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If basketball were taught the way most public school subjects are taught, the kids would sit on the sidelines all day discussing "issues" like zone versus man-to-man defense. They'd spend ten minutes on the court every week, and nobody would have to touch the ball unless they volunteered, because you wouldn't want to embarrass anybody.

That sounds like the science class discussed in this article, not like the public schools. More generally, it sounds like "teaching to the test".
It's bold, audacious, visionary and will most likely fail. I love it! Now if only they could find a way to recruit great engineers to do the heavy lifting to actually engineer and manufacture these vehicles. Kind of reminds me of Cambrian House - only harder because it is hardware. It might makes sense if they sold virtual cars, but as for actually producing vehicles in any volume I think it is far fetched.
I've edited out "almost", I meant to use it as qualifying the "stumbled upon" part, not the algorithm.

In any case by fast polynomial solution I meant one with a low degree. Let's assume this algorithm is as fast as existing approximate ones.
"Prime View International, or PVI, of Taiwan describes itself as display provider and the world's highest volume supplier of ePaper display modules."

The deeper story seems to be that PVI parts also go into Amazon's Kindle. So this deal should cut some markup out of their manufacturing costs. Of course, they'll have to balance that against the purchase price.
[Re: Lonely old lady spending 14 hours a day socialising online]. To go off on a slight tangent, I often wonder what will happen when the people who now do open-source development as a hobby start retiring. If we/they end up hacking 14 hours a day, that would be a force to be reckoned with!

Although I am guessing mailing list discussions aren't going to get any easier with a bunch of crotchety old folks slinging it out :-)
E Ink seems more valuable than $215M. It's a great idea, they own the patents and they are already manufacturing components. They are growing in a new sector. Or expanding into netbooks and laptops depending on who you talk to. I have to imagine that this sale is as much about getting a hold of infrastructure for faster growth as it is about making money.
Fluther accuses Mahalo of stealing the questions asked by Flutter users, not any of Fluther's answers.

I'm not sure Fluther has a case under copyright law. Especially if short and to-the-point, questions are unlikely to be considered copyrightable.

If your company's 'righteous mission' is building the biggest question and answer database, scraping all public sources of questions allowable by law seems a legitimate tactic, even if it peeves some of the sources.
The US government pays a million bucks per new prime right? Just push those out every week or so.
I am not sure it's working correctly on Chrome. Here's what I see: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/almost.at.jpg

I gave up trying to figure out what to do after about a minute.
Even though the millenium prize may be the most obvious solution, your best option might be to monetize the discovery privately.
If you can say it in a regex (or lamson router match expression), you can use it to route. If you don't want to use commands-in-the-to-field, just write you handler so that it parses the body. Lamson doesn't make you use to-field-as-command-interface, nowhere is this style pushed. 0.9 leaves you completely free to choose your type of routing, more flexible than previous versions.

The reason to do it in the "to-field" is because it's easy to parse without having to read the whole body. Parsing an email body is far more complicated, you have to deal with, clients automatically adding signatures, advertising from free email providers, unwanted html markup,...
do you know who PVI is?

i don't and think most people don't either. so using that as the first word does a worse job at conveying the point. you'd have to click it anyway to find out who PVI is.

BUT, i do agree, i should have made it "e ink acquired by __", but I think it is okay to change the article name if the new name better conveys the importance(the important thing here is e ink).
i agree, i think they've raised over $160M.
Hm... that's not good. It should have a sidebar on the left. Looks like it's Chrome on Windows, right? I'll have a look and see if I can reproduce it.
Yea :/ I've been trying to solve that bug, though it has been elusive, thus far.
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Who and when is anyone agreeing to Fluther TOS? If the questions are being posted on Twitter, and Mahalo is taking them off there, the only TOS involved is Twitter's.
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Errr, citation needed?
I have needed to wear neckties and suits with varying regularity across various jobs that I have had (I've been a web developer of some kind for most of my professional career).

What gets me the most about suits and neckties is that even in countries such as mine, where the weather gets very warm for a large portion of the year, many people are still expected to wear neckties and suits year round. It reminds me of a saying that my mother (who grew up in the Philipines) is quite fond of, that I gather is paraphrased from an old song: "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun". What she meant to convey when she used this saying was to comment on the propensity of western cultures to continue the use of their own cultural norms, behaviours and clothing styles even when the environment in the places they colonised and began living in made no sense for them to do so.

