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I really hope we're not in an 'Innovation == everything gets faster' cycle. Right now IMO, software needs major help.

Ex: I love my Roku to death, but the interface is so buggy it's like using a Flash app from 1999.
Right, there's also arbitrage trading on markets which have fluctuating market rates, plus regular buying and selling over longer periods of times, transaction fees (both from mining and from trading), and simply accepting Bitcoin as payment for services.

I am not so sure that ASIC will kill the small-time mining scene, the low-end ASIC miners are cheaper and less power hungry than video cards (though you can't play games on them), it will just mean that if you want to mine bitcoins, you'll have to get one (or more), and you can't rely on your video card anymore. So a lot of people will be pushed out.
There are a lot of people who are quite hostile to the idea of any sort of public domain, believing commons to be inefficient. Many people want to take things like water resources out of the public domain and let the free markets appropriately allocate them.
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My father turns 50 in not too soon. He's an old hacker who learned C in the 80's to be able to do Linux. He was a computer pioneer in our country.

Now he works with security at a big company, and is very interested in cracks.

One idea is to get him a RFID scanner and a lot of tags. Or a complete Arduino set, with everything. Have you given something to a hacker?
DJs are the obvious place to start on compulsory licensing given that such already exists for covers of songs. Introducing standardized terms for sampling would be a small step in the right direction (something you seem to be advocating when you're talking about terms) in an industry that already understands it and has been there in the past (e.g. Paul's Boutique would be impossible to make nowadays). This helps build up towards e.g. standard licensing terms for reuse of characters (something that big content has a lot to gain from, but would likely be too afraid of at the moment).
I came to similar conclusions, and instead bought one of these devices: the Fizz Giz.

http://www.fizzgiz.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Fizz-Giz-Soda-Maker-Carbonation/dp/B00...

Works well, cheap, supports a small business. What's not to like?
Also, by interacting with the manufacturer, you can reuse/recycle the CO2 cartridges, which is nice.
I think that's mostly fair. But we may part ways on the value of filtering through fanboy noise...Gruber for example is brilliant when he talks about Apple, but he's a terrible predictable bore hen he gets into comparisons with anything outside of Apple -- 9 out of 10 times.

When I see a Daring Fireball post, if it's about Apple I'll read it and I find many things he says interesting and insightful (even if I may disagree with them), if it's Gruber on any other topic there's no point in even trying to scrub through his posts to find the valuable points to consider.

So I suppose what I'm trying to say is that, you are right, evaluate the points and not the person (don't go ad hominem), but sometimes the level of effort required to find the valuable points isn't worth it.
"He's a troll."

Being a troll does not mean that everything he says is false, nor does it mean that he is not ungrounded.

I've encountered plenty of people IRL and over the internet who are clearly ill but claim that they're only behaving that way "to watch the drama" or because they're "pulling the strings" of others. Be it a personality disorder or some form of sociopathy, it is not what I consider to be your usual troll/prankster, because the latter can turn it off when they want to.

Even if he rolls statements back later, he's always on stage, always boasting, and no amount of "I'm the puppetmaster, you've come into my trap, now dance!" and lies/coverups makes him somehow less deranged.
any source for people who know some statistical theory but know almost nothing about how it is applied to web analytics?
I actually agree with the author to a very large extent, based on this, I'm going to try to move to a new city starting next year ..
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Imagine when powerful bitcoin-hashing equipment becomes something for the masses. Crackers will have a jolly time with ol' mining rigs!
The real culprit that needs to be fired is Steve Ballmer. He was great from the inception of MSFT until maybe the turn of the century, when their business strategy of making and maintaining a Windows monopoly worked beautifully and extremely profitably. However, he is living in a legacy environment where he believes he needs to protect the Windows/Office monopoly BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, and he and the rest of Microsoft can't keep up with everyone else around them because of innovation.

This mindset has completely stymied any sort of innovation at Microsoft because they are playing with one arm tied behind their backs in the midst of trying to compete against the likes of Google, Facebook, etc. In Steve Ballmer's eyes, everything must lead back to the sale of a license of Windows/Office, and that no longer works in their environment.

If Microsoft engineers had free rein to make the best search engine, or the best phone, or the best tablet, without worries about how will it lead to maintaining their revenue streams of Windows and more importantly Office, then I think their offerings would be on an order of magnitude better and more creative.
> I believe Khanna's opening point about the purpose of copyright is actually incorrect.

