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For what it's worth, almost all technology patents read like this. I check out patents on http://www.freepatentsonline.com sometimes just because it's interesting to see people try to describe incredibly complex processes using the most general terms possible.

Most of them seem to describe very common technologies on the web. I don't know how any of them get enforced. I guarantee there is some kind of patent out now for "an interface (possibly a website) that allows users to post messages (possibly comments or urls) to a group and use a signal (possibly voting) to indicate preference (possibly up or down)."
Yes, but if you guess higher than 0 (in, as you say, spite) then you only hurt yourself, since everyone else ties for the win. The choice of 0 in this game is a Nash equilibrium - no rational agent will guess otherwise, at least if it assumes all other agents are also rational.
I think it's the shortcoming of Apple, rather than the phone, that are the source of the outrage.
Easy to say that if you live in a densely populated city with good public transit. Not everyone has the luxury of living close to public transportation or within walking distance of all necessary services they need.
good to see people arriving at reason from various angles. subsidies are zombie demand that encourage malinvestment from the private sector.
I think the Lessig case was essentially a miscarriage of justice. Until that case I was on the fence wrt to the MPAA having too much influence in hollywood.

Even the mickey mouse copyright extension when taken in the literal legal sense (and that is all the fashion, go for the letter, not the intention of the law) was understandable in a warped sense.

Ever since that lawsuit I've been fighting back in my own warped way, it was my main motivator in launching http://mxchg.com/ , a media player with a friend-to-friend network built in.

Good luck getting that blocked.
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i know this position often comes off as smug, but I make an appeal to fellow hackers: try not watching TV for a few months as an experiment and see how creepy TV watching becomes.
Phone number portability (one carrier to another) is mandated by law. They gave you no problems because they mustn't. GV style portability (a virtual number that works with any carrier) enjoys no such privilege, so they can, and in Apple/AT&T's case, have, blocked it.
I work in telecom and can tell you neither of those claims are true from a regulatory or mainstream perspective.

That some organizations' LNP processes are so dysfunctional as to make it a de facto reality - of that I have no doubt.
> Additional tip on emacs: swap the Ctrl and Caps keys.

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I uesd to accept this but after he revealed that novices learned to operate his zoom world system in less than one minute, I have changed my mind.

For tens of millions of years, our ancestors made it back to the nest or we wouldn't be here. Geographic navigation like that or like operating a zoom world system take advantage of the tens of millions of years when the talent for learning such skills was pounded into our DNA.

This may not be what we think of as intuition, but it's more than just familiarity that powers the ease of learning exhibited.

You might expect computer experts to be even quicker than novices but they took two minutes to become proficient in operating the zoom world system.
You can't join then :)
How about reading about Kevin Kelly and Louis Rossetto? Bob Hunter created Greenpeace out of nothing. Petraeus revolutionized the most powerful military in the history of the world.

Now that you mentioned Petraeus, I see you're confused about what "Revolution" means in this context. The course is teaching actual political, armed-struggle type revolution.

Big-R Revolution is very different from anything else. It's the popular uprising of a group of people and the assertion of their will upon, and demand for their rights from, another group they deem oppressive.

Revolution derives its will from the people, and the people derive theirs from their group identity. No people, no revolution. Petraeus is a beauracrat; I don't see a nation of Petraeuses besieging the pentagon with small arms and demanding their birth right for a more efficient budget system.

Bob Hunter is an activist, not a Revolutionary, for he still lacks the popular support of determined people who are willing to defend their home planet. He also lacks the Other; the target of his alleged Revolution. No opposing Other, no Revolution.

Kolakowski is a Philosophe academic, plenty of pen-pushers to go around, frankly. I particularly avoided recommending the Western Marxists and academes because of their petty intellectualism.

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You've hit the nail on the head. It's not what Apple's doing - it's what the carriers may be doing. Given the way the carrier market works at the moment, consumers do deserve competition protection. The FCC is quite right to stick its oar in here, even it it's only to say "hey guys, I'm watching you".
That is according to the wikipedia article - and how amazing it is that such an article should even exit, every time I look up something so arcane in wikipedia and it is actually there I'm still surprised, it is one of the very best things to come out of the web revolution - essentially the same thing.

