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>Some of the complaints about skill shortages boil down to the fact that employers can't get candidates to accept jobs at the wages offered. That's an affordability problem, not a skill shortage. A real shortage means not being able to find appropriate candidates at market-clearing wages.

ay, there's the rub.

A few weeks ago I was considering offers from two companies, in totally different industries. One was a non-profit in International Accreditation in the Health Industry, and the other was in Finance.

The IA company ended up submitting a significantly higher offer than the finance company. Correspondence with them made it appear to be just a game of numbers for the finance company - what kind of skill they could get, for how cheap they could get it.
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Even more legends did finish an education -- or even remained in academia.
What? You don't think articles are being systematically upvoted by groups of people? Sorry, I am a realist and it definitely seems like they're being upvoted.

HN is now the tech news site for insiders. It's not some obscure backwater.
No, because you can allocate from different arenas if you need to. Using plain malloc may lead to fragmentation, but there's no law requiring you to use a single lowest common denominator allocator for your entire program.
> Julius Caesar gave way to Augustus (who in turn gave way to Tiberius, Nero, Claudius and Caligula).

> I wouldn't get your hopes up.

What do Roman emperors have to do with Berlusconi, besides being short, and the geographic location they have in common?

Are you seriously suggesting a parallel between the events of 2000 years ago and now, based on the fact that they happen to be based in Rome? Do you suppose Berlusconi is going to march over the Alps and invade France? Perhaps Sarkozy and a band of stalwart Gauls will resist Berlusconi's onslaught in a small village?
Hello Martin, my name is mtts. I'm pretty sure that having a work ethic and abilities to succeed is strongly correlated to what family you're born into.

I'm not sure what exactly the consequences of that knowledge should be, but I'm pretty sure it should at least involve not allowing those who have been born in fortuitous (and work ethic and abilities enhancing) circumstances to get so far ahead the less fortunate no longer have a chance to catch up.
I personally prefer this one: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-startup-drea...

It doesn't look that much like a cloud / hosting service, covers the idea of growing and looks fresh.

Altough I don't think it's perfekt yet, it could work.
This is untrue. A family member worked on the Apple "software side", and it was insanely stressful (constant overtime, stay over weekends etc...). If the hardware guys have it worse, then it must be inhuman. I wonder what the turnover rate of Apple employees is.
So could Elsevier and Springer be taken private?
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Well, it depends on how difficult he would be to replace. It sounds like a difficult project, so he probably has good standing to push for a bit more.
This comment is a parody, right?
Reckless behavior endangering others are looked on dimly, regardless it's a biker or driver.

No to the extreme exaggeration 'if you even step an inch over the line, I will run you over.' It's more like 'if you run a red light or stop sign, I might accidentally run you over.'
Does anyone have a better article? I can't find any other information about it. I found out from the NYC Lisp mailing list, and Wikipedia confirmed it.

Sad, sad, sad day. :(
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You can't very well make a healthy profit if the nation in question is burning down around your ears, now can you?
Thanks Gabriel, this is great.
Yeah, it's more like miles over the line.
Also, some laptops models are starting to forgo the optical drive.
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If you think car drivers disrespect cyclists for safety reasons (e.g. running red lights) and not for inconveniencing car drivers (e.g. by momentarily slowing traffic flow in one lane) you're fucking deluded.
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They do send out rejections.
What a terrible month for computing...
You didn't. I could have assumed you didn't mean what you said, but you were so adamant about it, I didn't want to impress my beliefs on you. Thanks for explaining.

That being said:

"Talking about your kid, when he's not here, and presenting him, or your relation to him, in such a way that you benefit from the exposition"

Is this abuse?

"For all it's worth, I love my kids. Of course. And I would throw myself under a bus for any of them. Of course. And I almost have, twice (under my motorbike, which is not a bus, but weights over 400 pounds)."

Because, in this context, you are using your child and your relation to them, as well as your love, as a way to bolster your own argument. It's a way to lend credibility and weight to what you have to say. It could be said that you felt your arguments couldn't stand on their own without making it clear that you're a parent.

=)

No, I dont' think it's abuse. I understand what I think you are trying to say: using those that would treat their children as mere accessories rather than children. But honestly, I don't think that's something you can see from one single post. Jeff made a post on a blog. It had some commentary, some interesting thoughts. It was something he had on his mind, and wanted to share it. He also used it as a segue into announcing the future birth of twins.

To equate his post on his personal site announcing the pregnancy to abuse is, if I may be so bold, absurd.

> downvoters should try to take care of my kids for a few days

And it could be equally said upvoters should take care of my kids for a few days.

