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But the market isn't nearly as hungry as you believe it is from your perch as a fairly well known expert who does highly paid consulting.

Sidenote (and it is Ramit-y in character): if we have this conversation again in two years, what will you be a fairly well-known expert in, since you have (correctly) noted that it gives one attractive options in terms of career growth?

Meat of post: I do not believe that the hiring market is on-fire because of my little one-man slice of it, but rather because it has been reported as on fire in the media, because people who are extraordinarily credible to me on the matter describe it as on fire, because I talk to startupers like it is my hobby and they are in virtually unanimous agreement that it is on fire, and that my paid-for clients say things like "Dude if you can find us an engineer then forget about actually doing what we hired you to do and play League of Legends for the next two weeks and we'll both walk away happy from this consulting engagement."
I think he has more interesting things to spend his money on than 'more of the same' out of Microsoft. Also, it would likely be a bit demoralizing to create the world's largest, most successful software company and then finally have to admit that 'no, we can't do it all on our own.'
Just get them indestructible python-controlled helicopter (ages 7+) or slower moving car (ages 5+). Once they've get the connection between car movements and writing statements in iPython it'd be a lot of fun for them. And time to find some cover.

Don't worry about trying to simplify modern general purpose language. Modern languages are already as simple as they could get. [And whatever you do, don't make them write machine code in binary. Although it is a lot of fun for a kid, that could seriously screw them up. Don't ask me how I know...]
We decided to have a little fun with the open sourcing and play with some cool new open source tech for a change :).

I settled on vert.x (the server container that requires Java 7) because it seemed to have a lot of affordances out of the box for client-server transport, and it's architecture made it easy to port/re-build pieces of our server stack.

But yeah, Java7 on Mac is a pita :(.
I see a few knocks on Dave. What he should be valuing more, why he should(n't) consider himself successful, what other smart people think about what he said from their own perspective.

Well, he opened himself up. In a world where opinions about others are far more numerous than people standing up and saying "this is my story, from the heart. these are my faults and failures, and my dreams". I find that more valuable than 100 posts blowing their own horn. It's the most basic story of all, shared by many, and one of the hardest to write.
The complaint against him is that he made a false statement that the 'miracle' was a scam organised by the local church to make money from devotees.

If this is, in fact, true, then it seems somewhat dishonest of the article to not mention it.

There's a big difference (when it comes to defamation) between proving that something isn't true and accusing someone of deliberately fooling the public.
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Yup! Vert.x is pretty cool :).
I often see an article appear in a newspaper a good 2 or 3 days after I first found out about it on HN or twitter. For me, that's the main reason they are losing customers - they are not doing the job they used to be good at, i.e. coming up with news or in-depth reporting you can't find anywhere else.
For a moment I couldn't tell if I was reading a real story or an elaborate and visionary poem. I'd love to read a novel of this style, set in a neo-cyberpunk universe in India.
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Doubt they'll rush to check for the source of the water (lengthy scientific process!) or make a statement as to its rather bland origin. Hardly in their financial interest to do so.

Sanal should've been a bit more careful with his wording.
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This isn't a case of a skeptic pointing out "this isn't a miracle" and moving on.

He followed up the debunking by claiming the non-miracle was a scam, intentionally set up by local priests. He also made a number of blanket statements about how those who believe in the supernatural are "gullible", "regressive", "irrational", and so on. In essence, he's using his debunking as an excuse to engage in defamation (illegal in most places) and provocation (legal in the US, but illegal in India). He went beyond the solid evidence and into a realm of conjecture and supposition.
On the other hand, good storytelling and in depth radio journalism in the form of podcasts seems to be going from strength to strength.
I am pretty sure I have attended a seminar by him in a tech festival of our college, debunking the miracles of "Satya sai baba", and spreading awareness about superstitions. That was 7 or so years ago. His is a great initiative to promote scientific temperament, and rational thinking.
As far as I can tell, it sets up a National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) Communications Executive Committee. Section 3 gives you the most important information. Section 3.2 tells you who forms part of the committee, and 3.3 tells you the responsibilities of the committee. In short, its responsibilities are to ensure that communications are available within the government through all emergencies (I would guess they want to protect against an EMP attack, since such an attack would disable major communications systems), and the committee will work with industry (I would guess wireless carriers, ISPs, and other communications companies) to protect communications systems.

