skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it difficult to believe that you've never seen an argument that the patents are invalid. You may not agree, but the argument has been made many times. The usual argument is that the patents are obvious. Bouncy scrolling, double tap to zoom, pinch to zoom and one fingered scrolling. Do you find these non-trivial and non-obvious? You mentioned that ideas are not patentable, but in practice that is exactly what is protected - the fact that a machine implementing them is technically what is patented makes little practical difference.
I never got in the habit of using FSI much, mainly because of the lack of intellisense I think. I should get back in the habit of having an FSI window open.
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I'm having trouble with this concept because Apple already seems locked down to me. Would you provide some plausible and probable examples of how you think Apple would be more locked down in a world without patents?
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Pass the costs along
This is one of the best critiques so far of the decision.

There are two sides to this trial. On the one side is the emotional appeal: Samsung copied Apple, and documents detail the extent to which Samsung imitated the iPhone. On the other side are the various technical ways in which Apple claimed that Samsung copied them. But just as Apple engineers slaved for years over the technical details of the iPhone, it is incredibly important for the future of mobile innovation that all of the technical parts of the trial are correctly decided. If the jury finds no infringement but finds that infringement was induced, this indicates that technical mistakes were made. But in particular, I wonder if the jury was so swayed by the emotional appeal that sufficient attention was paid to the substantial prior art demonstrated regarding capacitive touch screen phones and multitouch displays.
Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
For practicing or learning new coding things I like to read a projects source, run a debugger on it, and basically spend a couple days/weeks analyzing how every aspect of the system works. Then after I'm comfortable i.e. I can go through in my head for example the structs, their function calls, the system flow, etc, I try to program my own implementation of the system, a part of it, or a plugin. This has worked for me ,hopefully it helps :)
Yet again: http://CallRep.org
Oops, I misread that (I thought you were pointing out that I screwed up the numbering). The lawyers winning counteracts Google losing.
By "Super angels" do you mean they are funding higher dollars or are they investing in far more companies?

Do you think that "super-angels" are taking over from traditional VCs in that the costs of getting to scale are lower these days?
> A very small percentage of people buy stuff in games. Of this small percentage you have people who will spend a LOT. These are your die hard fans. I know, because I am one of them and won’t bat an eye spending $50 in a game I like.

Data? Citation? I'm genuinely curious. Is this now the common wisdom for indy games?
Erm, I was using an Orange-branded HTC with a big touch screen and mobile internet long before the iPhone came along.

That was actually much more functional than the iPhone, but harder to use (required a stylus) and in comparison with the iPhone it was ugly.

That Windows Mobile device replaced a Nokia phone and an a Palm V (with internet).

At the same time my colleague on Helpdesk were using Microsoft Tablet PCs running XP to do everything (for two hours).
Smart meters stir rowdy response from gun-toting, cage-building Texans
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Reddit is absolutely right to put no weight on the "acceptance" of submitted stories, it's easy to get stories "accepted" on sites like Reddit and HN - there are a ton of blog posts on the best times, the best keywords and how to correctly exploit the herd mentality. And that's not even taking into consideration fake accounts that can support a spammer for a long time.

You look pretty spammy here too by the way, exactly the same symptoms that makes reddit "think" you are spamming - only submitting and commenting on your own site.

Someone should automate violentacrez' guide and make a lookup service for social news sites. Reddit just recently busted major news sites spamming them, they will have missed a shitload of them and of course HN / digg / stumbleupon / etc certainly aren't immune either.
It's mostly about demonstrating that you're making something people want and getting traction. So just focus on that.
Agreed this might not replace your full IDE, but it could maybe used as a compliment to your normal development for a quick update on the go, or maybe you need to review some code when your not at your desk. Also once Google releases the docs collaboration API, you'll be able to do pair programming.
After yesterdays kind-of letdown post to de-bootstrap bootstrap [1], I went ahead and decided to build some de-bootstrap templates for you. Took me less than a day, and I used the same tools the post previously mentioned listed.

Hope they help you get your MVP off the ground. :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427864
You're misunderstanding my point. Our public healthcare systems, Medicare and Medicaid, are already more expensive than many national healthcare programs. So forget whatever you friend spends in the private sector. Even if all people not on Medicare/Medicaid spent absolutely nothing on healthcare, we would still be spending more money than these other countries in total. So the idea that we can somehow expand coverage while wildly reducing costs seems silly.
What's sad is that we didn't yet returned to the moon, and he won't live to see it.
@SiCarbide - i made suggestions to make it better (not use makerbot's name / go against kickstarters #1 rule, etc) the creator has not only updated the kickstarter, tangibot specially said thanks for helping out, tangibot changed the kickstarter as per kickstarter's request too. it's now getting more backers than before.
Between Paul Ekman's work in behavioral science and detecting a persons pulse rate from video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZcjs1Pjmk), it seems like one could have a pretty decent "lie detector" running on a smart phone.
At the end of the day, Apple makes money by selling iPhones and iPads. App Store revenues are rounding error. The App Store has one function for Apple: to help selling more iPhones and iPads. (In Q3 2012, iPhone and iPad sales constituted 72% of Apple’s revenue, while the iTunes Store, which includes the App Store, but also music, movies and TV shows, was only 6%.)
And of course, not forgetting repair permissions, a quick shake of the blessed ju-ju stick in an easterly direction, and the feeding of at least 2 manna cookies to the Jobs voodoo doll.

