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Old guy here.

Musing about the reaction if I reblogged this post with "younguns".

Don't get me wrong, the points are valid. But I'd bet an equivalent post about what could happen to a startup when a young new hire comes in would get uber-flamed. Just sayin'.
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I have trouble being terse.

On a larger level, I think that many issues are multi-facetted and that requires a certain amount of text to explore. Many times we experience the kind of reasoning like, "The car companies just need to make the cars use less gas. . ." The "just" in that statement belies the problem and can lead people to trains of thought like, "they must not care about the environment and might be getting bribes from BigOil to keep fuel economy down". In reality, there are complex engineering issues at play, issues of cost of lighter/more expensive materials (like aluminum), more advanced/expensive parts (like CVTs and DSGs), more advanced techniques (like the grill shutters that enhance highway fuel economy on a few new vehicles), etc. It's hard work to provide a significantly enhanced product while maintaining it as affordable and reliable. Google "just" needs to buy a wireless carrier and we'd have a premier Android product with the wireless service that we dream of. Now, I'm not accusing the article of being simplistic like that, but I think there are more issues at play than what the article raised. In order to create good conclusions, many different data points need to be considered and weighed. Different people may consider them differently, but they should be a part of the consideration.

Ultimately, things like wireless (and other utilities) present an interesting economic problem: how do we (as citizens/consumers) get the best quality product at the lowest price when it may not be practical to have more than a few competitors?

I think Google does many excellent things and hope to see them do more excellent things in the future, but I thought it was important to point out that buying T-Mobile might not give us the outcome that we want (as fans of Google).

Thanks!
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Probably not, as they are not a "world government", and the decision would have to be ratified by each country.

However, if they do decide that they need to do this, that is still very very bad for the Internet, even if say US and EU refuse to adopt the proposals. But that means the majority of the countries out there might still adopt them.
It would lead to a balkanized Internet, something we feared since SOPA, except with the current proposals, it would be much worse.

Content providers may remain free to distribute their content in EU and US, but they won't be in all the other countries that adopt and ratify ITU's proposals. We could start having the same type of licensing mess we see with books and music all over the world, where some countries have to wait months or years to get that content. Now imagine all of that would happen for just one blog post, or a video, maybe from a smaller service than Youtube.

So it's very important that there is unanimous or at least almost unanimous rejection of these proposals at ITU, because even if US and EU reject it, it would still affect us otherwise, and most importantly, the Internet will cease to be a universal thing for everyone - all in the name of giving more money to some ISP's and aiding some governments to monitor and censor their populations.

Not to mention that if the proposals pass, it means we're losing a battle with the future. It means this trend of making the Internet less free will keep growing, and who knows if next time US and EU will be against it. Maybe they'll see "how well" it works for the other countries to have censorship and whatnot, and they'll decide that maybe it's time for them to adopt all of that, too. This is why I think it's very important to win this battle, too, just like we won with SOPA and ACTA (although unfortunately, 8 other countries didn't, who already adopted ACTA, and India also passed ACTA in bits and pieces through other legislation).
The US has stronger protections of freedom of speech than (any?) other countries.

"The legal protections of the First Amendment are some of the broadest of any industrialized nation, and remain a critical, and occasionally controversial, component of American jurisprudence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
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Oh yes, English is terrible at denoting the pronunciation with its script. Not so for French (or from what I hear, German). Most of the time you are able to predict the pronunciation based on a set of characters. Words in Indian languages which use the Devanagari script (or scripts derived from it) can be directly mapped to their pronunciations. There are no exceptions.
The biggest draw to me is actually the non-visual part of it. I don't get hung up on silly visual things such as column width. Or, where to put the plots I make.

Granted, this has its own downsides. But so far I'm loving it. And yes, being able to essentially save off just what I did so that I can rerun the same tasks again later on a new data set is really really nice.
What are two advances that have revolutionised music? The Internet and computing. Computing is responsible for causing what I believe to be a very modern issue. Anyone with a Macbook and copy of Protools or Garage Band is a producer these days. Heck, you can record and compose music on your phone nowadays, create a Myspace, Last.fm or Soundcloud account and get your music out to thousands of people.

Once upon a time to get somewhere you had to tour, you had to get the attention of someone at a label to recognise you who was willing to take you on. Hard work used to be the basis of popular music, then it all started going downhill in the 80's with the likes of MTV slowly corrupting modern music.

