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They're operating on the wrong premise.

The idea here is that their business got disrupted by the internet and therefore they need some sort of internet-wizard who can tell them all the things they need to do to reclaim their business. That world-view only works if you think that the internet is nothing more than magic.

The reason that newspapers are failing is that they had local monopolies, got soft and fat, and then got disintermediated in a hurry by the internet. Now, newspapers don't even have a good or correct idea of their own identity any longer. I'll give you a hint, a newspaper ain't about reprinting marmaduke, or the weather, or crossword puzzles, or classified ads, or even obituaries.

Someone recently brought up that great quote of George Orwell's "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."

I think there's a sound truth to that. But I think that's only half of journalism, the other half is research. Not just revealing what has been known by some and kept secret to others, but revealing what has been unknown to everyone. Investigative reporting need not necessarily have a "bad guy", as in Orwell's view.

But this is almost orthogonal to the current mission of most newspapers and the current educational foundation of most journalism graduates. "Journalism" the discipline today focuses on the form, the mechanism, and access, precisely those things which have become the most ubiquitous and fungible in the modern age. Journalism puts the cart before the horse, imagining that reporting is done by journalists with specializations. The way of the future, I believe, is the opposite, experts in a particular field with journalist specializations.

In the past there was much value around merely printing or re-printing a thing. It was like manufacturing. If you manufacture a widget it doesn't matter that a thousand other people are simultaneously manufacturing nearly identical widgets, in the end it's still a widget, and has some value. Today there is only a little value in making newspaper "widgets" (writing stories) because copying is so close to free as to make little difference. The world doesn't need a million stories all regurgitating the same wire reports to their local readership, everyone has access to the wire reports directly now.

The value is in original reporting and investigation. That's not something that an executive skilled in SEO and traffic monetization could necessarily help with. If anything they'd be more likely to drive your newspaper into being a tabloid than into becoming a robust source of original reporting.

But that is what I would do if I ran a newspaper. Fire all the regurgitators, keep all the people who will write the sort of stories that nobody else is writing and hire people who are experts in some field first and writers second.
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Hello,

I'm currently working on my own startup but would gladly take some income from Freelance gigs on the side.

This is where it get "complicated". I'm a Biz guy / marketing / growth hacker / whatever you want to call it. I can do the whole shabang such as SEO, Market research, Product marketing, Digital Strategies, etc.

Also, I'm in Europe, Between Paris & Brussels. And Mostly looking to do remote work. I can work with people in the US no problem.

I've tried looking on oDesk but the hourly rates are ridiculous and I couldn't find any Freelance website for marketing jobs. I could however find a tons for coding jobs.

Anyone can point me in the right direction?

Thanks
I believe this is the future of AI research. Once we could map all components of a mouse brain to their logic software equivalents and then let this simulation run, we could make significant steps towards learning what intelligence in animals really constitutes. I believe the current images of the mouse brain are yet insufficient to derive a logical circuitry from, but I'm sure that will be possible in time.
no, that is not what I'm saying. do not imply that i'm being sexist in any way, which i'm not.

the labour market, when it comes to comparing gender ratios, is a zero sum game. there are dozens of other well respected industries which are female dominated, and as far as i know, there are no men groups organizing men only events in those female dominated industries/jobs.

you are right on one thing: "Having outreach programs is _not_ a bad thing" what is morally wrong and ironic is the fact that an outreach effort excludes 50% of the population.
A growth hacker means you can hack. Why not take on the coding jobs?
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I can tell you from first-hand experience that they know what they're doing. They measure almost everything, nicely put together in dashboards with all the KPI's for the appropriate managers.

I think it's unlikely they used a suboptimal performance indicator to judge the site's new design, and would say the same thing about craigslist.
I keep wondering:

When you create this new IOU you basically start to repeat the process that resulted in Loddars in the first place; you could theoretically repeat it with the new IOU. Isn't it getting recursive? :).
I don't know if it's only me, but I saw the young male stereotyping as a way to justify their behaviour, as in: it's not that bad, it's just boys being boys. The things that were really bad were the things dealt with later.
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The argument is more that unchecked power is a dangerous thing because it's a double edged sword, and that we shouldn't get happy that the unchecked power was exercised in our favor this time.
Yes yes. Women good, men bad. We get it.
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Have you tried attending some meetups in Paris? Go to the coder ones. Berlin has a good startup scene as well. Another option is to travel to SF for a few weeks and go to some meetups there.
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I think the apple was only ever valuable in the sense that it had some calories and could keep you alive a bit longer, long enough to keep on working a bit more and generating other forms of value for others.

