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And it worked! Steve Jobs had quite the relationship with Regis McKenna as described in Steve's biography. Regis McKenna even helped shape the "antenna-gate" response.
When my son (10) filled out his g+ profile, in which they ask for date of birth, his gmail was blocked. I could reopen it by confirming (lying) he was older, and paying a small fee by credit card.
Ok. Is that 5% allocated to all patents? 5% per patent? If the latter, 20 patents would be enough to own the entire revenues for a device. Manufacturers would have incentive to remove as much functionality as possible from each device (to minimize patent coverage), requiring doctors to purchase more separate equipment to get all the features they need. In the case of an abstract diagnostic method patent, patent owners would split diagnostics into as many patents as possible to get as many 5% chunks as they can.
Any feminism I could subscribe to would include valuing childcare, teaching the skills early to everyone explicitly, and eventually re-integrating children into day-to-day life. I get incredibly frustrated with all my friends who hate ever being around children, such that I can't have over my fiends with kids and my friends without at the same time.
I was always around children growing up, and it was a part of life. It also meant that the adults who stepped up to fulfill their parental responsibilities weren't punished for it.
Both you and this woman are facing the same social problem; we could think of radical solutions such as free, high-quality child care, part-time work as an encouraged and a valid option for everyone, not just people with kids. We could stop promoting the biggest assholes, who ask the loudest and put in the most hours (breaking code, usually).
We could make it a social norm that if a man doesn't want to or is incapable of performing childcare he should not expect to have children. Individual people may come to other arrangements, but the basic social norm needs to change. If we demand that children be hidden away from the world for 15 years, and then we demand that women and only women who produce children must care for them, "choice" is an illusion. "Would you like the rack or the thumbscrews?" is a choice too. "Would you like to be childless or give up your career?" is a sucky choice, and if we are going to force women to make it I believe it is only fair that men be forced to make it to.
Google bought Motorola after they (and Android OEMs) been under patent assault by Apple for years. That was a purely defensive action.

They have not offensively asserted their patent rights against anyone.
Actually, in many states parents CAN give consent for their children to have alcohol.

For example, section 4301.69 of the Ohio Revised Code states
"Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall sell beer or intoxicating liquor to an underage person...unless the underage person is supervised by a parent, ..." (Quote abbreviated for brevity, but the elided portion doesn't change the meaning)
Highcharts' zoomable graphs are a killer feature at the moment. They are not difficult to use, and I use them to show 30 days worth of data (2880 points per graph) in my monitoring apps. They work on mobile and web out of the box, too.

I'm unlikely to even considerer another library until they match that feature.
Wow, all of the hate on San Francisco, this place is my home and I love it. New York is the only other city in the US I could cope with. I just wish we had saner policies around our housing (like a rent-control system which didn't create so much illiquidity in inventory) and fewer dot-commie 2.0s ruining our culture by taking everything they can and offering nothing back in return, essentially treating the city like a long-term tourist engagement. Every time a large startup has an exit rents go up. My income bracket makes me "lower upper-middle class" and now that I'm in my early '30s I can no longer afford to live here. Analysts preduct that when Facebook and Zynga IPO the average price of a 2 bedroom 2 bath in the city will get close to $5k/month, which is insane. The only way start-ups can manage to operate out of San Francisco is ridiculous valuations, and hiring young kids who are happy to live 3 or 4 to an apartment, since market-rate salaries don't allow you to live alone unless you want to live in a poorly maintained studio in the 'loin.
The reason this happened is a rather obnoxious law called Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
Over the years I've actually done the opposite. I'll read reviews on books I'm interested in on Amazon and go to a local bookstore to buy it. I appreciate the book reviews but I'm impatient and want the book now.

The iPad and iBookstore have changed my behavior slightly in that I can both read the reviews and buy the (e)book at the same time. I'm still buying mostly physical books because I love the weight and feel of books but I'm starting to gradually switch.
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I'm building a few cannabis related sites, and my karma just hit 420. Is there any way to keep it there? Please?
On the contrary, plenty of companies handle this just fine. COPPA does not require Google to disable or delete the account. Legally, they only need to get the guardian's permission. This is much more trouble than is required by COPPA.
How did Google find out her age?
NSArray* x = ...
NSLog(@"x is %@", x);

That shows you the entire array. And there are other ways.
Why do schools and parents teach nothing about copyright laws? We're so obsessed with teaching our kids about drugs and drug laws (DARE), yet the potential punishment for intentional copyright infringement is much higher than being caught with a joint.

