skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a site I made to track the books I read. It's pretty much entirely optimized for my own usage, but I've taken the opposite approach. The main view is a table with sortable columns/searching. At least given the amount I read (> 100 books/year) anything less dense is not very useful.

I do have a "feed" type view that shows a subset of the books with pictures, but it's more for visualization rather than actually being able to find anything.
Profit is the only metric.

Profit is not the only metric. Market share is a valid metric to compare products (as long as you have a sustainable position).

If android was selling five times as many units as apple, but with only 15% the margin, then apple would still be the most profitable, but would be losing the mindshare war.

Eventually devs would be concentrating their efforts on android first, and perhaps only for android. In the long term, marketshare is the more important metric.
Seems clear that if this is a real problem, then there needs to be a system to siphon off those people so they aren't clogging up the ER for those concerns.
Yeah I might have to implement this myself since there's apparently no existing service =\
How many owners of iPhones and iPads feel "screwed"?
That won't enact single-payer healthcare or even increase the standard of healthcare by an epsilon. So your answer misses the point in addition to being unconstructively snarky.
It's not. And you're right, the spec isn't clear. On the other hand, the current behavior of pretending the bits are arranged in 32-bit two's-complement fashion for appropriate integer values when applying bitwise operators is really the only sensible interpretation (especially since a 64-bit float can represent all 32-bit ints).
Well, in a perfect world we'd have a single "place" to go that would aggregate content AND comments. That was the promise of clients like FeedDemon and RSS for Comments. However, Google Reader doesn't support comments and as such, that died.

I worry about things like Disqus as well as they are just another place to put our content. It looks like it's on our site but it's not. They WILL die one day and then what happens to the comments?

For now, I go where the discussion is but I'd prefer to own both.
It was interesting, until I got to the benchmarks part. It's just another little framework trying to beat Symfony on a 'hello world' app, and obviously didn't even bother configuring it properly.
In a public system, patients cannot order scans or tests; that is the doctor to judge. Also, ideally, a doctor isn't paid more if he orders more tests/does more work.

One thing people can and will do is not so much 'demanding second opinions', but 'revisiting the same doctor to get reassured'. The latter does not have to be that expensive, if the cultural norms are OK. There are countries with costly culture where a visit to a doctor must end with a prescription or treatment. In other countries, patients leave happily with the message "it does not look broken and it isn't infected; if the swelling does not go away in two weeks, come back"
Did Apple and Samsung just pull the greatest trick in the mobile universe?
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Several of those are, in fact, math. (In particular, computer simulation.) The others are mostly phsyical models, which I must admit, I had not thought of. So that yields two; mathematical models (that is to say, formal models) and physical models (that is to say, real-world models). (The line can perhaps be a bit blurry in the case of e.g. digital electronic circuits, but, well, I'm not claiming there's a sharp line.)

That leaves "mythology", which I'm not convinced is a proper modeling medium at all.
Its not about how much money you spend, but how you spend it.

USA has made the enourmous mistake of making of health a large business managed by private corporations that dont care about human life. Just money. Other countries see health as a right (luckily thats the case here in Argentina). So, most medics dont get super rich. They work for a salary, they dont get 30 or 50 grand for a surgery. But they still do their job, they work hard and they give their best (well, most of them). Because when you choose that kind of profession, its not for making lots of money, but to help people. Or at least, thats how it should be, and I'm absolutely sure that there are lots of medical doctors there that think this way, but they are just the little fishes inside a pool full with big sharks.

I feel sorry for you USA, because you lost it and you wont get it back. There are lots of interests against it.

There's not political will, there's not professional will (AMA anyone). Sometimes, from the outside it seems like there's not even a cultural or popular will. A few months ago I discussed this with an American friend and he was totally against universal health care. His argument was something like "why should my taxes pay for some random unemployed or most probably lazy man's health" "if he gets free health care he won't work as hard" "if i make more money why should he have the same benefits as me?" And my answer "because he's a human being too"didn't seem to help.

You said it yourself, 17/18 % of the biggest gdp in the world and still cant take care of all of your people. Think about it. Just imagine what you could do with that money in a different system.

Seeing this kind of things happening there I can only think about the USA, as a strange place. Home of great technological progress and sad social regress.

Dont take it personal.
Don't know the man, a little sad that we have to support the screwed up US medical system, but I've given money because I have it and he doesn't.
Falcon looks like a crossover between Rails and Zend. Yaf looks a little bit more zendish.
A different perspective: If the database is the bottleneck in your web application, you have a problem in your code. :-)
http://allthingsd.com/20120731/samsung-goes-public-with-excl...
If he has created the art in photoshop himself, then no copyright is infringed even if they do look very similar.

