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The tech community is not a group of political people, we're too busy making things. But we've been forced into this position by epic stupidity and greed. Your points are well taken but the fact of the matter is we need to rise to this occasion and take responsibility for our world. No one else will do it for us. If that sounds to hard to people dont cry on my shoulder when it gets old or uninteresting, we need to stop being a bunch of easily distracted meme-junkies and actually get motivated by something other than bite sized chunks of internet candy. Have a mission, get committed. The best way I can imagine to do that is to form a unified front, a self identified group that have a good clear understanding of a generational struggle. And that's what this is. The civil rights for 21st century story basically summed that up for me I guess.
In Germany, it's not one long string of all candidates, but the TV channels have certain slots between shows that are semi-randomly assigned (semi-randomly in that each spot is shown equally often), with one party per slot.

That way it's a fair chance for every candidate, and people have less an incentive to turn off the TV - it's just one ad, after all.
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Either way, it creates panic. People would want to see if they're there. It's all about proper marketing really.
Yeah, I did both of those in my salary negotiations with Google. They talked me down from my starting salary, but they also increased my stock options & GSUs.

The other important point is - you are the only one who says "Yes" when asked "Is this acceptable to you?" If the free food is not worth $15-20K (which actually seems ridiculous - I've heard numbers for both what average employees value it at and what it actually costs Google, and they're nowhere close to that), then say "I'm sorry, I don't value my food that highly. I'll take the cash or go elsewhere." This, of course, requires that you have somewhere else to go. But remember that Google wants highly-qualified employees just as much as highly-qualified employees want to work at Google.
I'm curious now; how could a citation in a book be illegal?
That would mean sacrificing basic scientific principles - "cite at least the most relevant stuff" - for political reasons.
I don't think this is a good way for improving scientific publishing.
Man, I'm no expert here and I'm typing from memory but I'm pretty sure that astronauts experience retinal sparkles/flashes that are caused by particles that we're shielded from normally by our lovely planet. The particles hit the retina and trigger the perception of light. I'm sure that ultimately it's not a healthy thing.

Keep this in mind when we are all flying off to Mars or, you know, wherever.
So instead, it's time for googlebombing the sites out of the index? Might make more of an impact (longer-lasting, too) than the OpMegaupload DDoS.

Google can keep its moral highground, and the delisting is "for the people, by the people" ;-)
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This is not a weird example for that reason. For a given model, every statement is either true or false. Godel's Completeness Theorem says that a first-order theory is consistent if and only if it is true in some model. Therefore, for every undecidable statement there will be a model where it is true and a model where it is false.

These models can look very strange. For example, if ZF is consistent, then by the Second Incompleteness Theorem so is ZF + "ZF is inconsistent". By the Completeness Theorem, a model for this theory must exist. In this model ZF is inconsistent, so there is a 'proof' of a contradiction from the axioms of ZF. However, since we have assumed the consistency of ZF, such a 'proof' must necessarily involve nonstandard integers.
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Clearly this whole script kiddies war is doing more harm than good to either sides. It's not about skills or anything anymore and it doesn't matter if these credentials or the facebook credentials (posted earlier: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/israeli-hacker-posts-8216...) are even real.

I view harming innocent by-standers/civilians as a type of terrorism. Much like dropping a bomb in a populated area.
I only ever visit the programming subreddit. I used to prefer Hacker News but for my taste it has declined quite a bit of late, to the point where r/programming threads have approximately the same content quality with slightly less groupthink and much less self-seriousness.

(No, this isn't a quality post either, but it at least expresses my sincere if underexamined feelings.)
I don’t like censorship as much as the next guy, but to compare PIPA/SOPA to the Civil Rights movement is insulting.

Don’t get me wrong this is important, but it’s not in the same boat as destroying the toxic thinking “you’re not as much of a person as I am”
Google's Q4 miss had nothing to do with perks. They could eliminate all the perks and it wouldn't have made a dent in stock performance.

The earnings miss was by about $1/share, or $323M. That's about $10K per employee over the quarter. You really think Google spends $10K/employee/quarter on perks? I've heard numbers for the food costs, and you're overestimating by more than an order of magnitude.

I actually think perks today are significantly better than they were when I joined in Jan 2009. Cafes are open on weekends. There's more than one option for Friday dinner. They booked the whole Oracle Arena and took us all to see Cirque du Soleil. Cake played at Googleween. Random speakers like Sandra Day O'Connor, Lady Gaga, Carlos Santana, George R.R. Martin, and Bear McCreary show up for talks. We get random schwag more often.
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#4 for me, although jQuery is what is really doing all the heavy lifting.
It's bullshit. They were born into connected families and simply built on the advantages they already had.

