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To that, Google fired back today, telling the Telegraph that, essentially, they don’t care if Murdoch wants to block its sites from being found via search and/or Google News.

A spokesman for the search giant said: “Google News and web search are a tremendous source of promotion for news organisations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute.

“Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don’t.”

doesn't sound exactly like firing back or saying that they don't care about Murdoch wanting to block his sites.
TI-83 and the manual where the ways that I started in programming. I would most likely try to spark my own kids interest in programming the same way. The greatest thing about programming on the TI-83 was that I could write programs anywhere. I took that calculator with me everywhere and would even program while we were out at a restaurant or after completing an assignment in class.
If you found this interesting, you might prefer Yudkowsky's reasoned http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified transhumanism and http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/fun-theory
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I don't agree that programming has gotten harder, I think it has become easier. What is harder now is finding material to learn programming that is simple for kids but also still "real" programming (not just game creation kits).

I wrote a freely available book called "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" and released it under a Creative Commons license. It's available at http://inventwithpython.com

I think Python makes a great (even superior) replacement for BASIC. Adding in Pygame, and it is much easier and fun to learn programming.
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PG is absolutely dead wrong on betting the Government won't change. At the end of the day, the Government is STARVING for innovative technical solutions, new ways to communicate with people and getting validated online. There's a ton of money to be made on great, smart tech to sell to Government. And if you're a start-up, you ought to be thinking about whether your product is useful to government.

Whether that's change or not, I don't know. But what I do know is, a year ago, two years ago, three years ago the Government could care less about the Internet or how it interacted with constituents online. Now it can't stop talking about it.
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This page is almost an exemplar for the story I was reading earlier about "coders can't market". Your site looks useful and like bingo-card generator could earn you a nice living - I'd check out his marketing and design (colourful and bright not drab brown, teachers need joy!).

Also you should check out your competition, decide what your unique selling points are and market your advantages.

Your strapline sucks, IMO, something more like "the super-easy, super-fast, instant online maths* worksheet generator; because practice makes perfect".

I'd also look at the Home-Ed market and spam some of their forums ... in a nice way.

* It's maths dammit, not math.
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Note makeworksheets ( http://makeworksheets.com/samples/math/index.html ) seem like stiff competition and there yearly charge is $30, quite cheap for a teacher given the utility.
The cliques in maths are different: They are much smaller (literally a dozen or so people), and they really can't understand each other.

I agree with the article - it describes pretty well why I left pure mathematics after my PhD and got a programming job.
Bioshock was a modern one that did it. There was probably a precursor.
I work in a large corp that's still on IE6, I'm interested in start-ups and often read HN at work, so I'm surprised by the downvotes to be honest!
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Summary-ish:

> It’s mostly about persuading audiences to, among other things, “take a deep breath” before leaping to conclusions, as PaidContent’s Staci Kramer tweeted. (I don’t trust journalists to do this anymore, with too few exceptions.)

It's not just journalists to blame. It's the receivers too. We can't keep false information from flowing, there's just too many excited people, too many levels of indirection and too much incentive in putting out "cheap" news. The point is, we have to keep in mind what sources are more likely to be reliable and what sources aren't, and we have to filter information as it comes and compare with other sources, not just blindly accept it. I thought they taught this in high school, apparently not. It's a valuable skill.
Only having read this list, I took the "Government Won't Change" theme to mean that overall policy direction won't change wildly. Will the US ever have completely open immigration? Will it become significantly more libertarian? Will the balance of power between the Federal government and the states change significantly? I would not bet on any of these in the next twenty or thirty years.
But we didn't loose the very concept of being able to do such a thing. We can't do it ourself, but we know where to start, how to learn it, etc.
I think the word "Government" is too vague.

If by government you mean elected officials. Then they will be very interested in anything that can produce more votes or money for them. I think the Obama campaign changed how a lot of officials view the internet.

If by government you mean, established lobbyist with things to lose. There will certainly be a resistance to change and innovation.

Overall, this list is probably too vague to start debating it.
Why don't they negotiate with Google?

I don't see any point of trying to threaten Google. Just be a man, mate, the Aussie way.
That might have been true before but it's not true now.

The guy on the street who also cruises the web thinking that, except it's more like "I'm bored without PC, let's toss a quarter out to see what the filter wants to put out".

And the thing is, THIS is how it's been for a while, long before the Internet. The Internet only made it obvious. So the genie fortunately isn't going back into the bottle. Nice genie, it bring us good stuff.
"They write something stupid, then people write rebuttals explaining how it's stupid, building flow and page rank"

37Signals is also guilty - however proving that the system works brilliantly.

