skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would bet you anything it's those stupid GT120s. There is a reason you can't buy them from Apple anymore. They basically never made a decent Nvidia card. Or, wait for an ML graphics update. $20 says it will solve your problem.

The 4870/5870/6870 is a good choice if you're looking for something more compatible. The drivers for that series are steadily getting better and you can use the PC versions right out of the box with no modifications.

However if you have 3 GT120s for the reason I suspect, you need to power six displays or three dual DVI displays, then you're stuck.
Smalltalk. You can fork any block IIRC.

Edit: sorry, I posted reflexively before reading other comments. Turns out I'm not the only one who values Smalltalk to the extent that I actually want to remember something about it :)
Disagree. The addiction and draw of a casino is MONEY. Not "ding ding ding". Pay to play games eventually offer dismissing reward. Every time you step into a casino you could win big. There is no incentive for these types of mobile games. "one more roll" simply doesn't apply long term.

I agree there will be a correction in mobile gaming. At least I hope to see these vapid "games" get kicked in the nuts a little.
Like I said it was fine on Lion and before. Fork over those 20 bucks ;)

I don't think there will be a graphics update for ML by the way. The MP (and whatever cards it uses) is an obsolete platform.

Thanks for suggesting alternative graphics, but I already upgraded from the previous gen ATI cards a few months ago and I'm not likely to buy more parts for this machine again. At this point I'm waiting what Apple does with the Pro and maybe buy a new one (or just leave Apple if they screw this product up too badly).
https://twitter.com/dingfengquek/status/239451710278483970 (13119) Removed tweet protection.

It's a pretty interesting game to master - the challenge isn't in hand-eye projectile-estimation/control. While that's important, it seems pretty easy to reach a satisfactory amount (as long as one doesn't need to cross the edge of the screen and wrap-around, which the human brain doesn't seem to handle well).

The parameter to optimize, at least at scores of 8k to 13k, is to quickly evaluate the best upward paths to take.

I've tried 5 games, all which ended above 6k, which ended when I hesitated on the path. Curiously, it isn't the situations where only 1 path is available where I lose. It is the situations when two somewhat equal paths exists, and I hesitate. At areas with white blocks, where the jumping height required to reach the next block is maxed, and the next block is horizontally displaced, there's very little time to think.

Hitting springs are the worst, as it changes the screen very rapidly, making it very hard to assess the situation (3 losses to this). The next worst is a series of whites at max height, which results in a high upwards speed (1 loss to this). Last loss was due to dropping a bag of chips.
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Just to remove all doubts about whether the jury was smoking crack or not, this phone is found to be infringing the iPhone's design patents:

http://androidspin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/samsung-ga...
I half agree, half disagree with you...

When I was looking for investment, and if I was to do it again I never sent an NDA for the first one or two meetings. From my point of view I wanted to interview my potential investors as much as they wanted to interview me. If I'm going to be in bed with these people I better like them. IMO, when you are a 1 or 2 man shop, your first investors will essentially be investing in you as much as your idea. So I never gave away my secret sauce before in the first meetings. I just gave them enough to get them interested. As such, I never sent them an NDA.

Once there was interest from an investor and they want to know more, I approached them with the confidentiality question. Those that wanted to see a demo better understand our secret sauce, read the patent docs that we wrote (but didn't have $$ to file), and/or get to see an in-depth demo had to agree to keep in confidential.

There are ways to tell someone how you're going you're different or going to be better without divulging your secret sauce.
What about posting movies/books/whatever to trackers in the first place?
It included trade dress[0] claims.

> Trade dress protection is intended to protect consumers from
> packaging or appearance of products that are designed to
> imitate other products; to prevent a consumer from buying
> one product under the belief that it is another.

In some cases Samsung's lawyers's couldn't tell Samsung devices apart from Apple's devices[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress
[1] http://variado.net/mobil/?p=27157
This is '99-bubble "sell the eyeballs" thinking. The point of business is profit. You can defer profitability, for instance to achieve market share in a market where having the greatest share promises future profits. But for that to be meaningful, you have to have a story about how buying market share with lower profits is going to offer a return on investment in the future. What's Samsung's story?
I was a prolific reader of /r/programming, and even submitted good links that were quickly upvoted. Then the spam filer got me, and kept getting me, so I left.

Except there was no spam,... just a mod that decided to remove some submits that he thought were off-topic (they were not), and me making more than 1 or 2 submits every week.

