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> The problem is that they're being exploited. Choose to go to class or not, they are not being paid anything remotely close to the value that these schools get from them in terms of team gear sales, ad revenue, tv time, increased enrollment, etc etc etc.

I'm tired of seeing this argument without data. If you sit down and think about the numbers, you'll see that for the vast majority of NCAA athletes, this is false. Most get a very sweet deal relative to their market value if the NCAA did not exist.

First, limit to the NCAA sports that actually produce revenue, essentially men's football and basketball. If the NCAA did not exist, these players would at best be in a minor league (again except for the top dozen or two in the country). Now look at a sport that has a minor league in America: baseball. Minor league baseball players, even toward the top, make how much? $2000-3000 per month. And that's only in-season.

Paid tuition is already worth higher in cash value than that. And the value of the student-athlete experience? You can't put a price tag on it. Ask any former NCAA athlete what they would trade to give up their experience.

But, you respond, NCAA sports make way more money than baseball minor leagues. Yes, that's true. But it's not solely because of the players. It's because of the schools. Schools bring almost everything important to the table: A huge fanbase, a connection to a physical location and community, an illusion of amateur-ness, rivalries, all of these things you can't get to nearly that extent outside the NCAA.

The players? They have no bargaining power because without the NCAA system, they'd be hosed. They'd be working even harder for essentially less money, living a tougher lifestyle, and not even get the degree to show for it. Hard to argue they should be paid when they bring very little to the table compared to the schools.

The point people miss is that it's the combination of the schools and the players together that generates so much revenue. Either without the other would be out of luck. And right now, if you think about the numbers, the current split is pretty fair. The exception might be the few star players who could make millions in the pros.

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I want to say, I'm not saying that players aren't exploited currently. I think they are. But I think the exploitation boils down to your second paragraph: They lose a real education because they don't have their priorities in line at that point in their lives.

But the solution isn't to pay kids even more money/benefits to continue to masquerade as students while living as full-time athletes. The solution should be to divorce sports from education and create minor leagues. This will never happen because, as I stated above, it's the combination of schools and sports that generates so much money, and the people at the top won't give that up just to do the right thing.
The city doesn't know how to police this [absentee ownership].

The world wants to pay our property taxes, but use a negligible amount of our local services? That doesn't require policing – just wise exploitation.

Allow as much high-density luxury housing as possible. (Let the world pay us to build and hold!)

But then also, make it easier for absentee owners to casually lease out their holdings, so the marginal incentives are to open vacant units up to residents or tourists.

The world wanting to move-to, visit, or even just invest-in your jurisdiction only becomes a problem, rather than a boon, with stubborn mismanagement.
But isn't it this same minority of elite programs looking for ways to carry academically incompetent students?

Most student athletes are students first, not looking for an opening in a professional league.
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Price competition is great! The shady thing about the imitations is trying to insert themselves into someone else's supply & support chain, IMO.

Which is probably tied to the reason they didn't implement the ACM spec- from my limited hobbyist view, FTDI is the dominant player, so of course they would chose to mimic the non-standard ft232 instead of some underdog ACM player.

Oh, and as for costs, you're totally right that spinning a chip costs way more than a driver. But:

- A theme as I learn about fly-by-night companies is they piggyback on other operations. As the article observes, this knockoff required only 1 mask layer, because the rest is probably a standard microcontroller.

- Marketing & marketshare are probably the real reason, not getting out of writing drivers. Again, FTDI seems to be the entrenched player.
I'm sure voters would vote for that.

Any additional property tax in any city in the state of California has to go before a vote of the affected property owners per Prop. 218, passed in 1996. God bless our direct democracy system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_218_(199...
I honestly don't think it would be possible. College Football is something that is so culturally engrained in America that even tinkering with it a little bit (like adding a tiny 4 team playoff) is met with huge amounts of skepticism. The MLB's system is also different because, on average, it takes longer to develop the typical player post-college. Obviously there are player outliers, but baseball is much more technical than football - which sort of justifies the entire farm system in and of itself. The incubation period is just typically longer.
So? Does anyone actually think that fact will somehow make FTDI want to be more reasonable? They'll just say that those devices being hard-coded to spoof FTDI's VID is further justification for mistreating them.
You're rationalizing your state of being underpaid, which is understandable (you want to feel like you're making good choices in your life) but not very rational.

The tell-tale sign is that you compare your current position with a bad job (consultancy).

The thing is: there are plenty of startups that make cool things and have nice people AND pay well AND offer good equity AND have potential to take off in the future.

So if you really think you're underpaid for your skills (as in: you could find another job that is as good as this one and pays better), you should ask for a raise that would match a market rate for your current skills.

