skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key characteristics of Anglo-American capitalism, i.e. capitalism created and mainly employed by American and British companies, is built around an "unholy alliance" of three things:

1. Professional manager class.

2. Principle of "shareholder value maximisation", mainly benefitting free-floating shareholders (including professional managers).

3. Leverage.

The primary industrial consequence of this triangle of factors is reduced corporate investment.

Other key consequences are:

a. a feedback loop occurs between the factors, i.e. they are inherently destablizing, particularly so in the face of ever increasing financial capital market efficiency;

b. the erosion of capital creates a system prone to shocks, both internal and external, and from the real economy or the financial economy;

c. productivity improvements are capped due to merely reducing headline numbers and making minimum incremental improvements to infrastructure and technology. No incentive for workers or employers to invest in company-specific skills or retraining;

d. gross increase in use of "excess" capital for share buybacks and other financial equity maximising techniques instead of investment or holding, even during boom times;

e. makes central bankers management of monetary supply harder due to the additional leverage use and other factors acting as a strong accelerator during cyclical upturns and a strong decelerator during cyclical downturns;

f. strong social impacts:

f.i. increasing wealth inequality between those who can benefit from the alliance and those who cannot. This is both from the asset side (shares) and liability side (borrowing);

f.ii. the easiest way to maximise profit today is to reduce expenditure instead of increasing revenues, so jobs are cut, wages and wage growth is minimised, work intensity and hours rise resulting in more errors, worker tiredness, forced imbalance of work/life.

When combined with globalisation, the efficiency of the global capital markets with its own problems (Too Big To Fail entities), tax and regulatory arbitrage, and capital flight, the above factors can be devastating to any economy no matter how advanced and results in global inefficiencies that produce sub-par growth and high instability.

These and other historical reasons are why most advanced countries outside of the Anglo-American world reduce the influence of free-floating shareholders and maintain a group of long-term stakeholders (including some shareholders) through formal and informal means. In addition, corporate leverage is usually more difficult to obtain.

What I find especially interesting is that a select few of the most globally successful American companies are well known for NOT partaking in this Unholy Alliance, specifically Apple, Google and to a lesser extent Microsoft are incredibly cash-rich companies! Other companies should learn something from these leaders.

Finally, there's a reason why Jack Welch, the long-time chairman of General Electric (GE), who is often credited with creating the term "shareholder value" in a speech in 1981 also denounced it in 2009 as probably the "dumbest idea in the world".
May I ask why children needs apps at all? It's a serious question: I would posit that real-life play is far, far more important. Everytime I've sat down with kids to play some game on a digital device they get bored very quickly and far more value is gained from lego, building airplanes, hanging out in the garden digging.. maybe after the age of 8 or something it's interesting to encourage some kind of programming experience but aside from rich-media books I've yet to come across anything that warranted giving my kids an iPad to play unsupervised.

Having said that, I do approve of the direction of this manifesto and would welcome examples of quality kids apps.
I share you sentiment completely, but the discrepancy between how things should be and how they are can be gigantuan at times.

Did you get a job by responding to a listing or something more out of the box?
I think Google failed pretty hard with their Galaxy Nexus release.

It could have been right up against the iPhone 4s, but it's still not out in the US and only came out on the 17th in the UK.

They also have not really marketed it well either. I think they've botched what could have been a strong release against Apple. However, they fail to create any real buzz outside those who were already interested to begin with.

For instance, I've gone into countless stores (Verizon, Radio Shack, Bestbuy, etc.) and no one working has even heard of the phone.

What is with that?

Something that is meant to be a direct competitor with the iPhone... a true "Google" phone and it's completely unknown?

Yet EVERYONE knows about the iPhone.

Androids are a dime a dozen, even if the Galaxy Nexus isn't.. Yet Google has failed big time, thus far anyway, at marketing that one.
Que 15 minutes of Sunday afternoon navel-gazing.
For a "normal" straight salary job I like to state a range as soon as they ask. The "never make the first offer" rule is taken as gosple but IMO, wrong. Stating your numbers (with wiggle room, hence the range) has an "anchoring" effect. To pull the number lower, the other party will have to expend negotiating capital.

As for a stock options go, I would value them as zero but use them as a negotiation "chip" to be traded for real compensation/benefits. Before you trade this (statistically) worthless chip for something, get them to "sell" you on how valuable it is. ;-)
Tips de maquillaje para los ojos
The Apple Wireless Carrier (Jean-Louis Gassée, Part 2)
Another useful thing: Stick to deadlines. Otherwise, there is a tendency to take as much time as time is available. Don't assume that time is infinite. Give yourself short deadlines all day long and you'll get a lot more things done.
Dumb question: wouldn't it be more secure to use languages that are immune to C issues like buffer overflows?
I think you're wrong here. There's some major political instability in many parts of Western Europe, with people abandoning mainstream parties in favor of new parties that aren't associated with the political establishment.

