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You're making an assumption that a person has a base level of net worth with which they can buy a car outright. Someone who is "in debt" by definition has a negative net worth, so even a very cheap car ($500 or so?) would be difficult to pay for with cash. Additionally, cars that cheap usually end up costing way more when you account for hidden maintenance costs, etc., so a decent car is probably going to run you $1500 at least.
whilst it is an impressive job, the title is misleading; it's 6W idle.. 75W load.
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Are you going to Strange Loop? If so would you be interested in some kind of mini-meetup with fellow HN denizens? We could get together, talk about the decline of HN, share cat pictures IRL, you know, that kind of thing.

If you are interested mail me at hnslmeetup@gmail.com and I will get a list going.
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In most fields, you're at a real disadvantage without a good degree on your resume. In fields like law, consulting, or finance, people who love you after an interview still won't hire you if you don't have one of the dozen or so acceptable schools on your resume. Other fields are less credential driven, but a name-brand degree still matters. My dad does a lot of hiring as part of his job, and he has told me that it's not so much that he is prejudiced against people with good schools on their resume, but rather that those people don't stand out in a stack with resumes that have Harvard, Yale, etc, on them.
As sudonim pointed out, there are some really gross abuses of the whole sex offender system. I've heard of a lot of people that are in there for terrible reasons.

I definitely agree with the author to some extent. We do seem to be inordinately concerned with child pornography. The term pedophile has moved from a psychological disorder to a synonym for child molester. I am fully against real child pornography but there is no good reason to treat the virtual version the same way. I think a good part of it stems from the false assumption that watching X pornography will cause the viewer to wish to engage in X. As usual, fear and ignorance are the favorite legal foundations.
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"Education is changing."

Exactly how? So a bunch of "courses" (i.e. video lectures and PDFs and web pages) are put online. How is this a big deal? The University of Illinois offered complete courses online, for full credit, in the 1960s. By the early 80s, thousands and thousands of students were taking online courses at Illinois.

How is this throw-a-video-lecture-on-YouTube progress again?
We're a long ways from that point, but you're right. There's currently a "rush" on getting educational materials as content. I think it'll take a couple more years to really polish up the content delivery strategies, but it's rapidly developing.
I agree with you to an extent; fathers are often seen as incapable of raising children in American culture. However, do you know if there is any literature or articles/discussion on this? (In particular about how fathers are seen, and more broadly on the misandry.)
Love how you are testing this business idea in the same manner as advertised with an Unbounce page and a call to action before coding it out. :)
The result looks reassuring, that there are still people who care about their privacy. (I'm not using Facebook and Twitter both).

Requiring to sign in with FB or Twitter is disrespectful. If some site offers external authentication, let it use OpenID or BrowserID already.
The path forward will be made by the people who take these classes succeeding at various projects. Much like traditional schools increase their reputation via the achievements of their alumni, so will the MOOCs. You're seeing some success stories already, but wait until someone high profile credits their success to what they learned at Coursera or Udacity.

On another front, the first traditional school has decided to award credit for a Udacity class, if the student takes a proctored test. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/education/colorado-state-t...

We're just about a year out from that first Thrun/Norvig Stanford AI class. Things have moved very quickly when you put it in that perspective.
Additionally in many countries, including Sweden, even entirely fictional pornographic drawings with children are banned. There was recently a quite well known case against a Swedish managa translator for possession of child pornography. He was convicted at the first two levels of court but he was freed by the supreme court.

Organization who fight child pornography in Sweden (ECPAT for example) support the ban on entirely fictional depictions.

Information about the case in Swedish: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangam%C3%A5let
Wouldn't it depend on the implementation, not just the idea? I haven't read the power glove patent, so I'm not sure how close they are. Also, I think Nintendo's patents on the power glove expired several years ago.
You're assuming that because the device is subsidized, that this is somehow a value for the consumer. Cellular service companies don't subsidize phones because its good for the consumer, they do it to lock users into a service they might otherwise move away from for better terms and conditions. This is more valuable to the service then the consumer.

