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If you read Marak's article and contrasted it to the original IBM article it would be pretty obvious that its all facts. The original author (no matter how closely relates to IBM he is) clearly didn't put enough time into researching his article. Thing he says are straight up wrong and claiming otherwise is foolish. The title is clearly HNO, but the content is all correct.
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Oh OK. So just as long as the problem would exist without us, we aren't responsible for our actions?

Well governments have been putting people in concentration camps long before North Korea decided to do it.
The traditional view of efficient market stock valuation was that the stock price = the net present value of the future dividend stream. Of course, especially in technology, that doesn't really represent how things actually work. But theoretically stock price represents money you'll be paid out over time rather than some greater fool theory.

As for the basic point here though. Yes, an investor cares about total returns so dividends can't just be ignored.
Optional dots, semicolons and sometimes parenthesis, underscores as placeholders, and interchangeable parenthesis and braces are about the only syntactic sugar in Scala AFAIK. They are really minimal compared to, for example, Python decorator syntax.
Actually this IBM article is a good introduction for mainstream enterprise developers, and the majority of those have no idea what node.js is and never heard of it.

People who have a need in such a solution already know about it, and for the rest it's a niche product that solves a very specific problem for very specific products. Next.
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I think a lot of the responses here call out some definite omissions in this article (detailed analysis, the preparedness of certain companies, etc.). All of these points are valid, however, I don't think the concept of another bubble should be entirely dismissed. The thing to pay attention to does not revolve around the major companies like Facebook. The focus, rather, should be on the smaller companies that seem to get ridiculous valuations and investments for seemingly cheap ideas. Yes, Angry Birds is great but millions of dollars in investments? The bust will come from mindless investments like these. People will get bored with this game or that app and any dev that can't keep up will find themselves having to answer for insane investments that went nowhere. Luckily, like some have said, we've learned from the past in regard to bigger web firms, but until recently, "small business" didn't have a large voice in the web. You love the bakery down the street, but are their cookies worth millions? Probably not.

We'll see.
According to the guidelines, this is off-topic.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is covered on TV news, incites political debate, and is exactly the same phenomenon that's been rehashed to death.
In that case, who's up for some picketing?
That's true.

Though he also said this (it was paraphrased by a reporter, so it's not a direct quote):

Shareholders benefit more from leaving their money with him and reaping a handsome return than by getting a regular payout and depleting the Berkshire war chest.

*Same source as above
I'm not sure these figures are particularly illuminating, for two reasons:

1) Many realistic outcomes are obscured by the averages. The average college doesn't lead to very good opportunities, and the average student doesn't work very hard. Working hard at a good school (top 50) or even not working that hard at a mediocre school (top 10) can lead to dramatically different results than what might be expected from looking at the results of all students from all ~5,000 or so universities in the country.

2) While the use of net present value is technically correct (the best kind of correct!) it's also somewhat misleading. Say a college graduate earns $100,000 more than a high school graduate in the final year of his career. The net present value of that (using the historic S&P 500 return of 7%) is $6,700. Yes, if you're comparing a choice between earning $100k more in the final year of your career with $7,000 right now, the latter is the better choice. However, that is never the choice! A high school graduate cannot get $7,000 in loans to invest in the market at 7% return. So from a practical perspective, using net present value compares against a choice that the graduate doesn't have.

It all makes sense when you look at things another way. The student is not making an investment. He is the investment, one the bank is making in him. The investment directly creates real value (as opposed to an investment in the market, which does so only indirectly), so both the bank and the student might come out ahead even if the net present value of the education is less than the amount borrowed to finance it.
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Dividends are basically saying "we're returning earnings because you can probably invest them better than we can". It's up to the investor balance their portfolio and decide how much money they have invested in the company, dividends are supposed to be that mechanism.
Even so, look at the comparison this way. Google and Apple both created and captured new markets;

The test isn't how a company does when its taking over a new market. It's what it does when its losing its old market.

The real comparison isn't is MS better than Google or Apple. MS has already had their climb. The real question is "is MS IBM or DEC?"
link to that article: http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/5/107701-weapons-of-mas...
Is that 5 minutes of advanced information truly worthless?

Does the average wealth of society increase or decrease with the addition of the arbitraging Galileo?

I think it increases.

Inequality increases, true, and there are other dangers in inequality.

But the median wealth of everyone also increases because now people know 5 minutes earlier if they're going to eat oranges tonight. Presumably that information is worth something, and I think there is a good argument to be made that the value of that information is equivalent to the profit of all the arbitrageurs.

I believe in wealth redistribution, but this question is less about inequality and more about the utility of that advance information.

Intuitively it does seem ridiculous that 3ms of ping is worth $300,000,000. But we're dealing in a global economy with nearing 7 billion people, and 3ms * 7,000,000,000 adds up to 8 months of human life.

