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The problem is in the distribution of wealth. The nation is growing at 7-8% a year compared to 0-2% growth in US, but most of the wealth in India is in the hands of 5% of the population. The middle class is slowly growing, but not at the rate to close the disparity.

Democracy in its core is the reason for the slow infrastructure, government and social reforms because its like moving a big elephant. China on the other hand is able to be quite nimble with communism. Its interesting. I dont advocate communism because it sounds great in theory but rarely works practically, but it is working for China.
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It's not quite true that the poorest areas of the U.S have access to those things. Check out these two links about colonias:

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/border/elpasocolonia...
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/border/colonias/faqs.shtml

And two New York Times articles from July:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/us/08ttconditions.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/us/10tthealth.html
Agreed - given how US government is cracking down on expats, it simply makes sense to file your taxes every year, especially when most expats end up owing nothing. Here are more reasons to do it: http://www.taxesforexpats.com/expat-tax-advice/why-file.html
Ok. It's a bit frustrating, and considering the rate freelancers charge, I thought it was only time working on the project. But yeah, she would not install these parts if she didn't need it for my project, so it's a bit blurry... :-)

I have detailed instructions, but it's more a matter of being able to work together with source control (rather than upload html->integration, change html->me doing the diff with my current output->integration etc).

thanks for your opinion.
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Your US citizenship binds you the US Citizenship licensing agreement, that includes prior claims on your income. Next you'll be telling me Apple is stealing from all those developers....
Ok, so this is for specific things. When I came across that proclamation, it was something to the effect of "The US enforces its laws outside its borders, you can't escape US law" with going to Thailand to have sex with kids as the example given. It makes more sense that it's just for specific things.
This article reminds me of the Decline Effect, a BS way to describe experimental error. Experiments are prone to biases and problems than are worked out over time by a lot of good science.
I'll bet these negotiations are very interesting. A few years ago I doubt the big finance companies would have embraced this with Google, but with Apple mostly likely going to announce something similar with iPhone5, Google is probably having better success. "Without us, you will be dealing with Apple as the dominant player. Who's terms do you think are going to be better."
From what I hear from Americans abroad, it's an easier life to suggest that they're Canadian : Less hostility.
@Hyena No, you don't. Which is clearly apparent based on your previous comment, which was incorrect. Calling my statement hysterical isn't an argument either. Claiming that you do understand doesn't make your statement any less incorrect.
another post from the writer of a terriblely short and uninformative article.

Getting old.. really old.
For the sake of the ignorant, could you expound on why these examples are wrong or inaccurate?
It seems you did not realize that you are replying to the tattoo's owner.

However, your point stands if I mentally modify some pronouns and expresses my own sentiments as well. Tattoos, piercings, hair coloring, makeup, clothing are often for ourselves, not for being pretentious.
You completely won me over with the philosophy behind it. This should be personally meaningful to you for a long time.

I recommend practicing a concise 10 sec explanation because people WILL ask what it means.
I'd love to know where this guy works now.

I've always thought it would be cool to do computer graphics programming but never been sure which sort of companies pay for guys like this to work for them.

All I could find was this: http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2010/12/leaving-ea.html indicating that he used to work for EA in Canada.
We are not the ones saddled with paying it off. This is the biggest myth in Politics today. Government bond transactions are settled in us dollar reserves. Reserves come from government spending. That's the only place they come from. As a point of logic, the reserves used to purchase government bonds comes from government spending in the first place. Tax revenue does not fund the federal government. Neither does bond sales. Federal Government is self-funded. The private sector provides goods and services to the federal government in exchange for dollars. Modern Monetary Theory explains all of this. Read Mosler's "The 7 deadly innocent frauds of economic policy" its free in pdf form.
http://moslereconomics.com/2009/12/10/7-deadly-innocent-frau...
Ah, Thief. That was an interesting engine to create levels for. I seem to recall that it tried to use real-world measurements which helped a great deal in terms of sizing things as compared to the player. Plus how the levels were created (subtraction from a solid world) was puzzling but then Unreal did the same. I always preferred Quake's level creation method.

But my favorite bit of the engine? Sound. It was so vital to gameplay you had to consider it heavily while creating a level. I don't think I had to consider how sound travels through a level since.
2-3 feet per pixel. Google earth uses that for imaging at very high scales. They use aerial photography for the rest. Per-pixel, it's definitely mainly aerial photography TBH.
Works fine in Chrome 14.0.835.163/Mac OS 10.7.1.
"and this is a terrible reward for all of their hard work."

