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Braun didn't make computers, or phones, or tablets.

If you made a computer mouse inspired by the shape of a Porsche 911 you probably wouldn't have any problems, but if you made a car modelled after a Porsche 911 you certainly would.

Apple hasn't argued that rectangular phones are it's exclusive domain, however it's case is characterised by some people. It's saying that the many, many similarities are so numerous and so dominate the design of some Samsung products that it believes some consumers would have to actually expend deliberate effort to tell those products apart from Apple products, and that this is going too far.

They're basically arguing that if there is a line that it's possible to cross when making your product look too similar to someone else's, then Samsung has crossed that line. You could disagree. You could think that there is a line and Samsung didn't cross it, or that there is no line and it's OK to completely duplicate another company's products so that yours are actually identical. Are you in either of those two camps? If so, which.

This also relates to the 'Poor artists copy, great artists steal' idea. The point isn't that great artists are better at making their stuff look like someone else's, or something. That's a popular misinterpretation. The point is that great artists take the idea and make it their own. They produce an expression of that idea that is so 'theirs' that they now own it artistically.
Samsung: No more bada and TIZEN in 2012
delano: I love that. I'll add it to my post soon.
One of the authors (Mohri) teaches a course called Foundation of Machine learning. Details are here[1] and may give an indication of the books' contents.

[1] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/ml10/
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Yes, but when you first activate you have to go to the store and convince them to activate a SIM card (or just buy the cheapest phone if they won't budge). Since T-Mo hasn't spun up their 800MHz spectrum yet you won't get 3G on your iPhone, but you'll get some data at least until they roll that out.
That's cool but I couldn't find this emphasized on the Architexa site anywhere; it seems like a pretty key point to keep potential customers from being disappointed as Architexa begins the 'free as in beer' marketing campaign.
What's in Store for NASA's Next Mars Lander
Glen makes a good point about how "people are good at seeing patterns" but he still gives short shrift to the histograms. I see a big difference in the histograms. The "crescent" shape of an item's histogram, like the one for Starship Troopers, is often telling on Amazon or the iTunes App Store. That either means something about the product sucks (perhaps only in a small minority of purchases, but the risk is significant) or somebody is trying to lower the rating of the item.

The more a histogram resembles an exponential increase, the better it is. The higher the exponent, the better.

Sucky:

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The innovations of Internet Explorer
I haven't seen this book before but I did take Prof. Mohri's class a few years ago. His material is great but be warned that is's biased heavily towards theory (proofs and bounds instead of the more common/practical "rules of thumb"). You can get a lot done using machine learning tools having only a superficial familiarity with VC dimension, complexity bounds, etc... If however, you want to get deeper insight into the algorithms you're using or develop new algorithms yourself then Prof Mohri's of rigor is very useful.
Yeah, I don't think he can reasonably declare this to be his own fault. He's doing that to avoid criticism, but realistically, there's no conceivable reason that moving the local endpoint of the sync on one machine should cause the other machines to try to move their local endpoint. I can't even fathom how you could code it to make this kind of disaster happen.
That's passing the buck and refusing to take responsibility for their own actions.

News places will reprint anything that will get views, and people will click through on anything sensational. So is that a valid excuse for engaging in GoDaddy-ish behavior?

No. You have to take responsibility for what you choose to do.

If you choose to release press releases purely about your VC funding round instead of talking about your product; that's your choice, nobody else's.

And if you talk about your product and nobody is interested in it; you should take that as a sign.
Another great addition. The company I work for, Viddler, has been doing that a lot more recently. Actually visiting our customers in their offices or in "the field" in which they work to really learn how they use our product. And it has been a boon of product information for us.
Blog spam, original article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-hollywo...
In the pre-Internet days, the way I discovered content (movies, books, music), was to take a trip to a store (Blockbuster, local bookstore, B&N, record store). There were two broad categories of content: the mainstream stuff with the primo shelf space, and the mysterious aisles of Everything Else. Judgments were based on things like cover art, in store promotional material, how many copies were still sitting on the shelf, sampling the content in-store, and recommendations from friends or store employees.

Im not sure if the success rate was any better or worse than the online star rating system these days, but it seemed more fun. However, the barrier to trying something else was also a lot higher if you made a poor choice, which might have had a side effect of narrowing one's tastes.
Cofounder T owns a house and lives with his wife in SF. Cofounder E lives with GF in South San Jose. All of us are in 30s, and while I think "rent house for office and move there for 3 months" is viable, it's not viable for longer (the other two, especially, have a lot of stuff).