Kids are different, and some can be an absolute joy, and others a nightmare. And you see both sides. People complaining, and people happy.

Throughout my life, I've heard people say "Just wait until..." and at that moment, I'll understand what they've said.

Sometimes this is the case. Sometimes it isn't.

Just wait until you're me. You'll understand.
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Think nbashaw nailed this. Thanks for weighing in.
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True, but I always like to see a link to the original source if its obtainable.
It's my experience that a lot of people will get more pissed off at "someone using <vehicle> did <unsafe thing>" when <vehicle> is a bike. Maybe it's just that they've become numb to people doing dangerous things in cars because it happens so much more often?
I don't know when exactly the post was edited, but the version that was there when I replied did contain personal insults and had a much harsher tone.

Now it's turned out to have arisen from good intentions, so all is well.
Not that it fixes things, but their response came off as being surprisingly honest. Good on them.
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Would you say that doing an angel investment (with no prior experience and no ties into the angel community) is a hard or risky thing to do? I've been considering trying it, but basically don't know where to start...
You could also measure what happens when you introduce just a normal image beside the icon, to separate "what do you look like" and "fun effect" factors.
Time for the black bar to appear at the top of Hacker News?
> Do you really think that this is true often enough to present it as a blanket rule like that? It seems like a fantastic oversimplification to me.

Of all the children and parents I know well enough, yes. They all match this mold. Even my own children. They match expectedly and precisely.

This, of course, is merely my own observations, and limited in it's scope.
My thoughts exactly. It's been a black month for computing.
There is. I'm surprised they didn't try it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713687.aspx
For a fun portrait of McCarthy's early life and aspirations, see the passages about him in "What the Doormouse Said". [1]

- Born to communist activists in 1920s Boston

- Studied math with John Nash at Princeton

- Organized the first computer-chess match in 1965, pitting his own algorithm against one created by computer scientists in the USSR, with moves communicated by telegraph.

While many will remember him for Lisp and his contributions to AI, perhaps equally important was his role in running a research lab in what became a characteristic West Coast fashion: finding intelligent people, setting them free to do what they wanted, and obdurately arguing with them over very little provocation. He was far enough from mainstream to be familiar, and even sympathetic to the 60s counterculture, but also cynical enough to embrace technology, rather than revolution, as a way forward. If this sounds a bit like running a startup today, there's one main reason it does: John McCarthy.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=cTyfxP-g2IIC&lpg=PT113&...
That's such a slippery point that there's no point in discussing it. Our elected government has done many terrible things over the last 200 years. I don't accept that as a rationale for denying it any privilege it might ever ask for, on the grounds that that privilege might be abused. You might believe that though. That doesn't make you bad; it just makes it pointless for you & I to talk politics.
I know LibeOffice is derided for its compatibility issues with MS Office (and its name, and its reliance on java, etc), but this type of thing seems pretty important to me.

Free software is very important (IMO) but has severe deficiencies because it lacks the straightforward economic incentives of closed-source software. So we'll probably never have fully free software consumer goods companies that are really exciting and innovative (think Apple), it is basically just used as a complimentary good.

Businesses only interest in free software is when it complements their products and they don't have to give up any strategic advantage. Web browser rendering engines are a complicated mess and nobody chooses their OS based on web browser alone, so Apple starts with KHTML and now continues to develop WebKit in the open. Google makes money on web advertising so they give away Android and ChromeOS for free and contribute to many free software projects (MySQL, Linux, ffmpeg, etc) that their products are built on top of. Web developers frequently use free software for all the back-end stuff because it not really a differentiating component of their business. And so on.

If governments and non-profits start focusing on supporting consumer-facing free software (like Office, the desktop environments, and other user applications) then that will shine a bright light on deficiencies and will help us improve these core free software products that are important to the largest number of people over time.

As a side note, I used to be envious of OSX and iOS and the app store and Apple's hardware and many of the beautiful applications for OSX and wished there was a way for similar quality products to come about in the free software world. I don't think the incentives of free software would allow them to exist in that world, though.
Yeah, it appeared like trolling only until he replied to your comment above. That seems to be the first thread he's attempted to apply some logic here.
Structs seem like a very pragmatic solution to the truly hard problem of writing a really good GC algorithm.

Java has a whole selection of very advanced GC algorithms, and from what I hear, it's possible to mitigate most long-pause problems by careful tuning (e.g. incremental+parallel might help here). But JVM tuning is such a black art that really nobody knows how to do it ...

