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After using a proper debugger, I can almost say I'll never go back to a language without one. It's such a useful tool, I use it a lot even when writing code. I think if you asked a functional programmer to give up their REPL, they might not be so happy. The debugger is essentially the REPL of imperial languages (because a REPL by itself is not enough for imperial languages since all the state has to be set up). Also, it's extremely useful when learning a new codebase as well as actually debugging bugs. I also think it's necessary to have one for a language to gain mainstream support.
I thought NTFS and ZFS are the enterprise filesystems of choice? We merely tolerate others. That has been my experience over the last 15 years or so.
How does water vapor last longer at 25km than at 33km? From 33km it has to pass through the lower altitude which would mean more time than vapor that started at 25.
"Asian-Americans (including Chinese-Americans) have to have better grades and test scores to have the same chance as your average white American "

It's because Asian-Americans statistically score much higher than white Americans so the competition is fierce.

If you check the "Asian" box when you take the SATs, you actually get points deducted from your overall score.

I'm not sure what started it, but the vicious cycle of over-achieving continues to make it so they need to get extremely high scores to be accepted to many ivy-league universities.

On top of this, most universities in the US have student quotas based on ethnicity, instead of basing admission on merit.
Humor is rarely permitted on HN, for fear that it would suddenly turn the site into Reddit. Somehow.
It'll take a while, but this does remove the last excuse sites might have for not encrypting everything.

I'm hopeful that in the next decade any use of unencrypted HTTP will become suspect, such that browsers can start showing unencrypted HTTP as explicitly insecure, rather than just as the absence of signs of security. But it'll take many years to get to that point.
Then how come half the blogs today show black pages when javascript's disabled? Not just applications.
There is lots of evidence of this in stock markets across the world. Markets are mostly efficient and investors are mostly rewarded for being invested. Blindfolded monkeys outperform professional stock pickers - http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-...

Specialized investors are mostly rewarded imo for their specialized knowledge (e.g. taking airport revenues and slicing that up into bonds, MBS, CDS, etc.) than in actual investment prowess. Sand Hill's abysmal venture returns are a testament to this.
> the US navy does not care

Maybe they should reconsider their position them for practical 'poorpoises', like saving the last 55 maui's dolphins remaining on earth, or preserving the truly unique native aquatic vertebrates frequenting the coasts of Hawaii in their annual migration.

http://www.coupay.com/topoften/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ob...

Sound travels at 0.9 miles by second in the sea, so this poses a very interesting question about what should be a theoretical safe distance for a sonar. Maybe somebody here could answer this. I hope they keep the keys for this engine safe and not sound in any case.
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I think the article was pretty clear about API first being bad, and even linked to Twitter's write up of having to tear out that failure:
https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...
Tbh I don't take this for fact. My alternate theory is that schools aren't rejecting Asians for being Asian, but rather they are rejecting profiles that are common to ASians. How many apps do you think Cal receives every year with 4.3 GPA/2200 SAT, 4 yrs key club, no sports, and an essay about being nervous in a piano recital? If you get ten of those, and maybe one application from a kid in Inglewood with an 1850 SAT and a childhood fraught with gang violence, then I can't blame Cal for taking three from Category A and one from Category B, leaving seven families angry that their higher SAT was rejected.

The disconnect for some Asian parents is that they're stuck with the Chinese idea that highest marks always equals best university. As a result they push push push their child to test higher on the SAT, GPA, farm community service hours, play more piano... But they don't realize American schools aren't solely score based, and at the end of the day, there comes a point where the University just isn't impressed by the same profile over and over again.

As a supporting anecode, I'm Chinese, and I was admitted to a competitive department at UCLA with a 3.7 unweighted GPA in 2009, which was far below the average for whites, or asians. So I don't think there's a conspiracy against Asians.
Oh, the Russians use polonium for a lot of things. cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
NTFS because you have to, ZFS has a little restriction on it that makes it difficult to be 'of choice' and EXT4 needs to go away for huge volumes.

Linux with a huge volume? Use XFS.
On closer look, it seems node is a makedep, not a runtime dep.
I don't know if it constitutes a trend, but I've noticed several thought experiment projects like this that attempt to automate decision making in some way. The other one that comes to mind is the cell phone signal-blocking chair [1] that's somehow more convenient than turning off your phone (?)

