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> The debate wasn't, isn't, has never been about whether "commercial speech is First Amendment speech."

Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. The OP was making a mistake by making a performance claim about his book. By doing so, he abandoned the First Amendment protection of the book's contents.

If he had said "money back if you're not happy" but without referring to the book's contents, that could hardly get him in trouble. But by referring to the book's contents and anticipated effect, he opened himself up to people who might like to hold him accountable for the book's contents, something they cannot do if he doesn't refer to the book's contents.

Because of First Amendment protections, it's not possible to hold someone responsible for a book's contents, unless the person makes claims about the contents as part of his sales pitch. This is what got Kevin Trudeau in trouble, even though he was selling books (he believed he was protected, but for the reasons I have just given, he wasn't).

URL: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-16/news/30523850...

> You've found one case where a person was sued for hawking a cancer cure and rapid weight loss, but even so, the lawsuits were over flat out lies inherent in the product

No, the problem wasn't lies, the problem was the location of the lies. You can lie in a book, but you cannot lie in a sales pitch. Kevin Trudeau either didn't know this or didn't care.

Greg Mortenson wrote a book called "Three Cups of Tea," and raised millions for his charitable activities. Investigators then discovered that his book is a pack of lies, but because it's a book, he couldn't be sued (Mortenson never told the lies outside his book).

URL:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0418/T...

Quote: "First Amendment expert and general counsel of the First Amendment Lawyers Association Wayne Giampietro calls those claims absurd, reports the AP.

“It’s his story. It purports to be his experiences. He can say it any way he wants to say. He has the right to publish anything he wants about himself,” Giampietro said. “The idea that you can be sued because perhaps they don’t like what you wrote, for whatever reason, is absurd.” "

My point? If it's between the covers of a book, it doesn't matter what you say, you're protected. If it's part of a sales pitch, someone can try to sue you, and not all plaintiffs are angels.

It is entirely about the difference between protected speech and commercial speech. In a book, you can say anything. In a pitch, you cannot. Very simple.

> No matter how often I ask for evidence for this assertion of yours, you manage to change the topic.

You're the one trying to change the topic. You just tried to claim this isn't about the difference between constitutionally protected and commercial speech. But that is the only issue.
Better? I don't know about that... Amusing though, with plenty of potential. I imagine at some point things won't stay so vertical and begin to branch out, and it would be interesting if you could start showing multiple timelines side-by-side (per subject maybe).

One suggestion + one question:
Add zoom, or some way to get a much broader overview. I'm using the scrollbar to see four books. If I read that many in a week, that's going to be a lot of scrolling! And so my question is, how does it perform with hundreds or thousands of objects?
SEC makes itself clear that it hates crowdfunding
Apple vs. Samsung: the gory details
I have one kind of black sock, and one kind of white/athletic sock. Never need to match socks, and once every few years when I've lost enough I throw the remaining ones away and start over.

One less thing to worry about, and honestly, most of the time I'm barefoot or in sandals anyway, figure the time savings over the course of a year has to be 30 minutes or so.
I dunno, I find the GMail inbox less usable for pretty much the exact reason he gives in the article. When I see an unread mail with "yesterday" or "one day ago", I'd like to know whether this mail--that I apparently overlooked--was sent yesterday morning or evening, so I can know whether the person expected me to reply yesterday or today when I see it.
China's one-percenters make ready to take the money and run
Sorry buy you're definitely wrong there.

It is not "many of the claims" it is one claim for one phone out of what 15+ that were covered in the case. It is quite understandable that there would be at least one mistake out of the all patent/phone combinations.
Elon Musk Wins 2012 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award
You don't need anything fancy like negative frequency light bulb for that, only a regular light bulb that emits light 180 degree phase shifted to the already existing light in the room. It's actually impossible to do with a light bulb because the light that emits is not coherent but you can do it with a laser if the incoming light is also from a laser, in fact negative and positive laser interference is the basis for several technologies such as holograms.
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"HN has a very anti-Apple slant."

How so?
Ordering unnecessary scans or tests; being prescribed medicine you don't really need like antibiotics, painkillers, or antidepressants; demanding second/third/fourth opinions.
Honest answer: I would.

Even more honest answer: I'd probably let the Apple fanboys share the injustice to the world.
My fiancee is probably your target demographic -- she LOVES socks to an irrational degree. I was very curious about what it would cost to buy this as a gift for her... but there's one major problem though:

The price isn't listed anywhere on your site. Evidently I have to create an account before you'll tell me how much it costs.

