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I know someone who programs EDA tools and this is what I have observed:

You need to know how to make an IC out of lumps of metal, or at least know someone who does. If this were simple they wouldn't pay designers so well (sweeping generalisation based on a sample size of 1).

Your real problem, though, is the extremely conservative nature of your potential clients -- understandable when you consider the huge sums at stake in manufacturing, but frustrating nonetheless. If you can create a tool that works exactly like an existing one did in the olden days, then they might be interested. If you use "modern programming techniques" for goodness sake keep stumm about it.
Seems like a similar problem is being faced with academic publishing. The existing silos have high prestige, so it is not obvious how to disrupt them, becasuse newcomers can't compete on price/convenience alone. Coming up with objective measures for quality (standardized tests for universities, something other than impact factor for publications), might be a good route to open these fields up in both cases.
This is the reason I come to HN, the reddit thread is full of oblivious agreeing with the post without any fact-checking or initial scepticism.
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>>The common argument is that we need grades in order to differentiate the "good" from the "bad" students.

>No, no its not. Its to show that you've learned the material.

I disagree with both of you. It's to motivate the student to learn.
None of the things you mentioned are, in themselves, illegal.

Saving an image or an article to your hard drive is not illegal, but redistributing it can be. Writing negative stories about other people is (in practically all cases) not illegal, either. Nor is having secret information.

Unless the majority secretly has an ungodly amount of child porn in their web cache I don't know about, I am not very inclined to believe that everyone is a criminal under a microscope.
Would be interesting to be more specific - LightSail actually sounds like the kind of situation people are more likely support patents in:
non-obvious research work leading to large improvements over existing methods; presumably it woudld be considerably easier to reverse engineer if you had to the physical device. And I imagine company could productively use huge investment to have huge impact but investment might be hard without reassurance of IP.

So you say you have secrets - are there patents on the mechanism itself? Did investors request/care about those patents?

Maybe is different in this case cos I wouldn't be surprised if author actually was happy for this technology to be successful even if some other company made more money out of it.

Also for anyone who hasn't, read around rest of the website also!
Not as crazy as it sounds - he's saying Dodd essentially told the members of Congress not to expect any more campaign funding from Hollywood if they didn't play ball.

I'm pretty sure it's bad form for a former senator to tell members of congress to vote one way, or lose funding from his lobby group. Especially if he says it on the public record.
No he hasn't. Pls read the article. They are requiring her to provide the documents.
Booking.com contributed €100k, not $100k. €100k =~ $130k. So the total for the last 12 months is around $260k, not $230k.
Dodd's no longer a politician and lobbying isn't illegal. If the MPAA thinks Dodd isn't effective, maybe they should fire him. But they won't let him go because he put his foot in his mouth and highlighted how the political process usually works.
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I just read this essay by PG

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

And funnily enough it reminded me of the Office Hours sections of TechCrunch Disrupt that I've seen online. Sometimes he has people on stage and you see that the conversation is just... "difficult".

Maybe this isn't what was meant by the essay, but I thought I'd share it. I just hope I'm not so difficult to talk to!
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That's a 100k gross salary. I don't live in CA, but I'd guess about 30-40% overall tax rate including state tax. That leaves the earner 60k-70k overall to live on. That rent is >= 50% of their income.
Completely agree, as I stated yestarday in a comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3500939

Lobbyists are the cancer of Democracy.
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I guess today he'd be sued for copyright infringement. Sigh.
Don't forget about income taxes, that'll skew that more toward the 50% mark
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Interesting...

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The laptop does not "contain" what they are looking for. It contains gibberish.

If they had her on tape saying "the evidence is in my house" and then they searched her house and didn't find anything, could they force her to tell them where the evidence was?

No.

Any position based on an analog to a vault, is ignorant of the facts. Encrypted data is not locked in anything. It's scrambled.

Here's another analogue:

A locked safe on your portch carries an expectation of privacy. It can't be opened by the police without a warrant. A dropped disk in plain site on your steps does not. The police could copy the disk, break its encryption and use the data as evidence against you.

Why? Because encrypted data isn't "locked", it's scrambled. If a credible expert can unscramble it, then reading it was not a "search". It's equivalent to reading a paper taken from your garbage.

