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The author has the good fortune to assume the critical stance of the philosopher and to enjoy unfettered intellectual freedom within a corporate institution such as Google. I myself prefer not to uncritically internalize the values of the workplace. My saying so at my own place of work was not appreciated, and culminated in an exit interview, a dramatization of which is available here:
http://christianmarks.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/exit-intervie...
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It's nice of this chap to tell us how we listen to music. I've been a Spotify subscriber for almost two years and if they jacked up the price or went bust, I wouldn't be upset or the victim of a bait and switch. He seems to think we're all music "addicts" who will do anything to get our fix when in reality I wouldn't care if I went a few weeks without listening to anything specific and then I could just patch it up by buying any albums I particularly missed over time.
Okay, they don't care - sounds like even more of a reason to take he above course of action, no? I don't get the impression it was supposed to be intimidating for Google.
This is exactly what RS needs to do. Go back to their roots. I was bitterly disappointed a few months ago when I needed a breadboard and a few basic components and RS didn't have half of them. I ended up going to a store in Denver that strips old electronics and sells the components.

There are tons of electronics geeks still around from Arduino builders to car audiophiles building custom circuits to the RC crowd - and no one serves them. Right now half RS's inventory is available at Best Buy, Walmart and every other store with an electronics department. There's a very profitable niche waiting for them if they're willing to do what they do best.

Employing a few guys who know what they're doing would help too. The local ham radio club and computer and electronics engineering faculties would be a good place to start recruiting.
I'm sure the R&D department at Radio Shack will get right on that.
Aww, down votes expected. waves at Facebook employee brigade

I'll just leave this link here for you guys to read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2797060
I've sent Mr. Eich an email, I'm very interested to see where Mozilla is going in terms of open social networking. While Google+ might be the next centralized ship that everyone jumps to (after Facebook, Myspace, Friendster), I have no doubt that the future of social networking is decentralized. While there is very interesting work being done (and hopefully my project* would be included in that assessment), it may be the case that an organization with the clout and resources of Mozilla may be the most likely hope for moving away from walled gardens.

* http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/
The headline is only slightly off. Even the title of the actual journal article ( http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/7/1957.abstract ) is "An X-Linked Haplotype of Neandertal Origin Is Present Among All Non-African Populations"

Anyway, the fact that Neanderthal sequence is present in all non-African populations is more important and interesting than whether or not Neanderthal sequence is present in all non-African human individuals. By statistical likelihood, we'd expect the answer to the latter question to be 'no', while the answer to the former is interesting, empiric, and, now, known to be 'yes'.
I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious. As for requiring new issues to pay off existing bond holders, why would that be necessary if spending were reduced or income increased? It seems as if paying off a bond holder with new debt should be more or less deficit neutral.

I.e., if I pay off $500 of my $1500 credit card bill, my credit limit remains fixed at $1500 but my debt is now only $1000. I am free to borrow another $500 if I need to.

Is the problem merely that I need to borrow $500 first, raise my debt to $2000 for one day, and then pay off $500 worth of old debt (bringing me back down to $1500)?
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Don't underestimate the average consumer's taste for repetition. In the month I've lived next to my current neighbors, they have listened to a grand total of one song. Many times.

And the songs you listen to now may one day be "classics" that you want to listen to again. Given the volume and diversity of present day music, that might only be possible if you have an MP3 stashed away somewhere.
Is there much evidence that this isn't largely a rampaging set of over-enthusiastic rule-enforcing bots, or an exploit being spread, or something non-malicious? It seems like people are leaping to conclusions, assuming Google has just now assigned some incredible amount of (stupid) employees to go around and wield the ban-hammer.

Why the wait? Why so many at once? It feels more to me like an error than something intentional.
It seems to me that this is neither a dumb idea, nor hostile, nor mandatory. I know for a fact that working long hours to meet tight deadlines is a challenge for anyone.

A quick round of push-ups, or other exercise, can open the mind to new possibilities, opportunities, and solutions. The diversion could very well help to break the road-blocking thought patterns that often crop up when one is faced with tough problems.

Beyond that, it seems to me that such a practice builds solidarity in the team and inspires the participants to push for their best result, and to improve over the course of future sessions (iterations, perhaps?). I cannot see how fostering such a spirit could be a bad thing, especially in the context of a tech startup.

No responsible person would force a co-worker or employee to damage their health through participation, nor to participate if they did not feel comfortable doing so. The implication that the author would advocate or enforce the exercise to the contrary seems nit-picky and contentious.

