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Literature Review Samples with High Quality will be Useful Prompts in Writing
Let’s try to explain what a literature review is and present some literature review samples. You should know that a literature review discusses some information on a particular topic. It can be simply kind of a review of the definite sources, but as a rule it combines both review and synthesis
I use the webdev toolbar addon for this: Information > Display Anchors.
I agree with your analysis for the most part. Except that much of the founding documentation/policy does not include religious imagery; and given the context (as you point out) that seems fairly deliberate.
Disagree. Your wife is an investor and there are legal and emotional issues to consider, but they otherwise aren't remotely like a co-founder.
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If you’re not in a group, you better have a plan.
I am maintaining "code" written by person who was given this kind of book and told to build ERP. (This person don't have any previous knowledge on programming, mathematics or even computers)

10 years later it is worst than your nightmares.
Far, far more likely that you are. And I'm guessing a very baked Boltzmann brain.
You give up the right to drive 65 miles per hour on a public highway. If own a large enough tract of pavement, you can drive as fast as you want on it.
very nicely focused on the tech space. attractive, will use :)
Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with little experience

Very few people, regardless of how long they've been driving, ever get experience with uncontrolled sudden acceleration.
This is your site with Javascript disabled: http://i.imgur.com/x7TEK.jpg
It was intended as a compliment. PkD was rather a counter culture figure and was 'less than impressed' with Hollywood's attempts at his (or any other) book.

When he saw Ridley Scotts's work on the visuals of Blade runner he was amazed. Remember before this, and Scott's Alien most SF films consisted of putting the star in spandex and drapping the set with some tin foil.

This is especially gracious since Blade Runner takes one tiny part of a complex themed book and turns it into little more than a cop chase.
He might have been less impressed with some of the later recreations of his books.
point taken - ive removed it.

also, this isnt a "business" site -- this is a side project that i was hoping other techy people would find useful.

i do appreciate the feedback!
It sounds like technology's the only thing that's changed since I was in school. The adults are still paranoid as hell.
I seriously doubt that. Take a look at countries where there is a war in just a small part of it. Like congo, for example. People still stay there, even though they are basically free to move anywhere they want in the entire country.

Even if it were allowed, many people would not move.
On a social site: active users (defined as having visited the site in the past week).

ps: we are building a business dashboard soon, looked around and couldn't find anything. We'd want (for multiple products), on one page:

- traffic

- revenue

- new subscribers/members

with some kind of historic info, data coming in from analtyics and custom rss feeds or something
I prefer to send the page to the index before loading dynamic content. Imagine two scenarios:

I send a link to a friend saying "check out the kittens": <example.com/product/pr0n#/product/kittens> My friend ends up on a completely different page and there is no explaination as to why the page is wrong. Secondly, the URL leaked information about my browsing history. Finally, Google page rank goes to /produces/pr0n rather than the cute kittens.

If the URL is <example.com/#/product/kittens> then my friend sees the homepage rather than the correct product page. At least they'll know they're on the right site and can easily search for the correct page manually. Google page rank goes to the homepage rather than some arbitrary page.
But once they locate that, why would they want to pay $10 month? After they have gone through the process of cutting down their $10,000 energy bill, what will they save with an additional $120/year? I think you might have some ideas around that, but you need a good story.
I prefer a frosty mug and a tap
I really don't get all the hate.

Speaking, at least, for myself, it's not hate so much as that I think you're mistaken. Your position appears not to have been fully thought out, based on your explanation or lack thereof.

The fact that child abuse by educators is rare is no reason

At the risk of seeming like I'm quibbling over semantics, of course it's a reason. It just may not be a reason you find adequate.

not to do something relatively simple (like a criminal check) to reduce its incidence.

Herein lie two fallacies.

The first is that criminal checks are simple. An earlier commentor points out some potential complexities. Saying they're relatively simple begs the question of simplicity. They're most certainly not simple relative to doing nothing beforehand.

The second, in my mind far more significant, fallacy is that doing "something" will reduce the incidence of the rare event. If the event is rare enough, we may not be able to reach any rational conclusions for lack of statistically significant sample size, let alone controlling for confounding factors.

Lots of things are rare - liver cancer; plane crashes due to mechanical failure; Rackspace losing a whole data center, twice; I don't get the whole "pshaw, it's rare, no worries" attitude.

I think you misinterpret as "no worries" the actual attitude of "I have better things to worry about."

Far more importantly, I my efforts (not just worries) are far better focused on something more frequent or at least on something where those efforts will clearly make a difference.

