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In Re: Richard Branson;

One person told me years ago that the problem with drug use is a simple case of society. The way the laws are set up now encourages more drug use because you are a rebel for doing them. In places like Amsterdam or Portugal, you are not a rebel: you are sick. No one wants to be sick. That simple shift in attitude, he believed, would be enough to drop drug use significantly.

I think I agree with his logic.
Haha well its definitely a harder problem than it appears!

I have been working on it as a side project for the last entire year and still there are features left!
nevermind, I've reviewed enough of Kirsch's book and discussion of it at this point to see that it is virulently opposed to antidepressants and is cited broadly by various career opponents of psychiatry as well as a large number of lay-people troubled by the concept of depression as a medical illness. And as one would expect, often challenged by actual psychiatrists (but not always), focusing mostly on the inherently flawed state of measurement with regards to depression.
The railroads were heavily subsidized and enabled by government. Without eminent domain authority and grants of government lands, the great railroads would never have happened. The first substantial airplane network in the U.S. was the Post Office's air mail service. Most of the existing U.S. airlines evolved from air mail contractors. Aircraft technology was heavily pushed forward by government spending in World War I and World War II. The first supersonic plane was a government project, as well as the first hypersonic plane.

In other areas: The transistor was invented by the research arm of a government-granted monopoly; nuclear technology was pioneered by a government weapons project; the double helix was discovered at a publicly-funded university; we're talking to each other over a network created as a department of defense program; much of the field of artificial intelligence was developed under the department of defense.

The U.S. government linked the pacific and atlantic oceans through the panama canal; the Army Corps of Engineers made the southwest habitable; the Army Corps of Engineers built and maintains the locks that makes the Mississippi easily navigable.

The 20th century is a triumph of the American model: government policy-making and funding/subsidization combined with implementation by independent public or private entities.
You are not pirating movies, see. This would be a legal site where you are paying a lot less...
Good point, come to think of it, the last time I had to deal with this, it could have been caused by a number of entries into google, such as embedding google analytics .js even on the staging site, or running a test on the google page speed tools, etc. But they certainly have a HUGE amount of opportunity to snap up new URLs across all their services.
I think that the site is suffering from heavy load and some image(s) was/were not transferred to your browser; there should be an image, not empty space.

No, it's not perfect, but better than most sites. No distracting sidebars, no ugly social media buttons, nothing extra (except the letter bottoms).
Can you elaborate on how crawling is optional for indexing? Isn't crawling a prerequisite to indexing?

The only exceptions I can think of are scary, like operating a caching proxy and scraping the cached data. Or scraping data from browsers that have loaded pages by user request.
I would like to see a survey about people's being (un)happy with the current moderation regime, as I have a few bones to pick with it and I don't think I am alone:

1) Some very useful questions such as "what framework would you recommend for parsing CSV in .NET" get closed as "subjective, possibly leads to arguments", whereas they already have a dozen of very useful answers. Had the moderators got there on time, I would not get the info I wanted.

2) Short answers get auto-converted into "comments", so they can not longer be marked as actual answers, even if they are the correct answer.

3) Answers consisting mostly of links to other SO questions with a brief explanation get deleted because "they don't add value". I can't show you them because they got deleted (duh!). That other question/answer might have provided useful context and discussion, or it could actually be the good answer; besides the link itself is valuable as it links two related questions together... In their zeal moderatos actually delete useful information from the system.

4) Security questions overwhelmingly have dangerously wrong accepted answers. SO should admit the shortcoming and ban all security questions (other than pen-testing).

Basically, SO risks becoming another wikipedia with deletionists ruling the roost.
"guaranteed medical care" - of what quality, with what results? And the value of medical care being covered is that it doesn't destroy the rest of your life. It's actually kind of pointless to help someone just get to the point of surviving, and then leave them to fend for themself.
This brings a smile to my face.
I'm personally not a fan of the concept of donating to help a specific person, rather than a cause, but am unsure whether I'm a rare exception or whether many people have the same view as me - hopefully a few replies could help answer this?

When I say not a fan of the concept, I absolutely don't mean I disapprove. I don't have any problem with organisations raising money this way, nor with people choosing to donate money this way - I simply don't like donating myself.

Trying to chose between fighting HIV or starvation, cancer or... etc. etc. is hard enough. Looking at Watsi's homepage, does Chimwemwe from Malawi deserve my money more than Kirshan from Nepal? What about Lidiya from Malawi? I can see the point of view that it's nice to know your money has definitely made an impact on somebody's life, but personally I don't enjoy the burden of making that decision. I'd far rather be 0.0000000001% of a big solution than 100% of a small one when it comes to charitable donations.