If a raise is not possible, you should start looking for a new job (and if you're in SF/Bay Area, there have never been a better time to do that).
Claiming that virtual reality is a wave on the same order of magnitude as mobile is an understatement. High fidelity virtual reality will change the way we communicate. It'll change the way we live.
Why Marissa Mayer Is Still the Right CEO for Yahoo
It seems like you could assign each existing NFL franchise the right to have a minor league franchise (maybe let them bid or have a lottery for the rights to specific cities); and then draft out of high-school and college rather than just out of college.

The player's union would clearly have something to say about it, particularly if they can easily bring players up and down mid-season based on injuries or performance.
Morse Code Rules.
Can they do that to Windows Update stuff? That would be amusing...
New App Called 'Streetchat' Has Teens Throwing Up Their Hands
3 languages for a french person? I'd say that's unbelievable.
Some basic analysis of Apples “Spotlight Suggestions” data transmissions
Yes. Things marked as done in Inbox (including marking many things as Done by sweeping) are shown as archived in Gmail (and vice versa).
>Video game copyright cases turn on whether the clone copied “functional” elements (tolerated) or “creative” elements (verboten).

Yeah, this quote from the conclusion is not at all what I took from it.

I strongly suspect that, for the most part, the judges here decide based on 'gut feeling' whether a title infringes or not, and then look for justification after the fact.

It also probably matters how litigious the plaintiff is: The Tetris Company is legendary in that regard. I mean, a 10x20 game board is infringing? And how else are you going to arrange four blocks, other than what is already done in Tetris?

I guess if copyright didn't extend effectively forever I would have less of a problem with it, but the idea that a single legal entity is going to own all these ideas when my grandchildren are having children, strikes me as - to put it lightly - very bad for the notion of cultural progress.
I dunno, I think a microwave with a vacuum tube will make my food sound warmer and trued to the original analog food I remember as a kid.
Our property taxes stay relatively constant via Prop. 13, while price appreciation is great given all the growth control.

We do not make it easy for absentee owners to "casually lease" out their holdings. Our tenant laws are some of the more stringent in the entire country and if we were to relax them, all the longtime middle or low-income residents protected by them would might washed out immediately. Furthermore, it just wouldn't happen politically because no one would vote for it. We are a city of 2/3s renters.
Supposedly select parts are coming back, as big companies lose faith. (But not all of it will come back)
Reminds me of the new John Darnielle book [0]. Definitely makes me want to try out some IF.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0374292086?pc_redir=1413707125
Docker at OpenDNS
We really like him and wanted him to stay. He's a student right now so he's pretty busy.
Great way to interview someone. Now if only every interview went that well
This is not true.
Breaking into your house etc is criminal, but taking back their own property is not.
$265.75 for a book? I think I'll stay ignorant, that's one third of the price for a lathe.
This might have just been rumor, but I've heard tell of devices with fake CE stickers.
The quality of the hires are still pretty good, but definitely not what they were 5 years ago.

Funny, I think that's word-for-word identical to what people at Google were telling me in 2006.
Hey HN family!

Here's an interesting experience we had in one of our interviews. Would love to hear any tips or advice you guys have on interviewing and any feedback you have on our process.
Thanks!!
Check out the Grand First Episode Project on Chinese Forums: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/24097-tv-seri...

Some of the links are outdated, but there's a ton of info there, including descriptions, vocab lists, difficulty rankings and more.
Best interviews are tests like this - love it!
haha we've done several interviews like this and usually we pick a project that we estimate to be 3-4 hours and since we are engineers we pretty much always underestimate how long it will take. It's the first one we have ever finished / shipped. We thought it would be way too simple, turns out it was just right:)
Agree - commercials as "30 or 60 second fully produced dramas" is laughable. Native ads can fall to wide adoption of AdBlock. It's like commercial skipping on DVRs. The only "ads" that make sense long term are things like AMZN rankings. That's what GOOG needs to fear. Ads that are valuable to the user because they can't be bought - that breaks the business model.
As if I needed another hobby.

But really, awesome page.
Out of curiosity, who is the new Google / Microsoft today?
Wow! This blog exemplifies someone whom I wish I could be. I am an EE who is hopelessly enamored with the idea of one day becoming at least proficient in mechanical design.

I better get going. I am not getting any younger
"few opportunities at more interesting companies that are looking for someone with a few years experience with newer technologies"

When will companies realize that knowing how to design a large scale system, or a machine learning algorithm is more useful than knowing AngularJS or NodeJS?
It's Bitcoin, not BitCoin - even WSJ gets it right, sigh!
The author explicitly said google isn't going away any time soon.

The doubleclick exchange is, to first order, direct response. Not brand. The rise of mobile has not been particularly profitable for google. It's not clear that google's strength -- direct response -- will translate well to mobile. Google's cpc has been falling -- though simpson's paradox makes this difficult to interpret.

