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> Rather than a couple thousand or tens of thousands of people having access to the highest levels of education, it is now accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

The printing press has been around for hundreds of years. The problem has never been access to knowledge. It has been:

1. Selecting what people need to know (curricula), and

2. Checking that they know it (credentialling).

If people want to learn about anything, about any topic, to any depth, public library systems enable that and have done so for a long time.

Plus, the reductionist view of Universities as mere generators and disseminators of knowledge is inaccurate. Attendance at universities introduces you to new people, many of whom have similar interests. This leads to friendships, business partnerships and romantic relationships that MOOCs can't replicate (and libraries only poorly).
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I'm amazed that no-one else has said this. What you- as a tech-savvy developer- want is quite different from the average user. Most are more than happy to use FB Connect, in fact, many like it.
exactly.

Knowing that there are more popular alternatives around, the question that everyone has is: why should i use this? This value prop is something that interests me greatly.
And what is it doing with that calculation?
It's not just the fragility of the hardware, but also the increasingly firm stance against backwards compatibility.

No doubt this is driven by publishers, who'd rather focus on big topline profits on new releases than double-dip (or triple-dip) old titles. There's less and less ROI in investing the time, resources, and manpower to build emulation for old console hardware, or to get developers to do the same for their old games.

That being said, I predict we'll see a golden age of backwards compatibility and cross-platform titling within a few console generations. Not for folks like you and me, whose old (by now, ancient!) games are evolutionary dead-ends. But for the 7-year-olds of today, whose consoles are basically just fancy PCs in shiny shells -- and whose games are going to be built very similarly, regardless of platform, and distributed digitally.
So universal healthcare would make the VA problems disappear.
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There are laws, and then there is the matter of getting the laws enforced in a timely fashion -- if at all.

And of not suffering undue material harm during the process. Such as an extended lack of sleep adversely affecting one's employment.

There is also the possibility of escalating retaliation after you file a complaint.

There is the time and cost and confrontation of taking the other party to court, when that's what the law dictates and/or what police insist upon.

I'm significantly inclined to view AirBnB as a parasite upon the well being of long term, "real" tenants.

Both I and my extended group of friends and acquaintances have, en masse, had enough difficulty with neighbors -- before even adding AirBnB to the mix -- for me personally to give this viewpoint considerable weight.
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I'd be interested in hearing how you got such a high-profile writeup.

This is not a snark attack. Genuine interest.
Fuck Facebook and all of the apologists saying it's now the "de facto standard." No. Provide options.
The video on the homepage is so, so boring! Make it 30 secs max, and keep me interested! The biggest problem is that I want what you're selling, but I don't want to sit through your boring video, which makes me skeptical that I can use your platform to make a non-boring video: I assume that your video is the best possible result of using your product, and it sucks.

So I didn't sign up.
I use OTR very frequently. It also works in Adium on OSX>
Could someone compare / contrast Pure with Bootstrap? Why is it better? Or how is it different?
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This is a nifty list.

However while not free nor digital, my approach is to buy earlier editions of standard texts from Amazon. The reason I suggest this approach is that I compared the Biochemistry book in this list against my preferred text, and in my individual case the 9 or dollars for a Stryer 3rd Edition is more than worth the price differential.
It's not that the picture is incomplete. It is, I believe, that the picture is incorrect. Sets are not relations. This is a barrier to understanding for a beginner.
Yes, this is certainly the popular wisdom, but the numbers substantially disagree. Nintendo did win, at least numerically. It didn't win by PS2 margins, but it won. Microsoft does not have the momentum; they narrowly edge out the PS3 overall, and that's down from the clear dominance they started this generation with. (Yes, even allowing for the PS3's later start.)

(If you don't personally like the Wii, hey, great. Neither did I, really. But it did win on most objective measures. Even the much-ballyhooed "attach rate" seems to be have been only slightly worse than the XBox360 & PS3, certainly not enough to make up for anything.)

Microsoft is currently a narrow 2nd out of 3, in imminent danger of becoming 3rd of 3 in a year or two (in a parallel world with no new consoles), but common wisdom would seem to have them outselling everybody by 4 to 1 or something, which isn't even close. At least when Sony acted like masters of the universe with the PS3, they actually were the masters of the universe. Microsoft's attitude has me very confused.
I agree with your second point, that's the same feeling I got out of the article: "Look! A new market to exploit with your trivial webapps!". There are a lot of problems with this statement, first being that it's not an ideal target for capitalist/consumerist business cases. These people do not have large amounts of disposable income to waste on crap.

Honestly this seems like a largely American issue with their bias against socialist policies. The govt can step in here and improve things for this class of people, but the whole idea of that is untenable to (apparently) the majority of Americans.

