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I think you look at it from the wrong perspective, it's not about voluntary work per se, it's about caring about other people. If you dismiss people because of your stereotypes, you'll never get to know them.

If you're open and generous, sure, some people might abuse this, but do you want to be friends with such people?

If you want to get to know people and become their friends you will eventually have to care about them in one way or in another. Man, you can even be of opposite opinion, that disagreement could actually be the foundation for a future relationship. Who knows?

So in my opinion, being open, generous and getting rid of your stereotypes and bigotry when it comes to other people is a great way for making friends.
"Big Up" for ADR from the UK, you'd have thought a more positive response from the home of Level 9 !
ABSOLUTELY. I used to be an introvert white guy with no friends.

I see two ways of meeting people, with 1 rule required:
The Rule: Always say the first opinion that comes to your mind. Do not be afraid to say what you really feel, and have an intelligent discussion about it later, in which you can admit you were ignorant and change your opinion. Opinions are like belly buttons, everyone has one, and they're mostly irrelevant. Great friendships can be forged between people with totally opposite opinions. You will be genuine as long as you speak your mind.

Corollary: Take what you were just imagining in that public social situation, grab your balls, and do it. Reality either smacks you in the face and you have to handle an unknown situation, or all of a sudden it's serendipity. (P.S. This works exactly the same way on dates, too.)

Meet people:
1. Use workmates or the internet to meet people (meetup.com/okcupid/tinder/etc.) - it's a good crutch to transitioning to real life approaching strangers, without any risk of blushing or doing something else embarrassing. You'll later find out, even in "structured" situations you'll do embarassing things anyway, so maybe you should skip to #2:
2. Walk up to those groups (assuming it's a safe environment), interrupt and introduce yourself. Speak your English wrong, don't let the people get to you, just keep pushing your level so you always say exactly what you mean, in a direct and efficient way (because English works like this). Your purpose is to develop your language/social skills, not impress them. Feel free to be transparent with them, and explain why you're talking to them - who knows what they'll do!

You see the above text? That is how I taught myself fluent spoken Chinese on the streets of China starting with _zero_ Chinese. The strategy completely works, but it's not easy. The biggest benefit of it, however, is every time I get outside my comfort zone I can _handle it_.

Now you get two life skills for the price of one. Good luck.
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I know the question sounds really awkward, but it's just exactly what I think.

I am a software engineer intern at a mid-sized company in redwood city, and my internship ends on August.

I love my work, and I consider myself a reasonably intelligent, tidy, and nice guy.

However, it saddens me when I find myself idling alone on weekends, doing everything by myself.

Since I started my internship on February, on weekends, I have always had meals, watched movies, gone shopping, taken a walk, and done every activity by myself. I do not even have roommates.

This is fine most of the time, but it's really painful on times when I have a lack of self-confidence. I think it may even become dangerous later.

Whenever I see groups of people in the street hanging out with each other, a sense of envy grows in my mind. I wonder where they met each other, and how come they became so intimate to each other.

As a man at age 26, I want to meet some nice ladies too.

My major problems, as I think, are:

1. After 3.5 years of college life in which I had absolutely no social life, my introversion seriously exacerbated. I have an especially hard time getting close to strangers.

2. I thought my English was decent, but I found out that is only true when compared to other asian students' in colleges FOB, and these days I am more and more realizing that my English is not good enough to become close friends with English speaking people. Every day I meet people in my work, and I manage to express what I want to say, but often it's in a very awkward way, and even worse, when I am among many people talking, I can never take part in their conversation. (believe me, I literally suck without enough time and a dictionary)

3. I do not have a car, and for many people in the bay area it's okay, but for me it's a great hindrance to being social. Think about it, what girl would consider seeing an awkward guy even without a car!

What can I do? I imagined myself striking up a conversation with people sitting near at a cafe, standing at a queue, etc., but since I know I will not be able to talk like a normal American guy (not even close, when it comes to a small chat), I recoil.

I started fearing coming of weekends. To me it's just two and a half utterly lonely days that could have been spent in a more constructive way but repeatedly ends up being wasted and growing the self-hatred towards me.
It is hard to shop around because prices are not transparent. It is very hard to find out in advance how much exactly will everything cost you. You can get some partial information (how much they charge for room), but they will not tell you in advance about all the tests you will have to pay. Then there are small item hospitals charge a lot for: band-aids for example. Unless you know a lot about healthcare system, you will not be able to guess all of them.

