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The only people who claim there are plenty of talented developers to hire are people who have never tried to hire one in the last three-plus years.

I hire developers anywhere in the world to work on cutting edge infrastructure software and it's still tough. But not as tough as restricting us to the Bay would be.
T9 is really a great input if the dictionary is configured correctly, as you mentioned, and you are aware of certain words where you need the second or third choice ('font' and 'dont' were a problem for me until I forced myself to use the ' in don't.)

Touchscreen displays are great but with a lack of tactile feedback nor physical key positioning awareness (touch typing, fingers on home row, etc) I have to constantly monitor the output to ensure it is correct. The same goes, albeit less so, with Swype (or equivalent.)

Full size keyboards work well enough but you have to master typing on a small qwerty keyboard with just your thumbs which can also be problematic.

With T9 I can consistently generate my desired outcome without looking at the screen, watching my fingers make the movements, or any other silly nonsense.

Furthermore if the phone had a directional pad, as most do for menus, editing the few typos or changing the message is such a joy compared to trying to tap a small letter on a smart screen or getting the zoom to pop up for precision positioning. This could be applied to full screen keyboards as well, of course, so this point is not a gripe about them.
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The question is, what is a right?

It's a question, but not The Topic of this thread.
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And people in those days didn't rely on that communication like many people do today. What wasn't a big deal hundreds of years, or even decades ago (perhaps even less than that) is a big deal today.
The argument wasn't that drinking soda caused poverty. It was a thought experiment about the idea that a person's decisions are cumulative and that a person could lean ever so slightly towards saving and slowly dig themselves out of poverty, or ever so slightly towards spending and find themselves in poverty. And that it wouldn't necessarily take hundreds of year for those decisions to add up, that perhaps it could happen in a few years or a decade.

I definitely don't understand the link between unemployment and inflation. Could you elaborate a bit how full employment causes inflation? I'm not being purposefully dense; I just don't get it.
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Trivial aside - there appears to be a bug with the LaTeX-generated images on that post that produces this somewhat amusing screenshot:

http://imgur.com/mAG3dWO

It's pretty interesting just how many revisions the constant H has gone through:

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_...

A copy of the original paper:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/su3uak2a057yrqv/YitangZhang.pdf
You say they didn't choose to be dicks. And then you describe them choosing to send threat letters to a lot of people because it's more convenient than figuring out who actually deserves them. That part, where they put their convenience over the feelings of people who are fans and users of Tumblr? That's dickish part.

They didn't have to do that. Nobody turned up with a gun and made them to it. They chose it, and they should own that choice.
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It is an HR crisis on two points -

1) There is a business preference to find the best candidate for the lowest rate (practical sense) which leads towards hiring the youngest/cheapest resource available who meets the criteria.

2) Existing companies refuse to invest in building up / educating employees. In the old days you hired based on merit and potential, but you also provided training to make sure employees adapted with technology. These days, there is no training and employees are expected to adapt on their own (there are certainly arguments for keeping on top of things, but if you have a full time job and other obligations, external interests might not be technical/career related)

Unfortunately, because of (1) and no requirement for companies to commit to (2), there is a push to allow for more non-domestic workers through programs like H1-B and related visas.

Personally, I think most engineers should hone their skills and continue to learn and evolve. That said, some situations don't allow that and when coupled with a refusal of companies refusing to hire/train based off potential, we end up in the mythical "STEM crisis".

I'm not talking the founder visa issue here, I am talking the normal boots on the ground. For which, no longer training and wanting the cheapest option have created a toxic environment for a certain segment of the tech community.
Whelp, you're right. My point stands but that was stupid.
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Except he's not accurate. He's merely repeating what he's heard that is also wrong.

The belief that you can prevent someone from even using your trademark in any way needs to be killed off.
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Thank-you! Which neoliberalism do you mean, the WP page is super confusing. I'm assuming the original meaning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
That's not true. You can register an account with a fake name and you won't be required to provide any ID.
A quick search of: kid swallow lego

Returns about 1.9 million results on google, I'm guessing more kids swallow legos, where is the recall order there?
Agent Orange was intended and used as a defoliant, not an anti-personnel weapon. The U.S. was at least reasonably consistent there; many Vietnam veterans came back from the war also maimed by Agent Orange.

As far as Iran-Iraq, many countries aided Saddam in his use of chemical weapons (on the battlefield and otherwise).