An excellent case in point is an Australian band called Capture The Crown. They have never released an EP, never toured Australia, all they did was come out of nowhere with an attention grabbing music clip and well-produced song with swearing and generic breakdowns, they released a couple of more singles and now they're signed to Sumerian Records and about to release their debut album all without ever touring their own country and to this day, still haven't. They got on a plane and toured the US instead of touring their own country first unlike other well-known Australian bands like Parkway Drive or Hands Like Houses.
I am old-ish. My read on it: We iz intimidated.

Left-handed compliment. So it didn't really bother me, and I am kind of quick to be offended and high handed about something like that.

Also just sayin'.
Oh how I wish I still had a usb-TI83 cable, still have the calculator just not the cord to plug it into my computer...
And the VW Beetle - 1938 that one started up
That's true for ethanol (which was a terrible idea), but you can also get gas from coal gasification[1] as your parent noted [2]

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification
[2] - Fischer-Tropsch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process
I wonder what happens if you actually ended up using bath salts as.... bath salts.

Would you experience effects from absorbing them? If so, that would be a pretty lock-solid lawsuit.
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Yeah, this is ripe for abuse by pornographers. :(
I found the trailer to be a half-hearted affair. Not compelling at all. And I have a pressing question: Why this director and this project for this particular subject? He does not clarify why it should be he that makes this film. If anything, I get the impression he should be kept a mile away from the subject. I failed to see a review of his expertise or qualifications, other than being a video jock with some minor credits to his name. Not likely to get funded.
Hi There! The tutorial ladder is definitely a plan in the works. I considered working on that more in the initial version of the site but decided to right now to just put a simple prototype to gather feedback. Thanks you for your input!
Looks like they were smart and are using Rackspace for the main github and AWS for the status site. That's 101 for status sites.

I slightly wonder if it's worth putting status sites in a separate domain as well, for resilience against DNS outages or misconfiguration. Obviously you'd also want status.example.com for example.com too, but having some standard way for services to report uptime (to users and to machines, including deep API information, not just "can I ping it" would be nice.

It would be nice if someone set up "arbitraryservicedowntime.net" and did things like github.com.arbitraryservicedowntime.net". But then you'd need some way to associate and promote the independent URLs. Just doing github.com and github.net might work, if github.net is otherwise unused.

Pingdom kind of solves this for just ping, but doesn't work for deep status, causes, ETTR, etc.
Do you have any advice for someone looking to get involved (as an actor and/or a sound guy) with the Bay Area indie film scene? I was on a local mailing list for a couple years called "Low/No Budget films" or something but it seems to have fizzled.
Out of curiosity, where do you get that from? Are you from Brazil? Should Brazil have a better position on a real corruption map?
They seem to be on the right track as far as threat aspect. Unfortunately, the fundraising probably won't make it in time.

The truth about a "hacker" is not the scripts they run or, the code they bash on the keyboard.

It is the lifestyle & the methodology that drives every thought the enters their minds. They think by scale, from the smallest fundamental interaction of electrons and strings, to the largest interaction between information networks(such as the multiverse itself) too the human brains great quantum-electrochemical neural exchange.

Some, even possess the ability to bring into existence new forms of conscious entities such as artificial intelligence.

Hackers as a collective whole, have a choice, and a responsibility.

When the world goes flat, we make sure the Earth still has reason to spin around.
Which are the hackers that ping localhost? https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/projects/359366/photo-full.jpg?...

I ping therefore I am, I guess.
By the time these manufacturers catch up to where Tesla is now, wouldn't Tesla still (presumably) be years ahead?

Standing still while "the powers that be" catch up seems oddly unlike a company with such an obvious culture of pushing the envelope.
It's not just the U.S. The E.U. is also unanimously opposed to this. Also Canada, Australia, and numerous other countries.

The countries in favor are regimes like Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia.
My understanding is that manic episodes are common when rapid removal from prolonged, extended drug use of synthetic stimulants. I assumed that since he was currently on the run that he would be without drugs since he chose to flee.
I don't use Linux, but IntelliJ uses native font rendering in Linux according to their blog. Give it a try.
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I'd like to know details on how Vice got access to Mcafee so quickly.
Best one-sentence explanation of the McAfee blog phenomenon over the past month or so that I've seen.
As a Canadian I bet I have far more Internet freedom than a US citizen does I don't have to fear being flagged as a downloader of movies by media corp swat teams.

I'd say any person in any western nation would think their country is more fair than the others.

I'm not distrustful of the UN I'm not a fan because it's a huge bureaucracy but the US isn't any better, I bet people in the US wouldn't accept Canada being in control of ICANN.
The Nexus 4 sells so cheaply because Google subsidizes its price heavily. Google is losing money on every single one that is sold, which is why it sells in such low volumes. It is a competitor to the iPhone in concept only.

