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I think the most plausible reason is the same reason that Microsoft and IBM don't sue each other over patents.

Apple and MS have so many core patents that cover Windows, OS X, Windows Mobile and iOS, not to mention media players, office software etc. that any lawsuit will most probably end up in huge legal fees followed by a cross licensing deal after all the counter claims are decided on.
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While I don't have much to say about your product questions (I'm an engineer an open-source platform team at Yahoo, other end of the spectrum), one that I can answer though is...

> "Why would someone want to go into that environment?"

Good question. Like all companies, you should choose the one that most fits your ideals and career objectives, so I can only answer your question from my perspective. For me, that is working for a large Web company, who values open-source and front-end engineering, and provides unique challenges and problems to solve at a massive scale. All other issues or perks are secondary to me as long as I get to spend my workday doing what I'm passionate about, and my company supports my interests. There are few, if any other companies I can work with that match what Yahoo can in that regard. In fact, in 2008 there were only two companies on my list when I was looking to make the move from the startup-world, I interviewed at both, one was warm and welcoming (Y!), the other not as much. Really happy with the way things worked out.

It's tough (impossible?) to get everything you want in a work environment. Remember, happiness is entirely relative [1]. You can find dozens of blog posts about people being unhappy at Google, Facebook, Yahoo, startups, etc. just as you can find people who are extremely happy. Everyone values different things, but I think the interest most people share is that their company values them. Oddly enough, last year I referenced a Marissa Mayer quote in a short blog post [2] about finding happiness in your career, and why I like Yahoo. Glad to see she also realized Yahoo is an awesome place to be.

You just have to prioritize which aspects are important to you, and ensure those are important to your employer as well. If someone is choosing their employer based off reasons other than how they spend 95% of their workday, they should reevaluate their situation. That's at least my philosophy.

Sorry that probably doesn't answer your product questions, but I felt your underlying question was "Why Yahoo?", so I tried to best answer that.

[1] Interesting study which you can find references to it all over the Web. "Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?" http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1... Related TED talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...

[2] "The Best Career Advice You’ll Ever Get" http://derek.io/blog/2011/the-best-career-advice-youll-ever-...
I wish people would not upvote this - it's not even really an offer to YC startups it's just a cheesy advertisement for HN and it sets an awful precedent.
Donated $50. I realize we're trying not to rant about the healthcare system too much, so all I will say is that this is exactly why the system is a problem. What's the point of all our technology and "progress" if we still don't provide reasonable care to all?
Yes, it is a very cultural thing. I am generalizing here, but in Asia, individuality is (relatively) valued less and conformity valued more.

I might be downvoted for this, but well, there is a reason why all the Japanese cartoons/comics look similar to each other while western are much more diverse.

One of my friends that was in South Korea for some time really didn't like their lifestyle and told me, that this is probably how Romani people must feel in our country. There is something on it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=black%20lcd%20tv&sugexp=...

I wonder why TV manufacturers don't sue each others... they all look the same!
We do have Apple franchises, and Amazon is coming this year (reportedly) :)

But we don't have Cherry Coke :(
Here's mine if anyone is interested. I wrote it in D and haven't looked at it in years. I'm sure it's not usable as-is, but it might be fun anyway.

https://github.com/nogwater/NetflixPrizeD

The algorithm is based on Simon Funk's blog post here:
http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20061211.html

For me, the best part was squeezing the data and indexes into memory. :)
IIRC, even if a doctor is willing to donate their time, there are still large expenses for any major surgery (cost of the room, consumables, multiple nurses, anesthesiologist's time, etc.)
I'm confused. it looks like an offer to yc startups...
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According to the license, "You must attribute The MakerBot Replicator to makerbot (with link)."

So it's ok (and actually required) for him to mention MakerBot at least once, "(but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work.)"

I don't think Matt suggested that MakerBot endorsed it in anyway, he just attributed the design ALOT!
The future just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

I wonder if this is how people in centuries past felt.
>They take 73% of the profit in smartphone market

I chuckle every time I hear this. How much profit of the web server market does Microsoft take with IIS vs. the free alternatives like Apache and Nginx?

Who wins in the Server OS market of Windows Server vs. Linux/BSD? Who dominates the web dev tools market of Visual Studio vs. Eclipse/etc. ?

The same arguments you make can be made against the above too.

The idea of profit share as the metric was hyped up by the Apple fan blog network of Gruber-Siegler-Asymco etc. First, when Android had lower market share, they made numerous claims and 'analysis' that said Android could never overtake iPhone. When that did happen, for some time, they added the iPad to the mix by making it iOS vs. Android instead of just the mobile market and declared Apple the winner. And then later came up with the profitshare argument. Looks like the only metric that matters is what makes Apple the winner.