I can see why the submitter would think its an ominous event. The submitter could be wary of anything justified in the name of national security. The submitter can also interpret this as a response to Russian nuclear-capable bombers intercepted off the west coast twice in the past couple of weeks, which is reportedly a Russian response to US missile defense shields in Europe. Some speculate that this is Putin testing Obama on national security, and the submitter could speculate that this order would be a response to Putin, which is indicative of cooling relations between Russia and the US.

Of course, nuclear bombers don't need to drop a bomb on a city to cause widespread destruction. Detonation high in the atmosphere would wreak havoc on all communications through the resulting EMP. It could be as damian2000 suggests, the government's response to the threat of cyber-warfare, but the presence of language such as "Continuity of Government" in the order suggests they are planning for much larger emergencies.
+1 a very good vent, and anyone who has had a long term involvement with AI can agree with parts of or most of.

Do you really think that we should give up after 50 years of little success in the really difficult AI problems? I think we should keep trying. Failures are OK if they are affordable and we can learn from them.
>>There is no such sinister ploy or conspiracy (English or otherwise) going on here and neither is it unfair to claim that India has existed as many smaller kingdoms in its historical trajectory.

I am not claiming it either. But the British didn't come here to unite us and do the 'greater good' as often claimed. Was India made up of smaller states, yes it was.

But you need to study the geographical boundaries of Mainland India throughout history. They extend all the way till Iranian borders. To southern tips of Russia. Afghanistan was once a part of India(Kandhahar was basically Gandhara, Remember the Gandhari from Mahabharatha?).

In this mammoth period of time(lasting several millenniums). India has been ruled by people of varying ethnicity, language, color, culture, heritage etc. Therefore you have so many religions, languages, traditions etc. Sometimes the whole mainland India was united, sometimes it got split.

The difference between British and somebody like Mughals is the difference between. Mohammed Ghazni and Mughals. They are both foreign invaders. But Ghazni came here to loot and go back. Mughals came, captured, and stayed here and contributed a lot. So did many people who ever came to India. Including Aryans, they all came from outside stayed and contributed things back.

Apart from native Dravidians everybody else came to India and stayed here through some form of wars and conquering. But many of those stayed here.

Many looted and went back to their native lands. British just belong to Ghazni kind of invaders who went back.
Anecdotally, about ten years ago, when walking down a street once, a poor girl started following me around. I reached into my pocket and gave her a handful of whatever loose change I had lying around in there. She continued to badger me for the next 10min, even while I tried crossing the street multiple times to get her off my trail.

I once got stopped by a couple that gave me a story about being left away from home and no means to get back etc...
I gave them Rs.50 and they kind of stared at me with bewilderment like "that's all you're giving me"

(And keep in mind that I'm not a white guy standing out in the crowd - I look just like every other Indian on the street :) )

Small things like this make me slightly more reluctant to give money to people on the street. I prefer to donate via charities that I help out with instead.
Related: androgynes, hermaphrodites, and other "middle people" are surprisingly common features in cultures around the world, both historically and today. They are frequently ascribed to have shamanistic or other magical abilities. Sometimes they play key (albeit segregated) roles in the society's structure and workings.
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We didn't have another catastrophic depression, which is what not increasing the money supply might have done if we take the Great Depression as an example.

If we had a reliable way of triggering an actual recovery whenever we wanted, it wouldn't be worth arguing about; we'd just do it. Unfortunately, if such a thing exists, it's a mystery to everyone.
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I can't speak to the details of the decision. But what I can say is that aside from canning our site, Google treated us pretty darn well. We were all offered relocation options to other Google offices, which would come with cost of living pay bumps, paid moving expenses, etc...

And they let us open source pieces of the thing we were working on. Pretty sweet.

Some stayed with the company. But unfortunately, many of us could not make the move to another eng site.
Interesting read. Thanks for posting.

To others, it's at least worth a skim if you don't have much time.
Exactly. I'd like to see this issue from the perspective of Vice Magazine or The Atlantic, who seem to be finding a way.
According to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4216637 the article is quite misleading, so you may not be supporting what you think you are supporting.
look at this post carefully - this is an example of the mix of a limited intelligence, fixed perspective along with narcissism and ambitions.

Call it The (very) Common Man.
This post made me crack up. Especially the "call me back" feature. That's so bad it's hilarious. At least you have some good new smalltalk subjects now.
>For those with any remnant of doubt in this area, a thought experiment. Hell, an actual experiment: Go to Mass next Sunday, but do not set in a pew; do not kneel; do not genuflect. Instead, stand in a corner wearing a lab coat and holding a notepad. Note the intense discomfort you both feel and cause. Then come back and tell me, with a straight face, science and religion are fully compatible.

