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>"for all my tech-illiterate family"

For all my tech-illiterate family I bought an Ipad which pretty much worked in the same way (Not need to do tech support and satisfied their needs).
So an SEO "firm" (around since 2010, but their domain was registered in November?) is exposing secrets of SEO, which they imply is the secret sauce to getting to the top. What's the end game?
Some would say that the Keynesian model is psuedoscience for having untestable priors. I don't have a dog in the fight but neither do I think your screed against Austrian economics is an airtight argument.
I know it. Most of my humanities and psychology-major friends are working retail or driving trucks. The higher achieving girls are teachers.
Really depends on the context. I'm speaking in the "women are so actively discriminated against that there are no women in tech when really just a lot of women are not interested in CS" context.
The bimetallic argument was basically a fight between those who already were wealthy and wished to preserve their position, and those who were not yet wealthy but wanted to improve their position.

Backers of a gold-only standard (mostly in the eastern US) wanted it because their fortunes were already amassed, and denominated in gold or gold-backed currency, and they did not want this diluted by the influx of silver from mines in the western US. Backers of the bimetallic standard had access to silver mines, or to the resulting silver, and wanted the ability to either have silver coined, or to present it and receive in return legal tender (which had been taken away in 1873).

For an edifying take on the populist/bimetallic position, consider reading William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, which is full of eminently-quotable and still-relevant lines. For example, a rebuttal of what came to be known as the "trickle-down" theory:

Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between "the idle holders of idle capital" and "the struggling masses, who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country"; and, my friends, the question we are to decide is: Upon which side will the Democratic party fight; upon the side of "the idle holders of idle capital" or upon the side of "the struggling masses"? That is the question which the party must answer first, and then it must be answered by each individual hereafter. The sympathies of the Democratic party, as shown by the platform, are on the side of the struggling masses who have ever been the foundation of the Democratic party. There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.
Sad to see you modded down for just asking a question, but you're right.

>according to the latest numbers from NPD, Chromebooks accounted for 21 percent of all laptop sales and almost 10 percent of all computer sales to businesses in 2013.

It's only "preconfigured" laptops, which probably excludes many sales because a lot of people go to the OEM sites, say Lenovo and configure a laptop there. Also, it's US only and probably counts the Chromebooks that Google is discounting a lot, for example $99 for some schools.

Also, other big news is that Mac sales(not sure if absolute or as a percentage) seem to be dropping.
In these times you can find at least somebody offended by anything in some way or another. No idea what NAACP stands for but suspect it is not a European thing.
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I believe the basic premise is that there is nothing in biology that makes computer science more interesting to men than it does to women.

Since it is not an imbalance that can be pinned on biology (perhaps unlike an imbalance in world weightlifting records?), the cause of the imbalance must be somehow 'nurture' related. Even if we do not consider the imbalance itself to be problematic, the imbalance is considered to be the result of some sort of bias that is assumed to be problematic.

For example, fewer women in tech may not be considered problematic in and of itself (though I believe many people think that it is), but the existence of this imbalance may be evidence of systematic sexual harassment, which certainly is problematic.

I might be getting this wrong, so I welcome corrections.
I am afraid that you have missed the point entirely. The only function that mining performs is a means of distributing the currency and encouraging its use.
>Google never has and probably never will do support.

FTFY
Ten bucks says this is how Oracle gets their foot in the door of the cloud space...by buying Rackspace.
> to clean up its waste responsibly

Why won't the unregulated company get sued if they dump their waste onto someone else's property (in/directly)?
Humans developed modern housing specifically to combat weather, slow ingress by pests, etc.

That's part of the push.

There's also a lot of influence from real estate developers, financiers, and the like, to produce a, hate the word but it fits, "product" which will entice purchasers.

Much of the construction materials and standards are of the bare minimum to pass inspection. If you're in the trades you'll hear terms for wall blocks (the horizontal pieces placed between studs) depending on whether they're attached with one or two nails per end (the latter is marginally more expensive, but more robust), the thickness of studs, type of sheeting used, etc. Notably, contractor friends when building their own home significantly upgraded construction standards from code with an aim toward longevity and robustness.

The principles behind Earthships (and other sustainable designs) are to, generally, minimize both environmental impacts (through locally sourced and recycled materials) and ownership costs (through passive heating and cooling, water collection and reuse, etc.). Earthship Biotecture discusses the motives and evolution of their designs:

http://earthship.com/a-brief-history-of-earthships

The key principles:

⚫ A structure built from largely recycled materials

⚫ Heating and cooling

⚫ Electrical system

⚫ Water harvest system

⚫ Contained on site sewage treatment system

⚫ Food production

The designs (or variations on it) are used in a wide range of climates, from alpine to desert to tropical to temperate.

