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Isn't the question how English speakers should form plurals for their vocabulary, though? Nobody is arguing that you should use "viruses" as the plural when writing articles in Latin.

I mean, despite being Greek, I don't particularly object to the fact that most of the Greek loanwords in English fail to fully follow Greek grammar when people speak English. For example, phobias rather than phoboi or phobioi has become the accepted plural of phobia. Heck, people don't even decline my name properly when speaking to me, since English doesn't use the vocative case.
> This data center likely created hundreds, if not thousands of jobs. It's just that most of them aren't in hicksville, NC.

Well, yes. But it's worth taking note of the point that Governments subsidizing the creation of data centers in places like hicksville, NC with the idea that the jobs they create will become a huge boon to the local hicksville economy is fundamentally mistaken.

Aside from a skeleton staff to main the facility, most of the work is, as you say, create for people who will never need to set foot in North Carolina. The local jobs aren't bad for Hicksville, but they don't justify the huge subsidies, and they aren't going to ever save hicksville from economic irrelevancy.
I see the same at my current company. I think it's because it operates on a market with a huge barrier of entry.

My guess is that the more regulated and inefficient the company, the more you see sociopaths and the like in them.
wrt subdomains: they're actually in the page source, but not shown. This makes it trivial to enable them via JS. Here's an example using dotjs, but it'd be just as easy via Greasemonkey or otherwise:

https://github.com/sant0sk1/dotfiles/blob/master/js/news.yco...
If they're counting jobs at Apple HQ, there are FAR more than 50 jobs associated with this data center.

They're talking about the people who report to work in the actual data center building. And that's an incredibly stupid way to measure the job creation of a cloud data center, given that its entire purpose in life is to allow remote access of its information.
There are at least two reasons that's impossible. First, liars are smart. Second, not everyone spouting an untruth is a liar. If a person doesn't know he's uttering a falsehood, then the fact is unlikely to influence his style — or his speech spectrum or cadence or direction of gaze, etc.
If your documents are complete (no js-generated extra requests to get actual content) but your default rendering is flaky without trusting your js, I consider that shoddy work but not an existential threat to the web.
Only when the mood strikes. It didn't above.

"Who uses Opera?" seems to me a perfectly valid sentiment in favor of not spending one's limited energies on making sure something renders correctly for it. Hell, in a cousin, the abundantly reasonable admin of the linked site reports it's less than 1% of their traffic.

Like I said, arcane. Worry about what real users use, I say.
The Sony CD plant in Terre Haute, IN employs ~ 1,400 [1]. I know they have other plants, but I think that is it for the Eastern US. And, it's pretty much the only company in the country that produces physical media, so other CD pressing plants are pretty rare.

[1] http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net/main.asp?SectionID=31&#...

Edit: According to http://www.sonydadc.com/en/locations/, the only production facility in the US is in Terre Haute...
For examples we should also be looking at all the immigrants that are working hard growing the companies - startups, small medium and large businesses they are employed for.
If you can't beat them, join them. Figure out what technologies are destroying jobs and be one of the job destroyers.
PG may have been talking to "a hacker someone like myself", but arbitrarily defining "you" is a bit of a fallacy in my opinion. If "you" can mean that, then why can't "you" refer just to the subset of people that could start successful companies?

Sorry for the semantics argument, but I don't really think PG (or anyone) can use "you" to refer anyone but whoever reads their work.
Yeah but last time i checked, Canada is not part of the U.S. and with a visa and ticket, that should be enough for him, if somebody wants to grill me it should be a Canadian Immigration agent.
Ask HN: Do you want a Stackoverflow style Q&A site for Shopping?
Power plant configuration screens open to the internet
How to prevent scraping?
I've gone and built an extensive website for nursing students (that took forever to populate with data) but I'm wary of launching it until I learn how to prevent or minimize automated scraping of the content.

I thought about showing a teaser and requiring login to see everything, but then I lose out on google juice, no?

It's an LAMP environment. Any thoughts?
According to the bureau of labor statistics jobs in software industries are set to massively increase, so who's right
For a very good look at life in these cities for workers see Last Train Home, a superb, emotionally-tense documentary following a Chinese family from a farming community as they move to the city for work in a clothing factory (without making any statement about conditions). I found it a really accessible and poignant film to understand a little better the Chinese drive towards personal independence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_Home_(film)
Solving Instagram's Unshredder with Mechanical Turk and $0.50
Less insulting to whom, exactly?
In such an economy, unemployment isn't the problem - resource allocation is. With decreasing numbers of jobs, the old "get a job to get money to get food" solution breaks down. An alternative solution could be for the government to provide a base level of necessities to the entire population. For example, it is within our current technology level (the US overproduces food, and various farms lay unused) to provide a 2000 calorie per day ration to our entire population. By replacing minimum wage laws and welfare checks, which simply drive inflation, with explicit grants for necessities (food, shelter, clothing) we can maintain higher levels of unemployment without perverting the capitalism-based incentive structures in other areas of our economy. That is, we want people to be motivated to better themselves by the prospect of those traditional capitalist rewards, and we don't want a solution which simply gives raw money away because a percentage, perhaps a significant percentage, will be misspent on luxuries rather than necessities and would likely reduce motivation to seek gainful employment.

