skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to scientific methodology, correlations by themselves are not evidence for cause-effect relationships:

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

To understand why this is true, consider rain and puddles. A naive alien, seeing a correlation between rain and puddles, might conclude that the puddles caused the rain, or the reverse, or both rain and puddles are caused by an unevaluated third cause.

Because A might cause B, or B cause A, or A and B be caused by C, and without researching the true cause-effect relationships, the observed correlation means precisely nothing. No. Thing. It is not weak evidence, it is not evidence at all.

And "hearsay and anecdotes" are not any kind of evidence of interest to a scientist. The plural of anecdote is not data.
Loving Others or Thinking of Them
It is surprising that the Christian commend of loving your neighbor is not conjoined with the requirement of thinking of him, in spite of the power of thinking to move us to the reality we think.
The reason I bring up the Chanel bags is because Chanel also applies for patents as well. I'm not trying to bring up some crazy straw-man argument. There are actually such things called "design" patents that differ from your examples of "utility" patents (FAT file system, GIF, etc). The reason no other $10 Chanel bags exist is due to design patents being enforced. Rounded corners and icons would actually fall into the category of "design" patents.

The reason why detail copying matters is because this is how infringement is determined by an individual. If said individual is unable to distinguish between the two products, it is possible that infringement has occurred. If the product merely copied a single item/feature, it is unlikely a consumer would be confused by the two products.

Apple's core motivation is for trade dress protection. They need their design patents upheld so that others cannot challenge their registration. Samsung's tablet has very similar packaging to Apple and may be confused by consumers. Packaging matters in trade dress protection (see Two Pesos v. Taco Cabana).
The White House has a GitHub account
Maybe you should get another MacBook Pro Retina and use it as an external monitor.
It is, it is not an off the shelf component that apple just bought and assembled as other people were claiming.

I think its funny that people are responding to what I said, pretending I said something else, and then others are attacking me for saying what I didn't say... and you're saying I said it!

I guess it doesn't matter what I say does it? Everything gets distorted by the google distortion field.
These fairytale conversations "overheard" at starbucks never actually took place.
Hugh Herr at TEDMED 2010 about prosthetics
Guild Wars 2: The Market, Crafting and Gathering
A quick skim of the source shows that rate-limiting is not implemented, and the code is non-compliant with Wikipedia's crawling rules.
Only part of a truecrypt volume changes when you make a change to the data within. Since Dropbox intelligently syncs files in parts, only part of a truecrypt volume has to be re-uploaded when something changes -- not the entire multi-GB file. I know because I do exactly this with a 1GB file. It takes about 2 minutes to sync when I unmount the file. Dropbox is not re-uploading all 1GB.

However, like the other commenter, I still recommend encfs for most uses.
You're now claiming that Apple licensed the Nintendo DS OS and put it in the iPhone, which is so false I don't believe you believe it, and I suspect you've simply become confused about what the discussion is about.

I never said there was never a screen you could get a reaction from by touching before the iPhone.

Never said that at all.

I said that to build the iPhone Apple couldn't just use off the shelf components, they had to invent new ones.

Nintendo DS is not running iOS.
I made a small and simple web app to complement wikitravel.org - http://www.picitravel.com. Motivation for this site was that I wanted to use it as a complementary tool for wikitravel.org site. Wikitravel has tons of useful data but not too many good pictures. My site would get the best pictures from Flickr and display it in a meaningful fashion. This would allow you to view all the pics from a destination in one page rather than googling for individual place. I am still working on making the site faster and adding more features.
Fireeye needs to learn how the censor IPs. From the screen shot I could tell it was 59.120.154.62.
It's not an appeal to authority. You made a claim about the thinking of members of the organization, I provided direct refutation from the publishing of the organization's chairman.

The rest of your post is pure invective babble.
So, you're claiming that Apple licensed their touch UI from a koisk manufacturer? Do tell?

Because if you're not saying that you're not being honest about what I said.
For another unbiased review, we go live to John Gruber!
To me, it seems that many of the problems with producing reasonable code could be remedied by writing better code the first time. In my experience, writing somewhat less hacky code is usually not that much slower than writing completely hacky code. Moreover, it often saves time--there have been many occasions when I spent far longer dealing with a stupid bug than I would have writing cleaner code in the first place.

Now, learning to do this well does take some time. However, if you're going to be writing a fair bit of code, I think this time will more than pay for itself. The amount of effort you can save down the road by spending a little bit more time at the very beginning is not negligible.

