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"And there is truly nothing wrong with that! I am not saying, “The internet is turning us all into children, isn‟t that awful;” quite the contrary. Cultural neoteny can be wonderful. But it‟s important to understand the dark side." This is from a book from Jaron Lanier called "You are not a gadget".

I think Jaron Lanier is just lost like any of us trying to explain the current present and especially the use of cybernetics in our life. We know that a lot of people were afraid of technology and the changes introduced in our societies (including myself). If you ever read Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich or even Theodore Kaczynski, you'll see the issues of changing our human societies with the technologies (especially the ones that we cannot control) can be really scary.

It's really difficult to evaluate the positive or negative impact of technologies when you are directly living the change. In the previous book of Jaron Lanier, I think Jaron was still trying to find the balance between the positive and negative side of technologies. Nowadays, he is more into the "sole" negative side...

To go back to the example of Kodak, I'm not sure that's the right example. Especially that Kodak completely overlooked the aspect of film processing for the online market where Fujifilm was ahead with their "minilabs"... even it was a difficult step for Fujifilm, they moved into something profitable on the long-run.
There are a lot of web designs that the average user finds annoying, which is in the same category as this - 'I don't want a splash page, I don't want your artsy and convention-breaking layout, I don't want your app - I just want to find what I need without anything getting in my way.' It can be hard to find web pages that don't violate some useability principles that seem pretty obvious.

Maybe it's just cargo-cult programming.
What are you doing on this site with a notorious startup lean if this is your opinion?
Vanguard even has target funds that do exactly this, rebalancing included.
When you put it like that, it's a bit weird. Is there an imperial fraction of a second that somehow never caught on?
Google+ does this too, except for top-level articles. My office was using G+ to share articles and status updates, but Google seems to have gone out of their way to make that as frustrating an experience as possible. There's no chronological view anymore, and sometimes it just doesn't show articles from some people unless you go directly to their profile.
Two out of the five cards did have a substantial percentage of the balance spent on alcohol. LCBO stands for "Liquor Control Board of Ontario". According to Wikipedia, "LCBO stores are generally the only stores allowed to sell distilled spirits in Ontario." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor_Control_Board_of_Ontari...
Thanks for turning me on to Taleb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...

Having watched the first few minutes of the above, I think he means his "antifragility" to be an attribute of economic and political systems, not of individual jobs or even whole occupations. E.g., he says that, in order for the restaurant business to be at least robust and maybe even antifragile, individual restaurants must be allowed to be fragile. It gets more interesting when he turns to the banking business ...
If you don't like the Kodak example use a little imagination and you will find a million others.

Take a look at state government employees most of whom are middle class. A major portion of this labor force is involved in managing data. Rough guess ~30000 * 50 states=1500000. Pretty sure its a much bigger number.

Facebook can manage the data of a billion people with 5000 employees.
Crouton is awesome—you get a chrooted Ubuntu accessible via crosh. You have CLI access with `sudo enter-chroot` and can launch XFCE4 with `sudo startxfce4`.

I never use XFCE, but if you do, you can seamlessly toggle between ChromeOS and XFCE with a keyboard shortcut (e.g. a YouTube video playing in ChromeOS remains playing if you switch to XFCE).
Bad examples. The worst examples are yet to come. Health!

We talk about health technology to save 100 billions of dollars or more in cost savings, EHR saving so much cost, etc. But what they don't talk about is these costs are coming at the expense of replacing human work. This is why I think we'll see continual increase of unemployment and underemployment. We moved to the service-based industry where machines can do many of the work.
A proper pressure-sensitive stylus from Apple would be nice. Out of the few pressure-sensitive bluetooth styli available from third-parties, only two (Pogo Connect & Jot Touch 4) support palm rejection. Even the prototype pen showed by Adobe during MAX didn't seem to have palm rejection implemented. It just feels really awkward holding a pen without putting the palm on a surface somewhere. The drawings apps on iOS are so good though, and if I have to pick between good hardware/weak software (Android tablets w/ S-pen) and good software/weak hardware (iPads w/ 3rd party pen), I would choose the latter.

Also, the Surface Pro pen apparently had issues supporting Photoshop, and it didn't get fixed until a (beta) driver update released two days ago.
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As someone who has written j2me applications, I can tell you that you couldn't run them on the desktop except in an emulator, so no, you couldn't take one program and run it across all those systems.

Java failed badly at its dream and ended up adopting an entirely different niche to what was expected.

But you're right, I shouldn't have said 'unimaginable'. I suppose it's just about possible that if java had 'won', we might have ended up with something not massively dissimilar to what I described.
YC is a new type of organization. Converting it to a university would just make it a good old type of organization. Being a new type of organization is much more interesting.
LG already bought webOS and all the other Palm goodies from HP back in Feb.

http://www.webosnation.com/lg-purchasing-hps-webos-division-...