A better comparison would be a recent 4G smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. It lists for $699 and is available with a 2-year contract for $299 from Verizon--$100 more than the iPhone 5. Or the HTC Droid DNA, which lists for $599, available on contract for $199. Like Apple, Samsung and HTC are actual competitors in the market and need to make money on each phone they sell.

The flaw I see in your analysis is that it presupposes that competitors to Apple are going to be able to significantly undercut Apple on price. Apart from subsidized Nexus phones, I don't see much evidence that is true.
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Not disagreeing otherwise, but to your last point, a similar argument could have been made about smartphone manufacturers before they bought Motorola, and yet they did it anyway, and it hasn't stopped other companies from continuing to manufacture Android phones.
I don't think they'd care either way. Vice is gonzo journalism (and I love them for it).
Thanks for the feedback. Will re-look at our value prop and the comment issue.
Without getting into the specifics, we can think of the P/E both as a measure of how speculative the future earnings are (Amazon, which is consistently and deliberately barely profitable, reflects little of its upside in its earnings; Apple, on the other hand, is milking its cash cows for all they're worth); another way to think about it is, Amazon is plowing more of their earnings back into efforts to buy market share, where Apple is extracting them into cash reserves right now.

Remember, Apple's market cap is still much larger than that of Amazon. Even though Amazon has what over the long term might end up being a much more lucrative model, in that it is poised to more or less control retail and retail logistics everywhere.

They're both great companies, but the P/E of each company tells a different story about their business (neither story is bad).
I doubt that McAfee will be extradited shortly. He hired Telesforo Guerra, a notorious lawyer (or abogangster, as we call them in Guatemala) who has successfully prevented the US Government from extraditing Guatemala's former President, Francisco Portillo, for the past 3 years after being accused of laundering $15MM.
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I think static code analysis would be an interesting progression. But perhaps it's beyond the scope of the business.
Because the US have a rather good track record concerning internet gouvernance. By contrast the main drivers for ITU involvement are gouverments with rather dubious motivations, like Russia.

So as much as I would like to see a more international internet gouvernance, I am afraid that the ITU ( with their "old men with pens" influence) would most likely not do a very good job compared to ICANN and W3C. (And besides, never change a running system ;)
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And the radioactive coal?
"Github is the ultimate no-bullshit company. Any new announce is about some good feature or small improvement that matters"

It's funny that you should say this, because I have pretty much the exact opposite impression. Most of their feature announcements are for dubious changes that don't make my life better (web-based CLI? Stars-vs-followers?), but more to the point, they've left really important things to languish (for example: their code search sucks, and their issue tracking system is just barely usable.)

I don't get the sense that GitHub is rowing in the same direction as a company. Their product isn't improving in any consistent way, and for all of the changes that they announce, I'm having a hard time of thinking of the last one that made a positive impact on my life. Certainly, I've never before needed to create a file in github via the web, and I probably never will.
> why would I want the US to control the internet as opposed to the UN?

That's not the choice here.

Sure, the US already has a lot of control over the Internet because a huge chunk of infrastructure (including large parts of crucial systems like DNS) is under their jurisdiction. But that's not going to change.
I'm surprised no one else mentioned this, I was about to before I saw this comment.

Google + T-Mobile + dish spectrum ?= awesome
Does this compete with Picplum, now?
Small world indeed -- impressive work; Keep it up!
Two reasons:

1. Tech money isn't made in the wages, and

2. This average wage would be weighted heavily towards sysadmins, not the tech industry
Can my bitcoin payments be sent to an external site or external bitcoin address other than a US bank account since i don't have one.
IT is sadly not at the epicenter of growth in the industry.

My understanding is that IT keeps things together, but the "things" are what ultimately moves investors and the money.
> A Google-owned T-Mobile wouldn't be pushing the envelope on coverage and that's something that the majority of Americans seem to find quite important (even if they don't venture out of their home location much).

Even if they have to put up with contracts and sucky customer service and treatment by carriers.

Someone with a clue should buy a carrier and push the envelope on customer service. My bandwidth is good enough enough of the time. The service and treatment I get has always and still sucks.
We Canadians have fewer protections of freedom speech, specifically hate speech (ie: sections of the Criminal Code of Canada, and the Canadian Human Rights Act).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada
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As a Canadian your freedom to torrent is probably greater than your American buddies - the legality of downloading is murky, though uploading is most definitely illegal. Last I checked the two largest ISPs in Canada (Rogers and Bell) both throttle file sharing protocols, though my information may be out of date.

