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It's not as boolean as good/evil, but certainly there are ethical challenges to be faced in this particular field. There are many roles to play, so this comment isn't necessarily directed at the parent comment or risk management.

We all know the incredible power of technology. Applying engineering practices and automation to financial markets can be a dangerous game, where the full scope of risk is not yet clear and the repercussions can be disastrous [1][2].

With very few peer-reviewed academic entries and in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, I would be very uncomfortable applying my skills in this domain. I feel that engineering, if it is to be applied to financial markets, should be centered around bolstering security and reducing risk, not profiteering.

The recession was triggered by a clever system of alleviating risk [3]. When this architecture blew up, financial executives testified before congress citing the "highly complex" nature of the industry as an excuse. I personally do not want to work for this class of people, let alone implement or analyze their trading strategies.

Software is supremely flexible, it can be applied in nearly any industry. We have the ability to wield and program the electromagnetic force of the universe. We can push bits around to genuinely create a better world. That, to me, holds so much more value than a digit in my bank account.

I apologize for the off topic discussion, just wanted to get this out.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1695041

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash

[3] http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/861

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This is going to sound flip but I mean it in all seriousness: It is simply not worth worrying about this.
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Cancer happens in 44% of men.

Wisdom teeth happen in over 90% of people

Age-related farsightedness occurs in EVERYONE (it's caused by continual growth of the lens).

If you even read the blurb of the red queen book, it's "contraversial" aka "usually strung together by a popsci writer"
My guess is that they did actually have working prototypes; some of the patents have fairly detailed drawings. Some of the things being claimed in the patents aren't even particularly hard to build; standard feedback-control-system stuff that no doubt some Honeywell engineer could prototype. They just never brought them to market, which is a different issue.
I think it's still somewhat useful because the skills that make someone a good X programmer, typically make them a good Y programmer as well. The specific knowledge doesn't translate, but the skill does. I was talking with a friend who does very specific DSP work that requires significant amount of esoteric knowledge, and he said, "With a relatively small amount of training, any good programmer can become a good DSP programmer, and any bad programmer can become a bad DSP programmer."

He went on to clarify that he had worked with people from systems-programming backgrounds, all the way up to programmers who had worked chiefly in VB and this seemed to hold no matter what.
Sorry this is slightly off-topic, but I'm curious about the product here. Why should I use it? What problem is it solving for me?

Halfway down the homepage it says, "Don’t Change: Use Fetchnotes with Google Apps, Evernote, Outlook and all the other services you already love." Which was a great reminder that I already have a ton of other services trying to get me to keep notes in them... what's different about Fetchnotes and why isn't this plastered all over the homepage?

/unsolicited feedback
I've been beaten much worse at that. 12 years ago we were writing a very ambitious media asset management platform as a service (yes, in the cloud basically) and I needed tons of pictures and videos to test the system and fill the database and filesystems and test the image pattern recognition engine and else. Guess what I did? Yeah, I loaded an humongous heap of porn into the software, pictures, videos, everything.

Then the very important finance guy and the very important communication lady from whatever big important investor came unexpectedly and demanded the mother of all demos RIGHT NOW.

Boys, I know what it's to be embarrassed to death and to wish being an earthworm. Preferably deep underground. Like in New-Zealand.
For interesting problems I'd take a 10-20% cut.

I promised to teach some stuff to some guys at work in a little study circle, then I guess it is finally time to brush up on my Javascript etc and send out the cv.
What value does loyalty have to an employee other than the eternal dangling carrot?

If they're unhappy, or need that extra $10k, let them go for it.
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Carl,

You are pointing to a study that was published in 2006. This means the actual data is at least 7 years old.

Can you find a more current example?
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We won’t be throwing around profanity in our emails, but we’re definitely going to try to take a more “real” tone rather than the false formality that pervades most company communications.

