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I have thought it through, and I still think it's a good idea. People who choose to live in the middle of nowhere should pay the full price of doing so.

I'm sure private companies would have no problem delivering mail to the middle of nowhere, but the people living there will have to pay the actual, higher, cost of delivery. Why is that such a big deal?
Everything is a tradeoff. Your grocer probably feels that customers appreciate lower prices in exchange for that setup.

There may also be an upscale grocer down the street that tends to provide ample staffing at checkout lanes.

The problem due to the monopoly held by the postal service, its system is not subject to competition. Competition might result in competitors trying new approaches with similar staffing (improving processes, etc.) or in different staffing levels and even better service.

It's hard to know what all the clever people actually doing the work would have come up with, since their jobs will never exist when there is only one entrenched monopoly.
You can use the OWASP Top 10 as your checklist for security in many cases.
only on HN would an innocent comment like this get downvoted. Lighten up 'hackers'.
Analytics software on your server has the advantage of tracking images, css, js, and other non-html-page files, and still works when your users use addons like Noscript, Adblock, or Ghostery.
Hmm, 13 drawn out items and none of them include a SQLi XSS or CSRF audit? Odds are there are plenty. Once your db and CEO's sexting logs end up on pastebin you'll probably be thinking that the robots.txt was pretty minor.
Every post office I've been to has been dingy, depressing, poorly lit and has had very long lines.

It's cruel to make people work in this environment, and so it's no wonder that occasionally an employee "goes postal".

Sure there will occasionally be a new post office built, but I don't think this says anything about the values of the institution.
I don't understand how people get by without a password manager and a seperate password for every site these days.
Turning off social networks won't prevent riots. It doesn't even prevent them in Egypt.

There is nothing gained from inhibiting this kind of free association and speech.
The concern is that the law is so broad that it could be abused. In this case the officer let him go about his business but what will happen in the next case? This rule is so subjective that it can justifiably be used at times other than in the spirit in which it was designed for.
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I have my android phone with about 6 months now and really like it i have Optimus One great phone for the price. I have installed a lot of Games/apps over last few months and here are some of my favorite apps i came across so far, they are not in any favorite order just random.
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This sounds like a really interesting application.

Any idea what the break down is like on the loading time savings?

In other words, what portion of the loading time savings is attributable to download time vs parsing time vs execution time vs other things?
Yet here you are having an intellectual discussion, without using it to wage a political battle.
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It sounds to me like your physician is a poor one. One of the first rules with CF is to embrace what seems to work well for the patient, and try to understand it. I'd suggest you attempt to find a new one, or at least contact others in better clinics if you wish to share your story with someone who might be more interested to listen. I've had a lot of success at the CF clinics at Johns Hopkins, VCU, and Stanford.
Discussion for this is on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825402

Also on http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/54506/is-this-batman....

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820332
They were hacked a few months ago too, so when I posted this to reddit yesterday most assumed it was just late news. I got an email from bethesda about this 28 hours ago, so about 24 hours before this guy. I doubt it has anything to do with the Mojang suit, it's probably just opportunists again, just like last time.
Who cares about theoretical possibilities? The reality is that hidden object copies and bloated operators are not a real problem.
What sort of hobbies does he have? You could try and start a shop or expert site around that subject.
In the middle of the index, in the "Opening the zip and compiling" section. Ok, it is explicit, but it is not too visible there... If someone jumped right into another section, how would they know.
My main issue with this "Get my Piece of Paper" mentally is it seems that College is more about vanity than education. Which in my opinion it is. People go to College to have a degree not learn.

I understand that if you don't go to College in most industries then you won't get a job. But i'm not so convinced that if you want to start a tech startup or work for one that College is the most important thing. Most startup jobs pages are open to College degrees or experience/portfolio. Which UnCollege is vastly about, building experience and learning. I think those which are savvy are able to get opportunities to build experience, even early on when building experience. Such as internships, freelance work, etc.

I don't believe College is in any shape a bad choice, but for many it slows their progress (or wastes time) rather than accelerating them on their path. But I see the appeal, it'd be very easy for me to get through those years of College and apply for a job at one of the big names.