Yes, you said that already. What you haven't said is why you believe this, except to cite an obscure (and not at all on point) comment on HN. I've done a little bit of searching, and it is easy to find extensive well-reasoned arguments that Khanna is spot on. e.g.:

http://open-spaces.com/article-v2n1-loren.php

I can't find a single coherent defense of the opposing position.
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I suppose I set that as the baseline without needing to specify an appeal to innate humanity, so I agree.
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And the buyer would be happy to pay a premium.
Is it not a valid question considering the government is collecting a fine due to consumers over paying?
Our government is extraordinarily effective for what it is. We have one of the most sophisticated countries in the world, and our tax burden as a percentage of GDP is at the low end of any country you'd want to live in.

By the way, the Heritage Foundation has gotten to the point where it's about as bad as DailyKOS. They've given up even the pretense of objectivity and descended into blatant ideological demagoguery.
"He must have close connections to Microsoft's largest enterprise customers"

Ballmer has a close connection with Microsoft's largest shareholder, some fellow named "Gates."

He has even closer ties to the second largest shareholder, himself.
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It's not semantics to call it "not cash".
If i own a million shares of apple stock, I don't own cash or a cash equivalent, i own a marketable security. They are valued quite differently.

The long term/short term is the maturity, and as you point out, some billions are probably treasuries, which are easy to trade (They don't break it down that I saw, Google does break it down into treasury bonds, etc).

However, some of it could be (and certainly is) instruments that they could transform into cash (hence marketable), but would take a significant loss on if they needed to do so quickly (< 90 days).

Calling that cash is simply false.
Let's stick with the simple fact: If they needed to transform that 92 billion in long term marketable securities into cash tomorrow, the percent chance they will get 92 billion for it is quite low.

If they need to transform it into 92 billion in cash in the next 6 months, the percent chance they will get 92 billion for it is quite high.
It's just like using location information. There are cases where it might be appropriate, such as web-based chat, or webmail. But there are many more cases where it would not be appropriate.
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The point 'tzs was making is that the purpose the framers had in ratifying the copyright clause was essentially the same purpose to which it is applied today. Khanna's point is that it has been warped towards a purpose other than the framers had in mind, which again does not in fact appear to be correct.
One other omission from the analysis is there may be a fair amount of waste when you buy large bottles of soda water from the store. Economically it would make sense to buy 2L bottle, but I may not be drinking it fast enough to warrant that. You lose a large amount of fizziness after day one, and by day 3, you just dump out anything that is left. With a Soda making device, you always have fresh fizzy water on demand.
It's pretty hard to make diet cola taste good. Real-sugar soda would probably taste better. Anyway, it's not like people drink Red Bull for the taste :p
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It's not a problem if they're both in the same data center, not sure who cloudant are using though.
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Microsoft could take the lead and put kinect in their phones, and use their photosynth tech to automatically build 3d immersive photos. Would certainly one-up panoramas in iOS and whatever the Android clone of that is called.

Project Glass is definitely interesting, as another commenter mentioned.
This is a good essay, thanks for digging it up. I'm not sure it convinces me that Khanna isn't off base in the introduction to his memo, but that introduction isn't really the core of my argument and I wouldn't want to get derailed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_phases_of_a_big_project

The six phases of a project:

1. Enthusiasm

2. Disillusionment

3. Panic

4. Search for the guilty

5. Punishment of the innocent

6. Rewards for the uninvolved

This is the way it seems to have played out (and the way project/startup failure almost always seems to play out).
SodaStream does offer a real-sugar cola syrup now (see http://www.sodastreamusa.com/Naturally-Sweetened-Cola-P330.a...), and it does indeed taste noticeably superior to their other cola offerings. The downsides are that it's twice as expensive and can be difficult to find at retail.
The US doesn't need to export as much as it actually consumes unlike the Chinese.
I think you have misunderstood, as the post is specifically app store oriented. Still, I'm sure the app's authors would be delighted to see this post in an email form in their inbox.
Not only that, but there is the environmental savings of trucking around water at 8 lbs / gallon, and of manufacturing and disposing of (or quasi-recycling -- they can't be remanufactured, like glass or aluminum) hundreds of PET bottles.
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They're a real problem, but how significant are they compared to the other peoples copyright reform advocates have? Spurious takedowns don't kill companies the way lawsuits do. I think takedowns are a cosmetic problem.
A few thoughts:

* Odds are _those_ jobs _aren't_ coming back, these are probably some sort of _new_ type of job. Given Cook's operations background, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is leveraging their cash/think different attitude to try improving the efficiency of US based work forces. It doesn't seem like Cook's style to give away a competitive advantages for the sake PR. Apple's NPS (Net Promoter Score) is already extremely high. However, if he can shave a few more dollars off assembly, that protects Apple's margins, and that feels like a very Apple-like move.

