skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those were outside the hypothetical that was proposed (namely that Samsung could give up Apple as a customer and not notice it - presumably meaning longterm). Sure companies end relationships when they have overlapping interests, but sometimes they prop each other up as a result of that as well - see Microsoft's support of Apple in 1997, monetarily and with product support. It was apparently to their benefit to support a (failing) competitor, in this case I'm guessing it was to do with the anti-trust charges. But they were competitors at the same time.

In this particular case though (Samsung/Apple) the overlapping interest is part of Apple's core, and just one of many Samsung divisions. It would not be (or at least it's not obvious that it would be) in Samsung's interest to poison the well of their component division just because it happens that their phone division competes with Apple. Ditching Apple may not, on its own, be an issue after a couple years, but it would put other component customers on edge. See the concern some Android phone manufacturers had when Google bought Motorola's mobile division for a similar issue but from the software side.
They are probably being snooty, but that is considered the convention for referencing a stock symbol (not really relevant in this context, however).
I wondered through the whole thing, could it simply be that the children who start late have had their education postponed? We already know a young brain is very impressionable, and that starting things like reading early is good for kids. So why shouldn't enrolling in primary school earlier also be better? As opposed to the child that languishes until they are 6 to start kindergarten.
The visual design of the site needs work. Colors are, at least to me, ugly. Yellow on medium-dark gray and chartreuse buttons? I myself surely don't "REALLY NEED" such a tool, but then again, I don't need 99% of the stuff that has done well online (and so maybe that's not the right question to ask. Someone will surely mention the Henry Ford quote about if I'd asked my customers what they needed they would have said faster horses.)
tldr: He's writing a ruby implementation in Python, that he claims is faster. But there are no benchmarks to back that up.
Please put me back to old My Yahoo
My opinion, and I think I got this from Patrick indirectly if not directly, is that you need to be selling something to people that will cause them to receive more money than your product costs. So you cannot target language learners (especially the relative immaturity of Reddit) because it's a hobby, but you can target businesses and professionals because they routinely spend money on tools and services. Sadly that's all I know about it, so I couldn't tell you who that guy should have targeted with the app. Doctors? Lawyers?
And anyone can code up the Game of Life in a couple hours. But to understand the "physics" behind emergent phenomenæ such as gliders? Much much more difficult.
From the linked page: "THIS IS HOW COLORS! PERFORMS ACROSS DEVICES – WHICH MIGHT NOT BE HOW OTHER GAMES/APPS BEHAVE ON THOSE SAME DEVICES. Each device has their own way of doing input and rendering, and we have done more work on latency on some devices than on others."

In other words, one test was designed to be a benchmark from the ground up, and the other is a cross platform app.
I think you misunderstand the point that he is trying to make. Gruber's "iPad isn't for creation" jokes are purely a rebuttal to all the naysayers that repeated, ad nauseum, that iPads are only for consumption. iPads may not be the best drawing/production/editing/writing devices out there, but it's clear that people are using iPads for professional level work.

I don't get the sense that Gruber thinks the current incarnations of the iPad are even particularly good for much beyond gaming and reading.
samsung is a lot like sony in the pre rootkit days. Most people knew they were there and bought their stuff because it was good. No marketing crap, no media circus or hype, they just churn out usable stuff in lots of industries.

Apple thrives on publicity and hype, its part of their image and its polarising.
One video is 3 months old; the other a month. Very likely there would be performance issues in beta software, to say nothing of the likelihood that there may have been debugging code left in that might not be in RTM.
I'll bite — how's the lamp made?
I have built software for large BlackBerry customers and met with RIMM people before. 3 years ago, I had suggested they should create an enterprise-oriented Android phones, such like Amazon created media-oriented tablets. 3 years ago, RIMM was still the #1 in enterprise smartphone market, and they had great chance to succeed in that area.

However, most companies are afraid to compete on fair battle background (Android). So instead of one, RIMM chose to fight 4 battles at the same time, hardware, software, ecosystem, marketing, and it lost on all of them. Now it is too late to change the fate. RIMM management was too afraid to change (really really afraid). It is said when I met RIMM people, and saw they couldn't do anything to save the sinking ship.
Perhaps it stems from Steve Jobs's philosophy on quality:

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

As for Instagram, Pinterest or SnapChat: they won the lottery. They were in the right place at the right time, and when that happens, you could design a piece of junk and still experience massive success, a least temporarily, as long as you have the one feature that matters (re: MySpace, MS-DOS).
Your parent comment specifically says this:

> Because this restaurant was part of a chain and had policies to follow, there wasn't really anything they could do to alleviate the situation.

