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Headline is pretty much my stance. This recent bit of flat-out patent trolling (the whole slide to unlock thing, more recently their downright childish conduct wrt. a court order) evaporated what was once a great deal of respect for a visionary company.

Apple is now on my do not buy list. I've dumped my iOS devices because there's no way to extend their functionality without sending cash Apple's way. I'll continue to use the desktop OSes until such time as that becomes true there (hoping it doesn't, but you'd have to be blind not to see the direction the industry is taking), and then I'll migrate to some form of Linux distro, or even Windows.

This really hurts. I really used to like Apple, I used to really like their products, damn it, I really used to like the way the kool-aid tasted. But I can't support them in good faith any longer.
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Not sure if RVM typically supported the preview releases. It would be nice if it did though.
I'm looking forward to the demo tomorrow. I guess we'll have to wait to see this fancy Windows 8 app?
This would only apply to selling information on zero days.
The way that I read it would be that the iPhone could definitely be patented. However apps in an app store could not.

So you could have something like the slide to unlock patent. It could bind software shipped as part of the base operating system. But app developers could implement that same feature in an app and be fine.

Far from perfect. But a definite improvement.
An escrow account? :)
site owner did it on purpose?

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Apple's Universal OS
Apple's Universal OS forecast.
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It is also extremely failure prone, bordering useless due sensitivity bugs. But that is fixable in theory.
I don't think the fact that the majority of your Android purchases were through 10-25 cent sales acts as a counterpoint. Purchases at a price point that low are basically a rounding error because processing fees will devour anything resembling profit. (Maybe for those sales Google still pays the app vendor its normal list price as a promotional thing?)

You can't use current top paid games as an example either; it's possible to get to the top of any of the mobile markets if you're willing to invest tons of money into advertising and paid installs. You need to look at overall trends to get an accurate picture of what the market is like.
I wish I had a dribbble account, I'd rebound this.
Interesting. I'd assumed the [Y] stayed intentionally. I'm even more shocked to see pg praising it, though I suppose it's not up in the corner. Between the current styling and the approach towards reboots, I got the impression that the classic look is classic for a reason.
I've heard of OpenCog before and it, along with the Singularity crowd gives me a weird amateur, bullshitty, vague, generalist feeling that Noam Chomsky does. Basically - where's the beef? What has been done by either crowd apart from taking credit from those who do things in the actual industry/real world?

My fundamental aversion to both OpenCog and the entire Singularity crowd is a) their statements are so general as to the point of being useless and b) they don't do anything. Google makes search simple - go to google.com and find out. Google makes cars drive themselves - ask Nevada/California and if you're a member of the press - request a test drive today. IBM's Watson definitively beat world champions in front of everyone and before that they did it with Blue Gene.

Everyone in the other communities fall under this category: All talk - no walk.

The entirety of what I've gotten out of both groups is essentially little more than what religious people get out of going to a sermon at a church. The future will be grand, lots of bullshitty buzz words, lots of hand waving with huge claims - no hard calculations, no hard examples of what they've actually achieved.

I'll stick with Norvig/Google and his/their demonstrated achievements and knowledge over the talk, hype and vaporware projects of groups that have yet to show any hard progress apart from a bunch of lectures to rich people with a lot of vague words.

The SENS movement gives me the exact same feeling.

All talk - no walk.
I too assumed the "lack of branding" was to keep the site from attracting the wrong kind of attention.
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Just in case you are wondering why your post got downvoted, it's simple: these "Who's hiring" posts are supposed to be a space for companies ran by HN people to post, not just a list of links to places where people might find job postings.

Appreciate the effort though :)
Not only do the Supercharger stations charge the batteries rapidly, they charge them for FREE and the electricity is from the SUN, not coal..
If you want the new features, use the systems that have them. OpenBSD would have little point to it if it tried to keep up with the Jones'. It has a unique focus - that's why it's useful to some people.
OpenBSD rthreads was started at the roughly same time as the equivalent work in FreeBSD and NetBSD. It took a bit longer, but we got there. And both FreeBSD and NetBSD basically tossed out their first implementation, then rewrote it again. Fun times.
Dear Apple: I'm Leaving You
Why is it obviously not OK to genetically modify chimps with a gene that will likely let them talk to us? We'd have the responsibility of taking care of the chimp. Yes, that is difficult. But it is doable, and we'd learn a lot from it. If it works, I think the chimp will like being the way that it is.

What am I missing?
Nah, nothing changed about Apple. You just got bored and want to play with different thing.
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Realistically, this choice would never happen, because any decent software shop would hire both if they were identically qualified.
Reposted because the other link died. I'm not sure if this is proper etiquette, but I couldn't edit the URL on the original… if an editor can just swap the URL, we don't really need another post.
Yes, but totally verifiable and automated. Which means less trust than a regular escrow account.
I've never experienced it either, but maybe it's regional influence.

