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I've used a tablet PC for years. OneNote is truly powerful software. I pray for a convertible ultrabook. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one. So much hate for the lowly tablet PC.
>They've refused to compete with Android on price, features, and form factors and the market has punished them for it.

In what universe did the market punish them? Apple has shipped 250 million phones and made 150 billion dollars in revenue in the five years since the iPhone shipped[1]. Each iPhone version has sold more than every other version combined[2].

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/strategy-analytics-apple-ha...

[2]http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/08/03/apples-phil-schiller-...
"back the tangibot"? Pledging the minimum to a project that you hoped would fail(and thus owe nothing) is the same kind of backing that the Senate gave Caeser.
So lets look at some of the infringing patents that the news articles are quoting...

381 patent: "rubber band" effect where a page "bounces" when a user scrolls to the bottom

I personally had written JS bounce-back product picture slide-shows for a shopping cart in 2003/2004 using the horrible browser APIs of that era...wish I had patented that..1 billion..yum. I am quite certain hundreds of people have coded bounce-back animations before even iPhone 1.0.

915 patent: Pinch to Zoom. Isn't this the natural translation of how one drags handlebars in opposite directions in order to zoom-in ? I am quite certain there would be prior art by a lot of CAD software.

163 patent: "Double tap to enlarge/zoom". facepalm. Just about everyone does this on the PC using a mouse. How can one even file a patent for this ?

D '305 patent: "Grid of rounded square icons" -> The joke of the decade. What has every desktop OS being doing since the 90s ???

This is extremely upsetting. Is this what civilization is coming to ? If things continue this way, the working population of the world will be employed as patent lawyers squabbling all the time in courts.
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I think a lot of people were playing sports, or practicing an instrument, or learning how to deal with the opposite sex (or maybe even the same sex), or reading. . . all of them, to me, more viable activities than Starcraft, at least at the level I played.
Indeed! So now you've got 30 minutes worth of CO2 hanging around in your blood... Surely that's going to cause some issues? Anyone with some biology smarts able to explain if this would be a problem?

That aside, I wonder what the nano-med applications are for this. For example an implant for high-risk patients that injects a dose upon respiratory failure etc. Heck if it were feasible such would be handy for anyone to have.
Apple doesn't have a patent for one finger scrolling or pinch zooming. If the claim you are talking about is one finger scrolling, having that feature is not enough to violate the whole patent. The patent in question is about a method to detect transition from scrolling to zooming. It will be worked around.
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I just donated through paypal. Hopefully the account will hold up ok.

Geeks with heart. You're a lovely bunch HN peeps...

Wishing Diane and Ken all the best.
The question of what happens to humans in the vacuum of space is a popular one. Below are some articles with answers.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.h...

http://www.damninteresting.com/outer-space-exposure/
I'm going to repeat what ig1 said but it bears repeating: I'm forced to correct musicians all the time on this: EVERY SINGLE THING is filtered by Facebook based on what they think you want to see. If you're not interacting with a band, they show it less frequently. Same thing with friends, TV shows, everything.

This rumor that FB is doing this to charge bands infuriates me on a daily basis. The ability to pay to show to all fans is a great way to tell FB a post is really important. Only money can keep that honest.
Best summary to date (from the bottom of the post in case you missed it)

And Dan Gillmor puts it like this, in The Guardian:
A home-town jury has given Apple the world, or at least the United States, in its campaign to control the smart phone and tablet markets.
Samsung, which decisively lost the highest-profile case to date in Apple's sue-everywhere strategy against the Android operating system, will surely appeal the verdict handed down the San Jose, California, federal court on Friday afternoon. And even if Samsung ultimately has to pay the $1bn judgement, the company can afford it.

But we're likely to see a ban on many mobile devices from Samsung and other manufacturers in the wake of this case, as an emboldened Apple tries to create an unprecedented monopoly. If so, the ultimate loser will be competition in the technology marketplace, with even more power accruing to a company that already has too much....

Crucially, the jury found none of Apple's patents invalid, despite substantial evidence that others anticipated many of the innovations that Apple put together when it released its first iPhone. This is a shame, because Apple's abuse of our out-of-control patent system has given Apple its chief ammunition in its global campaign to destroy Google's Android operating system, which Samsung (and many others) adopted for its smart phones.
$50. Nobody should be in this situation. The US system is appalling.
I guess not. I had an impression of you talking about particles from the start of your comment, but then you went into "read about waves" and said to make a plot, which made it sound like you were talking about basic math. I only understand a few of the effects of altering time on physics so I'll shut up.
Reminds me a lot of this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gAOnHhen4zY/S9r-pZcS6bI/AAAAAAAAAA...

