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I don't really see your point. The reality is that money is going to other places. Most notably Pension payments (http://www.atr.org/californias-billion-pension-bomb-a4786#). Keep in mind teachers can retire after 25 years but continue to get about 65k a year indefinitely plus Medical, Dental, etc.

I don't know where the number is now but in 2006 the city would have needed $10 billion to cover its pension costs and it didn't have that then: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LAUSDS+RUNAWAY+BENEFITS+PRICE+...

I think that's ridiculous and I don't think they ever should have been given that kind of deal but the School District is still contractually obligated to pay those pensions. The city of Vallejo actually tried to declare bankruptcy because it couldn't afford the enormous debt generated by pensions and the result was the California Legislature voting to exempt pension payments from city bankruptcy.
>> It just doesn't want them on the app store.

Where else exactly could they go?

>> Forcing Apple to repeal 3.3.1 doesn't allow offending software to be built and sold (as it already can be), it forces Apple to stock its shelves with it

Those two things are the same, by Apple's design.
Ummmm... I kind of thought it was the combination of a US housing bubble in combination with poor risk management in the financial industry particularly respecting mortgates.
That's pretty limited; if you feel you have to optimize it's like you were running out of something.
You're missing the bit where Apple isn't by any means the only phone manufacturer around.
Ah, I didn't see it; the only explanation I ever saw was "we said so, sorry". They probably should have tried to publicize this more. Do you have a link?
If I had one feature wish free, it would be the option of having an option to sort by multiple locale specific sorting orders in the same database.

Earlier, this was specified at cluster initialization time (initdb), then it was one a database level (create database), but what I would really like to see is being able to specify it on query time or, failing that, I would at least like to be able to create multiple indexes with different locales and use those to sort the data.

In the application in question I have to do all sorting on the client side now which also means that pagination needs to be done on the client side which is a huge networking overhead between database and application as I'm fetching rows, sorting them and then throwing away the majority of them.

Aside of that, I love, love, love PostgreSQL ever since I switched from MySQL back in 2000. Every new release was such a pleasure to try out and every time I was happily integrating all newly gained features in my applications.
Again, as I said to sp332 above (11 minutes before you posted this) he said "The goal of public schools is..." not "the end result is". That's saying that's the way it's intended to be not just the way it is.
You chart downtime as a percentage, because you don't actually care about uptime.
For the "Also read" book this is the directory that contains all the chapters: http://ms.yccd.edu/~jb2/ and it contains a link to a single PDF with the whole book.
I think the Internet will do a lot to lessen the effect of this when it does happen. People who can work from home probably will, when it costs a quarter to half your days wage just to make it to work it will offset any benefit you get by having a team in the same building.

Also online distribution, things like books might become prohibitively expensive in the physical form and drive everyone to ebooks, all creative products really.
I'm not sure if this meets your criterion, but StackOverflow does not require registration but it is more beneficial to do so: http://www.stackoverflow.com
So a few months ago, I posted a submission asking the community whether they'd be interested in an HN-type site for hackers interested in bio/med, and received a good amount of replies expressing interest and enthusiasm. And so I finally got round to getting one up. There's not too much, but hopefully enough to grab your attention and even compel you to engage and contribute. It's for anyone interested in the intersection of hacking and life science, from the role of social networks and mobile devices in healthcare to new ways to hack your body.

Many many thanks to Rust who provided the actual code for the site and used it as an opportunity to develop his own open source project for HN-type sites, which can be found at http://www.noostr.com.
Link to printable format, no ads: http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/business/an_antitrust_app...
Your entire response seems to have missed my "allowed on phones that achieved any levels of success" qualifier. Name me any pre-iPhone development platform allowing development that had ever created a truly viable marketplace. There were a few faltering attempts with Windows Mobile and Symbian, but frankly, they were terrible. And yes, I am conflating development and the distribution channel, but this seems fine to me - if you develop, and noone ever runs it, did you develop anything?

Having seen [2], I think my point is even stronger - first class smartphone development really began with the iPhone (the App Store predates any other competitor). Of the third party services, only 4 predate the iPhone by more than a month or two (and of those, only 2 achieved even the level of success needed for a Wikipedia page).
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Accessing YouTube, App store, maps and various apps should be pretty obvious.
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How are Apple preventing you from buying the ever more popular Android phones? Or Web OS phones? You, a member of the market, buy the phone with the features you want. If you don't like Apple products, or the app store they provide, buy one of the many hundreds of alternative smartphones, many of which have large adoption.
Ok, I'll chart downtime as a percentage on a scale of 0-100%. Same problem.
http://research.cibcwm.com/economic_public/download/soct08.p...
Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days
Suppose that, in an instant, your body and mind ceased to exist. Just completely vanished.

