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Fantastic job on the track editing UI! The thing I missed from the Explore & Community pages is a progress bar for the currently playing track. I really wanted to see how long the track was, how far through I am, and maybe skip forward to see how the middle & end sounds (a waveform would be nice to let me see where the peaks are, but not essential) without listening to the entire track. I liked that starting a new track stops the currently playing one so you don't get music hell - so many sites get that wrong! :-)

Oh, and congrats on getting Paul Okenfold on board, some coup!
My grandfather had Alzheimer's for over a decade. It was always the goal to give him the best care. When possible, the family took care of him. But it's taxing. Eventually, my grandfather--not a violent person at all--started to become violent. (I've heard this is common for people with his condition.) That's when we know that he needed professional care. There are times when its in everyone's best interest to seek help from an institution.
Nonsense. The issue in question was that Samsung copied Apple's design in an effort to fool regular customers into thinking they were buying Apple products. As such, it makes perfect sense to have the jury consist of those regular people.
What would you recommend as a higher-quality notebooks?
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Seriously?? 10 Apple v. Samsung stories? People, get a clue.
You seem to vastly underestimate the intelligence of the average person, and you fail to realize how serious people take jury duty once they have been picked.

It is important to realize that a jury trial is a seminar for the jury. It is given by two opposing sides to a disinterested party tasked to make a decision. If either side fails to inform the jury of the enormity or ramifications of their decision, it is the fault of that side.
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If nothing else, the fallout will be interesting to watch. The tablets didn't infringe though. Found that an interesting bit, just the phones.
and all those phones have pinch to zoom. Just because Microsoft and Apple are colluding to avoid suing each other doesn't mean that an OS like WP is somehow the solution.
Tell me something. If you took all the apps and app developers from the IOS App Store and traded them for all that WebOS, BlackBerry, Or windows 8 has... How would sales change in the next year??? Throw in Apple's marketing crew to trade as well. Isn't that an interesting notion?

Is suggestion that these are "bad smartphones" coming from their lack of sales? This is a false dichotomy. If not - please provide data that suggests otherwise (rather than your own heavily influenced personal opinion either).

It is not the phones or OS that makes IOS outsell the other companies mentioned - It is the apps and the marketing.
If they have money for http://www.dare.com/officers/2011CARSHOW.asp they have money to pay an enterprising designer/coder.
If you're a startup and even if you're philosophically opposed to software patents, think about hiring a good IP law firm and filing for your core IP. What these trials and massive licensing deals are showing that patents could make a world of difference to your options as a tech company.
A sad day for consumers everywhere, regardless of what technology they prefer. The continuing validity of patents such as "pinch to zoom on a phone" is disastrous for the industry and will just serve to make everyone's products worse.
Jury awards Apple $1.05 billion in Samsung patent dispute ruling
> you should be allowed to mimic the features present on other competitors' devices.

To play the devil's advocate (as someone who hasn't taken a position on this ruling, but hates software patents in general):

Why? Apple appears to have spent a lot of time and effort on small details. Why does Samsung get to just copy that with far less time and effort invested? With design, the "how" is a crapton of iteration and careful thought. There may or may not be prior art in a lot of these examples (don't know enough to say), but where there isn't, why does Samsung automatically get to copy it for free? If these things are so obvious and trivial, why weren't they doing them before?
They don't need to. This sent a big warning to all the Android OEMs not to copy the iPhone.

And that is what Apple wanted. Not money.
Appeals are next.
Absolutely. This is wonderful news for those that care about standards.
I'm actually pretty shocked that the Tab 10.1 was spared from the design charges, especially considering they lost that battle in Germany (and released the Tab 10.1N).
If Lucy Koh is so intent on protecting the singularity of one corporate interest over what is so obviously good for the general public, she should not be a Federal District Judge. She should still be in private practice.

We need Federal District Judges who are willing to work for the good of consumers, which involves protecting a market where competition can thrive.

Consumers benefit when there is more than one separate branch iterating outward and improving something very basic. A lightweight touchscreen rectangle is about as basic as it gets.

If Apple was a tire company, Lucy Koh just gave it the unearned "right" to patent every kind of tire tread imaginable.

[EDIT] -- Yes, I realize the decision was made by a jury. Firstly: The original case presented to her was a puff of smoke which should never have gone to trial in the first place. Secondly: Fast-tracking this case helped Apple (which had pre-prepared its mountain of baloney paperwork) and very much hurt Samsung (which understandably probably didn't have enough time to scramble and dispute every instance of baloney in the mountain of paperwork). Thirdly: Koh diallowed a key testimony: http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog/2012/08/judge-lucy-koh-... which would have helped the jury make a more informed decision.
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Which in my opinion is a good thing. Everyone should think twice before blatantly imitating the result of other people's investments and hard work.

