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I wish they not only put one click unsubscribe link but also one click remove account from given service. I've noticed that removing account is is what I need more often than unsubscribe.
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And if they do want integer division, they have to remember // and %.
Oh I wasn't saying that it's not a win-win situation, just that some of the comments were saying how Walmart was being generous and good, while a pretty simple benefit analysis tells us that Walmart is making real money off of this, which in the case of such a big player and their history as an employer, self-interest is the only driver that counts.
Previous commenter was giving an example of 'suicidal' riding. The fact that others ride in a responsible manner does not serve as a counter-factual. That's all I was saying. That, and I believe that there are reasons other than "irrational crazy" why people ride the way they do. Can you do a trakcstand on the side of a steep hill? How about ingress/egree from a clippless pedal? That stuff is hard and slow, so people take "shortcuts" around norms of doing things (eg, run stop signs, go up one-way streets, etc) that are more rational to them than "giving up the bike". Either because they need the money or just like the fitness/lifestyle/image etc. Its not even that you need to :"look down" on these guys...just you can't have a policy discussion and pretend they don't exist. =D
I wrote these for high school students, but I think they'll be useful to you too:

http://www.collegeanswerz.com/i-graduated-high-school-now-wh...

http://www.collegeanswerz.com/the-process-of-exploring-your-...
I posted this 2009 story in response to the one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6704809

I also posted a comment there which I will reproduce below:

The MBA index truly is one of the greatest contra-indicators I have ever had the pleasure of observing first hand. It's a wonder to behold.

> When expensively educated, fashionable young graduates start showing up in your field, you're in a bubble.

- Kevin Marks, http://epeus.blogspot.com.au/2005/12/key-indicator-for-bubbl..., derived from Liar's Poker (highly recommended read), by Michael Lewis (brilliant author; read his other books).

> This year, some 37% of Harvard Business School's graduate found work on Wall Street, up from 30% a year ago and 26% for the Class of 2004. The trend suggests that Wall Street is becoming bloated and the American economy is ripe for a slowdown.

Mr. Soifer, who retired from Brown Brothers in 2000 and now runs his own consulting firm, appears to be on to something. He advised his friends and colleagues to sell back in 2000, when 30% of the HBS graduating class took jobs on Wall Street. Before that, the last long-term sell he sent was in 1987.

Source: http://www.nysun.com/business/equities-swing-with-harvard-mb...

> Mr. Soifer notes that the Harvard M.B.A. indicator has historically been more prolific as a source of “sell’ signals, showing strong results in 1987, 2000-02, and 2005-08, than “buy” signals. In fact, the last time it reached the 10 percent “buy” level was in the early 1980s, when the Dow Jones industrial average traded below 1,000.

The all-time low was reached in 1937, when only three graduates — about 1 percent — braved the market and ventured into the securities industry.

Source: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/a-contrary-indicator-...
This is bouncing against the perpetual "code as text" problem.

Put the tests and docs in with the code and you end up going into "scanning" mode. The actionable information density per character is lower.

Put the tests and docs outside the code and you (or that obnoxious guy who just changed > to >=) don't update the tests or the docs. In the worst case (cough functional web tests) people tend to disable the tests because it's too much work to get them to conform to the changes and everyone is on fire and babies are dying and this needs to be done in production now.
"I highly doubt teaching something like "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", which is written by a Marxist and starts with the presumption the audience is "oppressed", is going to contribute much to the success of the students in American society"

Did you see the results the ethnic studies track had? Huge success.

"I have hard time figuring out why one would object to such premise and insist that pupils in government schools should be taught racial hate or resentment."

But teaching the real history of the US isn't resentment; the act of teaching these books, which may use less mainstream language, is being conflated with teaching resentment against white people and teaching only to latin@ people, at the expense of white people (it's right there in the lawsuit) -- in other words, "PC". It's a complicated issue and the website isn't the most well-designed, I admit. Not the best example; Zionism is a better one.
LOL! this seems a pretty novel way to gain karma. Will try it myself ;)
Apple’s India dilemma: iPhones at cheaper rates help up sales, but profits sink
You can hardly innovate in economics if politics don't follow.

Economical decisions are so much entangled and tainted with politics, that's a big reason why it's not really scientific. The theory is sound, but practice is awful for many reasons, mostly political and because of the human factor.

Capitalism is a decent and somewhat balanced practice of economics, but the fact that it's not a hard science shows that there is a disconnect between theory and practice.
Wow, thank you for a vivid demonstration of Poe's Law.
New Orleans, LA - One of the most unique cities in the world, one long party, relatively inexpensive, and a burgeoning startup hub: http://www.fastcompany.com/3001140/big-easiest-place-build-s...
Just as the capitalist system is not a capitalist plot, so racial oppression is not the work of "racists." It is maintained by the principal institutions of society

etc. etc. If you would nitpick that I said "racist" but he says "racial oppression" - OK, I'm fine with changing it as "our whole structure of the society is racially oppressive", doesn't change the main point.

