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You sort-of have a point. Here's Eugene Ferguson on the Sputnik-triggered creativity fad of the 1950s:

More important to a designer than a set of techniques (empty of content) to induce creativity are a knowledge of current practice and products and a growing stock of firsthand knowledge and insights gained through critical field observation of engineering projects and industrial plants. In the 1950s, engineering schools still provided many opportunities to gather such knowledge. It is ironic that the radical change in curricula [introducing "creativity" courses] that occurred n the 1950s eliminated those activities that put the students in touch with the authentic world of engineering. - Engineering and the Mind's Eye, pp. 57-58

(For the record, I don't buy into your theory that China is a problem here at all.)

But, the article claims the worst decline is in children from kindergarten to sixth grade. I respectfully submit that such children are probably not taking geopolitical factors into account in their decision to not be creative.

I personally suspect that the test is a bit of a crock. Notwithstanding that, and a bit of the usual left brain/right brain nonsense thrown in, it actually seemed like a pretty good article (though probably not as good as if they'd left "creativity" out of it). An emphasis on rote learning and standardised tests, if that is indeed the way the system is going, is definitely going to have an impact on engagement if nothing else.
Documentation is pretty much nonexistent. It looks like it could be interesting, but I can't even tell what sort of operations, data types, etc. are supported.
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these are all true. I guess I should put something in about the struggle to get to happiness sometimes. I meant the statement as really an overall generalization.
Pepsi is sweeter. It tastes better for one mouthful, but Coke wins in the market because most people find an entire can of Pepsi too sweet.
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> We live in a global economy now. A firm in the U.S. can design a product which is manufactured in another country. This would negatively affect U.S. manufacturing output, but would not have any impact on "creativity" as you describe it.

It can as long as there still remains workforce skilled in details of manufacturing and engineering. They don't disappear overnight. Remember, the USA had decades of industrial development and superiority to the rest of the world.

You'll see less and less of that kind of creativity, the more your country transforms into service economy where people only can cut hair to each other.
Since it's clearly public domain, why not just release the whole thing online?
That's pretty fascinating.

At least in my own experience, I talk to myself without actually making any sounds when I am thinking (in my head, so to speak).

I never really thought that others would do it differently until this post.
How about putting an ad in a widely read newspaper containing a hashvalue of the document describing your idea?
>What difference does it make if mortgage rates are at historic lows? Are you claiming that the low rates are evidence of low risk?

No, but interest rates would be tied to risk if principle adjustments were on the table in court proceedings

That's why it's important they're currently at historic lows, as it would mean rates in risky areas would go up.

As banks are better than random people at assessing risk, this would also push people towards safer investment.

>Ask anyone buying today what he/she expect the real estate market to do... i.e. how much he/she thinks his/her new place will appreciate each year over the next 15 years. You'll find that they are greedily expecting 5-7% returns annually.

As are the banks and those who buy mortgages. Everyone is taking risk, lenders and buyers, just they're not doing it in the most sensical way. You can't malign one party without hitting the other.
She may not have done it if on her own, unfortunately.

care to elaborate on this conjecture?
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This would be great for KVM server consoles!
>His four main points are: openness...

Actually, openness is not one of his points. He mentions it in passing only.

>Android definitely has momentum but at their current rate it will still take years to match the iPhone's share of the market.

From February to May of this year, Android went from 9% to 13% of the market. In that same time, the iPhone went from 25.4% to 24.4%. At that rate, it will take about six months for Android to match the iPhone. Google is seeing almost 5 million activations a month, and growing exponentially.
I do that too when I'm "thinking" about stuff, which is most of the time. When I get into a flow state though it's a combination of mental word fragments, images, mental conversations with others, and sometimes all of these drop away and I just act. When I examine it more closely, my normal thought pattern is actually more than just mental speech too, that's just the dominant aspect.
I think you really need to explain that. There is simultaneously nothing wrong with boycotting BP (even though it should lead to lower gas prices for those who don't boycott, those who do boycott may sleep better at night) - and similarly nothing wrong with believing that Android has more momentum than Apple presently, so that it's worth betting on.

And even with nothing wrong with either actions, I don't see the connection. The man isn't boycotting Apple because he thinks Apple is hurting the planet.
You don't need wifi without a firewall.

It's supposed to "just work". In an iPhone review (at Ars? One of the big sites.) they tested this, and it worked fine for home use (home users usually do have a firewall...), it only choked, sometimes, on corporate firewalls.
that last link you gave is the OP ;)
Safari just need more polish. There are weird rendering bugs like fine lines between divs. large sites get cut off instead of becoming scrollable. Sites that use drag and drop or hover don't work right.

