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Yup. If anyone wants to read some high quality Krugman, check out his recent posts on TPP. I think he does a great disservice to his intellect by wading into political economy and his constant partisan mudslinging. I think it's the one thing standing in the way of him taking the baton from Milton Friedman.
If Samsung blocks the Windows 10 "important" nagware patch KB 3035583 that installs autimatically on Windows 7-8.1 (except on PC with Domain/AD) than it's a service to the user.

It replaces the Windows Update dialog with an Windows 10 advertisement and it adds a second start button to the startmenu that lauches an advertisement app. If you click the wrong button it will automatically download Windows 10 in the background - Microsoft's way to not repeat the Vista, Win8 and Win8.1 launch fiascos. To each their own, some also like the Ask toolbar that comes with Flash installer.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2907472/operating-systems/w...
He's not the sole creator. He just managed to sue into submission all of his coauthors.
> Rewriting their app in Haskell gave them an 80% code reduction,

Surely you don't think that's how you measure a startup's success, right?
Yes! I made a graphic of it:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1000932/nuclide-eus.png
Could not disagree more. You get people from all walks of life, half due to tourism and half due to the residents and workers of the area. It just so happens that only a couple blocks from where the author speaks of is the highest concentration of law firms in the Las Vegas area. So you're got homeless people, service industry people, lawyers, startup guys, and tourists of all walks of life all mingling in the same area.

In fact, since Downtown/Fremont is by all measures a cheaper tourism area than The Strip, the diversity even in all the people just hanging out patronizing the businesses, hotels, and restaurants in the area is much higher than your typical tourist area.

I have no complaints. On any given walk from work to lunch in Downtown/Fremont, I can rub shoulders with poverty, the upper class, and everything in between. Half the people are on vacation and love to talk to you, the other half are people who winded up there in the first place specifically BECAUSE they're most likely from a unique mindset compared to most other Americans.

If you're looking for consistency and seeing the same thing day in and day out, Downtown LV is not the place.
The factory workers are as unlikely to be "out of work" as the female population post-the power loom replacing their daily work as thread spinners. Manufacturing is already moving out of China and into cheaper countries.

No economy is truly a zero sum game and China is no different. In 2 generations - even if there are some troubled waters in between - these factory workers' children will be white collar workers or even managers of American white collar workers ;)

Post-war Japan was a miserable place with mass starvation, homelessness and unemployment, today it is the third largest GDP in the world with first world standard of living. There was even a bubble complete with massive foreign investment (remember what the building in Die Hard was called?) with a 95% drop in property prices in between then and now. China is currently where Japan was in the 1960s, and back then it looked pretty much the same.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, while I own much of my career to SO for the transfer of esoteric computer knowledge to the public domain, official Google resources haven't done much for me.

Indeed, most of the useful information about Google tools come from SO!
Normally, you'd expect a major hardware vendor and a major software vendor to be talking enough to avoid such problems.
Does this indicate that Microsoft and Samsung are not getting along? That's quite possible, since they compete in tablets now.
Anyways, congrats to him for coming home sound of mind and doing something he's happy doing. I would like to find my happy place one day.
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Another approach: http://ortask.com/a-better-way-to-hire-developers-and-tester...
Heh, I wrote one of these recently, except mine's in go: https://github.com/natefinch/diceware
> Can you please list a few of the biggest reasons why?

The main problem is the difficulty to hire Haskell programmers. Recruiting is crucial to a startup's success.

Then there's the entire ecosystem surrounding Haskell, which is still old and antiquated (looking at you Cabal) and moving very slowly (interfacing to NoSQL or AWS, etc...).

Finally, the very high bar to just learn how to correctly program in Haskell puts it out of reach of 99% of the developer community.
two words: survivorship bias
Same reason they moved IO drivers to the kernel for NT 4.0, I'd guess. It was another time. Look at the WMF format, which is essentially just calls to GDI.
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Saudis make outsized profits because they can export their oil around the world. Although they will be very efficient at producing power from the sun, I doubt it will be enough to counteract losses from electricity transmission. Cheap power for themselves and close neighbors will not translate into world-beating wealth.
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It gives lonely people a chance to build professional credibility. Why the hate? Is it really that different from a software company requiring you to learn the latest technologies in your free time?
So, supposedly these guidelines looked out for your health, but given that so many of their "findings" have been overturned, then they've basically been giving advice that actually hindered peoples' health, and so one might understand that they've actually been harmful!