This is a calculated move on Amazon's part to build a lucrative ad network. This isn't evil per se, but it's certainly not in my best interest as a consumer. Personally, I've done a fair bit to cut down the number of ads I see in a day -- I dropped my cable TV because the number and frequency of ads lowered my enjoyment of the programming. I've stopped buying gas at stations that blare ads from their gas pumps. So, I certainly wouldn't buy a device that wants to charge me extra to not see ads. Out time and attention is more valuable then the shells and trinkets being offered by these companies.
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It may be rare but it happened to the mayor of a town in maryland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayors...
Thank you for the heads up. I've updated the spelling and added a link to the title.
I think it boils down to critical mass. There are more and more people with an increase of quality. In addition, the overall community aspect developed by remote students has really taken off. I don't think you can look at it so much as "how is this different from this" as you can just see the relative size of each. Lastly, while those technologies and offerings may have existed in the past, computers and web content have never been as accessible as they are now. And that is only going to increase.
I wouldn't sign up for a site using FB/Twitter unless there was a solid technical reason to (i.e. Buffer and Twitter, because it's a Twitter-posting app).

And that's because I see no reason to associate my Facebook (family/friend-facing, lots of personal stuff on there) with any company. I like to keep a strict firewall in there.
> Many professions such as law and medicine legally require purchase of the appropriate degree. There is no option for apprenticing or self-study and sitting the licensing exams without the degree.

This is an interesting point that ties back into #1. In at least one state (California), you don't need any degree to practice law in the state. You can apprentice then take the bar. Beyond that, many people at good schools could get a full-ride to a low-ranked school, because of the importance of the LSAT to the rankings process. Yet, these folks are basically unhireable. It doesn't matter if you take a full ride at NCCU despite getting into Duke. Firms will treat you the same way as any other NCCU grad--they want nothing to do with you.
> But one has to wonder: What if it were? What if YouTube had a button for "Report Illegal" that forwarded the video to law enforcement, hid it, and cleared it from your cache?

Then you'd probably get police forces overwhelmed with bogus complaints.
this will only be true under load.

the cooling shown is not enough to manage the cpu under sustained load, and the fan is present, so either it turns on when the cpu temperature rises, or it is very infrequently under load.
It's a little more nuanced than that. It can put the brakes on Nvidia and AMD from trying to screw the nut in pricing, especially if the entire Steam catalogue will play on a good enough Intel GPU.
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In 1980 when I started UCB, my part-time work allowed me to pay for my college fees and expenses (my parents picked up the apartment cost the first 2 years). When I got out I had no debt. The cost of UCB for 1 year was less than $1000. That cost is 20x, at least, now. Given the costs we're talking about, working while going to school won't make a dent in the overall indebtedness, so I'm guessing students today just don't do it for that reason. There's no point. For me, it was a clear decision.
The app is coded (to MVP standard) and I've 25+ paying customers. I'm struggling to keep up with demand and so I've had to go to an unbounce page to support the traffic.

Obviously my priority is to keep the service running for the people who have already applied.
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Sometimes I let sites sign me in with FB/Twitter, because the alternative is giving them my email address, which seems nearly just as bad. And that way, I don't have to type anything.
I never said Haskell would become popular, I said it was the better alternative. I don't expect every web developer to drop what they're doing and pick up Haskell--but I do expect some of the best ones to do so :P. I honestly don't care that much about what most people are using anyhow.

You really shouldn't choose your technology just based on popularity. Sure, it's a metric. But I don't even think it's an important metric. So next time you start a company, think Haskell and ignore the peer pressure to choose something common :).

To me, popularity is not really a goal in and of itself. As long as something is the best to use, I'll use it even if it's not terribly widespread. Sure, popularity is nice and brings some benefits, but I'm never bound by it. After all, I use Linux too!
There's not an answer on there I could honestly choose if I'd taken that survey. I would have voted No. But I am on both services, I do understand how it works, and I am not scared of scams.

I just don't see why I should - creating an account using an email address is also easy and by this point don't most people understand how it works? If they managed to sign up for facebook or twitter, they clearly do!
Well, let' start by Paypal recognizing that money in an account usually belongs to the account owner. Automated behaviour checks went wrong too often, resulting in account freezes. No answer from Paypal what the offense was, of course "for security reasons".

Paypal, your transparency sucks. If my account is fishy, tell what it is. We're no longer in the McCarthy times.

And besides, I'm living in the EU. US rules are not always popular for us.
Maybe. They seem to handle copyrighted content pretty well.
Yes. Like the author points out. In the case of child pornography, simply having it is illegal regardless of reason, which makes people who come across such content, destroying their evidence.

This would only put more people in jail, the killer (maybe), and the people watching it (maybe). I'd rather it just be the killer. And the molester in the case of the article.
In my own case, I found the idea of locking in my monthly rent for 30 years to be an attractive proposition.

Why is why I "settled" for a house whose monthly payment (after my downpayment, which I realize I am handwaving away) was very close to my apartment's rent (which itself wasn't the most expensive apt. people in my situation were renting). We specifically avoided HOA houses since the HOA payment is an unbounded future liability.

