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Capitalism is not based on the existence of a customer. It's based in freedom, in the right of every individual to do what he or she wants to do with his or her own life and property.

Of course, if there is no customer, there can be no sale. However, the sale itself isn't always the point. Sometimes people do things just for the fun of it -- and that's capitalism, too.
"In capitalism, the winners do not eat the losers but teach them how to win through the spread of information."

This certainly casts patents in an anti-capitalist light...
Op's whole post was about meat substitutes. It was about replacing real meat with something else, a substitute. Op happens to call that substitute "plant based meat". In the context of his post, there is no confusion about what he could have meant.
You wrote orginally:

>> did you know that in the 19th century (and before), when Jews were persecuted in Europe, Russia and such, they lived mighty fine alongside muslim populations in muslim countries?

Wikipedia gave in 30 seconds (in a link I already gave!) 20+ pogroms in the 19th century. You claim a "few" pogroms aren't much to be upset about:

>> As for the pogroms you list, you can find some everywhere. That doesn't mean it was the prevalent practice.

(Then you blame the Christians in Damascus for the pogroms there!!)

20+ pogroms is NOT "mighty fine"! You are writing dishonest propaganda.

You claim to be well read on the subject -- then question Wikipedia without specific complaints or even listing any reference supporting your claims!!

Re antisemitism, there are lots of facts on the Wikipedia links -- including islamic scholars and attitudes in Europe, which should be milder than in the Mid East.

This is about Sweden in the page I referenced twice: "A government study in 2006 estimated that 39% of the Muslim population, harbor strong and consistent antisemitic views."

But maybe they learned that from the Swedes?! :-)

And so on.

Bye, I can't take you seriously when I have to quote every damn word of wikipedia pages or you deny the content (well, you deny the content even when I quote it...)
I was going to say that they have nothing to show for it but this is clearly not true. The concept seems to have proved itself. Now the question is how to get the users.

http://podupti.me/
I just had a realization that at this point Apple is actually seeking to ban an order of magnitude more devices than they actually make them-selves.

I know the term "patent-troll" is often preserved for non-practising entities, but at this rate Apple is clearly doing its best to qualify for the badge none the less.
> Capitalism is based on there being a customer. All the capital in the world doesn't do any good if there's not a buyer on the other end. Another argument for a strong middle class.

I fail to see how these sentences form an "argument".
The S3 is probably the first Samsung phone 'designed by lawyers', as someone posted here a few weeks/months ago.

Samsung really made an effort to avoid infringing 'trade dress' and other claims made by Apple. Most patents they're going after this time shouldn't exist at all (or, at least, many other manufacturers would be affected).
Like you said, user feedback is one thing and usage stats quite another. I learned from threddie (so far my only SaaS which got any traction) that feedback should be taken with a Gibraltar-sized grain of salt. Often, people tell you your app is great out of sympathy or because they hope to gain something from you. Don't disregard feedback, but focus on your metrics. I'm curious about your metrics strategy. Are you keeping track of ALL meaningful user actions with a tool like mixpanel, or simply relying on google analytics? A good metrics tracking strategy can be quite revealing.

By the way, kudos for the project and for posting it.
Capitalism has its problems, but its critical selling point is that, if it works well, you don't need official approval to do business. In the USSR, it was a crime to compete with the one established business: the state. Fusions of state and business power (whether from the left, as in communism, or from the right, as in fascism) are almost always bad. The major win (practical and moral) in capitalism is the right of the individual to interact with the market without official approval.

If you look at corporate hierarchies, however, you see that they're run internally like command economies. Headcounts and projects are written up and assigned by gloomy, bureaucratic committees detached from the actual heartbeat of the business. You're assigned a role, and if you try to "compete" by seeking a different role or starting a skunk-works project, most companies will fire you or otherwise work to shut you down. Companies are statist in the extreme.

Corporatism is a system designed to give the best of both systems (capitalism and socialism) for a well-connected, parasitic social elite (called "the 1 percent", but really they're about 0.2%) and the worst of both for everyone else. You see this, for example, in commercial air travel, where you get Soviet quality of service but the bizarre, unpredictable pricing you'd expect from a runaway market (that is actually not so much a "market" as an algorithm designed to fuck you over).
Apple could certainly be seen in the light of greed here. They are doing extremely well anyway, making money hand over first, and yet they still can't sleep well at night knowing there are other touchscreen devices on the market besides their own, and they're abusing every piece of patent technicality to ban their products from the market.
Assuming the internet can't give a better customer support in the long term(at least from the knowledge side) is a wrong assumption.

