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The UK lacks a formal Constitution with something like the 1st Amendment. Instead it has something called the Human Rights Act which includes all kinds of exceptions to free speech. The US 1st Amendment is not absolute but it's the closest thing we have to an absolute right here. The infringement of free speech is possibly the single most controversial aspect of US National Security Letters. It's generally very difficult to limit a person's free speech because of the 1st Amendment. While in UK it seems like they can easily add exceptions like not being able to discuss a court order.
What happened to the MS-Django MSSQL collaboration? It seems to have fizzled out.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/django-developers/...
What's wrong with silence?
The core business has positive earnings if you ignore goodwill on the balance sheet. However, earnings are declining.
If they continue chugging along, they're most likely going to get eaten alive by single-purpose companies who have the capability to offer a more refined product, and iterate at a quicker pace. It would be more valuable to investors if Yahoo split into product-specific components, a la HP. The sum of Yahoo's components will be more valuable than the whole, anyways.

Yahoo's been throwing shit on the wall for a long time, and nothing's been sticking. It's no wonder investors are starting to lose their patience.
You raise an interesting question as to whether the language can be separated from the culture. I'd wager that there's a ton of imprecision in Asian languages due to culture where a lot of communication is unspoken and relies on context. Korean-Canadian working as a manager in China and finding that I don't know how to communicate with my team even after 1.5 years on the job. Part of it is that I suck at being a manager, but part of it is that my team expects me to be able to read their minds. Chinese people tell me that the normal thing is to say something and mean something else.

If you separate language room the goal of communication and the context of culture, it's easy to analyze language differences the way you would analyze the difference between Python and Swift. But that analysis may not be so useful or applicable in day-to-day life.
Why not? It's definitely sustainable. The loss can be offset by the gains. And if the gains outweigh the loss then it's sustainable.
I would love one, if you still have any left.
Given the company's ethics, I think I'll pass.
I wonder though, is this a feature of the language itself or the fact that we are so used to hearing broken English? Hardly a day goes by that I don't need to communicate in English with non-native speakers, and I've gotten pretty good at it. Even if your accent is terrible you can probably still communicate with me. Contrast with Greek, for example: the vast majority of its speakers are native, and the Greeks have a hard time understanding non-native speakers despite the language's clear and consistent phonology.

Danish has rather complex and tortured phonology (to my ears), so I'm sure that's part of the problem; but English is pretty weird too.
When oil demand is low, they have to get into a new market like renewable energy. Solar, wind, water turbine, geothermic etc.

They have to invent the IP, and sell the equipment, and use it in their own nation to sell the electricity or batteries for money.

It takes a different business plan than oil, but they have to adapt to it sooner or later.
This is what I wondered too. Yahoo could be a great business if they just accepted that they were the Internet Portal for Old People.

But this would never impress investors who are looking for insane returns. As a result, they're taking everyone down with them.
This story has been submitted dozens of times already. The major discussion of the original "open letter" was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
Killer 'app' for the smartphone is pocket sized PC. It has enough compute power (coupled with the internet) to take over mapping, entertainment, entertainment planning (let's find a restaurant near us,make reservations, then see if there are any shows or movies nearby). It changed everything. I just wish the damn things didn't have a phone built in.

What's the shopping angle for AR you are envisioning? We can take photos of QR codes or products, or just talk to the thing and it will bring up whatever I'm interested in (I do this all the time in a store to figure out which of N products I want to buy).
> The resources dedicated to securing non-free software may be far greater than those dedicated to free software because of the business interests in maintaining security.

My argument is about confidence---you cannot trust a system that you do not have confidence in.

Yes, a proprietary system may have had much more development and research. But that doesn't make it "better". With a free system---even if it's more poorly designed---you gain confidence in being able to observe _exactly_ what it does, faults and all. You know what to expect, and what not to; that's far more important than not knowing either of those.

Further, the general recommendation among cryptographers and security experts is to use public algorithms that have been torn apart by cryptanalysts for years---all security should be in the key, for example, _not_ secrets in the implementation.

> Google has done a lot to improve the security of a variety of open source projects, but only because they form part of a non-free core that would otherwise be compromised. The same holds true for Apple albeit to a lesser extent.

This is security through obscurity, and is antithetical to actual security.

> A free system can much more easily be compromised by the injection of cloaked vulnerabilities by actors such as the NSA.

I don't follow. This is one of those situations where you _always_ have more transparency in a free system than a proprietary one---you are able to see _every_ patch that makes it into the system. That doesn't mean that you'll catch everything, but you have the opportunity to do so. And not just you---everyone.

