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As someone who's been lifted from many, many times I feel I should be outraged by this... but I'm not. Given that the linux people aren't using the logo any more, why not just charge the tutoring people X amount for the logo and drop it?

I imagine that 'Dr. Elias' is not entirely stupid, and would realise that paying for the logo is certainly likely to cost less than having to reprint office stationery, get new decals for the car, etc.
Sorry, iPhone 3G owners--AT&T's iPhone 3G S price for you is perfectly fair.
Front page right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648313
not so much really: I think it depends on whether you feel the author has good reason to ask for money for you to view his efforts.
Africans are very creative and resourceful people.

Children are building their own toys, mechanics can repair any car or engine. If they are missing some elements, they will be built.

With so much ingenuity, it's hard to believe they need aid.

I really think the author has a good point, aid for Africa has always been to tell them how to do instead of letting them do it their own way.

Colonialism (and its newer version, aid) has had a bad impact in a sense that they've been taught to imitate the occidental world.

The culture and the people are different, the solutions must be different.
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> which might matter more than the paltry income they get from book sales

Citation. & where does the rest of their income come from?

If it's not commercially viable why do it?

(never looked into the book world, as in the writing side of it, so am clueless :D)
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He refers to it as Borrowing a book from a library. But my point is that libraries have certain restrictions which an illegally downloaded e-book does not give us.

Not to pick a side or even make a moral argument but here's a fun thought experiment:

What if you had special mental abilities that allowed you to circumvent these restrictions. Some people have nearly perfect photographic memory when it comes to printed words. Is it theft every time someone like this enters a library?

If not, could we just call my kindle and bittorrent a prosthesis for my mind so that I have equal ability?

The point is that these arguments are a lot like matter. It looks discrete and easy to quantify from a distance, but the closer you look, the more you find that deep down, its made of nearly nothing at all. We (society) just picked something out of our asses, nearly at random, and went with it. It only got the force of morality attached to it later in the game when people had lived with it for a while. Kind of like running a stop sign on an empty street makes some people feel guilty for no apparent reason.
Great work guys, the new site is really cool! Even if it is quite sluggish and throwing 503s at the moment ;)

If I've learned anything the past year its user generated content + social stickiness = winner. We're going to try moving a little bit in that direction ourselves (though hardly to IMDB levels ;), SEO-friendly content is just too powerful to not have these days it seems.
Good idea. They could bring that up in a response to him.
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Every election, I vote for another party because I'm disappointed by what the people I've put my hopes in have done.

I've run out of parties and none would define what I want to fight for better than the ideas behind the PP.

If they are opening a PP in my country, I will not only vote for them but militate a long way.
The problem is that the Linux folks haven't indicated that they'd be willing to discuss a payment option. Sure, C&Ds are often just a beginning negotiating tactic - but only when the other side expects it. Otherwise, it's just scary. The fact that the guy wrote back looks to be like "hey, I'm a good guy, but I can't possibly afford to change my logo, and I'll use the irritant language to look tough so that you pretty please don't call me on not being able to afford to change the logo on everything".

Now, the Linux folks aren't in the business of licensing their logo, so it's probably suboptimal to try to figure out how to do a licensing agreement.
Although colonialism and aid might appear to be similar on the surface, there are big differences between the two. The motives were not at all the same, and they had very different results.
I'd recommend leaving them alone.

I mean, you're no longer using it, why not let them too?
Copyrights suck, after all.
Part of the rage problem is that last year's upgrade from 2G to 3G was at the lowest cost for two years starting at purchase date. This year such an offer is not offered.

Is it legal? Yes. Historically Consistent? No.
Is it really so important to upgrade from the 3G to the 3G S?
There are plenty of people on my site - http://rev.iew.me - that would be able to offer you in depth reviews and testing.

(And, the site is constantly growing to accommodate new audiences - I would be happy to take feature requests from HNers to make it more 'start-up friendly'.)
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I struggle to talk to my mother for 30 minutes on the phone, I doubt I'd have the patience to do a 30 minute survey.
It seemed like an appropriate amount. The boss was genuinely pissed when Iseri wasn't using the job as a negotiating point.
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And those are the films that pirates want to see. To pretend that they are sticking up for the little guy is to deliberately close our eyes to reality.
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So on the one hand it's completely understandable for AT&T to charge what it's charging. On the other hand, being in the position where I don't qualify sucks. I can't (and don't) blame them, but I don't have to like it. Perhaps I can offset the cost by unlocking my current phone and selling it on ebay.

