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You beat me to the reply...

Firstly, IANAL(!)

Secondly, I do follow the sorts of IP law cases that tend to show up on HN as an interested non-legal observer because I think IP law is one of the most dangerous problems the US tech industry faces, even though the industry is the thing that is fucking itself most of the time.

However, from what I understand while the exhaustion doctrine has been upheld for international copyright law recently by the Supreme Court, the same court refused to hear a vaguely similar case as applied to patent law (and the defendant was on the ropes and forced to settle). So there are still quite a lot of open questions about exhaustion doctrine as it applies to patents, especially when international trade is introduced, and also when the original supplier preemptively imposes restrictions (such as the "not for resale" that would certainly be on the packaging of any chemicals sold today). One mitigating thing that might help in this situation though is that price-fixing is often viewed as a situation where such resale restrictions can be found to be invalid.

So, basically this is all really muddy and not entirely decided (exhaustion doctrine is just common law to begin with) and there's no yes/no answer as to whether my half-sarcastic statement is valid, but we do live in a world that is very different than the early 1900s in a lot of ways, many of them for the better, but some of them for the worse.
The problem is not that the drugs were illegal. The problem was that they were fake. That is evil. Furthermore, scamming people is evil as well, since it involves taking advantage of them.
Well, quite a good idea.
Microsoft's statement: "We'd be more than happy to include advertising but need Google to provide us access to the necessary APIs."

What's interesting is what they don't say. They don't say that Google have refused to provide them this, or even that they asked Google for this.

Assuming that Google's complaint of "Prevents the display of advertisements in YouTube video playbacks" is a TOS violation, it looks to me that Microsoft violated their TOS first, and are only now trying to imply that Google are the bad guys.
BBM coming to Android & iOS
a couple of schematics of the various configurations of IGBT based converters in the article would have helped a lot.
Google tried to catchup with social by ripping FourSquare checking using latitude.

Fast forward this is officially FourSquare rip and FourSquare is officially going to die.
Hacker drama.

Schwern is, rightfully if a bit dramatically, upset that apeiron is mean to people on irc.

Apeiron is indeed mean to people on irc, especially when those people act in a way that apeiron deems unacceptable.

Apeiron is smart and, once you see past and/or put up with his snark and/or temperament, usually fairly level-headed, so he's apparently a respected member of the Perl community.

Many people are off-put by apeiron, and Schwern thinks the community should maybe do something about it
In India always handshake never hug. I mean never hug unless she is very comfortable around you.
When I try to load it on my chrome mobile browser (iphone 4s), I am able to get to the login screen, but after that it shows a black screen with buttons. Is this what it is suppose to look like?

http://i.imgur.com/1JV6I9D.png
Sorry, I don't get it. If there were an easier way to obtain copper, the value of copper would fall. Likewise if a superior metal was found, copper's value would drop. This value doesn't sound very intrinsic. And my initial claim was not about whether something makes a good currency or not. I was claiming that that which imbues copper with value is basically the same thing that imbues bitcoins with value. Namely, their utility to people and being noncounterfeitable.
Show HN: Chrome Extension for the one thing I miss on HN
I'm a Canadian citizen applying to the best US tech jobs and I feel your pain man. I'm having visa troubles too and it really sucks, you feel helpless. That's why so many people are working on immigration reform.
There's a book by Walt Stanchfield (former head of animation at Disney) named "Figure drawing for animation" Although the name may have changed, it used to be a photocopied book passing from hand to hand, but I read it was about to be properly published.

Edit: memory failure (just woke up, I guess it counts as an excuse) The book is /Gesture/ drawing for animation, not figure drawing. I mentally mixed the article content with your reference :) The book is great, though.
In US from late 90s to mid 2000s the price of housing kept increasing, dollar vs. euro plunged and dollar vs. many commodities dropped as well. But some how there was very low inflation???
The ease with which people can share files, thus giving copyright laws a big middle finger, might have had a part in encouraging software design to be placed behind an API gate and into the cloud.

Just sayin'...
> The more likely explanation is that Google fans and Microsoft haters are doign the flagging.

As a Google employee: yes. We don't like this any more than anyone else does. We want to _earn_ positive feedback. The idea of Google employees flagging (or being told to flag!) stories about Google they don't like is laughable to me.
> I have no idea what this story has to do with HN, yet I loved every word of it.

Rule #1 in entrepreneurship: always trust your gut :)
WPF is the replacement of WinForms. Many desktop apps designed by conventional .NET developers in the timeframe between the release of Vista, and probably many now despite MS's deprecation, use WPF as a base library. It's not something you can just easily replace, and Mono does not implement it.