So it seems the situation is something like "a McDonald's franchise owner has a big problem with oldsters filling his seats and inhibiting revenue. As a condition of the McDonald's franchise, he's not allowed to kick patrons out, because though that's great for his revenue the PR is bad enough that it's a revenue loss for headquarters. So he lobbies the local government, which doesn't oversee McDonald's-the-international-company, to pass loitering laws such that he's able to get rid of the oldsters."

I don't think the hypothetical guy would have much luck making the case to the IP holder that he needs to build some ill will for the brand.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415923

I didn’t use OpenLaszlo-style corners because I wanted to keep the native look as much as possible.

Regarding the speed:
Currently the transition duration is constant; it’s always 0.1 seconds regardless of the distance between the source and the target. I’m considering to make the duration variable and velocity constant so it would take more time for longer distance.
I'm really surprised by the "auction" foundation. That seems like a really dated internet fad, at this point.

I built and ran a large (not eBay large, but 100k+ members and maybe $6m in transactions) niche auction site and community for about a dozen years and I recognized that interest in the whole "auction" thing was dying out about the same time eBay probably did. Only difference is eBay had the resources and interest in trying to pivot (something they're still trying to do) and I was ready to move on to something else entirely.

If you can still find just the right niche, there's probably an avenue, but for the most part, I think there's an uphill challenge against the bias of most users against auctions (what with so many other cheap outlets that have usurped everything short of collectables).

Will be really curious to see how this plays out, in and after 2013.
>"A stable matching algorithm" is the real trick here.

What about randomizing bids and asks, and matching them on a first-come, first-serve basis?

Let's say you had bids like this 10, 12, 9, 5; and asks like this 11, 12, 10. You randomize the the bids, and sort the asks. Then you do a linear search for the first ask that is <= to that bid, and that's an order. You remove the bid and ask from the lists, and repeat until bids and asks are removed. If there is no ask that is <= the bid, the bid gets popped.
I'm not sure how LinkedIn does it but their "recommendations" are very spooky.

I get some really odd ones like the property manager we pay rent to. I've only ever emailed or called him.

I presume he gave LinkedIn access to his email contact list but based on the number of these creepy recommendations a lot of people I email with must do it.

Even more spooky are the recommendations to connect with people I don't know but have names that match people I do. Anyone know how they do this?
While I agree with some of what you are saying and I don't join in hipster hate, I think this is the main thing:

Any self-righteous style that tries to come off as cool and aloof that seem ridiculous to others is going to be made fun of. It doesn't matter what it is. Portlandia makes fun of hipsters. Zoolander made fun of high fashion.

Be yourself first and foremost: type on an old typewriter in the park, wear RPGs even though you were never formerly in the military, drink double Doppios from non-chain coffee shops, and break up with a girl because she said PETA stood for People Eating Tasty Animals. But being made fun of comes with that game.
You couldn't patent what already existed in paper form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet unless you referenced the patents for the spreadsheet which existed before computers and the patent office agreed it was an improvement on the original patent.
Feature idea: Offer to take the screenshot from different OS/Browser!
no. I thought the service gave you a audio stream URL and then via telnet/etc you could control what was dumped into that steam.

I thought the site was just a convenient way to demo it all together by already opening the steam in an audio html tag or something and exposing the console api on the same page.
I would use my money earned by shipping PHP code to buy that shirt, regardless of ridiculously small font size. Para. 1 on front, Para. 2 on back.
There would be an incentive to wait for the very last moment to submit your order to such a system to maximize information for that period. However, this would be rarely useful for traders, unless there was some other automated thing, like a secondary market, that determined successful bids and asks.
Speaking as an enterprise customer on long upgrade cycles, RIM/Blackberry badly judged the situation vis a vis their enterprise customer base.

The new Z10 was not compatible with their large install base of Blackberry Enterprise Server. Anyone still running BES at the time the Z10 was introduced was likely to be a shop interested in security and control of the mobile platform their end users were using.

Which is why businesses like my employer and many others kept buying BB OS7 devices (did you notice they didnt break numbers out and actually mentioned BBOS7 as a significant portion during their investor call ?)

TL;DR: They thought all their enterprise customers would upgrade fast, they guessed wrong.
The twitter mentality illustrated.
This graph is kinda confusing to read, but I'm parsing it correctly then it looks like Blackberry had a pretty massive surge around 2009-2010 - well after the release of the iPhone. That is actually surprising to me.

I suppose that might be due to the market growing - in which case Apple looks like it's relatively flat starting around 2010 but in reality the number of users were increasing along with the market.
There is a whole chapter in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers dedicated to this.
This is my point.