IMO, the more imporant reason to be annoyed at AT&T is the whole MMS and tethering situation. My old Sony Ericsson phone could do MMS 2 years ago, so why does AT&T suddenly need 2 months for a "network upgrade" for it to work? I have a feeling someone is leaving an out important detail...

And tethering--Why do I have to potentially pay more for tethering capability when I already have and "unlimited data" plan? If the answer is "because computers consume more bandwidth than phones" then I have to say it's not really "unlimited" now, is it? And again, why is not available up front? What on earth do you have to do on the back end to enable tethering? Isn't it strictly a client issue?
Ouch, I completely misread the quote. My reply doesn't make any sense :/
I've heard anecdotally that people who have studied music find it much easier to accurately mimic other accents.
As they don't use it anymore, they could ask the guy to contribute a minimum amount of money to some cause.
You mean like Flock?
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Of course, they are completely different. Some of the guilt of colonialism has been transformed into aid.

I was referring to the influence both have on not considering Africans as people who can handle themselves. It will take time, trial and error, but those can't be avoided.
I unsubscribed Mashable because there's too much update per day. R/W Web & TC have a moderate daily RSS update.
Yeah, they basically switched off a bunch of stuff in the full Mozilla suite (now Seamonkey) but it was only later (for certain things much later) that they actually removed unused code and focused on speed and memory.

So anyone who thinks that Firefox had "Features", "Speed" or "Lightweight" as original killer features is deluded.

They did on the other hand have a fairly stripped down and therefore non-threatening usable UI (now leapfrogged in that regard by Chrome and Safari), extensions, being both open source and free of cost (without being ad supported), faking native Windows UI reasonably well, and not being IE6 in their favor.
I agree. They certainly can handle themselves.
I haven't tried it, but I don't see why not... The project's feature list mentions that there's a console for interactive development.

Of course Symbian is one of those old-fashioned operating systems with a user-accessible file system, so one can also just open a text editor, write a script, save it as a file and run it the PyS60 script shell.
And anyway, C is faster. Or Assembly. So it's not even worth to sacrifice half of the discussion he generates.
I've seen this, too. However, it mostly seems to work well when they're writing to other programmers or similar people on subjects where it works to break down and restructure.

When there's a fluffy amorphic subject that needs to be pounded from various different angles in order to gain a vague idea of what it is, this approach is not so good. Either you simplify it and miss the point or construct a hugely detailed model and they miss the point.

Also, most non-technical decisions (and many technical ones too, in the end...) aren't dictated solely by the razor-sharp rational intellect but a fuzzy mixture of feelings, reasons, and seemingly unrelated interrelations between people and people and other things.

On the other hand, most of what makes communication work is listening, not talking or writing.
Yes. I guess corruption, not material needs, is the big and hard to tackle problem for most of Africa. We like to complain about our civil servants and politicians in the rich world, but we have more than a head start in this regard.

(Perhaps someone should export honest and competent civil servants and politicians. Perhaps the Swiss can be coaxed to spare some? Italy would certainly benefit from an influx, too.)
It's brutal because the pressure is amazingly intense. Your test results, quite literally, will determine the rest of your life.

College admission is entirely based on your GaoKao score, grades don't matter and extracurriculars don't exist. Due to the Hukou system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system), your college attendance decides where you can live and where you can work in the future. For a peasant, a good GaoKao score is the only real way out of poverty.

To add to this, you don't get to pick your major in college. That's also decided by your GaoKao score, and your future career is decided by your major.

So, imagine if your whole life hinged on your SAT scores. Wouldn't that make the test a little more difficult?
Africans are very creative and resourceful people.

Hey, thanks! You non-Africans seem that way to us as well. Maybe it's just something we all humans have in common?

Children are building their own toys, mechanics can repair any car or engine. If they are missing some elements, they will be built.

I have noticed the same thing in the Chinese, South Asians, Latin Americans, South East Asians, East Europeans and ex Soviets! Actually, I might be on to something here. All poor people are just good at fixing things, usually bicycles, and recycling. It's like, necessity taught them or something.

I have also noticed that people in the developed world are just as good at "fixin" things, albeit non-physical things. I greatly admire your ability to "startup" and advance your lives in anyway possible. Sometimes I wonder if our ancestral village elder traveled to your lands and tutored you in the ways of survival. Amazing you are!
The lack of ethical standards of some people just frightens me.