Isn't the benefit of the push-ups at least a bit greater than that of the often-present case of beers in the office fridge, especially when the practice becomes a regular part of the culture?
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> But doesn't China have to buy treasuries because of their trade imbalance?

Not really. China is increasingly buying other assets, instead of Treasuries: stocks, companies, real estate, etc. In the end, they will own the USA.

In fact this scenario was famously depicted by Warren Buffet in his "Squanderville versus Thriftville" essay: http://www.tradereform.org/2008/03/squanderville_versus_thri... Want some concrete examples?:

The chinese Lenovo acquired the IBM PC division in 2005.

Chinese oil and gas acquisitions: http://blogs.forbes.com/christopherhelman/2011/02/10/watch-o...

China's investments in U.S. up sharply: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/04/business/la-fi-china...
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The US telecom infrastructure would become privatized. Oh, wait.
We at Paperlinks appreciate the support! With NFC and QR codes, I don't think it has to be either/or. NFC is a fantastic technology that truly makes real world hyperlinking even more seamless. We just need more phones with NFC readers on them. In the meantime, there's QR codes, and companies like Paperlinks are trying to make them as easy and effective to deploy as possible!
Stop. There is no value in maintaining shallow social connections. Work on making your actual friendships stronger instead of having 1000 acquaintances on Facebook. Your life has not been improved by Facebook beyond regular old email.
A few points.

- The ongoing coverage of Facebook's birth by the press represents an ongoing epic failure of journalism. This article in particular is more pathetic than most. When I read phrases like "Because wading through piles of legalese isn’t something that I (or you) can spend most of my time doing, for better or for worse, I don’t understand the ins and outs of the case," it's simply insulting. Alexia Tsotsis, and just as often her colleagues at TechCrunch, should be embarrassed to admit such things. Any real newspaper would fire her on the spot.

- Facebook did withhold evidence both in the Winklevosses' litigation and my own. It's easy to tell because even after years of said litigation, Business Insider and other sources kept coming out with new IM conversation after new IM conversation. I've still never seen the documents I requested from Facebook in 2008 and 2009 because Facebook claimed they didn't exist. They do.

- I've never met the Winklevosses or Divya. I wasn't there when Mark agreed to work for them, and Mark didn't tell me about them when I met Mark. In other words, what happened from my perspective was independent of anything they've said or done, and I don't know enough to comment on their personalities. I do, however, know enough to comment on their ethics. They lied on national television when they claimed that they had no prior knowledge of The Social Network on Today (one of the morning shows). Random House's general counsel confirmed that Ben Mezrich interviewed them for The Accidental Billionaires.

- I did meet Larry Summers during his monthly office hours while he was president of Harvard. His behavior then was reprehensible, and he hasn't changed a bit.

- Just about everyone primarily involved in this whole story is fairly unpleasant. Relentlessly trying to set the record straight hasn't made me appear much better, but I've done my best to stay away from it all (hence turning down Mezrich's offer to be a "compelling character.") What's truly sad about it is that for seven years now, not a single reporter has done an in-depth investigation in an attempt to get the story right. We all enjoyed the movie, but that's not what happened. And when you start drawing conclusions under headlines like "The Winklevosses vs. Silicon Valley," you're bound to be wrong if you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
The headline is not slightly off, it is completely inaccurate because the hack "journalist" at Discover didn't read the paper. It is not true at all that "All Non-Africans Part Neandertal". On average world wide, they found a Neandertal chromosome segment present in 9% of the 6092 chromosome samples from all inhabited continents.

It's also not true what both titles suggest that no African samples were part neandertal, the supposed neandertal segment (B006) was found in several African samples from their extremely limited sample size that doesn't even cover a small fraction of ethnic populations of Africa. Not only is it present in several African samples they tested, it is likely to be found in others as well should this be extended to a more comprehensive sample of world ethnic groups.

As a completely separate topic, the uniquely Neandertal origin of B006 is speculative to say the very least, but it's fine to assume so for the sake of argument, it's just not a definitive claim of fact... yet.
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Germany received a lot of help though. You cannot simply replicate that for the US.
Set an alarm (on your watch, or whatever) to go off every evening. When it goes off, spend a few hours planning the next day. When you wake up the next day, follow your plan.

Worked great for me. Gradually, my personality changed and I didn't need to do it any more.
While I'm sure it will happen eventually, it's going to be awhile.

They have no way of dumping USD in the short term without seriously devaluing their own dollars. Not to mention a devaluation of the dollar would mean their export model goes to hell.
Spotify stats show that the majority of people using spotify listen to non-chart music.

