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You're under the impression that the wealthy are looking to increase their absolute, rather than their relative, wealth. But much of what I've seen in the U.S. are policies focused on preserving or increasing relative wealth at the expense of the absolute kind.

The millions who, for their whole lives, have been poorly educated and are now unemployed (or imprisoned) could be making stuff of value that would ultimately make us all (absolutely) richer. This would increase the absolute wealth of the people-paying-the-bills (the already rich), but would decrease their wealth relative to those around them.
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That's not really a non-irrelevant example - it isn't different from a double-negative, which isn't a good way to write non-confusing English.

I don't see a problem with something like `unless forbidden`, though.
Yeah, that's one of those "believe it because I want to believe it" things.

I mean, do these people actually know any teachers? Why aren't they teachers themselves if it's so great?

I know for a fact that I'm not a teacher because the pay is shit and I'm not a good enough person to sacrifice my lifestyle for it. At least I can admit that.
Certainly it has a steep learning curve but it has a very large community that supports its packages and now also has a friendly and helpful community http://tex.stackexchange.com/
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Does it work how its supposed to?
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My argument is more that attacking the sites directly doesn't necessarily herald results nor positive PR. Joining them and posting would herald a form of result (if attribution is your only aim). The number of sites is an issue with either choice of action.
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Expect awesome looking Win8-ready stickers soon, I guess.
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Harper was actually CTO at Threadless (skinnyCorp), but this (and he) is awesome in any case.
Public schools as institutions? What's that even mean, that when you add up 1,000 salaries it's a lot of money? Ok, so what?

Teachers and school administrators aren't taking home megabucks -- if they were, that per student figure would be a lot higher. Typically, administrative expenses and busing will be included in that figure but capital expenses are probably not (but the building may be already paid off anyways).
Bitcoin is, in a way, backed by the value that it brings as a currency-- privacy and anonymity. We can argue whether that value is $10 per BTC, but I also don't think any reasonable person thinks that it is zero.
This is incoherent on two different levels.

First, I didn't argue that law enforcement didn't entrap people. They clearly do. I argued that passively advertising infringing content on eDonkey isn't entrapment.

Second, no matter what these apocryphal NYC cops did, picking up a wallet on the street isn't a crime. The argument over "entrapment" never enters into the picture. You would need a very poor criminal defense lawyer indeed to deploy the affirmative defense of entrapment over such a trivially refuted charge. You will not be convicted of theft simply for picking up a wallet.
Seriously? I can see the arguments for accreditation, but to say they aren't held to professional standards is a joke.

Again, solving hard problems means finding top talent. People love to slander teachers as lazy, but what can you really expect from an industry that repels talent - especially young talent. Teachers are vilified are underpaid ($60k is nothing for the type of problem being solved, and many teachers make closer to $30k).

I promise you, if we treated teachers as well as we treated Software Engineers we'd have a much healthier education system.
> This is already a problem now, imagine how bad it would be in a society with 1/4 of the current high school graduates not graduating.

By comparison, the dropout rate in 2008 was 8.0%, down from 11.8% in 1998[1].

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16
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They're not mutually exclusive. Time will tell whether they can effectively realize their vision, of course, but at least they've made clear that they have one.
Do you have experience working in companies where layoffs take place? This is what happens, one fine day, everyone picked for layoffs are informed, the next day there is a company meeting in which the executives claim there are no more layoffs in the near future so that they don't start shopping for jobs.

It makes sense because Nokia(as well as any company) would want to keep the best and fire the rest. The problem is that the best have an easier time being lured or hired, so no wonder Elop said what he said. It's just textbook style.
I agree, though you do need to make sure you choose a good startup. There are still startups out there that view developers as interchangeable cogs, where you can end up with the worst of all worlds (no stable paycheck, no real autonomy, uninteresting work).

One thing I did notice - it can be a little risky to spend a long time at a single startup that fails. I worked for a startup that did fail (and was a little crappy) for two years, and some people had been there for 8 or more years. When it tanked, the people who had spent their entire career since college at the startup didn't have extensive networks to tap into for the next gig.

The ideal resume probably includes a stint at a large but respected company (such as google amazon), as well as some innovative work at smaller companies and/or startups and maybe some consulting and open source work.

Of course, the "resume" is starting to get a little outdated, and a lot of people would say the best thing to do is just start your own company when you're young and can afford the risk, rather than wasting those consequence-free first 10 years on resume building.