I wonder how long it will take for the stink of desperation to become unbearable to the middle/upper class.
What about going the other way? I'd love to learn another language form movies / tv shows.
Awesome article, but,

> If you’re under 30 and in finance, you’ve definitely noticed the radical migration of your peers from Wall Street to Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley

My heart sank. I don't want those sociopathic Wall Street bros infesting the tech scene.
What makes you think the government is required to get a warrant to read your email? Anything older than 180 days is considered fair game.
It's pretty simple.

The Unexotic Underclass Doesn't Have Cash.

In 2007, the bottom 60% of the country had 4.2% of the country's wealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Distribution_of_Weal...

Frankly, it doesn't make sense to target anyone but the top 40% of the country. Roll a 20 sided die. If you roll a 1, put in the pile that goes to the bottom 60%. If you roll a 2-20, put it in the money that goes to the top 40% of the country.

Which market are you going to get money from? I can tell you which market I'm looking at.

Now, the distribution of income isn't as disparate, but there's a reason that the bottom 60% isn't generating wealth, and it's partially because they're spending all of their money on essentials and small, low overhead luxuries.

Is it true that you can make a good amount of money in making things more affordable to these segments? Sure, but these don't seem to be the grand problems people are talking about.
Saying "there is nothing definitely illegal" about FedGov asking an email provider to let it snoop on emails without due process is like saying "there is nothing definitely wrong in saying bubble sort is the most efficient sorting algorithm." It sounds reasonable only if you're unfamiliar with the topic.

Under the Wiretap Act, an FBI agent who "procures any other person to intercept" or "endeavors to intercept" e-mail without a court order is guilty of a federal felony.

In addition, an email provider may not "knowingly divulge" the contents of email "to any governmental entity" without a court order or emergency situation involving "serious physical injury." Violations are punishable by "imprisonment for not more than 1 year."

These criminal sanctions are one reason why AT&T and other companies that opened their networks to the NSA were so desperate for retroactive legal immunity (especially after the EFF et al. lawsuit). Which Congress dutifully provided.
Of all the crazy hills to die on in console fandom, this has to be one of the most bizarre.
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This is work that my friend is building.
App as a Service (AaaS)
I had an mobile app idea.
But would like to serve the app as a service, just like SaaS works. The big difference is that the app should be available in the App/Play Store. That is, same code base with little differences in the UI, resulting in many different apps.
Is that any way possible or even legal?
I don't know if hiring is "intentionally" broken, so much as it's a casualty of bureaucracy. Very few companies invest strategically in HR, and for the most part, they treat the hiring process on an ad hoc basis. It's a nonissue until it becomes an issue, at which point, it's a fire drill that nobody has really thought through. The hiring manager has other things on her plate, and the HR manager has a few dozen other positions to fill out. And then there are the legal requirements, the risk mitigation, the forms and procedures, the pay bands, and so forth. Nobody's set out to create a broken system; the breakage in the system is the result of a couple dozen microscopic fractures that have built up along the way.

What seems intentionally broken is the general approach to human capital. The workforce is massively, ridiculously undervalued. Most companies -- especially the bigger ones -- would rather churn and burn through their employees, replacing them as they leave, than invest seriously in training, retaining, and developing a strong and long-term workforce. The inefficiencies resulting from this attitude are hidden, but massive. But the short-term ROI is, sadly, quite positive. So nobody's got any incentive to change the approach.
I can't play my SNES. My N64 only turns on about 1 time out of 10, too.

Thank goodness for emulators.
Don't take this the wrong way, but .gov procurement people do notice things like the fact that both domains ( dobt.co and procure.io ) are using cctld's for non-US countries.
switch X and Y? I can't read this without turning my head 90 degrees
Returning it.
> If people want to learn about anything, about any topic, to any depth, public library systems enable that and have done so for a long time

About a year ago, I decided to read through what I considered the most interesting topics in my old discrete math textbook, on basically this theory.

The first few sections were fine. Then I started getting different answers to the ones published in the back of the book. Lacking someone who could tell me what I was doing wrong, I gave up. :/
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Another possibility would be to not screen them, provide them with a high level of free care as a reward for their service, and just make the system work efficiently. Whether the government is footing the bill, or an individual is, should make no difference at all to the timeliness or level of care they receive. If the problem is paperwork, that should be targeted first.
Wow. You posted this yourself? Do you even realize this makes you look like a moronic ass?
It's common for Apple to acquire stealth-mode startups; people only find out about these when the employees change their LinkedIn profiles.

