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Just gonna jump to your last thing.

No, my complaint is not about drag to zoom. It's about double-click to zoom (the words I used, but I know sometimes things can be looked as maybe just an expression or sloppy language). Double-click. Literally. Click, click. Zoom. This no longer works correctly.

Much of the time, instead of zooming, well... it does something else, I honestly can't remember what. Maybe opens a little dialog about a business it thinks you clicked on or something. Anyway. Seriously bad. There is a way to have our cake and eat, too, to address the general tone of your comment (where you highlight the explanations and the intended benefits), but Google Maps, today, is NOT the way forward. It sucks.
Agreed. Maybe some parts of the world aren't so well mapped as my part (Greater Boston area), but I'd think the SF Bay area would be one of the better ones. For kicks I just tried a number of map searches and every one came back with accurate results. As they say, YMMV, but I don't think Google is trying to forsake us.
The non-profit organization you are talking about... isn't it a middle man ?
The author can't even double check his numbers and I lost all energy to keep reading it.

Apple have over $150 billion in its cash pile, not $18.9 billion. Did he mean domestic pile? I'm pretty sure it's more than ~$20 billion but I can't be sure there.

They added close to $10 billion in the last quarter, not 5 billion.

I feel like the author was looking at the wrong company when writing this article. What a waste of time.
I hate to be that guy, but have you ever actually listened to a pair of Beats? It seems like most people are agressively derisive of them without having actually tried on a pair. Hell, even I used to be that guy.

I use a pair of Sennheisers as my go to headphones because I prefer the accuracy, but Beats are kind of great to listen to. They're inaccurate and hyped as all hell, but in a really pleasing way (so much bass) if you mostly listen to modern pop or dance music.

EDIT: And with respect to having a reputation of selling overpriced, inferior products on the basis of fashionability: isn't that what Android fans say about Apple and the iPhone? Seems to me the two companies have a lot in common. Both sell well designed products at high markups on the basis of fashion, and not necessarily on feature superiority. Plus, I wouldn't expect Apple to integrate the Beats brand into their own, as that'd destroy a lot of the value associated with the acquisition.
there was a site called readingatwork.com (I think) where classic novels were formatted as powerpoint presentations. I think that's what windows people do.
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Sure, I think this is a legit fear -- which is why keeping it to yourself and whistling while you work may be the path to take.

But again, if you were able to automate it, then someone who is not you will be able to. And more likely, that someone will be a SaaS who really doesn't give a shit about fair labor as it pertains to your situation.

It's likely automation will eat the world...but my hope is that rather than virtual enslavement (or SkyNet), society will have reached a political point where living wages is a popular, enforceable concept, and the human race overall has risen above the economic rat race...but that's a long path (or may require World War 3, in the case of the Star Trek universe). In the mean time, for that political environment to even become favorable, more individual agents -- who are also hopefully, forward-thinking and not-entirely-selfish -- have to push the idea that humans have real value even after their initial grunt work has been automated.

edit: also, this is why I meant "automate" in the most pedant, grinding way...as in, take care of the crap work, even if it means learning how to write a script that has surely been done before (the GUI app is likely based on such a script)...now, if in your automation of the backup routine, you are hit with a Eureka moment and come up with an incredible, unrivaled compression scheme to store your backups...consult a lawyer before writing your idea on paper.
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I wonder if the end of Moore's law will make it happen. If the difference between phone CPUs and laptop CPUs narrows enough, there'd be no reason not to use such a device.
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You are not alone, that's exactly what I thought from reading the title.
I think you're right about trendiness and hubris associated with UI redesigns, but I think it might be a mistake to imagine this is some sort of one-time sea-change.

I think it's more of a constant churn; those who would "modernize" or "update" all sorts of designs - from software UI to software architecture to real architecture to interior decorating to graphic design and brand identity work - always have (arguably need to have) an unjustified level of self-confidence, a high opinion of their ability relative to the task they've got before them. They're always blind to the tweaking and tuning that was required to produce the thing they've set out to replace.

Most of the time, if they had an accurate idea of how monumental a task they were facing, they'd look for something else to do.
This reminds me of a study focusing on soccer games. It analyzed A) how often players shot goals toward the left, middle and right sides of the net; and B) how often goalies responded by jumping toward the left, middle and right sides.

The stats revealed a surprising phenomenon. Though opposing players shot toward each area of the goal evenly — about 33% of the time — goalies jumped toward the left or the right 80-90% of the time.

