skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting judgement and certainly not the one I expected, in the sense of South Korea punishing its own.

If the US lawsuit had the same result, you might see Apple's stance on patent-trolling reversing quite, quite quickly.

Their only (significant) market these days is iOS-related, and if they got iOS devices banned left and right as a punishment for playing the patent-trolling game, they might learn that patent reform would be beneficial to them as well.

Not that I see that happening, but then again I never saw this coming either. You never know. A man is allowed to dream. Etc.
Personally, I feel I have gained most experience from creating solutions to (sometimes) stupid or easy problems. Stuff to generally making my life easier.
I even built a small social network focused around dating because I didn't want to pay for the existing ones. (Needless to say, no one uses it today. :)) These kind of projects give me the most inspiration to learn new stuff and finish it.

So find something that bothers you and fix it!
How can I bypass images or specific files using ToroPhp? I usually add this lines at my .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Story behind LEGO
hell yeah. I'm even tempted to cut out the logo itself from the jpg and use it as a desktop background. Hard to imagine a company now so huge ever used a logo so dark that screams metal all over the place
i think it's nice to see some javascript design patterns!
No idea about Singapore rates, Russians charge $25-$35 an hour.
Students Stressed because of Smoke-Free Campus, Victoria University
Students Stressed because of Smoke-Free Campus, Victoria University
According to Gartner, 85% of the world's businesses data was still being processed in COBOL as recently as 2001

Why would you use decade old technology statistics to prove any point?

If someone told you that an extremely large number of websites in 2001 were written in classic ASP, would you start considering it as a career path?

I agree that COBOL will still be around for awhile, but a lot can happen in 11-12 years, and this leaves the reader to wonder what the market is currently like.
Besides my obvious reluctance to pull the trigger on something I built from a zip file on the Internet, surely this just stops dead when you ask if you can print gunpowder? No.

Receny there was a Tedx talk with this as the main hook - a lot of FUD around how these new technologies will unlease waves of terrorism and crime. It smacks of similar stuff -the old ways of killing people have been working fine for centuries.
In another thread on this general topic, someone made what I think is the best point about why these cases are relevant to small developers: the patent system has now gotten so absurd that it seems everyone is infringing everything; so now the incumbents will simply settle with each other and use the patent system as a way to hamper new entrants.

Essentially, when these cases end up with both sides infringing, it simply strengthens the position of patent trolls and incumbents, while doing nothing in practice to harm distribution of any of the incumbents' products. It's not like either Apple or Samsung are really going to not distribute their products in South Korea. But could they enjoin a new entrant from doing so with this case as precedent? You bet. This just made entering the phone/tablet market in South Korea a lot more expensive.
Like the article title, there is no clear winner but it does look like certain operations have been optimised on each platform in response to, I'd guess, expected user needs. Which isn't surprising, but it is interesting seeing what specifically each OS designer thinks is the expected use that does require time spent optimising.

Also, quite an in-depth piece of coverage, a lot of benchmarking doesn't take real world into account and just runs 3DMarks or similar.
That's where I'm coming from here. It's great Backbone encourages event driven objects, but don't hammer everything with it.
Nice idea, a separate edition that excludes everything made by microsoft would probably get me to part with money.
I agree. I remember when I wanted to publish some pictures I take during a trip I created a web site site with a photo gallery because I wanted something personnal and was not satisfied with flick and the likes. It tooks two or three weeks to implement it 3 or 2 hours a day after every evening. And I learned HTML5 and jquery aling the way.
Oh for sure. As soon as my code will be touching multiple, disparate parts of an application I'll look to events. But I'm be wary of code that uses events for everything.
That was the point, your suggestion was that it was either an uncanny coincidence (really?) or someone you know. My contention was that as a word that returns two and a half million results on Google, it was obviously neither.
No, he isn't being pedantic. It's a real, valid usability issue.

"783 days and 4 hours ago" really is worse. If I am browsing a photo and look at that, my first reaction is "That photo was taken a long time ago". If my buddy asks when that happened, I'll have to start doing some simple math in my head. "Uhh, around two years ago? So what, that's 2010?"

Simply putting the date would have been a much friendly solution. You know immediately that it was "a long time ago" because everyone knows what the current year is. And you know what year immediately.

Conversely, on short scales it's opposite. I don't really care if a post was on Monday or Tuesday (usually). I care that it was recent. Providing the exact timestamp doesn't help.

Both have their uses.
The statement that people are less willing to pay for things on the platform is kind of refuted by how the linux demographic always pays almost double what people on osx, and triple what people on windows pay for the humble bundles.
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I guess this is what goes as a "psychological hack".

Definitely interesting to see how you can play the same tricks on people as you can on machines as long as you know enough about how they work internally.

