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You may object to the tone and language, but I think he has a legitimate complaint. It's his real name he's attempting to use, and Google is saying that doesn't pass their standards. How arrogant. If someone told me I have to use a name other than my real one I'd probably tell them to fuck off.

As Google aspires to be a global social network, the polite thing to do is at least allow people to use their real names. His name is not so strange, it's just a one-word name. It doesn't even use "strange" characters, if you want to be seven bittish about it.

"Stilgherrian"

$ man ascii

Yup, they're all there.

It's mind-bogglingly thick of Google to be a stick in the mud about this, never mind the related pseudonym issue.
That doesn't mean the action make sense. My point is that it won't make sense for Motorola to do that, not whether they did or did not do it. Google can easily tell them that if they do that prematurely, Android ecosystem will fail, rocking the same boat they are in. Sensibly, you can't get much royalties from a failed platform, and Apple/Microsoft won't give Motorola any medals for going that path.
it is estimated that fewer than 50% of data in published papers can be reproduced (http://lifescivc.com/2011/03/academic-bias-biotech-failures/).

I wonder if that data has been reproduced.

I also have a sudden inspiration for an XKCD strip.
+1 for London
Outsourcing revolutionized the IT industry in the 1990s and 2000s

It did? I thought it was generally accepted that outsourcing "IT" didn't really work out well.
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>it's also click tracking

My understanding is they don't do this (at least publicly) yet (http://www.dnxpert.com/2011/06/08/twitter-officially-launche...)

I recently found a t.co link in my server logs but thankfully was able to track statistics by looking at information provided by the bitly URL it forwarded to.
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I think it would be great to have a YC-style event in London, although I'd suggest that, instead of waiting for YC to do it for us, why don't we do it ourselves? I'd be willing put some money up to make a London equivalent happen. If anyone's interested in discussing further, drop me a line on jack at gavigan dot co dot uk
If you're interested in the most sophisticated discussion I've seen about the paradoxical nature China's political repression / freedom, take a look at James Fallows' book Postcards from Tomorrow Square: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0307456242?ie=UTF8... . Most of the people with your perspective and most of the people writing "anti-China" articles are half right.
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In a previous GFW internal disclosure, most of GFW devices are actually from Huawei and ZTE. GFW is a national defence project from the start, there was a Taiwanese spy intel leak that was successfully intercepted by GFW few years ago, which leads to decline of ISBase and rise of VenusTech. VenusTech is currently de facto operative company of GFW.

People of Fa1un Gong has tried to sue Cisco for years over Golden Shield project, which what they meant to sue is GFW. The funny thing is, GFW project has totally nothing to do with Golden Shield project. They are totally different projects run by different government divisions.
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There are pigeonhole principle issues with the concept of url shortening - the same that apply to data compression in general.

With regards to urls that are a bit of ways down the tree (http://www.foo.com/bar/baz/whatever), this isn't really an issue, as generally within a domain, the url-friendliness comes at an expense of a great deal of length, and you can do something like:

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and end up with something shorter.

When trying to shorten already-short urls, though, characters will not necessarily be gained.

From Twitter's perspective, the ideal solution might be to count "urls" as a fixed length, or an attachment, with respect to the length of a tweet so as to sidestep this issue entirely.
You are alluding to _co_llaborations, while describing a market-based system in which "specialists" would would essentially _sub_contract to your grand idea. In effect just veiling the (current) feudalism in market PR, as it happened to the economy at the turn of the last century.

Managing intellectual peers as subordinates will not work, if the "specialist" is any smart, not just educated.

Btw: a grand idea is worth nothing as it is: everybody has grand ideas. Verne had the idea to go to the Moon, wrote it (ie. published it). I wonder why he is not credited for it...
I've never once met a Chinese citizen who has felt oppressed

Same could be said about NK.
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If a child cries we can easily distract him by giving a new toy, but if we learn to keep focus on one goal I guess we can perform little better then the child.
There's a ton of places that this can go. Just building on top of the functionality they've already enabled, this could become quite powerful very quickly.