This is like those dumb fox new things saying something trivial is a crime because it 'involved computers'.

They can already do that, but inefficiently by posting your pictures all over the place and having officers look for your face. AFTER they get a warrant or follow due process.

This is just a more efficient way of doing the above.

The focus should be on the lack of due process, not on the means being more efficient.
I currently live in eastern Washington state. Up until around 2003, I lived in Seattle. In 2003 and in prior years, entering Canada was as smooth as could be. The people at the Canadian border checkpoints were friendly and asked minimal questions. I always found my re-entry back into the U.S. to be a more rude, though not particularly arduous an ordeal as going the other way.

My most recent entry into .ca was quite the opposite. Bear in mind these are very rural crossing points, nothing like the I5 transit. The most recent Canadian agent was somewhat gruff and unpleasant, asking quite a few questions. Come to think of it, in a prior .ca entry, with a female friend from the UK, the Canadian agent seemed to be convinced that we were entering Canada for the purpose of getting married and asked us repeatedly whether we had such plans. After multiple denials, he went on to advise us not to do so anyway. What??? My crossings back into the U.S. from Canada very recently have been fairly painless compared to going the other way.
People hate change. Sometimes warranted, sometimes not.
My guess is they used the same password for their email and LinkedIn account, so LinkedIn had the credentials for both and was able to harvest contacts. That, or during the sign up process they plugged in their email credentials without realizing LinkedIn would abuse them in this way.

Scummy in either case, even if it's technically legal.
Not that I've seen. They went from the "the Columbine kids played Doom which is why they killed those people" more recently to "Guns kill people; We must get rid of guns", but even that is no longer in the news. The latest in the news is that conservatives want to shutdown the government and make poor people die without health care. But nothing about games.

If they want bad publicity to help sell it, they'll need to have something like beastiality with a donkey hidden deep in the game somewhere.
Just curious - what would be desirable about an actual telnet service that does this? You seem disappointed that it wasn't that, but I'm struggling to understand the advantages.
We're closing in on the launch of cross-platform BBM, and much of the work for that wasn't even done internally. They contracted that stuff out. Now they're cutting actual BB people. A lot of it is dead weight, and the usual bloated middle management, but I can't wait to see who else gets the axe here.

Make no mistake, the goal is to sell the company at this point. That is why BBM is suddenly the focus. They know that they aren't going to stay afloat with phone sales. They'll cut to the bone, and beef up one of their main commodities (BBM) until the sale happens.
To this day, when I sign for packages or get my ticket scanned at events, I occasionally see Windows Mobile 6 phones powering those systems.

I suspect fleet deployments were a big part of their sales.
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Here's another version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-PXfzsj4o
Anyone has any idea what the iPhone 5 touch screen is compared to the Nokia Lumias? The touch on them is pretty damn fast too, clearly faster than Android devices. But iPhone does still feel slightly faster... Maybe Lumia's and iPhones are almost on par.
This reminds me of an xkcd comic: every change breaks someone's workflow. It would have been a good idea to include an opt out feature, though.
Surprisingly simple math (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854593), the data you just described, and also IP addresses. I wouldn't be surprised if they also use browsing habits (search history on LinkedIn, profiles visited on LinkedIn). So they might guess the friend's name from the data, but not know which exact profile out of several identically-named profiles represents the person you know.
Somehow I'm thinking the latter.
The whole market grew though.
The aged old problem of change: there are always people who are against it. Change is what Yahoo! needs, if some people can't handle it then maybe they should move on.
Two words:

Trickster hero.

They're present in every mythology the world over.
I don't think one has ever been detonated and nobody really knows how much radioactive material would even be spread.
At a guess, I'd say its a round fluorescent tube hidden in the rolled/folded edge of the lamp - shining light up into the dome, which with the right angles should reflect back the light with the same intensity from any point. (Not entirely sure if it needs to be a parabolic shape or not)

The dome itself is most likely double-layered, so that you can hide your wiring in between the two layers.
Latest iOS 7 bug lets you place calls from a locked iPhone
So did Apple Front Row before Apple killed it in Lion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY7o8Rh1D6I
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Peripheral vision is whacked
The iPad is eminently mediocre for any principally visual task such as sketching or painting. The touchscreen, while highly responsive, simply lacks the resolution (even with a stylus) to do detailed work without a massive zoom ratio.

For things that don't require visual precision, such as music production or writing or concept diagramming, the iPad is highly capable. I look forward to the day its touchscreen can handle pen input to an equal degree.
The replacement of BIND is quite the landmark.
> I'd love to see an Excel designed-from-scratch that scratches the same itches of approachability and user-friendliness but with an awareness of Excel's failings and without obsessing over the spreadsheet metaphor. Something in-between Excel and Access.

