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I think you lose a lot of potentials by comparing to (or outright bashing) Chess too much... That said I have come around to seeing Go as the better game after a coworker taught it to me, but it took Hikaru no Go and realizing that playing mirror moves is punishable before I decided to get into it more with books and try to reach my equivalent former chess level of 10 years ago, which I think roughly matches somewhere in the single-digit kyu range.

I've been to a few lectures at the Seattle Go Center, and can confirm it's pretty great. Unfortunately I live in south Renton and work from home so I don't make it up there much.
Cloud Computing Concept on Cousera is really good. I've learned a lot from there.
> If you still have a few people that speak their native language (Even as a second language), then those exact concepts are preserved.

Huh? No they're not. All languages change; concepts will be preserved exactly as long as people want them.
>They've been fighting off invaders pretty much since the beginning of time

Right. Russian Empire has grown to the size of one sixth of all land on Earth by defending from invaders.
Melvil Dewey organized the world with his Decimal System. He was also a nutjob
There is no point in the process where a human puts a creative stamp on the result. Your chiptunes did. This is effectively a fancy PRNG tuned to create appealing patterns. Copyright doesn't apply to non-creative works.
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I was referencing Ionide, unfortunately. Maybe it's improved in the last month since I used it, but everything but basic syntax highlighting barely worked.
Actually, this isn't correct. Sure, you can talk to whatever shareholders you want, but if the stock is still privately held the company can actually dictate whether you can sell the stock or not, and to who. Company does not have to buy it back, and doesn't have to allow a sale if it does not want to buy it. Trust me, I've been there.

Now, some companies might not restrict sale, but that'd be somewhat unusual.
The believe Shred Video app does something similar. You select an audio and video file, and it splices the video content to match the beats of the audio.
> it is all about involvement, and never about achievement.

The ultimate goal is achievement, but that's much harder to achieve without creating more borderline racist policies. Unless you're going to adopt affirmative action for grades as well, and punish professors for fair grading, it's hard to affect those rates.

> the US has made the goal to close it in opportunity, assuming (hoping?) that will improve outcomes

Affirmative action is meant to be a way to help reverse some of the ill effects of slavery and racism that have had long lasting impacts that even today can depreciate the opportunity of racial minorities. The goal is to even out that playing field and provide an equal opportunity, not an equal outcome. What an individual chooses to do with that equal opportunity is up to them.

> Seems to me that more blacks and hispanics at college who don't graduate or, almost worse, choose easier subjects with worse career options, perpetuates the problem rather than solves it.

This is partly a difference in what you see as the problem. Is your goal equal opportunity or equal outcomes? If your goal is equal opportunity, what someone does with that opportunity is up to them. They may choose to go to a university where they are in over their heads, but that's a choice that they made and doing poorly is a consequence of that choice. They may also choose to take an easier degree than to go to a less selective college, again, that's up to them.
Same boat here, with Japanese/English.

Google started getting this correct, and now they let me choose two languages, so I can either speak to it in Japanese or English.

Devs need to realize that there are disconnects in language and usage context for some people, and I'd think this will get worse, not better. Some apps (Amazon MP3 back in Android 2.x era last I tried -- I'm not sure they've fixed that or not now) went so far and even said the service is not available in your country, for solely by the choice of language.
> Lua, C, Forth

Are all simple, yes. That C is on your list is kind'a the point - Go is explicitly a spiritual derivative of C.

But go down on the TIOBE index[1] and tell me what fraction of languages there are as simple as Go. It's not a large fraction.

[1]: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
This video (5m long) might explain a few things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
> But it still is simpler than natural languages, because it has no irregularities.

It will if it ever picks up speakers...
Yes, "meritocracy" and "no one has a hard life" are different concepts. A person having bad parents and therefore having bad grades has less merit than a person with good parents and good grades.

It sucks that some people have bad parents (or whatever the specific issue is), but that's a different problem than lack of meritocracy.
Good. This is a bad market for Apple; the content rights owners have all the power and the device manufacturers and distributors have next to none. That's why everyone is trying to get into the content creation game: it's the only way to keep users on your distribution service.

I'm guessing that Apple balked once the strategy evolved to producing its own content. I think they were imagining a market evolving that was a natural extension of the iTunes/App Store, but what they found was that they would need to structure like a media company to make that play effective.

This is ultimately a mixed bag for consumers; because it means that content ownership has won out. That means prices are likely to rise, and another round of media consolidation is in the cards in the near future. But on the plus side, the amount of quality content being produced under this model is amazing: I have probably two dozen TV series on my "to watch" list when I have time.
Yeah, and you can implement that in C++ very easily, too. Googlers might recognize StatusOrReturn, and similar macros.
You know what would make Rethink more badass. If there was a cheap RethinkDB As A Service provider.
Yes, it's really good too.
still poor advice. should use http://junit.org/apidocs/org/junit/rules/ExpectedException.h...
You can do that, but it is very very expensive.

