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Write tourism essays that have novel ideas and updated information
A tourism essay can explore many elements of tourism. It can be based on the excitement of seeing a country for the first time or the environmental damage which tourism can cause to a country. Whichever way you wish to write your essay you should make it interesting and comprehensive to the reader.
USA is a smaller team than Slovenia? Brazil is a smaller team than Ivory Coast?

Your conspiracy theory, actually, is much better suited to the NBA, which has always seemed fixed in favor of large-market teams.
so, at the risk of sounding facetious it's like hosted scaffolding?
Fistfights aren't just tolerated in hockey, they are half the reason anyone watches the game...
I want to work in a company which (or "Yet another random business rant")
I think I get the idea but I wouldn't trust any critical information (esp. user info) with a 3rd party, at least other than my host. If this product is supposed to be like Wufoo that's fine, but if it's meant to replace the primary database used in your web application then I don't think this is viable. I'm sure latency will be an issue, as well as security and privacy.
Most top NBA and NFL players are fucking huge, because those sports reward gigantism. Soccer doesn't, with the slight exception of the goalkeeper, because even when the height or size of a Peter Crouch or Per Mertesacker gives you an advantage, being able to run circles around Per Mertesacker or get your defense behind Peter Crouch somewhat mitigates it.
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I've just been through exactly what you've described. I'd weighed about 88 kg for 15 yrs. Before that I'd dieted sometimes with low fat diets but they never worked: I always ended up binging on cheese sandwiches! So for 15 yrs, I ate whatever I wanted (except for sweets) and sat on 88 kgs (BMI 32= obese).

Then I moved to China a few years ago, and late last year heard about the Chinese proverb: "Eat heaps for breakfast, eat enough for lunch, and eat little for dinner". This was news to me because all my life I thought I had to eat dinner every day. So I started following that rule, still eating the same food I always did, including heaps of eggs for breakfast. I also started keeping absolutely no food in my apartment, apart for milk for coffee, and instead ate out for every meal. In China there's always many restaurants a short walk from one's home.

Winter arrived, with the cold, some snow, and occasional rain, and I started skipping dinners because I was too lazy to go out, and dinners were now just snacks. After a few weeks, I noticed I weren't ever hungry in the evening. Even when I ate lunch when the restaurants opened at 11:00am, then nothing else for the rest of the day, I still weren't hungry, as long as I had a big breakfast. After a few months, I noticed I didn't have much fat where there'd been some for at least a decade, so I weighed myself: only 80kg. I've since come down to 75kg (BMI 27), but have sat at that weight for 2 months. I now weigh myself every day because (for some reason :-) I always remember to.

One other thing: I stopped eating white rice with my meals. The restaurants I frequent around here probably think I'm a foreign oddity who pays for two dishes instead of just one with free bowls of rice. I still eat noodles or potatoes every day though.

All this weight loss happened without trying very hard: eating the same fatty food I always did, virtually never eating after lunch, not exercising except for a few long walks every week, and not eating rice with my meals. Just a few simple rules. One thing I've accepted is: If I want to stay at this weight, I'll never be eating after lunch time again, and I can live with that.
Kind of funny really. Once you trust the encryption scheme, the only hope of breaking it would be some unbelievably terrible screw up in the application layer. So if no one claims the prize, they've proven nothing, but if someone does, they've proven themselves worthlessly incompetent.

Not that I think that will happen, just saying.
I'm not a dev, so most of this is over my head. +1 for using Ridonkulous and the design itself looks great.
Library might be bit more convenient for study, but its not a requirement.

Of course fullness of libraries might discourage some students from studying, which in turn affects the statistics.
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Conceiving and caring for five kids has a pretty huge opportunity cost. In addition, her staying home and taking care of the kids meant that he had more time to dedicate to earning money. The conventional wisdom of divorce proceedings is that a mother should be compensated for both that opportunity cost and get a cut for helping her husband free up time to dedicate to work, as well as the actual maintenance costs of raising the kids.
It's a very fair point though. Time not spent studying is not automatically leisure.
I highly recommend this chair ($129) http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/catalogSku.do?id=0363871.

I'm not at the point where a $500 chair is not a big deal. I did a lot of searching before I found this one. Many people reviewed it as being the only sub $500 chair worth having.
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In NYC, World Cup mania is bigger than I've ever seen for any other sporting event, ever. Everyone is watching the games on their computer during work. This seems to be acceptable behavior because all the managers and CEOs are doing it too.
Every bar in the city with TVs is open early for the early games. The "dive bar" by my apartment installed two flat panel TVs just for the Cup and they never had TVs before. I'm not really a soccer fan but I would say if the sport wasn't popular in the USA before, it is now, and will probably become more popular in the future.
Ruby uses a nil type, but due to its flexibility, nil can also respond to messages! Its presence is greatly appreciated, and it's not a NULL in the "This is a pointer to 0x0" sense, but in terms of how you use it, it's functionally equivalent.

