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the bias started with the jury. They had a self declared expert as their foreman. That he was able to sit on the jury astounds me and from the other stories its obvious other members of the jury deferred to him. Hence the assumption I have is, he took his "knowledge" of the system and decided before the trial was complete. It is about the only way to explain the speed of which they arrived at their decision.

Have you ever been in a group where one person is so obnoxious with their views you just want it over?
This is indeed scary.
Engineered addiction.
Soon to be, automated management of customer addiction.
A few more years and some people will be unpluggable -

Imagine Diablo3:Inferno, except it raises the bar if it sees you're a good player, lowers it if you're getting a bit too hammered, increases the magic find rate when you look a bit distracted (mouse click and key hits density can give you that information, if you exclude chat commands) or keeps the good drops in stock to release them just before you stop playing, so you go on for another hour to check that stuff out.

Sure thing is, the next generation will have even more addiction to fight.
Interesting project!
What is the first idea which you realized this kind of app is really needed for?
False dichotomy alert: the patent system may be broken in ways other than your speculation.

I don't think bribes were involved, for instance.

Also, it's wise not to attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. This jury was obviously incompetent and manipulated (even if not deliberately) by a foreman with his own agenda.

Another one a good friend once taught me: when you think you have figured out something nobody else did, odds are you're wrong. He used lines on a bank as an example: if there are two lines and one is much smaller than the other, they are probably not interchangeable and, if you enter the short one, you may realize you entered the wrong one.
That's because it's been baking out in the sun to the point where the poop is just dried and doesn't really stink anymore.
You can upgrade. And, as a bonus, you get rid of Touchwiz.
No, but the part about bribery is pure speculation. I am also shocked to find this at the top spot.
The PS3 version of Skyrim struggled to run when it was released. After 10 hours of game play the game would suffer crashes, slowdown and frame rate drops.

While these issues where patched later, its not surprising that the Dawnguard DLC which includes new animations that stress the XBox and low end PCs, when combined with existing PS3 issues would mean they can't get tit to work.
Oh my God. Thank you for this. Please ignore any sarcasm/negativity; this is so helpful. I was just in the process of building almost this exact same thing for a client, but kept putting it off--partly because I couldn't believe it didn't already exist. Now it does! (For anyone wondering what it's good for, HTML e-mails are a requirement for any non-hacker oriented marketing endeavour and lots of companies are unable to use ie. MailChimp due to ie. security policy or just legacy CRMs.)

Please tell me that I (or ideally, a designer) will be able to save it at the "chopped up" stage so that the kind old ladies who work for my client will only have to click pictures to switch them and type in boxes to change that. Also, do you host the images too?
The next-gen of video game blocks from Sifteo
Please stop appealing to emotions for making an argument that is best supported by hard facts. I am having a hard time understanding what you are trying to say due to lack of credible sources in your comment and/or logic grounded in verifiable reality outside.
A temporary sales ban on previous generation phones is not very valuable. And Apple is much more exposed to similar sales bans because they have a much smaller product lineup.
And this is where the Jury fails.

A Jury is a forced consensus. They should have an odd number (so a draw is impossible) of independent jurers who do not communicate with each other at all.
Because the applet produces a digital signature from a cryptographic key on your hard drive. This is much more secure and scalable than sending the password, see [1] and [2].

An alternative solution would be to use an SSL client certificate[3] or the WebCrypto[4] API (still under development).

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3605/certificate...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_infrastructure

[3] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/psm/help_21/glo...

[4] http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/WebCryptoAPI/
Some data points:

Dawnguard on the Xbox is ~600MB, while Skyrim itself is ~4GB.

> releasing sizeable DLC is a complex issue

By comparison, Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC is ~2GB.

There may be some weird technical limitation, but it's not just size.
(this is mostly speculation and advanced hearsay)
Skyrim already has weird problems on the PS3 like severe slowdowns that affect the late-game because the world state and the save file grows too much.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/06/fixing-skyrim-would-take-a...

Still, this is not a new problem - Las Vegas had it, Skyrim has it again. Its not like it hit them suddenly. I imagine that Dawnguard basically goes over the top in that regard. Still, it seems like they chose an implementation of a specific problem that does not address the specifics of a major target platform, which sucks.
A even more challenging task (at least for me) is to type a lower case letter after a symbol that requires Shift.

For example, I frequently type :Wq instead of :wq, especially in a SSH session, which adds some latency to the release of Shift key.