Open floor plans don't make collaboration any easier. You still have to walk over to the other person just now, you must also try and hear yourself think over the hundreds of other people inside a hanger. This is the epitome the of a cog in the machine work environment to maximize people per square foot. It's degrading but in a way that's quite fitting for the way Facebook is going right now.
Thank you for taking the time to write a response. I know my original post was a bit scattershot. You gave a very good reply for what I gave you to work with.
You might be able to gradually equalize internal/external pressure over time.
Sure, I didn't think of that!

PTO is your vacation/sick accruals. In most US companies, having a baby means that a mother will use all of her accrued sick and vacation time for maternity leave. The problem with that is that you come back to work with no time... But you need to take days or afternoons off to care for your infant. (pediatrician visits, kid is sick from daycare, etc)

FMLA is a federal law that requires most employers to allow you to take time off to deal with medical problems that you or your immediate family have. If you use all of the time, it is almost certainly unpaid.
Resizing the window slightly moves the bar to the correct place (tested on FF 14).
How about surgery to deal with a metastasizing cancer that is highly efficacious? That seems very reasonable to me.
The sensation of shortness of breath is complex. It doesn't depend on oxygen levels in the blood much at all, until they are dangerously low. It has more to do with blood pH and CO2 levels, as well as perceived work of breathing, and a whole lot of other factors we don't understand. Maintaining adequate blood oxygenation is unlikely to do much to fix the shortness of breath caused by IPF.

If this technology comes to fruition, it would increase the number of people able to survive until transplant. There already aren't enough lungs about though...
My favorite (useful!) ASCII terminal animal is the Nyan Cat RSpec formatter. I love that little guy.

http://mattsears.com/articles/2011/11/16/nyan-cat-rspec-form...

He makes the tests slower, but I still have him check my entire suite of specs at least once a day.
signed up and eagerly anticipating release. would drive enormous efficiencies in our business.
status.net already done.

identi.ca etc.
You think our health care is bad?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/hunger-children-america-slow...

5% of our 300 million population is starving/malnourished children.
In general American health care is a giant black box. Depending on the deal your insurance company has cut is how much stuff costs. Most doctors offices cant tell you how much anything costs, which is why i opt out of all tests.
Apple can't really win on market share or their business model would be impossible to sustain on anti-trust grounds alone. The iPod was the only exception/fluke and IIRC there were some rumblings from the EU about it. The Bush DOJ was too 'business friendly' to worry much about it. Apple could make a market-share grab anytime they wanted to but they also realize it's suicide to do so. Better to own 30% of the market and 75% of the profits than 75% of the market and 30% of the profits. I don't know if they can sustain that but they probably won't shake things up until they are forced to. Don't mess with a good thing right?
Love it! I want my fifth graders to track their reading this way. Brilliant.
Not having to resort to donations for life saving surgery?
Mac forum comments often approach YouTube comments in terms of awfulness. Its a really strange phenomenon.
I would rather try to bring some of the experience of physically browsing through shelves online.

I am moving from Atlanta to Seattle. In the process, I am shedding six shelves of dead tree books. When I get out there, I may have some of those books shipped out there ... but I'm getting a taste of living with most of my possessions in the cloud. (Besides, what is past is past).

Nothing really replaces the experiencing of having a wall of books you have read and curated. I'm thinking of a device that would allow me to display my collection to visitors. A tablet someone can walk up to and browse. (With sensors to softly light up the space, like you would expect in an awesome museum). It would not be like the iBooks UI (which sucks), but something more immersive. It should be more like playing with Second Life, without requiring someone to be a badass at first person shooters.

Ah well, I will figure it out. Who knows, maybe I'll even organize a kickstarter for the app.
because I abandoned it. i began working on other things, and it slid into the background, and eventually just sorta coasted.

as a media property it's still pretty well known and has decent traffic. if i needed to go back to it full time to make money, it would be totally possible to respark the site. the twitter account helps a lot with that.
I was at a startup event just yesterday and talked to an aspiring VC about a plan he had to build an incubator of sorts for people to bring ideas to and he and his team would build the team, marketing, production, sales etc... around it and the "founder" would ostensibly run the company and direct the enterprise. So the "founder" only had to bring the idea - and the rest would be done. At the back end, the VC would get their share as all do and the company and founder would be on their way.

I have mixed feelings about this approach. On the one hand I think it would be very valuable to have a place where people with legitimately good solid ideas, but no experience could go and have them turn into something real. On the other hand ideas are dime a dozen and really mean nothing without execution - and it's in getting to execution that the product is actually worth anything. Learning all of that "stuff" is the core of what being an entrepreneur is about. Short circuiting that is a recipe for disaster in the long term where you have tons of one hit wonders - that barely get out of beta, or V1 and don't know how to use what they have built to build other things.

