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I believe that this may end up being Steve Jobs legacy. He became so focused on destroying android that it consumes everyone. Sure android was an iPhone rip off, google may acted in bad faith by ripping it off. So what? Anyone who makes something enviable should expect the copies to follow them. I am at my saturation point with IP lawsuits. I lack much empathy for any party at this point, consumers are the ones that lose.
It's a chart that means absolutely nothing to people who understand that it's the relative value of the dollar to the currencies of other countries that is meaningful. It would be fairly helpful in following the narratives to some classic movies, though.
Quite amusing to see the word "regime" used so casually and self-righteously. As much as you may dislike Putin, I bet he's got more popular votes than Obama did, just visit an average Russian town 50 miles outside of Moscow and ask around.

As a Russian I know first hand things aren't rosy, but they aren't so simplistic and cartoonishly evil as western media and comments on HN portray.
Apple has sold over a hundred million iPhones and has sewn up a large chunk of the most profitable market segment.

That should be enough of a reward.
I still don't understand how they get paper views/downloads data from the journals. Or is it only views for your papers in your profile on academia.edu? That's much less interesting, as I doubt the typical academic has even heard of accademia.edu, and it's certainly not a central hub of searching for and reading papers.
Have you ever fired a PCP(pre-charged pneumatic) air gun? No phase change; much icing. Yes, the latent heat of phase change makes an enormous difference, but it doesn't mean that the pressure drop alone won't cause a big enough temperature differential, and since you're not in a closed compression/decompression loop, you wouldn't be particularly worried about the efficiency -- you're just using a byproduct of the propulsion system that would otherwise be wasted.
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No.

I'm saying that if Russia was oppressive as people are making it out to be, he would be silenced by now.

I present 4 possibilities:
1) If he was important and silenced, the claim that Russia is oppressive would hold.
2) If he is not silenced and important, there would be support for him within his own country, but then the country wouldn't be as oppressive as people make it out to be since he hasn't been silenced.
3) If he is silenced and unimportant, we would hear little to nothing of him.
4) If he is not silenced and unimportant, then he has a chance at getting attention from our news outlets that are always looking for an excuse to paint something has a humanitarian crisis as a pretext for war.
And as a Russian I think you better shut up in this case.

Things are'nt rosy for Putin indeed. And they're not as simplistic. I guess to make them simpler he got himself back in the office by rigging the vote and then by beating and arresting those who protest, Kasparov included?
I want to do a startup but I can't think of anything people want that I could implement. I'm not good at meeting people and hence, probably not good at understanding what they want. Maybe I'm already doomed to failure.
Look into StatusNet, it's a solved problem.
There are a lot of famous people who use 3rd party apps to manage their social media stuff.
There are a lot of 'Apple deserves this' type of comments in this thread that I'd like to address.

The patent system is probably flawed (IANAL), but companies do need to have a way to defend their innovations. Apple did re-invent the smart phone in 07, and has been the design leader since then.

Android has followed in their footsteps - witness the design shift from their pre-iphone roadmap which consisted of blackberry-look-alike designs.

Further, there have been no bold re-imaginings of the smartphone in Android-land (sorry, a better notification system doesn't really qualify). They are taking Apple's innovations and applying a different business model to achieve success.

Google and Apple are both amazing companies, but I have a hard time finding fault with Apple's decision to sue Google's partners. If the tables were turned, and Google came out with an Android phone first, I would support Google suing Apple for the same reasons.
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Compare the Tsars to what came after the Tsars and since the Tsars. :)
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I suspect the average karma preference has a negative effect on quality, as you've pointed out. There is incentive for the best commenters to only comment occasionally, when they'll get a lot of karma for it.

Digg kept piling on stuff like that, making some users more valuable than others according to the algorithms, and I think it hurt rather than helped. I'm not sure it hurts on HN, but it doesn't seem to solve the core problem, either.

I think it does come down to a social problem being tackled by technical solutions. It may be that the only way to make this problem go away is to empower moderators (of which HN has more than a few) to simply remove the most negative stuff before it has a chance to alter the tenor of a thread. Hostility breeds more hostility and it spirals ever upward, until the conversants are more frustrated than talkative.
Odd state? It certainly is... but it is only what... a year or two old now?

It seems to me that what is missing is a clear winner. Sure, competition from a number of different fronts is really great, but I think what made Java tick for a long time was JBoss and Spring. For Ruby, it is Rails. I'm sure Python has Django and others.

Clearly lots of people are working on it, but a powerhouse framework for NodeJS just hasn't surfaced quite yet. The OP's mention of security being bolted on as an afterthought really is something that makes me shudder. I can't imagine building a large scale public facing system without method level access control. I fear a whole new generation of injection type attacks against NodeJS frameworks.

