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The level of damage you will inflict on functioning eco-systems by "engineering" predators out of the equation will be truly catastrophic. What you might not realise is that by removing predators you will also have to change each and every other animal or organism that is currently alive in the world. You are talking about re-engineering almost all living creatures on our planet.

Let me explain by way of an example that is close to home for me. In my country of birth we have many areas which normally used to have free roaming wildlife including predators like lions and leopards. These areas where subsequently taken over as farm land and the big cats removed. This allowed the pray, usually antelope and other herbivores, to breed out of control causing immeasurable damage to the vegetation and if left unchecked would cause these animals to die of starvation in the end. It might sound far fetched but these ever increasing herds do cause damage to the vegetation if their numbers become too big. Given this situation farmers and conservationists either have to organise regular culls of these animals or capture and relocate them. Unfortunately there is only so many place you can relocate them to before the natural environment cannot accommodate them anymore and starvation due to destroyed vegetation sets in.

Predators in these natural eco-systems serve a very necessary function.

I am not talking about Human predators here so please dont confuse the above example with justifying why some human beings prey on others. Human predators need to be removed from our society. We are not animals and have the ability to reason which sets a different standard for us.

What I am trying to illustrate is the logical conclusion of your very well intended desire to reduce suffering. I applaud your desire to reduce animal suffering, of which we humans have a lot of blame for, but to extrapolate that to natural eco-systems could have disastrous effects.
There are only 10 companies and they are fairly well known: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/testi...
I don't think it's a late-twenties or early-thirties thing. I'm 50, and many people in my own age cohort (including me) have to deal with the same issues. IMO it has to do with the kind of community one grew up in vs. the kind of community one occupies as a computer professional. If they're significantly different, there's a feeling of being an outsider/impostor and of having to try to fit in. If they're the same, there's no such drive. People who grow up poor and find themselves living amidst the relative affluence of high tech are often the most aggressive about either saving money or showing the outward signs of wealth. People who are the first in their families to get a good education are often the most likely to value it and/or show it off. You see the same sort of thing among people who lived through the Great Depression, or WW2 and its aftermath. In contrast, people who had all these things since birth tend to take them for granted and not think about them much. Cinderella never quite felt as comfortable in the castle as everyone else seemed to.
I haven't seen many of this sort of offer of late. The last one I had was for a free offer of 2 xbox 360 games for a 12 month subscription to a snowboarding magazine. I signed up just for the games, Dead island and Assassins Creed 3 were the games and the subscription was approx £30.

I imagine the acquisition cost is much higher these days and customer retention a lot more difficult.
Keep in mind these are generally demos that are designed to push the capabilities of shaders to the limit. Many of these things could be done more efficiently using other techniques but they're building the entire scene in a vertex shader.
Studying and coding aren't mutually exclusive. Most people who program for a living did so by studying and exams. It's not sexy but then real life mostly isn't.

There are plenty of people "chasing their dreams" but a lot (most?) of them will have to settle for less because of the way the world works.
Build core infrastructure for a third of all US K-12 schools at Clever (YC S12)
Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after three years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (20M kids), and 46,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 85 (36 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Go, Python and Coffeescript. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone.

Check us out at https://clever.com/about/jobs, or check out our recent press here:
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/27/434667722/one-thir...
Here is an old article that details some of Lerach's firm's settlements in the 1998-2003 timeframe: http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2004/0216/082.html. The firm was making multiple nine-figure settlements per year. Nobody settles meritless strike suits for that kind of money. Learch's firm recovered $45 billion over 30-40 years. It's simply impossible to do that with meritless lawsuits designed to extract a quick settlement.
Prof Justin McCarthy, Melbourne Symposium: "What Happened During 1915-1919?" https://youtu.be/TPcNuu3jJWk
"Exams can be retaken."

Is this sarcasm? I suppose if you fail and have to retake the class, then you can "retake" the exam, but that closes a lot of doors when trying to get in to a good college. And most likely if you're "not dumb", you'll end up with a C on the exam and pass the class with a low grade, rather than outright failing it. In which case you would not be able to retake the exam.
In case your're into Linux systems programming, we had a talk recently that we filmed. Youtube & Github links here: http://www.meetup.com/rust-munich/events/224140986/?comment_...
I think that this is because most other nations do not recognize the genocide they self committed (disclaimer: I am not German).