It's kind of funny to watch us all try to use technology to save us from the adverse effects of technology.

[1] http://inhabitat.com/take-a-break-from-the-wired-world-with-...
Or use FreeBSD with ZFS or buy a NAS appliance.
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I guess I don't really understand this at least with respect to bothering to change the name. I'd try to draw a parallel to what Google did in becoming Alphabet but that doesn't seem to be a congruent situation.

The organization of the company around developers as core users makes sense. Not sure if a name change is supposed to do much for the average developer in caring about their product offerings more or less.
A different attack method doesn't rule out the NSA though.
Of course it is a post hoc rationalization. Have you seen a proof that capitalists are rewarded for being good at allocating capital?
Yeah, its a neglible share. The article lacks a grounding in utility. You shouldn't bend over backwards for 0.1% of leads. If your product looks 10% cooler for your best leads at the cost of not working for the 0.1%, it is actually a good deal.
Of course, if you were really paranoid, you'd worry that somebody intercepted your Linux box's motherboard as it was being shipped to you so they could install a backdoor in the BIOS or EFI...
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>10 smaller companies might be better than 1 big company. 100 companies worth $10 million dollars each might provide the same number of jobs and the same services to the economy.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

It's beneficial that Airbnb is so big because I can plan a cross-continent vacation using one website instead of searching for each city's/country's version of it (which may have poor customer service or be ran by scammers).

It's beneficial that Uber is so big because I can use one app to summon a car anywhere around the world instead of having to install a new app in every city/state/country.

Just because 10 companies could provide the same amount of service and jobs doesn't mean that it's beneficial to customers.

The question the OP is addressing is about growth limits in Europe, not about the moral value of large companies.

EDIT: I am not arguing for monopolies. Multiple companies with service around the world can and do compete.
Mosh is a replacement for ssh (the client), but not for sshd, as it relies on it to make a connection. OpenSSH also is not meant to be replaced, which also has not been claimed in your link.

Please pay attention to semantics while fencing with words.
> it takes a lot of work to mimic the UI in terms of animations, opacity, and response actions,

Which is already done for you in Ionic -- including disabling the 300ms delay.
Your vote doesn't matter in Presidential Elections the chances of a state changing its color is slim to none unless your Ohio, Florida or another possible swing state.

Your local politics is where things happen. In my city I ran for School Board (lost by 400 votes but will run again). The turn out was 11%! Everyone HATES our Public School System here in my city due to a number of factors but no one votes. So if you want to get open data for your town city you can do that. (That is what I was running for was open data and government in my school district and now the whole thing is getting audited by the state to see if they comply with the Sunshine Law (They don't)).
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Absolutely. We have thrown the baby, and the sink, out with the bathwater.

I'll plug my little strike back against the insanity:

http://intercoolerjs.org

You can build a highly dynamic web site with normal URL schemes, sane HTTP caching behavior and zero client-side templating.

I need to do some more work on making it meet progressive enhancement goals, but I'm convinced this is a better approach than heavy client side logic for most web applications.
Here is my take on it - I'm skeptical. Sure I'll believe that a number of ATMs are compromised. But it seems like every ATM he walked up to was broadcasting this. To me this seems like an, arguably exploitable, maintenance tool than a ring of ATM thieves. Free2Move appears to be a standard tool for serial over bluetooth [1].

He can't possibly be the first and only person to find this - so I attempted to google "free2move atm" and only his article shows up (about skimming).

I'm not saying this is a fake article - but to me seems amateuristic for someone of his stature. I would have expected he would work with at least one authority figure to show that without a doubt an ATM is compromised - along with a tear down of the device.

Also I'm not sure how I feel about him convincing people not to use an ATM that may or may not be compromised. If he did believe 100% it was compromised he should have talked to someone in management to have the ATM unplugged and serviced (that would make for an interesting article to see if they actually take him seriously and not just plug it back in when he leaves).

My two cents...

