is negligible

Are you suggesting that people develop two versions of their JS? One for IE and one for everyone else? Just to appease the pedantics of JS DOM manipulation?

For small bits of HTML, DOM creation/insertion is fine for reasons you have cited (attaching events, etc), but for a bunch of markup, sticking to your guns on this policy is going to cost you your job.
"This is not even about women, as I have seen both males and females on either side of the fence. This is about mutual respect - I don’t agree with you, but respect your feelings."

It's too bad the author doesn't take the women's rights approach, as that may be more easy to argue. The 'you offend me' or 'you hurt my feelings' card is extremely weak, especially in an opinionated, anti-conventional (or so it sees itself) community such as the ruby/rails crowd. In all honesty, if you refrain from this because 'someone may get offended', then where do you stop? Do you edit out all the cursing? there's lots of that in the Rails community. Do you speak only strictly in formal language? Present only in suits? I'm sure I can find people who think absence of any of these is problematic. But so what? There will always be someone who is offended.

And then comes the Buddhism analogy. Yes, I will take my shoes off when I enter the temple, because I am an outsider. But maybe a buddhist insider has the expreience, influence and respect to innovate in terms of Buddhist tradition, where I would be considered sacrilegious. To make things more difficult, 'proffesionalism' is derrived from 'professional'. It's simply a function of what most professionals do. That's why you don't call them 'professionalists', followers of 'professionalism'. I doubt the author can find a definition of professional that has anything to do with presentation style. Apparently, these ruby/rails/couchdb professionals make presentations like this. If that were unacceptable, then how would the professional presentation of someone from the Adult industry look like? Blured-out product images?

I'm not necessarily taking a stand on the topic itself, as I said, there may be better ways to argue. I am just noting an extremely weak argument on the part of the author.
He's including blogging as part of social media, which I think is accurate. Blogging seems to work best when it's used with Twitter as a conversation medium, rather than just a place to post stuff without listening to what people have to say.

Zappos is big now, but they weren't always big, and I don't have any reason to not believe their CEO when he says that Twitter has been a big part of their success.

The Nike example was weak, I agree. But the Rubbermaid thing is a good example of using social media...just because they hosted those reviews on their site doesn't mean that it's not social media.

Here's another example that he missed: Yelp. In areas where Yelp membership is high, it has a big influence on local businesses.

I agree that some of the sites you listed probably don't have a big impact on the bottom line, but to write off social media entirely because some of the social media sites are time-wasters with no ROI is a mistake.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rBkybK6z5iSGmpfU-EWOy... to linkify the URL
I think we would need to consult Douglas Hofstadter about that one.
Didn't know that...thanks!
The best explanation I've read as to why ipv6 adoption isn't happening is here: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html .
Perhaps technical aptitude is rare among /b/tards, but they still hack. It's a state of mind.

Many of Kevin Mitnick's greatest hacks were through culture jamming and social engineering. A hack is a hack is a hack, as long as it works.
Those figures do put things in perspective, indeed. I'd just like to point out that the U.S. actually lost approx. 400,000 people "only" (50x less than what the Russians lost).

The Lithuanians lost 13% of their population, too. However, in relative terms, the Poles were the ones who suffered the most: 16% of their population. And I am not talking about Auschwitz and other concentration camps only. I remember visiting the Warsaw Uprising Museum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising ) a couple of years ago, and it was a disturbing experience.
I was looking for the link but you already posted this comment :)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/03/8-simple-ways-to-...
I use intelliadmin (intelliadmin.com) over our wan..very simple and easy to learn and use. There is an 'internet' version also, but it requires installation of software. The lan/wan version doesnt require pre-installation of software on the remote machine.
Remind me again why I should care about Unix-style scripting under Windows with a proprietary tool when Cygwin already does the job sufficiently well and provides a true Unix-style emulation call-stack in an open-source library?!

Also "factor"?!! Since when was "factor" ever a popular Unix shell command? Given the remarkable lack of actual "writing" in this article (and others similar to it) on this blog, somebody's just spamming nano-content drivel for ad impressions.

Btw, since when is any of this remotely related to a "Software Architect's take on Network Security"? No thanks. I'll stick to Bash. Next.
For what it's worth, this story is absolutely ancient and possibly fictional. I think I originally read it in a humor collection on Gopher. We don't know who wrote it (it's not the guy hosting the page), so it should be taken with a grain of salt.
I know of at least one instance of the opposite. This team sold a technology to an established software business for a decent money.

If it took these guys three years getting to where they are, it will take at least that much for any competitor/established player. Three years has to be worth something.

If you do get acquired for the technology, expect to be have a payments spread out over multiple years (~5 yrs) with employment at acquirer required to collect.

I agree with edw that having even a single beta customer will dramatically increase the $ that an acquirer will pay (Humans trust others' judgement more than their own).
I don't think people are upvoting for the sake of 4chan rather they are upvoting for the subject, that a news or current issue magazine is so proud that they won't admit that the results are not real.
Open Source Software Apprentice
I don't think that's true.

