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"So just don't answer the question."

Are you seriously suggesting this? It seems clear to me (and presumably to anyone else who has ever interacted with curious children) that this is a completely impractical and unrealistic solution. Have you ever tried _not answering_ a question from a kid? ;)

This dramatic influence-avoidance thing seems pretty ridiculous.
Perhaps people emailing ten years ago were more adaptable to new technologies. More of the people who started emailing in the last ten years are likely to see emails as a form of traditional letters.
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IPv6 hasn't been scaled in the same way that IPv4 has. The operations community knows how to handle IPv4.

The rest of your comment? You're arguing a straw man. Nobody is arguing that IPv4 addresses will be impossible to obtain; any such argument would be moronic. But if address allocation tracks application development rather than end user population, I could see that as a positive development.

I don't think you're following my point. When I sent an AIM message to a friend, IPv4 isn't routing it; AIM is. IPv4 is just a detail. This is the future. The overhead of app-layer routing is small --- tiny compared to the overhead of running rich client apps in Javascript over HTTP. If IPv4 matters in 10 years, that's a huge failure.

Which future would you rather put your energy into? The one where we can address realtime content to groups of people by name, or the one where we run basically the same apps we do now but with a bigger address space? Caring about IPv4 addresses is like caring about Ethernet addresses.
I'll be glad if you don't make me take the time to do it, but I could argue that many, many more companies have built businesses on Linux than on BSD. A huge number of products are built on Linux now. Linux is a more popular embedded BSP OS than BSD is.
My parents were the same way. What's interesting about Paul's essay is that many of the examples of lies were things that the vast majority of people believed 40 years ago, but that many fewer believe today. For example - the taboo against swearing used to be much stronger among adults, as was the taboo against pre-martial sex. Most adults used to believe in God.

The cause of the lies is that a generation as a whole stops believing things their parents taught. But when this generation has children, the only model for parenting is their own parents. Thus they teach their kids like their parents did, and that includes "lies" that the adults no longer believe. In other words, the "lies" adults teach kid represents an echo of once widely held beliefs among adults.
Like I mentioned in a parent comment, I wrote my comment after working on a web application. If you see my comment there, I mention that I'm not quite sure how I could possibly make the interface accessible in any meaningful way for a blind person. I could give them a text only version of the web app, maybe that had a more linear and modal interface. But it would be about as accessible as some XML formats are human readable. I mean technically they're human readable but can you read them? I know I can't! :-)

Simple informational websites have no excuses today for not being accessible. As you have shown, there are simply too many options for these sites for them to turn a blind eye to any one of them. But simple informational websites appear to be a dying breed. There are several streams of information being presented to users on most websites. Trying to force them all to be accessible seems to me about as ridiculous as mandating that CNN require their closed captioning feeds to have not only what the talking head is saying, but the news ticker, the stock quotes, etc. that are also thrown on the screen at the same time; oh and this closed captioning feed needs to be backward compatible with an analog 21 inch Sanyo TV :)

It frustrates me that HTML+CSS+Javascript web applications will be at an inherent disadvantage here unless we as an industry come up with some sort of convention. We could start with some notification event model, or even something as simple as saying that if your HTML markup sports an accessibility meta tag, that all DOM objects with the class name accessibility-hidden should be ignored by screen readers and that those with the class name accessibility-display should be picked up by the screen reader. The reading order of each element could even be specified by adding a class read-N to DOM elements where N >= 0 and denotes the priority of reading.

If we had something like this, at least I could hide parts of my user interface from a blind person (no pun intended!) and show them only the most important and relevant information to achieve the primary task at hand.
Sure, in the case of Linux vs. FreeBSD, you're probably right (although there are certainly more factors involved than just licensing).

My point is that requiring code to be given back doesn't necessarily yield a healthier ecosystem, or even more code contributions, than a more laissez-faire attitude.
Combine this with hologram technology...

IMAX will be obsolete soon.
The supposed tech crunch effect is massively overrated. imo. While being featured in TC is pretty exciting for any startup, the sudden spike in traffic that results is almost never long lasting.
Very few people are hiring based on an understanding of objectivism. Data structures and algorithms on the other hand...
The more sophisticated and less automatable techniques have higher overhead and can degrade user experience. You don't want to ask users to perform 10 special actions in order to identify themselves as human. And if you pick 10 of those actions randomly out of a bank of 100 types of action then the spammers will reverse-engineer each type of action individually and then will produce a function to map what's displayed by the user interface to each type of action.

