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There's lots of good in the European approach to alcohol. It's not unusual to sit down with a glass of wine with lunch in Italy, but in the U.S. you might get flagged as an alcoholic. Children grow up learning how to manage alcohol better when they're adults and you don't see much binge drinking and rates of drunk driving are far lower.

Then again, even the Irish are getting irritated with the Brits coming over to Dublin to get pissed and get in fist fights in the street and causing other bits of ruckus.
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The Japanese army in Burma had its own supply problems, and a lot of the soldiers starved during their retreat.

But if the neighboring provinces had food surpluses, why didn't the authorities manage a transfer?
I don't think attempted murder of a person that doesn't exist or failing to steal a car that doesn't exist is a crime.

Attempted child abuse should be a crime, but for that, there'd have to be a child.
Recently there was an undercover ATF operation near my neighborhood that failed rather spectacularly and, thanks to the local newspaper, publicly. In the final analysis one of the things that came out of it was the observation that very few of the folks who were arrested over the course of this operation were known to have been engaged in any serious (say, worse than just being a pot smoker) criminal activity outside of whatever the ATF agents had enticed them to do as part of the sting operation. Oftentimes this took the form of singling out people who weren't too bright, or were in a financial tight spot, and applying a lot of social pressure to encourage them to commmit crimes.

In other words, the vast majority of the criminal activity people were being arrested for were crimes that the ATF had manufactured in the first place. The real burglars and drug dealers knew enough to stay away.

I can't help but worry there might be a similar situation going on here. I'd be curious to know how many of the 1,000 individuals caught in this operation have any prior history of abusing children, and I'd be curious to know if the folks running this operation were using this child persona to actively solicit people. It's not just that I worry about police entrapment (which I do); it's also that I worry that these operations might ironically make life easier for the child pornography and trafficking industries because the investigators are trapping themselves in their own honeypot.
As a son of Asian immigrants, here is what I can share from my parents' own experiences 30 years ago.

1) It's really hard. My parents have been in USA for 30 years now, I can't say that they have fully assimilated. They largely stick to Asian neighborhoods with Asian friends.
2) Make friends through activities. Males tend to bond around an activity/hobby, we don't get together just to get together. Activities gives us something to talk about, something to do together and something learn from each other. Maybe it's hacking electronics, gardening, etc.
3) Find something to work at to boost your own self-confidence. It's a cycle, the better you feel about yourself, the more people are drawn to you, which helps you feel better about yourself. The internet typically recommends exercise, but find something you think is a weakness and work at it. For me, it's swimming in open water, which I find absolutely terrifying, but every time I swim a little bit further, I feel a lot better about myself.
4) If you need to get a roommate, get a roommate. Sounds like you are still in college if you are in an internship. When you go back to school, embed yourself into campus life. It's far easier to make long friendships in college than at work.
You issue as many licenses as their are passing applicants.
As someone coming to the topic of "replacing the Bitcoin Foundation" cold, this would really benefit from a short, Plain English description. This tells me next to nothing:

> an adaptable software package which is designed to be modular, easily copied, and easily modified - and therefore used in many different applications. We intend to use Eris as the relevant platform when we incorporate the Association at a later date, but we will not be limiting future development of the platform to that single application.
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I think the generated avatar only serves as a 'honeypot', so to speak. A colleague of mine provided me with some interesting information in a discussion quite a while ago: His company a few years back provided text-only chatrooms for their customers. Being an ISP, and the fact that they also marketed it, led to quite a huge audience (also, the Internet 'rush' began).

'Predators', though not yet known under this moniker, became a problem quite soon. So what did they do? They set up automated bots, which had just enough logic to fool a human into thinking it's speaking to it's own kind. If someone engaged them in a conversation, and IIRC, asked for some sensitive information (though I'm not sure of the latter), they generated an alert and a real, human police officer took over the bot.

But either an avatar or other human being - I'm still not sure about the legality of the whole thing; a long time ago I learned something along the lines that law enforcement is not allowed to 'bait' someone into doing something illegal; as the whole situation could be doctored to force somebody to do something they wouldn't have done otherwise. I think it's related to your question; but unfortunately I can't recall what the concept is called, or if I'm completely off-track here anyway.

Though in the end; the person still did something illegal, and I can't think of this line of reasoning to work well in court.
To be clear, there are extremely few Indians who hold any kind of grudge about the British. On the contrary, the English language is more popular than ever, 60 years after the British left.

