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From OP:

> Apple said in a statement that the case “has always been about more than money.”

> “We believe deeply in the value of design, and our teams work tirelessly to create innovative products that delight our customers,” the company said.

> After the 2012 jury sided with Apple, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the lawsuit was about values, and that the company “chose legal action very reluctantly and only after repeatedly asking Samsung to stop copying” its work.

From an old Samsung filing on Groklaw:[1] (seen via
kregasaurusrex's comment)

> For its part, Apple‘s "revolutionary" iPhone design was derived from the designs of a competitor—Sony. In February 2006, before the claimed iPhone design was conceived of, Apple executive Tony Fadell circulated a news article to Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive and others. In the article, a Sony designer discussed Sony designs for portable electronic devices that lacked buttons and other "excessive ornamentation," fit in the hand, were "square with a screen" and had "corners [which] have been rounded out." Ex. 18 (DX 649). Right after this article was circulated internally, Apple industrial designer Shin Nishibori was directed to prepare a [redacted] design for an Apple phone and then had CAD drawings and a three-dimensional model prepared. See Exs. 1-3 (DX 623; DX 690; DX 562). Confirming the origin of the design, these internal Apple CAD drawings prepared at Mr. Nishibori‘s direction even had [redacted] on the phone design, as the below images from Apple‘s internal documents show: [redacted image] Soon afterward, on March 8, 2006, Apple designer Richard Howarth reported that, in contrast to another internal design that was then under consideration, Mr. Nishibori‘s [redacted] design enabled [redacted] As Mr. Nishibori has confirmed in deposition testimony, this [redacted] design he prepared changed the course of the project that yielded the final iPhone design.

> Design was not the only thing Apple took from other companies in developing the iPhone. While Apple touts itself in the popular press as a company of "firsts," it recognizes the opposite internally. As Apple admitted in internal emails, Apple was not the first [redacted]

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120726121512...
It's not like it's hard to carve out a niche now that literally every flagship phone is functionally identical. There have been so many novel features that have been tried since the birth of the Android ecosystem that there are bound to be dozens of useful, now-unique features to choose from that only failed to be adopted because the phone they debuted on was fatally flawed in other ways.

In my opinion, there are 3 major features that are immediately obvious, yet always overlooked by OEMs that are such low hanging fruit that I'm constantly amazed that no manufacturer has put them all together. They aren't even all that interesting either, the only reason they haven't caught on is that all the also-ran's have tunnel vision about playing copycat with Samsung and Apple.

1. Battery life. Seriously, we could have phones with 4+ days of battery life if we'd only stopped making them thinner to the point where the rear camera sticks out, effectively ruining the aesthetic of thinness. We've also sacrificed the 3.5mm jack in the pursuit of the most anorexic phones imaginable and all for what? A feeling of awe when we open the box of a new phone which only lasts 10 seconds before we throw it in a case which makes it as thick as an OG Motorola Droid?

2. Stock Android. Stock Android. Stock Android. I will never buy anything but a phone running stock Android (or maybe a dumbphone once Big Brother Google pushes me over the edge). Even the most technically illiterate users recognize that stock Android (whether they know what that means) is vastly superior to the Samsung Galaxy Whatever they just traded in.

3. Durability/Ease of Repair. Modern phones have become less fragile in many ways (waterproofing) but the screens and batteries are still weak points. Glass can never be made shatter-proof and lithium ion batteries will always lose a significant amount of charge capacity after being cycled several hundred times (a fault made worse by fitting a phone with a battery that often requires 2+ charges a day). So how do you fix this? Easy, just make the screens and batteries easy to replace like those of older iPhones. This works directly in conjunction with point #1 as we've been forced to accept bonded screens and sealed back panels as a result of the thinness wars.

Extra Credit: You know how you can get my money as well as the money of everyone I know? Bring back the landscape QWERTY keyboard. There hasn't been a phone since the Droid 2 that could lay claim to being anything more than a lower midrange design. The first company to do all of the above will make waves, I promise you.
The fact that your designs "don't work" is very disconcerting - given that we've spent 20 years trying to separate function from design. Does this mean that after 20 years that we still don't have a good clean separation?
(depending on maintenance costs for cryo sleep...)
What about Amazon picking this company ? Seems interesting for their Fire line
Tesla's Musk bashes media, proposes credibility check
Like, could Qualcomm potentially say that their patent licensing practices are implicitly legitimized by Apple themselves in this very case?
Trump goes into space with order to cut red tape
I largely agree with much of your comment.

However, I think it is possible for a less intelligent person to identify the most intelligent among 2-3 disagreeing smarter people if all of them is rational and accepts solid evidence/results of thought experiments AND the most intelligent is good at articulating his/her rationale for having a belief.

