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If I have an apple, you have an apple and you give me your apple, you remain with no apple and I have two.

If you have an idea, I have an idea and you tell me your idea, we both have two ideas now.

Music is not a good. Your argument is invalid.

If music business would shut down tomorrow I won't lose anyting. It's full of artists using Creative Commons licences that still make music despite not being payed for it.

It's the business model that is wrong. You shouldn't make money from selling CDs. You should make money from live performance. And if you are not a good live performer you won't get a dime for me anyways.

So please stop with the argument of stealing. If I go into a shop and put a CD in my poket, yes, I'm stealing a physical good.

If I download an album from bittorrent I'm not stealing. I wouldn't have bought that album anyways, so it's not a loss for you.

P.S.: before you start with nonsense like "You are not in a position to talk about this", I'm a producer who lets people download his music for free.
> Seeing the Fangguo logo in a super market clearly doesn't conjure up images of Apple products, but imagine an electronics store featuring products plastered with the Fangguo logo - it stands to reason that consumers might get confused and mistake one company's product for another.

I suppose that if you had never seen the Apple logo, and merely had it described to you very badly then you might confuse the two. Maybe, if it was a really bad description and you had poor eyesight. I didn't even get that Fangguo's logo was supposed to be a stylized apple until the article said so.
Yes, I think this is also the practice at game companies like Mattel and Hasbro.

See the following excerpt from Mattel Website TOS at http://service.mattel.com/us/tandc.asp:

As the world's largest toy company, Mattel employs a large staff of designers to develop new ideas....

Because of this... Mattel does not accept or consider any unsolicited ideas or materials for products or services, or even improvements to products or services, such as ideas, concepts, inventions, or designs for toys, games, videogames, books, scripts, screenplays..... Therefore, you must not send to Mattel.... any Unsolicited Ideas and Materials. Any Unsolicited Ideas and Materials you post on or send ... will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary User-Generated Content – regardless of whether you mark them "confidential", "proprietary", or the like.

Mattel finds that many submissions that it receives... are already in the public domain; or are identical or substantially similar to products developed or in development by our own staff; or, for a host of many other reasons, are not novel or unique. So if, you send us any of your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials despite our request that you not do so, it's likely they're identical or substantially similar to ideas, concepts, and materials that, in the past, were developed by our staff or submitted to us by others.
Yay (I am also an epic troll in this.)
We did an interesting experiment on conflicts of interest in Italy with our prime minister and it didn't go very well. Better avoid them.
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Yeah I concur. Not sure if it's ever possible for businesses to shift from computers to mobile devices completely imho; only time will tell.
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My god I would love that. Can it have a guarantee that you won't get a parking ticket? Just kidding.

That said with a tool like that wouldn't the # of parking tickets issue by any city go down and thus they would have an incentive not to allow such a tool to be widely deployed?

I swear that parking signs are deliberately put up to confuse people so they can get more revenue!
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That wouldn't be a very good argument.
Basic math gets better by doing a lot of basic math.
Your trigonometry will not improve by learning topology. I had more than one math prof who could not seem to balance a checkbook.
In 1994, when I first entered the job market, $80k/year was a ridiculous number, reserved for people with unattainable-sounding skills like "PowerBuilder". Point being: look at the trend line, not the spot price. New grads today will accept $80k. Five years from now, if the market retains this level of heat, will they continue to do so?
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It is but since it's only the title it's mostly okay.
In countries or areas with a cold climate the argument of energy conversion is less significant as most of the energy consumption is used for heat anyway.

To those advocating that LED bulbs will last longer, you might find this interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
Again, it's not that I can't grok it – it's that I shouldn't have to. I get no sense of pride from hacking a Windows upgrade into a clean installer. Empty victory, etc.

Also, my benchmark is the Lion upgrade. That's how it's supposed to work.
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I recently got nostalgic for some mid-90's gaming and looked up some MUDs and MUSHes and thought I would share. Ahh the good old days of free multiplayer gaming in all it's ASCII goodness. The link is too ATS a star trek text based roleplaying game I used to play in 95. There is a custom space combat system one has to see to believe (pretty amazing for a text based game). I use Blowtorch client for my android to play on my phone or MUSHClient to play from PC. All you need is a telnet client to play, but these clients have extra features. If you want a real old school experience, try plain telnet (with color) or if you are lazy like me, use one of these.

