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The parlaiment, along with the council is the highest legislative body of the union and yields a lot of power. From Wikipedia: "The European Parliament has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world."

Of course, as you say, a single representative from the Pirate Party will only have marginal effect. Those are the rules of a democracy.
It might be positive, but I don't really think his record is that great.

In my mind, at least, he might break even or float something like a 60% accuracy/trust rating. It would be interesting to see hard numbers of his actual predictions.

Anyway, I think many people want to remember him as more accurate than not, because he is one of the most vocal Apple prediction-related pundits there are.

Ala, a bit of the ole RDF/DF in action. :)
As others have noted, the site is being gamed. Someone is stuffing votes for Yahoo. Rather unfortunate, because otherwise it was interesting and useful.
In the sense of "take control", not really.

In the sense of "monitor various actions/activities", then yes (at least in theory).

There have been some studies and experiments where you can determine what a CPU is doing or executing by monitoring very finite changes in the current draw of the power supply. To do this with any accuracy, you would have to install a rather precise power monitoring device on the circuit powering the PC itself, and most likely on the power cord going directly to the PC (so as not to pick up electrical data from other devices on the same circuit).

You would also more than likely need brief physical access to the PC itself, so that you could calibrate to various CPU states.

So, it is somewhat possible, but not in any practical application.
Better data is over a longer span of time.
In other news a burgeoning market of tech savvy 18-28 year olds in France are in need of someone with basic sys admin skills and $200 to pay for server fees.
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Right now it's just intellectual garbage, but it's this type of person who ends up in Obama's cabinet of czars: ivy league educated, theoretical, and very confident in his assessments of what society "needs."

Notice his comment below the article:

"What I'm actually advocating is that employers treat their employees humanely. Basically, it's no longer acceptable to say that if someone agrees to work for $8 an hour it's ok to treat them any way you like, because their work environment has an effect on others who aren't able to consent."

His underlying assertion is that government shouldn't really have a constitutional limit on interfering with a private contract. Rather, private contracts should fit his definition of "acceptable" and "humane."
aalib converts the images as well.

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/
libcaca does ascii video :-)
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That'd be nice, but what would be in it for the developer?
> I myself have never claimed to be speaking metaphorically, nor used an obvious metaphor, so your sarcastic exchange (haven't I asked you to spare me it?) is rather off the mark.

I think we have very different rules of discourse, because I wasn't being sarcastic. Where I come from, that sort of conversation is what one goes through when a metaphor isn't understood. (If you claim that some statement is a metaphor, it is generally implicit that you understand it, and can thus explain it; so it is entirely reasonable for someone to ask you to explain it.)

Anyways, yes, I'll admit that it's possible that the original quote has (an intelligent) meaning. Hell, it's possible that timecube.com has such a meaning. I don't find either proposition terribly likely. My guess would be that Luce Irigaray is an intelligent woman who likes to say things which sound interesting; in this case, she was talking about things she didn't understand. It's possible that my guess is wrong, but you've provided very little evidence on this point.
This is one of those times I pat myself on the back for reading the specifications directly ;P

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules
Would you prefer that they not report on available data? Everyone knows that it's pop journalism, not a government commission report.

Arrington is closer to the tech Zeitgeist than he gets credit for on this site.
The vote counter is going up like crazy now, and Yahoo is now trumping both Google and Bing. Yahoo was in 3rd place earlier today when I looked. Seems like someone is hitting it with a robot to goose Yahoo's numbers. So much for the data.
I've read that most of the power is tied up in committees (http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story...). If it's like the US House of Representatives, that means seniority is necessary for any real power. Legislation by committee is also a great way to wield power behind closed doors, since the media rarely reports on what they do.

Is there an EU equivalent to Congressional Quarterly (http://cq.com/)?
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"very confident in his assessments of what society 'needs.'"

I don't understand how you got this. I specifically delineated my theories with "I suspect", so as to make it clear that they were unproven and represented only my best guess based on the evidence available.
I'm not sure what you're saying. StatsCounter (the source of the data) reported that Bing was briefly a more popular referral than Yahoo, but that the trend has now reversed. If you don't trust the June 4th data, I can't see how you can then accept the June 6th/7th data. The time span over each day is exactly the same.
One important factor to consider is scalability. A lot of people like to launch with a relatively immature server that only supports a relatively small # of people in a beta with the idea that they will expand it after that # of people come in. I think this adds an extra risk of someone absorbing your ideas and it's better to get a nice, horizontally scalable server. You don't want to break on slashdot or techcrunch and then have the site go down under load.
i will bet you any amount of money that apple will never release a Mac app store.

