skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I may get the patent on the smart cover, but I don't get how they could've been granted a patent on the flip page animation. The patent application is overly simplistic and clearly covers just the idea/design of the animation, rather than an actual implementation:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

Furthermore, the web has been flooded with the exact same animation since the midst of 2004, all implemented in Flash. In the later years, these have also been implemented in pure HTML:
https://github.com/blasten/turn.js

Given that Apples patent wasn't filed for until December 2011, I can't see why it wouldn't be dismissed on the grounds of prior art being publicly available.
I play flash games all the time on Kongregate, and 9 out of 10 make my laptop sound like an helicopter, but I keep going back, and so do a bunch of people, from what I can see.

Glitch was not the case, and even if it were I doubt flash performances may be an issue for why users didn't get in the game. The game was just terribly boring.

Of course, there are plenty more sensible reasons for giving up flash, but "the continued decline of the Flash platform" seems more like "game does not run on iPad".
It's not clear to me. So it's $79 per month or per year or forever?

Also, who will add the items to be for sale?
Plenty of examples here (for example, some 64-bit OSes including Windows has a hardcoded list of CPU vendors it will run on!):
http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
No, it doesn't. I think what you really meant popularity of a mobile OS depends on the number of apps available. In reality, a good OS really depends on the quality of its API. Code you can rely on to build great apps.

And, what do you mean by many have made superior OS? You meant Blackberry OS 10? Nah, it's vaporware. Or what you really meant WebOS? Nah, it's fartware. Nokiat attempts with weird funny names? Windows Mobile 8? Have you heard of DLL hell or whatever flavor of bad API Redmond throws out the windows these days?

We really have two mobile OS, Android and iOS. They both have good APIs, and also some dirty little bugs inherent of any new code base. And we have to deal with it.
Why The Price Of Coke Didn't Change For 70 Years
At my university our machines are dual booted with unix, users, students, will swap between them as needed. Causing booting to be a rather common occurrence.
ievms is brilliant. It's made my life much easier, thanks.
> Lock in gave them control but people generally start rejecting external controls at about age 13 and rarely get more complacent as they get older :-)

I would like to agree with you but for the success of iOS, Facebook, wireless subscriptions.... At least in the US (I am not sure how much the US comprises Sony's profits) people care much less about actual capability than they do about convenience and marketing. Or at least that is what it feels like.
You mean Rolly, right? I saw that at the same shop in Ginza back in 2008. Neat and impractical: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst/2417608184/in/se...
Compatibility mode isn't what he's talking about. In the developer tools, there's also "browser mode", which allows you to select a different user agent, and "document mode", which allows you to select a rendering engine from IE7 onwards.
Whose side does this service serve? The buyer, or the seller?

As a buyer, my ideal agent would consistently close deals at prices lower than the offering price.

On the other hand, were I a seller, my ideal agent would consistently close deals at prices higher than the offering price.
Asynchronous Processing in Web Apps, Part 1: A Database Is Not a Queue
Either Deveci is trying to hide the fact that he attempted extortion, or he has no sense of proportion. $10,000 is exactly the wrong amount for a joke. $1 would be silly. $100 would be reasonable. $1 million would be a joke. $10,000 is extortion.
Because on the Mac, writes to those devices are fast instead of slow. You'll find that on Mac, caching is enabled by default and on windows it is disabled by default. You can actually use a USB stick on a Mac almost like a normal disk. On windows, it is really too slow as write caching is disabled so you can pull it out at will when you aren't currently writing.
Why not? I don't see how it's anything but a smart idea.
I know about them. They aren't actually the browsers in question, though. It's IE9/10 engine with some stuff disabled.
It seems we have different customer feedback. Our offerings are different, so we may be targeting different segments as well. What we get is that many of our customers (specially the bigger ones that run dozens / hundreds of machines) want to deal directly with the underlying vendor and do not want to be shielded from that. Having a predictable bill and dealing with a single vendor is convenient (specially when starting out) but the economics do not scale up as well for the customer as dealing with the IaaS vendor directly is always going to be cheaper, specially as they grow. It also moves the customer lock-in from the IaaS provider to your platform, which many customers are wary of. With BitNami, they can cancel the subscription and still keep managing their infrastructure through the regular AWS console or Rightscale. In any case, not arguing that a single, predictable bill is not appealing, just that it is not as appealing as what you would give up in exchange for that (at least for our current customer base, I am guessing yours is different in that respect)
And you can spare us your propaganda.
Yeah. Let's get essential. Let's not talk about non-essential stuff like programming languages, IDEs, tools. The only thing that really matters is that the thing you are using can make money. And lots of them.

No. Let people discuss what interests them. Discussions lead to better tools and new perspectives. Stop this "I transcend these trivial discussions and I am such a pragmatic and bricolage type of person."
> Here, we deal with many self-interested gene/meme contributors who are more self-interested than community-interested.