Edit: the downvotes do not surprise me. HN has a very anti-Apple slant.
Meh. So they have one lean quarter.

RIM had to pay $650,000,000 to a patent troll with no products, for violating a patent that no one had seen before. By comparison, considering the massive size of the companies involved and the brazen copying and infringement, the Samsung verdict would seem light.
You mean, like how patent applications are reviewed by government experts before a patent is granted?
Now, for those of us interested in startups - what a perfect example of great product development:

- Address existing need that few other products addresses

- Helps generating new customers by removing some of the barriers - "I like to create my notes with a pen on a paper"

- Involves non-trivial blend of hardware and software

- Involves non-trivial business partnership

- Serves as a test-bed for bringing the solution to more people by refining unskewing algorithms

- etc. etc.

Well executed, Evernote!
Say whatever you like about EU, but I can't think of any country here that would not help this man, or let him die simply because he can't afford surgery. In the worst possible case he would still have the surgery done straight away ,but he would have to pay afterwards,not before - he might end up in debt because of that,but better than being dead for sure.

Anyway, donated some money, really wish he gets all the help he needs.
Don't you mean $1.051 Billion?
Patent reform will most likely have to come out of the legislative process, not the judicial branch.
Thanks for the support, I appreciate it. The non-flash experience does leave a lot to be desired. As you know, I always have to weigh investing time improving it vs improving something else. But I realize that isn't much consolation to the end user.

One of the difficult parts is actually detecting if flash is blocked at all. If the user has Google Chrome's built-in plugin blocker, I don't think it's possible to distinguish between a blocked plugin or a slow loading plugin.
If you could really easily explain FFT algorithms, that'd be sweet!
A billion dollars to the first company that builds a federated twitter on top of existing gmail accounts. Go!
Many do, yes. For those that don't – the majority – I'm curious if pessimism finds their actions as distasteful as he found Flexibits', the authors of Fantastical.

Personally, I find nothing wrong with their actions. pessimism was never purposefully mislead about how Fantastical was being sold, and it's perfectly reasonable for Flexibits to charge the same price in both venues even though they have larger margins in one.
I don't think that this is the judges fault. The law (at least to some degree) dictates the decision. If that decision is not good for the general public, then it is the law that needs change. (And we all agree that it does.)
I agree completely - the only way this trial could have been fair was if the jury shared your opinion instead of forming their own.
I wouldn't necessarily say that the FoundationDB site is bad styling, more that every single info page seems to be a massive wall of text. Could do with some pruning.
Thanks sc00ter! I like the progress bar idea. I might also add a way to comment on a track right from the play button. People love getting comments and feedback.
Looking forward to plenty of truly dumb, ignorant comments like this in the future.

You do know that a jury made this decision, right ?
> The truth is, we may well be in the largest slowdown of technological growth in human history. Economist Tyler Cowen calls this the “great stagnation.”

relevant relink: Peter Thiel and George Gilder debate the prospects for technology and economic growth[1]. The basis of Thiel's argument comes down to the price of energy. He's bearish. He notes that Warren Buffet's biggest bet, which is on trains that transport 40% by volume coal, is a bet that clean, cheap energy tech will fail.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc
My personal experience doesn't constitute proof of anything (nor I'm a psychiatrist anyway), but the two bipolar people I'm somewhat close to are very analytical, stable guys. Then they turn around and become something else entirely - one of them has managed to build huge businesses TWICE, only to have a mood swing (usually after a few weeks without meds) and simply walking away, fight everyone, get a divorce and go to jail for beating someone over a trivial discussion. The other simply goes away (literally - leave home for weeks and pretend he's dead)

Then they "wake up" again. Quite disturbing...
I think we can all agree that Apple's intention was to stifle competition, not to get money. The problem is that Android already have to go out of their way to "innovate around" obvious design decisions. This makes things even harder. There is a good chance things will go the other way too, and it will make it harder for Apple to keep up with Android as they introduce new features.

I can't see this being good for anyone except Apple shareholders, and in the long run I'm not sure it will even be good for them.
OK, this is tangential to your post and the OP but … using Groupon as an example of anything other than shell games and Ponzi schemes strikes me as more than a little bit naïve.
Apple awarded $1 billion in patent case vs. Samsung
The idea that expertise necessarily produces bias (towards which side?) troubles me.