Microsoft is using the same business tactics that they've employed since the PC wars in the 90s, since they hit critical mass of market share, just with a bit more finesse. Microsoft allows Mono's existence only because it feeds into their power play, by creating more dependency and familiarity with .NET. They make the basics open and provide some interoperability, but then lay on proprietary extras that eventually become hard dependencies organically (like WPF) as a function of Microsoft's monopolization of the market ("why wouldn't I use this tool that makes things way easier? it will work great in our environment"). It's all EEE. Microsoft's MO, then and now.

Then all of the sudden, iPads exist. Xamarin is in a killer market.
In this case it may be a good thing. Anyone who reads this account (anyone reasonable at least) will think. "Bright student with an interest in science trying a fun science experiment." Then they'll hire her, or not, based on her qualifications. At least in a perfect world...
The Case Against Empathy
Related: An Aussie journo who goes by one name, and the problems he has with that.

http://stilgherrian.com/category/only-one-name/
I had and still have a girlfriend when I entered the startup scene. I pick work, her, and sleep. I skip the exercise and I feel fine. Not sustainable forever though, but it'll do for now.
Google's Android IDE now based on IntelliJ IDEA
Imagine if Google set this up for Bitcoin? Every Google user gets a Bitcoin wallet stored in their profile, and they can use this as a web wallet to send and receive Bitcoins.
> One thing I noticed right away is this is clearly based off Eclipse, as many IDE’s are these days. That’s not really a bad thing, as Eclipse works really well in many ways and there isn’t any reason to reinvent the wheel. But if you don’t like Eclipse, you may not like Android Studio.

Actually, Android Studio is based off IntelliJ, not Eclipse.

If you're looking for a quick overview of some of the new features, this devbytes video by one of the developers behind the new IDE is pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0fXuyL0xVU
PernixData nets $20M to virtualize your server-side flash
You live in an interesting reality where any single person's success can be attributed to their circumstance.
Bitcoin exchange rate going up in 3...2...1...
In related news Amazon Cloud Drive still costs less per GB than Google Drive. AWS is also years ahead of GCE in terms of features and customer support and has been dropping prices regularly for years. GCE doesn't bring anything new that Rackspace, Azure, HP, Oracle etc. aren't already providing. GCE is likely to be as effective against AWS as Google+ was against Facebook...
Nice story - and very much the way it should be. Buy what you love, and if it's an investment, it's a bonus. I have a collection of 50's and 60's Italian abstract and cubist art that festoons my home, because I love it - bought it all piecemeal over the last 15 years or so, never paying more than £30 or so for a piece. One of the artists I've collected is becoming "significant", sadly (some 20 years posthumously), which means I can no longer collect his work without paying through the nose. Tum ti tum.
Arrogance is understating it. He talks about a single sentence being "barely interesting" to him. I wonder who the hell he thinks he is.
>So, they made in a year something around what Apple makes every quarter just from iPad sales? That's the rosy sign MS's "Servers and Tools" business is doing OK?

That's their server and tools revenue in a quarter, not a year. In your rush to compare it with an irrelevant and totally unrelated figure you've taken leave of facts and reality.

Why not compare the yearly figure now with how much Exxon makes by selling gas and then conclude the Server and Tools division is not doing okay? I mean that's what you want to conclude right?
Isn't this just a way to reassure customers, that there are no problems between Google and Samsung?

Also, I am huge fan of Nexus softkeys, which move as I rotate screen and are not physical. And how about softkeys other than home? Back is on the wrong side (well, wrong is opposite of what i've used to), and second is context sensitive menu.
Larry Page seems to be in denial that Google is different from Microsoft or Oracle. For the most part Google doesn't care about collaboration or innovation. What they care about is increasing their mass, by offering an ever increasing number of products & services, in order to attract more eyeballs to view ads.

What value is Google creating by making another subscription music service with a similar catalog size at the same price as existing companies?

What radical innovation has Google+ Hangouts incorporated that doesn't exist with Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp & Skype?

Why does the Chromebook Pixel look so much like a boxy Macbook Pro?

Just like Microsoft, they aren't trendsetters, they follow and copy what others are doing and use their brand recognition in order to gain market share.

Larry says "you can't focus on zero-sum games", but that is exactly what Google is doing. Maybe not for a specific industry ( Messaging, Music, etc ), but they are interested in winning the zero-sum game of people's attention.

If Google can spread itself across as many industries as possible, not necessary being the market leader of a specific industry, and take slices of people's attention here and there, they'll win the attention game.

Google embraces collaboration/standardization because it means a lower barrier of entry into another industry for them.
Kepler observatory failing, Earth-like planet finding mission in jeopardy
That's why it's a fireable offense.
Interesting compared to how Samsung dealt with this "problem" for a third-party app that they've just awarded of best app award:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
I had thought of something similar sometime back. But looked like the legalities are a bit overwhelming.

For eg. each of these players/actors(or whoever) are a brand in themselves. And I am not sure whether they will easily consent to such a kind of thing.