If you were looking for something to damn the U.S. in particular, this would seem to apply: "On 21 March 1986, the United Nations Security Council made a declaration stating that 'members are profoundly concerned by the unanimous conclusion of the specialists that chemical weapons on many occasions have been used by Iraqi forces against Iranian troops, and the members of the Council strongly condemn this continued use of chemical weapons in clear violation of the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which prohibits the use in war of chemical weapons.' The United States was the only member who voted against the issuance of this statement."

Wikipedia discusses why President Reagan didn't seem to give a shit, but his opinion was hardly shared by the nation as a whole (who are, after all, still signed onto the 1925 Geneva Convention).
I bet if you a/b tested this sign vs a smartphone app, people using the sign would miss fewer buses.

If you want to know when the next train is with the app:

1. Where's my phone? It's not in my pocket, so maybe I left it on the table over there. Ugh, but I'm sitting down comfortably with a blanket and a book.

2. Fine, I'll stand up and walk over to get my phone.

3. Hrm, my phone isn't on the table. Maybe the kitchen?

4. Walk to the kitchen.

5. Good, here's my phone.

6. Unlock phone.

7. Unlock phone, this time with the right unlock key.

8. Scroll to find app.

9. Tap to launch it.

10. Read data.

11. Wait, is that up-to-date?

12. Tap to reload data from server.

13. Wait for data to reload from server.

14. Read data.

With this sign:

1. Turn head to the left.

2. Read data.

It's all about making it incredibly simple to do the task. Whenever someone posts a "Show HN" here, there's a dozen people complaining they can't try out the site without signing up, so they bounce. Yes, giving a way to try out a site with a guest account is frivolous -- just sign up, dammit! -- but it works better. And so does this sign: the data is just there for you to read.
"The government of India has said it needs to add 800 new universities, in part to avoid a shortfall of 1.6 million university-educated engineers by the end of the decade."...

That's wildly optimistic. The reality is unemployment rate for indian engineering graduates now ranges from an optimistic 50% upto 80%..

[1] http://www.livemint.com/Industry/HCWB4sLvFBxfIFyNBYtqOP/Degr...

[2] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-18/news...
> I had two MS Ergo 4000 in one year and both are damaged now.

Strange. I've got one of these keyboards* and have had it so long the type has worn off the middle row. The nubs of the J and F keys had also worn down that much that I ended up getting an old soldering iron and scarring those two keys again.

Only maintenance I do is take it outside every now and again and blast it with the air compressor to clean it out (which is well past due).

* Actually I have a spare one in the cupboard for when my current one actually dies for good. I used it for about two days after I spilled something on the other keyboard and had to leave it out in the sun for a couple of days to make sure it dried out completely.
You're right to a certain theoretical extent. A candidate with a history of job hopping, unexplained gaps in employment history and bizarre job titles could be the most talented person in the world. But how is an employer supposed to know that if the candidate doesn't do a good job of presenting his capabilities and accomplishments?

Candidates have to be realistic: most employers can't thoroughly evaluate every candidate, so certain red flags are going to be used as filters. Have a bunch of red flags? For better or worse, a recruiter or prospective employer is going to assume that where there's smoke, there's fire, probably without even talking to you.

At the end of the day, if you're looking for a job, it's up to you to sell yourself effectively. Far too many people assume that because they're competent, their competence will be evident to others. But hiring managers or recruiters generally don't see more than what you put in front of them.

If you're not strategic about how you position yourself and/or you're too lazy to put together a convincing "pitch", prospective employers will have no way of seeing the real you. And even if the supply of obviously good technical candidates is often limited today, the risks of a bad hire are generally too high to warrant taking a chance on someone who was incapable of presenting a compelling CV or "story" in the first place.
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I do this also, following a few labels I really like (Never Say Die, Dim Mak, OWSLA, Monstercat, RAM Records, etc). I follow quite a few artists on social media as well.
On the other hand, as you age, your salary increases and as you compare with 10 years ago, you omit inflation.

Averaging same-age, same-years-of-experience, inflation-adjusted developer salaries across years would make better sense.
The goal of a war is to win, and to win the opposing army must die.

