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The U.S. still leads in designing things but almost everything we design is manufactured elsewhere and the people in those other countries are putting together just enough wealth to send their kids to college.

It's possible that China got ahead of the US recently, but it hasn't been true. US manufacturing output still leads the world or is very close to it. What has happened is that jobs have disappeared because of automation. The robotics you talk of is exactly what has put the US manufacturing worker out of work.
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This is indeed nauseating, especially when you consider that the USA is not even in the top 10 in many human development measures. The reflexive tribalism you see on the right makes me think we must be number 1 in self esteem.
Hmm maybe you are just looking at the web and forget other industries?

Europe has a good tradition in the auto industry

I think SAS is also quite big and european

Also, innovation wise, last studies shown European banks lead innovation (Web access, ATMs, etc)

Green energy tech is also quite popular here (though I have no idea where the actual innovation comes from)
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37.5 hours is also the maximum office working time you find in the UK too, 40 hours per week is for factory jobs.
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Honest question - how do they achieve this? How is it they (Germany and Japan) are able to "compete on a manufacturing level without workers having to accept Chinese wages and conditions". Because it's generally framed as Americans needing to lower their standard of living / expectations in order to be able to compete. So how is it German and Japan are the exception? What are they doing differently?
The author appears to be a university professor. If his students have no interest in writing they probably should not be at university.
Infochimps, Indeed, HomeAway, Demand Media, and OtherInbox top my list of nationally-known startups in Austin. Am I missing any?

Outside of the startup world: Apple, IBM, Dell and AMD have major campuses in Austin.

I grew up in Austin and live in NYC. I love seeing Austin companies make waves, but I feel like the startup scene there is still in its early stages.
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35 is my goal, but often, it goes beyond that. Also, for this to have any meaning, you should split into self-employed/employee. I am self-employed, so working more is to my full benefit - so the incentive is high to do it without (time) compensation.

As a side note: I actually consider 40hr-contracts that regularly go beyond that time a breach of contract from the employer side. Sadly, I see a growing sentiment that the hours in the contract are actually seen as a baseline and the hours you work more are seen as some kind of commitment-meter.
So if your full time day job is working for yourself, you should stay out of this poll?
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Unfortunately on Android, the latency is so bad that you'll soon tire of playing with it and chuck it away ..
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The video is very good but I have to disagree with your last paragraph. The videos with people hard-dropping every piece and winning the invisible tetris during the credits are more impressive imo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo
Webbit looks much more like embedded Jetty and plain servlets than Sinatra. If you really want something like Sinatra in you Java project, wire in Scala and try Scalatra.
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Churchill was not speaking in regard to feelings and a relationship with another nation, but rather dependability in mutual long term pursuits. I think what he says remains true and a useful filter at times.
I wasn't able to add additional choice. I clicked on "add choice" and entered additional choice but doesn't show up on the poll. Am I doing something wrong?

edit: I think it didn't like when I entered "<40". Maybe it took it as html code. So I added "less than 40"
I would say the couldn't,after 77 years, or 15-20 years.
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Not sure how good X9 committee is:

(http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110411005309/en/Secu...)

> Recognizing the need for stronger crypto that will hold up under increasingly powerful attacks, such as those that will be enabled by quantum computing, and understanding how NTRU is unique in its ability to do this, the X9 standards body created the X9.98 standard and certified NTRU.

> NTRU has gained widespread acceptance and credibility since it was first presented in 1996. Many organizations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), acknowledge the need for a public-key crypto system that is optimized for constrained mobile devices and resistant to quantum computing. NTRU’s adoption as an X9 standard is another step in that direction.

etc etc
"And so what if Google can use my posts to learn more about me and give me more targetted ads? I just see that as a win on my side once again"

Wow, so mind numbingly scary.
I am an Israeli soldier, so I work all day long, waking up at 8am and finish working at 12pm.
16 Hours per day, 5 days a week and more 6 hours of work at Friday, it sums up to 86 hours a week. But still, this is an exceptional situation we have here in Israel, I also get paid only 70$ a month..
(btw, sorry for my poor English)
I contract for 10 to 15 hours a week ... which option do I pick?

