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Because owning the patent protects you from predatory companies. Any technology you use that conceivably could be patented, but isn't yet, is a legal risk - and "conceivably" includes things that are obvious, absurd patents from a developer's point of view but that the Patent Office might approve anyway.

It doesn't matter whether or not you plan to do predatory lawsuits. The current nature of patent law means that the incentive is to get away with as much as you can, as soon as you can - or else somebody else will get away with it and earn a chance to sue YOU.
Not a spreadsheet but any kind of document, if I understand it correctly.

ADDED: So, they applied a patent for embedding "small graphics" in a document. Oh well...
Interactive Architecture
Cool slideshow about interactive environments that use a system of robots - ones that can sense and react to their surroundings.
Working with Creately—happy diagramming
...said the blogazine.
The name looks a bit going against the sell. It doesn't live up to the site.
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I didn't realize the iPhone didn't have such a tool. I installed ShopSavvy the day I got my Droid, and I use it constantly.

More impressive, however, is Amazon's ability to find products based on a photo.

Interestingly, neither ShopSavvy nor Amazon correctly identify the Michael Crichton trade paperback "Prey" (both substitute a different product), but Amazon immediately found it when I used the 'photo search'. It does very well on book covers, even obscure/less popular ones. For instance, I got my Loeb book identified in about 5 minutes. I'm waiting for it to identify a highlighter (label visible), post-it notes, and Blistex (Label visible). Properly identifying non-packaged goods will be amazing.

Edit: it's identified each of my products perfectly using the "take a photo" so far. I haven't gone super obscure yet, but I haven't stayed just in the mainline.
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Not sure, but I know you can click "Can't Tell" aside rating them 1-5 which might equal a rating of zero.
Would you pay to have an expert review your code?
They wouldn't review your daily changes, but once in a while the whole source package is submitted for review.

- Flat out bugs
- Possible security issues
- Bad/inconsistant code style
- Use of old/deprecated functions that be replaced with the newer better thing
- Bad API
- Reinventing Foo that already exists under module X
- Much more...

It seems like this would be a valuable service. Not only to improve code, but to learn from. But would this be a service that everyone would think someone else could use, but not them?
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith: Which is better for developers?
Tufte's online description of sparklines, an additional reference to the helpful references provided in comments in this thread:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
Anonymous Credential System
With this, users could reveal specific required details about their identity and not all the information.
How to make open source experience shine on your resume
Synthesis: research OS based around self-modifying code
I was more put off by the fact that I was expecting an article about programming languages but got an article about the social dynamics of the people using programming languages.

This is like an article titled "How to fix Lisp" filled only with advice on how to appear less smug.
Here, accountability is key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability

So I'd use a social way to make all the structure accountable. A "real time" way of figuring out how any portion of the money deposited in the bank is being used, and the possibility to opt-out with one's money if, say, high executives have deep pockets or they invest in coal, oil, weapons, etc. (via funds, etc.)
Ask HN: I'd like to learn more about programming secure websites
I'd like to learn how to program secure websites. I use Django and have read the Django book (including chapter 20 on security). I'm more interested in SSL-type trust stuff than SQL injection, but I'm certainly not an expert on anything. Any weak link will break the chain, so please recommend whatever books you found helpful.

Thanks!
> Any technology you use that conceivably could be patented, but isn't yet, is a legal risk

No it isn't. It is prior art that should invalidate the patent.
$100 million won't do for that.
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Also, Firefox already gets snippy with Webkit because they bail on dealing with difficult corner cases (the page showing the HTML5 spec itself being a recent example), then trumpet how fast they are. Let's see how fast IE9 is when it actually supports the standards properly.
64-bits of protection?
These guys aren’t using standard WordPress themes or cutting corners to make their lives easier. Rather, they are challenging themselves and producing some fantastic content.

appearance != content
On that note, check the redesigned Engadget...not quite a 'magazine,' but edging in that direction...http://www.engadget.com/ (not in the sense that every post is designed differently, but in the way content is highlighted)
The simple point is the value of experience over a "world-class education system". It's quite an enlightening idea. The thousands and thousands of people paying a ridiculous amount for a "quality education" would disagree I'm sure.
I've seen it before and wasn't very impressed. Think more like Iron Man.
@onewland : feel free to test it ;) it's still in beta version, so any suggestions (even evil ones :D) are welcome!

