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If you are arguing that you were damaged specifically because of technical glitches associated with the IPO, you are expected to sell the shares. Any price action after that is due to factors outside of NASDAQ's direct control, and there's a sense in which you are taking risk by continuing to hold.

(Otherwise, everyone would sue whenever a stock price moved -- shareholders complaining when prices fall and short parties complaining when prices rise)
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The sad part of this is that Twitter was going in this direction:

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html

I don't think the reaction would be nearly as bad if Twitter was better at making clients for their own service. They aren't very good at it. Twitter for Mac (née Tweetie) is dying on the vine.

TweetBot is 10x better on iOS than the native client, and Osfoora on the desktop.

Why not meet the challenge of an ecosystem in conjunction with ad revenue rather than just blanket rule against it?
People who are so weak-minded should be shot.
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Stop paying attention to trash patents that get filed every day (too many to count and of little consequence) and start getting outraged at companies that actually sue based on trash patents (Apple is the #1 offender here, but sadly not alone).
Countries (including India) donate to the US during times of disaster (Katrina). Not exactly the same thing, but worth pointing out.

The US gets a lot of value from having a friend in the region. Especially one with the military capabilities that India has.

But really, my point is that we live in a complicated world. It's idealistic (naive?) to think "how silly, people are starving yet they have a space program or a nuclear program?!" Science and energy aren't wasteful places to be spending money. Frankly, we live in a world where military spending can hardly be seen as wasteful.
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So let's summarize: The Indian government spends billions of dollars (which are desperately needed for other purposes in a poor country like India) propping up the price of wheat. This causes many farmers to switch from growing vegetables to wheat. The drives up the price of vegetables, and would drive down the price of wheat, except for political reasons the Indian government would rather let the wheat rot than give it away cheaply. As a result, many of the poor can't afford wheat, and the ones who can can't afford anything but wheat, leading to rampant malnutrition.

Or even shorter: India spends billions of dollars on a policy that does nothing except ensure they have a rate of child malnutrition almost twice that of sub-saharan Africa.

tl;dr: Socialism, lol.

(Oh, and as Spodek pointed out, famines are caused by a lack of money, not food. It's been known for DECADES that if you want to stop people starving, you need to give them cash, and cut barriers to trade.)
Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister is a classic; also The Mythical Man-Month by Brooks.

There's a ton of material aimed at people who want/need PMP certification.
For example, search for "facebook earning estimates before ipo"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-facebook-foreca...

> In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpectedly delivered some negative news to major clients: The bank's consumer Internet analyst, Scott Devitt, was reducing his revenue forecasts for the company.
What in the world is your definition of "culture"? It is not something that is rooted mainly in age, as if a 80 year old could be assumed to have more "culture" that a 30-year-old pioneering artist.
I didn't mean to blame the OP for the title, I just meant it in the sense that it was vaguely misleading and was going to cause a predictable response, which it did - by the time I clicked reply, the article was at #1 and there were 8 responses (then it got flagged into oblivion for 30 minutes).

If it were a far more reasonable "Apple patent for instruction rewriting for vector operations on CPUs", would it have gotten the same response?

You're right that it's not the OP's fault for directly copying it, and probably wasn't intentional, but it's a situation that comes up again and again on HN for patent related posts.
Thank you for the link. The McGinnis's talk was very interesting, but there are some other more just as good.
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http://artcrimes.org/
There is a very, very strong culture in america you probably don't realize how apart of it you are until you leave america. There are so many factors that bind us from our shared media, history, education, values, expectations, how we look at the rest of the world and how we view ourselves in relation to it. It's even more amusing when you travel around and see so many cultures trying to emulate different facets of american life, but never getting it right. Maybe if you've never left america you think there's 'no culture' because it's hard to notice when you're surrounded by it. Maybe you don't appreciate the fact you can travel 3,000 miles to the opposite coast and instantly relate to people living there. Try doing that anywhere else in the world. Oh and high immigation and non-native speakers is also very american.
The distances are so great that the broadcasts of another civilization would attenuate to undetectable levels before they could reach us.
Ask HN: Is the amazon app store a good idea for premium apps
We have a premium priced app on the itunes store ($11.99: http://www.ullrlabs.com/solutions.html) and are getting ready to launch the android version. My business partner is worried about the pricing model there. Does anyone have experience with the amazon store (or other stores) for apps priced in this range? Have you had good or bad experiences and why? Any recommendations on things to watch out for before launching?
Makes me think of the Hughes/Raytheon SPE (Signal Processing Element) that I programmed when I worked at Raytheon about 2006. Loops to control parallel processing to/from multiple memories, ... It's at least 20 years old.

