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Imagine the same statement being made about medical malpractice.

At the end of the day, I'm OK with "random" juries making these decisions. There is quite a bit of apparatus in place to prevent major error, and the law can always be changed (obviously it's not easy to do so, but it's possbile) in response to an undesirable decision.
P = Java APIs are copyrightable
Q = Google has violated Oracle's copyright on Java APIs

Does P imply Q?

In order to answer this question, you must first assume P to be true and then determine whether Q follows consequently.

This is purely a logical/philosophical exercise (that could nonetheless have serious consequences for the outcome of the case); the Judge had to give this instruction. If he told the Jury to assume the opposite, there would be nothing for them to determine (we already know that not P implies not Q).
For starters, by emphasizing more preventive care.

I did a paper on the topic some years ago. Unfortunately, I have to leave for an appointment. I would be happy to discuss it with you further if you are genuinely interested.

FWIW: I don't entirely disagree with you. I am not convinced that mandating universal healthcare would fix the US system. I just don't think your callous perspective on the topic is a real solution.

Catch you later.
The worst part for me is that the XPS13 only allows a MAXIMUM of 4GB of RAM. This is ridiculous for a dev box, especially when I want to run a VM or two.
Thanks - Akash Manhor (https://twitter.com/hashnuke) made both of those decisions early on in Kandan's life. There have been challenges around both, but overall it's worked out very well - in fact, the faye interface opens up some really interesting possibilities. We'll have some examples of this soon.
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Haha, this is really funny and cool.

irredeemably boring chromosone deficient conglomerate of intellectual constipation

that made me laugh out loud. Is the source available somewhere?
Amen; I'm also a member of "Team 16:10"

Not getting rid of my Latitude D830 (14.1" 1920x1200) until I can get something with /more/ pixel density and vrez
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check out: Marquis de Sade. 271 years. That makes him a really old pervert.
iPhones clearly are a more expensive option. It's just that in some markets the cost difference is hidden from the final customers, with the operator eating the difference. An unlocked 3GS (three years old!) costs about as much as an unlocked Galaxy Nexus.

Now, clearly some people place enough value on iOS that they're willing to pay the comparatively expensive prices (or move to another carrier that subsidizes the iPhone sufficiently). Good for them. And good for Apple that they're able to sell phones at absolutely staggering margins without anyone grumbling about the cost. But let's not pretend they're competing on price.
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Show HN: A Cleverbot Conversation about Hacker News
I heard the National Public Radio program Radio Lab this weekend, which was on the topic of artificial intelligence, with examples from Eliza, mention of the Turing test, and mention of Cleverbot. So I just visited Cleverbot to have the following conversation.

Cleverbot conversation RPG00819876

User: What would make Hacker News comments better?

Cleverbot: What would I make better.

User: I mean, how can we encourage Hacker News participants to post better comments, on average?

Cleverbot: I don't love you! I don't even know you!

User: I get the impression that not many people have ever talked to you about Hacker News.

Cleverbot: Soap operas have nothing to do with our conversation.

User: I think you have just shown that at least most of the Hacker News comments pass the Turing test.

Cleverbot: Life just isn't worth living anymore.

User: I disagree. I'll ask my friends on Hacker News what they think.

Cleverbot: Do you have fiancé?
If this is what you or anyone else reading this worries about when they go to sleep at night I strongly suggest you start a business that is bootstrappable instead of the next social network.
In the spirit of... well... "thinking differently" we might call it, I'll actually say I'm pretty happy with the Dells I've had. They're solid workhorses with relatively good value for the money I spent on them. Certainly, they are not glamorous or beautiful, but they work well, have good support, and have generally run Ubuntu pretty well.

That said, if someone came along and really did good Linux support, I'd probably switch.
Not to mention those of us in a workplace still using XP (and thus unable to upgrade past IE8).
Dell servers are excellent. They are beautifully engineered, sacrifice nothing, and are extremely well supported.