Google is, btw, seriously threatened by amazon, though that isn't mentioned in this article. Google's business is to tax ecommerce; the rise of amazon as a shopping destination where, particularly with prime, you don't search anywhere else cuts google out. Hence their initiatives like delivery.
You mean how the driver tells the counterfeit apart? I don't really know. One possibility is that the counterfeit didn't copy some of the "don't care" cases exactly.
But if you only speak and listen, you still have to deal with tones :)
of course you realize those chinese clones NEVER EVER shipped with genuine FTDI chips in the first place, right?
FTDI Makes fantastic chips though.
Yeah, people suggested something similar before[1], and definitely will research it. Using two of the ATmegas might not work (the miniPCIe form factor is tiny!), I wonder if a single chip could do that, at the expense of maybe some storage? The current setup needs almost no custom work, and for the proof-of-concept version I'd rather not do firmware programming if I can avoid it (but then maybe I can't be picky about the FTDI:)

Thanks for the suggestion!

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/2ehosj/pcieduino_fe...
I'm in the middle of it, and am so glad to see this comment. I can't recommend it enough. Excellent.
> judges here decide based on 'gut feeling' whether a title infringes or not, and then look for justification after the fact.

I think that's a fair assessment of how a lot of court cases are decided, especially where the law involves an imprecise weighing and balancing of several competing factors.
I don't mind paying - but it all depends on the price, of course.
care to comment on what exactly about systemd is bad for servers?
In an age when information is ubiquitous, with advertisers trying to monetize every bit of it, filtering becomes an important skill. Today advertisers run ads alongside content, tomorrow advertisers and brands will dictate what content gets written. It's already happening with native ads as this post shows, but will soon become standard. The Truth will become increasingly elusive to the unskilled: a new kind of digital divide.
TWTs are going to be around for a long time. There are only a handful of companies in the world that make them, and there are no real alternatives to producing high power microwave signals.
Why not use the built in git support for pass?
Evaluating Trading Algorithms Using Probabilistic Programming
have you actually used systemd before? it's quite good.
The plus sign has been a valid character in email addresses since 1982 (RFC 822). See page 8: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html
Nice! You did all of this in 90 mins? +1
Wow, they seem to be going out of their way to avoid mentioning any benefits I might get from using Zulu over OpenJDK or Oracle JDK for that matter.

Knowing Azul through Cliff Click's excellent blog posts I was expecting to see better GC, scalability work etc. but nope - this just seems to be rebranded JDK that is open source and has Enterprise support. Given Oracle they might have some success but that's about it.
Wasn't Angular created by Google anyways?
> Linux (including Docker)

feed the "buzz".
I think the author of the article makes his living telling you the same... for a handsome price.

It seems he knows a thing or three about this Native Advertising biz... 'cause that is what this article appears to be.
> Probably not, or that already would have happened. It hasn't.

There was a time when convertible notes hadn't happened, or become main-stream, until they happened.
Record yourself speaking and listen for mistakes. Hands down this is one of the best ways to improve your spoken ability in a language (even your native language if you want to avoid umms, and ahhs and so on).

Use a tool like Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Find a recording of a native speaker that has a transcript.

Listen to a section of the recording.

Record yourself saying the same thing.

Listen back to your recording for mistakes and problems.

Repeat the record/listen cycle until you are happy.

Move on to the next segment.

Finally the most important part and key to the whole thing: do it every day. If you do 30 mins of this a day then you'll notice minor improvements after about a month and significant improvements after about three months.

Also, a shameless plug, check out http://www.chinese-forums.com/ which has a load of advice for learners of Chinese.

And my own tools for learning Chinese:

http://www.imralsoftware.com/
Here's a fun drinking game: take a sip every time you see the word "beautiful" in a product review. Take double if the review was for an Apple product.
I am the developer of Eπvelope email app for iOS. Its got a clustering feature that seems similar to Gmails' Bundles - auto grouping of similar emails (Receipts, Offers, ). Entire clusters can be moved,deleted,archived. And it works with Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Outlook.

http://bitly.com/envelope-clustering

http://PiEnvelope.com
People were saying this back in 2011 ahead of Facebook's IPO. 2 years later, Google was looking as strong as ever.

I'm willing to bet that Google will be the first trillion dollar company. Their bench is just too deep. The only major mis-step I've seen is not aggressively rolling out an apple pay competitor 1-2 years ago (Giving away terminals if they had to).

The major threats Google faces right now are: (1) Precision marketing from Facebook (2) Companies like Amazon get so big that users side-step the need for Google discovery. Also an AI business can be as big as their search business (AI as a service in the new smart economy.)

