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I'm not colour blind and even I had some difficulty telling some of those colours behind.
The "poverty line" is arbitrarily set to get the proper number of people into various government programs. It has no objective meaning. This news just means that the poverty level has been chosen badly.

Edit: source https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Poverty_in_th...
There are solutions (if you google) for live screencasting a part of your desktop to the web. If you want to skip the step of uploading to web, seems you could always remote in to the computer from another terminal and adjust the window so it show just the video?
That would require a 'before' and 'after' with some numbers that prove that they've managed to decrease the wait time in a statistically significant manner.
I was almost exactly where you are four years ago. 32, married, with two kids and one on the way, when I started my company four years ago. One of the most important things I did before making the jump was sit down with my wife, explain why I felt I needed to start the business (pursuit of a passion, happiness in career, etc...), and then we discussed at length the potential impact it would have on our lives together. This doesn't make it any easier, but it does help to set expectations and ensure you are going in it together with eyes wide-open.

Along the way, you are going to have to work your butt off to ensure the success of the business (no one else will care more about it than you), but its important to remember that starting your own business also creates some amount of freedom. No boss to ask for an hour or two off here and there. Pick your kids up from school, have a random lunch with your wife, work remotely while taking the family on vacation. If family is important, than a startup is actually a means to create more freedom in your life and spend quality time with them.

YMWV, but you need to find a way to make it work to pursue your passion. If you don't, you nor your family will end up happy :)

Good luck!
Two very different examples. Simple, math-heavy things tend to be best-case scenarios for verbose languages.
Show HN: Stack Parts - a way to find possible parts for your stack
http://stackparts.com/

so, when i worked at google there was a great internal webpage that listed all the various parts and systems one could use to build something. i've always wanted something like that for the real world, so here it is.

the idea is basically to index widely used and good stack parts so that people can figure out what they need to build their applications.

this is still very rough. we're still working on figuring out the metadata, how to display it, and how to link it. in addition, some of the metadata is wrong as we evolve how to describe things.

how it works: tornado, yaml, github.
Am I missing something here?

The article basically uses crime as a proxy for "social population density." I'm pretty sure you could also use "restaurant reservations" as a similar proxy, but then I guess you wouldn't get to use words like 'prostitution' in the title of your blog post.

Then, Uber cab riders go to these areas that are densely social. I'm guessing they probably take other modes of transportation too.

Then, something about certain crimes being more prevalent on certain days of the week, with some pretty huge leaps of faiths made in the reasoning and no actual testable data to back it up.

I don't like to post too often on HN if I'm just going to stand there and drink some haterade, but this just seemed like such a sad attempt to put together something for pageviews that I couldn't help myself.
I think that 1.7x size reduction - is well enough.

Also I think that 5-7x is also valid numbers. But this reductions came from YAGNI, which is more idiomatic for python than java.
This case seems very simple: whoever at the media companies set up these automated tools without adequate checks on the validity of the claims is guilty of perjury and should be punished accordingly.

Likewise, anyone who instructed that this be done or was otherwise responsible for the conduct of those people should be treated the same as someone who had told an employee to lie under oath in court.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be any scope for interpretation here at all. I think that was rather the point of requiring that declaration as part of the DMCA.
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I agree, my point is mostly relevant to someone with some minimum level of technical ability. But providing a usable interface and "install" process for a static website generator is the missing piece here.

Or a reversal to geocities days ... :-/
I had always imagined they would try to dabble in flight search but always assumed the sheer volume of their travel ppc clients would restrict it. Big revenue gamble.
At most (smaller!) companies I have worked, middle management seem to have chosen to buy servers from the suppliers that provide the biggest kickbacks - with Dell, PDAs or Laptops usually made a nice little sweetener to maintain loyalty.
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Well, I work at Google and some of my best friends are at Hipmunk, so the ideal outcome would be for Google to buy Hipmunk. Or vice versa.
interesting, but wasn't there an article posted here in the last 24 hours on being too familiar? maybe they should read that. it was a pretty tiring read.
This isn't as fun to absorb but is also relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
I doubt there will be. Flight data is typically well protected by the industry. The only reason Google has access is they acquired ITA who is the main data warehouse.
tl;dr: people take uber to and from bars. that's it. not sure why that took so many paragraphs and images.
Google is well known for using Python.
A few things: when placing parts, allow the user to press escape or other key/mouse combo and jump back directly to the library part selection. It makes it easier to populate a schematic.

Second, separate the parts into different libraries! Other EDA packages have thousands of parts, it would be a mess to have all in one list, even with filtering. It seems you are loading all the parts when creating the library dialog? Probably a different approach to make it manageable...