In fact, am not sure how Fantasy Sports(for different sports) are working without much legal hassles or probably no one in this space has made it so big that no celebrity wants to sue them. I dont know. Someone who is working in this space can probably educate us.

I had thought of something similar for movies.
"WE technologists","it's well-known that WE","answer to arrogant non-technical forces","forced","miserable working lives","half-decent money","what WE have to deal with","non-technical Who-The-Fuck-Knows","We have the talent to stop the world if WE want to do so","WE do to win back","rightfully ours","restore OUR industry","WE answer only to our own","WE do to SHAME...out of existence","phony startups".

How about you start showing some respect for other people's work?We have something called Diversity, ok?Some people are engineers, some doctors..some make more money than you, some don't.Fair or not, this is how the world works.

You can't just come here and say "WE" in order to make us feel we are on the same boat.Speak for yourself.And your attitude makes me sick.I mean, who do you think you are?the architect of the world(speaking of arrogance)?Who are you to say what's "rightfully yours" and what's not?Your post is so insulting that I won't even bother talking about the rest of it.No wonder you're so frustrated.

One thing is for sure though: I would never work with someone with a personality like yours.And by the looks of it not many people do.
> The problem is not that the drugs were illegal.

Yes, it was. The entire article is about setting up a sting to catch Google helping people sell illicit drugs.

> The problem was that they were fake.

I'm running out of ways to explain this to you: the sting showed no evidence that Google knew that the drugs were fake---only that they knew that they were trying to sell illegal drugs.

There are two competing ideas going on here:

1) Google knowingly facilitated the sale of illegal drugs.

2) Google knowingly facilitated scammers.

From what I could tell, the article demonstrated (1) but not (2). I don't think (1) is evil. I do think (2) is evil. So if you disagree with my interpretation of the article, at least you can be satisfied that we agree on something.
For me, it's still one of best linux game, as is nethack. Some games just never die given their very high replaying rate.
Wonderful explanation. Thanks.
Can you try again? The server is under a lot of load right now.
It's quite likely that they're only "more than happy" to include advertising if they can also reap some profits from the ads shown to their "mutual customers". (Why else would you word it that way?)
none. Even so, Idea just write an post, telling the world about the new version. Witch of course, has all the glamorous stuff that Android Studio has. As you see, Android Studio is at 0.1 version, intellij 13 EAP is the same. Idea has the due date for late December for official release
Thankfully there's no such thing in this post.
ECUSafe 2.0 ECU Program
ECUsafe is a program that protects program in ECU against being read with all OBD flashers or programmers

including:

- CMDflash
- Optican
- Byteshooter
- Alientech KESS, KESS2
- Galetto
- KWP2000
- Dimsport Genius
- Heron Katana Flash
This is how you curate. Like a boss.

Curation is a severely under-appreciated art form. Its fascinating that they could realistically judge their own artistic talents to be lacking and then go find everyone else's.
OK, so how come Rob Pike calls his own Sawzall language parallel but not concurrent?

I presented your way of looking at it in the article more than once and I said it was valid, just not the only one; then several comment threads emerge reiterating that view, more or less wrongly, and arguing that it's got to be the one and only way of looking at it. Sigh.
It's still about words that are part of a language, not about sounds made by one baby. The universality was about the sounds becoming part of the language.

The process of creating a new word in language is not the same as the process of interpreting sounds as belonging to a certain word in a language. So you still have that bridge to gap between "higher frequency of ma" and how the word "mama" was created. Perhaps it's convincing, I'm not sure.
What I wish systems researchers would work on
Thank you kken for your clarifications.

I don't know the physics modelling switching devices or arcs, but I do recall reading long ago that once an arc starts, its resistance drops dramatically, continuing to drop as more current flows through it (within limits).

So an arc becomes a runaway situation if current flow isn't ballasted or elsewhere interrupted. But if current flow is controlled, an arc has practical application in fluorescent lighting and arc welding.
Self confidence, for one. Don't focus on negatives; sell your strengths.
Simple Revisit to 'Dart vs Java — the DeltaBlue Benchmark'
It's not healthy to work 9-9. I find that working long hours doesn't make me accomplish more. There are times to work long hours when you are close to completing a project but it's not sustainable as a lifestyle. You can start by working less on the days you need to go to the gym like 3 days a week. And then explore dating on the weekends.
I think Vimeo deserves more love. It allows you to download videos too which is very handy. Windows Phone and Windows 8 users will be better off in the long run using Vimeo. I think Google has made it pretty clear by now that Windows users are not welcome in their ecosystem.
Not bias: abuse of power which is quite a different thing. On HN opinions only have interest, votes have power.
OK, so I'm seeing the usual concurrency stuff; what I'm not seeing is conflict detection/prevention for parallel stuff, where you don't let two parallel tasks modify the same array element or some such.
Nude sketches in this context are not 'pornography'. (Go ahead, look it up!)

