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Power would matter a lot if regulators knew exactly what to do, but lacked power to enforce it. Unfortunately, most frequently regulators have very little idea about where the next crisis would come from (count how many times "unexpectedly" is featured in economical reporting) and what to do to prevent it, and there are many contradictory opinions on these subjects. Often they even have very little idea about what exactly major players are doing and why, and lack the ability to foresee all the risks. Moreover, since regulators are appointed by politicians (there's no other way to do it in democratic society) they of course would be heavily influenced by political considerations, which may be not to the best of the regulated industry - e.g., if politicians want more people have access to certain loans, regulators would force banks to accept more risk on such loans, even if it doesn't make financial sense to them. And then if such loans blow up, the bankers would have a valid claim to be bailed out - after all, didn't regulators ask them to accept such risks?
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One other questions is how the artist fits into (or doesn't) the dominant artistic paradigms of his or her time. For example, in his book Old Masters and Young Geniuses (see http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/thinking-about-the-... for much more), Galenson describes how young conceptual innovators often do their best work early and have only one or two important works that create a radically new paradigm for their art.

Other artists learn through making many works, being prolific, and gradually accumulating knowledge that ultimately leads them to produce great works—and often do so later in their careers.

These two ideas obviously aren't binaries, but they provide useful ways to think about art and being an artist.
Summer of Code is an awesome program, but absolutely not political. I was talking about political campaigns of course.
Wow, I sure do hope he finally does that one thing that nobody, absolutely nobody can deny is important -- something as big as, say, a Twitter knockoff for the enterprise. Then he'll never have any nagging doubts about himself ever again.

Hey, far be it from me to criticize someone who's trying to make a mark in the world. I myself am just past 40, a former child prodigy, not very successful in Silicon Valley, and still feel I have some creative works in me which are yet to be realized.

Where I have sincere worries for Dave is that he doesn't seem to have a specific idea of what would count as success -- other than, maybe, it would be big enough and impress enough people that it would silence his demons. I don't know Dave, but I have a strong suspicion that this is also what led him to slack off at university -- rebelling against this idea that if he isn't the smartest and most successful, he's nothing. Because it makes every minor setback a bitter failure, and even success turns to ashes in your mouth.

His mission statement shouldn't be that he wants a better epitaph. Other people get to write his epitaph, and by that time he'll be fucking dead. It's out of his control. What is in his control: whether his life was meaningful to himself. Did it express his unique talents, did it give him and others joy, did it help others? Did he make his own rules about how to evaluate his life or was he a slave to the caprices of fame and fortune? And this is about so much more than just a career.

I think I'll just leave this here. A clip from The Wire.

"The job will not save you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b54EEpdv9q8
But we already have a much better solution for densely populated cities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
What I hate about namespaces in PHP is the separator they have chosen \.
I call BS on this. From my experience in Toronto, there are many companies looking for developers and having a difficult time finding quality candidates.
I think that part of the issue here (that I haven't really seen mentioned) is that when you're so close to others who've been successful but you aren't as successful as them, then it's easy to feel like a failure of some sort.

In short, it's easy to feel like an ugly girl when you're standing next to the prettiest girl in class.

Dave seemed like something of a child prodigy. Like he said he didn't get an advanced degree. He was around people at PayPal who went on to create $1B+ companies. He's worked with Sean Parker. Those are achievements in themselves. But when you keep that kind of company and you haven't done what they did, it's easy to feel like you're lagging.

My old manager from my first job was one of the founders (and current CTO) at Gilt. One of my old college buddies who was also a coworker (under that same manager) went with him early on to build Gilt. Today I consider both of them incredibly successful. In comparison to them, they've achieved way more than I have.
Wow, it's really about time to start charging money for new accounts.
Soderbergh's recent films have been utter phone-ins.
So insurance pays for 100% of the cost? Where do I find such insurance?

Or suppose I need chemo and insurance will only cover 80% of the $100k cost?

Do I have to keep $20k under my pillow?
Exactly how I feel. 21 years old and feel like I am running out of time. Always been the "smart" computer kid that is destined to do something great but after graduating from high school I slacked off for about a year or two and didn't really get much done. At age 19 I decided to start studying computer science while working in tech positions on the side. Now I can't decide if I want to continue with school or just go work full-time since I have a decent amount of experience to land a job. I will probably graduate in about 3 years if I continue at this rate and that just seems like way too long.

It's funny though, I read your story and in my mind you are way ahead of your time at age 19. I guess that kind of shows how you never think you are moving fast enough.
Ask HN: Is there demand for Canadian/tech meetups in SV?
I just moved from Toronto to work for a startup, and I haven't been able to find solid groups/meetups/events for Canadians in SV. I know there are A LOT of us here and the "Canadian Mafia" is strong. There is a lot of focus on entrepreneurs through C100 and others, but I don't see much for general business/engineer meetups for Canadians.