Here is incomplete list of other nations who have committed genocide recently: Japanese, Chinese, Turks, Russians, Pakistanis, Khmers, Hutus, British, Americans...
I just wrote that some default settings didn't match my personal preferences and asked if someone has a readily available guide on controlling that behavior.

I suppose, would I've asked if there's a guide on, say, how to make fonts larger everywhere in the UI - it likely wouldn't raise anyone's eyebrow. Don't really see why disabling any non-explicitly-requested outgoing network connectivity is suddenly a controversial question that drove any up or downvotes.
Bottom line, you have the same rights to payments per
share as Zuckerberg. Also technically Zuckerberg will at
some point (might be 30-50 years from now) start divesting
his shares

Why would he issue a dividend, where he has to share the money with other shareholders, when he could approve himself a bonus, and not have to share the money with anyone?
What laws do you break every day that are on the same order of magnitude as insider trading laws?
Self driving cars crash five times as much as regular ones
I think they meant:

left x 6 # but that should probably be 7? as maxRange in the randomize routine is 8.
scan: skipNext
right
goto scan

Which works but only because the unit test is deficient!

That's as far as I got in 5 mins [but I'm not a coder].
used to go out with two of my brothers in the fields near our house in northern Vermont. The grass was chest height on a full grown man with some shorter spots where clover or ragweed or shorter grasses had taken root.

We would hear the coyotes howling over the ridge and go to the middle of the field and call them. When they crested the ridge to investigate we would crouch down really low on all fours with our eyes down. They would creep up on us with two or three going off to our flanks. When they got close enough we would stand up, wave our arms and hoot and holler, scaring them off. It was probably foolish for many reasons but we were in our late teens or early twenties and thought that a three on three mano-e-pata match was no contest in our favor.

We didn't do this often but it happend more than once.
It's difficult to know without more specifics of why he got the full-time position. It's a great accomplishment for him but his app didn't sound as technically rigorous as the interview or job requirements Facebook would give a 30-something. It's probably the same reason the news finds teenagers passing college calculus/physics fascinating but not so with 30 year olds. His app could have also solved a lot of technical problems that 30 year olds couldn't in interviews and maybe he blew through Facebook's technical interviews easily.
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Plus it scales well and doesn't randomly lose data. Oh, and the project leaders are professionals who are honest and transparent about the capabilities of their product.
I do so dislike the term 'rewilding'.

There are many past ecosystems we could choose to attempt to restore. Certainly Yellowstone had its wolf population. But it also had a native human population, whose practices affected the ecosystem.

Do we want to "rewild" to before European settlement, so re-introduce Native American land clearing practices? That would certainly help restore the quaking aspen population. Remember, there was 11,000+ years of humans as one of the top predators in that ecosystem.

Or do we return it to pre-human habitation era at the end of the last ice age? That's what truly "wild" means, no?

Ars Technica appears to have forgotten. They write: "So when they disappear—largely because of us—there are myriad negative effects, culminating in a lack of biodiversity."

Who exactly is this "us"? It can't mean "humans".

To really rewild to pre-human times would call for a return of the megafauna like the American lion, the short-faced bear, and the other animals that disappeared some 11,000 years ago.

But that's not what most people mean when they talk about rewilding in the Yellowstone context.
While I don't feel strongly about trivializing Haiku's grand traditions, I did find myself in the same shoes as the author. What always struck me about joke-haikus is that they're nothing more than a sentence with a couple line-breaks in it. A haiku should use minimal words to convey a story or invoke a shared memory or trigger your senses. The form is a part of the art: where and how you place the breaks is meaningful and should contribute to the feeling you want to convey. Instead, people think up a seventeen(-ish) syllable sentence and place the line-breaks as appropriate. Ugh.
The Spartan 6 FPGA can have DRAM controllers built in as a hard block, it won't use up any FPGA gates.

