skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They spend 2 and 1/2 days talking about it. Don't forget they had plenty of time to consider the evidence while it was being presented so the only thing they need to talk about was what they disagreed on. Which probably was mostly about how willful Samsung's infringement was, because that's the hardest thing to determine in cases like this.
*Windows Mobile phone

Windows Phone is completely different.
>> we wanted something more than a slap on the wrist."

Wasn't the jury under instructions not to dole out punitive damages? That's left to the judge, the amount of which has yet to be decided.

Maximum punitive damages are limited to 3x the original amount [1 billion], so the fact that this number was apparently inflated is non-trivial. [1]

>> "I was thinking about the patents, and thought, 'If this were my patent, could I defend it?'" Hogan recalled. "Once I answered that question as yes, it changed how I looked at things."

This juror clearly skirted the line of impartiality. I will have to read the whole interview. The notion of vigilante jurors doling out punishment based on their own bias is unsettling.

As an aside, it's not clear how Samsung's legal team let this guy onto the jury in the first place.

[1]http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2012/08/apple-wins-105-billi...
Has anyone got an idea why it would still be geographically restricted even though presumably Netflix will own the rights? It seems like this would be an ideal chance to move away from media being released at different times in different countries.
You can add new functionality by adding new endpoints without using HATEOAS too. The only difference is that it's documented out of band, which incidentally, is primarily a discovery-related concern.
Medium for Wordpress
People hate on software patents like they were hating on the cellphone industry just 5 years ago.

One company doubled down on their innovation while disrupting their own major revenue channel. Meanwhile, the many stagnant phone manufactures continued copy/pasting crap because that's all they knew. BlackBerry executives went so far as to call Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch a "bluff" and an "impossible feat of engineering".

Maybe multi-touch is painfully obvious on the surface, but end-to-end execution and total consumer package made the iPhone what it is today -- and that wasn't obvious until you held it in your hand, and everything just clicked. So in that regard, I think it's fair for Apple to protect their entire pie by defending the slices/key ingredients.

PS. It took a few years before "pinch and zoom" was actually comparable to the fluidity of iOS. Some implementations on Android were a complete joke.

PPS. I don't disagree that the patent process could use some revisions, but to dismiss the process entirely is just silly -- including software.
Well yes, when the light hits a mirror, a certain percentage (say 95% of the energy) bounces back, which can hit another mirror and so forth. There's no limit, but after a few dozen bounces, the remaining light is virtually undetectable.

Really, the exact same thing happens in a standard white painted room, the two differences being that the mirrors reflect more of the light (so that a dimmer light source will suffice to reach the same level of illumination), and that the reflection is directed instead of diffuse (this only changes the shape of the reflected light, not its amount). Maybe you can explain what's confusing you.
He is not complaining about a technical disadvantage. The problem they are complaining about is about the current management culture and sunshine and good food doesn't make it any easier to deal with it.
Why the Apple-Samsung verdict matters, even if Samsung appeals
http://localbeer.me - find locally brewed beer (only has partial data right now, don't panic if it doesn't find any beer near you).

This has basically been my playground for cool things - geolocation, facebook actions, rich snippets and more.
Cyborg tissue monitors cells
Dissecting the Dumbest Clojure/Noir App in Existence (with full source)
The web was built before SVG. Older web browsers particularly IE do not support it directly, others offer partial support. So it doesn't degrade gracefully. On the other hand, everything supports bitmaps.

In addition, the process of designing for the web is centered around bitmaps because full support has been lacking and because advertisers (still the primary income source on the web) want maximum compatibility.
Worked for me. In Norway, for those curious.
Why are you talking about "staying and fighting" for your beloved Homeland if you've got companies in various countries? Shouldn't you be happily shoveling truckloads of tax money into your own country's coffers instead of giving it away to others?
Thanks for your feedback! This is definitely something I overlooked and should add to the homepage, probably as part of the first header or as its own section at the very top.
Samsung Galaxy Note II spec sheet leaked from Seoul Newspaper
This Galaxy Note II spec sheet seems plausible to us, what do you think of it?
They said amount, not 'calorific value'. Penhaps it was replaced with lower calorie food. But i think there is also the factor that sugary foods/carbs are more addictive and not as satiating as fatty foods (eg 'i'll just have another biscuit', cf. considerable successes of keto diets).

Eating something less sugary may have had a knock on effect and reduced the amount of food eaten later.
web2c converts the TeX web/pascal source code to C code which is what actually gets compiled for teTex, TeXLive, etc.

http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c...
It's amazing that no matter how much you pay lawyers, they can be this incompetent.