But i'm happy to face the possible risks. This issue is something i'm contemplating at the moment, as i've experienced education wasting my time and it's not a very enjoyable situation. I know i've still got a lot to learn but would rather do so on my own time.
It's not a position I personally hold, but it's more or less quoted from other comments in a different thread.
Every generation has said something exactly like this about the generation before (modern, postwar, postmodern, etc). However, I agree that we are in an age where most (if not all) big fuzzy ideas have already been thought of. People have already suggested that "God is Dead" (or nonexistent) or "God is all knowing and all powerful", and everything in between (even that a flying spaghetti monster controls all). Nobody is going to come up with something more radical on that spectrum. Its now on to morality and efficacy. Morally, there are still active debates on topics such as gay marriage, abortion, scope of the government, and cloning. Everything else is about efficacy, and what actually works. Big ideas are the easy part. Proving they work requires intellectual vigor, experimentation, data, and analysis over long periods of time. If big ideas are dead, then its only because we are on to the good stuff, figuring out if they were worth anything.
No, you have to read my response in context (E.g. as a response to plumbing and many others who can solve them). I work with software that supports business processes, manage information and facilitates interaction between humans and machines. In that field (if it is even meaningful to speak of such a broad category as a single field), knowing how to write the most efficient sorting algoritm is fairly close to worthless.

I'm sure that if you work at Google, where crunching big data is key; or in a company like Microsoft or Apple, where applications are much closer to the hardware; then these things do matter. But I propose that a major part of software development happens in a space where such things are irrelevant or at least very rarely relevant.

Regarding my outsourcing remark, let me clarify a bit. What I mean to say is that while the stuff that is close to the hardware might take skilled workers, it does not require cultural skills. For example, I would suggest that it's a lot easier to outsource a hardware driver than it is to outsource a workflow engine for an order process. For the latter, you need to be close to your users and you need to understand the business you're modeling.

Mind you, I think it's fine that we teach this stuff in universities - it's good background knowledge to have. But as a practical skill, I question its value. And in a job interview, I would suggest to test the skills that are actually needed in the relevant job.

Oh, and I didn't choose my name; My parents did. It's traditional and somewhat common name in Scandinavia. You're not the first to get that wrong though.
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What could Sam possibly learn from his experiment?

Everyone on hacker news knew that what he did was possible technically and that it would put an end to the experiment. He basically said so himself in his original blog post. He didn't like the experiment and decided to end it by donating it all to charity.
Seems like a nice idea, but I get a "Data was not valid JSON." error when drag-dropping any font on FF6 Ubuntu.
. It does drop the top of the stack, too, though.

So, to compute and print 1001, do:

7 11 13 * * .

Also useful: .s non-destructively prints the stack (as does .S ; this forth does appear to be case-insensitive)
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Full stop/period, e.g.:

2 2 + .

For a full list of words enter 'words'
simply use the dot.

try:
2 3 + .
I would love to have more information about this... Who made it? Do you still have the sources / docs?
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Is this really a problem people have? "I would bike to work, and I'm not afraid of traffic or being rained on or getting sweaty, but I'm worried that it's bad for my carbon footprint." Yeah, right.

I'm embarrassed that I clicked the link.
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Could you cite come case law here?
If someone is looking for a great forth tutorial/book, one of the best is "Thinking Forth" by Brodie. Now available as an open project:
http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
I actually know one of the people hiring the position and have traded a couple emails with him about my interest. I also had someone he respects recommend me so perhaps I'm already doing better than I thought I was.

I put the ads on hold after reading a couple of these comments since no one seemed to have a "totally. go for it" response. For what it's worth, the CTR was actually really high. Hope those who clicked did so with a smile.
Inform7 is a another perlis language. It's designed for writing text adventure games, but the source code is designed to look like a natural english language.
Without modern farming processes, only the upper class could even think about an all-beef diet.
The point is that the penetration of daily deal sites in the Israeli market is deeper than that of the US. And groupon is lagging compared to its Israeli competitors.
We are in fact in beta right now, so we expect to announce formal pricing in the very near future for the digitizer and excavator products.

Prices for new applications pushed with the API are always different. They're set based on the complexity and difficulty of the task. We have a few workers try out a new task to see how complex it is, then use that to establish a price so that workers can earn a fair wage.
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About time this topic came up on HN. The reason this matters is that lots of really smart, driven engineers are being taught that the way to be successful is to make a buck on a quick flip of a consumer web app -- rather than making an impact on the world. Places like Ycombinator that have the most cachet should be leading the charge on reversing this trend.
Regarding 2: If you haven't done proper index/join stress tests with hundreds of thousands to millions of rows of data pre-launch, then I really don't know what else to say besides you're doing it wrong. Finding out two days after launch that your schema is complete garbage or improperly indexed is an amateur move. Placing javascript (that's not a shiv or script loader) in your <head> to try and disguise this isn't a good start.
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No, it was SP2.

