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If Adobe were to put creative suite or there were a real viable alternative to it, Id use this phone as my main web dev machine.
Are those the Chengguang knocking at my cart?
It's interesting that you see module systems and optimizing compilers as two parts of a whole. My impression of the two systems has always been that they're at best complimentary, with some impedances between the two.

For example, in the last large js project I was on, we found that the closure compiler by itself - even without ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS - did well enough at optimizing the code that a separate module system wasn't worth it in terms of additional time to refactor.
I believe the tool you are looking for is a reverse dictionary. Several good ones already exist, but a tech-specific one would be helpful.
I think the important distinction is that trust will be either first-party or third-party, and most of your users will never think about it.

If I'm using your site or service I've already decided to trust you somewhat. Self-hosted analytics is just an additional baby step.

If you put a third-party resource on your site (and most of us do) then that third-party is going to have their own entirely separate terms & conditions, which you as webmaster have little or no control over.

It's down to whether you (and/or your users) are okay with farming out visitor privacy to a third-party. Once that question is satisfied it's just a question of performance.
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Absolutely. We should not have to waste time proving a patent is bad.

The root of the problem, the patent system itself need to be abolished.
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They have to average $42K an hour for the next month for this to work. That realistically means they need to pull in a few million in the first few days.
Do you actually use G+? Because when you go to someone's profile it starts scrolled down on the picture so you're at the profile pic/name/basic info. You can then scroll up to see the rest of the cover photo if you want.

Edit: This is on Chrome, so if it doesn't work like that on other browsers it's most likely a bug.
You know they could have not introduced a startup-visa, because they thought they have too little VC.

Instead they said, damn we really want young entrepreneurs to succeed and start a change. We don't have much VC money, but let's freaking execute by introducing a startup visa and that way state an example for the U.S. to follow.
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Unlikely. After all you have an entire site dedicated to finding prior art. I wouldn't want to get my patent killed over that.
I work at Deepfield.net, the company linked to in the article and we find YouTube takes up 78-80% of Google traffic. Google still has a several other larger services.
So, I've always described the distinction between buttons and links this way:

Buttons do something, links take you some where. When I see a button, I assume something is going to happen. Something is going to change. An event is going to occur. When a button just takes me somewhere, it gets confusing.

I understand style is important, but for me, if it looks like a button, I'm going to assume it acts like a button. Acting like a link makes me worry that I missed something. That leads to frustration.

Buttons do, links lead.
On the other hand what would be a benefit of investing into getting drivers work with glibc

To run without any translation layers and bionic quirks. That's the main benefit. When the system is using glibc (like Sailfish and Ubuntu do), and drivers aren't, the only way is to translate it like libhybris does. It's a crutch at best and not ideal. It can perform well, but it's still not direct.
Your doctors only earn 34k a year?
> I'm gathering that the handset makers and carriers and VCs laughed them out of the office, so they had to go this route.

From the FAQ:

"If we don’t reach our target then we will focus only on commercially available handsets and there will not be an Ubuntu Edge."

I don't think this supports your assumption.
The $32 million fundraising goal might seem overly ambitious, but it's actually more realistic than it appears at first glance, because at $600+ per unit the campaign needs only around 50,000 buyers worldwide to be successful -- or a bit over 2% of Ubuntu's enthusiastic user base, which was estimated to be greater than 20 million in 2011.[1]

PS. I just ordered one, as I LOVE the idea of an unlocked phone designed and built from the ground up by Canonical specifically for Ubuntu users, with minimal interference from wireless carriers.

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Update: When I posted this comment, the total raised was under $50,000. Less than an hour later, it had risen to over half a million dollars.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Inst...
This was my thinking. The whole time through that video I was wondering why they don't just buy a couple thousand Nexus 4s to load up with their custom build and re-sell. If they're planning to put Ubuntu on other manufacturers hardware, the official Google supported phone sounds like a pretty good place to start, and the speed at which those phones sell would be a great way to test the interest in their new platform. Hell, I'd buy it even at a $100 markup ($400), I'd buy it with little hesitation just to get some hands on time with the OS.

Impulse buying a $600 handset that won't arrive for a year (if they hit deadlines, which doesn't happen), is asking for far too much trust.

Putting it on Surface RT hardware would be a dream. I don't like Unity for my desktop, but if I was looking for a 10" tablet I'd be all over it.
FRP can supposedly handle stepped physical computations.
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> much like YComb itself

AFAIK, YC doesn't invest anywhere close to $200k; so it's probably not fair to compare.
This is a great first step, but can we sustain this and keep more patents from being granted. Everything hinges on community involvement, so hopefully we can build and sustain a community that does this every day.
So, this sounds great and all, but I don't see any proof that it was ask patents that caused the examiner to find this, rather than the examiner's standard search?

