skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all fairness it seems like they're trying to say that they own [generic]book.tld in the context of social networks. Teachbook.com sounds like it's a social network for Teachers and is possibly using its name to say "Hey, we're like the Facebook of teachers". It's be like if we decided that Hacker News needed a social network and decided to call it Hackerbook.com

Not sure I agree with Facebook's actions here, but they're hardly saying what the headline claims.
Probably less but not zero as the author states.
I completely agree (that was one---though not the only one---things that made me stop reading OSNews).

But I also think that originally it was free (as you said) but only for a certain number of years. In other words the "novelty" is not that it's free (for those cases) but that it's free forever.
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"That’s the the thing about schedules: once you have one everyone else needs to, too, preferably as close to yours as possible."

Quick schedule hack: run your schedule a half hour earlier than everyone else's. Show up for lunch at 11:30 instead of 12. Get to the restaurant at 5:30 instead of 6. View an earlier movie. Get to work a little early.

You'll always get preferred seating, preferred parking, and you'll never wait for a meal again :). You may beat traffic in some locales, but I've yet to benefit just from a 30 minute shift.
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Completely wrong. If that were the case then the cost of developing 10k cheap electronic gadgets would be the same in the US vs. China. The US workers would cost more but make more in the same time.

This is not the case at all. The Chinese can produce vastly more items than the US can for the same price/time. Do you have any examples where some US company can produce things as such an improved production speed compared to China?
To summarize in English: Stewart started an unnamed firm, and tried to exit mid-bubble four years later; his partners didn't want to buy his equity, so he sued them. By the time he got his shares bought three years later the firm had imploded.

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the...

Here's a previous discussion with comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487
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> One argument was that the adventurous sailor would be subsumed by the cobbler or tavernkeeper in the mating game. True, but he wouldn't be subsumed by the beggar, now would he?

Well, if the beggar is Diogenes...

The main counter argument is that most world conquerors are not especially fertile; Napoleon had maybe six kids (max.); Alexander had two and was maybe gay; Hitler had zero. How would the "conqueror" trait have so much influence on humanity if conquerors did not father many children (and there were not enough successful conquerors to start with).

I try to develop a more substantiated analysis of this article here: http://blog.medusis.eu/of-parrots-and-men
I'd also love to see any real-world examples (without spies, maybe in startup/business/management context?).
And men and women will always have different and distinct priorities in life.
It is cool, but it's pretty useless as it's missing important features to subtract, add, intersect, etc. shapes, and other very important functionality required to do something useful beyond the typical "finger painting" :).
He's right, and it's a cool feature. But the fact that it's sitting right next to the useless (from a user's point of view) black blob of the IR sensor kinda spoils the effect.
Funny. I used Perl professionally for more than half a decade and I always had the same feeling about it. I didn't like how it seemed to always favor the worst way of doing everything. Even today every Perl program has to start without about 20 using statements to get it usable right?

I also disagree about the libraries. Java has many more than Perl, they're just not collected in one place. The Java ones run in huge environments, so while they may not be good for throwing out a cheasy log parsing script in 10 minutes, they will probably scale well beyond what you'll need.
This article is pure speculative narrative.

That is, whereas most essays make a thesis, then present evidence and arguments to support that thesis, this article presents a whole story spun out of thin air, involving FDR, national health insurance, vacations, the Chinese.

As such, it presents an interesting problem. You could argue with some detail --- such as the role Germany plays as a competitive partner in China -- and still it would have much of nothing to do with the rest of the essay. The thing is so loosely coupled it's impervious to criticism. I'm not sure whether to be impressed or disgusted.

I found this to be more of the same fairy tale we Americans have been telling ourselves for decades -- if only we were the Europeans. Things would be so much better. While Germans are doing some great things, we will never be Germany. Or Norway. Or Sweden. Personally I'd like to move beyond that and talk about the real country we live in.
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The author of the article you provided calls "The Management Myth":

"the article is disjointed, dull, obvious, smug, poorly written, and full of falsely-elevated faux philosophy chatter"

plethora adjectives, but fails to bring any argument.
"More free time" isn't the claim I was skeptical of.
I wish someone smarter than myself could explain to me why I find articles written in this style (or tone of voice or rythmn or whatever the correct term is) so nauseating and irritating?
Hello, can you please remove the OSX "dot underscore" meta files from the archive?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Yea...