Now that I'm the primary wage earner for a family with two kids, trust me, I know the restrictions. Interestingly, startups aren't really off limits to people like me in places like the Bay Area, because they keep your skills sharp and there is just so much hiring going on (the ol "career security" vs "job security" thing).

But what is off limits (or at least very difficult) is the ramen-level poverty you can afford when you're in your 20s and have nobody depending on you. For the first 5 years after college, my rent was $350/month near the beach in San Diego, and that was the only real expense. If I'd needed to, I could have driven that even lower. That's a serious opportunity that goes away later in life.
Note that there are accreditation procedures, regulating bodies, and licensing for teachers.

So how are teachers not professionals?
I'm not really voting up the bitcoin stories, but I'm reading them, for me it's like watching a car crash in slow motion.

You can't help but sit there enthralled!
This is huge; saying unilaterally to the court that the documents are forged sets up a massive worst-case "you lied when you told me these are forged" scenario.

Frankly, I'm surprised. I would have guessed that they'd take a "This isn't the The Facebook Book you're looking for" angle.

I'm marking this as the moment that Zuckerberg steps fully into his CEO role; this is a quality counter-attack from someone who is no longer placating early co-founders.

(crossposted from another FB/Zuck thread)
Apple should send this kid one of all their new devices.

I think you're missing the horror here.
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No, in fact, plenty of reasonable people do believe it is zero, and you cannot nerd your way out of that fact.
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I'm at jury duty waiting area at the moment and I started looking for a tool similar to Planely that would help me find people to chat with while I'm waiting.

Anyone know of something like this?
Students do not know perfectly well who the good and bad teachers are. Adults with hindsight can discern the good and bad teachers but I can think of multiple cases where I had my good/bad flipped as a student compared to later on when I compared my knowledge level to other adults.

I had a writing teacher I didn't particularly like, then I got to a good college and found out I was one of the better writers. Turns out she was pretty damn good at her job.
For designers/programmers, yes. Not as easy for us business grads.
if your password happens to be "Tennesse Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password" you can't even retweet the story.
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Bitcoins might turn out to be the modern digital equivalent of the Tulip Mania [1], a short span of intense speculation with tulip bulbs in 1636, complete with short selling and outrageous profits to be made, which suddenly collapsed in February 1637.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Ever wonder why the private school teachers are content with their lower salary?

Public sector teachers have to deal with all of the problematic students that private schools can remove or refuse to admit in the first place.
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Actually money supply should ideally match total demand for money. Real economic output is not super relevant.
If you're making that distinction, then "theft" is probably not the right word to use.
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"Whether you agree with the laws or not, file sharing stuff you don't have a right to have a copy of is, in fact, illegal."

But, in fact, you can and often do have that right.

Under the practice of fair use making personal copies is legal in most parts of the world, including countries where bits are heavily considered an intellectual(ly challenged) property. I can legally make a copy of an album from my friend and I can legally own that copy.

The MAFIAA would like you to think that any kind of file sharing is illegal but non-commercial peer-to-peer file sharing is a hugely debatable issue. If it's okay to use the sneakernet to pop at your friend's to make a copy but not okay over the internet, what's the difference besides a technicality?

The MAFIAA do have some sort of track record in winning a number of copyright lawsuits but it seems to me that mostly it's because they have shitloads of money to fight with and, conversely, individual citizens don't.
In Thailand it is not uncommon for people to have payment plans for their phones. In the US where phones are subsidized by the carriers, you can pay for it pretty easily. But when an unlocked phone costs 1.5-2x their salary like you mentioned, people who have to have the latest phones and gadgets live beyond their means.

The culture of consumption is alive and well.
I think we shouldn't overlook that Bitcoin has some interesting aspects to it that make this a very different and peculiar kind of car crash.
The U.S. could really use more apprenticeship programs for the young.
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What is Mac App Store discovery like?
Our new product, Priority Matrix for Mac just debuted this morning on the Mac Store and is now top 25 productivity. (www.appfluence.com). Does anyone have any experience how app discovery works for the Mac App Store? Is "New", "High Ranking" still relevant? Also, a few customers have pinged us asking for a demo version, how have you approached this?
Aren't you assuming that the average lawyer will, in fact, give better advice than can be gleaned through self-research? It's not inconceivable that for a number of routine things, the average advice is not likely to be any better (and possibly worse) than you'd get by reading a standard introductory text on the subject, and using one of the standard boilerplate contracts, after having read and understood standard advice written by a respected authority in the area, on what they each do and how to choose between them. This is particularly the case because the average lawyer is not grellas. =]

