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I agree. HP's hardware business is dragging down its stock price. this is one of the reasons why IBM sold off its PC division to Lenovo. Services and software usually provide a return on invested capital of 30 percent or more, compared to 15-20 percent for hardware.

IBM's ROIC is currently at 34.1% compared to HP's ROIC at 16.2%. After IBM sold off its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, IBM's ROIC grew from 17.75% in 2006 to 29.55% in 2010 with a 5 year average of 27.6%.In comparison HP's 5-year average ROIC is only 15.9%.

HP wanted to do the same thing IBM did 7 years ago. The big difference was that before selling off its PC division, IBM already had a strong software and services business (generating half of its revenue). they also bought PriceWaterHouseCoopers' consulting arm in 2002. HP's software and services business isn't nearly as strong, even after buying Autonomy so they got clobbered by analyst and the media.
But that seems like a poor heuristic in general. For instance, maybe the early users are not necessarily great at filtering articles, they were just good at not submitting off-topic ones. A honeypot approach is a much more flexible and robust way to enforce guidelines without visibly punishing users.
Or if paper in general has some sort of "grain" created during its manufacturing process?
Most people don't know this, but Google actually retains the ability to hotfix core security issues without the manufacturers. This has happened with devices when a weakness was found in how passwords were transmitted for sync. Also, manufacturers push out security updates from different teams than their Sense/Blur/etc teams.
Disclosure: I'm someone with a vested interest in the status quo.

That out of the way, like much of the work from the Brookings Institute, this particular argument is based on a simplistic bit of back of the napkin economics. It sounds good to someone whose taken Econ 101 and little else: "ABA occupational licensing requirements have allowed lawyers to create a club with a limited membership that is able to raise prices to consumers, which is how top lawyers can get away with charging upwards of $1000 per hour for their time."

But the reality of the situation is that there is almost no barrier to entry for lawyers as it is. The bar passage rate for graduates of ABA law schools in NYC is almost 90%. There is indeed a huge glut of lawyers---between 1/3 and 1/2 of graduates of ABA schools do not get jobs as lawyers.

So what about those $1,000/hour lawyers? Why isn't the vast oversupply of lawyers bringing down prices? For exactly the reasons the article mentions: because when you're doing a $1 billion deal or you have bet-the-company litigation you don't want just any lawyer. You want your lawyers to be smarter than the other guy's lawyers. There is a huge rush to lawyers with the top credentials.

There are already small firms paying their lawyers $40k/year and offering low rates that would be happy to take peoples' business. Even these firms have more applicants looking for a job than they can handle. Yet the business isn't forthcoming.

If you want to see than $1,000/hour go down figure out a way to get Harvard and Columbia to graduate more JD's each year, or figure out a way to get people to buy cut-rate services from budget law firms.

Also, even ignoring the economic fantasy in the Brookings argument, there is a practical issue. Subversion of the law is potentially extremely profitable but in highly market-distorting ways. Big firm lawyers will help clients push the boundaries of the law, but the potential for disbarment (basically the death penalty to a lawyer's career) is a strong incentive to force them to toe the line. Removing this check might not lead to the libertarian utopia the Brookings Institute imagines.
The same guy saying that, however, is now co-founder of FaceCash. You'd think he would know better.
Thank you Google! BTW justin.tv saves broadcasts in real time, so I recommend it if you're worried that the police will confiscate the phone, etc.
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But Google's record is spotty. Just this month, it handed over a WikiLeaks volunteer's Gmail data to the U.S. government, which used an old and controversial law to request it without a warrant from a judge. Google is pushing for updated laws ...

This seems like an absurdly high standard if obeying the law and pushing for updated laws isn't enough.
One stable solution is that none of the answers are right.
Nexus phones and "other Android" phones are almost entirely different breeds. That's the sad thing, people use Sense or Blur devices and get a bad taste in their mouthes when the pure Android experience is often more pleasant and consistent.
Looks like a big opportunity for Twitch.tv/Justin.tv just opened up. I hope they get in on it.

I know they're focused on live gaming, but there's a community here that will gladly gather around a welcoming site.
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Any jailbreak exploit is capable of bricking the phone or even installing a rootkit so that the phone appears to function normally, but is instead running code from an unknown third party. The first stage bootloader has to be writable like this, as it's responsible for verifying input from the internet so that it can be legitimately updated in case of bugs.

If instead, the first stage bootloader were much simpler and only took input from USB, it could be read-only and always available to easily-reflash the entire phone. The second stage bootloader could then do all the signature verification it wanted, while itself being updateable through USB/stage1 in case of a rootkit.