Somebody can surely design an high quality expert system for consumer electronics , that asks you some questions and helps you choose good products.
This is a bit too pessimistic, even for me. Technology is only going to get better, and the quadcopters will become quieter, and with less vibration, with longer battery lives.

As quadcopter technology and things like computer vision become more advanced, it really does seem like there's a lot of possibilities for these types of devices.

I've been daydreaming of the day when I have my own personal swarm of quadcopters that continuously circle my house with a wireless camera, and then land to recharge, and another one takes off. Not that I'm particularly worried about security (my barred windows, landmines and laser booby traps are more than enough protection), but it would be fun to see that.

The other thing that would be fun with quadcopters is if you could give it your gear, like your cellphone, wallet, etc, and have it fly above you everywhere, and whenever you needed something, you could just summon it. It's like the old school Dungeons and Dragons concept of having a familiar that you can summon whenever you needed it. You could also video yourself, from a WoW-like view, just for fun.
Your comment would be more of a contribution if you could make explicit what the good and bad parts are.
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Thank you for your insight. Very useful!
Ah yes, I haven't added touch support yet. I'll get to it!
I was just talking about mobile ads yesterday saying they feel like they're designed to trick me into clicking them.

This article confirms my suspicions :-/
The 403s probably were Google already shutting down the system. They have many servers performing the same functions; propagating a new version of the server software (in this case, an update with the weather API stripped) can take days, and in the mean time, it's luck of the draw whether you're on an old functioning server, or a new 403-spitting one. This is entirely by design: this way, if there's something wrong with an update, it doesn't immediately affect everyone, and they can hotfix things before it runs on all servers.
Thank you for your great feedback! I particularly like the idea of showing the progress of an artist on the landing page, that would be quite powerful. Thanks!
And this would be why PHP is so popular?
Meat is animal muscle; plants don't have muscle.

I have chosen to avoid meat substitutes, but I am aware of Quorn. I just didn't read the OPs post like that.
Very very awesome! I love it.
I will try to crossdomain post canvas.dataurl to a remote server... Hope with no browser restrictions! :)
Thank you for sharing. You Rock!
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> - He talks about Linguistics, not NLP, so I don't know what your friends have to do with that part.

He specifically talks about computational linguistics, which is practically synonymous with NLP (there is a minor difference in connotation--the former is scientific rather than engineering, but it's really very minor).
Capitalism is based on information, knowledge, greed for money, greed for ownership, desire for accomplishment, and a lot of other things. Information is one of these things. Information is a means to a lot of other ends as well.

I look dimly on people who say "Capitalism is driven by X" where X is some narrowly defined band of things. From Rand to Marx, theories that look like invariably turn out wrong, sometimes disastrously so. In economic speak, an incentive is anything that a person in question might want. The desire to acquire information and the rewards of using it are one kind of incentive. It's common for random econ pundits to try to redefine "incentive" as "greed", and this should be the first clue that they either don't know or don't care what economists actually think.
Your references please ?

I was using a similar SA1100 on the Zaurus 5000d (developer release, purchased at the Linux Expo 2001 in NYC) then the 5500 and finally on the Simpad SL4 where it drove a 800x600 screen (Both the Sharp Zaurus and the Siemens Simpad where using Qtopia, QT embedded)

Opera and Konqueror were both running fine. There was even a demo of a voice-controller Opera browser from IBM - also running fine.

OTOH, the RAM was the real problem. 32 Mb on the 5000d was really not enough. I managed to find a company doing BGA reflow to solder 128 Mb on my simpad SL4, which worked great after some minor kernel tweaks to enable it.

So the SA1100 was fine for web surfing, 64Mb was acceptable even if 128 was better.
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I disagree. Capitalism in its current state is heavily based on securing advantages, meaning it's only fair in areas which are new and not saturated by established players.
Fun stuff. How about a RC plane dropping off quadcopters loaded with the payload for the last mile? (the copters can meet the plane on the way back or fly home alone. You get the range + efficiency of the plane with the agility of the copter.
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Looking for information regarding ios pasted image schema and how to access the images data.

I have succesfully injected it into a canvas object using drawimage but since the origin-clean flag gets modified since it is a CORS issue the todataurl function returns null.

The webkit-fake-url is a pointer to a location in memory in the browser, is there anyway to access it?
I'm not sure this random collection of quotes is a great starting point for a discussion as broad as what "capitalism is". Especially quotes that come in an election year from a non-economist mainly famous for his GOP activism.

If you do want an argument in favor of the information-aggregation view of markets, and what is required for them to work in practice, F.A. Hayek provides a better analysis.
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If it goes out of control over the freeway, it won't cause a 100-car pileup.

The first car to hit it will probably notice the crunching noise. A quadcopter with a 2lb payload weighs about 5lbs total.

