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by andreyf 15y ago
In the audio version, they mention several times that patent law is founded in the constitution. I wish they would actually read it though, as it's not very complicated: The Congress shall have Power To [...] promote the Progress of Scienc
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by andreyf 15y ago
It basically is saying that the organizers either don’t want to put the effort into policing language at their event, or don’t trust the men to be mature and responsible enough to adhere to event policies. I'm not sure if "or" is the righ
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by andreyf 15y ago
I wonder how many of the 6k patents Apple gets, and how many of those will be used against Android. Also amount of money is rather astounding - $2.6B is pretty rare in buying companies, not just patents. This is 4.6x as much as Apple paid f
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Apple paid over half of the winning bid ($2.6B of $4.5B) for the Nortel patents(appleinsider.com)
2 points by andreyf 15y ago|1 comments
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by andreyf 15y ago
Will videos of the talks be published?
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by andreyf 15y ago
Err, I should have said "someone who is accused of intending..."
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by andreyf 15y ago
http://goo.gl/vulnz
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by andreyf 15y ago
There are no legal mechanisms, but showing support for someone that intended to destroy the value of their publisher's copyright would probably displease their partners...
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by andreyf 15y ago
There's a horrible misuse of the word "taken", when "copied" is so much more accurate.
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by andreyf 15y ago
Why do the charges all end with "and aided and abetted the same"?
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by andreyf 15y ago
OSX will open some newly mounted disks in Finder, but it won't automatically execute code. This doesn't mean it's safe against malicious hardware, though.
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by andreyf 15y ago
I can't imagine why I wouldn't want someone to know I prefer to be referred to as a "he"...
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by andreyf 15y ago
Why not simply reword the question to ask whether you prefer to be referred to as a "he" or "she"? In the rare case that it doesn't align with your genetic or anatomic gender, it's not exactly the end of the world.
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by andreyf 15y ago
I'm surprised there aren't laws against this. Can a business sue the FBI for ruining them like this? Surely, they could put together a team which can go in, copy the hard drives they need, and be out in a couple of hours. Even then, they sh
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by andreyf 15y ago
I love TED talks, but I'm not sure what to do with such a list without a sort-by-something...
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Google acquires SageTV(sagetv.com)
46 points by andreyf 15y ago|13 comments
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by andreyf 15y ago
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinetsFibonacciNumberFormula.ht...
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by andreyf 15y ago
I would recommend this habit especially to high school kids who bear the brunt of mass marketing from large corporations selling useless products. ...expound?
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by andreyf 15y ago
I think this is the "plumbing", if you will, of the internet. For a $400m acquisition, AdMeld doesn't even have a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdMeld
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by andreyf 15y ago
Does it make a difference that Amazon delivers e-books over a cellular connection I get for free, while Netflix delivers them over a cable internet connection I pay $100/month for?
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by andreyf 15y ago
Aren't transactions that occur on bitcoin p2p and "anonymous"? I think Neal Stephenson once predicted such a system would lead to the end of nation states (since they could no longer collect taxes)...
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by andreyf 16y ago
Prior discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425316
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by andreyf 16y ago
Multi-participant HD video conference?
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by andreyf 16y ago
How do we judge Ned, Ed, Fred, and Jed? We can't judge them in a vacuum. What is the rest of the team like? Are they all of the same mindset as Ned? Can they understand Fred's code? Which requirements did Ed relax and what is the quality
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Ask YC: Do you use mind maps? When are they most useful?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by andreyf 16y ago|3 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
Perhaps he's referencing to their post in response to Mint's acquisition [1]. I had the same response, although I don't use either service enough to have much validity behind my opinion: Wufoo seems to have been better executed than SurveyM
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by andreyf 16y ago
Although since it's open source, it shouldn't be too hard to remove this restriction.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Android, is still, however open source in so much as that Google has released the source under a license that permits derivative works. It is however, not Free Software, as it is Apache licensed. What definition of FS are you using? Could
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Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"(computinged.wordpress.com)
186 points by andreyf 16y ago|173 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
And a text editor, spreadsheet, and an IDE!

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