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PBS is a bad example since they're now selling advertising in everything but name. Their "sponsor messages" mention a specific product and a slogan, and they also sell messages targeted to specific shows (such as you'll find news/documentaries on high speed rail sponsored by Siemens). PBS have even started producing 30 second ads they run[1]

1 http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/161440/pbs-pro...
Sounds like the same school of reactive pseudo-security that gave us the TSA: broken in too many ways to count, patching one particular aspect of the problem when brought up or exploited, completely ignoring the big picture, and getting angry when questioned.
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This may well be the vaguest allusion to a historical event I've ever seen.
I have purchased and read to children e-books on both an e-ink device and an iPad, so perhaps I can make a few comments from experience.

The main problem is that the quality of children's ebooks is very poor. Even chapter books for < 10yo (say The Magic Treehouse series) have extensive illustrations. I can't believe it is a limitation of e-PUB (after all, we seem to have graphic novels beautifully presented on the iPad), but illustrations in children's e-books are generally shoddy. Images are abominably low-res, non-zoomable and so on.

There is a popular children's series called "Geronimo Stilton". It uses not only images but imaginative typography, for example:

http://goo.gl/Md88y

I bought an e-PUB of one of those books - the e-publisher's solution was to treat the ENTIRE page as one low-quality image. It was awful. It also cost as much as the actual book.

Which brings us to pricing. There is no real saving in buying children's ebooks over the actual thing, and in fact with bookstore discounts the print is often cheaper.

The article makes the good point that children receive many books as gifts, and of course there is a tactile pleasure with books to the point where I wouldn't expect 100% e-book penetration, but I certainly would purchase more children's e-books if the quality was acceptable.

As for iPad-type interactive stories, they are really quite a different category. They are nice as a diversion, but their quality and quantity comes nowhere near 200 years of great children's storytelling.
Isn't this what an aggregation like HN is in practice?

Although getting knowledge transfer from people without blogs is a good point. But, in that case, I think a simple Wordpress setup would be better than running from a git repository. I think we tend to overlook git as the barrier of entry that it is.

What gives HN its value is that it's already curated, so if you decide to do this, I think there needs to be a voting system to help give weight to particularly good points.

I could see this turning into too much of a directionless, superfluous stack of tech posts, though.
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I don't know what filament diameter(s) the Printrbot will support.
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My son (2.5) has quit with books at his bed time and insists on iPad books (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fantastic-flying-books/id...) and videos (mostly Pixar shorts). We also sometimes compose a Garageband track together.

The first generation iPad is plenty durable for his use. We just handed down one of our older ones when I got a iPad 2.
What is the deal with people's obsession over the word "psychopath?" I don't understand the point of taking characters whose personality and motivations are very clear to us and trying to apply or not apply this somewhat vague label. What do we learn from the label that we didn't already know?
The whole "US Member" thing has me nervous.

Might end up just downloading it. Not waiting if they decide to screw over Canada.
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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/...
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I have to disagree on your implication that non-technical managers should be distrusted. I have had both technical and non-technical managers that have made my life difficult. I've also has both that have made my life easier.

A manager's job is to make sure his/her employees have the facilities that they need to get their jobs done. They shelter employees from political bullshit, provide them resources, and enable them to make the decisions they need to make. When necessary, they also facilitate/broker conversations where wrinkles need to be ironed out.

A very large problem I've seen with technical managers is there are those that think they know everything and need to provide technical input (or insist on actually coding). More often than not, they think they know more than they actually do (and often refuse to acknowledge their weaknesses). This has provided me more headaches than non-technical managers not understanding what I am working on...

For myself, I've been in a number of senior roles in the past several years, I have my opinions based on knowledge and experience, but I know my limits. I try and encourage those around me to be open about their thoughts/challenges. I would rather take the time (bounded) pursuing a dead-end that someone else (less experienced) proposes, if it seems reasonable, than denying the investigation if I had an opinion based on stories/limited experience.

In general, I always learn from listening to others -- more or less experienced. A good manager will do the same, listen to his/her team, and facilitate their input/and growth.
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Maybe, but she also said "We need to keep on fighting against piracy", implying that although they acknowledge they've dug themselves into a hole, they want to keep digging.
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Facebook is great for a site like this, as it ties someone to a real identity. Excluding the few who don't want to use Facebook isn't a bad compromise for the great service it provides to site owners.
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For those of us too young to pick up the reference, care to be slightly less opaque?
Be very careful when reading this article.

The only actual quotes from it are things like Sadly, many see the current system as a tool to punish and withhold, not a tool to recognise and reward and She added that the existing copyright system was not rewarding the vast majority of artists

There is a very common copyright meme in Europe (mostly it seems from France and Belgium) that goes something like this: Google is making a lot of money, and they steal (aka spider) our work. Therefor Google should pay us.

There are examples of this viewpoint in various court cases, for example: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/google-versu...

