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Samsung isn't the only Android manufacturer. It also isn't the only one being sued by Apple.

One of the benefits of Android being open source and free software is that it encourages small players to start competing with giants by giving them a nice OS and the ability to tweak it. This is why we can have smartphones, tablets, netbooks, smartwatches, ski goggles, cameras running Android. All designed and produced by many different companies, from multinational giants to small Kickstarter startups. No worries though. Soon, every one of them will realize they can get sued for "text correction" and how naive they were to think that they can just build upon open source and free software to realize their goals. As a startup should you care? Absolutely not! You should simply develop for iOS only, using iMacs and Macbooks.
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> The Galaxy Nexus getting pulled off the market because it can search for things?

Absolutely. A Google-designed product getting pulled because of search? Does not compute.
I know little about golf.

I know a bit more about selling software -- I can tell you, for example, that "Facebook integration" is not a benefit for most people (you mention it prominently like you believe it solves problems, but no golfer wakes up in the morning and goes "You know what was missing from my last golf game? Facebook!"). You're not making economically rational decisions trying to sell ad networ ads against a userbase smaller than X00,000 to X million. (You can have one-off ad deals which are viable much smaller than that, but that gets you into ad sales.) You're probably not going to have success with AdWords unless you can get people to a 3 figure LTV -- "make it mobile" does not strike me as getting you there given what I know about app store economics.

But help me on the golf front. Does this solve an actual problem real people actually have in their lives? Have you talked to avid golfers and have gnashed their teeth about how not knowing Average Score By Hole Distance is just crushing their enjoyment of the sport? Are these customers willing to pay for better golf scores, for example because it helps them invite more clients to more golf games and hence close more real estate sales, which is the reason they golf in the first place?

Talk to your customers. (Or the people who should be your customers if you were actually charging for this, which -- by the way -- is a great discipline to have from day 1 since it focuses you on reality.) If they're not wildly hair-on-fire enthusiastic about this, I don't know that I would spend lots of time on this when for the same effort of getting you from 150 non-paying users to 300 non-paying users would let you write software people that people would passionately care about.
at least where I live and through what I have experienced

Please just stop now. Take untog's advice and stop making arguments based on your anecdotal experience.
Nice :)

Just some feedback, there's about a 1 second delay before the final text is rendered on initial load. This creates a slight jarring experience due to resizing, kinda analogous to the infamous @font-face FOUC/FOUT issue

Tested on latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
I appreciate the stand against the horrible lawsuit, but your hurting yourself far more then your hurting Apple. Maybe take that 600 and use it to inform people of how you feel about Apple, or FEED a bunch of families.
Let me give you some examples from the current post that strike me as BS:

"But, in contrast, here's the Apple design patent, D504889, about those rounded corners -- how do you code around it? A tablet in the shape of a parallelogram?"

But the jury found Samsung's actual tablets, which are rectangles with rounded corners, do not infringe this patent. So her analysis that it's impossible to design around this is false.

Here's one from another recent post:

"Apple's lawyers are still clueless that the public is for the most part repulsed by Apple's IP aggression."

This isn't supported by any evidence and is almost certainly made up. I'm not aware of any survey supporting this claim.

At this point, I'm unable to tell which information about the case on Groklaw is factual and which is made up. As far as I can tell, the quotes from actual court documents are accurate, but I can't really tell about the rest.
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I think this needs to be applied to more than just the tech startup industry...
Yeah, it always worries me that so many people see a small p-value like 10^-6 and say, "Wow, that one's definitely true."

But p=10^-6 doesn't mean, as commonly believed, that there's only a one-in-a-million chance that the proposed hypothesis is really false, nor does it even mean what many more-statistically-savvy people think it means, that if the proposed hypothesis were false, there would only be a one-in-a-million chance of observing test data as extreme as what was observed. No, what it really means is that – and here's the part most people miss – assuming that the researchers' model of the underlying data-generating process is correct, then, if the proposed hypothesis were false, there would be only a one-in-a-million chance of observing test data as extreme as what was observed.

Yes, as the p-value becomes smaller, it does indeed become easier to believe that the hypothesis of interest is true, assuming that the humans didn't screw up the model. But, in any complex work, I'm going to have a hard time believing, sans replication, that there's not a reasonable chance of humans screwing up.

To me, then, p=10^-6 is the new p=10^-2.

EDIT: Replaced Unicode superscripts (10⁻⁶) with circumflex notation (10^-6) because the superscripts weren't showing up on my Nexus 7.
Even just going to the bathroom without the smartphone can be great for ideas. Nothing beats shows though!
It was also tossed out in the Netherlands (Apple's attempt at a pre-holiday ban of the Galaxy S II and other Samsung products last year). Sadly, these results mean almost nothing in the US.
The problem is that $600/month, in its own small way, strengthens and legitimizes Apple as a platform. Living in Vietnam I definitely appreciate the dire needs of some people in the world but I also think that the stakes in these cases are very high.

