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I'm an IBMer but I'm also personally disgusted with stupid patents. IBM does invent a lot of things. They also purchase companies that invent a lot of things. Though I have seen a few examples on HN where they were granted a patent for something that was already somewhat common (can't find the reference, sorry). Basically they aren't your typical patent trolls even though their business models relies on owning patents.
It is amazing how that myth persists. Piracy was much more common for the playstation, and I seem to recall it did ok.
Too bad you can't turn it over and sit on it.. or use it as a flat surface to cut things.
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You're specifically focused on technologies, which I will admit don't change that fundamentally from generation to generation.

But the way software gets built, deployed, and used has changed a lot.
If you look at the video embedded in the article, it shows them stacked.
Not sure, but since at least 2011 :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_NBC_merger

(thanks for the link, interesting reading)
Explains or proves absolutely nothing.
I've always heard that a founder's salary should be the amount that allows the founder to focus on the business. The concept of a super low salary seems to be focused on the 20 something single crowd. I have a family to support, so I can't take a super small salary and eat Top Ramen. This may be a subtle way that older founders are discriminated against. The story I've heard from founders who have families is that they have a savings from a previous business that they are tapping into to make up the difference, or their spouse is carrying the majority of the family burden. Neither of these situations are mine and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Tesla was recently implicated in a garage fire, after which it emphatically denied that the charger was at fault:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-19/tesla-says-model-s-...

Now we hear otherwise. This is yet another example of how Musk is chewing on a wad of crazy--and every so often he'll spit some at you. Take what they say with a grain of salt. They will do anything, say anything to protect the company and the vision.
ASFAIK 1Password, GoodReader, BoxyTunes, QuickOffice and tons of file managers in Android
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Most of the negatives are heavily focused on implementation rather than design, which I don't disagree with. However, the positives of targeting any language at a stable byte code is incredibly valuable... such as an implementation of javascript itself. A bytecode approach provides a superset to our current status quo.

That said, as browsers act more like operating systems, it makes me wonder if we've somewhat missed the point.

I agree with you about starting from scratch. I think if history is any indication, ultimately we'll end up having to write a new 'web' with very different semantics and design philosophies; goodness knows the old metaphor is starting to creak in a number of problematic ways.
That still requires a pretty impressive feel for the relative size of oranges and planets though. I would have preferred something like this table:

2 nm Diameter of a DNA Alpha helix

4 nm Globular Protein

6 nm microfilaments

7 nm thickness cell membranes

20 nm Ribosome

25 nm Microtubule

30 nm Small virus (Picornaviruses)

30 nm Rhinoviruses

50 nm Nuclear pore

100 nm HIV

So 13 nm is on the scale of a very small virus... :)
I'm pretty sure his point was that an integrated gpu has no need for this because it is the limiting factor and not the CPU. This will probably not be true in the future has CPU are not getting much faster and instead more cores are being used which is one of the problems Mantle is intended to help with.
Both. IBM uses incentives for employees to patent inventions. They also have been purchasing companies with significant patent portfolios lately.
A tax won't solve anything, agreed, unless it's on the order of 10,000% or more.

Restricting antibiotics (further than they are currently) may or may not help, but is certainly within the purview of a limited libertarian state.

Restricting most (all?) other medications is not.
Webflow (https://webflow.com) is made precisely for this. To get a feel for what it's like, have a look at the playground: http://playground.webflow.com/ (I'm one of the founders.)
I'm quite sure that even if you removed the stupid/obvious patents from the total, there is a good chance IBM would still be leading the pack.
I second that. Although I only write Erlang, Elixir is the future.
And we we pay X-20% in the USA for non whites for the same job.
Congress specifically forbade the FCC from applying common carrier regulation to what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 calls "information services."
Not if your intelligence is worthless. If your intelligence is worthless, it's almost indiscernible.

You're creating a false dichotomy between "targeted" drone strikes and shelling and bombing an entire region. By the way, each perpetrator of shelling and bombing entire regions has historically made similar claims of "targeting/precision".
A "recall" is usually used in reference to a product being physically returned to the supplier in some form. A vehicle recall means you have to take the vehicle to the manufacturer or dealer so they can take physical action on it for you.

This isn't a recall because you're not taking your vehicle anywhere. They're sending you something. I don't really know what to actually call it, though.
My understanding is that Vimproc can only kick off async processes, it can't actually call back into the main Vim thread once a process has completed.
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In other news, Apple creates a toilet that wipes your behind. What will home depot do next?
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A lot of good links to similar sites in this comment thread.

