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I think it's a serious question, but with a pretty easy answer.

People with STEM degrees who don't have jobs are stupid. There are no "talented folks" with degrees and experience that are not stupid and don't have jobs.

There are fucktons of jobs for STEM people that aren't being fulfilled because of the lack of suitable candidates.
I'm extremely mad, iTunes has no right to just download random music on my phone and I really dislike U2 there nothing I want on my music how do I get it to go away?????
This market is extremely mature now. Between TVEyes and Critical Mention, it would be very difficult to get a foothold. The disruption occurred in the 2002-2005 timeframe.

IMO, you should never attempt to compete on price alone.
As a user of both windows phone and windows on the desktop; I'd be much happier if the desktop start screen experience were more like the phone one.

Phone: Here is a surface, arrange and size your tiles as you like, anywhere in available space.

Desktop: Here are groups, size your tiles and we'll auto arrange them in sequence in the group they are placed in.

You can be a touch more creative with the windows phone variant; and the experience is more intuitive when you're shuffling your tiles around.

Then again, the windows phone start screen does not react to screen orientation changes, meaning the surface you place your tiles on will never change size or orientation. I can see how the concept of groups answer the "how do we arrange to fill screen when orientation changes without bothering the user too much" question quite neatly; but I hope another few meetings around the drawing board on this issue can produce a more personal experience (rather than the current compromise).

I'd be happy to enable an option to have more customization options, even if it meant laying my tiles out twice (once for portrait, once for landscape).

I hope they don't do away with the start screen completely; I've gotten used to it and rather like it. Operating a surface taught me it's value.
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There is indeed something to be gained by throwing an idiom away: not needing the features which support the idiom which create problems elsewhere, even when that idiom isn't being used.

For instance if we throw away certain programming features from a language, we can gain reliability and security which threaten even the integrity of code that doesn't itself use those features.
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After looking at the numbers a little closer, it doesn't seem that Homejoy would be any cheaper (for me at least). It seems they charge $25-$35 an hour. It is not clear if that is per cleaner or not. I get the impression it is "per hour per cleaner" if more than one arrived. I started a booking at Homejoy and put in my bedroom/bathroom count and it recommended 7 hours. Even at their low end, 7 hours is $175.

I currently use a person that has a small team so usually 2-3 people come to my house. And they usually spend 2-3 hours cleaning. So we've got 6-8 person-hours (which fits with Homejoy's estimate if 1 person came). I pay a flat fee of $180 for them to clean my house... so roughly $25-30 an hour.

I don't know what my person pays her employees (it seems mostly a family business) but I have to believe that NOT paying for Homejoy's cut puts more money in all their pockets. Maybe I should just be thankful I found a good cleaner for a good price.
I thought that the watch made sense for my wife (since she's with the kids most of the time), but somehow she's not interested in it.
Indeed. I skimmed and thought "Wait, we're using imaginary numbers now? What?" and then realized it just meant "this is an integer."
You should talk to the guys at Originate. They know how to grab talent. Also, they're pretty open to talking to people and are at quite a few events throughout the nation.

Full disclosure: I used to work at Originate.
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That would be really neat. It could also solve a security issue with public CDNs.

Right now there's nothing to stop a malicious CDN from changing the content of an included script on your site without you knowing it.

With a hash tag like this the browser could refuse to load the file or warn the user if it didn't match.
Back when I ran a business that competed with TVEyes and Critical Mention, I used up to 8 analog tuners in a single box to record channels. Happauge PVR-150 and PVR-500 (2 tuners in one card).

Nowadays, it's harder because you can't get many of the necessary channels via analog. You need the decryption of a digital box (imagine several cable boxes stacked on top of each other) to grab the video and even then, it's difficult to get the closed captioning. This makes the colocation complexity more expensive and many facilities would just say "um, no thanks, we're not running a cable line in here for that."
I think they're seeds for thought, nothing more.
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"I'm glad you think its silly because all great things have haters"

Stupid things have haters too. Some people "hating" your idea doesn't make it good. Doesn't make it bad either.

I don't know what windows does these days, but OSX has had tags and metadata for "files" for a while. It's even easy to add the info, and search for it. I never bother though because, for me, it doesn't solve any problems or add any value.
Good news about the PySpark input format improvements. Does that also cover reading complex Parquet datatypes into SchemaRDDs with their native datatypes? When can we get a Databricks Cloud account (I'm already on the waiting list)?
With any improvement in programming language technology, we narrow the disparity between human and computer representations of logic. In it's simplest form, this is the premise of language designers.

