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You don't need to prove a statement like that. It's common knowledge the only people who are not miserable in the world have a net worth over $1B. Money, after all, is the one and only ingredient to happiness.
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I've never heard of being laid off as being looked down upon.

You must exist on a different Internet and reality from me. :-)

Not that long ago, there was an article on HN about an internal hiring consultant (I think) telling someone that if you don't currently have a job, don't bother applying. I've heard project managers yammer on about how companies use layoffs to get rid of their least productive employees.

In a down economy, when HR is faced with a flood of resumes, they start looking for simple things which give the appearance of objectivity and wisdom, which arbitrarily reduce their pile of resumes. 'Currently employed' becomes one of these criteria.
Talk to the local embassy of the country you want to move to. In Europe, most countries give US citizens preferential treatment; chances are that they'll easily allow you to stay, but you might have to renew the visa every year or every X years, at least until you apply for citizenship / marry a local.

You can work in English in any Scandinavian country, in Germany, in India, in South-Africa. You'd almost certainly struggle in Italy, France or Spain.
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Yeah, I tried liking the page on Facebook as well and it wouldn't go through...maybe something on Mashable's end? Amazing the reach they have and the amount of people tied into their feed both personally and automatically.
Would miners pull gold out of the ground more quickly (and start more projects) if the price of gold increased?

Would new entrants in the market attempt to find more efficient ways to extract gold?

Would alternatives to gold as a currency arise?

I'm not convinced that a gold standard would be perfect. I am quite convinced that the current private exponential issuance of debt-based fiat currency by a money printing madman is insane.

I really don't know. I just don't think that our academic betters know either, despite their pretenses. I tend to think that any idea that our friends in economics dismiss is worth considering carefully, given how wrong they've been in the last decade plus.

The U.S. grew at its fastest rate under a hard money gold standard, with heavily restricted immigration and almost no government, financed with tariffs, of all things. Does that mean we should adopt those policies? I dunno man. I do know we were industrializing at the time and, hey, look at that, there was a literally unbelievable explosion of goods, services and promises thereof.

So I try to keep an open mind on this stuff.
Probably his culinary exploits (which tend to involve laboratory equipment...centrifuges being one of his favourite toys).
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Hermes is also the name of a Greek messenger god so potential users of both products (the Mount Olympus IT department, for instance) are likely to be confused.

Seriously, though, it's a really obvious name for a messaging-related project and I don't think Hermes JMS is big enough to have a monopoly on it.
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A simple example: if running your development server requires remembering several parameters for the command and possibly also requires starting up a database, that's annoying and may require you to look it up. Not a good starting-work experience

It feels unnecessary, but have a script called run in the root of your project that does that startup stuff. Then you just run ./run and it's time to code. No friction
Im interested in Backbone.js but I do only frontend coding, no backend, no rails etc. Would this book be good for me?
Although I do use Twitter predominantly for work, seeing the odd glimpse of someone's personal life adds depth to my understanding of them. If it's too frequent, I unfollow.
If G+ is used 'correctly' then I'd be sad to miss those little insights in to my contacts other lives.
Why should Grooveshark be penalized for trying to build a company under the law and license content in the process? Do you think that you just create a startup one day and walk into a huge label the next? It does not work that way in this business. To address some of your inaccuracies (are you making this stuff up?):

- Universal is suing specifically for a few bands not covered under the DMCA. We actually do a better job of filtering those bands than Youtube. Source: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/uploads/fb/32/fb32701d5d705b...

- Licensing for a single artist can be owned by multiple labels for different albums. This licensing also varies based on country as well. To say we can simply check for an artist name in an upload isn't true when you are talking about the breadth of possible content. Plus, if we filter uploaded content inaccurately we could be liable from both sides of the coin (those wanting the content on, and those not wanting it on).

- Grooveshark has licensed EMI's content since Oct 2009. Merlin was licensed on Aug 2010. We are actively trying to get more licensing deals setup. (Also, some past deals have involved paying licensing for past streams as well.)

- The DMCA's safe harbor clause was enacted to help encourage technological innovation. Uploads to Grooveshark are similar to uploads to youtube. If you feel otherwise you are gravely mistaken. Creating and sharing music as an artist should be simple and we believe indie artists are as important as signed artists - in fact, we're trying to work with indie artists to make them money and get them tour gigs.
I usually say: I help build an online advertising platform. Nope, I don't buy and sell ads. I work on the platform which we license out to people in the business of buying and selling ads. It handles more than 8,000,000,000 requests (200,000+/s peak) and several TB of data a day. From there discussion turns to their questions about advertising or scaling.

