skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you missed the point. the point is that the distribution model has changed and parties interested in participating has increased. this doesn't mean that the larger parties with deep pockets no longer participate. but if you are implying that competition has not increased and won't increase because making games, good or bad, costs less then you would be wrong.

the average game does cost less to make, because there are a lot more low-budget games out there.

the game changes when the distribution model changes.
No, not really. It was about maintenance work.
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This paper seems the key to the problem!

I'll search if there are more related work.

Thanks for he link!
Primarily Facebook (they're FB's #1 advertiser IIRC), but they also had big-budget offline promotions with the likes of 7Eleven, where you could (bastardizing the heck out of this) buy a bag of branded chips and get a free thing of special potato seeds in-game.
Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up
>> The Internet has solved #1. Any content can be distributed to any one in the world for an effective cost of $0.

Very few people actually have the ability to distribute content on the web at an effective enough level to make money off of the content produced. Currently the majority of these people are people with huge YouTube channels.

It is very hard for anyone to distribute good content even if they have money. The problem of good content getting distribution is not solved.
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"You're looking to tear down something without suggesting something else to take its place. In fact if you succeed what you'll have done is to shift more wealth to people who are already wealthy (by societies standards). You will have destroyed a system paying thousands of people $30,000 in favor of a startup that pays hundreds of people $150,000 a year."

Tom, I'm sorry that this has just become apparent to you, but this has been the very purpose of a startup since the term was coined. Best case scenario for a startup is to spark a totally new niche and find a totally new audience, but this is rare. Most startups just end up replacing brick and mortar businesses of old and eating their paying customer base. This is economics at its finest, and most definitely leads to a poor outcome for the businesses which are cannibalized.

Labeling people as "good" and "bad" is a futile exercise. Capitalism is a mad scramble to extract wealth from everyone else as fast as possible, with whatever means necessary. To do this lawfully, you usually need to provide some value to paying customers. However, many businesses do it by simply convincing customers that they are receiving value, and do very well (e.g. Zynga).

From the tone of your article, it appears you have just understood that this system will lead to severe wealth inequality spanning orders of magnitude. This is again, a perfectly well understood outcome of the system. The societal and moral ramifications have been largely ignored due to the imbalance of power between owners of capital and those without. Thus, to have a say in the game, one must play it, and become very successful (i.e. a billionaire). In the process of becoming a billionaire, you will find that your views on this matter will change very rapidly in tandem with your net worth. Before you know it, you are advocating for less capital gains tax, more free trade and reduced government. You will see those Occupy Wall St. protesters as pathetic hooligans and low lives, who simply lack the motivation and willpower to make something of themselves. You will petition congress to protect your business interests, and pay handsomely to do so. You will support politicians who maintain order and those who crack down fiercely on all forms of business which are in direct competition to your own. If you are a film industry exec, you will lobby very hard (with SOPA and PIPA, perhaps) against new distribution channels such as Megavideo, Piratebay, etc. which give content away without due royalties. You will be apathetic to anyone who does not understand how this world works, particularly those with low or no net worth who have no say in these important decisions.

Welcome to the game of life. There are very few winners, and most people are losers. The only salvation for the losers is ignorance; to understand the game is to hate it. There is only one other way...play, and win.
The Atlantic has an interesting take on this, quite in line with your point about mid-level skills:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/making-i...

the take-away is that American companies can be, and are, very competitive in some areas of manufacturing thanks to automation. But automation requires a relatively small number of these high- and mid-skilled workers to design things and operate machines. the layer below them - when, for various reasons, they are even still employed in the US - doesn't earn enough to make middle-class (they earn 10x Chinese workers, but that's not enough for a home even in low cost areas such as S. Carolina).
And GP proposed a method to limit them: give buyers better information. It seems you don't really disagree.
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Well, the CH IS an example of a statement that is undecidable in ZF. Once you include is as an axiom, you essentially bypass the need to use ZF to justify it (or prove it). So, just because you are able to include the CH as an axiom, doesn't mean it is not an example of a undecidable statement within a given set of axioms. Does that make sense?
Ignore the startup cliques, just get sh*t done
You can try TopCoder. They're not quite the same as e-lance. My company used them for a little while. The Quality of work we got was amazing, with bills to match. As long as you're confident in your abilities, feel free to give it a shot.

From talking to a couple of the guys that work for TopCoder, unfortunately, the dynamics work out in a way such that a small percentage of the community there consistently win and actually make real money, while the other 90+% linger.