As for the name, this will only matter if the original name was trademarked. If not, he can call it whatever he wants.
It's not too difficult to trick a filter on any page. I assume you can append a garbage query string for the same effect.
Well actually Google didn't invent the omnibar nor computer based mapping.

Also there is a difference between copying a single feature like the omnibar and copying every single element of a product e.g. UI, hardware design, packaging, dock connector etc. Samsung was much more blatant about it. It's akin to the difference between stealing elements from a Louis Vuitton bag versus creating a complete knockoff.

I don't think the concept is hard to understand. And clearly the jury gets it as well.
I think Apple should just stick with innovation and pioneering great new products that made them insanely huge as a company. It would also serve them better than the lawsuits, there are always new markets to be created!
Freedos is a clone of the old DOS systems -- so much so that it runs the old dos programs you may have lying around.

And nobody seems to have a problem with that.

So why should this be an issue?
> It's not as if Samsung tried to confuse consumers by impersonating Apple products or anything.

Maybe you should research a bit about Samsung. They have a long history of trying to impersonate competitor products e.g. Sony, Sharp, Panasonic.
RSA is more clearly maths (which should be unpatentable) than a UI patent like the scroll bounce which is defined by an imperative if this then do that process and directly affects the world state (by causing light to be projected into it).

I think for software patents do more harm than good but it is incredibly hard and dangerous to try to carve out special rules to keep the few good ones (even if we could agree on which those are).
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How good does this work with other python modules?
Can i use this to compile _every_ python program to native executables?
I hope that's true, do you have a source? It would be a nice silver lining if this ruling resulted in manufacturers sticking closer to stock Android and moving to the latest versions more quickly.
if it's not copyright infringement, it's trade dress infringement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

either way, he's in the wrong. and the name is trademarked.
> The surprising thing is that the models generate predictions far beyond the domains they were designed for (and far beyond the original knowledge of the people making the models), and that the predictions are so mindbogglingly accurate that there seems to be Something Else going on.

Yes -- and I can't resist citing antimatter as a perfect example. Dirac's Equation had two symmetrical results (sort of like a quadratic), and Dirac wasn't sure about the physical meaning of one of them. After antimatter was detected, Dirac was asked why he didn't simply predict antimatter himself based on a literal interpretation of his equation's implications. He replied, "Pure cowardice."
Sure. If your world view is really narrow.

The issue with knockoffs is that they discourage medium to longer term investment in favour of a short term race to the bottom. Which is not 'better' for anyone.
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"No matter how much money someone spends, while I'm sane I will not (cannot?) be manipulated to stand next to a fake bus stop."

I'm sure this doesn't apply to you specifically (nor anyone in the HN crowd), but your statement really made me think of this article.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/video-man-pranks-times-s...

But to add some substance to this comment, let me add something. Be it marketing drivel or just the flurry of advertisements we see every day, we are being conditioned and manipulated. To a society where we need to buy to be happy, where you need Tide for clean clothes and McDonalds for happy children. Where brand names matter, and showing wealth is more important than fulfilling interests. Not to sound all hippy dippy, but I think it's naive to say that we aren't being manipulated.

I do want to also agree with your last point though. I'm amazed that in our current society that we have no "right to death". I too hope this changes by the time I start to turn.
At times like this I think it's a shame that HN doesn't support TeX formatting. It's much easier to follow a mathematical argument with proper notation.
On a greater scale this is the clash of 'Western', as in US/Europe, and East-Asian mindsets and culture. If you look into other areas like pharma, the same battles are being fought, with India and China essentially ignoring 'our' patent laws for their domestic markets (see their recent changes in laws).

China has forced manufacturers to build factories in China in order to be able to sell products there, regardless of industry. Siemens managed to build one Maglev train in Shanghai - all the others are being build the Chinese themselves, now that they have the tech. Airbus? Same thing, China is jumpstarting their aircraft business.

Big picture is that this KILLS true Western style innovation as there is no reward for being first. If you're a founder you should be scared of the copy machines in East-Asia. For now they only focus on their own markets, but once big enough they will come after you.

Look at what 800App is doing with salesforce.com - they copy the shit out of it, pixel by pixel, essentially destroying the Chinese market for SFDC. SFDC chose an interesting tactic, they invested in 800App:
http://salesforcerumors.com/2011/09/25/salesforce-com-invest...

Google can't come after Baidu. Facebook couldn't do much against vKontakte, their Russian 1:1 clone (the chuzpe is breathtaking).
Can this lead to big losses for Samsung in this financial year? What sort of ramifications can this have on the Balance Sheet of Samsung?
Probably due to the garbage SQL the framework generated for you, or the write-through cache it failed to provide.

Yes, it's true that a simple request router will probably not add a lot of overhead, whether it came from a framework or was something you rolled yourself (there's only so many ways to parse a URL). The real overhead comes from the other stuff the framework does, and chances are the heavy lifting will be in an ORM and a couple helper functions with badly written regular expressions.

