skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is extraordinarily sophisticated when it comes to IP issues. Any artwork or homages that they've placed in their product are either (A) Cleared for coverage or (B) Have some path to such.

Anything you see in IOS is akin to a song that would hear in a movie or a TV Show - hundreds of hours, if not thousands, have gone into ensuring the legality/coverage of all of the major elements that you see there.

Don't for a second believe that Apple didn't already have a negotiating position, and value, and best-negotiable-alternative (BNA) identified prior to placing that swiss clock into IOS.

This isn't their first, second, or even hundredth time at this particular rodeo.

The games that HTC/Google/Motorola/Apple/Samsung are also, all playing out according to a well known IP strategy. Each of the parties is acquiring IP, establishing their patent positions/strength, going to court where needed, and engaging in settlements likewise.

At the level which these companies play - their is no "Steal", simply a stronger (or weaker) game theoretic negotiating position which plays out...

Anybody how has legal bills in excess of $100 million a year has left the realm of good/bad, and moved into win/lose/profit/loss.
Sure, why not. It's better C++ and STL.
His description of a Navy SEALesque operation the government of Belize put in place to poison a bunch of stupid dogs leads me to believe this guy has a tenuous grasp on reality. And he has a history of violence. Oh and he's apparently been really big on research chemicals as well? Yeah, his mind is fried.
29$ ruined it for me
So I've always wondered what happens to you as a human when you're effectively fired from a high level, high visibility position. How does Sinofsky feel right now, emotionally? How does he feel professionally? Is this something someone shakes off as differences between opinionated guys in an organization? Or is this something that rocks him to his core? Does he go for another job right away? Or does he write a book and retire?

I have absolutely no perspective on this issue and often wonder what it's like.
I built an App platform (www.appynotebook.com) for education, now I am using it to crank out Apps like pancakes:)

This is the first in line of Apps I am planning to create.

Your feedback would be appreciated.
I actually think there's an even bigger market for desktop diffing than web diffing. Most files that need diffing start their lives on a desktop. And most of the time, the diff happens before those files hit the cloud - while you're committing / merging with the central server.

If things like circuits.io and Cloud9 beat their desktop counterparts then I'm wrong, but if people (and especially enterprises) continue to do most of their complex work in native apps and not in the browser, then I think I'm right.
> Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation

Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?

Harder to achieve than it looks.
"Andy Rubin is sweating right now." — @llsethj
Ask HN: YC applicants, who's up for a morale-boosting meetup/hangout?
Any applicants (past, present, future) interested in having an informal meetup this weekend? Whether we hear good news or bad news on the 15th, getting together would be a great morale boost and it'll be fun to meet everyone! I happen to be in Silicon Valley, but I'll be there in spirit for fellow applicants everywhere else :)

Please reply if you're up for hanging out with the fine folks who share your excitement and pain. This invitation is extended to the YC partners of course!

We'll most likely meetup at a brewery near the "motherships" (Palo Alto and Mountain View). Other ideas and suggestions are welcome. Contact info's in the profile if you need it.

Good luck to everyone!
Windows head, Steven Sinofsky is out at Microsoft
I just walked by a 'Tesla Event' full of rich looking folk in NYC. I guess that's what it was for.

Edit: confirmed.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/10990-Special-...
Sounds like a way to give employees leave without actually giving them leave.
My understanding is that Sinofsky was just purging many partner-level folks. I'd be curious if that created a chorus of dissatisfaction, but I'd never heard of anything that would have caused his ouster.
This is quite a surprise. As someone who worked on Windows for five years after undergrad and catching the tail end of Vista, people were thrilled when he was brought on board for Windows 7.

As a low level peon, I respected how he could get the org to ship on time. I think he'll be missed.
Yeah, I wondered the same thing when the Petraeus scandal started. I know people that have been fired, but they've just left it out of their resume and moved on to another job. That doesn't work so well when you're in such a prominent position that your firing is all over the internet.
> But do you understand the prequisites -- namely processor microarchitecture?

I do not but I try to learn more about that (coursera ftw).

LuaJit is awesome on many level, first as you have pointed out attention to detailed on processer level is quite special and not many people can do that.

Other then the good usage of the processor is not the only reason luajit is fast. On the compiler level, the optimization luajit does are extensive. Even lots of novel innovations are in that that people writting papers should read (Mike Pall has posted a list of thing that he thinks are somewhat novel). The nature of the trace compiler makes many of these things less complicated then they would have been otherwise.
Hey HN --

We are launching a crowdfunding campaign to teach 1,000 high school students to code over the next six months.