So what explains the irrational behavior of these highly skilled goalies? The researcher who presented this to me and others at a conference argued that it came down to the appearance of productivity. If a goalie leaps left or right and fails to stop the goal, he can claim that he tried his best. But if a goalie remains in the center, even if doing so is the most effective option, he risks looking like he did nothing.

I call this "productivity theater." In other words, there's sometimes a disconnect between what it means to be an effective worker and what it means to appear effective.

To offer just one example from the workplace: in some offices, the culture dictates that employees must stay from 8 to 6 each day. Their schedules may make them look like hard workers, but some are probably checking Facebook or email much of the day. Contrast this with offices that emphasize owning and completing projects rather than working an amount of time. With the second policy, you're likely to find some workers who appear less busy but make more meaningful contributions.
From the verge comments by TheGage

"Patent attorney’s like myself find these articles rather uninformed. Prosecuting a patent before the USPTO nearly always (+95%) involve an Office Action in which an Examiner at the USPTO searches the prior art and then presents one or more prior art based rejections. The job of the patent attorney is to argue the claims of the patent in terms of novelty and non-obviousness over the prior art.

The file wrapper, which is available to anyone at this Government website who can complete the USPTO’s CAPTCHA and enter the US Patent No. (which is 8,676,045 for this patent), provides this dialog. In the prosecution history for this patent, you can see an Office Action (search “Non-Final Rejection” in the “Image File Wrapper” tab) and the patent attorney’s reply, prior to issuance of the patent.

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that the Examiner’s often do not present the most likely or on point prior art, but to say that granting the patent doesn’t involve prior art is incorrect. We can debate whether a granted patent amounts to anything and a lot of that depends upon context.

Finally, what so many get wrong (both journalists and the public) is that patent infringement hangs on the claims. That is, the claims define the scope of the invention. The detailed description/specification provides various examples in support of the claim. The Title is often vague due to case law imputing narrow title limitations into the claims (so never depend on the Title when exclaiming what someone has “patented”). In this patent, the claim is something like a page and half long, having over 7-8 features, each of which you would have to prove before a court that the alleged infringer has done in order to be awarded damages.

Indeed, in reviewing the claims, Amazon hasn’t just patented “taking photos with a ‘near perfect’ white backdrop,” but according to the claim for Amazon’s patent, I would argue that Amazon patented a very involved and strictly defined way (the’re even ratios in the patent so avoiding infringement would be as easy as having slightly different ratios) by which to take photos with a “near perfect” white backdrop.

Hope that helps. I know few patent attorney’s bother (and we’re a rare breed with only ~70K of us registered patent agents from the start of the patent system), and I’m probably wasting my time because it makes for less dramatic coverage, but I would like the anti-patent vibe on cites I otherwise enjoy to be less sensational and more informed.

Best,
MKG"

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/8/5696356/amazon-inexplicably...
Also "show me street view here" gets more and more difficult to get with every UI iteration.
This sounds great, but you still need money to survive.

This would mean that the few that did work would essentially be supporting the rest of society. Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need to do anything??

You don't have to get a crappy job and work for someone you hate for the rest of your life. I started a business 2 years ago and I don't plan on getting a job anytime soon.

You have the freedom to do this..or work for someone..or you could even live in the woods on berries.
You should hire a VA to do the BS work they give you.
It would also be nice to see how much he makes from performing his work, as apposed to making copies of his work.
Then why did he brag about it in the Facebook video that was taken down?
Initially I wanted to write about proprietary/opensource software, but knew people here will downvote it, so brought up different example. But I am glad you got message :))
I blame the current state of Google Maps on micro-optimization, and overconfidence in the ability to predict what you want.
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Turns out my local library subscribes, thanks for suggesting I look...
I liked Flora Power at 30c3, but still prefer the Californian Guayaki unsweetened mate (in a snapple-type bottle).

http://guayaki.com/product/127/Unsweetened-Mate-(Case-of-12)...

There was a period it was 4 for $5 at Whole Foods.
Don't worry. The network administrators know how lazy you really are.
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Crap. Thanks for pointing it out!

I tried to submit it properly again but someone already submitted it 11 days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7668156
Unless this is some sort of a money laundering scheme...
That is awesome and from http://books.google.com/books?id=cccDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA3...