I expect to have a similar Android portfolio in the next six months anyway.
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How is Homebrew any different from than apt? Both are package managers. Neither OS provides all of the tools a dev needs, so regardless of your OS choice, you will using a package manager to acquire your complete toolset. So, why do you recoil at Homebrew, and not apt?
Jef Raskin on history of PARC and the Macintosh
The solution already exists, in parallel with patents. If the whole goal is to "incentive innovation", then there are many ways of doing this. And we've been doing it already. If all you wanna do is incentive innovation then just give innovators what they need to innovate. That's what angel investors, angel groups, startup incubators, accelerators and even kickstarter backers do.

There's absolutely nothing about the concept of "incentive innovation" that says you must punish other innovators by giving monopolies to each individual. Of all ideas for promoting innovation you can think of, granting monopolies are among the worst ones. If before the invention of Intellectual Property, if you asked people to come up with new ideas to incentive innovation, no one would come up with "let's promote innovation by punishing innovators to pay fees to a select few". And in fact, no one did, that's not how IP was invented, it was the other way around. It started with UK monarchy monopolies with the explicit goal to make money for the monarchy. The excuse that IP protects innovation was made up later by those who were profiting from it when the monarchy fell.

Solutions to replace patents always existed, still exist and are working great. YCombinator is a great example of that. If you think it's the government who should grant some kind of incentives. I don't know about the US, but in my country we have many government programs for innovative startups. Many high tech and bio tech startups only exist because of government granted funding, incubation and mentorship.

Humans will always innovate. Solutions already exist and are working. Patents just need to stay out of our way and the rest will keep working fine.
I agree with this assessment. Where the probability of collision is low, and spins are in that case of short duration anyway, and especially if test and set intrinsics are available, spin locks in userspace can be very valuable. They also, besides saving scheduler cycles, require only a common word access, even while that implicates barriers and cache lines.

You need to be careful though.
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Stylus:
http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

http://nylira.com/stylus-the-revolutionary-successor-to-css/

http://designshack.net/articles/css/sass-vs-stylus-who-wins-...
Particularly interesting for me was the bit on his 1967 thesis

"A Hardware-Independent Computer Drawing System Using List-Structured Modeling: The Quick-Draw Graphics System" (Pennsylvania State University, 1967).
Sure, you'd have to engineer it correctly and this would not be cheap. But in the context of all the other things you'd have to spend money on to do a successful Mars mission, it IS trivial. Artificial gravity can be as simple as putting your habitat at the end of a tether, with a counterweight (say your Mars injection stage) at the other end. That's about 1/100th the complexity of the Sky Crane manoeuvre that NASA just pulled off, and certainly nowhere near being one the "top 5" engineering challenges.

Unfortunately, the approach for the last several decades has been to say "gosh, microgravity is scary, maybe we can RE-ENGINEER THE HUMAN BODY to can cope with it". That's a canard. Spam in a can at the end of a string is trivial in comparison.
Apple reminds me of Scientology, sue everyone who defies us!
Trying tO get to 3000 PLN a month, I'm American but used to live in Poland and would really like to move back. Passive wise I'm maybe a quarter of the way there
I bought that book after my first time developing on top of Magento.

Pure curiosity: Do you know of any other OSS projects that went down this route?
Also interesting are Bruce Horn's letters:

http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/brucehorn.html
Show HN: Space Raven.
Obvious article is obvious, this is exactly how facebook works and why MongoDB is important.
Direct link to download (dropbox):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vn9lxufrc7fb34r/Space-Raven-issue-...
How do you make money on this website?
Sounds like Samsung wanted to hire some freelance product publicists on the cheap covering only room and board but they made it sound like they were sponsoring the bloggers. I guess they were trying to skew the labor & tax laws. It backfired when the bloggers didn't want to play along with the wink-wink game.
Less is pretty good. Make CSS much more manageable.
I'm sorry but the first sentence made me laugh:

"There are many ways to measure the traction of a social media platform: [3 ways, to be exact]"
Was it worth almost $400 per person? Or $19 for each piece of sushi?

I'm not surprised that they were very friendly. Most of the people in the documentary stated that Jiro has a "stern" appearance when he's making sushi. From my experience, I find that people often mistake concentration for anger.
Also, you should consider:

export LESS=-i -g -M -R -x4 -X -f -F -z-1

for a much happier pager.
Where did you hear $30/device? The number I've seen quoted was $50. Both seem outrageous to me at first glance.
Her point was that the patent shouldn't have been granted in the first place. It shouldn't take the expense of big enterprise teams of corporate lawyers taking it to a jury trial to say that the patent wasn't infringed (I take it that's all it was, and that the patent hasn't actually been invalidated, either).