> You actually haven't shown anything. You have simply stated that transparency trumps everything else. This is false. Transparency simply diffuses the trust model.

You cannot have confidence in an opaque system.

> More importantly, as I keep saying, nobody has ever produced a transparent system that can be substituted for Apple's system. Until they do, these arguments that a theoretical alternative would be better are imaginary. If it was as simple as you suggest, why hasn't it been done, or at least demonstrated?

Which system, in particular?

Apple's system should not be used and cannot be trusted---it is proprietary and designed to control the user in countless ways. Apple may take measures to protect their users' privacy and data, but ultimately, users are at Apple's mercy, and Apple has the final say in everything. Apple is historically one of the most opaque, secretive tech companies in existence.

So any free system is an improvement over Apple's.
The language is still changing quite fast I believe. I don't know whether this is the reason, but it might be.
I don't think the US "made" Saudi Arabia. My recollection is that the Saud family defeated their local rivals and established the Saudi state in the 20s and 30s, and that American political involvement with Saudi Arabia really only began towards the end of WW2.
Yes, English has irregular spelling. And phrasal verbs, the whole "to/-ing" thing[1], and "th" is hard for some people to pronounce.

On the other hand, it doesn't have nouns that need to be remembered as masculine or feminine. Or a hundred+ unique regular verb conjugation endings. There are no subjunctive tenses (with one tiny exception). There are no tones. I could go on... Every language has its annoyances.

And honestly, the spelling's not that bad. Having spent years as an English teacher abroad, spelling was just never an issue. It's easy to complain about, but it's just not a big deal in practice.

[1] I.e. you must say "I detest fishing" instead of "I detest to fish", while you must say "I want to fish" instead of "I want fishing" while and both "I like fishing" and "I like to fish" are fine. And normal dictionaries won't even tell you which verb takes which.
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The world isn't just, you can either fight it or work with it as it is. Go someplace else.
Also, there is no negative for a Taiwanese to have more options.
Have you explored possibility of making this light rich enough in different wavelengths to also let plants grow under it? Or is it not possible with LEDs?
Life is hard - news at 11

No one with a US citizenship and a college education has a right to complain.

You can go live in any city you want and work at any job, start a business or get unemployment checks.

Where I come from people die crossing the mountains & deserts just for a chance to pick the vegetables that Talia couldn't buy.

Give me a break.
I bet it has to do with liability and someone is covering their ass. If they did proper background check on you then you probably signed some papers saying that what you said is true to the court of law etc etc etc and if they let it slide now and they find out something else about you later, person who let it slide will get in trouble and obviously for them it's safer to just fire you.
I've come across the latter concept myself despite only speaking english, and basically intend to learn another language for the reasons you mentioned. Not 100% sure which one, though.
Depends on what you mean by comparable. LEDs (and CFLs) aren't blackbody radiators. It's possible with many fine tuned LEDs you can get a spectral power distribution approximate to that of the sun, but... for now it's expensive. And difficult to make consistent.
Small sample sizes don't mean low confidence, why do people constantly make that mistake?

What you should be asking about are confidence intervals and reproducibility.
Any promo codes for Hacker News denizens? :-)
While I understand that the article is more about academic fun than seriousness, it does annoy me that articles like this go "X is not ideal! Y is better than X at foo, and Z is better than X at bar!". You never get a gestalt comparison, just "English is a shit language, because Spanish is better at this one item, and Hawaiian is better at this one item, and Swahili is better at this one item".

You get similar articles in the vein of animal comparison: "The human is physically feeble and weak, because our vision doesn't match that of an eagle, our jaws don't match those of a jaguar, and we can't swim like a dolphin", when in fact, we're physically just fine. Jaguars don't have eagle eyesight either, nor can they swim like dolphins.

> then went on to discuss how English managed to attain its astonishing (and increasing) global status despite its manifest unsuitability.

Not that mysterious: the global superpowers of the 19th (UK) and 20-21st centuries (US) both spoke English, and both were significant exporters of culture. If you wanted to be a have instead of a have-not, you were better off speaking English than Spanish, Hawaiian, or Swahili...
Actually JSON doesn't mentions a limit on numbers
http://stackoverflow.com/a/13502497/1192111
It would be interesting to look at the data for how many 1, 2, and 3 word subject lines there are over time. Maybe fewer "Hello" or "Thank you" subject lines as more people got used to the idea that it's good to be specific and informative in the email subject.
Apple did not want to make this public, and would have been quite happy to give the FBI what it wanted under seal. It was the FBI that actively wanted to make this public, ostensibly to establish legal precedent. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11131866
Ingenic does. Which is of no help as it has no drivers for this watch. See last paragraph of my article
It would have to produce vitamin-D (or whatever the sunlight produces when it hits your skin) in order to combat that.