First, he proposes sending some people to their death. I mean, seriously, do you expect to find anything but death on Mars with our current level of technology if you can't come back?

Second, he's trying to convince people and the passangers/lemmings of the proposed expedition that's it's not actually sending them to death by fake science. Anyone familiar the very basics of statistics knows that you can't talk about 'life expectancy' of four people. And living in (yet to be discovered) lava tubes? Is that his plan?

And last, he wants to broadcast the agonizing death of these people worldwide. Am I the only one who thinks that this is, at very least, questionable morals?
"kind of fake"?

This has worse acting than most pornos... (As far as I've heard)
Were I the dictator, I'd just narrow the roads to one lane plus on-street parking and replace the freed area with trees or bushes (or tram tracks). Narrowing forces cars to slow down, making pedestrians safer and allowing bicyclists better blend with the traffic. Cutting down on the lanes adds congestion which effectively removes unnecessary car travel from the city area, encouraging people to walk or pedal. I would also remove huge parking lots as they alienate pedestrians and increase car travel. Certain downtown streets or blocks could be made pedestrian-only zones.
Interesting, that everyone (i.e. even the Chinese) use latin script for variables.
Fascinating.
But how is it relevant here?
"But if the author expect for money & we bypass the paying step in anyway, I believe it's illegal."

Well, sure it is. I don't think anyone will argue with you there. The much more interesting question is should it be illegal; and to answer that we need to decide whether it's right or wrong. Laws are just an expression of morality, and often a pretty old expression at that.

Personally I think the discussion is near moot anyway. Sharing of digital content is basically impossible to stop on an open network, so trying to legislate against it won't change a thing regardless of anyone's ethical views. Good luck getting that infinitely replicating horse back into the barn.
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Chortles.

I was looking over articles on nytimes the other day. Articles about the Japanese Asset Price Bubble (baburu keiki) from the first years after the events. Everyone thought that this or that fancy government capital infusion would make the bubble end within a year. In other words: in 1992, people thought it'd be over in 1993. In 1993, they thought it'd be over by the end of the year, or by 1994, or perhaps early 1995. But we know what happened there.
My guess: Grain farmers have the better lobby.

Anyway, beans don't need a subsidy.
Yes you can. It's a normal python interpreter.
The key missing element is that it will make noise even if in silent mode. Obviously just ringing a lost phone has been a standard "feature" since the first mobile was released.
Their more careful rival, GoldMoney, still exists.

http://goldmoney.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldMoney
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I am currently in talks with a publisher to write a non-fiction book. They offer 11% on what they make from a book sale, which would amount to about 2€ per book. They would at first print 1000 books. From talking to other people who have written books I got the impression that these conditions are normal.

So I would expect to make 2000€ for several months of work, which is effectively nothing (in fact, it is a negative income). Nevertheless I want to do it. I expect to justify digging deeper into some topics that have always interested me. Maybe I could consult in that direction later on (even though my long-term goal is not consulting). Also I am interested in the process of writing a book, hoping it becomes easier over time.

But with 2€ per book, it is next to impossible to make any money directly from book sales. The time I plan to invest costs me 40000€ in opportunity costs - even if they sell 20000 copies, which is extremely unlikely, it would merely be break even.

Maybe the e-book writers who sell their e-books for 100$ have another perspective, though.

Another case in point might be PG: his essays are available for free. Why is he writing them? While some of them got issued in book form, I highly doubt that was his primary motivation for writing them.

Also a lot of university professors seem to have written books - maybe it helped them to get tenure?
thanks man

and we were having some nice-to-have issues with traffic but all good now!
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More information is available in my other post on the subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646451
More at http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/09/the-twitpocalypse...
"Perhaps someone should export honest and competent civil servants and politicians."

They'd probably just be imprisoned/killed by the corrupt incumbents. You'd have to replace the whole power structure at once, and back it with force of arms - which kind of brings us back to colonialism.
if we could measure influence, Mashable wouldn't even come close.

It seems 55% of Mashable traffic is coming in from search engines. If you look at their homepage, they are obviously heavily optimized for keywords like 'youtube', 'myspace' etc. (I got my stat from compete pro, cant link)

As a tech/valley person, I keep up with TC a few times a day but Mashable doesn't interest me at all. I am sure I am not alone.
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I love the idea of ringing a bell for a sale (when you getting higher rates you could ping less often with a different pitch). I think sounds are a great side channel for event notifications.
That is quite an amazingly high number. Surely 100m people have not posted 2,000 "tweets" each.