EDIT: SSH has nothing to do with this. It's just an emotional impact on the extra hassles of backspacing with latency.
It all depends how you define "current".
I have something similar on one machine, but without the awesome ASCII graphics. It made me type git better each time but I find I'll miss the h on 'push' so I think that'll be next, the horrors that could be generated in ASCII for 'git pus' will surely help.
Those publishing fees are extortion! I complained when I had to pay $150 (Upstate NY).

Also, IANAL, but I have received indication in the past that an LLC with a single member is at times treated differently when the shit hits the fan than an LLC with two or more members.
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It sounds like the article is implying that the PS3 itself is too difficult to release DLC on... which I find to be a load of crap. There's plenty of good DLC coming out for other games. It just sounds like Bethesda developed the PS3 version as an afterthought and now can't manage the crappy code they wrote.
I know someone who has a PS3, got Skyrim just before me and gave up after it turned into a bug filled nightmare and corrupted his save 40 hours in. Don't think he's gone back to it since.
I can imagine it. Why is it scary?

Would it also be scary if your manager observed your attitude/emotions through personal interaction and deduced you might want to quit?
>The patent system may be broken in ways other than your speculation.

I claim that the patent system is broken because it allows anyone to patent BS trivial stuff, which can later be used to sue their competitors.

I would love to hear your version of 'the ways other than your(my) speculation'
Good to remember the next time you get a bug report from a user. Perhaps your system really isn't as perfect as you think it is.
Most things don't seem surprising in hindsight. That's why you don't judge surprises by it.

Surprising was GP's original term, not mine.

I don't expect Go or any other language to displace C++ any time soon. But I do think the "scripting" languages are very vulnerable to challenges from languages with static typing systems less primitive than Java's.
Nice. Except they awarded $130e6 in damages for the Epic 4G. A slider.
We're not talking mobile vs. desktop, we're talking responsive layout controlled by media queries, which can't be determined until the code hits the browser and your js (Modernizr or similar) measures the window. UA measures the screen size, not the window size. Not to mention that in theory, you would only load one size, but changing the orientation of a device or resizing your desktop browser window can trigger another breakpoint and essentially hide your ad, making the whole exercise pointless.
And yes, the main point is always act in fear of Google, until they announce responsive ads.
Edward Abbey taught me this in Desert Solitaire.
When I was looking into using it there were articles talking about this being phased our sooner or later. I started using Wunderground/YQL as a backup source at that point.

Sometimes reading/researching pays dividends.
No, by their own admission Firefox just sucks at displaying pages with a lot of images such as this one [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683284
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Slap a computer screen on one, patch it in to a 3rd optic nerve that you install, and where do I sign?

The blurring of man and machine begins here today, the bionic eye is just the beginning. I want a bionic GPS system as well.
oh look, the wind just changed direction...
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I'd be all for a tool like that, assuming it actually worked and it was used in a productive way. Imagine if you're getting tired of writing RoR code all day and pondering quitting and all of a sudden your boss comes up to you and says "hey how would you like stop coding Rails for a while and join a team that's about to evaluate Clojure for an upcoming project". That's just the sort of thing that could make everybody happy.
I think the BBC 'Origins of us' series covered this in an episode also. They conclude that where humans evolved from in Africa changed from being lush forest to grassy plains at one time. We as a result had to evolve to catch prey and as there was nowhere to hide, we had to out-run the prey, hence no hair and sweating.
I do like the youtube crowd comments. As always, a vast number (referring to the fantastic work of the film crew) stating essentially "I don't know how to do this, therefore it's impossible and this is staged".
Sorry, that paragraph sounds like complete bullshit to me. Maybe he doesn't do it deliberately, like he could be completely computer illiterate. Perhaps this is what happens when laymen try to understand computers.
Ok, so let me get this straight. Samsung was found infriging on trivial patents, because they copied the entire look & feel? It does seem to me that what samsung did was more than a bit unethical (although I did not follow up enough to have a very good opinion), but the actual reasons why it was found infriging was something completely different? That makes no sense whatsoever. The jury foreman is defending a completely irrelevant thing to me.

That said, I'm actually glad that it's the look & feel that matters rather than really those trivial patents, but the whole thing looks like Al Capone charged for tax evasion.
If I was eating a billion dollar chicken, I'd sure as shit pick through the bones for every scrap of meat that was there.
By the sound of it the problem isn't the size of the DLC download, but the size of the game state they're trying to keep in memory. The Xbox and PC architecture makes it easier to large game states in memory.
to the point: torrent - http://waxy.org/bt/seed/The%20Machine%20That%20Changed%20the...
Hmm ... Well I still haven't given up on Lift :) I plan on using it for a short while - as I said, I see good things for Lift.
>I still have faith that this ridiculous ruling will be overturned in an appeal.