Such "Dell sucks" anecdotes are generally of the "my company bought 400 of the cheapest desktops that Dell manufacturers, of which a couple presented troubles. Therefore Dell sucks." variety.
It's democracy. The purpose of a jury trial isn't to get the most accurate result, it's to give the people direct control over the government. It's just as true, if not more true, to say that elections are a terrible way of fairly selecting lawmakers and presidents.
Paying for prevention makes more sense now because it would reduce large payouts, increasing profits for insurance companies. Profit motive should be an incentive for this. Removing the profit motive would remove any incentive to pay for prevention. Either way, the government could just increase taxes to pay for increased costs. Anyway, once regulatory capture is achieved (and the stakes are far to high for me to believe that won't happen), the profit motive will be back in play.
I have been doing so for about 6 years. In my experience, gaining screen real estate is amazing at first, and losing it really hurts at first, but in the long run, it doesn't make much difference.
The most definitely did try to exploit them for personal gain - the only difference was the gain was favor from the emperor rather than selling in the market.

You are trying to imply they did things purely for the fun and interest in them, and that is completely not true.

If the emperor wanted to sell the things, they would have jumped at that. Don't try to imply they had some "noble" mindset with an implied criticism of those with a more mercantile mindset since that's simple not true, and it's just a form of the "noble savage" fallacy.

The main criticism you can read into my text (if you want) is that when the emperor lost interest they did not just stop making the item - they also forgot how to make it, they did not record the inventions for future generations. They apparently were not interested in collecting knowledge, only in amusing or impressing the emperor.
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I think kyt's point is that 2%+20% causes the same mis-alignent of incentives for hedge funds.
How about taller and higher-resolution screens while we're at it? 16:9 "HD" is fine for movies, but not exactly optimal for development. Right now the portable computer with the highest screen resolution is the iPad. I'm using a Thinkpad T61 because it's the only laptop I know of with a 4:3 screen that can take 8gb of memory.
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Does anyone know of or use a product that does data integration of analytics? I'd like to connect up data from Apple on downloads, Mixpanel for events tracking, and then some custom metrics.
Link to the Radiolab story about artificial intelligence:

http://www.radiolab.org/2011/may/31/
Maybe because 7 of the 8 countries in the G8 have universal healthcare?

Why is it that the country with the largest economy in the world, with the highest per-capita GDP, is reluctant to do what other countries have long committed to?

Do you know what it's like to live in a country that has it? You see the doctor, you visit a hospital, you need tests done, you just present your health card and it's all taken care of. The only thing most people see a bill for is for their prescriptions, and even then some countries cover this, too.

When you're in a bind and rushing someone you know to the hospital because they have a life-threatening condition, the last thing you need is the shake-down at the door to see if you have the correct insurance, that you're at the correct hospital, that you've filled out the correct paperwork. There's no question they're covered. You rarely need to worry. You won't get refused on a technicality. You won't be shuttled to a different hospital that's in your network even though the one you're in has the same facilities.

I've had relatives that lived in the US and slowly died of treatable things, but couldn't afford the right kind of treatment and had to make do with second-rate service that even then bankrupted them anyway. How is that fair to anyone?

Universal healthcare. Try it, you'll like it.
I blame Steve Jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZzb42s3y4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7v815bYUw
Indeed; he copied it from himself.
Great, now offer Fedora on it and you might have a shot at selling me one. I'm in the market for a new laptop Real Soon Now, and I will definitely be looking for something to run Fedora on.
The biggest possible upside to this project will be if Shuttleworth & Company get on board to support the XPS13 as a first class Ubuntu platform because of Sputnik.

And when I say first class, I don't mean "give it the Supported Platform stamp." I mean "respond to user reports of touchpad bugs" and "fix them."
That is physiologically impossible. There can be multiple distributions of light frequencies that produce perceptually identical colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)).

That means that that LED may show a green on that color wheel, but not the perceptually identical green of another object.

Also, if the LED has 80% of the frequencies in daylight and those are reasonably distributed, I doubt that you have to worry about this, as few (if any) objects reflect only few wavelengths. If this were a problem, people would probably have noticed it with LED tv's.

Sodium lights, with their two yellowish spectral lines, are in a different league.
let me translate what you just said:

"Persuaded some muppet": she gained her mark's confidence.

"to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP": she ripped her mark off.

"and got 580GBP on ebay for it": and then she profited from the rip-off.

in some circles, that is referred to as grifting.
heard you throw this figure around before. Can you break that out more? How much of that is salary, and how much is benefits? And this is location dependent, no?
I went shopping a couple weeks ago for a MacBook Air to replace my 15" MBP as my primary development machine. (The endorsement a couple weeks before from Linus about the simplicity and silence of the Air sold me)

I picked it up at BestBuy and when I was there I glanced at their Ultrabooks display. They had 3. The Asus and Toshiba seemed complete crap. Flimsy. Trash.

