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I don't think this is a particularly large problem. Traditional hash tables are imperative data structures, and Lisp code (or Scheme code, at least) typically does not use them because of this. Association lists, which can be represented as literals, are persistent and provider faster lookup, despite being O(n), for the cases in which hash literals are typically used (small number of pairs). The Clojure language has built-in persistent hash tables and sets, so it makes sense for them to have a reader that can process them. I really don't think this is a deal breaker though, when you can just do stuff like this:

(alist->hash-table '((foo . 1) (bar . 2)))
I'm using Chromium. I suspect that it is the response time that makes me perceive the site as not working...even 1 second is a long time for something that appears to be interactive.

The fast response time of the room editor probably sets an expectation. One strategy that may be used to mitigate long response times is to update the screen so that the user sees progress.

Here, though, the calculation makes the page unresponsive to ordinary events like scrolling.
From reading the comments on this thread, one could get the impression that HN Github users would have been happier had Github not responded at all.
I already run my servers on docker. I was alluding to a containerized package manager.

Will the golden age of a single package manager across distro be finally possible through Docker?
In Austin, TX. there is a consulting firm and all employees are super attractive females. I went there for an interview and was met by three ladies who looked like they should be models. I thought it was strange but, had no idea this is all they hired. Later I went to another consulting firm and took a better job. When I mentioned to my new recruiter about interviewing for the other job he said, "Oh yeah I wish I could get a job over there it's nothing but hot girls". It must work because they are still doing it a year later from what I hear.
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Tests just give you a bug report early, they don't fix the bug.
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In many situations, you might still have unencrypted traffic, even if your app is using authenticated encryption. Like, for example, if you're doing DNS lookups, or syslog to a remote host, etc.
If you want to call it sexism.

I have a female friend who gets hit on virtually constantly. She works for AT&T, and has described lines of hopefuls outside her door when she goes into the office. (she now works mostly from home)

She never pays for lunch, never pays for dinner. Men offer her free trips to different countries. She really is that attractive. But women who aren't quite that attractive get hit on all the time too, maybe not to the same extent as my friend does, but still a lot, in places that people would consider inappropriate or unprofessional.

It's pretty much ubiquitous. So ubiquitous that even calling it 'sexism' almost seems to downplay it. Because these little flirtatious interactions are easily hid from other people, particularly other guys, it's easy for guys, who are never the recipients of similar attention, to remain unaware of, or worse, fool themselves into believing that women are not being constantly assessed for the potential for romantic or sexual liaison.

My friend started highlighting it for me, and then I started seeing it everywhere.
I would say find out what they view as a fair solution?
Then they might have grown too quickly then. At this point, is really not that hard to move to GitLab.
Well let's just abandon all taxation by that argument
Review Board works with GitHub and allows you to publish your review when you're ready.
Reading the reactions to their addressing the complaints, I really don't envy the folks at Github. A lot of folks in the "Yeah that's nice but what about X/Y/Z" range (and same here on HN).

There's simply no winning.
I independently wrote a version of this for OS X: https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop
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Well, if they responded within a day, the answer would be something like "we'll look that up".

Because they waited for almost a month, they can confidently say something like "we thought about your issues thoroughly and we are ready to take some actions to resolve them".
But what if it's not that they are "commonly accepted rules" -- as if it was a conscious decision -- but more about how the brain is hardwired to act? What if the relatively simple rule of "if you're interested, just reply already, dammit!" doesn't accurately model how human sexual interactions work? Maybe we do a lot of signalling, some overt, some unconscious, some non-visual, just like it happens with other animals?
This shows a bias that high-level languages do not have native code compilers that can generate faster code than what someone writes in C/C++. This is not true. Some of these compilers can produce better native code because the language lets you write better code in the first place.
When I was growing up it was a combination of high incoming aptitude/IQ tests, teacher recommendation and a battery of other cognitive tests before being granted entry.
I'm with you on this. I'm an old school gamedev. Shipped games on Atari 800, C64, NES, and most system since then. I hated garbage collection for the longest time.

But, I have to acknowledge plenty of games are shipping with garbage collection. Unreal has garbage collection. Unity games have garbage collection. They seem to all be running just fine and there's plenty of large AAA games or close to AAA games made with both engines.
That is a far cry from a REPL.
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> The person imagines a constrained government, which would only read private messages when there is reason for suspicion.

