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San Francisco has a higher incidence of violent crime per capita than does New York, despite the fact that San Francisco is concentrated into 46 square miles, while New York spans 301 square miles.

What this means in practice is that nobody in San Francisco lives more than walking distance from an area of the city in which people are routinely mugged, whereas you have to get north of the 140s in NYC to see drastically increased crime.

San Francisco is, for its population, anomalously small. That plays into a lot of the problems perceive in it: it drives housing costs, makes transportation infrastructure harder to build, retards home ownership (and thus neighborhoods --- had a block party lately?), puts people into closer contact with crime, &c &c.

I lived in SF for several years, and I think 'potatolicious is if anything understating his case.
That's all fine and good, but the types of management that Garann is talking about in this article aren't your "co-workers". They'll interrupt you whenever they feel like it because you belong to them.
I am not "giving excuses for him".

I was sexually abused by two relatives as a child. So I was not easy to deal with when I was younger. For one, I did not manage to be faithful to the man. He knew that and put up with my shit for two decades anyway, in part for the sake of the children. He never threw that in my face. He was very decent and compassionate about the whole thing. Plenty of men would have assaulted me for it.

His devotion to his career was not somehow all bad. He was career military and we never lived in fear of him being RIFFED at a time when a RIF was ongoing. Our marriage ended up being very traditional, a throw-back to the 50's. I would have preferred something that gave me more freedom, but I did always appreciate that he was a good provider, he was not a drug addict or alcoholic, and he never hit me. That may sound like a low standard, but it beats the molestation, rape and being slapped around by a drug addict that constituted parts of my childhood.

I have taken a class on homelessness and done volunteer work at a homeless shelter. The kind of intractable problems I have and my children have are exactly the kind of thing that leads one to homelessness. My spouse's military career, with excellent free medical benefits, was a big part of why we had a relatively stable middle-class lifestyle in spite of me and our oldest son having a life-threatening, very expensive medical condition which went undiagnosed for many years.

Feel free to talk trash about me, as I am here and choosing to air my dirty laundry. Please refrain from jumping to ugly conclusion about my ex. He is a decent man and he is not here to speak for himself. It's a rather ugly tactic.

Also, the odds are really high that Penelope Trunk's children are not half as challenging as mine. It's why I have a parenting site: For some years, my advice on how to deal humanely and effectively with extremely challenging children was valued in some circles, circles that included Harvard graduates and the like who still found themselves at wit's end. There is a lot more support for that on the web these days, but when I was actively engaged in such online communities, I was frequently the only individual in the discussion that had much in the way of meaty, substantive feedback for the most challenging situations.
Well I tried to give away a meetup ticket on Twitter. You just had to be one of the next 10 people to follow me and Tweet about Turn-O-Phrase. It was a pain in the ass tracking all the followers and who said what.
Some more interesting information:

http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html

This change was motivated to match the evolution of the video industry and to spread the VLC engine as a multi-platform open-source multimedia engine and library.

Maybe another motivation was the licensing problem with the Apple App Store. This should be resolved with LGPL. (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples...)
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Yes and yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_%28software%29

Don't forget QT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29

There are enough counter examples to call BS on the whole diatribe.
>Once you've learned that GDB even exists and figured out many of the strange syntax nuances it's passable, but in my opinion not easier.

You can mouse over an NSArray or NSDictionary and see its size and contents. You're not as familiar with the tools.

I have your same complaint, but about C++. I'm frustrated that I can't easily see the contents of a std:set or std:map in xcode. I'd be thrilled to find out if it's just a gap in my knowledge, though.
If I remember correctly, you can catch exceptions by type; you just don't have to. The code looks like this:

try {
// Maybe throws IOException
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I think this does exactly what you want. There's more documentation here[1] (the documentation format is a little annoying, unfortunately).

[1]: http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#h...
Thanks.

The absence of GPU drivers mean WebOS has little relevance for tinkerers.
First off, that data isn't (and will never be) available for new-ish startups.

Young, high growth startups often have irregular revenue and no profit. The early years of Facebook would've shown weak revenue and no profit. Most smart people knew that it had a disproportionate shot at big returns long before it had meaningful revenue.
> The Linux example in particular is awful. Linux was not a product released as open source, it was an open source project from the beginning.

I may not have gotten this across properly, but the same is true of WebKit or rather its KHTML/KJS progenitors (KDE is an open source community and its trademark-holding legal entity is a not-for-profit).
...we haven't found a single demographic group immune to stereotype threat.