First they somehow never managed to get the patent review process going that Google proved could wipe out bogus trivial patents. Then Samsung's legal team missed deadlines to produce their prior art research. Then they stuffed the arguments about tablet computer trade dress into the largest part of their time and won that but failed to save time to make a case about smart phones.

And most importantly, they let an obviously biased holder of silly patents who feels great pride in them get on the jury and lead it straight to this conclusion as foreman. Did they sleep through voir dire?

Did the Samsung lawyers deliberately throw the case for some reason? Maybe the Korean corporate culture rubbed them the wrong way and they simply couldn't communicate effectively or they were hit with an epidemic of contagious chronic fatigue or something.
One of the big problems in Portugal, aside from all the economic issue, is the "employee syndrome" ... at least it's what i call it. In Portugal, it's hard to find people with a entrepreneur'ish spirit.

Everyone want's to be employee and expect the salary at the end of the month without ( and the salary must be really interesting too ).

Oh, and another thing ... people just can't understand that you need to be offer something for the company success other than just sitting on you desk doing what you're told to. It's all about being a worthily asset for the company, other than just being an simple asset.

Yes... i own my own company. Yes, i did employ several people with and without superior degrees. What i found out is that people without superior degree in Portugal are more productive ( of course, there are exceptions ) and in general, have better technical skills than those who just finished university ( this is another problem in Portugal, universities are all about theory ... although, slowly, we can see some changing... ).

Juniors just can't expect to earn the same salary as someone that has more experience. It's all about return of investment. .. and in the IT world, you need to have to be a good ROI.

Of course, salaries in Portugal can't compare to bigger countries as France, Germany, US ... or emerging IT capitals that are living a wave of venture capitals. We are a small country, that is growing in the IT world. And if you think about it, we are really newborns in this world...

Yes, there are great professionals in Portugal ( and prospects too that are in the university ) ... but there's something about the mentality that we must change.

It's all about what you do for a company what they can do for you.

As for the emigration, i think abroad experiences enrich people and sometimes change their way of seing things. Usually, in the principal external markets targeted by emigrants, there's a higher money flow, and the experience of working in a bigger/wealthier company, makes us grow. But the same problem persists ... you need to be a added value for the company... and in most cases, people only understand that when they are faced with the cold reality that they really need to work had to make a difference. :)

Of course, since they earn more money, they will take that with a different spirit.

( and yes, there are really bad companies in Portugal that are full with "professionals" and "directors" that, often, know less than a junior or someone with 5 years of experience in the market. It's the difference between working for money without much enjoyment and working for something you really enjoy while earning money doing it)
Can't find that here. Care to post a screenshot somewhere? Anyone know how to enable this? Or if it can be enabled client-side at all?
So the judge doesn't believe the police testimony...

“The facts recorded in the police report,” she said bluntly, “do not correspond to reality.”

That means the police officers get reprimanded right? Or are police free from real punishment as they frequently are in the states?
> Sigh. I'm sick and tired of people twisting reality to fit an Apple anti-hero narrative.

They are just as guilty as any other hardware/software manufacturer which tries to stifle human progress in the name of ego.

Let me provide my perspective, as flawed as it may be. In 2006, Nintendo released the Wii. To those who don't know, it, for better or worse (re)introduced motion within the context of video games. Immediately, Microsoft (Xbox) and Sony (PlayStation) criticized the Wii's motion controls – deeming them "childish" and "not what gamers want".

Today, we know how that story played out. We have PS3 Move and Xbox Kinect. At the time, I had hoped and dreamed that Nintendo would sue and strike back at Sony and Microsoft (not sure if they had the grounds to, mind you). I didn't want Microsoft and Sony to benefit from Nintendo's genius, especially after they essentially deemed motion control as a ludicrous novelty.

Today, Microsoft Kinect is making all sorts of cool innovations possible – not Nintendo. But in 2009, I would have been happy to hear that Microsoft would have no right to create Kinect. What a lousy outcome that would have been. Kinect, as a technology, is a benefit to a collective of people – and I was a dink to believe another outcome would have been better. Chalk it up to being a Nintendo fanboy.

Today I'd be incredibly angry if Nintendo had the power to overturn, punish or fracture the Kinect technology. And watching Apple fanboys defend a system that essentially holds us all back is incredibly painful to watch. Apple has created a contemporary masterpiece and it is now the baseline for which all better technology evolves. What happens if you get your way and no one can build in the direction that is proven to work?