This might lead one to question the validity of other government suggestions. Or even policies. Maybe that's too far. Nonetheless, I think this raises serious questions as to how much faith we can put even into the government, even their "scientific" findings.
My original UP24 was broken out of the box, and my coworker's UP3 also broke two weeks ago - and then their UP app broke last week with a new UP3. At this point, I've seen a lot of anecdotal evidence for worrying about Jawbone's long-term reliablity.

That quote is perfect. I didn't realize how much I began depending on and caring about those metrics until they were gone.

I think I'm going to approach this as an opportunity to become more comfortable with what my body is feeling and doing, then relying on data. Not that the data is inherently bad - I'm worried that I'm beginning to replace the intrinsic connection I should have between my consciousness and body with that UP24.
Adware vs Malware is an important distinction. No one here is claiming Microsoft are saints but what Samsung is doing (if true) is at best Lenovo level malicious negligence.
What stimulus? According to Krugman, fiscal policy in the US fell far short. In fact he classifies temporary decreases in spending -growth- as austerity. Frankly most developed economies have thrown the kitchen sink at their problems to the extent that its near impossible to disentangle policies that coherently resemble either strategy. That makes analysis difficult, but also means all the economics bloggers blog about how right they were. Such is the dismal science.
"This is clearly unsustainable. After all, there eventually has to be a return on all those investments. Factories have to produce goods that are profitably sold. "

Nope. In China loans go bad all the time and the government prints up some money to buy and resell the debt at a discount and things keep moving right along. They have a different system In China. This is so hard for anybody in America to get since economics is taught as if it's the physical structure of the world when it's really just a game with a bunch of rules that structure the society in a certain way.
Your viewpoint would be quite acceptable in liberal US politics if you would just replace "America" with "Israel" and "North-Western European" with "Jewish".
Yep, similar experience. Some promos on my account expired and the cheapest solution was to add a Basic bundle. My bill only increased $5 vs $15. They are such extortionists about it too...no internet only deals whatsoever.

I'd love to see their training on selling in bundles.

Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to switch to their competitor Sonic (Bay Area), similar speed isn't even offered let alone comparable.

Please Sonic, bring me 100-150Mb speeds for $70/mo and steal all of Comcast's business!
What makes someone a good engineer? Who would have thought that Larry Page or Sergey Brin were simply magical engineers BEFORE they devised Google Search and created nearly half a trillion dollars in value? In my impression, you will only know when it is too late already, because at that point they no longer need you.
One historical factor is that they have a high reliance on foreign workers in highly skilled industries. This talent comes and goes. This can't be changed overnight, and the education system does have a strong religious component that is likely not going away. I've also read that culture impedes the receptiveness of young men to education.

Another factor is that crude oil travels better. Some of the more lucrative products have a limited shelf life. Gasoline's life is measured in months.
It was a bunch of individuals, not companies, that went along. A few of us were at startups too, but most of the people who went along were students.

Outcomes - one guy from the trip is now in Paris at the NUMA accelerator, a few people got jobs at local startups, a few got more corporate jobs, some are still studying, some are still doing their startups, and some I haven't seen since we got back. Queensland's a big place so it's hard to get everyone in the same room.
"Now you are just sounding entitled. You aren't entitled to any of those things and there are plenty of people in Silicon Valley that are qualified and willing to take the job (which is why you had trouble)."

If the company truly values diversity, it will remove barriers that disproportionately affect minority groups. The author is just pointing out that a company cannot claim to value diversity while simultaneously making it nearly impossible for a minority to work there.

This also applies to the perks that companies offer. Consider a free cafeteria. How could a parent possibly take advantage of free dinner at work? All of these policies and perks that are targeted at a specific demographic make the workforce less diverse.

"If you want to compete with them, you will need to move there."

I'd like to know how someone with no resources could just move to Silicon Valley as if they were walking across the street. Silicon Valley is expensive. Saving up for a ticket and a few months' rent in Silicon Valley would take years for many people. Companies that are insensitive to this fact will end up with a workforce disproportionately containing children of wealthy, connected people.

The issues the author faces are mostly due to statistical discrimination of various forms[1]. In particular, information about candidates is expensive and employers don't want to make bad hires. A candidate who comes from a group that has more variance in ability or a lower average ability is more expensive to evaluate because the company needs more information about the individual to narrow their risk to an acceptable level. If the company is only willing to expend a certain amount of effort evaluating candidates, those without the information boost of coming from a well-known low-risk group will be rejected as too risky.

Not that it's a company's moral duty to shoulder the costs of making hiring decisions solely on the basis of ability, but if a company claims to value diversity it is lying unless it shoulders at least some of those costs.

