skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but I find the original post as a little backwards. Not everything makes sense on mobile. Not everything makes sense on the web. So why try to shoehorn it in there?
On a localized box, I had to run "unset LANG" first, because otherwise date doesn't seem to understand its own output.
/Ad Hominem/, much?
The South Korean government (owned by Samsung) has been blocking and putting up barriers to foreign phones for years, including delaying the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea, to give Samsung and co. a chance to develop competitors.

I'm glad to see the US government blocking a South Korean product for once, if that is indeed what is happening.
I remember many phpbb forums are configured like that and administrative mails aren't duplicated in the forum internal messaging system.
What an idiot ! Computers in banks are evil ??? He should stick to archaeology. As for bankers being inhuman, well they were the most moral of people when they had a gold standard and unlimited liability. But he won't do any banking archaeology.
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> without any programing experience?

Are you sure you're on the right website?
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The flip side of patent protection is this is what encourages drug companies to spend the multiple years of drug research and drug approval to develop new antibiotics.

I certainly agree that the patent system is non-optimal and should overhauled/replaced, but we also have to figure out a better way of funding drug development as part of that project. Maybe more government funding of basic drug research? Perhaps, but then it becomes a highly political issues (i.e., something the Republican Party would fight tooth and nail against).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4180605
Who wins the todays euro2012 final?
OMFG, are they this desperate to fight off Gmail!

People call G+ a desperate attempt, but this is ground-bottom. There's only word to describe this, disaster.
I would argue that Nokia 1208 is designed with enthusiasm. I'm afraid its kind are an endangered species too.
Great article! I really liked the manipulation matrix. The author did a great job of impressing upon entrepreneurs like me to create new products that improve lives by facilitating healthful habits. Couple of questions:
1) How does one balance the needs of investors while having a clear conscience to create a product that materially improves users lives but has higher costs or lowers margins?
2) Is there a fundamental behaviors matrix that defines what improves users lives?
I also like how he's decided he's figured out the most difficult bits of how to animate people and animals, but needs help with a few minor details, like a "Diagram of how evreything works."
oDesk.com is much faster / safer to do so. Elance is hard to score in my experience as starter, while my sister went, on oDesk, without any tech skills, from a few $/day to $100+/day and gets many referrals.

(If you didn't get it from the above; this will work without programming experience; you can write/translate/be an assistent/do basic testing/etc/etc. You don't even need a computer for a lot of things, but you will have a high phonebill or need to travel if you choose those jobs. Depending on where you live, there are local assignments as well, which pay out very fast and usually quite a lot as they 'see your face').
He is active in the trade union movement. I saw him make a left-wing (even by trade union standards) speech at TUC Conference once.
Well said. Also, I don't remember anyone calling for Boycott of Google/Motorola products & services, when Motorola won an injunction against some Apple products in Germany.
I think your last sentence shows exactly why it's not a non-issue as you claim in your first sentence. This nonsense is a drag on the entire economy.

Lawyers working on this issue is the equivalent of Keynes' digging holes and filling them up again statement. It's what makes Keynesianism so short sighted.
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The real problem here is that taxation should be progressive. Your marginal income tax rate should increase as a function of your income. It would make a lot of sense to reduce taxation at the level of the corporation, but then treat capital gains etc. the same as any other type of income.

Yes, that may cause corporations to not pay out profits, but there's nothing wrong with that, because if the profits are not paid out, then the shareholders don't have the problematic high income.

If keeping the profit causes share values to rise, then this rise in value should be taxed appropriately according to the same mechanism.
Where is the evidence that South Korea has blocked foreign phones?

I can do the work for you, South Korea for instance banned the sale of games inside the app store for a long time. I have a hard time finding examples where South Korea outright banned phones however.

Even if they did, why would you want the US to follow such bad examples. These policies are not healthy in the long term for a variety of reasons.

South Korea is a rather protectionist country, and drawing a line between the Chaebols (Huge conglomerates such as Samsung) and the government is often hard. By the way, this is not surprising considering South Korea was a US-backed and sponsored military dictatorship for a long time.

However, the iPhone 3GS launched in South Korea 3 to 4 months after its introduction to Europe and the US.

Nokia was active there for years.

Last time I was in Seoul, the new iPad launched to great fanfare.
He's been asking for months, instead of going out and, you know, getting a job.