Sometimes a startup will continue to appear independent (they don't update their Web site or LinkedIn) until after the keynote where Apple reveals the new product they were working on. I'm not sure how that works exactly; it seems odd to hire people under the condition that they aren't even allowed to say that they work for Apple.
Who is your ISP? What type of connection (DSL/cable/fiber/radio)?

I have a flaky* DSL connection of 2.6Mbps and I notice the AJAX calls to facebook crap out.

* During wind or rain, cuts out for a minute about 4 to 6 times per hour.
It's a good start, but this is a focused on the relatively low price segment. This doesn't address how some startup could come in and effectively submit a bid for something like the VA system
What's wrong with agreeing to the EULA?
> And the Xbox One’s heavily pushed smart-TV integration features seem to be designed for an imaginary world in which people browse the web on their TVs instead of the (non-Microsoft) smartphone in their pocket.

This really jumped out at me as a silly statement to make.

Isn't the general idea of innovation that you imagine what people might want or need and then you build it? Why is it misguided for Microsoft to be trying something new that they think people will like?

My experience with browsing the web on a Smart TV is that opening the browser was a hassle, the interface was awkward to use (buggy on-screen keyboard), it was extremely slow, seemed to give me mobile versions of sites and - for some reason - was unable to stream content smoothly. If I had to guess as to why people don't browse the web on their TVs, it would be because the technology sucks. Mobile phones had browsers for years before the mobile web really took off. TVs could be the same. A few use cases that I can think of from my immediate family:

* Streaming web content while doing something else. Watching online guitar lessons while playing along, for instance.

* Watching TV while using another application. Tweeting while you watch chat shows, Skyping with friends while you watch a movie, creating animated .gifs on the fly and posting them to Tumblr.

* Browsing in a group. Huddling around a screen and/or passing a device from person to person is sub-optimal.

* Quick, voice-initiated browsing or searching. Currently performed using phones/tablets, this could easily spread to televisions if the technology existed. Pause your movie, open a browser, find a restaurant that delivers and order food without going hunting for your phone.
Random slur.

Google fought a DOJ subpoena for search terms in court (while Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft did not), which I wrote about here: http://news.cnet.com/FAQ-What-does-the-Google-subpoena-mean/...

It also nationalized Warshak by requiring a search warrant for the contents of archived email (anyone think Verizon/AT&T/etc. have been doing that?). More importantly, Google is currently challenging a secret NSL it received from the FBI in federal court in San Francisco, making it the first large Internet company to do so. It also became the first large Internet company to divulge summary statistics about receiving NSLs.

Twitter and Amazon.com have similarly good records. And Facebook fought a subpoena from the state of Virginia.
Actually I think the us government is more than aware of this fact. I remember sitting in at a private security function for the UAE government in 2007 when this issue was raised. That fact however is that this shift in battle dynamic only applies to nation states primarily. As it stands, there is no economic point in nation states fighting each other. For those countries that are engaged against the us however asymmetrical guerrilla tactics are far more rationale,.economical and accessible than cyberattacks. resistance fighters get a greater ROI from suicide bombings than they would from expensive.cyber attacks that rely On equipment which can be difficult to source or even utilise in third world countries. .
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Thanks for what? Sounds like your opinion is made up. Still trying to figure out if this is a question. I like Ruby about as much as PHP; I think it's more about what you build on the language or what framework you use.
Your job must be so miserable that you feel the need to make a comment like this. I'm so sorry about that, but some people have exciting, amazing jobs, and that's no reason to get jealous.
I'm super intrigued, but given the services that are available to indie artists today... this sounds too good to be true. What's the catch?
I think theres a rather large difference between finding away around the law to defraud/steal from someone and finding a way to send money cheaper/easier then existing methods.

Its very much like how urber or air bNb are finding ways around existing constrictive regulations designed to protect existing incumbents.

I mean really, what business is it of the governments is it who i send my money to??
Not after the 6th Circuit's decision in Warshak, at least for major email providers. Non-email stored data such as Dropbox or Google Drive files, on the other hand...
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Your scenario is assuming the conclusion. Defrauding someone will cause you to be guilty of fraud, because that's what "defraud" means.

What you mean to say is that there are some things which are contemptible but still technically legal. But the converse is also true: Some things remain legally prohibited that would otherwise be morally unobjectionable. Legality and morality are independent variables.

Whether doing a thing is 'good' or not has nothing to do with whether that thing is legal, "technically legal" or totally illegal. All its legal status tells you is whether you can expect to be convicted of it if accused.
What are the benefits of Secure Boot?
My TV is from 2008, and has exactly zero apps, but still has a fairly nice display.
great answer, thank you.
And in practice how many keyboards will this actually apply to?
>The company receives about 500 applicants per job opening.