How can they get a patent on this? There must be lots of prior art (such as the SPE).
What keeps India's infrastructure basically third-world while other (small, but rapidly growing) parts of the economy are world-class?
Yeah its not fair is it?

British went to India (on what visa?) and looted the country shipping everything valuable to Britain. And now British can't let Indians into their country because of visa restrictions? That is fair right?
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It depends, you could spend $1.2Bn on feeding the people of various third world countries or you could spend $6.7Bn/Month on bombing just one of them - not sure which is going to gain you more friends and influence, but neither is going to do much for a poor kid in Alabama
I do this whenever I read complicated pieces of code. It's enormously helpful, even if I don't keep my changes around.

Some of the time the changes are broadly beneficial (like taking a multi-thousand-line file and adding some organizational structure) and it makes sense to commit them upstream. Some of the time the changes are personal preference and aid only in your own understanding of the code.

As with most things, the best approach is to use your judgement, not get too attached to your own changes, and to understand that context matters.
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The link goes to the blogs front page; the article link is actually:
http://jmlite.tumblr.com/post/26301352781/are-you-entitled-t...
I disagree that Twitter's official iPhone client is "bad." You may like Tweetbot more, but I am a power user who actually prefers the official client.

It's not a question of good vs. bad, it's more like good vs. better (where better is a personal preference).
> Scala really makes Play2 shine.

Not really. Scala has a lot of good points but it's very ill-suited to web development because of compilation times.

Play1 could compile templates in a few tenths of a second while it takes 7-10 seconds for each template in Play 2, which is unacceptable when you do this all day long.

I predict Play 2 will not be around in a year from now for this reason, there are just better and faster ways to do this.
Beautiful and effective design. Kudos!

One note: there seems to be a CSS bug when scrolling right on a browser window less than 1000px wide (Chrome, Mac).

Also: have you considered aiming marketing and features more at the media center market? Every demo pic is of a laptop, and yet turning down the volume from the couch with no remote seems far more useful.
In practice the loop would tend to be unrolled at compile-time anyway, so the CPU would see instructions that look like the first case.
>Similarly, apes have recently been documented consoling one another after conflicts

Apes have also been documented reading the Economist. Guess which family Homo Sap belongs to.
I like to always make the point that users are spoiled and have an awful sense of entitlement when it comes to the web but in this case I can't say I blame the users. It's really important to think long term and definitely overprice your product rather than pricing it as low as you can. If the price point you set can't be sustained in 2 to 5 years with the number of users you project (and this is where you should overprotect or, put another way, plan for the best case scenario) then be ready for some backlash and lost customers. Always try to make it so you have to lower prices as username grows. It's common sense. Now of course you can't always do that and you have to feel for the company when that happens but the customers will get over it. So long as you handle it well and you're offering something people want the users will pay the higher price as long as they're still getting value from the product.

Customers bitch about every little change you'll ever make so sometimes you just have to take it with a grain of salt. Hell, even free services get this when any change is made because people already using the product don't want any change. At all. Humans hate Amy and all change. So if you think enough current users will eventually get on board and new users will surely get more value from a change then it's worth it.

He frames this in terms of grandfathered pricing but really it's about users reacting to change. Higher pricing is the worst kind of change a user can experience but in the end it's almost no different than when Facebook changes privacy settings (or changes your email address without asking). The success or failure will be based on new users valuing the change thus getting them to sign up and current users eventually getting used to it versus the exact opposite of that. Users will bitch about all changes always. Upping the price, unfortunately, is the worst thing you could probably do. But they'll get over it.
It's a man's (virtual) world
There's a great scene in Oliver Stone's movie "Heaven And Earth", where the refugee from the Viet Nam war goes into an American supermarket for the first time, and it's just overwhelming.

Haven't seen a supermarket the same way since.
The poverty level in the us is $23 050 for a family of 4 (1). Not sure where you got your figure.

Roughly 10% of americans were food-insecure at some point in a year (2)

(1) http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12poverty.shtml

(2) http://webarchives.cdlib.org/sw1s17tt5t/http://ers.usda.gov/...

Yes, in India ~50% of the population doesn't have regular access to clean water or a sewage system. Yes, I'd rather be poor in the US than poor in India. But I maintain that the state of poverty in the US (and other western countries) is a far bigger failure than the state of poverty in any developing country.

