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I started my last business in SF, got acquired by a company in NYC, lived there for two years, and just moved back. I keep meaning to write a blog post about this.

NYC's tech scene wasn't bad, but it really doesn't hold a candle to what you'll find in SF.

Where SF really shines is how hospitable it is to people who are on the margins. There isn't such a wide gulf between "having a job" and "doing a startup." You'll find people all over the entrepreneurial spectrum, and it's so much easier to meet people for some reason. Having technical skills (in addition to whatever other skills you possess) makes you more respectable, not less, as it does in NYC. And everyone is so much chiller.
Even better if they avoided PayPal, for the number of reasons we all know (and because they can't afford an account suspension)

P.S. thanks, editing the comment
I agree with this as well by the way. But you can't throw in an "interesting notion" theoretical to solve this problem. What Apple and Android devices have is not only a developer ecosystem and a better application suite, along with good marketing. They have a dedicated userbase. They have both convinced users in their quality by staying on the edge of technology and strongly competing.

My argument is that these smartphones are 'bad' in the same way that IE is a 'bad' browser in the eyes of most users in comparison to Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. However, I can't just assume that IF IE had the apps and app developers as the Chrome and FF that everything would change. There's something to be said about context, reputation, and history.

However, I'll concede that calling thse smartphones 'bad' is ambiguous and seems to imply a false dichotomy. The point was that it is kind of ridiculous to point to products with a bad reputation for developers or users (regardless of the reality of their quality) as a shining example of how Samsung didn't have to copy Apple. I agree that they didn't, but those aren't good examples.
I'm so glad that this is the current top comment. Backbone apps are the most verbose and non-DRY apps in my experience. Tons of code duplication.
Nevertheless, the conclusion that you'll "never trust Lenovo again" is a classic bit of idiocy from people talking about laptops. To infer that current laptops are going to have problems because you god a bad batch of laptops several years ago, instead of looking at overall figures, just results in incessant brand-hopping, going from Dell to HP to Lenovo to Apple to Panasonic, swearing off more and more manufacturers and narrowing the set of options more and more without any reference to the possibility that individual products were poorly designed, or a supplier which they don't use any more used bad components sent by another supplier they don't use any more either. In particular, if you all got the same problem, from a set of laptops at one company, it's likely they came from the same batch, and had some temporary problem from one supplier. To simply discount their laptops in general is to ignore the fact that all laptops have failure rates. Granted, there's a reason the list stopped at Panasonic.
I have a love/hate relationship with software. First of all, the idea that it's not "transformative" is nuts. Fifty years ago, I would have been a jaded businessman or attorney or investment banker and probably hate my work. Instead, I'm learning how to use pure logic to solve hard, important problems and have a more fulfilling life, because I have a real shot at getting so good that I can earn a living (a) decently and (b) without making obscene sacrifies. I'm training a neural network how to play a game at 7:30 on a Friday night on a fucking train. That's cool.

The problem is that 90 percent of software is just bad. Really bad. Unusable code, horrific UIs, bad decisions that have calcified and cannot be reversed. So bad that much of our industry's total person-power is devoted to maintaining legacy messes and deciphering shitty code.
...which unfortunately doesn't cover a photon.
I think you meant quantum electrodynamics or quantum field theory.
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No, you can also make an Android phone. You just need to avoid infringing these specific patents either by removing functionality or implementing it in another way.

This lawsuit did not find that "Android" helplessly infringes Apple patents in all cases. Just that the combination of Android, Samsung's software modifications to Android, and Samsung hardware, together infringed several very specific Apple patents.
I will happily update it to redirect to http://www.drugpolicy.org/ for free. Alternatively, I will turn it into a parked page, and use the money to fund drug legalization campaigns, also for free.
she did make many decisions through out the trial as to what was admissible and not admissible , so she did effect the outcome.
Similarly, the latest model of Vaio Z has an ethernet port taller than the body, with a plastic cover that folds open to accept the full height of connector.
I don't give two fucks about TouchWiz specific-stuff (in fact, this might encourage Android OEMs to stick with stock Android), but what impact will this have on stock Android? It would really suck to have to depend on 3rd party ROMs for things like pinch to zoom and tap to zoom because Google was forced to remove it from Android.
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I just donated $50. And as much as I agree with the sentiments on this page about my country's lacking health care system (and have always voted with this in mind), I hope we can come together to focus on the problem at hand, which is raising money for a fellow dev in his time of greatest need.
I assume the Indiegogo account cannot be suspended as easily as Paypal, so I made the donation through Indiegogo despite the slightly higher service fee.

