nrivadeneira

Your last comment about unpaid internships being an attempt to keep lower class people out of the industry seems pretty tinfoil-hat-ish. It's a much more logical conclusion that companies want to save money by not paying interns. They're able to do this outside of STEM because of the lower barrier to entry in these fields and thus larger surplus of potential candidates. Basically, companies do it because they can.

I doubt STEM companies are abnormally altruistic in this sense. If they could get away with it, they would. Unfortunately for STEM, hiring low quality engineers is much higher risk than hiring low quality marketing interns.

Let's be real - if Twitter automatically deleted gibberish as spam, the majority of Tweets from the average Twitter user would be removed.

It's not misleading at all. They specifically said it was a test setup and stated that their aim is to be at around 1ms latency in the next decade. Obviously that means working on the other limiting factors to get there as well. It's not like they'll just try to get the touch response to 1ms and ignore screen refresh rates.

Well, he's answering @bmmayer1's question. It does not do anything, so it is safe to run on your computer.

Myself: http://www.dungeonsanddevelopers.com/#_a2b2cde3hijklm2nopqxy...

This is actually an interesting way to display credentials. You could potentially put this up as supplementary on your LinkedIn profile or something along those lines.

The engineers were made to beg for info on the girl, so they might be getting some satisfaction from keeping a secret from the author in return. I know I would. Give 'em a taste of his own medicine. Also, if it was a relatively simple solution, it's probably more exciting with some mystery overlaying it rather than just explaining it outright.

I've saved that article for reading later and I plan to respond when I've finished. Thanks for the link.

I'll ignore your belittling comment and ask you to clarify what exactly you suppose will be done with the data about my browsing habits. I'll return the sentiment, however, and suggest that maybe you don't grasp that there are people who do understand and are not quite as scared as you. I generally don't live my life in fear, regardless of what dangers loom around the corner, known or unknown. This is the second time you've correlated internet browsing tracking to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. It amazes me that you even use the internet with such enormously exaggerated fears.

I'll go further to suggest that you are unaware that knowledge, intellect, understanding, and the capability to grasp these concepts is in no way correlated with susceptibility to fear and worry.

Wow....you just took web analytics and tracking and somehow morphed it into the holocaust. That's probably the biggest slippery slope argument I've ever seen in my life.

As i mentioned to another commentor, I don't think we should encapsulate everyone under the same policies nor do I think everyone should feel the same. I believe it's OK for people to want a lot of privacy. However, through this whole NSA discussion, I've seen a large amount of discussion on HN basically saying that anyone who doesn't desire a high level of privacy is wrong or ignorant. That's certainly what Zuider's comment about the possibility of me saying "I'm not doing anything wrong..." asserts. I think it's more ignorant to believe that everyone needs to have the same values and beliefs as you regarding privacy.

I don't think I said anything about global disregard. I asked why I should personally care. It seems like there are a lot of people trying to tell me I should care, but I did not once say that others should not care.

And if I am? Everyone has varying degrees of privacy preference. Who's to say that any end of the spectrum is wrong or right? Mine just happens to fall on the more liberal end.

1) I don't agree with this. If I walk into (or around) a Best Buy and they capture my movement on a security camera, are they stealing from me? Technically, they are recording data of my movement. Also, stealing generally infers that the victim is left without the stolen item. That's why we don't call piracy stealing. So, if anything, trackers are 'pirating' my browsing information and possibly reselling it. Truthfully, I wasn't doing anything with that information before, so my life hasn't changed for better or worse because of this. No proof of bad thing here.

2) It is a useful standard. I avoid being nit-picky about the little things, and so I like to make a distinction between things that are worth worrying about. If ~$273 is taken from my bank account over my entire lifetime (based on average lifetime), I'm really not going to worry about it. If data tracking is on the same side of the distinction as taking 1 cent from my bank account, I'm fine with that.

I have control of my browsing habits. That's my point - I'm not terribly worried about if companies see what I do, so it doesn't change my behavior. Thus, I don't see how this point shows that tracking makes my life worse.

Does that really occur? If so, then I'd agree that would be a good reason to be against tracking, but I haven't seen hard evidence to show this happens.

