skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the problem is training, and a passivity-inducing misconception of "entrepreneurship". And the solution is:

1) A flood of government equity, distributed by those ever-so-entrepreneurial bureaucrats. There is, of course, no chance that the same people who brought us ethanol subsidies ("so stupid not even the Soviets tried it"), the Fannie Mae housing bubble and the $3000 hammer won't screw it up.

2) A no-cost-to-government expansion of Medicare, which I'm sure has some Canute-like power to push back the tides of adverse selection. For efficiency and quality of service provision, please refer to sarcasm in point 1).

3) Tax credits for jobs created -- there was a day when this sort of thing was called "profit", which entrepreneurs were allowed to keep, but I suppose funding 1) and 2) will finally put paid to this dwindling concept.

Jokes about "liberals" would be easy, but unfair, as Congressional conservatives have been just about as bad, AND in violation of principles that should have guided them better.

Why on God's green earth would _programmers_ slap kludges like these on fundamental system failures? If someone proposed fixing bugs this way the collective sneering here would break the internet.

We've got billions (trillions?) already deployed in "education", whose product is widely understood as unsatisfactory at best. We just had a post showing that about 25% of the students at a well-regarded university are interested in nothing but the grade, and are so unprepared they can't imagine any way to get it on their own. Why not fix THAT?

And why is it that all fixes proposed amount to hurling more man-months at the problem?

I'm sure you mean well, and there's no doubt the problems are complicated, but seriously, this sort of thing lacks the thought I presume HN types bring to work every single day.
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Except I don't believe in a free lunch.

Explain to me again, slowly. Apple is spending $1B in R&D to design the iPhone. Google is spending the same amount to design Android. Where is this money coming from and is it a sustainable investment from Google?
Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux
The fact that you can't go around those patents

The very first clause you quoted states that HTC says they can. You're citing the author's rhetoric as fact.
I used startuplift and made useful changes on my site based on the feedback. It would be cool if they had a private feedback section where reviewers are (empathetically) encouraged to just tear into submissions. Then peel back with the "constructive" criticism.
I would like for this to be a valid argument, but in at least 3/4 of the textbooks I own, the indices are such trash that they're not even worth looking at. The Table of Contents is often faster.
Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework
Good point - sometimes there are other things that can have far more ROI for a budding business than A/B testing.
The fee has to be "reasonable", and in fact courts will step in when the patent holder is being demonstrably unreasonable, even going so far as to put the patent in the public domain.

I'm not sure exactly how that translates into a dollar figure for license fees. But the patent holder certainly has an interest in at least appearing to work with potential licensees.
That said, spotify's baseline is -q5 Ogg Vorbis (true VBR at an average of around 160kps), not 128k MP3. Huge difference. VBR mode is a huge win for an codec, and Vorbis in general is less "obvious" than MP3. In particular, drums aren't a dead giveaway that the file is compressed, unlike any MP3 <256)
Yep, hence the need for intervention by other governments. The private sector will no longer finance their debts (at least not with an interest rate they can afford to pay).
Modern Perl tutorial part 2: scalars
So, the world is still in limbo then? Shit!
LinkedIn Downgraded By JP Morgan, which Helped Underwrite Its IPO
Heck, beyond tux rental, I'd like just a simple suit rental for those rare occasions I'm attending a wedding.
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Humanscale Freedom - Had it for 9 years. Totally thrilled with it.

http://humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=Free...
Android may be cheaper for Google than having to develop apps on a multitude of mobile OSes, the largest of which is controlled by a competitor.
With the same years experience, and putting the same hours in, I'd be earning as much as a plumber today as I am as a database administrator, I am certain of it. Maybe even more, for fewer hours. It's all about supply and demand, plumbing is something I'm sure more people could learn than could learn to be a DBA, just no-one wants to, yet we all still need our pipes seen to...
My problem is that I can't write on my reader. All my textbooks are filled with highlighted sentences, penned in notes, and black marker through every distracting fluff sentence. I will continue to buy paper books until I can achieve this functionality easily in digital form.
I've received mention spam in the past on Twitter, but last week it was used against me as a primitive DoS attack on my account (a DoS on my time). In a very short period of time after having tweeted something regarding the fallacy of vaccines and autism, I started receiving @mention spam from a user who was spamming all accounts that had RT'd my original tweet as well as me. Even if I blocked that account, a new one would pop up immediately after that and it effectively rendered my Mentions column in TweetDeck useless while this 'attack' was taking place.