I also see footage of "salary men" in Japan walking to work in their suits and ties for example, and I think it's kind of sad that most everyone seems to have conformed to the western suit and tie style regardless of whether it makes sense to do so for their country's climate or cultural heritage.
Yep, Chrome on Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit.
The beauty of 140 characters... When is short too short for copyright?

I'm pretty sure that Fluther's TOS doesn't apply here since Mahalo never used the site.
It looks gorgeous, but I have one question about web pages that look like applications: what happens when I leave the page and later want to come back? Is there a "save" button?

On my computer, I can come back to my data very easily. The next time I open an app, everything is where I left it. Does Capuccino work the same way?
There are also Channel 4s in essentially every US city. It's unusual for the British to be even more provincial than the Americans, but this is an example of it.
It's refreshing to see an article of this quality from TechCrunch.
I'd use it full-screen with pyGame and experiment with implementing the view part of MVC and alternative user interface (that requires no keyboard nor mouse) think gestures, taps, etc. Direct manipulation has a huge promise when applied on a larger scale. Look at iPhone / iPod Touch and the various Surface systems for inspiration.
But Twitter does give you copyright to your tweets, so repurposing a tweet and removing attribution seems wrong.
Good question. Can you copyright a haiku?

If you tweeted a haiku and if that haiku later appeared in a book of poetry without your attribution, would that be okay?
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Answer from Cook:
www.cs.toronto.edu/~sacook/homepage/JACMpvsnp.ps

Highlights
- Computers could find formal proofs for any theorem with a reasonable length
- All you need then is a good recognition algorithm for formal proofs
- Then you can just work on recognizers for good novels / music / etc and have it churn out classics

The other example (I forget the source) is that if you have a P time formula for safety checking the designs of nuclear power plant, if P = NP you can efficiently generate a list of the designs of all possible safe nuclear power plants.

So you can go from P-time checkable constraints to P-time enumeration of things which fill the constraints.
Why does he keep prattling on about his site's TOS? When viewing something from Twitter, you're not bound to the TOS of a site that you're not even visiting.

Furthermore, I just posted a question there, and in no way had to agree to transfer copyright ownership to them--only rights to reuse the question. Their cease and desist threats are fraudulent.
To me, it makes good PR-sense for Mahalo to allow Twitter users to opt-out of their automatic question-scraping system.
Technically, Twitter says you keep the right to your words.

If you wanted to give up the rights to your words, you could use something like tweetCC (http://tweetcc.com/) to apply a Creative Commons license to your tweets.
Not really, but there's not much "personalized" data on almost.at to save. If there were (or is in the future), then yea, your data could definitely be saved and displayed when you return. Check out 280 Slides from the creators of Cappuccino: http://280slides.com
I've never worn a tie to work, nor worked anywhere with any sort of dress code. Living in northern california, the whole concept seems a bit foreign to me. Bankers and doctors don't even wear ties. If you're wearing a suit and tie you're probably a used car salesman or 2nd rate real estate broker.

However, I've worn suits and ties to things like new year's eve parties and art gallery openings and I felt like it helped me pick up women, if only because I looked different than the hordes of shaggy guys with their ill-fitting hipster gear. Note to dudes: if you weigh more than 150 lbs you don't look good in a tight t-shirt and skinny pants.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe if you scraped all the Q&A sites to make a massive database of questions, that would in fact get you in a lot of trouble.

Honestly, I don't know if we have a case here, but I'm curious to hear what people think.
Twitter doesn't do that--they don't have the legal authority to grant a copyright to someone who is not the owner of the material--they say that what is yours remains so. Fluther is given right to reuse questions submitted, as the submitter agrees when using the site; the original author owns the copyright, even when reposted to Twitter.
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Yeah, fair enough. This is really more about Twitter's TOS than ours.

We're not trying to start a legal battle, but this feels like infringement.
ok then. This shifts the hard part of the problem from "how do I make this run in a lifetime", to "how do I reduce this problem to 3SAT efficiently".

This seems to be related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_%3D_NP_problem#Consequences_o...
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As a hiring manager, my experience has been the opposite.

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How can an article of clothing do that?
You can have a copyright on a compilation of works that are themselves not copyrightable. For instance, a recipe is not copyrightable, but a collection of recipes is, even without additional commentary.

You can google "compilation copyright", or see http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/compilation.htm for example (second hit). Note that it gives you much more limited protection than a traditional copyright, in that you only have a copyright on the collection, it does not give you a copyright over the parts. However, it sounds like the potential infringement in question is for the entire collection.

