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A claim is not a series of tubes...

Seriously, though, people on HN, etc, read claims far more broadly than a court would. They tend to see "rubber band effect" and think Apple patented all rubber band effects.

Claims start out broadly, and are narrowed by additional elements of the claim. "A rubber band effect THAT: a)... b)... c)..." You can't just ignore (a), (b), (c) because they narrow the boundaries of the claimed invention.
Ask HN: HNSearch.com hangs on upper bound
1)GOOD - works well as it reaches within the search result set limit
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Hackers&start=990&limit=10

2)BAD - hangs as limit goes beyond the max result set
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Hackers&start=990&limit=11

curious to know whether this is ThriftDB bug or HNSearch.com?
The Newton had an SDK, a vibrant developer community, and a user interface that was one big touchscreen rather than having physical buttons - in 1993. Palm actually got its start selling software for the Newton, specifically their "Graffiti" recognition engine.

If you want to argue about who had specific features first, Newton will usually win - PalmOS was stripped-down to be cheap and dependent on the PC it docked to whereas Newton was conceived as a standalone device so Newton could do things like print or send and receive a fax from day one - Palm got most of those features later if at all.
I used livescribe back in 2009 or so. Hated the big pen. Till date nothing compares to taking notes on a normal paper and a pen/pencil. Even the S-note on the galaxy note/tab is a far cry.
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It's just a summary of the jury's verdict. It doesn't discuss the merits of the claims at all.
That was funny lol
You realize there is more to a patent claim than the heading?
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The surprising bit is not that it explains the observations that it was modelled on, but that it explains further, unexpected observations that were unknown at that time.

It's not that maths is so great, or even that models are great, but that we were able to model some essence of a phenomenon, beyond what we witnessed.

This happens not because it's a model (you can have as many models/theories as you like), but because we selected that model, usually due to beauty/parsimony/elegance - which amounts to some version of Occam's Razor: to not make a model more complex than needed to explain the observations. (do not multiply elements unnecessarily; given different models that explain the observations, the simplest one is most likely the truest of them). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

The real puzzle (if it's a puzzle) is why Occam's Razor works so well...
the tests suggest that it is only used where you tell it to be used: https://github.com/numba/numba/tree/master/tests
https://zenobase.com/ is another, new self-tracking service. It's quite generic, so not as user-friendly or convenient as more specialized tracking services can be, but it's more flexible, and is an improvement over a plain spreadsheet (or pen and paper).
SGI built a new campus (now the Googleplex) in 1998, the same year they announced they were switching from their own MIPS processors to Itanium and shipping Windows NT workstations. In 2005, SGI was delisted from the NYSE.
I think it's money well spent. Facebook is one of the principle belligerent powers in the War for Talent. They're going to lose some ground in that war after the IPO. A stunning campus could help minimize that loss.
Trade is generally a positive-sum game. The fact that the producer makes a profit means there is a producer surplus but the fact that consumers buy it means there is a consumer surplus too. The general public thinks iPhones are worth more than what Apple is charging, so they buy it.

By buying products with large profit margins you're sending a message that you want the company to stay in business and grow and keep doing what it's doing.

> By buying products with huge profit margins you're spending money on features that you're not getting.

No, part of what makes Apple so valuable is that they resist adding more "features" than the bare minimum, in favor of trying to preserve their best feature: simplicity.
to me, this comment seems to be phrased a tad bit negatively, even though it may be factually correct.

a lot of people like to talk about "android fragmentation". while the variety of devices out there can sometimes be annoying as a consumer and developer, i tend to think of it as "android diversity" instead.

to me, it's wonderful that your so-called "poor people", who may not even have a regular computer and for whom the "premium" experience that apple is not an option, still have an opportunity to participate in the "modern world". even if it's with a device that gearheads would turn their noses up at.

technology liberates, informs, and elevates people. the fact that the android ecosystem is flexible enough to accommodate a huge demographic is a strength, in my mind, and not a weakness.
Even in the talk where he introduces the iPhone, Jobs says something along the lines of "we have over 200 patents for technologies that went into this device . . . and we aim to protect them!" and then everyone applauds. Kind of eerie looking back on it.
Not really. My reading of Groklaw told me that Apple will win for sure but Samsung will have plenty of grounds to appeal. Today's verdict was not a surprise at all.
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Ahem. Rather than automagic bullshit, could you just do machine learning which handles multiple data-types.