Interesting and scary I guess. We all know how big corp is going to be spending billions on this to manipulate us all.
I completely agree. The part that I found extremely difficult was actually getting users that COULD generate feedback. Granted, I'm sure a lot of that stems from the design part as well. Although, it's challenging to get users to go past the 'let me just take a look around' where they see early stages and are put off from the project.
But could today's programmer even learn COBOL?

http://web.archive.org/web/20050214210251/http://objectz.com...
How is he misrepresenting Steve Jobs's statement? Isn't it what he meant. Of course, he didn't mean to say that he is proud of copying others' ideas but that copying is inevitable. Or am I misinterpreting his statement?
> Just because a product uses open technology, it doesn't necessarily undermine the labour and creative skill that a person puts into creating a product from the open technology available.

I never said it did, and that's what's unfortunate about this situation. His service has no backend that could not be easily replicated, and the frontend is portable. You cannot build software like this without being copied... by nature it is not practical to expect to limit others' behavior with open platform code. There are no laws that will protect you from sufficient copying effort.

Whether the person is skilled or not is another issue. The OP would still be mad if somebody ripped off his website and made it just different enough.
New NIST Guidelines on Securing BIOS for Servers
Thanks for trying it out.
I would be creating separate ebooks on different topics.
Not sure what this guy is trying to say, but basically any kind of 'protection' based on connection to a server compromises your privacy. For example, an anti-phishing feature that is turned on by default in most browsers essentially reports EVERY page you visit to the anti-phishing protection server (obviously, in order to check whether a site is 'good', you must pass the site URL to the server, hence the server can log the URL, what would have stopped it from doing this?). Does not it concern anybody?
worldofgnome.org... This must be an objective view of Gnome
> Apple paid Xerox handsomely, in pre-IPO Apple stock sold at a discount for a LICENSE to use the technology that Xerox PARC was developing. Full stop.

I've heard this go around a lot recently, and I'm pretty sure it's a complete distortion of the truth (more so even than the original myth).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jobs allowed Xerox to buy stocks in Apple in exchange for a "look around" Parc. He was shown the GUI and the mouse, and he took these ideas and copied them, and made various changes to them.

The licencing agreement came later, after Xerox found out that Jobs had "stolen" the ideas. Apple argued that ideas can't be patented, only implementations. Then there were court cases (between Apple, MS and Xerox) over who owned what, and what could be protected.
15 pages for this article seems quite excessive
"Apache configuration" is the bit that makes your website work better. ".htaccess" is the thing that slows down your web server. People choose odd titles. :-)
As far as I can tell, nothing that you've written here is at all relevant to the content of the linked article. (It's not a generic "people don't pay enough attention to science" article, though I suppose the headline could be misread that way.)

Also, economics is far, far, far from being a science. Does it have important things to teach us? Absolutely. But calling it "science" just muddies the waters about what science actually is.
>Virtually all activities everywhere are carefully planned by the Korean labels.

Which is beside the point.

Why wouldn't those Korean labels want to negotiate deals with US labels for their artists?
> Apple doesn't want you building web apps they can't monetize.

This doesn't even make sense. You have it backwards.

If you run a web app in Safari, or save it as a web app in the home screen, it's going to run full-speed. If you wrap it in a UIWebView and sell it in the App Store (hello monetization) it's going to be slower.
On the other hand, it's sad that so many startups are ignoring the huge market that China is. People on HN often critique the music/film industries for claiming to lose ridiculously huge amounts of revenues due to piracy. In this case, I am willing to bet that 99% of people buying from the Chinese website wouldn't have bought the original. Anyways, I'm not trying to justify what this guy did but simply suggesting that more startups should consider serving the Chinese market.
I came across GoScale two weeks ago. As somebody passionate about server technology I was both intrigued and very skeptical. Frankly I thought it was another MVP that would never appear.

So I contacted them asking for more information, expecting little. To my surprise they couldn't have been more approachable and friendly and gave me one of their first 10 test accounts. I was staggered to find it worked exactly as they said it would.

I'm already planning to put my next app on it so I just hope it's ready in time to host it.
TL;DR; This post would have been much more useful if the results had been displayed side by side in a table format. As it is currently presented, scrolling back and forth to compare the results is just too much effort.
I have no clue where that commit is coming from. How do I get to it? Thanks.
What a waste of time, OS X has a usable, stable graphical interface, Ubuntu doesn't ( a lot of the lack of usability comes from the lack of quality of third-party apps ). The only use for Ubuntu is as a server, which means testing things for speed that are server related. And only on a Mini.

