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Playsight does this:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2013/11/28/play-...

They don't have to be publishers. They just vote once in a while, pay their dues , and the union does the rest.

If they fear being left alone against amazon, why don't authors use their union to start directly collectively bargaining, or even starting business activities together ? In a world where a book store is just an app, there are a lot of opportunities open to authors, and they really hold the power in the book market, at least with regards to ebooks.

The things that medical providers block are often things that would reduce costs, for example enabling mid-level workers supported by tech do some of the doctor's jobs at lower costs, and low cost eye exam kiosks.

And sure, there's a problem with medical tech increasing expenses. That's another problem that needs solution.

> but their work can shift to research.

Can we use that much researchers ? what are the other barriers assuming doctors are willing ?

Medical professionals have used FUD(fear,uncertainty,doubt) and requiring very high burden of proof(trying the technology for a very long term, even though preliminary results show favor ability) for ages as a tactic to scare the public and politicians from accepting innovation and change.

I wonder, what are good tactics to fight such efforts ?

> balancing fitness and variation, so that if the environment changes drastically the entire population does not die off.

How can this property be advantageous for technological systems ?

I agree , but those same claims are true for many subjects learned at school, for example math.

> a lot of badly-written toy programs.

That's not necessarily true.

On some panel about python, one of the participants who teaches python to science students said that after their relatively short amount of training, scientists can do useful stuff with python and that resonated well within the panel.

This is a good source:

dsp-book.narod.ru/FFTBB/0270_PDF_C16.pdf

With that great spec, why did google release tango with limited functionally, and not as a full blown processor ? And is it their next step ?

In a similar vain, one could say that selling ebooks at $9.99 and sharing profits between authors and retailers[1] is a better result all around.

[1]Of an amazon monopoly on retail is a bad result, but in principal that has nothing to do with publishers

Continuing this thread of thinking , maybe the reason people will buy this is customizability and play , not price ?

And from a quick search it seems that there are some cheap makeup available online, So my guess this industry is mostly based on marketing(branding, controlling channels, etc), so you'll need disruptive marketing, and maybe home printers + youtube tastemakers would work well for that.

it has been killed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

Threes also the mypy project which offers optional static typing in python, if you're interested in such stuff.

Google ventures use algorithms to help with investment decisions in they don't call it a board director, but its essentially the same thing.

Do youmean that if someone doesn't want to work he can easily get welfare ?

But what about latency ?

There's sub reddit[1] i tried for some time , but didn't really stick to it.

The hard part here is building a community of people who will contribute problems and content around problems. This might be bootstrapped at the beginning either by putting effort in searching the web for such problems, and asking experts around the web about problems, and slowly building a database.

Such content could be a pull for some groups of people, many of them will be more interested in solutions ,but some will be a source of more problems.

And there's also the question of exposing the information in such a way to encourage innovation and not just reading.Not sure what the right way to do this, but it's interesting.

It's not easy to create a high quality content/community site around this , but when solved well this could be a really valuable site.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/realproblemsolvers

Do you know of many such companies started in the recent decade or two ? that achieved near monopoly state , without unfairly crushing competitors, without depending on network effects(which naturally favor one winner), and without unfairly using regulation ? or without so greatly benefiting from an initial advantage , to the point that even if they stopped seriously competing , no one could harm them ?

Probably not, maybe a few. Why ? because the economy has became a network economy, where almost all industries benefit greatly from network effects. And network effects are unfair by their nature: they give such a huge advantage to the to the leader , even if he doesn't constantly improve.

But why we see so much disruption you ask? well ,disruption also works on monopolies, by making it unprofitable for them to compete. And of course there are always new niches and people's preferences change so that hurt monopolies too.

They're also very unfocused. They bought circuits.io , but doesn't seem to have given it the required treatment for it to grow to be a common tool.

But there has been cases for schools for inner-city children that showed great results ,for example sabis. Not sure how they did it , but maybe not all is lost ?

We've heard news about google and microsoft spying on user's email. Nothing happened. That's not that different.

Some do. There's innocentive.com for example.

In theory , for phones with cortex-a15 cpu, one could use ARMORED[1] , which encrypts the content of ram, with keys saved outside the reach of the baseband, inside registers. But still, CPU backdoors are possibility.

[1]http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/filepool/projects/arm...

Maybe some version of this tool should be used as a to to filter past discussions instead of search? For example, for creation of a portal shout easy to use development tools including discussions?

Totally agree.

More so: let's think about speed of adoption. It takes much less time to replace a small fleet of public transportation vehicles than the huge private fleet we have today.

And from a business model perspective , if an automated car manufacturer wants to compete , he has to start building a public transportation service now. But cars manufacturers have wrong incentives and bad capabilities for such tasks.

So this practically guarantees Google will win a large share of the automated transportation market from the car companies.

Maybe it's time to invest in google ?

Currently the biggest challenge of UBER is regulatory - cities are fighting it tooth and nail. One way to exert strong political pressure is to offer a real breakthrough new service for the mass population(and not something like UBER which is an incremental innovation targeted for a small section of the population). This also fits with the breakthrough mentality shown by google's leaders.

Such service could work like UBER for public transit[1], basically enabling people to share rides with multiple other people while decreasing the costs significantly and maybe making such a service an viable alternative to private transportation. Such an offer would be hard for politicians to resist for long.

One key to enable such service at scale, is access to plenty of people and their real-time travel data, and having an ability to offer them an highly targeted ad + route + service. That sound perfect for google+UBER. Like a huge market they're positioned perfectly for.

[1]Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391885

In general you dethrone companies by offering better or cheaper products. In the case of Google, the product is sold both to advertisers and to consumers so each case should be examined.

With regards to consumes, you'll have to offer better since you can't offer cheaper than free. But Google is motivated to offer better service so it'll be extremely complicated. One kind of potential better would make search so much better that people won't press on ads - which Google isn't interested in, so they might not offer such service, so you might have an opening there.

Another option is to attack the adversity side :find a huge ads inventory and create a service more efficient and cheaper than Google. But that's extremely hard because on top of advertising space you need better data than Google.

Since similar systems exist, only at a somewhat larger size, miniaturization seems like reasonable option.

And according to [1] they're backed by khosla ventures, which s a highly respectable VC firm. If that's true , that doesn't seem like scam.

[1]http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/29/scio-handheld-sensor-can-d...