I do not agree with current copyright laws, but they do exist. Citizens need to have a better understanding the laws if we ever hope to have them changed.

Many people seem to be incredibly willfully ignorant about copyright stuff.
(when) we demand that women and only women who produce children must care for them, "choice" is an illusion. "Would you like the rack or the thumbscrews?"

Yes, I basically agree.

"Would you like to be childless or give up your career?" is a sucky choice, and if we are going to force women to make it I believe it is only fair that men be forced to make it to.

In some sense, men are asked to make this choice and men fairly often choose career over children. This doesn't necessarily mean that they do not reproduce. My grown sons have no relationship to their father. I am divorced. Our sons live with me. At some point after they became legal adults, my oldest son clearly spelled out to his father that he didn't view him in parental/affectionate terms and please don't have an delusions in that regard. Their father stopped trying to contact them after that. We are okay with that.

Their dad poured himself into his career. He thought he was doing the right thing. I have no idea how he feels about his lack of relationship to the kids but he did in some sense make a choice between the two. The fact that women (and children) are getting screwed by our societal norms/policies does not prove men really have it much better.
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> To me, sheer stupidity is a likelier explanation.

I mean, I was trying to make that point obliquely (and somewhat more charitably), but yeah, basically.

> Combined with not understanding how fortunate she is.

To be sure, Penelope seems a bit oblivious to her privilege. It's nice when you have an ex-husband who's stand-up enough to do his share of the parenting. It's extra-nice when you can hoodwink the investors of your also-ran, cash-burning social startup into paying you an absurd salary as a founder. Having both career and family, even with just those advantages, becomes way easier.

I understand the frustration. We'll come up with a secret anti-Trunk handshake or something. Seeing her held up as in any way credible makes my blood boil a little more than it should.
This is great I thought Ipython was great. But this is awesome.
Try "socializing" an animal that lacks the evolved capacity for empathy. See how far you get.

We have incredibly complex apparatus in our brain with a dedicated purpose of socialization. Empathy, language, and cooperation are things which humans would not be capable of if we didn't evolve to do them.
Expecting women to serve as brood mares sounds pretty sexist to me, no matter how you want to dress it up.
You can't have optional variable declaration and compile time verification. Either you have optional variable declaration and checking is performed and runtime or you get compile time verification and make the language static.
Hmm. Do you have family that you're reluctant to uproot, or do you really just like SF that much? I like SF, it's the best place I've ever lived, but I guess I don't get too attached to cities.
From the post:

> They provide COPPA compliant email accounts for children under 13 from their Apps for Education domains.

The capability is obviously there, and apparently COPPA has a way for parents to provide consent.
It's mentioned in the article. OpenID was convoluted to users. They don't link their identity to a URL. An email address on the other hand is a widely accepted identity handle.

I understand that FB and TW are rocking for your clients. But that's not the point of the post and why it's a plea to developers. It hinges on the idea that identity is too important to hand over to Facebook. Again, unsure if you read the entire post.

It's a very forward looking post and does not focus on what's easy and accepted today.
> I don't see how this is different than going to your local public library

The activity is no different, but the impact is totally different. When you don't buy the book from the store, they lose potential income from a limited pool of local book buyers; if that happens too often, they don't make enough money and go out of business.

When you don't take the book from the library, they save money they would've spent handling you. If that happens too often, nothing's likely to happen, since most of the library's funding is from local taxes, traffic fines, and state grants (which includes federal money given to the states to support libraries).
How about an analysis as to which companies have created more jobs or generating more revenue?
Their menu basically consists of expensive vegan
hot-dogs and fairly generic sandwiches, which is
a tough sell in Chicago when you have some very
good food around for very cheap.

I live down the street and went there about twice a month since they opened, and what you're saying isn't accurate. Drew's wasn't competing with your usual hot dog shop or fast food. There is a gigantic and extremely popular vegetarian/vegan niche market in Chicago, and that's the market Drew's was competing in. The food really was excellent and although from the menu things may have sounded "generic" in reality they really were not.
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Seems like what's bad for scammy SEO sites is good for the user.

