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This isn't really correct. Zed Shaw (and maybe some others) started a backlash against it, because DITP 2 was so heavily recommended.

It does have a couple of weaknesses. Starting with ODBC is kind of lame, and should be updated to Sqlite. And SOAP needs to be taken out the back and shot, but that's just my opinion.

I'm sure Learn Python The Hard Way is pretty good, but DITP was the second place most Pythoneers were sent to (after the tutorial you pointed out, of course).
AirBnB's guarantee doesn't affect this at all. Here's an example:

You rent an apartment and have a standard lease that forbids subletting. You travel a lot on business and decide to rent out your apartment for $150/night five days a month anyway. That's $750/month, or $9,000/year, in your pocket pre-tax. Not bad, but....

One day, you rent to an individual who happens to be a heavy drug user with a criminal record. You don't know this because you didn't perform any due diligence.

When your guest is confronted by one of your neighbors about a noise issue, he brutally assaults your neighbor. During the assault, your neighbor suffers major head trauma and is rushed to the hospital, where he undergoes emergency surgery in an attempt to save his life. Following the surgery, he is comatose and if he recovers at all, will require months if not years of rehabilitation. In the best case scenario, the doctors believe he will likely have some permanent brain damage that may prevent him from living a full, productive life.

When it comes to light that you were violating the terms of your lease and renting your apartment to complete strangers in exchange for money without doing any real due diligence on your guests, it's very likely you'll be sued by the victim's family. Needless to say, given the amount of damages you may owe if you're not successful in defending yourself, you're going to need a great lawyer. They don't come cheap. AirBnB's $50,000 guarantee? That only applies to damage due to vandalism or theft, but even if it applied to everything, won't even cover the cost of the victim's initial surgery.

Obviously, this is an extreme example, but it's well within the realm of possibility. There are plenty of other scenarios, less extreme, under which an individual could conceivably be personally liable for damages far in excess of what they will ever make using AirBnB, and far in excess of what AirBnB says it will cover.

By the way, AirBnB's guarantee is almost certainly not an insurance policy, even though the company (intentionally or unintentionally) is going to confuse people who don't understand the difference between a guarantee and an insurance policy.

As far as I know, AirBnB is not registered as an insurance company in any state, and I doubt very much that a legitimate insurance company would sell a policy for most AirBnB rentals without, at the very minimum, proof that the host has the authority to sublet and that he or she is not violating any local ordinances that apply to rentals and hotels.
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You make no sense.

"This site is about making good PR"

Parent adresses what is (not) good PR.

"So, honestly, why they should provide you with the content you like for free?"

Because they want us (early adopters) to use their product.

Which part of that is difficult for you to understand?
Pickup and read cover to cover 'getting started with' books on HTML, CSS and the Wordpress cms. This should allow you to customize simple wordpress sites.

Next, buy a good looking template from themeforest.net and customize it as a portfolio piece. Take screenshots of the site.

Go door-to-door or call your local small businesses, i.e. Mechanics, hairdressers, carpenters, whatever and show the screenshots. Offer them to make them a site with domain and cms for 1000 USD a year, paid upfront or at least 6 months upfront.

Make them a simple, business-card like site based on another wordpress template from themeforest. This is more than enough for the majority of small businesses. If they want customizations beyond text / images (we also want an order tracking system!) tell them no.

Later, you can start looking at Javascript, PHP and SQL, in order to be able to add more functionality to the wordpress sites.
That is, at best, a very high-level 'why', and unnecessarily hostile.
Why can't you try it instead? It's free...

There's at least some work by the algo to recognise different moments of the same day, I still need to upload more pictures to try to understand it correctly.
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It seems like you'd actually want to use UITextView for this instead of UILabel, especially if you want more interesting things like touchable URLs within the text.

But I must admit to never trying that in an iOS project; I'm basing this on what the Mac's NSTextView is capable of.
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Hi,

I have a few questions about moving to the valley. I guess its just a matter decision for Native Americans, just like, How I moved to Chennai. India. 8 years before, from a small town. But, Its not the same for Foreign Nationals right?

I've been reading about US Visa online, It says information like, having blood relations in US will increase your chances, If you've never been to any other countries, then your chances are low, It all depends on the interviewing officer etc.

I'm attracted to the culture of silicon valley, and more importantly its track record. I'm sure there are many people from various other countries, reading this. Please share your experience moving to the valley. Not only Visa Related, also adapting to culture and all. May this discussion serve as a mythbuster.

I also have a few doubts (mostly by reading online), I'll list them here? Kindly help me out.

1) Shall I move to valley with just an idea and a prototype?

2) Should I have to visit other countries, to increase my chances of US Visa? or is it just a myth?

3) Being a poor guy, affect the chances?

4) Does, Having No Relatives in US, affect the chances?

Please, Feel Free to add your opinions as well, and share your experiences.

Cheers.
To answer you question directly, yes.

In a nutshell,

* The keywords meta tag is no longer used.

* The robots meta tag is extremely useful.

* The description tag may be used to display along with a page's title.

* Neither description nor keywords meta tag have much impact for SEO.

