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True innovation protects itself in most cases, depending upon the ease with which a third party can copy it. In general, the threshold for what constitutes innovation in software is much to low. The certain of Apple's patents in its case against Samsung provide relatively good examples of this. The "bounce-back" feature, while a nice addition to iOS, is not an innovation that warrants patent protection. Nor is the "tap to zoom" patent.
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I feel like this needs some substantiation before you springboard off into your argument.
This seems very similar to Rails in structure and features, with the obvious upsides and downsides of Javascript and Node brought along. For me, the first Node framework to really catch my eye was Meteor. The live-updating, hot-code-pushing features seemed to really take advantage of the speed of V8, but I was put off by the total lack of MVC structure and other niceties of Rails (that are in Railway).

I'm still on the fence with Node and have yet to give it a real try. I think what will finally get me to jump in is something between the two. The sensibilities and structure of Rails with the great realtime features in Meteor. Just sayin.

EDIT: This does look fantastic by the way, a great contribution to the community.
I was also reminded of Like a Little and Shoutflow. Apparently, their website is defunct now but I found an old article about it: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/discover-like-minded-peo...

It would be helpful to research why some of these social discovery apps did not work and ensure Shoutt doesn't make the same mistakes. Like a Little went on a rage for many months and then started plummeting. Personally, I love the idea though! Good Luck!
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Nested callbacks naturally allows for non-blocking code, which leads to higher request capacity.

In, say, Ruby, you've got EventMachine for something equivalent but it's definitely "bolted" on to the language. Python has Twisted, with which I have no personal experience. In PHP, there are really no options.
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Also, random indexing, which is in its theoretic essence the same thing: http://www.sics.se/~mange/random_indexing.html
The wiki link I gave before outlines the transfinite induction proof. I can give the idea of the same proof without any reference to infinite ordinals.

First let's take a slightly more verbose notation than the wiki link uses. Let's say that B(b, b', n) is the operation put n into hereditary base b notation, then change the base to b'. Let's define G(b, n) as 1 if n = 0, and otherwise as 1 + G(b+1, B(b, b+1, n) - 1). Then the original G(n) is just G(2, n).

If n < b, then by induction on n we can easily prove that G(b, n) is well-defined (here being well-defined is the same as being a finite number), in fact it is just n + 1.

If n = n_1 b+n_0, with n_1 and n_2 < 0, then by induction on n_1 we can easily prove that G(b, n) is well-defined.

Now by induction we can easily prove that if 2, n_0, n_1, n_2 are < b then G(b, n_0 + n_1 b + n_2 b^2) is well defined.

We can go farther and by induction we can prove that if m, n_0, n_1, ..., n_m < b then G(b, n_0 + n_1 b + n_2 b^2 + ... + n_m b^m) is also well-defined.

Now we're in a position to prove that G(b, b^b) is well-defined. After that we repeat the previous proof and find out that if k < b^b then G(b, k + b^b) is well-defined.

Now we can do an induction proof that G(b, 2 b^b) is well-defined.

And so on. In fact what we discover if we're careful is this. For each hereditary base pattern, there exists an inductive proof that G(b, n) with that hereditary base pattern is well-defined. The challenge is that the necessary proof changes as the hereditary base patterns get bigger.

What transfinite induction provides is a way to describe, in a unified way, the underlying idea behind all of those different inductive proofs into a single one. In particular every hereditary base pattern is mapped onto a (possibly infinite) ordinal. The operation B(b, b', n) does not change which ordinal you're mapped on to. But the operation -1 always decreases the ordinal. Thus we get a decreasing sequence of ordinals. And transfinite induction says that all decreasing sequences of ordinals must terminate in a finite number of steps. The pattern of the necessary inductive proofs is dependent upon the ordinal.

What the Peano axioms lack is any way to unify all of those individual inductive proofs into a single one. Thus for any given integer n we can come up with a proof that G(b, n) is well-defined. But we can't prove that fact for all positive integers n with a single proof.

Therefore this is really an exercise about the limitations of the set of possible proof techniques that the Peano axioms provide, and not about the limitations of computability.

(Of course the limitations of computability on real machines are much, much stricter than the limitations of the Peano axioms. We can't say much that is useful about G(12) other than, "Unbelievably big."
Regular expression searching should be on that list too. :)
I will gladly admit that Apple has lost the initiative.