In the ZdNet article the columnist added a lot of words about things like Rights-holders have long complained about the damage done to their industry by online copyright infringement. Governments and courts in countries including the UK have responded by blocking access to websites that help people unlawfully share music, videos, games and software.

I think that Kroes is arguing for stronger copyright, not less.

Here's a final quote. I hope I'm wrong about it being a "let's tax Google" argument again: In times of change, we need creativity, out-of-the-box thinking: creative art to overcome this difficult period and creative business models to monetise the art
You're right that quality will become an issue for such a collaborative tech blog. To do it properly, the posts would have to go through some sort of peer review and editorial process - hopefully community driven. In fact, this could form a nice quality gateway... Basically, if your article cannot get two other people to agree to edit/review your article and either "fix it" for you or approve of your resubmission with the recommended changes, then it is just quietly left to languish and die unpublished.
This is textbook survivor bias :)
"On the flight home, he recalls, “I was trying to understand why rockets were so expensive. Obviously the lowest cost you can make anything for is the spot value of the material constituents. And that’s if you had a magic wand and could rearrange the atoms. So there’s just a question of how efficient you can be about getting the atoms from raw material state to rocket shape.”

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According to the article, this is a proposed amendment to ban corporations from making political donations or expenditures. It's not clear from context if that means companies donating to a political campaign, or if it extends to independent expenditures that would influence an election. Let's examine each possibility in turn.

If it just covers donation, then, under current law (which has been upheld by the Supreme Court) corporations may only contribute a maximum of $5,000 per candidate. To put that in context, Obama may raise $1 billion dollars this cycle; the Republican challenger will likely do similarly. Is $5,000 from Exxon or whatever really worth worrying about? (Besides, under Supreme Court precedent, you could probably ban all corporate donations if you wanted, instead of just capping them. Nobody's tried, because honestly, who cares?)

Alternatively, if covers ALL corporate expenditures that may influence an electionm then it would also remove all free speech protections from such things as: The New York Times, Michael Moore's movies, MSNBC, Greenpeace, and more. (Yes, Greenpeace, according the the proposed text of the amendment.) Or rather, they would have free speech protections as long as didn't say anything about any political figure or issue, such as the economy, the environment, or foreign policy.

And that's really the only two options. Either the amendment does absolutely nothing worthwhile (stopping the scourge of Exxon being able to donate $5k to a candidate), or it eviscerates pretty much every vestige of a free press left in America. There's just no way to interpret this as a good idea.

Further, if it DOES stop all corporate expenditures, the only people this amendment would really benefit is the rich. The 99% can't get our message out without the help of other people, banding together to help each other. By removing one of the main ways people group together to get their message out, you muzzle the little guys. But billionaires face NO restrictions! Nothing in the amendment stops the Koch brothers from spending an effectively unlimited amount of money on promoting their favoured candidates and ideas as long as they do it from "personal" funds. What do you call an amendment that stops me from donating to Greenpeace so they can run a pro-solar power ad, but doesn't stop the Koch brothers from running pro-oil ads?)

(Note: I've used left-wing examples as the good guys, and right-wing examples as the bad guys. If it helps, swap them. Consider the damage done to Fox News and the NRA, while it lets George Soros spend with impunity, if that's more alarming. I think this proposed amendment should give everyone something to hate.)
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The small taste of free courses from Stanford was exactly what I needed to remind me what I enjoyed most about college. I especially like how they allow you to take and retake quizzes until you achieve 100%; a great way to reinforce concepts. A community curated list of free university courses would be fantastic, an aggregator of sorts.
That depends on how closely affiliated with HN the blog is going to be and if our ycombinator benefactors are interested in endorsing such a project. If so, it should be one of them or someone they designate from the community.

If it is not associated to HN, then this is not an easily solved problem.
The top 10% in terms of IQ is not all that exclusive. It's pretty much everyone you'd consider "smart" in an American suburban public high school. Depending where you go to college or work, it may in fact include everyone you interact with on a daily basis.

Within that range, I've known people who've grown up to be complete failures by any reasonable measure, and those who have become great successes. The work really matters more than anything, for any reasonable, predictable goal.

You can't study/practice yourself into becoming an extraordinary anything (I'm talking like Albert Einstein / Bob Dylan level). But certainly those who reach that level do practice a lot. But they also had raw talent.
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Strong article. I think fear of technical ignorance is scar tissue. It's an overcompensation of the fact that traditionally programmers were undervalued until silicon valley proved that software does matter and is in fact a place where talent and decision-making power are incredibly important.

But in the end, technical knowledge is just one pillar. You also need strategy, management and ops to build a successful company. Rarely can one person bring all these to the table, instead you put together the right team of founders and employees to cover the essential skills. As long as you have a strong tech team whose knowledge and wisdom is feeding into the core of your decision making process then I think a CEO with more hard business experience is probably an advantage. It depends a lot on the company though.
In other words it's the sort of testing a commercial aircraft engine maker would do - not what nasa would do.