Also from Bucky:

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
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Yeah, but this is maybe a ten hour job for an amateur using free (OSS) tools, and it's to keep a much bigger investment where it can make money. Estimate about three hours per hour of footage to transcribe, then two to three times the length of the film to sync the subtitles and, if required, embed. You could have knocked it out in a weekend then written a blog exploring what technical and formal steps you took to comply, which would have been a much more apt and interesting topic to see on HN.

Calling it censorship is a bit much, but I get the frustrating sentiment that is keeping up with compliance.
The self-enclosed member can include an inner surface at least partially defining an enclosed region, and an outer surface that turns outwardly to engage a cavity or lumen wall in addition to turning inward to at least partially encompass a central region defining a longitudinal path.
More information from his obituary:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/november7/floydobit-117.h...

I posted this because I ran into the name Floyd in two different contexts in less than a day and decided to read up on this interesting person.

The one route that led to Floyd was dithering in the context of computer graphics, the other the origins of the Maestro system (the grandfather of all IDE's).

That they both should have the same parent and that this parent was also responsible for such niceties as assertions and a whole pile of other goodies prompted me to post the wikipedia article here. Mr. Floyd deserves some more recognition from lowly programmers like me for all the work he did that influences my day-to-day life.
“The proposed amendment would enable investigators to conduct a search and seize electronically stored information by remotely installing software on a large number of affected victim computers pursuant to one warrant issued by a single judge”

I wonder if we'll start to see researchers/people come across more of things like this in the wild? Which makes me wonder if federal agents are going to be enlarging the attack surface against their own systems?
You couldn't patent a notch filter for obvious reasons.

On the other hand the coating isn't a notch filter, it's a series of bandpass/notch/dichroic/whatever filters which are optimised for colour blindness. If you look at the transmission graphs at least for the UV450 there's varying transmission over the entire visible range. So the patent would be for filters at X, Y and Z nm in a product designed for eyewear.

The problem with software patents is that they're extremely broad - e.g. things that are obvious and well documented in the literature like sorting. There are also obvious hardware patents like rounded corners.

A good example of a design patent is Blackberry's keyboard. They didn't patent keyboards, but they _were_ able to patent the little bumps that help you navigate.

As someone who works in hardware, sure in raw materials it cost <100k, but when you start charging for people's time, stuff gets a whole lot more expensive. Not everyone can live off ramen and sleep in the office. This probably took a few years to properly develop.

The patents (applied for) are below:

http://www.sumobrain.com/patents/wipo/Multi-band-color-visio...

https://www.google.com/patents/WO2012119158A1?cl=en&dq=inass...
If your client is a medium to large sized company, it may also be a case of needing to use budget or have budget reduced the next year.

A place I once worked one year had a big budget surplus. They bought a Winnebago, affectionately named the Waltabago after Walt, the guy who ran the team. The next year, Walt bought a Sunfire V1280 with his leftover budget. Walt was a good manager and generally a good guy. It's just that the nature of his business had unpredictable ups and downs, so he was incentivized to make justifiable but wasteful purchases in order to avoid over-spending in peak cost years.
Hey all, one of the founders here. We really appreciate the feedback, a lot of the concerns are something that we are aware of. There are a couple of things that I think is important to clear out.

1 - you will always be able to enter in your flights manually through the webform.
2 - We built the email search function because we could see that a lot of people we're still unaware of which flights they could claim for, hence a service that automatically tells you.
3 - Tripit, Yahoo etc. are all on the roadmap
4 - We really don't have any other interest than helping you find itineraries, and we will never look through your personal emails.

Great feedback everybody, please keep it coming, it is much appreciated. Also if you have input going forward, never hesitate to get in touch
It's not your IP. It's theres. They paid for it.
I came across a similar problem once for searches that return identically named cities. It turns out that you get pretty close to DWIM if you rank the results by a combination of population and distance-to-current location (that is, you probably do want the smaller city if it happens to be really close).
Well, you do have a new unread mail now. :)
>The network administrators know how lazy you really are.

Not always. The clients net admin can't see it (encrypted VPN) and my own companies net admin would catch hell for looking at my traffic too carefully (NDAs). Everything is logged though...so people behave.
I think the truth lies somewhere in between, so you'll never find an explicit 'basis' - manufacturers are worried that publishing radio source code and encouraging open access will subject them to FCC requirements for any possible "end user modification" rather than just for the straightforward simple behavior they've programmed.
DeMarco and Lister called it "undertime".
>>I'm English, it has to be done

To be fair it's not quite right anymore: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=british+coffee+vs+tea
Macros expand to Rust code, but not as a separate file or anything. It's a form of meta programming.
That was my initial impression, too.

