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That answer is essentially, "each professor should write their own textbook", since an extensive series of notes intended to be used in a course of study, along with practice problems, is pretty much a draft textbook.

That could be an interesting solution, but is mostly practical if you already have tenure, since it is a quick way to not get tenure otherwise. If you spend your junior professorship time writing a textbook (in a field that already has many) rather than spending that time on more research and publications, tenure is unlikely. If you're tenured and have been teaching the same course for a while, on the other hand, you both have more leeway to spend your time doing that, and may have already sort of "naturally" accumulated years worth of notes from previous iterations of the course. Then it can be a good idea, and many senior professors do prefer this approach, because it lets them teach the course in a way precisely in line with how they feel the material should be taught, rather than having to buy into someone else's approach.

Universities could influence that outcome at all levels if they wished, though. Universities formally budget preparation time per course. Currently it's typical to budget quite little, because the assumption (and sometimes requirement) is that you'll be teaching using a standard text in the field. If they instead want extensive preparation to be done, along the lines of what you propose, they can: 1) budget sufficient time for it, e.g. specify that each course requires, say, 100 (or 200, or whatever) hours of preparation prior to the beginning of the semester; and 2) expect that the preparation time be used towards the budgeted end (i.e. expect extensive independent course materials to be developed for each course, in line with the amount of time budgeted).
Because money is a medium of exchange, and has no inherent value. Hoarding cash is equivalent to destroying production-- by then time you try to spend it, there won't be anything left to buy. Inflation encourages people to be active in the system, exchanging to produce real value, not staring a the charts of growth of imaginary wealth that means only as much as a video game high score board.
> An easy example is DEFCON, people treat it like a party with talks, because for over a decade it was unambiguously a party with talks.

I would like to believe that even a party is possible without harassing or discriminating against other people. I don't think it has anything to do with trying to be a "professional" work environment. I just want to see it as being respectful to people around you all the time, everywhere. Fully believing that, I have never ever found a desire to hit on or make derogatory comments to another man unprovoked, put boobs on a presentation slide, or grab someone's crotch even while incredibly drunk, outside of where my partner is concerned when we're in private. I find it incredibly difficult to deal with the fact that I've encountered many men that think doing any of that is perfectly normal until someone says otherwise.

Sadly, I don't think defcon has ever met that standard so I haven't attended except with friends in a very long time and I've always swore off unofficial and after-conference events. Plenty of good people but it's always those couple rotten apples that like to be disrespectful...
I'd be curious to see meaningful engagement numbers of Reader and G+.
These are just rough calculations and they ignore things like whether the valuation is pre or post-money and dilution from additional funding etc, but it gives a ballpark idea of potential returns:

$1,000 investment at $8,000,000 valuation = 0.0125%

Facebook valuation today of $63 billion x 0.000125 = $7.87 million (was a little off)

Dropbox valuation currently at least $5 billion (they raised at a $4 billion valuation in 2011) x 0.000125 = $625k

OMGPOP sold for $200 million x 0.000125 = $25k.
Is this something to do with the area of circle sectors?
My analogy was comparing the products themselves, not the surrounding techniques used by the companies that make them. My point is that Reader and Mac Pro are at their core very similar products: immensely useful for a small (nerdy) market niche, not capable of ever providing enough profits to warrant their upkeep in a corporation the size of Apple or Google.

Whether you believe Google "won" by offering it for free or not is inconsequential in my mind. My point is simply that there existed no universe in which a responsible Google would continue supporting it, because the product simply doesn't make sense to them in the same way the Mac Pro really just doesn't make sense to Apple.
Gitorious, which is free software.
Unfortunately, that logic will go over like a lead weight with companies that prize 7+ year terms and loyalty. "You might leave!? No! We're keeping it"
This story must have the highest points : relevant comments ratio I've seen.

2 hours, 57 points and only one comment of any relevance.
I used to use it as a local database for desktop (and CD-ROM based) Windows apps I created with Flash, wrapped in a SWFStudio wrapper. :)
I think garry's interest is actually helping his users more than promoting Posthaven, though. The most selfish reason for helping users is probably to avoid the reputation loss of posterous disappearing without an alternative, more than Posthaven needing to be a big commercial success.

But yes, vendor-provided comparisons are usually selective in what they compare :) In this case I meant that he was presenting alternatives at all, not that the comparison was impartial (which it seems to be). I don't think Posthaven is really a normal commercial enterprise.
> You can still buy a Mac Pro.

Even more importantly, if you already purchased a Mac Pro, you can still use it. Indefinitely, until it breaks beyond repair.
Agreed.

When was the last time attempting to publicly humiliate someone convinced them to turn from their unenlightened ways?

