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The comments on that article were infuriatingly stupid.

This one, probably most of all:

"Hilarious, what kind of "jobs" are all of these inexperienced young people going to create for themselves? Another Obama giveaway."

Obviously this guy doesn't have an account with Google or Facebook.
The point wasn't the amount of good being done with the money, it was the size of the sacrifice being made as it affects the life of the donor.

Likewise, suppose I donate 5% of my income to charity A which is 100 times as effective at saving lives as charity B. My neighbor, of similar means, donates 50% of his income to charity B because of his mistaken belief that charity B is just as good. Now, I may know he's making a mistake, and there's no way I would choose to send my money to charity B, but my neighbor is still more honorable for making such a large sacrifice for something he thinks is right.
This leads to another question, do we teach our kids imperative programming, or functional programming?
What private sector jobs would you recommend? When I started graduate school studying Biochemistry, a job in the pharmaceutical industry was a credible alternative to academic research. Today, the pharmaceutical industry is hurting, with hiring freezes on nearly everywhere, mass layoffs following giant mergers, and all the while being maligned by the press and the public as over-charging money-grubbers. In short, the pharmaceutical industry is bust (most people just don't realize it yet).

> I mean, does anyone really think that science grads are less business ready than business grads, and if so, why?

Yes, yes, a million times yes. A science education includes absolutely no training in finance, management, organization, public speaking, etc. While it is true that there are scientists who are great at public speaking or business, in almost all cases these individuals were good in those areas before they became educated in science. Furthermore, in my time working in research, I've come to appreciate that science graduates are absolute luddites in every realm of technology that is not directly involved in their own research. Anecdotally, I've watched researchers working on promising cures for Parkinson's have trouble logging into their Windows XP machine and others working on cancer-fighting nanoparticles unable to connect a printer to print their manuscripts.

Basic research can never compete in a capitalist economy because the profits of most research activities are realized on time scales greater than an individual lifetime and there is no monetary incentive (only altruistic incentives) to invest in something that will only pay out when you're dead.
(I make this a reply, as it is kind of a separate thought; also, I just came up with this in the shower, and a ton of people have already read the other comment and might not notice a new edit even if they cared about the post. ;P)

As some people may balk at the "english_collation_less" operator usage (after all: using < is so much more convenient, especially if you have multiple of these operators strewn throughout every single one of your statements), all we really need to specify is a single new data type: collated_text. This, combined with a "client_collation" session variable, would allow clients to use < and ORDER BY on fields of all types, and get the behavior they would expect. It is only while constructing an index that you would need to specify the collation using a more complex syntax.

CREATE TABLE my_table (a collated_text);
CREATE INDEX my_index ON my_table (a collation_ops('en_US'));
SET client_collation = 'en_US';
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE a < 'Bob' ORDER BY a;

(Given that they already seemed willing to add special syntax for per-column collation, if you did not believe in the dream of "per-operator class parameters" (or "parameterized operator classes", or "meta operator classes", or whatever), you could imagine "collation_ops('en_US')" being replaced by an index-specific syntax COLLATED BY 'en_US'). Just saying there are tons of options here, and they all seem better than forcing me to have 7x as much data in each of my rows, all identical.)
oh c'mon, money is commodity and i can get it from hundreds of sources. as an entrepreneur i choose, not you, my dear VC.
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I can't believe I read even read the first page... It seems like the press is the press, even in the tech world. I doubt this author knows anything about Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerburg. Maybe the author saw the social network and thought he knew everything about the industry.

I could of also summed this up in a sentence or two. "Kid invents youtube instant and everybody wants to hire him." I don't doubt that he's smart but this article seems a bit ridiculous. It seems like tech stars are the next celebrities. So long to the days of nerds with the neck beard. Oh yeah, and actually making money.

Please excuse the rant, had to let it out.
This article sure does cherry-pick a misleading image for the Prada. Here's another view:

http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/lg-prada2-0...
This can be seen as an instance of creating features (i.e. in terms of the tool) instead of benefits (i.e. in terms of the user task, their workflow, context, infrastructure, and the user themselves). "Feature vs. benefit" is such a shop-worn cliché that it's easy to overlook the meaning: people don't buy products, they buy solutions to their problems.

