skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have.

I have both an iPhone 4S and a Galaxy S3 and the 4S has been relegated to app testing duty because the S3 is a better phone in almost every respect. It doesn't have quite the same level of polish that the iPhone does but it more than makes up for it with a richer, more flexible feature set and a much bigger and more usable screen.

I don't think anybody that's spent any length of time actually using a recent Samsung Android phone can argue in good faith that it's nothing more than a copy. If Apple succeeds in keeping products like this off the market it will be to the consumer's detriment.
For Amazon AWS, I find Amazon's tool to be much more detailed: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
Native Apps vs. HTML5: The Smoking Gun
Pffffffft. The GSGIII is a cheap ripoff of the 4S? Wow. Is this a real comment?

I literally don't have words for people who still believe this utter lunacy. Hell the SGS3 isn't even cheaper.
How? By constantly downloading the entire database of every application to your local drive? Where it would not only take up space, but could be modified to allow anything in? The author says nothing about _what_ exactly is being sent to MS, all he can say for sure that a request is sent to that URL. And about it being turned on by default - as long as it can be turned off, this is _good_. The main problem with security features (like Windows Update for a long time) that are not turned on by default is that your regular Joe user will never turn those on, thus ending up with a terribly out of date, insecure system.
The Galaxy Nexus also isn't in the lawsuit. It only applies to phones no longer in the market (it takes awhile to get to trial), and the trade dress portion of the suit focuses on samsung's android skin, touchwiz, which isn't on the nexus.
>>>>Absence of previous proof of guilt is not proof of innocence.

>>Or in other words guilty unless proven innocent??

Would you not put words in my mouth, please? Here are the facts:

1) You can't prove innocence, you can only prove guilt. 100 tests that fail to prove guilt do not prove innocence. That does not make him guilty, that just means the burden of proof is still on the accusers.

2) They say they will bring forth evidence that proves guilt. Their case rests on 10+ witnesses and blood tests.

3) He's stopping the process, which prevents them from submitting the evidence.

4) His current behaviour is not consistent with his previous behaviour. He's never given up without a fight before.
Also houses infested with brown-recluse spiders, which are both terrifying and fascinating at the same time.

http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/spider-man/Content?oid=21878...
The reaction to any small UI update, anywhere, is pretty bad. People hate change (or more specifically, they hate having change forced upon them). The reaction to rolling back the changes after they've been out several months is usually equally bad.
Microsoft CDN looks down from here
Or is it just us (www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com and me)?
>>It doesn't mean so much to pass hundreds of tests if those tests were given at a time when the testers didn't know how to catch the thing you're accused of doing.

It doesn't mean so much to for testing agencies to collect those samples when they themselves know they cannot test them. And then certify them to be clean.
It's because as a programmer you barely do write anything by hand any more these days. I notice it myself, I'm now faster at typing than (hand)writing, and I wrote shitloads during my times at the uni.
Why COBOL is (almost) worth learning
Well, I'm afraid I wouldn't like it. It seems it continues the only thing that is annoying me in iOS input method - not writing what I actualy type. Sorry, too often I use words it doesn't know (maybe in english it's better, but in polish/russian/ukrainian it's quite a big problem). It would mean disaster when using this app, isn't it? Does it support other languages at all? How about cyryllic script? Does it allow to switch between languages easly? Does it replace standard input method everywhere in iOS?
You're concerned about privacy but you didn't even check what kind of data was being sent by the server before writing this article...
A few corrections ...

> an innovative and revolutionary product

an innovative step based on an existing long line of 20 years of mobile devices from many various different companies

> six months later

3 years & $100b in the bank later

> someone produced imitations

someone produced high quality competing products with innovations of their own that outclass your own in many respects

> you would be pissed

you would launch thermonuclear war based on abuse of patent system to attempt to destroy all competition in the market place

> Reason is simple: they would be free-riding on your hard work

Reason is simple: you refuse to compete on price, features, form factor or all kinds of other things consumers care about and are seeing dramatic gains in market share from your competitors who do offer these things
You're absolutely right. If only the server supports SSLv2 then there's not much an attacker can do.
Love that kind of real life/mind hacks !
There was also substantial, serious flooding in the area in the 90s. Probably will happen again eventually.
I have been lucky, not being punished for writing with my left hand. My mother was forced to write with her right hand. But even in the 1980s pupils in Germany were forced to write with the right (in both meanings) hand.

We now know a lot more, about what this does to a child's brain, but then, teachers just believed to be right.
re: your privacy concern - if that is the concern why did you mention the SSLv2 stuff at all? Although I really don't like smart-screen filter there are really only two ways this could work - Win8 downloads a big white/black list every night, or it checks each time an .exe is launched. I don't think it is particularly shocking that it does the latter.

