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Are "disappearing scrollbars" in general patented or just the implementation on mobile touchscreens with a non full-scrollbar and moves with the scrolling?

The language used suggests that disappearing scrollbars aren't completely novel but the prior ones used a full length scroll bar (on desktops, etc.)

The iOS scrollbar does seem both novel and innovative. It also seems fairly minor and the kind of thing I'd be easy to program around.
I grew up in the 1960s and we lived within about 30 miles of 10 Titan II silos. They showed us these films constantly in school. With commentary. I can remember taking a map and using a compass to draw out the overlapping blast circles for a class project.
Or maybe we'll just be breeding a lot of anti-Teela Browns.
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Tough one. blekko has a WoW slashtag, but it doesn't auto-boost for that query. You can invoke it by hand, though, how do you like this result?

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It might very well be the first on a touch screen, but it's been quite common (in a trendy sort of way) throughout computing. Haven't you every used an image viewer that had the scrollbars disappear when you zoomed in and where panning around?
I would love it if gnome-terminal did the same thing. It should be possible to do the whole tmux thing without having to know any keystrokes, configuration etc and just use your existing gui terminal program.
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The title of the article makes no distinction between victims who were already pregnant during the incidents and those who weren't.

When trying to answer “If you are hit by two atomic bombs, should you have kids?”, I believe it's fair to take into account both situations. And then I believe the general answer is ‘No’.

More in line with the article the headline could've been “If you're hit by an atomic bomb, is it possible to have kids years after?”. To which apparently the answer is ‘Yes’.
Even if Apple was the first company ever to have a disappearing scroll-bar on a mobile device, I'm amazed something like that can be patented. To me it seems like a common sense evolution when shrinking things down to mobile proportions.

"You know there isn't much screen real estate here, so lets get rid of the bar, and only show the scroll head when you are scrolling. Good idea!" Why should someone be allowed to patent that?

It's like the first website ever to say, "We really have a lot of menu items here... I know, let's group them into sub-menus that 'drop-down' when you mouse over them?" Boom, drop-down menus are now patented, pay up if you want to use them in your website. Sure there were drop-down file menus on computers before this, but I'm the first one ever to do it on a website.

Can someone explain why the two are nothing alike and I'm an idiot for feeling this way?
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You can edit your own, and fork the gists of others. They're full git repos.
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RSA did not "rob the collective human intelligence pool." It empowered us all and inspired others' patent-free works, like El-Gamal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)
If Apple uses these new patents to again attack an Android vendor, I will walk away from my lucrative iOS consulting work, the time I have invested mastering their tools and APIs, the hard work I have invested in my own apps, and all the many Apple devices I own and use every day.

I've really enjoyed being a part of their ecosystem but I will not support any more toxic patent warfare.
I'm not arguing justice or decency. Simply that in response to the 9/11 attack the US was going to do something, and Afghanistan was that something. I think in pure pragmatic terms it was a stupid something.

From his own point of view. Osama had declared war on the US and picked what he considered to be strategic targets. In purely military terms I think he picked his targets very well.
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When you have that mindset, you find yourself with likely minded "friends".
The problem is not on the way up, the problem is your "friends" will also brutally let you down if you are ever in a bad spot, or not performing to their expectations.

Of course in the beginning there is almost no downside: you find yourself with other young motivated entrepreneurs, you share success and failure, the entry to the club is only motivation. If you make it, you will want to surround yourself with other winners, but now the entry to the club is success. That is when statistics and human nature start to play against you.
Yes, you're definitely right that this is what their patenting, not disappearing scrollbars generally. But I don't agree that it being done on a touch screen makes it novel.
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I bought one of the Dell laptops that came with Ubuntu a few years ago and I'm typing this on it.

I simply installed stock Ubuntu immediately after receiving it due to the same fear of crapware. But still, having it come with Ubuntu preinstalled means I knew all the hardware would work, as it has so far. Also it means I voted with my dollars for wider adoption of Linux by vendors.
I have a Lenovo X220 and a Lenovo X1. Both work well with Ubuntu.
You are not an idiot for feeling this way. The patent system is horribly broken.
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You can go to several banks, Wal-Mart, CVS, 7-11, and other places and buy them, albeit indirectly: https://www.bitinstant.com/home
Think about how all our nuclear tests actually raised carbon 14 levels to such a high point it can actually be used as a marker to determine the age of an object anywhere in the world.