Still, it tastes good. ßi love it!
I am going to file a new patent for taking arbitrary volumetric images of objects placed inside virtually infinite integrating sphere [1] illuminated by arbitrary combinations of spectral emitters (polychromatic light sources).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrating_sphere
IMO it's definitely Second-system syndrome. Maps worked fine and didn't need much added/changed, but someone decided that they needed to keep iterating and now we're stuck with all the cludge built on top of it now.
If you compare the new Apple EarPod with its official retail price range to others, yes it is not good.

But if i compare to any other earphones that came with other phone or equipment. i.e those given to you for free or part of the package? Then i guess joke is on them.

And i wouldn't blame Apple. Why? Because Apple isn't a earphone , audio equipment company. So it would be like comparing Apple's Macbook to Yamaha or Onkyo's Laptop.
That is peanuts to a large firm who has now pushed a large legal burden on it's competitors.
If this is about saving money and clearing the backlog, then the government is externalizing the cost back to the tech industry.
Or just CD/MP3 sales. Streaming is only one piece of the digital pie, and a fairly small piece, I'm betting.
I get that the phone can't check for new messages all the time because battery and stuff but wouldn't it be possible to have timestamps for first/last message in a converstation or something so the phone could detect that if the conversation was going on for some time already on different device then it shouldn't notify about it?
I mean it doesn't sound like rocket science, are there any deep architecture problems with that ?
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I think they're good. Not good good but I hate vacuum buds and I'm happy to find some that fit my ears nicely. I'd welcome suggestions for quality headphones if they: (1) fit as good as current Apple model, (2) aren't vacuum, (3) are the same form factor (I can't wear large headphones).
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>I've had a few clients; where it sometimes it feels like they are making stuff up for me to do just so I'll be available when real work comes down the pike.

Have you tried approaching them with a proposal for actual work? If they are willing to spend money on BS work then you might as well propose something solid. Either way you're billing, either way you're working...but you might just deliver some extra value in the process.
I couldn't agree more.

Is this the new Apple? Style and sales numbers over substance? Seems like the first signs of rot.
Not sure if you are just making a joke or not, but please, if you started to drink more due to a boring job (including drinking before/while on the job) either talk to someone for help (a sibling/wife/friend if you don't want to go the professional route) and try to change jobs as quickly as possible (if you feel the drinking is related to the job). I've seen some colleagues becoming borderline alcoholics (even if highly functional) by using alcohol as a coping mechanism for work.

Nothing wrong with a few drinks, or a night out where you get plastered, but if the drinking is related to the job, please ask for help/do something.
My employers are actually serious about pair programming, so I am easily getting more work done now than I've ever done before.

We take lunch, we take breaks, we work fixed hours, but holy moly we also get a helluva lot done every day. It's both exhausting and refreshing.
I would argue with you that games are not most of the software. Even if it would be, it would benefit a lot from standardized game engines which could be used by workers of art (designers, writers, etc) to build creative games to entertain people.

Most software today is basically CRUD and reporting on top of it. Sadly, all this crap re-implemented so many times each day instead of focusing on inventing. How many corporate time spent on creating login form? retrieve password form? input form validation? In my short life I seen it re-implemented so many times already (and often very poorly btw.) This is one example of engineering BS job I mentioned above.

Or create own protocols only to avoid competition and lock in customer. And there are people who actually engineer it all day long every day. And customers who essentially paying for this person's BS work. It almost feels like corporations are interested in hiring as many people as possible, force them to do non-standardized stuff just to be able to siphon money though corporation bank account to be able to take a cut. It totally make sense to do that for corporation, but for their customers? I am not sure...

From humanity standpoint as a whole, there is place for proprietary software, but way-way less prevalent as it is right now IMHO.
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Completely agree. Hide as much as possible that isn't annoying on a regular basis then learn the keyboard shortcuts for everything else if you're such a power user.
Comparing a world wide average with a relatively tiny sub population is hardly reasonable. Otherwise we could just look at the average height of NBA players and say that's a reasonable proxy for the US average height.
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Oh, I just got what you meant. I read something completely different, please disregard.
That is basically what it all boils down to. Patent as much as you can so you can defend yourself, and eventually make a cross-license deal that doesn't cost too much money. And just maybe, it might make you a little money.
My personal favorite is the patent on a cell phone ringing and vibrating at the same time. For a long time most other phones would alternate.