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Meh. I don't really want to drink potentially contaminated, lukewarm fluids served up by a child at the side of the road. I'm reminded of the horror story of a coworker's husband who bought a coconut cream pie from a roadside vendor in the Philippines...

A kid will learn much more by doing odd jobs for older people in the neighborhood. Mowing, yard raking, hedge trimming, window cleaning. The only thing you learn at a lemonade stand is that being cute earns handouts, and very basic change-making.

That said, local licensing and business registration needs a special < 18 category. Oregon, for example, has a minimum incorporation fee of, I think, $250. It should be $40 or $20 if you're under 18.
I know Hank and the reason he can't raise money has nothing to do with his race. In fact, he raised $40 million as the CEO of Clickradio in 1998.

His problem is two-fold. First, he sued his previous investors (and lost). A lot of people had their companies fail in 2001, but dragging his investors through a 5-year battle made him a minor legend. Ultimately, he was suing them in retaliation for firing him from Clickradio, which is what they did to try to save the company. Second, he has at least three ex-employees of his current venture whom he's tried to retroactively cut out of the company after they left. One of them is owed over a hundred thousand. If that comes out in due diligence, and it will because half the Valley already knows it, he's a goner.

There are a number of black people in technology I would fund in a heartbeat. Hank is not one of them.
In retrospect, that biography is quite lacking on a lot of points. It seems like Isaacson was not able to get through to jobs in any other way than Jobs allowed. Maybe this is due to him rushing the book to be released 2 weeks after his death, there is almost no analysis of Jobs.

I also wonder how Jobs, as buddhist as he was, would rationalize his anger. In the book he repeatedly says "that's how I am", which is pretty much what buddhism tries to undo. He definitely was an irrational man.
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If this is a bluff, They have blown their single shot.

If this is not a bluff, they owe the world the list of names, no matter what.

So what is the optimal strategy for the cartel? Release the captive and wreak terrible vengeance if Anonymous doesnt hold up their end of the bargain? Call the bluff?
> Any purchase I make at one stand is a lost opportunity for another stand.

Really? You find a kids' lemonade stand in your neighborhood and find yourself thinking: a) "Man! I really want to drive out of my neighborhood and buy from stranger kids but this stand right here makes it terribly inconvenient for me". Or more like b) "look how cute, I'll plunk down a quarter to really inspire my neighborhood kids' entrepeneur spirit!". Your purchase was never an opportunity for another stand. I hope you don't seriously think you can legislate opportunity.

> why should kids receive special treatment?

Is it so hard to see? It's a calculated risk, a trade-off. You can spend a few cents here and now, maybe even spill the lemonade around the corner, but helped some young minds dream that they can one day make the whole of society richer by being wealth creators. Society's risk? a bad tasting lemonade? It's all upside, no downside.

Why should kids not follow food regulations? good question. Why should anyone? I don't want to go to that rabbit hole, but it's easy to see how a little protection here, and a little there, leads to more rules for regulations' sake. We have so many laws no grown-up can keep up, not even lawyers, and to me it's clearly unreasonable to think that a child could or even would.
It's not just social points, it's access to fulfilling work. The better you do at conveying your unique value, the more likely you are to find someone who's willing to pay you appropriately for work that's right at the edge of your abilities. If you don't market yourself properly you'll be stuck on an HR salary scale (e.g. Programmer III at 105% of standard compensation) doing fungible work.
If you don't like it, don't drink it. Stop expecting society to parent you.
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Hi everybody!

Launched the full version in Sept after some initial beta testing.

http://www.collegesolved.com/

Three separate channels:

1) College search is hard: so we created the Kayak of college search. The search tool is an easy way for prospective college students to narrow down their list and research colleges. Once they have a manageable list, they can create an account to manage the application process. It's a crowded space and we've separated ourselves by building a better search and including content not available anywhere else, including graduate salary data and a personality wheel for individual colleges based on surveys completed by college students. Users can get a sense for what students on campus are like, whether they trend Social, Scholarly or Indie. High school users love this feature in testing. You can also tap your LinkedIn (parents) and Facebook (HS students) profiles to see if you know any current students or on thousands of college campuses.

2) Getting the real scoop is harder: so we built a searchable network of 1,110+ college students on over 260 campuses across the country. Prospectives can search by college, interests (newspaper, ROTC, athletics, Greek life) and connect with a college student to get the real scoop. After filling out some profile info, the first call/email is free. We’ve built a private, secure backend scheduling, call and email system to facilitate connections.