Before posting to reddit, make sure that 1) you've upvoted/downvoted something, and 2) made some comments on other threads.
Coursera emails you a certificate of completion when you finish a course. From comments in their discussion forums, it seems like some students are using these certificates to get partial credit towards courses at their own university, or to show to employers as a proof of their development, etc. So unfortunately there is an incentive for some people to cheat on the courses.
My computer audio setup is better than yours
What is so incredible? If you run into a question that is slowing you down, why not skip it, and get back to it later? In the case of a jury, you may even find that you didn't have to decide in the first place, because the issue may be moot by the time you get back to it.

There isn't enough context in the quote here to tell what went on.
That purpose doesn't obviate social proof.
"I've seen things you people would not believe..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8
Close the keyboard, then look at it. The jury, apparently, decided what their criteria were for infringement and then applied those criteria to all of the phones. The extra fact that this model had a keyboard wasn't one of the criteria.

Let's not assume that we have the whole story behind the way the jury decided anything, one way or the other.
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Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
The missing exclamation mark makes quite a difference.
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Neil was my biggest childhood hero. I did one or two school reports about him, dressed as an astronaut for Halloween for three straight years, and went to Space Camp twice. That my birthday (July 20) fell on the anniversary of his historic moon landing didn't hurt my identification with him one bit.

That interest in space, fostered by the examples of Neil and other early space explorers, translated to a lifelong passion for pushing science and technology forward. I'm sure many people here can say the same.

Neil's accomplishment, which he of course shares with the countless others who (literally) lifted him up and made his mission such a success, is one of the most inspirational achievements in the history of this planet. May it continue to inspire many more!
When Samsung copies how Apple does something (that they've patented), it's a Patent infringement - which has the potential for more damages, so is generally preferred.

Copyright would apply if they had stolen or copied source code or original artwork and were using it verbatim.
What is with all this hate for acqui-hires lately? I was part of an acqui-hire, I've seen it from the other side. I worked my ass off with my fellow employees at a startup here in the valley. We never achieved the scale we needed to be successful in our industry, but we were acquired by the major player in that space.

It's been an incredible journey and all of us have grown our skills and are moving our careers forward working with the new company. It's been the best thing that could have happened to my career and all I hear on HN, and now in the media, is people bitching and moaning that these people shouldn't be acqui-hired and that all these acquisitions are bogus? Give me a break. It's business. That's all it is. This is capitalism working. Companies investing in human talent hoping to produce long term revenue and results. We built something together at our startup. It didn't work out but our new company liked what we built enough to bring us in and solve the same problem with more resources.

Downvote me, but I'm sick of hearing all this complaining about acquihires. Especially from journalists who's only job is to tell people their opinion...real tough work.
I love engineering culture, but the one thing that irks me is the positively bizarre ideas about what qualifies as a proper office. It seems to be either drab office parks in the suburbs or weird campuses in the suburbs with weird buildings. What's wrong with renting space in an office tower in an easily accessible downtown and giving people offices with a door that closes? Is it really cheaper to get Frank Gehry to design you a warehouse instead?
I think you make a good point about the conflict between user and customer that Facebook struggles with, but I doubt think it boils down to Sandberg. I think you can probably expand further on that conflict in terms of choices they make about their product.
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Ah, cool! Awesome picks. It still seems silly to need to reload the page a bunch of times to see all the choices. Little thumbnails underneath the blank postcard back would work perfectly, I think. And you could clearly show which one is currently selected (and that it's the same as the background).
So, by quoting a 2-year old book on Facebook and displaying one stock graph, the author of this post arrives at the following concluding graf:

Sandberg should start an ad agency on the East Coast. Miami is nice. That’s a job she’s qualified to do. Her rampant lack of business creativity should have no place in centers of innovation.

I found this piece superficial and, by the end, a little bit creepy.

Blaming the top management at Facebook for building a business on advertising is a little like blaming scientists for gravity. Who's bidding more for Facebook's functionality? The end users, who appear to be willing to pay $0.00, or the advertisers, who in the aggregate are demonstrably willing to pay billions?
> Like I said it was fine on Lion and before. Fork over those 20 bucks ;)

Sorry I didn't mean there is a hardware problem with the cards, just that the hastily written ML GT120 drivers are most likely the culprit.

> I don't think there will be a graphics update for ML by the way.

Graphics updates are an expected part of an OS X release cycle at this point. We had one for SL, and Lion, and I would expect one for ML. Touchups across the board. What you're ignoring is that you already got a graphics update. By upgrading to ML, you're now on the 64-bit kernel and therefore are using the 64-bit kexts.

> The MP (and whatever cards it uses) is an obsolete platform.

Apple reaffirmed their commitment to the Pro line, so I wouldn't assume that so quickly. Also, behind the scenes evidence highly suggests that isn't the case. If Apple is planning to ditch the Mac Pro, they sure are steadily adding PC graphics card support for no explicable reason to OS X then.

