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Now for the good news: SCOTUS is taking a patent case and is expected to invalidate method patents within the next year or two (which is pretty much all of the ones listed).

EDIT:
Now for the best news: Most of those patents are not American and could not be patented in America (b/c the US does not allow patents on algorithms).
Great idea, good artwork!

Minor amateur opinion: the artwork seems too large on the shirts / too overstated.
Sorry for the newb question, but are you saying that ANY app developed for the iPhone (including a custom app for a client) must go through the App Store before being installed on their phones? I'm asking because we have a web-based intranet app that we could create an iPhone-based version of, but it's only useful to the client. So, there's no reason to put in on the App Store. But it sounds like you're saying all apps must go through it. (Edit: I don't own an iPhone so this is new territory for me)
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Yes, noticed this also for the Ampersand symbol. LaTeX (which I'd not previously been familiar with) must have a specific purpose, which seems great and appears to be made greater by this nifty tool.
Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,'
Wow, awesome to hear there are other people into lighting on here. I'm spending my weekend working on a Max/MSP patch that spits out patterns onto an LED grid controlled by a 4/4 time signature. I plan to tie these patterns to music clips within Ableton once Max for Live comes out later this year. The idea is to have layered patterns corresponding to my layered music clips (minimal techno) during my dj performances.
I'm working on a startup that's, well, it's a secret. Not everybody is going to tell. ;)

Last November I was laid off from my job. Haven't been able to find a new one, so I've been teaching myself to code in the meantime. It's a completely different field but I'm in love with it. :) I come from a mixed business/finance/IT (Win sys admin) background. I've run several self-employed small businesses which weren't scalable.

Amazoned about $400 in coding books and am chewing through them nicely. Struggled for months but eventually built a partial working prototype for my startup, and know that I can finish and launch it. If it fails miserably, well damn, I'm going to walk away smarter than I've ever been before, and am going to be well positioned to go on and do it all over again.

Definitely looking for a partner or two in the Boston, MA area. Ideally someone with experience in, or willingness to learn:

- Python w/Django 1.x

- Windows App development (C# I think???)

- Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL Stack

- Objective-C w/Cocoa (App Kit) | PyObjC

But I'm not set in-stone on the technologies. Whatever is easiest and most time/cost-effective. Ping me if you're interested and we can discuss further. I don't bite, except for apple's. Contact info here: dave-gallagher.net

"Find out what you can not do, and then go, and do it!"
It's not that I didn't have anything in mind (I did, and, in earlier drafts, used some), it's that I felt this got the point across faster and simpler. Using the examples I gave and real-life screenshots felt too much like flamebait for my taste. I definitely see your point though.
Trying to make building customized websites suck less. Have you ever tried to build a MediaWiki site with extensions, or an osCommerce/Zencart site with contributions? It sucks so bad, I'd rather claw my eyes out. Most of the installation instructions consist of:

Open this file.
Find this code.
Paste this code before it.
Paste this code after it.
Save the file.
Rinse and repeat for 10 more files.
Upload and pray.
Error
Troubleshoot
Insert the missing semi-colon
Upload and pray.
Rinse and repeat.

On top of that, you have thousands of people all over the internet doing exactly the same thing. again. and again. and again. What a waste of human effort!

My answer: http://flooha.com

Choose your app, choose your add-ons, build it, install it, done. So easy anyone can do it. No downloading, unzipping, reading instructions, opening files, copying, pasting, comparing, merging, uploading, etc... Just clicking. Uploading addons is as easy as filling out some form info and uploading a zip file.

The site is live, but I have not yet "launched", meaning that I haven't done an ounce of marketing. I had actually planned a "Please review my app" post on HN on Tuesday, but I couldn't resist this tread.
> If you've used a Kindle before to get content, it's readily apparent that the killer app is the large library of content you can one-click buy online

Not at all; I have a Kindle, and I have entirely eschewed the DRM store. You can download unencombered content from third-parties (like feedbooks.com) just as easily as from Amazon itself; in fact the unencumbered content is arguably more convenient since it can be backed up to your PC and read elsewhere. For public-domain (classics) or friendly-licensed books it's awesome.

Plus this would work in any country (just pop in a SIM card) rather than being limited to North America due to the Kindle's unfortunate use of CDMA. If my Kindle had been this much cheaper and worked like this instead of tying in with Amazon's store, I'd be thrilled.
That's OK, welcome to HN and I would love to read you next article.

Cheers!
My company develops an updater/patcher. The updater is open source (wyUpdate) and the update creator is commercial (wyBuild).

