skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If their contribution is greater, then why isn't somebody willing to pay them more? If there was such a trove of hidden value, you would think that some greedy capitalist would snap it up and exploit it.

Hmm, sounds more like economics produces cases of local maxima, not absolute maxima...
I got the impression that he was touting consulting as a way to implement your product.

If you are a designer and your product is framework for web page design, then using your software in your consulting job is a natural way to give your product some exposure while making money from your design work (not the greatest example ever, but you get the drift).

Intrinsically, your consulting work should be your sales pitch for your product. Or at least that's how it works in my imagination.
"I challenge this reactionary view that the worth of a person's contribution to society can be measured by their salary."

Nobody said that.

"If a person chooses to enrich humanity's lot by providing value outside of the marketplace, it is the responsibility of society to support them."

I agree, as long as you're not forcing people to support them via taxation.

"We praise male fields and dismiss female fields. I wonder if this doesn't reflect some deeper, troubling biases of our culture."

Women are traditionally less responsible for earning a household's income. Few people dismiss a woman as a mate because she makes too little money. This reduces the incentive to enter a high-earning career.
Well, thanks for the reply, but I still don't know what "lightweight" means.
And how much do companies such as Goldman/McKinsey pay?
I know. But then you have people saying that X-browser has HTML5 support, but HTML5 isn't even finalized. This means all those sites supporting HTML5 aren't supporting a finalized standard. So you can't use HTML5 now... technically. If you do, you aren't following the standards. Canvas shouldn't be used, nor should the video tags, for anyone who cares about standards. Technically.

Getting a little to anal? =)

Okay, before someone jumps on me and thinks I'm being serious, yes, I agree with you. It's 'dangerous,' but at some point, someone needs to say "Damnit! Let's make this work!" After all, you don't see anyone saying we should use vendor tags for HTML5 markup, even though HTML5 isn't complete, and can, and still does, change.

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - Someone else, some other time.
It does look at the wrapper. The problem is that whatever decision P makes about Q, Q then goes and does the opposite. Consider:

def P(program):
if program halts:
true
else:
false

def Q(program):
if P(program):
false
else:
Q(program)

When we call Q(Q), we call P(Q). Let's say P(Q) returns false; P says that Q halts. In that case, the conditional fails, and we then call Q(Q) infinitely. Q has done the opposite of what P said it would do.

Now let's say that P(Q) returns true; P says that Q does not halt. In that case, the conditional succeeds, and Q returns false - it halts. Again, Q has done the opposite of what P said it would do.

Here we have a situation where Q will always do the opposite of what P says it will do. We've constructed a situation where P is always wrong; we've created a paradox. The only way out of it is to say P cannot exist.
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I read somewhere that GM's union commitments added about $2,000 to the price of a car. Meaning that if you buy a GM automobile, $2,000 is going to union-related stuff, rather than buying extra features, better quality, a longer warranty, etc.
I understand. I was suggesting that it might not actually be in Facebook's best interest for other unrelated things to require Facebook accounts for authentication -- I think it might lead to more spam accounts than actual users or mindshare.
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Suppose there isn't any central site?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diaspora_project_buildi...
Again, depending on where you are.
I wonder... if Gizmodo had informed Apple of the contact, might Apple have given them an exclusive deal further down the line for doing the right thing? Were I Jobs, I certainly would (though I'm not); people who will look out for you & yours are valuable to keep. That kind of better relations may have been worth more than the phone scoop, and certainly better than the horrendous PR snafu (it would've been the other way around, most likely: Apple fans praising Gizmodo).
To be fair, these tests were submitted, and apparently developed with the W3C. They aren't MS-only tests. Merely tests that needed to be developed anyways. At least, that's what I see. Yes, these are tests where MS succeeds. That doesn't mean they are less worthy. Rather, they are just more cases that the W3C felt needed to be tested.
Except Microsoft doesn't provide fully functional implementations of the CLR for a reasonable set of platforms. Microsoft intentionally crippled the CLR on non-Windows OSes, and continues to do so.
a leading public university has ended its evaluation of Gmail as the official e-mail program for its 30,000 faculty and staff members [...] Keltner noted UC Davis students are continuing to use the service

According to wikipedia, UCD has 2,092 faculty and 31,426 students [1]. Unless they happen to have a "staff" of 28,000, it seems someone got their numbers mixed up.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis
Meh.

I don't think software people understand just how disinclined a non-software person is to do anything requiring configuring serverside stuff.

Even torrents, where clients have essentially become good enough that all you have to do is install them, most people get a friend that has some understanding of computers to set them up for them.