Personally, I don't use the keyword meta tag and I may or may not use the description meta tag.

Somewhere out there, there is a search engine that still uses keyword tags for something significant, but I doubt that search engine is Bing (which now powers itself and US/Canada Yahoo).

References:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-do...

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-no-longer-uses-meta...
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Nothing to worry about, as I have learned from Hacker News being exposed to radiation is no worse than eating a banana.
I remember growing up and watching demonstrations and protests on TV - unless my memory is seriously impaired, something has changed in the decade and half since then. It seems in recent years black bloc tactics have taken over protesting, to the point where one rarely sees peaceful protests anymore.

Black bloc animals will seize upon any cause, just or otherwise, as an excuse to loot and cause mayhem - and the worst part is, their mere presence erodes the credibility of otherwise legitimate groups with legitimate grievances.
I also don't think there were sufficient incentives to avoid this crisis to begin with. TEPCO is a monopoly and was rewarded with billions in loans for their failures.

The penalties for failing this way in a marketplace is bankruptcy. Not in this situation.

Even if one is a fan of government regulation instead of relying on competition (and there's good reason for that with safety such a critical issue), its clear the government wasn't paying attention to the risks either.

They could have put the generators above what the worst case tsunami could reach. They could have had a capability to fly in generators and fuel.

Also interesting was there were three agencies passing the buck to each other getting the word out. My experience is that when multiple parties are responsible for something, no one actually is, especially in a crisis.
Indeed, on the 3/11 as the events were unfolding and prior to the explosion, I was checking the Japanese "SPEEDI" network [1] for the very same information. I thought "wow, how cool is Japan for having this system up and on the Internet in the case of Nuclear disasters!"

But something was very peculiar -- the zones I wanted to monitor had all become listed "調整中" in Japanese and written "under survey" in English.

I smelled a cover-up. Before the Tsunami hit they had a small item explaining that due to the Earthquake some of the monitoring equipment had been disrupted. After the Tsunami, the same information read that the sites now had been originally disconnected via a tsunami.

You would think that they would work quickly to re-enable the affected zones, though even today the website shows that affected sites are still "under survey" -- if you jump to the top page, it clearly reads in Japanese "At the moment, all updating for monitoring data regarding Fukushima and Miyagi have been stopped."

[1] http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/
[2] http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/speedi/pref.php?id=07
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This feature is also available built-in in Safari and Chrome (in the dev tools, Script pane, look at the bottom buttons bar, its rightmost button is a pair of braces `{ }`. Click on that, it will reformat your source to allow for debugging, the reformatting lasts until you reload the page so it's very handy to try and debug SPA)
It's a testament to how successful Amazon has been in its cloud offering. We're used to sites going down for one reason or another. What's weird is that Amazon's success has made all these failures so correlated. It's a strange feeling when many sites you like all fail at once.
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Hi, author of Hallo here. Thanks for the mention!

Major reason for the way Hallo is commented is because I'm using Docco for API docs:
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I believe you need to first hon your programming and algorithmic skills as means of becoming a way better programmer.

After that, you need to involve yourself in the field of computer technology in general... Keep reading on Mashable about the current trends on the internet (Social Media, Social Networks, Social Apps...etc) ... The only thing you need is an idea which would fulfill a need or solve a minor/major problem... You'll get yourself going after that... ;)

Good luck...
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Maybe such a system should also have an expiration date.

Lets say IBM is developing a very new technique. They file a patent but they discover the market is not ready for the actual product. So they decide to wait.

In this case IBM doesn't have an actual product available on the market. It would be nice if IBM could wait for lets say 5 years without loosing the patent.
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The author makes a good point. These areas have been off the UK media radar for a long time. They haven't had a voice.

That said it seems at the moment that this is less political and more economic/criminal activity. What will be interesting is the effect of network communications (Twitter, facebook etc etc) in shifting the balance between Police and rioters.

I suspect (But have no direct evidence) that a smaller but more highly trained, equipped and organised Police was effective against a much larger disorganised mass. The tools for communication appear to give the rioters an increasing level of cell organisation that reduces the impact of the Police 'force multiplier'.

May explain why they are struggling to respond, just too many rioters with just enough organisation.
I have to agree, a sandboxed version of llvm bytecode would open up all sorts of opportunities.
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suggestions: add external video, add scripts (newsletter, contact form, etc), add user interactions options (invite, comment..).
i like it, in general.
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you're right. though facebook profiles owners cannot be younger than 13, there is about 1,5-2 million teens registered. we should do something!
My guess: modern CPUs have hardware support for pausing user-level code and switching to kernel mode to service a page fault, but the syscall interface requires that the transition to kernel mode be done "manually", as it were.

Also, if you're reading from a file with lseek() and read(), you have to marshall data into the struct the kernel expects, make the syscall, and the kernel copies the data into the user-space buffer you provide. If you're reading from a file with mmap(), the page cache just appears in your address-space, no copying necessary.