You make a few good points in your post. We get a lot of customers trying to solve the very problems you describe. Auto updating in particular is an exceedingly hard problem to solve.

Besides all of the immediately obvious technical considerations (Self updating, inter-process communication, update rollback on failure) there are many problems that developers don't think about until it's too late (admin rights, Vista/7 UAC).

You might be interested in the series of posts I've been writing on creating an updater from scratch: http://wyday.com/blog/
sadly, this sentence is not surprising.
As is the theme with the hackers here, I gave my letter of resignation last week to my employers and will be working full time on some underground/blackhat technology that I've developed.

I will also be working on a few of my startup ideas; I am also going to pursue my self-education full time (as in 2 days per week). I have a rigorous self-made curriculum worked out.

My strongest startup idea is to create a pornography web application that uses an in-house ontology to describe the media in-depth. User interaction will be a simple "I like this" or "I don't like this" system to refine individual user's results. The ontology is the key though, most of the creative and foot work will be in that.

I'm also going to be building an RDF Triple Store using Clozure CL; complete with graph inference, a RESTful API, and built to operate as a distributed system.

My self-education entails all of the classic subjects: Mathematics, Rhetoric, Writing, Greek as a foreign language, Logic, and the Sciences. Some of the more specific subjects include: Knowledge Engineering, comp-sci, &c...
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Appears to be gaining some traction Kevin, keep at it. And I agree with the change of name to the Facebook group.
What kind of pace are you setting yourself? A month ago I started a routine of doing a few math problems each day, and reading a Japanese article every day that contains at least 10 new kanji characters. I'm testing the tip I heard somewhere that instead of doing huge chunks and then forget about your goals for a while, it's better to do a bit every day. At least it feels nice, as if I'm traveling on a road that will lead to a nice place. Looking forward to reading books and playing games in Japanese, if not earlier then at least during my retirement days =)
"If you haven’t literally lived under a rock for the last 15 months, you already know that BuySellAds is one of the fastest growing startups and the most popular advertising marketplace in the design / developer online niche."

Wow, guess I live in a pretty deep cave...
There's a way to do it but you need to be an approved "enterprise" developer. Nobody I know has actually completed the process. This PDF has more info:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Gu...
This is ridiculous. You're attacking them for not being an effective internet media company. Are you going to go after GM and Chrysler because they haven't launched their own search engines too?

To "turn the corner", Microsoft needs to stop its Apple bleeding and make the Office, Windows Server and .NET stack more competitive in the cloud. That's their core business.
The referenced John Carmack Interview: http://slashdot.org/games/99/10/15/1012230.shtml
Windows 7, Azure and Office 2010 are steps in that direction
I'm not sure if your reasoning for this is the same as our mutual friend MM's, but I've been meaning to address it, so I might as well do that here. To take your position, I think you first have to admit that USG is the de facto owner of all US territory. You, MM, and I would probably have no problem admitting this, but most people would have trouble with it.

But even after we admit this, we still need to ask if this ownership ought to be treated as legitimate, and there I disagree with MM.
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Oh wow, it looks like you've written a lot of what I did already. I guess I should have searched more deeply before I wrote this. :P

Did you mean "few" or "a few"?
Mini has been getting soft in his old age.

At least with Vista in 2006, he had the sense to say: "Of course, the proof is in the pudding..."

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if the guy was caught and is now nothing but a mouthpiece.
Wow. So noone here working on an IDE or text editor? Anyway I do :-)

Recently decided to give a break on my degree (physics) and finalize my neverending Python IDE (Windows only - sorry :-)) while making buck on Django gigs for the bills. I don't even remember when I actually started on that. Must be the beginning of 2002. Now is the time.
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Nice. He probably didn't cause enough damage for people to realize that transit control systems should be encrypted, though.
Oops, typo. I meant "a few".
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Adding features to my MySpace application that turned out to be surprisingly popular (http://bit.ly/mDZYb). Specifically I want to let users see who lives near them, and maybe get some dating aspects going. Also playing some more with the Twitter API after our first failed project with it, let's see if I'll get something released this time.
More likely they won't do it because it would mean that everything made for Win32 would not run on the new platform. This includes all programs made with various other libraries (MFC, WTL, QT, Fox, etc) that "plug into" Win32. Hence they'd have vastly fewer application that would run on this new OS, and people trying it out would complain that "this version of windows breaks my applications".