This succinctly demonstrates everything that is wrong with the entry-level labor market, especially in fields dominated by overabundant cohorts like political science and english majors. There are a deluge of incompetent graduates competing for a negligible number of jobs. They are either forced into menial shift jobs for years or, if they're fortunate, will have the privilege working 70 hours per week in an unpaid internship before taking a jobs marginally above the poverty line.
Because you might not agree with the terms in it?
Institutions have the ability to adopt more privacy protective policies, effectively relinquishing rights that they would otherwise have by virtue of owning the system.
It would also be interesting to track the distribution of those pull-requests, with respect to user who submitted it. With the current setup, projects that are only willing to accept pull-requests from known committers, and those who are more open to new comers look identical.
Did you try a different book? When I get stuck on a subject I often turn to a different book to get me over the hump.
Why should I have to agree to whatever terms MS has set forth just to be allowed to wipe their operating system off of my hard drive?
Which is part of my point; although BSD is not my personal license of choice, I really think it would be a bad idea to have Linux distros (or apps higher in the stack) be incompatible with the BSDs, eg by requiring something Linux specific (eg, systemd). I'm not a big fan of systemd; I really think is too wide in scope, and making the logs binary doesn't make sense to me. It might be more acceptable to me if they dual licensed it (GPLv3 and BSD) so that it could be ported to and used in the BSDs (among other systems); that would also give the bonus of improving the code (which making it portable almost always does). Alas, none of these concerns are likely to be addressed satisfactorily.

PS - So-called "theoretical" use cases have probably been the number one source of bugs (especially security holes) in the history of software. "Oh, don't worry about checking array bounds, nobody would be stupid enough to write too much data!"
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I shouldn't have to agree to a contract for an OS I don't care to use in order to boot into the OS of my choice. Nor should I have to read the thing in order to see what I'm agreeing to just to boot into the OS of my choice.

Make no mistake, I have not been one of the hand-wringers over this whole secure boot thing. But this recent development could turn me into one.
Scroll the interactive map to watch the Amazon.

The build-out of some Chinese cities are impressive too.
It isn't the keyboard that is the problem, it is that the USB bus the keyboard is on won't be initialized.
I can think of two business reasons straight off: 1) a department changed its name, or 2) the department used to have employees but is now defunct, such as the Typing Pool department.

My point is, to try to be aware of the assumptions that you are otherwise unconsciously putting in to your program's business logic.
I have never had a problem getting Swing to do what I want it to. People who bash usually haven't tried to actually learn it.
There was no backwards compatibility in the 8-bit era. Backwards compatibility was a novel invention of the PS2 and the GBC.
Why is this on HN? I'm not seeing it.
It's not ideal, but what are the actual effects?
you are being rude in the first place. You could have framed your comment better. quit HN if this community is disturbing you so much.

I disagree with your original comment. Yes, we can read the source. Yes, we can analyze it ourselves. But time is limited to all of us. The product should state exactly how it is different with the competition and why we should pick it. This is similar to how pg asks startups to describe themselves in one simple sentence. You don't tell pg that he lacks critical thinking for not reading my website.

Stating how you are different gives the customers focus. If you state that you are different because of X then you can go into the code and look at X particularly.
completely agree, but language matters, and so : "liberal ... (who believes) ... (the underclass) ... has to pull itself up by its own bootstraps". have we lost the meanings of our words?
Sure is! :) Just found out about it earlier today and it'll come in handy for a site redesign I'm doing, thought I'd spread the word.
Statistics here are easily manipulated. Usually these stats are kid centric, because that's how he census bureau tabulates the data... Nearly 70% of black children are in a household with a single mother vs. 45% Latino, 25-30% white, 15% Asian. The numbers vary when you flip it to be parent-centric, and you can cherry-pick states to some extent to find the results that you want.

If you want to decrease single motherhood, you don't need to start a company... You need to change the regulations about certain public benefits that essentially require working class people to not marry in order to raise children. A married, working couple with marginal jobs qualifies for food stamps at best. As a single mother (not required to report the boyfriend's income), you get free daycare, free formula, free healthcare for the child, housing subsidy and additional food subsidy (wic).

These benefits can be worth as much as $50k -- more than household income for a married couple. So many poor folks don't marry.
Yep, that's how it's implemented.
It seems a bit lazy of Friedman to interview his daughter's roommate. Why not include other sources? At least he mentioned the relationship.

I don't begrudge Sharef for using the connection. It's another reminder of how important networking is.
I am in SE Asia, its a WiMax connection. The rest of the internet works as it supposed to.

The problem I am referring to (not loading completely and sometimes loading completely but not showing all the entries of a page) doesn't happen all the time, but happens often enough to notice.