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What Apple has done is essentially throw all the hard work of its own marketing department out the window. Marketing works hard so consumers will pay more for what they perceive is a better product. Even if it's not.

Now Apple has called attention to how similar Samsung products are and people ARE going to make this connection no matter what.

Even if Apple gets an injunction, do you think customers will still be willing to pay that premium over Apple products? They will at least start questioning their choices.

In this consumerist society we might as well see riots and protests so Apple lowers the prices or the govt cancels the injunctions.
It's similar, but not exact. You can actually plug the galaxy into apple addon products (the connector will fit), but you'll probably fry your galaxy. Maybe someone has already done this and complained to Apple.

However, even if the copy was exact, I think it would still be difficult to make the case for infringement.
Though 10.6 did improve overall benchmark performance from 10.5 which was arguably the first regression in OS X, which from its rough inception managed to get better by the point release. It's actually rather alarming that 10.8 is a continuation in decline rather than making up from 10.7's failings.

I switched from using OpenBSD on all my laptops at 10.3 and now I find it very difficult to continue justifying OS X with all of these performance regressions and how increasingly annoying it is to treat the OS as a solid desktop *nix, which is all I ever wanted. As much as I admire DragonflyBSD, I'm likely going to Linux next.

(What I really miss was how snappy and responsive IRIX was...)
Apple sucks.
Most of this article seems to be directed at some proposal of Paul Ryan's that supposedly reduces food stamp funding by 17% over 10 years, and a weak attempt to link that to education with sketchy anecdotal evidence.
Android, please leave the United States
>an accredited penetration tester can't break your software

This sounds like an employment act for pen-testers.

Which would probably be good for me, since I could pivot to doing that. And I would, because I'd be a fool to keep on writing software under that kind of regime.

I'm even more frightened by the maze that "accredited pen-tester" would entail.
I think that's a bit misleading because iTunes and Amazon also sell DRM-free music, which I don't know the legal implications of, but at least there are no ridiculous technical problems here.

Also, if the App Store _sold_ software, that still wouldn't mean that the upgrade process would necessarily be flawless. (OTOH, then we could all just use Sparkle again, which has worked without a hitch for me since 10.4.)
Ha ha! I love the responses! Friendly, but at the same time politely telling them to do better research. They really can't complain :-)
Recruiting : The one industry in dire need of disruption.

My bet is on LinkedIn
The experiments measured whether you have a brainwave amplitude peak 300ms after being exposed to a known concept.

The subjects were asked specific questions on screen (for 2s) and flashed all possible answers every half a second, multiple times. The PIN extraction lasts 90 seconds and even then it doesn't guarantee order of the 4 most recognised numbers, with many subjects probably willingly trying to answer the question in their mind.

Experiments with prominent results -- face recognition, month of birth -- don't specify their length, but compared to PIN sampling would last 90s - 100s. Once again the subjects are explicitly shown the question on screen and are prepared to answer in their mind. Also, with face recognition we might get false positives because people look alike.

What this paper builds on is the ability to register a response to perception of something we're currently thinking about. Given that it references existing keyboard input methods that take advantage of this capability, I think this article makes it sound too much like the answers were unwilfully obtained from the subjects, with a 40% success rate. It would actually be very interesting to carry out this study in a different setting. If subjects were in their own environment, using the gaming device as intended? If questions were being asked subliminally or through in game messaging? The success rate might be a lot closer to random guess?

Link to paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
You raise a good point about advertising, we are constantly bombarded with attempts to manipulate and coerce into specific ways of thinking. Even those who acknowledge this are likely still being manipulated, though more subtly.
Great advice - to anyone who feels that audiophiles tend to be unwelcoming, /r/audiophile is a great great place, with lots of knowledgeable people eager to share (although there are also plenty of people who don't really know what they're talking about so it might take a little while to separate the signal from the noise). There is almost never a point at which you need to pay more than $100 for audio interconnects of almost any kind - for headphone cables, even that would be a pretty big stretch. I'm also wary of any company that even offers to sell 6 foot copper cables for more than $100 (such as the ALO ones mentioned in the article).

Best advice in the article is avoid Beats audio and SkullCandy, and get an external DAC.
Blizzard hasn't been the same since they merged with Activision. They claim that they remained completely in control of the company, yet every decision they make is the same exact one that Bobby Kotick would have made. That is the best explanation I can give.
Lame class warfare article. The left is full of whining idiots like this.

Higher preschool enrollment will not help. Fewer split homes and dual-income families with kids is the only way to ensure kids get the nurturing they deserve.
One word: choice.

Starbucks has forced other coffee shops (assuming there were any- in many cities they wasn't anything comparable to Starbucks in recent times) out of the picture. Are Starbucks customers faced with an abundance of choice of which coffee shop to visit? Or is Starbucks front and center, the "default choice"?

