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By talking about how the US and Britain had grown rich through trade and 'imperialist' protectionism and mentioning racism, the GP seemed to be implying that the poverty in China was somehow created by these western countries.

Aren't those modern "buy British" or "buy American" movements voluntary? Might there not be good reasons for supporting those who are economically tied to you by culture and legal jurisdiction?
How about trying to create the greatest economy for our children? I care about the poor in China... but only after my own are taken care of. For me, family comes first, and then fellow citizens, and then the rest of the world.
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Yes, I did this in business school. We called it the "Bull Whip Effect" because a small movement on one end of the supply chain caused a dramatic impact on the other end.
Is that your elevator pitch? Because its pretty good.
>Of course the original author can put whatever license on their code. But the license effectively renders the code useless to me. Not because I dislike the GPL, but because I use a different license.

I've learned through much harsher experiences than the one you describe that life is unfair.
> People with good ideas and small inheritances are more likely to work for others since they lack the safety net.

This doesn't seem to be the case historically. AFAIK, the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs in the valley came from middle class backgrounds.
Yea, sorry - thought about adding a simple lightbox, but most of our posts on that blog don't have any images. The full-size img is there, just right click and "open image in a new tab".
Isn't fixing the vulnerability a demand of services?
Created an account on HN just to say your site is wicked. Entered 4 bands and have to upcoming show's that I'm actually interested in. It may suit me better as I'm in Chicago, but I think this would be sweet for all the major cities. Excellent work.
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Yes if you knew the number of iPad 5s that people in each city in the world were going to buy in 2years time you could scale the production in advance and it wouldn't matter how many delays there were in the supply chain.

Since you don't know the demand - you need a responsive, high bandwidth, system.

Having suppliers that can't respond quickly - either because they are a 2week container ship voyage away, or they take 3months to respond to quote requests, or they think they can make more money by demanding huge penalty clauses for any changes in order - all these add resistance and slow the response.

There is also a cost consideration. Once you start making a component it is costing you money until the consumer pays for it. Having to make a billion $ worth of screens/chips/cases 2 years in advance is costing that whole network of suppliers money - costs which will be passed onto the customer
It might be difficult to find a formal and logically coherent definition of "restrictive" vs. "permissive", but I was thinking in more pragmatic terms. Like with porn, "I know it when I see it". As I see it, required attribution somewhere in the docs is not very restrictive. On the other hand, 20 pages of legal mumbo jumbo concerning distribution are restrictive.
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You said it much more succinctly than I did. He "battles from afar" - that is with a bow - hits it on the head. It would not have been so unusual for a son to be named for an excellence of his father.
I find it interesting that despite everything to do with health care, we're only spending approximately 4% more on medical care than we were in 1949.

This is almost meaningless by itself. An actually useful number would be comparing that to say, number of doctor visits/treatments and how effective those are.
Interesting, I completely agree with your views. I believe your way of handling should be followed by every CTO.
>I find it interesting that despite everything to do with health care, we're only spending approximately 4% more on medical care than we were in 1949.

4% in terms of the whole pie, but over 100% more in relative terms, which I think is more important.

>I don't know the data, so perhaps someone could enlighten me as to whether or not this is because houses are just more expensive than they used to be, or because we just like buying larger houses (possibly for status) than we used to, or whether we just have more income available to spend on houses since we're spending so much less on food and clothing?

To address the point about houses being more expensive than they used to be, I think the $/sq ft in real terms metric has increased. As people move out farther and farther out into the suburbs and exurbs, the externalities of the house increase. It's much more expensive on a per capita basis to run a full service municipality when the density is 300 people / sq mi vs 4000 or 7000 people / sq mi. It's also more expensive for utilities, etc.
You could never mention Perl online or around Perl people without having to listen to the same tired tautologies about how incredibly powerful it is (wtf have you been using to think this?), etc.

Speaking of misleading vividness....
> "What's gone isn't coming back until it's cheaper to build it in the US."

Yes and no. Yes, at a high level that's true. But you seem to be making an assumption that human labor costs will remain an important component and that the "it" being manufactured will remain constant.

Consider that automation may not even be cheaper on a 'net screws turned per hour' basis than cheap humans. But quality and consistency matters. Speed of line changes matters. Speed of retraining matters. And, further, current designs are limited to what can be assembled cheaply (that is: reasonably quickly/safely/accurately) by two human hands and ten human fingers, with a human attached (who hopefully doesn't require slow or expensive tools/safety equipment/etc).