I enjoy Project Euler, but as with many people slowly got annoyed by lack of specific mathematical knowledge as opposed to programming. One thing I believe would really help with this would be a resource that discussed the problem in the abstract. As an example, for most of the programs that rely on using primes, whether it be iterating them (e.g. first 1M primes) or the unique prime factorization of a number, discuss the known algorithms in pseudocode. Perhaps this is a bit much, as I would be satisfied with just knowing the words I need to go find resources for myself. This is what I tend to do anyway after I have taken a fair stab at a problem: "Oh, I'm doing prime factorization. I wonder if there are better algorithms than I have used." Indeed, one resource for this is the forums that are made available after the problem is solved.

Some might see this as ruining the fun, but I would personally have more fun and solve more problems if this was available.
There are plenty of people smarter and more talented than me on here - hoping that your post reaches them because I can see quite a bit of potential here. That said, I'm just a web dev with no marketing experience so, a grain of salt before proceeding.

Got a look at the Pong demo and the way people stopped off for a go at it shows that at the core of it, you've got something interesting that people enjoy (presumably) because they can get their hands on it. The dude going head to head with himself on two thumbsticks seemed to really enjoy himself even without P2. (side note: chomping down a chicken biscuit and heading outside for a game of brickwall pong sounds like a fun way to end a night)

I think the main obstacle would be packaging the idea into something people can get behind. The novelty of it is enough to get people passing by on board for a quick game but I think there's a lot more that could be done with your idea, as pointed out in your list.

Another thing that comes to mind would be providing custom promotional solutions to folks looking to market something. The one thing I can think of right now is Alternate Reality Games - a clue flashed on a building at a specified time and date that must be deciphered by participants, or a countdown that hops from building to building (spanning cities?) leading to an announcement, etc.

I'm not quite sure how you'd package it (LAAS - Lasers as a Service?) so that people could get behind the tech enough to fund its infancy while communicating the bigger picture and potential.

At the end of my comment I suppose I've successfully said nothing you didn't already know, but wanted to lend my support and say that this is something I'd definitely back. Also, great to see local talent.

Best of luck to you and hopefully some of those smarter folks will be able to help out more. Be sure to Show HN if you end up on Kickstarter!
Hear, hear. I'm ashamed to admit I built one or two websites this way - but then I got a job wrangling XML into EPUB, and oh my word am I sorry for my sins now.

And this:

>It wasn't your paper anymore; it was their screens.

...is something the publishing industry needs to, but seems to be pathologically unable to, appreciate.
I would say it goes much deeper than syntax and both Elixir/Erlang can co-exist happily just like Scala/Java. After jumping into Elixir, you'll eventually have to become familiar Erlang/OTP conventions, but starting with Erlang is not a requirement. You're right that guards/pattern matching/OTP leave you with language envy once you go back to your previous language of choice. Elixir does remove some pain points of Erlang, particularly around metaprogramming, polymorphism, and string handling. I will say after getting into the ecosystem, I can't believe the Erlang folks have been quietly "building the future" all these years while the rest of us largely ignored their innovations.
Oooh, I didn't even know this existed. I've always been curious about learning Erlang, but I'm always suspicious of languages that predate the vowel generation.
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this doesn't mean that when I see a navbar that has a gradient I copy a paste the image of the navbar in my website with a <img>

At one point in time you couldn't do gradients in CSS, so that's exactly what you did. Luckily, that era is over.
Oyster, a Start-Up name that was already a name for another startup… oyster.com
I actually treat most of the negative reactions on HN as an indicator that the product or company in question has a good shot at being successful.
Ingenuous? I have two no-brand buckets right here, and both have an underside grip, lip grip, and foldable handle.
Although this used to be a problem with CSS, it has been fixed in modern browsers: http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/vertic...
> However, the positives of targeting any language at a stable byte code is incredibly valuable... such as an implementation of javascript itself. A bytecode approach provides a superset to our current status quo.

Not necessarily, it depends which bytecode. For example the bytecode in PNaCl, which is based on LLVM IR, is excellent for C and related languages, but not for many other important languages.

Worth reading this about the limitations of LLVM IR as a bytecode: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...