* If Apple were to leverage new manufacturing methodologies, and they have been working on that for a few years, they _would_ spin it for maximum PR. That makes them looks good, and focuses the store on job creation, not supply chain improvements. I don't think it is coincidence Cook spoke to both NBC and Bloomberg in the same news cycle.

* That said: if Cook is being altruistic... So what? Apple has tens of billions of dollars in the bank. If they wants to spend $100M on PR, I'm sure the people reaping the rewards won't care.
>The sexism upon which this statement is partially premised aside...

What?
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"I don't really see the point of self-flying helicopters, it's not like there's a shortage of bright young men and women who want to fly these things."

Fewer caskets arriving at Dover AFB for repatriation.
IF they go into the general treasury of the relevant states, then you could say that in the long term it goes "evenly" to the taxpayers of those states.

This of course assumes some relationship between the amount of money a country has and how much it decides to tax, which I think is far from given. But in some sense $ in from fines = $ of taxes they don't "need" in the future.
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this is a very small amount of money for a company like apple
so is it seriously, or just some strange tax jump ?
It depends. If Skynet's morality were all about doing what benefits itself, it would basically be a sociopath. That's not very reassuring.
That's an amazingly literal interpretation.

Take apart a new Mac with Fusion Drive - as far as anyone has been able to determine, the pinouts are exactly the same as SATA, but the connector has been modified enough that it's proprietary now.

iPhone 5's new connector is actually what pushed me to abandon the Apple ecosystem:

I have a in dash GPS/HD radio/Pandora unit that until now required an iDevice for Pandora remote control. I considered upgrading from my 4S to a 5... I need a new connector. No problem, there's an adapter - $30 or $40 with a chip in it that serves in large part the purpose of ensuring I get an Apple adapter/cable.

Great, so now I get the adapter, plug it into the head unit, only to find, guess what, it still won't work - why? Because (and finding anything official on this is nigh on impossible, only outside reviewers) the adapter doesn't pass on the iPod Out control signals.

Screw that. I will wait for a firmware update for my head unit.

I sold my iPhone 4S, my iPad 3, and am now very happy with a Nokia Lumia 920, and a Samsung 700E tablet running Windows 8.
I've been using a custom domain (for free) for over a year now. Really cool for simple static sites.
No, duct tape won't work. :)

My plan is to tap out the inside of the tank valve and thread in an adaptor. If it works, I'll post it on Instructables...
FYI, our local Bed Bath & Beyond, which sells the SodaStream syrups and equipment, will refill the CO2 cartridges at a much lower price than buying new.
You might be confusing the iPad Mini with the iPhone 5: http://www.channel4.com/news/apple-co-founder-steve-jobs-las...
Another player in this market may be VoiceBunny. They have similar pricing, faster turnaround time, much better recorded quality, but I'm not sure if their pool of talent will be as language diverse.
Linux itself works fine - I installed Ubuntu 12.04 for a while, but am now back with Windows 8. To be honest, I never tried the power dock - at home I use my desktop, and only use my laptop away from the desk.
(Mike Miller, Cloudant). Exactly, we run cloudant clusters in nearly 20 data centers globally on many different providers (ec2, softlayer, rackspace, joyent, azure, hostway, ...) so we make sure that the data and application tiers are co-located.

Dealing with direct connections from mobile is more fun.
Just make sure you don't accidentally try to get on a plane with one of those. That sharp, pointy knife at the top is likely to get the TSA all excited.
this is a small amount of money for a company as Apple.
might likely be a tax evasion maneuver
I'm about your age and I did the same thing in my early 20's.

I chose the Marine Corps instead of college as my way out. After, I still didn't have enough so I chose adventures, sold everything, kept nothing to continually indulge in my wanderlust instead of sitting in a cube.