Yep, as unlikely as that seemed even a year ago. I've been doing iOS dev for the last 1.5 years too but I'm cross-training on Android now because the momentum there is just too huge to ignore.
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Am I the only one who isn't excited by {any.new.framework} that provides RoR like capabilities in {your.favorite.programming.language}.

If I want to use a MVC framework, there are plenty available including RoR + other alternatives across various platforms.

A new framework doesn't really help.

At least something like Meteor tries to meet the next generation challenges (real-time apps). I'm not saying Meteor is perfect or horrible, I'm just saying they tried to solve the right challenge.

Server side MVC feels like 2005.

There are plenty of frameworks across a whole range of platforms.

You aren't really solving a problem here.
The main reason Node.js is gaining popularity is because it is blazing fast, scales very well due to its IO + event driven architecture and it has the best support for websockets (see socket.io).

On the flip side, code can be hard to maintain and you need to be more disciplined so that you can read the code later otherwise it becomes a callback spaghetti. Doing everything through callbacks also requires a mental shift.

Like with everything in life, there are pros and cons and tradeoffs. So choose wisely :).
> The mean of the second answer would not be ten times that of the first

I'm not sure how good an example this is to argue your point, because the second answer should only be ten times the first if the cost structure is a linear function with a zero constant term. Which seems like an awfully big assumption -- you might get economies of scale (nonlinear, decreasing derivative), or you might pick the low-hanging fruit first and then have to go after more difficult birds (nonlinear, increasing derivative), or you might have fixed costs that give you a constant term.

That being said, many people do have a lot of difficulty conceptualizing the difference between millions, billions and trillions [1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/558/
LOL. People have been using The ____ Playbook for years.

Checking the USPTO web site, it shows the "Blackberry Playbook" and "Playbook" applications as being "status: suspended". Did they even manage to get the US trademark on that?
Nested callbacks in JS means functions are first class members of the language..
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Functional programming is possible in JS..
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You can create beautiful abstractions with your code.
Amazingly this feature is still in yahoo search in the form of search shortcuts.

http://search.yahoo.com/osc/help#readyshortcuts
One thing to remember is that Copenhagen had many bikers before it had many bike lanes. Bike lanes on the main traffic arteries of Copenhagen is pretty much a thing of the last 10-15 years or so. Before that bikers in central Copenhagen rode their bikes on the streets (with a few exceptions).

Now, many of the suburbs of Copenhagen were designed with biking in mind and have had extensive networks of bike lanes for the last 30-40 years. Of course, people moving from there and into Copenhagen took their biking habits with them.

Copenhagen has other incentives that makes biking the choice: Huge taxes on cars (first a 25 percent VAT, then 105 percent fee for the first roughly 14,000 dollars of the value of the car (incl. the VAT), then 180 percent on the exceeding value of the car), huge taxes on gasoline (the gasoline tax alone is around 3.5 dollars per gallon, then there is the 25 percent VAT, bringing the total price per gallon up around 8 dollars). Further, in many parts of Copenhagen the daily fee for parking exceeds 20 dollars.

Also, Copenhagen is relatively dense, compared to many American cities, and many families living in the suburbs have at least one parent working locally (typically in public sector jobs such as teaching, day care, elderly care, the local municipality etc.). Biking is only a realistic means of transportation if distances are small. It may work for New York City one day, but probably not for Houston or LA...
The biggest single factor that makes biking safe is a legislative one. If you adopt the model where hitting a bike with a car automatically puts the car in the wrong you can lose the helmet.
This all the way.
Uh, no it isn't. I guess you buy into the belief that Apple has trademarked the black square with a screen tablet.
I'm sorry I don't buy JS code is hard to maintain analogy.

If you write modular and/or functional code, JS code bases can be just as easy / hard to maintain as any other language.
It's somewhat similar to http://whereisbart.com/
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There goes your credibility.
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Related .. Something I've been working on to learn d3.js
A table of "happenings" on the Tokyo metro line for the last 30 days scraped hourly from the Tokyo metro site. The animations are a bit pointless but you get the idea!

http://poyo.co/metro

Yesterday's typhoon really messed things up!
Columbus, OH, is another city that is surprisingly bicycle friendly. Allow riding on the road feels less safe than riding on the roads in SF (there just aren't enough cyclists on the roads for most drivers to be looking for them), there are tons of separated paths that really minimize the amount of road riding that is necessary.
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Just like DDG this one didn't mention the real challenge of making a search engine: reaching other languages than english and other countries than america.

Google is amazing about that.
It would be good to first make it possible to write Python code that can execute concurrently and use plain old locks and conditions -style synchronization. When that works efficiently, things like transactional memory can add value, but not before.

