skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what was presented at trial the $30/unit was the first offer and basically Samsung didn't counter-propose anything.

It could very well be that Apple was inflexible on the $30 figure but to me a starting offer of $30/unit implies a settlement somewhere at or below $20/unit. Also note that the Apple offer included significant discounts that could wittle the per unit cost down by 20%/40%/60% for various things (or up to 100% if they also used Windows Phone instead of Android).

A settlement at $15 a unit with a 40%-60% discount would only be $6-$9 a unit. Considering Samsung pays Microsoft $5-$10 a unit this doesn't seem all that crazy.
This happens with most sitcoms when they get big. They swap out the original writers, who move on to more creative things, and bring in the stable career sitcom writers who know how to run things in bland continuity for ten years.
How does the amount of property taxes you pay matter? It seems to me that it's your responsibility to see that your child gets a good education. The school is just a vehicle for that. If something is lacking then you have 2 choices: work with the school to fix things or supplement your child's education out of pocket. Kumon costs around $100/month/kid. You can judge for yourself whether that's affordable. Btw, many of the kids at my children's Kumon Center had teachers as parents. While it may feel nobler to battle the bureaucracy and to try to get your $7500 worth, your kid will likely have graduated long before you can effect any change.
Comparing Go and Java
In our case, we avoided this problem entirely by instrumenting our server code: whenever someone reloads a Dropbox page running on their development server, it compare mtimes between .coffee files and compiled .js equivalents. Anything needing an update gets compiled.

I wonder how did they achieve this? Is this a feature of node.js or is this like an automated build system? I suspect the latter.
Cool, for the first 25 of the Top 100 I get this:

Unfortunately, this video is not available
in Germany because it may contain
music for which GEMA has not granted
the respective music rights.

I stopped trying after 25.
This sounds pretty biased and accusatory coming from the entity who created said product.

Originality is a rare occurrence these days. Why are you so surprised to find something similar to what you've built?
Those rules appear to be for application developers on the Google Play marketplace, not hardware manufacturers.
Just so someone else from your staff hears this, you guys are a bit too in your face with your repeat emails. I'd stop at one and if you don't get a response leave it at that.

You're sending messages without an opt out which could get your domain blacklisted in the long run. I'm not saying I minded, but just be wary :)
And yet, where are the hunter gatherers? Seems the agriculture people won, for the most part.

Also, how long exactly does it take human digestion to adapt? Are there any studies about that? Bear in mind that not only the human genome is involved, but also bacteria and so on in the gut.

Who knows, perhaps part of the human success story is that they can adapt to lots of different diets quickly (humans living in the weirdest places with constrained food sources).

I've read that for example lactose tolerance (the ability to digest dairy products as an adult) spread relatively quickly through the population (can't find exact quotation right now, unfortunately :-( ).
Writing less code is good; emphasized by the no
optional semicolons rule, by no curly braces where
not necessary and by using functional programming
constructs whereever possible.

Is omitting semicolons really the standard? I am fairly new to programming but I find semicolons injs to be very helpful.

Edit: just read the linked http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2010/05/semicolons/ very good explanation why semicolons are questionable at best.
Why I hate forums (a public reply to a troll's rant)
My Nexus One met the pavement/concrete a few times (~3) without a case. The third caused a smashed screen. I don't doubt your story, but there are definitely angles that are better for the phone to land than others.

The Otterbox kept it safe after that.
What? No it isn't. Go's concurrency support is fundamentally different than Python's idiomatic approach (event libraries). It's an apples/oranges comparison. If one approach is more performant than the other, I'd bet on the event library, since evented programs are more or less scheduled purely by I/O.

I like Go. I've been writing in it for a couple of weeks now and will continue to. But don't oversell it.
Hey -- thanks so much to the founders for this well-thought write up. Learned a lot.
yeah what can be wrong about a framework imposing design & coding discipline on sheeple :P
I don't understand why you think Rails was on hold for all that time and that the modularity is not worth it. Yes it was a tremendous refactoring effort that took a lot of cycles, but Rails 3 has come out with great features.

I mean arel, unobtrusive js, bundler, routing API, and actionmailer overhaul just in 3.0. The asset pipeline, full engine support, modularity benefits such as pluggable ORMs and log subscribers. I find all this stuff to offer huge practical benefits on the ground.

For me the pain of Rails is mostly just the pain of Ruby—ie. it's slow, and concurrency is not really part of the DNA yet.