And yes, I've tried both Ubuntu 12.04 and OS X 10.8 for several days as my only work-based machine to road test both properly.
How To Send Unlimited SMS's With You Android Mobile | Technology Blog
> because a webview inside the app had a payment form

You didn't get rejected because it was inside a webview. You got rejected because you were selling something outside of In-App Purchases. You know this.

Why do webviews have anything to do with it?
Happy to hear that - I've bought an LG O2X with 512mb RAM (because it was half the price (Brazil) of the Samsung S2) and I was/am completely disappointed with the quality of experience (with a hacked ICS that gets slower and slower in a few days, another day I counted 30 seconds to open the Twitter app) and support LG gave (0, no official ICS and the phone is already dated).
Guys, I want to see a discussion on copyright issues here.

At first I thought that gt5050 might be infringing copyright. In particular, if asked, I would have guessed that ownership of the content posted on Stack remained with the askers/answerers. Or, at worse, that the content was released under a non-commercial creative commons license. In fact, it's released under a generic creative commons license (source: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5546/who-is-the-copy...).

How do people feel about an answerer putting x amount of time into writing a free, articulate, well-explained answer, and having that answer repackaged and sold without compensation (or even correspondence)? That kinda' grinds my gears.

To be explicit, although I have similar qualms with Hacker Monthly, they're largely settled by the fact that Cheng Soon contacts the authors and gets explicit permission (even if he doesn't pay them).

That said, gt5050, I mean to take nothing away from the kudos you deserve for delivering a product.
The un-obfuscated code and the level editor isn't available though. I believe the thief bought a copy of Impact to get all the source files - this could have happened with any product.
The difference is that this is not plagiarism; this is just piracy. The Chinese studio does not claim authorship for this. They have even stated their upstream, making them look like an authorized distributor. They claim to be selling a localized "cracked" version. Shamefully, piracy with a price is not uncommon in China.

It's not quite straightforward why they decide to sell a pirated version. They seem to be specialized in web game development, based on Impact and other framework. I guess they had used Impact for game development, during which they spent some time doing the localization, integration and documentation and felt that was a justification for selling for a price. Their customers, if there are any, are not unaware of the piracy, as in their product forum.
"Mathematica is one of the more complex software systems ever constructed"

Wolfram, et al really thinks they are hot shit.
Apple: One year under Tim Cook
Not a really good review. There is very little informaiton presented on the changes, just a few pictures with detailed comments like, "I can say that is prettier. Much prettier". The under the hood section is also lacking with no real discussion of what changes went on under the hood on this release.
Microsoft itself provides a prime example for this: Knowledge-Base articles are often poorly translated and you really want to link to the english version if there is no translation available. Implicit content switches are really bad for the user experience.

Also, language versions of big websites often differ hierarchically as well, with the differences in hierarchy being directly bound to the language. On Wikipedia, the problem is so big that it is actually moved to the domain (the highest level of the hierarchy).

(should be): yes. It should be. In the ideal world of people that constructed RFCs. Sadly, there is a real world out there.

In the end, with my users hat on: I don't care. I want to send a link and I assume that my peer sees exactly what I see. I don't want to care about the details of your technical implementation of your website and whether it is structurally sound in the grand scheme of the interwebs. I also don't want to say "and switch to..." every time I send a link.
Apple, Samsung Must Stop Some Korea Sales in Patent Fight
Open-Sourcing We the People, the White House's Online Petitions System
Ah I see - yes, I take your point. I agree that if it is easily available, it is likely to be copied, such is the reality of human nature. Unfortunately, it does rather incentivise keeping things locked up which is a shame in some respects in terms of increasing knowledge. Some times the best way of protecting your innovation is simply not to disclose.

I agree that most people have an emotional connection to their product and if someone designed around it, it would still hurt. However, this process would take time and is the nature of competition. As such, the impact can't be as great as in the instant case where the infringer has just ported the whole platform.
I think this has always been recognized. This is why salespeople get commissions.
Motorola Unlocking Their Phones, But Probably Not One You Own
i think design patterns are either

A) a lack of necessary abstraction - or -
B) a sign of unnecessary complexity
First, thanks for making this!

Just a little note, I think there's a bug in your profile picture retrieval: asker & answerer have different usernames but the same pictures; e.g. John Skeet & Remus Rusanu on p. 9.
> non-open source

"Open source" does not mean "you can view the source". It means software that is freely usable and redistributable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines...
in the case of a false positive you have to go back two words and correct it (in the idea the word was corrected automaticaly). I'm afraid this happens more than I make mistakes typing.
now HN posts target a crowd that doesn't know what htaccess is?
Clouds, what are they good for?
Microsoft's new logo is branding fail
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Gotcha, I guess I was thinking more along the lines of open source project than actual product. Based on the replies above I see where you're going now. Good luck.