I guess he's expecting someone to give him the money.
Nope.
It works slightly different, first companies like Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and others invested billions of dollars in creating telecommunication standards. Next those companies are forced to license patents for those technologies to Apple. Apple creates phone which base in 95% on technology created by those companies, they are adding several features like "slide to unlock" or "pinch to zoom" and patent it. Samsung, Motorola and others looks on Apple product and says "OK, so it means that customers want other UI, we can give them it too", they are participants in OHA which created very similar to iPhone project of OS for mobile phones (in the same time). So they start to produce and sell such phones. Now Apple goes to court and pretends that theirs big "innovation" is so unique that it should let them to block anything similar to theirs "inventions" (in the same time Apple took notifications system from Android)... what is the most funny part, Motorola and Samsung must license to Apple patents needed to build cell phone, but Apple may do not license theirs patents. This cause that patents for cell phones which costed billions of dollars are cheap for Apple (but its competitors needed to pay billions for those), but patents from Apple which costed only money needed for filling patent applications are impossible to obtain by its competitors.
I'm not sure what your definition of contrast is, sir. That was a fairly bright grey on a fairly dark grey. Returning to HN from this article was an unpleasant retinal shock.

Confusing a bright, backlit monitor with a piece of paper is some pretty nasty 1990s logic.
Sit-ins have been extremely effective, where there's a free press and where companies want to avoid negative publicity. You can't eject people forcibly without looking thuggish, and reporters flock to them.

Only problem: you actually have to care enough about an issue to risk getting arrested. I'd be surprised if anyone cared that much about Apple's patent trolling.
I have 2.6.27 kernels here (SuSE 11.1) which seem unaffected so breakage might be a little later
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I'm Indian & I've never heard of Labnol.org

Also is it a blog or a blogging website? Blogging website sounds like a site where people host their blogs, like blogspot or tumblr.
Perhaps Samsung will consider not slavishly copying Apple design for their next products?
Have you considered that while for huge conglomerates such as Samsung and companies like Apple this is a mere game for their law departments, it's much more serious for the small developer?

Big corporations could pretty much shut down any start up if they wanted to.

The reverse is not true. Could Panic Software have sued Apple because of the Audion / iTunes story?

So what good is the patent law if it only benefits the powerful?
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It is a 1986 interview published in the book Programmers at Work, now republished on the web 20+ years later by the author.

It would be interesting to redo those interviews again and compare... How much the perspective has changed?
Well, it was a known bug and you had six months to prepare (i.e. update your kernel).
Suggesting that people should "just buy an iPad" is an unhelpful over-simplification.

I appreciate that a patent is a state-granted monopoly on your idea. I feel it to be a mostly unhelpful right to be granting in the consumer software and device market. Regardless of how I feel about patents, though, an injunction prior to trial presupposes (on some level) that the charged party is guilty enough to warrant forcing them not to trade.

Injunctions are often helpful in potential libel cases, where the release of libellous information may cause largely unmeasurable but generally irreversible damages. I really don't think they're helpful when the extent to which the charged party may benefit is able to be measured (i.e. profit on sales) and the tangible outcome of that benefit redirected to whomever wins the suit (via the court-ordered payment of damages).
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A U.S. judge stops the sale of the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Life after the personal computer
I'm checking Reddit within 35 minutes of your comment here. I don't see anything related to Apple on the front page - positive or negative. Do things change that rapidly on reddit?
This is nonsense. Even when all products are allowed on the market we generally do not get the features we desire.

Its the paradox of choice, and how it makes people unhappy. If a shop sells peanut butter that is chunky, but also another brand that is extra spicy. Suddenly, we can imagine a peanut butter that is both chunky and spicy.

So, the choice already feels limited with both products on the market and is now even more limited, when their feature set may not overlap.

And as for the suggestion that these patents are the result of R&D. They are not. Not like some of the frand patents actually are.

Originally, the patent system was invented to encourage sharing secrets. But if you cant keep it a secret, because its just too obvious, you shouldnt be able to get a patent. Patents are now mostly used in an anti competitive sense.

The patent system, at least in these days, is counter productive. And the US will in time eat itself up. Because from China to Europe, we dont care about these ip laws to the same extent, and dont really serve our interests.
You're absolutely right. Kindof like of your hammer is Java, then everything looks like a thumb. In that sense I guess his post is talking to what's hot right now.
Perhaps Apple should stop claiming that they invented everything they popularized.
The people that want to boycott Apple don't even buy Apple products. So good luck with that. And besides that, you should know that Google makes a lot more money from iOS than from Android ($10 average from each iOS device vs $2 from each Android device), so if Apple stop selling iOS devices Google would be harmed in their income.

At least Apple use legitimate patents, unlike the use of FRAND patents of Samsung and Motorola. Nobody is going to make a #BoycottMotorola for using FRAND patents to ban Xbox 360 in countries like Germany?
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If it's decades then you're in the clear since patents have a more finite lifespan than copyright.