Automation removes those concerns entirely. Caustic compounds could be mixed on the spot, fixation technologies that are infeasible for human dexterity are possible, multiple steps could be completed in parallel, etc.

So keep in mind that while it may be sufficiently cheaper to have, say, Brazilians turning screws than Chinese, such that iPads could some day be cheaper to build in Brazil - it's entirely likely that before that happens, robots will be building newer iPad designs, more cheaply than could ever be feasibly constructed by humans even at a zero wage.
Brazil factory is MUCH smaller, for example the new iPad factory only has 1.4K employees, and Brazil gives them tax benefits.
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D: holy cow, it does. Now I can't get it out of my head.
I'm not sure which one is Jason but it looks to me like both of them opt to add a captured piece to the board (which is a rule only present in Bughouse and not regular chess).
You think they don't do this in China? Look around. Making your problems someone else's problems is a time honored business practice.
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To be fair, the article this whole discussion is referencing says, "Obama was right in bailing out the auto industry when GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt."

As usual, both sides want to take credit for the positives and blame each other for the negatives. :-)
It's interesting you're doing to project in .NET, would you mind if we discussed it a little? I'd love to pick your brain on some of your implementations. Email me colin doc (at) google's mail dot com.
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yahoo at one point was using RDFa so I think that is the closest thing to a standard agreement. Entity extraction to generate tags from natural language is a different and more difficult issue. Some reading on parametric search is probably helpful.
In all fairness, it makes it pretty tough to take your comment seriously when you consistently refer to Rails when you mean Ruby.

Also, I have to disagree. Like the author of the post, I found Olsen's book to be a delightful read. It is certainly not a great "first book" on Ruby, however. I think you ought to read it once you've gained a little better understanding - its wonderful for smoothing out edges and cementing some of the more advanced concepts.
If any repo owners would like to get admin access to this fork, please let me know.
Facebook is updating tens of thousands of servers with every push. "Rolling back" a release could take as long as a regular push and contribute to problems as the version in use diverges.

Instead, FB has an aggressive and flexible internal system for "ungating" features to groups based on different criteria. Usually a feature would be pushed out in a deactivated state, then a developer will slowly ramp up its exposure to actual traffic. This limits the ability for a push to insta-break the site and means they can come back around for the next day's push with tweaks, then increase the code's exposure.
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I just tried this experiment and I get the same results. Firefox uses Google search on the backend, so I don't see how it could be otherwise.
Nitpick: 3.6 times hotter than a home oven, not 6. Fahrenheit is not a linear scale, you must subtract absolute zero (about -460°F) from measurements (or convert to Kelvin) before computing ratios.
I recall from another article that Apple requires 9,000 engineers to oversee the production of the iPhone. It is not that the USA has fewer than 9,000 engineers, but you would be lucky to find one engineer that is unemployed, let alone 9,000 of them. China, on the other hand, and perhaps Brazil, has engineers looking for work.

Nothing is insurmountable with enough time and effort, but demonstrating that Brazil can easily accommodate a factory says nothing about the ability of doing the same in the USA.
I tend to play a few games of Go throughout the day for the same reason. A great game of go is like a street fight, it gets you totally amped up for everything else.

Rengo is fun too, it gives you sort of the feeling of being a crazy artistic genius. Extremely inspiring, but it's a pain to get four people to play it.
I take it you're being sarcastic, but the negative comments you're receiving are I think because you departed from giving advice on implementation and strategy, and attempted to give a piece of cryptographic advice.

The only way anyone gets to imply that public key crypto is less secure, or more dangerous, without being challenged, is if a new attack is presented. Otherwise it's all innuendo and handwaving.

Most apps and sites may not derive any advantage from public key crypto, but you can't say that for sure until you see a site (or SSO multi-site) design.
Mmm, that's kind of hand-waving away the hard part. In practice, that has been hard enough that energy generation is an issue.
After reading yesterdays post about client-side error tracking I started looking into leveraging Google Analytics (because obviously it would be a fast way to get some small level of error reporting up and running). There is one thing I would have to add to this topic: We decided to track these error events in a separate Google Analytics profile, because there is a 500 events per session limit: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTra...
In the UK, you pay much higher taxes for importing components than you do for importing final product, so manufacturing anything in the UK that requires parts from overseas is economically pointless, even if you wanted to (such as in the case of the raspberry pi).

I have always been suspicious of the concept of post-industrial economies as I have always thought that they relied on a colonial logic of intellectual superiority which doesn't really exist.