Alternatively, I'll answer "Internet stuff, and some personal projects in my spare time".

At any rate, a lot of people will always be misinformed about stuff they don't know much about but which they hear a lot about. Technology is definitely one of those things, as is the ".com garage millionaire" thing, as is this new work-from-home-x-hours-a-week. I wouldn't worry about it, but rather think of it as a chance to educate them a little bit.
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The burden with Google+ circles, and Twitter if it followed suit, is that I have to manage what someone else is interested in hearing from me. That’s completely backwards for pubic sharing (which is unequivocally Twitter's focus), especially for people with a decent sized public following who they may not know very well.

What Twitter needs to build is a capability where I can advertise different topics that I talk about, and then people can selectively follow everything I tweet, or just follow tweets that I publish to a particular topic. In G+ terminology it would be like if they made my list of circles public, and then people added themselves to circles rather than me adding them.
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I found the suggestions about marketing from Sergey Brin rather out of touch, I have thought that he is an eccentric person. Don't get me wrong I think highly of him, I think he is a genius.
I've seen many people let go where it was a complete shock to them. One day they are cranking, next day they are out one the street. The problem is management often does not want to give warnings, or talk about how the employee can improve. From management's perspective, any warning time is time they are going to be out looking for a job, using the phones, printers, faxes etc.

To say it is a messed up situation is an understatement.
It sounds like they really just need to let me search only my timeline for whatever I want. Interestingly, I can't even seem to do this with the advanced search (http://search.twitter.com/advanced)
Say that again: no zynga. ahhhhhhh, that feels nice.
Sometimes templating isn't an option, or isn't enough. You have to make sure you escape in the right context.

I've seen developers use PHP's htmlspecialchars() (or hand-rolled versions thereof) when rendering snippets of inline JavaScript. The problem is that only HTML entity encodes <, >, &, ', and ", which still leaves you open to XSS because it doesn't encode all the characters that can be exploited in a JavaScript context.

Following the OWASP guidelines will negate all of that danger.
Cognitive psychologists (unlike education PhDs, who rarely have a clue) argue that drills create a solid cognitive foundation for students to apply the material to other areas. "Deep" problem solving is a good IQ test, but doesn't improve IQ. "Shallow" problem solving lets students master the elements of the subject, which does increase their intelligence.
I have a survey and brainstorm request which I feel you'd be able to answer helpfully and in under 15 minutes:

Suppose you're in the market to buy an item of type <x> (eg: blender, TV, energy bar). How do you go about finding the best <x>? Do you google "best <x>"? Do you go straight to Amazon? When/if you find a store, Do you sort by best rated, most reviews, most popular? How do you determine how much you're willing to spend? How do you determine which features exist, and which features are right to you? In fact, what things do you find necessary to determine? What's your process?

Ultimately, I'd like your thoughts on what the pain points of product search are, and how they could be improved.
Your comment makes total sense [1] : I started looking at these collateralized debt obligations (i.e. CDOs) back in 2002. That was around the time of the first 'crash' in these structures (CBOs : structures backed by High Yield Bonds).

The basic error with CBOs is that the rating agencies allowed the structures additional diversity 'points' for investing in different sectors (a decent idea), but then segmented the market so that many, many different telecom-related businesses got put in different sectors. The telecoms bubble then proceeded to wipe out about half the contents of each CBO. Why didn't anyone point out the problem? Because the investment banks, having been given the published specification of how the Rating Agencies would model any hypothetical structure, went about optimizing the portfolios of bonds to maximize the 'ratings arbitrage' available.

Your point about migration of the underlying risks is spot-on. The rating agencies looked at the historical performance of each of the classes of risk. For CBOs, once people saw how the rating agencies would give them points for particular sorts of High Yield bonds, suddenly telecoms (& fibre, & cable, & satellite, & etc..) companies found it very easy to raise what were known in the market as 'CBO bonds' : bonds that no rational investor would want, but would be very appealing for a structure to buy (since it would help its ratios).