We still might rent a house as an office eventually, and cofounder T is moving to LAH, and I'm moving to Menlo Park, later this year. But at that point I'd rather get a light industrial building ($1-1.50/ft2) in Mountain View or Menlo or EPA or similar, build it out to spec, and use that as the office. A wall, roller gate, parking, onsite generator(s), RF tower, etc. would be awesome, along with 3-phase power, and being a bit more legitimate than using a house, long-term.

We had some confusion about SF vs. Peninsula for startups, but the "the lower on the stack you are, the closer to San Jose you should be" seems true, even in 2012 -- all the great people we've talked to are in PA or more south (all the way to Cupertino).
What? I'm talking about glancing at a dashboard in the morning and being able to tell how much money I should or shouldn't be spending, whether I'm on track to hitting a weight goal and be reminded to watch what I eat, if my afternoon is free to hang with friends, if there are any events of interest in the area, if I've got any important to-do's, etc, etc.

The point is it's all updated in real-time. We've got the services and biosensors to do it. Now it's just a matter of integrating it all together.

Hardly depressing.
The court did not allow Samsung to use any prior evidence showing that Apple copied others. This was a major point of contention that led to Samsung releasing various photos to the media about two weeks ago in an attempt to poison the media and the public (and possibly the jury pool).

Many have claimed that this is because Judge Koh is heavily biased against Samsung, or for Apple. But really, it was Samsung's fault for fucking with the discovery process. At the federal level, the discovery process is the most important part of the case. It is sacrosanct. By ignoring their obligations in discovery, Samsung effectively killed their case because the Judge then disallowed the use of any evidence that Samsung did not make available during discovery, including, for example, pretty much all of the evidence that Apple copied others.

Lesson learned: if you have a bullet-proof case, make damn sure to honor your discovery obligations in federal courts or your bullet-proof case becomes an untempered-glass case.
Leaked official iPhone 5 Promo Video
It's the ageism that stinks. What if he had identified women or an ethnic group as the primary consumers of Agile in the same terms? Irrelevant at least, self-revealing prejudice at worst.
"Trustworthiness" of the reviewer is always difficult, especially with movie reviews, because there's never any accounting for taste.

I find it hard to rely on aggregated ratings for that reason.

When it came to picking movies to watch, I used to love watching Siskel and Ebert, because I knew their tastes.

If only Siskel (whose tastes were more like mine than Ebert's) gave a thumbs up, I knew there was a pretty good chance I'd at least think the movie was "ok". On the other hand, I'd be less likely to give a movie a chance if only Ebert gave a thumbs up.

These days, what I have to do is go to Rotten Tomatoes and take a sampling of four or five reviewers that I trust/like (which actually includes Roger Ebert and a few of the people he used to have as guest reviewers on Ebert & Roeper) and base my decision on that.
Can a Computer Tell Us What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?
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Yes for communication with humans, but for interacting with a computer? Gestures are imprecise, physically tiring and non-intuitive for the very precise and specific actions we have to do on a PC every day.
I think that http://lift.do is making something similar to what you are describing.
I know this is a discussion on syntax but I can't help pointing out that the semantics of paritition-by and filter are very different.
Your customer/employer not only doesn't care how the product is made, they don't want to know: They are hiring you to abstract away the detailed steps involved in making the product. [1]

They don't want to babysit you, or live your life alongside you. They don't want to understand every little thing you do. That is the very opposite of what they want. They want you to deliver something valuable with as little fanfare as necessary, to the point that they might pay extra to be able to download your work product without even speaking to you.

And they really don't want to hire someone who seems to be expecting to be micromanaged, and who is therefore more obsessed with presenting the process than presenting the results. Your todo list should not look more polished than your products.

If someone asks to know what you're up to… you tell them? Using sentences? Probably as few of them as possible, unless you're having the conversation over beer? If they don't find your claims credible… you offer them references?

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[1] Okay, there is a (considerably smaller) market for artisanal products where part of the deliverable is a lovingly detailed description of how the product was made. But those who buy artisanal products won't settle for a mere checklist. They want personality. They want lovingly described blog-style updates with coffee-table-quality photos. Or they want a minute-by-minute first-person account on Twitter.
Maybe we need something like Pandora's Music Genome Project, but for movies and TV shows.

One of the most interesting features in Pandora is the "Why was this track selected?" action. Imagine something similar where a list of movies and TV shows are presented to you, with sentences for each as to why.

Netflix's recommendations were close, but they still seemed to always focus on one facet at a time, be it a user-predicted rating or a single subcategory of related shows.

Edit: Goodfilms seems to be better in the it tracks two facets at the same time, which does end up creating a diagonal scale from super funny movies you can wath again and again to super serious ones you'll watch once, but that's still not quite like filtering down on tons of facets at the same time.