I think it makes sense to buy a house if the monthly payment is close to rent.

I'm curious about your alternatives. Good luck!
That would make a large part of our current culture illegal (assuming fictional murders are counted)
> Also, a side question: is it normal/considered a best practice in ruby to monkey-patch built-in libraries like that?

No, it's not considered to be good practice. I think it's generally frowned on by more experienced folk.

However, ActiveSupport (which is part of Rails) does a lot of monkey-patching of the basic Ruby classes in this way, and that probably helps to perpetuate monkey-patching among newer developers.
It's actually not a true strict liability offense, at least in the United States.

For example, 18 USC § 2252A(a)(2)(A) criminalizes "knowingly receiv[ing] or distribut[ing] any child pornography." § 2252A(a)(5) requires "knowingly possess[ing], or knowingly access[ing] with intent to view, any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer disk, or any other material that contains an image of child pornography."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A

To be sure, "knowingly" is a lower mens rea standard than something like "willfully" or "intentionally" which require bad intent, but it is not strict liability.

Examples of strict liability crimes which have no mens rea requirement are statutory rape and drunk driving.
"Closed as not a real question" is really a ridiculous reason. You have asked how to implement a transformation of a well-defined input to a well-defined output using elisp. If that's "not a real question" by SO's standards, then it's about the time the site dies...
Could the punishment be founded on restraint of trade? Does money or other consideration have to change hands for there to be "trade?"

Or would it be the more obvious restriction of free speech. Is anyone but the government required to "do no harm" to free speech?
I'd like to know too. Just saw it in a dotfile.
Please don't just grab some random words from my post. I'm pretty sure you know that the sentence in question was just an idiom. And just so you know: I have experience in, and still regularly use C/C++, C#, Java, Haskell, Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP.
I don't know what node.js did to you (maybe you tried something as writing a whole webframework with node.js? or something as foolish as a file server?), but you should know that there are many projects out there which use node.js where it fits and it's running good (prime examples are Microsoft and LinkedIn).

> I'm sorry, but if you are only good in JS, or PHP, the very first thing you should do is become good with some better tools.

And I don't know what the hell is wrong with you, that you assume that you are the wisest of all men and know what is wrong with everything and what to use in any situation and what I know and what I do and what I should do...

> and have a cost you will pay during the lifetime of your application, in security, reliability, scalability and maintainability.

So thanks for this lesson. I swear I will spread the word, but before I will go and worship JS/PHP, as the little, stupid fanboy I am. (fyi that's called the language of sarcasm)

As I said: Don't go around and "insult" programming languages, because most of them have their right to exist and nobody forces you to use something you don't like, nor anybody else. Most programmer choose to use node.js and if they fail it's not necessarily the fault of the "tool" (though it can be), but also the fault of the programmer in question, by choosing a "tool" which didn't fit. I mean: You wouldn't try to put a screw in the wall with a hammer. Am I right?
One of the most interesting part of this article is that it made me discover this google survey tool.

For the rest, I'm quite sure there's a skew here, because people without internet access or not using it for browsing (mostly older people) should be under-represented. I don't want to believe that 65% of everybody in the US is using FB.
That's the CtrlP vim plugin, which runs a fuzzy search. In the screenshot I'm in the middle of a search so the matched part is partially highlighted.
Another one:
http://www.mevislab.de/home/about-mevislab/

I think one of the advantages of a visual paradigm (at least for MevisLab) is that it forces modularity of all components. To avoid the wire-frame spaghetti, functionality can be encapsulated in containers with well-defined input/output ports, which makes that functionality trivially reusable in other contexts.

The productivity increase over competing frameworks is remarkable - I've seen a feature-complete demo delivered to a physician in 3 days. An experienced MS-level engineer took 3 months to implement comparable functionality in a Python/C++ framework.
throw-a-video-lecture-on-YouTube? These classes are interactive. Most of them involve are weekly quizes, midterm and final exams and automatically graded programming assignments. There are deadlines for all of these, and if your performance is good enough, you get a certificate with a grade. And they're all free and massive (coursera has millions of students).

I haven't heard about the online Illinois courses before, sorry. Were they free? Were they truly massive? Were they offered to anyone, even to highschool students or unemployed bartenders in Uganda?

And even if these courses aren't truly innovating, the point is they're making MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) popular and available to millions of people.

