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You get to make choices in life, no matter where you are or what your situation.

Let's say there's been a rash of home invasions in a town, a criminal gang ripping people off, holding them at gun point, that sort of thing. Would you say that society shouldn't increase police protection because this is ultimately about the victims making good choices? What if the victims complain that the criminals need to brought to justice? Maybe the victims should be dusting for fingerprints, collecting evidence and investigating leads themselves, trying to recover their property themselves. If they can't, this just shows that they lack good morals and strong character traits like hard work and determination.

This is wrong because it doesn't matter whether you're a hard worker, you have the unconditional right to police protection and justice. We don't say that some groups of people are excluded from those rights because they haven't earned them - those are part of human dignity and you get them for free.

The argument that society ought to address poverty is argument about justice, that the suffering endured by the poor is a violation of their basic human dignity. When one of us is deprived of justice, all of us are deprived of justice, and the question of whether they can make choices to change their situation or whether they are morally worthy is irrelevant to this argument. The counter-argument is either that human dignity doesn't exist, or that the horrors and suffering endured by the majority of humanity so that a few can enjoy luxury doesn't constitute a deprivation of human dignity and justice.
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...but has anyone tried it? I'm quite happy with my new Schwab account after closing my previous (and first) internet banking account after 10 years. Maybe we aren't the right demographic for BankSimple. But maybe they are marketing to the wrong folks with their analytics, etc. How many of you have problems with triggering excess fees? It's never been a problem for me.
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I think that was the OP's point. SIDS is rare and probably has nothing to do with a baby's position.It's a medical guess, at this point.

I almost feel irresponsible mentioning this, so let me say that one should always listen to their doctors.
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Here is a general thought about it. I think anyone who ever played with CA more seriously had a similar idea, but NKS took it a step further and tried to formalize it. It's an interesting read, with A LOT of bloat in the book. Actual book is damn huge, and IMO it could have easily been a book of ~300 pages at most.

Aside from that, I think it's quite interesting and well worth a read, even if you're not into CA itself - that is, if you can navigate yourself around the bloat.

I've read the book from a data compression/information complexity interest standpoint. So, I can't comment on it's pretensions over it's usefulness in all area of sciences.
These buttons should look just as good using the input tag. There might be very slight differences in certain browsers, but nothing drastic.
My mom likes to tell people I could operate a remote conntrol at 18 months. Not sure if either a) its normal or b) its a good thing.
"I feel bad for the poor, but in a rich, capitalist, free-market place like America, ALMOST ANYONE can become middle-class or better, if they just act like responsible adults."

"If you want to work two shifts, and save your money, and eat oatmeal, you can become a millionaire."

So let me get this straight -- being a responsible adult is working 16 hours per day, living off of oatmeal, having no disposable income?

I'll be perfectly honest with you. Morals aside, I'd be much more inclined to just rob you. In the off chance I go to jail, my life wouldn't be much worse.

I know in your idealized world people just do as their told. I think I'd make more calculated decisions... and I don't think they're likely to be decisions that you're a fan of.
> There's no mechanism for identifying such minimum possible dependencies.

Er, yes there is, and there has been for at least the last 12 years, and probably more.

Requires: python >= 2.6.1
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Why would it need to be moved to library? Wouldn't it be easier just let schools open doors and let everybody use the equipment etc where it is?
I've no direct experience of Arch, but the traditional problem with integrating rubygems is that it expects to be able to install more than one version side-by-side. That's alien enough from the packge management point of view, but when it's de facto idiomatic to specify required versions and manipulate the load path at runtime, it makes integrating with a distro downright fiddly.
It is interesting that this email came up today on HN, along side the article from Zed Shaw on how he is dropping the Python requirement from Mongrel2 and the debate it has sparked.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1712035
I learned about the solar plexus (they were always knocking out goons by hitting them in that mythical spot)... never could seem to find it in real-life fights though...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146656.Hardy_Boys_Complet...
Please don't put me in a box. You don't know me.