The initial iPhone patents only have another ten years or so left in them, if that.
I guess latest MacBook Air and Retina MacBook Pro. They're not soldeded on, but the SSD is a specific daughter-board.
Kinda like the 21 game where the winning strategy is to always say a multiple of 4(and it helps if you go second)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim#The_21_game
Sure it does. If this boycott turns out to be effective enough, I think companies thinking of doing what Apple did will think twice before doing it.

I doubt it'll actually be effective, but hey, at least it sends a message about how some consumers don't like litigating over software patents.
There is quite a lot of recruiters/randoms just adding as many people as possible. Without any introductory message, I would just consider that as spam.
However, if you know somebody in person but don't know him very well then I don't see a huge problem. I get quite a lot of invites from my former class mates that I had no real connection with. But hey, you never know where your life takes you. Those connections might accidentally come in very useful one day.

As for the recommendations - they've got nothing to loose really. In the worst case they won't get one.
The easiest way to share geolocated events or meetings privately with others.
I imagine they're finding it difficult to take seriously the actor who played Baldrick.
what happens with jellybean when you make an appointment for a time slot when you already have one at that time slot?
I think a generous prize system for new medicines could be incentive enough. This could also eliminate the need to stop free dissemination of manufacturing knowledge, meaning people the world over could get the medicine they need for free.
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Of course there are differences between startup funding and Nigerian email scams
Secret of productivity
We didn't catch it in time either. It was oh so much fun to wake up to our service not working at all, all java and mysqld processes spinning like crazy, and having to reboot all servers. :-/
The average person doesn't care. I'm in this industry and I barely care. Watching Google and Apple is like watching NBA players scuffling over the last bottle of champagne. The average person just wants to use their phone, update their Facebook and find out what Snooki is up too. A boycot organized on a site that the muggles have barely heard of over an issue that they don't give two shits about isn't going to affect Apple's share price one cent. In fact their price will likely rise as the Street sees Apple defending their IP successfully.
I am sorry for that. I didn't changed anything on the page. I guess the reason for the error is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4180543
Amazon was down again.

It is not much slower with https, but the configuration is easier. GitHub is doing the same. By default https.
Not sure if snark, or if really thst financially sophisticated...
" I won't bother getting into how the judge who ruled on this injunction is a former lawyer from an intellectual property firm who went after companies for profit."

https://plus.google.com/101209004947484771936/posts/XcZFPu8q...
I'm reminded of the quote:

"If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be the father"
Sorry for that. I didn't change the app. But Amazon AWS was down again: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4180543
I am considering to move away from Amazon.
Ask HN: Review my apartment rental startup, apartable.com
I just recently launched Apartable, my new apartment hunting startup to the public.

Briefly, Apartable aims to make finding an apartment easier by making the process personalized and transparent. We take only real, actual listings and summarize all the critical information for you in an easy to understand format, tailored to the user's personal tastes.

As opposed to a traditional listing site, everything on Apartable represents a real, currently available unit, and we enable renters to provide direct feedback on them.

Currently we have over 120,000 apartments across the US. Since this is a beta, I'd love to get some feedback from the HN community so that we can make it even better.

Link: http://apartable.com
Fab. Contact me via the info in my profile and we'll work out a time.
Thanks for the comment. You're correct, I didn't write this for myself. I decided to post it after a conversation with a few people on Twitter earlier today. I wanted to post something short which summed up how I felt about things.

While this wasn't written for me it is the summation of how I approach the way I write. My goal is for me to learn or to share the things that I think I've learned. This approach has worked well for me. While writing I learn a lot, and I do mean a LOT. When I finish, I like to publish because there's a whole world of people out there who are waiting to tell me I'm wrong. Even when you get things wrong you have the chance to learn. The key here is that the focus is on me.

If I can help other people at the same time then that's just a great side-effect. Thankfully so far I think I've managed it on more than one occasion I do hope I do it again. But if I don't it isn't going to worry me, as I will have got something from the experience.

Thanks again, I'm glad you enjoyed the read. Have an awesome day!
Mobile is not a single view / Market / technology

The post sort of implies smartphone == mobile, but with African mobiles being used to transfer scrip, Indian phones already having good SMS based payment models, there are multiple models, markets and a lot of cultural sensitivities

The one preditiom I can make is there will be no more global phenomenon - one website taking off everywhere. Even just tacking on a new tld will not fix the local differences that mobile adoption is bringing

Basically people adopted themselves to the web cos it was so useful and new. But mobile phones get adapted to people.
Wow, so people who want to buy Samsung instead of Apple anyway are going to boycott Apple? Apple is quaking in their boots, I'm sure.
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If this is what the market is willing to pay for them, than the prices pre-flood were too low. Simple economics?
From Android to iOS development
Boycotting Apple is very easy. They have a very limited number of products sold in their own stores. Try boycotting Johnson & Johnson or Nestle.
I'm having trouble understanding this argument. You say Apple has wronged you with this ban on Galaxy Nexus. But the injunction is in the US and you say you live in Australia. How does that affect you?