That's the point. People who support mass surveillance or encryption bans only do so because they're uninformed (or have been purposely misinformed by others). You teach regular people how it actually works and they change their tune.
In Germany we have a three class system for schools (+ a school for children with special needs). The effect of this is that children not get separated by their potential but by the socioeconomic class of their parents. There's research that even at the same grades you're more likely to get a recommendation to go to the highest class of school, Gymnasium, if your parents are from a higher socioeconomic class.

When I was in basic school, before the separation happens, I had a friend that was said to be asozial. Asozial is a common description in Germany for low class people without basic education. His father was alcoholic, they lived in a really run down house and his parents weren't able to help him with the topics covered in basic school. At no point did I have the feeling that he was somehow dumber or less intelligent. What he was struggling with was the situation he was in. Meanwhile I was struggling with add and was only able to get through the first years of school with the help of my mother that made me sit down at the table until all homework was finished. When my parents saw that we struggled only the slightest bit they helped us with school. I didn't get private tutoring, but that seems to be extremely common now. Another thing that's only available to kids of affluent families.

The vibe I'm getting from Sweden (I lived there for a while, learned the language and still follow the news), is that it's moving to a more and more class-segregated country. Sure, everybody can look for the best school for their children, but only parents from higher socioeconomic classes will do that.
A tragedy played out every day, for sure. I wonder in all that, about the part where she accepts all this attention, letting guys pay for everything. What if she didn't play along?

I know, blaming the victim. But the social game is complex, and she is definitely a part of it.
It is revolutionary - if you manage to build the ecosystem. Remember that Docker itself was not considered revolutionary ("yawn.. Use lxc").

I would really recommend you look at nix, zeroinstall, click packages and http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...
Can confirm this is widely known within music pedagogy.

However, quite a few of my peers thought it was "stupid" and just practiced the same piece over and over, at the same tempo, without ever stopping and working on the hard parts.

After several years of music, there was a pronounced difference between those who practiced effectively and those who merely repeated their mistakes.

Perhaps a study like this could convince future students that it's worthwhile.
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>Life is certainly going to be more difficult, more dangerous, and probably less fulfilling for someone with an IQ of 85 than it will be for someone with an IQ of 110 or 135.

I agree about dangerous and difficult[1]. But why "less fulfilling"? That's a risky comment to make because we've seen, as one extreme example, doctors place people with learning disability[2] on Do Not Resuscitate orders without the knowledge or permission of the patient or their relatives.

[1] Living in Fear, a report about bullying, from the charity MENCAP who campaign for people with LD. https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2009...

[2] UK usage of LD.
I took it as a humorous(?) play on the dual meanings of the word "snapshot". What originated as a term for a quick photograph[0] evolved to have a metaphorical meaning of "a record of something as it existed at a single moment". So using "photoshop" in this way is just a cute way of extending the metaphor (while borrowing some of the dishonest connotations of photoshopping as well).

[0] Or evidently earlier as a term for a quick, roughly aimed shot from a gun. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snapshot
People are sensitive. They snap at the smallest hint that their behavior is wrong. Even if the behavior is only mildly inappropriate.
From my own anecdotal experience, everyone I can think of who is gifted (rather than clever) has social troubles to some degree, one of my sons included. He finds it difficult to relate to most children as he largely speaks a different language. He's a 99th percentile in most areas.

However, unlike the kids in the article, he doesn't enjoy Shakespeare or fawn over Incan currency. Talking to him is amazing. His thought processes are very mature, even compared to many adults. His language (when not telling fart jokes) is eloquent. He has no choice with his peers: dumb it down or be a freak.

Several of my friends fit into this profile too. None of them fit the mould painted in this article. Although, that doesn't surprise me. I found this article disappointing on several levels (eg. generalisation about gender is 'she').

There were a few points in the article that resonated with me: behavioural problems in my son (which we later categorised as Aspergers compounded with boredom) and misdiagnosis by teachers. My son was put in a special class for struggling students until I produced a WISC report showing he was gifted or near gifted. When he wrote a beautiful children's book at 5, they thought it was a forgery and ignored it until I had the WISC report to confirm his ability. The report changed a lot with his teachers.

The article talks about segregation as a positive. I'm not convinced this is a positive as these children are likely going to need to integrate in broader society. I purposely put my kids at a standard but high performing school rather than choosing a special school for this reason. The results have been mixed. There is bullying by peer girls and boys and at least one 'friend' said "my mother can't see me play with you or I'll get in big trouble" (also known as Aspergers are lepers to some parents - if this is true, she is an awful person).

