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Well a lot of these answers helped me feel better thanks guys.

To op: for me i find sheer stubborness is how i code. Im not sure if that makes me a good programmer (i have only released one piece of software, took me 4 months to get to where i am, and a long way to go).

I started out loving the results: in my softwares case, the computer understanding what i said and doing that action, then i began to really enjoy how i did it: i just finished expanding it internally to be able to listen to multiple things and perform those actions at the same time.

For me, once i figured out what i wanted todo, not just exercises, that really drove me. I think ive learnt more in the last 4 months, than the previous 8 years of tinkering.

I know your not asking how to code, but this is what is convincing me that i should be programming. Alas i an English teacher, but it pays the bills, and lets me program after work.
Opcode 0x90 only means xchg eax,eax on paper. If no documentation ever called it that then it would be a non-issue. It would always have been nop and still be nop. Somebody could also have called it xchg ebx,ebx as well and it would have been just the same in 32-bit mode.
To be honest the pricing was something I really struggled with. I finally ended up settling on that price as it was similar[0] to some of the other database clients on the market, and similar to the pricing of other Sublime Text plugins.

After using DB1 a fair amount I think it brings a lot of value to the daily workflow of someone that uses databases a fair amount, and uses Sublime Text. In addition to that, I have plans to support 3 or 4[1] more databases soon and add a fair amount of complicated features.

That said though, if I hear from a fair amount of people that the price point is too high then I may consider lowering it.

[0] https://eggerapps.at/postico/
[1] https://github.com/sequoiastudios/DB1/issues
The cheapest Macbook you can find with a retina display costs $3200 in Brazil. That's more than double the price you quote, and we're not even accounting for purchase-power differences in the currency itself.

To put it in perspective, the minimum wage is $300, and I don't know anyone making more than $1500 over there – including developers.

You could literally make a living off of buying Macbooks in the US and selling them in Brazil for double the price; it'd still be much cheaper than in the stores.
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Even those people don't think you should get a life sentence for every crime.

The effect of 3-strikes laws was a life sentence for every third crime, and these have been quite popular. My point is the underlying moral viewpoint of some people that crime is a character trait and not a contingent behaviour: the view that some people are just "bad". Switching this discussion to the rational mode is extremely hard.
Mac users might appreciate the great UnicodeChecker:

http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/

It offers a convenient utility to diff arbitrary strings, which is also quite handy for e.g. detecting normalization discrepancies, and installs a service so you can highlight a character in any app and use “Display character information” to see what it actually is.

I have Python command-line version in my PATH which displays the character info for arbitrary input strings: https://github.com/acdha/unix_tools/blob/master/bin/unicode-...
They have now, apparently, received a ransom demand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438175
Frankly that "theory" is so out there that it pees on the name of Keynes.

It comes out of a massive abuse of preference curves, a model that itself have some massive assumptions bouncing around (like that if your income increases, you will not switch preferences completely, just keep buying more of one or the other).

As for cutting benefits makes workers accept jobs, no surprise there. Cut benefits and it is accept anything or starve. Basically it is wage-slavery.
Sounds like they need to have a few people older than 26 on staff. I would have totally expected that to happen.
That's exaggerating his position. It's not sexist to acknowledge differences between males and females.
I think this do almost the same and it is free [SQLExec](http://lubriciousdevelopers.github.io/projects/sublime-sql-e...)
>And that's not even touching on the insanity of building computerized vehicle systems with always-on GSM data links to the Net. Ask Michael Hastings how that worked out for him.

Thing is, if attackers that advanced are out to get you, you're pretty much screwed regardless.

Had Hastings been driving a classic car, I'm sure he would have suffered a tragic drug overdose or something instead.

Besides, even if your car isn't computerized, there's plenty of others on the road with you that are.
"Whats the deal with gender issues anyway in North America? I've immigrated from an Eastern-Block country as a teenager to NA and I've never seen these problems because communism required that all members of the society do essentially the same jobs"

The problem in this country is that we have identity politics, which helped to address real discrimination, but all too often is misused as a tool to obtain power and support from vocal special interest groups.

Perhaps most disturbingly is the rise of the professional identity politician/professor/activist complex, where students are brought in to universities majoring in "Women's Studies", with zero job prospects when they graduate except for teaching more classes or becoming an activist. Suddenly, you have entire groups of people who, although they won't admit it, NEED the problem they are claiming to fight to exist forever if they want an income.