If you are serious about it though and you want a reasonable price, take a trip overseas and have it done there.
Hey all, I'm the creator of C4. Last week we released a new version of C4 (it's entirely Swift).

Questions / comments / feedback of any kind would be great, and will only help us make the project stronger.
Street Fighter has been here for about 26 years, and it's only growing. It's going professional, with sponsors for the players and everything :p

And by the way, I too thought the reactions needed were insane. But after some time, you realize all that is just muscle memory, and the hard part is the strategy. It's a conversation between two minds.
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And ESPN's subscriber numbers are way, way down as a result. I would say a full 50% of the market places zero value on ESPN, and the other 50% is more likely to use ESPN's web site (no subscription required) than the cable channel.
There's an advertising revenue stream in the legacy distributors. Either OTA commercials or in-stream ad insertion in the likes of Hulu, etc.

It's great to think 10-20 years ahead and dream of a 100% ala-carte VOD world, but someone still has to pay for it all.
Furthermore, there are plenty of less-than-stellar languages out there that are popular for a time, so companies flock to them, build applications and services in them, and are then forced to maintain that code for years and years to come; which is one of the points of this article.

You are the only one who inferred Javascript's unique circumstances and then extrapolated an irrelevant argument with me based on your own misunderstandings.
Doesn't hold up. Library of Babel and the Universal Slideshow would be able to claim copyright on all photographs and literature because all photographs and all literature that ever will be or ever was is contained within their corpus/gallery.

Every picture you've ever taken, the Universal Slideshow already contains that picture. The picture of your birth, every memorable moment of your life, and every possible variation of your death.

[0] http://libraryofbabel.info/

[1] https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info/slideshow.html
I think it would be pretty cool to have this as a streaming service. Let me listen to it as it is generated, and then slice out pieces if I really like them.
> Russian Empire has grown to the size of one sixth of all land on Earth by defending from invaders.

Well, yeah. They just take very seriously the proverbial advice about the best defense...
> No! Co-dependence is the path to ruin. This is very different from empathy and rendering help. Don't be a crutch for anyone else. Ever.

Support != dependence. It's as simple as someone who gives a shit about you beyond the level a room-mate would. I don't need my wife to get through life. But it's nice when she wishes me luck, or comforts me when something goes bad. And vice versa.

> No no no! This is the path to misery and unhappiness.

Disagree strongly. If I say, decide unilaterally to move to NY for a job (without the wife's approval), we're going to be unhappy. Compromise = putting the marriage first = trying to avoid when your wants/success directly conflicts with your partner's.

> Your interests should coincide! They should be mutually shared! The success of any partnership is based on common interests

Please, no 2 people have the same interests. Some shared goals are of course important (do both people want kids, want to live in the same country, enjoy certain activities together?), but they can enjoy different interests and get along. For example, when I play golf my wife will go on a spa date with a girlfriend or something...

> A healthy marriage is where you can make the other person happy

Fixed it.

> So many talented, ambitious people have failed marriages because they over-think things.

I'd say more likely because they pursue their own goals to the detriment of their relationships (and it's not always romantic partners, sometimes it's family and friends).
Rust (e.g. starting with the book[1]) will also teach you about RAII, generics, polymorphism, and ownership and move semantics... the latter two in a far more explicit and clearer (IMO) way than C++ too. That said, of course, without C/C++ experience, one won't have had the "fun" of the crashes and weird bugs that are caused by not paying attention to ownership in C and C++ (and, hence, I guess, the motivations for some of Rust's design decisions might not be so clear).

[1]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
I see. I apologize for reading your post incorrectly.
My Hacker News user profile discloses much of my background in studying human languages. Esperanto is a big disappointment to anyone who knows multiple languages and knows linguistics well. It manages to be arbitrary and suboptimal in all kinds of ways that it didn't have to be arbitrary and suboptimal. And, alas, Esperanto has sucked all the oxygen out of the room for any more serious proposal for a constructed languages to serve as an international auxiliary language.

