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Because, for decades, Apple haters have been curiously following the strategy of claiming that Apple is not innovative at all, and thus, by "stealing" from Xerox, it justifies Microsoft's theft of the UI.

The fact that Apple compensated Xerox with pre-IPO stock, and more importantly, had a license agreement from Xerox, and even more importantly, Xerox didn't' have the GUI to steal (that being an invention of Apple made based on being awakened to the possibility by Xerox) is still ignored or claimed to be false, even here on hacker news.

In fact, it was only a couple months ago, on this very site, where a bunch of fandroids were attacking Apple on this same issue, and despite responding, with a citation to the real story, showing that Apple had licensed the technology, I was down voted to oblivion and repeatedly people asserted I was wrong (yep, just asserted.) I remember one, memorable response: "Just stop, its been widely accepted by us that Apple stole the GUI from Xerox". Its rare that someone uses the popularity of a myth as justification for its truth, but there it was.)

Already, the same people are claiming that multi-touch has existed for years before the iPhone, and pointing to single-touch panels of the crossed wired style, or stylus driven interfaces as "proof".

From this I conclude that most people who oppose patents and innovation do not understand technology well enough, or do not have any engineering background, and thus cannot tell the difference between two sheets of plastic with a grid of intersecting wires where pressure causes the wires to connect, and a capacitive touch panel, that maps out the shape of each picture, uses an accelerometer to determine the orientation of the device and then figures out which finger of the hand is touching it and thus from that, which pixel in the amorphous blob of contact the user is intending to touch.

To them, they're both the same, and thus Apple's not innovative because its all been done before, and we should shut down the patent system.

I just wouldn't expect that kind of ignorance on a site dedicated to High Tech Startups where, you pretty much have to have at least one founder who knows how to write software.
The problem, like everything Ubuntu, is that it may be 'user friendly' when everything works perfectly, but when you want to do something different or something fails, it's anything but. You're left fighting multiple levels of indirection, trying to figure out what the system is actually doing so you can fix it. Much of the indirection comes from Debian, but it seems Ubuntu finds a single use-case, and then builds more indirection on top of the Debian indirection.

Needing to download 5GB of intermediate packages to go from karmic -> oneiric one release at a time (way to ruin apt-get, guys), a weekend fighting remotely with what turned out to be nouveau (which given its hard locking a fresh install, shouldn't even be enabled by default), and Unity tonedeafness have signalled to me that it's time to move on.

I'm giving Arch a try, and it's refreshing that I can just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst without having to figure out the abstraction built on top to do things the "right way" (and avoid being overwritten). However, if Arch doesn't work out, I'm settled on straight up Debian. At least with Debian, the indirections actually get me something.
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One important bullet point this article left out:

* Identify a significant social problem, and endeavour to solve it through innovation.

Nest has a big page on its site (http://www.nest.com/why-we-made-it/index.html) explaining how much energy is wasted by thermostats every year. This has an impact both on personal finances and on the environment. Nest isn't succeeding just because it's well-designed; it solves a problem both for individuals and for larger society.

Apple's known for its talk about the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. Steve Jobs was always the most excited when discussing what his technology would let people do that they couldn't do before. Both Jobs and Tony Fadell at Nest aimed higher than just making an attractive product/making a good profit. They made sure that the products they made were going to do something useful for the people who bought them, and possibly for greater society as well.

If we're going to learn from Apple, I think it's essential we learn that innovation isn't just about getting a product to do something it hasn't done before. It's also about figuring out which products might significantly impact society if they were done differently – both because it's a nobler aim and because if you figure out how to change the world, come on, your marketing basically writes itself.
And sometimes practice doesn't matter much at all. Some people are just great at what they do.

Charles Barkley (well-known NBA future Hall of Famer) was well known for being a slacker at practice. He hated it.

Randy Moss (well-known NFL future Hall of Famer) was also one of the laziest players, poor team player, and hated practice.

Mark Spitz (7-time gold medal winning swimmer) apparently was particularly uninterested in practice, put in the bare minimum yet reaped huge rewards.
If you install gnome-shell, everything works quite well.
The dose in this study was 150 mg/day. Wine has a few milligrams per bottle. Red wine also has other significant differences, most importantly a large amount of polyphenols that have biological effects.
What a poorly titled article. The study itself isn't invalid, but the conclusions are.

It's easy to read the evidence -- put in more effective practice/studying, and your rates of success and capabilities will be higher than any marathon/cramming will ever do for you.

A fine sentiment, until its applied to the general world. And in the real world, there is plenty of hard-to-do work that needs to be handled. I guess all my hard-to-do work that I'm responsible for as an employee, friend, father, volunteer, etc. is simply a "busyness" choice that's preventing me from reaching the stars in some focused endeavor.