Also, I can't help but link to this great post whenever talking about poverty:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

the mac and cheese one makes me tear up every time I read it.
Like any language/platform, they both solve particular problems really well and then are OK or downright messy for the rest. I've developed applications for both platforms, and will more likely choose Django over Rails at the moment, but mostly because I work with Python a lot in general.

Ruby is a fun language and Rails is, essentially, its killer app. Programming Rails apps means learning a lot of conventions, a lot of "the right way" to do things. It's not just code style, but about good software engineering practices -- testing, database migrations, and multiple environments are all built in and easy to use. There are also some tremendous environment and deployment tools out there. RVM and bundler make dependencies easy to manage, and HAML greatly cleans up the HTML side of things. As mentioned elsewhere, Rails development can be really fast once you've got up to speed, but that can take time and cause serious headaches for anyone who walks into maintaining an existing reasonably complex project.

I love Python and use it all the time. It does have a bit of a problem with legacy libraries moving to Python 3, Django being one of them (if you want to try Django, use Python 2.7). Django was built for a newspaper website, as such it has some slightly odd conventions that can be confusing at first. Notably it makes the distinction between an app (reusable piece of functionality) and a site (comprising one or more apps). It has a strict template engine (by default), that has its own DSL which requires some getting used to. Django generates a lot less files than Rails by default, and generally feels more compact. It also has a really nice admin feature out of the box.
That does not sound like the correct number for the US poverty line. Where did you get it from?
your facebook button isn't working (in chrome) :-)
Scoffing at the titles of patents is usually a sign that you don't understand how patents work. A patent covers a specific method for achieving a goal, not the goal itself.
I wonder if there are an studies of people who wear hearing aids which show any cancer risk due to constant use of an electrical device within their ears?

Sure it's not radio waves but it is electrical which produces magnetic flux and not oscillating like radio waves but it is EM energy.

Anyway I guess in a way it's comforting that it's so hard to determine either way if long-term low power close contact EM exposure is damaging.
Ask HN: Developing an App Marketing Course on Udemy
I am trying to develop an app marketing course based on my experience as the first employee and product manager/marketing manager at a startup.

The current plan for the lectures is available on Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/become-an-app-marketing-expert/

I will really appreciate any feedback HN readers can provide about the course.

- Puneet
Some great designs there - may I ask how do you normally do it? (just curious, not a possible employer)
It always seems impossible until it's done
> Living and traveling outside the US (Europe, Middle East, Asia) for ~15 years convinced me of the inherent superiority of the US (culturally, economically, etc.).

You say this without any qualifications, when what you seem to mean is "superior for starting a tech business". That's a pretty major qualification to leave out.

It's obvious that most of the computer revolution was driven by the US. The dotcom boom was enabled by the very large American stock markets, and would not have been quite so possible elsewhere. That's undeniable, and I think the world is thankful to the leading lights in the US behind the innovations we enjoy today.

I went to the US as an undergrad hoping to experience the promises of its culture and energy. I learnt a lot from my time there, but in fact my opinion of the US moderated somewhat. Previously I thought it was the land of opportunity, creativity and liberty; after, I realised it also had deep problems with the way things ran (healthcare system, inequality and social distrust, deadlocked government). (I never lived on the West Coast - only visited.)

After returning to Asia from the US, I thought I'd prefer living in Canada, for easy access to the American market as well the Canadian healthcare system.

Another aspect is, it's simply not "done" in my home country (and I assume most other countries) to publicly label yourself as "the best". That's something I noticed among some Americans, and I can't agree with it. Where I'm from, there's always something to learn from someone else, and someone to build better relationships with. Calling yourself "the greatest nation on Earth" or the like smacks of arrogance, even if it could be argued to be true for some value of "greatest". Arrogance is, I suspect, why much anti-American sentiment exists.
they tend to be written with a very high degree of obsfurcation since you are trying to both claim absolutely everything and yet be specific when it comes to the court case.

Fortunately patent cases now tend to get decided out of court based on who has the biggest portfolio, or when they do go to court it's a jury in East Texas deciding which lawyer they dislike least. this has taken a lot of the work out of trying to write elegant claims!
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I gathered that he wants to be able to host a site like wikileaks anonymously.
I wonder if farmers could arbitrage the government by buying grain at the market price and then selling at the fixed price...
They get away with it because the USPTO clerk isn't particularly inclined to check for prior art.

There should be a way to sue the patent office for patents you had to spend money invalidating. Better: to Sue them for approving bad patents and enabling trolls to thrive.
Another very contentious patent granted to Apple
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4186731
Food insecurity at some point in a year is not at all the same thing as starvation.
Scott, the price is definitely on the higher side but at the same time you seem to be serving a very niche market so it might work.