It's been on my mind to start something myself - is there strong interest for this?
Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.

Whatever the odds you face, there is nothing in life you cannot achieve, if you have committed yourself wholeheartedly to the cause.

Old/Young. Experienced/Inexperienced. Adept/Inept. Knowledgeable/Ignoramus. Prodigy/Late Bloomer.
Nothing matters in the end.

Cause when we are done and dusted and look back at our time, we will find that it was a journey that couldn't have been any other way. We made it what it was and it lies their for us to cherish.

So don't hold yourself back. Nothing in this world is to be done or not to be done. The conscious/unconscious/subconscious rules that we follow every day were not there to start with and they are neither eternal.

Go out there and change your world. Become the Newton. Become the Napoleon. Become the Buddha. Become the Gandhi.

Remember, there are no rules and there never will be.
Oh, you're just talking about the central repo server. Yeah, I wouldn't push feature branches to origin either, but I definitely still have them locally. They end up rebased, squashed, fast-forward merged, and pushed only to the mainline anyway, so no one need be the wiser.

But "if the unit tests pass, it's safe to commit" is a very...questionable sentiment. It makes sense if you do release branches, and if you have very good test coverage, and if there isn't a lot of tricky stuff that's hard to capture in unit tests--that's just is a combination I've yet to encounter and largely consider to be mythical. I'd love to be proved wrong on that point.

I wonder, where in your process does code review come in?
Facebook: Being 'MySpaced' By Google?
I wonder, does the time you go to sleep factor in health? If you sleep eight hours, but you sleep them all during the day, are you worse off in terms of health than others who sleep during the night and wake in the morning?
Continuation Passing Style is also supposed to be used as part of acompilation step but look at how everyone does in by hand in Javascript-land :(
the wife says, "Go Pokes!" :-)
You really can't tell the difference between blindly executing input from an insecure HTTP connection, and installing packages with a tool that verifies cryptographic signatures against known good keys shipped with your distro?

Mr. Cantor, I have added to the list of people to never hire I keep in my notebook.
Incest and equal rights for LGBT are two completely separate issues. Without going into the merits of the issues, there are pretty much no people lobbying for father/daughter marriages, while there are lots of people lobbying for gay marriage. One goal of society is to codify rules that its members believe in, and in order to do that, people have to speak up. So if you want to marry your kids, start lobbying!

(You can already marry your cousin, if that's good enough for you.)
What privileges are difficult-to-impossible to arrange without a legal concept of marriage? Just curious. I also believe that the root of the issue is coming from the government being involved in the marriage conversation at all and I'm curious why that would be hard to change.
A conversation with my 12 year old self from 20 years ago.
It seems to me that the obvious application here would be wireless charging parking spaces, not electric roads.
jrockway, do you support both LGBT and incest? It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If LGBT supporters supported incest, more people would speak up. Incest and equal rights for LGBT are not separate issues. Incest couples are discriminated against as the LGBT.
That argument can be made both ways.
Seriously, does everyone have to be irked about everything these days? It's a URL.

I'm sure if they get a bunch of emails from gay people saying that searching for "gay hookups in San Francisco" brings up insulting images of Rainbow Stalin they'd put an explanation right up their next to their Judaism remarks.
"Where does all the money go to?"

Pensions: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-19/university-of-cali... (That's one article about one university system, but most others face similar issues.)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: College has become the most effective means of wealth transfer from Generation Y kids to the Baby Boomers...financed by the government, of course.
Being obese is partly genetic - or, more precisely, inclination to being obese is. However, choice has a lot to do with the result.

As for being gay and American opinion, I'm not sure what this is based on. Polls seem to differ wildly, e.g. compare:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/poll.gay/ and http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/18/poll-suggests-almost-ha.... I suspect the results of these polls have a lot to do with current politics and how questions are formulated.
I find that people are surprisingly willing to dismiss personal shortcomings as "just my nature" instead of taking the time to address said shortcomings. With regards to problems sleeping, this doesn't involve just visiting the doctor and ending up with sleeping pill prescriptions. It involves putting time and effort into getting better sleep every day. Eat a little earlier, stop working a little earlier, turn off the TV and computer a little earlier, and see what makes it easier and easier to go to sleep every night. Most importantly, prioritize personal health.
> Does Google engage in public campaign agains antisemitism, which is a real problem in some countries?

I'm unfamiliar with the issue; is it a real problem in countries where Google has an office and is employing Jews at?