And suppose further, that nobody witnessed this, and that one instant later, by some very unlikely process, some matter or energy spontaneously organized itself into an exact duplicate of you, down to every last quantum wobble, in exactly the same place that you were standing.

Would either this new you or the old you notice? Would "you" still be "you"?

And would it matter?
This raises a good point - its made especially clear by the author's own confusion between markup formats and programming languages. At least he labeled the codec and "platform" correctly... 2/3 isn't bad.

But really, does anyone ever get this right? (Did I just get it wrong too?)

Still, just because apples aren't oranges doesn't mean they both can't be fruit...
''Otherworld'' - giving applications a chance to survive OS kernel crashes
slides here:
http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/slides/eurosys2010_sessi...
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Simple hacks are often the best. Thanks for sharing!
Keep in mind teachers can retire after 25 years but continue to get about 65k a year indefinitely plus Medical, Dental, etc.

In spite of that, we continue to believe teachers are underpaid.
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If you'd actually read the article you would see him advocating being specific about your own qualities instead of using buzzwords.

This is good advice.
What if market can't figure this out? It's an exaggeration, but what if discrimination by programming language ("Applications must be originally written in ...") is the version of [insert your favorite type of discrimination] applied to programming? You can't program in X for iPhone, so go write your programs for Android == you can't work in our company, but you can go work on plantation.

Maybe it's not the antitrust issue, but it's definitely a law issue: i.e. what can be enforceable by contracts.
Not only is this problem of great philosophical interest, I always find it sociologically interesting as well: people who don't see why there is a "hard problem" are typically entrapped believers in the materialist/deterministic paradigm. I know because I was. :)

Put another way, if free will is an illusion, who is it an illusion to?
This is just awesome news. All my initial excitement about webOS is coming back now that it's not turning into (hopefully) another BeOS situation. Kudos to HP, I want one bad!
Neither is Windows.
Hmm, that's a good point about the equity test; although a green card rather than a visa tied to a single sponsor is a much more flexible residency document. I'm going to be asking my representatives to support this (reform in general) so I'll throw in a link to pg's essay to emphasize that possibility.
A second practice involves teachers doing students' work for them just so students can pass the class...In a Bizarro world, this practice would be win-win

From everything I've seen, big bureaucracies are Bizarro World.
"Girls also always need attention."

Yikes. Not true at all. Please don't make such generalizations.
They can enforce this by rejecting ugly apps (I hope they don't). These definitely don't look like iPhone apps, even though they are native: http://nativegui.posterous.com/
The problem I see is that Apple feels poor apps (whatever that means) reflect poorly on it rather than just on the app makers themselves. This is new. On OS X a crappy app is just a crappy app. Nobody blames Apple, people blame the application developer. There has to be some argument made that on a small mobile device this distinction is warranted, but I haven't heard it yet.
An educational system that incentivizes learning via fear of failure (public humiliation in this case) is broken.

While nobody likes to fail, failure is not important mostly as a means of motivation. It is important because repetition often helps.

You claim that it is lunacy to expect that a second go will solve problems. Yet that "lunacy" has worked out pretty well for people I know who had to retake courses and grades. The second time through, usually with different teachers, the students learned. Part of it was the age advantage. Part of it was a different teacher. Part of it was the fact that if you halfway learn the first time, there is less to learn the second time.

Taking failure off the table out of excessive concern for hurting fragile feelings does everyone a disservice. And is a far greater lunacy than being willing to tell people, "You haven't learned this material, you need to try again."
Looks good. The only thing difficult in the bio/med community is actually gather some audience. Let's hope to get something, it would be a good resource.
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Sometimes the market corrects by letting society lobotomize itself in the next generation.
[Ignoring the context of this discussion] The fact that something is free doesn't automatically make it non-issue.
Good idea. I'll try it when I get back home.
Have them not touch the CC#. Leave that last part of the funnel to some certified external. You'd also make them a big service. I simply abandon most carts if the CC entry stage is still on the merchant site and not on someone's big and recognized like PayPal, and I hate PayPal. I just don't trust the little, unknown, guys with CC# & details.
Nonsense. Observing that someone else has a goal does not mean you agree with it, by implication or otherwise.

Besides, anyone who seriously accepted that "the goal of public schools is to teach children to conform to the expectations of the work force, so depending on where the school is located the students may end up barely literate but sufficient to fill the local factory jobs, etc." is a good thing is probably not posting here. And I think phrases like "barely literate" would tend to indicate disapproval, not approval.
It's a whole new discussion but I'll just quote the facts. From here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095889/posts

===Begin Quote===

According to information provided to the Daily News by the LAUSD, the average salary for teachers is $63,000 - not too shabby that.

