skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im with you. The jury has spoken and found Samsung guilty, but the actual legal details seem random and should not be anybody's property.

People often compare it to the Tv market or the car market. Yes, all TVs look alike. They are all ugly. Yes all cars look the same: like shiny bling to impress an ape. I dont consider the lack of choice in design in those markets a good thing.

I dont like patents, but i would love for products in all categories to look more unique. Maybe Apple should have won because of the tradedress. But not because of the patents.
I don't know much about unskewing, but presumably the dotted lines mean you know how each dot should be placed relative to each other dot. With plain lines you'd have to do some guesswork based on how wavey the line is etc.
The fact that Samsung does actually manufacture killer robots makes your posting a little sad. (I know that it's not the entertainment division, but I still don't understand why no one cares about that part of Samsung.)

http://dvice.com/archives/2006/11/samsung-creates-machinegun...
After seeing the GDM screenshot I'm actually glad that the CDE sources were released.
That apple are a bunch of assholes should have been no surprise to anybody in 2009; the obscenely smug image which they've cultivated through their marketing has always reeked of a company which is shiny on the outside, and rotten in it's core.
People can contribute to Free Software without holding mindsets that are so extreme in one end as those of rms. Perhaps de Icaza has just gradually shifted his views to the other end.
It's a transparent proxy, so the request headers are whatever is generated by the browser by default. I do inject a script into the returning http stream, but so does my antivirus without issue. Even if I send an empty script file, the error occurs.
I'm surprised that you see politeness and qualification of criticism as "sucking up". But if constructive and moderated criticsm is seen as a sign of weakness, it kind of explains why unconstructive criticism and flaming is rampant on the internet.
Nice delivery. Since you got our eyeballs, and all things being equal... you might as well add Amazon Affiliate links to your timeline product (or use a third party service like Viglink or refer.ly to deal with things). An extra bonus for yourself, if you will. :)
only 3 ?
Glass isn't enabled?
Haha! It reminds me the guy that wanted to fight with me all day on school, I broke his nose out of anger on a fight, he was so stupid.

Recently I made something on Internet and got a little famous, got a little press from TV or newspapers and I received invitations from all the people I had known in my life, including my biggest enemies on school like this guy or the girl that ignored me.

Some of them send me things like "I have changed, we could become friends now". Super creepy ones I tell you.

Why can't be just ignore each other ? Now that we live hundreds of miles away.
> > Germany has Europe's oldest universal health care insurance system, with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck...

> I wasn't aware that a government-sponsored healthcare system this old existed in the world, because it's always seemed to me that such programs are fundamentally unsustainable.

They are not fundamentally unsustainable but Germany's current social system is unsustainable and will eventually fail because the demography and economics have undergone massive changes since it has been designed.

> So what I want to know is, how do they keep it sustainable For example, if there's no longer a market where demand responds to price signals, how do they determine how much procedures cost?

We do have a market in which insurance and health care providers negotiate prices and as you can see not only does this work it works a lot better than the US market does.

> What keeps providers from increasing prices 5% every year, regardless of cost increases, until they're essentially looting taxpayers' money on a massive scale?

Health care providers can't set arbitrary prices and insurance providers are regulated. Also insurance is mandatory but not paid for from taxes unless you don't have any income. The mandatory social insurances, of which there are four, all get paid a certain amount relative to your income.

> If the government sets prices, how do you avoid damaging shortages or surpluses when it gets the pricing wrong?

See above. The government doesn't set the prices.

> How about moral hazard -- the problem of people who waste healthcare resources by going to the doctor for every little sniffle, scrape and twinge since it's free?

You want to detect serious stuff early to keep the costs down, so to a certain degree you want that to happen. Apart from that there is a small 10€ fee you have to pay once every quarter for each doctor you visit unless you were referred to him by another doctor. This keeps moral hazard down and especially prevents unnecessary visits to specialized doctors.

> What keeps people in other countries who don't pay into the system from getting a burning desire to move to Germany when they find out they have something really expensive to treat like cancer or AIDS?

Like moral hazard this is not such a big issue as one might think it is. Most people tend to be reluctant to make such big moves, especially if they don't speak the local language which applies even more so if the topic they would like to talk about is their health. Apart from that there aren't that many countries in the world with a health care system as catastrophic as the one in the US.

More importantly though the people who do actually move to Germany for treatment tend to have lots of money and have no problem spending it on their health. So these patients are flown into the hospital using the dedicated helipad, on top of the luxury ward, in which they wait for overpriced procedures and get their overpriced medications.
‘Just reach out and touch me.’ Prince Harry...
Some of the examples in the do's seem a bit like that, but the don't's are something we need to take to heart.
Donated £13.06 according to paypal.