And you Sir are a prime example. In fact, you do everything you can to spread such memes in the society. The irony of that sentence amuses me.
very common in south asia and the middle east too.
Why is this comment ranking above the much more insightful and beneficial thread started by malandrew? It's partly a question of how HN works but I assumed comments with the highest karma filter up to the top? If that's true, I must also question the community: why has this received so many votes?

It only serves to make robomartin look like an idiot by maki g fun of him. He is most definitely not an idiot and this commenter makes it clear that they haven't read the entire comment.

I have a lot to take away from his comment and from the thread I mentioned. I'm sure there are a few here who will also have big take aways. It's content and comments like these that make me love HN. The negativity from the commenter can spiral out of control and fatally harm a community if endorsed. I've seen it happen before to another community I deeply loved and it pains me to be reminded of such negativity.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.

I thought there was the implication that somehow you might not be able to exercise your option due to lack of market maker.
>>as if it is a game.

Its not even a game actually. I mean you are comparing two forces of totally unequal magnitude. Israel probably has several hundreds of times a more military power, air power and naval power than the Palestinians. The Palestinians do not even have a remote chance of even touching Israel.

>>it's almost like they aren't even serious about killing people and using military force.

Your opponents have a fleet of most advanced air power backed by the biggest, most powerful and technically sophisticated army owned by a super power in the whole world. Coupled with this unmatched ground power. What you have is a gun, crude weapons and rockets.

Is this even a competition? Think of it more like practice sessions.
Pascal is still very popular for teaching programming in post-soviet countries.

Rules for languages differ by contest. I believe all of them accept C and C++ solutions, most also accept java. Erlangists and Lispers are going to have a bad time, though.
A decade is really tough. Something like WoW has massive resources dedicated to it to continue rolling out content and is probably the best example of longevity in a popular title. It will hit the decade mark in about 2 years time and while they certainly would have had some players who have been with them the whole time the churn over time would be massive.

Wonder what the best example of longevity in a game that doesn't have an element of near constant play required to have the full experience would be?
Maybe its like money: 1st gen makes it, 2nd gen keeps it, 3rd gen blows it. by this logic the founding father's are not the issue. its down to human nature, culture, and perhaps a little familiarity (entitlement) breeding contempt (for what made you successful). &tc
I was following this story for about a week now. SF was extremely conflicted because they want to be tech friendly, but at the same time taxis are a huge moneymaker. There are also unanswered questions about safety and liability in case of car accidents. If the city did want more taxi cabs though, they would allow more. There are many cab companies waiting for the chance to expand. Also, the article doesn't say it (I only skimmed it though so I may of missed it), but the tech companies were issues warnings to cease their actions. I can't find a source to back it up though. Only heard it on NPR while driving.
(x', y', t') = (x, y, t - y)
I believe she meant it in a moral sense, rather than as a truth upheld by our current societal system (because it isn't)
I wish California filed one of these law suites. I have on my credit from my fathers purchase using my name -- who subsequently died obtained a subscription for DirectTV, they delivered and installed 1 dvr, and 3 receivers, they charged to my profile non-payment of $950 cancellation fee. My father never even used the DVR, I guess he didn't know how to use it. Ugh!
Metrics that Matter: Measuring Social Media Success
At first I thought this would be a case for veganism.
I wonder if Uber, Lyft and Sidecar aren't competing against each other right now, seeing as they have a common enemy. It would be wise to have all the people on your side as possible even if they won't be in the future.
If you are already well versed in SICP you might be interested in the advanced follow-up class to SICP from Prof. Gerald Sussman:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/
Relevant TED talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2...

tl;dw: thorougly shake, the wipe with one paper folded once
Yesterday I put in my credit card details into the PSN store as I wanted to buy the critically acclaimed "Journey"

Entering CC details + billing address just using the PS3 controller was an awfully tedious experience.

Initially I thought you could add money to your wallet via the PSN website but navigating that was even worse
It looks more likely that someone form the search team browses HN or uses Cyanogen (very likely) and they intervened and updated the index manually. I am sure google has a back-end to do stuff manually.
Coloful UI version 1.2
Can i have some feedbacks about this guys ?
Thanks a lot.
So what? Those other marketing channels, like TV, newspaper advertisements, and so on, aren't free. And neither is Facebook.