TLDR: A two-tier economy based on enabling luxuries for those who work and providing a ration of necessities for all members of the society, scaled by our technology level, will enable us to sustain the higher levels of unemployment driven by technological advances.
I don't think it is as common as it should be, I know plenty of kids in school who claim studying while high helps increase their grades, only to watch them scratch their heads in confusion when they've nearly failed a test.
What if your startup doesn't make any money
This crisis is becoming increasingly worrisome. and things are now deteriorating rapidly in the Eurozone. It appears that the pace has quickened considerably, with bad news almost every day.

Yesterday Belgium was downgraded by Standard and Poors, the day before Germany was unable to sell all of the bonds it offered on sale, the day before that Italy had to pay an unsustainable 7% on new bonds.

Unfortunately I have trouble seeing a short-term solution, though I hope there is one as the alternative is really really scary.
89% Of Companies Will Use Social Media To Recruit
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Fortunately for students education had fewer licensing requirements than healthcare. This allowed for the home school loophole, and for a network of alternative education providers to slowly grow and flourish outside of government control. Healthcare faces much stricter regulations as to who can provide care and how they administer it, so I expect much less change and improvement.
PayPal is linked to a checking account usually, so I don't see how that's safe. I use one and only one Amex for all online purchases. If anything goes wrong, cancel the one card...start over.
I've experienced this form of procrastination a lot and I've found out that the best way to overcome it is to clean my desk, remove everything that isn't relevant to the work I want to get done and then dive into it. I'll usually be put in the zone within a few minutes after doing this.
Germany benefited greatly from this (net exporters benefit from a weaker currency -- see China) and Greece and other nations were hurt.

You've got it backwards.

Germans worked hard producing goods which they turn around and send to people outside Germany. This is a net loss for the Germans. In contrast, the Greeks received a bunch of goods and services they didn't need to work as hard for. This was good for them.

A weaker currency may be good for companies with domestic liabilities and foreign customers, but it's very bad for consumers with domestic customers (their employer) and foreign liabilities.
Any time you spend thinking about this is a waste. You can't stop scraping on the web, period. And any halfass attempt you make to try it is going to kill you on SEO as you already suspect.
How many schools are in this city? Or anyone over 10 years old automatically gets a job at the factory? Nice!
First, most Americans fall outside Medicare, Medicaid and the VA programs. The government currently does not regulate individual/employer coverage. I would not characterize the entire private insurance industry as an "employer-provided insurance ghetto" - what does that even mean?

The whole second paragraph makes it clear that you don't understand the complexities of the Healthcare industry. You provide very broad brush statements like "allow insurance competition across state lines", the complexities of that single issue alone are staggering. Are you aware that the strength of most in-state insurance carriers is their in-state network. An insurance company IS it's network. In addition each individual state has a Department of Insurance which also regulates all carriers in that state. DOI rules and regulations vary from state to state. Expanding your coverage to another state is a very complex undertaking.

Also, Individual groups do have the ability to purchase healthcare - see many professional organizations(AIGA, etc) as working examples of this today.

In either case, making those changes won't just magically open the industry to "the web and to innovative, competitive forces". There are already competitive forces at play. Any new player attempting to join the fray faces an uphill battle just in the regulatory aspects of the business alone.

What do the advantages of the web and new technologies bring to insurance? How do these changes the provider networks which are the backbone of major insurance coverage today? These are the types of questions which need to be posed, and the people in the best position to answer these questions and change the game are insurers themselves. There are many smart and talented people working in insurance. The recent proposed Healthcare changes have helped to begin the process of moving forward and thinking differently, but with an industry like this it will take time.

It is happening, insurance providers are looking at new technologies and ways to provide the coverage that people expect, for lower costs, in new and different ways.
It's /really/ hard to manage the world's largest GDP effectively.

If any country can do it, it's the US. The universities attract the smartest students from all over the world, and have the best faculty in the world by a large margin. The government simply needs to figure out how to harness all the brainpower to solve real-world problems.
Absolutely. But it appears that the fault falls clearly on the NC state government, which according to the article debated for less than a minute before awarding Apple $46 million in tax breaks.