History is full of injustices. I don't see why the present generation of Indians should hold onto what happened to their grandparents generation. We don't need to suffer history now, we get to live in the present - that is the attitude I see in most people in India. That is why India is as peaceful as it is (we have to normalize whatever good or bad is happening to the population - "India" is not an aggregate in the same sense that, say, "Sweden" is an aggregate - so whatever happens in Sweden once a year would happen almost once a day in India, simply based on the relative population sizes).
It's usually the latency requirements that rule-out distributed systems. The amount of total data isn't particularly crazy, it's just that it comes in very concentrated bursts.
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I would say that it depends very much what you mean by "the world". Plenty cared.
Unless I'm missing something, the quoted text doesn't appear in the article. Please don't make something look like a quote if it isn't. You can always add "(paraphrased)" or some such.
Looks nice. I have been using http://selfcoded.com/justnotes/ instead of evernote, but I will check this out!
Hobbies are a great way to meet other people. A friend of mine that was new to town joined a running club and met new people that way. Another option is attending meetups. As an engineer in the Bay Area, I am sure you would find like minded people. As far as your English, yes, I can see how that can be a hindrance. The best way to improve your skills is by my making a commitment to immersing yourself in the language and take classes to reduce your accent. Find people (meetups again) that would be willing to help you with your English as long as you help them with Chinese.
If nothing else, why not make the licenses non-transferrable and auction the available licenses?

Seems like they're missing out on an easy source of income by letting third parties benefit from the restricted supply.
Even some of them were viable at the time, but forced into unsustainable growth to compete with other companies, since money was free or negative cost -- e.g. Webvan was actually a good business in certain cities, but got pushed to expand very rapidly and thus died.

I'm waiting for "datahaven" to be a viable business, though. That would be really fun.
With a conviction rate of less than %0.000005 of those committing these acts, this is something governments ought to be pursuing.

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Great purchase, could add a lot of value to their consumer offering.
I don't think I can agree with that. To a certain extent, I think this will be another one of those fronts where modern technology tries to breach fundamental and human rights.

What should give you the right, just because you can fly something over someone's property, to take pictures of them and their private space. The issue is a similar one to drones. Should you be permitted to violate someone's privacy in their own back yard or on their property just because you have the technology to circumvent safeguards?

There is no real difference whether the drone is 100 feet above your property or in the ionosphere? If someone put a camera on a stick and held it high enough to tape what goes on in your bedroom or back yard when your children are swimming they would be considered committing an illegal act?

In a way, you should have the right to automatically remove your property from satellite imagery. Or maybe you should get royalties for your property being part of the service. In fact, what is the difference between royalties due for commercial use of their images and that of your back yard? There is none, other than that the imagery of your back yard, especially at those resolutions, are a violation of your most basic and fundamental rights as a human. What, is it going to be left to individuals to build visual obstructions to prevent observation from above?

So you are now rationalizing how this is all different and how it's justified. Well, what happens when technology is developed that allows real time 1cm resolution, live, 24/7 observation? Or what if technology is developed that allows reconstruction of the interior of your home, maybe even in color resolution based on chemical analysis, and maybe even in real time?

Where is the limit? It should lie with the most fundamental rights that are being violated right as we speak. Everyone should have the right to privacy or a choice to profit from it.

We are already having the value of our identities and activities harvested from us, are we really going to allow constant and pervasive surveillance to steal our humanity too? At what point do a certain subset of people simply regress to becoming a commodity that is monitored and maintained like cattle on Big USA Ranch?
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> And it is my understanding,that they are being accused of actually molesting a child

That would certainly change things—where did you get that data from?
Actually, for pictures of text, a PNG is usually 1/2 or 1/3 the size of a jpeg. Try taking a screenshot of a hacker new's comment section and saving it as PNG or jpeg and check the results.
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Not enough to take decisive action I would say.

EDIT: I mean "major governments like the ones involved in WWII".
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It's not just a mobile app anymore. You can view all of the images/comments/etc on their web site. The only reason why they restrict you to signing up via the mobile app is because they want to force you through that flow.
Because it sounds like a witch hunt with an added smell of entrapment instead of due process.
Tech meetups are not the best choice for meeting people. Try movies, museums, hiking, etc. Meetups where there is a built-in social component of perhaps one where conversation is the whole point.
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(Streem co-founder here) Small clerical error - we were actually YC S12, not W14 :).
Why does all Utopian architecture look the same?
> Another thing you could do is dump your database into a _data file and use Jekyll to serve static content as a JSON api. That would be absurdly fast and would potentially be a much better solution for serving a read-only web API than building a full on rails app for exposing a dataset.