Maybe things have changed but in the past there were no unsubsidised cellphones available to US customers. Are US consumers wanting a cellphone now having to decide whether to buy a subsidised (locked) or unsubsidised cellphone? Maybe things are changing.

In many other countries the phones are not locked.

Choice.

When someone in the US goes to buy a touchscreen tablet, how much choice of other alternatives will they have?
Actual recruiter cold-call question in 2011: "So Rails, is that like Java?"
What I can't understand is what sort of message the media over there is sending about the whole trial that gets people to think that their hardware is the "same"... Even non tech fellows understand "oranges and apples", in most situations! Maybe we're better educated on this subject on my region but most people understand this stuff. People that don't understand this, don't give a crap for the actual brand and just buy some Huawei or carrier branded phone/tablet.
That's millions. Also, contingency fees in cases with cash settlements or judgements.
Yeah, that was the one that grabbed my attention. My mum and dad met in 1968 through a computer dating agency in London. Friends are often skeptical that such a thing existed back then. Nice to have this to show them.
You are all lovely people. <3
if I want to eat steak, i'd search about steak, why the hell i need to check about broccoli. Same thing if i want to learn Common Lisp, i need more info about Common Lisp, Why the hell i need info about Clojure.
Talk about unrequitted empathy.
The Real Problem with Niall Ferguson's Letter to the 1%
Exactly. I don't pick my tools based on dogma. I like to have the best tools I can afford when I need them.
A fun statistic is that there are more people under the age of 15 in India than there are people in the United States.
Framing Life
> If you’re in the US, you can’t download updates for your non-US apps due to IP address constraints.

That's odd. I live in the Dominican Republic and I've been using a US iTunes Store account since 2008. Even when the Dominican iTunes Store opened earlier this year I wasn't affected, I'm still able to purchase/update apps like normal. I don't have a DO iTunes Store account so I guess that has something to do with it.
There are great examples of innovative products that are the result of not copying another -- see the windows & palm phones. I don't believe that innovation comes from cloning -- it only helps that business stay alive for a longer period of time, but doesn't bring anything new to the table. The examples of emulation you provide are significantly less blatant than the way Samsung copies Apple. Samsung even uses Apple icons as part of their wallpaper at their own "white" brick & mortar stores. Even when products emulate one another, it's usually possible for the end consumer to differentiate between the two, however Samsung has gone an extra step to make it difficult.

I'm not sure I understand why you think the trial was unfair -- it was a jury who made this decision, and the jury consisted of untechnical people who would be the right types of people to make this decision. If the average Joe thinks that the Toyota is the Ford, then I think it goes beyond the line of emulation.

I would say HTC emulates Apple products, but does not clone the same way Samsung clones. For example, the boxes for HTC phones look nothing like Apple's, and the connector is the same micro usb everyone is familiar with. Samsung goes the extra step to make sure their brick and mortar store, the boxes, the connector, the interfaces, the keyboard, the genius bar, the physical phone, etc are all indistinguishable from Apple. I don't understand why Samsung would have to make their brick & mortar stores identical to Apple, and even have the same style of genius bar inside -- that's going an extra step to make a product identical. In the countries where the name "genius bar" is not a registered trademark, Samsung actually uses that exact name. For the countries that have the registered trademark, they call them smart tutors. It's crazy how deep the copying goes.

My hunch is that ethics in that region are a bit more "loose" than they are here. It's perfectly okay to butt-in line there, or cheat in certain situations. When I was there, I'd stand in line at the hotel like a typical westerner (even though I'm chinese) only to have people butt in front me every 5 minutes. Eventually I just forced my way in front of the line to speak to the receptionist. I asked why they butt in front of me and they replied "you let me". Old people there are even less respectful, they just don't care you exist. All of my relatives who went to school in china lied about their age so they would have an advantage by starting at a lower grade level than the proper age. I've been told this happens in Korea and Japan as well.

When does a company go beyond emulation and into cloning? Would you say something like this is okay: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426835 ?
Well, that's another data point to suggest that we remain a culture of suicidal, negligent barbarians - quick to accept the suffering and death of billions, and happy to condemn our future selves to the same.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/05/when-did-we-becom...

Any present horror is accepted, indeed mandated, by the ape inside - conform, conform, it cries, so hungry to belong and be inside the visible peer group that this instinct overrides any rational consideration of what it actually means to age to death, and just how much might be done to prevent that from happening in this age of biotechnology.
Jesus H Christ in a chicken basket, we're on the fucking moon
This is the quality of work you get when you pay $20 a day.

The lawyers for both sides are making more per hour than the entire jury per day. What kind of performance do they expect?
It gets worse - there is context to the Chinese numbers he's conveniently neglected to mention. I'm not Indian, so I don't dare comment on the Indian side of things, perhaps someone can jump in.

