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I have been skimming over the comments in here, and I have come to two thoughts. First off, I don't have a well-established stance, but our god-like observation of their civilization is ... strange. I wonder what would happen if they all were struck by a terrible disease as the scientists with their kilometre-spying cameras watched. Would they go and help? Where's their "don't contact them" nature, then?

But that wasn't the thought I intended to contemplate. Some people have said that their culture is lost. Why is their culture lost? And this is terrible, but, does it matter? If their culture is full of things long since dis-proven, what has been lost? If they choose to leave their old ways upon discovering/learning (through whatever means) our ways, what does that matter? Please explain why these things are bad to me. If a people has chosen a different way of life upon experiencing it, who cares that it's gone? The anthropologists that were having fun? This desperation to keep these people isolated reminds me of another article I read on HN a while ago that discussed scientists that were very sad about the situation that polar bears and grizzlies were beginning to breed. I thought it was beautiful to see their joined species able to survive, but I can only imagine the people that wanted to keep them separate were disappointed, in part, because there wouldn't be any pure-bred polar bears anymore.

My other thought is a request to HN for this very type of article. Please, please, please, for heated debates like this with the numerous tree-like threads. Please make a way to collapse sub-threads so the train of thought that brought someone to a particular point can be clearly seen.
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Health insurance, but the problem is that pre-existing condition clauses can prevent you from getting insurance coverage at any cost.

The other alternative is simply "die", but rationally, there's little reason to choose that over bankruptcy. I wonder what happens to medical debts if you commit suicide over them... (Or what happens if you try to commit suicide and fail?)
"It's easy to be judgmental. What would you have done if you didn't have parents to mooch off of for a year? What if you had a family to support?"

The thing is, If I have a family, it means I'm already making enough to support them. This is the self-control and discipline I was talking about. Too many people decide to have kids and don't do anything to prepare (IE: save money, etc).

If I didn't have family, I would still be fine. I would have gotten a cheap apartment and paid it off in two years.

"But the truth is like many judgmental types, you had considerable practical/emotional support as well."

Really? I didn't know "judgmental types" and "practical/emotional support" went hand-in-hand.

This is why unsuccessful people stay unsuccessful. They pass good advice off as "judgmental".
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Well, I'm in Quebec, so a BEng at a very good university like McGill costs less than $4k a year, all fees and insurance included. Granted, the US appears to be more expensive.
"What if they're the anarchist of the group?"

What if they are? Can you see the diference between giving them, a group with far fewer resources to defend themselves, the chance to remain isolated if they want it so, or contact us as well, against forcing our presence there?

"Our existence is interference if they become aware of it"

I concede you that point. Can I rephrase "must not contact them" with "should minimize points of contact from our side"? Those planes have their purpose: to make us aware of their presence, because we're about to wipe out their environment. Should we keep our distance? Yes. Should we do nothing and let companies run them over? No, absolutely not. Then I go for flying over them and take pictures.. It's the lesser of two evils.

There's no magic. Once they discover us, instead of we discovering them, they can take the step to communicate wth us.
Not having any experience with contracts like this, I wonder how this relates to testing. Is this thought to be an addition or an alternative to usual xUnit style and integration tests. Or are these concepts not even related and I am getting it all wrong?
"What would you have done if you didn't have parents to mooch off of for a year? What if you had a family to support?"

What if a cow comes stomping into your front room and demands that you feed her shredded hundred dollar bills until she's full enough to tap dance her way to victory in the upcoming school competition?

Hypothetical aren't arguments, they're just anchorless questions. You have to look around yourself, figure out what to do, and do it. It may take extreme measures and you may encounter setbacks, but you can't let hypotheticals stop you. What do you have, right now? You don't have to worry about the hypothetical things happening to other people. How can you leverage it? Can you move somewhere that has more stuff? Do you need to declare bankruptcy? Do you need to find a private charity to help you out? Sometimes drastic action is called for.

