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1. 691.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   It now also occurred to me that location of the victim and abuser is also important. City or state at least.
2. 692.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   Thanks for the link, but key here is to track threats rather than lawsuits. A lot of threats are just settled and no one hears of them.
3. 693.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   You need stuff like patent numbers in question, the companies involved, industries, categories, links to relevant news stories and blog posts, etc. People should be able to submit what they know (you don't want to gather all this info yours
4. 694.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   Someone PLEASE make a patent trolling incident database that would include cases like that one. Two purposes: 1) you will gather an enormous amount of trolling evidence which will come in handy when this issue will get more attention from g
5. 695.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   The problem with HN is that it shows comment rating as MAX(-4,commentRating). Some people are not aware of this and downvote the comment further, thinking that -4 is not good enough punishment for it. If they saw that the abusing comment ha
6. 696.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   I indeed thought it was like 40% smaller, probably because rectangular world maps are so distorted.
7. 697.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   Which software niche is not already oversaturated? :)
8. 698.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   However, from Facebook help center: > Similar to being tagged in a photo, you can only be added to a group by one of your friends. Maybe you either don't really need 61532 "friends" or Facebook should have a distinction between Friends
9. 699.▲
   by raquo 16y ago

   Until oil prices skyrocketed, I'd say.
10. 700.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    - there is some problem to be solved - I must understand how people solve the problem (apart from specially designated software) - I must understand what's wrong with all existing solutions - I must be personally interested in solving that
11. 701.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    FWIW, the only flight that Buran performed was 100% automatic from launch to landing, with no crew on board, in 1988. It could have been an awesome machine.
12. 702.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    I think that was unintended and this clarification is of exactly that part of the original email.
13. 703.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    It is totally legit, an official holiday in Russia since last year. However, we here have such days for a lot of different professions, so of course none of them are days off work, just days of vanity and recognition :)
14. 704.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    I indeed haven't seen much of US transportation, only MTA buses in LA which seemed nice (they can even carry bicycles on the outside). European subways are not perfect but totally reasonable, definitely better than Moscow. Frankly it's hard
15. 705.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    I hope that's sarcasm. The potential downside of messing with Russian police is orders of magnitude higher than the upside from trying to protect some random client, especially if this incident was initiated by some high official.
16. 706.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Reliable? On any given year at least one of the major stations is fully or partially closed down. Recently Park Kultury was partially closed for several months, Belorusskaya is probably going to be closed for some time next year. The la
17. 707.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Excellent public transport in Moscow??? It's so untrue, I just assume you don't live here.
18. 708.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Is the "scroll up to zoom out" behaviour intended? Usually it's the other way.
19. 709.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Achieving reliable fraud detection is apparently very hard
20. 710.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Still playable even when the ball goes offscreen!
21. 711.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    In some countries $5/hour is a very good salary... Even in Russia it's about the average income IIRC if you assume 40-hour workweek.
22. 712.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Why+the+iPhone+will+fail%2... Just one in 103,000
23. 713.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    It's not missed primarily because there's perfect visual feedback – when you scroll, the screen scrolls immediately (even if you reached the edge, it still scrolls a bit), when you type you see the letters popping up exactly at the point
24. 714.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Writing an average 2d game with a good framework like cocos2d is easier than most applications IMHO, so it could be a good start.
25. 715.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Sadly, a startup is at least two of these and still doesn't qualify :/
26. 716.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Is there more evidence to it than one case? My parents applied for the lottery and had no problems getting tourist visas afterwards even though we have a lot of relatives living there. And Google does not seem to know about this problem eit
27. 717.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Ouch. Strawman attack. I want to get rich for several reasons. * I don't want to think about money * I want to be able to chose stuff to work on * I want some expensive things, like learning to fly and moving out of my country To get rich,
28. 718.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    Are you going to use a service that is worse and/or more expensive then? If their international rates are competitive, there's nothing wrong with that. Not all services are profit centers. Some need to be subsidized. Others should be su
29. 719.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    ^^^ Free startup idea
30. 720.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    (off topic a bit) I think every Russian HNer laughed out loud when they saw this title. Nanotech here in Russia is a synonym of enormous and inefficient government spending on vaporware since they started considering it a "National project"