What are the killer features that Rails has neglected and caused it fall behind in your view?
What about just checking if a MX record exists?
Back from the Skyhook incident, it came out that part of the license for the Google apps prevented Samsung from any action "that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android,"[0]. It would seem this clause still stands in the current agreements used by Google, and provided these accusations are true, would be Google's basis for giving Acer the boot.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...
Many tech companies have used patents in the past to get royalties from each other. Some have been more aggressive than others.

What is new about the Apple case is that they appear to be using patents to completely block competitors from the market, and making a huge amount of noise about how other companies are "blatantly copying" things like slide-to-unlock.

Microsoft have been extracting money from Android manufacturers for a while now, but the public don't know and don't care. If Microsoft were to go around making noise about Android being copy-cats and stealing their ideas, people would be even more angry with them than they are with Apple (being Microsoft).

The argument that often goes around HN that "Nokia started it" completely misses the point of what Apple are doing.
I'll add to this.

Edit: consumer-level or corporate level credit won't be any cheaper - only a very specific type of credit, ie mortgages, would become cheaper still.

As you've rightly pointed out, the Fed is targeting mortgage rates, and thus, home affordability. This is to support house prices and encourage construction-based spending in the economy.

House-buying and construction have the biggest multipliers in terms of their knock-on effect on the economy. That's why the recession was so deep - and that's why a recovery can only truly be kick-started by making mortgages affordable.

However, some big downside risks here:

(a) The European crisis, obviously - although the politicians now seem to have come to their senses a little bit.

(b) The credit burden on the US consumer - consumers are still quite leveraged and spending is still financed heavily by credit than by pure income. That will always cause blips to the economy (like oil-price induced inflation) to be magnified and will defeat what the Fed is trying to achieve.

(c) Short-term commodity inflation risks - but given that WTI light crude is almost $20 below Brent crude, there already is a North American supply glut.
The Canadian tech sector has been getting hammered for quite a while. First there was the Nortel collapse, then ATI was acquired by AMD, RIM is slowly but surely sliding towards oblivion. Shopify is the only bright spot in Canadian Tech.
>Whether or not you agree with copyleft licenses, how can you sit there and say that someone is a zealot for wanting to enforce the terms under which they licensed their work?

1) Because for a pragmatic (not zealot) guy, the license is just a practicality, not the be all end all. If the license gets in the way of the work getting used, so much worse for the license.

2) Because if we are 10 contributors to a program, have picked GPL, but have no problem with the app being available on the App Store, and some other contributors even do the hard porting work for free, then I could call the 1 of us who disagrees and destroys everything a zealot.

3) In the general case, because the use of GPL for a project could have just as well come from external factors and not because the contributors have some grant vision about GPL/FOSS software. E.g because a few underlying libs they had to use were GPL themselves. In that case, I'd absolutely despise some idiot taking advantage of that to force the hands of the other contributors/users.
Fed to kick off QE3
David Beckham has a bacon number of 3!
Your idea sounds similar to some websites that show a full page banner with an x in the corner before visiting a certain page.
In addition to the announcement not being that amazing in absolulte terms, the leaks this time were pretty much 100% exactly right.

Apple's big reveal was that the iPhone 5 was, in fact, pretty much exactly what everyone expected them to announce for the past half year or so.

yawn.
Report: Google threatened Acer, forced it to dump rival OS
This reminds me of that KDE vs Windows 7 comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIgEFIv5MI
Well, then it sounds like your stance isn't "I don't buy into modern nutritional science" so much as "I don't buy into science."
It's a really popular headline at least. The actual article i'm not impressed with but email regexes are a pain.
Probably, yeah. Thinking about it, one obvious approach might be to try and overlap the last step of guessing one byte with the first step of guessing the next byte, for instance.
heh, I included this line because it's true, but that whole section is about why "use coffee because you like python" is the wrong tldr.
Until a fatal drop makes your phone's screen to bleed blue ink.
> If he wanted to do that he would have done it in June or July, not now.

Not necessarily. If he'd done it in June/July, we could look at the results, which might not be good.

Doing it now, Obama can continue to argue "things are going to get better real soon now".
Floating Headers for iScroll
Based on the results of QE1 and QE2, I expect the price of gold to rise, and the action to provide no long term benefit in terms of jobs or GDP growth. The answer to our problems is cheap energy, not more paper.

.. looks like gold spiked up 2% on the news.
Definitely- we're revamping it right now, look for another lessons learned blog post soon
This sounds so much like some geeks wanting to hack. That's it. There isn't really a good reason to convert a codebase with tens of thousands of lines of code from js to CoffeeScript.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But seriously, every single problem with javascript they mention is never a problem for javascript developers. You simply learn what's broken, and deal with it. Dealing with it is usually one line of code (or even less), making sure you just use ===, etc. It's really not a problem.