I'm not saying anti-Semitism shouldn't be campaigned against, but if we're arguing that Google's push is based on the interests of its employees, then that's something of a precondition.
The comments are already all about nuclear safety, so I'll just say this:

Per watthour, nuclear power is the safest form of energy production, by a very large margin[1].

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in history. The UNSCEAR report states that 62 deaths can reliably be attributed to the disaster. Peer-reviewed estimates of additional deaths in the long-term range from 6,000 to 50,000.

You mightn't have heard of the Banqiao Dam, but you should have. In 1975, Typhoon Nina destroyed 62 dams in Henan Province, China. The biggest of these, the Banqiao Dam, released 700 million cubic metres of water over the course of six hours. The resulting flood destroyed six million buildings, killed 26,000 people and caused a humanitarian disaster that killed another 145,000.

The business of energy is inherently dangerous. We have an instinctive aversion to radioactivity, because it's strange and invisible, but it's just energy. Someone falling into a nuclear reactor seems inherently more horrible than a solar panel installer falling off a rooftop, but a death is a death. The Chernobyl exclusion zone seems innately more frightening than the beaches cordoned off after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but cancer from crude oil exposure is still cancer.

We've got very good at controlling the risks of nuclear power. We know what the worst case scenario looks like. Radiation exposure isn't nice, but neither is a mine collapse, a gas explosion or climate change. Stories involving radiation are attention-grabbing, but we can't allow that to distract us from the hard data.

[1] http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/10/snapshot-of-deaths-per-tera...
It irks me a bit and I am not a Google shareholder. If it were just the US, I'd be for it. But a global campaign, no, I am 100% opposed. How many ways can you say "Cultural Imperialism?"

It's not that I am opposed to gay marriage. In fact as regards the US, I am for it. However.....

Marriage is deeply cultural. It means remarkably different things in different places. Something like 30% of Japanese marriages are still wholely arranged. Another 30-40% are at least partially arranged. Marriage is seen very much as a matter of extended families and so personal choice doesn't have as much to do with it as we see in the US. So suppose you legalize gay marriage? What then? Are you going to insist that the Japanese adopt our individualistic notions of marriage too?

It seems to me that the idea of marrying someone you want is a human right is nothing more than projecting our cultural preferences out to the rest of the world.

Fortunately cultural diversity is not threatened by recognizing new legal arrangements. Societies will find other ways of regulating norms, just as Japan has done following legal changes to marriage laws imperially imposed by the allies following WWII. So fortunately even if successful it will not have a major impact.
Not to mention demand and continued production drives research and improvement, so it would have been self reinforcing.
If anyone has any questions about the what/how/whys of the project, I'm more than happy to answer them!
and there's plenty more information on the indiegogo page - www.indiegogo.com/yearofopensource
Im sorry but accepting underscores as a valid alternative to namespaces in 2012, is not a "best practice".

The whole concept of PSR-0 is ridiculous anyway, because PHP supports registering multiple class loaders. If a project wants to use a naming convention that won't work with standard spl_autoload(), they can register their own autoloader.
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Ruby on Rails. It's not even that high-level, but:

1. The number of import statements in the typical code file in the typical Rails app is anywhere between 0 and 3, heavily weighted towards 0. Turns out you can metaprogram class-loading behavior in high-level languages and it just seems to work.

2. It's rare to find good places where exception handling is the best way to go in Rails, except for debugging purposes, in which case the default Rails behavior--to render the exception in a 500 if you're running in developer mode--is usually what I want.

3. Aren't try/catch blocks exception handling?

4. `.each do |e|`; `.map do |e|`. I can handle those on my own.

OK, there's serious shit you can't write in Ruby, but languages like Scala and Clojure are equally high-level, probably even more high-level, and yet have better performance and JVM integration.

Still, I understand there are legitimate reasons you'd use a language like Java, and given a language like Java, I can understand that you'd want an IDE to automate the drudgery. But I still don't like IDE's, because they're an ugly solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist. If I can concisely express what I want to do in my code to Eclipse, I should fundamentally be able to express the same idea just as concisely in the code itself.
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If Justice O'Connor had her way it might still be ;-)

Her concurrence with the judgement of Lawrence v. Texas was only on the basis that Texas singled out homosexual sex specifically. In her view, states could ban blow jobs and anal sex for everybody, but not allow it for straight couples and ban it for gays.

I must say the logic has a certain appeal to it. If sex truly is a private matter between two people then cohabiting with multiple partners as if they were spouses should be legally protected too under the same logic. But if we say equal protection is what matters and you can't specifically single out gays, then that problem goes away.