I'm a highschool student from Greece. In the last year, I've learned AI, ML, NLP (although my performance wasn't good enough to get a certificate from this class), SaaS and Algorithms through MOOCs. All these from some of the world's best professors. I even was a community TA in the second offering of the SaaS class because of my performance in the first offering. Coursera (I've only taken one udacity class, and edX is new) is changing my life.

Please answer honestly: Could I do these things 2 years ago?

In this sense, education is changing.
The same situation happened to a family member of mine. He was 19 and his girlfriend was 17. Her dad got mad at him one night, called the cops, and had him arrested for statutory rape. He is now a registered sex offender.

They went on dating and several years later got engaged. The relationship fell through, and they never did get married. But if they had, he would have been a registered sex offender for having sex with his wife. Granted, there's a timing issue, but it does show how tragically absurd some of these cases are.
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Yup, just remove/comment out any portions (Powerline calls it segments) you don't like.
I tried building a similar app two years ago. It's a smaller market than you probably realize. Moved onto bigger and better ( and profitable ) things. Good effort tho.
You can be in any part of the world to take these online course. As long as one has a decent internet connection, willingness to study, has time (effort) to devote to the offering they can take the course and learn. I think this can be deemed progress.
Yesterday I discovered that a friend of mine is very used to many ideas in the functional programming world. She is an accountant, using Excel.

If you squint you eyes a little, Excel can be seen as functional programming: No mutable data, very short, pure functions that transform individual variables... data abstraction using intermediary tables... filter/map using pivot tables... reduce using ranges...

It is funny how much the advice of Excel wizards resembles common programming practices.
It's not like his crime was hidden, you read it yourself. The only thing the 19 year old and a 40 year old who touches toddlers is that they both committed a sexual crime. Even though they are on complete opposite ends of the spectrum it's still true.
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Interesting results, but I'm skeptical as to whether the sample results can be extrapolated to the U.S. internet population as a whole.
I hesitate to add to the negative response to what is surely a well-meaning free project for the world. But `_` is really a poor choice for a variable name in Python. It is already used as:

* the value of the last expression in the REPL

* a conventional abbreviation for `gettext.gettext` (http://docs.python.org/library/gettext.html)

* a conventional throwaway variable (for `str.partition` and other functions that return a larger tuple than you want)

And for most of these features, invoking them through a object/class method rather than a standalone function is unwieldy (and unpythonic)
But "witnessed" is not the same as "arrested for" or "prosecuted for".
I worked for the Department of Homeland security as a contractor in 2009 to develop software for exactly such a use case. The operation for such merchandise is to ship products to basically an arbitrary address (sometimes knowing that the actual resident is on vacation, I suppose), and then have someone on the delivery end intercept the package. In these cases, the only realistic option for officials is to intercept on or during delivery since the origin address is usually completely fabricated.

Part of my role was to assist in the warehousing system to intercept (during transfer to verify that the shipment is in fact illegal) anomalous mailings (much in the way credit card companies try to identify anomalous purchases as fraud). The illegal materials will be shipped in all sorts of interesting ways. For example, we had a package that appeared to come from Kellogg, but the merchandise was actually at the bottom of each of the (packed and closed) cereal boxes.

Unfortunately, DHS has quite a backlog, so there are currently entire warehouses in the US whose sole job is to secure drugs, guns, and other materials until officials can come inspect the packages. Of course, sometimes they are not intentional violations of the law (for instance, certain food and animal products can't be shipped to the US). But if you ever in such a warehouse, it is truly a sight to behold.
The author's case in claiming that is hilariously weak. He presents a ludicrously tromped-up stranger-rape scenario where the rapist gets off scott-free because of child porn laws. But wait, he says this isn't some "far-fetched science fiction scenario". He's about to tell us about a case where something very like this happened or almost happened!

This is exactly what will happen as our mobile phones take the next step, which has already started, and we will be there in less than ten years.

Oh. There isn't actually any evidence of anything like that ever happening or almost happening, it's just what he imagines might happen when technology gets a little more advanced. You know, I think that's actually the definition of a "far-fetched science fiction scenario".
>I remember seeing one guy who was in the sex offender database because when he was 19, he had sex with a 17 year old.

The age of consent in Texas is 17 with a 3 year Romeo and Juliet exception.
Overzealous prosecutors have also charged teens that "sext" other teens with possession of child pornography. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679588/ns/technology_and_scien...)

We've ended up in the odd place that a teen in possession of pictures of his or her own body is breaking an incredibly grim law.
Earning interst has ZERO to do with account freezes. It's all about protecting funds from theft.