>>> where does he talk about what "society" should be like after

I don't think many Marxists every had clear vision of that, and it is certain it never came to look like they envisioned, however vaguely. The society Ignatiev strives for has no "white privilege", but it means as much as "communism" would mean for somebody in 1917 - a dream, no more. In any society where inequality exists one could attribute "privilege" to those who are better off, and you could call them "white". So I would have hard time describing the society where it is not possible - but I'm pretty certain it would have little to do with what we have now.

>>> so I'm more writing this for anyone watching than to actually try to have discourse with you.

I'm sorry my low esteem for Ignatiev offends you. You do not have to suffer the indignity of debating opposing opinion, of course. Ignoring unpleasant opinions is always an option.
They charge 1% on every buy & sell -- so I don't think they're losing money.
A though on the topic of race that one could be punished for. Obviously, not one done by Ignatiev, as he is obviously not being punished for it.
Well, I'm guessing not that many are using Pyret as a first language (yet) either... (Actually, I think a few people are still using Squeak to teach kids programming, so that's not even true)?

Anyway, I was more curious if you'd done such a study because

a) It's a very concise and consistent syntax, and

b) with all the great work that appears to go into Pharo Smalltalk it would seem to be viable option (again).

And yes, I do mean for computer science (not "just" programming):

http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog/petitparser-1
http://www.squeaksource.com/OMeta/

(This in addition to the nice design of Smalltalk-80 - and no, of course it isn't perfect -- is any language)
better.. if they let you work full time.
Six months working in industry is worth approximately 10 years playing on middle school hobby projects from the perspective of calculating your worth to a potential employer. I wouldn't worry too much even if you're not #1 in your CS classes.
While Maemo is irrelevant, Python can be perfectly used with Mer and Sailfish.
I think it would improve usability to accept only spacebar to scroll, that way if you see a result you like on the first page, you can just enter its number without scrolling through the rest.
I tend to think favorably of Canonical and very highly of Shuttleworth, but in this case I'm already pissed of after reading only the first part of the post. This is just highly manipulative PR speak.

First there's the repeated suggestion that Canonical is "generous" in allowing all kinds of use of its trademark, where however that kind of use, like satire, is protected by law. It's like saying "look how generous I am to stop for pedestrians at a red light".

Second there's the ludicrous analogy between the a bug in the code and the incident. A bug in code, no matter how bad, doesn't compare to an act of aggression aimed at a specific party. The internet did not overreact, it was Canonical that acted with disproportionate aggression. Shuttleworth fails to recognize that and still tries to cover it up by accusing his critics of being unreasonable.
A better technical analogy would not be a bug, but deliberately installing malware.

This is not an apology. It's a defense combined with an underhanded attack an Canonical's critics.

I wasn't one of the "vocal non-technical critics". Now I am. This attitude stinks.
For all the good that tech does for the world, can we stop the judgment of why people are entering the careers they choose, whether it's finance, tech, or otherwise? Let's judge a person not by the content of their background, but by their actions and what they accomplish. Even if someone's primary motive is to make money, it's too hasty to judge that person without understanding their background and why they're motivated thusly.

Personally as someone who has done both business and technical work, I'm saddened every time this topic comes up. The less judgmental voices get down voted and drowned out, while the posts that generalize based on anecdotal experience prevail. I wish we could just stop having this discussion, as I don't think it adds at all to the benefit of the tech community.
You can make statistical conclusions in some cases. I.e. if you take robberies, and you know that X% of robberies are commonly reported and you know that in Y% of robberies reported robbers were male, and you know that robberies committed by males and females reported with same frequency (note these are hypothetical assumptions, for the sake of example) - you can estimate how many robberies were committed by males, based on certain report statistics - not only on convictions. Of course, this would not be exact - statistics is not meant to be, the whole point is generalizing - but it would show the trends present in the data.
Bored to look for iOS Libs? try "OSS Sampler"
Yes. At the sit down dinners I often couldn't decide on an entree -- so I would just order both.

Drinks (including soda, coffee, and of course alcohol) are very much not free though. You are also not allowed to bring any alcohol on board.

Some cruises have begun charging "charging extra for new premium amenities such as fancy alternative restaurants" [1] -- but the run of the mill buffets are all you can eat and free.

[1] http://www.aarp.org/travel/cruises/info-08-2012/cruise-ships...
http://hackreactor.com

I'm a founder -- AMA!
So, cheap pop at Debian in an apology? Ummm ...
If this Lonnie guy would sell his patents to somebody else, and they would sue Hasbro, would that make them 'patent trolls' then?

