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I'm sorry to contradict you, but there are dishonest beggars too, that make leverage of compassion.

In Italy, some time ago, they made a report on TV on fake beggars. They were normal people, with houses, jobs and cars that in their spare time pretended to be beggars just to get more money.
Yes.

The omission of SSA (which, remember, gained in popularity after the publication of R. Cytron, J. Ferrante, B. Rosen, M. Wegman, and K. Zadeck. Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and the Control Dependence Graph., ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 13(4):451-490, in October 1991) is in fact one of the many advances that fall in the (3) category I mentioned. I assumed I wouldn't have to enumerate every single one of them. Also, remember the edition I'm referring to. I have no idea if the latest edition (2007, iirc) covers SSA, and to what extent.

Nevertheless, the book is still extensive and thorough in the concepts it covers.
> "a particular failed subculture wallowing in professional victimhood who lacks even a turtle's sense to get to high ground when a storm comes"

I hope you realize how condescending and clueless this makes you sound. (Especially since in the link in the comment you’re responding to it is pointed out that 1 in 9 black males aged 25–29 is in prison. Clearly all just “wallowing in professional victimhood”, right?)
Opera supported this for a long time now: http://www.diovo.com/2008/01/better-way-to-manage-tabs-in-yo...

I wish all the major browsers support tabs on the Left feature. This would be really helpful to people who open a lot of tabs or use wide-screen monitors.
Yeah, in Ontario the LCBO sells wine/liquor, and then The Beer Store sells, well, beer/coolers/etc.
They're hard to distinguish up close, too. No matter how you get there, whether it's mostly by choice or mostly by circumstance, rock bottom will likely involve you doing whatever you can to relieve your misery for a few short hours. I have a hard time faulting someone for short-term behavior when they don't have much of a future to work toward.

But you're (somewhat) correct when it comes to aid. Giving a homeless person 5 bucks won't do anything to alter their condition. It'll fill their belly, at best. But consider what 5 bucks probably means to me or you and what a meal means to someone who can't always count on one.
If your site requires Facebook Connect for login, I will not use it. There's no reason for it if your site is not directly affiliated with Facebook, and it may result in privacy issues. Personally I think as soon as a viable alternative to Facebook exists I will stop using it anyway.
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I wouldn't count too much on what people secretly "know" deep down but are unable to reason about. These things are usually stereotypes or religion, both of which have questionable qualities when it comes to analyzing causality.
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Okay. Blocking perverts is a legitimate cause and being able to ban people effectively is probably easier than implementing feature extraction from video.

However, people can make throwaway facebook accounts just as they can make throwaway twitter/Google/OpenID accounts. So, if you want something more effective, you could either:

* make a video chat that is not free-for-all. Back in the day, ICQ with video chat turned into a circlejerk because anyone could contact anyone. On Skype, people who you don't know cannot contact you by default, so it doesn't have that problem, but feels more like a videophone than a chat.

* use more elaborate rules: use the sender IP to recognize duplicate sign-ins, with an option of contacting support if you're caught wrongly by the ruleset.

* Provide an outlet for the circlejerk people so they can be among themselves (i.e., like having a /b/ on 4chan so the other channels can be civilized most of the time). For example, have a "ban this user" function that bans that user for the person only, but have a default that contact requests from people who are banned by three different users are denied unless they're in your "friends" group. Have an option to change the threshold so that perverts can still play pervert in front of other perverts.

* provide some kind of "namespace" and appoint trusted people as moderators for parts of that namespace (e.g., have a channel HorsesLovers that has its group of moderators). Having moderators per channel allows (i) people to develop a sense of responsibility for "their" channel, but also (ii) to limit any kind of dictator-like behaviour.

* I was considering whether asking for some sort of micropayment (i.e., pay 2$ or have someone invite you) would solve the problem, but I guess there's enough perverts with deep pockets that it'd only be a partial solution.
Strikes me that the only difference between the way that you and I dress is that I wear a jacket ;-) (I can't stand ties). I wear the jacket because the silhouette is flattering, and there are all those handy pockets. Why should such a simple, very practical item make you think at such a person is over-dressing?
I would agree with you if those places didn't end up being worse than prisons...

Thing is, the streets are worse than (Canadian) prisons, too. It's not unheard-of for homeless people to ask judges to please send them to jail.

But more significantly: We need to fix mental health institutions. Saying "making functional mental health institutions is hard, let's go ride bikes" is fundamentally failing in our obligations to the mentally ill.
I was referring to the 2007 edition (the first edition obviously doesn't mention it). It's a bit sad to see they didn't even think it deserved a chapter...