We focus on providing help from real people along the way--because when you are learning to program, everyone gets stuck, and needs debugging help and feedback.

We are also making a site to collect 30-second videos from people across all fields saying "why you should learn to code." It would be great to get some help from HN supporting this cause.
Yes, good point. Though getting an RPi these days is quite a chore. Its backordered until hell freezes over.
I worked for Microsoft for 4 years - this is a HUGE surprise to me. Most of the people I know who worked in his orgs were proud to work under his direction.

I thought he would replace Balmer eventually.
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

http://quorumex.com/content/about-us

Perhaps he got a little too close to The Truth?
I can't be positive what the parent post was referring to, but it's likely it has something to do with re-balancing the dev/test/pm/manager roles. Microsoft had started to get top heavy, so Sinofski had a lot of managers demoted to individual contributors and invented this odd "triad" system of dev/test/pm to try to keep things more balanced. It struck me as a passive aggressive and politically correct way to force some under-performers out. It had the positive side effect of preventing runaway PM orgs, but had the negative side effect of encumbering some well balanced teams. I assumed that it was an interrum strategy to get a handle on organizational complexity. However, other orgs around the company started being "Sinofski-ized" without any real understanding of what that meant.
Sorry, confused Julie's bio with Tammy Reller's. She has an MBA and has indeed been leading the UI/UX efforts.

Nonetheless, I still stand by point. I was an SDE at msft in OSD, so I know very well how technically competent PMs are and how much code they write.
For what it's worth, your "teaser" video had me sold within the first three seconds. But maybe it's just because I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Great job!
Could you please elaborate on why you did not agree with him on his organization plans?

I read his blog posts on their website and always thought he was technical and bearer of change.
This is run by a few Stanford alums with a lot of experience teaching CS to undergrad noobs. Should be a good experiment.
the photos and title do a great job of loading the question
Myself? Sorry to say, but I probably wouldn't pay, seeing as I am a programmer by trade. This was just for a little side project where I wanted to collaborate with my little sister on our own version of xkcd's "Click and Drag" [0] which we work on over a long period of time. I figured using Inkscape and version controlling the SVG's was the best way to collaborate with her, even though she's not familiar with version control (just finishing high school, interested in arts and not coding).

But I take your point that professional designers tend to pay for their tools, whereas programmers often find an open source tool. I guess it comes from the fact that programmers can program their own tools, where as designers cannot.

I recall a project hitting the front page which focused on visual diffs of 3D model which you may be interested in [1].

[0] - http://xkcd.com/1110/

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393704
I've created a separate post for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775943

People from other areas are welcome to start comment threads based on location.
I think that may have changed in the latest release (or maybe it's in the next release, but I'm pretty sure Lennart said the default was going to be to write logs).

See, the problem with the sentence "shouldn't write a text-only /var/log/messages file by default" wasn't the "shouldn't write a [log] by default" part, it was the "shouldn't write a text-only [log]" part. As a CLI jockey/junky/sysadmin, I for one will not accept any solution I can't grep.

As a long time Linux user, I can't but agree with the OpenBSD folks: systemd is a "solution" in search of a problem, and the only reason it is gaining any traction appears to be the same shove-it-down-the-user's throat attitude that the GNOME devs have.