Don't cry for them too hard, Argentina. I know one of them, they have a severence coming which I believe was part of the deal when HP bought them - cancel Palm/WebOS, lay us off, and we get paid. It'll buy a lot of them time to think about what's next and hopefully start some cool new startups that inherit what they've learned and done over the years.
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I don't see why. Without mechanical tools and rudimentary physics, progress on flying machines was nil until the Wright brothers. Without better tools to study brains, there is no reason to expect we have produced any valuable answers to the sorts of "big questions" brains ask about themselves.
Price controls and price control problems follow. This is known.
If you're not receiving resumes from women, you may want to examine your job advertising, benefits, and reputation in the industry.

The way you advertise jobs will have a large influence on the type of people who apply. Word of mouth through your all-male developer network isn't likely to reach female developers. The tone of your ads may discourage women from applying (a PDF study: dbem.ws/Sex%20biased%20ads.pdf).

The benefits you offer may also discourage women. Vacation time, flexible hours, and maternity leave tend to be as important to mothers or would-be mothers as health and dental coverage (as a father those things are also important to me, but I know dads who don't care). If you've got benefits that only a young single guy could love, you'll get young single guys applying.

And then there's your reputation. Software development is a surprisingly small, connected industry. If you've only interviewed one female developer in 11 years (the maximum if you've only ever met one), that statistic is out there. Perhaps women don't apply because they've heard you don't hire women or don't even interview them.

If you're not getting female developers applying for jobs, you're missing out on half the talent out there. You may want to check your network on LinkedIn and find out where they are working and why. And more importantly, why they're not interested in working for you.
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It's a public place - you probably should be somewhat less surprised and/or begrudging when it fills up with members of the public (and that's regardless of whether or not they are your kind of people, too).
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If you were visiting another country and ended up in the middle of a civil war, you would probably want Marines to extract you even if you were from a country that doesn't 'make you a target.'

In general, Americans have been seen as targets for a long time (even when foreign relations were good) because they were seen as 'rich foreigners.' My grandpa would even say that when going back to Poland to visit family, there were a lot of people that were just looking for hand-outs that assumed he was rich because he was an American (he was not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination).
KH-8 resolution is "0.5m". That is analogue as well as they used photographic film in them.

This is "0.5m" resolution (from GeoSat-1).

http://geoeyemediaportal.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/gall...
We're dismayed that our kids are obligated to pay six digits in government debt before they can talk

Maybe I am alone on this, but I've never had to send a check to the US government to pay for my share of the government debt. Have you?
To round out the numbers in fairness...

Since 1967, US population increased from 198,712,056 to 310,000,000, a growth of about 1% a year.

Per person income has risen about 1.2%/yr.

Per person GDP has risen about 1.6% over per person income.

BTW: nobody stole your growth. You get what you agree to in exchange for your efforts. If you work the same menial job year after year, don't expect much income growth. If you take risks and innovate and work hard, you can see huge income growth. This, of course, is the purpose of this discussion board: to take opportunities and profit from them. A lot of people are content with not much income growth; they're quite comfortable where they are. Those of us frequenting ycombinator.com are interested in doing a lot better than "comfortable where we are", and the numbers show there is a lot of money to be made by taking the marvelous opportunities this nation affords us.
You attempt to explain partial function application and currying on page 1. Using opaque examples.

This makes no sense; people who have experience with FP concepts don't need to know that, and those who don't won't be able to understand what you're talking about. Saying things like "I promise, this will get easier over time" isn't actually helpful.

Also, the text is low-contrast and difficult to read.
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Wow lot of pessimism and cynicism here.

> '...but per-capita income of India is so low'

No one has said otherwise. Having a big economy has many advantages and India is expected to grow for decades to come.

> '...but go to Indian cities and you'll see rampant poverty'

So? Poor people migrate to cities in search of opportunities. Unlike China there is no mechanism in India to put restrictions on rural migrants.

