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I believe there is.

Let’s examine what we have so far. When you search for 'apple' in the library, where do you go? In truth, without indexing or the help of the librarian, you go roving through the library and gather all material related to or with the words ‘apple’ and ‘display’ your results. Google uses algorithms to do just that - and according to the materials’ the relevance and/or ‘hits’, it will be listed as such. And, when advertisers pay$ for their ads to be listed first - these listings will show up in the uppermost sections of the first page - if someone paid me at the library to look for certain material and display them first, I would too. Alas, this is the nature of things and we as end-users often have to muddle through the endless list of ‘stuff’ to find what were searching for. Yes, yes, we could narrow our search and type 'apple, fruit' and get more or less what we wanted but there is still ad ‘stuff’ that we had to dredge through.

My point is that it would be nice to have and indexing of stuff or a ‘librarian’ to go to to be able to help us narrow our search parameters. Suppose the network infrastructure ‘knew’ exactly where ‘stuff’ is - it’s more akin to you finding stuff in your room or house - if things are cluttered, you will be using algorithms to search through all that stuff; but if things were organized (since you organized it and put it there, and putting the algorithms back in your pocket), you wouldn’t have trouble finding it. Technically, this would mean that the information would be stored locally by each of the end-users on the network, and because it’s stored by end-users, the network 'publishes it' and knows where to 'look'. Just my thoughts...
"BT said the service has now been fully restored, advising customers to "turn their hub or modem off and on again"."

So Roy works at BT now!
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Looks great - seems a be a wave on Kanban and Scrum tools launching at the moment. I wish there had been 2 years ago when I started using Agile/Scrum.

Currently using the beta version of scrumwise.com and am loving it. Working great for us, but will check this (and Trello) out.
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We had downtime yesterday because of this - massive outbreak of actual work in the office as a result.
Time to grow up!

Congratulations are in order anyway, so here are mine, and I really hope that you get that job. My children were all planned and even if I did fall on hard times (twice) in the intermediate the fact that we cut down to the bone as soon as trouble hit helped us survive. Things that don't kill you will make you stronger.
I think in the next year or two we're going to see this more and more.

Degree qualified, startup fresh out of university with no post-grad work experience, failed startup, making ends meet with freelancing with little hope of rejoining a career track.

Now don't get me wrong, were all beating the Fuck Big Corp drum here, but you can't beat big corp for a relatively stable income and ratable work experience.

That's why my advice to kids is: Get that degree, get some work experience (1 year say), THEN work on that startup. That way, you have a fallback option.
if a group was attempting to show that the media was shutting them down, couldn't they link to a non-existent webpage as 'proof'?

do we know that the page existed before?
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Sure! I'm mainly interested in online retailers that have affiliate programs (or provide a means for me to make money as a partner/affiliate). I've got to remain vague on the idea until launch time, but I could sum up our intent with the retailers as follows:

We have a very large and managed in-house database of affiliate programs. For given products, we'd be able to do something similar to PriceGrabber, BizRate, or [insert-shady-service-here] to provide the cheapest pricing options for a given product.

Mind you, we don't have the intent of creating a shady service along these lines, but the functionality in regards to monetization remains the same (direct product links with affiliate codes). For this reason, we're targeting high ticket items online like electronics and home appliances.
I think global warming and climate change is a red herring in the whole environmental debate. Why worry about possible catastrophic environmental disasters in 100 years when you have real environmental disasters happening right now? Contaminated water supplies, flooding through deforestation, air pollution causing health problems, over fishing threatening the fishing industry, etc. I think it's a shame that the scientific and environmental establishment has allowed the debate to be hijacked by politicians and anti-intellectuals. As a result, environmental policies in general suffer because everything is now tied up "all or nothing" with the climate change debate.
Taking a break generally means getting out, stretching your legs, taking a piss, perhaps drinking a cup of coffee, not settling in for a full 3 course lunch.
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I'm building a shopping site too, but not so price-focused. Happy to chat if you want to email me.
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[Ask HN] Move from consulting to full time employee in a startup...?
I'm an engineer and have worked 10 years mainly in development and ICT.

Last year I worked for a startup as a freelance and ended up earning some shares as there was not enough money to get paid.

