skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from what other people have already said, you add to the statistics on people who download media illegally. These provide ammunition for the creation of crazy laws such as SOPA.
nirvana is.

In the first two paragraphs of the post to which I replied, he explicitly says that finger-based touch "is a major invention".
I am yet to see a male claiming Galaxy Note (5.3-inch screen) does not fit in his pocket. By the way, I am assuming you're a man because women don't carry their phones in their pocket.
>Except that the major parts- like a touch oriented UI- don't exist until Apple develops them.

Look back a few comments.
The 3-D Secure VISA system in Norway is based on BankID (https://www.bankid.no/Dette-er-BankID/BankID-in-English) and uses Java. Everyone with a computer and a bank account has the Java plugin installed. Internationally, the majority of oekaki (online painting board) software has traditionally used Java because of its speed and versatility. My own real-time collaboration software, Sketcher, requires Java 1.5 at minimum. The software does bit-banging and custom pixel-level rendering and image compression in tight loops that can't be done fast or well enough in HTML5 or even Flash, and wasn't even possible back in 2004 when the software was originally developed. The Java code isn't as fast as native code, but it's pretty close, with Photoshop type pressure sensitive brushes rendered in real-time.

I've been looking at WebGL, but the technology isn't really ready for a mass market yet, and is widely criticized for the security holes it potentially introduces by exposing the OpenGL API to the DOM.

The whole web community seems to be ignoring rich content rendered on the client side. Without these capabilities, we'll never have real web app versions of programs like Photoshop.

Right now, my focus is on getting Kickstarter funding and developing a more user friendly version of my app for iOS, where such facilities are available today.
A similar feeling happens when hospitals put their cafés out to tender and the WRVS[1] who had been running the café lose the bid, and a commercial firm wins.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6200817.stm)

This article is baffling - it was written in 2012 but talks about financial pressure in the NHS - and the need to run health care like a business - as something new.
(http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/bow-WRVS-girls/story-16...)

And even the WRVS is not immune to this.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-14540603)

[1] WRVS - Woman's Royal Volunteer Service.
Ridiculously slow on Safari 6 and Chrome 21 on OS X 10.8 - The site is sure pretty, but it's not for today's browsers. Maybe in 2014.
Martial arts principles used to improve programming skills
I don't think it comes down to a simple reason. But I certainly don't think it's because they filed a lawsuit.

You seem to be of the opinion that you can't sue and also innovate. This is obviously false. The engineers arnt being pulled from projects to work on the lawsuit.
Here's my anecdote.

I suffer from psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. For the most part the psoriasis is not a big deal, it's disfiguring, but only on my legs, and it itches to the point that I'm perfectly capable of scratching long past the point that I'm bleeding. The psoriatic arthritis is another matter, untreated I live somewhere between 5-7 on the pain scale, shaking hands is nerve-wracking (please, no bone crusher handshakes - I do suffer from hand squeezy death) and I can barely walk.

On meds I'm basically fine. I use Humira which if I understand correctly is a human monoclonal antibody glued to a receptor that interferes with something to do with T-cells. I.e. it causes a specific immune suppression that massively reduces the process that causes the psoriasis and arthritis symptoms - oh and I'm 100x more likely to get skin cancer.

I've been off meds for over 6 months now with very limited impact on my life. All I did was cut out refined sugars and grain from my diet.

I discovered this by accident (too lazy to refill my prescription, then realized that I hadn't refilled in ages and yet wasn't in pain)

I think that there's a huge load we don't understand in the relationship between inflammation and autoimmune conditions; there are many things that are involved

Just my 2¢, I love science so please disregard my anecdotal ramblings
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That's not a problem. That is just another player. There are tons of people taking a bite of the pie when it comes to actors. Yet they continue to make a living and so do their agents.
> why did they wait so long? Didn't they see that the technology was about to become viable?

As I've said ad nausium, the market wasn't ready for large capacitive touch screens. The technology was too expensive.