One example of a bizarre comparison(sneering and snarky as usual) http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/07/27/amzn

Since when did profit become the one and true metric?

I realize that they're writing what their audience wants to read, my only peeve is how much airtime their posts and arguments are given on HN. Meanwhile Paul Thurrott's Winsupersite is hellbanned on HN just for being a Microsoft watcher site. Draw your own conclusions.
I'm comparing my 2007 vintage T61 screen which wasn't IPS - just a regular LCD panel to a 2012 vintage T430s screen. The viewing angle on the new screen is really small (both horizontally and vertically).
Having worked with smaller teams in open plans, and now being in a coworking space, I have to say, I don't like it. It's really easy to get distracted by the smallest movement around you, or someone having a phone call, or two people laughing. I don't think cube farms are necessarily the answer either, but without serious consideration for noise dampening, the "one giant room" will be a pretty big distraction.
http://cl.ly/image/1v2238121W0l "Manage your contacts" and "Perform these operations when I'm not using the application" ? Why do you need access to my contacts?
But the geometry of all lined notebooks is effectively the same: horizontal parallel lines inside a rectangular shape. For this type of application I don't think any more geometry is needed.

Unless scale is important but I can't see how that could be.
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That statement can't be commuted because it expresses a concept that can't be commuted.

If the two checks were independent (pure functions), it's not difficult for a compiler to determine that given enough program visibility.
Codecademy.com has effective lessons on CSS. You may find it very useful.
Every time I'm reminded of just how many programmers Facebook has it bothers me that he missed such a cool opportunity. He gets programming better than probably any BigCo tech CEO and yet he made the same damn mistake of hiring thousands upon thousands of programmers instead of just getting the 10X Programmers and having 1/10th as many while paying them 2x as much.

Imagine if the budget for this 5000 person building was spent to house 500 people. It could make Google's campuses look downright spartan. It would make everything else a distant second choice for most people.
It's amusing to correlate "new campus" with "stock drop" in the history of Silly Valley.

Atari, Apple, Sun, Cisco . . . these companies all had significant hard times about the time they started large new sets of buildings.
> and the market has punished them for it

In what way?
The evidence so far that Romney probably took 2009 IRS Swiss bank acc amnesty
I don't disagree with your exhortation to vote with your dollars. It's a principle that I constantly think about as a consumer. However, saying "Don't do X" is IMO not usually very productive. Saying "Do Y instead of X" has a much better success rate. For those customers to whom feature set is as (or more) important than the Big Picture, can you recommend an alternative?

I've consistently used Apple hardware for many years because of the combination of multimedia-friendly Unix on ultra quiet hardware. I currently use an iMac because I get a large screen, a small desktop footprint, and no fan noise. Is there a hardware vendor who makes very quiet machines, whose components are well supported by Linux, and whose sins are modest enough for you to recommend them?
I appreciate open floor plans too, but it seems like a little too much for me. Here's a hi-res photo of the model's floorplan (which I'm sure is just a sample). http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/facebook...

I'll reserve final judgement until it's built and we can see pictures/video.
I hope many kids read about this man's exploits and are inspired to follow suit in tackling hard problems with the potential to change the world. Wish we had more smart people doing that...
Illuminating video. Thanks! That's pretty condemning, inaccurate enough that I won't even consider buying it :/ It's too bad, because otherwise Wacom seems to make good stuff.
That's basically a project I'm actively developing now - generic self-tracking (manual and via sensors and imported from other platforms), with presets and intuitive visualizations. This is a big gap in most tracking tools that are out there - letting you track anything you want, while also making sense of all the information in a useful way.

My motivation is to create something that's effective for sufferers of obscure chronic illnesses, since most tracking tools out there focus on major well-known illnesses, or simply aren't flexible enough to track weird symptoms that are so obscure that the developers have never heard of them. But the side-product is that the design will therefore be flexible enough to be useful for anyone who wants to track any element of their health.
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It seems like essentially the same strategy that lost them the desktop wars after taking an early lead with the Mac. I don't see why we should expect things to be any different this time, although their vertical approach is better suited to mobile.

Thanks for heads up on github. Fixed.
What profit margins? The iPhone has stayed at $200 while those high quality android phones typically sell for >= $250.