All that said, the fact that I dislike it doesn't take anything away from my thinking that Watsi looks like a great site, my opinion doesn't change the fact that anyone raising money for good causes is great and if the method used here helps that then no complaints from me.
Have you bothered to do login/submission? I don't intend to for the first release (which should be submitted in the next week or so).
Haha... I like this :)

So for you guys that are using this to decompile, say 450,000 android apps in a row, I highly recommend to use:

ulimit -m $((1024*1024))

These tools sometimes flip out, both dex2jar, and jd-core.
Yep, it is. It is generally charged as criminal stalking, attempted assault or assault, and criminal sexual conduct.
As a consumer though, I could change my password on a server if it gets stolen. But how would I reset it after my phone was stolen if authentication is all stored client side?
In Slovakia (a small EU country) we have a non-profit called "Dobry anjel" (Good angel) which helps families of children sick with cancer and other serious diseases. It is also collects donations, is separately funded and distributes all the donations "up to the last cent". Two possibly interesting tidbits: 1) The organization has re-distributed almost 17 million euros since its inception in 2006 (this is 23 mil. USD, over half a million USD in the last month alone -- our population is about the same as Minnesota), 2) Its co-founder Andrej Kiska is planning to run for president of Slovakia next year.

EDIT: Note on transparency: all the donors have their own website login information ("angel ID") to track every donation and see exactly how much was sent to whom. The stories of recipient families are provided, along with their address + telephone number. The donors have an option to remain anonymous or reveal their contact information. I never contacted any recipients or revealed my name to them but I have heard stories where the donors and families in distress got in touch and supported each other with prayers, encouragements, etc.. "Good angel" also makes it possible to keep sending donations to the same families if you choose to (otherwise the families will be chosen at random, which is the default choice -- or at least was the default for me when I signed up in 2007).
there is a persist, false, and negative meme that all sexual harassment is a fraud by feminists, and that men are now being systematicly oppressed by feminazi misanderists. just look into the "men's rights" orgs.
Nope I havent implemented login/submission yet. But I am going to work on it next week :)
That's the middle school "checks and balances" view. There is a lot more to it than that. The U.S. government was a desperate reaction to the the ineffective government under the Articles of Confederation. Indeed, the federalists would have made it even stronger if they thought the states would have ratified it.
>“I don’t think this will make any difference in controlling rape cases,” says Sehba Farooqui, a woman’s rights activist in Delhi.

I agree. I don't think someone desperate enough to rape will care if their victim has a wristwatch that can sms instantly. A good amount of potential rapists aren't even going to know about them, even if the government advertises it. A large portion of those who know either won't care, or will rip the watch off the woman.

What would actually help stop a rape is some pepper spray. I don't know the legality of that in India, but I have to say a lot of places in the US make it way too difficult to acquire this very basic and effective self defense item.
It can be. "Sexual harassment" is kind of a broad term that could include just about anything.
Square is not going up against Visa. Visa is an investor and is quite involved in Square's formulation and execution of its mobile POS strategy.
eh? I'm pretty sure sexual harassment is an actual crime.
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Welp, good luck doing this if you're a man into men and you work in tech.
In other words: if you start a company that innovates and competes against the big boys, you should have criminal and civil immunity, because any accusations against you are conspiracies.

Also, how are they going up against Visa? They don't issue their own cards, but rather, are competing against the likes of PayPal, Bank of America, and Authorize.net.
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ORMs Suck, I'm Asking & I'm Telling, so what's your take? Throw some feedback in there... preferably on the blog comments so everybody sees everybody's two cents. But however you want to do it, I'm not telling ya what to do...
I think that everyone felt really smart the first time they "got" recursion. Then that feeling has followed them around but switched position assuming that someone isn't smart UNLESS they get recursion. I think recursion is a really clever way to solve a select few problems but I hate cleverness most of the time when I see it in code. Recursion is a neat concept but IMO with the multitude of relevant questions that could be asked of a developer it should be further down on most interviewers lists.
I'm kind of at a loss for words.

It used to be unique and friendly, and now it is just another Medium, 37signals, altered Bootstrap-looking thing with no personality. Not including dates in the highlighted articles on the homepage (and only highlighting two to begin with?), along with putting it at the bottom of the "More From" is a huge miss (as the date of these types of articles is important to the context and to give me an idea of how often they are written).

Having to click into, and then scroll, to see all of the topics instead of having them in a sidebar adds more clicks for the user to navigate. The mix between bolded blue links and thin black links.. the differences in formatting between every single title, date and author depending on which part of the site it is on.. The awkward "No" in "Issue No." and the misaligned/missing top padding on the button-looking elements.. The terrible overall typography.. Just noticed that when you're in an article and hover over a subheader, it shows a hidden element that pushes all of the content down.. The fact that the "Share This" crap is on there at all (or that it isn't just one line of gray icons) and that it is not spaced apart or visibly different from Kevin's byline (which deserves more)..