Preview for the parts, including PCB footprint and variations. What do you plan to do with parts with different blocks, like logical gates, power pins, etc ?

When adding nets, allow the user to move parts around.

I have a few more, but I'll wait when you get layout, drc/erc , auto routing and pcb webgl 3d view working ;) Besides this, keep the good work!

You can try to look at the mailing list archives of the open source packages gEDA, PCB and kicad. There's a trove of nice info and discussions there. I contributed long ago (1998?) to gEDA and use these , eagle and others more or less frequently.
Right on the home page at the bottom. Thanks in advance!
There is a lot of truth in this, but what impresses me most about Google is the way they have aligned their business model with their users interests and how that has enabled them to sacrifice short-term gains for long-term profits... it's a very Buffett-esque strategy that is difficult to pull-off.
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If you drove past a restaurant that had a big sign outside that said "no cockroaches here", what would you associate with it?

I have always been amazed that some people would consider "don't be evil" to be a motto with any power to motivate or lead people, since it ventures no strong opinion, and points in no clear direction.

"Do good" is far more costly, less likely to be politically correct, and more likely to invite ridicule. At the same time, this kind of heart-on-sleeve sincerity has more power to inspire. Sincerity, humility, innocence tend to achieve more than cynicism and jaded worldly wisdom.
Microsoft isn't Apple. Their biggest customers aren't end users; they're large corporations with thousands of users, and PC manufacturers. Tempting end users is just marketing to them.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
Exactly, the "poor" in the United States have it better than the middle class in Europe. This is from an article today,

"...the typical household considered "poor" by census officials has a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household has cable or satellite TV, two color televisions, a DVD player and a VCR. If children (especially boys) are in the home, they have a video game system such as Xbox or PlayStation. In the kitchen, the household has the ordinary conveniences: refrigerator, oven, stove, microwave.

Half the poor now have a personal computer. A third have a widescreen TV (plasma or LCD); a quarter have a digital video recorder such as TiVo."
While "1 in 6" appeals as a lot, the actual statistic of 15.1% poor people seems significantly less harmful -- as, ipso facto, the vast majortity of all American people (84.9%) are not poor.

Isn't this the way the model essentially works out in our system? There is a small "working class" at the bottom, then a giant bump in the middle for the middle class, and a tiny spot at the top for the 1% of wealthy -- wealthy, not merely rich -- individuals.

I wouldn't simply try to brush off poverty, as surely every effort must be made to ensure social mobility among the classes (both up and down), but in a country as large as America having 45 or so million poor people isn't only to be expected, but actually relatively necessary for our economic model -- which, on the whole, works quite well for most people.
First off, thank you for correctly attributing the issue to CBC, rather than saying that Apple is forcing you. (too many of these articles act like it is Apple's doing.)

Secondly, I think that they may not actually be forcing you. I suspect that if you just kept selling it, you might never hear from them again. If you do hear from them again, it won't be a summons for a lawsuit. I think you're at step 2 of about 30 steps before they file.

Before they file, they have to make sure that they have a case that is worth filing. The fact that you already complied with the tidemark and copyright issues, and that you're just enabling reception of content they are freely distributing makes the chance of the court case being a total farce very high.

While any court case, even a farce, may be more expensive than you want to bear, there is nothing to stop you from immediately removing the app from the store the moment they actually file.

But the likelihood of them having farce of a court case probably means they won't file. It would be in the news, and the news would not be sympathetic to CBC (at least if this were america...)

Personally, if I were in your shoes, that's what I'd do... wait until they indicate they are serious. Sending letters is meaningless, and all letters from lawyers sound threatening to non-lawyers. I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.

I did have a situation like that where someone claimed I was infringing, I thought it would be a farce, I simply ignored them, and they never sued. If they had sued, it would have been a media circus and I was almost hoping for that.
What's wrong with you people? Dude made an MP3 player... If the CBC was concerned, they wouldn't have an unencrypted MP3 stream.

EDIT: Since when is HN frequented by people who dislike entrepreneurs, let alone an open web? Why are we not filing injunctions against all web browsers? iTunes? WinAmp? curl?
Poverty is a complex issue that requires more than just knee jerk solutions and tossing money at it. I don't know the answer, and I'm not positive that there is an "answer". But I can tell you that people like me have a tendency to tune out when we read things like:

The poor include Nekisha Brooks, 28, of Fort Washington, Md., who lost her job as a customer service representative for AT&T several months ago in a round of layoffs. Raising five young children, she is now on food stamps and partly leaning on friends and family for help.

