skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't. It only seems to because people on HN, reddit, etc, don't know how to read patent claims.
Accomplishment can also become addictive. That's why they call it workaholism.

Usually these things result from a misfiring in the brain. Some are more impressive to the outside world than others, but none of them really satisfy the person.
Why exactly? He presumably has enough money cashed out that even if FB went bankrupt he'd be OK. And he controls the voting shares, so if that's what he wants, then that's what would happen.
I understand the appeal of this line of argument, and to an extent I agree with it. I think independent invention is a real problem with patents as applied to software. Yet, Samsung didn't independently invent a phone that diverges from the Android default to look more like the iPhone.
Wikia was in San Mateo for a few years before moving to SF. Cheap place to bootstrap, easy access to SF and the valley. Not convenient for people in the east bay, but otherwise not bad.
Great, except that Moleskine notebooks are very costly here in India.

Generally in ranges of hundreds of rupees.

http://www.flipkart.com/search/a/all?query=Moleskine&ver...
Hyperbole and a half.
What did Samsung do that is shady, that Apple itself didn't? Apple was the first to market with the most-polished device, but all one has to do is look at the old Palm Pilot to know that they completely ripped off the design and layout. Who cares? Apple was already winning on their merits. I have a feeling people will look back on this as a major turning point in Apple's history. They are starting to look like a paranoid ruler worried about an imminent attack instead of playing offense they way they used to.
But I said IndieGoGo results in a smaller donation... (They take a 9% cut in addition to PayPal/merchant fees.)
We don't all agree that the law does need to change. I think at least the trade dress infringement claims were spot-on.
U.S. Federal Court: $675,000 Fine to Grad Student Pirate's 30 Songs is "Fair"
U.S. Federal Court: $675,000 Fine to Grad Student Pirate's 30 Songs is "Fair".
This article should be called: "Some web development tips from a former digg developer for developing a site EXACTLY LIKE DIGG"

Because most of this stuff is not applicable to webdev in general...
Diablo III Director Apologizes For Hating on Blizzard Co-Founder, Diablo 3 Flaws
Hope it holds up better than the MIT Strata Center...
donated $100, hope he gets better.
This kind of comment is what you get when you have non-lawyers try to interpret patent litigation...
That's interesting. I rate the 4:3 T61 screen as not very good, but I'm comparing it to my UXGA Flexview so that may be a little unfair. I have to wonder if Lenovo thinks people just don't care about viewing angles.
We just passed one million dollars. Now what? (Tesla Museum)
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but all one has to do is look at the old Palm Pilot to know that they completely ripped off the design and layout.

You're forgetting about the Newton.
Never Fight a Land War in Asia
Applications are about functionality. The purpose consistency serves is making the interface familiar and therefore more intuitive. Conversely, websites are largely about branding, and consequently distinctiveness. Web apps sit in the middle of these two domains.
This is what I don't get: people applaud Apple for their massive profit margins when in reality it just shows how they're screwing the consumer. Does nobody care about the betterment of the general public -us!?- around here? By buying products with huge profit margins you're spending money on features that you're not getting. And THAT is why I refuse to buy Apple products.
The Oatmeal + Indiegogo + 20,000 people = Gosh Darn Tesla Museum (Infographic)
PhalconPHP - High Perf PHP Framework as a C Extension
The other big winner, Windows Phone.
Facebook offices have always been open plan. I personally like it. It can occasionally been frustrating, but overall the benefits outweigh the negatives for the way we work. I don't believe that it has ever been about minimizing costs.

Many people work from home or camp out in a small meeting room if they want privacy. There are also over ear head phones available for free all around the campus.
Actually I have my doubts about this guy being "genuine". I read is as "guilt". Or maybe he's trying to save his own rep.