(and once again, the only reason to require USB-loaded updates to be signed would be to restrict how consumers use their devices)
It is an issue of Semantics. Buying a Sense ridden phone from HTC and buying a Nexus from Google mean two entirely different things about the consistency of the phone and the timeliness of the software updates.
The addition of "(This Time)" in the article's title is just short of outrageous, if I'm not misunderstanding. It seems to me there's nothing indicating Google has ever taken down videos of police brutality at the govt's requests.. but rather, has complied with many other types of legal requests from the US?
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>This is quite different from buying, say, a Dell/HP PC vs. a Mac -- in both cases do you get a working, upgradeable machine.

But if you buy phones with unlocked bootloaders, it's just largely the same. As long as there is a device maintainer that has written an overlay for CM, you will get the newer OS updates. Before you jump on me and tell me "consumers shouldn't have to watch out for that", let's just remember the controversy still unraveling regarding Secure Boot with UEFI and Windows 8.
While it's definitely a problem for Android and extremely disappointing that devices under contract are not supported with new versions, looking at it on a device basis is somewhat unfair : the actual number of such handsets 3 versions behind in the real world are miniscule - according to the actual usage statistics, 84% of users are on 2.2 or better, and the functional differences between 2.2 and 2.3 are fairly small. The percentage of users on < 2.0 are down to ~2% at this point.

I'd much rather see the platform being pushed forward than spending great amounts of time trying to shoehorn it onto extremely old devices used by 2% of people.
Thanks. Rookie mistake. Fixed.
I wouldn't consider the (mt) servers 'cloud', but rather just as you said it, shared. I too hate the cloud term, for reasons mentioned above (by jread).
It's like a variation of "fight or flight" instinct.
You encounter a boundary and you either "Push through and solve it" or "throw a tantrum and blame other people".
Let's so not do this. The worst possible way to educate people is by showing them all the things they shouldn't do. It's painful and slow compared to cutting to the chase and showing them what to do. I see no good coming of this. None whatsoever.
This is fantastic. Apple did AAC because of the patent royalty (http://mp3licensing.com/) which they have to pay on every iPad/pod/etc sold

Since when did Apple "do AAC"? AAC is a standardized format that makes up part of MPEG-4, contributed to by dozens of companies and organizations. The patent licensing is handled by Via Licensing, not Apple. AAC has patent licensing fees too; over a dollar per device (albeit with a very low cap, IIRC).

, as well as because it is just a better format.

MPEG-4 AAC was the successor to MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3), by the same organization, so this is no surprise.

ALAC was -- for many years -- a proprietary FLAC-alike. There was no real reason to use it except for compatibility with Apple devices, as the two use nearly identical compression methods and the incompatibility is purely gratuitous.
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I'm a big fan of all Google products in general. People who understand the product anticipates it and are excited about it, like Google Wave for example. But sometimes it's less about the product than the way it is presented. Waves for example was presented as the end-all, stand alone collaborative tool. But when nobody understood it enough to use it the general public doesn't care about it. In the case of Google+ it is presented as a Facebook competitor in the social networking market. Everyone and their moms are already on Facebook so why would people want to update another profile and do more work. However, the advantage of Google+ is that it is backed by the Google infrastructure, which includes the established Gmail user base. Gmail already feels like a social networking product; you can easily chat with friends and new acquaintances, share events with other with Google Calendars, and use tons of Google Apps. The point is Google already is a social network. We don't need to be confused with a new product called Google+. It's social networking features should have just been revealed as a subset of Gmail. Many are already familiar with Gmail and new social networking features will draw more people to it.
Measuring requests per second is close to measuring the number of accept system calls you can do. Since it's a system call you have a context switch.
If you're learning to program from scratch, you really need to start with Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ . This is going to be much better for you than the MIT and the O'Reilly stuff.
Retro-record is a great way of putting it but I think a phone app doesn't really need retro-record even in this case. However, phone integration with lookxie (http://looxcie.com/) might be interesting.
He did introduce the original Macintosh 17 years ago (1984). Sure, past performance doesn't necessarily mean much, but Jobs has had a hand in so many different areas.
No, I didnt :)
Maybe the article itself is a honeypot.
Sorry: USE aac.

AAC has no patent for streaming or distribution. When we did direct-to-consumer digital sales this is why I used this rather than Mp3, and ALAC for lossless over FLAC because of the support issue.