Value is a very strange concept, if there were no people then apples would be of no value. If there were people but they all agreed they didn't want apples and weren't prepared to work for them then they wouldn't have any value. They value of apples is defined by how many other people want them and how hard they are prepared to work in return for them. When you eat an apple you stay alive and thereby increase the value of all future apples.
They created a product that was against their TOS. It's pretty simple really.

If they are doing a great job and are so much better than CL then no doubt everyone will come back and use their site now they have the realtors on board.

I dislike people hating on another company for having a crappy product, just make a better one and compete against them, if they really are that bad then whatever network lock-in they have wont last.
You can't argue they are crap, then try and use them to monetise your own product.
Ya that was fun :)
So unfortunately, in the end, the Nazis did manage to kill him.
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Could someone please explain what this article is trying to convey . I understand that the main thrust is that intelligence or comprehension can emerge / evolve as an end result of simpler interacting processes that are not necessarily intelligent. This is is analogous to how evolution builds complex systems but the "algorithm" for evolution is nt so complex . So are they implying that strong AI is definitely possible ? Or are they saying something beyond that ?
Plenty of Occupy protestors around the US have been abused[1][2]. During the civil rights movement in the 1950s the US used water cannons to disperse crowds of non-violent protestors. In the US you have 'free speech zones' far away from events that people would protest against, stopping them from protesting on public property[3]. The US will even stop people entering the country that are critical, or even make jokes about the country[4].

In the UK, 53 people were arrested[5] the day before the royal wedding last year in order to avoid dissent. The police in the UK practice a method known as kettling to force protesters into cramped spaces and deny them access to water or sanitation facilities, even using this against the young[7]. At the London G20 protests in 2009 a man with no connection to the protests was struck by a police officer[8] and later died.

My point to all of this is that to say that 'they' are savages is disingenuous. We aren't so enlightened as we lead ourselves to believe and we shouldn't expect others to meet high standards we continually breach. This isn't a political statement for me. It's an acceptance of the world we live in. If people didn't dissent, this wouldn't happen, but if people didn't dissent, then civil rights wouldn't have happened either.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-btt1GsVx0

[2] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/...

[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

[4] - http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-...

[5] - http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/84088/royal-wedding-53-prote...

[6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_Ahmad#Police_abuse_case

[7] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling#Student_protests.2C_20...

[8] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2009/apr/08/g20-pol...
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Yes, because what you wear on your head is equivalent to 100 years of technological and cultural progress. Thank goodness no-one in the west wears hats anymore, ban them!
Not really.

Printf is all about "formatted printing". What you think the "f" at the end stands for and has stood for since C?

If anything, its the opposite of what you say, ie the "fmt" package name is not measleading but redundant!
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Hi guys,I've learned some basic knowledge about Common Lisp,and I read PCL.But I think big examples in PCL are complex for me,such as Bayesian filter.I don't know what I can do next,do you have any ideas for me ?
Yeah Europe is stupid, if only our leaders were as wise as a random blogger! But please explain me this: EUR/USD started at 1,17 at inception and it is still at 1,26 now. US 10 year bond yield is 1,67420 and Germany's is 1,58100. US debt/gdp is around 101% and Germany's is 81,2%. Moreover the US has a huge trade deficit and Germany has a huge trade surplus.

To me the eurocrisis seems primarily a US/UK media thing...
Therefore she made "those engineers" millionaries just as
much.

No. All contributions aren't equal. It takes someone special to write HipHop to compile PHP into C++. Engineers can (and do) do customer service in a pinch, customer service reps can't do engineering.

