skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple created something new. Samsung had it blocked from South Korea for two years so that they could clone it and try to corner the domestic (South Korean) market.

I'm not a huge fan of patents either but what can we do when countries like South Korea break every free trade agreement they make? Our politicians are only looking at the short-term election horizon and don't bother to call South Korea out on their BS.
Apple created something new. Samsung had it blocked from South Korea for two years so that they could clone it. Samsung freeloaded on Apple's innovation -- Apple barely had first mover advantage.

I'm not a huge fan of patents either but what can we do when countries like South Korea break every free trade agreement they make? Our politicians are only looking at the short-term election horizon and don't bother to call South Korea out on their BS.
Since there was a mention of extending the language in this thread, there's also:

http://lfw.org/python/Itpl.html
You should put your talent to good use, I bet you have it in you to write a first rate thriller.

(I'm not being viscicious - plenty of people have imagination, plenty of other people can rationalise about what could work in practice, drawing these together is a skill).
Let us remember that Samsung have the South Korean government in their pocket, and they already acted to stop the iPhone from being sold for two years in South Korea when it was released, to give Samsung a chance to catch up and make more money from the domestic (South Korean) market.

Why on earth is HackerNews so pro-Samsung?
What's the easiest and cheapest:

a) buying a few hand grenades and premade multicopters? Hobbyists in Germany have already multicopters which are GPS pre-programmed so you don't need any pilots to control them during the mission.

b) creating thousands of pounds of explosives? Try read the detailed diary from the 2011 Norwegian terrorist to see how much time and trouble it took produce his bomb: way more time and effort than most would think.

The next 10 years will make multicopters much more accessible to non-geeks, but "thousands of pounds of explosives" won't be any easier than today. New tech gets old very quickly.
Scary thought.

It would be interesting to see this compared to how much of the world's resources we were using x years ago.
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"Kindness is nothing but a particular sort of shortsightedness"

May you meant mercy here, and not kindness.
Interesting that criticizing politics at all.... at all... no matter the angle... seems to be taboo at HN.

Don't know if you noticed what the OP was, but what would your definition of "elegantly" dragging up politics be?
Well here is a video of the Neonode prior art:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

It's unlocked with a left to right swipe. Contrary to the iPhone there is no image moving with the finger. I don't think that difference is worth a patent. Moving things (i.e. images) around with the finger is a pretty obvious concept for a purely touch-based device. See for example the Microsoft Surface (now renamed to PixelSense) from 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Thanks for discussing this.

I have too little time now, sadly.

>>Dictators do use [hate propaganda against external enemies], but it works because the population supports it. The people really do hate Israel and the Jews.

True afaik, but it could never be the same scale without the official sanctions and official media. Otherwise it would just be like racism against e.g. blacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Arab_world

I'm sorry, but I just can't see this as anything but gigantic double standards.

An example before I run:

>>Many on the left do believe Israel shouldn't exist in its current form, simply because we don't think it was right for the UN to arbitrarily confiscate the land of a bunch of (largely) innocent Palestinians.

I don't know enough about the arguments re Palestine. I'll just note that there were lots of area changes after the world wars.

Palestine was hardly the worst (at a minimum, Karelia should be worse) -- but it is the only area where the subject is still problematic (well, there are some Japanese islands).

The reason that little area is still a big question is mainly because the Arab states refused to integrate the refugees of the civil war and destroy their lives. So the Palestinian refugees still remembers and hates.

Why have I never seen any criticism from the left of the Arab states for that?!

Agh, idealists... I seriously think they just hate everything that is supported by USA. (I don't know about other countries, but my local left wingers have never supported a democracy against a junta controlled place...)
If the request is made by a web page from a different server it would ordinarily be rejected because of the same origin policy.

Using CORS allows you to specify which servers you can accept requests from unless of course you are using ;
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

More info ;
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP_access_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
I would love to see this infographic with the Kowloon Walled City at its heyday.
That's like arguing there is no problem with pot holes on road as long as they are easy to step over.
Absolutely. My previous laptop was a Macbook that I used to just suspend to RAM. When I decided to start taking my security/privacy seriously I decided I would start shutting down my machine when not in use. Even though TRESOR keeps my encryption key out of RAM, my RAM is still going to contain sensitive information when suspended. I can't suspend to disk because I've disabled swap. I did this because I use an SSD and wanted to avoid unnecessary wearing.

