skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched some of those documentaries. Loose Change was the worst. Shows image of Pentagon, "proving" it wasn't a plane that stuck the building. Image is cropped. Original image shows debris field, including plane's engine.
apt-cyg makes that much less painful:

http://code.google.com/p/apt-cyg/
Honestly, besides gaming (which becomes better with maturing Wine) I don't see how Linux lacks in any functions you mentioned i.e. DVD burning, legal music downloads (one can use Banshee with Amazon for example) and etc. and etc. The only issue can be that of unfamiliarity, but it's not a functional issue. Any decent digital player can work with Linux (and I don't consider iPod to be decent one ;).
Hey, I realize this doesn't add much, but I'd like to thank everyone in this thread. I"m new here, but this is why I come to HN, people are disagreeing by citing sources and not yelling or being particularly acrimonious.
I think you should take a quick look at oracle's exadata machines. Mostly because they are both distributed and ACID compliant.
This article is really kind of racist. Any country has a problem to create the next Texas Instruments, we're in a new paradgim. What we do know about China is that it, together with Africa, will be a hotspot for real growth (e.g improving life expectancy, standard of living and urbanization). Stop the China-bashing please, sometimes it's called for (e.g. human rights) but mostly it's just racist.
The update, that isn't in the title: It may actually be the logo. The logo has the leaf in exactly the same place, and the h is similar to the missing bite of the apple. The h being there looks fairly ugly, it does seem intentional to me.
Mark Suster wrote a recent post echoing an old saying I believe in... It takes years to build trust but only seconds to destroy it...

Prior to this, I had nothing but admiration and praise for Instapaper. And while I did try out the competing services for the sake of trying them out, from beginning to end, there was never a question of sticking to Instapaper, even before I tried the competing services.

People make mistakes. Shit happens. I'm sure most others are very forgiving. I generally am too. But among the few things at the top of my list that is unforgivable is when a service provider abuses their ability to do something like this, ESPECIALLY in reaction to something akin to grade school pettiness, and abuse their power.

And with that, I now add Instapaper to the list of services I won't use anymore. Sucks that that list is growing
Sweden may be first country to eliminate cash
If you go ahead with it, make sure you heavily investigate:

1) Will they actually use it? Will their customers use it?

2) Why they want it? Is it to add extra perceived value for marketing purposes or is it to save them money... that sort of thing.

3) What's the maximum theoretical market? What part of that market can you address if you execute perfectly (TAM, SAM, SOM...). I bet it's smaller than you think.

4) What's the sales cycle? What does it require of the gyms?

The guys I'm talking about did a pretty thorough job and the founding team had good prior experience with gym chains - they took it a long way pretty quickly. But they weren't successful. I don't want to say that it's not possible, but it's certainly full of a lot of pitfalls that are worth spending the time to discover up front.
UI unfamiliarity is not equal to the lack of functionality in the program itself. Comfortable feeling about UI is also a subjective matter to a degree, so what works well for some is irritating for others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY"
No typing required
This is a false dichotomy. While there are people that rely on one skill to support another weak skill (social skill to support lack of technical skill, or vice versa), not everybody is like this. The best people are not over-reliant on either skill, they have both.

You can understand your objective, explain to the business in a simple way what you will be doing, and then implement it in a high-quality way. You might be better at one thing, but there's no reason that you should become either of these dysfunctional types.
Does that really looks like Apple logo... ofcourse not!!! I feel this is ridiculous. In future we won't be able teach our children "A" for "Apple" because of this trademarks and patents
It is a net gain if you count the 800,000 jobs lost during his first month in office.
Does anybody know what blog software is being used here?
Sure. That is a factor.

But the reason Microsoft moved from the safe (familiar) UI to the new one was because they realized the old UI-model didn't scale well with expanded functionality.

They decided to try to improve the user experience by leaving behind what clearly did not work.

For a company which owes most of its legacy to users preferring familiarity, that's very much not a small thing. But they decided it had to be done.

