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>Finally, are you seriously suggesting that because university professors tend to have certain political views we need to fix this by cutting university funding?

No. I don't even know if it could be fixed. It could be something inherent to academia for whatever reason.

>specific subject of political views

Political views tend to encompass a large portion of a person's identity. A suppressive atmosphere towards a particular political belief can have a much larger stifling effect (outside of mere political discussion).
>If you're suggesting that the federal grant money would've been better spent on private entities doing research, isn't that what NSF and co. are already doing when they fund, say, professors at the likes of Princeton and Harvard?

Sorry it should have been private R&D investment. I'm saying that there is evidence that suggests that public grants to R&D crowd out private investment, that public R&D doesn't correlate with GDP growth, that private R&D does and that grants are inferior to market approaches such as tax breaks for R&D. I think that video I linked overstates the strength of the evidence and it's conclusiveness but it's still a valid point and goes against the accepted view. Also the argument that the Internet is here only because of public R&D is very hard to make because at every instance I've looked at where public R&D gets credited (eg. CERN) there is similar work done separately in the private sector (eg. Xerox PARC). I'm not saying that the evidence is definitive, that all public science funding doesn't generate GDP growth, that GDP growth is a good metric of the value created by public R&D or that public funding is inferior to private, those are all empirical questions (or even unanswerable/subjective) and can't be generalized. I'm just saying that the position you seem to take - without public funding it wouldn't get done - isn't true both historically (eg. check out Nobel prizes from IBM and Bell labs in pure research) and you can make a theoretical argument why that is the case.

As for the authors post, yeah it's a rant but I get where he's coming from.
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Theres a second effect, too. When someone who has any resource in the world available to them goes to use the library, you can be damn sure they'll have standards. If libraries are only for those without other options, those who have seen what can be will not be there to demand improvement.
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For a closed eco system, Apple seems to be using a lot of open source software.Just wanted to know if they are giving back as much as they are taking. Also, are they giving back just because of the copyleft licenses created by Stallman.
Foxconn also has plans to install millions of assembly robots in the next few years.

All of this push to raise employee pay will more than likely speed up the adoption of automation and end up drastically cutting unskilled jobs a bit faster.
Hmm. I think is a poor article because it lacks depth and simply makes a bunch of assertions many of which don't even follow from the premises in the article itself. I might have refrained from saying so explicitly had I thought you were actually interested in exploring the question and were gathering information, but it seemed to me that you've made up your mind and are working backwards from your conclusion.

You haven't really addressed my first point. What's the evidence that libraries serve the poor more than universities? I was trying to point out that we can make all the assertions we want, but none of them might be true, so we need to guided by data not opinions or anecdotes. You seem to have missed this point.

Administration costs, questionable research, credentialing, etc. That huge increase in tuition costs is going somewhere, isn't it?

My understanding is that tuition is rising because of university funding being cut. In fact, some of the first few articles when you google for this are [1, 2, 3] which clearly couple tuition increases with budget cuts. Are you not aware of this?

Are you seriously claiming that university tuition is being increased simply to fund "questionable research" etc.?

This is the unnecessary barrier. Now you have to spend money and time to get a degree just to keep up. If you can't do that, you're worse off.

This is a product of the economic system we live and I fail to see how reducing university funding will solve this problem.

Yes, many great innovators do not have college degrees. They help prove my point.

No, I don't think it proves your point. You said people can't do anything of value without a college degree and the existence of people who have done things of value without a degree disproves your point.

Of course it does. yummyfajitas has covered this already.

yummyfajita's claim, if valid, is a much weaker one than yours.

You're suggesting the only possible way to do this kind of research is through the university system as currently structured. This is an outlandish, unsupported claim, and you denigrate the people who performed this research by claiming they could only have done it within the modern university system.

That's not what I'm claiming. What I said was that given that this happened, that research has already more than paid for itself.

If you want to claim all of this research could have been done in some different setting (which you haven't specified), that might or might not be true depending on what you're proposing.

I'm skeptical though that a system that eschews public funding of research will work better than the current one. I think it's not a coincidence that the US is the pre-eminent leader in high-technology research and also houses some of the best graduate schools in the world.

[1] http://www.highereducation.org/reports/affordability_supplem...
[2] http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/feb/01/florida-college-u...
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/nyregion/cuny-board-approv...
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Fair enough, this is a viewpoint I can agree with. I don't think this is what the OP had in mind, though. Or if he did, he didn't do a good job of articulating it.
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No, the issue isn't their useful function, the issue is their public benefit.

The cost/benefit to evaluate public subsidies is (public benefits) / (public costs). If 90% of the benefits of a library are gained by the users, then it's highly likely that this will be negative.

In such cases, a mixed model is best - i.e., if 10% of the benefits are public, 90% private, then a 10% subsidy for libraries might be justified.
True.

