skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the palm was a touch based UI is simply false. You needed a stylus and the UI was designed for a stylus. You could do some things with fingers and some apps were designed for finger use, where it was appropriate.

The reason you needed a stylus is because the technology was not advanced enough to detect finger touches with the accuracy that the iPhone does.

Even if Palm had all of the algorithms that apple developed for iOS, the ARM processors in those palms was not fast enough.

To claim that Apple invented nothing new because you could get a Palm to react to your finger is frankly a lie. It is a shameful lie, because when you let your ideology drive you to dishonesty, you've lost all integrity.

I have given the specifics of how and why my claims are true, but you ignore them, and you post dishonest stuff like this.

I genuinely don't know if you are simply ignorant and repeating what you've heard from others how are lying, or you're lying yourself, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter.

For the record, I have owned Palms and Newtons and Compaq's stylus driven device (iPaq I think it was) etc.

None of them could be used completely by fingers and all of them were designed to be used reliably by styluses.

I never said they would not react to finger presses at all, and I never said they couldn't be used in a limited fasion with finger presses.... so pretending that I did is yet another dishonesty.
"why DOES IT HAVE TO BE so expensive"

It doesn't have to be. I live in a large city and all of these new apartment constructions are popping up.

The thing about new apartment constructions is that they come with gyms,parking spaces, roof top decks w/ bbq grills,movie theaters,etc. All things that I and many others don't need.Yet my option is pay for it or pay half and move into a 100yr old building with "vintage old world charm".

It would be nice to see a trend of new modern buildings with out the frills so people have some place affordable.
Oops. Be it known that I was not the one who added the ?v=1 to the end of the link to avoid the dupe detector. (I did, however, steal this link straight from /r/technology though.)
That is indeed one of the ideas has been promoted by the Seasteading Institute. The spinoff company now pushing that plan is called Blueseed; they expect to have a ship in 2013-2014, but the ship they use will probably be bigger and more residential-ish than this one. Here's their site:

http://blueseed.co/
No.

Let's move on.
"In Hollywood, people often need to create a reasonable sized business, have it work for a year or two, and then it falls apart. That's what a film is. Most people's engagement in this business is only a few months, maybe less, no matter how well they do. Therefore you need to get hired again, and again, and again.

In programming..."

In programming it's exactly the same. No one works in a software project for decades, and most gigs last 1-2 years until the programmer either moves to management or takes another project.
You should google "design patent". If the quality can be distinguished by an ordinary person, then the design patent is upheld. I think everyone on HN thinks patents are "utility patents".
In canada, if i want to use my debit card online i have to log in to my online banking after i make the purchase to confirm the transaction.
Presumably these acquisitions happen most of the time because the startup failed, this is the situation I was alluding to where they can just double down if they think they / the startup can do better but otherwise nothing is going to make this look like they picked Instagram.

If they're trying to protect against people who quit too easily or aim too low then they made the wrong bet, they're not going to avoid this if they predefine a price or terms where it's a very mediocre OK.
As harsh as it sounds, I'd probably re-read Taskstrike's comment above.

EDIT: On a more practical note, I find reading biographies of those who've succeeded in the face of adversity gives me motivation to "press on". Dyson's autobiography is a good example.
I'm not sure that's true. Most charities spend large amounts of money to put these events on. They pay for advertising, for software development, for consumables, for staff.

None of these things come for free, and the people providing them are doing so to make money.
My understanding is that there were two jurers who were unconvinced about the prior art thing. It seems to me like what actually happened is that, rather than trying to convince those two jurers (i.e. coming to a unanimous decision), they just went with "majority rules".

Of course, there's no evidence to suggest that's what they did, but equally there's no evidence to suggest that they eventually went back to that question and debated it further.

Given that they admitted to ignoring the instructions on punitive vs. compensatory damages, it's not a stretch to imagine they also ignored the instructions on coming to a unanimous decision.
As a note, at my company last year the xp images JUST got IE7. And last week, as the first group of people, our group got upgraded to Win 7+IE8. Major corporations are slooooow at updates.

I'm just happy its happening at all, I know people at banks that have IE6 still.
According to Bayesian reasoning it is evidence, only weak evidence, as are, for example hearsay and anecdotes.
OK, so what do I do when my most persistent determined effort fails? I.e., if I never win and never give up?
If it was that trivial, I would at least expect Google or Nokias Maemo to have come up with such an interface before 2007.