In terms of pricign I would actually look at the competitors. If the competitors have more or less the same functionality then it might make sense to try to match your competitor price.

If you don't have a competitor then $11.99 seems fine. Amazon app store is not a bad choice if you are looking for higher conversions but amazon app store is bad for discoverability. So if you have a good existing channel for gettign users exposed to your app then amazon app store might be better for you.

Another thing you need to keep in mind is that amazon app store high conversions are only for US users AFAIK.
Glad to see most of the comments here are from people that read the patent, understood it and not the general lets go with the now popular Apple is a patent troll line of hating.
Context does matter. However, I think that we should err on the side of caution when it comes to preventing people from doing things.
They mean intelligent, tall, handsome, straight, white, male.
I have the same feeling. This is not somewhat disturbing?
Gah, can't believe I managed to get those mixed up, but yes.
>Your average HN reader would probably 'invent' the same technique if CPU design was their profession and they were tasked with the continuous march of CPU performance.

In French law, you can only patent something if it is not something that would be evident to a trained professional in the field ("Pour un homme du métier, une invention ne doit pas découler de façon évidente de l’état de la technique ; on considère que l’homme du métier est le technicienmoyen dans un secteur donné"- art. L611-10, Code Propriété Intellectuelle.)

Is it not the case in the US?
Reminds me of the early days of the EU nd butter mountain.

The indian goverment needs to build storage, build a transport system to replace the old british one that is dated. So many things theyt could be doing and should of been doing and yet all the warning signs get ignored.

Firstly they need to look at the price they pay as the sad fact they have paid so much has allowed the GM crops to sneak in via various crop priomises and alot of farmers jumped onto that bandwagon, found themselfs in debt they could not pay and cmmiting suicide to maintain honour. So any drop in price would be impacting and needs to be done slowly. You cant hook a farmer onto a subsidy crack-pipe without weaning them off slowly, but there again people dont apprecieate that money can also be a drug.

Sadly this pattern of growth/overstock etc is common in many area's of the World over time and as I mentioned the whole butter mountain/dairy one the EU had in its early days being a good enough example. Exports would be one area, though they will take a loss, but better a small loss than losing it all.
Sorry my mistake, it was from a lobbying group website and is 2x the "official" US poverty level income figure. Their point being that even at 200% of the official figure it's still pretty tough, which is certainly true.

Their site was one of these "thinktanks" that appear to be an official government agency until you look very closely.
> these radiation particles are SMALLER than x-ray particles

This indicates you might not understand enough physics to be able to back up your assertions. Firstly, X-rays are in the same category as "radiation particles" (I assume you are referring to electromagnetic radiation). Secondly, radiation "particles" are photons and they don't strictly have a size; they do, however, have a wavelength, which might be what you are alluding to?

(And lastly, if particles "pass through absolutely everything", they do no damage and so aren't problematic.)

> If an extra terrestrial landed here on earth they would not be able to interact with us in ANY way without wearing a bio-suit. They can't breathe our air or drink our water. And you think they're going to travel millions of years to get to a planet they can't even vacation on or enjoy or interact with in any way.

They can vacation on it and enjoy it by wearing a biosuit. And this isn't unreasonable: humans can't breathe water, but we still can enjoy it using a biosuit (SCUBA equipment).
It's not a show about science; it's a show about ratings. Popular science gets ratings, which are still less than non-popular-related shows, and which are far higher than any hard-science-related shows could ever get. You'll have to scratch that itch somewhere else... though I totally agree with you!!!
> It seems to me that the first-sale doctrine is definitely in danger (if EULAs haven't already effectively doomed it.)

Which is itself odd, given that the First Sale doctrine was a judicial attempt to kill an early attempt at putting something like a EULA into a book. Granted, the book was trying to set its own minimum price, but by doing so on copyright grounds, it would have allowed a lot more than that if the Supreme Court hadn't struck it down.

But I agree with you: the more control someone can take of your digital life, the more rent they can collect. In that respect, First Sale is a key roadblock.
perhaps the real solution to the performance issue you mention is to have svnadmin actually write to a target file instead of crossing process boundaries to redirect stdout ?

have you tried :

Start-Process '{PATHTOSUBVERSION}\svnadmin' -argumentlist "dump {PATH_TO_REPOSITORY}" -RedirectStandardOutput c:\temp\repodump.dmp -Wait

more examples here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn2L0E5jT8