Otherwise, it's a shameful waste of time.
Larger exposition. This has been on the most emailed in nytimes for at least a day now so a lot of you may have already seen it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11schmidt.html

There are certainly reasons to be skeptical. In addition to age, consider for example the fact that it tends to be highly correlated with automatics vs manuals.
Just FYI: this is what it looks like in Firefox with NoScript: http://i.imgur.com/b85b2.png. Javascript can be required for a site, but usually layout is built so it looks ok without it.
Agh - I assume the only people that disable Javascript anymore are developers that know what theyre doing.

im trying to rationalize not fixing this - can i get some help? maybe i should put that as a Question on the site ;)
In regards to "Goodbye to Back/Forward buttons", while the author is correct that browsers don't offer a good API to observe the back and forward buttons being invoked, there are at least two workarounds. One way is to poll window.location.hash via setInterval or whatnot. Another has something to do with a hidden iframe which can observe the back and forward buttons.

For example, SproutCore's routing system uses the first technique: http://docs.sproutcore.com/symbols/SC.routes.html

From the observer, the developer can then ensure the web app is in a state consistent with the hash part of the url, enabling the user to use the back and forward buttons within the app.
"Later, the voting records were checked to determine the proportion of people receiving each type of call who actually voted."

Wait a minute. People who have nothing to do with running an election are able to check to see if you voted?

I thought part of "secret ballot" included that it's a secret whether you voted or not. I always assumed that no one outside election officials had access to this bit.

I was wrong?
My longtime gf and I co-own our business. I run the technical side, she runs the business side. It works well, but you definitely need a strong relationship for it to work.

Also, since I do business in China and I'm a white foreigner, her presence as a native mainlander is absolutely essential. I have yet to meet a successful foreign entrepreneur here who does not have a native romantic+business partner helping him/her.
And another successful adaptation to film (IMHO).
The founders of SixApart (TypePad, Vox, etc.) are married. She originally did the design, he wrote the code. They're still married.
I think we're dancing around the fundamentals: Capitalism vs. Socialism. Yes, socialism is about social contracts at the expense of greatly reduced freedom for business owners and also career-builders. Freedom = Risk. Potential for creating wealth and new markets come from Free economies. Great inventions do not come from people toiling in "full-time pensionable positions". Like you say, in order to truly grow they need to break out of that world and come to a place that allows their entrepreneurial skills to grow.

Wooden buildings are a problem? With regard to the rest of your complaints -- keep in mind it's a compliment to a superpower to blame all the world's ills on it. For such a small population we sure do rule it, eh?
Apple sees 98% iPhone growth as Microsoft, Google prepare for battle
Ask HN: Do site specific browsers violate Terms of Service? 
I've built a site specific browser app on the Accelerator Titanium platform for craigslist. Ti is free and easy with it's ajax requests which allows me to grab CL content, rearrange it and present it as kind of a CL feed reader on steroids. That said, I'm trying to be a kind as I can with the requests I'm making to CL.

I know CL has shut down plenty of websites that attempted to profit off it's interface shortcomings. Do you think I can expect selling an app based on their site to be any different?

My fallback plan is to consume only their RSS feeds vs. scraping the site. I'm assume that's easily above board?
I watched this at Ignite London 2. My presentation was two slots earlier (about Exobrain Power), but I thought this presentation really was worth sharing.

A really well made, insightful and relevant point.
yup - think its a problem with the jquery slider plugin im using. ill go back and see if i can fix that up with some CSS.
I the case of the runaway Toyota cars in the news currently, the reports from people are that they do NOT stop with the break engaged. In fact, the recent incident under investigation in California involved the car at a speed of 90 mph until the emergency break was applied decreasing it to 50 mph.
For the neutral part, I haven't seen a clear answer. I've heard rumors that the Toyotas either couldn't shift into neutral or the person was too panicked to do so.
Twitter Isn't What You Think It Is
Dan Rosensweig on Becoming CEO of Chegg — and How He Feels about Yahoo Today
I am from Kerala. This is after a quick googling, but by world standards, we still have some way to go.

From the article:

> It has the highest per capita consumption - over eight litres (1.76 gallons) per person a year - in the nation

Here are the figures worldwide from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_co...

Britons, for e.g., down 11.8 litres/year/person.
trying to steal? what? edit: my point is that telling the people you're trying to convince that they are somehow stealing, is not helping our cause.
If they want to make the window controls like the window controls on Mac OS X, I'm fine with that. (I use Mac OS X a lot anyway, and am already comfortable with controls on the left side of the window.) They should at least get it right, however, with the close button on the far left of the title bar, and the minimize and expand buttons to the right of that button.

It looks to me like they just moved the right hand centric window controls to the left, which is terrible ergonomics and design.
Here's the thing: immigration is something that is waaaay out of your control as a founder. It doesn't matter how clever you are, if some snooty clerk decides that they don't like you, you're done for, your dream is going to die.

I personally think that start-ups are already hard enough without having to contend with gratuitous bureaucratic roadblocks. You would be better off founding your company in your own country (assuming that we are talking about people from modern Western or Asian countries). Putting your dream at the mercy of bureaucrats is a recipe for disaster.

