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I can't tell if you are heavily drinking the kool-aid, or trolling, but ...

You say each has a "well-known and mostly consistent history behind it"

None of these have a consistent history, being subject to the whims of changing panels and ideological en-banc fights every couple years when a new judge gets appointed.

You act as if they are well thought out, well applied doctrines, when they are completely hit-or-miss bullshit that has caused the MPEP to explode due to the inconsistencies.

"I'm guessing this is going to make the PTO's and Federal Circuit's job even harder and more inconsistent."

The federal circuit needs no help becoming more inconsistent, they do a great job on their own.
Well they are certainly a thing when you can point out examples of them aren't they.

Perhaps this structure works best in cultures that have difficulty accepting failure. Moving on to another project when one isn't working out is easier than admitting defeat after the failure of a whole company. It's the same obviously but psychologically it's easier for us.

Generally I have this sneaking intuition that the success of the multiple project approach depends on the size of the market and the type of consumers. It's fairly well accepted that it's harder to start rocket-ship type startups in the UK than it is in the US. Perhaps we are better suited to this approach?

Either way, I like the idea and it seems to be the business version of what more product-focused engineers do in their spare time. I am personally aiming to create a project a year at this point and would like to make them additive too if I can.

This, to me, is companies operating as people.
This is getting ridiculous. We're having full on conversations about what to name our already buzzword saturated offices. This studio is doing the same thing I've seen incubators do which is the same thing smart companies have always done. Provide good places for people to work hard.

It will never matter what you call the office as the terms are arbitrary. Find a place to work and then just work hard. Call it the immaculate teakettle house if you like, just make money while you do it. What is in a name, an office by any other name is still where I code.
HEY. I signed up with a gmail address that uses an alias for my from:. You sent me a "hi welcome thanks for signing up" email that included a different alias I've used online before.

How did you associate this data? I signed up as <foo>+quickly@gmail.com .. never used that address before.

Please disclose what dataset you used to associate my account with the name you greeted me with.
Thanks for the feedback guys. It is supposed to make tweeting easier, but apparently it's not doing a very good job (although it probably does make you want to tweet nasty things about me :)

I'll look into a better solution.
I wonder if all developers could be roughly split into two groups: those who have lots of small initial projects and those who have mostly one big project (also unfinished but with more progress).
Great idea! Thanks for the link :)
Love the drag and drop argument. As a matter of facts SmartGit allows several operation via d&d: you can reset, rebase and rebase interactively just using the mouse
"what if we sold shovels in the gold rush instead of competing in it?"

Very interesting. I'd love to read a blog post about it. What's the name of your company?
To be fair: some clinicians are hopeless at reading research documents. See, for example, Gerd Gigerenzer's book "Reckoning With Risk" where clinicians are asked to interpret some stats and they fail hard.

Having said tuat I tend to agree with you. Some health problems (and thyroidism is one) have large communities on the Internet and some of those communities are full of cranks.
"How do I quit smoking?"..."highlight of my day"..."helps me relax"...

Do you see what you're doing here? Smoking is at the center of your universe. There is NO WAY you will quit an addiction like smoking until you refuse to even acknowledge its existence.

Get rid of your thinking first, then you'll easily get rid of the addiction.

FYI: I smoked for 10 years before I quit. That was 10 years ago.
All depends on the application and the price per base. If it's cheap enough, you can average over more reads, even with higher error rates. The error rate should come down though. I guess the price will also come down a lot.

I think the single molecule approach has both advantages and disadvantages. Also I think that Illumina's technology in some sense also only reads parts of single molecules, and the averaging is done later in-silico, much as the nanopore would do also.
Good points!

>>> With the current market for engineers, if you aren't enjoying your work most of the time, you're doing something wrong and should probably find a more interesting project to work on. Fire yourself if you have to.

Yup, I'm starting a new job in 1.5 week, extremely excited :)

>>> Even leave things for tomorrow.

That is also very true, blogged about it too a while ago as well [0]. Trying to get something done for 3hrs can be replaced by 1hr burst next day, as long as 'tomorrow' doesn't become a procrastination. What is important is to make sure that you are actually having a break, your mind is totally away from work.