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#1 Overdone.

#2 Legal issues. Stick to craigslist.

#3 This can easily be replaced by a blog. How would it make money? Sales of books?

#4 Legal issues.

#5 Been done. Small niche. Not so much a business, but a charity.

I think you are getting ahead of yourself because you lack a very basic understanding about businesses.

Business that are profitable sell things people want.
Not things people need.

Look around. Talk to people. What do they want? But don't listen to their voice. Listen to their money. What are they paying for? How can you improve upon that product?

Then you can start marketing it (without building it). If you get enough interest (say 100 people with money on their hands) then build an MVP. But you dont need a co founder for any of this.
> Electric cars charged from coal power plants are still a dramatic improvement to the system, despite having a terrible pollutant in the charge somewhere.

Maybe you are referring to clean coal technology which I am dubious of, but I think it is unlikely that tranferring cheap electric power across great distance is more efficient.
> Finally, other cross platform frame works like Qt came along.

Not true. wxWidgets predates Java, it is cross platform and it does provide a real native appearance. Not emulation, true native widgets.
FWIW, the accuser is male:

> Several months after our relationship began, I recommended that he interview at Square. He went through the interview process and was ultimately hired. I had no impact on his potential success at the company. At no point did he ever report directly to me, and I have seen his work product less than a handful of times.

http://keithrabois.tumblr.com/post/41463189288/a-note-from-k...
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Interesting considering his previous actions.

"In 1992, to challenge Stanford's rules on political incorrectness, Rabois stood outside the dorm room of an instructor and made remarks criticized by many as homophobic."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois
On one hand, I love it that I was able to donate to a person, and Watsi didn't require a login, email etc. (though I guess they have my email from the Paypal payment).

But this is one of the sites where a login would probably be a good idea, so that I can keep track of my donations and particularly the status/health updates of those whom I am helping, and also potentially for tax purposes.

Another site on these lines which I like a lot is Kiva.org (no affiliation, just a user). It's micro-finance, not donations, but all 3 people whom I lent to on Kiva, have paid me back so their enterprise has presumably succeeded. It feels great to be able to help some poor villager in Africa buy some fertilizers or a cow, and I like how Kiva makes it easy to keep track of them :)

Update: Watsi just emailed me a receipt that I can use for tax purposes, and promised to send me a email when the person I donated to receives treatment. So I take back my minor complaint above!
Should colleges divest from coal, oil?
Another thing you didn't catch is the difference between MD5 and the broken Windows password algorithm.

And the fact that you still have to calculate MD5 for your WHOLE malicious javascript file, plus the comment with the random tail with all the random stuff you modify.
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Sad to see things like this happen, but I can't wait to see what he is able to come up with and bring to the world next. He has done amazing jobs in his previous roles and I am excited to see what he brings next from the PayPal Mafia.
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It seems to give him something to write about, so there's that.
Broad is different from general. I see breadth as a double edged sword. It does have the problems you mention. However, if the government could get sufficient buy-in, it helps because there are a large number of ways to improve per-capita CO2 emissions (e.g. improving housing insulation, increasing public transportation usage, development of CO2 scrubbing/sequestration technologies.)

I feel that the real killer of challenges is actually vagueness. "Improve health care" is vague because there is no well defined goal or target that we will be able to meet.
Not to be pedantic, but in those cases criminal stalking, (attempted) assault, and criminal sexual conduct are the crimes, not sexual harassment.
Sending random invoices to companies hoping they'll just pay without thinking about it is a pretty common scam actually. Here in Germany for instance you start getting dozens of fake invoices via ordinary mail the exact second you register a new company, and I guess it's not very different in other countries.
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The following website doesn't inspire confidence, but without doubt, FileHelpers 2.0 is the most awesome .NET library out there for processing and creating CSV files: http://filehelpers.sourceforge.net/

Oh, and its free thanks to the hard work of Marcos Meli.
Almost every organization that deals with kids has a policy of "no single adult alone with a single child," for everyone's protection.
Funding a Kickstarter project creates a legal obligation on behalf of the project creator to provide the reward for the donated amount [0], even if the project itself is ultimately unsuccessful.

Of course, should a project go so off-track that a backer is compelled to seek a refund their claim is against the creator, as Kickstarter disclaims any responsibility.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#IsA...
AllOfMP3 was quite popular in its time because it was "legal" even though it didn't pay copyright holders.
It wasn't supposed to be smart, it wasn't to gather scientific evidence, it wasn't to do any of these things.