But we're not talking about your right to be a pirate, we're talking about something much more fundamental - i.e., freedom of speech.

We're talking about your ability to go online and talk shit about your neighbor, your city councilman, your MP, your Congressman, your Governor General, or your Prime Minister.

As a Canadian myself, I can tell you that the US takes a much stronger stance in favor of freedom of speech than Canada (or really, any Westminster system country today) and has consistently erred on the side of preserving speech moreso than Canadians - to the point where some Canadians consider the US stance to be rather extreme (e.g., malicious but truthful attacks are not consider libel nor defamation).

As far as protections for both political expression as well as creative expression (i.e., the arts) the US is one of the strongest (if not the strongest) in the world - and this is coming from a Canadian who's mostly cynical about American politics.

The claim that the US is the most free (in terms of speech) country in the world isn't just typical pompous American exaggeration, there is a lot of meat behind the claim.
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"If people get older every year, why are college students always the same age?"

Seriously: massive expansion of the field disproportionately among younger workers, who bring the average down, is totally consistent with wages increasing for the vast majority of workers considered individually.

There's also some weird effects at the top of the scale. Half of the HN leaderboard is people who you'd consider technologists, but many of them (us?) don't count as it for statistical purposes. This disproportionately excludes from the comparison people who are older, at their peak earning years, and/or those who took advantage of many of the (numerous) options which are a bit more lucrative than System Administrator II at an insurance company.
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It sounds like I'll hopefully get something out of it, given I'm purely self-taught post-high school. Some rigour to my existing practical capacity would be useful.

Do you believe it'll offer this?
The way I see it, "flat" wages are the default state, and I would expect wages to be flat for many othet areas of employment. It is true that IT has become an increasingly important part of the economy, but wages in the field were always relatively high, and now you have many more employees to share the workload. It's simply that the IT field had become much larger, not more prestigious.
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I really like this, but there needs to be a better way to navigate to a page. The pop-up scheme is blocked by my browser. Perhaps, a iframe with the terminal becoming a header similar to Google image search? Maybe using Links?
Oh I see. Alright well my understanding is that if you've had one or more manic episodes then you have bipolar disorder. I can see how coming off drugs could trigger a manic episode in somebody who was bipolar, even if it was their first such experience. However, assuming he's not bipolar, coming off drugs can still induce all sorts of sketchy, erratic, paranoid behaviour. On the other hand, he could have taken some with him... at any rate, the man needs a hospital and some lawyers.
Great point :)
Wages in many industries have been stagnant for a while now.
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I just saw Dick Dale, legendary surf guitarist for similar reasons. He's no Bruebeck, but a national treasure nonetheless.
The article mentioned this.
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This is quick bookmarklet I hacked together to preview patterns from http://subtlepatterns.com on your website (or any website for that matter).
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It's not something I'd get too worked up about. Simon Marlow clearly did a lot of heavy lifting for GHC, but there are a lot of hands in the soup. Most of the big, high-profile things lately have been the work of other people—Haskell Platform, the LLVM backend, not to mention most of the high-profile libraries (Yesod comes to mind).

It's not a great thing but I think even if SPJ left the community has enough of a critical mass we could keep things moving along. It would definitely slow things down for a couple years but it wouldn't be like Linux losing Linus or Python losing Guido.
Flat wages really aren't, for the reason that labor productivity has historically and consistently increased slightly every year. Some shared split of productivity gains between corporations and employees accounts for great wage increases during the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Why there hasn't been an increase in wages for most workers from the '70s on is an interesting economic and sociological issue.
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All humans need and deserve empathy: healthy/unhealthy, good/evil, innocent/criminal. In particular, empathy often provides psychological healing, although it won't do him much good personally unless it reaches him.
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I am almost ready to use this service but have some questions first:

1. Are Instant Payment Notifications sent only once with 0 confirmations? (hoping no)

2. How do I verify that the IPN is really coming from Coinbase? (hoping some simple signature check)

3. If I created a button worth 1.99$ then will it adjust BTC amount based on the current exchange rate or will it be static? (hoping it will adjust itself over time)

4. Also is it possible to see and edit buttons at a later time(hoping yes)
Surprisingly wide swings in fiat currency value can happen over the course of a month or two though. I imagine the volatility of BTC might cause problems for things like pre-orders.

I once placed a large order with a US company; unfortunately the order couldn't be filled for about two months.

I really wish they had billed me up front, because by the time they did bill me, the order cost 30% more in NZD.