The biggest difficulty with current languages is their reliance on absolute determinacy. Programmers must express in exact form what computations ought be performs, and the languages possesses no intelligence in themselves. I think this needs to change. Inference should have applications outside type declaration, and the vast knowledge base that is the Internet should be taken into account.

At this point, there are two promising pursuits that I've seen. First is Wolfram Language, which you've all heard of. The other is Escher, which enables "programming in analogies". It's on early stages right now, but I'd encourage you to check it out at https://github.com/gocircuit/escher.
As nerfhammer mentions, for some reason YC focused on the "invest" side of "It’s too hard to find good ways to save and invest" in their description. It would be good if they clarified that that's really what they intended.

I find this confusing as well because while simpler investment mechanisms would help some people who already have money to invest, for the majority of people getting this initial money is the problem.

It's improvements in personal finance tools and systems to help people make better decisions that let them save (and hence invest more) that could make the most difference for the most people. It doesn't necessarily have to be games or social networks though. Even just presenting the right information at the right time could work.
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Ah, yes, but now it will no longer be decried as fragmentation, but as progress. Thus are the ways of the Apple.
I wouldn't say that having haters is a good measure of "greatness", though.
I definitely like the speed. I like that there's no sign-up required. I like that it's simple as far as getting notifications is concerned.
The ever-growing group b) isn't helped by Homejoy etc. No matter how low their price or how low the search costs get, they still have no purchasers. Their labor has either zero or negative marginal product.

That's a structural issue: just as aging pulls people out of the labor pool, the increased substitutability of capital for labor is pulling out working-age adults from the pool of workers who are realistically able to work. Homejoy etc. does help the people at the margins of this pool who wouldn't otherwise be affordable to employ (e.g. due to overhead costs), but it doesn't obviate the basic structural trends happening.
> I'm working on a project I'm calling "Library Transfer Protocol", which is aiming to replace the concept of "file" and replacing it with 'Library item'. Basically, in 2014 computer usage more closely mirrors the workflow of an author (revisions, publishing, etc), rather than an employee filling up a file cabinet for internal use (thank to the facebook and the like)

Please define how a "library item" is different from a "file".

Is it made of bytes that can be read into a buffer and accessed?

(If not, how can an H.264 video or MP3 object exist as a library item and be processed?)

Do you not have spaces which assign names to library items?

The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol has already replaced the concept of "file" with "resource". A URI doesn't necessarily name a file.
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It's horrible. I have a bachelors from a top US school, working on a masters from another top school, and I can't even take a week off in between jobs because it may cause immigration problems.

Meanwhile Obama goes around making speeches about how kids of illegal immigrants somehow have the 'right' to citizenship and would be able to benefit from US public services (which by the way I and other legal immigrants are paying for).

Completely absurd and needs to change.
I didn't read the by line and assumed it was written by an optimistic undergrad. Then at the end I saw "By Richard Stallman". I must say I'm in awe of Mr Stallmans optimism and never give up attitude.
Or they could all link to the same copy, like Google's hosted libraries. https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#Libra...
the problem I have with flat systems that uses tagging or meta data is that one day when adding pictures I might tag them as "pictures," another day I add some pictures and forget that i called them pictures before and this time call them "photos." A week later I might tag them as "images."

Makes searching and organizing a pain in the ass.
The problem with analogy-based programming is the lack of determinacy. There are no guarantees when it comes to abstract, knowledge-based inference. And so many concepts in modern programming would have to be abandoned to make this shift. Unit tests, for instance, would lost value dramatically.

In the end, an analogy-based approach seems inevitable though, especially once natural language-based inexact. grow popular. Everyday speech is littered with ambiguities, and programming "languages" need to handle these. They can't throw compilation errors upon each inexact command.
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Unfortunately, "inevitable demise" is often more economically-rational than "outside-the-box pivots," especially when talking about an organization the size of RadioShack Corp. The cost to pivot some 5,000 stores into an unproven, capital-intensive market that would require high-skill, high-cost employees would be far beyond the company's reach, especially since RS is totally beholden to its lenders for any kind of strategic change (they nixed plans to shut down some 20% of their stores, for example, since the cost to get out of those stores was higher than the lenders were willing to bear). Instead, the most likely scenario is a fast bankruptcy followed by a faster closing of stores -- or a total liquidation of assets, in the worst-case scenario.