A different aspect is that if you make a tool that is only useful for 10% (or 1%) of people, if it really helps those people, it is an awesome tool. You don't need to be awesome to everyone - that's for massive mainstream organizations. If you can just help some people a lot, that's enough to get started. In fact, most massive mainstream organizations got their start in exactly that way. Don't feel bad if it's useless for 90% of users; it only matters who it is useful to - if you are loved by just one person, you are loved. (but to reiterate the first point, it's in terms of users, not products).

There's also the serendipitous solution: when you make something that is cool in itself, but you can't imagine any use for it. And then some customers come along who do find a use. This path is not recommended by most marketing experts, but it seems suspiciously common in the history of actual entrepreneurs (e.g. one of HP's first sales was oscilloscopes... to Disney... for Fantasia; Honda's creation of the recreational motorbike).
The impact of seniority in the profit sharing program is way too big, in my opinion. I don't even exactly understand what seniority has to do with it, and I'm a (very?) senior developer, working professionally for more than 10 years.

Isn't it an incentive for working less as you become a "dinosaur" in the company? I mean, we can't make the time stop - this is actually an automatically increasing prize, regardless of your performance or any other thing whatsoever, and I'm a little uncomfortable with automatic prizes.

Besides, seniority is already reflected in the salary. Additional prizes should be a direct consequence of productivity, which again, have nothing to do with seniority.

In general, I'm very much in agreement with Peldi's ideas and admire the openness he cultivates but I just don't get this one.
If I contribute, it's normally because I think I have something of value to offer that's otherwise missing. Passing up the opportunity to do that feels bad, which is my incentive to do it (although it's often outweighed by other factors). If I were instead motivated by the rewards you suggest I think the quality of my contributions would plummet dramatically even from its current mediocre level.
Bummer. 99% of our transactions are $1, and so far PayPal is the only merchant that supports this.
For me it is annoying because I have to advertise something that I don't know anything about and does not really exist yet.
My own personal feeling is that anything that asks (or even demands, like iheartradio) me to spam my friends, I will immediately discard that company or product from my memory. I don't want to see my friends randomly spamming me about services they haven't even gotten to try; why would I want to spam my friends about something that I have no idea how good it is?
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Yeah, this isn't showing the preview of the second monitor (Lion), but it still captures the color. This is a GREAT app!

Because it is open source, I can pick it apart and learn how to do certain programming things.

Thanks author
1. Read the comments on the actual article, not HN.

2. Unless you have another ingenious way to make unemployment money more efficient, I see it as a fairly decent argument.
Random ideas for improving HN voting
1. Public 'flags'.

What would people think if their flagging of an article were made public? It surely wouldn't stop people flagging very off topic or spam posts, but perhaps it would limit other forms of flagging ('this author annoys me', 'this is about a language I hate').

2. A downvote quota.

Suppose you had unlimited upvotes, but a limit number (say 5) downvotes per day. I'd hope people would choose to use them wisely
While I appreciate your concern for my general welfare, you can see some write-ups about my negotiation experience in my comment history, and in a few instances where I've been privy to department payroll information, I've been at or near the top.
I'm not sure there are details yet. The stimulus / jobs plan has been proposed, but there is no bill written yet. It will be another ten days before Obama presents his plan on how to pay for the jobs plan, and the bill won't likely be written until after that.

This is a great idea and would have helped me when I faced this situation 9 years ago. Following a layoff, I asked the unemployment office about this, and they said I must actively be looking for work. Still, I think the overall economic impact of this proposal is small potatoes compared to the overall jobs situation, but I guess every little bit helps.
13" macbook air with 4gb ram...no extra monitor/keyboar/mouse.

I have a dual 27" screen 8 core, 8gb PC 2.5 feet from me which is great at collecting dust.
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--Providing HN the details about Thorium that the Forbes article lacks--

tl;dr - While the technology is solid, thorium reactor technology still has some practical kinks to work through, the kind that have already been addressed in large scale pwr/bwr commercial reactors.

