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There is such a massive load of cognitive dissonance about B2B being sexy in the responses you got. Is it really such a blow to one's ego to admit that it's boring but profitable? Yes, there are technical challenges, no, the majority of it is not interesting.
The Higgs boson is not thought to be related to gravity, beyond giving mass to some particles. The Higgs particle is the "chunky" form of the Higgs field, just like a photon of light is a little chunk of electric field that has broken off and gone into business for itself.

If you have more questions about physics, ask /r/physics on Reddit. They people there are very nice and include several serious physicists.
Remember when people used email clients that supported read receipts? ;p
Thanks for pointing this out. I clarified the title and text about this.
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I'm using "flat" in the standard sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization
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However, the University themselves "monetize" every little thing. Lab fees for English classes, library fees, $20 transcript fees to print a document on a $0.25 piece of paper. Fees for registration, fees for athletics (even if you don't participate,) fees for the Student Health Center (even if you have private insurance) fees for everything.

This kid making some coin isn't a problem for me. He built a service, he should get paid. He accessed public data (apparently) and didn't crack into anything.

The real question is why are universities so bad with their money -- they can pay head football coaches million dollar contracts, yet most universities are chronically unable to offer enough sections of popular classes. I get it, football brings in revenue, but so does licensing technology innovations and alumni that strike it rich.

Higher education is important, but the industry of higher ed is a giant scam.
OEMs do not, as a rule, provide drivers for Linux desktops. Graphics card manufacturers are not OEMs, and the rest is mostly open source...
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What does that have to do with 73%?
[dislodging is] truly impossible to do that by accident.

Isn't that counter to the whole purpose of the connector?
Treat the 'explicit assurances' like politicians' campaign promises. If they lose, the promises are irrelevant. If they win, those promises had better align with the new incumbent's larger aims or they were just marketing.

The risk is not very hard to assess. It's pretty binary per startup opportunity. Do the relevant incumbents' revenue models, distribution models, or inherent cultural limitations prevent them from competing with you. @paulsutter covered the first two well early in this discussion. For the last, Apple has great difficulty with social, Facebook hasn't figured out Touch, Google is excessively focused on those two competitors, etc.

Please also see these two comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4336783
http://rafer.net/post/28638883246/mark-i-know-for-a-fact-tha...,
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In the last couple years I've been keeping a semi-daily diary of any activity that's out of the ordinary -- seeing a movie, taking a dance class etc. It's orders of magnitude less quantified than Stephen Wolfram, but it's fascinating to read back through it every now and then.

As I've gotten older, time has sped up. Whole years seem to go by in the blink of an eye and I think, "what did I do in [say] 2007?" Keeping a diary has helped me to slow time town a bit.
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That's a shot at the many people posting here and elsewhere about how "horrible" logging module is. Most of whom I suspect (cause it ain't that bad) are jumping on the hatewagon without actual investigation of the module.
Why does this happen to fairly neutral comments? I've never understood it.
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Ignore the launch statistics. Only one thing matters: SpaceX is hiring the top grads of the top aerospace engineering schools, and no one else even comes close. There's a Michigan professor who said every year he keeps track of his top "rock star" students to see where they end up, and the last couple of years almost all of them have gone to work at SpaceX. We're talking the top 1% of aerospace engineers of the top schools for aerospace: MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Purdue, Michigan, etc. etc. Elon is getting them all. That is why he will succeed, and you can take it to the bank.
> this is a problem with bureaucracies staffed with incompetent people who are so terrified of losing their jobs that they resort to things like this

so... higher ed. sadly, that's what it has come to these days. and that's the problem with higher ed.
What a pointless app. You have a brain. it processes memories. Brains have worked pretty well for millions of years recording memories. And they don't require a Terms of Service or Privacy Policy.
Although the HBR article bemoans the lack of "big ideas" I think it makes the fatal mistake of focusing on Valley-centric ideas. Certainly there are still some big, Google-level ideas out there to be had, but there are other industries out there in which big idea can, should, and must form for us to advance as a civilization.