In the UK, the National Health Service certainly has inefficiencies, delays and issues. However, care is free at the point of need.

I suppose there are different ways of rationing a resource for which there is theoretically an infinite need. I prefer the way we do it in the UK.
Linearity of expectation applies to any two random variables, not just ones that are independent. The issue is that these games are not random variables, they are random processes (sequences of random variables) with state affected by the choices you make and previous outcomes. Linearity of expectation is irrelevant.
I love it. Probably not for me but I'm not sure if people here are your target audience. We're all techies and we see stuff pretty black and white usually. My father though would love it.

I've never taken the time to know if the following is possible, but it would be really cool this app could automatically get the books you've read from your amazon kindle account or itunes account.

Either way, I could people using it and posting a link on their personal website (e.g. click this link to see a small bio about me, click this link to see what I've read, click this link to see my portfolio, etc..)

If you're really interested I would enhance it a bit, maybe make a video that explains the concept, and try to pitch it to non-techies to validate the idea further. Spend a few bucks in Facebook adds or something like that.
I guess it's not really important. Many companies and consumers will stay for Windows 7 for a while and Windows 8 will enter the markets primarily via tablets. By the time Windows 8 SP1 or Windows 9 we'll see how that strategy worked out, and they'll probably tune the experience to make it an acceptable desktop operating system (either on real desktops or docked x86 tablets).

That said, I have used Windows 8 out of curiosity for some weeks (as a UNIX user since 1994), and I have to admit that I quite liked it. I didn't really use Metro, except for checking Facebook and Twitter every now and then. Of course, I am not a regular Windows user who has learnt usage patterns over the years, but I think there's also a lot of inertia.
I completely agree, I have just read that Icaza was awarded the "Advancement of Open Source Software" a while back. I'm just curious as someone who has made such commitments to the open source and also to the Linux eco system, can use another platform so enthusiastically.
Could you update the penumbra README? I'd like to try it out but the instructions are outdated.
I can't help but feel as if all of the claims made regarding "real innovation" in this post grossly undervalue the strides Apple has made in UI/UX and overall product design in favor of elevating more immediately self-evident technical advances.

The strength of Apple's innovation has always been in delivering complete, cohesive products. In that regard, user interface details and interactions which seem trivial technically are hardly trivial in terms of user experience.

As a competitive entity, there's no reason for Apple not to leverage every technique at its disposal to ensure its competitive viability - and one of these techniques is using patent litigation to prevent competitors from carbon-copying its innovations.

Moral and ethical arguments should be made with regard to the integrity of the patent system itself, not a single corporation's lawful use of that system. Decrying Apple's behavior either speaks to hopeless naiveté regarding the nature of competition, or self-congratulatory moral posturing.
Which is exactly why the book has that title. The book by Jackson is required reading for any physics graduate in a field where EM radiation plays a role.
4 years have passed since the article, Facebook haven't been affected much by the situation described therein, much less it has been "killed".

Citations are only needed when you cannot directly observe some reality for yourself. Here we can: it was a prediction, it never came off, _thus_ it was wrong. End of story.
Thanks for the feedback and the headsup on the CSS bug, I'll get that fixed. Pagination sounds like a good idea, or reworking how it fetches the data from Twitter.

When a campaign is created it queries Twitter's API for the brand name (e.g. "Hipmunk") every 10 minutes, and then runs filters on each tweet to categorise it.
> You can't extend a static method call

You can as of PHP 5.3 with late static bindings. `static::function()` will use the inheritance chain to find `function`
You can watch the unwrapping here:

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=100603...
Google is a nice company?!
How about the median age depends on reach on the general population?

If the general population median is mid-30s or 40s then any service that gains users in the overall society will end up with a same-ish median.
Here is the post at Travis Oliphant's blog about numba

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/numba-and-...

As it is said there, it's still early software and its "road-map is being defined right now by the people involved in the project". Sure the subset is not well defined now and there are no docs, but hey - let's give the thing a few months.

Haven't tested thoroughly yet, but I think no NumPy calls can be made from inside a numba-compiled function - so this might be the case for other Python modules as well.
Yes, I like the change from 'this is new, lets reject it'

The 'new interfaces' generally (Windows 8/TIFKAM, Ubuntu Unity, Gnome Shell) seem to me to be making less functionality manifest, and hiding a little more. I have not tried Windows 8/TIFKAM yet, but I use Unity/Gnome Shell much of the time.

"I am a web guy SO much more than a desktop guy so if you look in my Taskbar on any of my machines you'll see mostly web browsers, text editors and shells. I live off my taskbar and I'm ALL about HotKeys. If I can avoid touching my mouse at all I will."