It would be a problem if the fiber line owner, with his wealth, gains some kind of hegemony over the world and enforces some kind of human-life-crushing totalitarianism. But the inequality argument is most sensibly solved by wealth redistribution - taxes, welfare, public healthcare, etc. Rather than outlawing arbitrage.
Are you saying that nobody has yet made the "this topic is exhausted" argument and that your comment is therefore more original than the anti-{atomhead,hippie} comments?
Any comments? I'd love to hear some feedback.
If it makes you feel better, their native app for Android is pretty broken too. The most obvious problem is that it can't rotate; the app only runs in vertical mode. The first page it brings you to is the login page; you flip your phone open to get at the keyboard, and the app doesn't rotate. I've never seen that before, anywhere. The rest of the app is the same way; all vertical.

Different screens seem to have trouble refreshing, also. The search screen, for example, sometimes won't show search results when you search. Instead, it sends you back to the home screen after searching. You can flip back to the search screen, and your results are there, so it's working, but just in an amusingly buggy manner.

Aside from the obvious UI bugs, the actual core functionality (streaming Netflix) seems pretty solid. I haven't played with it much, and since my phone (G2) doesn't have HDMI out I'm not sure how much I will use it, but it seems to fulfill its core purpose pretty well. It's an amusing toy to have, anyhow.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm definitely concerned about the suffering that happens in foreign countries, and I think that people should be aware of it.

Say every American was upset at N.K.'s horrible treatment of prisoners. So what? What's going to happen -- the U.S. would need to go through China before it could touch N.K. And bombing a country on humanitarian grounds is a little absurd.

But if every American were upset about the penal system, or about "3 strikes laws", or prison rape, the problem would be solved almost right away (indeed, American complacency and populism caused some of these problems in the first place).
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You're a partisan in this matter, I don't think I can take you seriously.
Encryption in itself is a red flag.
Well done. Slight perception of Rails lacking something when compared to Django erased.
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Definitely agree with the problem that this site is trying to solve.

For most large projects it is impossible to spec out the idea accurately and what the client wants changes as the person starts to code. So I think that in many cases an hourly rate makes more sense for the coder and the project creator.

For medium sized projects around $2-10k maybe 20k, then project based work makes sense. Larger than this and a fixed fee is dangerous for the coder. Plus managing the timing of when the coder is paid is difficult.

And yes in most cases if the coder is great, a genuine coder will want an ongoing relationship with the employer.

Also I think it is possible to achieve the same result as your site by using vworker for example but only picking coders with VERY good feedback (the top 200 coders on the web site for example).

Another potential problem is how to you weed out all of the bad coders? If you get 10,000 applications from India, how will you know which guys are good and which are not good? That's probably the most important thing you can do for the employers.

Having said all of that, there definitely is a need, so good luck!
It's an over-reaction to an over-reaction. It's the same deal when people talk about how you're more likely to get hit by lightning than end up in a terrorist attack, yet we spend so much time, money and resources trying to prevent the terrorist attack. People are just trying to put things in perspective since people tend to treat nuclear power like some sort of mysterious spectre that might sneak into your home at night and eat your children.
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The echo cancellation algorithms, the speed of their sip like algorithm as well as the infrastructure to run their entire network is an engineering marvel. While, Skype's UI could use an update as well as some usability testing, their backend infrastructure is most definitely not a POS.
If you only need to crack one key, a weakness is found in the system that helps eliminate a huge chunk of the possible key space, and it's for a very high-value target like Bin Laden, putting the entire computing power of the TLAs onto the problem seems like it could yield results.
I really hate that their collection joining method is called `mkString` instead of `join` like it is in C#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and others.
I think the biggest mistake the first world can make in securing its future is assuming that it has a monopoly on knowledge, intelligence, and expertise.
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Humans don't scale either. That's why google doesn't use humans.

Sounds like the easy solution here is to have people submit their content to some google authentication system at the same time they submit to their blog. Problem solved.
Lots of malware actually uses this to communicate with infected hosts now-a-days. You see it a lot in the backdoors used for more targeted attacks.

AFAIK, going wayyy back, this strategy was first talked about by Sophsec at an infosec conference in 2006. They made a library called libomg that would log into social networks and webmail to communicate with infected bots and they had various strategies for doing so. The most hilarious was the myspace module which automatically set up networks of teen girls who chatted in uh teen-speak, which were actually hidden commands for the other bots to log in and retrieve. It was awesome.
Has this been integrated into Blogspot?

The trick would be getting the feature hooked into the major publishing tools.
Previous comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2541671
You can't really say PHP was designed for web scripting... for the most part, PHP wasn't designed at all.

By the time you get to more advanced apps, the advantages of PHP disappear and all you're left with is a somewhat messy language.
The Fukushima disaster is already as bad as Chernobyl according to the International Atomic Energy Association's scale

That is quite a logical leap based solely on the INES rating. Fukushima is in the same category as Chernobyl, but this is also the highest category there is, and Chernobyl was past the boundary by a huge margin.

For example, the criteria for the total release of iodine-131 in a level 7 accident is "tens of thousands of TBq". Chernobyl released 1.8 million TBq. Fukushima has released about 370,000 TBq so far.