Map the human genome or build the next Farmville?

Find a way to grow food 300% more efficiently to meet the growing demands of the world population or make an iPhone app?

Why must everything be internet-based and somehow have to best Google?

Additionally, I think the author is having trouble filtering out the so called "noise" from the signal. I, for one, think it's terrific that a whole new class of small or "mom and pop" businesses can now exist on the Internet. Does that give us huge advancements as a species? Usually not, but hopefully it's paying their rent, which is great for them.

Yes, we need big ideas to move forward, but don't begrudge the next generation of Internet-based small businesses. The people starting these business are probably NOT the same people who would come up with the earth-changing idea that the author so desperately wants. And if you are one of those select few, then please, stay hungry and stay foolish.
So I guess the standard counterargument is that if these "webiances" are allowed to be sold (oops, too late) then they will take 99% of the market and PCs will increase in price to the $2,000-$5,000 range and then all innovation will stop.
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The nav buttons are not a good thing, as evidenced by the menu button mess they've now gotten themselves into. Soft buttons don't waste space. They go away when you do things like watch a movie.

The One X is a great phone. But it's got that Sense garbage on it and the hardware buttons. Plus its tendency to close every app that's not in the foreground.
The law would be better worded as "Headlines that ask extraordinary questions have boring answers."
Security and supportability.
Two posts above:

> Moreover how big is that market?

They sold 44 million in three quarters, and they have (at least) 73% market share. So, a total of 80 million in 2012. Probably 50% more in 2013.
These tactics aren't exactly going to inspire good will towards linux users.

Not to mention the ethical issues here.
Actually, I suspect that the problem isn't rootkits, it's Windows 7 Loader, the one way to pirate windows they haven't been able to squash since it runs from the boot sector.
Now only if AWS supported upgrading from MySQL 5.1.X to anything 5.5 or above, this and many other benefits could be realized by a lot of companies out there.
If you think LTE was ever going to fly on the One X, you're nuts. The One X has an 1,800 mAh battery, vs 2,100 for the S3.
Magnets in laptops aren't a problem - spinning disc hard drives have strong magnets in them.
You've lost me. Are you admitting that you have no counterargument to the video, which argues that space elevators are too impractical to be made in the forseeable future, or just pretending I didn't post it?

And by argument above, do you mean your paranoid rantings about government takeover of SpaceX? Personally, I'm more worried about corporations having too much influence on the government, not the other way around.

As for your nationalisation examples:

1. The gold confiscation had nothing to do with private companies

2. oil nationalisation didn't take place in America

3. I have no idea what in the 70's you're refering to

4. Bailouts: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that SpaceX will never be so integral to the national economy that it can't fail without taking down the whole system. Nor that Elon Musk will take on so much risk that he is in danger of failing.

And you can't have it both ways, Mr. "However, lazy quips aside, the past is not the future." If that's the position you're going to argue from, then you can defend literally any claim about the future, to the point where effects no longer have causes.

If you really want to learn about how moneyed interests have corrupted the US government, you should read _Republic, Lost_ by Lawrence Lessig http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780446576437
tl;dr -- We started with the dynamic duo of the businessman and the engineer. Recently we added the designer. Now if want to continue to create products that scale into billion dollar companies, create thousands of jobs and transform society, we need to add domain experts to the founding DNA of Technology Companies.

A bunch of us were talking about this over the table at the Chez JJ Hacker Hostel. Apparently, there are a lot of horrible medical apps. This is because domain experts can't communicate well with doctors. So some doctor with minimal programming experience writes some software. By chance, it takes off and gets huge, growing into spaghetti code in the process, adding to the reasons why the best hackers dont' work on medical software.

You can apply this to any number of disciplines.

> These founders don't want to change to world. They just want to make enough money to provide for their family, buy a car, or earn their freedom. These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners, just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors.

Does that mean that such people will be as vulnerable to economic and social change as mom & pop businesses of the past?