Source: Me in wintertime Sweden.
I wonder what linguists would consider the "best" current language in widespread use (at least 1M first-language native speakers say in a single dialect) for international exchange, taking into account all relevant aspects of the language including writing system.
You may want to sort by settlement date instead of transaction date. There are plenty of examples where you need to sort before you can index: let's say you want to create a spatial index. You first need to sort/group spatially (by tile) to query an area.
Why? What do you call different types of bacteria?
Why is that a problem? If the hash is signed and the public key is trusted shouldn't that be secure?
Frankly the cold war was basically just a continuation of the great game, with some of the players changing seats.

"History may not repeated, but it sure do rhyme."
I have a personal hobby of trying to find one of these thoughts that only can be thought of in one language and not another and I have yet to find one. All modern languages seem to be able to be used to express all human thoughts that can be expressed with any language.
What country are you currently in? Just curious to know where they work with Taxi licenses.
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Also cf "I like washing the dishes right after dinner" vs "I like to wash the dishes right after dinner."
Wikipedia says: 'The syntax [of an AST] is "abstract" in not representing every detail appearing in the real syntax.'

So relating to Lamdu, you could say that what you see is the abstract representation. The representation is a bitmap, of course you can't evaluate that.

When you write C++, you actually just write characters, right? Does that mean that you are not writing a program? No, those characters may comprise a program in the end. I see Lamdu the same way: Even though you only manipulate a graphical rendering of the program, it still is all you need to write that program. Just like with C++, you don't see the actual representation of the program (because you can't really 'see' a data structure, you need to encode it), you only see the characters, but you can write the program anyway.

Lamdu is a purely functional programming language so far, I believe. You don't need input, since you can, in the one expression you have available, call a function with arbitrary parameters. You can say that it does not allow for long-running interactive programs, but that is easy to add later once the foundations are in order.
My personal hope is that a lot of the long-term risk is mitigated due to IBM's partnership with Apple and alleged goals to use Swift in enterprise. Admittedly, that may not deal with the short-term risk.
English suffers from the same problem as UNIX: they're both good enough.
yes, what ytNumbers said.
If you can get hired at google, it's likely many other tech shops would be interested in you as well.

Choose to move your life forward. Do not sit and sulk in this: read it as validation that you have the chops to do amazing things.

No doubt you will replay this scene in your head a million times, that is just part of how many of us analyze our past decisions in order to make better ones.
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Sorry, was replying to parent comment with a bit of humour rather than directing at you.
There's a modern Sa'udi proverb that I think sums up their situation: "My father rode a camel; I drive a car; my son flies an airplane; my grandson will ride a camel." Nobody can match a Gulf Arab for sheer fatalism.
I've never heard of Crystal until now. It seems pretty darn neat. Is it new and gaining traction, or what?
There's been revolution in the larger region. Iraq, Syria, Libya.

I know, but still - bear with me. The French assisted in the American Reovlution...

It's not going that well.
Having disassembled the aforementioned Z3C a couple of times, I disagree that it's fine to have to break out the tools for it ever. It's a tough job, with lovely warnings like this one from iFixit:

"Warning first: Never try to move the battery unless it's broken and need to replace. Because there is very very strong adhesive sticker between battery and motherboard.And too much effort or careless operation will break the motherboard."

It's also difficult to maintain the waterproof seal when reassembling the phone. So while the Z3C has great battery life, you're essentially only going to have that for a couple of years.
By code I mean programming language code - something you enjoy to use and program with. Do you enjoy XML to program with? :D
A friend of mine grew up in a family scattered across Holland, England, France, and Germany, with a grandmother matriarch in Holland. He was raised mostly in England, so English was his first language. The rule of his grandmother's house was that you could use words from Dutch, English, German, or French, but you had to use Dutch grammar.

It was from him that I learned the formula "Dutch is just German with a fire sale on vowels."
There is also the whole Syrian thing going.

It would not surprise me if the oil sales have in whole or in part ended up supplying extremist groups.

The Saudis have a history of hiring others to fight their wars for them.
you lied. man up and move on. don't make the same mistake twice.
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She lives in one the most expensive cities on the planet. I would love to live there but I don't, even on an engineer's salary, because the cost is ridiculous. If she wants it easier, she should move to the Midwest. I suggest Minnesota, we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country.
No, Core Yahoo is a profitable multi-billion-dollar company in a slowly declining market.

