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While I think this article makes some decent points, I have to say that in all the recent discussion around the value of a phd and whether or not the system is broken the only really strong defenders of the way things are have been those who are currently pursuing a PhD.

As someone who has been able to swing a faculty position without one (wanting to remain anonymous I'm not going to say what exactly is the case, but I will say it's definitely not because I'm particularly clever). It saddens me to see friends who were brilliant PhD students at very good schools, doing post doc work at mediocre schools that don't even do research in their area of interest (and these are some people in the math and sciences). Almost none of the people I know with PhD work in the humanities are doing anything even close to what they studied.

I don't think the people who are pursuing PhDs are necessarily the ones who are broken, but there is definitely a problem with the system, and I don't think most phd student will realize it until they've graduated.
Why? Because I don't want objects or because I should use objects?
Yes, Denmark:

https://www.nemid.nu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID

Most public institutions as well as many private (including the banks) have switched to this system.

Our government already know just about everything about us (e.g. few people need to fill out tax forms), so this has not been very controversial. The largest controversy has been with the security.
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It doesn't work for me on the article page itself, but it you view the demo (link at the bottom of the article) then you can see it working.
I didn't read this paper, but I never understood why players who get into foul trouble are pulled from games. I guess the only explanation is that players play differently after a few fouls. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to take someone out so that you don't have to take them out in the future.
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Or they come up with a 5 line solution, using a CPAN module that has had it's battery of unit tests automatically run through on 200+ different os/hardware/perl combinations, which also comes with its own little test suite and works out of the box; while everyone else runs their stuff and discovers they still need to catch a dozen weird edge cases.

Until other languages reach this kind of solidity and thoroughness in testing CPAN will stay at the top of the bunch.
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You can already sign up for a bank account online and prove you are who you say you are by inputting enough personal information so they can verify you.

Sure there is potential for identity theft but much less so than with what they are proposing now.

As far as single logins, there is already a well established solution with OpenID, OAuth, and the Log in with Facebook / Twitter style logins.
Reputation for purchasers and sellers is a solved problem. Eg, ebay.
Inadvertently, you are correct. Capitalism thrives on a consistent set of rules, which can then be analyzed and legally subverted for greater profit.
I wouldn't go that far. I've found Slicehost has some major deficiencies compared to Linode. i/o being the major one.
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Is there anything in the legislation forcing businesses & their customers to use this ID for all transactions?
The TIOBE index instead suggests that Python is getting more use: it just won their award for most market share growth in 2010, putting it now at 3.5x Ruby's market share. Rails has been (and still is) incredibly influential in the web dev scene, which is why it might seem otherwise.
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I just came back from Kenya, and it was interesting to see how everything was done with featurephones using quite primitive (but efficient) menu-based applications. Banking, etc. In every village there were kiosks with diesel generators or car batteries selling phone charging.

Being a developing country means they have been able to skip unnecessary dead-end technologies like landline phones and desktop computers, and go straight to an untethered personal computer: the mobile phone.
Yeah, definitely try contacting them first. Even if their software is being idiotic, they might be a fellow startup or someone who's a bit technically dim but has reasonable intentions. Of course, if you get the brush off, then you have carte blanche for raising hell ;-)
Say your star point guard and a center get ejected from the game because they got too many fouls in the middle of the game. This forces the coach to play with a smaller set of players when it matters in the last quarter. The coach wants to be able to put x person on y person on the other team because x matches up with y very well so playing without a full set of players is limiting.
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Didn't knew about this one. Thanks.
Then Lisp wouldn't qualify.

C arguably is homoiconic. It's just not a convenient representation.
Why use an already existing system that works when you can create a new one under your control that doesn't?
Of course it does. If you speak Polish it does even more.
google alerts = clever.

the other thing to do is include some some encoding of the served-to IP address (maybe md5 of the first and last half of the IP?)
To me it seems that hardest part about predictions is the timing. It's not too hard to understand the macro economic trends and to see which way the wind is blowing, but it's very hard to know when it will happen and how quickly it will happen.