[1] See "Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey" section 2.2.1 at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hfang/publication/moro/final.pdf
I suppose 'wasteful' isn't descriptive enough. What I was thinking was something like, 'a big glob of money generally earmarked for boosting the economy and other do-goodery'.

Sure 500bln is a delicious shot in the arm, even if most of it is 'wasted' on the cronies. I can't predict what will trigger inflation, hyper- or otherwise, in this distorted economy. All I want to know is, just when exactly can I expect the payoff? Will there be growth or recovery such that the debt holders are paid back? No? Never can expect it, realistically? Ok, let's cut it out with the stimulus then, because I'm sick of bailouts and blatant cronyism.
What does "lifting the ban" mean? What is currently banned?
Everyone already stated what I was going to say more thorougly.

Ohio Private School != Silicon Valley
> non-reciprocal love

Very true... same thing happened to me in Thailand -- 16 years there and finally got tired of the government's xenophobia and relentless efforts to push foreigners out of the country.

I am an American citizen, and the more I think of it, that is one reason I left America too....

Best to embrace a personal identity as an expat. It's a tribe or sorts, but it's more a state of mind. You lived in America as an immigrant. Live there as an expat, the attitude will free you, safe in the knowledge that if things really get bad, you can always find another place that /will/ love you... until they don't :)
I don't understand, why is Samsung pulling stunts like this all the time? It would make sense if they were trying to get up the ladder but they are already there, they hold an unquestionably large market share of Android. Things like these won't do any good in the long run but only prompt consumers to actively avoid the brand.

Some of the things that really surprises me:

[1] http://gizmodo.com/samsung-rigged-the-s4-to-unnaturally-perf...

[2] http://www.neowin.net/news/samsungs-gamepad-is-a-microsoft-l...

[3] http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/09/technology/security/samsung-...
nothing is going to change, not anytime soon. At a minimum, this generation of immigrants is doomed.
Stimulus compared to what others wanted. Indeed since 2010 we've been cutting lots of domestic spending but you wouldn't know that watching TV talk about socialism, so people have been calling for crazier cuts while predicting doom. They've consistently been very very wrong and had no accountability for it.
The biggest attack vector I see here is embedded fonts; perhaps allowing browsers to download and use embedded fonts should be restricted to trusted sites too, since some font formats do contain an embedded Turing-complete language. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "web-safe fonts"...
For the record, while I am a senior developer, I only have ~3 years of experience and had no problem finding a position in SF with full relocation from Alabama (shameless plug, we're still hiring). My point being, don't count yourself out just because you live across the country. Also, I went through Hired.com and it was a really great experience overall (I'd say the same even if I hadn't been placed, they have a truly top-notch platform there). Recommended especially for devs looking to apply in major cities that they may not live in.
ESET execute malicious code even if I don't click on things. It doesn't take a lot of resources on my machine though, and I like the UI. Pretty good product.
Most vendors I've dealt with have their drivers certified with Microsoft's WHQL program and pushed out automatically through Windows update. I'm not sure why Samsung couldn't have done it this way.
This is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. First off, the form. I did not appreciate the fact that hitting the down arrow on the keyboard made me scroll right, and the right arrow did nothing. I'm amazed by people that go to great technical lengths to fuck up scrolling. My browser works fine by default, stop doing shit to break it.

Second, I can't even find the point of this article other than like, Paul Krugman wins at something and they have illustrated this by showing him punching people? Is that really the standard now? Jesus Christ. Even before this I thought Paul Krugman was generally an idiot, and while I don't know if he endorsed this nonsense, it doesn't help my opinion of him.

Third, the animated gifs made this unfucking readable. Even if I wanted to focus on the light weight content, I couldn't, because there's this goddamn gif blinking in the corner of my eye every three seconds. If you're making me queue up an ad blocker to block a thing that's not even an ad, you've failed at web design.
You already got the payoff, look at some charts of gdp and employment figures from 2008-2012. The downward slide was stopped and the slow recovery started, exactly the opposite of what the naysayers predicted.

In other words there was a huge change in the derivative of those rates, downward change flattened and bent upwards.
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Online Resources for Byte Code VMs
Recently there have been a lot of post on HN like
"How to write a VM in C/Python/etc".
Unfortunately they all seem to stop after implementing integer arithmetic which is the easiest part since you can load them directly into a register or put them on the stack.
At the moment I'm struggling witth how to handle strings. I'm looking for something a little more in depth but digestible enough for a weekend project.
The keyword there is "white-collar" jobs. What parent was talking about includes other jobs.
Maybe it's just personal but when I respond a question in SO I feel I am giving back to the community... This feels more like giving it to Google.