The tape recording of her changes nothing about the facts of what the contes of the drive are (gibberish), nor what the nature of decryption is (testimony). Any judicial holdings to the contrary are erroneous violations of the constitution and should be vacated.
Yeah, it also says that Larry Wall came up with Perl by falling asleep and hitting his head on the keyboard, when in fact Perl was created through a genetic algorithm -- that's why it takes so long for Perl 6 to happen, because those specs they call Synopses keep changing and therefore the fitness metric is not stable.
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Check out this "We The People," petition.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/investigate...

The nation agrees with Wales!
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There are several universities around that have been running continuously for over 700 years. I imagine that a change in popular teaching trends is something they've seen many many times before and successfully adopted to. I see no reason why universities won't adopt to this one as well and then happily keep going.
If you remove lobbying from a political system then the elected officials exist in a vacuum with no information coming from outside sources. Remember charities and NGO's also lobby government (as well as the churches, mosques, temples, big pharma, little pharma, oil, mothers for this or that, fathers for other stuff, governments for war, governments for peace.... this list is endless).

The problem isn't lobbying. It's corrupt elected officials who at best accept bribes/payment to fund an overly expensive electioneering machine. The problem is that lobbying happens with no public over site and now accountability.

The problem is more complex than just removing lobbying. Do you really want government making decisions without asking companies advice? The same companies that the government expects to implement strategies?

Say for example the USA predicts a 20% increase in crude oil use over the next 10 years. Where the refineries should go, where the oil is best sourced, how the petrol products are best distributed are all important questions that the oil industry is well placed to help answer. Not dictate of course but their opinion should matter.

EDIT: Before anyone accuses me of supporting the current system please give me the benefit of the doubt. I understand the system is inadequate as it stands but to remove lobbying just creates another problem of equal gravity.
Great Article about an ancient Language :)) Kidding :)
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Are you sure it's not just that you or someone else is not good enough at explaining it? wink

Seriously, though, while I'm of the opinion that people learn different things at different speeds, I have yet to encounter someone who was simply unable to grasp a mathematical concept or a concept in CS (not counting some people I know with debiliating mental illnesses).

The trick is to break it into smaller and smaller chunks of logic until people get it. As long as these people are capable of basic arithmetic, I think it's possible to make them 'get it'. And yes, teaching can be very hard.

Having said all that, I do agree with ^ that programming should not be mandatory.
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It looks like you'll have an easier time if you're in an EU country (even though Norway isn't), due to the EEE.
4 Billion videos a day, I'm always astounded by such numbers - who is watching that many Videos?
A bit of common sense:

- World population: 7 Billion

- Estimated total Internet users (including those that can't use videos due to bandwidth/volume limits): 2 Billion

- estimated max. potential Internet users for YouTube: 1 Billion

- estimated max. daily active users for YouTube: 500-800 Million

so everybody on this planet that is continuously using the Internet has to watch at least 5-8 videos on YouTube everyday - 365 days a years. To me that looks like there is an army of bots out there creating loads of statistical noise & billions of page views.

Guess we'll never know for sure as billions of dollars are made every year with online marketing and advertising that is closely linked to such statistics.
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"They need to learn from Google how to present a new language"

You mean like choosing a name that is easy to search on the internet?
“I hope to see … a window of opportunity for Hollywood to come to the table and talk to Silicon Valley with a little more humility.”

I couldn't help smile at this comment from Jimmy Wales - it really does show there's been a power shift. It's the kind of tone that will have some Hollywood stakeholders foaming at the mouth.
> 12-13 weeks is plenty long to learn the material for a course.

The course has presumably been designed so that a motivated and intelligent student can understand it in this time.

But what happens when life interferes with a student's plans? I can think of lots of reasons why a student may be distracted by legitimate life events in this period of time, e.g. illness, or a family wedding/birth/death etc.

Online courses do give you the flexibility to work around things like this. They also allow people with full time jobs to access the material at a pace which suits them.
1) As long as this is not clearly spelled out in the TOS _and_ you trust the company (again?) to keep it up, without changing it back in the future, you could now go with a fake name. You'd invest in a social network that asked for IDs in the past to get access to the data you created on their platform and wouldn't be able to provide an ID to get to the data for this account, even if you'd wanted to.

2) The criteria are still unclear. At what point does it stop looking like my real name? Should I play safe and go with John Smith? Is that maybe already very suspicious and probably not my name, period? How creative can I get choosing the required fake name without triggering this alarm that would block my profile?