Now, I have the possibilty to be hired in this startup (which has just received money from Business Angels) for 20% less than what offers my daily work (in a consulting company) + a possible 50% bonus each month starting mid-2012 (if the startup makes benefit).

The thing is I really want to quit my consulting company and I have several options: go into another consulting company (some are better than the others... at least I want to beleive it) or working into the startup (which I know owns 7% with some additional stock options yet to come).
I tend to think I will learn much more in the startup, but that is a high cut in the salary (for a dad moreoever).

Would you have any advices ?
"I am sure Assistant be like most Apple features. Fairly impressive, a bit more detail oriented than the competition, but ultimately not that much better. If anything, I think it will be the new Facetime. Good demo, good for ads, some people will use it a bunch, but mostly a showy feature that will get used once and then ignored by the vast majority of users."

To me, this is exactly what it will be. Even if it does work a lot better than Android and Windows Phone 7, I can't imagine too many times where I'd be using it. I haven't used the voice features on my Android/WP7 devices very often, not because it doesn't work well enough, but because 99% of the time I use my phone I'm somewhere that I don't want to be saying commands out loud into my phone. They may solve the technical problem, but the social one will hold it back.
Isn't this their twitter account? --> https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt
I agree.

I think it would also be interesting to take a bunch of these statements -- from all over the spectrum -- and ask, say, a thousand successful entrepreneurs whether they agreed or not. Sort of create an "attitude metric".

I'm not sure how useful it would be. If I understand correctly, the current consensus may be that you can be too smart for startups, ie, you think too much. But still, it would be an interesting exercise. I'd be curious as to what the answers were.
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> alternatives: "Scrollings", "Scrollables" etc...

That does not make much sense, it's not a game about scrolling it's a game about scrolls. As in rolls of parchments with words on them.
Why is it stupid? It happened to my aunt about ~3 years ago. She was making about $12.50/h doing phone ordering (very senior, trained everyone, etc.); the company was sold/acquired and she was offered her old job at $9.25/h during a fairly large layoff. Since she lives in Michigan where the unemployment rate is well over 15%, she decided not to roll her dice at job hunting. She took the 26% pay cut and went to work for the same supervisor the next day. At least her house is mostly paid off, although it's worth half what she bought it for ~15 years ago -- this was her retirement savings.

I think the point of the game is that many people just can't comprehend how easy it is to have bad things happen in a very substantial way... with very little notice and being mostly powerless to do anything about it.
I understand. Best of luck.
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That statement may have a bit of racial stereotyping as we can be sure that not all (100%) Asian immigrants were so frugal but I don't see any malicious intent ... I get the impression that the statement is positive. I know I've been impressed by the work ethic of many immigrants I know (Asian and otherwise) compared to those who sit and wait for their government welfare checks. I understand welfare for those who are truly needy, but there needs to be a way to lift them up so that it's not permanent (with perhaps the exception of those with disabilities that prevent it).
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I think they are too vulnerable a business to be so valuable.

I recently swapped to another similar solution recently because they gave a few more gb free storage. And the fact these services are so easy to set up now means it is also so easy to swap for a small reason. Plus the coming of Google Drive; their integration / pricing / distribution will be hard to compete with as syncing becomes more popular with the masses.
I could imagine driverless cars reducing the total number of vehicles we need to own as a species by an order of magnitude, perhaps more. That might help.
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Agreed. I was especially pissed off with this game when, after choosing to pay higher rent so I could live within walking distance of work, it still made me keep my car, which hit me with a resultant $500+ in monthly costs between insurance payments and a mechanical breakdown.
In my experience, writing PHP on one platform and deploying it on another doesn't always work out. Your developers have to be aware of where their app will be deployed and the specifics of that OS.

> I think PHP support on Windows is as good as on any other OS.

I have seen several things fail in that environment - escaping shell commands and arguments is problematic, invoking external executables is only reliable when full path is used [1], realpath() (used to, at least) chokes on / as a directory separator... Autoloading classes based on classname => filename can produce funny results. File uploads can work differently (case sensitive filenames - foo.jpg and foo.JPG can coexist in Linux, but not in Windows).

On the other hand, there are things like the new MSSQL PDO driver that only exist in the Windows world.

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[1] Windows 2003 Server was running our app, which invoked Imagick similar to `convert $input.jpg $output.jpg`.

Worked just great for half a year.