On the other hand it would be interesting (Singularity comes to mind), but they'd have to call it something other than Windows.
I'm working on Office web stuff this summer. I'll just say that I think Office 2010 will indeed be "more competitive in the cloud", as you put it.
Academic start-up: Multicriteria Mapping.

I'm in Poulsbo, a Norwegian settlement just across Puget Sound from Seattle, WA, USA, working (remotely) with Andy Stirling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Stirling) at SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, on his Multicriteria Mapping (http://www.multicriteria-mapping.org/) methodology and related analysis software. MCM is a hybrid qualitative/quantitative multicriteria analysis technique, (over to our colleague Molly Morgan) "which through its novel approach to discussing different options in contested areas of technology policy might be up to the task of opening up decision making and engagement methods" (from Molly's article on the Science Progress site: http://ow.ly/h6hY).

Researchers use a small Java application (MC-Mapper, by another developer) to run two-hour long structured interviews with participants, and a larger Java/Python/Hibernate/MS Access/MS Excel mashup (more mish-mash, really), MCM-Analyst (by me) to prepare text reports and charts from results aggregated across the participants.

As I write I'm preparing a draft Marketing Plan as part of our bid for some funding for marketing and product development: we're a startup, someday hoping to spin off into a non-profit trust to oversee the development and application of the methodology and provide tools, support and consultancy services to support its use.

I'm finding David H. Bangs, Jr.'s "The Market Planning Guide" (http://ow.ly/h6hK) hugely useful: basically I'm working through it, piling it all into a ridiculously long Word document, with the next step being copying and pasting the necessary bits into what will become the Marketing Plan. This is my first time working on a proper marketing plan, having b*gger all experience in marketing beyond word-of-mouth, and this is all a... big emotional effort... I've been helped on that front by reading HN regularly.

The Jython/MS Office mish-mash has got to go: we're envisaging us gradually migrating to Eclipse/RCP/Jython. Hoping (with funding) to developing a web-based service to complement the existing not-yet-Internet-enabled desktop applications. We're envisaging doing that in Django: choosing that over eg RoR because of our investment in Python.

Oh, and some work here and in the UK doing web development in SilverStripe for small businesses.

I find many posts on HN a fantastic source of inspiration, energy, resources, and ideas. Just great. If I'm bored, this is where I go.
Fixed since then.
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My first thoughts too. Why does everything in psychology/social has to be tied to evolution these days?

Once upon a time, you did it because someone told you too. Then, some god. Later, because you're of a certain class.

Today, we're doing it because it helps the "evolution". This is nice, if you know why the evolution does what it does. Which is turtle all the way down.

Shit, something helps us to last longer as a species? It's the answer. If we know how it helps us.

Heck, I'll throw an evolutionary bias into this research. Why should I help another male? It's my desire that he fails so I can own the offspring-maker. (yes, I'm aware of some studies that show cooperation is better for the group. WITH FISHES).

"For evolutionary reasons" is the new thing on social studies. 3pt14159's comment is spot on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700571 this study has too many random variables to have any credulity.
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Aren't "fi" and "esac" from Algol?
Thanks for the link. After reading the deployment notes, I'm kind of shocked that they make it so hard to deploy custom apps that you have no intention of selling via App Store. It sounds like a web-based app tailored to the iPhone is the way to go.
Just graduated, so working on getting a job (anyone in Toronto?).

In the meantime, brushing up on my Python with Project Euler and a Kenken solver.
In the oil business: http://eser.org
In Wichita and Tulsa (where I have lived) spending half your income on rent or a mortgage would be considered insane.
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Finish porting Gambit Scheme to the iPhone so I can quickly develop apps with technologies I'm familiar with.

http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem...
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Excuse me, but do I know you from somwhere? :-) In case you're wondering fcoury == _grepper
I doubt it.

That implies that the problems women face in computing (by being women) historically and currently are myths and only exist if you think about 'em.

They aren't, and there's plenty of evidence to show otherwise. email me if you really want a lit. review on the subject.
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I think you may have just signed up to beta test... something. We'll see what it turns in to.

When I'm not coding for money, I'm a lighting designer - mostly live concerts, but I do some club stuff as well. I've found the options in that market very unsatisfactory. There are some good options starting in the $4000 range and up, but they all require a trained LD. The average DJ is unlikely to be willing to deal with the Emacs-like learning curve of a real lighting console.

