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Apple is implicitly admitting Samsung is a huge threat to them.

Apple has intelligent people making these decisions. So they know in their heart of hearts that the patents they hold are overly broad to the point of bogusness. They know that the majority of the tech market is also intelligent enough to come to this same realization. They have an awareness that lawsuits exercising these quasi-bogus patents will have a negative impact on Apple's public image. Therefore, the only logical reason for going through with the lawsuits is because they have concluded that the alternative -- letting Samsung + Google have their way in the mobile market -- would be far more damaging to Apple.

Apple's interests aside, is this good for society at large? Doubtful.
A father who's proud of his son? What's that like? I imagine it could make a pretty big difference in one's motivation and outlook, but lack direct experience.
Didnt a recent court decision say this was protected
Under freedom of speech?
It is irreparable harm considering they can't get back the monopoly/leading market-share effect at this very young stage of the tablet market.

i.e. Sales and profits now is a lot more important than Sales and Money later.
Yes i know.

I think the excuses like "many sites dont do this" or "its up to the users to secure passwords" are just that---excuses for poor security practices.
...if you write a time bomb into our unit test suite

What does this mean, a slow test?
What A Patent Hell.

FYI: The patents held against Android:

1. A means of detecting and marking up data like a phone number or an e-mail address, and then initiating a phone call or an e-mail when the linked data is clicked

2. A means of searching multiple databases and sources for data.

3. A slide to unlock feature.

4. An autocorrect-type function that completes the word as a user types and allows the user to accept or reject the word.

This must be a joke!
Well, I saw the graph and expected that I could plot dependencies for arbitrary packages, but looking a bit more revealed that it's a site for staying up to date on new packages. I don't know how I can plot the dependencies of other papackages, or how that ties into the app...
Do anyone here thinks that it will lead to rise in sales of Galaxy Nexus for remaining stock and it will sell very very quickly. Couple of my friends are already ordering one. If this patent battle turns out to be farce for Apple, this could be lightning in dark clouds.
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Does this kind of thing make anyone happy? Does anyone feel better about Apple the company because of this?

It would be nice if supposedly innovative companies could, you know, just keep innovating instead of worrying about copycats catching up on stale technology (in this case, I don't think it's even clear that there is any sort of copycat-like activity).

Apple makes a few excellent products, but this kind of thing lowers my impression of the brand overall.
Boy, they are getting a lot of mileage out of that regular expression "data tapping" patent, even though people were doing the same thing years before, including a NeXTStep app released with source and published on USENET in 1995 1 year before the Apple patent was filed

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.archives/browse_thread/...
While you're at it, never commit your data to any proprietary application.

There, that's what 40 years taught me.
I may be in danger of being labelled a Microsoft fanboy here, but I think Windows Phone is (or has potential to be) a good software platform, and Microsoft has got the money (and I think the will) to stick with it for a while - RIM would mostly be useful to them for their enterprise software stack, and as a hardware manufacturer.
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Also, for actual usage feedback, it sounds useful but I'm not sure if I'd use it, as I generally just install packages at the start of a project and leave them at that version unless I feel like upgrading or y have bugs.
On another note, there's a very real possibility the Canadian government would be nationalistic enough to refuse Microsoft permission to buy them out, even if they offered.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/06/29/andrew-coyne-...
I am honestly lost and do not understand what your startup does.
you are not google (yet) - explain what you do, what you offer - in one or two catchy sentences above the fold.

other than that: cool & interesting idea - still a few bugs in there (i.e.: https://www.versioneye.com/search?lang=&q=coffeescript, select boxes on the search box don't remember their setting)
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"Some service in the future is going to curate the top 100,000 or 1,000,000 queries into a list of great, precise results."

So, basically, we'll see the development of yet another hierarchically organized oracle?
Oh I agree with you, I was really just asking for the ability to run dual mode daemons. Companies who host these things for people might appreciate the option. :)
OK,

I don't think gp's point maximizing Apple's gain but simply shaming Apple into better behavior. Sure, it's better for you if your competition isn't allowed to use any of your innovations. But why not show you are so good you don't need all the advantages you are legally entitled to?
I'm absolutely 100% certain that the analysis you speak of is an educated guess at best.

I think it is very easy to imagine irreparable harm being done.
Nope. But it's a great deal of (nasty) fun watching a former hundred pound weakling pulverizing three gorillas at once in the ring.
You are right. I am not google. I thought that the search field and the language icons would be clear. But if not I will add some description. Thank you for you feedback.
Same. I had to turn NoScript off.