The market currently isn't ready for "wearable technology", like Project Glass. Every competent observer knows that some form of augmented reality/wearable technology is going to become important in the next few years, but it's currently shit.

If Google or some other company gets granted patents to the obvious design decisions that come with it, it will be a disaster for the consumer in the same way as granting "pinch to zoom on a mobile device" is a disaster for current consumers.

> What I do think is that Apple was willing to bet on touchscreens and place bulk orders that made the price come down, whereas other companies happy with the status quo and unwilling to redesign their mobile operating systems to fit a new technology.

They made a good bet, and they literally made billions of dollars from it. What they don't deserve is a monopoly on basic design ideas, like "pinch to zoom" and "rounded rectangles".
Minecraft

Mars Space Simulator
OK, I was waiting for a moment to dig up budget sheets.

As of 2010, these are the line items on a budget to release a major label record. The same (minus a few things) applies to indies.

PROMOTION:

Indie promo (paying someone to promote to radio)

Tip sheets (newsletter advertising)

Radio promo contests (those win-it-before-you-can-buy-it and fly-aways)

Radio marketing (ads)

^ the above breaks down by format. Formats are:

Alternative, Active/AOR/Rock, College, AAA, Specialty Format (ie, Urban).

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MISC PROMOTION:

Radio shows (including artist travel, accommodations, etc)

Promotion CD's

Tip sheet design and prep

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SALES:

Advertisement placements (ie, circulars, endcaps)

Retail Marketing

Outside retail marketing

Retail merch admats

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ADVERTISING:

Print

TV

Radio

Online

Outdoor/sniping

Circulars

Prep and art production

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STREET MARKETING

Merch

Promotions

Outside street team

Samplers

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MISC MARKETING:

Advances, DJ advances

Remixes

General merch (ie, those funky things artists do to promote records)

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PUBLICITY

Indie publicists (if the artist doesn't use the staff)

TV appearances (travel, etc)

Photo shoots

Press travel

Tour logistics (aka Artist Development)

Prints, bios, misc (copywriters, etc)

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VIDEO:

Video production

Live footage, EPK cuts

VIDEO PROMOTION:

Video indies

Video promotions

Video duplication

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TOURING:

Tour support

Tour marketing

Promo tours (including setup, crew, backline, travel)

Ticket buys (from the venues, these aren't free!)

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ONLINE

Marketing

Website tech cost

Website design

Other tech (Facebook, widgets, games, Lee Martin)

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PACKAGING

Art

Production

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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

Tour support

Promo tour

Publicity

Production

Misc

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* Some of these aren't done. Some are much more expensive than others. Anyhow, a lot to be said about this but that's worthy of a blog post.

Also this has likely changed a bit recently.
all profit goes to charity

What charity? Why should we trust you to send it on and not just keep it for yourself?
Though that would be a pretty weird chain of commands to pipe. I don't think I've ever piped data into vim.
Tesla was a citizen of the United States of America- in my book, that makes him as much American as myself, or anyone else.
Yes, if you stop innovating, then another company can innovate their way to your marketshare.

No argument there. The argument is that you see initiating a lawsuit as a sign that a company is not innovating.

A lawsuit and a company's ability to innovate are independent variables.
This is the same jury that awarded Apple $2M for a phone that, according to them, did not actually infringe upon any patents. Fortunately, the court fixed that up for them.

Given that they also have been quoted as not needing the jury instructions, actively ignored those instructions by indicating that the damages awarded were punitive rather than compensatory, and that they could have spent, at most, a few minutes on each of the hundreds of questions, it's hardly out of line to think that this verdict was rushed.
I would think that a nonprofit reasonably considers grant writing a core competence or at least well closer to a core competence than, say, plumbing.
> For example, they entered the PMP market when hard drives and batteries were cheap/portable enough to make the iPod a reality.

Apple sold the original iPod for $399, which was the cost of the original 5GB drive to Apple. It was sold at a severe loss to begin with to push the technology and ramp up volume production of those drives.