Some to the left, some to right, some with "standard" names, some with "alternative" names, but same the pattern is all over the map.

And I don't even think it's all that different in the US. Different system, different symptoms, but both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement come from the same dissatisfaction with the political status quo.
I doesn't surprise me. I once typeset a book on the etymology of the word 'fiddle' which had footnotes that, in places, not only took up 80%+ of the page but some that contained diagrams. I had to draw a line at the footnotes that contained footnotes though.
The Difference Maker
Canada has BY FAR the most expensive cell phone rates in the world. New Zealand is 19th according to this list. See:

http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/08/27/canadians-have-the-most-...

That graph doesn't even give justice to the true cost. Canada plans are almost always regional, so to call another city, even one nearby is a long distance call. VOIP phones are also rare because numbers are restricted, Skype and Google Phone do not exist here.

Canada's telecom industry can accurately be described as a mafia-style public cartel.
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Steve Yegge: What Would You Do With Your Own Google? [audio]
zsh's extended globbing support makes the use of find unnecessary in most cases. See the "extended globbing" section of the link below[1] for some examples.

zsh also has the 'zargs' command, which works something like xargs, except that it gets its arguments from the command line (often in conjunction with extended globbing) rather than from stdin.

You might also be interested in reading about the "useless uses of cat"[2]

[1] - http://linuxgazette.net/184/silva.html

[2] - http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
I'd argue against that - the required plan for the iPhone 4 starts at 50CAD/month, and the phone isn't free either.

That's for a plan with: 200 minutes + 500 mb of data.
Yes, Unfortunately this is a common misconception, and is why the Google closure library intentionally leaves this feature out (so people don't use it):

>>The short story is that we don't want to wait for DOMContentReady (or worse the load event) since it leads to bad user experience. The UI is not responsive until all the DOM has been loaded from the network. So the preferred way is to use inline scripts as soon as possible.

>>By intentionally leaving out DOMContentReady wrappers we have been able to prevent Google Apps to use on this anti pattern.
-- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/closure-library-disc...

Also see:

http://encosia.com/dont-let-jquerys-document-ready-slow-you-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6026645/document-readyfun...
> Are these people so upset by the word that their brains fail to parse it when one vowel is obscured?

You're at your mom's house, eating dinner. Suddenly, you realize that a call to nature must be answered, urgently.

Which phrase do you use?

"Mom, hold that thought, I gotta take a shit"
"Excuse me for a moment, I need to use the bathroom"
I thought the Childrens' App Manifesto would be: handle noisy input gracefully. :P

No ads in the corners to accidentally tap. Dragging should work with a finger on the screen, no visible "back to menu" buttons.
A new meaning that probably isn't far from what they mean now--I could imagine them being called "Fuck Wall Street" pretty easily.
What if Steve Jobs had been forced at gunpoint fifteen years ago to lead Dell? What would the outcome have been? He likely would have spoken harshly about the elephant in the room -- Dell produces a commodity, and its future depends on Microsoft's continued prowess.

What if Michael Dell had been forced at gunpoint fifteen years ago to lead Apple (and not liquidate it)? What would the outcome have been? He likely would have spoken harshly about the elephant in the room -- Apple produces bespoke designs to compete against commodities with bigger economies of scale and network effects, and its future depends on its (arguably not then demonstrated) ability to, by itself, out innovate both a larger software provider and several hundred hardware vendors.

(Which is a slightly artificial way to make the point, but I don't for one minute think Apple's past - or indeed future - success was even slightly guaranteed. Their position is remarkably precarious, IMHO.)
Only if you want to be the best, if you want to be really good at something that 7% is irrelevant, and a lot of the top results aren't just created by the best.
The Dire Consequences of Analytics Gone Wrong: Ruining Kids’ Futures
Greatness is relative. It's like the risk/reward relationship for investments: by necessity, low risk investments will have lower returns, because the demand for them will be higher and thus the price of the investment will increase (eating into your profits). Where there's a well trodden path, it's no longer a path to greatness.
Great that GA recognizes importance of visual representation of flows. Although for sites with loads of dynamic content where URLs include one or more ids you would see picture segmented by content. Unless you instrument your site by features. Project we work on allows for quickly finding patterns of URLs that correspond to features while visually showing the top flows: http://infunl.com/screen/0
OOP isn't a panacea for bad design. It is a single design strategy that works well for some problems. We can descend deeply into the OOP way of viewing the world . Then we can construct really complicated, epicycle[0] like efforts to model everything under the sun using OOP's ontological system, or we can recognize it as one useful ontology amongst many and use it when it's appropriate. All of the "OOP is the one true way" literature ends up making some good and valid points.