>heavy cultural emphasis on degrees to be successful

I think the cultural emphasis on degrees was in large part pushed from the top down. I.e., once more people started going to college (because of loans/scholarships), college became a necessity for jobs where it previously wasn't.
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Actually, CloudFlare tells you the client's IP in a header CF-Connecting-IP, so you can add that to your log format.
Following the rules in this case means actually providing the service that the government paid for. The government may overpay for a building because people skim off the top, but it's far less common for them to build something that's so poorly constructed that people can't actually use it. The first case is less efficient the second is useless.
In engineering circles, it's called standard.
OP's statement is a strong argument against libraries.

We're spending good money on buildings full of books that inadvertently provide some really important social services. If you've got a bucket catching drips from your leaky roof, you need roof repairs, not a better bucket.

Here in England, we have an organisation that does exactly what the OP is espousing - guiding people who don't know where to turn for help. It's called the Citizens Advice Bureau, it has been in existence since 1939 and it now has 20,000 volunteers working out of 3200 locations. The CAB provides impartial and confidential advice and assistance on just about any issue someone might bring through the doors. Crucially, the CAB is an independent charity, so is trusted by marginalised people in a way that no government agency could be.

I'd like to say that I'm surprised there's no equivalent in the US, but sadly I'm not. I just don't think there are enough Americans prepared to give up big blocks of their time to help people who we'd all cross the street to avoid. I don't think any society that still uses the word "ghetto" in the present tense is capable of building such an organisation.

I understand that there are agencies sporadically providing similar services, but that lack of consistency is half the problem - if your brand isn't ubiquitous, you're failing your most needy clients. Now please, go out and prove me wrong. Build an absolutely kick-ass advice agency and rub my limey face in it. There are few things that would please me more.
Even using the shallow definition for Public Libraries
> a place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale

That is the exactly what large parts of the Internet is. That they are physically books, cd's, dvds' is absolutely immaterial.
> It's about being a dreamer

No, that's being an idiot.

A successful entrepreneur - as opposed to someone who loses their shirt - may be a visionary and a dreamer. But they take calculated risks. You have to know when to persevere, when to pivot, and when to give up - especially if you're playing with other people's money or your life savings.

Yes, vision and confidence are important, in order to bring employees, investors and customers on board. But unless they are grounded in reality, you will fail horribly, unless you are very, very lucky.
The assumption here is that education has a significant component which is "wasteful signalling". If this is true, and that's a pretty big if, what you say follows. If the assumption is not true, reducing funding would result in a poorly educated populace which could spell economic disaster.

My point is: (1) this is not an issue we can decide without looking at the data and (2) making a claim one way or another without carefully looking at the data is not justified.
Hmmm... What an interesting paradox.

What made manufacturing jobs go to China in the first place was the extremely low wages and lack of red tape, worker benefits, safety, bureaucracy, etc...

In the past months wages in China have risen enough to make some US companies return jobs to the US because they were no longer saving money in China. This was predicted to happen at some time around 2015 but we're seeing much earlier. The better the Chinese get paid the less of a reason companies will have for outsourcing in the first place. Why? Because by insourcing manufacturing back to the US businesses have more control, don't have to worry about IP theft, and don't have to wait a month for shipments to come back from China.

Basically:

Chinese are treated like crap = backlash from consumers + bad for workers + but more jobs for the Chinese. Chinese workers treated better = more approval for consumers + better for Chinese workers + but less jobs for China.
I guess by 'better,' I meant the amount of output produced by one style or the other. Would there be a repeatable and measurable difference in the amount of output from someone who is bursty productive than from someone who is consistently productive?

Have you started doing anything different or made any changes to your working style that have led you to become more consistently productive?
I've seen lots of people doing 1 enter 2 + on their HP calculators. Using them with RPL, reverse polish lisp.
As I said, this was my instinctive response and I'm sorry about that. I'm glad you're not a creationist. :-)
"heavy cultural emphasis on degrees to be successful, culture of short-term thinking and lack of financial education."

Wow, I'm glad there are others that realize this. I guess hacker news would be the place to find independent thinkers like yourself. One other I would add is:

Lack of school counselors, teachers, parents, etc. that believe entrepreneurship is a viable career option.
if you look at math on paper, that's definitely not 'infix'.
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It's not much of a paradox but something that capitalists said that globalisation allows a huge demand for workers in developing countries until the workers can demand developed world wages.
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It's comforting to think that you're safe outside the US but you aren't. The US government is running a global empire. We may know the Internet is international but as far as the US is concerned they think they own it. When the US is no longer the power it is (and though it may seem prime to fall it is still a superpower) we won't be safe. All we can do is hope that whoever we register with is willing to put up a fight but not all countries are.

I wonder if the US government can require certain hooks from ICANN.....
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The top comment mentions issues with disability advocates and problems with the website, and that they're trying to get it fixed and launched.

So, that may or may not be the official story.
Already, there are huge queues for Foxconn positions even if the work conditions are abysmal. The Chinese government won't like this as it could lead to famine issues all over again. I wonder how Foxconn is going to compensate for this, the socialist thinks more taxes, the conservative thinks more security.
They got a better grade in the end, didn't they? I would rather work with someone who can deliver, genius or not.
1 paren moved and all line breaks and indentation removed. This is intentionally obfuscated. Is there any language that is easy to read when you put five lines of code together like This?

