skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but Apple stock was up at the end of trading today and it's still up in after hours trading.

This kind of stuff is incredibly easy to look up.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/after-hours
Author here: a few people have raised this point. Perhaps I should have made a distinction between "federated within the same data center" and "federated across the internet." They are two entirely different problems.
The phrase is "by and large"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20and%20large
Android was on course to build something like BB until the iPhone released. They quickly changed gears (maybe even before the release if Jobs is to be believed) to follow Apple's lead. Samsung took it the next step.

I think the competition has been good for all involved, but revisionism fails to tell the real story.
Microsoft at least will offer a license and most manufacturers have taken it (including most Android partners). Motorola seems to be the main exception.
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I customized Bootstrap on my website. Thing is, no one knows I'm using it because of the customization. I suppose you only notice the people who don't customize it, and assume because of that, no one customizes it?
Actually, this mechanism has been there since at least Snow Leopard, if not before. See the screenshot of Exceptions.plist on page 4 of [0].

[0]http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/dl/How-the-Anti-Malw...
"violating monotonicity means you can’t assume you’ve seen everything once you’ve read to the top of your timeline."

if that turns out to be such a problem,

1.) you can simply assume that everything fresher than 5 minutes is subject to change, so you ignore it until it's at least 5 minutes old.

2.) whatever site or app you're using could simply mark unread messages, and inform you of out-of-order messages.
Big -1 to Moleskine. Such a brand and partnering with some tech whatever.
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I think that developers as we are, we could just offer our apps or services for IndieGoGo perks!
Also, I already see the Reddit cross-post, but I am sure everyone here can think to a still not touched community (even niche) or mailing-list.
AAPL is up 1.8% after hours
http://www.google.com/finance?q=aapl
I found the huge pen rather clunky, and the spiral bound notebooks really frustrating. Their software is also rather pitiful compared to Evernote.
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Apple will have no problem following them into European courts. I'm sure Asia is the same, assuming they feel they can get a fair shake there. Many of the types of patents they are suing for are international in nature.
It was clear from the documents in this case about the licensing offer from Apple to Samsung that Microsoft has licensed many patents form Apple although it seemed not to include everything.
Post it to Hacker News, idiot.
My earlier suggestion upthread explained in 4 words: more light, less heat.
Take it one step further. Install SublimeOnSaveBuild and have it compile every time you save a less or sass file.
Does Windows 8 belong on older PCs?
This would have been a great case for Jury Nullification and send a message about software patent laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Huh? When Twitter's down, no one can post, so immediacy is meaningless. This is like saying "my car's faster than yours after yours hits a tree."
It's not 'great lispers' it's 'programmers reading lisp tutorials'

If you can find one Lisp tutorial that mentions only Vim or even shows Vim and Emacs as competing setups I would be genuinely surprised.
I just donated via Paypal given the comments about the 9% vs Paypal fees. However it got me thinking from reading the indiegogo site:

"The cost just to book the OR for Ken's surgery is $50,000, and that doesn't include the surgery itself, nor any post-op medical expenses."

What is the total cost of expenses, or is that unknown? Knowing how much is needed would possibly help raise more funds.
Yeah, we need ubergeeks like Stallman deciding this case (I'm sure it's not necessary, but: </sarcasm>).

No tech-savvy geek is unbiased. We both know it. If I were sitting on that jury, I'd be one hell of a biased juror who'd shout myself hoarse trying to terrorize other jurors to agree with me. Believe me, you don't want me deciding your billion-dollar case.
The fact is that there is no lawsuit between Microsoft and Apple despite almost everybody else in the mobile industry suing everybody else[1]

[1] http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/53157-image/Web-...
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That is correct. The case is much more nuanced than suggested. This case was Samsung and Google by proxy vs Apple
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Wouldn't it be great to just program things without worrying about patenting what you've done or whether someone else has patented it?
Math is but a medium for modeling. Any model can have predictive power.

The challenge is in determining which surprising aspects of the model have faithful correspondence to the domain and which are nonessential artifacts of the modeling medium.
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It sounds like your problem is with the laws we have, not the judge.
You know those 45% of HN readers that use a Mac?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4422121

Time to start voting with your $$ against AAPL. They are part of the problem, not part of the innovation.
If you followed the case, I think you'll see that there are some things Samsung directly lifted from Apple. For example, there are some keyboard layouts that are pixel-per-pixel identical to Apple's. I don't know why you'd remove the default android keyboard (since it's better) and put the apple keyboard in there.