Any desire to make the developer community more diverse and open is admirable. But responding to inappropriate jokes in this manner isn't just overreaching.

It's repaying asshattery with asshattery.

I'm not defending the behavior of the guys in question here. And I'd like to go all white knight and support OP 100%, but I can't seem to shake this damned sense of perspective.

What would she have done if she had witnessed deliberate sexual harassment? Gone the extra mile and used Instagram? Or gone over the organizers heads and demand Guido ban those three guys from even using Python anymore?

People make bad, unfunny jokes. Call them out if they're offensive. But this is just ridiculous.
This is absolutely genius, made my day! :D
Update: due to the traffic I'm seeing different memory patterns and now it's running at 7 workers. Always monitor in production after running benchmarks :)
Hey everyone - Ayo from Hipmob here.
We gave the team at Yaxi a little bit of help but they were up and running in a very short time and have seen a ridiculous amount of growth. Happy to connect anyone or answer any questions!
>The item typically needs to be sold below cost and there needs to be intent to drive out competitors. Neither is true here.

Neither? If Google Reader was spun off as an independent company, how would it pay for the hosting and bandwidth costs?
But Marco's point was that Reader dominated its niche in such a way that few alternatives exist. This is obviously not true of the Mac Pro. Google didn't simply kill off an unsuccessful product. They killed off an unsuccessful product that had a near-monopoly.
I really hope uncapped notes are not allowed. If you look at the history, Dropbox turned a $6M investment into a $5 billion dollar company. Google turned a $25M investment into a $250 billion dollar company. I have a feeling, one of these startups is going to turn a $1M uncapped investment into a $1B company, and there are going to be some really hurt feelings. Someone is going to invest $1000 in the next Google/Dropbox/AirBnB and walk away with $1200.
Free without ads is below cost.
What happens when someone retires at the same time and tries to cash in their hoard of btc to buy stuff that no one is producing (since they also retired)? Liquidity shock. Years of deflation instantly give way to hyperinflation.
Affirmative Action Case at Univ of Texas finally ends
Interesting one to be in sync with what's going on.

In my team we usually do on-demand code reviews via GH pull requests (though we don't merge them with merge button, rather manually to have flat history), I wrote a userscript to facilitate that in case the commit is lengthy [1]. Works with Firefox+Greasemonkey or Chrome+Tampermonkey.

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/153049
Funny you bring up that analogy. Actually, I have been hit on by gay guys. To be honest, I find it pretty funny. My girlfriend laughs about it too as she has seen it happen to me at the supermarket. BTW, you can generalize your statement to "people should not have to stay sequestered in their own homes because some people are inconsiderate assholes or cunts." I agree with that statement. I never said a person should stay home. I just said they should leave the area where the sexist jokes/comment are being said.
There never was any official Google Reader API. Every developer was aware of the risk he was taking when using an unoffical and undocumented API.
I like this:)Good motivational/inspirational post for everyone.
Web Harvesting to API with Import.io
Outside USA there are more of respectable universities and professors teaching in English than inside USA, and many of the current USA textbooks already involve non-USA authors.

The rest of the world is self sufficient, especially in academical sense, and if the current publishers won't serve them well, they can and will immediately make and print own texbooks. They are definitely economically worth doing on their own (every single country is, not to mention, say India+UK together) and afterwards these local publishers will try to export them to USA at prices that would really undercut current ones - so current publishers won't want to rock the boat.

European market (for textbooks in Eglish) already uses the international versions due to lack of IP protectionism legal insanity that could prohibit mass import; but all my MBA books were stamped with a wishful statement 'not to be sold in USA/Canada' that carries no legal obligations to anyone here. There is no deficit of high quality material. There is no practical force that would make it difficult to replace any publisher wanting to raise prices here - competition is fierce, there are many alternatives for most subjects, supply is larger than demand; profs can do without the textbook publishers (if really neccessary, without ALL of them) but the textbook publishers need profs to recommend them.
? if you give something away that a loss because it actually costs money to produce/provide, like Google did with the Reader service - it doesn't fit the definition?

what a crazy piece of logic.

google destroyed the market for smaller RSS-app vendors by providing a service for free, at a loss. was it on purpose? or just stupidity? what exactly does it change? the ecosystem around RSS has been ruined, maybe beyond repair.

because open and don't be evil and blah.
I guess you are not understanding my position. I neither like nor don't like Google, and I'm not "defending" their position from an altruistic standpoint. Maybe their plan is to help G+ through shutting down Reader, I don't know. My point is that if they did that, it wouldn't be a testament for or against their openness, because Reader merited being shut down either way, for the simple fact that it is a failed technology.