That's why day trading is gambling. The long term buy and hold, and the averaging down strategies will make you money, as long as you understand mid to long term direction of the economy and invest accordingly.
Armegatron has a little triangle around multiplayer opponents that describes where their light cycle could be with respect to the moves they could make until the packet reaches you. It's quite interesting; go grab http://armagetronad.net/screenshots.php and play a network game to see how it works.

EDIT: Wait a moment, it wasn't GLTron, it was Armegatron

EDIT 2: See http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php?title=Lag
Ruby gems by default don't run unit tests. If you care about reliable software, this is a bad thing compared to CPAN.
Could be pretty big (everyone in our startup which is based in Warsaw reads HN), although I'm not sure if that's the best way to ask about it...
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I think there are a number of viewpoints that would not endorse your statement that "anti-trust is relatively uncontroversial"

Anti-trust regulations are unnecessary in a free economy, as inefficient monopolies by definition are vulnerable to competition, and efficient monopolies are already meeting their supply/demand ratio optimally.
This is a well known concept in pricing theory. If you have multiple, directly comparable offers, always have an out of reach option. Doing so will automatically lead more people to buy the next, more affordable option.
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"A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead." haha that's a great sentence to start an article.
To add to the discussion, the ability that the PhD gave me was the confidence to "roll my sleeves up" and delve into the muck to try and figure out how to get something working, or figure out why something is not working.
I knew I could count on you jwr :) What might be better way to find out how big PL community on HN is?
I think facebook will become a financial institution.
You can simply contact Amazon AWS and report them. Having run yottaa.com live for the last 6 months our monitoring nodes have been reported and if they are causing problems we fix them.

We are try to provide valuable service to people and would want to know that we are causing problems. We have implemented the ability to work with robots.txt files.

If the nodes are not from a legitimate service then they will be shutdown.
'local' is too long, yes -- I wish they'd used 'let' or even Perl's 'my'. But syntactically distinguishing declarations from assignments was totally the right decision. (I wonder if anyone's made a more Python-like frontend to Lua. Coffeelua?)
The reason the article is of note is that one of the authors is Michal E. Porter, author of books on strategy that was seized upon to drive much of the "Greed is Good" Wall Street culture since the 80s. He is a Harvard Business School professor who just authored an article that I would characterize as essentially advocating Socialism.
A company creates "shared value" simply by making a product that people want to pay for: they get your product, you get their money. Its really that simple, do we really need a 15 page mckinsey consulting article to explain this? "rethinking capitalism" is bull shit.
> Give me an interface as nice as Gmail's, and I'll consider it.

How about Gnus? A single interface for mail, news, RSS, even files on your local machine. Regular expression-based filtering and sorting, on arbitrary fields in the header or body of messages. Adaptive scoring for prioritizing new messages. Auto-expiry and deletion of mail that you don't need to read. Completely extensible and hackable in Lisp.

And best of all, it's completely integrated with your favorite editor. ;)

Honestly, the GMail interface feels really limited to me. The one thing that GMail has -- or should have -- over other mail clients is its ability to search your mail archive. But GMail's search isn't even good! It doesn't match substrings, for example. Grepping a local mail spool is infinitely more powerful.
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I studied compilers before I studied Lisp so when I first started reading about Lisp it was very intuitive that it is just an AST.

When trying to design my own languages I kept needing to handle special conditions and it seemed all roads lead to either Lisp or Smalltalk. It seems those 2 are fundamental paradigms.
Having read what I think is the most famous of those books (_Competitive Strategy_), I'm wondering what aspect of Porter's writing you think catalyzes "greed is good".

The normal ding on Porter seems to be that he's no longer relevant.
Could you explain just what IBM did that demonstrates a return? They're certainly still profitable, but people don't fear them as a competitor.
(However, Twitter did shut down the "verified account" program -- it was a "beta test" and they no longer are adding new accounts to it. Talk about confusing.)
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I think you're overstating the case, things like: Large vs Small beer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSDI9Gg63I - are flatly unethical. If someone asked for a 16oz Coffee and you gave them 12oz in a skinny cup so it looked taller that would be unethical as well.

But, if you have a series of smaller to larger cups lined up on a counter and you ask people which one they want and then give them what they asked for, I can't see that being unethical.