> They entered the phone market when capacitive touchscreens were cheap/large enough

The iPhone's screen was far and away the biggest cost of the device. It was moving so many of them that dropped the price. You're accusing Apple of jumping at an opportunity when they see a cheap enough component. That's entirely not true, that is what their competitors do.

What they do is choose a key component for their device and drive down the price through massive volume sales that nobody else can achieve. It was true for the hard drive in the iPod, the flash memory in the Nano and the capacitive screen in the iPhone.

If you're saying they didn't invent the HD, memory or screen themselves, that's fair. But I don't think them selling the device at a loss counts as the component being "cheap enough". More like Apple believes in the technology enough that they're willing to do whatever it takes to push adoption, get scale discounts, and MAKE it cheap enough.
Will you give us a post on a subject you clearly have very big experience with?

Joel built the business and he is sharing his experience. Did you do the same? Do you have a successful business?
I'm friends with some people who have worked for Dan. Here's the best article I could find that might give some insight on what happened. Short answer is each year event per-participant expenses kept increasing (Pallotta has a bit of a "spendy" reputation), until it got out of control. At his last event only 14% of the money raised actually went to the charities:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines.shtml?/headlines02/082...

Some more backstory: to his credit Dan Pallotta did create the AIDS rides and cancer walks. They seem common now, but at the time they were innovative and very successful in dramatically increasing the donations going to these charities. Then expenses started to climb. Dan likes everything to be very nice, luxurious even, for his participants. As the money rolled in, he spared no expense on having the best facilities, logistics, design, etc. for his events. At some point he screwed up his math, the expenses ate almost all the profits, and the AIDS and cancer charities went ballistic. And they got the press involved.

In addition, Pallotta Teamworks was set up as a for-profit company. This was not what caused the controversy, but it certainly added to it. Also not helping matters from a PR perspective is that Dan was known to pay himself a very large salary and live the high-end L.A. lifestyle. He also spent a very large sum (millions) on outfitting a warehouse into a unique, custom-designed office space that was something out of a bond movie. He wasn't doing anything malicious, but these things didn't help when the wave of bad press hit.

The sponsors found it easy to find people, including some of Dan's own employees, who were glad to duplicate the events. Except this time they only used non-profits, and guaranteed a minimum percentage of donations that would go to the actual charities.

Update: pictures of the above-mentioned Pallotta Teamworks office space (gallery at bottom of page):

http://www.pallottateamworks.com/about_apostrophe.php
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Seeing as I bought Apple in 08 I understand your reasoning :D

A few factors lead to my understanding of this situation changing.

1: Mobile saturation - only thing left is more of the same and virtual/augmented reality.

2: Absolute domination of Android and the continual manufacturing dominance of Samsung

3: The move towards commoditizing most consumer electronics thanks to work done by Google and other hardware manufacturers. The iPad was insanely cool when it came out - not so cool when everyone else looks the exact same as you do.

4: Domination of the living room by both Sony and Microsoft - leaving Apple little room for entry.

5: CPU underutilisation - people don't really need to upgrade their computers anymore.
> Ah but then you admit, it's "the whole package" that is the real innovation

Actually I would say scrolling by itself was an amazing innovation. Every phone/tablet/pda out there had to implement a scrolling interface for lists, whether it be for contacts, todo items, or call logs, however nobody has created a scrolling interface as usable as Apple's first scrolling interface on the iphone. Their flick scrolling with inertia was probably the first time I wasn't in pain scrolling through a thousand entries.

How can anyone disagree about scrolling being novel? If it was not a novel idea, Nokia should have implemented this on their phones so it wouldn't take a thousand button presses to get to the bottom of my contact list.

When something is novel, every instance prior to the invention would implement it (scrolling) in various different ways, and after the invention it would all be implemented in the same way that emulates the invention. I can't think of an instance where someone implements scrolling without a flick + inertia nowadays.

