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I'm fine with proofs and am unsure where you see me stating otherwise. ;) Would you please point out where I say I don't like them? Me being bored in an art class doesn't translate to me hating art. (I suspect you may be projecting external feelings onto me.)

I didn't like the non-university classes either, but I produced math in them. I wouldn't enjoy programming in PHP in a cubicle, but I can deliver software this way.

Of course, proofs are not all that math is, and I have a vague suspicion that many mathematicians leave "rigor" as a fairly un-analyzed concept, ironically... but math's foundations would be far weaker without proofs.

My disagreements with these societal practices is more about an educational approach, than the technical concepts of mathematics itself. If I went to a very fundamentalist religious school, I probably would have criticisms about it too.

Do you see no difference in the effectiveness of teaching methods? Might I not think one has severe flaws, as a consumer/producer who put in the hard work, and mention improvements?
I guess I'm in the minority but I don't see this as being very interesting. To me a biography serves two purposes: To accurately tell the story of someone's life and to give you insight into their thought process

On the first point let me say Steve Jobs is a great man in many respects. But tolerating dissent is not one of them. He's actively worked to destroy not only authors but publishing companies that have dared say anything even slightly negative about him (iCon was 90% positive). So an authorized biography of Steve Jobs is next to useless as an accurate account of his life.

On the second point he isn't writing this or helping in the writing of it. He's simply giving his permission and sitting down for an interview. Having read several thousand pages of Jobs interviews over the years I don't see how this one will be special.
Health care is expensive, limited, and must be rationed. Not everyone can have as much as they want. There simply is not enough to go around. In the US, this rationing process is done by price, and by insurance companies. In other countries, this is done by govt bureaucrats.

No rationing system can change this fundamental fact: some people will die because we don't have the resources to save them.

I don't know why the author can't believe it has come to this in the US. Does he feel that the laws of scarcity should not apply, simply by virtue of American Exceptionalism?
Basic racial politics. Welfare queens and all that jazz.
It will be pretty depressing working for any of these companies.
I'll give you pre-edit, but Apple does plenty of phony altruism and silly holy wars cloaked to hide their true profit based intentions. How we all agree that every company works in their self interest and tries to spin it as best they can for the public's interest?

Or this will just quickly devolve into point scoring nit picking.
That's exactly the kind of thing the Securities Act of 1933 is trying to prevent.

Seriously, talk to a lawyer. Or, at the very least, start reading up on Securities Regulations on Wikipedia.
My fingers are crossed that this doesn't go through. I've had T-Mobile for years and have been grandfathered into such an amazing family plan. $20 for unlimited web per person, lines 3-5 are free. $10 unlimited texting for the entire family. Unlimited mobile-to-mobile, nights, weekends, and my faves. Coverage used to be poor but it's only getting better.
The part where he doesn't have to pay Sony millions of dollars in damages.
It was not the first one

I'm pretty sure Alan Kay invented the term "object-oriented programming", which gives his definition some precedence over any other.
You mean this one?

http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/adobes-open-screen-project-...

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/f4v.html
On Windows – but disabling it on OS X is just wrong.
Sunless, rainless farming
Yes, but that's a clever double-entendre in which they encourage thinking differentLY, as well as encourage you to think about their product, which is (supposedly) different. Aaaaand now that I've killed the joy in this, exit... stage left! poof
I wonder what the 'permanent injunction' prevents him from doing?

Having been in similar situations in court facing virtually unlimited legal budgets and opposing counsel focused on PR victories I can understand why geohotz settled, however, the wording of the statement tells me that the permanent injunction agreed to actually doesn't prevent much otherwise it would be more heavily touted.

I have a feeling this statement "a preliminary injunction was issued requiring Hotz to take down the postings challenged by SCEA." reveals that the injunction was to permanently remove the postings. (eg. Hotz won!)
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Great - how soon before this sucker is surveilling us?
This article begs the question "Why do people need advanced search skills when using a SERP?".

If the single search box "worked", the search would provide the results the user wanted without having to use arcane search techniques.

The expectation for a user presented with the single search box is for simplicity and accuracy.

I would bet that there are very few SERP "power users" that know all the ways to manipulate the searches.

Going away from the single search box or providing hard links for filtering results might be a way around this. I imagine that there are many bright minds working on this issue.
Agreed.

Even the ex-"Evil Empire" managed to provide decent basic health care for its citizens.

Yeah, they couldn't graft a human ear onto a mouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse), but at least when I broke my arm or busted my teeth on a bike they never asked my mom how she is going to pay for it, or some insurance company did have to decide to only replace 2 out of 4 of my teeth, because the other 2 would be considered "cosmetic surgergy" or "experimental procedure".
Yes, for branding reasons most of the time you'll want the .com, .net and .org. If you can only choose one, .com's are usually preferred.
Apple makes massive profit margins by doing right by the customer (as they see it).