So... no thanks. I am immediately struck with the impression that this is almost certainly massively overpriced if you won't even tell me how much it costs before starting the signup process. Seriously... tell me how much it costs!
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Well thats not how the law works today,
And in turn this comment reads like "I judge ideas based on their source rather than on their merit".
I'm not sure about the ability to give as gifts (that'd be a great idea, if it's not supported), but the pricing is on the front page:

"Unlike the country club it only costs $11/month and it will help you get a job."
It's a classic accounting problem. Google's accounted impact on jobs is +14,000. Their externalized impact is unknown to us due to lack of a method to calculate it, but it's probably pretty large.
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The USA does not have a culture against prescription drugs. On the contrary, many patients are not satisfied unless the doctor gives them some pills. Antibiotics are often demanded even for viral infections, which probably lead directly to MRSA and other drug-resistant bacteria.
(Yahoo since 2009)

The difference (to me) is pretty dramatic, and the confidence of being able to get stuff done is night & day. It still boggles my mind to think about how much has changed in just 1 month since she started. Fun times at Yahoo, that's for sure.
Well the point of the patent is that you can sue people who infringe on it. Why can't someone do both? Apple clearly has done both here.
This is actually a common problem with what is, in practice, an already socialized portion of American healthcare: Emergency Rooms

Since emergency rooms cannot turn patients away, there are a lot of people to come to the emergency rooms for things like pains in their big toe, menstrual cramps, and so on.

This is why the emergency room is so absurdly expensive in the United States. Health care here really isn't very expensive so long as you go nowhere near the emergency room.

Sources:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/09/25/1839726/state-decid...
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/print-edition/2011/09...
http://birminghammedicalnews.com/news.php?viewStory=1275
This was basically the idea behind the round of incubators in the late 90s. My recollection is that they didn't work very well because they ended up being cost centers that the VCs had to manage. So they felt pressured to get as many of their companies enrolled and paying for the services as they could even if it was not in the company's best interest.

Usually the services were priced on a per-seat basis for something like $1-2k per month. It made sense for very small companies that had raised a few million, but once you hit 10-20 employees the math didn't work as well and so you had to either pay through the nose or scramble to find in-house replacements (not to mention office space). And if you were bootstrapped it was hard to justify the cost.
Heavy book readers will have hundreds of books. This is very pretty but also impractical.
Unusual position at D-Wave: "Cognition & Creativity Frameworks Engineer" [pdf]
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I judge does not and should not work for consumers. A judge is there to fairly apply the law.
I just received my first pair last month, and am actually wearing them right now. I recommend giving it a shot–the subscription is inexpensive and the socks are really great quality.

Also pretty cool that he open-sourced the subscription software behind SOTM Club (https://github.com/SockClub/subscribely -- disclaimer, I work at Stripe, which the project uses).
MSFT just recently acquired Perceptive Pixel last month, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptive_Pixel.

[Jeff Han's company, and maker of multi-touch user interfaces].

Presumably these patents were still pending during alot of the timeline, as US 7,844,915 has only been out since Nov 2010. It Languished at the patent office for 3.5 yrs?

edit: language/clarifications
Microsoft has already applied a reported $5/device licensing fee to Android. It varies I guess but they have most vendors signed up.

If the outcome of this is that Apple effectively gets $10/device for Android then Windows Phone at $15/device has something approaching price parity.

However if I was a phone vendor I would still prefer Android for various reasons including the optional nature of the license(s), the flexibility, superior third and first party apps, the fact that Nokia has better access to WP7, etc.
America does seem to be a country where it's devil take the hindmost but people who live here in Europe find plenty to complain about in our systems too.
That's true; I think there are definitely cultural factors that make such a system harder to implement in the US. An even bigger one is probably differing attitudes towards end-of-life "heroic measures". I had in mind more a culture among doctors, though: Danish doctors will simply not give you antibiotics no matter how much you beg, if they consider it unnecessary. That's also a norm among American doctors, increasingly emphasized in med school and by professional organizations, but it doesn't seem as strongly followed in practice. That may also be related to the American quasi-private system, which allows "doctor-shopping": if the first says no, you can always find another one who'll write the prescription (and some doctors even make a business out of a word-of-mouth reputation for being lax with prescriptions).
The problem isn't that demand is insatiable for all people. Economists assume that every individual's demand is insatiable for ... dubious reasons.