It's not meritocracy when one person goes to an inner city ghetto school and another goes to an elite private school.

It's not meritocracy when the children of aristocrats are given bank loans while the working class get nothing.

Meritocracy and social mobility is the way to move society forward. Inherited opportunity, aristocracy, nepotism leads to stagnation.

Equal opportunity is not just an ideal, it is essential to economic growth.
As I've said on another thread:

It's basic agency theory - the economists who can't handle complexity take over dumb institutions (like most universities and governments), then insulate themselves against having to learn anything they aren't comfortable with. I guess the smarter ones work for Goldman Sachs, or work in university research departments, writing obscure papers that are never going to be compulsory reading because undergrad economics courses don't require hard-core math.
Thoughts on DeepSafe.
Absolutely agree. It seems to be really hard even for experienced researchers to assess which papers will be seen as important in the future [1].

However, maybe something like PageRank might work out well. The more citations your papers get, the more weight your reviews will have. Certainly, there are problems, like people learning how to game the ranking system.
On the other hand, the current system is certainly worse in this regard.

[1] http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2009/scientometricAnalys...
> has no obligation

Maybe so, but it would have prevented (or at least reduced) the backlash. Many people don't follow all the mailing lists or core-contributor communication channels, so a badge on the page to alert the casual users would have been a nice thing to do. Sure, he has no duty or obligation, but he knew people were using it, so he knew people were missing it, so he could have facilitated a more graceful transition if he wanted to maximize good will.
The current ruling elite are flaming the fans of theocracy. They are responsible for pushing the slave morality of evangelical Christianity on the pathetic and miserable masses.

If we don't disrupt the growing master/slave relationship occurring between the superrich and the Christian fascists, we WILL see the majority voting for theocracy and they will get it.

The solution is to promote reason and science as tools of social improvement - meritocracy - not fatalistic laissez-faire capitalism which is nothing more than plutocracy.
I would normally agree with that. Make it even $5 million per year if needed be. But I have one worry - that they become too disconnected with regular people. Then again, there aren't too many politicians these days who aren't already rich, so maybe that won't change too much.
Yes this is what I m talking about. Eastern Europe is also a target
You. are. evil.

You just reddit-bombed me and who knows how many HN'ers. 30 minutes gone and counting.
After quick grep of the files, I get < 15k emails. Likewise, not sure if they actually work.
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In my opinion there are some positive effects but overall it's really bad.

As you can see in the link in the sibling comment, the overhead of employing people in Brazil is quite big. Besides, there's also additional overhead due to a myriad of non-labour-related taxes, and living cost and the minimum wage are significantly higher than in China and SE Asia.

So while we do have a large industrial base, it's not like we have factories for every kind of product just because of protectionist tariffs.

That results in the curious situation of having to pay (say) U$1000 in Brazil for some Chinese-made product that can be had for U$500 in the US.
Let me put I bluntly if all homosexuals had third eye, it would never be selected for.
I think psychologically, it is better to be the one to blurt out the first number in order to take advantage of Anchoring Bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring). BUT, I think that this only applies when you have good knowledge about their salary range, or at least the market range, because you can start the conversation at the top of the range instead of the bottom. Discreetly trading salary data with a few friends can be quite beneficial I think.
Lobbying is corruption irrespective of how we cut it. Finding ways to abolish it should be the only goal.
Social science is based on statistics and philosophy. You betray your ignorance.

Right now you are entrusting your future to Rupert Murdoch and the Chinese Communist Party. They are the actors who will most shape your collective future.

Scientists are a much better option. Rule by experts - meritocracy - is the only way to save this dying economy.
It's a nice thought, but Google could be seen as making campaign donations in kind by doing so -- given that there's a monetary value associated with such media placements. Unless I'm mistaken, that's still illegal under current campaign financing laws.

