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If Samsung's IP was really that strong - if they really have patents "essential" to wireless communications - then my first question is why they allow any competitors.

Florian Mueller makes a reasonable case that Samsung is trying to assert a very different kind of patent in a highly unusual way - http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/10/samsungs-attempt-to-.... TLDR: these kind of patents fall under the FRAND (fair reasonable non-discriminatory framework) and Samsung is obligated to grant them to anyone ("non-discriminatory") that wants them for a "reasonable" fee. To press an injunction without any arbitration violates the basic spirit of FRAND. Agree with their case or not, Apple's patents in question do not have these restrictions.
Apple’s fall from grace
Go to grad school and you can focus on this sort of thing.

Timing is a problem for undergrad research. Big research projects have long and unpredictable timescales. As Robert Sapolsky once said: "one reason you can't easily study the long-term effect of stress on human health is that you can't spend thirty years in graduate school." From the article:

More than 130 students worked on the project over 7 years

Nobody wants to pay tuition for seven years. Instead, undergrads are encouraged to graduate expeditiously, and then look for some grants to support them during the ensuing long slog of research.
Doesn't this specific criticism hold for hard links too?
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Isn't entire AAPL event the same though?
Creepy though to see how effective Apple marketing can be.

4.3" screen (the Fusion edit: make that "Infuse" is 4.5") versus 3.5" screen is a massive difference.

Apple pushes Facetime yet Samsung SGII has front camera with 2MP 1920x1080 versus the iPhone at VGA 640x480 (.3MP)

Vlingo is pretty darn good too.

Although Android has to fix stuff like this http://i.imgur.com/mGwxD.jpg
This was not unexpected. Several years ago there was an enigmatic post in his blog, a comparison with David Salinger author of The Catcher in the Rye, after publishing that book Salinger disappeared from public presence and hide from any form of popularity. The best friend of Mark died from drug consumption not long ago, and he was really disappointed about that. One time Mark said that all his activity in the web was of no use for getting a good friend. He think that you can have only one friend that survive you, and that friend is not here ...

No wonder people imagine strange things happening when someone decide to disappear in the web.
The upgrade path of Fedora is a bit clunky.

It's basically:
rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/A82BA4B7.txt
yum update yum
yum clean all
yum --releasever=16 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync

I am pretty sure I upgraded 15->16 in place using a liveCD/install CD which was cool.
> and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.

The Bundesverfassungsgericht (federal constitutional court) is the only organ that reliably keeps doing its job, ensuring that the newly passed laws are in fact constitutional -- a test that was failed so many times in the recent past. Calling that jealous behavior is a very strange position to take.
Do all phone plans cost the same in the US? A free phone plus $10 a month is a lot more affordable than a free phone plus $60 a month.
As soon as we detect malware, that info starts getting sent to various places (e.g. the safe browsing lists that browsers use). But the data can take a while to get everywhere; in this case, it sounds like it made it to browsers a little before webmaster tools. That's unfortunate, but in general we wouldn't want to hold off showing the info in the browsers for any reason, because more users would be infected.

It's a pain to get hacked, but on the bright side it will probably help you harden security in the longer run. Some quick, simple tricks (e.g. use an .htaccess file to make a whitelist of IP addresses that can access your /wp-admin/ directory) can give a lot of protection.
Not sure if an add-on meant that I missed elements of the front page, but it was very bland. You could jump people straight to a demonstration with some presets so they quickly get an idea of what's going on?

As @headsclouds said, shared office expenses are probably a good target for this and you could look to pursue that opportunity specifically with a domain alias and tailored copy pretty easily.

I am in a shared office situation and have expenses that would be perfect to track using this, but it would all have to be crystal clear for me to bother switching from just writing notes on paper (and losing them).

Can't think of a strong way you could monetise this so it might be best to keep it clean and ad free, then have it "Presented by (some company/service relevant to small business types)", whether that's a single sponsor or another business/service of yours.

Edit: Added another participant and noticed the colour-coded data when you mouse over their names. Make it a bit clearer that you can mouseover for that info - maybe a magnifying glass icon.

Maybe you could have 3-5 read-only demo sheets - friends on a trip, shared office situation, someone needing to be paid back for buying the game tickets (I could use it for this right now too), people chipping in for a joint wedding gift, etc.
I love how the battery comparison doesn't look at using the internet...
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You're right. It's not about one being better than the other when compared side-by-side, it's about re-enforcing a particular market segment's belief that their purchasing decision or decision to be was the correct one.