Copy-and-pasting from a comment I just made in another thread about how merely having an obvious patent does cause problems: You don't have to contest the patent for it to be suppressing others' design. I once worked for a company that made a humidifying air pump. We had to have the water tank held in with a removable flap rather than a door because our main competitor had patented 'holding the tank in with a hinged flap/door'. Sure, you could fight it in court, down the track, after hardware design (which is much more expensive than people realise). Or you could move onto the next problem and have a slightly inferior product.
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Hi everyone,
I lately started reading the bible everyday and would like to follow the daily holy gospel(sorry for non-catholics) but sometimes I missed to read it especially if I'm busy. So I decided yesterday to build a web application that will display the daily gospel everyday. What do you think guys? Any suggestions or improvements I need to implement?
Here's the url: http://chatsoul.com/todaysgospel
This is one of my favourite Ask HN's, really insightful
Curious what ad network you use? I just created an Android app and experimenting with a few.
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My kingdom for someone who can figure out how to solve error handling. My code consists of some reasonably straightforward sequence of actions with a random smattering of error handling significantly distracting from that.

That error handling code is tedious to write, very time consuming to test (and often virtually impossible) and usually not run very often. Exceptions at least let you put the handling code somewhere other than the normal sequence (although you may still have some finallys), continuations are quite nice, and the Go/C model pollutes the code but puts the error handling right next to the error detection.

None of these really solve the problem though. How can I have the least amount of error handling code possible, how can I test it, and how can I be sure it is correct, and all while spending my mental efforts on the code that actually does useful things?
I used to work at a company with a huge LDAP database that had been growing in uncontrolled and organic ways for years. If you've never worked with LDAP before, it's basically a big key-value store, with some optional schema enforcement. We spent an inordinate amount of time manually cleaning it up and trying to enforce some kind of data integrity and we were always bemoaning the lack of a real structural schema.

I think the kind of ad-hoc generic data typing described in this article is sometimes the right solution but it comes at a cost.
I'm getting an error message.
The Erlang process model seems like the closest thing to a panacea here. It forces you to write robust software automatically. I haven't used that approach enough to know if it gets you the whole way to shipped, though.

(Note: Not specifically advocating Erlang The Language, just its approach to isolation and error recovery)
though this is posted on a gamedev blog, it's not only for game developers.
I actually agree with you, this is why I said:

That said Jiro [1] doesn't patent his Sushi,
he simpley makes the best sushi. And he does
quite well for him. If I was Apple I would
spend a lot more of my time in the kitchen
making the best Sushi in the world and a lot
less time in the courtroom.

[1] http://www.magpictures.com/jirodreamsofsushi/

What I don't agree with is people saying there was prior art. No. Sorry there was no prior art, for most of apples inventions. If you take the subtle details into account.

So how can I agree with you and the above statement? I think we need patent reform. I believe in capitalism. Our current patent laws are anti capitalism, they are pro corporateerism.
I jump from "X is a god" to "I suck and therefore cannot be like X". Thank you, X for publicly stating this line of thinking is wrong. It's funny because I'm literally taking a 5 minute break from a project that's taking me down that line of thought so maybe the fact that I headed here to read this comment at just this moment does make you a god. Or maybe I just read the right thing at the right time haha.
The last company I worked at made an application that used the Entity-Attribute-Value pattern in the database. The stated reason was to be dynamic, so we didn't have to worry about adding new columns and the associated downtime (assuming the DB got huge, which of course it would because this app would surely be a huge success). We had that problem on our main app (with 10s of millions of rows) where adding a column was always tricky, so I think management over-corrected. The other supposed win was that since the model didn't change, the code didn't need to be updated.

The data that was being stored fit into the relational model pretty well. But thanks to E.A.V. it was very difficult to query. The kinds of questions we often looked at (how many records from this zip code) would have been trivial without the E.A.V. Today you might use a NoSQL database (which were just starting to get noticed at the time), but in reality it fit into MySQL just fine.

The real sad part is, we never used that functionality in the 2-3 years after it was developed while I was there. The app wasn't big enough for adding columns to take much time at all. All that "flexibility" we needed? We didn't use it, because it would have taken additional time to implement the additional front-ends and update the other backend systems.

Even if we wanted to keep things smaller, we could have gone with a table per type of record (record_type_one, record_type_two, etc) instead of one big records table. That would have made schema changes easier.