In fact, the search history, on PAIR (look for 4-11-2013	SRFW	Search information including classification, databases and other search related notes) does not say ask patents was used, nor does the search strategy (document code SRNT).

It could be the USPTO has not gotten around to noting this yet, but the only entry I see that could be related is the NPL entry, which of course, has no image available (god i love PAIR), and does not say it came from outside the search.

Don't get me wrong, I think askpatents is great, but i'm skeptical considering how examiners actually work.
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So when you entrust your belongings to a storage company, and they leave the doors unlocked and your stuff gets stolen, do you get mad at the thief? Or do you demand better security from your storage company?
you (GP) could also check out the XKCD of american political history. it has quite a few of the party names that people used throughout (which are entertaining, in a geeky kind of way):

http://xkcd.com/1127/

full res: http://xkcd.com/1127/large/
I think that making it easy for unsophisticated users to expose their personal machines directly to the public Internet is not a good idea.

The way to test a web project in development is to put it on a cheap web host or VPS. If you want to help newbie developers, make that one-click easy.
Yeah, I think a long time in prison is better, be it 50 years or a whole life, though it will be more expensive for the government.
It seems plausible that the network effect that's responsible for Facebook's current success could also cause it's rapid collapse, as knowledge of a viable alternative to Facebook could easily propagate via Facebook itself.

The success of a viable alternative need not be generated instantaneously as a result of some egregious action or catastrophic failure of Facebook. It can slowly grow by accretion as people who are unhappy with Facebook's persistent flaws seek alternatives, and once that population is large enough, then it will become a critical mass and start drawing others in.

Facebook itself grew via a strategy of becoming dominant in increasingly large concentric circles around its initial core - first Harvard, then Ivy League universities, then universities in general, then organizations in general, etc. With each iteration, they used their dominance within each narrower sphere to attract new users from the broader sphere, by relying on the broader population's desire to be where the "cool" people are. The implication here is that if the "cool" people end up leaving Facebook - even if only in search of novelty - then some other alternative will have the ability to build up its own userbase in the exact same way that Facebook did, and in exactly the same way that Facebook undermined MySpace.
I'm currently putting together MVPs of the difficult UI aspects of my system, because those are the parts I'm worried about. The back end is actually pretty straightforward. The UI stuff is the stuff I want to get in front of users for review.

After that, I need to do some technical MVP for proof of concept, to prove to myself that my assumptions about certain data patterns are actually correct.

The important thing, though, is to get to where I have working code I can show others to get feedback, even if that code isn't anywhere near complete as a marketable product.
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I think the Canadian VCs can take care of that, also since they are not lending the money, because it's an investment, not a loan. The founder doesn't have to return the money, if the money is gone and the company fails, the money is gone.
FWIW, stories like this are one of the reasons Google maintains a high level of secrecy. While there I asked Urs Hoezle, "Why not brag about it? Isn't that good?" and his response was "It just makes us a target." And he is/was correct, if your enemies don't know the extent of your strength they can't adequately prepare and attack, if your friends don't know the extent of your strength they have no reason to be afraid of you.

That said, this article is based on observing peering traffic -- "It’s impossible to get a total picture of the internet, so Deepfield’s numbers are a best guess based on the traffic flowing through its internet service provider partners." -- and you know they have their own fiber in Kansas City (heck they even bought into some transoceanic cables). You need only look at their quarterly earning reports on their capital investment to get a sense of what we're talking about. And unlike the Government, when Google spends $4B/year on something they get a lot of bang for their bucks.
i grew up in phoenix, az and didnt learn a second language until 7th grade, and that was a pretty basic class.. it didn't get very much beyond "the ball is red" until highschool
> So just because a company uses an ambiguous term as a product name ("Now"), that's the final nail in the coffin of title case?

There's nothing ambiguous about the product name. Title case is the source of the ambiguity (and its not specific to particular product names, it happens anywhere where a title is an English sentence in which obliteration of the normal capitalization distinctions creates ambiguity.)

And that's the problem with title case -- it obstructs, rather than facilitates, clear communication.
In the end they wont be able to block TOR Browser/Vidalia . It will stop amateurs, but I doubt you can stop (computer) pros.
Using this site in IE9 is like an existential crisis -- pressing the button doesn't do anything, but it's there, so you're left wondering "should I use a button?"
Same here. We could take Spanish or French in middle school and elementary school is just a haze at this point. When I graduated in the 90s, a foreign language credit was on the minimum high school requirements to graduate and two credits were required under my district's recommended plan. Most of us took two semesters of Spanish but a friend of mine took one Spanish and one German. Our school district wasn't even all that large or well-off (though it is now, thanks to suburban sprawl in north Texas) and we had Spanish, French, German, and (I kid you not) Latin.
It is a sum of even numbers, because they almost all all are powers of 2.