@est: yeah... :)

@philjr: first ten languages are most popular ones, the rest is in the alphabetical order (between them is a special one - TEXT)

@philjr: we upgrade the servers - till 6 p.m. (CET) (planned)
Erlang is not a pure language, but it does have language and library features that make it easy to write purely functonal code.
http://codepad.org is better, I don't have to see "Loading... waiting for compilation"
Engadget unveils new design, format tweaks.
This blog post explains it better : http://www.igvita.com/2009/10/21/nginx-comet-low-latency-ser...
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YES.

in particular, i'd pay someone to do some real IT work for me. i've set up our server to serve our website, but i'm just a programmer. i've tried to learn about how to prevent our server from getting hacked, but i'd MUCH rather pay an expert to get it right.

code reviews for software would be pretty cool, too. i'd love to get advice on things i'm still learning or that are non-standard: eg server/Firefox extension architecture, esp. as it pertains to security, trust/SSL.

brainstorming or getting mentoring on database design and other design-y or code-y decisions would be neat, but at the same time we don't want to spend all our runway money on advice.

ummm....send me an email if you want to help :-)
This seems like a good opportunity to plug my friend Felix's Machines. A weird collection of music making machines that remove the human from performance. Check them out here: http://felixsmachines.com/

Don't miss the very cool video here: http://felixsmachines.com/video/

There are some more slightly more amateur videos of the machines on Youtube as well. There's also a video of Felix's TED talk coming out soon. And some albums next year I think...
Nah, it's Sarah Lacy. Pretty much the female version of the same.
Depends on your point of reference. An MBA with 2 years of b-school and 0 real experience is practically worthless next to someone with 10 years of real world experience and no MBA. Before everyone and their uncle began opening MBA courses you needed to have real experience before a school would even admit you. Now, the degree has been diluted down to someone good enough to slog through 2 more years of school. But we still have to train 'em.
I have mostly worked from home for the last 12 years. There is a real trick to it: identify projects that are mostly self contained with well defined deliverables; avoid projects that require tight coupling with the activities of other workers.

The biggest drawback is missing the fun of 'white board time' but adequate time on the telephone (or Skype for video) helps.

The advantages mostly involve being able to schedule work time for when you are feeling (and being) most productive. The ability to take a break (even if it is only doing 20 minutes of yard work, running an errand, playing a musical instrument for a few minutes, talk with family and neighbors) is often just the thing to later help get into a good work flow.
http://www.owasp.org should be the first place you look.
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Depending on the project, there is a good deal of statistics, as well as biology knowledge.

As far as getting involved, I would check out current literature in the general area of "Bioinformatics".
Also consider searching for publications in Systems Biology, Computational Biology, Functional Genomics.
Usually there are good articles coming out of Genome Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, as well as Nature, Cell, etc.

I recently began a position as a Bioinformatics Software Engineer, after spending 8 years on Wall St building trading and financial analysis applications, which was somewhat of a switch (though my bachelor's is in Chemistry). Spending time reading the current literature has helped me get involved/engaged.
This is from 2004:

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sparklines/
I'd hope so. I get paid to review code for security issues and have thought about offering this as a service.
this sounds like a problem to solve. i'd like to see a dating site that doesn't involve browsing profiles like a catalog, and encourages people to respond to messages a bit more.

kills two birds with one stone, if you have it based on a smarter matching algorithm that requires you to give private feedback on people you interact with, to help hone your personal recommendations. also makes fake profiles and spamming a much tougher prospect, and would probably give it an overall safer feel.
The least common denominator is going to be IE6 for the foreseable future whether MS releases a new version or not. Maybe by the time IE9 comes out it will be IE7.