I don't think the work put in by FingerWorks, and then the work put in by Apple to create the iOS user interface was trivial at all. It may not have been groundbreaking compared to what came before (ie most had been demonstrated by researchers), but I think it's obvious that a lot of work and design decisions went into creating it.
Also, you can get access to HBO shows via Netflix's DVDs. Of course you won't get the current season, and you have to order each disc one by one. But for an extra ~8 a month, I have gotten a good value out of it.
publishing platform for coders/builders: http://ruhoh.com
I could be wrong (?) but I think the first Prada was capacitive but not multi-touch.
tl;dr:

DRM doesn't work and is bad

regulation doesn't work and is bad

the gubmint's jackbooted thugs will force cochlear implants on you to make you patriotic

because the market won't demand free as in stallman computing I've decided to frame it as a human rights issue
Universal, fast method for iPad forensics imaging via USB adapter
Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent
I'll take $(node).remove() over node.parentNode.removeChild(node) any day.
People go overseas to legally participate in activities illegal in their home country all the time.

> 1: International waters do have laws and you are subject to them and the flag you fly under.

Then don't fly a flag. This will restrict what ports and territorial waters you can visit (if any?) and also mean you cannot expect any help if attacked by pirates, so you will need to provide your own security.

> 2 ... why don't you think criminals would already be using these to have drug or arms sales?

How exactly do you think criminals transport drugs and illegal weapons? By sea of course. They do not get harassed until they are within the territorial waters of a country where such activities are illegal. The exception in this case is ships breaking international law (violating embargoes, transporting illegal nuke material etc.) which are fair game.

But why would a criminal start a meth lab on a ship? Much easier and cheaper to get a trailer in the woods, or a factory in Mexico.

> 3: Let's say you have a ship with no laws ... government like entity

Yes. But it would be a government anyone can opt into and opt out of at any time.

> 4. What happens in the case of an emergency?

In an emergency: SHTF. Everyone who is onboard these ships will know the risks and decide if the reward is good enough.
I was impressed the first time I ran across the scene's standards[0].

[0] http://scenerules.irc.gs/
Companies often sue each other, but I doubt the lawsuits are what caused previous companies to fold. Kohler sued Moen on several popular faucet designs that were patented, but I don't see either companies going away any time soon. I can agree with your other factors for argument, but not the lawsuit.
I worked for Decca Navigator in the 1970s. They had two ladies (not particularly little or old) who made read-only program memories for the Decca Omnitrac civil aircraft navigation computers. These had core arrays with the sense line hand-woven through the cores, going through a core or bypassing it depending on whether that bit should read as a 0 or a 1. They worked from printed charts referred to as 'knitting patterns'.
An app that helps you find bikes to share and paths to ride
At his last event only 14% of the money raised actually went to the charities...

Pallotta Teamworks was set up as a for-profit company

WOW...those are some good notes
Normal is after all a common average and in that is overated by the masses. Remember if 99% of the human population was a psycopath then what would normal be then.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Luck. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Luck and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Good Luck' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- A reality based Calvin Coolidge

Hard work and luck are what's needed to succeed. If you ignore luck - you will end up bitter, sad and depressed.

If you were born female in the 1920s - you will not do well.

If you were black in the 19th century - you will not do well.

If you are poor in the 21st century - you will not do well.

If you die before you get anything done - you will not do well.

Luck > determination - always has been - always will be.

You can increase your chances at success but don't lie to people and say success is by hard work alone - that's a lie.
I just launched my week-end side project called Chatsoul.com. A chat application powered by Websync Comet Server:
http://chatsoul.com
You wouldn't ever know, because it would mean being persistent up until the last moment of your life.
Sure, 32-bit addressing with 64-bit memory operations, but that said, I wasn't aware of any existing videogame console even today with 4GB or more of memory so it seems a bit pedantic to disqualify on that basis or are you saying there has yet to actually be such a console?

Or are you saying if the chip squanders transistors so that it's capable of 64-bit addressing, but they're useless because there's less than a GB of memory on-board, the addressing alone constitutes magic blue crystals of 64-bit legitimacy?

The horrendous handling of the Jaguar by Atari aside, and despite its unfortunate resemblance to a bedpan, it was a surprisingly powerful machine for the time, no harder to program than the ragingly successful PS2 (IMO of course), and the best way to show it off was to make full use of its 66 MHz worth of instruction issue (2 x 26.6 MHz RISC process plus a 13.3 MHz 68000 and its 64-bit memory operations. For example, the Jaguar version of Doom was the best of all ports at the time: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Atari_Jaguar

All that said, I find reminiscing on video game consoles of the past to be a more positive experience than what this lawsuit has demonstrated about the state of patent law. Sure, Samsung copied Apple's look and feel. Why is this and why should this be illegal unless they literally slapped the word IPhone or IPad on their gadgets? Might as well have banned the Chevy Camaro for copying the Ford Mustang IMO.
What I find most interesting about this article is that it offers a way to diagnose autism with something more than behavioral symptoms. I don't know if it will be reliable, but it might be something parent with kids on the fringes of autistic spectrum would want to try. There's always advice floating around that their kid is fine, just a little slow etc. If we can do brain scans and find out if their levels of inflammation are above normal, there would be more certainty.
>If the iPhone wasn't revolutionary, how did Apple go from selling no phones to the selling the most popular phone in just a few years?