Here's this raw data stream that's existed for years that hasn't seen any good tandems of algorithms+UI applied toward it. Big opportunity.

Watch Bloomberg, Reuters and Yahoo...they could be jousting for this in six months or less.
Ask HN: How do you learn to ask for money?
Ok, simple general question. How do you learn to ask for money?

This can apply for jobs, start-ups, freelancing, etc.
Every billion dollar company is capable of this and more. A billion dollars changes people. You can watch it play out year after year over a lifetime.
Indeed,

Sure, you can find out a lot by doing things you really shouldn't do, like using the directory system as k/v store.

But in the end, you should still learn the lesson that it is really a bad idea.
Even though I usually scoff at pre-registration signup forms, I was very excited to fill this one in.

I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned about my own sampling bias and it might be time to rethink this stance (how ever hard it may be to recognise that people can actually find enjoyment in hearing about product launches and events!)
Local meetups are a great place to find like-minded individuals as well as other entrepreneurs (meetup.com).

Ditto noodleshare and builditwith.me

You can also try techcofounder.com. I hear the response rate for developers is quite high.

Your throwaway account is hindering my ability to Google you (and subsequently contact you myself), so if you want to talk, feel free to contact me. I have ideas too :).
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> To test this, he should try "ls | cat".

Running /bin/ls will bypass the alias.
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I think Gruber, Asymco, et al. have been taken aback by Android's year over year ascendancy. They were certainly predicting gloom and doom of Android, so patents are their last resort to reign in Android now.

See units and marketshare of Android for 2nd quarter 2010 vs. 2011.

http://wmpoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image66.pn...

Asymco failing at analysis and predictions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887430
That depends on how you define 'communicating'. It's all essentially about definitions and opinions. This is probably a tad too cynical, but to me it seems most every discussion boils down to these two things. We'd really need a better framework for discussing these things, I think we'd waste a lot less time arguing over semantics. A beautiful example is the discussion whether God exists or not. If you could just force both participants to define what God is, then the discussion over his existence would be over in seconds. (with the conclusion that there is no way of knowing, so let's stop talking about it)
I will try to read it. But I don't really need to know how he left pregnant a girl. I need to know how does he work psychologically to motivate people and get the best of them. Common Jobs, you already did your job in the history, now give your knowledge to the next generation. I can't afford having him as company advisor so a book would be ok.

Maybe Jobs is not the right person to write the book about the Jobs way. Any book recomendation my fellows?
Ironically, when I started reading this I thought you were poking fun at the generated language, because your post sounded like it to me.
I've met quite a few who don't have much respect for the central government and, while they do generally downplay any 'oppression' as you suggest, it's more that they view it as necessary rather than nonexistent, from what I gather.
+1 for London. Drop me a message if you need help organising.
but my point is: you have a 25,000 people company that wants to simplify its operations, and what do they do? They buy a 19,000 people company.
As far as you can "trust" the updates that come, version numbers are not very useful. I generally see minor versions as bug fixes (number of bugs reduced hopefully) and major versions as major feature changes (number of bugs most likely increased).

Now I just cannot tell anymore whether to upgrade or not. Believe it or not, the current browser* is running just fine for me. I am OK with a speedier browser etc, but not at the cost of more trouble.

* Does it really matter which? (Firefox 5)
Honestly, no one should be using URL shorteners on HN. Use a footnote[1] if necessary.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=hi,+this+is+a+footnote
Haven't seen numbers for what Microsoft was willing to pay. How do you know they overbid?
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Up voted to correct the idiotic down votes. HN recently seems to have become plagued with people who think the down vote is to be used when they disagree with someone.
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Ask HN: Which games are hacker favorites? Which platforms?
For hacker gamers like yourself,

Are you a Civilization or Starcraft fan?

And, Platform: PC, XBOX or PlayStation?
Same, I'd be happy to help with any organisation stuff I can do.
Bloomberg and Reuters already have competing services that cost tens of thousands of dollars each year for a subscription. If they bought this, it'd be to eliminate a competitor.
> because they get to make money on every sale

Even the most cursory glance at real numbers establishes this as irrelevant. Apple's App Store revenues are measured in millions of dollars. Apple's revenues on hardware are measured in billions. They use the App Store to sell more hardware. It's infrastructure with next to no margin.
Why do those against higher taxes for the rich always assume that those in favor "hate the rich"?