If I were part of the jury, I'd think I would come up with the same conclusion as well. What company goes out of its way to copy another company's look & feel?
Except that twitter does go down, so if you had a distributed car that was incapable of hitting a tree it would be an advantage.

The situ with email is that at any moment the system is up but individual nodes may be unreachable or delayed, conversely if twitter is up all nodes are reachable in constant time, but if it's down all nodes are unreachable.

In real systems these two properties are mean virtually the same thing, at any given point in time your party may or may not be reachable with a given latency.
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Conceptually this has to be right. It would be better for everyone if it was clear that with occasional exceptions you could assume granted patents were valid.

Unfortunately the examination process doesn't seem rigorous enough for this to be the case. This is where greater effort and strictness should be applied.
And how serious the lawyers are with jury selection. Each side does a lot of scrutiny to get a sense of biases and ability to grasp the subject.

It's easy to complain about the verdict, but taking pot-shots at the jury is so cheap.
This is the one I use
http://your.flowingdata.com/
You can send direct tweets so it's pretty handy to use from a phone
Patent exhaustion.

Qualcomm had a license to Samsung patents which is the component supplier that Apple was using.
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Probably should have been more explicit about the first statement - I agree that the profession can be transformative by the opportunities it creates for those involved. My first statement is meant to say that I think it is unlikely that an individual piece of software is going to be tansformative to the overall human condition in its application. Many will argue that Google, Facebook, etc. are counter examples - I agree with that to some extent in that there is probably some truth and some non-truth to that viewpoint depending on the perspective.
I think you are understating the role of a judge in these types of trials

They decide timing, what can be admitted, specific questions, and the questionnaire the jury filled out as part of their verdict.

The fact that it even reached the point of a jury trial (and a very quick trial, at that) was the decision of a judge
Does anyone know why Jeff Han's work was not emphasized more as prior art? (there was also more at the time, but I can't recall specifics now).

> If we had patents on desktop GUI user input standards like right click, ctrl key modifiers like ctrl-scroll to zoom, etc. then using computers would be a much bigger PITA.

This is the key right here. I don't think everyone fully understands what is happening around these UI patents in the rush to defend someone's "inventions" in the face of would-be-counterfeiters.

One of the most important aspects of patents is that they do not account for independent invention. Leave Apple out of your mind for a minute. Imagine your startup is developing a web or mobile app, and you come up with a nice way of presenting some kind of responsive UI that's well tailored to the data your app displays. It follows naturally from your data model, you end up with some really nice UX, and you get some internet buzz because it's a distinguishing feature of your app (see: pull to refresh, et al).

You will be liable if some company filed a patent for that idea 10 years ago, even if you've never heard of them or their product.

What's particularly insidious about these patents is that there's no real mechanism described here, like you'd have to provide for a mechanical device. Instead, you can get away with describing a "computing device" that "receives user input" and acts on it it in a fairly generic way, and suddenly you have a patent on not an invention, but a whole class of interaction or a generic human movement paired with a particular action on screen.

And you won't know you've infringed until you're sued!

Copyright and trademark have these well covered. They allow for independent invention and are much more specific to a particular expression of an idea. Regardless of copying and just deserts, regardless of the fact that this wasn't going to be settled in this case, no one here should be cheering the current standard for acceptable software patents.
Jury awards Apple $1bn in damages from Samsung
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Thanks - changed
You may be interested in https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv
I don't understand the mindset of companies in the eastern hemisphere. I feel like the majority of companies in china / korea thrive by copying other successful company products to survive. It's more blatant in china, but it still happens in korea / japan. I feel like there must be some underlying cultural thing that promotes this kind of behavior -- nobody feels like they're doing the wrong thing.
What Every Statistician Should Know About Computer Science (and Vice-Versa)
I think the argument for infringement is a lot easier to make to a non-sophisticated audience than it is to an audience who understand patents. A non-sophisticated audience can be won-over with pictures showing product similarities and the suggestion of - 'look, they copied!'

It is also high on the conscious of American consumers that Apple is an innovative company that is readily ripped off by foreign companies.

