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My son's been doing Robot Turtles for awhile now and mostly gets it. The next step is to get him to do multiple cards at once rather than one card at a time.

I've heard about Scratch many times, but have never looked into it in detail. Anyone have experience with it for their kids?

My dad taught me GW-BASIC when I was young. One thing that's different now: when I wrote a GW-BASIC program that just printed text, or maybe outputted some CP437 characters, or drew some lines in 4 color mode, it didn't look all that different to "real" programs we ran on an IBM XT. But if my son gets older and I teach him Python or whatever, sure we can write a console app that does something, but it's not going to look anything like most of what he sees a computer doing.

(Though that said, he does like watching me play Brogue, so if we had an @ that moved around the screen getting in fights with r's and j's and B's, then that would be familiar to him after all.)
Doesn't it seem like they're trying to do that by announcing they're hiring designers?
Everyday we're getting sun rays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays

Why are we surprised at gravitational waves when 2 black holes collided?
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How does nodejs stand up against Java netty NIO for the web socket use case?
> it would be a tremendous cultural loss if it were to disappear

And that is why everyone keeps backups of their work on their personal sites, right?

http://indiewebcamp.com/
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Is your speculation that the gravity wave detectors would be able to detect the changes in gravity caused by movements of people and things?

Submarines already do this to detect other vessels AFAIK.
> Would it be possible to listen for information transmitted via gravitational waves? Would there be any benefit over radio?

Well, if you observe a meaningful, non-natural gravity wave signal, you know that you've discovered not merely another technical situation (which you'd know if you detected the same thing in radio waves), but a phenomenally advanced one.

So, if not an advantage, there is at least a meaningful difference.
They are in charge of every aspect of AMP, what's stopping them from rendering ads as native content without the identifying tags in the future?
People who worry about these things professionally generally would veer towards TIFF if PDF was insufficient. PDF/A does stuff like embed fonts and avoid proprietary compression & encryption, to avoid likely long term failure scenarios.

In the US, permanently retained documents like court records are kept in PDF. It will be around.
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Is this open source? I'd like to see how your finding replies for a single user.
Even if it were possible, what sort of crazy alien would it take to burn 3 solar masses of negentropy to basically run a ping, compared to the amount of data that could be transmitted with electromagnetic waves with 3 solar masses of negentropy? It's literally dozens of orders of magnitude in difference. Any aliens that are that bad at engineering probably aren't going to grow to the point that they can shake neutron stars several times per second.
Is the speed of light affected by the gravitational fluctuations mentioned in the article?

Or, put another way, is the speed of light only a constant because we measure it in constant gravity?
The launch of cloud security startup Cato Networks by cybersecurity expert Shlomo Kramer reminded me of the episode of USA's Mr. Robot when Elliot Alderson explains why he chose his healthcare provider – limited security budget and limited security staff let him break through the perimeter defenses and change his medical record to cover up his lifestyle. In the real world, though, cyber threats are scaling faster than enterprises can respond. Like Elliot, Kramer is counting on enterprises with limited security staff and budgets turning to his new venture for end-to-end, perimeter-less security.
Now if Google would just reverse their blocking of applications that allow us to limit certain what apps have access to on my phone for privacy concerns, then I'd be happy. Might switch over to a Blackphone 2 just for this reason alone.
gRPC does have native bindings for all of Go, Ruby and Node.js. Not sure why you say it won't work well?

NATS being a SPOF isn't necessarily a problem for us if it's stable, which it seems to be. We are already completely dependent on HAProxy as a SPOF, anyway. Moreover, most client bindings seem to support providing a host list they use for failover.

I will take a closer look at Quark and Datawire Connect when I have a spare moment. Do you have it running in production? Happy to hear that Go is on the roadmap.
> there is tons of music that has been created in the past 5+ years that exists exclusively there, and it would be a tremendous cultural loss if it were to disappear.

I don't know. We would obviously loose a fragment of history but if those tracks were so important culturally then they would have been distributed more widely. For instance, pressed on CD or vinyl or utilized in a movie or pirated in some way.

While I do like soundcloud I don't get what's so special about it. My hunch is that it is not so much the website but the fact that the internet is mainstream these days. There were websites where artists could share their music and have a profile before Soundcloud. Just to name a few: Besonic, mp3.com, myownmusic ...
Material and Bootstrap are very different, so I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but FWIW, IBM does have some resources available, including what appears to be working code in the "animation library" https://www.ibm.com/design/language/resources
If you don't mind losing private messages (I get ~0 of those), presumably you could add the reddit mail icon to your adblocker or something?