But more than 8,500 teachers pull in between $70,000 and $80,000 a year. Nearly 2,000 make salaries between $80,000 and $100,000, with a very lucky (and likely very experienced) 331 enjoying more than $100,000 in annual salary.

And then there's a benefits package that would be the envy of any worker not in the public sector. Medical, dental, pension - let's just say that anybody who puts in their time at the LAUSD won't be uncomfortable in their golden years.

===End Quote===

That's on a 180-day (or 36 week) per year schedule.
the infamous SMM memory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode , http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/03/attacking-smm...
Wouldn't that apply to C/C++/Objective C libraries as well? Let's say everybody is using some popular Objective C library from github and it has a bug with a new iPhone OS. Apple would then be in a position of getting that library patched and getting potentially hundreds of apps to update to the latest version of the library.

Should Apple outlaw 3rd-party Objective C libraries as well?
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It just seems like a contrived comparison. If the same situation involving Microsoft is so obviously outlandish, why embellish?
Note well that H.264 has nothing to do with the W3C patent policy, as it has never been suggested for inclusion in any W3C spec. If you're looking for evidence of Apple's current stance toward the W3C patent policy, look at Canvas, which is part of the HTML5 spec and which Apple has disclosed their patents[1] according to the same W3C policy[2] they supported in this statement.

But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good insinuation.

[1]:http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40318/status#current-discl...
[2]:http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-W3C...
A pity it has to be wrapped in the "X is dead" gambit for marketing purposes.
John Paulson and a few other smart people told the world "hey, we are in a bubble". They put their money where their mouth is and shorted the market. They and helped prevent us from funneling further labor and resources into housing we don't need.

Do you really think the world would have been a better place if Paulson built twitter 2.0 rather than pushing CDO prices down?
He is stating the public school's intended goal, which is separate from "the end result". Both the goal, and the end result are separate from his judgement about what the public school's goals should be, which isn't really present in what he's saying.
Here's hard numbers: Apple was responsible for more than 99% of all mobile app sales last year. cite: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-...

So I don't think we can say "they just couldn't" — in fact, they just did.

And I might be skeptical about the numbers (Gartner isn't infallible), but every story I've heard from cross-platform mobile dev houses agrees with this — you'll get almost 100 times the sales on iPhone that you will on other platforms. I've never heard a contradictory story either, not even from Google trying to puff itself up. That's pretty much a monopoly.
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The NDC numbers are listed for all the over-the-counter meds that are no good (they are hard to find on the box or bottle).
Be suspicious of such articles in general. Heed the advice.
But if you disregard them, should we disregard you? It can be a big disregarding circle!
I'm interested in the home office desks.
Don't play dumb. Nobody is saying you should plot ROI on a 0% to 100% scale when you have a 730% ROI.

Also, if you are charting rates that go from from 11/1000 to 15/1000 then building a chart that goes from 0% to 2% is reasonable, but 1% to 1.6% is not.
Allowing apps from completely unverified sources full control over a device that you have bought ?

;)
From the linked article:

Taleb’s style is to severely criticize experts and authorities--lots of 'morons', 'idiots', and 'fools' out there--while implying that both he and his reader or listener are exempt from their many biases.

A third of Fooled By Randomness (published before Black Swan) is about accepting that you are biased, there's nothing you can do about it, your rationality is limited. And then trying to deal with it - accepting your biases in the small and spending your precious rational thinking on the big stuff (e.g. where you invest your money).

I only skimmed the rest of that article, but that was enough to spot at least two other sentences which show that the author didn't really spend time trying to understand Taleb's ideas and is being ticked off by Taleb's irreverence and love of opinionated aphorisms.
Looks cool... When I first checked out slinkset about a year back, one of their biggest users was a site called news.thinkgene.com that delt with many of the same issues of your site. It appears that they've since required a slinkset UN and PW to even view the site though. If you have that, then that forum might be a good place to announce hackermed also.
The NDC numbers are listed for all the over-the-counter meds that are no good (FYI - they are hard to find on the box or bottle when trying to figure out if you have a bad batch).
Taking a stance against marketing speak is just another form of marketing speak.
Sounds good, I'll give it a try.
Something seems profoundly fishy about the numbers. Also from wikipedia, "LAUSD served 694,288 students, and had 45,473 teachers and 38,494 other employees". That's a 15:1 student-teacher ratio, which is not bad at all, but also dramatically different from what anyone I know in the area experiences. It would be interesting to see some explanation of that apparent discrepancy, and also to know exactly what those "other employees", who total nearly as many as the teachers, are doing.
political hack