I suspected that I might be frustrated by having to boot up my machine every time I use it, because I'd become accustomed to suspend to ram. It hasn't turned out that way. It doesn't bother me at all.
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I don't think he's saying it's ok. He's saying that in spite of Apple being unethical the present condition is an inevitability. We can try to shame Apple into doing the right thing but it won't fix the real problem.
I'm interested in the amount of text a journalist has to produce these days, any metrics?

E.G. suppose a feature story that is something like 3000 words. How much time to research, synthesise &c?
Miss South Korea Admits Plastic Surgery Enhanced Her Beauty... Who cares?
My encryption key doesn't live in RAM because I use TRESOR. It's hidden in the debug registers of my CPU. There is still going to be other sensitive information in RAM though which I wouldn't want to be accessed.
Doesn't it keep a risk of XSS attacks though, since the CORS policy is only disovered AFTER the request is made?
I didn't read much. But from what I can tell, I am super confused.

I go to a trip website and there is someone doing yoga in like every picture? Is this a yoga trip? Maybe make it more OMiful.
Lehrer himself (@4:50) on the Colbert Report explained why "creatively borrowing" others work is fundamental to innovative thinking. I would preface this with "ironically", but he actually believes his argument.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/41274...
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The particular claim was that Perl programmers extend the core language via Perl's ability to do meta-programming and that Perl is more flexible than other (comparable) languages. Further clarification with regards to DSLs show that the poster meant that Perl has been more flexible for quite some time (before Ruby hit in the western world) -- ie: from the time that I did look at Perl rather seriously.

At that time there were already quite a lot of movement within eg: python with improvements being made to the language, in the language itself.

So, yes, I guess I'm sticking to my guns.
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Your post was one that popped up on my google search for more information.

Awesome.
Ubuntu Software Centre is not mentioned in the page linked above, so you must be referring to fairly obscure packages!
> Make your own fork.

Can't, only Google employees have access to the current version of Android.

> You don't have commit privileges on the Linux kernel, Apache Tomcat or the GCC compilers and they are all free software.

But there is a process for getting commit privileges that doesn't involve job interviews.

> Oh... As for the source, http://bit.ly/UhVbyk

That gives me source for old, outdated versions of Android, not what I'm looking for. You can get the source for old idTech as well, does that make idTech open source?
Consumers are also people who need jobs.

If Asian companies can just clone our products and block our products from sale in their countries, there will be fewer jobs for Americans, Europeans and Australians.
True, but IIRC you only get 50 promo codes per app version. If your Kickstarter only needs 50 people to back it, then I'm sure that's fine :)
The request is still made regardless, your JavaScript just won't be able to access the response without a CORS header set.
It's an opportunity for sure, but lots of FAA red tape if you start doing this on a larger scale for commercial use. Many existing projects and products fly under rules for hobbyists, which prevent commercial use. Taking pictures commercially for real estate probably would fly "under the radar", delivering tacos might be harder to keep quiet. Probably could be tackled, but a definite question mark.
Perl 6 is sweet, and will be sweeter when it has better performance. :)
I'd prefer something like this:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/urban-mole-robot-could-de...

- no noise
- no accidents involving people
- less energy needed
- much simpler / robust construction
I can only imagine they're slow because you don't have hardware acceleration working in your Chrome (type about:gpu into your address-bar to see what the deal is). All demos run smooth for me, as do all the games in the atari arcade: http://atari.com/arcade

I'm generally very impressed with what they've done here (aside from the 'install IE10 to remove adds' thing).
And how about Samsung? Their business practices are disgusting.
The structure of the use tax in my state sort of encourages online purchasing. For purchases less than $1,000, there is an option to pay an income based lump sum (rather than itemizing the purchases and paying a calculated tax). Someone who doesn't care to keep track of the individual purchases saves a bit of tax by making sure they make sufficient purchases (for an AGI of $100,000, the savings kick in at ~$100 a month).
> The effective approach was seen as deeply unkind

What I'm getting at is you have an overly narrow definition of the word "kind". I would argue that Guttmann was actually MORE kind, regardless of how shortsighted people may have seen it.
The request isn't actually made (at least not your request). The browser sends an OPTIONS request to get the CORS policy and then will block your request if its not allowed.

Edit: My above comment is slightly incorrect. If the request is "simple" it will be made and then you'll be blocked if it doesn't fit the CORS policy. If the request is not deemed "simple" (according to some rules you can look up in the spec) then the OPTIONS flow occurs.
>If not, why don't you scientifically get yourself the factual answer to a few simple questions:

And what makes you think that I don't know the factual answers already?

>-> what is the difference between islam and sharia ?

Sharia is the law of islam. Which doesn't mean much in practice, since a muslim does not always follow it. More importantly, sharia is not enforced as state law in most muslim countries. So, no, the two are not one of the same. Not to mention that there are several interpretations of it.