As for the pest-resistance -- rodents and insects aren't unheard of in modern and/or traditional construction either, though it would be interesting to get a direct comparison of the Earthship vs. more conventional designs in similar areas.
I don't know enough about economics to know if it's possible to "de-politicize" it, separate a theorist from a particular type of government. But I perceive that Krugman, master of his intellectual domain, becomes deranged in the presence of the name "bitcoin" because technological innovations don't go in reverse, and disruptive ones change the facts on the ground. In those circumstances all government can do is either accept it or go full-on North Korea. In his world, the state must have at least the power, even if it must only judiciously decide when to apply it, to direct all human activity to maintain stability and order. If bitcoin really does threaten the power of the state to tax, the government's reaction is going to turn his utopian social contract "we're-all-in-it-together" paradise into a dystopian surveillance hell-state. and he, as the cheerleader of the State (if anyone remembers him) goes from being a good guy to a bad guy. I can understand how then that bitcoin presents a scary proposition.

I don't know how closely he's been paying attention to the rest of the news on how the government has been reacting to things on the Internet it can't control, like encrypted communications, but the government isn't taking the "acceptance" route, it's going the North Korea route. If he wrote a "PGP is evil" article about how it destroys the ability of the State to keep tabs on pedophiles and terrorists and tax cheaters, it would be derided here with a lot more force.
By claiming that "it's already too late" for those who started coding in high school or college, Paul Graham is reflecting the industry bias against those who don't fit the stereotypical white male hacker. It is not too late.

I wrote down some of my thoughts on this issue here: https://medium.com/p/f7efb084e8a
If you just wanted to read the .docx files, an Office 365 subscription with Microsoft's online .docx reader would probably have sufficed.
There is for a short time. If your account is only 3 days old I guess nothing of value is lost :-)
Has anyone tried QuickOffice? Google bought the company/app to bulk up its office doc editing abilities. It's been on android for years and from what I can see, it's now built in to ChromeOS. Perhaps this covers the more complex documents.
I can't wait to see what creative solution all these officials will come up with when people start sharing their self-driving cars.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and use a logical fallacy, but I have a feeling that Rich Hickey probably has some understanding of the history of database theory and didn't just build Datomic out of ignorance.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. Exercises like these have a very poor accuracy if it is used it to test for developers.
Regulation is a public good, therefore it is itself a market failure. Voters don't do hours of research to determine what constitutes rational regulation.

So, if there's a new law that will cost 990 people $1 each and the other 10 people gain 99 each... it will pass, because for 99% of the people it's not even worth an hour of their time to rally against it. However, the 1% that benefit from it can afford to organize entire campaigns to convince the 99% that this new law is for their own good.
> GODDAMN THOSE LAZY WHORES FOR WANTING EQUAL PAY FOR THE SAME WORK.

From personal experience, a little anecdote:

When I was first hired as a junior developer, I was offered 40k. Me, along with a few women, and a few junior guys.

Now, is it sexism that:

a) I demanded hire pay and was in pay negotiation for 2 months before I was bumped to 60 because I made a compelling case, a long with a few of the guys?

b) That the women who were offered the same position signed off immediately on the agreement?

There is no "we pay women less for the same job" mantra anywhere that matters, and if there is, please point to a concrete example.

It's not my fault that I'm willing to risk a little and fight for higher pay and potential unemployment for doing so.
> The coin has another side: privilege. Privilege is a simple concept.

Privilege is a bogus concept, at least in every manner it has been explained to me. Examine the example you provided. If most elite startup hackers are male, English speaking, 20-40, and white or Asian, then a person giving that characterization would be giving a reasonable one based on observation. What does this have to do with "privilege" or "fitting the mold"? And, more importantly, why should I feel guilty or have some additional responsibility simply because I, through no choice of my own other than refraining from suicide and sex reassignment surgery, fit into one of these "privileged" groups? You might as well claim that the winner of a paper rock scissors competition has privilege.

My questions are actually genuine and not rhetorical. I would appreciate responses, or perhaps corrections of my impression of the concept of privilege.
Until four months ago I was running windows 8 on my 5 years old laptop with no problem. I upgraded it with 8.1 just because I wanted to try it and still I hadn't seen the first problem, so in my experience that "windows half-life" isn't more than a myth.
Is there? With so many people, including well-off, successful entrepreneurs like tptacek above complaining, somehow there's no one to step in? They could in one swoop contribute to fixing an injustice, receive acclaim and make money, yet no one does?