I'm sure that Mark Cuban's hockey team drives a lot of viewers to watch TV. Does that mean Mark should get to advertise for free on television? That's not how the networks see it. [edit: this is a really bad example]

It's funny that we've gone from being outraged about spam and all-pervasive advertising, to being outraged that spammers have to actually pay to send the stuff.
What propaganda? You're contributing literally nothing to this discussion except to smear Israel with vague counterfactual innuendos, and accusing me of propaganda? I'm trying to be as fair and honest as I can be. What are you trying to do?
Your average podcast source material may be 40mb. Clients will most assuredly not be fetching that all in single request. Your state transfer overhead is per request. The 50kb estimate is an educated guess at the average size of an http response from a CDN. You have to keep state on every request, otherwise how can you detect your "bad request" patterns. Now, you could only stick your state on to Range'd requests. But a lot (most?) of the customers affected by this are doing a significant portion of requests as ranges already.

IRules, specifically, don't work for any reasonable packet rate. Every request must now come off the nic, across the bus, hit CPU, hit a few times memory, and back. Tracking state, in general, kills packet rates. There's no guarantee that your flow is going to be hitting the same interface, interrupt, processor, or even host. At every one of those levels shared state dramatically increases complexity and reduces your max possible packet rate. Silicon really can't flip bits that quickly.

Which gets us back to the business question. So you've found a "bad" client. What aceptable action can you take? Throttle all iOS 6 users? Throw 400s?

To be honest here this excess cost is going to be absorbed in three places. 1) end users will suck it up in data charges because they have no alternative 2) sites will eat the bandwidth charges. They can't passit on if they have no directly associated revenue. Or they don't want to lose customers. 3) CDN/providers will take a relatively small hit issuing credits to keep their customers happy.

Notice who won't lose a cent here? Apple and other broken client providers.
I'd rather say:

Life l1, l2; # initialises by default to unique value
l1 > l2; # false
l1 < l2; # false
l1 == l2; # false

Calling lives equal means that any life is replaceble by any other and you can allow for someone to die to save someone else without any trouble.
Giving money to charitable organizations that have 30~% waste ratio isn't the way to go.

What you want are driven, motivated and open-minded individuals that can create disruptive innovation; entrepreneurs.

Edit: typos.
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Yes! God forbid someone isn't as cynical about the government! I mean obviously regulators that are regulating the cabs are interested in making the government a profit to ensure that the gov is the most profitable organiza....wait a second. Oh yah, the governments role is to provide for the common welfare of this nation. Silly me.
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As far as I know they are not competitive with each other. They are small enough that they don't effect one another.
t=... fragment is there to avoid browser caching.
I think he would have less complaints if Facebook paid his team the amount of money TV networks pay for sports rights.
The spray head doesn't stick around in the middle of the bowl for you to poop on it. It stays tucked away inside (or below) the bidet machinery until you activate it, at which time it extends only as far as it needs to. When it's done spraying, it automatically retracts to its former position.
Demystifying camcorder CRT viewfinders - Hack a Day
I don't think so. The VRBO market has existed for years (decades even) AirBnB just made it marketable and easy to enter. The controversy with them is some of the property owners are really taking the piss and treating their residential property as hotels and not paying the hotel taxes (BTW, Florida is 20%).

All the reports I've read have been spot on (though the AirBnB founders disagree). The hotels are paying this tax. Some of your members properties look awfully like a hotel. You collect the money, you collect the tax.

Unlike the taxi companies who actually have a monopoly, the hoteliers just want the same deal to apply to everyone.
Net neutrality: Imagine if you had to enter separate agreements with every ISP in the world to get full-speed access to all your potential customers. Only the established elite would be able to navigate such shark-infested waters.

-- sounds like FB promoted posts?
Correction: "Of course hindsight is a bitch." should read, "Of course hindsight is a Glitch."
the only way early versions of IE would go away is if the computers upgraded themselves.

Even going out of support won't kill them as some people/businesses still won't allow their computers to upgrade IE, or install anything else.

Example: Over the weekend I was at a big chain store and decided to sign up for a discount card (which is done online). The employee pulls up the browser, and it's IE6.

The website we go to, the company's public website, is broken in IE6, yet they still use IE6 on their computers.

If businesses won't upgrade from IE6, even though the tools they make their employees use don't function properly in IE6, I don't think there's anything MS can do about it.
It's not just audio files; we've been seeing the same pattern (though actually even worse, as they request not only overlapping ranges, but the complete file, multiple times) on iOS5 for MP4 files: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6094556/mobile-safari-mak...
Another Design Patent for Apple (Page Turning)
No, you made an intentionally irrelevant quip about Hispanics in F-16's, thus demonstrating that you are doing everything in your power to deliberately miss the point. Of course there's no point responding to you. Reddit is exactly the place for that kind of nonsense.
> The Palestinians do not even have a remote chance of even touching Israel.

Tell that to all the Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorism.
Disable the button altogether, and turn on tap-to-click. I used to hate it, but two-finger right-click works well, and the new 3-fingers-to-drag gesture means I never have issues with dragging, which was the main pain with tap-to-click.
For those interested in leangains, I can't recommend Andy's site [1] enough. Lots of useful and easy to folloew information there.