If I have one suggestion for parents of a gifted child, it would be to accept that your child will have areas where they are smarter than you and to nurture their talent through their interests. I've recently observed at length two mothers with near gifted or gifted sons whom they mercilessly bully (I have no idea why a parent would do this to their child). Both mothers have a daughter too - and the daughter (in both instances) can't be praised enough. Two of my closest and gifted friends (50+) recalled similar bullying from their mothers (and were unsupported by weak fathers). Thankfully, my wife is not like that with our son.

So, yes, I see odd behaviour from gifted children as normal due to an incompatibility at an intellectual level. Gifted is noticeably different from clever. When you talk to a 5 year old that shows complex reasoning like an adult most of the time, they are most probably gifted. Someone that knows some surprising facts is probably clever rather than gifted.
The idea of strapping on blockchain semantics onto traditional databases, distributes or otherwise has been around for quite a long time. Openchain is one such example. So we end up with a system of clients connecting to some distributed store and able to do a ton of tps, but without the ability to independantly verify transaction history. It is a completely different security problem then the public digital currency networks.

There are also assertions in the paper about Bitcoin and the network that are wrong. It's not a broadcast network, it's a peer-to-peer gossip network, there is a huge difference in terms of propagation and scale.
Djvu is patented. As a result it is very possible that is will never achieve enough critical mass to be suitable for long term archiving.
It has been said that everyone wants their favorite language with just one more feature.
Anything built with Unity, such as Cities Skylines. Additionally anything built with unreal engine [0] like Gears of War, the Arkham KNight series etc

[0] https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Garbage_Collection_Overview
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All other things being equal, higher intelligence helps to stand up to bullying.

Kids with lower IQ have tougher life.
I'm not sure what a soft real time game is. Here's two lists of some games with garbage collection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

https://unity3d.com/showcase/gallery
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Is there a better forum for "truely free software"? I honestly don't know of one, and I would love to find it if it exists. Personally, I too am dissatisfied with the comercial aspects of startupy-venture-opensourcedome. There has become a great deal of dishonesty and tension. The itch that I'm scratching here, is, for example, the problem of the freecad project, which is really hard to build and run from source as it uses some non-standard runtime dependencies. The typical solution has been to have all the developers run ubuntu. Subuser should make things better, because we can run ubuntu in subuser and then run subuser everywhere... This is better than using virtual machines due to the performance and integration requirements of the software at hand.

The other thing that is good about subuser is the isolation that it provides. If you download some new freecad plugin from some random person, and that person made a mistake and their plugin damages your system, then that sucks. But subuser can help contain that damage. It also has some protection agains malicious software. Short of a kernel bug, it's pretty hard to break out of subuser's containers. So if you EVER download development versions of software that are from non-vetted sources, you should consider installing and running that software through subuser. It will make you safer, and if enough people do it, and make subuser images, then it'll also save everyone in the free software world a lot of time :)
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Yeesh. Finding a girlfriend in college and getting married not too long after graduation remains the best decision I've ever made. I don't know how people deal with this shit.
If your job is to write crap like that all day, I imagine you have to have at least some fun with it to keep your sanity.
I don't think it is because they want to cater to the big players, but more that this got a lot of attention.
In an ideal world, the Issues team would develop and support a plugin ecosystem for the tracker. Users can customize and add the features they see fit and even create their own custom plugins. Allows flexibility and power for those who want it while keeping the core simple and clean
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You really should consider telling those who filed the letter that you were at least working on it. Did you expect them to know?!?
> Bullying mostly targets the gifted,

Wait what? You have nothing to support that claim.

https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2009...
I'm not sure I understand your 1940s point, but generally Bayesians would like to communicate (edit) likelihoods instead of posteriors so that they can be combined like you ask.

Edit: autocorrect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I will not trust some binary logic that interacts with my data, just because it runs with a dferent numeric uid on my system. That's the point.

People is calling "containers" to operative system images pulled from third party repositories under certain laws.

If we left all that behind, yes, it's better if your firefox cannot read you ssh private key for example. But I don't need docker for that, sorry.

I need a third party blob, when I don't want to embrace the postgresql source code for free and it's manual, and make myself more free tomorrow.