Hence, the invention brought something new to the table that was never used prior to its existence, and everyone now copies because they feel it is the proper way to do something.

Here's a simplistic straw-man: Prior to the transistor, everyone used vacuum tubes. After the transistor invention, everyone uses transistors.

Everyone used standard scrollbars on handhelds before Apple's invention, however they now use flick/inertia scrolling and nobody goes back to standard scrollbars.
There's a pretty obvious conflict between nonprofit fundraising and profit-making. It's quite difficult to make the case that profit-making would be beneficial in the long run, even if true.
That assumes there's no way to (or interest in) linking accounts.
This is written in a very colloquial manner with a lot of dashes and contractions. Adopt a more formal style.
In search of the Goodwill moon rocks: A personal account
What lacks evidence? I can support all claims.

You, on the other hand, make unsubstantiated claims. You equate me with birthers, you contradict yourself... and even when faced with concrete evidence, you dismiss it out of hand. You even go so far as to lie by claiming I offered no supporting evidence.

No, I've provided evidence. You've merely attempted to insult and claim that the quotes are out of context, and when asked to explain yourself, you merely repeat, as if it will somehow make a difference.

Still, you've proven you are more interested in trolling with the birther remark. This is not reddit. If you cannot discuss things like an mature adult, leave. Feel free to disagree, but insults, ignorance, and trolling are not welcome here.
That is pretty horrible UX. Why would they enable it in the web UI, but make you look at a forum post to get the build you need. Also, without linking to it when you get an error on the build?
If you only change a few kilobytes, dropbox only has to upload a few kilobytes.

I just modified a file in a 64MB truecrypt container and unmounted it. Dropbox took roughly five seconds to sync it.

The only real problem with truecrypt in dropbox is that you can't keep it mounted on multiple devices.
Precisely they used capacitive touch sensor (used on touchpads mostly at the time) instead of resistive standard used on PDAs; in practical terms this was a switch from notebook-like experience (which invites writing and checking small boxes) to magazine-like (smooth, glossy surface inviting sliding pages and large Nokia-like UI plus gestures to remove accuracy/finger-hiding problems). This way, multitouch rather just come in bundle with capacitive technology. BTW this is why I see the whole stuff as a mainly target group revolution -- simply way more people buy magazines than notebooks.
"Comments like this do not add to the discussion."

You'd have a point if that was the extent of the response.
>Sigh. I'm sick and tired of people twisting reality to fit an Apple anti-hero narrative.

Makes a change from all the Microsoft bashing. Hard to fit a $ into Apple, though. A$$le maybe?

Apple might not have discovered or invented everything (macintosh GUI case in point). But Jobs and Apple in general have a habit of discovering useful technologies and commercialising them. It's a hindcasting mistake to say 'oh, well it was obvious that GUIs or iPhone style screens were always going to happen'.

Well, if it was so obvious, why is Apple continually breaking new ground?

The answer is that there are literally millions of good ideas that don't go anywhere. To pick some out, commercialise them, make them work and deliver for an affordable price. Well, that's innovation.

Egads. I sound like an Apple fanboi. Nothing could actually be further from the truth. But I'm tired of seeing the army of cutters heading for Apples tall poppy.
It's harder to build an arm processor than just looking at one from some random phone you bought.

Most companies are going to need assistance from arm which arm can still charge for. Additionally the design can be copyrighted.
iPhone - 2007

Nintendo DS - 2004

You've shifted the goalposts from "touchscreen" to "touch screens only include things operated by fingers". The DS fits that requirement. Note that makers and sellers of touch screens don't make the distinction that you claim is obvious.
The device you linked to has a touchscreen and a UI, but it is simply a desktop widgets and metaphors with the minimal adaptations necessary to make it work with a touch screen.

None of the key metaphors or widgets Apple developed for iOS are present in that device.

To claim that Apple didn't invent anything in iOS, and use that device as an example is to claim that there was nothing new in the iPhone because Alexanger Graham Bell had phones before.