This, to me, is the key takeaway from all this. That "false formality" is a killer, IMO. I personally try very hard to avoid it when writing Fogbeam Labs stuff, like our blog[1], but it's SOOO easy to slip into that mode. Keeping that out and maintaining a "real" conversational tone is tough, but I believe it's better in the long run. (No, I haven't A/B tested this or anything, it's just a hunch).

[1]: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/
You quote a statement I made in direct response to the grandparent's specific implication that the g-gparent should have consideration for what she is doing out in public and instead argue about whether or not images should be allowed of Facebook. I think I made it pretty clear why she doesn't need to. Strawman?

For the record, I'm happy to let Facebook decide to do whatever they feel is in their best interest. I don't know any laws in the US that prohibit breastfeeding in public, I do however know a number of states have made it explicitly legal specifically to ensure ignorance like this doesn't get the best of people.

http://www.breastfeedinglounge.com/breast-feeding-in-public-...

I'm also not aware of anywhere it states that it is illegal to make your breastfeeding pictures available online. It seems clear that no charges have been laid in this story. If you would like to demonstrate otherwise feel free to post reference instead of just waving your hands. Also feel free to show where it states that Facebook must be responsible for enforcing it. Sure it is possible that whether or not someone is showing a nipple changing things, but as I said that is largely an American problem. If you want to have that problem, then good for you.

In the end, this is simply about whether or not Facebook is doing what's best for their bottom line, and I'm honestly perfectly OK with that. As I stated I wasn't directly commenting on this Facebook issue in the first place, and I intend to steer clear of this (clearly male dominated) "is breastfeeding OK on the internet" debate as I can.

As far as Facebook and their bottom line goes, my gut tells me Facebook is being obtuse. No, I don't think many (if any) people will quit Facebook over having a few friends that post breastfeeding pictures (they might unfriend them at worst). I do think that some more outspoken women's rights advocates may quit Facebook, certainly they will try to raise enough of a stink and bad publicity to negatively affect Facebook. I really can't think of why Facebook wants to choose this pointless battle, but I believe it is a poor choice.
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This made my day.
You have the tail wagging the dog there.
I've been using GNOME 3 for a few months, and I actually am on board with this decision; it feels better, and looks fine. It takes some getting used to, but a button press (win key) or mouse flick is a lot faster than "mouse mouse to the corner, position it over the start button, click".

Does make me wonder how it'll work in multi-monitor setups, though. Presumably you can change the hot corner, but if that's not a launch feature there are going to be some severely annoyed users.
I see "it's" used as the possessive pronoun so often and so deliberately by educated authors that the descriptive linguist in me is starting to think "its" has been deprecated. Still, the prescriptive linguist in me is repulsed.
What's your big deal about a naked breast? Besides how can you honestly see anything more than you do on TV with a kid's head in the way?

Also what's special about Asians, are you making a generalization or something? All Asians cover up, only white people expose themselves? Exactly, what value does that bring to this conversation?
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Speaking for our startup (http://tinkercad.com) the future we see is one where many more people are original 3D content creators compared to for example the music or movie industries. Designers will still have their place and will require some way to capture value but right now we are seeing a lot more users build something for themselves or for a friend.
US citizens at least, should be upset about the state of patents in the US. I don't begrudge companies playing the game--for them it is a fact of life in US business.

What I take issue with is the granting of such trivial patents in the first place.

edit: (non-trivial --> trivial)
> printing + shipping + retailing, and any other middle-man involved

> printing

they're going to murder you on cost here. you'll print maybe X things a day. they're going to print a million times that. they'll for sure have more efficient machines, and their supply costs are going to be way lower than theirs.

don't like middle men? think about having to buy small quantities of plastic / copper / miscellaneous raw materials. some middle man is going to sell that to you. the factories won't have to deal with that since they can buy massive quantities directly from producers.

> shipping

you'll have to pay for the shipping costs of small quantities of raw materials. that will likely mitigate any advantage you have here.

> retailing

it may not be a brick and mortar retailer; you might upload your spec to a website and it'd get shipped to you. in that case, if they're smart, their retail costs will be very low. also, you have to pay retail prices for your raw materials.
If I were Honeywell...

