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The tech world is becoming more and more competitive as there is less and less money to be made elsewhere.

I quote: “There’s not much money left to be made in timber or coal.” and "Harrison LeFrak, the son of the real estate billionaire Richard LeFrak, started making technology investments after the financial crisis, when many investors closed their checkbooks."

Wonderful ;)
You were also operating at an entirely different scale than Apple. You'd have a hard time getting your end product to the US, while Apple simply buys up enough air freight from China to screw up everyone else's supply chain.

Apple doesn't go to the factory next door and buy screws when it needs them, they need millions of screws to very specific specs and sign deals to have them made by different suppliers for years at a time.

They'll go as far as financing the new factory that is required to fulfill their monster orders. The same rules just simply do not apply.
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I don't think my "why the down vote" was any type of "entitlement". It was a just a question. Could easily ahve been answered. and it was. but then it was also down voted.. which in itself is not helpful at all. The answer given was some what helpful but I had follow up to it. and that too was down voted.. still with no real helpful answer. So at that point I was more frustrated than anything. Now I understand.
Right, and likewise for the MPL, which is a sort of copyleft license, but is generally considered "weak copyleft" unlike the GPL, which is "strong copyleft."[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Strong_and_weak_copyle...
If i had a new product, i would MVP it until it reaches success and iterate until that point, not spend millions on it upfront. Sure its a nice product, but great inventions will sell themselves if the people find it useful (and can afford it) as long as you inform people that it exists.
All the author really did was restate the innovator's dilemma for this specific case.

Yahoo's directories were more profitable to it than search and thus search innovations were a threat to existing revenue. (See also: pg's Yahoo article about Yahoo's ad sales)

So innovation in search (and ads) came from outside Yahoo.

Similarly, any innovation that fundamentally threatens Google's ad revenue is unlikely to be pursued by Google itself. So there's no good reason to expect that sort of innovation to come from them.

Hence the example of Siri turning a spoken query into a vocalized answer (whenever it can), rather than a list of links with ads around them.

Though the author is off a bit when they imply there's no room for ads in the process. As most use of Siri still involves looking at the screen, on which it would be trivial to drop a narrow banner ad or promoted link.
Maybe politicians will finally understand that "manufacturing jobs" are not coming back to US and stop wasting money by trying to get them back. "Manufacturing" itself could be back - if they start encouraging 99.9% robot manufacturing facilities, and manufacture stuff more efficiently than any Chinese company.

Yes, it won't bring "manufacturing jobs", but it will bring a lot of capital into the country, and will also spur new type of jobs and businesses in relation to that, or it would make it a lot easier for US entrepreneurs to mass-produce their products just from a prototype.

That's the sort of thing politicians should be encouraging - not try to bring back blue-collar jobs.
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Not, by any stretch, remotely, anything to do with graph theory. If you're mathematically inclined, you might call the techniques used 'linear algebra', but even the non-mathematically inclined will probably have encountered them in school as just plain 'algebra'. And most people could solve this problem without symbol manipulation by just drawing themselves a couple of pictures and doing basic arithmetic.
There is this old-fashioned idea called "professionalism", which seems to have been inadvertently discarded along with dress codes, and of which they were once emblematic. Work is not home, is not friends (wholly), and is most certainly not college (unless it is).

I kid myself that if there was a better age, sex and cultural mix in software companies, these kinds of extremes would be tempered. It would be a start. Is programming the new advertising? Or is it just a side-effect of success?
Harder to find. Where is the alibaba.com of the US? Lets say I want to manufacture a device with a printed circuit board, a case, and some artwork. Where can I fill out a form and have it go to at least a dozen the US manufacturers and have them come back with bids?

This is a huge gap that filling would reap both financial and political rewards.
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Energy no object, it's a matter of harvesting it and dissapating the wasted heat.

After all, the sun send more energy to the earth in one hour than we use in an entire year as humanity.
This is funny to me. I decided I was definitely leaving during an internship and most of my coworkers and friends thought it was a great idea. My advisor and closest academic colleagues were supportive as well.

I joked that the PhD program was like a girlfriend no one liked, but they waited to say so until I quit.
That’s what makes it so annoying, though, the fact that we _know_ they probably meant to share it as free software.

My point goes further than people forgetting to add a license, though. Some people think that just adding it as an open repo to GitHub is enough, which, depending on the country, it clearly isn’t.