Stagnation. Thanks for that.
Apparently it wasn't so obvious in 2007 when all the handset makers scoffed at the iPhone.
Avchd to mov, avchd to mov mac,
How To Remove WordPress Post Meta Boxes
Why not just use http://ogp.me ? A lot of sites are already using it.
The 100+ pages of jury instructions were only provided on the 21st. Aside from their own comments that they "didn't need the jury instructions", there is this follow-up that shows a lot of inconsistencies in the verdict. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390

edited
The title more accurately reflects the contents of the article rather than cherry-picking the first sentence of it.
Do you know what aderrall and ritalin does to your health right?

Ok, then. So use it as much as you want.
How to turn your email into a collaboration tool
So.. how are you loading textures?
As it seems to me that that's the only thing happening there.

Kind of misleading title..
In my experience, this is fairly standard for lawyers. Sometimes they are all too human. The problem is the consequences of their occasional (YMMV) incompetence can be so huge and far-reaching, as with this case.
Here's your test -- because I used to believe that, too.

Call their fraud line -- not the tellers, the real deal. Say that suppose you ordered a laptop on eBay. You paid using your debit card. You received a package, signed for it via UPS, but when you opened the package, it was an old, obsolete, broken laptop. Can they reverse the charge?

My credit card companies will. They will immediately grant me back the additional credit. Some banks have 24h policies to get you back your cash that's in dispute, but I'm positive that debit card protection does not extend this far. If yours miraculously does, tell all you friends to buy shares in the credit union. But I will be surprised.

(Yes I know you could probably dispute via eBay, not the point of course.)

Even with credit cards, if you accidentally pay a fraudelent charge before reporting it, you lose many rights. When the money is already out of your account, you are hopelessly at their mercy.

Edit:

Not to mention, I also get 2% cashback, the bank doubles the manufacturers warranty on items I purchase with the card, rental car insurance coverage, etc. And aside from the cashback, those are pretty normal CC perks. And things like car rental-- some rental companies will actually do a credit check (!!) if you try to use a debit card to secure a car rental.
Well that juror's patent sure is innovative...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...
I don't get how people likes Lisp syntax so much, for me it looks horrible. I would prefer markdown as a replacement for BBCode
According to my orthoptist, it's better for the eyes to use black on white rather than white on black.
Windows XP as your screensaver
I ate until I was no longer hungry, just not sugar. Did I eat fewer calories? Almost certainly. Did I go hungry, or feel like I was eating less? Not at all...
Arrested Development is a very European-style show. There are few explicit jokes and no laugh track. They aim more for puns and other wordplay, along with explicit foreshadowing that sets up a joke with no obvious punchline until the hammer drops (Buster's hand is a good example of this).

You're not spoon-fed the comedy and queued for laughter. There weren't many American shows like that when it aired, and that was one of the reasons it got canned. They even hinted at this in the script for the last season, along with the characters practically begging some other network to pick up the show.
When I was 13 and encountered my first PDA (which is essentially a computer, even back then). I said "they should just attach a phone to this and be done with it."

I WAS 13! It was most certainly obvious.
Corruption and incompetence is widespread in the Russian police force. I doubt they will get into trouble for this.

If they keep threatening everyone who voices their opinion like this, won't Russia face an exodus of their intellectual elite?
Ok, I risk here massive downvotes, but I really like to know why HN worships Jacques Mattheij. It's third writing in last three days on frontpage. I must admit he is very good writer I really enjoy to read his posts, but still. If every single blogpost he writes must find his place on the frontpage of HN, shouldnt we just add his feed on our RSS readers and be done.
No sugar from soda... I've drunk diet soda as long as I can remember. My belief is that anything with significant sugar in is highly addictive; I've got a very very addictive personality, and have never felt remotely addicted to soda, but have also only ever drunk diet soda.
Apple sued precisely because Samsung wasn't innovating
> Millisecond performance differences

I guess that's what happens when you have a community where a substantial part believe JavaScript is 'close to the metal'
It looks like they felt the most damning evidence were emails where Samsung was told to back off from copying Apple but did not heed their partners advice.
What do you base that on? Do you have the historical college admission records from the other 109 kids in his class? All 110 kids in his class at Choate are likely to be Ivy League material. I base this off of their current stats posted at http://www.choate.edu/admission/25greatreasons.aspx

The most popular colleges from 2008-2012: Georgetown University, 48; New York University, 40; Yale University, 38; Boston University, 32; Columbia University, The George Washington University, 31; Boston College, 30; Wesleyan University, 29; Cornell University, 24; Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, 21; Brown University, Trinity College, 20.
Also: glucose helps self discipline.
Second. A meta-tag would make it easier for services to add in mass as well.
How is it that I have managed to use vim since, err, 1993 or so, without changing all my colors to ten different schemes? Oh, right. Many of the terminals I've used vim on didn't have any colors (other than bright green vs dim green, or the same in amber or phosphor-white).