Then think about our crazy high cancer rates.
Just curious -- why did you go with IndieGoGo instead of KickStarter? KickStarter has a much greater visibility on the web than IndieGoGo (based off a comparison using Google Trends[1]).

Are you opposed to their funding model or something else about them? Did they reject your project application, and if so, why?

[1] http://trends.google.com/websites?q=kickstarter.com%2C+indie...
"We are making the site with a useful UI/UX, so that debates and opinions are in the center."

great, I was looking for a place where I can argue on the internet and also had a useful ui/ux.
Its real. Many movies have reused stock nuclear footage. I recognize that video. Also, the effects in it are typical of nuclear blasts.
What do you think college was for? You are unlikely to ever again have nearly as easy access to such a broad range of experts all willing to teach / train you in thier subjects.

Also unless you have a trust fund you should be spending a good part of the next nine years figuring out how you are going to support yourself for the following fifty.
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Make a commitment to balance. I partied very hard in my teens and 20s and regret nothing. Some of my friends worked on professional degrees and are now late 20s early 30s trying to recover what they can of their youth. Another set of friends still pour their energy into partying but worry about money. For energetic people, the most important thing is balance. Work effectively, party hard, don't listen to too many people, be brave and don't make their concerns yours.
> why gambling sites can't use them as proxies for cash

Wrong, it's the users who can't use them as proxies for cash. A bitcoin casino is currency agnostic. It deals exclusively with bitcoins.

There are things like SatoshiDice which allow you to gamble with no possible cheating, with tangible probabilities etc., and these effectively _must_ operate currency agnostic. It's up to the user to decide how the exchange spread effects his/her bet.
Ask HN: Why wasn't the C preprocessor written to allow adding language features?
I ask this question because it would be trivial to add DSL-like features to C (in a lispy sort of way) if CPP was as powerful, as, say, sed.

Are there any language aware preprocessors out there that would allow me to define new syntax for C without descending into CPP hell (or, alternatively, not make the code gcc only)?

Edit: I'm trying to avoid sed and m4. Please don't make me use m4, I beg of you.
That's been going on for months, although the discussion about it has become deafening lately.
Wasn't Symbian there before iOS was even conceived?
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No, it's not a good thing beyond perhaps raising awareness of it and maybe temporarily increasing demand for it. The stability it had was a great sign and it was seeing some solid use for transactions (especially for virtual goods). The sudden increase is going to add risk to day to day transactions and thus make people shy again from using BTC for purchases.
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I love this idea. Not sure if this is a direction you'd be interested in, but it would be really cool if this could act as a widget that I could insert into an existing blog site with a single line of code and your service would populate the rest. This would let me use gists for all my blogging, and still have the rest of my site around the outside.
Yup, really. I was as surprised as the next person.
It looks like their KickStarter was shut down for spammy tactics.

http://www.quora.com/Vergence-Labs/Why-did-Vergence-Labs-Kic...

http://llsocial.com/2012/06/kickstarter-indiegogo-misuses-co...
Just in case that isn't already setting off your alarm bells, here's the math:

7% interest per week, up to 5000 BTC:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.07^52

3372.53% per year

So if I deposit 148 BTC today, he's promising to pay me 4991.3444 BTC in one year. Note that he only takes referrals, a classic way to drive up demand by limiting availability of the profits.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Generally no, it's why one half of the Federal Reserve's mandate is price stability. Wildly fluctuating prices make it very difficult for businesses to plan expenditures - hiring, production levels, R&D, etc., resulting in more conservative spending and investment.

But bitcoin is still new, not fully understood, in limited supply, relatively illiquid (compared to other currencies and financial assets), and coming onto the scene right in the middle of a banking system and sovereign debt crisis unlike anything ever seen and most of its early adopters see it as a hedge against that.