Or do I pick the roughly 30 hours a week spent on college stuff? Since that is theoretically my full-time "job".
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Where's the option for 20-30?
less than 40 hrs
It's a good point. Extending the analogy out a bit, Amazon has fantastic instrumenting that let's them see failures in their system, debuggers, memory inspectors, object lifetime inspectors etc.

while Google isn't even bothering to print most of their errors to the console. They have very little idea how their customer experience is other than sales numbers and they appear to pretty much ignore the few places they do directly interact with end users in their forums. The GAE pricing nonsense was one of the most insane customer interaction spectacles I've ever seen.

It's funny, about the only time we've ever seen any sort of input/output with Google has been here on HN with the few Google employees that haunt this forum, checking out problems this community is reporting.
I have not read about Challenger in years, but I'll grant you the point.

One thing stands out in my mind: the guys on the console for Apollo were not the same guys on the console in 1986.

Was the problem the way the data was presented, the people interpreting the data, or an organizational problem?
It doesn't sound like you need to pay $30 to keep playing (in fact the base game is now cheaper than before), you're just paying to access continuously released extra features. Just another example of the industry's move toward more and more DLC.
I can confirm 37.5 goes for Finland as well.
Ping me if there's a gettogether being oranized. I'm in Singapore, too but from Sweden. :)
There might be a little confusion with semantics here. I don't believe any of us can argue that the US has't led MOST of the world in innovations that are adopted on a large scale.

There is a difference between being innovative and actually having the resources to profit from that innovation. I've seen ingenious solutions to problems in my travels, but due to the lack of marketing/funding/distribution/etc., these inventions/solutions are only adopted by the town the inventor lives in.

ed, sp.error.
You're right, that one is more impressive, but as I understand it that version of tetris has more forgiving physics than the NES version, and he's using a more ergonomic controller, so I think there's a pleasing purity about maxing out the famicom edition.

Also to be honest that second guy comes across as terrifyingly superhuman. The NES one actually looks like something I might actually be able to eventually do with practice, and is therefore more engaging to watch.
American exceptionalism isn't just that the USA is great b/c it's the USA, but because it founded as an implementation of a set of moral ideals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

As an American, I agree though, it is nauseating when politicians or citizens pull this card and use it to justify nationalism or other bad things and abuses. It cancels the very reasons for the idea of exceptionalism in the first place.
I find I often have a late(r) Friday due to some volunteering.

Nice to see I'm not the only one enjoying the mornings, even though I've historically been a night owl.
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And in the end, there won't be a trace of the next generation, since there won't be any physical records left...
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I've done likewise but actually just found that scraping at scale (even with something like EC2) is very expensive - which sort of precludes having any sort of free tier/freemium model around the resulting site.

I would have had to charge my users a lot of money to pay for the kind of scraping required to power my product.
From a person who loves to read, this article is barely coherent. It lists three things that will "kill" bookstores then says Barnes is "only good at two of them". Wha? Only good at two ways of killing yourself?

And one of those things that will kill bookstores is apparently LOVE for paper books. Ok, sure.
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Yes. This is just to see how many hours people work for a company other than for themselves.
Oh, yeah, they branch for releasing. That is true.
The article states that the people merely worked at MS. It's a big company, we the reader have no idea which product group they work in or if it's even related to WP7. I feel like the content of your comment is misleading.
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This is one of the reasons I don't have a Facebook account. What is the point of having lots of friends(on Facebook, real live, etc), that share non of your interest. And that all they have talk about, is stuff that is meaningless to you. You can write or read about about your interest, all you like in the internet, instead of wasting time in stuff that bores you. What is the point of this type of superficial friendships. I haven't lived long(21 year old), and I can count the friends I've had with one hand. I am just not interested in this sort friendships. If I am going to have a friend, I want some one I can truly call a friend, not some that is just a long time acquaintance.
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Let's hope it doesn't attract the typical browser developers' slapdash response of "let's fix this by breaking the DOM," as happened with the :visited trick.
Great info. I feel kinda sad that this did not make into the first page.
It's an equally good thing if a Mexican family escapes from extreme poverty, but there are far fewer Mexicans actually living in extreme poverty.

