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> The temptation of seeing this depressing bullshit upvoted is too much to resist.

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(Did you know Hotel California was about heroin? That might actually be a valid comparison to HN...)
I found this quite handy: http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html

I am a cgibin kind of person.
I think we can expect much more of this sort of thing. Technology always removes humans from the work force and we now have the right set of resources - reliable, cheap computers and a large enough pool of skilled programmers - to do to office workers with software what we did to farm works with tractors and auto workers with robots.
> One might say they owe something back.

What, the wonderful computers they make for us are not enough?
Seems like a trickle-down economics type of excuse to me. If they really wanted to do that they really could do it like Buffet used to http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/1997ar/shcontri.html
I like this idea. It reminds me of the http://experimentalgameplay.com/, which has similar competitions on a monthly basis. Pyweek maybe is closer to a traditional rapid development competition like Ludum Dare though.
you need to do marketing only before release so that you can get good userbase.
I'm appalled at how hard it is to find any usable information. The many government websites involved are full of rapidly changing links, so even links between government organizations are broken.

From what I can turn up, you are correct about the Visa Waiver Program. Once you enter the USA, your 90 days begins ticking. The one and only way to reset it is to leave the region of the USA, Canada, Mexico, and minor islands.

It appears, however, that if you skip VWP in favor of of a B-2 tourist visa, you can renew this upon reentry, with no hard-set limit on renewals.

As in all things, everything is up to the discretion of border patrol. It seems that while reentry renewal of a B-2 visa is considered normal, they generally want you to go back home for six months out of the year.
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> Would your sub-reddit be a commercial enterprise who's sole source of revenue was monetizing someone else's intellectual property illegally? Or would your sub-reddit be a user-curated (not reddit curated) site that engaged in substantial non-infringing uses subject to DMCA takedown rules... Here is reddit's DMCA agent filing if you are interested http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/a/advmp.pdf
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I totally agree with this post. Charity does not only come in the form of monetary donations...
US society has already decided what Apple owes back each year, via the IRS. I don't see why it's fair to expect them to dispose of more of their shareholders' money than some other companies in the same position. It's not as if their shareholders would reach a consensus about an unrelated social problem to solve, much less make an empty gesture towards solving (charities can't fix the free rider issue, which is why they almost never get enough resources to actually succeed and shut down).
Yes, you're misunderstanding the statistics a bit. If you're choosing your moves randomly, your win rate will always be 1/3 no matter how non-random the computer's moves are... even if it keeps choosing the same thing over and over.
A realtime collaborative wire-framer with e-commerce functionality?

Personally, I don't think the marketplace or 'rating' designs, or posting them publicly at all is a good idea. Wireframes would probally be seen as too basic of a commodity, and with of the large amount of design work to go from a wireframe to a full design mockup there would be no reason to actually buy any wireframe-stage mockup. A buyer could take the wireframe and fully build it up legally without needing to buy anything after they see a preview thumbnail. The buyers would almost certainly want to make minor changes themselves in the proccess, too.

I like the idea of a collaborative wireframing tool though, I would certainly have a use for this myself. I know of realtime collaborative 'whiteboards', and single-user online wireframing tools, but nothing that combines the two.
I think it's at least reasonable to concede that it's possible that Apple does more good in empowering not-so-tech-savvy-individuals than it would in donating money to charities.

As a case-in-point, my girlfriend and I recently gave her old MacBook to my grandmother. Ever since - she's been more engaged with facebook than anyone my age - and it shows in her mood and general well being. I can't help but glow every time I get off a FaceTime call with her!
There is, but you are not taking advantage of it as long as you choose randomly.

Imagine the other tries to exploit your imagined human non-randomness and plays rock all the time. You play totally random, so on the long term you win/lose/tie roughly same number of times.

You would be taking advantage if you played paper all the time.
I doubt those are habits, they seem more like abilities. A lot of people have these abilities, but great innovators can also manage themselves and actually do something...

Uhm, and there were no Taoists 5000 years ago.
Sufficient exercise can reverse or minimize many of those diseases you mention.
The 1st party is the platform vendor. So, Microsoft for PCs, Apple for Macs and iPhones, etc.

The 2nd party is the customer, either you or the organisation you work for.

A 3rd party is anyone else.

Choice of indefinite rather than definite article in the last case is deliberate.

