skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I theorise that the post gave the hackers of the community an opportunity to vent their latent dislike of superficial or even detrimental UI changes. Note though that the 'vitriol' was mostly sarcasm and scoffing. If we use 1 torvalds as a unit of hacker irascibility, then the comments never rose above about 300-400 millitorvalds.
Yet, despite that, they manage to affect everyday people life.

What sort of nonsense are you talking about? Seriously? I don't get it. This sound like religious ramblings to me.

If you are going to make that sort of argument, you better be prepared to expand on it. What does it mean? What practical consequences does it have? Why should we care?
I am an Android fan but Samsung simply doesn't "get" UI design and user experience. Sometimes even the most basic things.
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I mean... is it really that paranoid?

Would it have been much different if instead of a button, it was an intercom system, and Dotcom queried his staff as to what the banging noise was?

In one way it does seem comically super-villain-esque, but then, i wouldn't say that Dotcom's impulses were anything more dramatic than anyone hearing unusual noises in their home. It's just, most of us don't have a staff to query, or a saferoom to evacuate to.
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Thanks to the iPhone, Apple has become the largest publicly traded company in the world and stashed 100 billion dollars in the bank.

They did this without winning a big trial against Samsung, HTC or Google. I don't think Apple needs to win this or another patent trial to have the incentives to build top quality products. On the contrary, letting them secure a monopoly on all these good ideas might diminish the incentive for innovation. They already have ridiculous profit margins[1], which if anything indicates a lack of competition.

[1] over 50% gross margins: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-apple-margins-i...
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That only works for popular stuff - or at least as long as someone is seeding it. Once no-one seeds something, it's gone.
Here in the Netherlands people are encouraged to use debit cards even for small amounts. Sometimes even with a small discount. The largest supermarket chain has way more "pin only" cashiers than pin and cash. It's cheaper and saver to process.
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We all know that big brand names has early access to new released domain names to protect their name and avoid domain squatting - they pay premium for that and this sounds fair. But its nothing illegal in having imdbxxx.com - which btw is still available. I might be wrong but if this is the case - imdb (in this case) should make sure that they own all domains , which might be associated with their brand (like imdbapi.com for example). Not securing them and requesting free transfer from anyone who dared to buy one isn't anything else but corporate bulling.
According to the author:

> Worryingly, this was enabled by default on my MacBook Air as soon as I upgraded from the copy of Lion it shipped with. I did not enable this feature.

So it looks like you don't have to enable it yourself manually. I can neither confirm nor deny this myself, just going off what the author has said.
This applies to more than just the tech space, but I get the sense that people feel under siege from a lot of different directions these days that are out of their control. This encourages knee jerk reactions to anything where they think they have an area of expertise in (or just an opinion) and they use any forum possible to air how they think things should be done, or just what other people are doing wrong and why something will never work.

If you're frustrated about the general status quo, some people will become extremely vocal, and use language to stand out in the crowd and have their opinion be heard. Venting alone becomes therapeutic to them, because it's their way to contribute to the process.

...until they need to do it again in the next thread.
I work as a designer. And seeing fellow designers doing things without research on the domain they're designing in is shocking. This is basic stuff, and people need a heads up.

The designers should take this as valuable input, ignore the subjective comments, and move on to create greater things.
It's not just an analysis. They systematically compared every aspect of the phones where the iPhone had the advantage, and then provided a directive on how their phone should be modified so it was more like the iPhone. That's not merely analysis, it's concrete directives.
"My Little Pony pornography? What the ...?"

Rule 34 of the Internet. If it exists, there will be porn of it. In this case, the new series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has received a lot of attention due to Bronies, who are men and women outside of the target audience, yet fans of the show. A minority of them create and consume this kind of content.
No less paranoid than moving to New Zealand?
Anyone care to provide a summary for those of us who prefer not to log in to Google+?
Did you miss the part where below every shortcoming they issued a directive to change their product to be more like the iPhone? This isn't merely a comparison.
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I just added this to the readme on github. Thanks!
* Bog down slow.

* Unhelpful user interface with a bad/non-existing thought to workflow.

