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I want to finish this conversation with just one point, which I'll try to make as clearly as possible. I started this thread with a post that included the question, "Why don't more poor people clean up their neighborhoods?"

I was being rhetorical, but your comments here are a fine example of one of the reasons why they don't: lack of a sense of ownership.

Let's set aside for a moment all of the other factors into why poor neighborhoods tend to be run-down and crime-ridden -- lack of resources, hunger, hopelessness, crime, drugs -- and imagine a neighborhood filled with perfectly rational poor people.

We'll take Bob as an example. Bob rents a house for slightly less than he can afford from a landlord that, for whatever reason, is not interested in fixing the place up and demanding a higher rent. Maybe it's because the landlord also doesn't have the funds; maybe it's because all the other places in the neighborhood are run down too, so the landlord could never realize as much value from improvements.

In Bob's neighborhood, none of the houses are freshly painted, because it's in nobody's best personal interest to do it, because they don't own the places. None of the yards are weeded or landscaped, the plumbing leaks, and the wiring is hazardous. Bob commits as little of his own resources to his house, because it doesn't belong to him.

Eventually, the neighborhood becomes the victim of its own disrepair, and is no longer worth investing any money in at all. Bob, being perfectly rational, simply moves into a similar situation at another neighborhood.

A wealthy investor shows up, purchases the homes for the rather low amounts that they command, from landlords happy to be rid of them and getting anything at all for them, and kicks out the tenants who simply move into other neighborhoods and repeat the pattern. The investor razes the miserable houses to the ground, which is probably the right thing to do at that point, and builds whatever their market research firm tells them is most valuable there -- a shopping center, parking, condominiums.

This, indeed, is a cycle that is being played out every day all over the U.S.; I've personally seen it in more places than I could easily recall.

But, I question that system. I think, if Bob weren't a rational actor, if instead he moved into a community and decided to behave as though it belonged to him as much as anyone else there, and subsequently started fixing little things here and there -- and then his neighbors did the same, because they didn't want to suddenly have the worst place on the block, and so on -- then, perhaps, poor people could discover that they can afford to live in nice neighborhoods after all.

G'night.
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Makes me glad I have never given them my credit card info. I bet they are looking at dozens if not hundreds of unpatched / out of date servers and realising they are basically wide open with no way to upgrade those things in anything like the timeframe they have available. In fact, they probably realised they can't even do an internal audit to find that out in 2 months. In the past they would probably laugh it off, but seeing what happened to Sony I bet they are seriously contemplating what could happen to their business.
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Of course if you get to the point of investing in 200-300 companies per year, and lots of them do well, prices of PA real estate will get even more expensive.
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Many companies provide matching funds for retirement accounts, but don't allow you much say in where you invest. You can be given a basket of stocks and told to pick, or told which fund managers you're allowed to use.

That aside, individual investors usually like their current funds and are loathe to leave them just for something that promises better results.

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What I envision is a site that simplifies the current technical and quantitative trading tools into something usable by the common trader.

That way if your company says pick from stocks A to Z to invest in June, you can decide which stock to pick. For example, don't pick A because seasonal trends dictate they always fall 8% in June. Or don't pick B because it is overbought because it is nearly touching a resistance band and has only broken resistance once in the past 5 years.

My examples are from technical analysis, but quantitative techniques work just as well.

The tools available are good, but require a lot of theoretical knowledge before use.

For a common investor, using a algorithmic tool with fewer options, sensible defaults, and automatically applied backtesting would be a huge step upwards from listening to Fast Money or the musings of their coworkers.
All bs. It's a funding ploy. I don't believe Telstra really fears LulzSec. But I bet they can convince the police (government) they do. Means more money for the project.
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I had dinner with some of the DrChrono guys. I think they are working on security issues (which, honestly, lag far behind adoption as a concern; they meet some minimal standard which is technically HIPAA compliant and better than most small practices now.)

The biggest security concern for something like DrChrono IMO is availability; they do a better job of backups, DR, replication than a forgotten windows box running filemaker in the closet of a small medical practice, now.
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Membership, sure, but motives, no. Anon goes after perceived wrongs against Freedom of Expression, and LulzSec goes after...everyone.
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The title led me to think it would talk about stuff like south [the database migration tool], solr [the search server], celery [the asynchronous job queue], fabric [a deployment tool replacing "ssh into server to do stuff"].

But alas that was too much to expect. It introduces the basic building blocks of the web, HTML, CSS, javascript and some server scripting languages like PHP, python and ruby, plus MySQL. It also talks about ASP.NET/C# web development but does not go into details about microsoft's MVC framework, or LINQ, either.

Maybe okay for an introduction for someone who is new to web development, I guess. Would've liked to see more about tools used in real web development, though.
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Well, does 'cash' mean physical cash or does it mean 'not on credit'? You're assuming the latter, but that doesn't make any sense, because buying on credit is effectively buying for more 'cash', just spread over some time (taking net values of later amounts into account of course). So I assume it means the former.
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perhaps a little basic for people reading HN.
ya this is an article written for introducing novices to web-develoment and how its done.
Its probably not feasible at this time with current technology even if you spent all 10 bil and went for break even.

