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Hope that you don't pick it up! In the end, Monopoly is a game of luck. Sometimes you lose because you constantly get sent to jail, and never land on unbought properties. All you can do is improve your odds, and this is the most surefire way I've found of doing that.

You can improve your odds of not picking it up slightly by never using the 'or take a chance' cards, and if all the properties are bought, stay in jail as long as possible.
> Top today for example are: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

Seems pretty on-topic for me.

> How cash is carried across Congo

Start-up ideas.

The other maybe not quite on topic, but interesting. Startups are not only about the tech-stack. The social side is very important too.
I started Edinburgh University in 1983, and there were about 10% women on the CS course. There were more, I think, on the AI course, but that was in a completely different department.
We're already finding that arbitration rather than courts to settle disputes puts the public at a much greater disadvantage than corporations. I don't think that's a good thing as corporations already wield much too much power. Arbitration also keeps cases from becoming public knowledge which again, not good for the public.
You also have to compare the cities, let us say they are on equal terms in housing shortage.

Stockholm is piss dark and cold 8 month a year, in Silicon Valley not so much right? All the big boys are in SV and you earn more and pay less in taxes. You also get other perks from living in the USA.

So you are a talented guy, Stockholm or SV? The choice is obvious, SV. So I don't see the point in trying to fight for a place to stay in Stockholm when you can go somewhere else better.

Not only that, just the last 5 years have done much harm to the housing in Stockholm due to mass immigration and now immigration peaks at 2000 people per day so expect it to get even worse.
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10283502
Well, sooner or later it'll turn out it's all mostly that we're wired to learn grammars; and that we're biased towards learning some types of grammars better than others. (I think evidence has been plenty, even before this.)

That's not quite the same as how some people seem to understand Chomsky, a kind of grab-bag of hardwired grammar rules tucked away in some strand of DNA. But still, there it is.
At some points you'll move from mistake vs correct play to finding imbalances. Most things aren't really mistakes but contain advantages and disadvantages. Matching all these imbalances together to a strategy and at the same time disturbing the opponent from putting his imbalances into synergies, that's what expert games are about (or at least higher advanced level, I can't say I really understand expert level).
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Same applies to FxOS, not the whole stack was open.

Plus people keep forgetting that there aren't any open options for the radio OS.
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I started playing chess at a fairly young age (5-6) and moved into competitive chess vs adults at age 8 and playing near national level at around age 12. In all that time I never read a single book about how to play chess, or try memorize openings. What I did do is play a lot of competitive chess and discuss strategy / tactics at every opportunity with strong players, both in terms of my own games and also in general.

The original article pretty much nails it as a guide, in my opinion. Highly recommended.
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I don't think any assumption was made here. It is as much an assumption to say that all information necessary and sufficient to decode grammar into its constituents is not detectable from spoken words that a child is exposed to. That's a theoretical argument. Just because we can't think of a way this could be done, doesn't mean it can't be done. At the moment, we simply don't know.

I think what the comment you're responding to meant is that this study shows no evidence for an innate internal language or grammar, which I thought was Chomsky's most controversial claim.
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FYI you can write Times, but mostly you'll write . I guess that example was about explaining the lispy concept "everything is an expression". It's right there at the top of the screenshot, he actually went from explaining and + to saying they are actual functions like anything else.

http://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/02-i...
> The market of users that shop for a device, looking for specs and features, is a tiny fraction of the market of phone users, the vast majority of which are regularly ripped off by carriers to buy underpowered overpriced iphones or Android handsets.

This might be so in US, but in most European countries we buy our phones ourselves with pre-paid options.
I tend to suspect it's partly Lisp syntax but mostly that the entire environment was far enough removed from what people, including the mentioned secretaries, thought of as "programming", that it didn't register with them that that was what they were doing.

You can see the same thing today with stuff like VBA macros in Excel. I've seen some amazingly complex business logic implemented that way by people who absolutely did not think of themselves as programmers, and indeed tended to respond with bafflement to the suggestion that what they'd done could be described as programming.
Array is also very similar to table

Array[f, {10}] is basically Table[f[n], {n, 10}].