Whether or not Fluther could claim a compilation copyright would probably be a matter for lawyers to work out in court, by which I mean, it's an awfully close call. The courts have interpreted the word "creative" fairly liberally, but I could see a court saying that simply passing through the posts of other people with no editorial oversight and collecting them together does not itself meet a standard for creativity. Who knows, though? The list of things courts have judged to not meet the creativity criterion is quite short.
Put up a web API that solves arbitrary SAT instances. Let other people do what they want, and I can watch while I think about what to do next.

Also, write a theorem prover of course, and try for big outstanding conjectures.
That post alone makes it seem like a little less fun place to work.
I agree completely. That's why this is so frustrating--on Mahalo it looks like the question is asked by a Mahalo user, not the actual Fluther submitter.

And since they strip out the link, it's very hard to find attribution.
I'm assuming that you have an idea of what interests you and that you are shooting for a PhD or masters by research.

Research your topic of interest on Google Scholar. Read widely to identify who are doing comparable work.

Write a research proposal and send to the professors who are doing and supervising such work. You need to be very passionate about your topic in order to sustain you through 3-5 years of grad school. Of course, what you write your thesis on won't resemble your research proposal. That's just the way it is. You discover so much as you dig deeper and deeper into your chosen area.
PVI was/is essentially the only company that actually manufactures E-Ink screens. E-Ink was basically all-IP, and PVI was basically the only significant manufacturer to license the tech to manufacture the actual screens.

I'm inserting "basically" b/c it's been awhile since I looked at things in earnest and I don't want to make absolute statements I'm not 100% sure of, but I'd be 95%+ sure that "PVI was the only mass-manufacturer of screens based on E-Ink's technology."

What I was never clear on was which way the arrangement originated: did E-Ink specifically pick PVI and contract out the manufacture of the screens, or was it the other way around?

Either way this is basically the manufacturer and sole direct licensee buying out the licensor to:

- (1) get a long-term "discount" on licensing fees

- (2) firm-up the exclusivity of the PVI/E-Ink arrangement: now that PVI owns E-Ink it's very unlikely that E-Ink will license the tech to any other manufacturer, no?

The amount involved is probably a bargain: the demand for e-ink screens is probably going to go through the roof soon, so "locking-in" the license cost now is smart; it's also excellent timing, b/c given how much investment has been pumped into E-Ink for how long, and given the current state of the financial world, there's plenty of investors who'd probably be very happy with a relatively modest cash payout right this second (but who might have wanted more if the deal had been extended a few years back, and who might want more if the deal were extended a few years from now).

Hopefully someone better-informed on this than I am will step in and correct any errors in my summary and provide any additional background information they have.

NB: E-Ink is not the only company with "epaper" screen technology; I'm talking about E-Ink, not the general epaper market.
"burning man goth cyber warrior outfits"

I think I've just discovered the new office dress code.
I don't like ties either... but I don't like them because they are uncomfortable. In the right place, they still look good, I just don't care to sacrifice myself to look that good.

Suits live on because they can make anyone look good and can make a lot of people look stunning. You do want to avoid the spate of incredibly ugly suits from around the 70s and 80s (which my father still wears, bleh) made from material that would look best upholstering a couch, but otherwise, they've lasted for reason.

That said, I have one suit and I've worn it once in 10 years. (To a series of 2001 computer science job fairs. Which is to say, "waste of money".) But I have to admit I do look relatively good in it.
The point isn't that Fluther's TOS are being violated... it's merely that stripping out the attribution link makes it look like the question was asked by another user on another site.
It's not so much that I bend my will easily to the opinions of others. I do believe that there is at least a grain of truth in most well thought out advice, and I do try to be flexible when considering others' opinions. Once I read the comment through a different lens, I saw the truth in what it was saying.

Alternatively, I could just refuse to acknowledge the accuracy of any of this and bicker over minutiae and semantics, but I choose not to.
The equivalent of the science class in the article would be a team that relentlessly trained basic skills -- doing movement drills, layup drills, passing drills, shooting drills, and free-throw drills all day -- without ever talking about teamwork or doing 5-on-5 scrimmages. (Kids trained that way would beat the hell out of kids who had a well-rounded theoretical background in Xs and Os but who never spent hours in the gym shooting baskets.)

