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> "You are not a crusader for artistic and unique web design"

Thanks for reminding me of what you have no business reminding me of.

Yet another article telling me what I am, what I should and shouldn't do.

The flip side is that HTML and CSS is not rocket science. It's rewarding and valuable to build your own sites.

If your code is "untidy at best" I would recommend you find another job where you skills don't amount to "untidy". Good luck.
What's always surprised me is people taking the compiled CSS and working directly off of that.

I thought the whole point was that since it's LESS, you can change things up really easily.
> No other western city that I have visited has the massive, in-your-face homelessness as SF.

SF is unique not in the size of the homeless population, but in its distribution.

The linked study refers to metropolitan areas (thus including Oakland as part of the SF Bay), but SF ranks 12th in the nation behind Tampa, Seattle & San Jose among others [1]

In both DC [21] and to a lesser extent Seattle [8], for instance, you could quite conceivably live, work and play in areas without visible signs of homelessness (including the commute in between).

In SF, of course, this is impossible. Certain parts of Market street (bordering on the Tenderloin) are about as run down as a major downtown area gets in the developed world.

[1] http://b.3cdn.net/naeh/a18b62e5f015e9a9b8_pdm6iy33d.pdf
All other problems aside: how can they afford to send someone to my apartment 3 times a week for $4.99? Seems like gas alone would be exceed that.

My assumption is that they can't, and the plan is to burn through VC money with the hopes of getting some sort of eventual deal with the postal service.
To induce a feeling of obligation. I accepted a gift, now I should give a gift in return. This way, they trade a ten cent ring and ask for a 10 euro note in return.

She tossed the ring on the ground so it clattered and jumped up, "is this yours? Oh, well you keep it...", you know, that kind of crap.
Insert-ordered hash tables are a little less unique now. Ruby 1.9+ has them (with the built-in Hash), though it was introduced quietly and not a lot of people seem to know that.

It's a surprisingly useful data structure sometimes. I'm not sure if conflating three major kinds of data structures into one was a great decision, though. Honestly the OP's weirdness is much less likely to be important than the mixed-integer/string key weirdnesses you're more likely to run into.
I tried to give a homeless person information on DSHS where they would be able to recive $200 month in food benefits (WA) plus who knows how much in TANF (welfare), and got told to fuck off to my face.

My pity for the homeless has diminished since then.
I've had people from Portland tell me that, on noticing the high number of homeless people around. Not sure if I believe that...
It pretty much describes every single spot under 101 in the city...

17th has become worse in the recent months/year
That's a lot of convoluted reasoning to try and justify that you are not paying for something when you know you should be. Since you can't legally pay for it, you should go without.
With more and more "nativish" APIs being added to HTML5 (like the whole suite of mobile device APIs coming with Firefox OS), browsers are becoming functionally more and more similar to operating systems, just that the design is terrible for an OS. Unless browser design is revolutionized in and out, we will have to keep making compromises like this one. We need to integrate Web capabilities within the OS, not the other way round. That said, I'm off to play Bomberman now.
Not working on IE9
I posted this a few months ago. Worth watching.

VIDEO: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/social-issues/poor-k...

San Francisco is the most expensive place in America to find a home, but that doesn’t deter the 400,000 people coming each year to the Bay Area in search of a new home and a new life.

Eleven-year-old Sera, her sister and her mother moved to San Francisco in 2009. But when the economy collapsed, her mother lost her job and the family now survives on her $600 monthly unemployment checks.

After five months in a shelter and more than a year in transitional housing, the family has moved to a one-room rent-subsidized apartment in the Tenderloin — a neighborhood synonymous with drugs and violence — while they wait for subsidized housing to come through. But they are just one missed rental payment away from returning to the shelter.
LinkedIn: The Ugly Duckling of Social Media
Still not working at 12:52 AM ET.
As a rule I never give anything to beggars in the neighborhood where my children live. Find another part of town to beg in.

But I always give money to veterans.
Sergey Brin on the touchscreen: 'it's kind of emasculating'
I was wondering what your reasoning behind this was. Do you have any past examples to support this assertion? Or do you base this position on some prior principles?
os.system("touch files/"+file)

Oops. What if my file is called " && rm -rf ~"?
I was really annoyed by the fact that the "disk filling" started as soon as I clicked the link. However, the point really hit home. Is there a solution for this browser-side?

EDIT: The link has been changed to the blog post describing the phenomenon. Good riddance!
For those that haven't been around long enough to remember this being posted here is an article by a guy who experimented with being homeless for a few days...

http://www.nevblog.com/category/homeless-experiment/
Illicit plus grey market and a few special cases. Fine, you win the Pedant's Prize for nitpicking. The point is that they don't make a good general-purpose currency. Just because they're awesome for buying drugs and secret VPNs doesn't mean very much in the grand scheme of things (most transactions, at least in the developed world, do not take place in the grey market).