3) This defeats the whole purpose of the policy in the first place. A "real name policy" (call it community guidelines or whatever, if you like) only makes sense if you verify the names. Otherwise it is a 'no funny names' (what's considered funny?) or 'no offensive names' (recently mentioned on Raymond Chen's blog: Microsoft changed the internal abbreviation of customer from 'cu' to 'cx', because the former is an offensive word in Portuguese.. Where's the limit?) policy.

For all intents and purposes: There is _zero_ progress here, and it really took them a loooong time to add an additional simple field to their data model, plus two options on how you want to render it on your profile.

And - nicknames are only useful for searching/lookups. I can put them up in my 'about' section. Google is a _search company_. I doubt that it was impossible to find people that wrote 'Hey, this is MikeMasterOfGuitarHero' anywhere near their profile by knowing that particular name. But being _only_ available using a name that you pick yourself - that's still missing.
>Today that's no longer true. Companies today want a few high skill jobs rather than many low skill.

While that is true, high skill doesn't necessarily mean a 4 year college education. Coming from a manufacturing background (engineer) I can assure you that good machinists are in high demand. Kids shouldn't be given the impression that shop-classes in high school are for "stupid people." Most people don't realize the demand for these kinds of jobs. Even good welders can make good money if the work is put in; the same cannot be said for all factory positions..
Let's remember that there is a lot more to universities than undergraduate education.
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And community. I am using both PHP and Python because of two widely different communities and approaches to solve problems. For example, Python is the language with the largest and most robust collection of scientific software bindings. Python users tend to take a bit more time to implement things, but they do it in a very robust way. Java is pushing a bit, but Python stays the king.

On the other hand, for everything a little bit "web" related, you can find a stack load of easy to use PHP code. They are also usually "pure" PHP, making them easy to integrate in your own framework/system. Usually the PHP community at large is very fast at getting things done in a simple way (sometimes a bit ugly, but this is improving drastically).

Note: This is of course a bit of a caricature what I wrote, but in essence, you cannot ignore the community/ecosystem supporting your language.
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I don't think the MPAA would fire Dodd for these comments that make them out to be a corrupt Congress-buying organization, because that is what the MPAA is, and it's how they want to be perceived.
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When MPAA bribes members of the congress, the foremost concern should be that congress is corrupt, not MPAA. It's a whole different level.
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The problem with universities is they are taking the easy way out: grading instead of teaching. Nobody cares what you have actually learned, including yourself. As long as you get that A or B and be qualified for obtaining that diploma, everything is crystal clear.

But this approach creates a rift between teacher and students. Nobody cares about actual learning, students see the teacher only as a source for getting exam answers and teachers only see this glamorous profession as a chore to get paid.

This approach however, loses the fat and makes the education more leaner IMHO. No money and no diploma is involved and you are there because you really really want to see/learn/do whatever the teacher is trying to convey. As for the teacher this makes his/her work much less tiring, you record it once and can change it after you got exposed to biomass. You can change stuff in your teaching and get instant feedback. If this is not amazing for the both of the elements involved in the teaching (teacher & student) I do not know what is.
> Tenzing is currently used internally at Google by 1000+ employees and serves 10000+ queries per day

So that's 10 queries/employee/day. That screams "experimental". Still, this would be very nice.
We don't really need new universities in order to deliver online education. The reason these have appeared is because they've spotted a gap in the market. The solution is for existing universities with recognised brands to offer their courses online.
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Lawrence Lessig has much to say on the subject:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/01/02/lawrence-lessig-on-money-...

Basically, publicly-funded elections could remove the corrupting influence of corporate money. Still not clear on how we get there, but I may pick up his latest book to learn more
Someone downvoted you, but you're right about the climate. Cold, wet, dark and somewhat hard to make new friends. Lower salaries and status for highly-trained professionals. Otherwise good. Generally great health care, employment benefits, work-life-balance, workers' rights, justice system etc. If you can get an operative oil job, you'll make great amounts of money.

[Edit: To the GP, I'm not sure I would want to trade places. Work-life balance is very important to me, and is something that is worth quite a bit of money to me. It seems like most Americans work very long hours with few holidays, although you do seem to get paid a lot. I wouldn't want to settle down in the US, but it might be nice to try for a couple of years.]
that doesn't say how big these queries are

and this was quite a while ago
>Normally programming is the design process, with pseudo-code and flowcharts and jackson structured programming charts and etc, while coding is just taking that and writing it in some language.

That sounds more like software engineering to me. Most people do indeed use the words 'programming' and 'coding' interchangeably.
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