This is a straw man. I never claimed any group was immune to stereotype threat.

You claimed stereotype threat affects some groups more than others in some areas. Your specific example was women are affected by it in math. I pointed out that if this generalizes beyond the GRE, and if men and women's abilities are equal absent stereotype threat, the result is that women would be inferior to men in math-related jobs.

You can claim my arguments poorly reasoned all you want, but you still haven't pointed out any flaws in them. All you did was demand I not be "insensitive" and attack straw men.

I just realized I've had this conversation before, not going to waste my time further. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3256492
Even if we take the premise that it's not okay to distribute something you haven't made from scratch, there's still the issue of whether that should be enforced legally or not.
Could a bookstore not offer an Amazon purchasing option? If customers want to browse books in the store and purchase off Amazon, why not explicitly enable this? The tradeoff is obvious to the consumer: either get the book now for a heightened price, or get it later more cheaply. The bookstore could make a commission off the Amazon referral.

A quick web search turns up: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
Not sure I understand your point. I'm asking for median valuations as averages often distort reality.

Plus, "median series A returned a loss" - huh? Can you clarify?

If 5 companies have valuations of $5, $10, $15, 20, $1000, the avg is $210 million. The median is $15 million. I'd argue the median is more representative of valuations received than averages. And if you're a startup founder, the median is more useful to gauge the program as that is more likely what your valuation will be near than the average.
I've been using this http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-theory/ You can find practice problems if you would like some (but no solutions) although its not as cleanly organized by topics as this website
At least in Seattle, no such offer is available until next year's TS class.
Isn't it common practice to gitignore the *.pyc files?
For language enthusiasts with hobby compilers, the question does not have to be a hypothetical. :)
As is evident from my comment, I don't find that quite as clear. And if the world seems that obvious to you, if you have it all figured out, I'd like to see you share more of your viewpoint.
I know the Internet has seriously damaged the music label's revenue stream but why hasn't it done even more damage? It is 2011,the labels should not still have this much power, should they?
According to you, the simple non-discriminatory act of putting "Select one: Male [ ] Female [ ]" on a math test is sufficient to reduce female performance.

The value judgments ("something wrong with them") are something you fabricated, not something from my post.
This looks either very amazing, or complete BS. I want examples. How did their experiments work? I don't care what it is that I'm learning, I wanna see a demo. Is there something I can buy/fund/donate to? Shut up and take my money.
I don't really agree. As many men as women will never want to stay at home and raise the children, unless the whole thing really is culturally constructed and biology has nought to do with it, which I think is naive and ideological.

If by D/s you mean domination and submission - I'll take love between equals, thanks.
Apple Store was not the motivation: it requires the change of license of way more code than just libVLC, notably most of the decoders and demuxers modules, and this is not yet done.

Having more people using libVLC is important for us, though...
This is completely off-topic, but I really love Reia's logo.
Simple, the law says so.

It's difficult to change in a decade what the law has been saying since 1662 (that's when copyright law came into the existence, around the time printing was invented).

What we've seen since then is simply a natural result of the slippery slope that resulted as a pretty good idea. It will take a long time to go back up such a slippery slope again.
None of these. I'm not trying to be rude--but other than TwitterContests none of these look promising.
Here's the full report at Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1413.full
I agree about socket.io. It works quiet well for most of what I need. The only issue I have with is is I can't figure out if it now supports sending and receiving ArrayBuffers? Does anyone know anything about this?

My use case involves sending model data to display in WebGL. Sending it any other way would be inefficient.
1. Others have referenced the law involved.

2. That's why I said "Set her up with her own website already". Notice I didn't blame Google.
Fantastic, in a recent review of media libraries I did libvlc looked very attractive. However the lack of LGPL prevented its inclusion in the final selection which was a shame.

Now of course we are 6 weeks down the track with a different library but we're a while off feature complete and if libvlc can do everything we need . . .

Decisions decisions.
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As someone who also used to really dislike Objective-C and also likes C#, I would urge you to reconsider your opinion about Objective-C. It's really not a bad language. It makes different trade-offs than C#, but I think once you understand the "philosophy" behind the language, chances are that you will discover that it's actually a pretty good tool for certain tasks (at least this has happened to me). I agree however that the current state of debugging Objective-C code is simply atrocious. I really hope that Xcode will address that soon.
And even if we accept that it's incorrect does this mean that people who can't afford it should just be able to take it for free?