The simple fact of the matter is that the international auxiliary language of the twenty-first century is English. New speakers of English added to the total for English each year by learning English as a second language strictly outnumber all Esperanto speakers combined. I have seen English used for that purpose in dozens of combinations of speakers of differing native languages. I have seen rather extensive use of English even for conversation among Chinese people with a certain level of education. (Although the younger generation in China is gradually becoming quite proficient in standard Mandarin in urban areas, Chinese people as old as I am or older sometimes find one another's Mandarin acquired as a second language more baffling than one another's English similarly acquired.) An extensive, linguistically informed write-up on the defects of Esperanto as an international auxiliary language, which is not my own write-up but which I recommend to friends like you, has long lived on the World Wide Web.[1]

[1] http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/
One thing I'm curious about, if you're willing to share, is what makes hostels and shelters unsafe. There are several people on here who mention hostels or shelters not being safe for them, and I've never quite understood what would cause that, given that the entire point of a shelter is to offer a safe space, isn't it? What are the common failings there? What makes the safety of a shelter vary between different people?
Art is a hobby unless you get paid for it.
You do know Chrome has a way to change that?
And we've been able to at least read the source for a while officially at http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Web and unofficially since forever via Reflector etc.
Even better: If the location and browser’s language setting don’t match, offer the person a choice.
"Why I immediately click off of blog posts with titles containing 'and you should too' and you should too"
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How about something more practical and lasting? Maybe a gofundme for her future education or something instead?
True, in fact the french scrabble champion recently doesn't even speak french, he just memorized a ton of words: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/...
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And what is coming to the wealth creators? I guess you mean the 1% who contribute 30% of income tax in the UK for instance. Just wondering how you're going to make up the deficit (or what cuts you'll make) when they 'get what's coming to them' as you so crudely put it.
>envy is what makes you disconnect then your problem is also off-line and sooner or later you will need to get over it if you want to be realised and happy.

While I somewhat agree with this in spirit, the truth of it is that our well-being is a relative proposition. We are social creatures, living within a social construct.

Hence, even in your suggestion that we look to others to ask whether they have meaningful lives and seek inspiration from them, you are encouraging people to measure themselves against others.

But that begs the question that is the subject of this article. The notion that others have more meaningful lives is itself skewed by Facebook. So, viewed through that lens, nothing I do will make my life as meaningful as it "should" be.

And, this need not have anything to do with the typical negative connotation of envy--that is, jealousy--in order to be harmful. I can be genuinely happy for the success I perceive in others, while simultaneously receiving the message that my own life is lacking.
I've lost the ability to focus on a single task for hours at a time like I used to as a kid. Even if it excites me. My attention has been completely ruined by social media and I don't know how to recover.

Always some sort of chat or something in the background. I really don't know what to do, should I get counselling or something?
Huh, even if the bashing quotes came directly from chess grandmasters? I figured it was a good appeal to authority that a discouraged chess player would respect more.
Same thing if you want to be a programmer and happen to not be indian, white or chinese.
Same in Germany.

"Turn Left on A U T O B A H N TWO ONE FIVE". Thanks for spelling every character in english separately >_>

(proper would be "Turn left on A215", or even better, with German pronunciation for street names)
If Chronograf is a completely new product kudos to your team. I assumed it was a fork of Grafana because it looked and acted very, very similar to Grafana based on the 'Getting Started' docs of Chronograf.

Just curious, what are some reasons why one would choose Chronograf over Grafana right now?
IMHO, simply live streaming the content through Internet is naive and far from enough to make traditional content creators to hand over their content to Apple. To reinvent TV, people need to think out of the box.
But it was pure dumb luck for English that the British empire arose so quickly and so late.

No it wasn't. Being an island nation and having both invaded and suffered invasions during medieval times, Britain understood that sea power was key to its security and invested heavily in naval power - as you'd expect an island nation to do if it had the resources. This doesn't mean just investment in boats and personnel, but in things like accurate clocks to aid navigation. The government of the day offered huge cash prizes to anyone who could make a chronometer that would reliably work at sea and technologists rose to the challenge.

Britain did indeed benefit from a variety of other technological developments, but they basically deployed their blue water navy and colonial efforts in much the same way that the Romans did in the Mediterranean sea centuries before - and the success of Roman and Hellenic civilizations is easily observed in the ubiquity of Latin and Greek roots in the variety of European languages, and our ongoing use of the Latin alphabet. If the Roman empire had not collapsed in the 4th century (for reasons which are beyond the scope of this discussion) most of the world would be speaking Latin today. As with English, Latin thrived because the Romans were fairly skilled administrators of the territories they took over, prioritizing trade and economic growth rather than conquest and total destruction/

Latin and Greek are distinctive languages because they have a fully phonetic alphabet, whereas many other writing systems struggle with notating foreign languages. Ancient Hebrew, for example, derived from Phoenician writing and is based on the writing of consonant sounds and so it retains a strong oral tradition of Torah study because there are no letters for vowels and so the meaning of a given word in Hebrew depends heavily on context, substantially limiting its use by others lacking that oral tradition. The utility of an easy-to-learn alphabet should not be underestimated; look at the time cost involved in developing an adequate vocabulary in Chinese or some other ideogrammatic language. Japanese uses Chinese symbols as kanji (albeit with different meanings from Chinese, though Japanese schoolchildren learn both meanings) and has not one but two phonetic scripts, one for Japanese words (to help kids look up kanji in syllabic dictionaries) and one for foreign words. Oddly, though, Japan doesn't have a punning tradition based on homophony because the syllabic script came along much later.

