skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seating chart - the future of selling tickets online?
Cause Android is the rest of the industry?
What would you do if you were the first man to step on the moon?

What would be your first reaction? Your first five minutes?

Everybody would react different, no matter how much training you have.

I would have looked around in awe, frozen, thinking what the hell am I doing here? Admiring the desolation, comparing that image with the moon of cheese from childhood memories. Nobody would have taken that moment from me. The moon, the soil I just stepped on. The vastness. I'd take a look at the sky and reach for the stars, then the earth. Contemplating. Fuck nasa, I'd say. Just admiring such a wonderful view. My heart beating a million times, in slow motion.

That would be me.
I've taken a look at target process before when I was evaluating pm software.

I don't think this splash page works. It feels too much like a powerpoint deck with all that text on the second "screen" that I just skipped over.

I didn't even notice the blue dots were clickable on the third section and frankly, the image is so small and hard to read/understand, that even after clicking on each dot I felt overwhelmed. Just clicking on all those dots is tedious.

Just give me the highlights. The best features up close and personal. Leave the rest to a more section without screenshots.
The only stock Google phone that was on the list was Nexus S 4G, the Sprint variant. All other variants have been upgraded to Android >4.0 which removes the infringing features.
Sadly, I think a consumer of cat pictures with the way our education (people not focusing on math and science) is going
Whatever you like doing, do it
There is what looks like bounce back at around 0:36 onwards in this video review:

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-nexus-s-at/4505-...

It's some sort of app list screen though and happens between what looks like screens of icons, so I'm not sure if it counts. For lists it looks like an orange glow effect, possibly with some small bounce, but that may be an optical illusion.

This might be enough to confuse a jury? I haven't checked the patent to see if it actually infringes or not.
What does "Google Drive revision control" mean in this case?
IPO price != real value

Say a share of FB was valued at $80 now, would that because Zuck did amazing things for the company over the last 3 months? No, it would be because the share price was undervalued at IPO.

In reality, the share was overpriced at IPO. We've now only begun to see the real value of a share of Facebook stock. Now it's time to boost the real value.
Slightly OT but I just wanted to point out that this stands in strong contrast to the "Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.." post and that's great.
Other than that: congrats OP!
Good point and this proves that such complex civil cases should not be decided by juries!

A patent case is not about moral questions and narratives, it's about technical, legal as well as economic questions. (I would perhaps even argue that intellectual property laws are ultimately entirely about economics.)
Ah, yes, the mouseover text on that is brilliant, and apt:

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

Personally, I'm optimistic that there'll be boots on the moon sometime around 2020 (although I suspect they won't have NASA logos on them). Looks like there will be 2-6 moonwalkers left to see that, with a 90% confidence interval...
Yachting is a fascinating sport: it's extremely technical as well as exhilarating and team-building. I've had the pleasure of being in the tech area during some races where the GPS equipment is managed, stressful stuff! If you're near a body of water and have some time to take some sailing lessons before the cup next year, I guarantee you'll get hooked on many levels (it's also great exercise).
Is that actually the entirety of the patent? If so, that is a major-league joke.

You mean a client communicates with a server with information, then returns some information? How delightfully ingenious!
I really can't get behind the premise of the article, there are too many parts that simply do not connect.

> "Allowing entrepreneurs — and their investors — to save face by saying they were “acquired” instead of failing is nice, but it’s a bit like the pre-schools where everyone wins a trophy for showing up."

The notion that acquihires are failures is purely a moral one - last I checked pre-school trophies aren't worth several houses. I am fairly certain that acquihires who just took home $1-2M in comp will survive your browbeating about not swinging for the fences.

> "Not enough people moving to the Valley or coming out of school want to work at companies other people are starting, because it’s so easy to start their own."

No, no it isn't. We are now at the point where SF/SV companies are offering $100K to fresh undergrads. For all that the industry has done to lower the barrier to entry for entrepreneurship, it is anything but trivial. A fresh grad shouldering a moderately scary debt load is not going to trivially choose to found a startup over taking a highly-paid position and paring down the debt.

How easy does the author think it is to live in SF/SV, work on a startup full-time, fresh out of college, loan payments due, with no income stream? Does she think everyone's a trust fund baby that can afford the $2K SF apartment and just spend all day drinking Blue Bottle while twirling their startup ideas in their heads, right out of school?
I don't own the copyright to that code, but the springy and jsplumb part was really just a few lines of code.
I haven't used Widows 8 for any significant amount of time, but I can't help feeling that this is just a repeat of the Gnome3 debacle that went on in the linux side of computers. With the benefit of hindsight, the Gnome3 predictions seemed way overly appocolyptic, and it now seems like an interface that would be easier to learn for someone with 0 computer experience.