The closest thing I can think of is the metadata from TV Tropes.
Wow, that's cool. The two systems are very similar, and I wouldn't be shocked if ARM was the inspiration for Dapper.
I don't really understand this view of therapy. In my experience, it's something you choose for yourself, because you recognize the need. The odds that you receive a psychiatric evaluation against your will and be compelled into therapy are amazingly slim. Especially for something like 'autism-spectrum' disorders, where the majority of sufferers appear to be high-functioning.
I'm surprised this article, nor the discussion here doesn't address the main issue here: Just because you use numbers doesn't mean your data is quantitative.

Star scores are an attempt to map a qualitative experience (enjoyment of the film) with some quantitative measure. Which is fine if you just want to get a sense of 'how much' somebody liked a something. If I say I give scotch A a 5 scotch B a 3 and scotch C a 4 then you know that I like the scotch's in A, C, B order. It's a short hand way to express my personal ordering of qualitative experience, just like we use the words: 'good', 'better', 'best'.

The problem is this data is not really numerical, so even basic mathematical operations don't make any sense. When we add 2 heights, 2 masses, 2 speeds etc the result makes sense. But not so with ratings. Even basic difference doesn't make sense, is the difference between 5 and 4 stars the same as between 4 and 3 stars? There is no 'unit' distance in scoring system. So doing any sort of averaging is just going to give you nearly meaningless results.
Boots get recruited and love what they do. Start-ups are happy about them and ask for more.
I don't see what else to say, it's a win-win, so the program is a total success.

I guess some (not-so-skilled) people are feeling uncomfortable for their jobs.

Haters gonna hate
I agree with there being lots of old people in the community of agile-enthusiasts. My theory is that this is because most young people have never worked for a large company with lots of top-down processes and agile is just the default/what comes naturally.

This is somewhat similar to the issue of the Cathedral and the Bazaar in software engineering. Most young people have never even seen a Cathedral and just consider the Bazaar model the default.

Edit: No offense to anyone in that demographic btw. I have great respect for everyone involved in that community, I just don't think it is very interesting for kids that never knew anything else
No, it is true that eventually most branches will end. It's just on the timespan of 3000 years, 80% of the population will likely be a common ancestor. But if you extrapolate back far enough, there will be one and only one. The only way branches can survive forever is if you assume that all genes have essentially the same chances of survival. This obviously isn't true. Even the smallest enhancement will quickly spread throughout the population.

I am curious when the most recent unique common ancestor of humanity existed. Would we consider him human now or something in between?
The example chart is pretty much unreadable on a portrait iPad.
>I'm not an idiot, stop treating me like one.

Many people are however, and mass media, which includes Google, however they may try to deny it, lives by the numbers, which means adapting to the lowest common denominator. Just think, as the Internet spreads, Google will evolve (devolve) closer and closer to broadcast TV!
"To access an element in an array"

I guess that's the thing: why would you want to access array elements? What business problem is that solving?

"there is a condition there if you want to reference by index which is the primary point of arrays"

In this example, he's using an array more like a set. I don't think he intends for a tag at index 17 to mean something different than a tag of the same value at index 3.

I agree that postgresql should probably have a good "set" datatype, but at this time it does not and arrays are a reasonable way to implement sets in a lot of cases.

For instance, GIN allows fast searches on queries like "find the arrays that contain element 'X'". That's more like a set operation.

"The optimiser will most likely be better at retrieving and caching data based on a join condition versus column contents."

There are probably some cases where it's better and some where it's worse. Postgres does keep track of stats for array elements in addition to the arrays themselves, so it's not obvious to me that using a separate table would improve matters.
When there are only a handful of reviews, I find myself using "gymnastics rules" and throwing out the best and worst score.

Probably not very scientific though.
It really saddens me to see what Ubisoft has done to some of my favorite franchises.

I loved Anno 1404, played it tons. Haven't bought (or played) Anno 2070 because of the awful DRM.

I loved the Silent Hunter series. Played 3 and 4 for countless hours. I didn't buy (or play) 5 because of the DRM.

IL-2 Sturmovik is one of the greatest flight sims of all time. Cliffs of Dover is an abomination.

Meanwhile, after Lock On: Modern Air Combat, the developer split from Ubisoft and went on to make two of the greatest flight sims of the past decade in the DCS series (and they're still going strong).

Not even Ubi's $1 sale could get me to install their client and buy theirs games.
How to ensure your business is running in minutes after data loss
I wonder if the guys that use emacs will really want to use another version of it running on the JVM. I get this feeling that most of them despise the JVM, and the guys who generally use JVM are eclipse/netbeans guys.

