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Well good news: the reason I talk about privilege is to help the disadvantaged without vilifying anybody. If somebody is doing some vilifying somewhere, maybe you should go talk to them.

I don't think my opinion is more valuable than yours. I do think that the opinions of a non-disadvantaged person (which I'm just going to call advantaged, because that's less clumsy) on how to achieve social justice aren't very persuasive to me unless they've actually tried those opinions out in the field and had some success with them. Similarly, the views of managers on how to code are unpersuasive to me unless they have spent a lot of time coding. Experience matters.

Now that you mention it, I did read "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" years ago. But I'm uninterested in the academic side of this except so far as it has practical utility to me. I use the framework of privilege because it has been very useful to me both in sorting out my own bullshit and in working on these issues. Note that I don't accept the frame as fact; frames can't be factual. What I'm asserting is factual is the substantial advantages that particular groups have, the data of which you apparently don't dispute.

So I think where we've gotten to is that you, a white guy with no apparent experience of either experiencing or fighting disadvantage, has some strong opinions on how social justice should happen. And I say: that's great. Go do that and let me know how that works. But having once held your view and moved on to a different one after years of thought and experience, I'm going to stick with mine for now.
No one dropped any fucking ball. The failings of society are deliberate. Housing bubble? Consumer credit replacing Fordist/Keynesian wage increases? Tuition catastrophe? Those "incompetents" who make health insurance innavigable? The increasing social and economic distance between rich and poor? All intentional. It's the Haves becoming Have-it-Alls at the expense of the Have-Littles and the Have-Nots.
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Works absolutely fine on my very standard, almost vanilla installation.

Code:

#include <vector>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
vector<int> beans;
beans.resize(5);
beans[3] = 4;
beans [4] = 66;
}

Build command:

g++ -g 156.cpp

gdb debugging session:

GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1) 7.4-2012.04
SKIPPED OUT WARRANT INFO HERE
Reading symbols from /badcode/a.out...done.
(gdb) break 156.cpp:10
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4008e6: file 156.cpp, line 10.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /badcode/a.out

Breakpoint 1, main () at 156.cpp:10
10	beans [4] = 66;
(gdb) print beans[3]
$2 = (int &) @0x60401c: 4
(gdb) print beans[4]
$3 = (int &) @0x604020: 0
Cool, I see you've already added it, thx
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In regards to subjective happiness and income, I like to pose the question:

Would you rather earn $80,000 and live in a neighbourhood of those earning $100,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 and live in a neighbourhood of those earning $80,000. Money and happiness is entirely subjective according to your environment.
To me it does not seem to be worth the huge cost/enormous effort/loss of privacy/loss of guaranteed constitutional rights.
>Mussolini: '' Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.''

The word "corporatism" in this context is not a very good translation. It's a real quote, but "corporation" in Mussolini's time would be more accurately translated as "guild" or any arbitrary hierarchical group of people with common interests. Corporations as we know them (commercial enterprises) weren't a thing as far as Mussolini knew.

As much as I appreciate the sentiment this quote carries, it's just not applicable to anything today. Snopes thread about this:

message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=36218
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This is what happens to libraries that are under the direct administration of governments. This is certainly a form of editorial control and censorship. Libraries, like the media, courts, and universities should be separated, independently run and administered from government.
We do have aliens all over the place. We're some of them, seeded by material from comets from outside the solar system. Probably.
MSP430?
I don't like the idea of boycotting a speaking gig. If you don't agree with what RSA is doing, isn't it best to keep a dialog going?

If we only allow those who agree with us to speak to the choir, they'll be a series of different choirs never speaking to each other.
The reaction to this article is interesting. Compare it to the reaction of "copied" icons, which sometimes only look vaguely similar and are not being sold to the public but are used to dress a website.
Gen X'er here. Not so sure about many of the points of the article, but this one was interesting:

The problem is that in twenty to thirty years, when our youngest generation grows up and takes charge of government and business, its members will have grown up using Facebook, prescription drugs or online support groups as their primary coping mechanisms rather than relying on real support groups: biological bonds of friendship and loving relationships.

This dovetails with my recent fascination/great unease at learning that Twitter uses Mechanical Turk (an Amazon service I didn't know much about) to program what appears to be a disposable, no-strings-attached human workforce, using an API, to do some categorization for it (a very clever idea I should say); and with my great unease with companies like IBM wanting to track metrics of every kind about their workforce. As the younger kids begin to assume decisionmaking responsibility, is their acclimation to living in this human/computer ecosystem going to open the floodgates to full-on human "programming" (to give the dystopian edge-case a name)? Are computers and the developers and statisticians programming them going to invade every corner of our lives?

