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Software engineering is an exception in the science and engineering camp.

FTA: "Because labor markets in science and engineering differ greatly across fields, industries, and time periods, it is easy to cherry-pick specific specialties that really are in short supply, at least in specific years and locations. But generalizing from these cases to the whole of U.S. science and engineering is perilous."

But, surprise surprise, still higher unemployment than the guild-protected professions.

FTA: "unemployment among scientists and engineers is higher than in other professions such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, and registered nurses"

On a related note, a good read about guilds: http://nplusonemag.com/death-by-degrees
This still leaves the situation of carriers only accepting certified SIM's upon their network.

Also this is very much like being able to port your phone number across networks and with that you will still have provisioning hoops to jump thru as it is not that instant.

Now a SIM you could provision with more than one carrier, that would be handy, though that is already available with dual SIM phones. So I'm not entirly sure this is as big a deal as being made out. After all a SIM costs nothing, yet the phone that is locked to a network, now that is another issue. More important to have the ability to purchase a unlocked phone than a unlocked SIM that you can just swap out. Though this could lead to the Apple idea of having the SIM built into the phone and recreate CDMA for GSM, after a fashion.
I have heard of Threes only because of 2048, and by extrapolating wildly, I can only conclude that there is no factual basis to it hurting Threes' sales.
Yeah. I'm sure the current case is useful for the stated purpose ("easy to grab and use in a breadboard"), but for people trying to use it in some application, the pictures of the raw (really tiny, hardly any bezel!) display and accompanying (slightly larger) processor board look much more enticing....
For all of Tim Cook's great success in the jobs he has held and the one he holds today, no one thinks he could have founded an Apple.
I'm pretty sure that everyone who uses Google as the email manager for their domain now have to pay google - that includes business, universities, individuals, etc...

The only people who get "free" gmail, are people with an @gmail.com account, which in these days seems to be an awfully bad approach - makes it hard to switch your email to another provider if you run into issues with the old one.
I honestly knew very little about this space, but now that I understand the difference. The winner is clear. Focus is the secret to branding and what's app is the only one with a clear singular focus...

Categories don't converge. They diverge. That's just how evolution works.

Plus, the human mind associates convergence as compromise. The likely outcome of this battle will be that people will assume what's app focus means they are better at messaging and everyone else's apps short of bringing a new level of convenience we are willing to compromise for, will be perceived as second class. After all,how can someone doing two things be better at something than someone who specilizes in it exclusively?
Good for you. I graduated from a college that was not top tier over a year ago, as a below-average student, and have yet to find any kind of development work that pays as much as I made delivering pizza while working my way through college.

Not everyone has the same experience as you. Furthermore, this article is talking about the entire STEM domain.
"Created by Gabriele Cirulli. Based on 1024 by Veewo Studio and conceptually similar to Threes by Asher Vollmer." - from footer of http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
That's a strangely hostile response. I went through all of marktangotango's previous comments and didn't see one mention of Wolfram. Am I missing something?
Maybe not as simple as you think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYemnKEKx0c
Fair enough, that actually all sounds right to me. Like when defendants receive a verdict of "guilty" or "not guilty."
I think top-tier college graduate is the shortage.
I wrote music exclusively in Impulse Tracker 2 for well over 10 years (and it's been at least that much time since I last wrote anything). Lost all my source files not too long ago, I literally cried over it (over 500 tracks...). My backblaze backup downloaded fine, and I proceeded to resync (which wipes out the original backblaze backup on their servers), only to be faced with a corrupt zip where each file was 0 bytes :( At least I have mp3 renders, still have it all up: http://www.theoryoftrance.com/
I could see a case where distribution (printing, deals with retailers, etc.) and ongoing support (over the lifetime of the product) adds up to over 50% of the price of the software. In that case, 50% of the profit is quite fair, but 50% of the revenue is definitely not, because that would require the writer's company to operate at a loss.
WIN 2048
> Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere.
> What can we do now that couldn't be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.

Well let's see if we can make a short list:

1) Can I look up almost anything? Yes [0]

2) Can I learn a foreign language for free? Yes [1]

3) Can I fund something interesting? Yes [2]

4) Can I communicate with my family and friends for free? Yes [3]

5) Can I learn stuff for free? Yes [4]

Seriously I didn't even try, yes progress has got us somewhere. Admittedly we do now have n+1 standards

[0] http://wikipedia.org

[1] http://duolingo.com

[2] http://kickstarter.com

[3] Honestly there are so many - email, skype, facebook, whatsapp, etc ...

