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The source you cite does not support the claim you make. Indeed, it pretty much refutes it.

1. It says there were 10.4M "working poor" in the US out of a total of 46.2M "poor", and that the latter number includes children.

2. I haven't found explicit absolute numbers for child poverty in the US, but the figure seems to be somewhere around 15M. That would mean about 30M poor people who aren't children, of whom about 10M are "working poor" and therefore about 20M are not working despite being of working age. No matter how you slice it, 2/3 is not "about 80%".

3. But there's more. You said not "don't work" but "choose not to work". Now, indeed the "working poor" as defined in that report include people who were officially classified as looking for work as well as those who were actually working. But, e.g., poor people who are unable to work because of illness or disability will not be included in that number. Would you say that they "choose not to work"?
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I think that, in America at least, one of the few professions where this truly is alive and well is medicine. After four years of training you become a Doctor, but then you spend the next 3-5 years as a resident before you start to actually practice. Hospitals are these complex learning institutions where people in various stages of training are involved in everything to keep them learning.
> To be honest, I'm not comfortable with the 'torture is bad because it is ineffective' argument, because it sidesteps the larger moral issue.

I, on the other hand, favor it because it sidesteps the moral issue and presents what is, in fact, a strong and compelling argument against torture that does not rely on first principles that are demonstrably not held by those who would advocate for torture in the first place.

The fact that torture is wasteful even if you ignore any moral considerations is a lot more powerful of an argument against it than one which requires the audience to accept that "torture is wrong" is true as a matter of moral first principles, no matter how much one might wish that the rest of the population would accept that moral principle.
Fails at #6 of 15 on iPad.
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Your explanation is probably part of it, but there's are lots of social factors in play. Gene Roddenberry was a member of the greatest generation. It was in a lot of ways a much more idealistic time in American culture than today.

One of the empirically observable facts is that faith in public institutions is a lot lower today than it was back then. I think this phenomenon cuts in the opposite direction compared to what a lot of people on HN would suppose. When people have less faith in the system, they have less faith that the system will protect them, and are more willing to embrace characters that will act outside the system to get the job done. Hence the popularity of the Jack Bauer character: the guy who ignores taboos against torture or procedural limitations like warrants in order to get the job done and save the day.

That's starkly different to the world conceived of in Star Trek. Star Trek is a world where government (the Federation) is morally virtuous, and institutional rules like the "Prime Directive" are to be followed rather than broken.
I posted walks.io to the openstreetmap section on Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/1umqpq/walksi...
I'm using "lesson" as "underlaying value of the story", not necessarily that I agree with that or it is used in a conscious way, but it's the way it is presented... "someone has problem, someone uses violence, the problem is fixed and everyone is happy!"

(Again, I don't think is a huge deal and I am not implying that people can't distinguish fiction of real life or something)
If you choose a random nonce then it follows that a nonce could be randomly reused. If there are N possible nonces this will happen on average after approximately sqrt(N) packets. If you use a counter as a nonce it will only repeat after N packets, no matter what.

For some algorithms a simple incremented value is all that's needed "1, 2, 3, ..." but this means an attacker seeing only two packets can at least estimate how quickly packets are being sent. However, if you encrypt this stream of incrementing numbers with a constant symmetric key you get the best of both worlds: a nonce stream that looks random but is guaranteed not to repeat until after each possible value has been used. Usually when crypto people talk about a "counter" this is the technique they're referring to.
Proving one is the intended target of bigotry is usually unhelpful.

ETA: Downvote demonstrates the point.
Urban germany, so yes stuff is more expensive here. On the other hand I never see a doctor and live very efficiently. If I had any real expenses things would look differently.

I agree that in theory you don't need that much money. But you have to go the high road when estimating living expenses, people have bad luck, special requirements etc. So in practice everyone should have enough cash to fuck up a few times, even if they don't a lot of people would enjoy living longer simply because of less broke-stress. Some people can handle it, some people can't. I'd even go as far as saying that every person should have the funds to start a business.
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a physical model." Now they have two problems.

(The new problem is dealing with fluid dynamics.)

Water-based computation has already been done of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
I like the name. :)
"Moldy old books" THAT ARE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, CREATED WITH PUBLIC FUNDS BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND STORED IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS do not "generally get thrown away or burned". (Fascist and communist states excepted.) They get restored, preserved, indexed, and hopefully digitized.

