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If you weren't at JSCfonf EU this, this post sums up what went into it and every JSConf event.

TL;DR - Do it for the love not the money.
Why do you have to touch the upper right corner with your thumb while walking and looking at Google maps? Some "problems" are overblown...
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That's massively wrong. Did you do any research at all before making that claim?

edit: could the down voters explain why, please? All you have to do is look at a list of cases from EDT to see that ak217's claim that there is no non-troll patent suits filed by companies outside the district is idiotic.
Traditional Chinese is better, because even people from china can read them.
but for example Simplified, some Taiwanese and HonKongese can't read.
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The chinese knock-off was only mentioned because of it's weird play order: physical order on the disk, not any way of ordering songs by metadata or filename. That particular MP3 player wasn't very good, from memory.
go typekit and find some. whatever fonts u need can load from cloud & it's fast.
had he been ceo of pharma company, cancer and aids could have been cure.....

kidding...rip steve.
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Not as well timed as you guys, but here is my attempt:

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Spot on my friend - spot on.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, fair call - you see this a lot in games, where the interface is based off static images - as you increase the resolution for better main view experience, the UI shrinks along with it, and it's tough if you like a high res main view but want larger control surfaces.

That being said, I have seen some games with nice UIs that scale appropriately with resolution, that is, changing resolution doesn't change the screen size of the controls. I can't for the life of me think of any at the moment - they're not that common, but they do exist.
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The patent in question is hardware and it might be legitimate.

However, those who use patents for legitimate reasons should have done something to the trolls. Not the victims - other, good patent holders.
Now if their dear patent system would be get thrown away (and it is already massively discouraged), who is responsible? They are, but they never did anything.
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I'm pretty sure he meant that Steve deserved the respect that the community is showing for him.
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The first computers I used were an Apple II and a ZX-80 - the "user experience" of the Apple was infinitely better than the Sinclair machine.
Take the downvotes (no, I didn't) as a read of how at odds your PoV is with that of, well, however many people took the time to downvote you.

I'm not a Mac fanatic, I'm not a worshipper of all things Steve, I don't use any of Apple's products on a daily basis (though I work with a bunch of people who do).

And despite this, his contributions shape and influence my life every day. The WIMP interface, proportional fonts, WindowMaker (derived from NeXT), much of the Web (as others noted, Macs dominate both graphic design and much Web development), music, electronic books and media, movies, and probably a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting.

Look around you right now. Wherever it is you happen to be right now. Every human artifact in your presence was designed, marketed, and manufactured by someone. Every idea in your books, video, or music collections. The scientific concepts behind your electricity, plumbing, and communications. The artistic concepts behind literature and (again) music.

Some people's influence truly outshines the ordinary, and some of these people are even recognized for it. Occasionally you'll be fortunate enough to share time on the planet with such a mind.

Sure, they might be assholes in person or have other flaws, but their contributions are still real and recognizable.

We've lost a genius, a visionary, a creative force, and someone who's touched billions of lives.

As I said: I'm hardly among Steve's biggest fans. But I recognize his greatness and mourn his passing.

Maybe someday you'll understand. I hope so for your sake.
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It seems that Microsoft is doing extremely interesting fundamental CS research (especially into automated verification/program correctness/security) these days. I'm enthusiastic about it, though I somehow fear the end result will at most be some expensive proprietary extension to Visual Studio only targeting .NET instead of an open implementation benefiting everyone.
Amazing that so many people knew, and no one leaked it... Most famous people who died suddenly of an illness like that (e.g. Freddie Mercury, Bill Hicks) kept it secret except to a circle of close friends. Presumably, hundreds or even thousands knew about this illness, yet not one of them peeped about it.

