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Bullshit. McDonalds is not the best food in the world but it's not going to have an intoxicating effect on you and de-hydrate you to boot. It also isn't addictive.

Personally I'd eat anywhere but there but you really can't equate giving someone a burger (or perhaps a salad?) with a bottle.

It's a ridiculous thing to say.

And I'm about as anti-Mcd's as it gets, mostly because whenever I go there I feel like crap for the next 24 hours (lack of gal bladder) so I avoid them like the plague.
if you worry about what laws you might be breaking every time you want to do something, you'll never get anywhere. i suspect that most new restaurants are in violation of dozens if not hundreds of laws, but in reality they either aren't enforced or the owners are given an opportunity to fix whatever is wrong without penalty. follow the laws you know, don't go looking for ones you might be breaking, and when the government tells you that you're breaking a law remind them how many people you're employing.
Or, before simplifying, 3x+3.2 (using a dot for multiplication)

So how do you expand B(x+2) ?
Note: this is not LESS the CSS preprocessor, it's a CSS framework focused on creating layouts that target multiple devices.
It was an extraordinary claim (given the demographic here) and I made no attempt to justify it, so I can see why it was modded so harshly. I think the modding was a bit extreme, but I knew when I was making the post that it was going to be a -4 type of thing.

However, I don't think question of whether or not capitalism is a form of government has anything to do with the point I was making.
If you want to meet Adeo Ressi and you live in Europe, check out http://founderconferenceparis.eventbrite.com. That's September 14, and I expect him to cover similar topics to what the TechCrunch article covers.
"Minimum wage was created specifically to stop abuse of large numbers of people."

Yes, but A: goals and effects are two very different things and B: it was created in an increasingly foreign world and every year it is less obvious that the original logic holds. (I mean that in a very general sense, not in an immediate "discard minimum wage and return to a libertarian paradise" sense; as robots become more and more capable and really start eating into the low wage jobs we may have to consider things like guaranteed minimum incomes or other radical proposals.)

"Employers as a rule extract a multiple of value from their employees time, not just a little bit over."

In my opinion, not if you do a full accounting. Profit margins for established, successful companies in the vast majority of industries tend to run in the single digits percentages, bursting up to 10% or the low teens for some rare cases. And then there's the tech industry, which is another story altogether. It may be true in some abstract sense that companies extract multiples of value over what they pay but it isn't true in a useful sense.

Generally speaking, I deny that there's a huge amount of room for people to cut minimum wages, because employers do not make radical profits on their employees. The job market isn't perfectly efficient, but it's more efficient than that. A person/task that can't justify minimum wage in the modern economy is a person not hired and a position not created, not a person generating 2$/hr of value but forcibly paid minimum wage.

Now, if the economy was grotesquely inefficient and the average company made 200% profit and the only way to pry money out of their hands was with a minimum wage, I'd agree, but that's not the world we live in. It's certainly a world we hear about a lot in propaganda but it doesn't correspond to reality.
According to this post here http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2010/08/jquery-mobile.html it is not available right now and will be available in October 2010.
Cool. I agree with Charuru that it will be nice to see how this compares to similar resources.

One issue with the website: I know the tagline is making use of the name, but it sounds uneducated to say "Now with less features, one grid," when "fewer" is the word to use. Maybe it would be better to say something like, "Less complicated, one grid." There are those out there who may dismiss something wonderful on the basis of a small error like this.
Wow, I'm really surprised to find someone on HN who is against capitalism.

Perhaps after you've been here longer you'll realize it's not all that homogeneous an audience.

Your point 1 is well taken (meaning: I personally agree).

Point 2 is somewhat simplistic; large-scale organization is superior to voluntary charity, which is why third-world countries have poverty problems and billionaires at the same time, while Sweden doesn't have much of a poverty problem.

Point 3 is so full of loaded terms it's nearly useless except as an indication of your own biases.
Yes, you're right, assuming that fulfilling your dream is not compatible with pursuing your career.

After working two post-college years at a top software company, I quit the cushy life and lived life by trial and error and my plans only went as far as 3 months ahead. 11 years later I still don't know which country I'll be living or working out of within the next 3 months.

Yes I did start to regret losing out on some of the structure, discipline, and optimal professional self-improvement path of living the life that society hands you. I feel I have the experience of a guy 6 years my junior. On the other hand, I know more about myself than my peers because I tried so many things and tested myself under so many different environments.

Looking back, I don't think I would have made a different choice but I would spent my leaves (from the typical path) a lot more directed and focused. I think I could have learned about life and myself in a quicker way just by doing things instead of just being.

But of course, learning to be -- and breaking automatic habits of action -- is the key to being happy as well.

As you guessed, there is no right or best answer.