Similarly, once there were evening classes in how to improve your FICO score, the whole history of sub-prime borrower repayment statistics became irrelevant. The manipulation of the fundamental inputs to the models by 'good hardworking Americans' was rampant... But the Rating Agencies were being paid well to continue to rate structures (at a crazy pace), and the Investment Banks were in no hurry to point out that the models should be harsher.

Part of the whole problem, though, stems from banking & insurance regulations that mean that its very cheap (from an equity capital point of view) to leverage up AAA paper. That's what drove everyone to demand AAA paper in the first place. And the AAA designations is/was handed out by rating agencies that now claim it was 'free speech' and they're not liable for anything.

As for the moving target aspect : Investment Banks are continually trying to innovate, since that's where it's less competitive, and the margins haven't been competed away. They would ask Rating Agencies to look at new products all the time. If all the Ratings Agencies were too conservative (or cautious), then the product wouldn't work, and would be abandoned. However, if one of them could be persuaded to come up with an exploitable methodology, then they would get all the business...

And before anyone says : Ahh, Wall Street is just about the exploitation of loopholes, think about examples from hacker-space : SEO comes to mind...

[1] except for the example of BRK : That's a bit of a special business. Reinsurance is a tricky thing, and it's possible to look very smart until you discover you're an idiot. AXA looked pretty smart, until... Better examples would be AAA industrial businesses, or a hard-asset business, for instance.
I think the point of the article is that no human can innovate at the scale that we are currently innovating at. The scale is big, and getting bigger every day.
Another point I get from the article is that the scientific organizations of the future have to be able to cope with this scale. I think of it as the open source of innovation, could it be possible that separate scientist innovate for one common cause? How could we make that possible?
If you like this article, you would probably enjoy Stephen Levy's book In The Plex:

http://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/141...
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Google+ on Twitter would be more like a group DM. Twitter's mentions to users are public so mentions to lists could be to. I've got a list for people at work but to mention them at the moment I have to name them individually. It would be great (though perhaps open to abuse) if I could tweet at my lists, or even the lists of others. This could be implemented with another character like "/". E.g. "@/foo" to mention my foo list or "@bar/baz" to mention @bar's baz list.
Yeah, writing that importer was certainly annoying. Tumblr's formats are nutty and weird.

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>He probably was also too loose-lipped about his feelings toward the previous employer, which is even more damaging because even if a past employer is terrible, one shouldn't let it on in an interview.

Another thing that IMO ultimately in the long term should be fixed. Not being hired because you criticized a previous employer is worse than being fired for criticizing the current one IMO.
That's even assuming that there's a gay gene and it's not also affecting something else (eg. the Russian tame foxes which started to look a lot like sheepdogs, despite only being bred for tameness)
I agree, I too miss the ability to search my timeline. That could be really very handy.
You'd probably enjoy the forthcoming book which this article is promoting - it's pretty much an extract from it.
The UN mission, UNFICYP is multinational, and talks about withdrawal are serious. The British bases there have nothing to do with peacekeeping.
The quality of monitors nowadays is really quite good, and if you get one with a good NewEgg / Amazon rating it's almost impossible to go wrong. More good news is that it's an extremely competitive market, so you'll be getting pretty good bang for your buck. Best value seems to be in the 22-24" 1080p range.
That certainly is the consensus, isn't it?

Of course, depressions didn't become Great until our friends at the Fed got involved. Maybe another twenty years of flat to down real growth will change some minds. Although, the Japanese show no signs of changing course.

_shrug_

Who can claim to understand humans, let alone economics?
> That allows more able (or more motivated) learners to move ahead of the meager expectations of the United States curriculum, [...], an improvement that is long overdue.

I suspect that a greater focus on advancing rapidly through the curriculum would be a mistake, no matter how well-intentioned.

If we're talking about mathematics applied to everyday life, what's missing are the fundamentals that you're supposed to complete by fifth or sixth grade but most people never really master.

If we're talking about preparation for a mathematically intensive course of higher education then I also don't see the rush. There's often a great disparity between the amount of mathematics "known" among the smarter math freshmen entering university. Some will have read ahead to the beginning graduate level and others will have more closely followed the curriculum's set pace. But given a pair of equally smart students of these two types, they will generally have achieved some level of parity in the extent of their knowledge around the middle of graduate school, their areas of specialization being equal.