The only one that seemed a plausible purchase was the Samsung. I wasn't a persuadable customer: I'm not going to switch my platform choice because of one credible alternative. But for those customers that are, I think it's fantastic that they at least have 1 credible windows 7 alternative to an Air.

(Not that it matters, but if you're interested, this MBP is a work-supplied machine and it's the first Mac I've ever used. My other PC is a sony vaio core 2 duo circa 2008 or so running Windows 7. I was very impressed with Windows 7 when it came out. But as an engineer it's only a credible option because I was running a Ubuntu VM. When I took my current job and had my choice of machine I finally took the plunge and I've loved it ever since. I still use Ubuntu VM's for sharing dev environments but having a fantastic terminal app and a clean experience is something I have no interest in giving up. Thus, i'm not a persuadable.)
I think the point is that it's a disingenuous assertion.
Technically they are not startups, but for for gmail you may want to have a look at Graph Your Inbox
( http://www.graphyourinbox.com/ ) or Gmail Meter (http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/know-your-gmail-stats-...).
Past performance is no indicator of future performance. Yes, there are some stellar performers, but just like mutual funds- finding the hot company this year doesn't mean you'll necessarily find it next year.
you might wanna try this one - http://www.graphyourinbox.com/
It started with the original GMail invites and became somewhat of a mythical buzz-producing technique that really only worked for a limited number of sites. Turntable.fm is the last one that I remember learning about in a way that seemed to generate more interest.
Well, I posted it tongue in cheek. I love me some Scala. What I find surprising is the lack of downvotes!
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> In order to answer this question, you must first assume P to be true and then determine whether Q follows consequently.

Yes but you must discard the hypothesis later(assumption of P), which only the judge can do in this case, deciding whether or not P is true.
FWIW I've got the 13-inch Series 9 on Debian, and everything just works, including disabling the touchpad with a keystroke.

What I'd really like is to be able to disable touchpad clicks without disabling scrolling, but I understand if I'm on my own for that one.
Then it would be different each person. I've blown more than one weekend on a couple of interesting Ruby issues which were semi-related to my employment.

What it comes back to though, is if you have the right value of "love to do", the pay becomes secondary to the problem. This doesn't mean that you let a company walk all over you of course, but that you are having a good time cash or no cash.

Generally one should expect to be compensated appropriately for weekend work :)
I understand...but I rather stay within python syntax as much as possible and use something like Mako.

I know you might send me to pylon, but flask's simplicity and flexibilty make it more alluring to me.
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>I think we're arguing over subjectivities here -- comprehensibility is entirely dependent on the people involved as much as the language in question. If you're better at Java than Haskell, you'll find it easier to follow, and vice-versa; I know people in each category.

I maybe arguing over subjectivities, but subjectivities turn into objectivities with the tool of statistics.

And I think that in general (statistically), people find Haskell more difficult than Java.
Can't tell whether this is sarcastic or not, but if you think Dell pays full price for Windows licenses you are in for a surprise.
Depends what the hedge fund is investing in. You're assuming its liquid investments with a discernable market price. A hedge fund might invest in CDOs, property, artwork or an antique beenie baby collection.
It's important to be right for the right reasons. All else equal, parfe's charges against Mueller suggest reason to discount Mueller's credibility despite occasional, coincidental victory.
The report also cites Landmark's simulated auction of carried interest, which showed that they might be able to collect 42.5% carried interest if they actually implemented such an innovation. That'd be wonderful for Landmark, and democratizing as well, since it'd shift investment in oversubscribed, top-tier funds away from cozy relationships, and towards those who value that investment most highly.

As such, this really isn't a report saying 'VCs make too much money', but rather that standard LP/VC terms overcompensate poor VCs and undercompensate top-tier VCs, and that this is unlikely to change unless LPs change their behavior en masse. There were numerous examples of GPs who were open to innovations in the VC/LP relationship, but didn't pursue them because of intransigent LPs.
I can disable touchpad clicks but not scrolling using synclient on my Thinkpad. In fact, I configured the whole thing to act as a scroll surface and nothing else.
Insurance companies have a powerful incentive to maximise profits. They are oversighted by shareholders and maybe some law enforcement.

