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CMU v MARVELL
Most folks commenting on this in hacker news appeared not to have read any of the many decisions or the patents relating to the case that are freely available online.

Many were confused about the difference between actual infringement and a jury finding of infringement.

The judge and jury came from CMU's backyard, and it appears that there was bias, as might be expected. Marvell's motion for a change of venue should have been granted.

Much was made about a private email in which the Seagate inventor described the CMU patent as 'interesting'. I (the inventor) find many patents 'interesting'; for example the patent on the peanut butter sandwich is 'interesting' to me. That email should have had no weight.

As the case progressed I became more and more convinced that the winner would be the side whose lawyers are the best liars. Sadly, while (IMHO) most lawyers involved in litigation have little integrity, the CMU lawyers seemed to have even less than the Marvell ones.

An 'expert' witness for CMU claimed that the CMU patent involved multiple functions while the Seagate patent involved only one. It was clear that this 'expert' was either totally incompetent in the field or was just a hired gun willing to say anything he was paid to say.

In the defense of lawyers who show little integrity, it is true that the entire system is constructed in such a way that they are almost forced to act in this way.

In defense of the judge, she could not possibly have understood the deep and narrowly focused technical issues, even with her technical assistants. Even an average EE would need some study to understand the patents.

The jury of course, made up mostly of average people with average education, had no hope whatsoever of understanding the technical issues.

Several folks opinioned that the U.S. patent system is severely broken. I think that anyone who actually understands this lawsuit and its verdict would strongly agree.
+1 to systems work. I was a programmer, then a manager, then an Oracle dba (each for 4-8 years). working with databases is by far the most rewarding and challenging, and I still get to code tons of useful tools.
Really nice interface.

And what might be interesting for some: The hosted version has 60 feeds in the free version, for more than that you'll have to upgrade to a premium account.
My main problem with Fever is that Inman is now a indie game developer. While his previous projects (like Mint or Fever) don't necessarily call for constant attention, and they're probably not providing a large enough cashflow to justify it, and I'm glad that he chose to keep them running rather than shut them down and focus on game development completely, it does suck knowing that they're basically in maintenance mode and won't be seeing anything other than security updates going forward.
Ask HN: Does delegating well make your team suck at customer service? 
One of the core skills of being a manager is to delegate to your team and delegate well. Done well, you fully explain the goal what you want to happen, why it needs to be done and an overview of how. You may need to manage the process a bit and even micromanage parts of the process. This is how most textbooks explain that delegation should work. However, I think that this just breeds a team of people who need to be "delegated" to in order to get stuff done. As a customer, getting great customer service means you don't have to think. It means that you don't have to "delegate", you just expect it gets done. This means that your team needs to be able to take vague instructions and run with them. They need to be able to probe, to identify the exact requirements and get it done. They can't expect the customer to do the work. I am almost convinced that babying your team when delegating hurts their ability to develop the skills needed to provide great customer service. Am I insane or am I on to something?
I always figured that religious belief might be advantageous as a sort of placebo. If you think that an omnipotent deity is on your side, you won't be paralyzed by fear on the battlefield/looking for a job/etc.
Sure; the issue is that the outsize valuation they receive in the market gives them enormous leverage to compete at (or I suppose near) a loss; they simply have more opportunities to buy market share than other companies. As Yglesias would have it, it's as if the public markets are paying for Amazon to buy up that market share even without any coherent plan for how to profit from it.

The issue Yglesias seems to have with that is that the market can profit from volatility even if, over the long term, Amazon's actions are a net negative for the larger economy, and would fail without their intervention.

I don't know how much of that I buy. I'm just pointing out the hugely privileged position Amazon has.
I'm a big fan of pajama working. Just make sure to remember to put pants on (or not stand up) during video conference calls.
No, that's not what I meant. What I meant was that the information was so far ahead of its time that it seems like it could have come from a higher intelligence.

So, on the one hand, we must acknowledge how incredibly advanced this guy was, teaching us something we could not even grasp until recently. But at the same time, we feel he was misled by superstition about where that info came from.

We credit him so highly on the one hand, and disbelieve him so cavalierly on the other.

His story can be explained scientifically. But on the spectrum of stories that claim "divine revelation," this one has to be one of the more credible, simply because of how advanced the information was.
Bill Gates’ speech: 11 things you don’t learn in school.
Bill Gates recently gave a Commencement speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Unofficial video of the #29C3 Keynote: Not My Department
Ah, OK, I didn't know that. Public support seems to be shifting again, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Iceland_to_the_Eur...
Games that were clearly 'blown' by this standard:
Bike Race
Tiny Wings
Angry Birds (1, 2, 3, 2000, space, Christmas, festivus, Halloween, whatever else they make...)
Jetpack Joyride
Tank Hero
Temple Run
Cube Runner
NinJump

I never realized how many apps on my iPhone was such shit :(. FML.
> Strap an HR monitor on your chest when you do your next weight lifting routine

I've done that a few times. Consistently 140-160 BPM, peaking higher, sustained over 40-80 minutes.