To me, this is just another form of advertising.
Rationale here: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-March/0...
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I think you are dismissing this on pretty unresolved ground.

To claim that Amazon/Newegg solved it with "verified purchaser" is simply on unsubstantiated ground.

I could find plenty of serious uses for reputation systems. In fact I would claim that reputation systems is going to be the future of verification.
"Also, the password authentication finishes early if it detects a mismatch between the given password and the one in the database. This makes it fairly easy for an attacker to get people's passwords with a straightforward timing attack. To fix it, always go through all the characters in the strings to compare them."

The password check is a database query that, since there are no indices on the users table, will check for string equality in every row of the table. Timing the response tells you a lot about the number of users, and the instantaneous server load, not so much about how closely the latest guess matches someone's password.

Even with a more optimized program, I'd be surprised if "fairly easy" were an accurate characterization of the effort to separate timing of comparing one extra character of a password from all the other stuff going on during a request: database access, routing, parsing query parameters, load from other requests, garbage collection pauses, network latency... The signal-to-noise ratio is just too low.
In Finland most government services use your banking credentials for authentication. The same system can also be used by others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUPAS
I like how Rand said it:

Under the Antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful “intent to monopolize”; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “unfair competition” or “restraint of trade”; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “collusion” or “conspiracy.”
This takes way too much work. As someone who was using Facebook for several years before friend-groups, it was going to be an unreasonable time-sink to sort all those people after the fact.

Someone using facebook AFTER the were introduced definitely should use them.
Another JS bug in older versions of IE (6 for sure, not sure about later ones) occurs when you end an array or hash with a comma after the last element, e.g. {foo: bar,}
A friend of a friend used to write for the Mail and he claimed that they all knew exactly what they were doing (and normally personally disagreed with what they were writing).

They know their audience very well and know exactly which buttons to press to make sales.
Since no one is excluded from creating a copyright or patent, I don't think it is accurate to call it a "special privilege..." Having intellectual property rights and how they are enforced (or not) are two different things, and the fact that there are IP rights is the only thing that stops large companies from stripping away the value created by individuals at will, reducing us all to share croppers at best. I think of all the song royalties that were ripped off from the originators of the Blues and the only saving grace was when the copyright laws were enforced to enable them to get some money to survive in old age...
I think you are missing the point. The summary of the article is Microsoft may be a monopoly but it is not a danger for fragile new technology startups. They retain their existing monopoly but world domination is not in their radar anymore.

Edit: Another way to look at it, dead here means the opposite of "Stay hungry, stay foolish".
Very well said. I'm a Linux advocate but you can't forget Window's has a massive market-share still, and will remain the case for a long time to come. I feel that most tech sties experience traffic anomalies, so they don't see what the true market share breakdown is.
You do have to rerun it.

It would be more useful if it were part of a toolkit like Dojo or jQuery, and would automatically happen when you use their AJAX functions.
I think it's interesting that for cases like this, YouTube's analytics are completely useless:

http://i.imgur.com/2COBs.png
I will rewrite my post and substitute the phrase "seized upon" for "drove".
The lein-ring plugin provides a slightly easier way of generating war files from Ring handlers:

https://github.com/weavejester/lein-ring
Prediction: It keeps the lolcats being cute, and the pirates don't bother doing anything else.

...

Oh, that kind of pirate.
Sorry. I got the whole wrong. That's what I get for replying a post and having a conversation about it with someone in the same room ;-)
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I think he's referring to the effect in the UI itself. I don't see it either, so it's probably limited to some platforms.
"We criticize China when it does something like this, but when America does it's all fine."

I'm not saying we should build this, just that in an ideal society it would make sense because there are real benefits.
There's a tradeoff between speed of lookup and ability to find things when you only partially recall the name. For those situations (the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon), I'd pick either the first and final letters as the easiest to recall, or the first and second letters. The fourth letter won't be easy to retrieve unless you recall the name exactly.
Seems like, everyone is thinking on same lines.
This is a long list of points, that should have "citation needed" attached to them. Whoever it is, presents some "facts" without any actual source, analysis or other way to easily verify.

