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Doctors learn the prerequisites to the stuff they learn in Medical school: chemistry, biology, all that other science.

Lawyers learn the law in law school. We do not actually need to go to college for anything, since the law does not rely on any prerequisite knowledge, except maybe (American) political history and intro-level macroeconomics.
Kuhn scored a hit because he provided the first major challenge to positivism/empiricism/logical empiricism that people in the US noticed.
However the question has to be asked, what was really new, true and what actually represented a criticism of Popper?
I didn't use the term "unusual" to describe your child. I used it to describe his/her behavior... there's a big difference.

I wouldn't say your child is unusual (I don't know him/her), but an obsession with money in a 7 year old is definitely unusual, ask any child psychologist (like my wife). 7 year olds live in a world where money is of little importance, they cannot play with it (much), they don't have any of it (to speak of) and they don't need any of it, because they have love and friends which are much more important to them.

The idea of a 7 year old scheming a way to game a lemonade stand to maximize monetary gain seems grotesque. A lemonade stand is a social activity, not a start-up opportunity.

I personally believe that money and its trappings of consumerism are like TV, they should be limited in children. I don't let my child watch much TV and I discourage her from finding money, or the collection of new shiny things interesting. There are, after all, a lot more useful and interesting things in this world that acquiring money. That is a value that I try to teach my child. Your child, your values... I'm not trying to tell you how to parent.

I was simply correcting the mediaman from jumping into something he clearly knows nothing about and gobbing off rules like he's some kind of school yard bully.
are the people 55+ just becoming entrepreneurs like a youngster? or are they entrepreneurs with a ton of experience already? (success or failure)
This is somewhat tangential to the story, but I think virtual painting, while novel, deprives a young child of the sensory experience necessary at that age.
When someone says, "Kill the jews", then absolutely yes, an issue outside of free speech has been raised. They are no longer communicating ideas, they are advocating dangerous activities.

For the record, if you click on the first link (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/facebook-employees-spea...) and scroll down a bit, you'll see some extracts of the offending comments. One of them by one "Luke Andrews" from Wales, reads:

"die jews die"

This is an example of something that Facebook is refusing to act on.
Is the line, then, just between commands and non-commands? Are "all the Jews should be killed" or "Jews cannot be alive" significantly different from "Kill the Jews"?
Funny, because if you read the Software Bill of Rights (http://softwarebillofrights.org/license.html), that's pretty much what we do: a cut of revenue share while the company is only making money, but convertible into equity if the company gets bought. The only dimension we don't have (because the SEC wouldn't like it) is the investment part. So currently, you can only earn those class "R" stock if yourself contribute sweat, not cash. I'd love to fix that hole though...
Have you read 4HWW? Did you seriously find nothing of value?
Like jasonlbaptiste explained, it really is a hodge-podge of offerings with a heavy emphasis on management and administration. At Bradley University (my school), they have not completely just "bundled a bunch of pre-existing courses together." Most of my classes have been tailored to fit the needs of start-ups (ie. instead of Cost Accounting, I took Advanced Entrepreneurial Accounting).

All in all, I don't feel that the program is a total bust. Thanks to an endowment from an alumni, I have a free subscription to magazines such as Inc. and Small Business, an all-inclusive trip to an Entrepreneurship conference once a year, and access to a center for entrepreneurship that provides counseling and training from experienced professionals. If anything, my degree provides me resources similar to what is offered at YC (without the prestige, quality, and seed funding).
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Well, my comment was meant to distinguish between your examples of quality and other metrics of utility. You gave the example of popular singers, and popular singers might not be the "best singers" in the sense of musical quality, but they entertain a lot of people a great deal. The unnammed woman who stirred up an online community got a lot of traffic, and she might not be well-liked, but clearly she provoked a lot of discussion and interest (if only rubbernecking entertainment sort of interest) among people linking to her and reading articles about her, so there's an element of usefulness in what she did.

You say that Google's idea is "...that if a lot of people cite you, you must be on to something." I'd refine this to say that if a lot of people cite you, you must be providing some kind of thing that those people value.

My thoughts on your $20 scenario --

- I think part of the problem here is that an offer like that on the internet isn't very credible. If I were reading that page, I would be unlikely to actually get 20 dollars, because I probably wouldn't take it seriously enough to email you. As a result, that page isn't really very useful in a certain practical sense.

- If you were able to make it credible somehow, and even one person stumbled across the page, emailed you, and received 20 dollars, I bet that you would get a very large amount of readers very fast. If your page was accessible to search engines, I suspect that you might get that one person (and a later flood of people once word spread) without any promotion at all, eventually.
The most popular content on scribd is actually stupid text files, and images. (Check the most popular by views, all time).