More than five years later, Libre Office still haven't done anything at all to fundamentally improve UX. To me that sounds like somebody simply not caring.
It is out, that's what this submission is all about :)
The Polish website Telepolis is reporting that Apple demanded that the
Urząd Patentowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Poland’s Patent Office)
cancel the trademark belonging to A.PL Internet SA. The first meeting
actually took place on August 29, but it was adjourned and deferred to
a later date.

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Does the Polish patent office really deal with the award of trademarks?

Postscript - Indeed it does: http://www.uprp.pl/znaki-towarowe-informacje-podstawowe/Lead... (there's a translation tool embedded in the page).
Thomas "Hurricane" Mesereau - "I am with you" part 2
Oh, how timely! My startup has been pondering whether to incorporate filepicker.io after someone recommended it to us. Photos are extremely important for our site, but for now we've just been using a basic multipart form upload which has been a pain.

I've looked through the docs briefly, but couldn't find exactly this question answered: Can we force our users to crop their photos to a certain dimension with filepicker.io? I played with the Aviary demo and was able to crop, but I couldn't tell if there was a way for the implementor to specify and lock the dimensions.

Currently we have users upload their raw photo, then send them to a cropping page, and then save that, but if we could replace it all in one go with this tool that would be amazing!

Then, if I'm reading it correctly, we're given a URL and have four hours to grab the image from you guys?

Lastly, and I feel a little dirty for asking, but I've been working on this since "what's the worst that can happen?": are any sort of discounts you can offer for a fellow HN user? We're in TechStars Boston and there's a lot of cross-talk among the startups about nifty tools and services to use, so I can assure you we'd promote filepicker.io if it's as amazing and convenient as it seems!
So what's the implication?
On 9/11 I was working for Citigroup in the UK. One of the other services that was working was Blackberry emails.

I remember my team getting an email from a NY employee (who was based at 7WTC) to our group email address asking us to call his wife and tell him he was safe.
It seems the easiest way to get publicity and free advertising these days is to create a brand somehow involving an apple and wait for the lawyers.
It's an app for iPhone, it's not optimized for iPad. Doesn't seem like Google put much effort into it, just look at the sloppy icon.
It really is wonderful. FitFu as a business was challenging enough, but the personal things that happened to us really took their toll! Having the opportunity to start afresh is invigorating.

FWIW, an industry where we see there's a lot of opportunities is construction. This mightn't have been the case a few years back, but smartphones really do open things up now. Lots of innovations to come from tech startups I suspect.
Sounds like someone from management needs to head down to legal and tell them that maybe now might not be the best time in the world to make themselves look like a bunch of courtroom bullies as billions (with a b) of dollars are riding on their pending cases. (Public opinion notwithstanding)

The job of management is to tell legal that sometimes even though you can do something, you probably shouldn't. I'm sure in this case some sharp legal tack will start in with something about defending trademarks to keep them in force etc. This is where a manager takes some responsibility and decides that that's a acceptable risk in order to keep the company from looking like a cosmic dick.
Ironic that we bitch out the government taking our liberties while we pour over the personal correspondence of the victims of a tragedy.

Democracy is a mirror. If you don't like what you see, start by changing yourself. If privacy is important to you, then don't read the personal pager messages (illegally obtained?) just because they are posted on the internet and everyone else is doing it.
I don't think you can directly compare Hitler and the Nazis with an amorphous terrorist organisation.

It was pretty easy to tell when Nazi Germany was defeated - formal surrender, Hitler shoots himself etc. How do you tell if AQ and its various offshoots have been defeated?

It is my hope that sometime in the future, when we finally go 5 or more years without an attack, some of these restrictions will be rolled back.
Bing.com, 9/11 tribute and amazing HTML5 under the hood
There's what the OP wanted to describe, and what he actually described. While your criticisms are valid (Rodriguo and Gabriella as described by the OP are indeed inconsistent exaggerations), this post does strike a chord.