> '...gap between rich and poor in India is growing'

Show me one country that is growing 5% or more where the gap between rich and poor is decreasing.
That's fine, I understand that. But you should consider that the gov't now has thousands and thousands of laws to choose from and should they decide one day to come after you I'm sure you have broken some of those as well, most probably unwittingly. If they want to they'll come after you one day and you'll have to submit I suppose, because you've broken some arbitrary law, but I'm sure you won't mind because you seem quite happy to obey your masters, no matter, because it's the LAW! Continue on lapdog; I'm done with you and I have better things to do.
Pretty scary that they collect data after you cancel unless you unhook it. What if you buy a used car that had OnStar - how is that legal?
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Possible duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955
I'm a JS developer too, I decided to read the code before reading the explanation. I said to myself "where the feck does 'i' come from? I guess it must be coming from outside somewhere". Smiled when I read your description:

> The variable i represents input from other people

Very cool :)

But, um, no syntax highlighting?
thank you, really appreciate the insights.
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Ha, cool! I'd not seen that one
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I considered it, but I was afraid people might think I was geeky.
The problem is how that somebody finds you instead of one of the hundreds of other developers in the pile who can't develop.
Why is this being published now? Honeycomb was ages ago. Gingerbread (which is free) still dominates, and Ice Cream Sandwich (which will be free) will be out soon.
I think one of the benefits is that I can change the meaning depending on who I am talking to. "Why honey, it means I love you of course!" ;P
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I wonder if the author feels similarly about -9
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Tell that to all my co-workers in China where I make 3x what they make. They can barely pay for rent. I'm just lucky that as a foreigner, I had leverage to max out the pay scale (and still getting paid only Chinese-level salary). The economic divide between the rich and poor is just as huge and just a big a concern, especially with the crazy real estate prices in the cities. Common to see 7 university-graduated kids sharing a 40 square metre apartment. I have friends like that.
Do you remember the hacker emblem? http://catb.org/hacker-emblem/
Exactly, which means that market forces are pretty much destroyed. When the government decides by fiat how much things should cost, there's no incentive to make a better product. It's just a race to the bottom. Not to mention regulatory capture etc.
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If anyone actually thought OnStar wouldn't be used for that from day 1 they were just fooling themselves.
They could. And Russia would immediately lose a ton of business. There are no "laws" between countries. Just treaties and agreements. If you don't want to be subject to another countries laws, don't go to that country (or live in a country that enforces other countries laws).
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I understand that a local clone uses hardlinks (ln without the '-s' switch). Isn't a hardlink just a pointer to the underlying file? Removing a hardlink, even with the force switch won't delete the original version of the file in e.g. the local bare repository, or am I wrong?
colonias built on land that was never zoned for residential uses

And

Many homes, built without regard for indoor bathrooms or plumbing, are treated as substandard or dilapidated by housing inspectors. These homes cannot pass inspection to qualify for hook up to water lines

It is not that these services are not available because the government is unable to provide them. In these cases, the government will provide these services in areas zoned for residential use, and where buildings have passed inspection. Ironically, the fact that these people do not have access to certain infrastructure is a sign of how modernized the US is...not only do we provide the infrastructure, we also have a system in place to ensure its safety and quality.
I can't upvote this enough. I might print it and have it posted at every coffee shop I visit within a 10 block radius of my office.
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Can we please use more informative titles. -f means I have to open this page to see what it's all about. Yes, that will get you views to your spamblog, but it doesn't help this site be useful, which is it's stated aim.
Bada at first didn't interest me much, but I kept reading about Bada's above-average Webkit port (eg [1], [2]). Combined with Samsung's screen tech, it makes for some intriguing possibilities.

[1]: http://www.sencha.com/blog/samsung-bada-the-html5-developer-...

[2]: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/07/new_kid_on_t...
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nice ;)

I was once going to get this tattooed:

<?=phpinfo(); ?>

I still think about getting a code tattoo from time to time. I'm not really a PHP developer any more though.

I like the meta meaning of yours, it's timeless. Even if the JS syntax changes or you move into Obj-C or whatever, it still has the deeper meaning you've attached to it. I think that will make it age well.
> I mean a Tiger in coming towards you. Do you notice (or care about) the bustling leaves on the bush?

I think you missed the clause "in abscense of a known crisis will value the pattern over basic feelings". Not being a zoo keeper, I would think a Tiger constitutes a crisis.

I cannot help but think the manager found that there was no current crisis, someone had taken action, he must now take action, then we get the thing out of place. I would assume (yeah, that word) the normal behavior would be to send the tech home with a "great job" and a "we got it from here". Nope, let's fix the pattern.
I don't find this hyperbole, but rather a completely misleading title and analysis.
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Should've just gotten "RangeError" tattooed instead.
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Did you flag the submission? If enough people do the admins might take a look and change it.
What about an RSA tattoo?

http://www.geekytattoos.com/illegal-tattoos-rsa-tattoos/
I didn’t, and quite possibly that’s for the best. I’d like to think that I’d have said exactly the same thing to Jim if I’d known he was the “canvas,” but as it turns out I know this is absolutely positively what I thought without attempting to apply tact :-)
>I have a pet theory on the whole thing. Humans are pretty much pattern matching machines. I get the feeling that a certain percentage of individuals in abscense of a known crisis will value the pattern over basic feelings.