Their main effective point can be summarized sarcastically as

"Here is how to implement Greenspun's 10th Rule in a way that is allegedly more maintainable, and we can say is object oriented. Buy more books, and also we have some modelling tools you can spend time using instead of writing code that does something."

Circles are cool, I agree. Sometimes things are elliptical though, and it's much better to recognize that and use ellipses to model them then to cleave to the circle industry's way of doing business.

In summation, this, and most industry(software or otherwise) gripes can be best understood by meditating on this message from beyond the grave from Christopher Latore Wallace Smith[\\]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIyzG8i7Kg0

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicycle

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

[\\]http://bit.ly/4MiIh7
This definitely sucks for Canada. The Telco's and the antiquated regulation that protects them are big gatekeepers to progress and innovation. How do we break out of this deadlock?
The discussion was on the pitfalls of the user not knowing something was sent, and one of them is data loss. The fact that a web app /can/ ameliorate a lost connection is orthogonal. If the user was told the email was "sent" he's going to feel free to close out all instances of e.g. Gmail, so that clever Javascript isn't going to be running. If -- if -- he re-uses this same browser in the future, which is not guaranteed since he thinks the email was sent and may have no concept of browser storage anyhow, the email may send then, which could be hours, days, weeks or months later, unexpected behavior which will cause unexpected results.

Your sentence makes rafts of assumptions.
A movie about another wallmural i made in swiss
Nothing is really free if you're getting from a large publicly traded company. They also don't use Siri to target ads towards the user such as Google and Facebook.
So it's not just that CS departments are graduating engineers who can't solves FizzBuzz, law schools are graduating lawyers who can't file a merger certificate.

This goes to the heart of what education should be about. Foundations and theory, or vocational training.
Well, there's a bunch of mitigating circumstances there. You mentioned classroom instruction for yourself. Many languages are similar so you could have picked up one language quite easily because of its similarity to one you knew already. You mentioned self study. A child (if that's what you mean by "girl") is obviously going to pick up new languages faster than an adult. A children's education game is obviously going to use slower, clearer, simpler language specifically for the purposes of teaching the child. And without more information, for all I know your Cantonese-speaking friends are actually Chinese.

The main reason why I maintain that you do need some classroom time or tutoring or book-learning is that we are adults now.
Both WebKit and Gecko are obviously successful, so it isn't clear that Apple's choice was better than the other option at the time. We do know that this choice turned out very well for Apple, but we don't know if things could have turned out better otherwise if Apple had picked Gecko.

For that matter, we don't know if things wouldn't have turned out better for Apple if it had started from scratch. For one thing, doing so would have avoided KHTML's LGPL license, which requires source code to be shared. That would have allowed Apple to make its web engine closed source or entirely BSD, which could have led to very different results than how things unfolded. Better or worse, it is very hard to say.

Edit: I'm curious, why the downmod?
"tmux is scriptable from the shell via its command-line arguments, so any language can script it."

I'm not sure if tmux is scriptable to the same extent that screen is via screen's Lua bindings, as the latter probably exposes many of screen's internals, while scriptability of tmux is limited to what you could do with its command line arguments. I haven't researched the matter, though, so I may well be wrong.
This gives a broken image icon. Very fitting :)
A number of CAs can supply certificates under Adobe's Certified Document Services scheme:

http://www.adobe.com/security/partners_cds.html

As far as I know these all include the use of a RFC 3161 compliant timestamping service:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

I've used GlobalSign to obtain the relevant certificates and associated hardware (for personal use this is a small USB token):

http://www.globalsign.com/document-security-compliance/adobe...
Looks promising. Is it open hardware (i.e. anyone can make one without having to buy from the vendor) like the MakerBot?
I have to admit that I have made "occupy my pants" jokes numerous times in the past few weeks, and reading this bit of trivia just gives me more reason to continue with my immaturity. :)
I know a lot of Daphne's former and current students and she seems to be a great advisor who genuinely cares about producing both excellent research and top quality research talent.

Further, in the department, I think she is one of the people who cares most about teaching. She runs the undergraduate summer research program. She re-does her class on PGMs substantially almost every time she teaches it to try to make it better. (Though such a high rate of change may or may not be a good idea.) Daphne is almost certainly one of the key people behind the *-class effort at Stanford CS.

For those with a negative impression of Daphne, my guess is just that they are misinterpreting her directness. If she thinks you're wrong, or you're doing the wrong research, you'll know about it.