AAC does have a patent fee for codec usage (i.e., devices).
It was not "WebOS Application layer" that was ported to WebKit on iOS, it was a simple Enyo app running. WebOS is a great OS. I have a Nexus S and an iPhone but I still use my old Palm Pre2 because I think the usability of WebOS is far greater than iOS or Android (and I am a developer for both platforms).

People tend to dismiss WebOS without ever touching a device. Yes, my Pre2 is not as fast as my Nexus S but guess what, for my daily tasks of emailing, web, agenda, evernotes and ebooks it is GREAT! The OS has a better experience and the development framework rocks. Enyo is wonderful, I wish it was open source.

You speak of a flawed architecture, I just see a beautiful system with a wonderful paradigm (the cards) that is aesthetically pleasing and a joy to develop for. If I could get my hands on a Pre3 or a TouchPad, I would buy it instantly but unfortunately, they are not available here.
> How often does this actually happen?

It happens. Example: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/us/12jackie.html?pagewante...
I'm confused. GiftRocket sends the recipient the money via PayPal, so they can spend it anywhere? What's the difference between this and PayPal?
...seems to be basically capitulating to entitlement

Entitlement to use choose your own tools? Gasp.

I think the underlying point the article's taking glancing blows at has plenty of merit, they just failed to do it bluntly enough. I think there's likely a high correlation between highly productive employees, and people who could care less about IT bureaucracy. I don't think it has anything to do with Mac users.. it's just that Windows users in this position are less affected, and through this lens.. less visible.
We're assuming people are using the vote buttons to vote, and not save articles for later. What if a percentage of people said "that looks good, that looks good", vote for them so they can review them in their 'saved stories' at a later date?

What if HN would not allow people to vote on things unless they actually clicked on the link?
I'm a fairly technical person and I've started just putting sites homepage URLs into Google Reader. I'm tired of having to go to the site, hunt for a little RSS button, or if they don't have one I have to pull up the source and find the meta or link tag or whatever and then copy out the HREF because Chrome doesn't have an RSS button in the location bar.

I feel like RSS has gotten harder to use lately.
With a solid/easy backup system like Time Machine, don't even need a proper service plan:

* Buy an external HD, set up Time Machine.

* Keep an identical spare Mac.

* If you're paranoid, buy a second external HD; rotate it and the first drive for TM backup every week-ish (keep the inactive one next to your spare Mac)

* When the Mac dies; toss it, get out the spare, plug in the TM drive and restore. Totally back in business in an hour or three. Buy another spare.
Your battery would die in 1-2 hours if you were recording 24/7.
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It is such a shame that ARM has taken over MIPS place in the embedded world, and that SGI crashed and killed it in the server space, MIPS is a much nicer architecture than ARM or PPC, (and nevermind SPARK or god forbid IA64).
The whole point is you show them nothing with honeypots. They simply get their vote penalized in the background because they didn't follow the guidelines of the site.

When a site is growing, there is no way to handle the constant influx of new users. The result is a dilution of quality on the front page, at least as measured by the guidelines of the site.
MP3 was great for its time. It’s not a crap format, there are merely better formats available today. They weren’t when MP3 came to the market. (Specifically AAC was developed as a successor to MP3.)

I’m also not sure whether this tells you anything. Apple started selling AAC encoded music at a time when no† music player could play it. Many mistakenly thought that AAC was some sort of proprietary Apple codec and it might as well have been.

Today more people than ever have an iOS device or an iPod. There is no need at all for Apple to play nice and make sure that others can also use the ALAC. Why should they?

Also: What’s the incentive for offering lossless music? No one† can tell the difference. Do you really think Apple will start catering to audiophiles? Because of the switch to flash memory space is limited, Apple’s current devices are not a good match for lossless music.

—

† Don’t be pedantic.
Faking the variation shouldn't be hard at all, but how many people would be willing to take the time and risk being prosecuted for fraud in exchange for some free coffee?

Even if 10% of customers abuse the system, it's still a net win for the business. They'll have to cough up some free coffees or sandwiches, but the fraudster is still in the shop and likely to pay for incidentals that go with the promotion; e.g., a drink or chips to go with their sandwich, croissant with the coffee, etc.
I'm glad that this is being discussed seriously. This article takes on the more extreme case for almost complete deregulation, but there are many viable alternatives. While I support some licensing, I do think that law is an almost textbook case of regulatory capture. In particular, the requirement of three years of grad school in a specific type of school is almost certainly unnecessary.

