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It's not an either/or kind of thing, though. Isn't it worth paying for the press release just to hope to get the story picked up various places? Aren't there lots of web sites that will basically just reprint press releases as their sources of content?

Of course I will use social channels and the web as well, but there's only so much I can do.
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> Maybe it¿s just me, but I prefer to remotely control computers via SSH over VNC

If you're really running "SSH over VNC" then you're doing it wrong. ;)

> I have always wanted a program that shows a movie in my terminal by converting it to ASCII art in real-time, that would be sweet

man mplayer and look for the -vo flag which controls the video output
mode/driver. Two common options for video output (-vo) are the 'aa'
(ASCII Art) and 'caca' (Color Coded ASCII Art). There is a third, 'bl'
("blinkenlights") but it's hardware dependent.
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I might not know enough about this to say anything, but that would make sense for the Facebook iPad app because I would assume people rarely use their iPads while working (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/facebook-ipad-app-pictures/)
I'm not sure if the tragedy of the commons would apply in this case. The "mandatory" aspect of elevating discretionary spending into social spending via taxation seems to fundamentally alter the psychology of spending. "Well, if I absolutely must spend this money on other people, then I guess I'll spend it on ___" (education comes to mind as one area people in America might universally agree should get more dollars). The weakness in this system would be the lack of expertise within the "common wisdom" of the people. That might be solved by, say, providing a "template spending ballot" from respected people... a sort of proxy delegation but simplified so you just copy down the numbers they say. If that latter option were made simple enough that 90% of people could understand and do it, the expertise of a few would hold larger sway than the somewhat uninformed choices of the many.

BTW, a friend and I also thought of this idea independently; we called it "mandatory taxes, voluntary distribution" [1]

[1] http://canadaduane.posterous.com/mandatory-taxes-voluntary-d...
>"It's possible that technology could start to net kill jobs. But why now, when it hasn't in the past?"

Two hundred years ago, most people worked in agriculture.

Then came technologies such as the McCormick Reaper, Whitney's Gin and Newcomen's engine - away went the vast majority of that work.

Yes much of it was replaced with something else and much of what replaced it was more pleasant, but the conclusion that the jobs which replaced agriculture are permanent is not forgone.

[edit] The technology upon which jobs depend in the modern era is finance, and that has been largely diverted to purposes other than creating jobs in the US over the past several decades.
the US is obligated by treaty to defend Latvia, but by the same token Latvia is obligated by treaty to defend the US

And, in fact, the only time that Article 5 of the NATO treaty -- the mutual self-defence article -- has been invoked was after 9/11, when the US used it to drag the rest of NATO into Afghanistan.
Umm... An ordinary GUI with folders to share pictures is not Flickr. No photographer, or ordinary person will want to use that to share photos...
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>It's a fact - you don't tax your way out of a recession and you sure as hell don't tax people to create jobs. It simply doesn't work.

If it is a fact, where is the data?

Economies are stimulated by people spending money.

A tax cut to someone making 50,000 dollars a year is going to have a greater percentage of it spent than a tax cut to someone making 5,000,000 a year. Conversely, a 5-10% tax increase isn't going to drastically change the spending habits of someone making 5,000,000 a year, where as it might make the person making 50,000 a year cut back on a number of things.

The important part is that money finds its way back into the market. The rich have 90% of the money. It would make sense to either tax the rich and spend it on infrastructure (or stuff like scientific research and education). Or tax the rich and spend it on the poor (who will actually spend the money).

I hope we cut down on military spending because I think war is bad. We should stop having it. I can't imagine justifying fighting 3 wars on the basis of possible unemployment.
Taking over your laziness I found the 2010 budget. It doesn't really provide an accurate personnel versus hardware comparison but it looks like this:

Maintenance and operations 41.35%
Military personnel 22.5%
Procurement 20.45%
Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation 11.54%
Military Construction 3.49%
Family Housing	0.145%
Total 99.45% (I'm lazy too and rounded too much. Hey it's just 359.6775 millions that are missing...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...
When will it be time to stop looking to "growth potential" as a valid reason for huge valuations? 5 years from now? 10 years from now? Seriously, when can we stop and value a company for what it is right right now, not in some dreamy future?
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And it is important to remember that all functions in JavaScript can (and some say "should") be defined this way.