Very few of us are handed life on a silver platter, and a goodly number of those people get the silver platter yanked at some time during their life. We all got problems. Solve them to the best of your abilities, or don't. I'm not guaranteeing success, because nobody's guaranteed success, but if you just give up on self control and discipline you're guaranteeing failure.
The ignorance and lack of empathy are surprising.
ViolentAcres actually had a good post about this a couple years ago:

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/32/drastic-measures/

Part of the problem is that when you're in debt, you get stressed, and when you're stressed, you tend to get tunnel vision and not see all of the possible alternatives. But the alternatives are out there. There are immigrant families that come here with nothing, sleep on sacks of rice in the back room of their workplace. There's the approach in the story above of going homeless and showering in the gym. There's roommates. You can live out of your car, if you have one.
Accusations of treason and espionage is as old as revolution itself. It's partly the regime spreading disinfo, partly the goons incapable of justifying their amoral acts, and then partly the Saddat-Mubarak regime unable to imagine any sort of spine, much less disobedience, is left in this People which it has so totally dominated.

So they point their fingers outward at the nearest boogymen.

http://yfrog.com/h4fmiaj

Translation:

""Foreign powers are planing to incite the you tomorrow in Tahreer Square, amidst the huge gatherings, and wants to attack the Egyption military and forcing it to retaliate, which will pave the way for foreign powers to come here in the name of peace-keeping in Egypt. Because of that, it's the responsibility of all the Eygptians not to go to Tahreer Square tomorrow, so the Egyptian Military is able to find the traitors, and arrest these elements. So, we ask you in the name of God not to gather tomorrow in Tahreer Square after the Friday prayers"

It evokes all the favorite talking points of a lying scoundrel: God, home-land and a benevolent military (all imaginary, imo.)
Here is more information about it:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/02/a-little...
Three days, three issues.

Anyone else left wondering what the other two issues were?

[edit] Well, this is embarrassing...
Downloading at night would be a good feature, but not one they would be able to implement without Apple's backing.
I read this:

> I’m saying they need to engineer the app so that it can start showing something interesting in 10 seconds or less — and then keep downloading the rest of the issue, piece by piece, in the background.

And that's exactly what it does. It keeps downloading the rest (most of it in fact), piece by piece, in the background. Just takes too long to first interaction.
It is about both. Debt means plunging closer towards poverty. Escaping from poverty means being careful about debt.

The debate is actually about what informational tools people have available to them. This is demonstrated by your statement:

>It's not hard to stay out of debt - you simply have to heed the message that money is transmitting to you.

which is equivalently "It's not hard to stay out of debt if you're equipped with the attitudes that let you stay out of debt" which is tautological and therefore a non-statement. My point is that poverty _means_ being less likely to understand money.

My point is _not_ accurately summed up by "But one shouldn't have to forgo an education to avoid going into debt." I make no assertion about what a person _should_ do because that doesn't have anything to do with what they actually will do. I would prefer the phrasing "People _will_ choose a risk of debt in order to have their kids better educated" as that more accurately captures the situation. Not all of the people who put it all on the line to live in a better neighborhood ended up in debt. Some of them got lucky and did not have medical emergencies--for them, the risk paid off.

So your statement about whether or not schools are "overwhelmingly important" is true but irrelevant. Schools aren't overwhelmingly important, but they _are_ important. They improve the odds of success. Your personal success in a shit-hole school does not speak to the average of that school nor does it comment on whether or not it is sensible for a parent to risk additional debt for a better school.
Oh, oops. Sorry, me and at least 3 others had a collective brain fart it seems. I had first thought you meant that both of those sets of compiler flags weren't quite right.
It's based on the idea of formal proofs for programs. There is a really good paper about this by dijkstra, but I can't seem to find it now.

Basically you defined preconditions and postconditions for each function and it looks like this "contracts" flag will raise an exception if those conditions aren't met.

This is probably a better way to test software, but you still need to know how to write the preconditions and postconditions concisely.
Why should we assume 'life expectancy' is an absolute measure of progress. One could equally argue that what one does over the course of a lifetime is more important than how long it lasts. Many people in our social systems spend the best part of 15 years in school, then 40 years working 40 hours a week, and may spend their final years riddled with diseases; depression and mental illness are on the rise; obesity, diabetes, back problems, etc., are increasingly common even in the young.

It was only relatively recently that the overall health of a person living in an agricultural society came to be comparable with the health inferred from ancient hunter gatherer skeletons.