The plan seemed to be that the western world is good at organising and designing stuff, and those people over there are much cheaper for doing the actual work of building this stuff for us, especially since our local labour market started getting ideas about rights and profit share and stuff.

However, the organising and designing of stuff turned out not to be quite as difficult as we had so arrogantly assumed, so all we do is get rid of out ability to make stuff by having an entire generation used to someone else doing it for them, while eventually all the white collar jobs go overseas as well.

Personally, I think that if you try being a post-industrial economy for long enough, you will end up being something much more like a pre-industrial one, but with a few rich people left, all flying around on those nifty new Chinese jetpacks.
You realize I didn't mean we manufacture nothing, but that we manufacture much, much less than we used to, right?

If we can't agree that manufacturing started to move out of the US decades ago, was accelerated by NAFTA, and that we are a consumer of goods made elsewhere (more than others are a consumer of goods made here), then this conversation isn't going to go well.
P2P currency doesn't preclude 3rd party (escrow) transactions. In fact, it will likely be a popular option for large transactions and it will cost less than CC/debit card security overhead.
Me and and three other PhD students in sharing an office used to play a few quick rounds of Unreal Tournament before starting the nightly coding sessions, from our own UT server we had set up. Those were the days...
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More annoying than people that choose licenses in an uneducated fashion, are people that do not choose a license at all. Under the Bern Convention, your work is copyrighted by default. If you don't add a license, I cannot use it. Period.

At the very least, it would be nice if Github could provide a warning to that effect. Github is doing a wonderful job of growing the open source movement from an infrastructure angle. I would love to see them also grow the movement from a community/education angle as well.
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I haven't played bughouse in over a decade, so I've got to ask: what's with the openings in this video? Is bughouse strategy so different that there's a whole new opening book, are there some openings I'm completely ignorant of, or am I just overthinking things?
Nitpick: kilograms aren't a measure of weight.
So because you work for a company that makes stuff, my argument is invalid. You realize I wasn't saying we make nothing at all, right? It's that we are ever making less in the US and ever buying more made elsewhere.
I would love to see "What Americans Are Offered To Buy",the advertising spending on it, what products have the most advertising, and then the author presenting a question at the end if we really need those things people are telling us that we should (and continue to) buy the most.
You're missing my (sloppily made) point. China vs US has nothing to do with that. Either you consolidate your suppliers and squeeze the snot out of them, or you suffer the bullwhip effect. It can be done in the US, China, or the North Pole. The reason it's in China is cost.
Maybe you and I are spending 4% more, but your employer is spending a whole lot more. I believe health insurance costs my employer $16,000/year for me.
It's part of the Bughouse variant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess#Captured_pieces
I've noticed something similar. Playing strategy games (like Age of Empires) works great for me during downtime. They require your 100% full attention if you want to win, so they're very effective at wiping away whatever you were working on.

Also, they're normally very goal-oriented, making you motivated to "do" things after playing.
I suspect that if new features require storage changes, the changes are strictly additive and won't affect old features, or old features are modified to use the new storage setup.

With the amount of data Facebook has, they probably don't have the option of an "iterate over every row and change a thing" kind of migration.
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> I don't think most people value nationalism at $65.

You, sir, have apparently never tried to sell something to a person older than 65.
Mens clothes really jumped out at me. I'd assumed since retail space for women was 7x that dedicated to men, women's clothing would be around 7x that of mens.

Something really complicated is going on making those two channels very different.
Increase conversion rate by making your site ugly. . .
I'll put that up right now. Sorry it's a very new blog.
Here's a direct link http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/rss.xml
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If people that work on an assembly line in a factory in the US are middle class - what's the definition of working class?
Still though, the 1.5 GB binary takes 30 minutes to get out to the servers as per the article.

In my business, we would be crucified if we had to wait for 3 minutes to roll back a change let alone 30.

I agree that you can and should have all of the gating and safety nets and checks in the world as you roll forward, but at the end of the day, you need the ultimate safety net of a very fast, very dependable rollback that you can run at will.

IMO reverting isn't for losers. It should be the first thing you do in case of errors, if your architecture supports it.
Maybe, how TNW will hurt the startup industry?
He means using the auto-complete in your address bar, not actually searching with it.
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He's using Hyde and recommending the article's audience to use Django or Rails? If he's going to point out webdev with only some fleeting interest it might be more helpful just to say something like, "HTML/CSS is your new weekend project. Hardcode it in a couple hours or use whatever system gives you the least pain: SSG, framework, blog-based, etc."
You can't tell whether it's going to rain five days from now very reliably, but you can predict within a degree the average monthly temperature in any city in the world, for any month of the year, five years from now. Of course there are unforeseeable events, but that doesn't mean everything is unforeseeable.