By means of example:

irb(main):003:0> nil.class
=> NilClass
irb(main):004:0> nil.nil?
=> true
irb(main):005:0> nil.methods
=> ["inspect", "method", "tap", "&", "clone", "public_methods", "__send__", ...]
irb(main):006:0> nil.is_a? String
=> false
Just remember that if you create an LLC (in any state), but operate that LLC primarily in California, you are required to pay this ridiculous "tax" of $800 per year (due within 90 days of when you first setup shop).

http://nolonow.nolo.com/noe/popup/NNLLCCABAS_faq.html#topic5

Also, I setup my LLC by just filing a few government forms instead of something like LegalZoom and it wasn't much trouble at all.
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I think it's a lot worse in the NBA, where deliberate fouling (either to stop the clock late in the game or to Hack-A-Shaq) is "a part of the game" and so is diving (or "flopping" as basketballers call it). Diving isn't even a foul in basketball. You can't convince me that a grown man can be thrown to the floor as easily as these NBA players are.

Incidentally, if you hate diving, just watch the leagues where diving isn't tolerated, like the English Premier League.
Fascinating article. It really impresses upon one the differences and commonalities between the different scripts. I never realized how much art there was involved in these other languages.

I'm bilingual, perfectly fluent in both English and Arabic. From my studies/experiences, I find that English alone from all others that I've come across is a purely functional language. It serves no other purpose than to get the message across and do so effectively. Most other languages are a form of sacred art, with a million rules deciding how the script itself is formed, what's acceptable and what's not, and tend to hang on to certain words, typefaces, accents, and dialects in written form even when the spoken language so greatly diverges from the traditional written script.

A primary example here is Arabic: the spoken and written languages differ quite drastically, with the spoken dialect turning into an almost different language as you move across from the Levant areas (Syria/Jordan/Palestine/Lebanon) over into Iraq and then the Gulf countries (Saudi, Kuwait, etc.) and finally into Africa at which point it doesn't even come close to resembling its spoken counterpart that we started off with.

Yet, with all that, the written language is 100% identical. Even though there are new words from region to region (not just a matter of intonation/inflection/dialect), the written language is perfectly identical and can be shared understood without difficult. In reality, these people know two different languages entirely. This is, by and large, caused by the memorization of the Quran, which is the holy scripture for Muslims which comprise the majority of the Arab world. The Quran is set in the official "formal Arabic" and Islam doesn't allow for the rewording or modernization of the script since Muslims believe that the actual wording (rather than the meaning) of the Quran was sent down from Allah and is sacred and not be modified (though translations of the Quran exist in almost all languages for reference/reading purposes, the religious actions such as prayers, etc. must be done with the formal arabic script, even in non-arabic-speaking parts of the world such as India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and even the States).

Back to the point at hand: In French, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, and more there is so much attributed to the beauty of the script, the perfection of the symbols, the fluency of the spoken language, and the scientific rules holding the language together. Languages aren't really living in the same sense as they are in English: new words aren't officially added as often, and the languages themselves serve a much more interesting and less "mundane" task than simply getting ideas across. These languages exist in and of themselves, in a way, they're not only there to serve the speaker: the speaker actually serves the language in many ways.
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For those downvoting: it's a joke :D
kerning == the way characters are drawn/rendered with their ligatures, etc, if badly kerned ------> keming.
This seems like django with a prettier interface. As a developer, I can see the value of something like this to get something simple off the ground quick. However, in my experience, projects become complex enough to warrant actual programming in a real language sooner rather than later. Given that I'm a developer, I would not use this because I'd be better off using django/rails which will only be a little bit slower but far more flexible down the road.

The branding and graphic design are really good. Did you do it yourself, or did you hire someone? If so, who?
Be sure to setup that business bank account quickly. It can take a few weeks to get everything in order. I believe you can do it as long as you have your Employer Identification Number (EIN).

https://sa1.www4.irs.gov/modiein/individual/index.jsp

This means you can do get the bank account and apply for the LLC in parallel.
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The point is you're already stepping in. There are tons of laws just like this one on the books, and the whole concept of a corporation falls apart without these laws. Throwing up your arms and saying "it's not my decision to step in" is silly. The public is already stepping in through hundreds of regulators, and it seems pretty self-evident that these regulators need a better framework.