It was to show the world, once and for all, that communism wasn't better than capitalism.

For that you need a big hairy audacious goal. Better millage isn't one. Cutting the arabs out of the oil deal, saving humanity as we gather the resources needed for a final jump into our future as a spacefaring species -- that is a goal worth of us.
Yes, and I agree that it felt like a feel-good mission at the time.

Many people theorize, and I believe correctly, that it was entirely an aggressive posturing war between the US and USSR. We could just drop a nuke from space, with no launch to detect, so no way to retaliate in time - no mutually assured destruction, which was the only real defense either party had.

Don't get me wrong - I'm generally very liberal by US standards, and I think the Government should do a LOT more to "promote the general welfare". I just think that money doesn't care how you spend it, and governments can't set the kinds of goals that the OP proposes. Other than ending diseases, I suppose.
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It's interesting to see Antigua's reaction to America ignoring the WTO. I think America is on shaky ground here, as many countries are getting sick of America overstepping their boundaries.

In theory, every country aligned with the WTO should back Antigua on this. In reality, America will threaten trade sanctions against them too, so it will be a question of who has big enough balls to stand up to the world's bully. Let's hope we can get a critical mass going.
I lost a bet to a friend. I just used Watsi to fulfill it.
I just don't know how to respond to the idea that there's minimal value in removing infected bone fragments from a child's femur, and so I'm not going to pretend that there's a useful discussion you and I can have about this.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand why he resigned if he is innocent, as he claims?
no it doesn't. eating a sandwich is not sexual harassment under any law. sexual harassment is is a defined law.

this is a dismissing tactic to imply that sexual harassment is some sort of pseudo law that isn't fair, with often the implication that it's a giant conspiracy to allow women and evil feminists to screw over men.

sexual harassment is a crime. it's a real crime. tech has a sexism problem.
Its the same principal. A high powered person has an assistant they can trust to witness their interactions with people of the sex they would be interested in. Requires money, but then again, targets generally have cash.
Sexual harassment tends to be civil. In most cases where some sort of sexual-related crime has occurred, there pretty much a guarantee that harassment occurred as well (think physical contact or labor-related crime such as extortion) though harassment can occur without a crime (unwanted verbal advances or comments leading to hostile work environment)
People should read this before they make judgments about what might of or might not have happened

edit: obviously, this is only what Keith claims on his part. I'm only saying, these are the assertions that he's adding to the record

1. Keith and the accuser were in a consensual relationship before the accuser came to work at Square.

2. Keith encouraged his accuser to join the company but asserts that he did not give his accuser any favors or preferential treatment, nor did his accuser ever report directly to him

3. Keith admits that continuing the relationship after his accuser started working at Square was poor judgment.

4. The accuser is claiming that some of the acts in the relationship were not consensual, and Keith unequivocally denies doing the "horrendous things I am told I may be accused of".

5. Keith insinuates that his accuser tried to blackmail him on the order of millions of dollars.
That's not remotely what happened here, according to Rabois.
I lived in Cambodia for a couple years, and I strongly agree that most problems are related to education and health. Having grown up in the United States, where malaria, cholera, and typhoid were essentially eradicated before I was even born (and I picked up every one of those at least once during my stay in Cambodia), I really tend to think that searching for a technological solution is missing the point.

Solutions to these health problems already exist: sanitation (i.e. pick up all the garbage on the streets so that flies and rats don't spread, install plumbing and build sewage treatment to stop contaminating drinking water with feces) and mosquito eradication (build drainage systems to deal with monsoons, pick up all the garbage so the drainage systems don't stop up, install plumbing so people stop keeping big open cisterns of rainwater). The reason I got diarrhea all the time was the same reason I had to pay so many bribes: the government was basically incompetent. Malaria, cholera, and typhoid were all widespread in the first world some time ago, and computers were not necessary to eliminate them.

I really don't see how hacking per se will solve these problems. You can use computers as tools to advance political change, but this has its limits in a place like Cambodia, where 80% of people are illiterate subsistence rice farmers, and can't even afford a cell phone.
Yep, and a lot of daycares back that up with security cameras.
Notice that Lucadg said nothing negative in his post. Perhaps you are projecting?
Proof of authenticity?

Anyone could have registered that tumblr, and it has no other content.

Please leave tabloid gossip to the tabloids until real information is available - and then leave it off HN.
Wow. There are treatments PIH can only provide in Nepal because of a site you built? That is completely amazing. Congratulations.
The biggest problem with sexual harassment is not that police over over zealous with prosecuting, but that they don't prosecute enough.

just look at the stats for the amount of rapes which don't go to court.