Also, sentence like "The level of fluoride put into drinking water at 1 ppm is not what nature intended." should not be used by serious people. Body radiation is also "not what nature intended" - yet, it can stop diseases.
Ah, my mistake. That's a weirder design than I thought. (The advice to use bcrypt still stands. It's amazingly simple to use.)
Forth, in a way, out of left field.
Given the financial stakes at play in professional (and even amateur) athletics, I find it hard to believe that an analysis of optimal "play or sit" strategy wrt player fouls has "remained unaddressed" though a cursory search on Google Scholar didn't turn up much of anything in the way of a counter-example.
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Few basketball games are blowouts. The logic of sitting your best player(s) in foul trouble is to hope that your bench can keep the game close so that your best player can win the game in the end.
I think you are making the wrong point. Windows is not dead and that's the truth but Microsoft is dead cause they are not doing any Web apps. They are not doing something innovative. They are just doing what they always did: writing Windows (a horrible OS) which comes with Internet Explorer a horrible browser which is not standard web conform.

They are still earning money but they are laying on their success AND I think that is what Paul Graham means as dead. They are dead because they are not playing the game anymore. They are just laying on their success with windows.

And thinking about more and more OSs are coming out this will not help them they need something for example to succeed on the tablet market and NO windows 7 and 8 or 9 is not the answer for a tablet.
I think the other guy's take is that points are points, regardless of when they occur.

But the other guy also correctly deduces the real issue... foul problems change how you play. You play more timidly. And I think it also results in the other team playing a form of basketball that is generally more desireable, which is to drop the ball into the blocks and try to draw a foul (its generally big men who get in foul trouble quicker than guards).

With that said, I think seeing this result is useful.
In a way your correct criticism of my using the word drove actually supplied the word that would have been better to use, catalyze. I think his books, and articles catalyzed a corporate movement that might have happened with or without his writing and consulting. My point in the original comment was that who he is, is what makes the article of interest. I didn't mean to judge or characterize what he did, that was not my point, I was not passing judgement.
Yes, you're correct, and that's how it should be for any successful technology company I think: they should have their legacy products which may or may not be fading into irrelevance, and their new stuff which embraces the future.

There's nothing wrong with that, though. No aspect of technology remains dominant forever and the web is not the end-all of computing, just as the mainframe and the desktop were not the end-all of computing either. Something else will inevitably emerge in the future which will supersede the web, however slowly it may occur...
The numbers in your study seem fishy to me. For example IQ is strongly correlated with where you went to school, so how can one have a positive correlation and the other have none?

I strongly suspect that those are the correlation coefficients from a linear regression model. That would make a lot of sense to me. In that case the numbers are saying that once you know other factors, such as someone's IQ and work history, there is no useful additional information to be gained from where they want to school and their GPA. However GPA and where you went to school would still have a correlation with job performance.
Fluoridation is obviously part of a long-term communist mind control plot -- how else do you think Obama won?
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What I'd heard was that the Robertson screw, though awesome, didn't take off due to exorbitant royalties, but checking, it looks like he refused to license them to let anyone else make them after getting burned, & having only one supplier worried Henry Ford too much to use them.

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I didn't there wasn't, just that the need better promotion. Call it screencast if you wish. They need Promotive Passionate Users.

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I'm gonna pick a little bit on Catalyst and do a quick surface review at website level from a non-Perlist POV.

Homepage : ok, looks nice.

Documentation : uuh ! Dry redirect to CPAN.
First impression before reading, it's not the doc, it's the API doc. Ah, wait a second, it _is_ the doc. Not very appealing and some things are so not obvious that it takes a note to understand it like "Note: Click on the heading in the previous line to jump to the actual chapter. Below is a "table of contents" for this chapter."

Download : Again directly to CPAN, at first sight confusingly looks like an API doc. For newcomers not versed in Perl it is not very friendly.

Community : not much to say, a good wiki with apparently interesting stuff to read. But the first thing you see is that the "Why Catalyst is an excellent web application framework?" is an empty page.

The perl community has every reason to be proud of CPAN. It's great tool but it's not the answer to everything. It's all therem but it lacks the last mile, the 20% of polish to make it a tad more friendly/attractive.

It's the whole point of the article I think. It's not to criticize Perl, just to say it needs a better marketing strategy.