Of course, it would have been an incredible lack of decorum to do so, and that's probably what stopped them. And yet, it seems fitting that news of Steve's rapidly declining health were even more leak-proof than the average Apple product release.
I am incredibly happy that purchasing an unlocked phone is still an option, and slightly let down by the fact that I have to wait until November.
Tablets were a disaster before iPad. Smartphones were ridiculous prior to iPhone. Siri will have the same effect on A.I.
That was the teaching in Buddhism and Steve Jobs was a devout Buddhist. It is likely that Steve Jobs was a closet philanthropist.
Why is everyone crying about Steve Jobs?
This boggles the mind. If they would just implement the renderer on top of OpenGL then they would get cross-platform hardware acceleration, even on mobile devices since a lot of them have OGL support these days. Considering that they still argue that they have a stable and optimized product, I'm forced to conclude that Adobe's staff are somewhat technically incompetent or that their Flash code base has a huge amount of technical debt.
I did some digging to find out who the company is, and the investors are fairly minor ones in the startup league. One is a cleantech vc and the other is a Seattle based PE firm that invests in later stage startups.
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Guilty - http://www.holehouse.org/thoughts/goodnight-mr-jobs/
I'm pretty sure he didn't.
Does anyone know if this observation has a name? There must be an official name for this logical fact.

I ask because I'm an MD and made this point during a conversation with another MD a while ago and the other guy looked at me like I was a fool to believe this. He responded along the lines of "But a study has shown that people given test X for disease Y do worse than people not given the test."

To him, this was a proof by negation, which of course it is not.
Lens is a TCL/TK based network simulator that is used in the field of computational neuroscience. This is our port to the modern OSX platform. This port is "as is". This means that any issues that present in the original Lens, might be present in the port too.
I think you are spot on. I think this is the problem Siri has solved or will solve. People tend to underestimate Siri as a voice recognition system. Siri is A.I. . Given Apple's recent history I wager that they would never released Siri if they didn't believe that they are onto something. This is not some knock off voice recognition nonsense. This is A.I.

This goes far beyond searching for restaurants or wheather. Screw that noise. I am sure all of you can imagine the doors this opens in scientific research and analysis of data.

This will open a new era just like the Internet.
"A 3.5 inch screen at that time was already unprecedented."

3.5 inch screens were a standard size for PDA screens.
web socket isn't that hard. I use it in my project.
be sure what client(browsers) you are going to support, it won't work for Ie7&6 (or older chrome & ff)

1) socket.io
2) faye.jcoglan.com
3) eventmachine
4) xmpp

to use 1&2 is faster & easier, however, for example faye doesn't support event handler currently(but soon in v0.7 )

And faye also kind of hard to extend.

In my opinion, use redis(support pub/sub) & eventmachine (or something like it).
to build ur backend.

use websocket-js for client.

:)
I think you miss the point, the division of areas for time-zoning purposes can be done in millions of different ways. The selection of a particular way to do it is a creative choice.
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So true. It just freaks me out how many people don't get this.

The problem is with the broken legal system that needs to get fixed. No I am not happy about Astrolabe doing this stupid stuff, but they are quite clearly the symptom, not the root cause. We need to fix the system instead of crying foul everytime someone uses the broken system to do something that is against societies best interest.

The same is true of the financial system. Everyday I talk to people who complain about the greedy and 'stupid' bankers. Well, they behaved 100% rationally. If you work in a system where you can play 'heads I win, tails you loose' you almost have to do it (otherwise you will be outearned and get fired). The problem is the system that allows this kind of game. That is what needs to get fixed.
I am aware of Siri's history. Tablets, phones, personal computers are other peoples creation as well. Steve Jobs did...whatever he did to them. The same will happen with A.I. Sadly, he won't be with us when it all happens. But you should see the YouTube video where Mossberg and Jobs talk about Siri. Mossberg keeps saying that Siri is search. Steve keeps correcting him. No, Siri is A.I. Siri is A.I. You should see the look on his face.
indeed. even trying to upgrade on at&t's site is broken.
Technically this is not a port. It's just an OpenGL application that can read and render the TF2 map format. A port would consist of modifying the original source (which I assume the author does not have access to, since it's a closed source product) so that it runs on a different platform.
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I've mucked around with reputation systems.

My thoughts:

- A log scale is far better than a linear one. While it's not top-end limited, it does tend to flatten the scale markedly.

- A decay function on older contributions is helpful. Especially if users start abusing the system. Bank karma, abuse system, run karma down slowly, with an eternal linear system. With a logrithmic decaying system, abuse degrades reputation far more rapidly.