Also, just because some people do something doesn't mean that there aren't strong incentives against doing that thing, and doesn't make a statement such as "people don't do that" false. It just means that there are exceptions, but when the exceptions don't affect the point it is common to ignore the exceptions in general conversation.
Should welcome and grow the Bitcoin ecosystem . When it flourishes the INTERNET becomes like a separate country with its own currency !
So apparently this is where you file IE bugs http://connect.microsoft.com/IE - i'm not sure if it's expected or ironic that it's broken. Great find btw!
>- Naive authentication. - Unsalted, fast hash sent in the URL. - Password stored in clear text server side.

I don't understand the point of hashing the password in the client anyway... The hash is as good as the password to an attacker.
Has Westwood gotten worse since I graduated UCLA in 2010? By my memory, there were only several decipherably-homeless individuals wandering about. In most cases, they would talk at me, mumbling, and didn't actually talk TO me in a real attempt to get anything. I would even say downtown Palo Alto is worse than Westwood. The rest of LA is pretty bad, but Westwood was a far cry away from any of it.
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A month with Dell's Project Sputnik
Mitigation: there's an option in chrome://flags that converts all these images to dog pictures.
You are correct that a rising price does not necessarily imply long-term viability. It indicates a sharp increase in demand. In Bitcoin's case, I believe demand is rising because of fundamental advantages it has over other forms of virtual currency that won't soon be rivaled. It enables new business models and transactions that would not have otherwise occurred (in many cases, for legal reasons). For this reason, I believe that demand (and resulting prices) will continue to rise.
I used to subscribe to this idea as well, until a friend of mine told me this: "Have you thought of the fact that you're enabling people to be homeless, thereby making the problem worse rather than better?". This really struck me, since I agreed... I'd rather work on the causes than the symptoms.
You can use Firefox. Firefox actually implements a reasonable storage limit policy for this. 10MB for an entire domain (all subdomains included)
I won't speak to specifics of my interactions with homelessness, the unfortunate interface of drugs, gangs, homeless services, and criminals in Santa Cruz is f'd up right now. Recent other events are exacerbating my feelings on that even more.

So, I will focus on a positive example of charity and goodwill. Ryan Hupfer (@hup) of iSocket has been blogging about his interactions with an individual named Mo in the city. It has been an amazing read. Hup's blog is at http://ryanhupfer.com/

Stories of Mo are interleaved with other entries.
Why retailers are pinning hopes on Pinterest
This sounds great. I've had a side curiosity in the subject (logic programming) for a while (mostly just limited to experimentation in Drools so far) so I'll keep your username in mind. Thanks!
Yes, you can use just the CSS, but all the scripts are tied to jquery ,since they are jquery plugins.

Regarding bootstrap , i'm a designer, and i dont mind people using it. The heck i used it myself.

It doesnt turn server guys them into ergonomists nor usuability specialists , but they know that their code will render well on all the browsers with virtually no test. I prefer people using bootstrap sites to coders that try to come up with their own design and just cant...

Now i design webapps and sites that need to stand out more than the basic bootstrap look but bootstrap can be a tool to work upon too.

Of course there will be a bootstrap backlash like there is a jquery backlash from javascript "purists". But these purists tend to forget what was web development before jquery or before boostrap ...
My concern isn't that they'll use it for drugs or beer, my concern is that the beer/drugs are what made them homeless in the first place. Giving them money for this stuff is potentially making their problem worse.
Didn't spend much time in the rest of LA, but I was in westwood for 8 months in 2011. There was less than the tenderloin, but most of the streets with shops had a homeless on every corner. I would walk by 5-10 on my way to grab lunch or dinner.
I don't know if that was the right thing to do, but I did it. Maybe I'm a sucker.

I think spending time doubting yourself for performing one of the most basic acts of human kindness is way over thinking things. It only reduces the likely hood you'll do it again, and i think you'd agree the tenderloin is not suffering due to an over-abundance of kindness.

It's hard for me to be sure exactly what negative result you're worried you could have caused. I guess it's probably that by feeding him you're encouraging him to rely on others instead of resolving to seek self sufficiency. By the numbers that's vanishingly improbable - the vast majority of the seriously down and out homeless are suffering from some kind of debilitating mental illness which often gets in the way of even being able to obtain basic social services.