The 'somewhat' I guess refers to the word 'particles' used in the title, that should have been 'quasiparticles' in stead (in other words, particles that can not be observed directly) ?
Getting your circulation going helps relieve both eye strain and wrist pain. I've had both on very stressful projects. Get into the habit of working on your cardio. It's been shown that cardio does help with stress management and brain function.
Wouldn't tax dollars spent on sidewalks and mass transit be subsidizing others choice of transportation also?
I wear a pair of Gunnar Optiks to help reduce eye strain (http://www.gunnars.com/). They have a slight magnification and anti-glare which do seem to have a positive effect. Plus when I have them on I feel like I am in "work mode".
In the late 1600s, Nicolaus Steno published his book laying down the foundations of the science of Geology.

What prompted the work was the fact people found sea shells and fossil shark teeth on mountains and in mines and embedded in rock everywhere.

The theory at the time was that the shells just grew in the rock, basically 'magically'.

Steno's theory that the shells were deposited in sedimentary layers in water that later turned to rock and were uplifted took about 120 years to be accepted.

Science has proven slow to accept what in retrospect appears completely obvious. 120 years to decide shells embedded in rock identical to living shells didn't just 'grow' there.

Fossil evidence for the aquatic ape theory, if it exists at all, would be found about 300 feet below sea level (the sea is higher now).

The ability of humans to dive deeply in the ocean and swim so well suggests it was important for survival at some point in the past. And it doesn't seem unreasonable that early humans lived along the coasts and ate fish and other sea life.

I'm not sure why this idea is so controversial, really.
Should solar panels be cleaned?
I'd say the ideas were there before RoR. E.g. setup.rb (just to name a simple example) works with zero configuration but you have to put your files into the right directories.
No, I think he just went over two octaves, so some notes were repeated.
"The speech-enabling gene FOXP2 indicates that there are brain circuits that make vocal learning possible."

That's kind of what I meant: surely that speech gene is not a gene that describes a whole brain?

"The question is why this gene is present in aquatic mammals and is absent in terrestrial apes"

Doesn't that refute the "speech gene" theory? Surely some terrestrial apes also communicate by "speech"?

I don't know enough about genetics to confidently discuss this more. Presumably if several species share a gene, they are likely to have a common ancestor?
The late Bob Hunter (you are still speaking of him in the present tense, he died in 2005) may have created greenpeace out of nothing which was very commendable (it probably saved the whales, and - ironically - the whaling industry), but the greenpeace of today is now more of a marketing organization, not an activist platform. Fuel for their boats used to be the main operational cost, now it is media buys. Their CEO receives about 140K euros, which is a slight difference with an ideal driven activist.

The people that support it do so from a strange mix of environmental consciousness and guilt (at least in my circle of friends).

Some of its positions are just as shortsighted as those held by the industries that it opposes.

That doesn't mean I'm against 'green', it's just that greenpeace has evolved to survive in a media driven society.
People differ and people's bodies differ, but the trick seems to be to take a break from the focused work-related activity. Many people (including many comments at the link) report an after-lunch walk being quite refreshing. At one of my previous jobs we used to play table tennis whenever we needed a break.

I personally prefer longer bursts of sleep, 1 hour does not do much for me, but walking or exercising does. Even shopping! YMMV.
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Hm, maybe, but I would actually be most interested in how to overthrow communist regimes. Almost all dictatorships in recent times I am aware of started out with communism or socialism.

Also, how much philosophy is really needed? I wonder how to overthrow a regime with a huge police force and secret police everywhere. Are there even any example where this happened without external forces? Maybe Rumania? In any case, it seems to be more a practical problem than a philosophical one.
I know the FCC doesn't care much about the rest of the world, but I am hopeful the questions and answers might force some reevaluation of restrictions to make AT&T happy being worldwide enforced. (Speaking specifically of Skype not being allowed to do voice calls on 3G, no carrier in Sweden would object to it)

Also these applications exist and are allowed on other phones on AT&T. Of course the popularity of the iPhone, bundled with the App Store single point of distribution makes it possible for AT&T to insert themselves and have any control. Perhaps if they'd be willing to build out their network more instead of fighting the future.
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> Didn't Microsoft even try some (/a few?) Java-clone before C#?