China is currently undergoing tremendous backlash and loss of public faith in their postsecondary institutions. A glut of knowledge-based jobs, a remarkable increase in income over the past two decades, and the age-old Chinese affinity for academic achievement has meant the creation of countless "colleges" that barely deserve the name, existing only to bilk their students and hand out degrees of questionable legitimacy and worth.

Countless students are graduating now in China with "college degrees" and finding themselves woefully unemployable and a lot poorer to boot. Public sentiment is turning against these schools and demand is rising for government to step in and regulate quality.

To put it mildly, China's "200 million college grads" will be mostly way, way out to lunch. Let's compare the graduating rate of legitimate, quality institutions and we'll have a better idea of who's gonna kick whose ass.

Even with the quality problem aside, they still face the problem that other heavily industrialized Asian nations have faced already: the dramatic value loss in post secondary education when everyone holds a degree. Both Japan and Taiwan suffer extensively from this, as job requirements climb in response to universal and pervasive college education. Newspapers and websites are abound with horror stories of entry-level data entry positions requiring a masters for consideration.

No matter which way you cut it, using college graduation rates is a piss poor proxy for economic power or even employment.
That issue has the worlds best VW ad. Look for it.
Its simple Logic,

Programmers Those who use
C = C Programmers.
Scheme = Scheme Programmers.
Common Lisp = Common Lisp Programmers.
Clojure = Clojure Programmers.

Programmers Who use
Clojure != Common Lisp Programmers.

So Please, please stop posting about Clojure in Common Lisp Posts.

I don't want Clojure solution for Common Lisp problem.
I know, right? How DARE someone not be a sociopath here on HN!
I've done some mobile javascript development and do commend Apple for pushing the limits of what can be done in-browser. The accelerometer support comes to mind, which came sooner and better than the same support on Android.

That said, I wasn't aware that the two environments could be considered equivalent. Can you call the camera API from javascript? Write a music player?

It would be one thing (though still unfortunate) if the App store monopoly were used only for quality control, but instances where politics were at play really left a bad taste in my mouth. Grooveshark, Google Voice, and Opera mobile come to mind as projects that if I am remembering correctly were blocked or delayed for political reasons. They all require a native environment that's richer than HTML apps can provide, to my knowledge.
1) I don't know the value of Samsung's profit-margin on Apple hardware, but it may be possible for Samsung to pay the penalty with the money Apple will pay Samsung this year for the hardware in its iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Heck, Samsung probably built its modern factories thanks to the money and contracts coming from Apple.

Samsung's lineup of phones is poised to overtake the iPhone in sales, even if their appeal goes nowhere. Samsung's growth over the years has been amazing, and now that they can take advantage of the same economies of scale that Apple has, they should be able to come close to the same profit margins that Apple enjoys. They should also be able to take advantage of Google's R&D for the Android software (which no longer needs customization) while manufacturing its own hardware, thus spending much less money than Apple to develop each device.

2) Even better, Samsung now has a chance to create a tv commercial to frame the court ruling as a win:

"As you know, we recently sued Apple to protect American freedom of innovation. An independent jury found that Apple and Samsung devices are very similar in looks and features at a fraction of the price. So why not make your next device a Samsung device? Samsung."
Assuming this is indeed the case, I'm surprised this isn't a big attention-getter on the bootstrap site. I also have no idea how I'd go about 'extending' the bootstrap button into something for me.
> But it isn't Apple that is making them tied to regions, this is a requirement of the record and movie industries who seem to think that price and release discrimination by region makes sense.

It is also a problem for Apps. There are loads of apps available in some countries but not others. It's up to the app developer to make them available globally. I understand not wanting to offer your app in countries where it won't work, but it's super annoying when you visit or move to another country to not be able to access them.
Ask HN: Jobs in the UK for an American
I'm going to graduate with a CS degree in June, and I'd like to explore the option of living / working in the UK. If I were to try and find a job in the US, I think I have a handle on what steps to take. How does the process differ when searching for jobs in the UK? Any tips / sites that cater to something like this?
I can't stand recruiting houses like this, but I love working with in-house recruiters. The times I've worked with a recruiter who's actually employed by the company I'm interviewing at, they have:

- Asked intelligent questions
- Followed up in a timely manner
- Helped out when flights were delayed traveling to an interview (arranged hotel)
- Been unfailingly polite and helpful

On the other hand, I have never once had a good experience with a dedicated recruiting firm. So maybe all the good ones are working for tech (or other domain) companies?
Yeah, I'm surprised this article to the HN front page. I'm from India. After reading the first paragraph, I couldn't help think that the author was trying very hard to use some numbers to derive some concocted version of "The World is Still Flat". Yes, US has some problems, and they will still challenges going down the road. But India and China have a lot worse problems on gigantic scales. They can't really think of becoming world leaders until those problems are solved.
No, it applies to almost every digital store that operates within the law in multiple regions. Why HN is hailing this like the coming of the Apple apocalypse or an "I-told-you-so" opportunity for those who hate Apple is beyond me.