Or what about if he dies and his children sue Hasbro? Does that make them 'patent trolls'?
I have tracked down many confounding bugs caused by people accidentally using integer division. This change is one of the main reasons I use python 3; it gives me one less thing to worry about, because integer division (which is only correct occasionally) stands out clearly with //.
It's that Kipling, according to many people, even in that times, effectively did imperialistic propaganda, even if he was aware that the reality didn't match the myth, didn't match in a sense which the article author wants to point out also concerning the WW I.

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/kipling/rkimperialism.ht...

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/

Thanks for the "Tommy" poem, it also shows something important.
PySide is pretty neat, though I am not very good with Python
I'm implying that the city seems to mostly cater to people whose primary leisure activity is spending money. There's no natural environment to explore there, and it's mostly culturally bereft.
The falling debris doesn't take that into account either, so the calculation is right (give or take the odd approximation).
Africa is 2nd largest continent yet represents only 7% of world's Internet users
Should you really be able to patent anything in a water pistol or nerf gun though?

Protecting the name of course is one thing. Nerf and supersoaker are brands. But I don't think anything within the toys should be patentable.
just sent message to your licq address! hope we can meet you there ;)
I agree you wouldn't call a car fast/strong/large/etc.. if it was fast/strong/large/etc to soldier and etc... But, you're comparing apples with oranges now.

"Is that truly armor? I can't find what the base plate is made of, but I would be very surprised if it was "armor" as used in military vehicles."

What is "truly armor"? It sounded as if you were saying something could only be called armor if it is X,Y, or Z. But, armor can be pretty much anything given its definition is a protective covering, but there are different strengths of armor. I'm saying a diamond is still a diamond regardless of its grade. Similarly, armor is still armor regardless of its strength.
I don't know which ivory towers you frequent and what you mean by "limited", but the idea that the money supply should be flexible has been pretty well established after some failed experiments in the 1970s and 80s.

As for the inflation / deflation thing: I'm pretty sure we all agree that the faster the relative prices of things can change to reflect changes in the underlying reality, the better.

A priori, it seems that these relative adjustments should be independent from the average adjustment and hence the overall price level.

However, economic actors tend to resist a nominal decrease of income much more than a real decrease of income. You may not think that this is rational, but you have to work with the reality that you have.

This means that inflation is beneficial, because it allows real decreases of income without nominal decreases of income, and this means that real income can decrease more easily, which is what you need for relative prices to adjust reasonably quickly.
As pathetic as it sounds, I don't really know what my goal is. I guess I want to find an internship this summer that is enjoyable and offers solid exit opportunities for full-time recruiting. I know this is a lot to ask for, but I want to highlight the fact that I work very hard -- I'm not some kid that thinks he's smart and deserves a perfect job.

The biggest problem is I know absolutely nothing about the recruiting process, job requirements, internship duties, etc. for programming roles. Since the start of 2013, I've worked a bit on my coding and published very small projects on GitHub, but I haven't done much else in terms of seeking an internship.

I'm most worried about switching my focus entirely from banking to programming and missing out on a banking internship. If I don't do investment banking this summer, I basically have no chance at a full-time investment banking position. And although I've made it sound like I absolutely hate banking already, there is a chance I could enjoy the internship and the full-time position.

I'm pretty sure I would like a programming role more, but again, I don't know where to start for recruiting. And I'm afraid that working for a small tech firm this summer may not help much when I look for a full-time job after college.
>> "Good luck coming to Europe and avoiding the Eurozone"
>> "Dude, 17 out 27 EU member states use the €"

10 countries don't use it. That still leaves you with quite a lot of choice. And as I said I was just speaking from personal experience that goods Euro using countries tend to be more expensive. This probably doesn't apply to every one of those countries but it has in every one I've visited.
And for those still left clueless: in Britain, around this time of the year, it is common to see people wear a "remembrance poppy" pin, to commemorate soldiers who have died in war.

One way of getting it is by donation to the British Legion.

As with most symbols with time, its meaning now also very much depends on the observer (nostalgic-imperialistic, pro-war, gratitude, sacrifice, etc).
Always use the correct tools for the Job.
Pragmatism wins
Or Lisp, which compiles and has optional type declarations

https://wukix.com/mocl
Yes, I although I have used a multitude of dynamic languages on my career I tend to lean on the static type languages with type inference side.
Implying there are no such things as campus speech codes, including Federal Government trying to push ones on the higher education institutions[1] - which is clearly a violation of 1st amendment, for starters.

1. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732358290...
Ask HN: Best companies to work for in the US which don't have media coverage?
I really wonder after complaints about Google last week what companies have same benefits but are not known as much as much Google or Facebook. There were some comments that such companies exist and some of them even have more benefits than mainstream companies.
I think you have it wrong way round - all other electric cars should have batteries split into fireproof compartments
when I see FB login requirements - I think that such sites just seems as accounts collectors...