But the... how many millions was it? dollars campaign behind certain technologies (and providers), has more power than any thinking, regarding network effects.
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That's why I'm glad they did this. Tone of the post notwithstanding, it's a great example of the weird sexism that exists online, and I think they deserve credit for showing it, even at the cost of the ego of their own customers.
"They need your labour, the rest is just paper."

I'm going to reuse that! I wish this kind of thinking about economy is more main stream.
sure, you can't buy a house in Vancouver anymore on a normal salary, but nothing prevents you from living in Surrey, there are plenty of towers going up around the skytrain at Surrey central and King George where you can get an apartment for less than 200k

Yes, it's not Vancouver city, and yes, it's not a house, however via skytrain you can be downtown in a little over 40 minutes and get work done on your laptop in the meantime.

You don't need a house to survive, it is nice, yes, but many many many millions of people live and bring up families in apartments in Europe, so it is definitely doable.

Of course it's annoying to think that 12 years ago you could get a nice house in kits for 400k, or a 1000+ sqf condo downtown for 200k, but what can you do, same deal as buying a lottery ticket or joining a startup that makes it vs one that doesn't. The mountains and nature and weather are available whether you live in vancouver or in one of the suburbs

Metro Vancouver is over 2m people, Surrey is the largest city in the metro area actually, even if Vancouver proper becomes a "haven for the rich" there's plenty of other areas where one can live, the problem is that a lot of tech companies can't seem to see beyond "gastown is trendy" or "let's go to yaletown" or "downtown is where it's at", when they could easily set up in other skytrain-served area and attract more folks that don't like the commute downtown.

It is true, what you could do 10-15 years ago, buy a house within 30 minutes of downtown on a normal salary is not possible anymore (just like it wasn't possible back then to do that for a house in Point Grey) but it is still quite possible to live here, given the amount of immigration that the area is still getting.

Townhouses and condos in Surrey or Langley are still very affordable, the commute is annoying, but from what I hear from friends in the valley it's not like traffic there is that great either, at least up here you can sit on the skytrain and get things done or read a book rather than be stuck in traffic and have no alternatives because there's no decent public transit.
'Need' is not always logical. You buy a car when you need one - and look desperate to the car salesman. But you need it, so you shop.

More helpful advice is, how to shop intelligently when needy.
Thanks for telling me about this, I'm going to give it a try! Now the tough part will be getting my other friends to try it out as well as the same time.
A point not raised in the article: some areas have gifted programs that are simply too large. I was enrolled in one in Fairfax County in northern Virginia, and nearly a fifth of the student population was part of it. I moved away before high school, but in high school, the program ended, and the expectation was that gifted children enroll in the Thomas Jefferson magnet school for science and technology — which looked at GPA (of eighth graders) as a deciding factor in admissions — or simply continue taking ordinary honors classes in high school, which were essentially opt-in-to-more-homework classes.

The correlation with eccentricity is not nearly as strong, in my experience, among children who are one standard deviation above average, as in children who are two. Teachers who are actually talented at teaching gifted children see their efforts spread too thin, with only 1–3 children per class who could really benefit from this teacher over other good teachers.

And the eccentric children don't ever get the insulation from other kids' bullying they need; they often avoid even making friends among themselves because they see that as a way of cementing their low social status. Gifted children can make friends with — for lack of a better word — normal children, but some of them, at least, can only get the social stimulation they need from real intellectual conversation with their peers, which other children are either incapable of or uninterested in.

I don't believe we should isolate gifted children from the rest of the population day in, day out. That would only serve to create an echochamber and leave them woefully unprepared when they inevitably leave the bubble. But I do think they need to be given significant time amongst themselves so that they can develop the friendships and confidence they need to survive in the general population, and the special academic attention which might hopefully stimulate them enough to help them flounder less in regular classes.
> Super high property tax when I'm not there? Simple, employ a cleaner on some minimal wage and let them stay there when I'm not in town. When I'm in town, put them up in a hotel. I'll probably still save money on the property tax and I can claim to be a caring employer, helping with employment in town. The city council are evil job destroyers by sticking me with huge taxes.

Doesn't that kind of help the problem though? Because now someone who would have to rent an expensive apartment is now basically living rent-free in a home. If enough people did this, it would help alleviate the issue.

I agree with your point though, and know people who do this. They are "caretakers" who basically live rent-free to make sure the place doesn't fall apart. The occupancy idea sounds good, but it seems like a logistical, administrative pain to enforce.
I think it looks worse that it took so long to respond without any demonstrable improvements.