Disclaimer: I haven't looked at the code for this framework, but that's pretty common among all of them.
Love each of the individual BellKor approaches (http://www2.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/ProgressPrize...) for finding recommendations in the space of movies or users-- an MDS embedding, a PCA whitening, an NMF factorization by alternating least squares. Each of those hunches seems like the true art in these problems. The blending 100 of them together is far less interesting to me, though.

Yet that seems to be the sort of jockeying and tweaking these problems (seen now in Kaggle contests) seem to require. Is there an art or science then to the subsequent blending? Does one develop a better intuition for the problem at that point, or am I entirely missing the point of most ensemble methods (predictiveness over parsimonious understanding)?
I think it's bullshit that Apple did this for money.
But those are examples of modeling math, with a superficial layer of physical material. Another way to say it is the degree that these are useful models, is the same degree to which they reflect mathematics. With the possible exception of mythology.
All this blog post is one person's misunderstanding of patent and copyright law. Jacques would have been better served trying to understand what trade dress means and why Apple's UI patents were about the implementation and not the idea.

After all the idea of "how to let the user know they have reached the top of the scroll view" can be implemented many ways. Apples is one way. LG, Samsung and HTC all have different ways.
I wonder who's going to be the first to patent the RSA algorithm. D-Wave Systems should really get going on patenting Shor's Algorithm, give itself a big advantage over any competing quantum computer manufacturers.
For the first time yesterday, I heard regular (non-techie) folks mentioning they didn't want to buy an iPhone because of Apple's behavior. People are starting to smell something's wrong with all this, and I think the lawsuits are nothing but bad PR for Apple.
I never said it was. I asked for how such an absurdity would occur (i.e an explanation).

Reductio ad absurdum tends to appeal to emotion (as in this case it has).
"Sending output on the screen from the controller is at times necessary"

No, it's not.
Apple didn't actually invent touch-based smartphones.

Google Maps was a huge leap over the competition of the time. I'm pretty sure it was the first to allow pan/zoom of the map by dragging, dynamically loading of tiles as needed with XMLHttpRequest. All websites up until then had pan/zoom buttons that would completely reload the website.
Phew. That's a little over-wrought.

Surely Apple has a responsibility to defend its patents and innovations?

We ("rabid Apple fan[s]") need a strong and successful Android to ensure some balance in this next generation of computing. We need a successful Android to keep Apple on their toes.

Google has figured out how to innovate with Android. Ice-cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean feature a unique and notable user interface.

Samsung, on the other hand, designed 'TouchWhiz' to imitate parts of the iOS look-and-feel in order to mislead customers.
Okay, and do you think having a glossy effect on your icons is important in any way? Is that the magical secret sauce key to selling millions of phones? And, even if it was, do you think it's a significant enough "innovation" to warrant any kind of protection? While we're at it, do you think that if I comb through every Apple product, application, and website, there isn't at least one minor element that a designer lifted from some pre-existing design found elsewhere? Be realistic.

Finally, a "clone" is different than minor design similarities. I specifically mentioned this in my post. Did Samsung copy every detail of the iPhone to make an indistinguishable product? No. They made an easily-distinguishable competitive product. I don't see how you can bring Chinese app clones into this discussion. Samsung's goal was never to confuse consumers.

Btw, Microsoft didn't come up with their own UI design from scratch. They were heavily influenced by Apple's original OS designs. For the past two decades, Jobs repeatedly accused Windows of being a copy. Look it up.
Don't forget RIM. Remember the Blackjack? Great phone, but a complete ripoff.
You know, you're missing the whole point here. Patenting a Human Computer Interaction 'pattern' is absurd no matter how you put it. Enough said.
Why? Because Apple already has all the money it will ever need. Think again.
One thing I have been taught to use is the "shit sandwich". Positive, negative, positive. The danger is your negative lesson being lost so this method does favour directness.

The advantage of finishing on a high is it often lets the conversation continue so that your subject can ask for clarification if they need it.
There was a financial relationship between Apple and Google for the use of Google maps. That shouldn't be forgotten.
I had a look though this and was confused by this line:

ratings[ratings<1.0] = 1.0

in

https://github.com/alexbw/Netflix-Prize/blob/master/src/pred...

Is it specific to NumPy? Or perhaps a Python trick I haven't seen before?
Essentially, the problem is with the government, not Apple. I don't dislike Apple for what they are doing; they are doing what any self-interested company would do.
I think this is an excellent occasion to relink PG's essay on Apple's behavior from 2009:

http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html

Maybe Apple thinks they can afford to play bull in the china chop of developer opinion right now but I'm sure I'm not the only developer that felt a little sick to his stomach firing up Xcode today. I plan to put iOS and Apple in my rear view mirror.
This exact point is something no one here on HN has realized. I'm living outside the US and this patent war means nothing to me (as of now). And when I was there, I was surprised to talk to my relatives and find out that before the iPhone all they had were crappy dumbphones. No Nokia S60 phones, no SonyEricsson P series UIQ phones, no nothing.