With this method, the perceiver must have a pretty high threshold of intelligence and rationality themselves in order to identify good reasoning and detect issues with bad reasoning/biases though.

Another method is looking at the results of several predictions in different domains. Assuming roughly equal initial expertise and data, the more intelligent should get more predictions right.

The latter method only requires knowledge/intuition of basic statistics.
In what way?
Do you accept the premise that certain precise design elements, organized in a precise manner, are patentable?
Ask HN: What are some good resources on modern Data Engineering?
Data Engineering is a very wide field with an even wider variety of tools. What are some good resources that can shine some light on how to successfully build and run a modern Data Engineering operation at scale?

Specifically talking about practical techniques and preferably open-source software that can be composed to build a solution for the following:
* Data Collection / Ingestion of streaming and batch snapshot data
* Structuring a Data Lake
* Creating and operating data pipelines
* ETL or ELT?
* Do you share source data between the warehouse tables and machine learning / streaming pipelines?
* Data Warehouse
* Machine Learning / Data Science / Spark
* Data Visualization
* ML Model Serving (and streaming updates)
* Data Lineage
* Am I forgetting anything?

I realise this is a very broad question. I know that there are good solutions (open source and commercial) for all of these if I simply Google, but integrating them well seems to be an art.

If you know of any books or resources or experts to follow, please share.
Not really much of a fun fact
That's good to hear, sounds like a very cool project. I could see this living up to at least some of the hype that the original Segways received.

The biggest challenge will probably be to keep people from screwing with the bikes, of course. :( An unoccupied bicycle cruising down the street or sidewalk will fire all sorts of mischievous neurons that onlookers didn't even know they had.
> Syntactic complexity is linear with expressive power

Have you taken a serious look at a lisp? You might be pleasently surprised. Everything that can be said about lisp has probably already been said, but I'd argue that sexprs have a much higher expressive/complexity ratio than say the C++ grammar.

Somewhat relative xkcd[1]

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/224:_Lisp
> I have zero interest in politics or anything even slightly political - I can't even describe what left wing vs right wing actually means

Political apathy is toxic. You don't have to be obsessed with politics but it's everyone's civic duty to understand the basic principles and players of our political system. Low voter turnout and low-information voters were major factors in Trump's win. You may think you don't care about politics but it's practically guaranteed you are or will be affected in some way (probably negative) as a result of his election - even if you don't live in the US.
Small cells will be a critical part of 5G deployment. The FCC is projecting they’ll need to approve ten times as many cell sites for 5G as have been approved to date for all previous technologies. They’re working to reduce the regulatory barriers to doing that: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/22/fcc-votes-to-streamline-5...

Small cells are still way cheaper than building land line. I had Comcast run fiber to my house recently, and it was very interesting to see the process play out. Aside feom waiting months for a permit, running fiber along the main street was quick. Running it down my weird little side street took just as long as running it half a mile down the main road. And running it through my yard took just as much time as that. Getting rid of the last 1,000 feet is a huge benefit.
Not knocking the design in any way. Just expressing frustration and sadness that you've even have to think about function.
The State of Universal Word Embeddings and Sentence Embeddings
Is there a Github repo?
This is whataboutism. Samsung has been punished and taken major losses as a result of their faulty design. Apple still has people trying to pretend that it wasn't such a bad problem.
This indicates that people may care deeply about their privacy when they've experienced a breach thereof. It is consistent with people not caring about their privacy because they can't imagine such a breach or project how they would feel if it did happen to them. It does not support their not caring about it.

The loss of privacy spreading throughout civilization is recent and rapid. It's not surprising that somebody might think about it differently after they've experienced it. We haven't had time to come to terms with what out technology can do.
Is your dentist applying for front-end development positions when he has no business doing it? Then he's stupid.
> That's not how that works. If you are a police officer in the United States and you've been told you are going into a situation where your opposition is armed and has already killed at least one person you will be very nervous.

I have been told many times that police officers are very likely to shoot unarmed innocent people. Should I shoot police officers with the same levity?
Hi All on HN!

My name is Kola I am a .NET Architect currently working on WPF projects.

I was working on a SugarCrm WPF project - https://github.com/mattkol/SugarDesk - and wanted to include a reporting module to my project.
I was presented with many options and concluded that an HTML5 report will be more appropriate. That led me to Cef. However all Cef WPF implementations use bitmap rendering (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43362301/automation-why-...). I started looking into raw html rendering. Long story short - Chromely was born. I found it a lot more challenging and rewarding, as a result, I abandoned SugarDesk to focus more on Chromely as I concluded in my mind there is almost no fully developed framework using Cef and thin native UI host without WinForms or WPF.