The cloud is really a better model if you want to achieve widespread adoption, and what is the point of a social network without people.
Heh :)

But I prefer the Jewish interpretation: http://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php/277/Q1/
They didn't cherry pick tests. These weren't written by someone else. They wrote tests for the features they decided to implement. Why would they work on tests right now for features they aren't implementing now?
Er, the test is an "objectively measurable respect" in which the IE9 Preview is ahead.

Having said that, sorry about the poor wording. And I agree that the released version of IE trails the released version of all other browsers. This has been consistent over several major release cycles. Still, I think MS should be encouraged when they're heading in the right direction.
Fact: IE9 Platform Preview #1 released six weeks ago scored 55/100, IE9 Platform Preview #2 released today scores 68/100 on ACID3.
Too bad it can't happen how revolutionary technology used to be started: in a garage. Leaving corporations at this goal with only a quarterly focus will not heed well for the this task.
OK, that made my day. Although it reminds me of the barber paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox) in its self-referentiality.
I do. But in hind sight I can't remember MS takes a 30% cut from the app developers selling their own apps.
Who allowed Q to call P?

Q is running inside P, and should have no access to it. I'm analyzing a program, the program doesn't get to ask me questions.
That sounds more like war than terrorism.
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I think Flash on phones for the web is appalling, and I generally hope it dies out as HTML5 matures, being used mainly to fill the gaps for users of IE. But, having said all that, I really can't see any problem with a Flash IDE that compiles down to native(ish) apps on various phones and tablets. I don't see any way for them to achieve lock-in via this route so what's the problem?
Beautiful, I'm happy for MS to make IE9 comply with all this new stantards.
Now, I leave you. I have to spend the rest of the evening trying to make a site to work and render correctly in IE6, IE7 & IE8 (at the same time). :(
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Do they? I know the American Healthcare system funds a lot of medical research that doesn't happen in countries with socialized medicine. I'm not trying to make a ideological point over one system being better over another, but drug research, especially, seems to be funded by the 'vanity market' of consumer brand name drugs. And our (arguably strong) patent system (while broken IMO) provides a great incentive for developing and repurposing drugs.

Medical Imaging is a field of research that is global. I only know what is being with people I've worked with in the past.

Vehicles, well, even if the technology was developed outside the United States, our market was the motivation for the innovation. Audi invented "Shift Lock" for automatic transmissions back in the 80s because they had the same problem in the U.S. that Toyota does now -- consumers claiming of cars that just accelerate forward and cannot be stopped. Shift Lock seemed to have put a stop to that.

As for dismissing him because of his job, well, he brought it up 'My dad was a professor and I'm a professor, but I'm in poorer than my father ever was".

The first thing I learned as the child of a PhD is that if you want to actually have money to do things like travel, go on vacations, and afford college for your children, its that you don't get a PhD unless its in engineering or law. I went with engineering but only got a master's.

And it being my last week of finals, in my last semester for my master's, I'm really, really tired of hearing academics drone on with little actual grasp of reality. I apologize for the display.
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Sometimes decisions like this are just about wanting to maintain control (read: job security).

The CIO and his people want to run mail and calendaring systems. Nothing wrong with that, other than the fact that it likely costs them more to do it themselves than they would pay Google to do so.

In 2010, managing your own email and calendaring systems seems to me to be the IT equivalent of generating your own electricity.

These systems are utilities like power and water.

But that's just my opinion, based on using Gmail, Talk, Google Calendar, etc, for my personal life and Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry in my work life.
There are stacks of books about the IE9 preview just released?
Let the battle of hardware accelerated graphics begin! I don't think Google, Apple or Mozilla can ignore this as it's a major advancement for web.

I can only imagine what kind of interfaces, games and applications will be possible with hardware accelerated graphics, blazing fast JavaScript and HTML5! We are in for a fun ride :-)
But cryptography is only one part of information security - not sure why you're focusing on that.
The ideal model for you. If you can host any data abstraction without increasing the complexity, that's a different story.
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"When my mother got terminal cancer, the last few months of her life became her most valuable."

Suppose you have an anti-cancer drug, and two patients in front of you. Resources are limited, so you can only cure one of them.

- Person A, if they are cured, would live an additional thirty years.

- Person B, if they are cured, would live an additional three months.

Who are you going to choose?

"Point being, the last days are the most valuable"

Citation? Saying that your mother felt her last days were the most valuable is just personal opinion, but saying that they are the most valuable, as a generally applicable fact, needs a citation or an argument or something other than simple assertion.
"In the US, it used to be that every year you could expect to be wealthier. Your purchasing power grew over time: you could afford things you couldn’t the year before. Your salary increase every year outpaced inflation."