Microsoft already gathers lots of information from customer experience improvement data and crash dumps and stuff like that, and goes to tremendous efforts to ensure that it is never traceable back to an individual. I don't know for sure but I'd be surprised if the same policies were not in play here also.
Tell me about it. Now my sister hates me, my uncles don't want to speak to me anymore, and my cousins play darts with my pictures...
http://www.theiacp.org/tabid/1007/Default.aspx?id=1665 appears to point to the same page, so the long URL might just be SEO.
NipTech Podcast 147 – Sans soucis
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Not related to their design, but Varnish (the HTTP accelerator) was initially created by VG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History
On the other hand, I've actually taken projects with unmerged pull requests, and pulled them into my own repo to use the new functionality/bug fixes. So they aren't necessarily just sitting there uselessly.
38% of us Would Rather Clean a Toilet Than Think of New Password [STUDY]
> I think there is no `uninstall` command included usually because most packages that are installed using `make install` are system libraries that other packages depend upon. And so just uninstalling that one package could result in a broken system. There may be some other historical reason, but that's my guess.

That's a good point, there is no dependency resolution at this low-level; and with that in mind, there's probably a good way to uninstall things by hand, if you really wanted to.. thanks for the thought.
Wouldn't the increased cycling of the batteries significantly decrease their lifespan?
Not with a 100% accuracy I must say. If you are a company developing products, you would have many different product and all of those products end up being signed using a single private key. So assuming that it only sends a company's public key for validation, it would still have to take a guess as to which product was downloaded.
KC is a reasonably culturally hip location as well. Decent music and arts scene. It's not San Francisco, but it beats the rest of Silicon Valley in that department.

And the Nelson-Atkins Museum is better than anything in the Bay Area, in my opinion.
Buy a good fountain pen, write slowly. Start by getting cheap pens, preferably those with interchangeable nibs to see which nib size you prefer using. When you know which size you like (for most people it will be medium) get a decent pen and nib and carry it with you.

I have a vintage Parker 51 and some oldish German pens. Modern Japanese pens are quite good though nibs can be narrow for Western taste.
Letter from Congress to SEC, pressuring enactment of JOBS Act rules [pdf]
I Kickstarted to begin working on The OpenPhoto Project [1]. I had quit my job already so even if it didn't get funded I was going to start the project.

We successfully raised about $25k [2] about 14 months ago. It took that long before we could get any additional money since the service we were offering (similar to what Automattic does with Wordpress, wasn't generating revenue yet).

I spoke with a handful of angels and seed stage investors. Never got much traction with them. Applied at the standard incubators and got a few interviews but no offers.

Oddly, what did stick was a fellowship we received from The Shuttleworth Foundation [3]. It's been an interesting journey at what started with traditional angel and VC funding to something more in line with our vision, a fellowship from a foundation that focuses on "open".

I've got ton of blog posts about the experience so far...

[1] http://theopenphotoproject.org

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-phot...

[3] http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/jaisen-mathai/
That's a follow-up that anyone can do and corroborate. You're more than welcome to, I'm sorry my article was lacking in that regard.

Edit: Just updated the article with information on that!
Seagate offers USD 90 million for the Solyndra plant in Fremont, CA
T-Mobile will introduce actually "unlimited" data plan (but not net-neutral)
Apple do the same for the iPhone/iPad/iPod.
L2 MITM SSL.
> checkinstall

Thats a half-decent idea, nice smart move, and it looks like the authors motivations weren't dissimilar to my starting point for this query.

I do wonder however if it isn't slightly over-killed, `make install` must generate a list of commands to run, or there should have been some way to stream the output of `make install` to a text file, that it might be undoable ?
The iPhone completely changed - revolutionized - the cellphone industry, and the iPad single-handedly revived an industry long thought dead. Do you deny it? Please give a serious answer.
Sounds like a case of entitlement. Why would you waste your time working on something and not know if it is wanted or not?

It's your fault for not planning ahead.
Apple and Samsung both get South Korea bans
I took this course last fall, not too much effort as college courses go and well worth the time. Anyone who is curious about machine learning should most definitely take it.
It's not worth getting worked up over a jerk on the internet. The comment you are replying to was indeed rude, but stick to disagreeing on the facts and leave it at that. I find that's the best way to get others to do the same.
The HN comments are of high qualities, but I feel the same could not be said about the voters.
Furthermore, the intent of Tor is the empowerment of dissidents under oppressive regimes.