The end result is a constant search for new manifestations of oppression of their chosen group, real or perceived. All too often, its perceived, and even when it's real, these folks have solutions which do nothing more than create new inequalities.
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And more importantly than that there are a couple of underlying facts that invalidate the whole premise that unintended acceleration means automatic accidents/death:

1) None of these cars are 700hp Supras that accelerate at drastic speeds. These were normal consumer cars that frankly aren't that fast even with the throttle fully depressed.

2) The brakes in all of these vehicles are many times more powerful than the engine. Pressing the brakes would have stopped the vehicles, even if the engine were attempting to accelerate full throttle.

In most cases I would never side with the corporation over average people. But this is one of those rare cases where lawyers were able to hire dishonest "experts" and snow over the judge and jury and get an unjust verdict.
There's the related example of the segfault termination message that was changed in a hex editor to "thank you for playing!" Wing Commander, maybe.
I think it's debatable. Is a one time bonus to employees long term or short term? Since it's equity and not cash it probably depends on the structure of the deal.

It's only one tactic in the company's overall strategy for long term viability. My hunch is the move is closer to an emergency maneuver to address immediate issues.
"Password stored in cleartext" - wait, what?! Where have you seen a reference to that?
This is the definition of "terrorism" from the FBI web site:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/terrorism...

Note that whether something is classified as terrorism depends on the intent or purpose of the act, not the act, the number of people killed, weapons used, or other measurable characteristics of the act. Thus a mentally ill person who murders a large number of people as sacrifices to the great god Cthulhu would not be classified as a terrorist because he lacks the political intent, even though the actual crime might be identical in all other respects to the actions of a "terrorist".

Incidentally, Glenn Greenwald is an attorney and surely well aware of the legal definitions of terrorist.

Definitions of Terrorism in the U.S. Code

18 U.S.C. § 2331 defines "international terrorism" and "domestic terrorism" for purposes of Chapter 113B of the Code, entitled "Terrorism”:

"International terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:

Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
Occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S., or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum.*

"Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:

Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.

18 U.S.C. § 2332b defines the term "federal crime of terrorism" as an offense that:

Is calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct; and
Is a violation of one of several listed statutes, including § 930(c) (relating to killing or attempted killing during an attack on a federal facility with a dangerous weapon); and § 1114 (relating to killing or attempted killing of officers and employees of the U.S.).

* FISA defines "international terrorism" in a nearly identical way, replacing "primarily" outside the U.S. with "totally" outside the U.S. 50 U.S.C. § 1801(c).

Some other definitions of terrorism from different sources:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/terror...

Note again that in nearly all definitions the political intent or purpose of the act is critical.
http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-Economics-Revised-Expanded-D...

Just going to leave this here. Its a real helpful read for any kind of economics debate.
This is a badly reasoned article. If the total stock of vehicles is decreasing it creates a lot of savings (as the article admits). How are these savings captured? In cheaper Ubers. The total cost of all the cars on the road is already being paid for out of our transportation costs. As each vehicle gets shared between more people the cost to each person goes down. Obviously there will be an equilibrium between lower prices from fewer vehicles and higher convenience from having extra capacity. But, using resources more efficiently won't cause harm.
Even if the total vehicle stock were to decrease as much as the article suggests the price of an uber would drop much faster than the convenience.

Now this all assumes an efficient market. If Uber were to start abusing its monopoly powers, that would be something to be legitimately concerned about...
You know what they say about making chicken salad?

Windows might not be top-brand chicken, but it's at least poultry.
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I've tried to find more information on what this game actually does, and how it treats ADHD / autism. I looked at a few articles and the Akili website, but details are pretty spare.

Does anyone have some additional information of how this video game plans to treat autism / ADHD?
a taboo against usury - pity it didn't last...
That is less than a waiter earns in that area($23/hr on average). If you think that is fair remuneration for a professional job, you need to re-calibrate.
But -- after 6 months the parents' level of expertise is significantly higher.

I have two kids, 3 and 6. The second was hard, but we knew what were getting into, largely, and how to survive it. The first was... rough.

I'm not sure about sleeping through the night stuff -- we did the co-sleeping thing, which helps a lot! But still, by 8 months I'll bet the parents would have some strategy in place -- maybe "hey, tonight's your night to wear earplugs" coupled with strategic naps.
What, exactly, do you believe Keynesian theory claims? Specifically, how do you believe Keynesian theory explains involuntary unemployment?