Plus, hospitals are not in habit of committing to agreed upon price in advance. So, even if you shop around the amount they will charge you still can be much different then the one you calculated.
Phone sends GPS coordinates to drone.
Wow, when I went to bed this comment was at 2 karma. Now it is at a negative (-3) and so are all the comments in this chain of replies that was critical of Apple's product, when before they were not greyed out. Fancy that. :)
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The more I read and hear about Howard Schultz the more of a hero is becoming of mine. Pure genius. I will be drinking a lot more Starbucks coffee to support this company.
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I stated this in a sub thread, but:

Get in the practice of getting in debt to other people (not necessarily monetary). Asking for favors, or help. If you read Debt: The Last 5000 years, debts are the glue that held society together for milennia. It sounds like you have done a lot of work making yourself independent. But if you want to be social and have friends, you have to do exactly the opposite, and find a way to become dependent (or at least create the illusion of being dependent, if you're really sneaky).

If you get into debt with someone, then there is psychological pressure to be friends because that ensures that you'll be able to repay the debt. So I would say: Practice asking for (and accepting) help (not too much, to the point of being a nuisance, of course). And whoever you ask help for will more likely find a way to include you in friendship circles.
ok, Aluminum industry has come up with new aluminum battery. Of course, they couldn't invent any other battery type, even if the alluminum one is an environmental disaster, non-rechargeable, troublesome to use and replace, because they _are_ alluminum industry and they aren't interested in anything that's not alluminum.
This isn't about general voluntary work. Never.

This is about you helping strangers, or friends of friends. Moving, cooking dinner, helping with a legal problem, helping them with their exams, letting them borrow your rice cooker over the weekend, helping them with their birthday party, inviting them for a drink, volunteering to look after their dog and so on.
"It was bad because you couldn't get basic goods". True. But the current system is (even more?) problematic because you can't get basic JOBS. And not only that but a fundamental part of the current system is the accelerating race of getting rid of jobs. And not only that but now, unlike ever before, the system uses the best tools against jobs: software & automation.
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One of jq's maintainers (nicowilliams) often mentions Icon as a source of inspiration.
I think you've already started on the right track. You've stated that you regularly perform activities that you enjoy. Most people find this step hard.

Now that you know what you enjoy:
a) Join meetups that do those things.
b) Organize meetups for things which already don't have them.
c) Once you know which meetups to attend. Ask your co-workers, drop mails to mailing lists, meetup.com etc. Become an evangelist for these meetups.

Disclaimer: I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert on being social.
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It is a pattern, yes. Let me show you a pattern that I have observed in Hacker News and forums since the demise of USENET.

USENET had an elegant way of ignoring without hellbanning, which the negative karma has done to me now.

Would you please study the history of Stalinism ?

Let me summarise it for you.

Ideology -- pg.

Yeah, Marx is a good guy too.

It is made of dictators and the inner ring -- Admins and Karma users like you. These people have special "powers" of punishment.

Admins have far greater powers of purging and renaming things.

Then the party cadre -- people who submit and actually keep the things in motion. They are usually not aware of the "inner ring", users like you. They want to help the lay people.

In fact no one even knows who is in the inner ring.
The inner ring is clueless of the Admins.

Then there are lay users like me, who lurk around and want to help but are generally punished.

If you think I am shitting you consider the rate of new users becoming high karma users in HN over the years.

You can use d3 and it will go the top of HN.

Your pedantry is just arbitrary. There is nothing really substantial in it. Rather than judging on the basis of content, you are judging me on the "words" I use.

Gimmick:
An ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.

Why thank you, it is novel :)

Please understand the democratic roots of the word "forum" and take it seriously.
I think that's tricky. If you help people too much, then they resent you because of the built up debt (which is why I wrote the part about debt in there). It's counterintuitive, but I think asking for help is a better strategy for making friends than offering help.
Now reading Speed Kills.
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Your father was an amazing man
Fantastic piece of advice! Obligations are the key to personal relationships, both positive & negative.
Hotels have an impact on their surroundings. If you're operating a hotel it needs to be licensed as such. That seems reasonable to me.
It means that the `origin` will be safely usable for as long as the `Request` structure owning it is alive.

In rust "lifetime" can be a part of the type, so Rust compiler can ensure that no code can keep reference to `origin` for longer than it keeps reference to the structure that owns it.
You will have to do things that scare you and goes against your destructive instincts. This is life, this is growing. It's an excuse that it commes easier for some, a truer and more productive observation is that it's mainly practice and you've neglected practicing. Don't victimize yourself or find excuses (what girl would date someone without a car..). Some others suggested arenas for you to get started so wont repeat that. Some good reads: The Diceman (habit breaking), you can also google rejection therapy (removing fear of "losing"). Good luck, stay brave.
And if you don't have an account just go to #archiveteam in EFNet IRC and ask someone there to upload it for you.
How did you go from "privileged" to "the 1%"?
I think you misunderstood the "help other people" with "do volunteer work". The two things are not necessarily related. Nobody is going to befriend you just because you help children with troubled families, but surely they will be more likely to befriend you if you help them with their everyday life, like helping them moving out of an apartment, giving them a shoulder to cry on when time is rough, buying them a beer after a bad night, helping them fix their bike, etc etc.