Yes. Text, and images, wrapped up and 'streamed' to a flash player. Call me crazy, but I think that's bad for the web. Those text files and images should be free to roam. Not caged up in a horrible flash player. Add to that their aggressive google SEO, and it's a bad bad situation.

experts-exchange.com has 1.5m entries in google.com whilst scribd.com has 16m !!!
I suppose, since I haven't studied law as much as I should have, that there is an already established set of guidelines. If I were coming up with an admittedly vague rule-of-thumb off the top of my head, I think the line would be speech advocating or intended to likely lead to the immediate harm of any individual or group would not fall under protected speech.

And, looking it up on wikipedia, it seems that there is indeed already a set of guidelines. John Stuart Mill introduced "the harm principle":

"John Stuart Mill argued that "...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered."...However, Mill also introduced what is known as the harm principle, in placing the following limitation on free expression: "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."

Makes sense to me, and should be used as the guiding principle. As swombat pointed out below, there are cases where the replies were simply advocating hard to a group of people. That's easy enough to take off. Holocaust denial isn't so clear.
Doesn't anyone adhere to "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."?
Often, increasing profit margins means giving the customer what they want. For instance, take a hormone-based manipulation that makes beef leaner. As a result, it'd be tastier and healthier (?), and thus more appealing.

That's not to say that there aren't risks, and that sometimes the costs outweigh the benefits, but to condemn genetic or hormone manipulation on the basis of it being manipulation just seems silly. We don't complain about the use of engineered alloys over "natural" iron.
I suspect the worst thing to do is to talk glowingly about your progress or efforts to people who don't have the ability or desire to judge the accuracy of it.
"it is possible to achieve graphics acceleration using an ExpressCard slot. Using a PCI Express expansion chassis, a standard PCI Express graphics accelerator card can be utilized to allow game-level 3D graphics (to an external monitor). [..] Graphics upgrade/expansion (to an external monitor) is also available through the ExpressCard slot via Docking Stations."

- http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/qa.jsp#19

Which would probably provide much better performance, although at a higher cost.
A list of everything is close to a list of nothing.
Much better for very long term storage. The method described is actually for extremely dense storage; the time period is pretty much bogus journalistic stuff.
Do people really want to be distracted by a constantly-visible browser window? I find virtual desktops to be much easier than managing multiple monitors. It also gives me more real desk space for notes and coffee cups :)
If I'm not mistaken Apple approached numerous carriers, many of them turned their noes up to requests Apple made so specific iPhone features could function as intended, such as visual voice mail and more importantly, complete freedom with the AppStore. For all its faults... prior to the AppStore, mobile software and distribution was a complete joke.

While AT&T service leaves much to be desired, they took a risk and therefor should be rewarded appropriately IMO. For years consumers have been at the mercy of non-innovative phone manufactures and subpar mobile service. Apple + AT&T is a driving force, this is one of those times the gov't should just leave capitalism alone.
Well, that's simply stupid. But Arrington specifically holds up examples of

"Ezra Callahan on being a Jewish employee and supporting Facebook’s policy to not remove groups that deny the Holocaust."

Which is not. He implies (well, even plainly says) that all of it must go. That's wrong headed - sweeping ignorance and hatred under the carpet won't solve anything.

For what it's worth, I'm completely baffled by sentiments like "die jews die". I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would be so upset at something as abstract as a race of people.
Hi Jerry, thank you for your comment. I was worried about making the list too extensive. However, to prepare it I went through tens of thousands of books on Amazon.com and read through the author's bio blurb. The vast majority of business books (90-95% in my experience) are written by people who have not achieved success in business. This list covers the small percentage of people who actually started successful businesses, raised funding, or reached the executive level.
Having played with one of these, and knowing how it works under the hood, it's more likely that she just didn't have the technique right. Surface prefers you use single fingertips as points of control; Isobel was using her entire hand.
I love the feeling of being able to answer just about any (small) question I have at a moment's notice. "I don't think you're right about [x]" in casual conversation has turned into "let's consult the oracle." "Did anyone check the weather?" has turned into "The Weather Channel says..." I definitely feel like that's a quality in my life that's been improved.
If you do use this approach of having a second computer running, then on Windows you can use MaxiVista and it will use the second computer as a real second monitor in a similar way this USB adapter does.

i.e. MaxiVista installs a virtual video card and monitor, take whatever is supposed to be displayed on it, ships over the network and displays it on the other computer. You can drag windows over to it as you'd expect and generally use it as any other extra monitor, but it is more sluggish than a real video card.