So, volatility is going to be norm for bitcoin's foreseeable future.
I'll concede this point - there exists evidence that some physiological traits may correlate with intelligence. But there does not exist a model of why or how those traits influence intelligence.
Does that casino also pay its hosting costs, its developers, its customer service agents, etc with bitcoin as well?
They are relaunching again. You're thinking of the failed relaunch when Rupert Murdoch bought it. MySpace sat stagnant for about a year before Specific Media and Justin Timberlake bought it for $35 million. They're currently in the process of relaunching with focus being on media not as just another social network to compete with Facebook. I can't reveal any information about it, but lets just say I'm pretty in the know of MySpace happenings and plans for the relaunch and a lot of people are going to be very surprised of the new direction.
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Many people were able to raise $100-400M funds during the 2003-2007 time period, and thus their management fees were $2-8m per year. That can make several people millionaires over the course of the fund life. Most of these funds did not have good returns.
This looks really great, but I have to take issue with your choice of typeface. While the description in the Google font database makes it out to be an award winning face for literature optimized for reading, its exaggerated serifs and uneven rhythm give it a kind of medieval / enlightened manuscript feel that just seems anachronistic and weird. For a general service that integrates with Github and shouldn't really be 'saying' anything with its design, I would recommend a more classic, rhythmic serif face along the lines of Minion, Caslon, Palatino, Baskerville, Hoefler Text, or even Georgia, which reads quite well at 14-16px.

Granted I'm a designer, I personally wouldn't use this service based on the typeface choice alone. It just clashes too much with the neutrality of everything else on my system and on websites I use commonly.
After ZionEyez embarrased Kickstarter by raising over $300k but then dropping off the face of the earth (still haven't shipped, over 6 months late, and ignoring their customers' emails), Kickstarter now hates video glasses.

Indiegogo is much more friendly to computer eyewear -- we've met their CEO, and they love our product and our stellar team: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4263569
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Allow me to propose an alternative argument to those I've seen thus far: Apple is regarded by hackers with disfavor because they compete in ways that are incompatible with the hacker essence.

First, hackers value independence and the freedom of creation above most else. Apple's use of the legal system amounts to denying the right of others to create, due to arguably trivial similarities with Apple's own derivative creations.

Second (and this is the new point I want to raise), Apple's marketing centers on creating a "magical" ethos around their products. Hackers, as die-hard rationalists, regard appeals to magical thinking as manipulative and morally reprehensible. Thus, even when Apple isn't litigating, they're still "cheating" by using something other than pure reason to win.
No one is confused. It says 'Samsung Galaxy Tab', right on the box, along with a Samsung logo on the tablet. The only way it could be confusing is with a salesperson using phrases such as 'basically the same', which could lead people to purchasing the wrong one.

It's not like the Chinese iPad clones which come with the same box design, the same style logo and a big apple on the back of them, it's Samsung selling a product, which out of necessity, has similar design features.
That does not seem like a justifiable thing to compete over, to me.
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Someone should probably point out that C++ started out with CFront (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront) as it's first compiler, which compiled C++ into C code, which could then be compiled.

Thus the cynic in me wants to answer, "to prevent a C+++."
Looks like Apple wants to spend its billions in profits on lawyers. Almost everything on the iPhone exists as prior art. I can't really think of anything original on the iPhone other than the unification, control and polish. I think Apple realizes this is not patentable.
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This doesn't seem to make sense to me - BTC as an investment implies that there is some external value to BTCs beyond merely an investment vehicle (see: houses, which are useful for living in, power companies that produce electricity, etc).

If BTCs are not useful as an actual currency, then isn't it purely an investment vehicle that isn't backed up by any sort of real value, present or future?
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The distinct impression the tour story gave me was "in case of Russian invasion". There was even some explanation about which versions of the Nike missile had sufficient range to get to Sacramento.

Like I said, there's some distinctly creepy bits about that whole thing.
I'd rather have my trackpad, sound, sleep/wake, graphics driver, etc ... work out of the box than to have an extreme degree of configurability.

You are right, this is my perspective, but for Dell it's also a matter of numbers. Which direction, if they can't do both now, will sell more laptops, cause fewer returns, etc.
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Nitpicking of my grammar aside, I'm not making bold predictions in-fact I know a lot about the plans for the relaunch of MySpace I am just not at liberty to say because of confidentiality agreements but lets just say that when it relaunches it's going to be dramatically different, not try and compete with the likes of Facebook or Google directly but rather indirectly.

I don't get people like yourself who so easily criticise everything others say instead of asking questions.
AFAIK, it's different enough from RHEL that some binary-distributed software breaks. I never had much trouble with it, but I try to keep enough distance from distro details as not having to worry too much whether it is a Red Hat or a Debian I am using.
There is a behavioral impact to the Save button. We are conditioned to think that the changes we make in a file do not apply until we hit 'Save', so it's okay to just close a file if you do not intend to 'commit' those changes.