But You know, it's possible - I mean redemption is also possible. Even among CEO's. ;)
I deeply distrust MS as a company but I agree they deserve some credit for striking off in their own direction. I don't think Android is as similar to iOS as many claim but I would like to see more experiments as bold as WP8 in this space.
Interesting, because I see this from exactly the opposite side. Apple hardly needs a billion dollars, but I don't think this does anything to strengthen their image or their power in the marketplace, but I do believe it emboldens people who already dislike Apple, and begins to alert people who do that Apple doesn't put innovation and consumers first. That is to say they are no longer viewed as a company that out-innovates everyone else, but rather one that wants to hoard the mobile market. I think consumers are pretty sharp and realize this. I love Apple products, but I sure as hell don't want them limiting my choice when I go to buy a new phone.

Lest we forget that Microsoft was getting sued under the antitrust act just fifteen or so years ago. At that time, Apple was a joke and people who used MS software regularly began to resent them. How silly that seems now that they are relegated to owning only the shitty, bloatware enterprise productivity market.
In the global market where android now has 60 something percent market share and iPhones have 18.
It is actually quite wise to consider DNA like any other programming language. It is a much more complicated language, being a spatial programming language, but it is a programming language none the less. Such a perspective provides great insight.

Anyways, you are correct that we are not there yet with actually fixing the bugs in code. We are not even remotely close to that point unfortunately.

The ideas of not subsidizing excessive defectiveness are a far cry from anything to do with genetic purity. It seems that you are in clear bias with a motive to shut down any discussion on the topic by poisoning the well of these truths by injecting labels such as 'genetic purity' and 'eugenics'. Any enlightened reader can see that your only arguments are appeals to emotion and guilt by association. A fallacious association as I have proved.

My original argument is simply that subsidizing excessive defectiveness is increasing the amount of suffering in the world, not helping to reduce it as one might intuitively believe. You are correct however that it also causes an excessive burden. An ever increasing burden. Medicare costs are spiraling out of control in all nations with socialized medicine, that includes America (Medicare and Medicaid, de facto free emergency care, and so on). In fact, the American federal budget allocates more to socialized medicine than to the military. A military known for its expansive cost. It will only become worse with the new full blown explicit socialized medicare system recently affirmed by the supreme court. This dysgenic path humanity is taking is the primary reason for the ever increasing medicare costs of countries with socialist medicare. This is off-topic from my original point, however, I share it with you as you asked and said you were very interested.

Your next paragraph is flawed in saying that somehow being anti-dysgenic is being dysgenic. I am advocating the lack of action. You are saying that requires selection? There is no selection I am calling for. I am advocating to let nature do the selection. I am calling for less artificial intervention. Not more.

Your next point is also defective in saying that someone who has a defect is not defective. I refer you to my programming analogy from my previous comment. A system with such grave defects that it cannot operate without expensive workarounds is certainly worthy of being called defective.

To your conclusion: you may feel such emotions regarding the harsh realities of the problem at hand, but emotions are not logic, and do not a reasoned opinion make.
24/7 sys admin service. I often wondered why no-one is doing this, I expect because it would be rather expensive to staff, but the sys admin tools are so advanced these days: get an SMS that a server component is down, fix it somehow. If you're not part of a larger company, what do you do if you're on a plane and you're having server issues? If you do this please let me know: I know quite a few people who would sign up if it were priced for startups.
Carrboro, NC, has its own local currency:

http://www.ncplenty.org/faq.php
If profit is the only metric, there aren't any apples/oranges comparisons; all businesses are comparable.
If by "strategy" you mean patenting obvious and likely things that already existed and then litigating the crap out of people, you may be right...this trial has set a precedent that might make that sustainable for them.
iPod....
This approach fails when hard obstacles start presenting themselves. The founder is not bought into the idea so much that he/she cares to see it through. The VC sees it as 1 of a large portfolio of ideas. And if you look through the history of startup ideas, (as you've said) the execution helps bring the team unique insights to help with pivots.