The iPhone also outsells all androids combined on every carrier in the US where the iPhone is available. I think apple is doing fine.
Very nice. It might be helpful to (briefly) describe the actual techniques you tried in the readme file? At least that's the first thing I looked for...
This looks cool. I am a big fan of the sympy's lightweight/modular approach to computer algebra, and so its great to see work on a nice front end. I have one random question. What was the rationale behind having "Apply" overwrite the head of an expression? If a function "f" takes a list to a list and I call "Apply[Plus,f[x]]" I would like the result to have "Plus" as the new head with "f[x]" as the tail. But as it it it feels like mixed semantics. Is there something I am missing?
As usual the only ones that will really win from this insanity in the long term are the lawyers.

And even the lawyers will not win as much as they think, because they will have set back technological progress decades behind.
As I noted above:

According to the license, "You must attribute The MakerBot Replicator to makerbot (with link)."

"So it's ok (and actually required) for him to mention MakerBot at least once, "(but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work.)"

I don't think Matt suggested that MakerBot endorsed it in anyway, he just attributed the design ALOT!
This is VERY early reporting of a finding that needs more work in an animal model before anyone can try it with human patients. Searching on the investigator's name turned up a more informative article

http://www.technologyreview.com/fromthelabs/428871/injectabl...

that indicates some of the development steps that are still necessary.
Hackernews has been very kind to me through the years, glad I can send a few dollars to return the favor
Considering that Apple is a beloved American company and Samsung a relatively obscure Korean company, isn't anyone else skeptical that a jury strictly composed of US citizens can be truly impartial in this case?
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Don't forget that Apple has a mountain of cash and an insane advantage in the tablet market. Macs are on the rise too. All this can be used to keep people in the Apple ecosystem. (iCloud is surprisingly meh, though.)

Not saying that Apple will succeed, but the future doesn't seem so clear to me.
There are a couple of note books (CamiApp, Shotnote) that have appeared in Japan that are quite similar. I found the design pretty good, though I stopped using them.. I think mainly because I switched form Evernote to org-mode.
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It's not anywhere remotely clear to me that Samsung came anywhere close to "fraud."
How do you remove carbon dioxide?
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Canada Cloud Computing would be able to tell you.
That damn social bar is covering text. What an obnoxious website.
I'm confused by your statement that "Math's not the only modeling medium that can be Unreasonably Effective", because it's not clear to me what the notion of a "non-mathematical model" means. (That is to say, it's not clear to me that you're even correct in the weaker assertion that "Math's not the only modeling medium.") Can you explain?
Since math is just the formalization used to describe quantitative patterns observed, you're already seeing math as purely as it will ever get. Really, it's the other way around--since math is an abstraction of observation, what you observe with your senses day to day is a much more direct and fundamental reality. Math is a language, and reality is what it talks about. Similarly, people who speak English will find that the most effective visualization and perception of what they speak about is to just directly see and perceive the thing that they talk about.

That's why I've never thought that there's any "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Describing the World". Math is derived from reality and describes it insofar as it can be observed to be given a description, and so it's unsurprising that math is effective at describing what it's designed to effectively describe. It's like saying that English is unreasonably effective at talking about things.
Excellent read on the Lance Armstrong fiasco. There is mixed reports on whether USADA can repeal Armstrong's tour wins, though. Most amazing revelation: all seven runner's up to Armstrong have either been found guilty of or admitted doping.
So how long before this becomes the standard safety kit for moon/mars colonials?
The offer is there since 2008.

Previously submitted:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341289 (1401 days ago, 48 comments)
Living on mars without a helmet? :D
$ cd kernel ; git log | egrep -i starks
$

Nothing there.

It would help if they told us what his contribution actually was.
I did exactly the same thing -- was looking at boottheme and wondering how to generate something other than the default. Never occurred to me to wonder what the dice icon did.
Just 3 weeks ago, Elon received the Mars Pioneer Award from the Mars Society. Here is his acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK0kTcJFnVk#t=10m56s

I look forward to listening to his next speech, hopefully geared towards motivating others to innovate new world changing technology. Something like his Caltech speech: http://commencement.caltech.edu/archive/2012_address
I think since the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, the vacuum will quickly tear you apart from liquid evaporation anyway.
I just had an AdBlock frenzy on this website. First time I ever do that.
You do understand that businesses exist to make money, right? Profit share is one of the few metrics that matter.
You make an assertion about future ctions by Apple as if it was fact. I tend to think Apple was particularly butt-hurt specifically over the trade dress stuff (rightfully so IMO). Why would this ruling lead to other flavours of Android being targetted so intensely?
I think Apple is here to stay but I don't see how they can sustain their phenomenal profit levels if their market share keeps slipping unless they keep winning in the courts.