For me though, notifications are much more important on reddit than here. Here I can see replies directly on my user page (and replies to them, which I also like to follow), there I'd have to click through to each of my recent comments to check.
Reduction in vascular contributions to dementia due to the same technologies that have greatly reduced cardiovascular mortality over the past 40 years seems like a reasonable hypothesis.

A lot of the damage to your brain is due to deterioration of blood vessels, leading to a continual series of tiny unseen strokes, in effect, silently destroying tiny areas of brain tissue. The level to which that is present in an individual has been shown to correlate pretty well with cognitive impairment.
I enjoy ice fishing, and while it's a bit heavy for normal use it would be nice to have a back up plan for if the vehicle goes through the ice.
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Looks like the mime-types upgrade has some sort of hard dependency on Rails 5? I seem to be stuck on 2.99
.... have you EVER been to a poor neighborhood? There's a payday loan company around every other corner. If they lack ANYTHING, competition is at the bottom of the list. We have laws that specifically prohibit banks from being that damned usurious. We need the same against private lenders.
Naivety is charming.
If by emoji you mean the unicode table, yes, you're right.
> Data is all we have. Data is what we need to transform in order to create a user experience. Data is what we load when we open a document. Data is the graphics on the screen and the pulses from the buttons on your game pad

I've been trying to explain this concept to UI-focused devs for years, it's nice to have a (seemingly) well written resource I can point them towards instead.
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Well we've accounted for about 5% of the universe--the stuff we know about.

Dark matter (about 25%) seems to only interact gravitationally, which means that we've just, today, proven that we have an instrument that could possibly observe it directly. To date, all our evidence for dark matter is indirect--observing the otherwise unexplained behavior of normal matter. Today is the gravitational equivalent to Galileo pointing his first telescope at the night sky.

Dark energy (about 70%) still seems to be a total mystery.

And of course there is our inability to reconcile quantum mechanics with gravity. With each further proof of the correctness of each of those theories, the mystery of their apparent incompatibility deepens.

All of these factors lead me to believe that we may still have a long way to go in our understanding of the physical universe. I hope I'm right.

This is also why I believe it is so important to pursue nuclear energy. If we do invent further theories and experiments, it's likely that they will require even greater energy levels than we can create now, and potentially imply even greater dangers. If we can't learn to manage nuclear physics in a practical, routine way, we'll never have a hope of going beyond it (if indeed there is a "beyond.")
slabtop if you're into kernel development and low level debugging
Reminds me of my favourite piece of vaporware: cantor.dust

https://sites.google.com/site/xxcantorxdustxx/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8--cXwuuFQ
I guess I just don't see an open market with no barrier to entry as "bad".

The possibility of outsourcing does force people to face this fact head-on, but even with barbershops barriers to entry mean higher prices for the end-consumer, higher operating costs for the barbers and unemployment for the almost-barbers who are excluded.
I'm pretty sure text files can reside in the same folder as PNG files.
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The mechanical and software engineering underlying these research endeavors is breathtaking. The laser apparatus, LISA pathfinder, ELISA - how on earth do they calibrate/debug/test such complex systems?

... and I shudder to think that more often than not, anything I code in C/C++ will segfault on first run.
Follow up: my account was unsuspended this morning with an apology for the delay. All it took was:

* 7 messages to support

* posting on twitter, hn, and the seller forums

* canceling all of my AWS services

* badgering the one rep on the seller forums who responded to me

* requesting (and paying for) my FBA merchandise to be returned to me

* waiting 35x longer then the stated response time

The forum rep initially told me to just email them again, but after a week of no response, she tried contacting them. After they ignored her for a week, she got a supervisor involved which, I suspect, is the only reason I ever received a response.

All in all, this was an incredibly frustrating experience and makes me wary of doing business with amazon.

I still haven't received any explanation for why it took so long, or why they jumped to suspension without notifying me.
Man they ought to call it the curse of the stupid everyone else.
"but as far as I'm aware all of them [require] something more beyond just firing up more instances."

Fixed that for me...
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Please be cautious when considering working for or with IBM. IBM's poor treatment of employees and customers is widely reported. Do your own research.

For example, Cringely has a book outlining IBM's problems:
http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/

He has many posts in the same vein (note dates in the URLs):

* http://www.cringely.com/2016/01/11/wheres-the-beef-ibm/

* http://www.cringely.com/2015/07/21/ibm-is-so-screwed/

* http://www.cringely.com/2015/01/26/ibm-right-gadfly/

* http://www.cringely.com/2015/01/22/ibms-reorg-hell-launches-...

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/10/27/fix-ibm/

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/10/21/ginni-comes-senses-late-i...

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/10/12/ibms-power8-servers-less-...

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/07/25/fed-suckered-ibm-failing-...

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/07/16/ibm-apple-just-big-deal/

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/15/ibm-back-ussr/

* http://www.cringely.com/2014/01/23/ibm-sells-intel-server-bu...