I've seen this type of thing work inside companies though, where people work in an incubator like YC, except there are shared resources and the incubator is an umbrella company.
If this was the only writeup Roberts ever produced, the cringing would be well deserved. However, he does have a long history of correctly quantifying changes in himself and identifying their source.

Specifically, his (on its face, ridiculous) shangri-la diet works well for 80% of the people -- probably better than any other diet (Although it should be noted that about 20% of people who try report it does not work at all).

Also, his flax seed, butter and vitamin D results have been replicated consistently by many (though again, not all). You can wait 15 years until these things get verified/shown wrong, or just try them yourself.

And about "well founded" - it's easy to dismiss some guy on the internet (regardless of his track record and academic qualifications, as this particular writeup was not done in the context of these qualifications). But you should be aware of your confirmation bias - e.g., if you ever considered any of the examples I give here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427910 well founded.
Ah yes, that old canard. "No time to explain, but you're wrong."

Please feel free to respond to my post and tell me exactly how I misinterpreted that claim.
Just donated $35.
Seconded -- OneNote was/is an amazing piece of software. I took all my notes for the CFA on it in 2008, and I used it to great effect apartment hunting off craigslist that year as well. My tablet died a couple of years ago and I haven't replaced it, or I'd probably still be using OneNote.
Right, any computer with square icons arranged in a table format must have originated from the Newton. How could anybody have figured out to put icons into rows and columns?

But seriously, Palm had an SDK and a phone with a touch interface and downloadable apps a good three to four years before the iPhone was introduced. Any brick with a touch interface does not fall into that category I'm afraid.
Only money can keep that honest.

<cynical>I guess bands with more money can be more honest then.</cynical>
How in the world do you interpret the language in claim 8 as "detecting a transition from scrolling to zooming"? The plain language just describes a single system that can process both single-touch scrolling input and multitouch gestures. Anything that does both appears to be covered by the claim.
Build something that will make MONEY with the first 100 users.
Good readme file. Liked the lessons learned.
You haven't seen the lightning bolts, yet!
> I chuckle every time I hear this. How much profit of the
> web server market does Microsoft take with IIS vs. the free
> alternatives like Apache and Nginx?
>
> Who wins in the Server OS market of Windows Server vs.
> Linux/BSD? Who dominates the web dev tools market of Visual
> Studio vs. Eclipse/etc. ?

In the not-to distant past (early 2006), I worked on a system which hosted millions of domains on Linux and Apache hosts. Microsoft called our company and offered them mega-bucks to switch the system to Windows and IIS so that they could increase market share. You can confirm this with netcraft - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey... . And we weren't the only shop they called with similar deals.

In this case, the one with the profit bought themselves 15% marketshare. I had real fears around that time that web stacks were going to start looking an awful lot like the desktop ecosystem.

Don't discount the power money can have.
> I've always wondered, how do you test your own intelligence?

He is not measuring intelligence; He's measuring reaction times (how long he takes to solve a very simple arithmetic problem; or how long he takes to see which letter in a 4 letter string appears twice) and fine balance/motor function (how long he can keep his balance on an unstable platform he has built)

He went over these things in his blog in great detail over the years. He keeps trying new tests, keeps using those that are statistically stable in a "stable" environment (without changing nutrition / sleep / etc, and after a learning period) - and after he has a statistically significant baseline, he measures how e.g. eating more butter or flax oil changes the results of these tests.

Yes, this is drawing conclusions for n=1, but for himself, these conclusions are very scientific - and us humans are not unique enough for them to have wider applicability.

No, you cannot deduce from n=1 to the entire human race. Yes, his conclusions are plausible and most of them are verified by others. Read e.g. gwern.net on vitamin D.
You really don't have a clue what I'm talking about.

I don't give a shit about the founding fathers. I am philosophically asserting that positive liberty is a legitimate philosophical concept, a worthwhile concept, and in fact I believe that the widespread adoption of the value of "positive liberty" will be the next ideological step forward for humanity.