In other words, the science class in the article taught basic mechanical skills but didn't teach the higher-order thinking required to apply them. The dippy liberal (i.e., orthodox) approach is to try to teach kids the higher-order thinking needed to apply the basic skills without actually teaching them the basic skills.

Between the two, I prefer erring on the side of basic mechanical skills. Shallow, mechanical understanding is easier and comes first. You can't do higher-order thinking on concepts that you never understood in the first place. Plus, I'm pretty sure that higher-order thinking is best developed by application to lower-level problems. Higher-order thinking is thinking about lower-level problems -- abstracting ideas from them and applying abstract ideas to them. Without any lower-level problems or skills, you can't actually practice higher-level thinking. You can only talk about it, which isn't the same thing. And actually, when I said the science class in the article didn't teach the higher-order thinking required to apply the basic skills, I wasn't being fair. Standardized tests have come a long way, and they do require kids to analyze problems, decide what physical principles and equations to apply, and apply them successfully. Teaching to the test isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. The tests are designed to make "teaching to the test" as similar as possible to ideal teaching, without allowing slick-talking idiots to BS their way through.

The conservative approach (I hate to call it that, but credit where credit is due) may produce overconfident kids with narrow skills, but the liberal approach gives you kids who are demoralized by their inability to solve simple test problems and who don't really believe (or worse, do believe) their teachers' reassurances that they have a deep, ineffable, unmeasurable understanding of subjects that they can't pass basic tests in.
Calacanis and Mahalo are growing more and more desperate. They raised a huge amount of money for a huge valuation but their traffic has stalled and been going down.

For a while, they've been spamming search results with their keyword-rich pages full of links to other sites (no different from what Adsense spammers have been doing for 5+ years http://www.seobook.com/official-mahalo-com-spam-according-go... ) and then they started paying websites to distribute their keyword spam widget ( http://www.seobook.com/mahalo-caught-pagerank-funneling-link... ).

Now they're even more brazen at stealing content from other websites and have not only started taking Fluther's content but also content from few other sites.

And all the while, Google has been giving Mahalo a free pass. If you tried any of this, Google would have slapped you down and put your site into a sandbox or supplementary index bucket. And Mahalo is still spamming the web and Google's doing nothing.
You're not done yet - it needs a comma after "still".

My sentence needs the period moved to the left a bit.
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legal or not....its a bitch move by Mahalo to copy fluther Q&A....regardless where it is on twitter or fluther.com
>Neckties have always struck me as anachronistic, even sexist. What item of women's clothing has been around for 100 years and is still regularly worn without modification? Especially one that serves no functional purpose?

High heels strike me as much worse than ties.
Test driven development would take on a new meaning, with the programmer a writing collection of tests and letting the computer find the shortest program that makes them pass.
I have no problem with people using the word "decimate" loosely. It's the word "literally" that gets me. If you say, "I literally have to decimate the pool", then it should be the literal definition of decimate you're talking about.
For me, I find them useful.

In many cases, the ads are what I want. When I think about it, I often phrase my search term in a way that will bring up the ads I want. It's sort of semi-conscious.

I am probably a bad example though because I advertise on Google so I have a pretty good intuitive grasp of what I'll find there.

To me, replacing the ads is like replacing images, or news or any of the other things that I use.

What I might use is a Google that has Bing (or others) as one of its tabs (near images, news, etc.).
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All the Q&A sites want Google traffic. Google has scraped them all, and thus inside Google's index is a "massive database of questions". Excerpts from this massive database are used by Google to improve its products, and excerpts are often displayed as part of their cached pages or results-page snippets.

Is Google in "a lot of trouble" for their behavior? Should they be?
Twitter doesn't give you copyright on anything. They just license content that you already own copyright to.

I disagree that repurposing tweets is wrong. Many twitter-based barnacle applications do just that and no one raises a stink.

And Mahalo Answers doesn't remove attribution. They link to the twitter account that posted the question (http://twitter.com/fluther) on the page. This might not be the attribution you desire (and you might be able to pursue legal action), but the attribution is there, nonetheless.
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>Just wondering, why is it important to have a viable competitor to Google?

From an economic standpoint, it's probably most important to search engine advertisers.
Doesn't matter what Twitter says if the utterance itself isn't copyrightable by anyone.

Jobenjo has a point about haiku -- but questions will seldom be recognized as poetry.

Indeed, as a question gets better as a question, more concise and precise, it becomes more like a pure idea, or a strictly functional communicative construct. You can't assert a copyright on those.