The problem is that the more the CAPTCHA-like artifacts creation process is automatable the more their cracking tend to be automatable. And if you truly find a way to generate CAPTCHA-likes cheaply and that are impossible to crack by machines then the job will be shipped to the third world or the spammers will set up sites where you have to accomplish the cracking, perhaps without even knowing it, to get to the free stuff.

I don't expect to see the Tragedy of the Commons problem resolved this century.
especially if you consider that those people are basically just other techies who just want to see your startup's technology, not use your product.

So really unless your target audience are techies, getting featured on sites like that really doesn't do much for you
yes, that's true. on the flip side, if the meaning of wealth is to have what you want when you want it (apart from ownership), then we're getting closer to an understanding of wealth apart from having $$$, and sometimes this is worthwhile to remember.
Best of luck to the submitter, but I'm not sure this would be of interest to TC's audience. Editorial oversight is not a petty game.
I feel like I wasted my time reading that article. I thought by the title "The Alpha Geeks," there would be a chance I get an opinion of who were the new alpha geeks today. Nope, it was a recap of the rise of the geek ending with a corny play on words. I want my 5 minutes back.
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I consider W. Buffett humble. Leaving in the same house you purchased when you were not even a millionaire, let alone the second richest person on earth. Seriously there is not one person on earth who needs more than 5 million to survive. I say pledge the remaining 2.995 billies. And finally is it truly humble to say that you stay in 5 star hotels across the planet.
I don't see that as true- even tech savvy people seem to do it. I think it might have something to do with email sometimes being seen as a more formal type of online communication, as opposed to instant messaging, or even perhaps less formal emails (there's a distinct difference, in my mind at least, between formal and informal emails; formal emails are written much like letters, whereas informal emails are more like instant messages or Facebook comments).
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Dont be the kind of employer that asks for a week long project as a resume. That's just irritating.
I assume you're also looking for lower cost? Post an ad at a local school with a film program. Those kids want to augment their resumes and are often more than happy to share their talent for very little cost.
Problem - 1 false negative or 1 false positive isn't usually a problem. Generally, if you have this many interviews you have some sort of voting system. Let's say it's consensus - then 1 false negative will disqualify some good people, but you'd need 14 false positives, you have a (0.1)^14 chance of hiring a bad person. Expected number of interviews in which you would see this happen once? 10^14

But, you may ask, what about the case where they should be rejected, 8-6 (assuming majority voting not consensus, but you could apply this to any voting threshold), and you have two false positives and 0 false negatives, is it really that horrible that you might experience the borderline case where you hire someone who might be mediocre, assuming everyone else is pretty good?

Yeah, there is a good chance you'll makes some individual mistakes. But having lots of interviews decreases the probability of making those mistakes frequently enough to actually influence the outcome.

Hate to say it, but your "mathematical justification" is really just another example of geek chest-thumping.
The language syntax may be the same, but programming approaches might be very different. I've seen parts of a Smalltalk program where it was coded like spaghetti copy-paste Fortran, and it's actually hopeless to try and fully understand the semantics and still meet your deadline. But I was able to use a few tricks to prove that certain modifications wouldn't alter other functionality so I could get my work done. In the same program, there was well factored code with a nice object model, where it would behoove you to understand the part you're working on in a more conventional way.

On reflection, I think you may be right that good code is good code. Size of the system matters most when the code is bad.
Okay, someone care to define what Scoble means by "The Insiders" and "World Wide High School", because unless I'm just plain naive, Scoble just came out of the closet and affirmed to us that he thinks a bit too much of himself.
As you must be aware, many smart people disagree with you about Rand, and can back it up with something better than a youtube video. And anyway, you said her philosophy contains certain flaws. That doesn't imply it's not valuable and useful overall, so even if I concede your points, it's not very important. The reasons I like Rand have nothing to do with "axiom of reflexivity of identity" or that other stuff you said.

edit: no online sources? I don't normally pay $35+ because a hostile, anonymous internet commenter said something would refute someone I respect but didn't want to explain the ideas himself.
yeah, those people with 4 million have it pretty tough.

you can live very comfortably the rest of your life off of 500,000 even in some of the richest counties in the US if you know how not to squander money.
race and intelligence?