I'm surprised that what are generally considered the richest countries are all at the bottom: Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, etc. The difference in working hours between those and the US is huge: 1307 - 1362 hours/year compared to 1777 hours/year.
Copyright ..

I wouldn't bet on copyright either, but isn't that at odds with selling software?

It doesn't apply to web apps, but it sure applies to other kinds of apps, like mobile device apps (which YC occasionally funds). On the iPhone it's not a big problem because the device is so severely restricted. But what about the Android platform? I hear copying is easier over there.

Fundamentally, the only way to make money from software is to restrict something against non-paying users. Traditionally, companies restrict using the software. With web apps, the software is not what you sell, but rather you sell the service (the user doesn't even have a copy of the software).

Open Source is also at odds with that, because the whole idea of Free Software is to not impose any artificial restrictions on the usage of software.

The only companies I've heard of that go too far with Open Source are Red Hat and Canonical.

What most people nowadays tend to do is "open core". They open source certain libraries and infrastructure, but not the whole thing. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and it might actually be the balance that's needed between open source and (traditional) commercial software.
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But still right.
My arithmetic may be wrong, but comparing the US figures with those of Germany, Americans work about 2 months more per year (8 hour days, 5 day weeks). Which is a lot.
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Nice - but an SWF export feature would be useful too.
This is very unrelated to the patent issues for en-/decoders.
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Interesting, I had definitely not heard that. The name that I thought was passed around regularly was Tim Cook.

I'd have to think that letting the design guy worry about design would probably be the better route, rather than clouding with all of the other business decisions and realities in a major way
"But you set your own hours" is one of my least favorite things to hear. That doesn't mean there's less work to do.
tl;dr for my comment: I agree, with caveats, and have personal experience to back up my opinion.

Not a bad article but nothing really new. As an undergrad I majored in public history & religious studies (wanted to be a museum curator) while supervising a digitization lab in the special collections library. I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do with my life after I realized I hated curatorial work, so I got a job through Manpower doing web design. Modern web technologies were still emergent then (1999) and I was able to keep abreast pretty well for a few years, until my interests moved more into project management and then actual team leadership.

I've been successful so far and now direct about 60 great people worldwide. I've also had time to reformulate my career objectives and realized going back to school was a sensible thing to do, especially if I ever needed a piece of paper to validate my cv in this down economy. I chose a multi-disciplinary systems engineering program at NCSU and it's been a terrific experience that's meshed very well with my current role at work.

This was a longwinded introduction to my main point: I see other people in both my masters program and other graduate fields at the university who have absolutely no experience in the real world. Not only that, they still tend to believe that the management track of an MBA is where the money is. They're going to be sorely disappointed when they graduate and realize no company worth it's salt is going to think twice about hiring a newly minted MBA that 1) has never worked a real job and 2) has no management experience. I'm starting to work with both my department head and others to help mentor and guest lecture for these students, and hopefully jolt them back to reality.

This isn't to say that an MBA is useless, but an MBA should be a complement to one's work experience and is by no means a replacement. I completely agree with the author that a background in philosophy is often a better tool for a manager than an education in finance/management (still, too many companies lead by the Taylor style of gauging productivity and because Excel still runs the business world there's a strong tendency for managers to try to quantify performance based on metrics... the wrong metrics.).
That sounds ridiculous. They have the facebook trademark protection, and that's pretty much what they can enforce. And even that's sometimes not enough to enforce a wide range exclusivity. For instance, titles of books can contain the word facebook, and can only be prevent a publisher from using the facebook logo on the cover, but screenshots on the inside pages containing it should be publishable.
Afaik all the evicted antisemitic groups could form a social network called hatebook, and they wouldn't be infringing if they used a different typeface and overall identity.
IANAL, but trademark law is pretty straightforward. This reminds me of http://www.eolas.com/, got to love how they troll about their (e) trademark and all the software patents.
That was a minor side-issue, created entirely by the MPEG-LAs need for strange licence terms that withhold seemingly basic rights from users so that it could later charge you money for the simple act of moving a digital file over the internet, and be able to back that with the threat of patent lawsuits.

This is about the (previously) very real threat of future royalties for a subset of that patent-limited file moving activity, namely non-subscription, commercial H.264 videos (e.g. Youtube or Hulu or your random commercial website with a video on it).
It relies on Google Voice which is not available in France anyway.
It feels funny that Germany is being marked as the prototypical socialist country. We don't think of us like that.