(Involuntary unemployment is when workers are employed at a wage K, and other workers are unemployed but have a reservation wage of K.)

Given that you agree with my factual claim (that giving people money directly causes unemployment), what do you disagree with me on? Is it just my mood affiliation that you dislike?
Here is the Nature article that this video goes with. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15180 .
Do the employees who got canned get to share in this pool? It would have been a nice gesture, esp to the open source team.
Ask 100 Programmers what their favourite font is and you get 100 answers :)

I'm a big fan of Proggy (the clean / slashed zero / bold puncutation one) combined with a light color on a dark background I can stuff as much code on my monitor as possible without straining my eyes. That way I believe to better oversee the structure of the code and need to scroll less, but each to his own.

Proggy: http://www.proggyfonts.net/download/

Programming font comparison: https://s9w.github.io/font_compare/
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I don't know if this could be of help to them in their specific case but have they tried something like this

font: caption | icon | menu | message-box | small-caption | status-bar

to reach the desired result?
More signs that tech startups are overvalued... needed to broaden the base of suckers to maintain the viability of some future IPOs.
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So, What about after the program?
I like to distinguish between true-Keynesianism and political-Keynesianism, because they are very, very not the same thing. True Keynesianism, as you say, requires saving in the good times. Political-Keynesianism is trotted out only when times are bad and it's important to justify government intervention, but most of the people who were saying "Keynes Keynes Keynes" conveniently get quiet when it's time to pay down, until next time the economy is down again.

It has often seemed to me that if you truly believe in Keynesianism, the fact that the economy is still in the crapper and has been for nearly a decade now really shouldn't surprise you, because we've really only used the bits of Keynesianism that happen to be convenient to our ruling class. If you don't do what Keynesianism tells you to do, you shouldn't expect the results it promises.

(Again, I'm not really a big believer in either true- or political-Keynes, but still, one is a serious economic theory and the other is a convenient fiction.)
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In case you didn't see the comment originally (I didn't either), someone else posted a link.

http://techtalks.tv/talks/whats-wrong-with-deep-learning/616...
Never occurred to me before, but here "substitutes" reads to me as being commutative. I read both as having the same meaning. (i.e. you end up with unicode homographs replacing your ascii) Just me?
And that's what is known as the "no culture fit".I do not hire those who prefer to watch TV to coding.
> we included a more future-proof system as the first entry

This is a classic example of why YAGNI is a slogan.
If ETAs are too high and prices are too expensive, then more people will get cars again. I don't really see a problem. This is like saying "If email works, you might be less happy with your communication options" because 'no one will write letters anymore'.
> It's not like a library that needs to be compiled

with the craze of css preprocessor I wouldn't bet on this
i smell a Notepad++ extension
I'm only trying to show that you can't shout "Open Source!" and get magical immunity from bugs in life-critical software. We need to think of something else instead, or in addition to, open-sourcing to meaningfully reduce the amount of those bugs.
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This seems to be exactly what I needed for some of my projects. A simple application that can be used on my dev-system to be used as reverse-proxy for different servers.

Of course, I could use nginx, but fiddling with configuration files on dev-systems is not so cool. Also even nginx is not lightweight enough to me.

This looks really very neat! I will try it soon.

Thank you!
"If Uber were to start abusing its monopoly powers, that would be something to be legitimately concerned about..."

I wonder if they plan to do that:

https://twitter.com/NeilAnAlien/status/627873374505562112
What I found particularly frustrating about the article was its focus on race, despite the fact that poverty and absentee fathers are the true culprits, with race simply having a correlation to the root cause condition.

I grew up in an impoverished, white rural community, and the boys without fathers go nuts. It's a common pattern that doesn't even call for data. Everyone just knows it.

My wife's father died when she was young, and her mother simply collected social security checks and lapsed into depression. Her sister and her did alright. Both of her brothers dropped out of high school, one of them committed suicide, and the other died at 21 of a medical condition while attempting to earn a GED and working for $8/hour at a gas station. Both were in and out of jail from their teen years and up.
Indeed. Attention is given to patent trolls, but not so much (that I'm familiar with anyhow) the incentives around awarding (there are incentives in place to bias the granting of a patent, as opposed to denying one or claw back clauses regarging wrongly granted patents) or voiding patents.
You're looking at a code-base that evolved from 16-bit to 32-bit to 64-bit over 25-30 years, and 10-15 major releases. You've got the 95/98 code base merging with the NT code base. You've got all the compatibility fixes that Microsoft has invested in to try to help old, poorly written code continue to work. It's accreted some cruft.
You can move there.
You could claim that the patent system was raging success.