MUSHClient: www.gammon.com.au/mushclient/
Blowtorch: bt.happygoatstudios.com/
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If X is repeatedly cheaper than what it should be, you should buy it instead of selling it.

Anyhow, if I'm reading you right, you think that the best college grad in 2019 will be about as good as you are in 2019, causing your salary to decrease? If I'm reading that right, you will have a very interesting eight years in industry and not worry about new college graduates ever again.

Generic career advice for every engineer: broaden skill set, get reassigned to a profit center, negotiate aggressively on comp.
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Yeah, I would want the ability to do that, if you're adding some sort of data to a site then would that be a given? That you have some way of actually exporting the data that YOU put into it?

That wasn't actually my question here, though. My comment is actually about accessing it--why not just go directly to the service to access the voicemail?
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Note also that the first and third quotes are mutually exclusive. Mike's influence permeates the site, but the writers would laugh at him if he tried to influence them? Which is it?
If you can't afford Nice Things and all your friends can, you're going to feel out of place. Maybe not because they have a 52" TV and you don't, but what about when you are wearing faded holey clothes from 10 years ago and all your friends are in polos and slacks?

Even if you are totally blind to attire, there are plenty of things. They are small, subtle and additive.

I would even be willing to bet the perceived stigma was partly self-inflicted. It can be hard not to feel like a failure when your friends are doing well and you're still broke.
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heyo. i'm keeping my promise and trying put up a submission every month or so, when I can remember to offer my help to anyone in the HN community that may need assistance in taxation.

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cue the inevitable 'why not using x' etc - but it's always interesting to hear what the heads are using day-to-day
You do not need to be very good at math to get a CS degree. The last role I had was in a company heavily loaded up with UMich CS grad students, none of whom could (for instance) deploy a discrete cosine transform.

There's a level of "street math" that good programmers tend to have (statistics, maybe some trig, maybe basic matrix arithmetic), but you'd be surprised how many excellent programmers don't even use algebra. A friend of mine interviewed at a very famous quant hedge fund (a decade or so ago) and shocked his interviewer by answering one of the questions with a system of equations in two variables.
What do you mean? Cosmetic surgery?
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Yeah. Not to mention the photo captioning the piece is from Grim Fandango, another one of the best point-and-click adventure games ever made.
It's actually rounded up to complete hours, so 10 instances for a minute is 10x the price of 1 instance for 10 minutes.

For fast iterative development this isn't an issue - you can re-use the job flow (the instances you spun up), so you can launch the job several times over the course of that hour.
>he would do irreparable harm to his fellow humans to prove some ideological point

this is what humans do. At least have been doing from the times when humans started to be able to have an idea and right up to now, and no indications so far what things are going to change in any foreseeable future. And you're right - that ability and appetite for doing intentional harm makes humans a very disgusting species.
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See the penultimate paragraph of the article.
It's been taken down by whoever put it up.
A lot of people seem biased against them from poor early examples. They've gotten a lot better.
My guess is that they actually have an internal API that they used to build their own "user facing" app.

But, their challenge could be that making an API public involves more than just having the lines of code to do what is necessary. Especially at their scale.
I think you are confused as to what exactly we are debating here. Porting costs are real - somehow Mac software isn't magically a free port to ARM. The porting costs depend on code base, complexity, various other things. That's however not what we were debating - the debate was Microsoft has never done it and so it might be hard for them. The counter point I was making was Microsoft has been there and done that and there is no reason to believe Windows software is any harder to port to another platform than Mac Software except for the scale part - Windows just has a ton of more complicated software than Mac has had and porting "toy" Mac apps will be less of an effort than say porting a big Enterprise Windows app. However it isn't fundamentally easier or harder.
I'm with you. I lie about what I do to half my friends to avoid their hurt expressions when they find out that I'm not going to bunker down for the next 2 weeks writing their app for free.
Further refinements to the self-licking ice cream cone.
You can have a huge influence on content without ever saying "print this" or "don't print that."
How often do you see food company logos in electronics stores? I suppose if there's snacks by the checkout, but people mistaking that logo for Apple's and thinking that Jobs started manufacturing candy bars doesn't really pass the straight-face test.
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For anyone who's interested, here is Kogeto CEO and Dot camera co-creator Jeff Glasse doing his stand-up comedy routine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LuQSCUcMgk
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I like the sun just fine -- when I'm outside during the day. However, the color of light is important to the human sleep cycle. If you fill your house with sun (blue) colored lights, you're going to shift your melatonin production later and may have a hard time going to sleep. Humans have evolved with blue light during the day and yellow light at night for quite some time, so I think it's more than just a nostalgic preference.