The Long Tail has nothing to do with "misspelled Google searches", so the title is very misleading. The actual long tail is doing just fine.
I would add query expressions (like list comprehensions from Python or LINQ).
America: Land of the rich, home of the greenback. Of course Scott is a pornographer, so $100k seems like nothing to him.
My most excellent friend Thomas Hurst implemented a remote python shell a few years ago, for use in debugging running instances of Terminator.
You can see the code in question here:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/tru...

and how it gets set up, starting at line 88, here:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/tru...
I do think that Python is the best language, but I've worked with some truly terrible languages, so I'm not going to spend any time trying to convince someone that we should use it on a program. All I ask from a programming language is a type system, arrays, functions, and scoping. Some sort of notion of class/class methods is nice, as is a few hash/set-type containers to supplement the default array container. Having done "high-level" programming in languages that had none of these features, I'm pretty content with whatever is handed to me to work with.
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The surprising thing is we already have this very program:

Under the EB-5 program for investors, by investing $500k in a targeted high unemployment area in a capital intensive project that creates jobs, an investor can get a green card.

I had no idea this program existed until this NYTimes program on ski resort Jay Peak, which raised $250m through the program. [http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/travel/with-renovations...]

Now if we'd only apply to entrepreneurs what we're already doing for investors...
Sure you can. The google closure library did that to javascript.

You just don't get all the typeerors.
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You, and everybody who has responded to you so far, should check out Gosu[1]. It takes Java syntax and (among other things!) adds first-class functions and lambdas, adds a with statement (called "using") and gets rid of checked exceptions.

[1]: http://www.gosu-lang.org

In addition to solving all the problems people here are complaining about, it adds type inference, mixin-type-things, a superior collections interface (map and friends) and a bunch of other nice features.

However, the best bit (from a Java developer's perspective) is that it looks and behaves almost exactly like Java, just improved. Going from Java to Gosu is trivial but very nice.
Any hints as to the industry that you might be aiming for so that you can find a match with those with relevant experience.

As an example, I'm happy to bounce ideas around, I'm interested in photography, building simple useful utilities, I've got experience in ecommerce, data, statistics and managing networks.

However I'm not interested in engineering, mechanics, finance or marketing businesses.
It may feel like the Googles and the Facebooks are self-sustaining juggernauts, but customer happiness and retention is exactly the incentive machinery you are missing.

Everyone plays the balance game. You can have the best customer service in the world, but my daughter is still going to cry if your moving company breaks her stuff, or your store sells us tainted dog food, or your family-run email service writes the wrong data to the backup tapes just before a failure. Amazon might be awesome in terms of rates of well handled customers, but Google is doing pretty well, maw metaphors notwithstanding.

edit: it's really the rates of bad experiences/customer I'm talking about. There's another side of things, that of, bad experiences/customer with a problem, which Amazon is better at (in a market that isn't really comparable to the one in which google's services primarily reside, of course). On the other hand, Bezos's often cited goal of every call that has to be made to customer service being a bug to be fixed is exactly google's goal, it just sounds a lot better when there's still a number you could call.
The problem with faster better cheaper is programs are cut until just before they become irrelevant. If you want to send 20 identical robots someone is going to come along and say, what's the harm if we only send 1/2 that. But they will do the same thing if you only want to send 10. Sending 2 is vary defensible because 'you want some redundancy' but funding is not appropriated based on bang for the buck.

PS: ITER is a great example of this. Initially the goal was to test a full scale power plant with turbines etc. But, they kept cutting until it was exactly on the threshold between useful and toy without generating any power whatsoever.
I would use RAII even if it weren't required for C++ exception safety. RAII is convenient and it allows you to write code that is smaller and more solid than it would otherwise be (with or without a "finally").
Google is less flexible and less responsive on this and similar issues than they could or should be.

But. This discussion should be about COPPA. See danah boyd's illuminating research and analysis on the subject here:

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/11/01/parents...
Agreed. A single event can be meaningless, but the aggregation can still have value. Of course, that depends on how the system manages the data, not on the data itself.
While the open sourcing of webOS and the exit of HP from the tablet and phone market may not be good news for the continued existence of webOS as a separate entity, it does allow us to learn from webOS and integrate it's best features into other systems, such as Android.