But again, if your career and your dreams are one and the same, then this one dimension could be resolved.
If you are suggesting that we could stop war by making all the soldiers female and all the commanders male I'm all for it.
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Taste Neighbors - continued
Are you planning on adding PDF export? Or, at least, something like "email this invoice"? I don't interact with my clients in person, so just the ability to print an invoice is clearly not enough to make me use your app.
James Gosling launches T-shirt campaign for free Java
Revolutionizing Kernel Development: Testing With Rump
Why the angel/VC hype is bunk for most hackers
Sites like Techcrunch and to a lesser extent PG's Hacker News make it seem like it is easier than ever to get funded (ex-f&f) if you have a cool idea. Don't believe it. Even if your startup has a good team with an idea that you think others will want, getting funding, even minimal seed funding, is tough.

The reason is the math. There is a limited amount of capital out there for seed stage funding and only a handful of investors willing to risk funding at the angel/seed stage. For every Etsy, Groupon, or Foursquare there are thousands of hopeful entrepreneurs (even hackers) who will never get a dime of outside money.

Since YCombinator came onto the scene a few years ago, I'm sure that its rejection rate is now an order of magnitude harder than getting accepted to Harvard (a 1-100 chance instead of a 1-10 chance). Moreover, there are many entrepreneurs who don't even know what YCombinator is, so for them it is an even more arduous task because at least Paul Graham & friends are willing to take a flier on novices. Most investors aren't and will never be.

So, don't get your hopes up that even if you do have a bright idea and a working concept that it will mean investors will come knocking to fund you.
I get the idea, and that's kinda nice, but I would see it as a bit unfortunate that McDonald's get your money and that they get to eat McDonald's food (as opposed to something healthier and subjectively more ethical).

I do a bit of dumpster diving and otherwise collecting food that would otherwise go to waste (there are a few restaurants near where I live that will happily give you their leftovers if you go them at closing time). If I ever see a homeless person I always offer them the food that I have.
If the generation never spends a lot of time outside, they won't know what they missed and won't feel regrets.
I guess it remains to be seen conclusively when I fall terminally ill or get close to death of old age, but in my mind, it is not possible to have a life without some kind of theoretical regrets. Every choice you make to spend every moment a certain way is necessarily mutually exclusive with spending it any other way, and there are only so many moments and so many things one can realistically do.

I'm quite positively certain that if asked to reflect on all the things I regret near death, and truly chose to entertain the question from that angle, then I would find something to regret no matter how I lived my life until that point. There will always be could-have-beens, should-have-beens, what-ifs and maybe-if-I-did/didn'ts.

Furthermore, in a practical sense, life is an economically bounded experience; life in a world with finite resources, finite time, and within a society of other people always entails strong elements of concession, compromise and accommodation. You cannot lead a purely hedonistic life unconstrained by material or political limitations. What you do will always be subsumed to some extent by exigencies you would rather not have, by the needs and wants of others, by nature, and various forces you can't control. So, I don't think it's intelligible to implore people to "lead a life without regrets."

I'm not saying there isn't wisdom in being aware that life is short, and you only get one, and that there are some things you will wish you had done if your life ends up being a lot shorter than you expected. However, it seems to me that an important part of finding peace is acknowledging and coming to terms with the objective facts of the human condition and the inescapable psychological truths that accompany them. Seeing your existence as it is and not as it could hypothetically be is an important pillar of peace and comfort for the soul. The reality is, you will always have "regrets": there are always infinite alternate possibilities for any conditional branch, there are practically infinite variables.

"Live a life you won't regret" is the wrong way to look out at the world and your relationship to it. A more constructive approach may be to say, "Lead a good life," whatever that means to you. It is not logically equivalent to "lead a life about which you will never wish something could have been different."

Edit: Also, it is important to emphasise the critical distinction between a) regretting that you had not done something differently, in that all it would take for you to not regret it is to have made a different - and equally accessible - choice, versus b) regretting that you could not have done something differently, in the sense that you wish circumstances or conditions had been such as to make possible or make more likely that you could have made - and actually carried out - a different choice.
Technology and technology companies are major drivers of societal change and it is important to have as many different groups involved in that process as possible. That is the larger philosophical issue here and I don't think anyone can disagree with that.

Yay for stakeholder representation and death-by-committee.

Groups cannot be involved in doing things, only in preventing things. Individuals can do things, and it really doesn't matter what groups those individuals may be seen by others to be a part of. All that matters is whether they're willing to try something new and different, and whether everyone else feels like using whatever they build.

No structure, no "process" for groups to get involved in and veto, just people doing interesting things and other people choosing whether to use those things.
Hawking's conjecture
Bizarrely, I've needed letterhead in the past to buy hardware for Delicious. Of course, that was in 2005...
What is with the last line in the article?