From "Effect of Illuminance and Color Temperature on Lowering of Physiological Activity":

"...we surmise that the effect of color temperature is greater than that of illuminance in an ordinary residential bedroom or similar environment where a lowering of physiological activity is desirable, and we therefore find the use of low color temperature illumination more important than the reduction of illuminance. Subjective drowsiness results also indicate that reduction of illuminance without reduction of color temperature should be avoided."

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ahs/18/4/18_117/_article...

This is why I use Flux on my Mac: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
I think it would be nice if "pulling" would create a new branch (with a specifiable name) per default so that you can run tests and merge to master locally.
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Any time I work with a Google API I am literally surprised how beautifully engineered they are.

I trust Google on this one too -- so much in fact, I believe they already have such an API that the website is interacting with, it is just not mature enough to be publicly accessible.
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There could very well be a biological/psychological need to create discrete gender roles -- that doesn't necessitate that the gender roles themselves are biological in origin!
AAPL is obviously not in the music business, therefore can use the name Apple. And it doesn't sell Beatles anyway ...or isn't that the case?

Are these the same people, who deliberately manipulate photographs which they submit as evidence to courts?

hypocrites. and their followers. and their propagandists who pay attention to the hype.
To be clear, $80k in 1994 is roughly $116k today with inflation - probably still on the very high end of entry level.
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I agree. It's a case of a company stealing the thunder of two real companies. Great idea if you're totally unethical, until it catches up with you. After this suit, I bet LG sues also.
I do not like it this time, because it is obvious that he is throwing a hissy fit because it does not look like he is going to be the one appointed to fill Arrington's shoes.
I'd expect UMich CS to be very strong. I haven't looked at the undergrad curriculum, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't require calculus through differential equations, along with some more advanced electives.

I should have defined "tough math," because a lot of people on HN have gone far enough with math that what I described above wouldn't be considered "tough". But it actually does serve as a gatekeeper for most engineering and hard science curricula, including CS.
Target and Walmart are among the retailers that sell both groceries and Apple products in the same store.
Best bit of the article:

"Here’s what I know. If you’re raising so ..

you can quit your job
your co-founders will join you full time
you can build the features that you might monetize
you can show the world your a “legit” startup

Then you don’t have the right mindset."
I really want to post "why not use Vagrant to automate all of that?" but I stopped myself.
I can _kind of_ see where they're coming from. I've been out and about and had folks look at my MacBook Pro (no case, no shell, no stickers) and ask me if it was a Mac. I can definitely see older folks seeing "a fruit" on a computer and assigning it to Apple. I guess you could even argue that they own "fruit" branding on electronics.

This is no more out of line than that time they sued Woolworth's.
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I think the reason fluorescent lightning looks bad is not the color temperature, it's the narrow spectrum of emitted light.
Pets.com, Webvan, Kozmo? All of these are pretty well known.

Heck Hertz and Vonage have had what were considered failed IPOs.
I came to write the same thing. I have only CFLs in my house except for outdoor lights. They work perfectly fine, the light quality is great, they don't die, and except for a terrible model which I got rid of, they all turn on right away. None flicker, and they make a lot of light.
This only takes 5 mins and you really never know what you might hear. Ideas are great because they make us think, they test us, they inspire us, and sometimes they can make us rich if can figure out how to use them well.

I have to say I love your attitude towards ideas. I often have ideas for projects outside my wheelhouse (mostly personal projects) and talk to EEs and MEs about building stuff. It would suck if all my friends were archetypal hn-programmer-that-hates-idea-guys, I'd probably even drop them as friends. I'm so out of my depth on some things that I share it just to find out if its a completely stupid idea.

