skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The package was opened. It contains a collection of historical documents, letters, telegrams, newspapers clippings and national decorations. Also a white banner with gold tassels that said "Fra Kongen" which translates to "From the King." and several other banner and flag-like decorations in the Norway's colors of red, blue and white. The package weights 3 kg.
Apple has done a good job of persuading people that this case was about protecting innovation and about Samsung's specific alleged infringements of their patents. But this is nothing more than a smoke screen for their ongoing proxy war on Android.

They've refused to compete with Android on price, features, and form factors and the market has punished them for it. Expect more attacks on Android seeking ridiculous damages for non-essential details of mobile UI design.

However, I strongly suspect Apple is going to regret these tactics in the long run. Once the tiger is out of the cage there's no telling who he will bite.
You're right. I'm not really into Taoism, I heard the talking of "about living peacefully and healthily and as long as possible" from a friend, who has been to meditation leading by a famous Daoshi in my area, and also heard real Taoism monks don't practice martial arts at all except Taichi if you count it as a martial art or kungfu.
Yes. DragonWing Software is my software contracting company. I also publish my books under DragonWing Publishing.

Thanks!
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1Y3NDUG_enUS498US498&cl...

Louis Vuitton knockoffs are routinely destroyed for infringing exactly the kinds of design IP Samsung has just been nailed for.
Given that nice dress socks can easily cost $20 a pair, the pricing seems reasonable to me (given relatively high quality).
Current law, as upheld by juries lacking sufficient knowledge, disagrees with the intent of the law.

Patents don't cover ideas, they cover implementation. Literally if your way of implementing something is the non-obvious way to make something more efficient, you are granted the right to exclusive use of it.

Apple, by act of jury, now has a patent on the idea and not the implementation. The patent is on a capacitive touch screen, but is a jury going to uphold a patent if it is an optical touchscreen? What if I use pinch-zoom on my Kinect?
It'd cost quite a bit more than that. 5% of the income tax is only like $50 billion dollars, which is dwarfed by our current Medicare/Medicaid spending to cover a fraction of the population. Maybe something like doubling everyone's taxes could do it?
Meh would be the word. TED has personality and vibe. This doesn't, or rather its vibe is that of an iPhone app site - generic and instantly forgettable.
Don't imagine that this ruling will be the end of Apple's war on Android. An emboldened Apple is going to go on the legal warpath like never before.
If we're talking about a choice between unfriending someone and moving them to Siberia, they're already committed to managing their graph in this case.
That intro video is fantastic. Thanks for introducing this to me.
A lot of this stuff was done in Flash for years. Multi-touch screens is what made it different, not Apple design.
It is relevant to your previous comment, which claimed that Koh had "little to do with" the jury's decision.
By consensus of the contributors to the HN community who have been most honored with karma by their fellow participants (I asked them once), political posts like this really don't belong on Hacker News. The guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

specifically say, "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic," and this story has definitely been covered on TV (it BROKE on TV) and has been widely reported and discussed online already.
Triangular Tablets?

Two Words:
Dunder Mifflin
It seems pretty straightforward on the surface, for sure. However, considering just how convoluted phonegap, weinre and friends can get, it's not hard to believe it turned into a mud ball.
You know Apple's intentions pretty well! Are you a C-level executive there? Or are you just speculating the exact same as he is?
Blown away.

I'm simply blown away, as day after day the outpouring of support for Ken grows. When I put my blog post together, my hope was to help a good friend with a new monitor, and the rest was kindof a pipe dream.

Now, 8 days and almost $40,000 later, I'm at a loss for words.

Thank you to everyone who has donated, commented, passed it on, or done anything else to help us out. Both Ken and I are speechless.

Thank you.
"Do you want to be a sharecropper?"

Beautifully put.

Look at this way. Apple is not the first and last company to make a device that will function as a "phone". Or as an MP3 player.

How are they going to stop people from 3D printing their own cool casings? And from using free open source code that is the same or better as what Apple uses? With lawyers? It's not going to work.

For now Apple is riding high. But it won't last forever. Apple needs developers, as in the ones who do not work for Apple and can speak freely. Just like Microsoft needed developers in the 90's. They hired as many as they could and flooded the developer ecosystem with a gazillion closed API's and an easy peasy IDE. Strange as it may seem, these companies need you in order to stay competitive.
This was incredibly kind of you to post up. It is great to see it public domain as many can learn from it. The Cython code looks scary though - 18k lines! May I ask how long you spent on this?
UBeam wireless power startup shows prototype at D9 (video hands-on)
The fact there's a Ribbon Hero 2 with what looks like pretty solid marketing behind it would seem to undermine your take. (No, I didn't know it existed either, but I don't think it was is a lab demo any more.)
The site look messed up on iPhone. Not complaining (or whining), just FYI.
What he would receive depends on his level of service. Was he in combat? Was in injured?