Between 10.6.8 and 10.8.1 we've had support added for generic ATI cards and Nvidia cards of all stripes. Before 10.6.8, you simply couldn't boot a Mac Pro without an official card or card reflashed with EFI firmware.

Now, I haven't had an Apple official or reflashed card in my Mac Pro in a year and I use it every day, including right now. None of this has yet resulted in a product Apple actually sells. That bodes quite well for the future of the Pro line.
> They were warned by Apple and by Google to stop what they were doing, and they ignored those warnings.

You missed the part of the verdict where it says Google stock Android phone is infringing too. Also if Samsung is one of the less innovative and influential tech company, how come every iPhone is built with many Samsung parts including the retina screens?
Stanford Biologist and Computer Scientist Discover the 'Anternet'
No to both of those things.
An NDA for a webinar? I agree, it seemed really douchey.
Neil Armstrong would have been 17 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948. In the lifespan of those two men, humanity went from horse-and-buggy to standing on the moon. One wonders what the 17 year olds of today might accomplish...
Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Is Dead at 82
Wow, I did notice that when I first looked. I guess I've gotten too accustomed to the Web 2.0 presentation style, where the pricing is prominently displayed and there's an unavoidable call-to-action button.
That's a very good point. I haven't considered the casual-gamers aspect and the different style of engagement with games.

I still somehow have a little trouble with the way this in-game purchase works. As a child I used to go to play at the arcades, and of course when you fail, you have to slot another coin into the machine. This is probably quite similar. However, even as a child, I knew I am going to spend some money, within my budget, on playing games. There were no free games.

It seems like a subtle difference, but there is an element of luring-in with something that is marked as free, but actually encourages you to pay later.

Also, the coin-operated arcade (due to technical reasons I guess) offered a reasonably predictable price model. You play until you fail, which is usually a few minutes. If you're really good, a bit longer. You weren't given a chance to buy extra ammo or turbo-charge your car if you add two coins, and then later get the mega-pack for five extra coins and so on...

UPDATE: just to make it clear. I'm really speaking as a complete outsider to this world. I don't play any kind of games, and apologies if I'm making very wrong assumptions based on little knowledge in this area.
This makes it hard for you to "stick" to it. What if my personal standards on Sunday include candy? If you're going to do this, you should have a preference pane for people to select what foods they want to allow and what they don't before they start and then track them on their individual progress. However, if you start doing that, you've nixed the whole "paleo niche."
1. And with that, an entire industry was born. But two years later, Sandberg promptly killed it.

What did Sandberg actually kill here? Isn't the "operating system" referred to in the quote the overall Facebook platform, which still exists?

2. Is app.net really a success just because the kickstarter was funded? That's a bit hyperactive. Let's hold off judgment until a year or two and see if their revenues are larger than their costs.

3. The article author makes the naive assumption that a falling stock price can be interpreted as a business failure without actually looking at or mentioning Facebook's actual financials.
Got a little dizzy at first with the speed and distance at which the page scrolls. Product looks cool.
"However, I’m convinced Mark Zuckerberg already had it figured out, but he stopped short and hired an advertising incumbent to deal with the problem while he went off to an ashram in India."

I think this puts wayy too much responsibility on Sandberg's shoulders. It's not like Zuckerberg was on a sabbatical for a year and came back to see everything changed. If he disagreed with Sandberg then he was in every position to make a different decision. He didn't. If there is "blame" to be assigned (I'm not convinced there is), it sits squarely on Zuckerberg's shoulders.
Sure, that's just being fair. And making it clear you're criticizing a thing, not the person who made or said the thing, helps a big deal.

But all that assumes good intentions behind what you criticize. They're all happy feel-good "we're in the same boat here" examples.

How would you criticize extreme greed or callousness? Or blind obedience to state authority, and hand-waving away murder? I've had bitter fights both with someone who kinda glorifed the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion, not Royal Air Force), as with about anyone I run into on the web who says things like "Assange should be shot on sight, and without trial, traitor blah blah". And then there was this dude on a unmoderated forum who kept mocking someone else for being lesbian and having been raped as a child.

Reacting politely to things like that would have made me feel kinda dirty, you know? Beyond certain points I simply give up trying to change someone's opinion, and try to make it costly for them to have it. There are billions of people, some are complete sociopaths, or are deceived by the same; the more energy you waste on them the less you have for the rest. And being friendly to something disgusting drains me. Attacking it nourishes me. So that's that.
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Project management and how we use Trello at CPUsage
New York is closer to London, Paris, Germany, Italy, etc.. So if your startup is doing a lot of business in Europe, live in NY.
You had me until here:

>> or perhaps even Nokia.