In this particular case, I agree with other commenters here that the general public should be fit to judge. But I'd rather see technical cases like Oracle vs. Google decided by experts.
Judge Koh didn't make this decision, a jury did.
Ask HN: Is there a community for Computer Scientists?
I have been a long time lurker of http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci but I have always been dismayed by the quality of posts there regarding actual Computer Science.

Every once in a while on HN a great article comes along about Computer Science but they are few and far between. Does anybody know of a strictly Computer Science community on the web?
But shouldn't they? They are accessories. They are developing something that has no purpose other than to mislead people. They're writing political malware, if you will. They should be belittled, as it's completely unethical to participate in such a farce.

We should also note that making this software open (which is actually pretty badly designed, actually looking at it) is a similar farce. The objective they claim, for doing so, is somehow related to an open government. That's like claiming open-sourcing the software you use to send electronic messages back and forth is making your actual communications with said software "open." Nonsense.
No matter how you cut it, this whole trial was a loss for technology.
Ok, but AndroidOS didn't copy iOS for mobile so that's not what we're talking about. If we're talking about OSes only, then I agree, there's nothing wrong with either of those phones or really the blackberry themselves. They all have functionalities that fit different userbases. Similarly, neither of these OSes are absolutely 'better' than one another in that context.

Obviously, the point of contention here is with the design of the phones themselves, and how similar they look and feel to consumers. In that argument, the phones that have supported WebOS, Blackberry, and the WindowsOS have a lower quality overall, and I like WebOS. I'm talking about hardware, durability, and application ecosystem. This is my claim that smartphones of these types are 'bad'. The iPhone and Android would not be as popular if they were similar to the older Blackberry phones.
You have far more confidence in patent examiners than I do.
Better than that, I think, would be legislators looking out for the good of consumers and judges interpreting the law impartially.
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>Are you saying that Patents prevent fair competition?

Absolutely and unquestionably. I've seem them more used recently to bully and to harass by companies who'd rather litigate than innovate.
You may not find a single software to get all 4 things done but I am sure there are plenty of softwares out there that will help you at each steps. The most important is which software to choose and how to leverage it.
So, I agree there is some conflation going on, but it's based on the way Apple is doing business in the app store. I didn't cause the issues to become conflated, Apple did.

Given your example:

'A "sharecropper" under Apple, perhaps, but earned my trust, and I'll buy from them again if I have the chance.'

That's the problem. You won't have another chance, unless the developer makes a new product. The store doesn't allow for purchase of upgrades or renewals of service. It is a one-time purchase and the purchase price has been driven down to insanely low levels; which is fine for one-off games, but unsustainable for large applications that need ongoing maintenance, bugfixes, enhancements, etc. to provide a great customer experience.

The ideal experience for both customer and developer for complex software is often one of constantly increasing value, in exchange for fair payment. It doesn't have to be a traditional "upgrade every year" model...it can be a subscription style service, where you pay a fixed, fair, amount, and get updates every couple of months.

And, I'm definitely not campaigning for a return to boxed software in stores, as it has all the problems of the app store, plus many more. That was a tradition imposed by technical limitations. There was no good way to deliver software without boxing it up and shipping it out. That hasn't been the case for well over a decade. Nobody should be delivering software in boxes, today, as far as I'm concerned.
WebOS had many of the same UI elements; they actually copied the tactile feel quite closely. At the time of the Pre launch, the speculation was that Palm could afford to piss off Apple as their patent chest included some real gems from their work on the Palm Pilot and on Treo smartphones; I have a vague recollection that they had some key patents required to build a smartphone address book that Apple was already likely infringing.
Try finding an impartial "geek" to set on this jury. Good luck.

If Samsung can't convince this lot - they couldn't it seems. So their only hope is the appeals court. But I got a feeling they'll drop that too.

Samsung's best approach is to pay. And move on.
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I had the whole thing reversed. Thanks for pointing it out :)
Do you really want malware authors to be able to get Gatekeeper certificates for free? I don't.
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Exactly. The sad thing is that many people will ignorantly blame the judge for this decision. Whereas the fact of the matter is that she simply presided over the trial.
We’re not attorneys or judges either, yet we all have an opinion on the law.

“Only in America”

Far from it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_system#The_jury_trial_in_v...
I take it you couldn't be bothered to understand the case.

Samsung lost its counterclaims due to patent exhaustion which common sense suggests they deserved to lose. You can thank Intel for siding with Apple on this one.
The big winner, apart from Apple, is Microsoft. If you're a hardware manufacturer, your choices are

1. You go with Android and have both Apple and Microsoft come after you.

2. You go with Windows Phone.

I suspect the Windows Phone team is breaking open some champagne now.
Glad to read a different opinion, albeit a minority one.
Apple is now officially "innovating" in the same way Microsoft was "innovating" in the 90s...which is to say almost not at all.
Licensing patents is not called collusion.