I've worked on a lot of teams over the years, often as the only female on a project. Only once have I felt in any way "different" from anyone else on the team, be it in a positive or negative way, and I don't think that was intentional. It was a startup ran by young, single guys, and I was a mid 30's mom. We just had different priorities and interests and the culture wasn't a good fit. But there wasn't anything negative or sexist about it, just differences.
My personal favorite is herbal.
Köln to Berlin and Paris to Lyon are train journeys, not car trips.
Why is that? It's very effective at what it does now.
Doing it right is a pain in the butt.

FWIW, literally anyone can sign the OpenBSD releases and say "If your download matches this signature, it's the same as I downloaded from six different mirrors on three continents." Nobody does.
Man, my anecdotal evidence is completely opposite, and I've been comparing notes with (some good) recruiters and other contacts around town for the last couple of years. Rails hit an inflection point in that period where even enterprises are comfortable with it.

In DFW, traditionally a dense forest of Enterprisey .NET and J2EE projects, I've seen a LOT of new Rails gigs pop up. A number of startups (growing in this area), but also big companies like Raytheon. I had a long conversation with an Adobe recruiter last year about their Rails initiative, and unless someone can point me towards different information, is it not the case that most web startups default question now is -- "is there a good reason NOT to do this in Rails?"

Rails and Ruby right now feel like Java circa the early 00s or thereabouts, where JVM performance concerns/FUD had clearly been dealt with and pretty much everyone was on board.

My hunch is we may look back on the last couple of years as being a similar tipping point for Ruby/Rails.
Arguably, if you're manufacturing ASICs, you can afford to license the odd patent.
It's much simpler than this. The native development environment, compared to iOS, is just trash. As a developer, I cringe every time I have to build and test my code on an Android device.

On iOS, I can have a build running and drop into a debugger directly on device in a single button click. On Android? Ha. First I have to boot up Eclipse, set a breakpoint in our Java bridge code, start debugging on a device (assuming it connects when I plug it in), manually attach GDB, now set my native code breakpoints, then resume in Eclipse. If I'm lucky and the stars have aligned, GDB will break where I want it to and maybe give me a stack trace that is accurate.

Here's another example. On iOS there is a wonderful OpenGL debugger. At any point in my game, I can hit the snapshot button and I am presented with a state-change-by-state-change list of every single command I have sent OpenGL. I can step through each of these and see my framebuffer get built one draw call at a time. Totally invaluable for finding errors and inefficiencies. I can even have a code breakpoint trigger this debugger.

On Android? Well this is much, much tougher. I first have to find out which GPU series the device is running (PowerVR, Tegra, Adreno, ARM), then I have to search the vendor's website for their native debugger. When I find it, it is of course, Windows only. So I have to now boot up my VM. To connect my Android device to the Windows VM, I have to first disconnect it from my host OS (meaning I can no longer debug), then re-connect it. Then, I have to locate special Windows drivers for the specific device (most don't work out of the box on Windows).

At this point the steps vary. For a PowerVR powered Android device, for the native debugger to work, I have to jailbreak the phone and manually copy special debugging .so's (that will brick the device if it reboots with them enabled). Then once this is done, I can attach the OpenGL debugger in my VM and try to capture a frame. I say try because these tools are usually so poor that they crash outright when you try to use them. For the PowerVR debugger, it will only capture ES 1.1 frames -- the ES 2.0 will cause an instant hard crash.

What further complicates this is that the wide variety of GPUs that power Android devices vary greatly in their performance, capabilities, and their interpretation of the ES spec. The Adreno 20x series of GPUs, for instance, have a terrible shader compiler that refuses to treat compile time constants as valid indices for vertex varyings. This works flawlessly on every other mobile GPU, but on an Adreno you'll be faced with a black screen until you figure out why your shader was refused.

/end rant.

I will throw Android a bone here however. It is vastly, vastly, (did I mention vastly?) better than the develop environment that you had to use for Symbian devices. That was a special circle of hell that I hope I am never forced to experience again.
Some problems with NBC's TV show "Revolution"
RMS is certainly ideological, but he's pragmatic about pursuing that ideology.
People like things to be more faster. Maybe they accept a tradeoff of 10% slower, but 87.5% (one v eight cores) slower? Less likely. Then they run unreliable things instead. Security people don't use isn't secure.
Imagine a phone that could decipher the movement of a robbery and sound an alarm
> The origins of the fighter are equally murky, although superficial similarities to the U.S. F-22 and F-35 have fueled speculation in the West that Beijing based the J-31′s design on blueprints reportedly stolen from the servers of at least six American aerospace subcontractors in 2009.
I thoroughly agree - see my comment above. The Singularity and SENS peeps give me the exact same feeling - as does Noam Chomsky. All talk - no walk.