Deployed to a second machine, Windows 2008 Server.

Command execution fails silently.

Change %PATH% to be identical to the old server's one.

Restart.

Still fails.

Compare phpinfo().

$_ENV['PATH'] in new server doesn't match %PATH% (it appears
to be re-sorted with windows folders first), $_ENV['PATH'] in old server matches %PATH%.

Messing around with new %PATH% changes nothing, new server keeps giving PHP the silently-reordered %PATH%.

Nothing helps, short of specifying full path to `convert`.

A very fun thing to debug.
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No. You were a clever guy who fell on hard times. That's quite different from someone who is destined to be a low income worker for life due to early events they can never recover from, whether their own fault or not. That foundational education you received stays, whether good or bad.

Having said that, yes it is an educational problem, but it's also the randomness of life events. Families breakdown without notice and without a childs control, lives end, jobs are lost, shit happens just like good things happen too. Some people get a string of bad events, others a string of good events.

Don't look down on their lack of skills, you had the ability to comprehend them, they didn't, maybe you had access to facilities and the time to learn, maybe they didn't.

In the end, who knows what the true reasons are, just do what you can to help a fellow out and enjoy your good fortune if that's how things turned out, but try not to judge and over simplify an exceedingly complex problem with one step solutions (although I agree, good education works).
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> Those that failed to spot this trend early and lack a native culture of technical competence have very little hope of hiring the talent they need to survive, no matter how much they offer to pay.

When your argument relies on developers' not being able to do math, it's not very convincing.
Because no matter what you do, you get screwed. At most, it should inform you of the choices.
LOL. Awesome analogy. Muchos gracias to your reply and everyone else's.
1 it is lie that people like to wank on about. The inefficient x86 portion of a CPU they talk about is less than 1% of the transistors in a modern processor. The first thing an intel processor does when it receives an x86 Opcode is translate it into a more efficient internal Opcode that it actually executes. In fact it could be claimed this has helped to improve efficiency because front side bus bandwidth is at a premium and Opcodes that convey more information help conserve FSB bandwidth. Basically if it wasn't a processor designer who told you that I would take it with a grain of salt because people(including myself) like to pontificate on topics which are adjacent to their domains of knowledge, but which they know little.
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Of course it is, that's why they like to use it. It's the perfect crime really, paralyze the guy so he can't protest then dump salt into his heart.

If they wanted it to be painless, they'd just throw in more of the barbiturate, which they're using already anyway. There is a reason we kill animals like that. Or, as another of your respondents pointed out, nitrogen asphyxiation. That one is so impossible to mess up it's absurd.
It's not uncommon if it's cheap housing that's only semi-legit to begin with. When I lived in Santa Cruz, I heard all sorts of this kind of shady behavior going on with sublets, which due to housing shortage was the only thing you could really get for <$1000.
I don't think anybody carries a valve spring compressor in their toolbox. Plus you'd run the risk of dropping the valve unless you was really careful and good luck getting the keepers back in on the side of the road without a way to hold the valve up. Even then who has the parts with them to make this a 1/2 hour job? Cars are just as hard/easy to fix now as back then. Fuel injection is arguably easier to troubleshoot then a carb given the computers help.
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It's interesting that almost all comments thus far uniformly criticize the game for propaganda bias and that real-life is not this hard.

A special-ed teacher I work with has a dimmer view than most of the US education system - because she sees so many of its failures and that for a living.
I can easily see how the propaganda perception by an outsider is just the everyday reality in the eyes of http://www.umdurham.org/, one of the two game sponsers.

IMHO the game does a good job of creating a forcing function
to make decisions that atleast I haven't had to make in a long while, if ever.

Imagining myself as the game designer, suspect I too would favour inciting empathy to accurate "real-life"-ism.
I sit at a keyboard all day typing and earn 100% of my living via the computer. Funny that I couldn't pass the typing test. I'm pretty sure the problem is that I don't have practice copying the text ... my time is spent typing words (and code) that's flowing from my brain.

Does anyone still take dictation? Are there really jobs like this? I had an AA at my last job and in the nine years I was there I don't remember ever having her type up notes, etc.
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I wouldn't be so sure about state-of-the-art natural lang processing & speech recognition systems being good enough, for Apple (given their track record) to pitch a complete virtual assistant as a software service (VAAS?).

