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Note for anyone signing up for this who has been in industry for a while: the prerequisites for this class really are prerequisites and it can be quite difficult to follow along if you're too busy trying to get your head around the basic math. You can check out the existing lectures on iTunes U to see what I mean.

Completing the Khan Academy playlists for Linear Algebra and Probability would be pretty useful if you want to be prepared in time for October.
Threatening to go after other Android partners makes little sense for Motorola. It's not something Motorola would do to get most profit from it. If Motorola has threatened Google something, it would be to sell to Microsoft. That will make much more sense.
Why are you worrying about traction when you haven't even launched a product yet?

The hardest part of getting traction is making something anyone cares about at all. Given that your first guess will be wrong, you need to launch the product so you can start iterating.

To be sure, education is a really hard niche to break into. But there's always an angle, and you'll never find it until you get involved with your customers.
>Motorola held out for a full acquisition at a premium far above the company’s actual value,

According to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888292 the real purchase price is closer to $7B, not $12.5B as stated in the article, due to cash and deferred tax assets.

The Nortel patents went for $4.5 billion and this acquisition gives Google both a ton of patents as well as a company with physical assets that makes the Droid line of phones and the Xoom tablets. Not to mention, Google has $40B in cash or short term investments just laying around to be put to use.
The text of the article is a fair rehash on the topic and attempts to sound relatively measured, but the title sure doesn't.
This is great- I'm taking Into to Databases and AI at my university this semester, and I'm sure working the Stanford courses alongside those will give me some awesome perspective.
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I would bring up IP as a very important for differentiation (among Android vendors). We have a very large IP portfolio, and I think in the long term, as things settle down, you will see a meaningful difference in positions of many different Android players. Both, in terms of avoidance of royalties, as well as potentially being able to collect royalties. And that will make a big difference to people who have very strong IP positions.

http://www.unwiredview.com/2011/08/11/motorolas-sanjay-jha-o...
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Well it says "Introduction" so I assume that little to no knowledge are required in database programming.
Only if you run a scripting language and don't need to have feedback on your api before it becomes stable.

But the idea isn't too bad.
Gruber has for a long time made his living off of propping up strawmen and beating them down, much to the amusement of his readers. Everyone knows that Leander Keahney and Dan Lyons are insane, only Gruber goes to the pain of proving them so, with little insight or value added to the discussion, other than to incite his audience to gleefully laugh at the stupidity of the 'other'. I can't believe it actually took me so many years to realise this, but he is off my rss now.
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Is it an analysis or rant? Looks like JG is more annoyed with the fact that GOOG got patent portfolio than credible threat to iPhone with possible all integrated Moto based Android devices.

He is absolutely wrong on whole "patent wars" issue. Of course GOOG is showing its "big brother" attitude time to time but his beloved AAPL is not clean either. This holier than thou attitude sucks!

Moto may be "second-rate" mobile maker. They may be in loss. GOOG is not stupid to shell out 12B "just" for patent portfolio. Always remember GOOG thinks ahead of everyone. People were criticizing GOOG when they made Android open and free. They were criticizing about paying too much money to YouTube (which is on fire now). GOOG is definitely smarter than Gruber.
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I am appaled by BART PD's fatal use of force now in 2 instances - Oscar Grant(1January2009, in which BART settled with the Grant family for $ 1.5 million) and Charles Blair Hill (3July2011).
In both cases, BART PD decided NOT to use non-lethal force(tasers) & effectively murdered the victims.
For a moment, imagine yourself to be a part of the victim's family & maybe you will realize why people are so indignant at BART & want to protest peacefully.
I used to think San Francisco is one of the most liberal & progressive places on earth, but BART & BART Police's actions have shamed this wonderful city.

p.s. OT(off-topic ?) : The following link is a press briefing(youtube video) by BART on the killing of Charles Blair Hill.
http://bit.ly/bartisevil
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I am really appalled at how Mr. Linton Johnson laughs @00:22 in the video.
This incident resulted in the loss of a human life, and is still pending investigation. After the horrific Oscar Grant shooting by a BART PD officer, one would expect all BART employees to exhibit much greater sensitivity to human life & observe some basic etiquette.
This press conference was to discuss the loss of a human life & maybe Mr. Hill (the dead man in this incident on Jul3) was homeless & MAYBE, he was a danger to himself & other patrons, it still does not give Mr.Johnson to show such disrespect to the loss of a human life.
He is beginning a news conference to discuss the circumstances of a man's death by cracking a joke.
He is not just any BART employee, he is BART's Chief Communications Officer.