That is without doubt the single stupidest argument for the incompatibility of science and religion I have ever heard.

>For bonus points, name a scenario in which the lab coat is more out of place.

A (non religious) funeral.
Most of being a good programmer is conceptualization of large infrastructures and knowing enough language constructs to build that infrastructure in terms of code. The best way to get better at this is to build real, practical applications, server daemons, clients, games, injectors (modify existing software), etc. Also, don't forget about reverse engineering, because we all need to know the dark side if we are going to stake ourselves in the computer realm, there are far too many security-stupid programmers and they end up hurting us all. I was lucky I guess because as a kid I loved reverse engineering, making hacks for games n whatnot, I wasn't the nicest kid, lets just say that, I'm grown up now. I believe I am a great, not just good, programmer today because I made all this erratic, zany, cool, stupid, fun 'experimental' stuff along the way, while I learned, so I have a myriad of experience to build almost any kind of infrastructure. Actions like messing with Firefox and inspecting the %tempdata%/mozilla/user.profile, then looking at the code of extensions I had installed, modifying them, led all the way to me making an extension and it becoming highly acclaimed. I then used that extension as resume material for a job at a company fixing bugs on their Firefox addon. Not trying to brag here, I think this instance in my life shows just how important doing what you love is, because you never know when it will help you. Just make sure what you are doing has some value. If you are curious about the extension, it's ImageBot. I guess in summary, experiment by programming stuff for a reason. Learning through value is the best way to learn in my experience - don't just make arbitrary things, start making simple things that you will enjoy!
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ASUS has not incentive to sell at or below cost as they don't get a cut of the Play sales.
They're not riots, they're political parties outsourcing murder for votes.
Too bad his tenure at webOS was not fun for anyone involved, all the way down to app developers. His failure there is only "forgotten" because Leo's failure with HP and webOS was orders of magnitude greater.
People have been predicting (and attempting to cause) the demise of religion for thousands of years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy

And that graph is ridiculous. Europe may have stagnated, but Arab counties were rising - which was the cause of the European stagnations - they were being attacked. It had nothing to do with religion.
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We'll see what the outcome of ObamaCare in regards to pre-existing conditions, but the way things are right now, if you go with an individual insurance(i.e. not part of a larger company's group plan), should you develop a medical condition, you will eventually be priced out of cheaper "risk categories", i.e. your insurance costs will be increasing year after year and you wont be able to change plans into other competitive healthcare plans because they will deny you due to these pre-existing conditions.
Many states, including california, provide special plans for those who are denied coverage elsewhere, but they are ridiculously expensive(think over a $1k per month per person).
If you have a family and your spouse doesnt have insurance, healthcare could be an expensive gamble...
Sorry everyone... I was away at a wedding and a server mishap caused some configurations to revert. Should be back now...

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The time is fast approaching where there will be few local newspapers, just regional ones. For quite some time the newspaper business has been a game of musical chairs for employees and the music just sped up.
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For me "get out of my way" means i don't wanna have to configure-reconfigure-rereconfigure it every week and i don't wanna have to learn a new language for that.

I don't wanna have to go through a "video" (hi nwm) to show me how it works.

I'm ok with a 5min first time setup and 5min reading the man page, then that's it.

Most tiling and "minimalistic" wms fail at that.

So i'm using KDE/XFCE/etc. Heck, KDE's kwin tiling mode is just fine.
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The author says that Chrome won't come pre-installed to JB devices if the manufacturers don't want. If that's so, that's pretty dumb. Google should force manufacturers to get Chrome together with the Play Store and Gmail. This will actually improve the situation of the web browsers on Android because Google plans on updating Chrome every 6 weeks on Android as well.

On the other hand, the developers at Google I/O said it will come pre-installed on JB, so I'm confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJbPPjANKA#start=0:00;end=62...
To be honest, I don't know. Six months ago I was ready to write off the whole endeavor, then I see things like this https://plus.google.com/100130762972482716067/posts/BN5qjTEN...

and feel like mankind just took a little baby step in the right direction.

I don't think a 6-8 year old human child (6-8YOHC)is the right goal. Or a Star Trek like computer is either, talking to computers gets boring (talking to 6-8 year olds gets boring too!). It's the AI equivalent of the Gorilla Arm in interface design (perhaps "Gorilla Mind" is a good term?) and like I said, is achieving this really useful? Even if achieving the near term goal isn't useful, does it lead into a next goal that's useful?

