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What a fantastic trip. The same thing happened to me (sort of): I wanted to go to Turkey straight out of university. Why Turkey, I'm still not sure, except I liked the look of it (I'm a climber). I had very little money but lots of time.

Anyway, my friends bailed so I went alone. I stayed for four months, went everywhere, climbed mountains and rocks, learned some Turkish and did all the usual travel stuff.

The main thing I learned was self-reliance. I found I was very capable at dealing with uncertainty all on my own. So I followed this trip up with solo trips to France, Thailand, etc., all climbing-related.

It's enough to say that I'd be a different person if I hadn't made the decision to go to Turkey with or without companions.
Awesome idea. I am actually moving to boston this July. I will definitely check that out. I always thought hackathons were programmers hacking out a MVP in 24/48 hrs etc and I wouldn't have anything to contribute.

Thanks.
Welcome to the reality of an expansive legal system. Sure, you cannot be punished for exercising your rights, but what that really means is that the police will try hard to find something to charge you with when you dare to stand up for yourself. It's not like you are being punished for exercising your rights, you were just punished for breaking the law.
Beyond that, slavery/human trafficking is likely a part of the problem. Sadly, Apple moving elsewhere will unlikely improve the lives of those left behind. The underage workers will just have to get a different job, which probably isn't as good.
That doesn't seem like a cost-effective way to scam someone. The victim could just sell the toner themselves, right?

Sounds pretty stupid.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Rails, on a relatively clean system, is so easy to install through the command line that if you can't do that work...then you may not be the kind of person who can easily debug a basic Rails app in the first place...Not trying to be elitist here, as I'm the kind of person who runs homebrew scripts without reading the actual scripts. Just saying that if you can't even do that, then all the post-installation work of Rails is going to be a painful slog.
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"The proper thing for a parent to say is, 'I did badly at mathematics, but I had a very bad teacher. I wish I had had a good one.'" W. W. Sawyer, Vision in Elementary Mathematics (1964), page 5.
ah ok, that makes sense. It would be nice to see the histograms for each major to see the IQ ranges
Each hackathon is different. Often there are industry experts, etc. Its probably better if you have a partner who can code going into it, but at the Hacking Medicine event there was a pitch time where people could share ideas and try to get a team together.
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I was thinking "Gloom filter", what with the possibility of reporting false negatives.
This is a similar website that gathered webcam data using Shodan (http://www.shodanhq.com):

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/
>> What's the problem with underage workers?
CO: They are underage.

>> As long as it's voluntary, the conditions are okay and the pay is fair, who does it hurt?

CO: They are underage. They can overestimate short-running goals over theirs long-running goals: better education, better health.

>>Should we work at fixing the root problems which drive children to work? Yes. Should we fire them and let them starve in the mean time?

As I understood, Apple doing exactly as you said. They are not just firing them, Apple guarantee their income wo work.

Can you propose the better way than Apple chose?

(excuse me for my Runglish)
Use this only to test your own printers.
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You could treat it as a way to celebrate good food itself, or as an occasional treat for yourself to celebrate You Being Awesome.
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Use CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net/) for this, or Ace
Ask HN: Have You Ever Lived in the Third World?
I suppose every participant on Hacker News must have Internet access to participate at all. But I'm aware that some of us in our community live right now in countries that have limited economic development, so you have a different perspective on issues from the majority (?) here. I was born and grew up in the United States, and live in the United States now, but thirty years ago I lived in one Third World country (Taiwan), and visited another (China, then much poorer than Taiwan), and that experience has stayed with me as a reality check on my usually American perspective on the world. I'm sure many people here have lived in more than one country, and it would be helpful to know if you have seen the Third World up close.

What has been your experience? Where have you lived that is part of the Third World, or was part of it when you lived there? What can other Hacker News participants learn from daily life in the Third World? What Third World problems are important for hackers to attempt to solve? I'd be delighted to hear what we can learn from your experiences.
So this has actually been a pretty common 4chan prank for a while now. People give you instructions for Googling webcam IP addresses (very typically just an IP string or something similar) and then try to find something worth sharing. Just like the printer post above, it's incredible how many webcams are left completely unsecured.
Technically in the long term the workers will age and become age appropriate and enter the workforce legally with an advantage of prior experience. Although its a fair point that there are other places, undoubtedly with less oversight where these children might be shipped off too.
talking about hp printers and malware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVv7J2azY8
Actually, no. Your mind reading skills need improvement. It was posted because I happen to like bow ties and find that they are neither trendy, nor something anyone particularly wants to wear here in Boston. As such I felt it might be beneficial to geekdom if my comrades were presented with a set of considered reasons why the bow tie is something worth possibly adding to their wardrobe. If you knew anything about me you'd know that I don't really give two @#$! about fashion trends. My favorite suits are heavily armored, and regularly coated with dirt. They are considered excessive, and decidedly unfashionable by others, but I say fashion can sit and spin. I'd rather keep my skin.
I picked one of the demo songs, and this is what I got instead:

http://vizrify.com/vizapp.html?src=5a65e535b85154595f3833429...