I call this the "Blockbuster Paradox" -- the idea that a corporation with a large investment in assets, employees and contracts is often locked into an unsustainable path by virtue of past successes. Just as Blockbuster wasn't financially capable of disrupting its own business model, so too is RS incapable of a major pivot like the one you describe. After all, the maker market is a tiny fraction of the market for cellphones and personal electronics, and the company's structure and finances are based on the higher revenue expectations. (The company needs a minimum of $800m in revenue per quarter just to break even.) RadioShack, with only about $30m of cash on hand, would die of asphyxiation long before it could ever become the kind of large-scale TechShop you describe.

Having said that, I would absolutely agree that RadioShack and the maker community have great mutual potential, just not on a large scale. RS could create a small number of flagship stores offering equipment, access and expertise, as a rebranding of the company back into a more technically-oriented market. (It can be argued that a central RadioShack makerspace could provide ongoing sales and marketing support for smaller, retail-oriented satellite locations.) But RS will need both a new strategy that can keep them around $4b in revenue per year, and a set of new investors that are willing to believe in them. That's a very hard row to hoe.
I've long wanted metadata fields to help me organize things, but the Achilles heel of systems that use them has always been the lack of standards. I use 2-3 different OS's daily and others less frequently, so I value having the same view of my files no matter where I am. The end result is I just throw everything into the file name.
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I'm fairly certain this is what the daily show uses:

http://www.snapstream.com/

... or at least something similar. In other words, they do it themselves. That's the only way I can explain their uncanny ability to find a dozen clips containing a certain word or phrase across very long time frames.
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My ugly questions on this are: What about liability for when an Uber or Lyft driver kills someone in an accident driving unsafely? Or just murders someone because they're having a bad day? Or get carjacked? I mean, I guess it's just one spree away from people doing dangerous things?
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While not exactly an answer to your question, you might find it worthwhile to take a look at the 1060 NetKernel platform - http://1060.org

"NetKernel can be considered a unification of the Web and Unix implemented as a software operating system running on a microkernel within a single computer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetKernel
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I agree with your points, including your elucidation of dragonwriter's reply.

I'll try to clarify my point: before Uber/Lyft, we had taxis. Just taxis. Then, the argument went: "Well yes, for taxis we need state intervention because if the government doesn't regulate cabs then anyone can charge fare and conditions will deteriorate and it will be inherently less safe and..."

Then Uber/Lyft comes around and all of a sudden the taxi market is "relatively frictionless" and has other "unique characteristics" that make it so beneficial to employees.

I'm trying to point out that there is nothing special about taxis. It is not a special market. I can't deny that one to one business relationships allow for faster change in the market, as the employee can simply up and leave at any point.

The taxi market was the furthest thing from frictionless until competition started. The power will always be in the employees' hands so long as anyone is free to start competition. We see this with this selfsame example - before Uber, taxi drivers were basically employees to medallion owners (and taxis were supposed to be a regulated system for the free enterprise of starting a one-man cab company, not for the rich to buy all medallions and rent them). This is an example of failed regulation that allowed the current exploitation of taxi drivers. Competition is now allowing better conditions for those same drivers, even though there's no pretense that Lyft drivers own their business. It's an above-board operation and more moral than before, and not surprising that it works better for both parties engaged in this.

So what I'm arguing is that whenever we say "but it doesn't apply to roads/this/that", it's usually because of the blind spots we have from looking at the system the way it is and being unable to imagine how else it could be. The roads example is a classic one.
Algorithm patents do not patent math, they patent processes that are describable with math. It is the difference between patenting the concept of "sorting" and patenting a specific sorting algorithm; only the latter is allowed. The conceptual test for patentability of an algorithm in most countries is that it is directly reducible to practice as a novel electronic circuit design.

All patentable subject matters are directly describable with math in exactly the same way as proper algorithm patents, and chemical process patents have an identical abstract structure (just change "bits" to "atoms"), so any specific argument against algorithm patents would consistently apply to most or all patentable subject matters.
>As far as gaming goes, we'll probably see half-assed VR from Microsoft and Sony.