I don't buy it.
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Reminds me of LiteDFM: https://github.com/bilalq/lite-dfm

I've been using it for a while now, love it.
The same that is happening in the States; they'll make it illegal.
It's not the same as that, since it's scoped and must be implicitly imported.
Booting Chrome OS in a VM will likely disappoint, since you won't have graphics acceleration (Aura will be slow) and you'll be using the BIOS boot method (which chainloads to one of the GPT partitions containing the kernel and is generally slow compared to a direct uBoot (ARM) or Core Boot (x86_64) boot).

If you're in America, I'd recommend trying a Chromebook out at a local Best Buy. Failing that, throwing an old Hexxeh USB build on a USB key and booting it will give you a first approximation, but you'll miss out on things like the proprietary EME extensions that enable Netflix and other little details that make Chromebooks usable.
Hmm, I see. Thank you for the clarification.
One thing I think is problemetic in the tech community is the failure to separate the profession itself from unrelated cultural aspects of the people in the profession. The industry has trouble conceiving of what makes an excellent programmer except by reference to the characteristics of existing programmers. But there is no objective insight into the probitivity of these characteristics. Nobody really can measure how much programming for fun or by 13 really matters. This leads to a lot of cargo culting ("don't hire anyone without a github!") and deempahsises training people who have aptitude but don't have the same characteristics as other programmers. This is closely related to your point about privilege. Because the industry doesn't have objective ways to evaluate programmers, it over-relies on heuristics and cultural traits that favor people who "fit the mold." The Asian guy who programs for fun gets the opportunity, while the gal who could be an excellent programmer with proper training never gets steered toward the industry.
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Well, here's my take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977753

Most of the men I know and have talked to specifically about fighting for pay, have in fact put up a fight for their pay, while the women I worked with believed that their work will pay for itself and have no fought for a higher pay raise. The women that are top tier managers, were actually just as vicious as the guys, and by being this way, have attained the same things.

People are so quick to hop on to the social justice brigade when in reality its a much more complicated and personal issue, being lumped into the gender category.
I can't speak for tptacek, but what I think he means (when he says "Been waiting a little while for this one to come out.") is that he's been waiting a while for confirmation that Dual EC was explicitly designed as an RNG with an escrow system.

I don't think he meant that he knew about it - instead, he was saying that there was evidence to be found that would demonstrate this.

But I'm not tptacek, so who knows what he really means.
The genius of Chromebook is that the sweet spot for Web apps is a bigger screen with a high-resolution pointing device that can pick out small targets (like links), NOT a finger-touch tablet.

Tablets like iPad and Android tablets rely on UI stacks that are designed for finger-touch UIs, with big targets, gestures, sensors, etc.
You should try a Microsoft Surface. Windows 8 and Internet Explorer have really upped their compatibility game and it fits your form factor.
BTW, I just checked out jOOQ. I think you did a great job with it. This is the first ORM I've seen that really embraces SQL. Nice work
Putting extra lead in the environment increases the risk of people coming into contact with larger amounts of lead. Lead has been shown to cause health problems and birth defects.
Sorry for the delay.

"This suit saw the light of day only because the President enforced the Act (and thus gave Windsor standing to sue) even though he believed it unconstitutional. He could have equally chosen (more appropriately, some would say) neither to enforce nor to defend the statute he believed to be unconstitu- tional, see Presidential Authority to Decline to Execute Un- constitutional Statutes, 18 Op. Off. Legal Counsel 199 (Nov. 2, 1994)—in which event Windsor would not have been injured, the District Court could not have refereed this friendly scrimmage, and the Executive’s determination of unconstitutionality would have escaped this Court’s desire to blurt out its view of the law."
Note that (in theory) it's the "economic majority", not the "miner majority" that matter: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority

If a bunch of miners decide to change the protocol but the majority of users stayed on the old protocol then those miners would be mining a worthless (or at least less valuable) fork of the blockchain.
It seems to me that, in spite of the advent of "cloud-based" hosting providers such as AWS and GAE, the demand for more traditional hosting, ranging from RamNode to DigitalOcean to Hetzner, is not waning at all, though this is just a personal perception.

On the other hand, it baffles me that providers such as Hetzner have not had a greater impact on the price charged by Rackspace and others. It's also surprising to see most of the best prices for dedicated servers coming from Europe and not the US.
The first sentence of your post could be interpreted to mean that you knew about this for "a little while" but decided not to inform the rest of us, in which case I don't think it's that weird to ask "why didn't you tell us?"
> It is amazing how one word "COIN" added to this word has shaped everyone's thinking.

