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What is innovation? The author seems to focus to much on the dramatic or thing that directly impact our lives. While there are a lot of things that don't directly make our lives more meaningful (Halo,etc.), there are amazing advances that have made living today so very exciting!!

Hand, face, arm, leg and ovarian transplants. (& others)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation#Timeline...

Better response to heart disease, (near) instant medical record sharing, targeted cancer treatments, human genome, anti-smoking research & bans in 27 states, functional MRI, robots performing surgery
http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/PublicHealth/1...

snopes.com gave people accurate so that we don't have to rely on crap information- no matter how good it sounds.

Doctors can better diagnose patients thanks to information available on PDA.

GPS- now that's amazing. Google "GPS saves lives" seriously!

Cell Phones- also saves lives, makes contacting someone infinitely easier. How did truckers know to call home if there was an emergency at home? Much more difficult!

Ham Radios, Satellite Phones, hearing aids, pacemakers etc. Amazing devices that have done so much for us!

All of the tiny details made it possible to disseminate information, keep better contact perform incredible medical breakthroughs & decrease poverty worldwide. (Cell phones, internet, square, etc. facilitate economic development)

I'm an IT graduate. I look at the amazing inventions in my field. It feels like they all came less than 4 years ago. (when I graduated)

Oh, I forgot to mention the Nobel prizes. (many are very impressive!)
Innovation is happening faster than it ever has before! In another 10 years, we may say- poverty & consumer debt is decreasing systemically worldwide, robots are plowing our fields & HIV has a vaccine! I enjoy the wonderful present and look forward to our bright future!
First off: you're responding to someone saying "he knows what he's doing," and you saw an opening to insult Rob Pike so you took it. That's the entire point of your post. For everyone else:

The whole fucking point isn't that he's a genius and can fix computers, it's that he called Apple and repeatedly trusted them to take care of him and they failed. That's why he's contrasting their support against the electrician in the story.

He trusted their backup solution to be satisfactory for backing up his machine. For trusting that when he called Apple's Pro Tools folks for a license key, he wouldn't just get bitched at for not doing something he actually had already done.

If you're calling him a moron for trusting Apple to do these things for him, say so. We'd probably all agree with you.

Oh wait - you're hate on him because he works for Google on Go, because you're a notorious anti-Go, and in general an anti-Google troll. (Others: see the same username on Reddit.) That's why you ignored context, the electrician story, the whole point of the blog post and instead just wasted a few sentences calling Rob Pike incompetent.

Now your comment makes a lot more sense.
No that's the actual reason. During the Vietnam war you would get drafted unless you were in college, which means that anyone who failed out of college was basically put on the next plane to the jungle to get killed. Since most of the faculty were anti-war (or at least relatively liberal) most colleges either dropped the grading system entirely or else made grading significantly easier.
A lot of kids mature enough to go to scientific/programming camps are usually the ones mature enough to understand that they learn under guidelines. Also, those kids aren't being graded.

As a recent high schooler, I've seen kids who absolutely hated their teachers because they gave them bad grades because they challenge their students. However, this specific teacher was probably the most influential for those who appreciated him.

I'm just afraid that the majority will figure out the system and use it as a weapon, as was mentioned.
You seem to be mocking a claim that no one is making, namely, that it's reasonable to expect salary increases throughout one's career while relying exclusively on some limited initial training. The claim actually being made is that in any career, of the self-improvement necessary for advancement, some fraction can be realized during normal, paid work hours, and that the size of this fraction is trending downward.
It would be loads of fun. Unfortunately, I think the primary reason why there aren't a lot of cool ideas like this already implemented is for legal reasons. From what I've heard, starting your own fantasy league by using NFL data is just pretty much impossible.
This makes the rounds of the blogs every couple weeks, and yeah... If you use noreply@, you're going to negatively impact user engagement. But in reality, sometimes you just don't have time to talk to users. At least, not all of them.

I have time to provide good service to a limited number of my customers every day. Meaningless feel-good interactions reduce the number of meaningful interactions I can have. I check the no-reply inbox every couple days anyways, and in general the people who send email to that address instead of seeking out the support email on my homepage are the customers I'd rather lose. It's a good filter.
Let me be very clear: I am saying you are a racist independent of whether or not you recognize differences between races, real or imagined.