> I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley.

It does seem to me that people are looking for a few specific scenester types, and rather quickly throw you into the "not applicable here" bin based on rather shallow signaling.
I disagree strongly with this type of argument, nobody starts out a "computer professional", we all get there by experimenting on commodity hardware. With this type of proposal you essentially make it impossible for a user of a regular device to ever advance beyond the walled garden.
Where are you getting the 73% from? The uncited statistic upthread? And where are you getting the growth projections from?
I'm interested in the distinction you draw between shipping and finishing. Care to elaborate on what that meant in a Google context?
If they would just put AOSP Jelly Bean on a phone like the One X, it would probably fly out the door. Instead they put all this effort into hardware, then make it all worthless with horrible software. But you have to "differentiate your brand!" I like Samsung just because their shitty Android modifications are less intrusive and heavy handed than HTC's even shittier modifications.
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I built one of these a couple years back as well. (I was going to be abroad and wasn't going to have internet.) I knew it had marketability. Glad to see someone come through with this! Bummer the school was so anal about it though.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4333082
You're right. They don't provide graphics card drivers, but they "do" provide some (less important) drivers. I can't find a link (slow internet connection right now), but see here for example: http://www.canonical.com/engineering-services/oem-services/w...

Anyway, my point was that if Linux guys prove to be costly, they'll be dumped or neglected. It's bad for open source guys, it's bad for OEMs (they get worse deals with Microsoft), and it's bad for everyone other than Microsoft. So, if you think SecureBoot is bad, make your case like civil citizens without inducing cost to others.
I would sell a kidney to get my hands on a Nexus One X.
Business as usual, unfortunately.
Three retina macbooks (one bad, one loaner, one replacement) and I have not experienced this problem.
Blogspam. OP is http://kyrobeshay.com/post/28647196980/being-social-is-about...

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220,000 minutes is about 153 days. It doesn't sound like that adds up to me.
We're definitely following app.net very closely, and would be quite interested in figuring out how we can integrate in the future.
We do have a website option btw, it's not as full-featured as the mobile app (yet), but you'll access it once you download the app.
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I strongly disagree. I actually owned an HTC One X briefly. The sense UI was perfectly fine, and I don't think the average consumer would care one whit about the AOSP interface differences.

The things that ultimately made me return it were:

* camera inferior to Galaxy SIII
* bluetooth caused my car's bluetooth module to crash
and reset constantly rendering hands-free mode useless

Now with that said, I haven't tested the Galaxy SIII's bluetooth yet. It could have the same issue, but the two above were enough to make me return it. For now, I'm just waiting until my old phone dies before I bother getting another Android phone.
It flys just fine. Read the verge review of the ATT 4G LTE version.
Not at all. If it is designed to release with 15 newtons of force, and you apply 14.9 newtons in all directions and it doesn't release, then I would say that is evidence that is unlikely to dislodge by accident.

However, I'll grant you "truly impossible" is something better left to logic. The real world is not exactly famous for rendering many things "truly impossible".
You can't run device drivers that haven't been OK'd and cryptographically signed by them. DRM is baked into the media layers

Yes, and that sucks. But that's just Windows, and there are other options. For now.
Sure, if achieving gender balance is desired. Racial balance also seems to be desired by most places, leading to implicit and explicit benefits for different races as well as genders. Just don't expect to see too many male-only scholarships. Few people seem to be concerned over the gender imbalance in, say for rhetorical purposes, English literature. Why do we want a greater balance in CS but not Eng. Lit? Regardless of why, the fact remains that we do, and thus we'll see tricks like scholarships trying to effect that change. Perhaps it would be better if it was all based on intellectual merit, but if you argue for that earnestly you'll be called any of a sexist/racist/elitist or something else. If that's really the path forward it will be a long time before we get on it.
I have always interpreted http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=458-20-155 regarding computer repair as the idea that if I am replacing a piece of faulty hardware that I must charge sales tax for the attached service, but if I am merely cleaning off viruses, that this is a professional service and therefore not subject to sales tax. I have not been able to find a clear authority for this however, and it isn't clear as to whether hooking up and configuring an external modem that the customer bought from someone else is taxable.