Has everyone forgotten about iTunes? After I got my first iPod I wanted apple to make an iPhone (years before they did) just so it would work flawlessly with iTunes and I could stop carrying 2 devices.
> Apple sold the original iPod for $399, which was the cost of the original 5GB drive to Apple. It was sold at a severe loss to begin with to push the technology and ramp up volume production of those drives.

I've never heard this before, do you have a source where I can read more? I've never heard of Apple willingly taking a loss on anything.

It also seems odd to me to talk about volume in an earlier era of Apple, e.g. this was when Jobs was still dead-set towards limiting the iPod to Macs (it didn't really take off until Windows support was added).
The individuals involved with seasteading.org are quite familiar with these issues (and are generally anti-objectivist personally though I don't believe the organization has any stance on that). There's a book as well as information on the website that will inform your mistaken criticisms.

Yet another trivial criticism voted up on hacker news from someone who is not familiar with the material.
It's better than it used to be. Today, the only consequence of their stupid banner is that i'm unable to read techcrunch. previously, that banner has always locked up the browser on my iPad, so that the whole internet app was unusable until i did a hard reset of the device.
The issue I have with arguments from folks such as Cory is that they presume too much in favour of openness. Many prefer to be regulated rather than have to make decisions on every little detail, that's arguably the whole Apple appeal in a nutshell vs. Linux, and why it's so productive. (Distros like Ubuntu arguably do this too at a much smaller scale.)

Cory is effectively advocating "technology survivalism", where no company will be your trusted for keeping your computers "safe" and "not lying to you". I think it's rather utopian. As far as I can tell, web-of-trust approaches only work in the software world, the hardware manufacturer ultimately has to be trusted to some level, either de facto by consumer belief or de jure by regulation.

Ultimately, his whole premise about "owner freedom" vs "user freedom" may be fatally flawed. It assumes a) Apple wants to control both owners and users to do what they want, and b) owners must be able to control what happens on devices, and this is a necessary precondition to user freedom. I would argue a) Apple just wants to help users with a better experience and b) it's unlikely owners will ever be technically savvy enough to control things, they will always want to delegate things to some degree -- even technical people do this, looking at the number of devs that use Apple laptops.

Cory also oversimplifies the ownership problem. No device owner actually "owns" the software they install, they license it - even with open source. Apple arguably has been the a great force for "user freedom", by constraining what "owners" (i.e. software developers) can and can't do on Apple devices, thus enabling freedoms to the users themselves -- freedom from malware, bad user experiences such as poor battery life, etc. They enable the end user to work around restrictions on content available on the native device by providing a completely open and high quality web browser to get at anything they want in a sandboxed environment. But they also allow the device owner to restrict user actions in the "open web" with (e.g.) parental controls.

Apple's restrictions have little to do with controlling device owners -- they're about improving the user experience.

Clearly the device owners trust Apple today, but Apple could fairly easily move to a TPM-based "certainty" approach where owners get to pick their App Store, if that's what consumers eventually want, and they lose sales over it. But, for now, the market doesn't seem to be arguing in favour of this kind of nuanced approach.

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re #2, dominance is an interesting word, and it can mean a few different things.

In terms of percentages of devices in pockets, I believe Android (including all versions) as an OS is doing better than iOS as an OS.

In terms of physical smart phones, I think Apple's phones are in more pockets than any other specific manufacture with their name on the box.

In terms of raw profit in the smartphone industry, Apple dominates.

In terms of people using smartphones like smartphones (downloading apps and using them, actually browsing the internet) instead of like dumbphones (phone calls / txting etc), I believe iOS still dominates (more people use Mobile Safari than they use Android Browser et al).

Manufacturing dominance is an interesting one. Lots of parts for iPhones are made by Samsung, but does that mean Samsung controls iPhone sales? Could Samaung halt iPhone production if they wanted too, or could Apple just go to someone else (with a ramp-up delay presumably).

(I own a Samsung android phone and am happy with it, in case this post comes off pro apple and people wonder about my "allegiances" [because apparently everyone must have one])
This is difficult without context, but first I'd replace "never win" with "haven't won yet". And even if you haven't won yet, you've surely learned something along the way (even if it's what not to do). Can this knowledge be used to try again more effectively, or to try something similar in a different field with a higher chance of success (or less risk)?
I wouldn't exactly confuse Google with Linux. They're linked because of Android, but if some company innovated on the search engine front and took Google's monopoly, Google would be in a rough spot.