The owner is going to be in more danger when he comes to pick up the pieces than any of the cars.
I kind of see what he's saying, but I think technical managers are a fixture of the past, anyway. DBAs and developers should be taking responsibility or their own skill progression - not leaving it in the hands of someone else.
I don't actually agree with that. Capitalism is ruthless. The winners do put the losers out of business. That's the moral justification for IP: without regulatory intervention, the winners are often not the generators of the IP. That has become more true in the age of the Internet, where a lot of natural monopolies are emerging, but it was probably always true. Size begets growth, coalition-building is inevitable (leading to conglomerates) and those who can't make nice with the big players often get crushed.

The problem with capitalism is that it's not stable. People who become rich and powerful (and their generally useless heirs, friends, and hired-gun managers) don't actually want to live in a capitalist world, so they use their social connections to build a private safety net, which hampers innovation. Corporate bureaucracies have more in common with the Kremlin than a Silicon Valley startup, and even Silicon Valley isn't that innovative, because it's increasingly controlled by a well-connected VC/media social elite. Most people wouldn't want to live in pure capitalism, and the corporate elite especially doesn't want it. They want to keep what they've got.

The problem with the problem with capitalism (or the problem with not-capitalism) is that every alternative to an at least mostly capitalistic economy is terrible. Command economies are not desirable.

Most thinking people are essentially (small-l) libertarian. My use of this word has nothing to do with the current usage (conservative who likes pot). By libertarian, I mean the opposite of authoritarian: belief that people should, all else being equal, be free to do as they wish rather than controlled by a governmental or corporate authority. (Authoritarians believe it's intrinsically impossible for most people to do anything good unless told to do so by a central authority.) The problem is that libertarianism begets capitalism begets conglomeration begets corporatism. It's the Iron Law of Oligarchy. The only solution I can see is the Western European social democracy (i.e. a socialist infrastructure to provide a safety net, but a capitalist engine for innovation and to maintain individual freedom). You need enough of a welfare state to keep people from being exploited by emergent corporate power, but enough capitalism (economic freedom) to keep innovation alive.
I have a very tough time rationalizing this guy's futurism with the rest of his opinions. Of course, I guess compartmentalization and contradiction are common elements of the human condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilder
"Far from a system of greed, capitalism depends on a golden rule of enterprise: The good fortune of others is also your own."

So... when competition puts your company out of business, that's a good thing?

It was beneficial to local grocers when their businesses were bankrupted after being undercut by Walmart?
I don't get how they could possibly have been granted the "click a phone number in browser etc. and make call" patent when it is so painfully obvious. On an integrated device like a smartphone it makes intuitive sense to make any discrete form of data clickable and routed to whatever the most logical application is. It would be like patenting right clicking and downloading an image in a browser on the desktop. Ludicrous.
This is truly outstanding. Please allow me to create an account so I can come back to my favorites (or make the UI clearer as to what is saved for me and what's not).
How would you monetize something like this?
Thanks, have you found that Hayek incorporates technology and the flow of technological knowledge? I'd love to see a ref on that. I recommend checking out the book The Origin of Wealth as one ref that has a nice coverage of tech/knowledge in a behavioral economics context.
This would be useful for teaching math or prototyping. From their FAQ it sounds like performance is way too slow for problems where speed is an issue.

If you're looking for a fast symbolic math library for python, check out Theano. On CPU, it can take advantage of whatever BLAS you use, and on GPU, it will convert your code to optimized C++ and compile via nvidia's cuda sdk.

SymPy does seem a lot more feature rich than theano, which relies on numpy
It's too bad michaelochurch didn't just say "plant protein" vs "animal protein", we could have avoided this inevitable nitpicking over technical details and semantics.

Neither you or alexchamberlain actually address his underlying point, so I downvoted you too.
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working on keyboard interface options with javascript https://github.com/0x3e/typer.js
No doubt there will be more attempts, but there are reasons to expect they won't be as successful. The default method of installing applications on Windows and Mac is to download an executable from the internet and run it as Administrator. The default method of installing applications on Linux is to get them from the package manager, and binaries downloaded from the internet don't have the execute bit set by default.

I don't mean to say that Linux is totally immune from malicious software, but it's a much harder target. You're in the position of having to either get malicious software into the repositories, convince users to do something arcane and atypical with binaries downloaded from the internet, or exploit security vulnerabilities in installed software on an OS with a package manager that auto-updates everything to the latest patch on a regular basis. None of those is anywhere near as easy as "click here to see Anna Kournikova naked" or exploiting known Java vulnerabilities that Apple was kind enough to leave unpatched for like a year.
Apple is a company compelled to be greedy. It's actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible given any legal and ethical way it can. Suing another giant tech company over legitimate patents is ethical. The system is designed so that a trial determines if the patents are legit. This is what happened. If you don't like that, then fix the fucking patent system. Quit whining that your favourite tech company lost.