You can look at the new stuff from the 2nd edition here:
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,1...
Intelligent kit for karate kid needed
A black belt teaches hate and violence. The kid follows the rules of hate and violence and he competes. He is the winner. Fathers are evil when they allow the black belt to teach their children. So some use of intelligence is needed in this film. The way to success is not more violence and power but more intelligence.

An interesting review: http://blazenkabrysha.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/karate-kid-2010-review/

But the point that is more interesting to me is how to find the source of the problem. That is use your intelligence so that the black belt can't teach violence in the first place. Perhaps this film requires a M rating.
Most people who would have an OpenID-supported authentication method wouldn't know that they do or how to use it. A big "use Facebook/Google/Gravatar/whatever to log in" button makes it easy even for the people who don't have any OpenID background.
Works only in the US I assume?
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I almost didn't click because the title made me think it'd just be a rant, but the basic point is good:

> Engaging people is useless without anchoring it to a brand and a business goal. Ask them specifically what they do and who they target (i.e. I create digital campaigns to demographic x to inform them of product y). Gold star if they can hit 1/2.
Yes, but they are not the norm, and I did write 'most'.

And don't be sorry :)
I love it, but why does it take so much time for 'searching' ? Is it generating random coordinates and then tries to match them with street view coverage ?
Why ask for money?

Invest your own money and sell the movie to who will pay.

Some will download, but everyone knows that pirating does not affect music/movies sales. Rigth?
Yea, what about NYC?
They've been drum beating the trademark acquisition for about 2 years. They've said a lot but so far there isn't anything concrete yet.
What do you mean, that you can do something like this?

List<Foo<Bar>> list = new ArrayList<>();

Programming to an interface is relevant between method calls, not inside the scope of a single method, which is typically where you use the var keyword in C#. This is programming to an interface, in C#, using the var keyword:

public List<Foo<Bar>> MyMethod(...) {
List<Foo<Bar>> result = new ArrayList<Foo<Bar>>();
...
return result;
}

var list = MyMethod(...); //list will be of type List<Foo<Bar>>

In Java, the above would then look like this:

public List<Foo<Bar>> MyMethod(...) {
List<Foo<Bar>> result = new ArrayList<>();
...
return result;
}

List<Foo<Bar>> list = MyMethod(...);

You don't save more characters in either case, neither is promoting programming to an interface more than the other, but I still think the var keyword is the better construct, since it removes type declaration consistently. It basically means that the compiler should infer the type of the variable immediately, without me having to spell it out. The Java construct on the other hand means something like: "In the constructor to a generic class, infer the generic parameters from the type of the variable the result is assigned to", which is a weaker construct, a less expressive one, a less flexible one.

Both are still syntactic sugar implemented as compiler tricks, but the C# one simply does more.
How rural it is, by area (or by street distance) sure, but by population the world is now > 50% urban. (And the “more developed regions” are 75% urban by population.)
Another big issue is failing to provide a social security network that actually works in that it helps those in real need and has enough of an incentive to get out of the program again.

There seem to be only two versions of this, one that leaves people without incentive to go back to work (the European model) and another that says 'you're on your own' tough luck.

Another thing that jumped out at me in these stories was the lady that had daughters but was living on the street anyway. If my mom were about to be homeless she'd be living here, not on the street and I'm sure my brother and sister would think about it just the same.
You don't believe that gender bears any kind of fundamental impact on emotional and intellectual development? I think that the things mentioned in this thread are proof enough. There is no reason why there wouldn't be more women in tech except that women (generally speaking, of course) don't find tech that desirable, just as men don't find working in a daycare center very desirable.

In the whirlwind of 20th century liberation movements, people seem to forget that there really _are_ fundamental differences between certain types of people. Not differences like "women are only good at cleaning and men only think about sex", but differences like "women are generally more often disposed to child-rearing and men are generally more often disposed to computer programming".

I don't see what good there is in ignoring these differences. Yes, some people took it too far and decided women shouldn't vote and blacks and whites couldn't intermingle, but that doesn't mean we go to the other extreme and plug our ears and refuse to believe that any one type of person is predisposed to a behavior, belief, or emotional status.
Desperately need an investor .. any ideas?
I've tried and tried and tried and it's leading nowhere.... Btw, you might want to check out profiles - that's where the technology goes. I have about a month of work to get ready to launch this. And when I do, it's going to kick ass! Any advice / feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you.
"could be read?" Of course. whether you would enjoy it is another issue. Compare;

"Do you think I could take piano lessons if I am not actually interested in playing a piano?"

"Do you think I could study architecture if I am not actually interested in designing buildings?"