FWIW I think the patent system is a lot more complicated than what a lot of geeks would understand as well. It really should be decided by a panel of judges and/or experts who can evaluate the case on merits and justify each decision.
You might be asked if by Computer Science you mean what used to be known in some places as Computing Science, which also falls into Programming as in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming

See for example:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82988/choosing-betwe...

or, instead, you mean the generic Information Technology mumbo jumbo. No bias here ;-)
Yes, because without the vendor lock-in the price wouldn't be as unreasonably high as it is now.
Doesn't the phrase "patents required to build a smartphone address book" alone make you think that the patent system is broken?
Yeah, that would have been pretty interesting. I don't know that most of the people on that jury had a strong opinion on the problems with our software patent laws though.
The case also covers some extremely technical patents.
Of all the crap we throw money at, I see absolutely no reason not to help this man out. Donated.
Fair - but if you can get Google to pay for a bunch of engineers to build the standard library for you, I bet it would work better ;-)
How would you entice users to use this tool. Is it whitelabel for the company to then post on social media sites to be answered by job applicants.

I think an interesting aspect is something of a competition aspect as well . Gamnes or competion with others to show how you act under pressure. Psychological tests.

How do you incentivise users to do it ? when i email apple for example for a job I feel i m directly with apple, in this case there is a middle man? Whitelabelling could be a solution to prevent anyonomity.

I would only offer this type of offer maybe on jobs where they want a filter , and if you get X amount of points, you can then only submit your cv. I would see this tool as a bouncer in a club, not let everyone in so there is less work and then as the bouncer ( your tool ) to filter them out.

Think of pareto 80 20 . The majority of time wasters and dum b asses are in the 100 % group, you can easily knock out many at that stage through automisation, the other stuff is to resource rich in demand, so your wasting time. So this tool I d say is best a door man to reach the telephone interview stage.

eg Job Offer --) Do tests , if you get 80 % you get submission form --) submit application

thats where the money is and most help. I would forget the other stages. make sure you reduce it as much as possible for even the CV screening stage. You ll save so many man hours that even a 100 $ a month fee is worth nada

cool idea and greetings from Berlin
I think we really need a sarcasm html tag... honestly I have trouble determining which of these comments are serious.
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Eric Ries: “Entrepreneurs Should Build An Alternative to the Public Markets”
My t430s has both.
My apologies - conradev. My reason for posting was that people on this article are interested in app distribution. I have no experience in the Mac App Store, and was hoping to both learn something from the Mac discussion and piggyback off of anyone else's AppStore experience. Je m'excuse.
First, This is not a criticism of google.

Google , which is relatively generous, gave 2.1% of it's profits in 2010 to charities, which is $180 million.

So i wouldn't say google or larry page "devote" their life to doing good.

And i wouldn't say that there's a trend of ex entrepreneurs trying to help others. maybe donating here and there.
He needs to get himself admitted to a major academic medical center, possibly via the ED.
Okay, so that's 1 out of 4 million. ;)
According to the movie "Sicko", the doctors working in the Health Maintenance Organizations are being told: "You are not preventing care, you are preventing payment" as they are encouraged to deny as many requests as they can.
Believe it or not, even learning can become addictive. I know a lot of people that have an addiction to learning new technologies, but they never actually build anything. The pleasure of learning new things is what they crave. They learn something, then they go learn something else, then something else. Sometimes they get two or three degrees in unrelated fields. It gives them a false sense of productivity. In the end its like playing Starcraft. It does not lead to any output. Just firing of neurons within their brains.
These are old numbers... America is forecast to spend 17 or 18% of GDP on healthcare this year...
I'm not sure if that was decided. The jury decided the patents were exhausted because Apple's suppliers had already been licensed. (Qualcomm I think).

It is the general case that you can't demand two licenses for the same patent in the same product. If the 3G chip has a license then so does the phone it is built into.
Judge rules Samsung owes Apple roughly one 'Instagram' in damages.
I think you may have misunderstood. I wasn't agreeing with the OP. And I wouldn't be naïve to recognize that Groupon is in the business of selling. There are a lot of skeletons in the closet for MySpace as well (their cursor icons that you downloaded in the 90s would be labelled as spyware today since they snooped on users and sold the information). I am not discounting that, but if the OP is to say that our solution to our stagnation is to simply "make software more meaningful" and has an Amy Hoy quote to back up his claim, then I would have to respectfully disagree with some examples below:

From YC's recent batch, sure, we've got Makr.io and ReelSurfer that would be classified as "startup porn" by the OP, but you cannot discount Double, Dreamforge, Coco Controller are in the business of selling, addressing customer's pain points and actually being meaningful to its users. Customers are not naïve. His gross oversimplication of the startup industry by quoting Pinterest as dumbification of society is what bothers me.
probably hasn't sold enough to make the damages worthwhile
Phew! If I had read the comments here before the article I would have donated through IndieGoGo instead of PayPal.
> It is not the phones or OS that makes IOS outsell the other companies mentioned - It is the apps and the marketing.