My peak during Tabata sets is 180-190 BPM, so lifting isn't quite at that rate, but it's decidedly aerobic, especially for mid-high range sets (5-20 reps).
Day 3: Realtime Collaborative Drawing with Node.js
New Year's Resolutions For Men
Wow, a lot of walls of text. Here's my one suggestion:

Have you looked at being a PM? Product managers at companies like elgooG almost all have a hard CS background, but their day-to-day is talking to people, designing features, researching customer needs and usage patterns, checking out the competition, etc.
As somebody that tried to peddle a Snapchat competitor for Android (before Snapchat blew up), yes, it's pretty much just for sexting.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.pr...
Recruiting Engineers: Getting intro emails right.
Would be interesting to see if this could be used to integrate XCode Unit Testing into Arcanist/Phabricator running on a Linux machine.
People skip tutorials and walkthoughs just like people don't read the Help.

Discoverability needs to be layered. Come over and watch my Dad use your app. It's astonishing how much we take for granted.
This post feels awfully insular, self-righteous and US-centric. Note I say US-centric, not America-centric. Why and how did US people start referring to themselves as Americans (though they of course are that, in the subset sense), when they often mean "a person from USA"?

Just because a statement is used a lot, though inaccurate, doesn't mean you should use it.

Perhaps the main point of my comment should be, stop being so insular, stop thinking the USA (note again: USA is not the same as America, which is actually two continents, or one) is the center of the world, realize there is great diversity everywhere, and explore and celebrate it?
I don't like outsourcing subscription logic at all. It's not difficult to do yourself, yet expensive to outsource. It also ties you very tightly to a company which can raise prices on you at any time (as Recurly has in the past, without grandfathering). The switching cost when that happens is huge.

I store customer billing info at SpreedlyCore, which also provides a provider-agnostic API for making charges/refunds against the stored credit cards. Right now my processors of choice are PayPal Pro and an "interchange-plus"-priced merchant account with Authorize.net as the gateway.

With SpreedlyCore, I can change payment providers overnight (to Stripe or Dwolla or whoever becomes flavor-of-the-month) without changing any code or having customers re-enter payment details. There's also no vendor lock-in to SC -- they'll hand off the stored billing info to you if you want to leave.

I'm also in the US, and most of my customer base is also international.
He is right.
If you are part of the linux kernel team you know what you got yourself into (Linus)
and you are part of one of the highest profile opensource projects on this planet.

For are project like the kernel this is an appropriate response to eliminate errors.
If they f..up on the development, alot of server will break all over the planet and many
companies will get angry emails from people who have no clue why they cant upload pictures of their kitten.

The fact that you then try to make excuses for breaking user space,
and blaming some external program that used to work, is just
shameful. It's not how we work.

Most people would get some similiar response if you would do this on a clients project.
This is of great interest to me because I've always wanted to run this...

http://cycling74.com/whatismax/

On one of these:

http://www.museresearch.com/products/receptor-vip.php

Designing live performance environments in Max is awesome, but laptops just are not designed for the rigors of the road. They are delicate creatures that stand in awkwardly, at best, for musical instruments. Max running on the Receptor would be incredible, and hopefully not too challenging considering the environment is largely self-contained with very few external dependencies.
Solve your first world problems
Err.. that's curious, you mean that going almost exactly NORTH (Sweden, Finland) is considered going west? I'm not sure if I like this, even if only because it's so obviously, factually wrong :)
Car's share 90% of their UI (apart from that damn Fiat hire car that invented a new way to get to put itself into reverse).

The reason why UX has to be so much more discoverable on apps, websites etc. is that there is a hell of a lot more of them and they often are created by clever fucks that decide to do things in novel ways.
What about the copyright owner? Is this legal?
Well, they were "de jure" independent, I guess that's what (s)he means. They had their own anthem, flag, currency, government, etc...
Couldn't get this alternate title out of my head as I read the article:

"Welcome to Startups, where the truth is made up and the choices don't matter"
Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys - PostgreSQL 9.3
A Pay Cut for Tim Cook? Not Really
A contract that you cannot get out of and that never allowed you to approve or reject it in the first place, is not a valid contract. Its slavery.

Of course, it is fictional. And if they can get you to submit to the fiction, they are only too happy to tell you how it obligates you to serve their pet projects.
I'm more curious than anything about what the SDK they say they're going to release is going to be like.

Is it just the android SDK?

I'm honestly puzzled as to what they plan to release. It's an android device. The google SDK and NDK let you write apps for that.

What's the SDK for?
>>This is wrong. How the hell did we learn "pinch to zoom" on the iPhone/iPad was a thing? We were shown!