Overall, the UI on the iPad feels like the iPhone, which isn't really optimal for a larger device. It needs more thought, which I'm sure is happening right now as developers get a feel for the iPad.

It's very much a V1 product.
Or, as the comments note, NY state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Count me in the opposite camp, then. I don't regret my Nexus One at all - it's far superior to iPhone for my use case.
But you do need a wifi connection? Even that is hard for a mac user to set up. Try explaining how to connect to a wifi hotspot to your grandma.
Got so caught up in Googling and reading pre-game World Cup analysis. Duh!
Same here. After playing Nascar 2006 for hours on end one day, I went for a drive and realized I was staying as close to the inside of curves as possible.

I probably got to Target 20 seconds faster that day, but I cut out playing Nascar for extended periods after that.
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The big problem Android has is leaving people behind. It turns out v1.6 is required just to use Kobo's eBook reading software. What of all those v1.5 devices still out there? SOL! Some people can say, eh, this is the early adopter problem, except these are phones being sold to everyday people, not techies.
The big difference of course is that apple actually makes money and not only on the phone, but their app store.

Marketshare matters little in this context, what matters is how good a business it is for you.

And in that respect android is a shitty business as it,s not even close to opening up the revenue stream of advertising which is the real reason google is even in the phone business.
You are looking at a very wrong graph.

No. You said, "There is no industry left in USA". That graph gives manufacturing as a percentage of GDP, which isn't relevant.
There are still 1.5 devices out there? Like what?
In what perspective is it superior? I have a nexus one too I really fail to see what is better about it.
I meant a reply to one of the comments above. It felt so when I read it much earlier, but never mind.
Do people generally think in their spoken language? I mean sure I think in English, but not all the time. If I'm doing some serious, deep thinking, my thoughts tend to escape words and just become thoughts (hard to explain). I always assumed that's how everyone thinks.
You do need a network without a firewall or at least one you can open ports on:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4245

"To use FaceTime on a restricted Wi-Fi network, port forwarding must be enabled for ports 53, 80, 443, 4080, 5223, and 16393-16472 (UDP)"

Regardless, my point was that it would almost certainly not work on a military base. They have gone so far as to ban all camera phones in Iraq, real time video conferencing outside of the military's view is not going to be allowed in combat areas. It also wouldn't look to great over satellite.
> but is that such a bad thing for wikileaks?

Honestly, yes. Because in a perfect world Wikileaks has minimal editorial, no political bias and no agenda. But Assange does very much have those things.

The reason Wikipedia is good is because the community decision process is very strong (mostly through being slow and laborious); they, obviously, have a lot of respect for Wales but he can't influence things dramatically without being called on it (look at the fuss over the commons porn images).

Wikileaks doesn't have that sort of critical buffer of individuals (from what I have gathered about his personality Assange doesn't strike me as someone who would take any criticism at all). Sure there are volunteers but from my understanding it all works through Assange.
Headline was a tongue-in-cheek. If you read between the lines, I'm a co-founder in a small startup with two guys, and I've no intentions to become a bigco manager. Unless our company grows to >1000 employees (unlikely) and I for some reason want to stay in the helm (as unlikely).

However, as an armchair sociologist (aren't we all? ;-)) I think it's still very interesting to study how bigcos are organized, and is there solutions to growing pains once you go past a few thousand employees.

I personally believe that in the end of the day, you need to have quite similar skill set to run a startup with 50 employees as you need to run a company with 5000 employees. It's about leadership and inspiration, understanding the problems in all levels of work.
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model in C, from the same author:

http://blog.ecounysis.com/black-scholes-option-pricing-model...
Why would it make a difference why I hadn't heard of this company?

Googling the site didn't help, nor did visiting the site itself, so I asked here. Seems like a reasonable thing to do.

In general, I think that a story on the front page of HN should stand on its own, without the need to go off and do any research to figure out what it's about. This story doesn't even attempt to give any background about its subject matter, so it fails that test.
The one thing that still keeps me from Android is that the iPhone, in my experience (and I have used both extensively), is a better phone. As in for actual calls and texts :)

I predominately use my phone for that (calls, texts, email, internet) and apps are only a minor benefit (I use them infrequently).

At some time in the next 2 or 3 years I will change to an Android handset - the OS is improving no end and once the phone functionality is better it will be a no brainer.

EDIT: just to reiterate (for the downvoter...) I think the iPhone is a better phone functionality. I know others prefer Android - it's a personal thing.
My point was to explore more about what big company management and leadership should be, not Dilbertsque rendition of non-working work environments.