This isn't unique, new, notable or even newsworthy. It's just how digital goods purchases work. Welcome to 2007, people.
I imagine it is in the process of being disrupted, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera#Business_plan.
Ok, but then let's say you are entirely right. Then the jury is bound to interpret the patents broadly and an outcome like this is inevitable as far as a jury verdict goes (I think something like this happened in the Oracle-Google suit). What then for the patent system?

What this does, IMHO, is it pushes all the interesting questions to the judge and the appeals court. These are questions like:

What is the scope of each patent?

Did the jury find that each patent was violated within the scope determined after trial? (Unknowable, gives judges an opportunity to decide the case as they see fit.)

What this does, if you take it that way, is put the jury in the role largely of hearing demurrers. A verdict of infringement becomes more or less a low barrier to entry to the interesting portions of the case which will all be decided by judges.
Simon you are now an honorary Canadian!
Do you honestly believe that people couldn't figure out how to implement bounce-back without reading a patent?
RNC's last scramble to strip delegates before the convention [video] (05:46)
Most of us can't just move to Linux. Using Adobe software on Wine is crap, the app selection is a thousand times smaller and lower quality.

Simply having a Fireworks-compatible (and good) app would go 80% of the way...
Using Linux vs. Knowing Linux
Learning some Linux is extremely easy; there are hundreds of resources out there that will walk you through some simple install tasks. However, really “knowing” Linux is a tremendously difficult task that requires more commitment. But in reality, that’s the same for all server operating systems on the market. Linux is just harder and more flexible because it’s open, command line, and highly maintained by thousands of awesome open source programmers. Some distributions are community built, but other distributions such as Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu are maintained at the enterprise level and even make over a billion dollars a year in revenue.
Lets see how you all feel after Apple is done suing every android and smartphone manufacturer.

This is just the beginning. The first shot fired... The real war is yet to come.
Based on the way the article is phrased, it sounds like removing these makes things feel simpler and less bureaucratic.

In more details: not having a parking barrier means you can just drive in the lot without stopping your car, opening your window, scanning your badge, putting your badge away, starting your car again just to stop just after in a spot. I don't know where Yahoo! HQs are but I'm guessing they are little use to check who is parking on their lot. So what does that change for employees? It removes one useless step in your morning routine.

Turnstiles are similar. Turnstiles are a bit uncomfortable and unnatural. If you can remove them, it just simpler. I doubt they just let anyone in, but you can put a couple of security people, a badge scanner and you're good to go. I know Facebook has something where you just badge and walks through without having to push a hard metal bar with your leg, hoping it won't catch your gym bag.

I'm skipping the steps because you stopped too far from the scanner
Getting Partners For Startup
Anybody have any tips on how to find partners for a start-up preferably in the San Francisco Bay Area. My start-up has to do with building an ios app. I am currently 15 and in high school. Need partners for coding and business/marketing...

About Me:
I currently have done an intro to javascript and some python on codecademey and learn python the hard way. I have also attended NFTE Launch over the summer with entrepreneurs that have created companies like 42Floors, Carsabi, Tsumobi, and The Open Company. I also currently have no capital.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I read once about a case where the foreman on the jury (in a personal injury suit) was both a lawyer and a state senator. The judgement was set aside on the basis that he exercised undue influence by explaining the law to other jurors (thus usurping the judge's role).

Of course the law is full of funny cases (like the time the Supreme Court filed a per curiam, and then along with it a unanimous partial concurrence). Figuring out what was meant there is... well, something lawyers can argue about forever.
Now that's funny - look at the top comment in the article :D
> and I've definitely never heard of another company charging for this type of legitimate support

Go to support.microsoft.com. File a request for any consumer tech support problem. Boom, before you've even spoken to anyone, you've gotta fork over $59. It actually charges your credit card online before you get to speak to someone.

Apple at least always answers your calls and provides advice before attempting an upsell to AppleCare. With Microsoft, you're going to be shelling out a minimum of $59 just to get them to open a chat window. That's assuming you're using a consumer Windows product. Use an enterprise variant or server OS? That'll be a minimum of $295 to talk to a human.
The steam locomotive, rather than the horse and buggy, was probably the apex of transport technology when Orville was born.
You make it sound as if the choice is obvious.
I have a dumb question: who took the video, if Neil Armstrong was the first person on moon? The video looks like it's taken from the side; and unless they had cameras in the legs of the lander, how was the video taken?