Samsung, or any other same-space competitor is making no allusions about converting hordes of Apple customers based on a chart or infograph; they're reconverting existing customers and trolling for virgins.

td;dr: your wife will put out if you talk about the new girl at the office.
No. They're just a bunch of script kiddies. Ignore them.
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Markets are indeed composed of many agents, people and institutions squandering your pension money, all of whom hide behind the faceless market, arguing that if "the market" is doing it, it has to be right. Which is exactly what got us into this mess in the first place - everyone shirking off responsibility for their actions.
>"Apple is all about the brand. About image. About quality."

That's what makes Siri such a concern.

When was the last time Apple released a beta product? Have they been hiring too many Googlers?

Or, given that "Siri" alledgedly sounds like slang for buttocks according to today's interwebs, bought an outside technology and didn't immediately rebrand it to sound Apple like?
I've actually been asked for this exact feature once before. My response was "you are the only one who would need that", but it seems I was wrong..
I spent 4 years work standing up, at a drawing desk - it was really great. I had a high chair to sit on if you needed to but most of the time I was standing with a pen in my hand and the board at a slight tilt towards me. I wasn't an architect or draughtsman so I wasn't using the t-square - just pen and paper, but I long for those days.

I never got tired because you move all the time, and I never had back problems. OK I was younger then.

I once saw a long since removed video of a touch interface demo'd on an A0 size table by a company that Apple subsequently bought (about 10 years ago) I'm wondering if they'll ever get round to producing that device for real - I'd certainly by a desk sized touch screen mac and get back to the good ol' days.
> We don't have a big(and stupid) elite

Can I also get some of that stuff you're smoking? It looks awesome, dude!
Of course it is. That doesn't mean the stats Apple pushes should make it to the front page of Hacker News either.
A G+ post of an image of someone's comment about someone's rant. Can we be done with this "topic" please?
There just is no pleasing everyone is there. Next there will be angry calls to +God for not posting public.
In addition to the myriad of reasons a page / site can be slow, with .NET if the site has to do a cold start, aka nobody's accessed it in a while (by default 20 minutes), it can take a significant amount of time to load it all up depending on various factors.

If you know you're scraping a .NET site you could do a simple request a few minutes earlier so it shouldn't have to do a cold start.
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What a stronger Chinese yuan means for the U.S.
Born in India, raised in America.
I would still worry a bit. Some hackers will show a broken link if you're accessing a page directly with no referrers, for example. But if you come in with a referrer or from a search engine, then they might return the malware payload.

If a site was showing up recently in our malware list, it's practically certain that an actual user downloaded malware via the site.
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I very much doubt that the average PC owner would agree that automatic software updates make their computer better.
Yes, I was mirroring Mike's original headings and didn't change them, but this is one area where my inner pedant was awoken. Glad to see I'm not alone!

The point here is simply that you should pass the object you directly want to work with, not a class that can be used to generate that object. So if the business of your method is to actually operate on a class object, that's fine. But if you're calling new() on that class, probably not as fine.
The sentiment is justified, but the position is untenable. With every passing day, Greek debt compounds massively, and the hole gets bigger. Meanwhile, the uncertainty in the markets causes further volatility and pain for all concerned, and you risk the setting in of total panic. You end up with the worst of both worlds: all the market pain of a Greek default, without the default itself...but with the default still quite likely.

The Greek economy is dysfunctional to its core (even a passing skim-through of Michael Lewis's new book will give you a sense for just how dysfunctional it is). But that isn't the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that Greece was brought into the Euro monetary collective in the first place, and given the credit ratings and borrowing rates of a country like Germany. Banks had a large part in helping put lipstick on the Greek pig, covering up its systemic flaws and getting it ready for EU primetime.

So imagine that Greek dysfunction was like a caged and abused pitbull, and Greece's EU inclusion was like walking into that cage waving a bloody hunk of meat in either arm. Who do you blame when you lose a few limbs: the pitbull, or yourself?
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I think it's a wonderful use case, even though I'd be too annoyed to use it. When somebody else is looking at your screen and you quickly switch desktops, they might not understand what's happening. The cube shows what's you've done quite clearly.
I don't get it.

Why is Google so careful with opening more stores like this?

It seems pretty clear that such stores are extremely good at selling products to your average customer. Why not open dozens, even hundreds of them, all over the world?
That was almost as good as the article, and very much worth a read. An alternate, and in my opion better, explanation of the phenomenon.
That's really cool.

It depends on the way you look at it I think. The 75% who dropped out were probably not that interested in your company/products anyway. Sure, they might have been computer programming aces, but in the end I think this is a good filter for people who are actually with you for the mission/job as well as the money.
Wow a reply from Matt Cutts himself! _blushes_ :)

Thanks for the explanation, and it makes sense. One thing I would suggest is to update the docs to point this out!

"Please trust the warning over what Webmaster tools says as they might take a while to update".