Having said that, it looks like both Gnome3 and Windows 8 were designed with ease of use as a higher priority than workflow efficiency, but with that argument, we should move back to the command line.

BTY, as someone who uses the compute 8+ hours a day, I use the Awesome WM with a-lot of command line apps.
Costumers are people in charge of costumes, right? I can't imagine Apple would have that many.
That's definitely worth reading for the adverts, and for the dramatic irony of the leader about Nixon withdrawing support for the war in Vietnam.
Here's the design which would truly reflect the vision and dynamism of the company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/01/05/surveillan...
It works better in Win 7 than Vista, but still not as good as OSX or Unity. The Windows 8 version looks nice, but I don't know yet how good the final version is. If it works well it will probably make people like the new full screen start menu a lot more.
Sure, because the only reason to do anything is money. <sarcasm/>
I've found recruiters often use Domain Tools to look up historically available WHOIS information. I'm not sure if it's legal for Domain Tools to cache that stuff if it's been removed by the owner.
When at Yahoo, I had multiple flame wars with the exec in charge of the Blackberries decision. I was told in no uncertain terms how it was the only option due to security/other concerns and this person just didn't care much about the loss in productivity. Happy to see Marissa sorted that out in her first month.
Her ethics statement should give you a clear understanding of why she is not a neutral observer.
ServiceStack is used to handle all of StackOverflow Careers 2.0 BackOffice Web + MQ services, making use of all its components e.g: Redis Client, OrmLite, ServiceStack's JSON, etc). I've personally led dev teams that have put ServiceStack in production enhancing existing internal CRM / SharePoint systems (where WCF wasn't able to run) for Man Investments and EON.

I personally know many other IT consultants (professionally) that continue to deploy instances of it for their clients. We've collected a number of testimonials that we'll publish after we re-design our website.

There have been over 100,000 total downloads in this past year alone, and I've had a number of chance run-ins with dev teams using it (even in my home town!), which I write a bit about it here:

http://www.servicestack.net/100k-downloads/#feedback

The above page also provides links where you can see the feedback we've received on Twitter and in the mailing list.

ServiceStack was created 4 years ago as an OSS-run project, to use as an alternative to WCF - and we've been using ever since for all web service development. It's currently led by the core team who have received contributions from over 90 external contributors and is in the top 10 most popular OSS .NET projects on GitHub: https://github.com/languages/C%23/most_watched

Later this year we plan to offer a 'Long Term Supported' release that we'll provide commercial support options on.
It takes an active imagination to see sailing as a spectator sport

Don't let that stop you from writing 5000 words about it. This reeks of "pick someone to hate, find a reason to hate them, write it up".
There is a perception that acquihires are pushed through with pulled favors from venture capitalists looking to get out easy, rather than successful exits earned in the traditional manner. I, myself, wonder if these types of exits are possible for bootstrapped startups like they are for VC funded companies. It'd be neat to see a list of both.

On the plus side, I do think it takes a lot of time, energy, and luck to put together a highly functioning team and that has value -- maybe that's being overvalued too though...
My personal record is 9059!
This Apple expert purports to rebut the SmartSkin as prior art: it notes the "touch-sensitive display" thing plus claims that SmartSkin might not use an "event object" or "scroll or gesture call" to achieve the effect. Make of thy what you will...

http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califor...
Can we get it free then pay you back double once the advice starts to work? Call it an investment...
Please write more about how you actually fulfill orders. How do you print, send to printer, is part of the process manual, break down cost etc.

Great idea, love it. :)
Unlike your suggested "few days" - It took me two years to finally make the migration to the ribbon UI concept, but now that I have - it's hard to believe that I ever used the "menu" UI. For those who love keyboard shortcuts, there is still a keyboard shortcut (discoverable) for all those ribbon options.

In many ways, though - you are right. The transition to the Windows 8/Metro environment is a lot like the transition to the ribbon toolbar. Something that is despised by pretty much everyone at the start. The question that remains is whether people (who make the transition) will love Windows 8 as much as they love the ribbon toolbar.
Do you mind pointing out what radical first step Windows 8 is taking. The metro interface stikes me as an adaptation of smart phone interfaces, and the desktop is a minor change to the old desktop system.
I would think you would want someone who actually understands the patent system and the patent process on the jury of a landmark patent trial.
Kind of like how it took months before I stopped cringing every time I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete just to log in.
I'm trying to get our QC Lab to start using Trello. They get anywhere from 10 to 50 chemicals per day that they need to sample, test, and release. And 3 different departments send them these samples, some on schedule, some as need be. I've thought of putting put a big screen with their Trello todos and showing everyone in the company how they're backlogged or performing on schedule. Anyone have experience with a public read-only Trello board in their offices? What has the reaction been?
Sooner or later, parents are going to start making a lot of noise about the waste of their childrens' lives, and the media are going to start campaigning for the government to Do Something (tm). Legislation is a terribly blunt instrument. Apple might find it very much worth their while to take action before governments take it for them.
I can tell you from experience, I've turned down several acquihires in the last few months from giant companies, with no VC raised. It can happen if you're bootstrapped.
Phishing attack targets users with fake BlackBerry ID email
Maybe postcards get through the process faster than letters? They should be easier to check.
Let's first agree that none of us knows.