More seriously, has SMC/PRAM reset ever fixed anything for anyone?
He waited until we got to Mars...
Because TF2 has made a very specific effort to avoid "pay-to-win" gaming. Most of the expensive items in TF2 are largely cosmetic; all of the seriously game-changing items can be crafted, found, or obtained through unlocks.
Oh, is THAT why they do the glow thing? I always hated it, and wished they'd used the much more 'tactile' bounce-back behavior. It didn't occur to me that they were legally barred from using a 'method to emulate physical resistance upon over-scrolling an interface' or something.
I was surprised by the resumes of the people on the jury given the flack they've received from the tech press. These were some very qualified people, much more so than the tech press that criticized them.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-appl...
With no plans to go to the moon again, we will soon be out of living moon-walkers.
Unofficial Twitter Bootstrap Documentation
Unofficial Twitter Bootstrap Documentation
http://unofficial-twitter-bootstrap-documentation.com/

The current project I am working on is running bootstrap 2.0.2 and after the release of 2.1.0 the online documentation for 2.0.x was gone.

I went ahead and compiled the archive docs from the bootstrap github repo into a single site - hopefully others find it useful.
Some times an awful thing is the best you can do, because the alternatives are even worse.

That is a slippery slope and a possible excuse for loosing dignity.
The article currently is just a stub. I imagine this is related to the heart bypass surgery he underwent a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185898/Neil-Armstro...
Great idea. Can you make it possible to put carriage returns in the message?

I guess the idea with advocacy groups is that they can subsidize the cost of postcards and get a bulk rate?
I ran into the same issues you did, went ahead and compiled the archive docs here - http://unofficial-twitter-bootstrap-documentation.com/
Samsung phones are not exact copies of iPhones. Not even close. Your argument is "not even wrong"
Atheism: Growing disbelief
I can't really get past characterizing pandodaily (and Sarah Lacey especially) as a thinly disguised mouthpiece for the Venture Capital industry. In this case, then, this can be summarized as "engineers are making too much money and have gotten too comfortable. And it's cutting into the (too much money, too comfortable) lifestyle that we, venture capitalists, enjoy.
Neil Armstrong dies at 82 following bypass surgery
Humans got to mars? I should pay more attention.
Resetting PRAM has fixed a variety of things for me over the years, though not necessarily on newer macs.
How about charge people a really low subscription rate, like Instapapers $1/month business model.
I think he was just subtly pointing out that the lawyers are the only ones who are clear winners.
'a mix of Ron Paul fans, hunting enthusiasts, and tech-savvy revolutionaries who see the availability of a "printable gun" as potentially upending power structures across the globe. '

Yeah, right. Unorganized and untrained people against existing power structures across the globe... plastic guns totally change the power balance here.
There have been 13 moon walks since the Apollo 11 mission in which he was the first to walk on the moon, spanning 5 missions from 1969-1972, FYI. He was the first, but definitely not the last.
The earliest attempts at Mars exploration were made by the soviets and NASA in the 60s (largely unsuccessful IIRC).
In 1976 NASA successfully landed on the Mars (Viking I) and, even more amazingly, sent back color photos.

Curiosity is a great mission, but I'm still more impressed with the Viking missions.
He did get to see the next phase of space flight, with the SpaceX launch, the first successful private spaceflights. The future is bright with the expanded private interest in it.
Part of the restructuring this particular business is convincing your talent that they are no longer working for patronizing bean-counting tightwads.
Curiously, instead of "and my plans to dominate as an independent developer" it now says "and how independent developers can dominate".
Ah my mistake! I wonder if this will persist.
But VCRs did allow one to select SP, EP, and SLP modes, arguably a user selectable 'analog compression' setting to trade off quality for storage space.

It's the idea that adding a drop down menu to select installed compression codecs constitutes the ability to differentiate something enough to make it patentable that really irritates people.

Almost any modern operating system sports abstract interfaces or services which have a number of pluggable providers: compression codecs, cryptography algorithms, database drivers, input and output drivers. The idea that anytime there's more than one choice, if you simply add a user selectable feature as a claim, you can then obtain a new patent, is a very annoying feature of software patents.