It is worth remembering though, as we squabble over the scraps on the surface of our planet, that all of its wealth put together is probably insignificant compared to what might be floating around the solar system in easy reach for a sufficiently space-faring species. Lots of nice building materials (that aren't all messed up by oxygen) that don't have to be drug up out of giant gravity wells by chemical rockets.
People keep confusing publishing with distribution. She's self-distributing, not self-publishing. In fact, her publishers in the UK and the US are getting a cut of the Pottermore sales. The fact that users won't be able to download the books via the Amazon and iBooks stores but have to go to Pottermore and download the (presumably ePub) ebook directly are a consequence of her self-distribution. And it's a terrible idea. Users love centralized stores where they can find all their content with a single search, and most users have never run across an epub outside of these stores. If you can't search for it on Amazon or iBooks, it might as well not exists as far as these casual users are concerned.

Yes, obviously the popularity of Harry Potter is going to do a lot to teach casual users about the ability to get eBooks via other mechanisms than the centralized stores. But it's akin to trying to sell the physical books using a small independent bookstore (that just happens to be in everybody's town) but not stocking it in the big chains such as Borders. And really, it just strikes me as greedy. The only compelling reason to try and self-distribute is to avoid the 30% cut that Amazon or Apple would take. She's couching this as being a DRM-Free maneuver, but providing DRM-free ebooks on your site doesn't mean you have to take them off of the centralized stores too. Anybody who cares about the DRM issue can get it from you, and everyone else can get it from the store. And it may surprise you to realize that the DRM-laden books from the iBookstore are far more convenient for consumers than DRM-free epubs. I can buy a book on my iPad, then re-download it later on my iPhone without having to remember where I got the original epub or without having to manually sync it on to the device. And I can easily delete it when I'm done reading it and then re-download it again if I want it back for whatever reason. And I believe Amazon's Kindle app has a very similar experience.

J.K. Rowling, I love your books, but don't you think you're rich enough already? Give up that 30% and let me have my convenience back.
Batman's gotham is also too vulnerable. Their police department is understaffed and underequiped (except for when the story demands) the general civilians are too afraid to raise their voices. The current internet actually sounds like Gotham but just that the joker is a government department.
Are you switching from Telstra though? From seeing how the Internet breaks in USA [0] and China [1], it's discerning and goes against network neutrality.

Some people I spoke to that are against the Internet filter say they are not switching because of the contract. I pointed out that the filter is not voluntary for Telstra customers and so it's not part of contract unless they remain within a period of time. Then they tell me they don't want change.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comcast#Netwo...

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Google_China#...
Agree.

But I don't think tools can be categorized as "real" web development. Someone who create a static site compiler in bash script is doing as real web development as someone working with all the cool tools on the block.

It it has anything to do with HTTP/browser/webserver, it is as "real" as it gets. Everything else is a tool for a job nothing real or unreal about it.

PS: This should not have been on the HN front page.
thats not hacking. its a simple change of settings.
Same happened in Turkey this month (#22agustos). The Anon DDoS was portayed as a failure in Turkish media, and the government took credit for successfully fighting off the "cyber-attack". I wonder what would happen if it was LulzSec instead of Anon.
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Why were they going to go with IEEEIX in the first place? Or rather, why the "IX" suffix? To my knowledge, the name UNIX was a play on the name Multics, and the IX in UNIX doesn't have any independent meaning.
So you are saying the US gives even more power to the powerful and wealthy (e.g. corporations) and even less power to the poor regardless of who is right.
One might argue that a court should exist for deciding about justice, not budget.
I hope it is clear that I don't mean to attack you, I am just trying to understand.

We seem to agree that sense of ownership is the problem - and to me it is real, as those poor people really don't own the place they live in.

You are right that there could be a problem with people staying poor indefinitely and things only getting worse over time.

On the other hand, maybe the problem isn't "how can poor people live in nice places" but "how can poor people be less poor"? For example, apparently the poor people in your story seem to be good at renovating houses. Why shouldn't they be paid for it and hence become less poor (equivalently, be allowed to live in a nice house with lower rent in exchange for renovating said house). It seems it would cost the landlords nothing to give them a job, it is a win win situation.

I do think, or rather fear, that capitalism (or any real world instance of it) has some loopholes which might lead to the whole system collapsing, that is, everything belonging to just a few and the rest being poor. I am not sure that scenario is really happening (I just don't know), but there seem to be some signs of it.
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"In order to work, capitalism requires that everything have a measurable, monetary value, and that most people agree on that value."

It is the job of the market to determine the value. Corruption of capitalist parks might be a problem, although I did not say the park has to be owned by a company - just the people living around it need to own their houses.