This is a little bit of a cry from the heart. The dramas I had, as an Australian wanting to work in France were just unbelievable - clerks that flatout refused to apply the rules, disintrested bosses, ridiculous catch-27 style rules in the first place, it was almost impossible to get a work visa, even as an engineer with more than 10 years experience. I even had to spend 6 months shuttling backwards and forward between London and Paris every week for 6 months whilst fighting the bureaucracy. And, as if the rest wasn't bad enough, the only way that I eventually got my paperwork approved was to get the personal support of the mayor of Paris. As an interesting aside, once I got passed the roadblock clerk, and passed up to the next stage where they deal with 'special' cases, the clerk couldn't understand why my application hadn't been approved straight-away.

Anyway, start-ups don't need distractions of that size.
Day 21.001: Fade out of existence because you forgot -- despite your years of physics training -- that killing your younger self is a time paradox.
I think there's a lot of space in this area for time to be factored in.

Some of the questions on there already are really moving targets... the answer changes as the market reacts.

An example might be "What netbook should I get?" and with the amount on the market what was once a no-brainer (Samsung NC10) changes (HP Mini 210).

So you have this staleness factor that will creep in and reduce the value of the whole site as people will learn to distrust the answers.

If you could somehow factor in time it would be a real benefit.

And I don't mean "Sort by time"... because then if you have a stack of "What iPod should I get?" you'll be encouraging frequent duplication from people who want a current answer.

Maybe consider actually showing when the votes were placed so that over time you could show how the target moved.
The Machine Learning Algorithm with Capital A
Well, there would be several schools in terms of time travel (mutable/immutable timelines).
I mean wow, just wow, I would love to hear the rationale for such a boneheaded decision.

Thank god whoever makes this decision doesn't work for a car company, or we'd see next year's model with reversed gas and brake pedals.
Sure it does, and it's actually easy to demonstrate. :) That's the power of limiting yourself to a regular language.

I started typing out psuedo-code, but it's easier to be informal. Consider:

- It's easy to prove that one terminal (character, char-range, etc) is a subset of another.

- It's easy to prove that a sequence of terminals is a subset of another.

- If there's a disjunction, you just need to prove both branches. If the disjunction is on the "less-than" side, check both branches with AND; if it's on the "greater-than" side, check with OR -- this is because `(A|B) > A` and `(A|B) > B`, but `C > (A|B)` iff `C > A` and `C > B`.

- For non-recursive nonterminals, just expand them as they're encountered.

- Which only leaves recursion, which is surprisingly easy to deal with as well: If you're trying to prove `A > B`, it amounts to expanding A and B into their right-hand sides and proving those; at some point due to recursion you'll need to prove `A > B` again -- which seems tricky!

However, recursion can only happen in a limited manner in a regular language. Being very handwavy because explaining it this way seems most intuitive to me: Recursion can only happen in 'tail' position in a regular language. Thus, by the time you encounter `A > B` for the second time, it happens to be the very last thing which needs to be demonstrated in order for `A > B` to be true -- you've already checked, as it were, one full round of the repetition/looping. Thus the rule is easy: if you encounter `A > B` for a second time, you can just accept it as true!

Hopefully that makes sense.

Edit for the fun of it (n.b. that I'm using `>` instead of `>=` out of laziness):

prove(A > B) ->
if seen(A > B): True
else: add_to_seen(A > B); prove(rhs(A) > rhs(B))
prove(xA > yB) -> prove_terminal(x > y) && prove(A > B)
prove( A|B > C ) -> prove(A > C) || prove(B > C)
prove( C > A|B ) -> prove(C > A) && prove(C > B)
That book sounds fascinating. Politicians have such a manicured image that it can be hard to tell what they're really like. Even things that seem normal (going bowling, ordering food, having a beer) are designed to appeal to voters. Anyone that has such a level of cynicism is at least a little bit crazy.
J.G. Ballard makes the same point, in the opposite direction: if we can't have both modern comforts and our hearts' desires, we may eventually give up on what we have in favor of what we want -- and may even be right to do so.

There will always be some who do. G.K. Chesterton spoke of the "rational and deliberate preference which will always to the end trouble the peace of the world, the rational and deliberate preference for a short life and a merry one." (_Napoleon of Notting Hill_, chapter 8.)

Theodore Dalrymple found that preference in many of the English homeless; he was surprised to find that homeless wandering "is not without its compensations," and sounds like he was half-convinced to turn vagrant himself -- but read the article, http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_4_oh_to_be.html. Dalrymple also detects this preference for adventure over security in some of the English underclass... and, more worrisomely, Chesterton -- who knew of what he spoke -- detected it in the Nazis.

In other words: if we value our prosperity and idleness -- or even if we value simpler, more obvious ideals like "not torturing" and "not trying to exterminate the Jews" -- we should probably do something to make life a little less dull for those who prefer something else over dullness.