Tangent, that's good to hear. I've known more than a few individuals who pushed paper in the service for two years and actively avoided a tour, and seemed to be reaping all the same benefits as the ones who saw combat.
This isn't available for others to try yet. Before I put a lot of work into the idea I wanted to see if anyone else found it worthwhile.

I read a lot of books these days, but for the most part they're digital. Because of that, they're not staring at me on a bookshelf and I find myself forgetting what I've read. Most importantly, I find myself forgetting the memories attached to those books.

Before e-books, I'd have physical copies that would remind me of specific moments in my life. It was nice to see a few books and think, "Oh yeah, that was when I lived in San Francisco and met my girlfriend," or "oh yeah, that book reminds me of my family back in Southern California."

I wanted to get that feeling back. The feeling of being able to look through my past...but by using books. I put this together as something quick and easy to make me happy.

In fact, all the code can be found here: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/12/05/lateral-on-scroll-sli.... If folks are interested in the idea then please let me know and I'll see about making something that we all can use.

This is just my way of showing the quick idea :).
My visceral reaction to the idea of one giant room was "Rad". Love open floor plans.

I'm really curious what the final interior plan will look like; presumably it's not some huge airplane hanger of openness but some clever way of staying open-while-interesting.

Like you, though, I'm just excited at the prospect of larger companies doing something different. Should be fun to watch.
Seonded. Is this a proof of concept or a prototype available for others to try?
Uh oh. Thanks for letting me know. I'll add that to the list of "Things to fix if people actually like this idea" :)
Some of Frank Gehry's designs definitely look like the Facebook stock.
Thanks for the blog post. Very informative and concise.
I wouldn't say that this is the worst possibly use of Facebook's money, but I would rank it up there.

Building a new HQ is largely an exercise in vanity and boasting. There is almost always an existing building that would serve just fine, otherwise.

"The largest open floor plan in the world"? Oy. I hope they hire some good acoustics folks before they finish the planning stages.
That's what I was thinking too. Not quite sure how to make it happen automatically yet...so far this was very manual.

What do you think of being able to send an email somewhere...and then a little bit later the book is added automatically?
Same with Lenovo Ideapads. One hinge broke in mine 2 months after I got it. It got fixed under warranty, they replaced the whole section of the laptop, both hinges. Now 1.5 years later the other hinge broke, I will have to either live with it or eat the costs. The engineering is absolute garbage, and it's too bad, because the specs/price ratio for Ideapads is pretty much the best.
How is the culture there?

* Westboro Baptist Church is in Topeka, KS (65 miles away)

* a professor was beaten in Lawrence, KS (30 miles away) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mirecki#Intelligent_Design...)
It's hard to believe that those crazy stories will happen to you and I know I didn't expect GoDaddy to burn me when I used them in 2009 for the red balloon DARPA challenge.

I had been out ranking the official DARPA site for weeks on every major search engine for almost every conceivable term. I was #1 and they were #2. I didn't have major university funding or anything like that. My strategy was to be the site that was most accessible to balloon spotters and allowed them to send GPS coordinates from JavaScript geography functions to me from mobile phones. Then I was going to use a clustering algorithm to determine the balloon locations and send the center point of the top 10 clusters to DARPA.

All was well until the night leading up to the competition, DARPA told GoDaddy to takedown and mark my site as spam so that they would take the number one spot on search engines (I contacted them and they just openly admitted to doing this but that's a different story). GoDaddy took down my site and when I spoke to them about it they said they will do a take down for any reason from any US agency. I asked them if the CA DMV requested a takedown, would they comply and they said, "well I guess so."

I didn't get angry, I just accepted that every business is entitled to operate in whatever way they want.

I just vote with my business. No more business for GoDaddy.
While Apple may only have 30% of the smart-phone market, they make around 70% of the profit in the that market. I hardly call that punishing.
@tuananh I've got the dataset stored away, but I don't know if I'm legally allowed to post it. Would love if someone could produce proof one way or the other.

@viraj_shah I spent about 6 months working on the project before I had to stop to concentrate on my schoolwork (I was a senior in collge at the time). I think it would have been impossible to do this for myself without Cython. If it were to happen today, I would probably be writing in PyCuda, or with Numba, and it would be much, much, MUCH more succinct.
You might need some kind of browser extension that reads your Media Library, I can't find any other way of automating it at the moment.
Bubble or not, just fucking build something.
Old Sun campus too small for these guys already?
I just donated $10. Every little bit helps.
Would you say the same thing about Apple's building or is that different as they have more money to spend?