That's the core of "Parable of the Monkeys." I'm not sure what the canonical source is, but here's a concise rendition: http://allhazardscontemplations.blogspot.com/2009/06/monkey-...
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Intel's Ivy Bridge support for 4K resolution could pave way for 'Retina' Macs
Using half depth motherboards a rack is able to support 90 servers. Some providers like OVH in Europe focus on only building such racks.
LOL. You know what the riots in Cairo were about, right?
Whenever I see the Great FSM, I feel nothing except the need for Parmesan and a fork. Would that be like Mass for Pastafarians?
Pretty cool. I was going to get a GUID tattooed to my arm :)
This is a fantastic idea, and I have enjoyed following it. I just hope Dan knows that there are lots of people who put in 10,000 hours and don't make it to the highest level (sports, music, math, art, anything...), despite becoming veritable masters. Its always a suprise how many people are amazingly good at something, without being the best or among the best. In my experience, there are such things as innate gifts. But hey, maybe I'm wrong! I hope so :) Makes this project that much more interesting.
> And my socks or bowl doesn't have the ability to record my personal calls or track my location.

How do you know? You're just more trusting of stuff that doesn't look like it has extra functionality. For all you know, bowl manufacturers could embed GPS tracking devices in there.

There comes a point where you just have to trust people selling you stuff won't be evil.
I think the biggest reason why people abuse --force is because you have to force rm to remove directories. In our day of ~/Downloads full of extracted tarballs, we use it pretty flippantly. If that weren't the case, we might be more cautious with our --force usage.
How about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden_(cellular_automa...
Such a inspiring initiative. This could really become a seminal experiment in learning.
Nice! Maybe for the next one.
ignore the trolls, I appreciate you putting this out there, looks like some good reading material for the day :)
Are you sure? Unless they turn into citizens (say, via green card) why would they have to report? I would think not even green card holders would have to (although looks like they do, according to http://www.taxesforexpats.com/expat-tax-advice/green-card.ht...). Do you have a reference for your claim?
"Did... did you stitch up my appendectomy incision in the shape of a Nike swoosh?"
That's an awesome idea. You should.
In black and white, the GeoEye-1 satellite is capable of resolving objects on the ground as small as 16 inches. Average Joes like us don't see this imagery; it's sold to USG, while companies like Google are required to buy lower quality output.

That said, the "nefarious organizations" have satellites that can do amazing things...
Couldn't you add something equivalent to Lisp macros to languages like Perl or Python?

Perl6 comes with full Lisp-like macros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Macros

See previous HN discussion on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279238
I don't see any connection to spam on this blog.

The title was too short for a variety of reasons (it's even a ~hard~ click target like that), but I enjoyed it.

I agree with the other reply: Complaining is probably worse than flagging it. Or - just not clicking things out of curiosity unless you genuinely want to see what 26 people at the time of this writing considered interesting.
I think there is a big difference between "a cool presentation of your business plan" for the outside world and an in depth and detailed plan and research for your own.

I agree that "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

But this doesn't mean that all you need to know is, what a six year old knows. I notice that we tend to believe that having profound knowledge of your business is unnecessary.

But we don't need to bore everybody with this information.
Ditto for Ioke & Perl6.

Some previous HN posts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2144067 & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157961
HN Charity: H2O Project Needs A Mobile App 
I don't have mobile app skills or I would try to help. This charity: http://www.theh2oproject.org/ is looking for a simple app that can keep track of the money you save by forgoing beverages. The work would be for recognition and a link.
This is amazing. It's hard to believe someone is capable of being that dedicated to something they've never really done before. I could understand how an amateur golfer who is in love with the game might set this lofty goal, but it seems Dan really had no feelings toward the game either way. More or less, he's doing it just to see if he can do it. And he's willing to dedicate 5 years of his life to this!
I'm not sure how you could consider $10k big, especially in aggregate. That's probably less than six months' savings for a family.
The article says:

> According to statisticians, it is almost impossible to manipulate data in a way that a certain outcome is guaranteed and Benford’s Law is met at the same time. Hence, tax authorities in several countries are using Benford’s Law as a default testing device.

I'd be very interested in evidence to support this. This doesn't sound correct. "Almost impossible?"
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