While it is fun to play with all the shiny new NodeJS toys, I don't see why sticking with tried and true on the backend (take your pick of Python / Ruby / Java) is such a big deal. A lot of the cool features that are being touted in the NodeJS frameworks have been already done elsewhere for much longer.

For me, I've really successfully used NodeJS in one area where it really shines... scraping web pages... but that is simply because working with a jquery-like interface to the DOM, on the server side, is amazing.

In the end, it seems like if you're bootstrapping a company / product (like many of us here are) and trying to pick what to use for your base platform, the obvious choice is building features instead of building frameworks. This means you stick with the tried and true and hope that in the future, the shiny new toys mature a bit more before you go down that path.
The "owner" in this case is mostly some VC firms who almost always have liquidation preference over employees anyway.
Actually, prior documents released from Motorola and Apple show that Motorola wanted 2.25% of Apple's revenue for its patents[1] - on a $500 device, that's $1.50. Apple rejected those terms. Compare that to Apple's demand of $40/device from Samsung - it's not favorable.

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/04/what-motorola-wants-2...
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I've never heard of Railway before-- I'll definitely take a look because it actually looks pretty interesting.
opex, I think you mean.

I'm curious who they were using, who negotiated the deal, and what drugs they were on. I heard something like 1800 simultaneous users and $1000/seat/mo.
Is there any particular reason you believe Russia is unable to elect someone who doesn't steal from the country and is also not a borderline autocrat? I know the track record isn't great, but I'm curious if you reckon that's inherent.
how bad/new are you to coding? i'm not that great myself but really want to
improve my design skills. coding i think i could master overtime. design however seems like a constant uphill struggle.
If your ceiling is $3333, maybe you should stick to riding a bus. Do you realize how much it costs to run one car for a year? Gas, registration, insurance, oil changes, maintenance, it adds up pretty quickly.
I appreciate your observation that the emphasis on newness can discourage deep discourse.
Number 2) doesn't survive the barest comparison with history, as if it were true then there would never be political revolutions in oppressive cultures.
Very clean and simple. Nice. Signed up.
actually. please ignore my response.my reply was premature. your post didnt load correctly on my mobile app till now. i dont have the skills to help you. sorry.
While this is to the extreme, this level of detail on an annual or 5-year basis could be useful to identify the delta.
From what I understand Apple has been cracking down on this kind of use of the title field. They made a change a month or so ago that removed title names from keyword searches. It was a horrible failure and they reverted a week later, but don't be surprised if they do it again. More concretely, I have heard they are rejecting apps for this although I haven't experienced it myself.
Could try that, but Apple also said no keywords in your app name, and that they considered hangouts as a keyword.
Cultures and regimes are different, and this hits the nail on the head. The regime isn't oppressive by Russian standards. But by western standards, it is.
To draw an analogy, whether server-side/client-side JavaScript frameworks will become the next RoR is like guessing whether Facebook will ever be able to monetize the way people think it might. It seems like it should be possible, but it doesn't seem like there's an obvious way forward. </bad-analogy>

I love JavaScript (in the weird way everyone who "loves" JS, loves JS), but I'm skeptical the next big web framework will be written in it. I want to believe, but it just doesn't feel right yet. I hope it will and I can't wait for the "ah ha" that makes it feel right. But it doesn't yet.
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I'd love to have something like this for Ruby. Does anyone know a decent ruby [n]curses wrapper?
Seems like it's inherent to me, and I really can't describe why. It just seems that in terms of internal politics, Russia has always been very dark and bleak. :(
I guess you prefer having someone who does not get elected and steals for 24 years in a row better?
Interesting, so I guess if this is consistent, we'll start seeing less "long title app names" in the App Store as apps get updated and rejected.
Humanity is truly lost when a band named Pussy Riot can upset an entire government.
Here in the US, the mainstream media has been showing clips of the protests, including footage of Kasporov being arrested, but not identifying him. I had to do a double-take (I used to play chess a lot). I was 99.9% sure it was him. I hope he is treated humanely by the police.
Good luck man... Honestly.
In a literal sense, you are correct. But don't ignore the fact that there had to be a group of lawyers and execs in a room at the GooglePlex that gave this move a green light. This is why Google bought Motorola.
One thing to note:

Maybe you should explain the first element of an array having the same memory address as the actual array a little bit more, and relate it to why array indexing is 0-based too - the index is that many offsets from the beginning from the array.
> Let's be even more clear: there isn't a genuine equivalence between Apple suing Samsung and Samsung suing Apple.

Point me to where I said anything about this case other than "Apple, on the other hand, has been suing every Android manufacturer under the sun with the full intention of destroying Android.", which I think is nearly inarguable at this point.