For instance, I do see at work some people who care more about short term "done" than the quality of their code. Such code can often be shorten by 30 to 50% merely by applying local correctness-preserving transformations (my guess is, such code is written by shotgun debugging, then is left as-is when it "works", instead of being reviewed one last time for clarity).

I don't like this. But maybe that's because I don't understand that in this case, short term "done" really is more important: like we have to show "something" soon, or else there won't be any long term to speak of.

We can understand what makes good code. We can understand what people want to hear. We may even be good at both. Caring about both is harder. So when they're at odds, I think most people will bend one to meet the demands of the other. That's probably the essence of the Rodriguo & Gabriella trade off.

Hmm, I think we could go even more meta: hard facts vs politics. The best decision to make is often not the best decision to call for.
That's really stretching it though, since the logo in question looks more like an orange than an apple.
I thought trademark issues were only relevant in the same sector.
I mean apple cannot forbid you to put the word "apple" or an apple logo if you are selling the fruit no ?
Apple just given much more publicity to A.pl, than it could ever buy with its marketing budget :)

Also the case will take 5 years and nothing will come out of it. That's how Polish courts work, and that's why nobody sues over stupid details like this in Poland.
I personally hate recognizing anything. If you think about it, even distinct text characters one next to each other are a skeumorphism from movable type.

Obviously the only correct interface is a simple vertical list where hovering over invisible areas of the screen reads you out loud an option and then clicks it. Actually why read it out loud at all, a skeumorphism from interacting with a person.

The only correct interface is a blank screen representing state with groups of pixels that turn off and on without any skeumorphism, but simply representing the state the program is in. Like the LED light showing whether your monitor is off or on, but 1280x1024 of them.

anything other than that is just art monkey fluff, designers butting into electronics where they don't belong.

a good rule of thumb is: if you recognize what's going on instead of having to decode it, you are dealing with bullshit overpriced overdesigned fluff.
I actually doubt that you have read this article at all. Please read it first.
At this rate, how long before Apple start suing orchard owners for daring to grow a fruit that looks exactly like their logo? :)
I was wading through them and this seems to be the first reference of attacks by a person.

http://911.wikileaks.org/files/messages_2001_09_11-08_50_200...

The earlier one would probably be the an automated pager by some bot (?) about Cantor API being offline.
This is a trademark dispute - and there is one simple rule in International trademarks. If you stop defending your trademark every time, then you lose it.

No-one at apple seriously thinks a polish supermarket is going to trade on the apple brand. But because it's close enough, they must sue. Otherwise the polish laptop maker who releases pomme d'terre range will be able to get in.

If you don't beleve me, paint a red triangle outside your stall in Dar es salaam and see how fast the nabisco lawyers hit you.

It's life.

What is bad is there is not a word of damage control from Apple - with Jobs gone they no longer get the benefit of the doubt - and so IMO should explain every piece of evil / seeming evil they do very clearly. Just not in their DNA though.
They have pagers for emergency communications and for broadcast (one to many) communications.
The common refrain is that trademarks must be defended even in far fetched cases, else you'll automatically lose them.

I'm curious how many people protest that facet of law, given the many protests against patents.
It generally tails down to just a few thousand a few weeks after a major release, which is where we're at now I suspect. The drop off is pretty huge for the majority, but there's a small minority who do really stick to it - we've quite a few users who are still using it after almost 2 years.
Try this : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui... -> You can develop android apps on android itself.
From what I can guess, if you happen to be on a non-supported linux distribution (or any non-OSX OS with sh, really) and have clang installed, the script will go as far as running https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go which should fail fast for lack of a /usr/bin/sw_vers binary.

I'm not brave enough to actually run the script and check, though.
A shiny green orange?
Secret Origin of SVG
They had to get it out by tomorrow, when Apple will release (or at least announce) iPhone 6 and iOS 6 without the Youtube app.