In this case, we've had 40 years to test this forecast, and it looks like they've done a pretty reasonable job forecasting the key variables they were forecasting, 40 years in the future. That seems like a good validation of their model, and we should expect it to do nearly as good a job for the next ten years at least, if not 20.

So I don't think they should be taken as a "work of fiction", even if they might be wrong. The model should be taken seriously, and we should attempt to improve it or propose better models, even if those models have more uncertainty in their predictions.

There's a big difference between predicting an apocalypse based on a psychotic episode and predicting an apocalypse based on a dynamical model of the key variables in a world system.
Really bizarre. I totally get that searching needs improvement in various areas, but Siri etc are just search via audio.
The other option is to give up all your privacy to allow tracking, but as you see on a daily basis, we're a long way from contextual understanding that really works.

SO without search you'd be relying on asking Hackernews/Twitter etc for every single enquiry you have...

Including the embarrassing ones...
As a PSE, do you really travel 3 out of 4 weeks in a month? (Looking at job description it says 75% travel time).
Careful looking for the cartoon fox in all duck beaks then.

Once you start seeing that one, there is no going back...
Developers will have more job opportunities, they will get higher salaries. There will be more companies that will get started which will employ people from other trades as well. And this is all bad. Can please someone explain it to me how?
Well they might not be hired to do just web development but I think learning about the web stack is incredibly useful because it helps you get your work out to people. This is important especially in a (early stage) start up where you might have to rapidly prototype solutions and you can't have your own pet designer to whip up visualizations for you. In fact, if you read the blogs of some of the data scientists at twitter/linkedin, its immediately clear that they have some know-how of the web stack in the way they are organizing and visualizing results. (Everyone likes pretty pictures)
Weather patterns are extremely complex and yet fall within a certain set of bounds. A swing of ten degrees is perceived as a dramatic change. This is because the numbers involved are relatively small.

Resources and populations have much wider swings and the forces that perturb them need time to have an effect. The numbers involved are millions of times larger than temperatures. There's also much higher inertia than the weather.

It's impossible to predict the precise number of births tomorrow, or the amount of coal extracted to the ton, but you can come up with a very accurate estimate for the course of a year or a decade with the right data.

We can't predict the weather five days out, but we can predict the climate ten years out.
I'm not very familiar with their model, but if the birthrate asymptotes to above the replacement rate, or goes back up, the population won't decline. So the economy might be a factor.
Curiously, the Rockafeller family has a storied venture arm: Venrock.
Just tossing in that Finance isn't your only option for a healthy PhD paycheck in NYC. With exactly those same skills you could work in silicon alley or at a company like mine which does analysis on bank (or other corporate) data.

Also, you don't have to sell your soul to work outside of Academia. For example, we find terrorists and drug lord hiding cash in USA banks (Anti-Money Laundering) using machine learning. It's very satisfying and the pay is good too.
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There are definitely similar studies in other countries, although I don't have them to hand. I did just see a survey for the UK which put the cheapest areas to live with house prices 3.8 times the average wage up to about 9.8 the average wage in the most expensive, and the cost of housing and rent has rocketed up since I first started renting 10 years ago...

After the mortgage there's not a lot left to spend on anything else!
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I might even allow deaf people to hear spoken words, or to know which direction a loud noise is coming from.
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There are plenty of counter examples to this. Boeing has suppliers for key components for its airplanes as far away as Italy and Japan.

Toyota and BMW assemble vehicles in the US from imported parts.

A CPU from intel is often fabricated in a US based factory, tested in Costa Rica, and packaged in Asia.

The issue has too many variables related to margins, tax breaks for factories, and import tariffs; to say the whole electronics supply chain is moving one direction.

As wages and living standards rise in China it is likely that some production will move to other countries and regions, which in the longterm is a good thing because it spreads the wealth.
I know a tenured professor who is well respected in his niche of engineering specialization. He has attracted several million dollars in grants. The research center he runs, in his words, is a startup with his own hard working employees.

Why work like you are working at a startup in some research lab with no stake?
> more and more of the community is convinced that something we don't know about is happening at these low energy levels

[citation needed]

I agree with the solar-efficiency and energy-storage points, though.
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