Why the author chose to require javascript for this blog is beyond me. :/
It makes Apple happy. But fuck them. I will not spend a dime on their products anymore (iPod/iPhone 3/Iphone 4 owner).
You know it's odd.
One one hand, the almost-greybeard in me wants people to stop screwing around with what I take to be standard unix concepts... what are the ephemeral ports, etc.

On the other hand, when I take a close look at something like what you just posted, the level of control is hard to argue with - nothing wrong with that.

The temptation is still to basically do what you did (thanks BTW) and just revert everything back to what it rightfully should be.... it served us just fine for ages.

Or I'll switch to FreeBSD ,unless they're doing the same thing.
There is no such "technique". They can make educated guesses, but that's about it.
In regard to his "objects compare higher..." point, I think he was referring to this:

class MyClass {}
class YourClass {}

$myclass = new MyClass();
$yourclass = new YourClass();

var_dump($myclass > $yourclass); // false
var_dump($myclass < $yourclass); // false?

In regard to his "there's no pass-by-object identity..." point, there's no way to do this:

class MyClass {}

$myclass = MyClass;
$anotherclass = $myclass();

I really don't have the energy to refute the rest, but most of them are relatively subjective. (I say relatively because most of them promote better programming, but their absence doesn't directly harm)
I really wish I hadn't read this just as I start the weekend. I've been irreparably harmed by the high blood pressure it has caused within me.
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I'm not a security expert, but at least I have first hand experience with the Bitcoinica hack. It seems that all the security features you have mentioned are present in many Bitcoin sites, including Bitcoinica,r and they don't prevent the easiest ways of losing wallets.
Storing in the cloud is especially dangerous because for most (NOT all) cloud service providers, the front-end security (concerning authentication and authorization) is probably much weaker than your own implementation. For example, anyone can reset the password with an email, and change the root passwords of the servers. There isn't likely an option for second factor authentication.

This does not apply to cloud services with serious security considerations, such as AWS. It has IAM as well as second factor authentication. However, in Bitcoinica's case, both Linode and Rackspace don't seem to be a good choice to host wallets: Linode hack was actually a result of their customer service system compromise (i.e. possibly any support agent can reset the root passwords). While Rackspace Cloud's support staff couldn't log out the hacker and preserve the servers even when the hack was detected and password being changed.

These are really basic security features that cloud services are lacking.

You made a good point that things can be upgraded as you grow. Please do that. It's exactly what I intended to do when I launched Bitcoinica last year. But after I sold the company last year, no one really think it's an urgent thing to do because there were no performance issues, no availability issues and everything went just fine. It's important to stick to the plan, and preferably allocate a fixed portion of revenue for upgrading security features and doing audits.

I'm glad to give you more information so that you can make better decisions (just drop me an email). I have been leading Bitcoinica for half a year (until the handover in April) and I had some experience in running a Bitcoin site that scaled quite well. I'm working on a non-Bitcoin project at the moment but I really want Bitcoin to succeed.
OK. It's a search engine for Software Developers. You can find Libraries and additional information. And you can follow your Libraries to get notified about new versions.
How would you design the landing page for that?
So wrong. When will we have comprehensive reform on software-related patent law? In this age everything is powered by a computer of some sort, and it's very important to the intellectual future of the nation that we secure the right for individuals and corporations to innovate without fear of a patent lawsuit.
Judge Koh was a Silicon Valley patent litigator from 2000-2008 before being appointed a judge. Makes me wonder what companies she represented.
If the RIAA can sue Limewire for more than the GDP of this entire planet[1] for damages from file sharing, surely Apple can sue Samsung for downstream damages within their ecosystem.

[1]http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_o...
It's more like Samsung explicitly admitting that they cannot find a way to unlock a phone without the swipe gesture.
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Ask HN: Review my startup—A website builder to sell films like Louis CK
I would like some feedback on my startup: http://filmpage.com. It is an About.me style page builder to create a page to sell your DVD like Louis CK.

If you're interested in working on the project with me, please email me at jon@filmpage.com.
Yes. I know what you mean. I worked the same way, long time. But then I thought it would be nice to get notified about new versions. And that's why I build this tool. The idea is to have links on the versioneye pages to changelogs and bugfixes. So that it helps you to stay up to date and secure.
Or a wristwatch shaped device.
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Despite what a lot of media suggest plenty of people hung out the geek crowd, not because they felt inferior, but because they found most people boring. Shock and horror the caption of the football team can love to play chess and be great at it. I was incredibly nerdy in high-school, had a lot of fun, and I was rather popular.

That said; there are a lot of people out there and if you go looking for a stereotype you can often find it, or at least convince yourself that's what your seeing.