The bridge between our species right now and our species in a Star Trek future is our recognition of positive liberty as a human right.
> So the irony is, on the same day, a South Korean court ruled that a South Korean company did not copy the US company Apple and a US court ruled that a South Korean company did copy the US company Apple.

That's the takeaway here. I'm very skeptical the jury was truly impartial in this case.
Navy doctor here. I wish your family the best of luck. Pulmonary fibrosis is a tough disease, no magic pill. However, the O2 tanks are no where near the size of a torpedo, even a relatively small air-launched torp would be over 10x the volume. Probably irrelevant to the topic, except I don't want folks to misunderstand how huge torpedoes are.
You wrote "they completely ripped off the design and layout" of the Palm Pilot. The iOS layout owes as much, if not more to the Newton than to the Pilot.

Any brick with a touch interface does not fall into that category I'm afraid.

Absolutely. For example, Microsoft managed to develop a touch phone interface that owes very little to the iPhone. Hopefully Samsung can do the same.
Glad to see this post! As lead developer on the initial port of Bastion to MonoGame, I was very interested in that work being open-sourced eventually. The game industry in general doesn't have a very good understanding of open source concepts in general, and it's rare and exciting to see contributions, large or small. Since I was on the project, the Supergiant team has brought in a bunch more platforms and cleaned everything up, so it's even better than the original plan of just throwing everything over the wall.

They actually made the source code available a month or so ago, this post is just the first time they've announced it on their blog. I hope people in the MonoGame community have been integrating these changes back into the trunk since then! The changes to make better use of VBOs and avoid needless texture data copying will help many games run faster.

In general I've been an advocate of the MonoGame project; it fits a need that a lot of indie developers have, and it's built up a ton of momentum over the past year. I hope this leads to a lot more open-source game development tools.
Comparing one's self to others during interviews
Many of which are reducible to math. Though I'm not sure what legos have been "unreasonably effective" at predicting.
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And it's not even over https.
It's easy to argue that they aren't competing. Apple innovates in their sphere of innovation, their competitors copy them and produce cheap knock-offs attempting to cash in Apple's R&D.

It's not competition when one company does ALL the innovation and other companies just copy them and try to win on price.

It would be competition if Google tried to out-do Apple, but they don't.

Samsung doesn't compete with Apple either. They are more similar to counterfeiters who sell black-market Oakley, Nike, and Prada stuff in alleyways.

Competition would be if Samsung improves on Apple's designs to create something superior.
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That global market is mostly made up people who would never become Apple customers. Apple really doesn't target poor people; Android does.
> "controlled experiment" part that really makes up the central part of doing science.

In theory, that's how it is supposed to work. But in practice, it doesn't. See e.g. John Ionaddis work showing that a significant part of published research (including that "controlled experiment" setting you are thinking about) is wrong; or the recent nature paper about failing to reproduce 47 out of 53 celebrated ("controlled experiment") results from the last 10 years, and what some more research about those results came up with.

Roberts is not doing conventional research. But what he does do is (a) cheap, (b) safe, (c) yields results quickly, and (d) individual testable. He also publishes negative results, and admits mistakes.

I think it is actually more useful than 90% of "proper science" done out there. He is not under a "publish or perish" whereas most scientists in the world are, and it shows.
It isn't trolling. It's a short summary piece. If you are into these things, his blog and semi-formal papers ("what makes food fattening" and others) are a gold mine.
The case was only against the Nexus S 4G - the Sprint version - which hasn't been updated to Android 4.1. The AT&T version was not part of the case. Android 4.1 removed infringing features.
>When in the history of the world have we ever seen a single company and a single line of products dominate a mass-market consumer segment for more than a few years?

the historical norm is monopoly, not competition
Microsoft (against IBM, DEC, Novell, SCO (the original, Microsoft's own spawn).

Sun, against IBM and AT&T.

Red Hat, against Sun.