Granted, there has been a proliferation of parallelized boot schemes cropping up in Linux, but systemd seems to take too much on itself. And while PulseAudio eventually settled down and solved the proliferation of audio multiplexing systems, it was a very bumpy ride getting there. I only bring that up because that was another Poettering project.
That was my understanding as well. There are an absurd number of incompetent partner-level folks. It seemed that MAXIMIZE(TIME + BROWN_NOSING - CAREER_LIMITING_GAFFES) was an extremely successful strategy for getting promoted.
Families like yours are what motivate people like me to constantly be on the lookout for job-creating opportunities. A startup/business is not about itself, but about the people behind it. It must see to improve the lives of those involved, and their families. I am very happy for your family. May you enjoy more blessings.
I totally love mesh networking. I would put up with slower download and upload speeds to get rid of dependence on private or public entities to provide service that price gouge and stifle innovation. To those that say "it can't handle that much traffic", it can with smarter routing algorithms, and network usage is self-regulating (if users can't watch streaming netflix, they will stop trying). The net is about freedom, and mesh embodies that freedom.
All speech, including that inciting violence or dissent should be protected. If a populace allows imprisonment over utterances, rebellion against tyranny becomes impossible. Imagine Thomas Paine was imprisoned for "Common Sense" or the First Continental Congress was imprisoned for discussing independence, or that Martin Luther King was imprisoned for expressing the extremely unpopular and offensive notion of equality for all races, or Pope was imprisoned for his satire of slavery or Joyce for his depictions of people going to the restroom. Socrates was willing to go to death because of his ideals. The least of us should be willing to decry the suppression of opinion of any form at the risk of being offended or verbally injured or even incited to violence against the forces that support the suppression of Speech, lest we find ourselves the member of an oppressed, unpopular, and thus imprisonable or executable minority. To fail to protect the Speech of those with whom we disagree is to fail to live as free people. This was the salient theme in Orwell's 1984. Newspeak was an attempt not to remove offensive Speech, but to make impossible the act of expressing any thought through speech that may move the populace to action to throw off the shackles of tyranny that chained them to a life of slavery.

Britons have a right to be angry, and a right to express their anger at these arrests. They are an assault on the human rights of all citizens of the UK and the willingness of some on this topic to accept these assaults is both unsettling and unexpected.
You can read Steve Jobs' biography.
This is a stunning development and most of MSFT is probably in shock right now.

It's hard to overstate the scope and influence Sinofsky had at MSFT. This was a man widely expected to be the next CEO and he had impact way outside his organization (the 'Sinofsky-ization of teams').

Also, his stock was rising inside MSFT (when you stay inside the company long enough, you can sense which executives are in trouble and which ones are going up).

This is a unexpected move which is going to change Microsoft at a deep level.
A keen observation indeed. In a zombie apocalypse, I'd readily let you keep watch whilst I slept.

Wired is notoriously sensationalist. Take anything you get from there with many grains of salt.
He was a big fan of the triad- Dev, Test & PM, at every level. From what I experienced, at every level you'd have to get sign-off from all 3 for any features to be implemented. That, combined with Microsoft's incredibly deep org structure created a massive number of 'committees' to go through to get signoff for any work to be done.

He was also one to dictate things from up above and it was extremely difficult to understand the reasoning behind them or offer any form of disagreement. Anyone who didn't follow exactly what he wanted, was out.

So basically you'd have committees of 3's (Dev, Test, PM) filtering and relaying every decision. The people who could work the politics would get promoted and the people who understood the details would get frustrated by the top-down ambiguity and falter or leave.
I hope this means that they start doing more .NET again, instead of going back to COM.
How would that stop you from being required to comply with a subpoena to supply old email from sageraven.com (hypothetical)?
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Windows head and Windows 8 lead Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft
Precisely. From what I experienced, everything became decision by committee with the triads.

I much prefer the single BOTL (Butt on the line), with every meeting having a single decision maker.
I gave a one-star review to an app just for spamming me with "like us on Facebook" requests in the app. But the number of reviews it had was well into the hundreds by the time I got to it, so my effect was miniscule. I agree with you completely, but as long as we are dreaming of an ideal world we may as well assume all apps behave in the first place :/
This video is about another matter and quite old, not the current murder charges.

http://www.reporter.bz/2012/05/investor-john-mcafee-says-gsu... (edit, broken.)
A little feedback for our project? Thank you
Huh? Jalopnik says that the Model X will start at $60k: http://jalopnik.com/5884111/tesla-model-x-price-tops-out-at-...
It thinks "false" is two syllables, which seems to be just a dictionary problem. For something like this, those need to be very diligently squashed if you plan to make something commercial out of it.

The editor is way too small - this is a really simple fix.

Finally, I'm not sure why this is all in PHP - it seems like this would be much easier to use self-hosted or otherwise packaged if it was client-side only PHP and Javascript. It doesn't look like the program does anything which couldn't be done that way trivially - please correct me if I'm wrong.

In other respects, this is pretty basic, but very well-done, particularly for a hackathon project. Nicely done!
With the lawsuits, I think too much is made of this. I don't believe it really much affects their ability to make products one way or the other.

I don't know if it is still the case but a few years ago they were the most sued company in the world and prior to the iPhone they were getting hit with a ton of patent suits and trolls.

So, it seems that starting with the iPhone there was a shift in strategy when Apple realized they needed to patent everything possible as a defensive measure.