PS: Team sports can actually be a lot of fun.
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Why is it wrong exactly?
Thought the same thing:

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-23/news/31829713_1_r...
Because of train wrecks like this (there are plenty of other examples around, let us no pretend there aren't):

/home/rob/projects/gnu/gcc/configure -target=arm-linux-androideabi --host=i386-linux-gnu --build=i386-linux-gnu --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++ --without-ppl --without-cloog --disable-libssp --enable-threads --disable-nls --disable-libmudflap --disable-libgomp --disable-shared --disable-tls --disable-libitm --with-float=soft --with-fpu=vfp --enable-target-optspace --enable-initfini-array --disable-nls --prefix=/usr/local/android-toolchain --with-sysroot=/usr/local/android-toolchain/sysroot --enable-gold --with-pkgversion=Rob Savoye --disable-libquadmath --disable-plugin --enable-gold=default target_configargs=lt_cv_shlibpath_overrides_runpath=yes --enable-cxx-flags='-fexceptions -frtt

You say shelter, someone else says complete waste of time. I am actually for people building their own but if you don't recognize that some problems at some instances of dev are simply over complicated winding hacks that will not ever be used again... well. That just turns to the 'Holier than Thou' moments that look over pedantic to people that, while not lacking coding skills, will just be put off when contacting with this reality.
And the n00bs, l33t talk, not so much.
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In the login are you can upload your gem file and VersionEye is showing which of your gems are outdated. The dependency graphs for your own projects is coming soon. Also an embed button, so that you can embed the graphs into your own pages.
The Filesystem != Files.

The File is one of the most important core abstractions of our computer systems. Stdin? Stdout? Network I/O? Etc. All files.
I've been writing a README file for GitHub lately and I found out that there is no markup preview for *.rdoc files.
So I've made this one. It supports most popular markups and looks the same as on github.
I would appreciate any feedback or advices.
I like what I think you do, but I agree with the other people here, add some more concrete explanations of what it is VersionEye does.

1) I searched for "zlib" which is something I needed recently for Python. zlib comes built in to Python, but I think you could include it in your results anyways since it's kind of a toss up what comes prepackaged and what doesn't.

2) I tried to filter and the filters cleared and showed me the old results again.

Good luck, I think it's a really great idea. I search for different packages like this all the time, and it's a PAIN.
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Hope you felt good upvoting all those articles stating how ridiculous patent law is FROM YOUR DAMN APPLE DEVICES

Time to vote with your wallet is way overdue.

And while you're at it may think about the Sony stuff you own.
Yeah, but AFAIK this economic model (and the Constitution) was supposed to work by trying to break monopolies, not encouraging them.
It's intended to be a library for working with data stored in multi dimensional in-memory tables. Think loading a .csv file or relational table into memory, performing some transformations, adding columns, merging with other tables, and grouping data, filtering, sorting, all while handling missing data gracefully.

Maybe I would describe it as combing a spreadsheet with SQL data transformation capabilities - but better.

It requires numpy because it uses ndarray as it's underlying data structure and you can also use many/most? of the numpy data analysis functions.
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Those are fine arguments against Apple’s business strategies, but not arguments that Apple’s products are terrible and/or inferior. Especially not arguments that Apple’s products are inferior to whatever-it-was that its competitors were doing before Apple introduced the iPhone.
I would put the description higher up. It's pretty clear, just hidden.
I think it would be cool if it hits google top 10 for a query like 'github markup preview'. Please share this link so people can find it quickly. Thank You!
That pretty much sums up the demise of Bitcoin, pretty much every bitcoin "exchange" seems to be created by high school kids doing their first steps in PHP and Javascript. Wake me up when a real bank (or a renowned exchange like Ameritrade, Intrade etc) starts trading Bitcoins.

That and for me the main blocker of Bitcoin is how to exchange my currency (MXN or EUR) into Bitcoins.
Well that's nearly impossible when a tap is a zero length swipe.
Exactly why I don't build or put marked amounts of time into platforms I have no control over.
The text could use some more contrast against the picture background, can be hard to read. Other than that, I like it.
I don't think being an asshole is inherent to either men or women. Similarly, both men and women are capable of being kind.

You might want to try it some time--it's not so bad!
You are the management. It's always your fault. If you didn't actually write the bug. You could have trained the person who wrote the bug. You could have reviewed her code. You could have not let them check it in. You could have not let them work on the feature. You could have not hired them.

You could have fired them.

All this helps you do in a twisted way is figure out who you should fire. Chances are people will leave long before that.

Even though I'm not the boss of my team. Our policy is that it's always my fault. I find it liberating. Gives me an opportunity to learn from all our mistakes. And there is no finger pointing. Unless its at the management. As its always the managements fault.
That officer just spent a bunch of taxpayer dollars:
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/in-lakeway-a-crusade-aga...