The ideal AI assistant would be entangled with copious amounts of machine learning algorithms. And it'd have to be plugged into my email, sms's, phone convos, facebook, twitter etc.
The AI would have to evolve not just from my experiences, but the collective experiences of the ecosystem (privacy alert!).

There's way too many dangling variables here -- privacy implications, govt. regulation, software error (30%+ for state of the art natural language processing) etc.

Yet, I've gotta say I'm stupidly giddy about today's keynote.
It's my impression that they're holding out on open sourcing id Tech 4 until after the release of Rage, so it would make sense that they still intend on licensing id Tech 5.
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I guess I don't mind providing people the bare minimum to live without strings attached. I'd actually agree with Hayek and Friedman that we should attach fewer strings and just make them cash payments, because that's less distorting; all the book-keeping and social engineering to try to get people off welfare, and to not "waste" the welfare money when they're on it (Section 8 housing, food stamps, etc.) costs more and distorts the economy more than just paying them would.

I don't think great things in civilization get done solely out of people needing to work the bare minimum to survive anyway; if that's all they were going to work, just paying them $10k subsistence is not a huge loss to society, and even pretty cheap by the standards of the other stuff we spend money on. Actually it'd be a pretty sad commentary on civilization if it were only the threat of literally being homeless/starving that inspired people to work; that's what it was like in subsistence-farming days, but surely a wealthy country can move beyond that, and make the baseline something higher, even if only "ramen + crappy apartment"? Plus, I think we'd make it back in how much it'd increase entrepreneurship if people felt more confident in a safety net being there if they failed (people from lower-class backgrounds w/o a family safety net, in particular, are very afraid to leave steady jobs if they have one).
It's much easier to block a messaging service used mostly by revolutionaries than one used by everyone.
I have to agree with you, I guess it only shows how little I know node.js
I don't know the game, but "papyrus" sounds like a nice alternative to me.
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"but my experience is that the best technical people? they don't want the headache."

Exactly. From Alan Kay, Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike, Guido Van Rossum to Linus Torwalds the best technical people could care less about "starting their own company".
Can you expand on this? Are you referring to something more complex than lights that flash with the beat of the music?
I like the analogy that Paul used re a grad math class. In our masters program, < 10 survived out of ~30. Many chose to get out at the grad-dip level as their goal was to get a job.

In some ways, a start-up is remarkably more difficult than any structured class. It is not a co-incidence that many of the most successful start-ups ( i.e. Google / Facebook et.al. ) started as projects.

Investors like to think about markets and path to revenue. But to build stuff , you'd need to love the problem itself and care deeply about what you're building. Because at many points in the ride, the financial or commercial end will not be in sight.

Another correct question perhaps is " How to pick an addictive problem ? "

A group that some of us love :

http://groups.google.com/group/gremlin-users

One of the stacks Gremlin works atop is neo4j which raised an excess of 10M recently.. again I would have to warrant that the game is to pick a difficult problem , preferably few years ahead before it becomes " hot ".

Here's a powerful section from a beautiful film:

" He does, an assignment to refurbish the Sistine Chapel for him. But after an attempt at some saints, he leaves Rome, and flees to his beloved Carrara. There, surrounded by mountains, he has a vision at sunset and suddenly knows what he must do. Obtaining Julius's reluctant permission, he sets to work covering that modest ceiling with tremendous figures, a bearded Jehovah, a recumbent Adam touched to life by a divine spark, the world's most famous fresco painted from a homemade scaffolding; in spite of illness, missed meals, filth, deprivation, cold, an injury that nearly costs him his eye and more, including the Pope's indifference to his intense passion for his art, Michelangelo endures. "When will you make an end?" Julius cries. "When I have done," the artist insists. "[1]

[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058886/reviews
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> just do what you can to help a fellow out

Don't worry, I do my bit.
I think the point is that scrolls is a generic term describing an artefact commonly found in adventure games and so should not be seen as bearing the distinctiveness needed of a trademark to indicate the origin of goods/services in the field of computer games.
To be clear, CGI doesn't exhibit the issues seen with Node either, it's issues are elsewhere (and separately debatable).
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You take moral issue to "calling piracy stealing" but not to pirating. Riiiight.

Do you actively believe that morality is "mix and match what suits you" or is that just an implicit practice?
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