simply put, they can't. the genie is already out of the bottle. mac users can install apps from any source right now.

iphone developers don't enjoy being bottled up in apple's app store. they'd love to sell directly to iphone owners, but apple has made that impossible. it's not impossible for the mac, so a theoretical apple mac app store would have almost nobody developing for it.
As somebody who has never regretted dropping out in high school I find this whole conversation pretty amusing.
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Ameritrade had a breach of its accounts where a spammer got at least e-mail addresses from customers. I first noticed this a few years ago when I got stock spam through unique e-mail addresses assigned to my investment account. After I blogged about it, a few dozen people verified the problem and lawyers started asking me to become a class representative.

I passed, but noticed a proposed settlement the other day:
http://www.stockspamsettlement.com/notice.html

The class members get free security software for one year. Ameritrade makes donations totaling $55,000 to anti-spam organizations. The two class representatives get $1,000 each, if approved by the court.

The lawyers are requesting about $1.9 million and Ameritrade will not oppose the request, so nearly all of the damages will pay for attorneys' fees. Not surprising.

Our legal system in action :/
Working with Apple via the iTunes store is an absolute nightmare. Why on earth, as a developer, would I want to give Apple all the cards on the desktop, too?
"another" attempt?
Allegedly because you'd get access to iTunes customers. Many of whom already have their credit card on the account, which probably makes things easier for the customer and for you. Also because your competition will be there. In any case, I'm not saying this has to be a sweet deal for developers or that it would necessarily be a success.
what if the down-trend is as short lived as that initial spike was? nothing has been proven wrong yet (based on your own argument, in fact.) the data isn't "better" yet.
> First, there isn't any reason there would only be one
> ratings organization, one insurance company, and one Yelp
> for-doctors. You would be able to reject or accept the
> rating of any person or organization, and so would
> everyone else.

This is true--at least at first. I suspect that whatever ratings mechanisms develop to fill the void, they would eventually coalesce into a single entity (or maybe a couple of entities with geographic specialties) that would, with time, come to enjoy de facto government sanction. This is one instance where I think most people don't actually want variety and choice. 100+ ratings organizations are useless if none of them have any data on the doctor in question (to continue with the physician example). So whichever ratings systems get an early lead would quickly dominate. And once they have achieved monopoly status they can shut out anyone who doesn't want to play ball with them. The general public can of course ignore these ratings, but they would do so at their own peril. (It's worth noting that you can already ignore the "ratings" of physicians and go see unlicensed doctors right now).

Now, as for your point about eliminating the legal barriers to practice-- ie anyone can practice medicine-- while removing licensing would eliminate direct legal action (ie no going to jail for practicing medicine without a license) I think it would instead lead to increased civil suits. Consider: right now if a licensed physician is prone to malpractice or has other deficiencies they are forbidden from practicing. This can happen without anyone being actually harmed. On the other hand, if a physician gets bad ratings from yelp-for-doctors then they just need to find uninformed consumers or at least people who chose to disregard those ratings. When members of the public are inevitably harmed by poor doctoring they will have no legal recourse but to sue the doctor. True, they could avoid going to that particular doctor again, but the damage is already done. I'm not sure if we actually want more lawsuits to be brought against professionals-- it may end up making the cost of their services even more expensive than they are now, wiping out any cost savings from them not having to go to school and become licensed.

I guess my point is that there is no free lunch: guilds and professional societies are ancient institutions and they enjoy legal status in recognition for the useful role that they have in serving society. It may be fun to speculate what would happen if they vanished but don't be surprised if the institutions that arise to replace them necessarily gain the properties of the original institutions.
This is an engaging read, but the text doesn't square with the introduction. Marshall starts by saying that "disproportionate attention was paid to the little element of courageous success in a situation which was largely characterized by tragic failure."

Perhaps at the time (this was written in 1960) the account contradicted the common view, but the second half of the piece seems to me an example exactly what Marshall criticizes in the introduction.
I use google almost exclusively.

I only used Bing as a test on the day of its launch.

That said, when I chose based on the results: Bing 70%, Google 30%, Yahoo 0%.

Wow...
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Sorry, but Eisenstein's (the author of that book) ideas are bunk. He is just a guy on the net with opinions, which in itself is inoffensive. But they are terribly researched, economically laughable opinions, which he claims to back up with economic theories - and which therefore duly require debunking.

His main thesis is that "we should make interest negative" - as though the time value of money were some sort of law by fiat! We set interest rates, yes - but that's like putting a dam on a river. Making interest negative is like making laws that water must henceforth flow uphill.