They're going to use it as the basis for a new line of "smart" TVs. I still have my fingers crossed that OpenWebOS makes a usable phone to replace my Pre2.
They have that now, but they don't because consumers do not care.

The Nexus line is the best smartphone bargain that has ever happened, period, and it's still outsold by the Galaxy S III. They even use the words "pure google" in some of their marketing materials for the devices. Developers seem to be most of their market, though.

They could also opt not to include the Google properties on such phones (GMail, Google Play Store, etc...) but they don't. I suspect that relationships with headset manufacturers is the reason for this, but that's pure conjecture.
Many states have significantly reduced funding for public higher education. Much of tax funding now goes towards Medicaid, and perhaps half of that is not for poor people who need medical assistance but rather middle-class people in nursing homes. Nursing home payments are paid out of Medicaid as well as healthcare for the poor.

So, in a sense, the reason why states are spending less on higher education than a decade or two ago is simply because of this middle class entitlement. The middle class should be purchasing nursing home insurance but instead they leave it up to the state to support.
That's my right-click menu in Fluxbox: Chrome or xterm.
What config wizard thingy?

I figured this was a default setting.
Yes there is. It's variable width without being backwards compatible to ASCII. Even worse it's variable width but lets people assume it's fixed-width. UCS-2 was okay. UTF-16 is a hack.
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This isn't entirely true. If you take in the same amount of calories but something changes your metabolism, you can switch from using all the calories and entering a deficit, or storing the calories as fat. This is partly what happens with ketosis. You can eat the same amount of calories overall, but with almost no carbohydrates, and this changes your metabolism. You will lose weight in keto without excercising more if you are so inclined. Like many things, it's a good rule of thumb to say that less calories == less weight, but it's a nuanced situation. That's not always true.
Whenever I see the name Jaron Lanier I get an image of a being not unlike the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland: happily smoking his bong, taking great pride in being difficult and obstreperous and in saying things that sound profound, but don't really mean anything.
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Back in the days most so called "virtual worlds" I tried looked pretty ugly and were hard to navigate compared to FPS games from same era.
On the contrary, I would consider it a waste of time to dive into a language, library or framework without sitting down and reading through enough documentation to figure out what I want to do. The time you spend planning these things is well repaid in terms of avoiding simple mistakes.
3rd sentence is already wrong.

> "In Dutch, it's vand."

Should be:

> "In Danish, it's vand."

or

> "In Dutch, it's water."
>Worryingly, a growing share of household saving is bypassing the financial system altogether, seeking refuge from inflation in gold, bricks and mortar.

This is great. It means it's a kind of sustainable. 1) In case of a crisis (which will come) It won't be thrown back too much.

1) I think India is anything but sustainable due to their enormous population growth.
Someone needs to reset the wireless at the office. Down time.

There is 3G for that, and usually here in Europe the networks hold up quite well.

Not being able to do everything while on train or plane is the bigger real issue.

Server Provider experiences down time. Down time

That would be somewhat of an issue, though hasnt happened to me yet. And at least I can always fall back to Terminal IDE in that case.

You're married to vim forever

That isn't the worst thing that could happen. Could be Emacs ;-)

But seriously, I find value in settling on one editor you know and that works well.

Nobody has the right adapters to connect to the projector.

Just like when I had a MacBook. So, again I'm carrying a VGA dongle with me if I assume I have to present something.

* Goodbye secondary monitor.*

Never used or wanted one in my career stretching back to mid-90s...

Mobility is easier with a standard laptop.

Laptops are certainly more autonomous unless you go with a ChromeBook. But the tablet wins in portability and battery life
The occupy movement was really just a long running protest. There where similar things going on in DC but they where hardly occupying wall street and they all got forcibly disbanded.
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That's really interesting. I've read about intestinal fauna having big impacts on how food is processed.
A lifetime of terrible code
> The Samsung software I have seen on their TVs, laptops, phones has been adequate at best.

You've clearly used a Samsung SmartTV then. The software is so slow, so clunky, so unreliable; it's a hair pulling exercise just waiting for the thing to load (1-2 minutes to bring up the dashboard). Its bad enough to justify hauling the thing back to the shop and getting a refund.
What about using more that one double-quote characters(""some string"")? I can't think of any reason that you would do that in a particular string. Of course, you still need some way to escape it just in case, and there are always going to be special characters that you need to escape (like end of line characters), but you could probably get away with that for the majority of cases.
I think this has something to do with the fact that you can't monetize and sell ads through SMS.
The best option if you want a wild card certificate, a certificate that includes different domains, or many certificates.
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Would be even more fun as a game.