Of course it has negative connotations. Most people don't like racists. You can't seem to deal with that, and your weasel words make you a coward. Whose respect are you trying to earn (or keep) anyway? I'll tell you something, owning up to it won't lose you any more respect. But at least you'd be less insufferable.
I agree that other factors would prevent students having too much power, but "good" is a very subjective term. Even "effective" depends on how the students learn. Just because I think a teacher is good for challenging me, another student might hate them for being so tough.
To help students get draft deferments, schools gave kids better grades. I don't quite understand it, since GWB dodged Vietnam with bad grades.

It has been written about, probably in the Atlantic or NYT, maybe 10 years ago.
My response to this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/sequoia-capital-jim-goetz-on-...

Mobile is a clear choice for apps targeted at the consumer market.

However, there is still huge opportunities in the B2B and enterprise market. It depends on the problem you're solving, but in most cases the desktop is still the natural place to start if you're going after business users. Examples: Basecamp, Salesforce, Kissmetrics.
A completely false and unsupported statement.
It seems very similar to up- and downvotes. You'd want to know how to filter out the noise, but you're going to get a lot of good feedback from them. For instance, as much as I loved bad teachers in HS who let me get away with not doing anything, I never would've told anyone those teachers were "good" -- it was just that my immediate desire to slack off in high school outweighed my desire to do work on my own in spite of having a bad teacher who didn't require it. But grading that teacher as bad wouldn't take any special effort, so I would've done it.
Yes, the battle is nasty and Samsung/Google (both are immensely powerful, and not human) is in no danger of being driven out. Why should I feel bad about it?

I'd like to see 3X damage preferably as an AAPL shareholder.
Chuck, if it's 40% of Caltrain's boardings just from SF to MTV alone, it must be about on par with Caltrain considering all origins.
We just need more of Einsteins, Nikola Teslas and Thomas Edisons less of Zuckerbergs, Steve Jobs and Larry Elisons.
The front of the iPhone 5 is not flush with the frame
And you wouldn't want to reinforce the behavior of providing a time-saving service for money?
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If you actually believe that there is "Something You Can't Say" then you most certainly are a person who can "dismiss an argument made seriously".

"At any given moment, the [Overton] "window" includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

The US government has generally admitted to torture, in its "fight against terrorism". Given that the US government wasn't replaced, even partially, or its policies changed in any significant way, through the massive outrage of its citizenry, I am guessing that most people agree with "something as appalling as torture", today, in Western Civilization, as long as it's done for "all the right reasons".

EDIT: I didn't notice this the first time around.

"And capitalizing white as if that accident of birth should be an honorific like an accomplishment? That sounds kind of unhinged."

Why don't you use that line on jews, who insist on "J" simply and entirely due to the mother's religion? They get very upset when you don't capitalize the "j", no matter where the word appears. Even the spellchecker in my Google Chrome browser underlines "jews" in red when I write it in all lowercase. If the power which jews possess is significant enough that it reaches deep down into the bowels of my web browser, then I think that I can get away with referring to the originators and guardians of Western Civilization as White.

You might find it even more unhinged that I usually refer to non-Whites as "unWhite", and I try not to use it at the beginning of a sentence, so as to avoid having to write it with a "U'. Likewise, I avoid using "jews" at the beginning of a sentence. Also, I refer to neo-nazis as "nazis", who are most of the ones you see today, mere pretenders, and I save "Nazis" for those, such as myself, who I think deserve the capitalization. Therefore, "White" doesn't mean every person with pale skin, so, really, it's not about honoring someone because of an accident of birth.
Ask HN: youtube video request
What are your thoughts about a website that lists requests that users have for specific youtube videos to be created?
Hmmmm... I don't think just that PG's definition is a subset of Blank's.

Unless he's changed his tune in the latest book (The Startup Manual is still in my to read pile) then under his definition the company stops being a startup once you have achieved the "repeatable and scalable" bit. Then it's just "a company" :-)

For Blank Startup == being in Customer Discover/Validation phase. Once you're out of there and in Customer Creation & Company Building you're no longer "a startup" - you've found your business model and are busy applying the heck out of it.

Under pg's definition the bit that defines the startup is the "Customer Creation" stage when you've found your business model and and are growing fast (to quote "Together these three phases produce an S-curve. The phase whose growth defines the startup is the second one, the ascent.").

Under Blank's definition you've stopped being a startup at this point - you've found your scalable business model. Under pg's definition you would still be a "startup" in the Customer Creation & Company Building stages as long as you're growing and haven't hit internal/market boundaries that slow your growth.

Also PG's focus on fast growth doesn't seem to be present in Blank's work.

I'm think Blank would be happy to call the early days of a new retail organisation like Ulta Salon a "startup" (they found a new repeatable and scalable business model for retail, taking the beauty counters out of the larger stores and sticking 'em as stand alone stores on cheaper real estate).