I mean, if only there were some national umbrella group of archives that had entire departments of people devoted to techniques for preventing and restoring damaged materials, who published their findings on paper and online for free, who hold regular disaster planning and archives management conferences, who promote best practices, who are extremely active on social media and could have helped if only the state had bothered to ask them about the mold situation OH WAIT THERE IS http://www.archives.gov/preservation/emergency-prep/disaster...

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(All that being said, I do agree that the key factor in this travesty was probably ignorance rather than malice, as it is in so many situations. But given the state's history and the unusualness of this act, the blogger's skepticism is definitely warranted. And just to reiterate, the Heritage Society was willing to take the records in for free. They were the initial volunteers cleaning out that yucky basement, too. I don't think even the state is trying to play the "expensive" card.)
I'm talking about the kind of platform lock-in where your next phone needs to be an iPhone because your last one was, or where you buy an iPad because you have an iPhone and you don't have to buy the apps again. That's the kind of lock-in that is threatened by platform neutral IAP. You play Candy Crush on your iPhone when you are out, but when you are home you play on the cheap Android tablet you got because it has a bigger screen.
I would manually test every aspect of it, and make sure there are no known defects. So any defect found by a customer would likely be some obscure edge case.
No, even Python's own C code releases it when doing things like IO.
That doesn't surprise me. You've got good taste.
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> The effectiveness of torture is besides the point.

Except it's not. Those that are willing to turn to torture don't have a moral issue with it, it would not be just another tool if they did. The effectiveness of the tool is an argument people like that are interested in. In just the same way as those that do have moral issues with torture don't care if it was very effective, your arguments need to be tailored to the audience. Given a varied audience, you hit all the points.

Torture doesn't work for extracting information, it's effectiveness is basically useless. That is, if you are torturing to get information in the first place.
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I can get everywhere but the frontpage of HN. Anyone know what the issue is?
Opera using Chromium (v8) rather then Carakan. And these aren't really security holes so much as Javascript quirks that you should watch out for.
What tool does Norvig use to create this json file? Does iPython have this as a feature (somehow allowing formatted
text)?
i did. it's been stewing in my head for a long time.

a friend finished last night, saying it was a "rough gem." high praise; i'm much more inspired to finish.

my goal is, among other things, to get some concepts in computer science into the mainstream thought. to me, p vs np is the most fascinating question ever asked.
As you rightly point out extremes of Abuse and neglect have the most long lasting impacts on human development than nearly any other factor.

However even with those examples excluded, the amount of talking that a child is exposed to when in their developing years has significant impact on their long term development; see the "word gap" [1]. Not only that but nutritional environment (often based on parental choice) for the first 2-6 years has a massive impact on long term brain development [2].

So yes in fact parenting practices have a massive impact even when you exclude abuse and neglect.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257922222/closing-the-word-gap...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2018962/pdf/arch...
I'd also be happy to entertain any questions you might have about the solo-founder undertaking and how I arrived at this particular niche of monitoring.
By coded test, I meant taking time to write test scripts. I assumed this is what is meant by the article.
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Hi Daphne, unfortunately I can't guarantee that it works on the iPad as we only designed it for laptop and desktop viewports. Sorry about that!
Most of my thoughts have been covered in the earlier replies to your comment - bad parenting is certainly a factor in some cases, but at the same time we have some parents who come along and tell us that they have no idea what's going wrong with their kids. In a lot of cases it seems that the only thing going wrong is that they live on the wrong estate, and their kids are getting mixed up with others who encourage them to do things they shouldn't.

I've certainly seen that almost all of them are perfectly nice one on one, but once they get into a group setting they can be utterly horrible (I've been called a cunt by a seven year old girl for telling them they need to let someone else have a go on the xbox). Society has a lot to answer for, in telling people that they should be the centre of attention at all times, and have everything that they want whatever it takes.

Its a really difficult problem to solve, and if I'm brutally honest, I think a large part of the generation growing up now was lost years ago. Our organisation exist to work with seven to twelve year olds who are particularly bad, and even at that age there are a few who I have little doubt will spend their late teens and early twenties in prison. That largely comes from growing up in a culture where nobody has achieved anything for generations - and so they've been told from an early age that they won't either, given that sort of background the odds of working hard to make it are pretty slim.
This is totally shitty naming by Dell. Name it Dell Sputnik and you are fine.
Where is this "there" that you've been? Are you saying that you, personally, have used torture to resolve a ticking time bomb scenario? Can you be more specific?