I would like to seriously ask BART's general manager & Mr. Johnson, what precisely does he find funny ?

As a regular BART rider, & after the Oscar Grant shooting, i was really upset about BART's conduct.
And Mr. Johnson's behaviour & such crude insensitivity, makes me sad & dismayed.

- a disappointed BART rider
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"I think Motorola knew they had Google by the balls. Google needed Motorola’s patent library to defend Android as a whole, Motorola knew it, and they made Google pay and pay handsomely."

I don't see how you're getting a reversal out of that. Talking about Motorola's problems is only to highlight that Google would not have spent $12.5 billion on the company if not for the patent issues.
If you read the story carefully and completely, you'll note that he agrees that this very well may have been the right move, but right relative to the weak position that he has been arguing Google was in. He's by no means being inconsistent to say that their improved position is still weak.
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I have to agree, this was a very insightful piece if you ask me. Not rambling or scrambling to make sense of everything, which is how some of the other analysis reads on the topic.

Gruber took a few steps back, somehow saw the hole picture and described it tersely. Maybe one of Gruber's best.
> Most these device makers outsource and do not have their own manufacturing.

You mean like Apple?
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Apple had a lot of leverage in that lawsuit, too. It wasn't this vague "look-and-feel" nonsense that was dismissed before--Apple had MS dead to rights stealing the source code to QuickTime.
This is the most sensible commentary I've seen yet. Fits the "America is pretty much screwed" articles making the rounds these days. It's actually pretty damned depressing that $20 billion dollars was spent on a legal game rather than awesome R&D.
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Because Gruber's summary of the entire story is "I think Apple and Microsoft probably feel pretty good, competitively, about having forced Google into spending $12.5 billion for Motorola — a handset maker with rapidly declining sales, no recent profits, and misguided management", which ignores the single most salient factor in the deal. Ultimately, Gruber would like us to believe that, all things aside, Google has bought a crappy handset maker, rather than a massive patent portfolio.
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As you know, it's easy to get backslapped on pro-Google hn by dissing Gruber, but why not just respond to his analysis instead.

Gruber seems to be right an awful lot for someone so casually vilified. For example, he took a lot of flack here for defending Apple's move to leave flash out of mobile safari. I think enough time has passed to make clear that he and Apple were right.

The anti-Gruber hate looks more like sour grapes every day.
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Since

a) You can easily get away with not giving your best.

b) They dont really care about design anyways.All these middle level managers really want is something that works so that they can show it their bosses who also probably have no clue how software is written.

But then

a) You will miss out the opportunity to learn the flaws in the design that you think is "best" unless you implement it again and again.

b) Although very unlikely,maybe some "higher level" technical architect who actually understands design will read your code and probably promote you to "Senior" engineer.I know its a bullshit position invented by management but then the extra money could help.
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I know several MBAs who have no experience handling large sums of money. The whole argument have no basis in reality.
Does Gruber ever add any real information in an information theoretic sense?

I'd say the main information content is in who he attacks in the process of boosting Apple. Microsoft and Windows barely get mentioned these days; it's all Google and Android all the time.
Gruber claims that Apple and Microsoft probably are feeling great that Google had to shell out $12.5B to acquire a failing company like Motorola along with its 'misguided' management and rapidly declining sales.

So what is wrong with that loaded closing statement? Well lots. Firstly he admits the patents part was a good move for Google and the Android platform. He also does math and says they bought 3x Nortel patents for 3x the price. So essentially Google got ton of other Motorola stuff (hardware division, cable modem, set top boxes, Android handset software team et.al) for free. Plus so far as I can tell Droid is a pretty well known and fairly successful brand and Motorola's management did the right thing in saving the company from going down under - not exactly misguided. Gruber would perhaps only call them guided if they did not compete with Apple in any way shape or form!

And what did Gruber had to say when Apple spent billions on Nortel patents? Nope not desperation or anything. Just the fact that Google lost was super important and Android was going to be in trouble.