He's also in cahoots with the Law of Attraction people (a slightly creepy new-age religious group), who use all sorts of pseudoscientific garbage to justify their existence. Quotes on Eisenstein's website by Bruce Lipton (among others) seriously call his credibility into question. (Bruce Lipton was a genuine biologist who fell off the rails in the early 90s and started writing a bunch of nonscientific mumbo jumbo about quantum theories of consciousness and evolution - published by Mountain of Love (!) publications).

Eisenstein uses similar techniques - pseudoeconomics instead of pseudoscience. I don't know if you're quoting him, but "money and property as proxies for efficiency" is absolute codswallop. (The phrase "proxy for efficiency" is, so far as I can tell, completely devoid of meaning. )

We use money because it is _more efficient_ than e.g. goats as a unit of economic value. Before money was called money, it was called gold (and the ancient Japanese used rare seashells, and prisoners use cigarettes).

Your final point is also incorrect - the possibility of monetizing the efficiencies gained through improved communication has driven the current wave of technology, not been replaced by it. Finally, technology absolutely does not give power to all individuals - at best, it confers advantages to those (often small) groups who adopt it.

Please help debunk people like Eisenstein. Let's be honest: economics is hairy enough as it is without people spreading that sort of twaddle.
you could probably write a Greasemonkey script to integrate other search results into one view (ie mix in Bing results into Google results ect)
From your comment, I thought Simon was in danger of being subjected to some dangerous medical procedure. It looks like this is about supporting Simon against the use of unjust libel laws, not the treatment itself.
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Gruber's record was poor until he got an inside source, at which point he really started smacking down predictions from others.
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I’ve just read “The People’s Choice” by Lazarsfeld et al. which was published in 1948. It’s about the US presidential election of 1944 – really old and a social science classic.

By repeatedly interviewing 600 people in Erie County, Ohio, they wanted to find out how and why opinions change (and don’t) during a presidential campaign. What they found out was surprising: mass media had very little influence and generally didn’t change opinions. It activated voters (with predispositions). It reinforced them (after they made up their mind). If anything changed votes then it was interpersonal communication.

If such a old study already looked at whether people pick media according to their views I find it very hard to imagine that this is really news.
Thank you very much for your insightful response.

Having worked for a couple of hi-tech startups, I am a little bit acquainted with the entrepreneurial world. Since both startups failed after a few painful years, I am also acquainted with failure and burn-out. No complaints. I knew how slim the odds were ;-)

I am fully aware that my thesis is quite ludicrous indeed. It may be a metaphor, but it is also an overly far-fetched one. All in all, I entirely agree with everything you wrote. Allow me to explain where this heretic thought of mine comes from:

I come from Europe. My country is literally dominated by interest groups. With the end of European imperialism, my home country declined both in influence and affluence, as many others. Most people still live in the grandiose and glorious past, and haven't realized the world has changed. The country no longer produces much, and there's no longer an empire to supply the home land with resources at an affordable price.

Some "bright politicians" (pun intended) thought of a solution: to create a clone of Silicon Valley in their land. As a result, there are tons of government-funded "innovation agencies" whose goal is to pro-actively promote entrepreneurship. Moreover, successful entrepreneurs show up on TV as rock stars. The old bankers inherited their wealth from their families. These guys are self made men, and since the country hasn't had many of those, they are admired.

There really is an effort to promote entrepreneurship, as it is perceived as the one and only salvation to the impending economic debacle. I would not call it a conspiracy (what an over-charged word!), but everyone in positions of power is promoting the idea that the country needs startups. Politicians, business leaders, distinguished academics. The meme is that starting a business is almost a patriotic duty!! Serve your country!! Found a company! No joke.

Overall, I believe this is good because the country needs to renew itself. However, I think the risks are being left out of the propaganda. These people are luring kids with the promise of fame, a comfortable lifestyle, and a meaningful career. Most of the kids being "brain-washed" will fail, though they haven't yet realized it. Of course, the rich kids are still going into politics, law, management consulting and banking. It's the middle-class kids who are being lured into this. Again, I know this is an over-stretched metaphor, but to me it looks a tiny bit like those war-time recruiting ads for the military where they emphasize the "adventure", but minimize the grim survival statistics.

Once again, thanks for your input. It did put things in perspective :-)
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TC is drawing conclusions based on one data point. I dispute how they are using the data, not whether that data is accurate.