If every software patent currently not-expired on record was maximally enforced, the courts would meltdown, and everyone would go bankrupt from legal fees. The only way the industry has been able to avoid gridlock and continue innovation is by essentially ignoring 99.99% of all software patents. The fact that no one pays attention to them, until one is losing in the marketplace or attempting to blockade competitors indicates that the system is broken.
Marissa Mayer understands that employees are more important than investors.
xkcd ran the numbers: http://xkcd.com/893/
kernel_task on my rMBP was hitting 100% CPU at seeming random times (about once a day), and it would stay there until I rebooted. SMC/PRAM reset seems to have stopped it happening.
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As ridiculous as your list seems, it is all true.

When an industry expands rapidly, any company that enters and does a decent job will be an absolute winner. But, there will always be relative winners and losers over both the short and long term.
Some comments:

Good turn around time.

Try putting black edges around your title text. Right now, they are just blending in with the background. The political background is a neat idea. Designing for it dynamically will be hard though. Set up A/B testing and test the various backgrounds you have, as well as backgrounds from subtlepatterns.com (just in case).

Rotate the bottom info bar so that it is horizontal instead of vertical. Nobody cares about the IO name I don't think. At this point the total message should be simple: "Send a postcard to your congressperson, PERIOD".

Use javascript to encode the message and congressperson into the url. Backbone has a way to do this. That way people can tweet out "Send THIS GUY a piece of your mind. I did! Here's my message! postcongress.com?senator='Dick Durbin'&message='Bro, come on. Taxes?'"

Not enough social buttons. Seriously, you need more buttons. Tweets and likes from political active people will garner attention from like minds.

Why don't I see any adwords from you here yet?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mail+your+congressman (no sacarsm intended, mostly this link was shorter).

Change the font that the message naturally displays with. Times New Roman doesn't look right to me. Also, include a picture of a real, finished card on the site.

Good luck!
Unofficial Twitter Bootstrap Documentation
http://unofficial-twitter-bootstrap-documentation.com/

The current project I am working on is running bootstrap 2.0.2 and after the release of 2.1.0 the online documentation for 2.0.x was gone.

I went ahead and compiled the archive docs from the bootstrap github repo into a single site - hopefully others find it useful.
Who does this? WTF
This is exactly what I was thinking. Right now the app is in it's early stages so the user base isn't anything to talk about. I just want to be prepared in case the app sees a spike in traffic and usage.
How Google Went From Search Engine To Content Destination
My theory is that they aren’t successful because they’re popular, they’re successful because the business model is lucrative. If what they say is true and the bulk of their revenue comes from a small portion of their “customers”, they need to be a lot less popular to be successful (both in terms of downloads and revenue) than traditional, payed games.
Actually there is a service call HeroCloud which provides a Cloud service for MMO Games you can get more info on
http://www.heroengine.com
Even if the jury took a month and asked 1000 questions, the losing side or those who align with the losing side would find something, no matter how minute, to question the decision.
So the same person submitting his own site is NOT a spammer if he makes a number of throwaway comments?

I'm all for spam control, but that heuristic is interesting... it just says that you only want professional spammers who know also to make throwaway comments at a certain rate. The only unacceptable thing is an amateur spammer who links his own stuff without also posting other people's cat pictures and so on.
You have your workflow, he/she has theirs.
Cory Doctorow “The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer”
Overall, I like the look. However, the second 'page' is really quite irritating, because i had to wait for all of the text to appear, get highlighted, etc... I scrolled right past it at first, and only recognized it later. If you really want people to get that information, maybe you could make it appear as you scrolled so it is impossible to miss.
But what if this spurns designers and engineers to create designs that are completely different from before, because anything too similar is out of bounds? Wouldn't that drive them to think more different and wildly and uniquely? We may get a lot of stupid failed attempts out of this, but at least it will put the kibosh on "me-too" designs.
That's actually why all of these articles aggravate me so much, because, I agree, all of these things are true (which sort of points out how silly the idea of a singular entity "winning" or "losing" is).
Why link to an ad for a book instead of an article that would add value, and maybe point to the book at the end?
to be fair, they didn't say it would be ok. they said it would be a better choice. which is probably the case.
I like the glow thing because I like to pull down on the screen, as a tic, while reading a web page. With the bounceback feature, it would actually move the page, which was annoying. With glow instead, there are no reading problems.
I would think a letter is a more effective form of mailing congress. Postcards don't convey the same weight as a full letter.
Double Dragon 3 allowed you to buy new characters and special moves/weaponry
He was pretty critical of SpaceX, though, and of NASA's new strategy of outsourcing space launches.
It looks like it's true :( More informative article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dea...
I just want to say that I hate this acqui-hire term and the recent adoption I have seen of it.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82
The paper's title is "On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces". Given that, yeah, I can see how you could get a LOT of information out of someone without them realizing it. If e.g. you're playing a game, and the surroundings occasionally reflect something you've seen, that's information that such an interface could detect. Maybe a NPC has a disorder that runs in your family, and you react to it more strongly than others - insurance companies would probably love to know it.