On the other hand, I was curious why the default had changed from "use mmap" to "don't use mmap". Turns out, the grep 2.6.3 documentation states:

--mmap: This option is ignored for backwards compatibility. It used to read input with the `mmap' system call, instead of the default `read' system call. On modern systems, `--mmap' rarely if ever yields better performance.
Well yes but at the same time you proved my point. This works but it only tells me that the site is about finding car insurance. For all I know, I could end up with yet another sales person on the phone trying to convince me to buy something.

The Hipmunk line gives me the idea that I will have a simple page where I can compare options easily which seems to be the case so far as I can tell from their video.
I don't know what the situation is in other countries but as a British person that summary screams "RUN AWAY".

Edit: Apparently they are doing the same thing as all the insurance comparison companies here, but are the first US company to actually do it properly, so my reaction isn't very fair and your summary is quite good.
I guess you should start as a volunteer in a great company and work with a tutor. start with small projects, train yourself, and motivate yourself.
you know, it's never late to learn. and it's very good for you to acknowledge your faults and start fighting them right now.
Oh, not at all. You've written "intellegence".
Wall street just followed a general theme among banks. Once upon a time they were institutions built to control capital flow, from where it was available to where it was needed, to provide some social value by allowing enterprises to thrive. But apparently the credit interest was not a big enough margin, so they decided to do all kinds of other shit, investment banking was born. Which mostly makes rich people richer, without any kind of social benefit.

Wall Street just followed that model.
Ways to bypass the lock and leave no evidence that the lock was bypassed are much worse.

When an ameteur picks a lock it is very easy to inspect the pins and see if they have been manipulated by something other than the key. I imagine that the rubber mallet technique leaves evidence of malicious manipulation behind.
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Yes and it was particularly painful since my blog was on HN's front page when my VPS went down
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How much is your car worth?

* What you originally bought it for?
* What you could buy that exact model year for today? From whom?
* What you could buy a similar car for today?
* What you could sell it for? To whom? In how much time?

And that's for something as tangible as a car, listed on the market with easily searched prices. This is a simple example, but I recall that some types of assets (land?) are valued at their original purchase price, which is far deflated from the current market value.

I think of accounting similar to benchmark tools for software -- it's all about what you want to measure, and depending on assumptions you have some wiggle room.
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I've tried to use both of these with mixed results. TinyMCE feels old and they both have become somewhat bloated. The new CK design is a disaster.

I would love to see a new option in this category. One with a great deal of restraint.
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Nobody is stopping you from doing that. The entire point of AB&B is that you truly (could) get to stay at "home away from home", and experience what you wouldn't get at a hotel.

Not that I'm defending or promoting AB&B, but staying at someone's home as opposed to a hotel would obviously need more stringent requirements (background checks etc) that I'm sure most people wouldn't mind going through.
It's a great town and an amazing climate for getting motivation & support for building your ideas. Move if you'd like to! But please don't go, as some people have, under the belief that you'll immediately stumble across a pile of money upon arriving. The funding climate just got a lot harsher, and even at its best you still need several months and a bit of good luck before you know enough about the community to even begin having the relevant funding conversations.

After our YC round, my first company moved ourselves from the valley to London. It's not as extreme, but you can get some of what the valley offers from London, Berlin, Israel, Amsterdam (app development), and others. I was just in Bulgaria, for example, and they had a decent scene. So does Spain.

If you're in the valley, you kind of can't avoid the startup community. In the other major cities, you have to make a bit of an effort, but you can still definitely build a support network and get in touch with investors when you're ready.

Good luck!
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In a similar spirit, allow automated trading to take place, but only if the code and underlying data sets is open sourced after 5 (or 10?) years.

If you need manual intervention (i.e. gut estimates) to feed into the automated trade, it must be logged, and will be made publicly available at the same time as the code. There will also be a lag of 1 second.

As a carrot, servers with logged code can be co-located with the exchange, for a small fee. As a stick, anything outside the exchange gets the 1 second lag.
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This page has a colour-coded map:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14450248

Not a good one, but at least it's something.
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Leaky: Actually compares quotes rather than using estimates

Longer summary: Hits the APIs of every insurance company and fills out their forms for you to get you an actual price, rather than just purporting to.
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Why move off, why not just replicate your service to another provider as well?
- It takes longer to try than to read

- I wouldn't want to sign up or upload any of my pictures before I know that I am going to actually use the site
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Which tutorial? Link us pls?
I think their point is that you don't put the car on the books as worth anything. Instead you declare you own it and someone else can decide what they think it is worth. Anything that requires interpretation would be up for discussion.
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I've always considered philosophy as a sort of the mind's struggle for its own life. The introspective mind somehow can't validate itself without somehow having the absolute last say about something.

Given this track, a philosophical mind will produce a lot of thoughts, models, and theories of how anything that already exists could exist in the first place. That is itself an interesting mind-game that in some cases might even produce an insight that is applicable to something real, but generally that's where it should stay.

The mind can't think itself into existence, even if it wants to believe it can.

If it does the result bears resemblance to as if someone would try to describe forest but only be allowed to draw straight lines in one color. At best it could be exemplary line art, at worst it's just ridiculous and childish and most people will turn the other way.
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