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Nice blog post, it makes me remember my early years as a professional in China. Now as a 27 year old who flies back and forth once every 1.5 months to manage a team of 3 Chinese developers, I really miss the times when everything was a discovery and looked so fresh and cool. After a while you get used to it and start noticing all the bad details. It takes away a lot of the enjoyment that pushed me there in the first place. The good part is that China always finds ways to amaze and entertain me.
Thanks! While we're at it, do you have an opinion on Michael S. Malone's /The Intel Trinity/ http://www.amazon.com/The-Intel-Trinity-Important-Company/dp... ?
Maybe the lack lack of such initiatives for Turkish was caused by Facebook being banned in the Turkey.
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Truth is that most first-world citizens, including myself, can only relate to other first-world citizens. If a tragic event hits Nigeria, Pakistan or even Turkey, I will probably ignore it.

Hypocrisy? Yes.

Surprising? Not really.
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It should. Content blocking extensions are compatible with A7+, and the SE model has A9.
I'd like to hear more about that because I'm not sure I understand. Can you give an example for something you cannot do in C++ in a type safe way that you can do in C#, Java or Swift?
... the legislature being comprised of democratically elected representatives, no?

A federal republic of democracies at least?
It's a bizarre world where an individual has more PR sway than an entire country.
Oh ok. I can't attest to how this is handled because I have never attempted to get a cert for a domain like this.
Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for a board filled with so-called 'Hackers'.
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Although these pranks are funny they highlight a something very serious - the failure case of direct democracy. When minor issues come up for vote not everyone cares. The people who do care enough to vote can easily be trolls.

As an example, imagine that a vote comes up for raising tolls from $1 to $2 on little used street. It's one of 1000 votes a month in a direct democracy. There's little chance of getting attention if you get a bunch of people together to vote "no" but what if you get a bunch of people together to vote "no" on all odd numbered streets?

A large number of contests with low voter interest, plus the potential for publicity is fertile ground for trolling.
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Facebook did the same for the last Ankara bombing (and for the other two in the last 5 months, if you're interested). When you have bombs blast in your capital each month it's quite hard to expect same amount of interest from these people, even us living in Turkey are getting (sadly) used to it.
The comments there are... as expected I guess.
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"2 bombs exploded close to where I was sitting, so scary." - https://twitter.com/lrz/status/712173581103448064

"Bombs at Brussels airport. I'm alive but I think there are casualties." - https://twitter.com/lrz/status/712173286281650176

Laurent Sansonetti MacRuby & RubyMotion's creator and lead developer was near the blast.
Since they are likely non-native English speakers (from Italy), a few grammatical mistakes are forgivable.
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Could someone provide a link to a not paywalled version? Going through google didn't helped.
Piping in R is actually from https://github.com/smbache/magrittr and not Dplyr and is actually inspired from F#.

"R package to bring forward-piping features ala F#'s |> operator."
All i'm saying is that it's better than the policies currently being applied in the U.S. And we (Portugal) are a case study that proves that.

I'm worried that legalization could pass the message that it's ok, while it's not, because real damage comes from the abuse of those illegal drugs.
I'll never understand the pitiful amount of time off US employees get - here in the UK I get 30 days holiday time a year, and unless I were to utterly take the piss being sick isn't taken out of that, its just accepted as one of those things that happens.
Cant upvote you enough....

Also... Node... Huh? seriously? replace a siongle DLL with Node.JS is simplifying it??
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'Let's remember that millions of young people who have had the misfortune of being born in the wrong national boundaries are going through all the horrors that Ben described. I made it. Let’s try in a little way to help them make it.'
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For Enterprise level CMS? You'd never get the sale. To cheap. If you want to play in the Enterprise field, you need to do some research into pricing. For a good blog/cms platform, sure. I'd pay $30 a month if it had features I needed. But for enterprise, that's a whole different ball game.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/mar/22/brussels-a...
Greenpeace ran a campaign to name a whale in 2007. "Mr. Splashypants" topped the polls, and since Greenpeace's goal was publicity and public engagement, they accepted it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Splashy_Pants
As sad as it is, I think the responses will be:

- we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services

- we need more police and higher spending

- and possibly bomb some country (Syria is en vogue)

What won't be said is:

- How come this happens again without anyone having seen it coming?