And I don't get why you're trying to justify this -- a fresh install should never get compromised by just being connected to a network.

Yes, I can install 10-year old versions of other operating systems just fine.
BTW—if you're thinking about riding more often, get a noseless saddle: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/before-y... .
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If you were looking for a sentence like "Viruses came from planet krypton.Now go do your work",I am sorry to disappoint you.
Why should urban dwellers subsidize rural dwellers? Yes, I'd like to see a system where price of service is proportional to the delivery cost.
Period character (with whitespace on either side).

eg:

10 . <return>

10
> Most grocery stores I frequent have replaced several lanes of "efficient" cashiers with the much slower (for shoppers) self-checkout systems. Yes, the lines may be shorter, and the store needs fewer checkers (one can cover multiple self-check lanes), so the store is saving money. But I feel a loss in service quality and am not convinced my checkout time (waiting + service) has been shortened.

Yes, I don't use them either, for the same reasons. But other people do. They've chosen to use that line. If the lines get too long, I can choose to go to another store. Having 1 cashier for each customer in the store would obviously be impractical too. But an equilibrium forms. People get short, not unreasonable wait times, and the store saves money (lowering prices for the customers).

At the DMV, that equilibrium doesn't happen, because people don't have that choice. They can't choose to go to another "store".
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I use an explanation using elections. Where cities, counties, states etc. (what applies in your $country) count and aggregate their values upwards until it's clear who has won on a national level. :)
Is _blank (HTML) basically an un-necessary popup?
<p>I've been writing a lot of blog articles lately and I usually add _blank for referenced links in my articles as to not lose my readers to another site, but then I thought, thats kind of unnecessary and here's why:<p>Whenever I am browsing an article and I open a new link, I always CMD click as to open the new link in a new browser tab anyway, so it's kind of redundant to put in _blank. Am I really retaining readers by adding _blank? Would appreciate your thoughts.
What did you expect? People would hardly have switched away from it if it had been sustainable.
Also, the demo uses requestAnimationFrame and thus rendering is paused if the tab is in the background.
It would probably be more energy efficient to ride an electric powered bicycle.
What the policy actually describes as suspicious behavior is:

"Engages security personnel in questions focusing on sensitive subjects (security information, hours of operation, shift changes, what security cameras film, etc.)."

"Draws diagrams or takes notes (building plans, location of
security cameras or security personnel, security shift changes, notes of weak security points, etc.)."

What you said, by contrast, is bullshit.
In South Africa, the ruling party's Youth League, and it's president, Julius Malema keep promoting the nationalization of the country's mines. They recently started threatening to destabilize Botswana, because they claim it is a "tool of the west"' while supporting the Zimbabwe regime.

Although nationalization is totally illogical, and unlikely to succeed (paying for assets at fair value would bankrupt the country, and doing a grab would collapse the country's reputation), they persist in pushing the issue.

Reading this article, the seemingly irrational behavior of Malema and the Youth League seem to make more sense. There is of course, no evidence that shadowy groupings are attempting to ruin South Africa's economic system so they can swoop in and grab the ruins, but reading the article, it doesn't seem particularly far-fetched.
To be fair, this is a example of the "standing-in-a-theater" problem from economics: if you buy a used bike, you're doing something "better" for the environment, because the good is already made; if everyone does it, then there are very few used bikes.

Plus, there's a decent chance that you're just subsidizing someone's new bike (incidentally, this is how I pay for new Macs: I sell the old one on Craigslist for a third to half of its original price after 3 – 4 years and use the proceeds to buy a new one. Works pretty well).
Joke answer: Have you ever been to Def Con? People who wear utilikilts and dyed mohawks unironically probably have no qualms about calling themselves hackers, deservedly or un-.

