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> has become part of our infrastructure

I think a comment[1] I wrote a couple months ago about Facebook is relevant here.

Infrastructure is what services are built on. It's a prerequisite, not the end result, and its absence is extremely costly.

Google is not infrastructure[2]. Like Facebook, it could disappear tomorrow, and we'd all just switch to other search engines. I assume Bing would immediately pick up most of the users, either directly or via Yahoo. I wouldn't like it as much, but I would not be materially harmed.

Google has done nothing to make it harder for someone else to build a search engine except raise the bar for quality. It has a better product for most people, so it has the most users. That's how it's supposed to work.

Using Google's popularity as an excuse for regulation is nothing but a demand for mediocrity. It's saying good things aren't allowed to exist, and that people shouldn't have the right to choose (or make) better products.

It's saying "CONFORM!".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621525

[2] Well, Google does offer something closer to actual infrastructure of course, in the form of their App Engine/Compute Engine offerings, but they're even less dominant in that field.
The Closing of the Scientific Mind - David Gelernter
And how exactly does "there is a paper that claims X" translate into "Economists agree that X is true"?

Well, it doesn't. In fact, I would generally be skeptical about any claim that starts with "Economists agree...", such is the nature of the profession.

Also, if we actually admit the effect on poverty to be true, the most obvious way to reconcile this is that newly-unemployed (and hence poor) workers move to places with lower minimum wage, where they can find work. Fewer poor people => less poverty.
I draw the line at about 74. When it starts to get into 75+ it gets uncomfortable for me personally. So instead of being dismissive I think it's actually worth thinking about the question. If $15 could work as a minimum wage, and $100 would clearly not work, where in that range does the transition happen. Or maybe $15 is already too high, but $12 could work. I certainly don't know the answer, but it's an interesting thing to ponder.
I think it may be useful to think in terms of contract law as well, where companies looking to integrate with each other set restrictions on the security technologies that each other is allowed to use under the terms of the contract. This could cover both interoperability and end-user and admin access (e.g. SecurID).
PySide (thanks lambda) appears to be LGPL; "better" than PyQT, but still not shippable in the core Python distro without changing the license of the core distro.

I think that's as "good" as a QT binding can be, too; QT itself is LPGL (or commercial license).
It goes both ways, current information is full of noise and reach for people who have neither time or knowledge to filter/integrate what come to them. History is sometimes made by dedicated people who try to deduce quite mathematically from very small pieces of different kind of information that cross check each other (when possible). In either cases, patience is needed.
I'm still glad I read it, so I guess my answer is yes.
This. I think people get caught up too much in the small fraction of queries that are facts of the universe ("What's the universal gravitational constant to 3 decimal places?") versus the much much larger fraction that depends upon much larger contexts ("Movies playing in theaters nearby," or "Rock music," etc.)
So I'm pretty sure you're not going to find some paper discussing the problem as you've stated it here... I think I kind of get what you're looking for, but with no interesting metric to constrain matching, it sounds like you're just trying to arbitrarily pair people together. If that is the case, then you there's no interesting name for the process, it's just "pairing".

As in: one person signs up, put their name in the database, another person signs up, check for anyone in the database, pick some random person or the first person or whatever, and make that pair. Of course, this gets interesting in realtime systems... but that wasn't even in your question
Raising the minimum wage by a little bit?.. oh no, we're looking at civilizational collapse --- typical HN response. tsk
And North Koreans are extremely unlikely to be sent to a concentration camp, and its extremely unlikely someone will be injured by a drunk driver. But the threat is no less real, and by no means propaganda.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama...

"Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.

Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show," Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats."

definition of irony
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The RD9700 is "USB 2.0" and what they don't tell you is that it's actallly "USB 2.0 (FS)", i.e. the 12Mbps full speed mode.

It also comes in a 32-pin package, and comes from a shady-looking company (http://www.corechip-sz.com/ ) that has parts numbered 6872 and 6873, so the "RD6877" on the PCB of OP's clone suggests it might be a RD6877.
"He has a point."

Granted. But is it isn't a useful point. Some companies insist on text CVs only, which is much easier to edit than a MS Word or PDF document. They state this requirement along with the position information. (For example, http://www.psteam.com/general/about/jobs.asp says " Plain ASCII text CV's only please.")

Rather than rant, this company should state its requirements for, say, "unusual and/or puzzle-based CVs only", and then feel free to toss out any non-conforming submissions.

In general that rant is very company specific, and provides little generally useful advice. Consider this line: "so out of touch with the development community, that they’ve gone to a suit-and-tie recruiter."