Doug Edwards, Google Employee 59, is more self-consciously reflective about this, recognizing explicitly in his biography that the company would have become successful if he weren't there. Losse and Sandberg only pat themselves on the back about hobbling the careers of engineers for their sins, real or imagined. If Losse could turn her own drunken donning of a bearskin rug into some bizarre cause for resentment, who knows what innocuous remark could have gotten transmogrified into cause for demotion or transfer of some hapless, apolitical engineer.
With all the hype about Lean Startup and Agile etc I think it would be worthwhile going over a simple SWOT analysis for a lot of these built-on-API companies.
If you're going to use an API then you need to create a business that will survive when you get big enough for the company to realise you're a threat and buy you or bankrupt you.
Given that such systems already exist, I would hope not.
Very misleading title: should be SSD prices in ..., not SSDs in ...
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I have to agree with you there. This post is every bad stereotype of IT workers rolled into one. In addition to the borderline misogyny is the dismissive attitude towards those not in IT.

As someone who has been in IT for 20+ years programming is SIMPLE compared to trying to get groups of people to work towards (and want to work towards) a common goal.
You can rant at heretical thoughts all you want. You offer no counterarguments other than pointing and screaming. I want you to recognize that the free speech of the internet means there are men who can and will offer different opinions about these matters. Anonymity means immunity from character assassination over a difference of opinion.

After all, who really has the power here? Isn't Sheryl Sandberg the billionaire, and those two engineers the ones whose careers were ruined?
Good job!

They'll probably waste the next 0-3 years rewriting your shit and you have made another company and several suits hate Haskell. The suits talk to each other, you know.
Thousands out of over half a million. It's very rare to see the default rounded rect button used anywhere anymore. It's even rare to see apple use it in their own apps.
The EU crisis is absolutely not a US/UK media thing. Half the Eurozone is melting down, and requires trillions in bailouts from 'printed' Euros to bail them out. It's from decades of unpaid-for lifestyle choices, accumulated debt from Socialism (same thing America is choking on, we just spent more of our money on things like war, but that's a welfare program too for jobs and corporations).

The US is in much worse shape than most are willing to admit or accept, but the US has the global reserve currency it gets to abuse. That changes the game dramatically for the US. If the Eurozone had properly integrated its system, they might have stood a better chance, as it would have been easier to inflate, issue Euro bonds, and buy a lot more time as the US is doing. The EU is half a properly integrated system.

However, you refer to the US Dollar vs the Euro, but then you pick one specific country on the bond yield. Why not pick Switzerland? They have negative yields.

How about the bond yields for Spain, France, Portugal, Italy? France is going to explode next, so we can throw them in as well.
Ada's tasks aren't defined to be greenlets; an implementation can make then OS threads or processes, limiting their number. And rendezvousing is more cumbersome than channels, e.g. passing a channel over a channel.
It's twisted but I always wonder the same thing. Why don't psychopaths "get" more people? If someone rings my doorbell I answer the door, I expect the person on the other side to be a rational human being. It wouldn't be too hard for the other person to just bum-rush me with a knife and take me out.

I think there may be an evolutionary factor involved, easier to survive in a group so there is an incentive not to harm those around you. Able bodies can warn of nearby danger and help fight off threats, as long as you aren't a threat to them and they aren't a thread to you you're golden. There's also the fact that most people are fairly content in society and like things to stay relatively constant. Nobody wants to risk the rest of their life by doing something dumb like even accidentally injuring someone, let alone purposefully killing someone.
If a company is both a key partner and a competitor at the same time, your business model is faulty.

That said, the LinkedIn API could open certain features only if you act on behalf of a paying LinkedIn user. That way, both LinkedIn and the startups could happily co-exist, even though the startup recreates some of LinkedIns functionality.
My information is a few years old, and hearsay, but I gather that research focuses on locomotion because the worm moves differently than the wiring would imply. Which suggests that this mouse brain wiring will have less immediate utility than you might hope.
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At nvidia, we have a handful of in-house tools that are written in Haskell. My manager is a huge Haskell fan and he satisfies his coding itch by writing some tools with it.

The tools we have are quite simple, like running a set of automated tests on a Tegra device and then upload results (pass/fail, code coverage, memory leak stats, etc) to a web interface.

We've had a few Haskell coding nights where I and my boss have been teaching our teammates some Haskell skills. We have about half a dozen coders (out of ~50 at our office) who can do enough Haskell to get shit done.
GPL does not strictly require copyright.

I'd prefer if for software, the only possibility was something similar to GPL v3+. Meaning: instead of copyright as it is known know, the law contains the terms of the GPL. So for any software you must be able to request the source code in a usable form.