The only element of the sum that can be odd is when p = k. This element is prime(0), which is 0 because 0 is not prime.

Thus, the overall sum is necessarily even.

It is easy to check that this sum is strictly larger than 2. Thus, it cannot be a prime number.

What is this conjecture for?
Bunk. He spent 2 days on a hobby project with no hopes of ever making any money off of it. It makes no sense to spend time and money consulting a lawyer over this.
I highly doubt this has anything to do with stifling innovation. Given Snapchat's popularity, it would make a lot more sense that they are trying to restrict 3rd party access to cut down on spam. Nothing will be more destructive to their service than bots churning out huge amounts of spam, undermining the trust they have built with their users.
...or a client attack, or XSS, or poorly secured tokens, or whatever. If we always blame the user first, we're bound to miss something. Even if the fault were an insecure password, the admin site would still be to blame for not throttling and locking down the account in response to repeated attack.
I think you're taking it a bit too far. If say i sell bath salts, which aren't supposed to be consumed, why would there be a need to check metabolism/toxicity and such ?

But if metabolism can transform said chemical , then sure, you've got to take it into account. But many of those drugs can be detected by pre-metabolism binding, i think.
Regexes: Now you have 2^N problems.
I have to think that the patent in Spolsky's example cost at least a couple grand to produce/submit. I also would love to see the cost per rejected patent produced by the USPTO that comes from US tax payer dollars.
You can't buy a small pickup in the US because of the "Chicken Tax" and CAFE. The chicken tax dates from the early 1960s and imposes a 25% duty on non-NAFTA trucks. The CAFE formula includes both a vehicle's "footprint" & it's weight, and light trucks get penalized.

I agree with you, btw. Honda had a V6 diesel motor under development that would have been used in the Ridgeline (and Odyssey & Pilot), but Chairman Ito stopped work on it. The V6 diesel and 8-speed transmission in the Jeep Grand Cherokee is very impressive and should be a good fit for the RAM 1500 pickup.
The "How to Read a Patent in 60 Seconds" article mentioned seems to be down (danshapiro.com). Does anybody have a copy or a alternative link for it?
> Are there really no off-the-shelf platforms for this?

From what I gather, it seems the entire purpose of this 'edge' project is a hardware one, not a software one. They're trying to gather the 'latest and greatest' hardware and make a phone out of it, which would by definition, not be found in an existing handset. I'm sure they'll try to push for their mobile os regardless of whether this fails or not, as it seems almost orthogonal to their mobile os efforts. Once they evaluate how feasible this 'cutting edge' handset idea is, I'm sure they'll continue to find devices to slap ubuntu touch on. But if they've had this 'premium phone' idea kicking around for a while, why not? This isn't an either/or scenario.
My point is that "where you were born" is a broader term than "the zip code where you were born." Obviously your zip code doesn't cause anything. But your zip code determines things like what the schools are like in the area, what the income demographics are like in the area, etc. When people say "where you were born determines where you end up" they're referring to that larger definition of "where you were born" not literally your zip code. That's what makes many versions of (4) collapse into (3).

Though I think your Tay-Sachs example is one that arguably does not.
If an American VC firm opens an office in Toronto, does that count as Canadian VC money?

Seems like a good idea for American VCs to open incubators in Canada. Would allow them to global deal flow while only worrying about the regulations of Canada. Plus its quicker to fly there.
Isn't this the job of the patent examiner?
Salted SHAx passwords are basically the entire reason GPU John The Ripper and oclHashcat exist, although SHA2-512 is significantly slower than SHA2-256, so if you're going to use a terrible SHA-based password hash, SHA2-512 is your best bet.
While this does technically violate 17 U.S.C. section 1201 (a)(1) according to other case law, I feel the responsibility is upon Snapchat, Inc. to make sufficient attempts to prevent such subversion. RE is always a sticky area, and because it appears you needed to pull some form of cryptographic keys out of that process, you are likely in an unenforceable region of a DMCA violation.
My name is Kristoffer Berdal [1]

You can't really remove unwanted results, unless they are something you have written yourself, but a lot of those are impossible to remove, most places you can't edit old posts.

Besides, I do not think everyone should be held accountable for all the stupid things they wrote on the internet when they were 13 :-)

You can create better results. The more positive results you have, the lower the unwanted things will rank.