Would love to play a next gen game like Watch Dogs on a VR headset. But if it was just walking around in the Watch Dogs world, less interesting.
I agree that there is very much a paradigm shift and that it is very painful for a lot of those whose jobs were contingent on an older, more analog economy. The entire old economy of clerical work, creating, organizing and transmitting documents, scheduling, and manufacturing is being automated. I can't really say this is morally right so much as it is inevitable, and couldn't have been avoided. But it can be mitigated by encouraging equality-promoting fiscal policy and regulation to make sure that even if our economy is less equitable, it isn't unstable, and can't wipe out portions of the middle class's wealth because of the actions of a few.
More geekery. I tripped across it recently while trying to update a site I own.
As an enthusiastic photog who grew up exactly on the film/digital divide, I can tell you exactly where all of that value that was "destroyed" at Kodak went. Straight to me. When I had my own darkroom and I saved the money I made cutting lawns for film and chemicals, I knew exactly, viscerally, how much it cost me to press that shutter release. Flubbing a shot made me feel physically ill.

When I pull 300 high quality pictures off my freaking phone and casually discard 275 of them that I'm not happy with, I still feel as rich as a sultan.
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The robots are coming. And they're not the ones you're thinking of.
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction (1956)
> If you look at something like Facebook, Facebook is adding the tiniest little rind of value over the basic structure that’s there anyway. In fact, it’s even worse than that. The original designs for networking, going back to Ted Nelson, kept track of everything everybody was pointing at so that you would know who was pointing at your website. In a way Facebook is just recovering information that was deliberately lost because of the fetish for being anonymous. That’s also true of Google.

Wow, this is so wrong I am annoyed by it. The Internet is not "anonymous" (it really isn't, for the most part) because someone designed it that way. You can read the design rules set out by DARPA and see that they were concerned about infrastructure above all else [1]. The fundamental goal was the multiplexing of many different networks. The top three secondary goals were:

1. Network resilience
2. Multiple communication types
3. Support for different network types

Anonymity was not part of the design of the Internet--period.

[1] http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf
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I think this story fits the bill... http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/1215873671/bootstrapping-stor...

His story culminates in presenting to President Obama this past week @ the Capital Factory (Austin, TX). Great guy and a story that has definitely inspired me.
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Reinhart-Rogoff One More Time
We've had the same issue on our page (VLC 93000+ likes), and we really thought it was a bug: the reply was above the question...

We tried to remove and redo the comments, but it always ended like that.

I'm glad to not be alone :)
You evolved that idea very well; I could not be so articulate. The free market makes us all locally optimize our own outcome; who will choose possibly sub-optimal seed just to help out the community? A sucker, that's who.

The govt can help; or some other way of marketing variable-genetic seed that makes sense to the farmer. I don't see any other way.
The reason retirement doesn't work the same way as a bicycle shop is because the incentives can get badly misaligned. With a bicycle shop, the better you are at fixing bicycles, the more money you make, at least to a good-enough order of approximation. Taking your customer's money just isn't possible unless you give them back a working bicycle. But retirement--especially "defined contribution" retirement--has a much weaker requirement. You give money to a mutual fund, and then who knows what'll happen? The mutual fund takes their fee off the top regardless. You let the company that's servicing your 401k or IRA pick funds for you and they'll just pick some plausible combination of their own funds. At least with pensions they have to maximize their return to have any hope of profiting.

Probably the closest analogy to retirement is auto repair and maintenance. You go in for an oil change and you get back a hundred-something-point inspection where they want to do a thousand dollars worth of work on your car. If you don't know anything about cars, there's no way to tell whether they're ripping you off. With retirement it's even worse, because you started off by giving them the money without any guarantee of how much money makes its way back to you. And the only solution is to actually know something about investing, which was pretty much what you were paying these companies for in the first place.
They have a 100% chance of dying if the gun gets to them which it will do only 1/6 of the time.

Wherease if the sixth person spins, then they have a 1/6 chance of blowing their brains out and a 1/6 chance the gun gets to them, for a total of only 1/36 chance of no brain, compared to a 6/36 chance of no brain for the first guy, 5/36 for the second guy (5/6 chance that he has to pull the trigger, 1/6 chance he dies if he has to pull the trigger), third guy has 4/6 chance of having to pull the trigger for a combined 4/36 (which reduce to 1/9), fourth guy has a fifty-fifty whether he has to pull the guy which gives him combined 3/36 (which reduce to 1/12), fith guy has to pull the trigger only 2/6 which gives him a measly 2/36 (reduces to 1/18).

That was the spinning case.

In case there is no spin after the first pull of the trigger:

first guy has 1/6 chance of shooting his brains out, which is the same as the last example. Second guy has 5/6 chance of having to shoot, and 1/5 chance of blowing his brains out if he has to fire, for a combined 1/6 (same as the first guy). Guy two has to fire 4/6 and has 1/4 chance of blowing of his head if he has to fire, giving a total of 1/6.