It's completely anecdotal, but I know several people who follow the focused-drive-limited-busyness approach. I find two common traits about them: 1) they are highly competent in their chosen field, and 2) they are stunningly boring.

The world needs experts, but life needs well-rounded people. I respect the experts, but I much prefer the well-rounded folks.
Agreed, THIS is hacking.
In Germany, I think many dev jobs are around Munich. Stuttgart and the surrounds have a lot of industry-related development, while Frankfurt is the finance hub.

In France, Grenoble and Paris are the big hubs as far as I know.

But the question is where do you want to live in an environment. I'd advise you to pick the country first and then the city.
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That would not be a very informative study. The experimenter could not control for factors that might both have direct health outcomes and increase the likelihood that someone prefers red wine. Wealth and being Italian are the obvious ones there, but there are sure to be others.
The Calm Before the Numbers
Brilliant idea. Perhaps I might pursue this.
I wish more hackers would invest their time and energies in this kind of projects. Inspiring.
"being immediately productive is how the desktop UI/UX enters the background and becomes a facilitator rather than something that the user struggles with."

Yes, exactly. I want my interaction with the desktop to be like that with a prostitute: minimal, direct, clear, and without my having to know much at all about the other party. I don't want to have to beg and plead for the ability to alter the panel once a year on special occasions.
Awesome thread. I recently made a post about startup costs and what services I use. I even provide a cost breakdown for each one, bringing my grand total monthly bill to $295.

Hopefully its useful to some. http://x-pose.org/2011/10/the-cost-of-running-a-boot-strappe...
I think a lot of children can do this. I remember in middle school the entire class complaining that the TV was on, with a blank screen, and the teacher having no idea how we knew.
Money is the new caste system in urban India.
That is really cool. Very well done, great interface.

I think you need to up the contrast and provide a bit of direction.

First of all, it looks very washed out. I don't mean that you need huge bold colors, but it has a color scheme (or lack there of) which makes it difficult to pick out the objects. At the same time, I think you should stick with the simple design, just a bit of texturing and color I think would both improve the character, and even the usability (though I don't see how it could get much more usable).

Your product defines 'simply, awesome'!
Congrats
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There is so much inspiration here.
This is a pretty neat idea. I am not sure if something similar exists (the model is becoming popular, but with tea I do not know).

From a technical standpoint I do not have a whole lot to say. The site is straight-forward easy to share via social media and is pleasant.

In terms of the business model, I worry about a few things. Targeting tea drinkers is fine and even going so far as to targeting organic lovers is good/profitable too. You limit yourself (in my opinion) with the amount of tea. Not everyone who likes tea will like it every single day. Typically this would be fine, but the amount is reflected in the price which is, in my opinion, kind of high. Determine if your margins are too high here because the cost might put some people off. Just my two cents...good luck with it.
There has been a huge incentive for operating systems to try to adapt to the laptops and smaller form-factors distancing themselves from the age-old desktop form-factor. We all have been affected by that push at some point. Ubuntu has been no different.

Ubuntu more than any other has tried a bit of everything. I've long settled on the Xfce version called Xubuntu. So after trying Unity for a couple of hours after installing the recent Ubuntu I could just install "xubuntu-desktop" and be done with it, back to my trusted experience.

Interestingly, many users seem to settle on the default experience and then feel cheated when it changes to something they don't like. Users coming from Windows found home in some version of Ubuntu. Then felt cheated when it changed some more.

Experienced users have all of this baggage, all the learning they have undergone... But the Linux distros namely Ubuntu want to try to make something for people who have barely used a computer, pushed by partners like Dell and so on.

Windows too has changed a lot throughout versions. The lucky ones kept on using Windows XP.
Actually, Google+ is doing fairly well among bloggers, especially tech bloggers. Some references: [1] [2].

Sorry, tech bloggers is a vastly different segment than tech users. Neither are optimal groups to target if you want to build a mainstream social network.
The "Iconic" Product Management Lesson from Chrome
I have literally never seen a single video on that BBC site, on any of my machines. It just keeps loading. Is it just me?
The conflation of "semantic HTML" with "the semantic web" has done immeasurable harm to both causes.

Yes, debating whether to mark up your forms using UL or OL or LABEL or SPAN or DIV or DL or TABLE or ... is a total waste of time. That doesn't tell us anything about the usefulness of machine-readable linked data, though. The two subjects have nothing in common except a relatively unusual adjective.
I'm curious: why Latin or Greek instead of Arabic? Is it that you think they'd be more useful (for understanding etymology/reading original texts)? Is it something about how the languages function? Simple personal bias?
Is a product ever complete?
Google Joins Kleiner Perkins’ sFund As A Strategic Partner
major in math (vs. cs), take less classes (so i could work on my ideas), intern at start ups, study abroad (semester or 2) at a place I'd never even consider living in (because once you graduate, it probably ain't happening, for various reasons. In college, you still have a support system)

what i'd do the same: hang out almost exclusively with people outside my major. My college friends are writers, traders, architects, etc, and I've learned immensely from them during college, and afterwards.
Bechtolsheim: AWS, open source rewrite rules for startups
Hm, never heard about Open64 before. Also, as Confusion said, from looking on their homepage, I didn't really get what it was.