That should be her entire story, that recently in Texas, in fact the state's capital, the same exact thing happened and resulted in a finding of complete innocence of the charges and a suit and settlement for the city. Don't get hung up on her intent, why she's wasting her time like this or whatever, just that here's a cop who just repeated a mistake he should have known not to make, and now the taxpayers have to pay out for it.
That was for headlight-flashing and was in Florida.
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Google is registering 1,000,000 Linux machines a day. Small desktops, granted. But (IMHO) the Year of the Desktop was really about the year of Consumer Linux, which snuck up on everyone upwards, rather than flowing down in machine size.
In the Ghost in the Shell series you'll often see one person talking to another only to eventually realise that the other person was 'diving' (using the internet) and not listening to a word they say.
Great design (by itself) isn't enough
OK. I will do that. Many thanks.
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The problem is that you also need to supply the dependencies that you used to build it (makefiles and such).
First, hat-tip for your accomplishments.

Now on to the bashing....

(I kid)

Seriously, though: For a song, that works fine. But what happens when it's a note I jot down in a hurry? And then an address I tap in for later. And my grocery list.

Now, I have to keep this mental mapping of where my data lives. I have to, essentially, remember file types and associations myself.

Not saying I need a file browser, but the current iOS facility for this isn't good enough. Look at the card-wallet thingy for iOS6. Maybe what would work is something like that for each general type of content. You want to see any stored gift cards and boarding passes? Open your wallet. You want to see any stored notes and grocery lists and what not? Open your moleskin.

You've clearly thought about this more than I have, though. So what's your take on it?
Can Google not sue to invalidate that "Siri" patent because of prior art? I thought this kind of unified search existed back in the days of Google Desktop...
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Indeed.
I mean, it may very well be true, and without time to analyze, if you are highly confident in nginx and the rest of your server setup (it's not some other user definiable limit) you might as well.

That said - building websites to handle load has no magic bullet. Sure, nginx is good. Far-future expires headers and cache-busting schemes to go with it are good too. CDN's are good. Varnish is good. Clusters are great too, for capacity and redundancy, but you need to be aware of stuff in all these cases, and every layer you add is also something else to manage and something else to break..... so really it has to come from test-driven results regarldess, so you are spot on.

My beef with services like this (granted I haven't investigated fully) is I don't want hosted stuff. I get that's a huge market, but for confidentiality and other reasons, there is also a market for slightly more traditional stuff.

I'd love a toolkit to make it easy to build arbitrary animated control panel-y things a-la Quest Spotlight on <whatever> for my apps... havent' found it yet, anyone know one?
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IBM Simon(1993/4) also had the same functionality[0].

Also, it seems that their main patent(8,086,604[1]) for this case describe a metasearch engine, something that have been around at least since the mid 90s(long before the patent was filled in 2004).

[0] http://youtu.be/wnFsJ9z_caY?t=1m57s (warning: terrible video quality ahead)
[1] http://goo.gl/jjG1P
Make no mistake - all the major smartphones out there are infringing someone else's patent. If this is the precedent, next thing we'll have iPhones banned for infringing on Motorola, and Windows Phones banned for infringing on RIM patents.

This is bad news for consumers, bad news for innovators.

Everyone loses.
I put zlib on my ToDo list. I just saw that the language filter is broken. Sorry for that. Tomorrow it will be fixed. Up to them. You can just add "lang=Python" to the URL, to make it work. I will write a RSpec for that.

I know that it is pain to search for packages on Google. Because there is just to much noise on Google.

Many Thanks for your Feedback. I will continue to improve it.
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I am not sure the 75 million active daily users of Google+ consider the product a failure.
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Computer industry as we know it has got here because of sharing of ideas (someone once said "stealing ideas"), these patents wars just don't feel right and may hurt the industry a lot and stifle innovation.
What does this have to do with entitlement though?

en·ti·tle·ment/enˈtītlmənt/
Noun:
The fact of having a right to something.
The amount to which a person has a right.

Usually this is applied to someone that believes they are entitled to something. Food, housing..,

I don't see anything these jerk programmers are thinking they are entitled too.
It's wrong because Apple isn't simply protecting their IP, they're waging a litigious war against a legitimate competitor in hopes that the courts will give them the edge in the marketplace and not their superior products.
Accepting that everything has an end and nothing can't be taken away from you is fine, but this doesn't mean you should not focus more on things that can't be taken away from you easily (i.e. until you die).
A touching film. I'm not sure the effect when it suddenly went to black-and-white and the camera got all jerky, out-of-focus really worked though. I really found it distracting, although I still enjoyed it overall.
It looks like he got his likes back?
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