Sure, and so does Microsoft. That argument works for any company.

The problem is that many of Apple's transparent positions aren't held on their merit, but instead are shrouded behind layers of sanctimonious bullshit. See the anti-Flash screeds as an example of this. That you would claim that insult about Google, in this case, is quite laughable.

Though I see that HN is once again a bastion of pro-Apple delusion as the more enlightened fled.
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For the people who vote "no" how about a comment explaining why? I'm guessing that at least some people are walking around with a lot of mistaken assumptions about what things are like here in "the south." It's not all rednecks in 4x4 pickups, driving around yelling "yeee-haaw y'all" and going to mud-bogs and shooting guns, <insert stupid stereotype about the south here>, etc., etc.
We've seen this on our site, which is heavily search focused. Despite having an "advanced" search menu right next to the default search bar in our header, essentially no users take advantage of it (and we're dropping it as a result.)

Faceted search is clearly being used by people on sites like Yelp and Amazon but they might not realize it (and might not think of it as "advanced search".) Unfortunately it's harder to add faceted search to a general purpose, free-text search site like Google, so users may not take advantage of it as readily when doing those kinds of searches.
I went back and read it.

My dictionary defines sanctimonious as "making a show of being morally superior to other people."

All I saw from Apple in that essay was boiled down as:

This shit works better than this other shit, and as a result, it is our preference. And we think it'll be better for users, too. We control all aspects of our products' user experience, so this position will be reflected there.

I'd like you to contrast that with

"If Google didn’t act, it faced a draconian future where one man, one phone, one carrier were our choice. That’s a future we don’t want. [...] If you believe in openness, if you believe in choice, if you believe in innovation from everyone, then welcome to Android. "
I see you got downvoted. HN has descended into a pro-Apple prattle pit yet again, which is sad.
Generally speaking, the law in the US affords one a broad ability to contract. That is to say A and B can make a deal and a court will hold them to it. This property of the law has obvious and immense value. The ability to contract is not absolute and is limited in some ways.

One of the ways that freedom to contract is limited is that contracts should not contravene public policy. In general, legal settlement, as opposed to going all the way through trial, is considered to be a good thing.

The parties reached an agreement they could accept with and the public did not have to use up scare resources of judicial time. Also, the public did not have to force an outcome on one of the parties.
I think Google ultra domination of search have been a minus for search innovation, most of new search service are forced to die in their infancy, no time to put on a fight. Real competition for Google will profit the Internet and us users.
A virtual pet that helps you raise your TDD practice.
Final judgement with more details if anyone's interested, kinda disappointing actually.

http://goo.gl/NAvNl
"Exokernels" would be one step further in the abstract-less idea of kernels (basically only multiplexing the hardware) and would allow for better performance of applications and more rapid and secure development.
Open Screen is a trojan horse to make Flash the standard development API for TV sets (leaving everyone dependent on Adobe's professional tools to create the content for these devices).

SWF and F4V container formats are indeed published freely, however the Flash runtime itself is still proprietary, and thus incompatible with an open web.
1. Salaried people demand very strict floors on their earnings. It's completely unrealistic in business. Imagine saying you won't open a toy store unless someone guarantees that you will make at least $XX,000 in the first year (with guaranteed pay rises each year).

2. Coming up with good business ideas is hard.

3. Your wage in an office environment is strongly related to your ability to harm the bottom line by leaving, your ability to play politics, and your credentials. Your wage as an entrepeneur is entirely related to your ability to get customers to pay you or to get investors to invest in you. In my experience the two skill sets are negatively correlated.

4. In addition to being exposed to and responsible for the entire risk distribution, costs that a corporation spreads out over many people (incl. health insurance) are focused narrowly on an entrepreneur. Remember how you used to be able to make phone calls from the office and still be on the clock?

5. Lastly, hackers' skills are often complementary to other parts of a business but not sufficient to establish a new business with ≥ marginal value. {Sales ⋃ hackers} > {sales} + {hackers}.

There are many good reasons to believe that hackers can make more money freelancing than working for a single company. Starting a new company is a totally different proposition.
and, unfortunately, it is also "more fun" to root for the "winning team", so when there are shifts in the balance of power you see shifts in the demographics of agreement. :(
Since we're nitpicking, that should be (US) English. In the UK we say neesh. Or at least, I do :)
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The article misses another startup benefit: flexibility. As a single mom raising a special needs kid, I'm often looked at as crazy for getting involved with start-ups. People assume I'm really rolling the dice with regard to my child's care.