And, an illustration in a browsed web article isn't the same as posted pictures in a cubicle.

Yes, the kind of hypersensitive context-oblivious standards you're describing exist in many workplaces. The point is they're not in all.

The dissenting comments and downvotes you've received contain valuable information: others' experience really, honestly, truly differs from your blanket claims.
Official Blogger Contact Form Gadget Released after 14 years
They kind of threw this out the window after all the hats and costumes, though.
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Warren lied about being Native American to benefit from affirmative action. Her credibility is shot.

As to Warren's letter, she has spent her entire career in academics and has never worked as a lawyer. She does not know the amount of resources required to participate in a lawsuit and trial. As lawyers, we are constantly encouraged to settle cases to resolve issues rather than spend the time and expense going to trial. We should not be encouraging the government to sue people and take them to trial when they are willing to settle. To take a case to a show trial in order to make an public example of the defendant is bad policy more fitting of a dictatorship.
I already had a google ID. Signing up to Hangout asked for Google+ registration, forces to set the public name of the base account and forces activation of Picasa.
I actually bailed out of each of these steps once, just to check that it won't sign up without all of these.

Comparing it to skype, I actually have two skype accounts, one "public" for friends and work related things, and set on my workstation, and an obscure private one that only a few family members see, set on y phone. Having the same set up for Hangout would feel like a nightmare with all the related services entangled, switching signups even to look at pictures etc.
Would it be feasible at all to try to port FreeCiv, or compile it with Emscripten, to pure client side JavaScript?
In an effort to find out what closed allocation meant I fired up your favourite search engine, Google, and searched the term. I was amused to see an article on your blog come up as the top hit.
that's sad to hear, i quite like gwt. but ATM gwt is quite feature complete, except for bugs.
"using hair alone to distinguish heads is cheating"
xkcd might disagree :)
I feel the same way. For school, we are - unfortunately - more or less forced to use Eclipse. I understand that many companies' standard IDE is Eclipse, which means that being comfortable with it makes students more hirable. However, I was already comfortable with Xcode when I began to learn all about Eclipse's archaic features. The jump from IDEs has been tough. Now of course, Eclipse does a hell of a job and it's been a big player for ages, but it isn't pretty. Maybe I am too picky, but I want to developed well-designed apps in a well-designed environment.
Just the number of unfilled requirements for ASP.NET MVC shows around 2000 openings.

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22&l=
This is been a new issue with Juno, Eclipse 4x branch. Before it Eclipse was very fast, now it has all these odd quirks the flash the gui and occasionally hang for a few seconds. Obviously with weighty plugins like ADT you will see the problem exacerbated.

I remember the Google team being shocked (as was the Eclipse community) when Juno came out since it was so awful ui-performance wise. They rushed to donate some machines to re-enable performance tests which had been commented out due to lack of resources, it was small like 10K commitment or so. With their help the Eclipse team was able to mitigate the problems, but its still very slow compared to the 3x branch. In a way they seem like they dont want to admit it and defend the 4x branch. I'm sure this Studio release will be a wakeup call.

I suspect we're seeing the result of Eclipses 4x failure. The only light at the end of the tunnel is that Eclipse releases every year along with its huge plugin ecosystem. They almost never miss a date which is amazing considering its usually millions of lines commited on everything from graphical modelers through c++ tools. Maybe the next major release will fix all this crap and restore order to the Force.

edit/tl;dr: 4x performance issue fixes hopefully done by June 2013: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=393429
Show HN: Yelp is breaching privacy rules
So I went to Yelp and it showed me bar as shown in the screenshot. I have never logged into yelp using my facebook account. However, I am/was logged into facebook on the browser. Yelp decided it was ok for them to log me in WITHOUT asking for my permission/authorization.

Also, in the app centre, it was already added there as an App I authorized. I checked this with different facebook accounts and the same thing happened. This is really f*ed up!
> Once upon a time people screamed murder when a platform company started weaving its own interests directly into its platform. For example, Microsoft

When you say "screamed murder", do you mean that people got huffy about it on the Internet? That's still the case. Exhibit A: your comment.

Did you mean "antitrust lawsuits used to be filed about it?" A random sampling of any paragraph in the actual court decision should convince you that the situation is not comparable to today:

> Microsoft possesses a dominant, persistent, and increasing share of the world- wide market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems. Every year for the last decade, Microsoft's share of the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems has stood above ninety percent. For the last couple of years the figure has been at least ninety-five percent, and analysts project that the share will climb even higher over the next few years. - U.S. v. Microsoft, Findings of Fact

If at some point Apple's share of the phone market, or even of the ARM-based phone market, exceeds 90 percent, over a period of a decade--by all means, let's file a lawsuit about it.
But, to find a job you don't need to please most people. You need to find just one "right-minded" employer. Whatever that means.