I don't think this subject comes up very often with small children. "Discrimination" is just a probabilistic decision made wherever imperfect knowledge exists. That is, you look at the demographics of a neighborhood before moving there, knowing full well that it's not an ideal measure. Again, what can children do about such a thing?

The OP seemed to be setting up a scenario in which his parents said, "...and others disagree" and so made themselves seem "truthful". That's halfway to getting to the real truth which is, "We ourselves are completely without a clue, but prefer Yahweh over Ganesh because an elephant head is bullcrap a mite too obvious for our tastes. Others disagree."

The real secret is that truth doesn't matter too much unless it involves something that can damage you. God, it just so happens, is not among the things that can damage you. And so, feel free to believe whatever you want.
giving away money doesn't solve problems. in the best case scenario it removes roadblocks to other people solving them. in the worst case scenario it is simply a stop gap that leaves the people you're trying to help in the exact same situation once the money runs out.
Whats so freaky about teaching yourself?! Learning college level material isn't some mystical magical thing that you need the professor who holds the keys to teach you! Unless they are the only repository of information and no textbook exists to learn the material. Once you start understanding the vocab (and stop wasting your time by not reading the best books for your topic) it's just like anything else. Hopefully you can find a professor/writer who isn't horrible at writing and learned less is more. If not, you'll figure it out.
Start by building your best thing that works for most users. Most people work in 1024 resolution or higher, and don't bother with disabling cookies or javascript.
Trying to support everyone right away is just like premature optimization. Get something out first, then work to support exceptions if you see that you actually have users that would want that.
the idea that the brain performs several different types of computation on the same data set and then compares the results is interesting and worth following up on.
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By looking the company up in the phone book/internet and calling from there. There might be some cases where endless bureaucracy might get in your way, but in most, it wont.
I'm saying that if you do not want to influence them in any way the only option is to not answer the question. Otherwise, you ARE influencing them.

I'm not saying whether or not it is possible to not answer the question when a child asks you one. I'm not saying you SHOULDN'T answer the question. But if you do not want to influence a child's thought patters in any given situation you have to not say anything (though likely silence will also influence them in some way as well). Hence why I said, "There is no right answer to this question".

"This dramatic influence-avoidance thing seems pretty ridiculous."

yes, it is ridiculous, which is why we lie to kids, because we have to give them some answer they will be satisfied with. There is no way to NOT lie to kids and not be pretty ridiculous.
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Sussman is not your average guy, scheme is overall simpler than CL, implementing a compiler is harder than an interpreter.
I'd rather work with a smart, well read person who likes to think than someone who hasn't read much.

Sure asking about Ayn Rand isn't really an intelligence test, but it's not a bad start. Smart people can learn about data structures and algorithms. Slow people who've managed to get a CS degree from some random college may have learned enough to pass, but there's no demonstration of smarts there.

I'm hiring based on people being smart, self-motivated, willing to learn, willing to think, and people I can hold a conversation with. Teaching someone like that how data structures work is a lot easier than teaching a degree holder how to be someone I want to work with and someone I can trust to be on the ball as new technologies come out.
Really? Are you sure you didn't really just see him copy one that he'd previously written to a chalkboard in about an hour?
This is a pointless esssay, and ignores the reality and the complexity of the real world.

It seems to me that the point of the essay was that it is possible to tell children the truth, even though the truth is complex. The author's childhood and parenthood, as described in the essay, provide at least one example that it can work.
All this discussion makes me think that if someone were to create, say, a Firefox plug-in for accessibility -- one that could react to Javascript-related DOM changes and such -- there would be a serious market for it.

Of course, if web developers would stop being lazy and properly implement things like progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, it wouldn't be needed. Every site I make starts as non-Javascript, even if I plan for the entire thing to be laden with it in the end.

Then again, all of this is moot anyway, because the author gave absolutely no reasons for why he prefers the HTML version and doesn't use the JS version. I am going to run with the idea that he fears JAVASCRIPT GNOMES!!!
> If you determined that there were differences between races, and it was in the best interest of your children to discriminate against certain people, what would you tell them?