[4] http://khanacademy.com

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I guess Aaron Greenspan needs to sue Gamestop now...
Once you open your self up to all the conceivable permutations of identity, your logic starts to get really hairy. Consider the GenderBread Person: http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/... That shows 8 axises of identity determination, compared to the traditional binary. Does a FTM 2-spirit pansexual want to buy tampons? Beats me but I know women might and men probably don't. Where do you draw the line? FB added, like, a million different options and it seems that there is a new identity every day. There is no clear way to model this data. Some identities are exclusive, some are not, some are contradictory... Whats worse, it seems that many identities are purposefully vague! For example, many people identify as 'queer' yet 'queer' is perhaps the least useful label possible! AFAIK, it paradoxically labels those-who-do-not-want-to-be-labled. I need something that fits into a relational database, is relevant to my work, minimizes the risk that my app will offend somebody... oh and I have to convince my boss that it's worth the investment in time. The best answer I see is an optional "Male, Female or Other." I agree that making the gender field (or any other field) mandatory is a poor idea.

Frankly, I'd like to side-step the whole issue by not asking the user at all.
You're in a hot market in a hot locale. You probably pay an arm and a leg for housing.

I'm in a second tier city with more limited options. I know folks who successfully start CS grads in the $50-60k range, mostly from state schools. Someone with a good track record is anywhere from $80-105. Sounds awful, but a 2000 ft^2 house can be found around $200k in a nice area. McMansions are $400-500k.

I ended up moving back here from NYC, taking a big salary haircut in the process. My overall standard of living got a little better right off the bat, mostly due to reduced housing and commuting expenses.
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The thing about LINE (and kakaotalk, etc), though, is that they do a pretty good job of keeping the focus sharply on the essential messaging/voip functionality, while still making it very easy to do the "other stuff." You can install LINE and very quickly start chatting with existing friends from your phone address-book, and if you don't want to play games or whatever, their existence doesn't get in your way.

In this sense, LINE etc aren't so much like FB or other "giant ball of mud" social apps, and present a much bigger threat to whatsapp.
Thanks, but do you have a source for "15% gross receipts" as typical?

Quick search brings up this study, "PROFITABILITY AND ROYALTY RATES ACROSS INDUSTRIES: SOME PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE": "For software and content licensing, it could be as high as 50%"... "defined as a fixed percentage rate of sales" [1]

Which would make Jobs' ask more typical.

[Edit: on second look I think the paper's 50% figure may refer to gross margins not receipts.. but anyway, that would still cast the final deal as a completely typical software deal.]

[1] http://law.unh.edu/assets/images/uploads/pages/ipmanagement-...
> After all,how can someone doing two things be better at something than someone who specilizes in it exclusively?

There are many reasons why this is possible. For example: why are RISC CPUs dominating CISC CPUs? While this comparison is slightly unfair because you want to compare a general purpose CPU to an ASIC, it illustrates a case where trying to have an instruction focus on doing one thing well is worse than having multiple instructions try and do it.
I've tried it all. My LinkedIn resume goes back to my first job after school (doesn't cover some during school): http://www.linkedin.com/in/spullara

Still code every day, but my main job is as an investor. Best moves I made were risky moves, like moving from Chicago to San Francisco to join a very early stage startup. I was lucky and that startup grew from a handful of people to over a 100 and was sold to a larger company. You can also watch how it unfolded here: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/02/sam-pullara/

I get the question from engineers all the time how I ended on the path I have been on. I think there are 2 things you can do 1) try to be a great engineer and 2) involve yourself in the strategy of the company. The latter requires an opening, mine was in helping perform the technical due diligence for acquisitions.

If I was doing it again, I would intern at some of the big companies (Google, Twitter, Facebook, IBM, Oracle) and then try and get a job at a Series A funded startup run by people with experience. Good luck!
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The problem is that with a game like 2048 around and completely for free, chances are Threes is going to suffer as a result.

The game appears to be making and playing bizzare iterative clones of 2048 and chances are doesn't sound like very good research. People are going out of their way to play all variations of 2048, so if anything I'd expect any similarity in this situation to drive sales.
Thanks! This is a really nice algorithm. We should be able to add it to ol3.
I'm not familiar with Wieseltier, so I don't share your negative bias against him (and maybe I should), but the "important point" he "stumbles not far from" seems to me to be the main idea of the piece.
TIL I've been breaking the law.
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Indeed - Paul Allen, using a PDP-10, actually wrote an entire 8080 emulator that Gates/Allen used to develop the original Altair Basic.

Writing a disassembler at that time would have been trivial in comparison.
This sounds reasonable and similar to the LinkedIn monetization strategy. The core competency of Facebook is communication, not ads, so making money on communication is ideal.
If you're making a film, just have your art guys make mockups of the entire thing in photoshop and have it display like a fullscreened slideshow or video on an old monitor. The other old hardware needn't be functional.