(As the other branch of this thread discusses, I agree that contract review is a different matter; in that case, you want someone who's familiar enough at pattern-matching to spot unusual things or possible pitfalls. But reviewing contracts proposed by other people is one specific kind of lawyer-consultation.)
While I don't think Bitcoin will achieve anything of substance (aside from adding to my bank account due to forex trading while the hype is going), I think it's quite interesting in and of itself. That said, I don't think the problem is that there are Bitcoin stories on here, but that the stories on here have been really, really uninteresting. Why aren't we covering real issues, rather than "someone misunderstood how Bitcoin worked and lost $X"?
And then fall behind the curve as Google makes new builds available exclusively to partners? Fork it and risk another Meego/Maemo fiasco?

Without Google apps and Android Market, its hard to sell a phone. To make the requisite alternate software, it will take a year plus, all while parallelly developing hardware, might be a bit too much even for a huge company like Nokia especially seeing that they seem to lack software dev skills.
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I see laptops, and desktops as basically the same thing in the context of the original discussion (which was on the merits of a tablet OS vs a PC OS).

My niche comment was based on the fact that I think the new UI works for tablets and laptops. Less so for actual desktops. But I thought desktops were becoming more niche.

With that said, I agree with everything else you said. Tablets are great for consumption, not creation/productivity. This is actually why I like the Win8 approach if I can seamless hop between the two worlds.
Yeah, my original headline didn't say that, but it looks like someone edited it.

Edit: And now they've edited it again. I wish HN's anonymous headline editors would post a comment when they do that, so my references to the headline don't look weird.
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Your alphabetization skills need improvement. For example: "The Apprentice" should be under "A," not "T." Similarly for any shows that begin with "A" "An" or "The."

Am I correct that you're pulling them in by hashtag? So any without the proper hashtag will be missed?

Very nice layout, tho. Clean.
The main problem, where most methods are not documented, has not been solved.
So again....how was your business hit financially by filing incorrectly?

Glad you have an opinion on erring on the side of caution- you've stated it - perhaps now you can answer our questions and share your story.
I don't think we should overlook that bitcoin has a built-in feedback mechanism that acts to keep bitcoin stories on the front page.
We can't really be upset or surprised that U.S. officials are being targeted by foreign espionage efforts. Every major country (with a foreign intelligence service) is spying on every other major country. That's how it works.

What we can be upset about is how clueless some gov't officials appear to be, though.
You might find this post I wrote a while back useful: http://estromberg.com/post/4778188872/how-to-get-a-job-at-a-...
The cost paid by the buyer would undoubtably be much higher than the compensation you receive as a "donor", think about all the middlemen, doctors, nurses, etc that need to get their share. If the donor is getting $3400 the buyer is probably paying 15K at least.
Medium sized companies of all stripes seem to be the best for someone early in their career. Small enough to notice you, but big enough to have somewhere to move you once you are noticed.

One of the biggest problems with a startup - if there are 10 engineers, where can you get promoted to?

The converse problem at a large company, there are plenty of places to get promoted to but getting recognized is often hard. I've been at my job 9 months at a big company and have had 2 different bosses already. My boss's boss oversees 100 people and barely knows me. How do you built continuity and a reputation?

Medium sized (50-250 people?) seems the best, but are sometimes hardest to find. They aren't on the S&P500, but they also aren't young enough to get press in Techcrunch.
I think it was more of a strategic decision to get the most market penetration(bang) for as little sunk costs as possible(buck), while lowering production costs with scale and increasing the velocity from early-adopter to mainstream. I think they have big plans for its(Kinect) integration into other aspects of their business, and I truly hope they sieze the opportunity they have made for themselves. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Leave the perfectionist O.C.D. design stuff to Apple, Microsoft should be the Not-Afraid-To-Fail company.
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I agree to a large part. Depends on where you are in your cycle. I think there is a lot of value in getting face to face with people and just getting feedback. We are making particular product changes based off what we learned that will hopefully be worth the trip.
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Off topic, but I wish Android's sharing intent would be extended into a sort of "open with..." functionality. It's great for sharing stuff, but I've had numerous occasions where I wanted to open something up in a different program (example: YouTube page to YouTube app, RSS feed to Reader, etc), but had no simple way of doing so on my phone. If you don't have a default app set, it will ask you when you open the links, but once you've made your selection, there's no easy way to switch.
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Agree. In business you will never have enough money or time to do everything right. There are risks in business and managing those risks is a skill that is learned over time. And decisions that need to be made are not digital they are analog in nature. They depend on many factors and different circumstances. Lawyers don't give business advice and everything they do is colored by the bias and fears they have.