> When we initially phoned Barry Altman this morning,
> he said he wasn't Barry Altman.

Isn't that how you deal with bill collectors, not the press?
I clicked on it thinking its LessCss but had to come back.
Am I the only one who think that it's not really "how to launch" but it's more "how to be ready to pitch your idea"?

(but the points are interesting)
I don't understand your comment.

I wasn't trying to figure out how it was done, I was trying to figure out how to do it fast (irrespective of the present implementation), responding to the question:

"I wonder if there's a faster way to do that with their API?"

I did check the source code. The most time is spent doing dozens to hundreds requests to Google API.

If instead of this you generated random locations just from "blue" regions of StreetView coverage, user experience would be better.

The simplest way how to do it would be to fetch StreetView coverage overlay PNG and use canvas getImageData to check pixel values for random locations, thus moving costly roundtrip validity query mostly to the browser.

This is not something terribly difficult and perfectly suitable for half day fun project.
Bill Hewlett's Random Thoughts On Creativity [pdf]
Speaking for my own neighborhood, the burden of deinstitutionalization is severe. My carriage house apartment was the residence of a man with Huntington's Disease. Twenty years ago he would have been at the State Hospital; instead, he was given a small stipend and left to die on his own. Of the six windows in the apartment, one survived his habit of throwing things in rage; there was food and nicotine liberally spattered on every surface in the apartment - and if you've never mopped a ceiling before, I assure you the pain in your shoulders is unique after the first day. There was urine in the heating ducts, and he could usually hit the toilet when he defecated, but not always.

The state doesn't want to pay for keeping him in a healthy environment - that's expensive and Indiana doesn't like public expenses. His family apparently couldn't afford it, and arguably that sort of lottery is unfair, deciding that some families get to go without the expense of crazy relatives while others get the short straw.

After the bank foreclosed on the property, he was living in a truck for a while. I don't know what's become of him now.

So tell me again that it's good that people can't be declared mentally ill. There are people who really are mentally ill, and dodging society's duty by saying they're better off dying free is not the answer.
Wow. What ever happened to a little optimism?

If you have a bright idea and a working concept, take some risks, hustle, and do your best. If you fail, then at least you tried. If you don't try, you'll never know if you'll succeed.
The better to tax it, my dear. Presumably. I'm not saying I agree with it - I don't. Just that it's a smaller leap of faith in my opinion to believe that's the motivation.
Bx+B2 ??? now it's getting funny!!!!!!!!
I went to a small, well regarded liberal arts college in the Midwest. The science programs provided a lot of direct interaction with professors as well as copious lab time, projects, summer internships. Lab equipment was extensive; as it was (sometimes too frequently) put, undergrads received training on and regularly used equipment that elsewhere you might not "get to touch" until in a grad program.

It helped that the school was quite well funded/endowed. Some big name alumni had not just or even primarily given them money, but had as much or more so given them investment advice and opportunities that paid off many fold.

This is an attraction of a small (often private) college. But you have to pick carefully and ascertain that the reality there lives up to the rhetoric.

I'm not particularly pitching for this route as an education. Rather, providing a specific example, as requested by the parent.

P.S. Tuition was not as high as some schools, but it wasn't cheap. However, a majority of the population received aid (often significant) of one sort or another. If you experience "sticker shock" when shopping around, realize this and, if a school interests you, apply and see what happens. (Although it's been some time since I was there, and education costs as a percentage of income seem to have grown more and more out of scale, in general.)

Also, while that college had many excellent areas and faculty, they also had their not so good areas and some particular lemons. You can't just look things on a school level; you need to consider particular programs and departments, where you have strong interests. At the same time, often part of the liberal arts experience is figuring out just what major you actually want to pursue, so don't feel certain that your interests going in are going to remain constant.

Finally, I should mention that the college paid fairly well and was in an area with low living costs and good schools for faculty children. Faculty also had decent resources and the ability to take leave to pursue personal work/research. Thus, it was able to attract good faculty. Further, they knew coming in that the institution's primary focus is education, not research. Your research need not suffer (then again, maybe many faculty were not of the most highly obsessed research-centered nature that also produces some "super stars"), but you were there first and foremost to educate.
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Why not use things that'll degrade gracefully in less-modern browsers? shadows are awesome, but whatever if they don't show up in other browsers.