It's nice to know that the accounts were quickly disabled but a more nefarious individual or group could have caused even more problems, and it does seem that Twitter should have some sort of prefiltering heuristics in place (if they don't already exist) to prevent this kind of abuse (new account / low # of tweets / low # of followers / consistent message 'n link being sent).
This is part of the reason that some people claim "the Ruby community" is full of drama. In reality, it has no more drama than any other group of people. The difference is, those people interact with each other and publish a lot, so any disagreements are more visible.

Anyway, maybe one place to start is http://djangoweek.ly/ - not exactly a community but it's a news service so you're likely to be led to interesting places.
"Each time in our history when a new technology has made our lives more efficient some people have lost their jobs."

Which kind of makes you wonder how disruptive the singularity would be.
To everyone saying "too expensive", I think perhaps you are not the target market. I found the "Egg Baby" outfit that is pictured on the plumgear.com homepage: http://www.egg-baby.com/lightweight-knit-layette-p1ck400-lgr... It is currently selling for $42.25.

Perhaps it's a little expensive, but I believe "plum" here is not just a random word, but is referring to the quality of the goods being rented.

Now, one may separately question whether there is anybody in the target market, who wants these clothes but won't drop the funds to just buy them, but I can't speak to that either way; my family is more the "$5 for the all-the-clothes-you-can-stuff-into-a-garbage-bag special" sort of family. No rental service can compete in that part of the market, as fixed costs to ship one box would eat half my wardrobe "budget".
Perhaps if it were a national system that is centrally-controlled and disbursed end-to-end, fraud could be rampant; but if it were placed in a credit union-type "trusts" managed by each participating states, it would cut down alot more on the inherent single-point-of-fraud scenarios you envision, or at the very least contain it to the few fraudulent areas.
The discussion can be started anywhere. Most helpful when it eventually (if it hasn't already) trickles down to the non-Forbes reading masses. If nothing else the article seeds a talking point for Forbes readers.
wes-exp is 100% correct. It took several months of effort to get our srs bsns app working with mono. Everything worked just like it did on Windows, except for all the things that didn't. Death by a thousand paper cuts.
This reminds me of the article "Why Japan didn’t create the iPod", which adds lots of details to the same issue:
http://blog.gatunka.com/2008/05/05/why-japan-didnt-create-th...

Notably, the "appliance mindset" (people own many devices which are not interacting), average japanese people not owning a PC in 2001, the popularity of gaming consoles and mobile phones.
The internet is not just web.
Real-world problem solvers: Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder
Except the patent doesn't. Why do you comment on something that you don't know about, and have not bothered to check?

The patent was written in 1996. The description above is correct. The question is, was it obvious or not. Was there prior art (some people mentioned some agenda software from 1992, that's worth looking into).

In my book, it's quite simple: either people were doing it before the patent was written, in which case it's obvious and deserves to die, or it was never done before, in which case it doesn't matter how obvious it seems in retrospect.
IANAL, but as far as I understand it, any given patent holder has exclusive rights to use its invention however it sees fit, including licensing the patent (e.g. patent trolls) or maintaining a monopoly.

Some patent pools (e.g. MPEG LA) are set up so anyone can license the patents covered under either FRAND or RAND requirements, e.g. fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory, but participation in patent pools is entirely voluntary. In the case of H264 everyone agreed to these terms to boost adoption and the ultimate value of their patents.
The article sounds like the opposite, really.
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You know that annoying old joke where you just add "in bed" to everything. Its starting to be like this only you add "In America" to every story concerning patents.

Right now, the US is very fortunate that the rest of the world is kind of going along with its patent frenzy, mostly because of its prominent position on the world stage. As American influence wanes, they might not be so willing to continue.

"You should be thankful for what you have, child. Right now, there are poor children in America who don't even have Android(1) phones. All they get is one expensive, government-chosen monopoly device."