EDIT: Here's the link for the Indiegogo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/helios
Everyone should think twice before blatantly imitating the result of other people's investments and hard work.

Kind of sounds like what Apple does as well. I'm reminded of:

http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.ht...
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....are you reading the same HN I am?
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Patent examiners do NOT conduct a very thorough review. The attitude is that it is better to get the patent out (for which they get paid) and let the courts sort out the bad ones.

On this point I've been informed by patent lawyers that at trial something like 2/3 of patents will be found to be invalid. The problem is that nobody knows ahead of time which of those patents will be found to be invalid.
If you think your downvotes are due to an anti-apple bias, you might want to reword your banal dismissal into meaningful critique of the situation. If HN has a bias, it's towards Apple (which is completely understandable given the state of mobile adoption by startups).
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I competed alone in the Netflix Prize in college under the team name "Hi!". I've never seen anybody release their code, and I'm getting back into machine learning now, and realized that some folks might want to take a gander at a competitive machine learning codeset.

It's implemented mostly in Python, with Cython for the real speed-sensitive parts (everything in file "svd.pyx" did the heavy lifting, and got me up the leaderboard).

I hope that some folks will find this useful.
Did anyone keep registering their evolving javascript code for copyright? Is this a common practice? For images, logos, we can use waterprint as a cheaper alternative, how about javascript code?
This is a good result.

Samsung copies for a living like many companies. Much of the copying is legal. Sometimes they push it too far. One smoking gun in this case was the Google told Samsung to change their designs. They didn't. They reaped the benefits in terms of higher sales and now they can reap the bad side of that too.

On net it has still been profitable from Samsung. Samsung lost but it hasn't been shut down or anything. In fact Apple is paying Nokia much more then Samsung will end up paying Apple. People crying that the sky is falling have missed this reality.

No damages for the overbroad ipad design patent. This seems like a good result as much of the complaining seemed to be about the "rectangle patent" people thought Apple had. I think the EU Registered Design for the iPad is much more specific and more in line with what people think of as trade dress. Samsung didn't really make any money in the tablet arena anyway.
You could but who's to say that Apple can't find other patents in their portfolio to come after you with (or MSFT can't extract their Android licensing for you). Apple wants to destroy the Android ecosystem and they're going to take any legal measure possible.

With Windows Phone, you're protected from this through MSFT's cross-licensing deal with Apple - Apple even pointed to the Nokia WP phones as an example of being able to do something different.
Oh god, the comments are sad. Not HN's comments, the link's comments.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15520468#post15...
The benchmark for the modern web is what feels fastest in every day use. Chrome.
The USA is unusual in having juries used for a broader spectrum of cases than other countries.

I agree that this particular type of case should not be decided by jury.
* Germany: In 2005, Germany spent 10.7% of GDP on health care, or US$3,628 per capita. Germany has Europe's oldest universal health care insurance system, with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck's Social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883, Accident Insurance Bill of 1884, and Old Age and Disability Insurance Bill of 1889.

* US: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States spent more on health care per capita ($7,146), and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (15.2%), than any other nation in 2008. The United States had the fourth highest level of government health care spending per capita ($3,426).

Source:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_States
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Yeah, although the Samsung tablets did got banned in EU by a German court.
I haven't been following this closely, but if I understand correctly, the jury found against Samsung on the Nexus S. That is a Google phone built straight from Android and with no specific Samsung code at the UI level.

(Don't think a disclaimer is necessary in this case, but I used to work at Google. Not on Android.)
Banal dismissal? Excuse me? How else would you describe what Samsung did, if not as "imitation"? Their own product engineers recommended shamelessly copying Aplle's design to make Samsung phones look identical.
No. Apple's intention was to put as much of a gap between what the iPhone looks and feels like and what Android looks and feels like.

Whether that stifles competition is a separate issue.
An empty book, to me, is usually more valuable than a filled one. Once completed, most artwork is dead.
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It isn't like a health safety net even has to be all that expensive. A good mixed system looks after the poorest people and everyone else is encouraged (with tax penalties etc) to have private health insurance. In a wealthy country hardly anyone should be poor or unemployed anyway so the costs aren't that great. The US is a triumph of ideology over common sense.
I just bought 2. Does that make me double-foolish?
The best story on this breaking news item was posted by grellas (from Groklaw) after you posted your complaint.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4430341

I hope all the readers of HN who want one best story about the Apple versus Samsung verdict to read will prefer upvoting grellas's submission.
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The article doesn't indicate what the physical manifestation of negative-frequency wave would be. It only reports the observation of a positive-frequency wave that seems to require the transient existence of a negative-frequency intermediate.