The Wright brothers tried to hinder development of airplanes, but De Havilland managed to circumvent their patent. Creating entirely new technology in the process.

Watt on the other hand managed to protect his steam engine patent and went on to invent a copying machine with the money.

And Edison, mediocre inventor who luckily made some patent money early with the quadruplex telegraph. Then he could concentrate to his true calling of enslaving scientists.

I'm half joking here. But we really can't know how history would have turned out if patents would not exist. So far I'm not convinced with any of the alternatives. Even with the glaring flaws of the current patent system.
Your graph is not even measuring globalization or outsourcing or immigration.

Let alone demonstrating any causal relationship.

A lot happened between 1820 and 2000 to change the shape of those graphs - the fall of the British empire, labor movements (both national and international) & two world wars as well as industrialization and the rise of American hegemony.
I think what they really meant was that this program would be similar to (one year of) a top masters or Ph.D program, which would be plausible. Your inference of 2x doesn't meet the giggle test.

It's going to vary person to person of course, but I'd expect the learning rate to be at best about the same as a top program.
I find searching, and search and replace the most useful IDE feature, you can reformat entire documents with a series of well thought out search and replaces:)
The article is about software systems leading to safety risks. I'd say safety is implied when an electronics designer comments on it that he/she would never drive a car that relies on software to ensure safe operation. Not worth splitting hairs over IMO.
In that case, you won't mind if I substitute poison for your favorite tasty beverage.
Ah, after rereading it does come across like that. :)
I'd say it's a combination of A: a long period of relative stability and B: in the west, everyone is freakishly wealthy by historical standards and has a lot to lose, thus, you lack a base of desperate people with nothing to lose. (Chatter about "wealth inequality" in the West can sometimes cover over the fact that by historical standards, we have basically cured poverty as much as we can, modulo some fiddling around the edges of incarceration vs. institutionalization vs. homelessness at the fringes. Doesn't mean it's not bad or not a problem, but it does pay to contextualize it historically every so often, to stay grounded.)

On the other hand, it does mean that if there any sort of instability, people will have to rediscover from scratch how to deal with it, a process that sounds relatively painful to me. Here's hoping we never really have to find out.
Pastebin message reported to be from the hackers [1] contains Islamic State references/language and some samples of the data breach.

[1] http://pastebin.com/HHT4BxJA

Edit: added some clarification to contents.
Hah, I was giving a presentation where I was running little queries as part of a demo. I had copied the queries into the presenter notes in PowerPoint, then pasted them one at a time into a web app to run them.

Couldn't figure out why one of them wasn't working, and it was actually an audience member who figured out PowerPoint had turned a quote character into a "smart quote".
Hey everyone! I just wanted to add a little back story to DB1

I developed DB1 mostly this summer and put a lot of work into figuring how to do the various parts of it. I posted it here looking for as much feedback as I can get on the various parts of it (the cost was something I struggled a lot with). I also have a lot of features in the pipeline for DB1 that I think add a lot of additional value to the product[0].

Feel free to let me know any questions or comments you have!

[0] https://github.com/sequoiastudios/DB1/issues
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> If no documentation ever called it that then it would be a non-issue.

XCHG EAX,target is defined as opcode (0x90 + offset of target register), with EAX having offset 0.

So, it was xchg eax,eax originally, and documented as such, before it was turned into NOP because it happened to be safe for it.

It's still documented as "alias for the XCHG (E)AX, (E)AX instruction" in Intel's instruction set reference, and pre-486 embedded x86s still treat it as xchg.
It's not just the low hood (for crumple-area), but also the curve of the leading edge. In older SUVs (and still in today's full-size pickups) the front was squared-off and blunt, and this lead to people getting injured by that sharp edge. With the curved leading edge the pedestrians have a much more progressive landing on the hood.

A car like the mid-70's Aston Martin Lagonda with it's knife-edge grill will never be built again.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Aston_Ma...
No, it's measuring wages and inequality.

Are you claiming that global wages would have increased even further without globalization? It would be fun to see some sort of argument in that direction.

To observe the result of immigration, you basically just need to compute immigrant wages - wages of whoever is left back at home. Those wage gaps are so huge that they dwarf anything which happens domestically.
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Wouldn't a regular text replace work, switching one character for another?