The former is not popular, the latter is, but AFAIK few people study the grunt work of architecture for fun. It all depends on where your interests are. What part of compiler writing intrigues you?
American culture is very sink-or-swim. There isn't as much cultural demand for a safety net. I attribute this to our cultural memory of the frontier. Europeans think of welfare as a country taking care of its citizens--Americans are more likely to think of it as forcing hardworking, productive people to support those who can't be bothered to work for a living.

Incidentally, it's a misnomer that the US has one of the worse healthcare systems in any developed nation. The US has the single best healthcare system in human history, if you can afford it. Some people from countries with socialized medicine actually come here to have stuff done, since they'd rather pay to travel and have medical care in the US rather than wait in the queue in their own country. What the US lacks is a way of making the full use of that system available to everyone.
You could try DimDim ( http://www.dimdim.com/ ). It's free for meetings with less than 20 participants.
Besides the caching question, having permalinks to share that random view would be awesome.
Beautiful quote from the talk. Nevertheless, this still shows attachment to the "matter" that he himself says seems irrelevant to the universe as we've now come to understand it. About 30% in dark matter, about 70% in Nothing. Matter is just "all the rest < 1%". So are we matter or not?
I recently discovered, that I can hide Opera's tab bar and use panels 'Windows' panel instead (easy to toggle with F4).
I've tried and tried and tried and it's leading nowhere.... Btw, you might want to check out profiles - that's where the technology goes. I have about a month of work to get ready to launch this. And when I do, it's going to kick ass! Any advice / feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you.
70 years from now you may think differently. I'm not saying that as a bad thing, or in a condescending way, merely to point out that sometimes, we truly cannot know what looking death in the face feels like. And that our thoughts on various things - all sorts of things - change when we finally do.
> Stories like this make me wish that it was easier for homeless people to be declared mentally ill and placed into mental health facilities. (Damn you, deinstitutionalization.)

It's actually good that it is not so easy to declare people mentally ill, especially when they're not. Canada has a history of having it's 'social services' go completely out of control when given too much power, one nice example is the service that ostensibly protects children from abuse.

(But in fact is just as likely to do great damage to both children and their families).

I think many people would like to institutionalize the homeless just so the 'problem would go away', but homeless people are a symptom of a society that has issues, not just of those people.

For instance, banks and lawyers contribute to the number of homeless people by making it too easy to declare people bankrupt, seizing their possessions and means of generating income or their house, or to destroy someones life in divorce proceedings.

And then there are those that simply don't want to be part of the 'rat race' that have no other option but to become homeless (the Roma in Europe for instance). That used to be 'ok', but these days everything has to be owned by somebody so there is no way to be out of it all without trespassing.

It's not all clear cut. For sure there are mentally ill people that are homeless but I'd be highly surprised if that was the majority. For the most part they're just ordinary people down on their luck abandoned by friends and family. And plenty of them hit the bottle or drugs after becoming homeless, not before.
Increased CO2 is the only reasonable forcing so far; water vapour, methane, etc. have too short a half life in the atmosphere. The bulk of the CO2 increase is anthropogenic in origin, ergo the warming is caused by humans - no models necessary.
Well, actually if you were a "young rich Arab muslim", then you'd enter without any problems. :)

I have a suggestion, not about entering USA.

From what I have observed, many of non-US based successful start-ups are domestic projects and then a big company comes and buys them, as in your example. My suggestion here is, you can target the arab world. As this has enough people, I can also suggest you targeting the muslim world which consists of 1.5 billion people. By doing so, you'd not have to leave your country or deal with the crap.
People will always need to learn on their own time and in their own way. The best thing you can do for someone is give them a safe environment to make mistakes.
I have met quite a few patients that were undergoing palliative care for their treatments and I heard a lot of the same.

One recurring theme I found was that ministers and priests always ended up doubting or renouncing their faith. It was terribly depressing.

Whenever I think back it always reminds me to spend more time with my family- they provide the best support in these sort of situations and close families always had a happier "vibe".
it'd be great if the "About Beepl" link worked...
In this case they are using for its profit the difference in GB and GiB. They do not make the GB smaller each year, or add the caches to the total size.
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Working on it. Wednesday maybe? For now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1625622
I don't think it is possible to psycho-analyze someone based on so little data.

If everybody that talked to trees or other spirits had schizophrenia you'd have to include each and every religious person, to me their beliefs are just as weird as someone talking to trees.

It's not that simple.
I have something of an awe for atheists. They seem to have a clearer idea of "God" than the rest because they clearly don't believe it .. or He or She or I dunno .. but they seem to.