Companies are not teams, they are simply the manufacturer of a product that you either bought or chose not to buy. If you don't like the way a company is legally and ethically running it's business, then change the law. Don't boycott the company who is succeeding best at working within the framework provided.
I assume you still loose services configurations, personal files, etc.. right?
I reach for Perl frequently, primarily for two reasons:

i. I've been using for 20 years or so, since Perl 4. By the time I check back to verify some point of Python syntax or library use, I will have written the code in Perl.

ii. CPAN. It is unusual for me to go there and not find something that I can use for a task.

I like Python and do use it a good deal, largely on Windows. Yet some months ago, I ended up writing a few longish scripts to run on Windows, with ActivePerl.
Not eating one piece of a $300 sushi meal would be like throwing out a whole plate at a pretty fancy restaurant... lots of chefs would be upset by that.
The employee lockup is what scares me. Most Facebook employees were hired early in their careers, didn't have other money, and a lot have bought or want to buy houses, cars, etc using their still substantial paper wealth.

I believe in the Facebook product, quality of team, and future revenue potential, but sale at lockup(as well as concentration of control in Zuck) scare me, unless it gets to $10-20b capitalization.
Yes, it gave them an impulse to find areas where they could do something that people judged valuable enough to part with their money. (e.g. learn how to design web pages and make bad flash animations ;)

It also did help people who buy groceries, including poor people.
Why do you need multicopters? Terrorists already can (and some have) plant small timed bombs in crowded areas. I don't really see much difference other than that they can target more secure areas. This would be useful if they wanted to attack military targets, but since their usual goal is civilian casualties, they can by definition already get to places civilians congregate.
If every time FB hits a new low it makes HN front page then we are going to have a very boring front page.

I fully expect FB to drop below 10.
Kindness is a manifestation of empathy. If you're unable to empathise you'll have trouble being seen to be 'kind'.

It seems that the article provides an example of how 'kindness' has benefited a company with regard to marketing. Performing an act of kindness in order to gain something isn't kind, and the showing potential incentives like this isn't really driving any important point home.
I'm not sure that's a really good perception.
I've been on 3 of our hiring committees for about 5 years now.

The vast majority of candidate packets I see are well rounded in the interview space (IE don't just test theoretical aspects, but practical stuff as well).

There are occasional ones where one or more interviews is unhelpful or useless.

It would be very odd to see an interview where someone started out by asking about algorithm complexity, rather than "how do i sort this", "code it", "great, how fast does that run", "can it be made faster" or something similar.

I have never seen anything close to the last one.

Most false positives i've seen are culture fit or motivation issues, not technical capability ones.
I thought Yoshikazu was referring to the time when one of their apprentice visited the shop. Yoshikazu asked him who was the chef, was it Jiro, and the apprentice said "you".
Suing another giant tech company over legitimate patents is ethical

If you don't like the way a company is legally and ethically running it's business, then change the law. Don't boycott the company who is succeeding best at working within the framework provided.

You seem to be confused about the difference between 'ethical' and 'legally allowed'.
But then I don't understand how the "teaching" app is really teaching me. It's just telling me to draw a set of pictures. Why does that have to be an app? Couldn't you just have 20 images to practice drawing as an HTML page?
The idea that the upper class depends on the middle class is false. Establishment and talent are natural enemies. I would like to see us destroy the upper class (maybe "dismantle" is a better word; I don't see violent revolution producing anything good) and build a society that is robust against social elites and upper-class parasitism-- ideally a society where there are no entrenched social classes-- but I'm probably dreaming on that one.

Yes, they need a healthy middle class if they want to keep a capitalist economy going. Here's the depraved little secret: they don't actually care that much about having a capitalist economy.

Social elites are almost always parasitic and actually quite non-ideological. If we were a communist or fascist state, it'd be the same people in charge, but instead of being corporate executives, they'd be government bureaucrats. They don't give a shit about "capitalism" or "socialism" so long as it's them on top. The ideology is something they tune to the peasants' shifting tastes.

It's not about economic well-being for them. It's about status. In a robust capitalist and technological economy, they get private jets. If the U.S. becomes Third World, they get white maids. Both are essentially status symbols, and they don't have an intrinsic attachment to one over the other, but they'd rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
It's still available on amazon.co.uk:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vim-Vi-Tips-Essential-ebook/dp/B0091...
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Pardon the technical difficulties this month

Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463692