Couldn't you, with much the same effort, just convert your database to a static set of JSON files? What, exactly, does Jekyll bring to the table here? (Also, is it really an API if it's static?)
This is a great question as long as the interviewer is prepared that the reply might not necessarily match his/her opinion. Otherwise, the interview might end up in a ugly discussion of two opinionated people.

EDIT: fixed stupid typo
Looks a lot like http://task.li/

I happen to know the team behind task.li - all extraordinarily competent. They completely rewrote it a couple of times until the backend as well as the frontend was not only smart, but also fast and highly reliable for different inputs and user agents.

Kudos for the competition, too(;
How might the performance of the $5 DO or either of the $10 from Linode/DO compare to what I get from my ~$10 shared hosting? I'm probably going to try a VPS at some point, but was just curious about if I could get rid of the shared and move my sites over too.
Oops! Thanks - fixed. :-)
"I think it's pretty obvious that Instacart's exit strategy is to make some great technology that either Amazon or Google will buy-out."

I think they will make a play to open up their shop and delivery service via API to eventually allow stores to use them as a full end-to-end delivery service and sales channel.

The other play is to do what DoorDash is doing with focusing on the core logistics/driver infrastructure and route/scheduling optimization software. Doordash is generic enough to go beyond restaurant delivery and become an open alternative to last-mile courier services in the market today. It's basically Uber cargo but I think they could do so much more by making it an open service that any business could use to handle on-demand delivery to their end users. If Trader Joes wants to provide delivery, they just need to be able to ping DoorDash with an address and have a box ready when a driver arrives. This offloads the liability and capital costs associated with having your own drivers and delivery trucks, etc.
I consulted for around 7 years as an independent and my feelings align pretty much 100% with those of the author.

People are disposable resources on par with other equipment and machinery in today's business world. Getting paid anything less than full market value (including cost of benefits and a premium for being disposable) just doesn't make sense. The only company I work for is Me Inc.

However, after attaining pretty much the highest level I could as a consultant (i.e. running teams of employees who reported to me) I hit a ceiling.

I found myself at a level within the company from which I could never advance if I didn't become an employee. I stayed at this level for several years and decided it was limiting my growth as an individual.

So, I've been working as an employee for the last 4 years with mixed emotion. My sentiment remains the same but at least I have advanced far enough now that my compensation is on par with when I was a consultant. Dream of going independent again every day though.
FYI, there's another Swifter framework out there with the same name: https://github.com/glock45/swifter
And yet no crime were actually committed. There are no victims.
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What worries me more is what kind of corporate espionage these satellite images will be put to use for. They've been able to see the car(s) in a driveway for awhile now. But imagine: now they can pay to see what the most popular cars are in a geographical region; they can look at your deck and determine furniture brands; they can see you sunbathing; they can see what you play with, etc. No longer is it just "buying habits" but they can, en masse, buy the rights to psychoanalyze your lifestyle base on what they see from the outside of your house.

I'm pretty certain that a company paying a team of photographers to stalk the average citizen to psychoanalyze their world would be creepy, if not illegal. But this is exactly what they will be doing—and we'll have no ability to "outrun" their team of photographers. Technically, we won't even know when they're overhead.

And that does bother me.
Is that really the most constructive thing you could say and the most constructive way to say it?
I feel like "my favorite interpreted language is slow" is a bit of a cop-out. Granted, it's the first thing that comes to mind when I try to enumerate the things I dislike about working in Ruby, but it's not really an interesting answer.

I might point to simple aesthetic things like JSON-style hashes of symbols looking funny:

example = { a: :b }
=> { a: :b }
example[:a]
=> :b

Or maybe "the way it imports things mean I wind up grepping code / googling docs rather than just looking at the top of the calling file to see the origin of an imported object, and then sometimes I find myself over-stating the namespace for an object just so Ruby won't get it wrong". Compare to python:

from big_library import named_method

I suppose it's a pretty good question and a reasonable proxy for "so you have actually worked in this language for many, many hours, right?"
You might want to fix your shortcut help. I don't have a cmd key on my Linux system.
Does "images that showed features as small as 31cm" means
1 pixel = average color of 31x31cm or is it more complicated?
Harder, but not impossible. It's interesting the range of reasons people come up with (what about spam! everyone else is using Gmail!) not to do this.