So: I think researchers should try writing cleaner code (rather than cleaning up poorly written code at the end). I would not be surprised in the least if, after they've gotten used to it, they're actually more efficient than before!
Hm, I don't believe the copycats actually succeeded here. I bet if they didn't copy, innovation could have happened sooner. Copying just lets the company stay alive for longer since consumers can't differentiate easily, and said company can use the money to research new innovations.
Hmm, but I can still simply open someone's Dropbox folder locally if they forgot to logoff/switch on their computer...
It embraces this concept: http://vimeo.com/36579366
You're claiming the LG Prada runs an OS that Apple licensed from LG for the iPhone? Do tell. Apple didn't invent iOS? Really?

By the way, the LG is not multitouch, it isn't even a smartphone. IF Apple had licensed it -- necessary for the claim that Apple just assembled lego blocks-- the iPhone would not work the way it does.

%99 of the features would be missing.
This is interesting, but why not use their API?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

It's part of mediawiki and available for each and every wikipedia subsite – as far as I can tell. We are using this as well to autocomplete data. And it works really well.

I prefer this method over 'scraping' the content.
Thanks for the tip! I'd never heard of this show and the clip I just saw on YT was really-really funny!! :-D
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
My comment was in reference to iOS which was not hardware and was not off the shelf. Looking at the hardware, much of the hardware in Apple devices is invented or at least designed by Apple. It is custom, not off the shelf. From the A5 to the unibody machining for the (alleged) next iPhone.
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Microsoft seems to be doing exactly the opposite--they are making their devices more locked down in what appears to be an attempt to emulate Apple.

The restrictions on WinRT make this entirely clear and unequivocal--Microsoft is asserting complete control over the device you purchased. You can't install a different OS and you can't install any software outside of the App Store.

If anything, they're threatening to be even worse than Apple by conflating the somewhat free Windows on x86 with the entirely locked-down Windows on ARM.
"The Soviet Union made a similar"

Oh come on, one is a market proposition and the other is a forced choice at the barrel of a gun. Is the "no shirt no shoes no service" sign at the store down the street the second coming of Stalin too?
While we must all acknowledge the crazy amounts of luck we've been privy to - it's not super useful except as a salve for your lack of success - which could totally be due to luck, or to temper your success.

Luck and work on dependent - we need to acknowledge that. I've had some damn lucky moments that I had to work my ass off for. Where's the utility in knowing that much is left to luck? The only way I can think is optimizing for luck - networking a lot, giving talks, giving help, etc. all, as some HNer put it "expands your luck surface area" - an apt term
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
The whole point of determination is so that you have many chances at having luck swing your way.
I made a little development tool for Chrome that does live reload and lets you save directly from the devtools. http://tin.cr
I recall when the SF/LA AIDS ride split from Pallotta Team Works. The major issue was about the overhead and actual percentage of dollars raised making it to the assorted charities.

Pallotta had gorgeous brochures, but you could tell all that glitz brought about overhead.

That said, the first year of the "independent" ride for the SF Aids Foundation/LA Gay and Lesbian Center overlapped with the (I believe) last Pallotta ride and had it's issues. It also took a number of years for the numbers to recover to where they were before dropping Pallotta.

Putting on multi-day events with a couple of thousand people participating takes a lot of effort. I think SFAF and LAGLC are better off now for putting on the ride themselves.
http://www.jackpotbuddy.com is side project.

Working full time on Context aware travel recommendation engine: http://www.diglig.com
What flashback to 2007 would be complete without considering Flash?

Remember how the lack of Flash was the biggest strike against the iPhone/iOS platform? How it was a design flaw that would cripple the platform from gaining wide adoption?
Keep posting on HN and I will be satisfied. I personally don't think you can hear the same with music playing near your ear, that's all.

Like other posters have stated, it's better to be alert and safe rather than trying to listen to your tunes while in traffic.
As a vegetarian, I constantly have to suffer through idiotic arguments based on headlines like this. I know this happens in all areas of life, but this is definitely the one to which I am exposed most often and it drives me absolutely nuts.

Journalists, please stop giving people ammo for their stupid guns.
So, Apple licensed iOS from another manufacturer? Really? Who was it?[1]

That's the only way I could be "wrong about this topic". You didn't even notice that you weren't responding to what I said, but instead knocking down a strawman!

And despite that and your insults, I granted you leeway and responded in a civilized manner. And for that, you insulted me again, and then compared me to a neo-nazi with more insults.

I would guess you're trying to make me angry, but you're so far off the mark I'm mostly just perplexed.

Hacker News would be a better place if people focused on arguing to the point and not the person. I've responded to the point, you should too.

