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100 new software patents a day...

Someone owns a patent for public wifi and is sueing coffee shops. They aren't going after private individuals yet.

Basically, now that people found out how profitable it is being in the patent troll business, it has gotten even bigger.
Ape-like feet 'found in study of museum visitors'
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Unfortunately, this commonly-cited argument is propaganda. And pernicious: it appeals to nationalism, framing US citizens as noble suckers who somehow help the entire world by letting corporations rob them blind. (With scare-words like socialism, framing it in terms of economic patriotism. Evil countries unleashing efficient socialist negotiators against poor capitalist Big Pharma.)

Public Citizen and many others have done research debunking such claims in detail. (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...)
Awesome. Well, I guess one more reason not to waste time on Hacker News.
But you wont be buying anywhere anytime soon in zone one
Without the "old user base" (old indeed, I've been a fanboy for 10 years), Opera is nothing.
They will not get the Chrome userbase. They don't have ressources to fetch a large audience. Opera is a browser for geek and should have stay so.
It's not entirely true that native apps can't deal with URLs. On Android, they can handle them well with intents and on iOS, they can at least open URLs of a certain protocol.

The main issue is that the receiving user probably doesn't have the actually app. That's the benefit of web presence from a sharing/virality perspective.
But that doesn't pander to the HN community's sense of being special flowers! Who cares what programmers broadly make in the area, what do programmers who frequent HN make?
Does anyone know if there is a laptop or desktop the parts of which are made ethically?
Maybe I should have said "manufacturing employment"
It only has a handful of stars & forks, and is pretty terrible/hacked together.

https://github.com/dannytatom/muddy
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https://angel.co/salaries

It already exists essentially.
When pricing public transport in London, you have to consider the sheer abundance of it. Zone one and two are littered with tube and bus stops, and there are plenty of interconnects. I haven't spent too much time in NY and SF, but their public transport systems seemed very awkward in comparison.
I remember a story that the no2 guy at Martelsham Heath wife was asked what he did for a living she said hes an engineer. The response was thats nice what sort of cars does he work on.

Martelsham is the place where Tommy flowers used to work its the equivalent of ATT labs.
The problem of various "revolutions" is that we no longer have great leaders. There are influental leaders, but none truly great ones. Just like with music bands, we no longer have The Beatles or The Queen.

I struggle to name three great present-time politicians.

In the absense of great politicians, any post-revolution cabinet degrades into tyranny of mediocrity or fails to work at all.
Not trying to be a dick, but its a near impossible question to answer.

I run completely in EC2, my suggestion would be run 2 small instances instead of micro's. Micro's are good to burst up some CPU cycles when you need it, but don't do great at I/O, which is probably where you will have bigger issues. Even small isn't great, but they will handle things a little better if you are not CPU bound.

Only way to really know is throw some sample traffic at it and test. Test with 100, 500 and 1000 users making the appropriate number of request you feel an average visitor would. Some people have posted in the past about the amount of traffic they got from being on the front page, but I am sure your mileage will vary with the subject area.
> Even 10 times higher quantum efficiency shooting wide open on optical band targets would be physically impossible.