Im sorry.
As a Brit, my reaction was one of complete lack of surprise. I wonder if that is widespread, and accounts for the muted reaction.

The US operates big, obvious surveillance facilities from inside Britain. For instance, I like to hike, and two places very close to me are the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors national parks. So every time I drive out there I will pass either of these two installations;

Menwith Hill: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=menwith+hill&tbm=isch
RAF Fylingdales: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=raf+fylingdales&tbm=isch

These are two big, public surveillance facilities -- the first is run by the NSA, the second run partly for NORAD. They are really large, obvious physical structures built for surveillance. It is then no surprise to find out that the NSA and GCHQ have been working together to do actual spying, is it?

Imagine as a US citizen that you were living in San Francisco, and knew that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service had a 500-acre intelligence-gathering base in Mountain View, CA. Would you be in any way surprised to find out the Russians and your own government were spying on you?
Exactly. I've never understood why someone would prefer a untyped language. It's just a bad developing experience, code needs more debugging, it is harder to maintain and overall productivity is lower. Untyped languages are fine only for small scripting languages.
Rackspace recently mentioned having tens of thousands of hosts managed with Ansible actually, and it works fine over SSH. Here's some slides on issues they ran into and resolved: http://prezi.com/tyasc3-vj_id/ansible-turbo/

Though one of the core technology decisions behind Ansible is that you don't need much to get it running. You can scale things up as needed, such as fireball mode. And you can boot strap that process using Ansible. You don't even need DNS.

Hosts can register back with Ansible on start up, this works today with their AWX product and cloud-init's phone home feature. Also your inventory of hosts can simply be queried from sources, such as AWS's inventory list, so in that case you can't have a host that's unaccounted for.
I don't think Shamir's paper is BS. I think it shows how early adopters have a huge advantage over other players, exactly like a Ponzi scheme.

As for the fact that they can't force you to buy from them it's totally irrelevant. They (or he) can drive the market back to 0.5USD : 1BTC in less than 24 hours should they choose to do so, and there's nothing stopping them. The fact the you don't know who this player is, makes things a lot worst compared to FIAT controlled by the state.

The monetary system is a total mess, but that's because of abuse from those in power, than by design. BitCoin is a good thing to have, but it will never replace the USD and it wasn't suppose to IMHO. It's properties attracted only the illegal market and various low level speculators so far.

The fact that BTC went up instead of down after SK bust shoes clearly that the general consent has little to do with its price. BTC became famous because of SK. Now will be used even less as a currency. Instead it became even more expensive.
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Scheme makes it worse, I think, because the way in which you usefully teach Scheme to someone who's never programmed before is different from the way you teach Scheme to someone who already knows C++ or Java or something pretty well.
Questions like "is X a science" looks often like the "True Scotsman" fallacy

Or better, if you want to keep strict, to things that can have an experiment "perfectly reproduced" infinite times, then you have physics and chemistry for that.

Biology? No. A simple example, the LD for a substance. At LD50 you have 50% of samples dying. Here you have a substance with a very strong effect (death), at a high dose (because it kills 50%) and still, the chance of it effecting the sample is 50% (ok, 50% by design of experiment, and you'll have an spectrum of reactions)?

An electron suffers a force inside an electrical field, 100% (exactly) of the time. Some things have some probabilities, like nuclear decay, where it decays to substance 1 A1% of the time and to substance 2 A2% of the time, but that's it, no in-betweens.
> First there's the repeated suggestion that Canonical is "generous" in allowing all kinds of use of its trademark, where however that kind of use, like satire, is protected by law. It's like saying "look how generous I am to stop for pedestrians at a red light".

Satire is not categorically protected by law and the usage in question was not clearly satire by usual definitions. You should investigate matters more carefully before getting "pissed," because your information seems to be coming from questionable sources.

> Second there's the ludicrous analogy between the a bug in the code and the incident. A bug in code, no matter how bad, doesn't compare to an act of aggression aimed at a specific party. The internet did not overreact, it was Canonical that acted with disproportionate aggression.

All this was was words. To call a letter requesting that a site not infringe on Canonical's trademarks "an act of aggression" is a bit of an overstatement. Computer bugs have caused several orders of magnitudes greater harm.
So, here's part of the problem: Sandy Hingston mentions some genuinely absurd overreactions (a student enraged when a grocery circular put an Black History Month banner next to an ad for chicken); and she also mentions Jennifer Livingston, who called bullshit on a guy who tried to guilt-trip her for being fat in public; and Hingston implies that both of these are equally bad.

This right here is half the problem. The reason we have people who are offended by everything is because of people who refuse to permit anyone to be offended by anything. Ms. Hingston, their bullshit is an overreaction to your bullshit. If you refuse to acknowledge any difference between oversensitive conniptions and calling out genuine assholes, you really have no business speaking on the subject.