> Even Google's lawyers told Samsung to change their designs.

While Google did tell Samsung to change their design, I have no reason to believe that it was their lawyers (and thus had any legal weight, which is what "Google's lawyers" implies).

> The false equivalence that you and many other people continually try to draw in this thread and every other one like it has poisoned the well.

While I'm glad you've studied your rhetorical devices, can you explain what false equivalence I'm drawing? If it's Samsung v. Apple and Apple v. Samsung, see above. I didn't say anything about these cases, particularly about Samsung suing Apple.

I'll also note your response didn't contain any evidence of Google being unwilling to end this (or of Apple being willing to, but I didn't ask for that).

> Nokia sues Apple over something? No big deal.

Didn't mention this, please don't put others opinions in my mouth.

> Apple sues Samsung over obvious copycat products? End of world.

Didn't specifically mention this case anywhere.

> Apple writes $10 bln check to Nokia without much fuss? Serves em right!

Didn't mention this, at all. Anywhere.

> Samsung might owe Apple a couple billion? End of world.

Didn't mention this.

Please don't paint me with the brush of others. I make the comments in the context of my opinions, not others.

> Google et al. made conscious decisions to copy Apple's products.

Then why hasn't Apple sued Google directly? It's their software, yet Apple only goes after manufacturers.

> In that case, Fuck Samsung and Googlerola -- they can write checks just like Apple did to Nokia. Hardly the end of the world.

Again, show me that Apple has approached Google about licensing it's patents, or is even open to it. They aren't looking for a check, they're looking for the eradication of the platform. I'm going to ignore Samsung -- I'm not talking about them here, only you are.
Apple doesn't need to support the bottom-feeders. If Samsung can't pay Apple, that means they're not making enough money on their phones.

Samsung and all Android phone makers are fighting a losing battle as long as they keep such low profit margins. It's the failure of the licensing of one common OS for all phones. Nothing distinguishes these phones enough to allow one company to raise above the rest.

Samsung and the other Android phone makers can't count on anyone's loyalty. The Android user is only interested in the freest phone, regardless who makes it. Today Samsung, tomorrow X (fill in the mark).

Why does Apple have to support that?
It is OK to have an in-context opinion, though. My opinion on this is to change as little as possible, and one thing at a time.

Let us not forget the object lesson from Digg's big redesign.
I see. While I agree with the intention, I find it a bit hard to get a grasp on scale and trends without any guidance.
> It's easy to apply an editor command across every open buffer, if you need to refactor for instance.

As as example:

Edit X/.* / ,s,loginAdmin,loginIdiAmin,g

I edit this text (in a guide file for the current directory) to suit my current need; highlight it by dragging while the left mouse button is down; and then middle-click anywhere on the highlight to run it. After I run it, every open buffer that was changed gets a dirty-bit marker, and I can either middle-click the word Putall (usually in the top row) to save all the files' changes, or Undo (in any buffer's tag) to undo all of the changes across all buffers.

Edit is a separate executable which Acme runs. It talks behind the scenes to all the control files Acme publishes for the files it edits, just like any program you could write yourself. So the editing features are not built into the Acme executable, and are independently changeable. This outsourcing of even core (to other editors) functionality inverts the emacs approach, which brings everything into a big global elisp space.

X/.* / says to address every open buffer, since .* matches any pattern. There should not usually be a space after the asterisk, but HN's formatdoc makes the following text italic and removes the asterisk if I don't put a space there. (In Inferno Acme this particular case appears to work anyway, probably because of the space after the filename in buffer tags.)

,-before-s says to edit the entire content of the buffer, not just a highlighted section.

s,loginAdmin,loginIdiAmin, is a tasteless replacement command in Edit's dialect of sam (and in ed, sed, vi, and vim). These commas could be replaced by any character, as long as that character is not in the set of characters to be replaced, or in the replacement set.

g-after-, says to replace every instance of loginAdmin, not just the first.
Motorola sued Apple first
What are you working on right now?
Geddy (http://geddyjs.org/) also looks promising. MVC, generators, etc - RoR-ish. Haven't done more than play around with it, but it seems fairly comfortable. That said, also young and light on docs right now (though they have a decent intro tutorial).
As a Russian, I think you're full of shit. It's not about the votes (officially, Putin got 46 million votes; Obama got 69 million). It's about the harassment, media manipulation, gutting of the judiciary, vote rigging, and now, terror.

In the long run, the terror may be something of a good thing: it may hasten Putin's demise. In the short run, he has squandered the last of the opportunities that the Soviet industrial and technological base had given him.