[1] I was rebutting the claim that the iPhone was assembled from off the shelf components, like legos.
I think you missed the quote monjaro posted which I responded to "According to the generalized uncertainty principle, the Planck length is in principle, within a factor of order unity, the shortest measurable length - and no improvements in measurement instruments could change that."

i.e. Planck lengths is the shortest measurable length and thus you can't measure anything of smaller length, and so the smallest length any object can have is the Planck length.
I really don't see how Apple's approach is any better than good defaults with hidden configuration. Nobody is arguing that you should have to configure and manage everything yourself--just that such an option should exist and be relatively accessible. If you don't want to do it, just ignore that option; if you do, it's right there and reachable.

Your argument seems to be similar to something along the lines of "porn is bad, porn filters are good therefore we should ban all porn from the internet". The best solution is to allow you to block it--maybe even by default--but also allow you not to block it.
Learn what works well and what doesn't when debugging in Java
FWIW, when I was 3 I was already programming in BASIC on my Commodore 64 ...
I think Java on the desktop is seriously underrated.

I've been writing Java for a desktop accounting app [1] for the last 8 years and it is fast, cross-platform, and indistinguishable from native applications.

The trick is to use SWT for the UI rather than the built-in Swing UI. SWT is lightweight, has a simple API and provides an excellent user experience. Swing is bloated, has a frustratingly-complicated API and for the most part provides a woeful user experience.

I really believe that if Sun had chosen to base their UI framework on something like SWT then today Java would dominate the desktop as much as it dominates server development. If you're curious, here's a juicy story about how the politics between Sun and IBM caused them to make such a bad choice:
http://www.mail-archive.com/jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org/ms...

[1] http://www.solaraccounts.co.uk
This site causes 100% usage of one of my CPU's cores.
I'm the chap that made the tutorials and I agree with both of you. I can't, for the life of me, study anything from a screencast. Most of the ones I've seen are either too superficial to be worth it or too detailed to be useful without being able to flip back and forth like it's possible to do with text.

I'm trying to balance out the two and spent quite a while trying to tease out stuff that's not too superficial but at the same time is not too deep for beginners to follow.

Like most of these things, it's going to be impossible to please everyone but if there is a sizeable fraction of people who find this useful, I think it's served its purpose.

As for me, thinking through the whole thing in advance, trying stuff out and preparing the material helps me clarify my own knowledge.
I thought it was a great presentation with great advice. If you have specific questions, post it here and other HN'ers can add their commentary on it.
Crowd - Free Music Streaming Web App
Because people don't like the idea of other people pocketing their donations.
Aardwolf MUD, has been my side project since 1996 and not stopping any time soon. http://www.aardwolf.com
Will soon be launching site with information on products releasing in the future and to gauge level of anticipation of people.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664
Wish you the best of luck with your app!
http://www.hypejar.com
Apple did not license iOS from someone else who invented multi-touch. I was rebutting the claim that they just assembled the iPhone from off the shelf parts, like legos.

You're so focused on your ideology that you're making an argument against patents (the context where obviousness would be relevant) in response to me saying Apple created iOS.

I find your need to characterize me, rather than address my point, and your dishonesty about the point I was even making, a form of obnoxiousness that I can do without, so feel free to ignore me. '

But don't pretend like I've done anything wrong here- you lied about me, and you characterized me and you called me names. Thus I must conclude you come to HN to be in the google distortion field, unpreturbed by anyone who would bring up pesky facts you don't like. And since I dared to make an argument you can't rebut, you feel fine insulting me.

You made the error, buddy, and you're blaming me for it. Shame on you.
AFAIK, let is a Mozilla only feature.
Thanks. I've added https://github.com/nibrahim/emacsmovies.org/issues/5

Do you mean a TOC in the blog post or directly in the video for a few seconds? If the former, I did try to add a "list of things covered" in the post.
Just never give authorization for recurring billing. I use my credit card for one-time payments for monthly services all of the time, and I never authorize recurring billing. When you do that, you establish an on-going relationship with the merchant that isn't so easy to cancel. But you can cancel their authorization to do recurring billing in writing, and then any charge made on that ground should be refunded to you as a simple matter of course.