no disagreement there. It's just I think the same is true of some of his loudest critics :)
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Jewish fanatics, if that's what you want to call them, have nothing to do with ultimate Muslim hostility toward Jews, no matter whether they be of the fanatic (your term) or secular variety, especially in Israel or elsewhere. Why is this so hard to grasp?
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I'm interested in a wide variety of medical subjects, both general and health care IT related. After checking the site, it has a good selection of articles, which should allow a growing community.
"How are Apple preventing you from buying the ever more popular Android phones?"

They aren't and I have. Right now, however, the biggest momentum that the iP(hone|ad) has is the app market, and the fact that a lot of large organizations have special support for its walled garden. 3.3.1 is Apple's way of trying to ensure that it is a specially cultivated walled garden, and that it's more likely that "there's an app for that" only applies to the Apple devices.

I think it's a futile move that is too late, but that is the clearly obvious motive behind 3.3.1. It is anti-competitive and without justification, and honestly it's a bit bizarre that so many fail to grasp that.
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What if instead of miraculously vanishing, you were instead vaporized by your neighbor, using a ray that recorded the position or every atom? It's murder, right?

What if he recombines you, just like in your example an instant later. Is it murder?

A minute later. Murder?

An hour, day, week, month, year. Murder?

What if he just promises to everyone to put you back together. Later. In the future. Murder?
Try issh I,ve used it to much success, but I have not tried with a blue tooth keyboard.
" Rubyists apparently feel uneasy if something doesn't read like nice natural language."

Include me out.

With rare exception do I want to spend time trying to get something to read like English; it won't.

And I get tired of guessing which idiomatic "natural" phrasing is to be used for such things in other people's libraries.

Funny you should compare it to XML + Java, because it makes me think, "So you need to write an API. You've decided to make it read like natural English. Now you have two problems."
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Looks nice: one thing I'd change right away is the color of visited links. That's HUGE for me on HN, and would encourage me to continue using HM.

Cheers, and nice work!
It seems like HN echo chamber response to me. People are never going to tell you a potential solution works or doesn't. HNers will give you high level, and if the app is done will often go through it and nit-pick, but they are NOT anywhere close to paying customers for a vast majority of people (as valuable as their advice is).

As for the regular users (the ones who would be your clients' potential customers on the site), quite frankly they don't have the ability to extrapolate from a picture or even an alpha version if the product will serve their needs.

This seems a lot like feedback army at best.

What I would like to see instead:
Feedback army has the informal aspect of this market tackled pretty well. I'd like to see something a little closer to focus groups. My major issue with feedback army was that of the 25 reviews I got I think all but 2 were "yes this is good, yes I would use it, yes this was easy to use" - they have no stake in the project and often times seemed to be trying to tell me what I wanted to hear. Of the 95% or so who would "definitely" use the site, not a single one continued (no shock, but makes me question the validity of their responses).

What I would like to see is a way to pick 15-30 people as "evangelist testers" or something, people who you would perhaps pay, or would be offered some other kind of incentive to really think about the problem they are trying to solve and how your app fits into it. This would give those 15-30 people a real way to be involved in the app's creation process, and the app creator much more high quality feedback. But the focus has to be on quality not quantity IMO. I would be willing to pay a monthly fee for that.
I said "rest in peace" and it came out as "rest in peace". I just tried "rest in peas" and it also came out as "rest in peace", so yeah, the N1 does commit the error that the article mentioned.
Yes, but the bubble itself was created by investors building and selling complex financial instruments in the first place. Wouldn't it be better if investment bankers had been building legitimate businesses rather than working out new ways to repackage and sell subprime mortgages?
Can we add "foo is dead" to the list?
I agree: so much of the criticism regarding Taleb's books seems to be that he's arrogant. However, I don't understand how it's arrogant to say that people are bad at predicting the future, which I think is his main point.
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I'm really excited to see this. Using 3rd party tools for PostgreSQL was getting confusing for me and having it built in will really help a ton.
Definitely, I'll change that shortly. Thanks!
You can manufacture oil for around 100$ a barrel from coal. So the chances for inflation adjusted oil above 200$ / barrel lasting for more than a few months within 50 years is tiny. The best way for current suppliers to maximize profit is to occasionally spike prices, and then drop them before alternatives start to diminish demand.
And there's a brief discussion in a Language Log entry already - Twetiquette: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2287
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