I don't see a future for Nokia (or RIM) other than being acquired. They're both bleeding money and have no real rockstar products any more, but have big, big warchests of patents.
I've been wondering, is there any firm or organisation backing ServiceStack? I guess that, maybe more than other ecosystems, many .NET developers are slightly afraid to heavily depend on something of which the future is uncertain (in a way, we're spoiled by MS's big spendings on all kinds of fancy tools). I recognise that in a way, this situation hurts the ecosystem, because people are afraid of using non-MS-tech, which limits commitment to decent open-source projects. Nevertheless, I have to admit sharing the same worries. Should I worry about that wrt ServiceStack?
A good man, and a good engineer.

That, more than one small step, made him a hero worthy of being remembered for the phrase "for all mankind." He made me want to be a better man myself, and to build things of more lasting importance.
This 400 word snippet makes perfect sense in the trend stories section of The Economist where it resides. But taken by itself in isolation and pasted up onto HN, it's just a recipe for incivility and pointless bickering. It is the textbook example of the kind of story from a very credible publication that has no place on this site --- so much so that it says so right in the site guidelines.

Come on, 'tokenadult. Why would you post this?
> Sometimes I think powerful personalities at Yahoo! IT, with a bit too much money and people working for them, have caused a not insignificant amount of the downfall at Yahoo! by treating the company like it was a financial firm, or the Department of Defense, instead of a digital media destination

I've seen much the same thing happen at a company I worked at in the early late 1990's and early 2000's. The CIO had a heroic moment years ago and used the political capital to run IT as he saw fit, catering to the email/web needs on the sales/business side, but demonizing engineers who had more stringent needs. (Even to the point of a crony calling the complaining engineers "terrorists" in a public speech shortly after 9-11.)
Here's a collection of information I just came across about Neil Armstrong:
http://learni.st/users/farbood/boards/3625-neil-armstrong?tb...
I read (might have been on here) that Angry Birds Space made $10 million dollars in its first week of release.

I have 2 games on the app store and so far have kept away from IAP as I hate it myself but thinking of implementing it on my next game.

Dave
"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."

My favorite Neil Armstrong quote. Has some relevance to how we think as entrepreneurs.
IANAL either, but I would certainly not presume that your example describes the same thing from an IP standpoint.

For example, you could start with the first sentence in Apple's claim: it applies to a "touch-sensitive display." What you cited incorporates a touch-sensitive sensor without a display that responds similarly. It's not unreasonable to say that a projector screen is not the same as a display.
Pay-what-you-want with a high minimum price gives me conflicted feelings. What I read is "this book costs $11.99, but you can give me more money if you want!".
This post is extremely misinformed. The reason both Facebook and Twitter decided to go with ads instead of selling access to the platform is that they ran the numbers.

By the time they picked their business models they had already taken in hundreds of millions in funding. The dollar size of the developer market is tiny compared to the ad market, so they could never justify their valuations by selling to developers. The middle ground the author proposes just doesn't make any sense.

app.net has only taken $5M in funding, so if they manage to make a couple of million a year that could be considered a success.

Can Facebook or Twitter make hundreds of millions of dollars a year by selling access to the API? Even if they did, could they do it without competing with their customers? Very doubtful.
This is cool, but others with more experience in the field have already figured out how to best deliver messages to congress.

See the "How it works" section: http://heritageaction.com/grow/using-popvox-email-congress/

> Unlike electronic mail, which is both free to send and easy to ignore, receiving a postcard sends its own message. It says to the congressperson, "I feel strongly enough about
this to go to the expense of sending an actual card."

No. A postcard will never make it to the congressperson. It will be read by a staffer and most likely tossed unless it expresses support or opposition for a current issue or bill, in which case it will be tallied and then tossed in the garbage.
I'm surprised that you see politeness and qualification of criticism as "sucking up".

I don't, I see sucking up as sucking up. E.g. If someone says all black people should be killed, do I even have a right to assume they have great, superb, excellent intentions? Should I really start my response with lauding those? Nah. There's limits.
The filter seems to try and measure self-interested intent, which correlates well with spam. However, they're not the same thing. In the content of fighting spam, if a user is providing things people are genuinely interested in, then their intent is irrelevant.
No. I have the key, but not the iso. As I understand from MS site there will be no way for me to convert it to a legit full copy.
Close but no cigar. He's indenting with tabs.
I read this as a boy. I'm moved to tears. I'm sorry, that isn't much of a productive comment, but I really have no words for what it feels like to have grown up with that as an example of what mankind could really do.