If you strongly want "open" to beat "closed social", then maybe RSS dying might be a step in a positive direction, since its had its shot, and proved to just not be useful for people. Now, I personally feel RSS neither hurts nor helps "closed social" in any way, so I think its inconsequential.
One question Garry, what are the export options from posthaven? (in case we switch and then something terrible happens to posthaven).
This is so great. Thank you.
Google Play store being gamed by malware distributors
The Lock Pickers
BB&T Website Down All Day Today
Strangely enough their mobile app is still working..
Funny thing about that... I don't remember exactly why, but a couple of days ago I found myself browsing over to Slashdot, and I found that there were actually some interesting discussions going on there, a few of which did not seem to have corresponding discussions here at HN. The list of articles also seemed more current and up-to-date than I expected, as part of the reason I drifted away from Slashdot was the fact that Digg, Reddit, HN, etc., had started to feature much fresher content.

Now I've started keeping /. open in a tab again and checking in every so often. I'd like to think it's more than just nostalgia and that they still have something to offer...
If he hoards until he dies, his currency is effectively worhless. If he tries to spend it all at once, hyperinflation.

Money is not a store of value. It is currency, for current exchange.
Totally fair. Next time, this should be your comment instead of just non constructively pooping on someone else's project.

This is discussion worthy, your original comment is just smug.
Anyone who thinks resumes are dead or nearly so, even in the field of technology, is out of touch with 90% of people working in it.
It's bad that his personal website is not available recently: http://pointy-stick.com
One meaningful point: we're early-stage and we bought a booth and we seem to be getting great value out of it, but we have a very specific target audience not mentioned by the original poster: digital marketers. At least the interactive part of SXSW is now way more a marketing conference than a tech conference and if you regard it in this light you can do very well. If you need to pitch social media managers, it's awesome, if you just want to talk about something consumer-y, not so much.
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Why are you still charging for minutes?
Actually, deflation is bad for both lenders and borrowers, since it increases the likelihood of default. Let's put it this way: if you knew that it would be hard for me to repay a loan during an economic boom, and even harder during a recession, would you want to lend money to me? Deflation actively discourages lending, by creating an incentive to hold money.

It is easy to think that lending is a bad thing, but let's put it this way: it is because we are able to take out loans (of various kinds) to start businesses that non-wealthy non-aristocrats are able to participate in the market. Too much credit is a bad thing, but too little credit denies capital to anyone who is not already wealthy.
Gresham law works only when the exchange between the good/bad money is fixed. Usually by a government/sovereign decree.

Otherwise quite the opposite is observed in real world. There's even a word for it. Dollarization.
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Ex-Microsoft Employee Uses His MBA To Found Ethical University In Africa
That's actually a good point. Giving people a "minimum guaranteed time" for APIs and services would give a lot more confidence to people looking to build on them, and also keep data portability at top of mind when building on those services.
You can't always depend on market irrationality, though.

VC firms became quite frantic during the market meltdown of 2008-2009. If a startup was burning cash, they told them to fire most of their staff. There was simply no exit possible -- either via IPO, or a sale to a larger company.
Now we got two. The ratio is kaputt.
I'm curious what laws this breaks. Has anyone been prosecuted for similar click fraud? It seems like a contract dispute and the advertiser has the ability to not pay and perhaps come after the scammer for past losses, but it's a TOS violation more than a legal one.

Google is pretty famous for shutting the door on AdSense publishers without much of an appeals process, but I haven't heard of them pursuing anyone criminally. Google even let go a case that involved extortion (someone set on releasing click fraud software unless Google paid up).

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-12-04/the-vanishing...

It appears Google values its secrets more than their losses to click fraud.
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This is pretty awesome. It seems like the models are similar to the operational transformation models that they've been using in Wave/Docs (with the batched client operation submissions). It's definitely much more advanced than what Meteor does, which is just last-writer-wins.

Still, I'm a bit wary that they're offering this as a API, rather than a framework. I don't know if I would build an application completely on top of an external API...
Just in time. I was about to switch over to Dragdis but these thumbnails are bringing me back. I have tried zoo tool gimmie bar, mustache, delicious, evernote and xmarks, but Kippt is the only one I have have used for more than 6 months. The tags and collections put Kippt at number one in my book.
It's "open" in the sense of it was built on open protocols, rather than proprietary ones. Replacing those open protocols with proprietary ones makes you less open.

Google moving from Reader (RSS/Atom) to Current (unspecified protocols) is less open.

Google moving Calendar from CalDAV to their proprietary Calendar API is less open.

Google potentially moving Talk from XMPP to an unspecified proprietary protocol is less open.