I imagine there's little likelihood that this capability could have impeded the Arab Spring since Microsoft wouldn't have cooperated, but it seems like this would create a vulnerability for Microsoft doing business in China. If China decided they wanted to more actively monitor software intended to bypass firewalls and circumvent censorship policies, I wonder how effectively could Microsoft could resist.
I think even if your handwriting is crap a fountain pen just looks better, or at least more auspicious. Horrible for lefties of course, but very nice to use if you're right-handed.
Stow seems to have a flavor of Mac homebrew about it (more likely the other way around) everything is compiled and installed into `/Library/Cellar` and then symlinked into the system path, you can `brew unlink readline`, for example and it goes away, link it back and it's available to the system again.

The `brew` executable knows about the correct flags to give to `--configure` within it's own context, so it rarely goes wrong.
I use libpeas

bye
wow, I'm an ass, sorry. I honestly stopped the video at like 55 seconds.

Carry on
This logo just screams "compromise".
DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system
But if a user sees a post on someone else's feed, do they know if the timezone is adjusted or not?
I tried to provide a counter argument, and there are a couple of faults with his original argument. Thanks!
Anyone else tired of this?

I've used Apple products for 20 years. There's nothing that new in iDevices except the rubber-band thing. Who here thinks the the guy who came up with that really wants to stick it to Samsung? Android maybe, but c'mon.

What a waste.
I do not use Apple products for this reason.
In that situation I'd likely as not just backspace to the offending location and continue typing. Although I have been known to map caps+hjkl to the arrow keys.

(I'm assuming your situation is a typo while you're inserting a short string, rather than just defaulting to insert mode)
Ooh, ooh, I bet it was a January.
Oh! Sorry, my mistake.
No matter what the truth, I can sure as hell imagine anyone would get sick of literally being bled dry by bureaucrats and the media for well over a decade (not to mention, after losing a ball).

At the end of it all, at least we got what was possibly the best sentiment from a sports advert ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxnqHvEbGnc

"What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass 6 hours a day. What are you on?"

His own thoughts on the matter:

http://lancearmstrong.com/news-events/lance-armstongs-statem...

"Today I turn the page. I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances. I will commit myself to the work I began before ever winning a single Tour de France title: serving people and families affected by cancer, especially those in underserved communities. [...] We have a lot of work to do and I'm looking forward to an end to this pointless distraction. I have a responsibility to all those who have stepped forward to devote their time and energy to the cancer cause. I will not stop fighting for that mission. Going forward, I am going to devote myself to raising my five beautiful (and energetic) kids, fighting cancer, and attempting to be the fittest 40-year old on the planet."

Sounds like a damn better use of time than defending yourself against fiasco to me.
I can appreciate how much cleaner this is than the AWS calculator, although I agree, it lacks the detail.
Yes, a lot of people did.
> I disagree. 2.5 billion dollars is worth a lot of lives. Consider how many people you could save from, say, malnutrition with that money.

With that argument you could argue that any loss of money is unimportant, because it could have been used better. This amount has been invested for Mars exploration, so a mission failure would be a net loss.
Using relative dates is basically saying, "Our old stuff has no worth to you. Please never care about it."
My energy provider (SDGE in Southern California, USA) takes a fairly straightforward tiered approach to energy cost. First, they take your house arrangement (sqft, year built, etc.) and compare to similar homes. This establishes a baseline energy usage for your house profile.

Using 0-100% of your "allocation" is one price. It's about 2x the cost to use 101-149%. 150-199% is an even higher rate. Etc.

Doesn't solve peak usage or distribution issues, but it's a (relatively) easy concept to understand. The detailed statements pretty clearly explain how much each "allocated unit" of energy costs.
Me too, but possibly for other reasons (he's heard of blurbs, right?)
Definitely get the 501c3 info up as well. Some employers will match employee charitable donations. Mine does and I love to use it to "stick it to the man". I would be interested in giving and registering you as a charity eligible for donation matching. Donations can be money, time, software, etc... It can be a great way to "leverage up" your giving.
T-15 to sat launch. Studying Van Allen radiation belt
Without a table? Just from memory? I think I'd prefer decimal.
Realy nice text. Good luck.

How does that lulu.com? On their site I see they offer to publish for free, but how they do it so it's profitable?
How is the different from identi.ca? Isn't this pretty much what their premise is/was? (ignoring implementation differences)
I am floored that so many supposedly top-notch hackers would use GoDaddy. Iff the data are correct, this certainly colours my perception of YC-generation folk.
Looks like Apple's monopoly in Korea is coming to an end. Samsung will be thrilled.
There are still a few issues

[1] The application doesn't work well in landscape mode

[2] No feature to edit comments, this was existing as a feature in the previous app.
Germany and Europe

Hmm...
I have one data point to the contrary. This argument is invalid.
Or it might be a sign of prioritizing the allocation of decision-making energy.
Some constructive (hopefully) feedback: I had a hard time figuring out what Binpress actually does.

"Build software faster with mature code solutions that let you focus on the interesting and unique parts of your product" and "Binpress is a discovery service and marketplace for source-code components. We bridge the gap between open-source and commercial software, improving the process of software development."