That, more than anything, makes me think these people are asshats and shouldn't be listened to.
That was probably true a decade ago, as North Koreans were effectively brainwashed. That's been changing, due to obsolete Chinese media devices getting smuggled across the border, which North Koreans buy on the blackmarket (along with other illegal stuff like, um, food). They share South Korean TV shows, and start to ask questions.

Chinese generally know what is going on in their country. They are often pretty blunt about not liking the government. But they don't generally feel oppressed, as the government only cracks down on stuff that's an existential threat to them. Try to overthrow them, and you will get oppressed. But otherwise, the government tends to be quite liberal.

OK, the government does hold huge amounts of land, which is an invisible kind of tax. They also have high taxes, on the people who pay tax. And low interest rates, and controls on banks lets them create other invisible taxes. There's also a big difference between the rules, and what is regularly enforced, so people think they are very hands off, when they can be officious pricks at times. And criminals - drug dealers, thieves, etc. are punished very severely. But really, look at a street in China, and a street in the USA. See which one looks "freer".
Agree. Wondering: how much money would they have needed to buy HTC or Sony Ericsson?
What if... tax(short term investment)=60% & tax(very long term investment)=10%
There are lots of debates going on about taxing the crap out of everyone and everything.

I'm wondering what if the tax on short term investments were very high, like 60%. and it dropped by 2.5% every quarter down to 10% after 5 years.

Would hedge funds just move to foreign countries?

Would smart & greedy Wall St. types be more motivated to build companies that create value & jobs?

Would executives be motivated to create longer term value?

What do you think?
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CERN is a particularly bad example, because it has deep heritage from Manhattan, as in being spoilt by the abuse of power. It is a self-referential hierarchy operating on the need to know basis, which helps to avoid real challenges (obviously ruining the research/educational aspect of the projects).

Many physicists accept to operate at the need to know level and do not satisfy their curiosity, for fear of being left to "find other opportunities".
You must have not talked to Uighurs or Tibetans or Falung Jong members. It's nice being a middle class member of the ethnic majority isn't it? If you're in China you'll be happily oblivious to this list of protests and riots that have occurred in China just this year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chinese_protests
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I don't see a bit of sense in that.

On the one hand, you're complaining about his supposed "near-obsession" (as opposed to every other person writing on the subject? what's the measurement here?) but on the other you're saying that one sentence is proof that it was all some kind of ruse and he'll never speak of it again. As if patents not figuring into one sentence means he can never say anything about them again. What a great leap that is! He's trying to make a point about something, but you're treating it as if it's a total retraction of every other point he's ever tried to make--even in the same post--because...why? Because it's not just a restatement of what he said last week, in a different context? I don't understand that at all, even under the banner of HN's predictably frothing meme of disdain for the man.

Not only do I not understand that, I don't understand how on earth one man gets such scrutiny about precisely how much he talks about something, down to the sentence, when dozens of sites have been publishing on the same subjects. This is news. When new things happen, people write about them. Google bought Motorola. That's news. But must Gruber (or anyone) interpret or discuss that solely in terms of patents (or any one angle)? Why is commenting on any other aspect of the deal forbidden? Makes no sense.
I've also noticed generational differences. The baby-boomer-age folks who managed to emigrate after spending their youth in re-education camps tend not to be very quiet in their contempt for the regime. But Gen-X'ers that I've met swing in the other direction. These kids were raised by people who didn't want to see their children beaten and jailed, so they were raised to support the party line.
I think this would be one of the biggest bets in Larry's career.
Your link to Wikipedia includes a closing parenthesis.
A few years back I wrote a scraper for 13f and 13g filings. There was no standard format requirement at the time (is there now?) so it was an 80/20 hack with the remaining 20% completed via Mechanical Turk. Not sure what became of the project, but it seemed like there was a menupages-style opportunity to monetize the cleaned up data. Glad someone actually went ahead and did it!