In my opinion, GitHub should educate people a bit more about this. A simple feature like this could just be enough.
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According to the article they need to be assembled in China because of the supply chain. I don't see how import duties suddenly make the supply chain work on the other side of the globe.
That sounds like good (?) old-fashioned male competitiveness.
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Brazil is an exceptional case because of their import tariffs which are far, far higher than any other country in the world.

From the linked article:

"with domestic production of the iPhone and iPad providing a means by which Apple could avoid hefty import taxes in one of the world's most populous countries. "

I don't know any of the details, but I would assume Foxconn is performing the absolute minimum level of assembly necessary to meet "domestic manufacturing" requirements. So it is in no way an effective counterexample.

Plus, Brazilians are used to long supply-chain delays (like major supermarkets in major cities running out of Diet Coke or Ruffles) in a way that Americans will not put up with. Something tells me Foxconn's Brazilian factory may not be too different.
The recent change in trend has never shocked me like the very small shocked few. A lot of people will say something like "Google is creepy!" and then turn around and do 10 searches on it that day in between checking their Gmail.
It appears he wants to publish the vulnerability (might be a novice security researcher) without getting sued.
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Well, I feel stupid. I just skimmed it after going through the detection steps. I missed the part where it installs itself to a different location if it doesn't get the user's password.
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> So what if there's an uproar?

It would be boneheaded from a PR stand point, and it is insulting towards the GPL.

> Other license writers could also want to be treated specially.

You seem to have a serious gripe with the GPL. The GPL (its unnamed ancestor, to be pedantic) is the mother of open source licenses. It enables Freedom, with a capital "f" for its users, at the expense of obligations for people who distribute binaries. Liberal licenses turn the situation around.

Labeling the GPL, but not liberal licenses as restrictive is heavily biased, and simply does not reflect reality (since liberal licenses put implicit restrictions on binaries recipients).

I speak as a license author, BTW: https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License
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The fallacy in that is that countries don't get to decide and plan what their comparative advantages are. If the US can systematically train it's workforce for higher-cost services, so can China. Except, they can do it faster, cheaper and at a larger scale (like everything else they do). This is what happened with white collar IT jobs going to India.
We can still agree homakov doesn't deserve this kind of lingering resentment on behalf of the OP.
I was just going to post a comment about Goldratt's book. If you think the Beer Game is too simplistic, you really must read that book, it is eye opening - though it will feel a little slow to the HN crowd at first :)
Just for fun, next time a patent lawyer tells you that, ask them to explain how such a patent is distinguished from Flook's patent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_v._Flook
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Sure, but consider: what is your objective? If your objective is to express your opinion, then say things however you want, and if people react negatively, then tough.

However, if your objective is to convince people of an idea, then you should consider that some opinions are beside your point, and don't need to be expressed. These really are two completely different objectives, and sometimes, if your objective is to persuade and explain, then you have to omit certain opinions of your own which will detract from your point.
...not to mention currency and wage issues.
When Appsterdam came about, I went and researched the tax implications of starting a business in the Netherlands. The Dutch-American Friendship treaty essentially gives americans immediate residency if they start a business (worth something like 12,000 euros or more) in the netherlands.

It looked to me like the effective tax rate was going to be around %70. (for my particular situation, but I was counting the taxes levied against the corporation and the taxes I'd end up paying on the income. So if the corp earned $100,000 from app sales, and paid around %30, and then I paid %40 on the remainder that would be more than %70 tax but you see what I mean.)

So, I gave the whole appsterdam thing a pass. I reported the %70, and Mike Lee had a conniption, called me a liar, and some other appsterdam person posted a link to the tax tables which.... confirmed that I was being generous. (IF you were a really successful app company your tax rate would be higher.)

Amsterdam is really nice in a lot of ways... as is denmark. but there are a lot of really nice places around the world. Most of which are not super expensive to live, and many of them don't tax you for income earned outside their borders.
ah, but who do you show a concept to? an investor? cool, this makes sense, as you invest in an idea most often, not a fully realized product.

but goolge just released that video into the public space, into the realm of consumers. which is a very rarely a good idea. people still bitch about ms courier as if it had been an actual product rather than just a video.
The BSD license prohibits you from falsely claiming authorship of the code it covers, so I guess that's going to be filed under "restrictive" too?