Sure there will be some people that don't fit in this category. Though, it seems like the OP is trying to fix something that isn't broken. Anyways, it will be a great learning experience.
One of the biggest differences between cofounder and employee is the direction of money flow. If you're putting money in and working, you're a cofounder.

Yes, this is certainly true, and I was putting money in as well, but the amount I could afford to. Remember that these founders are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, while I just graduated last December. The best way I could contribute to them was with dedication, effort and work. I wasn't asking for a salary (I got enough to sustain myself for a couple years), just equity, which is another way of putting money in. I was putting in all the money I could afford to, if it went bust, I would need a job after a couple years.
Substantial discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4374542

Other submissions of the same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4363852

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355692
If You Have Too Much Data, then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough
I've used flurry, its simple to implement and easy to generate custom events for, probably less than 15mins to basically get started.

It is free, I assume your data is safe. They do other services outside of analytics, such as ad trafficking etc., which I assume is how they make their money.
Why not just write a similar editor, with same shortcuts, rewritten modules/modes etc, but with new architecture and paradigms?
Plus dupe detection is trivial to defeat. Basically, the current set-up works in favor of people gaming it.
You analogy compared doing drugs to posting comments. Specifically when you said "Unfortunately that's just not how it works - some people comment (or use drugs, etc) because they can't help themselves,". Yes, drug and alcohol addictions are true addictions for people. I don't think that commenting is a true addiction.

The discussion was on using this system to deter people from posting "bad" comments, and you compared this to threatening people with jailtime for drugs.
"The court did not allow Samsung to use any prior evidence showing that Apple copied others"

wow. but they all know dont they. system of law that accommodates and encourages process over problem is what needs to be eradicated.
There's a pretty big difference between being 'GoDaddy-ish' and releasing press releases about funding rounds. GoDaddy style behaviour is A Bad Thing in and of itself. The only thing that's bad about funding round press releases is that they're boring. But since people print them and are apparently interested in reading them... well, OK.

Press releases about funding don't reveal a lack of moral fibre or dubious ethics. They just reveal that the organisation is savvy enough to do something that works (een if it is pointless).
Why Jason Fried gave his company a month off
Not at all. But if it's not on either site pointed to as evidence, it's not evidence. It's like saying "unicorns exist, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat ". Or "unicorns exist, I have a photo in my basement". Why would I expect anyone to take that as proof?
A Man Is Not A Virgin
Why you don’t overturn the Big Bang via a media interview
"IMGFave: Sony attempts a Twitter client."
Nope, when Sony does it they have much Sonier names. Like "Timescape."
There are nitpickers and Nitpickers with a capital N.
Wipeout developer Studio Liverpool closed after 28-year run
Customer: Do you accept the Discover Card?

Peter Griffin: Ha! Hey, Lois! Diamond Jim Brady over here just asked if we accept the Discover Card.

Lois Griffin: Ohhhh! They're in an exclusive club that's called 'anybody'!

Peter Griffin: Yeah! No, no, no! I don't think so. You know, you know, I'd rather take two live chickens than your fly-by-night credit card. I would rather take a jar of pennies which value was less than your bill.
Amazon launches Kindle Store in India via Croma
A link to a link, really?
There are also two very different group of answers to the questions. However, the point is that the never ending chain of why exists in both religion and science. The claim that religion can provide more than science in this regard is wrong.

Regarding democracy: I actually meant to refer to the "western world". In general, democracy is certainly spreading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
There is a nice plot of the number of nations with "democracy" vs. time below the heading 20th and 21st centuries.

From the people I know, none of the those who believe in a God do not prefer democracy. That is certainly a biased group. And I think you have a point about "don't care", but if asked, I would say that most if not all of those friends would rather fight for democracy than their god.
Why the 3D printing revolution won’t happen in your garage
This was my first reaction too. Very cool, but wouldn't pay monthly for it.
What Makes an Intern a Good Hire
Would you feel the same if he had to raise the prices to cover the fixed fee per transaction that most payment processors charge?
Not really. Lift is more about changing personal habits.
We've had a lot of success hiring interns via InternMatch. Finding good talent is hard. Hiring interns allows you to insure you should be committing scarce resources for the added staff. The interns get a chance to prove themselves as competent, motivated, etc. and we get a low risk chance to evaluate them during a trial period that is packed with learning for the intern. Win - Win.
You may be right, but those of us who currently use Emacs + SLIME for Clojure work might flock to such an editor. A subset of a subset of Emacs users, for sure, but not insignificant.