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The article implies that college magically gives you skills that make you a successful plumber. I argue that getting into (and out of) college means that you have the basic academic skills to be a successful plumber. Those aren't the same arguments.

Plumbing isn't just unclogging toilets. You need to be capable of measuring, computing distances, reading manuals for boilers and pumps, etc. Not rocket science, but beyond the capabilities of 40-60% of the graduates of many high schools.

In my mind, the problem is that 30 years ago, a high school degree was sufficient to assume that you can perform basic skills (skills that most successful programmers probably can demonstrate around age 12).

Is long division archaic in the age of the smartphone? Perhaps -- I've found it to be a fantastic screening device for high school interns. Print out a few Amtrak Northeast Corridor train schedules and ask questions about getting between various points between various points as a second level screen.
Don't worry, our Lisp startup (www.teclo.net) is fixing TCP over mobile networks, it will all be fine soon enough. :-)
The lesser of three evils - the third being the CEO getting a nice bonus for lowering 'operating costs' after slashing salaries and cutting staff.
And here it is in the specification:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-base-element

And accordingly, adding `<base href="http://example.com/ >` to that test above seems to work well on modern browsers.
> under the guise of "helping connect people"...

And the guise is working pretty well. It's really connecting people.
I wonder if the author went to college? By his logic, my $200k house only costs me $16,000, because of financial aid. (ie. mortgage)
Here is a paper from 03: http://www.usenix.org/event/mobisys03/tech/full_papers/chakr...

As I recall, one of the key problems this group found was that GPRS had a very low incidence of packet loss. This was because the physical layer protocol had some error correction built in. TCP wasn't designed for this and ended up doing the wrong thing. This group proposed a custom reliable protocol between the mobile device and a proxy gateway, and their results showed improved performance.

We're not talking about GPRS but I am curious why there is so much packet loss?

Also, just FYI: MobiSys (the top academic conference on mobile systems) is happening in the DC area this week.
No, read the linked AOL content farmer testimonial (http://thefastertimes.com/news/2011/06/16/aol-hell-an-aol-co...). He was one of many people hired by AOL to write this stuff by hand, at night, for $28k.
I don't know if it's true, but I heard a story about a man who was cured from cancer by eating very healthy.

To me it's no surprise the body likes healthy food to maintain the ability to cure from a lot of things.

(edit: I think T. Colin Campbell is related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Colin_Campbell)
Maybe in	a couple of lines we could do a very naive plural removal. I've seen code for stemming, they have tons of different conditions and possibillities, I guess it would be difficult to condense that into few lines.
SPDY or SCTP maybe? I'm not sure if they work better specifically in high latency environments, but they are touted as TCP replacements.
And London too, which manages half the bus trips in the UK, among other things.
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Things aren't as bad as they seem.
1. He is actually helping my wife get a job so that we can sustain ourselves. I don't want to take a salary to maximize my stake, he won't say no if I ask.
2. He will be working in another job to fund this. I agree I don't have a good answer from him on him being part time
3. Yup, we are discussing this and will be coming to a specific number and putting it into legalese.

Essentially, it is the amount of risk I am taking compared to the reward that's raising the alarm bells for me. Let me know if you have any other concerns after I incorporate staunch's comment to this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700484
Just watched it, amazing!!!!
I was immediately reminded of the same story. As far as I remember, speculators (who are important for a market, but should not dominate it) have been relatively recently allowed to dominate the market they speculate in. This led to them simply buying and buying, speculating on the rising prices the buying itself causes.
This is partly why I'm so interested in publishing information at the DNS level (i.e. .tel) - you get to use UDP (or TCP failover), plus other awesome benefits. You can do other innovative things with DNS too.
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You might want to read about the Zero Marginal Product Hypothesis. The summary is here: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/dregs-of-earth.ht... and the approximate origins are here: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/07...

"I find myself coming back to the view that many previously employed workers simply have a current marginal product pretty close to zero."
I know it's like a LTS type thing, but a new article advocating installing python 2.6 over 2.7 seems pointless to me at this point. Why would you not install the latest 2.7?
Ponzi scheme is wrong-- a Ponzi scheme is a specific thing.

But it is true that the suburbs are unsustainable, barring the invention of Mr. Fusion or similar. When cheap oil is gone, the suburbs are gone.