And so Range is Array[Identity, 10]
The future probably won't be 15 highly educated, highly paid developers working on a simple web app like today. It will be 1 highly educated, highly paid developers guiding 15 lower paid 'blue collar' developers in developing a web app.
Sure. It's also perfectly fine for a parent to expose his kids to his own interests, in case there might be among them something that will fire the kid's imagination.
Agreed. I've found the best way to play games against friends is to disconnect my competitive spirit and anlytical mind and just sit back and enjoy the conversation. I have fun, and those folks who are hyper-competitive get another "victim", so it's good for everybody.
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This is British satirical political activism. This isn't a bunch of shrieking zealots trying to "no platform" Trump, it's people Using the weak democratic tools available in the UK to make a point.

It is pretty funny.
Outsourcing has its uses, but the majority of programming jobs cannot be oursourced, and with time it will become even less profitable to do.

However, programming any major system today does require extensive knowledge and I dare say a CS degree as well. It's becoming more and more like an engineering discipline, and as such I think we're going to see a shift towards programming being something you need a college degree to perform.
Doesnt intuitively make sense to me... adult women stopped being drawn into the computerfield at the same time that male children began getting computers as gifts? wouldnt their be a distinct lag effect of maybe 5-7 years between when the boys got their computers and entered the work force?

I think the shift probably had more to do with the perception that computer programming was 'important', a lot of the early view on computer programming was driven by the physical interface... women were viewed as suitable for programming because they were historically suitable for typing and secretary work... i think on some level it was being viewed as a form of dictation that was in a bizarre 'shorthand'...
I hope that there won't even be such a profession as programming. Coding must become a basic part of the general literacy, and almost all the professions must include a degree of coding. Programmers should disappear just like scribes did.
Have you never been around, or yourself been, a boy child? I can count on no hands the number of boys I knew in my youth, myself included, who were not interested in tablesaws or cutting torches.
Stuck in the mid 2100s. The main difference I see when I play 1800s, and most levels beneath that, is still tactics. A 1200 lets you fork their king and queen. An 1800 goes into a variation that lets you fork their king and queen 3 moves in.

I make the same kinds of mistakes, allow positional concessions or just straight-up blunder because I overlook tricks in the lines I thought were safe.

Building up that mental repertoire of tactical and positional patterns by solving puzzles and reviewing well played games is essential, no matter what level. It's like building a huge in-memory cache of correct answers so you quickly solve problems at the board.
That, however, means a monopoly game can easily last 5 hours.

The only way to play monopoly is to be brutal and eliminate everyone as quickly as possible.

(Ignoring the best way to win is to not play, and play any of the very much better games)
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CEO is just a human. With about 16 wake hours per day.

When company get's big enough, the role of CEO gets more and more about enabling the employees to create value. Consistency is valuable on it's own right. And it increases as company gets bigger.

Companies typically have board to put a degree of democracy in the big moves. So that mistakes get unlikely as 10 people are not very likely to do the same mistake at the same time. But they are not part of day to day operations, so they usually suffer from lack of data.
Programming a major system has absolutely no need of a CS degree.

I know and have worked with programmers with and without a CS degree (I'm one of the ones without).

As far as I can tell it's no indicator of programmer skill at all.
Found the problem and pushed a fix, should me much smoother now.

It was Firefox's SVGPathElement::getPointAtLength implementation that was slow, working around it by caching all the calls to it.
Parody is ageless art form. I would not have canned shit in gallery over and over again. Having different kinds of bad art in gallery is always hilarious.

But I have to admit I'm but of troll. The real treat is art snob fetishising over paint stains.
The root of this comment tree was written by someone who wasn't familiar with Wolfram's reputation but saw cause to gripe anyway. The transition from "Stephen Wolfram" to "absurdly self-centered" occurred by observation, not hashtable.

I hadn't heard of "Pavlov's hashtable" before, it's a neat concept, and I'm glad you brought it up. I just don't think it's responsible for the direction of this particular comment train. Which is in itself a testament to the peculiar qualities of Wolfram's personality.
> why do I read your comment left to right one word at a time?

I'd say because the probabilistic structure of language is such that it must be processed sequentially to be decoded correctly. The interpretation of what comes next depends on what came before. Information-theoretically, this happens to be an efficient and compact way of encoding information in the auditory medium (where input unfolds over time, rather than being presented all at once like in images).

Whether processing is "massively parallel" depends on what level of analysis you're assuming. At some level, processing in the brain is obviously massively, since that's simply how the brain's laid out.