It seems even in the US the state is paying for things (streets, school?), so the US is also socialist? It seems to me that by the definition that most US commentators seem to use, any country with taxes is socialist.

As for the health insurance, note that it is only mandatory for employed people. If you are a freelancer or business owner/entrepreneur, you can drop out of the social insurance system for the most parts (except if the government decides to use taxes to compensate for troubles with the pension plans, which is outrageous to me). In fact, it is a problem to get into the social insurance system if you are not employed.

While health insurance is expensive here, I don't think it makes us into a socialist country. In the real socialist and communist countries you were supposed to give up everything for the benefit of the state, and your idea of fun free time was hopefully voluntary farm work.
Norway is a very lovely country but I doubt there's a sustainable model there for the rest of the world to follow, since we all can't become the world's third-largest exporter of oil.
How about moving to Sweden? We have 4G (the real LTE-kind) in the three largest cities now, and even better social safety net than Germany. ;)
:-D Let's try it
I don't think they could enforce their trademark if there was a Hackerbook. Throwing tons of money and lawyers at it can make somebody back out, but they shouldn't be able to have exclusivity on [anything]book even in the context of social networks.
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Err, some people might care, and you could even make money producing/selling it, but Apple/Nokia/HTC won't.
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The thing about economics is that there's two diametrically opposed schools of thought on just about any issue you'd like to name. Krugman is a smart dude, and a fierce advocate for one side of any given issue, but I wouldn't swallow his arguments whole without hearing from the other side as well.
Or it could be simple: growth rates absent context might not be a useful measure or goal.
If GodTube.com, a religion-centric video site can exist, then so can TeachBook. I don't see how any company can own generic words when used as part of a phrase, even when the industry is the same. I can certainly create a company called MicroChime or YouChime or ChimeSoft.
Maybe we should :) Although I think hackerbook.com would be a better name for some sort of collaborative book project.

I get what you're saying, but if you look at it from Facebook's point of view if they don't defend their trademark they'll lose it. If there are looks of [something]book.com social networks then [something]book.com just becomes a generic term for a social network. Facebook then loses the right to claim any sort of exclusivity at all on their trademark (I think that's how it works anyway, IANAL obviously)
It depends which model you're looking at. Fair wealth distribution is a sustainable model.

If Norway behaved like the US, most of the money from oil would probably go to a small handful of privileged people.
You do realize that even people who have incredibly good prediction records, do get things wrong. You can't really point to a specific thing and say, "you suck because you didn't predict this". Look at the totality of their record.

On the other hand, only one thing he's done well has been mentioned versus several things he's done badly. One success doesn't cancel out four failures.
Thanks for the feedback.

So, regarding this being a fluke one-off or the assertion that there isn't data to back this up, I have reams of tests that display similar behavior, many with tens of thousands of unique participants. As the other commenter said, the example in the post was icing, not the cake, but I take your point and it's a good message that people are reading my posts who know something about this and maybe I can get a little deeper into advanced topics and results and stuff, so that's good to hear.

If your early-funnel optimizations directly predict the end-funnel conversion, I think that 1) that's awesome 2) the products you are testing have a huge amount of room to grow (also awesome, hope the hiring goes well it's always tricky finding great people) and 3) the phenomenon i was describing doesn't really apply to you and those products yet.

One thing that may not have been crystal clear is that it's one group of people that we are talking about, and examining the segments of that group. Let's put it another way. There are 1,000 people who see a certain offer page on a given day. 1 of those people is a fellow who has read 3 reviews, used competing products, and decided 100% that he is going to buy the product. The page could have a tiny little 10px link to add the product to cart, it could be in the footer and #EEE and this dude would still find it and complete the purchase.

Now, as you make it clearer to people why and how they should buy the product, you are not generating more interest like the first fellow's. You are simply inviting a broader selection of the audience to consider the purchase a bit more. That's really the principle that is at play here.

Thanks again for reading, and for the comment.
As a (happy) father of three I feel the right to share a dirty little secret: taking care of young kids is boring as hell.

But somebody has to do it; in mammals it's only natural that it's the female, since she has to be around anyway in order to breast feed (which is not the case with birds for example: both parents can find and bring back food to the young).