1-2% of Mexico lives on $1.25/day (PPP adjusted) compared to 16% of China. For $2/day, the numbers are 9% and 36%. 15% of Mexico and 45% of China lacks improved sanitation, 6% vs 11% for improved water supply.

All data taken from this crappy web form: http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do
>>the idea that all the most innovative people only exist in the United States (or even that people in the US are on average more innovative than others) is ridiculous

Its not ridiculous at all. For what its worth, it happens to be true at this point in time. Whether it will continue to hold given the poor fiscal health of the US is the crux of the debate.

When I look at my classmates and my peer group, the ones who stayed back in India have (unfortunately) gone absolutely nowhere. The ones who migrated to the USA have gotten multiple graduate degrees in STEM, work at some of the most innovative companies, contribute to technical literature, teach,...

I spoke to a former classmate who came to the US, got his Masters alongwith me and went back home.

"Dude, congratulations, your resume says you are now a Chief Scientist! So when did you complete your PhD. ? What did you study ? More CS ? Math ?"

The guy goes "What are you talking about ? I never studied anything beyond that Masters, and most of that I've forgotten. In India, you just hang around for a couple of years in technology, they make you a scientist. Hang around as a scientist for a couple more years, you are a chief scientist!"

So that's how that goes. I used to wonder when I saw these outsourcing bodyshops ( Infosys, Wipro, TCS etc ) having several Chief Scientists on their staff, as to what sort of "science" goes on at an outsourcing outfit. Now I don't.

In India, its all about 3 things: "ghar, gaadi, biwi". Google that phrase and you will understand the microcosm that is India. When the entire culture of a nation is built around the acquisition of a "house, automobile, wife", why would such a nation breed innovative entrepreneurs at the same rate as the US ? And that's preciely what you'll see if you go shopping for talent in India. The truly talented tech geniuses will give you their right arm for an F1/H1B visa to the USA, and the rest are too busy chasing "ghar, gaadi, biwi". Yes, there are a few exceptions, but that's what they are - exceptions.
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I really, really hope Facebook doesn't do that. It makes absolutely no sense for anyone to buy a Facebook tablet, unless they intentionally cripple the capabilities of their apps on other tablet platforms.
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Thanks for all that info. You made a good point about having something that is marketable before wanting to start a company. I have actually done just that. I have been demoing my research through marketable applications from the start. On application is actually directly helpful to a product that the school is developing. So they license it to me, and I sell it back to them (kinda funny)?

To tell you the truth, my only problem is with the university wanting a huge stake, and leaving me and my fellow partners with very little for our hard work.

Thanks for the help I appreciate.
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What you said is actually what I have been moving towards. I'm just gonna worry about it later, and start the startup.
I was a student that bitterly resented English class, despite being an avid reader and (as a result) a not-terrible writer. Yet, just like all of jseliger's students, I would never have touched that "book or subject of your own choosing" option.

When assigned an essay for school, my priorities were:

1. Get an acceptable grade

2. Spend as little time/effort as possible

3. Enjoy the process/actually learn something

Asking students directly to prioritize 3 rather than 1 and 2 is just not going to work.

I actually agree that teaching thesis-based writing is a good training tool for analytical writing. But in the interest of expending little effort, students aren't going to consider evidence and then change their thesis. It's much easier to spackle liberally with bullshit, since teachers mostly let that slide.

Grading is the elephant in the room. Students must always take it into account and it's quite rational for them to be very risk-averse. Writing about bounded topics in a bullshit-friendly way is easier and much safer than trying to learn how to think through a subject in writing.

This whole discussion reminds me strongly of Lockhart's Lament (http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf) except for writing rather than math. If the whole system, years of education, is leading students down a garden path, it's not immediately clear that you can change how you teach your 2.5 hours a week to help. The students themselves will actively resist a single teacher trying to break the mold. That doesn't change the fact that there is a problem, a very big problem.

I think trying to fix math education is a harder problem, but unless you can somehow get around grading, English is a tough nut too.
Anyone who hasn't seen "From russia with love," the BBC documentary about tetris, I encourage you to seek it out. It covers the birth of tetris in the soviet union's academy of sciences, and then the fascinating story of its inexorable spread throughout the burgeoning worldwide videogame industry.