Yeah, Bit-distributed-public-ledger doesn't have the same ring, but I feel like there are a million problems that can be solved with this technology that are barely being explored.

Namecoin is one example, a distributed DNS system, but it feels like that's just scratching the surface of problems that require allocating sparse control over many decisionmakers.
I also wrote a very basic one of these as a Vundle: https://github.com/jamestomasino/vim-writeroom
And more vulnerable to the NSA.
Yes-it's a marketing trick.
Seems like people are just looking for any and everything to be offended by these days.
But what is your proposed solution to this idea of privilege? It seems like you're more disappointed with a lack of awareness of it (although a young child shouldn't be blamed for ignorance of what everyone else's home is like), rather than the existence of it. So if I say "yes, I get it, I'm a white male and therefore life is statistically easier for me," have I sufficiently recognized my "privilege"? Or do I have to spend my entire life keeping to myself the fact that I occasionally have to work hard and occasionally still fail due to my own choices and abilities?
Also, it often is better to measure an improvement as relative to the maximum improvement possible, rather than as a percentage of the file size.

For compression, let's say that the best possible compressor compresses a file to 30% of its size, and the current compressor reaches 50%. Then, an improvement to 45% should not be seen as 'only 5%', or as '10% smaller', but as '25% of the maximum possible improvement'. A follow-on step that gets you to 40% would be a larger improvement of 33%.

That, IMO, is a reasonable way to somewhat compensate for the fact that the low hanging fruit gets plucked by those who come first.

And yes, there is a problem there. That 'best possible compressor', theoretically, can produce extremely small files. Maybe your Wikipedia dump happens to be equal to the binary expansion of sin(1/e + 34/sqrt(PI)) to a few billion digits, but how are you going to find out? So, for most files, we don't really know what that best compression is.
They're better off creating a job board for the entire site. I've tried advertising on Reddit 3 times and each has been a complete and total failure. It's BOTH the users and the method of displaying which is leading to poor..er...no results.

===== Reddit Users =====

● Advertising on Reddit is equivalent to a business hustler in a suit approaching you at a hackathon. Ads are unwelcome because no one on Reddit is there to buy anything.

● Even if you get lots of traffic, there's no conversion. Out of 1,000 unique visits I've had ->1<- person actually bought a calendar. I joked around saying "I'd probably get more sales advertising on a porn site" and just for the hell of it actually went through with it. Gay porn sites seem to be the cheapest on blogads.com with the lowest cost per impressions + high impressions & big community. So I booked a 1 week spot on "TheBananaBlog". I actually got 3 sales from it. So advertising a calendar on a gay porn site is more cost effective than advertising on Reddit. Think about that next time before you try to buy ads on Reddit.

===== Reddit's Ad Methods Flaws =====

● Reddit doesn't understand what an "ad" is. Plain and simple. It tries to fit "ads" into a "content" form factor and group them into the "content feed" where they DO-NOT-BELONG. Users don't like this. They don't like this on Reddit and they don't like it anywhere else on the web.

● By mixing ads and content Reddit is making their advertisers seem deceitful and dishonest. Like we're trying to sneak a money making scheme into their pristine community of readers. When really we're supporting their community.

● Reddit lacks version control and the ability to test out different ad type content.

● Too many Reddit users tend to be "dough bags". The type that always ask you for food/pizza/ride/cigarette/drink and never repay you. I'm sorry but it's true. They'll rip images from people's personal blogs and link to them directly rather than linking to that person's page with the entirety of the content. Or they'll just re-upload stolen content to imgur where all their images are hosted. Their excuse is that they won't want "blog-spam". Everything to them is blog-spam -_-. They like to take and not give back when it comes to content. So advertising to this crowd will get you no where.

===== Possible Solution =====

● Use 1 traditional ad on the right side with "Today's Community Supporter:" above it. Make sure the ad doesn't use "ad like code", rotate, and is a static image that way it's much less likely to get blocked by ad blockers.

● Nothing. Reddit was like this since the beginning. I remember Reddit back when it was just 1 reddit (before subreddits) and the community behavior was similar. Snarky, condescending, anti-entrepreneur.

What makes Hacker News awesome is the community's understanding of self promotion: Posting a link or plug to your startup/business when relevant is acceptable: The calendar I mentioned above is here at my custom webstore: http://dayonepp.com/ you can use coupon code: "hn" to get $3 off.