Why would it matter that the info they give is "something you know and something new"? How would that stop the "something new" part from being something that was invented to get you to stop torturing them? Of course the most realistic lies will include elements of truth and reference other stuff you think you already know.

And why would merely being "linked to the case in question" mean you can KNOW they have info they aren't willing to volunteer that would help at all, much less that would crack the case? (Sometimes a taxi driver is just a taxi driver.)
At least in my experience it's a hype that provides an 'alternative' to the OO approach. Which I hope means that people will have more options when choosing an approach, rather than shoehorning everything into the OO paradigm.
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Good point, but I'd like to add some more context.

The average American male has access to all the porn he wants, UFC fights, FPSs, and so on. How is a network broadcaster going to shock and allure him in a way that will clear the censors? The list of options is short and torture is on it.
Could you measure employee's cortisol levels throughout their work day? Is that feasible?
That's the exact link I submitted that you're replying to.
Knowing that you're not also paying for a windows license and inflating the Windows market share numbers is also nice.
Really interesting to see behind the scenes in terms of connecting with the press.

But this seems more like a minimum viable community than a minimum viable product to me.

"No matter how useful your product might be, it isn't a business without users"

I think that should read: "without customers".

Is there a plan regarding monetization? There was no mention of this under 'The Uncertain Future' section...
Did you check the referenced version?

Under this injunction, the proscribed behaviour becomes a criminal offence. Asbos have been granted which forbid the carrying of condoms by a prostitute, homeless alcoholics from possessing alcohol in a public place, a soup kitchen from giving food to the poor, a young man from walking down any road other than his own, children from playing football in the street(3).

3: http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty...

Of the five mentioned ASBOs, exactly zero are mentioned in the provided reference.
Eh, as someone who has had to run some large sites I'm a bit more sympathetic regardless of who it is. Shit happens, and they're just websites.
weird. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I coded this and this is how it should look:

http://imgur.com/lzvg3dv

I'm not able to replicate your bug on my end, though I don't have Mavericks. I see in your photo that the code isn't highlighted, making me think that the highlight.js plugin isn't loading. Do you have JavaScript blocked in some way?
You'd need to analyze glorification of torture across "everything" then. Also TV viewership hours, as reported by guys trying to sell commercial airtime, hasn't collapsed by a factor of 10 yet.

Another point of argument is TV is "free" and "omnipresent" so another way to phrase it, is in a country of 314 million people an excellent way to repel over 99% of the population from something widely available and free is to glorify torture.

Lets try a comparison. To remove financial concerns, as a thought experiment a nationwide burger chain could hand out free hamburgers to everyone who wants one. Then you could draw conclusions about levels of vegetarianism/veganism and such that would be untainted by economic concerns. I think this would be insanely popular. So here's a real world experiment in the same tradition, in providing something free to anyone who wants it, and in excess of 99% of the population rejects it, therefore it must somehow in a twisted logic define the values of a culture. Huh?

Their moral compass is right and well spoken, their writing style is pretty good, its just their reasoning and data gathering / reporting is awful. Their conclusion might even accidentally be correct, although not for the reasons they propose. As a philosophy paper they'd get an "A", journalism class would probably give them a "B" or so, but as a hard science lab notebook or paper they'd be skating along the "F" level.

Infotainment/Propaganda, unfortunately. Its too bad, its an interesting topic, and their hearts appear to be in the right place.
If your data transformations are bugged, you've merely succeeded in duplicating redundantly the wrong answer--backups won't save you.
If torture were effective, it would allow the debate to be framed as a tradeoff. If slicing off the man's left hand would allow you to save X lives with 100% certainty, pretty much everyone has a value of X for which they would justify the action -- for most people that value would be quite low.

The problem with these tradeoffs is that there's no clear cut moral high ground on which choice is correct -- it's a murky area. So it's a much more compelling argument if you can make the case that the tradeoff doesn't exist at all b/c torture is ineffective.
I bought a refurbished ASUS Vivobook X202E and put Linux Mint on it. I was pleasantly surprised that everything worked out of the box (touchscreen, multitouch trackpad, wifi, etc). It's still important to have manufacturers standing behind Linux on their PCs, but hardware support on Linux is always getting better.
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The facts of some of those high profile cases were... not exactly as the press portrayed them.