And of course, the code did need to be updated. Always. Sure there were no new columns that might cause problems if they didn't have default values, but you can never make changes to an app without code changes. We still had to implement the new interface. We had to implement the code to post that new kind of record to the systems it got processed by. Making the code handle the DB changes would have taken less time than the day or two a designer might work on the front end. It never would have been a bottleneck.
Looking for Techcrunch endorsements is so 2009ish. People who know and can reddit, are doing fine because it is possibly one of the last few places on the Internet where pseudonym and trolling is still alive. You feel gratified by people answering your comment given that you have most likely trolled at first. You eventually get a peace later on because the community kept you alive and kicking. Hence it has all the right ingredients of what social-network should be like on the Internet: free, open and anonymous.
It is not entirely brand. For me, I only begrudgingly use a Macintosh laptop because it is better for someone who doesn't want to fiddle, now or in future releases of their distribution. At this point given the length of time I've stuck with it I can probably be considered a Linux-on-Workstation die-hard (I have one at work and at home that I use for most Serious Tasks), and I am pretty fed up to have given up on Ubuntu on laptops: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4451792

And the meat of my complaints have nothing to do with UI, but the endless finicky regressions, typically having to do with drivers and hardware integrations.

Anecdote: my friend and co-worker has an allegedly 'good' piece of Lenovo Thinkpad hardware. He still managed to have a problem on a video driver upgrade on 32-bit (he then switched to 64-bit, where things went better -- did I mention Ubuntu's home page still suggests 32-bit Linux?) and hasn't gotten around to convincing it to talk to an external monitor. He has more patience than me -- mostly out of philosophical stubbornness -- although I suppose we both are stubborn in a way since I'm still buying desktops at every location I work frequently in 2012, and regressed to a Macintosh to fill in the gaps when moving about.

It is a disaster.
That is, if you have the money to eat and a place to sleep.
Hmm, The Verge does indeed seem to have pretty good and detailed coverage:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/31/3207848/apple-vs-samsung-c...

Like Groklaw, they seem to have their own opinions and eschew the bullshit-objective style of modern mainstream news, whereby all claims and opinions are treated as if equally valid.

"Maybe it's time to pay the money and let everyone go back to making cool shit," is how The Verge ends one piece.

It's true that Groklaw's stance has been opinionated, but I don't think that has gotten in the way of reporting this story.
Prefetch insertion was done years ago, but disabled (at least in GCC) because it has never shown any performance benefit, even when we disassemble and see it inserting prefetches in exactly the places it should.
In general, the hardware prefetchers are spectacular in most x86 implementations, and it's roughly impossible to beat them in all but the weirdest situations.

(This is true of at least every processor since core duo, AFAIK)

Graphite/et al (and similar implementations) are the future.
They are a very large amount of work to get right, working, and performing well, but the benefits are immense.

They can basically transform loops optimally for any set of cost functions you can come up with.

(This is actually the easy part, the hard part is generating reasonable code from the resulting loops :P)

There are numbers, but not from those particular implementations.
I remember before Reddit was moved to an independent subsidiary, there were tension between Conde and Reddit on how to increase the revenue or profit (were they ever profitable?) At one time, the site was crashing frequently due to lack of infrastructure capacity. They were forced to try different things to make money, like Reddit Golds, ad placement, etc.

I think Conde had realized later on that Reddit can become like Craigslist where while it won't be squeezed every ad dollar out of it but it will become enormously profitable and prominent in the web.
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"Strategically, what they have done should be a model of how to create and support a virtual start-up within a larger corporation,' said Anil Dash, a writer and entrepreneur in digital realms."

Well, strategically, they might eventually want to think about making some return on investment for the acquiring investors with actual cash profit. Otherwise, they will eventually be shed at a loss (is anyone else here old enough to remember AOL and Time Warner?).

Strategically, they may also be serving as a cautionary example of why start-ups without a secure revenue model shouldn't be acquired at all, unless there is financial upside for the investors. After all, the article further reports, "Reddit is not an exception to every rule in the digital world. Like many digital media companies, it has a big audience and minuscule revenue."
Samsung Executives Waited Four Days to Tell Chairman
Sorry, just got to fix it. Got to put ob_start() on the top, kind of weird since it doesn't happen on my local server. Anyway thanks for checking it out.
Well this sort of explains the question I was thinking... which was how they would deal with such a massive table? At some point the indices will grow very large and need to be split up some how or they won't fit in RAM.
Usually, yes. For instance Ubuntu runs perfect on the latest Macbook Air.
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Funny, I actually made that point once (when I was feeling particularly sarcastic). It was rather derogatory and went something like this "Hmm interesting... all these people in West Virginia seem to hate voting for better healthcare and love voting to get more guns, so maybe their answer to healthcare problem is rational after all and it is to just put those guns to good use".
Apple targets Galaxy SIII, Note in US patent suit