Could you tell more about the limitations? I always felt current sensors are very insensitive and hoped that the sensitivity could be improved immensely. Even sensitivity such as cats eyes have would be awesome.
That's a Bay Area problem, not an industry problem. I don't hear the same housing complaints from people in Austin and Seattle.
Yeah, okay, I can see that reading. I interpreted it more like, by wearing a tie, you pressure others to wear a tie, whether you personally like it or not. I would actually agree with this, because it makes sense if you think about our desire to conform to group behavioral norms. It's similar to the pressure women feel about wearing high heels, despite that many of them love to. But you don't need to proclaim moral imperatives in order to be a non-conformist; ironically, an insistence on non-conformity is exactly the same kind of pressure that conformists exert.
+1 --> Already voted you up, but somehow that didn't feel enough. The irony of this isn't lost on me :P
I don't see what hardware they tested on. What are the specs of this GHC 5000 computer they mention?
Objective-C is so beautiful in those regards. So many things are abstracted and optimized for you already, especially compared to Android and their libraries. Rapid prototyping is insanely fast if you can handle yourself in Xcode and around Obj-C.
I can't quite understand how people in the US continue to get that wrong. There's a comment here that takes the care to capitalise it with an 's', so they have clearly seen logo.
Might benefit the casual snapshot photographer, but pros use flash more for fill-in lighting when there are sharp shadows and for freezing motion e.g. in sports photography.
This particular misconception of Eric's words really annoys me because it's blatant misrepresentation. What's more, the press (who area always looking to create controversy in the interests of page views), only mentions half the quote. Full quote [1]:

> I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities

Google is subject to the laws where it operates. Just this week a judge compelled Google to comply with warrantless searches (ie National Security Letters) [2]

Any sane person should.

For anything you do online you should ask yourself this "what would your reaction be if this were made public?" The gist of Eric's quote is that what you may consider "private" just isn't due to changing company policies (eg Facebook's continued privacy snafus), bugs, the courts and the legislature.

There is a good lesson in this. Just go to bing.com/social and search for "cheat exam" or similarly embarrassing terms to see why treating the Internet as public is a very good idea.

Disclaimer: I am a Google engineer but the views expressed are my own and don't represent my employer.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Privacy

[2]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587003-38/judge-orders-g...
No. You can try to start doing it without their approval, but if they find out about it they will close it. Also, the ability to pay out instantly is quite desirable in this business, so PayPal is an integral part of that.
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I'm 30. I make ~$120K/year. My medical insurance for myself and my wife (28) is $650/month through United Healthcare (pretax). My company picks up the other portion. We are both in good health and have few issues. This is a $2500/year deductible plan per person (so not high deductible, which was only about $100/month cheaper, but had an extremely high deductible). So, now the background is done.

My mother lives in Indiana. She is disabled, but has not been approved for disability yet. And I don't mean NPR's version of disabled, I mean she is physically incapable of working due to medical issues. She is on Medicaid (Hoosiercare I believe its called). Even with Hoosiercare (state subsidized insurance), I pay for between $500-800 month for her medications. These are co-pays, not the full amount. I have even considered inventorying her medication and ordering it in bulk from Canada.

If I was not lucky enough to make the salary I make, be in good health, and have somewhat affordable health insurance, there is absolutely no way my mother would be able to afford her prescriptions. She requires these prescriptions to survive.

I hate living in the US, and I was born here.
I would agree that it's possible 3d plastic stuff could be cleaned, but people are really bad at cleaning out simple plastic water bottles. The space inside a 3d printed object is far more complicated.

Seriously, just use a metal fork. It's cheaper, durable, trivial to clean.

How many hours of effort is it worth to reuse a plastic fork? Should I spend hundreds on an autoclave to keep the 30 cents worth of plastic clean? I hope you would agree that's a stupid waste of time and money.

Yeah, leached toxins from the plastic are bad as well. if i were forced to bet, i'd say bacteria will get you before plastic toxins, because proper cleaning would be hard.
The idea behind making it easy to log into sites on your phone easily is nice.

But QR codes are probably a bad way of going about it. The average user just doesn't know what to do with QR codes, and they have poor engagement (at least if you're targeting this at non-Asian countries). How often have you ever seen someone scanning a QR code? They're particularly a waste of space on advertising--where that space could be used to place a URL that people know what to do with.

Perhaps a better way to go about enabling this login process is asking for their mobile number, and then just SMSing them a link to click.
No, this is exactly what's wrong with all of this analysis.