- Other options are to rank users by percentile or other bases. Given the various problems of innate / explicit moderation / ranking (see A Better Wayto Rate Films: http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-... ) an explicit percentile norming preserves meaningful distinctions (though individuals ratings may not be directly comparable).
I don't think encouraging activity is necessarily good. A lot of comments do not really contribute something useful to the discussion. I'd rather people just posted when they have something really useful or insightful to say. Less comments means less time wasted for the readers.
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How could you possibly know what he did or didn't do with his money?
I can't believe how many hours of my life have been spent jumping around Ironforge aimlessly.
I'm not sure I follow, the tzdata AFAIK is primarily geographic mappings to time offsets and transitions ? - the number of timezones which are identified by timezone name like UTC are relatively few.
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I wanted the months to be equally-divisible into weeks of equal length. It turns out that the 7-day week is the only really good way to divide the year equally into smallish units and only have one or two days left over.

So you could have four season-months of 13 weeks (91 days) each. But I like the idea of months that are in the same ballpark as lunar cycles. Lunar cycles and solar cycles don't mesh, so you can't have months that perfectly match lunar cycles unless you're willing to have months that float against years the way weeks currently float against months, but then again some people might find that appealing.
> I somehow fear the end result will at most be some expensive proprietary extension

That hasn't been the case with their research, so far. See F#'s download page for an example: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fs...
I don't know how it is in the States, but here in Germany a patent holder suing in court is always presumed right until the defendant can prove his innocence (if he can). There is no presumption of innocence in patent cases. It's called "reversed burden of proof" or something. The allegation of the patent holder is enough to make a party guilty until proven otherwise. I'm sure it must be similar in the US.
In my opinion, 100 years from now, our ancestors will view the lack of basic statistics literacy as one of the primary failings of our present society.
I would have been, but it's only on GSM! GAH! Why tether the unlocked option to a single carrier - ESPECIALLY when that carrier is AT&T !?
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Steve's death just underlines how real his Stanford commencent speech hits home.
His life certainly had its ups and downs, but through it all he persevered and fought for that he felt was true and was worth it. Although his accomplishements went beyond what anyone would have possibly dreamed (aside from himself) there are so many people around us who are also heroes of the real world.
We mourn today a great man and in a sense we hold hommage to all of those people who strive to make this world a better place.
Rest in peace Steve, may God bless you and your family
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More than a plan, it seems that there is a method. Technical advances and Moore's law make different kind of devices first possible, later practical for mass production and finally appealing. Apple seems to be waiting for the last phase to focus all its forces in the release of one optimal product. So far it has had a very good eye.
I actually gave some consideration to that. There are also places that have six seasons. However, I'm pretty sure that a majority of the world's population lives in temperate zones (I didn't bother researching that, so I could be wrong), which have four seasons.

Even if you decide to go with four seasons, the definitions of the seasons get tricky. You can define them by the solar calendar, or you can define them by environmental conditions; the two tend to be out of phase by about six weeks. I actually figured out a way to make the months line up reasonably well with the four environmental seasons and with the six environmental seasons (which are not of equal length); it wasn't perfect for either, but it was OK for both. I didn't bother keeping notes...
His death didn't come unexpected to me. Tabloid pictures from this summer showed how bad his health was. I wouldn't consider it a kept secret.
Thanks for pointing out. I found an image for those speakers (Acoustat Model 3 Medallion).

Image: http://usr.audioasylum.com/images/y2011/02/45177/TT_032.jpg
First, I am not thinking money right now, I am much more interested in solving my issue. Yesterday I spent the whole day loading a bunch of filed in hyperion. With a good script that takes 10 seconds.

Second, accounting does have a logic (GAAP...). In fact, hyperion does make money, even being a horrible tool (not web based, it is used with citrix, you can imagine...).

Third, the main problem of all this software that 'assists', as you say, is that it invents csv formats and standards every time. Leaving you no choice but using GUIs that when it comes to generate a lot of reports slow you down a lot (think of SAP that doesn't have an easy way to script things).

Fourth, Excel is not a database. And not being a database, you lose all the SQL operations. No group by, sum, order, where, and stuff. Yes you have pivot tables, but you can't perform a join and you can't use big datasets with them.

Fifth, in accounting working vertically on the dataset is not enough. You need to perform various 'shaping' operations. You can do this with excel, yes, but again, it is painful.

Sixth, there are for sure better ways of consolidating data from different files. In excel you 'link' different workbooks in a master file. I am even going to tell you why that is a bad practice, I think it speaks for itself.