Currently, copyright allows software to be released in a restricting (binary) form. As a result, the client always has to rely on the software vendor.

I rather have more competition in that. When software is created, I think there should still be a few possibilities. I think it is good if a company can still charge for software per copy (have to make money; support isn't everything). So for each software it should be possible to restricts its distribution (like copyright atm). However, a client should be able to hire another company and make their own modifications to that software (in some cases you just have to keep the changes to yourself).

At the moment any software basically results in a monopoly. Especially within bigger companies (loads of software which source might not be available anymore, etc).

GPL is often seen as communism. But IMO the current situation doesn't allow for much competition. Law should be always adjusted to ensure (healthy) competition can take place.

To be clear: I am not advocating that every software company should work like the current free software/open source software companies. Read by post again if you thought that.
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Feature sensitivity is typically hand-crafted only because it's the practical thing to do. Neural nets can easily learn visual features. See the LISSOM neural nets for a good example of self-organized learning of features.
> My point to all of this is that to say that 'they' are savages is disingenuous.

So your argument rests on a massive Tu Quoque and a lot of False Equivalence.
Datomic is super cool design-wise. It'd be great to see some apps actually using it.
This really reminds me of Manufactoria:

http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/
Our government can print, the Treasury has the legal ability to do so at any time. The Federal Reserve however owns the Federal Reserve Notes (aka the 'dollar'), and they own the US Government accordingly.

Our government would both print and tax, as many other governments throughout history with an abusive printing press have done. Just because a government has a printing press, they never stop taxing.

Governments print and tax because they can, it slows down the rate of inflationary pressure that printing would generate if that's all you did. As it is, they like to keep inflation hidden as much as possible by keeping it moderately low so you don't notice it year to year. The whole point is to boil the frog without the frog jumping out of the pot.
The first one actually.
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You can't possibly be serious.

One engineer propositions other employees for threesomes and the other calls a fellow employee a feminist and is aggressive towards her. In ANY organisation on this planet both would more than likely have been instantly dismissed.

It is grossly unprofessional to say the least.
I think the Nissan GT-R had some components like this, actually.
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Should be a Facebook app, to utilize their user base & location abilities.
No, it's not about economies of scale. It's about non-monetary costs.

What I'm saying (using your analogy) is that Starbucks actually works hard to get good suppliers. If you open a coffeeshop and use beans from the local supermarket (hoping to pay market price - it's a market, right?, of course you pay a lot more and get worse quality than if you spend some time tracking down a good supplier.
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Because (most) mom and pop stores can't be bothered to actually spend money on technology, and then go and learn and implement it.
You find her accusations plausible. Others may not. She certainly constructed an elaborate internal discourse out of this bearskin rug photo. And seemed proud of the fact that the engineers were demoted or reassigned without even having a chance to defend themselves.

Are false accusations or office politics of such an underhanded nature "grossly unprofessional"?
Psychopaths kill plenty of people though. But it helps that the vast majority of people are not psychopaths, and they react when someone does something like kill someone. If you murder someone in front of someone else your opportunities for surprise go out the window, and so much of our lives are lived in public (long stretches of private time notwithstanding). The other thing is that humans, even psychopaths, are sentient. They have feelings, they need a motivation, a reward for killing. And suicidally trying to kill as many people as possible is, in most cases, not in the cards, which is another limiting factor. If you took, say, 1 ppm of all humans on Earth and suddenly exchanged their brains for typical movie "monster rules" then things would get very ugly very fast, but not indefinitely, they would be contained, killed, brought under control by the majority of sane folks.

Nevertheless, look at folks like Ted Bundy who had a very specific target for his murders and yet still killed dozens of people in his life.
The plan is to not print a lot of money all of a sudden. The ideal is to inflate gradually, as the Fed has been doing for decades (destroying 97% of the dollar in the process).

As twisted as it is, the US has an interest in seeing the Euro destroyed. It would leave the dollar as the only standing potential global currency (until perhaps China unlocks their currency, but who knows when that would be). Then the US could abuse the dollar at a much greater scale, with fewer competing major currencies for money to escape to.
Right. Also, in the real economy this note IS a dollar. This is because of fractional reserve banking.