Love the idea of the .htaccess for /wp-admin/, I'll make sure the WPEngine guys implement that for our site.

So sorry for this whole hoopla everyone, and thanks for the help.
While not specifically about the american dream I do remember finding this ted talk by Alain de Botton quite interesting http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_ph...
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I disagree. They care about screen size. That makes people go "wow" when they are in the cell phone store.

Also, not having to pay an extra $100 or $200 for more capacity, although they probably "don't care" in that they just buy the smallest iPhone.
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They get better up to the point where you have to reinstall Windows because everything's turned to sludge. Frankly I suspect the same thing's happening to my MacBook too. I can't prove it, but it sure feels slower than when I bought it.

If Chromebooks can solve this problem, whatever the root of the problem may be, then maybe they're onto something.
Brazilian here, and I have to agree with you on that.
It's so bad to start a company here that many start-ups are going to other countries trying to ease their way.
Taxes and bureaucracy are insane here.
This is not sarcasm by the way. I like being nostalgic and apparently I like system related stuff as opposed to web programming. But keep doing what y'all did.
Are you saying Germany has no debt?
Wow. I didn't know that. What about cross-domain policy? Is this trying to legitimise XSS or are they trying to patent the use of iframes?
Good prudent advice, shd be appendix to oneo f McConnell's books.

I would add, keep some exercise equipment and musical isntruments nearby to keep your brain zonable. I recommend a exercise ball and chinup bar with some TRX training straps. And a Ibanez electric guitar and a clarinet!
And ask Charlie why he's storing weights to 13 decimal places.
Maldet is an awesome open-source linux program that searches a directory for malware signatures. http://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/

I've used it dozens of times successfully, and with WordPress sites, it's usually a PHP backdoor uploaded into wp-content/uploads, and then compressed JS added into a file somewhere. Run it with -a.

Good luck!
What (some) people want is not a low-priced iPhone on contract, or even free on contract; they want a cheap (i)Phone available sans contract.

I want a cheap iPhone available without contract, because:

- I don't want a contract

- I tend to break things (me or my kids) and want the freedom of being able to buy a new device without asking anyone if they would be so kind as to subsidize it, or having bought "insurance", or having to pay north of $600 for the privilege!

So, if 3GS is the device for the lower-end of the market, fine: just sell it at an acceptable price with no contract.
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Samsung has done an amazing job porting KDE 2 to a mobile phone.
Free Speech or not?
The The Internet Governance Forum is happening now. China and Russia as well as many others want to end borderless free speech.
Link:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/

Analysis:
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=234015&f_src=ieupdate

What's happening in Italy now:
https://www.cio.com.au/article/402506/italian_bloggers_demonstrate_over_fines/
I'm curious - how can one show off with FizzBuzz? I think as an interviewer, an overly complicated answer would risk looking like an incompetent answer.
Consumers will be able to buy a retail version for about $60.
Okay, I mean some automatic updating software is bad. Adobe's is very annoying, and Windows Update frequently requires rebooting. But some are great -- like Chrome! On a Mac, probably the best thing about the app store is that it consolidates all my software updates (well, not all of them yet) into one place. So the UX is lacking in some places, but it's getting better, and I certainly don't agree with quote's implication that automatic updating doesn't exist on PCs or that software updates don't (in the majority of cases) keep adding value to a PC over time.
> The problem with having three ways of declaring a variable

Three ways? I only count two, and the rule for what to use is very simple: any time the type can be inferred from the initial value, you use := (obviously you can't use := in other cases, so there isn't really any ambiguity).
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I just thought it might be worth posting this here.
A lot of people are looking to solve the expense-sharing problem...nothing seems to have caught on, though. Off the top of my head:

http://www.venmo.com (has payments)

http://www.billmonk.com (the very first)

http://www.splitterbug.com (now defunct)
Now all you need to do is make sure everyone sees this table of facts, and people will stop liking iPhones. Everybody loves facts!
This comment frames it in a way that makes it sound like Apple is going to suffer some negative consequences solely because it asserted its own patent rights.

Companies like Microsoft and Nokia collect royalties from companies like Apple and others by threat of patent litigation. By which I am suggesting that the “sword” falls on everyone, not just those who wield it themselves. Thus, it may be true that Apple wielded the sword and also true that Samsung is wielding it against Apple, but we cannot assert that companies who don’t wield the sword won’t find it wielded against them.

I suggest that the underlying problem with the patent situation in a field as complex as technology is that since every non-trivial product seems to infringe on a non-trivial number of patents owned by a wide range of practising and non-practising entities, everyone ends up dying by the sword.