If you're confident in your abilities then I'd definitely give it a try.
most likely a spy/connected to a spy system/something similar. The story is just a front.
Yes, but I think that much of the public sentiment is that the very same mass media not covering ACTA is the one behind this kind of policies. So, they try to make it impossible for them not to cover the story. Sadly, I fear that this kind of action may be presented as valid examples of why the Internet must be regulated.
Let me know if I can help anyway: scripts, source code, bandwidth.
I can find no evidence of anyone registering "Scala" as a trademark for a programming language. www.scala-lang.org never indicates there is a trademark or uses any usual trademark symbol.

I expect I'll be receiving an apology for your condescending assault on my intelligence?
>Keep in mind that it is an American company that these workers are manufacturing products for.

Keep in mind that the work is not taking place in Cupertino, but rather in places like Longhua. Also keep in mind Apple is a multinational corporation, and that Apple products are sold in places other than the US, and that Apple's international competitors don't pay US wages to manufacture their products.

>Should we as Americans feel good about ourselves for giving work to overseas workers that is better than their baseline, but still represents shit work that we ourselves would never do?

Yes, as a matter of fact. Because this is the way poor people become not-poor people. Economic growth is the basis for improved living standards.
The "keys" in this case are his own property, and any banners he might want to put up are being put up on his own property, so your supposed point makes no sense.
[quote]“That's our math; that's not what the company says,” [/quote]

sounds like crystal gazing to me.
To everybody in this thread: I absolutely should have marketed the hell out of this thing. What was interesting to me was the uptake without putting in that effort. I agreed whole-heartedly that I would have had much better results if I had actually done things 'properly'.
Actually, yes.

To be more precise, the rise of WebM-enabled browser market share ignores its WebM altogether.

People use Chrome or Firefox because it's faster than IE, it has automatic update, it supports more CSS3 features (i.e. it renders more beautiful web site). I never once heard people choosing Chrome/FF over IE/Safari because of WebM.

Don't forget that all this browser still support flash with H.264 codec and most website still have flash video fallback. Hell, most website only use Flash video player.

It might just well be the article about rising maket share of Browser with green icon or some other silly factor, and statement like "Yes, the rise of green-icon browsers market share ignore this fact" would have been equally correct.

Not that it has anything to do with your parent comment missing the point of the article.
I'm almost an old guy (50 in May), I'm the guy who makes the LEGO-compatible iPhone 4/4S and iPod Touch cases (www.smallworks.com)

We recently moved the molds for these out of China, and back to the US, in order to save money. The production costs are nearly equivalent to those in China, and the 6 week 'float' of cash while the product is on the boat is a huge PITA.

tl;dr: I think your boss is wrong.
His example is to do with the first theorem. There are two incompleteness theorems. The one most people think of when they hear Godel is the second even though the first is key. The first one has to do with decidability - for any given statement from a theory is it algorithmically verifiable given the axioms of the theory? If you can encode the natural numbers with its axioms and pose <handwave>certain relations</handwave> with that encoding then no. This ties Godel's work to Turing. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec3.html

Here is a list of undecidable statements in ZFC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_undecidable_...
True enough. The 'build it once, sell it forever' aspect is pretty compelling - but you do need that up-front effort. Unfortunately I haven't been able to muster the extra time since then to make something new.
Technically, what is required to overtake Elsevier is to retain the same level of editorial oversight, and then to provide more quality signals.

Sadly, none of the business roles of Elsevier can be replaced by an academic, whose schedule is busy enough.

What I'd like to see is more "republishing", like "reblogging" where instead of a journal being a one-shot affair, it is gradually cited up, and then eventually meets a threshold to be republished in a more important journal.
A UK factory job might not be fashionable, but thanks to unions, they pay fairly well, easily twice or three times what supposedly-educated people make at any call-centre (possibly excluding credit-collection ones -- they make some real dough in commissions). There is no "free overtime" or other white-collar euphemism for unpaid work, automation has made workload extremely light for almost everyone, and good luck firing them without hefty compensation.

The problem with these jobs, apart from perceived low social status, is that they tend to be few and far between, mostly because of automation, high startup costs and low margins in the industrial sector.
Making money from the fallout over SOPA and PIPA by questioning assumptions
Multi-mode WiFi drivers became the norm less than 10 years ago. The trick here may be getting all the devices involved in a given AirDrop session on the same channel.
When talent can easily find opportunity, how do you retain talent?
>Isn't this a little weird, given that MSFT wants people to use "managed code"

What's really weird is MS sell a C++ compiler they don't want people to use!