That would be a big change for the ML crowd to have to deal with real world, multiple typed, dirty data. Earthshattering, I know. (Yes, we've already spoken by email. Best of luck on your adventures)
The numbers you quote sound like large sums of money but MSF's total budget is $400M and 80% of it comes from private individuals. (source: Wikipedia.) So it seems like a stretch to say MSF "exists in part" due to the largesse of software companies.
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How is something like the JVM handled (when scaling down), which seems averse to letting go of its memory?
'Consumer surplus' is an economic term, and it's simply a calculated or derived quantity. The fact of the matter is, marketing can change opinions on what a product is worth, or whether it should be bought. Surplus, in other words, is very much manipulable by marketing and advertisement. Consumers think iPhones are worth buying because Apple managed to convince them, and their friends, of it. Not because they may inherently provide more utility/enjoyment over their lifespan than a product from a competitor.

I don't mean to imply Apple products are overpriced in general. I mostly just prefer to discount/devalue marketing when making decisions on what to buy, and instead focus on the features that are important to me.
Sigh... Did you read all the way to "Update 3".
Brad Feld has a great blog post on what he suspects happened at OnLive, given his experience with similar situations in the past: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/08/what-just-happened-w...
Same question in mind here. I can't post ask because I just got created my account, but upon googling overnight, it seems that budget seems to be the most de-facto you must have. Interested to some folks posting more hosting experiences.
This all but guarantees they'll never be able to offer an office where I can get serious stretches of undisturbed time. For an major employer of developers (who are known for wanting to get into the zone) that's stunning, but not in a good way.
Even with a really complicated framework, when considering APC, I doubt that the time spent in the framework is at all significant when compared with the time required for the application itself.

They know that too probably which is why their benchmark in the embedded slides is completely meaningless (just a simple hello world)

When you switch to C for the framework code, what you gain in speed, you lose in flexibility, customizability and ease-of-deployment.

That said, a quick look at their documentation shows a nice framework that doesn't enforce too much structure while still providing the necessities that plain PHP doesn't.
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It's different in that Swype uses one continuous motion instead of discrete taps. (There are undoubtedly other differences as well.) And no, Swype isn't available on iOS. (N.B. I use Swype on Android and love it.)
In a car you have airbags, which are sort of like an external helmet.

As for walking, there are a lot more things that can go wrong on a bike. You can hit a pothole, get your wheel caught in a train track, slip on an oil patch, get doored, have your chain get stuck, not be able to clip out of your pedal, get something caught in your spokes, take a corner on some sand, hit the ground with your pedal, etc.

These things aren't very likely, but any of them provides a fair chance to lose control of your bike and then hit something or the ground at a decent speed. The more traffic you ride in the more likely something will happen. And if you ride every day to commute, you'll almost certainly have some kind of incident sooner or later.

Personal anecdote section:

I bike commuted for 2.5 years in the south bay without any major incidents. Later, I had been bike commuting in SF for about a month when I had an accident that involved hitting my head on a parked truck and then the ground (at least I think). The helmet ended up slightly scraped up. I don't know how badly my head would have been injured without it; it may have been just a scrape as well. But I'm quite happy I didn't get to find out.
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> Samsung doesn't compete with Apple either. They are more similar to counterfeiters who sell black-market Oakley, Nike, and Prada stuff in alleyways.

My goodness. Samsung designs may imitate Apple's to some debatable extent, but they're not labeling their products with an Apple logo. The way I see it, TV makers imitate each others' designs and features all the time, and so do car makers and fridge makers.

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

Your generalisation is extreme. Surely Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, etc. do innovate (with reference to their legacy in the wider field of electronics)?

And they are certainly competing. The very definition of competition is to sell a product that is a close substitute for another. Your assertion seems to make innovation the only thing that matters for competition, which it isn't.