To the MarketBrief guys: are you using anything cool (machine learning?) to clean up historical data?
Thanks for the summary, Marc! All points confirmed accurate.
how often do you procrastinate on making the list? by the time you've started making the list, you weren't going to procrastinate any longer anyway.
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Steve Kondik supposedly said that he will continue CyanogenMod as his side project and his employment to Samsung will not affect it. Now that he works with Samsung and as he also develops Cyanogenmod ROMs for many Samsung devices, wonder if there will be a conflict of interest.
I personally hope the CM team keeps the Cyanogenmod project alive.
Is this the first you've heard of journalism? The situation you're talking about here is hardly special to John Gruber. Even people who don't get paid are generally subject to similar forces. The only way to avoid it is just not to talk about anything.
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Oh the sensors work - they make an earsplitting beeping when the door fails to close. But sometimes the drivers just take off anyway. This is a proble, with some of the older drivers who are only thinking of their pension in my view; there are a lot of hardworking and safety-minded drivers and station crew, but it only takes one irresponsible person to ruin the good work of many others.
Ahem. I know of at least one HFT in NYC that's killing it with FreeBSD.
amazing. eloquently describes some Truth I've been banging my head against the wall trying to explain to people but not able to find the words. It's the same dichotomy of inner-authority and genuine-self that drives people to force themselves to diet and then cheat on their diets etc
Complete removal seems a bit much. Why not the last revision number from their scm? Not sure why they keep insisting on going down this path. Version numbers and release schedules can be separate. They may be taking a page out of Chrome's playbook but their updates happen much more frequently and I think they push minor revisions in binary form instead of a wholesale update. All the latest updates to FF have been great and 7 will be really nice if it is as memory efficient as they say but seeing them having an identity crisis after waking up to strong competition doesn't impress.
I'm in the same boat. I've been a reader of Daring Fireball for many years now and still find a lot of it interesting, but I just have to roll my eyes and keep on scrolling anytime he gets on the subject of Apple vs. anybody else these days. The lack of perspective is simply staggering.
To clarify: a biased Gruber article may actually have valid points. The problem is that Gruber will only include pro-Apple points.

For example, note that Gruber does NOT point out how the acquisition will allow Google to do Apple-style seamless hardware/software design.

edit: Android -> Google as pointed out by m_eiman below
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Like a few other people here, I took this class recently. I did well, but I don't feel like I truly understand material until I teach it.

That being said, if anybody here has questions on the material, I'd love to help you out in some way. Unfortunately, there is no personal messaging feature on HN, so we might have to resort to emails (or maybe a subreddit?).

I realize there is an official class forum, so please tell me if you have any interest in some sort of 3rd party support system :-)
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So I googled 'dhh car' and it turns out he is the owner of some company, hardly a 'regular employee'.
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That was a great way to make me google MemSQL. Are you guys affiliated with the course at all, or just being helpful and doing marketing at the same time?
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There's plenty of empirical research that suggests "low level" mastery is all you really need for creative "high level" stuff. And I think sumative exams can be fairer (and possibly even kinder) than ongoing assessment. Imagine the corruption that would set in if schools were running tests every week, or worse, giving students assignments (which their parents would no doubt do for them or farm out to professionals, if their parents were well-educated or rich). In many ways, the Chinese system is pretty good.

What's not good is that 10 years ago, a degree in China meant the difference between slave labor, and a good secure job. Degrees have been devalued, and are now much easier to get. And "low skilled" work no longer means 12 hour days in dangerous environments on starvation wages - a semi-skilled worker in China can make more than a middle-class white-collar worker (though the conditions they work in are not enviable); while hordes of degree-holders compete for a small number of desirable office jobs.

But, the attitudes of parents is still: "If you want to make anything of your life, you must get a degree. It's even more important than in my day - because now everyone is getting a degree".
Well, except for android, they can probably keep Motorola separate (as they said), wait for patent wars to stop/calm down, and then resell it. No real integration effort would be required.
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