When I hit back on the browser, it did go back to the demo song I had chosen. I love Roxette though, so no worries, just FYI.
It's not quite that simple. A good interface for a power user is not a good interface for a first time user. Many developers think VIM has a good interface for what they want to do but I wouldn't call it intuitive for a first time user with no prior knowledge of its interface paradigm.

Tools to bridge the gap between first use and power use are worth using.
I've had not just people calling, but a door-to-door toner salesperson visit as recently as last year.
In Portugal, the panel that oversees non-criminal drug cases doesn't have the ability to mandate treatment. From Richard Branson's blog post, "Under Portugal’s new regime, people found guilty of possessing small amounts of drugs are sent to a panel consisting of a psychologist, social worker, and legal adviser for appropriate treatment (which may be refused without criminal punishment), instead of jail." The Wikipedia article has some more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Regulat...
Is there a reason you couldn't just refuse delivery?
>> There is now a list of H1B jobs an the average pay which the petitioner must prove they are paying above.

Citation needed.
Lots of people don't know of % works. Just as a lot of C / Java / C# programmers do not know the difference between "if a() & b()" and "if a() && b()"

Funny you say that. And incredibly sad too.

I have participated in interviewing many junior/mid/senior developers and you are correct that they trip up on the % operator. I've also experienced them tripping up on the word "modulo" and instead trying to calculate the remainder of a division operation by hand.

While not trying to be elitist, I'm not sure what it says about our industry when a fundamental concept such as modulus is not understood by programmers.
I'll take those associations over "yet another developer" any day of the week. A developer who reminds me of [anyone in that list] is going to stick out in the interviewers mind. Hopefully the interviee demonstrate the skills and decorum to make that a positive memory.
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First I would like to say I am not in support of underage workers, I would never be. However, if we look at the realistic situations in certain parts of the globe, especially China, sometimes it is not always such a simple situation that we allow these underage workers to work.

In some far far away frugal rural land, a family is struggling financially. Their 14 year old son was not able to go to school, neither was there enough food to be fed to him. The news hit that there's a plant that's openly hiring workers without age restriction. The seemingly insignificant pay in the western's eyes will be a huge help to the family's financial in the remote rural China. After all, it's much better to work at such places than some coal mine that severely underpays.

Depending on where you are born from, some kids are meant to grow up faster than others. Some kids just cannot afford a normal education like everybody else should. It's not a fair world and it never will be. Is it fair for the kids? No it's not, but what's their best option?

Of course, not all situations are like this, but for situations where underage workers are actually working, there is a strong trend that this may possibly be the case. After all, who in the right mind would send their child to work at such an early age is they don't have to? Who doesn't want to live a good life? Remember Li Ka-Ching? He started working at a young age of 15 at a watch shop. See where he is at today?

Once again, I am not saying that education isn't important, I believe it is. However, under so many unique circumstances, it isn't always the most viable path one goes through.

I don't support underage workers, this comment isn't meant to bring to justice to the underage worker hiring practices in China. But it just pains me to see people generalize that the goal is to 'help' underage workers. The situation isn't the same in the West, hence why we think like that. It's a well wish and a prospect to help the country though.
You're talking about CES like it's a Clojure concept:

> The "problem" is that they're talking about that "CES" as it was the one way to create games. But how many games written in Clojure have been shipped? Heck, how many games written in Clojure are even playable?

CES has been around for a long time and was originally created as an OOP design pattern to get around the inflexibility of the traditional Actor model in OOP. It's not a Lisp design pattern. Don't take Clojure's (alleged) runtime performance shortcomings and tack it on to CES so you can claim it's a shoddy design pattern.

The performance of a CES implementation is reliant on just that; the implementation. And CES systems can be quite performant; I've used CES-derived approaches in design of high-fidelity simulation environments and it's served me just fine.
I think your take is reasonable.

That makes amazon overpriced by, what, 25%? Which is not particularly shocking. Lots of stocks are a bit overpriced. AMZN is popular. Don't buy it. Shrug.

