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I got the "public" notification that I was accepted on google+, but no private email... Not sure how to do polls on HN, so upvote the 2 comments maybe ?
That's an excellent point, but a mortgage is not the only route to true home ownership. You could work and rent in a city with high salaries and low rent vs. purchase prices, then retire in a very cheap area where you can just buy a house with cash saved up, thereby paying no interest whatsoever on the house and keeping maximum mobility during your career.
Sadly, in modern times Dr. King's dream of basing ones judgement of others solely on character (including merit) rather than on skin color is considered by many to be passé. I must quickly add that I am not of that modern group -- I still cling to the notion of a color-blind society as being the 'right' approach. Clearly we need "gender blindness", too. However, counting colors and genitalia and striving for parity across all colors and parts has proved, over and over, to cause as many errors as it solves.

I'd pose the same question to professional women as has been posed to black males for decades now: "Are you wanting to define yourself as a great lawyer/doctor/engineer, or a great _black_ (or in this case _woman_) lawyer/doctor/engineer?"

Personally, I have far, far greater respect when the gender and race is not part of the definition. Otherwise it seems there is a message of "I get extra points due to the mistake of my birth". Is that not just another form of 'privilege'?
He's gotten remarkably good at not making testable recommendations or predictions. If an economy collapses, it's because the government didn't do any stimulus spending. If the government tries to stimulate but its economy still collapses, it's because it didn't stimulate enough. I don't think he's ever gone on record to say specifically how much stimulus is needed. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
S-HTTP was pitched as an alternative to SSL but died very quickly as neither MSIE nor Netscape Navigator supported it. My memory is fuzzy about it now but I recall one of the "advantages" being that you could selectively encrypt portions of a page. I also recall it being very convoluted to set up and maintain vs. encrypt everything over port 443.
FYI: Digging up old, unrelated things Krugman has said that are wrong isn't going to make your bitcoins worth more.

For those of you confused why this is a top item, Krugman wrote a bitcoin piece today: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/krugman-the-antiso...
Too true. These days front-end developers are expected to know frameworks and a plethora of lanauges which to me signals a company is trying to get not only a front-end developer but also is trying to get someone proficient in Rails or whatever language without paying more. "Oh, knowing Rails is a plus for this position" translates to, "We are going to pay you a $60k a year salary for a front-end position and get you to do the tasks of a Rails developer as well of which we pay $90k a year to" the line has been blurred you're either mostly front-end with a little knowledge of back-end and web apps like Wordpress and whatnot or you're backend with a little knowledge of front-end.

The wanky interview questions always make me laugh. Developers at their core are hackers, they know bits and pieces but not everything. A great developer doesn't know everything but knows what to type into Google when they need a solution to a problem. Collectively all of these tidbits create a cross-network of information developers share with one another. The questions that assume you are some all seeing, all knowing developer are a farce and you probably don't want to work at a place like that anyway.

The type of questions I would love to see being asked in front-end developer positions would be:

* What's the difference between display: inline-block and float: left?

* What is the default browser behaviour in a modern web browser when applying a padding left or right to an element with 100% with?

* How would you add a class to an element with the ID of, "content" via jQuery?

* Name two CSS browser vendor prefixes

* What is the difference between responsive design and adaptive design (bonus points for describing how and why one is easier and or harder than the other)?

* Which of these is not a valid CSS unit of measurement? px, pm, em, rem, %

* What is the difference between position: absolute and position: fixed?

These are questions good developers should know the answer too without Googling, they're not solutions they're somewhat basic things a front-end developer should know off of the top of his head.

Not:

* What are some of your favourite tech blogs to read?

* Can you please write a for loop that increments a counter?

* What web browser do you use?

* Can you recall a particular time when you found yourself solving a complex problem?

It's a tough economy and companies are always trying to get something extra for nothing. I've always had an issue with companies hiring so-called, designer/developers when we all know a true designer or developer doesn't fragment their time learning two crafts. You either become a great developer or a great designer not a mediocre hybrid who lacks full-understanding of each craft because you're too busy going back and forth with crafts.
It does feel like I'd be swimming against the tide heading down the R path. Thanks for the offer :)
Tiny technology - house buying
While I think this is a good approach, since the service's main drawbacks involve cosmetic damage, it makes sense to launch using a payment model which favors lower-end cars. Once the damage issues are adequately addressed in practice Tier 2, or an equivalent, might become more attractive.
Package Manager for Web Audio Components
Open-source cannot live on donations alone
This guy seems a bit out of touch with how Android works, though this just seems to be link bait for whatever this site is about.