I know this is just one anecdote, and it is unfortunate that she clearly wants to work and is having trouble finding even semi-skilled labor... but _five_ kids? Seriously?
Indeed, the poverty line is chosen arbitrarily so that... well, roughly one sixth of the population get to be "poor" at all times.

Any less than that, and people who make their living off providing free stuff to the "poor" will get annoyed. Any more than that and too many people will start questioning whether someone with a $30K income is really "poor".

I certainly wouldn't want to live on $22K per annum. Though now I come to think of it, I was living on less than that, in a more expensive place than the vast majority of America, just a few short years ago as a PhD student.

Certainly we can say that in terms of absolute need, someone at the "poverty line" in America is incredibly wealthy compared to the vast majority of people who have ever lived. In historical terms, if you're not starving, you're pretty rich.
Many people try to earn profit, but the best way to earn profit is to seek to serve. Profit is a result, not a goal. Service is a goal, the result of which is profit. Get your motivation right and the methods will follow.
If they had alcohol and prostitution inside the cars they could increase the ride length. Or something... I think that came out sounding wrong.
Thanks for that paper, it looks to show that treaps are are better on average than I presumed. I'll have to take some time and read the whole thing.

That said, their definition of optimal is big-O, which is unimpressive and I believe also reached without any balancing, provided the input has no duplicates.
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I don't know much about javascript, I've just seen stuff like this -> http://masonry.desandro.com/demos/animating-jquery.html

Resize that page.
Fun data, but one question - there is an implicit assumption that prostitution arrests are proportional to the committing of the crimes. I wonder if weekdays show more prostitution because the cops are busy with other crimes on weekend nights?
Did it ever occur to you that maybe you were able to handle PCA, CG, portfolio theory, etc because "Hefferon was my textbook for 2 full semesters"?
Well, of course, as one would expect the poor to take out hugely unfair debt agreements to load up their small houses in bad neighbourds with all the electronic gear they can muster for as much entertainment as they can barely afford to have.

They do not, unlike the (European and American) middle class take foreign holidays, drive foreign cars, take trips to the movies, go to theme parks, go on school trips, shop at nice places, eat healithly, etc...just because they have a bunch of cheap electronics crap stuffed inside their homes it does not make them rich.

Seriously, what do you think life is like for the European middle class? In rich Europe, it's extremely comfortable.
Great and all, but I really just wish FB would stop assuming I need the side/chat bar thing. It seems like every 10th visit or so I have to "go offline" and close that damn bar.

I really, really feel that it's being pushed on users for no other reason but to force us to realize that, they too, have a chat feature like Google+.
I thought those contracts were not enforceable in CA? I'm most definitely not a lawyer tho, so I have little to back that up, but it's what I read in Joel Spolsky's answer here:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
How about renaming them pub charts?
Here is one from back in June.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MnEndww2YQ&hd=1
I think the problem recently is that the bump in the middle is getting relatively smaller, as rich people seem to be getting richer while the poor and middle-class get poorer.
How about just giving the two numbers?
I agree. 6 months max
This is all I've wanted from a flight search product since forever. It will be awesome when it's more international!
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Here's a theory: They're only tracking the prostitution that is caught. (That's how crime data works, right?) Wednesday is close enough to the weekend for prostitutes to work, but there's not too many people around. On thursday/friday/saturday there are hoards of partiers & other night life so they can blend in and find johns easily. But on Wednesday they're more likely to be caught.
You're missing something very important: these laws were tailor-made for the companies currently using them to send these notices, and any issue like this may simply be interpreted as a bug. Courts also frequently suffer from ad-hominem problems, and may choose to ignore the claims of a site they think exists only to infringe copyright, whether it does or not.
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I was lucky and bought it right when I saw this post. I think is thought provoking and yes, controversial. I shared it with my 11 year old daughter and we had a conversation about life cycle of our electronics. I say anything that gets people to talk about issues is good. But censorship - a la app store- is not good. Hope they put it on Cydia at least.
I am reviewing all MIT Linear Algebra lectures on my blog, including lecture notes and my comments.

Start here: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-linear-algebra-part-one/
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For some values of "used." I used it to search for "toronto" then Ctrl-W'd.
It looks like he raised the ire of the CBC because he used the CBC logo to promote an app he was selling for profit, and now they won't stop until it's completely eradicated. Big mistake to steal someone's trademark, but it's a life lesson.