I think there is value in re-inventing the wheel in most cases because you'll notice, when you have to do that, it's the real smart folks who recognize how the wheel is broken along the way and seek to improve that while developing their original product. That's where the gold is.
Inhaled air is about 20% oxygen... exhaled air about 15%. So a small volume of dense oxygen might replace many breaths of much larger volume.

(A speculative nanotech dream for decades has been a manufactured red blood cell replacement, able to store and gradually release far more oxygen than naturally available - allowing cessation of breathing for hours if not days.)
They (Facebook) should really look at what research has found before they jump feet-first into having an open floor plan. It's not like they've just invented it!

Open floor plans were invented as a way to cram more people into less space, thereby minimizing cost of office space per employee. They were not invented to improve productivity.
It proves that he didn't put every last cent into the company, but that's a pretty high standard considering he's probably already lost millions.
Would love to interview you about this on whiteraverrafting.com. We're an edm blog and our audience will jump on this!

ben@whiteraverrafting.com
If the goal is to give everyone a job, we are definitely on the wrong track.

We should strive for the world where you don't actually need a job, then all this jobs "gained/lost" talk would be moot. I know I'm not the only one who has read Player Piano.
Nice to see a project using http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/LispbuilderSDL which wraps the SDL library amongst others and works on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
when a tech company builds a new campus, that's it. All downhill (further downhill).
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There's no automated loader yet. I'll be building out some external libraries (Ruby, Python, etc). What language are you guys writing in? It looks like Java & Scala from the repo.
There is some truth to this. I've been receiving 'delayed' notices on mail to aramco.com e-mail addresses for several days.
If you don't like NoSQL stores, don't use 'em. Either toolset is fine with an agile approach, though.
Here is one: http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt

"There are 4 parentheses at the end of that call to cons. How do Lisp programmers deal with this? They don't. You could add or subtract a right paren from that expression and most wouldn't notice. Lisp programmers don't count parens. They read code by indentation, not parens, and when writing code they let the editor match parens (use :set sm in vi, M-x lisp-mode in Emacs)."
Breathing only extracts ~25% of the oxygen in the air (ie, the air we inhale is ~20% oxygen, the air we exhale is roughly 15% oxygen) (just as an FYI).

I'm having a hard time seeing where you're getting 3cc from? I'm looking around the article, as well as the one that tokenadult posted, and I can't get a volume listed anywhere.

But yeah, tidal volume (or a normal breath) is roughly 500ml, so you'll need like 25ml of oxygen supplied per breath. Normal adult does something like 20ish breaths a minute, so you need to put in at least 500mL of oxygen a minute to survive - at normal levels. You can probably get away with a lot less, especially if the patient is unconscious (somehow).
> I imagine you'll quit your job when the time comes to look after your parents?

One of my dad's coworkers did exactly that. He gave up his high paying six-figure job to go back to India to take care of his dad.
Haha...

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Wow... he is good :)
In the short term? Sure, in the short term you don't need tests, either. Or readable code. Or version control. Or colleagues. Or multi-letter variable names.

Any software development approach works in the short term. In which case, do what you want. But if you're looking for a sustainable approach to building a product, sometimes you have to sacrifice short-term personal productivity to gain in the long term.

Also, "order of magnitude" is a sign you're doing it wrong. Worst case for me is circa a 30% hit; if somebody is sufficiently novice, then they're mainly along for the ride while I code and explain as I go.
That's noble, but only valuable if you have FU money to start. Otherwise, there will be a little drag in the back of your mind saying "should I be doing this?" at a point when you want the leader in and committed 100%.
I'm happy to see these kickstarter clones popping up for medical causes. I'm much more apt to donate when I can better see where my money is going (and hope I don't get scammed in the process).
I'm loving Ubuntu 12.04 w/ cinnamon instead of unity on my x201t.
haven't tried external monitor, but yes to the other two.
I started a blog. It's nice to write a little something when I finish a book too. 52booksinayear.com
Which companies would you give as examples of "eat your way up the value chain"?
Asus has a convertible ultrabook coming out sometime [1]. Too bad it looks like its just capacitive touch, no digitizer =/. Wish Lenovo would find a way to thin out their X200T's.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5897/new-asus-transformer-book...
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Theres also Valve Software (read their lovely handbook! http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf). They (to my knowledge) only hire folks who're at senior grade in terms of their skills. Also Valve software just generally sounds like an amazing work environment.