So nobody buys an iPhone because of how responsive iOS is or how well the iPhone is designed? Give me a break.

Also, it's "iOS". IOS is the Cisco router OS.
Perhaps copyright is better used here, but it's still a fine distinction. Perhaps there were reasons beyond that shapes that required patent filing over copyright.

Apple is an easy company to hate due to their bullish & secretive nature, but Samsung has a history of copying other company's products to gain marketshare. We hate those thieves in china who copy other startups pixel for pixel, but it's okay when Samsung does it?

http://www.techinasia.com/chinese-net-user-steals-game-engin...
That's the method I've tended to use, and it's worked great for me. The problem with starting from bootstrap is that it's incredibly well designed for specific purposes, and there's a fear that changing anything is making it worst for the sake of difference. By starting with the interaction design, not only can you cut down on the elements used from Bootstrap, you can find uniqueness and utility without losing too much.
The more plausible reason Apple doesn't sue Microsoft is their lack of success in the space. Windows Phone has negligible marketshare and almost certainly loses money given the huge upfront costs of building an operating system and software ecosystem. It'd be hard for Apple to claim they lost a significant amount of revenue or sales from Windows Phone IP theft.
Different courts have come to different conclusions about the same companies. In the UK, Apple had to say Samsung didn't copy them. In other European countries, Samsung's products had to be changed to avoid a permanent ban. In Korea, Apple and Samsung managed to ban some of each others' products.

In other words, these lawsuits demonstrate international inconsistencies in patent laws, courts, and markets, and will only serve to fragment the international market and make developing a smartphone riskier and less predictable. Who loses? Consumers and smaller hardware and software companies.
I matched your donation! :) I hope he gets the surgery before it's too late. It didn't help that I was listening to a depressing song while I read the article.
Is it a poor web presence? You haven't made a case for that, the only thing that's been stated is that the visual style is inconsistent between major areas. Is that a bad thing?
Ok, I trust Hacker News and I am donating whatever I am capable of.
That's what I tried to say.

Regarding Ajax I just wanted to make clear that it's pointless to wait for the redirect... even if it's send back as response it would not cause anything like showing a different page afterwards.
My donations went to "DragonWing Software", I hope that's correct.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lisper. But according to Paul Graham, Macros are harder to write than ordinary Lisp functions, and it's considered to be bad style to use them when they're not necessary. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I don't care how strongly you disagree, ad homs like "dumb" and "ignorant" have no place on a civil discussion forum. Please stop being so inflammatory.
Which makes me wonder.. does anyone currently hold or has, at any point in the history of personal computers, held a patent for a double-click of the mouse to activate or execute programs? The double tap to zoom seems very analogous to that.
The danger is that people will over-use the public system. Governments can solve this by offering a really bad customer experience (Soviet architecture, putting an experienced nurse at the front desk rather than a cute 20-year-old girl, bad food, less choices, and so on). People often prefer private hospitals, even when public hospitals offer superior treatment. This takes the load off the public system, allowing it to serve the people who need it.
Anyone interested traveling even further down the rabbit hole I recommend Kuhn, Lakatos & Feyrabend.
It's a mess that's up to the discretion of each state. This page has information on how SSI and Medicaid interact: http://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/wi/medicaid.htm

In 32 states, being on SSI disability payment generally qualifies you for Medicaid without a further application, unless you also have additional income. States then vary in how much additional income, and in some you can still "buy in" to Medicaid even above the threshold, by paying some of the premium out of your additional income.

In other states the criteria for SSI disability and Medicaid are different, and may interact badly, with someone on SSI considered "not poor enough" for Medicaid. This is particularly likely in states with extremely low Medicaid thresholds where even someone at the poverty line wouldn't qualify. Here is a summary of the overall effect of all those variations: http://www.workworld.org/wwwebhelp/state_1619_b_threshold_am...

The upcoming PPACA Medicaid expansion may sort out some of it, for states that don't opt out, but we'll see.