The engines on your 777 are designed so that a 6ft long fan blade moving faster than the speed of sound can break off and not go through the engine cowling and into your lap. They blow up $30M engines in testing to prove this
I am guilty of considering HN members as being more educated than average, I admit.
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Especially if nobody ever gets to see your finished product in one piece - people generally don't file patents on bombs for example.

Although ironically the Germans did file a patent on an anti-handling bomb fuse that they subsequently used in WWII
Indeed, while our politicians bloviate about 'terrorism' and how safe they're keeping us, this is the reality. Notable that this occurred in Texas, where the legislature would be as likely consult Jesus about the incident as a security expert. I honestly have to wonder whether our society will be going down in flames soon due to the odd combination of reliance upon and willful, resentful ignorance of knowledge that is being promoted in public culture.
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No, and unfortunately it's very very very very highly unlikely [functionally impossible] that this will ever be a reality.

Imagine printing a stepper motor, something you need several of for a 3D printer.

Now imagine printing an extruder head...or a PCB for driving the steppers.

Just being able to print PCBs would make tons of hackers glow. The closest thing we have to that right now is putting adhesive copper sheets into a vinyl cutter. That is to say, it is a very very long way off.

(After you print blank PCBs, then what...is the rep rap also a pick and place machine? Can it "print" the components to populate the board?)
There is lots of work available, but be prepared to fight tooth and nail to make a decent profit from it.

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The big industrial automation and SCADA companies all provide some level of application engineering/system integration services. But, it's only practical to do the integration work in-house for large (millions of dollars in revenue annually or tens of millions of dollars in revenue one time) customers. Managing thousands of local teams of integrators all over the world to take on smaller jobs would be prohibitively expensive.

For smaller, "one-off" jobs, the integration work is done by distributors or by 3rd party integrators. Distributors will often do the integration for free and cover the integration cost and their profit from the discount the manufacturer gives them from list price. Most integrators do fixed-price bids for work, and may also make money from equipment markups. In both cases, there is a lot of incentive to do the minimum possible, especially since the projects tend to be poorly specified.

This is all made worse by the fact that the customers tend to be technically unsophisticated. That makes it hard for them to effectively manage projects, and hard for them to make informed judgements when selecting suppliers. Suppliers are usually picked based on personal relationships with the sales team (manufacturer's or distributor's) and the in-house engineer's familiarity with a given supplier.

Finally, the whole industrial automation industry isn't terribly glamorous. The typical problems being solved on any given job have been solved thousands of times before. The technology is often old and clunky (the most common language is called ladder logic... look it up, it's good for a laugh). Being successful requires a mixture of software, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and sales skills. Since most distributors and integrators live almost hand-to-mouth, sales skills tend to be emphasized, even among the engineers. The engineers who are good at sales find they can make more money doing sales. The ones who aren't salesy find there isn't much room for advancement and move on. I'm over-generalizing, but the overall trends don't encourage high-quality software engineering.
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The fact is that people are born into society. People who lived before us created a system where rights are protected and, when you reach the age of majority, you have the option of participating in governance either by voting, or running for office or other political action (this is all assuming you live in a Western style democratic republic).

I am not sure where you get the idea that you are being violently coerced into living in civilized society and thereby following the pre-existing laws, simply because you never signed a contract or, equivalently, expressly consenting that you would. Contracts are a legal convenience. A convenience whos very enforcement is dictated by the laws that you rail against for not having explicitly agreed to them. A bit of a chicken and egg problem, wouldn't you agree?

Your argument is absurd. "I didn't agree to have red lights mean 'stop'!", "I didn't agree that murder should be punished!", "I didn't agree that I couldn't build a hog farm on my suburban front lawn!". I mean, come on. What is your alternative to expecting people to live by certain rules that their ancestors through their previous political action put in place? Start from scratch with each new person? How would we tell who agreed to what? There are laws that I don't wholeheartedly agree with either but, for the most part, they seem pretty reasonable. Your 'system' or lack thereof, wouldn't fly in a household much less a nation.
From an earlier article, someone at DOJ called for a law to be passed to make it a crime to do something against the terms of service. It hasn't happened yet.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111117/02375716801/doj-tw...
Untrue: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/nov...
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99% of all users have little to no say in how things are run. So far, the almighty 1% most powerful are completely in charge. This video demonstrates a good way to protest online. Let it be food for thought if you ever perceive things being run online as unfair.
Go to 16:50. If you ever feel like you're scrounging for pennies in the couch: everyone does it and it's part of business at any level. It's typical for startups to spend a huge amount of cash when they get funded and pay full price for everything as word gets out they're flush with cash. It takes a while to develop a culture of being cheap.

e.g. the last time I worked in someone else's startup (6 years ago) I remember looking around the room and thinking that every one of the $2000 desks that were bought from a local artist is a server we could have bought.