>* -> does allah literally says women are half a man's worth ?*

Does it matter? You can find equally stupid things in the Bible (not to mention in present day Bible Belt).

What do you personally know about how women are treated in a REAL marriage in a muslim country, not what their holy book says, or what you can see in some stories perpetuated in western media? How many muslim friends do you have? Have you lived in an muslim country?

Between educated muslims or muslim living in modern cities, I see hard working people, going through the same shit that us in the West do, and with more or less the same kind of relationships. I also see their kids going to school (male AND female). I cannot speak about muslims living in remote rural areas, backwaters, or the desert, because I have not witnessed them. That said, I doubt they'd be very different from people in any other remote rural or backwater area. Wasn't it like 50 years ago that blacks couldn't ride in front of the bus in the South, or stay in certain hotels? Wasn't it like 50 years ago that Turing was punished for being gay?

Why do we insist that poor people living in huts and tin houses in the middle of Africa or Asia must follow the exactly state of advancement that we only recently achieved, despite us having a far greater head-start?

-> does islam allow slavery ?

Does the bible does it? Because the slavery of several million blacks in the US was done by Christians. And the same for the slavery and extermination of 40 million indian tribes living in the South and North US. And the appartheid thing? White christian guys there too.

Even more so, it was the "civilised", western nations, like England, Holland, Belgium, France and such that enslaved billions of people in the colonial era, with some continuing even now, if now with outright colonies, then with protectorates, appointed political friends and political pressure.

-> does islam allow a slave owner to kill slaves on a whim ? -> does islam allow forcible rape of slaves ? -> starting at what age ?

It doesn't matter what islam says. It matters what an islamic community does. Slave raping and killing slaves was prevalent in the US South, and they were supposedly devout Christians. Even one of the founding fathers has had children with one of his female slaves, which, taking into account that he was their owner and had the power, can only be considered as products of rape.
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I liked the analogy, but I think Neal Stephenson did the definitive one...

Search in page for "MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES" at

http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
> if a person could generate the criticism given that simple input, how/why would it be that the authors who invest their own careers in the research wouldn't have anticipated and addressed it?

People who work in the field do also level the same criticism, quite frequently; teleological and anthropomorphizing explanations are extremely controversial topics in biology. The critique that some researchers jump to such explanations more quickly than the evidence warrants reappears frequently, and the critique that popular-science writers and journalists do so is basically universal. Most researchers also try to avoid doing so. You'll often find such explanations in scare quotes in papers, with it being clear that they're an evocative shorthand, not part of the scientific conclusions: the researchers really have a certain set of scientific conclusions about an observed phenomenon, which they refer to as a "funeral" as shorthand, but the scientific conclusions don't usually include any attempt to prove a strong analogy with human funerals. (It does somewhat depend on the journal how strictly such careful treatment of metaphors is enforced.)

In this case, the BBC article is a lot more anthropomorphizing than the original article (linked at the bottom), which doesn't make any conclusions about mourning or similarity to human funeral practices.
Can anybody Show me an working example of a working html/JavaScript script which uploads to S3 directly over html. Never worked with html5 Upload before. Where can i get more information how this will work? Is it a normal form send with additional fields for authentication? I really have no clue and would be very happy to be pointed into right direction.

Thanks in advance
Ah I see. I wondered if it dd some such thing. That's good to know.
Thanks for the feedback.

We're selling trips that are good for you so yoga trips are a big part of what we do.

Not sure what OMiful is - can you explain please?
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Not sure why this is down voted. I tip 20% IF I get good friendly service. It's not that much money because I don't drink. I know many people who consistently tip much less and some of them are cheap but others are trying to actively work against low staff wages and tip inflation.
Well the games are remakes of the classics, so if you don't have any fondness for the originals, you probably aren't going to like them.

Personally I had some fun with lunar lander, though it seemed a lot easier than the BBC micro version I remember :)
Well now, that is anything but simple.
Did you know that Hitler was a vegetarian?
Is this for real or is it the most cleverly disguised viral advertising campaign for Doritos? I don't see any mention of any other taco brand plus the use of a Doritos branded image...
What on earth is a skeptic community? I thought being a skeptic simply means not taking things at face value. Why do I have to be lumped in with random people from the internet just because I like to think about things?

Can we say that HN is a skeptic community, for example? Would you say HN is very sexist? Or do only "skeptic communities" that are actually sexist count?
Financial crisis: because one billion dollar suddenly is "a reasonable amount of money".
"Well, mobile is not for productivity, or even for typing a long email."