I used to be in touch with the Python developer community, back around 2000, with core commit rights and everything. But knowing other developers in the Python community isn't at all the same as knowing people who would hire Python programmers, especially since I didn't want to move from Santa Fe, NM. While a local recruiter is much more likely to know who is hiring in my area.

Also, the posting suggests that they are looking for people willing to work long hours for low wages, and who likely won't be pressuring management for raises to match their market worth. It also suggests that hosting a London hackathon for £9K GBP hackathon isn't a good way to find job leads, otherwise they would have done so by now.
I have to say I was surprised by that statement, but, thinking of it...

Category theory and Type theory are replacing Set theory as the fundamental basis of Math, or at least it's fashionable to try to do so, and the book revolves around the Whitehead and Russel set theoretic work and Godel's deconstruction thereof. Which isn't to say that Category theory or whatever are immune to Godel's theorems, I have no idea how those would translate, and my gut tells me that they would have roughly the same outcome.

But yeah, anyways, wonderful exposition of the kind of extremely bare-bones framework fundamental mathematicians operate in, magnificient demonstration of what recursive and self-referential structures imply, and overall a great read.
I've found learning to slip into focus and stay focussed are two different things.

Each are a skill to learn on your own through a set of strategies and tactics you can recognize that work for you.

I try to see if I'm restless and can't focus, I try standing up and working, if I'm tired, I try to sit. I try to keep my workspace only for working. I try to do separate computers/devices between work and personal so it's a hard context shift.
Thanks switch. I agree, I have no idea why everything in Java has to be so stupidly complex. It shouldn't take a month to learn how to make a safe concurrent program.

Does the design here seem to make sense to you? I haven't had anybody review this design yet, so I'm not entirely comfortable with it. Do you think the whole premise makes sense, where you let users return Status.RetryLater and send their Task to the back of a queue? I intended it as an easy way to allow blocking without occupying a thread, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there might be something wrong with it...concurrency is confusing after all...
I am actually a little confused, why do you consider unemployment a market distortion, and how does the minimum wage helps to correct it?
Anyone done a writeup like this, but for mdp -> dvi adapters... Apple vs Monoprice, etc?
One thing that scares me about the NSA is that they are essentially a part of the executive branch. Imagine what a president from either party could do with that kind of power versus the other party or even just people they want to destroy. Now who can stop this?
Ask HN: How would you learn web development in 2014?
Hi Guys,

I ask this as I have been having a lot of trouble over the past 6 months trying to learn web development.

Are there any sources you would recommend for learning enough full stack web development to make simple web applications? (i.e. online surveys)

Thanks

jack
Well Chrome does this too, and uses that data, combined with your Gmail and Google Drive info, to provide "better" Google results. I don't really care either way, but let's be a bit level-headed here and accept that the two of the biggest browsers in the market are from companies that run search engines and realize that cross-data sharing is pretty much the industry norm.
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https://github.com/sarchak/Shotgun
Unfortunately, while in theory you are correct, in practice it seems to be a demonstrable fact that many people who can write the 5-paragraph essay and score very well on such standardized tests can still in fact be incapable of coherently expressing themselves in any other context. I'm not sure I can entirely explain it, but the observation is pretty clear. I'd theorize that it's the same basic story as any other excessively-structured thing we teach our children; we think they're learning X, when in fact they're just learning the structure we poured X into.

(See also our math curriculum's ability to convince people that "=" is not symmetric by the repeated hammering of "1 + 4 = ___"; we think we're teaching them math and using "equals", they're learning that the "=" symbol means something more like "simplify and reduce" and that it has a direction. Grab three random people with the "usual" math education (i.e., not programmers), and see if they will agree that "1 + 3 = 2 + 2" (you may need to put an underline under the 2 + 2); I think you'll find a lot of them insist that is "wrong" and the right hand side "should/must be 4". And that's just one example.)
The question you have to ask is, where does this extra dollar come from? (owners' margins? wages of workers who are now unemployed? consumers' budgets?), and how much extra consumption it generates in the still-employed workers' pockets, compared to where it was before?
> May I ask why?

Independence. When you upgrade to RH7, you don't need to worry if all your scripts will run with Python 2.7, they'll still point to your own 2.6. You can decide to upgrade to 2.7 (or not) on your own time. You can do it before or after your migration to RH7; they're independent decisions. Even ignoring Python3, Python occasionally breaks backwards compatibility (the deprecate, warnings, then errors dance). It's nice to control your own situation.