The terms come from law: most contracts are between two entities ("the first party" and "the second party") and any other entities not party to the agreement are referred to as "third parties".
Many thanks for the feedback guys. Much appreciated.

I have lots planned for YCPages. The first step was get it out there and get the feedback. I am working on adding the funding details at the moment.

I have also posted a question on Quora. any help on that would be great.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-technologies-used-by-YComb...
Actually, that's a fascinating idea that could be put to a different purpose.

Spambots try to spew spam as quickly as possible, right? I wonder how effective it would be to flag those who fill out the signup forms too quickly as likely spammers and check up on them or impose extra limitations until they had been using their account for a while without spamming?
I don't understand how jokes (while funny) and snide comments get upvoted more than relevant information. I upvoted your whois post. Thanks for saving me whois time.
Such articles put me in mind of Jack LaLanne, who by most accounts did everything (that he knew of) right in terms of exercise and diet.

He lived to 96 ... his brother Norman LaLanne lived to 97.
Most of these are trivial or just generic threadsaftey questions.

You probably should not be using the singleton pattern in the first place though, global state is not an elegant solution.
Yes. A number of security augmentations in Windows 7 required significant modifications to the operating system kernel and user space environment (almost to the point of a rewrite in some cases). These modifications cannot happen in Windows XP without turning Windows XP into Windows 7.
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The only things the iPad2 will be revolutionizing are things safely inside Steve Job's Reality Distortion Field.
Why can't they both be right?

We're omnivores. I would be surprised if there weren't multiple diets that led to health.
Some folks are just healthier. It's a single data point. Who knows if it has anything to do with his diet? Staying fit and avoiding tobacco are proven to extend life. His specific dietary restrictions? Meh, who knows?
If the tests are asking little enough, then why are the teachers complaining they have no time to do anything but "teach to the tests"? Aside from calling them outright liars, I mean. Maybe that's what you're doing.

And I don't think school is a place to evaluate creativity or social skills, but to give people an opportunity to develop them.

And I'm really convinced that you're not quite sure what "engaged" students is supposed to mean, especially if you think it's something to be evaluated. I've been using the word to mean something like "maintain interest". You seem to use it to mean something different every time you bring it out. Has "engaged" become one of those meaningless buzzwords since I left North America last century? Is that what you're sneering at?
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One of the most important requisite to be able to innovate is solitude. The ability to disconnect from the crowd, clear out your brain, spend some time with yourself, look within for your own voice and thoughts, and reflect upon them. You need to practice this to be able to mental time travel, to realize interconnected systems, to be able to shift frames, to be an “outthinker” with a disruptive mindset, to gather enough passion to influence others.

One simple quote from the article that I liked:

"Sometimes just changing your perspective reveals the answer"
If you play a few rounds an option appears to let you see how it is picking.

It seems to use a history depth of 5, both for you and it. So it creates a 'fingerprint' from your past 5 moves and it's past five moves, and then picks what is the most winning move in it's history given that same fingerprint.

That strategy seems to work reasonably well, I tried to just go all paper for a while and it responded with all scissors. Ouch.
What resources/books do you recommend for learning about proper diet?
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He doesn’t count calories or believe in extreme caloric restriction as a way to extend life.

Not only has caloric restriction been shown to work in mammals (including primates), but it has known mechanisms of action. That's some hefty evidence to ignore.

But he does believe that excess weight is a sure way to abbreviate it, and reprimands friends, acquaintances and even strangers who are heavy.

The latest studies (http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/293/15/1861.abstract) show underweight and obese people have higher mortality in old age. The mildly overweight need not worry.

Sure, the rinds and peels — which he explains by saying that the parts of fruits most directly sun-kissed are bound to harbor the most energy — may be a little strange.

This makes it clear he has no idea what he's talking about.
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Neat idea, but funny that it suddenly removes the number one reason I use torrents: an unreliable connection.

Can you offer the download in some format that lets me resume? Perhaps a private torrent of some kind? Then you'd have a customer in me.
One of the things I liked about Microsoft was the company's gift matching policy - they'd 100% match your donation to a charity up to <SOME LARGE NUMBER>. I found myself being more generous because of it, what with each of my dollars worth two.