I haven't read a lisp style guide, Emacs just takes care of indentation - it is immediately clear when a paren is wrong because the shape of the function is wrong. If you are writing lisp with an editor that doesn't do this, get a better editor, don't blame the language.
>Would there be a repeatable and measurable difference in the amount of output from someone who is bursty productive than from someone who is consistently productive?

Nope. Never. Sounds like a CTO/CIO's pipe-dream.

It's a personal thing that likely has little correlation with overall productivity, and most programmers are bursty.

If you want to help programmers be productive, make them happy and give them the working environment they crave. Whatever that may be.

>Have you started doing anything different or made any changes to your working style that have led you to become more consistently productive?

The only change I've made recently that I'm convinced made a sustainable uptick in my productivity personally (not applicable to everyone) is that I've started following Seinfeld's and many other writers advice.

I just make certain I write code everyday and if I'm stuck I force myself to start sketching out boilerplate/rough-ideas until I get unstuck.
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>Lack of school counselors, teachers, parents, etc. that believe entrepreneurship is a viable career option.

Excellent point. Since kindergarten, when I tried to sell some crafts I made during play time to the other kids, I've been pulled towards entrepreneurship, but going through school you are eventually led to believe that running your own business isn't an option.

It's not that anyone ever sat me down and told me that I couldn't be an entrepreneur, but it's never discussed as a possibility.
Agreed, it's specifically because his early 90's education didn't focus on VB6, perl, and Gopher but rather logic and math that it is still relevant.
Technically, you are correct. Some schemes implement read as a simple function which takes a string. "Lisp" isn't referring to any specific lisp and more just the idea of it.
Two problems with this. First, rising wages in China isn't going to bring jobs back to the US. It'll bring jobs to India.

Second, from the perspective of as casual observer, it would seem Apple's success disproves all three of your concern..they seem to have ample control, IP theft doesn't seem to be a problem (Samsung "stealing" design elements, isn't a manufacturing issue), and their time to market is phenomenal.
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"Pinterest is one of the fastest growing products ever, and recent estimates (although possibly wildly inaccurate) suggest that the site is already achieving tens of millions of dollars in affiliate revenues from its 10 million (and rapidly growing) users"

Anyone who's done any affiliate marketing knows this is wildly inaccurate. Most people are there to browse, a minority click-through to the affiliate link, a smaller minority have an intention to buy the product, and an even smaller minority buy that product on that specific site in that specific cookie timeframe.

Pinterest probably clears a million in affiliate revenue per year. They're not a coupon site. They're not Google Adwords. it's all about user intention. It's just a step above "selling a product to people in bars".
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I don't think lua has integers ie. like Javascript everything is a double, that can be changed by redefining a macro and recompiling AFAIK but it's still one global numeric type (and you can't change it for luajit).
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That's why I recommend it to everyone and why everyone I know uses it.
>It'll bring jobs to India.

Unless automation catches up first. You're right that jobs will keep jumping from country to county as wages rise in previously developing areas.

However, that will end when automation reaches the point where it's cheaper to have robots in the US build it.

Also, one question I have is this: is the difference in wages between the U.S. and India, less than the difference in wages between the U.S. and China when these jobs started moving there?
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Foxconn have raised their wages significantly over the last decade and a half; This is hardly unexpected.

This is how Foxconn's wages have looked since 2004 --

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2006: 400 RMB

2007: 600 RMB

2008: 700 RMB

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I've been experimenting with keeping the domain object separate from the ORM (active record). I'd like some feedback on my approach. I hope this sparks some discussion on how others have solved this.

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>Chinese workers treated better = more approval for consumers + better for Chinese workers + but less jobs for China.

Bigger domestic consumer base so it's no longer export only, lower cost from IP means fewer legal risks/more competition and cheaper manufacturing capacity.
But, Public Benefit always = Sum of all Private Benefits. You may be thinking direct benefit vs external benefit, but as everyone utility functions are separate their share of the public benefit is different. I specifically mentioned my personal cost (as a share of the public cost) and my personal (indirect) benefit to help clarify the issue, but I think you missed that point.

Cost and benefit are also independent. It possible for a Polio vaccine to provide 100,000 times the public benefit relative to it's cost (eliminating a disease for all time can easily be worth vaccinating people on the other side of the planet). Research can also easily have that magnitude benefit ratio's.

And (public benefits) / (public costs) is only negative if public benefits or public costs are negative you might be thinking Benefits - Costs but that does not really fit the rest of your equations either. Anyway, the idea that public subsidy's should not exceed the ratio of (individual benefit) / (public benefit) sounds good until the public benefit exceeds the cost at which point there is little for an individual to pay the costs.

PS: There is a reason people get PHD's in economics it's a lot more complex than you might think. Just consider adding different levels of diminishing returns to all of those cost benefit equations and your still barely scratching the surface.