- What does it say about the success of the Western anti-terror foreign policy adopted ~2001?
>Google began in March 1995 as a research project

>Some Rough Statistics (from August 29th, 1996)
Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million
Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes

>The first funding for Google as a company was secured in
August 1998 in the form of a US$100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim

>

>In January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg began writing the code for a new website, known as 'theFacebook'.

> Within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.

>In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment

>

So both were up and running before getting investment. And not massive amounts to begin with. I do kind of disagree with Taleb's point:

>What is needed? 1) .... and above all, 5) risk loving

Neither Page nor Zuckerberg took much risk. If their projects failed business wise they just would have ended up with a PhD from Stanford and a degree from Harvard respectively. What they had that was needed was enthusiasm for building cool stuff.
"Please login to Facebook to access this Safety Check."

Can anyone tell me what this is about?
I don't recommend it. That's illegal most places.
Not to be too sexist about it, they appointed two young ladies to accompany these three young American men to the island. I guess it provided some extra incentive to visit Hainan.

Wish the Chinese would stop doing this kind of shady behavior.
Yeah I see your clarification in your other comment where you say that when they start to scale it opens the door for tons of other complexity. That makes more sense.
I guess it's hard to feel in any other way when recent migration policies have translated into a sharp decline of our own security in our own developed countries.
Now I am curious about an example where generics are able to do what templates, which are Turing complete, aren't.
Absolutely... Replacing a single DLL with Node is "simplifying" it.... Jeez...
Nobody said we were using ranking. And we shouldn't, because ranking is misleading (it loses information by hiding the size of the gaps).

But even assuming it's a ranking - in a ranking there's possibility of equal rankings, right?

So, you can have rankings [1, 1, 1, 1, ..., 1, 10000], and the "average=median" assumption is violated again.

Most real-world distributions have different average and median values, the "50% is below average" is a common misconception that should be cleared out.

For one important example see average salary - huge majority of people in (almost) every country earn less than average salary in that country.
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I'm guessing it's "yuuuuge".
> Crowdsourcing can be wonderful but it does have its pitfalls for the lowest common denominator.

Actually the Boaty... name was proposed by one of the NERC staff, so isn't actually a result of crowdsourcing.
Why would we bomb Syria? Isn't the al-Assad government working against ISIS and related organisations?
It seems to be a discussion about whether or not this is Donald Trumps fault, how is that to have been expected?
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And it's not only Facebook.

These Brussels attacks have wall-to-wall coverage on all news stations, including local ones, unlike the Turkish blasts which were covered much less and only by the major outlets.
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Syria for sure, and there's also Libya.

Ah, and don't forget the European border policies regarding (mostly Syrian) refugees...
Log in required; classy.
Tying itself to a technology that faces some legal challenges (ZFS) doesn't look like a good thing [1]. I understand the benefits of avoiding duplicating features that are already present in the ZFS layer, but it's a roadblock today and in the foreseeable future.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176107
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe/brussels-explosions/
I always thought that a direct democracy where you can by default delegate your vote to one of the elected politicians, but you override whenever you want, would be the best of both worlds (representative democracy and direct democracy). That wouldn't necessarily work on this kind of votes (names for stuff), but I think it would work well on the regular issues that politicians make decisions about.
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We require people to get a high school education for precisely the reasons you state.
Seems to work very well for that one example, but I can't get it to work for anything else.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333402
41 years actually. The rich started getting richer in 1975.[1][2]

Other notable things that happened in 1975: incarceration rates began their meteoric rise[3], and the "Halloween Massacre"[4] in which Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and George HW Bush seized power, becoming Secretary of Defence, Chief of Staff, and head of the CIA respectively.

I would be extremely wary of considering GDP a proxy for economic health, particularly when the military-industrial complex exists.

[1]http://www.usnews.com/dbimages/master/50614/GR_120513_Stone1...
[2]http://www.the-crises.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/income-...
[3]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/U.S._inc...
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Massacre
Assad is anti-west.
If you live in that area you login and mark yourself as Safe, so everybody interested can see that instead of you receiving countless questions.

Also, I received a push notification on my Android that "Friend was marked as safe" from someone I know who lives there.
I am aware of that but what's the facebook site about?
This isn't working at all for me...Either I don't get what it's supposed to do, or the common functions I'm typing aren't common enough. On a related note, 50 StackOverflow points seems like a high number for something like this, and may reduce the results significantly enough that the example doesn't work for most common problems.
> And it's not only Facebook.