There is no way to objectively 'measure' whether their lives or ours are better spent or more enjoyable.
how do you guarantee that the particular female friend had a crush on you and not on another guy (and just happened to be using the site for him)? :-)
Of course I didn't accuse you of racism; I have 51 other cards to turn to before I pull out the 'R'. It's just, in Egypt today, everyone was a target for a paid mob hired by despicable thief.
This contracts refer to the concept of "Design by Contract."

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

The poster child of design by contract is the Eiffel Programming language.

http://www.eiffel.com/developers/design_by_contract.html

IMO Contracts help you te really reduce the number of unit test you need to write.

And the tests that you DO write are more intersting in the BDD kind of way.

I highly recommend to study design by contract. Is one of those things that will make you a better developer in any language you use.

A good book with examples in Java and Eiffel is this:
Design by Contract, by Example
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Contract-Example-Richard-Mitche...
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meh? ultimately the back end for it is cassandra, correct? so they're what, going to open source their implementation of doing stats in cassandra? It's great for people to open source code, but I think it's more of a championing for cassandra, than it is a 'code dump'

also in that vein, the formspring comment / gist link is very commendable and awesome!
The next step for this would be to statically verify the annotations are being obeyed.
Well, it does not compile !!! There is no documentation about dependencies... This project is far from operational and mature !!! I'd really rather that people did not deliver half-ass projects and loose people's time...
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I sense you might be making a joke, but just in case: I'm pretty sure he means that three issues of The Daily have come out in the three days since the app's debut.
Three issues of the magazines. Issues as in copies or volumes - not problems.
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He meant issues of the newspaper - it's a daily, so there's a new "issue" every day. Or were you joking?
C/C++ only ... so far. Maybe one day Oracle will force them to offer C# to Dalvik bytecodes compiler ...
This is actually a pretty neat idea. One problem I see is 99% of Facebook apps in this genre are complete spam, meaning you could get grouped in with them and ignored.
That sounds (close to) impossible. How would you tell if a given piece of code sorts a list properly? There are a million and one sorting algorithms and the static analyzer would have to be really smart to be able to check that reliably.
Sigh. OK, you're right. By the way, have you heard the Good News about Jesus? There's a book for that too, you know.

Downvote away, but you don't get to use verbal sleight-of-hand on here (comparing life expectancy in hunter-gatherer versus 'agricultural' societies, when the question involves an industrial/post-industrial society) and top it off with a vague "It's true! Go read about it" argument.
I lived in Cairo on and off for up to 6 months at a time between 2004 and 2009. The whole situation has been somewhat surreal to watch. The places are all the same, where I lived and spent time, but the context is so radically different that it's hard to imagine this - even watching the videos on Al Jazeera.

But there is something about the quiet of this memorial and the simplicity of the names and ages of these people who I was in classes with just a few years ago, or riding the metro with, or practicing Arabic with, juxtaposed with the brutality of the way in which they died, that really hit me.

I'm glad you took the time to email 1000memories and I'm glad that they responded like they did.
you're making the definition of calculated risk much more technical than it needs to be.

I ain't saying they did a formal cost-benefit analysis of the whole thing.

You seem to think that people can or ought to have an answer for every situation, should be prepared for every contingency; that there is a perfect understanding that one can just _follow_ and have everything turn out alright. That's great if it's how you can live your life, but 1) one day I bet you'll find that your preparation and contingencies were just an illusion, that luck has had its way with you--I mean, haven't you ever wondered what would have happened to you if your dad just died when you were 12? _That happens to people who were just like you_; and 2) most people don't have that and have to make choices without knowing what's behind the next door.