After this, I think many Android handset manufacturers might feel that the US market is too risky to enter. As it is, their mindset regarding a cellular phone is completely different as compared to others. They treat it as a service (which is why subsidized plans with criminal monthly rates exist) instead of decoupling the device from the subscription plans. Although in their defense it doesn't help that each of the carrier rolls with their own tech making cross-compatibility virtually impossible.
If Google had patented the omnibar, or something about Maps, then sure. Of course, Google didn't, or they'd be suing so fast your head would spin. Say what you will about the US patent system, it's the playing field we're on. I would be first to line up against the USPTO (and I'm named on several bullshit patents, some, yes, from my time at Apple), but until that day, we play by the rules or we pay out.
None of the companies are saints. However, the software patent idea is so absurd it makes my blood boil with anger.

But, of course, Apple has the rights (and responsibility) to defend it's patents no matter how baseless / crazy they are.
tl:dr; fill your comment with (often meaningless) things just to make the person you're giving the feedback feel better.

(I'm all for being polite and framing negative feedback positively, I try it myself, but ultimately it's all completely pointless. If someone can't take "I don't like that you did x, it should be why because z" without it starting with "I really love this and I love what you're trying to achieve ... but I guess you made that choice for a reason, so keep up the good work!" they might need to rethink creating things... someone shouldn't need to say they care and say they respect the person: if someone is giving you feedback then it's already clear they care... but then I guess that's the human brain, we're weird creatures that constantly need positive reinforcement)
How is that different than Jobs' "stealing" in any way?
I don't think that health care is a market. Sure, you can take your headache or buy a pill, but you cannot choose to have a life-saving procedure or not, less even compare prices (really).

Further, if you spread the risk of getting ill across a whole nation, paying for health insurance gets cheaper for each individual. You cannot have that with a health care market.

Anyways, your questions concerning sustainability are valid.

There's a catalog about how much health care providers get from insurance companies for each procedure. I don't know who sets up that catalog or how it is negotiated, though.

Recently, a (small) fee has been added which you have to pay once per quarter if you visit a doctor. Further, you have to pay a small amount (~$5) for each medication you buy (unless you need a lot of it). So, people don't visit the doctor and buy medication that easily (anymore).

People who have not paid into the system are only treated for acutely life-threatening symptoms (and even then have to pay for themselves). To pay into the system, you usually need to have a job, so it's not something that you can just do once you see you have a costly illness.
I've had many walls of books for many decades, and can only remember a couple incidents where anyone ever poked through them.

Now, I'm in the process of cutting them up, running them through a scanner, and throwing them in the recycling bin. I have apps for ipod and kindle that enable me to browse the books on my lan, and I enjoy poking through them that way from whereever I am in the house.

I'm looking forward to the day that I can store the entire thing on my ereader. So far, that would be 70Gb, but I expect it to rise by at least a factor of 10.
It´s very clear that it´s been a personal mission by Steve Jobs who felt it´s wrong.

I´m personally quite conflicted in this case:
Apple has a point that Samsung was copying them. Pure copying, not using elements of it and turning it into something new.

On the other side, the ways of protection with patents of tiny bits of it is silly and broken. They are trivial and regard the overall design and should not be allowed.

Famously the Mac itself is based upon the work of Xerox Parc. To the credit of Apple and Steve Jobs they put in a lot of work, made many concepts useable and re-developed the mouse to actually make a consumer product out of it.

For me the morale right or wrong is the following:

make it your own: While heavily using concepts existing prior, you´ll re-combine them into something way better than the thing you copy: That´s ok for me, it has creative value.

copy: You simply dumbly copy things line-by-line without even understanding the basic concepts of why something is great and throw it on the market at a lower prive: That´s wrong and ripping of the creative work of others.

Samsung to me falls quite clearly into the copy category. I doubt that they have a deep understanding of UX design and the subtleties what actually made the iPhone great and delighted the users.
Despite all the outrage around patents being bad, at the end of the day, what is clear is that Android products that did not set out themselves to copy everything Apple had did not find themselves in trouble.

Not yet. You're naive if you think Apple is done going after Android.
He pretty much didn't misunderstand anything about patents or copyright law in the post. And regardless, his overall point is correct: Apple is being a bully through abusing the flawed patent system for selfish, even short-sighted gain.
Exactly. Once that is gone the ability to amortize development costs over the course of a product cycle disappears. It's the tragedy of the commons.
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