Humans are an explorative but economic species. When the cost of exploration goes down guess what goes up.
In Soviet Russia, it was called Blat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28term%29
. . . are you fucking kidding me.
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You're not wrong, it's just that the specific point that you're arguing isn't the one that is most interesting to population geneticists.
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That makes more sense, but that doesn't rule out the idea that they believed they had a legal right to do this in spite of Oracle's position. It's clear that they knew they'd be in hot water with Oracle, so if anything, I would say that they believed that they would be vindicated in court.

In the end, I guess it boils down to whether or not one believes that they infringe on any valid patents or copyrights. I'm not sure that I do, but I have a hard time seeing any software patents as valid.
The guy who wrote the article is a "collector". I know one when I spot one. A collector accumulates things that he might one day come round to want to use again.

Other people who are prepared to pay know that pop music is fickle anyway. I don't know of too many people who'd dust off their Sonny and Cher albums for their guests (unless it is for Kitsch Nite).
Facebook is a glorified vBulletin and IM client. It's a time waster that most people use to e-stalk or share meaningless information. I think the sooner we drop the mantra that it's "engrained in our lives," the sooner we move on to real innovation. Here's a typical day on Facebook: http://i.imgur.com/ub51D.jpg
I dislike quizs and exams because I view them as memorisation tests. I do badly while those people who can memorise everything so well, don't understand what they're doing.

Do you allow books or computers? I'd think the internet would make it too easy as it'd allow people to communicate.

Some more pet peeves:

* Expected to write perfect code on paper despite students using the IDEs and documentation throughout coursework and tutorials. Professor's response "Practice writing on paper before exam/quiz"

* Timed exam/quizs and it's on paper. I write far more slowly on paper than computers. In fact, I can type for many hours but after one or two hours on paper, I'm exhausted. Professor's response "Too bad / Not enough computers for everyone"
Both Clinton and Bush barely touched the revenue side of the equation. Revenue was 18.6% during the Clinton era and 18.0% during the Bush era.

Under Clinton, spending was reduced. Bush reversed most of the Clinton era budged decrease.

http://www.deptofnumbers.com/misc/debt-revenue-and-expenditu...
It is amazing how many of those listed items are symptoms of the failed war on drugs/terror and excessive government subsidies.
It's great that Radio Shack is reaching out to the community and trying to stock more DIY items, however I'm not sure if it's going to work out for them.

DIY is a small subset of the population and a smart one. They're going to buy this stuff online, whether Radio Shack stocks it or not.

I read a AMA from a McD exec who said people are always complaining about them needing more healthy choices. Well, whenever they add them, no one buys them. The people who want that stuff aren't going to eat at McDonalds anyway, so why waste inventory space.

So, sure, i'd love to be able to be able to get in my car and get an arduino board and some servos, but I'm not sure if that one one trip a year or two from me is worth it.
yeah, it really would be nice for it to go back toward that again.
That quote is not damning in any way. It is completely normal for a company to discuss the options of:

1) Licensing technology or

2) Not licensing technology and working around the barriers the unlicensed patents pose, either technically or legally.

Both are completely valid ways of doing business.
For programming reputation has a point, but for science articles, each should be judged on their own merit. Ideally you shouldn't know whose article it is that you're reviewing, or you run the risk of preferential treatment.
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> what rebuttal? just a bunch of comments from people who are
> in denial of the fact that Google willingly and knowingly
> infringed on Java patents when they were developing Android

At this point, you've revealed yourself to be a troll, but I'll bite because I'm bored.

All of those comments were pointing out the same things that people are pointing out here. The phrases "defend our actions" and "make enemies" within the context of Java does not logically (nor legally) imply willful and deliberate patent infringements against Java patents.

Note that nothing in this 'rebuttal' says that Google didn't "willingly and knowingly" infringe Java patents. The argument is that you have not presented anything that proves that they did.
dds' approach fits the real world not too badly: an employed programmer is unlikely to have exactly the same assignment as their smarter colleague in the next cubicle, and so they have to understand the advice/code of their colleague before they can apply it.
If someone like John Lennon had uttered that phrase, people would do their utmost to find some meaning in it.
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I guess my paranoia pays out for once ;) I joined G+ with a throwaway google account.
Refactoring a stateless program into one that uses state is a big pain. Making programs that use different amounts of state, or kinds of state, at different parts within the program, is also a big pain. Functional programming languages including ones where monads are regularly used are just bad at this. You get towers of state transformers, or a lot of boilerplate for converting between one kind of state to another, and boilerplate for entering and leaving different kinds of stateful situations. Or you can just have one big state monad that goes everywhere, in which case there's three kinds of things, which are functions that live purely in IO, those which are pure, and those which live in your state monad.