1. I sue Nest, freak them out.
2. I offer to buy them out on the cheap.
3. Nest sells themselves "gracefully".
4. Techcrunch: "Honeywell acquires Nest for $1 million!"
5. Honeywell says: "Nest acquisition will enhance our shareholders value."
6. Honeywell sells a little bit of Nest product.
7. End game: Honeywell decides that there's not enough demand for Nest product. Nest team is fired. Product dies.
Just bought this http://neurosky.com/Products/MindSet.aspx one like 30 minutes ago.

If you email me, I will let you know what its like.
>Where are the hobbyist groups

In Mesa, AZ: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=bHB1ZXIyNXBpaHFpM2...

Our hackerspace, Heatsync Labs, does "Augmenting Humanity" on Monday nights. I believe one of the guys there is building a TMS device right now.

Also this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUW7dQ92yDU
If you are trying to build a brand around it, great. Make a conscious decision and go with it. But doing it to be funny, "just amongst the team", has a nasty way of biting you.

That's a great point. Sometimes the profanity thing can actually be a part of your brand / identity, and you just accept that you'll lose some people over it, but you're banking that the benefit is worth it. I've often said that I want Fogbeam Labs to be "The Motley Crue of software companies," so something like this would not be a big deal to us. We want to be known for breaking the rules, saying "fuck it" and being a bit edgy. But that path clearly isn't for everybody. \m/
I've been trying to beat this into the skulls of my employees. I run a contract based QA team so there's a good chance our paying client(s) are going to see everything we have entered into their databases.
RBS failed because it contained a portfolio of financial assets that overnight became valueless. That value just disappeared.

I don't see how that situation is related to a company whose revenue stream is a commission on bets placed. If the number of bets placed is zero, Smarkets doesn't end up with an asset that goes from billions of dollars of value to zero, and creating a massive black hole in a Balance Sheet.
Wow, so many people collaborated to make 3D printers affordable (http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap) sharing their knowledge freely, providing code, design, expertise without any thoughts about compensation. The first of them are just arriving and we already have the talks 'piracy'.
Someone pointed me to this on another thread: http://soterixmedical.com/tdcs.php

And this video on how to use it: http://www.jove.com/video/2744/electrode-positioning-and-mon...
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So is the start menu gone completely? With Windows7 it was actually on the way to become something like Spotlight (just not as good yet). I can't believe they'd patch that out, instead of improving on it, Windows needs something like Spotlight IMHO.
Yeah, I deleted 'horrifying' and 'disgusting' before settling on the less inflammatory 'amazing'.
A lot of times downvotes are for simple disagreement. That doesn't mean it's always the case.
They do say this, but they say it about Hollywood celebrities.

For startups, most of the time bad press is just plain bad.
Or is that their actual video chat app? (Which, if so, would obviously be a copy of FaceTime.)
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The problem with Moneyball as an analogy for web software development is that software development is not a game with a finite pie outcome model, i.e. there isn't a winner for every loser or vice versa.

For web software development there isn't even a clear way to determine winners - e.g. market share or brand awareness may trump revenue as a measure of success depending on the purpose for which web development is undertaken.

If Bean's goal had been to put butts in seats, it is unlikely that his methods would have worked.
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This is somewhat unrelated, but if I may pick your brain for a moment, what are your thoughts on this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/30/self-e-publishin...
Perhaps this against the current behavior will lead them to exhaust their resources and make them naturally selectable for extinction as a business model.

They had their chance to evolve.
There needs to be a branch between the classic HID driven computing experience, and what is obviously an immersive, touch driven product. I feel like the Metro UI is what we'll be heading towards eventually, but I think some things just need to stay the same. A solid manipulative platform that is clean as it is elegant in its structure and its function is something I think a lot of us will need for the foreseeable future..
Cool idea.