* Annoys the user.(You want to download that 30k file, please wait 5..4..3..2..1..).
That might work if the road system were entirely isolated from the rest of the world, but it's not. There are walkers, cyclists, animals, children and other random obstacles that might exist, none of which will ever be controlled by computers.
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Yes, make sure you inspect it before executing... If someone hijacks my github account, puts on some bad code and you run this, you're screwed.
My unqualified guess: something to do with the Sun386i, an x86 Sun workstation which ran a port of SunOS and could virtualise MS-DOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun386i
There should be a formal way of coupling a torrent file with a bitcoin address, some way of donating money to the creator but trusting that the address is the correct one.. maybe when content is first released it's registered somewhere alongside a bitcoin address and this shows up on the creator's website too.
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Norway: Cards for everything. There's no cost associated. Plus your bank card is also your ID. Chip & PIN.
It's a great validation of developing and iterating the business initially with the small 'mom & pop' business to the point where traction allows you capture the really massive customers.
Then why did you bother?
I find it a little scary that Hollywood can order armed men in helicopters to raid a man's home, anywhere in the world.
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What makes you think I didn't read the report? In almost every page a direction for improvement is given to bring the S1 in line with the iPhone experience.

This isn't a 200 page report looking to make general improvements. It's a report looking to make improvements comparative and in line with the iPhone. Why else would they have a side by side comparison espousing the superior Apple UI/UX.

FYI for any phone fanboy's frothing at the mouth; I own neither an iPhone or a Samusung phone. I think both companies are guilty of some pretty piss poor business practices. The whole iPhone vs Android thing is reminiscent of the Sega vs Nintendo nonsense of the 90's.
Look at the LG Prada, released late 2006 -early 2007, has/had a similar home screen to the screen shown in the article that was used for the patent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

I think multiple paths have led to similar (not copied) phones.
People are hostile to that posting because it talks down to its readers by being a gigantic infographic, as if the reader was retarded, instead of being a few paragraphs of text. Also, the idea is without merit, and you don't need to read past the first character to realize that it's made by people with a preference for form over function. It is a truly revolting submission.
It might be due to the fact that it is about Wikipedia.

Most people have strong feelings about Wikipedia because it has become a big part of many people's internet experience. And people usually don't like change and can become offended when people propose to do so.
If you want this kind of company, come to Boston. The start-up culture in Boston is much more "change the world" than "make a buck." This results in fewer, deeper start-ups, as well as more not-for-profits.
Wouldn't happen in NZ.

I'm not even sure the guards would have guns at all. I don't think they would be allowed to have pistols. They might have shotguns I guess.
The how to doesn't make it clear that you have to add the "eagle" & the "giraffe" key to the Info.plist. So here's a short abstract of the whole thing:

- Install the newest Xcode 4.4.1 4F1003 (it didn't work with 4.4 for me)

- Put [0] in [1]

- Edit [2]. You might have to change the permissions of the file to edit it. You know you can do it!

- Add a "eagle" key with a string value of "640"

- Add a "giraffe" key with a string value of "1136"

- Start the simulator in iPhone retina mode.

Hope this helps a little

[0] - https://raw.github.com/gist/34797bfbde1563b039a5/282cb2e9065...

[1] - ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator

[2] - /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app/Contents/Resources/Devices/iPhone (Retina).deviceinfo/Info.plist
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Ha. As a NZer I'm not quite sure how to take that.
It's pretty much sheep, some locals, and copyright infringers down that way.

Having a gun for protection in NZ is unusual. That said, he's reached a station in life where some hired professional protection for himself and his family seems relatively sane.
Very nice.
Here’s just a small thing I’d change:
You update the url using backbones router.navigate, right?
If you pass {replace: true} in the options object, the browser won’t create a new entry in the history as it does right now but still update the URL.
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A book that often escapes even cyberpunk fans is John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider". It was written in 1975 but is eerily prescient - at least I thought so when I read it in the 90's.

Of course, I also recommend Gibson's books. And "Ender's Game"/"Ender's Shadow", even though they're not cyberpunk/cyber thrillers.
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I highly doubt any guard would have raised any opposition, given at least one of them was a serving police officer.

src: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
Ask HN: Apart from search engines, what kind of websites capture user intent?
The only time the recovery key matters is if Apple has taken it without permission. That doesn't seem to be the case.