J#[1]? J++[2]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B
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So, let's contrast it then with compensation to crime victims:

OJ Simpson had to pay 33.5 million to the relatives of the woman he murdered (but has only paid a fraction of that to date)

According to http://www.wrongful-death-network.com/news.shtml only 27 states even allow punitive damages in a wrongful death case.
> They don't want to invent their own features

Maybe they don't want their coworkers to go nuts inventing new features and then be the ones that need to maintain them.
Setting up a scala/lift environment correctly took a bit. Read up about the proper JDK, SDK and I still have probs building inside the IDE (I just gave up and use maven on the command line)
That sounds like another chance to plug my Twitter bot: http://twitter.com/officeworkout

It reminds you to take a break every 30 minutes.
visual studio express 2008 took me less than 5 minutes total to get up and running.

netbeans or eclipse took me far longer to start building web apps (GAE or scala/lift)

plus the IDE itself has a very long load time and terribly slow response time.
Can I have a $4500 voucher for a new bicycle? It uses no fossil fuel at all. (I estimate that an 18-pound bike will cause me to consume one less banana per week, compared to my current 21-pound bike. This will save hundreds of bananas per decade.)
It is not a luxury, it is a conscious decision that many people make sacrifices to obtain.
What we have here is a wasted opportunity.

This program could have required a 10 mpg improvement and could have been set up to require at least 28 mpg on the new vehicle, by using two different numbers, and it would still be very successful and have made the US less dependent on foreign oil imports. Oops.

Too much influence have the firms that make "campaign contributions".
$4500 pumped into buying you a car is good for you, and slightly good for the environment; but investing $4500 into public transportation benefits hundreds of people, and is even better for the environment. Since we don't have much money, it's best to use it in a way that will have the most benefit.
Thanks I'll check it out.
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This is not a big price difference. I buy fair trade and organic where I can and prices are sometimes even below those of the exploitative and contaminated products.

In other cases the clean ones cost twice as much or more as the evil ones.
So this case is not bad at all.

It's like buying your car where you know it's stolen for 20% less, would you do it?
The object of a revolution is not usually to overthrow a regime, rather, it's to give political autonomy to the group. That's why secessionist movements are far more successful negotiating truce and power-sharing than insisting on imposing themselves over the entire region.

The most important ingredient is the group self-identity; you can be unhappy with the State all you want, on your own, but you will have to convince your would be comrades that: 1) the regime is harmful. and 2) that they can govern themselves better.

Philosophy is needed in that it gives the group a political framework they can use to imagine their Utopia governed by. A unifying philosophy is very important; if most people in the group can't see the future political rule being better than the current one, then there would be no mass popular movement. The IRA said they want Ireland as "another democratic European country" and it worked. In Palestine, half the people imagine their Utopia to be another secular Arab state, a la Syria and Egypt, while the other half wants an Islamic Republic, a la Iran. That's why it's easiest to kill a revolution from the inside, by introducing uncertainty to their philosophical foundation and spreading suspicion about the leading committee.

The easiest revolution would be one forged under clear differences, say, based on race, language, or religion. Marxism was unique in that it was revolution based on class.
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Also, you yourself will always have the ability to use sidewalks and public transportation, but you will never get the ability to use a car that someone else buys.
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I can't find any documentation on it on Apple's website, but it's easy to see it working. Annoyingly it doesn't do with with VirtualBox which is what I use now. Well it kinda does - it recognizes the VDI files as virtual disks, but can't open them with the VirtualPC plugin (in /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/).
Gold was the transmission mechanism for international deflation during the Great Depression. Recovery started in country after country roughly six months after abandoning the gold standard. Countries which depreciated/unpegged their currencies recovered much faster.

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Many Romanians consider their revolution only a partial success.

Many of the old party bosses made it into high spots in the government after the revolution, and continue in these positions to this date.
The SSL bug in this case happened because the programmers had wrong assumption about the network input (namely it doesn't contain the zero byte value).

This type of wrong assumption can be made in any language. And this bug doesn't make buffer overflows or any other exploitable activities possible, so they are not dangerous in a way that 'usual' C code can be dangerous.

Still it is a serious threat regarding the widespread usage of that particular library.
Hey it's not popular to say the above, but just look at the last decade and the court cases won in their favor, no matter the country. I was just stating fact!

Gladly they have been forced to change their model and now we have free sites like pandora, spotify, vid on youtube and etc...

Though in the courts even amongst a panel of peers (jury) they have always come out victorious. Again just stating the facts!
Thanks! Next time I'll just check this document linked from the J++ 'pedia page myself before asking.

http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...

Page 16: Kill cross-platform Java by grow[ing] the polluted Java market. (Microsoft internal document.)

Etc etc, with references.