I think it may be worth it, a big part of hiring the best talent now is creating an environment that they enjoy rather than dread being in. Not that the open plan office is for everyone.
It looks like I have to sign up to play. Trivial inconvenience, I know, but now I'm bored and doing other things. Just FYI.
@alexbw Thanks for the info, great work!
Backbone has only given you the tools to make your code better, you have made yourself whatever you are.
I think they realize that this position is no more sustainable than their position was in the desktop market and they're acting out of fear.

If you've used a recent, high-end Android phone you know that the quality gap is mostly gone and that the apps that most people care about are now available on both platforms. Apple is not going to be able to sustain their astonishing profit margins without the help of the courts.
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> the market has punished [Apple] for it

You're serious? They take 73% of the profit in smartphone market, with Samsung at the second place (26%) and HTC, third (1%), their stock is booming, they have more money in the bank than all of their competitors combined (they can buy Samsung, HTC and Dell and shut them down and still have a few billion dollars left).

I'd call that reward, not punishment.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/03/the-phone-market-in-2012-a-...
Oops... not enough names to go around. I am talking about AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Firstly, it isn't an ad hominem attack. I said the comment was dumb and ignorant. I didn't say he was.

You said "Looking forward to plenty of truly dumb, ignorant comments like this in the future," which implies that the author of the original comment will be making such comments. This is an attack on the character or intelligence of the author, and is thus an ad hominem.

Secondly, the comment is taken of context because shawnee keeps editing and deleting comments.

This is remedied by quoting the part of the comment you want to highlight in your response. I use HN's asterisks-to-italics formatting for quotations; others use spaces to activate a <pre> block (be sure to insert manual line breaks if you use this method).

Thirdly, what is worse than having inflammatory comments is one like these from people who aren't actually contributing to the discussion. Is there a need to be so condescending ?

Sometimes voting and flagging aren't enough to signal that a discussion is getting out of hand, and a direct comment is required. You will find that I contributed on-topic responses elsewhere, including a response to another comment of yours.
I will be waiting for the day when you will be introduced to angularjs.
And what value exactly does your comment add? Did you consider that English may not be parent's native language?
> 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.

The lunacy here is that apple wasn't even granted the patent over a specific gesture. IE pinch=zoom in and spread=zoom out or vice versa. It's that the movement of pinching/spreading has been patented here in all and every application of the gesture as it would inherently be used for zoom function, despite it being demonstrated prior to that date.

This is like Microsofts multi-click patent, that patents all mouse clicks that can have different functionality. short/long/multiple clicks.

It's like granting Kleenex a patent over all facial tissues and the right to use a piece of tissue for your face. The only competitive idea being a facial cloth like a hankie.
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Note: This is in regard to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, not Beanstalk for version control.
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I love the energy itself that people are putting into making the web more of an app development platform. It's commendable how strongly and energetically they push to get there, building cool demos and frameworks that on a relative scale (i.e. from the web of ten years ago to the web of today) seem magical. But, frankly, more and more I feel like you, and more and more all that effort seems wasted on bringing everything up to par with old desktop patterns and techniques when we could all instead push everything somewhere new.

Like you I write web apps, but I'm old enough/lucky enough to have had some other experiences, and to be quite honest I find even Gtk+ is more pleasant overall than the MV* framework of the month. That we have folks now trying to write AutoCAD or Photoshop in JavaScript just like a loss for our industry.
I agree that Apple should be able to protect what is looks like, not what it works like.

Sure this is a point of view (after all, the american patent system didn't come up out of nowhere). I believe that if you let people to patent things like 2-click buy, finger gestures, and stuff like that, you just close the door for competition. You effectively prohibit people of making things like that, because even though you come up with a completely different mechanism to provide the same interactive interface, you have to pay for an abstract idea.

Maybe Samsung should be able to copy it (the concept) for free because that is what is called competition. In an ideal scenario, to stay ahead in competition you should continuously come up with new and better ideas. If you competitors suck so badly that they must copy you everytime, you'll stay ahead anyway.
That's a really good move - listening to the problems that users have with competitors. It's humorous how we'll start things because we experience a pain point, yet keep our noses down in the work and ignore everyone else's problems afterwards, or at least not actively look for them.

At what point do you consider the first mover disadvantage to become irrelevant? For instance, Google Search and DuckDuckGo - DuckDuckGo aims at the anonymous search pain point, but the algorithm is not (and probably will never be) better than Google's. Unless it's a massive flaw in the core product it seems as if it'd be difficult to migrate users from competitors to your own product.