That said, if Citizens United is any indication, Google could simply donate the money to buy the placements to a Super PAC, which could then buy the placements for each candidate back from Google. Sort of a silly workaround, but hey, it might be a fun way to subvert the outcome of Citizens United.
The point is that the slow removal of the food perks, according to the Google logic (or the Google employee/contractor, doesn't matter) is literally decreasing employees' pay by 15-20 thousand dollars per year. But it's done in a way that is not really noticeable; or if it is, Google has selected for the type of person who won't complain too much. It's very much a boiling frog situation. Ultimately it's not "wrong" or "against the law" - as you said, if a person finds her present economic situation unviable, she can go elsewhere. But that's a really big step down from their supposed "Do No Evil" policy. Google built up a huge amount of brand equity amongst tech employees; now they appear to be spending it, so it's important that we properly debit their account.
so perhaps the very best solution to stop the flow of jobs overseas is to start campaigning for Chinese work rights?
Interesting article, he has a few good points there.

I think Louis CK's workaround is also interesting (https://buy.louisck.net/). Instead of trying to make his performance video unhackable, he set it at a price low enough to not be worth the effort - and his sales soared through the roof.
This is the exact opposite of how to successfully negotiate. Maybe if your not confident in your worth, some company might offer you more than you would have suggested. However, the art to successful negotiation is to make a first offer on the high end of what is realistic so you can set an anchor point which limits how far the company can reasonably negotiate you down.
Similar to you, I'm a contracting dev working mostly from home, father to a 10 week old, here's some tips I found useful:

- getting into a routine is as important for the parents as the child, so after a few weeks try and get some sort of rota for the chores etc, and when the baby feeds. If your wife's breast feeding get her to express from 2 months onwards and you can then get 'shifts' where she does breast feeding during the nights and you take the early morning ones feeding via expressed bottle. You can plan extended coding sessions between these feeds without feeling guilty

- look into making batches of food you can freeze and heat up - stuff lie, pies, lasagne etc and load them up with veggies, you can then just zap them in microwave as you'll probably not have time for anything else, I made up a months worth of food.

- be prepared for lots of visitors and make sure they're aware that when your in your office your not to be disturbed, I kept coming out to say hello and it's easy to lose a few hours a day that way

- look into the baby Einstein DVDs - they're like baby crack and give you both 30 mins to jump in the shower/grab something to eat

- swap the runs for walking the baby, I take mine for 3-4 mile walks after the morning and leave the wife to catch up on sleep.
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If the camera is covered with tape, why can I still see the room in the image?
I can't see why it wouldn't. A clear and simple error message would allow people to fix it.
Google claims to want to hire smart people.

Google claims to these ostensibly smart people during the hiring process that the 'free food' is worth (cough) 20 grand in salary?!

I sense a disturbance in the force.
I am affiliated with Setkick,

and yeah - Setkick is aiming to digitise the project management of film & tv productions.

Managing a large scale film or tv show still relies on some quite archaic practises (and zillions of dead trees) - so again this is something that needs to be disrupted.
I don't think this explanation would really work on a 12 year old. I doubt it will work on most adults, who have been through college, but maybe that's just me.

By the way, if you're interested in learning actual proofs of Godel's Theorems, you should take a look at this book: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-G%25f6dels-Cambridge-Intr...

I haven't gone through all of it, but I've read much of the beginning. It actually starts off with easy proofs of Godel's Theorem, based much more on Computer Science explanations than Mathematical Logic.
Well, in some way, the corollary of "Google isn't evil, it's just some people who work for Google that do evil shit" is "Google isn't good either, it's just some people who work at Google who do awesome shit."

Which actually, I think, is true. My boss once told me "everybody knows who the subset of people who get shit done is", and in some ways, my loyalty is to them rather than the company as an entity (it just so happens that most of them still work at Google). I mourn whenever we lose another coworker who does awesome stuff. If I were to join Parse, it'd be so I could work with Kevin again, and if I were to join Asana, it'd be so I could work with Jackie again, and if I were to join YCombinator, it'd be so I could learn from PB & company.

I'm guessing that this isn't how most outsiders see Google, since in general people don't claim credit for the work they've done at Google unless they're associated with really big-name projects. But I think there's definitely some truth to the view of a corporation as composed of individuals, some of whom are good and some of whom are bad.
He said open standard, not FLOSS.
I can see indie filmmakers being innovative, but I fail to see how Megaupload was innovative. Yet noone has made the argument or the claim that it was, though it is obviously more important than the arts to the people on this forum. As though it was a representation of the innovation of the Internet and now the rallying cry for entrepreneurship. Is the Internet really only about data-center storage and distributing other people's content without compensation to the authors or producers? Is Ycombinator really going to become a forum about evading laws due to loopholes like Megaupload was?
Employment isn't a transaction, it is a relationship. If one is not being paid enough nothing prevents revisiting the discussion.