First, vocal and influential Ruby developers talk about this. I've heard Chad Fowler, DHH, and Matz all talk about it at major conferences (RailsConf and RubyConf).

Second, I've worked with dozens of clients on Ruby projects, and talked with dozens more, and I've never heard these sorts of issues come up. Outside of the language war world, people don't really care if DHH swears or if an inappropriate presentation is given at a minor conference.
The fact that most js frameworks willfully ignore #2 has been one of the reasons I've avoided them. Doing a lot of DOM manipulations in code feels about as efficient as making tons of system calls to an OS. Much better to do a few larger writes than many small ones.

I've become a big fan of JST: http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/JavaScriptTemplates . Send over template snippets as strings and use JST to put them together. With far fewer innerHTML replacements along the way.
Flickr users make accidental maps
the person responsible for the key ideas/concepts

That's worth approximately 0% of the shares.

as someone who risked it all

That's also worth approximately 0% of the shares.

working on it a few months before the rest of the team was formed

I'd look at this from a perspective of how many months you'll have spent working on this vs. how many months everybody else will have spent working on this at the point where you could reasonably expect the company to start paying you market rates in cash instead of equity.

Based on a complete lack of knowledge of your company, I'd pick a two-year horizon and say that you should get 25% more than new people, in light of your 6 extra months of work. So if this company is you plus 3 other people, I'd split the stock 29.5 / 23.5 / 23.5 / 23.5.
People have done papers on traffic-analysis breaks of secure protocols based on keystroke timing...
[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment...
- The front page of The Guardian, November 25, 2006.

Good lord, there's hype and then there's Guardian hype.
IPhone is Boosting Demand For Location-Based Services
I have read about Smale's work on data mining, and I was immediately intrigued by it. It's not everyday that one sees a world class mathematician doing such "dirty" applied research ;-) BTW, I would like to start doing some reading on this. Any books / papers you would recommend?
> It's f'ing pointless at best.

No, not at all.

> So why is this 4chan rulez time.com thing so often so high on HN?

Really? I presume it has something to do with the 4Chan guys breaking the poll beyond all recognition. It's a very interesting little story that makes anti-establishment people like me smile.
amirite?

no.
Also, can we PLEASE stop posting all these articles about RepRap.

As cheap-ass CNC systems go, it's OK, but (a) no, it CAN'T reproduce itself (it has tons of precision components that you have to buy separately, and (b) it has nothing to do with nanotech.
I'm a little torn on this.

On the one hand, I think the patents are abused and it's ridiculous that a company or individual has to look up everything they think of in isolation in order to avoid getting sued.

On the other hand, Apple is known for being a bully with patents, and it's rather satisfying to see them feel the pain a little bit.
Facebook Opens Up Its Stream API To Developers
11 people have the wrong idea; Call it the "Get Satisfaction" effect
An alternative to the "Don't commute" option for those who can't not commute is to take public transport. If you take a train or bus instead of driving you can do something else during the commute.

I'm currently doing this: http://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1630137854
Down-vote it if you want, but we've gotten over 100 different posts on RepRap, even though there has been no new news or development in quite a while.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+r...

I'm all for posts if there's something to say, but the ceaseless boosterism for RepRap, and the unwillingness to either be realistic about RepRap or address criticism is quite annoying.
The first comment nails it on the head:

> What most people need when building a side business is consecutive hours … especially in programming.

> 30 minutes here and 1 hour there, in the programming word won’t get you much because of the huge time lag for developers when they have to context switch.

My issue is that the cost of watching TV is easy to measure, and thus easy to target. The cost of reading fluff 37Signals articles, however, is not.
Twitter’s appearance in Google: sort it out
If it took these guys three years getting to where they are, it will take at least that much for any competitor/established player

All they have is code. There are plenty of instances where person X codes something that person Y could do in a fraction of the time. Even if you take two equally matched teams, the one that works full time will beat the one that works part time. And that's assuming their skills are equivalent.

I agree with edw519: they have nothing until they can prove someone will buy it.
Ask HN: How do I automatically write to DB when App Engine memcached is about to expire?
I think the only way to do it may be through periodic updates, but that strikes me as inelegant and, depending on the situation, error-prone.
I agree.

Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exformation
For my startup, we had 5 people in on it from the beginning. The workload is split evenly, except the President is def. putting more time in than the other guys. We spoke with some funding groups, who said they like to see the President have a greater interest (seems to help by giving someone a bigger vote in the direction). So VCs might like to see an uneven split; we each decided to give the President 1.25% of our overall share.

BTW, we're currently a friends/family funded, bootstrapped company that's post-revenue, but not yet ramen profitable.
You are the exception rather than the rule. I love VS even without ReSharper. I haven't found a better IDE than VS.
Dan Bernstein mainly describes that it is currently very hard to switch over. I would add to that that there is currently no reason whatsoever for an existing user to switch. Running out of address space is not a problem for an existing user.