Thanks for all the insight and the good articles - it's a lot of material that will help me currently and in the future. I experienced a 'I never noticed the kettle was black all these years' kind of enlightening on some of the information, which is always nice when you realize you're just blind in some regards. I actually remember reading that post by Girish a long time ago, but had forgotten about it.
Use a Hough transform on the edge detection to get the right lines (you only want the longest, straightest ones). Then apply the affine transform back.

It gets harder if the notebook doesn't lie flat, though.
You are seeing insults where there are none.

I don't believe that comparing humanity with computer code is particularly wise. However, to use your analogy - if there is a bug in the code you fix it, and you correct any problems that the bug causes. That would be the ideal of modern science, but we aren't there yet.

To be able to implement your ideas of genetic purity (which is basically your argument!) we would need to either a. Stop those with genetic "defects" from breeding, or b. withdraw treatment from them and hope they die before they have offspring, or c. end the life of those people to take away strain from the medical system and prevent them from reproducing. Regardless, to know this there would need to be mandatory mass screening of the population to make these determinations. Go work out the moral objections and monetary costs that would result from THAT, if you will!

Furthermore, your original argument is that those with congenital defects cause excessive strain on health systems. Yet where do you get your figures from? I would be very interested.

Yet there is more that you haven't considered. Using your own argument - which I find to be so terribly wrong - you haven't considered that not assisting those with a genetic defect may remove positive genetic attributes from the gene pool. Now you have the problem of judging whether one aspect of their genetics should cause them to propagate their genes. But if you do let that propagate, then you are exhibiting anti-dysgenics, which you abhore.

What makes your argument particularly specious is that you never consider the intrinsic worth of the person receiving the treatment. On top of this, you think that it is moral to refuse treatment for those suffering from illnesses because they are defective. And yet they are not defective, they have a particular defect that is causing them medical problems.

In short, I consider your ideas cruel, inequitable, poorly reasoned and ill-considered. That's not an insult: it's a reasoned opinion.
And weirdly, non-compliance with medication is roughly similar in the US (very expensive meds) and the UK (cheap meds, and 80% of people who need a prescription don't pay anything).

There's not much change if you look at the severity of need for meds either - many organ transplants fail because people don't comply with the meds.
No?

Surprising thing: Math's not the only modeling medium that can be Unreasonably Effective.

Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: Know; saw; upvoted apropos reference already.
Miguel de Icaza on Samsung v Apple
http://www.blacksocks.com solves this problem perfectly. I don't even use their subscription, I buy in bulk, then retire them all at once and buy in bulk again.
Their market share is rapidly falling wrt Android. There's no way they can maintain that profit share if this continues and they know it.
The Moleskine is supposed to lie very flat and the paper isn't shiny. Those both improve the focus, too. The lines are supposed to help remove skew, too.

It should be a lot better than a photo of a book, and much much better than a magazine.
I try to do this, just because I viscerally dislike Apple specifically and the increasing hegemony of corporations over individuals in general, but it is really hard to stick with because Apple simply makes the best fucking products.

I bought a Galaxy Nexus, and it's a lot better than previous Android phones, but it just sucks too much to rely on so I carry two phones. I bought a Nexus 7, which I actually like more than the current iPad, but that is mostly form-factor thing; a 7-inch iPad would relegate the Nexus 7 to the shelf.

So I can decide to use these slightly shittier devices and 'punish' Apple, but it doesn't feel worthwhile, because in doing so I also have to punish myself, and Apple isn't the actual underlying problem.

In this case, it is the dysfunctional patent system. In another recent case where Apple was the villian, the issue was the diminishment of the rights of individual citizens in favor of protecting the interests of multinational corporations: when Apple actively lobbied to make jailbreaking illegal.

That was a case where the actual underlying system was resolved in favor of the good guys (per my worldview, and that of most HN readers I presume). The law of the land was changed, and the problem was solved/averted.

Fixing the patent system seems like a herculean task, probably much harder than protecting our legal right to crack shitty DRM and usage restrictions on devices we own, but I think it is still the right place to focus. Apple may be the latest Oracle/SCO/AssholeCorp, but as long as the underlying legal system is completely fucked, even if Apple disappeared there would just be another corporation that came along and started doing the same shit.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I disagree. I find Apple's strategy more solid and sustainable than their competitors'.

BTW, I just wanted to say you have a GitHub link on your HN profile that leads to a 404. I thought maybe that was a mistake and you might want to fix it :)
In you do this please let the data format be a simple text file with one line per book. Then I'll have this list on some pastebin or github and give your service read perm.
Facebook has circles but much better anyway. People just don't like to manage their graph.
The fact that they are planning for the long term? It's interesting how we two seem to get such different signals from the same news.