Etc.
Freenode's Parent Organization Dissolved
Part.ly missing.
Please tell me what is the "formal definition of security"..
Bitcoin is based on AES256 and a chain of hash-trees
Are you sure there are examples of actual successful deflations, where debts, payments, wages, etc denominated in the form of money deflating increased in value? I know of successful cases central banks have brought inflation under control or one currency was replaced with another that was much more valuable. But human nominal loss aversion[1] usually causes big problems during deflation in any modern economy. Maybe you could have pulled it off back in the day when 90% of the population were independent agents in the market, but not today where 90% are employees of firms with contractual wages.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Freenode's parent organisation has been dissolved.
July 1st: leaving Google Plus day
Why can't we have both?

Sometimes I just want to bookmark a textual article, and Pinterest doesn't let me because it doesn't have an image. I have to manually search for any image on Google Image search, save it to my desktop, upload that as my Pin and edit the url to point to the text-only article I wanted to bookmark.

Other times I want to bookmark something with a thumbnail, so Pinterest or this Kippt would be great, while Chrome's bookmarks, pinboard.in, a text file, would not be great.

I want something that supports both, so I could save all my bookmarks in one place and be able to search for "something from 2-3 days ago" regardless whether it had a picture associated with it or not.

Personally, the most important feature of a bookmarking approach for me right now is the ability to see a timeline of things, most recently added first. Filter by tags, search, etc. second.
Ubuntu cuts down on non-LTS support period
The command line is the best "client". I think.
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I have heard from people who have heard, that the government of China is through proxies aggresively buying large amounts of Bitcoins for future strategic advantage.

I am not sure at all how accurate those reports are, it is probably just hearsay.

But it makes one think.
PDPC, Freenode's Parent Organization, has been dissolved
2 internets for you sir (0.02 BTC)
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But the Mac Pros people are using now don't cease to exist if/when Apple officially cans them. That makes them very disimilar products. You would have been better off comparing to Apple iWeb Hosting.
Thanks for the explanation :).
I find them worth checking out every once in a while, too.

I'm not so into their technical articles any more, but there are a few articles I like, and they usually have some good comments.
And if it's at a conference, I don't have a choice because I'm paying to go and learn something. If it's an afterparty, I have to miss out on spending time with people I wouldn't get a chance to see easily otherwise. I also miss out on general networking and business opportunities galore, not to mention whatever good food and drinks and music is around. What am I going to do? Go sulk in my hotel room or go home, or wander around until my ride is ready to go? Find another party with yet another asshole?

Or should I just try to drill this into peoples' heads: Nobody should ever have to be the one that leaves a party because they're offended by one person out of tens/hundreds. It's every partygoer's obligation not to be an asshole to others. The asshole can leave or shut up and apologize if necessary.
I almost love it. It has everything to be loved. Except a hierarchical structure for links, like bookmark folders. I can't organize hundreds of links just with lists, because in the best situation I get dozens of lists with a dozen links in each, which isn't really good organization. :/
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/03/14/former-google-reader...
Maybe I'm confused as to where their kit runs, but there's no reason to assume they're using a commercial browser. It sounds like they're monitoring sites which screams "bot" to me.
>Yes, yes it can

No, it literally can't. It can be somewhat similar with contracts that promise a transfer of IP, but you'd get sued for breach of contract, not for copyright infringement.

That doesn't stop companies from putting draconian claims in their contracts and manuals, and it doesn't stop them from trying to prove infringement anyway (no copyright case ever is a 'sure thing'), which is enough to scare most employees into toeing the line. But they can't actually make unrelated work you do on your own time automatically 'work for hire'.

Here's a solid discussion of that topic: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf

The pivotal words are "within the scope of his or her employment" - these words can get a little fuzzy, but http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-scope-of-employment.htm is a reasonable (though not authoritative) discussion of the topic.
Copy of text: https://plus.google.com/b/104326727082310562426/104326727082...
I didn't have much interaction with Malcolm when he helping us at Disqus, but I just remembered that he was incredibly smart and very kind. I'm very saddened by this news.
> few alternatives exist.

this is ridiculous the last few days on HN were filled with alternatives. Google allows you to export your feeds so nothing was lost.
Given that it seems to require building everything on the three collaborative primitives, and that much of Wave and the ideas behind operation transformations are open, it seems plausible that someone could build an open source implementation of the server component that the JavaScript library could then hook into.
I just read though your link and I hate to break it to you but bit-coins are the opposite of antonymous every account and every transaction is public. Also, from a technical standpoint it's horrible for fast transactions like a store or vending machine, so either it needs to be fixed, another layer built over it which makes it no more useful than cash, or some other digital currency is going to take over.
I assume you're referring to Greg's comment about Pick and not my response to your response to it, because I think we've had a pretty good conversation.