(1) Choose Chinese equivalent.
And similar , there's also online swapping for baby/children clothes/toys available. see thredup.com .
Android pays for itself, in lots of different ways, among them and by far most importantly: Being the default search provider on 550k additional phones/day. That's worth a billion $ to Google any day.
I've been very happy with "parallel" in the async library by caolan https://github.com/caolan/async
StartupBus is soon going to be considered a martial art.
Is it possible that Apple's patent suit against HTC is a retaliation against S3's patent suit agents Apple? And if so, would it make it pretty silly to be freaking out about Apple trying to patent Android out of existence?
Will India match China's Manufacturing Might
I'm calling out your calling out of the Joe the Plumber reference :)

Here's how I see Joe: he gets upset that Obama is going to raise taxes on the rich to give benefits to the poor, because he thinks he's rich. But as it turns out, he's poor: he makes $40,000 a year and would greatly benefit from Obama's tax cuts. This confuses me not because of the politics, but because he is acting against his own self-interest because he thinks his self-interest is something that it's not. If he did own his plumbing company, he'd see a little less profit due to Obama's tax increase. But he doesn't own the company and probably will never will; he wasn't even a licensed plumber and he left his job there.

To apply this to phones, people imagine themselves in the position of being a phone software company, when they are really phone developers or users. In this case, Android is good, because it means more users will be using their phone, and that means more apps or more users buying your apps.
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If Google controls the platform, then Google's other products will never go out of style ; do some reading on micro-economics / complementary products.
Right, because PhD is like pixie dust you can sprinkle on a problem.

Sorry, the point i'm trying to make is it's easy to be intellectually dishonest about the complexity of problems people are facing (sorta like the ML article earlier). If your small business needs new research to survive, you've lost. Very few small businesses are limited by complicated third order effects. they're limited because the owner doesn't feel like doing inventory (or writing more tests, or calling more potential customers) over the weekend.

Sure, you can find counter examples here and there, like special hedge funds or old hippies with geology shops, but most small businesses know 5 things they could fix to make it better.

If they're really that super-efficient and organized, they're either a large business that turned into a small business because the field is dying or they're not a small business.
>And we can communicate with our outsourced help, wherever they are, more quicker and easier than before.

This, and quite a few grammatical whoopsies like it, has reminded me of one thing: blogs.forbes is not forbes. It doesn't have any editorial oversight (or at least not much), so you can't ascribe to any story you see on it the kind of gravitas or respect you would give a story in forbes. It's an opinion page, very much like huffpo. While I largely agree with the article, it's important to realize that its placement on blog.forbes is no more credible than on x.blogspot. It may be reliable, or it may not be, but it should in no way be thought of as having undergone the kind of editorial oversight that its domain suggests.
the issue of job protectionism comes up because there's some pretty decent evidence that unmanned drones and missiles are better for certain jobs on the offensive side, though we may come to that conclusion because it's not our people dying in the blast (usually).
I think part of the difference is that the Django docs are just so good, there isn't a lot I can think of that a book would add.

DjangoSnippets.org is also pretty useful, as are the multitudes of Django apps available on GitHub and BitBucket.

You can also hang out in #django on freenode. People can sometimes be a bit gruff with noobs (though what IRC channel isn't) but there are usually some good discussions going on there.
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One problem:

Despite bias in the media, HTC claims that the ITC lawyer argued that HTC did not infringe. Which means that HTC has a good shot at the appeal...

Also, one of the Apple patents has prior art..its called BeOS...it had some of the features/claims and was out in the market commercially in 1995.
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Are consumers in third world countries really saving tons of money on android? Anyone with subsistence living won't buy a smart phone. You're inevitably implying that you're saving the money of someone middle class somewhere. Hardly as noble as you might have thought originally.

These companies are much more ethically inert than you think. It's just a new sort of marketing that uses the lifestyles of the CEO's or the employees as a selling point. The change in economics, or straight out charitable donations as a selling point.

Android is shifting things for certain, but it's not one laptop per child.
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I Just read the first patent and find it seriously, ridiculously retarding that such a generic thing could be patented. If instead of being a software system, it was a social system, it would equate to a patent on secretarial duties.

"If I get a phone call, and it's from somebody important, bring it to my attention, and I will choose from a number of possible appropriate re-actions, which decision I will then inform you of, and you take appropriate re-re-action, if there is one."