There was a MaxiVista Mac beta around at one point, I don't know if it turned into a real product, but http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html seems to do the same thing.
I think we're engaged in a bit of circular reasoning here.

You're saying that because readers would be skeptical of the $20 offer, it really isn't useful (provide value). And since there are links, there must be value. But by defining "value" as providing links, you're using the metric Google has set up -- so of course those with more links will have more value, because you don't have any other measurement!

The $20 shows that there can be real value in a post or article and yet have no links. So the links=value formula does not hold at the margins. There is always a disconnect between future perceived value of the article after consumption and degree of gossip in the popular world. They're anything but directly related. But they are loosely enough related to work mostly.
"The processor is not the expensive part, nor is the ram. The fucking display is the expensive part."

Still, the display has to be very expensive, since every other piece should be really cheap and there are not that many of them anyway. The Kindle has the brains of a cheap smartphone.
Sorry to be so negative but this is a simply terrible article. It's a remedial lesson in free speech (and not a particularly articulate or entertaining one at that) with the current context of social media added.

Anyone who cares about constitutional rights already will know more than this article can offer.
No shareholder can fault the guy for not trying...
The existence of computers, and increasingly realistic behavior of hardware and software, does not deprive anyone of anything. Rather, raising children entirely on Surface and TV, or with no technology at all, leaves them ill-prepared for the real world.

I'm hoping to expose my children to all kinds of technology. I hope they come away from these experiences with the same sense of wonder and awe as I do. But I'm still planning on cleaning finger paint off the walls.
It's the youtube of pdfs (i.e. you can find lots of pirate books on it)
Highrise was my first choice to use, actually. It's probably excellent for managing customers, but the hard limit of 50,000 contacts makes it impractical for managing users.

I was envisioning piping certain key user events into a CRM, so that information about their site behavior was available to employees when they contacted customers. Since the community I'm responsible for has more than 50k users that means Highrise won't work for me sadly.
scribd seems to spam google a lot, I always find scribd in my results and when you go to the page there is nothing relevant to what I was looking for.
But if they really were separate, wouldn't I be able to buy e-books from amazon with a different device? And start my own bookshop for kindle users (maybe paying amazon for traffic to the device)?

You can definitely do the former. You can use your PC to buy Kindle books on Amazon and then read them on your iPhone or iPod touch. (You can't buy them directly on the phone, but who knows whether this decision was made by Amazon or by the Apple App Store guardians.)

As for the latter, you can probably do that too, albeit in a pretty cumbersome way. Native PDF support on Kindle DX will make it much more viable, although the biggest barrier would be limited access to the Kindle's wireless connection.

I suppose one possibility if you were making your own Kindle store would be to have your customers add your site's email address to your Kindle's whitelist of addresses allowed to send documents to your Kindle. This would mean customers would pay an extra $0.15 per MB with each transaction...but now that I think about it this is still way less than Amazon would charge you to sell a book in the Kindle store at Amazon.com....hmmm...I wonder if this may actually be viable?
Imagine that in the future, after enough Moore cycles, this amazing technology is shrunk down to a multi-touch device that can fit in your pocket!
Would you please stop using all caps in comments?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There's interesting points to be made regarding government regulation of free speech vs. market actors, but this article makes none of them. There are important questions about who can make judgments about what speech is worthy of protection and what speech is not, and the article addresses none of them.

If I were a high school civics teacher, I'd give it a C for at least being aware what the keywords to mention are, but no higher because it displays no understanding of the issues.
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I'm sure I have as well, but I didn't publish it.
I think I see what you're saying. By having to make the $20 offer credible, you're engaging in the sort of "marketing" that you wouldn't need to do if the inherent value somehow shone through on its own, right?

OK, I agree with that. I wonder whether it's ever possible to do any better, though.
Would you care to share those points with us?
A brilliant response to the idiocy is always comedy:

"Throw the jew down the well" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

(If you don't know, this is Sacha Baron Cohen (Jewish), playing 'Borat')
You're getting increasingly famous, Dan.
Ask HN: Montreal hackers, please help some new arrivals
My cofounder and I are moving to Montreal very soon for the rest of the year, hopefully longer. We have some contacts there already, but we wanted to get some insights from Montreal HN readers as well.

We're curious about the following:

1. What neighborhoods/areas would you recommend most for startup living? We're willing to pay up to 1000 CAD/month for rent. Are there any good sites (besides the obvious craigslist, etc.) that are good for rentals/sublets?