And it's not that he always was evil: until 2002, he legitimately did a good job of strengthening the state when it was weak and reeling from Chechnya. But then he never stopped.
That's interesting, and it's probably something I'll come to recognise as I spend more time here. However, from where I'm standing, it does seem as though the issue is that those ties are breaking as the community grows. I'm not totally sure adding a further layer of anonymity would strengthen discourse (though it could be an interesting experiment).
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> Complaining about the duality is like complaining that Dieter Rams' radio doesn't burst into fire whenever someone tries to play The Beatles on it.

Not strictly - Rams didn't DJ at the radio station, but Apple is in charge of both the hardware and the software.
Stalin was quite popular as well. What does popularity have to do with respecting basic human rights?

No, Putin isn't cartoonishly evil. In reality, he's actually quite nice when compared to the historical norm. Getting the shit beaten out of you or getting a few years in jail is actually kinda mild when you review the last 100 years in the motherland.

That's really not the point, anyway. Most of the negativity about Putin comes out from dissapointment. Most in the West actually thought Russia would change and would join the party.
good luck, Google...
And can I ask you something as a lover of irony: do you think he should shut up because he doesn't seem to value free-speech as much as you do?
Apple defined the landscape that all Android phones now inhabit.

Your view doesn't make sense to me. If you buy a nice car by working hard, should I be allowed to take it from you after you have had 'enough' time to drive it?
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Thanks for the reminder. I was thinking of this 1991 paper, which I ran into a long time ago:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.1...

They used a (linear) "neural network" with gradient descent training that implemented PCA (kind of an iterative graham-schmidt process), and got Gabor-like filters. I think a lot of people have done similar experiments, with varying results.
I don't know, why aren't people even aware of the Second Congo War, which with over 5 million dead is the most deadly war since WWII, and it happened in the last 15 years.

The problem is simply that Africa is just not of interest to Western eyes. Had those miners been gunned down in Belarus, it would have made the wider news.
I don't see much oddity. Express + socket.io is the current canonical setup, both are production-ready, deployed at hundreds of businesses. Derby, socketstream and such are just experiments right now.
try "scratching your own itch". sometimes you can find a problem that way and then you can try to determine if others are experiencing it too. alternatively you could try joining a startup. if you're not great at meeting people you should focus on those skills first. its really just a case of finding a common ground with others. if that still doesnt work, i've just started out on a story writing game with one other and if that interests you. get in touch.
We read that article too :)
Russia's population is a 1/3 of the US. Why would you use the # of votes as an absolute?
Pardon? NodeJS is almost four years old now.
great article that has come at a good time. i've just exited from an 8yr partnership because when we dived in we didnt think about what we were doing. and interestingly im at a similar age to what PG was after astrix so there is hope.
Do a search on Chiquita Banana and murder to get some truly horrific actions by companies in Latin America. I'm a little skeptical that the home offices are ignorant.
A Russian friend of mine reminds me that the things Putin does to show his manliness (like riding barechested through the woods and going on bear hunts) are just as ridiculous to Russians as they would be to us if our own politicians did the same.
It is 2 years.
What's funny is that D-Wave is actually taking the smart approach. They're not trying to build a general purpose quantum computer, they're trying to build an architecture to solve a particular class of problems using quantum computing, which is far more achievable and more likely to be immediately useful. So even at the start they were far less snake-oily than other outfits.
I mostly agree with what you said.

I very strongly disagree with the use of the phrase "equally unjust." It sounds like false equivalence (unless I misread your comment). The western world largely is better than Russia in matters of freedom of speech/expression. Your comment then segues into conspiracy?

Just to reiterate, I agree with the bulk of your comment, but I felt compelled to comment on your last paragraph.
Entrepreneurship for the entitlement generation. Everyone gets a star.

The lack of actual entrepreneurship news on the front page is a separate issue.
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A simple story writing game - the kind played at dinner parties or on a rainy day. creating an online version. scratching my own itch but know the "problem" exists for others.
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I agree with showing certain users in certain colors. I don't think karma is the right metric for it.

I'd like to see green for new users, maybe some specific color for throwaway accounts of someone with a real account, let people with special other colors reveal that color if they wish, and maybe good and bad colors for people who meet other requirements -- there are some people who probably deserve a "red flag" for 30+ days, but not hellbanning, and others who deserve the honorary purple.

The only karma related way I'd award purple is for submission points, or for being early upvoters on submissions in /new which are later upvoted by a lot of other people. Sheer accumulated comment karma is probably not a great metric, since someone who is on HN a lot, chooses to write "populist" comments, etc. is likely to accumulate a lot of karma without adding much value.
It's about the harassment, media manipulation, gutting of the judiciary, vote rigging, and now, terror.

I seriously couldn't tell: are you talking about Russia or the US here...?
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No, because what he said was a lie. And he knows it.