And yeah, I agree about the timers. I sometimes use a pomodoro timer app and trying to make it a habit, planning to make a physical arduino one. Some day :)

[0] "3. Take a break and don’t feel guilty about it" http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/05/19/4-things-i-learned-the...
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Right, in practical terms it's up to Node to fix this (or go extreme and drop Windows support), but in a more abstract sense I still blame Microsoft for such a glaring design flaw in their software that they are unwilling/unable to fix.
Andrew Nacin was just talking about the idea of a "BackPress" yesterday on Twitter. The core team doesn't want to maintain the mess, but their hands are largely tied by backwards compatibility.

Here's the conversation: https://twitter.com/nathanrice/status/479276072115396608

There's already been a lot of work to abstract away poorly-written core functionality into classes. The problem is every time you clean up a section of core, you need to build a bunch of facades so the theme someone bought five years ago still works. It's extra work and a lot of testing.
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Except that the MS Catapult results seem to suggest that you can get a substantial timing bump without much power overhead by using a second network of FPGAS running concurrently with the CPUS.

And in the case of Catapult, they'll be refactoring the algorithm to represent changes to their search feature matching, which is the majority of what they offloaded to FPGAs.
Previous discussion [0] where the same thing happened to django with this pull request [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801646

[1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
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Pro artist here.

I find that there's a pretty big split between people who really love the Cintiq and its ilk, and people who would vastly prefer to draw on a separate tablet. I'm in the latter camp: the lag is more perceptible when my hand is right there, plus slight inaccuracies in location really throw me off, and the real dealbreaker is that I'm a righty, and my hand is not transparent. Also ergonomics - I don't have to hunch over my "drawing table" any more, I can have the screen at the perfect height to keep my neck happy, and the tablet at just the right place to keep my arm happy.

I mean obviously if you're using this new Adobe tool you're not going to have the "hand obscuring menus" issue, as it's a UI designed for touch - but then again you're also using a simple art tool, rather than a giant toolbox like PS or AI. Which is fine if that simple tool happens to cover all your needs. Not so fine if it doesn't.

I know pros who love their screen tablets, I know pros who have no interest in them despite easily having the cashflow for one.

Oh yes: Graphire was the entry level brand, it's been replaced by Bamboo. Intuos has always been the pro line. The tech has advanced over time, I think a Bamboo today is better than an Intuos of five years ago. The Cintiq tends to use the better quality of digitizers found in the Intuos.
What would be really interesting is to read this same type of story by someone from HN who has a kids or a mortgage, marriage etc.. I don't mean to be rude, but quitting your job keslert in your 20s, esp. with your skill set, seems brave but my god, the self centered egotistical praise you both write and solicit is a bit of a bore and, unfortunately, I see as a common trait among the young, smart tech crowd.
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I just want to quit my job but can't
I have been working in the current company for 7 years straight. The pay is OK. At least it has been keeping my family running. But to be frank, I am tired of big corporation job and just want to wake up one morning and be out of it. I don't hate my job, my group, my company or anything like that. It just has very little meaning...

It just felt better to be doing whatever I want to do. I want to be growing a company or at least starting one. I like to spend my day preparing for meetup session later afternoon. It's actually very nice if I can control when I want to shut down and focus on the work vs. when I like to be chatty around people. I am an introvert but I would try to be extrovert once in awhile.

Back to the topic, now it's even harder for me to quit my job. Why? We just had a 3-mo old baby. Our family needs income and we just don't have much saving for me to take risk. It's impossible for me to be out of income for 1-2 years. So here I am: stuck in a vicious cycle of working for corporation to make money for a living.

Anyone of you has suggestion for a "breakout" event, please let me know.
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Yeah, and looking at the snippets that have supposedly been shared, they all appear to be accidental (unless someone actually wanted to tweet "ettling. The user wrote:"), leaving the rest of the readers with nonsensical highlighted sections and stars appearing in the middle of words.

Seems to be generating more annoyance than value.
Your point is, at a purely statutory level, fairly compelling. And it's essentially the point the plaintiffs made in this case: the "abstract principle" exception to subject matter eligibility should be construed narrowly, given the broad wording of 101 and the fact that it's a judicially-created exception.