Oh there are replacements, but none of the replacements can deliver at scale at a cost cheap enough to keep the suburbs going. The suburbs don't just require oil... they require very very cheap oil. Otherwise they are simply not economical.

Electric cars are feasible, but they're going to need a lot of extra grid capacity. Keep in mind that after oil peaks gas and coal will peak too, and keeping the grid up and growing capacity in the post-fossil-fuel age is going to be a major undertaking requiring the full development of pretty much every post-fossil-fuel energy source: gen-IV nuclear, wind, solar, etc.

All that adds up to cost... which brings us back around to the original point: it's not going to be cheap. Thus, the suburbs won't be economical. It will be cheaper to just abandon the suburbs and save the energy than to support them.

The suburbs will be the slums of the future. You can already see this happening.
I guess it'll be win-win when the content farms can automatically generate "interesting" content.
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How to delete a thread...
really regretting that last thread I made! lol
any ideas?
Thanks friend. Though I don't know why my comment was downvoted he bejesus out of.
many generations of men have proven to successfully survive in the desert long

I cannot speak for current operations - in the 90s we did not use A/C for the tents we lived in, but for the tents the computers were in. They also functioned as dust filters.
Sorry for the meta-comment, but you seem to be the only person here who actually got what the article was saying.
Sorry for the stupid question - how does one get this onto my pod (iphone)? Would like to see the socketstream vid on my way home but unfortunately trying to go to vimeo to download is telling me the vid is private..
I am, which is presumably why you can see how many points this post has.
The reason Branson keeps deferring is that he isn't the CEO; he "founded" the company but he hasn't really been involved with it for decades.
The latter. Useful means that it provides value that somehow improves the human condition. Everything from food to fuel to art to architecture is that. Random junk on the net is not.

A central fallacy of present-day economics is the assumption that all economic activity is of equal value. GDP is a good example: A million dollars spent on healthcare increases GDP by a million. A million dollars spent on war increases GDP by a million. A million dollars spent on rubber dog crap increases GDP by a million. But these transactions are not of equal value.

I personally think that economic central planners and GDP growth targets are a major underlying cause of all this useless make-work. I call it the gerbil wheel economy.

Run, gerbil, run! Gotta make the opaque meaningless numbers bigger!

You can see it very clearly in very centrally planned economies that worship GDP growth, like China. They have entire abandoned cities-- things built for nobody, just to make opaque numbers bigger.
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"Advertising in this space is completely non-economical..."

Interesting, because I see ads for them on an almost daily basis, yet I barely travel. Maybe they just recently figured this out?

Nonetheless, I love the product—I use it for what little travel I do—and I'm definitely a word-of-mouth proponent.
>I don't know how yet. I'm open to suggestions.

Dedicated hardware, a la system76, is probably your best bet.
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I know several highly educated people who type "google" into the Google search box in Firefox to get to Google.

You and I are almost certainly doing equally bizarre and convoluted things in other areas of our lives.
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The tents I've seen with A/C units (this was early 90s) were made of a different fabric than the standard tents we berthed in. I believe this was a sort of insulated tent to retain the cooled air. Another reason for the A/C units was to filter dusty air to keep that grit away from computers.
As someone who worked in the EU before, I was never asked to prove I had a degree or an honours degree. Have you been asked to prove it, or are you just being honest?
This is fascinating, and I would really like to try this at some point. However, I am 30, married and have a 1 year old kid. Does anyone have any similar resources, examples, for people who have done this with kid(s)?
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If you don't like X, then X caused the financial crisis, where X = [bankers | ACORN | CRA | Fannie Mae | regulation | deregulation | going off the gold standard | minorities | taxes | deficits | the Fed].

without going into too much detail, the crisis was the result of

1) excess leverage

2) moral hazard

3) MIA laissez-faire regulators who relied on nonexistent common sense and self-interest to contain moral hazard

4) complex and opaque interconnections between financial institutions leading to contagion and domino effects

limit those, and people will still find ways to lose money, but the whole system won't go down in flames.
The unification of search and URL bar in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile browsers makes this even more common, at least for me. I don't always know if the browser is going to find a bookmark, something in my history, search Google, or try to open an URL.
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SPDY isn't a tcp replacement, it's a layer 7 protocol on top of TCP.
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But suburbs are also taking themselves back. Many suburbs have been working to bring the jobs (and taxes) back into themselves. They also have their own utilities and water supplies, and clearly the shopping is there. The biggest gap is food, and cities aren't going to fare any better than suburbs if our transportation industry gets disrupted.
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Unfriendly? I'd say their law is ridiculous.