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Jarvis here.... (that's my quote)....

I'm not sure; that's what I want to explore.

But I think the scale enabled by the net creates such profound efficiency and disintermediation. craig newmark sees himself as a philanthropist of classifieds; his (estimated) $100m business helped disrupt more than $13b in classified revenue. The funds are a dividend for the transactors so the value is not gone, but jobs are.

Look, too, to Clay Shirky's cognitive surplus. In the comments on this post at Google+, Eric Reasons brought up entertainment as an example. They get a double whammy. The people formerly known as the audience (TM Jay Rosen) now have more ways to entertain/distract themselves and can "consume" less entertainment. They also can make more entertainment, ending the scarcity and providing no end of free competition to the industry. There will be much more entertainment, but fewer jobs from it.

Look at retail. Practical necessity required there to be brick-and-mortar stores with much inventory and sales staff across the country as a channel of fulfillment. No more. RIP Borders. Now it is much more efficient, of course, to consolidate and fulfill commodity goods at a distance. Thank you, Amazon. Again, fewer jobs, which won't be replaced.

Transparent pricing in the market will lower prices and reduce the ability of retailers to benefit from pricing opacity. More efficiency. Less profit. Fewer jobs.

Even in my "trade," education, we know what's coming: open courseware will replace third-rate lectures.

Yes, I'm well aware that say, in the shift from agrarian to industrial economies, efficiency shifted jobs from farms (greater efficiency) to factories (greater wealth). The factory equivalents today -- startups -- create great wealth but with fewer jobs.

I say none of this to criticize technology. It's just reality. I will argue as I explore this topic that we must look at policy alternatives for more investment in entrepreneurial ventures and education (of both youth and displaced workers).
Sickening.

More sickening still: many people's reaction to this magnitude of brutality (or, actually, to any magnitude of law enforcement's abuse of power) is to rationalize it by saying that the victim was "a criminal".

The unstated logic behind this argument is that, by breaking the law, you forfeit all rights. Poppycock: Nuremberg trials.

(And yes, it is true that the victim is often not, in fact, a criminal. But that has no bearing on whether this sort of treatment should be tolerated.)
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There's no such thing as an unfunded liability for Social Security. By law, SS is funded solely by payroll taxes. If payroll taxes are insufficient, benefit payments are reduced to match.

Social Security can never go bankrupt, and it can never be in debt.
Read this before you get all worked up about the S&P downgrade
Mindboggling. Does the S&P understand that the U.S. debt is all denominated in a currency that the U.S. government can print at will? If the U.S. government doesn't have an AAA rating, what does an AAA rating even mean?

At the moment, the national "debt" is over $10 trillion dollars, while the total supply of currency is about $2 trillion, and total government profits are about negative $1.5 trillion. If we assume that the government will not use it's powers as fiat-currency-creator to back the national debt, than the proper credit rating of the U.S. is F. There is no way it could possibly pay back the debt. The debt is five times greater than the total supply of dollars. It's debt to profits ratio is way worse than many bankrupt companies. On the other hand, if we assume that the government will continue to use its power of fiat to back the debt, then the rating is AAA. It's safer in nominal terms than any other sort of debt. It is the baseline, the reference point. No other dollar-denominated debt can possibly be safer.

So you have two possibilities for the U.S. "debt" - AAA or F. Rating it anything else just demonstrates extraordinary ignorance.
China doesn't need to hold together for that to happen. China has a far stronger ability than most other countries to collapse, reform, and remain "China."
My way doesn't sound like a bad episode of CSI.
"Right now, there isn't a single world power that's looking to be "inevitably powerful" in the next 50 years, it's really "anybody's game"."

The Vatican?
Spending money on government employees who provide no value is not sustainable. Those employees go spend their money on goods and services produced in other countries (where the workers are actually providing useful services) and you get a net flow of cash out of the U.S.
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I think it would be interesting to read up on what people thought about the speed and impact of the past transistions.
You forgot the War on Drugs. Get rid of it, free all the people in prison for non-violent drug-related offenses, and tax the newly legalized drugs.

This should free up a lot of money that's being wasted on ruining people's lives right now, and make more money from taxing legal drugs.

