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"you can't get them as easily as you can a gallon of milk."

I would have to say that's entirely dependent upon who you socialize with, the time of day, and to some extent your age. I can absolutely think of situations I've been in where scoring involved a lot less effort than acquiring a gallon of milk. See also: dorm life.
So, this guy started working before he had his visa? Even worse he started a job that required personal, non-refundable investments of time and money. I have zero sympathy - this is common sense. Sure they shouldn't have rejected his application as they did, but he shouldn't have assumed he would easily get the visa. Not the kind of guy I would want to work for... at least until he learns some basic life skills to match that education.
I suspect you'd also have this sort of thing with a paid product. The only difference is that you'd have to go out of your way to placate the person, as he would be a customer.
You're right, I cannot call the milkman to open up the store and let me buy some milk at 3am, or better yet get milk delivered to my door with less than a 30 minute lag time.
Sounds like you are headed down the right path. Keep following your passion.
There are numerous substances and/or activities which are legally available whose addictive tendencies are comparable to controlled drugs. The combination of sugar, fat, and salt, for example, has been experimentally shown to be as addictive as cocaine (this is a central premise of the book The End of Overeating; its author, David Kessler, is a former commissioner of the FDA, and medical researcher).

While I don't condone drug use, I feel its criminalization has caused far more problems than it's resolved, and it certainly hasn't curtailed use. Criminalize the consequences (much as we do drunk driving), but decriminalize the use and commerce, tax the sales, provide ample treatment (possibly through the sales taxes), and eliminate an entire class of criminal enterprise.
I think heelhook and roberting are reading your question wrongly. Here's my attempt:

-"Grab yours"/"Grab one"
-"I want one"
-"Give it to me"
-"Put it on my tab"
No, what he (and I, I suppose) is suggesting is that without drugs criminal organizations lose their primary source of funding. They can move onto other, smaller pies, but ultimately it means a dramatic downsizing of organized crime and a consequent loss of influence.

Which isn't to say that they won't run guns and traffick humans, but right now the problem in Latin America is that these criminal organizations practically run the government they are so large. Depriving them of the drug pie, the tobacco pie, the alcohol pie... they will have nothing they can turn to that will allow them to maintain their present level of governmental corruption.
Non-scrollable regions containing ads and doodads are a killer for me.

Once this is forced on us, I will withdraw to a native client.
Whenever I try to use the NATO codes, I invariably forget at least one of the letters I need to use. So it's all going happily "C for charlie, A for alpha, Dammit, what's P again? P for...umm....argh...papa!"

That's as a caller though, I've never worked in a position that requires me to take calls from the public. I've often been met with pleasant surprise by call-centre staff when I use it to clarify non-obvious spellings, and always request a read-back check.
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I think everybody here will assume you were just being ironic, right?
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>>... Python (which was, after all, originally designed as a language for teaching OO concepts).

This isn't quite right. The teaching language was ABC, a different project that Guido worked on. Python was his own language, created for the Amoeba project (an OS research project), inspired and influenced by, but not the same as, ABC, which was not object oriented. Guido says that the purpose of python for the Amoeba project was to: "bridge the gap between C and the shell"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_%28programming_language%29

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/personal-history-...

However, if you have additional information, I'd love to hear about it. I've heard the "Python was originally a teaching language" several times, but as far as I can tell, that's not actually true.
"temporarily".

If enough people hate this, they may slow the intro, but this may be the worst of all Clusts, the one that fails, but is hailed as a glorious success.
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> More disclaimer: Paul Graham has nothing to do with this submission.

I would think he has something to do with it, no?
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Is changing your intellectual sophistication hard?

Uhm, how isolated are you from large swaths of society, to ask this question? The answer is yes, once a person matures into adulthood if they haven't acquired this and an appreciation for learning they almost certainly aren't going to. There are people who regard most intellectual activity with disinterest in the best case, and outright hostility in the worst. This group of people is known as "almost everybody in the world".