The irony is that Apple basically used Republicans' blind allegiance to Job Creators to get huge tax breaks that will allow them to hire hundreds of people in the Socialist tax-happy hellhole of California, where most of the best knowledge workers live.
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Right on. Manna by marshall brain is a scifi about this.
I really like Taleb, but I think his quote is a bit wrong. I love to just pick up my guitar and try to learn songs by ear but I usually find myself procrastinating against doing such things. I try to take procrastination as a sign that I've been doing too much of one thing and need to start doing other things (The thing I've been doing too much =/= what I am procrastinating against).
So you're trying to argue that it is theoretically impossible for any virus to kill 50% of a population?

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qubTdDk1H3IC&pg=PA205... : "fatality rates of 80–90% in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics"
If you buy one indie game soundtrack buy the Machinarium soundtrack. Insanely good as an album in its own right.
The trolly-ness was specifically the sentence I quoted. Anyone who is already aware of Opera (more people than you might think, usage != awareness) will not have any trouble acquiring it. I have numerous non-technical acquaintances that use it on their often aging hardware. It's not like we're talking about elinks here or something.
which is why real safety nets, like a basic income stipend need to put in place. even milton friedman wanted a negative income tax put in place
Why do you think he is talking about you here, and not just commenting on the photography world generally?
Yeah, numbers got messed in my little brain. It's 200K Pakistanis and 80K Swedes.
Abstracts have two problems:

They are very short and the only way of getting a bit more details is to read the whole article. It should zoom smoothly.
For some reason authors tend to withhold something important from the abstract. If they write what they did, they don't tell what they got; if they tell the result, no clues on how they figured it out.
Black Friday Shoppers Destroy WalMart Displays [video]
At 775 kg it's too heavy to do the bouncy thing like Pathfinder.
most european countries have such a xenophobic system, but the uk, canada, iraland, new zealand, and australia have really open systems in place
Why Companies Should Not do a B or C Round with a VC
I don't think the debate is between xmonad and some WM. The debate is between Ubuntu's Gnome set-up before Unity and Ubuntu's set-up with Unity.

Ubuntu's Gnome set-up was never been like xmonad or even a tiling window manager and neither is Unity. It seems to me that, as far as you're concerned, Ubuntu's default set-up sucks just as much as it always has.

edit: fixed mis-wording in second paragraph.
>"The government currently does not regulate individual/employer coverage."

Are you sure about that? Last I checked, the feds mandate an immense number of details about how private insurance is provided, and that is only growing with the new health care law.

>"I would not characterize the entire private insurance industry as an "employer-provided insurance ghetto" - what does that even mean?"

1 of every 2 dollars spent in health care in the US is spent by the government. These three programs are clearly the 800 pound gorillas in the room. Medicare's price controls directly drive shortages and oversupply, and its billing practices set the standard for the rest of the industry.
There's a 17 month extension, to 29 months, if you graduated in a technical/STEM field under Optional Practical Training (OPT) which I think you're referencing: http://www.nafsa.org/regulatory_information.sec/regulatory_d...

"But I disagree with author's suggestion that all US-educated graduates must be given green cards. A lot of them came to US to study because they could afford it (often via wealthy parents). I don't think it's fair to give green cards only because they graduated from a US university thanks to their rich parents." Very insightful!

However, the green card wait times are more due to scarcity, with many more people entering the green card pipeline than by law can exit each year, rather than slow bureaucracy.

I agree re: the future of immigration policy, but I think the talent war is even more important than you think. Right now, and since the 60s, US immigration policy has been aligned on a family-unification platform, and with strict numerical limits, a huge percentage of American immigration is taken up by family-based immigration. As liberal and pleasing as it is, it's going to have to go, as America will have to fully enter the competition for top talent.
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This got less than a day time for us to look through bitterly sceptical in order to hopelessly in love with Amazon’s Amazon kindle (£89 Corporation. Vat. It really is ideal reading through and if, just like us all, you have shelving bursting with hardbacks, paperbacks, text book as well as the infrequent paper, the idea of having everything about in the 165g container that’s just 7mm thicker will be unbelievable.
The only part of the equation you have any control over is the quality of your own work, and when you see others who value technical expertise over compositional sensitivity, you can choose to take it as an indication of what you intend to do and avoid, rather than something you need to be deeply offended by.