As a bonus, it'll get rid of a lot of organized crime. Witness what happened with the repeal of Prohibition.
60% of your efforts to succeed are successful? I have gotten published in poetry journals and the real ratio is more like 90% of what you do is meaningless and 10% is publishable. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY&feature=playe...
I might get flamed/downvoted for this, but where's the content of this article? Apart from some vague tropes ("Erlang is bad at string processing!" "We need scalability, and that means async Python", "Pick the right Python libraries!"), there's really nothing interesting about the implementation details, especially considering such a attention-grabbing headline (to put it nicely).

What specifically was bad about the Erlang code? Isn't this just saying that if nobody in your company really understands a language, don't use it?

This is more about the technical competency of a specific company than general technical issues. Or, to put it bluntly, it's more "Mixpanel sucks at Erlang" than "Erlang sucks". Don't get me wrong, I'd be really, really interested in a good analysis why in this case Erlang was the wrong choice, but this article didn't even get close to anything technically interesting (Even with the ubiquitous requests/s graph).
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Why the heck would I want to work for "Milk Inc."? Should I be impressed by their homepage? Perks? What? Seems pretty hype-ish...
In some sense, I had this feeling when I came to the US for the first time. I was used to study in Universities were the failure % could be easily below 10% for some courses (Calculus, Algebra being an example). In most of the courses the best grades were below a 7 out of 10. And no, there were no A+ to anybody if the grade was not 9+ out of 10.

In the US, though, it is difficult is to fail a course. I really think that failing a course requires big amount of effort.

I think that neither of both systems are really effective. The spanish version can be depressing and the students are not willing to study for the sake of learning but to pass (the average number of years for a engineering undergrad is 7 years back when the engineering was 5 years of study). On the other hand, most students in the US lack passion and are not going to study since most of the time they don't need to study to pass the courses.
No. There aren't enough pictures.
GigaOm one of the sites interested in tracking you at all costs
Not sure what they have said about user privacy till now. But I am nearly certain it is time for them to eat their words.
Great article. Some of the better analysis I've read so far
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Please note that there are two other credit rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, and both of them have stated that they have no current plans to downgrade US debt from AAA, although one of them did place a negative outlook on the US. So, generally as long as one of the three agencies has a AAA rating the debt is usually fine for most investment / trust purposes.
maybe that's where the money is going to go
It's not just "anonymous" versus "real identity", either. In real life, everyone acts differently with different groups of people; since you're rarely with (e.g.) family and friends at the same time, you essentially have two separate identities, free to develop in slightly different directions. The fact that everyone knows your name doesn't matter if there is no global state associated with a name.

Of course, Circles are Google's attempt to mirror this, although I think they do so poorly: rather than there being a mental "context shift" as in real life, posts from all your circles are mixed together, and you have to decide on a context each time you post. In practice, I share everything publicly because it's the path of least resistance; the result is not much different from Facebook.
I have successfully gotten family members to use two, count them, two ways to share photos, out of a dozen I suggested.

#1: Dropbox.

#2: http://www.eye.fi/ , which my mother uses to get photos on Facebook despite having no understanding of the file system metaphor.

Personally, I use Dropbox. It's super elegant in terms of the UX for my girlfriend. I take photos, drop them in my Dropbox folder, and send her an email. She makes with the clickyclicky on the magic blue bit. Bam, vacation photos. We both managed to screw things up, frequently, when I was trying to send her photos on Flickr without opening them to the entire Internet. Dropbox makes it a one-click operation for her, and I can manage drag-and-drop on most days.
Ha! I deserve that, typos bug me.
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Why couldn't they just raise taxes?
It seems in a lot of cases, Erlang is just used because of its reputation at being really good at concurrency, mostly in rather minimal API implementations -- or in other words, servers that could easily be done in almost any language that provides some decent event-handling functions. Ruby, Python, node, C/libev, etc.

So unless we're talking about thousands of lines of code, it really doesn't matter what library or language you'll choose for something like this. If this would be your only use of Erlang, it's probably not worth it. Erlang is pretty great at building distributed, high-concurrency applications that are good at coping with errors. For one out of those three, you have plenty of other options…
Not just into Afghanistan. A good chunk of the post-9/11 air patrols in North America were flown by allied aircraft.
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Why aren't capital gains assessed medicare tax?
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This is a non-issue and further proof of the incompetency and worthlessness of Wall Street. The ratings agencies are out of macro-economic paradigm. The US federal government can meet any and all financial USD obligations because it is an issuer of currency as opposed to a user of currency such as Euro-zone states or US states. Of coarse it is possible that politicians refuse to pass the necessary legislation to meet these obligations ( not raising or eliminating the debut ceiling). Read more at www.moslereconomics.com
Upvoted for doing my homework for me.