I get the impression that their very impressive growth (for retail) of 92% since 2006 wouldn't count as "startup" under PG's definition... or maybe not.... I don't know.
If you believe that the US government determines the tax rate based on anything remotely related to the amount that it spends, I just don't know what to say to you. Did your taxes really increase by 11% when the wars started?
Hardware that the majority of consumers aren't paying for. If they had a stranglehold on the supply chain, you'd have a point, but Apple raising prices on Mac hardware does nothing to the overall market.
Canada thought it was finding a good balance with increasing fish caught while the Grand Banks fishery was collapsing.

Then they discovered that improvements in technology were letting them more efficiently catch the few remaining fish, and there were suddenly no more fish left.

Therefore an increase in fish being caught is not necessarily evidence that populations are being managed sustainably. It could merely be evidence that they are being managed less carefully. (Good for now, worse in the long run.)
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The glaring omission here is DATA. I just want data, and I don't want to have to parse a JSON feed to get my hands on a limited subset of that data.

Of course, an entire business model is in my way, but alas, I don't share your perspective. The NFL is way behind IMO.
"In contrast, homeopathy does nothing. It's placebo."

Well, yes and no. It is a placebo, but the research seems to show that placebos do significantly more than nothing, at least for some diseases (pain, depression, etc.).

The comment I was replying to was asking for examples of where things that were once believed to be quackery were later vindicated. At the time homeopathy was believed to be quackery. In fact the reason the AMA was launched was to combat homeopathy because it was cutting into their profits; one of their first acts was to launch a 'propaganda department' to scare people off of homeopathy. (Essentially the AMA was founded to kill people. They knew they were less effective than homeopathy at the time and they knew they were killing people, but they just didn't care because they wanted the money.)

The point is though that at the time homeopathy was actually significantly better than western medicine. Now if the definition of something not being quackery is if it's the best treatment available to us at the time, then homeopathy couldn't have been quackery by definition, since it was in fact the most scientifically advanced (or however you'd phrase it) form of medicine available at the time.
Haha, Is this true? ...reference?
Squelching all humor, on the other hand, is not a way to keep a community healthy. This just makes it seem humorless and unwelcoming.
"Ok, so you know how navigations are usually on the left or the top? What if we had ours in...THE MIDDLE!"
If there was no will to build it, then how much longer would it take for the road to be built? How many lives is that road saving now that it might not have if he hadn't built it?

The glass is half full, too, ya know.
I mean at the end of the day it's not really an opinion question; either the survey is empirically validated or its not. At least for now it appears to be, whether it will remain so when widely used is anyone's guess. (But not up for debate, since again it's something that can be tested empirically.)
Modify the weight of a vote based on how far the student's votes deviate from the norm over time. A historically positive or negative student would have their vote neutered.
This doesn't prevent one class from ganging up to downvote a teacher on a single occasion, but if that happens that semester's score for the teacher will appear as an anomaly compared to previous scores.
I'd note that you want to check into the requirements to work with children re:background checks in California . I tutor CS at the local JC and just the possibility of working with kids under 18 means that I needed to be fingerprinted. I seem to remember hearing about a similar program in oakland, possibly related to the arcade museum.
> I once dropped a car into a creek in a third world country

story, please
OK, but the Vietnam War has been over for almost 40 years now, but grade inflation keeps getting worse. Why?
While that is a somewhat rational viewpoint, I am old-fashioned enough to consider the philosophy that right and wrong don't matter, only profits, to be unhealthy.
Then treat private ones as though they had the default splits, or whatever the average/majority had picked, which are likely to be substantially the same.
Definitely. I actually even prefer to live close enough to work to bike it, where transit is just a nice backup. I used to commute to the city from San Carlos on Caltrain; it was kind of nice actually (helps when your office is next to the caltrain station).

Most of Europe (and some of Asia) is beautiful with respect to transit, density, and quality of life. I hope we (as a country) move in this direction, but it really requires a change in our value system.
Here's a list of a few things I might do on an average day that I couldn't do when I was in high school.

* Call home from the grocery store to ask if we're out of Provolone.

* Check my shopping list and see that items have been added to it since I left the house.

* Find a new restaurant with good reviews and make a reservation in mere minutes.

* Take pictures that rival 35mm film and make them available to friends in minutes (with me, it's usually hours or more, but it could be minutes).

* Find my way home from a random location without asking for directions in a gas station.

* Carry weeks worth of music and years worth of reading in my pocket.

* Order a new coffee maker online and expect it the next day.