The reality is just the opposite: I like working with start-ups because BigCorp can't really handle anything different than the norm. StartupInc on the other hand, in order to recruit me (granted, for a lower base salary than BigCorp), will happily agree to my needing to leave early on Thursdays (time to be made up remotely on Thursday night) for supplemental speech therapy, or work remotely on days when my son is home sick, and so on.
Similar situation - single founder, not doing social or green, niche B2B market (ediscovery), older (48), out of practice on software engineering, and deep insight into target market.

I applied to YC knowing that I wasn't a good fit. Going through the application process helped me hone my message and also helped me to better organize my priorities.

It's like writing a business plan - you may never really use it (you may not be accepted into YC) but going through the exercise has real benefit.
You could say the same thing about all the people who settle with the RIAA then.
With 0.03 and some further fixes, it also works on localhost now.
I don't listen to voicemail, but it is rude not to accept it just as it is rude to leave long messages on voicemail.

The caller has already connected with you, for you to tell them to then hangup and try again with a txt or email is pretty obnoxious and arrogant.

I don't listen to voicemail, because I have googlevoice.
I think it's been an issue, but not that big of an issue (in voter's minds) until recently.

Many of the voting blocks are already covered. Low income people have medicaid, seniors have medicare. Many people working a full time job have employer sponsored health plans.

Health insurance costs are rising. It's harder to find a cheap plan. Pre-existing conditions really screw you as far as decent coverage.

I'm not sure what the answer is at this point. The US is almost broke, we might not have a choice. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3035
That seems redundant.

If I get a voicemail that says, "text or email me" - isn't that basically saying, "i was trying to get in touch with you, please reciprocate" - which is already made implicit by the fact that you have a missed call because someone was trying to get in touch with you?

At that point, don't even leave a voicemail. I never do - they'll see that they missed a call and call me back, or I'll try again later - or I'll send them a text or an email!
"At some point, litigation must come to an end," Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote. "That point has now been reached."
I have been looking for the original research done using the newspaper for a while now. I remember reading about it before and I always wanted to refer back to it but never found it. Glad to read this again.
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Though QuickTime is only an abstraction of OS provided codecs on Macs, this move once again brings up the question in me:

Is there any valid technical reason for browsers to handle media files in any way other than wrapping OS provided codecs?
In soviet russia, voicemail leaves messages for you.
Overcoming challenges
Great point. This is exactly the problem with Flash for OS X and presumably iOS if it existed. Horrible, breaking, crippling behaviour.
> Sure, and so does Microsoft. That argument works for any company.

I wish I could agree with you. In fact, for many companies, the customer is the last consideration. Especially in the case you've brought up here. Microsoft's financial might in the 90's was all about strategic relationships, three dimensional chess and out-maneuvering their competition through ethically dubious tactics, definitely not creating value for users.

"Primarily in the 1990s, critics contend Microsoft used monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying, put unreasonable restrictions in the use of its software, and used misrepresentative marketing tactics; both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission found the company in violation of antitrust laws"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
If you can't find the engineer you need in your area you have a few options. Let the engineer work remotely, make the bounty high enough to attract talent that wouldn't have considered it at market rates or train one of your own engineers to be able to handle the problems you're looking to solve.
Ask HN: Non-hacker doctor wanting to start a health startup. What should I know?
I'm a physician who's always had the desire to build a startup and really shake things up. With the huge rise in iPad usage amongst my colleagues and myself, and the growing realization within the hacker community that the health sector is in desperate need of disruption, it's safe to say that health/medicine is going to be an extremely hot market in the coming decade.

As a physician at 35 with no technical background, I cannot help but feel powerless and useless; I do not have the skill set to cause disruption by myself. However, I'm not letting that stop me and am willing to dive head-first into developing my technical side. I should ask, though, whether doing such a thing would be feasible at my age (learning to code, etc), and whether my current educational background and training would be sufficient a contribution to a founding team. If yes to the former, what technical skill-set do you suggest I begin developing? If not, what would be the most feasibly attainable, yet valuable, skill-set a physician like myself could acquire to supplement my domain knowledge that you, as hackers, would find most helpful? I think it's the perfect time to try my hand at the startup game, and I don't want to miss this boat.

Thank you for your time.
Judge to copyright troll: your "business model" isn't my problem
I'm confused. Are you saying video playback is obsolete, or was there some new video playback library with similar breadth to QuickTime that I didn't know about which as rendered it obsolete?
Mayan prophecie, anyone?
http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/brag-sheet
Presumably flash is sandboxed within chrome, so it isn't susceptible to the same attack vectors as unsandboxed plugins.