Yeah I think there is a deep infection here, but it has nothing to do with poverty. It begins with the idea that if you take social assistance then social assistance must be a good thing. Or that somehow you must support it. As you are demonstrating by your words, this isn't any good at all. For Joe, Sarah, you, or anybody else. This same logic holds that if you don't send your kids into the military, you can't support a war. One supposes that everybody must volunteer at the local fire station or go without emergency support, or that those who took a pencil in second grade must somehow support armed robbery as a way of life. Give a man a fish, and he must support government sanctioned fish distribution for his entire life. It's the one-size-fits-all, if-you-were-touched-by-it-you-must-endorse-it thinking. Not good. Not good for anybody. Let's move past such rhetorical nonsense.

Here's the thing: it's one thing to explain something that you understand and know how to fix. It's quite another to simply cite statistics and general correlations. There are a lot of folks who think that positive mental attitude can lift you out of poverty -- I am one of them. And there are folks that think it is mostly luck. (I also think luck has quite a bit to do with it as well) But I can guarantee you that anybody who thinks that life is pointless will never make it. I also observe that after trillions spent on LBJ's War on Poverty (one hopes it did not involve shooting poor people) we are no further along than when we started. So for all the bluster, we do not have the answer. We have a lot of complex ideas and theories, but we have no answer.

We do not know how to lift people out of poverty. We DO know that hopelessness and despair will prevent folks from succeeding. You can either sit around and dress up correlation as "giving them cold facts" or you can help with attitudes. That's just what every poor person with a poor education needs -- some rich college guy with a $50 vocabulary going on and on about how the system is against them and how they'll never make it.

When I was poor, I knew people like this. Oddly enough, many of them were college educated. It was always pointless, the system was always corrupt, the rich guys always got richer and the poor guys always got the shaft. It's mental disease masquerading as wisdom. Guys who felt that way are either still there, dead, or in prison. You can be in a hopeless situation and still have joy and hope. Unless you listen to some people.

Like I said, you sound more part of the problem than the solution.
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I ran into a problem with https -- will google allow me to securely reference their CDN?
I find it deeply offensive that anyone would take what amounts to eugenic nonsense seriously. If we've learned anything about genetics in the last decade of having the genome decoded, it's that we don't understand squat about how intelligence comes from genetic factors.

I don't have a cause here, by the way. I am not arguing a negative; it is up to the folks who which to establish a significant correlation to make their case. So far, all of the indicators are against them (genetics per se seems not to play a major role in success later in life).

You may think that the biases that I cite aren't major causes of performance differences, but that's no different than you saying that you think that green tea tastes good. I may think that they're major causes, but that's no different than me saying that black tea is better. What I know is that there are studies out there that indicate that there are many factors much stronger than genetics will ever be for success.

The top of these is, by the way, family life. These are measurable more in the negative than the positive: children of alcoholics and drug addicts tend to do worse in school than those with non-addicted parents; children of broken homes tend to do worse in school than those with unified families. One of the major positive correlations is reading: children whose family reads, even if they don't read together, tend to perform better in school than those who don't. What families read, especially together? Those who don't have to spend a lot of time working to make ends meet and put food on the table.

You may think that [4] is suspicious, but I've heard about this study a few times and I believe that it has been corroborated by other studies. Yeah, it's surprising, but that doesn't make it wrong. Again, step to Gladwell for a second and look at what Korean Air found out. When the subconscious social status indicators happened in language, accidents were more likely to happen. As soon as the entire cockpit switched to an informal English, accident rates dropped dramatically. So yes, reminding someone of their "social place" can significantly reduce their performance.
Looks cool, but I get an error saying: "Something went wrong. Please try again." I tried again, and alas same problem.
The point is that building a new Python just to generate virtualenvs from is not disruptive to anything else. Zed says they had to move away from Python because the system would get messed up if you replaced the distro-supplied Python. Building a new Python and merely using it from the build directory to generate virtualenvs doesn't disrupt anything in the system. We have done this on several CentOS systems and had no issue.

You just build it and don't install it, run it from the build directory or some other isolated space that won't effect the system. You _can_ create venvs from there. After you have done so, just carry your venv around with you and there's no disruption from anything. Our venvs are all kept in project-top-level/venv.
Hi Zed. For the specific case of needing Python 2.6 on RHEL, ask your user to install the 'python26' package from EPEL. It's a semi official source of packages for RHEL including newer versions of OS tools that slot alongside those versions.
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Totally! I hated Aunt Gertrude... if it was up to her there would be no more adventures! I disliked her very very very much.
I bought the book back when it came out.

It has two parts, the main text and the supplement, which is actually longer. I've read most of the main text.