I don't see how sequential processing bears any implication to whether or not language is or can be learned through statistical pattern matching, but I'd love to hear your angle on this.
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You apparently mean well, but I'm still not sure what kind of response you wanted from people.

Even here, you still haven't said anything specific. Everybody can agree that in some cases there is merit and some there is not, because that's true about everything. Everybody can agree that sometimes there's been over-reaction, because that's true about any topic where people have ever reacted. There is no need to say something that is always true.

If you're still wondering why people were downvoting, I'd say it was because you made objection-like noises without ever saying anything specific enough to serve as a real objection. If you'd like to object, by all means do it. Or if you'd like to avoid derailing with side issues, then just don't bring them up. But raising them while being vague reads to me like an attempt to undermine without taking responsibility, a way of clouding this issue a bunch of vague and unspecified junk.
Because they know better than doing unpaid overtime, keeping up to date in an ever changing industry driven by popularity contests and having to work for free on some open source project because somebody thought that what you do in your free time is somehow more relevant CV wise than what you actually do for a living.

I wouldn't worry much anyway. We won't be seeing many of those articles once the bubble bursts.
I think you mean CONFIG.SYS :)
The hate towards marketing that is present on HN is almost comical at times.

My experience is that, the more you study how marketing works, the more you realize marketing is about what people already want and try to appeal to that. Sure, big companies like Coca Cola have more sophisticated techniques to make their brands appealing, but still, if you look at Coca Cola's marketing, what they sell is "happiness", which is what people want, and they make the association to their beverage.

From this point of view, there is no "travesty" to thank marketing for. The reality was that probably personal computers were more appealing to men, so it made more sense to spend marketing resources towards them.

Why it was more appealing to them is a good question to ask, and it could be because of many reasons, including culture and society. But marketing probably didn't create that desire, it just used it.
Accidental downvote from fat fingering the mobile site, sorry.
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My daughter is 9 and has been fascinated by coding since she was about 6 - initially with Scratch, but she's just moving on to Javascript.

I didn't push it on her at all - she asked me one night what I did for a job, so I showed her a bit of code I'd been doing and she was hooked.

I've also done an after-school club in Scratch for the kids at her school (9 out of the 10 were girls), and they really enjoyed it as well .

Clearly just an anecdote, but the interest is still out there somewhere.

And going back to my childhood in the early 80s, there were a group of us who were into coding. But we were very much the nerdy group - it wasn't as if everyone was a budding programmer back then either.
Monopoly requires player elimination. That's seen as "mean", whereas winning isn't seen as mean. That's the main reason Monopoly isn't a good game. The other reason is that people have house rules, which often have the effect of reducing the risk of player elimination, which then increases the playtime to stupid lengths.

There are a bunch of great, easy to understand, easy to play games that are much better.

(HN search might find a few, there have been several threads before. Board Game Geek tends to skew toward the more complex end, but there's probably good lists of great family games.)
This looked interesting but I feel like I am missing several levels of context here. What's the other kind of design that isn't like those eastern european apps? What's dribbbbblization?
I'm sure that's it. Sort of how most people use Internet Explorer on Windows, because it's the default.

From the article:

>Many people use Apple Maps just because it comes with the phone. Even if you've taken the trouble to download a competing app, other iPhone services such as Siri and Mail will invariably take you to Apple Maps.

>Without the ability to steer users this way, Apple "would not be in the position they are in," IDC analyst John Jackson said. "Not that they aren't improving the experience, but this helps the cause."
This is what I was thinking as well, but they don't give us the data in the article to confirm.
I don't really believe in the "blue collar" part but I think engineering may give us a clue. You have a small number of highly educated engineers working on tough problems: aeronautics, complex structural issues, etc. But the average electric or electronic board in a home appliance is not designed by sophisticated engineers, rather by a mid range average university graduate or sometimes even a technician.

But we need the tools to get there. Easy languages, technologies that are immune to basic security risks, and that provide safe ways to do multi-threading easily. Right now we are in the unsustainable position where the tools require skills that too many developers lack. And the result is regular data leaks, corporate systems full of bugs, etc.