There is always going to be a large base of people who don't update their OS until they buy a new computer and who don't replace the stock browser. IE has most of those users because it is the stock browser on the leading OS, not because it hasn't made progress. As Macs become more popular I bet you will have to start supporting obsolete versions of Safari too. Fun! :)
Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it
A great article! It made me realize that I need to be much more careful in setting up restrictions for PostgreSQL users (i.e., client applications).
Why not? What is content? Is it possible for the appearance to "mingle" with the content in a way that enhances or creates greater content? At that point is the appearance part of the content? Or is it more like a "content additive" ?
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Mac software companies have been doing this for years, it has nothing to do with the "app store model".
Are you sure you're not thinking of Swoopo, not Priceline?
This is a great idea if you're a designer and know what you're doing. I shudder at the thought of how appalling my personal website would look - think geocities at its worst! - if I tried this.

Conventions may be boring, but they allow us design duffers to focus on the content itself.
The millenium bridge was not simply a case of a bridge designed in 2-d instead of 3-d (it would have had to be designed in 3-d to account for wind loading). It was a math error, but it was much more complicated - essentially, the slight sideways motion people imparted to the bridge while walking caused the bridge to sway slightly, which in turn caused the people to walk in step with it, creating a positive feedback loop.
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A ~3 ton statue of you.
thanks. that kind of recommendation is exactly what i was hoping for.
Whoops, you're right. I hadn't really read in-depth when I ran into this several months ago, and I was rather peeved at the time regardless.

It doesn't really matter though - the point is, they still have a long way to go before they can earn back the trust they've squandered amongst the web development community.
The Day the MicroISV Movement Died
one question that if ind particularly perplexing: what is supposed to be secured over HTTPS v HHTP? should the entire site be HTTPS? including media? why do some folks talk about hybrids? is it for performance?
http://www.electrickazoo.com/

Now that's a modern instrument. It's actually incredibly fun to play, and can be useful in a mix with the right effects.
I would assemble a team to try and replicate several scientific experiments that have came out with inexplicable results. While a large number of those will turn out fraudulent, it is very possible that a few claims were true, but sounded so outlandish that they were considered fake right away.
I knew it had a name! :-) Thanks.
I've been lucky to experience both formal education, and quite a bit of service experience. Both were uniquely life changing for me in the social realm as well as academia. The common thread between these two experiences was the people I surrounded myself with.. without them, I likely would've learned quite a bit less of myself.
If you want something that is less popular science (the book was after all written for a popular audience), check out his papers.

Yes, his beard probably gets more ink than anything else. That's sad in a way (don't judge a book by its cover), but it's probably also good in another way, since it makes him pretty unforgettable.
I don't have bipolar disorder, but I do know on particularly stressful days that the best thing exercise does is get you out of your own head - so the only thing you can possibly do is focus on is moving faster, pushing that weight harder, swimming faster, etc.

Personally, if I'm exercising and can keep an internal thought dialogue, I'm not exercising hard enough. Then again, I've been a runner all my life, and we runners take great pleasure in feeling pain and finding that point where we just can't mentally take it anymore.

Bottom line though, exercise is bar none the single best thing you can do for personal health and sanity (after a good night's rest of course)
I can't help but think of Erlang. Erlang is by no means a DSL, but it is very well suited (both in terms of language features and its Virtual Machine) to writing distributed, concurrent applications. Why manipulate a hyopthetical language so that it is functional, has message-passing, allows hot-swapping of code, enforces single assignment etc. when a language with all those features already exists? And once you have manipulated a language to that extent haven't you created another language anyway, eliminating the possible benefits of having a single, malleable language?
"However, I imagine a time very soon when pypy will be able to replace many cpython run programs."

Shouldn't that be the goal. Maybe something like numpy could never be fully replaced by pure python code, but it possible json/xml parsing libs and many more could.
A huge airship — just the first of many. The first would probably be capable of lifting around 400 tons, but subsequent airships could be made larger and more efficient.

Yes, I'm being absolutely serious. I'm part of a group of people trying to get this done currently, and a lot of research has been done.

There have recently been a few companies who have tried and failed at this for various reasons, but we think it definitely can be done and we want to be the ones to do it.

Anyone have $100,000,000?
We lived and died by the OWASP recommendations at the bank that I used to work at. It's certainly a good place to start.
If I'm reading something, I don't want to be distracted by the fancy text layout and bright shiny colors. I just want clearly presented text with a minimum of complexity.