This article seems to claim the elite tier of law would not be affected. I'm not so sure. Imagine if people with top degrees in other fields were allowed to take the bar, or allowed an accelerated degree program. Many people really can learn more in 6 months than others can learn in 3 years.
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At what point are we going to get over the concept that Macs don't have virus issues because there's not popular enough yet? I feel like I've been hearing that chestnut for a decade now.

Excuse me son, but would you mind standing in line behind those Linux guys over there? They've been putting up with this longer than you have.
CNMAT's o.dot library for Max has a similar notion. As messages pass through the systems and affect new results, the resulting message preserves its entire history.
there's already enough junk on the /newest page that makes it difficult for legitimate articles to gain traction. adding fake articles to it is just going to make the problem worse.

i would rather see flagged articles get removed from /newest quicker, and have some mechanism for letting articles with at least 1 other upvote, or maybe those submitted by users with enough karma, to linger on /newest longer than they would otherwise.
Actually I'd say Steve Jobs was very empathetic in terms of his ability to see what regular people would want to use and what would be confusing to them. From what I read he chose not to use those skills with coworkers, employees, etc. Nonetheless I think he clearly had them. Whether that makes him "worse" than RMS is a highly subjective question.
Aaron Greenspan's constant attacks of other people read like the theories of a deliberate Jewish conspiracy to advance the interest of Jews at the expense of other people. In other words, complete nonsense.
> adding fake articles to it is just going to make the problem worse

Hence the implicit honeypot extension that I proposed. :)
An 18 year old would have to engage in some pretty dark stuff for me to indict them later in life as a subpar founder, partner or person. Spamming and porn don't even come close to qualifying.
Five Stars Card (http://www.fivestarscard.com/) got funded by YC this year.

I see the Five Stars Card badge everywhere here in the Bay Area.
It used to be, most application code was written to expect everything beneath it (transport, network, data, physical) would work flawlessly.

Then people realized, that was just not happening in the real world:

- Dual-channel interfaces would still fail (bad line card on the switch).

- Redundant Storage frames could suffer catastrophic outages.

- Datacenters with dozens of layers of redundancy could still fail due to fiber cuts, or faulty transformers.

- Unexpected crap happens, and you can never account for all of it.

So gradually, a movement began: virtualized computing and automated provisioning tools really gained traction and maturity. A shift towards more defensive programming emerged: we now don't trust the bottom layers to work. We plan ahead for them, we expect failure. Google, publishing their server specs and approach, really pushed this forward: people realized you could run serious infrastructure on mickey mouse hardware.

No longer is reliability needed at the component layer. We can move the responsibility much farther up the stack, and just added resources to cope.

I think many people (especially in the enterprise space, where change is slow, and tech is slow to adopt) have not adjusted for this change yet. They continue to buy uber-expensive server gear with redundant power supplies, mirrored disk (for redundancy, not performance reasons), ECC checking memory, and so on. They don't realize the $10,000 server they spent on a single server, could have bought three less redundant options that would have tripled their computing power. For the most part, they are right: you can't do these things until you fundamentally change your approach to software.
This is amazing. Since running Mugasha for the past few years, encoding in AAC has been a huge hassle. Lib faac has terrible encoding quality compared to good ones like Nero and Apple.
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have you tried using a different charger? Usually that helps.
Well, meh. It's not my cup of tea, but some people enjoy a powerful, well-handling car, and don't always drive in the city. There are a couple of nice routes around the periphery of the Bay Area where good engine, handling, and brakes can put a smile on car people's faces. The pass between San Mateo and Half Moon Bay comes to mind.

I don't know if one needs an AMG for that, but I can't quite picture Steve Jobs in a Miata.
Why don't "challenges" such as this get the same hate as "$300 for the best logo" contests?

It's purely spec work, and in this case requires much more time and effort in comparison the the shallow work done on 99designs or elance.
your honeypot concept appears to be targeting sockpuppets or voting rings that try to vote up bad content that gets flagged by legitimate users. that's not the same as legitimate articles that don't get enough upvotes because they roll off of /newest too fast.

even with zero spam, the site is now big enough that legitimate articles can get submitted at a rate that makes the /newest page move too fast for things to get traction.
My biggest problem with Twitter and Facebook is too much information. I am constantly pruning my RSS feed in the morning to be things I'm interested in right then. I need it to be a set of the most articles and web comics to me that I can consume in 20-30 minutes while I eat breakfast and drink my coffee. I want relevant information, but that cannot be solved by just throwing everything at me.

The last thing I want to do is sift through a bunch of @replys and find myself done with my breakfast but feeling empty.