* http://www.cringely.com/2013/08/07/fulfilling-customer-requi...

* http://www.cringely.com/2013/07/25/the-new-ibm-vampires-in-o...

* http://www.cringely.com/2013/06/20/ibm-to-customers-your-han...

* http://www.cringely.com/2013/04/22/the-decline-fall-of-ibm/

...and many older columns.

See the comment by slantedview in these comments for another example.

Cringely isn't the only one offering serious criticisms of IBM:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=pro...
Smells like BS. At most, the person may have acted as an ISSM (Information Systems Security Manager). Even then, I doubt the 'general purpose' config used by the majority of the Air Force is created by any one person.

By 'general purpose' I mean the baseline configuration that all non-POR (Program of Record) systems use. Ie, hardened Windows, MS Office, security monitoring, CAC authentication, and DOD certificates. There's no chance in hell that the 'general purpose' configuration will ever be changed to include OSS because it's intent is to be the 'lowest common demominator' of connected systems.

This person probably works as a grunt for the AF branch equivalent of G-6.

The COTS systems you're referring to are POR (Program of Record) systems created and supported by the product development branch. I think for the AF, it's the Air Materiel Command. They fall outside the scope of general systems support, therefore they require their own infrastructure for maintenance/support.

Source: I used to support a POR system.
I use google docs for it. You can upload scanned documents to Google docs. Documents are automatically OCRed, you can search by keywords and you can still access the original image.

Disclaimer: I work at google, although not on the Google docs team.
"Insisting that the only alternative to missing payments is with obscene-interest loans "

The money has to come from somewhere and the interest rate is based on risk. If someone doesn't have any credit, it's most likely because they have no income or had credit and defaulted. This is high risk and should have a high risk accordingly.

The other question is, why can't they get credit from a bank?

I could get a $5000 line of credit at 18 years old..and I had no connections, a low-paying job, and no credit history. The only way you can't get credit is if you continue to misuse the system and become a risk to everyone.

We should be investing in more financial education.
I want to say that the important part of the article is how a startup can incorporate open source while still having characteristics that attract investment. That seemed to be what the authors were getting at. But it's hard to take someone's conclusions and suggestions seriously when they make basic due diligence errors.
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That's the energy emitted by a billion trillion Suns. The total energy being equivalent to three Suns turned into pure energy.
As someone who has spent the day trying to get a web app to run, wrestling with Perl dependencies, I feel the same.
Am I missing something? This report is from 2014. Despite the fact that "SoundCloud was heavily reliant on further capital investment to continue operating in 2015."....it did indeed raise money, made it through 2015, and is still operating in 2016.

It seems that this "report" is coming out now because stories about startup implosions get more clicks these days. It shouldn't surprise anyone that they are and have been losing money. That's why these companies raise such large rounds.
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From the paper: "To account for the search background noise varying across the target signal space, candidate and background events are divided into three search classes based on template length. The right panel of Fig. 4 shows the background for the search class of GW150914. The GW150914 detection- statistic value of ρˆ_c = 23.6 is larger than any background event, so only an upper bound can be placed on its false alarm rate. Across the three search classes this bound is 1 in 203 000 years. This translates to a false alarm probability < 2 × 10^−7, corresponding to 5.1σ. A second, independent matched-filter analysis that uses a different method for estimating the significance of its events [85,86], also detected GW150914 with identical signal parameters and consistent significance" (https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public). Take a look at Figure 4 as well.

In case you'd like to dig deeper, the 85 and 86 mentioned are:

[85] K. Cannon et al., Astrophys. J. 748, 136 (2012).

[86] S. Privitera, S. R. P. Mohapatra, P. Ajith, K. Cannon, N. Fotopoulos, M. A. Frei, C. Hanna, A. J. Weinstein, and J. T. Whelan, Phys. Rev. D 89, 024003 (2014),
That looks like sloppy reporting or at least a misleading headline. Although I guess anything "could" happen.
Roubini predicted bear market in 2016 three years ago
In February of 2013, Nouriel Roubini...told Yahoo Finance that the U.S. was about to enter an asset bubble that would be “bigger than the one we had in 2003-06.” ...He believes that valuations in some markets are already stretched and will continue to stretch until seeing a shakeout around two years down the line, in 2016.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/roubini--u-s--equities-will-be-strong-until-2016-133934757.html
> but objectively looking at the research and data available on this topic, it's clear to me that the USA is lagging in STEM fields.

I did some googling around this but all the research uses test scores to come to that conclusion.

I would like to see some other methodology.
This means Einstein was right, yeah
yeah it's super useful, nice interface and all the docs are hosted on S3 which is interesting...
That is for analytics, not adverts. Google adverts only uses cookies to track users AFAIK.
Right, and at its high it was hyped up to more than $15B.