Also there is no real "killer app" for IPV6.
When they started with IPv6, there was a vision that it would solve all the hard problems that we currently have with networking: address space, multihoming, and mobility of both users and applications.
However, all the zealots in the IETF made sure that IPv6 is as compatible to IPv4 as possible, thus it only solves the depletion of addresses.

Also, there is no guarantee that the routing mess that we currently have with BGP will magically go away when we switch over to IPv6. There are already signs that that problem is only going to get worse.
Those advertisement pages drive me nuts, but I enjoyed the article. It's nice to hear how the 'big pros' are doing things, and what they think of particular technologies.

I also agree that git seems a little overwhelming, but you only end up using a couple dozen commands at most. I love git.
...but the books are still great. Show me some great books published since 2004.
No, peace isn't the solution. In the western states, such as CO and UT, the water-rights laws are tangled, messy and arcane. They even predate the statehood and are embedded in the state constitutions.

Effectively, once you turn a pipe on, you can never turn it off. People who have "senior water rights" are allowed under those state laws to make people "upstream" not only stop using water from rivers, but replace the water that they had been using.

Canada has a large number of rivers that flow north into the Arctic sea. From the US perspective, that water is wasted. "We" would like to see it pumped south. However, we wanted a uniform framework of laws governing that. So we forced the Canadians into accepting water-rights laws substantially similar to the western states' laws. Consequently, the Canadians banned such water exports.

If you want to see how screwed up water distribution is in the US. And how political the mess is, then I recommed that you read the book Cadillac Desert.

http://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-...

And as for the anthropik article, several of the points made in that article (and yes, I know it rambles too much) have to do with how Israel needs the water, and how that water is critical to the security of their nation. When the water being pumped out of the aquifers in Gaza became too contaminated for agriculture, then Gaza ended up getting returned to Palestinian control (and now about all that grows are flowers and hatred). If you look at the "security barrier" on the West Bank, it seems to follow no political nor demographic map. When you map that security barrier against the aquifer's boundaries, then you get a match.

Water is life. And the Babylonians had to struggle with salt deposits in their cropland. As their fields got too salty for high yielding crops like citrus and wheat, they had to switch to lower yielding grains like emmer (good luck finding that outside of a health food store) and barley. Some of those fields ended up so salty that they shine in modern day Iraqi sunlight: those are salt deposits from more than 2000 years ago.

Food is life. Water is life. Without both, we die. Therefore they become political.
I agree with you in that the judge and jury probably didn't understand the first thing about patent at all. Unfortunately that's not what the lawsuit was about. It was that Apple was aware of the patent and infringed upon it anyways.
I think the patent process needs some major reform. After all, Apple is trying to (or did by now?) patent the pinch. And then there's the person who patented the use of a laser pointer to play with a cat...
My only comment here is that people (even "reasonably objective peers") will almost never tell you anything other than how great your product is.

Marketers put the "success test" on most market research as something called the "top two box" test. That means on your surveys, they like to see 90-95% of feedback in the 9's and 10's (on a 1-10 scale). This is because everybody is always overly enthusiastic on a survey, not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.
I'm not sure there is such a thing as not "good enough to be patentable". There is a patent for de-boning a turkey, for god sakes. Oh, and a related patent for a "method of removing meat from a bone". We ran into our own patent issue when we managed to duplicate the functionality of a partner's (pending) patent in a week. The wording is so vague that every site remotely like ours would be in violation, were it ever actually accepted, which I doubt it will be.

In short, I have lost all respect for patenting in general and believe it should be abolished entirely.
I understand the significance of something like this from a physics perspective, but I'll be honest... "splash-suppressing materials for use in kitchens" made me question the importance of this study.
Planet Venus looks nice. Thanks :)

> And why don't you switch to ff ?

I like Opera better.
What about Microsoft BizSpark
i am about to make a platform decision for my new startup. should i join BizSpark to build it ?
looks like a killer offer for startups
I suggest there may be ways to predict "this is the kind of question I can usually parse and answer" long before a confident parse-and-settled-answer could complete. Thus it could make sense to ring in before any potential answers have been formulated or ranked.
This Is Your Brain On Religion
But without the original idea, the start-up wouldn't come to formation to begin with, right?

Also the even split between the co-founders isn't quite possible either (one is working summer only, another is part time over summer).
But without the original idea, the start-up wouldn't come to formation to begin with, right?

Ideas are cheap. It's execution which matters.

Also the even split between the co-founders isn't quite possible either (one is working summer only, another is part time over summer).

Then estimate how much contribution each "co-founder" is making and allocate stock in proportion to that.
A equal workload would have made things a lot easier for us, but some of our co-founders have other obligations so not everyone is working full time on this.

I didn't know about the VC's requirements as that, but seems to make sense. Good to know.