(Or we could get rid of them, but we can't really do that without getting rid of the corporations, and even then we're looking at something that probably is not really as good an idea as it might sound.)
Thanks all for the feedback. Looks like I was running away from dense, cluttered text so fast that I went too far in the other direction and sacrificed specificity.

Can someone remind me, what is the figure for the average amount of time someone spends looking at a single resumé while they are shuffling through a stack? Is it 30 seconds? That seems almost optimistically high.

Following some of the comments here I am looking at cleaning up my old resumé and adding a "Summary" or "Quick takes" section at the top for people who are just skimming/browsing. What do folks think of that?
This is a cloud service, so a developer would have to be comfortable relying on external services, including data storage. As this is becoming a trend among developers, there is more comfort with having your infrastructure external.
American football is an enigma to foreigners in the same way that cricket is an enigma to Americans. It's just horribly complicated and weird and there's no way to get a handle on it if you weren't raised with it IMO. (Historically, gridiron is just another rugby variant, except with added down-and-distance rules, forward passes, and blocking. I like the Canadian rules a little better than the American rules, but the best players and teams are American so that's what most people watch.)

Basketball and baseball, however, are tremendously popular around the world.
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Good point. Every benchmark is only valid in the context in which it was taken.
I think that you will be healthier and look better and also weight more if you exercise a lot, just because muscle is more dense than fat.
I study %80 less than other students in my university. But does the study they do is really worth it?

They memorize courses by heart to just pass the exams and then forget all about it. They don't even understand the core phenomenas and their aim is to get grades and not to build knowledge.

As a result, I had lot of free time to start a small freelancing business that benefited both me and the society. I also had more time for leisure activities, that I think they really worth it.

-Third-World Citizen, may be things are different in the developed world-
Isn't being a dog the best way to understand what it's like to be a dog though, that's the whole point.
People who have several monitors attached to their desktop are not going to switch to a tablet or laptop any time soon.

But it will certainly be a niche product. Any other niches it can fill?
IBooks on iPhone/iPod Touch - a bit disappointing
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Yeah, I use VLC strictly as a fallback. It's always MPC/mplayer first.

But VLC is invaluable for always showing something.
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Get rid of ties and soccer is 10x better. Nothing more frustrating than watching a game for 90 minutes that ends in a tie. This is one of the big reasons playoff hockey is much better than during the regular season -- ever watched a game go into 5 OTs?
I realize the iPad is great for PDFs -- in fact I recommended it to my sister over the Kindle for that very purpose. But this isn't really relevant to whether the Kindle or the iPad is the better device for reading eBooks from the Kindle book store...
Similar, and IMHO, better: http://360voltage.com/wdfg/
In Florida for me, both the biz bank account and the llc were extremely fast. Llc was an online form with instant results, and biz bank account just required a visit to the actual office of my credit union. I needed the llc first in order to get the bank account in that name.
Reminds me of one Werner von Braun, no?

Germany could be and would be the top scientific and technological nation of the XX century (space research, computers, etc etc) if they had not gone mad.

They have and it is not. Still we cannot discount its achievements even when they were used immorally or for immoral goals.
In the mean time my first ever desktop still barely works, as does the most recent one (that I gave away).

But of my 4 previous laptops, the Dell is fried, a Macbook Pro got his motherboard replaced recently (under warranty otherwise it would have been too costly - Apple prices), the iBook awaits to be sent to service (again) and a MacBook Pro was sold and subsequently died months later on the next owner.

The lifespan of laptops is severely shorter compared to the lifespan of desktops. No wonder they are selling so well: you have to replace them every few years.

I'm actually thinking on buying again a desktop.
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So corruption doesn't happen in communist countries? And communist countries never attempt to meddle in the affairs of others?

There was nothing naive about my comment, as much as you made naive assumptions about my comment.

My point is:

Capitalism != mercantilism.
Capitalism != corruption.

I would never dispute that much of the underdevelopment of the middle east and africa isn't due to meddling by foreign counties (though, not just western). However, corruption has more to do with culture than economic structure.

Why do people pervert what capitalism is just so they can tear it down?
Looks like a great idea in theory. Signed up for the alpha, will comment when I hear back...
For those of you who expressed interest (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440313) in an RTP area meetup for "us" types, here ya go. First meetup isn't scheduled yet, we'll do it once a few people join the group.

Please help spread the word...
Well you could upload all the books from project gutenberg and librivox.org.