Sure they could begin discriminating against apps in Google Play to promote their business goals, but how Is Google going to ask for the source code back?
That's a really good question.

After thinking about it a bit, I'd suggest it was technological naivety - he didn't see ecommerce coming (!?) or thought that there was some reason it would fail.

I suspect he was deliberately being contrarian and pessimistic too.
That, IMO, is the best argument for TDD. By having a process that forces tests first, you never get into the situation where you are cutting critical tests for the schedule's sake.

On the other hand, with a process like TDD you also never get into the situation where you can cut non-critical tests.
This is... pretty seriously disappointing, if it's supposed to be the whole thing (or close to the whole thing). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're going to publish the rest later, and not deliberately hobbling it to prevent the public from getting creeped out by the hardware's capabilities.
I can give him a break on predictions, as no one can be good at predictions on this sort of thing. Just lucky. What really bothers me is what he advocates...

To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble. Judging by Mr. Greenspan's remarkably cheerful recent testimony, he still thinks he can pull that off. But the Fed chairman's crystal ball has been cloudy lately; remember how he urged Congress to cut taxes to head off the risk of excessive budget surpluses? And a sober look at recent data is not encouraging.

-Paul Krugman, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...
running a pseudo login prompt to capture user's network password.
Conversely, the difference is that women are incentivised just as much as men to apply and be accepted as (in the UK at least) it's tied to research outcomes.

At least one other article has made the point that conference organisers should aim at getting more females to submit by a) finding female networks and making them aware of the CfP and b) even putting a quota on the submissions. That way, unless something is very wrong with the pool of people, some women's talks should just get through by sheer probability.
I like your plan of testing LEGO bricks[1] from different eras, but I would recommend you use the same rotary mechanism for all the tests. If you change the mechanism to a linear one, you won't be able to compare with confidence the first (rotary) test with any follow-on linear actuator tests.

OTOH, if you repeat the (rotary) 70's era test with the linear actuator, that would be interesting estimate of whether a rotary actuation is better or worse for the brick longevity. Of course, you will still have a sample size of one, so your confidence interval will be meaningless. I can see this turning into a lifelong obsession... ;-)

[1] http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/legal-notice/fair-play/
Accomplishing the short-term goal while creating or reinforcing long-term positioning and/or framing issues (e.g. Facebook as a tool for tuning out) isn't actually a win.
Silicon Valley Needs a Union
no probs
Netflix coming to HTML5 just as soon as the DRM ducks are in a row
I have worked remotely for companies in other countries for extended periods of time quite a bit. I'm Australian but have worked remotely for companies in Canada from Australia for over a year, I have worked for companies in the UK while living in Canada and Australia for over 18 months. I have also worked for Australian companies from Nepal. In addition to this I have spent time travelling around various parts of Europe and Asia while working remotely for companies in Australia and the UK.

It's definitely doable and provides great freedom in your lifestyle. The different timezones can get a bit annoying though, the time difference between the UK and Australia is 11 hours so I would often find myself on Skype calls until 5am local time.

Using good collaboration tools like google docs and hangouts/skype really make this all go a bit easier. In some places around Asia(particularly Nepal, Burma etc.) internet can be a bit sketchy so it can be difficult to get fast turnaround times on communication/bug fixes etc.
That could very well be the case for me and I just haven't been part of a "sufficiently good team." :)
> Seeing Americans in movies go "best country in the world!" sounds absurd to us

That sounds absurd to most Americans too. I've only heard that kind of rhetoric spoken by politicians, and it's definitely not a view most of us espouse.

There are a large number of Americans who believe the U.S. has the most powerful military in the world, and there are a sizeable number of Americans who believe that the U.S. provides the most opportunity for poor people to become rich through hard work (the "American dream"), but there are at least as many Americans who disagree with both, and I've never heard anyone in real life state that the U.S. is categorically "the best country in the world." Interestingly, I think it's safe to say that almost all Americans hold one view in common: no one likes the central government. That might be true in most democratic countries--I wouldn't know. But I don't think I've ever in my life heard an American state that they were satisfied with the government.
He's gotten remarkably good at not making testable recommendations or predictions.