I hate the new 15-minute period as much as the next person, but 7 days is ridiculous for software purchases on the scale of mobile apps. Many of them could be completed and boring in 7 days. It protects the consumer but destroys the publisher.

Even the 1 day period felt long to me, but there was a few times I was glad it was that long... Apps that claim to work but don't come to mind. Sometimes it takes hours to get it to download properly. I have actually refunded an app that I couldn't download within the 24 hour period, despite most 500mb+ apps taking less than 10 minutes to download.

So I can defend 1 day, but not 7. That's not a trial period, it's the entire life of the app.

There are arguments that apps that small shouldn't be for sale in the first place. But people aren't forced to buy them. If they don't think they are worth the money, they shouldn't buy them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7nfN4bOOQI

People do run their own private onions.
The mobile OS should be able to fix this.

One method would be to disable the reliable delivery mechanism in the 3G code.

Another method would be to use huge retransmission timeouts at the TCP level for connections going over 3G, so the TCP level seldom retransmits packets.

If the 3G implementation provides completely reliable connections, the OS could fake the TCP implementation and just use that implementation directly instead of sending TCP packets. (not entirely unlike the sshuttle VPN).
He's talking about when you select the URL to copy it to another application, say an email or instant message. At that time you need the http:// so the other app knows it's an URL. Which means you're putting something in the clipboard which is not visible in the user's selection. Which is weird and bad.
You should release it because then I can stop working on my mine.
Great post Ken!
For anyone who didn't check it out from this article, here's another awesome post by Ken I spent a lot of time with recently: http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/06/django-hosting-roundup-w...
the area of each cell typically increases when you move out to sparsely populated areas with vast expanses of land. thereby, minimizing number of handovers (cell-to-cell) that might be happening.
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Aftering reading, Googled "Rick Fox's mustache' and got the article in questions as the #1 result, but isn't the gist of the article that project panda fixed this?
Actually, SPDY is an application layer protocol -- as HTTP -- not an transport layer protocol like TCP.
I'm going to start using shorthand for my usual gripe, which applies here of course: JOURNAL PAYWALLS DELENDA EST.

Grammatical corrections from Latin teachers are welcomed. ;)

On the optimistic side, Ars Technica seems to be as good at the science journalism thing as anyone I've seen. I may need to subscribe.
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>And then you also probably don't like being reminded that ZFC's consistency (or not) is unprovable [5].

Unprovable within ZFC. Peano arithmetic is proven consistent, but it cannot prove itself consistent. This is an important distinction, cf http://bit.ly/lGtEDm
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(This is from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c)

This is correct. At their furthest apart, Mars and Earth are 22 light minutes apart. Their closest is almost exactly 3 light minutes. For comparison, the Earth and Moon are just over 1 light second apart.

On a more serious note, could tcp.c just be patched on the client to drop packets after ~10sec?
A friend of mine had a similar problem with her Hotmail account.

It had been hacked, but the recovery questions hadn't been changed (mainly, I think, because Hotmail makes it incredibly difficult to even find the option to do this). We reset her password, changed everything, and the account got re-hacked within 30 minutes.

This happened three more times until, eventually, the recovery questions were changed and we couldn't get access. I posted on the support forums, regained access, changed EVERYTHING (this included checking for email forwarding rules, and so on).

Now, through all this, I told my friend to not sign in to the account (or use MSN) from any computer except mine, to ensure that it wasn't a keylogger or Trojan that was causing this. My machine was running an up-to-date version of Ubuntu, on my home network, using HTTPS. So I'm pretty sure it wasn't a trojan.

Unlike Google, Hotmail requires a human to look over your problem, so after the third time we had to wait for a day to get the account accessed, we just gave up. I signed in, copied down as many contacts as I could, then deleted all the incoming emails. We ended up having to abandon her Facebook account too, as the hacker accessed that and was spamming her friends. Her Tumblr, and a couple of other accounts were toast also. We almost her Facebook back, but the hacker deactivated the account.