In rare cases special formatting can enhance the effect or help interpret something written, but in most cases it adds nothing except clutter. I found this article nearly unreadable because of the "interesting" and "exciting" way they presented it.
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Maybe I don't understand what this article is getting at, but isn't the idea of comparing a relational database, a no-sql database, a caching solution, and a half caching solution/half no-sql database (redis) fundamentally flawed?

It seems a lot like trying to compare apples and oranges.
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As I understand, SVN support will be added next week.
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The risk isn't that somebody else could patent the technology. The risk is that somebody else already has a patent that could be applied to your technology. If you can get a patent for your technology, that makes it much harder for somebody to stretch their patent to cover your technology, because the presumption of competence on the part of the USPTO leads to the conclusion that the two patents cover different things.
Precisely what I was trying to say.

Also, you and reddit between you really fucking upset the web server there for a bit; I've opened MaxClients up a bit and we seem to be serving rather faster now.
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Academic Researchers’ Conflicts of Interest Go Unreported
It's a rant. It says it's a rant.

It was aimed squarely at the rest of the perl 5 community; masak's post, which I do link, was aimed at the perl 6 community.

You'll find much of the rest of my blog is significantly less profanity-heavy, but being as subtle as a brick to the face was precisely the point here.
Ironically, I was just reading through some PostgreSQL code and thinking how bad this one part was :)

But this is a fun post, and I hope it gets some donations.
There's a good argument that smugness is one of lisp's biggest problems. I would applaud such an article, if it was as widely read and listened to as mine appears to be going to be.
I totally agree, the people that you surround yourself with, either in academics or in the workplace, can certainly have an enormous impact on how much you learn and grow personally. Maybe it's time to change jobs... :-)
If you're offering, I'll take you up on it. :)

I am interested in both robotics and agriculture, specifically small scale agriculture such as home hydroponics and container gardening. I would create a company based on the idea of combining the two fields in order to help bring technology and automation to the process of growing healthy food in limited spaces.
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One would typically serve media and static content via HTTP because of performance, and probably more importantly, easier caching architecture as it's impossible to cache TLS'ed content outside the web server.

You might want to serve some personally-identifiable or sensitive data via HTTPS if you have the the resources. At the very least, you should authenticate via HTTPS which is what a lot of services do.
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the author states "look at what Microsoft just PATENTED today under a United States Patent Application 20090282325"

Its not patented....It just an application. It is a very important distinction.

Anyone can file a appication, claiming to invent anything: for example http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0035812.html
Closures in JDK 7
The photography really brings it all together. It feels like I'm looking at behind-the-scenes photos of an Aphex Twin video.
HTTPS encrypts the connection between the client and the server, so, login pages and all backend/control panel pages should be HTTPS.

Reason being, someone between the client and the server can sniff the traffic. If it is HTTPS it will be encrypted; if not, plain as day. Hence the reason why login pages usually redirect you over to a HTTPS login page, when you login you don't want to send your username and password pair to the server in plaintext!

What's funny is people often still send their email creds to their email server without being encrypted either...

Your whole site should not use HTTPS unless all of the data or functionality on that site were sensitive. Pretty simple rule of thumb: public facing pages use HTTP and login pages + anything behind use HTTPS.
Does that have any effect? I thought you also had to pay them thousands of dollars for a re-exam, with no refund even if you win.
The article describes the superconducting supercollider as a forerunner to the LHC, however the SSC was designed to produce collisions with over 3x the energy of the LHC.

Also, I'm surprised the Ariane 5's first launch didn't make this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5_Flight_501

Inertial guidance code and systems were reused from the Ariane 4, but the greater thrust of the Ariane 5 caused a 16-bit signed integer value to overflow resulting in a cascade of problems culminating in the loss of attitude control and destruction of the launch vehicle.
New OWF Licensing Used by Industry Heavyweights to Open Source Standards
Total noob question, but I'll ask it anyway: is there any coding that has to be done to do HTTPS, or is it as simple as linking to the same page with https in the front?
Is there a description of the sandboxing and watchdogging performed that we can read?

Are said components open source?

I cannot find this information about SPOJ. It is a black box.