This looks like a rush job, but they'll likely improve it quickly. The Google+ app was totally horrible in the beginning, but they quickly made it one of the best social networking apps on iOS.
Nice work editorializing the title. They are suing a company called "A.PL internet" that has an apple in its logo. Definitely not over the letter A.
Who does cut the wood? (a meditation on Object Oriented Design)
It's fascinating to watch people totally underestimate the lock Microsoft has on the corporate computing environment. This article suggests that it would be easier to break into the business/enterprise desktop than it would be to sell to consumers.

It's probably just about the opposite. Linux is many years away from the level of plug-it-in-and-forget-it integration that Windows has. Linux is light years away from having anything resembling Active Directory in quality. And like it or not, the corporate world lives and dies by Office.

I'd say if you want to make progress, the consumer space is the only possible bet, and it won't be on desktop computers but on tablets and embedded devices which, for the most part, will replace people's keyboard and monitor machines at home.

But not in the office.
They're registered as A.pl internet. That's like saying instacart or amazon is a grocery store.
> there's no way our government is competent enough to keep a secret that big

Counterexamples to refute the assertion that the US government cannot keep "big" secrets:

(1) A US bomber accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb out of an airplane into the dessert near Albuquerque, New Mexico, triggering a conventional but non-nuclear detonation. This happened in 1957 but was kept secret until 1986 -- a span of 29 years. "It was only in 1986 when an Albuquerque newspaper published an account based on military documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act." (ref: http://www.hkhinc.com/newmexico/albuquerque/doomsday/ )

(2) The British were regularly reading encrypted German messages by around 1940. The codebreaking of the German Enigma machine was one of the greatest secrets of World War 2, and the British shared the knowledge with the Americans. This secret was revealed in 1974--after 34 years--because of two books by key intelligence figures. (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Post-war_disclosures )

In both cases, at least dozens of people--but more likely hundreds of people--would have been privy to the secrets. But these two secrets did not leak for 3 decades.

Note: I am not endorsing any 911 conspiracy theories. I am simply showing that the stubborn meme that the US government cannot keep big secrets is incorrect.
Playing devil's advocate here...

Does the general public really care about a company bullying other companies legally? Are consumers really not going to buy a specific product because the company is suing an insignificant company? And if so, how much is impacting sales? I realize there probably is not enough substantial evidence to support a rational conclusion to this question. However, considering EVERY large company does this, I don't see how this is going to harm the bottom line.

Is it unethical? That's another question.

ps- I do agree with most people here that these legal arguments are getting quite asinine.
Except the Norway massacre is completely dissimilar to 9/11.

Brevik was a lone weirdo. He didn't have a base and support in other countries. He didn't have an army of thousands backing him up.
Firstly, reinforcing my position before I say something good about Microsoft: I am a Linux user and have been for 15 years. Before that, it was Solaris and HP/UX. I do a fair bit of work with Windows, particularly .Net at the moment. I'm pretty much neutral. It's a box that does a job.

I don't get these arguments: the user has the option. In the UK, there are magazines on every shelf in every newsagent pushing Linux and in every PC related stored they are pretty much giving Ubuntu away (yes they even had a box at the checkout in PC World with free CDs - completely untouched). You can buy PC's with it preinstalled and buy PCs with no operating system so you can install it.

I know MANY "normal" non enthusiast and non power users from social housing unemployed to professionals who have used Linux distributions and just end up back with Windows. Everyone knows what Linux is or has heard of it.

I don't think Microsoft is a monopoly - they just work pretty well on the desktop for most users (well they did until Windows 8 but I'm not going there in this discussion ;-). The competition is there but it's not really competition in mindshare as people are comfortable.

If you forcibly removed the bundling, you are going to get nowhere i.e. people saying "Can I just have it with Windows on it". Also, at the sales desk, the salesperson is going to make a few extra readies for selling Windows with a PC so you're going to lose anyway.