Summary:
Chromely is a lightweight .NET/.NET Core HTML5 Chromium desktop framework alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers.

Chromely builds HTML5 desktops without WinForms or WPF. Chromely is based on CEF's Xilium.CefGlue and CefSharp using thin Windows and Linux native GUI API as chromium hosts.

With Chromely, you can build SPA's HTML5 desktop apps- using Angular, React, Vue or similar - with or without Node/NPM.

For more info please go to - https://github.com/mattkol/Chromely
Because it supposedly puts people on some kind of watch list? Tho pranking with stuff like that ain't exactly the coolest thing to do: "Haha I framed you for terrorism, gotcha!"
Just like cellphones, it adds convenience to one's life. I can ask it to play an album or my favorite news while cooking or driving without having to stop what I'm doing to deal with a small graphical interface.

The killer feature for me is being able to add stuff to our family grocery list. It's so much better than opening an app, swiping around and typing on a tiny keyboard.

Once you get used to doing things via voice it's hard to go back.
The real question: has anyone bought a Samsung phone because they wanted something that looked like an iPhone but didn't particularly care or know enough to worry about it being an Apple device?

"Hey, this Samsung phone is cheaper and looks the same, I'll just buy it instead" is probably more common than we'd think.
From the mobile marketplace ecosystem point of view this isn't good for the consumer. That being said the entry barrier is quite high for anyone, even essential...
Hmm, good points, now that you mention it. Thanks.
I think maybe he is talking about the general IDEA, not necessarily the look and feel. You're right in asserting that there really was nothing like iPhone before iPhone, but the IDEA was there from way back with HP Jornadas and the older BREW phones. (I do concede that the UI of all of those devices was, in PRACTICE, much different than the iPhone UI. That much is undeniable when you look at old pictures of them. Back then, basically they all tried to copy MS Windows in a small screen.)
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Hyperloglog was only just invented, and hadn't really made its way into the popular developer consciousness.

Anyhow, the solution is easier than that (implement lock striping, i.e. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16151606/need-simple-exp...), but I was reorg'd away before my code hit production, so I'm not sure what happened there.
> Value has been created

But not dollars, which is what you are using to classify gambling as negative-sum.

> Many countries use value creation as an explicit taxation model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax

If the gobernment collected that tax but didnt spend or issued money, even VAT ends up capturing all the money supply.

This is an unnecessary long argumentation. Gambling is not negative sum because they provider entertainment that has utility.
Quadrotor Safety System Stops Propellers Before You Lose a Finger
...and overpriced for what it was.

Perhaps if they hadn't hyped it up so much before release, there would have been less disappointment.
Hey, nice work.

What would you say differentiates this service from say, Zapier?
To me that means they weren't walking directly under the street lamp. If you look at other peoples videos of that street at night on youtube it's well lit. Street lamps cast a wide spotlight so you don't have to be directly under it to still have illumination.
Also, that'd be long-term usable only if the screen is ~flat on the desk. Otherwise it becomes exercise.

And in effect, that's what I've used for many years. I have a relatively large touchpad. And when I need resolution, a graphics tablet.

The Surface Studio is cool, but I'd want something that resisted coffee and food splatters ;) As the original Surface did.[0] It could also scan text :) Which is something that I, when I was first learning about PCs, naively expected.

0) https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-surface-pixelsense-...
Because he is silly. Pravda is similar to Polish word Prawda than means truth. Truth is very difficult to establish outside science.

- People are biased in many different ways.
- Modern propaganda can use true facts to build any public perception.
- You can have contradictory facts about same events
- Cognitive dissonance has the stronger effect than people think.
- Sometimes lies are needed because the truth is not something people can deal with
- Perspective is different between genders/race/religion etc

An incredibly difficult social problem not technical. Wikipedia tries to build a system like that and it far from a success.
The individuals walking around with those weapons in France do not have the same intentions as the US counter parts. In the US those armed like this will size up every person walking by them, in France they are there patrolling but in a very passive manner. In such a way that made me feel like they were weak in France, but I prefer to not have the flight response when feeling the gaze of someone who is heavily armed.
You do know you can skip those ads with a cheap VPN subscription, right ?
There’s a wide range of diets between “not literally starving” and “eating a nutritious and healthy diet.”
or micro SD card support
But cops, especially highly trained SWAT officers answering a potentially very dangerous call are never just standing in the open - they were surely prepared for the situation, ducking behind their armored vehicles with automatic weapons drawn. I have trouble believing even the fastest criminal could get his gun out, while walking out the door and surrounded by highly trained SWAT officers in their protective gear, and manage to take one out. Or are you telling me that Hollywood movies are accurate? ;) Besides that, why not train officers to shoot for the legs instead? If they're so unsure of their accuracy, have a few people shoot... I imagine 5 gunshot wounds to the legs gives a slightly higher chance of survival than a head-shot.
Game-changing neutrino experiments
That link isn't readable but the SMBC 'how science reporting works', ID #1623 comes to mind.
Yet more and more people kept moving into cities because the factory jobs that "all sucked" were better than subsistence farming.
Coyotes come through and rip up our plastic irrigation feed lines every year (Bay Area, Peninsula hills). No mystery, they need water.