How would you organize e.g. Google to prevent it from growing to politics driven company like Microsoft seems to be (based on the recent Kin stories)? Or is it inevitable that big human organizations become these inefficient borgs after a certain size?
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I don't keep track of Android, so I can only cite the two I've come across in my own experience. First, the Archos 7 Home Tablet. Second -- and this is a major hurt -- the Motorola i1 phone, which is on Sprint and prepay Boost Mobile. That's a phone being pushed hard to everyday people and can disappoint them if they want Kobo, for example.
I am in favor of people having serious relationships, long term and not long term. I just don't think the state or religious institutions ought to have anything to do with it.

Any commitment is only as strong as the people who make it. Marriage is a meaningless stamp on a relationship.
> anyone else think in pictures

I have noticed that most of my thoughts originate as 'tendencies'. These tendencies are not verbal, but often vividly embody ideas. I then have to expend some effort to verbalize them. This is easily done for most of my thoughts (such as this one!), but for some, I find that the tendencies are not vivid enough or translating them effectively into words is beyond my current abilities.

I can get rid of the verbalizing stage altogether, which is what I would do when I automatically reason about where the center of gravity of a spoon I hold in my hand is.
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The thing about Android momentum is forgetting it's not all due to phones. There's Archos pushing it on tablets, there's the Barnes & Noble Nook which is Android-based too. Developers need to keep in mind that not every device is going to have a wee screen or every hardware button. This should be obvious, but it's often forgotten.
One factor is that then they wouldn't be able to sell as many copies of their exclusive edited edition. Which carries their copyright, due to the abomination that is the copyright system.
A suggestion to solve the bandwidth and privacy issues for video chat: why not have an avatar whose facial expressions are determined from your facial expressions in real-time?
This is why statistics are always dangerous in the hands of, well, anyone :)

Don't forget that Feb-May is the maximum time from a new iPhone release. This quarter saw an actual release so I wouldn't be surprised to see them snatch back the 1%. More importantly you can't extrapolate from just the one quarters figures :) Android sales could trail off or people could end up sending them back in high numbers after a few months etc.

Also, Android is offered on a wider array of phones; so it is reasonable that as it gains popularity it will enroach into the smartphone market. It will be interesting to see this quarters figures; I suspect Android will grow but so will Apple.

As pointed out, the more important metric is profitability; and currently Apple have that in bucket loads.

(not that Android is doing badly, but it is a bit further behind, say 18 months, than people tend to suggest)
Pick an easily measurable quantity related to your goal (like weight or waist circumference), measure it regularly and try to figure out how your behaviour influences it. Will regular exercise reduce weigth? How do the changes in weekly averages compare to the day-to-day (or even within the day) changes due to the normal food processing of the body? How long will it take me to undo the effect of thanksgiving with the family?
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None of that is because your bond was sanctioned by the state or church... you might as well call yourselves "joined" or "committed" or "unioned".

Marriage is the term that only validates relationships deemed OK by the state or church. It is a mechanism of social control and if anything undermines the gravity of two people's commitment to each other.
It's only partially transfer of capital.
Significant chunk of capital is destroyed: business does not function properly, because one of the owners is under duress, lawyers have to spend their time and efforts "transferring capital", ...
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I'd say just for the network alone the Android is a better phone. Texting capabilities seem about the same with my old iPhone and my Droid. I haven't tried iOS4.
I had no idea that Scribd could do this. I think I'd rather just use the Scribd API than do it myself, and I can probably use some of the other functionality as well. Thanks for the heads up.
I criticize the institution of marriage even though I'm happily married and we're expecting a child. I would still want to have a monogamous, long term relationship with my wife, only every time I think about the institution (and the Mike Huckabees, Pat Robertsons and Barack Obamas of the world claiming that marriage is between a man and a woman) I get an icky feeling like I'm a member of a racist country club or that I inherited a Nazi fortune.

The bond between two people is only as valid/strong/durable as the commitment. There is no reason to preserve a tradition that has been co-opted by social conservatives and now symbolizes bigotry more than it serves a practical purpose.

Furthermore, all the social meddling (tax rates, special privileges) makes me feel like a pawn.
..really?
Seriously, this.

Time for a new lawyer
Notifications - I can see that I have 2 emails, a text and an SMS waiting for me. Can't do that on an iPhone.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-21-eclair-usage-climbi...

21% are still on 1.5. The older OS's are diminishing quite a lot in the last 6 months, though.
This is the kind of thing that makes server-side js more compelling - bridging the language gap between the client and the server.