Too bad all the rebuttals are typically incoherent nonsense making the original nonsense seem even more important and profound.

(edit: Thank you, I accept your down-vote as proof that the link baiting works and that you agree 37Signals and TC are both brilliant marketers as well as writers.)
You should also use a fixed page width IMO, something like http://www.blueprintcss.org/ will help keep a text alignment grid and sort out your colums too, see the CSS file generator at http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/ .

I disagree on the "popular worksheets" idea. I think most will want a specific form of worksheet rather than the most popular, an option to sort by popularity would be good. You might want to look at table sorting in JQuery (eg http://tablesorter.com/docs/#Demo ).

Twitter? Use the twitter bird! A picture is worth 1E3 lexical tokens.
I wasn't at the talk - was there anything he said that particularly surprised you? The list above looks like the fairly standard list of "what's going on now"...
What is the link that you see?
Don't forget to mention which country/regions grading system you're using.
Wow, make some constructive criticism on design and get downvoted. Great.
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If you can't bet on the government change, you can certainly bet on copyright remaining as is and/or becoming more restrictive.

Copyright reform is our collective wet dream, but there are powerful, powerful organizations and a lot of jobs riding on continued restrictions. It's the trade tariff of the 21st century, and it isn't going anywhere without a serious fight.
wow. you really think think the publishers haven't thought of this? also, google already pays the publishers thru adsense.
Is there a video/audio recording available on The Internet?
I left math for a totally different reason and I'm almost embarrassed to talk about it. A little background...

I worked full time through college and graduated with less than $100 in the bank. I had opportunities to go on to graduate school for either math or business.

Every professor in our math department drove an older subcompact except the department head who drove a Chevy Impala. Imagine, work your whole life, get to the top of your field, and drive an Impala!

I had struggled too long to set myself up for more struggle. So I went on to get my MBA, learned how to program, and have never had a lack of good quality, high paying work. I'm a little embarrassed that I was so shallow back then, but maybe my subconscious was trying to tell me something. I love math, but I'm sure glad I made the choice I did.

At a recent math reunion, I felt right at home once again. I met a buddy who graduated with me and continued on to become a tenured math professor at a major university. I asked him how he felt about his choice. He told me, "I'll never be rich, but I teach calculus for 8 hours per week 9 months per year, I don't have to publish, and my wife and I have visited over 100 countries. Not a bad life at all."
You could cache the pdf files as they're generated and produce a cropped and reduced size (and watermarked!) PNG file from the images using ImageMagick (or similar) on your server. Dump those PNG to a folder occassionally (eg cron job) and use a "coverflow" style generator (eg http://www.imageflow.nl/ ) to add some panache to the page and show what type of worksheets people are using. If you do I'll bet you get more clicks via the coverflow links than any other route.

Edit: looking again I'd really make an effort to add both a link and a graphical watermark to the free printouts. One upgrade you can offer is to remove the watermark. Another is to add the school name and logo in place of your own. The name/logo (no logo yet?) is _free_ marketing ... headteacher see the worksheet, tells superintendent, informs all teachers in the region ..., etc..
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There are ways to work together as independents replacing traditional labour relations, this is called 'stakeholdership'.

Like that you are not an employee, but an entrepreneur in your own right and your 'output' is rewarded entirely in shares in the profits (or turnover, dependent on the arrangement).

So, with that model you could theoretically approach 100% entrepreneurship.
Hey, that's awesome, I hope it didn't sound like I was bashing you for neglecting it or anything. _why seemed to be superhumanly productive, so I wouldn't expect any one person to keep up his pace. I'm just happy to see that his projects weren't abandoned, thanks to you and everyone else who took up the torch.
I'm not sure if I'm atypical, but I do remember having Hugh Woodin give a talk about set theory that I, as a non-specialist (heck, as a computer scientist moonlighting in math grad courses to keep my brain on!) could follow reasonably easily. I still don't know what projective geometry is, but it wasn't necessary to follow his argument.
You don't think JIT logistics is an idea? Execution matters, ideas also.
According to you maybe. What if I have different values?

See what I'm getting at?
I meant I looked at the Snarl code, and it wasn't implemented there.