Having said that, I don't see a lot of advice on the topic online. Obviously after spending some time at a company you have a better idea of what the talent level is like and where the money goes, so you should be able to negotiate better with the extra information, and the history of what you've done.
That depends on what features it supports, but a few months is quite a long time ago in browser development.

On the other hand ie9 is already obsolete.

And how exactly does HTML gracefully handle a lack of canvas?
I lumped SOPA/PIPA together with the arab spring and OWS, its a broader discussion. But to address SOPA/PIPA, I do consider freedom of speech a pretty important civil liberty, the bills literally wanted to achieve the same level of control that Libya and China have over the internet. Now consider how essential these tools are for political action, how they empower individuals. There will be an ongoing battle to determine who controls that power. It IS a civil liberty issue and I believe it is going to be THE defining struggle for this century.
Much like the rest of Reddit, /r/programming comes across as a bunch of 23 year olds. The "wisdom" I see bandied about in there is stunning.
>Social science is based on statistics and philosophy. You betray your ignorance.

Or you do. From what I can tell social scientists are scientists in the same way Christian Scientists are scientists. They start with the answer and work backwards.

>Scientists are a much better option. Rule by experts - meritocracy - is the only way to save this dying economy.

First of all, command economies, which is what you're talking about whether or not you want to admit it, have left a string of wreckage and bodies. Economics by science is exactly what the communists thought they were doing. Thanks all the same, but I'll pass.

And secondly, the economy is not "dying". It's trying to do what market economies do if you leave them alone - adjust to new circumstances and start growing again. The last think we need to do is have people start making decisions from the top.
Force? Hardly. Read it for yourself: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/21november2011/tr...

In particular, Article 14.

ARTICLE 14: SMALL CONSIGNMENTS AND PERSONAL LUGGAGE

1. Each Party shall include in the application of this Section goods of a commercial
nature sent in small consignments.

2. A Party may exclude from the application of this Section small quantities of
goods of a non-commercial nature contained in travellers’ personal luggage.

Note it is may exclude and as such it's up to the individual countries on how they implement this. I've contacted my government representatives (Australia) to find out their position on this section.

Edit: More information in this fact sheet

http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/acta/factsheet.html
Because watching other people get rich off of your work is such a good incentive.
The studio system makes some sense with the current system of production and distribution.

If production and distribution was disrupted then there is some reasonable possibility that more money would end up in the hands of the creative people instead of the middlemen.
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I don't think it's the wrong target. Being a chief editor has a certain prestige, and many prominent scientists start their own journals (usually in specialized areas that are not crowded). Of course, the whole point is to give a better alternative to editors and scientists, "and they will come". Impact factors will follow, it's not like NPG and Elsevier have a lock in them.
>Equal opportunity is not just an ideal, it is essential to economic growth.

Again, assertion without evidence.
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This is a great initiative, and one that sparks an interesting dilemma.

Might the US wake up one day to find itself secluded on the internets? Just like the average Nigerian, who has exactly 0% chance of successfully ordering a product on eBay.

What happens when the world becomes fed up with the horrendous US legal system? I can easily see a file-sharing site (e.g. megaupload) blocking all US IP addresses from accessing its service. Essentially annulling any trace of liability against a corrupt and rotten legal and political system.

Granted, we're still pretty high up on the slippery slope. But, it still would be very interesting the moment the US becomes the country with 'unfavorable political climate'.
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How does one determine whether something is pirated in these cases? All the music I've bought in the past few months has been distributed to me DRM-free so there exists no difference between it and a pirated copy other than a receipt. To make a long story short, having to proved that I have licenses for everything on my computer is utter crap.
Ask HN: Why have the content creators been utterly silent?
Considering all this SOPA/PIPA stuff is about 'protecting' the content creators, why haven't we heard but a peep from the very people this BS is about?

What do they think? What do the movie makers think? What do the musicians think? And why have they all been so deathly quiet?

Surely some of these people are in a financial position to drop their distributor and support what they believe is right, or are they all so frightened of losing their next 10 million dollar deal that they can't say anything?

I want to know what Brad Pitt thinks.
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Everyone knows Google cut perks to save money. If they'd told people to accept a lower salary, on the basis of the perks being worth 20k, that employee is bound to be pissed when they were taken away. They were part of the salary negotiation - to the author, that's like cutting her wage because the stock numbers were down.