That kind of thinking is the problem. It may be the goal of the various groups in syria - but it is not the goal of the USA. The way the USA wins is to have Syria become a US-friendly country that we can trade with without making ourselves into hypocrites about things like human rights and representative government.
Caveat: i have no first-hand experience of getting a residence visa in Germany. It might turn out simpler than i fear, with other posters hinting that. I did that in Cyprus and Czech Republic though.
Yeah, "throw a Bayes net at it" doesn't make much sense given the current state of machine learning tech AFAIK. Throw a linear regression or a regularized linear regression, sure. Throw k-nearest-neighbors or naive Bayes EM clustering, maybe. "Throw a Bayes net", not so much.
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(The comma key on my keyboard is not working right sorry).

Just before I went on vacation recently I was about to make a political comment online that was very critical of the US. I did not make the comment because I was afraid I would be put on a no-fly list and not be able to travel.

When I was about to board the plane I was questioned repeatedly by Customs/DHS agents in a way that was extremely stressful and somewhat humiliating. I believe that they violated my constitutional rights (and if not then perhaps we need another amendment to the constitution).

I had already been asked the same questions about where I was going and why by at least two different people. Now I was almost to the ramp to get on the jet and I think they could tell I was frustrated to be asked the same questions again. So since I was frustrated or for whatever reason they decided to basically interrogate me on the spot even though I kept telling them to please go ahead and search my bags. They wanted to know what I did and wanted details of my vacation. When I told them I was a software engineer they seemed to not believe me and asked for more details about what a software engineer does. Basically seemed to be accusing me of being a drug dealer or something.

I became angry. I think because I was angry they decided to demand the name of the company I worked for and the name of my manager. I also had told them that I was staying with a friend in this other country and they demanded that I give them her name as well. It seemed to me that unless I gave them this information I would not be allowed to board the plane. Even when they pulled the contract out of my bag that had the same company name I had given them they did not apologize. I really hope they did not contact my boss who is the CTO of the company. I know they did not contact my friend. Regardless getting a call from DHS about me could have affected the relationship with this company.

It seemed that basically I was being held back and questioned because I was angry and not submissive. It was not until I made a few statements that were more submissive and actually pleading that I was allowed to go.

I was the last person to board the jet. The actual flight which was something like 12 hours and then a stop and another 7 hours was actually fairly enjoyable for me. However the constant questioning and searching in the airports especially in the US was so stressful humiliating and generally horrible that I will certainly avoid flying as much as possible. I actually wonder if there is some group that just generally wants to discourage people from flying?
part of me thinks they'd better go the traditional bank route and just directly lend the money to companies/people (somehow it's also an active investment). They could tell their customer: "we financed this bridge, we financed this company, we financed this farmer's crop" and when there is a loss, they could explain that the company failed or the bridge could not get off the ground for some reason or the weather was bad for the crop.
I don't think the current level of indirection is useful, and I don't think computer shakes the hand of the customer saying "let's build this road".
I agree that preventing tyranny is not primarily a technological problem. But the abuse of power is not unrelated to how easy it is to abuse either. Technology can make it more difficult to abuse power, more difficult to hide any abuse and hence it makes any checks and balances more effective.

Also, I think we haven't seen all forms of tyranny yet. It is very difficult for a democratically elected government not to enforce something popular they are technically capable of enforcing. Even if there is rule of law and checks and balances there is also a tendency toward ever more detailed control and even prediction of individual behaviour.

I fear that the erosion of individual freedoms is possible even in perfectly good democratic societies if there are no technological barriers to that collective power grab. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" remains true even if that power is legitimate.

And my last point is that breaking the law is necessary for the advancement of the law and our societies. Law is not something that falls from the sky or magically emerges from the moral conscience of wise men and women. It is often the result of conflict. If you give too much power to the enforcers of current law that conflict could become too unequal for society to advance and avoid tyranny.
Of course not, but you won't get far applying modern morality to history.
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Anyway, this architecture is actually quite similar to the design of modern GPUs.
I might just be tired, but I cannot actually come up with a reason this would be useful. Someone help me out?
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So apparently from a sibling comment "neorealism" is the view that we have international anarchy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neorealism_%28international_re...

As for world federalism, I found out that it was a big movement between 1945 and 1950, but basically died out due to the Cold War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Government

My guess is that if it were to arise, the path to world government would first see all nations governed by unions like the EU, and then from there a union of unions. But seeing as the EU is really struggling now, we have quite a ways to go.
This fits all the data known, and also makes sense and is plausible.
"plenty of talented developers.."