Governments have dual interests - have better benefit:cost ratio and spend less tax. They are oversighted by quangos and tax-payers.

But a more interesting question is why people don't help themselves - we know about the importance of good food and exercise and sensible drinking and not smoking and not driving like an idiot etc, yet a lot of illness is caused by entirely preventable stuff.

We know that even if people can get medication they don't take it properly. (There's no difference between the UK (where most people getting meds don't have to pay for them) or the US (where most people have to pay) or the severity of the illness (most transplanted organ failures are because people don't comply with the medication regime.)

This is a significant cost. Just the cost of the meds - in the UK we spend about £9billion per year on meds, of which about half (£4.5billion) is wasted because people don't comply with the instructions. And then there's the additional cost of treating those people.
Assuming these are suitable for H.264, then developing H.264 hardware decoders using sFFT could reduce the power consumption. Even though the problem of hardware FFT is "solved" there is still room for improvement.
I develop on an 11" screen.
>A lottery has negative expected return, so I disagree that it's "higher expected return that a conventional job".

Well, doesn't a startup also have the same "negative expected return"? Or, actually, much worse?

(Considering that the majority of them fail and the money you could make just working for some company in the same time).

If anything, starting a startup is an investment.
Nor can they be expected to understand accounting principles in accounting fraud cases. Nor can they be expected to understand tax law in tax cases. Heck, you really can't rely on them to understand theft laws in cases of theft. In fact, I'd reckon that we rely on jurors to understand very little.

That's what the lawyers are there for: to present the evidence and make the case (based on the testimony of experts) to a jury who doesn't get it.

I think there are arguments to be made in support of changing how we use juries in the courts, but this isn't one of them. I mean, this argument applies to just about every case that uses a jury, and it's simply not feasible to expect that jurors be knowledgeable in all the areas that a given case touches upon.
The problem there is that correctness is almost completely on par with justice. If the jury gets it wrong (condemning an innocent man, what have you) law be damned, justice was not served.

The policies of politicos is a much more grey area with consequences not so immediate and very subjective many, many years after the fact.
What would you think about a contemporary GRiD Compass?

Emphasis on durability and ergonomy before slim-ness, providing :

- Stronger structural material for laptop frame
- Shock and torque absorbing bits around corners, and hinges
- Stronger hinges that you can manipulate carelessly
- Better ergonomics by balancing weight
- More space for internal addition (PCIe, USB3) for modders
- Ease of access to internal, repairability.
- Easier heat dissipation aiming for 35-50C min-max range with minimal fan speed.

Beside, add:

A true 8bit IPS LCD.
A thinkpad class keyboard.

A nice vintage black box that handle 25 years of hackery without a glitch.
Yes. it's very,very difficult, expensive, and takes a long time to develop drugs. Though I still don't believe a hard problem justifies those sale prices.

R&D is expensive but what % of the pharma company income goes to it? Let's take the largest one Pfizer: ~9 billion total out of 67 billion income in FY11.

Even for medical expenses it's not that much of a COST. A Top of the line MRI machine costs 1 to 3 mil Usd. Let's say a hospital scans 5 to 10 people a day. The machine pays itself in 2 to 4 months at that 3K pricepoint.

Drugs also don't have to be made in the US and go through the whole FDA loop jumping.

What I'm saying is pricing seem very wrong to me. There's people with deseases all around the world and supply of drugs is being limited to a very slim percentage of people from 1st world countries due to pricing, because there's people willing to pay those price. Maybe if these cheap drugs companies get to be some sort of "the walmart of pharmaceuticals". Earning way more than current pharmas on mass sales rather than steep prices might turn the balance.
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Hello all
First I know im not going to teach them programming but I do what to start to teach and give them building blocks
about computers and to lead them in the end in few years to programming . ( if they show interest )
Is there some methods ? or applications I should familiar with to them ?
I want to start small really with fun attitude
Not that I disagree with you but this part of the trial is just about copyright.
Yes, you're using their internet connection. Their internet, their rules. If you don't like it, buy a hotspot.
So your point is someone made a correct prediction? On a 50/50 chance? Well, duh.
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