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If the people who run unions were smart, they would have gotten rid of H-1B a long time ago. The tech industry is the only part of the USA economy that even has a potential for the sort of labor shortage required for healthy private-sector unions.
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Then I was lead astray by the comment about the engine being 1/2 the size of a shipping container. Where is the source of that speculation and how informed is it?

How much energy can you get from a pulsed beam of charged particles? What's the efficiency level? The same question applies to getting power from X-rays. Photovoltaic is what, 20% at best? Certainly X-ray isn't that efficient.

Which means 5 MW of electrical generation is going to require, what, 20 MW of input power? 500 MW? No matter what, it's going to require a lot of cooling. Enough that saying that it fits into a container doesn't make sense.

And in any case, my statement was "We don't think it's possible to get fusion power to an even smaller scale [than a large ship's diesel engines]." You said "Some of the designs are pretty small-scale", but your example is already my example of a possible valid smaller scale.

So I think this is a case of one of those arguments where we're both on the same side?
This level of monitoring is insane - an evil application of gamification. People, unlike machines, do not always work in precise patterns.

The example of the effects on "score" in taking an unschedule bathroom break tells me what I would do with such monitors in the bathroom.
So sick of this vile greedy a-million-X-isn't-cool mentality. This Disqus comment sums it up for me:
"OR you can skip the VC bullshit and build a sustainable business that makes you boatloads of money and generates hundreds of great jobs with a <1 million user base."
Not sure if you took his advice. I can't see anything without registering.. which means I'm not going to bother.
> Google’s X Lab initiative, the lab also responsible for... neural networks.

Wait, what? In what sense can google's X Lab be said to be responsible for neural networks?
Science is something PhDs do only occasionally. Actually, most of the time most of us are innovating, inventing, designing, engineering, managing, ... Even the most white coat researcher in the most sciency field!

Unless you are using a different definition for science? Do you just mean a non-industry academic position?
We seem to be so close to agreement here that I'll just have to vote you up and take you at your word regarding the Rift. It's entirely possible my experiences have all been unfortunate ones. I've not tried the Rift yet, though by all means I will. :)
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Wonder how long it will take for Samsung to whip up a galaxy glass
How much can I upload 1GB? 10GB? 30TB?
Many people -- including a lot of economists -- inhabit an echo chamber where "globalization=good, protectionism=bad" is a sacred dogma.

But the investor's investor, Warren Buffett, has said that tariffs would be good for the US [1] [2].

Protectionism/mercantilism works, but what we have is a half-and-half system: Goods, services, and capital can move relatively freely through US borders, but labor cannot.

Throwing open our borders to trade -- Nixon's visit to China, NAFTA -- resulted in real US wages that have been stagnant for decades.

I.e., in many jobs, our workers are still competing against overseas workers, without those workers physically moving to the US. Those third-world workers don't have to worry about all the silly laws we have regarding minimum wages, limited workweeks, child labor, environmental protection, workplace safety, etc. If we want to keep those policies, and still have good jobs available to our citizens, we have to ditch free trade.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_Certificates

[2] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/...
Do such displays exist?
Did anyone else read this and then scroll to the top only to realize they'd been reading and comprehending german the entire time and then suddenly forgot it?

I did. :/
Do you know of any 3rd party data on that (perhaps a blog post or published data)? Intuitively I believe what you are saying, but I really want to show someone else.
It's expensive, a bad user experience and there's already very little chargeback risk in card-present txns.
Scientific research is by no means tied to Christian assumptions, I don't know where you're getting this conspiracy theory from. Do you think humans communicate with other things through electromagnetic fields? Then tell us of an experiment that shows this. What is the mechanism for this communication? Asian mysticism is deeply traditional and faith based, just a different kind of faith (placebo based). If these types of communications are so subtle that we're hardly aware of them, then that means that they are in fact weaker than the placebo effect. People are convinced they spoke to God and were abducted by aliens, why should I believe that you can sense subtle magnetic fields?
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Buffett is a mercantilist, not a capitalist
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> People, unlike machines, do not always work in precise patterns.

Do you believe that biology is not understandable?
Theoreticians do get funding, just not much, and most CS researchers are not hardcore theoreticians (theory is a tool to be used occasionally in support of something else).
You're assuming that the government has the public's interest as it's main priority -- not that its purpose is to funnel value from the public to private owners pockets. That they are able to exploit the goodwill of the state isn't a flaw, it's a feature.
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Just my 2 cents on this issue - writing code on a whiteboard isn't always about the code you write.