These kinds of posts smell a little like FUD to me, which is what I have a problem with.
Yes. https://github.com/lyondhill/socket.io-ruby-client
How Start-Up Chile Is Attracting Startups
Great work Kelly. How much browser pain have you all had with data-attributes?
12 of the World’s Most Annoying Technologies
Wait, is this an argument against a technology that (a) has been widely rolled out by Verizon, and (b) will be even more pervasive in the coming months and years?
On the former, I think you'll find most people find their implementation more readable/idiomatic, and the second case I'd guess is because they were doing a port and so probably didn't want to make too many semantic leaps.
Yeah. One thing scroll kit does really well is allows the screen to be filled with a single idea/image/composition. I haven't seen a lot of sites experiment with serving ads that way though.
I use a case that holds my credit card and photo ID flush against the back. In addition to protecting my phone, I rarely have to take my wallet with me anymore.
anyone notice that they're showing those folks the iphone 4 and not the 4s? notice the notch on top.
As a Canadian who has lived in NYC for 2 years, and just had to go back to Canada for 2 weeks, this is spot on.

There are tons of smart Canadians due to the great education system, but Canadians in general don't appreciate success in the same way Americans do. When I quit my job to start my own thing in America, all my co-workers and friends were pumped up and excited, while many Canadians were perplexed and asked questions like: "Don't you have a great job? Don't you make enough money? Why would you quit?" They concluded there was something wrong with me for quitting a decent job to do my own thing.

They didn't understand that being as upper-middle class as I could wasn't my goal. My goal was to try and build something out of nothing and hopefully be the best in the world. Americans get that because it's part of the American dream.

If you are talented, entrepreneurial and a good hacker, get down to NYC or SF. I used to be worried about visa issues, but then I realized it didn't matter, you can figure them out as you go along.
How does having a "Join" form make somebody a better "hacker"?
Maybe "basic" isn't the word I would use, but I thought the same thing. This is one of those vulnerabilities that is completely obvious... in retrospect.
I'm not sure what motivates this comment... the issue at hand is certainly not a vulnerability in the SPDY protocol.
It's about the same, but everyone including Microsoft doesn't push ActiveX any more or that model as they admit that it's bad.

Google are pushing it into Chrome as if it's the second coming.

Also, fun facts: ActiveX was always an open well documented specification (based on COM) and was cross platform. It even worked on Solaris and HPUX with IE4 and on NT/MIPS!
Mark Zuckerberg's Bacon number is 4
Mark Zuckerberg => Ehren McGhehey => Johnny Knoxville => Sarah Jessica Parker => Kevin Bacon
Shame, their team page is brilliant. You can so clearly tell who the designers vs. coders are by their shoes.

Definitely hipster enough, but with a more professional European style than the NYU-Hipster Runoff style of ScrollKit. I personally prefer Readymag actually.
> It was time to move to Powershell a long, long time ago.

Except Powershell uses a wholly different paradigm, won't run people's favorite shell scripts they've carried around with them for decades, and makes people's ingrained years of experience and learning largely moot. That doesn't sound like much of a "win" to me.

Gow, mingw, cygwin solves a very large need for very many people, for which Powershell is 100% inadequate.
Your first example is the exact reason I dislike CoffeeScript. Sure it's clever, but at a glance it is much harder to determine exactly what's going on.
To a lot of people CoffeeScript promotes the intangible benefit of happiness. (Similar to ruby.) If working in CoffeeScript makes everyone's work much more enjoyable (for whatever reason), with minimal cost, isn't it worth it? I, for one, want to minimize the amount of things I need to "deal with" at work, be it shoddy programming language workarounds or a half-broken coffee machine.
The Death of Google Search
It isn't just the total number of people, it's that they're smeared across our ample coasts and the longest border in the world[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_bo...
a) Generics would not make the function signatures shorter. You would have to introduce yet another concept: type inference for the signatures of anonymous functions.

b) No, it will not be less efficient. It's all done within one loop, in-place. You can compose everything inside the body of the loop. A functional language would do the same if it's intelligent.

c) You can easily create an infinite data source in Go with the generator pattern:

numbers := make(chan int);
go func() { for i := 0; ; i++ { numbers <- i } }()

for n := range numbers {...}
Does this mean the Fed owns a bunch of houses around the country? How exactly do they target mortgage rates?
I did the same thing until I found Newsblur. It lets you read them all in one place, but retains original formatting. It's sick.
Everything you need to know about, iPhone 5.
Here's a better link: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/the-worlds-most-annoy...