The issue is that you then need to interface this to the CPU, modern DRAMs like to transfer bursts of several words and you need somewhere to put this. The obvious target is to one line in a cache but as the linked email states a cache controller for the Oberon RISC would be more complicated than the designers wanted for the project.
Yeah of course OEMs will still have to pay. That may or may not change, it is very hard to tell. MS will resist that as much as possible. However I believe that Microsoft will reposition Windows on consumer devices to a 'if you got Windows on that machine when you bought it then you can upgrade it for as long as the machine works' kind of setup. They already state licenses are for the life of the device and not to the user.

I have transferred OEM licenses to a new motherboard in the past, not with Windows 10 though. Yes it is technically not supposed to happen but I have never known the automated system decline a reset. I have changed a few motherboards over the years in OEM systems from Dell and IBM/Lenovo and never had a problem getting things sorted on the phone.
Facebook is not necessary for Chinese, but Chinese want to use services without censorship.
Claim 1 is breathtakingly broad and is susceptible to an Alice challenge.
I have eaten
the webpage
that was on
the server

and which
you were probably
hoping
to retrieve

Forgive me
it was juicy
and tart
on my tongue.

Similarly, I wish people would stop writing third-rate parodies. Swapping a few words out from a famous song or poem to make it relate to your chosen subject is also not a great artistic achievement.
My favorite chair for working is a classic Starbucks sofa chair (the first ones they had, none of this new hard arm seat crap). I could never figure out how to buy something so simple yet comfortable for my apartment though.
I just installed a new graphics card on my machine this morning, and this was the perfect way to test it. Thanks!
Honestly, I'm tired of pointing to people how superficial their understanding of certain topics is and how ridiculous their "solutions" sound.
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> How does this work? Is there any legal obligation for manufacturers/vendors to provide these patches in X weeks?
If there isn't then I won't keep my hopes up.

When a user has control over updates, the company selling the product carries a relatively low responsibility. When a company does not allow a user to update, then that company carries a much higher responsibility.

If Google provides a security update and a company refuses to update their devices (or allow users to update), then that company has a lot to lose.

The Android ecosystem would be a lot better off if there were a couple large class-action lawsuits with big payouts. Companies really don't care until it hits their bottom line.
Call it "refactoring" and you're golden. ;-)

For me, it's less about standards than about tools. I don't think software development is slow because of standards.

I don't use the same tool chain as the developers, so I'm oblivious to their standards. Their code is unreadable to me. I follow what would probably have been considered good practices 15 years ago when programs tended to be smaller. I actually learned good hygiene, but in the context of BASIC and Pascal in the 1980s, not the massive tool chains of today. And my programs probably look like a throwback to that era in terms of their conceptual structure.

I re-write early and often. Transforming a program is a good way to find out if it made sense in the first place.
I always had a feeling that KeePass was likely not much better than a flat text file, or piece of paper with all my passwords on it. Thank you for confirming this.
It seems that you might want to lie down on your bellie with the computer beneath you via some kind of cut out around your face/chest to prevent uncomfortable pressure; that way your arms can just hang down and do work fairly easily.
It would be fairly strange if animals followed human social norms.
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He won the lottery first time around.

The second time around he gambled a bit, but he also put in the work to give his app the right amount of polish, struck a partnership with a marketing company, found a way to haggle with Parse, etc.

Sure, I won't dismiss luck as a factor, luck is always a factor when it comes to games, about a third of it probably, but the chance of someone just getting lucky from their game is, well, statistically zero (and probably the most offensive thing someone could ever tell you).

Statistically speaking, the chance of creating a successful game is slim, the chance of creating a successful startup (or even a small company) is slim, the chance of getting promoted to a really high level within the company is slim, the odds of a lot of nice thoughts happening within our lives are slim. The thing is that these odds are just averages, it's definitely within the realm of possibility to beat the averages. Having a rich uncle helps, but not nearly as much as having a better strategy than average, developing better partnerships than average, putting in more work than average, and being more determined than average.

And I will agree that you really shouldn't choose exams over app, but I can kinda relate with the kid, when your family loses their home and is struggling to make ends meet with their downsized apartment, thinking about acing your exams just isn't something you think about. Survival is on your mind and sometimes you come up with some pretty crazy ideas to make that happen.
If the scientists in question are applying the scientific method as a means to "build cool things", can they not be said to be doing science?
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Bonuses are fully taxed as income, dividends have a much preferable tax rate.
I appreciated the minification walk-through more than actually having a tweet solid package manager. Before you get to the range of code golf, less code means less bugs.
The Germans didn't really embrace subtlety.