This makes everything reproducible for multiple takes, lets your art guys have ultra-fine control over the presentation of everything, and lets the actor focus on acting, not driving a computer.
I think it is important to avoid using the term STEM and specifically dissect it in the discussions about shortage. Computer Science is a very peculiar part of STEM and not all of the STEM fields face the same challenges. As Hadi Partovi of Code.org put out eloquently in his testimony before Congress[1], there is a difference between enrollments in Computer Science and STEM in general. For instance, in US high schools, it seems like there is no shortage of students in biology or math, but CS is underenrolled.

[1]: http://www.c-span.org/video/?317093-1/house-subcmte-hearing-...
What will happen to the other FAQs...? It seems like if they're pretty much entirely incorporated into the official FAQ, they could (and maybe should) be replaced by links to and/or mirrors of the official FAQ.

[At least in the case of Marshall Cline's FAQ, I've always found it somewhat confusingly organized, although the actual content was pretty good once you managed to find what you were looking for. My (brief!) initial impression is that this official FAQ seems better organized, at least...]
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Why do you think all these silicon valley CEOs are throwing their weight behind schemes to get kids and adults learning how to code? It isn't because they really believe there's some social or personal value in being able to program, it's because they want to flood the job market with developers and so crash wages. What's sad is that many programmers are actually buying it, and volunteering their time to help support and evangelize these schemes.
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Come on, it's rhetorical. Silver complains about the columnists being stuck in or ignorant of their so-called "priors", and isn't Wieseltier making your exact point against him? That is, saying "well, what's the alternative?" He is also sarcastically criticizing the smug application of a technical term ("prior") to a domain where it doesn't hold nearly as much value as Silver accords to it.
Are we sure this is not a weird "funny" site? The other articles are kind of odd. Also, Threes and 2048 play very different, so I would say the are in the same genre but not a ripoff.
If this was a pure-play licensing deal, then agreed 15% is low, but the story made it clear that this wasn't a licensing deal, but a publishing deal in which the publisher had to hire developers to do ongoing development, provide support, etc...

I.E. They'd receive a hairy-ball-of-code and have to provide a soup-nuts package to customers, including bug-fixes, phone-support, etc... in return for the 85%.
Darn if only this had been posted today, it'd be much more likely to get FP coverage.

I really wanted HN's opinion on this + any new alternatives that may have cropped up since the last time this was a discussion.
A great book on the general context of what counts as an explanation in biology -- and, by extension, why the mathematical biological approach advanced by Turing never really caught on -- is presented in Evelyn Fox Keller's Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines (Harvard U.P., 2003). A short version of the argument is presented in this article from Project Syndicate: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biology-s-clash-...
Well let's be honest, unless he's independently wealthy, $62.50/mo is not going to cut it forever. It might be a useful business model exercise to set a goal of what he'd like to live on and build the business around that. $100k/yr is not an outrageous amount of money, but he can set it at whatever is reasonable in his locale.
Instead of complaining about 2048, how about complaining about this: http://threesjs.com/
They should be able to watch Twitter's frontend address and ban it accordingly.

Right now the solutions are VPN, Tor and opera mini style proxy services. It's expected that they may go after these too. AFAIK the law requires ISP's to take measures against censorship avoidance methods.

The PM acts against the social media as if it's an existential threat for him.

I am not sure if he rationally calculates these actions or he just can't handle any speech that is not controlled directly by him.(as the leaks indicate, he practically controlled the traditional media for years since)
the problem seems to be too few trials. 10x the number of paths and the calculations for both languages converge on around 361ish
...Did he just say that he's totally fine with a big corporation stealing people's ideas to make money, but stealing ideas and making them available for free really pisses him off?

This is as simultaneously stupid, offensive, and irrelevant as if he'd said that 2048 was designed by a secret cabal of Jews to devalue the work of honest white men. Why is this on Hacker News? Are we hosting the ramblings of madmen now?
The cost of running the bot ($0, since it's just desktop software you can run overnight while you sleep) is the same whether it automatically posts to 1,000 sites or 999. The bot itself [1] is also often free because, who'd've guessed it, people who spam links around the web indiscriminately have no problem with pirating software too.

1: http://www.botmasterlabs.net/
> FTA: "unemployment among scientists and engineers is higher than in other professions such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, and registered nurses"

Which is counter-intuitive to me, considering how heavily regulated those other professions are (and their numbers restricted).
That people link all sorts of preferences to 'gender' and make charts is not necessarily important to others. Even in a civilized society, I have no obligation to accommodate your fantasies, or even be polite to you.