When you compare a 3000 P/E to a 20 P/E, you might come away thinking amazon is overpriced by a factor of 100, which would be shocking. But I don't think there's any reasonable case that it's overpriced by a factor of more than 2.
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I am glad that Apple is making progress here, and I find it sad that this is not being done by the Chinese government.
While this is a step, it's in the wrong direction.

Companies should focus on finding quality US personnel first.

Let's look at how the process works. A company advertises, in this case I chose to use Monster and looked for "SQL 2012" and found a company that's looking for someone with 5 years experience using SQL Server 2008. That "requirement" is impossible, so HR and management will bypass all applicants since they're "not qualified". The next company down wanted 2 years of SQL Server 2012. Again, an impossibility.

The companies will whine to politicians that they can't find anyone that meets their requirements. The politicians will do some grandstanding about how quality tech personnel are scarce and next will be the flood of personnel driving down salaries even worse than they already are. Developer salaries have been stagnant since the dotcom bust 10 years ago.

The best solution is eliminate H1B and utilize the people who are unemployed.
Here I was, thinking the we wanted to eliminate the risk of an innocent man who accepts a plea bargain because he fears that he will lose a trial. That happens all the time, far more frequently than guilty men being released due to a mistrial.

Society is actively harmed when innocent men accept plea bargains and admit (falsely) to committing a crime. People lose their faith that the justice system actually protects them when their friends are all imprisoned despite having done nothing wrong. Take, for example, the widespread fear among the police of a public with lots of cameras -- it's not that the majority of cops are worried about their corruption being caught on camera (most cops are not corrupt), it's that they fear that a recording of their actions will be edited to make it appear that they were corrupt. Only someone who has lost their faith in the criminal justice system would engage in such an act, and such people have lost their faith because they keep seeing people go to prison without receiving a trial, regardless of guilt of innocence.
I have used hipmunk, but Google flights is faster and has better flexible date search.
Great article. I'm on the end of the bootstrapped startup, not the freelancer, but I've read so many blogs and heard many podcasts with freelancers. I'm trying to be the best client possible because I want to work with top-knotch talent on a repeated basis. It's very hard to find great developers and designers because they're often booked solid (because they can pick and choose their clients).
Here is a good documentary about the fall of RBS and ex-Sir Fred "The Shred" Goodwin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3K-S5GqBo
Google makes only a rough estimate of the total number of results. Try it on any query that returns a relatively small number of results.
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Sewer pipes and water mains in Philadelphia are owned and maintained by the Philadelphia Water Department, a government organization.

SEPTA bus, trolly, and train service is not too bad. There are parts of the city that are not well covered, but with Regional Rail, it's somewhat easy to get around.

I'll give you school funding, but Dilworth Plaza was a pretty awful place and the remodel looks nice.

Philly's not perfect, but with it's size, age, and location in the rust belt, it's not doing too bad.
I don't want to be mean or anything. But that argument is still really, really weak.

First of all that's very superficial. Maybe we're talking about the first impression here?

Second, it's a matter of taste. You think it indicates ones willingness to learn to use that thing, people might very well think you're a show-off, stuck in the past or a weirdo.

Third: Again, your argument can be reduced to 'standing out' (as you acknowledged). Maybe a pair of laces with LEDs inside are just as good to show that you're interested in - well - uncommon stuff.

By all means, wear bow ties wherever you want and tell all your friends to do just that. In my universe it makes no sense though and the arguments so far seem unconvincing. Non-existing (ignoring 'I like the idea to wear bow ties').

So, final words: An article about bow ties is fine. An article with anecdotes about how bow ties got you a job might be okay. An article about how people should wear bow ties, because that totally sets them apart and shows their dedication to ~something~ is just plain false in the way it's set up here.

(P.S.: '.. still useful' is actually quite debatable here, unless you buy into the whole idea of bow ties being useful/nice to wear)
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The question doesn't seem silly to me. I didn't see any obvious benefit.

It took a lot of work to find a possible candidate for an obvious benefit. Yet, given the recent utilitarian turn of your comments, I doubt that a Hobbesian analysis was the basis for the claim.
I actually had never looked up the studies Wolf was referencing before (naively, perhaps, I trust the guy to have reviewed the literature). But I think he is probably referencing this:

>Researchers at Brigham Young University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pooled data from 148 studies on health outcomes and social relationships — every research paper on the topic they could find, involving more than 300,000 men and women across the developed world — and found that those with poor social connections had on average 50% higher odds of death in the study's follow-up period (an average of 7.5 years) than people with more robust social ties. That boost in longevity is about as large as the mortality difference observed between smokers and nonsmokers, the study's authors say.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2006938,00.ht...
It's at least part of the reason. There are other factors of course - one that leaps out at me is the political ambitions that many prosecutors have. In a country where being seen as tough on crime is usually a ticket to higher office, that's a problem.
If I recall correctly, this was the first lesson in Darrell Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics". Exploit the ambiguity in the word "average", which can mean median, mode, or mean at different times.