So, no, it's really not about the mapping. It's about serious technical issues that nobody is taking care of. And I am pretty sure this is because programmers don't dare to think like an accountant.
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I made a little tribute video to Steve Jobs, in his memory. I submitted it to HN. It's actually specifically made for you guys. http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=3081923
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"In Memory of Steve Jobs" video. Made it in iMovie for the HN crowd. http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=3081923
I had an idea yesterday, it was, basically, crowdsourced politicians. You'd have a number of politicians, as many as you could get elected in parliament, and you would have a website detailing every law currently under vote. Anyone could vote on these laws on the website, and the politician(s) would all have to vote the way the online poll went.

Of course, this is ripe for abuse and corruption (one website controlling an entire country), but interesting idea nonetheless.
I used his quote in the short remembrance video of Steve Jobs I made using iMovie last night...

If anyone's interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaQyINe5oQ
That was my initial idea. But then there's no good way to divide them neatly into seasons, whether you want to have two, four, or six.

It does have the advantage that it comes very close to lining up with the lunar cycle, so that the lunar month would only slide very slowly against the calendar month (about half a lunar-month of phase shift per year). And since the definition of "season" is very mushy anyway, maybe thirteen months would be the way to go.
isn't that what ebay implemented recently? Did they patent their algorithm?
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Techdirt's near perfect record of misreporting on legal issues remains unblemished by this article.

The article makes it sound like the court decided damages should be 0.75%, then found out about the CEO's statements, and doubled the damages to 1.5%. That is not so.

What they overlook is that there are TWO damage awards--one for the infringement before the verdict, and one for future infringement.

The jury found that the infringement was willful, which allows the judge to enhance the damages. However, the judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to support a finding of willfulness and so overturned that part of the jury verdict. The damages for past infringement were then set based on non-willful infringement. That is the 0.75%.

InnoLux can stop infringing, and then all they owe will be that 0.75% royalty on their past sales.

The second damage award is for future infringement if InnoLux does not cease infringing. The court has decided that this infringement is likely to be willful, partly based on the company's attitude as evidenced partly by the CEO's statements. Hence, enhanced damages are appropriate, and the court doubled the rate to 1.5% (I believe the law authorizes up to triple damages for willful infringement).

So overall the judge has been quite fair to InnoLux. The jury said the past infringement was willful. The company's attitude, as evidenced by the CEO's statements, indicates that the jury was likely right about that. Nevertheless, the judge tossed out the finding of willfulness because the jury didn't have the information on the company's attitude, and so gave InnoLux the lower rate for past infringement.

The court DOES have the information that the jury did not, so is not giving them a break on continuing infringement.
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While NeXT might have been a commercial failure, the vast majority of entrepreneurs can only dream of having such a business once in their lifetime. In the end, NeXT was acquired by Apple and the foundation of their operating system became what is now OS X. NeXT would not be called a failure if any other person had founded it - it just seems less successful by comparison in the light of Jobs' other endeavors.
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Well I suppose he could just mean he has some principles in mind about what a device should feel like to own. For instance the iPod, it was such a leap in usefulness of pocket music players, and this was reflected in not just the technology (1000 mp3s) but also the UI and the physical controls and the build quality and the stylishness. I say stylishness because I think that kind of is part of 'usefulness'... it looked cool to be seen with an iPod, esp. with the white headphones.

In contrast they could have just been like 'oh, great, we have a harddrive that can hold 1000 songs and still fit in your pocket easily!' and put out something that looked and handled like a brick.

But going back to what he wrote, he mentioned interior design, so he was probabaly thinking about architecture. You could have a boring building and make it look nice inside, but isn't it so much better when the architecture itself is amazing and then everything else just builds on that or compliments that.
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Gruber is saying that there is no grass in Moscone West, the west-most hall at Moscone Center. Where the majority of his time would be spent preparing for the keynote.
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Can't find the video, can you please provide a link?
I took a Safari ".webarchive"

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> Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.

Communities gather around like-minded people and like-minded people creates communities of shared interests.
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To be honest... my expectations aren't quite so high. I was just hoping it could be as good as Google Voice, which is already available.

It did cross my mind though that one of these days we'll have a product that is the tipping point for AI (for everyday users).