It's not about helping everyone, it's about helping the people you care about (supposedly, your friends)
While i admit your argument seems reasonable in certain countries, I don't think it applies well to the US. The average number of children per family in the US is below 1 in most states[1]. And even if you take the conditional average (that is only consider families who HAVE children) then that is still hardly 2 [1].

Now does that really seem like an unreasonable number of children for a couple to have? I mean if 1 or 2 children are too much for the average family, do you suggest that only the extremely wealthy should reproduce?

So i suppose people are downvoting you because they feel that your comment isn't a reasonable debate, but is more of an irrelevant rant.

[1] https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/tabST-F1-20...
I read this somewhere recently but I can't find the source but hopefully this helps.

Find a club / local interest group on Meetup.com (or similar), go to this group and see if you like it. You can usually get a feel for how friendly a club is pretty quickly even if people don't approach you or start conversations with you.

If you like the group then approach the organiser, let them know how much you like the group and offer to help in some way, most events can always use extra helpers. Exchange contact details and follow up with an email the next day as a reminder that you were serious about the offer.

Here's the thing, people naturally talk to the organiser team as it's an easy conversation starter ("hey, where is this/that. What time is x" etc)
You also become part of the team and included in more social things like visits to the bar or other stuff.

Of course you also meet people with a common interest and other people that are interested in socialising.

Clubs & bars are usually not good places to meet new people as most people go there with friends so are not interested in meeting other people.
You said

> Saying that only "many players can ensure progress continues" and thus prohibiting companies to merge is interfering with economic freedom in the name of "I know better"

Sounds like you're advocating that all mergers should be allowed, even if they produce monopolies, and that not having many players would be OK.

The notion that regulation which disallows two billion-dollar companies with thousands of employees to merge because they'd afterwards dominate an important market has anything to do with "the right for people to work together" is somewhere between fundamentalist and disingenuous.
Hey, +1000 for online gaming. I'm an moderate introvert with some greats friends. Nowadays I play a lot a certain MMO. I met some greats & awesome people, even had some meetup IRL.

I've met people working at Apple, Blizzard & more. We shared passion & experience, it got me some business opportunity too. The world is so small it's amazing.
I'm not a native English speaker, and while I knew all the "men words", most of the "women words" are giving me trouble. However I knew what "taffeta" was thanks to MLP:FiM.
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I was about to say "James Altucher" :)
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Unfortunately this article doesn't dig enough... It doesn't even mention where the cameras are placed, algorithms, technology...

It is just a reworded version of any article in any newspaper...

The wikipedia goes (just a bit) deeper, if anyone interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal-line_technology
One usual advice is to take classes of something that interests you. Let me add something that I've realized about that.

A lot of people feel awkward at the notion to take classes about something they are not good at. "Dancing lessons? I suck at dancing!". "Joining the gym? But I'm out of shape!". I find this really strange, but it's something I've heard many times, specially from people that is usually very rational! I don't know about you, but you may feel this kind of anxiety.

The whole point of taking classes is starting to stop sucking at something. I love the feeling of immersing myself into something I don't know absolutely nothing. The point isn't to be the best. If you take this route, avoid being self-deprecating, relax and just enjoy the ride.
>[Apple & Red Hat] eagerly cooperate with certain agencies

Last I heard on Apple was that their system is perfect, as long as they don't add another key to your iMessages which you'd never know of. So not perfect, but only if you are chosen to be inspected. It can't be part of a dragnet collection unlike say https if the NSA have the private key.

For Red Hat the best I can find in your favour is that some of them have NDAs on their conversations with the NSA.
Of course my idea of a perfect meal trends towards amazing Banh Mi from a food truck rather than Kobe Beef fillet mignon, so YMMV.

This reminds me of the Iron Chef intro where we see Masaharu Morimoto eating a hotdog (or something) sitting on a step while reading a newspaper.

As a foodie myself I'm not sure why you have to choose one meal over another. I've lined up for Banh Mi, and warm jam doughnuts being sold from a truck, and I've spent hundreds of dollars on multi-course meals. They were all 'perfect' meals in their own context.
Think of friends as part of a process of self-discovery. You probably don't know everything about yourself and trying to "open doors" on parts of your life that you haven't thought about much yet would eventually lead you towards meeting people who can be friends at least for a while.
If you can code it using jq itself, you can submit a pull request and have it added to the builtins.
(Sorry, I misspoke, #14900 is fixing a different rustdoc issue: the fix for '' is https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/14906 .)
>Does this mean we've hit peak prosumer?