You can type a long email, as long as you are using a physical keyboard.
All keyboards are the same, all mice are the same, spectral analyzers are not the same, software-defined radios are not the same, USB-Serial adapters are not the same, FPGA interfaces are not the same, sensor boards are not the same, laser cutters are not the same, need I go on?
The middle of the afternoon is the worst time for me. I wake myself up with an apple or some celery and a quick walk around the block.
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> I'm not sure it is obvious.

Swipe-image-of-a-knob-to-unlock repicates exactly on a display what has long been a moderately common physical widget on mobile phones, mp3 players, portable consoles etc.: a sliding `Lock' or `Hold' button. User sled a finger over a dedicated area of chassis -- where the physical button is located; the button followed the finger; upon reaching end of travel it unlocked or locked the device.

It's a stellar example of `the same as before, but on a mobile device' type of patent, that doesn't really cover innovation.

There is an invention waiting happen here: doing away with the image following finger and replacing it with some other kind of feedback. After all, on a display we are no longer constrained -- neither by costs nor by technology -- to a simple sliding button.
He might have just been an outlier. It would only be worth investigating if the majority of Nazis and Nazi supporters were vegetarians.

I didn't speak about some sceptics, much less about ONE. I spoke about what qualities I saw in the majority of them. Hence, I fail to see how your sarcastic comment applies here.
The fact that many lead to the same loop(1) of Argument <-> Logic in unsurprising, too. Wikipedia articles usually define their subject in in the first sentence. Defining things works by saying what general category they belong to, then by differentiating them within that.

E.g.

A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American _multinational corporation_ which provides Internet-related products and services [...]

A table is a form of _furniture_ with a flat and satisfactory horizontal upper surface [...]

And so on. If you always walk up the abstraction chain because you're picking the first link (the general category), you'll end up at the root of the categorization tree, which is likely something along the lines of Argument, Logic, Fact etc.

Note however that the current state of wikipedia has a different root loop for me, Logic leads to Philosophy.

(1) or one of a very limited number of loops, I also saw Science <-> Knowledge.
I did not know paris was so dense!

I wish people could input their own cites and of course other type of dynamic data. e.g water consumption. I guess that kind of dynamic infographic is what Erick Schonfeld was talking about. [1]

[1] http://erickschonfeld.com/2012/06/28/infographics-broken/
"Egypt" also breaks.
Lots of programmers were doing just fine with punched cards and teletypes. That doesn't mean that punched cards and teletypes were not horrible. People just learn to be comfortable with their tools.
"It seems easy to workaround by requiring a swipe but not moving the image until the end of the swipe or requiring a pattern of taps."

So nobody should add visual feedback during the unlock operation, because someone did it first and patented it?
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They never claim to teach computer science, only software engineering. I agree with you, though; the Codecademy guys are barely 2 years out of school (and one of them dropped out). Perhaps they aren't the best mentors one could find.
Have you seen the Galaxy S3 lockscreen? There is not an image that moves. They had to remove the visual feedback which is an obvious addition to Nenode's slide to unlock. But apparently it is still not enough for Apple.
As a cross platform open source developer that uses Mac OS X and Linux about the same (Mac OS X on desktop, Linux on laptop) I don't see what's so horrible about Mac OS X in this regard. At worse, it's the same. I don't prefer either for programming (I do prefer Mac OS X for other things, though).
I'm not sure whether they are losing goodwill. Apple has extremely loyal customers and fans that will keep supporting them.
That could be useful for delivering mail in skyscrapers. But The biggest challenge to solve would be finding the way to prevent interceptions/stealing.
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With the density of Kwoloon Walled City (~1,255,000/km^2 in 1987 according to wikipedia), the earth's population would comfortably fit in Delaware[0]: 6.9 billion people would fit into 5498km^2, DE is 6447km^2

Worldwide, the best match would be Olt in Romania (http://goo.gl/maps/i8I02) which is precisely 5498km^2

For full-fledged countries, Brunei[1] at 5765km^2

[0] US map for scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Delaware_in_United_States_...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei
Do you plan on releasing the code?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090619161307529

Why on earth would Microsoft care about System76? They pose no threat; nobody cares.

Secondly, about Dell, that doesn't mean anything. Dell doesn't care about Linux for consumer laptops, they are probably just making a threat to force Microsoft to give them more lenient pricing for the massive # of licenses they buy. I mean, it's coming out on the top of the line XPS series, so who cares? The problem happens when the <$600 laptops start using Linux, because those sell like hotcakes and Microsoft will die before giving up that market