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I'm surprised the figure quoted in the opening paragraph would include incarcerated men along with those on disability and unemployed.

According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta... 2.3 million people were incarcerated in the US, and 93% are male, so that's 2.1 million men.

The article also says 4.3 Americans have been jobless for months if not years. If this number includes those who are in prison, that means that nearly half of what is counted as unemployment is actually within the prison system.

Part of me says there are way too many people in prison, but the other side says, what if these people weren't in prison? Would the actual number of people competing for jobs be higher?
I'm not disagreeing with your premise but I would like to note that always take Steve Job's comments with a pinch of salt. At the (2003) All Things D conference, he said:

There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, "People couldnit type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this." "We look at the tablet and we think itis going to fail." Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already. "And people accuse us of niche markets." I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out . We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. We didnit think weid do well in the cell phone business. What weive done instead is weive written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to. We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA.
(source: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Steve_Jobs_No_Tablet_...)

He specifically said no tablets and Apple wont' do well in the cell phone business yet 4 years later, out comes the iPhone and 7 years on, the iPad.
revolutionary or evolutionary - depending on your perspective; though I'd say the android is disruptive to the GPS market

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
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You can throw a towel over a door and use it to do pullups, by the way. No need to find a tree branch. His evernote is much better than mine though, I'm such a lame pre-optimizer.
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't read it as closely as I should have.

>(actually you can run Objective-J on the server too)
Node, I assume?
That was probably the worst night to be locked out in Chicago. I know because I let him in...
Okay, it sucks. What do you want me to do about it?

There are not many obvious sustainable solutions that don't involve the government suddenly deciding to reallocate pork funding to major public works or otherwise taking unlikely actions which would dramatically alter the current climate.

Meanwhile, it's a good time to start a business. It probably won't create many jobs and it might not take off, but at a minimum it will be good experience and it will look better than a few blank years on the resume.
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BTW, Hacker News (along with many, many others) is (according to Apple) violating an Apple patent right here: http://www.google.com

Yes, Apple claims one of their patents covers recognizing certain kinds of text (e.g. URLs, phone numbers, etc.) and making them clickable actions.
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The problem with such a post is that it violates the first principle of user centered design. Talk to your users. Did anyone tell him that NYT is broken? Did he go and ask a single user who goes to NYT everyday to figure out what his problems are? Or saw him use the site.

It's easy to re-design something from outside in. It's much harder to design it inside out when you have a more complete picture of what users are doing and have a rough idea of what they want.
Looks like a garage-style 2D hoist. If I lived anywhere near Russia, I would bring him a couple relays and an RF remote so that he could run it himself.
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You shouldn't underestimate how much newspapers know about the economics of their inventory. In many ways, ad slots are price discrimination. Companies that want 100% share of voice (ie: no one else gets ads on the page) will pay a premium to get it. A small company may just buy a cheaper ad slot at the bottom of the page. They have thousands of permutations on how they can sell ads, and they will shut off as many slots as necessary to get a premium campaign going.
Isn't the exact same reasoning for Microsoft to operating Bing?
Bing is baked into WP7 pretty deep, and although sales of WP7 devices are off to a slow start, the marketplace is growing nicely, and the reviews are positive.
I think you'd get more cred picking out a semi-popular project(so that your pull request doesn't get lost in the shuffle), and fix bugs and/or implement features. Maybe help with some documentation or translations.
I think the article does a pretty good job. I've figured several times that there is no "talent shortage" but a "training shortage": companies want people with skills they learn on the job but are unwilling to actually train anyone.

So you've got a bunch of companies sitting around waiting for a miracle to happen. Maybe HR imagines that a Google product exec will fall from the sky and accept $40k a year.
Simple arithmetic says yes, there would be more competition for jobs.

But you're talking about a dramatic change in US public policy. A first-order approximation is not sufficient, and higher-order approximations depend heavily on what guesses you want to make about the social outcomes.
What's the alternative to being in prison and what are their prospects? I suspect that employers of the sorts of jobs that the incarcerated could find are probably not that eager to hire people with a history of drug use[-1] regardless of its legality, but I do not have any data.