So we're talking about whether resetting an Apple ID will also reset a FileVault passphrase.
No, they can't do that everywhere. For example, in Sweden, China, Iran, France they would not be allowed to do that. It can be only done in anglo-american countries.
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Such a shame that Google started limiting and charging for their APIs :(
I think many have said that's already happened! :-) I'm not so pessimistic, but I've been a long term user of Slashdot, MetaFilter, Reddit, and HN, and you do tend to see these cycles occurring and it's interesting to see the differing ways they deal with them.
Bresenham's, at least as implemented there is not the most efficient algorithm.

There are 4 checks per loop in that version. The faster impl recognizes that in 1 direction or the other one coordinate will always increment or decrement by 1 while the other coordinate will or will not increment on each iteration.

That will remove 2 of the 4 checks. The loop just becomes N where N is max(abs(dx), abs(dy))

I don't know if that's still considered Bresenham's or not.

int sign(int v) {
return v > 0 ? 1 : ((v < 0) ? -1 : 0);
}

int abs(int x) {
return x > 0 ? x : -x;
}

int max(int a, b) {
return a > b ? a : b;
}

void drawLine(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2) {
int deltaX = x2 - x1;
int deltaRow = abs(deltaX);
int rowInc = sign(deltaX);

int deltaY = y2 - y1;
int deltaCol = abs(deltaY);
int colInc = sign(deltaY);

int rowAccum = 0;
int colAccum = 0;
int rowCursor = x1;
int colCursor = y1;

int counter = max(deltaCol, deltaRow);
int endPnt = counter;
if (counter == deltaCol) {
rowAccum = endPnt / 2;
for (; counter > 0; --counter) {
rowAccum += deltaRow;
if (rowAccum >= endPnt) {
rowAccum -= endPnt;
rowCursor += rowInc;
}

colCursor += colInc;
setPixel(rowCursor, colCursor);
}

} else {
colAccum = endPnt / 2;
for (; counter > 0; --counter) {
colAccum += deltaCol;
if (colAccum > endPnt) {
colAccum -= endPnt;
colCursor += colInc;
}
rowCursor += rowInc;
setPixel(rowCursor, colCursor);
}
}
}

This is an optimized version of an algorithm I found in the Atari 400/800 Technical Reference Manual page 218.
It would have been nice if Hollywood supplied them with a better camera. That said, the footage looks fine for an anti piracy ad, on VHS.
Generally I feel Karma does a good job of keeping the comments in check.

I think the Wikipedia article was an emotive exception.

EDIT: Thought I'd add that there were a lot of positive and friendly comments surrounding the Curiosity landing. So I don't feel like the tone of comments is leaning in one particular direction.
There's a difference between a restaurant using a standard machine which prints those details because they may be useful (so customers can later go back and check which card they put it on) and Amazon giving those away without any reason at all.

Don't get me wrong, 95% of the fault rests with Apple, but Amazon should review their processes. There is simply no reason for them to be handing these details out, particularly without valid confirmation of the person's identity - if they need to confirm the card details the customer can give the four digits and the customer service representative can confirm them.

One of the basic rules of security, don't do anything that's not necessary and this is entirely unnecessary.
Thanks for the information! Is there data on the magnetic strip that wouldn't be provided in a card-not-present transaction, or do the processors take the machines' word that the card was present?
I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical or not. I have never seen a company use as a defence in a court of law the argument that if we had copied your product as you claim then our product would of been better. That I don't interesting and I'm not aware of any case were such a argument has been leveridged before and as such found that aspect interesting. I hope that answears your question if it was a question. If your aware of anything similiar in a technology companies many outing in courts approaching such a similiar argument then I'd be interested - has this argument been used before in a court?
You are right, but I am, too :-). In my mind, a taxi also is public transportation. I do not think I am alone in that. Wikipedia disagrees with it in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport ("as distinct from modes such as taxicab"), but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab talks of "modes of public transport" for taxicabs. I guess the terminology will become more confused if/when driverless cars become commonplace.
Logic in computers doesn't have to be binary either. There are plenty of implementations of fuzzy logic, including some programming languages.
the pirate bay might argue with you about sweden.
From the outside it kinda looks like New Zealand is just trying to make 'murrica happy on this one, so I'm not sure they would be so lucky elsewhere (ie not the UK/CAN/NZ)
E-commerce:

Price comparison sites. Obviously they are good at aggregating opinions, reviews and prices.