Edit: Source
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/apple-licensed-de...
Indeed, and early on an Apple employee disqualified himself.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/apple-v-samsung-j...

Another potential juror, a UI designer on the Android team was rejected by Apple.
How did Koh not interpret the law impartially ?

The fact is that the Samsung lawyers failed to convince an independent jury of the general public. Koh had very little to do with it.
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Thanks for this reply. That was sort of the vision I had of the tech scene so I'm glad that I wan't too far from the truth. I'm not a big fan of hyper-competitive people so that's a plus. Hopefully the community out there is more, well, "communal" and tries to help everyone succeed.

Hiring in NYC is also very difficult at least from my experience from working for other startups here. Finding qualified candidates who aren't already happily employed is difficult.

I've actually heard the opposite from some friends about the necessity of a car out there. I guess that will really just come down to how I spend my time and where I need to travel.

My startup isn't unique and has a bunch of competition already so that really doesn't bother me too much. Bring it on! (Ok, maybe I'm a little competitive...)
Unfortunately Posner couldn't get himself assigned to this case.
I want a software which will calculate the rate of return of my investment(in different countries and in a different market segments) adjusting inflations, interest rates, failure rates of businesses etc.
I think it is fair to say that Samsung may have crossed some lines as far as "trade dress" goes.

But did Apple really invent pinch to zoom? Jeff Han demonstrated pinch to zoom gestures at TED in 2006, Microsoft Surface in 2007 before the iPhone was released, and I've seen various forms of "pinch to zoom" on different tablets and smart board applications.

I think that Apple did a good job developing some multi-touch input standards, like pinch to zoom as an OS standard rather than just a feature specific to an application. I don't think you should be able to patent a standard and it is counter-intuitive to developing a standard to begin with. If we had patents on desktop GUI user input standards like right click, ctrl key modifiers like ctrl-scroll to zoom, etc. then using computers would be a much bigger PITA.

EDIT: Many have rightly pointed out that Apple was first to file and that Jeff Han's work was too close to the filing date to qualify as prior art - However, I was simply asking whether he truly believed Apple "invented" pinch to zoom. Legally you can argue that Apple holds a valid patent as demonstrated by them winning this case - but I think it is invalid to say they "invented" anything as intuitive as pinch to zoom which has been demonstrated in a variety of prototypes, tablets, and applications over 2 decades.

Also
Just because Microsoft and Apple are colluding to avoid suing each other

Do you have facts that support this or is this your opinion?
Himm. İ think it is useful for me.

Thanks.

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On what legal basis ? And surely that wouldn't be the impartial thing to do, right ?
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I can vouch for VCs investing in nothing. I can name at least three people not 1/100 as talented as I am who've raised funding in the double- and triple-digit millions. One I recently had the misfortune of working for.

I don't know if watching idiots have enormous success should be taken as encouraging (if they can do it, so can I) or discouraging (in the what-the-shitz-is-going-on sense) but, whatever man. I've definitely seen some fucked-out morons get funding, and not a small number.
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The guy is complaining about "the community" but really doesn't understand the people he's referring to at all.
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Considering both parties are big whores to the corporate patent lobby, legislative process will likely only change things for the worse.
But, but, we always rub the bald guy's head before the game, and we totally play better!

I wrote it down, so it is now science.
Or,

3. License RIM's OS, if it ever comes out

4. Boot to Gecko

5. OpenWebOS?
How does the verdict affect Samsung's ability to sell additional phones in the future?
After the Surface Tablet's debut and their incestious connection with Nokia, I don't think any hardware manufacturer is realistically looking at Windows Phone.
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They certainly do. If you want to SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition on Windows 7 you get that message - you have to get R2.
What do you think linkbaiting on reddit etc is? That's linkbuilding too.
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Any of those are atleast a couple of years away from becoming realistic. Windows Phone has an app ecosystem today, the muscle/deep pockets of MSFT behind it and frankly, it's a pretty good OS. It's a slam dunk at the moment.
Are we talking about the same thing?
I'm talking about particle waves, or wave functions of particles, not a function which satisfies the wave equation (a photon happens to satisfy the wave function, but I'm trying to be general here) and with frequency, I mean energy. Try changing the sign of t in Schrodinger equation and see if it simply amounts to changing the sign of your momentum vector or not.
I really hope paypal don't freeze the account for 180 days while they investigate.
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