I think the right goal is to brain storm ideas, "what would we like a computer to do for me?" then start inching towards those.

As an off-the-cuff example, build an AI scaffold of some sort, point it at Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg and have it generate a Khan Academy style educational program for K-12. Get it to start teaching, then use the feedback from the teaching to better model how humans think and learn.

There, that's my contribution to the world of AI. A quick brainstorm with something that could be useful for people. I would find it hard to believe that after half a century, researchers in the field haven't come up with similar kinds of exercises. But I keep seeing more myopic answers.

Getting an AI to tell me a famous movie star's shoe size is not interesting because it really only saves me time, but doesn't do something new for me. Likewise expert systems for diagnostics, any experienced human with a reference can do this job! AI seems too focused on replacing the "human who can do this job with a reference" (RAHWCDTJWAR) and not enough on augmenting what humans can already do to make them better, or doing complex tasks like instructing a class. The problem is not that we're emotionally driven to keep the "human with a reference" in the equation, but that over time, that human has proven to provide better results!

Any brainstorming ideas that fit this mold should be rejected as vectors for the field. If it even smells like a project is turning into a RAHWCDTJWAR run!

Similarly the 6-8YOHC is the wrong direction. Let's be honest, 6-8YOHC aren't very useful or knowledgeable. Let's stop trying to make AIs that are do-nothing ignoramuses. I don't need an AI that knows that when it's hot out I shouldn't wear a winter coat. I already know this.

Like I said at the beginning, I think Cyc and similar approaches have been valuable as a line of research and inquiry, but have ultimately provided so much failure and so little progress, it's obvious that it's not the right way to go. Knowing this is so very important. But I keep feeling like this message isn't getting across and this basic approach to AI has long long overstayed its welcome.
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Ouch. It's always sad to see someone forfeit their intellect and take someone else's thoughts as absolute truth. And I say this as a churh-attending Christian. Shame on my religion.
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In all fairness, what you call the poorest in US would actually qualify to be pretty rich people here in India.
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The two processes are mutually exclusive.

Only if they both claim to explain the exact same observation. They usually don't.
I totally agree with this. I wouldn't say it's just about customer support but about customer relations. Whenever I walk by the Apple store, there are so many people in there that you can barely walk around. A lot of them are there for help/support. They know they can just walk into an Apple store and get face-to-face help. They can get their problem solved right there. This is a huge boon for non-tech savvy people. They trust that Apple will fix it for them in a timely fashion.
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3 months back, I made an app to learn iOS development and happy with the results submitted it in the app store as paid app. Since then, I improved it a lot and the final version (which I think is good enough) is under review.

The problem is, I am getting lot of negative feedback on US App Store. Don't know what the problem is, but except US in all other countries (Germany, UK, Japan, Australia) I am getting quite good reviews. They are encouraging and push me to make more improvements in app.

What to do now, as the average rating in US app store has dropped a lot now.
Totally. It makes my day better to be nice to others and have them light up a smile in return. It isn't all about what I feel, but a small gesture makes us both feel better.
Since the NYT does throw in the "$75,000 for happyness" study results, I feel obligated to mention the WSJ's adjustment for cost-of-living.

No surprise, of course, that New York itself stands out as being a particularly difficult place in which to be happy :

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/07/what-salary-buys-h...

Note that this is not directly related to the central tenet of the article, which I actually found quite interesting.
Newspapers are finally accounting for their assumptions of necessity throughout the last 15 years. My family was involved in what at one time was the second largest paper in CA (the OC Register). My mom was the CFO and I started there at 15 as their first webmaster.

My mom would always bring home things for me to test as "threats" to the paper rather than opportunities. Delphi, Prodigy, Aol, compuserve, eworld, Microsoft blackbird, cd-I and finally a BRI ISDN PPP account.

Threats. Not opportunities. When they finally put the entire newspaper online it was in PDF. I left in 2001.

And then went into the music business in 2005. Hah.
I'm specifically not referring to bribes. That is undoubtedly corruption.

>A manufacturer can sell, low quality transformers to electric board. This is goes against public interests.

You're going to have to give more details than this in order to make that statement. Are they in a competitive market? Is someone picking winners? What effect does this have on prices? Moreover, is he creating jobs? How is that cheating?