Indeed. Unfortunately, politicians are often compelled to respond to the portrayal of what is happening, as presented in the media, as well as to what is actually happening. When the press distorts these cases just for the print equivalent of linkbait titles, it does have undesirable consequences for the debate as a whole.
Read the blog post and still didn't quite understand what it is.
...and it wouldn't make any difference.

If the NY Times signed an agreement with AWS that stated that they couldn't do X against anyone and, at a later date, they did X against Jeff Bezos then AWS would be well within their rights to demand that either NYT adhere to their agreement or leave.

I note that you use the example of two related entities (AWS and Jeff Bezos). Are you implying that there is a relationship between DO and the Googler equivalent to that between Jeff and AWS?
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Wasn't Aardvark on the path to doing this?
Having had a similar business to appointment reminder in the past and not getting the traction I was looking for, folded too quickly (after 6 months of operations) and I still regret the decision.

I applaud Patrick for keeping that business around for long enough to get paying customers and even trying to penetrate the enterprise world.

Patrick, besides the SEO ninja skills you applied to appointment reminder for inbound traffic, did you reach out to others via any outbound marketing?
When you are passionate about building products and solving real life problems, it is not always possible to work on our own problems. But there is always one really big problem that nobody else has solved for you. And if you haven't found it yet; then you should keep looking for it. Because I firmly believe, the solution to that one problem take years to build and mature.

Taking example of many successful product builders, entrepreneurs and corporate, they all have had one or two 'winner' ideas.
If you did a quick Google on the real unemployment rate you would see estimates on the unemployment rate of 11% to 30%.

But that figure from Brazil is not the same as the unemployment rate so stop comparing apples and oranges. The figure from Brazil is going to include people on disability and old age pensions, etc.
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Cool, I started a novel during NaNoWriMo this year as well, although I'm still finishing up the first draft. Your concept sounds interesting, can't wait to check it out.
Zuckerberg Facebook ID is 4 
Yesterday night I was doing my very first experiments with Facebook API (I'm totally not a developer!) when I came across to an example, I tried to see if everything worked and those results came up.

http://cubeupload.com/im/Gz7Kwu.png

Mark Zuckerberg is the 4th user of Facebook.

So I started to wonder who are the third before.
I dislike the trend of putting number pads on laptop keyboards. It moves the entire keyboard to the side.
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For a moment, was confused, but _why's Ruby project is called "Shoes".
Google Analytics and the rest do more than just log web traffic details. They also offer event tracking and real-time stats, with a decent UI, so that your marketing director or boss can easily jump in and check things out.

I realize there are similar offerings that don't require a third party but I don't see them as equal alternatives.
sorry lol, i just had a witchhunt moment. if she's a witch the place will be a better place without her, but if she isn't she will become a martyr in the name of god.

not exactly a fan of the nsa, and on top of that i think a lot of companies like to spy even without the help of the nsa, but come on guys is that really the level we're arguing on?
By "this json file", do you mean the ipython notebook itself? (It's saved as JSON behind-the-scenes. That's what you'll get if you click "download notebook".)

If so, yes, that's what a saved ipython notebook is. See: http://ipython.org/notebook.html for an overview of ipython notebooks.

You can export it to html, latex, etc using "ipython nbconvert --to <format_you_want>". See: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/notebook.html...

Basically, the website you're seeing (nbviewer) hosts ipython notebooks (json files) and converts them to static html for viewing.
The first thing I noticed from the picture is that the keyboard looks exactly like the keyboard on my MacBook Pro. I haven't really looked at Windows laptops in a long time, so maybe this is a common layout now. It just seemed notable to me.
There is a known 80/20 ratio: most profit is taken by a few companies. This makes sense as you would by "the app" not "an app" in any category.
Very true, although seeing your comment made me realize how awesome it is that people consider 6 hours to be shitty for laptops nowadays. It doesn't seem that long ago that 90-150 minute battery life was pretty standard.
> The kidnapper later sued the police for the torture and won.
> but what if the kidnapper would walk free because of such a breach of law?

In the U.S., a kidnapper walking free for something like this would result in a nationwide popular movement to insulate police departments from being sued for torturing suspects.
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