I wonder what proportion of the total is human-typed, and how much is machine generated?
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Actually, the UN does have a program for "exporting" competent and honest civil servants and politicians, or rather of paying to repatriating well qualified expats that could otherwise not afford to move back.

A recent example was one of Nigeria's previous ministers of finance who was paid by the UN to move back from the US. Nigerian ministers were at the time paid only ca $6000/year - no wonder corruption is high in many of these countries when these same people often could make hundreds of thousands, or millions, in the private sector.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngozi_Okonjo-Iweala

In her case it didn't go down to well with the other ministers, and that's likely a problem. A solution might be to set up a fund to provide better salaries in return for the government agreeing to regular independent audits of ministers finances and publishing the findings (... we saw how much fun that could be even in a country like the UK).

Of course many governments would decline, but some at least seem to want to clean house. It's a lot easier to clean house if the financial situation doesn't provide ridiculous levels of temptation on a daily basis.
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Economically, the bottom line is whether we are supplying enough reward back to the info publishers to sustain their work in long term.

Before the legal system has caught up in this area, we need to make a personal moral decision.

And I think respecting those who work hard to produce the books will give you a good ground for making such decision.
It is pretty impressive to me that they are on the front page for huge keywords like that and explains why Mashable can have such high traffic numbers with so much less influence than Techcrunch. Most of the people searching for youtube and myspace and showing up in these statistics do not care about Mashable and will never visit again.

I wonder how much less it costs to advertise on Mashable because the traffic is so much less valuable than Techcrunch's traffic.
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What about those people who know a high number of languages, say 8? Do they get tip-of-the-tongue moments all the time?
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It still looks better than most USB sticks out there, regardless of function.
Related to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648788 (Hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites)

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646451 (VAServ 'hacked' - all web sites and hosted VMs down)
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It's actually sooner. They assume 83 tweets per second (reference 2) but the number is 200 tweets per second: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-tw...
You missed my point. Those sentences were to introduce the fact that they don't need help they're not asking for.

Why do you feel the need to take them as offending?

Those are things i admire in Africa, like the fact that you are considered as a human being rather than a consumer. Yes, because of the lack of wealth as we know it in occidental countries, but wealth can take many forms.
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Ligesh was found hanged in his Bangalore house on Monday morning, after a late night drinking session .. [He] was also still coming to terms with the suicides by hanging of his sister and mother five years ago.

The man probably put all his focus into work to run away from that huge loss of his loved ones, but when work failed, he was back at square one to face the griefing he had ignored.

Rest in peace bhai gee.
Amazingly high? considering how long twitter has been going? It's extremely small IMHO.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648725

"Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found."

I'd expect most of it is machine generated.
That's one of things I like about my job.
Every line of code has to be reviewed by another developer.

It can't be checked into source control until it's been reviewed.

There are lots of benefits:

We all have to write readable code.

We can't just put in hacks.

You learn stuff. When reviewing others code you can ask why they did something in a certain way. Sometimes you'll learn about the benefit of coding in a certain way, or using a certain method / style / whatever.

This also has the benefit of redundancy. It means at least two developers know an area of the codebase. So if they're away there are no bottle necks, the other developer can also code that area.
Interesting. Thanks. I remember I even watched some TED talks by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala earlier.
From the link:

"Twitter is seeing about 200 tweets per second, during peak loads. - Robert Scoble"

Note "during peak loads", so 83 is probably not too far off.
I'd also expect most of those numbers not to be used. Their db writes are probably not contending on one monotonic counter. They're probably using some numbering scheme which guarantees uniqueness across multiple writable databases, but not global serialisation based on id.
Strange, when my iPhone slows down, I can still hammer away at the keys and it'll keep typing after I've finished, it must have some kind of buffer to do that... Usually after I've finished the task at hand, I reboot and normal speed resumes.
Im not sure I agree PG is a good example: he made his money elsewhere, essay writing isnt a revenue stream, right?

Anyway going back to topic; that's interesting. I imagined (from your first post) that margins were bad but not THAT bad. Sucks. Is you book a niche or local interest book or something? I imagine Fiction probably hasd a bit more in sales prospects right?

What about long term sales? 20,000 seems a small # to sell over the course of several years - but then, as I said I havent a clue :P

(as an aside have you considered self publication - if what your selling is local interest or that low in sales prospects Lulu.com might be an option? as I said Im a dunce in respect to this but it looked quite good when I checked it out)
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