The gender question, I think, is useful only when it is actionable. If it helps to choose an honorific (Mr, Ms etc) then fine, whatever. Probably safer to just leave both out.
Anyone know why carrier-free SIM cards are illegal?
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When DAs cause trouble, the judges need to step in. There is no system of rules that can succeed where all of the power players are corrupt.
CS in high school doesn't exist in most schhool you can't compare it with bio or math. Students may change their major more then once. What matters is the college graduation rates, companies looking for college grads in stem no a high school diploma.
I'm talking about how human perception works. We assume a specialist knows more than a generalist. Same goes for branding, we assume a specialized product works better than an all in one product.
The Silicon Valley cartel conspirators helped to depress wages and increase unemployment. Universities have relied on cheap student and postdoc labor. Their game-theoretic strategy is cheap talking their serfs into the belief that they too may become masters.

ADDENDUM: downvoters can take a warm piss on a power line.
A good friend of mine is in Turkey. I just fired up a few droplets on Digital Ocean for his friends and family to use as VPN's.

It only takes about ten minutes per VPS to set everything up.
Elon Musk had always said more electric car contenders are a good thing. It helps solidify his goal of widespread electric vehicles.

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-response-to-bmw-i3-...
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We used to have Perry Mason and Matlock, where the defense attorneys were the heroes of the show.

What happened?
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I am quite ignorant about how US high school system works and that's one anecdote I had heard, so I apologize about not being able to carry on a meaningful discussion on that topic, but that's just an example, and my core points stands regardless: there are huge differences between various fields that fall under STEM, and they should not be thought about as a single bucket. That's certainly true beyond high school as well.
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Actually, that's exactly what living in a civilized society means- being polite, to some degree or another. I would also recommend that you not call your users' identities as 'fantasies.' It may not matter to you but it matters to them and you should respect you users if you wish to keep them.
Gates had a change of heart, and a matching change of public image.
Wow, just wow. I'm not exactly a youngster without life experience about what kinds of sleaze bags people can be, but I'm still amazed and shocked when I see the liberties such people allow themselves in what they say or write. That a grown, sane person has such a lack of morals to allow oneself to drop to such levels of absurdity and dishonesty to accuse people of nihilism for giving away something valuable for free to all to use and improve is deeply troubling. This is sociopathic behaviour, plain and simple.

This is about mere games, and I hate to trivialize serious social events by comparing them to such mundane things, but these kinds of drivel always remind me of McCarthy--Welch exchange in the Senate hearings[0]. "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"... What else can you say to such persons... And yet since they don't have any sense of decency or shame it doesn't bother them when you confront them with their despicable behaviour.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1eA5bUzVjA
No, that answer isn't particularly worth reading - unless you were doubting your C++ faith and wanted it shored up without much critical thought.
So creative exploration in programming, having fun, and open source are not only worthless, but damaging, unless monetized? George lives in a sad, sad world.
But it can also be that in-game purchases and stickers and other things are only successful value propositions for a given demographic.
It's not entirely obvious how many people playing 2048 would pay to play it, accept an ad-riddled page, or would pay for another game like Threes.

I suspect a large part of the popularity stems from the easily hackable JS codebase (which is related to the explosion of 2048 variants)
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What place that be ?
I read through it once - some years ago - and agreed with its spirit. Unfortunately, until they've been enlightened, C++ acolytes are unlikely to understand it.
Recruiters definitely sell telephone contact sheets to each other (or take them along when they change companies).

I've even had recruiters call me on my desk phone at work trying to do a sales pitch.
Curious, what do you think the employment rate among physicians is? I'd be surprised if it wasn't 100%. The issue is regulation - employment only takes a hit outside the protected professions.

There are 13,605 taxi medallions in new york city. What do you think the employment rate among taxi drivers in NYC is?
It actually makes sense, I think. The bottleneck (bar, qualifying exam) keeps the supply artificially low, so those who pass and qualify are always in high demand (low unemployment). Those who don't pass either try again, or after a while go into other fields and no longer consider themselves prospective doctors, lawyers, etc. It's sort of like the effect where, during a prolonged recession, unemployment numbers 'drop' because some people give up actively looking for a job, and are no longer counted.
If you're going to be smug and offensive, at least don't make up words.
The hosts.allow and hosts.deny files only affect incoming connections to services that read them (whether by being invoked through tcpd, or by otherwise using libwrap. You could prevent Twitter from connecting to your FTP service or whatever, but not prevent other users on your network from contacting Twitter.
I really hope you're right. Still, I don't think anything about it is blatant enough to read as even an attempt at humor. It seems to me that he's either sincere or an uncommonly subtle troll.
Check out YouConpleteMe as well. It is insanely fast with large code bases