Look at all the amazing things the Kinect did. I played a few Kinect games. The effect is amazing. Imagine if Facebook bought it instead of MS. I don't see why MS or Sony would make things half-assed. If anything, VR gaming might be a natural monopoly from a commercial entity instead of some open standards things Oculus kinda-sorta is pushing.

Reminds me of how people are baffled that there's a near MS monopoly on the dekstop and why Linux can't break through. Natural monopoly here as well.

VR gaming might be a console-only affair with a small "pc master race" types telling us how much better their experience is. Meanwhile, Jane Console Gamer puts on her headset and enters the world of Minecraft or whatever is going to be the big time waster, with little fuss as it all because it "just works." Meanwhile Joe PCGamer is whining on forums why $video_game isn't working with his Oculus and he has no one to support him.
The issue is that we've been pointing to education as the solution for decades. Despite that, we still have no real clue as to how to improve education, and this is particularly true for the bottom 20% of performers--throwing more teachers or different curriculum at them has resolutely failed, experimentation by charter and independent schools hasn't given us any plausibly paradigm-changing leads, and initiatives like Khan Academy and Coursera are focused on self-directed learners, who that bottom 20% definitely are not.

Obviously better education would be the dream solution for taxpayers, society, and students, but so far as I can tell it's just a dream that never translates to reality.
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Comcast is a trademark. Perhaps it could be exempted as a parody, but if this got popular I would expect a DMCA takedown.
Because net neutrality is an issue only faced in the US, right?
The most direct way managers see if employees are working is if they are sitting in a cubicle farm for X/hours day.

This is not unlike in the programming world when you measure if someone is working if you see them typing on the keyboard. If they stop typing they are not working.

This most of all betrays that dysfunction.

What if these people were in the office and just pretended to work but instead played solitaire. Management wouldn't know any better perhaps.
> somehow have the 'right' to citizenship

The 14th amendment makes it pretty clear that (with very rare exception) anyone born on US soil is born a US citizen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_the_United_State...
My last visit to RadioShack was to try and purchase an overpriced plug adaptor from a sleazy salesman. I was in a hurry and knew I was paying too much, but it was for my parents and I was just wanting to grab one to get them sorted out and move on.

He had some lengthy offer of 'free batteries' that he incorrectly assumed I was willing to listen to, then refused to complete the sale when I refused to give my telephone number. Total scumbag. This was in Florida but I had nearly the same experience 2 years earlier at one in California.

This is representative of their culture for a while now and I know I'm not the only one they have alienated. New 3D gadgets or not, I'm not likely to ever set foot in the place again. If they are 'pivoting', they need to pivot that name, too, to disassociate the new venture from the toxic sales culture that they exhibit today.
Sounds like an opportunity for some students to do some cool RFID hacking and pool their IDs to obfuscate the logs...

What a great EE/CS project ;)
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What your building sounds like a document management system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system. Might be worth looking at some to see how they'd fit with what you're envisioning. Even if you write it yourself, it can be helpful to see how others have solved the same problems.
Did you read the post? ;)

It needs to be built into the browser because of issues like the one he was having.
I've seen this first hand. It does happen.
I believe this is a non sequitur argument.

I'm not arguing that the government didn't "retaliate" against Nacchio. I have actually no idea whether they did or didn't (it's tricky to tease it out given the timing of the prosecution, which again happened during a wave of similar prosecutions).

My point is that people should be wary about rehabilitating people like Nacchio. The accepted facts of that case do not paint a sympathetic picture.

There are good, strong arguments against NSA surveillance and coercive interventions with industry. They should survive inconvenient facts. But that's not even what's being asked right now. The only question here is, are those arguments damaged by the refutation of one single very convenient fact?

This happens all the time on HN: people really seem to want to observe the world through the lens of their issues. I have trouble with that. I think the NSA needs drastically better regulation, and that some of their actions warrant criminal justice attention. But I have an even bigger problem with accepting what seem to be obvious falsehoods in the service of that perspective.
Out of curiosity, did you end up going with an open source or proprietary streaming engine? Was performance your biggest deciding factor?
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> This is how capitalism works, survival of the fittest*

* Unless you have enough money to change regulations in your favor, skirt regulations, and so on, in which case it's survival of the financially-backed.
Jackson (best performing) vs JSONKit. But Apple's is close enough as well.