I'm surprised Apple doesn't have a similar policy - sure, it didn't make or break my decision to join MS, but it was an awfully nice compensation bonus.
Regarding risk perception, I've always liked this quote from the book 'Adventures of a Dead Sea Smuggler' by Henry de Moinford:

"There was no use worrying about the possible difficulties to come, they always loom very large and terrible in the distance, but when one arrives at the foot of a wall there is always some foothold that enables one to climb it."
It's mainly accurate. My wife works for a major vendor in this sector, and I'm a pre-law student with a hacking background, knowing more about this technology than I can say here. However, discovery is just one part of the legal industry. Lynch's numbers are exaggerated, though his basic points are correct. Don't generalize too much from this.
actual and better source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_track...
To be pragmatic London to Sydney via SKG, DBX, or HKG is shorter than via LAX. And since it sits on the other side of the IDL you'd be flying for 2 days rather than 28 hours.
Usually ICE confiscates domain names for tax evasion.
I've written software to replace this type of thing, in my case it was classifying communications as to whether they were attorney-client privileged or not. It has to be cheaper, it was about a month of my time. And about a week working with a high priced lawyer to write the ruleset and confirm it caught everything and was excluding all the right stuff. With that software they've essentially got their best lawyer going through every piece of communication.

It has to be cheaper, I can't imaging paying someone with a law degree to go through all of that. And now their lawyers are freed up to do something more useful.
Django and Pylons will both introduce you to a lot of advanced concepts that I would imagine to be very confusing to someone not familiar with programming. I'd recommend you first learn Python more fully before you start working with a framework. In fact, at this point I would recommend practicing with traditional desktop scripts as opposed to anything on the web, but using CGI may actually be a better choice in getting you down the path you want to go faster.
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> There is, but you are not taking advantage of it as long as you choose randomly.

You're right. I was just thinking that 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 was the Nash equilibrium and not really thinking the whole thing through. Once I gave it a little more thought, I came up with the same rock example you gave.
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I picked the seconds on my digital wrist watch, modulo 3, as a 'random' choice. 16-16-20. Far better than when I made the choice myself.
If the farm analogy is any indication, pretty soon lawyers will receive gov't subsidy not to sue people.

I wonder what kind of bands LegalAID 2018 will draw?
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All these goof-ups by the FBI don't paint a pretty picture about the agency at all and I'm surprised some news agency isn't up in arms about their funding and incompetence like they are with the teachers' unions.
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Not at all 'Unbelievable', stop with the sensationalist crap. The difference is not statistically significant. (Every single change for the days that she supposedly influenced is not remotely unusual whatsoever, check their history)
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"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime".

Apple owe's you nothing, they are entitled to do exactly as they please with their profits.
Charity is not morally neutral. One part of being good means making the most of your own life. Another part of being good means helping other people.

No one can give away fifty million dollars that they don't have.

There is no inherent moral good in earning fifty million dollars (Bernie Madoff, Goldman Sachs, AIG, your local arms dealer, etc. etc.) There is often significant moral good in earning far less than fifty million dollars (teachers, nurses, etc).
And this is exactly why we all should be playing Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock.
This. Although, theoretically, if a 3rd party would start providing an API to their app...
Rabies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Transmission

I seem to recall a BBC news April 1 story about a 'zombie' outbreak that involved a mutated form of rabies...

Side note: also read the fascinating story of how Jeanna Giese became the first to survive rabies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_protocol
The two are wildly opposing, blaming each other for all the modern life diseases.

It's not impossible to be both right, given a sufficiently diverse human genotype pool, but rather hard to imagine really.
If you really need a lazy Java singleton for some reason, letting the classloader construct it (guaranteed to happen at most once, and as late as possible) is effortless and more robust than screwing around with the synchronization yourself. On the other hand, interviewing candidates has so shaken my faith that I'd be very impressed to meet anyone who knew this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern#The_solution_...
That's one camp, sure. Taubes strongly refutes it.
There are probably all kinds of potential jobs in the real world that are way too expensive to have a human do and that computers are better at or will be soon.

Like gold mining. I'm sure there are rivers in Canada that haven't been fully explored. Send in the drones!
Let me repeat that back to you as I understood it.

What you are saying is Apple (and their work) is $deity's gift to the world so they don't owe anything else regardless how many billions of dollars they make from it.

People in parts of the world that need help to survive or thrive more than a meager existence, aren't helped by Apple's pretty software UI and hardware design.
Much better source.

"His lawyers say Afifi, who was born in the United States, was targeted because of his extensive ties to the Middle East — he travels there frequently, helps support two brothers who live in Egypt, and his father was a well-known Islamic-American community leader who died last year in Egypt."