It goes without saying. My statement was meant to be general.
Unix shells are notoriously not user friendly. The commands and their interfaces are full of insonsistencies and often really strange. Reading man pages is horror.

The shell languages are not much better.

There are some useful concepts, but in general Unix shells are used despite their user unfriendliness.

The shells of the various Lisp Machines were quite different. The Symbolics shell, later called Dynamic Lisp Listener was quite nice on the GUI side and the management of commands, completions, defaults, interactive help, etc..

See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

The interactive help of that Lisp Machine OS is quite a step up from what any typical shell offers. Though it was mainly developed for single user machines with powerful GUIs.

The problems of that approach: it wasn't very sophisticated on the text terminal - actually it was quite bad. The whole UI mostly assumed a GUI. For development one needed an extended Common Lisp (or Zetalisp), which is a bit too complex for many users.

See also a video I made long ago about the user interface of Symbolics Genera, the operating system of the Symbolics Lisp Machine line of personal workstations.

https://vimeo.com/159946178
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Maybe it is because such blasts are more common in country which wages a civil war against a part of his inhabitants.
I am not sure that you can say "we" in here.
People always freak out when this happens. As long as there have been people with enough hate (or often political motives) there has always been terrorist attacks. Even the Romans suffered as much.

I don't think there is any solution which makes everyone perfectly safe. Politicians always want to guarantee perfect safety but it's not possible. Some things you can prevent, some things you can stop, but some horrible thing will inevitably happen.
This is a mess larger than I can comprehend, with scores of innocent dead. The spectrum of political issues this crosses is vast. We're talking nationalism, immigration, religion, extremism, surveillance, privacy, and war to name a few.

The nuance required to understand and attack the big picture is almost nowhere to be found.

I saw the French PM said something like "we're at war" - I'm not sure who they're at war with but onward with the endless war.

I've seen plenty of comments about ISIS. It's like a 99.999% chance it's not ISIS - maybe Al Qaeda, maybe a different extremist group. (For why it's probably not ISIS and one of the most fantastic explanations of the what's and whys of ISIS, see [0].) But it shows just how vastly uneducated most people are about the issues that lead to attacks like this.

This breeds calls for extremism in response, like expelling all Muslims (and can only help Trump's campaign) or comments like the one from the French PM above.

I can't imagine being in charge of trying to address all of the underlying issues that feed into attacks like this. And I don't know that those in charge are up to the task.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...

Edit: ISIS inspired maybe, but not ISIS planned and backed. "During his visit to Mosul in December, Jürgen Todenhöfer interviewed a portly German jihadist and asked whether any of his comrades had returned to Europe to carry out attacks. The jihadist seemed to regard returnees not as soldiers but as dropouts. “The fact is that the returnees from the Islamic State should repent from their return,” he said. “I hope they review their religion.”"

I always stand to be corrected.
We don't "behave" so that the government will grant us some freedom, as if the government was our parents and we were little kids. That is fascism.

The government is put in place by the people, to serve the people.

Adults are responsible for their actions by default. All modern societies already have laws in place that criminalize harming others in most relevant ways. There is not need for any further discussion or "taking responsibility". It is only necessary to apply the laws that are already in place and respect the individual freedom of other adults. People who want nannies should hire their own and leave the rest of us alone.
Be well prepared in Advanced, Also prepare a list of questions that you might think asked at conference, so this will help you to get relaxed.

Just be relaxed and dont get excited during your speech.
The 2707 was the reason behind the naming of the Seattle Supersonics, and the cancellation of the project led to Boeing laying off 60000 people, leading to the famous "will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the light" sign.
Wikipedia says the full scale mock-up is currently being restored at the Museum of Flight, I'll be in line to see it when it's ready.
More Volcanoes? That's just greedy...
One thing I haven't heard is "we didn't see it coming". Quite the opposite. Everybody's been bracing for this ever since Paris.

But I agree that this is a problem we can't bomb our way out of.
Maybe yes, maybe not, but you are a troll who created the account about 24 hours before the attacks.
You seem to attribute a lot to politics. I would argue that religion is the variable that plays the dominant role in this war of ideas.
The more coverage this gets, the more you feed the terrorist troll.
I think investing in explosives detection is a better approach. It is an irony that there were explosions at the airport while they are screening you completely before boarding a flight.
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ISIS are in Syria.
What didn't you expect? Hug-protest and tolerance march? People in Benelux are scared since November, after Paris attacks underground was blocked for a few days and military with full armament was on every corner.
I agree. It'd be terrible UX if I was Turkish, Facebook had the check in feature, some of my friends could get around the block and say they are okay while others couldn't.
You are being obtuse. It is obvious what I'm talking about.
Oh ....
In Australia - we have a swimming pool named after a former Prime Minister.... who drowned while in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_...
It's a service, of sorts, for registered users to know if any of their friends are in the vicinity, and if they are safe.