Real answer: I did actually attend Def Con this year, with the intent of learning about hacking, possibly from hackers. I wouldn't call myself a hacker, I just went because I wanted to learn about the subject. Really the whole topic is not something I worry much about... in my line of work we don't compliment people by saying "he's a good hacker", we just say "he's brilliant" or "she does really great work", which to my mind is a better and less ambiguous compliment.
In addition to Radiohead, I was thinking of Jonathan Coulton. Many of his songs are still available for free, but enough people choose to buy them or to pay to see him perform live that he grossed half a million dollars last year. For instance, here's one of his songs with three options: (1) buy the song, (2) download the mp3 (without charge), (3) send a donation:

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/Chiron_Beta_Prime

> The very fact that the idea was strangled in its crib by a wise-ass, coupled with the dearth of similar ideas out there in the real world, seems to demonstrate fairly well that this is not a good idea.

Whether something "is a good idea" depends on context, which changes. This wouldn't have been a good idea a few decades ago because the technology wasn't there to enable it. As society gets wealthier and smarter we can afford to support more free-riders and it becomes less and less important to rigorously charge for stuff. "serve yourself" soda refills is an example, as is the institution of unlimited free napkins, toilet paper, and use of the restroom. Any of those could be crippled by wise-asses too.

> a hypothetical successful musician putting her album online, where the worst that a single defector can do is take the album for free.

Something a single defector can do that's worse than that would be to (1) take the album for free, (2) put up a website encouraging others to do the same and expressing contempt for all the suckers who choose to pay, (3) get this website highly ranked on social media sites.

If that happened and nobody spoke out against it, it would significantly harm the prospect of name-your-own-price albums. That's basically what happened here.
High drama in the forests!

It's not just this fungal battle -- my friend, the fire ecologist, explains how fire has existed pretty much since plant life, and therefore plants evolve strategies for handling fire.

Some trees, like pines, make flammable sap to induce fire, and then only grow once a fire has happened -- the ecological niche having been cleared out.

Some trees, like oaks, hate fire, and so mat the forest floor with fire suppressing leaves.
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I wish someone would write an equivalent of this for Python's myriad of horrible process management functions. popen, popen2, popen3 etc were a nightmare, and the newer subprocess module still doesn't have an API that I'd call memorable or obvious.
Depending on who your target demographic is, you could make certain assumptions. Without reading your blog (but judging by the CMD in your post), I assume you use a Mac and write about tech.
You could then assume that your readers know how to open links in a new tab, thus you might decide to remove the _blank.
If your blog is geared toward readers with less experience, you might want to leave it in.
Epic question for humanity but I would phrase the question as, "how do I do something with meaningful [impact]?"

Currently I think of meaningful impact as:

-The depth of behavioral change you create in an individuals' lifetime

-The breadth and scale of behavioral interactions created
eg you use Instagram for 1min/day for a month with 100 friends vs a computer for 12hrs/day for life with millions of people (note: I'm not saying one is more or less meaningful than the other; small/simple interactions can turn into something big)

Secondly, I find it difficult to do something "meaningful" without a clear purpose or intention to create impact...(while admitting that at the early stages, visions are often opaque and intentions change)

How entrepreneurs respond to "how are you creating meaningful impact?" helps me decide which startups to invest in...wish I could write more but need to go back to DOing...

Others say:
"Impact is a change in the state of the world brought about by an intervention. It’s the final result of behaviors (outcomes) that are generated by activities (outputs) that are driven by resources (inputs)." -Kevin Starr, Mulago Foundation

Notes:
-Know your mission (in 8 words using verb, target, & outcome) ex. save pre-mature babies in poor countries http://embraceglobal.org/

-Measure the right thing (the single best indicator)

-Measure it well (the right baseline & interval + show that it was you eg tight story, matched control, randomized controls)

A little algorithm to think about the impact you're creating: Is it needed? Does it work? Will it get to those who need it? Will they use it right?

Text: http://www.mulagofoundation.org/ideas/r/how-we-think-about-i...

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMEpvxGBkFU<br/>;

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/aynne/design-for-real-impact-0610

Other points of view:
-"A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same." Donella Meadows http://thinkinginsystems.org/

-"Purpose first, then profit" as part of Umair Haque's New Capitalist Manifesto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2Zc9UJFUo

-"Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations."
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/collective_impact/
...I have never had any of those symptoms in my decades of riding, nor have I ever even heard of them. Despite the authors protest, this sounds exactly like just another health scare.
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And also Pygments (probably the most popular syntax highlighting libraries) and they run http://paste.pocoo.org/ , an excellent pastebin.

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