I apologize for the extreme over-simplifications above, but this is really a book-length topic that can't be properly argued in only a few paragraphs.
Actually unlike a dead species we can get back dead languages. As long you record the language in enough detail before its death then any human can learn to speak it.
>Do asian children who are still suffering from wrongs done to their ancestors not deserve help?

This is why SES is the better standard as it helps those who still need help, regardless if it was due to past systematic discrimination or if some more recent event created the economic harm. (It isn't perfect as it only aids based on economic harm, but it is better than other measures which attempt to measure economic harm with some other proxy.)
But then how do you find that content? You mention licensing it to services; so how do you differentiate yourself as a service? Right now, the answer is to create your own exclusive content.

There's a risk pooling problem at play here too: if I'm paying $10/mo for Netflix, how do you allocate the money between the content on Netflix? Spotify faces the same problem: top artists demand higher payouts in return for listing their music on the service. The top artists are what bring the listeners in, but as a result it's almost impossible for someone who's not an international star to make any money from Spotify. Video faces the same issue.
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Your logo/favicon is brilliant, combining the J and D of jukedeck and shaped into a musical note.
non pdf links to arxiv abstracts:

Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
by Hermann, Kočiský, Grefenstette, Espeholt, Kay, Suleyman, & Blunsom

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03340

and (same group)

Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06664

Learning to Transduce with Unbounded Memory
http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02516
My experience is that tactics is a spectrum. You can always improve your tactics, no matter who you are. There is no player who never makes tactical mistakes.

Whenever you feel like it's positional understanding that holds you back, that just means that your tactics are at a higher level than your positional understanding, so your opponents are less able to exploit tactical mistakes in the games you play. Once you improve your positional understanding, your rating will rise until you are facing opponents who are once again able to take advantage of you tactically.
Well, interestingly, Bing and Here have better data for Germany than Google does...
You absolutely can implement those functions in Go, if you're willing to sacrifice both type safety and performance. e.g., https://godoc.org/github.com/BurntSushi/ty/fun

Javascript is unityped, and you can certainly pretend Go is unityped too, by using `interface{}` everywhere.

If you linked to a similar set of functions defined in, say, C++, then I'd agree that Go has no real way to achieve something similar.

> (errors can be modelled with a generic Result<T> which forces you to check for error and allows chaining, generics would enable immutable data structures which are much safer for concurrent programming...)

Generics isn't sufficient for that though. You also need sum types, which Go doesn't have.

Lack of generics isn't objectively a flaw. It's a trade off. You may disagree with that trade off though!
One assumption that goes more or less unchallenged is that "content marketing" == "writing blog posts". It's what they are really good at and what they've optimized and hired for.

However, for developers, I think there is a much easier path in the form of building online tools and mini experiences that just destroy "blogging" in terms of ROI and traffic generation.

This is things like WPEngine's speed test, Site Checker's, Buffer's Pablo Image tool, ForAGoodStrftime.com, etc. purposeful, useful tools that people love to share as they are genuinely helpful.
It's one thing to publish writing online. It's another to get attention for it. Distribution means getting in front of your audience. Posting on a blog doesn't inherently solve that.
Hey teps, Cameron Schorg with a new startup called SnipBit. We are working on making a platform very similar to what you talked about. The main difference is that we would charge for the content on the front end and then offer a refund option if you didn't like the content. You should check us out at www.snipbit.io and if you would be willing, I'd would love to have a chat as we are ALWAYS doing customer discovery (schorgie30@gmail.com).
> after Dribbble goes the way of DeviantArt and similar dead communities.

since when is DA dead?
Why would a traditional language hold back its speakers? People can learn more than one language. The choice isn't whether to learn the traditional language or learn English. The choice is whether to learn English exclusively, or learn the traditional language too.

Considering that there are many benefits and basically no drawbacks to learning multiple languages, the best course of action here seems obviously to be to preserve the traditional language.

Unfortunately, a lot of languages have been greatly harmed or driven completely extinct by evil people who either didn't understand the concept of being bilingual, or saw some advantage to their side in destroying the language.
apparently https://archive.is/S1sBt
Man, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.