What if he did NOT profit? What if he lost millions of his own personal net worth? Would you consider him the opposite of a bastard?

There are very few instances where a company takes a complete header like this and the CEO gets paid handsomely. And how can you compare being in $40 million of cash debt and putting the company to ABC against selling a company in an acquisition?
"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow."

-Neil Armstrong

http://www.eetimes.com/General/PrintView/4039730
To be fair, starting a company in your parents basement, relying on free food and expenses is a lot cheaper than moving to the valley, so don't neglect that path. A lot of startups look just like that.
This really is an amazing interview. Def. would recommend sitting down and enjoy all four parts; fascinating, honest and inspirational.
The argument is that they didn't make their best effort, because they couldn't have possibly done so in only 3 days.
Not sure what was snarky about it, other than the fact that he pointed out that you were incorrect.. He didn't say it rudely at all?
That's the worst MBA vs Real life thinking ever. I hope the actual investors aren't nearsighted enough to think that kicking Zuck out will make facebook's stock value improve. As much as everyone loves to hate on facebook, it's not going anywhere without him.
The sailing in the Olympics used much of the technology mentioned, including painting virtual lines on the water. The article feels overwrought, but the racing will be amazing. The new big Team NZ yacht is just near me here in Auckland, and feels like a tethered wild beast ready to be unleashed. Watch out for the rise of fixed wing sails, possibly transforming the yachting industry.
No, but they should follow the GNU/Linux model of desktop UIs: have them be a seperate program and allow the user to choose which one (s)he wants to log into, and allow the user to install one from a third party, as apposed to having it be an irreplacable part of the OS.

I believe (weakly) that OS X treats window managers the same way Linux does.
You need to call. Recruiters are verbal. Reading? Not so much.
And whatever you do, don't hold the power button down for [random amount of time][1] just because Scott said it was safe to start using it for a regular shutdown again!

[1] where random amount of time is best-guess 'more than 5 seconds', but depends on hardware implementation and varies widely in practice
I hear you. It irks me to no end when IAP is used as a quarter gobbling mechanism of the twenty first century.
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Also, I thought the design of the home screen (a grid of icons with labels) also had something to do with it? Both of the linked phones have a grid very much like the iPhone.
Ask HN: What's the purpose of investors and the stock market?
What with Marissa Meyer getting Yahoo's CEO post, and FB's stock dropping like a stone, I've been seeing plenty of half-formed blog posts about the troubled relationships between tech companies and investors. As a person who's new to tech, it's hard to figure out what you guys traditionally think about "the markets."

So HN, what do you think the purpose of investors actually is?
Same thing happening here. There are so far a total of 12 Windows 7 installs in the building I work in (not counting the test machines), 18 across the entire campus, and less than 400 world-wide... out of over 100,000 employees.
The Mare Tranquillitatis is easy to spot, even with the naked eye. The landing was at the bottom left of it, from our point of view. I've been looking at it for a while now - we've got a beautiful view of it here in Belgium.
I'm sorry but how is it sexist?

I would agree that it is a poor article with little reasoning behind it, but I have no idea what sex the author is nor do I think it is sexist.

If anything it seemed like the author was discrediting her because her strategy included locking out developer. I'll meet you half way on the Miami sentence on agreeing that it was tacky. However, I think you are taking it out of context. It is apparent that the author doesn't like her, but no where does the article mention that she is not qualified because she is woman or anything remotely to that effect.

Please enlighten me. Did I miss a whole paragraph somewhere?
The great part about consumer is that they can say things like that all they want, but when the newest, coolest gadget rolls off the assembly line, they're buying one. Consumers don't know what they want, they have to be told what they want.
We're talking about Samsung's hapless consumer product design, not their ability to manufacture LCD screens.

Furthermore, Samsung had every opportunity to stop this trial from getting as far as it did. They obviously didn't give a damn about the potential repercussions for other Android manufacturers or Android users.
I don't understand why everybody keeps saying that a win for Apple is a blow for innovation. Samsung didn't innovate. They flat-out copied. Seems to me that allowing blatant copying like this is what will suppress innovation, because why bother spending 5 years and a lot of effort/money designing something awesome if someone else can come along and clone your product in 3 months?
Yes, affordance...