So maybe you are opposed to Apple by principle; but by the same principle you should be opposed to Google/Motorola, too, as they have got an injunction on a few Apple products in Germany. Are you opposed to Google, too?
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At no point did I say "hide your writing". I think it's clear that the sentiment of the post was not to hide the stuff that you write, but instead to write for the right reasons. If you write for the purpose of pleasing others you'll struggle. If you write to please yourself you'll be surprised just how many others you please in the process.
smart. Spoiler/summary: they use a "leap smear" to keep code logic from breaking.

Instead of making code encounter the same second twice or not encounter a certain second, they smear the extra second over several hours beforehand through the central time server; by the time the leap second comes you're already sufficiently ahead/behind. (My comment: This works because the granulatiy of the time isn't that low anyway, so obviously no code can rely on it. Therefore, if code is correct without the smear it will be correct with the smear.)
> "Apple is a business, it doesn't exist for altruistic reasons."

While true in a strictly short term sense, not being "nice" is the sort of thing that erodes your brand image. One too many of these sorts of stories stick in a consumers head to create a generally negative image, which can be extremely hard to reverse (see Scoda).

And for a luxury company like Apple, brand image is everything.
Except that it's not a Java problem, it's a Linux futex problem.
"The ads are the default content object (the tweet) and are delivered right in the primary user experience (the feed/timline)."

True, but this is also why it's annoying.
Not true. Google/Motorola got an injunction against a few Apple products in Germany, a few months back. Apple had to disable push mail feature on its iCloud service, in Germany, to get the products back to market.
I agree with your points. It is hard to make something this small have meaning across the board. This is part of the reason why I targeted the thought at tech blogging in particular. This net may also be too wide, but in my opinion the point holds when it comes to that type of writing.
I've never tried Siri or S Voice so I can't say anything about the quality of the services or the overall experience but judging by what I saw in the video it didn't seem to me like it was "a complete blowout for Siri."

The main metric in the comparison seemed to be speed, at which S Voice was a little bit better than Siri. Also, voice quality was slightly in favor of S Voice.

The main differences were S Voice offering image results right away instead of asking to open the browser. On the other hand, S Voice required non-voice input to to specify the remineder time whereas Siri carried on "the conversation". Other than that, the two products pretty much behaved exactly the same. Ask something, get a result.

If you ask me, it was more of a 55:45 for S voice based on speed and naturalness of voice but then I don't run a gadget blog...
Yes. The twitter bootstrap framework looks pretty awesome. Right now I am using the blueprint css framework. But I think I will switch to bootstrap.
That is definitely part of it. When I first started writing I needed to remind myself of this quite a lot. Thankfully I haven't really needed to do that for quite a while now. I enjoy writing and I do it when I can. The goal continues to be learning with the added bonus of helping others along the way. It hasn't ever been, nor will be, about traffic.

Cheers for the comment.
I have a hard time telling if you are serious or not. I hope not.
As with the web, it's not the shoehorned apps that are leading the charge on mobile. It's the totally new kinds of apps that didn't make sense until this platform came along.
What's the background on https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-aR5Kiv6yGJ8/T_AgxfYEw_I/A... ?

(It's the first time I've seen this comparison.)
Google's voice assistant was definitely impressive, and clearly had an edge on Siri in the tests he made, but to call it a "blowout" was a bit much.
I've taken the summer off, and I can definitely see what this writer means. I have a number of habits and reflexes left over (e.g.: frequent checking of email, compulsive checking of news sites and social media) that may have had some use, but mainly sustained a feeling of busyness.

No idea how I'm going to prevent getting re-hooked in the fall, but I'm definitely going to prune that back while I'm on vacation.
opensuse (mysql supporting the kde desktop search).
The video isn't comparing Siri to S Voice (which is Samsung's mediocre Siri-clone), but to Google Voice Search in Android 4.1.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818128

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958812

how did you go from being 14 to being 16 in less than a year?

Very fishy
It's a single additional wire.
In Korea Samsung sells cars that are almost exact copies if American and German models. Korean businesses have no qualms about straight up stealing others designs. For example looking at this car, by a company called Ssangyang, http://www.jeepfan.com/readersjeeps/ians-korando/ it's an almost perfect clone of a Jeep CJ-7. This is exceptionally common with Korean Chaebols. Samsung getting sympathy over this is laughable. In Korea Samsung runs over the little guy all the time. It's a highly corrupt, politically nasty company. Spend more than 10 minutes in Korea and people would lose all sympathy for poor little Samsung.