It's not about the actual code you produce in the interview, it's about talking through your thought process, your ability to reason while under pressure, and your attitude of whether or not "this is beneath me - wah!".

I've been in several interviews where I had to write code. I made some mistakes, some things I plain out didn't know (for my first job, I had no clue how to write any JavaScript, and I explained that it was just something I didn't know how to do, but that I'd be willing to learn it as required). I still got hired from all of them. So, if you think coding tests during interviews are about producing flawless code, they're not. They're to see how you think - and that is profoundly important as a developer.

I would also argue that a developer's existing skills are the least important factor when deciding whether or not to hire someone. Every developer works as part of a team and has to collaborate and communicate with others in that team. If you want to hire a developer, you need to see how well they communicate complex technical problems to non-technical people.
I think there is zero chance Bitcoin takes off.
I find myself clicking on all the different news tabs just to see that loading animation for some reason...
yes, I had read it before it was changed. I know the need of modding, been a mod myself elsewhere, but it has to have some grounds, unlike in this case. Would someone please fix this?
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Have you stepped outside recently and seen just how many people are stooped over a smartphone? We're living in that reality right now, only people are developing neck problems doing it.
Except that ClojureScript is dependent on JVM Clojure, and if ClojureCLR were to take advantage of the CLR's capabilities (TCO and stack allocation, for example) it also wouldn't be Clojure.

So we're really talking about dialects of Clojure (and perhaps might as well be talking about dialects of Lisp in general).
He invests his money in companies. I always thought that "capitalist" was simply another word for "investor".

Edited grandparent to say "investor" instead. Happy?
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From PBS's Rise of the drones
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.htm...

They profiled a new type of drone which is basically a human-controlled missile. Fly it right into a window!
Yes, the humidity here is usually high. It makes the summers feel warmer than they otherwise would and the winters colder (though the wind definitely plays a part in the latter as well).
Seriously. From the title, I figured it would be something like, "There are sixteen godzillion apps in the various App Stores to compete with, and umpty million app-buying users, so you're likely to only sell X thousand copies, which won't pay for your time, unless you can somehow get ahead of the pack."

Instead, I'm supposed to be depressed that it's hard to go from 1 million users to 10 million? Holy moly. If you're not doing well with a million users, maybe you screwed up.
It's a lie (intentional or not), and one that does the author a disservice by (a) making him look like a fool to his peers, and (b) obfuscating the actual benefits of his computing model (which, from the paper, look to have more to do increasing performance of certain parallel algorithms rather than fault-tolerance).
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I find it amusing that you are trying so hard to avoid naming this MVC. The "glue code" contains the code that would typically be a controller.

The difference is that you do it by modifying the model and view, and that is the problem to me: You are making non-local modifications to the code, which means that while you are separating it in source, you are not keeping a separation in the running code. You make it extremely hard to reason about the system.

This is already a problem in large event/notification driven systems, but this takes it to the extreme by removing the hint to look for non-local behaviour by having the equivalent to the notification imposed by an external actor.

If you want to improve on a notification driven system, in my opinion you don't do that by making the extension points less obvious.

And if you first are going to do that, at the very least do it in very obviously named functions, and don't modify passed in objects by make copies. But to me, those are workarounds to ameliorate a situation that's already undesirable. E.g. if you're making copies and modifying the copies and keeping those internal to the glue class you might as well go back to implementing an actual controller.
> You're not even doing a good job being selfish, since you'd actually benefit a lot more from more people having the opportunity to create value.

Well, that's sort of the question, isn't it? Will the benefit I receive from other people's production of value outweigh the devaluation of my own productivity? I don't think there's an easy way to answer that, though my suspicion is that there is a large number of people for whom the answer is no.

Note, I don't advocate this line of thought; I'm just saying that it's not irrational for someone to advocate it.
Where's the story here? As education expands all top-tier job markets become more competitive. Science isn't and shouldn't be any different, particularly with the reduced levels of funding available.
I once read a quote by Bertrand Russell that really helped me respond to people better. He was talking about studying philosophy, but it applies to understanding points of view in general. Here it is:

In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he hitherto held. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process, and reverence with the second.