I think it's fundamentally the difference between soft bullshit and hard calculations. Everyone can talk about AI, or linguistics, or statistics (or any complex field) in very general, undefined and bullshitty terms.

But what we need, and what the machine learning guys are bringing is hard calculation - 1 + 1 = 2 or input data, get features and make decisions well above human abilities.

My question to all the fringe folks: Where's the beef? What have they done? Where are the automatic cars built on Chomsky's theories? Where are the talking robots from the AGI? What methods have the SENS people got? Are the singularity folks just leeches off gullible rich people - selling them a future and taking their cash in the process without providing any real value?
Thanks for that. The last paragraph is pure genius.
I think one of the coolest things I have seen is the way that it has full support for what macro expansion gives you in a "normal lisp" but without the use of quasiquotation - instead it utilizes pattern matching.
The complaint most people have is that the interface sucks on mobile phones. There is no way to expand/collapse threads and hitting the up/down vote arrow is impossible.

However, I exclusively use http://ihackernews.com on my phone which solves both problems.
I don't think that's right. The regular meaning of special-purpose computer is an appliance like a TV or an iPod, it can't do anything that it wasn't designed to do. The opposite is a general-purpose computer which is pretty much anything that can be programmed such as a PC or a smartphone. Of course it would depend on the legal definitions to know what the exact loopholes would be.
Life is too short to do something you hate. Do whatever you need to to find out what you're passionate about. Building a career around that will be 100X more fulfilling.

As Steve Jobs said, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
I don't agree with Richard. I don't see the case for treating "software" and "hardware" differently.
Patents were invented as a way to protect intellectual property and to derive revenue from it. They are an incentive for innovation. They're just being abused mostly by patent trolls.

Patent trolls acquire a large number of bogus patents, sue companies and in most cases settle confidentially. Most companies don't like risk especially when their core business process is threatened. So they settle even if there's a good chance the patent could be challenged. It's not a fair fight...

To limit this abuse we could make patents non transferable meaning you can sell the right to use the invention but you cannot sell the invention. Some will argue that patent trolls could work on behalf of inventors to help them enforce their patents but I think most inventors are more reasonable than the lawyers specializing in patent trolling. There might also be a way to mitigate this risk with some regulation, ideas?
I came here to point this out as well. It just does not make any sense whatsoever to have this license if you are trying to make an open-source project. I get that the idea is to prevent fragmentation, but it is enough to require they don't use the name. The actual license basically excludes anyone who wants to experiment with it. It's not free.
I recently ported a PC game written in C++ to Android. I basically used the command-line gdb to debug the program when I needed to. It was a PITA at times, especially when it would sometimes lose track of the program when stepping through. It definitely felt a bit half-baked. I definitely can't say the experience was easier than using Xcode.
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I'm starting to think it is impossible for someone to write about gender issues in the tech industry without at least one reference to porn.
WTF. How is this ever acceptable in a professional context? Talk about hostility.
More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed
Seems to me like the CSS would just need a minor tweak to support phones/tablets, using media queries. It's not a particularly complicated layout.
It seems like that.
I didn't mean I want to replace the YC logo with it, just that it's a really well done logo.
+1 I've been using it on a number of Rails apps. Really helps reduce the time spent in TDD cycles and stay focused.
Time to start naming stealth spaceships. I vote "X-B Respect for Elders" for the next test flight.
Perhaps the use of common native frameworks could reduce the pain of porting from one platform to the other. I'm currently working on a side-project in Cocos2d-x, which is a re-implementation in C++ of the popular iOS framework Cocos2d. This allows projects to compile natively for Android as well. It's a relatively new framework, but it seems to be quite stable, and I believe it has financial backing (can't remember by who).
Not if they have the resources to hire only one.
Amazon would still be the only site offering 1-click checkout and Apple would still have the only phone with Slide-to-Unlock. These are just as important as patent trolls.
The Volt, for example, is about 12kWh to charge. For that, you get 40 miles.

I am signed up for PG&E's variable time-of-day rate plan, so between 9PM-9AM, my power is 9.8 cents/kWh. So the Volt costs roughly $1.10/40 miles.
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>>Compound interest at < 1% isn't going to make much difference over a decade.

Huh? I'm not talking about a savings account here brother. I'm talking about retirement investment accounts like 401k and IRAs. In their 20s, the majority of those investments should be in stocks, which on average gain 9-10% per year. The compound interest on that is humongous.
Where'd you find an 'old' FI 500cc motorcycle engine? Motorcycles didn't get FI until the late 90s, and some STILL have carbs!