^^^^^^^^

From my experience in bay area & india, I never saw shortage of resumes for open positions. Large enough even if you assume people applying to multiple companies. The shortage though was for talented folks meeting the expectations of mgr/co-workers.
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Or ads, as Jeff Hammerbacher said better: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
> But massive "real-world" exposure to a language outside required school lessons helps immensely, as many research studies on language acquisition around the world have shown.

Maybe the primary take-away from those findings should be that learning languages in school sucks. I can still remember being assigned 20 words to mindlessly repeat until I memorized them.
We hire talented developers on an ongoing basis. I don't see any shortage at all.
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Somebody has to pay the bills for self driving cars and fancy eye-wear.
They should totally come up with a snapchat clone as well
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It is doable already with the NSA's Utah data center to run existing speech-recognition programs on all U.S. phone conversations. (By my back-of-the-envelope estimate.)
The whole bounded gap on prime numbers was particularly interesting to me, since we kind of got to see math happen in real time:

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_...

It's neat to be able to see what improvements were thought of and exactly how long it took these mathematicians to think of them.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Freighter_travel

According to that page, ships must hire a doctor if they have more than 12 passengers, so it's just not worth it for most of them to carry more.
Germany has GSG9 which is solely used for anti-terror operations.

This isn't strictly true since the GSG9 can and occasionally has been deployed in what are pretty much domestic criminal cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSG9#Publicly_known_missions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladbeck_hostage_crisis#18_Augu...

Not that it changes the absence of other sources. I couldn't find anything about it in German either - at least, not anything that wasn't a year old and from advocacy sites as well. Nor do I think it's terribly likely BPOL unit showed up somewhere to handle a Jugendamt case.
Sorry, brain fart on my behalf, I had confused the first and the fourth admendment.
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Agent Orange was intended and used as a defoliant, not an anti-personnel weapon. The U.S. was at least reasonably consistent there; many Vietnam veterans came back from the war also maimed by Agent Orange.

You are twisting words around (a tendency that has been growing on HN for some time).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Use_in_the_Vietnam...

Agent Orange was definitely used to gain the upper hand in the war.

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U.S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.[46][55]
Unsurprisingly, different groups define "shortage" differently. Employers call the shortage real because they can't hire employees cheaply. Employees call the shortage a myth because they can't find a position with a desirable salary.
It's not my responsibility that they take it personally any more than it's my responsibility as the apartment owner, bar, or bouncer that the person being ejected from the line is taking it personally. As Tumblr, I have no relationship with the person in question. Why isn't it their responsibility to ask if they might use my name first? Why isn't it the loud-talker's responsibility to know the rules of the road (or sidewalk, as it were) before they hop in line?

A C&D does not have the force of law. If I build a service that piggy backs off another service without their permission, I shouldn't be surprised that their opening remark is a strongly-worded, "We don't know you. We don't have a relationship with you. We don't like that you're doing this. We don't feel the need to explain ourselves to you. Stop it, now."

If we want to talk about empathy and human-to-human interaction, the "human" thing for me to do (IMO) would be to apologize for stepping on that other person's toes and ask what I could do to make it work. The obnoxious thing for me to do would be to stop what I'm doing, set up a milk crate, and start shouting about how this other person is trying to censor me. I don't think it's inhuman to do that, but OTOH I shouldn't be surprised when the other person is suddenly less inclined to make nice.

In this case, I would not be saying the same thing if Tumblr's first move were something that carried legal force, in the same way that I think it'd be inappropriate if the first thing the bar did was call the police and file a noise violation rather than tell the person to leave.
Not intended disrespectfully, but you're too hard on the guy.

I'd describe myself as an "accidental" and "serial" entrepreneur as well. The first bit means that you never expected to work for yourself. As for the "serial" part, if the companies you start aren't complete successes but aren't complete failures, it is easy to spend years trying to bootstrap multiple ideas. After you struggle along for several years regular employment starts looking pretty good (salary! vacation! benefits!), especially as you get older and want to start a family or buy a house or something.

As for the rest, I agree with the parent poster that it is harder to get an institutional job after years of self-employment. Part of the problem is that entrepreneurship is like a black pool -- what people see in it is mostly the reflection of their own prejudices. I suspect this is actually one of unstated reasons there is such an emphasis on getting funding, finding accelerators, etc. and why there is such aversion to the idea of bootstrapping. At the least, people who make their businesses as institutionally respectable as possible and collect salary from investors during the process are rarely berated for taking a vacation before starting a new job! :)