Let us all hope so!
I went to a Montessori school for four years (K through 3rd grade).

It was horrible. I wasn't expected to do anything. Most days were spent bored to tears.

There was no oversight of the teachers; in fact the principal herself was the "teacher" for grades 1-3.

We were expected to keep a journal of our activities and show it to a teacher at the end of each day, who would sign it and let us go home. (The point was to encourage us to do things, rather than nothing.) There were two teachers on duty each day (the principal and her assistant) so I would simply lie; I wrote "did X at 9:34AM" "did Y at 10:53AM" etc then forged the assistant teacher's signature and showed it to the principal, who dutifully approved it (or vice-versa). Since there were about 60 kids and 2 teachers, there was no chance of them noticing.

A classmate intentionally smacked me in the head with the edge of a metal shovel and got off with a light warning, even after my parents came to explain the severity of the situation.

The activities that you could do in 1st grade were exactly the same as those you could do in 3rd grade. The next "transition" (room with different activities) was grade 4.

In my experience, the purpose of this particular Montessori school was to be a daycare, not to educate.

It was just awful. I'm not saying all Montessori schools are awful; I'm saying the one I was forced to endure was awful.
> Consider how casually young cats can jump up onto refrigerators. To match that, a man would have to do a standing jump right over the backboard.

Not actually correct. Jumping doesn't scale with height. Potential energy at peak height is m x g x h. Jumping energy is f x d. Mass scales with body height cubed. Force is proportional to body height squared (via muscle cross-section) and the distance your legs are pushing on the ground (as you start jumping) is proportional to body length.

(l x l x l) x g x h ~ (l x l) x l ... so ... g x h ~ constant ... there's no scaling at all!

A similarly shaped (but very differently sized) human, elephant, cat, and grasshopper should be able to jump roughly the same height. The difference is, grasshoppers are jumping machines, and elephants have a very different body plan.

However, the elephant's leg would buckle on landing. Buckling strength goes down with height.
Thanks dreeves. I have not heard of beeminder - I will have to try it out. Appreciate the pointer.
In this case it's naive redundant and inefficient object code. Tables and BR unless you're targetting pre-css browsers aren't really necessary. But I can be wrong. Anyway it's still more work and output that needed.
Not sure I am correct but had similar feeling in the case against Toyota
iOS5 - with an iPhone4S - Worked fairly well and tolerably fast, but not particularly smooth. Took a while to load initially, too.
I have no problems with it, FF15 on OS X Mountain Lion.
Don't give up. There is a ton of room in the IDE space, and Light Table isn't going to get it all right.

If you create a tool that saves devs 1 hour a week, you're saving a 10 man shop 25k/year.
I couldn't agree more. We're in Toronto and I'm often left scratching my head asking "Why" after reading Techcrunch, HN and other startup-centric sources. If you aren't solving a problem for a customer, then you are wasting effort. Problems come in many shapes and forms - seek them out and solve them better than anyone else, that's the secret to a successful business in a nutshell.
I think the problem with saying that Go can be used as a C++ replacement is that the statement is too vague. The problem space in which Go is a great tool and the one in which C++ is a great solution have a big overlap. But that does not mean that you will solve a given problem in this overlapping space the same way. Both languages have a different set of trade-offs.

If you need a typesafe, generic sorted set with strict efficiency needs (or things like precise control over memory layout and such) then by all means go for C++, it's been designed for that kind of constraints.
What I do not like about this: You expose implementation details to the outside with those recover points. In the same sense exceptions in Java expose implementation details, though.

For this specific example, the better behavior (imho) would be that parseEntry always returns. So it returns ParseError instead of throwing it.

Basically, I want a more convincing example for condition handling.
I had a feeling she just had a screw loose.
They might have received an investment of $X which will allow them to offer Y free invites. When they reach that number they will stop providing you with free tokens.

I would assume getting the early users would be great for them. Once the campaign stops those links won't die and it will lead to free sign-ups.
I would love to get the opinion of the HN community on this. Can Flipkart beat Amazon?
This is my reasoning as well. If I'd treat a paperback novel the same way as I treat my notebooks, stuffing them in my bag, taking them everywhere, they'd fall apart after a week or two. I select a notebook for durability (among a few other things, like not having squares or lined paper but rather blank, and having a convenient form factor).

However, while I do agree that Moleskine notebooks are absolutely gorgeous, I usually buy other types at about 1/3rd of the price.