But you are right, it is technically possible.
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There are some mathematicians who make big efforts to make their talks accessible to a wider audience. Inexplicably, at least in the mathematics department where I did my PhD, those kinds of talks were actually looked down on by many people.
This is a pretty impressive exit! I hope this is a sign of more liquidity in startup land.
> As the chain began to take off, [Sam] Walton made major adjustments to manage the growth - again always seeming to see ahead. As early as 1966, when he had 20 stores, he attended an IBM school in upstate New York. His goal: to hire the smartest guy in the class to come down to Bentonville, Ark., and computerize his operations. He realized that he could not grow at the pace he desired without computerizing merchandise controls.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/walton2.htm...
I've been looking into the JRuby / Rhino combination to implement server-side user plugins, where you can't trust the code[1]. I don't think it'll be that slow to let JS call Ruby code.

That said, I'm now wondering whether writing them in Java and using SecurityManagers plus byte-code verification and adding of checks for running too long in loops is the way to go.

[1] And of course, because it's Javascript, it can run in the browser too. With suitable shim code, you can then debug in Firebug. IDE for free!
Isn't MySpace supposed to be dying under News Corp? Tell me if I'm wrong.
I don't see one, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I am glad to know that this is true of people within the field. I've always found mathematics a romantic subject, but the landscape is so broad I always feel lost.

Well, maybe not 'glad' --- it's too bad that people are punished when they try to be on more than one bleeding edge. But at least I feel like less of a dunce.
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The only way to succeed in grad school is to be single-mindedly focused on mathematics. Not on being a "generalist", not about "cliques", tenure, etc. This "meta-math" reasoning is a bad substitute for doing actual work. Clearly, the guy is better off doing something else.
Here is a great article on this and the behavior of "Seeking" which is our natural mammal inclination to learn things which gets amplified by Facebook: http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/pagenum/all/
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That's one law I will simply be breaking. If the powers that be want to take me to court for it then yes, please. Let's get it over with.

I also wonder if this law as it is written right now goes for sites hosted in the EU or for sites that are visited by EU citizens (which would have much further reaching consequences).
I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially inflating your pageview count. It’s just like the old auto-frame-refresh trick, but this one’s better because most of the ad networks haven’t banned it yet.

So I don't have any direct experience with this, and I'm not an advertiser, but I would think that advertisers would be happy with this, no?

It's a chance to get more ads in front of the viewer (of the same content).

Frame auto-refreshing sounds like an out-and-out way to cheat the advertisers, but this is really just increasing the ad to content ratio in a way that isn't always directly obvious to the end viewer (and is not as nasty as covering 95% of the screen in ads).

Do advertisers actually dislike this practice?
Two approaches:

1. It could be an impossible task, but if the company depends on it, then what are you going to do? You can't hang on to someone who isn't delivering the results you need because you don't have infinite time and money. If they are filling a seat that someone better could potentially fill, you and the rest of your employees would be better served finding that better someone and survive.

2. Some tasks are impossible, but most are just hard. Embrace this definition of insanity: doing the same thing twice and expecting different results. If your report is making no headway, quickly as a team accept that, learn from it, and then spend the time to generate new approaches and test those out.

Both approaches are correct. You fire or double down depending on how aligned your report is to positive action. If they are defensive, unwilling, or incapable of learning and experimenting, they are roadblocks. If they are also concerned about their lack of progress, generating ideas, and resourceful, go the distance with them.

Note: it's legitimate for your report to claim that given the resources they have, they cannot meet the target. They can demand from you more resources to meet your goal, or demand you adjust your goal to meet their perception of reality. Then the process works in reverse. Are you defensive, unwilling, or incapable of learning? Or are you concerned about how well resourced you are, resourceful, and willing to go to bat for your report?
I succeeded in grad school, by doing actual mathematical work (my PhD thesis was in Banach Algebras). But I agree with the article, and it's a decent description of some of the reasons I left mathematics.
What kind of math department were you at? It may be due to the slight applied-leaning nature of my department, but the top professors earn six-figure salaries, and the assistant department head that I do research with drives a very nice, new BMW SUV.

Still, your friend's point about his lifestyle is important. Teachers at any level are seldom paid well, but the work environment and schedule often make up for it, so long as you still enjoy teaching. Just consider how in the business world, the concept of a sabbatical is often quite foreign.
Could you recommend a place to look for tutorials on writing unit tests for front end design? I'm learning Rspec at the moment.
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EA doesn't understand social distribution, or at least they haven't been able to execute on it.

Pogo has what, 10MM pageviews per month? Playfish has games with more monthly players than that.