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cablematic-Free2Move-Bluetooth-Seria...
This can already be done with gnuplot though. Does guff have any advantages?

gnuplot> set term dumb size 89,30 aspect 1
Terminal type set to 'dumb'
Options are 'feed size 89, 30 aspect 1, 1'
gnuplot> plot [-5:6.5] sin(x) with impulse ls -1

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Later you have a family and responsibility for your children. In college you are free and can take risks.
Agreed. There's a basic level of thread safety that any server code needs to meet[1]: there aren't global variables or objects shared between requests that are modified in unsafe ways. Once you have that, futures are often pretty easy to reason about.

You do have to make sure you're being careful what you pass into your futures--perhaps using immutable objects or defensive copies. It's not trivial, but it's not horrible either.

[1] Yeah, I know there are cases where people use separate processes each running single-threaded, but c'mon.
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Wouldn't CBS have been fleeced for $110K regardless of taxes? Or is there some sort of game-show accounting number-fudging that reduces their monetary obligation?
Haskell has a pretty cool new dependency management tool called stack (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack).

It's based on the curated package server https://stackage.org which server sets of packages that are tested for compatibility.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, the best solution that I've been able to come up with is intercooler:

http://intercoolerjs.org/

You can build dynamic websites with minimal or no javascript and just use the same old techniques you are used to.
The forum equivalent would be similar to ROBOT9000[1] by xkcd. Could this idea be extended to image sharing sites? An r9k for imgur?

[1] http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-at...
If you can settle for the Sun, and be patient... Just wait ~8 billion years for the sun to turn into a red giant (engulfing the earth, along with your remains). You may even get lucky and some of your remains may be swept away in the solar wind.
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Thanks, mbrock for the great input! I'll make sure that we rephrase it as an example... I can totally see that this nuance is missing!
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... And clearly today, as well.
https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/examples/...

and

https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug
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Great to see ongoing interest in Prolog. I did my Master's thesis in Prolog back in the "Fifth Generation" days [1] ... obviously the hype was waaaaay overstated but it still significantly influenced my thinking. I really think of it as one of those languages like Lisp or ML that opens your mind even if you don't wind up using it in your day-to-day job.

Plus, I thought it was entertaining to see this on the front page at the same time as "Hello, declarative world" :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10219780
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Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes!

Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business.

I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
I'm not sure whether you read the article or not, or if the author updated it in between the time you read it and posted your comment, but I finished reading it before your comment was posted and the author did, in that frame of reference, in fact mention miniKanren.
Rather than taking the brunt of the landing with expensive/delicate leg armatures, maybe just swing them back and rely on airbags, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ewGOXK7tKY&t=0m16s
I think it could also be that Vice Presidents have generally done well in presidential elections when running after their VP term.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-hobratsch/when-vice-p...
Why would a government use something super secret if a normal attack would work?
Yes that would have been a fairly miserable trip. Concorde was pretty noisy, cramped and, near the end of the flight as the fuel (which was also a coolant) got used up, really quite hot. I did once fly on her from London to New York and it was a pretty amazing trip, but for any flight much longer than that I'd rather take first class on a 747 any day.
This gets an A for quality agit-prop art in my mind; I immediately started coming up with objections as if I was actually going to be using one. My first was "what if I want people I know in my photos?" My second thought was "You could just include a highly rated photo someone else took in your photo roll," followed by "But what about licensing?"

We could also imagine Camera Commons: distributed by EFF and Google and Yahoo, and encourages you to take photos places that have no CC-licensed photography that rates highly on flickr, but all your images are CC0 licensed. The better your average rating, the more frequently they send you new models.
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> Surprisingly, these six pieces are enough to make a simple relational language called μKanren. It was presented in a paper published only two years ago, in 2013, by Jason Hemann and Daniel Friedman.

> μKanren is part of the miniKanren family of languages. The full miniKanren language has more complex primitives that can be built out of the μKanren ones I’ve shown you.
Names don't matter much. As long as they still have a community willing to shame users for asking a question vaguely similar to one that was asked a few years earlier, then it's all good with me.
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I think you've probably nailed it.

Looking at the mostly-redacted names OP's screenshot I suspect the additional "passengers" Google's email has picked up are actually Dr Axel Schmidt and Oliver Wagner from Germanwings' executive board? Am I right?
I mean... all that "chakra" breathing actually has a dramatic effect on the parasympathetic nervous system and stress reactions.