That's the problem with empirical economics with idealistic theories. You can't separate the variables, so there's always another excuse to weasel yourself out of having your hypothesis nullified.
> PS/2 to USB CONVERTER

Thank you so much for this information. I've actually got an old M model with a DIN plug. It's got coffee stains, cigarette burns (a different era from when you could smoke in the office!) and general grime all over.

I later used it with a DIN to PS/2 cable. It's currently in a box in the spare room with all the other junk, but I might see about getting a PS/2 to USB converter. It's a lovely keyboard, the best I've ever used.

Picture of the IBM M model here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Mod...
I thought they only worked locally. How do you talk to people halfway across the world?
Google’s Person Finder Launched Moments After Boston Explosions
Can't people already use gmail to do so?
You're wrong.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/stimulus-arithme...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/the-story-of-the...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/how-did-we-know-...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/stimulus-issues/
LEGO(r) says it is "LEGO bricks", never "LEGOs". See the section Proper Use of the LEGO Trademark on a Web Site http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/legal-notice/fair-play/
You can make free calls from GMail
One of the reasons Moore's law seems to be slowing more than it is, is Intel is putting most of their new transistors into integrated graphics.
Actually he did - it was about 2 trillion, which does not include tax cuts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/opinion/09krugman.html

This was not a unique opinion at the time - the people who correctly diagnosed the crisis of 2008 prescribed more or less the same medicine.
I'm in TX too (not Austin, but another big city). I'm curious how you're liking consulting here and how it's going. Do you find most of your clients in Austin or are they remote? And do you feel like you would be better off just getting a salaried full-time job with benefits given the going rates here for salaries vs. consulting? If you don't mind spilling the beans (I understand if not), how much are you generally able to make (and how much work does making it involve)?

I ask because I'm seriously looking into transitioning into consulting over the next few years. I'm a little dissatisfied with the developer wages in Texas in comparison to the cost of living inside the city (Houston, probably similar to Austin). The wages are great in comparison to the suburbs or further out, but I don't want to commute 1.5-2 hours every day if I can help it.
More specifics about the decision to dump MongoDB would be extremely useful.
Phone books do this too.
Keep in mind this is Google Mirror API documentation not Google Glass apps API.

Google Mirror API is for puting stuff in front of user eye. As far as I know you can not get information from Google Glass with this API.
Sometime you get what you pray for :-/

Krugman wanted the housing bubble, he got it.

Please tell me, has he asked for any education bubble? I'm not really following what he says unless it's too wonky (like he last piece about Adam Smith hating bitcoin, because you know Adam Smith could have predicted bitcoin and peer to peer and computers http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/adam-smith-hates...)
Moore's law as a practical matter has been dead for awhile. If you hold capital expenditures to achieve a given level of improvement constant in real dollars, the pace has slowed dramatically since say the late 1980's. What's been hiding the extent of the slowdown is exponential increases in capital expenditures.
Yeah, pretty sure it was the case of being a Saudi nearby the explosion.

10-to-1 this is a domestic issue. If it was international terrorism, wouldn't someone have claimed responsibility by now?
> What I am concerned about is the selective outrage being exhibited by the technology community. One such example is the Lulu app, which advertises itself as "the first ever app for private reviews of guys." I, personally, could not care less about what the app actually does. My outrage comes from the fact that no one seems to care that if this idea was implemented with the tables turned - men reviewing women - then it would almost certainly receive national media attention, being condemned by Women's Rights and Civil Rights groups.

"No one seems to care"...well, except for the various threads on this on HN and Reddit the past couple of weeks. Oh, was the OP looking for women to speak out? Well here's disapproving commentary by Gawker's feminism blog, Jezebel:

http://jezebel.com/5982867/the-creepy-new-yelp-for-boys-and-...

Which references the "XX Factor" feminist blog on Slate, which also was very negative about Lulu:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/02/07/lulu_app_for...