Also, the winners in social gaming don't require EA's strengths, which revolve around branding and production quality.
There is a difference between casual games and social games though, and it is the social know-how that EA is buying.
I hope very much that the freed up cycles will be used to improve Python's packaging/distribution mechanism, which I think is the weakest link in the chain of using Python.
It wouldn't be difficult, but I don't think EA really understands the distribution side of social games.

Getting that right, IMO, is both harder and more important than having games with high production quality.
> I'll never be rich

This seems like something of a false dichotomy to me. The professors at my school (UCSD) in math, econ, and engineering were all industry consultants and/or entrepreneurs and drove around in very nice cars like Porsches, Benzes, Lexus etc. (I never saw their houses but a good many of them live in La Jolla).

In fact, many of them were so busy with their 'extracurricular' activities that they sometimes attempted (unsuccessfully) to schedule exams and lectures at hours like 7am or 9pm.

The Chancellor drove a turbo porsche! I can only imagine what the faculty at a school like Stanford is like...

It always seemed to me that being a professor opened doors into industry, instead of 'locking' you down.
Because odds are that the product won't break before the buyer stops using it.

You're forgetting a very important fact: most participants on HN have highly analytical personalities. The rest of the world really doesn't see the need to examine everything so deeply.
> google already pays the publishers thru adsense.

Yeah, but not enough: the idea would be to try to get a very hefty premium from Bing who has enough money for a "loss leader" campaign.

Have people seriously proposed blocking themselves from Google entirely? Because on the surface it sounds like web suicide. Which is why there is a lot of news about Murdoch today. So no I don't think it's a common thought..
No fan of ESR, in any way but...really? Do you need to crap out your personal opinion on why he's the way he is? Do you know him? Honestly, i don't know you but, do you hangout with the guy?
> What have we really learnt about programming say in the last 5 years that requires new language features?

Smalltalk traits and Perl 6 roles -- a missing feature of OO design.
This article deals with Carr's in only the most superficial manner. Carr clearly wasn't saying, 'these two people had mobile technology, therefore people with mobile technology are heartless.' The two people in his examples used mobile technology in the same way, and were both enabled and (according to Carr), motivated by 'citizen journalist' technology to act unethically.

You can argue that link, or even argue that it doesn't apply in all cases, but Carr clearly argued for a substantive causal link, a meaningful thread running through: the sort of technologies that involve instantaneous broadcast, the sort of audience and expectations that grow up around those technologies, the behaviors that people develop to fulfill those expectations (and to satisfy their own desires regardless of any audience---the look-at-me-looking-at-this syndrome), and the people who acted unethically in his examples.

You may agree or disagree (myself, I think the issue is more cultural, and it may just as well have been a Fox News crew rushing to get a great shot of the suffering)---but Winer is being deeply disingenuous by claiming that Carr's thesis is as simple as his absurd, clumsily constructed Christian-British-Homosexual analogy. I won't claim he's being disgusting, because the step from logical criticism to righteous moral judgment is a precipitous one.
Probably tangential... I learned what sin() and cos() did experimentally.

There was a BASIC program in Creative Computing that used sin() to make a long snake of text scroll down the screen. So, in my mind, sin() and cos() were things that made wavy lines.

A little while later I was puzzling over how to draw a circle. I had this epiphany that the X component was drawing a wave, just like sin(), and the Y component was drawing a wave that was just out of phase. I went home and programmed it and it worked instantly.

We had a Britannica at home, so I finally looked up what sin() and cos() were, and the diagrams made it all obvious.

It's good that we now have Wikipedia and all, but kids today are still deprived of a computer that comes with a decent programming environment, that makes fun stuff like graphics dead simple.
Neat! Here's a question. When Wal-mart started "computerizing", the technology was in its infancy. The modern Walmart supply chain/fulfillment operation is ultra complex, and every advance has to be retrofitted onto their existing systems.

If you were Sam Walton today, starting afresh, do you think the technology required to reach Walmart levels of efficiency would be nearly as complex as what they have now? You get to design your whole operation around the software, instead of the other way around, right?
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Fantastic resource. I've been using this for the last couple weeks and it has made understanding Calculus II far easier.
Additionally, this comment is fairly reddit-esque so I'm guessing there is even more incentive to kill it before it goes any further.
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Just because grad schools don't currently engender generalists doesn't mean that they are a bad thing or less important. It's just harder to measure how accomplished and brilliant a generalist is than it is to measure the contribution of a researcher that has made significant progress in a specific area. Generalism is only really well rewarded when it produces an unexpected solution to or progress toward a solution of an open problem.