The numbers work through all the numbers.

While it is true that the last person is fucked if he has to shoot, there is also only 1/6 chance he has to shoot, so his odds are as good as the rest of them.

The problem with having to spin the gun in between is that you break the dependent variable that increase the chance of the gun going of on each non-bang but keep the one that lowers the properbility of having to fire.
Yeah, I agree with you - I think YC is one of the first new organization types that actually has a shot at creating an equivalently prestigious alternative to top tier schools. Wasn't suggesting to convert to a university, but I do think YC would be longer-lasting as a non-profit.
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You look at it :-) (Edit: That's not the whole answer. Usually when you test you assert that certain elements of the DOM are where they should be. At the very least you have verified the structure of the HTML document, if not how it looks. For actual aesthetics I can't see any way around human testing.)
Sounds like a win-win to me in that the cars get refueled for the cost of a twenty-minute ride. My guess would be that this is by design.
"I'd venture that no matter what else an education provides, if it does not enable a graduate to repay their loan, it is non-sustainable. (Whether you want to use "good" or "bad" here is up to you)"

Your reasoning here doesn't make any sense to me, are you claiming that if a student takes out loans in order to pay for an education in basket weaving. Then fails to earn enough money by applying their acquired expertise in basket weaving to repay that loan. That they educational institution was at fault here?

Not at fault, just not sustainable. As in, if the students can't make enough money to pay the school, the school will go out of business. Less drastically, if a student knows they will have to take a job doing something else to pay off the basket-weaving-school loan, they will not pay thousands of dollars to learn something that can't make them that money back.
Modes in UI are bad; even worse are timed modes
VRML was pretty clunky and my connection was lousy.

It'd be interesting to see what people could do with it now. Unfortunately, VRML seems to have been taken out of a few browsers.

What's the modern equivalent of VRML?
I don't know which is more depressing, Google ruthlessly killing off a valuable service, or people being astonished by their doing so.
How about everyone who has to suddenly start paying taxes on the money they're saving for retirement? 401k is just a tax shield. You want to raise taxes to stimulate the economy??
While I don't agree with everything this article says, this is the money quote: "If professionals who benefit from the economies of scale cannot reasonably be expected to provide me with a stable retirement without outside intervention, how can I be expected to do that for myself?"

And is spot on IMO. Whatever else is going on, we as a society are doing poorly at this particular type of specialization. We have done insufficient incentive engineering to make sure people don't regularly get scammed. It is not a solved problem, it is not an easy problem. But it looks like we aren't even working towards a solution right now.
Looking at the comments posted here, I'm getting the sense that I'm not alone in thinking that Jaron Lanier is a huge hack. In fact it looks as if I may be in the majority. Why is it, then, that he has this reputation as being a great luminary?
Ask HN: Who's hiring undergrad interns?
I'm a rising freshman undergrad, attending UC Davis. I'm starting to scout for summer internships, but it seems that most places are only hiring graduates and upperclassmen.

My last semester of high school is wrapping up, and throughout it I've participated in two internships, one in web development (mostly Django) and the other in Android development. Really, I'm just a guy who's recently been pleasantly surprised that programming is something he can love doing from 9-5 every day. I don't have loads of experience where I stand but I'm an eager, quick learner. I'm confident I can jump into something new, pick it up, and become productive.

If I'm looking in the wrong places for entry-level tech internships please let me know where I should be searching.
Indeed, the title could be better (OP here). For what it's worth, we do 100% paid parental leave...
I'm just suggesting we keep some perspective. Civil rights succeeded despite dogs and firehoses. I thought OWS was going in a potent direction after Sandy, but apparently once they lost access to a private park, a fatal blow had been struck.
"...a message can be in more than one folder if it pertains to two different subjects"

That's not a benefit. It complicates things. Folders are simpler - one location, one parent, one place to go and find it. Average users can understand folders. Heck, expert users can use folders immediately without having to figure anything else out.

If nested tags are better than straight hierarchies for storing and finding things...where are all of the nested tag file systems? In a nested tag file system - would I have to go all the way to a settings dialog to create a new label like in Gmail?

Also, look at this guy's post about how "Gmail sucks when you have lots of mail" - and his response to someone recommending nested tags (Apparently, you can't just drag an email to nested tag.) - https://plus.google.com/105059362788808645801/posts/3amd9ZMi... All the web-app loving hipsters jump on his case for not "knowing the tool". I love it. How about just give us a tool that works like we expect? Who wants to invest time figuring out a new email client that has very questionable benefits?
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GDC is under intensive active development, led by Iain Buclaw.

http://dconf.org/talks/buclaw.html

There's also LDC led by David Nadlinger:

http://dconf.org/talks/nadlinger.html