They aren't taking it, others are sharing it with them. A better question would be, under what authority does the state prevent the voluntary sharing between two private parties.
If labels have copyright over the song they have a legal monopoly over reproduction of the song (minus fair use). The Internet alone cannot destroy this type of monopoly for legal services.
So it is none of these or is it TwitterContests? Either way is fine. I just forgot to make a None option. You are not being rude, btw.
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I fully agree, everyone talks about how disgusted they are by record labels, myself included, but we have been in this game a while now, artists have had the ability to sell directly the consumers, media services have been in the position to promote independent artists.

I remember some Steve Jobs quite about the scary truth about news organisations producing washed down trite because that is what people are asking for, is the same true of the music industry?
I voted for Timelines by mistake, I wanted to vote for HairCue. There's a market for this, I guarantee it. If you can make it catch on.
If the company feels the work cannot be done by a local worker telecommuting , how can they expect it to be done by someone sitting half the world away.It is no longer about how good native / non-native developers are - it seems to be more about is the developer at a place where I can meet him when I want to
wow. if that's the world you live in, why have any children? :(

seriously, do you think that maybe different people are made happy by different things? i know men and women who have no interest in having a romantic relationship, let alone raising a family. do they occupy some horrible THX1148-style monochrome existence for fulfilling their lives by doing things?
I pretty happy to have learned about <C-^> and `. I always learn something from these 'how I learned vim' articles.
The hot dog stand will be motivated to keep the store open (i.e., allowing it to make its bills, and generate zero economic profit) to keep the profitable rent behavior viable though. So we can expect Spotify to make just enough to be satisfied continuing along as a viable business, no?
And cases like this one are exactly the motivation of the change.

Contact me, if you want.
But the only thing in politics more powerful than corporate money is "For the children!!!"...
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Indoor maps? Not to mention this whole Google Maps on your phone thing (and navigation on your Android phone)...
If anything, Id say its the kids who understand the normative justifications of copyright better than their elders.

As has been previously mentioned, there is a growing disjoint between the legal status of copyright laws and their moral underpinnings. "Kids these days" are still acting within a moral framework of do not harm even while downloading.
A company called Microsystems used to have a product named D3: http://www.microsystems.com/pdfs/d3-success-stories.pdf

Unfortunately, they had to discontinue the product, in part due to a patent dispute Microsoft lost about how it uses XML in Word, if I remember properly.

A solution like this needs to be flexible and allow the logic to be diverted by humans, but is a brilliant thing for real estate and other industries that are full of common books of contracts and rules.
What's your current viral coefficient?

http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/lessons-learnt-viral-marketi...
I like Haircue. When my wife gets a haircut she likes, she always wishes she has pics of it right then so she can show the hairdresser the next time (esp if she needs to use someone else for some reason). And she tells me it always looks best right in the salon.

Good vanity, sharing, social-ness to this one. And prob some sort of B2B angle with hairdressers as well from a monetization perspective.
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I've looked over what unwind-protect does and to me it doesn't do more than what you can do with a custom RAII like class.

The key thing is that it acts like a wrapper around a try/catch/finally-like block (including other forms of flow control), while allowing you to put arbitrary code in the execute and cleanup portions. You would get the same effect with RAII, most of it would be taken care of for you with the right RAII classes, and if you needed custom code then just write a custom RAII like class or be smart about handling it.

Although the C++ version wouldn't handle C's longjmp and also goto's. But if you use them you're not exactly coding in C++ then.
> If your company makes something entirely uninteresting, that’s fine. We need useful software to fill niches, or our whole industry suffers. If you make a boring thing, there are two things you can do to still attract good talent. First, if you don’t need a senior dev, don’t hire one. Hire a junior person, give them the chance to architect small changes to the system, help them grow as an engineer. If you do need a senior person, hire them, but carve out 10% or 20% time for them to do open source stuff or personal projects or whatever.

This is a really smart idea.
This is the thing that always bugs me about encouraging anyone (not just women) to become founders. The relentlessly resourceful, the ones who are equipped to succeed, were not waiting for encouragement or an invitation. (And no, I'm not claiming to be one of them, merely tempted while bereft of ideas with legs.)
I don't doubt what you're saying but I think that sounds in-line with my previous claim that the telecommuting problems are separate from the "rest of the world" problems.

If I understand you correctly, those companies don't want to hire telecommuters that can't come into the office from time to time. This seems unrelated to being in Canada; the same criterion would eliminate a Boston-based developer from working remotely for a Chicago-based startup.
This is called the "normal profit" and, yes, there will be a set of businesses that earn the normal profit. What people are discovering is that the "normal profit" for a music business is not "oh-mi-god-Facebook-is-a-natural-monopoly!"-sized, but rather "oh-mi-god-the-content-owners-have-all-of-the-negotiating-power"-sized.