3) Getting in is the hardest: so we took a totally fractured industry, private college counseling, and aggregated the best in the business. We partnered with IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association, to offer up the best consultants, as the market is ripe with marketing-heavy, results-light advisors. So, if I’m a student in Portland, Oregon who wants to go to Harvard I can search for a former Harvard admissions officer to help with my application process. I don’t have to use the counselor down the street that my friend recommended.

Any thoughts about UX, level of usefulness, and ways to reach high school students would be appreciated. Less interested in feedback on revenue model at this point, looking for thoughts on UX and distribution. Thanks!
I agree that there's no perfect meritocracy in Silicon Valley or anywhere since we're all human and human has bias. And I agree that black history has caused many disadvantages to the success of black Americans. But I don't buy that the reason that there are few black entrepreneurs because of racism or discrimination in the Valley. Yes, there might be some discrimination, but they are not the root or dominant causes.

Like you said, black people have been mistreated for hundreds of years. So even today, not many black students go to college (comparatively), and when they are in college, not many of them choose engineering(cultural?). The reason why there are few black tech entrepreneurs is because there is a small selection pool to begin with.

I think it's more productive to try to solve these root causes than to blame Valley meritocracy which i think is working ok.
Your understanding of the Constitution is wrong.

Permits at the federal level.
Permits at the federal level involve access to federal lands or resources. These permits are voluntary, quid pro quo (i.e., pay for service/access) payments. In that regard, a permit is no different than a rental fee a private business would charge (i.e., a ticket to Disneyland). This is not illegal under the Constitution.

Permits at the state level.
Business permits are required by States and are part of the bloc of powers delegated to the States as purely local concerns. Again, not illegal under the Constitution.

Marriage permits have been around since the 1200s. They were originally established by the Catholic Church as a way to increase Church revenues. Eventually, governments took over that power for the same purpose. For hundreds of years, in the West, marriage permits have been a recognized power of government. Anybody can get married without a marriage permit in any State in America and live like man and wife (what is classically known as a "common law marriage"). However, if you want that marriage to be recognized by the government for legal and tax purposes, and get all the government-backed rights that come with government recognition, you need to pony up. Again, it's quid-pro-quo, and it's not illegal under the Constitution. (Common law marriages are no longer recognized by the government, but they're not illegal.)

Disclaimer: I am a lawyer.
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It is none of your business, leave him alone. I think he would be sick of that idolatry.
And also, given that a much larger share of Android users switch to iOS than switch the other way, Apple will do fine.
It's sad when academia is demoted to a "hobby." For me at least, money is less important than having discretion to work on novel projects.

Also, I never called anyone arrogant, but rather the article itself. Big difference. I don't know Patrick personally, so I wouldn't label him as such.
I currently work for Yell Labs in the UK (though quit last week to fully commit to the startup I'm working on with 2 other great guys), and we use C3 on the maps part of the main website.

If you want to see what it looks like, try this:
http://www.yell.com/map/

Only a few locations in the UK were commissioned... the cost is high so we aimed at the large cities to start with. It's really good stuff so long as you stay away from trees that are near buildings ;)

The dataset is enormous though. Going to be interesting to see that go mobile.

C3 basically took a FPS game map approach (poly data and textures) and overlaid that with a tiled map approach. So each tile downloads the poly and then lays the texture for that tile over the poly.
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ConcurrentLinkedQueue in jdk6, by the way, does not use Unsafe:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/b58af78ac79c/s...
These sorts of people are much safer to go after than "murderers and rapists". There's also a case Balko has covered where one of these enemies of the people engaged in private gambling of a more innocent sort (I think) in Northern Virginia was unnecessarily killed by a SWAT team; obviously that level of force is barely enough to arrest such dangerous desperadoes.
> when we define the MVP it seems to lack innovation

Like most MVP's it's probably just a small subset or specific feature of what a mature MVA product will look like. The key is to make that MVP more efficient to the user in comparison to the competing product. Use benchmark words like stronger, lighter, faster and cheaper over complicated terms that require abstraction like flexible, scalable, easier and performant.

Think of something simple like the paper towel. It's a global commodity and sales are pretty much flat, so how is a brand to distinguish itself from others? Just cut the towels in half with another line of perforations. The new towels are smaller, lighter and cheaper by volume over the competition and all they did was adjust the settings on the perforator.