But even then, I doubt that 1% would be non-copyrighted.
Because in a start-up the one in ten that makes it makes the average effort worthwhile. (That is how VCs make their money)
Then the commute is almost as big a problem as the job itself. If you moved close to your job, you'd save 4hrs/day to work on whatever you wanted.
Initial thought:

- Dead links everywhere.

- Content below > flying robot.

- Code or it didn't happen.
Small Scale Fission: The cost of regulation to innovation 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124580572129645069.html

This article is a bit dated but I'm curious if any HN readers are up on the current state of affairs. I thought it might be interesting to the startup types because it seems to be a situation where the technology and the business are aligned but obsolete regulation is creating an unnatural obstacle to important innovations.
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Olark is a YC company and SnapABug is a Techstars company. Both are in that space and have great software.

A cool feature of SnapABug is that you can proactively chat with someone online. Not sure if that is available on Olark
wow! "A job is a TV that takes up even more time."
This article is disrespectful of what students have to do to get a college education today.

The students they criticize are the same ones pulling the outmoded college cart by paying their tuition with ever increasing amounts of debt. Without those students there would be no salary or study.

Plus, the authors students seem to be doing what they are asked and giving back generally positive ratings.
Babcock: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=956122
Marks: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=493516

So why do they deserve to have such an ungrateful and cynical article written about them?

If pointing that out makes me bitter then so be it.
I saw SnapABug demoed at Google I/O and I was pretty impressed. It does way more than just "chat" (like guiding users through your site and taking screenshots).
One way around this is to have a label for the current floor, but no button next to it, just metal plating. Then it's obvious that there is no way to select the current floor.
Maybe, but might he also be right?
Or Google could go the way they went with the Authors' Guild/Book-Scanning settlement: start by arguing the principle of indexing-for-fair-use, but then cave when a settlement is possible which grants them a unique leading position over all competitors.

That is, they'd grant that such linking is illegal for the industry -- setting the exact precedent the rightsholders want -- but then strike a license that lets them continue linking on terms few others could manage.
"It's fair, equal, and all that jazz until it hurts women financially."

Most people have no ideology. Instead, they have a "retirement plan", so to speak. People oppose taxes when they're wealthy, they are for social welfare when they're poor, they oppose government intervention when that means their looting will cease to be profitable, they are for government intervention when they need a bailout. "Liberal" women are all for immigration when the ones losing jobs are male engineers, but they strongly oppose immigration when the immigrants are superior specimens of the female gender from the former Soviet block (they know they can't compete in the dating market with foreign "talent").

If your friend asked you to go have dinner with her, she has to pay at least 50%. Her parasitic behavior only shows that she has no respect for you whatsoever. If you have some self-respect, I hope you mind-fucked her until she felt guilty for pushing the bill to you. Bonus points if you made her cry in public.
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Panic Sans is also a similar, good coding font.

http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/coda-coding-font-panic...
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>Now, I can't even trust the refs to make honest calls.

Are you talking about a particular incident of dishonesty? Refs tend to be impartial as they benefit from being impartial (wages, honour) whilst would lose by being noticeably partial (lost license to ref, no more wages).
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The biggest thing that invalidates this contest IMO is this disclaimer at the bottom: "When participating in this Challenge, no illegal activities are permitted or condoned and any illegal acts or practices will be grounds for automatic disqualification from the Challenge."

As if doing something illegal would stop a real world attack.
The brickwalls you have to break through while doing a startup is much harder than the mental discipline needed to finish your degree.
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Um, let me get this straight. They are pre-announcing the fact that I will be able to sign up for for the waiting list in a month? Exciting news :(
Sounds like rationalizing your addiction. Sometimes the fly will only die if hit with a sledgehammer.
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The l looks too much like a 1. This is a big no-no on fonts to be used for programming. (As is making sure 0 and O are distinct.)

Also, angle brackets look too similar to parentheses -- <> (). Here's some source code that would look terrible in this font:

(if (< item x)
(<< lessx item)
(<< gex item)))
Nice good overview of the players and non-players are in the open realtime web.
It's easier to answer this once you've satisfactorily defined security, which will allow you to qualify "enough". I prefer this:

"The process of maintaining an acceptable level of perceived risk."

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/my-preferred-definition-of-se...
>> lying about who touched the ball last, lying about what happened, lying to convince the ref.

>lying doesn't matter, it's just expressing emotions. you almost never see a referee backing up from a decision, more often discussions result a yellow card.

Lying matters to some people - good sportsmen for example. When I played (only amateur: Uni/Sunday league) I'd tell the ref if he'd made a wrong decision in my favour.

IMO lying is not a proper part of [association] football; that's why I gave up on footie some time ago.