But our programs are internal-use only. So we don't have the same concerns with security updates, ease of deployment to customers, etc., that you may face.
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Seems like a lot of what I find is poorly maintained or badly designed.
If you go only on the definition of a clone being "compatible interface", then there are tons of other examples of that in the electronics industry - it's more commonly known for simpler parts like voltage regulators (how many companies make a '7805?), opamps, transistors, etc. but also occurs with more complex ones too.

IC companies make unadvertised products all the time, for anyone who is willing to buy enough... look at Apple's Lightning cable and TI's BQ2025, for instance.
Well I certainly agree that money in general and our relationship to it could use a good rethinking - which is a surprisingly unpopular opinion considering America's financial sector pretty much imploded just a few years ago.

But I don't follow how solving that problem addresses markets becoming concentrated and member firms using that advantage to push wages down towards subsistence levels. That I think requires some sort of collective bargaining, which minimum wage is a type of (although it's likely not the best.)
I think that in the long run, Microsoft profited from piracy. My rationale is that piracy gave a market advantage to the OS with the widest selection of "free" software. So long as folks could copy MS-DOS and Windows software from their workplace, there was little incentive to consider any other OS.
First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code
Yet one more of many reasons to despise David Brooks.
You're only losing opportunity cost. Not COGS. Meanwhile, the user who is pirating your software might be someone for whom the price is prohibitive or who would otherwise not be a user at all if there weren't a cracked alternative. So the the loss to this "theft" is actually much lower because (1) there was no price associated with materials for the software -- it costs you the same to produce one copy as it does a million and (2) the majority of cracked copies of the software wouldn't have resulted in a sale anyway.
The SEO strats / growth hacks weren't entirely misguided. Rap Genius just didn't perfect their activity and didn't let it exist entirely behind closed doors. If Rap Genius wanted to risk it and engage in blackhat-like activity, it should have at least kept things more quiet and less spammy. Rap Genius should have kept the finer details, at least, to a phone call with the blogger.

Google can't see a local business handing their customers/client a $25 gift certificate in-person for a random positive Google+ review. Along the same thread, Google would also not be able to see Rap Genius flying out a community outreach rep to meet with a prolific music blogger at a bar to go over an exchange for a positive mention and authoritative link. Just saying.
Social Search doesn't mean asking what your friends think an answer is.

Instead, it's the most likely approach to questions like "where can I quickly get good pizza?"

A question like that uses social search (beyond your friends!) to find people with similar taste to you, find where they eat pizza and to calculate likely travel time from your current location.
Question: Is this book really that popular in tech circles? Or only because it is featured in a scene in The Matrix, thus it needs to be read for nerd cred?
The problems I have run into with the cheap versions of hardware like this is that they tend to fall apart. For example, my last mini-DVI to HDMI adapter performed just fine... until the glue holding the female end in broke loose. I glued it back, and then the plastic started to crack.

The guts of it (the electrical bits) looked fine, worked properly, etc. It was the mechanical design that gave me problems. Replaced it with a (ridiculously expensive at $29.99) higher end version and that has lasted me quite some time.
US Government Might Deregulate Corn, Soybean Seeds
I cannot believe this - I don't want to believe this. I wish it wasn't true.

How can anyone throw away knowledge?
Neither party is big on decriminalizing marijuana, but it has >50% support among Americans. Neither party is big on ending gerrymandering, but I'd guess it has >50% support (opposition?) from Americans.

There's stuff that gets votes, and there's stuff the majority supports. They aren't necessarily the same.

On the other hand, the Washington Post/Pew Research Center say there's narrow majority support some of the mass surveillance. Narrow majority opposition for some aspects: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-americans-suppor...
Some people have suggested (I have not personally researched it enough to take a position) that a solicitation by the Department of Health and Human Services for 14 million Potassium Iodide pills to be delivered by February 1 is proof that the government believes that radiation is reaching the West Coast at harmful levels.

http://1.usa.gov/1eVKiQT

I'm guessing it's not happening and this solicitation is unrelated, although the time from the solicitation (December 6) to the delivery date is very compressed for it to be a normal US government order. It reflects an urgent desire to stock the pills for some reason.
That's all great, but in terms of actually keeping users' data out of the secret policeman's file, Skype was the first and best, until they got their balls cut off.

Google does an excellent job keeping everyone's data out of the hands of black hats, but that's not quite the same thing as making it impossible for governments to snoop.

Instead of bitching about the NSA, how about a GMail client I can audit, a key exchange I can trust, and routine encryption of all emails.

How about PFS and strong payload crypto for hangouts?