It's not all bullshit. Medicine came from somewhere.
Sonic booms are a not-insignificant problem as well. We've been pouring money and research into it for decades and we have barely made a dent in it.

The only known shape which produces no sonic boom (Busemann's Biplane) also produces no lift. There is a known shape called the Sears-Haack body which produces very little turbulence - basically it's like a very long pointed football. The best we have been able to do is make airplanes resemble that shape by having short stubby wings at the widest portion of the airflow body, with an elongated snout and tail. It does reduce turbulence to a degree, but again you are hurting your lift.

I think this may actually be an insoluble problem. You need to disturb the air to produce lift, i.e. create a low-pressure zone over the wing, and a high-pressure zone under the wing. My fear is that this is inextricably linked to sonic booms, as we just seem to be exploring various locations within a space defining the tradeoffs between lift and sonic booms.

We may be able to do it if we get the sonic boom low enough, but this gets back to the cost tradeoff. A rocket is certainly one possible solution within this space - a no-lift body that follows a ballistic trajectory could probably be constructed not to produce a sonic boom. However any solution on this end runs right back into the cost problem that you noted. Rockets need a lot more fuel and maintenance than a fixed-wing craft, and they're a lot less safe.
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I'm fairly sure I perused the article before this comment was added here and they already had that reference.
> What's in for the pigs ?

Entertainment.
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My WAG is that won't be a huge issue, given airlines seem to have little difficulty filling existing first class and other premium tiers - but if anyone knows of actual figures, I'd be grateful. The payoff would be the substantially reduced flight time - for some business flyers, that's worth a great deal.

Bear in mind, with Concorde, that at least part of its downfall lay in the sharp rise in fuel prices in the early 1970s. Had that steep increase not taken place, but something more gradual, its commercial fate could have been quite different, even if it was never going to be any mass carrier.
For reference: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
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This would be a nice change. It's frustrating when your own questions are marked as duplicates because there's a similar question from five years ago.
There is also another important factor people tend to overlook. There were relatively few asians in America before the door of immigration opened a couple decades ago. This is unique compared to African American community or the mainstream European American.

The influx of highly educated immigrants who probably value education more than general public have a large impact to the relatively small community.
Does nobody remember Newt Gingrich anymore? Or Herman Cain? Both of those were leading in primary polls at some point and ended up nowhere.
That could be useful in all sorts of comments. A music composition app that destroys any work that's too derivative. A Twitter client that blocks repetitive tweets. Maybe Hacker News comments could benefit.
> Show me some evidence that pigs are "way smarter" than dogs.

A paper recently made the rounds regarding pigs: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c

For example: "Additionally, pigs can use pointing by humans (under certain circumstances) to lead them to a food reward (Nawrothet al., 2013b)."

But from a cursory glance, it seems that pigs are not "way smarter" than dogs, however they may be "about as smart" as dogs, which is surprising in and of itself.
The article does mention miniKanren and μKanren briefly.
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Buried in there is an announcement [1] that they're going to start accepting documentation and particularly examples of API usage, not just Q&A.

It seems like a good place to put stuff that isn't a question.

[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d...
OK here goes, slightly OT. The name StackExchange is hands-down the worst name I have encountered for a Top100 website.

It is absurdly bad.

I remember them discussing it on the StackOverflow podcast. What were they thinking? It is a mainstream QA website. Call it something like Popzoozle or QuizQ or Anserr or something... but StackExchange???? Have you ever in your life heard a non-techie person say "wow I love StackExchange"??? The branding has zero impact.
I wonder what the creator's thoughts are about Microsoft's Photosynth project - which relies on multiple photos of the same thing (like tourists would take).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
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It probably precipitates more rapidly due to temperature or having more nuclei to form droplets around. Once it's precipitated, it's no longer vapor, so it doesn't spend any time at 25km.

Not sure which, or what particles there would be more of at 33km than 25km, but that's my immediate guess.
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I admit, I was a little disappointed to find no mention of Skylon, even if it's at an earlier stage of development than some of these other contenders.

The SABRE engine appears to be coming along well, with one of the largest challenges - cooling the incoming air extremely rapidly - seemingly overcome.

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/sabre_howworks.html
Dumb question but suppose I need a mobile app. Then what question do I ask myself after :)?