Opposed to what, professional? Maybe it's different for people that use their cell phones and LED light bulbs professionally, but when buying something like headphones, I'm usually looking to be told by someone with lots of experience "select one of these three" because it's not that important to me.
I'm guessing, since this is a set of sweet.js macros you could mix Ki and Javascript code in the same file. So you could only use the lisp bits when you really needed to.
If my memory is still good, Benjamin Franklin did this by borrowing books from other people whom he wanted to get to know.
>using taxpayers' money for a very clever PR stunt.

Firstly i don't think "taxpayer's money" is an accurate description as they aren't exactly using the money we pay as tax. Instead they are deciding how their tax money is used. Not that i support tax avoidance or anything, but if a certain sum of money is being used to provide a large number of people with free college education, I don't really see how the govt can make better use of it. ok i guess there are better uses but this isn't exactly a bad spend is it?
Anyone could own a BNB or a Taxi or a Manufacturing business, or even a publishing business. There was certainly no 'privelege' in any of those fields.

A medallion (to be able to legally drive a cab in NYC) alone costs more $1.3 million[1], let alone any other costs. No privilege?

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-28/if-uber-is-k...
From my experience, indebting other people to you works really well too. However, you must not expect anything in return when doing the favour, and act gracious even if they don't return it.
I find Head first series from O'Reily quite enjoyable.
You're paralyzed because you now believe that you are 'ahugefool'.

Step one would be to try to find some way out of that pattern of thinking. No wait - step zero is to not give yourself usernames like that.

If you're an ordinary human like the rest of us, your brain goes haywire with low-probability/high-consequence outcomes. You'll want to punish yourself in proportion to what you missed out on. But maybe you should consider evaluating yourself on what knowledge you had at the time?

I think you need to engage in some "accounting" of everything you did, with someone you trust, like a therapist or a person whose business advice you trust.

Maybe you can try cognitive-behavioral therapy, with a trained therapist. You start with your negative thoughts like "I'm a huge fool" and recursively break those down until you arrive at baseline observations and facts. If you're a programmer this highly rational mode of therapy may work well for you. You will almost certainly find that your negative conclusions about yourself aren't warranted.
I am not going to give you any advice but I can tell you my experience. You can decide if there is anything meaningful you can get out of it. I was in a similar situation as yours for several years (new to the country and culture). However my English was very fluent. Never had any problem with holding a good conversation with anybody. However, it didn't matter. Friendships are formed based on what you have in common with the other person. The commonality comes from growing up in the same country and culture - having watched the same movies and TV shows, having same childhood heroes etc. No matter how hard you try you can't overcome these limitations because you can't change the past. Once I figured this out, I began to realize that I would effortlessly form friendships with people who are most similar to me (education, background, culture, nationality etc.). And with people who I didn't have much in common with - no matter how hard I tried, we could not be friends. So I stopped trying too hard and stopped being needy. My closest friends are still the ones I formed back in my own country who now live here. You seem like a smart guy, I don't think you will have any problems in making Asian friends with whom you have most in common. Anybody else is a bonus.
It’s the city of Beatles

That would be Liverpool, 200 miles north-west :-)

or a two thousand year old city, London has no antique palaces or medieval streets

It's hard to say what "antique" is in terms of a palace, but I'd argue it has at least one: the Tower of London (officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress) was founded in 1066 and much of what stands today was the result of building in the 13th century. This is older than anything in Paris, say, but hardly on a par with Greece ;-)

For a casual stroller London looks like a loosely linked collection of small villages

It is. Even when my dad was a kid, even suburbs as far in as Kidbrooke, Blackheath and Lewisham were essentially considered unique places, often separated by greenery, and not physically joined to the larger conurbation. A lot of gaps have been filled in the past 50 years to make it feel like more of a whole. Heading south, I don't think you even see a field until you hit Coulsdon now..
That's exactly the point I'm working on right now. We realised that just the information that "something" is not working well is not good enough. Hopefully in a week or two, feedback from the execution of the test cases will be much more descriptive than it is now.
Actually the CSIRO (Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation) is owned by the Australian Government; so research for tax breaks isn't the reason. The CSIRO has a largely good reputation amongst scientists and researchers in Australia. And they have a reasonably good commercialisation rate as well; their WiFi patents (most of which have recently expired if I remember correctly) have earned the Australian government nearly one half a billion dollars.