I think the author is from a different socio-economic-status than me. My parents didn't believe they were going to be wealthier year after year. My grandfather (i lived with my grandparents) cut sheet metal for a living. I remember my life being pretty good when I was little, then the recession of the 80's hit, and we were on food stamps. Certainly not better year after year.

Maybe that was a fluke, but if I go back one more generation, my great grandmother lived through the great depression. She didn't believe she would be better off year after year. In fact, she was super paranoid about the opposite happening. She used to hide food around the house "just in case".

Also, no one in my family got a salary, maybe that is a give away to the different americas we seem to have grown up in.

Sorry, I have a hard time with "essays" where the first paragraph seems false to me.
> Microsoft intentionally crippled the CLR on non-Windows OSes, and continues to do so.

Citation needed. I'm a heavy .NET user on both MS.NET and Mono, and I've never seen this crippling you speak of.
I spit my latte when I read that, especially because of the HN comments on that story yesterday/Monday
For posterity, after re-benchmarking, 1200-1300 req/s.
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Agreed (Northwestern, 2012). Not only do professors not look down on industry, many either come from or participate actively. I'm not sure if you're CS or remember Larry Birnbaum, but you can't take a class with him without hearing something about his new startup ;)
The poem got me thinking critically as well. Here is how I rationalized it:

No single program can ever predict the output of another one, because the program doing the predicting could theoretically be embedded in the program being analyzed.

People can theoretically predict outcomes, because they cannot be embedded in programs.
There's no mystery here, I already gave the answer in my previous post. Quoting myself:

there is no such thing as "outside the marketplace". There is more to the market then just financial transactions. Everything we do: how we elect to use our time, the care we invest in a relationship, everything, is a decision about how we use our limited resources (time and attention in my two examples, but the potential list covers literally everything). And we necessarily make those decisions by weighing what we expect their costs to be versus what we expect to derive from them. And that is what the study of economics is about -- money is only the smallest part of it.

Those postdocs derive greater satisfaction from doing their science than they would by tending bar. In their own internal calculus, the rewards of their career are greater than the simple money equation.

Progressives like to think they're being deep and insightful when they observe that there's more to the world than just money. But it's not news to anyone, least of all to economists. This is embodied in the concept of utility. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility :

Utility is usually applied by economists in such constructs as the indifference curve, which plot the combination of commodities that an individual or a society would accept to maintain a given level of satisfaction. ... [Quoting Paul Samuelson] "Utility is taken to be correlative to Desire or Want. It has been already argued that desires cannot be measured directly, but only indirectly, by the outward phenomena to which they give rise: and that in those cases with which economics is chiefly concerned the measure is found in the price which a person is willing to pay for the fulfilment or satisfaction of his desire."

Thus, in the case of your hypothetical postdoc, the opportunity to do his (or her) science is worth $60K. (I oversimplify due to things like marginal utility, but that's the gist)
This astute observation was more interesting than the entire article we're discussing.

Other things to point out is that the tech and housing bubble were results of Wall Street really only having one "safe bet" to push towards investors/funds for pensions and municipalities. So they tried to extract as much profit from the avenues.

However, pushing money into the market in such a rapid fashion distorts it. Nobody thought home prices would peak, when realisitically, they had to at some point. Same with tech stocks during the dot bomb.

A large enough investment in a market sector can displace organic growth, and runs the risk of destroying wealth.
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It's not good when they then release broken distributions or upgrades that break stuff that was previously working.

Going back to Hardy Heron, if you were using a machine with a Broadcom 43xx wireless card, you would have been rather upset for that to have stopped working. Or for HH to frequently crash without saying anything (even Windows gives you a BSOD).

What I'm saying is that while the objective is obviously good, the execution appears to be so bad than in combination with that objective it may well be a disaster.
I feel like a lot of people take the Ubuntu->Debian path. Its not unlike how people start playing with HTML, and end up coding in PHP a year later-you hit the limit of what it can do for you, what it can handle, and then you go for the full model
You realize that outside of China's top 5 hospitals, when a Doctor from China comes here to practice, they have to repeat their residency before they can be licensed? Because the majority of Chinese doctors are no better than made-in-china toothpaste.
Why has it taken so long for developers to figure this out?
I don't understand your question. Q calls P because it's defined to do so.