Google already monetize their service by making me see ads(which is fair). SO monetize their service by showing me employment opportunities (which to me is better). Google model doesn't need the community to work... The entire SO model is a paying forward knowledge transfer.

So... At least to they it is not the same thing.
Its because they have lots of sun. what the hell kind of title is that? Might as well have been titles "Why are people utilizing the natural resources that are abundantly available to them?" OMFg. "Read more after the jump" dude are you fucking serious. Unreal.
Regarding quantitative easing, I would actually assign support for pursuing to the pro-austerity camp as it devalued the dollar and caused the average consumer's purchasing parity to decrease. It was austerity applied to the population at large to solve the problems caused by only a fractional portion of the population in the US.
Maybe they will follow the lead of the US and create more positions in things like HR, Insurance Sales and Law. Or an ever expanding cadre of mid-level managers with the main job of playing politics against each other. If this isn't enough to attain full employment, they can then create a large number of professional meeting attender positions and mandate companies hold many more meetings.
I'm fed up with these hardware vendors incessantly messing with software. Why doesn't Microsoft tighten up its OEM licensing terms to put an end to this kind of thing?
Great title. Terrible read.
In an article claiming that finding candidates is harder than filtering candidates, her first point ends by saying "hey, you could just crawl all the job sites for people who work for Google/Facebook and went to MIT". How no one gets the implication there is beyond me, but reading further just reinforces it.

Secondly, if it's a structural issue, creating a new startup based around technical-recruiting is absurdly pointless. If it's structural, your startup is going to accomplish _absolutely nothing_, because it's just going to keep sending in safe candidates, in favor of qualified candidates.
The body/mind they expected to be able to rent out has literally no value as an asset.

Agreed. I wonder if the concept of job makes sense anymore.
I'm sorry you were born that way.
Microsoft owns Windows. Licenses it to OEMs. If Microsoft didn't have a problem with OEM's disabling Windows Update, then then would have prohibited it in their license agreement.
It's absolutely not the culture and legal/political process. And occasionally Americans do seem to kill their neighbours for having the wrong religion or skin colour.

It's almost entirely money/opportunity. That drives everything.
Erm... I think asset price inflation actually did happen. With stock prices (which anti-austerity economists say are "fair" in that you cannot expect P/Es around 15 under ZIRP, so get used to 20) the result is wealth redistribution from the majority of the population to the richest people, but since rich people don't typically increase consumption that much as a result of extra wealth, this does not affect things like food prices. However, housing, which is also one of the kinds of assets the rich buy as an investment (rather than to "consume" it/live there), had its prices increase around the world as well, which I think hurts most people really bad.

Another big issue is all the stuff that got financed that normally couldn't be financed, with investors everywhere willing to buy junk bonds and any imaginable kind of stock. How that works out remains to be seen.

(Personally I don't have a firm opinion on stimulus/austerity, apart from it being a far from obvious issue - that I believe rather firmly.)
Yet, Microsoft is responsible for allowing such software to run in the background with no notification or authorization by the user or means to disable it.
I think the most simple explanation is that they can get away with it without substantial backlash.
However beware the anointed authority; Greenspan was certainly that, and he denied the recession was coming, was already underway, and to this day has only grudgingly admitted that it happened. Krugman, among others, saw the danger early and tried to warn us.
Yeah, it's entirely unreadable, but I suspect for the target audience reading is not the point.
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I would humbly submit it's possible to do both. While I don't believe at the present time (pending work samples to the contrary) that the author has a valid point about his experience being based largely on his race, I do believe that SV has both a diversity problem (that it will take quite a long time to solve) and an image problem (that will take even longer). It may not even necessarily be that people in the the Valley are "racist" - it may be that, being from a different racial background, he might not actually make a very good culture fit at some companies. He didn't mention which companies he applied for - if he applied at a bunch of <=10 person startups, his background may not fit the team as well as an autodidact-brogrammer.
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Interesting article, but the first graph is one of the most blatantly misleading charts I have seen in a long time. Showing two graphs overlapping on completely different scales is a really nasty trick.
I'm sorry that gnu had to be born that way. To save the mothership.
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No it's because they have a radical ideology!
I went back and read the whole thing, still could have stopped after the first point, everything else is just a supporting argument.

However I've read posts where you disagree with the same exact sentiment: credentials don't tell even the majority of the story of whether someone is qualified.
Agility matters, and code size pushes against that.

That said, the other bits are clearly more important: improved customer satisfaction and lower costs have much to do with startup success/failure.