(Also, Ullman is one of the nicest people in the department in person, which is crazy given that he wrote the standard texts in compilers, databases, and arguably automata. He's emeritus these days though.)
What is algebra?
So, "Gattaca" had it right, then?
I certainly see your point, though for me, personally, what I perceive to be the mission of Wikipedia, is much more important than any individual. I don't need to see a face to understand that Wikipedia is important -- I need only look at my browser history or the number of times Wikipedia is quoted as a source. What I need to know is how much Wikipedia needs (on an ongoing basis) and for what. And I need it to be presented plainly.

I have donated to Wikipedia in the past -- even before Wikipedia was a household name (which isn't something I say to seem like some hipster schmuck, but to illustrate that I believe enough in what Wikipedia does to donate my money at a time when it was uncertain if they would even survive -- let alone be successful).

Whenever I see Jimmy Wales' face in the current ads my gut reaction is that I'm not going to contribute to his blatant self-promotion.

I don't know Mr Wales and I have no opinion on him as a person, but I can't help but recoil every time I see his face on Wikipedia. It just doesn't bring out the philanthropist in me. Sorry. I'm probably a bad person. Or something.
When I took linguistics, we studied "expletive infixation" in two of our courses -- and in American English, the main example of that is the word "fuck", as in "abso-fucking-lutely".

My first professor had no problems leading the class with that example, whilst my second professor became very timid during that lesson and had us use "bloody" from British English instead. It's amusing to me that even linguistic professors can become shy at the sound of an obscene word -- the taboo-ness is that ingrained into us.

More on expletive infixation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive_infixation
The key point of this article is that when you make decisions that are meant to optimize profits and lower costs, you're mortgaging your future. The money quote is that companies forget about the knowledge that's lost forever which prevents companies from further innovations in the future. But the argument can be made that companies can re-use the savings and re-invest in innovation. Look at Apple: they manufacture where it's cheap (China), but they keep design and innovation in the US.
�berweisung an richtige BLZ und Konto aber falsches Bankinstitut?
Not sure if this is really breakthrough stuff. Gladwell finds that a minimum IQ and hours practiced is what translates to becoming good, great, etc.

This article states that once you have achieved that level than talent starts to matter. Uh, yah. I think we are all aware from simply watching professional sports that at a certain point the practice can only help so much. To be a Lebron James you not only need practice but a unique level of god given talent. Natural talent is why we have legends in every field of professionals. This is not really a breakthrough or news to most of us.
I'm 42. I've lived long enough to see mining engineers unemployed (they're hot now); aeronautics engineers working as tourist guides; a scientist who helped somebody win a Nobel prize working odd jobs; doctors doing menial work http://www.adtoa.org/index.pl?page=468 , and post-dotcom engineers who moved back in with their parents.

Do not for any moment think that a hard technical field is necessarily superior. What we study and how we fare is actually an adaptive feature. Just as natural selection isn't about survival of the fittest, rather survival of the best adapted; whether some one is employed or not is a not function of whether they studied "hard" skills or not, but rather whether their skills are adapted to present economic conditions.

Unfortunately, the economy is fickle. Enjoy your time in the sun, and I hope it lasts long.
Won't wall street then just start outsourcing development to start-ups (and consequently, start-ups who focus on this lucrative market)? I don't see how shifting the talent around will stop the finance sector from developing new tech.
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When it comes to efficiency/effectiveness, I prefer to focus on "Do" instead of "Don't".

Richard Hamming (from "You and Your Research"):

1. What are the most important problems in your field?
2. Are you working on one of them?
3. Why not?

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

Paul Graham's (from "Good and Bad Procrastination") generalization of Richard Hamming:

What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?

http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

edw519's generalization of Paul Graham:

Work on the most important thing until it's not the most important thing any more.

I have developed this excellent/horrible habit of not being able to focus on very much of anything if there was something more important hanging over my head.

Excellent in keeping me from trivial pursuits. Horrible at meal time, bed time, other people time. I'm still a work in progress.
>and a ceramics kiln (which you can't fire in your kitchen) //

Not [yet] suitable for this purpose but you can get a kiln that fits in your microwave!

http://www.google.com/search?q=microwave+oven+kiln
The more energy the other party expends on you before salary is brought up, the better. Then get them to mention the first number and then explain that your counter-offer is the real number.

It was a different scenario, but I had a funny manifestation of the energy expended thing. I was doing contracting at a company whose senior guy was leaving imminently. He trained me up to do the work he was doing then left. There I was having been handed a lot of critical knowledge before the company even offered to hire me as staff and negotiate salary.
The old way of doing this was to put it in a sealed envelope and mail it to yourself - with the postmark being the timestamp.

As for your ideas, there are several projects on kickstarter et. al. that do handle things like that. One of the more recent ones was the Global Village Construction kit.

Try it out, see if you can get funding.
>the assumption is that you are a cookie cutter, untalented programmer

What is it exactly that a finance programmer does? I've honestly no idea and would love to know out of curiosity.