Or did you convert a Suzuki EX500 to FI?
This is definitely one explanation for why Forstall was fired.
The word on the tip of my tongue is "homey".
I've found that NFC adoption is way better in Toronto and Waterloo (in Canada) than it is in San Francisco; partly due to a banks forcing a transition to chip-and-pin credit cards. (IIRC, they couple this with changes to their liability in their ToS; if you give out your PIN or similar, you're screwed.)
Does anyone know what font this is?
This is a timely thread for me. I've been working on an idea called Auctionful - http://www.auctionful.com . Its still in an early stage - but you can signup and use it if you want.

* It lets people run auctions on their website.

* It ensures that the seller gets paid for the winning bid. The payment details are stored in a credit card vault when the bid is made.

* It uses the seller's account Stripe account to manage all payments.

* It verifies the seller's phone and email. And in cause of disputes, both parties are expected to resolve it themselves.

I've been incorporating feedback I've gotten so far to change the product, so feel free to comment on it.
Got any recommendations? Any topic whatsoever
I don't buy that it's completely western. I was born and raised in Turkey, and the term for nerd there is "inek" which translates to "cow". The idea is that the person spends most of their time with their head buried in books, much like cows spend a lot of time with their heads buried in grass. Definitely not a positive term.
The former. If you use the Google Wallet app on the phone, it almost always shows up as the proxy MasterCard now.

This has ramifications for rewards programs: http://support.google.com/wallet/bin/answer.py?hl=en&top...
Nice. If there is a hardware patenet, just re-implement it in software and you are safe.
CLR targeted languages are few and far between, as are JavaScript targeted languages, so I didn't consider them a big enough factor to impact the "trend".

People focused on entirely new languages tend not to target JITs first for the same reason they tend to not target direct machine code first: it just adds complexity to getting a proof of concept out the door. LLVM, the JVM, and yes, the CLR are starting to change this, but aside from the JVM, there are still only a handful of languages going that route.
I'd love to use this opportunity to do a little promotion. My sister and I just launched a site to connect women in industry with girls taking math and science called Girls Love Math (http://www.glmclub.org).

It would make my day if women like nerdess became mentors. I have a feeling that lots of girls are looking up to them.
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You are completely wrong about PowerPC.

There wasn't an issue at all with keeping up with performance. The problem was that IBM was pushing PowerPC more and more into the server space and Apple needed a roadmap that factored in laptops.
>What will change is the source of that fuel. It may be some kind of hydrogen-rich fuel (methane or ammonia) or it may be making the necessary hydrocarbons from the air and/or seawater.

There isn't any such fuel. Hydrogen is dangerous and corrosive, ammonia is hygoroscopic, hydrazine is super-toxic, boranes destroy everything, and that's the end of the story. Synthesizing hydrocarbons is highly inefficient, ditto for biofuels.

The range of hydrogen vehicles is not particularly impressive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_RX-8_Hydrogen_RE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_Quark

If you're willing to spend more, you break even with electric cars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity#Specification...

Electricity works because it's cheap, and only getting cheaper: powering my house already costs me less than fueling my car. The correct answer to your three-line conversation is yes, you can use it in an apartment. You need a plug in your parking garage, maybe, but that's remarkably easy: a drill and a long copper rod can deliver energy through a solid concrete wall (just an example).

Batteries aren't too heavy; ~500# is counterbalanced by the simpler engine. 300-mile range has been demonstrated with lithium-ion batteries and longer is possible with lithium-sulfur. We're not going to run out of lithium, either:

http://gas2.org/2008/10/13/lithium-counterpoint-no-shortage-...

Lithium-sulfur batteries have been my bet for a while. They're light and they could be commercialized in less than a decade. Plus, the specific power is huge, which means way faster charging times.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/7382272v1u32m381/
"This is a bit of a delicate topic. Quite often I am the only female person in the team and have to be careful not to take advantage of the perks that come with it."

"you can get away with a lot of things just by fluttering your eyelashes and being a bit cheeky, which is a habit that is so easy to get into. I have to confess I’ve done it myself because if you are surrounded by guys all day you quickly feel powerful."

"Technical directors are really keen to hire girls because we boost the morale."

"If a male and a female developer with a similar skill level apply for a job, I bet that in 99.9% of the cases the girl will get the job."

How is all this not sexist? Or is sexism against males not sexism anymore? This is sexist, and shouldn't be upvoted.
I don't understand why the decision has to be based on only one criteria.
Christ, it took me 4 months to submit a passable draft of ONE chapter. Good on ya.
I believe it's Bebas. http://typedia.com/explore/typeface/bebas

Edit: "Typeface is custom, but based on proportions in Blanch." [1]

[1] http://www.losttype.com/font/?name=blanch
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