So maybe the adventurous sailors explore the world simply because they can; not "in order to come back rich, and mate" but because, having mated, they can leave their family behind and go do something else.
Your response seems overly-critical for someone who's simply looking for advice. I have a few issues:

Quitting a job within a year won't look particularly bad on your resume; quitting multiple jobs within a year will, however. I left my first job after 3 months and I've never faced a problem because of it.

There's no need to berate him on his English, especially if he's moving to London - as long as it's clear that English isn't his first language, or that he's dyslexic, then he won't be judged harshly there.

There's no point sticking with a job you hate if you have the means and freedom to move on. Being young allows you to change your mind before too much depends on you having a stable job.

@op: Look up on what's currently in demand in London (Java, probably) and start learning in your spare time. Check up on a few UK-based recruitment websites (http://reed.co.uk has a good list of programming jobs). It's totally possible to change your area of expertise; I currently work as a Ruby/PHP developer and I have a first-class degree in design :)
At risk of getting massively downvoted (since almost everybody else in this thread who refuses to participate in the Apple lovefest is down -4 right now)...

I really dislike this community conflation of attention to aesthetic detail with "detail". Apple does fantastic work on aesthetics. Wonderful little details like the pulsing sleep led. Their hardware is generally pleasant to look at, their OS...though starting to show its 9 year old age still holds its own.

While important, and often imitated, aesthetic detail is a superficial kind of detail. And it's not wholesale "attention to detail" not matter how many breathless fan posts in blogs on threads there are. Apple products in general have a great many areas where they have piss poor attention to actual detail, and let it slide for years without attention and instead build a marketing campaign around the font they use on their keyboards.

They substitute shiny too often for substance and the vast majority of Apple fans fall for it, "ooh shiny!". There isn't even a single post here in this thread (and there are 171 right now) that says something to effect of "This LED thing is cool, but Apple drops the ball on <insert xyz widely known problem>". And that list of problems is long and ranges in everything from technical issues to hardware reliability to usability problems to yes...aesthetics. Instead we get north of 170 posts, all breathlessly agreeing that they wish Apple could have their child.

Aesthetic detail is "nice to have" but not a "must have". Detail in other areas are probably more important. And sadly, Apple often falls down in those areas. It doesn't really matter if my MBP is cut from a single piece of aluminum and the leds pulse at some certain rhythm when its asleep. It's far more impressive to me that when I open it up, it resumes in under 10 seconds (which BTW is thankfully one of those areas that Apple did turn the attention to detail gun on, Macs sleep and resume fantastically better than any Windows machine I've ever used). But it also matters to me if I have to send it back for repair due to manufacturing defect more often than my dell -- particularly if I've paid a huge price premium to have a pulsing sleep led, the damn thing better be more reliable than a $12 toaster...and sadly it isn't.

I'm certainly not claiming the opposite, that other vendors and software makers are better than Apple in the detail department. Just that Apple has many failures as well, but the community of Apple users religiously ignores those little problems without a peep -- a massive display of this phenomenon is on display here. They stop recognizing that their stuff is just stuff, and Apple makes stuff that's pretty nice to use, but in the end it's just stuff and it's full of flaws.

just trying to provide the voice of reason here
I gave it a look and yeah, it's pretty clean for such low level C.
This is a very fun idea. I really hope to see this come to fruition.
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And people in that unique situation should hire assistants.
Possibly, yes. The 'start at the cart' theory of optimizations says that you should absolutely start with optimizing that 50% and working 'backwards.' The idea being that it is a lot easier to close sales that are in process than to generate more sales leads that may or may not be qualified enough to actually initiate a purchase.

Focus on reeling in the fish on the hook, to put it grossly, as opposed to putting more hooks in the water.

Pretty easy to see the other side of this though, and like the correct answer to any poker question, the answer ends up being "it depends". =)
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...apart from all the bits of Superfreakonomics that have been debunked, that is. I believe the proportion of error is somewhere in the region of "every damned thing they wrote".
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I think Norway is interesting because they have such a narrow distribution of wealth even though they have vast riches from oil, not because of those riches.

Edit: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund apparently owns 1% of global equities! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norw...
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You are right that richer countries are not more productive in all sectors. E.g. a Swiss hair cut won't be as superior to a Somalian one, as the differences in wages suggest.

My guts tell me that the US is more productive than China in, say, software development and probably finance. But don't trust my guts. Do some research yourself.

A quick search for "productivity US china" turned up "U.S. Leads Productivity Ranking; China Gains" (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/business/worldbusiness/04o...).