This document could be posted as a story on HN, if anyone wants lots of karma. :-)

We can say one thing for certain -- the "love" here is criminal and violent...
I agree that those are nasty problems, but with the passion that went into the open letter, I believe that the project will survive.

I'm glad that you're not actually soured on Red Hat. And if the best way for you to support your products on RHEL is to use CentOS, that's still a win for us. :)
Constructive use of the word 'fuck' on HN. Kudos :)

The patent system is about as broken as it gets, I'm on the swing with regards to what to do about it, abolish it completely or overhaul it.

I also think there ought to be a strict rule that if you hold a patent you have to market a product within a year of receiving your patent that uses your patented stuff in an essential way.
Sure that's why I said apps that are bandwidth intensive or highly popular.

Although just recently released GV if released on the iPhone would become a staple app; free SMS. Thus, with everyone using it would put a further strain on AT&T's already drained network, as well cut into PROFITS. So, it could possibly be both.
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I added the original source as this here is just a comment saying "there's a cool post":
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736181
Especially all the violence will shock you. Usually you get used to it when watching TV frequently and don't feel much when witnessing all the murders, beatings and rapes.
And similar app for windows out there?
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With lots of references to documents from the trials on the net.

Written by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Committee_for_Interoperable_Systems
Try to use the time you watched TV to meet real people. It's very difficult at the beginning but after a few weeks or months you'll have a social life you never had before.
Yes they should be cleaned. (They could have asked any HVAC Engineer to look it up in ASHRAE for them!)

Simply, haze in the atmosphere scatters light and reduces the amount of Solar radiation reaching the earth. Dust on a panel has the same effect! (They could also have asked any photographer that uses a yellow filter on tele-photos).

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That's an easy one, yes, unless the rain does it for you.

In the winter it may help if you live in a region where it snows a lot if you can actually reach your panels should they get covered with snow overnight.

In most latitudes your solar panels will be at a sufficient angle to let the rain do its work. If you are at or near the equator it's a different story, some regular cleaning will be necessary.

A better question is 'should solar panels be tracking the sun', and the answer to that one is it depends.

I've lived in Northern Ontario in a house exclusively powered by sun and windpower and even though we had our panels tracking the sun I doubt I would do it again that way.

The reason is that a tracker is a finicky device, fragile and costs a lot of money. Roof mounted panels are much less susceptible to storm damage. The downside is the decreased power, but you can make up for the by investing the money you would otherwise invest in a tracker in several more panels.

Fancy trackers that track on two axis are even more expensive and error prone, but the convenience of not having to do a seasonal adjustment is worth it for some.
Most sites that I read are through RSS feeds in a desktop client (Newsgator). My RSS client typically remains shut during the work day (except for those occasional really boring moments). That way I don't miss anything neither do I "waste" time. I make it a habit to catch up in the night or before starting to work. An empty RSS feed would make sure I don't get distracted and let me feel contented as well.
I said they should have. Not that they do, with our socialistic government setup the way it is.
I think a free market has to be free -- that practices that stifle competition hurt consumers immediately.

I think Apple's locking out of Google is very similar to Microsoft's locking out of Netscape. It's reasonable tobring the samre monopolies law to bear, I think.
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Yes, I've set up several clustering situations for our training videos to demo the how to, etc. VMWare is the easiest although MSFT has their own as well.
#1 - You'll likely get a better response if you prefix your title with "Ask HN: "

#2 - You'll definitely get a better response if you post during the business week (US business hours?)

#3 - Contact your state tax office and ask. You can call local county offices as well for sales tax questions but the state tax offices, IMO, get more of these types of questions and have more training in this area.
Very cool. Just FYI: the combination of "bot script" in the title and a .me domain is likely keeping some people from looking at this submission; it makes it seem a little shady.
No need to read it - they suspect it will be $400.
The article is clearly simplifying. Whether one believes the particles actually exist or whether describing them as particles is simply a convenience probably relates to whether one believes in an actual multiverse or that the Copenhagen interpretation is simply a method of understanding.

The spin and charge in question, as the article notes, are gauge invariant.
This isn't necessarily true - great employees can't usually control those who make the decisions that might run a company into the ground.
Geek rage, not really worth the read.

At the end of the day the issue is this: almost all of the "rage" is coming from developers and tech geeks. the former, for the most part, are still churning out cool apps and the latter make up a tiny percentage of Apple's market.

Crucially Apple don't, unlike some companies, have to rely on the bloggers and tech-lovers any more to keep their products in the public eye. They have a rock solid brand.