I'm not so sure about that. My grandmother, who certainly had not seen an iPad or iPhone in action before (she's 85, doesn't speak English and doesn't watch TV), figured it out within one minute of using my iPad for the first time yesterday.

If you think about the pinching movement, the distance between your thumb and index finger correlates to the size of the object. Increase that distance and the object grows in size (i.e. you zoom in). And vice versa. This is what I'd like to call "hyper-intuitive" and is the kind of thing people can figure out without being trained on it.
Probably better :)
"No offense intended", but how is this different from any of the <n> different other OSX emulators?
Thanks! Although to be honest I have been guilty of that. It's just a matter of finding balance as cliche as that sounds.
Bugs happen, that's a fact of life. How and why they happen is what drives the reaction. For example, a bug caused by a simple typo is nothing to sweat over, whereas a bug caused by lack of attention to quality or by ignoring the established procedures will normally result in a 'talk'. LKML 'talks' just happen to be public, and everyone knows that going in.
Good question.

MOAI already runs fine on android devices. I can't see any reason you'd need to 'port' it to the Ouya, unless they've done something ridiculously dumb like making Ouya not Android compliant (but that would just be stupid beyond words, and I've heard nothing along those lines, so I doubt it).
"Seriously, if you can't spel or have trouble with ALL CAPS, please ask a friend to proofread your email. Complete, grammatically correct sentences are a minimum requirement."
That said, pilots -- or even non-pilots -- can actually do fairly well landing a large aircraft as long as they're being talked through the process by someone experienced.

See http://mythbustersresults.com/episode94
Ispc: A SPMD Compiler with Xeon and Xeon Phi support
What is the purpose of this, other than just to see if it can be done? I can't think of any software that would be worthwhile emulating that doesn't already have a Linux or Windows version (which is covered by Wine), other than xcode.
I don't agree. Past innovation looks like low-hanging fruit, but consider things like the breakthrough production of graphene using nothing more elaborate than scotch tape. given the advances in computing power, you can get a lot of good work with a potential reward of $100k or $1 million.
Why Digital Canon Camera | B. F. I . R
Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Garageband, Voodoopad, etc.
A very imperfect comparison, as Linus is maintaining a kernel and DHH is maintaining (the next major version of) a highly opinionated web framework.
Do you know of any?
It's 2^53 (9 quadrillion).

Math.pow(2, 53) === Math.pow(2, 53) + 1 // true

Math.pow(2, 53) === Math.pow(2, 53) - 1 // false
"Trends that already happened in 2012 and might continue through 2013"
So s/cent/atomic subunit/, because "for money, work in cents" is meaningless for yen and ambiguous for Bitcoin ("bitcents" or "satoshis"?)
Your question doesn't make sense. The posters issue wasn't portability, it's trust.

He's willing to use the iOS ecosystem and it satisfies his requirements and it's convenient for him.
A bit off-topic, but since I heard about Snapchat I've been wondering: Couldn't they almost guarantee* a self-destruct? Right now, they notify the sender if the receiver takes a screenshot right, but don't to anything to actually prevent that screenshot.

Can't they slice the image into many small parts, group them into N groups, then flash each group for 1/Nth of a second, essentially creating a looping video out of an image? A screenshot would then only take the current frame buffer, which would be only a part of the image and hopefully not useful. The image would have ghostly appearance, but it'd offer much better protection. OTOH, this sounds like an overly-complicated technical solution - after all notification only is much simpler and seem to offer a "good enough" solution.

*of course, it'd be very hard to protect anything when sending bits to someone else - someone can patch the app to get rid of the timer, dump the image to disk etc etc.
If major turbulence occurs -- enough that passengers are thrown around -- I can see all kinds of uses for morphine.
I just want excuses to mess with Clojsure and NoSQL this year. Now I need ideas that are interesting enough that I'll be motivated to build them out. Anyone have some throwaways ideas?
Does quoting the phrase indicate irony or imsincerity. And, um, what OSX emulators?
Sure, and Peapod has been doing online grocery delivery for over a decade. Pretty sure that's not a response to Amazon.
Have you seen Mauro's response? I think he took it like a champ. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/87
This is certainly the case where I'm from. Neighborhood markets always deliver to the apartments in their vicinity. Most owners and delivery boys know their customers by first name. In addition, every customer usually has an "account" where they accrue bills and pay at the end of the month. It's on an honor system. If someone doesn't pay off their account at the end of the month, they stop getting deliveries. Their only option is to personally go to the store (where the store owner can confront them) or find a neighboring store, the owner of which will most likely have heard about the customer's reputation and will most likely refuse to do business with them.
Mauro's response shows incredible restraint. I commend him for that.

Linus could have easily written that email privately to Mauro and spared him the public shaming. He could have then written a stern yet civil public response. Would that be asking too much?