Society would be better off generally if competition (of all forms) increased in more markets.
This view is not shown all the time, so nothing is wasted. And 28 + 6 icons is a lot. I don't see why it should be necessary to fit more icons on the screen by making them smaller.
I worked for a number of years in the MIT Stata Center, an office building designed by Gehry. It was a trainwreck on so many levels. This article (http://www.fastcompany.com/641146/lost-funhouse
) details the some of the construction issues, but even if the building had been watertight, on budget, and on time, the design itself made it difficult to work in.
I can't seem to find a link. It wasn't very large. Maybe 8 feet by 20. But it was just enough to make it feel like the way things used to be.
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I'm not a legal professional but even though the author claims that the "logic and graphics" have been created by scratch, doesn't that make no difference to the fact that he's almost (the movement isn't as nice) recreated someone else's stuff verbatim and is claiming that it's now open source?

Don't get me wrong, it's a very nice job and all, but with just a few drops of creative thought the author could be on his way to creating his own ideas instead of imitating others.
Firefighter / paramedic (/ IT geek) here: I took a patient today out of the ER (via ambulance) to a skilled nursing facility. There were a lot (for us, 6+) ambulances in the receiving bay. Patient comments: "Wow, busy. Usually when I'm going to the ER, and I see that many ambulances, I say to my friend "we'll come back tomorrow when it's quieter"."

Read into that what you will.
> I do appreciate that there's one consumer electronics company that attempts and succeeds at novel, high risk products.

Yeah; I like Nintendo, too. Oh, wait: were you talking about another singular company?
in what form is the js compiled for ios/android? some sort of encapsulated browser?
Actually something like this has been happening for a while - Iranian students have been restricted from taking some courses in the Netherlands, and for a while outright banned from certain Dutch universities, so as to prevent them from receiving information that could be used in Iranian nuclear program:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranians_in_the_Netherlands#Edu...
http://www.opendemocracy.net/pooyan-tamimi-arab/stop-sanctio...
It's one thing to make a Doodle Jump-like game. But this is being called the trademarked name Doodle Jump, and you've copied the artwork straight from Doodle Jump.

Seems certain this isn't an official licensed version. In which case, you should change all those items immediately. It's illegal and it's just not cool.

Here are the guys you are ripping off. Igor and his brother. Igor is a very nice guy:

http://allthingsd.com/20120823/how-to-become-an-app-store-mi...
Has automatically checking for a fix online ever worked? Admittedly I'm only an infrequent user of Windows, but I've never once had it actually do anything.
Really, surprised at Groklaw's slant? While I know the bias in Groklaw is shared by many web developers (note I didn't just say "developers"), I've never been a fan of its cheerleading and it's attempts to make it look like they're looking at the law impartially. Lastly, I don't find their legal analysis well thought out. It's lack of impartiality hampers its ability to do good analysis.
"In short, if software is truly eating the world, then it needs to be more meaningful." I think we are slowly getting there. But, areas such as politics, education and medicine are really behind the curve. I've noticed a lot more start ups focused on the well being of humanity and our personal lives. Sites like nextdoor.com and myenergy.com come to mind.
I haven't played StarCraft 2 yet.
Wow; is it really that good? Think I might go buy a copy today.
Fun way to play the game: try just holding the right arrow key down at the beginning. Since there doesn't seem to be a limit on horizontal velocity, it's kinda like you're on multiple horizontal positions at once. You can still fall down, but you if you actually control the horizontal speed somewhat, you can make it pretty far.
> It's not competition when one company does ALL the innovation and other companies just copy them and try to win on price.

When I bought my Samsung Galaxy SII, it was about the same price as an iPhone.

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

That's your personal opinion. I personally prefer Android to iOS and so do many people.
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I just want to remind everyone in tech in the US that reading patents in your field is a very bad idea. The system is so dysfunctional that you may be infringing a lot (which should never have been granted, but you can't afford to fight) but becoming aware of them makes it "wilful" and can triple the damages from a suit. This doctrine is why Samsung's penalty is so high.
"Nothing really replaces the experience of having a wall of books you have read and curated". I strongly second that.

As a long-time avid reader, over the past decade its been an interesting change going from a wholly physical library to mostly digital, thanks to my Galaxy Note and Kindle.