Salesforce against bespoke business solutions.

Google Apps against Microsoft Office.

Gmail against MS Exchange.

More generally, read/refer to Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma.
The only way the CO2 can leave is through the lungs. If your airways are blocked, you're going to be facing some major blood pH issues with all that built up CO2. This can happen really fast too. Simply hypo-ventilating can cause the pH of the blood to drop due to buildup of CO2.
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But your logic here is flawed. People go to the ER for those things, which are normally legitimate problems, because they can't afford to go to a regular physician. It's sort of ironic that you would pick this example. The idea that health care here really isn't expensive outside of ERs ... is just kind of ridiculous. I think it would be a better argument to say "I don't care about them, screw them if they can't pay" than to use this reasoning -- at least it has the potential for being realistic.
Wikipedia has an article that links to a lot of the research on open plan offices (and other configurations):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_plan
Say company X sells 200 phones and makes $1000 profit.

Company Y sells 150 phones and makes $10,000 profit.

In this case we are comparing apples with apples. So it is a valid metric of comparison. In the same reasoning, if company Z sells 200 phones and loses money then obviously that is bad and company Z could potentially go bankrupt.
Nice.
Maybe you want to read this: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120824175815101
Ditto. Although if I could pipe my goodreads collection into this I probably would. Why not?
Yes - the inability to expel CO2 can be a huge and often fatal problem. The technical term is hypercapnia.
Legally, nothing.
Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework
Thanks. And here's another article, with a bit more detail:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120627142512.ht...
I think this shows Groklaw's weakness. The collected hatred for US patent law blinded PJ and the other reporters from seeing how this trial was really shaping up. I thought it was pretty clear that Apple was winning handily but reading Groklaw's coverage would have given the opposite impression. Hindsight is 20/20 but I never had much doubt that Apple would win this case and I was generally surprised at the slant from Groklaw.
Here's my take on the "Olde Agile Coaches".

Around 2000 the stock market tanked, and a lot of these old agile coaches were seeing their retirement go away.

They didn't have any meaningful programming skills to bring to the workplace, but they needed some income.

So what did they do? Become agile coaches!

That's why most agile festivals look like an AARP convention, and why they drone on about Zen parables and radical 70s leftism.

PostAgilist
welcome to the legal system. every verdict is rife with errors, committed by judges, lawyers, juries, police, everyone
Oh I thought Salesforce.com was doing well with Scrum.. Are you saying it was mostly a farce there or..?

PA
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/cach... recommends Cache-Control max-age OR Expires. Cache-Control (max-age) takes precedence over Expires. You don't need both.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Memo to Employees on Patent Win Over Samsung
It's exciting to see things funded like this. Hopefully we'll get some private space exploration this way!
As I explain above the oldies are there because their 401ks tanked and they had to get back into the workforce somehow without programming skills. Hence, the Agile Coaches in the AARP set
Apple v. Samsung: The infringing device scorecard
Mitt Romney Uses Secretive Data Mining To Identify Wealthy Donors
In the 1990's it was copyright. Now its patent. What next?

All Apple does is whine. Even when they are winning.

Their internal memo/public statement goes so far as to say "it's not about patents and money". Yes, I do believe you Mr. Cook. It's about a bunch of morally inept emotionally underdeveloped overgrown children.

Apple is above "copying". Went they want to cut corners (pun intended) and get to market quickly, they _steal_.

Welcome to the IT industry.
You know what I want? An easy way to be notified when my favorite authors publish/release a new book.
It is not self promotion if someone asks for it. So how about a link.
really nice, maybe could open source this on github with a small app that would allow others to do the same thing :)
The github README (https://github.com/numba/numba) explains how to install Numba, but not how to use it.

Or is it used automatically for all Python byte code?
If so, can it be disabled?
It's not very intuitive. However, a notebook stays with me for a couple of years, so I prefer it to be nice as well as durable. A novel lasts a few days usually.