There's not much practically useful info in there that you couldn't pick up by reading good Wikipedia articles or other online articles, esp. now that the book has been our for years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

I'd still consider buying it for the iPad if it's cheap (<$10), just so I can browse and read it when I'm bored on the subway..
I'll third that, its downright inspirational.
One thing that doesn't seem to have numbers, though I think the data would be sufficient to give them, is what the caching probability is like after taking the fragmentation into account. If I reference the Google CDN URL for jQuery 1.4.2, how many of the top 200,000 sites reference that? I assume it's rather less than the 6,953 that reference any version, but how much less?
Works for me: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js
Definitely in agreement with this. I remember reading about Aaron Greenspan a longggg time ago as a teenager and being motivated by his success with Think Computer and trying to do better myself. He'd won accolades for being so young, yet successfully running a business. That was admirable and really inspirational. This, however, isn't. Everybody has flaws, but it's getting to be a sad thing to watch an inspiration flail around repeatedly about how he's not getting credit for Facebook.

I think a lot of us, depending on what contexts we've been in (college, most notably), have had an idea "copied" with the copier, in some cases, going on to get more recognition for the idea than we. I had a friend who built what was the pre-cursor to Facebook Marketplace and then watched as another classmate yanked the idea from him down to identifiable lines of code (Javascript, comments, etc.) and proceeded to have some success with it. Instead of going on a rampage about how he'd been ripped off, my friend just kept building and expanding his user base. He got up to around 1500 users (way more than the other guy) before Facebook Marketplace really hit (and he ultimately shut the site down), but his attitude wasn't to go around publishing whiny letters in the campus newspaper about the unoriginal classmate.

I can't figure out why Aaron Greenspan can't take this route. If I'm missing something from a monetary/contractual standpoint, somebody let me know, but these posts look bad. :\

EDIT: Ambiguity on friend's marketplace app.
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That's a nice looking site for a $35 template. Any chance you're willing to share where it's from?
Ask HN: Should I use “My” or “Your” at all in web app verbiage?
Should possessive adjectives be used at all in web app UI elements?

I consider it a given that helpful copy should use “you” when relevant: “Drag the image into your browser,” “Don’t [you] reload during this process.”

But what about UI elements like tabs and buttons? Should they use “My,” “Your,” or neither?

“My Account,” “My Profile.”

“Your Account,” “Edit your profile.”

“Account,” “Profile.”

I know there’s been research done in this area, but a couple Google, DuckDuckGo, and SearchYC searches came up empty. Does anyone have this advice bookmarked?
Blast me if this is a ploy to collect emails.
It is not about cost per hour, but about improving yourself vs. entertainment.

TV's information density, even for good shows (however defined), is very low; you can learn far more in 1 hour of reading than in 1 hour of TV watching. And TV is a passive activity while reading a book requires mental involvement.

What people, even poor people, choose to spend their time on has an effect on what they are able to do later.
damn, my solution was to host it locally. how did i blatantly not try this?
> The OS doesn't need python. It is some package you have installed that needs python

No. The installer and packaging system need Python. Anaconda and Yum depend on it. Try removing it and see. You cannot install a minimal RHEL or Fedora system without Python. I am fairly sure this applies to other distros too.
That's... quite a claim. I'm hardly the only contributor to Perl 5 who thinks that the obsession over backwards compatibility with an unknowable and unmeasureable DarkPAN is unhealthy.
Jonah Lehrer: What are we measuring in school?
http://www.bookthing.org/ for instance will generally take those books.
The guy making over $250K can easily wind up just as bankrupt as Scalzi's sad sack who stumbles around dropping his mac 'n' cheese on the floor (grip the bowl firmly, people). Saying the higher income folks just have a money management problem is just plain wrong, unless you want to also admit that the sad sack guy has a population management problem because he's gone and had kids he can't afford to feed/clothe/educate properly. Both have made choices they can't support, and I think both are entitled to bitch about the end result (briefly; and then go do something about it).
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It might be - not sure it's just a PNG issue, or if it's a canvas flaw, or what. The system could ideally check the before/after sizes, and only send the smaller one. Good catch (I think I'd seen that once in testing too).
Holy Shit! I'm really happy for the Urban Airship guys, this is a pretty big account/partnership for them.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
My count is 4636 lines, and I can imagine much. much smaller Python 2.3 code:

ast.c 115
ast.h 45
cli.c 482
cli.h 31
cli.rl 143
commands.c 498
commands.h 5
config_file.c 193
config_file.h 27
constants.c 82
constants.h 14
lexer.c 360
lexer.rl 121
linenoise.c 433
linenoise.h 40
m2sh.c 27
mimetypes.csql 851
parser.c 1074
parser.h 15
parser.y 69
token.c 11
I'm interested in the technology behind your crawler, you could potentially use it to discover many more things, like which sites use popular APIs etc. What language is it written in? What do you use for the backend/DB? How fast is it?
I'm working on a project involving similar large scale crawling and I would love to know more.
I wrote a long post refuting your points, but ended up erasing it because I don't think you can reach sociopaths. Let's just leave it as sometimes shit happens to people in life, and folks with money and financial resources have a much easier time of it. Also, you're an asshole.
"Time to move on and invent something great. Leave his shadow (and don't name your products Face or Book)."

Was this related to:

https://www.facecash.com/individuals.html

?
wow, Russia and China have started building realistic opponents for F-15s/F-16s and F-18s just now? I'm not sure whether I should laugh, cry, or tear my eyes out...
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Not true. In some Linux distros Python is used for system scripts, instead of sh.

If you don't understand what program on your server required python to be installed, then you shouldn't be administering a server

Quite.
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A semester of welding, lathing, and whatnot will likely not help a professional MechE

Real, actual mechanical engineers think otherwise.
There are scrapyards all over the country. See http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=71 for example.
looks cool. how did you implement the mobile notifications? sms or iphone/android push notifications?
Amazing showing of drive and determination. I admire your focus and level-headedness in a time of great stress. If I can achieve half what you did in those 9 months, in the next year I will be happy. There is no better time than now. Thank you for the inspiration.
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Based on your location (Turkey) this is what I would do if I were in your shoes:

Rather than decide on yes or no based simply on the terms (which might appear ridiculous to those in US), I would check the track record/references of the company.

Do they use these terms to drive the programmers as slaves? or is it simply a defensive strategy (in response to local job market/legal environment) meant to ensure employee productivity and stability in the company?

Obviously its a no-no, if it is the former and an ok-yes if it is the latter.

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Why I say this: (the long of it for those interested)
(All these refer to developing companies with high growth rates, high inflation, high competition and low number of truly qualified professionals - this is the reality of their job market/legal/economic environment)

Such contracts are often common in developing countries, where the turnover rates are ridiculously high. ( how about employees jumping every 6 - 12 months as sort of a norm among the non-mncs? - for a different reality)

Often, some employees join a company, complete training for a few months and then jump to another company showcasing that training. And latter companies often don't hold it against the employees for jumping so soon, because they dont' have to spend time and money on getting that employee trained - this is the nature of competition in those countries.

It is also a sort of protection for the company so that employees come in, get to know their good ideas (if they are worth) then just jump to other companies with those ideas or start their own companies based on them - the legal protection against this is ridiculously low or non-existent in almost all countries (even the democratic ones) except for those in NA/EU and Japan.

There is also this problem of prospective employees putting up fake certifications and experience, and claiming higher salaries in many developing countries. Systems to verify educational and occupational records of prospective employees are almost non existent, if at all.

Fyi,I am not pointing fingers at the employees, they are also under tremendous pressures to maintain a decent standard of living in environments subject to very high inflation ( against the typical 1-2% in the US, how about around 10%? and those are the 'official' rates which are often watered down for the international press). So they have to keep getting higher and higher salaries to maintain the same standard of living. Often that job hopping is the best way to ensure that increasing salary.

Either way, good luck.
Everybody could use protocol relative URLs with the google CDN to simplify things:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js"></script>
> I don't think you can reach sociopaths.

Wonderful ad-hominem attack: "I can't make a convincing argument, therefore I'm going to write the other party off as not a true human being".

I salute you.
The same could be said for many of the "rich" in America too.
No. Clearly you aren't American. The situation we have in the US is so ridiculous, it needs to be seen to be believed.

Early on during the recession, NPR, an American radio station did a report on people going hungry as a result of the recesssion. Go look at the picture. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9259254...

No starving person in Africa or anywhere else had a BMI of 29.