But, invalidating this patent on 101 grounds versus 103 grounds is not the same. Subject matter eligibility is something that can be ruled on in a motion to dismiss, In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943, 951 (Fed. Cir. 2008), while obviousness will generally need to wait after claim construction. It should be possible to knock out patents that claim a fundamental practice in any field as early as possible.

You can make other distinctions between "a fundamental practice" and "prior art," too. In the field of cooking, do we have to point out prior art for making a roux, or do we just accept that someone, perhaps many someones independently, did it sometime long ago, but it's so established now that it might as well be a fundamental law of the field?

Over time, the Supreme Court has been beefing up 101 as a bar to patent eligibility. Is the interpretation in CLS v. Alice the one that's most faithful to the text of the statute? Probably not. But interpretation in the name of controlling the flow of litigation in lower federal courts is one of the key roles of the Supreme Court.
No.

Mozilla is actually two legal entities. Mozilla the Corporation and Mozilla the Foundation (but the mantra is "One Mozilla").

The Open News team is part of Mozilla the Foundation, just the way that the Open Badges and Open Science teams are.

Mozilla the Corporation is responsible for Firefox and a variety of other projects.

But as ever, Open News and all of the efforts within the Foundation are very much part of Mozilla, and there is, obviously, no deception going on.

The Knight Foundation, the New York Times, and the Washington Post are not stupid enough to be bamboozled in the manner that you appear to be implying.

P.S. if the mods are reading this... OpenNews is developing the tools WITH the NYT and WaPo, not (just) FOR them as @dansinker notes here: https://twitter.com/dansinker/status/479645936168493057
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I saw WireOver (YC W12) in this space too but charging for sending the files securely. Any other that doesn't depend on the file size?
What about Jenkins ? It uses the word slave pretty extensively. I found about 800 usage in jenkins src code alone, not counting plugins.
At the same time, "primary/replica" is just as well easily understood, and the change is easy to make. If making the change makes it marginally easier for minority participation, and you want your user base to grow, why not make the change?
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Thanks for the post, really usefull. But what is the general response rate to this kind of emails, does anyone has any stats?
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Where is the value created if the product is never sold?
That would produce a custom language not understood by other Go users and destroy much of the benefit of the compiler reporting errors straightforwardly.
It might be possible to do the preparation steps with portable gear. "Classic" DNA extraction with multiple rounds of electrophoresis or PCR aren't strictly necessary for all applications.

Still, it would be easier to carry the sample back with you rather than carry the equipment into the djungle.

On the other hand a lab in a developing country might have less trouble using the MinION rather than sending away the samples for sequencing.
Negative connotations aside, this is still a good idea. Master/slave terminology trips up at least some beginners. Masters laze all day and slaves do all the work. Not really a good analogy.
"I wonder if anybody's made SimDataCenter?"

That would be really interesting.
In finance, being subject to holding a currency you don't want to hold and prefer to change, is called Foreign Exchange Risk [1].

Why would a reasonable person want that ?
Even If I believe in Bitcoin, I'd prefer getting paid in USD and choose to invest in Bitcoin.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_risk
> Complicating parsers, the grammar, readability

Operator overloading has absolutely no effect on the parser or grammar.

It may harm readability but that's more a question of naming. An operator is just a name. If you use that name to refer to something unexpected, you'll harm readability. If you use it for something intuitive, you'll improve it.
You say that words have different definitions. Then you supply a reference to a dictionary that is using a descriptivist definition of a modern use of the word which is clearly derived from the long established definition of slave.

It's not particularly convincing.
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I've gotten about a 80-90% response rate to the template I show in the post. With a more naive template, it was often more like 10-20%.
This is typical UK, and for me what makes reading UK computer magazines like the old Computer Shopper so interesting.

There is always some kind of British humour on the articles.
That is quite impressive
As does MySQL. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication.html
Just imagine the point that machines become sentient and hyper intelligent. Do you think they'll appreciate being called slaves? This debate could determine the fate of humanity!
I think you the word you're looking for is 'sincerity'
I didn't know there was a term for it, but I've been running a "startup studio" (http://prontotype.us/) for the last two years. Our terms are a bit different - we take only take a minority share and don't (currently) work on the marketing side of things, but the concept is the same - building software for early-stage entrepreneurs to validate their idea & market.
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what's your budget? Is 30ms fast enough to put a widget in a shopping cart? Let's just assert 15ms from your server to the customer, you've got 15ms to play with. Given this https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 let's assume you get around 5ms for each service, say a couple big disk reads and some filtering.