As for what to do with them, probably the most consistent approach if you want to stick to something resembling market economics is to let them starve. My objection to that isn't so much moral as it is practical (i.e. I dislike riots), and I favor giving them money instead.
You actually write very little code for AP Computer Science. If I recall correctly, the test tries to bring OO abstractions into the standards using Java's classes and wrappers, which should be a pretty good filter for dumb unpatterns like 'Car inherits from Garage'. So there are questions like 'How do you design this class hierarchy?' or 'Trace this code, what are the values of x...'

I don't think there was ever any of the boilerplate required to make a Java program actually run. When I took the exam, I'd never compiled a single line of Java in my life (yep, there are far better ways to get things done).
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There are problems with concept videos, though. Mostly, they seem like a sign of poor leadership.

Concept videos aren't a plan. They are a sales pitch. There's only three reasons I can imagine you would need a marketing campaign (not just an elevator pitch and in-depth memo) for your plan - your leadership doesn't buy it, or your staff don't buy it, or there's infighting that is getting resolved internal marketeering. OK, maybe you need to excite the general public, but I doubt it.

If Steve Ballmer (or his board) doesn't buy his own lieutenants' plans, it's a problem. If the engineers in MS need to be sold on the plan, it's a problem. And if executives are spending money and time lobbying Ballmer for more resources, that's expected in a big company, but if they think that slick videos are the way to go then things are getting out of hand.

MS should be killing internal marketing, both the demand (dummy management not listening) and the supply (encouraging slick middle managers who think their job is to acquire more resources at all costs). There's various ways to do this (mostly techniques known as "communicating", "making hard decisions at the top", and "not putting up with the guys who try to pull this shit"). But first they should recognise that there's a problem.
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Adjust numbers to taste.
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Then the question is, which hardware delivers the right balance of CPU, memory and IO bandwidth for the lowest capital and operating costs.

Also for what it is worth, each card has 60Gbps of general IO bandwidth, and another 48Gbps of SATA disk bandwidth.
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Downvotes are for comments that don't belong on the site because they don't add anything to the discussion. I personally have found this discussion very interesting. Dpcan should not be downvoted just for making an unpopular argument.

In fact, dpcan has managed to convince me that he's right. When I search for the title of a book, and I get to see a preview of a few pages, it is a form of advertising. It's not "wrong" or "mischievous" or "evil" or any other negative, it's just how advertising works.

The reason you are all upset is because that's not how Search Engines, in particular, worked. With book previews on Amazon, we're used to it. What EE did was try a new tactic, built for the web, to advertise their product. Of course we didn't like it - when has anyone ever liked paying for something?

Nowadays, what they do has been ruled to be wrong. The "rules of the game", as defined by Google (the authority here, apparently), say that they aren't allowed to do that. They find "tricky" ways of doing it, which sucks. But remember, these rules are being written live - you can't hold EE at fault for trying to "hack" a system, and you definitely can't fault them for not living up to rules that never existed.
If anything, I'd rather see more of this stuff on HN, the deeply interesting articles on wider ranging topics were what kept me coming back here in the first place.
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I like the visualization of goals feature, it seems like a useful self-analysis and reward system. I might give it a go. Thank you.
I seriously do not understand why people come/stay here given the way they are treated by our government. You must be masochists. Things have actually gotten worse under Obama, not better (and I am liberal).

What is it like in Israel for startups? In theory his kind of internet startup could work from almost anywhere in the world. Since he is in Vancouver now, might as well bring in the tax dollars for Canada.

ps. what is with linking through Digg for this - and they are still framing sites?
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Reminds me of the CIC in Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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I was trying to test the same hypothesis too and the fact that there was only 1% increase in students with math proficiency told me that perhaps the gap between the two groups is not closing. Otherwise, you would see a much higher number of students with math proficiency today compared to a decade ago.
I come from China. And US is still way better than China to start a small tech startup. Don't know much about Israel though.
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It is so funny, that I've been unlucky with 90% of my cleartrip train ticket bookings. No I did not mean, failure to book. But it is that, I end up cancelling those tickets! LOL.