The British did similar things, including innovations like the concentration camp, but used more intermediaries. They didn't give speeches about extermination.
> still a passable substitute

I've never met anyone who said it was, so I doubt it. Stop being a blind advocate and realize that some people do need Windows because they need apps that only run on Windows.
What's the problem? From D. Knuth's The
Art of Computer Programming: Sorting
and Searching,

(1) if sorting n records
by comparing pairs of
keys, then the Gleason
bound shows that
on average can't sort
faster than O( n ln(n) ).

(2) Heap sort sorts n records in both worst
case and average case in time O( n ln(n) ).

Net, when sorting by comparing
pairs of keys, in main memory, on
a simple machine architecture,
with a single processor, ...,
can't improve on Heap sort.

So, just use Heap sort.
That's what I do.
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You would not have wanted to invest in a Google or Facebook run by some MBA instead of the founders.
>There is still a very big market for performance surfboards in the ~$500 range.

Data? From the article, the number of surfers is growing at 1.7% annually, yet this company now sells 5 times more boards than anyone else. The majority of those sales were taken from other companies.

If this isn't a disruption story than I don't know what is.
Yes, exactly, there are silent projects like Mojo (https://github.com/domokit/mojo), Flutter, Mandoline (https://www.chromium.org/developers/mandoline) that whispers actually android is being folded into Chrome. Time will tell.
I am impressed by his determination. The Pando article says it best:

"Sayman's experience is one that perhaps could only be entirely appreciated here in Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurship, ingenuity, and building something out of nothing, or rather, out of lines of code, still holds cult-like status, for good or ill. Sayman doesn’t even seem to understand the power of his story.

He got his app where it is today not with millions or even thousands in venture capital. He didn’t get it where it is with Silicon Valley connections or hookups to the magic elves who pick what’s featured in the iOS app store. He didn’t get it with a team of developers or designers or a co-founder or even an incorporated company. He didn't even get it there with natural technical talent. Instead, it took sheer force of will and a refusal to back down to any of the obstacles he faced. That, and an unholy faith in the power of Google to answer his questions."

"“I watch my son, every night and every single day, staying up until 4 or 5 am, working on the app, doing his homework, sleeping two or three hours, and then going to school,” Cristina Sayman says. "

I'm sad to say, I don't do this :( , I struggle to find that much willpower, even though I believe in what I'm building.
You can try the following workaround:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17453#commen...
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And the worst part is that last 1% is different for 99% of people. ;)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
The readme doesn't seem to mention or I have missed it: I assume this works on a locked instance of KeePass (the database opened, but the application interface locked)?
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A Turing machine is only a device to illustrate an abstract mathematical construct. Of course you can build a device that resembles a Turing machine, but usually they do not come with an infinite tape as in the original definition.

Another example of a real-world Turing machine can be found here:
http://aturingmachine.com/
Ask HN: Science Videos for Kids
Hey HN,

I'm a Westerner currently volunteering at a school in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. The age of the students I am working with ranges from about 10-14. The school has very few funds and resources, but the teachers have done a great job teaching the kids basic English and math skills. Unfortunately, their science curriculum is lacking. My goal is to try to initiate a spark of curiosity in the students that will stay with them through their high school and college science courses (assuming they actually do move on to high school and college... people are really poor out here...).

The school does not have computers or wifi, but I have my laptop with me. Today I brought it to the classroom and showed the kids a couple of videos I downloaded off of YouTube (Powers of Ten and Star Size Comparison). They LOVED watching these videos! It was such a treat for them considering the old blackboards and textbooks they normally use.

I really want to show them at least one sciencey/educational/perspective expanding video near the end of each class. Videos like Powers of Ten and Star Size Comparison really engage them. HN is a community of highly intelligent people with many different types of technical backgrounds, and you all love science! Can you please help me find more videos to share with these awesome 10-14 year olds to spark their interest in science?
"Some people jsut want to write something that is both fast, predicable."

And debuggable? Not crashing in random places due to stack or heap corruption helps there.