I described the runtime behavior because that's easy to grok. Presumably, any P must do some sort of "Oh, this happens, so that must happen." Whether we call that "running" or "inspection" is irrelevant.
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Sound proofing is a possibility, but disciplining his kids for being too noisy? Having four kids myself, I'm busting up laughing picturing them sitting quietly around a table doing 'quiet things.'

Kids need to make noise - it's good for their development.
Is a nice pitch, they have a good philosophy for an incubator.
Agree or not, I have to say that you're quite simply wrong.

There's always more work to be done as long as the company you're working for exists. How you pace it is the problem -- burnout hours will prevent you from getting on top of the bug race.
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It's not clear what level of integration we're talking about here. The article claims "tell your Facebook friends when you’re playing the game and what your doing in it.", but the actual messages from Blizzard make it sound like the implementation is limited to linking your FB friends to their battle.net accounts.

I'm not a fan of publishing Starcraft notifications to my Facebook feed, but that is opt-in. Being able to find out which of my Facebook friends also have battle.net accounts seems like an incredible feature. It sounds identical to the awesome Xbox Live implementation where I ended up having a ton of friends with Xbox accounts that I would have never discovered otherwise. Really looking forward to this.
There's probably enough bad code out there, and plenty of sweatshops, so the data's already there for the analyzing :)

The catch is, who's going to do it? The ones who are creating the bugs are too busy creating the bugs, and the folks who just get their job done and go on with their lives probably don't care. :)
"a free PR4 backlink to website"

What does that mean?
This is BS. They're saying Buzz was part of the cause for the decision yet Buzz wasn't even on Google Apps GMail instances. The other issue cited is on the premise that they are disclosing emails to GMail vs using GMail for a service provider of their own email. Ridiculous sensationalism in my opinion.
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Yes - they are about maintaining control, but not about job security. Every university will have a number of documents defining the level of privacy and security provided by each involved entity. If exporting the information to google means that some rule is broken -- for example if bulk transfers of personal information are forbidden and people start using gmail as a basic tool of document exchange, something has to change. And sometimes it's easier to change the technology provider than people... Even if no local regulations stop them, there might be some law about personal data processing that completely prevents gmail usage for some specific organisation.

You'll also find that serious tech. universities do have their own power generators for emergencies.
Title and facts don't mix, I may get a link, I may not. A single day on a PR4 site does not do much for SEO either.
Semi-agreed. If you look closely, the mouse pointer (which they use to activate Chrome) is positioned over the "Forward" button in the browser; it looks like they let a page load completely, navigate back to Google, then the speed test is how long it takes to rerender the page from the cache.

Still, totally awesome ad. Loved every second.
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Exactly. There are certain required costs to play certain games, and if they're not willing or able to pony up the resources necessary to play their game (making a good release out of Debian unstable every 6 months) then that's not his problem. I myself have left more than one company because they hired me to do X but then didn't have the will or the means to buy necessary stuff (e.g. a UNIX license).

See elsewhere in this topic where I addressed how their low quality releases starting with Hardy Heron may in fact be hurting Linux. If true, that and the resulting backlash against Canonical would have it end up in even worse shape financially and therefore less able to hire hackers of the level required. I.e. kernel hackers like Ted who keep fielding their requests for help and who are acutely aware of their lack of quality in their releases might be particularly unmoved by the "we're bringing Linux to the masses" argument.
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> "I challenge this reactionary view that the worth of a person's contribution to society can be measured by their salary."

Nobody here has suggested this.

> "If a person chooses to enrich humanity's lot by providing value outside of the marketplace, it is the responsibility of society to support them."

No, it is not. I respect historians and artists as much as I do programmers and engineers, but let's be realistic - there's nothing truly noble about any of the above endeavors. They are, in the end, self-serving interests.

I'm an engineer because I love building things. It makes me happy when I build stuff, and while I can rationalize and self-aggrandize by thinking about my "contributions" to humanity, the reality is that I do this because I want to. There has been no great sacrifice involved, and I would hardly think society owes me one.

Similarly, I do not believe artists, historians, and other such "soft" majors are any different. They do what they do because it tickles their fancy - which is great, but let's not sit around and circle-jerk about the nobility of their cause and how everyone owes them a living.

> "I note a trend in the fields of study that are being praised: they are all dominated by men. We praise male fields and dismiss female fields"

This would be disturbing, but I do not see this. Do you have any links to this?
BBH New York was involved
I've seen more major breaches of privacy (not to mention system failures) with university run services than GMail. I think it's more that when it breaks, they want to be able to do something to fix it versus waiting on Google to fix it.
It may help you to be indexed fast and pretty well by google... But as some people say PR is not as much important nowadays so you might not be sure of it - but worth to try :)