This helped me a lot, hope it helps you too!
I don't get it, why limit the clause? why not make all research (not-related to defense/military) funded by tax payers to THE taxpayers?

why put limits, like 100 million, federal/state, etc???

were no lessons learnt from Aaron's case?
Can someone clue me in on this - people are now standing in line for software? The only logical two reasons I can think of:

1) Their backend doesn't scale well enough

2) Artifical scarcity to make people think they are missing out on something
If someone is being photographed, is there any way for that person to know that Google Glass is recording video? I would feel really uncomfortable if a colleague had Google Glass on at a meeting or at lunch or in my office, unless I knew I wasn't being recorded. The privacy concerns on this are enormous in my view.
I love your optimism.

I too look forward to the OR system shipping. Go through the latest parts list for the OR device and check on availability 2 years ago. Things are moving along and that is great, they weren't there when Nintendo was using MEMS accelerometers and CMOS camera modules in their remote.
Is it safe to assume this isn't exactly legal? Why haven't Apple or Netflix done this? (because licensing deals suck!)
https://www.netspend.com/ has been doing this for years
Ooh, yes, GitHub's impact metric. We should add that.

I think minding commits isn't as bad as it could be theoretically though. I feel like pride is sufficient deterrent not to do pointless commits. And general pressure for more fine-grained commits is probably valuable.
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That will be because the nefarious asshat (Zuck) can find more ways to obtain data without you having much choice.
> At best, it's future is worse-is-better

If we're taking the worse-is-better angle My suspicion is that clojurescript, which compiles to javascript, is a much more likely candidate to continue based on worse-is-better.
I agree with much of what you wrote there but you should remember that the single most distinguishing feature of Haskell (aside from its predecessor Miranda) is laziness. Almost everything unique you described about Haskell was not accidental, but necessary to build a wholly lazy language.
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~~~Power the Geek~~~ This started from an Ask HN.

The purpose is to give hackers the other necessary skills for success besides just the technical chops.

This is essentially a developer-centric approach to communication and life skills.

Please comment with any thoughts/constructive criticisms. I really want to give real value to the people who will join Power the Geek, so please let me know your thoughts on where I can best do that.

Thanks!
Visualizing the remarkably low conviction rate for rape
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This is the thought I have about chilly/damp weather.

If the extent of your time outside is going from one building to another then (at least until the temperature actually drops far enough to become dangerous), less clothing is better.

If it's in the mid-30s and slightly drizzling outside, but it's only a 20 minute walk to work, then a t-shirt and jeans are the way to go. The instant you step into a building you'll be warm and dry as a bone while everyone else will be damp and chilled for some time. My jacket only goes on if I perceive a hypothermia risk, and gloves only get used if I think frostbite might become a risk.
Sometimes people need to be reminded of this. A lot of the representation the press gives seems to imply that people simply walk into money. As usual, pg gives some perspective.
I think they meant to say "Google's neural network": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X_Lab#Google_Brain_proje...
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Like every ideas there is some good and some bad. It's stupid to think about FTTH and FTTLA in the french countryside because nobody cares about it. We just have to wait and see how much will be actually spent in a useful way. I'm confident because in the past, France showed that it can make a success in telco.
I empathize with this to no end.

For that reason, I may take the several novel series in my mental queue (some drafted, some not) and, instead of bringing any one of them all of the way to polished books, start with short stories in their settings. Whichever ones people read - never mind buy - go to the top of the "write more" list.

Short stories as MVPs. The metaphor could apply to all manner of projects.
Ah, LMK = Let Me Know.
So what is the catch on this? I am guessing there are legality issues and/or they extremely limit your library. No company can afford to offer what they claim to be offering without some serious cash behind them.
Excellent summary of the situation in Colorado. The A-64 task force members are very well aware that framework they are drafting will become a model for other US states - and perhaps for other countries as well.

A-64 clearly states that marijuana is to be regulated like alcohol. It is wonderfully ironic that the task force consists mainly of bureaucrats, who as individuals, probably voted against A-64, but as public servants, are recommending very practical regulations.

Just one example ... Law enforcement task force members are wrestling with whether to return personal cannabis to prisoners when they are released from county jails. The precedent set by alcohol is to return it, but would that make jailers into drug distributors according to US federal law? And would that situation also hurt the federal grants received by Colorado law enforcement?

It's those sort of difficult details that will be worked very soon by Colorado.