I think a significant number of more ordinary computer users do use the mouse a lot more.
Sorry, my fault... What´s your take on the morals of the Samsung/Apple trial and your feelings regarding protection by software patents?
> You say that as though you'd definitively disproved the premise, instead of just saying "nuh-uh."

He raises an hypothesis without any evidence. As Hitchens said: Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
If you can not see the difference in the touchscreen UI between the Wizard (or any other pre-iPhone device) and the iPhone, you have to be blind.

Until the iPhone, touch-screen phones were slow, clunky and unresponsive. They had shitty resistive screens that were a total pain to use. (LG actually released a capacitive phone before the iPhone, but the software was the same shit we had for ages so it didn't change a thing). Even simple things like lists were scrolled by aiming for a 2px wide scrollbar and dragging it.

But then the iPhone came along with smooth and fluid graphics and animations, actually innovative and fun touch gestures like simple flicks to scroll through lists (and a 60fps smooth animation while doing so), pinch-to-zoom and so on. The experience was actually enjoyable.

The same thing happened with the iPad. Back in the early 2000's we had "tablets" with a downsized desktop OS (Windows XP). Total shit for a touch-screen device.

Even after the iPhone some competitors failed to realize what made it good. Nokia's touch screen abominations were just sad - and they're still releasing some terrible Symbian devices like the new PureView 808. The Verge's review summarizes Symbian's problems pretty well:

> THE SYMBIAN EFFECT: WHEN GREAT HARDWARE IS RENDERED USELESS BY TERRIBLE SOFTWARE

> Actions like scrolling or pinch-to-zoom feel like requests you’re filing with a clerk somewhere in a bureaucratic dystopia — to be carried out at some indeterminate time in the future. Completing this slow-motion train wreck is the only thing worse than unresponsive operation: a complete crash of the entire phone.

Apple needs to stop with their bullshit litigation but they truly did push the industry forward with touch devices. It isn't a coincidence that touch screen phones exploded after the iPhone and that people actually started caring about tablets after the iPad.
when I realized that in the end backbone is just javascript and suffers from the same inheritence problems due to its crappy prototype object model.

And you manually have to deal with event disposal when destroying views in backbone. just google backbone ghost views, I realized maybe it wasn't the best thing for the job after all.

edit: the top comment mentions mixins, good stuff https://github.com/jb55/bquery

but personally i can't wait until we get a proper replacement for javascript, like dart maybe.
Actifio could tee up IPO next year
If you're in the UK that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm not particularly versed in copyright law, but take a look at this example where the work was just "similar"

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/01/25/Imitated_Image_Copyr...
Germany wants Google to pay publishers for linking to them
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Thanks Colin, appreciate the advice!
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Thanks Robin, I will check out your job board and I am going to start posting to GitHub.
You're forgetting the impact this will have on it's stock, already reaching records highs since the decision was announced. So if you think it a "measly $1b" you're horribly mistaken. How about a "measly" tens of billions in overall stock growth over the next months?
I'm not sure. I guess not as the code would be very different from the original (different language/platform).

"it doesn't compete with the actual product since it doesn't work on mobile"

I don't think this is true. Now people have a choice - pay for the iPhone app, or play it on their computer for free. Most people will probably never know about this version but I think it is still a competitor.
What all creative industries can learn from fashion's free culture of copying
And how about compulsory licensing after, say, 2 years, at reasonable terms, subject to arbitration and penalties for excessive demands.

The patent system needs to be fixed globally. Current international trade agreements are going in the wrong direction, driven by the USA negotiators who are ultimately driven by Disney, MPAA and so on.

The rest of te world would dearly like to see US citizens get involved - the TPP is a good place to start.
Exactly. I find it amazing that people suddenly start applying a different set of rules once it's about Apple.

If I was a startup founder who designed and developed the iPhone, and then saw the blatant rip-off by Samsung, I would go nuts with rage. And HN would likely rage with me. But hey, it's Apple, so no bullying, and anyone is allowed to copy whatever they do, right?

Also, I view this whole trial as "a way" for Apple to get at Samsung. Patents were a tool here, not the end goal. We all know the patent system is broken and obsolete, but since it exists, it is a tool that Apple could use. Note that no one seems to dispute that Samsung copied Apple designs, people just complain about the use of patents. I think that is a very one-sided view. Samsung blatantly copied (and continues to do so) Apple designs and they deserve to be punished — that Apple used patents is something I'd consider secondary.
Patenting a single one is absurd.

Protecting the hundreds of design decisions that go into making a product look and feel a certain way, against people who are willing to just basically make a copycat product that does everything the same way - that's not so absurd.