This presumably alleviates a lot of the security concerns for that plugin, since it now has the same protection to exploitation as the rest of chrome, and security vulnerabilities might be able to be patched through chrome's auto-update(?)
Glad you guys picked up on this, I used "different," not "differently" in the headline as a nod to Jobs' original Think Different campaign. So, yup, it was intentional.
What all versions of Chrome? Chrome auto-updates so the vast majority if not all of them are on the latest version (or newer beta versions) which is Chrome 10. And Chrome 10 doesn't have h.264 support built-in anymore.
There's lots of non-Adobe tools for developing in Flash.

I use http://fdt.powerflasher.com/ now and before that http://flashdevelop.org/
I think analogy is more apt including Linux (bear with me on this)

The current system is (sort-of) like Linux. Pretty ad-hoc and less easy to use / figure out for the un-initiated. Often basic things are left out, not because they don't exist or work, but over principle.

The Democrats want to upgrade the current HC system to a Mac and the Republicans are certain that we'll end up with Windows instead.
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It's really not so black and white:

1. The laws of scarcity don't dictate how a scarce resource is distributed. I guess the argument is all about what the most effective means are to distribute this resource.

2. Anyhow, commercial enterprises have strong incentives to produce artificial scarcity. The "laws" of scarcity don't have to apply here.
Moving to any small town puts experienced engineers at a disadvantage. There isn't any competition and moving positions often means moving cities again, you really have to find the right kind of person for that.
Nice analysis... sidenote:
If you're measuring the emotional influence of content on people, shouldn't it be "affectcheck"?
The Economics and Genetics of Parenting
I agree fully. First of all 90% of my voicemail messages suck and follow this universal script:

- "Oh.. Erm.. It's XXX. I tried to reach you"

- Babbling, most are not used to a one-sided talk and get lost

- After listening the conversation could've been compressed to half a text message.

Unfortunately the business phone I have is required to support a voicebox. Worse: German carriers tend to abuse these things to milk their customers. The cheaper the carrier, the more certain you can be to have a mandatory (no way to turn it off. Calling your own box costs money..) mailbox that answers after X rings, where X is usually small enough that I can reach my wife only on the second try (before she pulls out the device the voicebox answers).

What a rant. I guess I have a deep sympathy for all people that hate this voicebox thing..
Using head tracking on the iPad 2 for a glasses-free 3D display
Especially in the case you've brought up here. Microsoft's financial might in the 90's was all about strategic relationships, three dimensional chess and out-maneuvering their competition, definitely not creating value for users.

Microsoft and Apple both engage in identical behaviors. Many Microsoft boosters used the identical "for the consumer" arguments in defending Microsoft activities. Forcing IE while prohibiting competitive browser installations, for instance, simplified and created a cleaner, more user-accessible platform that would just work, blah blah blah. Same sort of nonsense you hear today.

That you would link to the anti-trust decree is bizarre. Do you think I or anyone else don't know about that? Do you think Apple's actions are so different, or is Apple simply not in control as much market as Microsoft (yet). Then again, they've already drawn anti-trust attention, so ten years from now some booster of the then-big-dog will point back at the DOJ-vs-Apple lawsuit as proof of....something.
I'm flabbergasted that Europeans won't admit that it's a failing system. Both France and Sweden need to scale back their systems because it's just not efficient or cost effective.

I know it's just anecdotal evidence, but everyone I know from Canada that has had to get any major surgery has come over to the US. The reason? the waiting list is too long (in the years). Most universal health care advocates will deny this, but I just can't ignore it when I've seen it happen so many times.

I would rather have a system with no insurance companies that we paid for ourselves. This way, Doctors would be forced to charge affordable rates.
Personally, even if I get voicemails I tend not to listen to them - just return the call. If my phone rings I find myself feeling a little stressed. I'm usually in the middle of something that I don't want to be pulled away from for more than a minute. Phone calls always imply they will last longer than you want.
> No rationing system can change this fundamental fact: some people will die because we don't have the resources to save them.

Don't agree. If access is free then a lot of preventative care can be done in order to not have to conduct expensive critical and emergency procedures.

People in this country don't go to the doctor because they may or may not end up owing sums of money ranging from $0 to many hundreds of thousands, depending on the combination of provider, doctor, insurance policy, state and federal laws. So people just stay away. Until they have a heart attack, or cancer is in the terminal stages then they are rushed to emergency and then guess what happens -- a very expensive procedure probably needs to be perfomed. So not very surprising that health care is expensive.

But let's take from another point of view. You say it is expensive. But how come Scandinavian and many European countries manage do provide it? Could it be that we just spend everything on defense (well...I personally called it offense but let's keep it official here) -- more than all the countries in the world combined? Do our doctors and medical supplies companies charge insane prices? I don't know the answer, but I know it has been done in other countries, and it is currently better than here. So it seems like it is possible.
Irrelevant "Ask HN" posts.
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