The internet is full of amateurs who fetishize their gear, as well as many very talented people, and there's no shortage of material for you to get worked up over, if that's your thing. If you're truly concerned that this is endemic in the tech crowd, and that concern comes from a place of compassion as opposed to judgment, you can always write your own tutorial on photographic composition -- think of how many people you'd be helping! On the other hand, if it makes you feel better to put others down for what you perceive as their artistic shortcomings, and offer nothing in the form of advice, one might get the impression you're trying to compensate for your own insecurity at the expense of others, hence the tepid response here. As an artist you stand to lose nothing on account of the creative decisions of others.
you missed the whole first point. Anyways, i'm happy you are happy with your answer.
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different scale though, most of canada is still empty and natives can roam free if they want
What a ridiculous diatribe. The site works fine, as do the audio previews.

You're complaining because the site doesn't support iceweasel and bitcoin? I'd wager this isn't the first site you've had those issues with.
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"they look like posers

That is entirely in your own head. If you go around judging people that much, how can you possibly feel about yourself?"

Also, why should you live your life based on how someone else perceives you? Surely the poster above you feels that this is wrong.
Demand Of Ice Cubes From Commercial Ice Machine Is Reasonably Enormous.
The bottom line is this: How do you assess one's talent? If this were possible then a system could work, otherwise it will never be perfect.
"You're doing art differently me from me, therefore you're wrong."

This is a silly argument. There is nothing wrong with enjoying photographic equipment and settings without enjoying the "art" of capturing moments on film. People with $2000 cameras taking bad pictures have a $2000 camera because they think playing with fine machinery is fun: the output is irrelevant to them. It's a hobby and the goal is enjoyment, so there is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

I'm not even sure how it's worth the time to write an article like this. All I got out of it is "I'm bad at my hobby and so is everyone else, but everyone else is having fun without me! Don't they understand that they're bad!?"

(I hear this a lot on bicycling fora: don't play with the components on your bike, go ride! That's great, but some of us like playing with components and riding, so we're going to do both. Do I need a $3000 bike for my two hours a day I spend on it? Nope. Do I have one anyway? Yup. Why? Because I think it's cool and it makes me enjoy life more. If that's a problem for you, don't tell me, because I don't care.)
when it comes to people's lives, though, we can't brush things of with stats. There really are millions of people suffering, doesn't matter if it's an increase from before or not, jobs or a safety net should be front and center of public debate
According to Wikipedia, Erasmus Medical Center (or, for that matter, all of Rotterdam) only has labs rated up to Biosafety Level 3. This sounds like it should be the definition of BSL4. I wonder whether the research was conducted elsewhere, Wikipedia is wrong, or if they're really doing this in a BSL2 or BSL3 lab.
Unless you gave the immigrants with STEM PhDs greencards.
It just seems odd that a Yankee going to Texas is welcome but a foreigner taking the same job, paying the same US tax - but who was raised and educated at some other nations expense is somehow a threat.
GNUCash absolute basics for your business
A REALLY basic introduction for complete beginners, who may not even have seen an accounting program before.
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I believe humanity is approaching an important turning point that will either herald in a new era and a new way of thinking or there are going to be some dark times ahead.

The entire of human history has thus far been fueled by population growth. When there were 10 million of us, this wasn't a problem. When there were 100 million of us, this wasn't a problem. When there were 1 billion of us, it was mostly not a problem. Now as we zero in on 10 billion... it's becoming a problem.

The way our society and our economy works should in so many ways tell you this is true. Look at the urban decay that occurred in many American cities in the 20th century.

Urban decay post-WW2 was fuelled by the interstate system, the cheapening cost of owning a car and that it was cheaper to build new communities than it was to maintain existing infrastructure.

Some cities experienced negative population growth with devastating consequences (eg Detroit, Baltimore). Certainly in Detroit's case, there are large swathes of the city that really need to be returned to wilderness. But who's going to pay for the demolition, relocation and clean up?

The Western world is essentially dying with net migration being pretty much the only reason any Western country is growing at all. The social experiments of the early 20th century (ie state-funded retirement) are, at present rates, ultimately unsustainable when we get down to 3 or even 2 employed people pre retired person (initially it was in excess of 50 to 1 at least for Social Security).

An aging population is a natural consequence of slowing population growth, just like urban decay is. So far we've largely shown ourselves at being ill-equipped at dealing with either, except for politicking around migration, which basically just kicks that can further down the street.

It is my opinion that there need to be an awful lot less of us and there will be one day, one way or the other. As much as people point to space as a solution to these problems we have an economy built in basically digging not-that-deep holes for our metals. While there are metal-rich asteroids out there, the cost of moving, processing and using those materials is so many orders of magnitude more expensive (both realistically and conceivably) that I have to wonder if it will ever be comparable (although it might one day be viable just because every other way has become so expensive, which will be an earth-shattering adjustment for us all).

So migration is, I believe, a short term fix. But it doesn't address what I believe to be a key driver in unemployment: we're slowly automating our way out of the most unskilled jobs (and increasingly skilled jobs too). That too will be a challenge.