What comes to automatic mutual exclusion "AME", that sounds pretty far fetched to me. I don't think there's a production-worthy implementation of anything like this out there, all parallel programming environments need some kind of annotations from the programmer to keep stuff in sync. Is anyone aware of any research into this kind of systems?

If anyone is interested in parallel programming features in languages, Haskell's parallel programming facilities should be worth looking at. Not because the language or functional programming would be some kind of magic medicine, but simply because there's been years of research and hard work put into making Haskell work in a concurrent environment.
Try selecting some text. :)
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Google had this for Codesearch: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
Certainly. Comparing with Android, iOS is not moving that fast. But they're improving iOS as well, not rapidly, but steadily. ARC, storyboards, better and easier core data support (now with iCloud), new CoreImage APIs, etc. are all nice additions. And, being able to customize the look and feel without a million lines of code (Appearance framework) is certainly a major improvement. Life is quite good if you want to support only iOS 5 and 6!

(Again: I'm not arguing that you're wrong, you and I are both in an understanding! I just wanted to point these out in case someone who isn't an iOS programmer gets the impression that as cageface was implying (in humor, as you said) that the APIs are really regressing)
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As much as I hate to say this, DDG is a search engine from the past. It is Google without the intelligence and machine learning on top of it. This is working fine for now, until Google succeeds in crafting the nextgen engine.
Hilarious - I just noticed the same issue, and then found this thread... Opera has been the best for power browsers since before I remember... some people just don't get it!

edit. After additional reading, I see the larger issue... Opera users are more like behind-the-scenes admins - we aren't really in the consumer/end-user category, and for this we just need to deal with some hardships like not being included in browser compatibility lists for all sites... that's a fact I'm OK with now. Cheers!
Android is outselling iPhones, and many Android phones include NFC. If NFC is ready to take off now, iPhone availability is not the limiting factor.
I was thinking the same thing. And it's even more of an improvement when you consider who the smartphone customer base is spreading to. Out of all the tradesmen I know, I don't think any of them have owned an iPhone that wasn't shattered on at least one side.
I was wondering how one would transmit image/video feed from inside to outside in realtime? Any hole to transmit the feed is gonna be a no-no(radiation leakage). Basically, if there is path for some EM communication from inside to outside, then MW radiation will also leak along that path(unless the path has some sort of band pass characteristics). You could do some kind of time slotted transmission(In one slot, close the communication hole to make a perfect metal box, turn on microwave. In next slot, turn off microwave, open hole and transmit video feed. Make the time slot ~msec for near real time feed).

With some kick ass marketing it should be possible to get the message to people - 1000x reduction in radiation!(?) why take the remote chance of effects of radiation!!

Interesting....
Your assumption has already really come to pass - my school's printer club is building >30 of them with a $250 price point. Assembly/labor cost should turn out to be trivial, add 25% handling cost, add another 25% profit margin, and you're still under $400 for a device that certainly rivals most $1000-5,000 commercial models. Such a cool machine: foolproof mechanism and folds up to ~8.5x11x4" but has the same build area as most RepRap Prusa Mendels.
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Well, obviously the solution is to just check it 100 times a day! :)

(that's what I do)
So there are two kinds of patents we're talking about here. One is a utility patent, the other is a design patent. Most of the patents in Apple's suit against Samsung are design patents. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent#Comparison_to_uti...

The purpose of a design patent isn't to protect a novel invention that took tons of R&D to develop. Rather it straddles the gap between patent law and trademark law. The purpose is to protect the functional aesthetic of a product.

They are two very different things. A a feature protected by a design patent is supposed to have no functional utility. If e.g. research showed that the "bounce back" feature had the optimal visual feedback in clinical testing, that would actually go to invalidating the patent. The reason they are protected is precisely because they are so arbitrary. There is no need to use something like the "bounce back" feature other than to copy your competitor.
It's not a stereotype, it's a very real an observation. I'm not a particularly "fast moving" cyclist (stereotype much?), I ride at a leisurely pace (Amsterdam, remember?), so I have plenty of time to observe what happens around me.

The accents are unmistakable as they apologize or otherwise verbally react whenever I have to brake hard and/or swerve to avoid them.
Yes, I'm based here in the Philippines. Taking it to the streets may not be a good idea. We are talking a technology issue here and going to the streets is not appropriate and "hi-tech". As a regular Juan, I do not advise joining Anonymous Philippines. They are a set of trained hackers and a regular Juan might just destroy them. I respect them, but let's just let them do it and leave it that way.