But something I truly miss is having friends come over and curiously rifle through the books on my shelf and the conversations that were started as they asked about each one (as well as the opportunity to show-off a bit).
Almost as nice an experience was, sneaking a peek at the cover of the book a guy sitting next to me on the subway/bus was reading and going on to discover that it is another good read.

So far, none of the digital bookstores/libraries have been able to sufficiently reproduce this experience for me.. though I have hope they, or something else, will be able to in the near future.
Until then, I will keep a physical copy of any favorites on my shelf for that next curious mind.
There is also YAF (Yet Another Framework)[1] by Laruence. It is being used at weibo.com [2].

Never tried it, but looks like a simplified Zend Framework.

[1] http://pecl.php.net/package/yaf
[2] http://news.php.net/php.pecl.dev/9716
> He gets programming better than probably any BigCo tech CEO and yet he made the same damn mistake of hiring thousands upon thousands of programmers instead of just getting the 10X Programmers and having 1/10th as many while paying them 2x as much.

What makes you think that Facebook doesn't hire every 10x programmer it can? What makes you think that Google doesn't?

After they hire every 10x programmer they can, what do you think they should do? They've still got money to spend and stuff to do. Are you seriously suggesting that they don't spend that money to do those things?
It seems more likely that you'd spend more time in the framework. After all, it gets used on every single request, whereas your time-consuming app-specific code is probably only a few core pages of your site.
You could always work from your own home. Fast internet, free food, get in the zone for as long as you want.
Did you read the essay? Actually, both of them? The reason mathematics is considered Unreasonably Effective is because we have never seen anything with similar effectiveness. Ever.
Then there's the worrying proportion that's gargantuanly over-weight, and an even larger proportion in woefully under-performing schools.

Sometimes you wonder if the kids in less affluent countries don't have it better.
And the point is that it's not about modeling!

What happens is that we invent crazy math that is not supposed to have applicability, then some years go by and it's like, oh my God, quantum mechanics is somehow exactly all about the operation of unit Hermitian matrices... how crazy is that?? etc.

If it were some kind of model that we are able to successively refine, the progress of discovery would look something like a Taylor series, and it would be no surprise that we are eventually able to model phenomena within some tolerance epsilon.

But that is not what is happening! Rather, it's that we discover that some large and sophisticated piece of math, for which we had not thought of any particular applicability, turns out to exactly represent specific advanced physical phenomena. This happens over and over.
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Sounds like the Skyscraper Index, an interesting observation that many of the world's tallest structures were built right before the economy headed into recession.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index
That Windows needs a dedicated key for screenshots but usually has two perpetually useless Windows keys that few people ever use still baffles me.

Windows is a museum of bad design decisions that have become so entrenched it's impossible to eliminate even the most obscure ones.
I think every HN user should read this and consider it when posting their next comment.
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The point of making a benchmark of a 'Hello World' is to show the overhead of a framework, compared to a simple PHP <?="Hello World"?> equivalent.

Such a benchmark, gives you a sense of how bloated/(or feature rich depending on your point of view) a given framework is, and also a rough view of the hardware resources (mainly RAM and/or CPU), which you will need to deploy a site based on it.

Thus said, it would be usefull for them to put a simple PHP baseline shown in the slides too.
Then you hit the database and the time spent in the framework is all of a sudden a rounding error.
When you do that you won't get very far. Not everyone has Elon Musk's golden horseshoe.
Yes, Larry worked at JPL, which managed the Magellan mission to Venus.
Ps that 1 dollar shave video is epic, just brilliant
Besides, we live in a global society. Americans enjoy a lot of products made in China, ignoring the jobs created elsewhere is a non-starter.
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Congrats on this great exercize. It plays great.
Being successful in life depends on getting the right things right and at the right time. A band who cannot engage their audience is akin to a magician with no stage presence. There are two paths to Facebook success I see in this thread thus far. Engage your audience so they participate, or pay to make them see you. It's not fair, but things rarely are.

Though to be honest, if you have to pay in order for your fans to take notice of you, you're doing something wrong on the engaging fans front (although you must be doing something right on the 'making money' front).
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