So keeping the lights on and the water running is 42% (there was a link that the Pentagon spends more on air-conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan per year than NASA's entire annual budget). Much of that cost must be due to maintaining offshore bases.

22.5% pays for the salaries of everyone from grunts to Joint Chiefs. I'll say that getting snazzy new hardware comes under Procurement, R&D, and Test & Eval. So, let's say 32%. That makes 22.5% versus 32% for personnel versus hardware. It's not parity, but it's in the same ballpark.

The biggest bite comes from maintenance & ops, of course. That figure has to include the cost keeping Navy boats afloat. No way to chop that down without also cutting down personnel. After all, if you cut the number of facilities by half, there will a lot less space for the personnel to stay in and fight from. Doing that has to have non-trivial effects on military readiness and the perception of potential enemies.

None of this is easy.
Why do you - as a conservative - consider it rational to cut social security? The program is popular and self-sustaining. and if you read the trustees' reports you'll see it has been in surplus and perfectly solvent since 1985. In a few years it will stop generating surplus revenue for a few decades as the baby boomers move through the system, but it isn't threatened with insolvency.

There is an ethical problem with using surplus social security revenues to fund tax cuts to non-contributors and then claim there isn't money left to pay back the workers who contributed in good faith. But this isn't a problem with bureaucracy so much as a problem with the Republican Party.
It make sense on the long run, think about it, technology introduced new jobs to offset the ones it killed

But as we get better doing what we do, as we become more efficient we need less people to do a particular job.

Now without new types of Jobs being created by new technology, efficiency can net kill jobs

Another point to consider is that other factors are surely at play that accelerated the net killing of job, such as outsourcing and so on (outsourcing of course, is make available because of advancement in IT and communication)
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Slightly further afield, communist Australia has major skills shortages. I doubt engineers would have serious visa problems.
Why do you think borrowed money is "cheap"?

We're not paying it back. Any of it. At best we can cover the interest payments.

Why do you think this won't blow up in our faces?
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On the contrary, our NATO allies offered to help, but the Bush Administration famously replied, "thanks but no thanks, we'll do this ourselves."
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This is brilliant and long overdue. :)
Yes, it is: assuming you use client side encryption, an online storage company never needs to know your secrets. It's the difference between a trusted and untrusted third party.
> but the digital revolution happened in just a few years

Going to have to disagree on that one. I recall twenty-some years ago, the death of manufacturing due to robotics was a hot debate and something discussed all over mainstream media. The warnings were sent loud and clear.

Which always leaves me with concern. Why did the people in manufacturing not take the time to retool their skills over the past two decades when the fate was clear? When the technology industry ultimately suffers the same fate, will I see the signs and move on, or will I be left struggling to find work too?
My first attempt was about the same, until I realized I missed a requirement:

> Your function bothC should call both fC and gC no matter what

What happens in your code if fC fails?
The potential implosion of EU, caused by Italy

or

The rich is alerted the downgrade first, naturally.
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Ask HN: Has anyone "hacked" Harvard?
I'm going into my junior year at state school in New York. I'm a business student with a 3.0 gpa and with two years left I've decided to excel as best as I can in hopes of getting into an MBA program at an ivy league school.

I think its not out of the question for me to graduate with a 3.5 which I guess is a little low for a Harvard mba, but I've read the undergrad gpa doesn't matter nearly matter as much as the GMAT score and work/outside school ventures.

But this makes me ask the question: has anyone gotten into HBS (or any other top MBA program) without awesome GMAT scores or a super high GPA, but instead had an impressive entrepreneurial resume or something else special that got them in?
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Federal interest rates will not go up because interest rates are controlled endogenously. They will go wherever the fed wants them to go.
So, anyone know what happened to whoever bet 1bil that we'd lose AAA?
You're passing in the return value of gC() as the first parameter to fC(). gC() doesn't return anything, let alone a function. Also, you're only passing in one parameter into gC().

I'm not sure that makes sense?