[-1]I also suspect that this is the main source of the incarcerations. But I'm not a US resident, I don't have any data here, either.
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"but you're also super freakin' creepy"

There is nothing creepy about being anonymous on the Internet. It was the default mode since the time when one user couldn't keep track of all the Internet users in his head.

Until now I have always been anonymous unless I specifically chose otherwise. That's not creepy, it's normal.
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In these situations it's just hard to be sure you are keeping the best employees.
Or, to put it another way, companies just don't need as many unskilled workers as they did a decade ago.
Indeed. It can be a reinforcing cycle either way. On the one hand, you devalue your ads by taking any offer that comes along, ignoring the effectiveness of ads, and cramming your content with as much ad space as possible. In this mode readers have no value for ads and ad space becomes less and less valuable. On the other hand, if you put a lot of effort into procuring good and relevant ads, if you maintain a high standard for the ads you accept, and if you keep ad space under control then ads can potentially become more and more valuable.

If you come into the problem with the idea that the only way to control ad revenue is by the number of ads on the screen you've already lost, you're playing in the amateur leagues.
Emacs here, too. high five

My setup is essentially Emacs, DDMS and cscope/find/grep/etc.

I always find Eclipse to be too heavy. I don't do much actual UI coding though (I'm a platform guy), or I might consider it. The ADT UI tools seem to be very powerful and convenient.
Given history, it's going to be beta for a long time.
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How readable/maintainable is the resulting code?
no option for vim?(as opposed to vi?)
Isn't FB pretty lenient when it comes to disabling people's accounts for such reasons?
"or getting by on the paychecks of wives"

This is pretty rampant sexism for 2011. Don't want it to go unnoticed.
The design has its moments but I actually like NYT. The only thing I would like more is fixed dimensions for items on the front page, maybe 2 column layout with both sides perfectly aligned per item. The draw of newspaper sites is both the quality content within articles but the curation of articles themselves so having everything in uniform lists is too confusing. Additions I wouldn't mind are most tweeted or tweeted by your friends type social media integration.

If design was the only thing killing the newspaper industry their problems would be solved.
In what way? Not that I disagree, but please expand on your statement?
I use the Android interface most of the time and only occasionally use embedded player via reader. I do subscribe and manage my subscriptions a lot via the reader interface, however.

I am not surprised if you've had trouble with the Listen app, however. It's really languished. Podcasts seem to me one of the still killer content features of our smart phones, yet we're still waiting for a rev on this app. For a while I was reading that the dev team behind it was focusing on the next gen "Listen and Watch" app, but who knows where that is.

Love android, but some core apps are really half finished.
All companies need unskilled people: you train them so your business can expand. That's where global supply chain managers and database programmers came from originally--and in many cases still do--they don't fall from the clouds.

The issue is that a lot of these companies are only expanding overseas, so they're not really ready to hire and train people. Much of their profits come from cutting back on their junior staff, from laying off the next generation of skilled workers.
Aaron,

I am big proponent of pseudonyms on internet. Though I like to associate my real name at certain places like HN. Either way, we are digressing.

So what happened to the documents? How did you procure them? Did Facebook ultimately give 'em up? I am genuinely curious.

I would also claim that you too have something to gain from perpetuating the story in a way which supports your claim since you also entered in litigation with Facebook. In that sense how are you different from Mark, Ben Mezrich, Sony, Eduardo or the Winklevosses? The fact is that things would not change much and you there is nothing to gain from the futile attempts at trying to convince people. Surely, a smart person like you can build a mini facebook on his own. A worthier goal, no?

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Japan doesn't even have mandatory ID. What are people going to give them?
With my glasses it looks like Einstein.
You can interpret that several ways. Perhaps those awesome earnings are short-term gains due to not paying wages for all those empty jobs, but long-term losses due to faltering growth as a result of all those empty jobs?
Also probably worth mentioning while on the subject all my research and experience added up to designs that are very close to Al Jeezera.

Perhaps I just favor it because it resembles my own thinking but I believe they have one of the best designed news sites out there: http://english.aljazeera.net

Clean, crisp, clear, all gridded up nice and tidy. Handling information overload well.

Being a new kid on the block, no legacy systems or clients to contended with, learning from every one else's mistakes I assume play a huge part in why Al Jeezera looks so good.