The reason the market values Core Yahoo negative, is because it thinks the current management will destroy capital by spending it on useless acquisitions and costly R&D to become a growth company again.

But accepting that it is a stable company that's going to bring in billions in revenue for years, and just milking it dry is actually not a bad strategy. It's a very boring strategy though.
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If you're good enough for Google, you're good enough for a lot of jobs. You should think about what makes you happy, aside from having a recognizable name on your resume, and then start pursuing roles where you can work on something you care about. I strongly suspect that you'll get hired! :) If you have side projects that you can post on Github, those will go a long way to convincing potential employers of your skills. And after all, those skills are much more important, and more rare, than most certificates. Best of luck.
I really liked the movie Syriana, and this quote always stuck out to me:

"But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest Gross National Product in the world, now you're tied with Albania. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, closely followed by dates which you're losing five cents a pound on... You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's where you'll be in another hundred years, so, yes, on behalf of my firm I accept your money."

Super fascinating film that I highly recommend - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt
English and Unix are both strong arguments that "good enough" is the best way to communicate, that being more rigid and formal and, well, consistent, is actually counterproductive.
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I bought a package of dates that were grown in SA, but have seen nothing else.
The current state of js libraries may be a bit unfortunate and often frustratingly complex to manage. That's no reason to get all snappy though – the rails stack has about the same number of components, they're just integrated more tightly.
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Inevitable. But hardly surprising.

I(I'm from India) have some cousins working there to make a living. From everything I've heard, I get a feeling there is hardly any effort to build anything. No universties, and even those that exist run at the expense of people from other countries. There is crazy dole out of free cash, start from the king to the citizen.

The royal family from what I've heard literally wants everything government. The main king Ibn Saud had some I guess 10's of wives, from whom he fathered 100's of children, who now have reproduced to 1000's of grandchildren. Since not every one can be a king, you have to distribute government positions among the progeny of Ibn Saud, to keep people from dissenting and getting too ambitious to disrupt the line of succession. Apart from that from what I've heard, they also award prime contract, licenses and projects to their own family. So basically every thing stays and is designed to benefit only one family.

All this in a major tribal society, with heavy influence of the clerics. So they closely intermarry their own with the clerics and powerful tribes. Its basically a syndicate.

But they also realize that they can't do this forever. So they keep throwing some token pennies at their people. Basically building a welfare state.

There is no attempt to build self capabilities of any kind. They've tried and failed with a policy called 'Saudization'. To reduce the dependence on foreign nationals, they've tried everything. But people have so much dependence on free cash, they hardly feel the need to work. Lack of productivity(putting it mildly) among Saudi nationals or even a lack of desire to work, has been a source of jokes for decades.

Here is a hint to people in US. Look at a nation where there is "Universal Basic Income", or all those freebies and welfare benefit your guys ask for. Do you want your country, which is an example for remainder of the world for progress to turn into a nation like this?
Saudi Arabia is almost entirely irrelevant financially compared to the scale of the US. It's a piker to put it nicely.

The US owns around 43% of all global wealth.

Saudi's foreign reserves (~$595 billion) represent the equivalent value of 2% of just the US residential housing market. Or a bit more than the market cap of one Apple or Google.
I think that companies have to make a case for supporting a visa because of not being able to hire someone similarly qualified who is a citizen or permanent resident. And having a formal degree may be part of that equation.
Read in John Cleese's voice.
I speak English, and some German. I find Nederlands to be totally confusing. Maybe my Dutch lightbulb just hasn't turned on yet.
Ask HN: AI is going to be big. How should we learn?
It's no doubt that understanding AI and the associated knowledge around it is going to be critical for many software developers to thrive in the next 1-2 decades.

What do you think are the ideal resources to learn today, as a beginner, and how to continue to grow that knowledge?
Then you are just compounding your mistake by lying to future employers about your work history.

You are not serving yourself well as you seem to have a strange relationship with the truth.

If what you say is true that you made an honest mistake and you have a good reference from your direct supervisor it would be ill-advised not to be truthful.
I've definitely used that phrase at some point earlier in 2016.
This same concept exists within a language too.

I can only speak for English, but there are many concepts that can only be expressed in "high" English. You can be faced with trying to explain some concept to someone when they don't have the vocabulary to understand. You can simplify what you say to get across a shadow of the idea, but it just does not feel right.