It doesn't matter who you are; basic human decency is not above you.
Does Linux have something like Alfred?

I run a Linux desktop and a Mac laptop. Alfred is the biggest reason I enjoy my OS X computer more. Huge thanks to anyone who can suggest a Linux alternative.
Did it look like this?
http://www.erieaviation.com/aviationmedicalkits.htm
Google sells advertising, including targeted advertising, not access to personal information. Claiming that Google sells your information is like claiming that Medicare rate setting boards are "death panels." It's grossly inaccurate and purposefully inflammatory.
The First Step Is Admitting You're A Workaholic (1999)
Hey, cut it out. Multiple people have now told you they have direct experience with this issue. If you have a real argument against the idea that counteroffers are risky, marshall it.
Gaikai is in browser cloud gaming. it's certainly the future of games on the web!
> DHH thinks he has better opinions, more depth of experience, smarter, more insight and generally "gets it" more than everyone around him, including the other maintainers.

Well, he does. He's been doing Rails for literally 10 years now, so, strictly speaking, he is the most qualified opinion on the world in the topic of "Rails the application framework".

I agree that he sound condescending, but I understand his viewpoint. He's pushed a lot of changes through rails that at the time felt a lot like this one - a very vocal subset of the community got up and screamed bloody murder, and nowadays everyone realized it was the right idea.

Anyway, "DHH is wrong, no possible way he's right" isn't really a productive attitude to take in this discussion. He's been doing this for 10 years. Maybe you don't agree entirely, but DHH always has very good reasons for his opinions.
Was there a vote at the end?
Gnome Do, Unity dash, KDE launcher, ...
That just seems to be what happens when so many people have to collaborate.

Plus its still just mega young. Look at legal systems, they've been around forever and it can be your life's work just to understand them at a competency to participate.

The miracle of software isn't that it works, it's that it does anything at all.
> Freelancing/consulting is harder than a 9-5 salary job, in every way

If its harder in EVERY WAY, why are you doing it ? There must be some positive points.

9-5 could be harder in following ways:

1. Annoying co-workers and/or boss.

2. Office politics

3. No enough pay and/or credit for your work

4. Not able to telecommute

5. Can't build your own portfolio

6. Can't get paid for overtime

7. You could get fired anytime

8. Don't get opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills

9. You can't choose your projects

10. Don't have to refresh Linked List and DFS every time you go for an interview (for software jobs).
Could you elaborate on how you injured your back so that we can learn what to avoid?
Erik, links please!

Also, have you published that Backbone tutorial you were working on yet?
People learn things differently. Plenty of people skip tutorials and walkthroughs, but plenty of people also study those things like you wouldn't believe. There's no one right way to do this - you just have to try and cover your bases for each type of learning style.
similar, but with better syncing between frames to eliminate the stroboscopic effect that causes the mask to flutter too long randomly. Something has to smooth the mask switching based on delta time so that slowing of the processing doesn't cause overlaps.

But conceptually, yeah, thats what I was talking about. Interesting read, thank you
$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB
They have their own launcher environment to support, in game menus, and controllers. Dont some handset manufacturers offer customized SDKs for less reason?
The margins in warehousing were razor thin to begin with, Amazon simply mops up the profits of what many smaller players would make in aggregate but does so more efficiently due to its scale.

Its like grinding in poker, once your bankroll is much bigger then all the other players combined it is a forgone conclusion that you'll win it all if you play correctly.

This sort of thing is inevitable and why you have Walmart and Tesco for example. Mature industries settle around a few outsized players.

Royalty clubs like Amazon Prime are obviously the end game. They won't go broke, they'll become the single most important account for many millions of households.
I want to finish a comic story.
There's a lot of posts here against this article. If you do metrics on tutorials, tons of people skip. Even if you don't allow skip, a lot of people are just going to plow through ignoring a lot. Heck, lots of people leave the app entirely and never come back. I've seen this in my own games.

Tutorials just aren't very fun. That's why games so often have to sort of build the tutorial into the gameplay somehow, make it more piecemeal and interactive. Which is what the article is getting at. So you can think of it more as "don't make crappy boring tutorials" like popups and step by step screenshots.

User studies with web sites have show users search pages/sites just enough to find something that sounds vaguely like their current goal. They don't analyze the entire thing and read every link and then make a decision. Showing a bunch of images and a next button is sort of forcing them to do that, but it won't stick and they won't like it.
Everything in Scheme is there for a theory. Everything in Common Lisp is there for a practical reason. Common Lisp is the result of many smart people--who understood the theory--delivering big software systems and refining the necessary tools into an eminently practical language.
Yes we do. It's called Synapse and it's actually pretty similar.

https://launchpad.net/~synapse-core/+archive/ppa
This 15 year old kid may have just saved your life