So if Stripe is worth 5B, and has a similar % drop, it will be worth about 300M, or about half as much money as it has raised.
For those who got lost, this is a play on US Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio at the last debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OZ8xHTX7c
Sweet! I just realized that HN Notify hasn't been working since november. Thanks for your work.
This should be one of the perks of Go since the compiler won't let you include anything that you aren't using.
I especially like the comment that picks up the information from the article that psychological experiments in general (one might say science studies in general) have to be reviewed for reproducibility. The article cites some good sources on that issue. "But ultimately, this isn’t about whether it’s better to know more languages or not. It’s about how science is done, and what counts as decent evidence. It’s about the role of outsiders, and whether they’re best-placed to see through the biases that permeate a field, or incapable of judging it on technical grounds. And it’s about how researchers negotiate disagreements of opinion."

For bilingualism as such, I'll mention that my list of languages learned as second languages (I'm a native speaker of General American English who grew up in the United States) is on my Hacker News user profile. My wife (from Taiwan) and I were quite consistent about bringing up our oldest son (born in the United States, brought up partly in Taiwan) as a bilingual native speaker of Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) and English. Some of my younger children are less completely bilingual, but all are comfortable with the project of studying other modern languages. Taiwan's history since World War II is quite interesting, because after the Republic of China Nationalist Party of China (KMT) regime regained control of Taiwan at the end of the war, the school policy was that school lessons all had to be taught in Mandarin. But the local people in Taiwan mostly spoke Taiwanese (my wife's native language) or Hakka, cognate but not mutually intelligible Sinitic languages. So the whole postwar generation went to school, from first grade on, entirely in a foreign language. My wife grew up speaking Taiwanese at home and Mandarin at school (pupils were fined if they spoke the wrong language at school) and she now habitually speaks to her older siblings in Mandarin, even though her whole family in that generation are native speakers of Taiwanese. Some of our nieces in Taiwan, essentially all from Taiwanese or half-Taiwanese families, are more proficient in Mandarin than in Taiwanese. The KMT regime succeeded in switching the majority language in Taiwan (also through control of radio broadcasting and movie production in the days of the former dictatorship) and the school pupils learned a lot even when Taiwan was dirt poor despite going to school in a foreign language. And the level of knowledge of English over there is pretty high too--my wife began study of English as a compulsory school lesson at the beginning of junior high, and I think English is now a primary school subject. So bilingualism is perfectly doable, if a country puts its mind to bilingualism. Even language change is possible in just two generations.
> They largely circumvent a lot of the process with help from policy makers at the highest levels.

> Even then, I'm pretty sure they don't offer hosting/authorizing deployments from party sources. So they essentially have a monopoly on the ability to use OSS freely for bulding government websites.

That's not quite the case. Many agencies use a ton of OSS to build websites and other services.

https://github.com/cfpb/source-code-policy
https://github.com/uscensusbureau/open-source-policy
https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy

The policy links above refer to those teams releasing their own code as open source, but you will find huge amounts of outside open source code being used there, and in many other agencies.

The Department of Defense is famous for (in 2003!) making sure their department knew that open source software was A-okay to use, and people refer to their amazing FAQ all the time:

http://dodcio.defense.gov/OpenSourceSoftwareFAQ.aspx

(I'm an 18F employee.)
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This is about detection.

To put it another way, you need a single black swan to prove that black swans exists (to whatever sigma).
I think the point of the article is: use external libraries thoughtfully. I don't think he was suggesting not using them at all.

Your example sounds like a situation where a dependency certainly makes sense.
Unfortunately, none of this is surprising. Soundcloud has no real revenue model due to a seemingly inability to court rights-holders, and the product is mediocre at best. Soundcloud provided an outlet for the indie and electronic music communities to share and consume music early on, and that has more or less remained their bread and butter to this day. Even if they were charging end-users for access, the viability of it is as a competitor to Spotify and Apple music, at the prevailing market price-point ($10 / month) is slim. Ultimately Soundcloud is a niche product competing against broad market products with no real path to revenue other than somehow bringing mainstream music onboard. And it seems pretty clear that mainstream music isn't interested in collaborating with Soundcloud.
I think you're taking a rather narrow view. soundcloud has become a storehouse not just for music, but for SOUND -- ambient environments, spoken word, audio diaries, etc. saying that anything of value is released on CD already would be like saying that the personal correspondence of Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, etc is worthless because we already have their published books.

In this way, I think it's also unique vs. other music sharing sites, in that people don't typically post their recording of a Chinese night market on their CDBaby or YouTube channel ...

Soundcloud:sound :: Flickr:photos