You don't have to help everybody or anybody and however you do help you could have always done more. You can't get wrapped up in that, you did good full stop.
Got to ~800MB and then chrome crashes.
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From that article: “Families can qualify for the tickets if they have a relative in another part of the world, including the US, who says they are willing to house them.”

NYC also gets its share of people from outside the NYC region who actually fall for the myth of NYC as ultra-socialist nirvana.
If you want a glimpse into San Francisco's hardcore homeless, read this excellent Chronicle series from 2003:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SHAME-OF-THE-CITY-HOMELES...

This problem is in no way unique to San Francisco; our engineering team has offices in San Francisco, Seattle (Pioneer Square) and Vancouver (Gastown) -- and we can collectively report that there are large, hardcore homeless populations in all three cities.
A man outside the Central Square McDonald's in Cambridge begged me for something to eat once. I brought him out a cheeseburger on my way out and he wept with joy. Some people really are hungry.
I was wondering why it wasn't working, lol. Got stuck at 5MB for me.
A couple of years ago, a couple getting their food from trashcans around here got poisoned by the cooling agent you put in cars. They were found in their apt. a couple of weeks later. The hypothesis was that someone was tired of having them going through their trash.

They were not homeless. A criminal investigation was made. It is used as a scenario in school, and that's how I know about it. The pictures were... "interesting".

Not saying it's common, but if I ever have to get my food from trash cans I will make damned sure that it's at least properly sealed.
The main cause is pretty simple. The police in San Francisco just do not bother them in certain neighborhoods. In most other cities police routinely pick up the homeless and dump them some place far.

So the absence of homeless is usually not a sign of better humanity, it is usually a sign of cruelty. This is especially the case in the US. There are other countries where they have better treatment for poverty and mental illness (most homeless are mentally ill to some extent) where the absence of homeless on the city streets may mean actual absence of homeless. But this is not the case in the US.

Thus, even if the sight of homeless in San Francisco is so terrible, one should keep in mind that San Francisco provides the best treatment for them in America.
As a parisian currently living at Montreal, there is a huge difference between the two mentalities. There is homeless people at Montreal too, but .. well .. most of them are civil : they don't try to annoy you to get money (some of them even say "Have a nice day" when I decline).

One of the thing which surprised me when I first used the montreal subway was that the 'musicians' were actually real musicians, played only at some places, and did not try to get money by playing so bad that you only wanted them to stop. When I came back to Paris during holidays, it was horrible to see again these guys with their horrible speakers, horrible musics and horrible voices.

tl;dr Montreal is a very nice city. Why can't we find such nice behavior in other cities ?
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It's really predictable when the "Question has been closed as not constructive" label will appear - if the question doesn't contain code, it probably will be closed as not constructive.
Cancer fears could prevent Google Glass from ever becoming a phone
Solar is not even close to free. The systems and materials you need to collect it cost huge amount of both money, and environmental impact.
But did they harass you at all? Downtown Palo Alto has one on every street corner too, and they don't bother anyone. But Tenderloin... after walking through Westwood and PA for several years now, I still just plain don't feel safe in the Tenderloin at all.
Twitter token limit criticised as Falcon Pro hikes app price to deter buyers
Sure is!

It would be possible to use a challenge response authentication scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge%E2%80%93response_auth...) but just doing things over HTTPS is generally fine.
Jimmy Wales: 'I'm Wikipedia's monarch'
Here is a question for those who know: is there anything forum regulars can do when we see spam posts beyond letting mods know about it?

I was active in a now dead forum that would get hit once or twice a week. The mods would clean it up with in a half a day but until then those posts would just sit. Does the Google web crawler consider words in replies to the spam post? I used to reply occasionally with words like: scam, fraud, got ripped off. I have always wondered if I was wasting my time. A few times I checked the link to see if it went some where legitimate (Google the base url), if so, I then searched the site for an informational web form. If there was one, left a message that their SEO company was using sleazy methods with a link to the forum post.

Google ought to make a code phrase that forum users can use to red flag spam posts. Though some of the posts were for Japanese and Chinese sites. The spam might not have been meant for Google but other search engines...
I also heard you have tent cities in the USA.

Seriously guys, stop fighting brown people and start feeding your own people.

/ Your allies in europe =/
Yeah, teh USD wins ... because "OR ELSE"

end of story, right?
Because sometimes LESS is more (learning curve)
I think SF is stuck with a perfect storm of "landed gentry" conservatives that don't want to pay for homeless services, sympathetic liberals whose spare change enables drug addicts, civil rights activists that fight city hall to protect people's "right to be homeless", and the so-called "homeless industrial complex."