This particular approach seems to have some security implications though. What's to prevent a client from sending malicious code to the server?
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heh I don't with Facebook but I do often do that. I use comcast so if I misspell a URL I get their completely useless 'search page' - incidentally that is powered by Yahoo which is why I don't use Yahoo anymore. Example of banding gone bad.
I don't understand why we can't have python 3 code which imports python 2 modules. If that was supported, everything would be moved over to python 3 in no time.
True, I'm still working on sharpening the idea. Here's a specific example task, and at the upper end of the size/price spectrum:

Let's say you want to write a Twitter search engine and adopt existing FLOSS software as far as possible (my position a few years back). You could ask us to find, research, evaluate, possibly test components and fit them together according to your requirements. You receive an overview of existing projects, ranked by criteria such as maturity and completeness, all caveats for your project and a draft architecture using the best parts (crawler, indexer, front-end). This you can then hand to the implementation crew to get them started in the right direction.

Or you just want us to find out if anyone knows how to reliably capture all tweets from the system and try and get the information. I knew that back then, but finding it out took a mixture of ingenuity and perseverance - hacker skills :)

Here are a few rough ideas for a more specific service offering:

- software intelligence service: as above, plus similar tasks

- the scientific computing service: fixing bugs, improving display of results/export functions, writing a module, all the way to creating an entire solution (in Matlab, Mathematica, et. al.) In some sense this is an low-end IT consultancy with experience in scientific computing.

- "math-backup" service (for non-mathematicians in science and technology): have us search for a result, apply it to your domain/conventions, check for proper rigour in your work, find "bugs" in reasoning etc.

As RAs do a range of tasks in their positions, so could a VRA.
Maybe we are not all smart people - can you please explain why marriage is "a lie"? Do you mean some marriages or "marriage" itself?

I don't consider my marriage "a lie" or "a bad contract", and certainly not a "financial deal". I'm not sure why you do, or why you believe I am being dishonest, or that I was dishonest when I made my vows.

If you seriously think that people should say "probably" to a "bad contract" then I wonder what you think your signature is worth on other contracts.

I do understand that human integrity is variable, and values vary. I don't wish to impose mine on you.
Guys, wikileaks is basically fighting for survival against the US government,

Seems unlikely; they could well be exploring legal and technical options - but due to where Wikileaks operates from the US government will have a hard time taking it apart. There could be a black bag operation in effect; but I have a feeling if that were the case we would soon be hearing about it from Assange.

Seriously, do you have any doubt that anyone involved in this could end up secretly detained for years ?

Yes, someone in Government would have to be insane to risk that. OR Wikileaks would have to release something extremely critical/damaging. Assange is pretty high profile and his disappearance wouldn't go unnoticed.

We're not talking about your average (or even uniquely scalable) startup here.

No, but as pointed out elsewhere there are a lot of highly evolved models for distributions already in use by illegal enterprises. These are efficient, relatively cheap and difficult to track. The problem is that Wikileaks would lose a lot of editorial control; which, I guess, they don't want.

I have a number of ideas that I suggested to them (when they asked for help) to improve their infrastructure but never heard back...

Assange is taking huge personal risks here, so yeah, it is about him, to a very large extent.

I don't buy that - I think mostly he is a bit of an attention seeker and cries wolf at the slightest hint of a conspiracy :) There's not a lot wrong with that but you must bear it in mind when dealing with Wikileaks. I don't think Assange is taking a huge personal risk in terms of western governments. If they can nail him for something legally I am sure they will jump at it - but the political fall out from taking down a whistleblower is huge.

Besides; Wikileaks doesn't actually leak all that much (well, any more).....
I was, until I got married.
The key mistake in that case was having strong negative emotions to each other.
Divorce should be handled as a business deal with emotions being held under control.
I'm not sure how sound rule # 3 is so can anyone please shed some light (or offer a different perspective)? I mean all the problems that I've in my mind right now can be tackled by people who're smarter than me (and I guess I mean it as I do fortunately work with people way smarter than me on daily basis) so should I abandon working on all those problems? May be I'm missing something?
In some cases married couples pay more in taxes! The actual effect is to tax the lower earner more highly, which (if the two have separate accounts) puts more power in the hands of the higher earner (traditionally this was usually the man).

I agree that one's marital status should not impact anything relating to government services, including taxes.
What makes a maverick?
I guess that depends on the specialisation (see other thread in this post). Maybe something like "software decision help", "scientific research service", "professional math help", "software evaluation", "Matlab debugging"...
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That is sentimental bullshit and exactly why people don't sign prenups.

You wouldn't get an investor without an agreement, you wouldn't get a co-founder without an agreement, you shouldn't get a wife without an agreement.