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> And you may be aware that the family farm of previous generations is not what it used to be.

Indeed. We poured a lot of money into improving the lives of the animals through the years. Things are definitely better than it used to be for the animals. The conditions in some of these modern barns are worlds ahead of the past. Are all things perfect? Probably not, but it is a process.

> The biggest reason is they must be separated from the mother otherwise the farmer is losing money.

I do not deny that the calf is separated from the mother, but that is quite different to being individually penned up for years as you claimed. I don't know of any dairy farmer who keeps the calves individualized beyond the first month or so.

> I have a very hard time accepting you didn't know any of this having grown up on a dairy farm.

The veal we raised, once they were weaned from the milk, ate mainly grasses, and corn in their final days. The same diet we fed the beef cattle. The only real difference being that they went to market as a smaller animal. If you missed that window, they got sent to market as regular beef cattle.

There is milk-fed veal that you speak of too, but it seems to be less common in my experience. I know that some farmers do kept them tied up in small crates, but you're painting a whole industry with a small brush again. One abusive farmer doesn't mean that all farmers are abusive.

For what it is worth, I'm in Canada. Maybe the US has stricter definitions about what constitutes as veal, I don't know.

I will amend that Canada has supply management for dairy. American dairy farmers are, on the whole, far less wealthy. Perhaps that's where the discrepancy comes into play? I imagine if you cannot make ends meet, the animals will suffer. I really don't see things being nearly as bad as you make it out to be here though.
> I think it is time we stopped thinking in browser versions and instead check for availability of features.

This is the pythonic way, right? Instead of trying to determine the class taxonomy of the object you have, you query it for the method you want to use. I could be thinking of something else, though...
You are right. The landing page should be clear and has a clean call to action describing only one goal. That is, how the customers/users will be benefited by providing their contact information such as email and which products or kits do they want at a ridiculous price.
Sorry, but I'm going to strongly disagree with your assertions here.

I owned an HTC One X (AT&T-branded) briefly (about a week) and most of my co-workers have Android phones. One of them had the Galaxy SIII. The screen sizes are almost identical. The actual battery life achieved was roughly the same.

Everyone agreed the One X has the better screen; the blue tinge on the SIII (thanks to pentile) was quite noticeable, especially in flesh tones in photos.

There were only three ways in which the Galaxy SIII was obviously better than the HTC One X:

* twice the memory (2GB vs 1GB)
* sdcard expandable
* camera (SIII's clearly superior)
Great response. I assumed the unseecured thing is in reference to the security issues in webgl which are presumably unintended.
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It's a public board and I'm responding to a public comment. What I'm asking is why you or anyone care that they're making shit loads of money, why is that so impressive, esp if you hate them? I'm in the thread to challenge folks to think beyond cash so there are fewer zyngas in the world, because that affects the business environemnt and that affects me.
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That page is about "drivers" in the sense of "reasons that drive the decision to ship Linux", not hardware drivers :)

I don't actually support the kind of crude protest measure suggested by the article (although I doubt a non-negligible number of people will actually carry it out in any case), but drivers really aren't the issue here.
This is terrible writing. I suppose Apple just discovered vector maps? I wonder what Android maps have been doing for two years. Or, for that matter, every car GPS that's ever been made.

And Google is being held back because of maps.google.com? Yeah, development has really be parralized by the legacy support of the web site. How did they ever have time to add street view, transit directions, bike directions and indoor maps, none of which is available in ios maps?

Regular people won't know about this maps change until their phone updates overnight. And when that happens, I think a lot of people are going to be upset about what they've lost.
They lost $440 million (and amount greater than their market cap), and possibly the company, on what the world knows to be incompetence.

At some point if I couldn’t stop it - I’d be tempted to just kill the power to the server rooms, all of them. There just has to be a way to cut your losses.
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