A few years ago, the local PBS station had a TV show about SF's homeless problem. People migrated to SF because the city (until "Care Not Cash"?) handed out monthly cash stipends. Emergency rooms would be crowded with drug ODs on the first day of each month. PBS also spent a few days with one panhandler in particular. He received handouts that would have added up to $70K/year, if he didn't spend it all on heroin.
"This ring did fall, take it, take it !" "Now can you give me money please ?"

Sometimes they don't speak the country languages (or don't want to), so it's hard to say 'no'.
Easy until you try to upgrade.
(You actually can't forward your mail for very long; you can get a half year, and sort of a year, but the post office really doesn't apparently want to be in the position of being a routing system.)
Who needs to link to the current user's profile page without knowing it? Only FB should have to do that and they know the profile page url. Other people should be linking to the profile page directly only if they know it, not based on which user is viewing. They should really have two profile URLs:

http://facebook.com/profile.php - private profile, no redirect

http://facebook.com/some.user.name - public profile (profile.php?id=123 could redirect here given an id so as not to break old links)

To fix this FB could stop doing this redirect entirely as it leaks information about the current user's session, and should not be necessary. I'm sure it'll break someone's links, somewhere, but it was a bad idea to begin with, and related is this old trick which let's you view a very popular profile:

http://facebook.com/profile.php?=112398345098345

All that should be required is a public profile url which can be shared (if you wish) or not, and a private profile url, and the url of the private profile should be generic and not redirected, so that it doesn't leak info in this way, and because it's not the same as a public profile anyway.
Ha. Not from there, but every Icelander I've met "knew" Bjork, but that may be because it's half the size of Wyoming and is much, much more isolated.
> Bitcoin is basically useless except for illicit transactions

I'd never spend my bitcoins on drugs or gambling. That's what the rapidly devaluing dollar is for. Recall that the US dollar is Narco Currency #1 on the planet.

Bitcoins are useful as leverage due to their rapidly expanding (and sometimes deflating) value. I bought my first bitcoins for ~$3 two years ago and held them, even through the first spike and afterwards. I bought more btc at $5-12 as they were floating along last year.

I recently traded some of my btc for hard assets, gold and silver. I then sold some of the gold to a friend and bought more bitcoins.

Useless? No, Bitcoin is a very useful tool. It's the email of money.
Try going to Ocean Beach or Santa Monica, same thing there. I think helping out with food is better than with money. As a side note, I recall a National Geographics photographer that traveled the world taking pictures ended up killing himself because what he saw made him very depressed.
I've been using Virtual Post Mail [0] for about 2 years, it has been excellent. It's a bit more expensive and the implementation is different but the end result is similar.

[0] http://www.virtualpostmail.com/
Knew a guy in my hometown who drove a BMW every day to the corner where he begged for change. At the time, he made more than I did.

On a completely separate note:

You can't help homeless people by subsidizing and enabling homelessness as a lifestyle. There is enough housing to go around, we just allocate it more efficiently than effectively.
Throw in the Towel
Mexico's much-needed education reform faces hurdles
That program requires you have verified family/friends to take you in at the other end of the trip, which seems pretty legit.
Looks like a cool idea. If you can solve the chicken and the egg problem by filling it with some useful snippets before launching you'll be able to pick up a user base quickly.

Edit: Another startup from Brisbane, nice! I live not far from there.
How is that done?

Isn't there a limita Limit of 5Mb(?) per Domain definend in the HTML5 Spec for LocalStorage?
This is interesting. What if all homeless people in SF were issued a cash card. The balance of the card would be controlled remotely and it could be (de)activated at any time. People who want to help the homeless could pool money together and the funds could be put onto the cards at the point of need. Perhaps retailers would be able to request the balance on behalf of the purchaser somehow - phone, web, etc. If people stopped giving cash to homeless, a system such as this could restrict the flow of money to drug dealers and liquor stores.
The main distinguishing factor is whether or not the alleged infringement was actually independent rediscovery or not.

Patent trolls are dangerous because they hold patents on things that are easy to independently rediscover. It's too easy to infringe by accident, without ever reading troll patents.
Introducing the HTML5 Hard Disk Filler API
Not available in WA :(
per SUBdomain. So just use:

example.com

1.example.com

2.example.com

...
http://feross.org/fill-disk/

He explains here that most browsers (except Firefox) don't follow the standard close enough, and ignore the exception for subdomains, i.e. 1.filldisk.com, 2.filldisk.com, etc.
> which by the way, is super awkward syntax, repeating both self and BaseClass

In Python 3, you can write just `super()`, even though I personally prefer the verbose (and thus explicit) way.

In single-inheritance cases, there's actually no benefit of using super(), so using `BaseClass.__init__(self, args, *kwargs)` is even more explicit.