Consider OkCupid (a fine Web site). Their algorithms are important for selecting possible matches. How much trust are we putting in those algorithms and in the implementation? These map-reduce jobs (or whatever they use) are now programming to some extent the reproduction of a portion of society. Are we going to see this trend go off the charts?
Matt, I couldn't use the rightmost scroll bar to scroll the Online Playground.
Using: Safari 7.0.1 on OSX Mavericks
What I did: Collapsed the Tree sidebar.
What happens: Rightmost scrollbar disappears.
Only after refreshing the page (Ctrl-R) I can scroll again.
Thx.
Took the time to check and it doesn't work with a core dump. Oh well.
And does this surprise you, op? I think you have seen ample evidence of so called "troll" comments garner more attention and clicks in ekşisözlük. They are doing this, because they want attention and google provides an easy way to do it. You don't even have to write a provocative content, just click 1 star and you are on the top of the world.

A community, be it a virtual or a real one, has its trolls, e.g. misusers. If you promote such a behavior, albeit unintentionally, increase in repetition of such behavior is very expectable. The thing to do in my humble opinion is rethinking this feedback mechanism and rebuild it in the content quality's favor.
But, many of the commonly used libraries already use stream fusion, e.g. vector and text.
And here's what that street looks like today: http://goo.gl/maps/Ya7wH
Path Encoding Vulnerability in https/www redirects.
Aside from this kind of trick, I have not worked with a ton of ARM assembly but what I find is very frequently compilers will just put values in the text section close to where they are used and refer to them with some PC-relative thing, rather than using immediate values as often as they might on x86. I have seen this on other RISC platforms as well.
Counter example: documentaries about nature or other countries. Sometimes, nothing can quite replace moving images and sound. I'll go further and claim that in theory, documentaries can be every bit as factual as books, but not the other way around.
>Perhaps Simon Sinek is right, but after reading the article, you are no closer to understanding why he thinks he's right than you were before.

What do you know, the top comment is a pseudo-intellectual tear down of an article, asking for evidence and proof, admitting that the original article wasn't even read to completion, but offering plenty of criticism.

>Perhaps Simon Sinek is right, but after reading the article, you are no closer to understanding why he thinks he's right than you were before.

Guess what? This is a book excerpt. Maybe if you want some answers and notes you can buy and read the book? Of course, that would require you to read and synthesize something for longer than 5 minutes, fighting the urge to show how smart you are by instantly going to an internet message board to ask for line-by-line bibliographical references.

The fact that this community holds itself in such esteem is hilarious. Reddit redux.
Thanks! I couldn't quite wrap my mind around a school with 60% per-period attrition.
I guess you mean: "Would you rather earn $800,000 and live in a neighbourhood of those earning $1,000,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 and live in a neighbourhood of those earning $80,000."
Also: advertisements on the buses. But gone now: all the hats on the men. I was surprised too how modern things seemed already at that time.
The article was excerpted from "Reprinted from “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t”"

And your comment pretty much illustrates why I have pretty much stopped reading and buying books (such as this which I did in the past)

You get (even when supported) a generally lopsided view based on what the owner thinks that is cherry picked to match with their point of view or what they are trying to prove.

(By the way as far as "Why the sudden and huge spike in a frontal lobe dysfunction over the course of a decade?" Well, that would be pharmaceutical marketing for sure! (My cherry picked boogey man to explain.)
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that performing the test, as originally given, will induce a divide-by-zero error. The modified test is safe against that; however, as you point out, it will still fail to indicate convergence (which is one reason to include an absolute tolerance as well).

And as you point out, you need to take the abs(y) as well, on the right-hand side.

Thanks for adding clarity.
It's no surprise that Baby Boomers are a disaster in every way possible; after all, they were the spoiled children of the victors in a devastating war.

However, look to their parents and you may have some sympathy for the boomers. The Boomers were born in the 1940s to people born in the 1910-1920s period when social mores evaporated, the "Jazz Age" took over, and people basically became vainglorious self-important drama queens.

"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited — they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission."

That's a fairly brutal and accurate condemnation of that generation and its social mores. It's worth noting that many of them, especially the East Coast elites, went on to become Communists.
The richest in India are less happy than Brazil's poorest.

But leave it to the economist to find that money makes you happy while ignoring that some countries seem much happier.