What he should do is completely remove the app, to satisfy CBC and Apple. In a couple of months, simply create a new app that does the same thing with no reference to Canada or CBC or anything. In the description, mention it will play X, Y, and Z, and on the web page, mention you can play CBC streams by pointing to the URL.

This seems legit to me.
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Agreed, there could be more direct evidence. They are assuming that this correlation will hold true in most cities.

Perhaps a less contested statement would be: "How Uber makes prostitution and alcohol better"...
I remember fellow Americans speaking approvingly of Singapore in the 90's. "Ah, now that's the way a country should be run" they seemed to to be implying.
> Which of course is largely the case with the AGW detractors, too.

Maybe, but AGW detractors and advocates are not mirror images even though both groups put on their pants one leg at a time.

For example, the AGW detractors don't want to restrict my choices, impose taxes on me, etc. The AGW detractors are largely weath creators while the AGW advocates are largely rent-seekers. The AGW detractors have never said that AGW advocates should be jailed for taking their position. And so on.
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This reminds me of a conversation I was having recently with some engaged friends of mine, who are in their early 30s and were worried about whether they were really financially ready to have children yet. Of course they were extremely middle-class and presumably have a combined income well into the six-figure range, but they were still worried about whether they could financially support one kid. And then you've got stuff like this.

Whenever they interview a poor person for one of these sorts of articles, it always seems to be someone who has managed to make some really bad life decisions.

This should make us happy -- it indicates that if you can avoid the following bad lifestyle decisions:

1. Gambling

2. Drugs

3. Excessive alcohol

4. Becoming a single mother

5. Dropping out of high school

then your chances of being poor in America are really extremely low.
My desktop is split between two monitors; the left monitor is for regular work and is usually covered up by full-screen (or close to it) applications. The right monitor is full of a cascade of windows, so each window is selectable from their bottom left corners.

Apart from that, the background is just used to show pictures. It's surprisingly awkward with multiple monitors: I had to write a program that composed the pictures I wanted to display, then set that new picture as a tiled background. If you don't do that correctly, and you have multiple monitors with different resolutions, you end up with either the same image on all monitors, or clipped / stretched / distorted versions on all but the "home" monitor (the one that owns (0,0)).
I have mixed feelings for developing for Windows 8. I got my hands a little on Visual Studio, and it's hands-down the most powerful, stable and complete IDE I ever used.

If Microsoft could have something similar for coding with JavaScript,and HTML; along with tools for storage, database, revision control, testing, jquery... integrated inside that IDE. Well, I just can't miss programming with it.
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Contracts are a very interesting idea security-wise.

Traditionally you go through a file system or the Internet where apps can access anything, and so you get Android-style permissions that everyone ignores.

With contracts, you go through the user's already-necessary actions, and (I don't know about Windows 8's implementation, but it's definitely possible) you get exactly what you need, no more and no less.

Capability-based security is finally going mainstream.
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What's really interesting to me is that Windows 8 seems almost entirely focused on the consumer market. What about those of us using our desktop PCs every day to do real work?

I mean, do we really have to boot into that fancy-pants Metro UI every time we want to actually get something done?

I'm totally fine with swiping this way and that when using a tablet PC (I love my iPad), but when I sit down at a desktop PC, I want a mouse/keyboard driven experience - period.
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At risk of inspiring ire...

I'd have certain doubts of someone who does produce lots of open-source code, insofar as that could be construed as they don't think highly enough of their own code to sell it.

(As I write I'm waiting for GCC to rebuild due to the need to fix a bug therein. That such a bug exists at this late date in a product so widely used as a foundational tool does not inspire confidence in OSS. I find such flaws tend not to occur in "closed" software, where someone is paid to polish the corners that nobody wants to.)
1. More intelligent and diverse discussion. I don't know how you would do that, but try to make it the opposite of reddit.com/r/politics.

2. Convenient links to relevant background information for the article. E.g. relevant statistics, opposing viewpoints, press releases, wikipedia articles, a summary of "just the facts" from the article, previous quotes from the people the article is about.

Also, I know you weren't asking for feedback on the site, but the name would otherwise make me assume that it's a site about atheism.
No, but I can imagine an average consumer being happy that the device can run the copy of Home Landscape Architect 3D Pro Plus 2007 that they bought a few years back, work with their old Quicken data, and play that copy of Hoyle Card Games they have lying around.

People have accumulated stuff that runs on their PCs. Most people who buy iPads keep around their computer to do at least a few things, even if they don't use it very much. The sales pitch on a Win 8 tablet is that it docks to your desk, replaces your PC for everything, and you can still pick it up and carry it everywhere like an iPad.

That seems like a pretty fair sales pitch to me.
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