And who knows? Maybe webOS will catch on. I know it made some design decisions that were superior to Android, in many ways. It was designed from the ground up for touch interfaces, whereas Android was designed initially for a keyboard + trackball interface. I think webOS will at least make Android stronger, even if it doesn't survive on its own.
A few thoughts:

- Building your business on the spelling foibles of end users seems neither white hat nor sustainable.

- Popular keywords: If I am searching for something really long-tail, like 'Mesopotamian cuisine, 9th century bc', Google can suggest 'mesothelioma' as much as they want, but it's not going to change what I'm searching for.

- Search mutation: If you're really delivering value on 3000 year-old Iraqi recipes (my previous straw man search example), having Google suggest some minor word changes shouldn't affect the likelihood of your SERPs showing up in my search.

Net net: (modulo some points around other Google verticals that I agree with) I think that the author is saying 'I can no longer make money building thinly veiled spam sites that trick your mother into clicking on ads.' Which makes me happy. Good riddance.
It would have been interesting to see how quickly companies raise after the programs conclude.

A bit harsh on TS, considering every YC startup automatically raises an extra $150k right away...
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Which Lisp implementation are you referring to? I was under the impression that some Common Lisp implementations have pretty huge standard libraries.
I'm sure biology has something to do with it but that's another simplistic assumption that hasn't been adequately tested (and is convenient for some to believe), and there's a lot of evidence that immense societal pressures push women to do the majority of the work around the home (and that basically tell them that's their responsibility.)

There are other, more equitable ways to sustain civilization besides having the women stay at home and rear children but it would require sacrifice from men that honestly, most seem unwilling to make. Or worse, men aren't cognizant of the full extent of the sacrifices that their partners are making for the family.

I say this as a gay woman that has dated men and am finding negotiating responsibilities and compromises in a same-sex relationship eye-opening to the mostly hidden inequalities in the ways hetero partners relate to each other and divvy up responsibilities. It's the little things that add up -- the assumption about who will pick up the kids from day care [[if a child is in daycare, the parents are presumably both working.. but why are there so many more moms picking up the kids than dads?]], who does the grocery shopping that week, who does the laundry... the default is too often the woman. There might be men on HN that read this that are very good to their partners and try very hard to create an equitable household and feel that this comment is unfair or doesn't reflect their own home situations. That may be true, but the chances are that if you took a very careful accounting over time and paid attention, you'd see a pattern that skews toward particular heteronormative conventions. It's just incredibly hard not to let our society's very rigid and prevalent gender roles creep into our relationships. I have a friend who considers himself a feminist and he is the one that is more vocal and careful about sharing chores than his wife. Why does that seem so noteworthy and laudable? If things were really fair, shouldn't that be more normal?

And I say this understanding that it's not all gravy for men either -- the expectations that are associated with being a man are often unfair and also cause unhappiness. Honestly, though, when it comes to things like resource and opportunity distribution, these differences tend to favor men (for instance, there's evidence that gender roles and expectations play a big part in the salary disparity between men and women.) I'd say that's a major problem. The article's author says that many women would rather work part-time and raise children and find that a fulfilling life. That's wonderful. The question I'd like to raise is, if they had the opportunity to work full-time or even do something demanding like a startup and still feel like they had the time and energy to raise their children well (perhaps because their husbands are willing to work part-time and pitch in more toward raising the kids), would they rather take that option? And if so, what can we do as a society to help make that a reality?
It depends on which society you are in; the more gender-equal, the better girls perform in school. There are places where they do slightly outperform boys overall, including in many colleges. The broader trend is that girls' test scores have been improving much faster than boys have over the past 40 years. It isn't that boys are performing any worse than they were before, or are being ill-served by school, it's just that girls have overtaken them. This change mostly came when standardized testing came about and grades were no longer subjective: with clear goals and unambiguous feedback, girls had new opportunities to excel. Boys, on the other hand, aren't socially rewarded for working hard on things they aren't good at, for empathizing and thus developing social intelligence (which is enormously valuable in school and particularly test performance) and weren't driven by the same fear of failure: worst that happens to me is I end up in my parents basement failing to pay child support.

(Your proto-bell-curve explanation has been mostly dismissed at this point, just like all the rest of the "variation" arguments: variation ends up being highly influenced by social and cultural factors. The variation in American boy's performance in school, for example, is partially a product of how shittily our schools serve poor African-American boys.)
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