TL;DR worse is better.
China economically successful? Ok, I can see that. Elevating 300 million people out of poverty into the middle class is nothing to sneeze at, even if it still leaves 800 million (or so) in desperation.

But Russia? Sure, its GDP is impressive, but the vast majority of that is "produced" by oligarchs that are peddling out the country's natural resources without anyone else benefitting. It's a thief-ocracry that makes fascist Italy, Franco Spain and Samoza Portugal look like paradise.
Yes. Unless the information is actually inaccurate, there's not even any question.

What an amazing pioneer. He will be missed.
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They have a similar viewpoint here in Italy, where they don't stop for pedestrians at crosswalks. I once helped a "little old lady" cross the street, not by taking her arm, but by striding out to stop the flow of cars, who were very aggressively minimizing the time spent stopping for other users of the road.
This assumes people roll over the RSS button. What about putting in the image regardless?
It's important to note that both cycling and walking aren't "inherent" to cities or cultures. It's great to have a biking culture but it's also been repeatedly demonstrated that if you make it harder to drive (by reducing parking, using traffic calming, or using congestion charges) and easier to ride or walk (via bike lanes, mass transit, etc.), the population shifts its behavior over time, benefitting everyone.

I point this out only because saying it's cultural leads some folks to believe that if their city isn't currently bike/pedestrian friendly, it never will be. Too many cities in the US are simply heavily biased in their current setup towards cars yet everyone wonders why there's a traffic jam at rush hour.
Please don't use URL shorteners when submitting.

URL = http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/10/24/stackexchange-arc...

I am nervous that this has 8 upvotes already with a shortened link...
Oracle Formally Embraces NoSQL, Implies It Invented NoSQL
Anyone got a reliable source corroborating this?
What would you think of this idea: offer 2 tiers of competition:

Tier 1 for Junior designers - design the full logo for competition, winner gets full payment. Ideal for building a portfolio of logo designing capabilities, gaining exposure.

Tier 2 for Established Designers - after earning a certain amount of reputation or karma points (based on voting records), they can compete in a higher-level contest with fewer entries, but each legitimate entry gets a percentage of the final payout. Competition is split into 3 stages, rough-sketch, concept, and final version. Each stage, the top N logos are picked, and those top N earn a % cut of the total project fee. (It could be that N is based on how many logos the customer wants to see developed, maybe they could pick from 5,10,15,20 etc. and pay accordingly).

The basic idea is a compromise somewhere between every designer putting the full amount of design work on a project which could net you zero income just for the chance at doing it, and just picking a designer based on reputation and going with whatever they come up with. This system would let the designers who value their time to explore an idea if they like, and earn money progressively with how much time they put in, and how closely their idea matches the customer's needs. In this system, nobody would spend days perfecting / crafting a design just to wind up earning nothing, and nobody would rush through a design job just so that if they didn't win they wouldn't have invested too much time.
"it really odd that people in cars think that cyclists need to watch out for cars and not the other way around"

But isn't it even odder that cyclists think the same thing about pedestrians? My encounters with the "dick cyclist" has always been when I was walking. Isn't this similar to what cyclists think about the "dick driver"?

It seems whenever people are in a position of "power" they become pushy, impatient, and careless towards people in a "lesser" position, e.g. drivers towards bikers and bikers towards pedestrians.
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To simplify this conversation:

I don't think we should have secret laws under any circumstances.

I do think it's legitimate for the federal government to set up countermeasures to attempts to fish for the identities of confidential informants.

I think there is some information relevant to counterintelligence and counterterrorism that should be classified and some that shouldn't, and I think more stuff is classified that shouldn't be than the other way around.

I think that it's wholly reasonable for the federal government not to have to confirm the existence of heavily classified documents.

I think there are many classified documents whose contents are not appropriate for disclosure, but whose existence is.
Austrians do not "eschew" mathematics nor empiricism, rather they reject the claim that what is commonly called empirical evidence actually is, and admit to the limits of empiricism in social sciences. Aping the physical sciences in some form of cargo-cult formalism is not only wrong, but leads to flawed conclusions.

Austrians assert that the only way to empirically know a person's preferences is through observing their choices. There is no objective meaning to graphs that rely on the assumption that people have these scales of numbers in their heads that say, "An apple is five utils, a banana is ten." The only meaning comes from decisions - either you prefer the apple to the banana, or you prefer the banana to the apple.