Presumably the cafe in question here will be replaced by something even more worthwhile. Who would be willing to pay the higher rent, if they can not put it to good use?
i was under impression that the right to remain silent is valid even before the court

It is. That's what I meant by being in custody (arrested).
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I've used Sones for this, but it does require .Net so it depends on how portable you need it to be. Within the MS ecosystem it works fine.
Are you saying that engineering does not require higher education in the US? It sure does in Europe...
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Now, sometimes ambiguity is OK, or even a good thing. Every question has its own time for an answer, and that time may not necessarily be in the contract. It's important to be pragmatic in a business setting.

While I can appreciate being pragmatic in a business setting, I find this to be mildly offensive as someone who writes code that, if it isn't unambiguous and isn't explicit, will not do what I want or will crash. Wanting code to operate properly is pragmatic, otherwise you're just wasting your time. Why is leaving contracts ambiguous and open to interpretation pragmatic?

Now, I can see that it's not very pragmatic to quibble over wording/structure in a contract up front, that can just end up wasting time. This is tantamount to purposely writing pseudo-code into your .c file and expecting gcc to do something useful with it -- but programmers don't do that, (the good ones, perhaps those 10x more productive ones) try to write code the first time that the compiler will accept. It seems like it would be even more pragmatic, from a business standpoint, to be more precise in the wording and structure on the first pass and avoid (even the small) risk of there being debate over the interpretation later on. The only reason "being pragmatic" comes up is because it seems to be the norm to gloss over a bunch of stuff and purposely make it ambiguous (considering your 4 examples) rather than being, ahem, explicitly explicit.
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There are plenty of startups struggling on the "chicken and egg" problem, starting with a 500k userbase is surely a good starting point.
Of course big players won't contribute, it's built for their competitors, that's why this makes a lot of sense to me.
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There are some, but Vim is a text editor at its core, not an IDE. It excels at editing text but it pretty much treats everything as such, too. It does not have much concept of 'code'.
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That's the whole point of this feature as far as I can tell: It should be impossible (ignoring flaws in the software/system) to know if there's a hidden volume. You give the key to the decoy, smile and ask if you can comply in any other way and move along. The english phrase that I see connected to this all the time seems to be plausible deniability [1]?

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1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Plausible_den...
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As a hobby project, I'm working on a binary diff tool[1] that might someday compete with xdelta[2] or even (if I'm lucky) bsdiff[3]. Since binary diffing, like file-compression, ought to work well on a variety of inputs, I'm looking for some "representative" examples of source/target pairs I could add to my test suite and distribute for others to replicate my findings.

File-compression hobbyists have the Calgary Corpus[4] and the Canterbury Corpus[5] among others, but I can't find an equivalent binary-diff or delta-encoding corpus. So far I've mostly been working with fan-translations of video-games, which is good exercise for my code, but makes it legally impossible to share my test data.

Any suggestions?

[1]: https://gitorious.org/python-blip
[2]: http://code.google.com/p/xdelta/
[3]: http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Corpus
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For a lot of things I feel I don't need to run a modern IDE. Gcc + a text editor does fine, or something light like Qt Designer. This is why I explicitly added "if you don't use eclipse" :-) You have to be a bit creative with resources, if you expect a full high-profile dev machine you're indeed not well-off with a netbook.

And indeed, finding one with decent battery life can be a bit of a challenge.

And yes, $1000 versus $350 matters for a lot of people, we're not all silicon valley rock stars. Also if you, for example, use the device in risky/dirty/etc environments, you'd usually want to settle with something easily replacable.
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You make an important point.

A few years back, when I was working for an IT analyst firm, I headed a project to find us new task/project management software. (Our existing application for this was old and homegrown and pretty bad.)

The issue is that the significant majority of our tasks/projects were very small: Take a briefing with a client, write up notes, attach presentation, possibly include a followup note for sales, done. So project management software that was organized around the principle of a modest number of projects with milestones, actions, sub-tasks, etc. didn't really work for us. (Including the 37signals options.)

We eventually settled on trac which worked pretty well for the purpose. And we'd probably have supplemented that with something more like Basecamp if we got into some more complex projects and simply handled them as a separate case.

My broader point though is that I found that the "best" project management software depended on what you were trying to track.
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LulzSec was actually front page of a newspaper (free) in Australia. I believe the article was about one of the irc server host owners being arrested. They've certainly been in the fear mongering propaganda.
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I think there are a couple of things here:

- a lot of these people ARE doing a lot of these things, but people with money who are in the public eye get deluged with requests for help. Can you imagine how after a while you might get "giving" fatigue?
- for a lot of rich people, they are never rich enough. There was a great study recently about this (I'll try and dig it up and post here) about at every level they thought they needed a bit more to be truly secure. So my point is to them giving away money even to a worthy cause reduces their feeling of security.

In the last few years I have worked with a very wealthy hedge-fund manager (who is a philanthropist) and met a billionaire and I can assure you that these thoughts do go through their minds.
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