Not sure if you're coming back to read this, but I'm curious about why django? Did you choose it because of your comfort level with it or are there advantages django offers for this kind of app? I built a few things with django a while back before I moved on to tornado for everything. Not because django was bad, tornado was just a better fit for what I've been building.
Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’
seconding this question.

My obvious need would be a version of "air display" that worked over usb, but when i looked into it 2 years ago talking over usb wasn't allowed except for certified products.
I absolutely understand your concerns regarding copyright issues.
I thought of providing people with an option to read the content on the Kindle as well,and kept only the kindle version at 99 cents.
All the content belongs to Stack Exchange users.
That said, I am now thinking about making this a donation supported app.
Will have to see how that works out.
We all know how big corp is going to be spending billions on this to manipulate us all

That's more than a little hyperbolic. 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.

Back on topic, my girlfriend works at a nursing home and she has often spoke to me about the residents being eager to go home, and just as in the article the residents often express their intent to find a bus stop. The approach my girlfriend takes is to tell them that the bus will arrive shortly, and they simply sit and wait in the home itself, waiting to be notified of the bus's arrival. Interestingly, some of the residents even think that the nursing home itself is a bus, and in that case they tell them that their stop is just around the corner, and they happily sit and wait to alight from the "bus".

To me, the scariest thing is that occurence of Alzheimers will likely increase as medicine further increases the lifespan of our bodies, but medicine is rarely successful in increasing the lifespan of our brains. And with that I sincerely hope that by the time any of us are that old, euthanasia is no longer a taboo and is a socially-accepted norm.
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I am looking into this.
EDIT: It is fixed. Will upload the corrected pdf.
The problem was only with the pdf version and not with the mobi version
As many people have said - with HTML5, you basically give your IP away and hope for the law to keep people honest. Making money is those conditions is the old open source conundrum.

I would suggest the OP to sell support contract (sponsored features, priority bug fixing, ...) to the Chinese customers of his copycat.
If the situation gets worse (eg: the chinese firm translate their website in English), the engine can be open sourced and try to recover with the support.
No Firefox 17 for OSX Leopard
Apart from the original Galaxy S, no other Samsung phone is even remotely close looking as the iPhone. Perhaps the Galaxy tab could also make it to this list but the innovation margin in the tablet design space is very little(They did alter the design later however)
Mildly OT, but...

Agreed. Unfortunately, nearly every hardware review like this does that. I almost invariably skip to the last page to read the conclusion first, and only poke through the middle pages if I'm curious why the reviewer drew the conclusion they did.

This one is particularly bad, though, because the pages aren't labeled, and there's no table of contents. Which makes "poke through the middle pages" for the purpose of finding a specific test related to the conclusion hard.

We all know it's to bump up the number of page views and therefore ad revenue, but I wonder: For a review like this, how many ad impressions do you need to break even on the reviewer's time, hardware cost (if any), and other overhead? Is ridiculous pagination a necessary evil for these sorts of reviews to exist? Or is it solely to pad margins?
If one loads an app on Apple's popular smartphone, Apple keeps a record of it. Along with one's credit card number and potentially a large amount of location and connectivity data.

If one loads an app on Facebook or searches on Google or even visits a commercial website one's privacy is likely to be compromised.

None of this makes Windows behavior entirely devoid of causing concern, but in my opinion, Microsoft is more trustworthy filling that role than the crapware antivirus providers who have been doing it for years.
Mozilla: Internet Explorer 9 is a “pretty respectable browser”
> Imagine if people switched social networks every two years, and Twitter copied everything Facebook comes up with.

Imagine if Facebook had not been allowed to copy any features of social networking sites that came before it.

Imagine if no other phone company had been able to borrow ideas from Motorola.

Android phones are obviously very different from iPhones. Sure they both borrow ideas from eachother, but that's in everyone's best interest.

The idea that an entire market should come to a standstill as soon as the first entrant comes along, until someone comes up with a radically different way of doing things, is utterly ridiculous.
I said similar, not the same. Both people had their game ripped off by Chinese companies without their consent who are now selling them. I'd say that's very similar.

>The difference is that this is not plagiarism; this is just piracy.

How is one worse than the other ? Both people's products are being illegally sold by a company in China. Either way, both are losing out on potential profit. One product was straight up copied, the other was (most likely) re-created. Even if the plagiarized game was completely re-coded from scratch, they still stole their ideas, designs, etc...
Except for the fact that Clippy popped up unwanted and Siri you have to ask for.
What made you upset? muyuu's point is that if public transportation wasn't an effective method of transportation when they were younger, the patients won't associate the sign with going home.

And I don't see how a fake cafe or bookshop will attract them? They want to go home, not drink coffee.