A profession can't rely on all of its members to be very smart to deliver quality. But it will be an intellectual profession nevertheless.
That's what he meant.
Except that in this case he did not actually sell crack cocaine.
> Microsoft could, if they port it to a sensible language and structure, drag in millions of young programmers.

The first thing I would like them to do is include some form of programming tools with Windows. On a Mac[1], you have Python, Perl, and Ruby available on a default installation, and you get XCode for free from the App Store. A fresh installation of Windows, OTOH, is a barren wasteland in comparison, and the effort it takes to change that is significantly higher.

[1] On GNU/Linux, *BSD you have at least Perl installed, and on most Linux distros Python is part of the base system, too.
Fair enough. I was providing a reference to the phenomenon 'frou_dh described.
“I am very pleased to offer you the full-time position of Senior Analyst, Security Compliance,” - so why doesn't he take that job? Or are they offering him the job and then by the time he goes to take it they've googled him and changed their minds?
This shouldn't be surprising. It has primary position on iOS and has tight integration with Siri, Apple Watch, Continuity, Contacts etc.

It has a terrible navigation backend (has no qualms about suggesting destinations in other countries) but you only notice it if you compare it say Google Maps.
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1984 was also when manufacturing jobs went into decline. In my locale a lot of displaced auto workers went into programming.

(edit: Off-by-one-century error)
Major discussion of this whole issue/story/event:

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846 (133 comments)

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785 (107 comments)

Other submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702673

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702861

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703310
Major discussion of this whole issue/story/event:

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846 (133 comments)

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785 (107 comments)

Other submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702673

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702861

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703192
...and what would that accomplish as the clock strikes 12 that night?...
This series should be a good primer: http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/4/7/fall-of-the-designer-...
It was the default behavior on OpenBSD's pdksh and my paranoid self grew to like it.

I view abusing your shell history as a symptom of lack of automation and functions/aliases.

Results May Vary, but in a way it made me more organized.
On a slight tangent: Darwin's children drew vegetable battles on the manuscript of On the Origin of Species.

http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/2/darwins-children-drew-veg...
...if you look up fast enough, you might just see the tail end of the joke as it passes over your head.
> I don't know how they do it on Windows, it's quite possible it's more obscure there, which would be a shame, because more people on Windows are uncomfortable with TUIs.

The GUI version has menus that feature the same content that you get with '?' in the terminal version. For the console verson on Windows, you'll have to read the manual.

When I started with NetHack in the 80s on the Amiga, I wouldn't have had any chance of playing it if the Amiga version didn't feature menus with all the available commands showing also the keys.
> Homeless people and people who are vulnerably housed in the UK have pretty lousy treatment from "services", a lot of which is provided by faith and voluntary groups.

Local council has to put you up in some accommodation. That's what we pay taxes for, so that people who happen to be evicted didn't end up in the streets. There's plenty of money on the table, and all you have to do is ask. You have to work the system, you need to know where to go and whom to talk to, and in a situation when you don't have the money for a bus ticket, that requires much more effort than it would normally do.

The system in the UK can be summed up as "help thyself, and the government will help thee". I think it is a good system, because it taught me to take care of myself. Its unfortunate effect is that people whose coping mechanism involves self-destructive behaviours are not being helped, even when help is available for them.
Your intuition around the 5-7 years lag time would seem to line up pretty damn well with the beginning of the computer revolution in the late 70s. What's the problem, exactly?
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It seems like the conviction is what's preventing him from taking up the job offers, not being homeless.
We actually do need to talk about those feedback loops. Really.

In science that is extremely important, we probably don't disagree. This is obvious.

For laymen who vote about this shit and need to be informed? Again important. If we just wave around this "99% of scientist" shit, the intelligent, but uninformed part of populace is not going to buy it. They feel like being called idiots. There is nothing like that to make a person to vehemently oppose you, if he has based part of his ego on being intelligent.

Now in my circle of friends, who am I going to believe on this subject. The guy who goes "420 blaze it! 99% of scientist agree cars are bad!" Or the guy who is bachelor of something and is really really skeptical about all this climate change stuff. I would go with the latter.

The message should be "We hear you and we aren't 100% certain. Let's start from the easy stuff to minimize the potential bad stuff."
I took the opposite extreme approach (and I think this is fairly common):

Launch emacs once ever and use emacsclient for the typical short-duration invoke/shutdown use cases.