As it is, Lawrence has opened up a fair bit of uncertainty what the Supreme Court will do to Lawrence and de facto bigamy laws (enacted in really only a minority of states) if and when they review a case on appeal. (Most states do not recognize informal arrangements as potentially bigamous.)
couldn't agree more. "i only made a little money" -- enough to have started angel investing in 2004 after exiting paypal.

enough money to live in one of the most expensive places on earth, probably without having to work too much? check.
a family and (apparently) happy marital relationship? check.
moderately successful times working at important companies? check.

Sure, it's good to be ambitious and set high goals. But the dude needs to get a grip. If he wants to achieve more, fine. But there's no universal standard by which he's a "failure". At the end of the day it's up to him and he'd do well to admit it.
Getting approved for additional public IP addresses is very easy. We were approved for 10x more IP addresses within 24 hours.
Facebook's "Want" Button Risks Alienating Users
Being gay is not a "lifestyle choice". Being not allowed to marry the person you love is not a "lifestyle choice". Being incarcerated because you're gay is not a "lifestyle choice". Being killed for who you are is not a "lifestyle choice".
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I hope packaged apps start gaining more traction. It seems that the majority of apps in the Chrome Web Store are just glorified bookmarks. Few are packaged apps. Hopefully, as packaged apps grow in popularity, Google will develop features for the Chrome Web Store to help developers better sell their apps. One thing I've personally been waiting for are promo codes for developers to give to reviewers or to gain visibility for their apps by growing install numbers.
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I've had a hard time getting up in the morning all my life, and it was worse in the winters after moving to Portland.
I ended up getting an earlier version of this gadget (http://www.amazon.com/Philips-goLITE-BLU-Therapy-Device/dp/B...), and found that a few minutes of blue-frequency light every morning turned me into a natural early riser. (I still don't like mornings, but I naturally wake up and get out of bed at the same time every day)

Your circadian rhythm is especially susceptible to the blue end of the spectrum so instead of a 10,000 watt sun lamp you can just use one of these (or perhaps a home-brewed equivalent with the right LEDs) to let your body know that, if you were in a better lattitude, the sun would be shining right now.
Hi,

This is Hemanth , Founder at Codelearn. We had unprecedented spike in our traffic this morning. Thanks very much for trying us out.

frank confessions :

1. We did not expect that codelearn will get posted on hackernews, leave alone make it to the front page!.

2. We wanted a smaller audience to try it out first before releasing to a larger audience at hackernews .

3. We have been working on this only for 2 months now and there are lots of rough edges, some of them are really silly, like making the rails environment production and ideally we should fixed these small things.

4. We are working to fix these problems and will post a message here as soon as we are done.

5. Some of you have pointed that there were Grammatical errors in the copy. We understand that it is important, but we did'nt expect such a large audience.

I would like to reiterate my gratitude for the support .

warm regards
hemanth
Oddly enough, the Canada Revenue Agency is a bit unclear on how exactly to handle picodollars.

So are many of your prospective customers! STOP DOING THAT.
I have, in all my years, never heard that position successfully argued.

Marriage-protection amendments almost universally outlaw not only marriage equality but also the establishment of other non-"marriage" arrangements that carry the same benefits as marriage. Please explain how someone could agree with that but not hold any hate towards homosexuals.
I would like to know a bit more about the architecture behind it.

When 1000 users are coding together some RoR app, how do you guys execute that many behind on your server ? I can understand that file browser and all can be done with HTML5 APIs, but then on execution you have to take the entire app (controllers, models, views, asset pipeline, etc. etc.) on the server execute them, get the output.

Are you guys going to run a lot of web server instances then (maybe 1 per user)?

Would love to know if you got no problem with sharing. Just for knowledge :)

Cheers and good luck with it!
I love G+ but I don't see it gaining traction — as usual Google is unfocused. What started off as something interesting and original is now a sort of Facebook/Tumblr clone. It's a great place to hang out with geeks and bronies, but aside from that group I don't see other adopting it.
>> letting prices be naturally determined

This only works in economics textbooks. Economic actors never have perfect knowledge is another example.

I think most of these benchmarks are chosen out of expediency at the time, then they become entrenched. The use of the Dollar for oil transactions might be another example.
They seem to do that every other year in bad weather areas :-)
It seems to me that the idea of marrying someone you want is a human right is nothing more than projecting our cultural preferences out to the rest of the world.

Being forced to spend your life with someone who you don't want, is far more of an imposition than that of an organisation publicly stating that they think it would be nice if people were allowed to marry who they do want.

[edit] Also, that position in general, regardless of topic, is unsound.

If projecting cultural preferences onto other groups is bad, then all I have to do is claim to belong to a culture that finds it deeply offensive for people to claim that projecting cultural preferences is bad, and then anyone who holds the first position isn't even allowed to tell me about it, entirely by their own argument.

Personally I have little faith with philosophical positions that are that easy to catch out.