It was very frustrating trying to solve this, because I didn't know how the account was being accessed! I opened a ticket asking the Hotmail support staff to tell me how the password was being reset - not any more information, just the method - and they came back with the standard "we won't reveal information unless you have a search warrant or court order".

I love modern technology and all, but sometimes it's REALLY frustrating.
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Based on the HBGary leak, I'd say that they currently do.
It's worth pointing out that Virgin America is a completely independent company of Virgin Atlantic and that your experience seems to be mostly based on Virgin America.

You talk about increased pay - the only way to increase staff pay would be to raise fares which customers don't want.
It's not useless; it's mostly actively harmful. It has a negative worth, not zero worth.
Design related spam seems to be an area where a stack exchange like site could step in and really take off.. lists of lists of lists of blogs of my favorite 50 photoshop brushes..
And, for an estimated $150K and some ICAAN paperwork, www.google.dsdijhfjkdf could be yours!
Finding good domains still available is a more interesting problem than just saying there are some.
People living in the desert dress in a particular way and adapt to the heat.

They also build their permanent structures in a way that maximizes airflow and cools the building. There was a NYT article a few years ago about an 800 year old, un-air conditioned mosque in Baghdad where the temperature was in the low 70's year round.

Pre air-conditioning, western buildings had features like this as well.
It wasn't a referendum - pg never said that he would follow the poll. I'm assuming (standard disclaimer, ass, you, me, etc.) that it was simply an informational poll.
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The shooting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PcvDrYd8-4&t=15m45s

The dead taliban scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfke2X6joko&t=3m10s

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It is probably re-targeting if you hit their site before. I doubt they are doing massive media buys.
Shouldn't ICANN's decision to allow the registration of new TLDs more or less solve this problem?
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A.H. will probably just blame it all on Silver Lake - I believe A.H. was quite the minority shareholder anyways.
more often than not there's a good amount of information and, more importantly, relevant sources

Relevant sources "more often than not" on Wikipedia? As a Wikipedian, I have to disagree, based on my personal knowledge of what the stream of newly submitted articles looks like, what the articles identified for Guild of Copy Editors attention look like, and what long-standing articles on my watch list look like. I confess that I don't have a published source to back up my statement (or refute yours). Presumably, there is some legitimate ground for debate on what is a "relevant" source for a particular article. I do note that the Wikimedia Foundation itself thinks more work still needs to be done on improving article quality.

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

One other thing I notice is how little uptake there is from source lists posted in userspace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...

into the related articles. Most editor discussions I see on a variety of article talk pages revolve around "I don't believe this," or "You miswrote this" much more than "What's a relevant source about this?" Perhaps you read mostly articles about different subjects from the articles I read on Wikipedia, and I'd love to hear about examples of articles with good sourcing in general.
To use an analogy, humanity is still an equivalent of a bunch of 3 year olds alone in a middle of a busy city square as far as web maturity goes. Some might know not to wonder into the car traffic but would still fall for a stranger with a candy in his van.
I also see their ads everywhere, and I have never ever visited hipmunk.

Some discussion of this over on Quora (the discussion is inconclusive, but it highlights that others have also seen many Hipmunk ads):
http://www.quora.com/How-much-is-Hipmunk-spending-on-adverti...
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Why show the address bar at all? Most users don't care about URLs, and they don't type them in, they have google as their home page and they navigate the internet via searches.
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No, those new TLDs will be more or less worthless.
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> I was very glad that the "last chance form" did work twice

> That's when I lost the connection again...

hmmm ...
As far as I'm aware there are no 'salary cutbacks', the argument the union is having with the employer is the fact that the offered pay rises over the next 3 or so years are below inflation and this is the dispute they're trying to raise.

The thing is I don't think this strike will raise that much sympathy from the UK public, pilots must get paid at least £100,000 (probably more) which is 4x the average salary in this country. I'm not saying pilots don't deserve that sort of compensation, because they do, it's just I don't think the strike will bring that much in terms of public support.

Especially when most private sector workers in the UK are having their salaries frozen or any pay rises they do get are below inflation
"Taylor, the director of the Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre, had the idea for the study after it was shown that diabetes was reversed in people who had undergone stomach stapling or other forms of bariatric surgery because of obesity."

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Of course, that does depend on DNS having a protocol to run over. What we really need is a DWIW protocol suite at each layer.