I've also written a post about the limitations of any single bytecode to achieve all the goals the web needs: http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-we...
I'm not sold here on this one. Since we know the specific small set of resolutions on iOS devices, I'd rather have a designer/UX lay down exactly how it should look, then have devs execute on that. If dev provides a valid reason why a design component would be a royal pain, then design can go back and adjust.

Just had this argument 20 minutes ago on using a native control versus designing our own and adding a few listeners - which has a better look and experience.

Background: taught a PSD to HTML college course; stopped doing PSD-HTML myself about two years ago; still favor PSD-iOS
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This post reinforces my sense that Scala is the new C++.
The FCC could reclassify ISPs as telecommunication providers, which would remove the basis for the finding that the non-blocking and non-discrimination rules were (as common carrier rules, which cannot be applied to information service providers) outside their authority.

Of course, such a decision would itself be challenged, with ISPs arguing that what they do is not "telecommunications" as defined in the Telecommunications Act (I'm not saying this argument would be correct, but its not an uncontroversial position that the conflict between the order and the law can be remedied by simply reframing the order without a change in the law.)
caruber answered your question, but for some reason the answer is dead.

ASFAIK 1Password, GoodReader, BoxyTunes, QuickOffice and tons of file managers in Android
The simulator has to be "larger" than the simulation by definition, so you can't simulate the universe. You don't need to understand information theory to see this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_design#Rational_drug_disco...

Scroll down to Examples.
It does look like he's about to have a breakdown. Hopefully giving the talk was cathartic and helped him relieve his frustrations.
just googling "club foot brace" seems that there are similar solutions already out there and some look better at first look (not a specialist, so may be missing the point of Wired's excitement). Nothing in all these other braces looks like it costs much (i.e. BOM and manufacturing-wise). With regard to price to end-user, especially in US, - it doesn't matter whether your device costs $20 or $200 - it will be sold for the same $700, and thus expandable braces may be more cost effective because they minimize the occurrence of that $700 charge. Though, again, i'm not a specialist and may be really wrong - the guys most probably did improve the situation, just hard to see it behind the hype.
But what mjmahone17 is saying is that the FCC should label broadband providers (in my view: both wired and wireless) as common carriers which would undo the "information services" label put on them in 2002 (http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/n...)
Does LESS or SASS fix the things I mentioned above?
heh. my fiancée jokingly refers to me as "nerd bono"

(she also has a pair and wears them)
I suspect many founders of profitable non VC funded startups have small salaries and instead "pay" themselves through dividends as it can have tax advantages which might color the value of such graphs. That said, I believe such companies aren't always considered "startups" around these parts for some reason but that can be hazy when it comes to other people's surveys.
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As a designer and a developer (I often do both), I think I see where you're coming from, however I feel this is more a sign of a breakdown in the relationship between the developer and designer than a shortcoming of the tools. Design isn't so scary - I think a lot more developers should try to pick up a little, just as designers should know at least a little about the final medium for their work, and in an ideal workplace there should be at least a handover with plenty of chance for feedback on things like text styles, not just throwing something (PSDs in this case) over the wall from designer to developer.

I would never accept a photoshop comp as a developer or send one as a designer and expect it to be reproduced exactly, because it's in the wrong medium, and it's a terrible way to specify things like text sizes or column widths except as a general indication. There has to be some give and take (and a lot of feedback) in a process going from something static and done without grids like a sketch (e.g. a psd or pencil sketch) to a final website, so what you describe in your feedback from the designer is a normal process I think and to be welcomed, it's inevitable in the translation to HTML. The design will change as it has content added and goes into templates, adaptations will have to be made, and the design must be flexible enough to deal with that, and your designer should be around to help with it - if they're not they're not doing their job properly.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that dealing with change is part of the job in design, and your designer should gracefully do so, in which case it is no problem if they gave you a vague psd - it should be vague at the early stage before implementation, because there will be changes, and additionally, html is just not a medium which allows us to specify layouts which are exactly the same in all conditions - browsers, text sizes, fonts, scripts, proxy servers mangling images, user stylesheets all affect layouts, so you have to accept that not all users will see content at exactly the same sizes or with the same fonts or even the images as you intended them (if they're on a mobile network, a proxy might have downsampled the images).
Trello definitely has the simplicity going for it. I just signed up to try Target Process, while I like it's going to take me a little time to sit down and go through everything.
Maybe he's using Netscape 4, in which case CSS would also be JavaScript, more or less.
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/css_no17.htm
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Startups tend to be halfway between taking over the world and bankruptcy.