I think Samsung lost not because of one specific patent, but because of the overwhelming number of points on which they copied Apple.
Hopefully this entire episode straightens itself out - I was worried that Perlman was not the man I judged him out to be from a far (talks/papers/history/work). It seriously undermined my confidence in my ability to judge the character of the people around me (I'm still doubtful of course - but this shook me a little bit more than usual).

Looks like a bit of poor cash flow management - mixed with some unfortunate acquisition manoeuvres lead OnLive to this rather nasty juncture (Sony's Gaiki acquisition - inability to monetize - inability to sign up profitably - too much scale too fast).

OnLive is still a great idea - and as John Carmack has stated (paraphrased):

> "Cloud gaming is a technical inevitability. It will happen within the next 5 years."

And someone is still going to make a lot of money. I'm still betting it'll be Perlman and his team.
Microsoft has a 90% desktop market share. How many new PC's are sold every year? Win8 sounds like a solid product so I think the adoption rate will be good. Is there really a really to ask for Win7 on a new PC after Win8 is released?
Eh?

I don't see what the BBC has done wrong. It's an important case. Just because it happened in the US doesn't mean they shouldn't report on it.
If this ever effects the US or Europe to to great an effect I'm pretty sure WTO can help. China is not selling these sorts of products to the world yet so it's a pretty meaningless threat so far.
It's no different than Amazon's One-click.

You're not seriously trying to suggest that one-click is a reasonable patent, are you?
"My philosophy is that if I take care of you, you're going to take care of my business" - one of the best guys I ever worked for.
I also tried mining Wikipedia, but I found it's much more reliable to use the categories of the movies instead of the links.

The links are very often unrelated: "unlike in the movie X", "who by then had already became famous playing X in movie Z", etc. Instead of using the entire article, I only used links from the very first sentence. (" X is an Italian 1984 drama starring Z, etc...") These links could be connected to categories.

The problem I didn't expect was that the "hierarchy" of the categories is a mess. Seems easy in concept: "comedy-drama films" is a subcategory of both "comedy films" and "drama films", so you can use all the parent categories. In practice you get to completely unrelated categories in a few steps. The biggest challenge was cleaning this mess up algorithmically. Once that was done, I had a very nice taxonomy of the movies.

The result didn't come close anywhere to the top contestants, but it was a very interesting learning experience.
A "fandroid" who uses a Nokia dumb phone. Yeah right.
Do you think Apple will appeal to get more then? I can certainly see them appealing if they don't get an injunction but I'm not sure they would want to reopen the damages part.

There are a range of views around here about what should happen. The middle ground area is possibly that iPhone lookalikes are blocked (but fairly narrowly defined lookalikes) and possibly Android needs to work around a few minor unimportant patents. I don't think anyone (outside of Apple and I'm not even sure there) wants Android totally eliminated but the scroll bounce patent is for a nice but completely unnecessary effect.

MS are still highly profitable at the moment and the do own the shitty, bloatware enterprise productivity market. There are worse market positions.
Because the BBC is paid for by people in the UK and we are at least entitled to be told that the ruling has no impact here and, in fact, there are no software patents (at least none that are legally enforceable) in the UK.
Would you ever think about patenting a double touch interaction when you were the first to implement a double click action on a touchscreen? I think these things are so obvious I would even be ashamed to call them my innovation.
"The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions."

Is this stuff getting too complex for lay juries?

In the UK, there have been serious fraud cases that have collapsed simply through jury attrition and lack of capability to understand the evidence.
I didn't understand as much as I'd have liked of the linked article. Let me check something. In Mathematica, are the M expressions the internal 'FullForm' representations of expressions? So, for example, I type:

a = {1,2,3};

Which is represented internally as an 'M expression' of List[1,2,3] (obtainable through FullForm[a], or its head through Head[a])?

Is that it?

I didn't realise that was a named concept. It does make sense to have a completely unified internal representation underneath the syntactic sugar, since you'd need everything to be in that form for the term rewriting system to work.

Thanks!
There's a nice video series about why the primitive moral idea "stealing is wrong" wreaks havoc in the world of ideas:

http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
I downloaded and launched Reflection, but my iPhone won't show the Airplay button when I swipe left twice in the task bar. Ideas?
Yeah Elon is perfect. Except for being peer pressured by shady super wealthy people.
Akio Morita, cofounder of Sony, said essentially this in his biography. Sony was, of course, the Apple of its time.
I'm a British citizen. The BBC doesn't mention it, but why would they need to? It's quite clearly reporting on a US case, and doesn't imply any influence outside of there.
exactly what I was thinking ;o
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