But then you realize that certain purely IO actions need to do some logging and then they can't live in the IO monad and you need to refactor logging out of everything else and put your logging monad inside your state monad (and put a bunch of new liftIO's all over the place), but wait, didn't you just want to add some logging statements to debug this thing, and now you're tearing apart the structure of the world.

So maybe we could come up with some abstraction for logically separate components of a program's state, and then create a type of action that uses descriptors telling what subset of a program's state components are used, or we could not do that and recognize that functional programming does not work just fine, and that pure functional languages are bad at working with state.
Pay $2000 to a local school to host a time-capsule event where all the kids write letters to themselves for 40 years from now.

Pay another $1000 to dig a hole in the school yard and put a proper decorative cover on the thing so people remember to dig it out when the time comes.
I seriously discourage you from checking out this game if you're on a deadline, building a startup or have any project you'd like to take on.

On the other hand it's a must have if you have a nuclear shelter in your backyard.
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>basically sell without any profit margin

Free one-time support is not going to make this strategy profitable.
I find being in the right frame of mind is more important than location. I code at my desk, I code on the sofa, I code on public transport, I code at the pub if I get there before my friends, I code in bed in the middle of the night if I cannot sleep.

Sometimes I need to listen to music to block out distractions. Sometimes I don't.

You say that "it seems like some places and times are better than others to the programming mind." That's true, but it's also dependent on the programming mind in question, both in terms of different people having different optima, and individual people having different optima over time.
Just to quibble: Radio Shack have only acted on two of those points, and not the top Arduino point. They say we’re actively working on every single one of these, but that might not actually mean they will stock Arduinos in their regular stores.
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really? aren't they the single most expensive place to buy cables or has the internet spoiled me?
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but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long.

I totally hear you. It _shouldn't_, but it does.

I know we've talked about this before, Aaron, but I think you have to work like hell for the next 6 months to get people using _some part of your system. You've had uptake in libraries... try to get your system in as many libraries as possible. Get some press for that uptake and traction. You do this really well. Then, pitch 100 VC's in 3 months: 3 a day for 93 days, and raise money on that basis. If you can't raise money then, build traction like hell for another 6 months, mail monthly updates to those 100 VCs and then talk to the most interested 30 VCs again.

Your pitch: take on credit cards and beat them is _huge. I genuinely believe that you can do it. But, to do it all at once would probably take $100M up front as a series A round, and then a couple of follow rounds of $500M in series B and C.

Most VC's aren't going to believe that you'll be able to do it, and certainly won't give you $100M in a series A.

I suspect you need to show them that you can perform really well on one, small aspect of your system, and they'll probably be willing to give you money to expand.

I have no doubt you'll be able to do this. You've been doggedly working at this for 5 years. You have a very cool working product. At some point, I have no doubt you'll raise the money that you need. And, you can have your revenge in 10 years when you IPO. :)

The stories of people having money thrown at them by VC's for a business plan make for great TechCrunch reading, and it hits the main stream press, "The Bubble is popping! The Bubble is inflating! The Bubble is about to pop!". But, I talk with around a hundreds early entrepreneurs every month at Hackers & Founders, and _no _one is having money thrown at them. For every Color, or AirBnB, there are 3000 founders that pitch 60 times before they're able to raise.
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I'm always on the lookout for good business ideas, HN or elsewhere. Once you get in the habit of looking for business ideas, you can't help but see them everywhere...
Skud was actually Internet-famous before being a Google engineer

Hell, Skud was Internet-famous before Google existed
I taught math, not CS, and my exams required very little memorization. An example:

http://cims.nyu.edu/~stucchio/classes/spring2009/midterm.pdf

The majority of the points are obtained via understanding.

As for your experience, one can certainly come up with bad tests. Also, tests aren't perfectly fair. But overall, I'd rather penalize people for being unable to work outside their comfort zone than penalize people for not cheating.
I was waiting to see how the CNN-commenting crowd would reconcile their opinions with the common concept of 'cavemen' and its negative connotations.
"In compliance with shipping regulations, some item(s) in your order cannot be sent to Tel Aviv in Israel."

Meh. You gave me something to impulse buy, but something (? No idea what. The shipping FAQ even lists Israel and the requirements for ZIP codes, i.e. 5 digits) saved me the money I guess. Bad luck.