It also allows users to mark themselves as "safe" if they were in the affected area.
Google has been testing just such a form of governing: http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&co...
Definitely need to focus. I think most of us come into our PhDs thinking that our research is going to change the world. For anyone doing highly theoretical work we can be over ambitious. We try to bite off more than we can chew, and then we're either paralyzed or we spend a good portion of our time back peddling to simpler problems. If I could give one piece of advice. Start simple. If possible replicate some of the earlier work because you may discover that you're building on a lot of unreported assumptions. Aim for a portfolio of small papers that together tell a larger story, rather than trying to pack it all into on opus magnus.
Maybe I was behind the attacks. Or maybe your comment is a senseless ad-hominem.
I'm from Gothenburg, Sweden, which is a city known for its bad puns and where most larger buildings are usually referred to by silly nicknames. Last year, there was a competition to name the new swimming pool by the harbor which they put there to keep people from swimming in the rather filthy water of the nearby river.

As expected, most of the names which received a lot of votes were silly puns and, you know what? They did accept the winning entry. Which means the pool is officially named "Pöl Harbor" ("Pöl" meaning puddle in Swedish). I myself was very pleased with this, though I was unsure whether I preferred this name or the rather gruesome runner-up: "Inälvsbadet". This literally means "the entrails bath", though the word for entrails could also be interpreted as "in-river", hence the pun.
Honest question that always crosses my mind. Why do we always assume a terrorist group is behind such attacks? Couldn't it be a couple of deranged persons acting on their own?
>> People who grow up in a society feeling outcast are more likely to try and destroy it, unsurprisingly. Look at history's revolutionaries and troublemakers.

But it does not apply equally to all cultures(with muslims relatively extreme in that regard). The jews, for example we're badly treated for decades, with relatively little terrorism. The people of Tibet under china are also, quite peaceful.
I agree. I don't even need very permissive license, just to look at sources would be enough. Sometimes I have to lurk around internet corners just to find out simple things which would require few minutes with source code access. It's so frustrating after Java environment where almost everything is available in source code.
While it has a bit of snark to it, certainly conveys the point of "This is your PhD. No one is going to hold your hand. Get it done."

The people who drop out of PhD programs usually are plenty smart enough, they just don't know how to make things happen.

Then again, some people seem content and happy to do 8 years of PhD studies followed by 10 more of meandering post-docs. Bummer is when they're surprised that no one wants to make them a professor.
In these situations, religion is politics.
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Pretty neat, although the "training set" probably doesn't comprise what most people would need.

I'd like to see a version of this based, say, on React examples. Might save me some time :)
Considering it comes 4 days after the arrest of the man who planned the Paris attacks, it's possible that this is just a couple of deranged people but it's unlikely. In this context, even with no detailed information about the attackers, it's quite likely that this is a terrorist attack somehow connected to fundamentalism/etc.
Riveting tech news right here.
I am almost certain they are not doing this for attention.
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I only have 50 stack overflow points /total/ (although I only very rarely post) so I would absolutely agree that it's way too high.
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Facebook has activated Safety Check. — https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/brusselsexplosions-marc...

I guess it’s official. Facebook Safety Check is for terrorist attacks in white, western countries only. Good to know.

Edit: I was wrong and I take back what I said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Safety_Check#Other_de...
But we, the United States, are more concerned about getting rid of Assad than we are about fighting ISIS, which is why we even train and arm some of the less ISIS-ish ISIS groups that fight Assad.
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You and many others seem to post that there is a mental cancer infecting 1.5 billion people on this planet, and at any time it could transform its host into a bloodthirsty murderer seemingly at random.

I don't buy it.
The Paris attackers were French and Belgian, not immigrants. This has been the case with almost all attacks in Europe, where the perpetrators have almost always been local.
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From my own experience learning bat scripting then sh scripting and then powershell, the 40-line monstrosity is what happens when you first learn another scripting language. Sometimes the paradigm can be so different that simply trying to port one script to another language ends up being more difficult (but better, from a learning standpoint, for me) than simply starting over.