If you were to pick a country where you could randomly end up anywhere on the income scale, which would you pick? Of the countries listed, I'd pick the United States, followed by Brazil, Britain and Mexico.
I understand what you are trying to say, but I think mercer (in a sibling thread) has it right. A lot of us are in environments that feel like they are designed to keep us separated after we enter our professional life. This is particularly true for people that have moved by themselves to a different state or country and basically need to build a social circle from scratch. And this gets more difficult as you grow older.

I live in a central European country for four years now and I find it extremely hard to meet new people even for a superficial friendship.

- I have very few coworkers, but even if I didn’t, people tend to keep professional and private life very separate here. Some actually think they have “enough” friends and you might never get through to them no matter how much you try.

- In my home country I would usually meet people through friends of friends, but here my friends will rarely bring anyone else of their circle when we go out (even when asked).

- Meetups are also a big failure for me. Most of the time they involve huge groups that are very impersonal. They involve people that are here for a month up to people that have been here for 20-30 years and have their own cliques within the meetup. The first year I kept going to the same meetup and kept introducing myself to the same (more or less) people and held the same discussion over and over. Each meetup was as if I was there for the first time and needless to say, I didn’t make a single friend from that. Even in the smaller ones, it seems that most participate either to spend a night away from their spouse/“real” friends or just for the activity.

- Going up to talk to random strangers is also not very common here, but even if it was, it is unfortunately impossible for me. I feel incredibly self-conscious and uncomfortable. I tried it when I was in the US where people are more open and I honestly hated myself. I doubt PUA literature would help.

Anyway, I don't want to be too negative and I also have me to blame for the situation. What I wanted to highlight is that it also depends on the cultural environment and the particular circumstances. To me, it is quite indicative that we have dating websites and meetups and social web sites and whatnot but we are generally more lonely.
> incidentally is capped at a fairly low $128,000

Maybe they don't have data for people making more than that? There are relatively few people with incomes that high, and their time is probably valuable enough that they're disinclined to waste it filling out happiness inventories.
> Nice casual racism.
How is that racist?
A version of the game came with the NeXT pizza box.
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Wow, I just built nearly the same thing for my windows environment using autohoykey.

I might put together a post about it now that I see there is some interest
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I'm moving towards doing more of my own projects, but for the past two year's I've been quite happy with contracting three to five days a week. It's harder to work on your own stuff when you're working for someone else in an office for more than three days, but it's a good way to save up some money and it's nice for a change.
Yes I think that's how it went!
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> what about a torturer extracting information about a bomb placed in a school?

What about someone divining the information about the bomb from the entrails of puppies?

Why prefer one horrendous and inexact method over another?

((though maybe if the information was actually inside one of the puppies they'd do it because it's "just a puppy", whose lives are arguably less valuable than schoolchildren))

What if the information is engraved on someone's pacemaker? What if you know that the information is maybe perhaps possibly wrong?

If you think these scenarios are unlikely, FYI so is the "torturing to extract information about a bomb in a school" scenario.

What if you take into account the person you proposed should be tortured, most probably hasn't been formally found guilty?

What if you take into account that even if you think you're pretty sure, innocent people are sometimes found guilty (and even put to death)?

What if you take into account that this course of action means that you are now living in a society where torture is considered legitimate in a police investigation? Meaning that it will be used more often, and therefore with growing certainty at some point applied to innocent people (just like happens in places that still support the death penalty). How big of a school does it need to be, for you, to justify that? Including the part where you take into account that you can't be sure whether you will obtain any correct information at all.
Yes. That is one of the ways that the concept of privilege has been most useful to me: in getting me to pay attention to my unconscious biases.

One of the useful analogies for me has been Acquired Situational Narcissism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_%28psychology%29#Acq...

It's a diagnosable variant of narcissism in which a person, like a young celebrity, becomes convinced that it's all about them because they spend long enough in a context where everybody acts like it's all about them.

I had known about ASN for a few years when I ran across the concept of privilege. Then I took some of the Implicit Association Tests, which made it clear to me that I was, like the rest of humanity, not the perfectly balanced intellect I wanted to think of myself as.

I basically had to admit that I'd spent decades fooling myself. It wasn't, as I thought, that I, e.g., "didn't see color". Instead, it was that I didn't see my seeing of color. What else about my mind and my social interactions did I not see?

Those dominoes are still falling.
Dopamine my ass. They are simply spending more time doing what makes them happy over doing what others perceive is good for them.
How does that factor in here?