Online Communities. Forums, blogs, etc where you ask the community for product recommendations.

Wikipedia. Most users do research before purchasing products and Wikipedia is fairly objective.

Amazon. It has become a knowledge library for lots of people who want to read product reviews, see ratings, find similar items, etc.

Consumer advocacy / testing labs. You know, unbiased sites that do more or less rigorous product testing.
In the US charging a minimum for card transactions is usually a violation of your contract with Visa/Mastercard, and possibly a violation of the law in 10 states [1]. Are there similar contracts or laws in France?

[1] http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_visa/checkout_fees/
"Amex cards account for approximately 24% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US"

Personally I use amex for all large transactions because they give me a cut (I think around 0.5% cash equivalent?) in air miles, but don't usually bother with it for small transactions because I don't want to risk it being turned down, or take the piss with small merchants who might suffer from the processing fees.

Perhaps this kind of behaviour explains their bigger cash volume, rather than their customers necessarily being bigger spenders in total across all the cards available to them.
So put the adjective "walkable" in front. The question is the same. These things are unwalkable and therefore not able to be part of any route.

Same with your car: the places without roads are undrivable and therefore not available for routing. But with a car, the speeds are so much greater than bipedal motion, shortest vs. fastest is a viable question. When the routing system avoids obstacles, it's mostly going give you the shortest and fastest route. brador makes a good point about grade; with enough grade on the shortest route, it might not be the fastest.
What's paranoid about moving to NZ?
Each of those "disparate sites" has a working and passionate community contributing to it. Their approach is about as bad as it can get.
This is about as revolutionary as officially letting the plebs read the bible.

Pretty damn revolutionary.
I've had this recently.

The banks seem to have worked out that they have access to a reasonable amount of information that they can use it in this way.

The answers weren't easily guessable and there was a threshold so you didn't need to get everything right which allows them to make the questions a little trickier.

The system wasn't perfect - if you broke into my house and got my papers you could probably get past it - but it was a million times better than asking where I went to school.
You mean you didn't just use XDM to switch to a different environment like everyone else in the know? I just switched to FVWM, which was my favorite window manager at the time.
"We study every car in order to discover if it has features that might be developed and adapted. If any one has anything better than we have we want to know it, and for that reason we buy one of every new car that comes out. Usually the car is used for a while, put through a road test, taken apart, and studied as to how and of what everything is made. Scattered about Dearborn there is probably one of nearly every make of car on earth. Every little while when we buy a new car it gets into the newspapers and somebody remarks that Ford doesn't use the Ford. Last year we ordered a big Lanchester--which is
supposed to be the best car in England. It lay in our Long Island
factory for several months and then I decided to drive it to Detroit.
There were several of us and we had a little caravan--the Lanchester, a
Packard, and a Ford or two. I happened to be riding in the Lanchester
passing through a New York town and when the reporters came up they
wanted to know right away why I was not riding in a Ford.

"Well, you see, it is this way," I answered. "I am on a vacation now; I
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I am not in the Ford."

You know, we also have a line of "Ford stories"!"

-- Henry Ford, My Life and Work (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213)
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I thought it was a pretty crappy article although I never said that in the comments.
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No, it's raising tariffs on imported goods by stealth.

<em>The currency only matters at the border</em>, so if the thing or person under consideration doesn't cross the border, devaluation doesn't matter.
Well, I'd trust the Apple docs more than his memory of the state of a checkbox when he created his user account a year ago...

In my case, I haven't enabled the "Reset via AppleID" feature, upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion, and when I get the "Forgot password?" popup on the login screen, the only option to reset my password presented is to use my "master password", no mention of using Apple ID.
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