What a regular Juan can do is protest via social network (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). It's a more high tech version of going to the streets. Spread awareness and campaign. Educate others for it is all about. Educate the politicians of what they are doing.

I think educating people is the best we can do.
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You are welcome. Working on more mind-blown stuff for railway 2.0 right now.
No problem. We can all have different opinions, but the good thing is we are all innovative, experimenting developers :).
Age old debate. Either create something new (that no one understands or wants), or rebuild something existing but better (and has a market).

One is a lot more fun (the former). One is a lot more lucrative (the latter).

I'd be willing to wager that MeteorJS doesn't find major traction until it starts to adapt to the generation of developers who have previously embraced server side MVC. It's examples and API will eventually start looking a lot more like Rails.
Here is one of The Netherlands: http://kubus.mailspool.nl/spoorkaart/
"Note: if the server gets hammered and goes offline, please send an email to my address (check my Hacker News profile), and I will make sure to include you."

OK, this is a joke. Interesting how this one can go to the top of HN that fast... We're really hungry for a new engine, huh.
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I think for some usage they are really good and I haven't been annoyed with them except on sites that have more generic UX problems. Also I do look at them when I visit a site because there is often a lot of information to gather when first reading some pages.
Huh, I was wondering why I had a bunch of stars on github in the last few hours. (Sad there's no analytics for Github projects.)

I'm the lead author of ScalaNLP, and I'm happy to answer questions. It's mostly a scaffolding library for other systems. There's not much that works "out of the box."

I am currently working on releasing Epic (hopefully tomorrow), which is my parser/structured prediction framework, that will be a little more useful to non-specialists.
Out of left field contrarian thought: Is it conceivable at all that one day these scratches and scuff marks could be considered cool? In fact, could they one day become so cool that we'd get pre-scuffed iPhones? Happened to clothing... :) Probably not, but I thought it was a fun thought.
It's not that the iPhone 5 was too radical or not radical enough; it's that there was no master salesman at the helm this time. Previous iPhones had a main selling point that people came to crave after a little talk from SJ, even if they never really used it once they actually got the device (Facetime and Siri, for example). With iPhone 5, all you got was a nebulous "better".

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OK, that is really cool, thanks!! I may get back to you with questions once I wrap my head around it a bit more.
- I will respect privacy.
- It will not feature information bubbles.
- There will be an API.
- There will be social context in search.
- It will be for hackers only until it is good
enough to be released to the general population.

If that's the value proposition, then it won't beat Google's search in any meaningful way and it won't capture the mind-share of the "hackers" you want.

Google was successful because the relevancy of their search results were at least 10 times better than those of the competition. And besides their near-monopoly, they survive because their results are still better, not 10 times better, but better nonetheless.

There are people here using Duck Duck Go. I'm not one of those people because DDG does not have better search results for me. Google does a good job currently at customizing search results. That's why they felt the need to compete with Facebook in the first place, because people want search results recommended by their acquaintances. They do have enough data to know at least some of your interests but they lacked a good social graph. To see how they can customize search results based on your Google+ graph, checkout [1]

And of course, the quality of Google can definitely improve. Personally I feel like Google isn't doing enough to combat black SEO techniques and content farms. This may be because they are trying to not piss off their users or because those content farms bring them too much revenue. And it's also my feeling that Google is no longer neutral - the placement of results from Google Places and Maps whenever you search for places has hurt websites like Yelp and TripAdvisor.

However an alternative search engine will barely be a glitch on anyone's radar if your value proposition is stuff like "respect for privacy" or "an API". Not to mention you can't provide both privacy and results based on "social context" - to customize the search results in a social context, by definition you have to track the user's social context. I did notice that the text says "respect [for] privacy", but who's to say that Google doesn't respect your privacy? That's not the same as giving privacy to users.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3452912
Their invite link seems to be broken. By trial and error, the correct one seems to be:

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It's nice and pretty.

Now on an ipad3 it's slightly laggy. Transitions are slightly slow, and every interface element feels a bit "almost there" in term of responsivness.

Then, downloading the pdf and viewing the same content in a native viewer is liberatingly smooth, fast, responsive, albeit without the animations and custom controls.

This demo seems very apropriate to experience the gap between "html5 and JS everything" and "single purposed and optimised" presentation formats.
> I think the response to the iPhone 5 so far

By that you mean record sales?
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