This is part of the story that TechDirt left out in favor of the inflammatory but misleading man-persecuted-over-Reddit-comment angle.
Except that the more you exercise, the more your body hungers for more calories. The homeostasis theory of the body makes far more sense than the current thermodynamic view of eating; that change in weight is equal to what you eat minus what you burn.

If you exercise more, you burn more of course. Supposing that your body has no idea how much energy its consuming, and thus the 'what you eat' part of the equation is independent of the 'what you burn' is simply ridiculous.

Those diseases, the diseases of western civilization wont go away by simply exercising more. Exercise more, you eat more, you don't lose your fat weight, you won't reverse those diseases.
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I think this is totally awesome, although only only useful for a few situations.

I've only really seen services like this (specifically, most popularly, http://codepad.org) used to demonstrate test cases when people are asking for help with their code. The "IDEdroid" app listed on ideone's API page (http://ideone.com/api) looks interesting though, but yet again, it is an only marginally useful application.
If you live a society that doesn't morally (or physically) oppress you, so you CAN make the most of your own life you've already benefited from it.

You've already taken for granted something you owe back.
This is interesting, however. Let's think about it for a minute.

- Caloric restriction has been shown to work. Caloric
restriction would most likely result in individuals
being at least slightly underweight.
- Underweight have higher mortality in the old age.
Mildly overweight need not worry.

So how does that work together?
I am gamer. Do you created any interesting game, or just this useless site?
There are numerous firms trying to use automated trading platforms to attempt to analyse social media to detect sentiment around brands, companies and sectors and trading on the results, although it's early days. The observations by the author of both this post and the original HuffPo piece are casual but the area is interesting.
It would have been better to compare the the movement on those days to one of the broader stock indexes, like the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 etc. Relative movement to the broader market compared to the typical variance would give a better picture.
BTW I believe HN etiquette is to not modify Titles from source posts gratuitously.
amortize "cheap" over the expected lifetime of the code. If man hours to write is the primary criteria then you'll have an uncommented mess of crap. I doubt the author means for this to be taken to the extreme. It makes for a good sound bite, but there is no simple rule of thumb when deciding how much effort to allocate to various parts of a project.
Good article, but the title here should be:

'how far _are_ we'
Similarly, in literature there are only first person points of view, second person points of view, and third person points of view.
As a massive corporation, I am sure Apple doesn't pay very much taxes, mostly because all their manufacturing is outside the US.

Note that some large corporations pay next to nothing.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-w...
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In most toy games you would be right; playing the GTO/nash equil. solution would naturally benefit from an imbalanced/exploitive style on an opponent. It's only in games like rock-papers-scissors where this isn't the game.
Practically nobody does CR. The underweight people in the study likely had diseases or nutrient absorption problems.
Bernie Madoff did not earn anything. He stole.

You cannot justly equate a destroyer of value (Madoff) with a creator of value (Jobs).
Based on six to seven years of careful research, I'm pleased to announce that I can add several qualities to that list. Innovators generally:

1) Interact with their environment in some way.
2) Acquire between one and a hundred languages.
3) Breathe oxygen.
4) Innovate somewhere in some way.

Seriously, though, why do these fluff pieces never acknowledge phenomena like survivorship bias or inherent sampling error? I know plenty of people with these qualities who innovate nothing at all. Is this about necessary conditions, as opposed to sufficient ones? Is it just about neat correlations devoid of actual significance? Why do we never look at people who try but fail at innovating? Their biographies are equally or more instructive.

Well, enough complaining. The world is in dire need of sub-par business blogging. Continue.
It's more complex than that; it can pick up on simple patterns. If you pick a pattern such as R>P>S and continue the cycle, by the end of the 2nd cycle it will have learnt the pattern and will beat you every time.
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When was the last time you saw a mainstream US news agency in arms about a government agency?
I'm not responsible for anyone's lot in life but my own. I pay taxes which keeps the government going, which keeps each of us from robbing the other. Having already paid to keep order (and for a whole lot of additional stuff that violates my rights), I owe nothing.

Steve Jobs pays a hell of a lot more in taxes than I do.
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The new testament: http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Macintosh-Apple-Computer-Inc/dp...

The book of common prayer: http://www.amazon.com/Macintosh-Human-Interface-Guidelines-C...

The dead sea scrolls: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Reference-Manual-Computers-030-0...

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