-Drawbacks-
1. Thorium fueled reactors can still contribute towards the production of atomic devices, though not as readily, and most likely not the "classic" PU-239 based weapons.
2. The Oak Ridge reactor was built for a very specific purpose, with very high outlet temperatures and as little weight as feasible. It literally ran red hot. This is not the operating conditions under which a commercial power generating facility would operate. See the wikipedia article on the Oak Ridge reactors here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Reactor_Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment
3. The handling of liquid fuels requires a complete paradigm shift in the regulation and methods of the existing nuclear industry
4. There were some hot corrosion issues of the Inconel alloys used in the piping of the MSRE. Evidently the Japanese solved these problems in the 1990s, but I have not been able to find the papers that talk about how.
5. In the US, at least, we will have to overturn Jimmy Carter's ban on nuclear fuel reprocessing to get the maximum benefit of the technology. This needs to happen independent of LFRs.

There are probably other downsides on the tip of my tongue, but I cannot tease them out at the moment. Folks who are interested in more can contact me off HN at the email address in my profile.
You have a great resumé and what looks to be a vert bright future ahead of you. Good luck and thanks for the app!
And if Apple had written a similar piece, it would have manipulated the image to be the exact same width as the phone it's comparing it to.

And the article uses a press image of the Prada from LG by the way, while your link leads to a horrible, grainy image of a Prada II.
Very annoying typo in the HN title, it should be "Fred", not "Freds".
Obama's aid plan etc etc -> not politics?

I agree, keep politics off HN.
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Who are you playing monopoly with? Last time I checked you don't have to pay in real cash to get your funny money.
You are a gentleman and a scholar - I have shared it with my office and I have made my developers happy.

Bless you, good sir.
See my reply below. But suffice to say, don't be so quick to apply your experience to others. My comfort that I'm either the highest or nearly the highest paid developer where I've worked isn't coming from some blind promise from HR.
This already happened several times over the course of EVE's history. Ponzi schemes are frequent and occasionally the succeed in epic proportions. I don't understand why people keep falling for these. : every two years or so it is mentioned.
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I'm conflicted on the idea of leaving the country as a solution. Its not enough to simply live and work in another country -- you're still liable for taxes. You have to fully expatriate and renounce your citizenship. This is often very difficult and time-consuming to do, and near-impossible if you're not in a skilled line of work.
Maybe the theory behind it, is that the more senior your get, the more valuable you will be to other organizations. As a way to keep you around, your comp. goes up.
I can't be the only one that finds this weird, right?
What jurisdiction would it be in ?
A left-libertarian. A true libertarian.

OK, nothing like claiming that your political viewpoint is the "right" one to help make your point.
Possible this is due to the kind of "creative accounting" detailed here: http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/studio-shame-even-harry-pott...
But the problem is that you haven't even been able to try it yet, so you're "blind recommending". It's a bit pyramid scheme-y, really- you bring yourself closer to a potential pay-off by involving other people that trust you.

That might be fine if I'm forwarding it to other people in the HN-type crowd, but I often tell my less tech-inclined friends about cool services I've started using. But I would never recommend something to my friends without being able to try it myself and work out if it is recommendation-worthy.
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And yet it is possible to exchange ISKs to BTCs, then dollars.
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As a semi-frequent flagger, I could appreciate #1. It would be nice to be able to publicly state disapproval of a thing without having to clutter up the comments section.

Re: #2, I don't really see the point. Downvotes here just aren't a problem. Most of the items that are a light shade of grey are deserving of it, and even then, given the size of HN's user base now and the score required to make something a nice light shade of gray, I don't think limiting daily downvotes would have any measurable effect at all.
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Sometimes management believes that it's important to get away not just from the usual business context, but any productive context. I guess they are afraid it might interfere with the intangible benefits of bonding.

So what do you do when management is only interested in the trust falls, personality tests, and outsider facilitators? How do you make the case for a different kind of offsite?
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Read the book "War of Art". What you are experiencing is "resistance".

http://toblender.com/comic/resistance-the-war-of-art/
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Exactly - the standard is if the registered art resembles past art in the eyes of a discerning citizen (normal, non-technical person) and of course that's up for interpretation. Apple will have to fight this region-by-region and they wont win in all markets, because the standards are fairly open to subjective interpretation of what "similar" means to the average person.
Agree. Kids need to learn logical thought processes and problem solving. They don't need to know how to 'program'.

How do we even know 'programming' will be a relevant skill in 30 years time?