I think the market needs something DJ-proof, high-quality and affordable, and I think my first product will be along those lines.
Wow, you can't even load your own apps onto iPhone? Damn, I knew Apple was closed-minded, but this takes the cake. If you spend that much money for that monstrosity, you ought to be able to put what you want onto it, you know, like all other phones i'm aware of. Holy Crap. Just another reason I'll never buy one. Can someone confirm this? I'm having trouble even believing that. If this were true, how do you test it, with only an emulator?
Anyone who calls the Xbox a failure has no clue. It's the big winner in this round of console wars. It's the only multimedia device that's networked to millions of PCs and hooked up to millions of computers.

It maybe hasn't sold as many units as the Wii, but the games per console stat is a blowout. As are paid downloads of content, third party games, etc.

And yeah, the red ring of death sucks (has happened to me a few times) but that's how they beat the PS3 to market and won the generation. In the end the 1 year lead is worth whatever they had to eat on that.
Why is this necessary at all? Why does every program have its own updater, some of which are even resident? Why can't the OS just do all of this for us? Linux and the BSDs have package managers, but there's a solution just as easy for the rest/majority:

Both Microsoft Update and Apple Software Update could be modified, very simply, to read updates for additional software from signed RSS feeds, and queue them into a background downloading service (on Windows it's called BITS, I'm sure OSX has an equivalent) when they see them. There would need be no central repository; each software package installed would simply install a subscription, and a public key for checking against it. The updates would all be installed in the operating system's "update mode" that starts after shutdown, negating any worry of updating a running program. It wouldn't even need to trouble the download centers themselves—the RSS subscriptions could be torrent containers, and every PC could be configured to serve as a peer.

Now, if it were me, I'd move the Mobile App Store from iTunes to Software Update on OSX and make it into a Multi-platform App Store, and create a similar store for Windows in their own update service... but that's perhaps, as they say on the Internets, "too much win."
Working on http://flowmingle.com

FlowMingle is a group oriented online dating site that leads a small, local group of singles through a guided introduction process. I'm working with two other full-time partners in Lexington, Ky. Specifically, at this moment we are integrating the ability to sign-up and login with multiple social networking APIs.
Right, they removed the public and system identifiers from the declaration because there will be no SGML DTD to point at. But as far as I can tell, the current draft fails to provide an official schema of any kind to take the place of a DTD.
I do most of my development in C#/.NET, and I have to say you're right. I think their next step should be towards getting all of their desktop programming into the .NET API; they didn't have time to do it in Windows 7, but perhaps for Windows "8". I'm talking about things like drivers (which can be programmed using the now-free .NET Micro Framework) and lower-level APIs (like writing a screensaver...it should just be a class implementing IScreensaver or whatever, and not written in C any longer).

Getting everything (or as much as possible) switched over to the .NET framework in Windows would also help a great deal as far as mitigating security risks as well.
Thank you! Scribd is so annoying.
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Working the day job (in-house dev. at Nationwide Insurance).

In process of incorporating an LLC with a businesss partner; our first project will deal with web widgets...should be live (selling from day 1) by the end of the summer.

Fun recent project was a thing I threw together "in a weekend" to make finding things from nearby cities on craigslist easier. Prototype at: http://didyoucry.com/clshop/

And re-roofing a section of my house. (Oh the pain of having to use muscles for "real work" after years of cubicle dwelling.)
I run a 3 person startup full-time: http://www.carbonmade.com

And then on the side I run a small design blog: http://www.burstoid.com
... could be modified, very simply, to read updates for additional software ...

It's only so simple when you have a single binary file with no dependencies running only on the developer's machine.

Beyond that, it's quite a complex problem. I could give you a list of about a thousand major problems that need to be solved to make a "one size fits all" updater. Plus, it's not in the self interest of either Microsoft or Apple to allow update installation from unverified sources.

... similar store for Windows in their own update service ...

The store has been tried before (once by MS, many many times by 3rd parties). Each time it was a failure. Largely due to the uncoupled nature of the "Windows ecosystem".
Ask HN: Building Startups: A few big ones, or many smaller ones?
What are the ups and downs of doing large start-ups, vs smaller start-ups? Is it better to start out with a few smaller ones and then try to tackle larger start-ups? What are you experiences.

This is just a general blanket question trying to get the opinions.

When I say Small Startup, I mean something that requires less than 5000 man hours to Public Beta.
Lovely idea!

The Natrium Bag of Discount, an item which give you 5% off on bids.

The Necromancer class, which can resurrect dead auctions, and kill top bids (with a 15m cooldown timer).

The Tamer, which can invoke pet-bots that automatically bid $0.25 each.

I really think you're onto something here derefr... a system that gives you the possibily for real life money manipulation, self-loop'ed into skill/item progression!