* Buy a movie online and watch it instantly.

* Get answers to random medical questions.

* Find documentation for damned near anything.

* Work from home with access to everything I would have at the office.

Yes, many of these are indeed life changing. Could I live without these things? Absolutely, but I could also live without cars, and without air conditioning, and without a lot of things that were revolutionary. Electricity, indoor plumbing, and wired telephones took decades to make their way into average people's homes. If anything, the "digital age" is permeating lives faster and more broadly than the major changes that preceded it.
No, you wouldn't.

If you don't think that Apple has more to lose from America's insane patent system than they could possibly stand to gain, I'd submit that you haven't thought the question through all the way.

Do you think even they could afford to pay treble damages on every patent claim they actually infringe?
Okay then, I'm a racist, and I'm only saying that because I don't want to seem as insufferable as you make me out to be. See? I can be accommodating. However, your first sentence is not at all clear, because you contradict yourself. You are saying that I am a racist independent of whether I recognize differences between people based on the concept of "race". Well, no, calling me a "racist" is absolutely dependent on whether I see race as a real thing, not a concept, and on whether I use it to gauge people based on their differences, which are most obviously indicated by skin color.

"Racism is generally defined as actions, practices, or beliefs that reflect the racial worldview: the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races". This ideology entails the belief that members of a race share a set of characteristic traits, abilities, or qualities, that traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral characteristics are inherited, and that this inheritance means that races can be ranked as innately superior or inferior to others."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
This combined with the recent buginess of Ubuntu is the last straw, I am switching to Arch Linux. Ubuntu has changed since it started into nothing more than another OS trying to make money by screwing over the user.
I am worried about adding another metric to the way that we measure performance in schools. It's already been shown that there are problems with the standardized tests. Not that they are terrible things, but students in the US tend to disagree with their proliferation. (Perhaps they would feel less this way if there were less tests)

Having students grade the teachers I think is also the same way. One of the problems is that students don't know what makes a good teacher. The tests can gear students in that direction (ie "I feel challenged but not overwhelmed in this classroom"), but if we look for too much insight from the students I think we will be misdirected. Just like we are misdirected when we pay too much attention to standardized tests.

My fear is that some schools would start to look at these performance measurements as golden bullets sort the way that we've started to look at standardized tests as golden bullets. Most of jr. high was geared towards getting perfect scores on the state exams. My Junior and Senior years of high school were almost 100% (a few teachers went outside of the scope, but it was a teacher decision and not an administrative decision) geared around AP tests and the ACT.

The ACT and the AP tests have their place. And I think that student evaluations of teachers have their place as well. Both are very useful when applied appropriately.

I just don't want to see the system (d)evolve in such a way that too much emphasis is placed on empirical data.
And they wonder why people pirate.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... is what I use right now on my galaxy s3. Posted this with it.
"Also, it's incredibly racist to call 'medicine that works' 'Western medicine'."

I assure you that's not how I'm using the phrase.
I call bullshit - nobody finishes at the end of the porno.
if that guy can't spot the difference, what is he doing with a $4k camera?
"Indeterminate" seems more like "don't know" instead of "don't care"
- Grades don't mean anything, so there's no reason to give people bad grades. I know I quote this all the time on HN, but only because it's accurate: "A grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material."

- Despite the fact that grades don't predict workplace performance at all, companies still use them to hire people. (Basically because it's a legal way to keep out black people.) Because of this, schools can boost their US News & World Report rank by giving people better grades, since starting salary factors into the rankings in many years.

- Schools are basically run as businesses these days, and that's what the customers want. Asking why schools keep inflating grades is kind of like asking why McDonald's keeps making their chicken nuggets taste so fucking delicious.
> Business practices like this make me feel guilty for purchasing Apple products.

Samsung's history of corporate scandals and widespread corruption would make them even less palatable then, no?
The URL doesn't work.

I know it's probably unrelated, but why do so many startups use a ccTLD of a country with such an unstable government? It just doesn't make business sense when there are so many good names out there.
I don't read that essay as having much morality. I think YOU are reading your POV into it.

There is an assumption that a monopoly by MS would be dangerous. That's not a particularly judgmental stance. I could imagine someone having a different belief system about monopolies, but it hardly seems like a moral claim.

Then he is saying that he prefers to work with an economic partner rather than under the employer-employee system. He doesn't say it is morally right. He says that business can learn from this, because it would make the business more productive. That's an amoral argument. He's invoking economics to justify a way that people should interact.

It's basically a libertarian argument, and in general this type of argument is agnostic about morals.