I am so very proud to live there much of the year.
I think some sort of concept of "attention-condition" levels could and should be applied. These would be like "def-con" levels, but labeling the readiness of one to switch attention, instead of readiness to engage in military action. Saying something along the lines of, "Ok, Glass, set at-con 2 for the next hour," could do things like switch notifications to only a whitelist of people and message types. "At-con 5" would let everything through. "At-con 1" would only show you something from an even more restricted whitelist, or if a nuclear war started. ;-)

Now add in commands like, "Ok, Glass, set at-con 2 whenever I'm driving," or "whenever I'm in this building." And a person's distraction levels can be overall reduced by this device rather than expanded.
On the legal front it's like Dropbox -- storing your personal media collection online and letting us transcode and organize it is fine, especially because the content is private (like Dropbox) and not publicly listed (we're not like Grooveshark). Of course, we're DMCA compliant and take down files if they're deemed illegally obtained.
Coffeeseur here. There is nothing novel about these methods, they all combine prior art. It is not that different from trying to patent a recipe.

And on a side note, Starbucks has gone downhill a lot since its inception. It depends which store you go to, as each one has differing levels of quality, but in general the quality control is very poor (I notice many employees pouring espresso, pre-made, from a pitcher -- espresso will go flat fairly quick this way). I have recently become a fan of Pete's although their locations also vary in quality. The taste difference between my local Pete's and Starbuck's is very apparent.
For some reason i thought this was going to be knock-off of SIFT-Flow using GIST descriptors instead of Dense SIFT. My first reaction to the name was like "i don't think that'll work too well"...i need a break
Thanks! Haven't taken a formal information theory class yet, but I'd like to soon.
It just seems to me that whatever they're doing with AMD, AMD is going to be able to farm out to other parties. Given that both MS and Sony are using AMD cores paired with GDDR5 memory controllers, it seems almost certain that there's nothing approaching an exclusivity contract to prevent AMD from now selling that bundle to any maker of gaming PCs or SteamBox builds or whatever else.

And the current/historical cost differential between DDR and GDDR5 certainly seemed to be a considerable problem back when these specs were first rumored. But the following things suggest that's not likely to be an issue preventing it from hitting other gaming PCs:
1. Sony managed to spec 8GB of it into a box they simply can't afford to subsidize greatly at the outset. [1]
2. Sony and MS both need to know the cost of any expensive components will drop massively over the next couple years.
3. PC gamers readily and regularly accept higher prices for their machines than console makers could ever stomach.

So I don't see it becoming common. Truly very few non-gamers would care about the performance delta. But it seems like a thing that will be on offer from multiple vendors, for feasible prices, before long. (Particularly given that AMD could really use any edge against Intel.)

[1] People wrote off a lot of the rumors on that basis alone. If Sony is confident that it can not only afford GDDR5 for system memory, but that it can afford so much, there has to be a massive price cut incoming.
Improvements are a cost-center.
My prediction: this will take off at some point, perhaps in one of the big consulting firms, like E & Y or Accenture. It will be justified with phrases like, "Of course we trust our employees, we're just trying to optimize!" The lie will come out when HR comes up with a "company temporal resource utility maximization" metric. The exodus to startups will accelerate.
Here is a study that shows that the median (not mean) value of internet sites (note that these are not applications, but blogs or forum sites!) is around $500, with a monthly revenue of $133. http://www.slideshare.net/Flippadotcom/how-do-websites-make-...

It's basically that most niche sites have a hard time scaling up to 100,000 users, let alone 1M.

Not sure how well those numbers scale to consumer applications however, but you can probably interpolate from those online advertising/affiliate marketing numbers.
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Well, at least it can warm up that way. Indeed, neoprene is pretty effective for bike riding in that kind of weather, even though it gets kind of heavy and sloppy.
Gargoyle from Snow Crash also comes to mind. I don't yet know if this is a bad thing or just another stage in the way humans live our lives, but it's definitely going to be interesting.
Yes, FTA: As soon as we got inside however, the employees at Starbucks asked us to stop filming. Sure, no problem. But I kept the Glass’ video recorder going, all the way through my order and getting my coffee. Yes, you can see a light in the prism when the device is recording, but I got the impression that most people had no idea what they were looking at. The cashier seemed to be on the verge of asking me what I was wearing on my face, but the question never came. He certainly never asked me to stop filming.
I believe that biology introduces variables of the type that micromanagers are often ill-educated to understand.

IOW - biologicals operate with more variation than machines.
Cool thanks for the info! I always thought it was some racket like textbooks.
Absolutely. I'd also be concerned about the security--what if an attacker gains access to the camera/microphone without your knowledge? Scary stuff...