If I can remember the worst news site I've seen I'll post it. Its a state level TV station from America somewhere, shocking abuses in design. It was like trying to read at a pocket dictionary from 10 feet away, total text chaos.
Sure.

It's been more than a generation since women started making more money than men in some households due to increases in equality between the sexes. The phrasing and positioning used implies that a stay-at-home dad is something that we should be reacting to as an economic problem.

In other words, it required the assumption that men are the proper breadwinners in heterosexual households.
I have experienced this first hand. I have applied for a LOT of jobs in the last 2 years and one of two things happens: They don't talk to me, or they do, and I sail past the preliminary interviews only to get rejected after the background check. I am not a felon, a terrorist, or a scourge of society. I have bad credit.(Funny/sad aside, I once went to Best Buy to see if I could get a card to finance something with the idea of improving my credit score. I was rejected summarily. I was trying to buy a toaster. I literally can't finance a toaster.) This scarlet letter had precluded me from any job paying a living wage. And that's why I'm retraining myself. No one cares what the FICO score of a talented software engineer is. At least, that's what I desperately hope the case is. For recruiters out there: Do you care about the credit of a potential coder?
"I'm sure that if you look at computers before and after the PC you'll see that most companies followed the leader. Probably same with various generations of cars, planes, televisions, toasters, whatever."

That's true. And I'm sure we all remember the lawsuits that followed. Like I said, it being reasonable or not is a different issue.

Of couse, if you ignore advances made towards "a better way to do things" to avoid being labelled as copying there will be no progress. At the same time you want to make sure there is incentive for them who put in the effort to come up with the "better way to do things" otherwise the competition will simply sit around and copy while those who bear the burden to innovate aren't rewarded. So where to draw the line? That's a difficult question.
Hey me too, I just got back last Sunday. We visited 20 cities in about 50 days and tried all the local foods and beers. We walked a lot but I was still surprised I didn't gain any weight from eating and drinking that much.

I took a set of elastic bands with me which were actually quite good for various exercises and some of the places we stayed at offered a gym.
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HN has essentially been my replacement, but it only covers certain topics, not the long tail. For example my friends' blog posts might not be popular enough for HN (or at all related) but I still want to see them.

Also, if everyone just read HN where would the submissions come from?
Andy's designs look beautiful, but I'm reminded of the old saying: "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy".

I'm afraid that if you take his designs as a starting point, and revise them based on the needs of the NYTimes and the expectations of its millions of visitors, they would require a large number of changes and would more closely resemble the current NYTimes.com
There's lots of outrage - it's called the Tea Party.
Exactly. Microsoft never expected Bing to make money, it's just a way to apply pressure on Google. Which helps Microsoft compete with Google elsewhere.

Of course there is a chance Google will mess up, in which case Bing might become profitable. But not likely.

In any case, the current situation is good for everyone but Google. Microsoft can afford to spend the money and it makes Google's life a little harder. Everyone else benefits since Google is not left unchallenged. We have seen what monopolies can do in computing.

Let's face it, if Microsoft doesn't burn money on this, there aren't many alternatives (the alternatives that do exist are either very limited or in fact dependent on Microsoft in some way).
You'd have to seek out and destroy nearly every node to disable it, otherwise it could just route around any damage or sabotage. And destroying so many flying things that are difficult to distinguish from birds would be no easy task.

Who would pay? Individuals. Buy a node, let it fly often, charge it otherwise, help create an open, uncensored communication network (such things are hardly unprecedented).
So if a tool made in China cost $20 and the same kind made in USA cost $100, which one do you think people are going to buy at the hardware store (even if the one made in China lasts 1/4th as long).

What if there was a tax that made the one made in China cost $70 - you think the one made in USA would have a fighting chance? I think so. It would create a whole bunch of jobs because there would be less impulse to move jobs overseas.

What if that $50 was used for single payer health care so that "job providers" didn't have pay for health insurance or play that game and compete with the international market.
On top of that 20%, there are people that are working part time to make ends meet. So in reality, the number of people that need full time jobs is much higher.
I've never dealt with an ultra-long trip like the one he's talking about in the article. However, for "normal-"length vacations you might take as a software engineer (i.e., 2 weeks or so), I've found that my body actually benefits from the time off.