Wikipedia helped a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64

So, a C/C++ and Fortran compiler. It seems it actually doesn't do parsing itself and rather just uses some other frontend for the parsing (GCC in case of C/C++). So it seems to be just the backend including some optimizations.

I still don't really get from there how it compares to GCC or LLVM.
1. What good is the "freedom of the web" when all an application needs is client-side processing of client-side data and client-side user action? It's not even "Client" at that point because there's no server worth mentioning. The decision has nothing to do with "golden chains," and everything to do with choosing the right tool for the job, where "right" is defined by maximizing customer value per unit development BS.

2. Despite the uptick in development BS caused by "unfair" reviews and the "accelerated timeframe" with which Apple moved to enact sandboxing requirements, OS X development and MAS distribution remain a remarkably low-hassle way to monetize the activity of "getting useful, graceful code onto users' machines."

OTOH, the other platform for which I regularly write commercial software is z/OS...so consider the source, etc.
Absolutely. But I somewhat see this as a growing trend. That some "social concerns" are increasingly trying to reduce the rewards of taking a risk.

Ironically this is somewhat reflected already here in the discussion in regards that the chef earned that by physically working hard. He would have had to do the same at any other restaurant job. But the real issue here is that he was willing to take the risk of working as the chef for some unknown company without knowing what is going to happen, while most of his colleagues were going for much saver options.
>But in economic terms (what I believe Pincus/Zynga meant), no, the chef did not contribute substantially to revenue/profits the way engineers and sales people did.

It seems that this is the point that you disagree with the OP then. The OP's point was that what the Chef did to build the value Google was equal to that of any engineer of the company.

"As someone who was there in the early days I can tell you that Charlie Ayers contributed more to Google's success than I did, and I was a senior software engineer."
Both those poems make me excited at the quality of your Kindle book. Can't wait to read it!
i would say no, most website always have to keep evolving and improving, even if its just adding like buttons and google+ bits as they come out. ross @ moodpanda.com
Microsoft: Where's your $199 Windows Tablet?
Not at all! I'd love for vision to be solved, no matter what the method. I'm more than happy to move onto another field if that's the case.

But I don't think it is. MNIST data is not particularly challenging. It's great that deep learning methods work there -- they must be doing something right.

Come back and taunt me when deep learning methods start getting state-of-the-art results on, e.g., Pascal VOC: http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/
I wish the HN readers would take on projects as a group. There are enough technical people that as a group would could actually accomplish a lot. I guess the trick is to find the right problems to crowdsource.
small town close to rome (with a decent share of corruption, crime and immobilism) but how does that relate?

I was only stating that the reasoning in your previous comment is incorrect (which, by the way, it's about italy, not your area).

I am not dumb enough to disagree on the general topic of "it's harder to start a company in corleone than in san francisco",
I'm just worried by blanket statements from young people that the only chance to succeed is to change country.

Consider antirez, who ran a (successful, AFAIK) company from sicily or ciaopeople which has a decent business and is based in naples.
It's harder yes, but the first N steps should be trying and failing, and only N+1 should be giving up to blaming outside forces.
I would expect such a brilliant, intelligent and real programmer to write something better than that...
Maybe anyone can be a line cook, but not everyone can be a chef. Chef school is brutal. And not everyone can plan and run a large meal plan for a large group of people with sporadic hours and special meals, either.

And, as somebody else pointed out, the chef's existence -- and the supreme quality of his work -- was one of the big draws for tech talent to come to Google.

And, furthermore, by freeing the tech talent from having to worry about food or leave work to get it, he contributed to the value they created.

Your argument is basically a straw man. You set up "line cook" or "brick layer" -- jobs everyone can agree are not special or meritorious. Then you shoot it down. Very impressive.
While I agree that Unity is the right step for Canonical to take with regards to Ubuntu, my main gripe is that they've taken away the old GNOME UI and has left us with no (easy) way to bring it back. This was my experience as of 11.04.
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Is anything ever complete? What does "complete" even mean?

On the one hand, you can always tweak. Add new things or take them away or reorganize them. On the other hand, there are always entirely different things you could be doing, and the time you spend tweaking could be used to make new things.

Walt Whitman spend his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, editing and re-editing. Had he not died I'm sure he'd have continued to write it. Is the complete poem the last draft he wrote? Is it one of the earlier drafts when he first thought he was finished? Or is it the poem he would have continued to write had he not died?

One of the truly tremendous things about interactive technology is that things are easier to deconstruct and edit than they ever have been before. Authors don't get the final say exactly the way they used to. Everything is a living, breathing document, more than ever before.