Not always the best option for everyone (obviously).
Well, the other end should be a Comcast central office, if they don't have the necessary bandwidth backhaul, you have at least a very valid reason to complain.
Is it? I have never paid any hidden fee, or overdrafts. Set a reminder for every fifteen days, pump up the credit card and everything sails smoothly.
Need advice – failed to capitalize on Aereo like lawsuit victory
I started a site that is a bit like Aereo.com... I fought a 5 year lawsuit, and won it. Now, its been 2 years since I won the case and have hired a few engineers that have just been unable to deliver anything meaningful. The code is nightmarishly buggy, with ample hardcoding - I know this because my key developer left and I have been trying to study the code (built in RoR and backbone).

I am technical, to the extent I programmed many years ago (in the days of Java) - but I have lost those skills. Im 38, I have about 100K to spend, but then that's it. I've already spent 500K with little to show for it... I see all the buzz around Aereo (raising 100 million notwithstanding litigation), and I am tremendously frustrated with the current situation, but I just don't know where to go with this. Do I stop chasing the dream? Am I too old? Should I keep the money I have? I have about 2 million in net assets (including my home).

I've think I may need a technical cofounder - but as you can imagine I am a bit out of the age group where I have a whole bunch of programmer-friends (most are classmates from b-school). I can afford to hire engineers, but that seems like more of the same and I doubt I would get someone whose heart and soul is in the business.

Any advice?

PS. My wife has joined me on this project for the past year, but the technical team has been our biggest constraint...
I have to be honest with you because it's something I've learned in the past while and it's something you'll need to learn to accept. The harsh reality is, there are a lot of people like you and sometimes you just have to learn to live with it. First off, you'll need to accept this fact. When you have, you'll want to do activities that will help improve yourself and boost self-confidence (ie. working out, hikes, learn to cook better or whatever you enjoy). Be active. Take pride in your work. Buying a car will also help you grow and boost some self confidence. Improve yourself, and everything will work out. That is the key.
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> ...to educate all of its employees in a way that will add little marginal cost for either entity.

Is it somehow evil to boost education cost-effectively?
Text editor-like tabbing behaviour (new line preserves last line's tab level) for indented lists would be quite useful.
+1 for having a business model. Too often I see great tools disappear because they got acquired, ran out of funding or something. I'd love to see this be an example of a tool that makes enough money to sustain it's team.
So I wanted to reply here so you'd see this. Language seems to be one of your main concerns, but your writing is fine. Have you considered taking language/diction classes? You don't need to change your accent, but part of the problem with spoken communication may be that you aren't hearing the difference between two words that people are saying or you are, but when you speak the words come out incorrectly (per American pronunciations at least). I had a professor in college, for instance, that always pronounced "robot" as "rabbit". Once we knew this it was easy for us to understand (by context, rabbits had no place in the discussions), but we could never convince him that he was doing this. A diction coach or language teacher may help you with this aspect of your conversation skills. Similarly, risk embarassment and find a colleague that you get along with decently, and ask them to critique your speech. You may not like what they say, but if you can get past the emotional boundaries and accept the criticism as constructive it may help you to improve.

Also, to work on your vocabulary, you may consider reading novels that's where the bulk of my vocabulary comes from. Also, consider enrolling in a community college writing course (not basic composition, but something like creative writing). This'll get you out of your home, around other people, and deliberately practicing your language skills (at least in the written context, which paired with practice ought to improve your spoken language skills).

EDIT: And something to remember. You may find the class embarrassing, because you don't feel up to the task or on par with your classmates English skills. Don't fret it. It's an exercise for that as well, getting over the mental barriers around embarrassment. Accept that you'll make mistakes, make them in public, and then move on with your life. One of the best things about doing this in a class? Other people will make mistakes too. And when it's over, you don't have to see them again if you don't want to. But hopefully after a term together you'll have a couple of friends from the group.
Really, this is excellent news. I just deleted my $20/month Linode last week, because I only got it to do some proof-of-concept stuff at work. But the $10 price point will probably persuade me to start it up again, and I can always upgrade later if I start needing the premium resources.
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