Licenses are complicated, and what people want to do with code is complicated too; "restrictive" vs. "permissive" cannot be defined well. "copyleft" represents a well-defined, understandable concept; while not without edge cases, it makes it fairly clear what kind of license we're talking about.
You can make anything work given enough money. It will cost them substantially more to manufacture the devices in Brazil, but this may be more than offset by lack of import duties and the tax deal.
+1 Had to read "The Goal' at SMU to graduate. I suggest all developers, managers or entrepreneurs to read it today! If you are a startup, when you read it think developers/designers as your industrial machines.
Good deal! Agree that traditional sessions are best avoided, but good to know that megastore is suitable for session data.
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"Population declines following economic collapse" should be "Population declines following sustained drop in birthrate." The population is going to decline regardless of what the future economy does.
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> 100 passengers have queued up to board a plane, and are lined up in the order of the seats on the plane (n=1..100). However, the first person lost his ticket and selects a random seat. The remaining passengers will occupy their assigned seat if it is available, or a random seat otherwise. What is the probability that passenger 100 sits in seat 100?

It really worried me that I couldn't figure out how to work that out. I thought about what I'd do in an interview if I was asked that, and I figured (if I had my laptop) I'd write some code. So I gave myself 5 minutes by the clock, and wrote a little python program that simulated the situation and counted the results. I ran 5 million iterations, which with pypy took 59 seconds. The number I got out was a 97.335% chance of person 100 being in seat 100.

I have 3 questions:

1. Is that the right answer?

2. How are you supposed to work it out?

3. Would working it out the proper way take less than 6 minutes?

Edit: It seemed like too high a number, which is part of why I asked. I looked through my code and found a dumb error - I forgot to remove the seat from the 'available' list if the person finds their assigned seat. That's what happens when you write code on a 5 minute deadline. Now I'm consistently getting 49.9%, which seems more reasonable.
I always feel like a fuddy-duddy telling people that not having access to the filesystem gives me the willies. But this sort of thing reinforces the validity of my reticence.
There would be positive effects from Amazon being closer to their suppliers, but there would be a huge negative being further from their customers. The main reason I order from Amazon is that everything gets to my door in 2 days, if they are shipping to me from China that value proposition is a lot harder to offer.
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They could just pull the licenses from the OSI's list (http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical). And people writing their own licenses contributes to the license proliferation problem, so should be generally discouraged (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation).
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machos = battle

Perhaps it means that he was far away from the battle or it means that he battles from afar? The latter would seem a better fit for Odysseus himself.
The article mentions that employees visiting Facebook from inside use an experimental build. Any idea how they manage this if the experimental build requires changes in the data structures used by the site?
Cost is the main driver here. I am lefty, but I agree the unions are a little out of control. I am sorry, but a guy who stands in a production line building cars should not be making $125k per year (source was a series on TV, think 60 minutes where they talked to some of those workers).

I am glad unions are there to help make sure people are not overworked and have benefits, but come on guys. You shot yourself in the foot there.
Those are still biased terms, similar to how people highlight the positive for characterizing their political stances. (I've never met someone who considered themselves "anti-life" or "anti-choice.") Someone could equally say that what you call "restrictive" licenses are "freedom preserving."
I don't agree that there is resentment. That comment seemed to choose its words carefully to avoid judging.

But ideally this isn't going to be a subject you & I are going to end up having to argue about today.
But then I'd have to use DOM4j. More seriously, I didn't even think to look at DOM4j again, so didn't know it wrapped JXPath.

I had been using XOM for a while, a HUGE improvement over JDOM and DOM4j. Elliot Harold's FAQ and slides explain his improvements.

LOX has an even more simple object model, uses JDK 1.5 idioms, and is MUCH easier to interactively debug. (LOX also doesn't recognize namespaces, which keeps it simple.)

When it came time to do path expressions, I initially used JXPath and then Jaxen. Both are very hard to debug.

After a hard rethink, wanting an API that supports how I like to work, I dropped XPath and came up something a lot more simple, a lot smaller, and closer to how I work.

LOX's path expressions have only 1-axis (to use a XPath-ism), parent to child. I've never used any of the other axis, so no big loss.

LOX also supports globbing (wildcarding) syntax, which is a huge win over XPath.
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> The American auto bailout was a purely political play to save the unions who supported the Democrats.