Things like projects, articles you have written and so on. If you can get enough of them ranking high then the unwanted stuff will be 'hidden'.

As for tying it into my homepage [2]: I probably should but I haven't so far. It's far from what I want it to be, and mostly just a short introduction and links to my Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/GitHub.

PS: I know the design is _very_ similiar to Mahdi Yusuf's [3] old design, while I didn't copy anything I feel bad it ended up looking so similar. I should give him credit somewhere since it's what inspired me to make it look much cleaner and minimal than it did before.

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kristoffer%20ber...

[2] http://cognitive.io

[3] http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/
32,000,000... I missed a zero, first few times I read it.

If they make it, I will give a damn about Death Star not getting funded :P
Your second paragraph is worth more than that entire site.
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App icons in OS X are interpolated between about 4 different sized images. I remember reading about this in the developer docs back in about 2002. I'd be surprised if Apple don't have pretty much the same patent on this already but registered 10 years earlier :-)
My point was, if they hash properly, a simple db dump is not a big deal (although obviously considering the password compromised is sensible, and password reuse is a bad idea which is not a proof people don't do it).

I'm signing out of this thread as my point seems to have been lost somewhere. Thanks for the interesting link though.
It's important to watch what trader/pundits like Jim Rogers actually do, not just listen to what he says. He's made a big deal about the current and future commodities boom, but he's also running a group of commodities funds. He makes bold claims about how Balliol MBAs should be buying farms instead of going into other industries, but he does not own any farms. He moved his young daughter to Singapore so that she could become fluent in Mandarin, he did not move her to Minnesota so that she could learn how to farm soybeans. It's always going to be better to be the commodities trader who controls a market than it is to be the producer of that commodity. If you watch what he has done, rather than what he says... you want to move to Singapore to broker commodities to the emerging asian markets, not move to Fresno to start an orchard.

Regarding "why" people may choose to make iPhone apps instead of farming. It's almost impossible to get started up in agriculture for someone who hasn't inherited a farm. Farmland where I'm from is over $10K per acre at the moment. You need millions of dollars just to buy the land. Then you need millions of dollars to buy all the equipment. Also, subsidies only happen for cash crops and commodities like milk and pork, you don't get subsidies for organic chicken and vegetables.
Any idea how Firefox OS was able to do it? Maybe because Mozilla is more established as a corporation in addition to being a nonprofit?
If you're using their API (which they host) without consent then you may well find yourself on the wrong side of computer misuse acts.

So this is definitely one of those occasions that legal advice is required, not moral advice.
Mine theoretically ships today so I'm looking forward to seeing this first-hand. At $80 it was worth (a) supporting the innovation, and (b) having a new play toy.
I wonder how many of us are going to watch the site for a few days, track the average hourly funding rate, then decide if we want to commit based on the likelihood of the round being successful? Sort of Victor Vroom outcome motivation.
It looks like the money is for building the hardware too, not just the software.
Do you go back to your home town and, if so, what reaction do you get from smart kids that decided to stay?
Most of the new immigrants I know in Canada are in their early 30s. It turns out that this is the age when you are most likely to qualify for the skilled worker immigrant visa, based on your education, experience and savings.
My thought was not that the general public would care, rather it was that institutions own AAPL stock do care, and if they think that this event will affect Apple's ability to deliver product or recruit developers they may decide shift their portfolio's holdings to a different tech company with more upside.
What's the deal with North Dakota? It's not the first place I think of when I hear "Land of Opportunity".
I'm not criticizing you at all. You're of course free to write whatever you want. HN's tendency to upvote stuff from well known people just because they are well known is a little annoyance I have with the site.
As the Patent office generates net revenue for the US Government, you don't have to worry about that.
I would not set up a standing desk. The idea of exercising while you work is nice, but it would totally destroy my mental zone.
> What's with the Google Derangement Syndrome on HN recently? Any change in any Google service prompts the same "I'm taking all my toys and going home" response.

This seems to be a bit of an inverted perspective. The trend in Google's behavior seems to indicate its own "I'm taking my toys and going home" mindset. This is almost literally true: Google is telling people who are using their "toys" "either come to my house and play under my rules, or you don't get to play with that anymore."

> having lots of disparate services with weak unification was a problem.

How is this a "problem"? What about the many users who want to choose specific services a-la-carte, and not be forced into compromising their preferences with one type of service just to have access to their preferred solution for another?

"Unification" of services in this heavy-handed way is like Comcast telling its customers that if they want cable service, they have to get phone service from Comcast too, whether they want it or not.
One can implement OO using closures:
https://github.com/alvatar/code-ttrs/blob/master/scheme/pure...
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