Perhaps it's lamentable that became a more offensive strategy, but it seems to be swinging back the other way under Tim Cook.

I also agree that it would be nice if they would step up their software game, but don't hold your breath. Apple makes decent OSes but their apps have never been known for their high quality.

There are some hopeful signs though. Although it gets plenty of hate, I think the the slow convergence of OS X and iOS is a good direction. Of course, with Ive now in charge of software design we can at least expect some more aesthetic polish in their software within the next year.

I think their biggest strength is providing a good platform (hardware and OS) for third party developers to shine. However, they seem to have a hard enough time just doing that (more on the OS side), so I wouldn't mind if they dumped more of their app development to focus even more of the quality of their OSes.
>>>Unfortunately this kind of organization, while good at empowering individuals, is bad at quick tactical responses such as when facing a well organized adversary like the local politicians and police.

That might be so -- as the many evictions have illustrated -- but on the other hand, people who only encountered them in the isolation of their own opinion or through portrayals in the MSM are now seeing for themselves what Occupy actually meant and means.

I watched The Men Who Built America on History Channel. Carnegie, Morgan, and Rockefeller bought themselves a President, McKinley, to thwart candidate reformer Bryan. Then reformer Teddy Roosevelt came along and they made him VP in McKinley's second term, thinking they'd buried him in a powerless job. McKinley got assassinated and Roosevelt rose to top man and got his reforms done anyway.

See, the Powers can crush Occupy as a place but the idea can't be killed and like Roosevelt rising again, so is Occupy and in a way -- firsthand experience by outsiders -- they can't now crush.
$29 is a small price to pay to increase your productivity.
A friend of mine (another ex-softie) described the genius of modern day Microsoft to be taking C players and reliably producing a B product. The triad model seemed to fit right in line with that ideal.
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Founders of Reddit, Rap Genius, Tutorspree, & Shoptiques  NYU on Thursday
Interesting. Sinofsky was, along with J Allard, supposed to be one of the product visionaries capable of filling the gap Gates left. When Allard left, and Microsoft put its weight behind the "unified Windows" approach instead of the Courier concept, it was thought that Sinofsky "won".

Now it appears they both lost.
An IDE for poets
As shown on Hacker News
I'll venture: it's a nice opus
But sometimes slow to use
I recently discovered Bartender to help me with my menu bar and cannot recommend it enough.
What makes you think he was fired? He may not see Ballmer retiring anytime soon and decided to move on to something bigger and better.
You seem up-to-date on AS3 but not on JS. JS has typedarrays (even in IE10) now.

/be
There's no such thing as 'offline' Bitcoins. It's not like your client has to be connected to the Internet in order for someone to steal your shit.
> While rooting a Samsung Galaxy S3 only takes about five minutes, the software tools required are uncommon enough that as long as your phone isn’t already rooted you likely don’t have anything to worry about.

This is plain wrong: Any unrooted Android is insecure, because the exploit to root it is not fixed. The only way to make an Android secure is to root it, to install a newer version, and to upgrade it regular.

The right way to store passwords would be: Ask for a master password at boot, to start an app, that is managing the password crypt. So far I know, nobody does this. So the 2nd best way is, to install the google play into emulator, and use something like titanium to move applications between emulator and phone.
Platforms where Flash is not supported by Adobe, or not allowed by the OS vendor:

- Linux

- Win8 Metro, depending on the whitelist contents

- iPad

- iPhone

- FirefoxOS (neé B2G)

As Stan the Man says, 'nuff said!

/be
I drive a 1998 car and I love how everything I can do is a physical button. I can set the temperature to the exact degree I want without looking at the screen, since pushing both the temperature up and temperature down button at the same time sets the temperature to 72 degrees.
Having worked with both of these guys, I'm excited to see where this goes. Clearly an excellent problem to tackle, and I can't think of a better duo to take it on.
For those of you just tuning in to Adventures of John McAfee:

"Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (2009)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933994 [some additional discussion/links in the comments]

"Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027046
The touch screen inverts the colors, so it's black for night driving. I haven't seen it in action, but they say it does the trick.
Hurricane Sandy and How the Internet Routes Around Damage
Can one export mails to mailchimp? Or integrate with them? Looks like without double opt-in, they may not take me?

What are we supposed to do once there's a sizeable email list?
Presumably the Fifth Amendment, which still protects one from disclosing their password unless the prosecutors have a witness who has seen illegal material on your device.
Thanks RJ! We really appreciate your support!