Are you kidding?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16740.html
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If you really want them to fix it, whatever you decide, be anon about it. If you want your name attached to it, move on.
In my belief system, working in finance or for the industrial-military complex are //unethical// choices for someone to make.

Doing a software startup is the only remaining choice for me then...
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> I don't know any of the details, but I would assume Foxconn is performing the absolute minimum level of assembly necessary to meet "domestic manufacturing" requirements. So it is in no way an effective counterexample.

It's absolutely a counterexample. The iPad is assembled in China, but its parts are from all over the world. Now it's also assembled in Brazil. The supply chain in China isn't critical to the iPad's assembly, just critical to the iPad's assembly at the current profit margins. Despite the hot air in the article, you could absolutely manufacture iPads in the US. Much like Brazil they would cost more, but that's not what the article was talking about, it said they can't be made anywhere else. That's bullshit, proven by Brazil.
I think your lit table also implies you can write to literals. So I can 'SET 2, 0x1f; SET A, 2' and now A is 0x1f.
I think there's another aspect to this, which is the fact that Apple is not primarily concerned with the US market. 80% of Apple's most profitable product, the iPhone, are sold outside the USA.

Even if you could get cost parity in production, there's no real reason why Apple should move manufacturing back to the US, just because they started off as an American company.
"Solve" it on paper by making it someone else's problem? This philosophy is a large part of why manufacturing jobs left in the first place.
Hey, just because someone can't play Angry Birds on their Windows Phone doesn't mean they will return it to the retailer.

Are there other more valid reasons?
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From a practical perspective, it seems to me that the Beer Game rests in three parts: in imperfect information, time delays, and most importantly, independence of agents. If each member of the supply chain knew consumer demand perfectly far enough in the future, they could compensate. Likewise, if each member of the supply chain could instantly scale their process, they could compensate. The key, though, is that even if you perfectly forecast, or can instantaneously process and ship your stock, everyone down the line from you must do so as well.

From what I gather, having the supply chain in China or Brazil addresses the second two problems. The advantage of China isn't just cheap labor, it's cheap, readily available labor. A change in demand (like switching the screens on the iPhone) can be met relatively easily, which partially solves the time delay problem. And the more of the supply chain you hold in one geographic location makes shipping time faster. The independence of agents issue gets addressed when Apple can coordinate the actions of each member of the supply chain better. I imagine this is, for the moment, easier in China than the US.

Where I part ways with the article is the bail-out. The US labor pool doesn't seem elastic enough to address the time-delay part of the bullwhip effect. If Foxconn suddenly had a temporary drop in demand and had to lay off thousands of laborers, it would not be a huge issue. If they need to hire them again, zip, pretty quick. Likewise if they need to request huge overtime commitments because they can't train new workers fast enough, no problem. US workers are particularly averse to uncertain job prospects, perhaps with good reason, but with the effect that scaling work (and wages) up and down is less tenable. And perhaps this is where the unions come in - the overtime payments from forcing workers to work more hours to meet demand is much more costly in a union than a non-union environment, for better or worse.

Edit: I've just now recalled that one summer, I worked for a large bread factory. They loved hiring college students in the summer because they knew that they didn't really care about staying in the union. Summer demand for baked goods skyrockets. A plant manager showed me how they were lagging behind demand by something like 2 million dollars / week (I've forgotten the exact number, but it was staggering to me). In his words "you can imagine what that does for business." But they couldn't just start hiring more workers, or scaling up the plant, because then they'd have more workers than the knew what to do with once the winter hit, when people were working 20-30 hrs/week. And this is one case where almost the entire supply process was in the US, minus wheat they might have gotten elsewhere.
There ought to be an app for the beer game.
GitHub detects the presence of README files by file name. It'd be pretty easy to do that for LICENSE files too of course. Look for LICENSE, MIT-LICENSE, etc.

The trick is actually identifying what type of license it is.

Pop quiz: What license is this?

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/master/LICENSE

This problem would be perfect for a tiny ruby script like Linguist: https://github.com/github/linguist. Just something simple that's given some filenames and contents that can return the license type.

It'd also be nice to handle non software licenses, such as creative commons. I'm not sure what the convention is for specifying that in Git repositories, however.
No, this is not true. If you include GPL'd code in your code, then your code's license is unchanged. You do not have to license your code under the GPL just to use GPL'd code.
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