Gruber also leaves us with no insight on what Google could have done better. He also doesn't feel nearly as bad about Google having Apple by the balls on Nortel patents and making them pay good for Nortel patents, as much as he does about Motorola having Google by the balls by just doing what any sane business will do to maximize its valuation. In comparison actually Google got an arguably better deal - 12.5B for 25000 patents, and a whole functional, moderately successful hardware company with diverse business.

P.S. Motorola has done phones long before Apple thought about it. As such they know a whole lot more about the hardware part as I can tell by the signal and voice quality of my Moto phone. Google and you will find many that can make reliable phone calls with Motorola phones when iPhone could never. So dissing Motorola may be fashionable but I think they know better.
So now we're down to judging entire stories based on whether the last sentence includes what you think is the most important thing about it? Why even read the whole thing if you're going to ignore almost all of it?
I don't know if it is within your budget but you can contact www.utest.com

They are a network of testers all over the world and they can cover pretty much any testing scenario.

Hope it helps.
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The money's not gone, it's mostly just transferred from one party to another -- in this case, from Google to Motorola's shareholders. Of course, many man-hours are wasted in the legal wrangles, but it certainly doesn't add up to $20 billion dollars of lost productivity.
I appreciate the advice, but I did read the article carefully and completely. My original comment, read carefully, has far more to do with the nuances of Gruber beginning to turn his arguments now that he can't bray night and day about how very threatened Google is by the combined patent portfolios of it's enemies.
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Actually I think this has the potential to increase the connections between different fields because it will truly incentivize collaborations through a market mechanism rather than the bartering system which currently exists (i.e I'll trade you conducting this expt for authorship).

The way I envision it working is that the person who has the grand idea obtains a grant and then breaks it up into microgrants which are outsourced to specialists to conduct the expts efficiently. The results are then combined to obtain a broad understanding of the particular question being asked by the grant holder. The broad results can be communicated to all participants.
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Thank you for your input here - I was considering the same question as well (AI vs. ML).
Look, this is Gruber's bottom line, all of his caveats aside. At the end of the day, that's how he views this story, and I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that this is going to be a fairly succinct example of his thinking and arguments going forward.

That strategy is going to conveniently rely on his readers forgetting his near-obsession with Google's supposed doom at the hands of Apple and Microsoft's patent portfolios.

That's why it is a reversal-- because patents, once so important, probably aren't going to factor into his incessant Google criticism in the future, despite the fact that he has made them the cornerstone of many of his arguments until now.
"...Truly Understand..."?

Sigh... It seems author doesn't yet have the breadth of experience to know there are many different levels of understanding appropriate to many different fields, tasks and kinds of mastery.
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If it is a lot cheaper then maybe you can have parallel testing of the same experiments by different organizations with no relation to each other. If results not the same within a certain margin of error then somebody screwed up.
Summary: No.

Long version: There are a number of ways which are lexically shorter, do the same thing only assuming that v is already either 0 or 1, are not self-documenting, and perform worse or marginally better at best. Only a very tortured definition would call any of these things "better".

Although v = v ? 0 : 1 isn't that bad.
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Whenever these ridiculously huge acquisitions take place, it's always the same. How can Google possibly think that 20 billion couldn't have created something far better than anything Motorola has to offer. They have the talent, the infrastructure, the money, the manpower.

The Skype deal felt like just the same...
The problem with Gruber is that he'll write a fair analysis only as long as the fair analysis favors Apple. This means we won't get a fair analysis from him on things like the patent war and app store high-handedness. Sometimes he'll do a great piece. Sometimes you have to sift carefully for the bias. Then there are articles like this - insults, lies and condescension:

- Lyons has always been an ass, but when did he get so bitter?

- you just look childish when, only after losing the auction, you then claim you didn’t really want the thing anyway (google never cried sour grapes on nortel)

- Motorola knew they had Google by the balls. ... and they made Google pay and pay handsomely

The trick is not to get fooled by the reasonable-sounding phrases like: Another way to look at this story... and That’s not to say it wasn’t a bold, brash move, or even... the right move.