I would say the comic showed up in Washington, not the character.

(I would also say that the character is slowing vanishing, because it doesn't work as well when everybody is in on it. A lot of times it holds back his interviews, playing the idiot foil limits the questions he can ask.)
Some people think you are lonely if your way of living is different from theirs. More annoyingly, they repetitively tell you that you are lonely. If you yield to this brainwashing, then you really feel lonely.
Ask HN: Why use Python or similar?
Hi,

I am a .Net developer. I love C#, I think it is a great language with fantastic features. I'm looking at new startups job offerings and open source projects source codes a lot. I see a lot of Python or Ruby generally.

I know C# is not open source. That is not the case. You can use Java even Scala. But when I look at performance Python is not near C# or Java. And I can't seem the find features of C# in Python. In my opinion, I feel more comfortable writing C# than Python. What is the reason behind choosing Python if it is slower and lack a lot of features when compared to my preferred language?

I'm not trying to say Python is bad or anything. If a lot of people using it there must be a reason. But I can't see that reason. I'm trying to find it so I can give my time to the langauge.

Thanks
Maybe it can't buy happiness, but it can definitely rent it.
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And while the author is at it, he should stop complaining about anything because there is always someone worse off than him!
I've always loved this idea. It just makes sense. People argue against the "circular notation" of a clock face and how it relates to 60 minutes/seconds, but all that analog stuff is dead.
I mean you really can't get any worse than using something like this to support your point:

"A New Jersey-based accountant told me that he sees a clear difference between his older clients and his younger ones. “My older clients want to work within the confines of the tax code to do what is fair,” he explained. “They are willing to simply pay the tax they owe"

In court that is "hearsay" evidence. It's not even coming from someone who is an accountant who is writing the book but someone just talking to the accountant. For all we know the accountant said that at a party after having 3 drinks. Separately, from my experience with people of the older generation I have definitely not found that to be the case. Not to mention that even that would vary by ethnic group, geography and I'm sure many other factors.
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Hi, one of the creators here.

At the moment you need to activate it every night.

We are thinking of adding a "lives" system which say gives you one free cancel, then perhaps the life regenerates every week.

We're work for ourselves so this app is mainly used to motivate us to get up in the morning, it is difficult to fight the lethargy of morning-brain when you are your own boss.
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I'm interested in taking time off to learn programming. Surviving while doing that is a challenge. One concept I've bounced around is an investment approach. For example, people could make donations (e.g., $10), with each increment being "a share" of my future earnings (e.g., 0.1%), potentially for a limited amount of time (e.g., 10 years).

During the year, I would make blog updates, maintain on open github of learning projects, and contribute to open projects; and my investors could make suggestion of things to learn or projects to work on.

As much as I want to do this, I would feel guilty if I did it personally (I want others in my situation to be able to have similar opportunities), so I've been trying to figure out how to scale such an approach.
Why not Australia or Canada?
I may sound like a conspiracy theorist but oh well:

The cynic in me says such graphs are (figuratively) propaganda by the 1% (of 1% in wealth, not income), in that now we can define what the masses are "ok" with while we, the 1% of the 1%, can accelerate our gains further. Let the rest of them have crumbs and be content.
How is this different then freenet?
This scenario is exactly as unlikely as the GP's.
So where are they?

A great many went to Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/iraq-a-school-for-... and many more.
Gasometers have largely passed as a result of high pressure distribution systems.

Ours are disused or removed in St. Louis. Wikipedia explains that they are rare in the U.S. and those were some of the only ones.

The UK gasometers are largely disused, but the sites are expensive to decontaminate and reuse since they were frequently used to produce "town gas" from coal.
I think the evidence they show is actually very compelling. Even though there are clearly country fixed effects, the graph shows that both within and across countries.

Of course what self reported happiness really measures is another matter...
The money isn't "lost"; what's gone forever are millions upon millions upon millions of man-hours that could have been used to do something useful. Saying the money is lost is just a handy shorthand for expressing what a waste it all was.
There's a great collection if decimal time ideas, many of which are linked at the bottom of that wikipedia page. I personally always liked the idea of making 1 day into the base unit. Then 0.5 would give you noon, 0.75 is 6pm. It seemed less arbitrary than making a unit into a 10th of a day, since that has no value except in reference to a day.
Thanks for the feedback, an interesting point. I think we may change it to allow you deactivate up until say an hour before, and maybe a life system that gives you a "get of jail free card".

But you can't be given too many options as morning-brain will do anything to stay in bed.