For example: http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

Now, when it comes to major functionality — if your application simply won't work in IE — you need to decide whether the tradeoff is worth it. You won't be tarred and feathered if you have a giant sign saying people need to use a different browser to use your application. You're simply going to lose users. And note, the vast majority of those users aren't going to download the browser and use your application, they're simply going to leave.
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You mention incorporating and in the TC comments someone mentions legal fees. I watched the video and I thought he was leaning far more towards a minimum viable product than a fully functional site - he doesn't really talk about actually having a proper product much - more of getting to a point where you know if you have a goer or not.

I don't know about in the US but in a lot of places you certainly do not have to incorporate to launch a product, or even to make money from it. I'm pretty sure technically in the United Kingdom and New Zealand (markets I have started businesses in) you can make as much money as you like without ever becoming a business. I'm sure the tax department would find it interesting if you declared 50 million revenue on your personal tax form, but no reason why you can't do it.
That's why the sorting implementation is important. Unlike most CUDA programs which heavily relied on locality of data, sorting problem relies on the support of the global knowledge about key distribution. Even division-and-conquer methods such as qsort require a full scan over the dataset, which on CUDA architecture is painful. Duane's research concentrates on how to apply GPGPU architecture to a set of more general problems which traditionally relies on global access of data (thus, shared memory system).

Disclaimer: I didn't follow his work closely, so my interpretation may be misleading.
Sure, C is a language in which virtually everything is expressed using fixed-width integers, in which developers must choose and remember which region of memory every variable resides in, in which object lifetimes are of crucial import but left entirely to the devices of the programmer, and in which the programmer is addressing the hardware nearly directly, instead of an interpreter. And sure, Javascript is none of those things. But: both of them require semicolons at the ends of statements!

Oh, wait.
Python forces you to name functions, if you want to use the full power of function abstraction.

If you just want to compose functions or so, you do not need to name them.

But I see your point.
You prove my point: both companies, Apple with Darwin/OS X, and Google with Android are not really trying to develop a healthy ecosystem around these systems. But at the very least Google needs to provide the source to GPL'ed software (kernel modifications, etc.). If you have to publish changes anyway, at some point it becomes more attractive to work with upstream, since you cannot differentiate your product via that software. We still have to see if this happens, but there is a long of history of companies that did not contribute much initially, but are now working with kernel.org much more reliably. (E.g. many big-iron vendors.)
It's not just explicit @protocols. Everything in Objective-C is under an implicit protocol: the code itself. Even if a method says it requires an argument of type Foo, you can usually substitute an object of type Bar, so long as Bar responds to all the messages that the method could send to Foo.

For example

- (void)printValue:(Foo *)foo {
NSLog(@"%@", [foo stringValue]);
}

it doesn't matter that printValue: says it wants a Foo, you can still pass it an NSTextField all the same.

This gets really fun when you start using -respondToSelector: Now we can do:

- (void)printValue:(Foo *)foo {
if ([foo respondsToSelector:@selector(stringValue)])
NSLog(@"%@", [foo stringValue]);
}

This sort of thing is used throughout Cocoa (although these days explicit protocols are replacing it). It's difficult to do in C++, which is one of the reasons why C++ UI toolkits are so cumbersome.
The two ideas you seem to believe are contradictory, that it's easier than ever to get funded, and that getting funding is tough, are not in fact contradictory. Both are true. It's hard to get funded, but it's easier now than it has ever been in the past.

It's also not true that it's an order of magnitude harder to get funded by YC than to get into Harvard College. Our acceptance rate is usually around 3% and Harvard's is currently 7%, so the difference is closer to 2x.

The biggest mistake though is the implicit one that it's ideas that get funded. At the seed stage, it's people that get funded, not ideas.
I think you are probably right. My conclusions were mostly from what I experienced or heard... i.e. very anecdotal.

First I should have been clear that by Europe I meant EU. And also I still think there's a lot of bad tariffs here too. I haven't checked in many countries but the 2-3 I've been to or checked had similar deals (though in Italy for example pay as you go is way more popular than contract, and in the UK is the opposite).

But I think some of the better deals may have been the result of regulatory pressure. For example every other year the EU commission sets lower prices for inter-state roaming.
This part of the article is very informative:

"He wanted to have pork and rice from a Vietnamese noodle joint on Spadina but they wouldn’t take the card. So, he scrambled to McDonald’s. Lunch was a double quarter-pounder with cheese."

McDonald's, for all its downsides, has never in my experience discriminated against a person for their appearance. As long as you've got shoes and a shirt on (no pants?), they will serve you.
Yeah, since I'm powering the calls for free (for the user) I didn't want to take the risk of pricey intl calls. Maybe international someday
I use ctrl-_ (aka ctrl-7) for screen/tmux commands. I don't its functionality in Vim. Not sure if it helps for Emacs.
You might study architecture if you want to be able to understand the buildings you see in places you travel to. Just as not everyone who studies the history of art wants to be a painter...