Their diary/planner, however, is merely on the high price end for such things, not by a factor of three. And in the years I've used one of those (I use a much tinier planner now), I kept on being pleasantly surprised by their attention to detail in the design of tables, grids and bubbles you'd find in a planner, all of it really well-thought-out. But then, a pre-printed planner is not the same as an empty notebook.
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Where does the phrase "Sweating like a horse" come from then?

And I've often heard people complaining that training horses in hot weather is horrible because they get sweaty and all the dust sticks to them.

While I have never myself witnessed a horse sweat, I've read/heard enough references to the sweatines of horses that I assume horses do in fact ... sweat.
This is really interesting.

I can think of great possibilities for using these methods to analyse the behaviour of users in any number of online services to identify the ones that might need some form of out reach to help them out and keep them as users rather than loosing them due to the problems they are having.
Thanks for letting me know about your level of comprehension about my comment. It would help if you can give some valid reasons instead of such vague description about the logic in my comment. Kindly use the '>' symbol to reply to specific points you disagree with.

I simply say that:

1) Apple has sued numerous competitors and has won many cases using trivial patents.

2) Numerous competitors have sued Apple for valid, non-BS patents in return and Apple has been found not to infringe a Single patent by ANY of its competitors.

3)In the latest Samsung vs Apple case, numerous inconsistencies were noted by many notable sources (including Groklaw)

And then, I simply say conclude that:

1) Something is wrong with this system; Which may have/most likely involved illegal money (This speculation is because of the reasons above)

2) All these legal systems and patents are hindering innovation. (And I include a personal story of mine, as a member of the start-up community and how it affects us in general)

If you still have a hard time understanding, please let me know. We will have a cup of tea together.
Seems they lead on XBox, loaded it with extra features and now find it difficult to squeeze it all in for the PS3 version. I'm sure it's doable but it'll probably come down to whether it's cost effective. It's not about size or delivery, it's about getting it running. I'm sure they've got people to run the numbers and see if it's worth the risk.
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Good to know. I will keep an eye out out for it.

On a completely unrelated note I am really liking your blog :) Keep up the good work.
I once asked Tim Berners-Lee about POST vs. PUT and he told me that POST was for insert (as in posting a nntp article) and PUT was for update. That's good enough for me.
I have been inclined towards the paperback as it offers me far more value. There is no improvement to my experience that might make me switch my method of reading.

I disagree with this. e-Books offer a superior reading experience in almost every way except "if you fall asleep while reading and the book falls, you don't break your nose or damage your book" (which regrettably has almost happened to me on several occasions).

There have been several books that I willingly paid a higher price for on the Kindle as opposed to getting the paperback at a book store.

The convenience of having all your books on a single slim device (or synced between two) and not taking up physical space in your house is great enough for me to pay an extra Rs100 or so.

That said, I agree with the point on the whole - most people don't think like I do and will expect the ebook to be cheaper and will feel completely ripped off if it's not.
I don't disagree with this specific point, but you made a lot of other points in your post.

I also suggest you are coming across as somewhat aggressive. We can disagree in less emotional ways, even if it is an emotional issue for most of us.
No, this sounds like typical Bethesda. Their games have been the epitome of everything that's wrong in software development. I've yet to play a Bethesda game that wasn't a technical and bug-ridden nightmare, so much so that I've stopped supporting them entirely.

Their dev teams can't code themselves out of a paper bag. I'm not at all surprised that the PS3 is giving them serious troubles, given how it requires concurrent software to use all of the hardware (8 smaller cores over the Xbox's 3 larger ones, iirc).
You want Rust: http://www.rust-lang.org/
You are right for $0.01 cost, but I wonder if that changes for $0.01 profit. What if your COCA (cost of customer acquisition) eats all but $0.01 of the revenue ? You are bringing in positive marginal revenue, and you don't have the downside you mentioned. Of course, you have others, such as this cost structure means you're making someone else rich, not yourself, and it's a very fragile situation, you can't absorb COCA increases.
It's also on youtube as a playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcR74y61xZk&playnext=1...
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This one comes with a pretty Moleskine notebook!
Yup, you are right! I would also be ready to pay a premium to not have the books take up space on the shelf.

But for a truly ground-breaking product (read: to beat Amazon) Flipkart needs to either 1. make it cheaper or 2. make it better.
The most obvious worry about the "new" science of defining species by DNA analysis, is that we will eventually "prove" humans are no longer one species.

I know its all just definitions, but fairly big wars get fought over less. (But only by those non-humans. We humans are peaceful)

A quick goolge does not tell me what are the actual differences in mtDNA genome that says "yes" this lot are not Homo sapiens, nor how much of a difference counts. Anyone?