So if n=3, it doesn't seem to bad. How much can you do in parallel? Stuff like search, it seems like you could partition quite a bit hit a bunch of services (10?)in the first 5ms, then spend the remaining 10ms sorting results, just send your best effort.

I'm (of course) assuming a customer request means there's a customer sitting there waiting and 30ms is good enough. Won't work for a game. Won't work for HFT.

I guess you'd use the standard stuff, many layers of caching, efficient implementation of the specific services, good algorithms. Heck, you could play a game with docker and run the whole infrastructure on 1 big machine, i think those local sockets would be a lot quicker that the 500,000 ns of a datacenter read.

I mean, if an l2 cache miss is a disaster for you, clearly this won't do anything for you. But how fast is fast enough? do you need to hit that target every single time(real time)? Can you be late 1 in a million requests?

Are you sort of dismissing the idea out of hand or are you (aside from the silly title) really thinking through the consequences of implementing an application this way?
At this point, MFA for master AWS accounts should be mandatory.
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Except that every other months or so sees the introduction of a new proof-of-work system that won't have ASICs for years, if ever.
FPGAs can easily outperform the CPU/GPU competition on any alt-coin using such proof-of-work.
I think the better argument here is not about speed to market but about an iterative process that allows real-world testing.

Two years with a product generating bugs & feedback is probably a lot better than two years developing something that's tested only internally. The time isn't really the designation, though.
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Maybe be was a plant, and ensured attack vectors into linux by controlling and ensuring bugs in libc
That is pretty impressive. I guess more people respond to cold email/calling than I would have thought.

Personally, I always click spam on that kind of thing unless I've shown somewhere that I'm actively searching.
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That the toolchains run on Linux at all at least prevents one from being forced to use Windows, which is a plus, but yes, the state of FPGA tools is pretty horrible.

It reminds me of the days of proprietary vendor compilers where every platform vendor had their own subtly incompatible and/or differently buggy C or C++ compiler. In this way the FPGA development model is a decade or two behind software workflows.
Running low margins in retail is often more of a really cutthroat business strategy, rather than simply trying to be nice to customers. You can easily run smaller competitors out of business, and increase your volume and overall profits, by making the competition unable to compete.
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I started with FreeNAS and switched to NAS4Free because of the poor hardware support on the FreeNAS side - I couldn't get it to boot at all on a Dell R720.
Yeah in databases primary/replica is probably a much better description of what's actually going on.

Personally, my political naming pet peeve is with *Manager classes, they're generally a sign of poor naming / architecture. Maybe the employee class doesn't need the EmployeeManager for every operation, just sayin...
I've explored the Xilinx tools extensively during graduate school. It was by far the most complicated thing I've ever had the misfortune of using. I remember there being far too many tools and features that overlap in function and purpose to that point that none of the tools were great.
Sounds very much like the incumbent popular language supporting operator overloading!
Actual chip design needs FPGAs for hardware emulation prior to fabrication. Yes you'll change the logic out on a weekly, daily, or even hourly basis.
This is just false and fabricated culture; political correctness.
Guess you're one of the remaining 20-10% :).
Looks interesting...I noticed the task creation examples in the video all started with "Can you please...". How good is the parser at picking up implied requests. For example, where I work, requests more likely look something like "We should look at improving the caching layer" or "prod is hanging".

Also, what are you thinking for pricing?
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Except that primary/replica is of course not a drop-in replacement for master/slave (just think of the two devices per IDE bus). Furthermore, it is trivial to find offence in the word “primary” as well, especially in a context where master/slave was used previously, just think of “primus inter pares”.
Extremely valid concerns.

We're trying to be as secure as possible — personal data is strongly encrypted in our database, we're using tokens instead of bank details to keep things more secure, we're implementing 2FA for logins, and we're using perfect forward security for SSL.

Unfortunately, though, money laundering law mandates that we need to record personal information so there's little we can do to get around the name <=> bitcoin address issue. We have ideas (like company-specific encryption for bitcoin addresses where only employers can decrypt addresses) but it's a long way out, even if we do implement it.
And don't forget non-realism, there's still lots to explore in that area too.