Small UI suggestions (realizing this was just a hack) -
1. Add some margin-left to the copyright notice at the bottom
2. Autocomplete on the cities (and other fields, like Occupation) will help standardize your dataset for search and sort later
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Agreed, I've also used Burp to great effect. I'm glad this field is getting a lot of attention.
Oh, it's different all right:

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Goes to show that it's not just software patents that can be utterly ridiculous in their breadth... Here we seem to have half a dozen examples of the one-click patent applied to thermostats.
I suppose it could be an indicator of your motivation. If you're making 80k and are looking to be paid at least 70k, it might show that at your level, you could potentially get 90k if you wanted, but have other considerations than money.
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How would that work exactly? You end up turning the patent from protecting an idea/invention into protecting who can get a product manufactured first. In particular, it seems trivial for your manufacturing partners to steal your patent by delaying delivery and putting your product on the market instead of you. The little guy is the one who loses.

Or did you think companies would follow the guidelines in good faith??
I was in the process of building something just like this, for the very same reason. :)

Great job! Looks very useful. One comment: it isn't immediately obvious that clicking the table row opens the link. Maybe make it more obvious by using the mouse-over-link cursor change?
The thing is I don't think you really can kill piracy and Hollywood should realize that it doesn't need to.

For me personally, piracy is a crime of opportunity - I do it because it's easy and available. However, me downloading movie doesn't represent lost revenue for Hollywood - if I were forced to pay for a movie, I would simply do something else.

This is what I think goes over the head of Hollywood execs. If a youtoube music video has 5M views, it doesn't mean it missed out on 5M customers, it just means 5M were willing to watch something for free.

As a side note, the one movie service I have paid for in the past 5 years, Redbox, has strong opposition from Hollywood. I use it because as the OP mentions, it's better than pirating. Instant, convenient, and the cost is a non issue. Why doesn't Hollywood embrace this rather than oppose it? Who knows.

All that said, it starting to feel like we're beating a dead horse here on HN.
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Link to the contact page, maybe we can automate signed submissions...
On the other hand, I am a generalist programmer with an engineering degree that right at the moment is working on different project in various fields and in each of this project on various layers of technology => the result is that i'm touching at the same time electronic (yeah this even goes beyond programming), low level (drivers, telecom stack), medium level (application infrastructure), databases, user interface, sysadmin, and so over.

Saying that "programmer" means nothing is not completely false, but not completely true either. The application domain matters, but just as in other professions; you can't pretend that "electronic engineer" means nothing, you can't prented that "neutronic engineer" means nothing, even if you don't know if the first one is currently designing electronic boards for missiles or set-top-box, and if the second one is currently designing nuclear weapons or civilian reactor, or doing some radioprotection work.

In that sense saying "programmer" means nothing because there are lot of different programmers with various background and levels is an implicit depreciation of professional highly competent programmers capable of working on anything related to computer programming (and even in a lot of cases, beyond computer programming).

Having learned mathematics at school does not makes me a mathematician, even when I am using that math knowledge in a project, and not more than commentating about a book with friend makes me a literary critic. Doing dilettante or a little of entry level programming does not makes somebody a "programmer" either.
Really love this idea, so simple! Might try some experiments myself.
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Interesting theory, but unlikely (IMO).

Given the people involved in NEST, and the capital behind them, this isn't "two easily scared dorm-room occupants". Most likely patent lawsuits were anticipated, and potentially even budgeted for in terms of licensing costs being assumed at some point.

This is, IMO, another example of a company (Honeywell) with a book of patents they don't truly understand how to leverage on their own making a money-grab. I would wager a guess that this plays out very uninterestingly overall.
Hi,
It's been licensed under GPLv2.
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And you're right, it's hard to get really good at asking questions by just reading about it. But practicing is easy. As mentioned in the post, go to Barry Rhein's site and take the challenge. That's a great warmup.
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I wasn't reacting to NatWest's treatment of Smarkets, but to the assertion that being taxpayer owned somehow obliges RBS/NW to treat them in a different manner.
Better article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12275979
mind sharing "how"?