Austrians further assert that any macroeconomic model must be a result of (or at least 100% consistent with) valid microeconomic principles. A macroeconomic model which concludes something that is not explainable in terms of human decisions is necessarily wrong.
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I have a feeling this will start being a lot more common in the computer world. The founders of everything are starting to hit their later ages. :(
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This seems to be the original tweet http://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128554733714669568
On the economic side, are bikes registered and bike owners paying for tabs each year likes cars in NYC? It would seem that would go a long way towards paying for new bike lanes over parking.
Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, and now John McCarthy - maybe some truth that deaths always come in 3's. Quite unnerving.

We should propose National Computing Month or something for October.
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Excellent book BTW, would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of not just computing but what we think of as UI/UX.

It's almost depressing to see the same problems we keep (re-)solving have had great minds beating on them for quite a while now :)
> Unless you’re Madame Tussaud, you can’t delight through reproduction.

I beg to disagree :)
I've almost gotten to the point where I don't read the comments. Quality has (subjectively) been declining over the last couple of years.
I love the idea. Might want to make the radius a bit bigger though. I didn't realize it was going to do anything until you explicitly told me to check it out (my mouse was ~200px from the left side, scrolling w/ the wheel).
Minus the crazy font, cursing, and pictures Dave McClure has a point in his article: It's all about the Faces > http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2009/05/the-faces-the-fa...
This is a detailed topic, but basically you have to expect to lose all your money, and if you want to be serious about it (with a better expected value) you have to do a lot of deals over a long period of time.

That being said, you have to start somewhere, and the best way to do that is to co-invest with people. I would meet local angels and hook up with them.
What blows my mind is SE runs on Windows and IIs

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an...

They basically did an end-run around the $10k SQL Server license.
Thank you. I'm not a Windows dev so I didn't expect I would necessarily be able to find it very quickly.

Reading that page it is clear that this is either the exact scenario that page is covering, or at the very least one of the core use cases.

It's triggering my Wrong Thing To Do senses, but, well, when the GC isn't quite right, hacking around it may be the only option.
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What are the rules about this in the Netherlands? Are they better than our current FOIA rules?
I strongly disagree, and find the hand illustrated approach incredibly refreshing amongst the sea of cookie cutter web apps.
He has a string of accomplishments that still live on in active development... and he made it to 84. That's a good run.
Fox News sensationalizes news for the sake of the story. This boosts ratings because it seems we are wired with a proclivity for stories, but when storytelling and ratings are your goals, something else has to give -- in this case, it's often objectivity.
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Except for when they're stuck in traffic, which is pretty much the norm in any city on any weekday.

I used to live in NYC, and taking the subway, walking or biking was far more time efficient than taking a cab, much less driving your own car. LA wasn't really any better for driving, but the distances were usually to far for bikes, and mass transit was miserable.
Prices are not set by the cost of production but by supply and demand. In a healthy market the cost increase of a wage minimum cannot affect the prices, it may only make it uneconomical to produce certain goods (but this almost never happens because margins aren't usually that tight). What the minimum wage actually amounts to is wealth redistribution, from the holder of capital to the provider of labor. It doesn't change the amount of goods and services sold, it just affects who is buying them.

Like all social redistribution schemes, it can be good if wealth isn't distributed equally enough for healthy market interaction, and harmful if wealth is distributed too equally for market incentives to exist.
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you people? You get a comment from someone who was actually present at the very first coworking space who corrects a fact about the history of coworking, and it gets downmodded to -1?

I'm fucking done here for a while. You people fucking suck.
Not to be "that guy", but does she have any connection to him? Why should I believe she isn't just some random that made that up?
Agreeing with everyone regarding the overuse of clouds, but here's a simple idea to mitigate that: incorporate those progressively larger bubbles that would appear beneath a "thought cloud" in a comic or illustration. That way there would be no question where it was representing "a cloud" which carries all of the connotations of "the cloud", or more specifically "a thought/idea/dream cloud".
I think you should read more about how the world works before you say dumb things like this
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Does that constitute an army of sockpuppets? I would disagree. I have two gmail accounts. One is personal, one is professional. Also, our posts we're censored long before hook.io got its second wind. Perhaps we should chalk this up to a misunderstanding and move forward.
Why is this better than using wordpress with one of the many photo portfolio themes?

http://www.wpzoom.com/design/10-wordpress-themes-designed-fo...
Do you have a source (i.e. link to the mailing list)? Unfortunately the person who added it to the Wiki article didn't add one.
The WikiPedia history states that there was some personal communication with his sister.
This really needs a better source. There's no citation provided, and Wikipedia can't keep any details of his death up without one.

Basically, I have a spoonful of salt to hand.
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Still awaiting a better source. The Wikipedia entry asserting his death has been reversed at the time of this writing...
Sorry but, what is your source ?