Not everything is genius at the first iteration. It's hard work and requires a mix of innovation and feedback over time.
In short, the problem with covariant generics is that you can put a Banana in a Basket<Apple> (because a Basket<Apple> IS A Basket<Fruit>).
I am wondering if it would be as easy as doing a dd from the old disk to an external an then to an extended partition in the new machine HD...
Let's get the facts straight. Believing in a multiverse is no different than believing in heaven/hell.
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I am looking for some suggestions what one can do to improve both the quality of the writing as well as the overall writing output.

Are there any communities that for example critique writings (lets say of blog posts) and allow to create there some kind of feedback loop to improve structure, wording, grammar and so on?
yes, the do make stuff much cheaper. including workforce they hire.
In other words, MVP is really just a fake landing page with a sign up button and see how many people click on it.
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Extensive support from their own governments, for one. India and China are very serious about trying to export their own tech workers, and have put their education infrastructure where their mouths are. American-born Indians and Chinese have no doubt benefited from the halo of highly-skilled imported labor.

On the other hand, there isn't a "Black IIT" to bootstrap the tech reputation of blacks.
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The only issue I have ran into is that some of these newer features are not yet available in compilers that are shipping with OS's we are deploying on, so I HAVE to continue writing to C++98 since installing a new compiler/libraries is a no go (if it is not vendor supported, can't do it, thank you US gov't rules!).

It will take some time for the compilers and their libc++ libraries to move forward and have older versions of OS's replaced by ones that do support it.

That being said, wherever I can (in personal projects) I will slowly start adapting and using the new features...
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Very brief news condesend:

The goal of the Apertus project is to create a powerful, free (in terms of liberty) and open cinema camera that we as filmmakers love to use.

A new Apertus film has been completed: "Open Land" takes you on a journey through a land that has barely been inhabited by people:
Watch it here: http://apertus.org/en/node/136 and read more about it
here: http://apertus.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=114&p=1059

Nathan has made lots of progress with his Apertus Stereo3D rig:
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Depends upon whether you count iPads as PCs or not - if you do, then yes, Apple is on the verge of winning the PC war.
doodling , or wishful-writing conveys a very nice feeling of letting your brain 'be himself', and often surprise yourself.

On the musical side, odd time 'swing' drum rudiment at slow pace , while sustaining a deep breathing pattern is very relaxing. ( actually it's something close to what steve gadd advice for learning/enjoying drumming )
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Very interesting project!

One suggestion: I am not that keen on the stock photography. Would be great if you could use "real" photos for example for the admission expert

More of a question: How did you decide to partner with the IECA? It seems to me that the college consulting market is very messed up looking from the outside. Limiting your choice to one provider might seem a bit odd. If you would stay more independent you could probably expand into evaluating the success rates of different consultants through your users.
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When did you grow up? Was it before WWII or J. Edgar Hoover's tenure as FBI director? Because I wouldn't really describe either of those periods in American history as "beacons of freedom".
The company is headquartered where I live, Linköping in Sweden with 150 000 people. They were spun off from fighter plane manufacturer Saab Aerospace which is also situated in Linköping. Saab owned 53% of the company and Apple paid around $250 millon.

EDIT: Here is a video from Saab showing the process of acquiring map data and it's military applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNemPTHOKWg
Interesting. Previously, the same company has been behind the 3D view of Nokia's map service http://maps.nokia.com/3D/ — more info e.g. here http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/c3-technologies-behind-noki...
And still no turn by turn directions :p
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We're talking past each other: the disagreement is not with anything you just said. I just want you to rephrase your perfectly good argument without the word "privilege", because although what you mean by it (which you have explained) is not offensive, calling people that word tends to rub them the wrong way based on their previous experience of it being used negatively/critically.

It's as if you couldn't see what's wrong with making the claim, "Niggers are overrepresented on Death Row". It's an objectively true statement, but you still need to change one of the words you used if you're serious about constructive debate.

I think chc in this thread is saying exactly the same thing as me.
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* for a similar enough definition of heaven, hell and multiverse.

Have you read the article?
hahaha I don't know which developers you are talking about, just look at the numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)#Milestones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AppleAppStoreStatistics.pn...

And just because PG said something doesn't dispute the overwhelming success of the app store and the itunes store. There were just as allegedly "legendary" and allegedly "influential" (seriously, what influence and importance does PG really have outside of the smug cloud of valley startups? None to zero) people who said there will be a maximum of 5 to 6 computers around the world and the internet is completely useless. So, again, this does not an argument or a point make. The numbers prove it wrong. Just because someone says it has no relevance. Useless ad verecundiam right here.