There were many fights over the licensing in different territories, culminating with various westerners having to go cap in hand to the kremlin to beg for the rights. It was one of the first soviet-made products to be licensed for sale outside the Iron Curtain, and was a significant turning point in the Perestroika movement.

It includes interviews with all the key people including the original tetris developer, the atari and nintendo execs who fought for the rights, and even the kremlin technocrat who held their fate in his hands. It deals with software intellectual property issues, young upstart tech entrepreneurs, contractual trickery and all sorts of HN type things. It'd make a great movie.
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Not sure why you're dissociating ego-stroking from "smart enough to crack an encryption scheme". Ego-stroking works pretty well, and if you look at most of the cryptographers out there, they're not doing it for the money.
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Hackernews is a lot less tolerant of digressions, jokes etc. It ends up being a much more "serious" place, for both good and bad.
Thanks. Just very odd - hadn't ever seen a whois record that looked like that. :/
Maybe, but that has nothing to do with OAuth. One could be completely within the OAuth spec and allow one user to provide grants to act as dozens of other users. You are basically saying that OAuth is not good at something it was never designed to have any say about.

It's as though you're saying that your rolling pin doesn't work well as a meat tenderizer. Yeah, I guess they're related, but that's not what a rolling pin does.
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Haters gonna hate. Love this guy and his positive attitude.
A few weeks ago I started thinking of Google+ as a blog for occasional posts due to high engagement levels. However, since Google Reader integrated with Google+, I've found that my G+ feed has a lot more noise as I share a lot of small tidbits through the +1 button of reader.

I'm now considering creating a commentless blog elsewhere to host relevant posts, but cloning content to G+ for comments.
So, physical bookstores are going to completely disappear? Just as physical computer stores completely disappeared?

Except, come to think of it, my last three computers were picked up at a physical computer store.

It feels impossible for brick-and-mortar stores like B&N to survive on their current scale (though never say never – it always seemed like a miracle that those stores could have existed at such scale in the first place, fifteen years and more after the invention of the web). But I suspect that something made of bricks and mortar is going to take their place. It might look more like a public library or a coffeeshop or a student union, because most of the actual books will be sold electronically, but people are going to continue to have a place to go which has the parts of bookstores that they like: The browsing, the occasional chair, the librarian/bookseller/knowledgeable person, the cafe, the company of other readers. And, yes, perhaps even displays of books.

Because sitting alone in your apartment in front of a screen gets old. And because a shelf full of physical books and magazines still makes an impressive, and fairly inexpensive, display ad for books and magazines.

Even the aforementioned Apple store, as well as the office-supply store down the street, still has a few boxes of software sitting on a shelf – even though software doesn't come in boxes anymore, to the extent that many of those software boxes have nothing inside them but a thin paper slip with a URL and a code on it, and even though boxed software, unlike a physical book, is not browseable, which destroys most of the value of having it on a shelf. Software boxes are merely well-designed shiny props. And, yet, some of them are still there. Props are useful things. Humans have more senses than one, and we like to engage them all when we shop.

Of course, the structure of the bookselling business is going to change, and some sections really will just disappear. For example, the softening of the college textbook market seems like a harbinger: College textbooks are incredibly expensive relative to other books, most buyers really only want to rent them, they don't rely on bookstore displays to market them (because most of them are sold to a captive audience), and the people who buy them already have perfectly good places to hang out with other college-textbook readers (we call them colleges).
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55K revenue? What were his actual profits? Does he pay taxes? Respect to the guy for making a living and taking care of his family, but the piece makes him out to be making a killing when I suspect the reality isn't that inspiring.
Perhaps it means that it is impossible to create a rule that applies to a category without exception, real life is much more nuanced than that. So if you think you have such a rule, that is always valid, as people often do, we know it's a bad rule. A rule only becomes a good rule once the exception is found because that means it is a rule that has a hope of succeeding in an ever evolving real life.
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It's not true that literary criticism is only useful for the study of literature. One key reason why we teach criticism is to develop critical-mindedness in general; this has important social as well as personal benefits for the students.
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How does this look specifically with Google?