Definitely agree with 'Leaf Blower' - I work from home and every day my productivity goes down when somebody outside starts blowing leaves. I wonder if there's a better/more efficient way to blow leaves without creating so much noise.
First the problem:

Say your company brought in $1M a year in revenue and you had $1.04M in debt and growing. Say you had 40% margins and were trying to service that debt with your 400k of gross profit.

You would not be in business long.

The fiscal reality of the US government is the same save for one key fact: they can print money. As a result, they can carry on this sorry fiscal situation for an amazingly long time, but not forever.

Japan has been in this situation more than a decade. They remain powerful.

This state of affairs will affect you as a company in these ways:

1. Your taxes must go up. This isn't a political thing so much as bottom line math thing. The more they take in revenue from you, the less they have to borrow or print and the longer this whole system keeps going. They can tax the rich at 100% and still not have nearly enough money to service their current debt, let alone the constantly increasing spend.

2. Market certainty will go down. No one wants increased taxes - politicians or citizens. This pressure from both sides creates things like the coming 'fiscal cliff' where either we reach a budget cutting agreement or draconian cuts go into effect. The market hates not knowing and people spend less in these cases. It looks like there will be a pattern of these occurring in the foreseeable future, which means less people spending less money with your business.

3. Dollars will be worth less. To hold the true value you receive for your service steady, you will have to increase the number of dollars you ask for from customers. Unfortunately, these customers will have less dollars in their pocket because wage inflation tends to trail price inflation. Be aware that as long as the US can borrow money and keep interest rates on bonds low as a result, inflation reported by the feds will remain low. It also pays to be the tallest midget. US dollars remain the world standard, so when there is a panic in Europe or Asia, people rush to buy our bonds, which bolsters our dollar and purchasing power relative to other nations. This ends when the market no longer believes we can pay. This could be tomorrow, next year, in 10 years or never if we really get our act together.

4. The dollars you've earned might not be worth much when you go to spend them. Say there's nothing to worry about for the next 10 years, but then it gets so bad that the market says 'enough, we're not buying these bonds anymore USA.' The USA at that point can print the money and pay the bonds with it or default. Either way, the dollars you earned through sweat and tears aren't worth much and the business that made them isn't attractive to customers at the "new normal" price points. At this nearly worst case point, you are poor, hit from both sides of the inflation game. This is one reason any thread of this nature has at least one mention of 'Gold!', as it holds its value no matter what the government does - assuming you can both hold onto it and trade it for fair value when you need it.
you should change the link in the title as well. it points to 1fa
For me personally it's because Rails is so fucking slow these days. That's it, I don't mind having all that structure and ceremony sitting there. It doesn't stop me from architecting things however I please in lib/ and app/models/. But when it takes seconds for a brand new app to run `rake -T` it forces me to look for speedier alternatives. Speed will probably be what ultimately pushes me off Ruby as my bread and butter for good some day.
You're confusing SSL and TLS with OpenSSL and gnutls. TLS is basically a revised version of SSL developed by the same groups and through the same processes as SSL. The GNU project subsequently created gnutls, which is an implementation of both SSL and TLS just like OpenSSL is - the only reason it's named after TLS and the older libraries are named after SSL is because the older ones predate TLS.
Well, I guess when your announcement is based around language like "The biggest thing to happen to iphone since iphone", people are going to expect some big changes. Expectations might have been lower if they'd downplayed it a bit and called it iPhone 4X.
An infinite data source? That sounds like a thunk (which is easy to implement), or perhaps it really is a channel?
That looks great! Does anyone know how they achieved that accordion slider for the front page?
The first comparison is not fair. Audio is 1D, while code is 2D.

Obviously CoffeeScript is less cluttered, but JS is nowhere near as bad as the audio makes it sound.
Canada has almost the same land mass as the US (9,984,670 sq km vs 9,826,675 sq km) but only about 11% as many people (34,917,000 vs 314,362,000).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
As a Canadian startup founder, I agree that we need to try to be the best in the world at what we're doing, not just best in our city or best in Canada. And I think we can do that while being our standard nice, even overly-apologetic selves.

As a start, let's all have our Twitter taglines say what our startup is (or will soon be) the best in the world at doing.

Here's what mine was before reading this article (@peterarmstrong):

Co-Founder of Leanpub, the best way in the world to self-publish in-progress ebooks.

Note how qualified that is: co-founder, self-publish, in-progress. That's because I'm Canadian, and I'm trying to be accurate.

If I was in the valley, I'd probably have mine be:

Founder of Leanpub, the best way in the world to publish ebooks.

What's better?

What's yours?