I would tell them to beware of plausible-sounding theories. And I'd have them read this:

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2007/11/science-103-virtue-of-sim...
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But his perspective seems to be increasingly common among today’s superwealthy — and even wealthy — who are looking for more lasting meaning in their lives beyond their possessions.

I suspect that this is not increasingly common, but rather as common as it ever was. People with money who learn that it doesn't convey lasting meaning will inevitably look for it elsewhere.
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Really interesting interview -- thanks for posting it! Just the sort of content I love to see on news.yc
Having a "monopoly" on which IRC client is bundled with KDE and which search engine 80% of Internet users use is a bit different... and the innovation stifled as a result is also slightly more important when it comes to global Internet search.
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The best situation is probably for the parents to disagree, actually.
Hrm. I am inclined to not see it that way, as Craigslist is most certainly not a 'commons' in the sense of a resource owned by no one, which is the point of "the tragedy of the commons".

CL are doing their damndest to stop these people, just that there are a lot more spammers than CL people.
The machine learning lectures here are of fantastic quality. I hope this is the future of academia.
So many web startups are coming out of India
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I do not know what is technically possible, but I am absolutely sure that to say Google will remain the All Mighty of Search is similar to saying " Hey, I am short sighted". Search is painful and will ultimately die and give its place to something else. Think Ford's automobile vs "faster horses".
In the short term, Input will change from text to voice.
In the long term Search will give place to Suggestions and Decisions. Sort of like a game. Machines will have so much data about ourselves thru Facebook, Disqus (and the multiple other places where you exist) and become intelligent to the point where they will be able to predict our behavior and make suggestions. Example: Xobni will read that you want to go to Paris in June with your girlfriend and suggest deals on a daily basis. Google is already doing it with Gmail and it proves that Search is truly archaic and the innovators should focus on the power of suggestion.
Presumably people could/would tell kids what they believe themselves, or if they don't have a clue, they could tell their kids that they don't have a clue.
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People live in a time constrained world and are making snap judgements. Sigs in new compositions and not replies is my preference.
I think a petition for down-voting on articles would be more productive.

I, for one, wish there were a ban on all Twitter related posts...
So if there becomes a call for it, I expect they could lanch an ISP arm and use their IPs. Or else lease out their IP space to ISPs that can't find enough IP space.
The market will sort itself out and all will be fine.
Yes, but the wisdom of thousands of years of human cultural evolution as well as our instincts tell us not to do this. If it worked in one case that is no reason to also do it.

My dad recently told a story about how he got scammed out of practically all his heavy machinery when I was 8 years old. He was completely broke, his machines were in another town, the scammer had run off and he had no means of earning money without transporting his machines back. But he had no money to do this. So for 6 months, he ran around trying to borrow money so he could transport the machines back and start earning money.

I remember when the machines were gone. But I did not associate it with anything, I thought they were out on a job. If my Dad had told me that he had been scammed, and the machines were stuck and he had no income, and that debts were piling up every single day, I would have understood the problem, and to god, that would have been the most terrible thing that I could have imagined.

I would have wondered how someone could scam my dad. I would have come up with ways of trying to get the machines home. I would have worried that we would become poor.

Knowing that information would have been a terrible thing for me to know as an 8 year old, exactly because I would have understood what it meant. If any one of you claims that telling an 8 year old that type of stuff is good for the child, then you are damn idiots who have no place raising a child.

For me as a child, lightning was already very scary, even though I understood how unlikely it was to happen. Compare an event like my father losing his money to something abstract and unlikely to lightning, and you understand by how much more it would have worried me.

Anyone who advocates telling children that type of information is completely unfit to raise children.
This is a classic case of the harm that not lying to your children can cause. The things my parents told me when I was young shaped a large part of my world view. If you were a racist, enough of that would seep through to influence your child. If you tried to explain bell curves and so on, and you believed that white people were more clever than black people, your child would grasp the subtext of what you are saying.

The best thing to do is to not pre-infect your child with your own personal notions on controversial topics till he is equipped to think independently about them.
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"Scientific evidence to date suggests there is no God"

IMHO That's the truth, and the facts.