I think it's more the "80/20" customers - old people who are bored. Drug addicts begging for pain killers. Hypochondriacs. People who have done their own diagnosis and want the doctor to give them their antibiotics (when it's really a common cold, and antibiotics won't help). There's a common meme on HN that free services attract bad customers.
I like the layout of the site, but the sign-up/buy-now/login buttons should be more visible. 'Buy now' currently doesn't look clickable (hovering over it, the mouse icon is still a pointer), and 'buy now' and 'learn more' don't stand out from the graphic at all.
Probably still a valid criticism because it is a bit obtuse but, for the record is does say the price right on the home page:

> Unlike the country club it only costs $11/month and it will help you get a job.
Netflix had to pull the dataset after a researchers at U Texas were able to de-anonymize the dataset, shown in their paper Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets.[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf]
As much as I wanted to use digital notes in meetings, I still take joy in using the beautifully designed moleskine notebooks with a Cross pen. However, indexing and search is always a problem. If Evernote can fix this for me I will be a lifetime paid user of Evernote!

In my opinion this is a good glimpse of digital and analog life working in harmony instead of dictating you have to live with either one.

Great job! Ordering mine now :)
I have been conditioned to think of D-Wave, as Aaronson does, as a company that makes a "128-(qu)bit machine that can output approximate solutions to a particular NP-hard minimization problem" for which "we have no direct evidence that quantum coherence is playing a role in the observed speedup, or indeed that entanglement between qubits is ever present in the system" [1].

With that view in mind, it's interesting to see them doing something a bit ambitious in trying to hire people to investigate "how can we make a computer think like a human?" problems. There is something gimmicky in the job req's posted requirements of "[f]amiliarity with the frameworks for machine cognition proposed by David Gelernter, Douglas Hofstadter, Jeff Hawkins, Geoff Hinton, and Andrew Ng" and "[a] high degree of creativity, exhibited by having significant accomplishments in creative endeavours such as writing, painting, sculpture or music", but the company now has some history of backing its gimmicks with results.

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954
No.

The surprising thing is that the models generate predictions far beyond the domains they were designed for (and far beyond the original knowledge of the people making the models), and that the predictions are so mindbogglingly accurate that there seems to be Something Else going on.

See the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics link below.
I can't tell if you're being serious or not. The copy is terrible for quickly conveying the value proposition IMHO.
I like the idea, but it's really hard to read anything. There's just too much.
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Most of the work went into the simulation, not the UI. That's why it looks like it could be done simply in flash. (BTW I used JSF, with JQuery and CSS, but that does not matter so much). He has been working on this project for well over a year, and has blogged his work: http://erasmatazz.com/TheLibrary/GameDesign/DesignDiaryBotP/...
The batshit insanity never ceases to amaze me.
You ask a very fair question. I prefer following legal news (which this mostly is) in an online community that is attuned to legal issues, for many of the same reasons that I prefer to follow startup and technology news discussions here on Hacker News.
Louis Vitton is a trademark, not a patent, and knockoff designs have been going on legally for many many years.
A very brave try. The concept of reading timeline is interesting (although I agree with others' opinion impractical).

b.t.w. is this service available for others to try?
It's pretty, but that's about it. I like the current design better.
The point by point of this version is quite useful to see how the verdict went.
SpeedLimit lets you simulate slow Internet connections, for testing
US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan
Self-deception - A talk between Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers
A different smart dressing up [blog]
I discovered numbers written on my Dad's multitudinous pairs of crew socks. I asked my dad about them and he said "That is so I can pair them up to wear evenly."

All different socks don't have this issue :-)
Are we sure this isn't trolling? I mean come on:

"Sleep and breakfast. I changed my breakfast from oatmeal to fruit because a student told me he had lost weight eating foods with high water content (such as fruit). I did not lose weight but my sleep suddenly got worse. I started waking up early every morning instead of half the time. From this I figured out that any breakfast, if eaten early, disturbed my sleep."
Perhaps he was referring to the "Over Quota" error.
Who would you recommend instead?
Good indicator that it's time to short the stock more.
Check out http://quantified-mind.com for accurate, repeatable cognitive testing. The UI isn't great, but I'm working on that at the moment.
Ok, a followup. I poked around a bit more, and yeah, buried in the FAQ section I finally found the price: $11/month. That's $11/pair of socks.

Yikes -- while there are socks worth that much, for that much (even a percentage of that-- I get it that you need to make a profit), there needs to be a bit more discussion about why these socks are so amazingly special. The blog has entries about awesome sock companies, and why they are good... but it never says that those are the socks you're shipping.

Also, I think you're overlooking that a lot of people (like me) will want to give this as a gift. As far as I can tell your current model is sign up, then cancel anytime. Can't I buy this for just 3 months/6months/a year? If I'm giving this as a gift I'd rather not have my credit card being charged every month from now until the heat death of the universe because I just forgot about it.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary fix.
In addition they purchased Fingerworks, who began working on capacitive multitouch sensing and gestures in the 1990s. I believe the founders of Fingerworks held several patents in that area--and still work at Apple today.