Strange how the laws of economics only cease to apply when their application would result in higher wages for workers.
Ask HN:Full-time software engineers in Germany, what's your salary and benifits?
Inpsired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, but I think it would be interesting to hear from guys who are working in Germany. With the amount I am expecting you guys will mention some other benefits they provide.Also feel free to share your own experience(How you settled, if you are from non-eu country how you got Blue card etc).
I looked for your contact info in your profile, since a buddy of mine who is brilliant is looking into getting into quant/finance work. I'm going to introduce him to friends of mine in the industry, but all my contacts are in Brazil and it's good for him to meet people in the US as well. His strength is C#, C++ and C, but he picks up new languages quickly. He worked as a key engineer on the CLR team at Microsoft for a while. Ping me via my personal info if I can introduce you to him.
is that with or without the 13th Month
The bus is £2.40 now ...
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Cant we just nuke the tornadoes?
Ok thats a hypothetical question but every year more and more massive tornadoes kill hundreds of lives. Does anyone know if any research is being done to stop or disrupt them from happening ?
My household has one income and 5 people. Many of my colleagues' households have one income and one person, or 2 households and 2 incomes. However, we're far above average household and per-capita income, even for the Bay Area.

I think a good set of metrics to measure what household income is trying to measure would be income-per-employee, incomes-per-household, and household size.
If you look at hot topics like reducers, datomic and clojureScript, there's plenty of discussion. Haven't found a better way to find actively responded to threads than slogging thru hnsearch.com pages and Control-F for "comments |"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687190

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5627799
Look, I'm not saying don't go for this idea. I'd love to see you try it. My doubts shouldn't get in your way. Code it up.

As for why it would be difficult to use and insecure? I'm guessing most of the people you hang out with are probably geeks. For perspective, take a look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

Imagine each one of those people in the video has a personal data store that contains their complete medical history, right alongside all their Google searches, Amazon purchases and tweets.

How secure of a password do you think they picked?

How hard would it be to trick them with a phishing attack?

How much do you think they even know how to do with it in the first place?
I have high hopes for Elizabeth Warren. I also hope Lawrence Lessig runs for national office someday.

But the general trend you refer to is accurate. The various vested interests have got character assassination down to a science, and anyone who doesn't play ball at least a little tends to be filtered out of the political process.
Even MS and Google can't pull that off. However, MS and Google and Apple certainly do receive about $400k-$500k of revenue per employee-year. And their median engineer's salary is roughly $100k +/- $5k. EDIT: Turns out someone found and posted the numbers for net income, actual profit, per employee-year. These companies can afford some higher freaking salaries.

So either they can afford to raise salaries, or non-engineers are much more productive and highly-paid than engineers, or these firms just like being as exploitative as they can in terms of maximizing revenue-per-employee and minimizing salary costs.
I have received an email from brian d foy and he confirms that this poster is an imposter.
Yup, time is the bigger problem than money, though. You can get cuttings from your neighbors or go to plant sales of garden clubs. At least where I live that's possible.
Just search for Java contracts on almost any job site. My rate is comfortably more than £400/day even well outside London (1 year contract term, extended).
I have contacted the real brian d foy and he confirms that this is an imposter.
It is when compared to other professions a GP (family doctor) earns on average well over £120k very few devs with say 10 years experience earn any where near that.
A 2:1 is the same as B+ so it corresponds to about 68%, 60% is a Desmond.
Hedging his speech. There could be potential hangups he hasn't mentioned or just doesn't know about, for example.
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What a surprisingly naive post from Timothy! The reason these events did not affect Bitcoin's price is simply because they are all (except 1) affecting mostly the US market, wich is a tiny fraction of the worldwide Bitcoin market.

As to the Coinlab vs. MtGox lawsuit, people know that these companies care about Bitcoin above anything else, so they won't let the lawsuit affect it. Eg. if people started panic-selling, you can bet they would work a settlement to stop the panic.
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If that were true, why bother selling abroad? Since they do sell abroad, it would seem to be a prudent business decision.
When you think about the power Google has, Don't be Evil is still a real value of theirs, and we should be grateful.