It is absurd. And to me, all it says is that you're desperate to rationalize this belief that Apple never invented anything.

Remember: I'm rebutting the claim that Apple just assembled off the shelf pieces, like legos.
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I should add: a consequence of allowing more than one incoming edge is that a DAG can have more than one "root," like this:

A B
\ /
C

With trees, if you have two roots, you'll have two disjoint trees, because there's no way for their descendants to meet without some node having multiple parents.
The main problem is that Mandreel is closed source. I don't have access to it, so I can't just compile two C++ benchmarks and compare the results.

However, I suspect the Emscripten version is faster, for a few reasons:

* Indirect measurements on Box2D in that link indicate Emscripten is faster.

* Looking at the generated code shows several things Emscripten does better, for example it uses the native JS stack for function calls (Mandreel pushes all the arguments onto the emulated C stack which is additional work), the Emscripten relooper implementation is more optimized, etc.

* Emscripten uses closure compiler to minify and further optimize the generated code while Mandreel does not. This mainly affects download size, but not only - closure can do optimizations at the JS level that can't be done before, like for example inlining handwritten glue code in JS into compiled JS code.

* Mandreel used to use an older version of LLVM and Clang than Emscripten, which always uses the latest, and there have been big 'free' speedups in Emscripten due to improvements in the LLVM optimizer. (But, perhaps Mandreel has updated, without access to it I don't know.)

* Emscripten has gotten a lot of issues filed about performance issues, pull requests, etc. as a benefit of being open source, which led to plenty of improvements. I can't be sure but I am guessing there are fewer people that bought a Mandreel license and contributed feedback.

Note though that the question of which is fastest is a little problematic - one compiler's output might be faster in one browser but slower in another, so there isn't an objective sense of "fastest" here. But with that said, there are aspects of the code that should be faster in all browsers, like as mentioned above the more optimized way that Emscripten does function calls.
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"64-bit memory read. The source register contains a 32-bit byte address, which must be phrase aligned. The destination register will have the low long-word loaded into it, the high long-word is available in the high-half register. This applies to external memory only."

Which is 32-bit addressing, not 64-bit. Exactly what was claimed in the comment you're responding to.
Some day, Owning a computer that cannot be bricked by govt or "Intellectual Property Owners" at their whim will regulated like the brewing of alcohol. You will have to pay through your nose to run even lame apps. Maybe even your government can get a cut so that it can go chasing weapons of mass destruction using the money extorted from the gullible masses.
I just launched my first web app/side project/potential startup today called PillHQ(http://www.pillhq.com). It helps people remember to take their medications.
Bitbucket and Stash are different products with different codebases. Bitbucket is written in Python and Stash is written in Java.
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So how does this philosophy square with Google's recently filed lawsuit against Apple via Motorola's patents?
The Cilk Project
Hah, that might be due to Geoffrey's voice.
- data on all websites: to add an option to copy a link/image
in markdown.

- tabs and browsing history: to allow the user use textdown alone as a native app(press ctrl + shift + y).
What about IE8? That's still well above 10% I think.
Perhaps because if it's profit, then it's not going to the cause you're supposedly trying to help.
I don't think he has much of a chance. The Constitution doesn't say anything about first to invent. It just says Congress has the power to grant limited monopolies to inventors for their discoveries.

Note that even under the old "first to invent" law, you did not ACTUALLY have to be the first person to invent something in order to get the patent. A prior inventor whose invention did not qualify as prior art and who did not apply for a patent would not disqualify the second inventor from getting a patent.

The new "first to file" system still requires that the patentee to be an inventor, and that seems to me to be enough to satisfy the Constitutional requirements.
Trade dress infringement also doesn't apply if there is only one way or a "best way" of doing something. The law provides exemptions, so that one company doesn't have to make an inferior product just to avoid trade dress infringement.

A lot of what apple was calling "trade dress" was arguably just the best most obvious, or cheapest way of doing something--bezel etc...
Still on 4, was having fun until now :)
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