Buy every kid of 3 a tub of Lego bricks (Not a 'set'). That would go a long way to getting them thinking, problem solving, and building stuff.

And don't get me started on the "There aren't enough females in programming" BS rolleyes

FWIW, I would happily sign against this petition. I do not think teaching kids to 'program' at school so early is worthwhile. Programming is an extremely niche career, and anyone who is interested in it can easily learn.

You're likely to bore 90% because they're not interested in learning programming, and the other 10% will have learnt it all at home years ago and will also be bored.

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Quality program. Well worth the download and even a donation. I just opened kuler to poke around with it; I can definitely see this being a huge time saver on projects.

Any chance you will extend the clipboard capability so I can copy 4-5 colors at once?

Edit: To elaborate, I mean, have colors saved in some sort of list box or something so I can click them to get to my clipboard or something of that nature.
I've just been using cmd + h to hide the app once i've copied the color. Esc would be nicer, but hide works ok for now without having to use the mouse
Interestingly enough, neither does the US government.
I think there is a lot of good to come from things like this in a game like EVE (I do play from time to time). One is that hopefully some of those 4252+ people will have leaned to be more careful in the real world.
Salary information is never really secret, even if the official policy says it's secret. There's always salary information, often inaccurate information, percolating through the grapevine at every large organization.

I've never worked anywhere with an open salary policy, but my guess would be that, while it might be hard for some people to adjust to, in the long run it would remove a large source of internal politics.
Note that this is just the bonus. The salary is not dependent on local living expenses, but on average income for similar work in the area (plus a little bit).
this one too

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The requirement for “real world work” is almost by definition incompatible with “the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS and the hardware design”.

If "the hardware design" really means the VM for a VM based language, then I have known people who accomplished great things in their real world work by changing the "hardware design." There is a difference between changing such things willy-nilly because you can versus doing pragmatic and smart things because it makes things simpler and faster.

The Forth way of focusing on just the problem you need to solve seems to more or less require that the same person or a very tightly united group focus on all three of these things, and pick the right algorithms, the right computer architecture, the right language, the right word size, etc. I don’t know how to make this work.

A group that can make that work -- sounds like the sort of startup that PG would like to fund.
It uses Jim—Its GitHub readme[1] has a list of the features it supports.

I tried a ciw and that didn't work; text objects aren't supported.

[1] https://github.com/misfo/jim#readme
None of the buddhist traditions that I know of states that every (human) being is the incarnation of the same 'person'. Also, this would contradict with the scriptures, which describe many enlightened beings (who ended their cycle of rebirth).

On a more abstract level, reality could be seen this manner in Buddhism. Buddhism teaches the doctrine of dependent arising, which states that all phenomena are interdependent. As such there is no distinct/independent self or other.
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There is such a policy, at least in New York State. Any time spent on "self-employment" activities reduces the amount of unemployment insurance money you receive.
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> As an Australian citizen, I will get paid a dole if I can't find work

And if you can only find minimum wage work, you'll still be better off than most Americans or Britons.
> There wouldn't be any real interaction between such cells, would there?

That's a difficult question to answer without a simulation. All we know is how the visible portion of the universe is structured. The matter seeding works a bit like a procedural terrain generator (where quantum fluctuations introduce a chaotic and self-similar structure) and then gravity and expansion do their thing, so we end up with a universe that is filled with a uniform web of filaments made up of galaxies. Both simulation and observation agree with this model. The primary interaction mechanism at this scale is gravity.

Now if there are pockets of antimatter in there, they'd either be separated from normal matter early on in the process (leading to huge gaps between the cells) or they would visibly communicate with their nearest neighbors when they annihilate stray matter. I don't know which would be more likely. But either scenario is observable if it happens within our field of view, and so far that doesn't seem to be the case. There might be something like this hidden in the ultra-deep field close to the edge of time, but it currently doesn't look like it.
They used to teach computing as an A level at my Sixth Form - however, it really was poorly taught.

No coverage of the material on the test nor was there anything of substance done for the "project" at all (which for most of us turned out to be a horrible access database).

Teaching needs to be improved around the CS curriculum (at the secondary school and college level) before we go about getting kids to do a really shitty CS course.

Our year was the last year to do a Computing A Level, quite a shame.
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