I wonder if their CPM will go down as a result of all this hype-cycling.
How is it a legal barrier? He's free to hire someone with the CC degree, or no degree at all. Degrees serve as an indication of knowledge (not to mention commitment), just like experience, test scores, or any other means of evaluating someone's merit. And I don't know anyone who thinks that a degree from any school is 100% proof of anything. It's just an indicator.

I think it's ridiculous to think that utopia is a world in which credentials are ignored. And they're only part of what helps people get jobs...this argument is like saying that we shouldn't use interviews for jobs because some people aren't very friendly and are therefore at a disadvantage.
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I think Bay Area housing is still way to expensive as an investment. It's a little different if you're planning on living there for the duration of the mortgage.
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$1.9M is a sucky amount of overhead, but it doesn't seem like the class should be entitled to much more than it got. If there's no evidence that anything except email addresses were stolen, and the breach was accidental, then I don't see much in the way of damages or culpability here. My email address has probably been harvested 100 times over. CRM114 takes care of it. And getting a $20,000 donation to Project Honeypot is pretty sweet (pun intended).
I'd take that action.

The app store is a double edged sword, for sure. But for all the complaining about the grueling approval process, I don't think anyone would be in a hurry to abandon the store if Apple opened the iPhone up for alternatives.

The 30% fee is quite reasonable. It covers all of the variable costs such as transaction fees, bandwidth, etc. Not to mention the fixed costs of developing a store. It greatly lowers the barrier to entry for selling software.

The top 10 lists, the featured apps, and all the other perks of a central location have created significant wealth for a number of lucky developers. Otherwise, those developers would have had to make a significant marketing investment (in terms of either money, or sheer effort, or both).

Sating that "they can't" is completely unimaginative. If Apple released an App Store for OSX, developers would flock to it. Many would keep on selling software the way they have been doing it through the web, or through brick and mortar locations, but the ecosystem would flourish. Anything that increases the value of the OSX ecosystem, sells more Macs.

Apple would be crazy not to do this. Microsoft would have done it long ago if the EU would let them...

So place your bets :-)
First thing I noticed too.

Still no burger_king.com!
As it was the first C++ I've written in nearly a decade, I'm surprised I remembered as much as I did. I should have also made the set parameter a reference to better obscure the involvement of pointers.
GPA has no correlation with work performance.

I'd like to see some reliable studies to back up this statement. I don't see how this could be true when adjusted for variations in programs and schools. If I'm hiring twenty programmers from the same school who graduated from the same program at the same time, you're telling me that if I hire 10 people who barely graduated with a 2.0 GPA and ten people who busted their ass and graduated with a 4.0 GPA, the first group won't outperform the latter? Why would that be true?

It's only used because it's a legal way to keep minorities out of the workforce.

Bullshit. Corporations don't give two shits if there are minorities working for them, as long as they're making them money. This sounds like a viewpoint that drove whatever study came to the conclusion in the first part of your sentence, if there even was such a study.
This is one of the most surreal pieces of news I've seen in a while. No offense to any pirates. Arrr.
Unlimited email addresses for my Inbox with a pattern such as myid-*@yahoo.com (e.g. myid-ycombinator@yahoo.com). Great for spam protection when registering on little known websites, etc. This is provided in the Address Guard feature in Yahoo email.
My detailed reply to yours and other people's responses can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646616
1.9 million doesn't sound like too much for several years of work by multiple lawyers.
Anyone here at WWDC?

edit: if so, send me an email.
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I find the emails from this site exceedingly annoying. They rarely come from someone I know.

"Click yes if John Doe is your friend, otherwise click no. But you have to click!"

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Later, still under the spell, Price paid the perfect tribute to Taylor. He said: "We saw no sign of fear in him. Watching him made men of us. Marching or fighting, he was leading. We followed him because there was nothing else to do."

Taken from: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/196011/omaha (another submission)
Because anybody can see what's happening now, but to make money you need to do the next thing -- and by definition, nobody is doing it yet. So you have to take the leap and decide, that of the hundreds of directions the web could go, it's going to go this way.

If it goes your way, then in retrospect, everyone will look at what you did and say "well, all the signs were there, it was obvious this was going to be big". But the 99 other guys who invested in, say, Coldfusion, or Shockwave, or Push screensavers, will be broke or stuck in permanent backwaters.

To be the Next Big Thing, you have to risk the 99% probability of being Yet Another Small Thing.
It's not just eye catchy most of the websites that are useful and retain a large user base are simple... in that they are very minimal and nice looking, look at facebook compared to myspace or google compared to the new bing there are obvious winners on aesthetics.

Even things like gmail, twitter and webapps like basecamp can be visually pleasing but keep that needed minimal look.
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