The explanation for this phenomenon is surely complex. But I propose that there are two main reasons. The first is that when you race ahead you're likely to leave some gaping holes in your understanding--filling those holes means long, hard work as compared to the glamorous alternative of racing ahead to behold new and exciting mathematical vistas. The second reason is that you've become much better and faster at learning new areas of your subject by the time you get to that level, so it can be time efficient to put off learning until you're more truly ready for it.

The race is not to the swift, etc.
When I was using the free version a while back you could mute and then hit play again if you didn't want to listen to the ads. Don't know if that still works.
what does "angel fund" mean? will it accumulate other angels' personal money? like Yuri Milner's...
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This brings a discomforting question to mind. Abstraction, simplification, etc- will they hold up? Or will we reach a point where to make progress your average scientist must spend a lifetime learning what is currently known? (And thus, simply not have enough time in a life to make progress?)

On the other hand, what do we do when we rely on abstraction and computers so much that we depend upon knowledge that is no longer known by man, and only by computer?

If we manage to expand into space, and especially if we figure out ftl communication, perhaps this can be solved by having "enough" minds, and linking them up into... a hive mind...
This is like the thousandth time I've heard of a ridiculous software patent. The USPTO is a horrible, broken farce and more of a bane to software innovation than a boon. Not technically a bane to true innovation, but to every day engineers-doing-normal-non-innovative kind of work, applying standard patterns and techniques in obvious ways.
> We want to get stories out there that we don't think are covered well elsewhere.

Keep doing it, please. It's a heck of a breath of fresh air for those of us that are right now building the brands and businesses that we want to own for the rest of our lives.
and i wonder which is the best day of week to post a show hn post? sorry for offtopic.
Hi ttsiodras, thanks for poiting out :D. I looked at the code and figured out where it went wrong. I discussed my problem further on https://github.com/phuc/Score4-haskell/issues/1. Btw I don't know whether Github notifies everytime I respond. I'm so inefficient at communicating, lol.
Would a gag order hide the warrant? This could explain why no one is suing the FBI.
When I was in college I had a professor offer to not put a grade on any of our work. I took him up on it and it was one of the best classes I ever had. I was so much more focused on the feedback rather than the score. I wish more college classes were like that.
Timeline restricted search might solve the problem, but there are plenty of topics where a simple keyword search may not cut it. Searching for programming would obviously include a wide array of tweets with a wide berth of keywords.

I don't think a naive keyword search would really solve the problem. I did consider at one point writing a Twitter client that would do simple Bayesian filtering across a list. So you would create a list, add whoever you want, and then flag messages as good/bad for that list, and it would start filtering.
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> "Deep" problem solving is a good IQ test, but doesn't improve IQ. "Shallow" problem solving lets students master the elements of the subject, which does increase their intelligence.

As you have defined the terms here, what you say makes no sense to me. It seems to imply as a direct corollary that solving deep problems does not make you any better at deep problems, whereas solving shallow problems does make you better at deep problems. I can believe the last half so long as it is only a supplementary form of training (a crude analogy might be of a virtuoso musician practicing scales), but the first statement beggars belief and is contrary to all my experience.
It amazes me that people who generally are computer averse wind up making decisions about the legality of actions with computers.
And yet another salvo in the engineers versus astronauts argument.
> Let me reply to comments so I can SUPPORT my customers.

Similarly, a bug reporter/tracker in Market might discourage people from posting negative reviews to report a bug.
You gotta love someone who experiments with these things in public. I do the same thing often getting systems to fall out of their intended use mode.
This is a very serious accusation to raise, and I'm hoping someone more familiar with FOIA procedure chimes in. My own guesses as to what happened in descending order of probability:

- There was a warrant and a properly worded FOIA request will eventually dredge it up

- There was a warrant and it's under court seal

- DigitalOne fabricated part or all of the story

- There was no warrant

I will lawyer up if necessary but I think it's very early to be saying that there was a warrantless search.
Or, he specified the information in his query incorrectly.

Or, the DoJ misfiled something in their "Central Records System".

Or, the warrant is sealed.

Or, the infamously lossy FOIA system just said "fuck it" to this particular attempt to find the warrant.

And, the FBI didn't conduct a "raid on Instapaper". Instapaper and Pinboard were collateral damage for a different raid and, according to Arment, his drives were never in FBI custody.

So, my question right now is: what specific records did this particular FOIA request specify?
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