Then again, I like building things for the sake of building them, and know people that do too.
You should let people browse without needing to register for an account. Otherwise, how do I know if I want to create an account?

Looks like a promising idea though. Good luck!
You can do this by reporting it to Apple. App search keywords can not be trademarked or copyrighted names. I had this happen to me once - Apple gave me a week to resolve the issue or have my app taken down. I had to update my binary to remove the keyword.
> It doesn't really matter how many platforms implement OpenGL if nobody uses it.

Except that it is used, extensively; it's just not used much on Windows. Therefore, looking at Windows games and proclaiming that OpenGL is dying/dead is a really silly thing to do -- OpenGL ES knowledge is an extremely hot commodity among iOS and Android devs, etc.
One can get through the required classes without being any good at them. Wannabe doctors take 2 years of chemistry as premeds and promptly forget it all when finals are over.

That said, I've never seen a CS degree that required any more math than a year of calc and maybe a semester of linear algebra. That doesn't seem so hard, one just has to keep up with the homework. Maybe you are thinking of computer engineering?
Less, maybe. But no place is cold for the entire year, the heat is generated in poor places (for example if you have cans all the heat is generated above the insulation, which is pointless). And electric heat is much less efficient than natural gas.
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Looks like that just reads Google+ data, but doesn't actually post anything back to it.
I'd like to be able to export the data so I have a backup in case Google accidentally loses some of my data, or locks me out of my account. I suppose if you totally trust Google then it might not be such a useful feature. Although I could also imagine it being nice if you want to switch to some other service in the future that resembles GV and allows you to import your old GV data.
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

Very similar project
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Well, according to their mission statement, their goal is not to generate revenue, but "to ensure transportation routes in Los Angeles flow safely and are not blocked" (http://ladot.lacity.org/tf_Parking_Enforcement.htm)

Of course we know the real reason is $$$. But if we take them at their word, providing access to this data would help them achieve their goal by helping motorists park properly and legally.
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It gratifies ones intellectual curiosity, which is sufficient for HN according to the guidelines. It's true the guidelines say most politics is off topic, but the key is "most", not "all".

What's curious and interesting about the current Republicans is that if you took Obama, and sent him back in a time 40 years (and if as a side effect of time travel he came out white...), he'd have a good shot at winning the Republican nomination.

A good chunk of Obama's initiatives in health care and economics are things that have long been proposed by Republicans. Hence, we have the curious phenomenon of Republicans doing everything in their power, up to the point of endangering the country, to fight against their own traditional agenda.
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Fluorescent doesn't actually have a narrow spectrum. What it has is very strong peaks by certain lines.

i.e. most of the light is UV, which is converted to other colors by phosphors - in precisely the same method LED uses. If it stopped there it would be great.

But it also makes visible light in narrow peaks, and this messes with the color, so they compensate by adjusting the phosphors for the complementary color, but that hurts the color rendering.
Ordering drugs online from a company that claims to be in Canada is perhaps not as safe.
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So.... everything that has a logo that resembles an apple (the most popular fruit after banana?) violates Apple's rights?
Because you're not locked into the google voice service. You can stop using it and not risk having to lose all of the information that you had stored and created using google voice.
For the better I think.
It's the end of TC as we know it, and I feel fine...

I'm going to take a look at this drama through an organizational behavior lens, as a case study for the decision facing HuffPo:

TC is a blogging organization whose leader has a strong personality and reputation, though he exerts little to no editorial control over the content of the org. Instead, influences the org by his hiring decisions, editorial policies and culture.

Arguably, those hiring decisions, editorial policies and culture are what has brought such success to this org. That, plus a powerful brand that this leader established from the beginning.

To continue the success of this org means replicating these factors. The brand is already established, but the system that sustains its success should remain as much as possible.

The current team also has a wide soapbox and strong opinions. If the owners of this org believes that the current team is necessary for its sustained success, then the owners will need to appease this team and involve them in the recruiting process of a new leader (if it decides to dismiss the current leader).

The risk of not appeasing this team is a loss of talent. It's certainly possible to recruit new blogging talent, though the current team has significant individual brand equity and established relationships. The org's owners will need to weigh the pros and cons of this as they make their decisions.
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