It generally works out pretty well if you just never authorize automatic recurring billing.
I still think it would be cool if analog computing was a thing, but I understand now more than ever why digital computing rules. It's the same as why synchronous computing rules- it is so difficult to design an asynchronous or analog system, that you cannot even hope to catch up, let alone overtake, synchronous digital computing.
I'm developing an OpenPGP keyserver in Golang. http://launchpad.net/hockeypuck
$2,200 for a laptop? Post-purchase rationalization anyone?
Open enrollment doesn't mean that your child will have the same experience as living in the district of the school. For example, your kid would likely be unable to walk to school, and would have a hard time hanging out with friends from school. School is important from a social perspective too.
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I paid more than that for a late 2010 model and it was worth every penny.
So you're claiming that Apple licensed Palm OS for iOS? Or did you misunderstand what I was claiming?
I never had this problem when I was using Snow Leopard, but since I've updgraded to Mountain Lion, every time I wake up my computer, the Wifi freezes. What are developers doing to fix this problem. I'm getting tired of force rebooting in order to connect.
Alex Knapp at Forbes wrote a critical response to The Oatmeal's comic about Tesla: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesl...
Indeed! "Scrolling sucks but here's a quote from another review on why that's OK". I'm not saying competitors' offerings are better, nor am I failing to realize that's just his opinion but come on, this is clearly from someone who's only bought Macs for years. Just saying, lets stick to the larger grains of salt, and upvote actual professional reviews instad.
I know too many people who work too hard but accomplish too little to believe that. Sure, some persistence may be necessary but it is by no means sufficient!

Put another way, I'm sure as many determined people fail as talented, intelligent or educated ones do.
NPR is unbiased. Reality leans left.
Thanks for the encouragement.

When I started the tutorials, the archive didn't automatically create the .mp4 files. Either that or the processing was so way back in the queue that I thought it didn't. Someone complained about the webm files not playing under ios devices so I made the mkv ones which they were happy with. I put this along with the rest of my workflow rules and it's been there since https://gist.github.com/2466292

But you're right, now that the archive automatically generates the h.264 videos, I should probably drop the mkv files and just upload the webm ones.

Do the mp4s work fine under ios? I don't have any Apple devices to test this with.
Reading the example code I learned enough to become interested in vanilla javascript. Although satirical in tone, I found it insightful. It lead me to question the necessity of using jQuery for every project.
Have you ever attempted to cancel a Gym membership? It is near impossible.
False color images are common, but yeah I agree that's somewhat confusing.
Which OS? Do none of the formats at http://www.archive.org/details/EmacsMovies have audio?
All ideas are evolutions (or sometimes rehashes) of old ideas. It's a part of progress.
There's also the dbpedia interfaces, including SPARQL access. NLP meet SemWeb, SemWeb meet NLP or have you met already?
Actually, iOS will only handle ISO media (MPEG-4, Quicktime, &c.) If you need a hand with this just ping me, it's my day job.
It seems to me like it is an assumption that if you weren't sailing under any flag that no one would come to your aid in an emergency. They may not be obligated to, but unless you were doing something that a country really, really didn't like, and it was generally known you were doing it, I think that most vessels that pick up your distress call would likely respond. I could be wrong. Are there any recent historical events that might help predict future outcomes?
I never said you didn't have a duty to defend trade dress. It can be diluted just like trademarks.

There may be some overlap, and as far as what's covered by the design patent is covered by trade dress you'd have to defend it (or risk dilution), but it has nothing to do with the patent.

You can register for trade dress protection without design patents. Design patents expire, trade dress does not, it's definitely possible to be covered by one and not the other.
The uncertainty principle does not state that you can't measure both position and momentum; it states that you can't measure both accurately. So, as your accuracy of one increases, the accuracy of measurement of the other decreases.

Some pertinent quotes:

http://todayinsci.com/QuotationsCategories/M_Cat/Measurement...

On careful examination the physicist finds that in the sense in which he uses language no meaning at all can be attached to a physical concept which cannot ultimately be described in terms of some sort of measurement. A body has position only in so far as its position can be measured; if a position cannot in principle be measured, the concept of position applied to the body is meaningless, or in other words, a position of the body does not exist. Hence if both the position and velocity of electron cannot in principle be measured, the electron cannot have the same position and velocity; position and velocity as expressions of properties which an electron can simultaneously have are meaningless.
— Percy W. Bridgman
Reflections of a Physicist (1950), 90.

The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative...
— Michio Kaku
Quoted in Nina L. Diamond, Voices of Truth (2000), 333-334.
That's hardly an unexpected security hole - most of my devices maintain local copies of everything in my Dropbox folder (phone/iPad excepted). Requiring password/two factor auth to get at the cloud hosted version of something in the local filesystem would achieve pretty much nothing.

Maybe there's people using Dropbox in some other fashion, but surely this is the intended/common use case?