I still can't figure out why my browsing data being sold is objectively a bad thing. I don't see how it makes my day-to-day worse in any way. There are plenty of smart people who feel that it's bad, so maybe I'm just missing something, and I'm open to sound logic that convinces me that it's going to make my life worse.

Also, the example they make at the bottom asking the reader to imagine hundreds of people following them around and watching their every move is a bit disingenuous. It's more like a handful of people following millions. At that point in time, you're not much more than a data point.

I'll be honest, I was pretty disappointed by this. Elon is my hero so I was excited to see what he might have come up with, but this doesn't seem like anything that your average hacker couldn't build with the tools he used.

I will say this, despite my disappointment, I'm very happy that Elon continues to push our imaginations and encourage us to believe that fantasy and sci-fi can become reality. As others have said, there are enough schmucks working on more apps (myself included) that it's refreshing to witness someone building something greater.

I think the close-up of the mouse is to illustrate his point about 2D interaction via mouse.

I wish there was one in NY too. I'm sure there are some enterprising enough among us that can make it happen.

It's disappointing that you think the game is only about software for people under 30. There's so much more to entrepreneurship, but you're blinded by media attention and low hanging fruit.

Regardless of which article is correct (this one or the one it is referencing) in predicting the future of software employment, I think we'd all do well to keep an eye out for the future and be agile and ready enough if a Detroit-like situation does arrive. It should never be taken as a given that we'll always be highly sought after and well paid. With that in mind, I find Baugue's article much more useful considering I've never thought of an article that can be reduced to "Things are great, I don't think anything will change." to be of much help.

The point was made just fine. He said that there is not one definitive compensation class that will be primarily affected. It doesn't seem like you've refuted that.

Kevin Spacey clearly gets it. Rampant piracy is an indication of a failing business model. It's not that people aren't willing to pay, and that's evidenced by the success of Netflix and shows like House of Cards. Same can be said of Steam's game distribution model. Give people what they want, how they want it, at a fair price, and you'll surely be able to make money.

I was referring to linking in the video, but you make a good point about wanting to link to videos made after the fact.

While piggybacking may be an option for garnering initial views, using it for this purpose encourages response spam. Using good 'ol search optimization should really be the first option for content creators looking to get off the ground.

I think more interesting than the HD is the fact that they're dropping H.264 for the open sourced VP8

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-hangouts-upgra...

If the click through rate is 0.0004%, I don't think the power users will care all that much. They're probably not getting any significant source of views from video responses. The more powerful tactic on YouTube seems to be linking to other videos at the end of your video.

It'll be interesting to look back on StackOverflow posts one day to find little gems like this where users are trying to get help on what may become the next Google or Facebook.

I was born, raised, and have lived in the NYC area my entire life and continue to do so to this day. I assure you I'm familiar with the proximity to the event. This is not me trying to pick a fight about my fellow Americans feeling "special". It's me calling you out on your attempt to leverage a very real and significant pain felt by victims and their families for your talking points. When you say "_the_ pain and horror", you are (whether intentional or not) referencing the primary pain felt - that of those directly and most significantly affected by 9/11. In doing so, you dilute the gravity that referencing that pain carries for true victims. It's like a veteran who spent all his time behind a desk claiming that, as a vet, he had gone through horrors during the war, when there were in fact men and women who were on the verge of death on the front lines experiencing actual horror.

In reality, there was no need to use that statement. If your point is valid, it should stand on its own merits without the need for you to attempt to convince through emotion by answering a question that nobody was asking.

Truthfully, I don't see why you'd be significantly more traumatized by this event than any other act of terrorism that happens across the globe unless you lost loved ones. To that end, I don't see why anyone else on this globe should have been any less affected, thus making the point that you happened to be an American at the same time that 9/11 occurred more or less moot.

If the pain is simply an empathy to the innocents who were harmed, I don't see why it should be unique to you as an American and worthy of pointing out and using as leverage. I'm not in a position to tell you or anyone else how they should feel...I just don't really understand the rationale.

You want to know how to make a perfect cup of coffee? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just brew naturally.

EDIT: Jeez, downvoters clearly have never read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.