Any interface has to take into account a variety of "cognative styles". Some people, when they don't know what to do, start exploring and discover what to do. But people just freeze and do nothing until they discover the right thing. If you making a mass-market UI, you have to take both styles into account, especially when you are talking about entry-points and exit-points.
I'll have to apologize if I came off as sexist. I'm not even completely anti-Sandberg. I had hoped this bit would cover that:

At Google she had excelled at selling online advertisements and growing Google into a cash gushing behemoth.

Any sniping I do at her in the rest of the piece, if you could call it that, couldn't offset praise as high as this.

The point of the article is not that Sandberg herself screwed up. I'd say she's responsible for almost every dollar of revenue Facebook has earned. The point of the article was that Zuckerberg and Facebook screwed up by hiring her, and the should rectify it by firing her and apologizing with a big severance package.
Driving traffic to a heavily partisan website and suggesting that people should not write postcards but rather route their messages through this heavily partisan organization to be discarded electronically if the Heritage Foundation does not see fit to censor them - this is not a helpful reply at all.
I can four-finger swipe, or move to my hot corner (or, more typically, F4) - what two finger swipe gets you dashboard?

(Note - I use Dashboard a dozens of times a day for one function - I have eleven international clocks running to help me keep track of what time it is when I'm IMing or SMSing one of my international colleagues.)
You realize you are making the OP's point?

He alluded to HN posters who make broad IP statements without the experience or training to back them up. I'm not arguing the other side -- I was just trying to point out that the issue may be more complex than you assume. Take of that what you want.
> passing down the possible $20-per-handset fee [to consumers]

Let's be real. This is a drop in the bucket. $20 on a phone is not going to make or break the deal when they cost hundreds to buy outright. Most of the costs are absorbed by contracts and carriers will mostly eat the additional costs. Consumers don't lose because of this deal. Overall, we are talking about 1% of the cost of a phone over a 2-3 year contract -- pennies. Besides, passing on the costs is exactly what should happen. If consumers want the goods, let them pay for them. You don't need an iPhone. If you can't afford the $20 difference between the iPhone and the other brand, then buy the iPhone -- or choose the feature phone and get it for free! I say let Apple be rewarded by having their phones cost $20 less. It's a small victory for having revolutionized the mobile phone industry and given consumers a dramatically better experience with mobile technology in general. There is one sure winner in this and it's the consumer -- no doubt. Look at what they have in stores now!

The real losers in this verdict, if there are any, are the companies that just want to copy another company's innovations without the expense of research and development. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any measure. I have a macbook pro, but shifted to another maker for subsequent laptops and haven't got another apple product, but I still applaud Apple for taking this to court. For proving the value of research and development to the world. For insuring investments in technology and progress will be justly rewarded and for showing those who would rather let everyone else take those risks that their behavior won't stand in a just court of law. You have all been warned.

If you want to profit from a better world -- go create it! Innovate and design a better planet. Don't wait for someone else to do it. Get creative. That's exactly what Apple did and I'm glad they are being rewarded for that.

We need to reward more of that.
If we're going to complain about "obvious" innovations, an LCD screen, but with higher resolution, surely qualifies.
I had a very similar experience with Gnome3. After months of complaining about how they completely ruined the UI and all the other flames (enough to motivate me to switch to a tiling window manager), I logged into it to see what was going on, and it looked really cool, and seemed more productive than the old Gnome2.

I suspect I would have had a simmilar experience with Windows 8 if not for its horrid use of green, but that was an early developers preview, and I will be shocked if they haven't improved the cosmetics for the general release.
- There are certainly high rises in downtown SF that comfortably fit 8000+ people.

- Tech company employees live in the south bay mostly because that's where the tech companies are, not the other way around.

- Reaching SF from the east bay is much easier than reaching Mountain View/Palo Alto from the east bay; in general SF seems like a better compromise for commute access from the whole region.

- Not requiring parking was kind of the OP's point. Put the office somewhere with actually decent transit access, and build no parking at all.

- Skyscrapers work fine for big finance companies even more paranoid about their secrets than Apple and Facebook.

- Plenty of companies larger, smaller or of comparable size to Facebook find that a skyscraper in a real city makes sense.

I think the real answer to the OP's question is mainly that the extreme power of NIMBYs in California makes it nearly impossible to build new tall buildings, so truly urban office space is in very short supply. Indeed, it can be difficult to build much of anything in California that isn't more or less in the middle of nowhere -- Facebook and Google are both practically in the Bay! The development of SoMa may prove something of an exception to this, and it will be interesting to see if many tech companies move into the new office space planned there.
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