It's a YC startup because even if a person was willing to accept the cost of the contingency labeled "risk that didn't work out," there's still a valuable service in saying, surprise!, you will pay less for taking that risk by using our shiny software!
I'm sure the price will drop if they catch on but, assuming it's basically a hacked jet-ski with a hose & harness attached to it, they still won't be cheap. A jet ski can set you back anywhere from $10k - $50k around here, so it's still a luxury item for most.
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Also pretty much exactly what happened in Evangelion's Second Impact.
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Prolly too late for you to see this, but that "[working] with not being absolutely certain" is precisely faith in its truest, most broad form. God in this faith is not the sky wizard of atheistic clap-trap, but a question: if some entity is responsible for all of this bullshit existence, is that person on our side? Faith is the answer 'yes.' Atheism doesn't have an answer via attacking the question, which is fine until we are forced to face it.

which will happen.
OCSP is probably the bulk of that time. On Chrome Linux you can start a fresh instance, load the HTTPS page then open a tab with about:histograms and search for OCSP. The time taken should be in there. (Otherwise, use a packet sniffer and don't forget to account for the DNS lookup too.)

OCSP stapling is the best answer, although one can only staple a single response and many chains these days require two responses.

So a better answer is to get a CA which issues certificates with 24-48 hour validity and doesn't use an out of band revocation system. If you can find such a thing, please tell me where.
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We won't get a chance to offer them a better life if the illegal loggers kill them off with guns and disease first - a process that already began during the rubber boom.

The fact that illegal loggers are even there to begin with shows that our morality is not greater than our greed in the pursuit of resources. We may have good intentions, but, if these tribes are not completely protected, elements within our society will slowly take every liberty with the land and its people as has been done countless times in the history.

We know nothing of aliens. Any speculation is a reflection on ourselves and, therefore, it is more common to believe that aliens would annihilate us rather than be interested in improving our way of life.
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This seems very cool. Well be great when ogre gets ported to android.
Is The Daily truly a daily? If so, the wait's really long by 2011 standards.
In a nutshell, that's it. People have a sense of resignation on the whole thing. There is very little prospect of things improving any time soon. The choices would appear to be a) adjust to a lower standard of living, or b) get out.
Take half her toys away, and say "I just taxed you."
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It's been running for two years on some unnamed factory before they invited 50 people over to see it, and they still don't have even an arxiv paper?

science isn't done in backrooms.

color me skeptic. as soon as crayola comes out with that crayon.
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separation of style, logic, and content is virtuous- but your qualifications for "style" seems to be demanding and/or arbitrary. is hiding all unordered lists after an unchecked checkbox not a style?

additionally, styling by attribute is hardly a different than styling by class. it just so happens that this attribute is dynamic. the actual logic that's taking place here is not in the css; it is inherently handled by the browser.
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According to the developer, Micro-Max has an Elo rating of about 2,000 (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/huochess). A 2,000 Elo rating corresponds to "expert" per the USCF, or about the top 1% of players (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_expert).

I've played at least a hundred games against it and lost every one. :P
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I'm really interested in the CGM (consumer generated media) space, and I'd love to get some feedback on what the market's like.

My idea is to take something like WordPress, modify it with CGM features (voting, user submitted pictures, videos, comments embedded in media, user profiles, karma system, etc) and market it as a SaaS to mid to large sized businesses. Sort of like how Yammer works, but for businesses that want to implement interactive features features in the most efficient manner.

I could also implement a simple shopping cart system and payment gateways for PayPal, Authorize.net, etc as well. A lot of my inspiration comes from Danny Choo and his Mirai Gaia product in Japan. But that's licensed software.
That was my general perspective too.. ie. that Anglo was the biggest source of the problem. So I was surprised to read this line:

"In October 2008, the Irish Independent published a list of the five biggest real-estate deals in each of the past three years. A.I.B. lent the money for 6 of the 15, Anglo Irish for just 1, as a co-lender with A.I.B."

Clearly the bank guarantee was a disastrous decision, and in hindsight could have been handled very differently. But at the time, as Lehman and AIG and Fannie and Freddie were in chaos, it didn't seem all that outrageous.
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The deck though have carefully curated an image which allows them to demand a premium for unobtrusive advertising. I think this model without exclusivity would be a lot harder to sustain.
What I really want is an easy way to donate to any open source project or pay for development of features/bug fixes.
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Keyword: pursuing.
Hmm, other java contract projects more mature for a few years even and fully in production..

Why Google even pushed this out in such an alpha state?
Yes, it is impossible. See: Halting problem.
This makes me think of those Waco cult members that felt the wrath of the authorities - because they had children within their community I think.
Looks like a fun toy, but not a practical mode of transportation. Might as well just use a jet ski.