That last statement is content-free fluff. If you would say, "Buy source code snippets and packages" or something, I'd get it immediately.

I'm also not sure you should call anything a "discovery service." Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks, "I need to find a discovery service today." Pintrest is a discovery service (so is HN) but they don't say that, they say "Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests."
Go look at devices before & after the iPhone was announced. If you still think it wasn't revolutionary, you're a moron.
You sir are genius for this line: "product quality for some notion of engineering perfectionism -- whatever it might be -- you're not doing your job as a professional engineer"
Why not export a struct with function pointers like everyone else? You should take a look at how VST plugins are implemented.

You load the dlo, call a function passing in your own struct of application functions and get back a struct of plugin functions. No weird naming conventions needed, easily version-able. Tried and true.
On a related note: Be wary of the dlclose() function, it may not necessarily free any resources[1] and not every libc implements it correctly[2].

1. http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/08/20/1
2. http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/08/23/20
a bit of all that:

* Chronicling the products that were created.

* Having a forum where there is discussion on the MVPs created, to validate it against real market and see if it can be developed into a product.

* A place where the MVP creators can try to find initial customers / beta testers.

Individual networking does not required any post event hand holding, but thats hardly enough to help the MVP to take shape into a full blown product.
LinkedIn app. It sucks. Rotation is clunky and slow.

Do you work on an HTML5 cross platform app everyday like FB engineers did? Guess what. That's when shit gets really tricky and hard.
You can disable smartscreen during install: http://www.winsupersite.com/content/content/142370/clean_13....
Korea Verdict: Samsung didn't copy Apple, Court bans sales
> So where do your very strong assertions about the folly of money-back guarantees come from?

What assertion was that? I never said what you claim. I invite you to locate me decrying "the folly of money-back guarantees", anywhere.

Try to read more carefully, before objecting to something no one said.

> your statements are testable, and if you test them, you will find them false.

Great -- you invent something I never said, then try to hold me responsible for it. Definitely science in action.
Ah the peril of general claims with no specific examples.
I've updated the article with information on what SmartScreen sends.
I didn't read that in his post. He seemed mostly to be troubled by how easily the process can be derailed by going off topic on getting lost in details.
Your objection is that there is little evidence in the present for an assertion about the future -- the "coming thing". Knock yourself out.
actually, with a human on board you have other, less complicated options. We've been using them for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_Jump_Jet
In Defense of Apple and Skeuomorphism in Software Design
This reminds me of the old guy in Ghost World who waits for the bus that doesn't run anymore, until it picks him up at the end of the film.
Odd - I haven't seen anywhere else what the "limited ban" constitutes or entails.

Are the no-longer-sold Samsung phones "banned" in any meaningful way, or just until they pay $22k?
Isn't being in closed beta a good solution to this paradox?
Louis Vuitton Men Bags 2011 Cheap For Sale
Ah, thanks! Updating article accordingly!
The Elements Of A Successful B2B Social Marketing Campaign [Infographic]
Thanks for the feedback, it is helpful. We are constantly trying different messaging on the homepage to see what works best and we still haven't found the magic words.

We can't say "buy source-code snippets" for a couple of reasons - first, we have a mix of free and commercial open-source, and second we do not publish "snippet" sized packages (see our publication guidelines). Our goal is to create an inventory of curated, professional solutions to common needs in software development, whether free or commercial (as long as we verify the publisher is committed to supporting it).

You are probably right about the 'discovery-service' part as a user, we don't use that messaging in our homepage anymore.
Unusual clouds
We'll see. I'm going to try the "here take" approach and see what happens. Methinks it'll work out great.
Promotion-Focused vs. Prevention Focused
I would consider moving to Kansas City and renting my own place just to get Google Fiber. Moving into someone else's house or something without rent would be awesome.

Too bad I am not really young anymore.. I' 34, which I guess is probably considered way over the hill.

This may be a dumb question, but is there anywhere else in the US where you can buy a broadband service with similar capabilities?
Be open to shit.
I think we all agree the actual counterfeiting is wrong, no? You can't produce a fake of someone's product. How about if you create as close to a duplicate as possible, but don't actually pretend it's the original? Is that OK?

Samsung haven't done that either, but they've created (some) products that look extremely similar to Apple products, in similar packaging, even going so far as to putApple icons and the icons of Apps exclusive to the iPhone in their marketing materials. Some of Samsung's Apple copying has been hilariously comical in it's ineptness.

If there is a line it's possible to cross, then I think in some products Samsung have crossed it. Not every product, not even all the ones Apple is citing, but some of them. To me this is nothing to do with patents, I and against software patents, it's about trade dress and brand confusion. I wish Apple had more narrowly focused their objections on those specific issues.