IMO, IRCTC UI with its "just-ok"user experience, has almost all the options readily available. Whereas, Cleartrip does not. Cleartrip tries to keep things simple here, but I guess it does not work good for certain areas like Cancelling the ticket, or filing for TDR etc. Often it takes extra clicks to refine my train searches.
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I think it's too late for bankruptcy protection. A writ of execution like this authorizes the US Marshals to immediately withdraw the necessary funds from Righthaven's accounts, or to seize and auction any other assets. If Righthaven has already hidden those assets, it may make things more difficult, but I get the feeling that the judge in this case will want to find a way to punish the people behind Righthaven.
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There's a lot down there too but he was referring specifically to SF and in SF, SOMA is the place to be if he wants to be near all the hacker related stuff. And in comparison, at least as far as technical meetups go, there aren't as many good ones in the valley albeit the valley does have other events.
Sure, I get that, but if you could go to Vancouver (which apparently is a startup-mecca too) you'd have far less fear about being deported (and ill will from nearly 50% of the population). Why put yourself through that - running a business is enough stress.

The USA is like going to a store, filling up your cart, but just before you are about to checkout and make them money, they drag you out the door instead.
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I am not so sure. I am a WASP which means that they shouldn't have any xenophobia against me. I can't get a visa either.

Personally I am guessing that the education they receive is as bad on the subject of economics as it is here and the people really just assume that those who come from the outside is out to get what they have. This wouldn't be so bad when the economic times are good, but when they are bad (or perceived to be bad, historically they are ridiculously good) people becomes less willing to talk to, and help, strangers.
Not about GMail, but does anyone else find Google's new blog templates to be annoying?

Chrome and Firefox optimized away much of the 500msec or less it takes for the page to render, and I don't want to have to spend that time watching the loading logo instead. Plus there are unavoidable animations for every page I try to access, but they're slow and make my netbook lag. I like being able to access the alternative views, but some of them seem clearly oriented towards photo blogs and turn into a pastiche of menus and grids, defeating the point of making the blog more usable for the reader (I have to try click on each one to see what it does?). /complain
And... I was wrong :)

I just switched to the new look and (after changing the density to "Compact") I could not notice a difference on the padding.

It was a nice surprise.

Are you working on anything related to this design?
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Israel is very friendly towards startups. Launching from here is definitely an option, albeit not an optimal one.

I can very much understand that Israel's physical and cultural distance from SF can pose a problem. Do not underestimate the importance of being physically close to customers and partners - not to mention VCs.
Wish I knew. Maybe a hidden flash object?

I should contact the noscript author and ask him to check.
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> There is no way to get my friend's content on google+ back into google reader.

PlusFeed is an unofficial AppEngine service that exposes Google+ posts as RSS. You can then subscribe to the PlusFeed RSS URL in Google Reader. Unfortunately, PlusFeed can only see other people's public Google+ posts (since it's not logged in as you).

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I wrote this JavaScript bookmarklet to open the appropriate PlusFeed RSS URL for the Google+ user page you are looking at:

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The student visa (F1) allows foreigners to work for a year (OPT) after graduation.
Why are we linking this via digg?

Real url: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/visa-problem-prevents...

Flagged, hoping a mod will change the url.
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I don't know if Knowlabs is testing it to commercially launch it. But i saw a tweet from Sebastian Thrun's twitter account a month or so back asking 'if you're provided with Stanford quality education with a tuition fees of $2000 , will you take up the course' i dont know what replies he got.. It intrigues me.
It's too late for chapter 11 bankruptcy, but not for chapter 7. And they are virtually guaranteed to go into chapter 7. A judge will allocate any remaining assets, and that will be all.