Linux was winning before Google arrived, and Google still would've won had they used BSD instead. Nobody cares what OS is running underneath google.com
Thank you, simple and to the point. One sugestion: allow the user to choose where to save exported files; right now it appears to save only to the "downloads" folder.
Instructions are advisory. They are meant to help jurors who are unclear of what the law says. However, they are not shackles on the jurors. Jurors are free to ignore them, and should ignore them when justice requires it.

For example, Jurors have the right to find a guy not guilty when caught red handed with marijuana simply because the law is unconstitutional. They have that right and that is intentional in our system. Judges on the other hand, tell jurors in their instructions that they "have to find them guilty if they believe he possessed the drugs". When judges do this, I consider it jury tampering, and unfortunately for innocent pot smokers, too many jurors listen to the instructions.
I'll be honest, after that first paragraph I didn't bother reading on.
IAC Acquires About.com for $300 Million
Truecrypt is designed to work on a block-by-block basis or else it would be horribly slow at everything. So dropbox's job isn't harder than any arbitrary binary file with a few KB changing. Easier, really, since nothing changes size and shifts the data after it.
I don't see a whole lot to demonize facebook for here. With the old design, it probably took one, maybe two viewings of that screen to train a user that the 'allow' button is the one they have to push to play the game, and as soon as they learn what button they have to click to proceed, they never read anything on the page ever again. With the new design, users who care about privacy continue to have access to the relevant information, and the other 99.9% get to their game a little quicker. No matter how hard you try, most people are still going to try to ignore any text they are presented with that is not absolutely necessary to achieving their goal.
> Then don't fly a flag.

You try that. If you don't fly the flag - you are not under the protection of any sovereign nation and are essentially subject to the powers of any other.

> territorial waters of a country where such activities are illegal.

No - they don't get harassed until they get detected - if we knew where they were - we'd take them out in international waters.

> anyone can opt into and opt out of at any time.

You can do that now - move to Somalia.

> risks and decide if the reward is good enough

So just ignore that part then - caveat emptor right?
And thus it is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

You're making the "graham invented the telephone so there was nothing invented to make the cellphone" error.
Whole Earth Catalog Fall 1968 - Electronic Edition
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

How is it improving my experience when they ban apps that turn the device into a wifi hotspot?

Oh right, they prefer money to letting users have the freedom to choose such a thing.
Spideroak works pretty well for me as a secure Dropbox replacement :-)
No good deed goes unpunished. I responded to your insults in a civil manner. But you cannot be civil. I'm not surprised.
Google+ Will Dominate Facebook - Here's Why
Disruptions: At Box, a Fast-Moving Chief Immersed in the Cloud
That's competition. It's supposed to foster innovation and invention.
Light Table (Kodowa) is hiring
It maddens me when they use 'success' in such narrow terms. There are other kinds of success than a poor kid achieving a university education (as great as that might be).
For anyone who might find it useful, I wrote this really simple spidering tool in Go, which is useful when you just want a small subgraph of Wikipedia.

https://github.com/taliesinb/wikispider
Clickable link: http://dbinbox.com/
Uber and the Delicate Business of Creating a Platform
I think most HN readers confuse the distinction between "utility" and "design" patents. They feel the rounded rectangle does not provide utility and therefore should not be awarded a patent. If you think rounded rectangles are crazy, you should see the patents filed by Gucci and Chanel. Trademark and copyright will not suffice for protection of design, this is why design patents exist.
>Actually Apple has an obligation to defend their patents.

You're confusing trademarks and patents. You have an obligation to defend trademarks because if you don't you risk dilution. This isn't the case with patents.
Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner
I've never heard of Rublon before now, but this post has started me off with a pretty negative impression.

I'd suggest you work on your elevator pitch a bit more.
And if I may add mine - the arguments brought forth by Jacobian (Kaplan Moss, of Django fame) and Mitsushiko (Ronacher, of Flask fame) belong in the fiction department. Hundreds of web2py apps later, no one is confused by the additional 15 builtins, or by the concat-then-exec behavior. I am active on the web2py mailing list, and in two years and thousands of newbie questions, I don't remember a single one where this caused the fearful confusion that jacobian and matsushiko fear so much.

If you have any experience programming and want to learn Python for the purpose of developing web applications, the web2py book is a good resource.
IAC has bought About.com for $300M
And it isn't even true of digital computers. Binary data can be interpreted as ones and zeroes, but it isn't inherently numerical.
> Isn't there another way to find some place on earth (preferably an island) that will be outside international conventions? Wouldn't that be more viable and cheaper than seasteading? I wonder if there have been attempts to do something like that in collaboration with some government.

It has been tried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva

Tonga forced them off the newly created island with a couple soldiers, and now they and Fiji are disputing which one of them owns it.
10 years ago Palotta Teamwork was a pretty famous scam. I remember when the glitzy brochures started appearing at my office.