This is similar to how particles like the Higgs boson are not directly detected in particle accelerators, but are inferred from the directly-observable particles that they produce. The difference is that physicists are (I think) pretty sure that the Higgs actually physically exists, if only for a short time, while the same is not clear for the negative-frequency intermediate wave described here.
So is this saying that a portion of the waves of energy are reflected back towards the source, that this energy has a negative frequency, and that it has an effect that has been elusive because it has little chance to interact with the positive frequency waves? I'm curious what some of the implications might be.
Of course doing something hard means there is a high chance of failure. At least these guys are trying to do something that could have massive upside both to the users and the company, and not just taking the lower risk approach and building yet another social widget or game.
I am more surprised that startups are using them as a web host.
First, at the start of the industrial revolution, people who had to leave their home in the country and come to the city to look for work, had to work very long hours for subsistence pay.

This has only changed with the rise of the labor movement, and a general shift in democratic societies towards a welfare state.

So for a huge positive technological revolution, societal change is needed.

In fact, i think that today we have the right technologies to solve many of the world's problems, just the wrong politics and societal order(globally). Just look at education,healthcare,global hunger, the subprime crisis. The biggest barriers there are political, legal and societal.

And yes, "Humans are a bottomless pit of wants". But that didn't helped the loyal employee - the horse. After the industrial revolution they were left unemployed and sadly went to the glue factory.
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Yet I am sure that this man would never ever be in a situation like this, had it happened in Germany. I know how it's like in EU - if an operation is life-saving they always do it first,then ask for the money, not the other way around, as it seems to be in the US.
Well if corporations are people and Apple is the biggest company ever (in terms of market capitalization), who are their peers?
It's kind of funny that at least in one arena the big players are accountable to average Joes and Josephines, even if those people disagree with me on certain patents' validity.
I walked out of the library today and was treated by the free books stand. I got Crime and Punishment, The Crucible, The Old Man and the Sea, and 4 others of equal caliber. And when I got home, I was reminded I'm out of shelf space. In mymind, that's a great reason to get a bookshelf. To my wife, not so much. Dead tree books have negative value to a growing percentage of the population.

BTW, for those buying, unless you're a reporter, I highly recommend the large size. If you look at the notebooks of great men, most tend to be closer to the larger size. Michelson is the one that sticks in my mind, since I walked past those notebooks every day for 7 years.
Apple stock is down. Microsoft stock is up. Guess who's the winner.
no....this is bad day copyists.
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Are you saying what Samsung obviously did is fair? Samsung has a LONG history of copying/producing (usually less expensive) products to muscle their way into sectors. Just ask Sony, Nortel, ATT, etc, etc.
Look I'm pissed cause Samsung's wasted everyone's time. A better approach would've been to just pay Apple. I mean com'on - those [Samsung] internal memos were pretty damning.
I'm also pissed at Apple. Because even if Samsung offered to pay (did they?) I doubt Apple would've come to terms. So they dragged everyone though this huge IP battle just to make a point. Bully for Apple.
I'm all for protecting one's inovations but our patent system is getting ridicules.
The core to big ideas are small questions. What you are really asking is," Hey Guys! What's the big idea?"

The answer is: You have to find, and more importantly, be passionate about those problems on your own. If you aren't passionate, your execution is doomed.
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Definitely. Send me a note. jon@beatlab.com
Have you used the 5 x 8.25 size with grid lines? I was a skeptic until then. Now I swear by them.
Don't get worked up, they will never pay this. This case will now spend years in appeals courts, damages will be reduced or thrown out, etc.

The only real loss here for Samsung is legal fees and the fear of an injunction on sales during the appeals process, but I don't think a Jury gets to decide that.
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There was a great comment on the Verge (lol it's true) the other day about just this by someone who had been in a similar jury:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/23/3260463/apple-samsung-jury...

I actually have some experience with this. I recently “second chaired” a very complex civil trial involving significant accounting issues. The presentation of evidence alone took 5 weeks. The verdict form was almost as complex as the one described here. We all expected the verdict form to come back a self-contradictory mess, but in fact the jury had no problem sorting through it all. The verdicts were perfectly consistent and logical, as were the damage awards. And unlike the Apple/Samsung jury, our jury mostly consisted of homemakers and people from working class backgrounds, so we couldn’t expect them to have comfort with the subject matter. My take on this was that the jurors understood they were deciding a dispute worth tens of millions of dollars and really wanted to reach the right result. So we might see the same thing in this case. On the other hand, my trial involved “real people” with names and faces, not faceless corporations like Apple and Samsung. It is possible that the jurors had a higher level of engagement under the circumstances.
Is that the same Travis Corcoran as in this article?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/21/massachusetts.blogge...