I don't support Ballard's methods, to say the least (read a book or two of his and you'll see why not); but perhaps permitting Americans to fight as mercenaries abroad, and relaxing our self-defense laws at home, might be a good first step? Or making the military a better-paying and less bureaucratic place?
Directional speakers could be cool for this purpose. Like the ones used in theme parks where only people in the spotlight can hear. Would be nice to say thanks to a polite driver as if they were next to you. But sadly this could be abused. Examples left up to reader.
"they've never actually had to work for a living."

So let's see... of the main contenders in 2008, John McCain served in the military and worked in public relations for a beer distributor, Obama was a community organizer and lawyer, Edwards was a lawyer, Clinton was a law professor and administrator, and Palin was a sports reporter.

Those all sound like jobs to me. And I'll go even further and say senator and governor sound like perfectly valid full-time jobs.

I'm also willing to bet politicians who stump have contact with a far wider range of people than almost anyone else. How many Iowa steak frys and ag fairs have you attended lately?
if the goal is to not allow easy opt-out, perhaps the first one is well designed.
This gave me chills when I saw this. It's like something out of Ghost in the Shell.
The book is full of great anecdotes and makes for really entertaining reading if you followed the 2008 election with any interest.
I think everyone is taking the title a little too literally. The "24 hours" gimmick is just a way of constraining the information into discrete concepts. Once you know 24 facets of a language, you are certainly qualified to start testing out the language. Is there anyone who really thinks that by reading any number of books on a topic you could consider yourself an expert?
buro - I was actually thinking about putting in a warning based on the age of a question.

I had thought about how to display votes based with various weights.. i think weighting by vote "newness" may be very interesting way to go about it.
Johnson! Develop an email opt out page immediately!

Sir! Yes, Sir!

Oh, and Johnson?

Sir?

As you know our organization rides itself on our customer service and ability to extend customer relationships. Therefore, Marketing will be using analytics to measure customer retention. If your page does not meet their target of 87% retention, you will be terminated.
The big problem lies in "volunteering". People mostly don't volunteer. They just don't understand. Writing something on my web site or here, is volunteering. It is public and I know it. Insulting my boss in my Facebook wall, imagining that only my friends will know it, then getting fired over that is not volunteering. It's lacking a clue.

And I'm only talking about information I explicitly put there. I didn't talk about what could be inferred from that, which can be quite a lot. Even more so when this information is centralized so it can be compared to the other users'.

> Can anyone think of a case where someone's life was significantly impacted by the exposure of private information online?

To convince you, I feel I would have to point to a case where someone's live was suddenly impacted. It does happen, but the main impact is probably more subtle, like discriminations (which you can't see) or advertising (which can do a better job influencing you).
Another Phillip K. Dick book turned movie that I enjoyed is 'Impostor' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160399/. When I first saw it I did not know it was written by Dick but could tell after an hour or so of watching that it was. Theme wise it is similar to Bladerunner but with a different plot.
I'm somewhat skeptical of it because it isn't doing any sort of sustained testing. I have commercial internet access to my house (it's faster, I get static IP addresses, I can setup PTR records, I get 24/7 support with same day repair for the same price as residential, I just don't get discounts for bundling services) with 12mbps/2mbps sustained speeds. This test showed me getting 30mbps/5mbps, but it only ran for a few seconds, so it was only measuring my burst speeds.
Your site should never look like this with JavaScript turned off: and I LOVE JavaScript. What on earth are you doing that the raw html/css looks like this?
I've always had the suspicion that anyone who would actually be an excellent president would have too much integrity to do that which it takes to get elected as president.
It's a weakness of all centralized software construction mechanisms that change chosen by a handful of people can end up thrust unwillingly on large crowds. It's not like casual users can fork Ubuntu simply because they dislike the window layout.

But there are some pathologies that seem endemic to open source. A revealing comment by one of the bug shepherds on the relevant bug[1] says "Change is always good , if there is a good reason to change". I think this is plainly false: change doesn't just need good reasons, it needs excellent reasons, because change by itself has such high costs.

Open source is often too open to change for its own sake, and often lacks consideration for the maintenance costs of new functionality. To take the on-topic example of OS changes, it was viable for XP users to completely skip Vista, and continue to use the old OS, over a period of nearly 10 years, without issues of incompatibility. Try doing the same with a typical Linux distro, and you'll find your apt-get (or equivalent) will pull in all sorts of dependencies that you may or may not desire if you want to use the latest software.

[1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/532633
In this case it's not countries people are moving to so much as cities. The answer is the same as the reason why actors from rich countries (and other parts of the US) want to move to LA.
OS X doesn't suffer from the File Menu/Close Button proximity problem either since the menu bar isn't attached to the window. That proximity alone should be a disqualifier for this new layout.
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