>Or is it telling us that people who get to choose (free software) aren't going to be using C++11?

That'd be a real shame, for people to miss out on C++11 goodness just because they're MS-phobic.
Much in the same way the Poul Anderson story "Sam Hall" progressed. "Sam Hall" originally started as an fake record entry, but then slowly people in a rebellion started to use his name as a symbol. The decentralized nature of Anonymous lends itself well to this.

Also highly recommend the short story, really good fun.
I didn't see he forgot to return the keys (owned by the company). He asked for help to transition it off. No one came, so he just shut it down.

Yes. I can see how everyone's life is a bit harder since he has stopped providing free product and service for them. Well, they had a free ride to begin with.
I think that is one variant of his point and you have completely missed it. Who in the "community" should own the "trademark"? Did someone register it? Do "they" represent the community?
Most of the information (in english) about joining/current progress are being twitted in here - https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousWiki

They've taken down quite a few websites that I wouldn't really associate with acta. There is also quite a lot of people making general mess around the situation. Nevertheless, I've never seen an action like that in the Polish "corner" of the Internet, quite remarkable.
To be clear this is an explanation of the consequences of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Also, there's very little incentive for gaming the system by ordinary users. Karma points give you no advantage whatsoever, and it's more of a running joke than anything substantial.

Redditors' reputation is depends on their actions, not points, badges, friends or any other "scoring" system. This makes for a way more dynamic and sustainable meritocracy than sites who's system tends to create an incumbent elite of power users.
The compiler with probably the most existing support right now is gcc 4.7. I've been hearing that C++11 may become the standard mode as of 4.8.

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/cxx0x_status.html
Sorry, should be

HISTIGNORE=ssh*

(the pattern has to match the entire line.)

Like many shell variables, this one is a colon-separated list.
Your Samsung Android smart phone,Sony TV, Xbox, Dell laptops, etc. are all manufactured by the exact same people.
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+1 your analysis is correct.

This kind of large scale box-office-hit manufacturing is not coming back.

However, there is still opportunity for smaller scale manufacturing centers to be established outside. These typically involve smaller batches, more specialist products.
Engineers love to solve problems. Hollywood has become a problem.
It shows that a poor performance review measures the reviewer as much as the reviewed.
Hi impendia:

I'm an academic scientist. There are still huge problems with Elsevier in science, but there has been a huge amount of progress in making open-access journals more prestigious, which may work in mathematics. My favorite example is the collection of PLoS journals (Proceedings of the Library of Science). PLoS Biology was started in 2003, and in 6 years, they became the highest ranking Biology journal according to the traditional (though perhaps highly flawed) impact factor rankings. This is significant, because there's more money invested into research in biology/medicine than all other disciplines combined, so winning in such a monetized market represents a great step forward.

The best part of the PLoS journals is that anyone anywhere can read them, you can send them to your colleagues, since they're licensed under Creative Commons. And they tend to have the best user interface of any of the journals' online access sites.

There's a downside in that PLoS journals tend to ask for contributions from publishing authors to help cover costs. This is less of an issue for, say, a large biology lab with millions of dollars in funding, than it is for a theoretical physicist, or in your case, a mathematician. I think it would be worthwhile to add a part to grants asking for money for publishing in open-access journals. I don't know how grants work in mathematics, but in biology they're pretty flexible.
1. This has nothing to do with the decision in Citizens United. This is about anti-trust regulation, which regulates collusive behavior, not speech. Any speech incidental to such a conspiracy (whether to rob a bank or fix wages in a labor market) is not protected anyway, whether it's an individual or a corporation speaking.

2. Please don't misrepresent the decision in Citizens United to make it stand for something which it does not. The holding in Citizens United was not that corporations == natural persons or that corporations have the same rights as natural persons. The holding was that that natural persons don't lose their rights to free speech (paid for with their own funds) because they join together into legal associations. Similar to how natural persons don't lose their 4th amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure or their 5th amendment protections against the government seizing their property when they form such associations.
The ungrateful comments here just strengthen David's point.
I believe the best discussion and status on P2P-DNS is at http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/1247228/continuing-t...
Majority of Megaupload traffic came from France, not US
You are still missing it completely.
We thought about doing that a long time ago, but then figured all you would see is a bunch of comments that were just "." or something similarly useless.