The question, I think, isn't whether a product is complete, it's whether it's currently moving anyplace interesting, or whether it ought to be.
As always, here is my perspective on Badass JS: http://badassjs.com/post/12648021003/bicavm-a-jvm-implementa... :)
You might be interested in http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pra...

I believe one of the examples they gave in C was the diff algorithm from Subversion.
Wonderful! Consider me subscribed.

I also just bought your book; I'm looking forward to it.
I tried the ae ligature, long s, sharp s, Russian zha, Greek capital gamma, and a heart, and of those only the gamma was in the top five (it was #2); zha, ae, and heart weren't even in the list, and long-s and sharp-s were waaay down the list. (Actually, I just tried it with a better-drawn sharp-s and it didn't even turn up.) In some cases the top choices really do resemble the letter I was looking for, so that's fine, but there's a lot that shows up that resembles the canonical form a lot less than my drawing does.

So, not quite ready for prime time, I think. Cool idea, though.
Or, to put it another way, there are two different kinds of semantics in play; the semantics of a document (this is a title, this is a paragraph, ...), and the semantics of the subject of a document (this is the price of the item, this is how many we have left in stock, ...).

The costs and benefits of enhancing one are different and separate from the costs and benefits of enhancing the other.
Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords
Nope. Me too. I usually just search Youtube for the same headline and a video usually turns up. I don't know who the spammer is who does it, but I'm grateful.
How Does Viridian Energy Compare to other Energy MLMs?
A 100W incandescent has a color temperature of about 3000 K, while the sun is 5700 K, so yes, it does appear more yellow. Because both incandescents and the sun are essentially black bodies, their color temperature is their actual temperature (the filament in an incandescent is about 3000 K).

Other light sources, such as white LEDs can produce 5700 K light, but their spectrum is actually much different from solar. They can get away with emulating 5700 K with only two or three wavelengths, while a black body emits approximately continuously throughout the wavelengths (this is due to the way correlated colour temperature is calculated; incandescents and the sun waste a lot of energy on non-visible infrared wavelenghts).

For electricity efficiency purposes, LEDs are great, because they don't waste electricity generating wavelengths we don't see (or ones that are cancelled out by other wavelengths). But for SAD, white light is likely not the requirement; our eyes have cells that have different sensory response based on wavelength -- apparent colour is an afterthought. Some of these cells are thought to affect SAD through melatonin inhibition, so the big question would be: what wavelengths are these cells most sensitive too, so we can optimize lights for them? Some cursory googling says that the jury is still out on that one.

tl;dr: colour temperature of light isn't what we should be optimizing for when dealing with SAD, because our eyes have spectrum sensors, not colour sensors. Be wary of marketing hype because you can likely get away with $1 lightbulbs, instead of $300 lamps.
Thanks for putting this up
Margins vary from tea to tea and are generally slim. There are some teas that I expect to lose money on and others that have slim margins. I'm assuming that marketing the service as less than a dollar a day will go a long way in giving the "affordable" signal.

Since all tea is shipped on the same day and bought in bulk, I'll have to rely on volume to make it a profitable business.

With respect to the amount of tea, I, as a tea drinker, drink multiple cups of tea per day. I figured one cup per day for subscribers would be the ideal way to go.
Seems like everything is moving in the path of least resistance.
I like Unity and I consider it a cheapish version of OS X gross general style guidelines. I like full screen application idea, distraction free globalmenu. Hiding maximize/minimize/close controls as an option. MeMenu it's great. Non intrusive notifications. And so.

But left taskbar and being unable to integrate Docky with Compiz effects beauty it's a continuous pain
Interesting. What crypto functions do you use? Openssl?

Also in your "how it works" s/loosing/losing.

Keep in mind that you are breaking dedup, which is likely to make dropbox sad. Probably not sad enough for them to do anything useful though.
Father of the year.
Not even close. I forgot which one gnome-shell is exactly, but the GNOME 3 fallback is broken with VirtualBox seamless mode, and the GNOME 2 (or was it GNOME3-pretending-to-be-GNOME2?) fallback has by default an entirely messed up panel.

It's easy to waste a day trying all these alternatives to get something that works. I don't call that an easy-to-use distro. Particularly as it's a regression.
If you don't have a way of "doing anything with" your customers that functions independent of holding their email address and/or credit card number, you're not doing something "with" them so much as doing something "to" them.

Not every application needs to be a goddamned community experience wherein the original transaction spawns a lifetime of subtle sales attempts from the developer. Be happy that someone paid to use what you built. If you want more money from them, or you want their email address, build so much cool shit that they want to hear about what's next.

As Chris Rock said: "You pay to see me? We cool."
Safebox allows end-to-end encryption for important files. Would love to get feedback from fellow hackers.