Most people won't even let themselves imagine what could be done with Google if evil was an option. How many hours would it take to compile a list of everyone who searches for incest porn and correlate that with 'people who are judges'. Considering that the incest fetish runs as high as 10% such information could be used to perform a bloodless coup. Call the legal system nullified, and lobbyists obsolete.

And that is just one facet of the simplest way Google could be used for evil (blackmail). There are infinite ways Google's information asymmetry could be exploited, and most of them would be completely invisible and 100% effective.

Thats why I'm glad we have Sergey and Larry running under the banner of "Don't be Evil." It shows that even from the beginning they realized they were going to wield terrible power, and they were a bit honest with that fact.
Indeed. I once saw a pedestrian step out in front of a moving police car with lights are sirens going. The walk light had just turned green. The police car had to slam on the brakes and lean on the horn to avoid hitting the idiot.
Any idea when this was? He is a US citizen which takes a long time, so this must have been a while ago. Depending on when he was denied he could easily not met the qualifications.
There is a huge need in the space for a well marketed quality assurance contractor who can find problems like this and fix them.

"We found these issues, and we can fix them all. Pay us for finding them or pay us some more for fixing them, too." sort of thing.

Why don't you see QA shops popping up like this?
Financial services? A typical financial services company in London this fine day (no names mentioned):

Still has classic ASP deployed, VB6 COM is the backend, "extreme waterfall" is the process and integration via CSV files (using ' as a quote char of course!) over FTP is the mutt's nuts. Add to that a security policy which involves a large brush, a fucking huge rug and a copy of the production SQL Server 2000 database on every laptop.

The system build is the "secure windows XP build" which is XP SP1 with no patches other than to put the company logo on the background, some bastardised IEAK'd up IE7 build, content filters which understand HTTP like Manwell from Fawlty Towers understands English.

The price of muttering Linux, Python or even Windows greater than XP in the office is to be whipped by lengths of state of the art 10base2 with BNC plugs on the end until you submit that there is only Windows.

Management is entirely powered by crack dust and "champers". And the architect to monkey ratio is at least 10:1. The architects don't even know what the hell an HRESULT is.

A good day is when SourceSafe doesn't try and fuck you.

Fortunately we only have to integrate with them...

Stay away. You have been warned.
http://engineering.foursquare.com/2012/08/16/checking-in-at-...

Roughly 30k active users, about 1 qps of live stream foursquare data. Not sure what to do with it, I'm not currently storing any of it.

Thoughts?
He seems to have an issue with using any device -- borrowed or owned -- if it features non free software, like most phones have today.
Making the process even more political is going to improve it???
>they cannot redistribute their hours between work days the way salaried employees can.

As far as I can tell, they can, they just have to get compensated for it ie the employer can't abuse it.
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Every year tornadoes become more prevalent and massive? Source?
Good bunch of guys, and they're helping me add backend development to my skillset. That's how I look at it. Don't care much for equity.
Some of these look like deliberate examples of vulnerable code (e.g. the one named "Injection.SQL.php")

Alarmingly (and sadly) most do not.
In the United States, such sites, are actually in a great legal position. Google 'essay mills' if you want more information, or just search for essay help sites if you want proof that there's no shortage of such sites.

The differentiating factor here is that we do not limit ourselves to just essays, and we crowdsource help rather than doing the work ourselves. There is also a fairly specific Terms of Service in place that puts the burden on the user.
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Probably because they prefer to spend their time working in a stable contract rather than out of work marketing themselves.

My current contract is for a year and I invoice monthly. If I doubled my rate I'd be out of work.
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Frighteningly underpaid! I am sure this is true for other parts of Europe too, especially Germany though. People undersell themselves, because they still believe in the so called "crisis", or have no clue about their own value.
Yes, what sorts of different subjects did you have in mind?