I suspect they are hoping for a scenario where customers will just trust them about government snooping. That would enable their security people to cooperate in situations they deem worthy of cooperation. But I think that trust is gone forever. After all, the courts have ruled metadata collection is legal, so why wouldn't Google cooperate with a legal operation?
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Well, note that the cheap one is somewhat slower in the iPerf test (though, for the sorts of things people use ultra-cheap ethernet adaptors for, this would rarely matter). Also, while I'm not sure if it's the case for this one, a lot of ultra-cheap network hardware has the same MAC address for _every device in existence_, which can cause entertaining issues.
My dad keeps sending me links warning of the radiation that is hitting the west coast. I think it's a sign of how little we trust our government and media these days. Would the government tell us the truth if we were actually at risk or would they lie to avoid the mass panic that would undoubtedly ensue?
There always have been, and continue to be, people making perfectly good money from this sort of software. I'm not sure why you're surprised, given that people make profitable fart apps for phones, and that it is apparently rational to bury people with money to run any number of fundamentally useless startups.
You Can’t Take It With You, but You Still Want More
You sure it wasn't this? http://alexgivesup.com/2013/10/14/december-masturbation/
Marx was concerned about wages being pushed down but even in his own lifetime it never really happened that way. It's something that seems desirable for the businessman if possible but something that they have no control over. The reason being that other companies will compete for workers and have an easy competitive advantage over firms who are trying to drive workers to poverty.

Markets work to coordinate prices for both consumers and producers. Those who resist the laws of markets pay eventually. Might not happen right away but it happens-always.

My point is that low wages are never good exactly but they can be better if those wages pay for more year over year. It's like getting a raise without having to negotiate or even do anything for it.
Modern apps are calling it (in general, not just for pairs) "user discovery." However, your approach to the problem would differ based on the criteria used to match people. Matching by closest distance could be a different problem than matching by interests, for example. You may also consider starting off by matching in a relatively "dumb" manner if you have few users and want to quickly validate a concept.
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I'm not sure you know what "unportable" means. Every program compiled by a compliant compiler will work. "unportable" doesn't apply to compilers which do the wrong thing, it applies to programs which do not assume anything outside what is in the specification.
That's a bold assumption about a company that has traditionally held creativity to a higher standard than most.

Innovation shapes Apple, Apple does not shape innovation.
Daft Punk is using samples to create a new sample.

so i think everyone is correct in this argument; they are using samples to create samples.
Actually, iirc one of the major criticisms of the Card & Krueger is that they only look at employment at national fast-food chains, and ignore local burger shacks -- and it is primarily the latter (and their workers) that are going to be put at risk with the minimal wage increase, due to their lower margins and cash reserves. So an increase in minimal wage is likely to also increase industry concentration.
Yeah, the list seems impressive until you assemble a list of non-signatories.
What about the other thousands of people that are likely waiting on their request?
Well, you do get to choose between two candidates. Both of whom admittedly support the implementation of a surveillance state.
The Windows and OSX kernels are written in C. Not sure where you got your info.
Bandcamp did/does this very well!

Example for those who have never been on the site before:
http://charliethemost.bandcamp.com/
I believe Instapaper belongs on that list too.
It was featured in a scene in The Matrix? I didn't even know that.

It's a well-known book in general, particularly famous and revered among STEM circles. It also won a Pulitzer Prize back when it was released.
They aren't secretive, but they are hungry, and they are foolish.

I'd venture the shanzhai chinese geeks fiddling relentlessly with hardware in Guangzhou are much closer to Steve Jobs' ideal than the average Apple Store clients.

On one side you have rich kids who can afford a $30 dongle, knowing perfectly (after reading this article) that they are giving away $25 to a marketing department and that they are bowing to their own voodooish cargo cult. These guys are simply afraid of the remote possibility of having to spend 5 mn of their precious time checking a connection, and maybe too, something really catastrophic! lose ONE of their 10.000 instagram pizza photos because of a subpar component in their setup.

On the other side you have these ugly hackers who are photocopying hardware components for 1 year old companies named Yunxingdianziguangzhoujituanyouxiangongsi, and their logo is ugly, and these guys are Chinese! I know them: they are hungry, not only hungry for money, but also hungry for knowledge, recognition, they are curious about the world, about the future, and they have no fear for bad taste: a pink iPhone clone with teddy bear shape? check!
That, unfortunately, probably wouldn't work well. It'd be hard to convey that it's better enough to justify the price difference to the buyer. Also, if you're doing that, why not just price at $10, _claim_ to be better quality, but clone the clone instead of the Apple one? The average consumer has no way to check, and good luck getting a refund on this sort of thing.