Auto-save for recovery purposes is one thing, but when completely replacing the 'Commit when I tell you' to 'Save everything in real time' can have unintended consequences.
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If you are pregnant you basically already have kids, they are just not born yet. (i.e. give it time and it will happen, as opposed to getting pregnant which requires action.)

(i.e. it says "have" which means a future action not "keep" meaning inaction - if you want to nitpick.)

Deciding to abort a baby due to bomb exposure is a completely different question, both morally and biologically.

The situations are so incredibly different (DNA can repair things a living organism can not) that yet again I'm amazed at how you combine them. Is it ignorance? Trolling? A simple refusal to back down from a mistake?
In LA temperatures rarely fall below 50 degrees in the winter and are rarely above 85 in the summer. Yet LA is jam packed with cars and features traffic jams at any time of day.

I think LA is a perfect city for bike streets. There are underground gangs of byciclist in LA that periodically take over large streets by swarming them with thousands of bikes and completely shutting down car traffic. I am sure they do this to give city planners a clue, but the clues are slow to come.
Another interesting thing to note about profit coming from bankruptcy is the Legal and Banking/Restructuring fees. The restructuring advisors both on the legal and financial side get massive fees from bankruptcy advising (negotiating debt settlements and post-bankruptcy cap structure, and other things like that) and these fees are prioritized over even the most senior liens of debt. These fees can literally be 1-15% of the total debt of the distressed company.
Windows had disappearing scroll-bars since the early 90's. It was called scrollbar.display=auto.
Interesting reading, thanks. Do you have an opinion if this is a ponzi scheme? If it isn't, do you think its sustainable over any decent length of time?
http://www.satoshidice.com/

* They can run their website with very few computers. It runs completely over Bitcoin, which is decentralized.

* The owners do not need to provide customer service, it's verifiable and they can't screw people over without everybody instantly knowing.

* This could be developed by a single person and never need to expand or compete. As long as the service is always running, he can take a _predictable and transparent_ commission out of losing bets. Hell, you'd even know exactly how much money the operator is making, and perhaps what they're earning against the exchange rate.

And this bitcoin casino is partly responsible for the immense jump in the number of transactions over Bitcoin in the last few months:

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions
And later, we find that one of them is still alive at age 84, others died at ages 86, 83, 71, 63, and one unknown.

Those ages seem to me like pretty good, even mostly quite long lifespans for someone who was already an adult in 1950s.
This might make sense in office programs, but I'd hate this for program code at least.

I think saving should not be needed except when you want to send the file to someone. Work already creates temp files which autosave? Part of me likes the idea of saving being option... just making word autorestore without being prompted. However, that would obviously be a significant, and prohibitively confusing, change in workflow for users.

Once you save, you've lost the previous version, especially if the program dies and you lose undo history.

In software development specifically, there's quite few tools that automatically pickup/use files when they're saved... Meaning you'll try to compile or use invalid files.

tldr; don't do this. word already guards against losing changes anyway.
but did they? There's no mention of that in the story.
"... One conclusion I kept coming back to in this talk is that a large amount of how successful you will be in life comes down to the people you spend time with. ..."

Wrong. Extrovert. What about creative introverts?

"... Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone ..." Steve Wozniak, iWoz ~ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness....
Apple presently has the most to lose due to the size of their bank account. I think when they were forced to settle with Nokia they realized you must play the game to win. The companies that have decided not to play to win are being naive in my opinion.
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If you are really serious about this, then you should start now. Given their recent history it's virtually certain they will use this if they possibly can.
Check a recent dictionary. Take it up with Princeton if you don't like the definition:

* (pirate) copy illegally; of published material

* (pirate) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

* (pirate) commandeer: take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"
Many sites carrying this news are filled will comments of the sort, "... and then <company> COPIED Apple's innovation."

Forget the world of patents for a second. In what aspect of life is copying good ideas not a good idea? I do have some sympathy for the idea of protection in cases where the ratio of R&D to duplication costs is very high. A scroll bar doesn't pass that test.
Wouldn't they have used a mechanical film camera? I don't believe that would be susceptible.
It actually does an auto-save for you, silently in the background. But there would be an uproar if they got rid of the save button entirely - people like to feel in control of their important data.