I will admit that syntax coloring is nice, but more for the checking it provides than anything else. In a column of keyword=value, it's nice to spot the missspelled keyword instantly.
More anecdata, from me and my wife: losing weight is easier in periods of reduced exercise (although we're both in excellent shape normally).

My suspicion: heavy exercise gives you a hunger response in excess of the calories you've burned. That said, I've been told your basal metabolic rate goes up with the more muscle you have.
The thing that strikes me, as an outsider, about the JS community is that most of their arguments and discussions tend to revolve around specific tools or libraries (Knockout vs. Backbone, for example), rather than around concepts.

As a result, many of the JS devs that I have worked with are good at using these tools, but are often deficient in knowledge of general good software development techniques. This includes testing, writing readable and maintainable code, design patterns, architectural principles, etc.

Disclaimer: Your mileage may vary. This has been my experience only.
> have better technical skills than those who just finished university ( this is another problem in Portugal, universities are all about theory ... although, slowly, we can see some changing... ).

That is normal; in the Netherlands we have a distinction between practical and theoretical higher education. Universities were not meant to be very practical; they are meant to 'shape your mind' with solid foundations for learning new things and for an academic career. Now this is much different and the actual function of a university, because it's so common to go there, moved from that old view to the realism of the day; students need to actually find a job in corporations. It'll change, albeit slowly.

One of the biggest problems I found in PT is the difference between Lisbon and 'the rest'. I don't know what the fascination is with this city (I have been there many times, but disclaimer: I generally don't like cities at all) besides job opportunity, but outside Lisbon, it's really nice and cheap while in there it's not. So you have the 2 camps; 1 who want to live in Lisbon, 1 who want to live anywhere else. And those two have very different wishes.

Where are you? What does your company do?
Nearly all of the times I've seen StringBuilder used incode reviews, using the + operator or a better design would have been more appropriate. There are a few cases (like looping over a collection), where StringBuilders make sense, but usually they are needlessly verbose.
I don't think anyone was scoffing because of pinch-to-zoom, though.
Yes but SMS are handy. BTW Just got both of them with a 7 hours delay.
That is great. Too bad nobody owns a PlayBook :-)
Check Entrepreneur's Break on Facebook!
This closely matches my experience. You don't even have to be too precious about it though: I'll still put half a teaspoon of sugar on my (sugar-free) cereal in the morning, and I don't feel I'm hurting myself...

I got married a few months back, and decided to eat sugar again from the day before the wedding until the end of the honeymoon. One week in to the honeymoon I'd noticeably gained weight, so cut it out again for the second week ... and ended up only half a kilo heavier at the end.
Straight C's at Andover/Exeter are more impressive to a dean of admissions than a 4.0 at a public school.

(Not saying that one is more difficult than another, as I honestly have no clue.)
Porting an iOS app to RIM doesn't matter anymore. The new Blackberry OS (BB 10) is going to run Android apps [0], essentially making the Blackberry App Store irrelevant (in my opinion).

[0] https://developer.blackberry.com/android/
I thought the article was just going to be two words: "associative arrays".

Instead it was about scene garbage that self-described "ninjas" blather about.
because IE8 does not support SVG, and we still have to support IE8.
Just an an anecdote, Minecraft refuses to play audio on my desktop because the sound card is not supported, and cannot host a server because the network card is not supported. This is an off-the-shelf Asus desktop.

Looking through their forums, this is relatively common.
We have used SVG in past on the web for rendering waveforms but we have replaced them with prerendered PNG images. The reasons are: the performance is abysmal, the file size is considerably larger than PNG (even with gzip compression), browser support (including Chrome and Firefox) is weak even when present (crappy antialiasing, crappy scaling etc).
Parallel processing in Algol-68
The so called 'exodus' that Portugal is suffering from isn't limited to the tech industry. It affects all areas and is directly related to the current 'impoverishment' politics being followed in the country.

While interesting, this essay is very shortsighted.
Err, replacement is maybe too strong a word. I should have said alternative. I don't have any such ambitions, but I plan to use this instead of bbcode on all my personal sites from now on. There's a lot of room for convenience in the form of transformations like I did with the tables. I could use this for my blog editor and add a {coffeescript ...} and {dart ...} tag for example, or automatically pass closure on js code. For users, it's really powerful because it can let them use style tags safely on elements.
I would add boilerplate getters/setters to the list. Almost always, a simple public field works just fine.
I'd be more inclined to recommend VMWare for our in-office needs if I can conveniently move VMs off to an OpenStack supporting public cloud. VMWare's offerings are good enough to compete with any private cloud out there but not having any interoperability with what seems like the future of the open cloud could hurt them.
Hartli's facts about slashdot.org