In general lawyers are going to be CYA about everything like you mother and father.

Many successful business people and companies play loose and fast and, after making enough money, are able to dig themselves out of any mess they have made or risk they have taken (BP and Exxon are just two examples. And Apple). It all depends.
Point. I don't really know how teacher accreditation works in the states, so I don't know if they'd qualify as professionals or not.
I wrote a novel (titled Alcatraz: The College Years) in 2004 where in an imaginary version of 1985, a group of kids in a troubled school get sent to Alcatraz (which in the story has been refurbished like a comfortable prison). I was told the story was unlikely to happen...
I have no evidence for this whatsoever, but my hunch is that there is a significant amount of gaming and astroturfing on HN by people who have a vested interest in more bitcoin coverage.

The current volatility of the bitcoin economy means that every single story on HN increases the value of their bitcoin "investment".
1. listing the hulu shows is sort of pointless for mobile. most phones don't support flash, and I think Hulu blocks shows anyways and tells you to get hulu +. I could be wrong on the hulu thing.

2. Should be a way to retrieve additional tweets outside of your initial list for each show when reaching the bottom. I do see a button randomly appear at the top of the list that tells me new tweets are available, but I'm not even sure it does anything.

I am viewing it on chrome so maybe somethings may work differently ?
Also, if you are looking for investment from top-tier VCs, you need to get in front of them. Companies spend a lot of time, money, and resources doing that. There are probably more cost efficient ways but this is a way.
We really need help from the Republicans here. They passed laws so that any time someone wants to do something useful with taxpayer money (build infrastructure, provide government services), the first step becomes a 10-year-long "alternatives analysis" stage. We need the same thing for new laws. As an example, before this law can take effect, we need to decide exactly how much it will cost to investigate, prosecute, and imprison violators. And, we need to decide where that money is going to become from? Should we legalize child rape to free up those investigators to go after Netflix ToS violations? If yes, then make it a law. If no, then let Netflix worry about its own profits.
In principle, you're right, currency is just traded like anything else; but the fundamentals are different. A company is (presumably) engaged in profitable production (the future profit, i.e. it does something) and is composed of various capital assets (the net value, i.e. it has something). A currency has neither attributes; its claim on future production and assets is only valid in so far as people have confidence in it and will take it in exchange for other things. A share, meanwhile, is a direct claim on things themselves.
I've found AdBlock takes care of the cruft nicely. Whenever I see a widget like that, I just add it to my filter list, and suddenly that website loads a lot quicker.
The biggest reason I joined a startup after graduating: I got to do things.

Positions that I would be steered towards applying for in big companies would be things like "sales engineer", "support engineer", testing, verification, documentation, government policy... lots of grinding-work type of jobs. Put in your 5-8 years and/or get a Master's degree, and then we can talk about interesting work (I'm in hardware, fwiw).

At the startup, I do a bit of all that, but I also get to make things. A few months in, and I was designing boards, all the way from initial design, through schematic, layout, prototyping and testing. I write code we need when we need it. I get to help figure out what kind of specs we need to look for, and how to do it. I get to work at macro- (architecture) and micro- (components and signal levels) levels in near-parallel, on my design in progress.

I have the impression that I would be lucky to have found a job with a large company that let me run as far as I have in any one of those directions.
Public education isn't even that expensive. ... 7k/head/year, that's including everything.

The guy's stats are way off. The average in 2006-2007 was $10,041 [1]. And MI is toward the large end of the spectrum, at $9,912 [2]. And where I live, these numbers are spiraling ever upwards.

Michigan ... elected a fundamentalist lunatic for a governor.

I have a hunch you may be a bit of a fundamentalist yourself.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66

[2] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/of-all-states-n...
It's so tedious. I would have literally no idea that Bitcoins existed if it weren't for the flood of articles on HN. I don't understand - who are all the people who find this interesting or relevant?
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And anything using the same hashtag for other purposes (see House) is polluted. We ran into the same problem classifying comedy shows and eventually wrote a multi-tier relevancy matcher based on the hashtag, key indicators, sentiment and time. A nice problem to chew on if you're so inclined.