I've had "replace plastic with steel lines" on my to-do list since 2014, but haven't had the heart to cut off their water supply. That, and laziness.

They've been around my home far longer than I have, so I guess I'm the invasive species. I'm grateful they've traded access to water for snacking on my dog.
Massively widely studied and corroborated. Google-scholar it and knock yourself out. Some examples:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978008043...

http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1993-29924-001

http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1981-21525-001
So, basically, if I understand, Perl has both awk and sed built in.
Looks a bit like http://luna-lang.org to me. Are there similarities?
If you believe GDPR requires you to hire a dedicated compliance officer then you don't understand or have not read the law you're so vehemently against.
Weren't you the one previously saying that don't panic (https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria) because of GDPR back in the day? And now you are advocating that they should have already complied with GDPR given its impact!

Make up your mind.

And this is exactly why this is such a shitshow. Stop attacking people who haven't complied because small developers have other things rather than trying to figure out whether they have to redo their logs if a user asks their data to be deleted. This is almost bullying behavior.
Working in a service can be haunting experience. Long hours and yet it is often not appreciated by customers. I was in IT line too.. Know how you feel.

So what's the job that you have now ?
This article really articulated something I've felt for a long time when it mentioned how many people would rather drive off a cliff than use a racial slur but will happily call someone stupid.

I plan to reduce my own usage of the "s" word. Reason being is that intelligence is largely dicatated by genes and the environment you grew up in, neither of which you have control over.
>If I think they might walk on the street I of course slow down

And that's what I'm talking about. Computers aren't all that good at determining whether or not a person is going to jump into the street.
Ask HN: Is there a clear, mature discussion of OOP/functional tradeoffs?
Since getting into web development I've found myself regularly in contact with folks who take it for granted that OOP as a paradigm has proven itself a failure (typically with the attendant viewpoint that functional programming has proven itself to be superior).

My current perception is that it's primarily bandwagon mentality promoting the above viewpoint. For instance, I was reading an article purporting to explain what object-oriented programming 'really' is, and they cited as part of their motivation for bringing this up the wildly popular "Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming"[0]; and while the first article was not what I would call a particularly deep discussion of the nature of OOP, the popular article it referenced (with 44k upvotes) was just laughably unsophisticated, uninformed, and rhetoric-laden. Every point he put forward had such a simplistic rebuttal that I had to wonder if he was intentionally setting up straw-men or just didn't know better.

So now it's on my mind: "is this the sort of thing folks are reading which has given them the idea that OOP has been disproven as effective?"

Now I feel motivated to take a close look at the issue if there is a serious, well-informed dissection of the efficacy of OOP for modern developers. It would especially be valuable if instead of vaguely referring to inadequacies it also pointed out how alternate paradigms more successfully deal with specific points.

My current suspicion is, regarding OOP vs. functional: both can be used well or poorly, so a lot of it just comes down to the developer's ability to exploit their features—and the rest just depends on the domain you're trying to model. For instance, if that domain deals with a bunch of things that look and interact like objects, then OOP will probably be better; if it's mostly a complex, abstract computation, functional would be better.

[0] https://medium.com/@cscalfani/goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53
Muons: the little-known particles helping to probe the impenetrable
So which is better? People not eating, or people working in bad conditions?

Keep in mind that early industrialization was mainly subsistence farmers moving into cities to hugely improve their lives. Child labor was the norm, especially on farms, so children working in factories was an improvement. Do you think that accidents didn't happen to kids subsistence farming with their families or starving to death in central Europe?
I agree I thought subway in Singapore was amazing last time I visited. What I really liked was the way the carriage always stopped at the same fixed point on platform and they had designated areas for people to stand when embarking. It made the whole process of getting on and off the train much more organised.

Here in Australia trains are no where near that disciplined about where on platform they stop. Carriage doors can be anywhere so basically as soon as train pulls into station everyone on platform surges towards nearest door.

I was in London in January I found the underground there very confusing. I was doing the typical tourist sight seeing thing and was trying to get from Tower of London to the British Museum I knew the stations were on different lines I knew I had to get to the Piccadilly line but there was a lack of detail as to where to change trains. There were voice announcements on trains themselves "Change here for xxx line" but signage was pretty poor.