I've done two two-week trips this year (Peru and Spain). In both cases, I was in excellent shape before the trip (155-160lbs at 5'11" with low body fat and good muscle definition). I work out three to four times per week, plus box twice per week.

I lost about 10lbs during each trip. When I got home from Peru (the first trip), I was mortified. I tried to bulk up like crazy by eating a ton of good fat and protein, and I lifted almost exclusively heavy weights. I was bigger and stronger than before the trip in three weeks.

After the second trip I was less scared, because of the previous experience. I was just as strong as before the trip in about three weeks again, but I didn't gorge myself as much, so I stayed a bit leaner.

I guess what I took away from the experiences was that you're bound to loose body fat while traveling, simply because you do so much walking. If you're in good shape beforehand, though, your muscles will "remember" and come back to you remarkably fast. You may even be able to improve your overall fitness level and put on leaner muscle afterwards.
Agreed. I'm a native English speaker, read constantly, and get the dictionary.com word of the day via their iPhone app. I also scored below average on this test... so I'm calling "bs" on the data.

I think it would be cool to try out something like the game Balderdash. Have the participants select the correct use of the word by selecting the appropriate usage within a sentence?

Also, who actually remembers what they scored on the verbal part of the SAT??
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It's unfortunate there is so much misinformed, incoherent outrage, when there are plenty of legitimate reasons to be upset.
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This question, of "mens rea", is I think reasonably established in the charging documents by things like MAC address spoofing.

On this point specifically I hope that, if it would be beneficial and accurate, Swartz's attorneys bring up the point that:

1. Programmers routinely work around various limitations to do their jobs.

2. Those limitations may originate in the laws of physics, limitations of current technology, or excessively strict corporate IT policies.

3. Those workarounds may include changing MAC addresses, connecting to a different switch port, etc.

4. Therefore, a programmer such as Swartz would have considered his actions in an engineering context. Overcoming any blocking or access rate limitations imposed automatically by JSTOR's systems would be seen by Swartz in the same light as bypassing a faulty router or otherwise routing around network damage, rather than as a specifically legal affront.

5. Thus, at first glance, mens rea is not present.
Somehow I missed China in the title and was reading the article, believing for a minute it was very plausible this was happening in the USA from "homeland security".
and it's summarily laughed at.

edit: not that it doesn't deserve to be.
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You need to think on a larger scale.

If everyone had to spend 3 times as much on the things they buy, then they would have even less available money than they do now.

So they would probably stop buying, which would really hurt the economy.

Or they would cut out health insurance and other things.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is absolutely correct.
I'd wager close to another 1 in 5 works for the government directly or indirectly. And I assume we're not including retirees in any of this.

The ratio of retirees to workers continues to get worse. In the 1940s, there were 42 workers per retiree. Today there are 3.3 workers per retiree.

So you have a shrinking group of people who are actually producing (total workforce minus unemployed, minus goverment workers, minus workers who exist due to government purchasing) and a growing number of people who get a chunk of that production.

This does not end well.
This may be a useless post since it just reiterates, but I feel strongly that I should re-emphasize that yes, _very small tweaks_ can make the threshold 20% or 5%, so the number is essentially pulled out of a hat.
> Simple arithmetic says yes, there would be more competition for jobs.

But there would also be more demand since those same people would also be buying things.
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In reply to all three of you, I know a cyclist can take a lane. I was mostly referring to the ones that half-pretend to be riding on the shoulder, not taking a lane but not doing a good job staying out of the lane. I liken it to a car using 2 lanes, which is just as frustrating.

When it comes to 2-lane highways, I realize I am a little biased but I expect some co-operation on the part of cyclists. It doesn't have to all be about "me-me-me", but I expect cyclists to work with me to allow me to pass safely, same as I do for cars when I'm cycling on a 2-lane highway.
> you train them so your business can expand

That only worked when people stayed with a single employer for years. These days they would take the training and get a better job somewhere else.
Anybody else really bothered by this?

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Does CoffeeScript somehow fixes all the quirks of the javascript language that we've grown s/to love/with?