To those of you discussing Gruber's position on patents: it is the patents that change position relative to Gruber. :)

edit: typos, formatting
Check out Alan Mulally. I think he's an underrated CEO. While he is an engineer, I still admire his business acumen. I would think (and I know I'm going to get criticized for this) he might actually be better than Jobs. If not, it's 1A and 1B. Steve is in Alan's class, not the other way around.

You must view Alan's body of work and what he's done to turn around a company from the very bottom to where it is today. Totally different brand image. He's done it twice.
As you can see, I'm being downvoted, and that's fine. Gruber is a polarising topic on HN. I just find that he has long since departed from any actual insight and instead works mostly with snark and misdirection to the point where it is pointless to even discuss his opinions. Perhaps I should be downvoted for the previous post, because it is not pertinent to the discussion, but I felt it had to be said.
Now it appears the video has been removed :(
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Is Gruber right, or has Apple made all the right moves since about 2003? I think the main complaint by people who see Gruber pieces on HN all the time is that they argue that he's just an Apple pundit and/or apologist.

Another way of asking this question is, can you name three times that Apple and Gruber differed, but Gruber was in the right?
You should definitely watch the talk if you can, very insightful.

But here are some Highlights in case you don't want to:

- CDBaby, pre-sale, was throwing off about $200K net profit/month.

- CDBaby nearly had an employee revolt.

- One of the things that encouraged Derek to sell was he heard a recorded meeting (that the employees prolly forgot was being recorded) where his main guy in charge was saying "Fuck Derek" and all the employees chanted "Yea!"...among other niceties.

- Derek moved to LA for four years in 2002 and left CDBaby on Autopilot

- Derek learned to program so that he could create the storefront himself to sell his CDs.

- Derek got many offers to sell, but turned them down.

- The final offers he got were from a distributor he worked with, Amazon and a VC firm (I suspect he meant Private Equity, but I could be wrong).

- His terms to sell were: "I'm out. I keep my database. I keep helping musicians."

- Many times during the negotiations, they nearly died but because he kept another party in the loop (Amazon) he had a strong negotiating hand, so he could get all his terms.

- He sold CDBaby for ~$22M.

- All the proceeds went to a 'charitable unit trust fund', that pays him 5% per year (approx $1M) and then gives everything to a charity when he dies.
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You can say that about practically any transfer payment. The cost of a transfer payment is opportunity cost. If Google invested 20 billion dollars in R&D, we'd have 20 billion dollars of R&D done in addition to someone, somewhere, having that 20 billion dollars to spend again.
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This article leaves much to be desired.

There are already very good compilations of how all the ancient Hebrew texts vary from one another. The standard one (which the linked article doesnt't even mention) is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. (http://www.amazon.com/Biblia-Hebraica-Stuttgartensia-Karl-El...) The Jewish sect of Masoretes began the process in the 1300s, but obviously many new sources have been discovered in just the last century. To my amateur knowledge, no significant sources have been discovered since the BHS.

The article also talks about theories about multiple authorship of the Bible, but no new sources would be able to tell us anything about that. That would require significant documents from 100s of years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, which simply isn't going to happen. The way scholars actually do it is by comparing the sentence structure and word choice of different verses. I think the modern view stretches things a little too far, but there can really be no doubt that, for example, Moses is not the sole author of the Torah.

That said, any mainstream article educating Christians about the fallibility of the Bible is a godsend. I am a Christian, but inerrantists are the most frustrating people -- and often the worst behaved people -- in the world.
The current system for evaluating a scientists reputation and integrity is hardly perfect - it is estimated that fewer than 50% of data in published papers can be reproduced (http://lifescivc.com/2011/03/academic-bias-biotech-failures/). By creating a marketplace that has feedback and reputation it might be possible to actually improve basic "integrity" in scientific research
If you're not going to give your best, why bother? Move on and do something you love.
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> For example, he took a lot of flack here for defending Apple's move to leave flash out of mobile safari

It's been much more than a year since Steve's blog post about how Flash is unneeded because of HTML5, and I am still waiting for the improvements in Safari so that Flash like functionality can be used in web pages. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

I am not holding my breath though, Apple wants to push developers towards apps and not web pages, because they get to make money on every sale and also because it creates a lock-in for their platform.

http://blog.millermedeiros.com/2011/01/ipad-is-the-new-ie6/