I have a Fingerworks touchpad and it is amazing. Apple is slowly rolling the gestures in their products. For instance with Lion the "click and drag" gesture went from a double-tap-and-hold (Apple standard for years) to a three-finger drag (what it is on my Fingerworks pad).
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Well, i use Bitbucket with education license (simply register bitbucket with campus email) and i get unlimited repo with unlimited collaborator for free. This is more than enough for my private projects. But i hope Gitlab.io could give more than this so i may switch into.
Oh god, you just reminded me of one of my biggest OS X gripes (before the iOS assimilation and lawsuits).... clam shell mode. What a PITA trying to invoke that was.
This will most certainly be interesting to watch. My visceral reaction to the idea of one giant room was, "Wow. No thanks." I'm not personally the biggest fan of Frank Gehry's work, either.

That said, I'm always a little bit excited when people push architectural boundaries, especially when it comes to workspaces. Hopefully my friends at Facebook will still be around when this is completed.
Your blaming the patients, without considering the lack of primary care in the US. Some HMO "covered" Primary Care Providers(Physicians) have a 2-3 week wait for an appointment etc.

Certain hospitals have "express care" or "urgent care" on premises, that will treat patients without insurance, same as the ER. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center has a pretty efficient "express care" clinic.
>just have some unique symbol you can draw

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. And if you draw the same thing every day you get pretty good at keeping it consistent.
If you make me grade my relationships with people (friend/defriend/link/put in circle etc.) you are making me work. You must reward me for that. On all these social networks my reward for that exercise is actually some negative feelings, netted against the positives of getting my message out properly. Maybe that's one reason Twitter is so popular among some, you don't really need to drop followers, you just tweet.
> you can jack up the tracking speed a lot higher

I just increased the sensitivity of the TrackPoint. When I use a MacBook (supposedly the pinnacle of trackpad technology), I feel like the cursor is moving in slow motion.
Set aside the debates on healthcare, the awful reality of this man have to raise funds to keep him alive, or any other political rhetoric.

Most of us, even the most starving bootstrapper of the bunch, has enough change in his/her pocket to make an impact on a real human life.

Let's not brag about what we donated, or how much, or if we donated at all. But please everyone, let's reach out for someone who needs us like every good human should.
No it's not called collusion, but when you have reciprocal agreements on licenses then it might as well be.
Since the site is down (HN DDOS) as I write this - I wonder how this compares to what the Manpacks folks are doing. Perhaps just a shorter timeline.
Ah, hubris.
$11 for a single pair? That's vastly overpriced, although maybe there is a target audience that would pay that much... are there really people that care that much about wearing fashionable socks? half the time I don't even wear matching pairs because my pants cover it up, and nobody can see them anyway.
... in the sense that...?
integrate it with goodreads
Just donated $25 myself. It always makes me feel warm and fuzzy to see online communities come together to help save lives.
I'm not trying to be combative as I'm genuinely curious:

The interview does imply that you scraped your initial content from other sites though. True or False?
The game developer is German, and the pirates are in China. How exactly would SOPA do ANYTHING to stop this?

It wouldn't. A Chinese pirate selling pirated software to Chinese customers cannot be stopped by US law.
If you could grab this from your Amazon kindle purchases that would be quite wonderful to have a beautiful reference of the book covers.
Then how do you explain this:

"The judge is writing a note to the jury to point out exactly what the inconsistencies are, because they couldn’t seem to tell from going over the document themselves."

Poor judge who was reading it seems to be more switched on than people who were writing it. I'm sure court room felt like an elementary school at that point.
On Design Theft
My limited experience agrees with that, especially the difference in "proper job" / hacker gap. Imo it's partly scenes being clustered differently rather than purely what exists/doesn't. There is a lot of fringe/weird tech scene in NYC, but more clustered with the new-media art scene, and quite disconnected from the VC/startup scene. NYC Resistor seems to be making some progress towards getting interest from both crowds, but my outsider guess is that its SF analog, Noisebridge, is closer to the SF tech-biz scene than Resistor is to the NYC tech-biz scene.
same argument works the other way. If he demo'd it then he may have invented it before then.
The Unicomp EnduraPro, I'm guessing? Can you compare its pointing stick to the Lenovo TrackPoint? I heard that it wasn't nearly as good.
> It really makes me mad that apple was granted a patent

Is that why no one else has implemented this feature?
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Good job shipping.

That said: I use Goodreads for this. One big feature it provides for me is community curation, so it would be difficult for another service to usurp it at this point. My Goodreads account is also tracking 789 books - well past the breaking point of the GUI paradigm you're pursuing. A timeline is not really suited to administration either.

If you want to add a timeline for visualization, restrict it to visualization, then make it compact enough to accommodate more than one title per week across years of use.
On my iPhone it is not a good user experience.