Also, I created a simple macro calculator for leangains[2] just last week. It is not finished yet, but at least for me it is useable.

[1] http://rippedbody.jp/

[2] http://sareyko.net/leancalc/
Except that she's in favor of population control...
I'm surprised Guild Wars (especially 2) hasn't been brought up. I don't know about a game like Triple Town, but ArenaNet's sort of hybrid model seems promising: up front fee for a great, complete game, and more opportunities with the "coin model" (gems). They also have e-sports going for them, which is one of many things that encourages the long term relationship that Daniel mentions.
The idea of a game company that's venture-backed before shipping anything seems odd to me.

The startup world in general is moving toward a hits-driven model, but a game company whose product is only used for entertainment takes this to an extreme. A game like Glitch doesn't solve any problem, and it's not even a generalized tool like Twitter where the problems it enables solving become apparent later. It's simply a game, that will live or die based on how well it entertains people. It's very hard for me to understand how investors evaluate an idea like this before anything has shipped. (Of course, Stuart Butterfield probably raised money based on past success alone.)

It doesn't even seem like the company had plans to build a portfolio of games like a Zynga or EA. So they raised a bunch of money before they had even a glimmer of product-market fit, hired a bunch of people, and then figured out that their game wasn't good enough.

The only strategy that seems to work in the game business is to be a low-budget, low-profile indie developer for a few years till you have a portfolio of titles that you've developed yourself or for a publisher, then raise financing (debt or equity) to develop a larger project on your own steam. Raising money from the start for a single high-profile, whimsical product seems destined to fail.

Of course, hindsight being 20/20 and all that.
Mplay3 : logos et sonneries mobiles en abondance  
Les meilleurs sons du moment en sonneries mobiles ainsi que les images et logos des stars de la musique sont réunis sur la plateforme légale Mplay3.
Rob pike is doing system and middleware design, where concepts are not very numerous and often purely technic-centric.

Oop is made for business and real-world modeling, where the first part of the job is to find a good definition/representation of the concepts you're talking about. When you're talking about a banking system, you really don't care if the underlying memory representation of credit card properties will be a hash dictionary or a struct. Your first concern is to clearly define what it is using the correct words. So that you'll etablish a clear mapping of real-world concepts into programming structures.

When rob pike talks about data, he only sees memory and related algorithmic structure. Because on its field, it really is the only things that matter.
The fact that sometimes correct naming and proper conceptual representation is the most important only speaks to someone that does business or real world modeling.
There is only a insane person that will justify killing anybody. I mean anybody. No matter who kills whom.
Couldn't those cities move to tax the vacation rental industry, though? In developed markets like Paris, a majority vacation rentals are done through agencies (who manage cleanings, checkins checkouts, quality control, etc.). It would be fairly straightforward for the cities to pass laws to force agencies to get licenses and pay a tourism tax, much like hotels do.

Most vacation rental agencies I've dealt with wish they were taxed as opposed to being de jure illegal but de facto tolerated. That uncertainty has made acquiring new properties and investing capital in the business quite risky.

That's not to say that the deck isn't somewhat stacked against vacation rentals. There is a hotel lobbie that's dead-set to kill the industry. Unlike the agencies, the hotel people are quite organized (although that's changing in my experience).

And there's an even greater threat from the fact that most vacation-rental properties are owned by foreigners who are seen as driving the price up of longer-term rentals because of the new emphasis on the short-term market. I do think that rising rental prices in many urban centers is the biggest short-term danger -- PR and real.

At the same time, vacation rentals are becoming more and more necessary to tourism in big cities. E.g., Paris has more than 75+k apartments rented by the week, with occupation rates above 50%. If you made it illegal, there wouldn't be nearly enough hotels to cover those millions of travelers. And enforcing a ban on a per-property basis would be extremely expensive in terms of man-power.

My prognosis is that the market matures, the cities find a way to benefit through taxation, vacation rentals become a bit less price-competitive versus hotels because of that taxation, and it grows from an $80b a year market to a $200b a year market [see http://software.homeaway.com/Media/Files/pdf/RezFest2012-Bre...].

I know next to nothing about Uber and that business, and I am sure the taxi lobby will do its best to kill it, but in the end one should never underestimate gov't ability to be clever when it comes to finding new revenue through taxation, especially during these times.

[I have invested in a couple of companies in Europe in the vacation rental market]
Jews have codified three meals a day as part of the celebration of religious days (e.g. the sabbath) since the beginning of their religion. Going to the extreme of staying someone who does not prepare for three meals has no portion in the afterlife. At the same time they were critical of gluttony.

It amazes me how people can selectively present facts to appear intelligent. There was more to the ancient world than just the Romans and Greeks. So even if they didn't eat 3 meals a day I'm pretty sure there were plenty of ancient civilisations that did.