That's why we love them and founders sleep on floors.
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This has been the trend for a long time. The reality of the app business is getting to critical mass is hard. Once there you get the attention of the portal owners and show up in the charts and you're off.

The interesting thing is even among big brands the difference between top and lower level incomes from in app purchases is enormous. The top handful really are taking the overwhelming proportion of the money home.
Irrational but honest feedback: There's something about the name that really doesn't mesh with me. I read the headline and had an immediate negative emotional response. ForceRank, to me, just sounds very negative, rigid, and well...forceful, ha. And, to me, at least, it doesn't seem in line with the purpose of the project.

That said, I may very well be the only one that felt that way. I don't mean this as criticism of the product itself, as it looks nice. I would just hate for people to pass it up because they're having a negative subconcious response to the name.
Filesystem snapshots should make any upgrades almost painless. If it failed, roll back to a pre-update snapshot and in the meanwhile inspect changes from a post-upgrade version (branch) of the filesystem. Maybe even run this version in a VM.

Sad things are: 1) almost no FS supports writeable snapshots and LVM snapshotting is far from being convenient; 2) you have to setup everything by hand.
Danny, in your view, what would the political ramifications be? Corporate lobbyists or actual politicians fighting against this label?
I don't think I could do it with a book. I think I could do it with a combination of lecture, exercises, and a little Q&A. At least that has worked in the past.
Sounds neat, but doesn't sound like pair programming to me. Sounds like you designed a solution together and then went and coded it separately? Or did you each code up the solution in front of each other? If so, a fairly interesting thing there would be if the person coding in Python was driving the other, and vice versa for Perl. Then again, that could be very annoying if the person didn't know how to type the language and it just because and exercise in transcription.
Corporations get first amendment rights at the cost of the people's.
> The way I see it, the basic problem of government is "how do we get honest and competent people into power?"

I entirely disagree.

The basic question of political theory is "How do we create and maintain a just society?" Government, and the kind of government, is a large part of this answer. Just laws are another large part. The distribution of power is another part. But first you have to answer what constitutes a just society at all, and you will already have disagreements. For me, I turn to Martha Nussbaum's Capability Theory, and her Ten Central Capabilities, for guidance on what capabilities every individual in a just society should have. It's not a clear-cut answer, but it's an excellent starting point.

Your mistake, as I see it, is to conflate governmental positions with power. But power isn't that simple; or rather, it's much simpler than that. Getting honest and competent people into power involves more than governmental hiring practices and elections; it involves controls on the private sector and on the wealthy and on the charismatic. That seems a slippery slope to go down.
Largely self-taught here. I highly recommend giving it a go. There are so many resources for free or very cheap online now that you can get to the point where you can build something on your own. At the very least it will allow you to show a really minimum viable product to a more experienced developer who is more likely to decide to jump in since you already showed commitment and capability to learn (versus the "Dude I have this killer idea! Just build it for me!").
very hands-on guide to the unsexy but critical things needed to build a business, not just a product. great discussion of the org planning thought process - i would add one thing: the need for the CEO to think very deliberately about what kind of culture he/she wants for the company and proactive ways to create it.
You can see it however you want, but that won't change what it actually is.

Companies raise huge rounds when they've nailed their product, their production lines, and their sales funnel. They know what they're doing and need cash to accelerate.

Venture capital is not charity.
Brilliant observation. Yes, on my Desk. :)
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I love me some matchers with cases and gaurds. You can make some normally gnarly looking and hard to read decision trees into really concise easy to read cases.
I guess according to Thiel, your startup should be infinitely successful?
I'm a bit slow on the uptake ... but does this remind anyone of the Cell architecture? How different are those two architectures?
Well gyc points out that I was mistaken about the nature of the situation, but I don't follow what you're saying. You're saying it's not okay for someone to pay differently based on race (and I agree), and it's not okay for someone to pay differently based on where the job is (and I disagree), but that it's okay for Chinese companies to pay lower wages? I'm not sure if you mean Chinese employees or employees IN China, or how that's different from the other things you said. I think employers should strike a balance between what you're worth and what you need, and what you need does depend on where you live.
Unfortunately, 0x10c has been indefinitely shelved: http://www.geek.com/games/notch-indefintely-shelves-mojangs-...