Some pay by the month and die slowly, some resist and may face a more sudden demise.
Emerging countries don't have contracts. So making it free on a 2 year plan isn't the same as targeting emerging markets. Its the cost of the unlocked phone that would matter. I would also argue paying 70-80$ a month for a phone plan isn't exactly "low end" .

For comparison, I got a Galaxy S(captivate) phone for free when I renewed my contract a year ago.
I see only one way out : find responsibles and punish them. Through fines and prison terms. Some people have hidden the true state of Greece by fraudulent accounting with the help of experts from Goldman Sachs.

Politician who participated in that should be judged for treason. Financial experts for fraud. Goldman Sachs must be fined heavily for this.

Right now, Dexia is falling despite 6 billions of aid in 2008 and a successful "stress test". Obviously some fraud happened there too. There are many places where inquiries should be made.

Heads must roll, then austerity will become a possibility. Many people see this as just an economical problem but it is a very political one. There is a crisis of legitimacy amongst the people who are organizing the austerity : in most place it is the same people who caused the crisis.
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it's pretty hard to google akka deployments but:

http://www.quora.com/What-companies-are-using-Akka-commercia...

http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user/browse_thread/threa...

and in terms of memory overheads and how many erlang process-type things you can spin up:

http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/scala/tutorial-chat-server.html
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I was suspecting something like that, though with the weight of laptops these days, I suspect the top heavy will become less of an issue. I'd guess HD,keyboard,trackpad and ports are the majority of the weight in the lower half.
You might also find http://www.careercup.com/ useful.
This is great. I've been using essentially this same thing in spreadsheet form for years in multiple different room-mate situations. Based on our usage patterns in the spreadsheet version, I would recommend a few changes:

* checking to see who is ahead and who is behind is the operation we used most often. We would check this before we went to buy groceries to see who should pay this week. Same for bills. I know there is the balance tab, but it isn't immediately clear to go there, and I was afraid that when I clicked settle debts that my transactions would/had been cleaned out too.

* shift-tab doesn't go to the previous field when adding transaction

* adding a date field is very helpful for remembering what a transaction was

* in our spreadsheet, my girlfriend and I split most things evenly, but split food 60%/40%. It would be nice, as another poster said if we could at least have some kind of uneven split and so we could set up two pages, one for food and one for everything else. Even better would be to allow choosing that for each transaction, or for a set of transactions, but I understand that may complicate things more than you want to.

* auto-complete on who paid and for what from existing transactions.

* reverse chronological order - if you use this for any amount of time, you want to see the most recent transaction more often than the old ones. May I recommend the new transaction fields go at the top of the page and push older transaction down the page as they are created?

All that said, We probably won't switch since I have a working custom version, but it has been a system that my room-mates and I swear by, so I hope you can make it work for other people too.

Thank you!
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This was already posted this morning, with a lot of discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075405
I think if it's this easy to find critical points about him, then you ought to ask yourself why you should be continuing.

You might be able to end the relationship now, and stay as friends, rather than prolong it and fall out.

Always a good policy I find.
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I thought it didn't sound like the way Anonymous would act, from the beginning.
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In this terrorism culture, what does this message sound like other than .. terrorism?
Perhaps judging them on previous projects or open source work they have contributed to would be a better approach.

The problem with this - ignoring the open source part for a second - is that it is very hard to accurately judge someone's contributions to a project at their previous job from their verbal description alone.

Also, you run the risk of discarding candidates who had the misfortunate of working on boring projects at boring companies.
You could probably get away with just using a 2-sample t-test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_t-test#Equal_sample_si...), no? No sense using a non-parametric sledgehammer unless absolutely necessary :).

Actually, just looking at the variance of the columns tells the same story as you've discovered above:

> var(data)
A B C D E F
117.19610 20.49239 33.13114 90.62195 115.39044 27.34298

A, D, E are in the same group, B, C, F are in the same group.
He has authored this post, indicated this is public but failed to share it publicly using G+. Is this not the purpose of G+?

I write blog posts for my employer, on the employer's blog frequently. I never share them on my private accounts on social networks. Why should I? Thats not "cbs, person" thats "cbs, talking on behalf of Corp X". Even if I was in senior management I wouldn't want to dilute myself as a person by posting things on social networks that are not me.

You're basically arguing that google execs don't understand G+ because, they haven't mixed their personal and professional lives to a sufficient extent. That is a rather bold conclusion to draw. Maybe they're just private people.

It is impossible for me to use the product I work on day-to-day. It would literally kill me if I tried. Does that mean I'm unable to understand it?
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Based on recent events, I'm a little disappointed that nobody proposed a node.js solution.
to the person who downvoted me, why is running this or sucuri scanner a bad idea or bad advice when you suspect malware in your site?
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