All of which is to say, if you assume the worst, and brain-computer interfaces become ubiquitous, yes, I can see there being a serious potential for you to leak things you don't want to leak, just by being exposed to something similar. Done on a grand enough scale, the possibilities could be terrifying.
What is the Purpose of Intellectual Property?
I don't think this is about money. Apple has enough money. This is about destroying the competition - in particular, Android. I believe Steve Jobs wasn't shy about it, either: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15400984
Request of someone interested in your feedback: if you're writing a detailed review, please post it somewhere other than this thread (blog?) and post it on HN's frontpage. Otherwise, I doubt that people like me will ever see it.
Specific companies and even specific markets can still have substantial growth in US/EU. However for something saturated like the car market you are almost certainly correct.
Perused the patent. As far as I can tell, this guy is a patent troll, plain and simple.

The patent basically describes every DVR that geeks were building 10 years before it was filed. True, it's fancied up in exactly the sort of language that would make it sound novel to a clerk, but I can't find any particular provisions that aren't normal software/hardware operation.

I have renewed hope that this could force an end result where the whole software patent system is torn apart.
Great feedback. I really like the idea of encoding the message and congressperson into the url and making that easily shareable.

And on the adwords, I must be missing 'mail your congressman' in my keywords. I definitely have 'write my rep, etc'.

I also really like the a/b testing idea.
tl;dr "your taste is incorrect"
And publicly expressed his disapproval of it. The future may be bright, but I suspect Mr. Armstrong missed the future he would've wanted.
Got it. I'm on the same page.
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Neil Armstrong dead at 82
I am actually already working on this possibility with a printer.
We'll have a recap blog post / video after, but not a full download of the powerpoints. Yes, it's a bit complex - attending is best to really get the feel for things, but we'll provide resources to look back on after.

If you can't attend, you can jump on our list as we repeat these events periodically.
I'll have to try it out next time I need to get anywhere (which will be soon) but just clicking through you appear to have the two things I really need: a one-click spot for nearby stops of all transit (well, you've got Muni and BART but that's both a good start and the majority of my transit) and the ability to save frequent stops. The ability to check buses around a given stop is also something I've been wanting, though less often.

I don't know if you're planning any of this already but I do have a couple suggestions based on my current frustrations with nextmuni:

1. Favourite buses in addition to favourite stops and prioritise said buses when nearby. I know that 21 and 5 are the two best buses to get me home but when I'm downtown they often aren't even on the nextmuni's nearby list because of the density of buses. I'd love to be able to favourite those buses and have them show up first (or at the very least always show up) if a stop is sufficiently nearby even if I'm at a stop I don't frequent.

2. This one would be a bit more of an involved feature and I'm not sure how feasible it is with whatever dataset and/or APIs you have to work with. Basically, I want to be able to input my destination and have the site serve me buses with stops near both end points (if any exist), giving me time estimates near my current location.

Configuring "nearby" would be handy but far from critical, also.
Of course someone who makes a bunch of throwaway comments on their own posts is a spammer. That doesn't make someone who does nothing but self promote in a more naive way less of a spammer.

Anyone who is seen as self-promoting is viewed with suspicion. /Especially/ if that is /all/ they do on Reddit or HN.

I personally think it is ok to post one's own blog, even if it has ads, if the content is interesting. But if that is all you do for a community...I don't know. Seems like bad form to me.
Yea, I think I should bring back carriage returns.

And yes, that is part of it.
That's the goal - a tool that shazam does it all! Google Docs actually goes a LONG way if you know how to use coding within your Google spreadsheets (which we'll cover).
The unanswered question is how much he profited from the move of selling the company. If firing all of the old people, devaluing their stock to $0, and reforming the company netted him a $1M bonus, then he is still a greedy bastard and donating a few thousand dollars to a fund doesn't change that. When something similar happened at my previous company, the people in charge got a large cash award as part of the acquisition while a bunch of employees lost their jobs and had their stock devalued to $0 so it is plausible that the same thing happened here. At another company I was at, the CEO laid off a large portion of the company for budget reasons but also paid us 2 weeks of salary out of his personal account in addition to our normal severance pay.

$50k split between all the people who made this decision is a trivial amount of money compared to their salaries and bonuses.
https://twitter.com/dingfengquek/status/239445632832643073 (9160)
This is a great idea!

One thing I'd suggest is to send a random assortment of postcards and don't includ your logo or company info anywhere on it. Ie make it look like it actually came from a citizen.

Otherwise congress people will just think they're form letters and throw them out.