Because I think so ("The blog, called TJICistan, is no longer viewable online", same initials)

>In a blog post titled "1 down and 534 to go," 39-year-old Travis Corcoran allegedly wrote: "It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately."
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I'm confused. How can it be that Apple supposedly infringes _none_ of Samsung's patents?
So now that you found that your first link didn't show your point, you're digging up other links? Except the chart you pointed to is incomplete. You picked the "easy read" chart instead of, say, the more detailed one at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6104a9.htm .

Take for example chickenpox. The chart you linked to recommends 2 doses. However, http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/varicella/basic-immunity... says: "You do not need the chickenpox vaccine if you meet any of these criteria for evidence of immunity ... Birth in the United States before 1980." That's me!

Where did you get the 35% number for MMR? I can't find mention of it.

I found that "For the 2007--2008 season, influenza vaccination coverage among adults aged 50--64 years was 34%, and coverage among adults aged ≥65 years was 66%" and that "the goals for adult vaccination coverage with influenza and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines are 90% for each vaccine."

I hadn't realized that. 10 years ago it was only recommended for people in their 50s or older. I have never gotten influenza virus, as I followed the recommendation of a now outdated schedule.
So, even if lose their appeal, they give up a months profit and are still one of the leading smart phone manufacturers in the world. Still seems a far better outcome for Samsung than being RIM or Nokia.
And what iPhones were copied from?
The big loser here though might be America. Mobile hardware companies like ZTE or Huawei who are probably growing at the fastest pace right now are just going to deem the American market too risky to be made a priority and focus on Asian & European markets.
As the post says, with sufficiently slow servers it's impossible to maintain chronology plus monotonicity, and as it says, since chronology is really only important within a conversation, the best solution is to ensure each reply has an in-reply-to field (which tweets already have), then ensure that the original tweet is fetched before displaying the reply, and accept only approximately chronological ordering for "threads". But... that doesn't mean the UI has to change to look threaded, or that you should see an entire conversation if you're following the person who started it. That's a crazy leap. With such an algorithm it can still look exactly like Twitter and most people won't notice the difference.

As an alternative, by the way, since these posts are so short, you could simply include the entire thread with each reply! A few kilobytes won't kill any servers.

Also, one of the blog comments raises a good point: IRC has the same problem and it works fine.
That same sys-admin probably won the Crash And Compile drinking game at DEF CON. Don't listen to him.
The Apple Patent #7,812,826 seems to have been applied for in December 2006 and under US rules at the time the priority date could be 12 months earlier.

This makes it quite possible that TED 2006 would be too late to be prior art.
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Really?

I don't think any one seriously expects Samsung to not be able to sell phones because of this so there won't be a bump due to analysts expect apple to steal Samsung customers.

And AAPL US Equity has about 1 Billion shares outstanding so the reward, if it gets paid and it probably won't, will come out to a one time boost of $1 per share.

So if a $1 rise int he stock price is considered a nice boost then I guess AAPL's stock should have a nice boost on Monday.
This is my understanding of events:

Samsung had a contract with Qualcomm that said they wouldn't sue Qualcomm or, critically, any of its customers over use of the 3G patents. Apple bought chips from Qualcomm.

Samsung wanted ammunition to countersue Apple over its patent claims, so they rescinded the contract with Qualcomm. Apple then approached Samsung offering to pay a fair and reasonable amount for a license. Samsung thought they should pay much more. Apple disagreed and continued to use the chips, which was their sole violation as far as I can tell.

The Dutch ruling basically forced Samsung to accept fair and reasonable licensing fees from Apple, and the US court today said Samsung was infringing on many of Apple's design patents.

If I'm wrong, please correct where I'm wrong, but I don't understand how you are letting Samsung off the hook. Design patents are not necessarily common sense, just as hardware design is not necessarily "complex and intricate" to someone familiar with hardware design.

Patents don't need to be complex and intricate. They simply need to be non-obvious, useful, original, and not on the list of things that aren't patentable (music, literature, etc.).
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Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent was filed on December 29, 2006, and covers a multitouch display that a) detects two contacts; b) which perform a gesture; c) which affects an image; d) and then the contacts disconnect; e) after which a second set of contacts is detected; f) which perform another operation within a set period of time.

In other words, patent #7,812,826 only applies when you pinch to zoom and then pinch to zoom again within a predefined amount of time.