I proposed this idea once during a job interview; data analysts were using Excel to model data for providing short term financing. I proposed a web-based system that allowed users to share formulas over large datasets; datasets large enough that you wouldn't materialize them in spreadsheets (dropping the spreadsheet metaphor mentioned above).
Dinosaur Feathers Found in Ancient Amber
Meh. If you like this sort of thing, you'll enjoy FEZ.

FEZ is a 2012 game, available in the current Humble Bundle at https://www.humblebundle.com/ .. which I would characterize as a more interactive and celebratory accretion of spatio-visual mismatch and cunning.

I'd recommend not previewing it or reading about it: just buy it, then play 30 minutes of it. You'll go nuts. It's really trippy. (Mark of the Ninja, in the same bundle, is also great)

Less than the cost of transport to a gallery, and far more engaging. The internet is the art gallery of our era.
> "I'm a little biased, but I think the taxpayers saw very good value from this mission,"

I'd say that was biased. I personally would have rather $267 million be spent on something more permanent and practical. How about spending it on our Earth-based telecopes?
Apart from the selection of codecs, HTML5 audio seems to have pretty much all the bases covered.

As for codecs, depending on your application, you can either pre-transcode all your audio to an appropriate codec, transcode on the fly, or even use a Javascript transcoder and the Audio Data API.
Eh. Having to create new features that also support the old design is a pain the ass.
http://nv.github.io/flying-focus/test/ experimental version only works on tab and arrow keys (for radio buttons).
I don't like the color scheme, but other than that it's not too bad. Yahoo does need to allow more user customization before they lose too many users. That said, people tend to be more vocal when they don't like something. I doubt that those who like the change, or aren't bothered by it, are going to make a comment on uservoice.
http://nv.github.io/flying-focus/test/ is an experimental version that only works on tab and arrow keys (for radio buttons).
China's Empty Cities
I opted into new My Yahoo!, was presented with a preview with a warning as well as an option to go back
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s103/sh/6dff6226-59b4-44e1-82...
What did I do wrong?
>It would have been a good idea to include an opt out feature, though

How far do you carry that opt out? Three versions down the line do you end up having to select one out of four versions? Who is going to maintain that?
"Choose Themes" fixes your colour scheme issue.
I actually agree with you that it was deliberate to some extent which is why I used the wording "too strong a negative connotation". I think anytime you are accusing someone of being less than entirely honest, which is the definition of disingenuous[1], that it's going to carry at least a semblance of negativity. This is also why I added the caveat "too critically" to my original comment because although I felt the poster was aware of his word choice he was just writing what he thought was catchy marketing copy.

And no, I actually meant to use the word foster. While you're probably right that the larger issue is how many people hold the opinion, for me personally its about how many people vocally defend the opinion (i.e. promote). For instance, if you and Shawn didn't feel the need to defend your position on disingenuous it would be a non-issue because people would at worst understand what I meant by context. This method of understanding by context is the exact mechanism by which our wonderful language evolves over time so while those who hold an opinion of a definition will eventually go away those that foster an opinion on a definition can have a long lasting impact on our language.

[1] "not truly honest or sincere" - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disingenuous

"slightly dishonest; not speaking the complete truth" - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/dising...

"not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does." - http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english...
LinkedIn does that by cross referencing cookies, contact lists, email addresses. The same way Facebook does. People just used to expect more integrity from LinkedIn.
I had an Android phone. I hated the user experience. So, I got an iPhone. I now love my phone.

I'm an American, but that doesn't really play into it. I consider Google an American company also.
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Exactly. These people don't realize that "try it" really means "switch ahead of the time when we force everyone else to switch." There's no opt-out because everyone is going to be switched sooner or later, whether they like it or not.
Hodgkin-Huxley Model of the Neuron
Why buy it? Looks like their customer base is heading for something close to 0 within a few years.
I don't quite see why the quote from PG doesn't hold true for the rest of the population. I've come to the personal conclusion that tokenadult's last paragraph holds true for everything in life. I don't believe life is deterministic as you seem to imply, that your genetic makeup and upbringing set in stone. I see it as more like a tree, even if a tree grows in wind and bends, you can always straighten it out (to a certain age/size), it's hard but not impossible.

In reality, the hardest things to come up with may be the ideas, and he solicits those for free. It's a bit of scam, really.

I don't understand how else an investor-founder relationship would work. Should he pay to listen to ideas/pitches before deciding whether or not to invest? Do you think NDAs should be the industry norm? Please elaborate.
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