aside/caveat: I'm aiming to create just such an organization (operationally structured a la Valve) in terms of caliber of folks in NYC with WellPosed. I'm settling for nothing less than having an organization dedicated to building tools/products meant to make innovation happen faster on our wee world. I'm starting with fixing machine learning / numerical computation, BUT
done right, rather than automagic bullshit everyone in "big data" keeps jerking off to the press :)

It looks like I'll be able to get things off the ground sans investors too (which is kinda key for what I want to do forever). Any NYC area senior grade awesome folks who like work broadly deep across math, cs, engineering things nicely and sane work expectations etc a la the organization referenced above, shoot me an email and chat, Please

I'm working to create something special that I want to last forever, and I need the most amazing people on the planet to make it happen :)

(pardon my reply turning self promoting, but I'm deadly serious about what i'm doing, and its exactly that sort of place i'm aiming to create)

(also: your hypothetical lots of smart people not getting anything done is called a circle jerk, not a business that could successfully recruit amazing people and retain them.)
Modeling media besides math: digital electronic circuits, analog electronic circuits, legos, quantum mechanical phenomena, gears, computer simulation, wetware, mythology, clocks, BZ reactions, ...
Agreed. My new system is that all critical JS (eg. anything not related to ads, tracking, social buttons, etc.) should be loaded all at once with the rest of the DOM. Then there is a separate async/lazy-load track for that other crap.
A sad day.
Dual class share structure means that Zuck doesn't have to bother explaining anything.
This is a method for hypothesis generation, but is not a valid way to draw inferences.

The reason why scientists don't draw conclusion from single data points (analogies) is that you can come up with flawed conclusions as a result. The changes could be purely random, or due to some other explanation that wasn't thought of.

In order of reliability:
1. Do an experiment where an intervention is assigned at random, and scored by a method that is blind to the intervention (preferably on subjects who are blind to the intervention - but that is hard for some cases).
2. Observe historical data where there have been many instances of each of the variables under study, avoiding correlation between variables with things like time.
3. Use anecdotes.
... It uses the remarkable LLVM compiler infrastructure to compile Python byte-code to machine code especially for use in the NumPy run-time and SciPy modules... from the README on github
Actually, Ninja Blocks' next iteration due toward the end of the year will have onboard RF433Mhz, which allows you to interface with a ton of things you might already have in your house (motion sensors, door bells, door sensors, etc). These devices are super cheap and use crazy small amounts of power.

We've tried to go to great lengths to make it possible for non-hackers to interface with us, for instance you can train the platform what devices are in your house, and then make rules that might trigger anything, such as RF devices like power sockets, Webhooks, SMS, and many more.

Right now we're focussed on getting the rest of our Kickstarter obligations out (we're currently waiting on RF433 dongle's, finally due next week), and are working hard on building a platform that other's can build apps on-top of.

Edit: Don't want to steal SmartThings' thunder here, it looks really cool and we welcome the competition. Just wanted to correct the inaccuracies of the above comment.

(Source: I work for Ninja Blocks).
I don't think Evernote is a startup anymore, but it's a remarkable product development story nevertheless. Certainly thinking outside of the box.
"For example, scroll events fire only after the scroll has finished on mobile browsers"

This is not accurate at all for iOS Safari and Chrome... I just wrote some scroll-based events earlier this week and they work just fine.

There is some good stuff mixed in here but a lot of it is misleading, poorly defined, or just flat-out wrong. The most accurate stuff is extremely common sense like "staging environment should mirror prod" "don't use == (JS)" "don't use doc write (JS)" etc
That's what you get from having lay people (with no training in either software development, UI design, etc) making decisions like this.

These patents are quite obviously ridiculous.

381 patent: "rubber band" effect
915 patent: Pinch to Zoom
163 patent: "Double tap to enlarge/zoom"
D '305 patent: "Grid of rounded square icons"

This is supposed to be what sets off iPhones from competition?!

W.T.F.? How did we get to this?

I can see Dr. Evil saying "One Biiiillion Dollars".
^THIS. Seriously. Go write a book with this title and make millions. Take care of the people that help you on the way, of course.
Respectfully, I think this is a better way to show off what books I read. When I think of keeping track of what books I read I think of notes, subject matter, author, etc. From the title I was under the impression that the audience would be the reader not the reader's friends...
Hey Jon. Just to let you know your site doesn't work at all on mobile. The page will load and then redirect me into a page telling me I need flash. I just want to read a blog post an not interact with your site. At least not til I get home
For those of us who aren't those 10x programmers though I appreciate the opportunity to work at a company like Facebook...
I had the same thought. I think they could even adapt the video for socks: "Are the socks any good? No... our socks are fxxing great".
The PC industry devouring the server and workstation market is the most salient example.