Those are two pretty prominent feminist online properties right there, both who probably empathized with Adria Richards and routinely mock the male culture at Reddit, and yet, here they are, attacking Lulu. Did the OP actually do any research or does "no one seem to care" just something he notices because he doesn't seem to care to look outside his bubble?
Please do realize: lack of suspicious charges on your credit card is not evidence that it was not stolen.
An Open Letter To People Who Think They Are In "Technology" But Are Actually In Marketing

Spending your days "working" on facebook, twitter, starting reddit threads, writing retarded garbage on your blog and answering email at your fucking retarded 3-person "startup" does not make you an expert/guru/founder/entrepreneur in the "tech" world.

Nor does it entitle you to lecture anyone on anything who is actually in the "tech" field.

Please shut the fuck up.

Being a woman, or some kind of self-described down-trodden minority gives you no insight whatsoever. Take your neon hair, your black rimmed glasses, your kwaii tshirts and please, fuck off.
That's not the case for open-source tech conferences. Open source has a preference for social change at its fundamental level - "anyone can edit". This at least leans towards promoting an egalitarian environment.

Also, half of the value of tech conferences is networking, not lectures, which is about 'meeting people' rather than 'imparting knowledge', so they are a fundamentally social event. The 'hallway track' as it is known. If it weren't for the networking, conferences would be pointless as you could just do a local course or read up on the niche publications.
>What really bothers me is what he advocates...

What exactly bothers you on this piece? On hindsight, it is extremely prescient. He got the recession AND the housing bubble right, 5 to 6 years before the fact.

(And in case you were confused: he doesn't advocate the creation of a housing bubble here. He predicts one -- and he believes that Greenspan thinks he needs one and will help in creating it, which both were proven true).
Just curious... who do you include in that list of people who properly diagnosed the crisis? Personally, I would say Nouriel Roubini and Peter Schiff were spot-on with this since they started talking about it in 2003-2004.
Hmm, I think that we probably don't know the sort of people who would consider their countries the best in the world, but I have a feeling that there's a larger percentage of those in the US (think Bible belt) than in Europe. I imagine that this is localized, though, as there are people in Greece who are all Golden-Dawn fascist-patriots too. They're seen as uneducated caricatures, which I imagine is how their American counterparts are also seen there.
DigitalOcean should probably put this in their marketing materials.
I'm sorry, but how constructive is your comment really? Do you think it's and ad-hominem on Krugman? He's not popular with me, but even leaving that aside, there's something more here.

Some say love and passion are two sides of the same coin, and the only separate sentiment is indifference.

He sure seems to hate bitcoin with a passion now. Today's article is at least not as bad as his last piece from only 3 days before, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/adam-smith-hates-bitcoin/ that was discussed here.

At least this time in the article he properly acknowledged bitcoin as the "ultimate fiat currency", that's an evolution.

Yet he still sees nothing wrong with quantitative easing and the greenback, and compare that situation to the goldbugs. Poeple who are too optimistic about gold do not necessarily have to be right to make a good investment - if the fiat currencies are doing down, that alone would make gold an interesting investment (I for one would not place a single cent in a heavy precious metal the US government has already confiscated in the past following executive orders)

Just notice how sentimentally charged his article are - look at the keywords in the titles, "hate" or "antisocial". It would be interesting to grab them all and feed them into a sentiment analysis software, to see how he positionned himself on other topics in the past, and if these position evolves over time.

Still, it's weird and funny. Does he intend to write a bitcoin article a day when the $300 cap is reached? He should post them on bitcoin related sites and rename his blog.
Exactly. Just like getting a job you have to pay your dues in a lower position before you get to be the CEO.
Mini-Drones Help Eric Schmidt Find Religion on Privacy
What is a "klischee"? Wherever you were educated can't have been much better than the US, which has the worst education system in the world (according to you). I'm sure the US also has the worst poverty in the world, the worst prison system in the world, the most killing and abduction of foreign civilians in the world, the most torture of its prisoners, but could you back that up with some sources or some rational thought?
It is kind of interesting to think self aware AI, under certain assumptions, and thus possibly the "singularity", could be an issue of an extra decade of Moore's law or not.
Haven't seen him say anything about helping fund the education bubble. But then again, he believes all sorts of silly things. Like if you print money and pay people to dig and bury holes over and over again, you can revive an economy.
>Krugman wanted the housing bubble, he got it.

No, he didn't WANT a housing bubble. He (correctly) WARNED off one that the Fed will bring on:

"To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

He doesn't describe what he thinks is right (himself). He describes what he thinks the Fed wants and will do.