Ironically, this gets re-discovered about every 5 years...
only at a completely shortsighted first approximation. Any policy they have regarding advertisers are parameters to optimize revenue as well.

However, you write "to be optimized", so clearly you agree with my original comment. Catchphrase away, then.
What a great story. Thanks for bringing this up. Kinda unfortunate that it is getting not more attention around here.
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IIRC, Sophie is old enough to read in at least part of the ad (though perhaps I expect kids to learn to read on the earlier side).
Did you create any of the following posts? http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zokier

A hyperlink is a form of distribution so you may want to clarify what you mean by 'you shouldn't distribute anything you haven't created yourself from scratch.'
It's funny how people insist that companies should offer a gazillion dollars to persuade developers to relocate to their shitty town, when it makes much more sense for companies to avoid hiring people who think it's a shitty town in the first place. There's no point in importing people who hate living in Austin and will jump at the first opportunity to go back "home" to the Bay Area. If you think you're owed a premium for living anywhere but San Francisco, then economically speaking, that's where you ought to be.

Not to mention nobody in Austin wants to work with you if you're just going to badmouth the town and brag about how much you're paid to put up with it. Sorry to break it to you, darling, but getting stuck somewhere you hate because you're underwater on your house and have "wedding debt" is no reason for anybody to pay you more. If you're miserable here, that's your business. Austin companies are, quite sensibly, looking for people who will enjoy living and working in Austin.
Awesome! Should be interesting to see a slew of new collaborative tools and games coming out soon!
>I don't care what it is that I'm learning

What if it's obedience? :)
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I definitely wouldn't call Austin's public transportation "great," nor would I call a significant portion of the city "pedestrian friendly." I don't own a car and get around by bike, bus and car2go, but the desire to do so drastically limited my housing and employment choices.

http://www.walkscore.com/TX/Austin

From experience, anything that isn't green on that map isn't anywhere near walkable, and only Guadalupe and South Congress have transit worth riding. 20-30 minute headways are the norm on other routes, and only transit devotees will put up with that, like I did when I lived on Burnet.

You are very correct that transportation is a lifestyle choice, but Austin doesn't make driving rarely an easy choice.
I don't really understand why this is so significant or perhaps I don't understand the experiment. You are fed some training set and a certain brain activity pattern is identified as the "target." Then you show a whole bunch of other stimuli and try to teach the brain to display the target activity pattern for a different stimulus by having this proxy indicator that tells you how close you are (green disk).

Don't we do this all the time? If I'm teaching a child the letters of the alphabet then I would show an example, have them try to guess it and then give them some indication of how close they are (yes you got it, you are pronouncing it weird, no that's the wrong letter). The only difference here is that you are using proxy whereby you identify a target brain activity pattern first. It seems pretty much impossible, however, to get a target for an individual without first seeing what the target is. Certainly everyone's "target" for the same problem must look quite different.

I suppose this could be pretty useful for brain-computer interfaces but I don't know if I'd go as far as saying this is matrix-like learning.
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The rich configurability and diversity inherent to Linux have not done much against simply because they are optional--if you're confused and don't care, you can simply get Ubuntu and not worry about it.

The real problem, for the "common user", is that you cannot waltz into your neighborhood Best Buy and get a Linux laptop. To run Linux, you have to realize that the operating system is not part of the computer, care enough to install another one and spend a bit of effort getting it to work with whatever computer you have. If half the $500 laptops at Staples, for example, came with Linux, it would be much more popular.

There are, I think, two core reasons people cannot easily buy a laptop with Linux: Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft for its anti-competitive behavior and virtual monopoly; both companies for unrelenting marketing that presents only two options--the patently false Mac vs PC dichotomy being a perfect example.

I know from experience that completely technologically inexperienced people are perfectly happy with Linux as long as they're not the ones installing it. The fact that they could possibly be running KDE instead of Unity does not worry them in the slightest; in fact, particularly with Ubuntu, very little does worry them. My roommate, for example, has had fewer problems with Ubuntu than with Windows, and they were easier to handle.

In short, Linux adoption is not limited by any inherent qualities. In fact, if we just look at the sort of people who would install any OS at all, it controls a large part of the market; however, this is just an unfair a comparison as looking at the market in general.
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It's dead easy in Node using the REPL module (http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.5/api/repl.html). I've used this to debug weird async issues.
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