Chernobyl had killed 31 people by this point while Fukushima has had negligible health effects so far due to much better emergency response. The INES rating does not account for this, only for the amount of material released.
I think Microsoft should break itself up and leave Ballmer in charge of the business focussed parts and put a new CEO in charge of WP7, xbox and the other consumer parts. Everyone heaps platitudes on Jobs but the reality is he has no understanding of or interest in business needs. On the other hand, you can make an argument that Ballmer has performed quite well on this front.

The simple fact is that it may be impossible to reconcile the different business styles needed to succeed in both the consumer space and the business space. Let them separate and have genuinely different corporate personas and both might succeed more.
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You are not answering the question that was asked. ianl's post was directly in reference to web application development, not systems programming. Of course you wouldn't do that with PHP. That's like saying "yeah, it's a great knife, but it can't change my oil." Well...sure. Nobody's saying it can. But it does what we're actually talking about just fine, and I am skeptical of ianl's claims that there are missing pieces of the infrastructure for web development.

(BTW: Puppet not playing nicely with PHP is new to me as I use it regularly. And I don't think you get much with Mongrel that nginx/FPM don't do well enough.)
>Everyone heaps platitudes on Jobs but the reality is he has no understanding of or interest in business needs. On the other hand, you can make an argument that Ballmer has performed quite well on this front.

Yeah Apple definitely doesn't need all that cash they're raking in.

Move along please, point to something substantive and back it up with evidence before you arrogantly dismiss Steve Jobs. He has valid criticisms such as how will he be replaced? But what you said, absolutely is not backed up by all the available evidence. You then go on to praise Ballmer? Bizarre.
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I think he means _selling_ to businesses (i.e. B2B as opposed to B2C), not _running_ a business. Also, your nasty tone doesn't help.
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I suspect it has to do with the new jobs algorithm pg recently implemented.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like for me: http://i.imgur.com/lnmfB.jpg

Note that the /classic view is unaffected.
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what's the site? would love to see the implementation and hear about the results.:)
i tried magit before. i soon gave it up for the command line. the command line is much faster.
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So much less than I used to. I used to average something like 15000 read items a month in google reader.

Now just HN and Techmeme and I try to get on with getting things done.
> Is that 5 minutes of advanced information truly worthless?

>But the median wealth of everyone also increases because now people know 5 minutes earlier if they're going to eat oranges tonight.

Since we can assign an arbitrary utility value to that knowledge while not changing the profits telescope man makes (how much is the existing stock of oranges and separately the existing stock of bananas now worth, now that telescope man sees a boat of bananas has arrived unsunk and each banana must match an orange? He can use this to revalue the two and sell or buy from/to people who only know the old valuation).

The utility you claim isn't directly related to the telescope-man profit. Certainly not equivalent as you seem to think:

>I think there is a good argument to be made that the value of that information is equivalent to the profit of all the arbitrageurs.

What makes you think there is a one-to-one correspondence? Can you make the argument, or do you just think there is a good one to be made? If you already made the argument I didn't see it, and if it involved multiplying ping delta by current world-population then I am definitely not clever enough to understand it. ;)

("go by nightfall" in my original post should have been worded "go bad by nightfall")
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also a few other items that are several days old
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Some pretty weird bugs.

Unvotable, uncommentable, unflaggable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2543564

300 day old submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545774
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Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome

A) Please hire a designer. You might hire someone who is not very costly and fits your budget but I cannot over emphasize the value someone who does this day in day out brings to the table.

OR

B) If you were a designer and wanted to build something, what would you do? Use one of the million ready made coding junks like "Digg Template" or "Twitter template"? No you know very well that innovation does not work that ways. You would pick up a book and learn to program or find someone who knows it and will help you.

Just because "everybody" thinks they can design or make things "look" good, it does not mean it is design. Read a few books like the following to get started:

1)The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman, Don Norman (basics of design)

2)Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg (basics of visual design)

3)Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann (typography)

4)Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability by Steve Krug (basics of UX)

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If you have read them and want to learn more, please feel free to contact via my HN Profile.
Gates didn't have direct experience in any of the areas Microsoft ended up dominating. In the end, the CEO's role is more visionary than mentor. His job is to guide, not to teach. A good CEO can make smart choices about technologies with which he's unfamiliar, if he has a vision in mind. Compare Sculley and Jobs in their approach to Apple: neither was technologically gifted, but Sculley relied on the engineers to dictate direction, whereas Jobs (mk II) dictated direction to the engineers. The point is that a CEO need not be Gates: he need not have an intimate knowledge of the technology, so long as he has a clear and accurate vision of its future.
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When I feel like I want to read something other than HN (which basically means I'm _looking_ for distractions) I know something is wrong with me.
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The Page example is far too recent to tell whether or not it will be successful.
The Bump submission isn't a bug: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
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Yeah, jobs were acting as dams. I just fixed it.
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