There would be no reasonable way to force people to make a useful comment.
I might pay a one-time amount for this kind of application, but a subscription service to manage email ? Not going to happen.
I appreciate Microsoft's renewed commitment to native code but I'm rather disappointed at the limited C++11 support in the upcoming Visual Studio 2012 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.a... especially when compared with gcc and clang.

gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

clang: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

To pick a few examples, range-based for, variadic templates, and non-static data member initializers are huge improvements to the language.
Thanks, good ideas. I think notifying clients is the best thing to do. The thing I'm most worried about are technical issues, and not being able to resolve them fast. Hiring a freelance developer to cover the shift could work.
not paid in overtime, but with a biscuit.-

The article doesn't say that. Work was on, and people were woken up, given a quick supper and the men/women were on to it. That is service.
I wonder if this work has an implication in markets where the buyer is unable to react quickly to price fluctuations. For instance markets where the buyer is tied to monthly fees and contracts like in the telecomm industry is the cartel effectively institutionalized?
When Digg went belly up, reddit already had double the traffic Digg had at peak.
Polish people tend to always think that protesters are right just because they protest and the Government is wrong just because it is the Government. Hence, I wouldn't worry too much about this what the Government will tell to the public about the protesters. The public will know better as it always does in Poland.

Actually, this is just one of the reasons why I live in Poland even though I'm an US citizen. People just distrust the Government and the media here so much. It is fantastic!
I guess in someways you can say that measure of your resourcefulness is what you do when you don't know what to do.
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… or "A Story And An Advice".
The EPFL owns it, especially the logo he is also using. And no, registering is not always a requirement.
I'm totally in this camp - I prefer to watch something on my home theater system. More comfy seats, fills more of my field of vision, better schedule, better treats, watch in my jammies...

But my wife likes to go out to the movies. So we go out.

I expect that other forms of entertainment and other ways of producing content will coexist with the "legacy" model for some time.
The article said that most of the high value componentry came from Germany, Japan and Taiwan. I'm not aware of these people working under slavish conditions. Could it be that the US companies don't have sufficient technical edge?
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It pays to consider your audience and how well you've presented it to them. Gödel mentioned his first incompleteness theorem in the presence of a bunch of mathematicians at a conference, and nobody present paid any attention to him, except John Von Neumann, who caught on immediately. Everybody else required a little more time (and a fuller presentation of the idea) before they understood what he was working on.

Whether we are Kurt Gödel or just some schmuck, I think it's fair to say that we all are surrounded by a fair share of idiots but know at least one person who is capable of understanding anything we understand, assuming we understand it well enough to explain it to them.
I'm sorry, but all I read here is the suggestion to accommodate greed instead of music or art.

Which may be perfectly sound (no pun intended) advice for anyone trying to do a startup related to the music industry, but it has nothing to do with disrupting it.

Disrupting the music industry would be taking all of that unsustainable crap that turns the artist into "a package" out of the equation, not perpetuating it.
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Sorry. I think we should try having a constructive debate again, that was lost a bit it seems.
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How would that help those people though? Presumably these people are not forced to work in those factories, so just moving their jobs to robots in America isn't going to help them. It would only help them if the premium is going to the workers (and you could probably make do with less than $100: assuming that the workers get $5 of the $6.50, increasing the price of the phone by $100 and giving it to the workers would give them 20x additional salary).
You better tell that to Alex Ortiz http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/nyregion/shopping-for-chri... who worked two jobs to make ends meet. That sounds like 16 hour shifts to me.
I hesitate because there is a difference in my mind between a stated policy and something that is discouraged from the top due to a phone conversation or one time email.
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I forgot that political parties had to pay for TV time in the US and how this influences elections. In Germany, we actually have (nearly?) the system Joel describes with equal time for everybody which has some interesting consequences:

* I don't think campaign financing is that big of a deal in Germany

* There are a lot of TV ads from politically extreme or plain weird parties during election time. There also is a satirical party that makes pretty funny ads.

* The politically extreme parties can refund their advertising costs if they are above a certain threshold of votes, which causes some controversy

Edit for clarity: of course every party can refund their expenses, but for politically extreme parties this is controversial
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Physics PhD who did his research in complex systems (how sand supports weight)...

Usually these complex systems consist of parts where the individual interactions are thought to be well understood but the aggregate behavior is not (aka non-linear).

In the case of sand, you can pretty much model the forces acting on a single grain/particle using intro physics but you wouldn't expect the long-range force chains you see in static piles or avalanches when more sand is added.