I liked the ending note on humility where he presented a scenario where he thinks falsifiable science could end up not figuring out the truth about the universe because the inhabitants won't be able to access a galaxy other than their own.
One recurring theme I found was that ministers and priests always ended up doubting or renouncing their faith. It was terribly depressing.

I'm curious: why?
Woz is the epitome of Zen.
Crime wasn't always an imaginary problem in this country. In fact, not too long ago it was a major problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States). Right now we have almost half the level of violent crime and homicide we had about 20 years ago. Some cities, like New York, had even higher crime rates in the 80's and 90's compared to now than the country as a whole.
And lets forget overwhelming majority of the religious reference that science obliterates.

This is actually funny. Science works by obliterating ... itself. Newton's law of gravity is wrong. That certainly doesn't discredit Newton. Its ok in science to be wrong or right about something. So why should a different rule apply to religions.

I always take the opposite side of the argument :)
If you worry about homeless people spending your 5 bucks on booze, go spend that 5 bucks on a sandwich and give them the sandwich.
>Card 5: $75. Laurie buys $74.61 worth of food, phone minutes and cigarettes at a gas station convenience store. Returns card.

Looks like Laurie checked the balance on the card and used it fully. She was the only one to use almost the entire balance.
Did you talk to those people when they became homeless or did you watch them after years of homelessness during which they were at best ignored by common people?
If you've raised your 17 y/o in a way that has imbued him with the principles behind your realizations, there's no need to give him any specific advice about college. Passing on that knowledge is not about specific advice: it's about the way you raise your children; about the way you counteract what 'society' teaches them it expects and freeing them to make choices that will make them happier instead of what makes others happier.
Matt Cutts tweeted a design document about the technical details

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/desig...
A smattering of anecdotes and you're 'well aware of how the rest of the world views the U.S.'.

Reminds me of the story of the psychoanalyst who, when presented with a patient profile, announced that this was clearly a case of 'X' diagnosed on the basis of his "1000-fold experience". "And I suppose", remarked his colleague, "the next diagnosis will be on the basis of your 1001-fold experience."

It may be possible to say there is a general view as to how the rest of the world views the U.S. but I can’t see how you can make that conclusion from the evidence you've reported.
I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation are doing more harm than good to mankind in the long term.
OK, I take it it's a lack of the about section.
This article was posted here before (http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_02_13_a_murray.html) and suggests homelessness might be a power-law problem. Ordinary people who are homeless because of everyday misfortune don't stay homeless for long and don't contribute to the homeless problem--chronically homeless people, many of whom are either mentally ill or mentally adapted to life on the street, are the biggest part of the problem.
all right the brackets concept makes sense.

remembering a/b + c/d = (ad+bc)/bd

A/(x+2) + B/(1-x+x^2) = A(1-x+x^2) + B(x+2)/(x+2)(1-x+x^2)

correct??
i'm not saying this is how things should be. i'm just pointing out that it seems no one has the option to "work less". our only options seem to be between killing ourselves working to remain "employable", or simply becoming unemployed.
The issue I have with what you and mkramlich say is that you're jumping from an observation to a conclusion about causality. I'm just asking, what is the basis for your assumptions about causality?

You say that people took it too far in the past. Why was that? I think that they didn't just take it too far, they made a categorical and methodical mistake. They did not question the basis on which to make such assumptions. In that sense, you're making the same mistake today.

[Edit] And don't forget that we're talking about something - web startups and entrepreneurship - that takes an incredibly broad range of capabilities that have nothing to do with having babies. It's not like we're talking about interest and talent for breast feeding. And by the way, I totally agree with Arrington. He doesn't say anything about why we see what we see though.
It's not unheard-of for homeless people to ask judges to please send them to jail.

There's a fairly simple algorithm to ending up in jail: commit a crime and get caught for it. I wonder why you don't see more of that if homeless people are so desperate for shelter. (Though if they're mentally ill, that might explain why it doesn't occur to them, or why they're not terribly effective at making and implementing effective plans.)
I try to keep the basic premise of Zen close to heart: 'live in the moment'. Not only in the narrow sense of being present in the moment, but also in a wider sense.

It's easy to live with sentiments such as: if I work just a bit more, I can have a nice house in fifteen years. Once I can buy a Mac Pro, I will really be productive.

The cold fact is that life can end quickly. The present moment is the only thing we have, so treasure it ;). Of course, that's not always easy...
I think the application is clearly at fault here. The boot loader doesn't have to make any assumptions about the disk (not even the presence of files or a filesystem), it sets up the info passed on to the operating system and both the operating system and any applications within that OS should stay outside of areas that were not explicitly allowed. The OS should never allow an application to do this.
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