Not that I think you or the article is lying. But I think you are confused by the article's use of the word "average". To you, it means "mean". To the article, it means "median". If you had both used the word you meant, there wouldn't be an issue.
Tokaido is not dead. It's taken longer than I expected, but I've been wrapping up the requirements for the MVP over the past few weeks [1][2][3] and hope to integrate the code I've been writing into the UI in the next few days.

I initially anticipated that I'd be able to spend a number of full-time months on the work. I ended up being able to allocate time on a less consistent basis, largely because starting a company (tilde.io) ended up offering fewer opportunities for dedicated, isolated work than I expected. Thankfully, Patrick Gibson (of Tilde) and Austin Bales (of Do.com) ended up doing some of the iOS and design work, respectively, and I've focused my energies on the Ruby parts of the architecture.

My talk at RubyConf[4] goes into some detail about the architecture, and we're very close to shipping an early beta.

During the (long) time it's taken me to get this out the door, I've worked closely with Michal Papis (of rvm) to make the static binary build viable on both OSX and other Nix environments. Michal briefly shipped the binary Tokaido build as the primary build for `rvm install 1.9.3`, but difficulties in reliably building more recent patch levels have pushed that back some. We expect to be able to use the Tokaido build process to permanently ship binary rubies with rvm (and other ruby managers that are interested) once the build process for the current patch levels stabilizes again.

My plan for the MVP release of Tokaido is:

* Shipping the binary with a .app that can be dragged into /Applications

* The ability to add and remove applications via an application UI. You can then open a terminal window for these applications with a rock-solid Ruby environment that uses the binary build and makes sure that the ENV is set up correctly.

* The ability to start and stop any of these applications (via the web section of a Procfile) and browse them via `appname.tokaido` in the browser. This involves installing and executing a pure-Ruby proxy that supports the `app.tokaido` domain (see my RubyConf for more details on the nature of this beast; SMJobSubmit ftw!).

All of the above is largely complete (see the `tokaido` organization on GitHub and the links above for more). We have worked out how to use `SMJobSubmit` to enable the parts of `appname.tokaido` that require superuser access on first boot of the application bundle, and Patrick is just waiting for me to give him a fully self-contained zip of `tokaido-bootstrap` to execute from within the application. Of course, error handling is crucial for this, especially for low-level things like DNS servers and HTTP proxies.

Post-MVP, we hope to work on some of the more ambitious logging aspects of Austin Bales' original design.

[1] https://github.com/tokaido/tokaido-bootstrap

[2] https://github.com/tokaido/tokaido-dns

[3] https://github.com/tokaido/muxr

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iv3Gk95-v0
I've got a few that I like. These two are for those moments, when you look back at yourself and you feel like a complete ass.

"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."

"We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose."
Please provide reasons why I should consider suspenders. To date I have seen little evidence of suspenders being fashionable, or particularly good looking. I am open to the possibility.
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I only pointed out that there is more danger for people with publicly available printers than just getting random junk printed.

You are jumping to conclusions.
I mentioned in my comment that Apple was doing the right thing here.

What's "CO" mean?
Is HEAD the latest and greatest?
I'm pretty confident this actually predates the founding of 4chan. I mean, it's not rocket science: if there is a device that can be administered via the web, then you can probably find at least a couple unsecured via a web search.
Try stratified sampling. Removing records without claims only increases the variance of the denominator which is much less variable. You actually can eliminate the majority of the data and find results that are the same to several decimal places. Note this only works with very large datasets without extremely high cardinality variables.

That said, 50000 is too few. For a dataset of this size, 20 million records is likely more reasonable. The actual answer depends on the variance of the individual predictors and their correlation with each other.
While I appreciate the information, the ad made the whole thing cheesy.
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Seems like wishful thinking. If there was going to be any snubbing, I would expect it to be an early release for the PS3 or some other platform that would make Valve money. Even during the heyday of Linux ports in the 90s, from Quake 3 to SimCity 3000, Linux on the desktop never took off.
"you should wear this so people will know you're a freethinker"

Made me chuckle :-)
It seems like I have run across other games that use secuROM but don't mention it. I don't know if it was because that was before they added the listing or because there was no restriction like the activation limit.
I want one of these sort of things for my bathroom mirror. I stayed in a hotel once which was close, it had a small LCD screen behind the glass that showed the current forecast (this was the elevator lobby mirror though, not in every room). Very handy.