Addressing these:
(1) Most people use Google far more each day than they use Facebook so there are just more opportunities to monetize. Frankly if Facebook disappeared it would be a minor inconvenience to most people, whereas if Google disappeared it would be armageddon. Facebook is always at risk of being superseded by another trend, but Google has become a necessary tool. Furthermore, most people check facebook 2-3 times per day and the real estate is far more limited in a facebook feed (Albeit far more valuable). Finally, Google still has Gmail which is basically the world's second biggest social network and it can be mined for far more valuable insight for even greater degrees of precision marketing.

(2) We only have room in our brains for handful of companies like Amazon, and Amazon is primarily limited to consumer goods. That still leaves the rest of the economy that needs discovery: cars, investments, nose jobs, viagra and fake twitter followers. Still, Google does need a mobile/local ad strategy. However, they can pool search history, Gmail, and track your physical location (Oh and they have maps) and start inserting hyper personalized ads/offers into their search result feed. Add a payment system to that layer and they'll crush it.
Best way would be designing it with GENUINE parts instead of planning to populate your own boards with ebay specials.
They apparently have a pretty cool garbage collector for the JDK, but it's not part of Zulu, it's part of Zing (their commercial JVM).

Also, this has been around for like a year, so it's not even really that new...
Thanks! Finishing the last bit and polishing it up took more than 90 minutes - there's a lot of stuff we needed to do for the app store also - screenshots, etc...
Maybe don't skim and read thoroughly? I actually said they're still big. It's just that even bigger things came along.
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Micro-Targeted Malvertising via Real-time Ad Bidding [pdf]
Actually, I think I'm referring to ThirdVoice, which was shut down due to lack of success, and websites didn't like it because it "externalized discussions" according to the wikipedia.

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

Also there are many other web annotation systems described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation and the see-also section shows several failures.

As I said, I personally don't think this is a good idea, I can't see the point, but best of luck in any case, I guess at least some others are finding it useful.
The point I am trying to make is a little broader: assume that a lot of business and networking does happen over drinks already. In my business it does. There's nothing wrong with coffee, lunch, etc. It's just that if I am going to do a lot of business over drinks in the afternoon or evening, it seems unfair to limit those opportunities to other men.
would be interesting if an absent bacteria radically changed the resulting hypothetical mammoth fetus.
You completely missed the point. The driver cannot possibly know the difference between a chip falsely sold as being an FTDI chip, and one that is compatible without being mislabeled.
Looking forward to it! I'll subscribe on newsblur.
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I knew this feeling all too well. So many people doing all sorts of cool stuff out there, and I was just sitting there grinding away at a meaningless job. Life's too short for that man.
I think it would be great for my health if my industry didn't run on alcohol.

Per my comment above, I am more concerned in this case with unconsciously limiting our opportunities for partnerships, deal, etc, to businesses run by other men just because the current norm frowns on having a drink with women.
Well, well, shouldn't the system do searching for me ;)
What's the "sync" between Gmail and Inbox like? If you Snooze an email in Inbox, what happens to it in Gmail? If you put it in a bundle, what's that do to it in your inbox?
Wow, that timing.
Yep, you're correct. I should have been more clear in that while some of this was in Google Now, it didn't really "manage your email" like this does.

I was specifically referencing the scene where Sam is noting key points about the various things in his inbox and organizing it for him. Of course the movie title is possibly one of the most generic words out there, so finding a link to share is non-trivial :)
We've had great experiences so far! Most small hacks / projects that we do end up turning into something that is honestly pretty fun and more often than not, we even end up working on it a bit more.
People are allowed to choose the parts they want to use. I call it voting with your wallet. Maybe FTDI will realize that people don't want to use their products when they pull stunts like this.
So you probably won't pay for the game and don't want to have ads to compensate the developers of the game. How do you expect to continue to get quality apps in your perfect world?
Pretty happy overall. It's a little more receptive to noise than I'm used to, if my phone is anywhere near it I get a sort of low hiss. I adjusted the ohms for my Q701s but that seemed to make the noise problem worse. Despite all that, like I said pretty happy.
Yes, Linux too. I'm running 2 MHz, the fastest that my jelly bean microcontroller du jour can do. I'm using FTDI on the remote end, and Python serial port drivers on the PC. I'm finding that with relatively little effort, I can make my gadgets and support software run on both Windows and Linux with no code changes, which probably sounds pretty mundane to experienced hackers, but is a convenient benefit nonetheless.
It does and it's designed for it. Found this example online: https://github.com/rbudiharso/smsauth-example Basically you can use any delivery mechanism with it you'd like
Is technology making us smarter?
That's a great line of thought. The worst possible future for Google is that the bottom drops out on the valuation of their product - paid ads.

The only way that happens is that somebody figures out how to deliver the same quality of advertising at a much lower price point (perhaps a company that isn't employing quite so many PhDs or bankrolling so many moon shots). Or alternatively, somebody comes up with a much higher quality product. Frankly neither of those seem particularly out of reach.