Is it possible that in 1996, when this patent was issued, that the patent office clerks rubber stamping these things had no ideas as to what was meant by the pseudo-technical jargon?

Input device? Output device? Action processor?!
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oh shit. You make a good point sir.
Documentary on the subject - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig
I usually try to make mine look a little more "modern." I usually follow a few simple rules:

1.) Two or three colors color scheme
2.) Simple vertical alignment
3.) 2 fonts: 1 for headings and one for body text
4.) One or two simple graphics
5.) Don't let it resemble a MS Office template

Here's a slightly dated resume of mine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58767/zkoch-resume.pdf
"Now, one may separately question whether there is anybody in the target market, who wants these clothes but won't drop the funds to just buy them, but I can't speak to that either way;"

I think that's going to be the problem. My wife used to work for families to whom money was pretty much no object. $42 and $16 are equivalent in their mind, and equal to about $0.25 to a family on a budget. I don't see them wanting the hassle of having to remember to return clothes within 3 months when it's effectively the same % of their income to buy them.
I have been researching this because there is a product for a start up I am involved with for which I am considering open source as well. It seems that paid support/free software open source models work in fields where there is an established custom to pay for support. This works for both desktop and server OSs, as most enterprises are trained to pay for OS support (thanks to Microsoft) and in databases where enterprises are used to paying shitloads for support (thanks to Oracle) and other enterprise software.

Will it work for webservers? Probably. Usually companies that use webservers are supposed to have capable webmasters, but once a company becomes large enough the biggest motivation of its executives becomes to cover their asses, and at that point they will probably start paying for support.

Unfortunately, this model will probably not work for our software because we are trying to make it a zero configuration zero support product. The paid support/free software model is a bit of a perverse incentive as it rewards products that are more difficult to use and configure.
If your path requires a participating station for the proxy-connection to succeed, just measure successful and unsuccessful proxy-connections against different network paths and logically determine which paths have participating nodes and which don't. Compare the results and expand your search until you narrow down which hops in your path are required for a success.
The first thing I thought about when I saw the page was "New Node Logo". Turtle with a rocket-ship on the back is about a trillion times cooler than that hexagonal thing that they've gone with. (at least it's my personal preference).

Oh well. I can live with a crappy logo, but have no desire to wear it on a t-shirt.
If a patent cannot be worked around, and any engineer coming up against the same technical challenge would have to solve it in the same way, then that is a discovery, not an invention, and intrinsically not a valid patent.
Obama's budget proposal won't increase your income tax liability.
Relieved? Tell your friends to keep calm and carry on.

This is quite insulting to supporters of individual freedom, as if all we care about is not to get taxed.

What if I did a similar website asking:

Did you murder someone in the past year?
No?
Obama's proposal to sentence all murderers to death won't affect you.
Relieved? Tell your friends to keep calm and carry on.
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Wturner,

Thanks for your feedback. This is something we have been going back and forth with for a while. Is 'private' feedback that critical? Many have suggested we implement it, but there are equally others who are against the idea. Some have even suggested that "publicly" soliciting feedback shows that you care to your customers. However, you are likely to have completely different goals for public solicitation vs. private.
I am newbie when it comes to development, and I had the same choice between developing my product on RoR or Django. I chose Django, and between the tutorial, docs, and the google mailing list, I think there is a pretty good community out there.

A book would be nice, but there are some good apps on registraton, profile, etc. available on GitHub or BitBucket out there. Granted, it might not be plug and play like in the case of RoR, but I have found it to be alright so far.
The phenomenon of kids becoming famous very young isn't new. If anything, kids are older now when they become famous. Michael Jackson's career started at five -- this didn't have a very good outcome for his psyche later in life, but the point stands.
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Survivorship bias. Poorly built houses from long ago are no longer here, reminding us how poorly they were constructed, only the best examples survive. In 150 years, only the best houses built today will still be standing, and people then will be compare these houses with flimsy mass produced homes and say the same things.
Presentations are a fantastic way to make sure students know what's what. Shame is a great motivator. Put a student in front of his classmates and he'll put a lot more effort into actually mastering the subject matter.

In-class discussion is also powerful. You can see who understands the material and who doesn't. Having an active class also promotes questions during student presentations, which again helps motivate the presenter.
Most useful if you're from New York.
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