Randazza will not be able to collect more than that, although a judge may be able to reverse some salary and payments Righthaven has made in the last few months.
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I seriously doubt the Vancouver scene is even remotely as big as the one in the Bay Area. The only thing that comes close to SV on this continent is NY, and even that is a decade behind.
Yes, sorry about that. I meant Experts Exchange.
It is better than that though.

You see you now not only have a list email addresses. You have a list of email addresses of gullible people. Pretty smart if you ask me.
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Amit and CruiseWise went through StartupChile, btw. I'm somewhat disappointed that the international talent competition angle didn't play into the story more, based on our initial pitch. We (Bloomberg administration, Startup Visa) pitched this story to ABC with the added angle of capital flight, since CruiseWise raised money from US investors.

Not only are people being denied the opportunity to create jobs in the US, but US money is following them out of the country. Not a good combination, right?

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I'm reading the article as validation for viral marketing, as targeted towards the big link-sharing sites. I don't remember the last time a startup hit the front page of Reddit. Surely it's happened, but I thought it would happen more than it has, since that site is about sharing links to things on the Web.
Things have gotten better under President Obama recently after an initial turn for the worse. The Neufeld memo denied visas to founders on account of initiating a strict requirement that an employer vouch for an immigrant in a variety of ways, for them to be eligible for an H1-B. We don't have employers as founders, turns out.

However, these recent changes open the door for H1-B and EB-2 visas as founders: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f... Vivek Wadhwa is hopeful that adjudicators will shortly be much friendlier to founders applying for visas, as long as they have a board set up and are funded.
But do you need the "biggest and best" scene, or do you just need a decent environment where what you are trying to do is not uncommon and the resources you need have already been established?
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It's similar to what they say about LA: there's a million waiters who are all there hoping for their chance to be the next Brad Pitt or Natalie Portman.

You want to be where the action is, it maximizes your chances of success. Sure, you could attempt to run your startup from Milan, Barcelona or Marseille, but the amount of talent and opportunities for support are infinitesimal compared to what SF will have to offer.

If you're 100% determined to obtain success at any cost, it's worth packing your bags and leaving Peripherystan to come to the big city.
I will be launching http://www.expensesspreadsheet.net (not live yet)

It's an expense tracking application. Entirely focused on the way I personally track my expenses (but couldn't find anywhere else). And now I'd like to see if other people like it too.

The web app itself is a node.js application on Heroku. It's 80% finished. I have done a little market research, but still need to do a lot more (currently I'm thinking about focusing on the "early retirement extreme crowd"). I'm also not sure yet how and if I'll monetize it.
Can you point me to more information about Vancouver for immigrants? I'm still on a student visa in the US but eventually I'll face problems like this Israeli.
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Honestly I'd like to see the e-mails that were sent if only for personal amusement.

I have so much respect for those that work on open source projects. If you think about it there isn't much on the web today that isn't in some way touched by some open source code.
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To me the worst was when Google would just silently drop a search term. I was getting a page of hits with none of them having one of my terms anywhere.

Google really needs to give a secret power user page, where there are no word substitutions or dropping.

But, like I say, that's not most people. For most people the fact that Google can search for C++ or can tell the difference between some words or can include useful alternates for search terms is fantastic.
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Being from China, you have one major advantage over most of us: you're in the booming market of China.

If I knew anything about your country, language and culture, I'd probably give it a shot. You should use your situation to your advantage in my opinion. The asian culture is so foreign to us North Americans that it makes it nearly impossible for us to do business over there, yet, there's a huge opportunity.
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I remember learning Java for the first time. I literally thought of "public static void main(String[] args)" as an incantation I just had to know. It took some practice to memorize it. It took far longer to actually learn what it meant.
I wouldn't miss the old design too much if there were a chance to adjust the display density. So, where's the switch to change that? If this were consistent in design, I'd expect it to be around the same location as in Gmail. But it's just not there.