But...

And I say this with as much love as I can muster to a stranger that I see as a kindred spirit.

But...

What did you find at the end? Was it nothing? Because that's what I found. I'm just a tourist.

There's nothing. And one day you might realize all that running, all that effort exerted, it got you no where.

You might also arrive at the final destination realizing that your existence and your way to exist is but merely at the mercy of the system.

Your friends that kept doing the same things? With the same blank expressions?

You're not better than them. I thought I was, but the final destination is to realize you're not.

You exist because they exist. If everyone was going out to do and chase whatever it is they want there will be no room for you. Ordered society will succumb to chaos and nothing will be done. There will be no roads for you to travel, no places for you to tour, no joy for you to find.

In all, there's no blackness for your star to shine.

You have to accept that. And in doing so you might find that the steady ones, the one that did everything they were told, might end up being the ones that have the most. Compared to you, the one that gave up to always pursuing something else.

Because that's actually the immature way of handling life. And that's the continually reaction I keep getting from people that's done the same thing. Thinking that the replacement of running for life is somehow worth something to keep telling others.

That if you're given the lucky opportunity to be born into an environment providing for a good life in the good part of the world, you should take that and make good on it.

Because others? In worse places, having to do worse things to survive. They would do every single possible thing short of dying to be in your position. Yet you chose to be a tourist. Building nothing, doing nothing, creating nothing, but indulging in everything.

Do good, be good. Age and experience grants you wisdom that running doesn't get you any closer to those two things.
Using "she" is confusing in a similar way as using "they" - just to a lesser degree.

If typical executive is a male, then using "she" needlessly attracts reader's attention due to the unexpected word usage.

Granted, using "she" helps making overall idea of female executive more acceptable, but main focus of this article is "hiring experienced/old employees", not "shifting cultural norm to making females more acceptable for executive roles".
One thing I found curious on the price economics was the comparison against soda. They listed a price of $0.70 per liter for the SodaStream soda and $1.08 per liter for a 2 liter from the store. Was that a mistake? I'm used to picking up a two liter for $1 for the whole bottle ($0.80 if I'm willing to go generic brand). Did they make a mistkae and not normalize the $1.08 price for the two liter or are people really paying $2.16 for two liters of pop.
Just because they share the same language doesnt mean the journalistic quality regarding local/national news is equal.

A german newspaper will always be more detailed and in-depth when it comes to national matters.
Don't post private information online and you should be fine.
> We neglected to consider the importance of other categories of tasks, such as [viewing, updating]

These kinds of tasks were actually more common than creation — especially on mobile...

Sounds like a business analysis problem, then. Don't build for what you think your users will do or what they tell you they'll do, build for what they actually do.

I'm not sure this was a "design" problem per se.
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Movies, e-books, console video games, phone and internet services.
Go to your local soda supply, they will almost certainly be glad to set you up.

In the Bay Area, Carbonic Service in Santa Clara are GREAT -- if you walk in and tell them you want to make soda, they will hook you up with a 5 lb tank and a fill, and a pre-made-up combo with tubing, regulator and ball-lock valve, along with the screw-top adaptor for the 2L bottle.
They consider "frequent" to be two liters per week?

One small glass of water is about 1/4 liter. A pint glass is nearly double that. So if you drink one pint glass of water per day, that's already far beyond what they're calling "frequent".

And of course, the above is based on a person who lives alone. If there's more than one person in your household, it pays off even faster.
"Khanna's point is that it has been warped towards a purpose other than the framers had in mind, which again does not in fact appear to be correct."

I guess I still don't see how you're getting that. Khanna's criticism of the current copyright law is that it is being used to enrich creators rather than to maximize innovation. TZS's comment is about what can be copyrighted or patented, which Khanna never takes issue with.

What specifically do you think he is wrong about with regards to his interpretation of the constitution?
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I am a professional programmer who's been working in the field for over a decade, who went to a top 40 school, use multiple languages professionally, yadda yadda.

I buy those books and the "best" advanced book on the language when I want to get up to speed fast.

Going through and doing all the exercises, and stupidly simple setup they always have is so worth it. Typing in all the code takes almost no time at all, and it gets you the basic understanding down pretty fast. Then the advanced book smacks any bad things the silly book tried to give you, and you can start making something real with it.