Take a look at where IBM is now compared to the late 1980's. They monopolised and beat their competition to death and they didn't survive in that market. Microsoft's time will come if they fuck up or piss off a lot of people, but at the moment they do what people want for a price that people want to pay.

The idealisms of "Microsoft sucks" and is a "monopoly" remind me of Slashdot circa 2001 onwards where OSX and Linux were going to take over the world and destroy Microsoft.

Sorry it ain't going to happen and I'm not really that bothered myself.
if apple can sue a.pl could whoever owns APL sue apple? I guess it is probably too late for APL though....
New Social Network of Humor
I just found a new social network of humor..it sounds exciting but im waiting for its evolution..
Why African social networks kick Facebook’s mobile experience in the ass
"Quantum Key Distribution" in no way implies the key is shorter than the message. It actually needs to be longer to allow for error correction, authentication, and privacy amplification (i.e. to compensate for noise that could be attributed to an attack). A one time pad, or vernam cipher, is commonly used in commercial QKD systems. It's not snake-oil. Please google it. It's dead simple to understand and almost as easy to understand why it's impossible to break if used properly. As I pointed out, it's the gold-standard for paranoid government agencies even without QKD, ergo spooks with suitcases on planes.

As for attacks on ECDH, look up Shor's algorithm. That particular algorithm needs a quantum computer to run, but there is no existing proof showing that it is impossible to find one that would run efficiently on a classical computer. Again, the nature of classical communications means that encrypted messages may be copied and archived, so that vulnerabilities found in the future can compromise messages you send today. Maybe nobody will ever manage to crack ECDH, but maybe they will. It's a gamble. Quantum communications cannot be copied and archived so QKD must be broken at the time of transmission or the message is safe for all time. That's the big difference.

Again, I'm not suggesting ECDH isn't fine for most normal people's day-to-day needs. We're talking about secrets that need to be kept for generations that you simply don't want to gamble on.
Is it naive to say these proofs are overly long - that there's something a little simpler behind them?
Yes, there are green oranges! Just do a Google search. They're quite tasty.
I think it's supposed to be an abstract fruit, nothing specific. It isn't really apple-shaped, just perfect circle.

And green color is commonly associated with being fresh.
No, that's correct. Apple obviously invented everything round, be it rounded icons or apples. And everything starting with a and having "pl" somewhere in it's name.

Actually, i think Apple should sue everyone selling real apples or eating apples and every company that uses the words application, apprentice, appointment but also everything containing jobs, steve and silverish designs.

But also they should be able to sue everyone for this but use LTE technology for free. Or the shitload of stuff others invented, like the smartphone or GSM.
Apple's phenomenal dickery is making me seriously consider divesting myself of their products, so yes. Then again, I'm not the typical consumer. Their rectalitude certainly doesn't seem to have hurt their sales any.
It's odd that a bot saying "Network Failure" really brings it home more than live images etc. Maybe it's because we are very technically oriented individuals, or is it a wider thing?
"2 * 1 = 1 * 2"

You forgot the "2 choices" part, ie that the numbers are pointers to qualitative differences, thus 1A + 1B != 2 * 1A.
I don't know about the general public, but I don't buy Apple products for a variety of reasons, this being one of them.
I guess http://ap.pl/ will be the next target
something like http://anyfu.com/ ?
The e-ink datasheet[1] says that they don't make them any bigger than 12" sadly:

[1].http://www.eink.com/sell_sheets/pearl%20sell%20sheet.pdf
Compared to patents, trademarks do not really generate that much abuse of the law. On top of that everybody seems to agree that their benefits (i.e. prevent businesses from confusing consumers) totally outweigh downsides, which is not the case with patents. The rare cases of abuse actually generate quite a lot of bad publicity.
This is the case for almost every popular domain.
Its far from automatic. In any case, all they'd have to do is send a polite letter to the little store granting them the perpetual right to be similar in the way that the currently are. As SJ said, "not that big a deal".