What I'd like to see is a healthy market with two or three real competitors. It's much better for consumers and developers than another decade of monoculture protected by patent minefields.
I am looking for more the theory side of Computer Science. For the programming aspect I definitely look here first and then /r/programming.
Yeah that's completely disgusting.
Since when did profit become the one and true metric?

This is like wondering whether you'd be better off running a grocery store rather than a software business. Profit is the only metric. The idea that this notion started with Apple is strange.
I was going to run the second one in a VM, after downloading the code and taking a look: it recursively grabs the url so it's really not safe.. the first one is ok though if you download it first, it's just ascii. http://animals.ivolo.me/?index=13
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Apart from the specifics of this or any other court case involving Apple attacking Samsung, I find the desire to defend Samsung odd. Obviously they copied Apple as much as they felt they could get away with. They did this because it was a very conservative way to make a lot of money.

This isn't an admirable strategy. It's annoying. It's precisely the strategy that major movie studios use to give us one boring, risk-free "blockbuster" after another. The other day I read a history of the making of White Men Can't Jump:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8266665/an-oral-history-...

The head of Fox at the time, Joe Roth, mentions, "That movie wouldn't get made today. Us moviemaking guys, the studios, have less courage to make a movie like that today with the kind of racial, sexual overtones." It's sad. I would appreciate a big budget movie studio that did not consistently churn out the safest derivative crap they can.

I do appreciate that there's one consumer electronics company that attempts and succeeds at novel, high risk products. Of course, there's a good chance that risk taking spark died recently, but I have appreciated its presence until now.

Maybe patents are bad, but I don't think is a case where that stance holds much emotional appeal other than to those who like to see Apple lose. Most people think Samsung clearly did something shady here and deserves to be punished.
> somewhat meaningless

It's not meaningless if it means a large cross section of the most popular Android phones are banned, even for a short time. Hopefully Samsung has already got software workarounds ready to deploy.

> Some of the things Apple invented and patented on like pinch to zoom

Please don't say rubbish like that. It is so clearly obvious that Apple didn't invent pinch to zoom, and even if they didn't, it's so dumb and obvious that it wouldn't be patentable anyway (hence why the various people who demonstrated it over the last 2 decades didn't bother). Apple patented some refinements to pinch-to-zoom and other gestures.
If you can't breath wouldn't you still feel the suffocating sensation?
If you want your face to melt, sure.
Wouldn't it be great to just copy successful devices without paying a designer?
If you want to stay a leader, this is how you do it. Treat every single person who sacrifices their time for you like family. That's a leader.
If Samsung tried to raise prices for components, Apple would just buy those components somewhere else, causing Samsung's revenue to tank. Just look at what happened to PortalPlayer.
Exactly.

Specs/price is one thing. Dell was a clear winner in that department. But when something like a hinge breaks, or a fan starts wailing, or some other structural part of the system fails, the "specs/price" ratio suddenly does not mean much. Because it's non-trivial to salvage the parts that still work, the ones for which you got a good deal.

With Dell or Lenovo, one might say we're not paying for the hinges and such. But that stuff has to work too or what's the point? You can't take those parts you were paying for out and move them around easily.

Someday maybe we'll be able to build our own laptops or "ultrabooks" like one can build a mini-ITX.

This is what I hope comes by way of 3D printing.
> that the tech scene is actually spread out across the whole peninsula,

Is it? I was under the impression that it started around Redwood City or Menlo Park and went south from there... and that there was also a lot in San Francisco.

Are there startups around, say, San Mateo?
Facebook.com feels pretty "Accepting and Cynical" to me, too.
I could be wrong but I don't think he was a developer. From the pieces I've read it looks like his contribution to linux, seems to be distributing it through donations of old computers with linux installed to people / organizations in need.
A couple more Musk videos for those who might have missed them when they first came out:

Bloomberg profile that gives a good overview of his companies:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184-elon-musk-profiled-b...

Reddit AMA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6...
Only if carbon dioxide builds up in your blood. If you can remove the carbon dioxide, you may feel a sort of "reflex" to breathe, but not the crushing, burning sensation you normally get when you hold your breath too long.
Yeah, the market is really "punishing" them all right: https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL (stock currently at $663)

Google and Apple may have, at a high level, opposing strategies, but Apple's approach is being adopted more and more (app stores, having more control on the experience, etc...) and companies wouldn't do that if it wasn't working. Hell Google's own products, the ones where they stamp "Google" on the back of the device, are very much in the line of Apple's usual MO. Sure Android will always have a few more "geeky" features (app side-loading) but the Nexus 7 is very Apple-like in it's execution (...and it's great!).

tl;dr - Their business models aren't as different as the old Windows vs Mac comparison.