If anything, Apple was incredibly smart about how and where they put the shackles on so most customers will happily accept the platform as it is. Ultimately, most people just care about the fact that it works and Apple continues to deliver on that front.
Are you kidding? Which one is the quality-selected accelerator? You mentioned YC and TechStars, but both of these have a large number of examples of a selection bias that seems to skew to young, male Ivy League grads. Trying to skew that another way seems like a good idea to me.
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1000 james lindenbaum
1030 jim goetz

1100 break

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Before you blame me for argument for authority, notice that rolfd's post is already ridiculously exaggerated because he said "it has an unbelievable positive impact."
What you're talking about is the benefits of garbage collection -- the fact that you can't free memory until nobody has a reference to it any more.

That's completely different from type safety.
Why would time be of any value if nobody is ageing after 25?
It's certainly true that dynamic, high-level languages save you from having to worry about ownership-semantics, but you still care a lot about the return-type (e.g., am I getting back an int, a str, a set, a dict, a simple list, a generator, &c &c &c)!

You care about this; either it must be obvious (e.g., fairly obvious with a function like len()), or you have to look it up in the documentation or comments of the function. If it's not documented, you have to try to figure it out from the function body, which is often non-trivial. This is why you'll typically see what amounts informal type annotations in the comments of functions of mature code.

Despite all this, many people feel that the flexibility of not having to specify types is a net-win.

C++ "auto" adds some of the convenience, but at a much lower cost in readibility, since when you see something like

auto x = foo.gimmeBar();

you can find out the type of x immediately just by looking at the definition of gimmeBar() (with IDE support, this could even be zero-effort (i.e., it could show a little grey popup bubble with the deduced type); even with something old-fashioned like emacs+ctags, it's just a hop-skip-and-a-jump away).

*

By the way, regarding ownership-semantics, it's true they could be a massive PITA pre-C++11, and (sort of analogously to the what-are-the-types-in-a-dynamic-language situation) you'd often have to fall back to relying on comments to know what was going on. If they're weren't comments and you were getting back a raw pointer, well...that could be rough.

This is a problem that can be fixed with library support (for smart pointers) and disciplined coding -- i.e., using the smart pointers. For a good example of this working really well in practice, see Objective-C.

C++11 helps because it gives us built-in library support, and will hopefully provide the community motivation for the convention/discipline of actually using the libs.

(This pointer-ownership stuff is pretty much orthogonal to auto, though, IMO.)
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I think you're mistaken. There have been around 40 million iPads sold, whereas Windows 7 alone has sold over 400 million copies (released a few months before the iPad). iPad surpassing PC sales would be a heck of an achievement.
Apple won't give me iOS, yet Google will give me more then enough of Android.

Google FTW. I rest my case.
I agree -- if you're interested in MWI then you should read Deutsch (in fact, you should read Deutsch anyway) -- but the OP isn't about MWI, it's about a different sort of multiverse, with lots of "pocket universes" even on a single Everett branch because of inflation. Many of the implications are pretty similar, though.
In a few cases; gettext recommends autopoint, which depends on git, so it will be installed automatically if someone installs gettext.

A few packages depend on gettext that I wouldn't have expected, like blender. This might be a mistake, but anyone who installs Blender will also install git, without ever using it.
One of the takeaways I get from this is that if you can't prove value, you can't demand payment for it. Proving usually involves measuring.

How does one go about measuring? They're not about to give a "mere programmer" access to the sales data or whatever.
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+1 for knowing where it's used. the tradeoff for privacy vs data ownership is something that I can argue on both sides for. If Siri was a service that was $10 a year, I'd want that data not stored. If it's free, someone's gotta pay for it. If they can pay for the service while truly anonymously storing the info, so be it.
True, but at least screw-ups will be noticed at compile time. And how would you even write this snippet, pre auto?!

(I think you'd either just assume t1 + t2 was T, or you'd have to go thru less-general, even-less-clear, gymnastics (like having some structure defined like get_sum_type<T,T>::thetype sum = t1 + t2).)
my assessment has no implications, unfortunately. Movie reference is used only as a funny humorous illustration. My assessment is based on my knowledge and experience with real government screwedups even here in the US, like county office messing up real estate ownership info. Compare to that, planting the tracer into the container that will most probably be checked is hardly a screwedup.