2. What startup, e-business, (Ruby) hacking groups/events do you recommend?

3. What cultural, etc. events/locations are must-dos?

4. If you can disclose it, what are you hacking/working on? (I can't disclose much yet, early stages, but it's basically a niche content site, also hacking on some (human) language learning tools for fun).

Merci beaucoup!
Yeh I know - sorry I didnt intend to jump quite so vociferously to defence. :D
Don't get me wrong, I find hateful speech to be highly distasteful, but the arguments in the article are flawed. They suppose that groups who practice hate speech must by definition also be unwilling to allow dissenting viewpoints the right to speak. While there may be correlation, saying that hate speech is anti-free speech is a stretch.

It is also worth pointing out that simply disagreeing with certain viewpoints and facts =/= hate speech in and of itself. Hate is defined by emotion and intent, not agreement or disagreement on any particular point (Unless that point is directly relevant to hateful behavior).
Exactly, 27 is sort of the practical lower bound, and probably a median. I believe very few people complete a PhD before 27, but many complete one after. Years in industry, years off, taking an extra year here or there, it adds up. This means the average will be significantly higher than the "optimal" or even "median" solution.
You work for scientology?
You can buy case studies from Harvard's business school, many of which are failures. http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/academic_discipline/entrepr...
As I've pointed out before on this site, the people who get the largest ratio of their food from carbohydrates live longer, weigh less and have fewer cardiovascular problems than those who eat more proteins and fats.

It doesn't matter if you're looking at wealthy countries (Japan vs the US), developing countries (China vs Mexico) or poor countries (Kenya vs Guatemala). In each case, the people getting 75% + of their diets from complex carbohydrates are much better off than those who eat a more animal-based diet.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615086
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613745
Update: sorry, I misunderstood the question at first.

We cover SQL injection and other attacks against databases in Web Hacking. Student's are free to choose a final project related to database security if that's their thing and a few have in the past.

If you have specific suggestions regarding content I should add, let me know and I'll see what I can come up with.
When companies act insane like this it's usually to ward off threats. I wonder if it's that they supply their chips to Microsoft for their newer Zune thingies of because they want to sweeten any deal with Intel regarding their patent disputes.

I also wonder if it is not the same mechanism we saw in action with Asus a couple days ago.
Here's a nice rundown of US law on free speech: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=21677

"...Ohio law punished mere advocacy and failed to distinguish between abstract advocacy and true incitement to imminent lawless action."
For better or worse, in politics, those who mind tend to matter.
Nope. 95% of it is "be worth linking to". You can brute force that thru social pressure and/or effort. But if you are worth talking about and linking to, you should be able to tell 100 people with talk/write online by brute force, and sit back and wait as word spreads.

Practically speaking, everything can't be THAT worth talking about, so promotion is important. But people spend way too little time honing their story and way too much time trying to get it out there.
Err...I would expect that this wouldn't have been implemented this way. It most likely would have worked like Audible: a set monthly subscription fee, and you would get a set amount of "Kindle credits" to spend in the Kindle store every month.
"Innovator's Solution" is okay, but Christensen's first one "The Innovator's Dilemma" was better. Also Surowiecki's "Wisdom of Crowds" provides a better survey of the field than any of the more technical books I've read.
The port of their windows Geforce driver to linux was reported to have taken a few months. As I understand it, they're still maintained from the same tree and share essentially all code but the minimum necessary glue (much to the annoyance of the linux kernel folks, it should be added).

Tegra is, no doubt, based on the same hardware components they're shipping in their other products; and its driver is surely similarly portable. This isn't a technical point, it's just FUD.
heh fraid not :)
Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty
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Seriously, the referrer's to my page are blowing up. Hopefully a few will stick and be active participants in adding to the site.
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I would totally disagree with this, given that in the first place, it is pretty unlikely for a high school student to get a decent hacking job at a med/large company.

More importantly though, working at a med/large company, you would learn a lot of new things -- most of them bad. There's a reason why big companies tend towards bureaucracy and inefficiency. It's not that the people in the company are stupid, but rather that as a company grows larger, the actions that are in the best interest of the individual increasingly diverge from the actions that are in the best interest of the company. While I agree that the soul-crushing, morality-corrupting experience of working at a large company will teach you many things that are essential to an entrepreneur later down the line, I think you would be better served developing some individuality and backbone through college or the yc experience. Both options will give you a chance to experience what it really means to make your own decisions and to sink or swim by them (assuming you are not living at home for college).